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RCMP experiment shows residents still not locking vehicles

Apr 7, 2013 Comments Off

By Stephen Dafoe

Morinville – In the middle of the night he looks up the road at his row of potential targets, 10 cars parked on the street, vehicles illuminated only by the overhead lights. His experience tells him at least two of the vehicles will be unlocked, and both of those are likely to contain items of varying value: change in the coin tray, a GPS unit on the dashboard, wallets and identification in the console. They are all his for the taking.

He hits three door handles without hearing a latch engage… […]

Eleventh class graduates from RCMP Citizens Academy

Apr 3, 2013 Comments Off

By Stephen Dafoe

Morinville – Nineteen citizens concluded a seven-week glimpse inside the world of community policing Wednesday night. The Morinville RCMP’s eleventh annual Citizen’s Academy program wrapped up Apr. 3 with the graduation ceremony, an opportunity for students to recap and celebrate their nearly two-month experience learning about the different faces of crime from the criminal on the corner to the international reaches of drug and human trafficking.

Each Wednesday participants took part in seminars and activities by police experts, including a visit RCMP headquarters in Edmonton. An added bonus was the opportunity to be a citizen observer travelling with an on duty officer… […]

Area children ready for school success according to study

Apr 3, 2013 Comments Off

By Stephen Dafoe

Sturgeon County – Children in St. Albert and the Sturgeon Region are more prepared to succeed in school when compared to provincial and national norms, a new study claims.

Between the 2009 and 2011 school years, the Early Child Development Mapping Project Alberta, a partnership among communities and the provincial government, assessed St. Albert and Sturgeon Region Kindergarten students according to the five developmental areas… […]

GIRLS program returns to help young women understand themselves

Apr 2, 2013 Comments Off

By Stephen Dafoe

Morinville –Girls between the ages of 11 and 18 will have the opportunity to learn about themselves in a fun way starting next week. The Girls in Real Life Situations (GIRLS) program starts Apr. 9 and will run Tuesday evenings for the next seven weeks.

Rebecca Holland, who provides community resources for the Sturgeon School Division… […]

Youth to participate in 30-Hour Famine

Apr 1, 2013 Comments Off

By Stephen Dafoe

Morinville – A cardboard village will rise in the Morinville Community Centre in a couple weeks, humble accommodations for up to 60 local youth taking part in a 30-Hour Famine event fundraiser for World Vision. The program begins Apr. 11 with students commencing their famine. Youth will then gather at the cultural centre on the evening of Apr. 12 and spend the … […]

Morinville opens nominations for volunteer of the year

Apr 1, 2013 Comments Off

By Stephen Dafoe

Morinville – Volunteers will once again be recognized this year for their efforts in doing their part to build a better Morinville. Nominations are currently open for several categories of volunteer recognition and residents have until Apr. 12 to put forth the names of those they deem worthy of that recognition… […]

Lions Club looking for Morinville’s next Citizen of the Year

Apr 1, 2013 Comments Off

By Stephen Dafoe

Morinville – It’s a tradition that began almost a half century ago. The annual selection of Citizen of the Year was started by the Morinville Lions Club in the late 1960s and continues 45 years later with the service club’s desire to shine a spotlight on those who give their all for their community.

“It started in 1968. The Lions wanted to recognize people in the community who had gone… […]

Morinville News Makers and Shakers: Serge Froment

Mar 28, 2013 1

By Stephen Dafoe

When the ball of credit is being dribbled and passed around, it is never about Serge Froment – at least when Froment is talking about his Morinville Road Runners. It’s always about the girls, the boys, the coaches, the league, the community that supports them, and the great opportunity the game of basketball offers youth… […]

Morinville News Makers and Shakers: Lucie Roy

Mar 28, 2013 Comments Off

By Stephen Dafoe

Lucie Roy – Freelance reporter / Historian / All Around Volunteer

The camera is never far from Lucie Roy’s hand. Though many times the photos end up in the pages of The Morinville News, as often as not Lucie Roy is simply recording the events that happen today but which will be history down the road… […]

Morinville News Makers and Shakers: Morinville Community Library

Mar 28, 2013 Comments Off

By Stephen Dafoe

It’s not all about the leather chairs and slick fireplace at the Morinville Community Library, but it’s accoutrements like these that showed nominators this is not the stereotypical library of the past, a building full of dusty and musty hardcovers and dog-eared paperbacks. This is very much the library of today, if not the library of tomorrow… […]

Morinville News Makers and Shakers: Paul Smith

Mar 27, 2013 Comments Off

By Stephen Dafoe

Paul Smith’s record of community involvement in Morinville now surpasses the length of his trademark rock and roll hair. Best known as the owner of Smith Music, the local businessman is fast becoming known as Mr. Festival. As Chair of the Morinville Festival Society, Smith has built on the work of previous St. Jean Baptiste Festival chairs Joel Chevalier and Ron Cust, growing the annual summer extravaganza into a Morinville trademark. Together with a team of 10 hardworking community volunteers… […]

Morinville News Makers and Shakers: Rebecca Holland

Mar 27, 2013 Comments Off

By Stephen Dafoe

Rebecca Holland, who provides community resources for the Sturgeon School Division, is a face that is becoming more and more familiar in the community. In addition to being the facilitator of the GIRLS program, a seven-week program that takes the position that we can never go wrong by investing in our communities’ youth, Holland is also involved with the Morinville Marvelous Moms social media group and is a Jessica Martel Foundation board member. .. […]

Morinville News Makers and Shakers: Lisa Holmes

Mar 27, 2013 Comments Off

Councillor Lisa Holmes is now coming to the end of her first term on Morinville Town Council. Though new to the community at the time of the 2010 municipal election, she has become a familiar face in the community at events and working behind the scenes on committees and boards, including the Morinville Centennial Celebrations Committee and the Morinville Public Library Board. Her role on Council keeps her working inside and outside the community attending… […]

The day in photos

Mar 26, 2013 Comments Off

Photo By Lucie Roy

Morinville – Morinville Fish and Game Association (MFGA) President Len Kondro spoke before Mayor Paul Krauskopf and Council Tuesday night in reference to extending the current land lease and expanding the lease to include additional property. Both requests were approved with a 35-year lease… […]

School taxes large part of spring property tax increase

Mar 26, 2013 1

By Stephen Dafoe

Morinville – Property owners will pay about $100 more on their spring tax bill than they did last year once Council passes this year’s tax bylaw. Council gave first reading to the 2013 Property Tax Bylaw during the Mar. 26 Council meeting. The bylaw lays out the amount of tax the municipality must collect from property owners to satisfy its own $7.2-million in budgetary needs as well as a $2.9-million assessment for the Alberta School Foundation (ASFF) and a $103,000 requisition from the Sturgeon Foundation, the group that runs Morinville’s Heritage Lodge… […]

Police investigating residential break, enter and theft in Sturgeon County

Mar 26, 2013 Comments Off

By Morinville News Staff

Sturgeon County – Police are looking for information on the person who broke into a detached garage at a residence located in the area of Township Road 543 and Range Road 261 in Sturgeon County Monday afternoon. Morinville RCMP say the incident took place around 2:15 p.m. Mar. 25. .. […]