Opinion

Dear editor, After watching what took place at Spruce Meadows last week, I was reminded of what former MLAs from the Peter Lougheed era taught me – Reformers don’t create jobs, they destroy them.

There are just over three weeks until the Rotary District 5360 Conference will be coming to Cochrane. On Saturday, May 14, our town will be host to a number of amazing speakers and the theme is “Supporting the Environment.

A Cochrane-based project known as Himat has been stimulating hope and change in the high Karakorum mountains at the northernmost tip of Pakistan.

We can officially say that Cochrane’s education greenhouse on wheels – what we call the “Passive Solar Roller” – is nearly ready for lift-off. (Well, perhaps a better term is roll-out).

Dear editor, I think Albertans have learned a good lesson on why you should never support Reformers, like I was taught by the MLAs from the Peter Lougheed era. Lougheed's Energy Minister Bill Dickie was a brother in-law of one of my uncles.

"I am so drawn to the crocus," says Judith Sikorski. "I am lucky that they are just a hop, skip and a jump from my house. Their resurrection in the spring brings renewal and light to my world."

'At the request of one of our longtime coffee companions (name withheld), I’m revisiting last year’s Lenten column on Jesus’ Gethsemane prayer.'

The arrival of spring doesn't just bring the return of the birds, longer days, and warmer weather.

Considerable time at last week's lengthy Rocky View Schools (RVS) Board of Trustees meeting was devoted to an issue that seems to plague the local public school division every year – its available space.

The use of public money should always come with transparency on where it is coming from and how it is being spent.