Opinion

It’s great to be sitting in the stands and hear the announcer introducing and praising something from Cochrane. Like last Saturday when the Cochrane Pipe Band was announced at the 2013 Calgary Military Tattoo at Max Bell Arena.

May 12 is Mother’s Day, and it’s not every Mother’s Day that we celebrate the gifts and abilities of our youth.

This is a preview of the NHL playoffs. Let’s start in the West with the Chicago Blackhawks taking on the Minnesota Wild. I do not see this one being a huge contest as Chicago should take it easy if their goaltending is good enough.

I just received some great news — Bottrel’s own Mike Day is opening a fly-fishing shop in late May or early June. It will be located in N.W. Calgary at Dalhousie Station under the moniker Iron Bow.

From a football fan’s viewpoint, an ideal season for their favorite team would culminate in a Grey Cup championship. At least, that’s the way most of us would look at it. But it’s just not so.

What a party. It was the first annual Best of Cochrane bash held at Killarney’s Pub at the Cochrane Golf Club. I’m not an expert on Irish pubs, but any place that has great bangers and mash is triple OK in my books.

Firstly, I’d like to thank the many readers of the Cochrane Eagle for honouring me with their votes in the Readers’ Choice Awards.

In last week’s column we celebrated the soul-rekindling return of robins to our winter-weary foothills.

There are only two ways people look at the best golfer in the game’s history, Tiger Woods. They love him or they hate him. And I’d say those feelings are split right down the middle.

They’re back! Yup, a whole flock of robins paid their annual springtime visit to our backyard apple tree the other day.