Local Sports
Morinville Sports Shorts
Morinville Public School teachers and staff are once again in training for the MS Bike Tour taking place in June.
Educational Assistant Lisa Olson is in her fourth year with the MPS MS team. […]
Local News
Arena/rec land cost $1.7 million
The Town of Morinville is looking to borrow $1 million to go toward purchase of land for the new/arena recreation centre. […]
Local News
MPS Community Carnival joins forces with annual SJB Festival
The Morinville Public School Community Carnival has kicked the summer off for the past three years a week before the annual St. Jean Baptiste (SJB) Festival. This year, the highly successful event will take place during the latter festival weekend. […]
Local News
Georges H Primeau DARE class graduates
Georges H. Primeau held their Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.) Graduation for Grade 6 students Friday. The five classes of students lined up to receive their certificates and to be congratulated by Morinville Community Peace Officer Cody Rossing, Principal Allan Menduk, RCMP Constable Jaimie Short, and teachers Scott Raypold and Stacey Schiller. […]
Arts & Culture
Arts wrap up
It was a busy week for the arts in Morinville last week. MCHS performed their spring play, the cultural centre hosted two bands as part of National Youth Week, and Dance Connections put on back-to-back recitals on Saturday. Below are some photos and video of the week’s events. […]
Local News
Van Dijken looking forward to starting his role as MLA
Building relationships is going to be the major focus in the immediate future for newly elected Barrhead-Morinville-Westlock MLA Glenn van Dijken.
According to Elections Alberta figures the Wildrose Party candidate topped the polls with 7,205 votes, followed by the NDP’s Tristan Turner with 6,233 and Progressive Conservative incumbent Maureen Kubinec with 4,878. […]
Arts & Culture
MCHS actors ask – Is He Dead?
MCHS Performing Arts performed their Spring Play Wednesday night, an entertaining rendition of Is He Dead?
The production told the story of French painter Jean-Francois Millet (Mitch Fraser), on the verge of bankruptcy and looking for a way to meet his creditor’s ultimatum to produce the money of hand over the love of his life.
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Columns
National Column: Orange wave crushes Tories
Voters in Alberta made history Tuesday night – and they sealed it with an exclamation point.
Rachel Notley and her New Democrats secured a majority victory in an election that was supposed to be a stroll in the park for a powerful Progressive Conservative dynasty that had all but swallowed up its opposition in the province.
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Business
It’s Our Business: Sobeys holding a food fair this weekend
The recent snowfall might have momentarily diverted people from thinking about summer, but Sobeys Morinville are laying out their summer best with an in-store food fair Saturday from 11 a.m. until 4 p.m.
“It’s to get people to come in and try all our great new items,” said franchise owner Shaun Thompson. “We have seven new burgers that have launched in the meat department, […]
Morinville News
Van Dijken takes Barrhead-Morinville-Westlock
Westlock farmer Glenn van Dijken took Barrhead-Morinville-Westlock from PC hands Tuesday night after garnering 39.34 per cent of the vote. Van Dijken received 7,205 votes, 972 more than NDP candidate Tristan Turner who received 6,233 votes (34.03%). PC incumbent Maureen Kubinec came in last with 4,878 votes (26.63%). Van Dijken joins the Wildrose in obtaining a 21-seat opposition voice in the legislature. […]
Arts & Culture
Two local bands to rock out during National Youth Week
Several events were planned for National Youth Week (May 1-7), a week dedicated to celebrating youth and their active involvement in the community. The Town of Morinville had events scheduled for the after school period May 4 and 5, culminating in a double-header rock show Thursday night. […]
Arts & Culture
And now for something completely different
When the doors of the Morinville Community Cultural Centre open for the next Silver Shoes Pub Night May 14, they will open for an evening of comedic entertainment. The evening will feature a dinner and show by St. Albert performers Peter and Mary, who will be providing a comedy act from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
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Columns
Healthy Routes Column – Circulation: It’s all about the Pump and Hoses
Everyone makes this comparison that your heart is your body’s pump, and your veins and arteries are like hydraulic hoses. This analogy works very well to explain why diuretics are the first drugs prescribed to reduce blood pressure. If there is an excess of fluid in a closed hydraulic system, […]
Local Sports
Roller derby rolling strong
The Sturgeon County Junior Roller Derby Association will have their first bout of the season in Airdrie this weekend. A black and white scrimmage in Holden later this month and a major junior invitational event in Gibbons later this summer are evidence the association is rolling strong.
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Legal
Students vote for the candidates
Morinville Public School Grade 6 teacher Tara Hodgson said her students have been researching and following the election campaign closely for the past three weeks, part of their learning about democracy in Social Studies. She felt it would be a good idea to carry through with a mock election. […]
Morinville News
National Column: PCs share blame if they lose Alberta
It may be a clich?, but in the final hours of the Alberta election campaign it bears repeating.
Governments defeat themselves.
Sometimes it takes a while – in Alberta’s case that would be 44 years – but if the Progressive Conservatives under Jim Prentice were to lose Tuesday’s election, they will have shot themselves. […]