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It’s here, cannabis is legal as of Oct. 17. Although you won’t be able to walk in to a store and buy your favourite Panama Red in Okotoks quite yet, it’s legal to roll another number at your home.

The potential for the next Highwood MLA being selected next week is a high one.

The public library is the jewel of the community. Those were the words of former Lt. Governor Lois Hole, and they couldn’t ring more true.

You can fight city hall, even if you have to do it by taking tiny steps. Okotoks town council listened to the outcry of residents by kyboshing the idea of the Vagabond Tiny Homes eco village at Kinsmen Park at its public meeting Monday night.

The Town of Okotoks heard its first appeal in history concerning cannabis retail stores, and while it was a strange one, it showed the process is in place and concerns are going to be heard with sound, sober thought.

There’s more to a beautiful community than trees, landscapes, a river running through it and the Canadian Rockies to the west. Beauty also comes from the art within the community - some of it from the hands and minds of its citizens.

There were plenty of fast vehicles driving around the Foothills at the Rally4Hopsice event on the weekend. Sure, the 50 cars or so were quick moving, but it wasn’t the most moving event.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” — George Santayana, Harvard philosopher.

It is scary when you put yourself out there for the whole world to see. Okotoks’ David Proctor did just that when he publicly announced he would attempt to run across Canada in a record 66 days in order to raise money for the Rare Disease Foundation.

Sometimes bad things happen to good people. That was the case when Jeannine Tucker was dismissed as a Foothills School Division trustee for her operating a concession at Oilfields High School.