A Lisgar Collegiate Institute graduate is set to take on the continent’s best Scrabble players at the 2011 Can-Am Scrabble Challenge in Calgary on March 19-20.
Lisgar grad headed to Scrabble tourney
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Month: March 2011
Viewpoint: Hockey Canada’s marketing out of date
As a minor hockey coach for seven years it’s clear to me that Canada’s national pastime is just not catching on with new Canadians. A quick scan of the locker room will show that players are almost exclusively white.
New healthy living clinic aims to reduce childhood obesity
The Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) has expanded beyond the doors of its central location on Smyth Road, opening the Healthy Active Living Centre to combat the expanding waistlines of Canada’s youth. 
Erin Easterbrook, Centretown News Students at Glashan Intermediate School get active during a daily phys-ed session.
Underpass approved but funding withheld
A planned cycling path through Centretown to connect the Ottawa River to Dow’s Lake will not be built this year despite efforts by frustrated advocates to piggy-back a key underpass with road construction along Somerset Street.
Adam Hooper, Centretown NewsA Somerset Street underpass to accompany a cycling pathway along the east side of the O-Train corridor will have to wait for another year.