September 29. Ron Moores's Back 40 Band hosts the Back 40 Stage at Rasputin's with special guest
“The Backwoodsmen” at Rasputin's, 696 Bronson Avenue, Ottawa.  7:30 p.m. Admission: $5.00 The cover charge proceeds are split between the featured band/artist and the CKCU-FM 93.1 Funding Drive). Every last Thursday of the month (except in July, August and December) Ron Moores and the Back 40 Band host the Back 40 Stage at Rasputins.  The musicians of Back 40 come from both Quebec and Ontario.  Ron Moores resides in Cantley.  He regularly introduces at the Black Sheep Inn in Wakefield.  The Band broadcasts on CKCU-FM  Community Radio (93.1) at noon on Saturdays.  For information call Rasputins at (613) 230-5102 or email dean.verger@rasputins.ca, or call Ron Moores at (819) 827-0068, or email ron.moores@back40.ca

November 24. Les Culturiades 2005.
A call for submissions has gone out from the Fondation pour les arts, les letters et la culture en Outaouais in connection with this annual event. Prizes for excellence in artistic and cultural work will be awarded on the abovementioned date.  Artists or organizations wishing to obtain an entry form may consult the website of the Conseil régional de la culture en Outaouais at www.crco.org or appear in person at this body’s office at 432, boulevard Alexandre-Taché, Gatineau.

The National Capital Commission is seeking a tenant for the O’Brien house at Meech Lake, which it is in the process of renovating.  The property was specially designed, in the thirties, for the railway and lumber magnate Ambrose O’Brien, a co-founder of the National Hockey Association (later the NHL).   The terms of the call for tenders exclude overnight accommodation, such as a hotel might offer, and require the premises to be open to the public for “event days”, to be held up to twenty times a year.