http://morinvillenews.com Get the news while it is still news Mon, 06 Feb 2012 01:48:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 http://morinvillenews.com/2012/02/05/monday-morning-news-feb-6-edition/ http://morinvillenews.com/2012/02/05/monday-morning-news-feb-6-edition/#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2012 01:48:03 +0000 admin http://morinvillenews.com/?p=8336 http://morinvillenews.com/2012/02/05/monday-morning-news-feb-6-edition/feed/ 0 http://morinvillenews.com/2012/02/05/around-the-town-6/ http://morinvillenews.com/2012/02/05/around-the-town-6/#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2012 01:43:41 +0000 admin http://morinvillenews.com/?p=8331 http://morinvillenews.com/2012/02/05/around-the-town-6/feed/ 0 http://morinvillenews.com/2012/02/05/big-weekend-for-mchs-sports/ http://morinvillenews.com/2012/02/05/big-weekend-for-mchs-sports/#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2012 01:24:03 +0000 admin http://morinvillenews.com/?p=8328 Submitted Morinville – The MCHS Cheer Team did the school and community proud three times over the weekend. The team competed at Victoria High School in Edmonton this past Friday night. The already small team of five competed with only four girls, as they had suffered an injury ...]]> http://morinvillenews.com/2012/02/05/big-weekend-for-mchs-sports/feed/ 0 http://morinvillenews.com/2012/02/05/former-morinville-teacher-to-work-in-orphanage/ http://morinvillenews.com/2012/02/05/former-morinville-teacher-to-work-in-orphanage/#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2012 01:12:26 +0000 admin http://morinvillenews.com/?p=8325 By Lucie Roy Morinville – Students at Notre Dame Elementary School are helping a former teacher in her quest to help children thousands of miles away. Former Notre Dame teacher Debbie Martin and her husband Larry will be the first western Canadians to volunteer with the London, Ontario-based Blue House Effect Development Organization of Canada...]]> http://morinvillenews.com/2012/02/05/former-morinville-teacher-to-work-in-orphanage/feed/ 0 http://morinvillenews.com/2012/02/01/local-quilters-using-some-modern-techniques/ http://morinvillenews.com/2012/02/01/local-quilters-using-some-modern-techniques/#comments Thu, 02 Feb 2012 05:01:35 +0000 admin http://morinvillenews.com/?p=8319 By Lucie Roy Morinville – Quilt making has come a long way from sitting before the wood stove and using scraps of material to make a warm blanket. Mary Quaghebeur, Blenda Patterson and Madelain Scantland are three members of the Scrap Happy Quilters Club working on their creations on Wednesday afternoons at the Rendez-Vous Centre. The group meets for five hours each week, from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m., and mixes old and new techniques in their love of quilting...]]> http://morinvillenews.com/2012/02/01/local-quilters-using-some-modern-techniques/feed/ 2 http://morinvillenews.com/2012/02/01/fewer-attending-knights-of-columbus-breakfast/ http://morinvillenews.com/2012/02/01/fewer-attending-knights-of-columbus-breakfast/#comments Thu, 02 Feb 2012 04:51:57 +0000 admin http://morinvillenews.com/?p=8316 By Lucie Roy Morinville - The temporary relocation of the Knights of Columbus Community Breakfast from the RC Parish Hall to the Morinville Community Cultural Centre (CCC) has not been kind to the service club’s regular fundraiser. Grand Knight Andy Morin said his group likes to have a minimum of 200 come out for the Sunday morning breakfast, but said the group is not seeing those numbers in the new location...]]> http://morinvillenews.com/2012/02/01/fewer-attending-knights-of-columbus-breakfast/feed/ 2 http://morinvillenews.com/2012/02/01/mchs-students-start-second-semester-with-something-to-howl-about/ http://morinvillenews.com/2012/02/01/mchs-students-start-second-semester-with-something-to-howl-about/#comments Thu, 02 Feb 2012 04:44:28 +0000 admin http://morinvillenews.com/?p=8312 By Lucie Roy Morinville – Students at Morinville Community High School arrived for second semester Wednesday morning to find they had to walk the gauntlet of staff and teachers waiting to shake their hand...]]> http://morinvillenews.com/2012/02/01/mchs-students-start-second-semester-with-something-to-howl-about/feed/ 0 http://morinvillenews.com/2012/01/31/column-view-from-the-academy-a-new-perspective-on-impaired-drivers/ http://morinvillenews.com/2012/01/31/column-view-from-the-academy-a-new-perspective-on-impaired-drivers/#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2012 04:29:28 +0000 admin http://morinvillenews.com/?p=8309 By Stephen Dafoe I watched a woman drink an entire bottle of wine by herself Monday night. Drink after drink she consumed the alcohol until the bottle was empty. She was still standings, and although her words were not overly slurred or her stride too wobbly, there was a certain cockiness in her that wasn’t there when the bottle was still corked...]]> http://morinvillenews.com/2012/01/31/column-view-from-the-academy-a-new-perspective-on-impaired-drivers/feed/ 3 http://morinvillenews.com/2012/01/31/sturgeon-rural-crime-watch-good-value-for-your-crime-fighting-dollar/ http://morinvillenews.com/2012/01/31/sturgeon-rural-crime-watch-good-value-for-your-crime-fighting-dollar/#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2012 04:21:29 +0000 admin http://morinvillenews.com/?p=8306 By Stephen Dafoe Morinville – The idea of a bunch of rural residents sitting in secluded areas of Sturgeon County with binoculars in hand looking for crooks and criminals is not what Sturgeon Rural Crime watch is all about, at least not entirely. While the group, founded in 1983, still has as its main mission the goal of making Sturgeon County a safer community by increasing and strengthening crime prevention activities, ...]]> http://morinvillenews.com/2012/01/31/sturgeon-rural-crime-watch-good-value-for-your-crime-fighting-dollar/feed/ 0 http://morinvillenews.com/2012/01/31/notre-dame-students-take-a-world-tour-of-literacy/ http://morinvillenews.com/2012/01/31/notre-dame-students-take-a-world-tour-of-literacy/#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2012 04:15:06 +0000 admin http://morinvillenews.com/?p=8302 By Lucie Roy Morinville – Students and their parents were taken on a learning journey at Notre Dame Elementary School Jan. 26. The evening program, which encompassed the school’s gym, hallway, and one classroom, had students travelling the various locations with a passport, stamped at each stop for an opportunity to win prizes and an opportunity to learn the joys of good books. Approximately 100 parents and students attended the event...]]> http://morinvillenews.com/2012/01/31/notre-dame-students-take-a-world-tour-of-literacy/feed/ 0 http://morinvillenews.com/2012/01/31/seniors-and-student-views/ http://morinvillenews.com/2012/01/31/seniors-and-student-views/#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2012 02:58:11 +0000 admin http://morinvillenews.com/?p=8292 Compiled by Lucie Roy Seniors’ Voice - With Feb. 2 being Groundhog Day, we asked some local seniors if they were familiar with the tradition and if they believe in the groundhog’s predictions...]]> http://morinvillenews.com/2012/01/31/seniors-and-student-views/feed/ 0 http://morinvillenews.com/2012/01/30/jets-fall-to-bruins-need-to-pick-themselves-up-soon/ http://morinvillenews.com/2012/01/30/jets-fall-to-bruins-need-to-pick-themselves-up-soon/#comments Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:10:30 +0000 admin http://morinvillenews.com/?p=8290 By MorinvilleNews.com Staff Morinville – The Jets Sunday road trip to face the Strathcona Bruins was not the outcome the club was hoping for, nor was it the outcome needed as the road to playoffs winds down. The Jets were defeated 8-4 by the Bruins, who are currently sitting in fifth place in the CJHL’s East Division at 29 points and a .426 win record this season...]]> http://morinvillenews.com/2012/01/30/jets-fall-to-bruins-need-to-pick-themselves-up-soon/feed/ 0 http://morinvillenews.com/2012/01/30/we-heart-humans-holds-weekend-clothing-exchange/ http://morinvillenews.com/2012/01/30/we-heart-humans-holds-weekend-clothing-exchange/#comments Mon, 30 Jan 2012 23:44:49 +0000 admin http://morinvillenews.com/?p=8287 By MorinvilleNews.com Staff Morinville – Approximately 40 local women got together Sunday afternoon to swap clothes and to help support a couple of charities. The Woman’s Clothing Exchange, put on by the anonymously-run Morinville group We-Heart-Humans, was held at the Dance Connections studio on 100 Street. The local business donated the use of their ...]]> http://morinvillenews.com/2012/01/30/we-heart-humans-holds-weekend-clothing-exchange/feed/ 0