Category: Sports

After success in Athens, paralympians and supporters are bouncing back for the start of the Ottawa-Carleton Wheelchair Sports Association’s (OCWSA) in-school wheelchair program.

If this sounds like a commercial, it’s because it is. Well, in a sense. With less than six weeks left to game day, the city is already preparing to play host. It’s a chance it gets once in a “grey” moon. But behind the fanfare, corporate sponsorship and anticipation of watching football greats battle it out, there is much left undone. Enter the volunteers.

Even if you do not follow hockey religiously, the impending loss of a 2004-05 NHL season leaves its mark. Need I remind you how long Ottawa winters are?

An old, converted mansion on O’Connor Street across from the YMCA houses the Ottawa Curling Club, a club older than this country.