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Blues at the Bow live show goes June 25
By Medicine Hat News on June 11th, 2022
Blues music will be back at the Bow later this month. Blues at the Bow has announced it will be hosting Kat Danser & The Tall Tales, with opening act Jimmy & The Sleepers, for another night of the venue’s unique live entertainment on June 25. Danser – a recent Blues Hall of Fame inductee ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Sanare Centre takes new name to new location
By KENDALL KING, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter on June 11th, 2022
kking@medicinehatnews.com Medicine Hat’s Sanare Centre has moved to a new location in an effort to expand local support services for sexual abuse and sexual assault survivors. The non-profit centre, previously located on Third Street SE, is expected to be fully moved in to its new space off Strachan Road beginning next week. The move is ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!City finances must weather some incoming storms
By COLLIN GALLANT on June 11th, 2022
cgallant@medicinehatnews.com@CollinGallant Inflation, interest rates and investment returns are three I’s finance officials say will have marked effect on city finances heading into 2023, a committee heard Thursday afternoon. The audit committee heard that as interest rates rise, so too will future borrowing costs for the City of Medicine Hat, but the nature of how the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!In-person convocation returns to MHC
By JAMES TUBB on June 11th, 2022
jtubb@medicinehatnews.com@ReporterTubb For the first time in two years, Medicine Hat College graduates were able to accept their diplomas in person. The college held its convocation Friday afternoon at Co-op Place to celebrate 2022 graduates. An in-person ceremony was also held earlier Friday for those 2020 and 2021 graduates not able to walk the stage due ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Swift Current Mounties believe missing woman could be in Alberta
By MEDICINE HAT NEWS on June 10th, 2022
https://www.medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews Mounties in Swift Current are looking for a woman last seen in Gull Lake and who may be hitchhiking to central Alberta. Marley Cook, 37, was last seen on May 28 at a residence in Gull Lake, and authorities believe she may be attempting to get to St. Paul, Alta., though they can not ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Hut 8 slowed production in Drumheller over power price, but not the Hat
By MEDICINE HAT NEWS on June 10th, 2022
https://www.medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews High power prices in May caused Hut 8 to intermittently slow production at its Drumheller dataprocessing centre, the company announced in an operational update this week. “Power costs continued to fluctuate throughout the month, and we limited our consumption at Drumheller when the spot price of power spiked,” the report stated. Spiking power prices ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!CF Industries closing one U.K. plant to better focus on another
By MEDICINE HAT NEWS on June 10th, 2022
https://www.medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews CF Industries will close one of its fertilizer plants in the United Kingdom, and concentrate on another which is better able to weather increasing costs and questions about environmental sustainability, the company said this week. The global nitrogen and ammonia producer announced Wednesday it will close its plant in Ince, near Chester, which has ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!City launches fire hydrant water station pilot
By Medicine Hat News on June 10th, 2022
Fire hydrants will have a new use for Hatters in the coming days. The City of Medicine Hat launched the preliminary testing phase on equipment designed to deliver clean drinking water through fire hydrant stations throughout town. The first four water bottle fill stations will be installed this week, however they are not available for ... Read More »
1 responseA number of labour deals recently signed with regional ties
By MEDICINE HAT NEWS on June 10th, 2022
https://www.medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews Construction workers with renewable power project builder Borea Construction are in line for a 7 per cent wage hike over two years following ratification of a new collection bargaining agreement. The deal is noted in the May bulletin of settlements posted by Alberta Labour and involves 290 workers represented by the Christian Labour Association ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Conditional lot sale OK’d for seniors condos
By MEDICINE HAT NEWS on June 10th, 2022
https://www.medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews A large lot on Southlands Boulevard could become a townhouse condominium complex for seniors following the approval of a conditional land sale Monday by city council. The city-developed 2.9-acre lot would be sold for $930,000, offered by a company referred to as “Developments, Inc.” in documents which came to council through the city’s administrative ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!MHC honours Indigenous grads
By JAMES TUBB on June 10th, 2022
jtubb@medicinehatnews.com@ReporterTubb Medicine Hat College celebrated its Indigenous graduates Thursday morning. About 40 people gathered in the college’s Crowfoot room to celebrate eight Indigenous graduates in attendance ahead of MHC’s convocation this afternoon at Co-op Place, where 21 Indigenous grads will walk the stage to accept their diplomas. Elder Charlie Fox – Piitahonista, Eagle Calf, opened ... Read More »
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