Local News

The Bearspaw First Nation celebrated the beginnings of the construction of a gas bar and retail centre Oct. 19 at the Bearspaw Youth Centre in the townsite of Morley.

Rewind back to 2009 when five Saskatooners emerged from the depths of the woods into the great, wide open — the year when junior album, Winter Hours caught the attention of Canadian critics.

The Arts and Culture Foundation of Cochrane (ACFC) delivered a positive post-mortem of their Oct. 17 annual general meeting.

The Aviva Community Fund has $1,000,000 to give out to ideas creating positive changes throughout Canada.

The saying ‘let kids be kids’ is the premise of Dreams Take Flight — the children’s charity started by Air Canada employees whose sole purpose is to take groups of children in need for all-expenses paid trip to Disneyland every year.

Cochrane singer/songwriter Lucas Chaisson has received a 2012 Canadian Folk Music Award nomination as “Young Performer of the Year”. “This nomination means a great deal to me.

The annual Stockmen’s Memorial Foundation dinner is all set to take place at the Cochrane RancheHouse Oct. 20, beginning at 5 p.m.

A fire that ravaged a Bearspaw home during the afternoon of Oct. 10 is still under investigation.

The west has always been known for its wide-open spaces, and now holding the draft for a new plan, Cochrane is hoping it soon will be as well.

A strange thing about numbers; they can be looked at in many different ways.