Police in Medicine Hat are expected to make a statement Tuesday regarding a local church potentially breaking capacity limits during Easter services, while Alberta Health Services says it is “working closely ” with local authorities about a potential breech of restrictions meant to slow the spread of coronavirus.
Senior officials with Heights Baptist Church announced last week they intended to hold a full-capacity service despite Alberta Health orders to limit gatherings in all buildings to 15 per cent of fire code rating.
The facility, located at 1250 Division Ave. S., appeared to host a large number of worshipers for Sunday morning services as Medicine Hat police maintained a distance of about a block away.
Local church appears to defy capacity limit
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Members of the Heights Baptist Church congregation leave services on Easter Sunday. The church had advertised that it planned to hold a full capacity service despite restrictions set by health officials attempting to slow the spread of COVID-19. NEWS PHOTO COLLIN GALLANT
A church in Medicine Hat that is challenging pandemic restrictions in court appears to have held a full service on Easter Sunday despite a capacity limit put in by health officials and new calls for vigilance against COVID-19.
Heights Baptist Church on Division Avenue was one of two churches in Medicine Hat that advertised on social media that they would host their entire congregations on Sunday.
RWA Human Services Plan
Issues Papers and Forum
RWA will hold the Human Services Plan
Phase Two Forum, for those that have been appointed to represent their
organisations and other RWA invitees, at the ATP on 24
th and 25
th
July 2006. Organisations had only a couple of weeks to pull together their
responses and the short timeframe did not allow word to get out widely to users
of services. Organisations similarly did not have much time to get input from
their members and service users. As a result only a small number of submissions
were received by the cut-off date. We have now seen all these submissions as