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Morinville Chamber recognizes its roaring successes

Oct 20, 2011 Comments Off

By MorinvilleNews.com Staff

Morinville – Small Business Week in Morinville ended with a bang Thursday night as Morinville and area’s business community got together for an evening of fellowship and recognition. Once again the Morinville and District Chamber of Commerce held its annual award’s night gala, this year at the Morinville Community Cultural Centre. This year’s event carried a 1920s theme and the tagline Celebrating our Roaring Successes… […]

Lion’s tourney fills MCHS

Oct 20, 2011 Comments Off

By Morinvillenews.com Staff

Morinville – Volleyball players from Morinville Community High School hit the court Thursday afternoon for the opening games of the 17th Annual Lion’s Western Canadian Challenge Invitational High School Volleyball Tournament… […]

Morinville Food Bank Society receives local support

Oct 20, 2011 Comments Off

By MorinvilleNews.com

Morinville – The Morinville Food Bank Society has received some extra support over the past week. Servus Credit Union and Sobeys presented the society with cheques Thursday morning in the amounts of $500 and $2,220, respectively. Sobeys donation was from their Christmas in July event where customers were asked to contribute $5 to the food bank when they paid for their groceries… […]

Kowalski declared in BMW constituency

Oct 20, 2011 Comments Off

By MorinvilleNews.com Staff

Barrhead –Morinville-Westlock PC Association members have chosen their man to run in the next provincial election. MLA and Speaker of the Alberta Legislature Ken Kowalski has once again been chosen by the association as their candidate… […]

County residents could face higher taxes, fewer services

Oct 19, 2011 1

By Stephen Dafoe

Gibbons – A question on taxes during an open house Wednesday night lead to a frank and blunt discussion on what Sturgeon County residents could be facing in the new year – higher taxes and possibly less services.

Sturgeon County Council travelled to the Gibbons Community Hall for the second consecutive night of… […]

RCMP looking for dead duck dumper

Oct 18, 2011 Comments Off

By MorinvilleNews.com Staff

Alexander – Morinville RCMP are looking for the individual(s) responsible for the dumping of a number of dead ducks in the community… […]

Legal crime rate lower than expected over summer

Oct 17, 2011 Comments Off

By MorinvilleNews.com Staff

Legal – Morinville RCMP Staff Sergeant Mac Richards and Sergeant Mark Mathias brought Legal Town Council up to speed on crime in the community over the summer. Richards told mayor and council the July to September period is traditionally the busiest of the year; however, this year RCMP members were not as busy in the community… […]

Editorial Poll: Where do they stand a year later?

Oct 17, 2011 2

Tuesday marks the one year anniversary of the last municipal election, a time when Morinville residents went to the polls to select their mayor and council. Over the past year council has been challenged with a number of items: the mini-media frenzy over a misunderstood animal control bylaw, the divisive debate over whether or not Morinville should have… […]

Magera elected mayor in Legal

Oct 17, 2011 2

By Stephen Dafoe

Legal – Tuesday night’s organizational meeting of Legal Town Council took an interesting turn when Deputy Mayor Ken Baril nominated first-term Councillor Lisa Magera as mayor. The nomination was seconded by Mayor Albert St. Jean himself and Magera was declared mayor by acclamation… […]

Young Morinville chef takes provincial honour

Oct 17, 2011 2

By Stephen Dafoe

Morinville – A 13-year-old Georges H. Primeau student cooked up the right stuff over the weekend, beating out high school and university students to earn Morinville a provincial award. Cole Dribnenky competed in the 2011 Communities ChooseWell Iron Chef competition in Edmonton Oct. 15 and took top spot in the event… […]

Sturgeon County hosts successful household hazardous waste round-up

Oct 17, 2011 Comments Off

By Lucie Roy

Morinville – The bi-annual household hazardous waste round-up held Oct. 15 at the Sturgeon County Centre parking lot was a success. Quentin Bochar, Manager Agricultural Services, was one of four Sturgeon County employees working at the site. He said they had approximately 170 vehicles go through and collected twelve containers (2 ½ tons) of TVs and computers. There were 6,000 litres of toxic liquids, which includes items such as motor oil… […]

Vipers defeated in home opener

Oct 17, 2011 Comments Off

By Stephen Dafoe

Legal – The Vipers took to the ice Saturday night for their first game of the 2011 / 2012 North Central Hockey League Season. Although the club hoped to hit the showers with a victory under their belt, their maiden voyage into the season was a 9-4 defeat at the hands of the Athabasca Aces… […]

Two point weekend for the Jets

Oct 16, 2011 Comments Off

By Stephen Dafoe

Morinville – The Jets won one of two games over the weekend to give them two points for their troubles. The club began the weekend with a Friday night road game to take on the Sherwood Park Knights, a club who shut the Jets out with a 4-0 victory. Sunday night’s home game was a better outcome for the Jets, one in which the Junior B club defeated the visiting Edmonton Mustangs 4-2… […]

Around the Town weekend edition

Oct 16, 2011 Comments Off

There was lots going on this past weekend for our and others cameras to capture. Here’s this past weekend in pictures… […]

Al Simmons show delivers on promise of delightful silliness

Oct 16, 2011 Comments Off

By Stephen Dafoe

Morinville – Saturday night’s Al Simmons show at the Morinville Community Cultural Centre provided children and adults with an evening’s entertainment by one of Canada’s true entertainment treasures… […]

Monday Morning News Oct. 17 edition

Oct 16, 2011 Comments Off

The Oct. 17 issue of Monday Morning News hits store counters and shelves today. This week’s issue is 28 pages […]