Ottawa Public Health (OPH) is helping Ottawa residents stay healthy this season by offering free flu vaccine clinics. The flu vaccine is also available at doctors’ offices, community health centres and walk-in clinics. The flu spreads easily from person to person usually through coughing, sneezing...
December Initiative Ottawa Police will focus on impaired driving and speeding in December. In 2009, 381 impaired driving-related collisions occurred on Ottawa roads – resulting in nine deaths and 175 injuries, 22 of them serious. Of the motorists who were charged with impaired driving, 84...
In order to help keep Ottawa’s roads, sidewalk and pathway networks clear for motorists, public transit, pedestrians and cyclists, winter overnight parking regulations are in effect between November 15 and April 1 of each year. When winter parking restrictions are being enforced, vehicles are not...
The Carleton Heights Community Centre is collecting milk bags to be made into sleeping mats for earthquake victims in Haiti. The coloured plastic milk bags (that hold the smaller clear plastic bags) are turned into easy-to-clean mats that do not attract bugs and help resist...
The CHARA board will be holding their December Board of Directors meeting tonight (Dec 7) at 7pm, rather than our usual date (third Tuesday of the month). The meeting is open to the public, and will be held at the Carleton Heights Community Centre.