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Chamber president praises award winners and nominees

Dear Editor:

As you may or may not know Char Parrent of the Flower Stop was a Finalist for the 2010 Alberta Business Awards of Distinction. This is an amazing honour for one of our local businesses to be nominated and make it as one of the four finalists in the Small Business … […]

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Letter: Businesses make Valentine special for local couple

Dear Editor:

I would like to give my thanks to: Don & staff at Don’s Bistro, Julie & Noreen at Vintage Petals Tea House and Kelley at Kelliey’s Deli & Bakery from myself and my husband.

My hubby and I went for breakfast at Don’s Bistro on Sunday… […]

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Letter: Morinville Centennial Community Gardens

Dear editor:

This year is Morinville’s 100th anniversary and we invite you to join in the festivities by participating in the Morinville Centennial Community Gardens. This is a return to our roots with a modern twist. Our objective is to promote community spirit, education and provide a place to grow healthy food inexpensively… […]

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Column: Family Day no holiday for some

Dafoe’s Dossier

Monday marks another Family Day in Alberta, the cap to a long weekend that encourages Albertans to spend time with their families. While that is precisely what many of us will do, there are those families who will be deprived of that opportunity because they have to work. I’m not talking firefighters, police or other emergency service workers, but those workers whose job it is to man the tills and stock the shelves in retail operations throughout this province, retail operations that could be closed on a day set aside for the Albertan family, businesses that should in fact be closed on a day set aside for families. […]

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Editorial: Recognizing the best we have to offer

A MorinvilleNews.com Editorial

February 14 marks a special occasion around our newsroom. Monday Morning News has just released its 13th issue marking more than three months of coverage in Morinville and MORINVILLENEWS.COM has been online providing Morinville and surrounding area … […]

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Guest editorial: AUMA 2010 report from Legal council

By Legal Councillor Phil Hughes

This Year the AUMA convention was held in Edmonton at the Shaw convention centre.

The AUMA gives elected officials in Alberta a chance to network, learn about programs available for their community, provide toolkits and resources to better their communities and allows them an opportunity… […]

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Column: Snark one up for the Wildrose

One of the last things Premier Stelmach said in his recent announcement about stepping down as PC leader was that the next provincial election would see US wedge-style politics being used to attack personalities. He was, of course, referring to the Wildrose party; a party whom he defined … […]

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Editorial: Now is the winter of our discon-scent

Those of you who follow what’s going on in Morinville know that at the first council meeting after the election Deputy Mayor Paul Krauskopf directed Champion Petfoods President Frank Burdzy to come back to council in January with something concrete on what the company was going to do about a certain olfactory by-product of its cooking process… […]