Day and night, 365 days a year, Windsor Park is cared for by incessant secret guardians. The Windsor Park dog walkers seem innocent enough, with their cute pooches and their light banter, but at the heart of every dog walker is a community park guardian.
Mark your calendars! You won’t want to miss a new community event at Trinity Anglican Church (1230 Bank Street at Cameron Avenue). We’ll be holding a plant sale – annuals, perennials and herbs – from 10 am till 2 pm on Saturday, June 4, 2022. This is an opportunity to shop local and perhaps discover something new for your garden or kitchen windowsill.
As the community ages, we need to ensure that our city is built for older residents. Join SWOOS and Capital Ward Councillor Shawn Menard to talk about how the city can meet the needs of older adults.
It may seem a bit early to think of the celebrations planned for October 14-16, 2022, but now is the time to get your tickets. Lots of fun events are scheduled — see the Glebe100 website for all the details.
Renovation of a century-old building is not for the faint-hearted, especially when the building has survived a century to become an architectural landmark in Ottawa, a monument to a way of life and a gathering place for generations of Ottawa families and friends.
The vision for the Clubhouse restoration was to bring new life to a grand old building, to extend its life span and make it a year-round place for community events. In fact, the project so far has resembled more of a rescue mission.
Local poets reading for National Poetry Month hosted on Zoom by Aeolus House
This eight-author virtual event includes OOS’s Mary Lee Bragg and me, JC Sulzenko (reading under my pseudonym A. Garnett Weiss).
Anyone going past Southminster United Church in the last year or so might have noticed that in the midst of surrounding construction, the grounds of the church offer a little pocket of green on Bank Street. With the work on the interior of the church building completed, the church is now envisioning what this remaining green space could be.
Frankly, an old wooden box makes a rather poor footing. As restoration of the OTLBC Clubhouse gathers steam in winter 2021-22 and a century of makeshift repairs is exposed, there have been some real surprises. One of these was the discovery of a wooden Coca-Cola box, filled with concrete and jammed in to support a beam holding up the floor. Clearly maintaining the Clubhouse has not been a priority in the past century. But why not?
In wintertime, until nine years ago, I used to love walking to and down the steps of the Colonel By Drive access and go for a skate on my beloved Dutch speed-skates. But now, two fractured hips and arms later, my fur-lined leather speed-skates are collecting dust and the same is happening with my cross-country skis.
On September 15, 2021, at 6 p.m., join the Enviro Crew of Old Ottawa South on Zoom for a free vegetarian cooking class! You can participate from your own kitchen and learn how to prepare a savoury vegetarian paella from Chef Ben from Chef’s Paradise.
