Innisfail News

Johnnie Bachusky and his ‘ghosts' are coming to the Innisfail Historical Village on July 16.

The long emotional battle is over for a group of Fleming Avenue residents opposed to Custom Bulk Services' controversial plan to develop a second fracking sand loading facility.

Town councilors have begun a special summer reading program at the Innisfail Library/Learning Centre to promote literacy.

On the same day police were probing the disturbing destruction of public art by spray-painting vandals, there was good news on the same front at the Innisfail Ski Hill with the launch of a new youth-orientated graffiti removal program.

Innisfail RCMP is on the hunt for at least one vandal who sprayed graffiti on a beloved piece of downtown public art.

It was a celebration like no other with more than a 1,000 citizens proudly waving the same number of iconic red and white flags. Canada Day in Innisfail on July 1 set a new attendance record.

The third and final phase of the Downtown Revitalization Project has begun. The actual start date of the $2.3 million third phase was July 2 but few citizens would have been able to notice last week.

The contentious Penhold truck route issue found its way to Penhold council one more time and it may have been settled once and for all.

Recreational grounds around town are about to get the Cadillac service when it comes to grooming.

Sandra Wright sat in a neighbour's kitchen last week at Westwood Mobile Home Park and told friends about an encounter long ago between a former trailer park resident and an elected official.