Innisfail News

Many Canadians, including Albertans, can expect a somewhat shorter and warmer winter this year, according to weather specialists with Environment Canada.

Citizens wanting financial assistance from the town's Community Grant Program can now apply twice a year.

Plans to sponsor a second Syrian refugee family in Innisfail are moving forward.

The Innisfail Fire Department's request to town council to move forward with more than $12,000 worth of repairs to a fire truck has been approved. The request was made to town council at its Dec. 14 regular meeting.

We are very grateful for the publicity on the historic log house – built by local pioneers David and Isabella (Bella) Sinclair -- that was featured in the Innisfail Province on Dec. 8, 2015.

Several months after moving into its new location at the Co-op Mall, Innisfail's Evergreen Parent Link Centre is bustling with activity. “It's been great.

Innisfailians gave so generously over this past holiday season they helped set an all-time record for donations to the Innisfail and District Food Bank.

Funds, donations and needed items have been pouring in for Innisfail's first confirmed Syrian refugee family, sponsored by Our Lady of Peace Catholic Church.

2015 was a year of giving back to the community. Penhold's Stewart Ford led the way with his triumphant effort to restore the region's “national treasure” – the sacred First World War-era Memorial Hall drop curtain -- for the entire country.

Didsbury resident Allan Berdahl said when he received a phone call on Dec. 17 from the RCMP telling him an arrest had been made in the murder of his son more than eight years ago, he thought it was a scam.