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Online/New Media by rochekellyJuly 21, 2011February 11, 2012

Locally made ice creams wow customers

SEE VIDEO http://www.ottawasun.com/2011/07/21/locally-made-ice-creams-wow-customers On a sweltering summer day, Pascale Berthiaume wipes her brow as she churns out all natural ice cream in a community kitchen on Gladstone Ave. Heat wave or not, she’s got orders to fill. With flavours like peanut-butter-salted-caramel, raspberry-Cassis, and dark-chocolate-sea-salt, it’s not just grown up foodies who crave her desserts. “Kids […]

Online/New Media by rochekellyMay 23, 2011January 20, 2012

Bank Street facelift begins Tuesday until November

For the next six months, Glebe resident Victoria Merkley will be hustling to catch the #5 bus. “If I miss it, it comes every half an hour,” she said. “They’re usually early or late, so you have to be at the stop because you never know when it’s going to come.” Merkley, 21, usually takes […]

Online/New Media by rochekellyFebruary 11, 2011

‘Tremendous’ cleaner steams ahead into retirement

SEE VIDEO http://www.ottawasun.com/news/ottawa/2011/02/11/17246016.html#/news/ottawa/2011/02/11/pf-17243991.html Bruce Hillary scrupulously examines a pair of red trousers, looking for salt stains. When he finds one, he blasts the pants with a steam gun then moves on to the next pair. At 73, he weaves his way around the plant like someone half his age. And after 48 years of laundering, […]