Glebe Report

There is more going on within the walls of the unassuming stucco-clad building on Bell Street South than many Glebe Annex residents realize. The site, once the home of Liyan’s Kitchen Chinese Food and Pizza and, briefly in 2014, Cedar’s Café and Grill, now hosts the Carleton Food Collective, also referred to as the Garden Spot.

For a singular painter, Mario Vettore, the act of beautifying the NAC – however strenuous the task – was the crowning glory of his years of manual work. This same Mario is your Glebe neighbour. He settled here in the late
1950s, having just emigrated from Italy.

The feeling of a fresh haircut has never gone out of style and Silver Scissors Salon has been delivering that feeling to customers for 40 years. Co-owner Eli Saikaley says Silver Scissors was the first unisex salon in the Glebe.

Now is your chance to show the neighbourhood your best winter creation for the Glebe’s inaugural Snowphy Trophy Challenge – a neighbourhood-wide snowman-building contest that will send one lucky kid on a mini shopping spree.

In early December, long-time Glebe resident Sean Costello returned from a 10-day journey to Russia and Kazakhstan, where he had been embedded with the Canadian Space Agency’s media team to witness and cover the launch of David Saint-Jacques, Canada’s latest astronaut to live and work aboard the International Space Station.

Pruning can help your tree but, if improperly done, it can do serious damage. My starting point to prepare “Pruning 101” was a conversation with Robert Glendinning to tap his expertise on trees.

Who knew that a carrot is a political statement? Find out how, and take a peek into the kitchen of Jen Adam of J.D.Adam Kitchen Co.

I’m pleased to announce a winter 2019 choral workshop, which will take place at Southminster on Wednesday evenings from January 30 to April 17, with a performance of the Fauré Requiem with orchestra and soloists on Friday, April 19.

Almost, Maine, written by John Cariani, follows nine different love stories taking place in the same town at the same time. However, every story is unique and love doesn’t come as easy for some.

It is only three years since I finished my first 65 km trail race where I watched the longer distance runners and thought that there had to be a limit to the madness. This fall, I completed my very first 80 km distance event, the Ultra-Trail Harricana du Canada at La Malbaie, Quebec.