Opinion

Shorter days are a harbinger of a coming change in the season. August 2015 has been an awesome month with a mix of sunshine and rain. Many good memories to take with us into fall, but soon it will be time to take up our regular activities.

Elston’s above cartoon is right on the money (pardon the pun).

Hard to believe that we’re already approaching the end of summer holidays and school is about to begin again for another year.

For the foreseeable future, Cochrane is going to be in a continuing state of development. As a town, we made a commitment to grow to 50,000 – 60,000 people. We put in the time and paid the price to annex land.

This past week I received responses from two of you who have inspired me to be more mindful of each moment of our journey. Alberta foothills lover Lee-ann Harder wrote us a poem.

In the past (pardon the pun), my Eagle column has dealt mainly with the history of the Cochrane area and told stories of many families who have lived here for generations. Many of them came from the United Kingdom to settle this land.

I would like to thank all of you for your patience this summer. It has been a very busy season for road construction projects in and around Cochrane.

Across from me at our A&W table, cattleman/artist Angus MacKenzie opened his sketchbooks from nearly 50 years ago and took me down memory lane through our fantastic foothills heritage.

Martha Anderson had saved and planned for her retirement very carefully. So, when it came time to move into Diamond House, the retirement home that she had arranged, she was settled and excited.