Engineers Seek Solutions for Earlier Rideau Skateway Opening
John Dance As is painfully obvious to all, and as a result of climate change, the Rideau Skateway has increasingly shorter seasons with later openings, but Carleton University engineering professors…
17 Voyces Choir – This Nonsense is not your normal choir concert!
Robert MacDermid & John Goldsmith Nonsense and Nursery Rhymes, Concert by 17 Voyces Choir; St. Matthew’s Church in the Glebe, Saturday, 4 March 2023 @ 7:30 PM For the 17…
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 thepages from his sketchbook and tells the stories…
Adopt-a-City-Bench to Help Wearly – The 2023 Snow Mole Campaign
Dianne Breton This is the sixth successive winter that Council on Aging Snow Moles from across Ottawa will answer survey questions with the goal of improving the safety of winter…
PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT – Minor Variances Can Be A Major Issue for Property Owners and Neighbours
John Dance Minor variances may be difficult, unique, esoteric, costly, time-consuming, required, adversarial, controversial, challenging, frustrating or some combination of all these attributes. They are also a key authorization a…
French Learning for Children – Use of the French Language at Home Continues Alarming Decline in Ottawa.
Noémie Ipou In Ottawa, the percentage of Canadians who spoke mainly French at home dropped from 10% in 2016 to 8.4% in 2021, according to the Ottawa Citizen. There are…
Good Morning Creative Arts & Preschool – Glebe Preschool Consider Old Ottawa East a Possible Location for Its Forever Home
Mainstreeter Staff For over 40 years, Good Morning Creative Arts & Preschool has operated licensed, arts-based childcare programs at its current location in the Logan-Ventca Hall at the corner of…
Mainstreeter Newspaper Box Restoration
Mainstreeter Staff Tim Hunt’s new 2-minute Youtube video about the near-destruction of the familiar Mainstreeter newspaper box on December 22nd at the Flora Footbridge, and Tim’s subsequent restoration and reinstallation…
Reverend Victoria Scott – New Priest Announced at Ascension Church
Mary Crawford The Church of the Ascension has announced that Reverend Victoria Scott is the new priest of the Echo Drive Anglican church. Her appointment as the spiritual head of…
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,…
