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• In today's ottawan:

  → Win a pair of tickets to Split Tree's Martini Madness on Friday night

• → Find a telephone booth in which to change costume: ComicCon begins

• → New two-bedroom apartments for $1,300. In Shawville.

– Martha and Darren

STATS

Ottawans of the Day 

• Etienne Borm, Abdullah Ramadan, Alyssa Carter, Noah Cummings, and Rémi Thomas Richard
• – The five University of Ottawa engineering students have developed an adaptor for rowing machines that will allow the fitness equipment to be used by people in wheelchairs. (Andrea Bennett at CityNews)

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• The attitude was a very sit down and shut up

• – Joie Osmond, a former screening officer at the Ottawa Airport, on the work environment she encountered at the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority. Several former front line workers have been speaking out after a report detailed complaints by the public about their screening experiences at the airport. (Priscilla Ki Sun Hwang at CBC)

CITY HALL AGENDA

WHAT OTTAWA IS TALKING ABOUT

💰 Ottawa City Council

• Ottawa City Council approved Mayor Mark Sutcliffe’s ‘Fairness for Ottawa' campaign. The campaign is the Mayor’s belief that the Province and the Federal government are underpaying the City. In particular, the City is looking for more money for transit.  (Blair Crawford in the Ottawa Citizen)

🚧 Road Closures

• Saturday Beechwood Avenue from 1:00 pm to 11:00 pm in order to accomodate the live music, arts and crafts, and food and drink of BeechFest.
• Saturday and Sunday Colonel By Drive between Hawthorne and Daly from 6:00 am Saturday to 6:00 pm Sunday. The City is installing a temporary access platform at the Mackenzie King Bridge. 

🏒 The Sens

• Before the Sens drop the puck in a few weeks, a few items have arisen.
  
  1️⃣ The president of the club, Cyril Leeder, says discussions with the National Capital Commission for a new arena in LeBreton Flats have been heating up. The two organizations had previously set a Sept 20 deadline.
  
  The late-owner Eugene Melnyk originally wanted an arena and a hotel, the new owners want an Edmonton-style arena district with restaurants and bars. (Bruce Garrioch in the Ottawa Citizen)
  
  2️⃣ Smiths Falls golf superstar Brooke Henderson has announced a partnership with the Sens to feature the club’s logo on her water bottles and golf towels during her Ladies Professional Golf Association tournaments. (Golf Canada)
  
  3️⃣ The Canadian Tire Centre has unveiled a new hot-food market and a new drink market as well as new food items items like a Cubano sandwich, steak and potatoes, sweet sugarbush cheesecake, shawarma nachos, and a crispy Korean chicken bowl.  (Tyler Fleming at CTV)

🏗️ Development

• The development on Cleary Avenue church land has been announced. Theia Partners and Ontario Aboriginal Housing Services propose a six storey building with 66 affordable apartments for Indigenous residents, and a 16 storey, 148 apartment building at market rent, both on land owned by the First Unitarian Congregation of Ottawa at 30 Cleary Avenue. The church, associated retirement home, and daycare would be undisturbed. A zoning change for the increased height would be required. (Robin MacLennan in Ottawa Construction News)
  
  ➕ Related Luskville family building company Maisons PAJ is building 11 apartments on three lots in Shawville with another 30 apartments ready next year. The average rent for a two-bedroom will be $1,300.

🚨 Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada

• A former Federal public employee has pleaded guilty for breach of trust over giving contracts to a company that he owned. While at Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada, the employee gave himself 72 sole source contracts as well as winning another six in competitive bids. He received a 24 month conditional sentence and paid $90,000, the amount considered his profit, back to the agency. (Ted Raymond at CTV)

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EVENTS

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Today
 

• Road Trip: The North Lanark Agricultural Society presents the 2024 Almonte Fair. The gates open at 2:00 pm today (Friday September 6) and you’ll find agricultural displays, a midway, kids’ performances, a beer garden (from 7:00 pm), and at the Grandstand Show: the opening ceremonies followed by wrestlers. When you’ve grown tired of taking it all in, sit down for a spell in Canada’s Oldest Wooden Covered Bandstand.
   
• It will only cost you 20 bucks to see Ottawa-native (but Edmonton-dwelling) comedian Sophie Hayes, tonight at Café Dekcuf. Plus, the show is an album recording, so your giggle will be captured for posterity. 221 Rideau Street K1N. 9M2.
   
• In the final teaser before Aero Gatineau-Ottawa 2024’s opening night show tomorrow, at approximately 4:00 pm today (Thursday September 5), see the US Airforce Thunderbirds will fly over Gatineau and Ottawa before landing at Ottawa Airport.
   
• End the work day with the Cinq à Sept Concert Series. Meet at 55 ByWard Market Square for a program of local and touring musicians curated by Ottawa Music Industry Coalition.
   
• Road Trip: Dig out your cooler weather sweater, put the leash on the dog, and head to the final Metcalfe Night Market of the season. More than 70 local producers will be on site for fabulous shopping and live music. 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm at 2821 8th Line Road, Metcalfe K0A 2P0.
   

• There’s something new to find every Thursday night at Hintonburg Night Market (until September 26).

• 🆓 Bring your creativity and your cocktail money to Ottawa Art Gallery for Happy Hour in Jackson Café. It’s an art workshop and post-work drinks event in one. All art materials provided. Cash bar.
   
• ByTowne Cinema: Sing Sing, Kill Bill: Vol 1, Kill Bill Vol 2
   
• Mayfair Theatre: Firebrand, Widow Clicquot, O Lucky Man!

  
  Gigs

• Bill and Tonia Hirst. Irene’s Pub

• Slo’ Tom. Overflow Brewing

• McDonald Pond Duo. Montgomery Scotch Lounge

• The May Paint Project. LIVE on Elgin

• Karaoke Thursday. Atomic Rooster

• Thursday Blues Session with Guest Hosts Bill & Tonia Hearst. Irene’s Pub

• Comedy Night. Pour Boy

• Indie Thursday. Overflow Brewin

Tomorrow

• Ticket Giveaway:  What are you doing tonight? If you haven’t booked your ticket for Split Tree Cocktail Co's Martini Madness, there’s still time. Or try your luck with Martha's Mum's Choosin' Hat: we're giving away a pair of tickets to the workshop, valued at $260. Just tell us how many cocktails you'll be taught to make in the workshop (the answer's at the above link); send your answer to martini@theottawan.com. We'll draw the winner from the Choosin' Hat at 9:00 pm tonight and announce it in tomorrow's newsletter. Good luck. 

• Latin Sparks Festival, or ‘Canada’s Baddest Latin Fest’ takes over LeBreton Flats for two days of beats, dance battles, workshops, DJs, live music, and flavours from more than 10 food trucks. Tickets are almost gone, so get booking. $49.95 (or $39.99 each when you book two); VIP Bottle Service also available.

• Aero Gatineau-Ottawa 2024 officially takes off with a drone and pyrotechnics show tonight.

• The Sci-fi star power at this weekend’s Ottawa ComicCon is electrifying, with every Hobbit you can think of from Lord of the Rings (including Frodo himself, Elijah Wood), The Orville’s Chad Coleman, Edward James Olmos, Mary McDonnell, and Calum Keith Rennie from Battlestar Galactica, Giancarlo Esposito, Lucy Davis (‘OMG! Dawn Tinsley of the original The Office!’ squeals Martha), Denis Lawson of the original Star Wars trilogy, Robert Patrick of Terminator 2, and more in attendance.

• Summer isn’t over yet; enjoy one of the final festivals of the season in Gatineau with music stars like Sean Paul and Deadmau5. Riverside Festival at the Canadian Museum of History.

• 🆓 Bring a picnic and your favourite throw blanket to the Capital Pop-Up Cinema screening of Matilda. Right around 8:00 pm (dusk) at Churchill Seniors Community Centre, 345 Richmond Rd, K2A 0E7

• The Laylit party series stops at Club SAW for the evening, offering multi-genre music from the Arab and North African countries. From $25.57.

• Laugh among the flowers at the Luxe Blooms Comedy Night. Louise Gingras hosts, with comics Eva Wong, Farrah Samuels, Lauren Lane and Loot Spot providing the laughs.

• ByTowne Cinema: Dernière Danse (Last Dance), Close Your Eyes, Didi, Fallen Angel

• Mayfair Theatre: Across the River and Into the Trees, His Three Daughters, Big Shark
  
  Gigs

• 80s Dance Party. House of TARG

• Ed Lister Group. Montgomery Scotch Lounge

• Wyntr. Café Dekcuf

• Warpark. LIVE on Elgin

• Out by Lucy, Pretty Good, Lady Grey, The Phantoms. Rainbow Bistro

• Blingo Night. Pour Boy

• Lilac. The Brass Monkey

• Loon Choir. Irene’s Pub

• The Yodas (night one of two). Barley Mow Merivale Road

Saturday

• (Massive) Road Trip: Savour East Ontario – a network of food and agricultural businesses in Eastern Ontario – presents Savour the Field / Au coeur du champ: a one-day celebration of the agri-food community. From 10:00 am to 4:00 pm, enjoy unique experiences at one or more stops on the event's impressive list of participating farms, restaurants, and other producers. Each location has a QR code that you can scan, and once you’ve collected five or more you’ll be entered into a draw to win a gift basket with items from many of the participating businesses. the ottawan loves a challenge, and we want to hear from you if you make it to five or more stops on the trail.

• One for the nerds, in the best possible way: Rogues & Reveals is a burlesque, drag, and music event based on fantasy table-top role-playing games. This event is brought to you by Toronto’s Nerd Girl Burlesque. 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm at Arts Court. Tickets $27.96

• BeechFest is Vanier’s favourite street party, with live music, food and drink, a drag show, and MPCCC Pints in the Park.

• Afrofestival celebrates African cultures with food, drink, fashion, art, dance, drum classes, and an incredible line up of live music by African-Canadian artists. Tickets $30 plus fees. Today and tomorrow at Mooney’s Bay Park.

• We've entered the corn maze season. The 3-acre maze is ready at Log Farm, and once you and the kids have found your way out there’s plenty of other fun stuff to do. Take a wagon ride, go scarecrow spotting, visit the animals, turn the littles loose in Matilda’s Pioneer Play Kitchen, wander through the Enchanted Forest, and soak up the late summer sun. The farm is open rain or shine, so dress accordingly.

• The gates open at 10:00 am at the Aero Gatineau-Ottawa 2024 show. 

• Road Trip: Ridge Rock Brewing in Carp is holding a fundraising concert for the Dave Smith Youth Treatment Centre. While I am Kentucky provides the live tunes, you can bid on the auctions offering fabulous prizes and enjoy the fine beer and food. While you’re at the brew pub, take note of the local touches like the steel around the bar, which was taken from the old railroad, and the tables made from area trees. Ridge Rock is a true community meeting place.

• Road Trip: Art lovers will want to catch the artists in action at the Smiths Falls Heritage Museum Rideau Artist of the Year Competition 2024. Watch today and tomorrow (Sunday September 8) in Centennial and Murphy Parks as artists recreate the scene in front of them, live and in the open air. The finished works will be submitted for judging, and all pieces will be on display at the Artisan Village in Smiths Falls.

• Road Trip: Today’s highlights from the Almonte Fair: after the gates open at 9:00 am check out the Light Horse Show. They say there’s an actual unicorn in the Agricultural Education Tent (let us know what you find!). Meanwhile he competition will be hot in the Chili CookOff at 4:00 pm.

• What’s on your shopping list for the farmer’s market this weekend? Apples are in season, but so are beets, celeriac (they make delicious chips, btw), cucumber, garlic, new potatoes, Swiss chard, tomatoes, turnips and zucchini, along with many others. Stop by a market near you:
  
  🥕 Ottawa Street Farmers’ Market at Grande Allée Park (Saturday)
  
  🥕 Beechwood (Saturday) https://www.ottstreetmarkets.ca/our-markets/beechwood-market
  
  🥕 Westboro (Saturday) (Sunday)
  
  🥕 Lansdowne Market (Sunday)
  
  🥕 Road Trip: Almonte (Saturday)
  
  🥕 Road Trip: Carp (Saturday)
  
  🥕 Ottawa Organic Farmers Market (Saturday)
  
  🥕 Alta Vista (Saturday)
  
  🥕 Elgin St (Sunday)
  
  🥕 Road Trip: Carleton Place Farmers Market (Saturday) 
  
  🥕 Cumberland (Saturday)
  
  🥕 Kanata Farmers Market (Saturday)
  
  🥕 Road Trip: Kemptville (Sunday)
  
  🥕 Road Trip: Metcalfe (Saturday)
  
  🥕 Manotick (Saturday)
  
  🥕 North Gower (Saturday)
  
  🥕 Stittsville (Sunday)
  
  🥕 Road Trip: Perth (Saturday)
  
  🥕 Across the Ottawa River: Old Aylmer Farmers’ Market (Sunday)
   

• ByTowne Cinema: 2024 Cat Video Fest, Saturday Afternoon Classic: It Happened One Night, Dernière Danse (Last Dance), Didi

• Mayfair Theatre: Across the River and Into the Trees, Cuckoo
  
  Gigs

• Saravah Nights. Club SAW

• Punk Frenzy: Sugar Bomb, Loch Nisse Monster, Victor Complex. Café Dekcuf

• Sorry Snowman, Frown Line, Fleeting Colours. House of TARG

• Bayash Sisters. Red Bird

• Annam’s Family Jazz Project. Montgomery Scotch Lounge

• Big Shiny Nite with the Social Distance Band. Bar Robo

• Barrelhouse presents the Beatles: Abbey Road. Rainbow Bistro

• Hadi Kubba: Dirty and Afraid Comedy Tour. LIVE on Elgin

Long Runs

• Ottawa Little Theatre’s production of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time continues until September 7.

• Enjoy one of the final outdoor music events of Summer 2024 as the Riverside Festival plays on over the River until Sunday.

• Cirque du Soleil ECHO continues in Gatineau until September 22.

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  The University of Ottawa created the Department of Visual Arts 50 years ago. The Ottawa Art Gallery commemorates those five decades with the exhibition Art School Confidential, until September 22.

Just Announced / Now Booking

• 🆓 It began as a parking lot gathering during the pandemic, but the Torta Boyz Block Party Cookout is now a full scale event with music, a market, and the best of Ottawa’s local food vendors and restaurants. 12:00 pm to 11:00 pm at 60A Lebreton St. N between Willow St and Eccles St on Saturday, September 14.

• Immerse yourself in live Canadian 80s music with the Boom 99.7 Legends Weekend at Bronson Centre Music Theatre (September 27 - 29). Strange Advance starts the weekend off on Friday September 27, with three opening acts including Andres from Eight Seconds (readers of a certain age will recall the Ottawa band’s hit I’ll Kiss you (When It’s Dangerous)). We hope that Kim Mitchell will play Patio Lanterns during his show on Saturday September 28. The master producer and artist Daniel Lanois (who produced massive albums for artists like Peter Gabriel, U2, and EmmyLou Harris – check out her masterpiece, 1995’s Wrecking Ball) rounds out the weekend on Sunday night September 29.

• The cost for a table at 2024 Music Trivia Night in support of Proud to Be Me is exactly the same as last year: $750. For one night only, wow your friends and colleagues with the sheer volume of musical trivia housed between your ears, while raising funds for youth programs. Friday October 4.

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