Innisfail News

Cross-country Chinook's Edge School Division will host a K-6 cross-country run Oct. 4 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Town council voted to keep the municipality's collection rate on electricity bills at 19 per cent for 2013 during its regular meeting on Sept. 24. The franchise fee agreement with FortisAlberta comes up for renewal each year.

The official opening of Main Street will be combined with the second annual Pumpkin Festival Oct. 27 for a ghoulish send-up to a summer of construction.

Shirley Husband moved from Bassano to Innisfail in 1999. The 80-year-old's kids were moving to the Surrey, B.C. area anyway, so she decided to settle here where she's enjoyed making a whole batch of new friends.

Search warrant Police executed a search warrant at a local hotel on the afternoon of Sept. 20, Cpl. A.J. Mand said. RCMP seized a stolen moped, hash oil, drug paraphernalia and various other items, he said.

When baby Tuff, a brown bear born in Kananaskis this year, was left by his mother his chance of a happy existence was next to nil.

The prospects that hit the ice at the Penhold Regional Multiplex Centre to try out for the Penhold Amazons on Sept. 26 were looking good. Rick Potter, one of this year's co-coaches, was pleased with what he saw.

Bowden Institution guards were among the over 500 correctional officers who protested in front of Stephen Harper's constituency office in Calgary on Sept. 15.

Guilty pleas were entered Sept. 24 at Red Deer provincial court to drug charges related to a bust made at an Innisfail pet store and a residence in August 2011.

The contractors who will build the new Penhold regional high school were announced in Red Deer on Sept. 25.