Local News

The annual Foothills Art Club (FAC) Fall Show and Sale will be set into motion this Oct. 20 at the Cochrane Curling Club. Located at 109-5th Avenue West, the event runs from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

It’s not often that a business opens up in the nearby community of Morley that isn’t band-run.

The stairs that lead to Cochrane’s Men of Vision statue will soon be given an upgrade.

Cochranites who missed the recent ‘Ton of Pennies’ campaign for Right to Play need not worry. There are two local organizations grateful for donations of pennies and other pocket change that can be spared.

There are some creatures that just bring a smile to one’s face and penguins do that for me. They vary in size and colouring but attired in their black and white dinner suits they can’t help but amuse as they hop and waddle about.

MP Blake Richards has raised money for RCMP Victims’ Services through the Wild Rose Hockey Challenge each year, and now he is pleased to announce that his Conservative government is making a financial contribution to a program aimed to help victims o

The major annual fall fundraiser for St. Mary’s Catholic Church is slated for Oct. 20 at the church. The Oktoberfest Fundraiser is the fifth annual dinner, dancing and auction in German-themed tradition.

Local realtor Jayena Collins of Homelife Country Realty is doing her best to make sure that realtors from Cochrane and beyond show they care by getting them to vote for a cause that affects many in the area — affordable housing.

In with the frost, out with the flowers.

Following the announcement of the impending expansion of the use of the Cochrane and District Agricultural Society’s land, Brian Birchall, president of the board for the Ag Society, said that an ‘informal’ area concept plan will be developed to help