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Families in Manotick are looking forward to a fun day on Family Day, Feb. 20. A visit to Watson’s mill is a great way to celebrate the holiday. – Page 2
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The Yellow Brick Road runs right through Osgoode and these young actors have a theatrical adventure with the Wizard of OZ. – Page 4
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EMC News - Playing against, or beating the boys? Not a problem. Leaving behind their teammates for a week? Might be a different story. Three Nepean Wildcats bantam AA girls hockey players have qualified for the Ontario Winter Games being held in Collingwood. Sabina Kukurudziak, a defender from Greely, Brianna Lahey, a right-winger from Manotick, and Serena Weaver, a centre forward from Nepean, will all travel to Southern Ontario for the tournament, which begins March 5. Over 500 girls tried out to play at the tournament, with a local tryout held for the Ottawa region in Rockland. The tryouts were one of the first times the girls had been split up onto different teams. It will be a big change for the trio, who will probably be split up again at the tournament as the chosen athletes are divided randomly onto eight different teams. The girls are used to hitting the ice together at least four days a week, plus playing in seven tournaments through the winter and playing for same spring team. “It’ll be different because we always play together,” said Lahey, who plays on the same line as Weaver for the Wildcats. They’ll also have to get used to playing without their teammates, an extremely close knit group of girls. “We’re going to be apart for a whole week,” Lahey realized, then laughed after a panicked expression crossed her face. “I’m going to miss my defense partner,” said Kukurudziak. “It’s going to be difficult to play with someone else.” They’re going to have to prepare for it in the future though, with all three girls, Grade 9 students, aiming to play uni284240_0219
Twice a year everyone can fish without a fishing licence. The Family day weekend is one time to take advantage of the free fishing opportunity. – Page 5
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versity hockey – Weaver is shooting for McGill, Lahey for an American school and Kukurudziak for St. Francis Xavier. They’ve all got goals to play at the national level as well, qualifying for the U18 Team Canada, and eventually play for the seniors women’s team. “It would be hard to get there,” Weaver said. “But that’s the goal.” This is just the start, and the first time the girls will be exposed to hockey scouts. They’ve all been preparing for this since the summer, and Weaver started training on a daily basis months before their fall season start even began. Well chosen for captain, her teammates laugh several times when she reminds them of a detail she read in their Winter Games package, or talk about her reminders to the team to eat properly and keep drinking their water. Kukurudziak and Lahey are both assistant team captains for the Wildcats, who play in the AA Ottawa league – the highest level available for them to play at in Ottawa. The Ontario Winter Games are limited to bantam level players, who are Grade 8 and 9 aged. They’re still expecting a high level of competition, with some fast and strong competitors coming from across the province. Their skill level often surprises their friends, who aren’t always aware of the level hockey being played by girls in the region. “Especially the guys,” said Lahey. “They see us play and then they see that we’re good.” Unlike other athletes, who view missing parties and hang outs with their friends as a sacrifice, these girls are over it, and agree they’d rather be at the rink with their team anyways. “We’ve been waiting for this forever,” said Kukurudziak.
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TRIO HEADED TO WINTER GAMES From left, Brianna Lahey, Sabina Kukurudziak and Serena Weaver during a break during a hockey tournament at the Bell Sensplex in Kanata. All three Nepean Wildcats players will head to the Ontario Winter Games to compete against the province’s best bantamaged players in March.
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EMC News - Greely’s community design plan has been updated to include more pathways between communities, after a series of consultations to refresh the planning guideline. Lead planner Rose Kung said most of the CDP revisions were administrative: updating maps and refreshing the text. However Kung said some major changes were made to promote greater connectivity in the village, outlining desired paths and linkages for the future. “We spent a whole bunch of time on the green space network, because connectivity was an important thing
for residents. We heard loud and clear about connectivity,” Kung said. Greely residents at workshops in March and December 2011 stated time and again that their various developments are too isolated from each other, and that they would like pathways connecting the subdivisions so that families can reach other areas of the village without having to walk or bike on the main roads. Pathways, parks and linkages that have been built since the CDP was last updated in 2005 have been added to the network, including the multi-use pathway that runs between Leitrim Road and Osgoode village.
But future pathways have been added, too. “We’ve shown the future connections we want, and we’re showing approximate location of future parks,” Kung said. She said adding future connections to the CDP makes it easier to ask developers to include them as the village is built out. The updated green space plan includes two future community parks similar to Andy Shields Park, with sports fields and other facilities. Kung said one would be located in the Quinn Farm development, and the other would be east of Bank Street. See CDP on page 2
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