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Hotels gearing up for 150th celebrations
Dave Scharf, Centretown News
Ottawa Embassy Hotel and Suites is renovating to prepare for Canada's 150th celebrations.Centretown hotels are currently undergoing renovations in anticipation of Canada’s 150th birthday in 2017, including Ottawa Embassy Hotel and Suites and The Lord Elgin Hotel.
Ottawa Pubic Library to receive provincial funding for food literacy
The Ottawa Public Library was chosen as one of 10 Ontario libraries to receive a grant from the provincial government that will go towards funding food literacy programs within the city. Over the next two years the library will accept $186,890 to go towards these programs aimed at providing information about healthy eating for the Ottawa public.
Winterlude gets buggy with ice beetles
Dave Scharf, Centretown News
The Canadian Museum of Nature commissioned the Canadian Ice Carvers Society to sculp a giant stag beetle for Winterlude to promote its ongoing Bugs: Outside the Box exhibit.Standing tall above Winterlude visitors towers a giant stag beetle with its limbs stretched out to its side, glistening as the warm winter sun catches the water melting off of it.