Olds News

The 50th anniversary celebration and reunion of the ag mech program at Olds College was so successful there's already talk about having another gathering --- perhaps in five years.

Last week during a regularly scheduled Olds council meeting, first reading was given to a bylaw that would change the distance allowed between cannabis retail stores and parks or public buildings like hospitals.

Olds RCMP are warning residents not to leave unattended children in vehicles. This comes after police were called to a local grocery store Nov.

Uptowne Olds' annual Midnight Madness shopping promotion was another great success, according to spokesman Leon Durand of Rips Audio Video. Under the promotion, held this past Friday, Nov.

Tomorrow night (Wednesday, Nov. 21), a new replica of a building will be officially unveiled in the Christmas village in Centennial Park. The replica of the AGT building will be officially unveiled at 6:30 p.m.

BOWDEN - The Town of Bowden now officially has a cannabis consumption bylaw. And if someone contravenes it, they could be hit with fines ranging from $250 to at least $2,000, depending on the offence. Council passed that bylaw during its Nov.

There will be a third PowerUp! Entrepreneurs Conference in Olds, but not until March 2020, says Olds Institute for Community and Regional Development executive director Mitch Thomson.

Olds High School students were ticketed late last month -- but in a good way. About 70 vehicles were stopped and students in them received positive tickets and information pamphlets on Oct. 25.

A futurist applauds a decision by the Olds Institute for Community and Regional Development (OI) to instill fibre optic cable throughout the community, creating one of the fastest Internet service providers in rural Canada.

Through the cannabis production industry, Olds is moving in the right direction toward a stronger, more diversified economy, but that's not the total solution, a well-known economist says.