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Greely Legion Branch 627 donates more than $10,000 to community groups Kelly Kent

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The Greely branch of the Royal Canadian Legion spread the wealth of its successful 2015 poppy campaign recently to eight local organizations, who will all benefit from the donation.

On Monday, Jan. 18, the Greely Legion distributed more than $10,000 raised through their 2015 poppy campaign in November to the organizations, present-

ing the cheques at their regular evening meeting.

“We feel it is important to give this money back to the community,” said Linda Wyman, president of the Greely Legion.

Donations of $2,000 went to the Osgoode Care Centre, the Perley & Rideau Veterans Health Centre and the Winchester & District Memorial Hospital.

The Legion also granted donations of $1,000 to Rural Ottawa South Support Services (ROSSS), the

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To the Eastern Ottawa Resource Centre, the Legion donated a cheque for $750, and $500 to the Phoenix Network.

According to the Royal Canadian Legion website, the mission of the poppy campaign, which was started in Canada in 1922, is to “serve veterans and their dependants, to promote Remembrance and to act in the service of Canada and its communities.”

Wyman said that each of the eight organizations chosen as recipients of funds raised through the latest poppy campaign do their part to serve local veterans and their families and that the Legion was pleased to be able to contribute to their success.

More information on the Legion’s poppy campaign can be found at the Greely Legion website at www. greelylegion.ca.

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New Manotick News reporter excited to learn more about Manotick and area for the Manotick News is an interesting one for me.

Though I’m not overly familiar with the community yet, I’ve already been able to draw similarities between this new coverage area and ones I have experience with already. My first impression of Manotick is one of a vibrant, active community that values heritage and legacy. I hope to be able to capture that spirit in the pages of our newspaper.

Of course, the Manotick News covers more than just Manotick, including the areas of Osgoode, Greely, Edwards, Metcalfe, Kars, Vernon, Kenmore and North Gower. I’m looking forward to getting to know these communities as well.

My goal as the Manotick News reporter is to bring residents of all local areas the

Kelly Kent

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Hello Manotick and beyond. Please allow me to introduce myself as the new reporter for the Manotick News. My name is Kelly Kent, and I’m excited to be joining Metroland Media’s Ottawa office of community newspapers and starting a new chapter of my career.

I come to Ottawa from Metroland’s Smiths Falls office, where I have been a reporter for the better part of the last three years.

I started with the AlmonteCarleton Place Canadian Gazette in 2013 after graduating from the journalism program at Algonquin College.

I stayed there for my yearlong contract, learning the ropes as the office’s cub re-

Kelly Kent porter.

Since then, I spent time reporting for the Kemptville Advance before jumping back to the Canadian Gazette, where I’ve been since late 2014.

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news that matters to them. I hope to establish open lines of communication with all community groups, businesses, organizations and key players during my time here, and hope to meet many of you at community events in the near future.

If you have anything you’d like to share with our newspaper that you think would be interesting to your fellow neighbours, or even if you just want to say hello, please don’t hesitate to call my new office number at 613-221-6175 or email kkent@metroland.com at any time.

Thank you in advance for welcoming me into your communities, as I’m sure you will.

I’m looking forward to getting to know many of you as I settle into this new position.

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Bobby Stagg Combo band to rock Manotick United Church Feb. 6 Kelly Kent

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Back by popular demand, Bobby Stagg will be hitting the stage at the Manotick United Church on Saturday, Feb. 6 for the first local concert of 2016.

Stagg, who captured the attention of concert goers when he played keyboards at the Keith Glass show last year, will return to the church as part of his band, the Bobby Stagg Combo. The four piece group promises an evening of stellar music with a dash of humour thrown in, said concert organizer Terry McGovern.

“People who attended the Keith Glass show last year really expressed interest in seeing him (Stagg) again, on his own,” McGovern said.

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“He’s a really high level musician,” said McGovern of Stagg. “We’re lucky to have him visiting us in Manotick.” For the show, Stagg will be joined by his band members: RD Harris on drums, Stuart Patterson on bass and Barb Harris on guest vocals. McGovern said it’s sure to be an entertaining night, suitable for the whole family.

Doors to the event open at 6:30 p.m. on Feb. 6, with the concert starting promptly at 7:30 p.m.

The Bobby Stagg Combo will play two 45-minute sets, with an intermission in between. Free refreshments, such as punch and water, will be available during intermission. Adult guests of the event will have access to a cash bar as well.

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$30 each, with a discounted family pack (two adult tickets and two children under 14 years of age) available for $80.

To reserve seats, tickets can be purchased in advance at Manotick Office Pro and the Manotick United Church, or by contacting McGovern at mcgovet@rogers.com.

As always, the Bobby Stagg Combo concert at the Manotick United Church will benefit the church’s outreach program as well as a local charity; this time, proceeds will be donated to the Aphasia Centre of Ottawa.

“This is going to be a great show,” McGovern said. “It’ll be entertaining for sure.”

On the horizon, McGovern said he has more great performances lined up. In late June, The Claytones will be making an appearance for their own show. McGovern said to stayed tuned for more details on the rest of 2016’s performances.

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NCC rescinds approval for Supreme Court site of communism memorial Jennifer McIntosh

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The National Capital Commission has rescinded their approval of the planned site for the controversial memorial for victims of communism.

The NCC’s board of directors rescinded the approval during their board meeting on Jan. 20 in favour of public consultation on a relocation to the Garden of Provinces and Territories – further west on Wellington Street than the original planned location.

The planned memorial was controversial because of its placement on land to the south west of the Supreme Court of Canada on Wellington Street. There were also concerns about its size and scale.

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The federal government will seek NCC approval to move the site of the proposed Memorial to the Victims of Communism from the lawn of the Supreme Court to the nearby Garden of the Provinces, seen here.

Mark Kristmanson, the board’s chief executive officer

called the project difficult and divisive.

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Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly has also spoken publicly against the memorial’s size and planned location on Wellington Street.

In November, Joly called the project a priority for her department.

Half of the funding for the memorial will come from the federal government, which will cap its funding at $1.5 million. The federal funds will be matched by the group Tribute to Liberty, which is leading the project.

Last month the Department announced the memorial will be moving.

Decontamination of the 5,000 square meter original site was supposed to begin in November. It was supposed to mark the beginning of the decontamination of the site, but was halted pending design approval.

Board member Michael Pankiw said he would like to see it cleaned up.

“I have to speak against this motion because of the number of contaminated sites in the capital,” he said. “There were specific questions about the decontamination in June.”

Stephen Willis, executive director of capital planning for the NCC, said the site does not need to be remediated if it remains parkland.

While a future Federal Court of Canada headquarters building is on the horizon, Willis said decontamination on the site can wait until planning for the new building starts.

Canadian Heritage will have to submit a land use proposal for the memorial to the board in April.

Notice of Completion of Transit Project Assessment Process Trillium Line Extension The City of Ottawa has completed an Environmental Project Report in accordance with Ontario Regulation 231/08 for the Trillium Line Extension Planning and Environmental Assessment study.

The Project The City of Ottawa has developed a plan to extend and expand the City’s existing diesel-powered O-Train Trillium Line service from Greenboro Station to Bowesville Road and to the Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport.

The plan includes options to service the growing communities of Riverside South and Leitrim, the Airport and adjacent lands.

The plan also incorporates new stations on the existing line at Gladstone Avenue and Walkley Road and a relocated station at Confederation Heights.

Impacts to private property are anticipated to be limited to the areas adjacent to the proposed Lester Road and Leitrim Road grade separations.

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Mayor Jim Watson, centre, looks over the design of the future Tremblay LRT station on Jan. 13 during a press conference at the Via Rail station on Tremblay Road. He was joined

by Ottawa South MPP John Fraser, left, Ottawa West-Nepean MP Anita Vandenbeld, Yves Desjardins-Siciliano, president of Via Rail Canada, and Nepean MP Chandra Arya.

Tremblay LRT station to serve as important connector: officials Erin McCracken

erin.mccracken@metroland.com

The future Tremblay light-rail transit station is taking shape and once open, passengers arriving at the nearby Via Rail station will be able to hop on LRT and arrive downtown within minutes, officials said.

The LRT station will function as “an intermodal link” between Via’s intercity rail service and the city’s light-rapid transit system, Yves Desjardins-Siciliano, president and chief executive of Via Rail Canada, said during a press conference at the Tremblay Road Via station on Jan. 13.

The Tremblay LRT connection “will bring Canadians to the nation’s parliament within seven minutes,” he said. “So it’s a great day for Via Rail and it’s a great day for Canada.”

Tremblay station, where workers could recently be seen pouring concrete, will be one of 13 “world-class” LRT stations on the Confederation Line, Mayor Jim Watson said following a tour of the Tremblay construction site, where he was joined by project officials and politicians from all three government levels.

“And I’m pleased to confirm that all 13 of these stations will be under construction before the end of this year,” he said. “These stations will greatly improve the customer experience for our transit users.”

Assembly of the LRT trains is also now underway.

“In fact, we’ll start testing some of these world-class LRT vehicles before the end of 2016,” the mayor said. “That’s right, 2016 will be the year you will start seeing Confederation Line trains running and being tested right here in the nation’s capital.”

Almost 70 per cent of the city’s population will live within a five-kilometre trip to a lightrail station, said Watson, adding that LRT will “fundamentally transform Ottawa for generations to come.”

Construction of the first phase of the Con-

federation Line, which is scheduled to open in 2018, is “on time and on budget,” and once open “will improve commute times through and from the downtown core,” said Watson.

Excavation of the downtown Lyon station cavern is complete, and Parliament and Rideau stations are almost 70 per cent excavated.

“I’m pleased to announce today that the LRT tunnel will be fully excavated by this summer,” he said.

As well, more than 3.5 kilometres of track have been laid, much of it near the Belfast maintenance facility, where the light-rail trains will be parked at night, Watson said, with more large segments of track to be laid in the months ahead.

Canada’s federal infrastructure and communities minister said during the event that Ottawa’s future LRT service “will be one of the most advanced and innovative transit systems in North America.”

Public transit is not just about moving people from A to B. “It’s about building strong, sustainable communities,” Amarjeet Sohi said.

The federal government has an “ambitious agenda” to “build the kind of communities that we all desire to live in,” and over the next two years infrastructure funding will be doubled to $20 billion, he said.

Over the next decade, the federal government will invest an additional $60 billion, shared between public transit and social and green infrastructure, to boost community “resiliency.”

Ottawa South MPP John Fraser, who was also in attendence, said the Tremblay station is a milestone in the construction of the LRT line, which “is creating thousands of jobs in this community, which has a significant impact on our economy.”

Watson said over the course of the build-out for phase one of LRT, 20,000 person years of employment will be created – with even more coming during the larger second phase of lightrail construction.

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f you’re reading this then you’re most likely a believer in print newspapers.

It’s an admirable trait in these webfocused and fragile economic times, when newspapers are grasping for a toehold to survive staggering losses in subscribers, readers and revenue as the world jumps ship to the Internet.

Journalists across the country watched as news broke on Twitter on Jan. 19 that 90 journalists at Sun papers in Calgary, Edmonton and Vancouver, including 12 at the Ottawa Sun, had been axed from the Postmedia newspaper chain, the latest round of deep job cuts in an industry already reeling from recent eliminations at the CBC and CTV. Postmedia chief executive Paul Godfrey explained the downsizing in a staff memo: “As you know, we have announced a cost cutting program aimed at finding at least $80 million in savings before the end of fiscal 2017.

“That significant of an initiative requires looking at everything in a new way and considering approaches we have never taken – truly nothing is off the table. We know that we can’t make meaningful headway against our challenges without

great effort.”

And, most obviously, not without extraordinary loss – people-wise.

A dozen crucial voices gone in a blink from the Ottawa reporting landscape, taking their perspectives and encyclopedic knowledge of their beats with them. No longer digging up the stories our dwindling numbers strive to tell on multiple platforms. Godfrey said in each of those markets, one editor will oversee two newspaper brands, that most newsroom resources will be shared and ... “Stories covered will be adapted by platform at a rewrite desk dedicated to ensuring that the right voice and content makes it to the right brand and platform.”

The advent of rewrite desks and the silencing of 90 journalists is a tremendous blow, and not only to remaining journalists and sources.

Ultimately, the readers lose out. And the trend – whether in axe form or buyouts – will continue.

So thank you, dear reader, for believing in newspapers, for not just skimming the headlines, and more importantly, for not skipping them altogether. Those of us still working our beats are glad you do.

Living in a city we can easily live with

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eople have been having a rollicking good time in the local media fighting over whether Ottawa is as great a city as it should be.

I particularly enjoyed Paul Wells’s devastating take in Maclean’s (www.macleans.ca/news/canada/ world-class-whine-why-ottawashaters-are-wrong/).

If you have lived in Ottawa for a while, you know it all by heart.

But you never get tired of it. It’s an essential feature of life in the nation’s capital.

The main arguments should be familiar by now. Ottawa lacks world-class this and world-class that.

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anywhere near the centre of town.

That would be true of Vancouver too, often cited as a great city.

Is it a great city if you can’t afford to live in it? Is it a great city if the streets and bridges leading downtown are clogged?

Looked at it this way, Ottawa may well be a greater city than Vancouver.

To look at it from another perspective, a visitor might deplore the spread of ugly condo developments in downtown Toronto and deem it unworthy of a great city.

And of course we love it when we hear people trash Toronto.

Yet those unsightly condo developments enable people of less than huge incomes to live downtown and support stores, restaurants and bars. That can’t be a bad thing, maybe a great thing, although of no visible impact to someone from out of town.

(Another thing that makes Toronto great: competing daily newspapers.)

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Predictable as the debate is, it’s useful to have it from time to time (as we do). It never hurts to discuss what makes a city great, what a city lacks and doesn’t lack.

It doesn’t hurt to appreciate what we have and identify what we need.

And it helps to pass the time while we wait for LeBreton Flats.

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ather said he had no recollection of how the red bricks came to us on the farm in Northcote.

They were always there.

And yes, they served just about the same purpose as they did since he was a little boy.

He said they could probably have come from a building that was being built many years ago, such as the big red brick house beside Briscoe’s General Store, where the family lived for generations.

“If there were bricks laying around, and not being used, you could have them, I guess,” he said. And no, he doubted any money changed hands.

I accepted that explanation of how red bricks got to us when there wasn’t a building on our entire farm

MARY COOK Mary Cook’s Memories home from the Northcote School.

And if there wasn’t something cooking in the oven of the Findlay Oval, it wasn’t unusual to see a couple bricks heating up inside.

If we were still wearing our stockings, there was no need to wrap the bricks in a heavy towel. We just put our stockinged feet right on the hot bricks and got immediate warmth.

Of course, we never went anywhere in the cutter or on the sleigh without hot

that wasn’t made of logs or boards.

But they were certainly put to good use by our family.

They were mostly used in the wintertime.

Always a couple sat on the reservoir at the back of the stove, as Mother said “just in case”. The “just in case” meant we needed a quick warm up for freezing feet on a bitterly cold day after being outside playing in the snow, or after our three and a half mile walk

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Hot bricks warmed our beds at night. How I loved to crawl between the feather ticking that covered us, and the feathered mattress, and know that the bricks had warmed the bed first!

There was one brick that never touched the floor.

This one was scrubbed clean and sat on the bake table and was wrapped in cheesecloth. It was used to hold down anything we ate that needed to be “pressed” as Mother called it.

And you better not touch it without washing your hands first, either.

And then there were the bricks that served as doorstops. The ones in the shed and the back summer kitchen were minus their

corners from being kicked into place over decades.

But the two bricks that caught my fancy the most was the one that sat at the back door in the kitchen, and the one at the door in the parlour.

Both of them were door stops, but because they were the first thing a visitor saw when coming into our house, you would never, at first glance, know they were bricks.

Long before Mother went to the farm in Northcote, someone had crocheted covers for these two bricks.

They were made of bright red and green wool, no doubt left over from knitting socks or mitts. As Mother said, the crocheted brick covers gave a bit of status (a word I had never heard of before), to two very ordinary necessi-

ties: door stops.

Like so many other ordinary things put to good use on the farm, bricks coming to us from goodness knows where, served a purpose.

And when they were put at my feet, I wondered how many toes had touched them before me, and I would look at the covered brick at the back door, and marvel at the number of visitors who had passed beside it, and how often a foot had moved it out of the way to hold open a door on a farm that generations before me had called home.

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As a clinical child psychologist and an educator it has long been our belief that the traditional ten month school year - September to June - makes no sense for today’s children. The schedule was established when children were needed to help on the family farm and bring in the harvest during the summer months. By the mid 20th century our society had become primarily urban and two months of school vacation meant just one thing: eight weeks of unscheduled “free time”. For this reason summer camps emerged as a popular way to keep children entertained and busy during the school holidays.

However, the benefits of a well-run summer camp are much more far reaching. If the programme is well planned and structured, the activities can be fun for the children but also build skills and foster positive social and emotional growth, learning, and adventure.

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“These cats are often overlooked in favour of kittens so they tend to be here longer. The longer these cats stay in the shelter and not in a forever home, the greater their stress and risk of getting sick,” said Bruce Roney, OHS executive director.

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Support is provided from professional staff from Canadian Guide Dogs for the Blind, including training and obedience classes.

This is a very unique volunteer opportunity, and you could help play a role in changing someone’s life. Would you be a suitable candidate for a volunteer position like this? The main thing is that the pup not be left at home alone all

email info@guidedogs.ca. Steven Doucette, spokesperson for Canadian Guide Dogs for the Blind says, “We’re always seeking volunteers, but right now we’re a little desperate. It is difficult to find people to take a puppy in the winter, but even if you don’t like winter, this is a good time.

Until the pup has all of its shots, you are mostly inside with the pup for the first eight weeks. So, if you start now the bulk of the outings will actually begin in the spring.� As for Duke, he is currently residing and learning to be

When the dog is ready to enter into formal training at the National Training Centre of Canadian Guide Dogs for the Blind, you must be prepared to give up the dog, so that it may continue its journey to work as a guide dog.

Canadian Guide Dogs for the Blind has information sessions scheduled for Feb. 5, Feb. 19, and March 3, 2016.

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day. Current volunteers include stay-at-home parents, post-secondary students, individuals who work from home or have their own business, part-time workers, or retirees.

In fact, some gain permission from their employer to take the dog to work on a daily basis.

The organization is seeking volunteers who are committed, love animals, want to learn, and are able to work on a schedule with the puppy.

a good dog at the home of a volunteer in Stittsville. Later, he’ll return to Canadian Guide Dogs for the Blind for formal training, at the National Training Centre in Ottawa. Should you wish to learn more about Canadian Guide Dogs for the Blind, you can visit them online at www.guidedogs.ca.

Canadian Guide Dogs for the Blind has provided more than 780 professionally trained guide dogs to Canadians who are visually impaired from coast to coast.

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Spending Saturday at the feed store DIANA FISHER The Accidental Farmwife far too many Timbits, and I had sold twenty-two books.

Not bad for a first book launch event, in a feed store.

In January, during freezing rain.

Audrey said it was a quiet time of year, because most things are in the freezer now, their heads cut off.

Huh??

“The animals,” she said.

“They’re in the freezer. The farmers don’t come to the feed store when the animals are in the freezer.”

Oh. I get it. Mini heart attack there for a moment.

Well we did pretty well despite the slow season, as far as I’m concerned.

The best part of hanging around the feed store is the stories you hear from the farmers. Audrey and Quinlan share the ups and downs, the joys and sorrows with all of their customers, and get to know them well.

They know who had to put a horse down, and whose sheep just had quadruplets.

They don’t just sell feed in that store. They educate new customers – city folk turned farmers – on how to feed their new animals. They share stories of trial and error, success and mistakes, so that we can all learn from

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The food store is the hub of the farm community.

For the rest of this mild wintry weekend we stuffed the dogs’ houses with fresh hay and watched as they snuggled in for long afternoon naps.

I chopped up some apples and fed them to the cows as they socialized around the hay bales. Mocha swipes the apple sections with her long sandpaper tongue wrapped around my wrist, leaving a rash-like mark. Betty is also greedy with her grabbing.

Ginger has just become brave enough to eat from my hand in recent months.

She is very gentle with her nibble.

But the softest, most timid and polite bite of all is from Dono, the big bull.

Normally I stand with a gate between us and toss him the apples.

Today I fed him by hand.

I had Betty to protect me if he decided to charge.

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He was quite an attraction and stole the show more than a few times. I also think he deserves credit for selling a few books.

When I arrived at Rooney Feeds Saturday morning, the lamb was happily curled up in a ball at the end of its trough-bed, in a blanket.

The resident cat at the store, Peanut Butter, was struggling with conflicting emotions of curiosity and disgust at the new smells in the room. Everything was fine until the lamb demonstrated his ability to leap out of his confines and roam around the room.

Peanut Butter leapt to safety on the store counter, craning his neck around the corner to see the lamb as it explored its surroundings.

As the lamb bumped its nose into the reflection in the glass showcase, Peanut Butter nearly fell off his perch.

Slightly humiliated, he decided to go outside for a while to get away from the little attention-stealer.

There was a steady flow of people through the store, some on regular farm business and some had specifically come to get a book. At the end of three hours, I had had six cups of coffee,

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Community Christian School (CCS), an independent school located at 2681 Glen Street in the village of Metcalfe, is delighted to have offered quality education to area children for 35 years, and the school community looks forward to many more years of exciting learning. “This school believes that God has a plan and purpose for every child, and has uniquely gifted each one to fulfill His plan and purpose. We are here to help students discover and develop the gifts God has given them, and that’s what we’ve been doing at CCS for 35 years,” says Rick Dykstra, Principal.

CCS, which offers a full elementary school program for children in Junior Kindergarten to grade 8, employs certified teachers and is an excellent choice for Christian families in the Metcalfe, Greely, Vernon, Osgoode and Manotick areas. The multi-denominational school is committed to partnering with parents. This expresses itself in the community of parents, grandparents and dedicated volunteers who work together with staff to form a family, committed to supporting one another in the education of all CCS students.

Additional Programs In addition to its strong academic program, Community Christian School offers a Resource Program; athletics, art, music and drama programs; core French classes using the Accelerated Integrated Method; part-time and full-time Kindergarten options; afterschool care and private piano lessons and vocal coaching during the school day.

We Believe · All children can learn · All children have the right to learn · All children are expected to learn · All students have the right to a safe learning environment

Open House Wednesdays If Community Christian School sounds like a good fit for your family, the school is open to visitors every Wednesday in February - February 3, 10, 17 and 24 - from 8:20 a.m. to 3 p.m. For guests wishing to join our weekly Chapel, please be at the school at 8:20 a.m. After Chapel, visitors may sit in on classes and observe our teachers and students in action. Guests may also chat with teachers about curriculum, methodology, or school culture. Our Admissions Coordinator will be available to talk to parents about our new graduated tuition plan which may help new families make Christian education more affordable.

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Protecting Your Computer: a computer security program for adults at the Manotick branch of the Ottawa Public Library. The average time it takes for an unprotected computer to be compromised after connecting to the Internet is under 15 minutes. Don’t let it be yours. Chris Taylor, President of the Ottawa PC

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“So we try to get across all of them and focus on the trainer and teaching behaviour patterns so they can go back and train their own folks.”

The focus of the recent course was putting the teams through off-leash and behaviour training scenarios.

An airport offers a challenging environment, what with crowds, kids and baggage carts.

“The dog is off the leash and you have to rely on his discipline to do what he needs to do in a crowd,” said Armstrong, whether that is tracking an object, sitting on command or concentrating on searching a certain area.

The Ottawa airport is the only one in Canada that brings in these specialty teams, allow-

ing them to train in its public and non-public zones.

“We’re the only airport they want to train with,” Armstrong added.

“We’re also the only airport that offers a training environment where we allow them to move in amongst the passengers and the ground handling.”

Part of the draw for the police participants was the chance to learn from the airport canine unit’s team leader, Stephen Kaye, former president of the Canadian Police Canine Association. Kaye is a worldrenowned law enforcement canine trainer, Armstrong said.

The handlers and their dogs also spent one day during the exercise out at the old Hershey plant in Smiths Falls – a challenging work environment for the dogs with the many com-

peting scents, he said.

In addition to preparing the police teams for working in an airport in the event they are called in, the airport’s canine unit – all former law enforcement – also got the chance to work closely with local police, including RCMP, OPP and Ottawa police canine handlers.

“When we do have a realworld emergency we’ve already established those rapports,” said Armstrong.

The public was also treated to seeing upwards of a dozen of the working dogs during the recent training sessions.

And while there wasn’t an opportunity to nab a criminal or sniff out any contraband, a large police presence can be a good thing.

“A lot of these (handlers) come with their police cars. It’s very clear that there’s a heavy police presence at the airport,

with dogs,” Armstrong said.

“So there is naturally going to be a residual effect from it.

And that’s a bonus for us.

There’s a lot of pros that come from doing something like this.”

Airport officials are looking at making the training session an annual event, perhaps even twice annually.

“We want to see it grow,” Armstrong said.

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The Ottawa airport became the first airport in Canada to establish its own canine team five years ago, followed by Montreal’s airport.

In having its own in-house canine team, the Ottawa airport has a distinct advantage in not relying on contracting the service of local police canine units, as other airports do.

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