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City of Lethbridge renovating shelter for intox facility

Lethbridge City Council has approved spending $300,000 to renovate the homeless shelter to accommodate the intox program.

It provides intoxicated people with a safe place to sober up & access programs, including housing and health care and has been something the City of Lethbridge has been pushing for, for a very long time.

The intox program itself started two months ago in October and is run by Alpha House out of Calgary. Mayor Chris Spearman says it has so far been well-received by both police and the Downtown Outreach Team.

There is no cost to the City when it comes to operation of the intox facility as that is a provincial responsibility.

The Government of Alberta is covering the overall cost which is pegged at $1.6 million, however the City of Lethbridge was asked to be a partner and renovate the building as the landlord.

Part of the City’s $300,000 for renos will include a security system and extra fencing around the shelter.

This renovation will be done to the Resource Centre side of the shelter building and is slated to start in January and be complete in April.

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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