Innisfail News

Innisfail Cyclones player Anthony Streit drives to the hood during the Cyclones game against H.J. Cody Lakers at the Ralph Klein Centre in Olds last Friday. The game was part of the 2012 Spartans Classic senior girls and boys basketball tournament hosted by Olds High School.

The Innisfail Integrated Traffic Unit will be making Red Deer its new home.

The tax rate hasn't been set yet but the Penhold municipal budget for 2012 is actually approximately $170,000 less than the 2011 budget. Town council passed the 2012 operating budget during its Jan. 23 meeting.

Four people who were charged in relation to a drug bust at an Innisfail pet store in August will have a preliminary hearing in Red Deer provincial court on Sept. 24. Const. Jordan St.

A new name has entered the political arena for the upcoming provincial election. Leslie Vidok, 59, was chosen as the Alberta Liberal MLA candidate for Sylvan Lake ñ Innisfail riding Jan. 22.

Mayor Judy Dahl hopes to convince Solicitor General and Public Security Minister Jonathan Denis to move the sheriffs unit back to Olds.

A former Innisfail RCMP officer has been on trial since mid-January in the Red Deer Court of Queen's Bench. Const.

Penhold town council has settled on a price with a landowner for land that was expropriated in 2008 to build the multiplex. Mayor Dennis Cooper said council is just waiting on the landowner, Cornelis (Casey) den Boer, to sign the agreement.

The Central Alberta real estate market is expected to grow this year, and Innisfail is no exception. In a report prepared by Tracey Christensen, president of the Central Alberta Realtors Association Jan.

The 10th annual Women's Wellness Day event in Penhold is spicing things up a little this year. The Feb. 25 event's theme is "sugar, spice, naughty and nice," said Tara Wells, the community services manager for the Town of Penhold.