Olds News

Olds community member Gavin Hamilton has passed away, and friends and family gathered after his funeral last week at St. John's Anglican Church to piece together a strange set of clues related to his estate, which the local timber man left behind.

It seems Jennifer Jackson was destined to be a nurse. When she was four years old, she lived next door to a Red Deer College nursing instructor. "Jennifer thought Cora Lee was the most amazing person in the world," said her mother Pauline Jackson.

Tax changes proposed by the federal government will hurt local farmers, business people and doctors, according to a tax lawyer who spoke in Olds.

A request to refinance two loans made to the Olds Institute for Community and Regional Development (OICRD) is getting hung up in the process and could leave the town out more than $3 million in the short term.

Six businesses have been nominated for Business of the Year for firms with 15 or fewer employees and one has been named in the category for those with more than 16 employees.

Olds' incoming mayor Michael Muzychka concedes electors didn't get a chance to vote (or not vote) for him when this past Tuesday, Judy Dahl, the mayor for 13 years, withdrew her nomination to run again.

A representative of the Mountain View Regional Waste Management Commission was on hand at a council meeting to request the speedy adoption of a contract change that would allow outside municipalities to use the regional landfill.

The new school board trustee for the QEII ward of Red Deer Catholic Regional Schools ñ which includes Olds and Innisfail -- has been acclaimed. Sharla Heistad was the only candidate to file nomination papers last Monday (Sept. 18).

The Rotary Club of Olds has secured the naming rights for the new athletic park currently being constructed along 70th Avenue, just north of the Cornerstone area. The Town of Olds made that announcement Monday, Sept. 25.

A 17-year-old Olds youth has been arrested and is facing three charges in connection with the attempted theft of a truck and trailer in Airdrie. Airdrie RCMP say at 1 a.m. on Sept.