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Local golfer sees his stolen clubs for sale online

By MEDICINE HAT NEWS on February 1st, 2023

https://www.medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews Being present when a Medicine Hat golfer tried to buy back his own stolen clubs earned a Cypress County man a one-year probationary sentence in Provincial Court on Tuesday. Court heard the owner noticed his clubs and bag, valued at $1,000, were missing last fall and then saw them for sale on an internet ... Read More »

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Back in person again, Tongue on the Post welcomes record crowds

By KENDALL KING on February 1st, 2023

kking@medicinehatnews.com The first in-person Tongue on the Post Folk Musical Festival since the pandemic was a rousing success, say organizers and artists. “It was an amazing festival,” Medicine Hat Folk Music Club executive director Rob Pape told the News. “We scaled it back somewhat this year just to make sure it was manageable both from ... Read More »

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MHPSD hosts community service fair

By Medicine Hat News on February 1st, 2023

A community service fair took place at the central office of the Medicine Hat Public School Division on Friday afternoon. “We have 20 community services spread between three rooms. The purpose of this community services fair was to bridge education and community supports,” said Greg Ferris, coordinator of diverse learning services with the division. It ... Read More »

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Quebec-based firm buys Alberta lamb production company near Lethbridge

By COLLIN GALLANT on February 1st, 2023

cgallant@medicinehatnews.com@CollinGallant A Quebec-based agri-food company has acquired a struggling Alberta lamb production company promising it will bolster the brands. Preval AG announced Monday it will become owner and operator of the North American Lamb Company, including Canada Gold breeding and feeder facility in Iron Springs, northeast of Lethbridge, and a processor in Innisfail. The former ... Read More »

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County councillor won’t seek UCP nomination after all

By COLLIN GALLANT on February 1st, 2023

cgallant@medicinehatnews.com@CollinGallant The contest to determine a United Conservative Party candidate in Cypress-Medicine Hat has begun, but the number of potential candidates continues to fall. A notice on the UCP website states the nomination period to fill the vacancy opened Jan. 26 and will close Feb. 9. It opened one day after MLA Drew Barnes, now ... Read More »

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Hat and Lethbridge concert bands coming together for long awaited Hands Across the Three

By Medicine Hat News on February 1st, 2023

The Medicine Hat Concert Band Society and Lethbridge Community Band Society are coming together again to continue their Hands Across the Three concert series, nearly six year after its first instalment. In March, 2017, MHCBS’s Allegro band travelled Highway 3 to Lethbridge to join LCBS’s Gold Band in the series’ first concert. It was intended ... Read More »

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Social change research at MHC honing in on 1979

By Medicine Hat News on February 1st, 2023

Medicine Hat College was awarded, for the first time, a grant from the Social Sciences and Research Council of Canada. Dr. Jana Smith Elford is the lead investigator on the project and is working in collaboration with Dr. Michelle Meagher, chair of the Women’s and Gender Studies program at the University of Alberta. Elford’s dissertation ... Read More »

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Gleichen RCMP seek public assistance in locating missing teen

By Medicine Hat News on January 31st, 2023

Mounties in Gleichen are searching for a missing teenager and are hoping to get assistance from the public. Heaven Turningrobe, a resident of the Siksika First Nation – about 90 km east of Calgary – was last seen at a resident on Siksika on the afternoon of Jan. 20. She is described as 5-foot-4, 120 ... Read More »

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NDP health critic takes aim at UCP decision to contract out surgeries

By SAMANTHA JOHNSON Local Journalism Initiative Reporter on January 31st, 2023

reporter@medicinehatnews.com Health Minister Jason Copping announced last week a contract with Canadian Surgery Solutions to provide 3,000 orthopedic surgeries, which he claimed will free up spaces in hospitals and reduce wait times. Opposition NDP health critic David Shepherd, on the other hand, doesn’t believe contracting more surgeries into private facilities is the right step forward. ... Read More »

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Animal Food Bank, Pet Valu team up to raise money for cat food

By Medicine Hat News on January 31st, 2023

The Animal Food Bank is running a Valentine’s Day fundraiser in conjunction with Pet Valu stores. Cat food is in short supply and they hope to raise $2,000 with a paper heart campaign to buy a pallet of cat food for felines in need. From Feb. 1-14, go into either Pet Valu store in Medicine ... Read More »

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