Innisfail News

Despite wet weather, downtown construction is on track, business owners and members of the public learned last week.

A preliminary stormwater concern assessment and an infrastructure study were both accepted for information by the Penhold town council on June 25. Both reports were accepted without much comment from council.

The contract to provide assessment services to the Town of Penhold is heading out to tender after a vote by council on June 25.

A new policy to grant organizations looking for donations was approved in council last week. The previous policy meant denying requests for financial contributions as most taxpayers will have been approached individually for donations.

Training report debate Council voted against requiring staff members to provide a full report about a recent training trip to Kananaskis during the June 25 meeting. Coun.

Bowden town council voted unanimously on June 25 to close the town's municipally-supported recycling centre due to abuse of the centre and costs getting too high.

A Penhold resident is calling for a town meeting on June 27 as he targets increasing property taxes. Ken McCarthy has been living in Penhold for three and a half years.

After 27 years at the helm of Jessie Duncan School in Penhold, Karen Norton, the longest serving principal in Chinook's Edge School Division, has decided to retire.

The Field of Honour at the Bowden Cemetery has now been adorned with a proper marker. Last week members of the cemetery committee met at the grounds with local artist Brenda Beecroft to admire the finished project resulting from their hard work.

The Penhold fire chief has a new bar to add on to an already prestigious medal. Jim Pendergast was presented with a 10-year exemplary service bar to his Fire Services Exemplary Service medal during a ceremony with the lieutenant-governor on June 21.