Olds News

She was a young woman who wanted to share the stuffed animals she'd won at amusement parks with children.

Olds College held its ceremonial groundbreaking for the campus's new Centennial Village student residence on July 3. Construction for the building has already commenced and the $30-million residence is scheduled to open in September 2015.

In a push to complete its fibre-optic network in the community, O-NET has hired a squad of new employees in the last two months.

Olds now has an official policy on how town facilities should be named.At a meeting on June 23, council voted to adopt a policy that would formalize the process of naming town properties.

The Olds Regional Exhibition hosted the fifth annual Central Alberta Draft Horse Classic from June 28 to 30.According to Tracy Gardner, event manager for the exhibition, the Classic drew as many as 225 exhibitors and crewmembers.

Two people were taken to hospital with non-critical injuries following a collision on Highway 27 roughly 17 kilometres east of Olds on July 5.

An excavator struck an overhead cable line on 44 Street near 47 Avenue on the morning of June 30, damaging two utility poles and causing a short-lived tree fire and power outage.

Bowden council gave first reading at its June 23 meeting to an updated nuisance bylaw for the community.

It was three summers ago that Ben Chrusch built his first cigar box guitar.He credits a YouTube video that he thought was “pretty cool” showing a man playing one of the instruments with inspiring him to start crafting such unique guitars.

It was Canada's largest 4-H event and Quinci Jones of the Olds Multi 4-H Club came away with three championships: supreme champion female, senior champion showman and reserve champion.