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Twinkle Tour is back
By Medicine Hat News on November 26th, 2021
The Medicine Hat News is putting together another Twinkle Tour map and is searching for suggestions. If your home decorations can compete with the Griswold family and you’d like to be included as a stop on on this year’s Twinkle Tour map, please email letters@medicinehatnews.com with your address and a photo. The Twinkle Tour map ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Rural vaccine rates a concern for AHS
By KENDALL KING, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter on November 26th, 2021
kking@medicinehatnews.com Southern Alberta is seeing disproportionate rates of vaccination in rural and urban centres. Few rural counties or municipal districts surrounding Medicine Hat have first-dose vaccination rates higher than 60%, and some have yet to reach 50%. Whereas, Medicine Hat and Lethbridge both report more than 70% of total population with at least one shot, ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Craft Christmas sale Dec. 4 at Medicine Hat Cultural Centre
By Medicine Hat News on November 26th, 2021
The Cloth, Colour and Clay Christmas Sale, a craft market put on by the Medicine Hat Cultural Centre’s arts club, fibre arts club and pottery club, will be held Dec. 4, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. There will be a variety of products available at the sale including handmade knits, weaving, crotchet, paintings and pottery. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Animal Food Bank collecting to aid flood-ravaged B.C. pet owners
By KENDALL KING, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter on November 26th, 2021
kking@medicinehatnews.com The Animal Food Bank, a non-profit organization founded by Medicine Hat resident Nicole Frey, is working to provide food to pets in need, including those affected by flooding in British Columbia. Frey, who is originally from Kelowna but moved to Medicine Hat this summer, launched AFB in 2019. “Having volunteered and fostered dogs for ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Former CP conductor looking for boulder heroes
By JAMES TUBB on November 26th, 2021
jtubb@medicinehatnews.com@ReporterTubb Anyone move any boulders in the ’70s? John Cowan, a former CP conductor, has written a book about his years working on trains and is looking for a dozen passengers who were part of his favourite story. Those passengers helped move a boulder off of a CP track in Kicking Horse Canyon in B.C. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Christmas tree cutting available at Cypress Hills
By Medicine Hat News on November 25th, 2021
Alberta Parks will once again be issuing permits allowing individuals to cut their own Christmas tree in one of three provincial parks. Permit applications are available online for Cypress Hills Provincial Park, Castle Provincial Park or Castle Wildland Provincial Park. Applications can also be submitted at the Cypress Hills visitor centre or local and provincial ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Local therapeutic nutritionist featured in pharmacy mag
By KENDALL KING, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter on November 25th, 2021
kking@medicinehatnews.com Melissa Hozack, president and CEO of TruMe Whole Health and co-owner of Redcliff Pharmasave, is featured on the November-December issue of Pharmacy Practise + Business. Hozack, a pharmacist by trade, has been working in the field of therapeutic nutrition for the past nine years. She first began researching the topic when she embarked on ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Cargill employees in High River vote on proposed deal, now await results
By MEDICINE HAT NEWS on November 25th, 2021
https://www.medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews Workers, ranchers and grocery shoppers are awaiting results of a contract vote this week that could avoid a strike at one of the nation’s largest slaughterhouses. More than 2,000 workers at the Cargill meat processing plant in High River cast ballots Tuesday and Wednesday on what the company described as a new offer to ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!New permit system for wide loads in Cypress
By Medicine Hat News on November 25th, 2021
A new permitting system for over-dimensional loads travelling on Township Road 120 to bypass Medicine Hat is now in place, according to a release by Cypress County. Last spring, county council asked administrators for options to control heavy and wide loads traversing the route that connects highways 1 and 3 on a route south of ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Two student science fair projects to be published
By KENDALL KING, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter on November 25th, 2021
kking@medicinehatnews.com Research belonging to two local students is being published in the Canadian Science Fair Journal. Daphne Thompson, a Grade 12 student at Eagle Butte High School, focused her project on the different types of fungi found in snow, while Victoria Rooks, a Grade 9 student at Senator Gershaw School, investigated the impact earthworm diets ... Read More »
1 responseAnnual Suffield elk hunt off to a good start
By Justin Seward Southern Alberta Newspapers on November 25th, 2021
The annual elk management hunt is well underway at CFB Suffield and is off to a great start. The hunt is meant to lessen the damage for agriculture producers and to preserve the long-term sustainability of the grassland at the base. “It’s been really (good),” said Master Bombardier Kingsley Mann. “When soldiers come in and ... Read More »
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