Olds News

The Uptowne Area Redevelopment Plan received good feedback from residents last Wednesday during a public open house at the TransCanada Theatre to discuss the plan's details. "So far what we've heard (from the public) has been very positive.

Erik Lees of Lees and Associates Landscape Architects and Planners, suggested a three per cent fee increase for burial plots at the town cemetery during a presentation to town council on Jan. 27.

O-Net officials held an official "Fibre Light-Upî Jan. 29 for what they're billing as the highest capacity community owned network in Canada. Olds Institute for Community and Regional Development (OICRD) and its partner Olds Fibre Ltd.

A recommendation by Olds town council to have representatives from the Olds/Sundre Primary Care Network make a presentation to council at a later date was made at last week's meeting.

For Mariana Costa, coming to Canada was the fulfilment of a lifelong dream. The Grade 12 student enrolled for the year at Olds High School is a native of the city of Patos de Minas, located in southwest Brazil.

Several people are facing charges as a result of a drug bust conducted by the Olds RCMP late last month.

Parents Tanya and Graham Sayers welcomed Olds' New Year's baby early on January 1. Aaron Neil tipped the scales at eight pounds five ounces.

Calvin Jensen was this last year's Rotary Club outbound exchange student, and returned earlier this fall from a year in Norway. An Olds High School graduate, he first arrived in the Scandinavian country in the summer of 2011.

The Town of Olds processed $53,726,040 worth of building permits in the first 11 months of 2012, up sharply from the $34.2 million processed for all of 2011 and the $28.3 million for 2010.

Parkland Pipeline Contractors is in the process of being sold to a Passadena, California-based environmental engineering and construction firm.