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Warm weather in May allows farmers to catch up in the fields
By Collin Gallant on May 19th, 2018
Medicine Hat News The warmest May thus far since 1961 helped local and all Alberta farmers gain ground in the current planting season, the Alberta Crop report stated on May 18. The planting season is fully underway across the province, it reports, with favourable conditions and good progress in all regions. Seeding is furthest advanced ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Curbside recycling will add under $3 to monthly bills
By Collin Gallant on May 18th, 2018
cgallant@medicinehatnews.com @CollinGallant Hatters will pay the lowest price in Western Canada for curbside recycling pickup service — just $2.89 more each month — when the bills reflect the new service, starting July 1, according to figures released Friday. Bins are now being distributed to 23,000 households that already receive grey bin general pickup, and on ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Lions hosting barbecue, collecting eyeglasses Saturday
By Peggy Revell on May 18th, 2018
prevell@medicinehatnews.com @MHNprevell Hatters can give a second life to old and unused eyeglasses by dropping them off Saturday at the Community View Lions Club’s fundraising event. The barbecue fundraiser will run from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at M&M Food Market on 13th Avenue, with a regular burger costing $4 or $5 for a cheeseburger ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Hamptons’ next phase ready for development
By Collin Gallant on May 18th, 2018
Medicine Hat News A further phase of the Hamptons community could be coming on line sooner than expected. The developer, Lansdowne Equity Ventures, has applied to have a new subdivision in the south-end community rezoned to low-density residential use, eventually to become a new cul-de-sac style subdivision near Vista Drive. The municipal planning commission approved ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Seven-month sentence for harassment in case involving February standoff
By Peggy Revell on May 18th, 2018
prevell@medicinehatnews.com @MHNprevell A 38-year-old Hatter pled guilty to criminal harassment Thursday, in a case that led officers to block off a residential street in mid-February to make an arrest. Justin Legasse received a jail sentence of seven months, and 18 months probation — with 66 days left to serve, due to time spent in custody. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!The ‘Man Van’ is rolling into Medicine Hat
By Medicine Hat News on May 18th, 2018
Medicine Hat News Don’t worry guys, it’s a blood test, not a glove test. The Man Van will be at Medicine Hat’s London Drugs (3201 13th Avenue S.E.) on Saturday between noon and 3 p.m., offering free baseline PSA (prostate specific antigen) blood tests to men between the ages of 40 and 80. The PSA ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Stolen licence plate, suspicion of criminal acts in S.C. land man in jail for six months
By Peggy Revell on May 18th, 2018
prevell@medicinehatnews.com @MHNprevell A guilty plea was entered Thursday by a Manitoban arrested in Cypress County in a vehicle with a stolen licence plate, and connected to criminal activity that had occurred in Swift Current. Jordan Harkness-Brown was sentenced to six months in jail as part of a joint submission negotiated by defence counsel with both ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Viable no longer, Dunmore Road trees fall victim to chainsaw
By Mo Cranker on May 18th, 2018
mcranker@medicinehatnews.com @MHNmocranker It’s never a decision the city wants to make, but a group of trees on Dunmore Road had to come down recently because they were no longer deemed viable. “It’s really not much of a story here,” said superintendent of parks maintenance Dave Genio. “We’ve been investigating that area on Dunmore Road for ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Fire guts Vista garage, damages home
By Collin Gallant on May 17th, 2018
cgallant@medicinehatnews.com @CollinGallant A garage fire in the southside community of Vista capped off a busy day for emergency crews in Medicine Hat on Tuesday. That evening fire gutted an attached garage after starting at about 7:30 p.m., causing extensive damage to the exterior of the home on Vista Drive, but relatively minor effects inside the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Entrepreneurs cash in at MHC
By Gillian Slade on May 17th, 2018
gslade@medicinehatnews.com @MHNGillianSlade Feeding garbage to worms and turning it into an organic fertilizer was a winning business idea pitched at a Medicine Hat College (MHC) competition on Wednesday. Roxanne Doerksen of T.R.A.D. Worm Industries not only received $10,000 for the purchase of equipment but won the Peoples’ Choice award and the award for the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!‘Wanted justice for Tanya … we got it,’ after Dyck pleads guilty to manslaughter
By Peggy Revell on May 16th, 2018
prevell@medicinehatnews.com @MHNprevell Jessie Robert Dyck pled guilty to manslaughter Tuesday for the 2016 death of his girlfriend, Tanya Campbell-Losier in Brooks. “I wanted justice for Tanya, and I believe we got it,” said Lorraine Campbell, the 19-year-old victim’s mother, outside the Medicine Hat courthouse. “First of all, I really wanted Jessie to take responsibility for ... Read More »
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