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Just wanted to drop you a line about how the Rooke School of Karate made out at Desa School of Karate’s Kumite (Sparring) Tournament on March 7… […]
The Morinville Fish & Game Association held their annual Brag Night Dinner and Silent Auction Saturday night at the Morinville Community Cultural Centre. The sold out event mixed a buffet dinner that included moose, elk, bison, salmon, turkey and unique combinations of venison cooking styles with a silent and live auction, the latter a major fundraiser for the local outdoors group… […]
by Stephen Dafoe – photos by Jolie Misener
Edmonton – It was gold medals all around for the Bantam Morinville Orijen Sabretooths over the weekend. After sweeping their regular season 15-0, the Bantam Girls took to playoffs at the Saville Community Sports Center in Edmonton, emerging with the city championship… […]
Jackie Green, manager of the Sturgeon Atom 4 Mustangs offers her thanks to the coaches who helped the team this season. Here is what each team member said about the year… […]
by Stephen Dafoe
Edmonton – After a win and a loss over the Family Day weekend, the Morinville Jets took to the road Wednesday night for the third and deciding game in a best-of-three round one playoff series with the Beverly Warriors. Despite coming from behind as they had in the previous two outings the Jets just could not push the contest to overtime and fell to the Warriors 3-2… […]
MCHS Community High School Wolves Junior Basketball Tournament Men’s Draw was underway Friday at noon with a game versus the Redwater Renegades. The two-day event had games scheduled for all day Saturday… […]
by Stephen Dafoe
Morinville – The Jets finished the weekend with a win and a loss against the Beverly Warriors in a best-of-three, round one Capital Junior Hockey League playoff series. After coming from behind a 5-3 deficit Friday night to take the first game 7-6, the Jets fell 6-5 in OT in a knuckle-biter on home ice Sunday night… […]
by Stephen Dafoe
Edmonton – The Morinville Jets ended the regular season Sunday night with a 4-2 loss to the Edmonton Mustangs, the third-ranked team in the Capital Junior Hockey League’s West Division. The Jets ended the first period tied 1-1 with the Mustangs, but fell by two in the middle frame to end the period trailing 3-1. The final period gave an extra goal to each team but did little to reverse the Jets’ fortunes… […]
by Lucie Roy
Edmonton – A local woman is being heralded an ambassador of Francophone Sport in the province for track record of volunteerism with the Alberta Francophone Games (JFA). Monique Lavallee of Morinville received the Alberta Francophone Sport Ambassador award during the Federation of Francophone Alberta Sport (SSAB) General Annual meeting held at Cite Francophone in Edmonton Feb. 5. .. […]
Scholarship honours memory of former Morinville Jet captain
The Morinville Jets final home game of the season started in a solemn fashion Friday night with the presentation of the Nick McRae Memorial Scholarship to Cameron Melville. The award is given to a player apprenticing in a trade as the late Jet Captain did… […]
by Stephen Dafoe
Westlock – After skating through a successful inaugural season in the North Central Hockey League and achieving a second place finish, the Morinville Senior AA Kings were shut down 2-0 in a best-of-three series with the Westlock Warriors over the past week. The Kings fell 6-4 on home ice Feb. 1 and narrowly lost 4-3 Saturday night at Westlock’s Rotary Spirit Centre… […]
On the rocks
The Morinville Curling Club was hopping Saturday afternoon as a number of teams took to the ice for the Annual Men’s Bonspiel. The event ran Thursday through Sunday. The Morinville Curling Club will hold a Ladies Bonspiel Feb. 28 and Mar 1, consisting of six-end games… […]
by Stephen Dafoe
The Morinville Wolves Senior Girls took the silver in a weekend eight-team invitational tournament held at Morinville Community High School Friday and Saturday…. […]
by Stephen Dafoe
Morinville – After seeing his basketball players win 65 straight games, three city and three provincial championships, basketball coach Serge Froment is seeing many of the players he has watched grow up in the game taking to the court at Morinville Community High School. Froment, who is involved with the Morinville Orijen Sabretooths, formerly the Road Runners, is now also coach of the MCHS Senior Girls basketball team, a team who will be hosting a tournament Jan. 30 – Feb. 2…. […]
by Stephen Dafoe
The Morinville Jets hit the ice to face the two toughest teams in the league over the weekend – the West Division’s top-ranked St. Albert Merchants, and the East Division’s first-placed Fort Saskatchewan Hawks. The Jets fell 7-4 to the Merchants in St. Albert Friday night, but defeated the Hawks 8-3 on home-ice Sunday evening…. […]
by Morinville News Staff
If Morinville’s Recreation and Cultural Coordinator Melonie Dziwenka has her way, the streets of Morinville will be full of people out for a winter’s walk Feb. 5. That is the day the province has designated Winter Walk Day, an initiative to remind Albertans about the importance of being active. Dziwenka and the Town support the provincial initiative and are hoping residents will register in solid numbers for the event…. […]
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