Innisfail News

Students, parents, teachers and members of the Innisfail community rallied once again to show their support for the people of Fort McMurray.

The Innisfail Province has a contingency plan in place for distribution of newspapers in the event of a postal disruption.

Town council has approved a big block party for June 25. At council's regular meeting on June 13, an application was brought forward by administration to close vehicular traffic to 49th Street Close on June 25 from 4 p.m. to midnight.

Like so many before them, cancer survivors, caregivers, family members and friends gathered Saturday in the fight against cancer. The annual Innisfail Relay For Life was held June 18 at the Innisfail High School track from noon to midnight.

With the annual graduation season drawing near, a time when the young let loose to celebrate a coming of age that morphs into adulthood, Penhold students experienced a dramatic dose of the reality that can result when wrong choices are made.

Scores of Grade 5 students have earned a special graduation. And along the way they learned how to say “no” in a big way. That's “no” to drugs and a big “yes” for healthy living as they move forward in their young lives.

Hundreds of local and area residents took in the annual Innisfail Rotary parade under sunny skies on Saturday, June 18.

The motor to drive the Weekend of Wheels is roaring once again. The Innisfail Kinsmen and the Kinette Club of Innisfail have agreed to pick up the late summer weekend event for Sept. 10 and 11 of this year.

Hundreds of pipers, drummers, dancers, athletic competitors and visitors will fill the field at the 69th Annual Red Deer Highland Games. Several Innisfail and area Highland dancers are also expected to participate and compete in the games.

Central Alberta postal workers may soon be on strike or in a lockout position along with their counterparts across the nation.