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“It’s not as hard as you think, you’re just drawing the shapes that you see,” Moore said. “The more you do it the easier it gets.”

This past June, Tracy Keith, executive director and department head of behaviour at the Cochrane and Area Humane Society, was pleased to pair their first rescue dog, Scully (formerly Everly), trained by a student through the year-long PACE program, with Yvonne, an adopter through The LifeLine Canada Foundation’s Companion Paw’s program. 

“It feels good. It’s showing that people are following the measures,” Crawford said. “So far so good— It’s very nice to have no cases.”

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“By connecting we’re able to share resources. We’re able to collaborate. We can partner on different things and it’s filling that gap,” Immel said. “We’re coming together to network and develop more of a sustainable food system here in Cochrane.”

“This is not government moneys, this is not industry just giving you moneys for consultation or anything— This is our own source revenues that are created from the production of non-renewable resources, oil and gas primarily, on the Stoney reserves,” Shotclose said. “This is us taking our per capita percentage.”

“I know that you can’t get everything done in one term. It takes a long time to move the needle,” Genung said. “I have unfinished business."

“It just shows that recreation is a passion for so many people in Cochrane and it’s something that people really want to have in their future."

“We felt that we wouldn’t be able to do this justice as quickly as it needed to be put together,” said Baum. “We realized it would probably be better for all of us if we had a little bit more time to execute it.”

After some customers reached out back in June to invite the store’s support for the annual Brain Tumour Walk on June 27, a cause close to them, The Beer Den partnered up with Banded Peak Brewing to back them.