Innisfail News

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.

SPRINGBROOK - Premier Rachel Notley gave her stamp of approval of the new $9.5 million runway expansion at Red Deer Airport. "We talked about the runway expansion and what it meant to the Red Deer Airport," said airport CEO Graham Ingham.

PENHOLD - The Penhold skatepark committee is inviting the community to come out and hear an update on progress with the Penhold skatepark project.

INNISFAIL - Michael Potter vividly remembers the bullying he endured decades ago as a teenager in Innisfail and Bowden because he was gay. But Potter knew then he at least had a chance to defend himself. "I have been gay-bashed and bullied.

INNISFAIL - Town council has passed the 2017 Property Tax Bylaw, and many citizens, despite its own municipal government bringing in a zero per cent tax increase, will pay a little bit more.

INNISFAIL - The Town of Innisfail has lost its bid to host Big Valley Jamboree's 2017 Small Town Saturday Night. The contest was open to municipalities in Alberta with populations under 20,000 people.

INNISFAIL - The federal budget for 2017 has been unveiled and like the provincial one on March 16 there is very little for Innisfailians and Central Albertans to get excited about.