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Around Town: Jesse Palmer to star at Bust A Move for cancer foundation
With football fever in the air, what better time than now to announce that Jesse Palmer will serve as celebrity ambassador for the fifth and final Bust A Move fundraiser for breast cancer health,...
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Around Town: Brian Tardif celebrates 30 years with Citizen Advocacy
Long-time executive director Brian Tardif originally planned to let his 30 years with Citizen Advocacy of Ottawa slip by quietly, without celebration. But then something happened that changed his mind;...
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Around Town: Community leader Lawson Hunter makes generous donation to Ottawa...
It was (hard) hats off to Lawson Hunter on Friday as supporters of the Ottawa Art Gallery paid tribute to a man who’s shown exemplary leadership in the creation of a cultural meeting place that this...
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Around Town: Château Laurier in ho-ho-hotel holiday mood with Trees of Hope...
All that was missing was the sight of softly falling snow outside the Fairmont Château Laurier on Monday night as the historic landmark hotel was practically Santa central, playing host again to the...
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Around Town: Ready to ring in the New Year, Scots-style, at Hogmanay event...
The official countdown for New Year’s Eve has yet to begin but already the Scottish Society of Ottawa is in celebration mode as it prepares to host its 4th annual Hogmanay in and around Lansdowne’s...
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Around Town: Just fiddling around at Anne & Gilbert opening night
Consider yourself warned: If you attend the National Arts Centre’s new musical, Anne & Gilbert, you may develop a uncontrollable case of toe-tapping, brought on by the catchy and charming songs....
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Around Town: Andre-Philippe Gagnon performs at benefit for blood cancer research
Famed Canadian impressionist André-Philippe Gagnon earned not one, but two standing ovations during a small and intimate benefit show he did Monday for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of Canada...
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Around Town: Trudeau tops a who's who of VIPs at US Embassy holiday party
Think Fourth of July, but indoors. That’s just one way to describe the fabulous and flawless holiday party U.S. Ambassador Bruce Heyman and his wife, Vicki, hosted for hundreds of guests at their...
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Around Town: $200,000-plus raised for refugees at Black Sheep Inn music benefit
When it comes to Peter Mansbridge, what’s said in the Black Sheep Inn, stays in the Black Sheep Inn. The popular news anchor for CBC was at the Wakefield pub Friday, along with some 250 attendees of...
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Around Town: NAC filled with holiday joy at annual FanFair Concert
Imagine a musical boy growing up in small-town Grand Falls-Windsor, Newfoundland and learning that the National Arts Centre Orchestra was coming to visit, and that he’d get to hear classical – not...
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Around Town: Mayor Jim Watson and his gifts that keep regiving
They say the holidays are all about tradition. In the case of the Mayor Jim Watson, it’s his custom to send his party guests off with free promotional knickknacks that he’s received and accumulated...
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Around Town: Big names help pack 700 Christmas food hampers for the needy
Everyone from politicians to corporate sponsors to a gorgeous group of wives from the Ottawa Senators hockey team turned out Friday morning to help fill a record-number of food hampers for families in...
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Around Town: Ottawa Senators host Cuban charity gala
It was hockey night in Havana as the stars of the Ottawa Senators got their mojo – or was it mojito – on for the 2016 Ferguslea Senators Soirée: Cuban Cabaret, presented by Bell, at the Hilton...
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Around Town: Local teens ready to shine at Viennese Ball
A stunning transformation is about to take place and it will involve 24 teenagers, all of whom were seen at the Ottawa Fred Astaire Dance Studio this past Sunday for their very first dance class...
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Around Town: Birthday gift to Joe Clark enjoys a rousing premiere at NAC
It’s safe to say that former prime minister Joe Clark won’t be asking for an exchange or return on the remarkably unique, creative and lasting gift his family commissioned to commemorate his 75th...
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Around Town: Eat, drink and be local at Taste in the Glebe
The Glebe Community Centre was the hub of the town Thursday as everyone from experienced epicures to nibbling neophytes crammed together under one large roof for the 18th annual Taste in the Glebe...
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Around Town: Paul Gross, Martha Burns headline gala to launch Shakespeare 400
Theatre lovers were treated to an intimate performance of William Shakespeare works by Canadian stage and screen stars Paul Gross and Martha Burns during the launch of the University of Ottawa’s new...
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Around Town: Ottawa couple Chris and Mary Ann Turnbull donate $100,000 to OAG
Ottawa Art Gallery supporters came together Thursday for a VIP reception announcing the latest gift of $100,000 – this time from local couple Chris Turnbull and Mary Ann Turnbull — toward the gallery’s...
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Around Town: Top generals vs. media take to ice to raise funds for charity
Canada’s top military brass jumped from national defence to hockey offence as it tried to score its way through a fundraising hockey game Thursday afternoon that raised $4,330 for the Military Family...
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Around Town: Free the Children: It's about doing 'the right thing'
A sold-out crowd of Ottawa business and community leaders banded together Saturday at the Hilton Lac-Leamy for a night of inspiration, hope and change while raising more than $400,000 for a Free The...
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