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Fire Department gets its million dollar baby

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By Stephen Dafoe

Morinville – Current and former firefighters gathered together with local politicians and members of the public at the Morinville Fire Department Saturday afternoon for the arrival of Morinville’s new $1.2 million ladder and pumper truck.

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Heartland power line meeting set for Thursday night

By Stephen Dafoe

Morinville – After making newspaper headlines and the evening news for their gathering at the AUC public session held in Morinville Oct. 25, a group of area residents opposed to the Heartland Transmission Project are set to hold their own meeting Thursday night.

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Business owners get lesson in fraud prevention

By Stephen Dafoe

Morinville – With fraudulent payment card crimes increasing from 100,000 affected cards in 2007 to 230,000 in 2009, debit and credit card fraud is something the RCMP are concerned about.

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Businesses have two weeks left for directory listings

By MorinvilleNews.com Staff

Morinville – The presses are warming up to put ink to paper for the 2010-2011 Business and Community Directory being produced by the Morinville and District Chamber of Commerce. […]

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Food producers eligible for $5,000 grant

By MorinvilleNews.com Staff

Edmonton – The province is inviting Alberta producers to apply for a new federal-provincial grant to help them further enhance food safety practices in their operations.

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Vanier school invites community to read

By MorinvilleNews.com Staff

Morinville – École Georges P. Vanier School students had the opportunity to hear a Halloween story and hear about the readers’ jobs in the community last week.

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Vipers off to a solid start

By Stephen Dafoe

Legal – It’s been a good start to the North Central Hockey League season for the Legal Vipers. After earning back-to-back victories in their season and home openers Oct. 16 and 23, the club went on to suffer a 10-1 defeat … […]

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New print news-magazine coming to Morinville

By Robert Jump

Morinville – A fire chief, music teacher and newspaper reporter might seem like an unusual threesome to launch a new publication, but that’s precisely the combination putting their heads together to come up with the concept behind Morinville’s Monday Morning News: a print news-magazine set to hit the streets later this month.

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Talk about the towns

By Étienne Thevou

Dale Dinsmore and Linda Ferguson of Pleasant Homes pose with some of the garage sale items that were available in their Fourth Annual Charity Garage Sale Friday afternoon. The two-day event brought in $2,700 for the Morinville Food Bank Society, a number that will be matched by Pleasant Homes … […]

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Titans pick up three points in two outings

By Stephen Dafoe

Morinville – Halloween seemed to have taken its toll on the Morinville Titans Sunday night. Despite only one defeat in eight outings, the Titans were more than sluggish Oct. 31, tying their game against the visiting SWZ Sentinels late in the third period. The 3-3 tie gave both clubs a point for their efforts and the Titans a 4-1-3 record on the season.

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Council and residents clash over AUMA spending

By Stephen Dafoe

Legal – Council Chambers played home to a sometimes heated exchange between Legal Council and Legal residents Jeannie and Dan Charrois. At issue was the approximate $7,650 being spent to send the whole of council and some administrative staff to the Alberta Urban Municipalities Association conference and trade show in Edmonton later this month.

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