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Community Foundation accepting applications for COVID response
By Medicine Hat News on October 6th, 2020
Community Foundation of Southeastern Alberta has announced $152,740 in funding to support local charities responding to COVID-19. This week CFSEA will begin accepting applications for funding. The grants can be used for a variety of purposes, including the cost of staffing or resources and items that need to be purchased. Charities and community organizations are ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Mustard Seed event exceeds expectations
By GILLIAN SLADE on October 6th, 2020
gslade@medicinehatnews.com@MHNGillianSlade The Mustard Seed’s harvest fundraising event on Saturday is being called a major success. The organization reached its goal and then some, said Colette Eirich, managing director The Mustard Seed in Medicine Hat. “It was simply amazing,” said Eirich, noting the weather was near perfect facilitating all aspects of the harvest event. The Mustard ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Herrell pleads guilty across the board
By Medicine Hat News on October 3rd, 2020
Medicine Hat News A Medicine Hat man facing child pornography and bestiality charges has pled guilty to a number of offences. Cody Herrell pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography, distributing/selling child pornography, bestiality, sexual assault, sexual contact with a minor and making child pornography. Herrell was originally charged in 2019, with additional charges coming ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Local man’s life ends in tragedy
By GILLIAN SLADE on October 3rd, 2020
gslade@medicinehatnews.com@MHNGillianSlade A local man who a year ago spoke to the News on the stigma and shame of being homeless has ended his life. Bobby Moore, who turned 43 on July 6, had been helped with social housing and was living in an apartment on Aberdeen Street at the time. His mother, Barbara Trautman, says ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Paving begins this coming week on Kipling and Spencer streets work
By Medicine Hat News on October 3rd, 2020
Paving will begin Monday on long portions of Kipling and Spencer streets that were the scene of substantial underground work this summer. Southbound motorists on Kingsway Avenue will be restricted to one lane near the work until Oct. 9, a city release states. Work began in the spring to replace water, sewer and storm drains ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Council to tackle long-term plans, COVID cash and gas well debt
By COLLIN GALLANT on October 3rd, 2020
cgallant@medicinehatnews.com@CollinGallant Long-term development, plans to spend COVID stimulus funds and approving major borrowing for gas well closures headline the agenda of Monday’s Medicine Hat city council meeting. After several relatively quick meetings in past months, the session that returns to council chambers at city hall after six months, could be much longer. Councillors will debate ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Locally raised artist chosen for Royal Academy exhibition
By Medicine Hat News on October 3rd, 2020
Work by a Medicine Hat-raised artist has been selected for the prestigious Royal Academy of Art’s Summer Exhibition in London, U.K. Chris Bennett was born in England, then raised in the Hat, attending Medicine Hat High School and graduating from the Alberta College of Art and Design before moving to London to work in 2004. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!COVID test swabbing centre to open in Redcliff on Monday
By Medicine Hat News on October 3rd, 2020
A new COVID test swabbing centre has been established in Redcliff, says Alberta Health Services. The building is located at 2400 S. Highway Drive and will be used starting Monday. It is only for people who have been given an appointment for a test after they have been in contact with AHS. The new Redcliff ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Mobile site in Lethbridge has more capacity than old SCS: Associate minister’s office
By Medicine Hat News on October 3rd, 2020
Capacity at the new mobile supervised consumption site in Lethbridge is able to meet the needs of the old ARCHES site, a press secretary for mental health and addictions minister Jason Luan says. Kassandra Kitz claims that its own data states that in the months prior to COVID-19, ARCHES was seeing roughly 150 clients per ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Renewable energy company with ties to a play near Suffield will propose a large wind farm near Shaunavon
By Medicine Hat News on October 3rd, 2020
A Quebec-based renewable power developer says it will submit a major wind farm proposal near Shaunavon into SaskPower’s current round of green energy procurement. Innergex officials hosted a public information session online on Thursday to lay out plans and answer questions about the “Gusty Point” wind farm. It would be located east of Shaunavon and, ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Medicine Hat’s suicide numbers are on pace to double last year’s
By GILLIAN SLADE on October 3rd, 2020
gslade@medicinehatnews.com@MHNGillianSlade If the current trend continues Medicine Hat could see double the number of suicides this year compared to 2019. Police chief Andy McGrogan calls it alarming. “Just a tragedy,” he said. There were five suicides in the whole of 2019, three males and two females. So far this year there have been eight confirmed ... Read More »
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