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Husband headed to trial for fraud charges against dental clinic, while charges against wife dropped
By Peggy Revell on December 14th, 2017
Medicine Hat News The preliminary inquiry for the case of a couple accused of defrauding a Medicine Hat dental office of more than $80,000 has wrapped up — with the case against the husband proceeding to trial, and the case against the wife dropped. The hearing, which ran on Dec. 11 and 12 at the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Already facing charges of voyeurism, man now hit with child porn offence
By Peggy Revell on December 14th, 2017
Medicine Hat News A Medicine Hat man arrested Nov. 11 and facing voyeurism charges made a court appearance Wednesday on new charges: A single count of possessing child pornography. Crown consented to bail being granted for 24-year-old Davis Eichendorf, with similar conditions to those he already was on. The man also is not allowed the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!UPDATED: Proposed wind farm near Whitla a green energy auction winner
By Collin Gallant on December 13th, 2017
cgallant@medicinehatnews.com @CollinGallant Southeastern Alberta will get a windfarm and Alberta is getting a record low price for wind energy as the results of a major green energy auction were announced on Wednesday. The proposed Whitla Wind Farm, a project of Edmonton-based Capital power, won a 20-year supply contract for its near 200-megawatt facility planned for ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Labour and delivery moves to new hospital wing
By Gillian Slade on December 13th, 2017
gslade@medicinehatnews.com @MHNGillianSlade After years of planning and anticipation it was move-in day Tuesday for the labour and delivery department in the new ambulatory wing of Medicine Hat Regional Hospital. “Very excited, very impressed, it’s a lovely space,” said department manager and RN Leslie Pocsik. “I’m very happy for our patients. I think that they ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Charges laid 2 years after worker death
By Collin Gallant on December 13th, 2017
cgallant@medicinehatnews.com @CollinGallant Two years after a fatal workplace accident in Medicine Hat, a national contractor has been charged with five counts of failing to provide a safe work plan and environment. Alberta’s ministry of labour confirms Tuesday that Aluma Systems has been now served with proper notice that Occupational Health and Safety investigators have laid ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Man gets time served for charges involving stolen property incident
By Peggy Revell on December 13th, 2017
prevell@medicinehatnews.com @MHNprevell It was a sentence of time served Tuesday for a man being held in custody since September after being arrested on stolen property charges. Travis Seitz, 26, entered guilty pleas to possession of stolen property over $5,000, possessing of stolen property under $5,000, and four counts of breaching his release conditions, with Crown ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!PRSD hears ups and downs of Mennonite education program
By Tim Kalinowski on December 13th, 2017
tkalinowski@medicinehatnews.com @MHNTimKal The Prairie Rose School Division board of trustees got a strong insight into the unique challenges facing local Mennonite education at Tuesday’s public meeting. Students and staff members from Redcliff Mennonite Alternative Outreach Program came by for a visit. After presentations from the students, RMAP principal Tracy Franks talked about some issues facing ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!PRSD inclusion director reports on the division’s special needs stats
By Tim Kalinowski on December 13th, 2017
Medicine Hat News Prairie Rose School Division director of inclusion Camille Quinton presented her yearly report on special needs programs and students in PRSD at Tuesday’s public meeting in Dunmore. According to statistics presented by Quinton, the division largely falls in line with the averages of other divisions across the province, with about two per ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Sentencing delayed for man who kidnapped, assaulted cab driver
By Peggy Revell on December 13th, 2017
prevell@medicinehatnews.com @MHNprevell A switch in defence counsel has pushed sentencing back into the new year for a man who pled guilty to the kidnapping, sexual assault and robbery of a cab driver in November 2016. Shawn Thomas Baldhead was originally set to be sentenced Tuesday after entering guilty pleas in August to numerous charges stemming ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Catholic school board votes to consider closure of St. Thomas d’Aquin School
By Tim Kalinowski on December 12th, 2017
tkalinowski@medicinehatnews.com @MHNTimKal Medicine Hat Catholic Board of Education trustees unanimously passed a motion at Tuesday’s public meeting to consider the closure of Ecole St. Thomas d’Aquin, and move its French immersion program to St. John Paul II Elementary when that school opens for classes in Sept. 2018. Ecole St. Thomas d’Aquin parents were informed in a ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Pedestrian dies after being struck by vehicle on rural highway near Suffield
By Collin Gallant on December 12th, 2017
Medicine Hat News A man who was seriously injured while walking on a highway near Suffield has died in hospital, authorities announced Monday. Redcliff RCMP say that late on the evening of Dec. 8, the man in his late 20s was struck by a vehicle while he was walking on Highway 884 when he was ... Read More »
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