Opinion

Several factors contribute to the apparent clash between users of the town's pathways— Varying speeds, lack of courtesy, no posted speed limits, total absence of policing and failure of some dog owners to control their pet.

Every community experience growing pains, and Cochrane has been no exception. Overall, the population of Cochrane has grown at a rate of 7.94 per cent per year over the past 15 years from 2001 to 2016.

The past few weeks, we have benefited from several of our readers’ experiences and thoughts around sacred silence.

My name is Justis MacMaster, and I am a Grade 12 student attending Springbank Community High School. Today we were told that every school in the Rocky View School division is only allowed to have online graduations and nothing else.

4-H has a lot to offer and is a really fun experience, but there are still some requirements all members must meet by the end of the year.

Now that we know all about baking bread lets up the ante— Let's cook with wild food plants and re-wild our gardens. I met Julie Walker over five years ago.

It is with mixed emotions that I read this edition (Vol 20, No. 38) of The Cochrane Eagle . I was angered, saddened, and disappointed all in the space of 32 pages.

Alberta is in the midst of the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Case numbers are spiking and as infections increase health measures are becoming ever more stringent.

Because of the recent death of a loyal reader and frequent contributor to these columns, I’m delaying the next in our series on the Whisper in the Silence till next week.

I am the second eldest of nine children, seven of my siblings live in Ireland with their spouses and 21 children and 14 grandchildren between them. My 82-year-old mother and dearest friend, entered a nursing home just before COVID-19 started.