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BATTLE BUDDIES: How Stittsville fundraising is helping veterans with PTSD
(PHOTO: Shawna Church Roy with her second service dog, Loki.) SHAWNA CHURCH ROY WAS WALKING BACK FROM SOME ERRANDS WHEN SHE SAW IT: flames shooting out the roof of her family’s house.…
Carleton U. engineering back from building schools in Nicaragua
While many students were busy with Frosh Week festivities, Parker Armstrong was working to empower children to go to school in Nicaragua, where only 56% of children graduate from primary school.…
NOTEBOOK: Revised site plan approved for Stittsville Walk
(FILE PHOTO: Unfinished “Stittsville Walk” condos, March 6, 2016.) “I suppose the best one can say is that it is no worse than the original proposal.” That’s the reaction I received…
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…
Just Shawarma adds another flavour to the Stittsville food scene
(PHOTO: Just Shawarma owner Nedal Atieh (right) says that Bahaa Shakir (left) is the greatest shawarma chef in the city.) Nedal Atieh says Stittsville residents have been incredibly welcoming since…
NOTEBOOK: Landfill proposal could mean even more downtown trucks
A number of people have asked me this summer about the status of the Carp Road landfill expansion, or as Waste Management (WM) would prefer us to call it, the West…
HODGINS HOUSE: They paved paradise, put up a Mattress Mart
“IN LESS THAN 24 HOURS IT WAS GONE,” wrote reporter Debbie Lawes in the Kanata Standard on Wednesday, June 8, 1988, a week after a wrecking crew tore down Hodgins House…
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…
NOTEBOOK: Goulbourn Street petition, Erica Wiebe, retirement home launch
PETITION AGAINST GOULBOURN STREET NAME CHANGE City Council received a petition today from 43 residents on Goulbourn Street, asking the city to either keep the street name the same or…
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…
Stittsville’s Grace Lachance releases first single, Anymore
A little more than a year since Grace Lachance won the Bluesfest She’s The One contest, the 15-year-old singer from Stittsville has released her first single through a record label. “Anymore” hit…
UPDATE: No commemorative street names in this round
(PHOTO: Warner-Colpitts Lane is named after Sterling Warner and Ian Colpitts, two Stittsville volunteers who were instrumental in building the Johnny Leroux Arena.) Councillor Shad Qadri provided an update on…
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…
PHOTOS: Sunday night’s incredible sunset
Last night’s incredible summer sunset, captured by Barry Gray off Hazeldean Road. (We love seeing photos from in and around our community. Please send your best pics to us at feedback@stittsvillecentral.ca)
LETTER: The Tragically Hip have a really special place in my heart
(Leslie McKay is a longtime Stittsville resident and shared this story about her family’s connection with The Tragically Hip.) When my Dad was awaiting his double-lung transplant in Toronto…