Olds News

After a full school year in Olds, foreign exchange student Angel Sanchez, 16, will be returning home to Mazatlan in Mexico on June 15.

An official opening ceremony was held June 12 at École Deer Meadow School for the facility's pergola, named Dot's Spot, in honour of Dot Negropontes, the school's first-ever principal and a driving force behind the creation of the Community Learning

Generations of Olds and area library patrons, staff, volunteers and community members gathered at Olds Municipal Library on June 6 to celebrate the facility’s 60th anniversary.

Olds College conferred an honorary degree posthumously on the late Dot Negropontes during its 104th convocation exercises, held June 1 at the Ralph Klein Centre. Her husband Teddy accepted it on her behalf.