Imagine enjoying your morning coffee on your porch while watching a team of specially trained horses pulling your neighbour’s three-storey home down your street on a flatbed trailer. This is how the Colbeck’s brick home at 333 Patricia Avenue travelled to its current location when the old Canadian […]
Since 1993, Saskatchewan-born Colleen Sutton, who’s made Westboro her home, has been to 14 Grey Cups. “I love the CFL so much I wrote about it,” says this dyed-in-the-wool Saskatchewan RoughRiders fan who is looking forward to making Ottawa her Eastern team. The Ottawa Theatre School graduate starred […]
Tucked into backyards or unnoticed on main streets, fruit and nut trees don’t always feed the people they grow around. On a warm August afternoon on Loretta Avenue North, a backyard apple tree filled many bags and buckets for the five volunteers harvesting it. This apple tree […]
Unrolling his 6 foot long, and five and a half foot wide kite, Denbury Avenue’s Rob Huntley explains that he shoots artistic landscapes when the wind blows in just the right direction at just the right velocity. “But because the camera is 200 feet above my head, I […]
In honour of International Breastfeeding Awareness Week, August 1-7, we caught up with Susie Pearson. This mother of four is one of Hintonburg’s favourite ex-Stittsville residents and the owner of the Extraordinary Baby Shoppe – a store that specializes in cloth diapers, breastfeeding accessories and baby carriers. […]
“I think there’s a lot that we can learn about what works and what doesn’t work from studying the results of (Pierre Elliot) Trudeau’s career,” says West Wellington author, historian and policy consultant, Bob Plamondon. Popular yet controversial – just like its subject who is consistently ranked as […]
Although she’s the first to admit she loves her phone and the instant connections it facilitates, Hintonburg singer and songwriter Amanda Rheaume thinks that unplugging from technology and sitting around the dinner table, sharing stories and learning about your family history is a tradition well worth […]
UPDATE: Bear and Co. is back for their second outdoor theatre summer season. Catch Comedy of Errors at Hintonburg Park on July 5 and 19, at Iona Park on July 6 and at Reid Park on July 30. All shows start at 7 p.m. and picnics are welcome. […]
Jo-Anne Guimond is daring to be grateful. She began by looking for a creative project for the year 2013. Two years ago, she embarked on a 365 photo project, taking a photo a day all year. She enjoyed the challenge, the discipline and the daily creative opportunity the project […]
Photos by Justin Van Leeuwen. Running 21.1 kilometres in a twenty pound shoe roughly the size of a smart car is, believe it or not, a dream come true for Wellington West’s Geordie McConnell. The triathlon coach and marathon runner spent years living in London, England and always […]
Born and bred in Hintonburg, Uncle Bob Cabana who owns Fab Gear 64 on Wellington Street West is a neighbourhood icon. With the shop closed on Mondays, he arranged to meet us at 11:00 for a chat and a photo shoot. When we arrived, band rehearsal was in […]
Richmond Underground is the City’s preferred route By Kathleen Wilker Hundreds of citizens attended last night’s City of Ottawa open house on the Western LRT line and crowded into council chambers to hear about the presentation. The City’s Deputy City Manager (Planning and Infrastructure), Nancy Schepers, began the […]
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