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U of L Community Stadium opening for drop-in use
By Yoos, Cam on June 24th, 2020
Greg Bobinec Lethbridge Herald gbobinec@lethbridgeherald.com The University of Lethbridge has finalized its latest reopening plans for shared university-community spaces, including the Community Stadium, the Centre for Sport & Wellness and summer camps. As Alberta entered Stage 2 of its relaunch strategy on June 12, guidelines allowed for the use of sport and recreation spaces to ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Kainai Wellness Centre to host Day of Prayer
By Jensen, Randy on June 24th, 2020
LETHBRIDGE HERALD – STANDOFF The Kainai Wellness Centre on the Blood Reserve will be hosting a Day of Prayer on Thursday in response to the unique challenges posed by the coronavirus pandemic. COVID-19 has deeply affected the Blood Tribe, it was noted in a Blood Tribe Department of Health news release. On June 8, the ... Read More »
1 responsePutting Lethbridge on the map
By Submitted Article on June 24th, 2020
Andrew Chernevych GALT MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES By 1920, the automobile was no longer a technological novelty – instead it was quickly turning into a new and exciting culture. Appropriate driving regulations, service, etiquette and dress became defined. The new transportation changed the way people thought about travel, leisure and even geography. Early motorists were enthralled ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Council receives latest draft of Municipal Development Plan
By Jensen, Randy on June 24th, 2020
Tim Kalinowski Lethbridge Herald tkalinowski@lethbridgeherald.com By their nature Municipal Development Plans are meant to be broad in scope and general in application as the main guiding/visioning document for the municipal corporation and the community. They are traditionally aspirational documents which capture a static moment in time in community life. They, therefore, tend to need updating ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!New look to enhance Downtown Lethbridge
By Jensen, Randy on June 24th, 2020
Greg Bobinec Lethbridge Herald gbobinec@lethbridgeherald.com As part of an initiative to bring citizens back downtown following the COVID-19 pandemic, Downtown Business Revitalization Zone (BRZ), Heart of our City and the City of Lethbridge have teamed up to give Downtown Lethbridge a new look and a new sense of identity. Over the next few months, residents ... Read More »
1 responseTrial date set for drug-smuggling suspects
By Shurtz, Delon on June 24th, 2020
Delon Shurtz lethbridge herald dshurtz@lethbridgeherald.com A trial has finally been scheduled for a husband and wife accused of trying to smuggle drugs into Canada at the Coutts border in 2017. The hearing was scheduled to run last April in Lethbridge Court of Queen’s Bench, but it was cancelled because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The matter ... Read More »
1 responseTwo men facing drug charges
By Jensen, Randy on June 24th, 2020
LETHBRIDGE HERALD Lethbridge Police have charged two men following an investigation into drug trafficking activity. In early June members of the Crime Suppression Team and Patrols began a short-term investigation that was concluded June 18, when search warrants were obtained and executed at residences along the 900 block of 8 Street North and 200 block ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Provost family hopes sentence brings closure
By Lethbridge Herald on June 23rd, 2020
Delon Shurtzlethbridge heralddshurtz@lethbridgeherald.comIt was a somber gathering outside the Lethbridge courthouse as family members of Barney Paul Provost cried in each other’s arms only minutes after a judge sent the man who killed the well-loved and respected Piikani Nation councillor to prison.Madam Justice Johnna Kubik sentenced Douglas Wilbur Bagnall to five years in a federal ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Sunrise ceremony unites cultures
By Yoos, Cam on June 22nd, 2020
Greg Bobinec Lethbridge Herald gbobinec@lethbridgeherald.com As a way to still celebrate the diversity and history of southern Alberta, members of the Family Ties Association of Lethbridge hosted a Sunrise Ceremony to celebrate and recognize National Indigenous Peoples Day, with a Sunrise Ceremony behind the Galt Museum. After attending a ceremony in Calgary, Family Ties Associations ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!No further jail time on White drug charge
By Shurtz, Delon on June 22nd, 2020
Delon Shurtz lethbridge herald dshurtz@lethbridgeherald.com A Calgary woman won’t have to pay a fine or spend any time in jail after she was caught with illegal drugs earlier this year. Meranda Dawn White has handed a conditional discharge last week in Lethbridge provincial court, where she pleaded guilty to one count of drug possession. The ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Mathers backs petition in support of cephalopods
By Yoos, Cam on June 22nd, 2020
Lethbridge Herald During the early 1990s, Canada was the frontrunner in developing official protections for invertebrates used in research, thanks in part to the work of the University of Lethbridge professors such as Jennifer Mather. Back in 1991, Mather, a U of L psychology professor and octopus’s expert, Professor Emeritus Gail Michener and Dan Johnson, ... Read More »
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