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The day in photos

Flooding waters that rose up the edge of driveways on 79 Avenue and 97 Street in Morinville’s South Glens subdivision Tuesday were devoid of water Tuesday afternoon. Morinville Public Works crews continued to pump water that had overflowed the subdivision’s storm … […]

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SJB Festival looking to spread the joy by spreading it out a bit

By Morinville News Staff

Morinville – This year’s St. Jean Baptiste (SJB) Festival is looking to give attendees more bang for the buck, even though many of the events are free once again. Festival Chair Paul Smith said the Morinville Festival Society is looking to keep the festival as big as it has been in the past, but the plan is to spread the events more evenly over the three days allotted to this year’s summer festival… […]

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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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MCHS takes a pair of golds at music festival

Photos By Lucie Roy

Morinville Community High School (MCHS) students Sabrina Belland, Brooke Charland Tyler Troy, Brianna Borgen, Olivia Imbrogno, Emily Casavant and Lena Krause were each awarded a Gold Certificate Wednesday morning after their performance at the St Albert Rotary Music Festival… […]

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Local students win provincial recognition

By Lucie Roy

Morinville – Camilla School students Sheraton Eve Boddez and Kiera Berube placed first and second respectively for their School Grade category in the Alberta Provincial Rural Crime Watch (APRCW) Poster Contest for 2013. Boddez received a plaque from Alberta Justice and Solicitor General, a $65 cheque from Alberta Provincial Rural Crime Watch… […]

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Community Band looking for a few more members

By Stephen Dafoe

Morinville – With a core of four solid musicians working on a repertoire of pop numbers, the Morinville Community Band is looking to take the show on the road this summer – at least around the community. The present problem is if the drummer gets sick or the bass player takes a holiday, the band loses a chunk of its groove. A missing vocalist means an instrumental set. A missing guitarist means the band is down to bass line and percussion… […]

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Caviar Players present Shakespeare’s Great Dame in Hamlette

Stephen Dafoe Photos

Hamlette, the Caviar Players’ most recent theatrical production, offered a contemporary spoof on Shakespeare’s Hamlet. The troupe put on three shows in three days, starting with a performance at Chateau Sturgeon Lodge in Legal Thursday night. The play was performed Friday night and Saturday afternoon at the Morinville Community Cultural Centre. […]

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What’s on this weekend

Morinville’s Caviar Players will be staging Allison Williams’ comedy of life at Elsinore Castle when the Great Dane is actually a Great Dame. At 50 minutes or so this lighthearted modern work runs faster than Shakespeare’s male oriented traditional version, but it’s just as violent and gory, while there are a lot more laughs… […]

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Blues Berries to play blues, swing and all that jazz

By Stephen Dafoe

Morinville – The Morinville Community Cultural Centre has a swinging blues deal coming up Apr. 13 when the Servus Credit Union-sponsored Blues Berries show comes to town.

Blues Berries consists of Arnt Arntzen on guitar, Evan Arntzen on saxophone, Jennifer Hodge on bass, and Andrew Millar on drums… […]

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Primeau Pride shows in annual talent show

From top: Jaylaa Cattaruzza, Shakira Hall and Leigh Anne Stelter conclude their performance at the 19th Annual Georges H. Primeau Talent Show. Seventy-nine students participated in this year’s show, held Mar. 21 on the final day of school. See more photos on pages 14 and 15. – Stephen Dafoe Photo… […]

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Musical time planned at library during March Break

By Stephen Dafoe

Morinville – Singer, songwriter, performer and Juno Award nominee are a few of the hats children’s entertainer Mary Lambert wears. Lambert will be bringing her high-energy show to the Morinville Community Library Mar. 27.

Lambert has performed more than 3,000 shows since beginning her career 20 years ago. Those performances have included libraries, schools and music festivals. Over the past two decades she had released a dozen CDs and two DVDs of her live concert performances… […]

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Clockwork Mysteries was Spellbinding Fun

Show Review By Ashley Janes
Photos and Video By Stephen Dafoe

Last Friday night an excited crowd gathered at the Morinville Community Cultural Centre to watch the first magic show the venue had ever hosted. The illusionist was Ted Outerbridge and the production, Clockwork Mysteries, had generated a lot of interest in the weeks leading up to the show date. Like all witnesses to an illusion, the town wanted to know: how does he do it? … […]

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Illusionist dazzles Morinville before show begins

Illusionist Ted Outerbridge levitates his on and off stage partner Marion Outerbridge Wednesday afternoon outside the Morinville Community Cultural Centre. The Outerbridges will be performing Friday night at 7:30 p.m. […]

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Weekend in photos

Battle Cry Rend lead singer Carol-Lynne Quinn shows why she was nominated Edmonton’s female vocalist of the year Saturday night […]

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Historical book has Morinville connection

By Stephen Dafoe

Morinville – A former Morinville resident will launch her first non-fiction book this week in Edmonton. Jessica Kluthe’s book Rosina, the Midwife tells the story of the author’s great-great-grandmother who was a midwife in post-war Italy. Kluthe will launch the book Mar. 14 at Grant MacEwan Univeristy’s Bookstore – City Centre Bookstore – from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.

The titular subject of the work was from Southern Italy, a place Kluthe fell in love with while researching the book. However, in post-World War II Europe, such love was not the case for many Italians. Some 26 million citizens… […]

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They’re mad about Lego

By Stephen Dafoe

Morinville – The program room of the Morinville Community Library was filled with the sounds of children being creative Wednesday night. Approximately 22 boys and girls came out to the library’s first Lego Club session, a new program that will be held on the first Wednesday of the month from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

The idea to start the club came from nine-year-old Lego enthusiast and library volunteer Diego Oyarzun who has been working with the plastic connecting blocks since he was four. For Oyarzun, stacking Lego lovers in a room together made as much sense as stacking the blocks together to make something unique. .. […]