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Bragg Creek resident Fiona Garforth-Bles will have the adventure of her lifetime sailing in a challenging race and raising money for cancer research.

There’s the time he climbed Mount Kilimanjaro in a matter of hours. And who could forget the time he ran 250 marathons in a single year. And now Martin Parnell is at it again, travelling to England for his latest quest: Rotary Coastal Quest 630.

Police have their eyes peeled for a young man after a Cochrane resident reported an attempted vehicle theft on West Terrace Crescent. On the morning of Feb. 12, a lone male was seen trying to gain entry to a vehicle in the West Valley community.

The proposed aquatic centre/curling facility is moving into the next phase, following a Jan. 27 reveal of the new schematic design to council, shaving around 4,600 square feet and $9 million off the cost for a total price tag of $45 million.

Wild Rose MP Blake Richards has been appointed to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Public and National Security.

Work to connect trails in the Bragg Creek area to the Trans Canada Trail can now begin thanks to financial support from the provincial government. On Jan.

Get ready for a face off between two rivals — the 11th annual Cochrane Classic Charity Hockey Game is just around the corner. Slated to run start at 4 p.m. on Feb.

Shake, rattle and roll… The Rotary Club of Cochrane is bringing a little glitz and glam, Vegas-style, to Ducks on the Roof sports pub Feb. 14-15 with a two-night ‘Dueling Pianos’ event. Doors will swing open at 7 p.m., with an 8:30 p.m.

That pair of jeans that has been taking up space in your closet? Dust ‘em off and drop them off at Cochrane High School. Beginning Feb. 3, a group of seniors at the high school will be collecting jeans — of all sizes and styles — for homeless youth.

Be it getting covered in dirt at his in-law’s family ranch south of Winnipeg or mimicking the sounds of augers and combines on his latest release, Prairieography, Winnipeg’s singer/songwriter, Del Barber, has a rooted connect with the Canadian prairi