ART BEAT – A Finger on the Pulse of the Arts in OEE- OOE Artist Feature – Yvonne Coutts & The Ottawa Dance Directive
Tanis Browning-Shelp The Ottawa Dance Directive (ODD), like all performing arts companies, struggled throughout COVID to keep its programs running and its dancers dancing. Because of its location on the…
The Children’s Garden- Getting Ready for Another Busy, Boisterous and Bountiful Season
Lori Gandy While there may still be snow on the ground when this issue of The Mainstreeter hits the streets, planning for the upcoming season in the Children’s Garden is…
Art Beat – Tim Hunt’s Main Street Sketches
Tim Hunt Tim Hunt explores his community outfitted with a small sketchbook, pen, and watercolour kit. In our regular feature, he shares the pages from his sketchbook and tells the…
Rescue of Mainstreeter Newsbox- Take it from our newsbox: It’s no fun getting dumped!!
Mainstreeter Staff Newspapers report the news, they don’t make the news. But on the evening of December 22nd, that old chestnut of the newspaper business got turned on its head…
Major Hawthorne Avenue Development Proposed, and Roundly Opposed
John Dance Residents object to planned height and mass of 57-unit apartment building A major new development proposed for the south side of Hawthorne Avenue was the focus of a…
Bower Street sisters named to Team Canada- Abrie and Kenzie Girgis Fulfill Their Dreams with Call-Ups to Canada’s National Field Hockey Teams
Lorne Abugov Back in April 2019, The Mainstreeter profiled three sets of identical twin sisters residing as neighbours on one city block in Old Ottawa East. The headline to that…
ART BEAT- A Finger on the Pulse of the Arts in OEE – OOE Artist Feature Blair T. Paul and the Ukraine Paintings
Tanis Browning-Shelp February 24, 2023 will mark one year since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Canadian artist Blair T. Paul wants us to reignite the flames of our anger and…
The Rockburns of Old Ottawa East – 50 Years, 4 Homes, 3 Generations, and 1Family
Barbara Rockburn It was a simpler time back then, and for young Barbara Rockburn, life was an unending cavalcade of adventures. In this the first of two installments, she recounts…
OPINION- One of a Kind OOE Community Calendar Made for a Miraculous Holiday Season
Lori Gandy & Mainstreeter Staff It was the lead-up to the Christmas season, after all, when miracles are supposed to happen. Well, for one very happy newcomer to Old Ottawa…
Sula Wok Celebrates 5th Anniversary with Expansion Plans – Mo’ momos on Main
Joe Paraskevas Life goes on. The craziness of life keeps coming back. That’s how Andrew Lay sees things. “Everything we do is crazy,” says the co-owner of Sula Wok. “When…
