Weekend rain helps Ottawa River swell
WEST CARLETON – After a day-and-a-half of rain, the Ottawa River is showing the results Monday (May 1) afternoon, visibly higher than it was heading in to the weekend.
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OWC blows through Kinburn
KINBURN – Ottawa Wind Concerns (OWC) chair Jane Wilson says last night’s (April 26) drop-in event in Kinburn started with a line-up and ended with more interested visitors than the sister event held in her home community of North Gower earlier last week.
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St. Mary’s hosts Earth Day clean-up
DUNROBIN – While many West Carleton residents had their eye on the water Saturday (April 22), the volunteers of St. Mary’s Anglican Church celebrated Earth Day by cleaning up some of the community’s land.
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WC flood relief volunteer powered
CONSTANCE BAY – Today (April 20) is a beautiful spring day. Constance Bay around noon is relatively quiet. But there is also a dread in the air as the Ottawa River raised another 10 centimetres since yesterday (April 19).
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West Carleton’s riverside on high alert
WILLOLA BEACH – Every time West Carleton Online speaks to Willola Beach homeowner David McKay, he’s battling a flood.
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WC flood meet draws riverside crowd
KINBURN – It didn’t pack the hall like flood meetings in 2017 and 2019 did, but Coun. Clarke Kelly’s flood preparedness meeting Wednesday (April 12) evening drew a good crowd of about 30 individuals who still remember those unprecedented flooding events in great detail.
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OPS lead Kinburn fraud workshop
KINBURN – A full hall with lots of questions attended today’s (April 12) Ottawa Police Service (OPS) workshop on fraud and scams.
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Ice storm clean-up continues Thursday
WEST CARLETON – Many West Carleton residents are still without power as clean-up from yesterday’s (April 5) sustained ice storm.
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Freezing rain cuts WC power, trees
WEST CARLETON – Today’s (April 5) bottomless buckets of freezing rain have caused power outages and downed trees across the West Carleton community.
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FCH AGM delivers consistency in-person
CARP – The Friends of the Carp Hills (FCH) annual general meeting at the Carp Memorial Hall last night (March 29) showed how a small volunteer organization with little capital can make a big difference protecting an environmentally sensitive area unique to the geographic region of Ottawa.
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