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Council approves requested school locations after emotional debate

Jun 24, 2015 Comments Off on Council approves requested school locations after emotional debate

After a lengthy and often emotional debate, Council has decided to go ahead with two new school sites that were both requested by their school boards.

Council passed a bylaw that would transfer to Sturgeon School Division their preferred location adjacent to the current Ray McDonald Sports Centre for a new public middle school (Grades 6-9). The existing arena will be demolished as the new recreation facility east of Town is ready.
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Council and SSD meet with parents

Jun 18, 2015 Comments Off on Council and SSD meet with parents

An information session was held in the Morinville Public School gym Tuesday night with Mayor, Council, staff members, Sturgeon School Division Board trustees and roughly 12 parents in attendance. The agenda was regarding a request for a new Morinville Public School site and covered the school site allocation process from the Town, the new school planning and design Phase 1 from Sturgeon School Division and the current status of the Sturgeon School Division site identification needs. […]

Legal

Sturgeon School Division gets update on school space and sites

Apr 13, 2015 Comments Off on Sturgeon School Division gets update on school space and sites

Sturgeon School Division Superintendent Dr. Michele Dick provided an update on six modulars approved for Morinville Public School and one for Sturgeon Heights School. Both projects will not get started until the end of the shool year because of usage of the area by children. […]

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Legal

Two-day conference to deal with youth issues

Oct 1, 2014 Comments Off on Two-day conference to deal with youth issues

A two-day conference will provide Sturgeon School Division, Greater St. Albert Catholic School, and Kipohtakaw Education Centre students with exposure to a number of important youth topics, training on how to deal with them, and a desire to return to their schools to teach peers what they have learned. … […]

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Local News

MPES seeking Council funding for new playground

Jun 26, 2014 1

by Tristan Turner

At Council’s last meeting before summer recess, Leah Elzinga, President of the Morinville Public Elementary School (MPES) Parent Fundraising Association, made a presentation on proposed new playground equipment to meet the needs of the rapidly growing school, and made a financial request of Council to help support the project. While council confirmed no funding at the meeting, they unanimously supported a motion to have Administration investigate ways the Town might be able to financially support the new equipment and return that information for Council’s August meeting… […]

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Local Sports

Sturgeon School Division playing ball on Morinville tennis courts

May 14, 2013 2

By Stephen Dafoe

Morinville – The Town’s deteriorating tennis courts, located at 100 Avenue and 101 Street, could be staying where they are after all now that Sturgeon School Division has put forth some more agreeable terms to help the Town restore the courts to a usable condition. Roots from the surrounding poplar trees have broken through the tennis court surface, creating tripping hazards and rendering the courts unusable. The division is looking to work with the town to restore the courts with existing budgeted monies…. […]

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Local Sports

Council looking at other options for tennis courts

Apr 23, 2013 13

By Stephen Dafoe

Morinville – The Town’s deteriorating tennis courts, located at 100 Avenue and 101 Street, could be ripped up and replaced with new ones at Bob Foster Park or another location in town. The courts were approved for $120,000 worth of refurbishing in the 2013 budget; however, the Sturgeon School Division who now own the land the courts sit on have put forth a few conditions that would extend the costs beyond what was allotted for the project this year… […]

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Sturgeon County

Holocaust survivor speaks to Sturgeon School Division students

Mar 14, 2013 Comments Off on Holocaust survivor speaks to Sturgeon School Division students

By Lucie Roy

Sturgeon County – Canadian bestselling author and Holocaust survivor Dr. Eva Olsson spoke to students, parents and guests at Camilla School Thursday. Mrs. Olsson used her life experience to bring a message of love, compassion and unconditional acceptance.

She illustrated the power of hate with a video and slide presentation of Hitler and the concentration camps and how 11 million people’s voices were silenced by hate… […]

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Morinville News

Sturgeon School Division reviewing electoral boundaries

Oct 22, 2012 Comments Off on Sturgeon School Division reviewing electoral boundaries

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Sturgeon County – Establishing Sturgeon School Division’s electoral boundaries will be the topic of discussion during four Open Houses scheduled for November. With the addition of Thibault and Legal School Districts to its jurisdiction, Sturgeon School Division now includes all of Sturgeon County and the towns of Legal, Morinville, Bon Accord, Gibbons and Redwater… […]

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Morinville News

Group for GIRLS helping young woman understand themselves

Oct 9, 2012 Comments Off on Group for GIRLS helping young woman understand themselves

By Stephen Dafoe

Morinville – Zumba music blares from the program room of the Morinville Community Library as more than a dozen girls between the ages of 11 and 18 learn about themselves in a fun way. The Girls in Real Life Situations (GIRLS) program started Oct. 2 and will run for the next five Tuesday evenings, offering young women an opportunity to become more comfortable with who they are in a society that too often tells them they shouldn’t be… […]