** EDITH: Small town. Big secrets. ** OTTAWA – Local filmmakers, Claudia Jurt, Olivier Surprenant & Peter Jurt are competing for $1 Million in financing and screenings at Cineplex Cinemas across Canada with their feature film concept, EDITH. EDITH is a psychological horror-thriller about a small town in which seven children all go missing in one night. ...

The City of Ottawa will be testing about 10,000 fire hydrants in the south, central and west ends of the City beginning today and ending in October. Hydrants are inspected annually to ensure that they are ready should they be needed by Ottawa Fire Services. ...

Nicholas Street, between Highway 417 and Laurier Avenue, will be reduced to one lane in each direction beginning Monday, May 11 and continuing until October.  The lane reductions are necessary to allow for the installation of new sewer and watermain infrastructure along Nicholas Street, rehabilitation of the Mann Avenue overpass and resurfacing of the road. ...

Mayor Jim Watson and Councillor Diane Deans, chair of the City’s Community and Protective Services Committee, launched Emergency Preparedness Week today at City Hall. The event was both a celebration of the City’s achievements in emergency preparedness and a reminder to all that preparing for emergencies is a job that’s never really done. ...

Alta Vista Councillor Jean Cloutier, along with community partner 1-800-GOT-JUNK? hosted an e-waste recycling event today at Elmvale Shopping Centre. Unwanted televisions, printers, cell phones and much more were being collected in order to ensure these items were recycled. Because the City of Ottawa does not accept e-waste during bi-weekly curbside pickup, this event provided the opportunity for residents to properly discard any electronics that may no longer be useful. ...

A large number of visitors are expected near Commissioners Park to see the tulips in bloom over the next three weekends. Traffic management activities will be in place near Commissioners Park on May 2–3, May 9–10 and May 16–17–18, 2015. ...

Mayor Jim Watson is inviting Ottawa students in Grades 1 to 12 to create the official postcards for the Ottawa 2017 celebrations.  Mayor Watson was joined by Ottawa 2017 Co-chairs, Councillors Jean Cloutier and Mathieu Fleury, to officially launch the city-wide competition today at Featherston Drive Public School in Alta Vista Ward. ...

The Gatineau Police Service and Ottawa Police Service’s Selective Traffic Enforcement Program (STEP) will focus on motorcycle safety and unsafe vehicles and heavy trucks during the month of May. Motorcycle Safety Between 2009 and 2013, there were 790 collisions involving motorcycles resulting in 542 ...

[caption id=“attachment_13749” align=“aligncenter” width=“405”] Mr. Loaf by Andrew King[/caption]

[caption id="" align=“aligncenter” width=“640”] [ ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/130133857@N05/16737375944) May 1st 2015, sun setting on the Nation’s Capital by S Myers[/caption] Just about every weekday at noon there’s a 15-minute concert played by the Peace Tower Carillon, the massive collection of bells that ring out from inside the tower on Parliament Hill. ...