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by Stephen Dafoe
The Morinville Community Library is getting ready for another of their popular silent auctions, a week-long event that offers patrons and visitors an opportunity to acquire some great items for their Christmas shopping lists while raising funds for library programming… […]
by Lucie Roy with files from Tristan Turner
Council began hitting the local coffee shops Monday morning, part of their plan to talk to residents about the 2015 budget where residents gather. Council started with a 7 a.m. to 8 a.m. session at Friends and Neighbors Monday morning and will hold a 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. session at the Green Bean Coffee House and Bistro Monday night… […]
by Colin Smith
The farmsteads that dotted the countryside in the 1950s are mostly long gone, sacrificed to agricultural progress. However the bygone era will be summoned again in photographs to be displayed in Morinville this week as part of a travelling photo exhibit which will visit a few northern Alberta communities in November. Kim Bessette of Homestead Aerial Photo will be at the Rendez-Vous Centre on November 21 with a collection of historic images of area farms that were taken from the air… […]
Ollie Green with walnut rolls ready for tasting and a poppy seed roll for sale at the Farmer’s Market on Friday night.
– Lucie Roy Photo… […]
by Lucie Roy
From the Farm is the title of the Alberta Farmers’ Market Association (AFMA) cookbook, a new publication that coincides with the AFMA’s 20th anniversary. Morinville Farmers Market Manager Korien Sampson said the book was off the press two weeks ago, but that she rcieved the book in time for last Friday’s market… […]
by Lucie Roy
The historic final Multiple District 37L meeting was held in Edmonton Nov. 1 with several Morinville Lions Club members in attendance. Multiple District (MD) 37L District Governor Bob Hunter of Cardiff also spoke at the event.
In addition to preparing for the Lions International 100-year anniversary in 2017, the Lions are in the midst of a historical re-districting affecting Montana, Alberta… […]
by Lucie Roy
Alberta’s Minister of Culture and Tourism, the Honourable Maureen Kubinec, handed out $76,000 to two organizations Wednesday morning… […]
by Colin Smith The annual Fill-A-Bus campaign in support of the Morinville Food Bank will once be taking place during […]
by Colin Smith
Lite Up The Nite is coming up and this year there will be even more reasons to take in the Christmas festival, which runs November 28 to 30… […]
Our weekly print edition will be at our more than 100 locations in Morinville, Cardiff and Legal Wednesday, and in 1400 mailboxes Thursday due to holding space for Remembrance Day… […]
by Colin Smith
What are Morinville’s three most important strengths from an economic development perspective?
That question was posed to local business people who attended a recent session devoted to development of a strategic action plan for the town’s economy…. […]
Here is some of what our cameras caught last week…. […]
by Stephen Dafoe
Rising above 100 Street in Morinville’s downtown core is a brand new 5,300 square foot office building for the law firm of Putnam and Lawson. The building is nearly three times the size of the firm’s former location across the road. The project broke ground Apr. 1 and Gord Putnam, Andrew Lawson and their staff open the doors Nov. 12 on a new chapter in the 28-year-old law firm’s story… […]
by Lucie Roy Ecole Notre Dame, Morinville Public, Georges H. Primeau and Morinville Community High School took time to remember […]
by Stephen Dafoe
A Morinville woman is advising residents of a phone scam making the rounds. Jackie Luker says she received a call Nov. 6 advising her she owed Revenue Canada money and that if she didn’t pay up, the police would be knocking on her door… […]
by Morinville News Staff
For the 17th consecutive year, Coach’s Corner will open its doors for the Annual Santa Store Auction on Nov. 22. The annual fundraising event for the Midstream Support Society’s Santa Store raised more than $22,765 last year for a community program that ensures low-income families are able to provide a Christmas for their children…. […]
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