Southern Alberta News
Shadow minister hosts health care town hall in city
By Al Beeber - Lethbridge Herald on October 2nd, 2024
LETHBRIDGE HERALDabeeber@lethbridgeherald.com Lethbridge residents had their voices heard about health care at a town hall staged last night in the Galt Museum by NDP shadow minister for Health Sarah Hoffman and NDP MLA Dr. Luanne Metz, who is chair of the party’s Future of Heath Care Advisory Team. Hoffman, who served for several years as ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Soup kitchen celebrates 40th anniversary
By Alejandra Pulido-Guzman - Lethbridge Herald on October 2nd, 2024
LETHBRIDGE HERALDapulido@lethbridgeherald.com The Lethbridge Soup Kitchen has been serving meals to those in need for 40 years and they celebrated their milestone with many volunteers, donors, suppliers and staff Tuesday night. Bill Ginther, executive director of the Soup Kitchen, shared with the Herald some of the history and highlights of the last four decades of ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Artist-designed utility boxes bring colour to U of L campus
By Lethbridge Herald on October 2nd, 2024
At the unveiling and celebration of Faculty of Fine Arts alumna Laurel Scott’s artwork in Anderson Hall earlier this year —a large, welcoming 12-metre vinyl-wrapped mural of the southern Alberta landscape — Mark Slomp, Executive Director of Student Services, issued a challenge to the ULethbridge community: bring more art to campus. Discussions were already underway ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Rotarians taking decommissioned emergency vehicles to Mexico
By Al Beeber - Lethbridge Herald on October 1st, 2024
LETHBRIDGE HERALDabeeber@lethbridgeherald.com Rotary clubs from Alberta and Saskatchewan are once again giving a helping hand to needy emergency services in Mexico. A group of 17 Rotarians in seven decommissioned vehicles including four firetrucks and three handi-buses left Lethbridge Sunday morning as dawn broke on a seven-day, 4,100 kilometre trek to Mazatlan. An eighth vehicle was ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Lottery helps fund valuable trials for cancer patients
By Al Beeber - Lethbridge Herald on October 1st, 2024
LETHBRIDGE HERALDabeeber@lethbridgeherald.com One of two Albertans will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetimes and 60 are diagnosed each day with the disease. It’s expected that this year 23,000 new cancer cases in total will be diagnosed in Alberta alone. Ryan Kelly of the Alberta Cancer Foundation says while a diagnosis can be devastating “huge ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Powwow celebrates culture and well-being
By Alexandra Noad - Lethbridge Herald Local Journalism Initiative Reporter on October 1st, 2024
The vivid colours of traditional regalia were accompanied by the strong beat of drums as Indigenous dancer’s athleticism shone at second annual Reconciliation Powwow was held at the Agri-food Hub over the weekend. The annual powwow was hosted by the Honouring Traditions and Reconciliation Society. According to their website, the Honouring Traditions and Reconciliation Society ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!UCP candidate wants a course correction for Lethbridge West
By Alejandra Pulido-Guzman - Lethbridge Herald on October 1st, 2024
LETHBRIDGE HERALDapulido@lethbridgeherald.com United Conservative Party candidate for the vacant Lethbridge West seat in the Alberta legislature John Middleton-Hope says he hopes for a course correction for citizens in that riding. “I am certainly excited to be the candidate. We have a lot of work to do. It is an important course correction for citizens of ... Read More »
1 responseFamily mourns Blood Tribe man who died in Calgary police custody
By Al Beeber - Lethbridge Herald on September 28th, 2024
LETHBRIDGE HERALDabeeber@lethbridgeherald.com The family of a Blood Tribe man who died in the custody of Calgary police is mourning their loved one. In a release sent to media Friday, the family of Jon Wells says the “tragic and untimely death has left a void in the hearts of all who knew him.” The Alberta Serious ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Food bank hosts workshop on reconciliation
By Alexandra Noad - Lethbridge Herald Local Journalism Initiative Reporter on September 28th, 2024
A workshop exploring how to better understand Truth and Reconciliation was held on Thursday at the Interfaith Food Bank. Cindy Rendall, owner of Untethered Heart Counselling and an instructor at Red Crow College, facilitated the workshop. The workshop was also funded by Reconciliation Lethbridge. In the workshop participants explored the history of racism against Indigenous ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!City company gets funding from Canada Space Agency
By Al Beeber - Lethbridge Herald on September 28th, 2024
LETHBRIDGE HERALDabeeber@lethbridgeherald.com A Lethbridge company is one of seven across Canada in its category to receive funding from the Canada Space Agency. Blue Sky Spectroscopy Inc. has been awarded $350,000 to create an “intrinsically calibrated multi-axis laser-based position metrology system suitable for cryogenic and space applications,,” says the agency. It received the funding in the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Interfaith food bank feast held in spirit of reconciliation
By Alejandra Pulido-Guzman - Lethbridge Herald on September 28th, 2024
LETHBRIDGE HERALDapulido@lethbridgeherald.com The Interfaith Food Bank welcomed members of the community to their Co-op community kitchen to enjoy a feast in recognition of National Day for Truth and Reconciliation on Friday. Those in attendance were able to enjoy Blackfoot traditional cuisine items like bison stew, berry soup, fry bread among other things. Danielle McIntyre, executive ... Read More »
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