With a record number of meals anticipated for serving this coming Thanksgiving week, the Ottawa Mission received some help from friends at an Ottawa School. Students attending Elmwood School hosted a frozen turkey drive, alongside monetary fundraising to support initiatives like the Ottawa Mission that help serve hot meals to the needy. To date, some 37 frozen turkeys were personally dropped off by Elmood students at the Mission on Thursday, with one of the students saying that this was the fifth year that their school organized the drive – fittingly called the “Elmwood Turkey Trot.”
Ottawa Police are looking to identify a man connected to several break-and-enters in Sandy Hill. Though no count was provided in the update, the incidents were believed to have occurred between August 12 and September 25 across several commercial properties. The man is described as having a fair-to-tan complexion and average build with a dark beard and moustache. In the police image released, he was described as wearing a green and white baseball cap and mostly dark-to-black attire – from his shirt to his shoes – and a dark backpack.
Ottawa Health warned on Thursday of the risk of measles exposure following confirmations of two cases in the city. A list of locations possibly connected with the two infected are as follows, as per the health unit’s website.
Anyone who has attended these locations is encouraged to closely monitor for symptoms until at least the end of this month, even if already vaccinated, due to the highly contagious nature of the illness that may lead from high fever, cough, runny nose and other minor side effects to more grave outcomes such as rashes starting from the face and spreading to the rest of the body.
