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North & Navy, one of Ottawa’s top restaurants, closed its doors to regular business on Thursday night in order to hold its inaugural dinner for the Parkdale Food Centre (PFC).

It’s rare for an attendee to leave a fundraising gala with more money in their pocket than when they arrived but, for a lucky few, that was the case at last night’s 36th Gold Plate Dinner.

The Ottawa Art Gallery was pretty as a picture as hundreds came out last week to support its signature event, Give to Get Art Auction.

Some 300 agents attended Royal LePage Team Realty’s Denim Day breakfast and fundraising auction held this morning at the Brookstreet Hotel.

You know it’s going to be a memorable night when there’s a dancing unicorn at the preshow mixer for the 5th Annual Capital Music Awards, held Thursday night at the Bronson Centre.

If only breakfast tables were made big enough to seat a family of 360. There were at least that many friends and supporters of BGC Ottawa (formerly Boys and Girls Club of Ottawa) at the Morning Social networking event and fundraiser held at its Taggart Parkes Family Clubhouse on Thursday.

There is no top secret recipe behind the success of Taste for Hope. All that's required is a handful of ingredients: benevolent chefs, generous sponsors, community-minded business leaders and hungry foodies working together toward the shared goal of reducing chronic homelessness.

On Wednesday, the Lawyers for Kids Charity Hockey Tournament held at the Richcraft Sensplex in Gloucester raised $35,200 in support of the YMCA of the National Capital Region.

We know at this point we’re not going to spoil anything for you by jumping right to the end to tell you that author John Vaillant won the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing at last night’s Politics and the Pen.

The number of kids arriving to school hungry in Ottawa each day has risen by nearly 30 percent, the president and CEO of Ottawa Network for Education (ONFE) told some 250 attendees of the Spark Soirée held at Infinity Convention Centre on Friday.