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Number

• 18,000 kg
• – The amount of pet food supplied by the Ottawa Humane Society’s Emergency Pet Food Bank last year. This year, the Pet Food Bank expected to need to provide 20 to 30 per cent more. (Alex Black at CityNews) (Donations)

Honorary Ottawan of the Day

• Craig Baird 
• – The Edmonton-based proprietor of the history focused Twitter account Canadian History Ehx and accompanying podcast dropped into Ottawa, where he mused that not knowing your neighbourhood’s history is something all Canadians share. (Andrew Wilimek in the University of Ottawa Fulcrum) 

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• A lot of people think that it’s a cult. They think it’s pornography or a religion … that it’s like exhibitionism, and it’s not

• – Susan W, a member of the Sunward Naturist Park assuring everyone that nudism is good clean fun. The club is having an newcomer orientation session August 17, and, to steal the reporter’s joke, ‘leave your inhibitions (and your pants) at the gate’. (Sofia Misenheimer in the Ottawa Citizen)

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CITY HALL AGENDA

What’s going on at City Hall

No meetings this week.

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WHAT OTTAWA IS TALKING ABOUT

🅿️ Parking Scam

• The City is warning that someone is posting stickers on parking meters to fraudently gather credit card numbers. The stickers look like regular Pay By Phone stickers but they have a QR code that if scanned, sends people to a fake website. The City recommends that people use the Pay by Phone app on their phone. (Natasha O’Neill at CTV) (Pay by Phone)
  
  ➕Related We are completely mystified by this warning from the Ottawa Police Service’s organized fraud unit, about a credit card-skimming racket involving taxis or Ubers.
  
  The Service says the fraudster will approach a person asking if they can help a stranger out by paying for a taxi or Uber by card, because the driver does not take cash. The fraudster then reimburses the person in cash, but now has the much more valuable card information.
  
  1. This sounds like the OPS doesn’t want to anger the taxi lobby so it included Uber in the warning, but you can’t even book Uber without a card, much less complete a ride. Thus, this is a taxi driver-only fraud.
  
  2. On what planet do taxi drivers not take cash? 
  
  (Fraud Unit warning residents to be vigilant with card skimming fraud involving taxis and Uber)

🚧 Chelsea

• The State of Emergency in Chelsea has been extended for another 10 days. The town initially declared the emergency on Saturday, after the torrential rainfall wiped out or flooded roads. More than 200 residents had their access cut off. An emergency declaration allows the Town to skip procurement and contract assignment bureaucracy. (CBC)
  
  ➕ Related More than 155,700 litres of storm water and wastewater overflowed into the Ottawa River last week because of rainfall. It’s the sixth time this year sewage has overflowed into the River.

🚨 Parliamentary Protective Service

• The Mountie union wants the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to protect Parliament Hill. Currently, the Parliamentary Protective Service polices the Hill but its members are not peace officers. Should an arrest be needed, the Protective Service calls the Ottawa Police. Mountie commissioner Michael Duheme is not in favour of the idea and prefers the status quo. (Catharine Tunney at CBC)

☢️ Canadian Nuclear Laboratories

• Canadian Nuclear Laboratories in Deep River are threatening to evict eight black bears for its nuclear waste site. The Kebaowek First Nation made an enviromental tour of the planned site’s location and found evidence of bear dens. The Laboratories wants to dump low-level radioactive items from across Canada in its planned site, next to the Ottawa River upstream from Ottawa. (Matteo Cimellaro in the National Observer)

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Today

• LA Pai Gallery’s current exhibition Heirlooms presents the work of two artists with ancestral links to the Cornwall area. While Stephanie Hill’s art is inspired by the work of early botanists to catalog and illustrate Canadian wild flowers, it’s so much more than a collection of botanical drawings. Hill’s ink and watercolour images trace early settlers’ and farmers’ lives, interspersed with myths and personal stories. Artist Erin Robertson uses painting and sculpture to depict the pain and loss experienced by her ancestors when the 170 year old family farm was expropriated by Ontario Hydro in 1954, to build the Moses-Saunders Power Dam. The gallery is open Tuesday through Saturday at 13 Murray St. K1N 9M5

• 🆓 Visit the world of alternative country with Diyet & The Love Soldiers, live on the NAC’s Wood Terrace tonight and tomorrow night. Bring your own lawn chair. 

• Tonight's performance of Shakepeare's Macbeth by A Company of Fools will be mounted at Centennial Park in Manotick. 

• 🆓 County Fair by MilkUP continues at Aberdeen Pavilion through August 18. 

• ByTowne Cinema: Dance First, Firebrand, Cuckoo

• Mayfair Theatre: Mother, Couch, Touch, Kinds of Kindness 

  Gigs

• Melanie C. Bronson Centre

• Trivia Night. Pour Boy

• Trivia Tuesday. Irene’s Pub

• Sorry Snowman, Root Cause, Naked Neighbours, Sun Junkies. Rainbow Bistro

• Jazz Nite with Wayne Eagles. Queen St Fare

• Elmer and Alan. Montgomery Scotch Lounge

Tomorrow

• Road Trip: Play for the jackpot at Almonte's Car Toot Bingo, which is running each Wednesday evening this month. It costs $15 to play 14 rounds, and snacks, hotdogs, and pie can be purchased at the concession stand. Note: this is a cash only event.

• Come From Away, presented by Mirvish Productions, Junkyard Dog Productions, and NAC English Theatre, opens its limited run tonight. Some performances are sold out but there are tickets available for many performances. The run ends Sunday September 1. 

• Tonight's performance of Shakepeare's Macbeth by A Company of Fools will be mounted at Kiwanis Park in Westboro.. 

• The spectacle in the skies continues at Les Grands Feux du Casino Lac Leamy. 

• 🆓 Visit the world of alternative country with Diyet & The Love Soldiers, live on the NAC’s Wood Terrace tonight. Bring your own lawn chair. 

• 🆓 County Fair by MilkUP continues at Aberdeen Pavilion through August 18. 

• ByTowne Cinema: Kinds of Kindness, 2024 Cat Video Fest, Cuckoo

• Mayfair Theatre: Touch, Mother, Couch, If…. 

  Gigs

• Green Jëlly, The Convalescence. Brass Monkey

• Conway the Machine. Bronson Centre

• Drag Me to Live: Two Year Anniversary Celebration. LIVE on Elgin

• Avril Lavigne, Simple Plan, Girlfriends. Canadian Tire Centre

Thursday

• Road Trip: Visit Carleton Place this evening and explore Murray’s Flea Market’s second Retro Rewind Night Market. Indoor and outdoor vendors will be selling everything from furniture to toys and apparel, and you can dinner from the food vendors. 525 High Street, Carleton Place, K7C 3P1 

• East Coast Experience officially opens the 180th Vankleek Fair tonight. The fair’s theme is "Country Roots and Cowboy Boots", and visitors will see horse, cow, sheep demos, a Cowboy Race (Saturday), a monster truck show, pulling demos, and of course a midway. The fair runs til Sunday (August 18). Advance tickets are on sale until tomorrow (Wednesday August 14) for $20. Gate admission is $55 for a weekend pass or $25 per person. 

• Many of the historic military machines at the Canadian War Museum are in working order, and you’ll see demos this weekend as part of the admission fee. 

• The littles will be plenty entertained at the Russell Fair this weekend (today through Sunday August 18): the list of kids’ entertainment runs from dance parties to tractor rides to petting farms and learning opportunities. Puppets, magicians, and a one man band round out the options for keeping the kids occupied throughout the day. Meanwhile grownups will be occupied by the live entertainment, Craft Beer Festival, truck and horse pulls, competitions in a huge range of categories, and more. Admission is $13 per person, or a weekend pass for all four days for $35. 

• Shop for cool, locally made things at Hintonburg Night Market. 

• 🆓 County Fair by MilkUP continues at Aberdeen Pavilion today from 5:00 pm to 9:00 pm

• Tonight's performance of Shakepeare's Macbeth by A Company of Fools will be mounted at Fisher Park in Wellington West.. 

• ByTowne Cinema: Kinds of Kindness, The Birds, Cuckoo 

• Mayfair Theatre: Touch, Mother, Couch, If ... 

  Gigs

• Django Fet. House of TARG

• Comedy Night. Pour Boy

• Archie Fisher. Red Bird

• Terry Owen. Irene’s Pub

• Matthew Chaffey. Overflow Brewing

• Siobhan Bodrug. LIVE on Elgin

• Albia Avant-Garde Bar

• Back & Forth. Montgomery Scotch Lounge

• Badbadnotgood. National Arts Centre

   

Just Announced / Now Booking

• Make this Saturday (August 17) a Southern Rock afternoon with the Cooper Brothers and guests Graham Greer and Robert Farrell. 4:00 pm at StoneCropAcres Winery + Vineyard. 

• 🆓 La Grande Fripe is the largest second-hand clothing and accessories market in Outaouais, with different vendors on each of the two days. Saturday September 14 and Sunday September 15 at 425 Boulevard St-Joseph, Gatineau, QC J8Y 3Z8. 

   

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DEAL OF THE DAY

BUT, ONE MORE THING ...

Okay, back to dog news in the One More Thing section. Remember the poodle Teddy, who was dognapped from Centreville and then serendipitously found by Wyoming police at a traffic stop? There is an update.

Hero cop of the Riverton, Wyoming Police Department, officer Don Nethicumara, says that after he stopped a man for running a red light, a warrant came up declaring that the man was wanted for a break and enter in Ottawa – and the warrant also said that the man might be in possession of a stolen dog.

Nethicumara contacted the Ottawa and Valley Lost Pet Network Facebook group, which connected him with Teddy’s owner Alaina Tripp. 

After a spruce-up from Boss’ Bark Boutique in Riverton, Teddy was flown to Los Angles and then Toronto (because there are no direct flights from LA to Ottawa anymore).

Lori Ann Borutski of the Facebook group drove Tripp to Toronto, where she was finally reunited with Teddy. (Anchal Sharma at CBC)

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