Innisfail News

The controversy of the Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) has come to Innisfail with local restaurateurs forced to face worker shortages without access to the troubled government program.

Innisfail town council heard loud and clear from Westwood trailer park residents they do not want anything to do with a dump beside their homes.

For almost two months Westwood Court owner Don Petersen, a citizen of Red Deer, may have felt at times he was battling alone against Innisfail council about its plan to put a dump beside his park.

ßThe 48th and final Penhold Air Cadet Training Centre (PACTC) season is bittersweet for Sky Wings Aviation Academy owner Dennis Cooper. “I was a cadet in the first PACTC from 1966 to 68,” said Cooper.

The sounds of Metis dance and music will resound over Innisfail's Centennial Park for the first time in 120 years on August 16 for the for the inaugural Metis Family Gathering.

Innisfail Family and Community Support Services (FCSS) is sending 40 needy people to Westerner Days in Red Deer thanks to ConocoPhillips.

Cracks are appearing in the town's resolve to relocate the dump next to the Westwood Mobile Home Park as widespread community protest spills outside the trailer court and into the community at-large.

From married man to fatherhood and now to the cusp of achieving musical greatness. Innisfail's Cole Malone has had a remarkable past few years. The former Ottawa area native came to Innisfail in 2006.

The aftermath of the tragic death of longboarder Trystan Sorensen on May 20 continues to haunt his mother Amy. "It's been almost two months, and I still have not had time to cope with the loss of my son," said Amy Sorensen, Trystan's mother.

Johnnie Bachusky and his ‘ghosts' are coming to the Innisfail Historical Village on July 16.