Early Designs On Old Ottawa East – Meet Nilufer Erdebil
Mainstreeter Staff As an entrepreneur, CEO and founder of her own integrated learning company, Nilufer Erdebil thrives on hunting out opportunities and seizing them wherever she finds them. Back in…
BUSINESS BEAT – Pathway Yoga Relocates to Ascension Church Studios
Peter Tobin In early September, Pathway Yoga, a well-established west-end studio, will vacate its Westboro facility and settle into new space at The Church of The Ascension on Echo Drive…
OOE Resident Mary Trudeau Publishes Children’s Book – A Tale of Two Planets
Audrey Pridham Years ago, Old Ottawa East resident Mary Trudeau stashed away drawings she made of strange little creatures and their home planet. Upon finding them last year and deciding…
Tartelette Bakery & Café comes to OOE!! A ‘Dream Come True’ for OOE’s Very Own Cordon Bleu Cakes and Pastry Chef Sanaz Homa
Audrey Pridham This summer, Old Ottawa East will be graced with the opening of Tartelette Bakery & Café, featuring artisan pastries and tarts created by Sanaz Homa, a decorated graduate…
SHARING LUNCH WITH…THE GREEN DOOR’S – Happy 35th Birthday to Ottawa’s Pioneers of Vegetarian & Vegan Cuisine
With first generation owners and operators – Ron Farmer and Poppy Weaver – now happily retired, the torch of leadership of the Green Door has passed on to the next…
The Mainstreeter’s 1st Annual Public Consultation Report Card: When Government Decision-Makers Stop Listening to the Public, Our Communities Suffer
Every issue of The Mainstreeter has a report of some new development project, proposal or issue and how residents and their organizations have responded to it. In this two-part ‘report…
Highway 417/Rideau Canal Bridge Replacement – MTO Dismisses Community Objections to Parkway Detours
John Dance The Ministry of Transportation of Ontario (MTO) is barrelling ahead with its recommendation to have 90-week detours of Colonel By Drive and Queen Elizabeth Driveway when it replaces…
New Edward Jones Team Brings Financial Investment and Management Savvy to Greystone Village
Peter Tobin Late last month, the investment and financial management company Edward Jones celebrated the opening of its new branch office on the south side of The Shops at Millieu…
Boucanerie Chelsea Smokehouse – Local Couple is Dishing Up Some Smoking Good Salmon and Seafood
Lorne Abugov Her parents, Paul and Marjorie, have lived in the Old Ottawa East family home for more than 40 years. She grew up with her two brothers, as a…
Up in the Sky! Is it a Bird? Is it a Plane? Yikes!! It’s a Very Angry Bird – and It’s Heading Straight For My Head!!
Mainstreeter Staff An increasing number of Old Ottawa East strollers are feeling peckish these days – and mostly on the tops of their heads – as they fall victim to…