22-Feb-12The events centre project will move forward - at a cost. City council voted last night to move into Phase two of the three phase project. It will see a detailed wish list of what council wants in the facility outlined. Private companies can then create plans and submit bids. The phase will cost the city 1.3 million dollars most of which is covered through grants and the events centre reserve. It's the last step before a yes or no vote on the events centre constructionThe municipal budget proposed two weeks ago will go ahead as is. It comes after debate last night regarding a missing line in the budget. Despite a fourth fire station being deemed necessary in 2010, there is no money for it in the next three year plan. Alderman Robert Dumanowski fought hard for the project last night saying expansions to the family leisure centre and an events centre seem to be taking priority. By a vote of 5-3 it was decided the fire station would not be added to the budget. Alderman Hamill and Thompson supported Dumanowski in the effort City police are crediting the work of a patrol officer with preventing something more serious - when he checked a suspicious vehicle in a remote part of a city park last Friday night. The officer found a 14 year old female in the car with a 32 year old man. Inspector Glen Motz feels the officer's intervention was noteworthy. 32 year old Bradley James Mastel - a teacher at Parkside school in Redcliff, is facing 5 charges related to sexual assault. Police say he was acquainted with the 14 year old girl - and did not meet over the internet. Mastel was released on several conditions including no contact with anyone under 16 - and he must go no closer than 3 blocks from Parkside school in Redcliff. He's in court again March 6th A mineral that has been a mainstay to the economy of Saskatchewan - has been found in Alberta. More importantly - it's been found near Medicine Hat. Brian Testo - the President and CEO of Grizzly Discoveries - says they have confirmed the presence of potash in a test well near here. Testo says his company has also found potash in other test wells in the Provost and Lloydminster areas. More drilling will be needed to prove whether or not the potash is economically viable There will be a special meeting of the S.E. Alberta Rural Crime Watch Association on Thursday night. The meeting was called to give producers an update on cattle rustling in this area. Two RCMP officers will be in attendance. The meeting is set for 7 pm this Thursday night at the Longfellow Hall Alberta landowners upset with how the province takes over their land will soon be able make their concerns known through a property rights advocate. Environment Minister Diana McQueen says the government will introduce legislation this week to create the advocate job. Critics called the announcement pre-election window dressing by a government that refuses to address core concerns over land expropriation. McQueen said the bill reflects the feedback a panel of government M-L-As heard last month when they toured 10 communities to hear landowners' concerns Star gazers got quite a treat last night when a bright light streaked across the sky above Alberta and Saskatchewan. Witnesses went to Twitter to say they saw a blue and pink flash Tuesday evening between Lloydminster and Saskatoon that lasted just a few seconds. One person who was driving near Martensville, just north of Saskatoon, describes seeing a ball of fire suddenly light up the sky. Allan Hildebrand, with the University of Calgary's department of geosciences, suggests that whatever caused the flash probably wasn't man-made space junk. He says if anything fell to the ground, it probably landed in Saskatchewan More bodies have been found aboard the capsized cruise ship on the Italian coast. Authorities say divers today found four bodies, including that of a five-year-old Italian girl. Twenty-one bodies have now been found on the ship, which struck a reef in mid-January and capsized. Eleven people remain missing |
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