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Morinville News

Sturgeon Rural Crime Watch set to celebrate 30 years of being a watchful eye

By Stephen Dafoe

Morinville – Sturgeon Rural Crime Watch has offered RCMP an extra set of eyes for the past three decades. The volunteer group will celebrate their 30th anniversary with a special dinner and celebration at the Rendez-Vous Centre May 4.

The association’s focus and energy over the last three decades has been that of making the towns, villages, hamlets, subdivisions and rural areas within Sturgeon County safe. Doing that has involved a long line of community volunteers who have taken the stand that … […]

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Local News

Eleventh class graduates from RCMP Citizens Academy

By Stephen Dafoe

Morinville – Nineteen citizens concluded a seven-week glimpse inside the world of community policing Wednesday night. The Morinville RCMP’s eleventh annual Citizen’s Academy program wrapped up Apr. 3 with the graduation ceremony, an opportunity for students to recap and celebrate their nearly two-month experience learning about the different faces of crime from the criminal on the corner to the international reaches of drug and human trafficking.

Each Wednesday participants took part in seminars and activities by police experts, including a visit RCMP headquarters in Edmonton. An added bonus was the opportunity to be a citizen observer travelling with an on duty officer… […]

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Morinville News

Area children ready for school success according to study

By Stephen Dafoe

Sturgeon County – Children in St. Albert and the Sturgeon Region are more prepared to succeed in school when compared to provincial and national norms, a new study claims.

Between the 2009 and 2011 school years, the Early Child Development Mapping Project Alberta, a partnership among communities and the provincial government, assessed St. Albert and Sturgeon Region Kindergarten students according to the five developmental areas… […]

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Morinville News

GIRLS program returns to help young women understand themselves

By Stephen Dafoe

Morinville –Girls between the ages of 11 and 18 will have the opportunity to learn about themselves in a fun way starting next week. The Girls in Real Life Situations (GIRLS) program starts Apr. 9 and will run Tuesday evenings for the next seven weeks.

Rebecca Holland, who provides community resources for the Sturgeon School Division… […]

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Morinville News

Police investigating residential break, enter and theft in Sturgeon County

By Morinville News Staff

Sturgeon County – Police are looking for information on the person who broke into a detached garage at a residence located in the area of Township Road 543 and Range Road 261 in Sturgeon County Monday afternoon. Morinville RCMP say the incident took place around 2:15 p.m. Mar. 25. .. […]

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Schools and youth

MCHS students to spend spring break with police

By Stephen Dafoe

Morinville – Four students from Morinville Community High School will spend their spring break going through the same activities would-be police officers go through during depot training. Grade 11 students Donovan Jarvis, Amy Leung, Josh Wilson and Chris Wood will spend a week at Bellerose High School taking part in the St. Albert RCMP’s Youth Academy. Sixteen students from Bellerose High, Sturgeon Composite, Ecole Secondaire Sainte Marguerite d’Youville, Alexandre Tache and Paul Kane High School will join the four MCHS students… […]

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Local News

Fish and Game Association brags for 21st time

By Lucie Roy

The 21 Annual Morinville Fish and Game Association Brag Night was held Saturday night at the Morinville Community Cultural Centre with
close to 300 in attendance. The brag night is the biggest fundraiser of the year for the Morinville Fish and Game Asociation… […]

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Sturgeon County

Holocaust survivor speaks to Sturgeon School Division students

By Lucie Roy

Sturgeon County – Canadian bestselling author and Holocaust survivor Dr. Eva Olsson spoke to students, parents and guests at Camilla School Thursday. Mrs. Olsson used her life experience to bring a message of love, compassion and unconditional acceptance.

She illustrated the power of hate with a video and slide presentation of Hitler and the concentration camps and how 11 million people’s voices were silenced by hate… […]

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Local News

Phone call results in County arrest

By Morinville News Staff

Sturgeon County – A phone call regarding suspicious activity resulted in the arrest of two men Friday morning. Morinville RCMP received a complaint of a possible break and enter in progress… […]

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Legal

Morinville Sights and Bites – midweek edition

Gone sideways
Morinville RCMP and Morinville Fire and Rescue dealt with a couple jackknifed semis on Highway 2, south of Legal at Township Road 572 Tuesday morning. The situation caused by icy roads… […]

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Sturgeon County

Collision results in injury

By Morinville News Staff

Sturgeon County – An 83-year-old man was airlifted by Stars Air Ambulance Thursday morning after a two-vehicle collision on Highway 28 near Range Road 234 in Sturgeon County between Gibbons and Bon Accord.
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Morinville News

Gibbons post office vandalized

By Morinville News Staff

Gibbons – Morinville RCMP are turning to the public for assistance in solving a crime that occurred in Gibbons sometime between 9 p.m. Jan 25 and 6 a.m. Jan. 26. Police say an unknown individual or … […]

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Morinville News

Wayward backhoe leads to arrest

By Morinville News Staff

Sturgeon County – An alert worker provided police with the information needed to recover a backhoe believed stolen from the Stony Plain / Spruce Grove area Monday night. Morinville RCMP received a call just after midnight Jan. 28 alerting them to a backhoe being driven erratically on Range Road 270 northbound… […]

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Local News

Morinville Council Briefs

By Stephen Dafoe

Morinville will play host to the Third Annual Regional Business Symposium this spring. The annual regional partnership between Gibbons, Bon Accord, Morinville and Sturgeon County will once again carry the theme Together Strengthening the Sturgeon Region, and … […]

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Morinville News

Police briefs: Two charged with stolen property

Morinville RCMP arrested two females Jan. 5 in connection with a number of thefts from vehicles, fraud and break and enters in Sturgeon County.

Rachel Dawn Lorenz, age 26, of Gibbons, has been charged with possession of stolen property as well as an additional 16 criminal code charges. Lorenz was also arrested and charged on Dec. 24, 2012 following a complaint of thefts from vehicles in Morinville… […]