Category: Sports & Recreation
9RUNRUN: Photos and tweets from today’s races
https://twitter.com/Kendra_OttFire/status/787275876652183552 On a beautiful fall morning, #9RunRun was great! But my knee is killing me. pic.twitter.com/LspwIG9CBg — Ben Wood (@bnjmnwood) October 15, 2016 Super race today @9RunRun 10K in the…
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…
First edition of “La course des Patriotes” takes place October 29
École secondaire catholique Paul-Desmarais, Stittsville’s new French Catholic high school, is planning the inaugural edition of La course des Patriotes on October 29. It’s partly an effort to promote youth fitness…
List of road closures for 9RUNRUN on Saturday, October 15
(Photo: Runners at the 2013 9 Run Run event.) With less than two weeks until race day, spots are nearly sold out for 9RUNRUN. Now entering its seventh year, 9RUNRUN has raised…
Registration continues for the Goulbourn Skating Club
Fall and winter registration is now available for the Goulbourn Skating Club. For more details on the various sessions and programs offered by the Goulbourn Skating Club, please click here…
Additional details for Sunday’s Sens Fan Fest released
(via Ottawa Senators) More than 50 players, prospects and alumni to participate in fan press conferences, autograph sessions, intra-squad game and more. The Ottawa Senators (@Senators) announced today additional details…
REVIEW: Cabela’s interactive experience is right on target
(Editor’s note: We sent Stittsville neighbour Coreen Tyers to a media preview on Tuesday of the new Cabela’s store, across the street from Tanger Outlets in Kanata. The store opens…
Cheer Sport Sharks host two free cheer clinics
(PHOTO: Photo taken at the Kicks Competition in Montreal on March 20th after the Finback and Pacific Sharks won their bids to represent Canada at the 2016 Worlds. Photo by…
Stittsville 56ers Novice Girls win provincial softball championship
(Bottom Row Left to right: Avery Smith, Violet MacEwen, Jayde Shouldice Middle Row Left to right: Sarah Di Crese, Brianna Flowers, MacKenzie Bresee Back Row Left to right: Matt Wheatley…
Zida Academy embraces new teaching technology
(Photo: Former student Samantha Pierre at the opening of Zida Academy in Stittsville. Photo by Devyn Barrie) The grounds of Zida Academy were really jumping over the weekend. Probably because…
Stittsville skating pair set sights on Canadian championships in January
Stittsville teenagers Alex Gunther and Kaitlyn Chubb have started a string of competitions that they hope will bring them to the Canadian national figure skating championships in Ottawa in January…
GRC pool closed from August 29-September 19 for maintenance
(via Councillor Shad Qadri / City of Ottawa) The Goulbourn Recreation Complex and Richcraft Recreation Complex swimming pools will be closed from August 29th-September 19th/18th due to annual maintenance. The complexes…
GRC gym to be named after Erica Wiebe
Just one week after she won Olympic gold in Rio, hundreds of residents – many of them kids – packed the gymnasium at the Goulbourn Recreation Complex on Thursday evening to…
Trampoline park will be part of Zida Academy grand opening on Sunday
(Photo: Zida’s Sheng Lan with his mother Hua (Jennifer) Lan and father Julian Ni. Photo by Devyn Barrie.) Zida Academy, the private school at the old Ottawa Waldorf School location…
PHOTOS: Stittsville’s Erica Wiebe touches down at YOW
PHOTO: Via Blair Crawford/Twitter UPDATE: The City of Ottawa is hosting a reception for Erica Wiebe at the Goulbourn Recreation Complex on Thursday, August 25 at 7:00pm. All residents are…