Community News

KINBURN – The Kinburn Community Centre must be a good place to reach the world, as the West Carleton Amateur Radio Club (WCARC) were back last weekend (June 10), setting up antennas, outfitting mobile units, and filling the rink room with all kinds of communication equipment.

GALETTA – The weather was beautiful, and the grass was green, perfect conditions for the Galetta Lawn Bowls Club’s open house held last Saturday (June 10).

DUNROBIN – While there was action all over West Carleton June 3 weekend, St. Mary’s Anglican Church was a one-stop destination location featuring the best West Carleton had to offer, all rooted by the church’s popular annual plant sale.

DUNROBIN – This year, the weather cooperated, and the volunteer firefighters of Ottawa Fire Services (OFS) Station 66 served record crowds heaps of pancakes during their annual Firefighters Pancake Breakfast Sunday (June 4) morning.

CONSTANCE BAY – The roughly week-long run of the Rural Root Theatre Company’s (RRTC) production Murdered to Death was a return to pre-pandemic crowds, who enjoyed a blend of comedy and mystery in a return to live theatre.

KINBURN – With the lingering effects of the 2023 spring freshet still being felt in West Carleton, including by the volunteers hosting last Wednesday’s (May 17) disaster preparedness panel discussion, West Carleton Disaster Relief (WCDR) put the focus on wildfires during the meeting.

CARP – The Friends of the Carp River (FCR) added 150 native trees to the Carp RiverWalk last Saturday (May 13), the first of a four-year plan to improve the walking trail for everyone, and everything, that uses the natural greenspace.

KINBURN – Any opportunity West Carleton Online gets to reference Right Said Fred’s 1992 hit, I’m Too Sexy, West Carleton Online takes.

DUNROBIN – King Charles III officially received his crown Saturday (May 6), and on Sunday (May 7) St. Mary’s Anglican Church celebrated it.

FITZROY HARBOUR – It was the first craft market of any kind in Fitzroy Harbour since the COVID-19 pandemic started, and it was clear the community had been patiently waiting for such an event, flocking to the Fitzroy Harbour Community Centre Saturday, April 29.