Arts & Culture

Locals take part in world’s greatest scavenger hunt

Three local women spent an entire week stepping outside their comfort zones while putting a smile on plenty of faces.

Collette Bachand, Paige Brenneis and Alexis Ebert took part in GISHWES – The Greatest International Scavenger Hunt the World Has Ever Seen.
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Columns

Healthy Routes Column: Chronic inflammation and how to cool it

The pursuits of summer have great rewards: Vitamin D absorbed in abundance, exercise in the fresh air, the produce of the garden, and the satisfaction of seeing a lot of jobs done. The downside is a frequently occurring complaint after all these activities. From the pain of a sunburn or a sting from an insect to the sore aching muscles and joints after physical exercise inflammation is the immediate result of many of these activities. […]

Arts & Culture

Town and community group partner to peddle their plants

Plants and bicycles met volunteer hands Aug. 5 at the Town of Morinville and Morinville Centennial Community Gardens gathered to do something decorative and green in honour of last weekend’s Tour de l’Alberta cycling event.
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Local News

Week in photos

Morinville residents Linda Lyons and Cliff Haryett have created a few laughs in their neighbourhood with their photo radar lawn ornament, Harryett recently built as a conversation piece. […]

Local News

Sturgeon County and Morinville take gold

by Lucie Roy

Sturgeon County resident Rosa Semenchuk, alongside her teammate Vivian Oko of Westlock, won gold at the Alberta 55 Plus Summer Games. The gold medal was in the Pickleball 65+ Women’s Doubles event, which qualifies the duo for the Nationals to be held in Ontario next year. […]

Local News

Police turn to public for help on business break-in

On Friday, July 3, 2015 the Morinville RCMP responded to a call for service with regards to a Break and Enter overnight to the Spartan Energy Corporation Well Site, located at Highway 642 and Range Road 270, Sturgeon County, AB.
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Local News

Police report suspicious person

During the early morning hours of July 31, 2015, an unknown male was observed lurking outside a residence in the area of 107 Avenue in the Town of Morinville. The unknown male was peering through the bedroom window of the residence for an undetermined amount of time and only fled once he was discovered by the tenants. Police did obtain a description of the male observed. […]

Local News

Minister tours fields in Morinville

Provincial Agriculture and Forestry Minister Oneil Carlier conducted a field tour with Merle Jacobson, Chief Operating Officer, Agriculture Financial Services Corporation (AFSC), with respective staff Tuesday afternoon.

Minister Carlier said the Morinville area farm was the third he had looked at, the other two being in Westlock and Smoky Lake. […]

Local News

Life in soil and light farming

Morinville was one of seven stops in Alberta for Australian soil ecologist Dr. Christine Jones. Jones is on a tour of the Northern Hemisphere with her workshop and field day on Amazing Carbon and the Fundamentals of Soil. Jones is an internationally renowned ground cover and soil ecologist and is an active participant and supporter of an Australian movement into a Soil Carbon Accreditation Scheme. […]

Local News

Collisions down over August long weekend, RCMP say

RCMP report the number of collisions in the province were down over the August long weekend when compared to the same period in 2014.

Police say there were 264 collisions this year, 40 fewer than in 2014. However, collisions involving at least one injury were up from 43 in 2014 to 45 in 2015. Both years saw three fatalities in the province. […]

Legal

Morinville will vote in new federal riding this fall

It became official after Prime Minister Stephen Harper met with Governor General David Johnson on Sunday: Canada’s 42nd election campaign is on.

Canadians will vote in a general election on October 19 following a 78-day campaign, more than double the usual length in recent decades. […]

Business

RV City expanding to former Honda Dealership location

The old Frontier Honda sign letters lay by the side of the building. Soon, new signage will go up as RV City works on the first of three phases of expansion in Morinville.

Co-owner Ross Hodgins said the decision to relocate his Honda Dealership to St. Albert was largely Honda driven as the company is looking to increase their urban presence with more destination dealerships. […]

Local News

Week in photos

Rotary Club of Morinville President Sheldon Fingler (above) spent a little time in front of the camera recently, making a couple commercials that will air on CTV soon. […]

Arts & Culture

Festival Society bringing back the Country Fair this month

The Morinville Festival Society is embracing the community’s rural roots and launching their second annual Country Fair later this month. The event takes place Aug. 22 and organizers promise a day of activity from sun up until the sun goes down. […]