Olds News

Like countless other language arts students, 12-year-old McLaine Carroll was asked to read J.R.R. Tolkien's classic fantasy The Hobbit.

Sometimes local legends are sports heroes. They can be community leaders who make their mark through accomplishments, grand or small. Legends can also be contributors. Often they are uniquely different from everyone else.

More than $2,000 was raised at a special fundraiser Sept. 28 at the Olds Recreation Centre to help send a local registered massage therapist to Vietnam to provide infant and pediatric massage to challenged children.

The shelves of Sobeys and Co-op food stores will be stocked with meat from High River's Cargill plant as the temporary shutdown of its rival XL Foods in Brooks continues into its second week.

At first Sandra Comer thought she witnessed the spellbinding movements of a tiny elusive hummingbird in front of her house, hovering above her flowers; its wings flapping in a mesmerizing blur dozens of times per second in search of nectar.

About 100 people turned out Wednesday evening to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Deer Meadow School.

An Olds man faces more criminal charges after allegedly stealing vehicles wile out on bail conditions related to his arrest in connection with a drug and stolen property seizure in early September.

Bowden Instituion guards were among the over 500 correctional officers who protested in front of Stephen Harper's constituency office in Calgary on Sept. 15.

A man charged after a devastating crash left four Filipino workers dead pleaded guilty to charges of criminal negligence causing death when he appeared in Red Deer provincial court on Sept. 17.

The Olds Kiwanis Music Festival will be celebrating 30 years this spring and is starting to make plans on how it can mark the occasion.