Olds News

The Olds Rotary Club will unveil a peace tree on Dec. 10 at 2 p.m. at the Olds Municipal Library. Club member Marjory Lally sparked the idea after she was named director-at-large for the club in 2012 and given the task of promoting peace.

The last significant snowfall in Olds, prior to the blizzard that struck Southern Alberta on December 1 and 2, was on Nov. 16.

The organizers of the annual New Year's Baby Hamper campaign are seeking donated gifts from local businesses that will go to the first baby born at the Olds Hospital and Care Centre in 2014. And this year, a new organization is running the campaign.

Olds College outlined plans for a new 400-unit Centennial Village residence on Nov. 20 during an open house that was attended by about 30 people.

Fireworks will be set off after the Santa Claus parade on Nov. 30 as part of the uptown Light Up events. The fireworks will be set off at about 7:45 p.m. at O.R. Hedges Park.

Mountain View Power has given $70,000 worth of profits to the Olds Institute For Community and Regional Development to fund the institute's various community activities.

Town council will be discussing the final draft of the Open Spaces and Trails Master Plan at a future council meeting following a presentation of the final report at the Nov. 19 policies and priorities committee meeting.

Shooting down his arguments that a trial judge exaggerated his criminal background, put too much blame on him and gave him an unfit sentence, the Alberta Appeal Court dismissed the appeal of one of the men responsible for the 2011 armed robbery of an

While most of the recent upgrades made to the interchange of highways 2 and 27 are welcome by local officials, more still needs to be done, they said.

Town administrators proposed a freeze on taxes during council's first look at the proposed 2014 budget on Nov. 19. The proposed $24,075,258 budget includes a 3.2 per cent increase in revenues along with a 3.