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Online/New Media by rochekellySeptember 27, 2014October 28, 2014

Longfields students making the grade in math

SEE VIDEO http://www.ottawasun.com/2014/09/26/longfields-students-making-the-grade-in-math Superheroes and blockbuster movie posters line the walls of Mike Czudner’s Barrhaven classroom. It’s part of his formula for subtracting stress — mathematics may easily trigger that in a teenager. “If it’s something that they can relate to, and it has math in it and it’s fun, it brings down those anxiety […]

Newspaper by rochekellySeptember 5, 2011September 5, 2011

Thousands of area students back Tuesday

Hello, homework. Tuesday marks the end of summer vacation as about 100,000 Ottawa students head back to school. Nepean resident Vanessa Pietrantonio, 12, is excited about entering Grade 7 at Frank Ryan. “I’m looking forward to the new teachers, the new kids and stuff, but I’m kind of sad that I have to go back,” […]

Online/New Media by rochekellyJune 22, 2011August 3, 2011

Mental health plan aims to help youth

It’s been seven months since Morgan Richardson lost her sister and best friend. She recently celebrated her 17th birthday and is handling the pressures of being in high school and figuring out where to go to school next — on top of grieving after her sister Daron, 14, took her own life last November. “We […]

Online/New Media by rochekellyApril 5, 2011August 4, 2011

Hundreds mourn Ottawa murder victim

SEE VIDEO http://www.ottawasun.com/news/ottawa/2011/04/05/17882876.html Red rose petals littered the parking lot at Kelly Funeral Home in Orleans Tuesday morning after the memorial service for homicide victim Jessica Riopelle. Roughly 110 people packed the chapel — and dozens lined up out the door —to remember the 23-year-old who was killed March 26 at a south Ottawa motel. […]

Online/New Media by rochekellyFebruary 3, 2011August 7, 2011

School buses collide in Gatineau

A bus driver is seriously hurt but two busloads of teenagers are shaken but otherwise OK after an crash in Gatineau just past the Macdonald-Cartier bridge around 4 p.m. Thursday. “All I felt was a wrecking ball hit our bus,” said Andrew Godmere, a grade 10 student at Lester B. Pearson Catholic high school. Around […]

Online/New Media by rochekellyJanuary 8, 2011August 4, 2011

Hundreds remember murder victim

Inside the artistic, inviting, and warmly decorated house of Allan and Robin O’Connor in Orleans, hundreds of friends trickled in Saturday to celebrate Simon Hubbard’s zeal for life. “Anytime people were getting together and Simon showed up, people had a little more fun,” said Steve Lafond, who’s known Hubbard for more than 30 years. Hubbard, […]