Innisfail News

Bowden Grandview School's Danielle Ringheim has received the Sharon Armstrong Early Years of Practice Award in recognition of her dedication to students with special learning needs.

The Highway 2A communities of Penhold and Innisfail are joining forces to strengthen the Central Alberta business corridor through a joint Municipal Development Plan (MDP) development. During the regular Penhold council meeting on Oct.

Police south of Airdrie has captured two men wanted by Innisfail RCMP in connection to an armed robbery in Centennial Park. Innisfail RCMP Staff Sgt. Chris Matechuk said his detachment was notified on Nov.

After nearly 36 hours without telephone and Internet service, the Henday Association for Lifelong Learning and Innisfail Library/Learning Centre are back up and running.

Innisfail students and families, as well as those in Penhold, Bowden and Spruce View, paid homage to Canadian soldiers with multiple ceremonies of remembrance last week.

The Canadian Pacific Holiday Train -- North America's largest rolling food bank fundraiser – is coming to Innisfail for the fourth time. The last time the holiday train came to town was in 2012.

Year three of the town's Façade & Storefront Improvement Program is coming to a close and a total of a dozen businesses – mostly in the downtown core – have taken advantage of thousands of dollars of grant money to beautify building exteriors.

Central Alberta Catholic youth will be getting a helping hand from Innisfail's Our Lady of Peace Church. On Nov. 15, the parish will be hosting a trade show to raise funds for Canada's first Western Canadian Catholic Youth Conference (WCCYC).

Penhold's overall building permit totals in 2014 have dwarfed last year's numbers with a 100 per cent increase over the same period and the boom is not finished yet. In a report tabled on Oct.

Town council has approved Laebon Homes' proposed 47-house Penhold Palisades subdivision with conditions but not without a threat by Laebon to pull out of the development.