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Albertans ‘stand with survivors’ on Holocaust Remembrance Day
By JEREMY APPEL on January 28th, 2020
jappel@medicinehatnews.com@MHNJeremyAppel Monday marked international Holocaust Remembrance Day, which took on a special significance this year as the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp’s 75th anniversary. Dina Jubrak, an active member of the Hat’s small Jewish community, says the lessons of the Holocaust ought to still resonate today so that we don’t fall into complacency. “What ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!International Petroleum Company expanding into southwest Alberta
By Medicine Hat News on January 28th, 2020
Suffield block oil and gas producer International Petroleum Company is expanding to southwest Alberta. The Swedish-based global producer is moving to acquire Granite Oil, it announced on Jan. 20, making it the company’s third purchase in the Alberta oilpatch in three years. A release from IPC states adding Granite’s operations in Warner and Cardston counties ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Enactus MHC receives $11,500 in donations
By Medicine Hat News on January 28th, 2020
Enactus Medicine Hat College has received $11,500 in donations from local and national sources, which will help develop new initiatives and strengthen existing ones. A $5,000 contribution from RBC Foundation and Community Foundations Canada will go toward a new project researching declining bee populations, dubbed “Project To-Bee-Continued.” Another new endeavour, the Square Roots Token Program, ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Covenant continues process of redeveloping old school
By GILLIAN SLADE on January 28th, 2020
gslade@medicinehatnews.com@MHNGillianSlade Covenant Health’s plans for redeveloping the now vacant Riverside School is progressing, including aspects of its historical significance. “We continue to collaborate with the Heritage Resources Committee to review historic documents and historical elements that may be of significance to the community,” said president Derrick Bernardo. “A feasibility study is underway and visioning sessions ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!City ceases free sewer services
By COLLIN GALLANT on January 28th, 2020
cgallant@medicinehatnews.com@CollinGallant The city’s utility department will stop offering to scope home sewer lines or perennially grind out roots at no charge this spring, the department announced Monday. For decades that has been a staple service offered by the municipal sewer department, particular to older homeowners in mature, treed neighbourhoods where it was considered good practise ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Saskatchewan sets natural gas use record during week-long cold spell
By Medicine Hat News on January 28th, 2020
Saskatchewan set new records for the use of natural gas in the province in mid-January as a week-long cold snap settled on the province, the Crown utility company reports. Temperatures that dipped to minus-50C accounting for windchill and a new major gas-fuelled power plant in the province’s southwest are considered the reasons why. The recently ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Events Calendar Jan. 27-Feb. 2, 2019
By Medicine Hat News on January 27th, 2020
Jan. 27 – Colouring in the Afternoon, MH Public Library, 1:30-3:30 p.m. Jan. 27 – Canadian Aviation Historical Society presents Sterling Cripps presenting on Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems, Patterson Armoury, 7-9 p.m. Jan. 27 – Healthy Tax Habits for the News Year,” MH Public Library, 7-9 p.m. Jan. 27 – Travelogue: Jordan, MH Public Library, ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Balancing needs of oil industry and municipalities is no easy task: Turnbull
By COLLIN GALLANT on January 25th, 2020
cgallant@medicinehatnews.com@CollinGallant After a wild week of debate about how to stabilize the struggling oilpatch without harming municipalities, a top official with the province’s only municipally owned petroleum producer says work needs to be done. Phil Turnbull is chair the city of Medicine Hat’s energy committee. It steers the gas exploration and production company that is ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Local man charged in drug seizure that came out of missing persons case
By Medicine Hat News on January 25th, 2020
A Medicine Hat man is charged following a substantial drug seizure in Taber this month after police in that town investigated a missing persons report from city police. The Taber Police Service announced on Jan. 17 that it confiscated 74 grams of cocaine, some cannabis and one gram of carfentanil during a vehicle stop stemming ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Telephone town hall meeting Tuesday with Travis Toews
By Medicine Hat News on January 25th, 2020
Albertans are invited to participate in a “telephone town hall meeting”with Travis Toews, minister of finance, regarding the provincial budget. People south of Red Deer are invited to participate on Tuesday from 6:30-8 p.m. The format is an opportunity for the government to speak directly to Albertans and listen to their priorities, states a press ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!City Notebook: No hurry for Harry
By COLLIN GALLANT on January 25th, 2020
cgallant@medicinehatnews.com@CollinGallant The whole world is wild about Harry, but not, it appears in Medicine Hat. A more imaginative town might extend an invitation to the prince who is in the middle of a very public debate about how he wants a more private life. It’s not that strange an idea. Not so many years ago ... Read More »
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