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• In today’s ottawan:

  → Brush up your CV if you want to be appointed as a school board trustee

• → Tomorrow, tell that funny shaggy dog tale at the Storytelling Open mic 

  → Deals of the day: Save on drinks at Aiāna, wine and cider tours at Aventure Outaouais, and a #madeincanada 2025 wall calendar.

– Martha and Darren

STATS

Number

• $16 million
• – The approximate amount of money owed to the City from unpaid camera fines. There are 49,183 tickets for photo radar infractions left unpaid after 91 days, and 21,236 unpaid red light camera tickets. (Josh Pringle at CTV)

Ottawan of the Day

• Nigel Tai
• – The licensed architect and principal at Diamond Schmitt has been appointed the City of Ottawa’s Urban Review Design Panel. The Panel ‘provides objective peer reviews of projects within the City’s Design Priority Areas as part of the planning approval process’. (Diamond Schmitt) (Urban Design Review Panel webpage)

Quote 

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• [M]y favourite thing about Ottawa WILL be Brady Tkachuk on Elgin with a very large silver cup over his head as thousands cheer him on … I hope

• – From an exit interview with former CTV anchorman Graham Richardson on being asked ‘What is your favourite thing about Ottawa?’  (Sarah MacFarlane in the Ottawa Business Journal)

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CITY HALL AGENDA

What’s going on at City Hall

Committee of Adjustment - Panel 1
Wednesday, August 21, 2024 at 1:00 PM

• 819 Bank and 99 Fifth – To subdivide the property and create easements/rights-of-ways to a shared ramp to the underground parking garage and internal access to a commercial garbage room.
• 314, 318 Athlone and 2006, 2020, 2026 Scott – To permit a one-storey pedestrian bridge incorporated into the second-storey connecting two proposed mixed use residential buildings.
• 130 Kenilworth and 372A Holland – To subdivide the property into two separate parcels with easements for shared access and parking and to permit a front yard parking space and an increased width for a driveway.
• 22 Concord North – To permit a reduced width for a shared driveway and a parking space partially located on the abutting lot.
• 24 Concord North – To establish an easement/right of way for vehicular and pedestrian and parking for the adjacent property at 22 Concord Street North.
• 482 Preston – To permit an outdoor commercial patio with amplified sound to be located on the rooftop and within a reduced setback to a residential zone.
• 681 Mikinak – To permit the construction of Buildings B and C in Phase 2 with increased gross floor area on the seventh storey and driveway width.

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WHAT OTTAWA IS TALKING ABOUT

🌊 Ottawa Beaches

• Petrie East Bay closed today due to high levels of E. Coli but the other four City beaches are open. We didn’t intend on having a daily E. Coli update but it's proven necessary. (Daily Safety Report)
  
  The NCC Riverhouse Swimming Dock is also closed today because of water quality.

✏️ Ottawa-Carleton District School Board 

• The Ottawa-Carleton District School Board will hear short presentations from people who wish to become a replacement trustee. The vacancy has opened after first-time trustee Alysha Aziz representing Kanata resigned for personal reasons. While the Board could order a new election, it has chosen to appoint a replacement for the rest of Aziz’s term. Deadline for applications is September 20. The application form will be posted on the Board’s website, but it does not yet seem to be there. (Jonanne Laucius in the Ottawa Citizen)

🌈 Capital Pride

• More organizations have withdrawn from the Capital Pride Parade after the organization published its ‘Statement in Solidarity with Palestine’. The latest withdrawals come from:
  
  • The Liberal Party of Canada
  
  • The Ontario Liberal Party
  
  • The Public Service Alliance of Canada
  
  • Public Service Pride Network
  
  • The University of Ottawa
  
  • The Ottawa-Carleton District School Board
  
  • Conseil des écoles catholiques du Centre-Est
  
  • Montfort Hospital
  
  • Ottawa Tourism
  
  • The US Embassy
  
  • Bank of Canada
  
  Mayor Mark Sutcliffe, the Ottawa Hospital, CHEO, and the Jewish Federation of Ottawa announced their withdrawals last week.
  
  (William Eltherington at CTV) (Capital Pride Statement)

❌ Crossing Guards

• The Ottawa Safety Council needs 20 more crossing guards for the upcoming school year. Pay is $19.50 for a 40 minute shift. The areas most in need of guards are Barrhaven/Riverside South, Woodroffe/Wellington/Ottawa Centre, and Orléans. (William Eltherington at CTV) (Jobs page)

💉 Mpox

• Ottawa Public Health is increasing the availability of Mpox vaccinations due to a worldwide rise in the virus. Mpox can cause painful rashes and in some cases serious illness or death. The Ottawa Public Health has the guidelines and availability. (Jocelyn Shepel at CBC)

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Today

• The Standard Bread Company building, which houses the studios of Enriched Bread Artists, turns 100 years old today (August 20, 2024). The artist studios' Board of Directors invites everyone to the venerable building at 951 Gladstone Ave K1Y 3E5 to help celebrate from 5:30 pm to 8:30 pm. 

• 🆓 Bring a picnic dinner and catch Cirquonscient’s Strathcona Summer Faerie Picnic. The talented aerial artist collective will gratefully accept donations. 25 Range Rd K1N 8J7 

• Shake up your Tuesday with Drag Night Kanata at Pure Kitchen. Host Eden Moore will be joined on stage by BJ Stroker, Freya Frostbite, and Morgan Mercury. 499 Terry Fox Dr., no. 55. K2T 1H7 

• 🆓 Aviva Chernick and the Serena Quartet perform reimagined Judeo-Spanish folk music that is sung in Ladino, Hebrew, Yiddish, and English. Chernick and her band play the National Arts Centre’s Wood Stage tonight and tomorrow night. Bring your own lawn chair. 

• ByTowne Cinema: Nos belles-sœurs (Out Sisters-in-Law), Sing Sing: Premiere Screening, Longlegs 

• Mayfair Theatre: Close to You, Widow Clicquot, Caligula: The Ultimate Cut 
  
  Gigs

• Dan Petti. Overflow Brewing

• Open stage. Red Bird

• Trivia Night. Pour Boy

Tomorrow

• 🌈 Ottawa Gay Mens Chorus sings through the decades at Capital Pride’s ‘Let’s Dance’ at the Gladstone. Tickets $30 + tax. 910 Gladstone Ave, Ottawa K1R 6Y4 

• Do you love to tell a good story? Are your friends always asking you to retell the story about that time you did that thing with those people? Be at OPL Sunnyside branch’s Storytelling Open Mic and charm a whole new audience. 7:00 pm at 1049 Bank St. K1S 3W9 

• 🆓 Aviva Chernick and the Serena Quartet perform reimagined Judeo-Spanish folk music that is sung in Ladino, Hebrew, Yiddish, and English. Chernick and her band play the National Arts Centre’s Wood Stage tonight and tomorrow night. Bring your own lawn chair. 

• Go back to the 60s, 70s, and 80s as Nostalgia Festival hits LeBreton Flats. Tonight’s line-up: Dreamer plays Supertramp hits starting at 7:30 pm followed by Pink Floyd Niagara at 9:30 pm. 

• Quick! Before summer slips away, enjoy a cool treat on the patio at Red Apron, where you’ll be served an ice cream sundae in one of four flavours for $9.95 (Rainbow, Chocolate Overload, Carrot Cake, and Vegan Nanaimo). $5 from every Rainbow sundae sold will be donated to the Centretown Community Food Centre. 3:00 pm to 7:00 pm at 410 Gladstone Ave, Ottawa K2P 0Z1 

• ByTowne Cinema: Sugarcane, Cinema Slumber Party: Dirty Dancing, National Anthem 

• Mayfair Theatre: Close to You, Widow Clicquot, The Terminator 

  Gigs

• Jazz Jam Takeover. Montgomery Scotch Lounge

• Trivia Night. Cafe Dekcuf

• Jazz Nite with Sage Reynolds Trio. Queen St. Fare

• Bytown Ukulele Group JAM. Red Bird

• Michael Munnik - Ottawa Homecoming Show. LIVE on Elgin

• Open Mic. Pour Boy
   

Thursday

• Go back to the 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s as Nostalgia festival hits LeBreton Flats. Tonight’s line-up: Murmur plays R.E.M. hits starting at 7:30 pm followed by U2 tribute act Desire at 9:30 pm. 

• Red Apron welcomes Niagara’s Wending Home Estate Vineyards and Winery for a tasting this evening. Enjoy wine samples and nibbles from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm. You must register by phone to attend. 613-695-0417. 

• 🌈 Overflow Brewing welcomes The Queers & Beers: Pride Edtion, with OK Naledi and Kira providing the entertainment. Tickets $15 in advance. 

• Candlelight Concerts roll out the hits of Coldplay and Imagine Dragons at the Gladston Theatre. The Listeso String Quartet perform the set list by candlelight, while you and your person chill in the romantic vibe. 

• Shop for cool, hand made clothing and jewelry at Urban Art Collective’s Hintonburg Night Market (5:00 pm to 10:00 pm at 1088 Somerset St. W).

• 🆓 Ottawa Music Industry Coalition’s City Sounds Live brings musicians Dumis9ne I and MoZayic to Aberdeen Pavilion from 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm. 1000 Exhibition Way K1S 3W7 

• ByTowne Cinema: My Penguin Friend, National Anthem, The Conversation: 4K Restoration 

• Mayfair Theatre: Widow Clicquot, Close to You, Caligula: The Ultimate Cut 

  Gigs

• Tall Shadows. House of TARG

• Original Soundtrack. Avant-Garde Bar

• Mike T. Kerr. Montgomery Lounge

• Release the Bats! Cafe Dekcuf

• Dirt Nap. Dominion Tavern

• Hank’s Dream, Allysann-Mei, Erin Marcellina. Rainbow Bistro

• Harry Manx. Red bird

Long Runs

• Come From Away, presented by Mirvish Productions, Junkyard Dog Productions, and NAC English Theatre continues at the National Arts Centre until Sunday September 1.

• The Capital Fair continues from 1:00 pm to 11:00 pm until August 25.

• A Company of Fools' production of Macbeth ends this week. 

• Duck under the big top as Paranormal Cirque’s acrobats, illusionists, and other mysterious beings bring you to the edge of fear. Until August 25 at St. Laurent Shopping Centre. 

Just Announced / Now Booking

• Road Trip: Butter tarts. And music, a lovely park setting, entertainment…but predominantly butter tarts. This Saturday August 24 at the Tarts & Art in the Park Festival Arnprior. 

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DEAL OF THE DAY

BUT, ONE MORE THING ...

In the Ottawa Business Journal we learned that the VIA Rail high frequency rail project has been given Crown corporation status. 

Sarah MacFarlane has a long interview with Martin Imbleau, the new chief executive of VIA HFR. Some tidbits: it’s expected to have dedicated track, to be electrified, and expected to affect how people commute for the next 75 years.

As for train stations, it may not use the existing VIA Rail stations – new ones could be more accessible.

As for the build-out of Ottawa’s O Train? ‘There’s a lot of lessons out there’, he says. 

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