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• Neil Saravanamuttoo and Parkways for People are looking for donations to help them hand out ice cream Saturday.

• The group is organizing a showcase of cargo bikes on the Queen Elizabeth Driveway and Delaware Avenue at 11 am, Saturday, showing off the different styles and giving an opportunity to ask questions of the owners.

• They hope to hand out ice cream to anyone passing by. Twenty five people at $20 each would probably do it. Email neil.saravanamuttoo@mac.com if you are feeling like being a dairy queen or king.

– Martha and Darren

WEDNEDAY FOOD + DRINK UPDATE

• The Merry Dairy will be popping up at the Ottawa Street Markets Farm Store at 1805 Gaspé Ave in Manor Park Friday, Clark Fields Park and Ottawa Tool Library on Saturday (July 13), and Ottawa Chinatown Royal Arch on Somerset St on Sunday (July 14).
• In Apartment 613’s Best Bites column, Kiersten Vuorimaki visits Fiazza Fresh Fired (On garlic bread: ‘Friends, they roll fresh dough into a loaf, wrapped around a healthy chunk of cheese, baste it in garlic butter and bake it in their fire oven. It comes out garlicky, cheesey and crusty like a stuffed baguette’), Wolf Down (‘It is hard to know how to correctly get the sandwich into your mouth, and it is most certainly a two-hander, but you just need to go for it and never put it down’), and Burger Factory (‘The burger was a saucy, juicy, messy experience like all good burgers should be, and reminded me of a good chip truck burger’).
• In a podcast on CFRA, Beyond the Pale owner Rob McIsaac discusses the challenges of running a microbrewery.
• Aware that restaurant choice is a major part of what makes a district appealing, the Kanata North Business District is promoting the Kanata North Restaurant District. In the jigsaw of office parks, you’ll find Zakuska Market and Del, Voila Gluten-Free Bakeree, ViaMarzo – Kitchen and Wine, TimeSafer Foods, Cake by Da, Kanata Noodle House, and La Maison du Kouign-Amann.
• At Eat the Street, Ameya Charnalia tries out Saigon Bistro in Orléans, which serves a traditional menu while also being the first halal certified Vietnamese restaurant in the region. The verdict: ‘It was as authentic as any Vietnamese restaurant you frequent in Ottawa’.
• Every week, Donovan Burey gets up early, reads all the grocery flyers for the best deals, and posts them on Ottawa Reddit. This week he finds the deals are in veg and pork. 

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(Honorary) Ottawan of the Day

• Jelly Roll
• – The rapping country star and headliner for Bluesfest performed a secret concert for 400 patients and staff at the The Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre yesterday. Roll was also presented with the Royal’s 2024 award for mental-health advocacy. (Lynn Saxberg in the Ottawa Citizen) 

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• We’re going to put GoPros on the kids and we’ve actually pilot-tested this data so that we gain first-person perspectives from kids on how they navigate outdoor spaces

• – Louise De Lannoy, executive director of Outdoor Play Canada, who is asking the Province to change daycare license regulations to allow much more outdoors activity. (Jenna Legga at CBC)

Sports

• ⚾ FRONTIER Ottawa Titans 14 – Trois-Rivières Aigles 3 last night

CITY HALL AGENDA

WHAT OTTAWA IS TALKING ABOUT

🚧 Eastboro Development

• People who bought homes in the Eastboro development in Orléans may finally be able to move in. The houses have been completed for a year but the developer and the City were in a dispute about how to allocate sewer costs. Construction to connect the neighbourhood to the sewer system may start in a month and take six. (Elyse Skura at CBC)

💸 Monthly Rental Report

• The average rental in Ottawa is down $11 in June from May. The average Ottawa one-bedroom apartment rent was $2,179 in June, in May it was $2,190. However, in June 2023 that average apartment was $2,146, or $33 dollars cheaper. (Josh Pringle at CTV)

⛺ University of Ottawa Encampment

• After 71 days, the encampment at the University of Ottawa has ended. A press release from Occupy Tabaret stated ‘legal action and police violence at student encampments across the country’ as the reason for the abandonment although one organizer said ‘We left because we wanted to … this round of negotiations [has] ended’. The campaigners wanted the University to disclose any investments in Israel. (Kavi Vidya Achar in the University of Ottawa Fulcrum)

🏎️ Highway 416

• The speed limit on Highway 416 between the 401 and the Queensway increases to 110 km/h on Friday. This may come as a complete surprise to most 416 drivers as, to them, this appears to be a decrease. (Lucas Casaletto at CityNews)

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Bluesfest says the show must go on and it has plans even if the rains are torrential.

Today

• A Company of Fools open air theatre is back, this time bringing a fresh take on Shakespeare's Macbeth to the stage. Catch the play tonight in Stonecrest Park, Barrhaven.
   
• Parkdale market was set to celebrate its 100th birthday tonight but the party has been cancelled due to weather. Check out Parkdale Market’s 100th birthday celebration next Wednesday July 17 from 5:00 pm to 9:00 pm.
   
• Today at Ottawa Blues Fest: Zac Brown Band with guests Charley Crockett and Nicholette & The Nobodies at the RBC stage. Matthew Good, Texas King, and Jon Muq perform on the River Stage. Medicine Singers ft Lee Ranaldo, Yonatan Gat & Zoon top the bill at Siriuxsm Stage. Blackburn Brothers headline at Barney Danson Theatre, Alamusic plays Accora Village Spin Stage.
   
• Today at Music & Beyond: Utrecht String Quartet, Film “De la music pour le cerveau (2:00 pm to 3:30 pm) followed by the English version "Tuning the Brain with Music" (4:00 pm to 5:30 pm); Phaeton Piano trio, Christina Quilico; Thomas Baeté.
   
• ByTowne Cinema: L’été dernier (Last Summer), Yintah, MaXXXine
   
• Mayfair Theatre: Tuesday, Thelma, Stop Making Sense

  
  Gigs

• Supersonic Hearts Band. Atomic Rooster

• Trivia Wednesday. Royal Oak Pubs at Maclaren and Bank, Centrepointe,Barrhaven, and Stittsville.

• Wasting Tie, Speedbump Salley, Heavy Lies, Halfway There. House of TARG

• Quique Escamilla. National Arts Centre

• The Cross-eye Possum, The North River
  
  Sports
  
  ⚾ Ottawa Titans vs Trois-Rivières Aigles at Ottawa Stadium
   

Tomorrow
 

• A Company of Fools open air theatre is back, this time bringing a fresh take on Shakespeare's Macbeth to the stage. Catch the play tonight in Trend Arlington Park, Nepean.
   
• Urban Sketchers will meet at Canadian Museum of Nature for an evening of group sketching. Book your entry ticket (which is free on Thursday evenings, btw) and don’t forget your sketch pad.
   
• Today at Bluesfest:The Offspring, Silverstein, Cancer Bats, Josh Ross, Alexa Goldie, Merle Marlow Band,Corb Lund, John Allaire and the Campistas, Chambers DesLauriers, Jessica Pearson & The East Wind, Steph Strings, Kaya Fraser, Alamusic, and DJ Kwame.
   
• Today at Music & Beyond: Phaeton Piano Trio II, Utretch String Quartet, Studio de musique ancienne de Montréal, Adam Cicchillitti & Steve Cowan.
   
• ByTowne Cinema: Wicked Little Letters, L’été dernier (Last Summer), MaXXXine
   
• Mayfair Theatre: Thelma, Tuesday, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

  
  Gigs

• Rick Fines. Red Bird

• Animal Boy, Those Who, Apostle Bird. LIVE on Elgin

• Güche, Keto, Scrip Issue. Avant-Garde Bar

• Japanese Fusion Night with Finely Tuned Elephant and NitroTurtle. House of TARG

• Los Gaiteros de Ovejas. National Arts Centre.
  
  Sports
  
  ⚾ Ottawa Titans vs Trois-Rivières Aigles at Ottawa Stadium
   

Friday

• Yuk Yuk’s presents The Alphabet People: two evenings of Ottawa’s best LGBTQ+ comics, tonight and tomorrow (Saturday July 13). Choose from dinner and a show or just the fabulous show.
   

• Road Trip: Ghost hunters, get in the car and head to Cornwall for Investigation at the Historic SDG Jail. The site was a working minimum and maximum security facility from the mid nineteenth century until 2002, and being on site of a summer evening is apparently apt to raise the hairs on the back of your neck. Tickets start at $69.99 per person, which include more than three hours of ghost hunting. Tonight and tomorrow night (Saturday July 13) at 11 Water St. West, Cornwall. 

• A Company of Fools open air theatre is back, this time bringing a fresh take on Shakespeare's Macbeth to the stage. Catch the play tonight in Hiawatha Park, Orléans.

• 🆓 Experience the magic of a summer evening outdoor film screening with The Truman Show. Churchill Seniors Recreation Centre, 345 Richmond Ave at dusk.

• Today at Bluesfest: Tyler Chilers with TALK and Brittany Kennell; Brahams with Oddeline and summersets; Bombino with Jerry Portnoy and Empress Nyiringango; Annie Raines & Paul Rishell with Raphael Weinroth-Browne and Wild Remedy; DJ Easy El Dee, DJMC.

• Today at Music & Beyond Summer Festival: ‘Music and Running’, ‘Voyage á Paris: Les Six’, ‘Fauré: Chamber Music’, Phaeton Piano Trio, Lucibela: Cape Verdean Breezes, Utrecht Quartet.

• On Sparks Street, True Bijoux jewellers is holding a street party with prizes, cotton candy, and Thomas Sabo’s collab with Haribo. Today and tomorrow (Saturday July 13). 
   

• ByTowne Cinema: A Little Something Extra (Un p’tit true en plus), June Zero, Jaws, MaXXXine

• Mayfair Theatre: Tuesday, L’été dernier (Last Summer), In a Violent Nature
  
  Gigs

• Les Ismore productions presents. Avant-Garde Bar

• 80s Dance Party with DJ Remy. House of TARG

• Noche Cubana Ottawa. Latinos Resto Bar

• Jesse Greene Band. Irene’s Pub Restaurant

• Kin Gongolo, Miniata, DEF MAMA DEF. 27 Club

• Vicki Brittle. Red Bird

• The Barrow Gang. Atomic Rooster

• Yassin, Sean Terrier, Almyr Jules. Rainbow Bistro

• Valérie Ekoume. National Arts Centre
  
  Sports
  
  ⚽ Atlético Ottawa vs Vancouver FC at TD Arena
  
  ⚾ Ottawa Titans vs Québec Capitales at Ottawa Stadium
   

Just Announced / Now Booking

• Kemptville Live Music Festival starts in just over one week (July 18-21) with Burton Cummings, Glass Tiger, Sam Roberts Band, and Dean Brody headlining. Weekend passes and single evening tickets are on sale now.

• 🆓 Have summer-y good times even if you’re not escaping to a cottage: Capital Ribfest and Poutine sets up the tent downtown at Ottawa City Hall during the August long weekend (August 2 - 5). 110 Laurier Street.

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