Innisfail News

German university student intern Ann-Marie Kratz is a long way from home.

The Innisfail Royal Canadian Legion was the recent site to celebrate the military service and special day for a reluctant war hero.

Town council has thrown its support behind a quartet of major civic events in June, including the annual Innisfail Rotary Rodeo Parade.

When disaster strikes you can never be too prepared. The Canadian Red Cross, on the heels of many disasters in Canada last year, is encouraging Albertans to take steps to be ready for the unexpected.

After more than a year in the making the Town of Innisfail is launching a new razzle-dazzle website this week. The new site, created by REaction Marketing, is expected to be live today (May 20) at the same web address (www.innisfail.ca).

If you serve up strawberries and ice cream they will come. If it's for a good cause you will pack the joint. The Innisfail and District Health Centre Auxiliary held its annual Strawberry Tea fundraiser on May 9 from 1:45 to 4 p.m.

Many of us are still in awe over the heroism of Tara the pussycat who last week probably saved the life of four-year-old Jeremy Triantafilo from a marauding dog. The toddler from Bakersfield, Calif.

Six-year-old Gage Daoust is going home to die in the loving arms of his family. "We will be bringing Gage back to Red Deer on May 13," said Kim Tucker, Gage's mother, a former Innisfailian.

Colin Kure stood outside his truck in the rain on the Highway 54 turnoff, scarcely a kilometre away from Spruce View, and pointed to a space between two copses of trees that were planted almost a century ago.

RCMP say they are pursuing “persons of interest” into the murder of Innisfailian Oleg Alex Cusnir, whose body was found in his burning pick-up truck last week east of town.