COVID-19

“I believe that human emotion is contagious. If you have a good romantic comedy going on, you walk into the theatre and everyone is laughing, that laughing is contagious. People feel good; there’s compassion, there’s suspense… That’s what cinema is able to do.”

“We’re looking forward to welcoming our kids back, to welcoming our staff back. We’re realistic but we’re optimistic at the same time,” said Calgary Catholic School Board Chair Mary Martin.

Two-time Olympian Tory Nyhaug, and 2019 Canadian National Champion, James Palmer hosted Cochrane BMX's annual summer camp on Saturday (Aug. 22) and Sunday (Aug. 23).

“Whenever there is a hurdle you have a way around,” said Jag Thind, owner of Mehtab East Indian Cuisine . “Keep loving each other, keep doing what you’re doing, keep the sense of feeling in Cochrane that you don’t see anywhere else."

“This is not a typical year,” Luterbach said. “We think this time spent on transition will be valuable to help support both students and staff get off to a positive start.”

Rocky View Schools announced its plans to return extracurricular fine arts and athletic programming for the upcoming school year at a special board meeting on Tursday (Aug. 20).

COCHRANE— Calling on the provincial government to take additional steps to ensure the return to school is as safe as possible, teachers and parents rallied outside Airdrie-Cochrane MLA Peter Guthrie's office on Wednesday (Aug. 19).

“Some families are comfortable and ready to send their child back to face-to-face learning, others are looking for another option."

What's happening in Cochrane: garbage clean-up in The Quarry, Social Recovery Task Force to address community concerns, and a unique aquatic race across the Ghost reservoir.

“Folks we can not waste this crisis,” said Minister of Finance Travis Toews. “We have to double down, remove any regulation that does not serve a purpose, and those that do serve a purpose that are inefficient we need to modernize.”