Archive 1997-2016
A new trend cruising through Ottawa-Carleton has city and regional councillors and Lyon Street residents on one side of the road and emergency services on the other.
City and regional councils and the transportation committee agreed in September to the Lyon Street pilot project. It will see seven speed humps built on Lyon Street in November, one for every block from Somerset to Arlington avenues.
A move to accommodate parking on Bank Street is causing confusion for some motorists.
The project, initiated by the City of Ottawa, resulted in the dividing line on the street being changed from a straight line running down the centre to a staggered line veering slightly in and out from the curb.
A few blocks off of Gladstone Avenue is a neighbourhood where every front lawn is tidy.
Scarecrows lurk on verandahs, jack-o-lanterns adorn front stoops and orange and yellow wreaths announce fall is in the air on Willow Street.
This is the work of a group of Centretown children, aged four to 14, called the Willow Street Angels. For over two years, the Angels have been picking up litter, planting flowers and decorating for holidays. The group has grown from about 12 children in 1996 to between 30 and 40.
No grass to run on, not one tree to sit under, no jungle gym to play on. Just asphalt bordered by chain-link fence.
That’s what the yard of St. Anthony’s Catholic School on Booth Street looked like when it won the first annual Ugliest School Yard Contest, as part of Earth Day festivities last spring.