Olds News

Three of the four leadership candidates for the provincial Progressive Conservative party attended the local annual general meeting for the Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills riding on Thursday at the Olds Royal Canadian Legion.

Bowden town council passed the Mountain View Regional Water Services Commission business plan as well as the rates that accompanied the plan on March 14 at its regular council meeting.

A trust fund has been established for the five children of the late Trish deCoverley who ran Divine Dance in Olds for the last 20 years. The instructor and accomplished dancer died of a heart attack near her Condor home last Wednesday.

The Acronaires, an acrobatics group from Canadian University College performed at the Ralph Klein Centre on March 20.

No elections will be held after Wednesday's Annual General Meeting of the Olds Chamber of Commerce. Seven directors were acclimated after three motions for nomination were bypassed.

Three students from one of Olds High Schools' Bio 20 classes garnered tickets to last Sunday's MythBusters show for their video “Germbusters,” which took first-place in the school category.

The Olds Institute For Community and Regional Development has been approved for $118,500 in funding under the provincial government's Rural Community Adaptation Program.

The manager of the Mountain View Museum will be leaving at the end of the month to take a job with the Roulston Museum in his home community of Carstairs.

Sunday's two-hour MythBusters show at the Ralph Klein Centre (RKC) didn't didn't really resemble a typical television episode of the same name.

The leadership hopefuls for the Alberta Progressive Conservatives will be at the Olds Legion on Thursday during the founding meeting for the new Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills constituency.