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Category: Centretown News
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Battle brewing over church’s new home
City council and a prominent Centretown church are gearing up for a legal battle with the Ottawa International Airport after council ignored a staff recommendation and gave the church permission to build a sprawling new home near the airport.
Old-fashioned barbershops cut into the market
By Andrew Thomson
There’s a magazine rack and a few chairs for those waiting at the front of the one-room shop. Combs, scissors and razors are scattered across the counter, and clumps of men’s hair lie on the floor.
Giuseppe Colletti has dispensed haircuts and shaves from this location, Pino’s Barber Shop on Charlotte Street, since 1961.
Wheelchair access lacking
Andrew Morrison-Gurza travels north on Bank Street, shaking his head from the sidewalk as he passes a row of storefronts . . .