Southern Alberta News
Galt museum hosts Diwali festival of lights celebration
By Justin Seward - Lethbridge Herald on November 7th, 2023
The Galt Museum and India Canada Cultural Association hosted many community members to celebrate India’s biggest holiday, the Diwali festival of lights over the weekend. People could experience rangoli dancing, soulful music, decorative and cultural displays and enjoy food such as samosas, laddo and chai. The Festival of Light is celebrated in the Hindu month ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Dangerous offender has sentence appeal dismissed
By Delon Shurtz - Lethbridge Herald on November 7th, 2023
LETHBRIDGE HERALDdshurtz@lethbridgeherald.com A Coaldale man designated a dangerous offender in 2019 and convicted for sexually assaulting adolescent girls, has failed to convince Alberta’s appeal court to change his sentence. Trevor Philip Pritchard appealed the indeterminate prison sentence he received in 2021 in Lethbridge Court of King’s Bench by Madam Justice Johnna Kubik, and asked the ... Read More »
1 responseGreen cart program moving to bi-weekly pickups
By Alejandra Pulido-Guzman - Lethbridge Herald on November 7th, 2023
LETHBRIDGE HERALDapulido@lethbridgeherald.com The City of Lethbridge announced Monday that starting today residents will only need to roll out their green carts for organics collection every second week until spring. Waste and Environment collections manager James Nicholls spoke to reporters on Monday and said the schedule change accounts for the weather changing and the need for ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Accused screwdriver attacker to seek release from custody
By Delon Shurtz - Lethbridge Herald on November 4th, 2023
LETHBRIDGE HERALDdshurtz@lethbridgeherald.com A Lethbridge woman who is accused of attacking two men with a screwdriver, sending one of them to hospital, will seek her release from remand custody when she returns to court next week. Stacey Leigh Carlson, whose matter was addressed briefly Friday in Lethbridge court of justice, is scheduled to return to court ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Man gets jail for break-ins; sentence complete due to time in remand
By Delon Shurtz - Lethbridge Herald on November 4th, 2023
LETHBRIDGE HERALDdshurtz@lethbridgeherald.com Breaking into a couple of Lethbridge businesses within about 30 minutes of each other has netted a 35-year-old man a jail sentence. Delray Charles Cross Child was sentenced to slightly more than seven months in jail after he pleaded guilty this week in Lethbridge court of justice to the pair of break-ins, along ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!NDP says Neudorf breaking ranks on pension plan
By Al Beeber - Lethbridge Herald on November 4th, 2023
LETHBRIDGE HERALDabeeber@lethbridgeherald.com UCP MLA for Lethbridge East Nathan Neudorf is the focus of accusations by the provincial NDP he is breaking ranks on his party’s plan to look at creating an Alberta Pension Plan. The NDP released a statement Friday, complete with an email from Neudorf to a constituent, that said Neudorf blamed the pension ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Cancer centre benefits from big 4-H club donation
By Al Beeber - Lethbridge Herald on November 4th, 2023
LETHBRIDGE HERALDabeeber@lethbridgeherald.com The members of the Turin 4-H Club want to help those who need it and on Friday they made a massive donation to the Jack Ady Cancer Centre at Chinook Regional Hospital. About 40 in number, the members of the 4-H sheep club donated $53,000 to the centre in memory of two people. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Family preservation centre opens on Kainai Nation
By Theodora MacLeod - Lethbridge Herald Local Journalism Initiative Reporter on November 4th, 2023
On Highway 5, at the eastern edge of Cardston at 1 Avenue and 12 Street,there used to be a garage. Not far from K&D Implements and the UFA Cardlock, it was, and still is, on the land of Kainai Nation, but it’s far from a garage now. Instead of housing buses it is about to ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!YMCA recognizes staff for contribution to community
By Alejandra Pulido-Guzman - Lethbridge Herald on November 4th, 2023
LETHBRIDGE HERALDapulido@lethbridgeherald.com The YMCA of Lethbridge recognized seven staff members for their contributions to the YMCA, and dedication to the community while engaged in different levels of studies. YMCA of Lethbridge CEO, Jennifer Petracek-Kolb said four of them were recipients of YMCA scholarships, while the other three were nominees of outside foundations’ scholarships. One was ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!City monitoring water situation
By Al Beeber - Lethbridge Herald on November 3rd, 2023
LETHBRIDGE HERALDabeeber@lethbridgeherald.com In 30 years of watching water levels in the Oldman River, Doug Kaupp has never seen them so low. And he says there is a high probability those levels will be the focus of discussions next spring if winter snowfall doesn’t improve the situation. Kaupp, General Manager of Water and Wastewater Services for ... Read More »
3 responsesStudent named Fire Chief for a day
By Alejandra Pulido-Guzman - Lethbridge Herald on November 3rd, 2023
LETHBRIDGE HERALDapulido@lethbridgeherald.com The Lethbridge Fire and Emergency Services awarded a Grade 1 student at Mike Mountain Horse Elementary School its Fire Chief for a Day on Thursday, and presented him with a Fire Department costume. Members of the Lethbridge Fire and Emergency Services, along with their mascot Sparky, visited the Grade 1 class to award ... Read More »
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