Olds News

BOWDEN - Town officials say it's too costly and time consuming to deal with stray or unwanted cats brought into the town office. So Bowden council has passed a motion to officially revise the town's policy regarding them.

Olds RCMP did not encounter much fallout from the first day of cannabis legalization on Oct. 17, according to Staff Sgt. Jim MacDonald. "(There were) no issues per se," he says. "One traffic stop was initiated (Oct.

An 18-year-old man from Olds and a 16-year-old female youth from Carstairs both face charges in connection with a vehicle allegedly stolen from Saskatchewan. Charges were laid after police encountered the pair near Olds on Oct. 12.

Phil Stevens is deliberately working himself out of a job. The 72-year-old local businessman is retiring after more than 50 years in the jewelry trade.

BOWDEN - Councillors for the Town of Bowden got down in the weeds regarding a frustrating topic during the annual Alberta Urban Municipalities Association (AUMA) convention.

Researchers have just barely begun to explore the potential healing and recreational powers of cannabis, so there's potential for all kinds of products to be created in Olds and sold around the world.

Westview Co-op has expanded again -- acquiring a second Drumheller-area company, Tri West Agro Ltd. Tri West Agro’s crop input location offers customers custom granular fertilizer blending, seed and crop supplies.

Oct. 17 marked the end of the prohibition of cannabis Canada-wide and Olds resident Chase Jesske toked up to celebrate. Jesske is very much in favour of the legalization of recreational cannabis.

For the second time in four months, concerns over population density have forced planners to revise proposed residential development of the Miller Meadows area in the southwest part of town.

The Red Deer Catholic Regional School Division (RDCRSD), which oversees Holy Trinity School in Olds, has released its policy on cannabis consumption. A RDCRSD news release says after its legal to consume the drug recreationally on Oct.