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Filling the food bank [VIDEO]

Nov 27, 2011 Comments Off

By Stephen Dafoe

Morinville – A much heavier Morinville Community Bus groaned over the weigh scales Friday night after two days of collecting food throughout the community. Organizers of this year’s annual Fill-A-Bus were hoping to outdo the 5,608 pounds of food and $1,600 in cash donations collected last year for the Morinville Food Bank Society. Those expectations and goals were not disappointed as Morinvillians of all ages rose to the occasion to support the cause… […]

Editorial: Economic Development – It’s time to split or get off the pot

Nov 27, 2011 2

Morinville’s taxes are – give or take a percentage point or two – made up of 93 per cent residential and seven per cent commercial / industrial. Economic development is often considered to be encouraging business growth and attracting new business, new commerce, and new industry to a community. It is not of course limited to that narrow definition by any means… […]

Monday Morning News Nov. 28 edition

Nov 27, 2011 Comments Off

The Nov. 28 issue of Monday Morning News hits store counters and shelves Monday morning. This week’s issue is 32 pages of news views and things to see and do in Morinville all bundled up into one weekly community magazine… […]

Floral family goes Christmas crazy this weekend

Nov 27, 2011 Comments Off

By Stephen Dafoe Sturgeon County – The community’s annual Christmas festival may be over for another year, but east of […]

Morinville Light Up the Night [PHOTOS]

Nov 26, 2011 3

You’ve got to be pleased with this year’s Light Up the Night Christmas Festival, and anyone we talked to Saturday certainly was. Standing in St. Jean Baptiste Park Saturday night after the lights were lit was an experience that is hard to explain to someone who was not part of it. It was communal in that some 2,500 people gathered downtown to watch a parade… […]

Light up the Night underway

Nov 26, 2011 Comments Off

Photos by Stephen Dafoe

Morinville – Although there is still plenty to do during the Festival this weekend, here is a selection of photos of what has gone on already Saturday morning… […]

Light Up the Night Festival off to great start

Nov 25, 2011 2

Morinville's Light Up the night Christmas Festival Fridasy night with a packed house of fans who came out to hear the Alberta singer bring a little country to Christmas and a lot of class to the Morinville Community Cultural Centre… […]

Fill-A-Bus has record year

Nov 25, 2011 3

By Stephen Dafoe

Morinville – A much heavier Morinville Community Bus groaned over the weigh scales Friday night after two days of collecting food throughout the community. Organizers of this year’s annual Fill-A-Bus were hoping to outdo the 5,608 pounds of food and $1,600 in cash donations collected last year for the Morinville Food Bank Society. Those expectations and goals were not disappointed as Morinvillians of all ages rose… […]

Christmas festival begins Friday

Nov 24, 2011 1

By MorinvilleNews.com Staff

Morinville – The annual Light Up the Night Christmas Festival begins tomorrow with the Fill-A-Bus for the Food Bank and Gord Bamford Country concert at the Morinville Community Cultural Centre. Plenty of events are scheduled throughout the weekend. Below is a list of events going on in town this weekend… […]

Letter to the editor: Open letter to Minister of Education

Nov 24, 2011 6

Mr. Lukaszuk

I have been relatively silent regarding the status of public education in Morinville since your transition to give you time to acclimatize to your new portfolio. Given comments recently attributed to yourself in various press reports (Example used for this letter is the St. Albert Leader, although I note, with apologies to authors for lack of citation, similar statements in other publications) it seems to me that you have most certainly formulated your opinion on the matter. .. […]

Fill-A-Bus off to good start

Nov 24, 2011 Comments Off

By Stephen Dafoe

Morinville – Organizers are hoping a much heavier Morinville Community Bus will cross the weigh scales Friday night after two days of collecting food throughout the community. Organizers of this year’s annual Fill-A-Bus are hoping to outdo the 5,608 pounds of food and $1,600 in cash donations collected last year for the Morinville Food Bank Society… […]

Jets shut out Warriors

Nov 23, 2011 Comments Off

By MorinvilleNews.com staff

Edmonton – Eskimo Dennis finally got the shutout he had been predicting all season when the Morinville Jets humiliated the Beverly Warriors (13-6-1) with a 3-0 shutout in their own barn… […]

Morinville Community Cultural Centre has lower than projected revenues and losses

Nov 23, 2011 1

By Stephen Dafoe

Morinville – Councillors were presented with third quarter reports Tuesday night, documents that outline Morinville’s position in terms of the various departments that make up the municipality. Among those reports was one that showed the Morinville Community Cultural Centre (CCC), which opened in mid-May, has lower than projected revenues through the third quarter of 2011 but also lower than projected losses… […]

Morinville secular education issue hits Legislature once again

Nov 23, 2011 4

By MorinvilleNews.com Staff

Morinville – The Public Vs. Catholic education issue hit the Legislature floor Tuesday once again. Calgary Buffalo Liberal MLA Kent Hehr, who championed the cause of Morinville parents some months back, took on newly-minted Minister of Education Thomas Lukaszuk over the issue, particularly what the Liberal MLA sees as inequity on the school issue in light of Lukaszuk’s comments on the importance of equity in education to an Alberta School Board’s meeting… […]

Quilt displays Morinville history

Nov 23, 2011 3

By Lucie Roy

Morinville – After several months of work, the centennial quilt was presented to Mayor Lloyd Bertschi and Council Tuesday night. The quilt will be displayed at the Community Cultural Centre this Sunday in time for the Morinville Christmas Festival. With more than forty square blocks, each is like a good bedtime story of adventure, intrigue, how things were, and what made Morinville what it is today… […]

Town Council gives first reading to water, sewer and waste bylaws

Nov 23, 2011 Comments Off

By Stephen Dafoe

Morinville – Council voted unanimously at their Nov. 22 meeting to first reading of the 2012 waste management, sewer and water bylaws. Director of Public Works Claude Valcourt said the average Morinville resident can expect to pay an additional .44 per month for water and sewer in 2012 over 2011. […]