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Robotics helps students get with the program |
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Written by Caroline Zentner Lethbridge Herald
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Wednesday, 10 March 2010 |
School is over for the day but several students in a classroom at Galbraith School are still working on some problems. But this is no detention. The five students are members of the school’s robotics club and they’re fine-tuning their machines before Saturday’s Robofest competition in Cardston.
They chatter back and forth to one another about moving sensors, adding or taking off pieces or ways to program their robot.
“Corners are really hard,” said Brandon Curcio, a Grade 6 student at Wilson Middle School, as he watched his robot do a test run on an oblong tabletop.
“The task at hand is quite difficult,” said Luke Anderberg, Grade 5 teacher at Galbraith and robotics club coach. “The biggest task is to stay on the table.”
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Use caution when using credit cards |
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Written by Gerald Gauthier, Lethbridge Herald
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Wednesday, 10 March 2010 |
Local police advise it’s safest never to let down your guard when using debit and credit cards.
Criminals go to sometimes great lengths to steal the data stored on the magnetic strips of such cards, said Sgt. Jeff Mantyak with the Lethbridge regional police economic crimes unit.
Once they’ve got that vital data, criminals use it to produce counterfeit cards which are then used to clean out victims’ bank accounts and ring up huge credit card bills in their names.
“The general rule of thumb now is to keep them in your possession,” said Mantyak, one of two officers who held a public information session on payment card fraud Wednesday at the Lethbridge Public Library.
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Wood respected as judge, colleague |
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Written by Lethbridge Herald
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Wednesday, 10 March 2010 |
A wonderful friend, a respected colleague and a fair and conscientious judge is how James Arthur Wood will be remembered by many who knew him.
Wood, who died Saturday at the age of 70, would have blushed at the glowing tributes paid him by friends and colleagues who remembered his life with fondness, and his passing with sadness.
“He was a highly respected member of the community,” fellow Judge Fred Coward said of his close friend and colleague. “He was an outstanding judge.”
The two men met some 32 years ago when Coward moved to the city as a provincial court judge. Wood was a lawyer at the time, but in 1984 he was appointed to the bench and only five years after that he was appointed as assistant chief judge, a position he held until he retired in 2007.
That retirement, Coward recalled Wednesday while sitting in his office at the Lethbridge courthouse, was another occasion marked with sadness.
“He was missed.”
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Syphilis stats scary for Alberta |
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Written by Sherri Gallant Lethbridge Herald
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Tuesday, 09 March 2010 |
A rising number of Albertans are getting syphilis from their sexual partners, and pregnant women are passing it to their babies, who often die from the disease.
The Lethbridge area is no exception, said Dr. Vivien Suttorp, Medical Officer of Health for the South Zone.
“Sometimes if the family doesn’t want the baby tested then we’ll never know if it was syphilis,” Suttorp said. “But there have been babies born to syphilis-positive mothers here in the south.”
The disease can manifest slowly in children who survive after birth, and it can take up to two years to confirm a case of congenital syphilis.
“They have bone problems, they have anemia, they have liver and spleen problems, they have neurological problems, and skin and mucus lesions.
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Bird-brained idea leads to unusual charge |
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Written by Lethbridge Herald
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Tuesday, 09 March 2010 |
It was a pet-pinching plot that failed to take flight.
Lethbridge regional police were called Monday afternoon to Petland in the 900 block of 1 Avenue South where staff reported a parrot had been stolen. Police got a description of the thief and located a man nearby carrying the missing tropical bird.
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