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Online session explores strategies to combat ‘sextortion’
By Alejandra Pulido-Guzman For the Lethbridge Herald on May 28th, 2021
Chinook Sexual Assault Centre offered a Lunch and Learn session on Wednesday to provide information about sextortion obtained from the Canadian Centre for Child Protection. According to the Canadian Centre for Child Protection (CCCP), sextortion is blackmail, and is defined as when an individual threatens to send a sexual image or video of you to ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Family living with diabetes reaching out with encouragement
By Dale Woodard on May 28th, 2021
A family with two children diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes is reaching out to other families to let them know they’re not alone. For Melissa and Kyle Zimmermann – whose sons Carter, 12 and Tucker, 11 – both live with Type 1 diabetes, the message is life can go on normally. “If you get a ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Man pleads guilty in relation to 2020 beating death
By Delon Shurtz on May 28th, 2021
LETHBRIDGE HERALDdshurtz@lethbridgeherald.com Mark Joel Moore faced many challenges and difficulties in his life, but he liked people, often befriended them, and would give the shirt off his back to someone in need. He would even allow his friends to party in his apartment on 4 Avenue South, but it was during one of those parties ... Read More »
1 responseChamber CEO says post-secondary cuts impact Lethbridge economy
By Herald on May 27th, 2021
Al Beeber – Lethbridge Herald The business of education has a huge impact on the provincial and city economy and the cut culture needs to end, the Southern Alberta Council on Public Affairs (SACPA) was told Thursday in its weekly online YouTube session. Cyndi Vos, CEO of the Lethbridge Chamber of Commerce, addressed the financial ... Read More »
2 responsesCommittee discusses cat bylaw
By Tim Kalinowski on May 27th, 2021
LETHBRIDGE HERALDtkalinowski@lethbridgeherald.com The Community Safety Standing Policy Committee of city council held a wide ranging discussion during Wednesday’s meeting on what it would take to bring in a cat bylaw in Lethbridge which might limit the number of cats a homeowner could possess to something in the neighbourhood of six felines in total. The discussion ... Read More »
3 responsesSymphony helping mentor young band musicians
By Alejandra Pulido-Guzman For the Lethbridge Herald on May 27th, 2021
The pandemic has had an impact on everyone, but for arts and musical organizations, it has been particularly devastating since the beginning. This has impacted more than just professionals. Performances by school bands have been put on hold as well. At some points of the pandemic, even practices were put on hold. Everyone has had ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Indigenous Recovery Coach Program welcomes new director
By Tim Kalinowski on May 27th, 2021
LETHBRIDGE HERALDtkalinowski@lethbridgeherald.com The Aapai’tsi’taappii’saam Indigenous Recovery Coach Program recently welcomed Germain Wells as its new program director, and she is looking forward to getting on with the work of helping Indigenous people in the region recover from addiction through ongoing peer support and traditional healing practices. “We are a peer supported, community based and culturally ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Palliser facing $1.5 million deficit in 2021-22 budget
By Al Beeber on May 27th, 2021
LETHBRIDGE HERALDabeeber@lethbridgeherald.com The Palliser School Division is facing a deficit of about $1.5 million after its board of trustees passed a motion to accept the 2021-22 budget. The board will be asking permission from Education Minister Adriana LaGrange to use some reserve funds to balance the budget. In a press release, the school division said ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Wheat stripe rust ‘one of the most destructive foliar diseases’ says research scientist
By Al Beeber on May 27th, 2021
LETHBRIDGE HERALDabeeber@lethbridgeherald.com It’s a problem that can affect 88 per cent of the world’s wheat varieties and causes $1 billion US damage annually. And wheat stripe rust is here in Alberta. The infection has become problematic in Canada since around 2000 but farmers can reduce its impact, research scientist Reem Aboukhaddour told the In the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Council committee rejects harm reduction resolution
By Tim Kalinowski on May 27th, 2021
LETHBRIDGE HERALDtkalinowski@lethbridgeherald.com The Community Safety Standing Policy Committee of city council unanimously rejected a proposed resolution from Moms Stop The Harm for the City of Lethbridge to support the declaration of a national state of public health emergency over the opioid overdose crisis, to advocate for the decriminalization of narcotics for personal use, and to ... Read More »
2 responsesMayor says vaccinations key to easing restrictions
By Herald on May 26th, 2021
Dale Woodard – Lethbridge Herald With the light appearing at the end of the COVID-19 tunnel, Lethbridge mayor Chris Spearman stressed getting vaccinated as the key to making sure Albertans get there. As the province announced its Alberta’s Open for Summer Plan Wednesday – easing restrictions in three stages as vaccination targets are reached and hospitalizations ... Read More »
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