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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Dec 24, 2016
Page
4
Weather update shows cloudy skies with 80 percent snow today and a low of minus 12 overnight. Sunday remains mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of snow and a high around minus 12. Almanac notes include yesterday’s high and low and record values.
A Christmas week column reflects calendar mixups as Christmas Eve falls on the nearest Saturday. The author notes planning ahead for Boxing Day and a packed December with city council issues and curbside recycling talks, while hoping for lazy holiday moments.
Surrey BC resident Edith Sutherland marks her 100th Christmas with memories of Medicine Hat childhood shocks from lightning. Her daughter Bonnie Goodwin notes Sutherland's healthy longevity, athletic high school track records, and a life of resilience. City council shifts first meeting to January 9 due to holiday schedule, with subsequent dates adjusted for five Mondays in the month.
The Agricultural Society gathers to reform the annual fair amid WWI. An editorial notes militia presence at the fairgrounds, while Alberta wheat acreage surges tenfold to five million in 1916. Veterans’ farm colony plans progress in Coaldale and oil exploration moves near McMurray. A local white orpington pair wins at Calgary show.
Four entertainers plot to save an innkeeper in White Christmas 1954 musical comedy starring Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye. Canada’s Walk of Fame 2016 honors outstanding Canadians. His and Her Christmas 2005 comedy drama follows two journalists writing a Christmas column for rival papers.
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