Olds News

Mountain View Seniors' Housing (MVSH) is making a $181,228 tax requisition from the Town of Olds in 2014, almost double the amount it requested last year.

A proposal to build a fourplex on 48 Street, which the property owner suggested would increase population density in the town's uptowne area, was shot down by council at a meeting on May 12.

The St. John's Anglican Church is celebrating its 120th anniversary in Olds this year and on May 15, a special display was held at the Mountain View Museum and Archives featuring relics of the church's past.

Five people volunteered to get locked up in a cage on May 15, raising $9,985 for the Olds ATB Financial's first ever Jail-N-Bail fundraiser in support of the Alberta Children's Hospital Foundation.

Olds College Teaching Brewery students are going nuts after one of their brews created using hand-roasted pecans was voted the 2014 rookie of the year beer at the Calgary International Beer Festival.

The Olds and District Municipal Library will have to find a way to operate with $20,000 less as the franchise fee, which is used to fund the library budget, cannot be raised any higher by the town.

Police reported on May 9 that a 51-year-old man who was reported missing earlier this month was found in good health.

Court hearings involving an Olds High School student accused of sexual assault, forcible confinement and assault are subject to a publication ban, imposed in Didsbury court on May 5.The ban came at the request of the Crown prosecutor.

About 90 people came out to The Bowl for the fourth annual Bowling for Boobs on May 2.The event, which was organized by Scotiabank, is on pace to exceed its breast cancer fundraising target.

Changes to the Town of Olds personnel policy had council chambers split between council and administration over work hours.