Innisfail News

A current Bowden bylaw makes it impractical to bring new mobile homes into the town's mobile home park or to do major renovations to them, chief administrative officer James Mason says. So he hopes to bring a bylaw amendment to council by this fall.

The family of a teenage longboarder killed two years ago by a hit and run driver near Penhold has filed a multi-million dollar lawsuit against the Innisfail RCMP.

Two Cremona teens are being mourned by family and friends after an accident earlier this year claimed both their lives. “From a young age people would remark on Taylore's happy countenance.

Town council has agreed with an administration recommendation to spend nearly a quarter of a million dollars for a new plow truck – despite some public concern too much money is being spent during the current recession.

Dozens of local residents came out to the Fox & Hound pub during the evening of June 4 to show their support for the residents of Fort McMurray whose lives were turned upside down during last month's devastating wildfire.

For more than 30 years, flying enthusiasts and members of the public have taken in the annual Fly-In Breakfast, presented by the Innisfail Flying Club. “It's an awareness event that we hold,” said Jim Romane, treasurer for the Innisfail Flying Club.

A voluntary phased re-entry for the safe return of Fort McMurray residents will begin June 1 if future wildfire conditions do not delay restoration efforts and all conditions for re-entry have been met.

The town could once again face west side controversy over last week's approval of a plan to create a new 700-metre-long berm that could leave a multi-acre “big shallow hole” at the intersection of Highway 54 and 42 Street.

Kids just want to help. And more than 100 young students from kindergarten to Grade 4 at Chinook Center School did it in a positive, big way during a one-day school-wide Passport to FUNdraiser event for the evacuees of Fort McMurray.

As Innisfail-area farmers, my husband Vern and I worry about drought and hail but never about having to leave our land because of flooding.