Innisfail News

Members of the Wild Rows Country Quilters Guild have made sure scores of needy children receive plenty of pillow love this Christmas. Last week on Nov. 24, 170 pillowcases were dropped off at the Christmas Bureau headquarters at the old fire hall.

Innisfail is joining communities across Canada to welcome Syrian refugees. Parishioners at Our Lady of Peace Catholic Church have opened their hearts to sponsor a refugee family from Syria, and there may be more coming.

You could say it's a sign of the times. A big, bright digital sign for Penhold, a two-sided one that measures four metres wide by two and a half metres deep.

Innisfail's food bank is counting its blessings. With an increase in food donations of nearly 3,000 pounds over last year's 10,000-pound total, and cash donations remaining close to the same, the charity is prepared for the future.

Innisfail-Sylvan Lake MLA Kerry Towle says she was as “shocked” as anyone when Wildrose party Leader Danielle Smith bolted to the Tories with eight other Opposition MLAs. The local MLA, who defected to the governing Progressive Conservatives on Nov.

SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS - Darcy Aubuchon and his wife Robin Brand received a donation of $350 this holiday season from the Rocky Mountain House branch of the Spirit of Christmas, money that will be used for the ongoing care of their Innisfailian daughter

1. Westwood rises When town council approved the relocation of the municipality's waste transfer site last spring to a site next to the Westwood Court Mobile Home Park they never expected consequences of widespread public anger.

Laebon Homes and Prentiss Martom Ltd. are rebuilding on the former Wild Rose Manor site at 40 Esther Close in the spring of 2015.

The final instalment of Peter Jackson's Hobbit trilogy was released in theater's December 19, 2014. The movie stars Martin Freeman as the titular hobbit, Richard Armitage as Thorin and Luke Evans as Bard.

The Innisfail and District Christmas Bureau and the Innisfail and Area Food Bank received more than $11,000 in donations from Johns Manville on Dec. 11.