Archive 1997-2016
By Karen Brandt
The smell of chicken and ribs roasting on the barbeque will no longer waft down Sparks Street in June.
On March 30, the Sparks Street Mall Authority’s board of directors upheld a recent decision of its advertising and promotions committee to cancel the annual Chicken ‘n’ Ribs Cook-off, despite a last-minute petition signed by more than 40 merchants asking the board to reinstate it.
By Daniel Kitts
The owner of an apartment complex that caught fire twice in the past seven months is expected to be charged with breaking the Ontario fire code, Ottawa fire department officials say.
William Robert Cuming of Kanata, owner of the Gainsborough at 285-289 Metcalfe St., was informed at a meeting on March 25 that he would be charged, says Charles O’Brien, division chief of the Ottawa fire prevention bureau.
By Daniel Kitts
The need for reforms, suggested in a $56,000 study conducted last year, was highlighted by two fires in the same apartment complex on Metcalfe Street within seven months.
An inspection after the second fire on March 12 showed the complex, located at 285-289 Metcalfe, lacked several pieces of fire equipment required for a building of its kind under Ontario’s retrofit regulations, introduced in 1992.