Category: Community Groups
Quitters lends support to Chrysalis House
(Quitters is encouraging customers and neighbours to drop off a donation for Chrysalis House, a local women’s shelter, from now until the end of December. Here’s more info about the…
Stittsville community members share breakfast with the mayor
On Thursday, December 3, community leaders from Stittsville were invited to have breakfast meeting with Councillor Shad Qadri and Mayor Jim Watson. The meeting, which was held in the Mayor’s…
Over 9,000 items collected for Food Bank during “Fill the Bus”
For the 30th year, OC Transpo parked buses outside of local Loblaws, Superstores and Your Independent Grocers locations across Ottawa on Saturday, asking shoppers to pack them full of food…
COMMENTS OF THE WEEK: Getting involved in community safety
We received a lot of comments this week on our editorial Residents, not just police, have a role to play in community safety, written in response to a very low turn-out…
St. Thomas gears up for 150th anniversary
(Above: Long-time church members William Passmore, chair of the 150th anniversary committee, along with Doreen Bell. Passmore has served as head of the Sunday School and has been part of…
COMMENT: Residents, not just police, have a role to play in community safety
One morning earlier this year, residents living near A. Lorne Cassidy school in Crossing Bridge woke up to find broken beer bottles and garbage all over the school’s playground. The residents had a…
PHOTOS: Stittsville aglow with community spirit
Tiny tots and big kids young and old had eyes all aglow as they watched dozens of brightly lit floats travel down Stittsville Main Street for last night’s Parade of…
LIVE: Stittsville Parade of Lights in photos and tweets
(Also check out our official photo gallery from last night’s parade, featuring photos from Barry Gray: PHOTOS: Stittsville aglow with community spirit) https://twitter.com/613STEVE/status/670760275721588737 2 spectators at the #Stittsville parade of…
SVA welcomes seven new board members
Seven new board members were elected at the Stittsville Village Association’s annual general meeting on Thursday night. This year’s board will include: Tanya Hein, President Glen Gower, Vice President Jennifer de…
Rideau-Goulbourn community leaders prep for breakfast meeting with the mayor
From the Richmond Village Association web site: “Mayor Jim Watson has invited our RVA President, Tino Bevacqua, as well as other community leaders in the Rideau-Goulbourn Ward to join him…
Greco raises over $1,500 for boy battling leukemia
Greco Stittsville hosted a fundraising fitness class on Saturday in support of Michael Meehan, a nine-year-old boy from Stittsville who’s undergoing intensive treatment for leukemia for the second time. The event…
Stittsville Public School will support 17 families at Christmas
(Above: Stittsville Public School student Ella Sultan helps sort some of the many donations received last year.) Hi, my name is Ella and my mom and I are organizing the Christmas…
Dedicated youth make a big difference at Stittsville Food Bank
(Photo: Stittsville Food Bank volunteers front row L-R: Kayla Robinson, Connor Meek, Caroline Frost, Shaheen Aziz, Gillian Smith, Back Row, L-R: Theresa Qadri (Chair), Adam McCaw, Quentin Pickett. Photo by…
Three ways to support the Stittsville Food Bank during the holiday season
(Photo by Barry Gray.) DONATE FOOD Fill the Bus, which is the 30th Annual Christmas Food Drive will take place on Saturday, December 5, between 9am-5pm at Brown’s Your Independent Grocers…
Here’s what’s planned for Stittsville’s Remembrance Day ceremony
(Above: The Colour Party leads veterans and other participants down Stittsville Main Street on November 11, 2014. Photo by Barry Gray.) This year’s Remembrance Day activities in Stittsville will begin…