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The City wants your opinion on planned changes to recreation fees. But it seems the City knows this won’t be popular so it is being very cagey about what is being proposed. 

While it does explain it in a video, the webpage doesn't mention what will be happening. So we will.

The City wants to have three tiers of recreation pricing.

Skating, swimming, and basic gym sports would be the cheapest.

The mid tier is access to weight and cardio rooms plus posher sports like squash and rock wall climbing.  

The most expensive would give access to group fitness, aqua fitness, and wave swimming.

There are three public meetings coming up to hear from the public:

• Tuesday, January 16
  • Nepean Sportsplex, 1701 Woodroffe Avenue 
  • 6:30 pm to 8 pm
• Thursday, January 18
  • Greenboro Community Centre, 363 Lorry Greenberg Drive 
  • 10:30 am to 12 pm
• Monday, January 22
  • Virtual meeting on Zoom
  • 6:30 pm to 8 pm

You must register for the meeting here and the City is limiting meetings to 75 people.

You can also answer a web survey here.

– Martha and Darren

TODAY’S LINE UP

•  Food + Drink Update
•  Ottawa Stats
•  City Hall Agenda
•  What Ottawa is Talking About
•  Events
•  Deals of the Day

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FOOD + DRINK UPDATE

•  Around the Block Butcher and Market is moving from its original Cobden Road digs to a new, larger location on Centrepointe Drive, where it expects to open later this month. They’ll announce the opening via social media and their newsletter.

•  Ameya Charnalia at Eat The Strip tried the Yemeni cuisine at 3Cents Resto & Cafe this week. Charnalia was tipped off about the café by a reader who wrote ‘If you want a cappuccino along with your liver-and-onion breakfast then 3Cents might be worth checking out’. The hit of the evening was the fava beans: ‘It tasted like a cross between a Mexican dish—with the quintessential kick of lime—and a spicy Indian curry’.

•  Help support Rangoli Indian Cuisine on St. Joseph Boulevard in Orléans by eating some good food. The resto was the victim of a $200 burglary that cost thousands in damages.

•  Fairouz Café and Raphaël Peruvian Cuisine made Open Table’s 2024 list of 100 restaurants with Healthy Bites.

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OTTAWA STATS

Sports

• 🏒 NHL Ottawa Senators 3  – Calgary Flames 6 last night
• 🏒 PWHL Ottawa  – Boston. Last Monday’s weather postponed match will be played Feb 19.

CITY HALL AGENDA

What’s going on at City Hall
 

No meetings until January 16.

WHAT OTTAWA IS TALKING ABOUT

🏠 Carling Place 

•  Townhouses that once sold for $900,000 are now offered at $499,000 in Carling Place development. Real estate people say that it is a combination of the original price being too high and current interest rates deterring buyers. (Jackie Perez at CTV)

☢️ Chalk River

•  Canadian Nuclear Laboratories has received Federal approval for a radioactive waste dump. Located 190 km upriver from Ottawa, the dump is expected to hold ‘low-level radioactive waste including contaminated soil and building materials from decommissioned Chalk River activities, mops and protective clothing used during cleanup, and waste from sources such as hospitals and universities’. If built, the site would operate for 50 years, then closed for 330 years and deemed safe once again in the year 2400. (Kimberley Molina at CBC)

🛻 Convoy News

• The rump group of Convoy supporters on a farm east of Ottawa say the local municipality is being mean to them. Around 60 people are living in 12 to 15 trailers on a farm in La Nation. The group is grousing about visits by building and fire inspectors coming by and accusations that the land owner is running a campground without a permit. (David Fraser at CBC)

⚕️ Ottawa Hospital

•  The Ottawa Hospital is expanding surgical services for transgender people. The hospital will now provide double mastectomies, genital surgery, and facial feminization surgery, the first of its kind in Ontario. Previously, the Hospital only provided double mastectomies. (William Eltherington at CTV)

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EVENTS

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Today

•  The Almonte Potters Guild presents Adult Introduction to Pottery with Lenka Acreman. 3:00 pm to 5:30 pm today through 21 February.

•  Ottawa Arts Council Art Awards begins accepting applications today (until March 8). There are English and French info sessions in early February.

•  Orléans Brewing Co’s Oyster Wednesdays are back.

  
  Gigs

•  Jazz Nite with Justin Duhaime. Queen St. Fare

•  Trivia Night. St. Louis Bar and Grill (399 Elgin)

•  Trivia Night. Beyond the Pale Brewing

•  Kealey’s Urban Campfire. Red Bird

•  Grace Clark & Siri Olunuga. Montgomery Scotch Lounge
   

Tomorrow

•  Bring your best trash talk to the Beyond the Pale Sens Chirp Meet-up. The Sens vs. Sabres game will be on the screens, the fine craft beer will be pouring, and there are prizes to be had.

•  Do the Hustle. The dance made popular in discos of the 70s is more popular than ever. This four week course starts tonight at the Bronson Centre.
  
  
  Gigs

•  Comedy Night. Pour Boy

•  Trivia Night. Whiprsnapr Brewing

•  Laura Gagnon and Fabien Malenson. Overflow Brewing

•  Thursday Blues Sessions. Irene’s Pub Restaurant

•  RedFox. Montgomery Scotch Lounge
   

Friday

•  Take your burning questions to a psychic, medium, numerologist, or palm reader at the Ottawa West Psychic & Crystal Fair. Friday through Sunday at the Best Western, Bells Corners.

•  It’s the first Art Battle of 2024 (that we’ve heard about, at least). Head to Overflow Brewing to watch as 12 artists run 3 rounds of creative fury. There can only be one winner. $23.73 per person.
  
  
  Gigs

•  Redfox. Stray Dog Brewing Co

•  Amer Rez. YukYuk’s

•  Solstice with Cloverdale and Old West. City at Night

•  Rolo Duo. Montgomery Scotch Lounge

•  James Ehnes plays Bach. National Arts Centre

•  Jeff Meleras and the Bokonons. Red Bird

•  Distortion Dance Party. LIVE on Elgin

•  Eric Joseph. Royal Oak 188 Bank St.

•  Leeny Jones & the Boys EP release party with Pretty Good, Valley Girls. Irene’s Pub Restaurant

•  Blingo Night. Pour Boy

•  The Empties and Out by Lucy. Rainbow Bistro
   

Just Announced

• Learn the basics of wood carving with Ottawa City Woodshop.

• Italian Week Ottawa (June 6-16 2024) is accepting applications for members of its Board of Directors. The festival hopes to find a Treasurer as well as Board Members at Large.

DEALS OF THE DAY

BUT, ONE MORE THING ...

Ottawa poet/publisher rob mclennan has released his ‘Best of’ poetry books list for 2023. It’s Canada wide, but he does include three books from his hometown: lisan al’asfour by natalie hanna, Beast Body Epic by Amanda Earl, and Vixen by Sandra Ridley.

A fourth book, Kill Your Starlings by London’s Tom Cull, has this stanza about heading west from Fallowfield Station: ‘Outside, land is drawn and quartered. / Wild turkeys step through / split-rail fences; a lone coyote pauses / in a pasture, head thrown / back across its body watching us pass.’

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