Southern Alberta News
Recovery program’s efforts in opioid crisis presented at SACPA
By Theodora MacLeod - Lethbridge Herald Local Journalism Initiative Reporter on January 5th, 2024
Gathering for their first session of 2024, members of the Southern Alberta Council on Public Affairs heard from staff of the Indigenous Recovery Coach Program (Aapai’tsi’taappii’saam) on Thursday afternoon in the Lethbridge Senior Citizens Organization atrium. The urban community-based recovery program aims to address the ongoing opioid crisis using compassion and Indigenous, culturally based teachings. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Website lists city among Canada’s ‘most dangerous’
By Al Beeber - Lethbridge Herald on January 4th, 2024
LETHBRIDGE HERALDabeeber@lethbridgeherald.com Just when you thought it was safe to read about Lethbridge crime, a new study has come that calls this city the second most dangerous place in Canada. A website called The Boutique Adventurer lists Lethbridge as No. 2 behind Surrey, B.C. Its rankings – says the website – are based on data ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Windy City Rescue working to find pups their furever homes
By Al Beeber - Lethbridge Herald on January 4th, 2024
LETHBRIDGE HERALDabeeber@lethbridgeherald.com Bear needs a new home. The five-year-old mellow black mixed breed has been in foster care since his owner died several months ago. He’s one of many dogs Windy City Rescue has been working to find a furever home for since the organization was started in 2009. Since being founded the Windy City ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Province provides funding for Waterton biosphere Carnivores and Communities Program
By Al Beeber - Lethbridge Herald on January 4th, 2024
LETHBRIDGE HERALDabeeber@lethbridgeherald.com The Alberta government on Wednesday announced five years of funding to help prevent conflicts between humans and wildlife in the Waterton Biosphere Reserve. The Carnivores and Communities Program is an initiative of the Waterton Biosphere Reserve Association to promote a peaceful co-existence between humans and wildlife in the biosphere region. The province will ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Past year held many highlights for college
By Alejandra Pulido-Guzman - Lethbridge Herald on January 4th, 2024
LETHBRIDGE HERALDapulido@lethbridgeherald.com Lethbridge College’s president and CEO Brad Donaldson told the Herald in a recent interview that 2023 was a great year for the college, one in which they continued to see post-COVID recovery and a rebound of students coming back to campus. “We’ve almost recovered to our pre-COVID numbers, we’re seeing students coming back ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Food banks see rise in use with donations still needed
By Steffanie Costigan - Lethbridge Herald Local Journalism Initiative Reporter on January 4th, 2024
With the Christmas season over and a new year underway, city food banks are still in great need of donations with the more families feeling a financial pinch in their pocketbooks. The Christmas Hope campaign – a partnership of food banks and other local organizations, was able to help over 9,500 community members, 33,64 of ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Pot shop owner dreaming bigger
By Theodora MacLeod - Lethbridge Herald Local Journalism Initiative Reporter on January 4th, 2024
Edward Pan says he’s in the business of selling happiness. Owner of Twenty Four Karats cannabis store on Mayor Magrath and 5 Ave S, he was the first to be interviewed in Alberta for a cannabis licence and if he has it his way, he’ll be the last one standing. While Twenty Four Karats isn’t ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!New president wants community to play role in University of Lethbridge
By Al Beeber - Lethbridge Herald on January 3rd, 2024
LETHBRIDGE HERALDabeeber@lethbridgeherald.com Digvir Jayas wants Lethbridge residents to feel they are part of the University of Lethbridge community. The seventh president and vice-chancellor of the university was formally installed into his new position last fall. His arrival on campus was, as the university has stated, representative of a year of change “that saw a significant ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Gravestone QR code provides link to a lost life
By Steffanie Costigan - Lethbridge Herald Local Journalism Initiative Reporter on January 3rd, 2024
A QR code has been etched onto a headstone for the first time in Lethbridge. The initiative was a collaboration between Cornerstone Funeral Home and Lethbridge Monumental to memorialize the life of a young woman from Coaldale. The family of 18-year-old Bethany Vander Beek, who died following a vehicle collision near Highway 25 in February ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!City man with disability developing sports podcast
By Al Beeber - Lethbridge Herald on January 3rd, 2024
LETHBRIDGE HERALDabeeber@lethbridgeherald.com Mitch Lawson of the Southern Alberta Community Living Association sees huge potential in a young man with a dream of growing a locally based sports podcast into a huge success. Ryan O’Donnell, who was diagnosed in his teens as being on the autistic spectrum while attending Catholic Central High School, is working to ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Tourism Lethbridge committees helping with strategies
By Alejandra Pulido-Guzman - Lethbridge Herald on December 30th, 2023
LETHBRIDGE HERALDapulido@lethbridgeherald.com 2023 was filled with highlights for Tourism Lethbridge, says CEO Erin Crane, especially the outcomes from four advisory committees which have helped streamline that organization and highlight priorities the organization took on during 2023. Crane says the four advisory committees for sporting events, business events, attraction and Indigenous tourism, were formed in 2022 ... Read More »
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