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Local News

Wednesday Print Edition Download

Our weekly print edition will be at our more than 100 locations in Morinville, Cardiff and Legal Wednesday morning. This week’s edition is 24 pages of local relevant news. If you are unable to obtain a copy at one of our more than 100 locations, you can download it here… […]

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Morinville News

Little Warriors looking for local support

By Stephen Dafoe

Morinville – A local supporter of Little Warriors is disappointed with the news the organization was unsuccessful in their application for $650,000 in provincial grant funding. Little Warriors, a national charitable organization that focuses on the education and prevention of child sexual abuse, has been raising funds to build the Be Brave Ranch, a centre that would provide a 30-day in-treatment program for children who are victims of sexual abuse, providing them with the therapy the organization feels is necessary to help them now and in the future.

Morinville resident Brandi, herself a victim of sexual abuse and a woman whose last name we have agreed to withhold, spearheaded a letter-writing campaign last October to get Albertans to write to Premier Alison Redford as well as provincial and federal politicians seeking their support for the Be Brave Ranch initiative… […]

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Morinville News

The day in photos

Tamara Deib added to her collection of can tabs at the Morinville Lions Club Jan. 28. Deib started collecting the tabs last summer and increased her efforts in November, collecting them at school and around Morinville. The tabs are collected … […]

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Editorial & Opinion

Editorial: This editorial did not cost $55,000

If you missed Premier Alison Redford’s conversation with Albertans Thursday night, it is probably because you were getting ready to watch the Oilers game. Judging by commentary among acquaintances on Facebook Thursday night, Yakupov’s game-saving goal that drove the Oilers into overtime was of far greater importance than the current state of the province or what that might mean to funding programs or raising taxes down the road. Not sure why that whole turning our backs on the hockey… […]

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Local Sports

Morinville Jets winning streak continues

By Stephen Dafoe

Morinville – A pair of weekend wins gave the Morinville Jets their seventh and eighth consecutive wins Jan. 25 and 27. The club started the weekend with an 8-2 road victory over the Leduc… […]

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Local Sports

Morinville Sports Shorts

The 1st Morinville Scouts participated in their 3rd annual Oil Kings Sleepover Saturday. The scouters attend the regular game, followed it with an autograph session, then set up camp and watched a movie on the jumbotron before turning in for the night…. […]

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Arts & Culture

Puppet workshop this weekend

Kaybridge Puppets, who were last in Morinville with their Princess and the Pea performance during Alberta Culture Days, will be back in town this weekend with a puppet workshop… […]

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Editorial & Opinion

Column: Pure Physique – A New Resolution

By Lara Thompson, Personal Trainer and Owner of Pure Physique

Question: Only a month has passed since I made my New Year’s Resolution and I’ve already missed workouts and slipped on my diet. Why is it so hard to keep to my diet and exercise resolutions… […]

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Editorial & Opinion

Column: From the desk of Enforcement Services

By CPO Sergeant James Alaeddine

The winter freeze has turned many sidewalks and roadways into skating rinks, making it difficult and dangerous to get around town. At times, I have witnessed pedestrians walking on the road to avoid the slippery walkways. All persons within the Town that own, control or occupy property that adjoins any sidewalks shall remove (or cause to be… […]

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Arts & Culture

Jake’s Gift results in mixed emotions

By Stephen Dafoe

Morinville – The audience at the Morinville Community Cultural Centre had their emotions pulled in opposite directions for an hour Thursday night during Jake’s Gift, a multi award-winning Canadian play written and performed by Julia Mackey… […]

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Local News

Here’s what’s on this weekend?

The Morinville Festival Society is looking to help families beat the winter blahs by taking one of Canada’s great pastimes indoors. In their first mini-festival outside the annual St. Jean Baptiste Festival, the society is bringing a street hockey skills competition to the cultural centre Jan. 26, tying the event to the Will Stroet children’s concert taking place the same day. The event is sponsored by Champion Petfoods. Look for their referee shirts on festival volunteers… […]

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Morinville News

Morinville Festival Society updates Council on plans

By Stephen Dafoe

Morinville – The Morinville Festival Society will have a little freer rein on how to allocate $35,000 in funding from the Town of Morinville after a 30-minute presentation to Council Jan. 22… […]

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Local News

Merchants ready to say goodbye to the penny

By Stephen Dafoe

Morinville – In 2012 the Government announced it would phase out the penny this year due to the rising costs of minting the coin and the fact large quantities of the coin were sitting inside jars in Canadian households instead of flowing through the country’s cash registers. Estimating an annual savings of $11 million per year, the Government set a transition date of Feb. 4 to begin ridding the country of the penny. That date was shifted from an earlier date to accommodate merchants who felt phasing out the coin over the busy Christmas season would be problematic… […]