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• 🍻 Oktoberfest Giveaway
  
  Nita Beer Company’s Oktoberfest sounds like seriously good fun, with its delicious Nita craft beer, authentic German menu, polka performance, ‘Best Dressed’ competition, and games. If you’re itching to get into your lederhosen or dirndl dress (or both), make sure you read tomorrow’s newsletter for your chance to win a pair of tickets to this awesome event.

• 🚲 Chain Reaction

• We have no idea where to place this in today’s ottawan, so we’ll just put it right up front: watch as Full Cycle Ottawa explains how to remove and re-install your bike chain.

• – Martha & Darren

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💥 Orléans Explosion

•  The man who caused the gas explosion in Orléans earlier this year has pleaded guilty. Kody Troy Crosby has pleaded guilty to arson causing bodily harm and to breaking and entering. Crosby entered two homes under construction to steal water heaters, leaving the gas lines open. The resulting explosion injured 12 people and damaged several homes. He was sentenced to five years. (Aeden Helmer in the Ottawa Citizen) 
  
  ➕ Related Six months later, homeowners are still waiting for insurance to come through to rebuild their damaged houses.

🌉 Alexandra Bridge

•  The city’s most beautiful bridge will be closed for a year begining October. The Federal government will spend the year performing essential rehabilitation and repairs so that it can be taken apart in the future. The bridge will close October 2 at 2:00 am and reopen in autumn 2024. (Public Services & Procurement Canada) 
  
  ➕ Related Here’s the link to the Save the Alexandra Bridge Coalition who are campaigning to prevent the travesty of destroying the bridge.

💉  Museum of Nature

•  People can receive a prescription to the Canadian Museum of Nature. It took us awhile to figure out what is happening here. A group of health professionals believed that spending time in nature is beneficial to people. These professionals made agreements with parks and museums across Canada to give free admission if prescribed by a doctor. Then they set up a website for doctors to sign into and write the prescriptions. It’s a half marketing, half encouraging healthy activity thing. Anyway, if you can talk your doctor into it, it's one free visit to the Canadian Museum of Nature per month. (Josh Pringle at CTV) (PaRx)

🐟 Indigenous Rights

•  Algonquins of Ontario are at odds with the Mattawa/Ottawa River Métis over fish and game rights. In 2017, the Province recognized the Mattawa/Ottawa River Métis as having aboriginal rights to fish and hunt  game over the Ottawa River watershed. The Algonquins of Ontario sued the Province as they were not consulted. The Court of Appeal for Ontario has agreed and ordered a lower court to work out the rights of both Indigenous groups. (Andrew Duffy in the Ottawa Citizen)

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This previously unknown-to-us website coughed up a few previously unknown-to-us facts about the Ottawa River. The Ottawa is not only the deepest in Canada but it is the fourth deepest in the world. We also didn’t know that Oscar Wilde lectured here in 1882, complaining of how polluted he found the river. 

We will see you tomorrow  – Martha and Darren
 

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