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Online resources now available for 2021 Municipal Election
By City of Lethbridge on February 18th, 2021
Those interested in putting their name forward as a nominee for the 2021 Municipal Election can now access online resources to help them with this process. The City’s election website at lethbridge.ca/elections will be updated regularly as the nomination period progresses. Resources currently available include: -Candidate’s Guide to Running for Municipal Office in Alberta -Council ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Family struggling to hold onto dream
By Greg Bobinec on February 18th, 2021
A local southern Alberta family is struggling to hold onto the property they have been working towards developing as a place to help employ people with disabilities, and is asking for the community’s support to save it. Since moving from their successful greenhouse in Barons several years ago, Suzie Irwin and her husband Brandt moved ... Read More »
1 responseLTC and DSL residents, staff receiving vaccine
By Nikki Jamieson on February 18th, 2021
Available COVID vaccines are being distributed despite recent shortages. Not long after the first COVID-19 vaccines became available and were distributed, earlier this year Pfizer announced they were shipping about 80 per cent less vaccines over the next few weeks as it completed upgrades to its manufacturing plant in Belgium, and Moderna also announced in ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Allegations made against retired LPS inspector
By Lethbridge Herald on February 17th, 2021
Tim Kalinowski Lethbridge Herald tkalinowski@lethbridgeherald.com Serious allegations of sexual assault and abuse of power went public on Wednesday after the CBC reported that retired Lethbridge Police Service Inspector Bill Kaye, who at the time worked as a victims advocate with the city’s Domestic Violence Action Team and sat as board member with the Chinook Sexual ... Read More »
1 responsePiikani man pleads not guilty to murder charge
By Delon Shurtz on February 17th, 2021
LETHBRIDGE HERALDdshurtz@lethbridgeherald.com A 37-year-old Piikani man accused of killing a teenager last summer has pleaded not guilty to charges of second-degree murder and causing an indignity to human remains. Dustin Big Bull entered the pleas Tuesday in Lethbridge provincial court, where he also elected to be tried by a Court of Queen’s Bench judge and ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!One dead after semi-trailer collision
By TABER-VAUXHALL RCMP on February 17th, 2021
Just before noon on Monday, Taber-Vauxhall RCMP responded to a serious head-on collision involving two semi-tractors on Highway 526 north of Vauxhall. Also responding to the scene were EMS and the Vauxhall Fire Department. The single driver of the eastbound vehicle, a 29-year-old male from Calgary, was pronounced deceased at the scene by EMS. The adult ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!New program helping female entrepreneurs
By LETHBRIDGE HERALD on February 17th, 2021
When Calgary based companies Jadler Industries and Random Acronym were searching for a place to test out new technology for monitoring soil moisture in agriculture, there was only one place to go: Lethbridge College. “Lethbridge College has built a reputation with the agriculture industry in southern Alberta for getting their research out into the real ... Read More »
1 responseMan pleads guilty to various charges
By Delon Shurtz on February 17th, 2021
LETHBRIDGE HERALDdshurtz@lethbridgeherald.com When a motel clerk answered the phone on the evening of May 7, 2020, the last thing the clerk expected to hear was the frantic voice of a child calling for help. The crying seven-year-old boy said his mother wouldn’t wake up, and the clerk arrived at the room to discover a man ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Online fundraisers to help ag students
By Tim Kalinowski on February 17th, 2021
LETHBRIDGE HERALDtkalinowski@lethbridgeherald.com With COVID-19 continuing to put a damper on public events, Lethbridge and District Exhibition Park and the Rotary Club of Lethbridge East are teaming up to host two online fundraisers to support two agricultural students attending post-secondary education in the region. “Each year Lethbridge and District Exhibition and the Rotary Club of Lethbridge ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Rachel Notley speaking at SACPA
By Southern Alberta Council on Public Affairs on February 17th, 2021
Alberta is in the midst of a generational economic shift as we face the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. On Thursday, the Southern Alberta Council on Public Affairs (SACPA) will host speaker Rachel Notley for a conversation about how we can create a new economic strategy and build a more resilient and diversified economy in ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!College chosen as testing place for new technology
By Greg Bobinec on February 17th, 2021
LETHBRIDGE HERALDgbobinec@lethbridgeherald.com When Calgary based companies Jadler Industries and Random Acronym were searching for a place to test out new technology for monitoring soil moisture in agriculture, there was only one place to go: Lethbridge College. “Lethbridge College has built a reputation with the agriculture industry in southern Alberta for getting their research out into ... Read More »
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