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Local police’s phone number spoofed in $1K scam
By MEDICINE HAT NEWS on July 15th, 2021
https://www.medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews Hatters should look for “red flags” to avoid fraudsters, say local police, whose own phone number was used to gain the confidence of a victim recently. “Spoofing” a phone number is a technique that brings up a false number on caller ID systems. Medicine Hat Police Service says its number was used recently to ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!‘A Walk to Healing for All’: Members of Sask. First Nations off to Kamloops on foot
By ALEX McCUAIG Local Journalism Initiative Reporter on July 15th, 2021
amccuaig@medicinehatnews.com The discovery of unmarked graves at the site of a former residential school in Kamloops has shocked the consciousness of no shortage of Canadians. In the past two days, just as many memorial walks sparked by the discovery have passed through the city on their way from Saskatchewan to Kamloops. Journeys which aim to ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Business Briefs: Junior oil exploration company moving forward with polymer injection program
By MEDICINE HAT NEWS on July 14th, 2021
https://www.medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews Hemisphere Energy says a polymer injection program at its sites in Special Areas 2 is encouraging, and it will move ahead with three more wells this fall near its Atlee-Buffalo field, it stated on June 29. The junior exploration company spent $1.1 million in early 2021 to build facilities for the program centred in ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Stampede gearing up for scaled down event
By ALEX McCUAIG Local Journalism Initiative Reporter on July 14th, 2021
amccuaig@medicinehatnews.com The Medicine Hat Exhibition & Stampede is gearing up this week for its first post-pandemic rodeo with less than two weeks left to go. “It’s been a little bit crazy,” said general manager Kara Brake. Entries have been submitted for the Better Living and Visual Arts competition and Thursday will see the Stampede Queen ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Medical offices had bulk of wage top-ups
By COLLIN GALLANT on July 14th, 2021
cgallant@medicinehatnews.com@CollinGallant In Medicine Hat, doctors offices account for the most successful applications to a provincial program to pay essential workers a top-up of $1,200, though batch applications from several large local employers may account for most of the money coming to the city. That comes from an evaluation of a partial list of successful applications, ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Forget the heat, it’s the drought causing concern
By ALEX McCUAIG Local Journalism Initiative Reporter on July 14th, 2021
amccuaig@medicinehatnews.com The heat dome sitting over Alberta may have dissipated somewhat but drought conditions continue across southern parts of the Western provinces, and Alberta Beef Producers is now asking for government assistance in dealing with the issue. “We are getting into a situation that is pretty dire,” said Brad Dubeau, general manager at Alberta Beef. ... Read More »
1 responseCity has fewer jobs to come back to
By COLLIN GALLANT on July 14th, 2021
cgallant@medicinehatnews.com@CollinGallant City facilities are reopening, but the effect on the municipal workforce is murky as some temporary employees laid off during the worst of the pandemic may be rehired, but large budget cuts mean fewer positions. In spring of 2020, the city laid off an undisclosed number of part-time or non permanent staff as health ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!City looks to move Invest Medicine Hat back to private sector
By COLLIN GALLANT on July 13th, 2021
cgallant@medicinehatnews.com@CollinGallant Municipal land sales and economic development efforts may be again taken out of city hall and provided by a private contractor, the News has learned. Submissions on how a bidder would provide some, all or even more of the services currently provided by the Invest Medicine Hat department are due next Monday. The winner ... Read More »
1 responseUnnamed Hatter faces multiple charges after fatal rollover in Sask.
By MEDICINE HAT NEWS on July 13th, 2021
https://www.medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews A Medicine Hat man has been charged after a deadly rollover accident near Kindersley, Sask., late Sunday night. The unnamed 26-year-old man was reportedly driving a vehicle filled with eight occupants on grid roads when it rolled “multiple times” near Highway 7 east of Kindersley at 11:40 p.m. on July 11. One passenger, a ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Teen thanking God, doctors for beating cancer
By LAUREN THOMSON Local Journalism Initiative Reporter on July 13th, 2021
lthomson@medicinehatnews.com Carson Presber, a student at Notre Dame Academy, was diagnosed with brain cancer shortly after the beginning of the pandemic, but received support from family, friends, his school and his church. Lois Presber, Carson’s mom, noticed something wasn’t right with her then 12-year-old son at the end of May last year. The Medicine Hat ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Watson has sights set on the podium
By KELLEN TANIGUCHI on July 10th, 2021
ktaniguchi@medicinehatnews.com@@kellentaniguchi The 2021 Olympic Games in Tokyo are going to look a lot different this year, but Sage Watson still has her sights set on the podium. “My goal is to make the final of the 400 (metre) hurdles and hopefully to go for a medal in there,” said Watson. “Then for our 4×4 women’s ... Read More »
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