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• In today’s ottawan:

  → Dining and drinking news

• → Both the Russell and Vankleek fairs open tomorrow

  → Yet another farflung pet is returned

– Martha and Darren

WEDNESDAY DINING + DRINKING UPDATE

• It’s the cocktail event of the season. Meet other foodies and Ottawa’s business leaders at Harvest A Feast of Fall, (Ottawa Art Gallery,  Wednesday September 18) which is raising funds for YouTurn Youth Support Services. You’ll wander the food stationsnmeeting award winning chefs and tasting out of this world cuisine. 
• There’s just over a week until Red Apron’s free sipping event with Niagara’s Wending Home Estate Vineyards and Winery. On Thursday August 22 enjoy wine samples and nibbles from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm. You must register by phone to attend. 613-695-0417. 
• Fresh honeycomb looks gorgeous on a late summer charcuterie board, and Gees Bees Honey Company is ready to supply it. 
• Road Trip: The 2-acre Sunflower Maze is now open seven days a week at Ferme Juniper Farm. Entry is by sliding scale of $5 to $10 per person. After you’ve found your way out of the maze, shop the organic sweet corn at the farm store. 375 ch Shouldice Rd., Wakefield QC. J0X 3G0 
• Not only will the 2024 Farm to Table Dinner at Saunders Farmfeature pig and corn roasts, but you’ll also be offered s’mores around the campfire after the meal. Cash bar. Sunday August 25. 
• Merry Dairy is popping up at Jacobsons Ottawa on Friday from 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm. 
• After 12 years of writing about restaurants, Peter Hum in the Ottawa Citizen says the Med Supper Club is his most expensive review ever. However, Hum quotes his dining guest as saying, ‘I just don’t see it blowing foodies’ minds’. 
• Ameya Charnalia at Eat The Strip has found a back-to-basics Haitian restaurant in Vanier, Soleil des Iles. Charnalia loved the resto’s version of Haiti’s national dish, Griot – made with pork shoulder marinated in citrus, braised, and then fried.
• A Milano Pizzeria on St Laurent Boulevard was vandalized with swastikas, the N-word, and Ku Klux Klan white supremacist symbols spray painted on the walls.
• Kiersten Vuorimaki in Apt 613’s Best Bites column visited La Bottega Nicastro (‘Ottawa celebrity chef Rene Rodriguez (Top Chef Canada, Beat Bobby Flay, Iron Chef Canada) took over the bustling trattoria this spring’),  Mr. Señor (‘while there are zero misses (including the massive breakfast burrito on Sundays) the birria tacos are such a rare treat to find that they have to be mentioned’), and Sweet N Salad (‘The topping selection is a bit unconventional (no pork products, or caesar dressing here) but everything was super fresh and delicious’).

STATS

Number

• $30 to $50 
• – The average rent per square foot for retail space in downtown Ottawa. Landlords are complaining that they have tried every inducement – except lowering rent – and still are having trouble attracting tenants. (Arthur White-Crummey at CBC)

Ottawan of the Day

• Geoff Cass 
• – The owner of Red Bird opened his 80-seat music venue in 2022, and consistenly sells out. Cass is now promoting concerts across the city. (Lynn Saxberg in the Ottawa Citizen) 

Quote 

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• I've always wanted to fight Z

• – Former Sens left wing Nick Foligno on his long held desire to fight Boston Bruin Zdeno Chara. That is, until the moment came and Foligno instead chose to bench himself. ‘That's why I'm alive’, he says. (Steve Warne in the Hockey News) 

Sports

• ⚾ FRONTIER Ottawa Titans 6 – New York Boulders 0 last night

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WHAT OTTAWA IS TALKING ABOUT

🌊 Ottawa Beaches

• Mooney’s Bay Beach, Petrie East Bay and Petrie River are closed due to high levels of E. Coli. Britannia Beach was tested and found to be safe. (Andrea Bennett at CityNews) (Daily Safety Report)
  
  ➕Related Swimming is also not recommended today at the National Capital Commission’s River House.

✈️ Ottawa Airport

• Flights to London from Ottawa Airport are set to begin next March. Air Canada is planning on reinstating the route, which was cancelled after the COVID-19 lockdowns. Currently, the only flight to Europe is an Air France Paris-Ottawa route. Air Canada plans to fly four days per week. (Josh Pringle at CTV)

🌈 Capital Pride

• The Jewish Federation of Ottawa has withdrawn from the Pride parade following Capital Pride’s ‘Statement in solidarity with Palestine’. The Federation said that it met with the co-chairs of Capital Pride to ‘address our serious concerns about their recent antisemitic statement’ but ultimately Pride’s board refused to revise its stance. Male homosexuality is illegal in Gaza. (Josh Pringle at CTV) (Capital Pride statement)

🐈 Once is nothing, two is coincidence, three is a trend

• Missing from Ottawa for a year, Birdie the cat has been found in Fredericton, New Brunswick. Birdie was brought in to a local SPCA by woman who had been feeding her for six months, which used the cat’s microchip to track down her owners. An Ottawa resident who is visiting family in Fredericton will Birdie back with her. the ottawan is baffled by this burst of long distance newly found pets, noting Indie the cat in Montréal and Teddy the poodle in Wyoming. (Hannah Rudderham at CBC New Brunswick)

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Today

• 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 others. 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

Tomorrow

• 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 get 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, and 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 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), with the list of kids’ entertainment ranging 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 enjoy 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 buy 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

Friday

• Road Trip: Cornwall’s downtown area comes alive for the annual Night Market from 4:00 pm to 10:00 pm. Visit local businesses and more than 50 vendors, hang out on the area’s patios, and enjoy live entertainment. 

• Kristie Lynn and Galen Clark Folk Duo play Art House Café this evening. $15. 

• Capital Pop-Up Cinema is screening Flight of the Navigator in the Churchill Seniors Centre parking lot. Bring your own chair or rent one for $5.

• The ‘Fighting Back 13’ wrestling event will raise funds for the Canadian Cancer Society. 

• Relive the glory days of the 1980s at the Prescott’s wicked New Wave Dance Party with The Underground.

• Spectrum Street Festival is two weeks of daily diverse and inclusive programming including live music, workshops, games and book readings in Somerset Village. 

• The 180th Vankleek Hill Fair continues. 

• The Russell Fair continues 

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

• Catch tonight's performance of Shakepeare's Macbeth by A Company of Fools at Raven Park, Carlington. 

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

• ByTowne Cinema: Nos belles-sœurs (Our Sisters-in-Law), My Penguin Friend, Sugarcane, Cuckoo

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

  Gigs

• The Libation Street Band. Montgomery Scotch Lounge

• ABBA Revisited. Queen St Fare

• Curbside Decisions. Broadhead Brewing

• Alix Fernz, Boyhood, Flleur. House of TARG

• Orson Wild. Rainbow BistroMecca of Stank. Irene’s Pub

• Quote the Raven. Red Bird

• Cu*ty Credenza. LIVE on Elgin

   

Just Announced / Now Booking

• Fall is coming, and it’s the perfect time to pick up a new hobby or refine your existing skills. Here are 5 places in Ottawa to take sewing courses:

  🪡 Fabrications Ottawa is offering a range of sewing courses to suit all skill levels.

  🪡 Green Needle offers adult courses in Sewing Basics, courses for Intermediate sewists, and the very useful Repurposed Fashion and Alterations so you can “make do and mend”. 

  🪡 Make Sew Create offers three levels of beginner and intermediate sewing courses as well as an Advanced Sewing course that covers pattern making. 

  🪡 As well as its charitable programme Sewing for Jobs, which teaches skills to new-comer women and women experiencing barriers to employment, Eco Equitable offers public sewing courses for all skill levels. 

  🪡 Learn Men’s Tailoring over 90 hours at Richard Robinson Fashion Design Academy.

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BUT, ONE MORE THING ...

There is now a store in Merricksville that only sells made-in-Canada jigsaw puzzles. Many of the puzzles sold at The Occurance feature Canadian heritage moments or of small towns in the Ottawa Valley.

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