Local News

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.

On June 5, more than 160 seniors will make their way into the Cochrane RancheHouse for an afternoon of recognition, creativity and strawberry shortcake.

Mitford Ponds will soon be stocked with fish for another season, according to Terry Robertson, manager of parks and facilities at the Town of Cochrane. “We usually get fish in the ponds by late May or early June,” he said.

Graffiti. Mischief. Colours. These are a few of the signs a community will see as gangs develop, according to Darrel Bruno, an aboriginal gang and crime reduction coordinator with the RCMP “K” Division, Aboriginal Policing Services.

Only three days remain for Cochranites to have their say in choosing Glenbow Ranch Provincial Park’s official ice cream flavour. Public voting will wrap up May 31. Two flavours are on the docket: strawberry-rhubarb pie and buttertart.