City council approves lottery land sale plan
The council unanimously passed a motion to use a lottery sale for 52 city lots on August 30 and 31. The sale zones run from Cobb Road to Cowan Crescent and Carry Drive with private citizens on day one and others on day two. The upset price is set at $170 per frontage foot. utilities raise rates to fund $140,000 extra yearly, keeping industrial rates below the national average. Vandals damaged a water pumping station in Medicine Hat, causing about $12,000 in repairs.
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Ald
Lucille Moyer
Cobb Road
Cowan Crescent
Carry Drive
Alberta Supreme Court
Dick Pearce
Utilities Committee
Tom Sissons
Medicine Hat
Industrial power rate increase in Medicine Hat
A 15 percent rise in industrial electricity rates is announced for Medicine Hat, prompting concern among manufacturers. The measure targets higher operating costs and could affect local jobs and competitiveness. Officials say the change aligns with regional energy pricing.
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Medicine Hat
Wilderness park sign approved amid city vandalism concerns
City council approved a sign for the 385 acre Police Point wilderness park after noting extensive vandalism in the area. Community services chair Pete Simpson said 50 to 70 percent of 200 fenceposts used to mark the road were stolen, with cars likely used to pull them out. planners will adjust roadwork to curb access into the wilderness.
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Police Point
Wilderness Park
Community Services Committee
Aid
Pete Simpson
Belfast violence erupts after Sinn Fein arrest
British troops came under attack in Belfast as guerrillas struck and rioters hijacked over 70 vehicles and set them on fire in Catholic districts. A Sinn Fein woman leader was arrested. A sniper wounded a soldier and another was injured when an armoured vehicle exploded. Snipers fired on patrol, and mobs barricaded streets, hurled gasoline bombs, and clashed with police and firefighters.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
Provisional Sinn Fein
Irish Republican Army
Provisional
Unemployment Rises in Canada in July Say Statistics Canada
Statistics Canada reports unemployment increased in July to 7.3 percent of the labor force, with 775000 people without work. The rise is led by women and young workers in several provinces, while Newfoundland and Prince Edward Island show the highest rates and Saskatchewan remains low. Comparisons show changes from June and the previous year.
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Ottawa
Statistics Canada
Nova Scotia
New Brunswick
Saskatchewan
Maritime
Tistics Canada
Newfoundland
Prince Edward Island
Canada
Quebec
Ontario
Manitoba
Alberta
British Columbia
Ottawa ant inflation board pins new price rules
Ottawa reports the anti inflation board plans draft price and profit rules that may be altered after business input. Of 1,006 firms, 41 percent would fare better under the draft, 59 percent worse or unchanged, with margins cut to 85 percent of a five year base from 95 percent.
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Ottawa
Jean-Luc Pepin
Pepin
Institute of Association Executives
Marie Goudreau 17 laid to rest after murder
Funeral for Marie Goudreau 17 held at St Vital Church in Beaumont Alberta with over 400 mourners from the village on the hill. RCMP pursue suspects after she was found strangled near a country road last week as questions linger about where she was abducted.
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Beaumont
Alta
Marie Goudreau
St. Vital
Edmonton
Gerard Magnan
Magnan
Health officials probe links between Legionnaires outbreak and Odd Fellows illness
Pennsylvania health investigators pursue a possible connection between the Philadelphia 1974 Odd Fellows convention illness and the recent Legionnaires outbreak. Frasers of the CDC say 17 Odd Fellows cases yielded three deaths, while Legionnaires cases stretch across Pennsylvania and beyond.
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Harrisburg
Philadelphia
Dennis Lucey
David Fraser
Federal
Centre For Disease Control
CDC
Odd Fellows
The
Fraser
Odd Fellows Convention
American Legion
Pennsylvania
Legion
Colorado
Ohio
Georgia
Ontario
Alberta
Saskatchewan
Canada
Belle Hammers Long Island Then Drenches New England
Hurricane Belle lashed eastern Long Island with fierce winds and heavy rains then crossed into southern Connecticut. Bridgeport lost power citywide while 19 year old woman died in Wading River. Dozens of communities reported floods, downed lines, and fires as thousands evacuated coastal areas and ferries carried residents to safety.
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New York
Reuter
Belle
Long Island
New England
Bridgeport
Conn
Yaphank
N.Y
Atlantic
Suffolk County
Sayville
Long Island Sound
Connecticut
Eastport
New York City
Westhampton
Seaboard
Fire Island
Great South Bay
Bermuda
Coney Island
Jones Beach
Hamptons
Clark campaign opens with Nova Scotia tour and policy talk
Joe Clark drew a several-hundred strong crowd at a National Sea Products Ltd division in Lunenburg Nova Scotia during a tour ahead of a likely two year election. He urged party policy by spring and discussed Bow River nomination and a Canada US fishing rights dispute in the Gulf of Maine with Lloyd Crouse.
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Carolyn Green
Lunenburg
N.S
Joe Clark
Clark
Maureen McTeer
Prince Edward Island
Nova Scotia
Ms. McTeer
Sydney
Stan Schumacher
Alberta
Bow River
Rocky Mountain
Schumacher
Taiwan
Canada
Ottawa
Republic of China
New Glasgow
Elmer Mackay
Central Nova
Halifax
Maritime Command
New Brunswick
Lloyd Crouse
South Shore
Commons
United States
Gulf of Maine
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Gerald Yaffe
Toronto
Alan Schwartz
Scott Clark
Ernest Hall
the News
Ted Grimm
U.K
Crouse
PC Caucus Committee On Fisheries
U.S
External Affairs Department
George’s Bank
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