The Centretown Community Health Centre has hired a multicultural outreach worker to inform new immigrants about its services.
Outreach worker promotes health services to new immigrants
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Month: October 2008
LeBreton Flats site reveals archelogical ‘jewels’
As hundreds of cars pass by on Booth Street and apartments start to grow out of the earth, archaeologists on LeBreton Flats study the remains of a small French school frozen in time.
Patricia Grannum, Centretown News Archeologists dig up LeBreton Flats for traces of Ottawa's first railyard and a historic French school.
Bike-recycling shop spins the wheels of hope
Cycle Salvation is a bike-recycling shop with a mission. It caters to people with mental and physical disabilities, as well as those with credit problems, addictions or other personal problems.
Patricia Grannum, Centretown News Will Johnson (left), Jacques Daigle (centre) and Paul Wylie repair bikes at Cycle Salvation on the corner of Bronson Avenue and McLeod Street.
Green roofs cool LeBreton Flats
Developers are resurrecting LeBreton Flats with residences under green roofs, breathing new life into an area lying dormant under layers of debris and graffiti for decades.
Emily Senger, Centretown News Dave Cherry's green roof cools his house by as much as 50 per cent in the summer.