Southern Alberta News
Nikka Yuko garden sets attendance records for Winter Lights Festival
By Nikka Yuko Japanese Garden on February 19th, 2021
Nikka Yuko Japanese Garden’s Winter Light Festival, during the garden’s two-month run, saw 19,585 guests come through the gates and enjoy a stroll under almost 170,000 lights. This represents a 17.6 per cent increase in visitation from last year’s festival. Although Nikka Yuko had to make changes to how the festival was ran, they were ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!90-day term for offences
By Delon Shurtz on February 19th, 2021
A confrontation with police officers didn’t end well for Troy Eagle Tail Feathers, who tried to goad the officers into a fight on Dec. 14, 2019. The drunken Eagle Tail Feathers was causing a disturbance in the front yard of a westside residence when several police officers arrived. They kept their distance while trying to ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Four month jail sentence for shopbreaking and theft
By Delon Shurtz on February 19th, 2021
LETHBRIDGE HERALDdshurtz@lethbridgeherald.com A former Lethbridge man who was caught after he broke into a city business more than a year ago, has been sentenced to four months in jail. Jason Frank Busby was sentenced Wednesday in Lethbridge provincial court, after he pleaded guilty to one count of shopbreaking and commit theft. Court was told the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Harm reduction site plan nixed
By Tim Kalinowski on February 19th, 2021
LETHBRIDGE HERALDtkalinowski@lethbridgeherald.com HIV Community Link will not be setting up a harm reduction site on 13th Street North as previously planned, but still plans to open one at a more “suitable location” in the future. The organization announced on Thursday it had withdrawn its application to establish a sexual health resource centre and clean needle ... Read More »
2 responsesMan won’t be leaving jail soon despite bail
By Delon Shurtz on February 18th, 2021
LETHBRIDGE HERALDdshurtz@lethbridgeherald.com A 26-year-old man charged with several other individuals in relation to a serious assault on the westside in September has been granted bail, but he won’t be getting out of jail right away. Jesse Dean Davidson, who is charged with aggravated assault, disguised with intent and failure to comply with a release order, ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!LTC and DSL residents, staff receiving vaccine
By Nikki Jamieson on February 18th, 2021
Available COVID vaccines are being distributed despite recent shortages. Not long after the first COVID-19 vaccines became available and were distributed, earlier this year Pfizer announced they were shipping about 80 per cent less vaccines over the next few weeks as it completed upgrades to its manufacturing plant in Belgium, and Moderna also announced in ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Online resources now available for 2021 Municipal Election
By City of Lethbridge on February 18th, 2021
Those interested in putting their name forward as a nominee for the 2021 Municipal Election can now access online resources to help them with this process. The City’s election website at lethbridge.ca/elections will be updated regularly as the nomination period progresses. Resources currently available include: · Candidate’s Guide to Running for Municipal Office in Alberta · Council ... Read More »
1 responseFamily struggling to hold onto dream
By Greg Bobinec on February 18th, 2021
A local southern Alberta family is struggling to hold onto the property they have been working towards developing as a place to help employ people with disabilities, and is asking for the community’s support to save it. Since moving from their successful greenhouse in Barons several years ago, Suzie Irwin and her husband Brandt moved ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Piikani man pleads not guilty to murder charge
By Delon Shurtz on February 17th, 2021
LETHBRIDGE HERALDdshurtz@lethbridgeherald.com A 37-year-old Piikani man accused of killing a teenager last summer has pleaded not guilty to charges of second-degree murder and causing an indignity to human remains. Dustin Big Bull entered the pleas Tuesday in Lethbridge provincial court, where he also elected to be tried by a Court of Queen’s Bench judge and ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Man pleads guilty to various charges
By Delon Shurtz on February 17th, 2021
LETHBRIDGE HERALDdshurtz@lethbridgeherald.com When a motel clerk answered the phone on the evening of May 7, 2020, the last thing the clerk expected to hear was the frantic voice of a child calling for help. The crying seven-year-old boy said his mother wouldn’t wake up, and the clerk arrived at the room to discover a man ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!New program helping female entrepreneurs
By LETHBRIDGE HERALD on February 17th, 2021
When Calgary based companies Jadler Industries and Random Acronym were searching for a place to test out new technology for monitoring soil moisture in agriculture, there was only one place to go: Lethbridge College. “Lethbridge College has built a reputation with the agriculture industry in southern Alberta for getting their research out into the real ... Read More »
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