Local News

Want to be served some free flapjacks by your local firefighters? On Sept. 6 you certainly can, during the Cochrane fire station open house and pancake breakfast. The second annual event will be held at the Protective Services Centre starting at 8 a.

Cochrane IDEAS is inviting people to celebrate 15 years of discussion and the sharing of views, which will take place Friday, Sept. 12 at St. Andrew’s United Church, starting at 7 p.m.

Phantoms Music is plugging in for another season of students — welcoming faces new and old for another year of aspiring musicianship.

The annual Springbank Old Tyme Fall Fair is back for the 42nd year and will be a celebration of both the past and the future of the community. The events will take place at the Springbank Park For All Seasons Saturday, Sept. 6.

The creeks running through Cochrane are about as prevalent as cowboy hats on Labour Day in Cochrane; and on Sept.

The Terry Fox Run will be held again in Cochrane at Spray Lake Sawmills Family Sports Centre Sunday, Sept. 14.

The staff at Holy Spirit Elementary School is thrilled to kick off the 2014/15 school year with the reveal of its technology overhaul.

The Bethany Family Council will be hosting their first Bethany Fall Family Fair Sept. 13 from 11 a.m.-3 p.m.

The new set of traffic lights at the intersection of Centre Ave and Hwy 1A is slated to be fully operational by mid-September.

If you travel all the way to the edge of Canada and go to the very edge of the Trans-Canada Highway in beautiful Victoria, you will find Dallas Road. It stretches all along the Vancouver Island oceanfront, from Ogden Point Breakwater to Ross Bay.