#CochraneStrong – Supporting my little town during the lockdown

Cochrane at night.
Photo credit: Kira Giesen

We moved to Calgary in 2006 for Dave’s dream job, but in 2009, we moved to Cochrane because we needed a bigger house when it became evident that Dave’s parents couldn’t live alone. A year later, they moved to nursing homes. So we sold the big house we didn’t need for our little family of four and moved closer to the kids’ schools. Then, Dave lost his dream job and found another dream job, this time, for the actual Town of Cochrane. To show his employers that he was committed, we moved back to Cochrane once again. It’s a quaint little town in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains, with a very western feel. We like it, but I don’t like the traffic from the top of the big hill to our house at 5pm in the afternoon. When are we gonna twin the highway, hm? Those are the 15 minutes of every day that I DON’T like Cochrane.

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