This is what happened to Sandra Plegakis this morning on the Queensway. Ice flew off of a truck in front of her and smashed into her windshield. Other than some shards of glass in her hands she was unhurt, thankfully. Plegakis is the morning show co-host on 105. ...

The Ottawa Police Service is pleased to remind the public that January is Crime Stoppers month and this year, they are celebrating 30 years in Ottawa. Numerous venues and information booths will be set up throughout Ottawa during the entire month. ...

[caption id=“attachment_8089” align=“aligncenter” width=“405”] Mr. Loaf by Andrew King[/caption]

https://twitter.com/ottawahealth/status/551778460897923072 The months of December, January and February are the coldest months of the Ottawa winter and it’s difficult to avoid the cold weather. Frostbite is defined as damage of the skin from exposure to cold weather. City of Ottawa Paramedics remind everyone that cold that extremely cold weather can lead to serious complications, the worst being amputation. ...

[caption id="" align=“aligncenter” width=“331”] [ ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/jvlphoto/14289976726) PHOTO: Can there ever be too much wine? by Justin Van Leeuwen, from the OttawaStart Flickr Group[/caption]  Ontario has allowed restaurants to offer “bring your own wine” (BYOW) service for nearly ten years now, but there aren’t too many Ottawa restaurants that allow it (or promote it). ...

The 16th annual Bell Capital Cup, the world’s premier atom and peewee hockey tournament, came to a successful conclusion earlier today when the final three championship games were played at Canadian Tire Centre.  The 2015 edition of the Bell Capital Cup saw nearly 600 games (almost 1,000 hours of hockey) played on 25 ice surfaces acrossOttawa, from Stittsville to Orleans and points in between. ...

Ottawa Sport & Social Club (OSSC) is pleased to be launching the new “League of Legends”, Ottawa’s first and only co-ed social sport league geared towards Ottawa residents ages 35 and older. “We heard the need from our members to grow with them in age and stage in life, and have now added a new division for the 35+ age group. ...

We finally went to see Freezing at the Gladstone Theatre. It’s billed as a “witty, wintery family musical” and it certainly lived up to the billing. It’s a pun-filled interactive show full running just over 90 minutes with an intermission. The musical is set in the Snow Globe Kingdom, although it might as well be set in Ottawa for all of the references to Queensway traffic and corrupt politicians. ...

UPDATE, MARCH 29: Bluesfest says a “major addition” to the Bluesfest line-up will be announced on Monday morning at 10:00am. They posted a teaser video (below) featuring Bluesfest director Mark Monahan. The Ottawa Citizen’s Peter Simpson thinks the major addition will be Kanye West. ...

The Ottawa Police Service wants to acknowledge good proactive work from Central NHO officers on New Year’s Eve where a good amount of drugs were seized, a black replica handgun was seized and three persons were arrested and charged. On December 31 ...