Hill Centre to house integrated preschool for handicapped children
Medicine Hat plans the Hill Pre-School Community Centre to integrate handicapped and hearing impaired preschoolers with ECS and day care groups. The facility aims to improve language, physical and social development, with sound proofed rooms and space for community meetings. The program stresses early access to education and better adaptation to society, plus on site sign language exposure.
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Chuck McDonald
Chuck
Debra Weikum
Hill
St. Francis Xavier School
Medicine Hat
Bob Warner
Ehll
Warner
New Hill Centre
ECS
Wendy Johnson
Weiner Centre
Hill Centre
Johnson
Calgary LArche founder questions impact of Year of the Disabled
Pat Lenon founder and executive director of two Calgary group homes for the mentally disabled questions the value of the International Year of the Disabled. He cites lasting attitude changes as the real barrier, not public relations or ramps alone. He and Jo Lenon started Calgary LArche in 1975 with Jean Vanier. Nineteen residents now live in two homes and a third is planned.
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Calgary
Lim
Pat Lenon
Tenon
Seget
Lenon
Calgary L’arche
Jean Vanier
L’ Arche
Whelan pressed on beef crisis and marketing board threat
Alberta cattle leader Wayne Heller accuses Federal Agriculture Minister Eugene Whelan of seeking to drive supply management via ultimatums and public misstatements. Heller says Whelan lacks cabinet and provincial support for a national marketing board and income insurance plan, urging alternatives like stabilization schemes.
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Eugene Whelan
Alberta Cattle Commission Zone 1
Wayne Heller
Heller
Walsh
Whelan
Canadian Cattlemen's Association
Cattle Group Criticizes Ontario Style Pipeline Payment Plan
Wayne Heller of the Alberta Cattle Commission urged the provincial government to align its surface rights policy with federal Bill C 60. He argues for annual compensation to producers affected by oil and gas pipelines instead of a one time 1000 per acre payment proposed by the provincial select committee. He notes inflation loss protection favors annual rents.
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District Cattle Association
Wayne Heller
Alberta Cattle Commission
Heller
Alberta
Agriculture
Medicine Hat
Bert Hargrave
The
Prairie
Alaska
Prudhoe Bay
Yukon
British Columbia
Hargrave
City police busy on Christmas Eve traffic and incidents
Christmas Eve traffic kept Medicine Hat police busy with two vehicle accidents on Dunmore Road S.E. causing over $9,000 in damage. A 7:30 p.m. crash near 21st Street S.E. involved Paula Pimental of Calgary and Kent Owens. A second Dunmore crash near 3:30 p.m. involved Valentine Bischoff and Steven Carlson. Hit-and-run incidents also reported within 20 minutes starting at 7:30.
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Santa
Medicine Hat
Dunmore Road
S.E
Paula Pimental
Calgary
21St Street
Kent Owens
Rossmere Way
Pimental
Greg Berker
Valentine Bischoff
21St St. S.E
Steven Carlson
Cleanel Crescent
Betker
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Lan Scott
Iyd
L’arche
France
Canada
Roytenberg
Senate
Kevin Gehring
Kevin
Corinne Miller
Lions Park
Robin Schiaht
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