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A Cochrane family with a taste for adventure has started up one of the province’s first craft distilleries.

The Cochrane Young Singers are spreading Christmas cheer this season with two concerts in Calgary and a third here at home.

DEC. 8 – DEC. 10 Waiting for Godot Cochrane High School 7 p.m. Youth drama students will mount this Samuel Beckett classic for three nights, beginning on Dec. 8. The “tragicomedy in two acts” will run at the Cochrane High Lyceum until Dec. 10.

Cochrane resident Lisa Hyde was one of a room full of ladies who painted different holiday scenes on wine glasses at the Rocky View Hotel on Nov. 30.

Laurie Stalker and Daunia Del Ben from Teatro Dell'eco auditioned actors last week for roles in the upcoming environmental play Dreaming Alberta.

A newly- formed Cochrane band promises to funk up the festive season at its upcoming concert. “We've jazzed up a whole load of Christmas songs, ” Lucy Mills, the lead singer of Jazz It, said this week.

Tucked under the Cochrane Curling Club, through a door barely visible from the dark parking lot, is a room filled with bright and bodacious women who make up the Cochrane Lioness Club.

Cochrane Vision Theatre will mount a rollicking British pantomime for its holiday musical this year. Goody Two Shoes debuts this Friday at 7:30 p.m. at the Cochrane RancheHouse Theatre and runs weekends until Dec. 11, including two Sunday 2 p.m.

Cochrane High School choir celebrated the sounds and songs of Christmas this week at a distinguished concert event in Calgary.

This year’s Cochrane Light Up is being hailed as the most successful to date, after festive friends and families filled the streets last weekend at the town’s official Christmas kickoff. “It was really good.