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▪️ A customer service oriented sales person is required at the Home Depot in Barrhaven Tool Rental, to help customers make informed choices in product rental and purchase. You should be comfortable working across multiple departments such as Lumber, Building Materials, Paint, and Hardware. Trade experience is an asset. ▪️ Roofs of Steel has a four month contract for an Administrative Assistant, to work from home. Among the job duties are maintaining the customer file systems, emailing and calling customers. Some weekend hours are required. Salary: $24-25 per hour. ▪️ WorkInCulture is hiring a Curriculum Consultant/Instructor (Festivals & Collaboration) to deliver (with partners) a training series for non-profit arts and heritage festivals, to create and implement an effective recovery plan in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This is a remote working role, to run from June 2021 to October 2022. Must have proven experience in instructional design, curriculum design, or educational design. Salary: A fee of $15,000 will be paid in instalments. ▪️ Nat’s Bread Company is urgently hiring a weekend Farmers’ Market Sales Associate to set up the company stall, attract customers, sell products, balance sales at the end of shift, and packing up the market equipment and bread leftovers at the end of the day. Must be available every Saturday and Sunday from June to October, from 7:00am to 5:00pm. Must have driver’s license. We'll see you tomorrow – Martha and Darren ?️ Do you know something that Ottawa should hear about? Email to us at hello@theottawan.com. We read every single comment. |
#STATS Weather: ☀️ Mainly Sunny. High of 26°, low of 10° Number: 4. The number of warnings given by this real estate agent on buying a rural house around Ottawa. [CTV] Ottawan of the Day: Liam Moore. The Stittsville teen has launched Murph4MS to raise $10,000 for the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada. A murph is fitness-fanatic speak for a one mile run, 100 pull-ups, 200 push-ups, 300 squats followed by another one mile run. Moore plans to Murph every day in July. [Stittsville Central] [Fundraising Page] Quote: ‘That's part of the business, right? You get some great years and you get some not so great years’ – Green Gables Vines Winery vintner Richard Deslandes, who has lost tens of thousands of dollars worth of grapes due to the recent frost. The early warm weather has caused crops to bloom early. [CBC] |
CORONAVIRUS UPDATE ? 8,839,445 doses have been administered in Ontario At this rate, it will take 6.4 weeks to give each Ontarian one dose each Info from Vaccination tracker by Andrew Lam (@socialvizcanada) ? Pfizer, Moderna, and AstraZeneca vaccines delivery tracker ? Public Health Reports: |
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COVID-19 NEWS ⭕ Tweet of the day goes to Ottawa Public Health: “Unlike the Leafs, COVID-19 is still active”. ⭕ The National Advisory Committee on Immunization is recommending that Provinces mix-and-match COVID-19 vaccines to make it easier for mass vaccinations. AstraZeneca can be followed by a Pfizer or Moderna vaccine, or Pfizer and Moderna can be followed by the other, the Commitee says. [CBC] ⭕ Nineteen inmates, one staffer test positive at the Ottawa Jail, resulting in no court appearances yesterday. [Ottawa Citizen] ⭕ Dr. Kieran Moore, the chief medical officer for the Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox & Addington Public Health will be Ontario’s next top doctor. The current Ontario chief medical officer, Dr. David Williams, is retiring. [CBC] ? The Canada COVID Alert App Be alerted if you have come in contact with someone who has tested positive for COVID-19. |
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#WHAT OTTAWA IS TALKING ABOUT ▪️ The Province is making free day passes for Provincial parks available on June 7. The passes are good for Algonquin, Arrowhead, Batchawana Bay, Craigleith, Darlington, Forks of the Credit, Kakabeka Falls, Kettle Lakes, Lake Superior, Long Point, Mono Cliffs, North Beach, Pinery, Presqu’ile, Sandbanks, Sibbald Point, and Turkey Point and will let the holders bypass any line-ups. [Ottawa Start] [Reservations] ▪️ University of Ottawa students force rollback on out-of-province student tuition hike. The university had planned to increase out-of-province tuition by three per cent. Current regular tuition at UofO is $3,561.80 per semester. [The Fulcrum]
▪️ The Ottawa Children’s Festival will be online from tomorrow until Monday. The Festival will feature two plays Cyclo and The Snail and the Whale, the latter based on Julia Donaldson’s award-winning picture book and film. Also featured is Old Man and the River, a puppetry show created by Canadian theatre company WeeFestival Productions. Free. [Apt 613] [Ottawa Children's Festival] |
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