Olds News

Progressive Conservative leadership candidate Thomas Lukaszuk has much work to do if he's going to re-earn the trust of Albertans after spending scandals involving former Premier Alison Redford sent the party diving in popularity.

The former owner of the Olds Fas Gas station is charged with threatening the station's current owner. Police said a man identified as the station's previous owner entered the station on May 18 at about 8:52 p.m.

Canadian Pacific Railway is in the process of replacing tracks at railway crossings around town over the next two months.The first crossing on the company's list is located on 57 Avenue just south of town. Construction began on May 20.

The Kiwanis Club of Olds recognized a longtime local benefactor during its May 15 meeting at the Olds Royal Canadian Legion, giving Alex Zec honourary membership to the group. It was the first time the club has honoured somebody this way.

Mountain View Seniors' Housing (MVSH) is making a $181,228 tax requisition from the Town of Olds in 2014, almost double the amount it requested last year.

A proposal to build a fourplex on 48 Street, which the property owner suggested would increase population density in the town's uptowne area, was shot down by council at a meeting on May 12.

The St. John's Anglican Church is celebrating its 120th anniversary in Olds this year and on May 15, a special display was held at the Mountain View Museum and Archives featuring relics of the church's past.

Five people volunteered to get locked up in a cage on May 15, raising $9,985 for the Olds ATB Financial's first ever Jail-N-Bail fundraiser in support of the Alberta Children's Hospital Foundation.

Olds College Teaching Brewery students are going nuts after one of their brews created using hand-roasted pecans was voted the 2014 rookie of the year beer at the Calgary International Beer Festival.

The Olds and District Municipal Library will have to find a way to operate with $20,000 less as the franchise fee, which is used to fund the library budget, cannot be raised any higher by the town.