Kaboom! Rideau River ice blasting this weekend

In a sure sign that spring should — fingers crossed — be right around the corner, the annual ice blasting to prevent freshet flooding gets underway Saturday.
Workers have already cut “keys” in the ice in which to place explosives, city hall reports.
The actual explosions start at about 9 a.m. Saturday and continues all day from Rideau Falls near the confluence with the Ottawa River then south to the Minto Bridge before an “amphibious excavator” takes over to b