Our Neighbours – Meet Dave Longbottom & Carrie Colton: For This Echo Drive Couple, Collaboration is the Essence of Community
Dianne Wing Dave Longbottom and Carrie Colton believe in collaboration and that collaboration is community. While his first career as a technology executive and entrepreneur saw him travel the world,…
Art Beat – Tim Hunt’s Main Street Sketches
Tim Hunt Tim Hunt explores his community outfitted with a small sketchbook, pen, and watercolour kit. In our regular feature, he shares the pages from his sketchbook and tells the…
Art Beat – OOE Artist Feature: Activism Through Artphotographers Jake Morrison and Jim Lamont
Tanis Browning-Shelp Photographer Jake Morrison and his partner Jane Keeler care deeply about Ottawa’s green space. In Old Ottawa East (OOE), Morrison curated the rotating photographic gallery at The Green…
Colonel By Drive and Queen Elizabeth Driveway Are Now Slower, But Is That Better?
John Dance We received about 100 comments from residents who expressed strongly held but varying opinions on the reduction of the speed limit on the Rideau Canal parkways from 60…
Controversy Surfaces Over Brantwood Park Tennis and Pickleball Courts
David Henderson Tennis and pickleball players who make use of the Brantwood Park courts are well aware of the work the City of Ottawa has undertaken this fall to lay-in…
The Tamarack Ottawa Race Weekend : Old Ottawa East is Running Territory, and The Journey to The Start Line Begins Soon
Theresa Wallace If the pandemic has taught us anything, it’s that we should pursue our dreams when we can. As Theresa Wallace explains, if your body is good to go…
Our Community – At Lady Evelyn School History of Local WW2 Heroes Brought Home to Students
John Dance The astounding contributions of Lady Evelyn School’s students to Canada’s Second World War “Fighting Forces” were literally brought home to the school’s current students at their Remembrance Day…
Our Community – Citizens rally to preserve Brantwood Gates Tradition
John Dance The important and longstanding tradition of honouring Canadian veterans at Old Ottawa East’s Brantwood Gates has continued this year thanks to the efforts of many community members, several…
The Greening of Colonel By Drive – NCC Will Address Lopsided Canal Tree Coverage
Mainstreeter Staff Improvements to the tree-barren stretches of Colonel By Drive will be made, MP Yasir Naqvi told Old Ottawa East (OOE) residents at the recent OOE Community Association (OOECA)…
VOLUNTEERING – The Sandwich Club: Canadian Martyrs Church, Centre 507 Team Up to Feed The Needy
Adele Casuga The Canadian Martyrs Parish – Centre 507 Sandwich Club had about 4000 reasons to celebrate on October 22. Leslie Walker, member of District 27 Council, presented a $4,000…
