Kitchissippi Times
KT HUMANS OF KITCHISSIPPI
250 City Centre Ave., Suite 500 Ottawa ON K1R-6K7 www.kitchissippi.com Kitchissippi, meaning “the Grand River,” is the former Algonquin name for the Ottawa River. The name now identifies the urban community to the west of downtown Ottawa. Newswest is a not-forprofit community-owned publication that is distributed 12 times per year inside the Kitchissippi Times.
Editor/Associate Publisher Andrea Tomkins editor@kitchissippi.com twitter.com/kitchissippi Contributors Dave Allston, Ellen Bond, Jacob Hoytema, Andrea Prazmowski, Ted Simpson Proofreader Judith van Berkom Advertising Sales Eric Dupuis 613-238-1818 x273 eric@kitchissippi.com Annalisa Pareja 613-238-1818 x274 annalisa@kitchissippi.com Creative Director Tanya Connolly-Holmes creative@greatriver.ca
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Meet Claudia Arizmendi Collected by Ellen Bond
“I was born in the north of Mexico, the really, really north of Mexico. Then I moved to go to university in Monterrey, which is the third largest city in Mexico. I moved to Canada 23 years ago, and I moved to Ottawa. I have lived in the Kitchissippi area for a year. I love that this area is very family oriented. I have three children and it’s nice to be able to walk everywhere and feel like you live in a small town. It’s a beautiful neighbourhood. We sometimes take walks at 11 p.m. at night
and it’s very peaceful. You feel like you are right in a town. “For Canada’s 150th birthday, I am looking forward to everyone getting together. Because I am from another country and came here and started working, I hope everyone takes the opportunity to see we are a multicultural city and everybody respects each other. In the future I’d love to go visit Europe, and do some interactive travelling, spending more time in the places that I love like Spain
and Italy. I’d like to travel a little more, enjoy life. Whenever it’s winter, I say to myself, when May comes I will make time to enjoy the summer as much as I can, and May comes and you are so busy with work that you forget to live in the moment. Then winter comes again, and I say, next summer I will enjoy more of the moment! We live in a very beautiful country, a beautiful city, and what we have here is very difficult to replicate.”
Humans of Kitchissippi is a special street photography project designed to introduce readers to some of the people who live, work, and play in Kitchissippi. Each instalment of HOK contains three elements: a photo, a name, and a quote from the subject that reveals a little bit about who they are. Go to kitchissippi.com to view our ongoing collection of humans.
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