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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Jun 06, 1997
Page
3
Methanex Corporation downsizes at the Medicine Hat plant due to high transport costs affecting competitiveness. One plant, representing 25 percent of production, to close in months with 11 jobs lost. Remaining two plants to stay open serving local needs.
About 340 Medicine Hat Safeway employees head to Medicine Hat Lodge at 7 p m to vote on the proposed settlement. Picket captains and workers express mixed expectations as Calgary clerks’ 58.7 per cent support echoes province wide, with results due next week and strikes possibly continuing here.
Redcliff residents suffered smoke inhalation after a basement fire at 401 4th Street S.W. on Thursday. Firefighters arrived to find four occupants already out and the flames confined to the basement with extensive smoke damage throughout the home. RCMP attribute the fire to a faulty radio.
Environment Canada installs wind measuring weather vanes and anemometers at a standard height to capture wind direction and speed. The Alberta town Manyberries holds the Canadian sunshine record with 2,785 hours in 1976, about 116 sunny days.
Medicine Hat High students led by David Bertsch Jason Moore and Bobby Kozak won Alberta gold in CAD/CAM and Trevor Adams Eric Bates earned gold in computer animation at the Canadian Skills Competition in Red Deer. Curtis Hoffart earned silver for redesigning a house floor plan.
Cypress Medicine Hat MLA Lorne Taylor backs Bill 209 proposing a 950 dollar increase in private school funding to 2885 per student, with new money from reinvestment dollars and open door policy parity. Critics from River Heights oppose it and mobilize parents to voice concerns.
About 100 attend District No. 76 appreciation dinner as 20 retiring educators receive plaques. De Morrey, a Grade 1 teacher at Crestwood School, died in 1993 and is named an Honored Educator. Peter Cordon, Ross Glen principal until 1985, is also a recipient.
Gleichen cowboy Steven Allan Yule was acquitted in Medicine Hat provincial court of assaulting Roy Brower during the Western Stock Growers Centennial Cattle Drive. After eight hours of testimony from 14 witnesses, Judge Philip Wambolt dismissed the charge, noting the confrontation followed Brower's threats and intoxication.
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