The Morinville Community Library is kicking off this year’s St. Jean Baptiste Festival with an evening of stand up comedy, a fundraising event taking place on Friday, June 20, at 8 p.m. at the Morinville Community Cultural Centre. The show will include sets by three comedians, including local up-and-comer Wyatt Ziegler, Edmonton native, Scott Belford, and headliner, Lars Callieou… […]
by Morinville News Staff
Morinville – The Library may not be the first place people think of when they think of loads of laughter,
but this year’s festival may just change that. The Morinville Community Library is partnering with the Festival Society to open this year’s St. Jean Baptiste Festival with an evening of Stand Up Comedy featuring three talented comedians…. […]
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With Earth Day upon us, and a very strange winter full of rain and extreme cold drawing to a close, now is a good time to think about the environment. It doesn’t matter whether you care about climate change, or how dedicated you are to keeping your little part of the world clean; it’s simply about changing thinking patterns. Instead of buying something new, packaged in obscene amounts of plastic, styrofoam and cardboard … […]
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Morinville – The Morinville Community Library announced Thursday it has purchased a quantity of laptops formerly used by Career Employment Counselling Services Centre (CECS), which closed in December 2013 due to government cutbacks. The $6,000 purchase was a three-way partnership between the Morinville Community Library, the Friends of the Library Society, and Stephen Dafoe, owner of the Morinville News. Each partner contributed $2,000 to the purchase. The laptops will be used in computer education courses, soon to be offered by the library as part of their effort to compensate for the CECS closure… […]
Morinville – It’s a Monday night and the program room of the Morinville Community Library is filled with the sounds of sewing machine motors whirring and women laughing. The mixture of mechanical and mirthful sounds is the result of a group of eight local women, all members of the Loose Threads Quilting Club, who have been enjoying the social and creative aspects of quilting for the past four years… […]
by Stephen Dafoe
Morinville – Although the Morinville Community Library has become known for being more than just books these days, the printed word is still its stock and trade. Next week the library will be joining with libraries throughout the nation in defending intellectual freedom and the right to curl up with a good book, no matter what ideas and concepts those books may contain… […]
by Stephen Dafoe
Morinville – If you know where Wayne Gretzky was married, who the first Prime Minister of Canada was or how many Oscars Daniel Day-Lewis has won, then Battle Macchiato is an event you may not want to miss. The fancy title is the moniker given to a new Library Trivia Night offering being offered outside the library… […]
By Ashley Janes
Photo Credit Kathryn-Hollinrake
Morinville – Bestselling author Kelley Armstrong will be speaking at the Morinville Community Library from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Sept. 26. Well known for her Women of the Otherworld series and her best-selling Darkest Power trilogy, Armstrong is embarking on a fall national tour to deliver author talks about writing and publishing popular fiction. In the following interview, she discusses her inspirations, past success, and future endeavours:… […]
By Morinville News Staff
Morinville – The Program Room at the Morinville Community Library will provide the setting for a twice-monthly writers’ workshop that mixes craft and critique in one two-hour session… […]
And the band played on
Primeau student Luke Zacharias was playing the trombone at the Spring Band Concert held Tuesday night at the Morinville Community Cultural Centre. Band students from Primeau and MCHS performed for an hour with a mass band finale with the Grade 8-12 Band members coordinated by Primeau Conductor Nicole Baker and MCHS Conductor Corinna Cormier. – Lucie Roy Photos… […]
By Stephen Dafoe
Morinville – Students may still have a few more weeks of having the schoolbooks open, but the Morinville Community Library is already making preparations for vacationing students to keep up with their reading over the summer… […]
By Morinville News Staff
Morinville – The Town of Morinville is once again recognizing its seniors by helping them keep up with their reading. Council voted unanimously in favour of once again footing the bill for any Morinville senior that takes out or renews their library card during Seniors’ Week. .. […]
A jazzy affair
Brothers Arnt Arntzen on guitar and Evan Arntzen on saxophone (shown) were joined by Jennifer Hodge on bass, and Andrew Millar on drums to complete The Blues Berries, a quartet who brought their Jazz, Jive and Wail show to the Morinville Community Cultural Centre Saturday afternoon… […]
By Stephen Dafoe
It’s not all about the leather chairs and slick fireplace at the Morinville Community Library, but it’s accoutrements like these that showed nominators this is not the stereotypical library of the past, a building full of dusty and musty hardcovers and dog-eared paperbacks. This is very much the library of today, if not the library of tomorrow… […]
By Stephen Dafoe
Morinville – Singer, songwriter, performer and Juno Award nominee are a few of the hats children’s entertainer Mary Lambert wears. Lambert will be bringing her high-energy show to the Morinville Community Library Mar. 27.
Lambert has performed more than 3,000 shows since beginning her career 20 years ago. Those performances have included libraries, schools and music festivals. Over the past two decades she had released a dozen CDs and two DVDs of her live concert performances… […]
By Stephen Dafoe
Morinville – The program room of the Morinville Community Library was filled with the sounds of children being creative Wednesday night. Approximately 22 boys and girls came out to the library’s first Lego Club session, a new program that will be held on the first Wednesday of the month from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
The idea to start the club came from nine-year-old Lego enthusiast and library volunteer Diego Oyarzun who has been working with the plastic connecting blocks since he was four. For Oyarzun, stacking Lego lovers in a room together made as much sense as stacking the blocks together to make something unique. .. […]
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