By Stephen Dafoe
Morinville – Tuesday night’s home-ice contest against the Spruce Grove Regals broke a three-game losing streak for the Morinville Jets. The 7-4 victory was also a reversal of fortunes from the 7-6 overtime loss the Jets suffered at the hands of the Regals Dec. 19. Tuesday night’s victory brings the Jets […]
By MorinvilleNews.com Staff
Morinville – After winning Morinville Small Business of the Year two years running, The Flower Stop is now a finalist in the Alberta Business Awards of Distinction.
The local flower and gift shop is one of four finalists in the Small Business Award category, one of 10 award … […]
By MorinvilleNews.com Staff
Sturgeon County – A public hearing is scheduled for Jan. 25 to offer Sturgeon County residents the opportunity to provide input on a proposed bylaw that would regulate parking within County boundaries.
Council gave unanimous approval to first reading of a parking bylaw for Sturgeon County during its Nov. 9 regular meeting, but is required to hold a public hearing prior to giving… […]
By Stephen Dafoe
Morinville – A local resident is hoping to launch a new constituency association next week, but the party being supported is anything but new. The Alberta Party, which began in the mid-1980s as a right wing party and is now largely comprised of centrists, is looking to build a vibrant, action-oriented constituency association in the Barrhead-Morinville-Westlock Constituency… […]
By Stephen Dafoe
Morinville – The Ninth Annual St. Valentine’s Day Hair Massacure is now underway and organizers are looking for big things again this year for the charity that has raised money for the Stollery Children’s Hospital Foundation and Make-a-Wish Northern Alberta in recent years.
Compiled by Étienne Thevou
A proud graduate
Gunner Kevin Lafleche was home to Alexander for the Christmas holidays, fresh from his graduation ceremony in Shilo, Manitoba at the Land Force Western Training Centre Detachment Shilo… […]
Dear Editor:
Regarding: MLA Doug Horner, Recent Legislation and Transmission Lines:
MLA Doug Horner has recently distributed a pamphlet to Sturgeon and Spruce Grove residents in his riding. Unfortunately, he is still touting that the recent legislation that was passed by the PC’s bills 19, 36 and 50 do not take away land ownership rights … […]
A Morinvillenews.com editorial
By Stephen Dafoe
In a slow news week television news programs need to fill the same time slot that they do when the streets are flush with stories. It is therefore no surprise that a story about Morinville’s potential banning of elephants, armadillos and other exotic animals would find itself on the tube last week, complete with accompanying footage of Godzilla terrorizing Tokyo and that scene from Jumanji where the elephants were running wild in the streets.
2010 has been an interesting year for Morinville from January until this final week of the year. The Dec. 27 edition of Monday Morning News has taken a look back pictorially at 2010, revisiting the faces and events that made the news.
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MorinvilleNews.com Editorial
By Stephen Dafoe
With Christmas 2010 behind us, we are all on the rapid road to New Year’s Eve and the changing of the calendar year. Out with the old and in with the new, as the idiom goes. But with respect to Morinville, 2011 will very much be a year of remembering and preserving the old while welcoming the new. While the sash-wearing baby in a top hat may be chomping at the bit to arrive Jan. 1, father time is not necessarily being shown the door.
By Étienne Thevou
Morinville – The community’s churches are ready to open their doors to the faithful over the next two days. Most of Morinville’s churches will hold Christmas observances Dec. 24 and 25. The following is a list of dates and times:
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By MorinvilleNews.com Staff
Morinville – Residents will pay an additional 2 per cent for water and sewer in 2011 after Morinville Town Council gave third reading to its revised water and sewer bylaws Tuesday night.
By Stephen Dafoe
Morinville – The Town of Morinville’s 2011 operational and capital budget took some interesting twists and turns on the road to third reading Tuesday night but ultimately passed third reading with the unanimous vote of the six council members present.
After first reading was defeated Dec. 7, an amended version of the budget passed first and second reading Dec. 14 with the provision… […]
By Stephen Dafoe
Legal – Saturday night’s home-ice show down between the Legal Vipers and Slave Lake Winterhawks was a different outcome for the Vipers than the last time the two teams met. Instead of a tightly contested 9-8 victory for the Vipers, the snakes came away with an 8-5 loss, their second defeat against Slave Lake this season.
By MorinvilleNews.com staff
Sturgeon County – The dumping of snow that gripped the Edmonton region over the past few days met its match from the Sturgeon County Transportation department… […]
By Stephen Dafoe
Morinville – The Jets ended the 2010 calendar year on a down note Sunday night after dropping a 7-6 shootout decision to the Spruce Grove Regals. Although taking one point for a contest against the CJHL West Division’s second-ranked club would normally be an acceptable situation, the loss was the Jets third in a week… […]
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