Community News

KINBURN – The Fitzroy Township Historical Society (FTHS) put out the call, and the Ottawa Valley’s car community brought the wheels for a pre-Canada Day Antique Show and Shine Saturday, June 29.

WEST CARLETON – A mid-week Canada Day is not ideal, but West Carleton residents made the best of it enjoying time with friends and family at their own events, at some of Ward 5’s classic Canada Day events as well as a new, international one in Fitzroy Harbour.

ASHTON – In only eight brief years, the EY Golf Quest 4 Clinical Trials golf tournament has become one of Ottawa’s largest charity tournaments, and last week broke its own record raising roughly $2 million for The Ottawa Hospital.

WOODLAWN – Last week (June 5) the Agriculture and Rural Affairs committee chose not to close a road allowance in Woodlawn which is a required step to allow Nicholls Gas owner Gagan Panjhazari to purchase the property immediately adjacent to his business.

NEPEAN – Following a nearly 10-hour (not including two recesses) meeting yesterday (June 5) featuring 69 delegations, the Agriculture and Rural Affairs committee (ARAc) unanimously voted to recommend council not provide a Municipal Support Resolution to Evolugen’s South March Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) facility.

CONSTANCE BAY – Constance Bay shares several issues with all West Carleton but also has a variety of issues unique to the riverside community, and last week (May 28) Ward 5 Coun. Clarke Kelly and a team of City of Ottawa staffers attempted to address those issues directly with the residents during a town hall meeting.

DUNROBIN – It was a rainy set-up but the Dunrobin and District Women’s Institute (WI) joined the West Carleton community garage sale Saturday, May 24 and raised more than $1,000 for the West Carleton Food Access Centre (WCFAC).

WEST CARLETON – A group opposed to the proposed Marchurst Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) facility led by the company Evolugen, say they are ready to battle the project after finding out it will be on the Agriculture and Rural Affairs committee (ARAc) agenda next week (June 5).

CARP – It’s nice to have friends, and the Carp River’s friends gifted the meandering watercourse with 200 new native trees May 10, adding to the hundreds already planted as the Friends of the Carp River (FCR) enter year three of their reforestation project.

KINBURN – Lifelong farmer and community leader Dwight Eastman who served as West Carleton Township’s last mayor and West Carleton-March’s first councillor following amalgamation with the City of Ottawa, passed away this morning (May 16) at the age of 80 after a brief battle with cancer.