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“We wanted to offer something that had minimal impact on the existing woodlot,” Hemmings said.

Landscape architect Anne-Claude Schellenberg, a consultant with the city of Ottawa, said the activity nodes are making a comeback since the ParticipACTION craze 40 years ago.

“It was a trend in the 1970s, but this is kind of updating that concept and it’s all coming back,” she said.

That park will be connected by a culvert crossing to Pebble Trail Park in the planned Thunderbird Cove development, which has not yet been registered with the city. That park won’t be finished until the owner decides to start developing the property. The city plans to install a play structure, a basketball court and a mini soccer field on the lot. That park is also in the 2013 budget.

Greely Community Association president Bruce Brayman said he was “pleasantly surprised” to find a soccer field and basketball court in the plan.

“I didn’t think we were going to get them,” he said, noting the mini soccer field will be an especially welcome addition to the village.

“Its mini fields we need.

My daughter had to play down in Vars, Osgoode and Kars (because there aren’t enough in Greely). So minis are what’s needed most.”

Brayman said the activity nodes will also be a positive addition. “People who are joggers will use it, absolutely. Kids will use it, too, for fun. You’ll have teenagers hanging off them,” he said.

South Village neighbourhood watch co-ordinator John McCormick said he’s very pleased with the proposed plans, but would like to see more options for teenagers to help them burn off their “natural energy.”

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A small group of residents applauded the city of Ottawa’s plans for three neighbourhood parks in Greely, after staff hosted an open house on Thursday, Jan. 12.

The three parks are close together and relatively small, and have been designed in conjunction so they can share amenities, explained city parks planner Jennifer Hemmings. She said since they are so small – ranging from 0.5 to 1.2 hectares – they are intended to be “neighbourhood parks” used only by residents who live in their vicinity. Combined together, however, they constitute something like a community park, she said.

The first park will be built in the summer of 2012 on the western edge of Greely’s South Village development.

The park will include junior and senior play structures following a “nature theme” including elements such as faux tree trunk bases and oversized toadstools for climbing. The 0.5 hectare park would also include some informal paths.

Directly north of South Village Park the city plans to develop Pebble Trail Woods in the Woodstream development, likely in 2013. The small lot is currently a wooded area, and the city intends to maintain the woodlot’s natural features while building several informal pathways through the trees. The path would include seven different “activity nodes.”

Some would be made from more natural elements, such as balance logs or uneven stone steps. Other nodes would be man-made workout structures such as push up beams, chin up bars, a sit-up bench and a metal swirl for stretching.

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Greely teen wins top scholarship for math Emma Jackson

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A Greely teen is one of three high school students in Canada to win the most prestigious undergraduate scholarship in the country, sending him to England’s Cambridge University next fall to study math.

James Rickards, a Grade 12 Colonel By Secondary School student who lives off Manotick Station Road, found out early January that he had won the Blyth Cambridge Commonwealth Trust Scholarship, worth $150,000 over his three year undergraduate degree. It covers tuition, living expenses, travel, and food.

Rickards is one of 40 math students accepted to Trinity

Hall at the university, a college founded in the 1500s that boasts such famous alumni as Isaac Newton, Bertrand Russell, Prince Charles, and six British prime ministers.

Rickards said he was “very happy” to win the scholarship – but for anyone who knows him, the accomplishment is not surprising.

Growing up, Rickards’ father helped him practice mental math skills outside his normal homework. By the time he graduated elementary school, he had finished Ontario’s entire high school math curriculum through self-study, and subsequent competency tests allowed him to skip math in high school and instead study one-on-one with University of

Ottawa math professors.

Professor Barry Jessup helped Rickards learn first and second-year mathematics when he was in Grade 10. Jessup said Rickards is “exceptionally hard working.”

“He has an enormous future, there’s no question,” he said.

By Grade 10 Rickards had written an original math paper on polynomials outlining his discoveries on the topic.

In April 2011, the paper was published in the American Mathematical Monthly, a well-read trade magazine that usually publishes works from professional math researchers with Ph.Ds in their subject area.

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team at the International Mathematical Olympiad in Amsterdam, where he won a silver medal.

All of this put Rickards ahead of his peers in the very competitive race for the Blyth scholarship, said Rickards’ father Jim. “We looked at his resume and it was pretty strong. Nobody writes math papers in Grade 10 and gets them published,” he said. “Of course, all the finalists would have good marks, but he had all these extra things. I was nervous about him not making it but if he didn’t make it I would be scratching my head and wondering why.”

The scholarship is key to Rickards’ future; without it, he likely wouldn’t be able to

In Grade 11, Rickards brought the International Tournament of Towns math contest to Ottawa.

He organized the students, the adjudicating professors, and the event details so that students in Ottawa wouldn’t have to drive to Toronto to participate. This led Mayor Jim Watson and Osgoode Coun. Doug Thompson to write a community reference letter for Rickards’ Cambridge scholarship application this fall.

“I’m very proud of him,” Thompson said. “I’ve never encountered someone with those abilities.”

In July, Rickards was part of Canada’s six-student math

No one else from Rickards’ accept his spot at Cambridge.

“If I didn’t get the scholar- school is going to Cambridge ship I probably wouldn’t go. University, but Rickards said It’s not the tuition, it’s more he knows a few people in his the residence expenses and program through math comliving costs. If it was a univer- petitions and other events.

His father said apart from sity over here with the same tuition I might be able to go, the worldly experience of livbut it was just too expensive,” ing overseas, Rickards is sure to benefit from finally being Rickards said.

Other options included among his peers.

“It’s a pretty big deal. For Harvard University in Boston and the Michigan Institute of the first time he’s going to be studying with people of Technology.

Rickards said he’s ex- his own ability, and we knew cited to move to England in that was the place for him,” he September, even if it means said. Rickards said he’ll likely leaving home far behind. become a professor or a math “The only place I’ve been in researcher, working in theoEurope is Amsterdam for the retical math rather than math math competition. So getting with real-world applications.

Rickards leaves mid-Septo see a whole different part of aler a r classes ea to start in Octhe world will be a lot of fun,”d etember dealer area tober. he said.

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Jim Rickards, left, said his son James will be among his true peers when he begins studying math at Cambridge University next fall, on a $150,000 scholarship. James is one of three in Canada to win the scholarship.

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Shiverfest heats up with new attractions Emma Jackson

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Shiverfest returns to Manotick this weekend with some new and exciting additions.

The Manotick Village Community Association has expanded its chili cook-off, planned a showcase of local bands and added a trivia contest at the Mill Tavern.

Association vice president and Shiverfest organizer Jan Hynes said the changes are meant to reach out to new demographics in the community.

“Because Shiverfest has in the past focused on very young children, we wanted something that would target kids in the teenager group,” Hynes said the of the band showcase. As for the trivia contest, that’s for a whole different group altogether.

“It’s more for the adults and seniors. We’re looking for people who want to get out and enjoy. We’re certainly going to encourage the elderly to come out, because it’s a fun event,” she said.

The band showcase will take place Saturday, Jan. 28 from 6 to 9 p.m. in the Manotick arena hall. Four local bands, all with teenaged musicians, will take the stage for the all-ages event for teens and pre-teens aged about 11

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Sleigh rides will again take families for a good old-fashioned spin around Centennial Park on Saturday, Jan. 28. The weekend is packed with events for the whole family. to 15. Admission is free, and a pop and pizza combo costs $3. Manotick band Hollarado, which won a local battle of the bands several years ago and now tours nationally, has donated several t-shirts to be raffled off at the event.

Hynes said the event existed last year but was billed more as a dance.

“It was called a dance, but nobody danced. They’re teeny boppers and they go to listen to the bands, so we decided to make it more of a showcase of the local talent,” she said.

Bands in the showcase include Portrait of an Artist, The Fairest, Discombobulated, and solo artist Bailey Stanutz.

The trivia contest is brand new this year and is expected to attract about 70 people on Sunday afternoon, when it’s hosted at the Mill Tavern between 1 and 4 p.m. Tickets are $15 each, with all proceeds going to the Raise the Roof campaign to replace the badly leaking roof at Watson’s Mill.

Changes to the second annual chili cook-off on Saturday afternoon at the Manotick Legion include the creation of an amateur category and a professional category. Last year’s inaugural contest was open to residents and businesses without any categories, and as a result there was only one non-business winner.

The fee to taste-test has gone up from $2 last year to $5, to help raise more money for Raise the Roof. Hynes said the event should be very popular.

“Last year it was very successful. We had 26 or 27 participants and the legion was packed,” she said.

Third place winner Ryan Keon, lawyer and former Liberal candidate in the area, isn’t able to participate this year but offered some sage advice to his fellow chili aficionados.

“You’ve got to go absolutely up the middle with a totally basic, really good chili,” he said. “Everybody else makes exotic chilis, which are great,

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Frosty takes a toboggan ride at last year’s Shiverfest in Manotick. This year’s winter carnival will run from Friday, Jan. 27 to Sunday, Jan. 29 with several new events to complement old favourites. but the exotic chilis are very hit or miss. With your basic chili you come right up the middle.”

Despite the new additions, Shiverfest will still feature its classic events, including the Friday night family skate, bonfire and children’s party at the Manotick arena, the Kiwanis pancake breakfast on Saturday morning, and sleigh rides, tobogganing and skat-

ing at Centennial Park on Saturday afternoon.

The Manotick Co-operative Nursery School will host a children’s fun time for ages two to six at the arena during the Kiwanis breakfast, and Dino Reptiles will showcase exotic lizards and snakes from 1 to 2 p.m.

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Park promises to make a difference to community Continued from the front

“Older adolescents don’t have anything, they still don’t have a skateboard park or anything.

There’s got to be something for the early- to mid-teenagers, where they can just burn their energy and have fun, and not do vandalism,” McCormick said.

Osgoode Coun. Doug Thompson said he’s heard such comments loud and clear, and is looking into bringing a permanent skate park to the Greely Community Centre.

“This (park plan) is great for younger families and for seniors to get out and get active, but (lack of activities for teenagers) is something we’ve certainly heard and would like to follow through with if it’s possible,” he said.

He said Manotick’s permanent skate park outside the arena and Osgoode’s mini one behind the Osgoode Youth Association have been very successful, and could work in Greely. Mobile skate parks that come in the summer are always packed, he added.

Thompson said the most positive comments he’s heard about the park development have been about connectivity.

In a village where each development tends to keep to itself and abide by its own set of rules, Thompson said it’s nice to see some integration.

“There’s a sense of connection here between the subdivisions, they’ve sort of intertwined with the parklands.

It’s really exciting for the community because we’re finally getting to the point where we’re starting to look at

connectivity for the village,” he said.

At previous community design plan meetings, many residents have asked for more paths connecting subdivisions.

McCormick has been pushing for subdivision integration since he moved here three years ago. Thompson said the

park integration is a step in the right direction.

“Paths will be a challenge, but it’s nice to see when we do have parkland to develop that’s in close proximity that we can connect them,” he said.

Although South Village Park won’t connect to the other two parks right away, Hem-

mings said once Thunderbird Cove is built out there will be a connecting walkway to help residents access the other two areas.

Comments can be directed to park planner Jennifer Hemmings at 613-580-2424 ext 20157 or jennifer.hemmings@ ottawa.ca.

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OC Transpo backtracks on bus GPS release Money to be made if data kept secret, transit agency says Laura Mueller

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OC Transpo thinks it’s a better idea to make money off live GPS transit data than to release it openly to the public, the city’s transit commission heard at a meeting on Jan. 17.

Previously, OC Transpo general manager Alain Mercier promised the bus location information would be released as “open data” when the transit agency could ensure its accuracy through technology upgrades.

Despite promising that information would be open to the public as recently at December, Mercier now says he will leave the decision up to the transit commission. The group will be charged with deciding what’s more important: potential advertising revenue from the only mobile app that can show real-time bus locations, or the city’s commitment to transparency through its open data initiative.

An OC Transpo marketing plan says the transit agency could stand to raise $1.1 million by 2014 by leveraging the real-time bus-location data.

That dilemma won’t face the commission for another few months (likely in the summer), as OC Transpo awaits information from the market and advertisers about how much transit advertising op-

portunities – including ads on an app – are worth to them.

The loss of potential revenue isn’t the only cost of making the data open said Robert Delage, an OC Transpo technology manager who explained the issue to transit commissioners.

The group will be charged with deciding what’s more important: potential advertising revenue from the only mobile app that can show real-time bus locations, or the city’s commitment to transparency through its open data initiative.

The bus-location information would be the first “live” open data stream the city would provide (all other streams are static), and there is a cost involved with maintaining that type of information and hosting it, Delage said.

Developing an app to interpret the data requires “deep knowledge” of the transit sys-

tem, Delage said.

The city did release bus-location data briefly during its Apps4Ottawa contest in 2010 and early 2011, and transit apps were very popular: “Where is My Bus?,” an app developed by Nepean resident Jonathan Rudenberg, won the people’s choice award. But some other bus apps didn’t work and left OC Transpo to field calls about the bad information they were putting out to the public, Delage said.

But that message from Delage and Mercier came under harsh criticism from some commissioners, including Kanata North Coun. Marianne Wilkinson and Beacon Hill-Cyrville Coun. Tim Tierney (the former and current heads of the city’s information technology subcommittee).

They decried OC Transpo’s move away from its previous commitment to release the open data and challenged the notion that preventing public access to the information could make the city more money.

If the city’s app, which it intends to release before any bus-location data would be made public if the commission approves, is better than other developer’s apps, it will make more money off advertising, Wilkinson said.

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Debate over the use of apps for OC Transpo heats up freezing winter weather. models, including the system used in Winnipeg, and he said he doesn’t see a correlation between open data and lost revenue.

OC Transpo has an advantage because it is in the best position to integrate additional information about bus cancellations and other special messages with the GPS data in its app, so the transit agency already has an advantage that will guarantee it can

attract more advertising than other apps, Tierney said.

He disagreed with the change in direction he heard from commission chair Coun.

Diane Deans (GloucesterSouthgate) and Mercier, and the IT subcommittee chairman said he would not back down on this issue.

In the future, Tierney said he would prefer to see another member of the commission’s four-person working group

on technology issues deliver updates on that group’s work to the full commission, rather than Deans.

Those statements were good news for Open Data Ottawa, an advocacy group that has been pushing for the release of bus-location info.

Alex Lougheed, the group’s spokesperson, said open data and revenue generation aren’t mutually exclusive, and he was disappointed to hear the issue framed that way by OC Transpo.

He suggested the city could keep more money in its pocket by ditching a plan to develop its own transit app – a costly process – and leave private developers to do that.

Opening the data is a great way to increase confidence in the transit system and make it easier to use, Lougheed said, and that will help OC Transpo achieve its main goal of increasing ridership.

In fact, just a 0.5 per cent increase in ridership would generate the same amount of money OC Transpo hoped to raised through monetizing the GPS data, Lougheed claimed.

He encouraged anyone who is concerned about this issue to contact their city councillor, transit commissioners and the mayor and make their voices heard.

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Bus data suddenly top secret The writing has been on the walls for months, but the powers that be at OC Transpo made it official last week: the transit authority thinks it’s a bad idea to give citizens direct access to information about where their buses are.

The new attitude flies in the face of the city’s relatively new and progressive policy on “open data” – streams of information about city services and infrastructure that can be used to power mobile and computer applications

(“apps”) to give people easy ways to make that data useful for taxpayers.

There are data sets on child-care facilities, drinking water quality, the cycling network, park locations and much more.

But not GPS location data from OC Transpo buses.

That is, unless members of the city’s transit commission stand up to chair Diane Deans and OC Transpo general manager Alain Mercier’s claims that the information

needs to be kept for the transit authority’s exclusive use in order to make it valuable to advertisers.

OC Transpo’s business and marketing plan claims the possibility of $1.1 million in new ad revenue in the bus location information, presumably from advertising on a mobile-phone app and from ads displayed on screens with updated bus arrival times at stations.

But Mercier says that amount of dough would only

flow in if OC Transpo was the sole source of real-time information about where buses are.

The problem is experts on transit data and how other big cities use it say that isn’t the case.

In fact, Open Data Ottawa says the city could probably make more revenue – and save money – by avoiding the expense of creating its own app. If the data is openly available, private developers would find a way to make it

useful to riders at no cost to the city. It has already been done – the most popular app in a city-run contest was Where is My Bus? Offering the information needed to create tools to make transit easier to use can also pay off by increasing trust and confidence in the system, and that in turn increases ridership and revenue.

But beyond the common sense of making the information public, and beyond the fact that many major cities have already demonstrated that this is the best practice, the city made a promise to share the data.

City council made a

commitment to a new era of transparency at city hall, and a large part of that has been a stronger focus on open data.

And Mercier himself committed publicly and directly to app developers that he would make the bus GPS data available.

Where OC Transpo and the city had an opportunity to increase public goodwill in a maligned post-“route optimization” period, it has instead set the stage to alienate the very people who clamour to help people use the transit system more easily.

The transit commissioners shouldn’t let OC Transpo get away with it.

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Betting against a casino in Toronto CHARLES GORDON Funny Town All of us who live in and around Ottawa have only the fondest feelings for Toronto and want it to prosper and be recognized internationally for the exceptional city that it is. It is much easier for us to have these fond feelings after our hockey team has defeated theirs.

Right now, Toronto has another opportunity to stand out and be recognized as distinctive and wonderful. It can do this by refusing to build a casino.

The Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation is reported to be about to recommend a casino for Toronto, perhaps at Ontario Place.

The mayor is said to be favourably disposed to the idea. Some city councillors are positively drooling. A bit of opposition to the idea has been voiced, notably by the Conservative leader, Tim Hudak, but it based mostly inefficiencies in the lottery corporation and the new casino’s impact on casinos in smaller Ontario communities, such as Niagara Falls and Windsor. You don’t see too many people objecting to the principle of the thing.

Perhaps we’ve been living with casinos for too long. People can get used to anything after awhile, even a bad smell. You can see where Toronto would be sorely tempted to go for the casino. Casinos are reputed to attract tourists, even though they don’t always do so. In border towns, with a weak Canadian dollar, they worked OK. Not so much now.

Perhaps a more important appeal of the casino has to do with the city’s reputation.

Toronto has always wanted to be considered world class and people with not quite as much imagination as they should have think that the way to be world class is to have what every

other city in the world does.

When, in fact, it’s the opposite.

The urgency of not building a casino is underscored by the fact that casinos are not very helpful institutions. They take money out of the hands of people who should really be doing something else with it. They contribute to the growth of gambling addiction, a serious problem in our society. Among those most affected by gambling addiction are governments, who have come to depend on the revenue generated by casinos as a sneaky form of taxation.

Rather than an honest tax, openly levied on the basis of people’s ability to pay or their retail purchases, it is a disguised tax, based on people’s desperation.

You would not know this from the way casinos are promoted – with pictures of elegant men in dinner jackets and women in evening dresses out for a sophisticated night on the town, sipping cocktails beside a roulette table and laughing. Those people, in the imagination of casino supporters, spend lots of money shopping and dining and staying over and helping to stimulate the local economy. In reality, the men and women are wearing parkas and glumly feeding loonies into machines until they get back on the bus and go home, contributing nothing to the local economy except perhaps for those engaged in addiction control.

Toronto could look at Thunder Bay, which put a casino into its downtown in the hopes of saving it, which it didn’t. Toronto could look at Hull, now Gatineau, where the casino sucked the life out of the downtown at night.

Toronto doesn’t need a casino to attract tourists or entertain its own people. It has professional baseball and hockey and basketball and theatre and museums and nifty neighborhoods.

Some day it may even have a decent harbourfront (not that we in Ottawa should talk).

Therefore, if Toronto is wise, it could brag: “Look, our city is so world class that we don’t even need a casino!”

With any luck, other cities all over the globe would begin demolishing theirs, to be like Toronto. What a world-class world that would be.

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B) Private developers should shoulder the cost of creating apps.

C) All city data like this should be freely available.

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The Greely winter carnival has arrived, and the sculpting, skating, singing and sleighing continues into the weekend.

The annual carnival run by the Greely Community Association began Tuesday night with a chili and spaghetti dinner and family skate at the Greely Community Centre.

Residents had Wednesday night off to brush up on their bluffs in time for Thursday night’s Texas Hold’em poker night.

Registration begins at 6 p.m., with games beginning at 7 p.m. and 8 p.m. Players must be 18 years or older to play, and it costs $20 to buy in.

On Friday, Jan. 27 kids and teens can enjoy the Greely Pathfinders’ pizza party and dance at the community centre. The pizza party will run from 5 to 6:30 p.m. and the dance will begin at 6:30 p.m.

Parents are responsible for kids aged five to 12. Pizza is $4 a slice and the dance is $5, but party-goers can get both for $8.

Saturday, Jan. 28 will be jam-packed with events for the entire family, beginning with the Greely Firefighters pancake breakfast from 8:30 to 11 a.m.

A magician will provide free family fun with magic and balloons from 11 a.m. to noon, and free sleigh rides begin outside the community centre at 1 p.m.

The carnival’s biggest draw, the annual Greely Idol, will begin auditions at 1 p.m. in the community centre for junior and senior participants.

“They should put in definite dance moves or anything to enhance their song so they have the whole package, not just a voice. Wear a costume or an outfit and something that suits the song,” Pamela Dans

Each participant will have about two minutes to strut their stuff, and finalists will return Sunday afternoon for a final showdown at 2 p.m.

Prizes include a recording session with local studio Blue Bear Sound.

Host and organizer Pamela Dans said competitors should try to bring “the whole package.”

“They should put in definite dance moves or anything to enhance their song so they have the whole package, not just a voice.

Wear a costume or an outfit and something that suits the song,” Dans said. “Get into the song and make it yours.”

She recommended practicing in front of the mirror and family or friends.

All members of the community are welcome to watch the auditions and finals at the community centre, she said.

After the Idol auditions, the Greely Community Association will host a dinner buffet and Absolute Comedy show between 6 and 10 p.m. For $35, residents can enjoy cocktails at 6 p.m., dinner at 6:30 p.m. and a three-act comedy show from 8 to 10 p.m. Tickets for just the show are $15.

A DJ will take over after the show if members of the audience want to enjoy a chance to dance the night away without going to the city.

After the excitement of Saturday, Sunday’s events start later with the Greely Lions family brunch running from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

Radical Science will present a “fun science demonstration” from noon to 1 p.m. for the kids, and Greely Idol finals will begin at 2 p.m.

Throughout the weekend, the community rink will be open for skating.

The association has also introduced a new snow sculpting event on Saturday and Sunday.

Community groups, schools and families can sign up for a spot to build their sculptures, although it’s not a contest.

Groups can truck in their own snow, water, tools and nontoxic dyes to create their art.

“Anything goes. They can be as creative as they want to be,” said organizer Tina Eggens.

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Ottawa Police are asking for the public’s help to find a man they believe is responsible for a bank robbery in the 1500 block of Bank Street, near Heron Road, in Ottawa South.

According to a press release, the lone man entered a bank on Jan.17 and produced a note making a demand for cash. The suspect obtained an undisclosed amount of cash and fled the area on foot. No injuries were reported.

The suspect is described as a Caucasian male aged between 20-25 years, approximately 1.83 metres tall, weighing about 95 kilograms. He spoke English with no accent.

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Opening on Feb. 3 and running until Feb. 20, the Winterlude will feature more than 50 public and private programming partners this year. With typically more than 100 volunteers who help out, the NCC is looking for the same enthusiasm this year for help with everything from hosting the ice carvers, escorting the Winterlude’s furry mascots the Ice Hog Family around town, and to act as information officers in both official languages.

Organizers said there is a need for individuals who speak French and are available on Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays to welcome visitors and school children. Winterlude activities will be taking place at the Rideau Canal Skateway, Snowflake Kingdom in Jacques-Cartier Park and at Rogers Crystal Garden in Confederation Park.

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Chewing gum a filthy habit according to Miss Crosby EMC Lifestyle - Gum was forbidden by Miss Crosby.

Not only in the Northcote School, but within a country mile of the school yard!

Chewing gum was right up there with swearing or telling a lie, both of which could earn you a good strapping if caught. Miss Crosby called chewing gum a “filthy habit.”

Now, Two Mile Herman didn’t pay much attention to the rules at the Northcote School. Oh, he didn’t really swear...sometimes he said “darn”, and he only lied if it was absolutely necessary. But he was known to talk out loud after we were in our seats, which was forbidden, and it

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Since introducing the column a few months ago and adding a new email address for general inquiries and questions on our web site we have heard from many community members. The overarching concern for many seems to be the uncertainty of whether calling the CAS is the right thing to do when there is a concern for a child.

Some of you have had a hunch, some of you have witnessed first-hand the abusive treatment of a child or youth, but all of you report that making that phone call is an extremely difficult decision to make.

Identifying child abuse for the untrained eye can be difficult. However, we all have a sense of when things just don’t feel right. What are the signs that cause someone to be concerned for a child’s safety and well-being? Often times indicators of abuse are as subtle as seeing a child consistently inappropriately dressed on cold winter days, or noticing a young child who seems to be left alone after school. These are the times when ascertaining whether or not to call the CAS is challenging. Unfortunately, the fears of being wrong or of meddling in affairs that aren’t our own seem to be large influencers in swaying people into looking the other way.

The Children’s Aid Society of Ottawa’s telephone intake team are experienced in receiving information from concerned community members. They ask questions of the callers to help determine if the concern is a matter that warrants the involvement of the Children’s Aid Society. Over the course of a year, the CAS receives over 25,000 calls, and a large number of those calls are simply questions from concerned community members for our intake workers. We call them consultations. Some of these calls are made anonymously. Not every call is investigated, and perhaps after gathering information that is provided to us all that a family needs is to be connected to appropriate services within the community. However, in some cases, it is that tiny bit of inconspicuous information, based on small observations and a gut feeling that something just isn’t right, that helps paint a picture of an unsafe, unhealthy, or abusive family environment in the home. It is important for the community to know that the role of the CAS is not only to investigate reports of abuse and to assess and intervene when necessary. The CAS can also provide education and supports to families in the city who are unsure where to turn for assistance.

It is far better to call the CAS and be wrong about your suspicions than to not call and potentially leave a child at risk of harm.

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took him forever to get down to work after prayers and singing God Save the King, both of which he was known to ignore taking part in.

Two Mile Herman loved gum. Wrigley’s came in sticks in green wrappers, and it was rumoured that Two Mile Herman spent every cent on gum at Briscoe’s General Store

that ever came his way.

He was known to cram three or four sticks in his mouth at one time. And he chewed it with his mouth wide open, so you could always see a big wad of Wrigley’s swishing around his teeth.

It was a cold winter’s day when the whole subject of Two Mile Herman’s love of gum caused such an uproar at the Northcote School, that it was forever after known as the “day Two Mile Herman got caught with his pants down.”

You could find wads of gum all over the school that Two Mile stashed for later chewing. If he had to get rid of it in a hurry, he could poke it into the door jam, under a window sill where no one could see it, and Cecil said he knew for a fact there was enough gum under Two Mile’s seat and desk to fill a milk can. Of course, he could retrieve it too. And it wasn’t beyond him, on his

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way out the door, to be seen, without even looking at it, to reach out and grab the wad he had placed there an hour or so before. He never lost track of where he had stuck the last mouthful.

Well, one day, it was if he had taken leave of his senses. He was rolling a big lump of gum around in his mouth when Miss Crosby had ordered us to our seats for morning prayer.

I heard Cecil whisper loud enough that he could be heard two rows over... “Two Mile… your gum.” I saw Two Mile put three fingers in his mouth, grab the gum, and press it onto the leg of his overalls.

It was the custom at the Northcote School, for Miss Crosby to ask one of the pupils to come forward and lead in singing God Save the King.

The prayer was over, and as luck would have it, she called out Herman’s name. He either forgot about the gum on his leg, or he figured it was too late to do anything about it. By now it was pretty well anchored to his overall just above his knee.

Of course, it didn’t take Miss Crosby more than a split second to spot the gum.

She let a roar out of her that could be heard in Douglas and demanded to know where the gum came from. Well, if nothing else, Two Mile Herman was a quick thinker. He looked down at his leg as if he had never laid eyes on it before.

The teacher ordered him out into the cloak room, which wasn’t really a room at all, just a partition separating the school room from the doorway. He was made to take off his overalls, and Miss Crosby followed him with the scissors. “Now, scrape it off,” she bellowed. None of us dared turn around in our seats to watch the performance, but we knew he would be out there standing in his long underwear.

My sister Audrey, in Senior Fourth, wondered if Miss Crosby was more mad about the gum, or over wasting most of the morning. At any rate, Two Mile Herman emerged eventually with his overalls back on, and the gum was gone. Audrey said Miss Crosby was too worn out to administer the strap, and eventually, the school room returned to normal.

Then it was time for recess.

Of course, we all headed back to the cloak room to get our coats. Two Mile Herman was the first to grab his off a hook.

I couldn’t believe my eyes.

He had stashed his wad of gum on the underpart of the board that held the hooks, and when he left the school to play outside, the gum was back in his mouth, swishing around as if it had never left it.

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Tips make working in the kitchen easier EMC Lifestyle - When you dice or chop vegetables such as onion, peppers or potatoes on a cutting board, it can sometimes be a challenge to transfer small pieces to a measuring cup or saucepan without spilling them.

The next time you have to do this, use an egg flipper.

Slip it under the chopped vegetables, and you’ll be able to lift even the smallest pieces without any spills. This also works well when you need to transfer chopped nuts from the cutting board.

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breaks up the flow of chunks so they are less likely to splash into the liquid.

If you have a bread machine or buy unsliced bread, it can be tricky to slice the last part of the loaf.

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OSU TeamS STaCk Up againST The BeST aT The eSpn - DiSney COllege ShOwCaSe Traveling on Dec. 24 or 25 would not be near the top of many people’s Christmas wish, unless one has been invited and accepted to participate in one North America’s most prestigious youth soccer showcases; The ESPN – DISNEY College Showcase in sunny Orlando, Florida.

Four, Ottawa South United (OSU) boys’ teams and one OSU girls’ team (one week later) packed their soccer gear and jetted to Florida to be the part of the only Canadian youth soccer club to be accepted in this ESPN - Disney Showcase event this year.

The OSU Force players who attended the Dec. 26-30 Disney College Showcase went to the event with a purpose.

“It’s pretty much a business trip for us. We don’t go down there for a vacation and we sort of make sure that they know that,” says Russell Shaw, who coached three of the five OSU teams at the tournament.

“That’s the time of year that most of the university scouts can come and see the players,” Shaw explains. “The tournament starts on the 27th and we want to have a couple days to get adjusted to the weather and train.”

It’s a hurdle most of OSU’s Sunbelt opponents don’t face – readjusting to natural grass and a warm climate. The OSU Force teams continued to train four times a week in advance of the event, but indoor training often isn’t ideal since they rarely are able to rent a full field except for the occasional exhibition.

But despite the additional challenge, the OSU teams all “performed well” at the competition.

The youngest group of OSU players, born in 1997, started with a big 5-0 victory over a Texas Lonestars team “and basically shocked everybody,” Shaw recounts, although his troops lost two other matches 1-0 to soccer academies from Florida and Georgia.

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The oldest group of OSU ’94s – who finished in second place this past summer in the Ontario Youth Soccer League – suffered two significant injuries in their first game and had only two substitutes for their final three contests. They still managed a tie and a win to move forward into the bronze medal match where they had “no legs left in the second half” and fell 4-2 to the Chicago Fire in the tournament’s top academy division.

“Years ago we were trying just to compete at the introductory showcase level and now we’re showing that we can compete at the highest academy showcase level,” stated OSU President, Bill Michalopulos, whose club is the only one from Canada to be consistently invited to participate in this specific event that requires high performance standards to be considered.

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Disney holds many soccer tournaments throughout the year open to all who want to play soccer but the December Showcase and the November Junior Showcase are all “business”.

They are unique by the fact that there is a strict qualification process in order to be considered as a participant and they rely heavily on targeted premium soccer club/academy invitations thus only attracting the very best soccer academies and soccer clubs that the continent has to offer. In addition, they are the only ones that attract professional scouts and university scouts not only from North America but Europe as well. “All in all, it was a very successful trip. The OSU players made the club proud.”

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The OSU ’96 girls also participated in the girls’ Disney showcase event, Dec. 31-Jan. 3, earning one tie and narrowly losing two other matches against teams from Tennessee, Florida and New York. The ’95 boys got one victory and the ’96 boys lost all three by close scores.

Although Disney provides an excellent opportunity for Ottawa players to test themselves against North America’s top youth clubs and players, the results are somewhat secondary to the opportunity the tournament offers to be seen by the hundreds of NCAA college coaches and scouts that attend this specific ESPN – DISNEY Showcase Tournament in December.

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“That’s the biggest value,” said Jim Lianos, OSU’s General Manager, noting that some of the OSU players received verbal offers, while others have built relationships with scouts from previous showcase events at Disney and the Dallas Cup. OSU sent seven Force Academy graduates to U.S. soccer schools on athletic scholarships last year, and six more to Canadian university teams.

“It’s not everything, but the December, Disney Showcase helps big-time” to get recruited south of the border, Michalopulos adds. “It helps with OSU’s recognition as one of North America’s top youth soccer clubs and helps grow our ever expanding university/college network in order to facilitate our OSU players to earn scholarships and build their soccer resume.

Lianos expects plenty of more offers this month and into February when OSU holds a College Combine Id Camp (www.forceacademy.ca/COLLEGECOMBINE.php ) on February 16-17 at the Coliseum Dome here in Ottawa and again this coming summer, in partnership with Nike and the Dallas Texans (www.collegesoccershowcase.ca) during the inaugural Showcase of Champions showcase to be held in Ottawa on August 3-6, 2012.

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each portion is half the height of the full loaf. The last of the bread will be much easier and safer to slice.

Most automatic dishwasher instructions tell you to run water in the nearest tap until it’s hot, then to start up the dishwasher.

If you have dishes that, for one reason or another, have to be washed by hand, run the water for them into the nearest sink first. You’ll have hot water for washing the special dishes as well as hot water ready for the dishwasher.

Here’s another way to use less hot water. When you wash dishes and pots by hand, you probably rinse them with hot water.

Before you start, run only enough hot water to fill the sink 3-4” deep. As you wash the dishes, rinse them under hot water and let that water run into your washing water.

Your sink will gradually fill with hot water, and you’ll have enough to wash the large pots and pans at the end.

If you want to make a quick cup of rich-tasting hot chocolate, pour 1% milk into a microwave-safe container or mug. Microwave on High for 1 minute and 30 seconds (for an 1100 watt oven) or 1 minute and 50 seconds (for a lower watt oven). Watch carefully near the end of the time.

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Attending summer camp has been a tradition in the United States for more than 150 years. Statistics indicate that around 30 million American kids attend summer camp each year. There are many benefits to summer camp.

Camp enables children to stay engaged during the summer when there may be limited interaction with school friends.

It also gives parents both a safe and viable daycare solution during the summer.

Summer camp pulls together children from different neighborhoods, social classes and backgrounds, which can make it a good place to meet new people -- some of whom may become lifelong friends.

Camps also provide a variety of activities that can challenge children to try new things that go beyond their comfort zones.

Some children are very receptive to the idea of attending summer camp. Others need a little coaxing. But summer camp should never be forced on a child who does not want to go. In such instances, consider local daytime programs that may fill the void instead of programs that require being away from home. Once the decision for summer camp is made, there are some questions to answer. * What are your finances like? Do you have a budget for summer camp? * What size camp do you desire? * Should the camp be co-ed or single sex? * How far do you want your child to travel for summer camp? What are the options in your area? * Are there any camps that have been recommended by friends or family members? * What kinds of activities do your children enjoy?

These types of questions will help you narrow down your options. Then you can visit and interview camps to find one that is the best fit. When visiting camps, go armed with a checklist of

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S’mores history dates back to the early 20th century.

While the actual recipe origin is unknown -- considering most camping recipes were passed down from generation to generation -- the first printed recipe for s’mores appeared in 1927 in the Girl Scout Handbook. S’mores were popular campside treats because of the portability of ingredients. It was easy to pack a bag of marshmallows, a box of graham crackers and a few bars of chocolate.

The combination of sticky marshmallow, smooth, rich chocolate and crunchy graham crackers provides a perfect melding of flavors.

However, s’mores weren’t the first pairing of these ingredients. Mallomar cookies and Moonpies also featured these ideal components.

To make a delicious dessert that builds upon the s’mores flavors and theme at your next summertime event, try this recipe for Frozen S’mores Cake.

Frozen S’mores Cake 1 quart vanilla ice cream 1 quart chocolate ice cream 10 or 12 graham cracker squares 1/4 cup melted butter 1/2 tablespoon sugar 1 jar of hot fudge 1 bag mini-marshmallows 2 tablespoons water Vegetable shortening Crush graham crackers in a zipper-lock bag or pulse in a food processor until made into crumbs. Add sugar and melted butter to the crumbs, mix and press into the bottom of a spring-form pan. Bake at 350 F for 10 minutes, or until the crust browns a bit.

Soften ice cream by letting it sit out of the freezer for a few minutes. Use a spatula or spoon to spread the chocolate ice cream over the cooled

graham cracker crust. Spread desired amount of fudge topping over the chocolate ice cream. Then spread the softened vanilla ice cream over the fudge layer.

Coat a microwave-safe bowl with a thin layer of shortening. Add most of the marshmallows, reserving a few for garnish, and the water to the bowl. Microwave for about a minute to a minute and a half until the marshmallows are melted. Top the vanilla ice cream with the melted marshmallows.

Place the cake in the freezer overnight to harden.

When ready to serve, place the garnish marshmallows on top and drizzle with a little melted hot fudge. You can use a kitchen torch or a barbecue lighter to add a little browning to the garnish marshmallows to make them look like they were toasted over a fire.

Slice and enjoy quickly before it melts. This cake also makes a great alternative to a store-bought ice cream birthday cake.

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Getting to know … Kyle Turris

By Rob Brodie OttawaSenators.com

Kyle Turris has surely found his new hockey oasis.

From toiling in the desert with the Phoenix Coyotes to a return to a hockey-mad market with the Ottawa Senators, Turris has seen his world undergo a massive sea change in just a few short months.

But even in the middle of one of Ottawa’s famed frosty winters, the 22-year-old native of New Westminster, B.C., is a young man at peace with where the game — and life — has taken him.

Obtained from the Coyotes on Dec. 17 in a deal for defenceman David Rundblad and a secondround draft pick, Turris wasted little time making an impact with his new team.

Senators head coach Paul MacLean will tell you it’s more than just a coincidence that his team went 8-1-1 in its first 10 games with Turris in the lineup. The 6-1, 195-pounder quickly filled a need as the Senators’ second-line centre and produced 11 points in his first 15 games with the team.

Turris was the No. 3 overall pick by the Coyotes in the 2007 NHL Entry Draft. Six months later, he led Team Canada’s goldmedal winning squad in scoring at the 2008 IIHF World Junior Hockey Championship in the Czech Republic.

The newest Senator took some time out with Score to share some of his thoughts about hockey and more: Q: Who was your hockey hero growing up?

A: Steve Yzerman. He was the best all-around hockey player, Detroit Red Wings captain, won the Stanley Cup (three times) … he was just unbelievable.

Q: Tell us something about Vancouver that nobody would

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know.

A: You can go skiing and golfing in the same day.

Q: What do you remember about your draft day?

A: I remember everything.

Waking up, getting ready, working out in the morning because the draft wasn’t until the afternoon, doing a couple of interviews, walking over to the rink (Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio), seeing the atmosphere, Wayne Gretzky calling my name to come up and join him on the podium because Phoenix had drafted me … it was a pretty neat experience.

Q: Your favourite memory about world juniors.

A: Winning the gold in overtime. The whole tournament was fun and the way Hockey Canada treated us was great.

Q: Where do you keep that gold medal?

A: I’ve got it in a safe back in Vancouver.

Q: Other than the weather, the biggest difference between Phoenix and Ottawa.

A: Here, I live about five minutes from the rink but back in Phoenix, I was about 35 minutes away. The hockey atmosphere is definitely quite a bit different here.

Q: Name three people, living or dead, who you’d like to have dinner with.

A: Muhammad Ali, Neil Armstrong (he was the first guy who walked on the moon and he’d be pretty interesting) and Albert Einstein (I read a book about him.

He’d be pretty cool). Maybe Steve

like a little bit of everything.

Q: Your favourite TV show.

A: Modern Family is hilarious.

I like Seinfeld, too.

Q: Your favourite movie.

A: Dumb and Dumber is pretty good.

Q: Your favourite thing to do away from the rink.

A: Just relaxing with my family and friends.

UPCOMING SENATORS GAMES

New York Islanders at Ottawa Senators: Friday, Feb. 3, 7:30 p.m. (Sportsnet East) Toronto Maple Leafs at Ottawa Senators: Saturday, Feb. 4, 7 p.m. (CBC) St. Louis Blues at Ottawa Senators: Tuesday, Feb. 7, 7:30 p.m.

(Sportsnet East)

SCOTIABANK PLACE EVENTS

Disney On Ice … Presents Treasure Trove: Feb. 15, 7 p.m.; Feb. 16, 10:30 a.m. and 7 p.m.; Feb. 17, 7 p.m.; Feb. 18, 11 a.m., 3 p.m. and 7 p.m., and Feb. 19, 11:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m.

Simple Plan: Feb. 24, 7 p.m.

WWE RAW World Tour: March 3, 7:30 p.m.

Hedley: March 14, 7 p.m.

Van Halen: March 21, 7:30 p.m.

2012 JUNO Awards: April 1.

Harlem Globetrotters: April 7, 3 p.m.

Stars On Ice: April 29, 4 p.m.

Chris de Burgh: May 5, 8 p.m.

Johnny Reid: May 12, 7:30 p.m.

Il Divo: May 20, 8 p.m.

Tickets can be purchased by visiting www.CapitalTickets.ca, by phone at 613-599-FANS (3267) or 1-877-788-FANS (3267); in person at The Sens Store at Carlingwood Mall and Place d’Orléans, any Ottawa Sports Experts location, Les Galeries de Hull and at the Scotiabank Place box office.

Kyle Turris and the Ottawa Senators have proven to be an outstanding match since his acquisition from the Phoenix Coyotes on dec. 17 (Photo by Andre Ringuette/NHLI via Getty Images)

NEW YORK ISLANdERS

Friday, Feb. 3, 7:30 p.m.

Sportsnet East More was expected this season out of the Islanders, who again find themselves closer to the Eastern Conference basement than a playoff position.

But the Isles aren’t without some standout performers, the most notable being former No. 1 overall pick John Tavares, who’s scoring at nearly a point-per-game clip. Also chiming in as offensive leaders are Matt Moulson and PA Parenteau, while Michael

Yzerman, too.

Q: If you’re cooking dinner, what’s on the menu?

A: Pasta. Something like a fettucine alfredo mix with marinara sauce, with a rib eye (steak) on the side Q: Your favourite music.

A: I like relaxing to Jack Johnson type of stuff, and I like the Kings of Leon upbeat stuff. I

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Grabner was a Calder Trophy finalist a year ago. On defence, the return to health of Mark Streit has been a boost for the Isles. Al Montoya and Evgeni Nabokov have split the majority of the goaltending chores.

Evgeni Nabokov has provided standout goaltending of late for the New York Islanders (Photo by Mike Stobe/NHLI via Getty Images)..

TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS Saturday, Feb. 4, 7:00 p.m.

CBC The Maple Leafs are pushing hard to end a six-year absence from the Stanley Cup playoffs. Offensively, much of Toronto’s fortunes rest in the hands of Phil Kessel and Joffrey Lupul, who both rank among the NHL’s top point-getters.

Also chipping in to the Leafs’ attack are a forward group that includes Tyler Bozak, Mikhail Grabovski, Tim Connolly and Clarke MacArthur. On the blue

line, the leader of the pack is captain Dion Phaneuf, the lone Leaf voted into the 2012 Tim Hortons NHL All-Star Game by fans. James Reimer is the main man in goal for Toronto and he gets backup support from Johan Gustavsson.

dion Phaneuf will represent the Toronto Maple Leafs at the 2012 NHL All-Star Game (Photo

by Claus Andersen/Getty Images).

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JAN. 31: AT BOSTON, 7 P.M. (SPORTSNET EAST) FEB. 3: VS. N.Y. ISLANdERS, 7:30 P.M. (SPORTSNET EAST) FEB. 4: VS. TORONTO, 7 P.M. (CBC) FEB. 7: VS. ST. LOUIS, 7:30 P.M. (SPORTSNET EAST) Manotick EMC - Thursday, January 26, 2012

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Mayor Jim Watson said he can die happy now that he’s had a taste of the first thing ever named after him, a pepperoni-laden double cheese pizza at an Osgoode pizzeria.

“I’ve hit the big time, I can now die,” Watson joked as he headed to the back of Ozzie’s Pizza, the oldest restaurant in the Ottawa South village, to make his signature pizza.

Watson was coached on his pizza making skills as he piled pepperoni, green peppers, mushrooms, honey apple bacon and double cheese onto the pre-stretched crust, which Ozzie cooks did in advance because it’s “the hardest part.”

The toppings match the ideal combination Watson first admitted to owner Om Dawson when he visited the restaurant with Osgoode Coun.

Doug Thompson last summer.

Dawson, 31, said he had already been joking about the idea of creating celebrity pizzas, so when he served the mayor he asked him if he could turn his ideal pizza into the next month’s celebrity item. Dawson took a photo of

Watson and Thompson to assure customers the recipe was “authentic.”

The pizza did so well Dawson added it to menu about four months ago. Since then, sales have skyrocketed.

“His just shot off. At that point we decided to put it on the menu,” Dawson explained.

“I’d say it’s in the top three.”

One regular customer even orders what he calls “the Jimbo” once a week.

Dawson’s parents and other family members were present to welcome the mayor to his personal taste test on Thursday, Jan. 19. Thompson came too, and said the mayor’s choice was good but lacked olives.

Thompson’s favourite pizza – lots of meat, olives and cheese – will be the celebrity pizza in March.

Dawson said they will watch the numbers closely to see which politician will sell best.

Dawson has recently added a patio to the restaurant, which he hopes will be granted a liquor license in the spring. If his application is approved, it would be the first licensed patio in the history of Osgoode village, he said.

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Mayor Jim Watson, right, and Osgoode Coun. Doug Thompson, left, visited Ozzie’s Pizza owner Om Dawson to get a taste of the mayor’s signature pizza. Watson even got to make his own pizza, which features pepperoni, mushrooms, green peppers and double cheese. Dawson said sales have “shot off” since the Mayor joined the menu.

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Osgoode resident Gary Briggs is one of 21 finalists selected across Canada to submit their sculptures to a national contest in New Brunswick, giving him a chance at $10,000 and the exposure he’s always dreamed of.

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by Kingsbrae Gardens, a 24-acre site in St. Andrews, which asks artists each year to submit work for its sculpture garden.

The contest offers artists a chance to win monetary prizes, sell their work, and showcase their skills between June and October.

Briggs found out just before Christmas that his sketch was one of the selected finalists in a year where a record number of artists were asked to join.

From Ottawa alone, three sculptors were accepted, including his apprentice Bruce Garner who created Joy, the circle of dancing people in the Sparks Street Mall, as well as many other works across the city. Ottawa artist Kip Jones was also accepted.

The sculptures will be on display from June, when they will be judged, until October.

Briggs will drive to New Brunswick to assemble his sculpture, he said, and likely will return again to pick it up

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Gary Briggs poses beside his competition piece Garden Magic which will be one of 21 entries in a garden sculpture contest this summer in New Brunswick. if it hasn’t sold by October.

Briggs said his sculpture Garden Magic was designed to complement the contest’s location. “For this competition, because it’s a garden, I thought a garden theme would be kind of cool,� he said.

Featuring a sprite-like figure with a garden hoe sur-

rounded by bronze turnip, carrot, garlic, parsnip and celery cast from Briggs’ own garden, Briggs said the five-foot work tries to capture the unspoken contract between human and earth. “The story I want this to tell is the agreement that the gardener makes with nature. You agree that you’re going to put

in the work and nature agrees to give you back the bounty of the garden,� he said.

A bronze base will support the garden scene, which will depict the vegetables “bursting from the garden,� Briggs said, noting that he is probably the only sculptor making bronze vegetables at the competition.

“It’s a turnip, why would you do it in bronze?� he laughed.

At 60, Briggs has been retired from his agriculture career for just over a year, allowing him to spend as much time as he wants in the custom-built studio behind his rural Ottawa home.

He said his career, which began on a farm in Saskatchewan and ended at the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, has always influenced his artwork.

His studio is littered with the many tools needed to complete a bronze sculpture, from special welders to a hand-made treadle hammer to a small foundry for melting his 15-pound bronze bars.

Briggs said his is one of the best equipped studios in the area, because many bronze artists don’t actually cast the bronze themselves.

Instead they concentrate on creating the wax molds and coating them in ceramics to ready them for casting.

At that stage, most artists will send the work away to be cast and finished. Briggs, however, does it all himself.

He said he’s most looking forward to the exposure such an opportunity will bring.

He’s won one public art contract before in Thunder Bay, but the city eventually cancelled the project after years

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Briggs said he rarely makes human figures, but this creature is meant to capture the relationship between gardener and earth. of deliberations.

He has applied for the sculpture garden planned at the Kanata North Recreation Centre, but has yet to hear back. Briggs said a competition like this, regardless of whether he wins, will help him reach more people. “If you sell a piece to one person, they and their 20 friends are going to see it, and that’s it.

So I want to do public art and get more exposure and to tell a story,� he said, noting that he has a particularly wish for Garden Magic. “I think we get a lot from gardens so I encourage everyone to garden, and maybe this will help do that.�

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Much like people, dogs vary greatly with regards to temperament. Some dogs are very active, while others are much more subdued. Some need significant play time outdoors on a daily basis, while others just need a few minutes outdoors to relieve themselves before heading back inside. A dog’s temperament is important to consider for those bringing a puppy into their home, as temperament might dictate if a dog is responsive to training or strong-willed and resistant.

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A program to supplement struggling peoples’ rent is finally getting underway.

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The rent-supplement program is part of the city’s multi-pronged approached under the $14-million fund.

Handing an allowance to people in a temporary financial pinch is cheaper for the city to administrate and contributes to “mixed neighbourhoods” with residents from different income levels and backgrounds, staff said.

The city’s community and protective services committee approved the terms of reference for how the program will operate during a Jan. 18 meeting.

“This is going to make a definitive difference for a lot of folks who are living on the thin razor’s edge of being able to make it every month or not,” said Bay Coun. Mark Taylor, who heads the committee.

Helping families and individuals with a temporary boost as they get back on their feet can prevent them from becoming homeless, which is not only a bad situation for the families themselves, but also for the city and province, because they then become more of a burden on socialassistance programs.

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Local events and happenings over the coming weeks — free to non-profit organizations Fax: 613-224-3330, E-mail: patricia.lonergan@metroland.com January 26 – 29: Don’t miss Greely’s annual winter carnival. On Thursday enjoy a Texas Hold’em Poker night and on Friday join the local Pathfinders for a pizza party and dance. Saturday includes a pancake breakfast, magic show, sleigh rides and Greely Idol auditions. Come back for a dinner buffet and Absolute Comedy show.

On Sunday enjoy the Lions brunch and a radical science show before watching the Greely Idol final showdown.

New this year: snow sculpture fun all day Saturday and Sunday. All events at the Greely Community Centre.

January 27 – 29: Shiverfest is Manotick’s annual winter carnival which takes place each year at the end of January. Don’t miss the bonfire and family skate on Friday evening at the Manotick arena; family breakfast, sleigh rides, chili cook-off and teen band showcase on Saturday; and a new trivia contest at the Mill Tavern on Sunday afternoon.

All proceeds to Watson’s Mill Raise the Roof campaign.

Visit www.manotickvca.org for more information.

January 29: Greely Night At The Races!

Come to the Rideau Carleton Entertainment Centre for Greely Night at the Races on Sunday, January 29 at 6 p.m.

It is a unique opportunity for Greely’s residents and busi-

ness owners to get together to celebrate the achievements of the Village of Greely. Local families, friends and business leaders are invited to join in an evening of entertainment. Complimentary advertising is included for local businesses and group rates are available. For more information or to make a reservation, please call Chantal at (613) 822-2211 ext. 255 or Stephanie at ext. 235.

local kids in Osgoode Ward.

Please help by spreading the word, reposting this, collecting pledges, coming out to watch, or pledging money to those having their heads shaved. Both of Kim’s sons will Go Bald For Wishes. If you’d like to pledge, please Facebook, email or call Kim. Their goal is $3500 (and we love to kick their goal’s butt!)

Contact Kim at 613-821-3033 or kimsheldrick@yahoo.ca.

February 4: Join us at the ultimate girls’ day out on Feb. 4th from 10 to 4 at the Rideau Carleton Raceway. Free admission, and with every $5 donation, you receive a ballot for a chance to win the grand prize (value $600). The first 100 donations will also receive a FREE gift bag. All donations are in support of Ovarian Cancer Canada. Also enter to win two tickets to see an upcoming Senators game.

A few local vendors are still needed. Visit www.businessmotions.com.

February 4: Used book drop off from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Canadian Museum of Agriculture.

Friends of the Farm would greatly appreciate your used books for our Used Books Sale on June 16 & 17. Bldg.

72, C.E.F., Arboretum, east off Prince of Wales roundabout.

Call 613-230-3276 or email info@friendsofthefarm.ca for more information. www. friendsofthefarm.ca.

February 4: Join community member Kim Sheldrick and her sons from 9 a.m. to noon at the Metcalfe Lions Den as they Go Bald for Wishes to raise money for Make A Wish of Eastern Ontario. They have already raised $14,000 in total over the past three years, as participants collected pledges to have their head shaved. 100 per cent of all pledges go to Make A Wish and supports

February 11: Greely & District Legion Branch 627 presents a Valentine’s Dinner and Dance on Saturday, February 11. cocktails begin at 6 p.m. and dinner is at 7 p.m. Country Reflections band will get the dancing started at 8 p.m. Tickets are $25. Call Linda at (613) 822-1451 or (613) 822-0233 or Arlene at (613) 822-1709.

March 24: Ottawa Humane Society FurBall 2012 at the National Gallery of Canada: unveil

your wild side! Join us on Saturday, Mar. 24 for the 8th annual Ottawa Humane Society FurBall Gala. Sponsorship opportunities, corporate tables and tickets are now available by calling 613-725-3166 ext.

263. For more information, visit www.ottawahumane.ca/ events/furball.cfm Ongoing:

On behalf of Osgoode Cooperative Nursery School, we would like to thank everyone involved in our recent Breakfast with Santa fundraiser.

This year was another big success! Please visit www. theocns.com for more info about our programs.

The small but mighty talented Osgoode Olde Tyme Fiddlers Association invites you to its traditional old tyme fiddle and country music dance at the Osgoode Community Centre, every fourth Friday of the month from 7:30 - 11:30 p.m. Bring your fiddle, guitar, and musical talents! Welcome to all new members. Tickets are $5 per person for non-musicians, available at the door.

For more information please call 613-224-9888.

Ottawa Newcomers’ Club invites women new to Ottawa to join our activities and meet new friends. Activities include bridge, scrabble, walks, luncheons and dinners, book club, outings, and craft time.

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The Lung Association is seeking your help. Register today as a Tulip Day Champion! Our Tulip Day Champions will collect orders by Feb. 13th for the freshly cut or potted tulips being delivered on March 7th. All funds raised will support lung health research and local activities including Asthma Education & COPD Maintenance Programs. When you can’t breathe, nothing else matters. Register on-line today at www.tulipday.ca or contact Melanie 613-230-4200 or email melanie@on.lung.ca.

Mondays and Thursdays: The Gloucester South Seniors Chess Club 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.

Wednesdays: Enjoy Scottish

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dancing for fun, friendship and fitness! Share the music and joy of dance. You do not have to be Scottish. You do not have to wear a kilt - but you can. No experience or partner is required. Meet Wednesday evenings at the Osgoode Community Centre from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. For information, contact Marie at 613-826-1221 or email OsgoodedanceScottish@gmail. com.

Wednesdays: Want to meet new friends?

Have a great workout? Come and join us at 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. Includes a 5 minute inspirational “Fit Tip”! Any questions? Contact the church office at 613-2388182.

Fridays: Five pin bowling league is encouraging senior citizens over 50 to participate in an activity that provides regular moderate exercise, requires no special ability and fosters fellowship and goodwill.

Members range from 50 to 90. There is no registration fee. This is a fun, non-competitive league, experience not required. Bowling takes place each Friday afternoon between 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. at Walkley Bowling Centre, 2092 Walkley Rd. Call Roy or Jean Hoban, 613-73l-6526.

ARIES - Mar 21/Apr 20 ARIES - Mar 20 The best will be in store for you Patience is a21/Apr virtue, Aries.

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SCORPIO – Oct 24/Nov 22 Scorpio, there’s much you SCORPIO - Octnot 24/Nov 22can do about the current Complaining thingsout won’t solve anything, Asituation. work project may beabout stretching a little further than so why wasteScorpio. the breath?

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collectively with others for a common goal.

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CANCER - Jun 22/Jul 22 CANCER Jun 22/Jul 22 this week, but work associates Cancer, you –won’t be timid may much feel like you’re only You’re one keeping willCancer, not beyou hearing from you,the either. being the shipwith fromyour sinking.

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SAGITTARIUS – Nov 23/Dec 21 SAGITTARIUS - Nov 23/Dec 21 Too many projects You’re in over your head, Sagittarius.

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CAPRICORN – -Dec 22/Jan 20 20 CAPRICORN Dec 22/Jan Capricorn, be newassertive beginnings have arrived and excited Capricorn, when expressing an you’re important about allthis of the prospects.

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