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Posted Friday, October 11, 2019

Members of Oshawa City Council were joined by Don Lovisa, (President of Durham College), Greg Murphy (Dean, School of Media Art and Design), Debbie Mckee Demcyzk (Dean, Office of Research Services, Innovation and Entrepreneurship), Vibha Tyagi (Manager Applied Research Partnerships, Office of Research Services), Linda Cheng (Faculty – Contemporary Web Design & Interactive Media Design and Research Coordinator – ORSIE for the School of Media, Art & Design), City staff as well as the Durham College students who created the technology for the Augmented Reality technology at the Oshawa Valley Botanical Gardens.

TeachingCity Oshawa is proud to announce the launch of new Augmented Reality (AR) technology to encourage the community to explore and learn about the Oshawa Valley Botanical Gardens.

The community can now use their smartphone cameras, to scan Quick Response (QR) codes placed on signage throughout the park to learn about the park, points of interest and utilize a navigation guide between landmarks.

Students researched, designed and created the AR platform as part of a TeachingCity...
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Posted Thursday, October 10, 2019

“Our Town Oshawa” makes its broadcast debut on WNED-TV October 25 at 10 p.m., where it will be available to viewers across Southern Ontario and Western New York.

“Our Town Oshawa” is the 19th episode in the “Our Town” series in which community videographers using their own video cameras tackle the question: “What is special about our community?”

The result is a one-hour video scrapbook of the people, places and happenings of Oshawa...
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Posted Wednesday, October 09, 2019

The Oshawa Environmental Advisory Committee (OEAC) is helping to expand Oshawa’s tree canopy by providing free trees and shrubs to Oshawa residents and property owners.

Residents and property owners are invited to register online by Monday, October 21 to receive a free tree and/or shrub (up to three per household, limited quantity available). Three species are available for selection:

  1. Basswood Tree (talia americana), a large deciduous tree with easily worked wood and nutrient-rich...

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Posted Monday, October 07, 2019

Northern Dancer Cemetery gates

Members of Oshawa City Council and representatives from Heritage Oshawa and Ontario Tech University celebrated the completed restoration of the Northern Dancer and Trillium horse cemeteries on October 4.

The event took place at the former Windfields Farm property – now Ontario Tech University’s Office of Campus Infrastructure and Sustainability. Windfields Farm was the breeding ground of an international calibre of thoroughbred horses, which dominated Canadian and American...
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Posted Monday, October 07, 2019

Proposed street renaming map of downtown Oshawa

Have your say on the proposed renaming of a portion of Athol Street to Memorial Cup Drive

Oshawa City Council has given the green light for City staff to obtain public input on the potential renaming of the portion of Athol Street between Centre Street South and Ritson Road South to Memorial Cup Drive.

Community members are asked to share their feedback on the proposed change online on Connect Oshawa or on paper at Service Oshawa (50 Centre St. S.).

Feedback will be received until...
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