Medicine Hat city council closed its special council meeting held Monday shortly after it began with no substantive vote recorded on the “personnel issue” discussed during the more than two-hour session.

Hatter Bob Wanner received a headdress from Kainai elder Wilton Good Striker along with the Blackfoot name One Who Runs In Front during a chiefdom ceremony at Medicine Hat College Monday afternoon.

City council will be holding a special council meeting this evening to discuss a personnel matter, the third such session in as many months and coming on the heels of a damning municipal inspection report.

Cypress County fire department volunteers sprang into action Sunday afternoon and pounced on an out-of-control grassfire which threatened several homes off Range Road 40, just east of Dunmore.