Innisfail News

Discover Penhold. That was the theme for the Town of Penhold's annual fall registration night at the Penhold Regional Multiplex on Aug. 16.

The town has finally received the concept designs for the community's ambitious new skatepark project that will be built on the grounds of the Innisfail Aquatic Centre.

Nominations are in for the 2016 Community and Business Awards. The annual awards will be presented at a gala on Oct.

This season's heavy rainfalls across Central Alberta have triggered calls for provincial help to deal with stressed municipal pipeline systems.

Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) and Canada Post have agreed to extend the union's 72-hour notice in an attempt to reach an agreement. The 24-hour extension means there will be no job action taken by union members until Tuesday morning, Aug.

Tender calls are out to contractors to submit the best bid to modernize and expand the 35-year-old Town Hall for the future. Helen Dietz, the town's chief administrative officer, told council at its Aug.

A Winnnipeg-based grain company says it is “100 per cent” going ahead with its planned Bowden-area grain handling facility at the intersection of Highway 587 and Rge. Rd.

Penhold council approved the purchase of a new tender truck for its fire department from the City of Red Deer. Capt. Steve Harris of the Penhold Fire Department made a presentation to council at a council meeting on Aug. 8.

Three years ago six family members of the late Robert Earl Anger, a First World War veteran who died in Innisfail 30 years ago, went to Europe to take a solemn but heartfelt tour of the battlefields.

The highly anticipated high-throughput grain terminal planned for Niobe is now in jeopardy of being derailed. The $30 to $40 million project, a kilometre north of Innisfail, was announced by GrainsConnect Canada last winter.