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Student online activity sparks investigation
By Dale Woodard on March 31st, 2021
The Lethbridge School Division is looking into some online interactions last weekend between its students and is working with the Lethbridge Police Service in the investigation. “Lethbridge School Division has been made aware of several hurtful online interactions between Division students which took place on the weekend, outside of the school environment,” said the division ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Advocates looking for national standards for long-term care
By Dale Woodard on March 31st, 2021
Advocates representing more than a million Canadians – including the Lethbridge Chapter of Friends of Medicare – have banded together to demand that the federal government and provinces work together to establish national standards for long-term residential care. Last week, groups released a legal opinion setting out a proposal for a commitment from the federal ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Reserve fire burns 15,000 acres
By Lethbridge Herald on March 31st, 2021
Shortly after noon on Sunday, Blood Tribe Fire Chief Jacen Abrey reported the fire department received a call about a grass fire occurring near Highway 509. In response to this call, Abrey and the Fire Department staff set up an incident command and staging area near the hay plant to strategize on how to address ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Maxime Bernier promises federalist alternative
By Lethbridge Herald on March 30th, 2021
Tim Kalinowski Lethbridge Herald tkalinowski@lethbridgeherald.com People’s Party of Canada leader Maxime Bernier spoke at a special session of the Southern Alberta Council on Public Affairs YouTube livestream speaker series on Tuesday. During his speech, and in the question-and-answer period following his presentation to SACPA, Bernier kept a very narrow focus reserving his first remarks for ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!City group cleaning up discarded face masks
By Dale Woodard on March 30th, 2021
Lethbridge residents are still masking up in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. But a group is doing their part to make sure those masks are also properly disposed of as well. Alyssa Kusalik, coordinator for Community Mask Clean Up, an Alberta-wide initiative, and a few other volunteers have spent the last month making their ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Historic Carmangay hotel burns to the ground
By Dale Woodard on March 30th, 2021
An historical building in Carmangay has been lost. The Grange Hotel, a nearly 112-year-old building in the village roughly 60 kilometres northwest of Lethbridge, was destroyed in a fire early Sunday that started at approximately 1:30 a.m. As of Sunday afternoon, the cause of the fire was unknown, but there were no injuries or fatalities. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!First responders take matters one case at a time
By Tin Kalinowski on March 30th, 2021
LETHBRIDGE HERALDtkalinowski@lethbridgeherald.com The old Chinese curse goes: “May you live in interesting times -” and we have certainly been doing that lately, says Lethbridge Director of Emergency Management and Chief of Fire and Emergency Services Marc Rathwell, with escalating COVID-19 numbers, winds, fires and snowstorms as March comes to an end. Rathwell says the key ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!House fire leaves five homeless
By Al Beeber on March 30th, 2021
LETHBRIDGE HERALDabeeber@lethbridgeherald.com In 30 minutes, the lives of a West Lethbridge family were turned upside down Sunday. Gary Klassen, his wife Love Joy and their two children left their home on Trent Road for a trip to a westside grocery store. When they got home, Love Joy could hear a smoke alarm going off inside ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Firefighters first responders heralded for snuffing blazes
By Lethbridge Herald on March 29th, 2021
Tim Kalinowski Lethbridge Herald tkalinowski@lethbridgeherald.com After a day of chaos and destruction when two large wildfires tore through the region, the MD of Willow Creek is giving thanks to local firefighters and other first responders who attacked the wind-driven blazes with determination and skillful planning. “Our first responders did an amazing job,” said Derrick Krizsan, ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Wind driven wildfires burn through area; evacuations on Blood Reserve and Willow Creek MD
By Herald on March 28th, 2021
Update: reports that the fire threatening the Village of Carmangay has been contained and residents are able to return to their homes according to a post by Vulcan County Wildfires burned in at least two areas of the region Sunday afternoon as heavy winds blew through southern Alberta. RCMP say an out of control fire ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!AHS vaccinating most at risk first
By Gillian Slade on March 27th, 2021
LETHBRIDGE HERALDtkalinowski@lethbridgeherald.com Alberta Health says every adult will be offered a first dose of the vaccine before the end of June and the roll out has been based on providing for those most at risk first. “With limited supply, we are prioritizing giving the vaccine to those most at risk of severe outcomes. “Every adult ... Read More »
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