COVID-19

"We can connect with the avenue of music a little more deeply. Music is historically known to connect, it's actually part of our body, our heartbeat, our footsteps, the heartbeat we hear inside of the womb. It's something that has connected us to the people we love since the dawn of time."

"The pandemic is still here. I don't believe there is going to be a post COVID. There's going to be our new normal - with COVID."

“I think this is a bit of a litmus test to see in one to two week’s time after the long weekend how this long weekend impacted the spread of the virus."

At the Monday (May 11) Cochrane Council meeting the Town discussed the cautious and staged reopening of the local economy, the land-use re-designation of the Greystone business area development.

"Let’s build some digital highways and generate jobs— Let’s think about how we can better our community by basically jumping into this century.”

“We’re going to do full necropsies on these animals that we’ve euthanized to make sure it’s not some disease issue … but right now, we assume it’s starvation."

“We have arrived where we are today because of Albertans’ commitment and discipline making sure were following public health guidance and protecting each other.”

“We’re really trying to be creative and think about how we can best get food to people in a way that they feel safe,” Cochrane Farmers’ Market manager Valerie McCracken said.