Innisfail News

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.

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.