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MCHS holding It’s A Garden Party coffee house evening
Above and below: Performers in last year’s MCHS Coffee House. 19 acts are expected to hit the stage in this […]
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Arts & Culture
Fish and Game Association brag it up
The Morinville Fish & Game Association (MFGA) held their 26th Annual Brag Night Live & Silent Auction and Wild Game Supper Saturday night at the MCCC. […]
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GSACRD hosts Phase 2 open house
Greater St. Albert Catholic Schools Ward 2 Trustee Noreen Radford was one of the many at the St. Kateri Tekakwitha Academy Phase 2 Open House held Wednesday afternoon at the MCCC.
The purpose of the Open House was to have discussions and feedback with residents on the attendance boundaries for transportation purposes. […]
Arts & Culture
Coming Up Around Town
Upcoming events include MCHS’ Annual Coffee House, a dinner with Jason Kenney, and a curling bonspiel to name a few. […]
Arts & Culture
Town celebrates Women with 2nd Annual Conference
The 2nd Annual Women’s Conference was held Thursday night at the MCCC in Morinville.
Speakers included Councillors Nicole Boutestein, Sarah Hall, and Rebecca Balanko.
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Mayor talks about his first 150 days in office
Mayor Barry Turner made a presentation at the Chamber of Commerce luncheon held Wednesday at the Morinville Community Cultural Centre. […]
Editorial & Opinion
Editorial: Anti-social media allows our opinion, bias, and prejudice to shine
Last Thursday, Morinville schools and residents gathered to recognize French culture.
The Alberta government has proclaimed March as Alberta Francophonie Month in the province, complimenting the annual Rendez-vous de la Francophonie celebrations taking place across Canada from March 1-21.
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Midstream looking for more volunteers for store and board
The Midstream Support Society is looking for more volunteers for their Thrift Store and Executive Board. […]
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RCMP looking to hire more women
The RCMP say they are looking for motivated and dedicated women to join their team and are holding a Women in Policing info session at Edmonton’s K Division Mar. 13.
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Town offering $200 grants to community groups to show appreciation to volunteers
National Volunteer Appreciation Week runs Apr. 15 to 21 this year, and for the second year in a row, the Town of Morinville is offering community groups cash grants to help them show their volunteers a little appreciation. […]
Arts & Culture
Poetry Club starts this weekend
Morinville poet and author Christopher Raine will be leading a Poetry Club at the Morinville Community Library starting this weekend. […]
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Police looking for those who do not buckle up
Alberta’s police, sheriffs and peace officers will be looking for motorists not wearing seatbelts this month as part of the province’s monthly traffic safety focus. February’s focus was on distracted driving. April’s focus will be on speeding. […]
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Morinville family looking for a new home after weekend fire
The children smile. It’s what you do when someone takes your photo. But parents Jonathan and Sandee Aviles’ faces more openly show the pain of the ordeal they have been through the past few days since their new rental home burned, destroying virtually everything they had built over the past seven years. […]
Arts & Culture
The Week in photos
Moving churches and moving Blizzards for a good cause were the top stories last week. Here is our look back at what you might have missed from The Morinville News. […]
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Staff Sergeant Dale Kendall gives last quarterly update to council
Dale Kendall, Morinville’s RCMP detachment head, gave her last formal presentation to council at their Feb. 27 meeting to present the Detachment’s quarterly report. Kendall announced that evening that she will be leaving the Morinville detachment in order to accept a senior advisory role at Edmonton’s K Division headquarters, a job that Kendall said, “You just don’t say no to.” […]
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Council approves land for LAV III memorial site on rec centre grounds
The Morinville Rotary Club and veteran Jayson Wood received some good news from Council after they approved the use of a slice of Town land on their new recreation centre site to develop a new LAV III monument. The LAV or Light Armoured Vehicle is a popular vehicle that has been used by the Canadian military in many deployments globally and is familiar to many soldiers who deployed in Afghanistan. […]