By Stephen Dafoe
Edmonton – Wednesday night’s 12-1 loss to the North Edmonton Red Wings gave the Morinville Jets their most humiliating defeat this season and extended their losing streak to five consecutive losses.
By MorinvilleNews.com Staff
Morinville – It’s not every day that a group of three year olds are allowed close access to a cougar, but students at Morinville Tiny Tots soon found out Tuesday afternoon that this cougar had no fur or whiskers. Rather, the cougar was a large military vehicle that once trained soldiers in the skills needed to operate tanks.
By MorinvilleNews.com Staff
Edmonton – With Waste Reduction Week in full swing throughout the province, the Alberta Government announced Tuesday that Albertans have set a new record in beverage container recycling.
By MorinvilleNews.com Staff
Edmonton – The province announced Tuesday that long-term care facility operators will adjust accommodation fees beginning Feb. 1, 2011 to reflect increases in operating costs. However, the government is planning to cap the increases at three per cent to maintain affordability.
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Dear Editor:
Words have been spoken, people have spoken, the ballots counted and the signs are coming down and now the work begins. There are exciting times ahead and council must prepare to get down to business, remember the words we spoke and the words we heard.
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Next, congratulations to Mayor Lloyd Bertschi and to the six councillors. Having read all the articles that have been written in Morinvillenews.com and attending the All-Candidates Forum, I believe that all 10 people who ran for councillors should be congratulated for coming forward and hope those that didn’t win will come forward again in the next election.
By MorinvilleNews.com Staff
Morinville / Legal – Given three options for two school trustees on the ballot, Morinville voters elected Lauri-Ann Turnbull and Noreen Radford to the Greater St. Albert Catholic Region Division 29 school board with 930 and 906 votes, respectively, leaving candidate Heather Thiessen with 850 votes to try again in another three years.
Regardless of the outcome on Monday I just wanted to thank my friends and family for being supportive of my decision to run for town council. I would also like to thank Morinvillenews.com for the extensive … […]
Dear Mr. Editor,
I find it very enlightening on Election Day that our volunteers at Parish Hall and, more importantly, the person charged with running the voting process did not know that our Morinville Catholic School Division was Public. They had assumed it was Separate.
By MorinvilleNews.com Staff
Sturgeon County – Voters in Divisions 3, 4 and 5 went to the polls Monday, each selecting a councillor to join Divisions 1, 2 and 6 acclaimed candidates Don McGeachy, Tom Flynn and Karen Shaw, all of whom were unopposed in their re-election bids.
By Stephen Dafoe
Morinville – Voters went to the polls Monday to choose six of 10 candidates to serve on Morinville Town Council for the next three years. After Morinville’s mayor and council were acclaimed last election, voters were pleased to not only have an election this time but also 10 candidates to choose from. The last time Morinville had an election was 2004, during which two candidates ran for mayor and six for council.
By MorinvilleNews.com Staff
Legal – Voters went to the polls Monday to select five of seven candidates to serve on Legal Town Council. Unique among communities in Sturgeon County, Legal does not hold a vote for mayor. Rather, the elected council, once sworn in, will hold an organizational meeting to select from amongst their number one to serve as mayor.
By Stephen Dafoe
Morinville – Incumbent Mayor Lloyd Bertschi defeated one term Councillor Joseph Trapani in the race for the mayor’s chair Monday. Bertschi received 964 votes compared to Trapani’s 823.
After mayor and council were acclaimed in 2007, Trapani had decided in the eleventh hour to take a run at the mayor’s seat rather than seek another term on council so as to force an election, but the defeat … […]
By Stephen Dafoe
Morinville – It was a five-point weekend for the Morinville Titans built upon a 3-3 tie with the NEZ Northstars and a 7-3 and 5-2 victory over the St. Albert Blues.
By Étienne Thevou
With all that campaigning and voting stuff over Monday night when the polls close, people can start getting back to hearing about what else is going on in the communities.
MorinvilleNews.com Editorial
By Stephen Dafoe
I was sitting on my neighbour’s porch a couple weeks ago having a chat. Naturally, the topic of the election came up and I learned that she had never voted in her entire life. The conversation drifted on to other topics, but about a week ago I was back on the porch having a coffee and asked her what she was doing Oct. 18.
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