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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Aug 04, 2005
Page
1
A partial forecast shows high temperatures of 27 and 21 with lows of 14 and 12 and mentions partly cloudy skies with a chance of showers and thunderstorms. A Wednesday line appears garbled as "Wednesday 10 : ue" indicating a cut entry.
August 4 1769 marks Island of St. Jean separating from Nova Scotia as a new colony. Notable events include Alfred Avery bitten by a rattlesnake near Medicine Hat who survived after medical care. In 1900 Elizabeth Queen Mother born, later aid morale during WWII and celebrated centennial in 2000s. Canada joined sanctions against South Africa in 1986.
Oyen will receive 233,666 in a provincial federal funding package shared with seventeen Alberta communities. The funds will upgrade the water distribution pump station including three pump replacements, a control valve, and a backup power generator to boost capacity for current and future water use and firefighting needs.
A CN freight train derailed near the resort community of Wabamun 5:20 a.m. causing a 5 kilometre oil slick. Forty three cars left the track, 26 carrying bunker fuel oil and one lubricating oil car leaked before seals were placed by afternoon. Cleanup crews worked to contain the spill.
A CN train derailed near Wabamun on Lake Wabamun at 5 30 a m sending more than 20 rail cars off their tracks. Emergency crews responded to the scene and investigated the incident with no injuries reported.
Firefighters nearly contained a forest fire near Merritt as officials refine the Sleetsis Creek blaze size to about 33 square kilometres. Rainless heat and steep terrain hinder crews south of Spences Bridge in British Columbia's southern Interior.
Regina Saskatchewan cabinet minister Pat Atkinson says SaskEnergy misunderstood the Limitations Act which creates a two year window to sue for unpaid debts. She notes the act applies to all including Crown corporations and SaskEnergy plans to review its debt collection policy. The act, passed last year, sets the deadline for launching legal action on unpaid bills.
Canada Post unveiled a commemorative 50 cent stamp for Saskatchewan's 100th birthday in Regina. Designer Catharine Bradbury explains the image combines three Saskatchewan vignettes, including sunflowers and the legislative building, with a woman arms spread wide to reflect the province's people.
Hobbema Alberta within one of Canada’s longest serving native chiefs Leo Cattleman aged 66 died of natural causes at Ponoka hospital. As First Nations leader he helped negotiate land agreements and empower youth. Jason Goodstriker called his tenure unifying and influential for native youth. In Houston Discovery astronaut Stephen Robinson repaired two filler items on the shuttle belly with a potential fourth spacewalk for a torn thermal blanket.
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