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Education Minister visitsMCHS Student Danielle Rivard continues her project as Minister of Education David Eggen tours the Cosmetology class under the guidance of teacher Louise Caron. The minister visited Oct. 19 to tour the school, learn about their programs, and talk to students about the government’s Future Ready initiative. See story Page 8.

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The Noels enjoy a life of volunteerismby Lucie RoyMorinville News Correspondent

Volunteerism, awards, and hockey dominate in the Noel household.I sat down for coffee with Andre and Pat Noel, and we spoke of

her father’s induction into the Hockey Hall of Fame and Andre’s many awards, just before he received an important provincial award from the Francophone community.

The 2016 Annual Congress of the Alberta’s Francophone community took place Oct. 14 and 15 in Edmonton and was the largest gathering of Franco-Albertans. ACFA President Jean Johnson launched the invitation for all to celebrate Alberta’s Francophone organization’s 90th-anniversary milestone.

The Oct. 15 Recognition Award Gala honoured the most vibrant members of the Franco- Albertan community with the prestigious Award of Excellence, Impact Awards and the names of the new inductees to the Elders of Alberta’s Francophone Community.

Recipients from the Alberta Centralta Region included Monique Lavallee for the Pierre Bergeron Award for her work with Youth, and Andre Noel, inducted to the l’Ordre des sages, which translates as Order of Elders or Order of the Wise. L’Ordre des sages inductions are held every two years and are recognition for those who have contributed to the Francophonie and valued by the regional ACFA and community organizations.

Noel has volunteered many years with ACFA Centralta and served as Treasurer from 2010 to 2012 and more than 12 years with the Centralta Tourism Society. He has worked with the North Central Heritage Trail and assisted in the creation of a tourist pamphlet featuring 12 museums in the local area.

He is also a Director of the Morinville Historical & Cultural Society and volunteers at the Musée Morinville Museum where he also provides bilingual translations.

Andre Noel was born in La Sarre Quebec

in April of 1946, the son of Gabriel and Edwidge Noel. He grew up in Guy, Alberta with his four brothers and sisters and attended College St-Jean in Edmonton. Noel received his Bachelor of Arts from the University of Ottawa.

Noel spent his entire career of more than 35 years working for Indian & Northern Affairs in St. Paul and Edmonton.

His first position after graduation in 1967 was in Edmonton and during that same period, he took his Bachelor of Social Work from the University of Calgary Extension Services. Andre had a promotion to Manager of Social Development Programs for Eastern Bands and moved to St. Paul for six years.

“It is a beautiful Community,” Noel said of St. Paul. After another promotion, he was back to Edmonton where he was

Manager of the Edmonton District where he said his strengths were his organizational skills, financial work managing budgets, and overall team-work approach.

“People liked to work for me,” he said. “I was leader of a team. I liked to involve people. I am not the guy in front. I do not like to be the guy up front and be ‘Me. Me. Me.’ We are doing things together. I had budgets like $125 million in capital and $110 million in social development, and I was recognized for being a top manager in terms of staff because staff wanted to work for me because it was more of a team. [It was] always a team approach, and that was my strength.”

Noel received a Circle of Excellence Certificate from the Deputy Minister of Indian and Northern Affairs in 2001-2002 in recognition of his excellence as a member of the Cold Lake Special Claim Negotiation Team. He also received the Tribal Chiefs Institute Life Time Achievement Award in 2002 for his outstanding work that he provided to mankind and in particular to improving the lives of Aboriginal people of this country. He is also the very proud recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal released in 2002 to mark the 50th anniversary of Elizabeth II’s accession, awarded to nominees who contributed to public life.

When the Noels went to St. Paul with their then two small children, Steven and Michael, they both volunteered. He was the treasurer for the local minor hockey group and assistant from 1981 to 82. Pat also coached hockey.

They enjoyed the small community so much that when they transferred back to Edmonton, he didn’t want to live in the city. He enjoyed

the small community of St. Paul and knowing the people at the store at the hockey rink. The couple moved to Morinville

in 1986. They had looked at Beaumont and Morinville because they wanted a community where there was some Francophone.

Andre Noel started volunteering in Morinville the year they arrived, mostly because people get involved with their kids. He was coaching minor hockey for about 15 years and was on the Minor Hockley Board. He coached from 1986 to the 1996-97 season and was the scheduler for a few years. That was the worst position,

Noel recalled. He did that for a couple of years and said nobody wanted the six o’clock morning

practice.“I was first mostly into hockey, then

recreation activities at school but it was hockey because I had two boys in hockey,”

Noel said. As the kids moved through the hockey system, he became a director

for the Morinville Jets for about five to six years.

He retired in 2002 from Indian & Northern Affairs and became more involved with other volunteering opportunities. He started getting involved in saving the Notre Dame Convent along with Murray Knight. Raymonde Riopel had approached

him and others because the Historical Society had folded and they

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planning to tear it down. He has been with the museum and with the Historical Society to this

day. Both Andre and Pat are members of the Rendez-Vous Centre.In March of 2006, Andre Noel received a letter from Town of Morinville

Manager Cathy Clarke and was invited to participate in a planning session for Centralta Tourism Society held in Legal to represent Morinville in English and French. At that time, the Society was forming a Board and Noel got hooked as a director. He is still an active member of the Centralta Tourism Society to this day.

Noel has been a member of the Alberta Canadian French Association, ACFA at least 35 to 40 years and Director for at least four terms. He is one of the Directors of the North Central Heritage Trail that promotes 12 museums in the area, and he represents the Centralta Tourism Society.

Pat and Andre met at his sister’s apartment in Edmonton in the 1970s. Pat was working in Edmonton for an architectural firm. Her boss owned the building she lived in at the time. Her father knew the people and felt safe in having her live there as he went back to Delisle. Pat and Andre started dating within a year and got married in Delisle, Saskatchewan in December of 1972.

Pat was doing volunteering in the background. In St. Paul when they had no one to coach the five-year-olds on the ice, she took over and taught the children basic hockey skills. She has volunteered for Heart and Cancer organization.

When the family moved to Morinville, she worked part-time and volunteered for the lunch program at the school until her Multiple Sclerosis got to be too much.

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Pat Bentley was born in October of 1945 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan and lived in Delisle, Saskatchewan, also known as “Home of the Bentleys.”

She was the second of four children and the daughter of Doug Bentley who played in the NHL for the Chicago Black Hawks and New York Rangers. Doug Bentley was one of six hockey-playing brothers. His hockey career began at the age of 16 and spanned more than three decades. Bentley had 20-goal seasons six times during his NHL career and was named to the NHL All-Star team three times.

He was the National League scoring leader in 1942 and was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1964, and into the Saskatchewan Sports Hall of Fame in 1967.

Pat Noel said her father went everywhere in his NHL career but always came back to Delisle to his family, relatives, and friends. Where her father went, she would follow, including doing kindergarten in Chicago, Grade 4 in New York, and Grade 11 in Los Angeles. The schooling years in between were in Delisle.

Afterward, she attended the Robertson Secretarial School in Saskatoon and worked for two years at a store in Knoxville, Tennessee. It was at the end of her fathers’ career when he was coaching in Edmonton and with the Edmonton Nuggets that she ended up in Edmonton and met her future husband, Andre.

In March 2014 Pat and Andre Noel went to Delisle Sask. where the memory of Doug and his brother Max Bentley was honoured with the unveiling of a Hockey Hall of Fame sign along Highway 7. Six decades later, they are still the two most famous NHL players from Saskatchewan and both are in the Hockey Hall of Fame. Pat said she spoke at the event with Andre by her side.

Pat has some memorabilia of her father including a copy of a comic book with the Bentley brothers featured in it. Commemorative tickets from the 2010 World Junior Championships, hosted in Saskatchewan. Noel said the Dec. 29 date on the tickets is also her and Andre’s anniversary date and coincidence.

Opposite Page Top: ACFA Provincial President Jean Johnson, Andre Noel, and Mrs. Linda Groth at the presentation of the l’Ordre des Sage award on Saturday night.

- ACFA PhotoOpposite Page Bottom: Andre Noel with one of his many awards.Above: Pat Noel with the comic book featuring her father and Uncle Max.

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National Column: One year on: Promises, what promises?by by Chantal Hébert

Much celebration — for the most part justified — is attending the first anniversary of Justin Trudeau’s election victory. Twelve months later, polls elicit no buyer’s remorse. Many voters who did not support Trudeau last year are on balance happy he won.

The alignment of the stars continues to favour the prime minister. With the opposition parties leaderless, the biggest risk to the Liberals these days is to let success go to their heads.

On that score, it may be time to keep Trudeau away from his press clippings.

On three occasions since the House reopened last month – including twice in this anniversary week – the prime minister has short-circuited negotiations between his ministers, the provinces or the opposition parties.

In an interview published in Le Devoir on Wednesday Trudeau signalled he is no longer enamoured with his promise to change the voting system in time for the next election.

The prime minister argues that on the heels of the election of a Liberal government, many Canadians no longer feel it is urgent to do away with the first-past-the-post system.

The outcome of the last election has indeed alleviated the fear of many progressive voters that, under the current system, the division of the opposition vote would give the Conservatives a virtual lock on federal power.

But the Liberal zeal for moving away from a system that has just delivered them a majority has flagged at least as quickly as the electorate’s sense of urgency.

In his early days as prime minister, Jean ChrÈtien celebrated election anniversaries by listing all the platform commitments he had honoured. Trudeau, it seems, believes the occasion lends itself to backtracking on promises.

The prime minister’s timing is counterintuitive in yet another way. An all-party committee is about to try to craft a consensus on the way forward on electoral reform. Trudeau may have wanted to send the NDP and the Greens a message that if they do want a different system, they will have to put much water in their wine to find common ground with the Liberals.

But his comments can only exacerbate the Conservatives’ sense that his only interest in moving to a different voting system would be to rig future elections against their party.

Trudeau’s musings also shore up the perception that the Liberals on the electoral reform committee, along with reform minister Maryam Monsef, are on a mission to sabotage the discussion.

Standing at his seat in the Commons earlier this week, the prime minister alleged that the provinces have been diverting federal health dollars toward other programs.

Provincial health spending has been increasing at about half the pace (3 per cent) of the federal health transfer. But Ottawa funds only a fraction (23 per cent) of the total provincial health bill. Even with the current 6-per-cent escalator clause on that amount, the federal increase does not cover the actual rise in total health spending. The bottom line is that the prime minister is basing his case for cutting the annual increase in half on a

mathematical fallacy.The main result of Trudeau’s comment was to make a difficult

conversation between federal Health Minister Jane Philpott and her provincial counterparts even more antagonistic.

Trudeau did not create this week’s stalemate but he is certainly not contributing anything constructive to its resolution.

On the day last month when the prime minister declared his intention to set a national floor price on carbon, Canada’s environment ministers were meeting to discuss climate change.

They were put in front of a fait accompli. Some of them walked out on Environment Minister Catherine McKenna.

For the most part Trudeau earned kudos for the substance if not for the method of his announcement on carbon pricing. It was an overdue move on the part of a federal government.

Reviews of his health-care approach are more mixed. The federal government does not need provincial approval to determine the level of its health transfer, but it can’t get the reforms it hand-picked in its platform off the ground without provincial co-operation.

Electoral reform is not a top-of-mind issue for most voters. The political costs of Trudeau ditching the promised introduction a different voting system in time for 2019 would not be prohibitive.

But when one connects the dots between the prime minister’s interventions on three of this fall’s time-sensitive files, one finds little evidence of the collegiality Trudeau promised last year.

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Clinic Manager Fatima Haymour said the clinic currently has one full-time physician, Dr. Moutazbellah Raoubi who will be in Morinville Monday to Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturdays from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. Additionally, the new clinic starts with another four doctors who will rotate during the evenings. They are Doctors Haroon Imtiaz, Mahmoud Shtewi, Kusai Abuhamed, and Louai Abuhamed. Haymour said the assisting doctors are all general practitioners. A group of specialists from the clinic’s Edmonton location will assist the five doctors.

“Our goal is to learn what the demographic needs are here and bring in our specialists once a month or every two weeks – whatever the need for the community is,” Haymour said, adding the specialists include an internist, dermatologist, dietician, psychologist, and a social worker. The clinic is looking to assist not only with their patients’ physical ailments but the whole package. “It’s the mental health aspects, the relationship aspects. It can be marital, PTSD, depression. We don’t just like to deal with my leg hurts. They [mind and body] link.”

The development of the new clinic has been a long time coming. Owned by Alberta Medical Professionals, Haymour said the company has been researching and working on a second location for about two years. Part of the research included assessing the Morinville’s need for evening hours.

“The other clinics give as much service as they can, but I know that they are not able to give the later hours or the weekends,” Haymour said. “We’ve come in knowing this community needs it. Let’s do what we can. We’ll be busy in the evenings because we don’t want them to go to emergency. We don’t want them to go to emergency for a sore throat or a cough or ear aches. That sort of thing we can treat here before they go to emergency. We want to take that pressure off of emergency, which means that people that need to see emergency are getting in.”

Another aspect of the new clinic is an adjoining pharmacy, owned by a different company but managed by Haymour. She anticipates opening to serve Morinvillians in about six weeks.

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“The idea of having walk-ins available is so you can see your family doctor or someone in your family’s group,” she explained. “You can make an appointment and get in a little bit faster, but it’s the point to keep all of your medical information in one place, so you are not having to repeat your story and give your history again. You are comfortable. It’s a family medical home – is the term we like to use. We’d rather bring all the specialists here, and you only have to come to one place.”

Haymour said they are currently taking new patients and the clinic does not have a cap on the number of patients they can accept. “There’s going to be a limit, but I don’t see that yet,” she said. “I have plans to bring other physicians in.”

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Greater St. Albert Catholic Schools and Sturgeon school Division took precautionary measures Friday morning after an alleged clown sighting in Morinville.

In an email to parents, GSACRD Superintendent David Keohane wrote: “Today, we received reports that an individual disguised as a clown and in possession of a weapon was seen in the Morinville community.”

Keohane went on to say to parents that after investigating the matter with RCMP assistance, the reports were found to be not credible but that schools may have engaged a hold and secure protocol at as a precautionary measure.

Morinville Public School Principal Wayne Rufiange told Morinville News that Keohane contacted his Superintendent at the time of the initial report and that MPS entered a hold and secure protocol for MPS.

“It was just for us to take precaution. We locked our outside doors,” Rufiange said. “Kids and staff went about a pretty regular day other than we didn’t have outdoor recess. We’ll probably continue that practice for the rest of the

day unless we hear otherwise.”Morinville RCMP told Morinville News the

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Education Minister David Eggen visited Morinville Community High School Oct. 19 for a tour of the building, an interview on the school’s television station, and a talk with students about the province’s Future Ready initiative, the launch of the curriculum survey, and the extension of a post-secondary tuition freeze.

MCHS Principal Don Hinks said Eggen had come to check on some of the school’s programs, especially the Career and Technology Studies (CTS) area.

“It is an honour to come to Morinville, and I know your school has a great reputation not just for its physical beauty but for the programming that you have,” Eggen told students during an assembly.

The Minister went on to say education was the second highest budget item in the province next to health care with $7.2 billion spent operating schools last year and another $2.6 billion on capital projects.

Despite the downturn in the economy, Eggen said the province had maintained education spending because of the importance the government places on education at all levels in helping to diversify the economy.

Future Ready is the government’s new way to help build programming for young people from K to Grade 12 education, post-secondary education, and the employers students will be working for in the future.

Eggen said it is important to link the three and that his government

wants to make sure people understand that when they are learning English through communications skills, or math and science, that it has a direct relation and correlation to the jobs the student will have in the future.

“Future Ready is a way to link these initiatives together, and you will see it quite a lot in the next few weeks, months, [and] years,” Eggen said, adding the government kicked off the program with the launch an Alberta Curriculum Survey. “That is the second reason I came to see you

this morning because of course you have been absorbing and interacting with the curriculum in a much more profound way than any of us here in the province.”

Eggen told students the province needs to hear from them to figure out what needs improvement and choose a direction the province can go to ensure Alberta education is exactly what students need as individuals and what society needs in a changing economy.

For Eggen, good jobs begin with good education, and education is the cornerstone of the province’s economy.

Minister Eggen answered seven questions from MCHS

student Skylar Luomala. Teacher Gregg Boutestein said the interview would be available on MCTV once edited.

Eggen was presented with a Wolves sweatshirt and jam made by the school’s Urban Agriculture class.

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by Tristan TurnerMorinville News Correspondent

Councillor’s were hit with asks from the Musée Morinville Museum, Morinville Community Library, and the Morinville Festival Society as part of their annual budget process during their most recent Committee of the Whole meeting. Each of the organizations made presentations detailing their budgets and the amount they were asking for from the Town.

Morinville Museum budget sees modest 5 per cent bump

The Morinville Historical and Cultural Society brought forward a $113,700 budget this year, asking for $102,000 from the Town. This request is an increase of $5,000 (5 per cent) in Town funding from the previous year’s $109,757.94 budget, $97,000 coming from the Town. Presenter Murray Knight also noted that the Museum is on track to have a surplus of $1,326.24 this year, with surpluses being commonplace in the Museum’s budgeting.

The museum has seen 1,900 visitors so far in 2016, including approximately 800 at this year’s Canada Day celebrations.

Library budget includes acknowledgment that Sturgeon County should pick up the tab

The Morinville library has upped their budget request from the Town from $383, 897 in 2016 to $433, 753 in 2017, a 13 per cent increase. This increase is largely due to a request from the library to stay open seven days a week, something that has been recently funded piecemeal season-to-season by Council following cuts from their anticipated budget in 2016. Also, wage increases associated with the recent and upcoming bumps in the minimum wage have lead to increases as well as some new staff training initiatives.

Sturgeon County has historically contributed almost nothing directly to

the Library’s annual budget, despite making up approximately 40 per cent of the Library’s membership. The county budgeted $3,000 to the Morinville Community Library in their annual budget, but the board asserts they have not yet received this funding. The Library board has submitted a request to the County Council to increase their contribution to $200,000 a year, putting them closer in line with Morinville’s contribution on a per user basis. No response has yet been received, but the Board has committed anything extra the library receives as part of an increase in county funding will be returned to the Town.

The Library’s total budget is $598,781, with the remainder of funding coming from library transfers, library sponsorships, fundraising, room rental and library memberships and fees, as well as provincial funding.

In 2015, the library saw 34,617 visitors, circulated just under 100,000 materials, and saw 4,000 computer users. Final stats for 2016 are yet to be tabulated but are expected to be approximately in line with previous years, which have seen steady increases.

Festival Society reports $25,000 festival deficit, asks for full $35,000 in funding

The Morinville Festival Society has reported both a large deficit in 2016 operations and is requesting $35,000 in funding for 2017 from the Town. Their shortfall of $32,215.76, is largely due to lower than expected attendance and participation in this year’s St. Jean Baptiste Festival, the organization’s largest event as well as having to replace the profit-making midway with approximately $38,000 in inflatable rentals to replace the midway.

They also came hat in hand, asking for a grant of $35,000 from the Town to keep themselves afloat for next year. The Society, which also operates the Town’s Farmer’s Market and other events, has received some encouragement from Council in the past to work towards becoming a self-sufficient organization, with limited or no Town funding outside of advertising or sponsorship. Their 2016 budget request was cut before final approval to $18,500 from the asked $35,000.

The group isn’t only looking to the Town for making up lost revenue, however, with nearly $50,000 in shortfalls, they only asked $35,000 to come from the Town, with the rest to be made up themselves through partnerships, sponsorships, and donations.

Council will hold a budget open house in Council Chambers Nov. 2 with Administrative presentations from 1 to 5 p.m., a public open house from 6 to 7:30 p.m. and public presentations from 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Budget 2017 is expected to be given first reading Oct. 25.


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by Jennifer LavalleeMorinville News Correspondent

The Town of Morinville is giving a piece of land to the Jessica Martel Memorial Foundation (JMMF) so that, eventually, that organization can build a women’s shelter there.

The property, whose location will be kept secret to protect victims, will also be serviced by the Town.

This announcement was made during JMMF’s 2nd Annual Break Free Gala on October 22 at the Morinville Community Cultural Centre. Kris Porlier and Andrea Duncan, the event’s MCs, made the announcement; initially, they said, JMMF was faced with purchasing a property, which would be a significant cost for the group.

“We just found out on October 18, after a meeting with Morinville’s Council, that the Town was gifting us a lot…when we found out, there wasn’t a dry eye in the room,” said Porlier to a crowd of about 250 people.

Porlier explained the next steps for the JMMF Board would be to re-draft their original construction plans and to strike a formal fundraising committee. Every dollar earned from the Break Free Gala this year will go towards the shelter, noted Porlier.

Morinville’s Mayor, Lisa Holmes, also addressed the crowd and said the Town knew the donation of land was the right thing to do.

Describing herself as “speechless,” Lynne Rosychuk, JMMF’s President, and Jessica Martel’s Mother, said the Town’s offer came as a complete surprise. Not having to purchase land will save the non-profit organization a lot of money.

“I feel really blessed right now,” said Rosychuk in an interview, “…I am truly appreciative of everyone who supports [JMMF].”

She added, “Jessica would certainly be smiling right now. She’d be so touched by the amount of people who still care about what happened to her.”

JMMF’s Break Free Gala a success

The Morinville Community Cultural Centre was abuzz with people—and dueling pianos—on the night of JMMF’s Break Free Gala, on October 22.

Local politicians, Board Members and volunteers, business owners, community leaders, and JMMF supporters filled the venue, listening to the organization’s updates and, also, to some staggering statistics.

Lynne Rosychuk, President of JMMF, welcomed attendees to the event and shared the story of her daughter, Jessica Martel, who was murdered in 2009 by her common-law husband in front of their three children.

Rosychuk described the difficulty Jessica faced when she attempted to leave a situation of family violence for a shelter in the City of Edmonton.

“I never thought how hard it would be to get out,” said Rosychuck, who explained the road blocks Jessica faced and the months-long waiting lists associated with trying to get into a shelter.

Jessica’s death, she said, had a profound impact on her daughter’s family and friends and the community as a whole.

Kris Porlier, JMMF’s Director of Fund Development and one of the evening’s co-hosts, shared some “alarming facts” with the crowd on domestic violence in Alberta. In the Province’s over 350 municipalities, only 32 of those communities have established shelters for women.

“JMMF’s safe house will fill a void in our region,” he said.Porlier also said statistics show one in six women will be in an abusive

relationship at some point in their lives and that it takes an average of ten attempts to leave before a woman can successfully break free from domestic violence.

The Gala event, which was a fundraiser for JMMF’s forthcoming women’s shelter, was organized by a dedicated group of about 25 volunteers, including many from Rosychuck’s family.

Barrhead-Morinville-Westlock MLA, Glenn Van Dijken, was in attendance at the event, saying JMMF was his family’s “Charity of Choice.”

“We really need to highlight the work of this Board, they have done so much,” he said in an interview. Van Dijken remarked once JMMF constructs the safe house, it will take the efforts of the entire community to keep the organization going with its mission. “Sometimes building the building is the easy part. It’s the work afterward that takes the hardest work.”

Van Dijken, who has been involved with setting up a safe house in the past—he and his family donated a building on one of their properties in Barrhead County as a women’s shelter, up until 2014—noted second-stage support for victims is critical. This post-shelter support, he said, could be where groups like the Sturgeon Foundation come in, for example, providing elements like affordable housing.


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Morinville’s Mayor, Lisa Holmes, said Jessica’s story makes the shelter personal for the people of Morinville. In an interview, she commended the Town’s staff, particularly Gregg Hoffmann and Vicky Dodge from the Planning and Development Department, and said they worked tirelessly to identify a way to help JMMF through the land donation for the shelter.

The land could be serviced as early as this Spring, she estimated, and then at that point the Title would be transferred into JMMFs name (the Town of Morinville currently owns the lot). Cost-wise, servicing the land will be about $40,000.

“This shelter will be so important for the entire region,” said Holmes, “people have been so quick to give their support, but that’s not surprising because Morinville always steps up.”

Holmes and the rest of Morinville’s council set up an impromptu fund collection for the shelter during the Gala, which managed to raise nearly $4,000 in just a few hours.

Holmes noted she is meeting with the Minister of Status of Women, Stephanie McLean, in the coming week and will be making a point to discuss JMMF’s future women’s shelter. Violence against women is one of the portfolios in which the Status of Women Ministry has responsibility.

Holmes remarked that Morinville is committed to JMMF and their goals; “our job as Council doesn’t end with the land,” she said.

With the assistance of 37 sponsors, JMMF was able to successfully pull off their second annual Break Free Gala on October 22 at the Morinville Community Cultural Centre. This year, all profits from the event are going directly to a fund for the organization’s future women’s shelter.

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Stompin’ Tom tribute show coming to townby Stephen [email protected]

After a highly-successful, two night Johnny Cash tribute show last year, the Rotary Club of Morinville is following it up with a Stompin’ Tom tribute show at the Morinville Community Cultural Centre Nov. 4. Tickets for the dinner and show are $59 per person and available at Home Hardware / Bumper-to-Bumper and online at Event Bright.

Country and folk singer Tim Hus is the man putting Stompin’ Tom Connor’s story and music on this stage, a fitting role for a man who was a friend that toured with the Canadian icon and was one of six to carry Connor’s coffin after his passing three years ago.

Hus, originally from British Columbia, now makes Calgary his home. He started learning to play guitar while working in logging and tree planting. Eventually, he began having to take time off work to play, ultimately moving to Alberta to build a career. “I figured if you want to be a big country star, you move to Nashville, and if you want to be a Canadian cowboy singer you move to Alberta. Ian Tyson’s out here and you’ve got the Calgary Stampede,” he said with a laugh.

Hus was soon travelling the prairies and making a name for himself and

his band with their completely Canadian songs - music just like Stompin’ Tom made famous. He’s been in the music business for 14 years and released six albums with a seventh to start production this winter.

It was while playing a bar in Manitoba about five years ago that he was called to the bar’s phone to speak to Connor’s himself. The Canadian country legend asked Hus to travel with him across the country as his opening act.

“It was pretty exciting,” Hus recalls. “He said he’d been watching me and liked all the songs I’d been writing about Canada and that was very near and dear to his heart. That was really exciting. It was almost a bit of a Cinderella story or something.”

The tour resulted in Connor’s and Hus becoming close friends.

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Connors toured with Hus for about two years until the famed Canadian died. “He always told everybody one day he was going to pass the torch to me, that I was the young guy that was going to keep the Canadiana thing going,” Hus recalled. “I have a career of my own, but this is kind of a special show that we’ve been doing. Since Tom has died, I’ve been doing a Stompin’ Tom Birthday Show.

“People have always had a great interest in Tom and some of the stories, and we tell some of his stories and play the music,” Hus said of the upcoming show. “We said it’s the 150th birthday of Canada coming up. Why don’t we take the show around a little bit.”

Hus said the show is not him impersonating his friend. Rather it is a full country band performing Connor’s music along with a multi-media background of Canadiana and snippets of Connor’s life.

“It’s a coast-to-coast, cross-Canada trip, just the way Tom liked it,” Hus said. “We sing a bunch of his classic songs and some of mine. But they are 100 per cent Canadian songs about the people, geography, and history of our land.”

Hus said he feels fortunate to have known Stompin’ Tom and the tribute show is about giving back for that friendship.

“It’s my way of paying back a bit. It was so great for a young singer-songwriter like me to have a legend like that take me under his wing and introduce me to fans across the country. This is my way to help keep some of his legacy alive, and let people still enjoy the songs and the stories. I feel good about doing that.”

The Across this Land with Stompin’ Tom show takes place Nov. 4 with doors opening at 6 p.m., dinner at 7 p.m. and the two-set show starting at 9 p.m.

Tickets are $59 for dinner and show, and are available at Home Hardware / Bumper-to-Bumper and online at Event Bright.

Everybody singsEntertainer Norman Foote brought a Halloween-themed

show to Morinville Thursday night as part of the Theatre Matters free show series. Approximately 500 adults and children watched the Foote and about 100 local students in full costume sing a number of songs.

“They are part of the show, and it’s a really interesting mix because it brings a lot of excitement,” Foote told Morinville News prior to the show. “They really perform and bring the show at a really interesting level.”

Foote was not content to let just his costumed choir sing - he had the adults singing along as well.

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Kings drop first game of the seasonby Morinville News Staff

The Morinville Senior AA Kings lost their first game of the season Saturday night with an 8-3 upset with the Bonnyville Pontiacs.

The Kings started the season strong with back-to-back pre-season games and a string of three regular season wins in a row.

Saturday night's contest seemed to be a matter of not being able to capitalize on chances. The Kings outpaced the Pontiacs 44-33 in shots, the majority of those coming in the final frame as the Kings tried to close the gap.

Despite attacking the net 11 times in the opening frame, the Kings entered the second period trailing 2-0. That margin widened over the next 20 to leave the Kings heading towards the final 20 with a 5-2 deficit to close.

Penalties were an issue for the Kings. Three of the Pontiacs five goals in the first two periods were scored with a man advantage.

The final frame saw Bonnyville wracking up three in a row to build the lead to 8-2. Travis Duperron, assisted by Jamie Johnson and Brady Goebel, got a power play goal with 27 seconds left in the game to close the gap to 8-3, but the two points had already been earned for Bonnyville by that point.

The Kings play one game this week, a home-ice showdown with the Whitecourt Wild. Game time is Oct. 29 at 8:30 p.m. at the Ray McDonald Sports Centre.

Jets grounded by Fort Sask. Hawksby Morinville News Staff

The Morinville Jets dropped a 4-2 decision to the Fort Saskatchewan Hawks on the road Friday night, giving the Jets a 4-3-4 record heading into Sunday night’s contest with the Spruce Grove Regals (1-7-2) Sunday night.

Neither side was able to ripple the mesh in the first period. Though the Jets’ Dylan Stang got one early in the middle frame, the Hawks answered back with two in the closing minutes of the period to head into the final frame 2-1. Dean Jones tied it 2-2 for the Jets midway through the period, but the Hawks pulled ahead by one a couple of minutes later. The Hawks final goal was an empty-netter as the Jets tried to push the contest to overtime.

Results from Sunday’s Regals matchup were not available by our press deadline.

The Jets play Beverly Wednesday night on the road and play the Stony Plain Flyers at home Oct. 26 at 6:45 p.m.


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Driveway Gutter RampsAll driveway gutter ramps must be removed by November 1 as they can easily cause damage to Town equipment.............................................................................................No ParkingObey ALL “No Parking” signs throughout the Town of Morinville.............................................................................................Organics Collection ReminderOrganics are collected weekly from May to October. November to April organics will be collected monthly. For detailed information, download the waste collection schedule at www.morinville.ca............................................................................................Recreational Vehicle Winter Storage ReminderFrom November 1 to March 31, a recreation vehicle/trailer (including campers) may not be located on the front or side portion of a residential property. If there is adequate space, you are permitted to store it in the rear portion of a property. Please make necessary arrangements on or before October 31, 2016!............................................................................................Sani/Trailer DumpThe sani/trailer dump is now closed for the season.............................................................................................Where Does It Go?Check out the “Where Does It Go?” Waste Wizard and Waste Sorting Game at www.morinville.caFrom the homepage, go to Services > Waste Managementor visit the Town of Morinville Facebook page atwww.facebook.com/TownofMorinville

Town Reminders Appointment of Residentsto Boards/Committees

Great Pumpkin AdventureWednesday, October 26, 2016FREE Admission (with a donation to the Morinville Food Bank)Time: 6 - 7:30 p.m.Location: Morinville Community Cultural Centre

(9502-100 Ave.)Great pumpkin adventure is an opportunity for parent/child to decorate their Halloween pumpkin together. We provide the space and supplies. As registration is limited, pre-registration is required. For more information, contact Community Services at 780.939.7839 or visit morinville.ca to register....................................................................................................Goblins Family DanceFriday, October 28, 2016FREE Admission (with a donation to the Morinville Food Bank)Time: 7 - 9 p.m.Location: Morinville Community Cultural Centre

(9502-100 Ave.)Do the Monster Mash with your family and friends at the Town’s Halloween themed event. Musical entertainment and Halloween tricks & treats will be provided. Contact Community Services for more information, by calling 780.939.7839....................................................................................................LIVE @ the CCC: Lisa Brokop — The Patsy Cline ProjectSaturday, November 5, 2016Time: Cocktails: 6 p.m. | Dinner: 6:30 p.m.

Show: 7:30 p.m.Location: Morinville Community Cultural Centre

(9502-100 Ave.)Tickets: Adults — $50 Students & Seniors — $40Canadian Country Music Award winner, Lisa Brokop takes you on an incredible musical journey featuring some of Patsy Cline’s most memorable songs including Walkin’ After midnight, I Fall to Pieces, and Sweet Dreams.

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FOR A FULL LISTING OF COMMUNITY EVENTS GO TO WWW.MORINVILLE.CA

We are in the process of designing the Winter Community Guide and are looking for your great winter photographs that showcase Morinville. Whether it is kids tobogganing, dogs playing in the snow,a grader clearing roadways, or something out of the ordinary, we would love to have it. Email your best winter pictures to [email protected] all of the photos received, we will choose a selection to appear throughout the Guide! Staff will also choose from all of the submissions and the winning photograph will appear on the front cover of the Guide. Let’s showcase what makes this community so great!Please email your high resolution photos by November 4, 2016.

Winter PhotoContest

The Town of Morinville invites applications from residents who are interested in serving on the following Committees for the Town of Morinville:

Community Services Advisory Committee• 2 vacancies for Morinville residents

• 2 year term• 3 vacancies for Local Organizations / Groups

• Appointed by your Organization and endorsed byCouncil.

• Members selected will reflect 1 of the 3 focus areas:Sport and Recreation, Family and CommunitySupport Services and Culture and Events.

• 1 year term

Morinville Public Library (2 vacancies)

Subdivision & Development Appeal Board (1 vacancy)

Municipal Planning Commission (MPC) (1 vacancy)

Please submit your application no later than 4:00 pm on Thursday, November 3, 2016 to Jennifer Maskoske, Legislative Officer.

Application packages and information are available at theTown Office (10125 – 100th Avenue, Morinville) oron our website at www.morinville.ca.


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Hewitt Estates Acreage$480,000

MLS# E40410823Custom built home on 1.54 acres in the desirable Hewitt Estates subdivision. This home features 4

bdrms, 3 baths, kitchen featuring island w/breakfast bar, built in glass cook top, wall oven & a massive walk in

pantry, living room w/wooden plank walls & ceiling plus a soaring wall of windows, fully developed basement, municipal water, newer furnace & HWT, wrap around

deck, gorgeous back yard w/a huge pond.

1. LANGUAGE: What is the meaning of the Greek prefix “xeno”?

2. GEOGRAPHY: Gotland Island is located in what body of water?

3. MEASUREMENTS: What does a micron measure?

4. MOVIES: Who was the Oscar-winning director of the movie “Deer Hunter”?

5. LITERATURE: In which U.S. state was the writer Eudora Welty born?

6. MUSIC: Who wrote the song “Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head”?

7. MOVIES: What movie featured the line, “Hasta la vista, baby”?

8. PSYCHOLOGY: What is a fear of books called?

9. HISTORY: Who was the first U.S. astronaut to fly into space twice?

10. FOOD & DRINK: What food is eaten tradi-tionally in the United Kingdom on the day before Ash Wednesday?

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Trivia Test Answers 1. Foreigner or stranger; 2. Baltic Sea; 3. Length; 4. Michael Cimino; 5. Mississippi; 6. Burt Bacharach and Hal David; 7. “Terminator 2: Judgment Day”; 8. Bibliophobia;

9. Gus Grissom; 10. Pancakes

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Renovated Mobile on 2.47 Acres$339,900MLS# E4041052

Listed under appraised value! Nicely renovated 3-bedroom, 1.5 bath, single wide mobile home with

addition on 2.47 acres. Renovations done in recent years include; newer drywall & insulation, doors, floors, trim, a

beautifully updated kitchen, roofing, vinyl siding, plumbing & electrical. Addition built on concrete pad in 2011. Come

outside and enjoy all the space and the beautiful view. Located just 7 mins NW of Legal.

Welcome To Your New Home$339,900MLS# E4041084

This little gem in Sunshine Lake is priced to sell! Featuring; 1247sq.ft, 3+1 bedrooms, 1 & 1/2 baths, open concept

main floor w/large updated kitchen boasting white cabinets, stainless steel appliances & breakfast bar, spacious living room/dining room, 2pc ensuite in the master bdrm, fully

finished basement offering huge family/rec room, 4th bdrm, laundry & storage room. Beautiful curb appeal with front

drive access to your double detached garage.

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FORSALEBYTENDERTheSummerVillageofSandyBeachisofferingforsalebysealedtenderthefollowingproperty:LAKESHOREDRIVE-#138BETWEEN1401KSBlock10Lot1andBlock11Lot13(closedSecondStreet)

- Lotsize:50x120or6000squarefeet- Vacant- Zoned:R1A–Residential–SingleFamilyClass“A”- 3MeterDrainageEasementonNorthSideofLot

MakingtheTenderSubmission

a. Specifythepurchasepricethatyouproposeb. Includeadepositof10%ofthepurchase,tobeintheformofcertifiedcheque,bankdraftormoney

order,withthebalanceduewithin7businessdaysofacceptanceofoffer.(ThedepositisrefundableintheeventthatthetendersubmissionisnotacceptedbytheSummerVillage.Itisnot-refundableifthesubmission isacceptedbytheSummerVillage,unlesstheSummerVillagefails tocompletethesaleonthetermsofthetenderoffer)

c. Includeadetaileddevelopmentproposalforthepropertyd. Includethefullname,address,telephonenumber,andemailaddressoftheBuyer;ande. Includeanyotherproposedconditionsortermsforthesale

Sealedtenderswillbeaccepteduntil12:00NOON,Wednesday9,November,2016(the“TenderClosingDate”)Mailto:SummerVillageofSandyBeach

RR#1,Site1,Comp63OnowayAB.T0E1V0

Droppedoffat:1208ASecHwy642Thehighestoranytendernotnecessarilyaccepted.ConsiderationofTenders

1. AlltendersubmissionswillbeexaminedattheNovember10,2016CouncilMeeting2. TheSummerVillagemayacceptor reject any tendermade, in its discretion. The SummerVillagemay

decidetorejectalltendersmade,includingtendersthatfullycomplywithalloftheconditionsofsaleandthetendersubmissionrequirements.TheSummerVillagemaydecideinitsdiscretion,towaiveornottowaive,technicalnon-compliancewithanytendersubmissionrequirementsinrespecttoanytendermade.

3. Preferencewillbegiventoofferswithproposedtermsthatinclude:a. DevelopmentoftheLotto“lock-up”stagewithin12monthscompletiondate

4. IftheSummerVillageacceptsatendersubmission,anagreementofpurchaseandsaleand(ifnecessary)a development agreement,will be signed by the SummerVillage and the Buyer to fully document thetermsofthesale,suchtermstobeconsistentwiththestatedtenderrequirements.

FOR SALE BY TENDER

20-470 St. Albert Rd., St. Albert; 800-2 Hebert Rd. St. Albert;400-700 St. Albert Rd., St. Albert; 275 Camegle Drive., St.

Albert; 8809-100 St. Morinville.

Permanent, FT, PT, Shift, Weekend, Day, Night & Evening

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Hiring 18 Food Service Supervisors

$13.50/hr plus Benefits.

Start ASAP. Experience 1 to 2 Years. Education Not Required

Hiring 50 Food Counter Attendants / Production

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Open House

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Sturgeon School DivisionProject: Morinville Open HousePublication: Morinville NewsSize 1/2 page 5” x 15”Color ColourDate: October

Sturgeon School Division is thrilled to be building a

new grades 5 – 9 public school in the Town of

Morinville that will include English and French

Immersion programming. Join us to learn more about

the location, planning and design, and community

consultation!

NEW MORINVILLE 5 – 9 PUBLIC SCHOOL

PRESENTATION BY MR. BILL SAUL, ARCHITECT, GROUP 2 ARCHITECTURE INTERIOR DESIGN

November 7, 2016

6:30 pm

Morinville Public School

10020 - 101 Avenue

Morinville, AB

JOIN US TO LEARN MORE

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