Local News

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.

Cochranite Brenda Stebeleski has long enjoyed sitting in her picturesque English-style garden, a veritable bird sanctuary, and feeding the many winged species, as well as squirrels, with tasty bird feed, chalked full of high-protein nuts and grains.

Looking ahead in the months to come, the Cochrane and Area Events Society (CAES) are already setting the wheels in motion for the third annual ATCO Gas Cochrane WinterFest.