|
Walking on thin ice |
|
|
|
Written by Sherri Gallant Lethbridge Herald
|
|
Wednesday, 30 December 2009 |
Shiny new Christmas ice skates will have to be confined to indoor rinks for another week or so, until skating areas at city lakes have firmed up a little more.
“Looks like we’re ever so close, but not where we can open it yet,” said Ron Tinordi, with the city’s public operations department.
“We’re going to be having some more warm weather, and then it will get cold again at night, but we’ll be doing the ice checks again next week and I’m sure by then it will be ready to open.”
Skating areas are set aside by the city on the westside at Nicholas Sheran Lake, on the northside at Chinook Lake and on the southside at Henderson Lake. Once conditions are favourable, snow clearing equipment creates rinks and loops for skaters to enjoy.
Skating on the Oldman River is never advisable, Tinordi said.
“The river is a whole lot more dangerous than the standing water of a lake,” he said. “Depending on currents and depths, the ice can be thick in one area, thin in another. We don’t advise anyone to ever be on the river.”
|
|
Read more...
|
|
|
Transit changes coming |
|
|
|
Written by Dave Mabell Lethbridge Herald
|
|
Tuesday, 29 December 2009 |
Next year will bring new services for LA Transit riders, along with fare increases for some. But transit manager John King says after experiencing several years of significant change, passengers can expect smaller adjustments this year.
New service will be introduced in the Copperwood neighbourhood, however, and some of the city’s school bus routes will be revised with two westside high schools open in the fall.
Fare adjustments may be the first thing passengers see, however. The basic cash fare will remain at $2.25 for another year — with students and seniors asked to pay full fare effective Jan. 2.
“We’re encouraging people to pre-pay,” King says, by picking up passes or tickets.
Ticket prices will remain at 10 for $19 for adults — effectively, a $1.90 fare — and they’ll rise $1 to become $18 for a strip of 10 tickets for students or seniors.
|
|
Read more...
|
|
|
Two homes damaged in weekend fires |
|
|
|
Written by Lethbridge Herald
|
|
Monday, 28 December 2009 |
Investigation has begun at the scene of a house fire on the city’s southside.
Officials say two fire halls responded to an alarm Sunday evening, and quickly had the blaze under control. One occupant of the single-storey home, in the 900 block of 12 Street A South, was taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries. Two adults were in the home, they add, but the other other was not injured.
Damage, mainly at the rear of the home, was estimated at about $100,000.
|
|
Read more...
|
|
|
Tarleck reflective on past year |
|
|
|
Written by Gerald Gauthier
|
|
Sunday, 27 December 2009 |
For the first time in nearly a decade, Mayor Bob Tarleck is entering a new year with the certainty that in 10 months time, he’ll be out of civic politics.
Tarleck declared some time ago, at about the halfway point of his current term, that this, his fourth term as mayor, would be his last. But with his retirement from city council nearing, he vows his determination won’t flag even though, politically, he has little left to prove.
“When I was much younger, I was a sprinter, and one of the first lessons in sprinting is you run through the tape,” he said in a year-end interview with The Herald.
|
|
Read more...
|
|
|
Ottawa tightens aviation security |
|
|
|
Written by Canadian Press
|
|
Saturday, 26 December 2009 |
|
Nothing on the lap and no moving around the flight cabin in the final hour before landing. And only one carry-on bag allowed. Those are among the new restrictions imposed Saturday on Canadian and other travellers flying to U.S. destinations after an apparent terror attack on a Detroit-bound flight was foiled on Christmas Day.
|
|
Read more...
|
|
|
|
<< Start < Prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Next > End >>
|
| Results 73 - 81 of 256 |
