Category: Community Groups
DEC 6: WOCRC hosts candlelight vigil for murdered and abused women
The Western Ottawa Community Resource Centre (WOCRC) Peer Support Program is holding a candlelight vigil on Wednesday, December 6 to mark the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence…
Sabrina Kemp receives SVA Volunteer of the Year award
(PHOTO: Sabrina Kemp, Joanne Tibbles, and Tanya Hein.) Sabrina Kemp was named as the Stittsville Village Association’s Volunteer of the Year for outstanding work in the community at the SVA Annual…
Stocking Project launches 2017 season with new workshop on Hazeldean
The Stocking Project has a new home this year in big red Deschenes-Poitras barn on Hazeldean Road. They’re now accepting donations and volunteers to make this season another success. The premise…
Volunteers needed for this year’s Stittsville Parade of Lights
(ABOVE: Faces all aglow at last year’s Parade of Lights. Photo by Barry Gray.) Yes, Santa Claus is definitely coming to town and the Stittsville Village Association (SVA) is hoping…
COMMENT: The “creative activism” behind the Rosehill Expressway launch
(PHOTO: Unveiling the Rosehill Expressway sign. Photo by C.W.) A huge thank you to my neighbours in Bryanston Gate, Fairwinds and Poole Creek Village for helping to open the Rosehill…
PHOTOS: Remembrance Day 2017 in Stittsville
(ABOVE: Wreaths at the cenotaph. Photo by Glen Gower.)
Remembrance Day display pays tribute to veterans with PTSD
(PHOTO: A bagpiper plays in front of a backlt Remembrance Day display in front of Dennis Burton’s home on Flewellyn Road.) Dennis Burton is a Navy veteran who served Canada for…
Nominations open for SVA volunteer of the year award
The SVA recognizes that our community wouldn’t be as amazing as it is without hundreds of volunteers lending their time and talent to a variety of programs each year. These…
CITIZEN: Former Stittsville volunteer Mary Durling honoured with park name
From the Ottawa Citizen: On Friday, Stittsville’s Cypress Gardens Park, on Brae Crescent and just two blocks from the house where Mary lived for 48 years until her death in…
LETTER: Stittsville Lions launch this year’s fundraising campaign
At this time of year, the Stittsville District Lions Club conducts its Annual Fundraising Campaign, raising funds to help the less fortunate. The club supports various groups such as the…
Stittsville’s link to a religious procession celebrating Our Lady of Fatima
(This article was submitted by Jacinta Cillis-Asquith. As you’ll read below, her family has an important connection to this Friday’s procession. Readers may also remember Cillis-Asquith’s nature photography that we’ve featured…
OCT 11: Bryanston Gate Community Association AGM
The Bryanston Gate Community Association will be holding its’ Annual General Meeting this week. BGCA Annual General Meeting Wednesday, October 11, 2017 7:00 PM Carolark Canine Training Centre, corner of…
Richmond Village Association meets on October 18
(via Richmond Village Association) OnWednesday Oct. 18th at 8:00pm, the RVA will be holding their monthly board meeting at the Richmond Community Centre (upstairs at the Arena) in which the public…
Giant Tiger hosts fundraiser for Lifeskills
(via Ottawa-Carleton Lifeskills) Giant Tiger on Hazeldean Road (Jackson Trails Plaza) is hosting a fundraiser Saturday September 30-Monday October 2 for Ottawa- Carleton Lifeskills (OCL). OCL cares for adults with developmental and…
Library to name a room in honour of Grace Thompson
(press release) The Ottawa Public Library (OPL) will be honouring Grace Thompson with a commemorative naming of the meeting room in the Stittsville branch in recognition of her historical significance…