Islam Care Centre
The Islam Care Centre is planning a redevelopment of its Lisgar Street property. The Islam Care Centre, a downtown resource centre and prayer space for Ottawa Muslims, invited input from the community in an open consultation last Saturday as ICC officials plan an ambitious redevelopment of their Lisgar Street property to create space for up to 600 worshippers.
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Scientists warn of river pollution after fireworks
Kait Labbate, Centretown News
Meaghan Murphy, an Ottawa Riverkeeper scientist, is the author of a study about the environmental impact of fireworks.Firework displays have become a huge attraction in downtown Ottawa over the past 20 years. And with 1,500 shells going off each show, Ottawa Riverkeeper says it is important that proper measures are taken to clean up the byproducts of these fireworks.
Museum exhibit explores women’s experiences in war
Canadian War Museum
Josephine Ellison Godman, who lost her husband in the First World War and her son in the Second World War, donated this painting of the bombed-out Temple Church in London to the Canadian War Museum.Forty years of upheaval and violence that affected Canadian women during the two world wars of the 20th century will be commemorated at the Canadian War Museum this fall. A new exhibition, titled World War Women, will run from Oct. 23 until March 20.
Centre seeks ways to settle Chinese students
The Centretown-based organization that helps Chinese immigrants settle in Ottawa is looking for alternative ways to meet the needs of a growing number of international students – a group it isn’t funded to serve.