Olds News

A delegation of Chinese investors is expected back in town this month after surveying Olds in May for a business venture.

By all accounts, O-NET is on track to meet the goals of its business plan.“We're progressing very well.

A “calamity of problems and bugs” has meant O-NET is spending roughly half-a-million dollars to replace television hardware and software given to its customers.

She was a young woman who wanted to share the stuffed animals she'd won at amusement parks with children.

Olds College held its ceremonial groundbreaking for the campus's new Centennial Village student residence on July 3. Construction for the building has already commenced and the $30-million residence is scheduled to open in September 2015.

In a push to complete its fibre-optic network in the community, O-NET has hired a squad of new employees in the last two months.

Olds now has an official policy on how town facilities should be named.At a meeting on June 23, council voted to adopt a policy that would formalize the process of naming town properties.

The Olds Regional Exhibition hosted the fifth annual Central Alberta Draft Horse Classic from June 28 to 30.According to Tracy Gardner, event manager for the exhibition, the Classic drew as many as 225 exhibitors and crewmembers.

Two people were taken to hospital with non-critical injuries following a collision on Highway 27 roughly 17 kilometres east of Olds on July 5.

An excavator struck an overhead cable line on 44 Street near 47 Avenue on the morning of June 30, damaging two utility poles and causing a short-lived tree fire and power outage.