Rescue of Mainstreeter Newsbox- Take it from our newsbox: It’s no fun getting dumped!! Major Hawthorne Avenue Development Proposed, and Roundly Opposed Bower Street sisters named to Team Canada- Abrie and Kenzie Girgis Fulfill Their Dreams with Call-Ups to Canada’s National Field Hockey Teams
Engineers Seek Solutions for Earlier Rideau Skateway Opening

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… Read more »

17 Voyces Choir – This Nonsense is not your normal choir concert!

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… Read more »

Art Beat – Tim Hunt’s Main Street Sketches

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… Read more »

Adopt-a-City-Bench to Help Wearly – The 2023 Snow Mole Campaign

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… Read more »

PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT – Minor Variances Can Be A Major Issue for Property Owners and Neighbours

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… Read more »

French Learning for Children – Use of the French Language at Home Continues Alarming Decline in Ottawa.

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… Read more »

Good Morning Creative Arts & Preschool – Glebe Preschool Consider Old Ottawa East a Possible Location for Its Forever Home

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… Read more »

Mainstreeter Newspaper Box Restoration

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… Read more »

Reverend Victoria Scott – New Priest Announced at Ascension Church

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… Read more »

Our Neighbours – Meet Dave Longbottom & Carrie Colton: For This Echo Drive Couple, Collaboration is the Essence of Community

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,… Read more »

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