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Community Futures offers financial relief for local businesses
By Lethbridge Herald on December 11th, 2020
Small businesses in Lethbridge who are impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic can now access additional financial relief and recovery support. Community Futures Lethbridge will begin offering tailored small business loans as part of the Government of Canada’s Regional Relief and Recovery Fund. These partially forgivable loans ensure that rural businesses, that do not qualify for ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Crown seeks prison for man guilty of several charges
By Delon Shurtz on December 11th, 2020
LETHBRIDGE HERALDdshurtz@lethbridgeherald.com A Lethbridge Crown prosecutor and Calgary defence lawyer are miles apart when it comes to sentencing a 26-year-old man for several criminal offences. During a sentencing hearing Tuesday in Lethbridge provincial court for Anthony Douglas Johnston, Crown prosecutor Bruce Ainscough recommended a sentence of 25 months in a federal prison, and a five-year ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!LPS launches Christmas Check Stop campaign
By Lethbridge Herald on December 11th, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic may put a damper on the holiday season, but Lethbridge Police will be on the lookout for those who do go out to celebrate and fail to act responsibly. Lethbridge Police will kick off its 2020 Christmas Check Stop Campaign this weekend in an effort to curb the number of impaired drivers ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!New local bookstore finds a home in downtown Lethbridge
By Greg Bobinec on December 11th, 2020
LETHBRIDGE HERALDgbobinec@lethbridgeherald.com Starting a new business during a pandemic may not seem like the best investment, but for one southern Alberta family it was an adventure of a lifetime to a successful launch. At the start of 2020 Scott Warris, his wife Penny, their daughter Willow and their family cat Hugo were on their way ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Man facing sex-related charges has charges stayed
By Delon Shurtz on December 11th, 2020
LETHBRIDGE HERALDdshurtz@lethbridgeherald.com A 30-year-old man facing several sex-related charges from 2017 is no longer facing prosecution. The charges were stayed Dec. 2, the day court was set to hear several pre-trial applications. A stay of proceeding halts further action on a matter, without a conviction and often without an explanation. The accused, who was a ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Winter Light Festival still a go
By Lethbridge Herald on December 11th, 2020
A bright light has emerged in this dark time of COVID-19 restrictions as the Nikka Yuko Japanese Garden has been given permission to continue with its Winter Light Festival. The garden has announced its has, once again, been given approval by Alberta Health Services and the City of Lethbridge to continue with the festival as ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!AWA increasing awareness over Alta. revoking Coal Policy
By Tim Kalinowski on December 11th, 2020
LETHBRIDGE HERALDtkalinowski@lethbridgeherald.com The Alberta Wilderness Association is raising public awareness about the omnipresence of coal mining leases and concerns on the Eastern Slopes, and the province’s recent offering of new coal mining leases in what used to be referred to as Category 2 lands under the Coal Policy. “I think the fact the government went ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Trial in fatal pedestrian collision won’t be set until the new year
By Delon Shurtz on December 11th, 2020
LETHBRIDGE HERALDdshurtz@lethbridgeherald.com A trial being planned for a Lethbridge man who was charged after a 10-year-old boy was struck and killed by a motor vehicle last spring likely won’t be set until sometime in the new year, the man’s lawyer said Thursday. Greg White told court the matter needs to be discussed in case management ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Police ready to enforce face-covering bylaw
By Lethbridge Herald on December 10th, 2020
Tim Kalinowski Lethbridge Herald tkalinowski@lethbridgeherald.com Lethbridge Chief of Police Shahin Mehdizadeh says the time for education on the masking issue is over as the Lethbridge Police Service moves toward a greater enforcement phase of the City’s temporary face-covering bylaw in conjunction with new public health measures announced by the province earlier this week. “The Lethbridge ... Read More »
3 responsesDangerous offender hearing resumes
By Herald on December 10th, 2020
Delon Shurtz Lethbridge Herald dshurtz@lethbridgeherald.com A convicted sex offender often contradicted himself when discussing his sex offences; sometimes admitting his crimes and other times denying them, a psychiatrist testified Wednesday in Trevor Philip Pritchard’s dangerous offender hearing. Dr. David Tano, a forensic psychiatrist with the Southern Alberta Forensic Psychiatry Centre in Calgary, said Pritchard would ... Read More »
1 responseBlood Tribe issues additional COVID-19 restrictions as cases increase
By Herald on December 10th, 2020
Lethbridge Herald The Blood Tribe has issued additional precautions to combat the COVID – 19 pandemic on-reserve, citing an alarming increase of infections and positive tests among Blood Tribe members Gatherings and visiting other households will no longer be allowed, all scheduled community events have been cancelled and wakes at private residences are prohibited. Travel ... Read More »
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