Lethbridge Lobby Fails to Alter Air Route Grounding
Transport Minister Jean Luc Pepin keeps his decision to ground the Pacific Western Airlines route between Lethbridge and Vancouver. Time Air retains the sole route to the West Coast, with potential plans for Medicine Hat facilities and a separate Cranbrook stop proposal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jean- Luc Pepin
Pacific Western Airlines
Lethbridge
Vancouver
Time Air Ltd
Medicine Hat
West
Pepin
A.C
Andy) Anderson
Lethbridge Chamber of Commerce
Anderson
Ottawa
Time Air
PWA
Canadian Transport Commission
Alberta
Cranbrook
Kelowna
B.C
Lethbridge City
Chamber of Commerce
Council
Chamber
Ross
Ministry of Transport
Tale of old West poker showdown ends in town loss
In a Western tale, gunfighter T. G. Fairdeal plays high stakes poker with an Eastern carpetbagger posing as a tax collector. The game ends with a cunning opponent slipping away on the noon train after winning the million-dollar pot, leaving T. G. to seek redress in slow law and rue past advice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. G. Fairdeal
T. G
Court changes in works but no approval yet
Alberta authority must approve any alterations to Medicine Hat's Court of Queen's Bench, a provincially designated historic resource. Preservation officials warn against changes while debating an annex, with concerns from the Historical Society about cost and timing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Medicine Hat
Court of Queen’s Bench
Alberta
Fritz Pannekoek
Alberta Historic Sites Service
Pannekoek
Department of Culture
Historic Sites
Preservation Committee of
Historical Society
Donny White
White
Preservation Committee
Chamber of Commerce
Attorney General's Department
Rob Remmer
City backs away from paying for pigeon problem at Corona Hotel
Medicine Hat's finance committee declined to fund trapping pigeons at the Corona Hotel on 7215th St. S.E. The hotel manager urged city help to curb droppings and damaged HVAC. Chairman Davison warned against setting a precedent while the city maintains its pigeon control policy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Medicine Hat
City Hall
Corona Hotel
George Davison
Corona
Bob Ardiel
Ardiel
Accused acquitted in drug trafficking case at Brooks hotel
Randy Truscott was found not guilty by the Court of Queen's Bench of aiding a drug trafficker after the Crown failed to prove he promoted or assisted the sale of methamphetamine. The April 26 1980 incident at the Oxford Hotel involved an undercover Mountie and Steve Piffel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Randy Truscott
Queen’s Bench
C. G. Yanosik
Truscott
Steve Piffel
Oxford
Brooks
RCMP
William Anhorn
Joe Markey
Piffel
Markey
Court
Yanosik
Anhorn
Greaves
Royal Hotel
E. W. N. Macdonald
Barnacz
Riverside Park
Wambolt
Prank Bill Fined in Provincial Court for Card Ad Mimicry
A 19 year old city man, Garth Gustavson, was fined 200 for using a business card resembling a $100 bill to pay a waitress at the Continental Inn. The prank misled staff who accepted the note and returned 77.20 in change. the bill bears ads on both sides.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Garth Gustavson
21St Ave. S.E
Gustavson
Continental Inn
Seventh St. S.W
Crown
Darwin Greaves
Inn
Ian Hamilton
Hamilton
Greaves
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Lethbridge’s
CTC
Stubb Ross
Gordon Wright
Tale of
H. T. Leslie
Pigeon Patrol
THE
Ryan Fournal
Ryan
Frank Webber
Trustcott
Ronald Allan Weir
St. N.E
Philip Wambolt
Weir
Murray Sihvon
John Barnacz
Clayton Keifer
Ross Dale St. S.E
Wessel Devries
First St. S.W
Kevin Trent Eggen
South Ridge Cres
Eggen
Strathmore
Manitoba
Peter Joseph Popien
Elm St. S.E
Sixth Avenue S.E
First Street
Michael Sitter
10Th St. S.E
Sitter
Donald Wayne Stevens
Stevens
Bow Island
Mardell Fay Tacholsky
Swift Current
Tacholsky
Leduc
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