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Community Directory
Marriage Commissioners
Listed under: CHURCHES & GROUPS
Website: www.servicealberta.gov.ab.ca
For more information on Marriage Commissioners, go to www.servicealberta.gov.ab.ca and click on the "Vital Statistics" tab.
Olds 556-8664 Warren Smith, wbsmith@shaw.ca
Olds 556-8181 Harold Hunter
Didsbury 335-3139 Chris Whittaker, cdw@airenet.com
Innisfail 227-2097 Gary MacDonald
Carstairs 337-2037 Noreen Olson, olsonrn@cadvision.com
Meals on Wheels
Listed under: SENIORS
Phone: 403.337.8630 or 507.1079 Janeen
Hours: Monday to Friday at 430 pm
Meals on Wheels is a volunteer, non-profit organization designed to assist elderly or disabled people to remain in their homes as long as possible, while maintaining proper nutrition. The drivers not only deliver food but also provide the client with an outside contact for five days a week. Meals on Wheels is also designed to assist persons on discharge from the hospital during a convalescent period. Meals are prepared at the hospital so special diets can be accommodated. Meals are delivered by volunteers Monday to Friday at 4.30 pm. Clients are charged a price set by the hospital, and meal tickets are sold at the beginning of the month. Volunteer drivers are always welcome!
Member of Legislative Assembly - Olds/Didsbury/Three Hills
Listed under: GOVERNMENT & CONSUMER SERVICES
Phone: 403-556-3132 Fax: 403-556-3120
Hours: 900 am to 400 pm Monday to Friday
Street Address: 3-4530 49 Ave
Olds, AB T4H 1A4
E-Mail: oldsdidsbury.threehills@assembly.ab.ca
Richard Marz, MLA
Mom's Time Out
Listed under: CHILDREN & FAMILY
Phone: (403) 556-7724
Hours: 1030 am every Friday
Street Address: Word of Life Church
Mailing Address: 4410 47 Ave, Olds, AB
Ladies and mothers with young children are invited to this informal “gathering of the girls” to discuss varied topics of interest. Past topics have included “Self-Defense,” “Street-Proofing your Children,” “Beautiful You,” and “Purpose-Driven Life.” Special guests have included local health care nurses, beauty treatment experts, and others. Child care and refreshments are provided.
Mount View Lodge
Listed under: SENIORS
Phone: (403) 556-3603 Fax: (403) 556-1619
Hours: 800 am to 400 pm Monday to Friday
Street Address: 5230 50 St
Olds, AB T4H 1N7
Elaine Tufts, Lodge Manager. Mount View Lodge in Olds provides food, lodging, scheduled personal care and other services to senior citizens who require a supportive living environment. The Lodge has a home-like atmosphere with home-cooked meals, activities and friendly staff.
Mount View Lodge Ladies Auxiliary
Listed under: SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS
Phone: 403-556-4153 Muriel Morash, Secretary
The Auxiliary assists the manager and staff at the Lodge with their monthly birthday parties, serving cake and coffee plus providing entertainment. As a fundraiser, we have a Spring Tea, including a bake and craft sale, the week before Easter each year. Throughout the year we help to provide comfort to the residents and to purchase items the Lodge is not able to supply. New members are welcome. Meetings 1.30 pm every 1st Monday, except July and August
Mountain View Community Literacy Society
Listed under: EDUCATION
Phone: (403) 556-3045 Fax: (403) 556-3039
Hours: 900 am to 300 pm Monday to Thursday
Street Address: B3 - 5030 50 St
Olds, AB T4H 1S1
E-Mail: adultlit@telus.net
- Family Literacy Programs
Our programs, offered throughout the communities in Mountain View County, support parents through sharing skills, tools and resources to enhance literacy development within the family. Programs include Books for Babies, Rhyme Time and Building Baby’s Brain.- Adult Literacy Programs
We offer one-on-one tutoring for adults who would like to improve their reading, writing or math skills. We also teach English as a Second Language. We offer training for all volunteer tutors.
Mountain View County
Listed under: GOVERNMENT & CONSUMER SERVICES
Phone: 403-335-3311 Fax: 403-335-9207
Hours: 800 am to 400 pm Monday to Friday
Street Address: 1408 Twp Rd 32
Mailing Address: Postal Bag 100, Didsbury, AB T0M 0W0
E-Mail: mvadmin@mountainviewcounty.com
Website: www.mountainviewcounty.com
The Mountain View County office is located approximately 6 km south of Olds at Highway 2A and Bergen Road, at 1408 Twp Rd 320.
Mountain View Denture Clinic
Listed under: HEALTH & NUTRITION
Phone: 403-556-3833
Street Address: A-5118 50 St
Olds, AB T4H 1H2
Mountain View Film Group
Listed under: RECREATION & CULTURE
Phone: 403-556-8464
Mailing Address: PO Box 3882, Olds, AB T4H 1P6
E-Mail: film@oldsmuseum.ca
Website: www.oldsmuseum.ca/film.html
The Mountain View Film Group is a non-profit organization and a member of the Toronto Film Group. The Film Group shows movies once a month that may not be part of the regular circult in Olds. Any profits from showings are used to support local initiatives. The Film Group is associated with the fundraising committee of the Olds Historical Society. Historical Society members receive discounts on tickets. Any member of the public is welcome to attend Film Group meetings and help select movies to be shown.
Movie dates and times check local media or website above
Meeting dates, times and location contact Mountain View Museum above
Mountain View Food Bank Society
Listed under: CHILDREN & FAMILY
Phone: (403) 556-1693 Fax: (403) 556-1512
Hours: 900 am to 100 pm Tuesdays
Street Address: Main Floor, Provincial Building, 5025 50 St
Mailing Address: PO Box 3958, Olds, AB T4H 1P6
The Mountain View Food Bank provides short-term assistance to people who are in a crisis situation and works to develop community awareness of local needs.
Mountain View Gazette
Listed under: MEDIA
Phone: 403-556-7510 Fax: 403-556-7515
Hours: 900 am to 500 pm Monday to Friday
Street Address: 5013 51 St
Mailing Address: PO Box 3910, Olds, AB T4H 1P6
E-Mail: gazette@olds.greatwest.ca
Website: www.mountainviewgazette.ca
Olds has had a newspaper for more than 100 years with the Leatherdale family owning it for more than 50 years. The Mountain View Gazette was established in 2005 by Great West Publishing, a combination of the former Mountain View County News and Olds Gazette. It is a free distribution newspaper with a circulation of 20,000 serving Mountain View County, and extending into the counties of Red Deer, Clearwater, Kneehill and the M.D. of Rockyview. Other newspapers published by Mountain View Publishing include the Carstairs Courier, Didsbury Review, Innisfail Province, Olds Albertan, and the Sundre Round Up. The Mountain View Gazette is distributed on Tuesdays.
Display Advertising Booking deadline 5.00 pm Wednesday
Classified Advertising deadline 12.00 pm Friday
Mountain View Guardianship Program
Listed under: CHILDREN & FAMILY
Phone: (403) 556-7161 Katharine Perich Fax: (403) 556-7195
Hours: 1100 am to 500 pm Tuesday to Friday
Street Address: 5 - 5001 49 Ave
Olds, AB T4H 1W9
E-Mail: katharine@onplace.ca
The program provides assistance to individuals completing the Self-Help Kit to obtain or renew guardianship of Dependent Adults. Information on Personal Directives is also available. Group presentations respecting Guardianship or Personal Directives can be arranged. Call ahead for more information or for an appointment.
Mountain View Marksman's Association
Listed under: SPORT ORGANIZATIONS
Phone: 403-556-8717 D. Combs, President
Mailing Address: PO Box 3957, Olds, AB T4H 1P6
E-Mail: nadraz@nucleus.com
Website: www.mvmarksmans.com
The purpose of the association is to supply facilities for all types of target shooting, to ensure safe handling of firearms and to encourage sport shooting. The outdoor range is available year-round for pistol, small-bore and full-bore target practice. Membership is open to anyone over 16 years of age. There are approximately 850 members. Membership sales are available at Home Hardware in Olds.
Membership Meetings two times / year, call for information
Directors Meetings four times / year
Mountain View Masonic Lodge No. 16 AF & AM
Listed under: SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS
Phone: 403-556-2361 Roger Kinney, Worshipful Master
Street Address: 4625 48 Ave
Olds, AB T4H 1C8
E-Mail: tobul@telus.net
Mountain View Masonic Lodge is a fraternal organization that does some charitable work, but is not a service club per se. Visiting Masons are welcome.
Meetings 8.00 pm every first Monday except July and August.
Mountain View Museum / Olds Historical Society
Listed under: RECREATION & CULTURE
Phone: 403-556-8464
Street Address: 5038 50 St
Mailing Address: PO Box 3882, Olds, AB T4H 1P6
E-Mail: mvmuseum@oldsmuseum.ca
Website: www.oldsmuseum.ca
This heritage museum tells the story of the settling of the Olds area through various displays. It also offers opportunities to research the area through information in the Archives, public access computer and website.
Hours: 9.30 am to 4.30 pm Monday to Friday
Meetings 7.00 pm monthly (call for dates), Mountain View Museum
Membership Fees $12.00/year
Lifetime Membership $120.00 (discounts for couples)
Mountain View Regional Emergency Services
Listed under: EMERGENCY SERVICES
Phone: 911 Emergency calls only / (403) 335-4070 Office Fax: (403) 335-9207
Hours: 8 am to 4 pm Monday to Friday
Mailing Address: PO Bag 100, Didsbury, AB T0M 0W0
E-Mail: mvres@telusplanet.net
Mountain View Regional Emergency Services provides advanced life support services to Olds and Mountain View County.
Mountain View Seniors Housing
Listed under: SENIORS
Phone: (403) 335-8404 Fax: (403) 335-9957
Street Address: 1100A 20 Ave
Mailing Address: PO Box 399, Didsbury, AB T0M 0W0
E-Mail: admin.assistant@mvsh.ca
Website: www.mvsh.ca
Mountain View Seniors Housing is a non-profit registered charitable organization providing assistance to seniors through lodges and self-contained apartments in Mountain View County. MVSH also operates several community housing units throughout the county for low-income families who require subsidized housing assistance (see “Subsidized Family Housing” under the Children & Family section of this Directory).
Mountain View Summer Games Legacy Foundation
Listed under: SPORT ORGANIZATIONS
Phone: 403-507-8747 Jayson Nelson, Sec/Treas
The Foundation serves to distribute interest earned from the 1983 Alberta Summer Games Legacy. Grants are offered primarily to: Athletes or artists who require assistance toward elite performance where coaching, instruction or training beyond what is available in the community is needed. Emphasis is on the attainment of a level of performance or skill well beyond the usual recreational or development levels. Students pursuing a course of study in a field related to sport, recreation or culture. Bursaries are dispersed in June. Coaches or instructors who are residents in Mountain View County and who have volunteered their time and expertise toward the benefits of others. These grants are to assist the leader to develop knowledge and skill. Sport and cultural organizations that are involved in exceptional and innovative programs.
The Foundation directors meet in September each year to consider applications. Application forms are available at Town Offices in Mountain View County, from the County Office, at Olds College, or from any Director. Applications may be submitted at any time.
Mountainview Optical
Listed under: HEALTH & NUTRITION
Phone: 403-556-5959 Fax: 403-556-1120
Street Address: 5-4513 52 Ave
Olds, AB T4H 1M8
Mountainview Optical offers high-fashion, brand-name frames such as Dior, D&G, Oakley and Versace. We have a full range of contact lenses from eye-changing colours to torics to correct astigmatism. Full eye exams, eye health assessments and an on-site laboratory. Open Saturdays.
Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada
Listed under: COUNSELLING & SUPPORT GROUPS
Phone: 403-346-0290 Fax: 403-341-3955
Hours: 830 am to 430 pm Monday to Friday
Street Address: 105-4807 50 Ave
Red Deer, AB T4N 4A5
E-Mail: info@mssociety.ca
Website: www.mssociety.ca/centralalberta
The MS Society is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing leadership in finding a cure for Multiple Sclerosis and enabling people affected by MS to enhance their quality of life.
Goals of the Society: To identify the cause and cure for Multiple Sclerosis in the shortest possible time. To ensure people with MS have the opportunity to participate fully in all aspects of life. To provide the Canadian public with awareness of MS, the MS Society and what it does. To foresee all necessary activities of the MS society are adequately funded. To ensure the volunteers and staff of the chapters, divisions and national organizations are working together effectively towards our common mission.
MusiCreations Orff Studio
Listed under: EDUCATION
Phone: (403) 556-6901 Lorrie Lipski, BA, BEd, Orff III
Street Address: 56 Lake Ridge
Olds, AB T4H 1W6
E-Mail: mcreatei@telus.net
MusiCreations Orff Studio offers holistic music education for all ages through singing, moving and playing instruments in small group classes and ensembles. Participants experience the components of music in an elemental way leading to enhanced musical literacy and expression.
Classes & Fees - Please call or email for schedule and fee information
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