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Dubeau, Cunningham recommended for Medicine Hat Sports Wall of Fame
Medicine Hat News Former figure skater Gay Dubeau and recently retired hockey player Jenna Cunningham have been recognized for their respective impacts on the Gas City sports community with a pair of nominations to the Medicine Hat Sports Wall of Fame. The Urban Environment and Recreation Advisory Board recommended that city council approve the induction ... Read More »
UPDATED: Proposed wind farm near Whitla a green energy auction winner
cgallant@medicinehatnews.com @CollinGallant Southeastern Alberta will get a windfarm and Alberta is getting a record low price for wind energy as the results of a major green energy auction were announced on Wednesday. The proposed Whitla Wind Farm, a project of Edmonton-based Capital power, won a 20-year supply contract for its near 200-megawatt facility planned for ... Read More »
December 13, 2017
1934 ~ ELSIE KELLEY ~ 2017 Elsie Kelley of Medicine Hat, beloved wife of the late Elmer Kelley, passed away surrounded by family and the caring staff at Riverview Care Centre on Thursday, December 7th, 2017 at the age of 83 years. Funeral service was held yesterday at SAAMIS MEMORIAL FUNERAL CHAPEL. In lieu of ... Read More »
Labour and delivery moves to new hospital wing
gslade@medicinehatnews.com @MHNGillianSlade After years of planning and anticipation it was move-in day Tuesday for the labour and delivery department in the new ambulatory wing of Medicine Hat Regional Hospital. “Very excited, very impressed, it’s a lovely space,” said department manager and RN Leslie Pocsik. “I’m very happy for our patients. I think that they ... Read More »
Charges laid 2 years after worker death
cgallant@medicinehatnews.com @CollinGallant Two years after a fatal workplace accident in Medicine Hat, a national contractor has been charged with five counts of failing to provide a safe work plan and environment. Alberta’s ministry of labour confirms Tuesday that Aluma Systems has been now served with proper notice that Occupational Health and Safety investigators have laid ... Read More »
Man gets time served for charges involving stolen property incident
prevell@medicinehatnews.com @MHNprevell It was a sentence of time served Tuesday for a man being held in custody since September after being arrested on stolen property charges. Travis Seitz, 26, entered guilty pleas to possession of stolen property over $5,000, possessing of stolen property under $5,000, and four counts of breaching his release conditions, with Crown ... Read More »
Sentencing delayed for man who kidnapped, assaulted cab driver
prevell@medicinehatnews.com @MHNprevell A switch in defence counsel has pushed sentencing back into the new year for a man who pled guilty to the kidnapping, sexual assault and robbery of a cab driver in November 2016. Shawn Thomas Baldhead was originally set to be sentenced Tuesday after entering guilty pleas in August to numerous charges stemming ... Read More »
PRSD hears ups and downs of Mennonite education program
tkalinowski@medicinehatnews.com @MHNTimKal The Prairie Rose School Division board of trustees got a strong insight into the unique challenges facing local Mennonite education at Tuesday’s public meeting. Students and staff members from Redcliff Mennonite Alternative Outreach Program came by for a visit. After presentations from the students, RMAP principal Tracy Franks talked about some issues facing ... Read More »
PRSD inclusion director reports on the division’s special needs stats
Medicine Hat News Prairie Rose School Division director of inclusion Camille Quinton presented her yearly report on special needs programs and students in PRSD at Tuesday’s public meeting in Dunmore. According to statistics presented by Quinton, the division largely falls in line with the averages of other divisions across the province, with about two per ... Read More »
An unbelievable list of ‘perpetrators’
I grew up, from birth to the age of 14, during a more or less “warring” time, including the closing years of the Second World War. The steamroller of the Soviet advance on Berlin caused many traumatic memories, even for a young kid like me. Those memories would be the stuff of much longer ‘stories ... Read More »
Complex world demands an intelligent creator
Does the fossil record support evolution? Fact 1. All life in the fossil record appears abruptly and fully formed, showing no intermediate fossils revealing change. Fact 2. Fossils of dinosaurs with soft tissue prove they are not millions of years old but fit into the Biblical young Earth. Fact 3. Darwin himself was puzzled by ... Read More »
