Zacahry Bueniting

This Heritage Day, a 30-year old Cochrane organization will be celebrating its 30th birthday.

The Stockmen’s Memorial Foundation has been preserving the history of western culture for the past three decades, and to mark the occasion its members are teaming up with the Town of Cochrane to host some special events at the Cochrane Ranche historic site’s on Aug. 2 from noon until 4 p.m. (more…)

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Sean Washburn

A Cochrane man is currently biking across Canada along with a brother that he didn’t know he had until
recently.

Sean Washburn, who was adopted at birth, located his birth mom and her four other sons in 2003.

After meeting them in Ontario, he became particularly close with one brother, Jon Ross, and after spending vacations together (more…)

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Emily Lamb

Saturday nights at the Cochrane Ranche continue to entertain local music lovers and foster the small, although mighty, musicians’ community in Cochrane.

So on the eve of July 31, the music series running all summer welcomes electronica, pop, R&B band The Pity Dates to the stage.

Even though this three-piece group jokes about (more…)

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Banded Peak challenge participant

Organizers of a challenging physical event say that though corporate sponsorship is down, participants have stepped up raising more cash than in previous years.

The event was the Banded Peak Challenge, a gruelling 27-kilometre bike ride followed by a 10-kilometre hike to the summit of Banded Peak mountain.

The annual event raises funds for the Easter Seals Camp Horizon, a residential facility (more…)

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RCMP Musical Ride

Cochrane’s Stu Bradley and the Eagle’s Jack Tennant will be guests of honour at the 2010 Musical Ride for the two performances in town Aug. 3.

Their jobs are to give permission to the ride to commence after the riders line up, and at the end of the show they will be saluted.

Rob Cameron, Cochrane Posse marshall in charge, said they both were appointed because (more…)

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Library art display

The Cochrane Nan Boothby Memorial Library will be featuring the works of two photographers starting Aug. 1.

The fine art photos by Heather Simonds and Len Cyca will be hanging on the walls until Sept. 14. The exhibit is called “Fresh and Forgotten” and features living wildlife and plants and still antique subjects.

In other art news, Cochrane-area visual artist Maureen Enns (more…)

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Kaitlyn Gibson

By Alex McConnach

A Bragg Creek resident is about to join an elite group of Canadians.

Like the Canadarm and the Lunar Module, Kaitlyn Gibson aspires to make a substantial contribution to the space exploration community.

Gibson, 16, was recently accepted into the United Space School in Houston, Texas, running (more…)

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Youth trip

A Cochrane church has begun a special relationship with a community in Guatemala.

A group of teens from the Cochrane Alliance Church returned from a 10-day trip to San Raymundo, Guatemala, on July 15, after helping build homes and lives for impoverished members of a partner church.

“Compared to our other trips and experiences with (more…)

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Sgt. Wim Nan

Cochrane RCMP Sgt. Wim Nan took the long road to his current posting.

After spending his first 20 years in Holland, Nan’s parents decided to move to Canada and asked him to come along.

“I didn’t want to come over here originally,” recalled Nan, who worked as an electrician in his home country.

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