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LETHBRIDGE HERALDabeeber@lethbridgeherald.com The Economic and Finance Standing Policy Committee of Lethbridge city council on Tuesday voted unanimously to recommend that council have City administration ask the Lethbridge Housing Authority to provide additional information regarding the budget, specific budget pressures and other project information for a new supportive housing project by the end of July. The ... Read More »

LETHBRIDGE HERALDdshurtz@lethbridgeherald.com A 27-year-old woman who injured a man during a violent robbery last year has been sent to jail for six months, narrowly avoiding a considerably longer sentence. Cherish Summer Scott pleaded guilty Tuesday in Lethbridge court of justice to charges of robbery and being unlawfully in a house, for which the Crown recommended ... Read More »

LETHBRIDGE HERALDapulido@lethbridgeherald.com The Lethbridge Symphony Orchestra celebrated one of its members who reached a special milestone during their final concert of the season this week at Southminster United Church. Concertmaster and principal first violin Norbert Boehm marked 50 years with the Lethbridge Symphony Orchestra while playing the Series VI – Mozart’s Grand Mass, with the ... Read More »

By Justin Seward Lethbridge Herald The Prairie Baseball Academy  Dawgs varsity team are entering the stretch drive this week that will see them play eight games in a five day stretch beginning Thursday to end the CCBC regular season. However, the team is entering the home stretch of the season having just gone 2-5 on ... Read More »

By Justin Seward Lethbridge Herald The Lethbridge Hurricanes are preparing for a busy week with the US Priority Draft today and the WHL Prospects Draft on Thursday. “There’s some really high-end D-men [defencemen]that are going to go early in the draft,” said Matt Anholt, Canes assistant general manager and assistant coach, when asked about his ... Read More »

By Justin Seward Lethbridge Herald The Prairie Baseball Academy Dawgs varsity  didn’t get the result  they wanted in the back half of the series with the Okanagan College Coyotes on Friday. The Coyotes took the first game 3-0 followed by a 3-2 win in the second game respectively. OC scored three runs in the fifth ... Read More »

LORNE FITCH One definition of a consultant is someone who looks at your watch and tells you what time it is. The recently released consultant’s report— Adaptation Roadmap for the SSRB: Assessment of Strategic Water Management Projects to Support Economic Development in the South Saskatchewan River Basin— is a mirror reflecting back the aspirations of ... Read More »

FROM THE HILL Rachael Thomas – Conservative Member of Parliament for Lethbridge Have you ever heard of a snake oil salesman?  The term originated in the 1900s from an infamous impostor who sold snake oil as a miracle medicine. It turns out the supposed “snake oil” was just a concoction of mineral oil, beef fat, ... Read More »

LEAVE IT TO BEEBER Al Beeber – Managing Editor Of all the legislation introduced by the UCP government since Danielle Smith assumed power, Bill 20 may be among the most controversial – and it certainly has the potential to be the most concerning. This bill, if passed in the legislature, will give the provincial cabinet ... Read More »

Editor: Regarding the state funeral for former prime minister Brian Mulroney, https://youtube.com/live/AW5jsROEucU?si=W0ffBxvoiweDTc9b  Watch Hon. Jean Charest’s eulogy starting at 2:41.00. Don’t let anyone, especially Justin Trudeau and the Liberals, ever tell you that Conservatives don’t care about the environment because we care.  Brian Mulroney and the PC party were decades ahead of the others on ... Read More »

Editor: An article in the Lethbridge Herald (April 26, 2024) states that Premier Danielle Smith’s UCP government has introduced a bill that will grant the provincial government sweeping powers over municipalities. This would include the right to fire councillors and overturn bylaws. It would also allow political parties to run in municipal elections.  This is ... Read More »

 Editor: Regarding plastic makers – what they make and what they recycle: The whole waste plastic issue comes down to the plastics industry (raw pellet (virgin) producers and product manufactures) mind set, that it is a consumer’s problem – be it industry or the man/women on the street. You buy it, you handle the waste ... Read More »