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People who lost 50 dogs in fire are granted kennel permit |
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Written by Alex McCuaig SOUTHERN ALBERTA NEWSPAPERS
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Wednesday, 17 March 2010 |
While the matter is closed from the perspective of both the police and an animal rights group, a new chapter in the story of a fire which claimed the lives of dozens of dogs may just be unfolding.
A man, his sister and niece escaped unharmed from a fire in a residence last month near Etzikom, although as many as 50 dogs and puppies kept in cages inside the house perished. Another estimated 100 dogs and three horses housed in adjacent buildings survived. The surviving animals were all removed to an undisclosed location before SPCA investigators were able to ensure the animals’ health.
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Westside’s wide open space |
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Written by Gerald Gauthier, Lethbridge Herald
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Wednesday, 17 March 2010 |
If things go as planned, the schoolyard for two new westside high schools will be just as busy on weekends and evenings as it is during school hours.
The final landscaping touches are to get underway soon at The Crossings, which includes a combination park/schoolyard as well as public and separate high schools and a new public library — all together on a 28-hectare site. In addition to some 1,140 trees, the park will feature more than four kilometres of pathways, eight tennis courts, four outdoor basketball courts, four soccer fields and three ball diamonds.
“Most school yards are big, open fields,” said Dave Ellis, parks manager for the City of Lethbridge. “The difference here is that we landscaped it so it would be more attractive to the community.
“It’s really meant to be the core of West Lethbridge.”
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Security standardization by Alberta Health to affect Commissionaires |
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Written by Sherri Gallant Lethbridge Herald
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Wednesday, 17 March 2010 |
Alberta Health Services is opting to standardize security services in the province, ending a long-term contract the local health region has held with the Corps of Commissionaires.
Bob Moors, manager of the Lethbridge region of the Corps, said he just received word recently that AHS would not be renewing the security contract when it comes up for renewal in May.
Paladin Security Group Ltd. will be the new contractor.
Paladin has offices in Vancouver and Victoria, Calgary, Edmonton, Fort McMurray and Toronto. Other clients for the firm include BC Hydro, the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority, BCIT and SAIT, Kingston Hospitals, VIA Rail, and others.
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Ruling to hurt British ex-pat pensioners |
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Written by Sherri Gallant Lethbridge Herald
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Tuesday, 16 March 2010 |
As many as several hundred British ex-pats living in southern Alberta stand to be affected by Tuesday’s decision in a European court to refuse cost-of-living increases on the British pension they receive.
Brenda Webster, of Lethbridge, is one of them.
Webster left England for Canada in 1977, and as a 40-year-old who’d worked since she was 16, had paid for decades into the British pension fund. But Webster and half a million other pensioners living outside of England (more than 155,000 in Canada) have had their pensions frozen at the same level where it began. Eight Canadian pensioners and five others filed an appeal with the Grand Chamber (equivalent of the Supreme Court) of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), which was underwritten by the Canadian Alliance of British Pensioners (CABP) and four other international pensioner organizations — with the support of the Canadian government. This, after an earlier case heard by the ECHR was lost.
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Local innovation could be patented |
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Written by Caroline Zentner Lethbridge Herald
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Tuesday, 16 March 2010 |
As far as simulated patients go, Clyde at Lethbridge College’s SPHERE lab is one of the best. He can mimic all sorts of medical conditions and symptoms for health-care students and professionals.
But one thing he can’t do is have pitting edema. Pitting edema is swelling of body tissues, often around the ankles and lower legs, due to fluid accumulation. Pressure on the swollen areas causes indentations which remain for a time after the pressure is released. It can be a symptom of congestive heart failure or liver or kidney failure.
“I thought about it five or six years ago but I didn’t have time to do anything about it,” said Karen Kennedy, a nursing instructor and co-ordinator of the SPHERE (Simulated Patient Health Environment for Research and Education) lab, adding she wanted to give her students a more realistic experience than sticky notes labelled “pitting edema” placed on the legs.
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