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Lethbridge residents vote “yes” to third bridge & ward system

LETHBRIDGE, AB – Two “yes” votes on a couple of non-binding City of Lethbridge questions on the ballot Monday.

Of those who voted, 55% said yes to City Council adopting a ward system to elect the next Council in 2025.

The other question had to with a future third bridge from the west side to the south side. Lethbridge residents voted 60% in favour of that item being kept as a priority for City Council. A third river crossing doesn’t come cheap though. The estimated cost of such a project would be in excess of $300 million.

Provincial Referendum

There were also two provincial referendum questions that Lethbridge residents were asked their opinions on.

City residents voted 59% in favour of the equalization question, however the question about time change was fairly split with roughly 52% saying yes to staying on daylight saving time all year round and 48% saying no.

These are just the local results to those referendum questions. Elections Alberta must compile the results from communities across the province before coming up with a final tally. Those province-wide results will be made official on October 26th.

Patrick Siedlecki
Patrick Siedlecki
Pat has been a mainstay in the CJOC News department from the time the station launched in 2007. He's been in the position of News Director since then and has been anchoring daily news casts as well as reporting and working behind the scenes. Community is important to him and keeping CJOC listeners and readers informed about what's happening across southern Alberta and beyond. Pat has been in radio broadcasting for the past 24 years, starting in Port Alberni on Vancouver Island in 1997 and then moving up island to Nanaimo for another few years before heading to Lethbridge in 2007. Pat grew up in the small Saskatchewan farming town of Foam Lake. After high school, he went to Western Academy Broadcasting College (WABC) in Saskatoon prior to moving to the island. Pat also spent several years broadcasting hockey in the BCHL as well as seven years as the radio voice of the Lethbridge Hurricanes in the WHL. Pat has been working at Cornerstone Funeral Home in Lethbridge as a Certified Life Celebrant and Funeral Assistant since 2016. News and sports have always been Pat's passion from the time he was a teenager and he's always been grateful to have had the opportunity to make that part of what's been a fun and long radio career!
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