A Facebook Marketplace transaction in Manotick quickly went sideways after a seller was threatened at gunpoint when the prospective buyer tried to rob them with force. Ottawa police were called to the 1100 block of Beaverwood Road at 10:30am on Monday, where two shots were fired during the incident, which were later determined not to have struck anyone. The suspect, a young offender, was stripped of the firearm and taken into custody, though treated in hospital for minor injuries, said Ottawa paramedics. The victim seller, who assisted a security guard and off-duty police officer in turning in the suspect, was treated for injuries related to blunt-force trauma at the scene, with the investigation ongoing.
A flea market in Stittsville is closing its doors in September after 50 years in operation. Melissa Pacey, social media manager of the Carp Road Flea Market, posted an online announcement on Sunday that brought about heavy emotions from vendors and supporters alike, including Stittsville’s Vintage Market, Kondruss Gallery, and the Barbie Museum. The announcement comes as a result of the upcoming Carp Road widening project which would affect access to the market, and the eventual decision by building ownership to sell the property, although it is not yet known who will take over. The market is open on Sundays, something Pacey will miss at the end of September when it comes to seeing her “extended family” of vendors and visitors in this weekly tradition.
Monday marked 60 years since the unfolding of Ottawa’s deadliest workplace disaster that sent shockwaves around the world, and the Ottawa Journal headlined it as “A Thousand Tons of Terror”. It was just after 3pm on August 10, 1966, when the Heron Bridge suddenly collapsed during a routine concrete pouring as part of its construction, killing nine men and injuring at least 60 others. A commemoration ceremony was held near the bridge on Monday, where Sean McKenny, president of the Ottawa and District Labour Council, said that the frustration and agony of the disaster could still be felt all these years later, simply because the “collapse was preventable”, and Braydon Potter, president of the Ottawa-Gatineau Unionized Building trades, calling construction workplace safety “an ongoing concern”. As part of commemorations in 2016, the bridge itself was renamed as the Heron Road Workers’ Memorial Bridge.
