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Council critic Babki ready to take action if elected |
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Written by Dave Mabell
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Thursday, August 19 2010, 9:36 PM |
City council can cut taxes without cutting services, in the view of one of council’s most outspoken critics.
Retired litigation lawyer Robert Babki, who announced Thursday he’s running for a seat on council, says the city administration has enough money salted away in reserves that property taxes can be cut seven per cent next year — not raised seven per cent, as planned.
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BikeBridge looks to remove barriers |
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Written by Caroline Zentner Lethbridge Herald
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Wednesday, August 18 2010, 8:36 PM |
A new group of cycling enthusiasts hopes to make it a lot easier to get around Lethbridge on two wheels.
The BikeBridge Cycling Association intends to advocate for cyclists, better facilities and removing some of the barriers for people who want to use bicycles for transportation.
“When you talk to people the biggest barrier is essentially fear in terms of ‘Do I really want to get on a bike and mix with traffic?’” said Stu Walker, BikeBridge president.
Other barriers include a lack of places to lock up a bike when visiting a store or city facility, the lack of a good route linking the north and south sides of the city, having to use Crowsnest Trail to get to the industrial area and areas east of the city and difficulty crossing the river valley.
“We’re not engineers, but we think we need to have a cycling highway with a low grade that would make it easy for the average cyclist to traverse,” Walker said in reference to crossing the river valley.
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Mini chucks to roll in Cardston |
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Written by Lethbridge Herald
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Wednesday, August 18 2010, 8:35 PM |
The 2010 World Miniature Chuckwagon Championships will be hosted Friday and Saturday at the Remington Carriage Museum in Cardston.
Teams from across Canada are expected to compete on a track adjacent to the museum on the south side of Cardston. Teams of four miniature horses pull chuckwagons about half the size of regulation wagons.
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Wildrose Alliance leader to visit Coaldale on Saturday |
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Written by Lethbridge Herald
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Wednesday, August 18 2010, 8:34 PM |
Alberta Wildrose Alliance leader Danielle Smith will be in Coaldale, Saturday.
Smith will attend a barbecue at the Coaldale Christian School from 4 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., just south of the corner of 8 Street and 20 Avenue in Coaldale.
On Saturday morning, Smith will attend a breakfast meeting in Coaldale, a parade in Picture Butte and the Coaldale barbecue.
The Little Bow Constituency Association is inviting anyone who’s interested in the future of the province and the policies of the Wildrose Party to attend the barbecue.
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(Second) worst summer ever |
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Written by Caroline Zentner Lethbridge Herald
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Tuesday, August 17 2010, 9:31 PM |
Southern Albertans who wanted to walk on the wild side this summer haven’t had to travel very far.
The only kind of weather the Prairie provinces haven’t had is hurricanes. Whew! Just when folks expected it to be safe to go outside and bask in the heat, along came thunderstorms, twisters, hail and roller-coaster temperatures.
“If there’s a really big headline here, it’s the active weather all across the Prairie provinces. But, specifically for southern Alberta, it was moreso in the spring and very early summer when we had the very unusual conditions, which maybe weren’t quite record-setting but they were pretty darn close,” said Chris Scott, a meteorologist with The Weather Network.
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