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Around the towns – weekend edition

First Choice Tree Nursery held their annual A Very Cherdarchuk Christmas over the weekend. Three-year-old Brianna Logan (left and her sister Madison, 8, enjoyed taking a look at some of the ice sculptures, including the Cherdarchuk Express… […]

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Festival of Trees entry has special significance for local business woman

By Stephen Dafoe

Morinville – Entering a tree in the annual Festival of Trees is a common occurrence for some artistic types, but Vintage Petals co-owner Julie Puchala’s 2011 entry, her first, had a particular significance. The tree was entered in memory of her husband Brian who passed away Dec. 15, 2010… […]

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Rotarians host successful Christmas event

By MorinvilleNews.com Staff

Morinville – Some 450 people packed the Morinville Community Cultural Centre Saturday night for the first business Christmas party. The successful event was a fundraiser for the Morinville Rotary Club. […]

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Monday Morning News Dec. 5 edition

The Dec. 5 issue of Monday Morning News hits store counters and shelves Monday morning. This week’s issue is 36 pages of news views and things to see and do in Morinville all bundled up into one weekly community magazine… […]

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Anti-bullying candlelight vigil set for next week

By Stephen Dafoe

Morinville – St. Jean Baptiste Park be will illuminated next Friday night as residents come together to make a statement about bullying. The anti-bullying candlelight vigil is the idea of MCHS Grade 11 student Travis Loseth who started a Facebook page for the event some weeks back and has been seeking community support ever since… […]

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Morinville Best Lights Competition picks its winners

By Stephen Dafoe

Morinville – Judges hit the streets of Morinville Thursday night with clipboards in hand to determine who in town had the most festive Christmas lights displays. This year’s competition drew 14 nominees – 10 residences and four businesses… […]

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Sturgeon County Council whittles away at tax increase

By Stephen Dafoe

Sturgeon County – Council emerged from two days of budget discussions Tuesday afternoon having shaved another half a percent off the increase County residents are likely to pay in 2012. Council had been looking at a 7.42 per cent tax increase heading into the discussions, but managed to trim that down to a 6.85 per cent increase two days later… […]

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Civic Plaza working towards March 2012 opening

By Stephen Dafoe

Morinville – Soon after Morinville’s St. Germain Plaza, home of the library and town offices, was gutted, St. Albert-based Synergy Building Solutions erected some orange tarps behind their construction fence and got down to the real work – converting the 30-year-old building into one that can carry the community through the next three decades… […]

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Around the town – midweek edition

MCHS student Colette Bachand, Morinville Community Services Youth Worker A.D. Richardson, and MCHS student Travis Loseth were three of a large number of students who took a vow of silence in support of youth around the globe who have no voice… […]

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Local knights to help the needy

By MorinvilleNews.com Staff

Morinville – The Knights of Columbus are once again taking up the charge to put a smile on the face of local and area families this Christmas. Last year the Catholic fraternal order, with the assistance of local churches and community members, distributed 100 hampers containing food and numerous children’s toys and gifts to Morinville families as well as families in Mearns and Riviere Qui Barre… […]

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Donation of quilts to help victims with healing

By Stephen Dafoe

Morinville – Fourteen quilts passed hands Sunday afternoon from local quilters to Sturgeon Victim Services who will use the colourful craftwork to help the healing begin. Loose Threads Quilting Club member Shelley Faganello said the group wanted Victim Services to be the first recipient of the quilt donation to let victims of crime and tragedy know that local quilters and the community cares about them and that they are not alone… […]

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Career week poster contest offers youth an opportunity to win

By MorinvilleNews.com Staff

Morinville – Local students have an opportunity to show their creative talents while promoting Canada Career Week and earning a chance at some prizes. Career Employment and Counselling Services (CECS) are sponsoring the contest; open to Morinville, Gibbons, Bon Accord and Legal students from Grades 6 to 12. Entry deadline is Dec. 8… […]

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Sturgeon County Council debates 2012 budget

By Stephen Dafoe

Sturgeon County – County Council and Administration met Monday morning for the first of three days of budget discussion and debate that will ultimately result in a finalized 2012 budget that will determine the amount of taxes ratepayers pay next spring. In prefacing the budget discussions, Interim Chief Administrative Officer Peter Tarnawsky said the County has a revenue problem that will continue for the next few years… […]

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Three charged in connection with Gibbons homicide

By MorinvilleNews.com Staff

Gibbons – Almost nine months after the suspicious death of Cameron James Petherbridge was declared a homicide, RCMP report three men have been charged in connection with the crime… […]

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Filling the food bank [VIDEO]

By Stephen Dafoe

Morinville – A much heavier Morinville Community Bus groaned over the weigh scales Friday night after two days of collecting food throughout the community. Organizers of this year’s annual Fill-A-Bus were hoping to outdo the 5,608 pounds of food and $1,600 in cash donations collected last year for the Morinville Food Bank Society. Those expectations and goals were not disappointed as Morinvillians of all ages rose to the occasion to support the cause… […]