Category: Business
Raising the bar: Hummingbird brings a global focus to chocolate production
QUICK FACTS Hummingbird owners Erica and Drew Gilmour (above) met eachother in Afghanistan and moved to Stittsville nine years ago. The chocolate is sold at about 30 stores in…
New barre fitness studio opens this spring on Stittsville Main
Ottawa’s iNSiDE Out STUDiO barre plans to open their second location on Stittsville Main Street in mid-April. The studio will be located at 1261 Stittsville Main in the same plaza as…
West Ottawa Board of Trade announces Peoples Choice Award Winners
The West Ottawa Board of Trade announced the winners in their 16th annual Peoples Choice Awards at a gala on Thursday night at the Brookstreet. The awards celebrate business excellence in…
Site Plan Control submitted for Keg restaurant at Huntmar and Hazeldean
The City of Ottawa has received a Site Plan Control application for a new Keg restaurant on the north-west side of Huntmar Road at Hazeldean.
Meet the family behind the new An Restaurant
(Photo: Taking a break from last minute preparations is Chef/Owner Cuong Tran (center) flanked by Ann Lu (left) and wife Kim Lu (right.) Photo by Barry Gray.) The long-awaited “An”…
Kanata councillor’s town hall includes presentations about upcoming developments near Stittsville
Kanata North councillor Marianne Wilkinson is holding a town hall meeting next week that includes a presentation about the plans for several new projects just north of the Queesnway near…
Ivan’s kabobs have been a Stittsville favourite since 1987
(Above: Ivan Saric, owner of Ivan’s Meat and Deli. Photo by Barry Gray.) QUICK FACTS: Ivan Saric’s parents were from what’s now Croatia, and opened a deli in Stittsville in…
JAZZ TO JAVA: How two guys named Paul ended up opening a coffee shop in Stittsville
(Above: Owners Paul Melsness (left) and Paul Jay in front of the coffee roaster at Gaia Java. All photos on this page by Barry Gray.) QUICK FACTS The two owners,…
Meet Elizabeth Kondruss, curator of Stittsville’s Barbie museum
If you’ve ever visited the “new” Stittsville Flea Market on Carp Road, you’ve stumbled on the Barbie collection that belongs to Elizabeth Kondruss, pictured above. There are over 20,000 dolls…
Decisive Technologies celebrates expansion on Iber Road
Left to right: Mark Williams, Richard Losier, Joey Harrison, Jim Watson and Mike Smith celebrate the expansion of the Decisive Technology’s Stittsville operation on Iber Road. They moved to their new office…
Stittsville’s craft brewery celebrates one year in our community this Saturday
(Above: Kathy and John vanDyk, owners of Covered Bridge Brewing) Covered Bridge Brewing on Iber Road is celebrating their first anniversary this Saturday with an open house from 12:00pm-4pm. They’re…
New winter golf studio launched in Stittsville
(Above: Chris Bernard has more than 40 years of experience in the golf industry. Photo by Ron Patey The new Chris Bernard Golf Academy Winter Studio is up and running in the heart…
PHOTO: Gas at 99.9 … no wait, 98.9!
When’s the last time gas in Stittsville was under a dollar? Photographer Barry Gray sent along this pic earlier this afternoon. Then a few minutes later he sent me another…
Discover a local business this Saturday!
This Saturday, December 6, over 20 shops, restaurants and services in Stittsville are teaming up to promote “Support Local Stittsville”. It’s a day to encourage residents from inside and outside of…
Toronto Star: “Kathleen Edwards calls it quits, opens Quitters Coffee”
Kathleen Edwards, the owner of Quitters on Stittsville Main, is featured in the Toronto Star today. It’s a chilly mid-November afternoon, and the floor-to-ceiling windows facing out onto the downtrodden…