Olds News

The Olds Rotary Club is getting set for its annual Harvest Ball, the club's largest single fundraiser. The event will take place on Nov.

Roughly 160 seconds. That's how close Murray Jutras and his wife Donna came to losing $2,500 in what is commonly known as a grandparents scam. On the morning of Oct.

A Russian woman living in Bowden whose husband died of a heart attack on Oct. 20 is seeking the community's help to allow her to go home to her young daughter.

A fundraiser will be held on Nov. 2 for a local woman's granddaughter who has recently been admitted to a treatment facility for an eating disorder.

Olds' top cop says last week's relatively small drug bust in Olds Trailer Park is part of a targeted enforcement where size doesn't matter. RCMP executed a search warrant at an undisclosed address in the park around 11:30 p.m. on Oct. 20.

It will be up to the newly elected Olds municipal council to deal with a contentious 14-lot multi-family development proposed for land in the southwest section of town. During a council meeting prior to the Oct. 21 election, Coun.

They just beat the snow. Members of Bowden’s Community Action Park committee and dozens of volunteers swung hammers, shovelled dirt and painted boards during a build day on Oct.

Tim Hortons, The Tire Shop and the Olds Auction Mart were the top winners at this year's Olds and District Chamber of Commerce business awards, which were handed out before an audience of roughly 265 people on Oct. 17 at Olds College.

The town is negotiating with Mountain View County over a piece of property north of Highway 27 on 70 Avenue where the town wants to develop a dog park.

New playground equipment was installed on October 19 and 20 in the Vistas, in part due to efforts of the Olds Rotary Club. The effort was a partnership between the Rotary Club, the Town of Olds and a group of contractors that work with Cowling Homes.