Olds News

In an Olds Elementary School kindergarten class, five-year-old Roc Radke creates a snowman Christmas bulb with help from educational assistant Chris Clifford.

Bowden town council has given Bowden Silent Santas $1,000 to help cover costs for the program, which provides Christmas hampers for people in need.

Three groups have taken up the torch from Henry Sonnenberg to provide a free Christmas dinner for anyone who wants to partake on Christmas Day.

Olds & District Christmas Angels volunteers Kristine Billings, left, and Tannis Wagoner sort through quilts at the organization's location in Olds on Dec. 16. Hampers and gifts were sent out to needy families late this past week.

Utility ratepayers will be seeing higher water and wastewater bills starting Jan. 1. Council approved new utility rates on Dec. 14 to reflect updated costs charged by the respective commissions. Coun. Rudy Durieux was absent for the meeting.

Starting in the new year, an Olds RCMP officer will have a new role – providing more police-related education in schools. Staff Sgt.

Mel Crothers, a partner in Royal LePage Wildrose Real Estate, says that franchise is still going strong, despite the collapse of Royal LePage Foothills, one of 37 company franchises in the province. On Dec.

The annual Olds College President's Office Christmas Basket event this past Friday raised a record-breaking $7,210.25, smashing the previous record of $5,904.05.

Jordan Cleland is no longer the Olds College vice-president academic. Cleland, 45, resigned his position, effective today (Tuesday, Dec. 22). He had been in the job for eight-and-a-half years.

Frances Cuyler took a trip down memory lane in Penhold earlier this month.