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LETHBRIDGE HERALDapulido@lethbridgeherald.com Nord-Bridge Seniors Centre offered its members an opportunity to enjoy an intergenerational board game afternoon with Grade 5 students from Park Meadows Elementary School Thursday. Ashley Kern, program coordinator at Nord-Bridge, said the program has been running for almost 10 years now and it has become something members look forward to. She said ... Read More »

LETHBRIDGE HERALDdshurtz@lethbridgeherald.com Two Lethbridge residents charged in 2023 following a drug bust in the city are set to stand trial later this year. Dylan Ivan Sokol and Kristina Lucille Zinger, whose matters were addressed Thursday in Lethbridge court of justice, are scheduled to stand trial for four days beginning Nov. 4. The two accused were ... Read More »

LETHBRIDGE HERALDdshurtz@lethbridgeherald.com Three men facing drug charges in relation to a police bust earlier this year had their matters addressed briefly Thursday in Lethbridge court of justice. Zachary Tracyn Bottle of Fort Macleod, Marty Lee Fransen of Lethbridge and Charles Edward Sitek of Calgary, were arrested in February following an investigation by Lethbridge police and ... Read More »

By Justin Seward Lethbridge Herald Time is ticking for people to get their tickets for next week’s Lethbridge Sports Hall of Fame induction ceremony for the 2024 class. Inductees include boxer Carmen Rinke, kickboxer Brad Wall,  Judge John A Jackson, who passed away years ago, for multisport, soccer coach Randy Bardock, judo athlete Michael Tamura ... Read More »

The Prairie Baseball Academy Dawgs varsity team salvaged a split in the two games against the VIU Mariners during Canadian College Baseball Conference action  at Spitz Stadium on Thursday. The afternoon game was one to forget for the Dawgs as they got shellacked 17-4. A big fifth and seventh inning by the Mariners, where they ... Read More »

By Justin Seward Lethbridge Herald  Two Chinook Coyotes graduating volleyball players  have committed to play post-secondary  right at home in the city, while another has decided to compete down south beginning next season. Both Robyn Austin and Asha Hurkett have decided to stay at home and play as teammates with the Lethbridge College Kodiaks women’s ... Read More »

LEAVE IT TO BEEBER Al Beeber – managing editor Eight months from tomorrow I’ll be working my last shift in journalism after 44.5 years. It seems just like yesterday I loaded up my portable typewriter, clothes and a set of weights into the trunk of a two-door Chevy Caprice and pulled away from my dad’s ... Read More »

Al Beeber Managing Editor How important are volunteers to a community? In Lethbridge, more than half of residents do volunteer work and the average is 90 hours per year, contributing $135 million annually to the local economy. That information comes from Amanda Jensen, executive director of Volunteer Lethbridge who spoke to The Herald’s Alejandra Pulido-Guzman ... Read More »

DAVID B. CARPENTER On December 7 of 2023, I fell on the city sidewalk, fractured my femur in a comminuted fashion, could not move and had three lovely neighbourhood ladies and my wife hoist me up and call an ambulance.  I met an exceptionally attentive ER doc as well as really great nursing staff and ... Read More »

Editor: A month or so ago, I just finished reading a book, “The Oldman River Dam Building a future for southern Alberta.” Ken Kowalsky, Alberta’s previous Public Works minister said at the time of the dam’s completion “that all our water problems will be solved now with the completion of this dam.” I would like ... Read More »

Editor: Al Beeber, in your column of April 12, you wrote, “If there is a god why didn’t that deity intervene when millions of Jews, along with homosexuals and others were being slaughtered by the Nazis?” Well, he did intervene. Early on in the conflict, he made sure that leaders at the highest levels in ... Read More »

Editor: Despite Premier Smith stating in a recent news briefing that the April 5th rotating blackouts were the result of not enough wind energy being online the reality is that the Alberta Electric System Operator (AESO) mismanaged this particular situation. As is predictable, the premier was dissing wind, building up fossil fuel generation and, in ... Read More »