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St. Francis school cleared after Lethbridge Police investigate threat

LETHBRIDGE, AB – Another Lethbridge school was the subject of an unspecified threat.

The Holy Spirit Catholic School Division decided, as a precautionary measure, to keep students and staff within three schools for a period time Thursday after a threat was received at St. Francis Junior High.

That decision impacted people at Catholic Central High School, St. Francis, and Ecole St. Mary. Officials says the Lethbridge Police Service was called in to investigate, however nothing was found and all three schools were cleared to resume regular schedules by 2:30 pm.

Youth Engagement Officers with the LPS responded to a report that a threat had been written on school property at St. Francis. The investigation determined there was no risk to anyone in the school.

This follows similar incidents earlier in the week when Winston Churchill and Lethbridge Collegiate Institute were both evacuated because of unfounded threats.

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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