Local Sports
Morinville Kings still in the game
After a rough 7-1 loss to the Tofield Satellites Jan. 23, the Morinville Kings fell 7-5 in Game 2 of their best-of-five playoff series at home Jan. 30. […]
Month: January 2016
Local News
Week in photos
They’re in the NEWS Morinville Public School students Meagan McCoy and Chloe McAuliffe had their articles about the school’s Career […]
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Rendez-Vous Centre elects president and board, membership growing
The Rendez-Vous Centre held their Annual General Meeting (AGM) Jan. 27 with more than 40 people in attendance.
Nominations were required to fill five vacancies, and four volunteers stepped forward, three currently serving on the board, and one new member, Jeannette McMillan. The Board of Directors’ first regular meeting will be an Orientation and Planning Meeting Feb. 1. […]
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Lions fundraising to send Cadets to Vimy Ridge
The Morinville Lions Club is going to sell Vesey’s Bulbs from now until May 1. The fundraiser is part of their contribution to support the 3061 (1 CER) Morinville Royal Canadian Army Cadet Corp’s program to send some cadets to France to attend the 100th Anniversary of the Battle of Vimy Ridge commemorative ceremonies in April of 2017. […]
Local Sports
Senior Girls take silver in 22nd Annual Home Tournament
It was a silver-medal weekend for the Morinville Community High School Wolves Senior Girls basketball team.
The girls swept the tournament with two straight wins before falling in the championship game by a 25-point margin.
The road to victory began Friday morning with a 79-33 win over R. F. Staples. In that contest, the Senior Girls […]
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RCMP looking for distracted drivers in February
Local RCMP will have their eyes open for those drivers whose eyes are anywhere but on the road. Each month law enforcement throughout the province focus on a different aspect of traffic safety, and February’s focus is on distracted drivers. […]
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Rescue mission serves to train fire department and local business [video]
by Stephen Dafoe stephen@morinvillenews.com A full compliment of fire trucks and personnel arrived at Lafarge Canada Inc. in the Heritage […]
Province
Premier and Prime Minister to meet next week
Premier Rachel Notley will meet with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Edmonton Feb. 3 to discuss the economy and what can be done to manage the province’s current economic challenges. […]
Legal
Emotions high on bussing Francophone students
More than 80 parents gathered at the Rendez-Vous Centre Jan. 27 to take part in a consultation meeting on school bus transportation. Conseil Scolaire Centre-Nord / Greater North Central Francophone Education Region No.2 (CSCN) called the meeting to see if there is a large request to transport Morinville Grade 7 to 9 students to École Alexandre-Tache in St. Albert or to continue bussing students to École Citadelle in Legal. […]
Sturgeon County
County embarks on joint boundary growth study with St. Albert
Sturgeon County and St. Albert Council members have agreed to take the next steps in their on-going collaboration by embarking on a joint boundary growth study.
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Sturgeon County
Sturgeon County gets decent marks in survey
Results are in from the 2015 Resident Satisfaction Survey Sturgeon County put out between Nov. 17 and Dec. 11, 2015, and 88 per cent rate the quality of life as good to excellent. […]
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Morinville Council Briefs
In a unanimous decision – excluding the absent Councilor Boudestein – Council has voted to defer once again giving Second Reading to the Animal Control Bylaw. The vote came after a motion from Councillor Dafoe who was concerned Administration had not implemented any changes from what was heard at the public hearing and discussed at Committee of the Whole. […]
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One dead in morning collision
Morinville RCMP and emergency services responded to a serious motor vehicle collision on Township Road 570, approximately 1 kilometer West of Range Road 231 in Sturgeon County Wednesday morning at approximately 10 a.m. […]
Columns
National Column: Fiscal policy driven by discrimination
It was a huge victory for aboriginal children in this country and a day when historical wrongs could begin to be made right.
So why were there so many questions clouding a day being heralded by the country’s First Nations?
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Morinville Council terminates CAO
Morinville Town Council has terminated Debbie Oyazun’s position as Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) for the Town after a tenure of nearly four years. In a press release issued to media after Tuesday night’s Council meeting, the Town stated her position was terminated without just cause, and that they had named Town CFO Andrew Isbister as Acting CAO until Council completes the hiring process to find a replacement. […]
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Forage program offers farmers financial break
Ducks Unlimited Canada (DUC) and Crop Production Services (CPS) are offering a forage program that may be the solution for farmers affected by last year’s drought conditions.
The program is available to agricultural producers in the three Prairie provinces, and DUC/CPS say the program offsets the cost of Proven Seed forage varieties when producers convert cultivated land to hay or pasture land. […]