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Editorial & Opinion

Column: From the desk of Kerry Dawson Community Services

The new year is here, and already great things are happening in our town. Your Community Services team is working to bring you quality recreation and cultural activities in 2013. Registration has begun for winter programs for all ages – see what’s available … […]

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Arts & Culture

Jake’s Gift coming to cultural centre

By Stephen Dafoe

Morinville – There have been many acts that have crossed the stage at the Morinville Community Cultural Centre. Few of those acts have been plays. Fewer have been plays performed by a single actor.

Jake’s Gift is a multi-award winning Canadian play written and performed by Julia Mackey that will be performed at the cultural centre Jan. 24… […]

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Morinville News

Recreational open house looks at the future of region’s needs

By Stephen Dafoe

Morinville – About 60 residents attended a Regional Recreation Master Plan open house at the Morinville Community Cultural Centre Thursday night. The joint efforts of six municipalities were thrown up on easels for residents to take a look at and give their thoughts on. The Sturgeon Regional Partnership of Bon Accord, Gibbons, Legal, Morinville, Sturgeon County and Redwater laid out their second stage of efforts on a Regional Recreation Master Plan at open houses held at several County locations this week. Morinville was the final stop. This week’s efforts follow on a series of open houses held in October… […]

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Editorial & Opinion

Editorial: Speak up on how your recreation dollars will be spent

Twelve seniors walk into an open house and tell a handful of consultants that what the region really needs are cribbage halls in every community.

Consultants, wanting desperately to write something on those big easels they like to cart around with them everywhere, write down the input and take it back to the municipalities in Sturgeon County… […]

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Morinville News

Morinville Traffic Safety Bylaw passes second reading

By Stephen Dafoe

Morinville – A new bylaw that will consolidate existing rules while adding a number more made it a little further to becoming Town of Morinville law Jan. 8. Council gave unanimous second reading to the new Traffic Safety Bylaw.

Although the document was reviewed by the RCMP, Community Peace Officers, Public Works, the Traffic Safety Committee and the Town’s executive team, David Schaefer, Morinville’s Director of Corporate Services, is taking the bylaw through three separate readings on three separate nights to make sure the document is worded in such a manner that it will be … […]

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Local Sports

Jets clip Hawks in tight game

By Stephen Dafoe

Morinville – The Jets picked up their second consecutive win Tuesday night, a 7-6 decision against the visiting Fort Saskatchewan Hawks. The home-ice victory brings the Jets to 15-11-0 and added another two points to their season tally… […]

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Morinville News

Morinville Council Briefs

Council gives thumbs down to Northern Lights Library Services request*

Morinville Council gave six thumbs down to the idea of accepting a .22 per capita increase to the Northern Lights Library System (NLLS), which provides services to the Morinville Community Library and other libraries in Sturgeon County… […]

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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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Editorial & Opinion

Column: Joe Morinville

Come Feb. 4 the government is going to start keeping all the pennies that get turned into the banks and then they will be no more. Folks are talking that the nickel is going to be next. I hate to see the penny go, but it got me to thinking about all the other stuff we used to love that isn’t around now, at least not as much… […]

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Morinville News

Police briefs: Two charged with stolen property

Morinville RCMP arrested two females Jan. 5 in connection with a number of thefts from vehicles, fraud and break and enters in Sturgeon County.

Rachel Dawn Lorenz, age 26, of Gibbons, has been charged with possession of stolen property as well as an additional 16 criminal code charges. Lorenz was also arrested and charged on Dec. 24, 2012 following a complaint of thefts from vehicles in Morinville… […]

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Editorial & Opinion

Column: Healthy Routes – Your Picks of 2012

By Gladys Kublik, owner Neighbors Vitamin Shop

All the reflections and reviews of the year gone by prompted us to do a review of our own. After reams of reports generated by our system and in depth analysis by our inventory specialist we were able to compile a short list of our best sellers for 2012. So in the ever popular countdown format, we thought we would share the results with you… […]

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Arts & Culture

Morinville Festival Society looking to break the ice with family fun

By Stephen Dafoe

Morinville – 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… […]