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Closing city hall’s main doors meant to be temporary
By Medicine Hat News on May 24th, 2024
@MedicineHatNews Closing the main doors at city hall is a temporary measure to accommodate construction and keep visitors from away from staff-only areas while walls and doors are opened up, city building managers clarified Thursday. Work to relocate the main floor security desk occurred earlier this year and since late 2023, the second-floor planning department ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Gas City Campground pump track to temporary close for construction
By Medicine Hat News on May 24th, 2024
news@medicinehatnews.com The pump track at Gas City Campground has been closed to allow crews to construct a shade structure. The pump track will be closed to the public starting May 27 for approximately two weeks until the middle of June. During this time the pump track site will be inaccessible, however adjacent traffic lanes will ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Couple biking across the country to promote vitamin D awareness
By ANNA SMITH on May 24th, 2024
asmith@medicinehatnews.com Senior couple Kanji and Susie Nakatsu are biking across the country in order to help spread awareness for an issue that plagues a majority of Canadians. Kanji Nakatsu is a retired pharmacology professor, who remarked that while he taught about the health issue he’s campaigning for, vitamin D deficiency, he hadn’t had an opportunity ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!St. Pat’s hopes to connect with community at upcoming resource fair
By ANNA SMITH on May 24th, 2024
asmith@medicinehatnews.com St. Patrick’s Church will be hosting a Community Resource Family Fair on June 1, in hopes of connecting with families with resources in the region. This is the first time the church has organized anything like this, said Karen-Anne Cherwonogrodzky, fair planning chair. “We had a number of religious items donated to us. And ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Hat’s elected officials relatively mum on Bill 20 to date
By Collin Gallant on May 24th, 2024
@@CollinGallant The issue of sweeping changes to municipal governance legislation hasn’t been discussed by Medicine Hat city council one month after Bill 20 was outlined and is now set to move to legislature committee for study. It would change local elections and municipal government acts to allow political parties at local level in major cities, ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Company wants farm status fast-tracked for tax bill on Aurora plant
By Collin Gallant on May 24th, 2024
@@CollinGallant The company repurposing the Aurora Sun greenhouse has requested they move more swiftly to tax-free status afforded to agricultural facilities in urban centres by provincial regulations. Bevo Farms has been operating at the huge growing facility in Medicine Hat’s northwest for two months, but faces a full-year assessment at the much higher non-residential (commercial ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Hat schools to receive largest funding cut this fall
By BRENDAN MILLER on May 24th, 2024
bmiller@medicinehatnews.com School boards in Medicine Hat will experience a funding cut of more than $1 million next semester, the highest in the province dollar-wise according to its projected operational funding for the 2024/24 school year. The report published May 6 shows Medicine Hat tops the list of all 13 schools boards across the province that ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!MHC and MHPSD to offer dual-credit courses for trades and health care
By ANNA SMITH on May 24th, 2024
asmith@medicinehatnews.com Students in the Medicine Hat Public School Division will have new opportunities to explore trades and health care, as part of a dual-credit program through Medicine Hat College. The programs will enable students to pursue areas of interest and discover career pathways, while completing post-secondary courses and earning college and high school credits. “The ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Changes coming to shore up security at city hall
By Collin Gallant on May 23rd, 2024
@@CollinGallant Changes are coming to how residents access city hall, including the closure of the main doors, according to a release that details new operational changes to accommodate construction and address safety concerns. “These changes are a temporary measure to provide a safer facility, and to accommodate the upcoming construction and installations,” city building management ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!House arrest for man who robbed food bank in neighbouring town
By Medicine Hat News on May 23rd, 2024
@MedicineHatNews A Magrath man who held up a food bank and thrift store in Raymond will serve a 90-day sentence under house arrest and curfew. The penalty was announced Tuesday at Provincial Court of Justice at Lethbridge, where Jayme Leroy Sheridan, 35, pleaded guilty to a single charge of theft under $5,000. Court heard that ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Already one of the wetter Mays in city history
By ANNA SMITH on May 23rd, 2024
asmith@medicinehatnews.com The month of May has been unusually wet for the region, already well above averages with the possibility of the most precipitation in 15 years before the month rolls over. So far, the city has experienced 106.5 millimetres of precipitation in May, said warning preparedness meteorologist Natalie Hasell. The average amount of rain was ... Read More »
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