THE JACK KETCH RESTAURANT PLANS AUGUST OPENING
John Curry wrote a great overview of some of the historical buildings on Stittsville Main Street recently in the Stittsville News. The piece starts with a brief history of the yellow house at 1536 Stittsville Main Street: “The two-storey building… was built in the 1890s as the home of Miss Rebecca Stitt, a dressmaker who worked at the Mann General Store in the village. It was passed on to her sister Elizabeth, who was a nurse. It was the home of Sterling and Grace Howie for 27 years until they sold it in 1992 for use as the hair salon for Precision Cut Hair Styling. It later served as a day care centre and is now being renovated to be a restaurant.”
The new restaurant will be known as The Jack Ketch, a 30-seat restaurant run by Kevin Conway and his partner Allison Pearce. Conway says they plan to open the restaurant sometime in August. For some hints as to what’s in store, check out their a teaser web site, Facebook page and Instagram.
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WASTE MANGEMENT APPLIES TO PROCESS CONTAMINATED SOIL
Waste Management has filed paperwork with the Ontario Government to amend their Environmental Compliance Approval (ECA) so that they can process contaminated soil at their Carp Road landfill facility.
Here’s how minutes from a public liaison committee meeting describe the proposal: “application is to construct a soil treatment pad to treat hydro carbon impacted soils, these materials once they meet strict soil analysis would also be used on site for the same purposes as above and including cover material for the landfill/waste operation, none of this material would leave the site.”
Hydro carbon impacted soils include soil contaminated by petroleum products like oil and gas. Waste Management’s application seeks permission to process and store up to 120,000 tonnes of contaminated soil per year, above and beyond any previously approved landfill capacity.
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RADAR GUN & DEER RUN
I jotted down a couple of quick notes at last night’s Stittsville Village Association meeting: 1) Councillor Shad Qadri says that part of this year’s $40,000 traffic calming budget for Stittsville Ward will go towards a radar gun. The gun will be available for community associations to borrow to measure traffic speed on neighbourhood streets. (I wonder if baseball teams can borrow it to measure pitches too?) 2) Qadri also mentioned that construction of the new splash pad at Deer Run Park is progressing well and could be finished by mid-August.
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PEAK PARSNIP
We appear to be in peak Wild Parsnip season. The yellow weed is growing along pathways, fields and ditches all over our community. This is the third year that the City of Ottawa has been spraying herbicide in public areas. If you’re wondering about what to look for, or how to safely get rid of the plant on your property, check out this article from our archives in 2015…
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CELEBRITY NEWS
If you were at NeXT restaurant on June 27, you might have spotted Michael J. Fox having dinner there with his family. He was in Ottawa to receive a Governor General’s Performing Arts Award at Rideau Hall the next day.
Never only if a guest requests #customerservicefirst
— Michael Blackie (@michaelblackie) June 28, 2017
I saw a new restaurant on Carp Road almost across from the flea market. I think it’s Gabby’s. What do you know about it?
Do you mean Red Gables? https://stittsvillecentral.ca/familiar-face-unique-experience-at-red-gables-on-carp-road/
If memory serves me correct, prior to the Howies owning the home, one of the Grierson brothers (can’t remember if it was Alf, Ernie or Harold) and his family lived there for several years. From the photo shown in the article, you can see where the front window was much larger at one time and the Griersons sold soft ice cream from there in the 1960’s. It was the only place in Stittsville to get the cold treat (other than the bowling alley) and many lined up to do so. When the Howies lived there, Mrs. Howie ran a daycare for a number of years.
Thanks, as always, Lesley for sharing this history!