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• Help us with research on older adults and healthy brain aging! If you are between the ages of 60-75 years, please consider participating in an exciting study at the University of Lethbridge! We are learning about how movement behaviours, like sedentary time and physical activity, can affect our brains and cognitive functioning. For more information about this study, please contact:Kate Takeda at Kate.takeda@uleth. ca, 403-317-5073.

• Lethbridge’s summer classical and art

music festival is back with in-person and outdoor “Pop-up” performances featuring a variety of genres of music and local musicians. All evening performances will also be livestreamed from our Youtube channel for those who prefer to tune-in from home! Free one-hour concerts will “pop-up” in various downtown locales starting at 12 pm. Wednesday until Aug .4 featuring up-and-coming and professional local musicians (weather permitting). Evening concerts begin at 7 p.m. and will be held at the renovated Sterndale Bennett Theatre. Volunteers and staff will be following health and safety guidelines to ensure a safe environment for our patrons and seating will be limited. Admission is by donation starting at $10. Please visit our website at centricmusicfest.com for programming and artist lineup.

• Outdoor Roving Gyms for children under 6 and their parents/caregivers are back on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Join Lethbridge Sport Council staff Shawn, Andreas, and Keegan in the green space behind Nicholas Sheran Arena for an hour of fun!

All equipment is provided by the Lethbridge Sport Council, shade is provided by some gorgeous trees. Don’t forget to bring your own water, it’s going to be hot this summer; Nicholas Sheran Spray park is available at this location daily. Pre-registration is required and space is limited. To register: https://lethbridgesportcouncil.ca/ programs/roving-gyms

• Tom Price and band perform every Saturday at 6:30 p.m. on Tom’s driveway weather permitting - at 6 Notre Dame Road West. Everyone is invited to bring a lawn chair and enjoy the music.

• Building Brains Together has kicked off their Family Outdoor Play events this summer. All ages are welcome! Caregivers and children are invited to drop by our popup tents for free outdoor play activities. Participants can pick up an activity kit to do at home or stay for facilitated games. Parent supervision is required. Events are weather permitting and run twice weekly until Aug. 11. Visit www.buildingbrains.ca/outdoorplay for the summer schedule.

• Shakespeare in the Park “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” directed by Andrew Legg with performances booked this summer at Nikka Yuko, Casa, Galt Gardens and Legacy Park, as well as shows in Nanton and High River. Join us for an evening of romance, magic and comedy! Details at lethbridgeshakespeare.ca or by calling 403329-4568.

• The Harambee Grandmas are preparing for their fifth annual October fabric sale and welcome your donations of clean unused fabric, yarn, and sewing notions.

For more information and to arrange for convenient and safe delivery or pick-up of your donations, please email us at harambeegrandmas@telus.net or call 403-3310504. And you can find us on Facebook at Harambee Grandmas!

• Barons United Church Thrift Shop Come check out our great deals at 113 Main St. Open Thursdays 12:30-4:30 and Saturdays 10 a.m. until 2 p.m.. Cash only.

• The Lethbridge Military Museum

at the Vimy Ridge Armoury, Lethbridge Airport (337 Stubb Ross Road) will reopen to the public each Wednesday commencing June 16 from 12 noon to 4 p.m. There is no cost for admittance. Wearing of a mask is required.

• Are you struggling with reading, writing, computers, learning English or preparing for the citizenship test? Read On Adult Literacy & Learning at Lethbridge Public

Library can help adults 18 years of age and older. Registration for online summer classes is now open. For more information, visitwww.lethlib.ca/readon, email readon@ lethlib.ca or call 403-320-4701.

• Martha Retreat Centre

Centering Prayer – Tuesdays 1:30 – 2:40 pm offered virtually via Zoom

Centering Prayer is a method of silent prayer that prepares us to receive the gift of contemplative prayer, prayer in which we experience God’s presence within us. This method of prayer is both a relationship with God and a discipline to foster that relationship. Registration is required. Please contact the Martha Retreat Centre at 403328-3422 to register.

Personal Prayer Time – offered in-person We are currently offering Personal Prayer Time to a maximum of three persons at a time with a thirty-minute maximum timeframe. A free will offering is gratefully accepted. Registration is required. Please contact the Martha Retreat Centre at 403328-3422 to register.

Confession – offered in-person Confession is now offered on the third Tuesday of each month, from 3 p.m. – 4 p.m. A free will offering is gratefully accepted. Registration is required. Please contact the Martha Retreat Centre at 403-328-3422 to register.

Mass – offered in-person

Mass is offered again on Tuesdays beginning at 4 p.m. Registration is required. Please contact the Martha Retreat Centre at 403-328-3422 to register. A free will offering is gratefully accepted.

Labyrinth – Releasing, receiving, and returning

Come to walk the labyrinth on our grounds. Breathe, center yourself and quiet your mind with the three stages of releasing (letting go), receiving (pausing to reflect), and returning (pondering and integrating your experience). A free will offering is gratefully accepted.

• The Chinook Society at 408 13th Street North has large fully equipped meeting rooms available for rent. Wheel chair access with special parking, $25 per day, $80 per month. Please phone 403-381-8272. If no answer please leave a message.

• The Lethbridge Reveller’s would like to inform all their members that the Dinner & Games night events and Reveller’s Bus Trips are still postponed because of Covid-19 pandemic. Please watch for further announcements for when some of the current restrictions are to be lifted and social events can once again take place. If you require any further details, please call Ernie - 403381-7223.

• Blankets for Canada Coaldale is open Thursdays from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. Yarn and squares can be dropped off at 2226 23 Ave. in Coaldale. There is a drop-off bin outside. Please mark it with name and for Lethbridge someone will come pick it up here. For more information, call Nellie at 403-345-3205.

• Blankets for Canada Lethbridge regrets that it must close its doors for the foreseeable future due to COVID 19 numbers. We are unable to accept donations or provide blankets at this time. Please hang onto your squares and blankets for the short term. We will resume again when COVID numbers go down again. Thank you for your continued support.

• Helen Schuler Nature Centre has reopened the indoor exhibit experience. On display in the Main Gallery is a brand new exhibit called Built for Life on the Prairies, which celebrates wildlife of the grasslands.

On display in the Community Art Gallery is Landscaping Wilderness a fine art installation by Elaine Henderson. This installation features the beauty of nature’s landscapes with imagination in a variety of media and colour pallets.

Visit the website at www.lethbridge.ca/ Things-To-Do/Nature-Centre/ and click For more information, phone 403-320-3064 or email hsnc@lethbridge.ca.

• Lethbridge Senior Citizens Organization is launching the Drive Happiness program where volunteer drivers take seniors to their medical appointments, to pick up groceries or take them to important life activities. The Drive Happiness program is looking for volunteers to assist as drivers. Many seniors in our community are facing extreme loneliness due to the lack of accessible transportation in the community and COVID-19 has only compounded this loneliness. Even one ride can make a difference. To volunteer, call 403-332-4320 or email volunteer@volunteerlethbridge.com.

• Coulee Commentators Toastmaster

Club meets Mondays at 7-8:30 p.m. online via Zoom (until further notice). Guests are always welcome to check out how Toastmasters can help them be better communicators and leaders and how use the new technology. Contact Michaela (VP of Membership) at vpm-3673@toastmastersclubs.org for the meeting link. For more information go to: https://coulee. toastmastersclubs.org or Facebook page: @ cou lee commentators.

• Lethbridge Food Addicts in Recovery

Anonymous meets Mondays and Wednesdays. Details: Josephine, 587-425-3232.

• Do you, or someone you know, have a gambling problem which is causing havoc in your life and relationships? If so, you’re welcome to attend weekly meetings of Gamblers Anonymous, held Tuesdays at 7 p.m. and Thursdays at 6 p.m. at 408 13 St. N. (front entrance). For more information call 403-331-0822.

• Stay connected with Sunny South Speakers Toastmaster Club in Coaldale. Now meeting via Zoom every Wednesday, 7-8:15 p.m. Guests welcome anytime. Email for link arevallb@shaw.ca or call Barb, 403405-5038.

• Adult Children of Alcoholics and/or Dysfunctional Families, a support group for people who grew up with the rules Don’t Talk, Don’t Trust, Don’t Feel, meet Thursdays, 8 p.m., 408 13 St. N. Details: Ann, 403382-9925, or Shannon, 403-315-3482.

• Coaldale United Church Thrift Shop Coaldale United Church Thrift Shop (2022 – 18 St., Coaldale) is open Thursdays from 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. COVID restrictions are supported. Most adult and youth clothing at $2, children at $1 and baby at 50 cents. Household miscellaneous at very reasonable prices. Cash only.

• The MCC Thrift Shop, located at 1117 2 Ave. “A” N., supports poverty reduction projects around the world through Mennonite Central Committee. The shop is open Monday to Saturday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more information, call 403-329-4808. Receive donations Tuesday-Saturday only, 11 a.m.- 4:30 p.m. Online: www.facebook. com/mccthrift/lethbridge or thrift.mcc. org/lethbridge-mcc-thrift-shop/home.