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Tam Andersen's farm is famous for many things — its pumpkins, gardens, corn mazes and other attractions. But she worries it could soon become infamous because of a power line.

The Morinville Chamber of Commerce honoured the town's high rollers last Wednesday evening with a Las Vegas casino-themed Business Awards Gala.

It's not getting any less lonely for women on city council. The Oct. 18 vote left just one woman on a council of seven. The last time there was more than one woman on council was from 1998 to 2001.

A local physician said he's not surprised that patients requiring treatment in the emergency department at St. Albert's Sturgeon Community Hospital waited a median average of 19.

Allan Arsenault loves to scare children. And he's got a new surprise for them this year, he says, proudly: two homemade life-sized coffins that will spring open, lights flashing, when approached, ready to unleash the costumed beasts within.

Retired general Roméo Dallaire delivered a message of optimism and hope to students at Sir George Simpson Jr. High School on Friday afternoon and encouraged them to get more involved in helping their peers abroad.

Just days after the hotly contested election was over, Morinville’s new town council was sworn into office last week.

Meet Murray Simpson. He's a young man from Camrose with a jolly face, twinkling eyes and a smile that beams like a small sun. He's also a recovering cocaine addict. "I was in with the wrong crowd," he says, and started doing drugs to fit in.

Former Alberta senator-in-waiting Link Byfield officially became a Wildrose Alliance candidate last week, making him the party’s standard-bearer in the next provincial election.

A Morinville bank will mark its centennial next week with a donation to help the town celebrate its own anniversary.