Town of Cochrane

With the Oct. 18 municipal election coming up, the Cochrane Settlement Community Association (CSCA) will be holding  a candidates forum Oct. 3.

CSCA president Andy Marshall said the association had a successful forum previously in 2004, encouraging them to hold another for the upcoming election.

“We’re a very active community association, we like to (more…)

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Rocky View County

With the election nomination deadline past, some Rocky View County candidates are wasting no time in getting their messages out to the voting public.

On Sept. 27, a candidates’ forum featuring hopefuls from Divisions 1, 2 and 3 took place before about 100 people at Springbank Community High School.

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Blake Richards

During his 38-year career with the RCMP, Bob Head never had use of Canada’s long-gun registry, as it was not introduced until four years after he retired in 1991.

That’s not to say the Cochrane resident thinks it would have made much difference in his ability to enforce the law.

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Pakistani woman

As government-matched donations come to an end Oct. 3 for relief in Pakistan, a Cochrane couple is looking to help create more long-term stability in the northern region of the country beseiged by flood.

Although United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said the flooding in Pakistan was the worst disaster he has ever seen, donations to help the country cope with its latest natural disaster have been slow (more…)

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Paul Brandt

As Shana Bruder, board member of the Cochrane and District Community Foundation, may tell you this not-for-profit local organization is one of the best-kept secrets around town.

The organization, founded in 1993, helps fund local Cochrane and area charities and non-profit groups by investing the interest of annually raised funds.

Each year, the foundation (more…)

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Shawn Everett

Five years ago, Bragg Creek native Shawn Everett packed his belongings into his car and moved to Los Angeles in search of work as a sound engineer.

“I went down there with no job whatsoever,” the now 28-year-old recalled.

Previously, the Springbank High School graduate had done a great deal of work as a music producer (more…)

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Karen Packer

Karen Packer’s mother taught her to knit when she was a young girl.

Today, Packer is using that skill to raise money for Grandmothers of Sub-Saharan Africa.
The Cochranite of 10 years knits dishcloths for the Calgary group Ujamaa Grandmas, a branch of the Grandmothers to Grandmothers campaign of the Stephen Lewis Foundation. (more…)

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St. Timothy student Matthew Taylor

Eleven-year-old Keenan James admits hockey is on his mind most of the time.

So naturally, one of the Grade 6 student’s favourite activities each week is taking part in the Manachaban Middle School Hockey Program.

For $180, students in grades 5-8 hit the ice two times a week from September to October under the leadership of teacher and certified hockey instructor Mike MacMillan. (more…)

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Doug Campbell & Miyeon Kim

When the Korean women’s curling team comes to Canada to train, they’re doing so under the watchful eye of Cochrane’s Doug Campbell.

Campbell comes from a long line of curlers and says he was born in a curling rink.

The 63-year-old said at one month old, he was already at the rink when his father, grandfather and three uncles won the Saskatchewan (more…)

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