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Is your outhouse ready for some pushing, grunting and running? The 14th annual Cochrane Outhouse Races, put on by local retail store Heavenly Outhouse, will hold its 14th race Saturday, Sept. 27 during Alberta Culture Days. Races begin at 10 a.m.

Suffer in silence no more.

There will be plenty of pickin’ and grinnin’ in Cochrane during Alberta Culture Days, as the Nakoda-Cochrane Pickin’ Party Music Jam will be celebrating its 10th anniversary. The party will take place Sept. 27 from 1 - 4 p.m.

The department of waste and recycling for the town will be hosting a series of working sessions to discuss and prepare the Industrial, Commercial and Institutional (ICI) sector for the development of a local ‘ICI waste strategy’ that would align with

Cochrane RCMP are seeking public assistance with respect to an incident of theft resulting in around 195 tires stolen from the Cochrane Canadian Tire. At around 4:30 a.m. Sept.

Camp URSA will be celebrating its fifth anniversary Sept. 20 with an open house from 2-3 p.m. The camp is located just 20 minutes northwest of Cochrane.

Several motorists, who have been slowing down and potentially causing a collision, have been mistakenly identifying a section of Highway 22 in front of Westbrook School as a school zone.

Fallen trees. Broken branches. Ravaged blooms.

Pumping of flooded Cochrane Lake into the Bow River has resulted in a drastic increase in the amount of water that has been getting removed from the lake since the last week of August — from around one-inch per week to an inch a day.

Excel Homes recently commemorated its 10,000th new home and 26th anniversary in a big way in Cochrane. On Sept. 11, Barrett Budgell pulled up to his newly-purchased home in the Heartland community with his parents and saw a big red ribbon around it.