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YWCA hosting Girls With Tools session
By Bobinec, Greg on February 21st, 2020
Greg Bobinec Lethbridge Herald gbobinec@lethbridgeherald.com YWCA Lethbridge & District, in partnership with Destination Exploration, is hosting a Girls With Tools session focusing on robotics for ages eight to 10 years this weekend. Girls With Tools started as a way to help encourage and teach young women and non-binary youth about trades and skills that will ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Man sentenced to 18 months on drug, probation charges
By Shurtz, Delon on February 21st, 2020
Delon Shurtz Lethbridge Herald dshurtz@lethbridgeherald.com A man who has been in custody since last summer will remain in custody after pleading guilty to criminal charges Thursday in Lethbridge provincial court. Richard Prairie Chicken pleaded guilty to drug possession for the purpose of trafficking and failing to comply with conditions of his probation, and was sentenced ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Wallet with large amount of cash turned in to police
By Shurtz, Delon on February 21st, 2020
Lethbridge Herald There are still honest people walking among us. Lethbridge Police are hoping to identify the owner of a wallet containing a large amount of cash that was turned in by a Good Samaritan during a swap meet earlier this month. Last Saturday a man found a wallet in the parking lot of Exhibition ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Paradise Canyon Open events will allow more local golfers to be involved
By Woodard, Dale on February 21st, 2020
Dale Woodard Lethbridge Herald sports@lethbridgeherald.com The third annual Mackenzie Tour PGA Tour Canada Lethbridge Paradise Canyon Open is returning to southern Alberta. And everybody is invited to join in the festivities. This year’s Lethbridge Paradise Canyon Open returns to the Paradise Canyon Golf Resort June 25-28 with the Interfaith Food Bank Society of Lethbridge as ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Kinsmen celebrate 100 years with rededication of Kinsmen Park
By Kalinowski, Tim on February 21st, 2020
Tim Kalinowski Lethbridge Herald tkalinowski@lethbridgeherald.com The Kinsmen Club of Lethbridge rededicated Kinsmen Park with a newly-refurbished lit sign on Thursday to mark the 100-year anniversary of the founding of the Kin Movement in Canada. “Today is Kin Canada’s 100th anniversary,” affirmed Kinsmen Club of Lethbridge president Matthew Robertson. “We were founded on this day in ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Legendary broadcaster urges people to strive for the truth
By Lethbridge Herald on February 20th, 2020
Tim Kalinowski Lethbridge Herald tkalinowski@lethbridgeherald.com Legendary broadcast journalist Peter Mansbridge gave the keynote address at the South Western Alberta Teachers’ Convention Association Thursday morning at the University of Lethbridge, and had an important message about striving for truth in an era of confusion, distortion and conflict. “Try to understand some of these issues which confront us ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!NDP sounding alarm over public pensions
By Kalinowski, Tim on February 20th, 2020
Tim Kalinowski Lethbridge Herald tkalinowski@lethbridgeherald.com The Alberta New Democrats intend to hold the Kenney government’s feet to the fire over pensions, says Lethbridge West MLA and Opposition finance critic Shannon Phillips. “We have had a number of moves that Jason Kenney has already made for public-sector workers, teachers, nurses and others, who pay into a ... Read More »
1 responseMan sentenced to 30 days for assaulting a peace officer
By Shurtz, Delon on February 20th, 2020
Delon Shurtz Lethbridge Herald dshurtz@lethbridgeherald.com Assaulting a security officer, or at least trying to, has netted a Lethbridge man a short jail sentence. Garret Shane Williams was sentenced Wednesday in Lethbridge provincial court to 30 days in jail after pleading guilty to one count of assaulting a peace officer. Court was told a security officer ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Man pleads guilty to child luring, sexual assault
By Shurtz, Delon on February 20th, 2020
Delon Shurtz Lethbridge Herald dshurtz@lethbridgeherald.com A child-luring trial scheduled to run nearly two weeks concluded after only one day when the accused unexpectedly admitted he lured an underage girl and had sex with her. Before the jury even heard any evidence, Gary James Lippa pleaded guilty Wednesday in Lethbridge Court of Queen’s Bench to charges ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Technology helping to reduce barriers in music industry
By Kalinowski, Tim on February 20th, 2020
Tim Kalinowski Lethbridge Herald tkalinowski@lethbridgeherald.com While barriers to inclusion still exist in professional music studios today, those barriers are gradually decreasing thanks to accessible recording technology becoming more publicly available. This was a major theme at the recent “Social Distinction in the 21st Recording Studio” symposium held at the University of Lethbridge. “It’s not necessarily ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Longtime MP Thacker dead at 79
By Beeber, Al on February 20th, 2020
Al Beeber Lethbridge Herald abeeber@lethbridgeherald.com Blaine Allen Thacker, Q. C., former Member of Parliament for Lethbridge-Foothills and later the renamed riding of Lethbridge, died Monday in the city at the age of 79. A Progressive Conservative, Taber native Thacker was first elected to Parliament in 1979, serving in the Lethbridge-Foothills riding until 1988. After it ... Read More »
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