Local News

Police investigate motorcycle fatality

At approximately. 8:35 p.m. Wednesday night, Morinville RCMP members were dispatched to a single vehicle collision on Highway 2, just south of the Highway 2 and Secondary Highway 642 overpass. […]

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Collision claims life

At approximately 11:12 am Morinville RCMP were dispatched to a two-vehicle collision on Highway 2 between Township Road 572 and secondary highway 651. […]

Arts & Culture

Westlock Centennial project being produced in Morinville

The Town of Westlock will celebrate its centennial in 2016, but preparations for that 100th-anniversary celebration are already well on the away. Part of those plans include a centennial celebration song and accompanying music video, being produced by Morinville’s Smith Music and PMPI, the latter the owner of The Morinville News. The song, written by Smith with some assistance from the committee is called Community With Spirit.
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Ambrose talks economy and security with local Rotarians

Canada’s economy and national security were the main topics of a 20-minute presentation to local Rotarians by Federal Minister of Health and Sturgeon River–Parkland Conservative candidate Rona Ambrose Aug. 12.

The Rotary visit was Ambrose’s second to the Morinville club. Her first visit was where she announced she would be running in the newly announced Sturgeon River — Parkland riding. […]

Legal

Legal’s Arinn Young helps forge another medal win

Legal resident, Arinn Young, and the Canadian Parapan Am Women’s Wheelchair Basketball Team, captured silver at the Toronto 2015 Games on Friday after dropping the gold-medal final 80-72 to the United States. The silver-medal finish earns Young’s team a berth into the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games. […]

Local News

Week in photos

Sunflowers burst and bloom in a Morinville Garden. Last week Communities in Bloom judges visited the community to do their evaluation. See page 12 for story. […]

Local News

Rona Ambrose speaks to local Rotarians [VIDEO]

Federal Minister of Health and Sturgeon River / Parkland Conservative candidate Rona Ambrose was the guest of the Rotary Club of Morinville Wednesday morning.

Ambrose’s roughly 20 minute presentation focused on two topics – the economy and national security.

Below are tow videos of Wednesday’s presentation.
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Arts & Culture

Communities in Bloom judges visit Morinville

Communities in Bloom judging took place in Morinville on Wednesday. Judges Doug Hornbeck and Berta Briggs did a tour of the town with Allen Jacobson, Community Development Coordinator, and Donald Fairweather, Operations Manager. […]

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Bon Accord named Canada’s first International Dark Sky Community

Over the past few years, Bon Accord has been embracing stargazing with its move towards preserving dark skies and encouraging tourism to those who want to view the stars. That effort has now paid off.

Bon Accord is the eleventh community in the world to receive International Dark-Sky Association (IDA) status but the first Canadian community on the list. […]

Local News

Town says chemical spill posed no environmental or human risks

Nearly seventeen litres of spilled paint on 100 Street Monday afternoon closed the road for three hours but posed no environmental or human risk; the Town told media Wednesday afternoon.

Morinville RCMP received a call Monday afternoon around 3:30 p.m. about a chemical spill on 100 Street in the area of the industrial park. Morinville Enforcement Services was asked to attend the call. […]

Editorial & Opinion

Letters: An Open Letter to Our Chamber of Commerce

Approximately two years ago, on August 14th, 2013, you issued a “press release” where it was reported:

“… Without delving into any specifics in the release, the Chamber says they believe the goal of obtaining a doctor can materialize, and plan to issue a five-step plan in the coming months.” […]

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. […]

Columns

Column: Joe Morinville

Well, the publisher of this rag up and went to Ontario last week to see his grand baby, and he come begging me to write something for the editorial page on account of his being away. So I blew the dust off of my computer and sat down to write what’s been going through my mind lately. […]