Innisfail News

The deep freeze is over and Innisfailians can only hope that seasonal temperatures will at least be the norm for winter's final days.

Three people narrowly escaped serious injuries or worse following a two-vehicle crash at a busy Penhold intersection last week.

Last week's provincial budget did not bring any bad news for Innisfail but it didn't produce any big smiles from the town either.

Kerry Towle has finally been able to tour the Innisfail Health Centre. And she left impressed. “I was very pleased with my first tour,” said Towle.

If you put on a church spring bazaar, they will come. That's what Laurel Zuk-Dach, a Grade 1 teacher at St. Marguerite Bourgeoys School, is planning on. She is coordinating a church bazaar to be held March 15 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Alberta Budget 2014 came down and Penhold Mayor Dennis Cooper was pleased with what he saw and heard during a breakfast meeting with other mayors and government officials.

The school name came first. Then a team name was chosen last week. And now they seek an official logo and colours.

If you have read the story in this week's issue of the Province on the welcome turn of weather from the recent prolonged bitter cold snap to the warm and seasonably balmy temperatures of the last few days, you may have noticed there is also a change

Almost three months after receiving a troublesome $85,000 bill from Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) the town is still trying to get a meeting with the company to explain why it was sent in the first place.

Members of the Sylvan Lake Family Violence and Bullying Coalition shared their successes with their Innisfail counterparts at a recent anti-bullying coalition meeting. Both groups left the meeting seeing their roles as part of a bigger picture.