Innisfail News

DICKSON - The Danish Canadian Museum is inviting citizens in Innisfail and throughout the region to Step into the Saga in 2017 for its 25th anniversary that will be highlighted with its first-ever hosting of the Danish community's national conference

PENHOLD - Dozens of Penhold and area families came out to enjoy Easter festivities in Penhold on Saturday. "We're very pleased with the turnout," said Melanie Willerth, events and communications coordinator for the Town of Penhold.

INNISFAIL - When the president and chief executive officer of the Ford Motor Company of Canada makes a commitment to come to Innisfail it's no small thing.

BOWDEN - The town is looking into the possibility of obtaining fibre optic service for the community from Axia Fibre, an Alberta company that specializes in providing Internet and other communication services to rural communities.

INNISFAIL - Veterans, legion members and other citizens gathered at the Innisfail Royal Canadian Legion to remember the battle, the bravery and the ultimate sacrifice of 3,598 Canadian soldiers at Vimy Ridge a century ago.

SPRINGBROOK - Newly elected Alberta Progressive Conservative leader Jason Kenney has taken his Unite the Right pitch to Springbrook.

RED DEER - Sunday April 9 marks the centennial of the Battle of Vimy Ridge. However, it is not just a commemoration of one of Canada's greatest military victories of the First World War.

INNISFAIL - The symbolic value the Canadian National Vimy Memorial holds today was born only a few years after the end of the First World War.

INNISFAIL - Local baseball and skateboard athletes are big winners from town council's decision to spread out the riches from a $460,190 budget surplus.

INNISFAIL - Innisfail RCMP seized $1 million worth of marijuana plants and batches of the harvested drug in a large-scale drug bust late last month.