Columns
Column: Joe Morinville
Last couple weeks I got cut from this rag and this week they said I could come in but I had to keep my column down to one column width. So they made me skinny this week without having to diet… […]
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Columns
Column: Joe Morinville
Keeping it super simple this week because it is almost summer and I prefer to spend my time looking at old cars and being happy, not sitting indoors trying to figure what to write about for my weekly column… […]
Columns
Column: Joe Morinville
Got quite the email from someone the other week what was pretty hot under the collar about my latest column I wrote on my birthday. I say someone cause they didn’t sign their name at all to their email. Anyway… […]
Columns
Column: Joe Morinville
Thanks to everyone what wished me a happy birthday on the Facebook last Thursday. I noticed nobody run my picture in The Morinville News to recognize my 68th trip around the sun, but nobody did last year either. But they did run a funny cartoon by Bruce Humen of me getting helped up after playing a guitar solo. So anyway here’s my thoughts on birthdays and such… […]
Columns
Column: Joe Morinville
They cut my column for a couple weeks because of all the letters to the editor the paper has been getting lately and because the other column writers aren’t able to keep it short. But I’m back in for sure so here goes with what I think…. […]
Columns
Column: Joe Morinville
The Morinville Trade Show is on this weekend and I always like going to it. I know they call it Leap into Spring Expo now, but I still call it the Trade Show because I go there and trade my opinions with people I know. Here’s some other things I like about Trade Show…. […]
Columns
Column: Joe Morinville
Last week, I talked about how spring was coming and then on the first day of spring it snowed and it was cold and looks like it’s gonna be for a while longer. So I’m not going to talk about that because enough of youse have blamed me for the snow and cold… […]
Columns
Column: Joe Morinville
The warmer weather has got me thinking that spring might not be far away from us and that got me thinking about how I ought to drag my barbecue out of the garage again and maybe cook myself a steak. Here’s some signs Morinville is well on its way to spring… […]
Columns
Column: Joe Morinville
Seen they pretty much packed the cultural centre twice this weekend. That’s got to be a new record. Any way you slice it, it shows things are turning around a bit over there. Maybe it’s time we left them alone a bit to do their jobs and stopped complaining so much about how much the building cost us…. […]
Columns
Column: Joe Morinville
A reader of my column give me some ideas this week about Olmypic events and places we could use for them if Morinville ever got to host the Winter Olympics. Here’s some of their ideas and some of mine too… […]
Editorial & Opinion
Column: Joe Morinville
Publisher phoned me Sunday to remind me my column was late and that I had two hours to write it or he was gonna run something else instead. So this column is a little rushed and all over the place… […]
Editorial & Opinion
Column: Joe Morinville
I don’t have a theme this week like I sometimes do. Although the theme is kind of crazy stuff going on here and there and my opinions about the crazy stuff going on here and there…. […]
Editorial & Opinion
Column: Joe Morinville
The Christmas season is a time to stop and remember the important traditions, including fruitcake. Sit again with your children or friends, regardless of their age, and watch a Christmas cartoon! Here are the ones what I like…. […]
Editorial & Opinion
Column: Joe Morinville
With Remembrance Day past us now, folks will be driving full steam ahead into Christmas mode. Mind you, some were rolling down that road well before Nov. 11 had come and gone, but that’s another story. Anyways, here’s some of the stuff I look forward to in Morinville over the weeks leading up to Christmas. … […]
Editorial & Opinion
Column: Joe Morinville
I’m pretty excited that next week we’ll have a new Council to complain about. Twenty-eight days of door knocking, handshaking […]
Morinville News
Column: Joe Morinville
If people paid as much attention to the issues and where candidates stood on them as they do to fussing about how many or how big their signs was, maybe we’d get through this election season with a good bunch of councillors to work for us for the next four years. Here’s some other signs… […]