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Hunter said over the last few years, the community association has recognized Springbank residents are not always provided adequate information from the County in order to keep abreast with changes in their community.

The Bow RiversEdge Campground Society has invested approximately $1 million back into the community since the campground opened in 2005.

Tom Jackson, the multi-talented, much celebrated and acclaimed musician, actor and activist, is coming to the Cochrane RancheHouse next month to help local charities. The Cochrane Community Builder Award Gala is set for Friday, Oct.

“It's not just sort of expensive, these are record prices,” said Blake Shaffer, electricity market economist at the University of Alberta.

Evironmental action group Cows and Fish organized a workshop and shoreline education day at Waiparous Creek campground on Saturday, Sept. 24. Ghost Watershed Alliance Society will be hosting a workshop on Oct. 1 at the campground to restore streambanks along the creek, which is home to threatened native trout populations. For details go to ghostwatershed.ca.

“Our understanding is that the Town needed more office space and so this space where we have been for 17 years has been earmarked for office space for Town employees,” Blough said.

Travellers and members of an international riding guild from France had the opportunity to share their story and experience some old-fashioned Cochrane kindness during their journey on the back of mules from Hummingbird Creek to Lethbridge.

“We’ve continually been asked by the province to do more with less,” Genung said. “We feel with the surplus and shift in the economics of the province, we should see a shift in the funding pot as well."

The Generals will be back on home ice for two games this weekend – against the Mountainview Colts on Saturday and the Medicine Hat Cubs on Sunday.