Olds News

Now that paving has been laid down along 50th Avenue, Uptowne Olds committee chair Leon Durand is hopeful more improvements will be made before winter hits. He's also looking forward to even more progress next year.

October is Canadian Library Month and Parkland Regional Library (PRL) is celebrating that fact.

Olds Search and Rescue (OSAR) members are trained even better than before after they – and people from across the province -- attended a Search and Rescue Basics Train the Trainer course in Olds.

Old-fashioned-style street lights – part of the Uptowne Olds renewal project – are expected to arrive this week and the goal is to put them together and install them October 14 or 15. That's the word from Olds chief operating officer Scott Chant.

It didn't take long for the Olds Aquatic Centre to reopen after a mechanical problem forced its closure Saturday. The facility was closed Saturday afternoon after a pump that circulates water to prevent stagnation in the big pool failed.

Country singer Paul Brandt is lending his hands – as well as his hockey skills -- to a fundraiser for the Olds branch of the Central Alberta Pregnancy Care Centre (CAPCC).

An Olds College equine (horse) sciences/training program is expected to move back to the college this week after having been relocated to the Olds Regional Exhibition facilities.

Rules are simple for Olds' first Little Free Library, located in the Highlands subdivision: take a book; leave a book. The library is actually a two-shelf unit fashioned like a birdhouse and is intended to be the site of a public book exchange.

A 24-year-old female driver has been charged with careless driving after a collision on Highway 2A and Twp. Rd. 324 claimed the life of a 52-year-old male motorcyclist on Sept. 19. No further charges are expected.

A man who walked from Olds to Red Deer this past week (Thursday, Oct. 2 to Saturday, Oct. 4) didn't raise as much money for the Heart and Stroke Foundation as he hoped, but he's still happy he did it – and he might make the walk again.