Olds News

For the first time in about 21 years the Olds & District Chamber of Commerce expects to have a storefront-type office where people can come in off the street and do business or ask questions.

Parents, guardians, children and teens in Olds and area can celebrate Canada's 150th birthday all year long with free literacy programs at Olds Municipal Library.

In only about three weeks, OIds High School Grade 9 student John Kjorsvik raised about $3,000 for cancer research. The most spectacular part of that fundraising occurred the night of Jan.

The Olds & District Chamber of Commerce can do very little to help businesses deal with the carbon tax now in place in Alberta, chamber president Stephen Dodwell says.

The Olds New Year's baby came into the world on Jan. 2. Melissa Walker, 37, of Olds gave birth to Benjamin at about 8:20 p.m. that day. He weighed eight pounds, one ounce and is Walker's fourth child. The father is Phil Phypers.

Dec. 17 was a festive night at the Legion Hall in Olds as Filipinos gathered together to celebrate Christmas as a community.

The case of a person alleged to have held a knife to the throat of a victim is stalled, due to lack of co-operation, RCMP say. "(There is) lack of cooperation from all involved. I figured it was going to go that way," Olds RCMP Cpl.

BOWDEN - Mayor Robb Stuart says the outlook for Bowden is rather hazy right now as the town awaits moves from the provincial government and others on various projects. The biggest item on the agenda is the town's budget.

The 2016 Henry Sonnenberg Christmas Dinner was a great success, despite the fact that attendance was down a bit from last year, a spokesman says.

BOWDEN - A horrific early morning semi-truck collision on the Queen Elizabeth II Highway at Bowden has claimed the lives of two Calgarians, one of them a Good Samaritan who stopped to help a stricken truck driver.