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Kiwanis Centre signs lease with city
By COLLIN GALLANT on June 1st, 2021
cgallant@medicinehatnews.com@CollinGallant The operators of the Kiwanis Centre signed a new two-year-lease last week with the City of Medicine Hat, about one year after the municipal land department announced it would like to sell the historic school for private redevelopment. The former Elizabeth Street School has been home to community and non-profit groups since the mid-1980s ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!‘It’s very upsetting, it’s very horrific’: MHC Indigenous student specialist says Kamloops total likely higher than 215
By LAUREN THOMSON on June 1st, 2021
lthomson@medicinehatnews.com The country is reeling after the remains of 215 children were found at a residential school site in Kamloops on May 28. “I have a deep knowledge of this,” said David Restoule, Indigenous student specialist at Medicine Hat College and a member of the Ojibway tribe in Anishinabe. “So, for me it wasn’t surprising. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Crescent Heights students sewing up a storm for charity
By LAUREN THOMSON on June 1st, 2021
lthomson@medicinehatnews.com Several groups of students in leadership class at Crescent Heights High School have spent the school year making over 200 blankets to donate to numerous local charities. “I’ve always been a big believer in volunteerism,” says Heather McCaig, teacher at CHHS. “I used to be a social studies teacher and part of the social ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!What’s open and what’s not? Changes start taking place today
By Medicine Hat News on June 1st, 2021
What’s open and what’s not changes again today for Albertans as the province enters Stage 1 of its reopening plan – but restaurants, public buildings and recreation facilities are still offering limited service, or in the case of indoor offerings, not at all. Notably, fitness facilities are not captured in today’s changes. The YMCA of ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Havre’s package pickup service anxious to see Canadians again
By COLLIN GALLANT on May 29th, 2021
cgallant@medicinehatnews.com@CollinGallant A growing wish to see Canadians stream back to Havre, Montana is rivalled by a growing backlog of packages at a Havre business that holds online orders for Canadian customers to pickup. “I’m sitting on pallets and pallets of stuff, and some orders from December 2019,” Erik Mies, the owner of Westwind Courier Service ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Police chief says COVID affected crime stats
By KELLEN TANIGUCHI on May 29th, 2021
ktaniguchi@medicinehatnews.com@@kellentaniguchi The Medicine Hat Police Service released its 2020 report and chief Mike Worden says certain numbers in the report were impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. “For us it’s had significant impacts on the way that we provide services for the public and at this point how it’s impacted the number of calls and the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Local home construction off to blazing start
By Medicine Hat News on May 29th, 2021
Residential construction in Medicine Hat is off to its best start in five years, according to figures posted this week by the city’s planning department. Over all categories, the department issued permits for 81 projects in April attached to estimated budgets of $16.9 million. For the first four months of the year the grand total ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Rain, snow brings precipitation levels back up to spring norms
By COLLIN GALLANT on May 29th, 2021
cgallant@medicinehatnews.com@CollinGallant Heavy rain last week landed where it was most needed and brings the total precipitation in southern Alberta back to normal levels this spring, according to the province’s latest crop report. Most to the south received about 50 millimetres (two inches) of combined rain and snow between May 17 and 19. It arrived just ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!COVID-19 cases falling fast in SW Sask.
By Medicine Hat News on May 29th, 2021
Active cases of COVID-19 in southwest Saskatchewan have fallen by two-thirds over two weeks following a steep increase in mid-April. The Saskatchewan Health Authority reported one new case in the region including Swift Current, Maple Creek and the area closest to the Alberta boundary. The total number of active cases sat at 31 on Friday, ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Stewart Optical comes ‘back to the future’ after 25 years
By KELLEN TANIGUCHI on May 29th, 2021
ktaniguchi@medicinehatnews.com@@kellentaniguchi An optical shop from the ’90s made its return to Medicine Hat on April 12 when Jim Stewart re-opened Stewart Optical – this time with his 23-year-old son Tyler. “I was Stewart Optical from 1991 to about mid ’96 and then I teamed up with someone else and was there for 25 years,” said ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!City goes to Plan B for gas supply
By COLLIN GALLANT on May 28th, 2021
cgallant@medicinehatnews.com@CollinGallant TC Energy has cancelled a substantial pipeline that would have brought jobs to the region and more natural gas to Medicine Hat for a power plant expansion, but the city utility department says an alternative deal to supply gas for the new unit is in place. The Nova Gas Medicine Hat Looping Project would ... Read More »
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