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Pandemic: City of Lethbridge pulls the plug on Canada Day events for 2020

Lethbridge residents are being asked to celebrate Canada Day in their own backyards this year.

Due to summer event restrictions related to COVID-19, the City of Lethbridge has decided all planned events and activities around the city on July 1st will not take place in 2020.

Mayor Chris Spearman says City Council encourages residents to have fun and be creative with Canada Day celebrations in their own backyards while still observing proper social and physical distancing practices.

“As Alberta Health has said, we must do everything we can to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Festivals and large gatherings hold the potential to be super-spreader events. So, for Canada Day 2020, let us celebrate our strength, our resilience and our values. Let’s join with the rest of Canada and show our true Canadian spirit from the comfort of our homes,” says Spearman.

This week, Alberta’s chief medical officer of health, said no festivals or large gatherings will be able to take place in the province until September at the earliest.

Spearman says he understand this comes as a disappointment to many residents, but discussions are already underway to celebrate Canada Day in a different format.

More details will be revealed closer to July 1st.

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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