NOVEMBER
- QR codes roll in Nov. 15 as the province moves to a more digital approach to check COVID-19 vaccination records.
- The Cochrane Food Bank felt the love from the community, reporting “fairly steady” numbers, according to chairwoman Kathy Tucker. Statistics for Food Banks Canada Hunger-Count 2021 show Alberta was sitting at a 29.6 per cent increase in visits between 2019-21.
- Rocky View Schools Board of Trustees appointed two members Oct. 28 to serve on a new Indigenous Advisory Council that aims to consult with Indigenous communities in support of truth and reconciliation.
- Mount Norquay, Sunshine and Nakiska announce they will need proof of vaccination to ride the slopes.
- Jazz Lavallee, of Manitoba, stopped in Morley Oct. 30 on her walk to the memorial site for 215 Indigenous children found in unmarked graves at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School. Lavallee started her walk from Winnipeg on Sept. 1.
- The annual Pay it Forward campaign by Velocity Networks takes off for the fifth year in the hopes of giving a local family a boost ahead of Christmas.
- To kick off the 100th annual poppy campaign, two poppies were pinned on the mayor’s lapel at the RancheHouse on Oct. 28.
- Don Kochan was appointed Rocky View County’s first mayor. Crystal Kissel was dubbed deputy mayor.
- Matthew Lee, a Grade 12 student at Cochrane High, was awarded the Vimy Foundation’s Vimy Pilgrimage Award.
- Planning begins for a second free food shed to be built on the westside of Cochrane at the Bow Valley Baptist Church.
- Members of the Cochrane Fire Department grow moustaches and sell T-shirts to raise funds for Movember.
- Around 200 people attend the in-person Remembrance Day ceremony at the Cochrane Cenotaph on Nov. 11.
- A 72-year-old woman from Cochrane was killed in a Nov. 23 crash on Highway 8.
- Pfizer vaccines were approved for children ages five to 11 and booking opened Nov. 24.
- Cochrane EMS Crisis Citizen Action Group called on the province to stop sending ambulances to Calgary. Mayor Jeff Genung and Coun. Marni Fedeyko are members of the citizen group.
