Editorials, columns and letters to the editor from our readers.
You’d think that carrying a baby around for nine months, then enduring the unimaginable agony of child birth would be the last thing a mother should ever have to do for her child. But we know that simply isn’t the case because motherhood is a life-long job… […]
You will be receiving your property assessment and tax notice for 2012. If you have any questions regarding the assessment of your property please do not hesitate to call us at 780-939-4361… […]
Dear Editor,
When I took Drivers Education a year ago, they told us that we shouldn’t drive with our high beams on when in traffic. The fog lights on a car do about the same thing. But what is the difference?… […]
While local volunteers were gathered at the Morinville Community Cultural Centre Friday night to celebrate the people in this community who jump in when there is work to be done, I was in Calgary standing in line to spend a brief moment with two of my childhood heroes: Adam West and Stan Lee. The former, the actor who played my generation’s Batman… […]
It was interesting to watch one of the vacuous TV talking heads announce with complete seriousness Monday night that there were no real surprises in the PC majority. Of course many of us were quite surprised given the vast number… […]
There is a misconception by some, both outside and inside the province, that Alberta is full of intolerant rednecks, homophobes and religious extremists. I say misconception because in the seven years since I’ve moved here I have yet to meet these people. Instead, I have found Albertans to be very tolerant and accepting… […]
Former US Speaker of the House Tip O’Neil is said to have coined the phrase all politics is local. It’s a pretty popular train of thought south of the border, the idea that a politician’s success is directly proportional to their ability to influence government to act on the issues of interest to his or her constituents… […]
Dear editor:
To the thieves who stole the amethyst rock from our front lawn in (Gibbons) while we were away on vacation… […]
The Apr. 9 issue of Monday Morning News will be the last issue of Monday Morning News we publish. No, we are not going out of business – far from it… […]
To the editor,
Morinville’s 11.8% power reduction during Earth Hour is very good, far better than most Canadians towns and cities. However, it may be that the public would take the event even more seriously if the stated reasons for the activity were more solid… […]
By Clayton Rosaasen
With summer peering around the corner, not quite here yet, evidenced in the recent snow dump, but certainly coming, one can picture a group of youngsters looking at the ice cream menu trying to figure out what flavour to make a mess with. Now making a mess may be the operative word in more ways than one as you finish this column… […]
The Town of Morinville throws a big party once a year to recognize all the people who volunteer in the community by serving on boards, coaching kids in sports, hosting events, and all the other things that people do to make this community…well a community… […]
Editor’s Note: As in the 2010 municipal election, MorinvilleNews.com’s editorial policy is to open our editorial pages to one guest editorial from each candidate during the election… […]
The article recently written by Lucie Roy of the Morinville News was well appreciated by the board of the Centralta Tourism Society, `CTS`. The year 2011-2012 was filled with involvement and varied successes. In Legal the CTS, painted five more murals. Two of the five murals will be installed shortly… […]
If you smelled something unpleasant in Morinville Monday, it wasn’t necessarily Champion’s famous blend. Chances are it was a little sidewalk steamer Education Minister Thomas Lukaszuk and his government left in the middle of Main Street… […]
“I’m sorry; Johnny cannot come out to play with you because your mom took away his school.”
Although not exactly the verbiage used, it is not far off what we are hearing and feeling in the streets of Morinville post town hall meeting with Education Minister Thomas Lukaszuk Mar. 15… […]
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