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Operation Snowball – a feat for Suffield
By Special to the News Stephen Murray on July 17th, 2024
@MedicineHatNews The Canadian Blast Program at the Suffield Experimental Station (SES) was approved in early 1957. Henry Watson, Head of the Physics and Meteorological Section, was tasked with developing the program and hired four young scientists. John Dewey and Trevor Groves concentrated on research in air-blast phenomena, while Gareth Jones’s major interest was seismic effects, craters ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Summer StoryWalk returns to Police Point Park
By ANNA SMITH Local Journalism Initiative on July 17th, 2024
asmith@medicinehatnews.com In collaboration with the Medicine Hat Public Library, the Medicine Hat Interpretive Centre are offering the annual Summer StoryWalk. This year’s selected story is “The Darkest Dark” by Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield, which will be available for viewing in Police Point Park from July 16 to Aug. 31. Those who complete the StoryWalk can ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Man pleads guilty to building homemade pipe bombs
By Medicine Hat News on July 17th, 2024
@MedicineHatNews A man arrested after two homemade pipe bombs were found in the city pleaded guilty to building them, but says they were likely stolen and he doesn’t know how they arrived beneath a mailbox in Crescent Heights and under a vehicle in a mobile home park. James Jerard McNulty, 41, was arrested in April ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Air show returns to the skies above the airport
By ANNA SMITH Local Journalism Initiative on July 17th, 2024
asmith@medicinehatnews.com The Family, Fun and Flight Airshow is slated to take to the skies right before stampede week, and invites residents to get to know their airport community. Made possible by a significant grant from the City of Medicine Hat Community Vibrancy Program, as well as community business partners, the event will feature both displays ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Council looks to trim fat for upcoming budget
By COLLIN GALLANT on July 17th, 2024
cgallant@medicinehatnews.com@CollinGallant City budget talks stalled on Monday as council members discussed how best to pare down a proposed tax hike in 2025 and 2026 while determining what should remain or be cut from a list of new spending items. Two recent committee of the whole meetings saw council members sit for hours as staffers went ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Spies, Smoke and tons of TNT:Suffield’s role in Cold War research remembered 60 years later
By COLLIN GALLANT on July 17th, 2024
cgallant@medicinehatnews.com@CollinGallant Sixty years ago today, the order was given, and 500 tons of dynamite was touched off on the prairie northwest of Medicine Hat. “‘Twas Roses all the way,” read the top headline on the Medicine Hat News. “Tremendously successful,” concluded long-time Suffield Research Station chief Arch Pennie at a press briefing on Operation Snowball ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!City announces new permanent City Clerk hire
By Collin Gallant on July 16th, 2024
@@CollinGallant Medicine Hat will have a new city clerk – it’s fourth in three years – in the fall, when current Cypress County top administrator, Tarolyn Aaserud, is expected to take over the city position. After early media reports Monday, city staff confirmed to the News in the afternoon that Aaserud was set to be ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Redcliff water advisory to last for days
By ANNA SMITH Local Journalism Initiative on July 16th, 2024
asmith@medicinehatnews.com The Town of Redcliff remains under the boil water advisory put into place on Sunday, and is expected to for the majority of the week. The town released that the Water Treatment Plant experienced a system failure, when their uninterrupted power supply was disrupted. This disruption resulted in a loss of distribution pressure. While ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Budget stalls on calls for cuts
By COLLIN GALLANT on July 16th, 2024
cgallant@medicinehatnews.com@CollinGallant City council debated earmarking $100,000 in a proposed economic development incentive program in next year’s budget to help downtown business owners clean up graffiti or criminal damage, but sent the item back to staff until later in the budget process. It returns to public services committee, where Public Services Chair, Coun. Ramona Robins, suggested ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Correction: Lethbridge Memorial Cup bid still requires final approval
By Medicine Hat News on July 16th, 2024
@MedicineHatNews A proposed $1.25-million grant that the City of Lethbridge would provide to a hosting bid for the 2026 Memorial Cup Tournament still requires final approval by that city’s council. An incorrect impression may have been made by reading a related article in the July 13 edition of the News. The bid and potential level ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Mobile breast cancer screening to come to Oyen’s Big Country Hospital
By ANNA SMITH Local Journalism Initiative on July 16th, 2024
asmith@medicinehatnews.com Alberta Health Services’ mobile mammogram service will be in Oyen later this month. The trailer will be at the Big Country Hospital from July 22-25, and services will be available for women aged 45 to 74 seeking a mammogram, or an x-ray of the breast in order to find any potential breast cancer early, ... Read More »
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