Innisfail News

A former Innisfail RCMP officer has been on trial since mid-January in the Red Deer Court of Queen's Bench. Const.

Penhold town council has settled on a price with a landowner for land that was expropriated in 2008 to build the multiplex. Mayor Dennis Cooper said council is just waiting on the landowner, Cornelis (Casey) den Boer, to sign the agreement.

The Central Alberta real estate market is expected to grow this year, and Innisfail is no exception. In a report prepared by Tracey Christensen, president of the Central Alberta Realtors Association Jan.

The 10th annual Women's Wellness Day event in Penhold is spicing things up a little this year. The Feb. 25 event's theme is "sugar, spice, naughty and nice," said Tara Wells, the community services manager for the Town of Penhold.

When the new home for the Innisfail Public Library opened its doors on Jan. 23 it was quickly visited by library patrons eager to check out both books and the new space.

Early morning drug bust On or about Jan. 16 RCMP members laid a drug possession charge after checking a vehicle for suspicious activity in a parking lot on Woodland Road. It was approximately 2 a.m.

There are changes afoot at Big Brothers and Sisters, an organization that made Innisfail its home just shy of 25 years ago.

Former Innisfail mayor and councillor Doug Fee is now running for Senate. Fee was a councillor from 1971 until 1977 when he was elected mayor and served for 11 years.

Ten people were at the Legion board room last Wednesday for a noon hour discussion on the development of a graffiti program.

Sundre's newest RCMP constable can attest to the old adage that there's no time like the present to pursue your dreams. Val Dennis, 54, originally applied to the RCMP he was 19 years old. He was turned down at that time.