One of Centretown’s old streetcars could be running the rails again within five years, now that a team of volunteers has nearly finished restoring the car’s base.
Chloé Ekker, Centretown NewsThe renovation of streetcar 696 involves the riveting of hundreds of bolts. An illustration of the streetcar can be seen in the background.
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Plouffe Park field welcomes soccer â and rain water for soccer and
Plouffe Park Recreation Centre soccer field will reopen to soccer this spring after a massive renovation project left local teams without a field last summer.
City of OttawaAn architect's drawing of the renovated Plouffe Park soccer field.
‘Job isn’t done,’ Holmes to seek re-election in the fall in the fall to ‘finish job’
Somerset Ward's veteran councillor will be seeking re-election to city council in this fall's civic election because she thinks her job isn’t yet done.
ImageDiane Holmes says her work in Somerset Ward isn't done.
Debates delay Somerset St. upgrade project
The proposed upgrade and beautification of Somerset Street, set to begin this spring, is not going as smoothly as planned due to what a local shop owner calls nitpicking over details.