Rick Godderis
Back by popular demand, Bragg Creek’s guitar-wielding jam maniac, Rick Godderis will be bringing back his ‘Play and Sing’ jam sessions for round number four.
“It’s a group thing facilitated by myself,” said Godderis, who hosts the classes in his music room on his acreage, located four kilometres west of Bragg Creek.
Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Michael Frank from the University of Lethbridge has passed all appeal requests on to Stoney Tribal Administration from the recent Chiniki election.
The appeals deadline for the Chiniki election, was Dec. 22. The election was held in Morley on Dec. 8.
Alexa Ceh
With key starters Sydney Fairfield and Kristen McNab out to injury, the Cochrane high school Cobras senior varsity girls basketball team was in tough against the Bert Church High School Chargers on Dec. 21.
The Chargers took advantage of the situation, downing the Cobras 54-45 in Rocky View Sports Association play.
Wee Jackie weighs in
So this was the year that was.
And what a year it was.
I always try and not dwell on the past because there’s nothing any of us can do about it so let’s predict the future which is always great fun in the New Year.
Behind the Bench
As you’ve probably noticed the last little while, the World Junior Hockey Championship is being staged in our province and drawing a great deal of attention.
In fact, there is not a sports page or sportscast that doesn’t have a word or two about the event with emphasis, of course, on the Canadian entry.
Coffee With Warren
The year 2011 for “Coffee with Warren” was filled with many captivating conversations with our coffee companions near and far.
Topics were wide-ranging: e-mail etiquette, listening hearts, souls and soles, tiny nearby things like red blood cells and giant distant things like star clusters and Lunar eclipses.
Happy Trails
We are now in the season of wind and snow – are you ready? Our equine friends can certainly tolerate most of what Mother Nature can throw at us but sometimes they need a little help.
As long as horses have access to shelter from the wind and shelter from moisture, they can “weather the weather” just fine. When we confine them into pastures or corrals, we take away their ability to move into forests for protection so we must provide that protection.
John Hromyk is the President of Snoday, Cochrane's newest ski and snowboard shop.
Wintergreen Ski Hill was one of the many outdoor features that attracted like-minded families to Bragg Creek. The Starnino family was no different. Parents Paul and Mary Starnino moved the family from Redwood Meadows to the base of the golf course/ski hill just as Resorts of the Canadian Rockies (RCR) unceremoniously closed the ski hill in 2003. Wintergreen’s snow making machines now grace other hills in the RCR portfolio, while the chairs on the old lift still hang, rusting and sad.
Chicks who watch Flicks
With the family in tow, take an afternoon and be sure to see the heartwarming family drama, We Bought A Zoo, starring Matt Damon and Scarlett Johansson.
This story is based on a true story.
Damon plays, Benjamin Mee, a reporter whose wife dies. With his children struggling, Mee throws away his job and purchases a home outside of Los Angeles, one that comes complete with a zoo with hundreds of residing animals.
Martin Parnell
On Oct. 1, the first class of the ‘Live Ideal Learn to Run 5 km’ program left the Creating Balance office in Cochrane and walked four minutes then ran one. This was the start of a 12-week program to learn to run five kilometres.
In the first session Deb, Kaitlyn, Shannon, Renee and Amanda repeated the walk four minutes / run one minute six times for a total of 30 minutes.
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