Olds News

Opportunities for spinoff businesses are "endless" now that marijuana production firms and other companies are expected to come to Olds in the next few years, town officials say. They made that point during a breakfast meeting Feb.

Whether Olds' or Innisfail's Liquor Stores N.A. locations are being eyed for conversion to retail cannabis outlets is unclear. Aurora Cannabis closed a deal in recent weeks to purchase a 19.

This year's World Day of Prayer (WDP) takes place Friday, March 2 and in Olds, it will be hosted by St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church at 2 p.m.

The Olds Institute (OI), through its Olds Connected Community committee, is looking for input from town residents on what problems in the community need to be solved via technology.

The Sundial Growers Inc. marijuana production facility under construction in Olds will be massive by the time it's completed in the summer or fall of 2019. During a Feb.

The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) scam is still making the rounds in Olds. Local resident Deb Stockdale was contacted by a would-be scammer last week.

Olds taxpayers could be hit with much higher policing costs if the 1,000 or more jobs anticipated in this community over the next few years boost the town's population above 15,000.

A special bench has been installed at the Olds Aquatic Centre to honour a man who provided the single largest donation to help fund the facility. Lester Woodroe Tribe was born on Oct.

A rural Olds resident is thanking town residents for finding and returning his debit card. Vern Didyk, who lives on a farm near Olds, says he lost the card Thursday, Feb. 22. "It must have fallen out of my hand outside the Scotiabank," he said.

Town of Olds officials are aware that consumption of medical or recreational marijuana could become an issue for landlords and their tenants.