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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Apr 06, 2006
Page
1
A garbled forecast notes Monday and Tuesday with mainly cloudy skies and cooler highs around 13 degrees and lows near 3. It mentions possible showers and a UV index warning, though lines are incomplete and letters are jumbled.
On April 6 1748 news notes Pompeii ruins were found and George Frideric Handel gave his last public performance conducting The Messiah before dying eight days later. The entry notes Handel as a major baroque master influencing composers for a century.
A white 1986 Ford Ranger parked overnight March 30 in the Matrix C and P parking area was vandalized and a Sony stereo stolen. Interior damage occurred. Brooks RCMP and CrimeStoppers seek information.
Redcliff RCMP conducting an Alberta Check Stop at Broadway Avenue and Mitchell Street in Redcliff early April 4 stopped a vehicle that allegedly tried to flee. Officers smelled marijuana and a search found a small amount. Shannon Melissa Duke, 26, of Saskatoon, charged with possession under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act and set to appear May 9 in Medicine Hat Provincial Court.
The Alberta government will fund 90 percent of capital costs for regional municipal water and wastewater pipelines under a new 54 million initiative. It also offers 100 percent funding for engineering feasibility studies and plant expansions to serve regional customers as part of the Water for Life Strategy.
In Billings Montana U S District Judge Richard Cebull rejected RCALFs request for a permanent injunction to bar Canadian cattle and beef. The ruling follows the border reopening to live cattle under 30 months and boxed Canadian beef amid mad cow disease safeguards concerns. Hugh Lynch Staunton, president of the Canadian Cattlemen's Association, called the decision positive for cattle producers.
Four people are in hospital after a stolen truck rammed a house then hit a power pole and a yard vehicle on a Saskatoon street. Police say the driver was not seriously hurt and that accident investigators will work the scene for most of the day.
Leona Pinch, 59, a former secondary school business manager and secretary, pled guilty to fraud for siphoning 610,000 from parent advisory council accounts over 12 years. She will serve six months under house arrest as a jail term in the community, followed by 18 months probation with counselling and 50 hours of community service. The scheme surfaced after a 2003 audit prompted by funding discrepancies at a McBride, British Columbia, school.
Regina report says Norman Richard Bruneau 55 long subject to community conditions. Crown withdrew peace bond, ending monitoring after 20 year prison term for rapes and assaults in Winnipeg. He later moved to Regina, jailed for trespass in 1999 and for a park assault in 2001.
A European expert group warned that cats may help spread H5N1 avian flu among poultry and could, in theory, transmit it to people in close contact with sick cats. They urged further study of cats as a transmission and evolution conduit, especially where children freely interact with pets.
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