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This Saturday, at 8:30 p.m., the lights will go out in Ottawa as local residents join an expected one billion people worldwide for Earth Hour 2011. The annual event, which started in Australia in 2007, encourages people to turn off their lights for one hour to save the Earth.
The wheels of Bixi rent-a-bikes will spin along Bank, Elgin and Bay streets come May, but some Centretown cyclists say cycling infrastructure in the downtown core is inadequate to keep tourists on Bixis safe.
The Ottawa-Carleton District School Board is working to show how core French and extended French programs, can hold their own against the increasingly popular French immersion ones.
A local website is encouraging Centretown residents to give unwanted items to others in the community instead of putting them in the trash.
Sarah Davidson, Centretown News Anne Marie Battis used Full Circles Ottawa to find bowls that she used as the base for her mosaic art.