Monthly Archives: July 2022

Money collected from their efforts also goes toward equipment costs for various therapy programs.

A new organizing team is behind this years event, bringing new ideas and some added elements. However, the NCDC ran into a bit of a roadblock a few days out from the event with a number of teams pulling out at the last minute due to a lack of numbers.

Still, the races will be immensely competitive.

In past years, the repeat winner weve had is Superette Foods, Rockall said. Whatever they do to design their boat, they do it really well and theyre a tight rowing team, theyve been repeat winners. Last time, they were knocked off the pedestal by Island Red Cedar Construction, so this year both of those teams are back.

Rockall added a dark horse entering this year may upset the two favourites, however he did not confirm who the team was.

He also said the all-heart Island Radio outfit could make waves in more ways than one.

Ive got high hopes for them, thats one of the teams were looking at closely for sure, people are talking about them.

Shari Sorensen is part of the Superette Foods team which has a strong desire to reassert their recent dominance.

It is so strong, we are starving to regain the championship. Were hungry and we want to win.

When NanaimoNewsNOW, which is affiliated with the Island Radio team, asked for any secrets on what makes the Superette Foods boat so successful, a candid Sorensen only replied with I will divulge nothing.

The building of boats begins at Maffeo Sutton Park at 8 a.m., with entertainment running through the morning ahead of races getting underway at 1 p.m.

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CTVNewsOttawa.ca looks at activities and events happening in Ottawa, eastern Ontario and western Quebec this weekend.

It's the final weekend of RBC Ottawa Bluesfest at LeBreton Flats.

This weekend's lineup includes:

Friday: Rage Against the Machine, Run the Jewels, Ludic, Suzie Vinnick and Milky Chance

Saturday:Ja Rule, TLC, Cooper Brothers Southern Rock All-Star Revue, Cleopatrick, Grandson, Crystal Shawanda

Sunday:The National, Andy Shauf, Aysanabee, Elijah Woods, The Beaches, Lex Leosis

For more information, visithttps://ottawabluesfest.ca/.

Celebrate the very best in Middle Eastern cuisine this weekend at the Ottawa Lebanese Festival.

Enjoy the rich diversity of the Ottawa-Lebanese community with food, Middle Eastern entertainment and heritage.

The Ottawa Lebanese Festival runs until Sunday at St. Elias Cathedral.

For more information, visit https://www.ottawalebanesefestival.com/

After two years off because of COVID-19, the Ottawa Lebanese Festival is back this weekend. (Shaun Vardon/CTV News Ottawa)

Don't miss the Broadway hit Hamilton at the National Arts Centre.

Hamilton is the story of America's Founding Father Alexander Hamilton, featuring a score that blends hip-hop, jazz, blues, rap, R&B, and Broadway.

The show runs until July 31.

For more information, visit https://nac-cna.ca/en/event/21476

The Ottawa Titans host Quebec for a three game series this weekend at the Ottawa Baseball Stadium.

Game times are 6:30 p.m. Friday, 6 p.m. Saturday and 1 p.m. on Sunday.

For tickets, visit ottawatitans.com

Season ticket holder Judi Haines poses with Ottawa Titans mascot, Cappy. (Jackie Perez/CTV News Ottawa)

The Music and Beyond festival continues in Ottawa until Sunday.

It's a classical music and arts festival happening at several venues.

For more information, visithttps://musicandbeyond.ca/

The Northern Lights sound and light show is back on Parliament Hill this summer.

Enjoy the free and unique multimedia experience and discover Canada's great achievements and our history's key milestones.

The show runs Thursday to Monday, starting at 10 p.m. in July.

Join tap dancer Travis Knights in an intimate musical journey through rhythm and song in Together Again: a full-bodied concert.

See Travis Knights until Saturday at the National Arts Centre.

For more information, visit https://nac-cna.ca/en/event/30868

The National Arts Centre is partnering up with Arohafest to offer a series of workshops to explore multiple facets of popular and classical Indian dance.

Arohafest is Saturday at the NAC.

For more information, visit https://nac-cna.ca/en/event/31460.

Canada's Ballet Jorgen's presentation of Anne of Green Gables The Ballet scheduled for Saturday night in Ottawa has been postponed.

For more information, visit https://meridiancentrepointe.com/en/anne-green-gables-ballet.

For information on each museum in Ottawa, click on the websites.

Beaches in Ottawa and Gatineau are open for the season.

In Ottawa, lifeguards are on duty at Britannia Beach, Mooney's Bay Beach and Petrie Island Beach from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Westboro Beach is closed for the season.

Six NCC beaches in Gatineau Park are open for the summer. Lifeguards will be on duty at the O'Brien, Blanchet, Breton, Parent, Smith and La Peche Lake beaches.

The NCC's popular weekend bike days continue all spring and summer.

Queen Elizabeth Driveway will be open for active transportation 24 hours a day all summer. The road will be closed to vehicles between Fifth Avenue and Somerset Street.

The parkways will be closed to vehicles and open for active transportation users during the following periods:

Sir John A. Macdonald Parkway

Sir George-Etienne Cartier Parkway

Immerse yourself in Claude Monet's paintings.

Claude Monet is considered to be the leading artist of impressionism, a movement that was called after his famous painting Impression Soleil Levant.

See Imagine Monet at the EY Centre until Aug. 14. For more information, visithttps://www.imagine-monet.com/ottawa-tickets/?lang=en.

The Ottawa Farmers Market is open every Sunday at Lansdowne Park.

The market is open from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Aberdeen Pavilion.

The York Street Farmers Market is open every Saturday from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Shop for fresh farmed goods at this producer-only farmers' market.

For more information, visithttps://ottawamarkets.ca/byward-market.

The 32ndseason of the Carp Farmers Market is underway.

Visit the farmers' market every Saturday from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Carp Fairgrounds.

For more information, visitcarpfarmersmarket.ca.

The Metcalfe Farmers' Market is every Saturday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Metcalfe Fairgrounds.

For more information, visitmetcalfefm.com.

The Barrhaven Market is open every Sunday.

Visit the Nepean Woods Park and Ride from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. every Sunday until Oct. 30.

The Barrhaven Farmers' Market is open every Saturday at the Log Farm on Cedarview Road.

The market is open from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

For more information, visithttps://barrhavenfarmersmarket.com/.

H.O.P.E Volleyball Summerfest takes over the sand at Mooney's Bay Beach on Saturday.

Don't miss North America's largest one-day outdoor beach volleyball tournament.

For more information, visit https://hopehelps.com/

The Ottawa Maker Festival runs from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday.

To register for free tickets, visit https://ottawamakerfestival.ca/.

A Company of Fools presents The Tempest in parks across Ottawa this summer.

The 90-minute show is pay what you can.

To find the park near you, visit https://fools.ca/the-tempest/.

Celebrate 30 years of music and community at the Stewart Park Festival in Perth, Ont. this weekend.

Enjoy music, the marketplace, kids' area and more Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

For more information, visit https://www.stewartparkfestival.com/.

Wesley Clover Parks invites you to attend the Ottawa Summer Tournaments.

See hundreds of horses and riders compete until Sunday in Ottawa's west end.

For more information, visit https://www.ottawaequestriantournaments.com/spectators.

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Football has a habit of it leaving scars. There are the literal, physical ones that line the flesh of those who play it, those left behind long after stitches or studs have been removed from skin. When it comes to emotional scars, we tend to think of fans carrying the weight of so many near misses, and joke about supporting a team for your sins.

It's in the interest of footballers, however, to leave painful losses behind them -- they'll be far better players if they can forget the penalty miss that cost them a title or the time they let their marker get away from them in a cup final. Yet, there are some losses that cut so deep, have such an impact that there will always be a reminder left behind.

For the Norwegian women's national team, the Monday night 8-0 loss to England in Euro 2022's Group A was the type of defeat that they may never recover from.

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There, of course, had been tears after Norway's group stage exit at the 2017 Euros, just as there was no way of quieting the sobs after the same team lost the 2013 final of the same competition. But Monday was different. It was the type of loss to rock all of Norwegian football -- it was not just the biggest margin of failure by any team at a Euros, male or female, but it was the single biggest loss in the history of the Norway women's national team.

As the players spoke to the media after the match, still clad in sweat and shame-soaked kits, there was no getting away from the emotion that rolled off each member of the squad who had to face the press. When speaking to ESPN, Norway captain Maren Mjelde described the feeling as "[her] heart bleeding a little."

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Whilst some players could do little to hide their frustration and anger, fighting to keep from spitting their words out in disgust, others used the last of their energy to stop from letting the misery overtake them, lips quivering. Professional pride had been hurt, but much worse, the players were carrying the burden of letting a nation of over 5 million down on their shoulders, the Norway badge never so heavy on their shirts. Eight-nil burned into the collective consciousness of a nation, the Norwegian delegation in Brighton part of footballing infamy.

As Caroline Graham Hansen said after the loss, "I think the problem today is that we don't do what we're supposed to do in the defence and when you don't do well in defence, you don't have good positioning to win the ball and do easy play out in the offense. I think today we didn't work as a team and then you see that each and every one of us are not able to perform."

The team, quite simply, was in a shambles. The players were fragmented across the pitch, formation unfathomable, obvious weaknesses exposed as England took a battering ram to the ruins of the visiting defence.

For as damning as the scoreline was, there was a stark inevitability about the result. Norway had never quite found their footing under coach Martin Sjgren and, although they could flex their attacking might against lower-ranked nations, there was a persistent issue of team cohesion against stronger nations.

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After the defeat, sections of the Norwegian press lamented the team's lack of preparation against teams in the FIFA top 10, but the problems had remained hidden in plain sight for all to see over the past four years. The defence was a collection of midfielders and attackers who had been repurposed, only getting weaker over Sjgren's tenure, the actual midfield lacked fluency and too often the onus was on Graham Hansen to be the saviour in Ada Hegerberg's absence.

When Norway were knocked out of the 2019 World Cup by England, the team had looked broken as soon as the whistle was blown. The team had booked their spot in the last eight after two hours and a round of spot kicks against Australia in the blistering heat of Nice, France, and by the time the ball began to roll in Le Havre, the players looked mentally and physically spent.

Having been dispatched by England in the 2015 edition of the World Cup, when Lucy Bronze slammed the ball home from outside the box, the players seemed blind to the English defender when she took up a position away from her teammates at an early free kick in France. The move failed to work but when the Lionesses were granted another set piece moments later, Bronze took up the same position, only to be ignored by the entire Norwegian team. Predictably, she scored as vigorously as she had four years prior. The players had not the energy to even move to intercept the defender.

At the Amex stadium in Brighton days ago, Norway could offer even less than they had against the same opposition three years prior. A soft penalty in the 12th minute was the catalyst for the worst night in Norwegian football history.

England had played well, there was no questioning that, but they had been playing a team that didn't move to defend them, didn't track runs or even jump to attempt to win headers. Watching the match wasn't so much viewing women against girls as it was regarding a team of footballers versus training cones, inanimate and malleable.

In the mixed zone, Graham Hansen had spoken about analysing what had gone wrong as part of the team's recovery for the upcoming Austria game. Yet watching the last 80 minutes of the match, it would be hard to find anything that had gone right. There barely looked to be a Plan A let alone B or C for Norway. The shape offered little defensive strength or attacking thrust, players left to their own devices on the pitch as Sjgren patrolled his dugout, refusing to affect the match -- his first substitute did not come until halftime with his team already down 6-0.

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Despite the loss, as stunning as it was, Norway are still very much still in this year's Euro competition -- but they must win their final group game against Austria on Friday if they are to progress to the knockout stages. To punch past Austria, they must return to the site of their English nightmare: Brighton.

The players seemed immediately aware in the aftermath of the fact that they couldn't dwell on the loss with a must-win to prepare for. Although they have already begun their mental preparation, including working with well-respected Norwegian sports psychologist Britt Tajet-Foxell, the very fact that their match against Austria will take place in Brighton could well be disastrous.

Should Norway manage to find a way to mine out their better attacking football against a defensively resolute Austria team that will, no doubt, be licking their lips at the prospect of facing such a flimsy defence, they will be pitted against Germany in the quarterfinals. No good deed and all that.

Win, lose or draw Friday, Sjgren's position has become untenable with several former Norwegian internationals calling for his head, yet the wider question of where the team goes after July remains heavy. The scars left by the defeat to England are ones that may never fully fade.

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One of the greatest mismatches in rock history took place in July 1967 when the Jimi Hendrix Experience embarked on a massive U.S. tour opening for the Monkees and promptly ended eight dayslater, with Hendrix departing the ill-fated trek on July 17, 1967, after playing a mere seven shows.

It was not for a lack of effort or affection on the headliners' part. Micky Dolenz and Peter Tork had both seen Hendrix deliver a star-making performance at the Monterey Pop Festival one month earlier. While Tork later admitted that he "didn't get it," Dolenz was positively enamored and urgedthe Monkees camp to reach out to Hendrix's team about bringing the guitar hero on the road with them.

"I mentioned to our producers at the time we were looking for an opening act for our first big world tour and I said, 'How about these guys?' Because they were very theatrical," Dolenz told UCR in 2021. "Let's face it, the Monkees were a theatrical act. I guess they liked the idea and we liked the idea, and there you go."

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It was aboldmove for the Monkees, the squeaky-clean, made-for-TV pop-rock group whose audience largely comprised teenagegirls and exasperated parents chaperoning them. Hendrix attracted an older, rowdier and decidedly less white-bread crowd with his blistering, psychedelic hard rock, hippie regalia and (literally) pyrotechnic stage antics.The two artistsmixed as well as oil and water.

Speaking of water: "Oh, God, I hate them! Dishwater," Hendrix told theNew Musical Express several months earlier when asked about the Monkees. "I really hate somebody like that to make it so big. You can't knock anybody for making it, but people like the Monkees?"

DespiteHendrix'sopendisdain for the Monkees and the fact that nobody in his camp besides managerMichael Jeffery, knowing a good publicity stunt when he saw one, was enthusiastic about thetour offer the trek commenced on July 8 in Jacksonville, Fla. It went exactly as poorly asany reasonable observer would have expected.

"Jimi would amble out onto the stage, fire up the amps and break into 'Purple Haze,' and the kids in the audience would instantly drown him out with, 'We Want Davy [Jones]!!' God, it was embarrassing," Dolenz wrote in his autobiography,I'm a Believer:My Life of Monkees, Music and Madness."The parents were probably not too crazy about having to sit through a Monkees concert, much less see this Black guy in a psychedelic Day-Glo blouse, playing music from hell, holding his guitar like he was fucking it, then lighting it on fire."

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Hendrix had at least one fan in the audience each night: Michael Nesmith, who used tosneak down to the front of the stage and bask in the Experience's distorted, acid-washed guitar squalls.

"First time I ever saw him was in North Carolina. It was the trio," Nesmith said in a 1986 MTV interview. "These guys came out, their hair was like9 feet across, and it was all backlit so it looked like they were on fire. And Jimi flips the guitar over and starts playing the opening lines to 'Foxey Lady.' I'd never heard anything like that in my life. It brought me to my knees, moved me back3 feet.So every night I'd sneak down to the stage, and I'd sit hidden with all these people screaming, 'We want the Monkees!,' listening to this exalted music that this guy was making."

Nesmith didn't get to listen for long. By the time the tour reached New York for a three-night stand at Forest Hills Tennis Stadium, Hendrix had had enough. "There was a sea of waving pink arms saying, 'We want the Monkees,'" Nesmith recalled. "And he finally flipped everybody the bird and muttered an expletive and walked off. Bless his heart."

After the third New York date and seventh overall, Hendrix asked the Monkees to be released from the tour. To cover up the reason for his departure, music critic Lillian Roxon, who was traveling with the tour, issued a tongue-in-cheek press release claiming the Daughters of the American Revolution had pressured concert promoters to drop Hendrix from the bill, complaining that his music was "too erotic" and "corrupting the morals of America's youth." The undiscerning press reported it as fact, and the lighthearted PR masterstroke became an indispensable, albeit untrue, part of Hendrix's mythology.

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Despitethe chilly receptionfrom the teenybopper crowd, Hendrix's stint opening for the Monkees was ultimately beneficial, helping to raise his profile in the United States just in time for the stateside release of his debut album,Are You Experienced?,the following month. The album became a sensation on underground radio, peaked at No. 5 on the Billboard 200 and sold 5 million copies, turning Hendrix into a superstar. Within a year, theguitar god was headlining packed arenas and stadiums. The Monkees, meanwhile, continued paying tribute to him on their tour by playing a snippet of "Purple Haze" every night.

Hendrix's meteoric rise was inevitable, given his revolutionary guitar playing, but the Monkees still liked toclaima little credit for helping to elevate his U.S. profile."I'm quite sure that Jimi Hendrix would have done very well with or without the Monkees," Dolenz told UCR. "But I'd like to think that maybe it gave him a little bit of a leg up."

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