Congratulations to Anna Melnyk for winning the tickets to tomorrow night’s playoff game……..the second of many more to come. Anna has promised us that she will inspire the team to win win win!!!

Congratulations to  The Spa Day Retreat  http://www.thespadayretreat.ca  located at 26 Castlefrank Rd. in Kanata, on their recent Ottawa Architectural Conservation Award for 2007-2008.

This project adapted an historic stone residence in former Kanata to a modern spa with an extensive range of facilities. The stone house was built c.1824 for William Hodgins and in 1912 it was purchased by George Henry Sparks. The Sparks family lived here until 2001. The building was gutted as part of an effort to convert it to a school and later damaged by fire. The Spa project involved restoration of the front porch, re-pointing of the stone walls which are exposed in select interior spaces, interior mill-work reproduced based on the 1920 period of the house and a sensitive addition at the south end. Read the rest of this entry »

Congratulations to A.Y Jackson High School, in Glen Cairn, Kanata, on their recent title! They have become the 4th Ottawa basketball team to ever capture a provincial boys basketball title in the Ontario Federation of School Athletic Associations boys Double-A basketball.

http://www.ayj.ca/

My son, Colin, graduated from AY Jackson, so it has a special place in my heart. Qudos to the team and all of the staff and volunteers that helped make it happen.