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Arts & Culture

Morinville business community gathers the talent

Photos By Stephen Dafoe

Morinville – The Morinville and District Chamber of Commerce Leap Into Spring Expo filled the arena and curling club with a wide variety of business over the weekend, but the community filled the stage with a wide variety of talent…. […]

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Local News

Volunteer Appreciation week underway in Morinville

By Stephen Dafoe

Morinville – Building on the theme Volunteers Cast a Beautiful Shadow, the Town of Morinville will be spending the week showing how volunteers spread throughout the community like a shadow across a field… […]

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Editorial & Opinion

Progressive Views: Preamble Babble

By Tristan Turner

Over the weekend of Apr. 13, federal New Democrats held their bi-annual policy convention in Montréal. The convention was host to many policy changes, but in the eyes of the media, the most noticeable policy vote was on the preamble of the party’s constitution… […]

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Editorial & Opinion

Column: Here’s to our local superheroes

By Stephen Dafoe

Superman’s 75th birthday came and went last Thursday. Three quarters of a century have passed since Action Comics No. 1 was published, a funny book that brought the world one of its most iconic characters… […]

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Morinville News

Open house to revisit the future shape of Morinville’s downtown area

By Stephen Dafoe

Morinville – Seven months after the Town’s last open house on the possible shape of a future downtown Morinville, the Town is planning another event that indicates the preferred shape is likely to be round. Morinville’s Planning and Development Department will hold a public open house on the Highway 642 Functional Planning Study (FPS) Apr. 25. The event will run from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Morinville Community Cultural Centre. A formal presentation on the project will take place at 7:15 p.m.

The purpose of the FPS is to develop a long-term plan for 100 Avenue that ensures traffic and pedestrian safety on the road, deals with long-term access management into properties off the highway, determines future road requirements and required right-of-ways to allow for growth… […]

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Morinville News

Primeau’s Beauty and the Beast ends successful two-day run

Photos By Stephen Dafoe

Georges H. Primeau School brought Beauty and the Beast to the stage of the Morinville Community Cultural Centre Apr. 16 and 17. The show presented by teachers O’Gorman, Rivet, Workun and Riley brought together a cast and crew of 32 students plus a school choir. After many weeks of practices and dress rehearsals, the students performed the classic story for other students Apr. 16 before raising the curtain on the first public show that evening. The first public performance was followed by another well attended presentation Apr. 17. Below are some photos of the Apr. 17 performance… […]

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Local News

CAO says decision to wave fines based on legal recommendation

By Stephen Dafoe

Morinville – In a joint press release issued Apr. 10, Champion Petfoods and the Town of Morinville announced they had found some common ground on odour mitigation. In consideration for Champion staying the course on their odour mitigation efforts, the Town would wave $5,400 in tickets Champion had been issued prior to making progress on reducing odour from the local plant.

Over the past week there have been questions raised by residents wanting to know just who on Council made the decision to wave the fines… […]

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Editorial & Opinion

Column – Joe Morinville

I see Escape Travel is giving away a big prize at the Trade Show this weekend. Sure hope I win it. It got me to thinking about holidays and travelling. Here’s my thoughts on making holidays a little more fun…. […]

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Local News

Wednesday Print Edition

Our weekly print edition will be at our more than 100 locations in Morinville, Cardiff and Legal Tuesday afternoon or Wednesday morning. This week’s edition is another 32 pages of local relevant community news and includes a four-page pull out for this weekend’s Leap into Spring Expo (formerly the Chamber Trade Show)… […]

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Local Sports

Sturgeon Hockey Club gathers its champions

Photos By Stephen Dafoe

Morinville – The Sturgeon Hockey Club held its annual awards Apr. 15 ahead of the organization’s Annual General Meeting. Eleven awards were handed out to acknowledge the efforts of the hockey club’s coaches and players during the 2012/2013 season. Below are this year’s award recipients… […]

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Editorial & Opinion

Editorial – What to do about regional recreation

Council received the wrap up on a multi-month consulting project on recreation and recreational facilities in the region Apr. 9. The 122-page Regional Recreation Facilities Master Plan is a tough slog to read through, one of those documents that is full of consultant speak… […]

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Morinville News

Morinville in search of third youth worker in nine months

By Stephen Dafoe

Morinville – The Town’s Community Services department is once again in search of someone to work with Morinville youth after Kelsie Sharun, Morinville’s latest youth worker, announced she would be leaving Apr. 17 to accept a position with Edmonton Public Schools as a substitute teacher.

Morinville’s youth worker answers directly to the Town’s Family and Community Support Services coordinator, Karin Debenham, who joined Community Services in last December, filling a gap left vacant for a few months… […]

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Morinville News

The weekend in photos

A jazzy affair

Brothers Arnt Arntzen on guitar and Evan Arntzen on saxophone (shown) were joined by Jennifer Hodge on bass, and Andrew Millar on drums to complete The Blues Berries, a quartet who brought their Jazz, Jive and Wail show to the Morinville Community Cultural Centre Saturday afternoon… […]