Olds News

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.

Bowden council and the Olds RCMP detachment's commander met to "clear the air" regarding some of council's concerns about what they felt was a lack of communication between police and the town during a recent search for a shooting suspect in Bowden .

They signed up to serve with the Olds Fire Department seven years apart but they shared the same reason for joining: Giving back to their community.

There were a few scary moments at the start of the Summer Oldstice in uptowne Olds on June 21 when an eight-year-old boy from Olds was struck by a pickup truck while riding his bicycle.