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Farmers markets returning this summer
By Tim Kalinowski on March 17th, 2021
LETHBRIDGE HERALDtkalinowski@lethbridgeherald.com Both the Saturday and the Downtown Farmers Markets will be returning to Lethbridge this summer. Lethbridge and District Exhibition Chief Operating Officer Mike Warkentin confirmed the markets’ return at a press conference on Tuesday. The Saturday morning markets will be starting up at Exhibition Park on May 8 between 8 a.m. and 1 ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Herald retracts inaccurate information in story
By Lethbridge Herald on March 17th, 2021
The Lethbridge Police Service has suspended five employees with pay pending a professional misconduct hearing which falls under the Police Service Regulation and Police Act. The LPS made the suspension announcement on Monday. The names of the suspended employees were not released. The LPS also confirmed the force would hold public hearings when the case ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Suspended sentence issued in threats, assault case
By Delon Shurtz on March 17th, 2021
LETHBRIDGE HERALDdshurtz@lethbridgeherald.com A 32-year-old man who was off his medication when he committed several offences last year and earlier this year, will not have to spend anymore time in custody. Bradley Peter Badura was given a suspended sentence after he pleaded guilty Friday in Lethbridge provincial court to charges of uttering threats, mischief causing damage, ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!EMS motion defeat disappointing: Mayor
By Lethbridge Herald on March 16th, 2021
Tim Kalinowski Lethbridge Herald tkalinowski@lethbridgeherald.com Lethbridge Mayor Chris Spearman said he, like his colleagues in Red Deer, the RM of Wood Buffalo and Calgary, is disappointed the provincial government chose on Monday to defeat a motion brought forward to the Legislature which would have reversed an AHS decision on EMS integrated dispatch, and returned local ... Read More »
2 responsesAdvocates want audit of Blood Tribe Housing
By Tim Kalinowski on March 16th, 2021
LETHBRIDGE HERALDtkalinowski@lethbridgeherald.com Housing on the Blood Tribe First Nation is in a dismal state, say community advocates, and they are pointing a finger at mismanagement as perhaps the culprit. “This is part of the ongoing problems we have on the Blood Tribe, and what we are doing is getting a ministerial letter (ready),” says Elder ... Read More »
12 responsesSmuggling trial starting
By Delon Shurtz on March 16th, 2021
LETHBRIDGE HERALDdshurtz@lethbridgeherald.com A two-week trial has begun for a northern Alberta man accused of trying to smuggle a record amount of cocaine through the Carway border crossing three years ago. The Court of Queen’s bench jury trial for Bradley Michael Gaudrault began Monday at the Yates Memorial Centre, but without jurors, who were selected in ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Author makes an argument for slow knitting
By Dale Woodard on March 16th, 2021
LETHBRIDGE HERALDsports@lethbridgeherald.com Knitting and needles was woven into the main topic of discussion as the Lethbridge Public Library held a Zoom conference Saturday afternoon for needlepoint enthusiasts. In fact, it was a very specific style of knitting. Joining the Zoom conference as guest speaker was Hannah Thiessen, a noted knitter and author of two books, ... Read More »
1 responseViolent offender facing more time in custody
By Delon Shurtz on March 16th, 2021
LETHBRIDGE HERALDdshurtz@lethbridgeherald.comL A 23-year-old violent offender who walked away from a residential treatment centre last summer, hopes a judge won’t make him serve several more months in custody. The offender, who can’t be named because he was only 17 when he sexually assaulted a woman and cut her throat, is facing several more months of ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Pharmacies providing COVID vaccinations
By Gillian Slade on March 16th, 2021
LETHBRIDGE HERALDGslade@abnewsgroup.com The recent alarming rise in school cases, (the most the division has experienced since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic last year), parallels what is happening in the broader community with 447 cases city-wide, putting Lethbridge firmly within the Alberta Health Services most severe outbreak category. Gilmore said the division was not contemplating ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!COVID outbreak hits Lethbridge School Division
By Lethbridge Herald on March 15th, 2021
Tim Kalinowski Lethbridge Herald tkalinowski@lethbridgeherald.com With 47 students and staff members diagnosed with COVID-19, and with about 80 teachers and 1,000 other students in quarantine, the Lethbridge School Division is struggling to keep some classes functioning even with a pivot option to online learning in play, admitted LSD Superintendent of Schools Cheryl Gilmore. The outbreaks ... Read More »
1 responsePolice charge Lethbridge man in high-risk search warrant
By Herald on March 15th, 2021
Lethbridge Police have charged a Lethbridge man following a high-risk search warrant Friday on the city’s northside. Police say a search of the residence in the 1900-block of 18 Avenue North resulted in the seizure of several weapons, including a machete, large knives and two replica handguns, as well as a quantity of oxycodone. Based ... Read More »
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