Tag: Ottawa
Changes coming to Ottawa Client Service Centres
The City of Ottawa advises residents about the upcoming closure and changes to in-person services at its Client Service Centres.
Stittsville student named Ambassador for upcoming NAC BIG BANG Festival
The National Arts Centre is hosting their 2024 BIG BANG Festival on February 17th and 18th, and one of Stittsville’s talented students has been made one of ten Ambassadors.
Let your imagination soar – Awesome Authors returns for 2024!
The Ottawa Public Library is calling all young writers to participate in the Awesome Authors Youth Writing Contest, a fantastic opportunity to showcase your storytelling prowess…
Reducing crime and violence – presentation to the Probus Club of Western Ottawa by Dr. Irwin Waller
The Probus Club of Western Ottawa will welcome Dr. Irwin Waller to speak about the imperative to reduce crime and violence in Ottawa and Canada. “How can we make Ottawa, and indeed Canada, safer?” That is the theme of this timely presentation…
‘Ride for Dad’ revs their engines in support of prostate cancer June 3rd
Riders and supporters from the Ottawa/Gatineau region will come together to take part in a live entertainment and celebration departing from Canada Post…
Stittsville resident Jesse Card, Director of Youth Ottawa, wins Ottawa’s Forty Under 40 Award
When Stittsville Central last caught up with Jesse Card in April of 2021, he had just taken over as Director of Youth Ottawa. A couple of years later, he has won Ottawa’s Forty Under 40 Award for his work in that position.
The HEO U18AAA season comes to an end for the last time under a 12-team league, as plans to eliminate the U15 Priority Draft are finalized
The Hockey Eastern Ontario (HEO) U18AAA season has come to an end with the Kemptville 73s winning the HEO regional qualifiers tournament and moving on to compete at the Central Regional Qualifiers on the road to the TELUS Cup. But what teams didn’t know at the beginning of the season, is that this would be the last HEO U18AAA season as they know it… at least for a while.
Ottawa Public Library’s Awesome Authors Contest is back
The Ottawa Public Library invites Ottawa’s young writers to once again take part in the Awesome Authors Contest for a chance to have their work published and win cash prizes.
Many proposed changes to Bill 23 put homeowners in harm’s way – Mississippi Valley Conservation Authority
(The Stittsville Wetland in fall along the Trans Canada Trail heading west. Photo: Stittsville Central) The Province’s More Homes Built Faster Act asks taxpayers to subsidize development while removing fundamental controls over…
Meet your four Ward 6 Stittsville councillor candidates
Questions were posed of each candidate on affordable housing, transit service, volunteer firefighters, what is being heard at the door, and, what are each candidate’s priorities to improve Stittsville.
Ontarians 18+ eligible for Bivalent booster on September 26 – new paediatric Pfizer vaccine also available
Effective September 26, all adults aged 18 and over are eligible to receive the bivalent booster dose which may offer more targeted protection against the Omicron variants.
Nominations for the 2022 Immigrant Entrepreneur Awards are open
The winners for the 2022 Immigrant Entrepreneur Awards will be announced during TiE Ottawa’s TiECON Canada Conference, on Friday, October 28.
Registration for the fall edition of Cleaning the Capital opens on August 15
2022 marks the 29th year of the Cleaning the Capital Program! The annual cleanup campaign first began in 1994 as a springtime cleanup.
Shiva Yan of Stittsville receives a Welcoming Ottawa Ambassador Award
“After almost 10 years since the inception of WOW, I am so proud of the work OLIP has done to make WOW such a successful initative,” Mayor Watson told the audience.
Monkeypox – first confirmed case in Ottawa
Ottawa Public Health (OPH) is reporting the first lab-confirmed case of monkeypox in an Ottawa resident. . The risk to the general public at this time is very low.