Olds News

A delegation from the Nigerian government met with Olds College officials on May 6 and 7 to help the West African nation set up a series of nine skills centres in the next two years.

Two thieves responsible for thefts from mailboxes in Olds earlier this year are now serving jail time for their crimes.

Upon hearing a sound "like frying bacon" at about 11:15 p.m. on May 8, Dusty Ackerman got out of bed to investigate. "I didn't know what it was, but when I got up, the whole house was on fire," he said.

Speaking to hundreds of students from Olds High School, Ecole Olds Elementary School and Ecole Deer Meadow School on May 13, Spencer West imparted to students the importance of education and the seriousness of water issues in the developing world.

Olds High School maintained its overall ranking in the Fraser Institute's annual measure of high schools throughout the province. This year, as has been the case for the past five years, OHS was ranked 20th out of 279 schools in Alberta.

Upon hearing a sound "like frying bacon" at about 11:15 p.m. on May 8, Dusty Ackerman got out of bed to investigate.

The Town of Olds has issued a fire ban for the community effective May 8. The ban includes open fires, charcoal briquette barbecues, campfires, cooking fires, burning barrels and the discharge of fireworks.

It was when she found the door to her bedroom closed that Cindy knew something was wrong. “My heart just sank,” she said.

Although they were only runners-up in their campaign to win a free wedding through a contest focused on the theme of paying it forward , Jeannette Moore and Joseph Chambers of Olds collected more than 800 kilograms of food for the Mountain View Food

The town's Municipal Sustainability Initiative (MSI) funding from the provincial government, which is primarily meant for infrastructure projects, has increased by about $100,000 in 2013 over 2012 to $1,718,764.