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Editorial & Opinion

Letter: Drop off tips from Midstream Support Society

Dear Neighbours:

It happens most nights. Individuals are unloading their unwanted items behind the Community Corner Drop -In Thrift Store. Normally this is not a problem. Since some items are not suitable for resale it has become a problem… […]

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Local News

Thanks to the Troops Event in Morinville

By Lucie Roy

Morinville – The Morinville Legion will take part in the nation-wide Afghanistan Veterans Appreciation Day on August 21. The event is to demonstrate the gratitude of Morinville and District to the serving men, women and their families, for their dedication during the Afghanistan combat mission. It will be a day to remember those who have fallen, thank those who have returned and to celebrate how proud they and their families have made us to be Canadian… […]

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Local News

Monday Morning News – Aug. 8 edition

The Aug. 8 edition of Monday Morning News hits store shelves and restaurant counters Monday morning. This week’s edition is 20-pages of Morinville News and views. This week’s issue contains the following news stories… […]

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Local Sports

Less than two weeks left until major wrestling event

By Étienne Thevou

Morinville – There will be plenty of top rope entertainment Aug. 20 when Force Pro wrestling comes to Morinville with an evening of high-energy sports entertainment for the whole family. A Show of Force will take place at the Morinville Community Cultural Centre and promises two-hours of high-flying wrestling action from more than a dozen performers. The event is being brought to town by Art of Conversation, publishers of Monday Morning News… […]

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Local News

Cancer prevention study coming to Morinville

By MorinvilleNews.com Staff

Morinville – École Georges P. Vanier School will play host to Alberta Health Services (AHS) and their Tomorrow Project next week. The long-term research study into the causes of cancer will be in town the week of Aug. 15 as part of the project’s goal to enroll 50,000 Albertans, ages 35 to 69, who have never had cancer… […]

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Morinville News

Morinville population up by 11 per cent

By Stephen Dafoe

Morinville – Results are in from the 2011 municipal census the Town of Morinville conducted over the spring and early summer. According to documents included in the Aug. 9 council agenda package, Morinville’s population has increased from 7,636 residents to 8,503 over the past two years, an increase of 867 residents or 11.4 per cent of the 2009 population figures. Averaged, the increase in population represents an annual growth rate of 5.7 per cent… […]

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Morinville News

Police looking for stolen skid steer

By MorinvilleNews.com Staff

Morinville – RCMP are seeking the public’s assistance in locating a skid steer stolen from a Morinville compounds earlier this week… […]

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Local News

Secular Education to be offered in Morinville for 2011 / 2012 school year

Submitted by Greater St. Albert Catholic Regional Division

Morinville – Beginning September, 2011, Sturgeon School Division will be the service provider for secular
education in Morinville, AB. Greater St. Albert Catholic Schools, the Catholic Public School
Division in the Town of Morinville, provides the following background regarding the
development of this program… […]

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Local News

Friends of the Morinville Public Library select logo

By MorinvilleNews.com Staff

Morinville – The Friends of the Morinville Public Library have selected their new logo after holding a contest for local graphic designers to design the new visual identity of the group… […]

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Province

August long weekend results in more than 3,000 charges

By MorinvilleNews.com staff

Edmonton – Law enforcement was out in full force over the August long weekend, pulling over vehicles on provincial highways for a number of infractions. RCMP and Alberta Sheriffs issued approximately 764 fewer violations than they did during the same weekend in 2010. The holiday weekend netted 3,290 charges this year, compared with 4,054 charges in 2010… […]

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Local News

Monday Morning news Aug. 1 Edition

The Aug. 1 edition of Monday Morning News hits store shelves and restaurant counters Monday morning. This week’s edition is 20-pages of Morinville News and views. This week’s issue contains the following news stories… […]

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Editorial & Opinion

Letter: Resident disappointed and upset about vandalism

Dear Editor:

I write this today and cannot decide if I am more disappointed than I am upset but for sure I am both. Thursday night some person(s) ripped out my flagpole along with the Canadian flag and some of my solar yard lights, threw them on the lawn of my neighbour two doors down who happens to be retired from the armed forces… […]

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Local News

Highway 44 collision takes life

By MorinvilleNews.com staff

Morinville – A multi-vehicle collision on Hwy 44 late Friday afternoon has takent he life of an Edmonton man and sent a 12-year-old girl to hospital by air ambulance… […]

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Arts & Culture

Morinville gets inside look at the world of comics

Morinville – The Morinville Public Library hosted the first of its Centennial Author Series Thursday night with Andrew Foley, co-author of Cowboys and Aliens, the graphic novel on which the blockbuster summer movie with Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford is based. Foley was joined by comic and pop culture… […]

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Morinville News

Local volunteer continues to help on a global scale

By Stephen Dafoe

Morinville – There is a certain synchronicity in the fact Pleasant Homes service manager Simon Boersma would devote so much of his time in third world countries helping communities establish their own pleasant homes. Boersrma is part of the Flying Doctors of Canada, a non-governmental, non-profit, registered charity made up of doctors, nurses and other healthcare workers as well as general volunteers who are all committed to helping those most in need… […]