Morinville News
Police looking to return stolen property
Police are looking for the owners of a large quantity of stolen items nabbed over the past year. […]
Month: January 2016
Columns
Column: Jan. 6 Print Edition marks start of a new publication year
The Jan. 6 edition of The Morinville News marks the start of our 6th year of print publication. With this edition comes a format change to a taller conventional newspaper style. […]
Local Sports
Learn to Skate program putting blades on the ice
Youth of all ages will have the opportunity to improve and refine their skating skills starting the third week of January. The Learn to Skate Program is expanding in 2016 to include offerings beyond the Learn to Skate 1 and 2 offered in the past along with power skating basics. […]
Columns
Healthy Routes Column: How to decide on the best for your health
The New Year brings with it a sense of new beginnings, a fresh start and in the depths of January’s dark days a respite from the excitement of Christmas and time to plan for the future and also to reflect on the past year.
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Morinville News
Father’s House Morinville now closer to reality
It was three-and-a-half years ago that Greg Fraser’s congregation gathered in a Sturgeon County field on Father’s Day to hear the news The Father’s House was the church’s new name and the spot they had gathered to worship that morning was where that new church would rise. […]
Columns
Column: Joe Morinville
Well, the owner of this rag convinced me that I ought to come back and start writing a column again regular. I originally didn’t want to do it because of a number of reasons, but mostly it was the number of dollars offered. More like the lack of the number of dollars offered. […]
Columns
National Column: Twelve Canadians who will wield influence in 2016
by Tim Harper – Toronto Star By word or by deed, 12 people, five women and seven men, including a […]
Editorial & Opinion
Open Letter Regarding the Morinville Library
A recent letter to this newspaper outlined the issue with Sturgeon County funding to the Town of Morinville Community Library. While Keith’s arguments are valid, they focus on only one part of the funding issues. To support Keith and the Library, here are several other arguments that should be cause for Town Council and Morinville residents to reconsider the funding it gives to our Library.
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Morinville News
Ambrose will continue to challenge Liberal government in New Year
At the start of 2015 local MP Rona Ambrose could have had no idea that she would end the year as head of the Conservative Party of Canada.
Then the job came open with Stephen Harper’s resignation as the party leader following the conclusive defeat of the Conservatives in the Oct. 19 federal election. […]
Columns
National Column: Tongue-tied and twisted: The year in verbal gaffes
Well, we’ve all done it.
We’ve said something we immediately regret, or didn’t mean. Or we twist ourselves in pretzels to avoid saying something. […]
Morinville News
2015: A Brief Year In Review
Here is a quick look back at some of the stories we covered last year and how things turned out for the community.
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Morinville News
Around the town in photos
Theresa Sandstrom was the lucky winner of our 12 Pages of Christmas Contest. She dropped by our office over the holidays to claim her $600 in prizes, which included:
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Morinville News
2015: A look back at some Community Champions
by Morinville News Staff 2015 was a year of accomplishment and milestones in Morinville. As this sampling of Community Champions […]
Food & Health
Canadian Blood Services are hoping you will give life in 2016
Canadian Blood Services (CBS) will be back in Morinville next month for their first of six blood donor clinics in Morinville. The Morinville Rendez-Vous Centre is the venue for the clinics, which are put on with the assistance of the Morinville Lions Club and Knights of Columbus St. Anne Council. […]
Arts & Culture
Performing arts were alive in Morinville in 2015
The arts were alive in Morinville in 2015 with multiple live performances taking place in the community each month. Whether it was student actors putting on their school’s annual production after months of rehearsals, professional travelling acts making a tour stop at the cultural centre, or locals getting together to put on a show, Morinville and area residents had plenty of opportunities to catch a live act last year. […]