#32 - Ottawhat? a Year

This week on Ottawhat?, the city herself was our guest. We recap our favourite news stories of the year, reminisce about some of our past guests, and discuss our best New Years' celebrations in Ottawa.

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Links:
Ottawa Food Bank #fillplates

Beer: Great Lakes Brewery - Winter Ale

#31: Samantha Ingram (Ottawa Food Bank)

Samantha Ingram, Communications Coordinator at the Ottawa Food Bank, met with us this week to share some uplifting facts about the great work that the Food Bank and their volunteers do for our city's less fortunate. We also learned about ways you can help out other than volunteering your time or participating in food drives, at ottawafoodbank.ca. They are running an initiative called #fillplates right now to raise awareness for their excellent programs.

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Links:
http://ottawafoodbank.ca
@samantha_ingram
@OttawaFoodBank

#30: Cait O'Malley

Cait O'Malley is an event planner and communications specialist working at the University of Ottawa. She shared her stories about musical road-trips and making her own jelly.

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Links:
Sons of Pluto "Concert" this Friday at Atomic Rooster

#29: Lisa Johnston

Lisa Johnston is an actor, a cook training to be a chef, and a United Empire Loyalist descendant. We chatted about some of her training and what it means to be a loyalist descendant.

Lisa is playing a role in the ongoing Sock 'n' Buskin Theatre Company production of The Tempest. She gave us a brief synopsis of the play and discussed some of the challenges of performing in Dunton Tower at Carleton University.

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Links:
Wind & Sail Dark Ale
Sock 'n' Buskin Presents: The Tempest