Opinion

Ah, the joy of the journey! Just the other day, for example, our coffee companion Ernst Enns invited me to join him in a ride to the Bottrel area, a half-hour north of Cochrane.

As our readers are well aware, this weekend, Aug. 10-11, Cochrane’s Mount St. Francis Retreat Centre is celebrating its 75th Anniversary. Its theme will be Celebrate Sacred Space.

“Spending time on my knees, whether digging, planting, or weeding, keeps me close to God's earth as His partner in creation,” my wife Mary Anna says. “I put in my effort, and He takes over, causing the plants to germinate, grow and bloom.

Editor, The average working class family now is struggling to put food on the table and pay their mortgage. The current Town council has done nothing to address the affordable housing crisis.

We headed east on Highway 27, for an hour, to the village of Torrington to visit the World Famous Gopher Hole Museum, and this did not disappoint.

In last week’s column we reflected on the views I’ve experienced from my tables at Cochrane Coffee Traders. Those views were immediately through the table-side window, such as a squirrel and a sparrow.

The news has been so heavy lately, I thought I’d revisit my cheerier column of July 28, 2022. I had stopped by Coffee Traders to see what the buzz was around Cochrane.

Alberta is now LAST PLACE for education funding per student in Canada.