By Lethbridge Herald on February 27th, 2020
Lethbridge Herald Arguably, governments have a mandate to keep our most vulnerable citizens safe, including young children. Recently, the province and City of Lethbridge initiated significant realignments of their prevention and early intervention services for families. Today, during the regular weekly SACPA session, noon at the Royal Canadian Legion, speaker Peter Imhof will present “Is ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!By Bobinec, Greg on February 27th, 2020
Greg Bobinec Lethbridge Herald gbobinec@lethbridgeherald.com Religious studies professor, Hillary Rodrigues, will be presenting the fifth talk of the 2019/20 season of the Faculty of Arts & Science’s PUBlic Professor Series tonight. His speech, “Combating Delusion: Gleanings from the Hindu Great Goddess and Eastern Sages,” is a free event that takes place tonight from 7 to ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!By Beeber, Al on February 27th, 2020
Al Beeber Lethbridge Herald abeeber@lethbridgeherald.com Independent movie theatres across the country are crying foul that they are being prevented from showing popular films. A petition on change.org has generated thousands of signatures supporting the ability of independent theatres to show films at the same time as major Canadian chain Cineplex. Len Binning, operator of the ... Read More »
1 responseBy Submitted Article on February 27th, 2020
Kristi Divine SOUTHERN ALBERTA GROUP FOR THE ENVIRONMENT I have a weakness for the little things of this planet. Insects, in all their variety, ability and beauty. I especially love spiders. In fact, last summer my family adopted a gorgeous Cat Face Spider who had spread her web across my son’s window. We caught lunch ... Read More »
1 responseBy Bobinec, Greg on February 27th, 2020
Greg Bobinec Lethbridge Herald gbobinec@lethbridgeherald.com The Boys and Girls Club of Lethbridge and District invited around 70 students from southern Alberta to a youth conference to learn about the impact of misinformation in the media. As part of the Boys and Girls Club’s annual “I Stand Against” conference, organizers wanted to bring awareness about the ... Read More »
1 responseBy Lethbridge Herald on February 26th, 2020
Tim Kalinowski Lethbridge Herald tkalinowski@lethbridgeherald.com The annual Lethbridge Ag Expo and North American Seed Fair kicked off at Exhibition Park on Wednesday, and will continue until Friday. Despite a challenging crop year in 2019, and with unharvested acres left in fields from the so-called “harvest from hell” as well as potential ongoing problems with rail ... Read More »
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LETHBRIDGE HERALD Everyone who participates in an event Saturday at Centre Village Mall will be sure to be in stitches.That’s when the Stitch It Forward Society of Lethbridge will hold a Nine-Hour Stitch-A-Thon, the first of what the group hopes will become an annual event.The event will bring local knitters, crocheters, sewers and quilters together ... Read More »
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Lethbridge Herald -magrath Raymond RCMP are seeking a male suspect who robbed a bank, identified by Herald sources as the local ATB Financial branch, in the Town of Magrath on Monday. According to information released to the media, RCMP officers received a complaint from the bank at 2:40 p.m. that a suspect had jumped over ... Read More »
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The southern Alberta agriculture industry gained a powerful ally when two innovative organizations expanded their mutually beneficial collaboration. Farming Smarter and Lethbridge College have worked collaboratively for a number of years on a wide range of projects. Now, they formalized and expanded their partnership as they signed a 15-year “memorandum of understanding (MOU).” The agreement ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!By Kalinowski, Tim on February 26th, 2020
Tim Kalinowski Lethbridge Herald tkalinowski@lethbridgeherald.com City council voted unanimously to give Streets Alive Mission a $425,000 grant to help renovate their newest women’s transitional housing facility in Scenic Heights. The transitional housing facility in question was hotly contested by local neighbourhood opponents last September when a majority of councillors voted to rezone the house to ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!By Submitted Article on February 26th, 2020
Last week I had the opportunity to present and share some ideas with a group of students from our four Westwind high schools at our second of three annual student engagement committee meetings. This committee includes a sampling of students from our four high schools, a few of their teachers and four of our board ... Read More »
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