City News

FITZROY HARBOUR – It was a little bit hot, it was a little bit country, as the Fitzroy Concerts in the Park kicked off its 29th season Thursday (July 10) evening under sunny skies in beautiful Fitzroy Provincial Park.

WOODLAWN – Tomorrow (July 8) Amazing Race Canada kicks off a new season, and Woodlawn native Jonathon Braun will fulfill a lifelong dream looking to be the hit TV show’s 11th champion.

HUNTLEY – It’s one of the few events the Huntley Historical Society (HTHS) hosts at its Carp Road location, but with all that local history on hand, and fresh strawberries to boot, the HTHS Strawberry Social is an annual event not to be missed.

CARP – Last week (June 26), Mayor Mark Sutcliffe cut the ribbon on two new permanent Diefenbunker Cold War exhibitions and then celebrated the event with a standing-room- only crowd gathered in the museum’s vintage subterranean cafeteria.

CARP – The temperatures were rising Saturday (June 21) on the field and in the air, and roughly 400 softball fans got to enjoy a spirited exhibition game as the Team Canada women showed off their impressive skills in a final tune-up before their international begins.

NEPEAN – If Ottawa is to achieve climate resiliency by 2050 in accordance with the city’s Climate Ready Ottawa strategy, there is no time to waste.

CARP – It was a beautiful morning to get a workout going on June 7, and what’s more invigorating than getting a workout in, in the great outdoors?

DUNROBIN – According to the United Nations (UN) we all depend on the survival of bees. 

DUNROBIN – The weather hasn’t been cooperating the last few years, but that doesn’t stop the crowds who know after 33 years, nobody does breakfast like the volunteer firefighters of Ottawa Fire Station (OFS) 66.

HUNTLEY – The Dave Smith Youth Treatment Centre (DSYC) located in the Carp Road Corridor, is using an $88,000 Ontario Trillium Foundation grant to boost programming at the newly built centre that will grow confidence and skills in the youth they treat.