Council votes to save Lethbridge Exhibition

Tuesday night Lethbridge City Council members were faced with a huge decision…whether or not to save the Lethbridge District and Exhibition from financial and operational disaster.  A vote of no on a proposed Memorandum of Understanding would have meant the loss of jobs and the closure of a multi-million-dollar facility that just opened its doors mere months ago. 

In a vote of 7-2 Lethbridge City Council accepted the proposed MOU that will help the organization (which will see a $6.5 million shortfall per year).

Pending provincial government approval the proposed MOU will facilitate an independent third-party review and see a new board take over consisting of Lethbridge City and County administration. Jeannette Rocher has the details.

Jeannette Rocher

Born in Puerto Rico, raised in Minnesota and Manitoba, Jeannette has had the opportunity to live in a variety of places including New York, Arizona, and Nevada. After completing college and a paid internship with CBC Winnipeg, Jeannette embarked on her journalism career by moving overseas to take a job on the island of Saipan in the Northern Mariana Islands. While overseas she covered stories in Fiji, Guam and Japan including the 2011 tsunami that hit Japan and its surrounding islands. She covered a mass shooting, an Earth quake, murder cases and other substantial court cases. In 2013 she moved to Alberta where she covered the devastating floods of High River and Medicine Hat for CTV News. She then went on to produce and host Go! Southern Alberta for Shaw TV. She now calls Miracle Channel home. In addition to reporting in the field, you can catch her anchoring daily weather reports, as well as longer interview segments on BCN, and the week-in-review show on BCN Weekends. 

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