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Principal Allan be called to the Bar in Morinville May 1, 2015. be opened in 2057, the church’s 150th anniversary. Menduk will be 87 when it’s opened in 2065. 2015 was a year of accomplishment and milestones in Morinville. As this sampling of Community Champions stories from the past year show, there was an abundance of anniversaries, people starting and ending long careers, and making the community proud with professional, philanthropic, and volunteer successes. We Former G. P. Vanier students started planning early in the year for the school’s 40th Anniversary are proud of those who work so hard to build Reunion. The event took place during SJB 2015. Morinville into an ever better community. Pastor Lou and Shirley Brunelle said goodbye to Morinville Christian School in June after 39 years of faith-based teaching, much of that in Morinville. Chad Melchert and son Morgan were busy in Morinville Community High School’s MCTV News September. Chad was off to the CCMAs where he won Lawyer Andrew Lawson’s Old Guys in Action group celebrated its 20th anniversary in March. Morinville drummer of the year. Morgan played baseball raised $44,000 for Cause Canada’s efforts with placed in Hockeyville’s Top 10 the same month. with Team Alberta’s U15 team in Manitoba. maternal health in Guatemala in October. Please contact us at [email protected] Page 2 | January 06, 2016 MorinvilleNews.com Canadian Blood Services are hoping you will give life in 2016 by Lucie Roy Morinville News Correspondent Canadian Blood Services (CBS) will be back in Morinville next month for their first of six blood donor clinics in Morinville. The Morinville Rendez-Vous Centre is the venue for the clinics, which are put on with the assistance of the Morinville Lions Club and Knights of Columbus St. Anne Council. According to Canadian Blood Services, 687 units were collected in the eight Blood Drive clinics held in Morinville in 2014. The six events held in 2015 resulted in 512 units collected. The next Blood Drive is Feb. 2 at the Rendez-Vous Centre from 3:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Canadian Blood Services say they need communities like Morinville to rally together because it takes many donors to help save a hospital patient. The donation can touch many lives. It requires up to eight donors a week to help someone with leukaemia, five donors to help someone undergoing cancer treatment, and 50 donors to help someone in a car crash. Surgeries require the donation of blood. Brain surgery (two donors), internal bleeding (two to eight donors), heart surgery (five donors), and two donors each for a hip replacement or undergoing a bone marrow transplant. Sharon Hachey donated blood for the 147th time Dec. 8. Canadian Blood Services The most common blood type is 0 and 0 negative blood is always in high need Morinville and area residents to roll up their sleeves to meet the demand for demand because of the number of recipients needing it. 0 negative is the blood in 2016. universal donor type because anyone needing blood can receive this type. It is - Lucie Roy Photo currently the blood type at the lowest level. Other blood types include A, AB, B. These types are often used in emergency situations when they have no time to Canadian Blood Services Facts test a patient’s blood type. Patients with AB+ are known as universal recipients as they can receive blood from anyone. CBS indicate they need about 170,000 additional donors per year to maintain 687 units collected in Morinville in 2014 the national blood supply. 512 units collected in Morinville in 2015 To become a blood donor a person must be in good health, feeling well, and at least 17 years of age on the day the donation is made. •Eight donors a week to help someone with leukaemia For the safety of the donor and the patients, all volunteer donors will be •Five donors to help someone undergoing cancer treatment •50 donors to help someone in a car crash evaluated to find out if they are eligible to give blood. They must have eaten and •Brain surgery (two donors) had adequate sleep. •Internal bleeding (two to eight donors) If a person is not eligible to give blood they can register as an organ and tissue •Heart surgery (five donors) donor, consider donating cord blood or register with the OneMatch Stem Cell and Marrow Network. At any given time more than 4,500 people are waiting for organ transplants in Canada and only a fraction of Canadians are registered to donate. Saturday, Jan. 16 Tuesday, Feb. 2 Derina Harvey Band Blood Donor Clinic Celebrate the Winter! Led by the fearless Derina Harvey, this Canadian Blood Services will be in five-piece Celtic-rock group offers a fresh town Feb. 2 from 3:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Do you have the sub-zero blues? Need something to do take on traditional tunes combined with their during the cold, snowy months? for their first Blood Donor Clinic of 2016. The Join the library’s Winter Blues Program. own original jigs and reels. Their infectious clinic will take place at the Morinville Rendez- rythmic undertow is layered with rock guitar, All ages welcome! Vous Club on 104 Street. Visit Blood.ca to pre- Read for 7 hours during the months of January and dizzying fiddle motifs, and tapped by Derina’s register for the clinic. February. (That’s less than 15 minutes per day!) and you powerful voice. These transplanted east- could WIN one of six tablets! Along with gift cards and coasters have earned a reputation for leaving supplementary prizes! the audience out-of-breath and hollering from Saturday, Feb. 20 Open craft time nearly each week the dance floor! Splash ‘N’ Boots Check our website for dates & times! Cocktails: 6 p.m. - Dinner: 6:30 p.m. (small fee for supplies) Don’t miss Canada’s award-winning children’s Show: 8: p.m. - Tickets: $45 music duo Splash ‘N Boots. Share the joy of music and dance with your little ones and the Proudly Sponsored by Andrew Webb Carpentry fabulous stars of Treehouse TV in this fun-filled, Morinville Community Library high-energy family concert. Saturday, Jan. 23 Hours of Operation Quest Theatre’s Snow Angel Time: 11 a.m. Monday-Thursday 10 am - 8 pm Admission: FREE Friday 10 am - 6 pm Presented by Calgary’s Quest Theatre, Snow Proudly Sponosred by Morinville Sobeys Saturday 10 am - 4 pm Angel is a story about the ripple effect of Sunday 12 pm - 4 pm Closed Holidays kindness set in a Canadian community during Want to see your event in Morinville Community Library winter. It is a story told with movement, using 10125 - 100 Avenue our Community Calendar? masks and music. Snow Angel confirms the HoursMorinville, of Ope rAB.at T8Rion 1P8 benefit of living in a community and how kind TuesdayPhone: - Thursday780-939-3292 10 FAX: am 780-939-2757 - 8 pm acts can have a positive effect on all of us.