City News - Ward 1

City Hall is on the move! Share your priorities for your chance to win an iPad!

The City of Oshawa is preparing the 2020 City budget and wants to hear from you!

Residents and property owners can share their priorities on key program and service areas accordingly:

• Face-to-face with their members of Council at a ward town hall;
• Online on Connect Oshawa; or,
• On paper at Service Oshawa, located at 50 Centre St. S.

As a thank you, each Oshawa resident or property owner aged 18+ that participates...
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Oshawa Fire Services celebrated the first graduates of the 2019 Junior Firefighter Summer Camp at a graduation ceremony held at Fire Hall No. 5 in Oshawa on July 12.

During the ceremony, campers received a graduation certificate as acknowledgement of their fire safety knowledge. Campers also displayed their new skills developed during the week including the use of a fire extinguisher, fire hose, planning escape routes, emergency preparedness and internet safety.

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Oshawa residents, businesses and community members are invited to share their feedback on Phase 2 of the King Street East Streetscape project. The second phase of the project will focus on the widening of the sidewalk on the north side of King Street East between Simcoe Street North and Ontario Street. The widening will allow for additional space for pedestrians, landscaping, outdoor patios/cafes, streetscape amenities and businesses.

Residents, businesses and community members...
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OSHAWA – Members of Oshawa City Council and representatives from the City’s Corporate Leadership Team were recently on hand to celebrate the official groundbreaking of Trent University Durham GTA’s expansion project.

The City’s donation of 1.8 acres of land to Trent University Durham GTA (first announced in 2017) will enable the University to proceed with expansion plans for its Durham campus located at 55 Thornton Road South in Oshawa.

The expansion will...
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Members of Oshawa City Council, City representatives and community partners were given an inside look at a live fire investigation training exercise this week as part of a first-of-its-kind training partnership between Oshawa Fire Services (O.F.S.) and the Office of the Fire Marshal and Emergency Management (O.F.M.E.M.)

Fire investigators constructed a live fire investigation training site near Wilson and Conlin roads in Oshawa, where a series of live fire exercises were conducted...
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