For The Record: City will relocate Riverside recycling drop-off to Northlands Co-op parking lot
By MEDICINE HAT NEWS on July 9, 2021.
https://www.medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews A city recycling drop-off depot is relocating to north Crescent Heights at the end of July. The depot at the Shamrock Bottle Depot near Altawana Drive will be closed on July 29 and relocated to the Northlands Co-op parking lot near Division Avenue and Northlands Way, the city announced Thursday. Last year, the city’s environmental utilities department moved the drop-off bins off the lot of the REDI Recycling Bottle Depot on S. Railway Street. Since home pickup bin service began in 2018 for single-family homes, volume at the depots has fallen by 65 per cent, but remain vital for condo owners and small business owners, the city states. They are also the only destination for glass, which is not permitted in blue bins. The city will retain three depots, including one at the Medicine Hat Mall and near the city’s municipal works shop on Kipling Street. A release states South Country Co-op is supplying the site, and the city is examining the future of the current Riverside site, near where new commercial construction in ongoing. Fire ban expands Most counties and municipalities in southeast Alberta brought in fire restrictions in late June in light of hot dry conditions, and this week a ban on all open fires was extended to the MD of Taber. Cypress County, Medicine Hat and Redcliff also has a ban on all wood and charcoal fires. No ban was in place at the Alberta portion of Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park on Thursday afternoon. Saskatchewan has issued a blanket fire warning for the province and a number of rural and urban fire bans are in place in the southwest region. Sask safety site The government of Saskatchewan has launched a new online site to collate public safety warnings, water advisories and fire bans, as well as emergency response, in that province. The site, http://www.saskpublicsafety, went into operation on July 7. Masks in Court The requirement to wear masks in public buildings was lifted in Alberta on Canada Day, but top officials with Alberta’s courts have extended the measure at facilities throughout the province. A notice from Alberta’s three chief judges and justices says the masking requirement at court facilities put in place July 2020 will remain in place until further notice. “All current protocols relating to physical distancing and courtroom capacity will (also) continue until further notice,” reads the notice, dated June 25. Citizens needing to pay fines are asked to conduct business online. Masks are also required by provincial health order in health-care facilities and on public transit and in taxis or ride sharing operations. 22-21
