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Local News

Morinville Council Briefs Jan. 28 meeting

Petition Bylaw Goes to Referendum

Council had only two options before it when deciding to pass Third Reading of the Photo Radar & Red Light Camera Bylaw – approve the Bylaw or let the community decide through a vote of the electors. After unanimously approving Second Reading, Council chose to send the matter to the polls on April 14… […]

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Legal

Our Morinville

Our Morinville is an opportunity to view life through our community members’ lenses. Photos can be of this and surrounding communities, cool photos from places our readers have visited. The pages are wide open on possibility. Each month we will select one photo as the choice of the month… […]

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Local News

Jan. 29 Print Edition download

Our weekly print edition will be at our more than 100 locations in Morinville, Cardiff and Legal Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday. If you are unable to obtain a copy at one of our more than 100 locations… […]

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Editorial & Opinion

Column: Joe Morinville

I don’t have a theme this week like I sometimes do. Although the theme is kind of crazy stuff going on here and there and my opinions about the crazy stuff going on here and there…. […]

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Local Sports

Community Basketball program success extends to high school

by Stephen Dafoe

Morinville – After seeing his basketball players win 65 straight games, three city and three provincial championships, basketball coach Serge Froment is seeing many of the players he has watched grow up in the game taking to the court at Morinville Community High School. Froment, who is involved with the Morinville Orijen Sabretooths, formerly the Road Runners, is now also coach of the MCHS Senior Girls basketball team, a team who will be hosting a tournament Jan. 30 – Feb. 2…. […]

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Editorial & Opinion

Editorial – get out and walk

Get out and walk is an expression we hear as a passenger when we have so irritated the driver that they no longer want to haul us around. But it is also used as a call to action to encourage us to better health, both physical and mental…. […]

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Arts & Culture

Winter reading program is coming

by Morinville News Staff

The Morinville Community Library is offering book lovers of all ages an opportunity to win an e-reader simply by doing what readers love to do – read books. From Feb. 1 to 28 Morinville Community Library cardholders can receive an entry form for every five hours they spend reading…. […]

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Local Sports

Jets face two tough teams over weekend

by Stephen Dafoe

The Morinville Jets hit the ice to face the two toughest teams in the league over the weekend – the West Division’s top-ranked St. Albert Merchants, and the East Division’s first-placed Fort Saskatchewan Hawks. The Jets fell 7-4 to the Merchants in St. Albert Friday night, but defeated the Hawks 8-3 on home-ice Sunday evening…. […]

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Local News

Town wants people to walk for a day

by Morinville News Staff

If Morinville’s Recreation and Cultural Coordinator Melonie Dziwenka has her way, the streets of Morinville will be full of people out for a winter’s walk Feb. 5. That is the day the province has designated Winter Walk Day, an initiative to remind Albertans about the importance of being active. Dziwenka and the Town support the provincial initiative and are hoping residents will register in solid numbers for the event…. […]

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Local Sports

Kings finish season in second place

by Stephen Dafoe

Morinville – With their first regular season in the North Central Hockey League behind them, the Morinville Kings are pleased with their 2nd place finish in the North Division and league overall. The Kings started the season with a .500 record in their first four games, but the club turned things around to take their next six games without interruption. In fact, the Kings went on to win 14 of their 18 games this season, three of those played over the past weekend… […]

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Local News

Morinville and Area Adopt-A-Pet Jan. 26 edition

The Morinville News has teamed up with the Morinville Veterinary Clinic once again to help get some of our community’s stray animals adopted out to good homes. We have produced a little video segment to let you see the animals currently in needs of homes, and we encourage our readers to share this commonity news segment with your friends…. […]

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Morinville News

RCMP officer and Military Police seize drugs and gun

by Morinville News Staff

A suspicious vehicles stopped through a partnership between Morinville RCMP and CFB Edmonton Military Police resulted in the seizure of drugs, cash and a weapon. Police stopped the vehicle on Highway 28 in Sturgeon County Jan. 24. A subsequent search of the vehicle resulted in the seizure of approximately $3,600 in cash and a sawed off shotgun… […]

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Local News

Health Minister seeks Sturgeon River nomination

by Tristan Turner

Morinville – Early Wednesday morning, Rona Ambrose, the Federal Minister of Health and Member of Parliament for the riding of Edmonton-Spruce Grove, announced that she would be running for the Conservative nomination in the riding of Sturgeon River… […]

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Legal

Ambrose makes defibrillator program announcement in Legal

by Morinville News Staff

Legal – Federal Minister of Health Rona Ambrose, representatives from the Heart and Stroke Foundation, and an advocate of Automated External Defibrillators (AED) gathered at the Legal Curling Club Wednesday afternoon to announce the life-saving units would be installed in recreational arenas across the country. In her second stop of the day in the region, Minister Ambrose announced that more than 2,000 AEDs, an electronic device used to restart a person’s heart… […]