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“Our mentality is to try to push people as far as they can go, and create a community of success and goal-setting so that people can really perform.”

“We think it will be a great, and all families who have pets would really enjoy it,” she said.

“I just don’t think we as a society, never mind Cochrane, are realizing the impact that this had on the generation right now and on moms,” Bean said. “It’s so distressing the trauma that’s emerged from this time, and we don’t talk about it, we don’t really see it in the papers, and I just think it’s lacking in being addressed.”

The relative lack of mental health resources, senior supports, and youth support resources remain key concerns of Rocky View County (RVC) residents, according to a Social Needs Assessment report presented to RVC’s Governance Committee on May 16

Detachment commanders from Airdrie/Beiseker, Cochrane, and Strathmore RCMP presented their yearly reports to RVC’s Governance Committee on May 16.

An exciting opportunity awaits the townsite of Redwood Meadows, where the community association has plans in the works to develop a new bike skills park.

Veteran Calgary landscaper, founder of Eco-yards, and author Laureen Rama talked recently in Cochrane about ways to make yards less thirsty by replacing grass, managing rain water, and choosing plants that use less water.

Denai Eerkes’ play Trust Me took on a difficult subject head-on, as forewarned in the program’s cautionary statement: “Content warnings – mentions/depictions of sexual assault, abuse, flashing lights, foul language.”

Director of Community Services Mitchell Hamm outlined that although challenges exist with COLT, improvements are definitely possible.