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Preston Street is known as Corso Italia - the heart of Ottawa's Little Italy. The area is famous for its Italian heritage and events. Ottawa's best food is prepared in restaurants noted for top quality service and cuisine. The majority of the businesses are family operated with "an owner in the store" approach to customer service.
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La Vendemmia - September 20 - 26, 2010 |
In Italian tradition, harvest time is when Farmers gather together to celebrate the earth's bounty, catch up with their neighbors, and offer their produce. It is a time of merriment, celebrating the end of the intense work involved in planting, growing, and harvesting. Wine -- being such an integral part of any gathering of friends -- has its own celebratory harvest tradition. Fresh off the vine grapes are poured into huge vats, and crushed in the first stage of this centuries old art form.
Since 1997, La Vendemmia has been Ottawa 's Celebration of Italian Wine & Food held in the heart of Little Italy, Preston Street. La Vendemmia is a series of Italian wine and food seminars, dinners, cooking demos, wine tastings and a charity grape stomp.
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Wines of Puglia invites you to DISCOVER
Wines of Puglia
Wine Seminar & Tasting Experience
Tuesday September 21st, 2010
Tasting & Seminar with Ian D’Agata: 4-6 pm
Puglian Aperitivo and Dinner: 6pm
Fairmont Château Laurier Hotel – Laurier Ballroom
1 Rideau St., Ottawa ON, K1N 8S7
This invitation is valid for 2 guests only and is not transferable.
RSVP by September 13th if you plan to attend:
Communications@divinowinestudio.com |
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| The Gladstone presents - "A Flea in Her Ear" |
Visit: The Gladstone Theatre Official Site |
Come and revel in this comedic sex farce created as only the French can by the legendary Georges Feydeau.
The carefully sculpted plot takes hilarious aim at jealous lovers, mistaken identities, and bungling servants as a group of elegant individuals run into (and past) each other at a hotel of dubious reputation.
The result? Side-splitting comedy, split-second timing, and a show that builds and builds to a hysterically heart-stopping, not-to-be-missed climax. See below for your chance to win a great night out in Little Italy! |
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| Real Improvements to Your Investment Portfolio: Lessons from the Past 10 Years |
Please join us for a focused discussion on Investment Returns as part of our 2010 Educational Luncheon Series.
This will be a great opportunity to explore what has happened in the financial markets over the past 10 years and how returns have affected the retail investor (like yourself).
We will explore what some people are afraid to talk about: Actual Historical Returns, What Do They Mean? What did we learn? How do we apply these realities to our future investment decisions?
Please be our guest over lunch and learn about how you can improve your chances.
This is also a great opportunity for you to bring along a family member, friend, or colleague to engage in our discussion.
Speaker: Patrick Mullins CFA, Director- Wealth Management, Richardson GMP
ADDED Date: September 21st, 2010
Time: 11:50 a.m to 1:00 p.m
Location: 343 Preston Street, Suite 300
Ottawa, ON K1S 1N4
Lunch will be served
Please RSVP to Lisa Beartup.
lisa.beartup@richardsongmp.com or 613-788-8015 |
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| Bike advocates score ‘60-per-cent’ win... By Kate Jaimet, The Ottawa Citizen September 1, 2010 |
OTTAWA — An ambitious proposal to create a network of segregated bike lanes across downtown floundered at council’s transportation committee on Wednesday. However, a last-minute compromise led councillors to approve some less-contentious measures to promote cycling in the city.
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All roads lead to Rome!
West Side Action Article August 10, 2010 |
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The Preston Street BIA (Business Improvement Assoc) continues to add features to the attractive Preston streetscape.
One of the most challenging areas is under the Queensway. Underpasses are dark, often damp, always unpleasant places, but the Preston BIA has managed to turn theirs into a silk purse. The wall murals are attractive, the benches and seating in an underpass are actually being used. The latest installation are faux directional signs that feature the names of businesses. Four sign posts have been installed, with more directional arrows
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Amherst Daily News Article for July 12, 2010 |
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OTTAWA - In the end, it was garbage that helped Ottawa's Little Italy go from grimy to gorgeous.
This summer will see the inner-city neighbourhood put the final touches on a $30-million facelift forced by a growing problem with overflowing sewers.
Since the mid-1980s, businesses and residents had been asking for help to restore their neighbourhood to the glamour of the pre-Second World War years, where Italians dominated Preston Street, a 1.2-kilometre link between Dow's Lake and downtown.
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| We're upgrading the website! |
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As you can see, we're making the website better.... Both in function, and looks.
We're updating all the listings, images, galleries, and the rest of the information on the site to include more accurate information on what's happening in the area, events, and contact information. We've added a Facebook Group, and soon we'll be Twittering as well.
I am trying to get around to meet as many of you as I can soon, and hope to improve the gallery with photos of the businesses and people. If you'd like to schedule this please send me an email.
Thank you for your patience during this process....If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to email me at webmaster@prestonstreet.com
Sean |
Italian Week Grand Finale Weekend was a HUGE success!
Click the images below to see the photos on Facebook.
Thanks to DAWG FM 101.9 "Ottawa's Best Friend" for all their support.
Check back soon for an update on what's in store for Italian Week 2011!
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The Gallery will be back soon.... |
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