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April 13, 2016 ISSN 2291-2738 Vol. 6 — Issue 15 Your Community — Your Community News — MorinvilleNews.com Daily Special - 2-5 PM Memory lane Free Coffee When You Heritage Lodge resident Alma Casavant shows her memories book and the Buy A Piece Of Pie picture of Frontenac School she and her husband converted into their home. At 95, she is still active making quilts and bird houses. See story Page 2. - Lucie Roy Photo Bringing comfort to yourplumbing - heating home. - air conditioning BringingFor the peace of mind comfort thatto comes with quiet, dependable warmth and your home.energy efficiency that can For the peace ofsave mind you money, discover that comes with quiet, ® dependable warmthComfortmaker and systems. energy efficiency that can save you money, discover ® Comfortmaker systems. Air Conditioning & Heating Air Conditioning & Heating 10 Timely registration required. 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Real Estate® Each Of ce Independently Owned and Operated 780-690-3861 Bus: 780-939-1111 Call and ask for me personally for your free home evaluation MorinvilleNews.com IRP APPROVED AGENT April 06, 2016 | Page 1 brought to you by Morinville Quilter still active at 95 by Lucie Roy be varnished. She's given away many, has a few outside her window at Morinville News Correspondent Heritage Lodge, and has donated some to the Lodge as a fundraiser for the seniors. Listening to Alma Casavant is a walk down history as she speaks of Casavant has a long history in Legal and Morinville. She was the eldest the Legal Corner and what was there before Wheelers, how she met Arthur Bachand and Elizabeth Caza's five girls and two boys. She was Diefenbaker in Morinville, and that they purchased the Frontenac School, born just outside the Town of Legal and lived at Legal Corner (currently moved it and made it their home. The Casavants were caretakers for Wheelers) in 1928 until she married Raoul Casavant in 1939. Thibault, Vanier School, Cunningham School and the RCMP building before In 1947 when Highway 2 was widened, Alma and Raoul had to rebuild they tore down the old Sturgeon County building. the business a little further back. At the young age of 95, Alma Casavant is still very busy having just They owned the B/A service station at the corner, and they built the completed two quilts and pillows with their names embroidered in a square garage in the spring of 1948. Her husband acquired the route to bus for her two great-grandchildren - Dax Bentz and Caden Froment. Each students and built his own bus the same year. He sold his truck and in quilt is ten squares by 12 squares wide, and each square is eight inches. 1949 purchased a bus and transported students on the Riopel, Tellier, and Casavant has made around 100 or so quilts and crocheted blankets. She Robin Hood route for nine years. said she donated 36 of her blankets to the homeless. To supplement his income, he worked at the Joseph Perras Garage in Casavant said she started making quilts before she got married. At the Morinville. He was a self-taught mechanic at Perras. He did everything: time all the clothing was used: old pants, even curtains, whatever pieces bought cars, welded and fixed them, even putty if needed, and sold them could be used were made into a quilt. Her daughter, Louise Froment said again to make a bit if money. some of her dresses are in some of the quilts. Casavant was a stay at home mom, but she did whatever she could. Her “That is what they used to do back then. They were what you would call daughter calls her a jack of all trades. For some, Casavant did laundry, and the first recyclers,” Froment said, adding rags would be mixed with twine cleaning, washing floors. “All for a dollar a day,” Casavant said. She also on a rack and her Mother would sit there at night and cut long strips of made dresses, did home perms, gardening, and other little things to help cloth from anything available to make a rug. financially. One year they made one rug out of used nylons. They found a use for Froment said her mother is a seamstress, hairdresser, an excellent cook any fabric remnant they would get. Casavant has also made baptismal and still bakes to this day. blankets and took the train out of her daughter Louise’s wedding dress to In 1956, the couple bought a house in Morinville and remained there make them. until 1975. Then they moved to the original Frontenac School site and Casavant also paints bird houses and has 22 completed and waiting to converted the school into their home. Please contact us at [email protected] Page 2 | April 06, 2016 MorinvilleNews.com Volunteers will be recognized Friday by Morinville News Staff in the community, and plenty of time for volunteers to talk to one another. Volunteers and volunteerism will be Although the Town will not be giving out celebrated Apr. 10 to 16 during National individual awards, the Rendez-Vous Club’s Volunteer Week. A special volunteer evening Heritage Award, Morinville News’ Paul is planned for Apr. 15 at the Morinville Krauskopf Community Spirit Award and Lions Community Cultural Centre from 6 p.m to 8 Club’s Citizen of the Year will all be presented p.m. during the event. This year’s theme is Volunteers are the Dziwenka said this year’s event was Roots of a Community, and the Town is the start of transitioning the program recognizing it’s rooted volunteers with a pay- from recognizing individual volunteers to it-forward program, volunteer contribution celebrating and recognizing organization’s wall, articles thanking volunteers, and the volunteers and program contributions instead. recognition night complete with a meal and Previous years have seen few to no ceremony. nominations for the roster awards previously “Throughout the week residents are given out. Often nominations received encouraged to thank the many volunteers that included only the nominees name with no make a difference within our community,” said indication of why thy were worthy of the Melonie Dziwenka, Community Program/FCSS award. Coordinator. “We will “It tells me the community hasn’t bought have coffee cards available for residents into this type of award recognition,” Dziwenka to grab and give out to volunteers of our said. “Looking at Volunteer Canada’s 2013 community.” report – that’s not how volunteers want to This year’s Volunteer Appreciation event be recognized. Our attendance has declined will also take an opportunity to embrace over the last four or five years. Volunteers are and celebrate Morinville’s art community. telling me award ceremonies are not what it’s The Morinville Youth Art Club are creating all about.” a display showcasing volunteerism at the Dziwenka is hoping the new format and Morinville Community Cultural Centre during broader recognition will bring more volunteers HATS off for grandmothers National Volunteer Week. out for an evening of food and socialization Susan Price shows off one of the items for sale at the Hands Across The community is taking a broader Apr. 15. The event runs from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. the Sea: Grandmothers to Grandmothers Garage Sale held at the approach to volunteer recognition this year. Volunteer groups were invited, and Morinville United Church Saturday. The group raises funds for the Rather than issuing a number of certificates volunteers interested in attending can Grandmothers to Grandmothers campaign of the Stephen Lewis singling out individual volunteers, the Friday reserve a maximum of eight tickets by calling Foundation, an organization that provides assistance to the plight night event will include a slideshow of the Melonie Dziwenka at 780-939-7833 with the of African grandmothers. different ways volunteers make a difference organization’s name and volunteers attending. - Stephen Dafoe Photo NEW! SIMPLE LIVING need to bring a parent. Cost is Thursday, 14 April $40 per month. COMMUNITY GUILD Wednesday, April 13th 6:30 pm Keith Norris Celebration Up-Cycled Book Workshop The Morinville Community Library Saturday, 23 April Saturday, April 16th 2:30 - 4:30 pm will hold a community potluck in honour of See our website for further details. Keith Norris who showed his love of community Early Years Conference by giving his time, energy and passion to make Cozy Corner Stories our community a better place. The event will FREE EVENT Thursday, April 14th 10:30 am take place at the Morinville Community Library Mom & Me Craft Time Program Room on Thursday, Apr. 14 fom 6 p.m. Join the Sturgeon Early Years Conference Thursday, April 14th 11:00 am to 8 p.m. and Expo on Saturday, April 23rd, 2016 at the Kidz Flicks Movie! Gibbons Cultural Centre.