{"id":186,"date":"2006-12-07T13:00:56","date_gmt":"2006-12-07T20:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.hotpepper.ca\/archives\/2006\/12\/lethbridge-is-in-the-big-leagues-now\/"},"modified":"2006-12-07T13:00:56","modified_gmt":"2006-12-07T20:00:56","slug":"lethbridge-is-in-the-big-leagues-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siever.ca\/kim\/2006\/12\/07\/lethbridge-is-in-the-big-leagues-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Lethbridge is in the big leagues now"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cardston High school announced<\/a> their new rodeo academy programme. When comparing it with the Vauxhall baseball academy and the Warner hockey school, Todd Ojala, Vauxhall High principal, said the following:<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153If you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re in a small community and you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not trying to improve it and make it a better place we all know what happens. We all move to Lethbridge and there is no small community anymore.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Maybe now that there’s proof we’re siphoning population and economy from other communities, we’ll start receiving more infrastructure dollars from the government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cardston High school announced their new rodeo academy programme. When comparing it with the Vauxhall baseball academy and the Warner hockey school, Todd Ojala, Vauxhall High principal, said the following: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153If you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re in a small community and you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not trying to improve it and make it a better place we all know what happens. We […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lethbridge"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4NkW7-30","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4193,"url":"https:\/\/siever.ca\/kim\/2020\/02\/25\/the-extensive-consultations-of-the-scs-a-history\/","url_meta":{"origin":186,"position":0},"title":"The extensive consultations of the SCS: a history","author":"Kim Siever","date":"25 February 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"I don\u2019t understand how opponents of the supervised consumption site can say there wasn\u2019t enough consultation prior to the it opening.","rel":"","context":"In "SCS"","block_context":{"text":"SCS","link":"https:\/\/siever.ca\/kim\/category\/politics\/scs\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/siever.ca\/kim\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/02\/833689470_80420cd11a_o.jpg?fit=1024%2C683&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/siever.ca\/kim\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/02\/833689470_80420cd11a_o.jpg?fit=1024%2C683&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/siever.ca\/kim\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/02\/833689470_80420cd11a_o.jpg?fit=1024%2C683&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/siever.ca\/kim\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/02\/833689470_80420cd11a_o.jpg?fit=1024%2C683&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1043,"url":"https:\/\/siever.ca\/kim\/2012\/05\/27\/i-love-the-urbanity-of-lethbridge\/","url_meta":{"origin":186,"position":1},"title":"I love the urbanity of Lethbridge","author":"Kim Siever","date":"27 May 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Over the last few weeks, I\u2019ve had several discussions with others about whether Lethbridge is urban. 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