Maz Karimjee - Realtor Contact me today!
613-799-7253
mazkar@royallepage.ca
February 5, 2026 • Volume 39, No. 20
mazkarimjee.ca
Next edition February 19
L’édition de cette semaine à l’intérieur...
Fête frissons celebration set for Feb. 9 By Fred Sherwin The Orléans Star
This is just one of the houses on Taffy Lane that attracts hundreds of Christmas display enthusiasts to the small street every year. See story on page 15. FRED SHERWIN PHOTO
Orléans resident are invited to celebrate winter’s halfway point at La Féte Frissons taking place this Sunday, Feb. 9 at the Shenkman Arts Centre, and best of all – it’s absolutely free. The single-day festival will include activities for whole family, including live entertainment, workshops, demonstrations and displays. The day will kick off at 11 a.m. with an Indigenous pow wow dance in the upper lobby. The Junkyard Symphony is scheduled to do three performances in the music studio next to the box office at 11:30 a.m., 12:45 and 3 p.m. If you’re a fan of the spoken word, students
with the Ottawa School of Theatre will be doing storytelling at 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. in the lower lobby. There will also be an ongoing Capoeira dance workshop lead by Chrys Courchene in the dance studio from 1 to 3 p.m. Ongoing activities from noon to 3 p.m. include a leather keychain activity with staff from the Cumberland Village Museum in the lower library, a watercolour and ink workshop led by Ottawa School of Art instructor Maryse Fillion in the upper lobby, and an origami workshop also in the upper lobby. There will also be face-painting for the kids from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. by Lynne Art, CONTINUED ON PAGE 2
Next information session on Monday, Feb. 16 at 3, 5 and 7 p.m. at Caravela Restaurante, 3712 Innes Rd. next to Food Basics. Join Caravela owner Fernando Diniz to learn more about the opportunity to visit his native island of Terceira in the Azores where he will act as your tour guide and you will stay in his family home.
To register email fernando@accuratepoint.ca or call 613-868-1237
February 5, 2026 • Volume 39, No. 20 • 1