Local News

Cochrane forestry company Spray Lake Sawmills (SLS) has been ordered by the province to stop logging in the Castle wilderness area following the first stage of the their harvesting plan.

Rocky View County (RVC) council members elected Division 9 (Cochrane) councillor Paul McLean as the county’s new deputy reeve during their Oct. 23 meeting.

The 29th annual Springbank Creative Arts Club Show and Sale will be held on Nov. 3-4 at the Springbank Community High School Gymnasium. The sale will run from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. on Nov. 3 and 10 a.m.-3 p.m. on Nov. 4.

The RCMP Major Crimes Unit is still awaiting lab results with respect to the grisly discovery of human remains uncovered near Cochrane on Oct. 13.

In spirited support of November as ‘Family Violence Awareness Month’, the fourth annual Take Back the Night event will be hosted on Nov. 2 at the Frank Wills Memorial Hall at 7 p.m.

There are only a few days left to vote for Round 2 — the qualifying round — in the Aviva Community Fund contest.

In addition to introducing the new head librarian, Kathryn Foley, to council, Carol Byler, chair of the Nan Boothby Memorial Library Board, divulged the 2011 numbers, which show the increasing usage of the facility.

Supporters of the local arts community will have a chance to check out the latest, and even make some early Christmas gift purchases at the annual Cochrane Art Club (CAC) Small Works Christmas Sale.

Sport 4 Life (S4L) Cochrane is looking to expand on its goal of getting the community’s youth to become ‘physically literate.

Six times a week Philippa Thomas heads out from her Cochrane home with her dog Gaffer to go for 12-kilometre walks through woods, meadows and cow pastures.