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The Calgary Stampeders hosted their first practice last Tuesday, after the death of teammate Mylan Hicks. “It is so wrong … you don’t know what to think and you don’t know how to act.

Mothers in Cochrane are springing into sale season with the upcoming Mom to Mom sale on Oct. 1. The Cochrane Lioness Club is encouraging people to de-clutter their homes, all while supporting the community.

Stantec celebrated the company’s fourth annual Stantec in the Community Day by coming to Cochrane and helping out at the Cochrane & Area Humane Society last Wednesday.

Spend your Saturday tree planting with the 21st annual Branches and Banks event on Oct. 1.

Council unanimously approved the amendments to the waste management bylaw to move forward the town’s curbside organics collection, beginning April 2017, with an additional amendment from Coun. Morgan Nagel.

Mayor and councillors were less than pleased with administration’s detailed reveal that the aquatic/multi-sport centre has upped the budget overrun to 6.6 per cent - to $3 million from $1 million.

Cochrane welcomes new RCMP Insp. Lauren Weare who will be awarded the Order of Merit this October. “I am pretty excited (about the award) – it is a pretty humbling honour,” Weare said. The Order of Merit was instituted in 1902.

Some businesses have it harder than others in leaner times. Such appears to be the case for the Water Valley General Store, a “more than convenience store ” that has been owned and operated by Carol and Morley Shumski for the last 18 years.

A public hearing and first reading of a bylaw calling to increase side yard setbacks resulted in a request by council for administration to find out possible legal ramifications if the bylaw were to pass following future readings.

Highway 22 has now reopened after a collision near Riversong between a white Toyota SUV and a logging truck carrying lumber, at 7:19 a.m. It was the second major accident emergency services responded to in a nine-hour span.