Southern Alberta News
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 responseNDP 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!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!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!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!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 »
Be the first to comment!Photo radar discussed by Lethbridge Police Commission
By Alejandra Pulido-Guzman - Lethbridge Herald on November 3rd, 2023
LETHBRIDGE HERALDapulido@lethbridgeherald.com During their monthly meeting last week, the Lethbridge Police Commission discussed the benefits of having photo radar locations across the city and the need for more as the population continues to grow. Commission Chair Dawna Coslovi said that during the recent Community Conversation at the Enmax Centre, multiple members of the community approached ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!City man pleads guilty to multiple offences
By Delon Shurtz - Lethbridge Herald on November 3rd, 2023
LETHBRIDGE HERALDdshurtz@lethbridgeherald.com A Lethbridge man who managed to get away from police in a stolen pickup truck, wasn’t so lucky when he tried to flee a second time on foot. At about 8:50 p.m. on June 19 of this year Coaldale RCMP, who responded to a report of a suspicious motor vehicle, attempted to pull ... Read More »
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