Olds News

Olds town council has approved spending $600,000 as part of a $1.2-million provincial matching grant to expand O-NET, the town-owned Internet, phone and TV company, and enable it to improve its equipment and services.

DIDSBURY - Police are looking for a second suspect who is still at large after a man was taken at gunpoint from Didsbury on Jan. 23, police said Thursday. A warrant has been issued for 39 year-old Didsbury resident Tayna Dawn Hoomana.

In the next few weeks, once he's settled, the new commanding officer of the Olds RCMP detachment, Staff Sgt. Jim MacDonald, wants to talk with community leaders about policing priorities. MacDonald began his new job Jan. 22.

BOWDEN -- About 60 people came out to the Bowden Grandview School library Jan. 26 for the 21st annual Burns In Bowden event. It celebrates the birthday of renowned Scottish poet Robbie Burns. Tartans hung from the ceiling in various colours.

Olds mayor Mike Muzychka is pleased with the announcement that Olds College and Calgary Economic Development are joining forces to create an Olds-Calgary Smart Agri-food corridor. Under a memorandum of understanding signed by both parties Jan.

A story about the new Bowden Community Hall, which ran in the Jan. 23 edition of the Olds Albertan, was written by Johnnie Bachusky of Mountain View Publishing. The wrong byline appeared. The Albertan regrets the error.

Olds town council has approved a couple of proposals from companies that plan to produce medical marijuana in Olds. Plans call for both to be located in the Southeast Industrial Park, just west of Highway 2A, near the cemetery.

BOWDEN – A new $90-million motor oil re-refinery proposed for a site near Bowden has taken a big step forward in becoming reality. Gen III Oil Corporation announced on Jan.

Police are looking for public tips in helping to find an Olds man facing charges of kidnapping with a firearm and extortion with a firearm following an incident in Didsbury last week.

An Olds father charged with several sex crimes – including sexually assaulting his own three-year-old daughter – is due back in provincial court Feb. 26.