If you’d like to read at Blog Out Loud 2015, now is the time to submit. Have a look at your blog posts from the past year and pick out your favourite (going back as far as January 2014). You can submit up to two posts for consideration. ...

[caption id=“attachment_12153” align=“aligncenter” width=“435”] Pothole at Elm Crescent and Main Street. Photo by Greg Banning / via StittsvilleCentral.ca [/caption] https://twitter.com/ottawacity/status/581180181936738304 One of Ottawa’s great winter and spring traditions is avoiding all of the potholes on our streets and highways. ...

The Lunch Out Loud podcast looks to promote the amazing talent, food, events and music Ottawa has to offer. Every week we will introduce you to new things about Ottawa you never knew existed. ** This week: ** We meet up with Michael Maidment, executive Director of the Ottawa Food Bank, to find out how he got involved with the organization, new changes, who can use the food bank, events that raise funds for them, and much, much more! ...

The Ottawa Lapsmith Club was founded as a small interest group in 1966. The club incorporated in 1997 and amalgamated with the Ottawa Valley Mineral Association to form the Ottawa Lapsmith & Mineral Club (OLMC), thus expanding its field of interest to mineralogy as well as to the many facets of lapidary work. ...

TOP YOUR PIE serves original Lebanese pies is now open in Barrhaven Ottawa @ 2910 Woodroffe Ave. K2J 4G3. Please follow us on Facebook and check out our menu as well as photos of our Standard Zaatar/Meat/Cheese/Spinach pies, Kafta pies, Chicken and Cheese pies, our Chicken/Beef Shawarma pies and so on and so forth… ...

City Hall will resonate with the sounds of chamber music as the City partners to host a series of free noon-hour spring concerts presented by Chamberfest. Concerts by talented local performers will take place from 12:15 to 1 p.m. on Wednesdays from April 1 to May 6 as a prelude to the Ottawa International Chamber Music Festival. ...

The City of Ottawa encourages residents to take part in Earth Hour and to use the time to engage in a broader discussion on taking environmental action year round. Earth Hour asks people to turn off all non-essential lights from 8:30 to 9:30 p. ...

Beginning on Saturday, March 28, 2015 at 11 p.m. Greenbank Road will be closed to vehicular, cycling and pedestrian traffic in both directions between Malvern Drive and Berrigan Drive/Wessex Road. The road will be closed to prepare for a new detour. ...

The City of Ottawa is seeking local, national and international companies as sponsoring partners for the 150 th anniversary celebrations of Canada’s Confederation in 2017.  The City’s Ottawa 2017 Bureau has posted a notice on MERX, the government procurement system, to ensure fairness and transparency for the sponsorship process. ...

Deputy Mayor Bob Monette and Councillor Stephen Blais presented the Mayor’s City Builder Award to Jean Séguin today in recognition of his many years of leadership and volunteer contributions in the Vars community.  From 2006 to 2009, he spearheaded the participation of Vars in the City’s Neighbourhood Planning Initiative pilot project. ...