Thunderstorms flood Medicine Hat streets and cut power
Downpours flooded lanes and basements in Medicine Hat while lightning caused temporary power outages for about 100 families in the South Ridge area. City crews cleared water from a pedestrian underpass as officials noted elevated rainfall, a chaotic storm path from Oregon to California, and improving conditions expected later in the week.
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Medicine Hat
Dunmore Road
S.E
Public Works
Lorne Thompson
Thompson
Winston Kerr
South Ridge
Larry Godin
Utilities Department
Herb Kollross
City Water and Power Plant
Don Moerike
Airport Weather Office
California
Oregon
Moerke
Cave Cubbon
Bow Island
Carry Drive S
Road Oak Blvd
Bogle backs AGT Edmonton Telephones merger plan
Utilities Minister Bob Bogle endorsed merging Alberta Government Telephones with Edmonton Telephones and selling shares to the public. A committee will work out details. a new company could form as early as 1988. Gant Notley criticized the idea as taxpayer equity frittering. Final approval rests with Edmonton council and Alberta Cabinet, with an interim report due in a year.
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Edmonton
Bob Bogle
Alberta Government Telephones
Utlity
Bogle
AGT
Edmonton Telephones
Alberta
Nicaragua Eyes Central American Peace Talks Amid Nuclear Tension
Nicaragua's Sandinista government signals willingness to join Contadora group talks with Venezuela Panama Colombia while the United States orders an eight ship carrier task force off Central America. President Reagan accuses Cuba and the Soviet Union of arming Nicaragua as Pentagon plans exercises in Honduras loom near.
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Managua
Nicaragua
United States
Leon
Daniel Ortega
Venezuela
Panama
Mexico
Colombia
Contadora Group
Anthony Quainton
U.S
Ortega
Central America
Reagan
Mili
Cuba
Soviet Union
Washington
Pentagon
Ranger
Pacific
Honduras
Caribbean
Kidnappers Threaten Life Of Vatican Aide Daughter
The daughter of a Vatican employee, 15 year old Emanuela Orlandi, remains alive per a telephone claim to ANSA but the kidnapper group says she will be killed if Turkish attacker Mehmet Ali Agca is not freed by midnight. Pope John Paul II led prayers for the girl urging faith and hope as authorities say they cannot secure Agca’s release.
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Rome
Vatican
Mehmet Ali Agca
ANSA
Agea
Emanuela
Vatican City
Emanuela Orlandi
St. Peter’s Square
John Paul
Agca
Dayliner hearing proceeds after CP Rail bid rejection
Calgary Canada CP Rail failed to stop public hearings into the Via Rail dayliner crash that killed five people near Carstairs Alberta last March. The Canadian Transport Commission will hear testimony on the accident caused by an open switch.
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Calgary
Jim McDough
Canadian Transport Commission
CP Rail
Via Rail
Carstairs
Alta
City welcomes summer games start in Medicine Hat
The Southern Alberta Summer Games opened in Medicine Hat with a speedy parade and earlier than planned ceremonies. About 3,900 people of all ages began four days of events, including horseshoe pitching and a photography contest, in overcast weather. Torch lighters Tammy Minor and Noel McAllister sparked the games.
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Tammy Minor
Noel McAllister
Medicine Hat
Alberta
Jim Horsman
Frank Merkl
Brian McNally
Elroy Herter
Joanne Taylor
Mike Vrabec
Max Gibb
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Shields Crescent
Frank Webber
Bogle Endorses Agt
NDP
Gant Notley
U.S. Navy
Marcella Szel
Vrabec
Summer Games Board
Ald
Jim Hirsch
Index
Igami
Reynolds
Frank Reynolds
ABC News
Aereeresa
Alan Poirier
Brahh
Ann Landers
Haneeeyay
Eterna
Charles Lynch
CAPAC
Veena
Don McGillivray
Graham Kelly
Este Perenne
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