Olds News

Pillage the Village (PTV), the annual fundraiser for the Olds Municipal Library, raised about $11,000 this year, down a couple of thousand dollars from last year.

Mail service in Olds and district could be disrupted as of July 2 if Canada Post and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers mail carriers can't agree on a new contract.

The fifth Summer Oldstice Street Festival and Market takes place this Saturday, June 18 in Uptowne Olds. This year it's bigger and better, with several new attractions, according to Uptowne Olds coordinator Deborah Ohlhausen.

Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills MLA Nathan Cooper, the Wildrose Party's house leader, says two events that embarrassed his party in the last few weeks are behind them and aren't a priority for local constituents.

Olds and area residents have come through for health care facility infrastructure in the community.

In-person donations made during a free pancake breakfast, together with a radio-a-thon and online donations raised close to $10,000 on June 8 for the Olds Hospital and Care Centre's 2016 $100 Club fundraising campaign.

Olds College's 101st graduating class accepted their parchments in the annual graduation ceremony held in the Ralph Klein Centre on Saturday, June 4.

Every month, the Olds Community Lending Shelf packs as many as 50 boxes of children's clothing to help parents unable to dress their kids. But since creating the organization in 2008, Lucinda Watkins has met few of them.

The Olds Municipal Library hosted free workshops on June 9 by Carole Bondaroff, a renowned artist on tour with the Alberta Foundation for the Arts' TREX Program. Bondaroff led two sessions that day in one of her specialties, monoprinting.

A kind of pop-up store is doing a steady business in Uptowne Olds. A couple of weeks ago, Jed Butters of Olds set up 50,000 records in a former bridal boutique on 51st Street. Within a few days that collection was down to about 43,000 records.