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The Goulbourn Rec Complex, file photo by Barry Gray. This recently came across the OttawaStart news desk, via the City of Ottawa: “Mayor Jim Watson, Stittsville Ward Councillor Glen Gower and Greg Graham, President Cardel Homes Ottawa, will officially unveil the new naming rights partnership of the Goulbourn Recreation Complex. ...

After news that 4,600 people (possibly including myself) may have been exposed to infection because of dirty equipment at a Stittsville clinic, I’m sure I wasn’t alone in wondering when it had last been inspected. And I’m sure I wasn’t the only one who was surprised to learn that Ottawa Public Health (OPH) doesn’t regularly inspect medical clinics. ...

https://twitter.com/ChiefPingitore/status/988800208027840512 The Ottawa Citizen reports : A firefighter who was badly hurt while fighting a massive Stittsville house fire last week was released from the hospital Monday, the city’s fire chief reports… The unnamed firefighter – he posed for a photo with colleagues but asked not to be identified – was one of two volunteers who plunged through the floor of the home on Snowberry Way April 16. ...

[caption id=“attachment_89160” align=“aligncenter” width=“980”] Via Salvation Army[/caption] _ ** Update: One firefighter was released from hospital on Monday and the other remains sedated, Fire Chief Gerry Pingitore tweets. ** _ https://twitter.com/ChiefPingitore/status/986270703006683136 _ (Ottawa Fire Services sent out this news release on Monday evening. ...

[caption id=“attachment_88624” align=“aligncenter” width=“800”] Long-time Stittsville resident Sandra Plagakis in front of the Welcome to Stittsville sign on Hazeldean Road. Photo by Barry Gray / StittsvilleCentral.ca[/caption] _ Here’s an excerpt from a profile of KiSS 105.3 morning host Sandra Plagakis that was published recently on our sister site, StittsvilleCentral. ...

[caption id=“attachment_87813” align=“aligncenter” width=“1000”] Layout of the proposed Sooners football dome and club house from Edward J. Cuhaci and Associates Architects Inc.[/caption] (This post originally appeared on our sister site, StittsvilleCentral.ca) The ** Conseil des écoles catholiques du Centre-Est ** (the French Catholic school board) has sent in a planning proposal to the City of Ottawa, seeking permission to build a sports dome and field house behind ** École Paul-Desmarais ** in Stittsville. ...

We are a family of seven – Mom, Dad, and five young children, ages 11, 9, 7, 6 and 4 – who, over the past year, have experienced both joy and heartbreak with relation to our family dogs. The story is a long one, which over its course has included incredible support and compassion from our community of Stittsville. ...

[ ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/3-20131208_114540.jpg) Last Sunday our family drove out to the Fallowfield Tree Farm, a little bit west of Eagleson Road and just a bit south of Stittsville. It’s one of several Christmas tree farms listed on our Ottawa Christmas Tree list . ...

_ "That daily experience of seeing your local places, names and events creates a kind of resonance and connection and investment with where you live. Canadians pay a lot of lip service to the importance of telling Canadian stories. We are so used to seeing American references that just watching a movie, for example, set in a Canadian place will “charge us up” with local feeling. ...

Toppled newspaper boxes after a wind storm in 2011. Photo by Robert Janelle. After news that nine Ottawa-area newspapers will be closed, here’s a partial list of community news outlets in Ottawa that are still running. Capital Current ...