Innisfail News

Members of 2nd Innisfail Girl Guides joined together on June 1 to complete a tree-planting grant that helped with the completion of a marvelous Girls Growing Greatness project.

Penhold's skatepark is one step closer to becoming a reality. Potential skatepark users and the Penhold Skatepark Committee, led by April Jones, held a meeting late last month to discuss the upcoming new facility at the Penhold Regional Multiplex.

The long anticipated third and final phase of the multi-million dollar Downtown Revitalization Project is finally set to tentatively begin on July 2 – two weeks behind the initially scheduled start date.

More than 100 cyclists dropped by Innisfail for lunch Sunday during a near perfect day at the Innisfail Library Learning Centre for the 2014 Johnson MS Bike Tour on June 8.

Seniors were honoured last week under gorgeous pre-summer skies and weather with the annual Mayor & Seniors Garden Party – the primary local event for Seniors' Week.

Innisfail RCMP say they are making progress in a series of major crimes that have rocked the town and region in recent weeks, but they add their resources are now being “pushed to the limit” to handle the increasing demands to maintain law and order.

If you build a strong community brand tourism will follow. The Town of Innisfail and the Innisfail and District Chamber of Commerce are joining forces to bring world-renowned branding webinars conducted by Roger Brooks to Innisfail and area.

Innisfail's provincial Tory faithful shed the doom and gloom that has prevailed over party fortunes in recent years to hear what aspiring leader Jim Prentice had to say during a rally last week at Discovery Wildlife Park.

Innisfail's rodeo cup will surely be running over from June 12 to 15 with the 54th Annual Innisfail Professional Rodeo taking place at the Daines Rodeo Ranch.

The farmers market phenomenon continues to grow. For almost a year now, since the fall of 2013, Vi Ripley has presided over a flourishing group of vendors holding court at the Penhold Regional Multiplex.