Lance Grigg News Today

While chess may seem like just a board game to some, it is now being used in prison systems in Canada and across the world to help rehabilitate prisoners.

  LETHBRIDGE -- It’s a dream come true for a local filmmaker after his story was chosen out of more than 150 ideas submitted to a special competition. Lethbridge filmmaker Tanner James has been selected to receive $20,000 in production funding from TELUS STORYHIVE’s Local Heroes Documentary Edition. “It was pretty cool,” said James, who grew up in Taber and moved back to southern Alberta about a year and a half ago, after more than a dozen years in Calgary. The funding will allow ...