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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Jun 01, 1983
Page
3
Education Minister Dave King proposes that starting September 1983 Grade 12 students must write at least one provincial exam to qualify for a high school diploma. Two diploma tracks exist general and advanced with exams weighted at 50 percent and a 80 percent excellence recognition for advanced diplomas.
The Parks Department plans Malathion sprays on boulevard and park trees to kill spider mites aphids and forest tent caterpillars but weather and budget limits reduce scale. Killex and Roundup used on weeds while Altasid Abate 26 target mosquito larvae with granular application and no fogging yet.
Medicine Hat public schools will continue the Work Experience Program for Grades 10 and 11 and special education students starting September. About 150 students participate, but the program may shrink without a full-time coordinator. Students spend half days in school and half in work at offices sites or hospitals earning at least $2 per hour with potential future hires.
A 19-year-old man Patrick Cowman was jailed 15 days and fined 700 for break in theft and telecom service theft after stealing video equipment worth over 1000 dollars and cutting into a cable-TV line. Other defendants faced fines for drinking and driving assault and disturbance and obscene phone calls.
Medicine Hat six delegates to Ottawa are weighing second ballots as four still backed Peter Pocklington. Rick Oland cites John Crosbie and Michael Wilson as key alternate options, with Terry Riley and others expressing varying leanings and openness to Joe Clark.
County councillor Floyd George of Division 9 in Gem proposes a policy change to bar council or supervisory staff from hiring their immediate family. He notes past cases but says nepotism is not a major problem, urging equal opportunity for all county job applicants. A policy is set for the next meeting.
Residents in the southern half of Redcliff face brief blackouts Thursday morning as the Medicine Hat electrical department upgrades lines from the main substation to handle higher load. The disruptions occur between 9 a.m. and noon, lasting up to five minutes each, with different areas affected at different times.
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