REDI Enterprises marks 50 years aiding the handicapped in Medicine Hat
The Medicine Hat group started from a two-line ad in the 1950s and grew into Hat's fifth-largest employer. Allan O'Byrne recalls early volunteers, the Empress Theatre workshop, and a mission toward inclusion over five decades. A Sunday country fair and barbecue at the Carriage House will honor volunteers, clients, and supporters with about 600 expected attendees.
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Ifty
Medicine Hat News
Allan O'Byrne
Redi Enterprises
REDI
Medicine Hat Association For the Handicapped
the Hat
O'Byrne
Empress Theatre
O’ Byrne
South Ridge
Ryan Taplin
Millennium scholarship aids Crescent Heights student
Crescent Heights high school student Andrew Weiss received a Canadian Millennium Scholarship Foundation award among 600 recipients from over 7,000 applications. He will get 4000 toward post secondary studies this fall and plans to study medicine after involvement in church fencing and debating.
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Crescent Heights
Canadian Millennium Scholarship Foundation
Andrew Weiss
Weiss
Police uncover $75,000 illegal marijuana operation near Taber
Taber police and Taber-Vauxhall RCMP busted a sophisticated marijuana grow near Taber in an overnight raid. Officers secured a search warrant after initial police work, seizing marijuana and plants worth about $75,000. The property owner faces multiple cultivation and trafficking charges and will appear in Taber court.
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Taber
Taber-Vauxhall
Taber Court
Photo radar to operate in Medicine Hat Friday
Police will set up photo radar at various locations in Medicine Hat on Friday June 7 including near the Alexandra school playground and at Third Street N.W. to monitor speed compliance.
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Alexandra School
Third Street N.W
Medicine Hat
Hat city says compost safety concerns need not apply
Medicine Hat landfill manager Dave Lestar says the city’s biosolids composting program is safe and meets standards, despite a federal test of 55 fertilizers and composts showing 24 percent exceed fecal coliform limits in 21 samples.
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Canadian Food Inspection Agency
Federal
Dave Lestar
Medicine Hat
Alberta
Canmore
Leflar
Council of Ministers of the Environment
Coleman Rotstein
Canadian Infectious Diseases Society
British duo challenge North America to raise cash for cancer
Two British former Royal Marines Sean Johnson and Rob Tweddle trek across North America to raise funds for Cancer Research. Starting in April in the Maritimes and headed toward Vancouver the pair face strong winds and weather delays while collecting about 20000 dollars. They began in Irvine and plan a Missouri River canoe leg and Appalachian Trail walk or ski with support from a Canadian family in Ontario.
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Gas City
Sean Johnson
Rob Tweddle
Royal Marines
North America
Tweddle
Maritimes
Vancouver
Brooks
Irvine
Johnson
Calgary
Banff
Ontario
Peter, Volker
Michael Wiessner
Aaron Seaton
Ryan Taplin
Dunmore
Canada
Cemetery vandals strike Hillside. many headstones toppled
Police still search for culprits after more than 160 headstones were vandalized at Hillside Cemetery during the night of May 25. Constable Deliine Sharpe says teens or adults may be involved as city crews repair the damage with free services from three monumental companies. Call 529-8400 or Crimestoppers at 527-8477 with tips.
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Hillside Cemetery
Deliine Sharpe
Medicine Hat Monumental
Shannon Monumental
Hillside Monumental
Penny Krassman
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