Local News

A choral delight, ‘We Are Together’, will be making its way to St. Peter’s Lutheran Church on Nov. 3 for a 2 p.m. collaborative performance.

From the Beatles to Bieber, “Great Balls of Fire” to “Your Sex is On Fire”, the modern-day piano man has got to have all his bases covered to keep his audience begging for more.

A third information session was held at Cochrane High School (CHS) on Oct. 25, unveiling a new location for the proposed Evance 9000 5kW small wind turbine that the school’s Sustainable Development Committee wishes to enact on school property.

Eighties cult classic, The Princess Bride, is the flick du jour for the annual Red Carpet Movie Night . . . a fundraiser for the Nan Boothby Library Oct. 26. “This is our second annual event,” said library board chair, Carol Byler.

The annual out-of-province Post-Secondary Fair is slated to take place Nov. 1 at Bow Valley High (BVH) from 6-7:30 p.m. The event is geared toward students from both Cochrane High School (CHS) and BVH; CHS has held the event in previous years.

For the first time in 40 years, a new Royal Canadian Air Cadets (RCAC) Squadron has been launched in the Springbank area — the first ever in the county of Rocky View.

A mediator was forced to file for arbitration after the Town of Cochrane and the International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF), Local 4819, were unable to settle on a new collective agreement.

The annual Cochrane Comedy Classic is welcoming back headlining funny man, Trent McClellan, Oct. 27.

The owners of a Rocky View County (RVC) residence in Springbank that was burglarized on Oct. 18 is making a plea to those responsible to return the memories stolen from their home.

Cochrane town councillor Jeff Toews completed his own transit survey on Oct. 18 and discovered that many in the community do want to see a transit service, but the amount they are willing to pay varies greatly.