Innisfail News

A local chapter of a provincewide initiative to map early child development will open to the public sometime next month.

Town of Bowden council voted on Jan. 9 to enter into a sale agreement with Shu-Pak Equipment Inc. for the purchase of a new side-load garbage truck. The new garbage truck will cost $189,000 and will be delivered within six weeks.

A Bowden man died Sunday afternoon in a head on collision on Hwy. 587 just north of Bowden. RCMP said Richard Sorensen, 45 was driving a Dodge Dakota truck west bound on Hwy. 587 around 3 p.m. Jan.

Shoplifters make off with $500 Bieber poster Parents of Justin Bieber fans may want to look twice at their children's collection of Bieber paraphernalia. Around 8 p.m. Jan.

Construction on an $8-million housing project is expected to start this spring or early summer. Council approved Clay Cup Developer's subdivision application for a 33-unit apartment style complex off Woodland Road last week.

A graffiti removal program is about to get more legs, following town-approved funding of $5,000. For the past four years Coun.

Open house in February for proposed substation A second round of open houses is set to start in February to get the public's feedback on a proposed substation six kilometres east of Innisfail.

For 12 years before his retirement Lawrence Gould was a mechanic for the City of Red Deer. Today, at the age of 70, he is still a car man, a collector of vintage antique automobiles.

Investigators with the Energy Resources Conservation Board (ERCB) are continuing to probe the site of a "unique" oil well blowout incident near Gleniffer Lake, 26 kilometres west of Innisfail.

Town council has enthusiastically accepted a subdivision report from Parkland Community Planning Services to allow a new development at Hawkridge Estates that would add another 43 residential lots to its burgeoning inventory.