Innisfail News

Local musician Devin Cooper has spent more than half his life playing music. The 16-year-old Innisfail Jr./Sr. High School student started playing guitar at the age of seven. He then taught himself to play drums.

The quarter-century-old Innisfail Aquatic Centre has been drained and will be closed to the public until Sept. 8 while the facility receives long overdue renovations.

The Innisfail Seniors Drop-in Centre is a step closer towards having new modern washroom facilities constructed at its facility.

Innisfail groups joined scores of others across the province to help victims of The Great Flood of 2013.

For 30 years the Innisfail Family Day Home Society has worked to help make a difference in the lives of family and children.

On June 4 at 3:30 p.m. the Innisfail RCMP learned five firearms had been stolen from an Innisfail residence. Police discovered signs of forced entry and noted the criminal payload included handguns. The incident is currently under investigation.

As pastor Mark Brown of the Cornerstone Gospel Chapel in Red Deer began the process of anointing the smallest church in Penhold, Ken McCarthy choked back tears. He built the church in honour of his adopted son Wayne Jr. after he passed away.

Despite an alert urging users to “Conserve Water!” because of “problems at the river intake” by one of its member communities, the Mountain View Regional Water Services Commission says there was never any real problem at its water treatment facility

A member of a local church who returned recently from a pilgrimage to Poland and Italy has described the journey as spiritually uplifting.

Darby DeRuyter and Amy Shuckburgh were at the Innisfail Library/Learning Centre when the Relay for Life's spring sign-up event was happening and a teacher encouraged the 10-year-olds to enter.