Olds News

The Olds Regional Exhibition hosted the fifth annual Central Alberta Draft Horse Classic from June 28 to 30.According to Tracy Gardner, event manager for the exhibition, the Classic drew as many as 225 exhibitors and crewmembers.

Two people were taken to hospital with non-critical injuries following a collision on Highway 27 roughly 17 kilometres east of Olds on July 5.

An excavator struck an overhead cable line on 44 Street near 47 Avenue on the morning of June 30, damaging two utility poles and causing a short-lived tree fire and power outage.

Bowden council gave first reading at its June 23 meeting to an updated nuisance bylaw for the community.

It was three summers ago that Ben Chrusch built his first cigar box guitar.He credits a YouTube video that he thought was “pretty cool” showing a man playing one of the instruments with inspiring him to start crafting such unique guitars.

It was Canada's largest 4-H event and Quinci Jones of the Olds Multi 4-H Club came away with three championships: supreme champion female, senior champion showman and reserve champion.

A Crossfield-based contractor has received the go-ahead to complete a $1.3- million infrastructure replacement project in downtown Bowden.At its June 23 meeting, Bowden council awarded a tender worth $1,236,065.90 plus GST to Foran Equipment Ltd.

The road toward an off-leash dog park near Olds will now go through the county.

New reforms made to the federal Temporary Foreign Workers program have made access to such employees more difficult for businesses.

The Town of Olds has approved the purchase of an electronic fingerprint scanner for the local RCMP detachment.At its June 9 meeting, council passed a motion to use $20,000 from town reserves to buy the device.“The process now is that (Staff) Sgt.