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The Canadian Children’s Book Centre has taken over administration of the Richard Allen Chase Memorial Award which was named after a Lethbridge teacher/librarian and awarded every year to a Canadian children’s title written for an elementary school-aged audience. The award comes with a $2,500 cash prize and goes to a work that exemplifies Chase’s “guiding ... Read More »

LETHBRIDGE HERALDdshurtz@lethbridgeherald.com A warrant has been issued for the arrest of a man accused of accosting and robbing a 77-year-old woman more than a year ago in the city. The warrant was issued Friday after Sheldon Wayne Wilson failed to show up for a scheduled court appearance. The accused’s matter was last in Lethbridge court ... Read More »

LETHBRIDGE HERALDapulido@lethbridgeherald.com Residents had the opportunity during the city’s annual Community Conversation Thursday to engage with the City of Lethbridge and various partners to learn about a multitude of projects happening in the city. Tara Grindle, manager of communications and engagement with the City, said the idea behind the annual event is to bring multiple ... Read More »

By Justin Seward Lethbridge Herald The Lethbridge Steel female football team kick into a new season  today with a sense of eagerness and wanting to get better as a team. “[I am] throwing a lot at them and they’re just super eager to learn, super eager to get better,” said new head coach Matthew Sentes, ... Read More »

By Justin Seward Lethbridge Herald Catholic Central High School has spearheaded a new collaboration with high schools in both city school districts through soccer in support of the Lethbridge Interfaith Foodbank next month. The collaboration between  soccer teams from CCHS, Chinook, Winston Churchill, Immanuel Christian Secondary School and École la Vérendrye School will allow for ... 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 »

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 »