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• In today’s ottawan:

  → The new Stittsville high school didn’t open today as planned

• → The House of Targ has unlimited games this evening for $12.50

• → Nine picture perfect locations in the Capital
  
  Reader mailbag
  
  Reader Andrea wrote in about yesterday’s item criticizing the seemingly remote location of a new O Train station:

• ‘The Bowesville O Train station isn’t in the middle of nowhere. It’s halfway between Riverside South’s Earl Armstrong/Limebank station and Findlay Creek, both of which are huge and growing. It also provides closer access to the soon-to-be Hard Rock Hotel and Casino at Albion/Rideau. 

• Plus, as [councillor Steve] Desroches puts it, it’s a stone’s throw from Greely, which is also exploding. Be glad these are being put into place. The road infrastructure isn’t there to support all these new houses being built, so people have to get from the suburbs into Ottawa somehow. Believe me, we’ve been dying for the NO-train to get running out here. 

• For once, Ottawa is ahead of the curve in planning for growth rather than reactionarily slap-dashing together something 20 years too late. Although by the time the NO-train is up and running, it may be 20 years from now.’
   

– Martha and Darren

STATS

Number

• 4
• – The number of new hotels that are being built in Ottawa over the next three years. The AC Marriott Ottawa opens soon, Moxy Ottawa next spring, Hard Rock Hotel Ottawa late next year, and Renaissance Ottawa in 2027. Collectively, the four will create 785 new rooms.
  
  In its just-released report for 2023, Ottawa Tourism says the tourism industry brought in $3.1 billion to the capital that year. 
  
  (Theo Riley at Conference & Meeting World)

Ottawans of the Day 

• Dave Stanley and John DiLabio
• – The pair are two of 10 curlers who were inducted as Governor General’s Curling Club members. ‘[I]t’s kind of like the Order of Canada for curlers. It’s not a hall of fame’, says Stanley.
• The Governor General’s Curling Club was once an actual club, created by Lord Dufferin in 1874. Nowadays, membership is limited to 140 and new honourees can be inducted only when a member passes away. (Martin Cleary in the Ottawa Sports Pages)

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• Our family is very excited that he’s here now

• – Darrell Fox commending the move of the statue of his brother Terry from Parliament Hill to Sparks Street. He says the statue is now almost exactly on the spot where Terry stopped his run for the day in 1980. The statue needed to be relocated due to the redevelopment of Block 2 of the Parliamentary precinct. (Sean Previl at Global News)

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WHAT OTTAWA IS TALKING ABOUT

💰 Housing

• The City’s finance and corporate services committee approved a 2.9 per cent increase in property taxes and police levy but substantially more for transit. The 2.9 per cent is for the operations of the City, including libraries and public health. But for transit, the committee is recommending a levy increase of up to 37 per cent and a fare increase of up to 75 per cent. The draft budget for the City will be created in November. (Joanne Laucius in the Ottawa Citizen) 

💰 Housing

• Ottawa housing prices have dropped 10.8 per cent since the all time high of March 2022. Since last year, prices have dropped 0.3 per cent, the third drop in three years. (Wolf Richter at Wolf Street) 
  
  ➕ Related Ottawa is at only 22 per cent of its 2024 target for housing starts. In order to be eligible for the Building Faster Fund, the Province mandated 12,583 new dwellings to be started in Ottawa. The first six months of 2024 saw 2,774.

🏫 Ottawa Carleton District School Board

• The new Maplewood Secondary School was unable to open today as planned. Students and parents learned yesterday that an occupancy permit was not granted for the Stittsville school as deficiencies were still found after an inspection. The Board will give an update later this afternoon. (Ted Raymond at CTV)
  
  ➕ Related  Ottawa Public Health will start sending suspension notices to students with incomplete immunization records in January. Around 14,000 students were found to have out-of-date records in August.

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Today

• 🆓 The Harvest Moon will be visible from just after sunset tonight, with peak illumination at 10:34 pm. According to the Farmers’ Almanac, this full moon is different from the others in that it always rises at around the same time for several evenings in a row, near in time to the Autumn Equinox (which occurs on September 22 or 23). This is handy for farmers, who can use the moonlight to finish their harvests. 

• 🆓 Take a Full Moon Yoga class on the Great Lawn at Lansdown Park.

• ByTowne Cinema: Temporarily closed for maintenance work 

• Mayfair Theatre: Sisi & I, His Three Daughters, Breakin’

  Gigs

• Unlimited games for $12.50. House of TARG

• Too Many Zoos - Retail Therapy Tour. Overflow Brewing Co. 

• Hippie Death Cult, Kadabra, Hempress, Trenchfoot. Dominion Tavern

• Hank Williams Birthday Bash hosted by Ball & Chain and the Wreckers. Rainbow Bistro

• Open Stage. Red Bird

• Trivia Tuesday: Broadhead Brewing, Pour Boy, Royal Oak Pubs (Centrepointe), Manor Lounge, Moose McGuire’s, The Prescott

Tomorrow

• Harvest: A Feast of Fall is a multi-chef food and beverage experience that brings together the city's top award-winning chefs, artisanal beverage producers, and passionate foodies for a night of Farm to Table-inspired delights. All proceeds go to Youturn, the non-profit that helps the most at-risk youth, whose mission is to provide evidence-informed, individualized service to help develop the skills to become strong participating members of the community. Wednesday September 18 at Ottawa Art Galley, 10 Daly Ave. 

• Practice your life drawing skills from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. Sandy Hill Life Drawing costs just $10 per artist and features a live model. 250 Somerset St East. 

• Let your creativity flow free at the Journaling with Collage workshop at Marker House. $58.61 plus fees. 

• BytTowne Cinema: Temporarily closed for maintenance work 

• Mayfair Theatre: Sisi & I, His Three Daughters, 1984

  Gigs

• Girls to the Front Songwriters Circle. Irene’s Pub

• Campfire Clowns. LIVE on Elgin

• Book Launch: David O’Meara’s “Chandelier”

• Goatwhore, Vitriol, Necrofier, Serene Dark, Aaveiv. The Brass Monkey

• Trivia Night. Brew Revolution

Thursday

• Music & Beyond partners with the Embassy of France for a concert featuring the early music ensemble LA Chapelle Harmonique. Following the In Vino Musica in concert there will be a special wine tasting and a chance to meet the musicians.

• 🆓 Today’s lunchtime musical interlude at The Shed comes care of singer songwriters Ella Lee and Abijah. 12;00 pm to 1:30 pm 

• 🆓 Every Thursday night you’ll find free the Cinq à sept music series at 55 ByWard Market Square. It's another of the great music programs by Ottawa Music Industry Coalition. 

• 🆓 Noah Lefevre of the hugely popular YouTube Polyphonic launches his new book Century of Song at the Spaniel’s Tale Bookstore. While there’s no charge to attend, RSVPs are appreciated.

• The Pelican’s Shell Fest starts today with special menus, Daily Oyster Specials, a Shellfish Happy Hour of Seafood Towers, and more. It’s all happening until October 20.

• ByTowne Cinema: Temporarily closed for maintenance work 

• Mayfair Theatre: Sisi & I, His Three Daughters, Breakin’
  
  Gigs

• Zeelle’s Birthday Bash Single Release Party with Abby M Boquet and Dom Doyon. Rainbow Bistro

• Everything Redfox. LIVE on Elgin

• Kameron Marlowe. Bronson Centre

• Irene’s Blues Sessions with guest host Gerri Trimble

• Selias, Chaos, Lilith, Insanity of Sorrow. The Brass Monkey

• CRAST with Gilgamesh. House of TARG

• Karaoke Thursday. Atomic Rooster

• Samantha Christ Francois, The Toasted Westerns. Red Bird

Long Runs

• Cirque du Soleil ECHO continues in Gatineau until September 22. 

• The University of Ottawa created the Department of Visual Arts 50 years ago. The Ottawa Art Gallery commemorates those five decades with the exhibition Art School Confidential, until September 22.

Just Announced / Now Booking

• Grab nine of your friends and register for free to participate in the Ottawa Fire Truck Pull at Lansdowne Park on Saturday October 5. Aside from pulling a 10+ tonne fire truck on the day, all your team has to do is raise a minimum of $1000. 

• Single tickets are now on sale for the Gatineau Fiddle Festival (October 24-27). 

• The new series of workshops at Recreated Designs covers seasonal decor, paint washing furniture, fabric painting, and more. 

• The Sens are hosting a Fan Fest on September 28, from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm. Events will include: practice, selfie station, press conferences, kids activities, face paint, and photo stations. The Fest is free but advance tickets are required.

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Ottawa Tourism has nine suggestions of the perfect places to take photos this autumn: Hog’s Back Falls, Dominion Arboretum, Mer Bleue Bog, ByWard Market, Major’s Hill Park, Gatineau Park, Park Omega, Eagles Nest Lookout, and Pumpkinferno. 

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