Arts & Culture
Primeau showcases their talent
Above: Gracie Arcand and Shayla Herceg mix dance and acrobatics. by Stephen Dafoe stephen@morinvillenews.com Twenty-two acts hit the stage Mar. […]
Month: March 2016
Local News
Morinville ranks ninth in Earth Hour event
FortisAlberta announced its 2016 Earth Hour Challenge results Thursday, and Morinville ranked ninth out of 25 Alberta communities that participated in this year’s event.
Earth Hour took place on Mar. 19, from 8:30 – 9:30 p.m. with communities vowing to shut off the lights in an attempt to use less power than the same period the week before. […]
Local News
Lions receive banner patch from STARS
The Shock Trauma Air Rescue Society (STARS) is thanking the Lions Club for all of its support over the last 30 years.
The Lions of Alberta Foundation is a founding partner of STARS, and the first flights were flown as the Lions Air Ambulance. The Lions Club has played a vital role in getting support from both the rural and urban communities. […]
Columns
National Column: Liberals pick up where they left off
For all the talk about a new activist federal era, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s first budget largely picks up where Paul Martin left off – at least when it comes to spending priorities.
Improving the terms of the relationship between Canada and its indigenous people was front and centre on the former Liberal prime minister’s radar. At the time of its defeat in 2006, the Martin government was about to start implementing the Kelowna Accord. […]
Local News
Morinville Council Briefs
Council has unanimously approved setting up a meeting between Administration, the Midstream Society, the Morinville Food Bank Society as well as two Council members to discuss the two organizations further needs. […]
Editorial & Opinion
Editorial: The Morinville News is APPY to serve our readers
The Morinville News will continue to publish a print edition each Wednesday as we believe that relevant print editions are still a valuable tool to inform the public. But we don’t stop there, nor did we start there. […]
Columns
National Column: Government betting that Canadians’ dreams include deficits
Welcome to the era of deficits and dreams.
Some of the dreams are deferred, but the deficits seem cast in stone. […]
Local News
Council names former CFO Andrew Isbister CAO
Mayor and Council passed a resolution during the Mar. 22 Regular Meeting of Council to formally appoint Andrew Isbister as the Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) for the Town of Morinville.
Mr. Isbister has been employed with the Town of Morinville since December 2009 as the Director of Financial Services. He took over the role of Interim Chief Administrative Officer Jan. 26, following Council unanimously terminating the position of former CAO Debbie Oyarzun. […]
Arts & Culture
Morinville filmmaker produces documentary on Zappacosta
Canadian pop and rock singer Alfie Zappacosta rose to fame as the face of Zappacosta, but after peeking with his song Overload appearing on the Dirty Dancing soundtrack in 1987, his relationship with his career came to a breaking point. […]
Columns
National Column: Liberal success is rivals’ failure
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is unveiling the long-awaited first Liberal budget today to a more receptive audience than when he was elected last fall.
According to an Abacus poll published over the weekend, a majority in every province except Alberta approves of his performance to date. […]
Arts & Culture
Rotary sells out Cash show, books second night
The Rotary Club of Morinville planned to host an evening of entertainment dedicated to Johnny Cash, but have sold out the show more than a month ahead of the event, prompting organizers to arrange a second show.
“We are in the enviable position of selling out the show,” said promoter Rob Shapiro, who told Morinville News a second show has been booked at the Morinville Community Cultural Centre April 22 with a dinner at 7 p.m. and the show at 9 p.m. The original – ow sold out – show will take place Apr. 23 at the same time and place. […]
Morinville Sports
Sports shorts
The Sturgeon Peewee 2 team brought home gold this past weekend from the 16-60 PeeWee 5B Gold Championships.
The team is made up of: […]
Columns
Column: Joe Morinville
It seems like the people in Morinville are more interested in talking about what Mr. Trump is doing and saying than what our own politicians at all levels of government are doing and saying. Suppose that makes some sense on account of our own politicians not being as colourful as the American ones, […]
Columns
National Column: First budget big on spending and hope
Justin Trudeau is said to have hit on the idea of running deficits last July while brainstorming with aides just weeks before the election call.
The following month, in late August, he unveiled that plan and, according to Trudeau, that was the day he believed he won the election. […]
Editorial & Opinion
Letter: Re Town To Get LAV Monument, Hoping To Raise $50,000
Once again, I have no problem with the reporting, but do have an issue/problem with the topic under discussion.
Before I delve into whether the Town of Morinville should support (or not) this acquisition of a Light Armoured … […]
Business
Town tells thrift store to vacate
by Lucie Roy Morinville News Correspondent Midstream Support Society members Linda Krauskopf and Joyce Preeper talked to the Morinville Lions […]