Innisfail News

Downtown streets roared to life this weekend as the inaugural Innisfail Weekend of Wheels rolled into town.

It’s different, but the same. That’s what students are saying about heading back to school on a new calendar.

The annual ArtWalk has concluded its fifth consecutive year in five area towns as of Sept. 6, and organizers from Wellspring Visual ArtNetwork Association say they are pleased with the summer’s turnout of interest.

A year-long pilot project that will assess the benefits of light-emitting diode (LED) streetlights officially got underway in Innisfail last week.

The first phase of the Ol’ Moose Hall facelift is almost complete. Innisfail Town Theatre group members suspect the brick outlay on the front of the building should be complete sometime this month.

About $250,000 to $300,000 damage was done to the Westwind Motel in Bowden as a result of an early morning fire on the morning of September 5. Members of the Bowden Fire Department received an alarm at 4:33 a.m.

The deadline is fast approaching for students looking to get some extra help with their studies from the Innisfail and District Ag Society.

This Thursday should be a busy night at the Penhold Multiplex, anticipates Jade Prefontaine, community events coordinator for the town.

It took 50 fire fighters just over six hours to extinguish a fire started at Innisfail Meats, home of the The Mad Butcher, last Monday afternoon.

Doing it once is tough enough. Doing it threes times is almost unheard of. On July 26 local cribbage player Lorna Mark pulled off the game’s equivalent of a hole-in-one – the perfect hand of 29 - for the third time in her playing career.