Olds News

Town councillors got their first look at a branding exercise conducted by an Edmonton-based firm looking at re-branding the Town of Olds. McRobbie Optamedia made the presentation before the Policies and Priorities Committee on March 21.

The Olds Interact Club will be hosting a dinner fundraiser on Thursday to benefit two projects the club will be involved with over the next year.

No injuries were sustained, as on-site EMS cleared both drivers after a collision on 54th Ave. and Highway 27 last Tuesday evening at about 6 p.m.

Three of the four leadership candidates for the provincial Progressive Conservative party attended the local annual general meeting for the Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills riding on Thursday at the Olds Royal Canadian Legion.

Bowden town council passed the Mountain View Regional Water Services Commission business plan as well as the rates that accompanied the plan on March 14 at its regular council meeting.

A trust fund has been established for the five children of the late Trish deCoverley who ran Divine Dance in Olds for the last 20 years. The instructor and accomplished dancer died of a heart attack near her Condor home last Wednesday.

The Acronaires, an acrobatics group from Canadian University College performed at the Ralph Klein Centre on March 20.

No elections will be held after Wednesday's Annual General Meeting of the Olds Chamber of Commerce. Seven directors were acclimated after three motions for nomination were bypassed.

Three students from one of Olds High Schools' Bio 20 classes garnered tickets to last Sunday's MythBusters show for their video “Germbusters,” which took first-place in the school category.

The Olds Institute For Community and Regional Development has been approved for $118,500 in funding under the provincial government's Rural Community Adaptation Program.