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Ottawa Public Health is planning to purchase millions of condoms to supply the city’s sexual health programs, which includes those offered at the Centretown and Somerset West community health centres.
Students at Lisgar Collegiate Institute raising funds to support the school’s Reach For the Top trivia team are also contributing to a global effort to combat deadly tetanus infections.
In the mid-1980s, Janet Bruce bought a house that she hoped to use to benefit her community. Little did she know, the three-bedroom house on Arlington Avenue in Centretown would become an AIDS hospice and that 25 years later she would receive the Order of Ottawa for her commitment to serving others.
Colleen Mooney, the newly appointed executive director of the Boys and Girls Club of Ottawa, is looking forward to helping create a safe and supportive place for the city's children and youth.