Southern Alberta News
Nominations open for Allied Arts Council awards
By Al Beeber on May 5th, 2021
LETHBRIDGE HERALDabeeber@lethbridgeherald.com The Allied Arts Council is seeking nominations for the annual awards recognizing contributions to the city arts community. Nominations are open until June 1 with recipients to be honoured in September. The ceremony this year will be a virtual one. The awards were started in the mid-2000s when the late Joan Waterfield was ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Lethbridge-based nuclear engineer hopeful province will consider nuclear energy production
By Tim Kalinowski on May 5th, 2021
LETHBRIDGE HERALDtkalinowski@lethbridgeherald.com Lethbridge-based retired nuclear engineer Cosmos Voutsinos says Albertans should be excited about the potential of Small Modular Reactors (SMRs), and he is hopeful the provincial government will seriously consider this form of nuclear energy production in its longer term investment strategy going forward. Voutsinos says SMR technology not only provides an abundant source ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Residents reminded to prepare for emergencies
By Tim Kalinowski on May 5th, 2021
LETHBRIDGE HERALDtkalinowski@lethbridgeherald.com While the COVID-19 pandemic has forced more people to re-align themselves toward being prepared for emergencies, concedes Luke Palmer, City of Lethbridge Emergency Preparedness Manager, he would like to see more people in the city putting time and effort into constructing their own household emergency response plans and 72-hour kits. “It’s definitely hit ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!MLA Neudorf says progress being made on supportive housing in Lethbridge
By Dale Woodard on May 4th, 2021
Progress is being made on supportive housing around the city to help the vulnerable take steps toward a better life. On hand as the guest speaker at the Lethbridge Chamber of Commerce’s Constituency Connections Zoom session Friday morning, Lethbridge-East MLA Nathan Neudorf tackled a number of topics. Among those was how to collaborate with the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Whitegrass denied bail
By Delon Shurtz on May 4th, 2021
LETHBRIDGE HERALDdshurtz@lethbridgeherald.com A 37-year-old woman accused of killing her former common-law spouse, has failed to convince a judge she should be granted bail and released from custody while her case makes its way through the court system. Justice Vaughan Hartigan of Lethbridge Court of Queen’s Bench denied Melissa Whitegrass’s application for bail last week. The ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Sisters spend the past year walking away the COVID blues
By Al Beeber on May 4th, 2021
LETHBRIDGE HERALDabeeber@lethbridgeherald.com When Trish Provost was feeling COVID anxiety last year, her sister Kristylee stepped and came up with a solution to beat the pandemic blues – a walking regimen. The two sisters from the Piikani First Nations then embarked on a journey that over the course of a year has seen them walk 10,000 ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Impersonating a police officer and causing a disturbance earns man jail time
By Delon Shurtz on May 4th, 2021
LETHBRIDGE HERALDdshurtz@lethbridgeherald.com Nwar Elias Magzoub didn’t fool anyone when he pulled out a badge and claimed to be a police officer. Magzoub, 30, was at an automotive shop in Fort Macleod on March 24 when he got into a “heated exchange” with an employee and began yelling. Then he pulled out a cheap looking silver ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Galt museum looking to reflect community in mosaic
By Al Beeber on May 4th, 2021
LETHBRIDGE HERALDabeeber@lethbridgeherald.com The image visitors to the Galt Museum & Archives see in the huge west-facing window will soon be no more. In place of the 1950s-era photo of shoppers, the museum hopes to create a mosaic of 400 portraits representing the diverse population of Lethbridge and southern Alberta. Until the end of May, the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Former head of Emergency Management Alberta critical of province’s pandemic response
By Tim Kalinowski on May 4th, 2021
LETHBRIDGE HERALDtkalinowski@lethbridgeherald.com The former head of Emergency Management Alberta during the Klein government years, Lt. Col. David Redman (ret.), has been a strong critic of the Kenney government’s pandemic response over the past year. And this latest round of restrictive public health measures, Redman says, proves the point he has been making all along: lockdowns ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Former Blood Tribe councillor running for city mayor
By Tim Kalinowski on May 1st, 2021
LETHBRIDGE HERALDtkalinowski@lethbridgeherald.com Former Blood Tribe councillor and Ninastako Cultural Centre cultural instructor Sheldon Joseph Day Chief became the latest candidate to declare his intention to run for mayor in this fall’s municipal election. Day Chief has maintained a residence in Lethbridge for the past 30 years, and has family ties which go back to the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Charges withdrawn against man accused in assault case
By Delon Shurtz on May 1st, 2021
LETHBRIDGE HERALDdshurtz@lethbridgeherald.com Numerous charges against a 28-year-old man who was accused of assaulting a couple of city business owners during a violent altercation last summer, have been withdrawn. Criminal charges against Alan Edwin Valin for assault to resist arrest, threats to cause death or bodily harm, attempt to disarm a peace officer, cause a disturbance and ... Read More »
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