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Welcome to our 2011 Readers Choice Awards Supplement. In this, our third annual edition, we again honour the best businesses and services in the community as voted by our readers.

During the month of May, we asked you to choose your favourite local businesses, and you responded overwhelmingly. We received thousands of votes in over one hundred and fi fty categories. Thanks for taking the time to vote.

Inside you’ll fi nd a complete list of winning businesses - businesses that deliver such spectacular service and outstanding products that they have been chosen as community favourites. Congratulations to all the winners!

Look for the Readers Choice window decals in the winning establishments - it indicates past and present winners, and it’s a sign of excellence.

Readers ’ Ch oice 2011

and th e winner is…

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Mr. Lube’s commitment to providing cus-tomers with fast, convenient, warranty approved service for their vehicles has resulted in a Diamond Award for Best Oil & Lube by the readers of Ottawa This Week Nepean Edition. “We believe that providing customers with the best service possible is critical to our long-term suc-cess,” says Francois Trudel. Trudel and his wife, Kellie, own the Kanata, Barrhaven and Orleans Mr. Lube locations and have been franchisees since 1992. “Custom-ers request and receive the service they want from the comfort of their own vehicle and at a time that is convenient to them, seven days a week. With no ap-pointment necessary, convenient and efficient service sets us apart from our com-petitors.” The company has built itself on this philosophy from the very beginning. Back in 1976, Edmonton-based founder Clifford Giese realized there had to be a quicker, more convenient way to getoil changes and other vehicle maintenance services, rather than dealing with the time and hassle of making an appointment. In so doing, Giese not

only launched a great Canadian com-pany, but also invented an entirely new service category – the quick lube. Thirty-four years later, with over 34 million customers served; Mr. Lube has evolved from Canada’s largest quick lube brand to a complete preventive maintenance service provider. Today, with over 100 locations coast-to-coast, including seven in the Capital Region, and more opening every year, they have more customers and more locations than any other auto-motive maintenance services provider in the country, making it easy to stop by for your next service. Customers visiting any Mr. Lube location can be assured they will receive the same great service with each and every visit. Open seven days a week and until 8pm on weeknights, Mr. Lube is the preferred choice of Ottawa This Week Nepean Edition readers.

Convenient car maintenance from Mr. Lube

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Mort’s Pub has been a landmark in the heart of Bells Corners for the past 14 years as a neighbourhood favourite with friendly service and a great menu!

Mort’s began as Bell’s Subs and Pizza’s, and quickly built a reputation for fresh pizza made with home made dough and fresh ingredients. But with the expansion over a decade ago, Bell’s Subs and Pizza became Big Mort’s Little Pub. Since then they’ve built a faithful clientele who stop by regularly to enjoy the friendly sit down pub atmosphere, and in the summer, the outdoor patio.Martin and Marie, owners of Mort’s would like

to thank the community for voting them as a Readers Choice Platinum award winner 2011. “We treat all our visitors just like friends and thought we do deliver; says Marie, the best way to enjoy our pizza is hot and fresh right out of the oven”.

Whether it’s for our famous pizza, a cold beverage on the patio, or our to try one of our seasonal dishes,” says Mort, “consider this your personal invitation to visit us.”

Mort’s is located at 11 Robertson Road in the heart of Bells Corners. To order for delivery or pick up call 829-1758 or 829-0123.

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Bell’s Subs and PizzaLocally owned and operated

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Centrepointe Theatres is delighted to be voted by readers as Diamond in both Barrhaven This Week and Ottawa This Week Nepean, and Platinum in Ottawa This Week South in ‘Theatre for Arts’. “Our mandate is to host and serve our local performing arts organ-izations. We achieve this by providing professionally managed and volunteer-supported state-of-the-art theatre facilities and all the systems that go with them. Our clients can then focus on what they really want to: realizing their artistic objectives and giving their loyal audiences the theatre experience they truly intend. We regard ourselves as the ‘hub’ for the performing arts in Ottawa West” – Artistic Pro-ducer Charles McFarland. Now twenty-three years of age Centrepointe Theatre has just produced its fi rst ‘offspring’ in the form of a new Studio Theatre and Production Centre. The City of Ottawa’s Theatres Unit

also has a mandate to achieve something else: to at-tract and develop audiences from across the City with innovative and stimulating programming drawn by bringing Canadian and international professional art-ists to our stages. Becoming a Front+Centre member gets you fi rst crack at purchasing tickets for some of the fall 2011 and winter 2012 line-up of star attrac-tions (sneak peek: acts like Celtic Thunder, Classic Al-bums Live and Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein – The Musical ) with discount pricing before the shows go on sale to the general public in September. Check it out at centrepointetheatre.com!

Centrepointe Theatres Win Readers Hearts

The creamalways risesto the top!

Congratulations to allCongratulations to allOttawa This Week - Nepean Ottawa This Week - Nepean

Readers’ ChoiceReaders’ ChoiceAward Winners.Award Winners.

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Th e 2011 Readers ’ Ch oice Winners are …

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Accessible Restaurant for the Disabled Chances R Kelsey’s on Merivale Acupuncture Active Health Institute All-Around Restaurant Rockwells La Porto a Casa Kelsey’s on MerivaleAttorney/Law Offi ce Bell Baker, Lisgar Street, Ottawa Bakery Boko Frank’s Bakery and Catering Rideau BakeryBank/Trust Company RBC - Nepean Alterna at Merivale and ViewmountBicycle Shop Fresh Air Experience Bingo Hall Slack Road Book Store Chapters - Pinecrest Collected Works on Wellington Bowling Alley Merivale Bowling Centre Brakes Midas - Bells Corners Breakfast Cora’s Delicious Steakhouse - Sonny’s Bells CornersBuffet MacIntosh (Morrsiburg) Cards, Stationary and Gifts Hallmark - Bayshore Cellular Phone Fido Rogers Chicken Wings Quinns Local Heroes - Cock’n Bull Pub & Eatery Bells CornersChinese Restaurant Golden Palace on Carling Chiropractor Dr. Vincelli, Active Health Back in Balance on Dr. Watson Institute RichmondChocolatery Louise’s Belgian Chocolates Laura SecordComputer Servicing Dr. Desktop Barrhaven Computers Computer Store PC Cyber Contractor Blundell Contracting Cup of Coffee Morala’s in the Glebe Dance Studio Greta Leeming Dance Studio Dentist Barrhaven Dental Dollar Store Dollarama - Carlingwood Drug Store Pharma Plus on Carling Rexall - Bells Corners Glebe ApothecaryDry Cleaner Browns Cleaners Elegant Cleaners, Robertson Road Electronics Audiotronic Future Shop Employment Agency ExcelHR Esthetician Spahara - Ado Family Restaurant Shoeless Joe’s Kristy’sFast Food Subway McDonald’s Restaurants Financial Planning Independent Planning Group Inc. Fine Dining Play Fiamma Fish & Chips Lapointes Fish Market O’Connors Fitness Centre Active Health Institute Fitness Club Premier Fitness in Executive Fitness Leaders GoodLife, Hazeldean Road, Carlingwood Mall KanataFlooring Store Home Depot Floral Shop Anika’s Arts & Flowers Harmony Floral Formal Wear Harry Rosen, Rideau Centre. Fresh Fruit & Veggies Freshco Farm Boy on Woodroffe Il Negozio NicastroFries TV’s Fries - Brick - Local Heroes Hunt Club Parking LotFuneral Home Kelly’s Furniture Store Leons Gardening Store Home Depot Gas Station Shell - Bells Corners Shell - Carling at Woodroffe Gift Baskets Edible Fruit Arrangements Golf Course Eagle Creek Loch Marsh Grocery Store Metro on Merivale Loblaws Supermarkets Hair Salon/Barber Shop Spahara Spahara Imperial Barber in the GlebeHamburger Dick’s D’Arcy McGee’sHardware Store Rona Home Depot Home Hardware in the GlebeHealth Food Rainbow Natural Foods Glebe Apothecary Heating/Air Conditioning Holmes Hot Dogs Dick’s Hot Tub Spa Purewater Hotel / Motel Best Western Barons Chateau Laurier Ice Cream Piccolo Grande Real Gelato Baskin Robbins, Richmond Road, NepeanIce Skating Nepean Sportsplex

Indian Cuisine Haveli Indian Restaurant Ceylonta - Bells CornersInsurance Company Baizana Insurance Brokers Aviva Co-operatorsInterior Design CPI Interiors Italian Restaurant La Porto a Casa Jeweller Davidson’s Jewellers Maison D’or, Bob Thompsons Lingerie La Vie en Rose Live Entertainment Barrymore’s Local Shopping Centre Bayshore Shopping Centre Lunch Chances R la Cuisine Pacifi c Rim Manicure & Pedicure Spahara Martial Arts Club Tae E. Lee Taekwondo - Ottawa Academy of Martial Arts Carling Ave.Massage Therapist Hands on Health Kho Do, RMT Mechanic Shop McCloskey’s Auto Tech Pierre’s Auto 16 Service CentreMexican Milagro on Richmond Ahora Agave GrillMini Putt Colonade Mini Golf Gardens Movie Rental Blockkbuster Rogers @ College Square Muffi ns Country Style Naturopath Active Health Institute, Glebe Apothecary, Jlosee Fortin Dr. ProulxNew Car Dealership Myers Nursery Schools Bells Corners Cooperative Nursery school Oil & Lube Mr Lube Bells Corners Organic Shop Rainbow Natural Foods Paint & Decorating Home Depot Party Supplies Party Mart - Merivale Personal Trainer Active Health Institute, Charmaine Hall Jason HaugPharmacist Glebe Apothecary, Paul Davies Physiotherapist Active Health Institute, Scott Hamlin Pizza Georgies Pizza - Carling Mort’s Pub, Robertson Gabriel’s Road, NepeanPub Royal Oak Restaurant D’Arcy McGee’sRibs Montana’s CookhouseSalad Bar Scores Grillman’sSeafood Lapointes Fish Market Shoe Repair Moneysworth & Best Shoes Glebe Trotters Snow Removal Appleseed Sporting Goods Barrhaven Source for Sport Chek - Merivale Mall Sports Sports Bar Boston Pizza on Carling Local Heroes - Kelsey’s on Merivale Bells CornersSteak and Grill Delicious Steak House - Bells Corners Summer Sports/Winter Sports Kunstadt Sports Sushi La Cuisine Pacifi c Rim MHK Sushi Tailor/Seamstress Stitch It - Carling wood Mall Taxi Service DJ’s Taxi Thai Pho Thi Noodle Soup Restaurant Theatre for Arts Centrepointe Theatre Transmission Ottawa Transmission Travel Agency Marlin Wedding Photographer Shaughnessy Photography Weight Loss Clinic Dr Bernstein Window Coverings Shoppers Drapes and Blinds Women’s Clothing & Accessories Reitmans

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The staff at Scores Restaurant would like to thank the Nepean community for their support & being nominated for the Readers’ Choice award.

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We are honored to have received the Diamond Award, voted by the Nepean readers, two years in a row. We thank your clients for taking the time to vote. Receiving this award is great achievement and endorsement of our efforts in growing the clinic in the past 4 years. Diana Lihou, owner and Registered Massage Therapist, opened the clinic April of 2007 and it has grown to house four more Registered Massage Therapist; Lindsay Gillespie, Valerie Lafranchise, Lucie Larue, and Alana Grace Nahdee. All therapist are trained in Swedish deep tissue massage & hydrotherapy, but have gone on to continue there training to offer more services like, Pregnancy and infant massage, Hot stone massage, Manual Lymph Drainage and Myofascial release. We have worked to develop a professional

clinic, with a personable relaxed atmosphere. From the time you book your appointment, walk in the door, have your treatment and say goodbye. You receive excellent one on one service with your Therapist. This is why we stand out and have the best client retention. Our largest compliment and biggest source of new clients is referrals. When our clients pass our information to a friend or family member we are pleased to be able to help another person. If you or someone you know needs Mas-sage Therapy to help with muscle aches and ten-sion, improve muscle and joint mobility, improve circulation and create relaxation, give us call or log on to our online booking through our site today.

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Thank you Nepean readers for voting us the Readers’ Choice Diamond Award for Best Massage Therapist!

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CPI Interiors was voted #1 by readers for the prestigious Diamond Award in the category for Interior Design. Thank you for your support!

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One of the nicest ways to relieve the stress of daily living is to come home, change into your bathing suit (optional) and head out the back door to your own heated year-round hot tub.

”When you go out, just turn on the jets and enjoy,” says Brady Bryson, pool expert and owner of Brady’s Pool & Spa Care, 133 Robertson Road.

”I’ve been in the pool business right from university,” says Mr. Bryson. ”I’ve worked for some very good pool companies locally after graduation and then for two manufacturers. I opened my own business in Bells Corners in 1994.”

Great service is what attracts repeat customers to his business. ”We open and close pools, provide regular maintenance, general service and we sell and service.

our own line of Canadian-made Hydropool Spas and Swim Spas.”

They are also a retail outlet for pool chemicals and water testing products, and sell and service spas throughout the Ottawa Valley.

The growing market in pools and spas is outdoor year-round hot tubs, he says. ”Virtually all my customers use them year-round; that’s what they’re sold for. The number one reason people buy spas is for family relaxation, then comes hydrotherapy and entertain-ment.”

They will be open Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., Saturdays 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., and Sundays 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. For more information, call them at 820-7556, or e-mail hottubs@bradyspool.com.

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Our Thanks to the Readers!

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133 Robertson Road, Bells Corners613-820-7556 • www.bradyspool.com