Join us at the Firehall on Sunnyside Avenue on Saturday 25 November 2023 at 3:00pm for the Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Old Ottawa South Community Association (OSCA). As well as delivering activities and programs at the Firehall, OSCA is your voice on community and city issues. Get involved, network with your neighbours (and enjoy a wine & cheese reception afterwards). Link for advance registration.
If you live in the Sunnyside area, and care about what is happening in your community, find out more and get involved at the the Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Old Ottawa South Community Association (OSCA). Join us at the Firehall on Saturday 25 November 2023, from 3pm. The AGM will be followed by a wine & cheese. Please pre-register at this link: Annual General Meetings – Old Ottawa South Community Association See you…
Join Councillors Ariel Troster, Jeff Leiper, and Shawn Menard on October 18, 2023 at 7pm for a virtual conversation about the City of Ottawa 2024 budget including opportunities to enhance front-line services and infrastructure in the urban core. Virtual Zoom link: Budget consultation – Somerset, Kitchissippi, and Capital wards
On 10 November 2023 City Council will decide whether to approve the current proposal for the redevelopment of Lansdowne Park, “Lansdowne 2.0“. Many neighbourhood residents, and your community association, OSCA, have grave doubts about this proposal, involving the construction of 40-storey skyscrapers, the loss of public space, and the implications for traffic and liveability. In addition, the proposal appears fiscally imprudent, especially given the lack of transparency around the finances of the last redevelopment….
Supper’s on at Southminster United Church again this fall, with doors opening October 14, 2023, to welcome all to come in Out-of-the-Cold.
EnviroCrew volunteers will be set up near the parking lot in Windsor Park from 1 to 6 p.m at OSCA’s Fall Fest, Saturday, October 14, 2023, collecting items to reduce household waste. Items for collection are: You’ll also receive information on how to recycle dozens of other household waste items. Or just stop by and chat. We’d love to meet you and hear your ideas about reducing waste, helping the environment, addressing climate change.
Tuesday, October 10th marks Sammy’s 2023 bottle drive fundraising campaign. Please place your wine and beer bottles, and especially your aluminum cans on your porch before 6 pm. Sammy and I will be running the streets of Old Ottawa South, between Bank Street and Main Street, raising money to fund his passion of swimming. Sammy regularly wakes up at 4:30 am for morning practices, and trains 10 times a week. His commitment and perseverance…
If you don’t tell ’em, they don’t know…
In this excerpt from the March 1990 OSCAR, June Kelly O’Byrne recounts memories of life on Sunnyside Avenue from the 1920s and beyond, with recollections of family and friends, and recalls the many local stores and businesses in the neighbourhood. Ottawa South Memories by June Kelly O’Byrne In 1920 my parents bought a little house on Sunnyside Ave. on a big lot which extended to Woodbine Place. Dad had just returned from the First…
Designed in 1920 by prominent Ottawa architect Werner Ernst Noffke, No. 10 Graham Station, is an elaborate Spanish-Colonial style building named in honour of Ottawa Fire Chief John W. Graham, who served that post from 1910 to 1921.
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