Olds News

A man accused of dangerous driving in Bowden and Innisfail was scheduled to appear in Didsbury provincial court yesterday. Steven Wayne Gallant, 27, was arrested Saturday after police found him driving a vehicle without headlights on in Bowden.

Olds RCMP say no charges are anticipated against an elderly couple whose vehicle flew through the air and smashed into a garage and part of one house and hit another in Olds on Friday, Feb. 3. The accident happened at about 10 a.m.

Rips Audio Video and Spas president Leon Durand and employee Chris Birch were among the first people on the scene when a vehicle flew into a fence, garage and two homes Friday morning (Feb. 3).

Habitat For Humanity's Mountain View chapter (HFHMVC) is ready to give the community an update on what it's doing in Olds and what help it needs, so it's holding an open house Thursday, Feb. 9 at the Olds Municipal Library from 7 to 8:30 p.m.

Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills Progressive Conservative Party Constituency Association past-president William Stevenson is not so sure Stephen Khan gave the real reasons for his decision to drop out of the Alberta Progressive Conservative Party leadership

Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills Wildrose Party Constituency Association president Michael Robertson doesn't want to see the riding's boundaries changed much, if at all.

Wildrose Party Leader Brian Jean's call for a merger of the province's two right-wing parties fits the way most local conservatives are thinking, according to spokesmen for the Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills Progressive Conservative and Wildrose constitue

Olds College chair Bob Clark says the provincial Electoral Boundaries Commission shouldn't "monkey" with constituencies like Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills, where the population is growing.

One woman is dead and four others have been hospitalized after a three-vehicle crash just north of Bowden today. EMS spokesman Adam Loria says ambulance personnel were called to the scene at about 9:30 a.m.

Olds Fire Department officials are urging residents - including landlords -- to make sure alarm systems are working properly and have their heating systems checked regularly by trained personnel to make sure they too are in good working order.