Olds News

More than 1,100 people attended the ninth annual Careers for Everyone career fair at the Ralph Klein Centre last Tuesday.

Town of Olds announced last Tuesday the three recipients of the NU-2-U grants. The Olds Emergency Shelter received $8,000, while the Olds and Community Assistance Foundation and the Olds Kiwanis Music Festival each received $1,000.

Town of Olds mayor Judy Dahl suspended her Twitter account on Jan. 20, after a hacker took control of it to send spam emails containing unsafe links to all her followers.

Bowden town council decided to appoint Coun. Sheila Church as a representative to a working group that would oversee various aspects involved in constructing a regional trail throughout Central Alberta that would connect the Trans Canada Trail.

Olds RCMP has decided to increase its presence in school zones after getting reports from concerned citizens about speeding drivers. "We will be enforcing not only speeding but any other rules of the road or traffic laws,î said Cpl.

During the month of February, the RCMP and the Integrated Traffic Unit in Innisfail will target distracted drivers as part of the Selective Traffic Enforcement Program (STEP).

Construction on the new Canadian Institute of Rural Entrepreneurship has been suspended until spring. "It has mostly to do with cost. It is not very efficient to build in the winter,î said Ryan Pomeroy, president of the Pomeroy Group.

Uptowne Olds received good news at its Top Hat ceremony last Thursday.

The RCMP is asking for Mountain View County residents to call the detachment if they were pulled over by someone pretending to be a police officer.

A pickup truck collided with a train last Tuesday at 11:42 p.m. at the 50 Street crossing in Olds, critically injuring one teenage passenger from Manitoba.