November 15th, 2024

Southern Alberta News

Local craft brewery brings farm to glass

By Al Beeber - Lethbridge Herald on August 28th, 2024

LETHBRIDGE HERALDabeeber@lethbridgeherald.com The recent Open Farm Days was an opportunity for the agricultural community to connect with people who aren’t involved in the industry. At various locations around southern Alberta including Farming Smarter, they could do just that. Jamie Puchinger of Farming Smarter said that organization was giving people an opportunity to learn about their ... Read More »

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Religious freedom focus of upcoming symposium

By Al Beeber - Lethbridge Herald on August 28th, 2024

LETHBRIDGE HERALDabeeber@lethbridgeherald.com The importance of religious freedom to Canadians will be discussed in a Sept. 21 symposium at Southminster United Church. An ad hoc group of citizens called Lethbridge Friends of Religious Freedom will be hosting the symposium that runs from 10 am. until 4 p.m. that day with three high-profile keynote speakers who will ... Read More »

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Blairmore resident concerned about potential tourism development

By Alejandra Pulido-Guzman - Lethbridge Herald on August 27th, 2024

LETHBRIDGE HERALDapulido@lethbridgeherald.com A resident of the Crowsnest Pass is sharing her concerns about a land use bylaw amendment that will be heard by council this afternoon in regards to a plot of land she lives adjacent to. Today the Municipality of Crowsnest Pass council meeting will be hearing from the public about agenda item No. ... Read More »

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Disc golf courses host inaugural amateur championship

By Justin Seward - Lethbridge Herald on August 27th, 2024

If you saw many flying discs in the university and Nicholas Sheran areas over the weekend it was because disc golfers were competing in the inaugural National Amateur Disc Golf Tour (NADGT) Canada national championship. There were a couple dozen qualifiers across Canada and disc golfers were invited to the national championships from those events. ... Read More »

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Alcare Manor celebrates recovery

By Justin Seward - Lethbridge Herald on August 27th, 2024

Southern Alcare Manor hosted Celebrate U at Henderson Lake Park on Saturday afternoon to make people aware of the recovery that does happen in the city. “Celebrate U is about stepping up and enjoying the company of other people that are also celebrating recovery from whatever their addiction might be,” said Holly Lemieux, SAM program ... Read More »

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Relay races ride out Whoop-Up Days rodeo

By Alexandra Noad - Lethbridge Herald Local Journalism Initiative Reporter on August 27th, 2024

The action-packed rodeo of Whoop-Up Days concluded with the popular relay races. Whoop-Up Days Rodeo is the only professional rodeo in Canada to host Relay Races as part of its main event. Relay Races are a team sport where the rider, who rides bareback, transfers to two different horses in three laps. The first one ... Read More »

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After-hours care an issue in hospitals for Alberta Medical Association

By Al Beeber - Lethbridge Herald on August 27th, 2024

LETHBRIDGE HERALDabeeber@lethbridgeherald.com The Alberta Medical Association is once again sounding an alarm about a crisis in the provincial healthcare system. This time it’s about the challenges being faced by General Internal Medicine physicians in Alberta’s hospitals and the need to incentivize after-hours care. On Monday morning AMA president and Medicine Hat emergency room doctor Paul ... Read More »

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City post secondaries host community breakfast

By Alexandra Noad - Lethbridge Herald Local Journalism Initiative Reporter on August 24th, 2024

Community members enjoyed a free pancake breakfast courtesy of the University of Lethbridge and Polytechnic at Rotary Square on Friday. Stephanie Savage, alumni and engagement manager for Lethbridge Polytechnic, says this is the second year the institutions have banded together to show they work hand in hand. “The idea started because we are two awesome ... Read More »

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Neudorf pushes back against Nenshi claims

By Al Beeber - Lethbridge Herald on August 24th, 2024

LETHBRIDGE HERALDabeeber@lethbridgeherald.com MLA for Lethbridge East and Minister of Affordability and Utilities says Alberta has a stable electricity grid and its treatment-based approach to addictions is working. Neudorf on Friday at his constituency office addressed several matters discussed by Alberta NDP leader Naheed Nenshi on Tuesday during a wide-ranging interview with the Herald. Nenshi told ... Read More »

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Local organ transplant recipient competed at national Games

By Alejandra Pulido-Guzman - Lethbridge Herald on August 24th, 2024

LETHBRIDGE HERALDapulido@lethbridgeherald.com A local organ transplant recipient is sharing her takeaway from attending the 2024 Canadian Transplant Games that recently took place in Ottawa for the first time. Sarah Lowry, who is a local liver donor transplant recipient, attended the games with her two sisters – one of them her living donor – and they ... Read More »

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Southland shows that trades have changed

By Al Beeber - Lethbridge Herald on August 23rd, 2024

LETHBRIDGE HERALDabeeber@lethbridgeherald.com The owners of Southland Trailers consider the people who work at the company’s six plants in Lethbridge and County of Lethbridge as team members. Those 550 valuable men and women were among the throngs lining up for the seventh annual Whoop-Up Days pancake breakfast staged by Southland on Thursday morning for four hours. ... Read More »

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