Innisfail News

The best of the best in both Innisfail and Olds are heading to the students' Canada-Wide Science Festival.

The Innisfail Lions Club wants to add some zip for the kids for Canada's 150th birthday. The club presented a proposal to town council on March 13 to purchase and install a Zip Krooz play feature at Lions Raspberry Park.

PENHOLD - Penhold mayor Dennis Cooper said the provincial budget on March 16 has paved the way to an uncertain future. That uncertainty comes from the combination of this year's education (property tax) requisition and MSI funding, said Cooper.

PENHOLD - Penhold mayor Dennis Cooper attended an open house on the Springbrook Area Redevelopment Plan held at the Springbrook fire hall and citizens gave plenty of feedback for the future of the hamlet.

INNISFAIL - Chinook's Edge School Division has announced long-awaited improvements to the bus loop and parent drop-off/pickup area at the Innisfail Schools Campus to reduce traffic congestion.

PENHOLD - Motor vehicle drivers killed in two recent Penhold collisions at or near the same highway intersection were not wearing seatbelts, said RCMP.

INNISFAIL -The Innisfail Twin Arena could have a name change in the near future. The Town of Innisfail was recently approached by a marketing firm inquiring about potential naming rights or sponsorship for the Arena.

BOWDEN - Paterson Grain is all in for a springtime build in Bowden. All the regulatory approvals are done, deals are signed, land is purchased and the shovels will soon be in the ground. "We are full steam ahead.

INNISFAIL - Chinook's Edge School Division has written a letter to the minister of education expressing concerns about the impact of possible changes in Internet service to some of the division's more remote rural schools, including in Cremona, and R

PENHOLD - With the town preparing a huge annexation plan of Red Deer County lands fire Chief Jim Pendergast has presented several recommendations to town council to update the Fire Service Bylaw.