Innisfail News

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.

Innisfailians looking for information on community organizations, recreation and sports groups and local support services are in luck this week.

Won Do Cho is a busy man. Carrying boxes of new phones and mattress covers for the soon-to-be Super 8, Cho also juggles questions coming from staff and the ringing telephone. “I’m just running around,” he said of the past few months.

Appearances by a Canadian funny car legend, a police car dragster and a historic western Canadian car club will ensure this weekend’s inaugural Innisfail Weekend of Wheels is one of the most memorable events the community has ever seen, a local spoke

Two local hockey players are expected to hit the ice at the Innisfail Arena this Friday when the Western Hockey League’s Red Deer Rebels host their division rivals, the Lethbridge Hurricanes, in an exhibition game.

In only his second year in the highly competitive world of drums corps, an Innisfail resident is now on top of the world.

An Innisfail veterinary clinic is stepping up to the plate for a provincial animal rescue group by hosting a charity dog walk later this month. Poplar Grove Veterinary Services’ inaugural Charity Dog Walk and Toonie Barbeque is scheduled on Sept.