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Four St. Timothy School students did their school proud by taking bronze at Saturday’s Calgary Science Olympics. The St. Timothy School team had a four-person team in Division Three, (Grades 7 to 9) with two boys and two girls.

Campers at Camp Adventure will no longer have to cook and eat food in a messhall that is older than most of their parents after a new facility was unveiled May 26.

It’s been several years in the making, but the Spray Lake Sawmills Family Sports Centre (SLSFSC) Society is hopeful that an operating agreement has been reached with the facility’s two owners: the Town of Cochrane and Rocky View County.

The Water Valley Community Association is set to begin construction on its new community hall this summer.

It might take a village to raise a child but it only takes 27 youth to build a house.

Serving a simple, hearty meal every week is the goal of the St. Andrew’s free community lunch program but one Cochrane resident explained how it is so much more. “It’s phenomenal – it brings everyone together,” said Donna LaPorte.

As more than 200 Cochrane students get ready to make the transition from high school to the “real world,” the top students at each school reflected on lessons they learned and to give some advice to the next generation.

"I don't want people to go through what I went through. ” That was one of the reasons Stoney Nakoda First Nations resident Gage Beaver, 18, gave on why he joined the Nakoda Youth Council last year.

French Immersion students attending a non-designated school could continue paying bus fees – and be included in a fee increase proposed by Rocky View Schools (RVS) – if the province approves the division’s budget.

The team for the cenotaph renovation project is firming up its budget for phase one of the community project, with an unveiling by late October – in advance of Remembrance Day.