Business Buzz

Lois ‘N’ Frima’s has opened at 837 Bank Street with their celebrated ice cream.

Sports 4 opening soon at 769 Bank Street, former home of High Ties Cannabis. “Founded in 1982, Sports 4 is a sporting goods/athletics business, located in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, that specializes in the proper fitting of running and walking shoes.” Sports4.com.

Chickpeas at 931 Bank Street, corner of Bank and Holmwood, has now closed. “It is with a heavy heart that we had to make this difficult decision, but we want you to know that our original location at Trainyards is still open.” (Sign on window)

Glebe Report’s new website

In the year in which we turn 50, the Glebe Report is launching a fresh new website. The revamped website is lively and up-to-date and works better with cell phones and tablets, but still has the full, searchable Glebe Report archive of past issues starting in 1973. Check it out at glebereport.ca

Contributors this month

Kathryn Aubrey-Horvath

Inez Berg the designated spot for survivors of a nuclear attack to gather for food and water (but I guess that didn’t happen).

Along the way, Lansdowne has been an important sports venue –for hockey, football, soccer, curling, figure skating and more. The Aberdeen Pavilion hosted the Stanley Cup championship games in 1904. In the 50s, there were horse races which later morphed into stock car races (see photos in the October 2022 issue of the Glebe Report).

All this to say that Lansdowne has always loomed large in the life of the city and of the Glebe. No wonder, then, that the turnout was large at the City of Ottawa’s public information session on April 27 on the Lansdowne 2.0 development proposals, with some 150 online participants. The speakers www.glebereport.ca

Established in 1973, the Glebe Report, published by the Glebe Report Association is a monthly not-forprofit community newspaper with a circulation of 7,500 copies. It is delivered free to Glebe homes and businesses. Advertising from merchants in the Glebe and elsewhere pays all its costs, and the paper receives no government grants or direct subsidies. The Glebe Report, made available at select locations such as the Glebe Community Centre and the Old Ottawa South Community Centre and Brewer Pool, is printed by Winchester Print.

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AREA CAPTAINS................. Martha Bowers, Bob Brocklebank, Judy Field, Jono Hamer-Wilson, Deb Hogan, Elena Kastritsa, Brenda Perras, Della Wilkinson were well rehearsed with prepared answers to submitted questions. But the main thrust from the public on the proposal focused on the same complaints as ever: the disappearance of greenspace; the lack of trees for shade; the three new high rise condo towers with what some viewed as just a questionable nod to affordable housing; more retail, despite what many see as a track record of retail failures; inadequate public transit; and the large financial risk that taxpayers would be required to undertake.

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