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Punk icon Bif Naked’s story more than skin deep
LETHBRIDGE HERALDapulido@lethbridgeherald.com Legendary punk icon Bif Naked has a new single called Rollerdome and will be performing a sold out show in Lethbridge on Wednesday at the Owl Acoustic Lounge, after being absent from the city’s music scene for over five years. Beth Torbert, better known as Bif Naked, was last seen in Lethbridge while ... Read More »
Indigenous business spreading awareness through art
Kainai Nation local Ina Fairbanks-Old Shoes is spreading awareness through art with her small business Something Wonderful Studios, combining advocacy through apparel. She is paying homage to missing and murdered indigenous women across Canada and sparking discussion with representation. Starting her business during the COVID pandemic, Old Shoes took her art from the canvas to ... Read More »
Young artist giving back from the heart
LETHBRIDGE HERALDapulido@lethbridgeherald.com A local young artist has found a way to give back to the community by spreading love one heart-art at a time and making donations to various organizations with proceeds of her art. Inspired by the multiple ways her mother gives back to the community, Molly McIntosh came up with a business for ... Read More »
SATURDAY, August 06, 2022
EVERITT, Marlene Karen GOUGH, Gerald Clifford HART-SHOUTING, Annie Mary KLEINSASSER, Rebecca J. NEGRYCH, Taras NEWINGER, Mervin OISHI, Lily Mutsuko RENNIE, Robert John ROGERS, Lily SCHMIDT, Mary Myrtle SORGE, Diane Laverne ... Read More »
Junior Bulls looking for success at Junior Little League nationals
Al Beeber –Â LETHBRIDGE HERALD –Â abeeber@lethbridgeherald.com The Lethbridge Junior Bulls are ready to kick some grass today. The host team in the Canadian Junior Little League championships is the third seed as the tournament semifinals begin this morning. The Junior Bulls take on Team Ontario from the East Nepean Little League at 10 a.m. in Spitz ... Read More »
Winds, bats pick up at nationals
Dale Woodard for the LETHBRIDGE HERALD The wind picked up Thursday night at Spitz Stadium. At roughly the same time, so did the Lethbridge Junior Bulls’ bats. Thanks to that little bit of gusto on the sticks, the locals wrapped up the 2022 Junior Little League Canadian Championship round-robin at 4-1 and will breeze into the ... Read More »
Moving aboriginal services closer to people a good idea
Joseph Quesnel Frontier Centre for Public Policy Manitobans should be cautiously optimistic about a deal that will transfer health care for Indigenous communities in the province to a regional Indigenous authority. Â If done properly and not politicized, a deal between the federal government, the Manitoba government and First Nations in southern Manitoba could really improve ... Read More »
Researchers look at growing rice in southern Alberta
Michele Konschuh, a research associate in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Lethbridge, is working with Galaxy Ag Ventures and Farming Smarter Association to examine the potential of rice crop in the Southern Alberta region. The staple provides valuable resources like rice starch, protein, and oil. According to the Observatory of Economics ... Read More »
Time Air society hopes to take flight with museum off the ground
LETHBRIDGE HERALDabeeber@lethbridgeherald.com The Time Air Historical Society has lofty ambitions to establish a museum at the Lethbridge airport in the old Trans Canada Airlines hangar at the facility. The society was at the Lethbridge International Airshow on the weekend with the remains of an old Dehavilland Canada DHC-6, better known as a Twin Otter once ... Read More »
Mayor hits the park pathways
LETHBRIDGE HERALDabeeber@lethbridgeherald.com Some days can be a walk in the park – even for a mayor. Mayor Blaine Hyggen on Thursday morning, with dogs on leash, kicked off his first “Move with the Mayor” monthly program at Henderson Lake. Each month, the mayor will select a city park for a walk with community members to ... Read More »
Bail granted man charged in shooting
LETHBRIDGE HERALDdshurtz@lethbridgeherald.com A Lethbridge man who was charged in relation to a shooting last December and then denied bail the following month in provincial court, has been granted bail by a higher court. Bira Jamal Ahmed was released – with several conditions – from remand custody following a bail review Wednesday in Lethbridge Court of ... Read More »
