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By MorinvilleNews.com Staff
Morinville – A vintage piece of fire gear was unloaded at the Morinville Fire Department Tuesday night, arriving just in time to play a role in this Saturday’s St. Jean Baptiste Festival parade… […]
By Stephen Dafoe
Legal – A Legal computer programmer has recently invented an application that has made the world seem like a smaller and more accessible place. Dan Charrois released Mapster in early-May, an application that allows users to see detailed views of any part of the world. The application has already been downloaded more than 40,000 times in its first six weeks of existence… […]
By Stephen Dafoe
Morinville – Downtown Morinville is the place for hot motor sport action this weekend. Flags will drop and wheels will burn when the first Noah’s Ark Pets and Supplies Hamster Race burns down the track during this weekend’s St. Jean Baptiste Festival… […]
By MorinvilleNews.com Staff
Legal – Town Council unanimously passed an updated Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) bylaw Tuesday night, a document that replaces a 1998 bylaw that has been used by the community for the 13 years… […]
By MorinvilleNews.com staff
Legal – Morinville RCMP Staff Sergeant Mac Richards paid a visit to Legal Town Council Tuesday night, bringing the mayor and council up to speed on policing in the community in the first five months of 2011 as well as presenting a comparison to previous years. That comparison shows crime is no worse than it has been in the past few years… […]
By MorinvilleNews.com Staff
Ottawa – The Bank of Canada unveiled a new series of polymer bank notes Monday morning, currency the government believes will be harder to counterfeit and longer lasting that the current cotton / paper notes… […]
By Stephen Dafoe
Morinville – A Morinville couple has gone from being helped by a local charity to turning helping others into a business. Room By Room, owned by Mark and Shelly Damon is a success story that reads like the road map for many businesses that have started as a sideline and grown into something much larger… […]
By Stephen Dafoe
Sturgeon County – With 12 hours of entertainment, patriotism and fun, organizers are hoping County residents will make Edmonton Garrison their stop to celebrate Canada Day. The Canada Day celebrations will see six bands playing throughout the day, a military car crush, 250-car show and shine, CF-18 flyover plus other aerial participants as well as appearances by the Edmonton Oilers and local and regional entertainers… […]
The June 20 edition of Monday Morning News hits store shelves and restaurant counters Monday morning. This week’s edition is 28 pages of Morinville news and views. This week’s issue contains the following news stories… […]
By Stephen Dafoe
Morinville – This week will see five concerts hit town between Tuesday and Saturday, four of them musical acts with plenty of experience in getting their audiences’ toes tapping. But this past weekend saw another five concerts hit town, spread over three days. The Smith Music Concert Series, an annual event that gives students… […]
By MorinvilleNews.com Staff
Morinville – Edmonton’s 630CHED will be rolling into town as the sun comes up Thursday morning to broadcast live from the Community Cultural Centre. The Edmonton AM station will be conducting four interviews during their morning slot and five in the afternoon, all with locals, and all in conjunction with the community, its history and the town’s St. Jean Baptiste Festival… […]
By Stephen Dafoe
Morinville – The new Subdivision and Development Appeal Board (SDAB) bylaw passed second and third reading Tuesday night with a 4-2 vote on both readings… […]
Morinville – Akenberry Trout Farms paid a visit to Heritage Lake on a wet afternoon June 16 to stock the popular year-round fishing hole with another 3,000 rainbow trout. The man-made lake is stocked three times a year for a total of 9,000 trout. An additional 1,000 are deposited in the Morinville fish and Game Club Pond… […]
By Stephen Dafoe
Morinville – Long-time Community Cultural Centre opponent Tim Stirling made an appearance at Morinville Town Council June 14 to once again express his concerns about noise control from the $11.2 million facility and to express his opinion that council sidestepped a Subdivision Development Appeal Board ruling that proper sound mitigation would be put in place prior to the centre opening… […]
By MorinvilleNews.com Staff
Morinville – Town Council was presented with two options for a sign design that incorporates Morinville’s new logo and branding. But when put to a vote, the two designs garnered equal votes. As a result, council will not put the two designs out to residents to help decide over the next week… […]
By Stephen Dafoe
Sturgeon County – With flowers blooming in local gardens, creating an artistic display of colour, designer Cory Christopher is hoping Sturgeon County gardeners will think about art in the garden in a broader sense. Christopher is once against preparing for Art in the Garden, the third annual event to be held at First Choice Tree Nursery June 24 to July 10… […]
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