PHOTOS: Snow? Oh no!
All photos by Barry Gray.
Stittsville’s spookiest Halloween displays (2016)
(Photo by Barry Gray.) Where are Stittsville’s most ghoulish and gruesome haunted houses, garages, and front lawns? Here are some suggestions:
It’s flu (clinic) season!
It’s flu season – everybody’s favourite time of year (after Festivus.) If you’d rather avoid the fever, cough, aches, sores, congestion, occasional vomiting and other… symptoms, you’ll probably want to get…
PHOTO: Red barn on Huntley Road
“This is a shot this morning of that wonderful farm outside Stittsville on the way to Richmond on Huntley Road.” Photo by Barry Gray. (We love seeing photos from in…
“Ghoul”bourn Street haunted backyard opens Oct 29-31
Better night tonight to get stuff done. #GoulbournStHaunt. #Stittsville #halloween pic.twitter.com/EzXwqYMoj6 — Barking Dog (@GoulbournHaunt1) October 25, 2016 Joe Chenette of “Ghoul”bourn Street sent along a note to let us…
Jim Bryson to play Crossroads jazz series at the NAC
Jim Bryson will be one of the featured artists this spring as part of the National Arts Centre’s CROSSROADS Jazz Series. The series is directed by Ottawa Jazz Festival programming manager Petr Cancura,…
Job fairs at Community Employment Resource Centre this week
(via CERC) The Community Employment Resource Centre (CERC) in Kanata (415 Hazeldean Road near Eagleson) is hosting a series of local job fairs this week with businesses including Food Basics, Tim Hortons…
COMMENT: The good and the bad of Ottawa’s proposed new water rates
(Construction is underway for the Kanata West Pump Station on Maple Grove Road, part of a $60-million sewer infrastructure project in Kanata-Stittsville. This photo is from last April.) Four things…
NOTEBOOK: 9RunRun attendance boost, Jinkinson re-zoning, Kungfu lunches
9RUNRUN ATTENDANCE BOOST The final fundraising tally for last week’s 9RunRun won’t be available until November but the attendance numbers are encouraging. Organizer Brenda Tirrell says that combined, the three races…
Stittsville South construction resumes, and that means more blasting
After a few months of delay because of missing permits, construction is proceeding south of the Westwind community in what’s known as Stittsville South. That construction involves a lot of…
Official renaming for Erica Wiebe Gymnasium is on November 1
(via Councillor Shad Qadri) As announced at her homecoming party on August 25th, the Goulbourn Recreation Complex (GRC) Gymnasium will be undergoing a commemorative naming for Olympic gold-medalist and Stittsville-born…
PHOTOS: A collection of autumn colours
Thank you to our readers who keep sending in their great pics of fall foliage. The colours this year are incredible. (We love seeing photos from in and around our community. Please…
LETTER: Gazebo funding isn’t a conflict of interest
Re: How the City is paying for a gazebo at Village Square Park Your recent article reports on a new $105,000 gazebo for Village Square Park. Part of the funding for the…
City seeks feedback on new commemorative park names
(PHOTO: The City is proposing changing the name of Bell Memorial Park on Stittsville Main Street “W.J. Bell Rotary Peace Park”. This photo is from the opening ceremonies for the…
4th annual Stittsville Pumpkin Parade returns on Nov 1
Bring your jack o’lanterns to the 4th Annual Stittsville Pumpkin Parade on November 1 at Village Square Park!