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Emergency crews want residents to be water wisePosted on Feb 16, 2012 by Kristy WallaceEMC news - When Jim McLaughlin was a little boy, he went skating on the Rideau Canal when he wasn't supposed to and fell through the ice. "I went through up to my waist,"... Read more |
Local businesses prepare to reap LRT rewards
Posted on Feb 16, 2012 by Laura MuellerEMC news - Local businesses are taking different approaches in trying to benefit from $2.1 billion in spending on Ottawa's forthcoming light-rail system. Some local companies are going all out to attract attention from the three international consortia of companies shortlisted to win the LRT contract,...
Read more Group celebrates 50 years of building peace
Posted on Feb 16, 2012 by Kristy WallaceEMC community - When Tony Michel was a teenager, he remembers traveling around the world as part of the Children's International Summer Villages program. It touched his life so much, that he now volunteers his time with the program as chairman of the Ottawa chapter. Michel is only one story out...
Read more Councillors to go cue-ball to support cancer research
Posted on Feb 16, 2012
by Laura Mueller
EMC news - There will be a few naked scalps around the council horseshoe by the end of the month after three councillors signed on to the Shave for a Cure, an annual fundraiser that supports research of childhood cancers. The addition of councillors Keith Egli (Knoxdale-Merivale) and Tim Tierney (Beacon...
Read more Councillors quash change to city's naming process
Posted on Feb 16, 2012 by Laura MuellerEMC news - A last-minute realization that a proposed change to the city's commemorative naming process would remove councillors from the process led Coun. Maria McRae to ask a city committee to review the idea. The River Ward councillor made the request just before city council approved its new five-year...
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