Fined for assault and threats in motel incident
A 44 year old Stewart Valley man Gerald Cresswell Shaw pleaded guilty to assault causing bodily harm and was fined 500 in provincial court. He coerced a 15 year old Owen boy into his motel room at Imperial Motor Inn and struck him multiple times while threatening to castrate him. The judge called it an unprovoked attack and refused an absolute discharge.
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Stewart Valley, Sask
Gerald Cresswell Shaw
Imperial Motor Inn
13Th Ave. S.E
Owen Boy
David Carter
Shaw
Allan Kay
Carter
Philip Wambolt
Kay
Warnol
Rodney Schmidt
Medicine Hat
Schmidt
Greaves
Dunmore Road
S.E
Brooks
Florence Shaw
Brooks Iga
Lionel Lance Schwartz
Schwartz
Allowance Avenue
Braemar Street
Ash Avenue
Harold J. Lang
10Th St. S.E
Lang
Ming Tree Restaurant
South Railway St. S.E
Wambolt
Injured wild animals sent to Calgary Zoo for rehab
The News Three district reports two antelope fawns and a male Swaison hawk were transported to the Calgary Zoo after injuries in Medicine Hat. Officials say the animals may remain there for life and urge the public not to handle injured wildlife unless badly hurt.
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Murray Bates
Calgary
Fish and Wildlife
Medicine Hat
Fish and Wildlife Division
Bates
Dunmore
Hilda
Calgary Zoo
Vision flawed on Medicine Hat culture centre proposal
A column critiques the downtown culture centre plan in Medicine Hat, arguing borrowed funds are risky amid provincial support, and that a successful revitalization requires practical business decisions, hard competition, and realistic budgeting rather than wishful thinking.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edmonton
Medicine Hat
Culture Centre
Manyberries
Pollyanna
Free hay permits offered on Alberta highway rights of way
Alberta Transportation reports free hay cutting permits available to farmers with land along highway rights of way. Initially limited to adjacent landholders, the program opened June 15 on a first come basis. About 45 applications in District No. 1 and warnings about deadlines and available rights of way were noted.
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Paul Strickland
the News
Alberta
Alberta Transportation District
Don Lanthier
Medicine Hat
Alberta Transportation
Newell
40 Mile
Lanthier
Calgary
Saskatchewan
Elkwater
Ed Belsheim
Regional Transportation Services
Belsheim
Society adopts new approach to cut work burden
The John Howard Society of Medicine Hat launches a preventive program to head off criminal activity before counseling is needed. Gloria Hammel, program coordinator, has spoken to over 600 students in Grades 5 and 6 about police, courts and the law and plans to expand to higher grades and community groups.
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Graham Clark
the News
John Howard Society
Gloria Hammel
Medicine Hat
Hammel
Medicine Hat City
Scott
Medicine Hat appoints Bill Turko as director of curriculum
The Medicine Hat Public School Board announced Bill Turko, current Connaught School principal, as director of curriculum and instruction. Turko, with 28 years in the district and ten years at Connaught, will assume the post in September overseeing curriculum development, student achievement evaluation, and the Instructional Materials Centre. He holds degrees from the University of Calgary and was chosen from 33 applicants.
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Medicine Hat
Bill Turko
Connaught School
Brian Laidlaw
Turko
Laidlaw
University of Calgary
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Darrell Twigge
Joseph Bedecs
Redvers
Sask
Twigge
Bedees
Suffield
Esso
Medicine Hat Rcmp
Darwin Greaves
Ian Hamilton
Byron Earl Jones
Wildrose Trailer Park
Medicine Hat Co-op
Jones
Bill Sass
Highway 3
Medicine
Hat
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