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Schools and youth

MCHS students to spend spring break with police

Mar 19, 2013 Comments Off on 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

Wednesday Print Edition

Mar 19, 2013 Comments Off on Wednesday Print Edition

Our weekly print edition will be at our more than 100 locations in Morinville, Cardiff and Legal Wednesday morning. This week’s edition is 24 pages of local relevant news… […]

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Editorial & Opinion

Column – Joe Morinville

Mar 19, 2013 2

Well the editor got upset with me the other night on the Facebook because I told him I had no ideas for this week’s column and that I was going to be late with it. He called me a bunch of names he’d never print in the paper, but that’s the kind of #@$% that he is. So I decided I’d just go through all his online stories and make comments about what’s going on in town… […]

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Editorial & Opinion

Letter: Canadians deserve a democratic senate

Mar 19, 2013 Comments Off on Letter: Canadians deserve a democratic senate

Discussion about Senate reform is nothing new and it’s a discussion our Conservative Government has never backed away from. Canadians rightly expect fairness and accountability in the full range of government institutions that serve them… […]

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Editorial & Opinion

Editorial: Pattison’s motion boneheaded

Mar 18, 2013 9

Last week’s Council meeting left many of us in the gallery shaking our heads at the motion Councillor David Pattison made to financially support Safe Grad with public money. It was defeated 3-1 because the remaining members of Council had the good sense to realize what a boneheaded idea it was… […]

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Arts & Culture

Musical time planned at library during March Break

Mar 18, 2013 Comments Off on Musical time planned at library during March Break

By Stephen Dafoe

Morinville – Singer, songwriter, performer and Juno Award nominee are a few of the hats children’s entertainer Mary Lambert wears. Lambert will be bringing her high-energy show to the Morinville Community Library Mar. 27.

Lambert has performed more than 3,000 shows since beginning her career 20 years ago. Those performances have included libraries, schools and music festivals. Over the past two decades she had released a dozen CDs and two DVDs of her live concert performances… […]

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Arts & Culture

Clockwork Mysteries was Spellbinding Fun

Mar 17, 2013 3

Show Review By Ashley Janes
Photos and Video By Stephen Dafoe

Last Friday night an excited crowd gathered at the Morinville Community Cultural Centre to watch the first magic show the venue had ever hosted. The illusionist was Ted Outerbridge and the production, Clockwork Mysteries, had generated a lot of interest in the weeks leading up to the show date. Like all witnesses to an illusion, the town wanted to know: how does he do it? … […]

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Local News

Fish and Game Association brags for 21st time

Mar 17, 2013 1

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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Local News

Morinville Sights and Bites

Mar 17, 2013 Comments Off on Morinville Sights and Bites

Duck Dynasty
Hunter Fabbro competes in the timed Spam Sculpting contest Friday. He was also one of the final two in the best costume contest.
The Primeau Student School Council held Duck Dynasty Days events last week… […]

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Morinville News

Restaurateur stepping up for next blood drive

Mar 17, 2013 Comments Off on Restaurateur stepping up for next blood drive

By Stephen Dafoe

Morinville – It’s not uncommon to roll up your sleeve to give a little blood and get a little cookie after you are done. But a local restaurateur is looking to give first time blood donors something that will stick to their ribs.

Marck Halabi of Sal’s Famous will be fixing up first time blood donors to the Mar. 26 clinic with a free burger and fries… […]

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Sturgeon County

Holocaust survivor speaks to Sturgeon School Division students

Mar 14, 2013 Comments Off on 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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Arts & Culture

Illusionist dazzles Morinville before show begins

Mar 13, 2013 Comments Off on Illusionist dazzles Morinville before show begins

Illusionist Ted Outerbridge levitates his on and off stage partner Marion Outerbridge Wednesday afternoon outside the Morinville Community Cultural Centre. The Outerbridges will be performing Friday night at 7:30 p.m. […]

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Community briefs

Mar 12, 2013 Comments Off on Community briefs

Watching the bucks
Sturgeon County Peace Officer Ken Lauinger presented Sturgeon Rural Crime Watch President Roger Nykipilo with a $1,000 cheque at the crime watch organization’s Annual General Meeting held Tuesday night at the Provincial Building…. […]