Innisfail News

Many would-be playwrights go years before they ever realize the achievement of having their work presented on the public stage, and some never reach that goal.

Catching kids doing things right instead of wrong, that's the goal behind the Positive Ticket Program that has been a successful ongoing initiative in Innisfail for several years.

Three teen motor vehicle passengers sustained minor injuries when their vehicle “fishtailed” off a service road and over an embankment at Gleniffer Lake. Innisfail RCMP Cpl. Don Morrish said police were called shortly after 7 p.m. on Aug.

The Innisfail Aquatic Centre will soon be ready for action. The centre, which has been closed since July 2 following an Innisfail Dolphins tournament, will reopen for swimming competitors and the public on Sept. 9.

Following the eight-month municipal inspection review into the affairs of the Town of Penhold, Mayor Dennis Cooper said that council would implement all directives given in the report. “All the directives will be followed,” Cooper said.

Suspected thieves led Innisfail RCMP on an early morning high-speed 20-kilometre chase from Spruce View to Sylvan Lake after an ATM (automated teller machine) was violently yanked out from a Caroline fast-food restaurant.

Innisfail RCMP has bagged a gang of axe- and rifle-wielding Red Deer teens caught prowling Penhold streets and breaking into multiple vehicles and a residential home.

Penhold town council has been slapped on the wrist by Alberta Municipal Affairs Minister Doug Griffiths for too much meddling into the responsibilities of administration.

Penhold is about to see a new addition as construction of a large strip mall plaza, which will include both a pharmacy and a supermarket, will soon be in the works. The project, which has not been started, is valued at $5.5 million.

Young cadets at the Penhold Air Cadet Summer Training Centre are still exclaiming “awesome” over their soaring experience of flying a vintage Second World War era training plane.