Archive 1997-2016
After winning the Pepsi Ontario Provincial Junior Women’s curling championship in early January, Ottawa Curling Club members Jamie Sinclair and Casandra Raganold are set to represent their province in the 2012 M&M Meat Shops Canadian junior championship from Feb. 4 to 12 in Napanee, Ont.
"I don’t like wearing a helmet in warm up. As a kid, I liked watching guys in warm ups without a helmet ... it was just something I always wanted to do when I got to this level. You might get hurt, but it’s a chance you take,” Jason Spezza told a media scrum before he hit the ice in a recent game against the Los Angeles Kings.
Summer is still some way off, but imagine escaping the snow and the cold, sitting in a downtown park and playing a board game under the warmth of the sun.
Lauren Mitsuki, Centretown NewsThe city plans to install chess tables such as these in Minto Park.
Plans for construction of a national Stanley Cup monument in Ottawa are on hold until the end of this year.