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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Jun 08, 1971
Page
2
Medicine Hat YM YWCA plans a year away opening on Maple Ave at 1st SE. The new brick three story complex will include aquatics a gymnasium and a sauna with an Olympic length pool replacing the Rotary pool. Building fund pledges exceed $710000 with $113000 received and city and provincial gifts outstanding.
Medicine Hat's YM YWCA posted a net deficit of 5230 for 1970 due to insufficient paid memberships. Acting director Jim Dress noted official membership around 100 while many use facilities without full membership. A fall membership drive will follow Bill Montgomery's arrival from Chilliwack, who led YM YWCA there without a Y building.
Amid grumbling over changes, the Alberta Police Act advances to July 1. The city moves to meet new requirements with first reading given to a bylaw creating a five member police commission. The act calls for three appointments by the attorney general and two city council members. Council appointees serve while holding their seats. AG appointments are at the AG’s discretion.
The city revised its official population to 26 228 after a Census error, down from 26 290. River Heights and Norwood Crestwood gained residents with 345 and 356 each in three years, while Kensington area saw the largest decline. The council also moves to advertise a Maple Avenue bridge borrowing bylaw with a 15 day petition window.
City Council faced strong protest from 11th Ave residents over a proposed paved road linking Parkview Drive and 16th St NE. A 17-name petition, led by Richard Wyld of 1565 11th Ave NE, argues the plan would harm back-yard views, while Public Works Director Lorne Thompson says subdivision would fund the road and improve a sharp 16th St curve. The land between current homes and the new road would be subdivided.
Residents in northeast Crescent Heights pressed for an improved road linking 16th Ave and Parkview since 1967. Officials weighed closure, access, and land subdivision, with seven to one vote to send the plan back to the Municipal Planning Commission for further consideration and recommendations.
The Redcliff School Board gave a third and final reading to a bylaw authorizing borrowing up to 117000 for expansion at Elementary and Parkside Schools. About 83000 of costs would be grant funded, with 34000 paid by the district. First and second readings occurred May 31.
In Magistreate's Court Monday AL Joyline Transport of Medicine Hat was fined 350 for operating a truck with a 4 000 pound overload on Highway 27 near Morrin May 26. A Spring Creek Hutterite colony representative near Walsh pleaded guilty to an overload of 2 250 pounds in Dunmore May 26, with a 90 fine imposed by Judge E W N Macdonald.
Moscow's population reached 7,061,008 according to Tass news agency data from the annual census completed earlier this year. The release confirms Moscow remains Russia's largest city with a growing urban count.
Cadet parade by SEA CADETS and NAVY LEAGUE CADETS WRENETTES. Chocolate Drive on Tuesday 8th and Wednesday 9th June at 6 p.m. Meet at St. Barnabas Church. Navy League meeting Thursday June 10th at 7:30 p.m. in St. Barnabas Church basement 4th St. Annual picnic June 20th at Elk Water Lake.
William M. Ryan, 78, longtime animal rescue expert and former horse ambulance driver for the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, died Saturday night. He was the subject of a book titled Fifty Years in the Doghouse.
Medicine Hat city council will study a proposal to switch to an exact fare system similar to Vancouver and Calgary. Utilities director Bill Scott says the change would simplify operations and speed service, with drivers not handling cash. Other cities report quick public adjustment after initial inconvenience.
City Hall will host a public hearing at the next council meeting to consider selling the northeast corner of 1st St SE and 5th Ave SE for a Firestone Tire and Rubber Company retail and service center. The firm seeks 83 to 90 feet frontage. council to review land total, sale price, by law terms, and planning input before June 21 hearing.
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