Author: Glen Gower
COMMENT: Five places to enjoy the great outdoors on Thanksgiving Monday
(PHOTO: Lookout over the marsh at the head of Poole Creek, along the Trans Canada Trail just west of Stittsville. Photo by Glen Gower.) As I sit down to write…
NOTEBOOK: Live music at Quitters, Huntmar’s truck problem
MORE MUSIC AT QUITTERS I was at Quitters on Saturday night for trivia and two notable things happened. For one, my team won. That’s a first. Congrats to J, Lorrie and Greg,…
UPDATE: Here’s the final list of new Stittsville street names
If you live on Bell Street, Goulbourn Street, Elm Crescent, Long Meadow Way, or Meadowland Drive, watch your mailbox this week for your opportunity to vote on a new name…
Just Shawarma adds another flavour to the Stittsville food scene
(PHOTO: Just Shawarma owner Nedal Atieh (right) says that Bahaa Shakir (left) is the greatest shawarma chef in the city.) Nedal Atieh says Stittsville residents have been incredibly welcoming since…
NOTEBOOK: Landfill proposal could mean even more downtown trucks
A number of people have asked me this summer about the status of the Carp Road landfill expansion, or as Waste Management (WM) would prefer us to call it, the West…
HODGINS HOUSE: They paved paradise, put up a Mattress Mart
“IN LESS THAN 24 HOURS IT WAS GONE,” wrote reporter Debbie Lawes in the Kanata Standard on Wednesday, June 8, 1988, a week after a wrecking crew tore down Hodgins House…
NOTEBOOK: Goulbourn Street petition, Erica Wiebe, retirement home launch
PETITION AGAINST GOULBOURN STREET NAME CHANGE City Council received a petition today from 43 residents on Goulbourn Street, asking the city to either keep the street name the same or…
NOTEBOOK: Farmers’ market in the works; Fireworks on August 27
Lots of news out of tonight’s Stittsville Village Association (SVA) monthly meeting, including plans to bring a farmers’ market to Village Square Park next spring. Sue Bird owns the old log building…
Q&A: If marijuana dispensaries are illegal, why aren’t they being shut down?
We’ve had a lot of questions from readers about the legal status of Magna Terra, the marijuana dispensary that’s set to open soon on Iber Road. If marijuana dispensaries are…
Cafe-florist-bike shop set to open on Stittsville Main
(PHOTO: Thom Johnson will run Steelwool Cycleworks, the bike shop, and Kat Kosk will run Blumenstudio, the cafe-florist.) UPDATE (AUGUST 6): They’re not quite ready to open yet. Posted to…
COMMENT: Marijuana shop may be illegal, but risk to community is low
(PHOTO: If it wasn’t for all the media coverage you might never know this was a marijuana dispensary.) I stopped in at Magna Terra’s open house over lunch today. Owner…
COMMENT: New street names should honour community leaders
(PHOTO: Warner-Colpitts Lane is named after Sterling Warner and Ian Colpitts, two Stittsville volunteers who were instrumental in building the Johnny Leroux Arena. We should recognize more of our community…
NOTEBOOK: Lions Club wants to add accessible entrance
The Stittsville Lions Club wants to add an accessible entrance to their building on Main Street, but first they’ll need approval from the City of Ottawa’s Committee of Adjustment (COA).
NOTEBOOK: Wild parsnip, mosquitos, and a cross-Canada bike trip
DOG WALKERS BEWARE Jonathan Seguin sent along some photos and warning about wild parsnip along the trails south of Abbott Street and east of Shea. Colloquially known as the “Abbott…
COMMENT: Ice those plans for changes to minimum snowplow standards
(Snow removal in Fairwinds. Photo by Hien Hoang.) Forgive me for being cynical, but when you schedule a presentation about snowplow service during the first week of July, and only…