Olds News

The Olds Royal Canadian Legion will hold a dedication ceremony for its tank this Sunday at 9:30 a.m. This spring, the legion entrusted École Olds Elementary School students with the task of giving the legion's new tank a name.

The Olds Agricultural Society will start hosting the Olds Farmers' Market this Thursday from 4 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. at the Cow Palace, for the ninth year in a row.

A cattle liner fire caused traffic on Highway 2 to be interrupted for several hours last Thursday, as RCMP officers and Alberta sheriffs rounded up 55 head of cattle that had been freed from the burning trailer.

Careless smoking is believed to have caused the fire that killed two people in the early hours of Mother's Day at the Bowden Estates Trailer Park. Olds RCMP released the names of the victims.

Five months after being convicted of second-degree murder in the death of an 18-year-old Olds College student, Jeffrey Leinen's appeal of his conviction and sentence is underway.

The first French Immersion class will be graduating from École Deer Meadow School in June 2013.

Vehicle traffic in the uptown core is expected to be shut down for at least a month this summer as the town proceeds with utility line replacement.

Olds RCMP recovered a stolen truck on May 10. The truck had been taken from a residence in the 5400 block on 51 Street in Olds between 11 p.m. on May 9 and 8:30 a.m. on May 10. It was a red 2002 Dodge Ram. “On May 10, at approximately 2:30 p.m.

O-Net installed its main fibre optic line in Olds last week. The company, which is a for-profit organization owned by the Olds Institute technology committee, will offer a fibre-to-the-premise broadband service to Olds residents starting in mid-2012.

The Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada (NSERC) has awarded a $945,000 grant to a livestock research project headed by Olds College, the University of Alberta, and various industry partners.