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One year ago: First cases of virus were creeping into the South zone
By Gillian Slade Southern Alberta Newspapers on March 19th, 2021
One year ago, the first COVID death was reported in Alberta and the first cases were announced in the South zone. Below is a chronological order of events as they unfolded that week. March 16, 2020 – Schools and daycares were closed. – Dr. Deena Hinshaw, Alberta’s chief medical officer of health, revealed that two ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Adopt national plastics program, Varga says
By COLLIN GALLANT on March 19th, 2021
cgallant@medicinehatnews.com@CollinGallant A Medicine Hat city councillor is renewing his support for a program to collect fees from large paper and plastic packaging companies to potentially cut local recycling fees. Two years ago Brian Varga secured unanimous support from local council to push the province to enrol in a nationwide “extended producer liability” system. That would ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Kenney names Hat as ‘hub’ prospect for digital wave
By COLLIN GALLANT on March 18th, 2021
cgallant@medicinehatnews.com@CollinGallant Rural Alberta – and specifically Medicine Hat and Lethbridge – have a place in the digital economy, Premier Jason Kenney told a conference of county leaders on Wednesday, citing southern Alberta’s two mid-sized centres as potential “hubs” of interest to expanding digital companies. The comments came near the end of speech to the Rural ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!New principals coming to both public high schools
By KELLEN TANIGUCHI on March 18th, 2021
ktaniguchi@medicinehatnews.com@@kellentaniguchi Medicine Hat High School and Crescent Heights High School will both be under new leadership this July. Dean Brown, vice principal at Hat High, is taking over for Boris Grisonich who is retiring after 32 years at the school – 15 as principal. “Boris has worked so hard with the modernization of building the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Laptop contents get spotlight at Hoefman trial
By Alex McCuaig Special to the News on March 18th, 2021
A Medicine Hat police computer specialist, during testimony Wednesday, went through a long list of items found on a laptop seized from the home of the accused in a 2017 murder and extortion. Robert Hoefman, 59, is accused of the first-degree murder of James Satre in October 2017 as part of a plot to extort ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Local hero honoured for efforts to save injured teen
By COLLIN GALLANT on March 18th, 2021
cgallant@medicinehatnews.com@CollinGallant A Medicine Hat man who came to the aid of a cyclist with a broken neck near Altawana Drive last fall was called a local hero Wednesday. Stephen O’Brien was returning home from work last October when he was flagged down by a teenager seeking help for his badly injured brother. He quickly called ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!As usual, local golf season into the swing earlier than most
By KELLEN TANIGUCHI on March 18th, 2021
ktaniguchi@medicinehatnews.com@@kellentaniguchi Golfers are already hacking up the fairways and yelling ‘fore’ at one Medicine Hat golf course, while the rest prepare to open for the 2021 season. Paradise Valley Golf Course, the city’s par-3 club, has been open to the public since March 6. “We’re actually the first golf course to open in Alberta, so ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Police testimony details items on seized computer
By medicinehatnews on March 17th, 2021
A Medicine Hat police computer specialist went through a long list of items found on a computer seized from the home of the accused in a 2017 murder and extortion during testimony Wednesday. Robert Hoefman, 59, is accused of the first-degree murder of James Satre in October 2017 as part of a plot to extort ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Alberta Health says family gatherings helped to spike COVID cases
By Gillian Slade Alberta Newspaper Group on March 17th, 2021
Alberta Health has identified family gatherings as a significant factor in the high rate of COVID cases in the province, but it is not clear whether Christmas contributed. In one week, March 8-14, the number of active cases in Lethbridge increased by more than 160. There have been outbreaks in seniors’ residences this year contributing ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Yuill says Rogers, Shaw deal an ‘obvious situation’
By COLLIN GALLANT on March 17th, 2021
cgallant@medicinehatnews.com@CollinGallant Bill Yuill is no longer on the board of the Shaw Communications, which announced a blockbuster deal Monday to be acquired by Rogers, but as a major shareholder he “absolutely” backs the proposed sale. “The two companies have been talking for sometime about what’s an obvious situation,” Yuill told the News on Monday. The ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Defence questions police technique at Hoefman trial
By Alex McCuaig Special to the News on March 17th, 2021
A Medicine Hat court heard Tuesday how a city police officer took weeks to reassemble a shredded letter recovered at the home of a man accused of a 2017 first-degree murder. Robert Hoefman, 59, is accused of the homicide of James Satre on Oct. 10, 2017 as part of an extortion scheme to garner $1 ... Read More »
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