Innisfail News

INNISFAIL - Dozens of Innisfail and area families came out to enjoy Christmas at the Village. The event took place at the Innisfail and District Historical Village on Dec. 1. "It's an annual event.

INNISFAIL - Seniors recently gathered to celebrate the first-ever Christmas season at the Lundgren Centre . “We’re having an old-fashioned Christmas dinner, ” said Elaine Sinnamon, organizer of the Dec. 13 event.

PENHOLD - An Innisfail RCMP officer was dragged five metres by a fleeing angry suspect in his vehicle after being stopped by Mounties outside the Penholder Inn.

INNISFAIL – New development at highways 2 and 42 means Red Deer County residents could soon be seeing double.

INNISFAIL – Johns Manville continues to share the Christmas spirit. For many years employees at the local plant have raised donations for the Innisfail Christmas Bureau and the Innisfail and District Food Bank.

RED DEER COUNTY - The rural municipality has passed its operating and capital budgets for 2019 and the county is "holding the line" on spending.

BOWDEN - The Town of Bowden has seen a gigantic drop in its water costs this year since it hired a company to stop leaks by lining about half of its manholes in the community. Town council learned of those savings during a recent regular meeting.

INNISFAIL – Another Syrian refugee family will soon call Innisfail home. News of Innisfail’s third Syrian refugee family came early Monday morning (Dec.

INNISFAIL – The spirit of giving filled the streets of the town last weekend. The 23rd annual Charity Check Stop took place on Main Street, between 48th and 49 avenues on Dec. 8.

INNISFAIL - A citizen's tip of a loud drunk in the lounge of a local motel led Mounties to make a major weapons and ammunition bust on a Red Deer County man known to police for being previously on the wrong side of the law.