Judge John Reilly
Semi-retired Judge John Reilly said he has been served with a notice of libel through Stoney Nakoda Nation’s Chief David Bearspaw’s lawyer Jeffrey Rath about comments made about the chief in his book entitled Bad Medicine: A Judge’s Struggle for Justice in a First Nations Community.
“It is the first step in an action for libel,” said Reilly. “The way a libel action works is they serve you with notice of libel and demand (more…)
Elder Grace Daniels
Bearspaw Elder Grace Daniels will be speaking at an event entitled The Eagle’s Homecoming at Java Jamboree Feb. 26 at 6 p.m.
She will be speaking about her connection to eagles in regards to a wildlife raid on Stoney Nakoda Nation that saw some of her wildlife artifacts seized.
Daniels has not been formally charged. (more…)
Big Listen
Members of a new provincial party wanting to take the pulse of the local community held their first public input meeting in town.
“We want people in Cochrane to hear about us,” said Sibylla Lane, president of the Alberta Party Banff-Cochrane constituency.
The Alberta Party formed in 2009, which is positioning itself at the centre of the political (more…)
Volunteer Cindy Kovalak takes down information
Volunteers were called upon to open a reception centre for stranded travellers at the Cochrane RancheHouse Feb. 15.
Although it was only part of an exercise to test the town’s Disaster Social Services (DSS) plan, the mock disaster served as training for a variety of local services.
“I was very impressed with the way the group handled the event,” said Rick Lupul, deputy director (more…)
Coun. Lois Habberfield
Rocky View could be potentially taking ownership of independent water systems currently providing services to nearly half of the county’s population.
On Feb. 15, councillors sitting as members of the Infrastructure and Operations Committee recommended that council “confirm administration’s approach to the development of a final Potable Water Servicing Strategy” that would consider the consolidation of small, medium (more…)
Dr. Terry Willard
A local herbalist said many people don’t understand how helpful detoxes and mushrooms are for one’s health.
Dr. Terry Willard, who owns an organic herb farm in Springbank, is one of North America’s leading clinical herbalists and he was at the Cochrane Super 8 Motel Feb. 18 to tout the health benefits.
“Detoxification is the cornerstone of natural healing,” said (more…)
Cevyn and Marilyn Linnard
While Cochrane’s Christine Condy is now off her respirator, eating solid foods and looking foward to walking around, Marilyn and Cevyn Linnard are still waiting to see when their daughter will be flown back to Canada after falling ill on her honeymoon.
Christine and Naabeen (Elias) Condy flew to Elias’ home country of Ghana in January so Christine could meet his family, but she became violently ill (more…)
Hart Drugstore
By Catherine McLay
Special to the Eagle
Grand Avenue Pharmacy, which moved to a new location on Grande Boulevard Jan. 10, marks the continuation of a Cochrane tradition dating back over 100 years.
Through local research and help from the newspapers of the time — the Cochrane (more…)
Ruthy
It looks like 10 years of harmonizing together has paid off for folk duo Mike and Ruthy.
With the release of their 2010 album Million to One, it seems there’s a growing fan base with plenty of room for the married couple who continue to produce music of lyrical sophistication backed by a multitude of string instruments (including banjo, guitar, fiddle and ukulele) and their trademark harmony singing. (more…)
Rocky View County
A comprehensive agricultural plan in the works for Rocky View County may become a cause for debate when it addresses the thorny issue of land protection.
Public input received on the county’s first-ever Agricultural Master Plan has been significant, said municipal planner Rick Michalenko.
“Our team was genuinely surprised by the plethora (more…)
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