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Former MCHS student fundraising
for humanitarian trip to Ecuador
by Lucie Roy
Morinville News Correspondent
A former MCHS student is seeking $6000 in financial support to attend
a four-week program in Ecuador, which is a pre-medical trip specific to her
career.
Haley Stang told Rotary Club of Morinville members during her Feb.
17 presentation the proposal is with EcuaExperience, a Canadian based
company offering Pre-Medical and Volunteer Programs.
Stang graduated from MCHS in 2014 and is currently enrolled at the
University of Alberta, pursuing Medicine and eventually Surgery Specialty.
She is enrolled in Honours Physiology to pursue medicine, and then cardio
vascular surgery.
The Ecuador program provides students with three opportunities to help
those less fortunate learn firsthand knowledge about the medical field and
discover the diversity of a developing nation.
Stang said she would learn by shadowing doctors, surgeons,
and healthcare professionals providing care to local people. There
are medical rotations involving surgery, sports medicine, radiology,
obstetrics, emergency aid, internal medicine, and pediatrics. Shadowing
opportunities include lab components and individual cases. The team will
build houses alongside the local community and then donate the houses
upon completion. There is a four-month project to build 20 homes in the
rural community of Jama in 2016. The new houses would have natural
cross-ventilation, be earthquake resistant and made of local sustainable
materials.
Stang said she believed the Ecuador trip would further her knowledge
and passion for volunteering. "As an active member of society, it is
important to me to enrich myself in philanthropy while always learning
along the way,” she said. “The intent is [that] this trip allows me to
combine my passion for volunteering with early experience to my career
choice while discovering another lifestyle and culture.”
Stang has had a long history of volunteerism and was a founding
member of the MCHS Rotary Interact Club in 2014. During that year, she
was involved in a humanitarian trip to Mexico that included restoring a
church playground and visiting orphanages and families living in a dump.
In addition to being Captain of the Senior Volleyball team and Assistant
Coach for the Sturgeon Volleyball Club in 2014, Stang was also involved
with the Careers, Next Generation to help high school students in their
career after graduation. She did one year at the Health Intern-Citadel
Care Centre in 2013 and a year at the Health Intern-Sturgeon Community
Hospital in 2014. She was also the Health Spokesman at the 7th Annual
Future Circle Event.
Stang continues her volunteerism. She is currently an active member
of the University of Alberta’s Rotaract Club and is a President-Elect
Candidate for their elections in March and serves in a Leadership role in the
Subcommittee on Community Service.
Stang has volunteered at the Mustard Seed sorting clothes, created
hampers at the Edmonton Food Bank, and volunteered at Ronald McDonald
House. Stang is currently on the Sub-Committee of the Ronald McDonald
House. At Westmount Junior High School she is the Co-founder of
the Mentorship Program for at-risk youth, which begins in March. The
program's goal is to meet at least once a month to develop leadership, goal
setting, character building, and career building skills.
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Local woman recipient of Governor
General Caring Canadian Award
by Lucie Roy
Morinville News Correspondent
Guylaine Jacques received an email Feb. 4 saying she'd won a Governor
General's award, and did not think much of it at first.
“You know we receive so many things by email," Jacques said, adding
emails in the inbox saying she's won a cruise or other things are common.
"I read the title and almost deleted it."
The email, addressed to Guylaine Jacques, read “Prix du Governeur
General pour l’entraide felicitations.” Jacques said it looked real so she
saved it and did some research that night with her husband, Steve Daigle.
After checking it out, everything seemed legitimate, but the next morning
she called to see if it was a joke. When she learned it wasn’t, she cried.
Jacques is to be presented the Governor General’s Caring Canadian
Friday, 26 February
Higher Grounds
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If you like cribbage, you’ll love scribbage, a
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fun to play. This event will take place at 7 p.m.
Feb. 26 at Higher Grounds. Entry fees will be
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Monday, 29 February - Adult
Colouring at the Green Bean
Grab your colouring books and markers and
come to the Green Bean from 6 - 8 p.m. for
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Friday, March 4
The Rendez Vous de la Francophonie takes place
March 6 to 20 and Morinville is joining the party.
The contribution of French Canadians to
the province and local community will be
acknowledged March 4 with a French Canadian
Heritage Celebration that will begin with the
Raising of the Franco-Albertan flag in St. Jean
Baptiste Park and will continue with festivities
at the Morinville Community Cultural Centre
(MCCC). See Morinville.ca for details and times.
Tuesday, March 8 - AGM
The Annual General Meeting of the Sturgeon
Rural Crime Watch Association will be held at 8
p.m. on Tuesday, March 8 at the Rendez-Vous
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Award in March for her volunteerism and said she still does not know who
nominated her. Many places where she has volunteered have all received
phone calls from the Governor Generals’ office confirming her volunteerism
and involvement.
Jacques said volunteering is a family thing and thinks it comes from her
Mom. Her Mother got involved with the school when Jacques was young
and together with a group of parents got a cafeteria built for the school.
“I think when we saw her very involved in the community she looked
happy and since then we always help everybody,” Jacques said adding her
parents always helped everybody around them.
It is something that is present in her home. She said her children are
involved everywhere, and her husband takes a week of unpaid vacation
time every year to do the sugar shack at area schools and events. He has
done it for the last six years and recently took part at events at Morinville
Public School and the Morinville Snowman Festival over the Family Day
weekend.
“Every community needs some volunteers," Jacques said. "If nobody
volunteers in the community, the community is a dead community. If
everybody is paid, they just pay them for so much. We need volunteers in
a community.”
Jacques' volunteerism includes but is not limited to four years with
Tour de l’Alberta, volunteering with the ACFA since 2005, the Federation
of Sports Alberta’s Francophone as Director for two years, and four years
as vice president. She is also on the Organizing Committee for the Alberta
Francophone Games, with five years as Zone 4 Coach for Zone 4.
Jacques and members of the Morinville Community Library initiated the
Story Time program where she reads French books to children and Library
employee Margaret Meetsma reads the English ones.
As a preschool teacher at École Citadelle in Legal, Jacques has also
volunteered as the School Community Coordinator and organizes different
activities for children to bring the community in the school and the school
into the community. She also teaches Roots of Empathy and takes the
students to the Chateau Sturgeon Lodge to do activities with the seniors.
“Time flies so fast," Jacques said of her volunteerism. "I never count my
hours. I never count the days. I never count anything. If I volunteer for
something of if they call me for something, I give 110 per cent, and I am
there until they tell me to leave.”
Centre, 9913-104 Street,
Morinville. The meeting will be
preceded by the presentation of
the Poster Contest Awards to the
winners at 7 p.m. Light refreshments
will be served. All SRCWA members and
parents of winners are to encouraged to attend.
Saturday, 12 March
Champion Regional Series
Featuring Alberta Beef, the music of the Beatles,
and local and regional beers, the first Champion
Regional Series will take place Mar. 12 at the
Rendez-Vous Centre. See Page 16 for details.
Upcoming Cultural Shows
The Jungle Book Feb. 27
Illumidance - Mar. 10 CCC
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Editorial: The prime
minister needs to wake
up and get a haircut
The headline of this article is not a statement this publication agrees
with – far from it in fact. We think the prime minister’s hair is OK as it
is. But it is one that we have published nonetheless because freedom of
the press gives us the right to make provocative, controversial and even
ill-informed statements – published opinions that can freely criticize our
municipal, provincial and federal leaders for the actions or inactions they
take without fear of execution, jail time or even reprisal.
You are free to read such statements or not. You are also free to agree
with such statements or not. Such is the nature of a free society, and such
is the message of Freedom to Read Week, an annual event that celebrates
the great freedom we have in this country to (with reasonable exceptions)
write what we want and to read what we want.
And yet in this day and age where the free exchange of ideas and
ideologies (both well-informed and ill-informed) travel with the rapidity
of an Internet Tweet, there are those who would still ban and censor
the written word for no other reason than it does not agree with their
particular worldview.
Fortunately such challenges are few and far between in Canada, and the
days when a book like Rabbit’s Wedding (which depicts a black and white
rabbit holding hands on the cover) could be removed from library shelves
for its seemingly interracial agenda are over.
It’s fitting that we discuss these Freedoms at a time when the NDP
government’s dustup with reporters from Ezra Levant’s Rebel Media has
caught media headlines and media support. The government quickly
reversed its decision to keep those they do not consider to be journalists
on the other side of the door, but will now undertake a study to look at
media policies.
As media, we are concerned with this move. Government should not get
to decide who is media and who is not. The government should not get to
decide what form or media - print or online - consists of journalists. The
Guelph Mercury, in print since before Confederation, recently went online
only. Under a no webbies policy, a publication older than the country itself
would be barred from covering the government news of the day.
It’s interesting to note that Rebel Media co-founder Brian Lilly is a
member of the Canadian Parliamentary Press Gallery, as are two reporters
from Buzzfeed and one from Rabble.ca.
That Mr. Levant resonates with one side of a political spectrum and
not another is a fact. That Mr. Levant is applauded by some and utterly
loathed by others is a fact. That Mr. Levant and his colleagues have a
right guaranteed under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms to criticize the
government of the day is also a fact. And it’s also a fact that he takes his
lumps in a court of law if he crosses the line, just like any other journalist,
columnist, reporter or media pundit.
Censorship or attempts at censorship remain in our modern society and
the freedom to write and the freedom to read is something we must never
take for granted. This past week has shown this.
Go to the library and take out a banned book this week or read a
newspaper article critical of government while you still can.
- SD
What Are You Talking About?
but it might suffice for grades 7-9 until land within Morinville can be
secured for construction of a new school.
Shelly wrote: I am curious how many parents outside the parent council
outright object to the notion of a temporary school. I am a parent with a
child in the public school, and my family is facing uncertainty like everyone
else. I would definitely support a temporary school over busing my child
out of the community. If other parents share this perspective, its time they
start speaking up.
We live in an outrageously prosperous part of the world, and we need to
consider how lucky we are to be in a position to be picky about the perfect
location for a ‘state of the art’ school. I would rather have my child well
educated in a humble building in my town than to have her shipped off
to some out-of-town school because the SSD was too preoccupied trying
to build a monument to itself, and snubbing an opportunity to make a
practical solution happen locally.
Education is about the children — this parent says get over yourselves
SSD, and build the school already. You’ve been given the best option
available under the circumstances, which we all understand are not ideal.
Get on with fulfilling your obligations to our children. Be inspired by the
imagination our children have in abundance to work out a way to make a
great school in spite of the limitations — what a monument to ingenuity
and creative problem solving that would be. What an example to offer to
our children about gratitude and making the best with what life offers.
Noah L responded: I think you are missing a key point in the messaging
from SSD and to a certain extent the Alberta Government. SSD is the
Customer, the Alberta Government and the Town need to figure a solution
out here. Until those two come to an agreement, the “Customer” has no
say over when they can “build the school already.”
I’ve seen and read enough over the last few weeks to know who I
personally think is at fault here. Council needs to realize that “perception is
reality” in the world of politics. Quit issuing terse responses via the media
and find a way to get this done with the Province.
John Coffin wrote: You know, you could have saved alot of money by
getting your drawings from an existing design. Why try reinventing the
wheel? Stop making something simple into something complicated.
Lucie Roy’s Feb. 11 (online) Feb. 17 (print) story Sturgeon School
Division discusses school delay generated a bit on online discussion. Below
are sme of the comments.
Joel K wrote: Instead of bringing more modulars in, maybe the SSD
should explore the option of renovating and re-purposing the existing
Sturgeon County office that is for sale just south of Morinville. It would
requiring bussing for a short distance and possibly a gymnasium added,
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Letter: CAF program more of the same
Re: Edmonton Garrison part of Veteran Family Pilot Project by Lucie Roy
[published on MorinvilleNews.com Jan. 24].
This news article really caused me a lot of mental angst. The author
didn’t, but the subject matter did.
Well, I read your comment/article on how the “Edmonton Garrison is
one of [7] locations chosen for a [4]-year pilot project to provide medicallyreleased veterans and their families with support for [2] years from the
date of release”. With the “programming” targeting medically released
Veterans from the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) since 30 November 2014
(and on).
I am sorry to say that I found the article to just (for me) to be a rehash of the previous CAF’s ‘party line’, about how the CAF ‘really’ cares
about Veterans and their respective families. Which (I feel) is nowhere
near the ‘facts’. The CAF (I believe) can ‘re-name’ and/or ‘rebrand’ their
product program (in this case, how they support ‘wounded’ Veterans (both
physically and psychological), but (I disbelieve and have no faith in) a
military system that (I feel) just throws us Veterans ‘away’ and/or into a
corner (in the hopes we will never be heard from again). For example, look
at the exclusion of Veterans with “issues” who were released/kicked out
before 30 November 2014. What about us? Are we to be just written off,
because of an arbitrary date. I guess so. For this Veteran, this is just (I
perceive) another disguised, blotted, bureaucratic government ‘program’
that takes away from previous ‘programs’, such as SISIP, etc., and does
nothing to help us Veterans (regardless of whether we were released and/
or were medically kicked out before 30 November 2014 or not). Further,
after the four years are up what happens to medically-released Veterans
and their families? More of the same, or (as I perceive), just another renaming and re-launch of another “program”, that will (again I discern)
not truly address ongoing Veteran “issues” (such as the small matters of
violence, pain, suffering, and financial security).
If the CAF really wanted to show that it supports wounded Veterans,
it should (I feel) take a (somewhat) lead from the United States, such as
implementing a USA Military Office for Retirees/Veterans (where there
can be an “Office of Military Retirees/Veterans” embedded within each
Base Headquarters (HQs)). All it would take to show us Veterans that the
CAF really cared would be a mid-sized room, with several comfortable
chairs, maybe a radio, coffee, and a coffee pot with mugs. What would
this program cost? Next to nothing. But would not (I feel) serve vested
interests. Oh well, why listen to us Veterans, as what do we really know?
For myself, this is just another CAF “program” that (I believe) deflects
from the ‘true’ causes of pain and misery for us Veterans, and that is the
lack of dedicated, consistent, on-going, respectful support, and financially
security for those Veterans (like myself) and their respective families.
Thoughts?
Mike Cue
The Annual General Meeting of the Sturgeon Rural
Crime Watch Association will be held at 8 p.m. on
Tuesday, March 8 at the Rendez-Vous Centre,
9913-104 Street, Morinville. The meeting will be
preceded by the presentation of the Poster Contest
Awards to the winners at 7 p.m. Light refreshments
will be served. All SRCWA members and parents of
winners are to encouraged to attend.
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HERE’S
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MORINVILLE
The older I get, the more I realize that my generation just isn’t
relevant anymore.
Bad night for a knight
This is kind of old news on account it happened a week ago Sunday,
but I think it’s worth telling for those what missed it. Paul McCartney
is one of the Beatles, and they was the greatest music group that ever
was. After the Grammy Awards in the States, he went to some after
party that some Tyga was holding. I had to look him up. He’s a rapper.
Anyway, Sir Paul, who the Queen made a knight, was turned away
twice by the bouncers because they did not know who Paul McCartney
was. So he had to go to a different party. I took a listen to one of
Tyga’s songs, and I expect Sir Paul will be remembered long after the
likes of Tyga finally pull up their pants.
No work and all pay
Read where a Spanish fella stayed home from work for six years but
the company kept paying him. The only reason they learned he wasn’t
coming to work is because they were fixing to give him an award for
his 20 years of hard work managing the building he was making nearly
$50,000 a year to manage. So this guy took in $250,000, and all he
got was a $30,000 fine. And you folks probably guessed it. This guy
was not working for a big company or a mom and pop corner store.
He was working for his municipal government. Ain’t nowhere else that
kind of story could happen but government.
Photo with a fish
I don’t understand this obsession with people taking so many
photos of themselves I’d guess there ain’t more than a dozen photos
of me. There’s my wedding picture, one when I give my daughter
away and one when my son got married. There’s one or two from a
family reunion and one from my 65th birthday. Other than that there’s
one the missus kept what she took of me when I fell asleep with my
mouth open. But today, people take pictures of themselves coming
and going to work, to the store and BINGO. And now a bunch of idiots
killed a poor dolphin because a whole bunch of them paraded it around
a beach out of the water taking photos with it. They say dolphins is
the smartest mammals. They’re sure smarter than those idiots on the
beach.
The pope and the dope
So someone asked the Pope what he thought of Donald Trump
wanting to build a wall between the States and Mexico and he said
something about someone who would build that kind of wall wasn’t
acting like a Christian. Then people what like Trump said who is the
pope to question Trump’s faith or anyone? I think if a plumber is
qualified to tell you if your toilet is clogged, the pope is qualified to
determine if someone is acting like a Christian or not.
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Minister of Education meets
with School Division and Council
by Colin Smith
Morinville News Correspondent
in time for the 2017-18 school year.
That is no longer possible, but Eggen said he wants it done as soon as
possible.
“The money is there, and it’s not going anywhere,” he declared. “It
takes about 2½ years to get this job done. If we can start working on
it straightaway that would be great, depending on the resolution of the
access.”
Eggen added, “We need to make sure schools are being built to meet
the needs of the growing population of students in our province.”
Superintendent Dick said she was very encouraged by the meeting.
“The minister was very encouraging,” she stated. “He reaffirmed
commitment to a new public school in Morinville and commitment to
funding.”
Having all players around the table to have a look at the possibilities to
and see what the constraints are is a good thing she noted.
“I believe there is good will. I believe there needs to be good will. I
believe we have to put students at centre of the discussion.”
Dick said the aim is to work collectively to identify the right site and to
see the school open in 2018-19.
“I certainly believe the minister was committed to that.”
Alberta Education Minister David Eggen wants area residents to know
that the province is truly committed to building a new public school in
Morinville.
This was the point stressed by the Minister after he came out of a Feb.
17 meeting with representatives of the Town of Morinville and Sturgeon
School Division in regards to the planned Public Junior High School.
“We want to reassure in the Morinville area that this school will be built,
and the monies are available to move forward in in the most expeditious
way,” Eggen stated.
He said that with Morinville growing very rapidly, the interests of
children need to be put first and foremost.
“So we are making sure we have school spaces available in the next
weeks and months and to get the new school built in a very expeditious
way.”
A budget of $25 million has been set for the school, which will require
2½ years for completion once construction begins.
The Minister described the meeting attended by Mayor Lisa Holmes and
councillors, Sturgeon School Division Superintendent Michèle Dick, and
Board Chair Tracy Nowak as “very productive.”
What is the plan until school built?
Roadblocks on present school site
There was also a necessary focus on the shorter term for Morinville
Public School, she pointed out.
“What happens in the 2017-18 school year? How are we going to meet
student needs? We are going to be looking at a lot of different options.”
One specific question is whether there will be room for more modular
units. On that, Dick said the School Division is waiting for feedback from
the Town.
Mayor Lisa Holmes said in a Town of Morinville statement that she felt
the meeting was very productive.
“We continue to be committed to working together in order to ensure
this project moves forward,” Holmes stated.
Morinville and Sturgeon School Division have arranged a meeting for
Feb. 23.
The meeting was called after an impasse developed over the site offered
by the Town for the school. Recently the School Division declared the site
unsuitable because of road access and safety concerns, while Morinville
officials assert no other site is available.
As a result the planning process has been suspended.
“We had a number of suggestions from the municipality and the school
board on how to overcome some of the roadblocks,” Eggen said.
The Minister added he would be speaking with colleagues in the
Municipal Affairs and Infrastructure departments about possible ways to
move forward.
Following the original timeline, the project was to have been completed
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The aging Ray McDonald Sports Center is seen from 107 Street. Demolition of the arena
is one of the cocerns in using the property for a new public junior high school. Sturgeon
School Division’s board and Morinville Town Council were to hold a joint meeting Feb. 24.
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is projected to be 335 students in the new school and 688 at Morinville
Public School. The student population of Greater St. Albert Catholic School
Division’s Notre Dame and G.H. Primeau is numerous portables along with
the core buildings.
Superintendent David Keohane stated that at Notre Dame 500 students
are accommodated in the main building and 17 portables, and 425 at G.H.
Primeau, where there are a dozen portables.
According to Keohane, more than 95 per cent of the population at Notre
Dame and G.H. Primeau either live in the Town of Morinville or are in the
schools’ residential area, i.e. Cardiff or Legal.
At Notre Dame, 460 of the students live in Morinville, 30 (6%) live in
Legal or Cardiff, 10 (2%), classed as non-resident, live in Sturgeon County.
Of the students at G.H. Primeau, 350 are Morinville residents, 60 (14%)
reside in Cardiff or Legal and 15 (3.5%) are from Sturgeon County.
The new GSACRD school planned for the Westwinds Development will be
an elementary K-6 with a student capacity of 350.
The details of a new Sturgeon School Division junior high school may
be up in the air, but it’s certain that student population at the present
Morinville Public School is going up.
According to Principal Wayne Rufiange, the current school enrolment is
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“I am projecting 830 students from Preschool through Grade 9 in the
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Of the 701 students, 131 (18.68%) have an address that is not in
Morinville, including Cardiff, Legal, Sturgeon County and surrounding areas.
Rufiange said projected enrolment at the new school, for grades 5-9,
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Gibbons CAO Farrell O’Malley and Deputy Mayor Louise Bauder, Hon. Rona Ambrose, PC MP, Mayor Lisa Holmes and Interim CAO Andy Isbister. Seated: Redwater Councillor Lori Lumsden,
Mayor Mel Smith, Bon Accord Councillor Lorna Pocock, and Mayor Randy Boyd.
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Ambrose speaks to region's mayors and CAOs
by Lucie Roy
Morinville News Correspondent
On Friday afternoon, the Town of Morinville hosted local Mayors and
CAOs for a meeting with the Honourable Rona Ambrose Member of
Parliament, Sturgeon River-Parkland and Interim Leader of the Official
Opposition. Representatives from Morinville, Gibbons, Bon Accord and
Redwater attended the meeting. Sturgeon County and Legal were unable to
attend.
Ambrose said there was an opportunity in the next budget for
infrastructure funding. It is her hope that rural communities will get their
fair share of that funding. But the Interim Conservative Leader also spoke
on a larger level about the economic impact of the country’s economic debt
on Albertans.
The Parkland-Sturgeon River MP said there had been a significant
economic and social impact of the downturn in the economy. She said she
had been thinking about what can be done to work together to see what
the federal government might be able to do to help.
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in the province, and she believes it is just the beginning. She said she will
be going back to talk to the Prime Minister about it, as she said she has
done for the last three months, on an almost daily basis.
“We need immediate support and change in EI but also need long-term
support for this industry [energy] he is not friendly to,” Ambrose said.
“He has to understand these are well-paying jobs, [a] well high-educated
workforce, and this is an important part of the entire Canadian economy.
We need it supported, and that includes the pipeline, supporting the natural
resources from Newfoundland all the way to Kitimat, whether it is the large
sector or mining or gas sector.
Mayor Lisa Holmes said she was pleased to meet with Ambrose and
other local leaders. “We are appreciative of the fact that although our MP
is Leader of the Opposition, she took time to come to listen to our local
issues.”
The Liberals are expected to table their first budget in mid- to lateMarch.
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Upcoming Town Events
Morinville Census 2016
Door-to-door enumerators will be out between
May 1 and June 30 to ensure we capture an official
Morinville 2016 Census will commence on April 1, count of all residents. Door-to-door interviews will
with the online phase available through to May 15. take no more than a few minutes.
Unique PIN numbers will be mailed out March 23 Residents who complete their census online will be
to all households in Morinville.
entered to win 4 tickets to a 2016-2017 “LIVE at the
CCC” performance of their choosing.
Community computers will be available at Civic Hall
(10125 - 100 Avenue, 2nd Floor) and the Morinville For more information, please visit our Census 2016
website at www.morinville.ca/census.
Public Library (10125 - 100 Ave, Main Floor).
Town Reminders
Trail/Road Conditions
The Town of Morinville is asking residents to use
caution whether walking or driving over the next
week. Warmer weather is creating slick conditions.
Where trails/roads are shaded and no sun has
penetrated to remove the frozen surface, gravel
and salt has been placed to make walking/driving
conditions safer. Conditions are being monitored daily.
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Animal Licence Renewals Deadline:
February 29, 2016
If you own a dog(s) six months or older and live in the
Town of Morinville you are required to register your
dog, and they must wear a licence tag. The licence
must be obtained or renewed annually at the Town
Office (10125 - 100 Ave.)
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Community Programs
Looking for programs, courses, groups or other
things to do in Morinville? Check out the Morinville
Winter Community Guide at www.morinville.ca
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Storm Water Ponds
The Town of Morinville would like to remind
residents not to fish/skate on storm water ponds
due to recent warm temperatures. With the
warm temperatures and melting we have been
experiencing recently, Public Works staff have had
to pump the storm water ponds down in order to
leave room for all of the extra water that is filling
them. This is leaving a hollow between the ice and
the water which can therefore take less weight
than ice that is directly supported.
Enumerators Wanted
Looking for Municipal
Census Enumerators
If you are interested in becoming an enumerator for
the Municipal Census (April 1 - June 30), please contact
Jennifer Maskoske at 780.939.7852.
Employment Opportunities
The Town of Morinville has openings
for the following positions:
• Casual Maintenance Service Worker 1
• Senior Finance Clerk
• Community Services — Summer Camp
Coordinator
• Community Services — Summer Camp
Counselors (4 positions)
• Community Services — Summer Sport Camp
Coordinator
For further details, please go to Job Openings at
www.morinville.ca
Development Permit
Public Notice
Take notice that the following Development
Permit(s) listed below have been approved in
accordance with Morinville Land Use Bylaw
3/2012.
DP011/2016 – Protective and Emergency
Services (Temporary Training Facility), Pt. NE2755-25-4 lying NE of Railway Plan 5773 AY –
Discretionary Use (UR District).
For further information or to arrange for an
appointment to view the above development
permit(s) or plans, please contact the Planning
& Development Department at 780-939-7857 or
visit www.morinville.ca/planningnews.
Persons wishing to appeal the above noted
decision(s) of Morinville’s Development
Authority must do so by filing a “NOTICE
OF APPEAL”, along with payment of a $100
non-refundable fee to the Subdivision and
Development Appeal Board, NO LATER THAN
March 9, 2016. Appeals can be filed with the
Secretary of the Subdivision and Development
Appeal Board by calling 780-939-4361.
Missoula Children’s Theatre:
The Jungle Book
Saturday February 27, 2016
Back by popular demand! A little red truck will pull into
Morinville on Monday February 22, 2016 with everything it
takes to mount a full scale musical production of The Jungle
Book.
Shows: 3 & 5 p.m.
Tickets: Family (max 4) $30 • Individual $10
Pick up your tickets at the MCCC Box Office, or by calling
780.939.7888.
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Celebrating French Heritage/
Célébration de la Francophonie
March 4, 2016
Celebrate the rich French Canadian Heritage with French
Heritage displays, food, music, children’s activities and
more. The event will begin with the raising of the Franco
Albertan flag on March 4, 2016 at 12 p.m. in St. Jean
Baptiste Park.
For full details go to www.morinville.ca > Event Calendar
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Rainbow Dance Theatre: iLUMiDance
Thursday March 10, 2016
Utilizing electro-luminescent (EL) wire, fiber optic fabric,
black light and other special effects, Rainbow Dance Theatre
creates a world of wonder in their newest production.
Show: 7:30 p.m.
Tickets: FREE
Pick up your (free) tickets at the MCCC Box Office, or by
calling 780.939.7888.
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Town Council
Agenda packages for Regular Council & Committee
of the Whole Meetings are posted on the Town
website at www.morinville.ca by 4:30 p.m.
the Friday prior to the meeting date.
Regular Council Meeting
March 8, 2016 | 7:30 p.m.
Council Chambers
St. Germain Place 10125-100 Ave.
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Committee of the Whole Meeting
March 15, 2016 | 6:30 p.m.
Council Chambers
St. Germain Place 10125-100 Ave.
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Regular Council Meeting
March 22, 2016 | 7:30 p.m.
Council Chambers
St. Germain Place 10125-100 Ave.
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Council Highlights — available online
Council highlights provide a short, informal update on
what occurred at the Council Meetings. To access the
highlights, visit www.morinville.ca
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Morinville Public School Principal Wayne
Rufiange and Vice Principal Shannon Chabot
show off the anti-bullying shirts staff will
wear Feb. 24 during Pink Shirt Day.
- Stephen Dafoe Photo
MPS champions mental health throughout the year
by Stephen Dafoe
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Kindness comes in one size and it fits all. That’s the message that will
be disKindness comes in one size, and it fits all. That’s the message being
shared throughout the community and across the country Feb. 24 on Pink
Shirt Day. The movement began in 2007 as a way for two Nova Scotia
students to support a fellow student bullied for wearing a pink shirt to
school. Pink Shirt Day has grown over the past nine years to become a
national day of awareness about the impacts of bullying. Local schools are
taking part in the initiative Feb. 24.
Morinville Public School Vice Principal Shannon Chabot said pink shirts
were purchased for the school’s entire staff to be part of that day, and that
students will be encouraged to dress in pink to support anti-bullying.
But the day will feature more than donning pink garments. Presentations
on bullying will take place throughout the day to remind students of the
impact the behaviour has on one another.
“They have a number of presentations planned around bullying, and we
also have lessons that we’ll be giving the teachers in every grade so that
they have a lesson they can give the students on that day as well,” Chabot
said. “That week, we’ll be looking for kids doing great things - doing things
that are positive, and rewarding them.”
MPS Principal Wayne Rufiange said the school worked with children on
a daily basis about working with peers and students in other grades. Pink
Shirt Day gives the school another opportunity to convey the information.
“It’s always nice to have those special times in the year to maybe
focus and remind everybody to recharge and bring light to some of those
problems,” Rufiange said. “We know kids, just as adults do, have difficulties
with relationships, and navigating their emotions and how to decode
their interactions with other kids. I think when we can get kids together
and show them that they’re all really in it together, it strengthens that
community. and when you strengthen the community, then you can help
strengthen the individual interactions.”
Bullying a year-round issue
The school realizes bullying occurs throughout the year. As such, the
school and Sturgeon School Division have some programs geared towards
building relationships and general mental health.
“Bullying comes up year round,” Chabot said. “I think educating students
on the difference between rude and having a student be mean to you, and
what true bullying is - I think it’s important to educate students around
that.”
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As a former school counsellor, Chabot worked with students in small
groups on anxiety, social skill building, and anger. The new counsellor will
expand that to working with students whose families are going through a
divorce, and the Division holds Boy and Girl group sessions with Rebecca
Balanko on developing positive self-imagery.
Programs help bigger mental health picture
Another program the school is involved in is Hats On For Awareness,
a weeklong initiative that raises awareness of mental health and mental
illness issues. Students wear different hats, and the school provide some
activities related to mental health.
The Division also uses the Neurosequential Model in Education (NME).
“It’s a new project our school has undertaken,” Chabot said. “It gives
students a chance to understand really how their brains work, and it
follows a lot of rhythmic patterns and getting kids to learn how to selfregulate.”
Principal Rufiange said the project has been a journey for Sturgeon
School Division - and something he has been involved in for the past five
years. “As we’re looking at kids and the real complex cases with children
that have perhaps suffered a trauma in their life, really how do we look at
that?” he said. “How do we bring development and how do we support
those kids? If children have suffered trauma where they may look like
their 12-year-olds, but because of that trauma they are functioning more
at a seven- or eight-year-old, even in their academics. They could be an
honour student when they are 13 or 14 years old, but socially they might
still be six or seven years old. That saying - act your age - sometimes kids
can’t. Their brain is not developed.”
Rufiange said teachers can differentiate through their academics, but it
is more challenging through the social skills side.
The principal said the school was also mindful of working with students
that may have anxiety. “Some kids may have trouble coming into our
building. While a typical resting heart beat is 60 and 90 beats per minute.
They may look like they’re calm and collected, but their heartbeat might
be going at 130 beats per minute,” Rufiange said. “We have heart rate
monitors at the school, and we’ve seen that at the school.”
The principal went on to say, teachers are aware and work with those
students to help them be self-aware and find ways to calm their anxieties.
Through the NME project, Rufiange has directed teachers to have three
body breaks per school day, body movement and breathing exercises to
help students maximize their learning.
“It’s all about just preparing kids and helping them focus,” he said.
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The second in the series of free shows for
children and their families during the cultural
centre’s fifth anniversary, tickets for Splash
‘N Boots went quickly, a considerable step up
from the 80 tickets sold during their 2012
visit. However, people without tickets
were still given seats as the centre
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those who came hoping to get in.
Splash’N Boots appear on
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Songs From the Boot, their ninth
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Nick Adams, the Splash in Splash ‘N Boots told
Morinville News before the show that families could
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All or nothing for Jets
by Stephen Dafoe
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It’s all or nothing for the Morinville Jets after 3-2 and 5-4 doubleovertime losses to the North Edmonton Red Wings Friday and Sunday
night.
Friday night’s road show with the Wings echoed the Jets best-of-three
contest with the Warriors in round one in that it went to overtime to be
decided.
Both teams ended the opening frame scoreless, and although the Jets
lead the second period 2-1 with goals from Craig Hills ad Brandon Duboc,
the Red Wings scored on the powerplay with 5:14 left in the third to drive
the game to overtime at 2-2. When overtime could not find a victor, the
game went to double overtime, and the Red Wings got their third.
Sunday night saw the Jets on home ice in front of a packed arena for
Game 2. Unlike the previous night’s contest, the Jets found themselves
trailing 2-0 after the first period. But the Jets came back with two goals to
the Red Wing’s single contribution in the middle frame to close the gap to
3-2 in the Wings’ favour. The Jets brought the game to a 3-3 tie midway
through the third period, but the Red Wings picked up their fourth with just
over seven minutes left in the contest. A minute later, the Jets came back
to even it out at 4-4 and drive the game to overtime. With neither side able
to score, the game went to double-overtime, and the Red Wings earned
the win on a penalty shot.
Game 3 will take place Feb. 24 at 8 p.m. at Londonderry in Edmonton.
The Jets need to win the next three to have a chance to move on.
Town ends arrangement with
EBTC’s annual Tour de l’Alberta
by Morinville News Staff with files from Lucie Roy
The Town of Morinville announced Friday that it had two weeks earlier
terminated a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Edmonton
Bicycle & Touring Club (EBTC) for its annual Tour de l’Alberta (the Tour).
The Town provided 30-days written notice to the bike club on Jan. 29,
ending a two-year relationship where the Town took on a significant role in
running the event. The Tour de l’Alberta celebrated its 21st-anniversary last
summer and Morinville has been the hub around which the event cycled for
several years.
The EBTC and the Town first co-hosted the 20th Annual Tour de
l’Alberta event in 2014. For many years, the EBTC had contracted an event
organizer, but due to increasing costs in contract fees they considered not
holding the event in 2014 at all. It was at this time Town staff met with the
EBTC Board of Directors to discuss a new management structure where
they would be equal partners in the event in 2014, sharing any profits the
event generated. The memorandum of understanding was signed between
the EBTC and the Town in March of 2014, affirming the new partnership.
A month-and-a-half after the 2014 inaugural event, Schaun Goodeve,
Economic Development Coordinator for the Town of Morinville, made a
presentation to Morinville Town Council and said the net profit for 2014 was
$54,660, an amount that put $27,330 into the bike club’s hands and an
equal amount into Town coffers.
The one-day event drew a total of 1,389 riders to Morinville; however,
those numbers were down significantly in 2015, a year that saw the event
move its date and the number of cyclists down to just under 1000.
Schaun Goodeve, Tour de l’Alberta Committee Lead and the Town of
Morinville’s Planning & Economic Development Manager, said the decision
to part company was due to resource capacity and not the value and
importance of the event.
“The Town of Morinville has always been, and continues to support the
principles that the Tour represents including but not limited to regional
collaboration, healthy lifestyle, community engagement and welcoming
riders and spectators to our community”, Goodeve said in a Town release
issued Friday. “In careful examination of the past year’s success in
organizing and hosting the 2015 Tour, it was apparent that resources to
which this event demands exceeded our capacities.”
Though the Town has severed its MOU with the Edmonton Bicycle &
Touring Club effective the end of February, they point out it does not take
away the possibility of the municipality being involved in the event in the
future.
The Edmonton Bicycle & Touring Club website does not list a date for
the 2016 iteration of the Tour de l’Alberta. The Tour page does present the
Town’s press release on their decision to terminate the arrangement.
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The Morinville Community High School Junior Boys and Girls hit the court
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The Junior Girls defeated the Edwin Parr Predators 72-21 in their opening
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The boys hit the court against Edwin Parr in their opener as well and
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The MCHS Jr. High boys lost 58-52 to the Parkland Panthers from Edson in
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Both teams played their final games Tuesday and will enter playoffs next
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Above: MCHS Jr. Boys pose with their silver.
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