Innisfail News

The Innisfail High School Junior Varsity (JV) volleyball boys are bronze medal winners in the Central Alberta Sports Athletic Association (CASAA) 3A Zone playoffs. Coach Deen Lockhat's JV Cyclones travelled to Wetaskiwin on Nov.

The Innisfail Eagles were grounded by the Bentley Generals by a score of 5-1 on Nov. 29 in their lone game of the weekend after the Birds' home game was cancelled the previous evening.

A new initiative by the Rotary Club of Innisfail will ensure many families in need will receive previously unavailable non-food items in Innisfail & Area Food Bank hampers, including this year at Christmastime.

Penhold council discussed communication strategies during emergency shutdowns at its recent council meeting as a result of the Nov. 12 pipe repair to the water reservoir along Highway 2A.

The Innisfail and District Chamber of Commerce has launched the 2014 Santa's Sleigh Christmas promotion with upgrades from last year's campaign.

With Bullying Awareness Week making its mark across Canada this month Innisfailians vented outrage at the recent court sentence handed down to a local adult following a widely publicized brutal bullying incident last year.

Innisfail-Sylvan Lake MLA Kerry Towle was one of two Wildrose MLAs who bolted yesterday (Nov. 24) from the provincial Official Opposition to the governing Progressive Conservative Party.

The Henday Association for Lifelong Learning (HALL) is holding an educational workshop designed to inform community members on topics from government funding to education.

Mounties are investigating another recent series of car thefts in Innisfail. From November 14 to 20, four motor vehicles were stolen in town, while a fifth – initially stolen in Red Deer – was recovered in Penhold. Innisfail RCMP Staff Sgt.

The third installment of Suzanne Collins' Hunger Games trilogy – Mockingjay -- starring Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson and the late Philip Seymour Hoffman opened in town on Nov. 21.