Inclusion Foothills officials are looking at 2022 as kind of a "coming out year" after the trials of the pandemic.

Orvella Small says the community has always been receptive and that continued at their markets.

"It's been an exciting year for us, we've had some new things happen, our markets have been successful getting them back up and running again, they've been pretty fantastic, so we had our spring market for the first time in a couple of years and then we had our summer market, and we did a couple of different ones this year that we hadn't had before," she says. "We did a fall market with the Balloon Festival and the Car Show and then we also did one for Day of the Dead, which was kind of exciting and then of course we wrapped it up with our Christmas Market which was pretty awesome with the parade."

In 2021 they had seven chairs painted and sold for their Charitable Chairs campaign while last year they had 27 painted by individuals and businesses.

"All of that fundraising actually goes to our Family Support program because it's one of the ones that isn't funded by government, yes we get a grant from FCSS and we have two United Way partnerships out here in the Foothills with help and support in Okotoks and High River that we apply for as well but we also have to do our fair share of fundraising and hopefully receive donations, which we have received some surprise donations this year too which has been fantastic, you never know who's out there and watching what you're doing and we really appreciate that we do that."

Inclusion Foothills works with parents who have children with any type of disability to provide information on supports that they can access.