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A year in review: December 2021

PHOTOS: From fun Christmas décor to the kickoff of the Name the Trail campaign, December 2021 was certainly one for the books in Cochrane.

DECEMBER

  • Plans for the trail from Calgary to Cochrane were unveiled at the RancheHouse on Nov. 30. With it, the Trail Steering Committee announced a Name the Trail contest hosted on namethetrail.com.
  • Cultivate Cochrane was granted funds by Ottawa’s Healthy Communities Initiative to build and provide programming for its Passive Solar Roller, a mobile solar greenhouse.
  • The Rotary Club hosted Tom Jackson’s annual Huron Carole Special Dec. 19 to raise funds for a new Indigenous Centre in downtown Cochrane.
  • The Cochrane Community Awards honoured 38 nominees and 14 award winners at the RancheHouse in a small and COVID-19 friendly event on Nov. 28.
  • On Nov. 25, some parents and their children protested the public school division’s decision to make proof of vaccination mandatory to access all Rocky View School facilities starting Jan. 3.
  • Cochrane resident Steve Potter’s creative Christmas décor, inspired by National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, was a total hit with neighbours.
  • Local RCMP issues a reminder to motorists to lock their vehicles after a series of reported thefts in neighbourhoods across town.
  • Cochrane businesses tell the Eagle they saw better sales than last year amid their second pandemic holiday, but they also noted more customers looked to buy local items online.
  • Stoney Nakoda elders begin visiting classrooms at Nakoda Elementary to pass on oral traditions to students.
  • Cochrane council votes to raise property taxes by 10 per cent in 2022 in the Dec. 13 meeting. Councillors Marni Fedeyko and Patrick Wilson voted against the hike.
  • Cochrane is vying for a stop along the $1.5-billion passenger rail that will bring travellers from the Calgary airport to Banff. “We only have four years to get our plans in place,” Mayor Jeff Genung said.
  • A New Westminster man was charged with several counts of dangerous driving causing death and bodily harm after a fatal August crash killed two seniors from British Columbia on Highway 1 near Morley.
  • Copies of Cochrane-opoly were flying off the shelves at Walmart. 
  • Rocky View Schools parents say the province’s K-6 draft curriculum is a step backwards. Parents and teachers told the school board the content included “superficial” Indigenous content and the curriculum lacked age appropriateness.
  • The province announced Dec. 21 that those 18 and over can get their booster COVID-19 vaccine.
  • Cochrane’s Walmart had a refrigeration system meltdown, spoiling food the weekend ahead of Christmas.
  • A new local donated 600,000 PC Optimum Points at the local Shoppers Drug Mart to spread holiday cheer at the Eagle’s Nest Women’s Shelter in Morley.  
  • The Cochrane Kiwanis Club were able to treat 141 children to a new toy in its fourth annual Christmas for Kids event on Dec. 12.
  • Four Cubs Children’s Boutique in Cochrane raise $1,700 for grassroots charity Helping Families Handle Cancer with its first ever photos with Santa event.

 

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