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Blood Tribe doctor says comprehensive strategy required for addiction crisis
By Tim Kalinowski on June 15th, 2021
LETHBRIDGE HERALDtkalinowski@lethbridgeherald.com The Southern Alberta Council on Public Affairs welcomed Dr. Esther Tailfeathers, Senior Medical Director, Provincial Indigenous Wellness Core, at Alberta Health Services, to a special session of its YouTube livestream speaker series on Monday. Tailfeathers spoke about the importance of a comprehensive strategy to address the opioid and addiction crisis on the Blood ... Read More »
4 responsesMan sentenced for highway chase
By Delon Shurtz on June 15th, 2021
LETHBRIDGE HERALDdshurtz@lethbridgeherald.com A 43-year-old man who smashed a car window with a machete then chased the driver and passenger from Coaldale to Lethbridge has been sentenced to eight months in jail. Daniel Edward Collier was sentenced Friday in Lethbridge provincial court, where he pleaded guilty to charges of assault with a weapon, dangerous driving and ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Youth Advisory Council looking for new members
By Al Beeber on June 15th, 2021
LETHBRIDGE HERALDabeeber@lethbridgeherald.com Al Beeber Lethbridge Herald abeeber@lethbridgeherald.com The Lethbridge Youth Advisory Council is looking for a few good people. The municipally-funded group will be soon seeking new committee members to fill positions that will become vacant in December. Four positions will be open when those terms end. A fifth, for the University of Lethbridge Student ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Progressive Pride flag signifies era of diversity
By Herald on June 14th, 2021
Al Beeber – Lethbridge Herald The raising of a new Pride flag at Lethbridge College Monday morning may have signified the start of a new era in diversity. LC provost and vice-president academic Samantha Lenci spoke briefly in person to a small group at the college on a sweltering morning in a ceremony that was ... Read More »
1 responseMan pleads guilty in 2019 referee assault
By Delon Shurtz on June 12th, 2021
LETHBRIDGE HERALDdshurtz@lethbridgeherald.com A Coalhurst man admits his anger clouded his judgment when he assaulted a referee during a hockey tournament in Lethbridge in September 2019. “I let my anger get away from me,” Todd William Cross Child admitted Friday in Lethbridge provincial court, where he attended by telephone and pleaded guilty to one count of ... Read More »
1 responseMcCain donating 300,000 meals to Second Harvest
By Tim Kalinowski on June 12th, 2021
LETHBRIDGE HERALDtkalinowski@lethbridgeherald.com In an effort to meet its goal of having zero per cent of its raw or processed products ending up in landfills, and to help achieve its corporate target to donate 17,000,000 meals throughout North America by 2022, McCain Food Canada recently announced it will be donating the equivalent of 300,000 meals to ... Read More »
1 responseBlood Tribe Department of Health responds to allegations
By Tim Kalinowski on June 12th, 2021
LETHBRIDGE HERALDtkalinowski@lethbridgeherald.com The Blood Tribe Department of Health is addressing criticisms made by community members at a rally in Standoff held earlier this week over its handling of the opioid crisis, and is denying specific allegations of drug dealing going on at Bringing the Spirit Home Detox Centre. “The Blood Tribe Department of Health has ... Read More »
9 responsesFilm festival a way to continue storytelling
By Alejandra Pulido-Guzman For the Lethbridge Herald on June 12th, 2021
The Lethbridge Living Film Festival is underway. The online festival follows up the city magazine of the same name, which recently ceased publication due to the pandemic. Lethbridge Living owner Dana Inkster says she was not done telling stories and with a background in filmmaking decided to explore other options. “A film festival seemed like ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Woman pleads guilty for rendezvous robbery
By Delon Shurtz on June 12th, 2021
LETHBRIDGE HERALDdshurtz@lethbridgeherald.com Chelsey Marie Beringer had her victim all picked out. It was a man she met when she previously worked at a Coaldale liquor store, and with whom she became friends on Facebook. On the morning of May 7, 2020, the 23-year-old woman called the man and asked him to come to Coaldale, but ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Pride Week activities set for Lethbridge starting Monday
By Laura Balanko-Dickson SOUTHERN ALBERTA NEWSPAPERS on June 12th, 2021
While Pride is usually a time filled with bright colours and parades, this year things will look a bit different. With only two in-person events, a focus on social distancing and PPE, and no Pride parade, this year’s Pride events in Lethbridge probably won’t rival the Pride events of the past. However, people are still ... Read More »
1 responseWeed-eating goats are back in city parks
By Herald on June 11th, 2021
Dale Woodard – Lethbridge Herald Invasive weeds got your goat? No problem, the City of Lethbridge, in partnership with Magrath-based Creekside Goat Company have the goats that can go get them. And they’re not kidding. After successfully grazing invasive weeds for the past three summers, the City is bringing in another herd of experienced, weed ... Read More »
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