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OLD OTTAWA EATS Who knew cake design could be this much fun! Learning high-end cake decoration from the pros. On assignment at Artistic Cake Design, our food reporters donned their aprons and whipped up a buttercream icing masterpiece to celebrate...
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ART BEAT TIM HUNT’SMAIN STREETSKETCHES Tim Hunt explores his community outfitted with a small sketchbook, pen, and watercolour kit. In our regular feature, he shares the pages from his sketchbook and tells the stories behind his work. The street names...
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ART BEAT A finger on the pulse of the arts in OOE OOE ARTIST FEATURE: ARCHITECT ELAINE DECOURSEY CELEBRATES VIBRANT COLOURS AS PAINTER, URBAN SKETCHER, AND GARDENER Longtime resident and artist Elaine DeCoursey will display her work in A Walk of Art...
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HEALTHY LIVING Nordic Walking helps people improve fitness and increase activity. Many of us have parents, friends or neighbours who struggle with balance, with back pain, with an old knee injury, or with lack of motivation or confidence. Nordic Walking is...
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FROM OUR ARCHIVES Robert Lees – patriarch of Ottawa East’s leading family . Robert Lees was the patriarch of the Lees family who lived in a house called Wildwood. It stood at the end of a long lane, on Main Street, where the Queensway is now. Born in...
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HEALTHY LIVING Nordic Walking helps people improve fitness and increase activity. Many of us have parents, friends or neighbours who struggle with balance, with back pain, with an old knee injury, or with lack of motivation or confidence...
Read Full Story... bit.ly/4nzi2Yc
Ottawa’s Golden Age of baking – the lost bakeries of Old Ottawa East How Old Ottawa East’s three bakeries – Morrison Lamothe, Walker’s, &Ideal Cake – turned our community into Ottawa’s breadbasket for much of the 20th century...
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Can I Skate? Ottawa couple develops an app to track Rideau Canal ice conditions. Old Ottawa East resident test out the app
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Sharing Lunch with…..Ottawa’s Mayor Mark Sutcliffe
In an exclusive interview with The Mainstreeter, Ottawa Mayor Mark Sutcliffe discusses the successes of his first two years in office and the challenges that confront the city… Read more » www.mainstreeter.ca?p=12200
Greystone Village Transitional Care to continue until at least March 2028
OOE’s “medium-sized hospital” A new agreement between Bruyère Health and Greystone Village Retirement Residence will maintain the status quo at the 132-bed facility.… Read more » www.mainstreeter.ca?p=12196
OLD OTTAWA EAST COMMUNITY UPDATES FOR FEBRUARY 2025
John Dance is The Mainstreeter’s chief reporter and the former Chair of the Old Ottawa East Community Association’s Planning Committee. Relying upon his extensive experience. he keeps our readers informed… Read more » www.mainstreeter.ca?p=12188
CRIME IN OLD OTTAWA EAST – Ottawa Police Services Provide a Crime Prevention Primer
So how do we prevent crime in our community? Greater use of technology and tried and true methods of “crime prevention through environmental design” (CPTED) were explained by… Read more » www.mainstreeter.ca?p=12176
New speed camera on Main Street off to a very fast start with 587 speeding tickets issued in November!!
The new “automated speed enforcement” (ASE) camera near Immaculata High School on Main Street has made its presence felt for a lot of people since it began… Read more » www.mainstreeter.ca?p=12170
Vandalism in the Children’s Garden – It Takes a Community of Big Hearts to Build This Beautiful Space – But Just a Few Small Minds to Destroy It
Main and Clegg streets lately, you might have noticed something new, or rather something missing… Read more » www.mainstreeter.ca?p=12157
ART BEAT- OOE ARTIST FEATURE: Go Figure! Life Drawing/Painting/Sculpting Thrives in our Neighbourhood with the Support of an Enduring Program
I don’t usually inject myself into my Art Beat stories. They feature artists, their work, and art events. But here I… Read more » www.mainstreeter.ca?p=12147
OLD OTTAWA EATS – eXpresso café – A Marriage Made in Heaven: Preston Street Welcomes Ottawa’s First Real Estate Café
In December 2024, the Little Italy neighbourhood of Ottawa welcomed eXpresso Café, the city’s first-ever real estate café. The brainchild of… Read more » www.mainstreeter.ca?p=12135
OUR NEIGHBOURS – Meet Our Community’s Distinguished Renaissance Woman, Dr. Roseann O’Reilly Runte
Dr. Roseann O’Reilly Runte sends hand-written cards. It’s something she has always done in both her professional and personal life… Read more »http://www.mainstreeter.ca/?p=12126
Critical Care By Air: Look Skyward to the Life-Saving Medical Missions of the Helicopter Ambulances Overflying Old Ottawa East
Main Street has long served as a route for ambulances moving patients to CHEO… Read more » www.mainstreeter.ca?p=12115
Bank Street LED streetlight conversion
Through a partnership between the City of Ottawa and our subsidiary, Envari Energy Solutions, streetlights from the Rideau Canal to Hwy 417 have been upgraded to energy-efficient LEDs.
Alta Vista Transportation Corridor Public Consultation
Shawn Menard will be holding a public consultation to discuss the future of the field on Lees Ave that currently serves as park space.
Join us on Wed, Jan 29 from 7:00 to 900 pm over Zoom.
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Perpetual Construction Zone for Many Residents Ensnared in the Greenfield/Main/Hawthorne Project
The massive Greenfield, Main, Hawthorne (GMH) project is now finishing its fourth year with at least one more year to go… Read more » www.mainstreeter.ca?p=12076
OPINION: Hydro One and The Uglification of Centennial Boulevard
As hockey fans of the Ottawa Senators know all too well, the ugliest word that can come out of a General Manager’s mouth is “rebuild.” A “rebuild”… Read more » www.mainstreeter.ca?p=12070
Do I Smell A Rat? Job Opening – The Pied Piper of Hamelin needed in Old Ottawa East
I stared my morning as usual. Get the paper, turn on a light, make sure the car is still in the driveway and then head to the kitchen… Read more www.mainstreeter.ca?p=12051
Passionate Defence of 185 Hawthorne Avenue Public Space Forces a Change to City’s Development Plans
Residents’ advocacy at planning committee meeting scales back housing blueprint, saves greenspace and trees Many residents of the Hawthorne Avenue neighbourh… Read more » www.mainstreeter.ca?p=12038
Crumbling Cement, High Vacancy Rate, Empty Retail Units All Point to the Decline of the Community’s Original High-Rise Tower
The Mainstreeter examines the checkered past, stagnant present and uncertain future of the Le Marquis apartment building at 95 Main... Read more » www.mainstreeter.ca?p=12023
Old Ottawa Eats: Ottawa’s Cooking Schools Offer Classes and Programs For All Tastes and Budgets
If you’re looking to perfect your pastry or spice up your sauces, Ottawa has a cooking course for nearly every taste and budget… Read more » www.mainstreeter.ca?p=12013
Old Ottawa Eats: Here’s The Skinny On The Most Popular Meal Kits.
Choosing the right meal kit service can be as tough as selecting between dessert options – several are tempting, but you can only have one. My partner and… Read more » www.mainstreeter.ca?p=12004
ART BEAT – OOE Artist Feature: Ross and Dave Rheaume – Brother In Arms (And At Odds) With Brushes!
The opening of the Salon des Bananes, Ottawa’s newest gallery at 2207 Carling Avenue, set the stage in November for meeting Métis artist brothers…. Read more » www.mainstreeter.ca?p=11980
Hey Doug Ford: Don’t Remove Our Main Street Bike Lanes!
New legislation empowers the province to approve adding bike lanes, eliminating existing ones Old Ottawa East residents strongly oppose Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s new legislation that gives the… Read more » www.mainstreeter.ca?p=11956
HEALTHY LIVING: There’s Never Too Much Snow For The Rideau Winter Trail
What the volunteers with the Rideau Winter Trail (RWT) start thinking by early December of each year. This free-to-use urban winter trail is groomed along… Read more » www.mainstreeter.ca?p=11945
