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Donation helps MHPS implement use of mental health app
By KELLEN TANIGUCHI on May 8th, 2021
ktaniguchi@medicinehatnews.com@@kellentaniguchi The Brandon Niwa Legacy Fund – the Beej Project, has donated $23,000 toward a partnership with the Medicine Hat Police Service to cover the cost of technology needed to launch a new mental health app for officers to use in the field, while also creating opportunities for research at Medicine Hat College. MHPS will ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Commercials released with very familiar backdrop
By COLLIN GALLANT on May 8th, 2021
cgallant@medicinehatnews.com@CollinGallant A credit union looking to expand its presence across Alberta picked Medicine Hat as the centre of a stylish new ad campaign. “It represents Alberta so well, so many of Alberta’s aspects and layers,” said Dennis Lenarduzzi, the creative director behind the project of connectFirst Credit Union. “But we didn’t want it to be ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Former school in Flats on sale for $609K
By COLLIN GALLANT on May 8th, 2021
cgallant@medicinehatnews.com@CollinGallant Another former school building in Medicine Hat is among the spring real estate listings. The 1912 era building on Balmoral Street and Allowance Avenue, most recently home to CAPE School two years ago, is listed for sale by Commercial One real estate on behalf of the Medicine Hat Catholic Board of Education. The asking ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Fitness facilities feel strain of another closure
By KELLEN TANIGUCHI on May 8th, 2021
ktaniguchi@medicinehatnews.com@@kellentaniguchi Indoor fitness and recreation facilities had to close again Wednesday after Premier Jason Kenney announced further COVID-19 restrictions on Tuesday evening. Also, effective Sunday, all indoor sport, performance and recreation activities for youth and adults must stop. Local gyms and facilities in Medicine Hat are no stranger to closing down, but one owner says ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Health foundation buys 38 bassinets for local hospital
By KELLEN TANIGUCHI on May 7th, 2021
ktaniguchi@medicinehatnews.com@@kellentaniguchi There are 38 new Stryker bassinets at Medicine Hat Regional Hospital just in time for Mother’s Day. The Medicine Hat and District Health Foundation raised $152,000 to replace all the existing wooden bassinets at the hospital with a needed upgrade. “We actually launched the campaign in early 2020, before the pandemic even started,” said ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Still plenty ways to have to fun in Medicine Hat and surrounding area
By ALEX McCUAIG Special to the News on May 7th, 2021
It’s been a couple of weeks for Hatters having to hear about what they can’t do with the latest announcements of public health restrictions. But Tourism Medicine Hat’s Jace Anderson says there is still a lot of entertainment opportunities in the region. “My must go place is Red Rock Coulee,” said Anderson, executive director of ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Where to get vaccines in SW Saskatchewan
By COLLIN GALLANT on May 7th, 2021
cgallant@medicinehatnews.com@CollinGallant The rollout of vaccines at pharmacies in Saskatchewan will include locations in Leader, Gull Lake and Shaunavon, that province’s health officials announced this week. Also among the first 102 locales across the province announced on May 3 are six locations in Swift Current, Harder’s Pharmacy in Herbert, the Walmart and Pharmasave in Kindersley and ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!MH Arena getting prepped to come down
By COLLIN GALLANT on May 7th, 2021
cgallant@medicinehatnews.com@CollinGallant The ice is out, the asphalt is coming up and the Medicine Hat Arena may start coming down this year. Machinery and fencing was delivered to the shuttered facility in the North River Flats as the city begins reworking utility lines in the area as part of a delayed conditional sale announced in 2019 ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Zoning change gives family go-ahead to build their home
By COLLIN GALLANT on May 7th, 2021
cgallant@medicinehatnews.com@CollinGallant A local couple can build a single-family home on a lot near downtown once slated for higher density housing after council unanimously approved a zoning change Monday. Citing council’s goal of spurring infill development to build the tax base, members voted 9-0 in favour of the change, with some councillors suggesting zoning in the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Seniors find care for sick stray kitty
By KELLEN TANIGUCHI on May 7th, 2021
ktaniguchi@medicinehatnews.com@@kellentaniguchi A stray cat has been keeping seniors’ company at a local home, but residents noticed it looked unwell and they called the Southern Alberta Humane Society for help. “They called us, we got a hold of the cat and now we’re vetting the cat and he’s doing well. It’s a good thing that they ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Mother goose turns balcony into maternity ward
By KELLEN TANIGUCHI on May 7th, 2021
ktaniguchi@medicinehatnews.com@@kellentaniguchi The Southview Grand Condominium on 13th Avenue SE has some new tenants on a third-floor balcony – a goose has laid eggs in a local couples’ flowerpot. Audrey Luscombe and her husband Dwight say the goose arrived April 9 at 7:30 in the morning and was busy on their balcony for about four hours ... Read More »
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