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The Western Rocky View Parent Link Centre will be offering two free community presentations for Cochranites — one for parents and another for professionals. On June 13, Dr.

Cochrane council members endorsed its top three priorities May 27 for 2014, setting the wheels in motion for the town’s Strategic Plan to also be approved.

Tickets for the Cochrane Valley Folk Club’s 2013-14 season are now on sale online. Season tickets have been up for grabs for about a month and are now 75 per cent sold. Single tickets for individual shows were available starting May 31.

The Village of Cremona held its first council meeting since losing its mayor and deputy mayor in March. The meeting was held May 28 and covered a variety of issues facing the village.

The Stoney Tribal Cadet Corps is once again marching along. After a breather beginning in December 2012, the cadet program — based in the Stoney Nakoda First Nation’s townsite of Morley — started back again May 15.

Wild Rose MP Blake Richards has been fined $14,400 for failing to follow robocall regulations.

It takes a village to raise a child, but no one is prepared when the village loses the child. On May 22, 2011, 12-year-old Redwood Meadows resident Will Bouchard died in a scooter bike accident.

Time to dust off your boots and saddle up your finest Wranglers. The Ninth Annual Cochrane and Area Humane Society (CAHS) Gala will take place June 8 at the Bragg Creek Centre and there are merely a few tickets left for grabs.

Two deserving students are sharing valedictorian duties for the 2013 graduating class at Morley Community School: Tim Ebner, 19, and Hannah Hunter, 17.

Cochrane and area residents should get their tossing arm ready for a bocce ball tournament in support of the Branch Out Neurological Foundation.