Tag: flewellyn
CITIZEN: 19 Ottawa intersections that need safety upgrades
The Citizen’s Jon Willing has an article about traffic safety at intersections: At 19 Ottawa intersections where signals are warranted but not installed, there were 102 crashes over three years……
CBC: One man dead after car strikes tree on Flewellyn
From CBC News: A man in his 60s has died after a car struck a tree in the rural southwest Ottawa community of Goulbourn Monday morning, police and paramedics say.…
Remembrance Day display pays tribute to veterans with PTSD
(PHOTO: A bagpiper plays in front of a backlt Remembrance Day display in front of Dennis Burton’s home on Flewellyn Road.) Dennis Burton is a Navy veteran who served Canada for…
WETLANDS: A regulatory loophole you can drive a dump truck through
(PHOTO: Ken McRae says he believe some landowners on Flewellyn Road are dumping fill into wetlands to avoid Provincially Significant Wetland designation. Photo by Devyn Barrie.) A local environmental activist…
City and junk yard face off in zoning scrap
A four-year-old zoning scrap between the City of Ottawa and a Goulbourn scrapyard could wind up back in court, as the area’s city councillor criticizes what he says is “blatant”…
UPDATE: Flewellyn-Jones house project seeks re-zoning
(ABOVE: Flewellyn-Jones House, November 2013.) Last January, City Council approved heritage designation for the Flewellyn-Jones House on Fernbank Road, just east of the Shea Road roundabout. I noticed that a…
A FINE BALANCE: Study looks at why Goulbourn wetlands are changing
(ABOVE: Looking north from the Trans Canada Trail, west of Stittsville, June 2016. Photo illustration.) “No interrupting, no swearing, no shouting. We’re all here to be heard, and this is…
Public meeting on June 20 about Goulbourn / Flewellyn wetland study
(Above: Former farmland, now wetland along Flewellyn Road. Photo from November 2014.) The City of Ottawa is holding a long-awaited information meeting later this month to share the results of…
LIFE’S A DITCH: Ottawa Fire called to the rescue
Several accidents along Fallowfield Rd and Flewellyn Rd in #Stittsville. Please drive with caution. @OttawaFirePIO pic.twitter.com/zaHRVaVaQq — Todd Horricks (@ChiefHorricks) March 17, 2016 Ottawa Fire Services helped out with three cars…
NOTEBOOK: Ecole Paul-Desmarais opens next week, new Gaia Java owners, more
22 décembre… la construction de notre édifice progresse bien. Il sera prêt pour le 28 janvier! pic.twitter.com/dTSOt7HubQ — Esc Paul-Desmarais (@EscPaulD) December 25, 2015 Premier rassemblement des Patriotes! Dans notre…
PHOTO: Cherry on top
Taken last weekend in front of the Cash for Trash junkyard on Flewellyn Road. Photo by Glen Gower. We love getting photos from our readers. Send your pics to feedback@stittsvillecentral.ca
NOTEBOOK: Flewellyn-Jones house could be home to a PTSD wellness centre
Interesting discussion today at City Hall around the impacts of heritage designation, and a great example of a creative compromise. A group of seven therapists want to transform the Flewellyn-Jones…
NOTEBOOK: Campeau Drive extension, Flewellyn-Jones House, coffee talk, more
CAMPEAU DRIVE: Kanata North Councillor Marianne Wilkinson says that the full Campeau extension from Terry Fox to Huntmar isn’t expected to open until 2018. That’s on schedule according to the…
Flewellyn-Jones House on Fernbank up for heritage designation
IMAGINE YOU AND YOUR SPOUSE ARE NEWLYWEDS IN YOUR EARLY TWENTIES. You have a young child, maybe an infant, certainly no older than two years old, and you decide to…
QADRI: Summary of conditions imposed for Stittsville South development
City Councillor Shad Qadri posted this note to several local Facebook groups today. You can see background documents for the plan of subdivision here. Stittsville South – Plan of Subdivision…