You’ve heard right, Medicine Hat Media now officially has a twitter account and is going to be updating it as frequent or more frequently than site updates or posts here. I went through the advanced search function on Twitter to try and find everybody from Medicine Hat to follow, so don’t mind how we follow so many people (I heard it’s a bad thing to do since people think you’re spamming). I promised a couple posts ago that we would stop using 80/90’s cartoons references and obscure internet dialect in these news-less posts, so this is pretty much the end of it then. Here’s our new badge:
Also, for no reason at all, there’s an obligatory 80’s cartoon intro after the jump:
Medicine Hat Forums (MedHatForums) is a mostly overlooked community based website with tons of information and news run by Travis Owen (aka triv). I also mentioned it previously in my community based website post. Travis posts lots of announcements based on happenings and news in the city, sometimes a lot more than we do. So, overall it becomes a good tool for locals and an alternate resource for news within the city.
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Travis is also pretty active on Twitter in which he goes by the name of “devrandom” if you want to follow him. On Twitter he posts mainly about happenings in and around his life, which sometimes coincides with his posts on the Medicine Hat Forums. Also, since he is a “techhy” of sorts, lots of his posts are about technical stuff, like operating systems, hardware, video games and the like.
I won’t really comment about the design or layout or anything like that as it seems to be just a template with some modifications to it to suit the function – which I am not saying is a bad thing at all. In fact, that’s how Medicine Hat Media originally started after all. So check it out, register, and join the discussion and community that Medicine Hat Forums has to offer.
The Hat Art Club (also known as the Medicine Hat Art Club) is a non-profit organization for artists in the city. It is also known to most as “what the Cultural Centre by the Medicine Hat College is used for”. Like I stated, the club’s main residence is in the Cultural Centre’s various studios and features many programs including classes and workshops to the public. Unfortunately I have posted this a little late in the game as most of the classes are ending this year until September but I may post an update later when they begin again.
The mandate of the club is to promote awareness of the various media of visual art and to encourage personal development and growth. The membership costs $100 a year but considering membership gets you studio space and access to things like a printing press, easels, drawing tables, etc. it’s well worth it even without doing any of the classes. Continue reading for the full list of both programs and benefits:
It’s that time of the year again! Garage Sale Medicine Hat Facebook group is in full swing and has been updating their yearly map of all the garage sales in the city. Earlier we posted a huge resource for buying and selling in Medicine Hat on Facebook here, but Garage Sale Medicine Hat is the largest and most active by far, not to mention the great service they provide by supplying this map.
Garage Sale Medicine Hat Facebook group
Medicine Hat garage sale map provided by Garage Sale Medicine Hat
In related findings, there seems to be a lot of huge garage sales happening this weekend. Some worthy of mention are:
Shannon Cresent – Block Sale
This is a huge block sale that includes households, No. 9, No.12, No.19, & No.23. (possibly more added later). May 1st: 9am to 7pm & May 2nd: from 9am to 4pm (Some open possibly on May 3rd).
Fifth Ave United Church Flea Market/Garage Sale
May 1st and 2nd. Starts at 9AM.
Santa’s Flea Market & BBQ
The Medicine Hat News Santa Claus Fund will be hosting Santa’s Flea Market & BBQ one day only. Saturday, May 2nd, 10am-4pm.
Indoors @ 740 Smelter Avenue SE (directly behind the All Nighter on South Railway Street)
I have been doing some digging today (witty pun) and Dugg up Medicine Hat Media on Digg.com. You Dig?
Check it out if you feel inclined to and digg it if you want, the more diggs, the more people will see it. You digg? Diglett? Dugtrio! Quoting Pokemon? I am not a cool guy anymore, as if I ever was before. Add me as a friend too if you would like to.
http://digg.com/arts_culture/Medicine_Hat_Media_in_Medicine_Hat_Alberta
Vaughn’s comment:
Okay, we should probably stop doing posts that are full of puns and reference 90’s cartoons…
*UPDATE: It worked! There is now a Medicine Hat network, update your profile!*
It’s been several years since I’ve lived in Medicine Hat and several years since I’ve been on Facebook, yet there is still no Medicine Hat network on Facebook – forcing people to use Calgary as their main network. Funnily enough though, there is a Medicine Hat College network where students can register to if they are a student or former student.
Through what I have been able to find out so many people have to hit “suggest a network” (anywhere from 10 to 25 people from what I’ve seen) and submit it for Facebook to create the network. But that seems like it would have already happened by now? There is even a group called “Hey Facebook. Make Medicine Hat a Network“.
Let’s try to get the ball rolling here, everybody go here and fill out the form: Suggest a New Network.
The newest old Medicine Hat Media logo
Medicine Hat Media was first came into realization after many days of wondering what to name ourselves in an ongoing discussion between Sean and myself. We eventually settled on “Medicine Hat Media” – it just had a good ring to it, plus it fit our vision of what the site would be. Unknowingly for us, “Medicine Hat Media” was a a physical company before we snagged the .com domain in 2008.
Looking back, we actually already suspected that this domain was being used for some purpose before because we were getting link backs from other Medicine Hat sites that attributed us (or the Medicine Hat Media before us) to website design and development. Through the Internet Archive Wayback Machine, I was able to take a look at what existed before in two entries:
November 20th, 2004
February 13th, 2005
From what we are able to see (from the portions of the site that still work) it was a graphic and web design company with a team made up of Mike Helton, James Robertson, and Niko Poulopoulos. Where they went or what they did after is a mystery! Judging from their earliest archived site, it seems like they might have been around longer than 2004 too, since they refer to that site as version 2.0. Comment if you have any stories or know anything else about the previous Medicine Hat Media.
The Family Leisure Centre located in Crescent Heights of Medicine Hat and is a popular destination in Medicine Hat for swimming, skating and and hockey, weight room, and also sports outdoor sporting fields.
Family Leisure Centre Website Banner
The swimming area includes a children’s pool, a fair sized wave pool, three larger pools used for swimming lessons and aerobics, lane swimming, and a deeper pool for diving boards, the water slide, and swinging from a rope, as well as a hot tub and and steam room. Sadly, there is not a sauna.
The skating rink often has hockey and skating events going on, but is also open to the public at certain times for public skating.
The weight room, while not overly large, contains most of the basic weight lighting and cardio machinery, such as treadmills, bench presses and other weights, pretty much everything you would need to have a good work out, though they are missing the obligatory Tony Little Gazelle.
Purchasing an admission pass to the swimming pool also couples with the weight room, so take advantage of it if you can.
There is also a fairly concession stand that offers many things like drinks and snack foods.
Birthday parties are commonplace at the Leisure Center, and often their recreational room has many banners and balloons strung up along the walls. More information regarding having a birthday party can be found on their website: http://www.medicinehat.ca/FLC/parties.html
Whether you are looking to swim, skate, work out and are younger or older, the Leisure Centre is the place to go.
I’m sure most of you know this website by now since it’s fairly popular in the city, but you might not know the details. Medicine Hat Menus is a website dedicated to listing full local restaurant’s menus. They also offer maps, links, addresses and other information (all the common YellowPages stuff).
Medicine Hat Menus Logo
Quite a few restaurants (30+) are listed but there is also some that aren’t – most of these places that aren’t listed are chains or corporations. Medicine Hat Menus is more about local food and restaurants and big chains probably don’t see any value in a site like this – but I still think they should at least take advantage of it. I think it’s a great service and probably more useful than any traditional advertising restaurant owners in the city use; however, Medicine Hat Menus also promotes itself and its clients in the Medicine Hat News newspaper (physical print advertising) and on the Medicine Hat News website through skyscraper ads which really justifies the cost. I’ve also spotted some promotions in hotel and motel room directory books, catering to out of town people. I’ll also say while I am involved in the design and development of the project, I do personally believe in it 100% and I also just struck a partnership (link exchange) between our sites.
Donna Macauley is a visual artist in Medicine Hat. She has taken four years of post-secondary art education including two years of Visual Communications in Medicine Hat and two years of Fine Arts at the University of Calgary.
I first viewed her work hanging in Western Pizza, which was a welcome change to most restaurants having typical and highly recognizable artwork or bland artwork. Donna’s pieces on the other hand are intriguing and what is more, local, and that aspect alone makes it a lot more interesting to me.
Image courtesy of Wallgear.net
Her abstract pieces are definitely my favourites, but she also delves into still life, portraits, and modern renderings.
More samples of her work as well as contact information for Donna Macauley can be found at http://www.wallgear.net or head down to Western Pizza to enjoy some good food and check the art out.
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