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Inside Mill quarter NEWS board reveals Dickinson Square plan Emma Jackson
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Parks Canada is taking boaters at their word and is encourging, rather then demanding, that boats slow down as they pass through Manotick. – Page 4
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The pages of Sir Winston Churchill’s Canadian wartime speech are on display on Parliament Hill thanks to a Manotick resident. – Page 5
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Manotick is getting ready for Dickinson Days on the June 1 weekend. There is a great deal for everyone to do and see. – Page 11
EMC news – A proposal to develop Manotick’s Dickinson Square while preserving the heritage buildings around it was met with mixed reaction at an open house on Thursday, May 24. The Manotick Mill Quarter Community Development Corporation, a private corporation wholly owned by the City of Ottawa, revealed a detailed proposal to protect the square’s heritage buildings and surrounding open space “in perpetuity” while putting restrictions on the kinds of development city planners would like to see in the immediate area. The first pillar of the plan is the creation of a protective easement over the green space where popular community events like Dickinson Days are held. While it will be up for sale to a private landowner, the city has created a “special events easement” that would basically require the owner to keep the space as green space forever, city planner Dave Powers said. No buildings or additions can be built within the easement, which loops itself around Dickinson House, Weaver House and the carriage shed along Mill and Dickinson Streets. The space will be made available to Watson’s Mill and other community groups to host events. This is more cost effective than turning the green space into an official city park, because the city won’t have to maintain it, Powers said. Plus, the city would get revenue from the sale. The second pillar is a number of architectural design controls on developments that could take place outside the easement once the heritage buildings are sold. These design controls would dictate the character and design of additions onto heritage buildings and any development of a new mixed use building at 1125 Clapp Lane. Zoning amendments would allow a greater range of commercial, institutional and residential uses in the additions and new developments, from banks and personal service businesses to boutique shops, restaurants and bed and breakfasts. Each use would be limited to 120 square metres, which Powers said will be a disincentive to more mundane uses like banks, pharmacies and other services that would create traffic and parking problems and take away from the heritage feel of the square. RESIDENTS see page 13
A thrill a minute at the Gloucester Fair
Emma Jackson
Clifford Bowey Public School students Anni and Des take a spin at the Gloucester Fair on Wednesday, May 23. Hydro Ottawa hosted almost 900 students with special needs for its annual Special Needs Day at the fair, located at the Rideau Carleton Raceway. Students had the run of the midway all day Wednesday, a day before the fair officially opened to the public.
Mill gets $100,000 for roof Anonymous gift shocks fundraisers, doubles coffers Emma Jackson
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EMC news – “It’s like the heavens opened up and down it came.” Those were the words of pure awe from Terry McGovern, chairman of the Raise the Roof fundraising campaign at Watson’s Mill, after he learned that an anonymous donor will give $100,000 to the mill’s roof replacement fund. The donation was announced on Sunday, May 27 just before Les Emmerson took the stage for a Raise the
Roof benefit concert at Manotick United Church. The donation was processed through the Community Foundation of Ottawa, and vice president Bibi Patel presented an oversized cheque to Watson’s Mill manager Isabel Geoffrion. McGovern said he was in total shock when he heard days before anyone else that such a large private donation was being made. “You could have knocked me over with a feather, it was astound-
ing. This was beyond anything you could dream of, especially from an individual,” he said. The historic grist mill on the Rideau River has a chronically leaking roof that is in dire need of replacement. A fundraising committee has been quietly pushing its Raise the Roof campaign to its own members and contacts since December 2011, but only officially launched the campaign on May 5 during the mill’s opening day. MILL see page 12
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