Category: Sports & Recreation
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…
Orangetheory Fitness hosts grand opening on Thursday
(via Orangetheory Fitness) After five long months of construction, reserving pre-opening memberships, participating in multiple events, setting up and training the team of staff in order to open our next…
Erica Wiebe returns to Ottawa on Tuesday morning
https://www.instagram.com/p/BJU4kJhjcJZ/ (press release via the Canadian Olympic Committee / Wrestling Canada) With the 2016 Olympic Games ending today, Canadian wrestling 2016 Olympic Champion Erica Wiebe will be returning home…
ROUND-UP: Celebrating Erica Wiebe’s gold medal victory
https://www.instagram.com/p/BJRp2GXjyho/?taken-by=eweebz The community, the city, the entire country is cheering on Erica Wiebe’s gold medal victory in Olympic wrestling. Here are some stories, interviews and photos from the last 24…
MEC Summer Century Ride includes a trip through Stittsville
(via MEC/Mountain Equipment Co-op) This third annual ride returns on Sunday, August 28, 2016! For only $45 (CAD), you can choose between three different ride options, 50km, 100km or 160km…
Erica Wiebe wins gold medal in Olympic wrestling
Canada. We did it. pic.twitter.com/k0bb6BJvyf — Erica Wiebe (@ericawiebe) August 18, 2016 It was the moment we were all waiting for. Stittsville’s Erica Wiebe won a gold medal for Canada in…