Innisfail News

DICKSON - The Dickson Store Museum held its Annual General Meeting and Volunteer Appreciation on Feb. 4. The museum had 33 people in attendance.

PENHOLD - The town is moving forward with a multi-million dollar infrastructure project to serve its growing community into the future. Penhold will have a new $3.3 million water reservoir in the near future.

There was an early kindness epidemic last week at the Innisfail Schools Campus. The three Chinook's Edge School Division schools held their Pink Shirt Day on Feb.

INNISFAIL - Despite recent controversy surrounding the provincial PC leadership race in Alberta, members of the Innisfail-Sylvan Lake Progressive Conservative Constituency Association are split between Jason Kenney and Richard Starke.

After years of tireless campaigning by the families of victims and their supporters, the message that impaired driving is wrong and unacceptable has been spread far and wide across this country.

PENHOLD - The Town of Penhold is requesting funding from the province to make Highway 42 safer for Penhold drivers and citizens.

INNISFAIL - When two sides in an argument or battle want to end hostilities to move forward they often rely on the old idiom to "bury the hatchet," which means "to make peace.

PENHOLD - The recently introduced carbon tax may soon bring some pain to the town, says Mayor Dennis Cooper. The carbon tax was introduced in the province on Jan. 1, 2017.

INNISFAIL - Literacy is more than just books. A big part of literacy today includes technology, computers and software.

INNISFAIL - Technology was a key part of the Innisfail Library/Learning Centre's Family Literacy Festival. That technology included a live, one-hour, video teleconference from Japan during the festival on Jan. 27.