Innisfail News

Nine vehicles were damaged when a semi-truck with two flat-deck trailers drove off QEII, over the merge lane, into a ditch and up an embankment on the afternoon of May 9.

An open house became heated when a crowd of dissenting seniors put Mayor Jim Romane and council on the hot seat for a Q and A around 7:30 p.m. at the Innisfail Library/Learning Centre May 8.

A team of 24 from the Innisfail Alliance Church youth group will be undertaking a humanitarian trip to Coral De Pierdra, Costa Rica this August for two weeks.

Two women will be setting off on a walk meant to gain attention and offer awareness of the visually impaired and white cane users.

Break and enter A business at the Co-op mall was broken into between May 8 and 9. According to a press release from Innisfail RCMP officer Const. J.E. Thomas, Le Café Grind was accessed through the main entrance and various items stolen. Cpl.

A mobile home fire in Bowden claimed two lives last Sunday. Olds RCMP and the Bowden fire department were called to the Bowden Estates Trailer Park at approximately 1:24 a.m. to respond to a mobile home fire.

The Daines Rodeo Ranch just outside Innisfail will be playing host to the first annual Texas Connection Music Festival Aug. 17-18. “It's one of those ones we talked about for a few years,” said Adam Daines, president of TexAlta Productions.

Rookie Innisfail-Sylvan Lake MLA Kerry Towle has been appointed caucus whip and seniors critic for the Wildrose Party's shadow cabinet.

Plea reserved second time in drug case A man charged with possession for the purpose of trafficking reserved his plea again when he appeared in Red Deer provincial court on May 3.