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Health and Wellness Fridays to start at Mother Teresa School
By Samantha Johnson Local Journalism Initiative Reporter on May 17th, 2023
reporter@medicinehatnews.com Principal Aura Street of Mother Teresa School presented to the Medicine Hat Catholic Board of Education this week a new initiative called Health and Wellness Fridays that will see full implementation in the fall of 2023. The initiative will be a first of its kind within MHCBE with the aim of putting the focus ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Masterpiece residents treated to spring market, with all proceeds to local bunny rescue
By KENDALL KING on May 17th, 2023
kking@medicinehatnews.com Residents at Medicine Hat’s Masterpiece Southland Meadows retirement home were all smiles as they took part in a spring market at the home on May 12. The market, hosted by the Mom Market Medicine Hat, was, in part, a fundraiser for local non-profit organization, Bunny Run Rabbit Rescue, but was also an opportunity for ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Crescent Heights students take their skills to provincial stage
By SAMANTHA JOHNSON on May 17th, 2023
reporter@medicinehatnews.com Grade 12 Crescent Heights students Garrett Hanson and Asher Davey received first place in the automotive category at the South East Regional Skills Canada Competition in Medicine Hat on April 21. As a result, they travelled to Edmonton to compete in the provincial competition on May 3-4 against 19 high school and 14 post ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Pair charged after drug, weapons seizure by police
By Medicine Hat News on May 17th, 2023
Police have seized roughly $50,000 worth of drugs, a firearm and other weapons, and have arrested two Medicine Hat residents following a search at a Crescent Heights apartment. A drug trafficking investigation led members of the local Alberta Law Enforcement Response Team and Medicine Hat Police Service to conduct a joint search of the apartment ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Police ask for assistance locating assault suspects
By MEDICINE HAT NEWS on May 16th, 2023
https://www.medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews Police are looking for two men who fled the scene of a “serious assault” late Friday night near Ross Glen and are asking for any home security camera footage that may have caught their escape. Medicine Hat police say they responded to the assault, at the rear of the Medicine Hat Lodge on Dunmore ... Read More »
1 responseGroup aims to revive burrowing owl population
By Samantha Johnson Local Journalism Initiative Reporter on May 16th, 2023
reporter@medicinehatnews.com Populations of burrowing owls have declined by more than 90% since the 1990s, and the species was listed as endangered in June 2003. Some of the challenges facing the species are roads, conversion of native prairie to crop, a decline in mammals that dig burrows the owls live in and a different community of ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Crop seeding on the prairies playing catchup
By MEDICINE HAT NEWS on May 16th, 2023
https://www.medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews Producers in southwest Saskatchewan are looking for more rain, especially near the Alberta boundary, according to that province’s first crop report of the season. The entire region’s seeding sits at just 13 per cent on May 8, about one-third of the five-year-average, but “producers are not worried about getting all of their acres seeded.” ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Catholic division eyes naloxone training for high school students
By Samantha Johnson Local Journalism Initiative Reporter on May 16th, 2023
reporter@medicinehatnews.com Medicine Hat Catholic Board of Education superintendent Dwayne Zarichny has proposed bringing in the Medicine Hat Drug Coalition, through the Red Cross, to Monsignor McCoy High School for nasal naloxone training. The students will learn what opioids are, how they work on the brain and how to recognize signs of an overdose. The training ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!City spray parks opening either this week or next
By MEDICINE HAT NEWS on May 16th, 2023
https://www.medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews With the temperature rising, some city spray parks will open by the end of the week, though others and the city’s outdoor swimming pools will remain closed until later this month or early June. Medicine Hat was forecast to hit a high of 31C on Tuesday before milder temperatures to end the week. Crews ... Read More »
1 responseShorter travel budgets could be Hat’s gain, tourism group say
By COLLIN GALLANT on May 16th, 2023
cgallant@medicinehatnews.com@CollinGallant Medicine Hat’s tourism sector may benefit from a bump if travellers are worried about money this summer, and Medicine Hat council heard local officials were already expecting a strong summer. “The reality is that it’s going to be a very busy summer,” said Jace Anderson, executive director of the Destination Marketing Organization, which operates ... Read More »
1 responseElection debates begin tonight, lineups uncertain
By MEDICINE HAT NEWS on May 16th, 2023
https://www.medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews Provincial election debates are kicking off this week in southeast Alberta, starting tonight in Brooks, but there has been a change in the expected lineup. The Brooks Chamber of Commerce will host candidates in the Brooks-Medicine Hat race tonight, while two other local debates and a provincial debate involving UCP Leader Danielle Smith are ... Read More »
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