Youth in the Rochester Heights community now have a safe place to spend their leisure time with the launch of a new Boys and Girls Club of Ottawa satellite site in the neighbourhood.
Courtesy Jocelyn Umengan, Boys and Girls Club of OttawaKids line up for cake at the official opening of the new Rochester Heights wing of the Boys and Girls Club of Ottawa.
Category: News
Coming civic election will determine budget talks
Jan Harder thinks it’s time for city councillors to start dancing.
Vietnamese museum short on funds for development plans
In the vacant lot at a major Centretown intersection, behind a wire fence, there is nothing much to see besides gravel, sawdust and a sign displaying an artist’s vision of the museum-to-be. 
Megan Cheung, Centretown NewsProject leader Can Le says it cost $1,600 to cut down two trees on the site of the Vietnamese Boat People Museum.
Fabric fair funds freezer, kits for local school
The transition from kindergarten to grade school can be a difficult one for many students. This is why the funds from this year’s Fabric Flea Market, Cambridge Street Community Public School’s only fundraiser, will buy school kits for kindergartners, as well as a puppet show and a new freezer for the school.
Megan Cheung, Centretown NewsKindergarten students Lexia and Nichole work on a puzzle at Cambridge Public School.