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Business Men’s Fellowship Gospel Jamboree goes Sunday at Kin Coulee
By MEDICINE HAT NEWS on August 24th, 2021
https://www.medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews The Annual Business Men’s Fellowship Gospel Jamboree is set for Sunday at Kin Coulee Park in Medicine Hat. Attendees are encouraged to bring lawn chairs and umbrellas. Cowboy Church service will be held beginning at 10:30 a.m. before a noon-hour lunch break catered by the Patio Cafe. Afternoon performers include Murray Jaster and Co., ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Funeral service for former News publisher Thursday morning
By Medicine Hat News on August 24th, 2021
A funeral service for former Medicine Hat News group publisher Mike Hertz will be held Thursday morning at Holy Family Parish. Hertz, who served as publisher at the News for 22 years, passed away Thursday at the age of 71 after battling through recurrent bouts of cancer over the past decade. Family and friends wishing ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Hospital contingency plan crucial, docs urge
By COLLIN GALLANT on August 24th, 2021
cgallant@medicinehatnews.com@CollinGallant A group of local doctors is calling on Alberta Health Services to reveal contingency plans for the Medicine Hat Regional Hospital functioning properly in the likely case the current wave of local COVID-19 infections worsens. Dr. Paul Parks is one of 10 local doctors to sign a letter Tuesday also asking for action to ... Read More »
3 responsesLeaky gas well causing parking headaches
By COLLIN GALLANT on August 24th, 2021
cgallant@medicinehatnews.com@CollinGallant Canadian Pacific Railway is tackling an abandoned gas well leaking methane near S. Railway Street, but nearby business owners are not particularly happy about losing parking, or how the project is being explained to them. In June, the News was first to report that the railway was disputing ownership of an abandoned well in ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!RCMP wonder if separate child luring investigations involve same suspect
By MEDICINE HAT NEWS on August 24th, 2021
https://www.medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews Mounties are investigating whether there is a connection to a child luring investigation in Gleichen last month and another in central Alberta. Sketches of the suspect in each bear a resemblance to the other, the RCMP stated on Monday, and they are circulating them in hopes of learning more from the public. On July ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!BATUS to move equipment along local highways over next couple of weeks
By MEDICINE HAT NEWS on August 24th, 2021
https://www.medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews Military vehicles and freight will be moving along highways near CFB Suffield this week and again early next month, a notice from the base states. Armoured vehicles sent in and out of the region will move south to rail siding at the Trans-Canada Highway, south of Ralston until Wednesday. The daylight hour operation will ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Delayed Redcliff Days set to go this weekend
By Justin Seward Southern Alberta Newspapers on August 24th, 2021
Redcliff Days attendees will have several events to take in as they wander around the town’s streets and parks this weekend. Planning began earlier in 2021 and was postponed from its original Father’s Day weekend to the end of August due to the COVID-19 restrictions still being in place at the time. “Everyone was very ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Former News publisher remembered as vibrant lover of community
By COLLIN GALLANT on August 20th, 2021
cgallant@medicinehatnews.com@CollinGallant Mike Hertz, publisher of the Medicine Hat News for 22 years, died Thursday after battling through recurring bouts of cancer over the past 10 years. He was 71. Friends in the city recalled his love of baseball, community work and support for the Rotary Club. Colleagues said his pride in the community was matched ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!City Notebook: It just keeps coming
By COLLIN GALLANT on August 20th, 2021
cgallant@medicinehatnews.com@CollinGallant This column has complained both sides that the final weeks of August are the doldrums of news, or conversely that it’s downright uncivil how much is going on. Well, as the old Chinese proverb goes, here we go again… or was it something about living in interesting times? There’s a new dimension to the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Family Fun and Flight ‘COVID-sized’ but still a go
By MEDICINE HAT NEWS on August 20th, 2021
https://www.medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews Organizers of the Family Fun and Flight airshow say a “COVID-sized” show this weekend will help keep the nose pointed up on the annual exhibition of aircraft at the Medicine Hat Regional Airport. The event gets underway Sunday, with local aircraft and specialty cars on display, food trucks and tours of the city available ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!A little more about the life of former publisher Mike Hertz
By Medicine Hat News on August 20th, 2021
Mike Hertz graduated from high school in 1968 and has four years at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon. He spent 13 years in the hospitality industry managing hotels and restaurants across Saskatchewan for a hospitality management company based in Moose Jaw. Mike started his career in newspapers in 1987 as an advertising representative for ... Read More »
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