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Alberta Urban Municipalities Association president resigns
By Tim Kalinowski on August 17th, 2021
LETHBRIDGE HERALDtkalinowski@lethbridgeherald.com Brooks Mayor Barry Morishita has resigned, effective immediately, from his role as president of the Alberta Urban Municipalities Association (AUMA). According to the AUMA, Morishita resigned last Friday. Reasons for his resignation were not given in the release to local media on Monday. Morishita had clashed with the province over various issues during ... Read More »
1 responseLethbridge Rotary Ribfest serves up barbecue goodness
By Dale Woodard on August 17th, 2021
Whether they chose to drive up or walk up, rib-lovers donned their bibs once again for the Lethbridge Rotary Ribfest 2021. Serving up tasty slabs of BBQed goodness with funds raised from the event going right back into the community, the third annual event ran Friday through Sunday at the Enmax Centre. After going to ... Read More »
1 responseVerdict awaits for woman charged in gang-style attack on youth
By Delon Shurtz on August 17th, 2021
LETHBRIDGE HERALDdshurtz@lethbridgeherald.com A Lethbridge judge will give his verdict later this year on whether a woman is guilty of participating in a vicious attack against a younger boy nearly two years ago. Judge Gregory Maxwell is expected to rule Nov. 29 on whether Trinity Savard, whose matter was in court Friday, is guilty of aggravated ... Read More »
1 responseCommunity steps up to make Shoes for Kids initiative a success
By Dale Woodard on August 17th, 2021
It was a shoe-in Saturday afternoon at Lethbridge College. Or in this case, shoes. And many pairs of them. Connecting Our Community Lethbridge’s Shoes for Kids YQL – with support from the Lethbridge Police Service, Piikani RCMP detachment, Blood Tribe Police and Lethbridge Fire Department Charities Association – took place Saturday at the college with ... Read More »
1 responseRichardson International acquires Calgary’s Control Chemical Corporation
By Tim Kalinowski on August 17th, 2021
LETHBRIDGE HERALDtkalinowski@lethbridgeherald.com Richardson International Ltd. announced last week it had acquired full, controlling interest in Calgary-based Control Chemical Corporation. Richardson had previously been a minority stakeholder in the specialized manufacture of environmentally safe drilling fluids and vegetable oil-based lubricants. With the purchase, Richardson secures control of a customer it has supplied raw ingredients to for ... Read More »
1 responseSentencing for man guilty of sexual interferece scheduled for fall
By Delon Shurtz on August 17th, 2021
LETHBRIDGE HERALDdshurtz@lethbridgeherald.com A Lethbridge judge is scheduled later this fall to sentence an African refugee who sexually assaulted an underage girl in 2019. The 26-year-old man, who cannot be named to protect the identity of the 13-year-old girl, is set to be sentenced Oct. 12, when the judge will rule on a contested jail sentence ... Read More »
1 responseOpen Farms Days offers education on local crops
By Herald on August 16th, 2021
Dale Woodard – Lethbridge Herald A little bit of fruit and vegetation education as well as some sampling was on the menu at Alberta Open Farm Days Saturday afternoon at Broxburn Vegetables & Cafe. For owner and operator Paul de Jonge, that was the chance to give his customers a little behind-the-scenes look at how ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Sentencing adjourned for man who stabbed victim in 2019 gang-style attack
By Delon Shurtz on August 14th, 2021
LETHBRIDGE HERALDdshurtz@lethbridgeherald.com Sentencing of an 18-year-old man who was only a youth when he stabbed another boy in the back during a gang-style attack in December 2019, had to be adjourned earlier this week to allow time for the Crown to review details of the offence. The Crown related the facts of the case during ... Read More »
1 responseSenator Black visit focuses on needs of local agriculture
By Tim Kalinowski on August 14th, 2021
LETHBRIDGE HERALDtkalinowski@lethbridgeherald.com Senator Doug Black made his 10th official visit to Lethbridge this week, and the first since before the COVID-19 pandemic began. Black’s focus on this trip was assessing the needs of the local agriculture industry, particularly since this year’s devastating drought has wreaked such havoc upon it. Black said, in his view, the ... Read More »
1 responseMural celebrates youth activism, artistry and environmentalism
By Dale Woodard on August 14th, 2021
A brand new mural with a positive message will grace the south patio at the Galt Museum and Archives. Celebrating International Youth Day Thursday, the Galt unveiled a new mural, designed by local artists Sydney Whiting, Kyra Peake and Grace Fletcher. The mural seeks to demonstrate the rich connections between youth activism, artistry and environmentalism ... Read More »
1 responseVeterans commemorative association marks 80th anniversary of the Battle of Hong Kong
By Dale Woodard on August 14th, 2021
Eighty years ago, 1,975 Canadian soldiers boarded a boat in Vancouver, uncertain of where they were going, for what became the Battle of Hong Kong. Seventy-six years ago on Sunday, roughly 1,456 of those Canadian soldiers were liberated after nearly four years as prisoners in a Japanese prisoner of war camp. On Friday morning at ... Read More »
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