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COVID response to cost Brooks $900K
By Medicine Hat News on June 19th, 2020
Responding to the coronavirus pandemic and lockdown will cost the City of Brooks almost $900,000 in lost revenue, extra costs and financial aid measures, local administrators stated this week. The city of 15,000 residents an hour west of Medicine Hat was the centre of one of Alberta’s largest outbreaks of COVID-19. Once additional expenses, lost ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Medicine Hat shouldn’t be in power business,CTF says
By COLLIN GALLANT on June 19th, 2020
cgallant@medicinehatnews.com@CollinGallant It shouldn’t matter that Medicine Hat’s public utilities are potentially skewing financial comparisons, according to a lobby group critical of government spending, because Medicine Hat should not be in the utility business. This week the Canadian Taxpayers Federation released analysis comparison stating Medicine Hat spent far more than any other city in the province ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Bad timing delayed it but new restaurant finally hosting grand-opening celebration
By MO CRANKER on June 19th, 2020
mcranker@medicinehatnews.com@mocranker While it’s no fault of their own, David and Lorelle Halderman may have picked the worst possible time to open a new restaurant. That hasn’t stopped the couple’s comfort-food joint, Baba Cluck, from becoming quite popular in southeastern Alberta. After a few months of ups and downs during the COVID-19 pandemic, the pair will ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Hat man arrested after knife is pulled, say cops
By Collin Gallant on June 18th, 2020
Medicine Hat News Police say they arrested a man on Thursday morning after he pulled out a knife while officers were investigating a vehicle complaint. Medicine Hat police officers were called to the 1000 Block of Balmoral Street at about 6 a.m. on a report that a 20-year-old man had taken a vehicle without the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!River Heights students donate to HALO with food wrap proceeds
By MO CRANKER on June 18th, 2020
mcranker@medicinehatnews.com@mocranker Grade 4 students at River Heights Elementary School got together Wednesday to sell eco-friendly food wraps in support of HALO. Two classes of the students work together every year to sell their Eco Bee Kind Food Wraps. This year the teachers and students in charge of the student-run business decided HALO would be a ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Legion makes best of tough situation during pandemic
By MO CRANKER on June 18th, 2020
mcranker@medicinehatnews.com@mocranker The Redcliff Legion is making the best of the forced closure during the COVID-19 pandemic. The nearly 100-year-old institution made a call out to volunteers this month to help get new paint, floors, ceiling panels and other renovations set up at the Legion in preparation of a July 9 opening day. “It’s sad that ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Indigenous Peoples Day celebration adapts with photo contest
By Medicine Hat News on June 18th, 2020
Local organizers of National Indigenous Peoples Day say calls to physically isolate during the COVID-19 pandemic will see observance altered, but also expanded with a photo contest and engagement at eight sites of significance in Medicine Hat. The annual day is typically celebrated with programming and a high-profile village and pow wow in the North ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!PST not on city’s radar just yet
By COLLIN GALLANT on June 18th, 2020
cgallant@medicinehatnews.com@CollinGallant Medicine Hat’s mayor is giving the cold shoulder to a proposal that a one per cent provincial sales tax be created to provide stable cash source to cities for infrastructure spending as the provincial government grapples with deficit spending. City of Lethbridge council voted Monday to get the issue on the fall agenda of ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Cypress County flood: 10 years later
By GILLIAN SLADE on June 18th, 2020
gslade@medicinehatnews.com@MHNGillianSlade A decade ago an unexpected flood ripped through Cypress County starting in the early hours of the morning in Cypress Hills on June 18, 2010. Creeks flooded, washing out bridges, and people fled their homes with some having to be rescued. Paul Von Huene and his wife Twyla, ranchers in Cypress Hills, remember the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Toy Run alters usual plans to keep its streak alive
By MO CRANKER on June 18th, 2020
mcranker@medicinehatnews.com@mocranker The annual Toy Run in support of the Medicine Hat News Santa Claus Fund has not been cancelled this year. It will be the 34th consecutive year of the event, which will be running quite a bit differently this fall. “We’re encouraging people to go out and do their own run this year with ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Hat, Brooks still at one case
By Ryan McCracken on June 17th, 2020
Forty-eight new cases of COVID-19 were reported in Alberta Wednesday — 13 more than Tuesday — bringing the number of active cases in the province to 486. Medicine Hat and Brooks both remain at one active case of the virus, while Cypress County and the County of Newell have no active cases. Lethbridge is up to ... Read More »
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