Medicine Hat Wading Pools Faces Permanent Closure Fight
Residents protest Medicine Hat city council decision to close four wading pools citing loss of summer jobs and recreation. They plan petitions at malls and libraries and urge support for reopening the pools, calling for more child-friendly city services and questioning cost savings. Contact Karen Marr or Veronica Marr for details.
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Medicine Hat
Health Department
Rae Roer
Mr. Roer
City Hall
Karen Marr
Veronica Marr
Cadillac service earns praise in Medicine Hat visit
A traveler recounts a cross country trip in a near new 1981 Cadillac. After a diagnostic light and a car computer alerted trouble, Calgary gave poor service while Medicine Hat’s Beny’s Cadillac Service provided swift repair. The bill covered two hours with modest charges and warm Western hospitality.
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Atlantic
Pacific
South Dakota
Wyoming
Utah
California
Calgary
Medicine Hat
Beny
Cadillac Service
Beny’s
Car Service
Kesler and Stein Accused in West-Fed Power Moves
A confidential memo alleges Gordon Kesler and Pat Stein seek control of West-Fed by discrediting executives and overriding the W.C.C. constitution. It cites meetings in Alberta and Saskatchewan, questions about director voting, and calls for an enquiry into finances and signing authority.
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Gordon Kesler
Pat Stein
Kesler
Westmore
Maygard
Alberta
Saskatchewan
Frank Cottingham
Rick Kaminsky
John Patterson
Medicine Hat
W.C.C
Fred Marshall
Vera Watling
Errol Squires
Rick Davison
West-Fed
Disorder at Medicine Hat W C C meeting disrupts Kesler
A reader from Foremost Alberta reports a W C C gathering in Medicine Hat where Gordon Kesler faced heckling during a power struggle, with three union members dominating the question period and a crowd that crowded out public participation. A critic notes disrespect toward the Queen and cites Canada’s monarch as head of state.
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W.C.C
Gordon Kesler
Medicine Hat
Mr. Kesler
Republic
United States
Elizabeth II
Canada
Commonwealth
Lester Pearson
O Canada
O. Collin Foremost
Alta
Willmore Wilderness Park Fight Shapes Grande Cache Future
Editorial argues against transforming Willmore into a Kananaskis Country II to aid Grande Cache businesses. It cites Heritage Fund spending on Alberta resort development and warns such moves threaten the park’s wildland integrity. The piece urges voters to demand preservation of Willmore as a wild area.
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Grande Cache
Marvin Moore
Kananaskis
Willmore
Bob Dowling
Willmore Wilderness Park
Lougheed
Moore
Calgary
Edmonton
Roy Osborne remembered for decades of service to handicapped
Longtime community volunteer Roy Osborne served nearly twenty years on the Rehabilitation Society board. Colleagues express gratitude for his devotion to the handicapped and note the pleasure of working with him.
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Roy Osborne
The
Rehabilitation Society
Reader's rights letters policy from The News
The News invites readers to submit letters on public interest topics. Letters should be about 300 words, typed and double spaced, and include the writer’s full address and both home and business telephone numbers for verification. Letters without this information will not be published, and The News reserves the right to edit letters for fit.
The Ottawa Men by J L Granatstein reviewed as political thriller
A critical appraisal of The Ottawa Men argues the book reveals a cadre of mandarins who shaped Canada’s wartime and postwar path. It highlights figures from Mackenzie King to Pearson, their Oxford ties, central roles in External Affairs and Finance, and the shift toward a centralized state.
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Ottawa
Canada
J.L. Granatstein
Grantstein
Mackenzie King
Louis St. Laurent
John Diefenbaker
Lester Pearson
Granatstein
Liberal Party
Africa
Oxford
Cambridge
William Lyon Mackenzie King
King
O.D. Skelton
Clifford Clark
Graham Towers
Bank of Canada
Arnold Heeney
Pearson
Jack Pickersgill
Robert Bryce
W.A. Mackintosh
Louis Rasminsky
Mitchell Sharp
A.F.W. Plumptre
Escott Reid
Hume Wrong
Dana Wilgress
Oxford University Press
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Frank Webber
Stein
Walter Tederoff
Highwood
Olds- Didsbury
Cottontail
By Doug Sneyd
Japan
T. Roy Osborne
Reader’s Rights
Charles Lynch
Vincent Massey
Massey
Washington
Wrong
Quebec
Gatineau Hills
Edward Blake
Franklin Roosevelt
Dean Acheson
Roosevelt
Bryce
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