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Tuesday, December 12 2023

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Today

❄️ Snow
High 3° Low -10°
🌞7:33 am🌛4:19 pm

Tomorrow

⛅ Scattered Clouds
High -1° Low -5°
🌞 7:33 am🌛4:19 pm

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HELLO OTTAWA

Reader Andrea C told us that she’s currently in the middle of her third year of creating custom beanbags to raise funds for Interval House.

These are the bags to use if you need heat or cold to soothe aches and pains. If you're still looking for a locally made gift item that you can pick up, this could be the one. $35.

Head to Interval House’s insta feed to check out the photo, and if you’d like to order one, contact beanbagfundraiser@gmail.com

– Martha and Darren

 

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TODAY’S LINE UP

  •  Ottawa Stats
  •  City Hall Agenda
  •  What Ottawa is Talking About
  •  Events
  •  Deals of the Day

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OTTAWA STATS

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    • $3.5 million
    • – The amount of money that Russell-based GREINS Environmental Technologies coaxed out of Wes Hall on Dragons' Den. Hall put up $500,000 and a $3 million line of credit for 49 per cent of the company. GREINS’ business is retrofitting Zambonis to reuse shaved ice for resurfacing. (The Review) (Dragon’s Den pitch) (GREINS Environmental Technologies)

    Pikwakanagan of the Day

    • Nevaeh Sarazin
    • –  The 15 year-old from the Pikwakanagan First Nation has won the $50,000 2023 Mazda Rising Legends Award, which recognizes changemakers in their communities. Sarazin plans to divide the award between the sport and recreation committee, the pow wow committee, the museum, the family well being centre, for the development of sweat lodges and round dances, and to an organization working on issues about missing and murdered Aboriginal women. (Terry Fleurie in the Eganville Leader)

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    • For the Canal Skateway to survive, we are going to need a Plan B

    • – Neil Saravanamuttoo in The 613 argues that if the Rideau Canal skateway can’t be created again this year, it’s time to create an alternative: turn the Queen Elizabeth Driveway into a skating rink running from the National Arts Centre to Pretoria Ave.

     

    CITY HALL AGENDA

    What’s going on at City Hall
     

    No meetings tomorrow.

    WHAT OTTAWA IS TALKING ABOUT

    ⛺  Housing

    •  Gatineau is spending $600,000 from its contingency fund on ‘residents without homes’. The money will be used to hire workers and provide operation assiantance to homeless camps across the city. A city councillor reckons that amount is 38 per cent of the rainy day fund. (CBC)

    🏒 The Sens

    •  Detroit Red Wings forward David Perron has been suspended for cross-checking Sens defenceman Artem Zub. Perron will be suspended for six games, forfeiting US $148,437.48 in salary. Zub was standing next to Red Wings captain Dylan Larkin who was lying on the ice after himself being cross checked by Ottawa's Mathieu Joseph, when Perron struck him in the head. (Associated Press) 

    🏢 Zibi

    •  The co-living apartments at Zibi are now available to rent. The designy Chaudière Island tower will offer ‘48 shared apartments, totalling 175 bedrooms, along with shared kitchens and living rooms’. A bedroom with a shared bathroom starts at $1,281 per month. No, you don’t get to pick your roommates. (Arthur White-Crummey at CBC) (Common at Zibi)

    🔥 Christmas Fire Safety

    •  Normally a press release from the City headlined the ‘twelve days of holiday fire safety’ would not make the cut for What Ottawa Is Talking About but they just put so much work into it. To wit:

      ‘On the fourth day of holiday fire safety, Ottawa Fire told me: 

      Hear four beeps from your carbon monoxide alarm,

      Leave the house immediately to avoid any harm.’

      and

      ‘On the tenth day of holiday fire safety, Ottawa Fire told me:

      Keep three feet of distance at least,

      Between heating sources and your fabrics, presents or feast.’

      Okay, so it is obvious Alanis Morissette has not taken a job with the City but we’ll still give them an       ottawan No-Prize for the effort to liven up a standard annual reminder.  (City of Ottawa)

    ⚕️ COVID 19

    •  Dr. Vera Etches says older people should get the COVID and flu shots soon. Ottawa Public Health notes that COVID in the wastewater and patients in hospital are both significantly higher than this time last year, the difference being the vaccination rate was higher one year ago. More than 70 per cent of COVID patients in hospital right now are over 60. (Matthew Kupfer at CBC)

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    EVENTS

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    Today

    Find Ottawa’s most comprehensive – and ever-expanding – list of Christmas Markets, Festivals, and Parades on our website.

    Tomorrow

    •  Tickets go on sale at 10:00 am Wednesday December 13 for Ashley MacIsaac shows at Red Bird on January 13 and January 14 2024.

    •  Doors Open for Music presents a noon program of Holiday Jazz.

    •  Groove to the jazzy seasonal tunes from A Charlie Brown Christmas as they’re played live by the Rousso Quarter. This candlelight show is at the Gladstone Theatre.

    •  Enjoy an evening of board games at the Prescott.

      Gigs

    •  Left to Suffer, Chamber, Tracheotomy, Mouth Breather. Rainbow Bistro

    •  Rare Groove Wednesdays. Atomic Rooster

    •  Spark Trivia with DJ Geoff Paquet. Spark Beer

    •  Pretty Good, Maybury, Talia Aoude, Corduroy Moon, Franki. House of TARG

    •  Eden Moore’s Slay Bells. LIVE on Elgin

    •  Holly Cole: A Swinging Chrismas with the NAC Orchestra. NAC South Hall

    •  Tyler Keeley’s Urban Campfire (December Edition). Red Bird Live

    •  The Follow Ups, the Valveenus, Audio Visceral. Avant-Garde Bar

    •  Climate Pub(lics). Irene’s Pub & Restaurant

    •  Trivia Night. Pour Boy


    Thursday


    Just Announced / Now Booking

    DEALS OF THE DAY

    Join Ted and Marion Outerbridge for an evening of grand illusions, comedy-magic, and mind-bending mentalism as they share the fascinating stories (incl friendly hauntings) of the Mysteries of the Keyhole House.

    ottawan readers can have a 50% discount by using the code save50.

    Use the promo code BONA for 20% off all Birds of North America stock at Victoire Boutique.

    Loftan is offering free shipping until midnight tonight.

    Enjoy free shipping on Olena Zylak knit hats over $68. Offer ends Wednesday night (December 13) at 11:59 pm.

    BUT, ONE MORE THING ...

    Dave Allston in the Kitchissippi Times has an interesting history of the occupants a stately home at 539 Island Park Drive between 1940 and 1944.

    During the Second World War, at the invitation of the Federal government, 28 children and four staff from Highgate, London were evacuated and arrived in Ottawa to find: nothing. No arrangements had been made for them.

    After brief residencies at Elmwood School, Ashbury College, and the Ottawa Ladies’ College the Island Park Drive house was turned over to them, and  nicknamed Byron House after their school.

    On the BBC website, there is a short audio clip of students Polly and Geoffrey Carton speaking from Ottawa to their parents back in the UK on 27 July 1941.

     

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