City reconsiders old Elizabeth Street School as community centre
The culture and recreation advisory board will study renovating the Elizabeth Street School for a community centre after boilers passed safety checks. The review will update renovation estimates and assess viability with groups like an astronomy club and the Zirka Ukrainian dancers. A two month timeline is given for a decision on the site's future use.
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Allan Doyle
The
Elizabeth Street
Culture and Recreation Advisory Board
Community Services Committee
Alberta Labor Standards Branch
Rod Turnbull
11Th Street
S.E
Turnbull
Pete Simpson
Council
Zirka
Medicine Hat
Vincent Massey
Recreation fee hike eyed for city facilities this fall
The community services committee backed a revised fee plan with an average 15 percent rise in charges for using city pools arenas and clubs. If approved, adults would pay 1.25 to swim at outdoor pools up from 1.15, and dance rental rates at Emplex or Moose centers would rise. The Alberta Marlin Aquatic Club faces the largest jump, while pass holders keep current rates until their passes expire.
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of the
Community Services Committee
Crestwood
Crescent Heights Recreation Centre
Emplex
Moose Recreation Centre
Rod Turnbull
Culture and Recreation Advisory Board
al Hagan
Alberta Marlin Aquatic Club
Jim Oldham
Medicine Hat seeks cut of Western Canada Lottery funds
Mayor Ted Grimm pushes Alberta division for figures on lottery allocations to cultural and recreation groups after council raised concerns that Calgary Stampede and Edmonton Exhibition Co. receive large shares. In 1980 those two groups got about 59 of more than 10 million dollars. officials say funds are distributed by a formula after their shares. Medicine Hat hopes windfall supports city sports and facilities, while council urges creation of a Crown corporation to oversee distribution.
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Allan Doyle
The
News
Medicine Hat
Western Canada Lottery
Ted Grimm
Calgary
Jack Rutherford
Grimm
Rutherford
Calgary Stampede and Exhibition Co
Alberta
Edmonton
Western Canada
Stampede
Ralph Murray
Murray
Mary LeMessurier
Culture
Ron Davis
Redcliff Bridge Study Funds Cut by Medicine Hat Panel
Medicine Hat’s community services committee rejected funding for Redcliff to study a pedestrian bridge over the South Saskatchewan River to a planned Running Bar X regional park. The River Valley Authority had offered 2,500 to cover study costs, a decision criticized by RVA chairman Phil Stenhouse.
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Redcliff
South Saskatchewan
Medicine Hat
Community Services Committee
The
River Valley Authority
RVA
Phil Stenhouse
Alberta Parks and Recreation
Jim Pratt
John van Dam
Redcliff break in nets Hat youth nine months in jail
A Redcliff youth Timothy McConnell aged 17 from 338 Division Ave S pleaded guilty to break, enter and theft after breaking into Happiness Garden Restaurant at 220 E Broadway St. He took about $1000 cash along with cigarettes and beer, neither recovered, and was ordered to restitution and nine months in jail.
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Old School
Medicine Hat Greenhouse
Tammy Hack
Tammy
Robin Schlaht
Allan Coyle
Lan Scott
Hat Youth
Philip Wambolt
McConnell
David Ross Hayes
Hayes
Midway
Wambolt
Timothy Dale Mew
Aberdeen St. S.E
Medicine Hat Inn
Mew
Randy Pick
Robert Earhart
Pat Sametz
Clelland
Earhart
Sametz
Carter
Roger Jensen
Jensen
Dean Hastings
Hastings
Southview Dr. S.E
Pick
Brian MacDonald
Elm St. S.E
MacDonald
Garfield Ronald MacDonald
19Th St. N.E
Walter Prandzick
Wooley Place
Prawdzick
Court of Queen's Bench
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