Subdivision plans on hold in Medicine Hat area
Hat Development Ltd. halts the S and T Ranches structure plan amid disputes over lowland fill and environmental impact. The firm shifts focus to Burnside, with 202 hectares of land south of the Trans-Canada Highway and north of the South Saskatchewan River eyed for future development.
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S and T Ranches
Medicine Hat
Hat Development Ltd
Tom Sunderland
Burnside
S and T
Police Point
South Saskatchewan
Sunderland
Council
Tom Briggs
Hat Development
Aldermen drop Hill Centre plan in Medicine Hat
The Hill Pre-School Community Centre project is abandoned after a council vote ends the $1.9 million bylaw and borrows plan. ECS moves to schools, provincial funding shrinks, and the Medicine Hat public school board eyes ECS takeover.
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the Hill
Limbo
Local Authorities Board
Ted Grimm
Hill Centre
ECS
Medicine Hat
Ald
Pete Simpson
Community Services Committee
Medicine Hat votes on global disarmament referendum
City council approves a 1983 municipal referendum on general disarmament with 7 votes for and 2 against led by Alderman George Davison. Ottawa mayor Marion Dewar cites 40 Canadian municipalities as examples and the proposal would cost about $1000.
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Ald
George Davison
Medicine Hat
Davison
Ken Sauer
Harry Yuill
Marion Dewar
Ottawa
Dewar
Canada
Ted Grimm
Two men jailed for food fraud in provincial court
Transients Rejean Dube and Julian Moreau pleaded guilty to obtaining food by fraud after not paying for an $11 meal at Shell Travel Inn. Dube received 10 days in jail, Moreau five days or a $50 fine. Crown noted they claimed to have no money and hadn't eaten in three days.
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Rejean Joseph Dube
Shell Travel
Redcliff
S.W. Julian Moreau
Phillip Wambolt
Drug hearing set for woman charged with forged prescription
Joyce Clarkson of 341 Eighth St. S.E. faces four counts of using an altered prescription from Redcliff drugstore between Oct. 24, 1981 and Feb. 22, 1982. A preliminary hearing is set for Aug. 4 in provincial court. she opted for trial before a Court of Queen's Bench justice and remains free on her own recognizance.
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Joyce Clarkson
Eighth St. S.E
Redcliff
Queen’s Bench
Medicine Hat Council Tables Striptease Regulation Plan
City council deferred bylaw action on strip clubs and exotic dancers, receiving for information a report by city solicitor Frank O Connell on possible regulation. O Connell cited the Municipal Government Act and Alberta Liquor Board authority, while Ald. Harry Yuill opposed regulating such businesses and urged no further study.
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Medicine Hat
Frank O’connell
Alberta Liquor Control Board
Harry Yuill
NDP proposes vast Alberta jobs and road program plan
The NDP outlines a broad recovery package to hire 30 000 to 40 000 unemployed Albertans, pave 5700 kilometres of highways, open 5 million acres to farming, and boost irrigation and housing relief. A heavy oil upgrader near Lloydminster and Wainwright is planned with a 1 billion cost over five years.
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NDP
Davis Swan
Swan
New Party
Alberta
Lloydminster
Wainwright
Swain
United States
Calgary
Lethbridge
Medicine Hat
Bus service cuts debated in Medicine Hat council meeting
Alderman Ken Sauer said residents face reduced bus service if utilities committee recommendations are adopted. The plan would eliminate the College route in September raising ride times for medical clinic visitors and restrict late evening service, aiming to cut more than 100000 dollars from a 1982 transit deficit.
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Ken Sauer
Utilities Committee
Council
Sixth Street
S.E
Kensington
Sauer
Alberta Transportation
Medicine Hat
Ross Glen
Connaught
Southridge
Permit rule dropped for movable signs bycity council
City council passed Bylaw 2227 removing the development permit requirement for moving freestanding portable signs to sites. The change benefits portable sign entrepreneur Lloyd Metcalf whose lawyer argued the $5-permit per installation could force him out of business. Regulations on sign size and placement remain in force.
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Council
Lloyd Metcalf
Ian Hamilton
Metcalf
Ted Grimm
Grimm
Finance Committee
Municipal Planning Commission
MPC
Maurice Schwartz
West-Fed chapter sales push to turn party in Alberta
Medicine Hat's West-Fed chapter seeks to transform into a political party in Alberta. Nine of sixteen members endorsed the move while leader Elmer Knutson showed approval. Secretary Margaret Anderson declined to explain the rationale and gave no timing for any decision.
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Medicine Hat
Elmer Knutson
Alberta
City Association
Margaret Anderson
Anderson
Area Association
Knutson
Western Provinces
Western Canada Concept Party
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Aldermen Dump Hill Centre
Social Services
Bob Bogle
United Nations
William Robert Hanley
Seventh St. S.E
Hanley
Seventh Street
E.W.N
Skip
Macdonald
Schwartz
Frank Webber
O’connell
O'Connell
Chandra Fayme
Assiniboia
Monday Night Council
Lan Scott
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