Innisfail News

The closing of the Penhold Air Cadet Camp at Canadian Forces Base Penhold is going to have a negative economic impact on the area according to the Penhold mayor.

The Innisfail Indians peewee softball team won silver at a tournament hosted in Innisfail June 15-17. “The tournament was actually a great success,” said Rick Blais, league liaison. This is the fourth annual softball tournament in Innisfail.

Tax penalties in Penhold will remain at four per cent per period over three periods instead of rising back to a single 12 per cent penalty after the beginning of August. Penhold councillors debated the change during their June 11 meeting.

A bylaw which reduces and moves the commercial area planned for the Oxford Landing development in Penhold was passed by councillors during the June 11 meeting.

A four-year municipal council term might give people some second thoughts about running in local elections said both the mayor of Innisfail and the mayor of Penhold.

Two riders in Innisfail are saddling up this summer and geocaching in the West Country. Lynn Scott and A.R.

Innisfail is rolling out a program aimed at getting people rolling off their couches and into the outdoors.

Penhold council has accepted a land supply and growth potential study that shows the town could need to annex more industrial and residential land before 30 years is up.

Citizens catch fire Two weeks ago, members of Innisfail Citizens on Patrol came across an unattended grass fire in a park in town. They contacted Innisfail RCMP who in turn contacted the fire department. Cpl. A.J.

Plans are in motion to sort out a list of concerns which have surfaced since the new library/learning centre opened unofficially last January.