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My SUN+ account [javascript:void(0);] Logout Search Autos Homes Classifieds Careers Obituaries Ottawa Sun Thursday August 28 2014 Home News In News Ottawa & Region Ontario Canada World Weird Archives Sports In Sports Latest Scores SUN Scramble Hockey Senators RedBlacks Ottawa Fury FC Baseball Football Basketball Curling Golf Soccer Tennis Motorsports Mixed Martial Arts Other Sports Archives Entertainment In Entertainment TV TV Listings Amazing Race Movies Movie Listings Celebrities Music Books Ottawa Scene Archives Life In Life Sex Files Health & Fitness Eat Fashion Archives Tech In Tech News Gadgets Gaming Archives Money In Money Money Home Careers Search Jobs Archives Travel In Travel Ontario Canada USA Europe International Archives Opinion In Opinion Columnists Editorial Letters Send Letter to the editor Blogs Cartoons Archives Photos In Photos Videos In Videos Editors Picks News Sports Entertainment Tech Money Sunshine Girl McRae's McMinute Sunshine Girl In Sunshine Girl Become a Sunshine Girl Calendar 2014 Archives More more Weather Homes Contests Special Sections Lottery results Live Chats Manage my account Read E-edition Must Reads Tom Van Dusen Tweet Send an email » Tom Van Dusen Ottawa Sun Columns ''Face Your Sorrow' sings Valley troubadour Lyle Dillabough Friday August 16, 09:14 PM Life is one big road trip and always has been, says singer-songwriter Lyle Dillabough, the Valley Troubadour who’s contemplating his next move. Full story » 0 Cows, sheep and more go under the gavel in humane sales Saturday August 10, 09:48 PM For those urbanites who would claim that many among the hundreds of animals processed weekly at livestock sales barns across Ontario are mistreated, Dr. Geoff Cochrane would beg to differ. Full story » 0 Conservation was trendy during retired Rideau Valley Conservation Authority GM's tenure Friday August 02, 09:11 PM As careers go, 24 years isn’t necessarily long ... but a lot changed in the time Dell Hallett managed the Rideau Valley Conservation Authority. Full story » 0 Chesterville waterfront project plagued by vandals Friday July 26, 09:02 PM So much time, so much money, so much effort ... and so much vandalism! Full story » 0 New export grain port causing controversy Saturday July 20, 11:32 AM If not on Lakeshore Drive, then where? Full story » 0 War of 1812-13 hoopla hits high note Saturday July 06, 10:35 AM It’s not exactly Shakespeare but it’s bawdy and boisterous enough to meet with the Bard’s approval. Full story » 0 Rideau Waterway users boiling mad at dock user fees Friday June 28, 10:07 PM First it was boaters, then North Gower farmers ... now Parks Canada has raised the ire of another group of Rideau Waterway users. Full story » 0 Aquatarium not yet ready to set sail Friday June 21, 09:30 PM When thousands of nautical heritage fans from all over Eastern Ontario thronged to the Tall Ships Tour here last weekend, most didn’t realize that an element was missing from the festivities. Full story » 0 Clash over location of North Dundas District High School all but forgotten Friday June 14, 09:57 PM With 50th anniversary celebrations fast approaching, generations of students and parents have learned to co-mingle in relative harmony at North Dundas District High School. Full story » 0 Flotilla to ‘mark’ Champlain’s arrival at Morrison Island Saturday June 08, 08:51 PM PEMBROKE -- When Samuel de Champlain and his entourage arrived 400 years ago at what's now known as Morrison Island in the Ottawa River, it turned out to be the end of the line ... at least temporarily. Full story » 0 North Grenville's Forest Centre Park takes the cake Saturday June 01, 05:06 PM Officially opened last weekend, Anniversary Park is the icing on the overflowing cake that is North Grenville’s Ferguson Forest Centre. Full story » 0 Agriculture museum adds food to mix to bring in adults Saturday May 25, 03:08 PM Attracting city folk to the agricultural museum at Ottawa’s Central Experimental Farm has never been a difficult task, especially the younger ones the facility is largely geared to. Full story » 0 Mayors wrangle over port, bridge name in Johnstown Saturday May 18, 05:07 PM It’s not Prescott! That’s the first thing about this hamlet on the St. Lawrence Seaway just east of larger, more established Prescott that the local government would have you know. Full story » 0 Early eulogy is old solder's dream come true Sunday May 12, 09:58 AM RUSSELL — It’s not every day you get asked to help write somebody’s eulogy … especially when that somebody is still very much alive. Full story » 0 Slow Money gives a dependable return on investment for farmers Saturday May 04, 09:36 PM BERWICK — Slow Money! Full story » 0 Rural residents demand firefighters in remote rescues Saturday April 27, 04:00 PM It was an overcast day Jan. 28 and Mike McKenna was working on a hardwood flooring project. Full story » 0 Ratepayers dig in on blind gardener dismissal in North Glengarry Saturday April 20, 03:18 PM Where’s the vision in firing a legally blind gardener who’s become a community role model? Full story » 0 New book captures Grandma’s meteorological savvy Saturday April 13, 09:44 PM BAINSVILLE – These days she mostly relies on science when compiling weather forecasts for CTV Halifax. Full story » 0 Maple ‘seduces senses’ at Quebec sucrerie Saturday April 06, 08:31 PM You could definitely say I’m a sucker for pure syrup ... more to the point, a sucker of pure syrup. Full story » 0 The hippies are coming to Killaloe ... in song and dance Saturday March 30, 02:47 PM The hippies are coming! The hippies are coming ... again! Full story » 0 Stories Senior gets her guns back after dog-shooting incident Friday July 12, 09:48 PM Joan Pretty’s year-long experience with the justice system hasn’t been, well ... pretty. Full story » 0 Valley flashes for Jan. 10. Wednesday January 09, 06:02 PM It may be called the War of 1812, but it kept right on going into 1813, including a successful raid on Ogdensburg, N.Y., launched from here Feb. 22 to 24. Full story » 0 Poutine-free Franco culture centre in the mix in St. Albert Wednesday January 09, 04:21 PM Not only will the new $8 million Franco-Ontarian pioneer village proposed for this farming community be a cultural and environmental Mecca, it’ll focus on fresh food. Full story » 0 New from around the Ottawa Valley, Dec. 27 Wednesday December 26, 06:52 PM A contribution to trucking costs from the west netted beef farmer Willy O’Rourke a much-needed 32 large round bales of hay just before Christmas, as the Hay East program to supplement feed for drought-stricken farmers continues. Full story » 0 Almonte train crash survivor wants monument to honour and remember the lost Wednesday December 26, 06:44 PM One of the survivors of the infamous Almonte train wreck of 1942 says more should be done to honour the 39 on-site victims and those who died within weeks of injuries sustained. Full story » 0 Valley flashes, Dec. 20 Wednesday December 19, 08:15 PM The $5-million transformation of the three-storey former Morrisburg Collegiate Institute into a combined medical clinic, library, South Dundas municipal offices and council chambers is now under way. Full story » 0 Almonte to mark 70th anniversary of Dec. 27, 1942 train crash that killed dozens and injured more than 150 Wednesday December 19, 07:03 PM “With a mighty rushing sound, the troop train was upon them. Through the noise of crashing coaches, you could hear the dying scream.” Full story » 0 Ottawa Valley News & Notes Wednesday December 12, 09:44 PM Hay East will benefit when the Ottawa Senators Alumni takes on the Big Rig Celebrity Team at North Grenville Municipal Centre Sunday Full story » 0 Plaque marks archeological dig for Maynard Iroquois village Wednesday December 12, 09:37 PM The byways of Eastern Ontario have gained another commemorative plaque, one that can easily be missed by passing motorists. Full story » 0 Valley Flashes, Dec. 6 Wednesday December 05, 09:34 PM Lanark County council will join neighbouring Leeds and Grenville in setting aside $50,000 to repair a historic bridge. Full story » 0 Landslide dangers along South Nation River mapped out Wednesday November 28, 08:58 PM CASSELMAN — La Nation municipality and South Nation Conservation are combining to issue some area residents a friendly reminder: You’re in a landslide zone and, based on geological conditions and the historic record, a major riverbank failure could occur any time. Full story » 0 Valley news and notes for Nov. 29 Wednesday November 28, 05:47 PM BROCKVILLE — Noting that it employs more than 400 people, council for the United Counties of Leeds and Grenville recently passed a motion is support of keeping the Thousand Islands Casino right where it is … in Gananoque. Full story » 0 Valley Flashes, Nov. 22 Wednesday November 21, 06:11 PM It ’s gone but not forgotten. Expo 150, a Renfrew County-wide celebration of the past, present and future held last year, was commemorated this week with a plaque dedication at the local airport where the event was staged. Full story » 0 Drought relief trickles down for local farmers Wednesday November 21, 05:58 PM PEMBROKE — Increasing precipitation rates across Renfrew County this fall have begun to quench the desperate demand for water following the summer drought, but not enough that edgy officials aren’t still calling conditions disastrous. Full story » 0 Valley Flashes, Nov. 15 Wednesday November 14, 09:48 PM The federal government announced a contribution of up to $8,856 for restoration of the local cenotaph in conjunction with South Glengarry Twp. and Royal Canadian Legion Branch 544. Full story » 0 Eastern Ontario water protection committee member Shawn McRae quits over compensation issue Wednesday November 14, 07:11 PM After toiling for close to five years to help shore up clean water defences in Eastern Ontario, the Raisin-South Source Protection Committee wound down recently with only one major glitch — the defection of front-line member Shawn McRae. Full story » 0 Doomed steamer and its life-saving casket commemorated Wednesday November 07, 08:44 PM It made quite a splash 100 years ago next Monday. Full story » 0 Ottawa Valley flashes Wednesday November 07, 12:41 PM Ottawa Valley flashes Full story » 0 Township of Russell rejects Capital Region Resource Recovery Centre proposal from Taggart Miller Environmental Services Thursday November 01, 12:09 AM Almost two years after the concept was first introduced to an unsuspecting Russell Twp., council has flatly rejected terms of reference for a massive waste recovery and landfill facility to serve Greater Ottawa. Full story » 0 Ottawa Valley flashes for Nov. 1 Wednesday October 31, 10:44 PM A controversial asphalt plant proposed by PB Paving & Landscaping has been sidelined while local government reviews. 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