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Cardston cries Woolf |
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Written by Ric Swihart
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Saturday, July 17 2010, 8:25 PM |
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Alberta history and horse racing got a major shot in the arm in Cardston Saturday when a $150,000 full-sized bronze sculpture of town-born, world-famous jockey George Woolf aboard 1938 horse of the year Seabiscuit was unveiled at the Remington Carriage Museum.
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Wilderness group questions forest management plan |
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Written by Dave Mabell
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Friday, July 16 2010, 10:07 PM |
It’s a new plan, but an Alberta environmental group says it’s based on old, logging-oriented thinking.
The provincial government released a new forest management plan for southwestern Alberta this week, allowing loggers to cut more of the older timber that dominates the Crowsnest Pass region.
Sustainable Resource Development Minister Mel Knight says the new plan aims at protecting water resources and decommissioning old resource roads — a move designed to help grizzly bear numbers recover. It updates policies that were put in place in 1986.
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Bacteria with an appetite for oil |
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Written by Caroline Zentner
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Thursday, July 15 2010, 10:29 PM |
A team of 11 undergraduate students at the University of Lethbridge is spending the summer on a project that could one day help clean up toxins in tarsands tailings ponds.
Their project involves creating an engineered bacteria with a propensity for munching on a compound in oilsands tailings ponds. They’re working feverishly to have the bacteria ready for the iGem (International Genetically Engineered Machine) competition held annually at the Massachusets Institute of Technology. This is the fourth time U of L team has entered the contest.
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ABCP settlement terms disclosed |
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Written by Gerald Gauthier
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Wednesday, July 14 2010, 10:10 PM |
The belated disclosure Wednesday of details of the city’s settlement with National Bank regarding tainted asset-backed commercial paper will hopefully remove any lingering questions about city council’s willingness to be open about the issue, says Ald. Rajko Dodic.
“In my mind, it should” put the issue to rest, he said after announcing National Bank had agreed to waive a confidentiality provision in the agreement which allows the city, at its option, to accept $5.9 million in January 2011 in exchange for a $7.9-million portion of replacement notes which would likely fetch far less on the open market.
Copies of the agreement, approved by council Nov. 30, 2009, were circulated Wednesday to local media and are being made available to the public through the city clerk’s office.
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Area health care gets high marks |
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Written by Dave Mabell
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Tuesday, July 13 2010, 10:16 PM |
Southern Alberta’s health care has received a vote of confidence — from Saskatchewan.
A national survey released this week ranks Medicine Hat area medical services the best in Canada — among regions with less than 200,000 people — and places Lethbridge and area sixth among 15 regional health organizations surveyed.
The study, reported by the University of Regina, places that city’s medical care in second spot among over-200,000 centres across Canada. Tops was Moncton, N.B., while Victoria and Ottawa followed Regina.
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