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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Jan 05, 2007
Page
1
Forecast notes Monday for wind and snow with a high near 3 and low around minus 15. Conditions remain mostly cloudy and very cold through the week with expectations for Wednesday and Thursday numbers around 10 and 11 degrees respectively.
Lithuanian suspects in a grand theft ring managed to escape Wadsee Jail by stripping naked and oiling their bodies to slide through bars on Christmas Eve. Yuris Sinkevicius, 25, 5 feet 8, remained at large after the attempt. another accomplice failed to exit through a window due to size. Both were arrested in Sweden in October.
Yone Minagawa, aged 114, blows out candles at a nursing home in Fukuoka Prefecture. The event marks her 114th birthday as residents and staff gather for the milestone.
Medicine Hat aims to benchmark resident quality of life with a city run telephone poll starting January 15. The 15 to 20 minute survey asks about community acceptance confidence in education and access to cultural and recreational activities. Results will be presented to council by March 1.
The 2007 NAFDMA annual conference in Calgary runs February 12 to 17 with Grow West Alberta as the theme. Attendees can join bus tours workshops and the two day conference, plus a three day Calgary Farmers' Market visit at Currie Barracks. Registration details are on the NAFDMA site or via 1-888-884-9720.
Regina emergency rooms will remain open despite a serious nursing shortage in Saskatchewan's two largest cities. A memo from the Regina health authority warned January and February services may be limited and one ER could be closed and staff redeployed, though the government said closures will not occur.
Olympic champion Myriam Bedard arrived in Canada after two weeks in a U.S. prison on a parental child abduction charge. She was held overnight before a Quebec City courtroom appearance, with bail expected Friday. Her lawyer said she will plead not guilty and be released under conditions.
NORAD confirmed a spent Russian booster reentered over Colorado and Wyoming on Thursday. A report of debris possibly hitting near Riverton, Wyoming, is being checked. No damage or hazards reported as military personnel respond. eyewitnesses saw flaming objects in the sky.
Kenya announced a border shutdown with Somalia as it boosts troops at the northern frontier. Foreign Affairs Minister Raphael Tutu confirmed the closure to AP but gave no dates or duration. The UN says about 4000 Somali refugees are near Dhobley, while a Kenyan helicopter and air force plane were fired on by unknown gunmen.
A CN Rail engine crew was rescued after a locomotive plunged down a 75 metre slope above the Thompson River near Lytton. Another CN freight train team escaped uninjured after hitting a snowdrift in northeastern British Columbia. A rock slide is blamed for the first derailment, with both workers unharmed aside from scratches.
The Bush administration moves to raise cattle and beef imports from Canada amid ongoing questions about Canadian safeguards against mad cow disease. Canada reported five new mad cow cases in 2006, including one born after safeguards were in place. The United States banned Canadian cattle and beef after Canada's first case in May 2003, with live cattle resuming only after 2005 court battles. beef and cattle remain restricted to animals younger than 30 months.
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