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Clubs Calendar Sept. 4-10
Note: Some listings may be cancelled due to the Labour Day long weekend. Check with the club. MONDAY — Do you have a drinking problem? Alcoholics Anonymous meetings are held seven days a week in Medicine Hat. For times and locations, call 403-527-2065. — Moms’ Walking Group, 9:30 to 10:30 a.m., meet in Mall Food ... Read More »
Memory Lane roping competition kicks off with tribute to fallen cowboys
Medicine Hat News One of the most important events on the cowboy calendar in southeastern Alberta is happening this weekend at the Medicine Hat Exhibition and Stampede grounds. The annual Memory Lane team roping competition goes Saturday and Sunday, with the spectacular ‘grand entry’ officially kicking things off at 12 noon today. The event is ... Read More »
Science Smarts: ‘Wow’ the students
Welcome back to school all educators and students. Where did the summer go? I can hardly believe that the countdown to the first day of school is here; two more sleeps. There are going to be a few groggy eyes and tired bodies on the buses Tuesday morning, of that I am sure. This week, ... Read More »
Bail denied for one accused of NYE homicide
Medicine Hat News A bail application was denied for a man charged with second-degree murder following a New Year’s Eve homicide in Medicine Hat. Justice Dallas Miller presented his decision Friday concerning the release of Leonard Robert Terence Beaulieu Friday at the Court of Queen’s Bench in Medicine Hat. A publication ban prevents the reporting ... Read More »
Holiday Monday walk-in hours
The News has been able to determine that the following medical walk-in-clinics will be open on Monday – Labour Day. Carry Drive Walk-In Clinic, 137-116 Carry Drive S.E., 403-502-8926, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Crescent Heights Family Medicine, 49-8th Street N.W., 403-526-7422, from 9 a.m. to noon and Jacaranda, Medicine Hat Mall, 11 a.m. ... Read More »
Day Breaker festival today at Kin Coulee Park
Medicine Hat News If you’re not heading out of town this weekend you might want to check out Day Breaker 2017 The Day Breaker Arts & Music Festival goes from 1-9 p.m. on Saturday in Kin Coulee Park. Bands from Medicine Hat and southern Alberta will perform, as well as hip hop artists, DJs and ... Read More »
Local Chamber of Commerce sees changes, including new president
cgallant@medicinehatnews.com @CollinGallant The new president of the Medicine Hat Chamber of Commerce says that he sees planned increases to minimum wage as the biggest challenge local businesses will face in the year ahead. Perry Deering said higher wages for lower paid workers will have an escalator effect, and business will be forced to get creative ... Read More »
No paper Monday
Medicine Hat News Due to the Labour Day holiday, the Medicine Hat News will not publish a newspaper on Monday, Sept. 4. The newspaper’s offices will also be closed that day. Publication will resume on Tuesday... Read More »
Habits are shifting for a generation smitten with smartphones
CNW TORONTO Millennials are quickly surpassing the baby boomers as the largest generation (they are already the largest population in the workforce) and weknow that smartphones and data are an important part of work and play in their day-to-day. In the age of mobile first, social norms are shifting to accommodate the ever-present cell phone ... Read More »
Heritage in the Hat: Erasing history
Calls for statues of historical figures to be removed have been increasing, including Confederate generals, Lord Cornwallis and most recently Sir John A. Macdonald. We should be cautious, for this amounts to erasing history, albeit not on the scale of the Taliban removing cliff size images of Buddha or ISIS demolishing historic Roman structures. In ... Read More »
By the Way: Finding your way into the future
You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to, like Daniel, read the signs of the times. It may not be enigmatic words scrawled on the wall, but a glance at most contemporary congregations suggests that it is time for end-of-life care. Attendance has dropped since the glory days of packed pews in the 1960s. ... Read More »
