Talk of the Town

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Let’s play ball!

The Morinville Mixed Slo-Pitch Association Red Eye Tournament took place over the weekend at the Skyline Ball Diamonds. Teams started playing Friday evening and played continuously until Sunday afternoon, competing in A, B, C, and D Divisions. Final results were not available by our press deadline.

– Stephen Dafoe Photos

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Morinville Food Bank received $1560 in donations from Champion Petfoods, the Rotary Club of Morinville and the Morinville & District Chamber of Commerce. See our full story here.

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Rotarians greeted their new exchange student at the airport Thursday. See our full story here.

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Peter MacArthur took these photos of a female Merlin on his backyard fence. “Merlins like to eat sparrows,” writes his wife Barbara. “By pure coincidence, there were no sparrows today.”

– Peter MacArthur photos

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Linda Lyons wrote: “First time I have seen the yellow-shafted flicker here. In the past, we had the red-shafted northern flicker.”

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Despite the message on the bird feeder, sparrows tussle for a bite to eat.

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Sparrows sit perched in a row on a Morinville fence.

– Stephen Dafoe Photo

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