Innisfail News

Taxi services in Innisfail may be undergoing a facelift after a Red Deer taxi company was stopped by a peace officer last week.

A meeting with Parkland Foundation member municipalities and officials from Alberta Municipal Affairs has produced fresh optimism the provincial government will significantly help with the cost of replacing the aging Autumn Glen Lodge.

Red Deer Housing Authority (RDHA) subsidized housing tenants will be seeing a change in housing application and rent setting application procedures.

It was shortly after 5:40 p.m. last Thursday when Sara Hollar was awakened by a loud commotion while sleeping with her 18-month-old son Colton in their first-floor apartment suite at Penhold's Wild Rose Manor.

A local pharmacist arrested in February for allegedly stealing thousands of narcotics pills while working at Shoppers Drug Mart was formally charged last week.

An oil leak discovered on Dodds Lake on Friday morning has been contained and is now being cleaned up.

Innisfail's economically challenged citizens have a glimmer of hope that some day they might be able to afford the fees for the town's recreational services.

Innisfail RCMP are trying to find out who and why gunshots were fired at a Penhold residence earlier this month. Police said a report was made to the Innisfail RCMP detachment shortly after 9 a.m.

Penhold's aging Wild Rose Manor – destroyed by fire on April 10 – had no sprinkler system. And its absence could have made a positive difference for firefighters in their attempts to save the building, said the town's fire chief.

Firefighters and RCMP in Penhold are still at the site of a devastating fire that destroyed an apartment building early Thursday evening and left a score of residents homeless and some still unaccounted for.