Olds News

The Town of Olds hopes public consultation will take place in 2017 on what the legacy of Canada's 150th birthday will look like in town.

Olds' Dwayne "D.J." Neustaeter finished first in the Belayed Speed Climb event at the Prairie Chapter Tree Climbing Championship held at Olds College this month. Neustaeter climbed a 60-foot spruce tree in 19.2 seconds.

On Monday, June 27, Red Deer County fire officials began investigating the cause of a fire that destroyed a farmhouse east of Bowden. Firefighters were called to the scene – on Rge. Rd. 281, south of Highway 587, at about 7:30 p.m. Sunday.

Police, the coroner's office and Correctional Service of Canada officials are investigating the death of a Bowden Institution inmate. Thomas Molloy, 56, died on June 26 in Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre.

A new banking entity has been tentatively created in Central Alberta. During a meeting on June 22, members of the Eckville District Savings & Credit Union voted to join forces with Mountain View Credit Union (MVCU).

Transport Canada has suggested the Town of Bowden may want to have safety improvements done to a railway crossing in the community. The railway crossing in question is located on 17th Avenue, west of 20th Street.

Wildcat Snack Shack combines nutrition, learning and socialization With a $25,000 grant from the President's Choice Children's Charity to modernize its kitchen, one of the longest-running Breakfast for Learning programs in the Chinook's Edge School D

An Olds firefighter who ran the Calgary Marathon in full firefighter gear says he is considering doing the same thing again – in two years. “If you'd asked me on the day I would have said, ‘hell no.

An auxiliary RCMP officer in Olds is hoping community residents and former auxiliary officers will put pressure on the federal government to reinstate the program is it was. John Lavoie is one of four auxiliary RCMP officers in the town of Olds.

Uptowne Olds Committee chair Leon Durand says Summer Oldstice needs to be “fine-tuned” for next year.