Alberta launches online organ donation registry plus donor prompts
The Alberta government implements an online Organ and Tissue Donation Registry and begins asking drivers license renewers if they want to donate. Health Minister Fred Horne cites up to eight lives saved per donor and up to 75 others helped, with 4100+ Albertans already registered. The plan includes all registry offices by next April and a new Alberta Organ and Tissue Donation Agency to coordinate and promote donation nationwide.
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Alberta
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Prairie baby's breath removal project earns local nomination
The Medicine Hat area initiative to remove invasive baby's breath from native range did not win the Alberta Emerald Award but drew high praise. Project manager Sean Allen notes the calibre of contestants, with about 52 000 plants removed by City of Medicine Hat Calfrac Well Services Grasslands Naturalists and Medicine Hat College over two years. Statoil’s caribou tracking won the large business Emerald Award. ConocoPhillips restoration near Elkwater was also nominated.
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Conoco Phillips
Elkwater
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Search ends for missing purebred lab Trendy found dead
The purebred yellow lab Trendy, missing since March from Range Road 63, was found Friday. Tanya Ellis credits community support in the search, noting Trendy likely escaped a kennel and drowned, with the dog buried under a mayday tree. Neighbours across Alberta, Saskatchewan and B C aided, sending condolences and messages.
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Nixon smiles at Medicine Hat Public Library visit
A photo shows Charles LeFebvre smiling during a visit to the Medicine Hat Public Library on a Monday. The caption invites readers to visit the Medicine Hat News online and send ideas to the paper.
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Charles Lefebvre Nixon
Medicine Hat Public Library
Medicinehatnews.com
Online poll asks if you are an organ donor
A local online poll asks readers today if they are organ donors with 84 percent responding affirmatively. The item notes the question appears as TODAY'S QUESTION and records the 84 percent figure.
Guilty pleas time served in Flats home invasion case
Two accused in the November 2013 Flats home invasion pleaded guilty to assault and unlawful confinement and were sentenced to time served at the opening of the preliminary hearing. A third co-accused had charges withdrawn. The incident involved taking a man against his will over an alleged debt.
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Frank Arpad Sandor
Munroe
Sandor
Jay Helgeson
MHPS
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