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More area events cancelled

By Sulz, Dave on March 17th, 2020

LETHBRIDGE HERALD More area events were cancelled on Monday due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Shaughnessy Community Hall announced Monday the facility will be closed until further notice, in keeping with AHS recommendations. Numerous other local events have announced cancellations or postponements as part of COVID-19 precautions, including: the Alberta Genealogical Society, Lethbridge Branch’s meeting scheduled ... Read More »

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Lethbridge Internment Camp

By Submitted Article on March 17th, 2020

By Benjamin Weistra In the first month of the First World War, Canadian military officials began planning for an internment camp, to be located at the Exhibition Grounds in Lethbridge. Renovations were completed to convert the horse stables and poultry building into living quarters, and to add a barbed wire fence. The facility was opened ... Read More »

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Creating comfort in service industry

By Submitted Article on March 17th, 2020

Etiquette’s main focus is to create comfortable situations for us and those we share our world with. Through our conduct and speech, we can either make or break this goal. During a recent stay in one of our go-to hotels in Calgary, my husband and I received a card under the door from a member ... Read More »

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Courts ordered to limit hearings to reduce spread of virus

By Shurtz, Delon on March 17th, 2020

Delon Shurtz lethbridge herald dshurtz@lethbridgeherald.com It was a quiet day at the Lethbridge Courthouse Monday. The normally bustling hallways were ominously silent and bare of people, but whether it was just an unusually slow day – those are rare but occur once in awhile – or the result of COVID-19, is hard to say. Such ... Read More »

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Emergency Co-ordination Centre opened

By Lethbridge Herald on March 16th, 2020

Tim Kalinowski Lethbridge Herald tkalinowski@lethbridgeherald.com The City of Lethbridge has opened its Emergency Co-ordination Centre as it prepares to ramp up its local response to COVID-19 should cases begin appearing in Lethbridge. This announcement comes after the City ordered all local public recreation and cultural facilities closed indefinitely on Sunday. “We want to support the ... Read More »

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College closing classrooms

By Bobinec, Greg on March 16th, 2020

Greg Bobinec Lethbridge Herald gbobinec@lethbridgeherald.com Lethbridge College is following in the footsteps of many other institutions across the country and around the globe by providing an alternative delivery model for educating their students as the COVID-19 outbreak continues to spread. Paula Burns, Lethbridge College CEO and President, released a statement to the student and faculty ... Read More »

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COVID-19 fears lead to closures, cancellations

By Bobinec, Greg on March 16th, 2020

Greg Bobinec Lethbridge Herald gbobinec@lethbridgeherald.com COVID-19 has not only taken over international news the last couple of weeks, it has also taken over the access communities have to various businesses, associations, events and locations, as communities work to stop the spread of the pandemic. As there are still no confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Lethbridge, ... Read More »

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Recipients named for Play Right Prize awards

By Bobinec, Greg on March 16th, 2020

Greg Bobinec Lethbridge Herald gbobinec@lethbridgeherald.com Playwriting in Canada continues to grow and explore new ideas, as three new budding playwrights were announced as the 2020 uLethbridge Play Right Prize recipients. Since 2007, alumnus Terry Whitehead has supported University of Lethbridge students with an interest in playwriting through the Play Right Prize Awards, a total of ... Read More »

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Still no bail for man charged in fatal crash

By Shurtz, Delon on March 16th, 2020

Delon Shurtz lethbridge herald dshurtz@lethbridgeherald.com A Lethbridge man charged in connection with a fatal car collision last year remains in custody while he waits to make bail. Wesley Brian Phillips has been in remand at the Lethbridge Correctional Centre while he waits to have a bail hearing. And while he had hoped to make bail ... Read More »

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Biotech industry to get a boost

By Bobinec, Greg on March 16th, 2020

Greg Bobinec Lethbridge Herald gbobinec@lethbridgeherald.com The southern Alberta biotech industry will get a boost this spring thanks to some innovative work out of the University of Lethbridge and funding support from the Government of Alberta’s GreenSTEM program. Allos Bioscience, a startup company that designs and produces protein-based biosensors, is led by PhD candidates Luc Roberts ... Read More »

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Putting a stamp on downtown

By Lethbridge Herald on March 15th, 2020

Tim Kalinowski Lethbridge Herald tkalinowski@lethbridgeherald.com The Sumus Property Group intends to turn the Lethbridge downtown post office building into a premiere community business hub and the star attraction of the City’s overall downtown revitalization strategy. “The goal is really to create a vibrant, new hub in downtown Lethbridge,” says Sumus Group managing director Kendal Hachkowski. ... Read More »

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