grain elevators in Warner, Alberta

Demolition at Warner’s famed elevator row

With the loss of two classic pioneer sentinels Alberta’s pioneer heritage takes a serious blow

Reading Time: 3 minutes For Cody Kapcsos the shock of seeing the wreckage earlier this month at Warner was like looking at a once beautiful loved one and encountering utter physical devastation. “When I saw what happened to this iconic and beautiful row it was shocking to see, like someone whose beauty had long deserved admiration but now there […] Read more

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Project Protein seeking livestock donations

Interfaith Food Bank Society of Lethbridge starts pilot project

Reading Time: < 1 minute The Interfaith Food Bank Society of Lethbridge has a new pilot project designed to help food bank clients. Project Protein is seeking donations of cattle and pigs from local farmers and feedlot operators so the animals can be processed into ground meat for food bank clients. Donors transport their animals to a participating abattoir, and […] Read more


Biogas facility.

Lethbridge facility creates green energy by turning manure to megawatts

Lethbridge Biogas plant can power 2,800 homes, with more than half of its ‘fuel’ coming from livestock manure

Reading Time: 3 minutes Alberta is famous for its black gold, but a newly commissioned $30-million biogas plant in Lethbridge is drawing attention for being on the cutting edge of green power. “It’s potentially the most technologically advanced, privately held biogas plant in the world today,” said Thane Hurlburt, a rancher and president of Lethbridge Biogas. “We can operate […] Read more