Olds News

Town of Olds will distribute more than $101,000 in FCSS grants to seven local organizations and service groups. Each application was reviewed by town administration to make sure it was eligible. Boys and Girls Club: $40,000.

More than 50 people attended the Uptowne Olds Area Redevelopment Plan's draft plan strategy open house on Feb. 28.

Town of Olds administration has asked council to discontinue the town's temp-off practice, which allows snowbirds to remain connected to the water and sewer lines and not pay base rate fees while they are away.

A man is being investigated for impaired driving causing death after a head-on collision Sunday night on the QEII Highway that claimed four lives.

A 54-year-old Olds resident has been charged after an alleged assault on Feb. 14. “Just after midnight, a man went to an Olds residence with his face disguised,” said Const. Colleen von Krogh, Olds RCMP detachment.

The Rick Hansen 25th Anniversary Relay made its way through Olds last Wednesday afternoon. As the medal-bearers walked, ran or cycled from Olds High School to uptown Olds, residents lined up on Main Street with banners to encourage them.

The Rick Hansen 25th Anniversary Relay powered through Bowden on Thursday afternoon as part of its tour through Central Alberta last week.

A woman whose Akita dogs attacked and severely wounded two people in July 2011 has been fined $1,700 after a trial in Didsbury provincial court on Friday.

Although the Olds interchange has been dropped from Alberta Transportation's three-year construction program, work on the project is continuing, an AT spokesman said last week.

More than 150 Chinook's Edge students participated in the Mountainview Science and Technology Fair at Olds High School last Saturday. In total, 110 projects were displayed in the school's commons.