Local News

The fourth annual ‘Tunes for Trails’ will take place the evening of May 24 at the Bragg Creek Centre. The annual shindig sees an average attendance of 400 to dance the night away in support of the Greater Bragg Creek Trails Association (GBCTA).

Young Cochranites rejoice…the Cochrane Children’s Festival is back. Little tykes from in and around town can head down to Spray Lake Sawmills Family Sports Centre May 17 from 12-4 p.m. to partake in an afternoon of fun.

The Hideout Pub is hitting the funny button one Saturday a month for as long as Cochrane wants to keep laughing. That Saturday for the month of May falls on May 17.

In the afternoon of May 8, the friends and family of Jordan Kalinchuk gathered near Mitford Pond, releasing orange balloons in the air in recognition of the 23-year-old volunteer firefighter.

Fort Macleod folk singer, John Wort Hannam, will be returning to Cochrane for a May 16 show at Legacy Guitar and Coffee House. Hannam was double-billed with PEAR last fall at the Alliance Church for the Cochrane Valley Folk Club season.

Rocky View County (RVC) is asking residents for input in developing medium- and long-term service plans and the budgets to support them.

One man was sent to hospital as a result of a vehicle rollover on the George Fox Trail bridge over the Jumpingpound Creek. Cochrane RCMP was called to the scene of the single vehicle crash just before noontime May 12.

The first phase of construction is on the horizon for Harmony, a development planned for the northwestern corner of Springbank. Harmony, which is being planned by Bordeaux Properties, is being constructed adjacent to the Springbank Airport.

Rocky View County (RVC) is asking residents for input in developing medium- and long-term service plans and the budgets to support them.

Spray Lake Sawmills (SLS) hosted an open house May 7 to give Cochrane and area residents a peek into what the forestry company has in the works for the 2014-2015 harvesting season. Those who attended the session, which ran from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m.