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Arts & Culture

Rend to play all-ages rock-pop show in Morinville

By Stephen Dafoe

Morinville – If you’ve heard their music, it is hard to believe rock-pop-soul band Rend have only been playing together for a year. The band has a big different sound that is catching a lot of attention in the capital region and beyond. With their CD debut, No Lines, getting both media attention and lots of radio play, Rend could be the next big thing… […]

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Arts & Culture

Ballet Kelowna show a hit in Morinville

By Stephen Dafoe

Morinville – Ballet Kelowna’s Morinville stop on their tour Mar. 9 provided the Morinville Community Cultural Centre with its largest audience to date in the Centennial Concert Series. Approximately 200 came out to the Friday night performance to view one of Canada’s 10 touring ballet companies… […]

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Local News

Youth Rally draws teens together

By Stephen Dafoe

Morinville – The stage of the Morinville Community Cultural Centre (CCC) was the platform from which a message of identity, change and faith was communicated to approximately 150 youth from the area Mar. 12. In their first youth rally, Morinville Christian Fellowship’s Impact Youth put together a two-hour program… […]

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Ballet Kelowna bringing romantic journey to Morinville

By MorinvilleNews.com Staff

Morinville – A Grand Passion is coming to the stage of the Morinville Community Cultural Centre Friday night. Ballet Kelowna will perform a show that takes their audience on a romantic journey through ballet history. From the greatest tragic love story Romeo & Juliet to the famous pas de deux from The Sleeping Beauty… […]

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Editorial & Opinion

Editorial: What to do about the cultural centre

It is disappointing to look at the fourth quarter report on the Morinville Community Cultural Centre (CCC) and see the facility lost $353,352 in its first half year of operation. We take comfort that estimated losses were in the neighbourhood of $418,477 and the actual losses were less… […]

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Cultural Centre lost less money than thought

By MorinvilleNews.com Staff

Morinville – According to a draft document in the fourth quarter report, the Morinville Community Cultural Centre did not lose as much money as budgets proposed it would lose in its first half year of operation. The new facility was projected to lose $418,477 in 2011; however, the cultural centre lost only $353,352… […]

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Morinville News

Morinville Family Day weekend a success

By MorinvilleNews.com Staff

Morinville – Organizers of this year’s Family Day festival are calling the cooperative initiative a big success. This year Morinville’s Community Services Department teamed up with the Morinville Fish and Game Association and the Royal Canadian Legion’s Women’s Auxiliary to cross promote a weekend’s worth of activities for all ages… […]

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Local scouts ready to light their torches

By MorinvilleNews.com staff

Morinville – Local scouts are getting ready to spark their torches in honour of Lord Baden-Powell, the founder of the scouting movement. The members of 1st Morinville Scouting will take part in a Torch Light Parade Feb. 22, running from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m… […]

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Arts & Culture

Comedy master Lorne Elliott comes to Morinville

By Stephen Dafoe

Morinville – Laughter filled the Community Cultural Centre Friday night as comedian and musician Lorne Elliott unfolded his Upside of the Downturn show on a Morinville audience. Elliott, who has performed around the world and who has opened for Rodney Dangerfield and Jay Leno, is best known as the host of CBC Radio’s Madly Off in All Directions, which ran for 11 seasons… […]

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Lorne Elliott coming to Morinville Friday

By MorinvilleNews.com Staff

Morinville – Comedian, storyteller, musician and playwright Lorne Elliott brings his one-man show to the Morinville Community Cultural Centre Friday night. Dubbed the King of Canadian Comedy, Elliott is the second comedian to take to the stage in the Centennial concert Series… […]

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Arts & Culture

TorQ brings something completely different to Morinville

By Stephen Dafoe

Morinville – Those expecting garbage cans and dust brooms traversing the stage of the Morinville Community Cultural Centre during the Jan. 13 presentation of TorQ Percussion Quartet would have been disappointed because the quartet is considerably more than a scaled down version of Stomp. What the 60 concert goers who came out to see something a little different got was a highly polished performance that was part symphony, part musical education and part performance art…. […]

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Morinville swings with a jazzy Christmas

By Lucie Roy

Morinville – Jazz music with a Christmas theme was featured by the River City Big Band at the Morinville Community Cultural Center Dec. 17. Approximately 100 people came out for the evening show.The narration by the Master of Ceremonies, Colin MacLean, brought stories to life of music and songs through the age and was fitting with the 100th anniversary celebrations in Morinville. The 17-piece big band under the Musical Direction of Larry Schrum also featured vocals by Chandelle Rimmer… […]

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Local News

Cardiff overpass information session planned for Monday

By Stephen Dafoe

Morinville – The long-awaited Cardiff Road overpass project is progressing nicely since the province announced the infrastructure project in June. Detours along Cardiff Road and 100 Street in Morinville have opened up the area for preparatory work. Residents will have their first real opportunity to see designs of the overpass and related road ways Dec. 12 during a public information session at the Morinville Community Cultural Centre … […]

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Rotarians host successful Christmas event

By MorinvilleNews.com Staff

Morinville – Some 450 people packed the Morinville Community Cultural Centre Saturday night for the first business Christmas party. The successful event was a fundraiser for the Morinville Rotary Club. […]

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Morinville Community Cultural Centre has lower than projected revenues and losses

By Stephen Dafoe

Morinville – Councillors were presented with third quarter reports Tuesday night, documents that outline Morinville’s position in terms of the various departments that make up the municipality. Among those reports was one that showed the Morinville Community Cultural Centre (CCC), which opened in mid-May, has lower than projected revenues through the third quarter of 2011 but also lower than projected losses… […]

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Polyjesters bring CHUNK to Morinville

By MorinvilleNews.com Staff

Morinville – They’ve played for pocket change and they’ve played for monarchs, but the Polyjesters are soon to play for Morinville. The Nov. 18 convert will be the third in the Community Cultural Centre’s (CCC) Centennial Concert Series… […]