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Grant program supports businesses negatively impacted by social conditions downtown
LETHBRIDGE HERALDabeeber@lethbridgeherald.com City council on Tuesday unanimously approved a motion put forward by councillor John Middleton-Hope to help businesses negatively impacted by social conditions downtown. The motion calls on administration to continue the Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design portion of the City’s Clean and Safe Strategy and repurpose funds from the Compassionate Encampment Clean-up program ... Read More »
Pair fined for shooting Great Horned Owl
LETHBRIDGE HERALDdshurtz@lethbridgeherald.com Two men who shot an owl just because they thought it would be fun, have been fined and their hunting privileges temporarily suspended. Frankie Tesson Klassen, 23, and Wilhelm Harder Reimer, 19, pleaded guilty Wednesday in Lethbridge provincial court to a charge of hunting wildlife unlawfully, and they were fined $500 each for ... Read More »
Inflationary pressures influencing City budget planning
LETHBRIDGE HERALDabeeber@lethbridgeherald.com As City Treasurer, Darrell Mathews knows well the pressures facing administration as it deals with higher inflation and rising costs. Inflation has been cited during discussions about the 2023-26 City budget as among the external pressures facing civic government as it prepares the budget. The forecast increase to the base budget amounts to ... Read More »
Exhibition supports Lethbridge Therapeutic Riding Association
LETHBRIDGE HERALDapulido@lethbridgeherald.com The Lethbridge and District Exhibition was able to make a significant donation to the Lethbridge Therapeutic Riding Association recently, thanks to their inaugural lotteries program. In its first year the program awarded Judi Slusar with $19,585.00Â as the winning ticket holder and allowed the Lethbridge and District Exhibition to donate $5,332.87 to the LTRA. ... Read More »
Family of missing woman mourning their ‘shining light’
The family of Tia Blood is remembering her as a gentle person, a loving wife, mother and friend. On Wednesday RCMP confirmed that a body discovered near Coalhurst earlier this week was that of the Lethbridge woman who had been missing since Oct. 19 RCMP say an autopsy was conducted at the Calgary Office of ... Read More »
Council needs to make life in Lethbridge more affordable
Editor: So the city wants to increase property taxes over the next four years by 15 per cent. As it is, we have some of the highest property taxes in Alberta. The only things new I have noticed are all the new city vehicles and the revitalization of the downtown core, which most people avoid ... Read More »
‘Vulnerable’ should refer to people in city who don’t feel safe
Editor: I have four concerns: 1) If 70 per cent of the homeless in Lethbridge are Indigenous, why is the Blackfoot Confederacy not helping them be re-housed in Indigenous communities where they could be supported by their cultures? Then Lethbridge would have enough services to help the other 30 per cent. If that isn’t going ... Read More »
Premier continuing a UCP tradition
Editor: So Danielle Smith is targeting Alberta Health Services as the source of Alberta’s pandemic misfortunes. The new premier continues in the UCP tradition of misunderstanding, mismanaging and misrepresenting Albertans’ pandemic experience. She and this government continue to refuse to take some responsibility for the recurring COVID catastrophes of the past two-and-a-half years including over ... Read More »
Wednesday, October 26, 2022
SMITH, Cecily <br/>PAISLEY, Dean <br/>HUTCHINSON, Ronald <br/>FORRAYI, Elizabeth <br/>PICCINI, Verdelle <br/>TOMOMITSU, Kaz <br/>VANDERFLUIT, Adrian <br/>STRAIN, Clara <br/>ANDERSON, Edmond <br/>UNDERWOOD, Trevor <br/>BRAVE ROCK, Ross <br... Read More »
NCC project seeks to protect The Yarrow
LETHBRIDGE HERALDapulido@lethbridgeherald.com A major campaign has been launched by the Nature Conservancy of Canada to save a unique landscape, home to abundant wildlife located near Waterton Lakes National Park. Near the hamlet of Twin Butte in southwestern Alberta is a property called The Yarrow, which features a complex array of pristine habitats including grasslands, wetlands, ... Read More »
Break and enter suspect released
LETHBRIDGE HERALDdshurtz@lethbridgeherald.com A 33-year-old woman who broke into a home on the weekend and assaulted another woman who was asleep in bed, has been released from custody. Kelsey Megan Across the Mountain, who appeared in Lethbridge provincial court Tuesday by CCTV from the Lethbridge Correctional Centre, was released on $1,000 no-cash bail and ordered to return ... Read More »
