Olds News

Several resolutions that were passed at the annual Federation of Canadian Municipalities conference in Vancouver, held from June 1 to 3, were of note to Town of Olds officials who attended.

The owner of the Hawthorne Way home destroyed by a fire last month said her insurance company’s investigation into the blaze concluded that a cigarette was the cause of the fire.

The Town of Olds is contesting a policy recently renewed at a meeting of the Mountain View Regional Water Services Commission regarding the sale of water to third parties.

The fossilized bones of a prehistoric reptile that called this part of Alberta home 60 million years ago returned to Olds on June 22 as part of Olds College’s centennial celebrations. And a replica of the fossil will now call Olds home.

Concerns from families and support providers across the province have prompted the Alberta government to push back the start date of a new process for providing Persons with Developmental Disabilities (PDD) support funding.

Car enthusiasts from around western North America will be setting up shop at Olds College from June 28 to July 1 as part of the 52nd annual International Antique Auto Meet.

The postponed June 21 Olds College and Oldstice fireworks display will be merged with the June 22 show.

Town staff were expecting to complete the municipal census on June 17, with only 52 residences yet to be counted as of that day.

Following an intensive search of a rural area north of Olds on June 12, police arrested a man and woman accused of possessing stolen property and obstructing police. Staff Sgt.

Deer Meadow School capped off the 2012-13 school year on June 14 with an Academy Awards-themed event that recognized students for all their hard work in optional classes or "academies.