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Growth model series causing loss of family services workers, says AUPE
By ANNA SMITH Local Journalism Initiative on July 19th, 2024
asmith@medicinehatnews.com The Alberta Union of Provincial Employees is expressing concern regarding a hiring practice which puts unnecessary strain on workers who look out for the province’s younger residents. This model was put into practice by the province, called the Growth Model Series, as intended to improve recruitment and retention in the Children and Family Services, ... Read More »
1 responseCity to reclassify land use of Aurora greenhouse
By Medicine Hat News on July 18th, 2024
@MedicineHatNews The conversation of a greenhouse originally built to grow cannabis to instead grow vegetable starters and cut flowers proceeded through the municipal planning commission on Wednesday and on to council for final approval. Bevo Farms has been operating in the former Aurora Sun greenhouse in northwest Medicine Hat since the spring. The half completed ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Cypress County, Sask. fire bans in place to combat increasing wildfire risk
By Medicine Hat News on July 18th, 2024
@MedicineHatNews Local fire bans are in place on the Saskatchewan portions of Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park while that province enacted a blanket fire ban in northern parks to deal with a worsening wildfire situation on Wednesday. The Specials Areas in Alberta also issued a fire advisory on July 15, as did the Village of Empress ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Cypress approves new anti-boar bylaw during meeting Tuesday
By ANNA SMITH Local Journalism Initiative on July 18th, 2024
asmith@medicinehatnews.com During the Cypress County Council meeting that took place on Tuesday, the County took a proactive stance to prevent the incursion of wild boars. “I think everyone is familiar with the destruction that wild boar can cause,” said CAO Tarolyn Aaserud. Agricultural Supervisor Lisa Sulz was present for questions and prepared the request. Coin. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Snowball test era like ‘science fiction’
By Collin Gallant on July 18th, 2024
@@CollinGallant Bob Wallace opened his paper on Wednesday morning and was taken back 60 years when he was one of few civilians given an up close view to one of the largest conventional explosions ever conducted. “I remember feeling the shockwaves and the blast waves pass through us – it was so hot and really ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Blast provided mountains of data, and actual volcanoes
By Stephen Murray Special to the News on July 18th, 2024
@MedicineHatNews Operation Snowball was the largest controlled detonation of conventional explosives at the time that 500-tons of TNT was set off, July 17, 1960, at Defence Research Station Suffield. The huge force and fireball created by 30,000 stacked bricks of explosives took but a moment to subside, but the results of the test – devised ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Carbon capture is coming to Medicine Hat
By Collin Gallant on July 18th, 2024
@@CollinGallant Methanex announced in a release late Wednesday that it has chosen its local methanol production plant for engineering a carbon emissions abatement equipment. The $100 million project, done in partnership with Calgary-based clean-tech company Entropy, could create 200 construction jobs, then several permanent positions afterward while lowering carbon compliance fees and boosting production, company ... Read More »
1 responseFormer News reporter returns to city with new book about past premier
By ANNA SMITH Local Journalism Initiative on July 18th, 2024
asmith@medicinehatnews.com Former Medicine Hat News reporter Jeremy Appel is coming back to where so much of his career began, to promote his book detailing the legacy of former premier Jason Kenney. Appel hasn’t been back in the city since 2021, but the area does hold significance, as he notes that this is where he was ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Operation Snowball – a feat for Suffield
By Special to the News Stephen Murray on July 17th, 2024
@MedicineHatNews The Canadian Blast Program at the Suffield Experimental Station (SES) was approved in early 1957. Henry Watson, Head of the Physics and Meteorological Section, was tasked with developing the program and hired four young scientists. John Dewey and Trevor Groves concentrated on research in air-blast phenomena, while Gareth Jones’s major interest was seismic effects, craters ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Smoke, spies and open range brought blasts to SE Alta.
By Special to the News Stephen Murray on July 17th, 2024
@MedicineHatNews The headline on the Medicine Hat News read “Blast will dwarf 1961 detonation” on May 26, 1964, a reference to the upcoming Operation SNOWBALL at the Defence Research Station in Suffield. It involved the detonation of 500 tons of TNT, meticulously stacked in a dome shape, at 10:58 a.m. on July 17, 1964 – ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Man pleads guilty to building homemade pipe bombs
By Medicine Hat News on July 17th, 2024
@MedicineHatNews A man arrested after two homemade pipe bombs were found in the city pleaded guilty to building them, but says they were likely stolen and he doesn’t know how they arrived beneath a mailbox in Crescent Heights and under a vehicle in a mobile home park. James Jerard McNulty, 41, was arrested in April ... Read More »
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