Innisfail News

INNISFAIL – The races are on. The Innisfail Lions Club is hosting the town’s first soap box derby on July 27. The event takes place on 50th Street, next to the Innisfail Cemetery, and runs from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Races begin at 10 a.m.

BOWDEN — A meeting held July 8 in council chambers to consider rezoning land — including the old Lions Community Hall — to allow 26 apartment units in that facility was invalid because the process to set it up was done incorrectly, according to chief

INNISFAIL - Slowdown times for motorists going through school zones are now uninterrupted for a full eight and a half hours.

INNISFAIL – The shovels are in the ground. Innisfail’s long awaited state-of-the-art skatepark is one step closer to reality.

PENHOLD – Junction 42 will be a boon for the local economy. Innisfail caterer Jolene Bjarnason will be a big contributor to that economic boost as owner of Diner 2/42, a retro 1950s-style restaurant that will be built in the area.

INNISFAIL - The town has joined most other Alberta municipalities by bringing in fees for anyone wanting a criminal record check.

A 38-year-old Innisfail woman has been charged with several counts of fraud and theft following an investigation by the Red Deer RCMP. Police allege that the suspect stole more than $54,000 from her employer between September 2015 and 2017.

Innisfail RCMP responded to a distraught female following an assault on July 12. The woman was camping at the junction of the Red Deer and Medicine rivers on July 12 and told Innisfail RCMP she had been assaulted by her male companion.

Penhold fire crews were called to a vehicle fire on the west side of the train tracks in Penhold, in the early morning hours, just after 5 a.m. on July 13. Firefighters arrived to find a fully involved vehicle with no occupants around.

Emergency crews from Olds and Red Deer County responded to this collision at the intersection of Highway 2A adjacent to Highway 2 July 8 at about 5 p.m.