Olds News

Effective immediately, two major venues at the Olds Regional Exhibition (ORE) will be named the Big Rack MegaDome and Big Rack Cow Palace Events Center.

Sara Jorgensen, 10, started off her summer vacation with a lemonade stand in front of the Olds Hospital and Care Centre (OHCC) with the goal of donating the money she earns to the hospital.

Olds RCMP are asking for your help to find a couple of suspects involved in a rural break and enter and assault. Police were called to the scene, a rural farm property near Highway 587 and Rge Rd. 265, at about 12:30 a.m. on July 2.

Both the number of entrants in the Canada Day parade and the size of the crowd that attended activities in the park that day rose substantially over last year's figures, according to Heather Dixon, the town's community facilitator.

A bird forced nearly 3,000 Olds customers to be without power for about half an hour Monday morning (July 9), says FortisAlberta director of customer experience Jennifer MacGowan.

INNISFAIL - The RCMP Police Dog Service Centre is now bigger and better. And the world-class facility also proves it never forgets its own.

INNISFAIL – Olds College chair Leona Staples has been honoured for her contributions to agriculture.

Local volunteer Maureen Gustafson knows it's not easy for couples who both work to find much time to volunteer. But she says they don't have to do much. Even a little bit will help, thanks to the multiplier effect. "I know that it's hard for people.

Olds College now has a thought leader in smart agriculture (farming utilizing the latest in high-tech, computerized technology).

With the help of town council, a group that wants to set up a canola crushing plant has doubled the amount of land it wants to use for that project from five to 10 acres.