Innisfail News

Red Deer Housing Authority (RDHA) subsidized housing tenants will be seeing a change in housing application and rent setting application procedures.

It was shortly after 5:40 p.m. last Thursday when Sara Hollar was awakened by a loud commotion while sleeping with her 18-month-old son Colton in their first-floor apartment suite at Penhold's Wild Rose Manor.

A local pharmacist arrested in February for allegedly stealing thousands of narcotics pills while working at Shoppers Drug Mart was formally charged last week.

An oil leak discovered on Dodds Lake on Friday morning has been contained and is now being cleaned up.

Innisfail's economically challenged citizens have a glimmer of hope that some day they might be able to afford the fees for the town's recreational services.

Innisfail RCMP are trying to find out who and why gunshots were fired at a Penhold residence earlier this month. Police said a report was made to the Innisfail RCMP detachment shortly after 9 a.m.

Penhold's aging Wild Rose Manor – destroyed by fire on April 10 – had no sprinkler system. And its absence could have made a positive difference for firefighters in their attempts to save the building, said the town's fire chief.

Firefighters and RCMP in Penhold are still at the site of a devastating fire that destroyed an apartment building early Thursday evening and left a score of residents homeless and some still unaccounted for.

Citizens in Penhold have rallied to help displaced residents of a three-story apartment building that collapsed after a roaring fire broke out in the building in the late afternoon of April 10. The blaze was first noticed shortly before 5:45 p.m.

There is something magical about the theatre. When the house lights go down and the hush falls over the crowd, the anticipation of what is about to occur is palpable.