On Tuesday February 22, representatives of Ottawa's heritage organizations and municipal museums will gather at City Hall for the annual Heritage Day display and reception. This event is will celebrate Ottawa's civic heritage and those who contribute to its well-being either as heritage professionals or as volunteers. The Mayor will deliver the Heritage Day proclamation and those in attendance will be able to view the displays and share some refreshments.

Heritage Ottawa, the City's volunteer organization for advocating for the preservation of our built heritage will be represented at both the reception and the Ottawa Architectural Conservation Awards later in the day.

The following comments were to Ian Lee from an unnamed source:

As a tax payer who supports what the city has done with OSEG, I am very disappointed that a PHD who has a background in economics, would not see the economic benefit of the total re-development of the park. At the end of the day, the city may not have been right in how they awarded it to OSEG, but NO ONE was stepping up with a legitimate financial proposal.

Friends of Lansdowne supporter Gary Sealey provided this account of the rally.

Friends of Lansdowne were numerous and vocal in their support of the Beaverpond rally today avoided by City politicians and corporate spokespersons.

In the presence of elder grandfather Algonquin Chief William Commanda about 150 people sang and raised protest signs as they gathered for a march on the Urbandale showroom at an intensively developed Kanata Lakes suburban development on a graded promontory near the Beaverpond South March Highlands area. Many of those signs carried the slogan "Let's Get it Right", the battle cry of the Friends of Lansdowne.

Paul Renaud, one of the speakers, denounced the City of Ottawa for wasting money on Lansdowne Park instead of providing basic research funds and protection measures for prehistoric sites and crucial habitat of endangered species in the South March Highlands Beaverpond natural area.

I am outraged and appalled by the recent City of Ottawa threat of recovering legal costs from those making the court challenge on Lansdowne Park development. The city's policy is to seek recovery of costs only when the legal challenge is "frivolous and vexatious".

The current legal challenge is anything but. I heard the presentation by the lawyer representing the challengea few weeks ago at the Mayfair theatre. The legal brief is serious, very carefully reasoned, and based, in my view, on a perfectly sensible reading of several key provisions of the Ontario Municipal Act - specifically that the City is obliged to spend taxpayers' money wisely by using competitive tendering, and that the City is obliged to be open and honest in its dealings with the public. For both provisions, the lawyer presented an impressive series of facts which indicate serious violations by the City of Ottawa of the Ontario Municipal Act.