Reeve Jo Van Ooyen Elected in Cypress County
Cypress County voters elected Jo Van Ooyen as reeve at a Tuesday organizational meeting replacing Jack Osadczuk who led for about 12 years. Everett Burk drew deputy reeve three month terms. Osadczuk praised the council and noted tax stability and a growing reserve since incorporation.
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Jo van Ooyen
Jack Osadczuk
Osadczuk
Jenner
van Ooyen
Coun
George Russill
Jack
Everett Burk
Brooks eyes taxes for pavement and boulevard plans
Medicine Hat residents may pay a yearly frontage based tax for road and sidewalk repair replacing the local improvement tax. The council weighs a boulevard tax on Second Street West and Cassils Road with rebates for businesses that maintain plantings and lawns. otherwise the city will manage and tax the boulevard.
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Medicine Hat
Don Weisbeck
Weisbeck
Second Street
Cassils Road
Tragedy averted in Trans-Canada crash near Brooks
A three-vehicle collision at the Highway 36 Trans-Canada intersection near Brooks involved a car a pickup and a semi. Two female occupants were taken to hospital with non life threatening injuries while the pickup driver 56 year old Brooks man faces a failing to proceed safely charge. The intersection has a history of crashes including a 1998 fatality at Cassils Road.
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Brooks
Highway 36
Brooks Rcmp
Sonja Stroud
Brooks Hospital
Cassils Road
Trans-Canada
Stroud
Cassils
Brooks weighs two overpass options for Trans-Canada Highway
Brooks seeks concrete details before province decides on an interchange off the Trans-Canada Highway. Mayor Don Weisbeck cites two possible sites near Cassils Road and east near the Brooks campus of Medicine Hat College and calls for traffic studies and cost sharing. The town wants clear access for residential streets trucks and a potential commercial strip along the highway.
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Medicine Hat
Brooks
Cassils Road
Medicine Hat College
Don Weisbeck
Cassils
Darrell Camplin
Infrastructure Department
Southern
Newell
Weisbeck
Elkwater zoning debate hinges on water and traffic concerns
Cypress council hears 40 residents opposing a private developer’s zoning plan for 35 lots and 120 acres on Lake Elkwater shore. critics warn of lower lake levels, high water use for condos, sewage, fire protection gaps, and added highway traffic. supporters cite 400 gallons daily per 43 lots and lakefront setback.
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Dunmor Elkwater
Cypress Council
Elkwater Lake
John Hamill
Elkwater and District Community Association
Hamill
Rod Petrie
Planning Protocol Inc
Calgary
Darren Skovmose
Medicine Hat
No. 41
Linda Slemko
Shirley Rasmussen
Wes Mickey
Natural Resources
Mickey
James Gill
Elkwater Water Co-Op
Gill
Hat
Garth Felesky
Felesky
Moral dilemma guides council on home based escort firms
Medicine Hat city council faces a moral question over allowing escort agencies as a home based business. Alderman Kathy Mandeville argues against bylaw bans, saying decisions should reflect community interests and avoid moral discrimination while balancing residents and businesses.
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Medicine Hat
Kathy Mandeville
Community interests guide tough council choices on escort agencies
SHERI MURPHY-WRIGHT argues that councils should base decisions on common sense and community welfare, not moral outrage. She notes escort services operate discreetly from homes with minimal impact, while bars near schools show how moral fears distort public policy and harm neighborhoods.
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Council
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Rod Edwards
Cypress County
Dunmore
Brooks Eyes Taxes
Kingsway Avenue
South Ridge Park Playground
Mike Bednar
Howard Sales
Alliance Church
13Th Avenue S.E
Elkwater
Sheri Murphy-Wright
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