Editorials by our staff
Editorial & Opinion
The results are in from our annual reader poll
Over the past week, we asked our online readers what sections of our publication were most important to them…. […]
Editorials
Editorial & Opinion
Editorial: Patience is a virtue
Editorial cartoonist Jeff Koterba’s commentary on modern impatience (shown above) is funny because it is a reflection of just how impatient we have become as a society. As the comedian Louis CK observed: We live in a science fiction age and still no one is happy… […]
Editorial & Opinion
Help us give you what you want
The Morinville News is about to start the fifth year of our weekly print edition and we are asking our readers to take this poll and tell us what types of news best resonates with you. […]
Editorial & Opinion
The Shop in Morinville Christmas Guide is here
We believe it pays to Shop in Morinville and the third annual edition of the Shop in Morinville guide hit your mailbox Monday, Nov. 24 in Morinville, Legal and surrounding areas…. […]
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Editorial: In praise of our firefighters
An SUV collides with a moose on a highway outside Morinville. Within minutes they are there to get the collision victims out of the wrecked vehicles and en route to hospital. A garage erupts in flames and shifts to the home it is attached to. Within minutes they arrive to battle the blaze and to protect neighbouring homes from destruction… […]
Columns
Working Smoke Alarms Save Lives
Working smoke alarms can make a life-saving difference in a fire. That’s the message behind this year’s Fire Prevention Week campaign, “Working Smoke Alarms Save Lives: Test Yours Every Month!”… […]
Editorial & Opinion
Editorial: What to do when you see a school bus
The Basic License Driver’s Handbook has the following to say on school bus dangers: “The greatest danger to the safety of students on a school bus happens when motorists pass a bus while it is loading or unloading students.”… […]
Editorial & Opinion
Column: Joe Morinville
I’d like to complain that I’ve been put on the sidelines for a couple weeks, but I’ve actually been away visiting family. But some stuff did go on while I was away so I might as well give youse my opinion on what I think about it all… […]
Editorial & Opinion
Editorial: Heading into our fifth year
June 11 marks the completion of the fourth year of MorinvilleNews.com, the website that preceded The Morinville News, the print publication you now hold in your hand or electronic publication now appearing on your computer, tablet or smart phone… […]
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Editorial – Time to get off the porch
For many of us the front porch or back deck is where we spend a lot of our disposable time during the summer. There’s beer to be drank, burgers to be flipped, and sunshine to be experienced. Some of us never make it that far into the sunlight, preferring to spend our time indoors in the air conditioning watching TV…. […]
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Editorial: Mothers
You’d think that carrying a baby around for nine months, then enduring the unimaginable agony of child birth would be the last thing a mother should ever have to do for her child. But we know that simply isn’t the case because motherhood is a life-long job… […]
Editorial & Opinion
Editorial: We must not accept or justify violence against women…or men
Jessica Martel’s common law husband murdered her on Apr. 29, 2009. Seventeen months later the Morinville man pleaded guilty to second-degree murder. We must never forget this or that it happened in Morinville… […]
Editorial & Opinion
Editorial – get out and walk
Get out and walk is an expression we hear as a passenger when we have so irritated the driver that they no longer want to haul us around. But it is also used as a call to action to encourage us to better health, both physical and mental…. […]