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Lethbridge residents paying hefty electrical bills |
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Written by Gerald Gauthier, Lethbridge Herald
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Wednesday, 20 January 2010 |
Electricity rates in Lethbridge are the second-highest among 21 Canadian cities surveyed in a new study of 2009 residential property taxes and utility charges.
The annual study, conducted by the City of Edmonton, found the $97 monthly power bill for an average 25-year-old, fully-finished three-bedroom bungalow in Lethbridge was second only to Grande Prairie, where the average bill in 2009 was nearly $112 a month. Average utility bills in Lethbridge for power, water, sewer and garbage collection were third-highest, according to the survey, conducted annually to assess the property tax and utility burden on Edmonton homeowners compared to other cites.
Lethbridge rated much better, however, in a comparison of average residential property taxes for the same type of home. At $2,272, the average Lethbridge residential tax bill was sixth-lowest of the cities surveyed.
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Failed project raises issues |
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Written by Dave Mabell Lethbridge Herald
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Tuesday, 19 January 2010 |
Right now, it’s a suburban sequel to the notorious “concrete shell” in downtown Lethbridge.
But a national real estate group is hoping to breathe new life into a large south-side residential complex, abandoned last fall after builders poured its foundation. The RSM Richter Inc. office in Calgary was subsequently named receiver for the “Fairview Village Adult Community.”
Now Richter, a major accounting firm, has selected the new Avison Young Commercial Real Estate agency in Lethbridge to sell the property as is.
Doug Mereska, broker for the Lethbridge office, says the land and improvements are listed at $4.3 million. The now-dormant project, featuring 265 suites or condo units in three buildings, was designed to cover a seven-acre site between Highway 4 and the Mormon church on Fairmont Boulevard South.
Targeted at residents 50 years and up, the facility was to have offered a range of care levels and a variety of ownership and rental options. Its first units were scheduled for move-in this spring, but work was suspended last year after concrete was poured for the structures’ foundations.
Construction was to proceed in three phases, according to promotional material, to be completed over a five-year period. But one of the project’s financial backers, Signature Capital Inc. of Calgary, went into receivership last November.
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Day 81 a unique setting for torch relay |
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Written by Sherri Gallant Lethbridge Herald
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Monday, 18 January 2010 |
The arrival of the Olympic torch at Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump Monday burned away the centuries between the ancient athletes of southern Alberta — the Buffalo Runners — and today’s Olympians.
“The Buffalo Runners were the young people who would be the messengers,” said Peter Strikes With a Gun, one of four elders who are advisers for today’s Buffalo Runners Society. “They are the ones who would be delivering very important messages between the clans as they were living in different areas.”
Not unlike present-day athletes, the elite Buffalo Runners knew sacrifice and were in peak physical condition, except their skills were crucial to the survival of their people. They were scouts who ran in front of the herds and maneuvered them to kill zones, and were not allowed to marry or have children until later in life, when they’d grown too old for the rigors of their work.
After opening remarks and a prayer, world champion hoop dancer Dallas Arcand enthralled spectators with a performance that included forming his hoops into a globe he held aloft, then deftly collapsed to form the Olympic rings.
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Fanning the flame |
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Written by Gerald Gauthier
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Sunday, 17 January 2010 |
After an auspicious and history-making arrival aboard an antique railway hand car, the Olympic flame wound through Lethbridge Sunday, lighting the imaginations of thousands along the way.
The 80th day of the cross-country Olympic torch relay culminated with a celebration at Henderson Lake Park where a boisterous crowd of several thousand cheered as Lethbridge’s official torchbearer Jill Quirk lit the Olympic cauldron.
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Relief slow to reach survivors |
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Written by Canadian Press
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Saturday, 16 January 2010 |
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Street vendors hawked their wares, music replaced frantic news reports on local radio stations and cars were obeying traffic signals Saturday as the routine signs of a normal urban life began to reappear on the broken, body-strewn streets of Haiti’s pulverized capital.
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