Innisfail News

The Town of Innisfail will not add a centre median at the 50th Street and 49th Avenue intersection during Phase 2 of downtown revitalization this summer.

After putting up the property for sale, Melcor has jumped back into the Penhold real estate market enthusiastically, with work on Phase 1 of a new subdivision set to begin in the fall.

A new set of fees for Penhold Regional Multiplex rentals was approved by council at its regularly scheduled meeting May 27, with the exception of meeting room rates which seemed too high to some of the members. The motion was approved unanimously.

A Penhold resident is flush with optimism after council passed first reading of a plan to intensify the zoning on an area at Minto Street and Fleming Avenue during its regularly scheduled council meeting May 27.

Growers of the province's largest asparagus field kicked off their seventh annual Asparagus Festival this past weekend, signifying the official start to the growing season.

Even the rain couldn't keep them away. Despite the wet weather 75 people turned up for the 9th Annual Vintage, Classic and Specialty Vehicle Show and Pancake Breakfast during the 2013 grand opening of the Innisfail Historical Village on May 25.

In the coming weeks Carmax Consulting Inc. will begin taking a bite out of the giant piles of gravel along the QE II Highway just east of Penhold as it embarks on a night paving project.

Penhold council approved the Taxation Bylaw in one fell swoop during its regularly scheduled meeting May 13.

In a real world response to a digital offensive, Penhold activist Ken McCarthy called out two local residents in one of the most recent signs posted along Highway 2A on his property meant to provoke political action.

Cpl. Don Morrish is a quiet policeman looking forward to getting back out on the beat after years spent probing crime scenes as a forensics cop.