Bryce's army of support raising funds

EMC News - Six year old Bryce Jude, a student at A. Lorne Cassidy Elementary School in Stittsville, is in the battle of his life right now, fighting a rare type of leukemia. But he has an army of supporters in the community that is raising funds and...

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One of best in Canada from Stittsville

EMC News - Cindy Beauchamp of Stittsville is being honoured as one of Canada's outstanding principals. The former longtime teacher at A. Lorne Cassidy Elementary School in Stittsville who is now principal at Huntley Centennial Public School in Carp...

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Getting the word out about Youth Connexion

EMC News - Getting the word out to youth about the program. That's what Sarah Young, the new director of the city of Ottawa's Youth Connexion program in Stittsville and Richmond, views as her main challenge right now. And such a challenge is right...

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'Fantastic experience' building homes in Honduras

EMC News - It was hot - 30 degrees in the daytime. It was eight hours a day of manual labour, helping to build three new homes in Honduras in Central America under Habitat for Humanity's Global Village program. And yet members of the team of 24 volunteers...

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Short list for new police chief too short

The city has picked up a nasty habit. In the interest of harm reduction, an intervention is in order as our elected representatives appear to have learned little from the Lansdowne reconstruction fiasco. In that case, council voted to accept a proposal...

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Web Poll

THIS WEEK'S POLL QUESTION Is the city's police services board right to limit its search for a new chief to internal candidates only? A) They're the experts - if they feel the right person is in-house, hire away. B) No. It should be the city's policy...

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Everything for nothing on the web?

If there was a way to sneak into the NHL All-Star Game without paying, some of us would have. Most of us wouldn't. That's the way we were brought up. If somebody is selling something and you want it, you pay for it. But if someone offered us a pirated...

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Win-win with barrels

EMC News - It's a win-win. You get to enjoy an affordable, environmentally friendly way to water your lawn and garden while also helping to support community events here in Stittsville. It can all happen by supporting the truckload sale of rain barrels...

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Goulbourn Historical Society

EMC News - The Goulbourn Township Historical Society promotes local history. Among its activities are identifying and marking heritage buildings in the community, encouraging historical research and promoting interest in local history. The Historical...

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Nine tables of euchre played despite wintry weather

EMC News - Despite wintry weather conditions once again prevailing for the regular Thursday evening euchre at the Lions Hall in Stittsville last Thursday, players managed to fill up nine tables for the action. When it was all said and done, Rosemarie...

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New transportation service

EMC News - It's called "Wheels for the Wise." It's a new chauffeured transportation and companion service aimed mainly at seniors but ready to serve anyone over 18 who has special mobility needs. The only exception is those with electric wheelchairs...

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Change happens in catering

EMC News - The catering business is constantly changing. In a city like Ottawa, which is so much a government town, change can happen, for example, due to government cutbacks on group gatherings. This can affect caterers like the Centurion Conference...

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Donating time, not blood

EMC News - They're blood donor clinics but for some they are time donor clinics. That's the case for Mavis Lewis and her team from the Ladies' Auxiliary of Richmond Branch 625 of the Royal Canadian Legion who since 1998 have been volunteering at the...

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What's up, doc, in and around the village of Stittsville

EMC News ...The Stittsville Minor Hockey Association is among those nominated in the category of Community Support/Non Profit Organization for Goulbourn (including Stittsville) in the People's Choice Business Awards organized by the Kanata Chamber of...

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Liam England playing role of Prince in 'Cinderella'

EMC News - Stittsville can now lay claim to a Prince Charming. Liam England, a grade 11 student at Sacred Heart Catholic High School, will be playing the role of the Prince in the upcoming musical production of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella being...

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'Haggis warm reeking' headlines Stittsville's Robbie Burns Night

EMC News - How's this for a menu? Haggis warm reeking, roast beef, rich wi' champit tatties, bashed neeps wi' peas, Scotch baps, coffee cake, and a tassie of tea and coffee. Now if that is not Scottish cuisine at its traditional best, just what is....

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Rotary Club wants a youth to attend leadership camp

EMC News - The Rotary Club of Ottawa - Stittsville is looking for a youth who wants to develop his or her leadership skills. This would be done by attending a Rotary Youth Leadership Awards (RYLA) program in Kingston this spring. The Rotary Club...

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Trucks to be cleaner, quieter

EMC News - Waste Management is going cleaner and quieter with its trucks. The company will be constructing a Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) fuelling station at its Westbrook Road facility in Stittsville where its trucks that collect waste and recycling...

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No satisfaction at property value session

EMC News - It was a session on property value that those in attendance ended up feeling had no value. Indeed, by the end of the two hour and 20 minute session, held as part of the ongoing Environmental Assessment for the proposed new landfill at Waste...

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SVA told about sustainable community movement

EMC News - The Stittsville Village Association (SVA) executive has been urged to get on board the sustainable community movement. Doing the urging at the SVA's last executive meeting were Don Purchase of Stittsville and Kathryn Guindon of Munster who...

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