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City needs to ramp up effort to shrink its budget shortfall
By COLLIN GALLANT on October 14th, 2020
Medicine Hat will need to speed up its plan to erase a structural deficit in the municipal budget by 2027, city hall finance officials have told a council committee. That is due to new financial challenges posed by the pandemic, affecting revenue and service delivery, provincial and global recession, and the expectation of another rough ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Spooky season is here: Redcliff Youth Centre opening haunted house this week
By MO CRANKER on October 13th, 2020
Spooky season is quickly approaching and the Redcliff Youth Centre will be taking part. The organization, with the help of a number of sponsors and community members, has created a haunted house in an old greenhouse building. “We’re calling it Glass House Haunting and it is a fundraiser for the Redcliff Youth Centre,” executive director ... Read More »
1 responseRecovery centre wait times vary
By GILLIAN SLADE on October 13th, 2020
gslade@medicinehatnews.com@MHNGillianSlade Someone wanting to detox at the Medicine Hat Recovery Centre will wait about 10 days, and to get into the residential treatment program can take six to eight weeks, says Alberta Health Services. “However, both programs are triage based, meaning those times can vary based on a client’s needs. Pregnant women in particular are ... Read More »
1 responseDevelopment fees should remain the same until review is completed
By Medicine Hat News on October 10th, 2020
Development fees in Medicine Hat will likely stand pat until the end of 2021 as administrators conduct a review of off-site levies. The fees are charged to new developments to recover the city’s cost extending new roads and water, sewer and storm sewer lines to new communities. They were last overhauled in 2012, but are ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!City Notebook: Hard to be thankful but well worth a try
By COLLIN GALLANT on October 10th, 2020
cgallant@medicinehatnews.com@CollinGallant It’s the time of year to think about for what we are thankful, which in 2020 sounds like a bit of a bad joke. But the question is not only a good exercise, it’s good practice. To say there have been trying times this year is as much an understatement as saying the pandemic ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Unemployment numbers hold steady in Alberta’s southeast
By COLLIN GALLANT on October 10th, 2020
cgallant@medicinehatnews.com@CollinGallant The southeast region’s unemployment rate held steady in September and below the Alberta jobless rate that also remained steady, though more people returned to work according to figures released on Friday. In the Medicine Hat-Lethbridge region, the rate remained at 8.6 per cent, where it sat in August, though a full point higher than ... Read More »
1 response$815M in upgrades coming to SA irrigation districts
By COLLIN GALLANT on October 10th, 2020
cgallant@medicinehatnews.com@CollinGallant Alberta and Ottawa’s infrastructure bank say they are making a “generational investment” to expand cropland in southern Alberta’s irrigation districts, and officials say more is still to come. Districts will undertake more than $815 million worth of capital projects, including the creation of four off-stream reservoirs, thanks to a partnership that states 200,000 irrigated ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Virtual concert lineup put together for seniors’ residences
By GILLIAN SLADE on October 10th, 2020
gslade@medicinehatnews.com@MHNGillianSlade A recreation co-ordinator at a seniors’ residence says what residents have missed most during the pandemic is the music concerts often provided by local artists and volunteers. Kay Guest, recreation co-ordinator for Meadow Ridge Seniors Village, decided to find a solution and contacted Sakamoto Agency about organizing virtual entertainment. Sakamoto Agency decided to offer ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!One-man movie focuses on personal growth
By MO CRANKER on October 10th, 2020
mcranker@medicinehatnews.com@mocranker Local singer, songwriter and producer Robert Larrabee has spent his time cooped up during the COVID-19 crisis making a full-length film. The movie, ‘That’s Bob,’ features a number of different story lines and characters, all of which are portrayed by Larrabee. “This whole COVID-19 thing started in February and all of a sudden, all ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Assisted dying hurdles unfair, doctor says
By GILLIAN SLADE on October 10th, 2020
gslade@medicinehatnews.com@MHNGillianSlade A local physician is raising concerns about Medicine Hat’s only hospice refusing to allow medical assistance in dying to take place in the facility. Dr. Lena Derie-Gillespie, local family physician with additional skills in anesthesia who is an assessor and a provider for MAID, says the hospice’s requirement that a patient be moved out ... Read More »
6 responsesProvince’s TIER program contributing about $13M for Taber spillway project
By COLLIN GALLANT on October 9th, 2020
cgallant@medicinehatnews.com@CollinGallant New money for flood management projects will arrive in southern Alberta this year via the province’s carbon levy on large emitters, but the funding scheme for a spillway near Taber is still up in the air. Provincial Environment Minister Jason Nixon announced a restart to the Alberta Community Resiliency Program on Thursday morning in ... Read More »
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