What’s up, doc, around Stittsville? The Stittsville District Lions Club is awarding a contract to Signs FX for the replacement of the outdoor sign LED lights at the Lions Medical Centre building on Stittsville Main Street… Colleen and Dwain McGillvray celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in July….Sharon and Mark Labbe marked their 25th wedding anniversary in July as well…Holy Spirit Catholic Parish on Shea Road is sponsoring a Syrian Christian family of four (mom, dad and two children) to come to Canada to begin a new life. It is not yet known when the family will be able to come to Canada…Stittsville Optometry on Stittsville Main Street now has five optometrists on staff. There’s Dr. Crrrine Motluk as well as Dr. Alan Franzmann, Dr. Melanie Bolton, Dr. Graeme Ferguson and Dr. Erin Kelly. Their support staff includes Certified Optometric Assistant and office manager Rachel Rose, Certified Optometric Assistant and dispensary manager Maggie Marcantonio, Certified Optometric Assistant Nicole Loveless, Certified Optometric Assistant and pretest Carol Brown, reception and pre-test Allison Tomlins, Reception and pre-test Jennifer Morgan and reception Maritza Marcantonio….”It’s An Honour!,” the travelling exhibit about the Canadian Honours System which visited Stittsville on Monday, April 27 and Tuesday, April 28 (the tractor trailer van was parked at Guardian Angels Catholic School), has completed its two year cross-Canada journey, finishing up in Peterborough at the end of July. The exhibit had been on the road since July 2013, covering more than 50,000 kilometers while visiting 144 communities in all ten provinces, the Yukon and the Northwest Territories. Stittsville was one of these communities visited. Altogether, more than 79,000 people visited the travelling exhibit. The specially designed vehicle featured interpretative panels, multimedia elements and artifacts, providing an opportunity for visitors to learn more about the Canadian Honours System. The exhibit paid tribute to Canadian women, men and youth whose achievements, courage and dedication to service have been outstanding. The hope is that exposure to the Canadian Honours System through this travelling exhibit will inspire Canadians to nominate deserving fellow Canadians for honours that are available in Canada. This travelling exhibit was a project of the Office of the Secretary to the governor General, the Rideau Hall Foundation
and The Taylor Family Foundation….Carleton-Mississippi Mills MPP Jack MacLaren, along with Insurance Bureau of Canada Director of Government Relations Doug DeRabbie, recently donated over 150 CO detectors to the Ottawa Fire Department at Station 41 on Eagleson Road in Kanata for distribution to the public….Don Redtman, who is president of the Stittsville District Lions Club, has now taken on another role as well, namely that of treasurer of the District A4 Cabinet for the 2015-2016 year. The Cabinet is headed by District A4 Governor Kris Schulz of the Manotick Lions Club. In addition, Paul Riddell of the Stittsville District Lions Club is the Region 30 Chair for the coming term. Beth Lewis of the Stittsville District Lions Club is the Zone 30 West Chair….The new splash pad at the Pioneer Plains Park at the corner of Stittsville Main Street and Kimpton Drive in the Jackson Trails community is now in operation. Cost of this project involving the splash pad installation and other work such as landscaping was about $200,000. This new splash pad is now the third one in Stittsville (existing ones are in the Fairwinds community and on Upcountry Drive south of Fernbank Road and east of Stittsville Main Street). There are an estimated 110 splash pads in the city of Ottawa….The Stittsville 56ers of the Greater Ottawa Fastball League played its final regular season game on Wednesday, July 29 at Alexander Grove, beating the 14C Victory team by an 8-1 score. The 56ers are now into playoff action, with a game scheduled for Alexander Grove on Wednesday, Aug. 26….Artist Trudy Daley has a painting featuring her hometown of Soest in Germany in the exhibition currently on display at the Ottawa West Arts Association (owaa) gallery in the foyer area of the Goulbourn Recreation Complex on Shea Road. Following an article about the painting in the Stittsville News which outlined that Soest was where Trudy was born and grew up, she received an email from a person who was also born in Soest but who had moved to Canada at the age of two. He has never been back and wanted to know more about Soest. So he and Trudy scheduled a meeting where Trudy could tell him about Soest and show him some photographs of Soest….Johnwoods Street from Alon Street north to Maple Grove Road is being reduced to one lane through to early September due to the installation of water mains to service
the new developments east of Johnwoods Street in the Fairwinds West area. Traffic flow will be restricted to one lane but a flag person will be on hand to facilitate the traffic flow in both directions…Leanne Cusack of CTV interviewed Helene Hutchings, founder and head of Hair Donation Ottawa which raises funds for cancer research, at the Shears Hair Design salon in the plaza at the corner of Stittsville Main Street and Hobin Street on Wednesday, July 29….The final meditation class in the series of four such classes being held at the Stittsville branch of the Ottawa Public Library this month will take place this coming Tuesday, Aug. 25 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. with Bhante Kovida, an author who has led such meditation sessions previously at the Stittsville library branch in both 2012 and 2013. He has also conducted such sessions at the Iskotew Lodge at Health Canada. This final meditation class on Tuesday, Aug. 25 will be focussed on the topic “Dealing with Mental/ Emotional States and the Four Sublime States.” Everyone is welcome to attend this class. There is no charge but a donation to help Bhante Kovida in his teaching efforts would be appreciated…Emergency sewer repair work on the east side of Stittsville Main Street in front of the Bradley’s Insurance office saw a detour set up for northbound traffic on Stittsville Main Street. The detour was to last from 7 p.m. last Friday to 5 a.m. on Monday but the work was completed quickly and the street re-opened to two-
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way traffic on Saturday. Southbound traffic was not impacted at all but northbound traffic was detoured west on Abbott Street to West Ridge Drive and then along West Ridge Drive to Beverly Street and then east on Beverly Street to rejoin Stittsville Main Street…..Anyone wanting to learn how to Nordic Walk should contact Wendi Paterson at 613-832-4407 or via email at wendipaterson@hotmail.com. She will be holding sessions from Monday, Sept. 14 through Saturday, Nov. 14. Her classes take place around ponds, parks, pathways and trails in the Stittsville and Kanata areas…”Camp Awesome,” a Christian day camp for children aged 4 to 12 years, was held at the Stittsville United Church last week, running from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. each day….New traffic signals at the intersection of Maple Grove Road and Huntmar Road are now operating. This had been a four-way stop. The project originally was scheduled for 2017 but city of Ottawa Stittsville ward councillor Shad Qadri worked with the city’s traffic department to speed up the traffic signals installation at this intersection…The fourth annual Kidney Walk in support of the Kidney Foundation of Canada will take place on Sunday, Sept. 13, starting at Stittsville United Church on Fernbank Road about 11 a.m. Individuals and teams are encouraged to take part. For information, call Bruce Hill of the Kidney Foundation of Canada (Eastern Ontario Chapter) at 613-7249953, ext. 4560 or visit kidnwywalk.ca .
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