A five-dollar parking fee has been in place for just two months at Lethbridge s ENMAX Centre but the WHL s Lethbridge Hurricanes say its already impacting attendance numbers and overall revenue.
The life and destructive legacy of Graham James
To ensure Graham James would survive his stay in prison, the disgraced junior hockey coach would sometimes be required to move from one facility to the next.
Serial sexual abusers are never popular behind prison walls. But because of the high public profile of some of his victims, including NHLers Theoren Fleury and Sheldon Kennedy, there were many on the inside who were motivated to deliver vigilante justice.
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Graham James was last seen in a courtroom in the summer of 2015.
Appearing via video link from a Quebec prison, the disgraced junior hockey coach pleaded guilty in a Swift Current courtroom to sexual assault on one of his players during the early 1990s, and was sentenced to two additional years behind bars.
Post-COVID future for rec centres depends on a lot
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On Monday night, council agreed to a 2021 budget plan that would keep the Moose Rec centre arena, the Heights outdoor pool and the Crestwood Rec centre closed through the end of 2021.
Those were the only facilities to not reopen from health restrictions this summer and fall as administrators weighted cost benefits of reopening them with reduced demand during the pandemic.
Now, keeping them closed for all of 2021 will contribute an unspecified amount toward the goal of cutting $14 million out of the city’s operating budget.
Coun. Julie Friesen stressed that no final decision has been made on the facility’s future, but hard decisions may have to be made.