{"id":609,"date":"2009-06-27T08:24:15","date_gmt":"2009-06-27T15:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.hotpepper.ca\/?p=609"},"modified":"2020-04-03T13:55:46","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T19:55:46","slug":"lethbridge-reaches-85000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siever.ca\/kim\/2009\/06\/27\/lethbridge-reaches-85000\/","title":{"rendered":"Lethbridge reaches 85,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Tower by Kim Siever, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kmsiever\/3661967220\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2572\/3661967220_2ee8fcccf3_m.jpg?resize=240%2C160\" alt=\"Tower\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This April, the City of Lethbridge conducted it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s annual census. Yesterday, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lethbridge.ca\/home\/City+Hall\/City+Council\/Census\/default.htm\">they published the results<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a summary:<\/p>\n<p>The new population as of April was 85,492.\u00c2\u00a0At 30,489, the Westside now has the most people of the three areas.<\/p>\n<p>Growth for the city over 2008 was 1.8%.\u00c2\u00a0The Westside growth rate was the highest at 2.75%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This April, the City of Lethbridge conducted it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s annual census. Yesterday, they published the results. Here is a summary: The new population as of April was 85,492.\u00c2\u00a0At 30,489, the Westside now has the most people of the three areas. Growth for the city over 2008 was 1.8%.\u00c2\u00a0The Westside growth rate was the highest at 2.75%.<\/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":[77],"class_list":["post-609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lethbridge","tag-lethbridge"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4NkW7-9P","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":377,"url":"https:\/\/siever.ca\/kim\/2008\/11\/14\/widening-6-av-s-in-lethbridge\/","url_meta":{"origin":609,"position":0},"title":"Widening 6 Av S in Lethbridge","author":"Kim Siever","date":"14 November 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"This week, I received the most current issue of the London Road Neighbourhood Association newsletter. On the front page was a short article reporting on a recent meeting where members discussed the hypothetical widening of 6 Avenue South. The City is studying the feasibility of building a third bridge between\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Lethbridge&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Lethbridge","link":"https:\/\/siever.ca\/kim\/category\/lethbridge\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"173\/365 - Traffic at dusk","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3177\/3028873596_a1fb2f2499_m.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":205,"url":"https:\/\/siever.ca\/kim\/2007\/06\/29\/lethbridge-growth-management-review\/","url_meta":{"origin":609,"position":1},"title":"Lethbridge Growth Management Review","author":"Kim Siever","date":"29 June 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Apparently the City of Lethbridge requested public comments regarding their Growth Management review. I missed it, so I sent the following letter to Tom Wickersham, who was acting mayor at the time. Dear Mr. Wickersham, I apologise for the lateness of me message. I heard about the request for comments\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Lethbridge&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Lethbridge","link":"https:\/\/siever.ca\/kim\/category\/lethbridge\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4280,"url":"https:\/\/siever.ca\/kim\/2020\/03\/18\/lethbridge-is-not-a-mormon-town\/","url_meta":{"origin":609,"position":2},"title":"Lethbridge is not a Mormon town","author":"Kim Siever","date":"18 March 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"In fact, there are roughly 400% more non-religious people in Lethbridge than there are Mormons.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Lethbridge&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Lethbridge","link":"https:\/\/siever.ca\/kim\/category\/lethbridge\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/siever.ca\/kim\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/240798_406789556048013_819195730_o.jpg?fit=1200%2C900&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/siever.ca\/kim\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/240798_406789556048013_819195730_o.jpg?fit=1200%2C900&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/siever.ca\/kim\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/240798_406789556048013_819195730_o.jpg?fit=1200%2C900&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/siever.ca\/kim\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/240798_406789556048013_819195730_o.jpg?fit=1200%2C900&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/siever.ca\/kim\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/240798_406789556048013_819195730_o.jpg?fit=1200%2C900&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":4193,"url":"https:\/\/siever.ca\/kim\/2020\/02\/25\/the-extensive-consultations-of-the-scs-a-history\/","url_meta":{"origin":609,"position":3},"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 &quot;SCS&quot;","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":193,"url":"https:\/\/siever.ca\/kim\/2007\/01\/30\/rising-property-values-in-lethbridge\/","url_meta":{"origin":609,"position":4},"title":"Rising property values in Lethbridge","author":"Kim Siever","date":"30 January 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"In this morning's issue of the Lethbridge Herald: . . . the typical Lethbridge home\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s value [will] rise nearly $25,000 over the year . . . pushing the average resale price to $210,000 by year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s end. 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