Local News

Rocky View Schools (RVS) is looking to the community to help name two new schools.

The Cochrane organization working to sponsor at least one Syrian family is buoyed by the initial support it has received for the initiative. A meeting to update people on the group’s progress will be held Jan. 28, at 7 p.m.

A FUNdraiser will be held at the local sports bar Ducks on the Roof this Saturday with monies going towards a playground for RancheView School.

Bubbles, mountains, and accidently walking in front of the camera qualified a local photographer for Canadian Geographic’s photo of the week.

Cochranites can still get their flu shot after the recent outbreak in Alberta. “Getting the shot is about your loved ones and the people around you,” said Shiv Nijjar, the clinical pharmacist at Grand Avenue Pharmacy.

The last thing you want to do is get into a fight with a grizzly bear. While Hugh Glass, played by Leonardo DiCaprio in the Academy Award-nominated film The Revenant, lived to tell the tale, chances are you won’t.

Once again, the Kimmett Cup was a huge success! The eighth annual memorial pond hockey tournament brought 52 teams to the ice and a smile to everyone’s face.

A male in his late-teens was transported to hospital by STARS Air Ambulance from Mt. Allan/Nakiska Ski Resort on the afternoon of Jan. 15.

When you drive south on Highway 22 through Cochrane, you will see a sign at the last set of lights “James Walker Trail.

Council had a special guest in attendance for the Jan. 11 Cochrane council meeting, Madisson from Manachaban Middle School, who missed the December mock council meeting.