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Fête au Village celebrates 50 years [PHOTOS]

Photos by Lucie Roy and Stephen Dafoe

Legal’s Fête au Village turned 50 over the weekend and the community put together a celebration worthy of a half century of existence. Here are some photographic highlights of the weekend’s entertainment… […]

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Arts & Culture

Fête au Village reaches milestone this weekend

By Stephen Dafoe

Legal – When the gates of Citadel Park open Friday night, they open for a community festival celebrating a half century of existence. Fête au Village turned 50 this year and organizers were eager to make this year’s festival worthy of the occasion.

“They’ve tried to expand Fête au Village in itself to have more events and more exciting events,’ said festival vice chair Robyn Witter, adding a number of key events… […]

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Editorial & Opinion

Letter: Legal has another big event coming

Editor,

We’re at it again! We (country) rocked your world with Small Town Saturday Night, and now we’re prepping for another party. The 50th anniversary of Legal’s Fete Au Village is right around the corner on July 27th and 28th. This annual weekend event draws people from near and far with a parade, family fun and the always entertaining demolition derby presented by the Legal Fire and Ambulance… […]

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Tour de l’Alberta ready to roll through French corridor

By Stephen Dafoe

Morinville – Cyclists have been riding through Sturgeon County in an organized fashion for nearly two decades, taking in the sights and scenery of the French corridor that is made up of St. Albert, Morinville, Legal and surrounding area. Originally based out of St. Albert, the Tour de l’Alberta will start and finish in Morinville for the fifth consecutive year July 22… […]

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The weekend in photos

Big Valley – big bucks
Legal’s Small Town Saturday Night Committee made a cheque presentation to the Friends of Legal School Society at last week’s meeting of Legal Town Council. The cheque was in the amount of $87,030.67, monies raised during Legal’s Big… […]

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Police briefs

Theft from vehicles in Bon Accord

In the early morning of June 16, several vehicles parked on 90 Street near 99 Avenue in Bon Accord had damage to their side mirrors. Morinville RCMP are still looking for possible witness to this event… […]

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The weekend in photos

An upward lift
Champion Petfoods raised their new high tech stack to the roof of the plant Sunday morning. The new piece of technology will be calibrated over the next two weeks and is to be the final component of the company’s odour mitigation plan. – Stephen Dafoe Photo… […]

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Chateau Sturgeon celebrates 50th

Photos by Lucie Roy

Legal – More than 50 guests and dignitaries attended a celebration honouring the 50th Anniversary of the Sturgeon Foundation. Residents from the Morinville Heritage Place Lodge, Redwater Diamond Spring Lodge, the St. Albert Chateau Mission Court and North Ridge Lodge gathered for the afternoon of celebration at Chateau Sturgeon in Legal… […]

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Banner raising recognizes long time business

By Lucie Roy

Legal – Friday was a banner day in Legal, particularly for one local business. Public Works Foreman Paul Belanger and Maintenance Operator Jean- Paul Berube were both hard at work installing 16 banners onto lamp posts in town. One of those 16 banners was that of Legal Motors… […]

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Legal man wins Premier’s Award

By Morinville News Staff

Olds – Legal resident and University of Alberta student Jacob Onyschuk is the recipient of 4-H Alberta’s most prestigious award. The 20-year-old was selected from the province’s top 4-H members to receive the Premier’s Award during the 55th annual 4-H Selections Program at Olds College… […]

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Editorial & Opinion

Letter: Small Town Saturday Night raises big bucks

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Our little red, plastic cup runneth over! We reached and then gratefully exceeded our fundraising goal of $60,000. The Legal Small Town Saturday Night presented by Travel Alberta and Big Valley Jamboree raised $93000! We will break ground on our dream playground this September… […]

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Around the schools

Hats off for MCHS
Morinville Community High School Graduating Class 2012 flipped their lids Thursday afternoon after posing for the grad photo outside the school. This year’s graduation ceremony will take place in Edmonton Friday afternoon… […]

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Sturgeon Foundation restructures for future

By Stephen Dafoe

Morinville – Four seniors lodge managers found themselves out of work at the end of April as part of an organizational renewal taking place within the Sturgeon Foundation, a seniors housing organization that operates facilities and housing units in St. Albert, Morinville, Legal, Gibbons, Bon Accord and Redwater.

The organization employed seven facility managers prior to the recent restructuring. Four of those were dismissed to allow the foundation to position itself to meet future challenges and opportunities… […]

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Around the towns – weekend in photos

Small Town Saturday Night
Acclaimed Country Music artist Aaron Lines performed three numbers in the Songwriters Circle held at the Legal arena. It was all part of the Big Valley Jamboree Small Town Saturday Night event won by Legal… […]

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Business Symposium seeks to strengthen Sturgeon region’s economic picture

By Morinville News Staff

Morinville – Four municipalities within the Sturgeon Region will soon be hosting business-minded people from throughout the area at the 2012 Regional Business Symposium. The event is set to take place at the Morinville Community Cultural Centre May 17, and organizers are anticipating approximately 400 participants at the annual economic development symposium… […]

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Kubinec wins Barrhead-Morinville-Westlock

By Stephen Dafoe

Morinville – Westlock County Councillor Maureen Kubinec ensured Barrhead-Morinville-Westlock remained in PC hands Monday night after garnering 45 per cent of the vote. Kubinec received 7,447 votes, 341 more than Wildrose candidate and former Alberta Report publisher Link Byfield who received 7,106 votes (43 per cent) in the constituency.

Byfield was the frontrunner throughout the evening with a healthy to moderate lead until Westlock and Morinville vote tallies began coming in around 10:30 p.m. … […]