_ (press release) _ Get ready to make space on your refrigerator or in your garage; the City’s new 12-month waste collection calendar will be delivered by mail to residences across the city starting in May.  The calendar starts in June 2016 and runs until May 2017. ...

Veggies. Photo by Lydia Bociurkiw. When we started this list in 2009, there were around 20 active food blogs included in our listing. By 2011 that number mushroomed to 60 active blogs, but now the food blog trend has subsided. ...

Mauro Bertoli, an Italian-Canadian classical pianist living in Ottawa ( www.maurobertoli.com ), is the 2016 recipient of the CAB Foundation’s Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli Prize for young interpreters. The Prize, which bears the name of a legendary pianist from Brescia, is awarded by the Foundation in collaboration with the International Piano Festival of Brescia and Bergamo. ...

_ (press release) _ Ottawa residents will soon have the opportunity to share what they consider most important when evaluating possible locations for the new flagship Ottawa Central Library. Two large in-person consultation sessions are planned for May 16 at Ottawa City Hall. ...

The aerial application of granular larvicides by helicopter, is scheduled to begin this weekend in Kanata North. This weekend the aerial drop will not impact active recreational green space. Next week a more concentrated aerial application is scheduled.  The Kanata North Nuisance Mosquito Control Program deals with treating mosquito larvae in wetlands so they won’t hatch. ...

_ (press release) _ The Ottawa trade mission to India, with Mayor Jim Watson and a delegation of 35 business and industry leaders, generated investments and opportunities in technology, education, film production and tourism. The resulting list of Memoranda of Understanding (MOUs), strategic partnerships and mutually beneficial agreements between Ottawa companies and their Indian counterparts has an estimated total value of over $80 million. ...

Nicholas Street traffic changes along with road closures and detours for multiple events may pose traffic impacts to area motorists this Sunday.  Beginning on Sunday, April 24, Nicholas Street northbound between Highway 417 and Laurier Avenue will be converted to one general traffic lane and one bus-only lane. ...

Motorists and cyclists should expect evening lane reductions on Holland Avenue between Byron Avenue and Spencer Street beginning Sunday, April 24. Wellington Street will also be reduced to one lane in each direction at Holland Avenue. The reductions will allow for sewer rehabilitation work, which is expected to be completed by Wednesday, April 27, weather permitting. ...

_ (via Ottawa Police) _ The Ottawa Police Service wishes to advise Ottawa residents that traffic disruptions are expected to occur in the afternoon of Sunday, April 24, 2016 in the downtown area. There will be a demonstration on Parliament Hill in the afternoon and participants will be marching, starting at approximately 2:00pm, to an embassy near the MacDonald Gardens Park (at Heney and Wurtemburg Streets). ...

_ (media advisory from City of Ottawa) _ Queen Street, between Bay and Metcalfe streets, will be reduced to one eastbound lane beginning Sunday, April 24. Westbound traffic will no longer be permitted. The change will allow for work to rehabilitate the street , improving pedestrian, cycling and vehicle infrastructure and ensuring the expected increase in pedestrian traffic can be accommodated when the O-Train Confederation Line begins operations in 2018. ...