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City seeking support for 24-hour shelter
By COLLIN GALLANT on April 20th, 2021
cgallant@medicinehatnews.com@CollinGallant City hall will attempt to co-ordinate support to build a permanent 24-hour shelter in Medicine Hat and broadly address problems in the city centre, even as locating a new temporary shelter is being disputed. The move would involve existing social service agencies, which are currently fighting to open a temporary daylight shelter on N. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Local officials remain anti-carbon tax
By COLLIN GALLANT on April 19th, 2021
cgallant@medicinehatnews.com@CollinGallant Regional politicians are still hopeful they can scrap the carbon tax despite a recent defeat from the Supreme Court and the federal Conservative Party’s adoption of a similar carbon price plan. Federal party leader Erin O’Toole announced his environmental plan to reviews ranging from cool from some in his own party to verging on ... Read More »
1 responseMcCoy High School hoping for an in-person grad, streamed live to loved ones
By KELLEN TANIGUCHI on April 19th, 2021
ktaniguchi@medicinehatnews.com@@kellentaniguchi Monsignor McCoy High School has a plan in place for 2021 grads to get together for a mass and a cap and gown ceremony at Holy Family Parish, which would be livestreamed for family and members of the community. “This group of students haven’t been together all as one since the beginning of their ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!City Notebook: Here we go again, again – stay safe out there
By COLLIN GALLANT on April 19th, 2021
cgallant@medicinehatnews.com@CollinGallant Things are getting bad out there, again. Medicine Hat is over 100 COVID cases again, a level that put this city on high alert before Christmas and should again. The national news is focused on Ontario, which is seeing a serious legitimate lockdown compared to the measures in Alberta that everyone is complaining are ... Read More »
1 responseHighway interchange project will commence on Monday
By Medicine Hat News on April 19th, 2021
Work to redesign the interchange of Highways 1 and 3 in southwest Medicine Hat will get underway Monday and last through May, the city announced Thursday on behalf of Alberta Transportation. Work will also change intersections at First Street (Powerhouse Road), Gershaw Drive at Eighth Ave. (near Bombford Cres.) and the connection of Highway 3 ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Donation allows YMCA to cut day-camp costs
By KELLEN TANIGUCHI on April 19th, 2021
ktaniguchi@medicinehatnews.com@@kellentaniguchi The YMCA of Medicine Hat was presented with two cheques totalling $31,000 on Friday morning to help with the affordability of its summer day camp program. The United Way of South Eastern Alberta awarded the YMCA with $30,000, which will cut day camp fees in half for children this summer. Families will pay $100 ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Duo uses COVID time to write Final Fantasy-themed album
By KELLEN TANIGUCHI on April 19th, 2021
ktaniguchi@medicinehatnews.com@@kellentaniguchi A local Medicine Hat duo released their first extended play record, The Pilgrimage, earlier this month with four songs drawing inspiration from one of their favourite childhood video games – Final Fantasy X. Nathanael Bohnet and Re Mayer of No Hope For The Lost were previously in the band Deadlights, but after the early ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Redcliff Bakery opens its third location, second in the Hat
By Medicine Hat News on April 19th, 2021
The ribbon is snipped on a third location of the rapidly expanding Redcliff Bakery. The storefront located on the 900 block of 16th Street in the Southwest Industrial Area was opened to the public on Friday morning following a ceremony with local dignitaries and owners Melissa and Joel Graber. It’s been held up as a ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Online workshops available to help manage chronic conditions
By KELLEN TANIGUCHI on April 16th, 2021
ktaniguchi@medicinehatnews.com@@kellentaniguchi The Alberta Healthy Living Program is offering a free chronic disease management program and other workshops in the South zone via Zoom to help participants manage their chronic conditions. Some chronic conditions include mental health, arthritis, cancer, diabetes and more – all of which can be discussed during the six-week Chronic Disease Self-Management workshops, ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Water security in Special Areas and near Acadia Valley getting a look
By COLLIN GALLANT on April 16th, 2021
cgallant@medicinehatnews.com@CollinGallant Months after officials promised a major irrigation agreement in southern Alberta might only be a first step, new work will study water security in Special Areas and near Acadia Valley. The municipality north of Cypress County and Medicine Hat on the Red Deer River has been studying the formation of a new irrigation district ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Redcliff Victim Service Unit needs community support
By KELLEN TANIGUCHI on April 16th, 2021
ktaniguchi@medicinehatnews.com@@kellentaniguchi The Redcliff Victim Service Unit is a non-profit program that receives referrals from RCMP to support victims of crime either at the scene or throughout the court process, says the program’s manager Amy Hollingsworth. The program serves Cypress County and the County of Forty Mile, including the communities of Redcliff, Bow Island and other ... Read More »
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