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By Stephen Dafoe
Morinville – Thirteen chile hopefuls assembled at the Morinville Farmer’s Market over the noon hour Friday, each stirring the pot in hopes their recipe had the right stuff to translate from the judges’ taste buds to their score sheets. In the end, only one contestant in each of three categories could take the top spot… […]
Photos by Stephen Dafoe
The Morinville & District Chamber of Commerce held its annual golf tournament Friday, assembling 64 golfers at the Cardiff Golf and Country Club. The annual 18-hole tournament provided local business owners an opportunity to enjoy a day of golf while networking with each other… […]
Morinville residents came out in good numbers for Thursday night’s Active Living Fair held at the Morinville Community Cultural Centre. Part of the evening’s activities included demonstrations from local groups and organizations. Those demonstrations included zumba demos from three separate instructors… […]
By MorinvilleNews.com Staff
Morinville – Residents will have the opportunity to enter and explore the world of Geocaching this Sunday. The Town of Morinville will be holding a seminar on the pastime as well as setting experienced geocachers loose on Morinville’s own collection… […]
By Monday Morning News Staff
Morinville – Thursday night’s Active Living Fair served as the launching point for a three-week initiative to get Morinvillian’s eating well. 21 Days to Healthy Living is a joint initiative between the Town of Morinville’s Community Services Department and Sobeys under the Town’s involvement with the Communities ChooseWell program.
The program aims to encourage Alberta families to eat healthier and to enjoy more family meals together… […]
By Stephen Dafoe
Morinville – Comedy, song, dance and children’s theatre will all be making its way to the Morinville Community Cultural Centre beginning Sept. 30 with the first in a series of 10 concert performances organizers are hoping will hit Morinville’s entertainment and cultural taste buds… […]
By MorinvilleNews.com Staff
Edmonton – RCMP and Alberta Sheriffs were out in full force over the Labour Day weekend in an effort to catch speeders and other traffic violators in the act. In total, 3,743 charges were laid across the province, a number that is down slightly from the 3,951 charges issued over the same weekend in 2010… […]
By Stephen Dafoe
Morinville – With Morinville students back in their respective schools, both Catholic and secular, Alberta Education announced Tuesday morning it will take the next step in finding a long-term solution to the Greater St. Albert Catholic Regional Division (GSACRD) secular education issue.
The province will spend $125,000 to conduct a census of St. Albert, Morinville, Legal and parts of Sturgeon County to determine whether Catholics or Protestants are the minority faith among electors in the four areas being covered by the census… […]
By Stephen Dafoe
Morinville – The Town of Morinville will be offering a variety of parenting classes this fall and winter, targeting different areas of interest to parents of toddlers to teens. In addition to a drop-in parent group and program for teenagers with children, three special programs are being offered: Positive Discipline, Self Esteem in Children and Active Parenting of Tweens and Teens… […]
Back in 1924, the final year Amédée Brochu was mayor, an article was published in one of the papers outlining all that Morinville, then a town of 500 people, had going for it. In reality, it was likely that the little blurb was a promotional piece published in papers outside the town to promote all the town was, and to attract more residents to the community. Whatever the real purpose of the words, they are as follows… […]
By Stephen Dafoe
Morinville – Residents have an opportunity to support our military and see a centuries-old custom continuing into the modern era this Sunday. Morinville will be honouring 1 Service Battalion from CFB Edmonton with the Freedom of the City Sept. 11.
Although the ceremony dates back to the days of the Roman Empire when law forbade armies from entering a town without permission to prevent a military coup against the Roman senate, it was quite common… […]
By Stephen Dafoe
Morinville – The auditorium of the Morinville Community Cultural Centre will be filled with more than 30 local organizations, groups and businesses Thursday night, each offering residents the opportunity to learn more about what they have to offer. The Active Living Fair takes place Sept. 8 from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. and organizers are hoping the entire community will come out to see just how active Morinville will be this fall and beyond… […]
By MorinvilleNews.com Staff
Sturgeon County – A tribute to the military was celebrated Wednesday afternoon with the official re-opening and re-naming of 195th Avenue, a ceremony marking the culmination of more than two year’s work designing, engineering and constructing a four-lane connector road linking Sturgeon County to the City of Edmonton and Anthony Henday Drive… […]
By MorinvilleNews.com Staff
Morinville – Barrhead-Morinville-Westlock MLA Ken Kowalski announced Wednesday plans for the new overpass at Highway 2 and Cardiff Road are underway and that the search is on for a contractor to do the preliminary work… […]
By MorinvilleNews.com Staff
Morinville – Local Rotarians and members of the business community gathered at the Rotary Spray Park Wednesday morning to put the ceremonial touch to the opening of a new gazebo, a project that has taken a couple years from concept to completion… […]
By MorinvilleNews.com Staff
Morinville – With large blue rubber balls firmly in hand, a group of women squeeze and manoeuvre them as if they were dance partners, stepping and striding across the mezzanine of the Morinville Community Cultural Centre with purpose. But the choreographed routine is not part of any new dance class. Rather, it is a fast-paced exercise program called Bender Balls… […]
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