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The saying ‘let kids be kids’ is the premise of Dreams Take Flight — the children’s charity started by Air Canada employees whose sole purpose is to take groups of children in need for all-expenses paid trip to Disneyland every year.

Cochrane singer/songwriter Lucas Chaisson has received a 2012 Canadian Folk Music Award nomination as “Young Performer of the Year”. “This nomination means a great deal to me.

The annual Stockmen’s Memorial Foundation dinner is all set to take place at the Cochrane RancheHouse Oct. 20, beginning at 5 p.m.

A fire that ravaged a Bearspaw home during the afternoon of Oct. 10 is still under investigation.

The west has always been known for its wide-open spaces, and now holding the draft for a new plan, Cochrane is hoping it soon will be as well.

A strange thing about numbers; they can be looked at in many different ways.

Cochrane council members doled out a handful of grants to various community organizations on Oct. 9 — $10,641 in total. The town received 13 applications, totalling nearly $21,000 in grant requests.

This year’s Parkinson Alberta Society SuperWalk Super-weekend, held Sept. 8-9 saw a tremendous amount of support from Cochrane and area participants. Cochranites held the SuperWalk on Sept.

There was plenty of jubilance to go around last week for a number of Cochranites who were awarded with the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal Oct. 9 at Calgary’s Red and White Club.

Cochrane RCMP are asking for the public’s help locating a lone male suspect following a break and enter at Shredz Skate Shop on First Street on Oct. 15.