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Man caught in child porn sting sentenced
By Herald on October 2nd, 2020
Delon Shurtz Lethbridge Herald dshurtz@lethbridgeherald.com A Lethbridge man caught in a cross-border child pornography sting has been sentenced to a mandatory minimum of six months in jail. Riley Raymond Tripp, 42, was nabbed last summer following an online undercover operation in which U.S. investigator Maureen McClanahan claimed to be an 11-year-old girl on the social ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Lethbridge Police Service won’t support Phillips’ appeal
By Lethbridge Herald on October 2nd, 2020
Tim Kalinowski Lethbridge Herald tkalinowski@lethbridgeherald.com Lethbridge Chief of Police Shahin Mehdizadeh says the Lethbridge Police Service will not be supporting Lethbridge-West MLA Shannon Phillips’ appeal to the Law Enforcement Review Board (LERB), nor her request for a public hearing, on a discipline decision made against two LPS officers who admitted to undertaking an unauthorized surveillance ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!City kicks off Fall Leaf Collection Program
By Herald on October 2nd, 2020
Lethbridge Herald As if residents needed another reminder of the changing season, the City of Lethbridge announced the kickoff to its Fall Leaf Collection Program on Thursday. From now until Nov. 13 residents will have an opportunity to book up to two appointments for leaf collection through the City’s 311 Call Centre. “This year you ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Royal Gala Harbour House fundraiser going online this year
By Herald on October 2nd, 2020
Dale Woodard Lethbridge Herald The 23rd annual Royal Gala is going online. However, the end goal remains the same as the fundraiser for the Lethbridge YWCA Harbour House and hosted by Royal LePage South Country Real Estate nears the $1 million mark after over two decades of support and $901,700 raised. After raising another $62,000 ... Read More »
1 responseFatal single vehicle collision on Highway 3 near Monarch
By Herald on October 2nd, 2020
A single vehicle collision has claimed the life of a 20-year-old passenger of a car which lost control along Highway 3 near Monarch Thursday afternoon. Coaldale RCMP along with the Coalhurst Fire Department responded to incident on Highway 3 in the westbound lanes just east of the Oldman River Bridge at the west edge of ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Federal, provincial infrastructure funding announced
By Lethbridge Herald on October 1st, 2020
Tim Kalinowski Lethbridge Herald tkalinowski@lethbridgeherald.com The federal and provincial governments announced more than $22 million in public money on Thursday for four new post-secondary infrastructure and cultural projects for southern Alberta focused on Indigenous education and multicultural inclusion. Provincial Infrastructure Minister Prasad Panda and federal Minister of Rural Economic Development Maryam Monsef made the announcements ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Orange Shirt Day ceremony honours residential school victims
By Lethbridge Herald on September 30th, 2020
Dale Woodard Lethbridge Herald — Blood Reserve It was a day to honour the students who didn’t return home. Remembering children who died at the two Indian residential schools on the Blood Reserve — St. Paul’s and St. Mary’s and other residential schools — the Kainai Wellness Centre held an Orange Shirt Day ceremony Wednesday morning ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Pop-up OPS operators fined for no permit
By Lethbridge Herald on September 29th, 2020
Tim Kalinowski Lethbridge Herald tkalinowski@lethbridgeherald.com The City of Lethbridge confirmed it gave the Lethbridge Overdose Prevention Society a $300 fine Monday evening after the group failed to comply with a request to remove its unpermitted tent from Galt Gardens. “I asked if they had a permit,” explained the City’s senior bylaw enforcement officer Dave Henley ... Read More »
5 responsesUnsanctioned OPS attracts opposition
By Lethbridge Herald on September 28th, 2020
Dale Woodard Lethbridge Herald As they headed into their second night of operation on Saturday, the Lethbridge Overdose Prevention Society met its first opposition. The group, which formed three weeks after the province stopped funding for ARCHES, set up a tent that acted as an unsanctioned overdose prevention site Friday night at Galt Gardens in ... Read More »
10 responsesUnsanctioned injection site sets up in Galt Gardens
By Lethbridge Herald on September 26th, 2020
Lethbridge Herald An unapproved and unsanctioned drug injection site was set up Friday night in Galt Gardens. The site is being operated by the newly-formed Lethbridge Overdose Prevention Society and has been set up three weeks after the province stopped funding for ARCHES in Lethbridge. According to a story by the CBC, four people used ... Read More »
12 responsesIntroducing the Adult International Collection
By Lethbridge Herald on September 26th, 2020
Caroline Moynihan ONLINE SERVICES LIBRARIAN, LETHBRIDGE PUBLIC LIBRARY Late last year Lethbridge Public Library started planning for an Adult International Collection that we had hoped to launch in May. Unfortunately, our plans were a bit delayed, and the books we were hoping to add to our collection became a little harder to get. However, we ... Read More »
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