Archive 1997-2016
By Stephanie Coombs and Kelly Leydier
Cutbacks to the district school board’s special education program are inevitable, say school officials, despite attempts to save them.
The Ottawa-Carleton District School board has already approved in principle an $8.2-million cut to special needs programs for the upcoming budget. The province has given the board four years to cut $20 million.
Have no fear, says Peter Harris to Sparks Street Mall pessimists, we’ve got heritage here.
And if any store on the pedestrian mall doesn’t want to alter its look to fit his heritage vision, the dissident store risks losing its business, he says.
In order to boost business during non-peak hours, Harris, manager of the Sparks Street Mall Management Board, wants Sparks Street store owners to tap into the mall’s Victorian atmosphere by “enhancing the heritage feel” of their storefronts.
By Chad Paulin
Bells may be ringing for students at McNabb Park Public School for at least one more year.
With a meeting to vote on closing the school scheduled for Feb. 22, the public school board’s chair said he will forward a motion to keep the school open until the year 2000.
By Allyson Widdis
There are 150,000 registered maniacs in Canada.
Lego maniacs, that is.
For six-year-old Brandon DesMarais of Carleton Place, the opening of an interactive Lego playground at the National Museum of Science and Technology was a dream come true.