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Seniors on the Bow (SOTB) is due to take a couple of weeks holiday to celebrate a successful year and to recharge our batteries for 2016. We will close at noon on Friday, Dec. 18, and reopen 9 a.m. Monday, Jan. 4.

Downtown businesses have recently rallied together to make sure their voices are heard for the need for public washrooms. “All we want for Christmas is public washrooms in Historic Downtown,” read posters spread across downtown Cochrane.

What a show. Watching 300 students assemble and pack 10,000 meals in four hours is like watching a beehive in overdrive.

On Dec. 15 Nakoda Elementary School will be hosting its Family Christmas Concert inviting guests to come around 11:45 a.m. for lunch with refreshments to be served from 12-12:45 p.m. The concert will begin at 1 p.m.

With winter comes ice-skating season, but with the warm weather also comes sketchy ice conditions.

What do C3PO, the Grinch, and Mickey Mouse have in common? They can all be found in the enormous Christmas display currently set up on Glenpatrick Court in Cochrane.

As the first wave of Syrian refugees step off planes at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport, Cochranites are hoping to help.

Need a Christmas tree? If you pick one up at the Cochrane Ecological Institute and Cochrane Wildlife Reserve Society (CEI) this weekend, you will be supporting moose, buffalo, elk or deer – to name a few of the animals the CEI hosts.

Santa Parade organizers are polishing up the sleigh to get ready this Saturday. The second annual Santa Parade takes flight Dec. 12 at 5 p.m. starting on Railway St. and Fifth Ave, across from Shoppers Drug Mart.

In a bid to step up their resistance to clear-cut logging in the Ghost Valley watershed, Ghost Valley residents have enlisted the support of Stoney Nakoda Nation. Stoney tribal elders held a pipe ceremony Dec.