Local News

Several Springbank-area residents voiced their concerns about a proposed outlet mall in Springbank at an open house at Edge School Nov. 13.

For the first time in a long time, there are no moose roaming the 160 acres of the Cochrane Ecological Institute (CEI), a charity that rescues, rehabilitates and releases injured and orphaned wildlife.

A local theatre residency program, Trickster Theatre, continues to present issues of local and global concerns through choreography and performance in schools across the country.

As movie premieres go, there are always a few stars on the red carpet. The acting is done, the camera’s have rapped, the final cut is complete and all that’s left to do is sit down and watch.

Rocky View County has hired a former councillor to act as a liaison between the province and Bragg Creek residents to help them with their provincial Disaster Recovery Program applications.

Carrying the momentum of his 2012 Flesh and Bone release, Canadian music icon Barney Bentall will be putting on what he calls a “musical variety show” at the Bragg Creek Centre Nov. 30.

For Sue Penry, the most important component to her artwork is the emotional response it draws from an audience. “When people view my art, I want them to be in touch with themselves and to feel something,” said Penry, who calls Cochrane home.

With the season of giving officially upon us, the countdown is on for the Cochrane Activettes’ 2013 Share Your Christmas campaign. The program will launch Nov.

Grade 11 Cochrane High School (CHS) student, Kaleigh Jo Kirk, has got the beat. The Beat100, that is.

Provincial grant funding totalling about $116 million was committed to flood-impacted communities across Southern Alberta, including Rocky View County (RVC), Nov. 8, through the government of Alberta’s Flood Recovery Erosion Control Program (FRECP).