River Heights teacher-librarian named Alberta of the year
McDougall of River Heights School is voted best teacher-librarian in Alberta by an Alberta Teachers Association council. She expressed a goal to promote libraries across schools as multimedia centers. Superintendent Harold Storlien notes the value depends on staff and community.
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McDougall
River Heights
Alberta
Alberta Teachers Association Council
Medicine Hat
Harold Storlien
Seeding Near Completion in Medicine Hat Area
Agriculture officials report Alberta seeding 90 to 95 percent done province wide after wet spring delays. Wheat up 17 percent and barley up 11. canola down 27. Tame hay seedings fall, hay in high demand due to zero winter carryover. Weeds and worm issues noted. Hat area drier than normal with irrigation brought into earlier use.
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Medicine Hat
Wendy Bose
Alberta Agriculture
Edmonton
Bose
Statistics Canada
Alberta
Jobless ranks shrink in Medicine Hat area May report
May unemployment in the Medicine Hat region dropped to 5.9 per cent from 7.1 per cent the prior month with 3,287 unemployed, including Brooks. The rate is 1.2 percentage points lower than May 1995, while province wide May unemployment was 7.4 per cent.
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Medicine Hat
Alberta
May
Lethbridge-Medicine Hat
Flora Brophy
Lethbridge
Ment
Brooks
Brophy
Health authority expects more cuts under new Alberta minister
Health officials including Palliser vice president of finance Richard Van Orman say additional administration cuts in Alberta are expected under Deputy Minister Jack Davis. Premier Ralph Klein cites reallocation from administration to patient care as a priority, with guideline targets of three to six percent admin costs.
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Health Alliser Health Authority
Edmonton
Richard van Orman
Palliser
Ralph Klein
Alberta
Jack Davis
Klein
Davis
VBA
van Orman
Education
Hat School District honors educators and retirees
Educators and district staff are recognized at Crescent Heights high school for Alberta Excellence in Teaching nominees not selected by the province. Honorees include teachers John Baty Judy Cruickshank Grace Drake Heather Gold Peter Mueller and Joan Sadownik.
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Hat
Crescent Heights High School
Dave Beresh
Alberta
John Baty
Judy Cruickshank
Grace Drake
Heather Gold
Peter Mueller
Joan Sadownik
Fred Kramer
Mabel Quenzer
Ken Sauer
Rod Sommerfeld
Lorne Eckford
Roland Gnam
Elaine Gray
Betty Horsman
Marilyn Humphries
Terry Lazenby
Jim MacFarlane
Chuck MacKenzie
Jacquie Richardson
Lorne Ross
Barrie Shave
Renee Steele
Bill Turko
John Weatherhead
Karen Charlton
Sommerfeld
Weatherhead
Sharon Clay
Bill Chapman
Barry Deering
Janet MacGregor
Pat McDowell
Len Parker
Bob Townsend
Stan York
Volunteers needed to back Trans-Canada Trail project
Organizers from the Trans-Canada Trail seek volunteers to plan and organize the cross country multi use trail through Hat area and Cypress Hills. Donors and urban rural cooperation are urged as the project targets most of the route by 2000 with $432 million cost and metre by metre selling at 36 dollars, with tax deductible gifts and a four year launch.
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Don Scott
Alberta TrailNet
Alberta
Scott
Hat Area
Cypress Hills
Llatter
Rob Gardner
Gardner
Canada
Nicole Racine
Trans-Canada Trail Foundation
Montreal
Alberta Recreation and Parks Association
Carelessness costs driver fined in provincial court
Rederick Carl Link, 44, was fined 500 by Judge Philip Wambolt after pleading guilty to careless driving in provincial court. Link of 1358 25th St. S.F. was charged after police stopped him on February 25 following a report by a Hat lounge waitress. Police found him behind the wheel with alcohol in his system and suspended his license for three months with no insurance.
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Rederick Carl Link
Philip Wambolt
Link
St. S.F
Ted Fisher
Jamie Peter Wall
Wall
Yuill St. S.E
South Ridge Drive
13Th Avenue S.E
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Hill Pool
Rod Edwards
Canadian Press
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Betty May
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