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For Ottawa’s 45,000 rural residents still served by Hydro One, it’s a tale of two cities.

While urban residents pay one rate for their electricity, those served by the provincial corporation pay “significantly more,” according to Cumberland Coun. Stephen Blais.

It’s a chronically unfair situation he hopes to end once and

for all after 15 years of broken negotiations.

Blais will introduce a motion at the next council meeting asking Mayor Jim Watson to get a firm commitment from the province that Hydro Ottawa will be able to compete to purchase those Hydro One customers if the province decides to sell.

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Buying Hydro One customers would allow those residents to slowly get to par with Hydro Ottawa rates, Blais said.

The time to buy is now, he said, because the province has indicated it’s willing to sell off parts of its corporation to raise money for public infrastructure projects – it’s already in the process of doing that in parts of the western Greater Toronto Area as part of a merger that would create the largest municipally-owned hydro distributor in Canada.

The province stands to make as much as $500 million in that sell-off.

Complicating matters, the province also announced on April 16 that it will “broaden ownership” of Hydro One through an initial public offering that would gradually sell off small parcels of up to 10 per cent while the province remains the largest stakeholder.

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Building a better future Manotick resident Mitch Kurylowicz, middle, receives a city builder award from Mayor Jim Watson and Osgoode Coun. George Darouze ahead of council on April 15. The 17year-old has been volunteering with Free the Children for 10 years, and for the past four years has focused on raising funds for open an all-boys secondary school in rural Kenya through his charity Project Jenga, which means “to build” in Swahili. A recent gala at the end of March raised $117,000 for the cause. As the current head boy at Ashbury College, Kurylowicz also organizes food drives for the Ottawa Food Bank and raises funds for Christie Lake Kids. Last year, he was awarded the Governor General’s Caring Canadian Award for community leadership.

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It’s unclear what impact that might have on a city’s ability to purchase the Ottawa branch of the company in the future, but Blais said if foreign equity funds and other private interests buy up the stock, the city’s chance of buying back its customers at a fair price disappears.

“A foreign bank or Bay Street equity firm isn’t going to want to break up an asset they’ve just spent hundreds of millions or billions on buying,” he said.

This isn’t the first time the city has tried to bring its residents under the Hydro Ottawa umbrella.

The issue has been on the table since amalgamation in 2001, but negotiations have always broken down, usually over the province’s high asking price.

Previously estimates have put the price tag at about $94 million for the customers and the infrastructure that serves them.

Shortly after Blais’ notice at council, energy minister Bob Chiarelli’s spokeswoman Jennifer Beaudry slammed Ot-

tawa for refusing to take part in a binding arbitration process to resolve what the city should pay.

“This solution would have been fair to all electricity ratepayers in Ontario, including those within city of Ottawa boundaries,” Beaudry said in an email. “The current mayor refused this suggested process and to our knowledge this solution was not discussed at council.”

But Blais called that path intrinsically unfair, because it prices cash-strapped municipalities out of the market. He said Hydro Ottawa should be able to bid on a fair market price.

“We’re not asking for it to be free, we’re not asking to get a deal or some kind of special treatment,” he said. “We just want Hydro Ottawa to be allowed to participate in the process and if we win, we win and if we don’t, we don’t.”

Of course, asking for a transparent bidding process opens rural customers to the possibility that they’ll still be snapped up by a foreign investment firm,

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Nepean-Carleton MP Pierre Poilievre announced at Watson`s Mill April 14 that funding of $38,000 for the Mill and another $13,500 for the society through the Canada Summer Jobs program will allow the organizations to hire youth to work for the two organizations this summer.

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Nepean-Carleton MP Pierre Poilievre, centre, with Watson`s Mill manager Isabelle Geoffroin, to his immediate right, holds up 10 fingers to indicate the number of jobs funding through the Canada Summer Jobs program will create in Manotick this summer. his riding that will create 85 summer jobs in NepeanRideau this summer.

Funds through the Canada Summer Jobs program are to help non-profit organizations, public sector employers and small businesses create summer jobs.

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“It’s been a very success program for us over the years, and this year is a record year,” she said of the funding through the program and the number of jobs it will allow the Mill to cover.

The money going to the Historical Society will cover the hiring of another four students for the summer, to make the 10 jobs total.

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Charity bike ride rerouted out of Manotick after tragedy Ride the Rideau renamed ‘The Ride’ for 2015 Erin McCracken

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When Dr. Jim Walker pedals 108 kilometres this fall to raise money for cancer research, he will not only be thinking of the cause, but also of Laurie Strano, who was killed during the Ride the Rideau charity cycling event last September.

Emergency responders hadn’t yet arrived when Walker came upon the accident site on River Road in Manotick where Strano, a 40-year-old mother of two, had died after she was struck by a garbage truck.

“Obviously, the loss of Laurie Strano was a huge loss, said Walker.”

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Tim Kluke, president and chief executive officer of The Ottawa Hospital Foundation, left, and Dr. Jack Kitts, president and chief executive officer of The Ottawa Hospital, announced several changes to the foundation’s Ride the Rideau charity event during a press conference at the hospital’s General campus on April 16.

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routed and renamed. “(The task force) met with very mixed emotions because obviously Laurie can never be replaced,” Walker said at the hospital’s General campus on April 16 where the changes to the event were revealed.

“But it would be a shame to lose the ride as well because of that.

“And I think Laurie Strano of all people would be the last person who would want that ride to come to an end because of her,” he said, overcome by emotion.

Ride the Rideau is now known as The Ride, and will take place on Sept. 13.

Other changes include adding more signage along the route, increasing volunteer and police presence, and moving the event from Saturday to Sunday when there is less traffic.

“The tragic event of last September continues to weigh heavily on our hearts,” said Tim Kluke, president and chief executive officer of The Ottawa Hospital Foundation, which has organized the ride the past five years, raising $8.8 million for cancer research at the hospital.

“As CEO, I truly felt that any decision of the future required a detailed review of the past,” said Kluke, who served on the task force, which spent about six months analyzing feedback on the 2014 event from hospital and city staff, Ottawa police, cycling clubs, first responders and other stakeholders, as well as riders through surveys and focus groups.

Its recommendations led to the addition of a 50-kilometre route that will be closed to motorists, allowing participants to loop the Sir John A Macdonald Parkway three times.

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“We really feel that the inclusion of the 50-kilometre route will encourage a lot of people who are not regular, avid (cyclists),” Kluke said.

Rather than ride out from the EY Centre, which was the starting point in previous years, and through Manotick along the Rideau River, cyclists taking part in the 108-kilometre option will begin from Tunney’s Pasture.

They will head west on the Parkway and Carling Avenue out to north Kanata and on to the Carp and Dunrobin area before heading to the finish line at Wesley Clover Parks. From there, they will be bused back to Tunney’s Pasture.

Both routes were chosen for road quality, traffic flow and because the parkway could be closed to vehicles for the shorter ride.

“We stayed away from arterial roads,” Kluke said.

New this year, registrants must agree to watch an online safety video.

“This is a part of a safety precaution we thought important,” said task force chair Jim Durrell.

Riders will also wear brightly coloured jerseys, and be given given flashing lights.

“We think that what we’re announcing today only enhances the event,” Kluke said. “It enhances our safety.”

Organizers are confident the upcoming ride will be just as successful in raising funds for cancer research. The 2014 event drew more than 900 riders.

“A number of our leading ride teams are back in, they’re ready to go,” Kluke said.

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Gray can’t get enough of Canada’s unique stories ine the First World War period in Canada from a different perspective than the military and political histories that are typical on the bookshelves of Canadian libraries.

“It was the first time Canada had put together an army of that size, suddenly a lot of Canadians were wondering, are we something more than just British,” she said of the

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Non-fiction author Charlotte Gray has a deceptively simple goal when she writes a book.

“I want my readers to enjoy them,” said the Ottawabased writer and historian. “I want people to read my books with the same sense of drama as they do novels.

“I love it when someone comes up to me and says, ‘Now I’m reading everything I can get my hands on, on that subject,’” she said off the reaction she gets to her books.

If her goal is for readers to enjoy her books that focus on Canada’s past, and at the same time, foster popular interest in the country’s history, then it is fair to say mission accomplished.

For the past 20 years, Gray, who has written for such iconic Canadian publications such as Saturday Night magazine in the past, has specialized in writing non-fiction books that focus on unique Canadian stories.

She is the award-winning author of a wide-range of works, including Reluctant Genius: The Passionate Life and Inventive Mind of Alexander Graham Bell and Gold Diggers, Striking it Rich in the Klondike, that bring Canada’s history to life for modern readers.

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time period. “Canada was changing and growing. It was a very important time.”

Gray said her favourite part of engaging with her readers at events such as the one in Manotick last week are the Q&A sessions where she gets plenty of topic suggestions for future books, although any suggestions that came up in Manotick will have to

wait.

Right now she is already deeply involved in the preparation of her next release, to be called Who Do We Think We Are ... 150 years of Canada, slated for release in November 2016.

“I always have a book on the go,” Gray said.

“I’m always on the lookout for great stories to do.”

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Writer Charlotte Gray shared her love of Canadian history at a special event held at Manotick’s United Church on April 15. is no shortage of in Canada’s past are stories worth exploring in book form such as her latest release, The Massey Murder: A Maid, Her Master and the Trial that Shocked a Nation.

She uses the killing of a member of one of Canada’s wealthiest families in Toronto by an 18-year-old domestic servant from Britain in 1915 to tell a wider social history of life in Canada on the homefront during the First World War. “This country has a unique history that is quite different from other English speaking or colonial places,” Gray said

of the fertile ground that exists for a writer such as herself to explore.

Gray, an adjunct research history professor at Carleton University who moved to Canada in 1979 from her native England, shared her passion for Canada’s past at Manotick’s United Church on April 15 at a Rideau Township Historical Society sponsored special event where she spoke about the Massey murder case and shared her insights into that time period of Canada’s past.

In an interview prior to the April 15 event, Gray said she has always wanted to exam-

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Canine police sniff out theft suspect after police car chase Erin McCracken erin.mccracken@metroland.com

An Ottawa police officer’s leg was grazed by a suspected stolen vehicle fleeing the lot of a car dealership near Bank Street and Rideau Road south of Findlay Creek last week.

The officer was flagged down by a dealership em-

ployee at 10:25 a.m. on April 16 “after he observed two suspects attempting to steal a vehicle in the lot,” east district officers said in a statement on April 17.

The vehicle connected with the officer’s leg, but he did not require medical treatment.

“It was minor injuries and the officer can still walk,” said

Const. Marc Soucy, Ottawa police spokesman.An officer pursued the vehicle, but let it go on Mitch Owens Road, east of Bank Street “because of danger,” said Soucy.

“It didn’t last very long,” he said of the chase.

The car was later found by an off-duty officer on Pana Road where it had been aban-

Chapman Mills Drive Extension and Bus Rapid Transit Environmental Assessment Study Notice of Study Commencement and First Open House Thursday, May 7, 2015 Walter Baker Sports Centre (Barrhaven) Library Meeting Room (Concourse Level) 100 Malvern Dr, Ottawa, ON K2J 2G5 6:30 to 9 p.m (Presentation: 7 pm) Transit Access: Route # 170 The City of Ottawa has initiated the Chapman Mills Drive Extension (Longfields Drive to Strandherd Drive) and Bus Rapid Transit (Greenbank Road to west of Cedarview Road) Environmental Assessment (EA) Study to determine the most appropriate means to accommodate and manage increasing transportation infrastructure requirements around the Barrhaven Town Centre area.

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rolee, is charged with multiple offences, including assault with a weapon, theft of a motor vehicle, possession of property or things obtained by crime, failing to stop for police, disqualified operation of a motor vehicle, assault, forcible confinement, possession of a break-in instrument, dangerous operation of a motor

vehicle, assault with a weapon, possession of property or things obtained by crime under $5,000, theft of a motor vehicle and uttering threats of death or bodily harm.

The suspect was held for a bail hearing, and will be held in custody. A female arrested with the male was released without being charged.

GCA considers holding fewer public meetings Brian Dryden brian.dryden@metroland.com

The Greely Community Association is pondering the philosophical question, is less more?

The GCA will consider changing its public meeting schedule to hold fewer such meetings when the association gathers for its annual general meeting in June.At this time, the GCA holds monthly public meetings the second Wednes-

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The idea is that by holding fewer public meetings that may actually foster better attendance by the general public in the community if those

meetings have issues of interest to the general public on the agenda. That way the public doesn’t have to sit through the minutiae of board of directors business when they attend.

“There are some things people don’t want to hear about,” Brayman said of the business done when the GCA meets.

The next regular Greely Community Association meeting is May 13 at the Greely Community Centre. The GCA’s AGM is June 10.

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doned in the Metcalfe area.

“A canine officer and his police service dog attended and conducted a track which led to the suspects,” east district investigators said. “Both were arrested without incident in a wooded area south east of the stolen vehicle’s location.”

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Ottawa residents greet victorious Sens team with electric homecoming Erin McCracken erin.mccracken@metroland.com

You would have thought the Ottawa Senators were bringing home the Stanley Cup. An estimated 2,000 diehard Sens fans came wearing autographed jerseys and carrying flags attached to hockey sticks, foam fingers and homemade signs, surprising the players, coaches and management with a welcome home victory parade.

Just hours after the Ottawa Senators won 3-1 against the Philadelphia Flyers on Saturday, April 11, earning the club a spot in the Stanley Cup playoffs, throngs of well-wishers lined Comet Private outside the Esso Avitat at the Ottawa International Airport. “This feels like the Stanley Cup for me,� said South Keys resident Isaac Layton, who wore a jersey and proudly carried a Senators flag. “I’m so, so, so happy. I feel like we got the Stanley Cup. “Even if they fail the first round, I don’t care, as long as they made the playoffs,� he said. “Fourteen points down (and) in six weeks they made the playoffs? That’s crazy.�

Layton sat glued to the TV screen during the game against the Flyers.

With every goal, he felt less nervous, before finally breathing a sigh of relief that the team had made it to the playoffs. “We’re good, we’re good.

We’re going to the airport,� he said gleefully.

Paul Disley, owner of JPD Aviation which operates the Esso Avitat, the team’s arrival point in Ottawa, said he hasn’t seen that many fans line the road outside his business since 2007, when the Senators last made the Stanley Cup final. “2007 was crazy,� he recalled.

Disley knew the team’s homecoming on April 11 would attract fans.

Around 5 p.m. less than half a dozen people wearing Sens

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Greenboro residents Rob Duncan, left, and his wife Marianne Kaduck joined their friends, Riverside Park residents Carolyn and Craig Searle, and about 2,000 other fans to welcome home the Ottawa Senators at the Esso Avitat at the Ottawa International Airport following the team’s 3-1 win against the Philadelphia Flyers on Saturday, April 11. jerseys waited in the cold wind for the team’s plane to touch down. Over the next hour, dozens swelled to thousands, Disley said. “I didn’t think it would be as big as this, but I knew there was going to be people here, win or lose, because (of) just how fantastic the team has been playing the last six weeks,� he said.

First out of the hangar was Senators general manager Bryan Murray, followed by players who carefully navigated their cars and trucks through the cheering throngs of fans.

Some players in the passenger seat filmed the procession on their cellphones, gave the thumbs up or held out their hands for high-fives.

All wore big smiles. “The team this year – there’s a lot of young guys, right. So they’ve never experienced anything like this,� Disley said of the legion of Senators fans who welcomed the team home. “They’re not used to seeing that when they come in.�

OrlÊans resident HÊlène Humphrey and her two sons joined good friends, Glebe residents and well-known philanthropists Barbara Crook and Dan Greenberg, along the

route.

Humphrey and her family watched Saturday’s game against Philadelphia with bated breath. “It was very, very exciting,� she said. “It was just one of those ‘can’t catch your breath’ moments. It was almost like being in the playoffs.�

Her son, Kyle, who was born with spina bifida, didn’t want to miss the team’s arrival at the airport.

Kyle’s motto is there’s no such thing as can’t, and held a sign echoing this. “He lives that and he always says that the Senators have saved his life so many times, kept him going, and kept him having a reason to continue,�

Humphrey said.

Kyle, who has had 94 surgeries, has been bed-ridden for the better part of three years, but was determined to go to the airport for the team’s arrival.

In 2007, he was in a coma for months, and his mother said it’s because of the Senators that doctors saw signs of life in her son. “I used to put the earphones on his ears when the Sens were playing and the heart monitor – you could see it go up,�

Humphrey said.

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he Ontario government announced last week it was making significant changes in the way beer is sold in the province, but it amounts to little more than tweaks and more taxes for consumers.

Those looking for radical changes, such as beer being made available in corner stores or sold in a competitive manner where retailers can choose prices are bound to be disappointed. Those looking for wine to be sold anywhere other than at the LCBO or existing Wine Rack stores are just out of luck.

What drinkers in Ontario can look forward to is six-packs and single cans and bottles of beer being sold at no more than 450 supermarkets in the province. Companies will have to apply for one of those licences, and set up special sections in stores where the beer will be sold.

So that means you can just nip into a Loblaws at 6 p.m. on a Sunday to grab some suds, after the Beer Store closes at 5 p.m., right? Wrong. The beer sections will be limited to the same hours as the

current retailers: the Beer Store and the LCBO. Other changes will see the LCBO carrying 12-packs and setting up boutique locations to sell things like craft beer. Those craft brewers who were recently rallying for change to the current system will get better access to retail space at the Beer Store, and they appear to be relatively happy about it.

What about the rest of us? We should be disappointed.

Aside from the rather slight changes to retailing, consumers aren’t getting much. We’re still beholden to a retailing system that is designed to squeeze as much revenue out of the business as possible, run without regard for the customer. On top of this, an additional tax of $1 per 24-pack will be levied on top of what the provincial government hailed as Canada’s lowest beer prices.

Anyone who’s visited a depanneur in Gatineau knows none of this benefits the Ontario beer drinker. Fortunately, a rational system for beer retailing is just a short drive away, across the river.

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ou leave the Carling Avenue Canadian Tire down a long escalator. You can’t avoid seeing what’s at the bottom, and thinking about it as you slowly descend. Which is why it was the perfect place to put the Girl Guide cookies stand.

Location, location, location. How could you not buy? Big corporations spend thousands of dollars for marketing advice. No high-powered consultant would be able to match the simple wisdom that inspired this decision. Put your cookie stand at the bottom of the escalator.

It is even better than setting up, as some causes do, outside the LCBO. That can work, making potential donors mindful of the dollars they just spent that would not improve

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The latter is a particularly good one to think about at this warming time of year. The golfer has just come off the green. He is either deserving of some kind of refreshment to celebrate a good hole or needful of something to take his mind off how badly he is doing. He also needs a sympathetic smile, which drivers of drinks carts instinctively display.

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can avoid the so-called VIP experience if you choose, and just watch the movie in the traditional way, without wine and calamari. It’s also reassuring that the wine-and-calamari cinemas are adults-only.

That’s because it spares kids the horror of trying to watch a movie while all around them the adults are talking about food. Because isn’t that what’s going to happen?

In every crowd these days lurk foodies and there is no reason to suspect that the deluxe movie house is going to be any different. Now, instead of people hissing at the villain or talking on their cellphones, they’ll be discussing the cinema cuisine.

Why has no one anticipated this?

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people are trying to shoot each other on the screen.

Salad. In a movie theatre. Still, there’s the option of going to the ordinary movies where the kids are.

Maybe sneak in some Girl Guide cookies.

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The cast of Nurse Jane Goes to Hawaii takes a break during a rehearsal Wednesday, April 15. From the back row is: Andrea Jermacans (as Vivian Bliss), Tim Thibeault (as Bill Scant), Kerrie Whitehurst (as Betty Scant), Len Trembley (as Edgar Chisholm), on couch - Liz Szucs (as Peggy Scant), Jane Brownrigg (as Doris Chisholm), and down in front is Ian Bell (as Peter Prior).

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As Canadian stage roles for an actress go, the character of Vivian in Nurse Jane Goes to Hawaii is a doozy.

“This, for me, is a role of a lifetime. She`s just so wacky, you can`t really go over the top,” Andrea Jermacans says of her leading part in the upcoming ITR production at the Osgoode Community Centre of Canadian playwright Allan Stratton’s farce that first premiered in Toronto in 1980.

“The character (of Vivian) is just so off the wall, she lives in a fairyland of her own imagination,” Jermacans says.

“Vivian is the crazy one, the one you keep your eyes on.”

The ITR production, which premieres on Friday, April 24, and continues the next night and then the following weekend for three more performances May 1-3, is not new material for director Brian Kennedy, who has directed the play once before. It is a work that the former drama teacher is more than happy to be overseeing again.

“It really is a Canadian clas-

sic,” Kennedy says. “It’s the best farce written in Canada.

It’s funny and fast.

“I think the fun just rolls along with non-stop action, there’s mistaken identities and all kinds of things going on,” Kennedy explains. “He (Stratton) has just about thrown everything in it. To a certain extent, the audience does need to pay attention.”

The two-act play revolves around the characters of Doris, played in the ITR production by Jane Brownrigg, who is an advice columnist, and her husband Edgar, who is considering having an affair with the Vivian character, a flaky Harlequin Romance novelist. The Nurse Jane of the title is actually the focus of the Vivian character’s newest romance story, which she dictates into a recorder as humorous asides for the audience.

Originally set in the 1980s and in Toronto, the ITR production changes the story to the 1990s and sets the play in Ottawa, so there are plenty of local references in the ITR production.

Jermacans says the love triangle at the heart of the

material allows for all kinds of amusing misunderstandings between the characters.

She has really enjoyed working with Brownrigg in getting the dynamic between the two female leads down during the months of rehearsals that have gone into getting the local production ready to take the stage.

“It has just been so much fun working with the rest of the cast, there’s so much going on (in the play) that everyone has just been having a great time,” Jermacans says.

There is so much going on in the story that even the playwright has, in the past, been less than impressed by some stage versions of his own work.

“No wonder farce has a questionable reputation. Most productions of it are appalling.

I have personally had to flee performances of Nurse Jane to throw up, distraught and ashamed that audiences might think what they saw was what I wrote,” Stratton wrote in Words in Play about his play.

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I would like to express my sincere thanks to Dave and Lyn Presley for their tireless work on the Organ and Tissue Donation campaign.

Although National Organ and Tissue Donation Awareness Week is April 19 to 25, Mayor Watson presented a special proclamation to Rabbi Bulka and the Trillium Gift of Life Foundation. The “Be A Donor” flag will be flown at City Hall for the month of April and the Heritage building was lit up in green for the evening of April 15. All these ways of promoting organ donation were as a result of Dave and Lyn’s hard work. Thank you for championing this important cause.

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On Monday I attended the Greely Legion Meeting and the Ottawa Carleton Plowmen’s Association Meeting. Tuesday was a regular ward day spent meeting with residents.

Wednesday was a Council day, but it was also a day when we acknowledged a very impressive young man from our Ward. It was my pleasure to present the Mayor’s City Builder award, along with Mayor Watson, to Mr. Mitch Kurylowicz.

For more information on Mitch’s incredible accomplishments please read the details under City Hall News. Congratulations to Mitch and his family for this special honour.

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Thank you to all those who stopped by St. Mark on Saturday with their old electronics. It was great to see so many people taking advantage of this free recycling opportunity. Sunday was a day of celebrations as I joined my Council colleagues in officially opening “Sens Mile” after the Ottawa Senators clinched a playoff spot following Saturday’s win over Philadelphia. I would also like to thank Bert and Ann Velthuis for including me in their 60th Wedding Anniversary Celebration. What an incredible milestone and my sincere congratulations to Bert and Ann.

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You’d think that with such a view of his own play’s staging by the material’s creator, it would be daunting for a director and amateur theatre troupe’s cast to take on the challenge.

When told of Stratton’s opinion about some of the performances of Nurse Jane, Kennedy chuckles and says he’s actually been in contact with the playwright.

“I emailed him,” says Kennedy. And Stratton`s advice was to “keep it real.”

Kennedy is confident in this instance that his cast has a handle on making their version of Nurse Jane an enjoyable romp for audiences.

“The cast is just moving along nicely,” Kennedy says on a rehearsal day, a week before the April 24 premiere.

“Everyone is just having a great time with it and getting into the spirit of it.”

But, as Kennedy points out, once the cast takes the stage on

opening night, his job is over and it`s up to them to bring the material to life.

Jermacans, a veteran community theatre performer who most recently worked on a production in Smiths Falls before rehearsals started for ITR`s Nurse Jane in February, is eager to do just.

For actors, it is always a nervous time before the curtain rises on a new production, but that is all part of the charm of being in the theatre.

“I don’t think it is good not to be nervous.

I think that makes you more aware and helps you to concentrate of what you are doing,” she says.

Nurse Jane Goes to Hawaii will be performed at the Osgoode Community Centre April 24 and May 1 at 7:30 p.m., with two dinner theatre performances starting at 6 p.m. on April 25 and May 2.

There is a 2 p.m. matinee on Sunday, May 3. Tickets are available online at itrtheatre. com or by calling ITR`s ticket line at 613-800-1165.

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Park and fly signs a ‘compromise’: owner Seven way-finding signs to be reinstalled this spring Emma Jackson

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Seven signs will find their way back to city street corners this spring to point drivers toward the Park’N Fly on Uplands Drive.

City council agreed on April 15 to allow the private company, which provides long-term parking and shuttle services for Ottawa airport customers, to reinstall seven of its 19 signs that had been in place on city properties since 1998.

They were all taken down last spring after Mark Laroche, CEO of the Ottawa Airport Authority, complained they were illegal.

It’s usually against the rules

for a private business to advertise on city right of ways, but these signs predate the city of Ottawa, and Park’N Fly manager Bill Ayyad says they had the regional municipality’s approval at the time.

The signs certainly look like they had official support – they feature codes similar to signs of the same vintage – but neither the city nor the business can find any record of an agreement to that effect.

As a result, all of the signs were deemed illegal and removed.

Ever since then, Ayyad said customers have been ending up in nearby residential neighbourhoods or showing up at the park and fly thinking it was official airport parking.

“We get customers who end up in our lot but they already prepaid their airport parking,” Ayyad said.

“It’s like ordering something from Home Depot and trying to pick it up at Lowes,” he said.

He said customers com-

“People who are relying on (the signs) are not finding them.”

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ing from outside Ottawa to use the airport – especially seniors who don’t use a GPS – no longer have their trail of bread crumbs to get them to the right spot.

“People who are relying on (the signs) are not finding them,” Ayyad said.

Given that the airport authority itself also has private signage on city property –

and taking those down would cause even more headaches for tourists – River Coun. Riley Brockington asked council to instead approve a sixmonth plan to reinstate a third of the park and fly’s signs while staff conduct a broader review of airport way-finding by the end of 2015.

“We don’t want people who are not familiar with the Hunt Club community to be travelling through our residential streets because they can’t find the park and fly,” Brockington said.

Ayyad called that a compromise – “as far as we’re concerned the 19 should all be reinstated” – but he’s “happy with the outcome,” he said.

Ayyad suggested it’s only the Park’N Fly and official airport parking that offer long term parking, but in fact there are other small lots around the south end that also offer those services for airport customers.

That includes the Autoparc N Jet on Bank Street south of Findlay Creek, which at the moment is not allowed to place signs on city streets.

G l o u c e s t e r- S o u t h g a t e Coun. Diane Deans said the review will look at directional signage for all airport activities, from finding hotels and parking to getting to the EY conference centre.

“I think it behooves us to take a look at that particular area and see if we can make it work better than it has,” she said.

Mayor Jim Watson agreed, calling way-finding in Ottawa a “weakness in our tourism community.”

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Watson halts council prayer tradition in wake of Supreme Court ruling Emma Jackson

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Instead of a prayer there was only silence at the start of the April 15 city council meeting.

Mayor Jim Watson opted for a moment of reflection just minutes after the Supreme Court found a Quebec council’s Catholic prayer tradition

to infringe on freedom of conscience and religion.

The high court’s ruling ends an eight-year-old battle to maintain the Catholic prayer before council in Saguenay, Que. But in its lengthy decision, the Supreme Court also addressed municipal governments in general, finding that

the state has a duty to remain neutral on religious matters.

That means “it must neither favour nor hinder any particular belief, and the same holds true for non-belief.”

“The state’s duty to protect every person’s freedom of conscience and religion means that it may not use its powers in such a way as to promote the

participation of certain believers or non-believers in public life to the detriment of others,” the ruling said.

Usually, before Ottawa council business begins, the chairperson recites a short bilingual prayer which says in English, “Almighty God, let us work together to serve all our people.”

But just as the April 15 council was getting under way, Watson said the chamber would observe a moment of silence instead.

“The alternative is to offer a personal moment of reflection so people can pray privately,” Watson said. He said he doesn’t think the city’s prayer – which has been in use since

at least the mid-1990s – is disrespectful, but he said council will follow the Supreme Court’s ruling anyway.

The city’s solicitor will review the court decision and advise whether the new rules will allow Ottawa council to permanently replace its prayer with a moment of silence, Watson added.

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Seed ordering was one exciting yearly tradition

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y the time Mother had written out her order on the last sheet of the SteeleBriggs seed catalogue, the pages were practically in shreds after many hours of pouring over the choices she would make.

The little catalogue would arrive early in the spring, and the cover would be masses of bright flowers, some I had never heard of, and certainly would never find their way into the flower beds out in Renfrew County. But anyway, flowers weren’t what Mother was interested in. Her interest was in the pages of vegetables, all listed alphabetically and looking so real, it seemed you could just pick them up and eat them. Father could never understand why Mother even bothered with ordering packets of seeds from the SteeleBriggs catalogue -- you could get the same seeds right down the road at Briscoe’s General

MARY COOK Mary Cook’s Memories Store. Mother knew that, but she said there was something about ordering seeds from some far off place, and besides, there was a written notice that satisfaction was guaranteed or you would get your money back.

I asked Mother if that meant if the seeds didn’t turn into vegetables, would SteeleBriggs send back the few dollars she had laid out. “That’s exactly what that means,” she would say, with a firm nod of her head. “Fat chance,” Father would say from his place near the Findlay Oval. From the day the little catalogue arrived, it rarely left the end

of the old pine table in the kitchen. Mother liked nothing better than to thumb through its pages, and with a pencil put an “X” beside what she thought she might order. Seeds for tomatoes, cucumbers and beans seemed to interest her the most, while pictures of big green watermelons kept me captive, and I hoped with all my heart that Mother would put a pencil mark beside the picture that took most of one page. Finally, she would have made her choices. The form was filled in from the back of the catalogue, and the order sent off in the mail in an envelope with a three cent stamp.

Now, the wait began. And it was beyond my imagination how by simply writing a few lines on a piece of paper and sending it off to some far off city that in due time a packet would arrive with all the seeds my Mother had ordered. Of course, the entire mail system was a complete mystery to me to begin with.

But then, just days after the order had been sent in, there the box would be. Sometimes it would come from Montreal, and sometimes all the way from out west -- another miracle as far as I was concerned.

Of course, Mother would have to have the money in her hand to pay for the seeds, because the box would come to us C.O.D.Mother knew how much I loved seeing the box of seeds, and so the day it would arrive, she wouldn’t open it until after supper, and I was allowed to get the scissors out of the sewing machine drawer and cut the strings and open

the box.

And there would be all those beautiful packets of seeds, just like the pictures in the catalogue. I would line them up on the table after the kitchen had been cleaned up, and stand them up against a drinking glass, all in order, so that I could see them better. Everything was in vivid colours. The tomatoes were the brightest red, and the cucumbers vivid green. I would take a packet over to show Father sitting beside the Findlay Oval, and he would look it over, make a grunting sound without taking his pipe out of his mouth, and that would be it. And sometime during the evening, he would again say the very same seeds could be bought right down the road at Briscoe’s General Store, and you wouldn’t have had to waste three cents on a stamp either. But nothing could dampen my joy of playing with those crisp little packets

of seeds. Soon Mother would plant them in little wood boxes Father had made years before, and they would sit in the kitchen until they sprouted and it was time to move them to the garden.

I watched them daily, and when the first spot of green appeared, I was ecstatic. I’m not sure if I was more excited about the actual growth of the plants, or marvelling again at the fact that by simply sitting down at the kitchen table and sending off an order to some far away city, a parcel would arrive. And that parcel in due course would turn into an ample garden and feed us for months to come. Yes, a miracle indeed. All for the cost of a three cent stamp.

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The lessons of our heart are written on the wall DIANA FISHER The Accidental Farmwife busy with their own lives and I figured they were waiting until Sunday dinner and our family gathering to celebrate their mama.

So when I came home Thursday after work I wasn’t expecting to find a car parked on the lawn. I didn’t recognize it right away as Milena’s, (my eldest) but when I opened the door to the house and saw the boots, I knew she had driven out from Ottawa to see me.

But I couldn’t see her. There was a floral tablecloth pinned up across the door to the sunroom and loud music blasting out from behind it.

“Girls, I’m home!” I hol-

lered. A string of light profanity and then two faces peeked out from behind the cloth.

“Stay right there, ma. No peeking.”

Then Milena suddenly came out, looking sneaky.

“You have to promise not to go in there. And we’re going to have to cover it to keep the cats out.”

Cover it? A clue. Well, not to worry. Everyone knows I love a surprise and the only way this one is getting ruined is if I absentmindedly wander into the room and totally forget that I’m not supposed to be in there, poking around.

The cloth stayed over

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the door for the next three days, as the girls came and went between work shifts and sleep. Paulina even gave up some of her valuable snooze hours for me.

Finally, on Sunday, the curtain game down. There was a long section of wall, about three feet wide, covered with two layered paper table cloths that were taped in place. Pillows and chairs formed a barrier around the bottom – again, not to keep me out but to dissuade the cats from tackling the irresistibly crunchy paper veil.

I had to wait until after Sunday dinner, dessert, coffee and the opening of lovely gifts from other members of my family – scented candles, a birdhouse, gardening implements, flowers, wine, books… they know me so well.

Suddenly Milena announced we all had to gather in the living room to watch a short movie. She and Paulina had taken turns filming

each other as they created the mural on the wall. The six-minute video shows them planning out the design, and hand-scripting it in blue-gray paint directly over the mustard yellow wall. The artwork sessions are interspersed with hilarious dance breaks. Milena set the video to a beautiful song, and I think that’s what really got me. That and the card that preceded the video, which hinted, “the life lessons I’ve taken from you are now permanently marked on your wall.” I reached for the Kleenex and used about half the box before we even got to the unveiling. Finally, we gathered around the sunroom and Milena and Paulina each took a side of paper curtain and ripped it down to reveal my new mural. This is what it says, in my daughters’ unmistakable handwriting: “Our family is not about blood; it’s about acceptance.

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smile on their face. Our family sings, dances & hugs. We care for and carry each other; our family loves in its own crazy, beautiful way and when we’re with family, we’re truly happy.

No matter how you look – no matter what your regrets – no matter who you are – you belong here. This is where love lives. This is our family home.

And there’s always room for more at the table.”

The words are particularly meaningful because we have been through some major things together, blending these two families, forgiving each other our faults, letting things ride, and accepting other non-blood honorary family members into the fold, every Sunday, at dinner. I told the Farmer he can’t move me into an expensive condo now. Not unless I can take my wall with me. dianafisher1@gmail.com

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Hi, my name is Peppy, I am 5 yrs old. I am the oldest of 3 other siblings, and the peace keeper of the household.

I think I’m the most handsome too. I love to chase around the house. I love to play in all boxes and laundry baskets. I’m happy Spring is here so I can go outside on my leash in our yard to be noisy. I love my whole family and they think I’m the sweetest.

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y birthday was Wednesday.

I was treated to lunch, taken out to dinner and joined by my middle daughter Anastasia and her husband, showered with gifts – roses, a beautiful red sundress, and a new charm for my bracelet.

The charm bracelet is a wonderful thing because it isn’t that I can remember exactly when each bead, bauble and sparkly charm arrived, but I know it was given with thoughtfulness and love by my girl. We give gifts to each other every birthday, Christmas, Mother’s Day…but who can remember what they receive from year to year? With the charm bracelet, I just have to look at my wrist.

The birthday came and went, and despite a few funny messages on Facebook and a lovely song from Paulina, nothing from my other two daughters. Oh well, they are

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Roasted beet salad a unique side dish Roasting the beets brings out their sweetness, and the cranberries provide a sweet-tart finish to this salad. Preparation time: 20 minutes. Baking time: 45 to 60 minutes. Cooking time: 10 minutes. Serves six.

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• 3 each red and gold beets (about 1 kg/2 lb) • 250 ml (1 cup) frozen cranberries • 125 ml (1/2 cup) cranberry juice or water • 45 ml (3 tbsp) granulated sugar • 25 ml (2 tbsp) red wine vinegar or raspberry vinegar • 50 ml (1/4 cup) finely sliced red onion Garnish: fresh pea sprouts or herbs (optional) Preparation

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Major festivals take $52,000 funding cut emma.jackson@metroland.com

Several Ottawa festivals are taking a hit when it comes to provincial funding this year, even as the Celebrate Ontario program supports a record number of events.

The annual program supports events large and small across the province, but this year many of the city’s high-budget festivals bore the brunt of a 10 per cent clawback or more when funding was announced April 2.

Bluesfest and CityFolk (formerly the Ottawa Folk Festival) dropped more than $52,000 year over year to $247,500, while the Canadian Tulip Festival, the Ottawa Jazz Festival and Chamberfest all dropped $30,000 to $270,000.

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The Winterlude Dreams at Lansdowne Park dropped $57,600 to $120,150, and the Ottawa Dragon Boat Festival lost 22 per cent of the $100,000 cheque it got in 2014.

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But even ticketed events are feeling the pain.

“It’s $30,000 we have to find somewhere, and it’s kind of late,” said Jazz Festival executive director Catherine O’Grady, who called the clawback a surprise.

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Apart from that, the shortfall will have to come from customers.

“We’ve got to sell more tickets,” she said.

Still, she holds no grudge against the province.

“I understand why (the province) did what they did and I’m awfully glad to have the support,” O’Grady said. “There was no new money in the overall allocation and there were new people requesting support, so I guess this was the fairest way to do it.”

Cooper agreed; he said grant shortfalls are just a part of life when you’re operating a not-for-profit event. “If we had been denied completely then I would have said, ‘Oh my goodness, what’s happening.’

But it’s $78,000 we wouldn’t have otherwise have had,” Cooper said.

And it’s part of any festival’s File budget process to account for grant The Canadian Tulip Festival will recieve $30,000 less this year from the fluctuations. “It’s our responsibil- province as funding cuts hit the Celebrate Ontario program. Other fesity to have a plan in place to prop- tivals hit include Bluesfest, Chamberfest and the Ottawa Jazz Festival. erly address all of this,” Cooper said.

June 17 -June 21: Ottawa Ribfest “Should anything happen, whether an extra $5,000 and Ribfest jumped 2015, $27,675 it’s a sponsor dropping out or a grant from $21,524 to $27,675.

June 18 -July 1: TD Ottawa Jazz Since the Celebrate Ontario pronot coming in at the expected level, it doesn’t mean something fatal for gram began in 2007, funding has in- Festival, $270,000 June 19 -June 21: Summer Solcreased fairly steadily from only $4 the festival.”

Tourism ministry spokesman million the first year to $19.17 mil- stice Aboriginal Festival, $67,500 June 19 - June 20: Glowfair FestiBlane McPhail said each of the pro- lion in 2015. At its peak, the pot hit val, $90,000 gram’s three funding tiers took a 10 $21.4 million in 2013.

June 20: Carivibe Festival Ottawa per cent cut this year in an effort to OTTAWA FESTIVALS 2015- 2015, $45,000 stretch limited dollars.

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Waste diversion drops in 2014 due to weather emma.jackson@metroland.com

City staff are asking residents to consider the long-term trends when it comes to waste diversion in Ottawa, after fewer tonnes of organics and recycling were diverted from landfill in 2014.

A memo to council dated March 25 shows waste diversion dropped 1.3 per cent compared to 2013.

Garbage increased by the ton while organics went down.

Of the three recycling streams, only blue box collection increased its volume.

The city collected waste from more homes in 2014, which accounts for some of the extra 3.9 per cent of garbage sent to landfill, but curbside diversion into recycling went down from 51.9 per cent to 50.6 per cent year over year.

Despite 2014’s slight reduc-

tions, the city points out that the overall waste diversion rate has risen more than 15 per cent since 2009, largely because of the green bin compost program which came online in 2010.

The city now diverts more than 50 per cent of residential waste away from landfills every year.

ORGANICS DOWN

Of the three recycling streams, the curbside green bin compost collection saw the biggest drop in volume year over year, declining 2.7 per cent compared to 2013.

That year, the city collected 83,000 tonnes of material, compared to 81,000 in 2014.

Solid waste services manager Marilyn Journeaux said the two extra tonnes can largely be attributed to the miserably wet summer Ottawa residents endured in 2013.

“Things were green and

lush,” Journeaux said. “People cut their lawns more, they trimmed their bushes back. It results in more leaf and yard waste.”

The 2014 growing season, however, was closer to normal.

“We’ve always seen fairly wide leaf and yard waste variations in the tonnages,” Journeaux said. One of the biggest challenges for organics diversion is getting the green bin program into multi-residential properties such as apartment buildings.

While blue and black box programs are mandatory, the green bin program is for the most part still only being used by single-family homes.

About 200 of the city’s approximately 1,000 multiresidential buildings use the green bin right now, representing about 10,000 residents, Journeaux said. It’s mostly townhouse developments and

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She said the city works one-on-one with willing property managers to come up with unique solutions for their building. And now, any new multi-residential development in the city must provide space for green bin and recycling containers, so “on a go-forward basis it will be much easier to address,” she added.

PAPER PRODUCTS

The amount of black box materials collected (mostly paper products) was down for the fourth year in a row – a trend blamed largely on the downturn in newspapers. “The (Ottawa) Citizen dropped their Sunday paper a couple of years ago, and the physical size of the Ottawa Sun is much smaller than it was a few years ago,” Journeaux said. “That has an impact, as well as online readership. A lot of people are not getting newspapers to their door anymore.”

She said that trend has been partly offset by an increase in

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The city has seen a drop by 1.3 per cent in green bin usage in 2014. Memo to council blames weather and decline of newsprint as the major culprits. cardboard, which she guessed might have something to do with extra packaging from online shopping and the rise of wholesale stores like Costco.

GLASS AND CANS

The blue box program was the only stream that marked a slight volume increase. Journeaux said audits have shown people are literally throwing away money. For example, she said aluminum products – everything from foil wrap and lasagna trays to tin cans – are valuable and can be recycled even if they’re not very clean.

“Aluminum is worth a lot of money,” Journeaux said. “We’re not afraid of a little food.”

What the city is afraid of, however, is film plastic like food wrap and plastic bags, which currently are not accepted in Ottawa.

Journeaux said there’s no market for recycled plastic bags if they’re in any way unclean – which is virtually impossible to achieve once they’re thrown in a blue box. She suggested instead taking clean bags back to retailers for recycling.

The March 25 memo says a strategic promotions plan is in the works to better educate the public about what can go in the recycling – particularly the green bin. “With any new change it takes time for people to adapt and get with the program,” Journeaux said.

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“Perhaps the topic needs to be more fully explored, rather than limited on this one thing,” Taylor said.

If were to be done as a package of electoral reform requests rather than a one-off, Taylor noted, there would also be more opportunity for public consultation.

Nussbaum said looking at municipal election reform in its totality would be great, but “that doesn’t prevent us from addressing specific problems as they arise,” he said. “While I agree there are broader issues that need to be raised I didn’t think in this case it meant not moving forward on one particular issue.”

Nevertheless, Nussbaum said he’s excited to work with colleagues on the issue of electoral reform, saying the debate on April 15 was “just the beginning.”

“I certainly will be keen to speak to Coun.

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Rideau-Rockcliffe Coun. Tobi Nussbaum’s motion to ask Queen’s Park for the power to ban corporate or union donations in Ottawa’s municipal elections failed to pass on April 15, but the rookie east-end leader said the discussion is just heating up.

“I was encouraged by the fact that there seems to be an interest and an appetite on the part of some members of council to engage in a wider discussion on ways to improve the electoral system,” Nussbaum said after the 19-5 vote.

Nussbaum’s motion would have permitted council to ask the provincial government for control over its campaign financing rules, specifically whether or not corporate or union donations would be allowed. Toronto was given this power in 2007, and banned those kinds of donations in late 2009.

The motion wouldn’t have changed Ottawa’s rules, but rather simply allowed council to decide if and when it might want to implement a ban.

The main argument for a corporate and union donation ban is that it levels the field by stopping business owners from effectively donating twice – once as an individual and again as an organization. Nussbaum also ar-

gued it would increase transparency by doing away with numbered companies that residents can’t easily identify.

On the flip side, the argument for allowing corporate donations sounds very similar: that it creates a level playing field, but this time for the candidates. “(Corporate donations) help challengers mount strong election campaigns,” said Mayor Jim Watson during council debate.

“Very few of us are independently wealthy.

Do we want only those people who are able to completely finance their elections with donations from their personal fortunes to run for office?”

As for transparency, Watson argued moving a local business’s donation into the personal contribution ledger might even reduce transparency because a business owner might not be recognizable by name even if her company is well known.

“With the current system we know who is donating and where they work,” Watson said.

While only five councillors voted yes – four of them new to council this year – even some who voted no seemed open to broader discussions about municipal election reform.

Coun. Mark Taylor, for example, said he doesn’t want to take a “piecemeal approach” to solving municipal election issues, which he said go far beyond financing to include di-

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ITR presents Nurse goes to Hawaii at the Osgoode Community Centre, Friday April 24th at 7:00 p.m. For more information and tickets, go to itrtheatre.com or call 613-800-1165. The Saturday April 25 dinner theatre is sold out.

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ITR presents Nurse Jane goes to Hawaii at the Osgoode Community Centre, Friday May 1st at 7:00 p.m., Saturday May 2nd at 6:00 p.m. for the dinner theatre and Sunday May 3rd at 2 p.m.

For more information and tickets, go to itrtheatre. com or call 613-800-1165.

Auction- (Live and Silent) at the Metcalfe Fire Hall on Saturday, April 25th. Viewing opens

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North Gower United Church 18th Annual Roast Beef Dinner, Wednesday, 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 pm, Alfred Taylor Community Centre, North Gower.

Please reserved tickets when possible to assist planning needs. For tickets call Mary @ 613 489-2697.

Euchre Tournament at the Greely Legion. Registration begins at 12:00 p.m.

Playing starts at 1:00 p.m. $10.00 per person.

8021 Mitch Owens Road, ON Light lunch served at 12:00. Prizes for 1st, 2nd and 3rd places

Join Hospice Care Ottawa at one of our hike locations for an exciting day that includes at 5km Hike, live music, food, children's activities and more!

Thank you to our generous 2015 Hike for Hospice Sponsors & In-Kind Donors

Transportation choices for rural seniors. Information session, Manotick Arena, 2nd floor, May 1, 12.45 to 2.15 p.m. Speakers and information booths.

Transportation will be organized for anyone needing it, ask when you register.

Register by phone: 613741-6025, ext. 324 and leave a message or email: vbrousseau@eorc-creo.ca.

2015 seed sale in support of the Osgoode Township Museum. Do you love gardening? Purchase your seeds from us so you can begin planning and planting your dream garden as soon as spring arrives.

Please call 613-821-4062 for more details, or e-mail manager@osgoodemuseum.ca.

The Hike for Hospice Palliative Care is a national event that takes place at many hospices across Canada to raise awareness and much needed funds for Hospice Care which supports those living with a life-limiting illness and their families.

All programs and services are provided at no charge.

Thank you to our Hike Patrons

May 1

Ongoing:

Sunday, May 3, 2015 May Court Hospice

at 9:30 a.m and auction starts at 10:00 am. There is a large variety of items already! Coffee and lunch will be available for purchase. All proceeds go to Community Christian School in Metcalfe.

Do you need to know how to send emails with attachments, how to forward emails, blind copy to a list, organize your desk-

top or create documents?

Volunteers at the Osgoode legion can help seniors better understand their computers. We will help them in their own homes.

Call Gail Burgess at 613821-4409 to arrange for an appointment.

Ovarian Cancer Canada offers a free presentation called Ovarian Cancer: Knowledge is Power, about the signs, symptoms and risk factors of the disease. To organize one for your business, community group or association, please contact Lyne Shackleton at 613488-3993 or ottawakip@ gmail.com.

Come to the Osgoode legion for darts on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday evenings starting at 7:30 p.m. Experience not required. The bar is open Tuesdays through Saturday from 6 to 11 p.m. unless otherwise posted.

The Gloucester South Seniors meet at 4550 Bank St., Leitrim for a full schedule of activities every week including contract bridge, carpet bowling, euchre, five hundred, shuffleboard and chess.

Membership is $15 per year. The club is easily accessible by OC Transpo 144 and free parking. Call 613-821-0414 for info.

Mondays and Thurs.

The Gloucester South Seniors Chess Club, 4550 Bank St. (at Leitrim Road) meets every Monday and Thursday at 7 p.m. immediate openings available for more chess aficionados. Please contact Robert MacDougal at 613-821-1930 for more information.

Mondays:

Four-hand euchre every Monday at 7 p.m. Holy Trinity Anglican Church hall, Victoria St. in Metcalfe. Light refreshments served.

Tuesdays:

The Greely Friendship Club meeting every second Tuesday of the month for a pot luck lunch from11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Membership is $5 per year and $4 per lunch Introductory meeting free with pot-luck contribution.

Wednesdays:

Want to meet new friends and have a great workout?

Come to the MET (Metropolitan Bible Church) every Wednesday from 12:15 to 1:15 p.m. for a free women’s fitness class with a certified fitness instructor.

The sessions include a five-minute inspirational fit tip. Contact the church office at 613-238-8182.

Thursdays:

Come out and play 4Hand Euchre at Our Lady of the Visitation Parish Hall, 5338 Bank Street every Thursday from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. during July, August and September.

You do not need a partner.

Entry fee $5. Enjoy complimentary light refreshments. For information call 613-822-1430.

Every Thursday starting at 6:30 p.m. enjoy bingo at the Osgoode Legion, 3284 Sunstrum St. in Osgoode.

All money raised at these weekly events goes back to the community.

Bring your “dabbers” and come out to support your local legion bingo.

Fridays:

The Greely East Osgoode & District Association invites you to its Old Time Fiddle and Country Dance, Greely Community Centre, 1448 Meadow Dr. the first Friday of each month, 7:30 to 11 p.m.

We welcome all musicians and singers. Admission $5 for non-musicians, yearly membership available.

For additional information call 613-489-2697.

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ARIES - Mar 21/Apr 20 Aries, your imagination is running wild, and that can be a good thing.

You are full of inspiration and fun ideas this week, which only makes you more charming.

TAURUS - Apr 21/May 21 Taurus, you may need to open new lines of communication to complete an important project this week. Don’t be afraid to engage others as your deadline nears.

GEMINI - May 22/Jun 21 Gemini, this week is a great time to put plans you have been keeping private in motion. Enjoy this exciting time and don’t hesitate to share your excitement with others.

CANCER - Jun 22/Jul 22 Cancer, your love of competition comes to the forefront this week.

This competitive spirit may open new doors for you. Make the most of these opportunities.

LEO - Jul 23/Aug 23 Leo, use this week as a time to conduct some personal inventory.

Opportunity awaits around the corner, and your work this week will help you make the most of this new development.

VIRGO - Aug 24/Sept 22 Virgo, make this week all about spending time with your significant other. Plan a date night or sit and snuggle. Enjoy every moment you get to spend together.

LIBRA - Sept 23/Oct 23 Libra, your responsibilities beckon this week. You enjoy being responsible, so don’t sweat it when you must make some decisions. Be confident that you will make the right calls.

SCORPIO - Oct 24/Nov 22 Scorpio, you are ready to embrace the great outdoors and all it has to offer. You never know what adventure awaits you, but you know one is on the horizon.

SAGITTARIUS - Nov 23/Dec 21 Sagittarius, you have a lot of energy this week. Put that bounce in your step to good use by fixing up something around the house or beginning a new fitness regimen.

CAPRICORN - Dec 22/Jan 20 Your words will carry significant weight this week, Capricorn. With that realization comes much responsibility. Make sure you wield your influence accordingly.

AQUARIUS - Jan 21/Feb 18 Aquarius, a financial windfall might be headed your way in the weeks to come. Allow yourself some time to splurge, but do your best to save some money as well.

PISCES - Feb 19/Mar 20 Bold action is awarded this week, Pisces. You are one of the few people in your circle willing to take a few chances, and that will pay off soon.

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1556 Michael Street, Ottawa HOURS: Monday to Friday Saturday Sunday

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10:00am - 5:00pm 9:30am – 5:00pm 11:00am – 5:00pm

613-834-3343

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WHEN YOU VISIT

DAN MURPHY FORD

Lariat Model Shown

2015 F150 CREW 4x4 300A

% 349@ 0 161

$

Titanium Model Shown

2015 FOCUS SE SEDAN

% 215@ 0 99

LEASE FOR THE EQUIVALENT OF

$

$

LEASE FOR THE EQUIVALENT OF

42 $

BI-WEEKLY

BASED ON A 48 MONTH LEASE:

BASED ON A 24 MONTH LEASE:

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WITH $3,512 DOWN

O OFFER INcLUDES $6000 IN MANUFAcTURER REBATES O cOSTcO MEMBERS ARE ELIgIBLE FOR AN ADDITIONAL $1,000 UNTIL ApRIL 30TH (20,000kms/year low km lease) Down and monthly do not include tax

O NATIONAL OFFER SpEc: F150 cREW 4x4 xLT / 3.5L V6 TIVcT / 145” WB / 300A

ApR

BI-WEEKLY

WITH $2,232 DOWN

O NATIONAL OFFER SpEc: FOcUS SE SEDAN / AUTO / Ac / 200A O 16” pAINTED ALUMINUM WHEELS

O REAR VIEW cAMERA O SYNc WITH 6-SpEAKER AUDIO

(48M lease / $2232 down / ultra low km lease 16,000kms/year) Down and monthly do not include tax

27,099 STARTINg AS LOW AS

(V6 VALUE LEADER)

$

% 280@ 0 129 LEASE FOR THE EQUIVALENT OF

BI-WEEKLY

$

BASED ON A 48 MONTH LEASE:

O NATIONAL OFFER SpEc: EScApE SE FWD / 2.5L I4 / AUTO / Ac / 100A O cOSTcO MEMBERS ARE ELIgIBLE FOR AN ADDITIONAL $1,000 UNTIL ApRIL 30TH

CALL NOW! or go to

(48M lease / $2232 down / ultra low km lease 16,000kms/year) Down and monthly do not include tax

DANMURPHYFORD.com

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WITH $2,232 DOWN

613-692-3594

Barrhaven

Riverside South Manotick

1346 Bankfield Road, Manotick

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2015 MUSTANG O 0% ApR pURcHASE FINANcINg FOR Up TO 60 MONTHS

$

Titanium Model Shown

2015 ESCAPE SE

GT Fastback Model Shown

4 DAYS ONLY! SAVE

SAVE

NOW

NOW

100

$

249

199

99

2200-PSI BRIGGS & STRATTON GAS PRESSURE WASHER

99

99

DEWALT 20V MAX DRILL KIT

Lithium-ion drill/impact driver kit. 1⁄2˝ drill/driver with 2-speed transmission. 1⁄4˝ impact driver with LED. Includes two 1.5 Ah batteries, 30-minute fast charger and case. 54-3177-4. Reg 299.99

25´ high-pressure hose.

Easy Start feature. 39-8542-2. Reg 349.99

99

APRIL 23 TO APRIL 26, 2015

100

$

SPECIAL BUY!

THURSDAY TO SUNDAY

SAVE

SAVE

65

30

%*

%

SAVE

60% FROM

MASTERCRAFT 4-GALLON PANCAKE COMPRESSOR. Ideal for inflation, fastening, air brushing and more. No oil required! Delivers 4.0 CFM at 40 PSI and 2.8 CFM at 90 PSI. Maximum of 135 PSI. While quantities last. Sorry, no rainchecks. 299-3115-0

SAVE

30

%

1199

119.96 20V MAX LITHIUM-ION 1⁄2˝ 2-SPEED DRILL/ DRIVER AND RECIPROCATING SAW. Mastercraft drill

and reciprocating saw with BONUS LED work light. Includes charger, 2 batteries and carry bag. 299-2172-8.

SPECIAL BUY! 16.99 GAS CAN COMBO, 5L & 20L.

* If bought separately, our combined reg price would be $359.96.

While quantities last. Sorry, no rainchecks

While quantities last. Sorry, no rainchecks. 99-3107-6.

*If bought separately, our combined Reg price would be $24.99.

13, 21, 29-piece sets. 54-3645X. Reg 29.99-89.99

SAVE

SAVE

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75

70

%

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11.99-35.99 MAXIMUM 7-EDGE TITANIUM- COATED DRILL BITS

175

$

NOW NOW

Energizer Max AA-20, AAA-12 or 9V-6 packs. 65-0081X. Reg 16.39-21.19

9

SAVE

SAVE

11.47-14.83 BATTERY MULTI-PACKS

70%

99

3499 HEAVY-DUTY POWER BAR

8 outlets. Steel housing. On/off switch. 6´ cord.

52-7261-2. Reg 39.99

65%

253-PIECE DRILL & DRIVE BIT SET

Includes metal, wood and masonry drill bits plus a variety of screwdriving bits. 54-4207-8. Reg 119.99

*

SAVE

60% NOW

NOW

4499 CUISINART KNIFE SET

15-piece forged stainless-steel set.

42-3088-4. Reg 149.99

NOW

999 KITCHENAID CUTTING BOARD

12 x 18˝ bamboo board. 142-8365-6. Reg 32.99

NOW

1999 EA

FLUID DELUXE PFD FOR ADULTS

CCG-approved. Sizes: S/M, L/XL, XXL-XXXL. 79-1928X. Reg 49.99

12499 21´ MULTI-TASK LADDER

Converts into a step, offset, 90-degree or extension ladder or twin “A” frames for use with plank* (*not included) to create a work platform. Grade 1A, up to 300-lb capacity. 61-1056-6. Reg 299.99

Don’t have a card? Apply at Customer Service Accessories shown on this page not included.

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OUR GARDEN CENTRE HAS GREAT GIFT IDEAS FOR MOM! FRIDAY TO THURSDAY APRIL 24 TO APRIL 30, 2015

GARDENCENTRE WHERE GORGEOUS GARDENS BEGIN!

SATURDAY ONLY! APRIL 25

HURRY IN!

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40

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PROMO TOP SOIL 20L. Hurry In! While quantities lasts.

Sorry no rainchecks. 99-0100-8

%

Sale 4.99 Reg 5.99

GOLFGREEN ENRICHED LAWN SOIL. CIL Golfgreen Lawn Soil. Helps retain moisture for faster germination. 59-4852-0.

SAVE

Sale 10.79 Reg 17.99

GOLFGREEN PREMIUM GRASS SEED. CIL Golfgreen Grass Seed. SureStart Xtreme technology. Assorted types. 1.5kg. 59-6767X.

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15

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Sale 3.99 Reg 6.99 Scotts Mulch. Helps improve water retention and prevent weeds.

Long-lasting colour. 2 cu-ft. 59-4930X.

Sale 27.99 Reg 32.99 CIL Bio-Weed & Feed.

Corn-gluten based formula feeds lawns and helps inhibit weeds.

59-2384-6.

SAVE

SAVE

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15

%

99

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Sale 2.39-6.39 Reg 2.99-7.99 Mini Roses. 2.5˝, 4˝ or 6˝ indoor flowering plants. Assorted colours. 33-2206X.

¢

Assorted 1-Gallon Fruits.

Enjoy fresh berries from your garden. 33-0849X.

Seed Geranium Pot. 3.5˝ pot. Add a burst of colour to your garden. 33-0702X.

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20

%

Sale 17.59-55.99 Reg 21.99-69.99 Assorted Troy-Bilt Garden Tools. Rakes, hoes, shovels, spades or spading fork. 59-1070X.

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