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The Cochrane Cobras football team has started the season ranked number two among 3A high schools in the province.

In their season home opener, Aug. 30, they downed the Chestermere Lakers, 28-3.

Football Alberta ranks Lloydminster's Holy Rosary number one after they shut out Edmonton's Ross Sheppard Thunderbirds, 37-0.

The Cobras are on the road this Friday to face the Bert Church Chargers, who won their season opener against the Springbank Phoenix, 13-6.

Crosstown, the Bow Valley Bobcats were shut out 48-0 by the powerhouse George McDougall Mustangs.

Cochrane McDonald's and CochraneNow teamed up for the first McCafe Coffee Break of September to spoil ESC Performance Diesel and Gas Automotive! 

Everyone got a fresh cookie and McCafe coffee thanks to a nomination that was submitted HERE.

“Kelsey and crew at ESC Automotive have been fantastic at their customer service, the great work, and honest communication have been a plus. I appreciate the work they have done on all of my vehicles.”

It continues to be a seller's market in Cochrane, according to today's monthly report of the Calgary Real Estate Board (CREB).

In its month-end August report, CREB recorded 81 sales and 109 new listings, keeping the sales-to-new-listings ratio elevated at 74 per cent, enough to prevent any gain in inventory levels. With 144 units available, inventory levels are nearly 42 per cent below long-term trends for the month.

The Canadian Country Showcase, hosted by Courtney Fielder, airs every weekend on Saturdays at 12 PM and Sundays at 4 PM. Courtney engages in conversations with both emerging country music artists and the established stars we’ve come to love, celebrating their milestones and new releases.

The Cochrane Labour Day Parade has just celebrated its 54th anniversary and continues to put Cochrane's strong community spirit on display during the most celebrated weekend of the year.

Marina Chabbert, of the Cochrane & Area Events Society (CAES), says they've received plenty of positive feedback on the route change and the overall parade.

Aileen Anderson is $200,000 richer after learning she won the lottery while at work.

The Cochranite says her day began like any other, but everything changed dramatically when she checked the scratch tickets she had purchased.

"I started to scratch the tickets and when I got to the second one, I saw I’d won $200,000," she said in a news release from the Western Canada Lottery Corporation. "I just couldn’t believe it."

Anderson purchased the $7 Lucky Lines Extravaganza ticket from Shoppers Drug Mart in Cochrane.

With the start of the school year, Cochrane RCMP are reminding everyone to do their part to keep the roadways safe for students and staff as they head back to class. 

Cst. Clayton Gelinas says drivers need to slow down and obey the signs when near schools. 

"One of the biggest things that they need to be aware of is observing the school zone speeds because for so long we haven't been at school and we may have forgot. It is 30 km/h in school zones." 

Our backpacks are packed and ready for school to kick off, but not with lunch kits, markers or binders.

We only have COLD HARD CASH!

Fireside Pharmacy's Backpack of Cash is back and ready to pass out $100 bills to Cochranites.

This is how The Fireside Pharmacy Backpack of Cash works.

A tourist visiting Canada is questioning the safety of Via Rail after he says his phone was snatched from him by an employee when he was documenting a train delay that left passengers stranded as they ran out of food, water and working toilets.

Chip Malt was in Quebec over the long weekend to celebrate his father's 70th birthday in the province's capital, and said he boarded a Via Rail train from Montreal to Quebec City on Saturday.

An adult was seriously injured during a bear attack north of Cochrane Sunday morning. 

It happened around 10:20 a.m. northeast of the intersection of Township Road 275 and Range Road 35, south of Dogpound. 

The victim was taken to Foothills Medical Centre in Calgary.

There's no word on the extent of the person's injuries. 

No one else was injured. 

Alberta Fish and Wildlife and RCMP were on scene. 

No other details are available at this time.