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Rideau-Goulbourn Coun.

Scott Moffatt held a town hall meeting in Manotick last week to talk about local issues and solutions.

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SPORTS COMMUNITY

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Progress in the name of the past Historian Coreen Atkins-Sheldrick, Osgoode Village Community Association member Rob Brewster, MP Pierre Poilievre and Osgoode Legion member Peter Valdstyn break ground at the Osgoode Township Cenotaph, which will be restored and updated over the next few weeks. Full story on page 3.

Van Vliet connection delayed till spring Emma Jackson

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EMC news – The longawaited Bridge Street connection at Van Vliet Road will no longer start in November as many Manotick residents had hoped.

The project, which will extend Van Vliet Road to Bridge Street at a signalized intersection that connects to Long Island Road, has been on residents’ wish-list for more than 30 years.

On Sept. 6 the city’s agriculture and rural affairs committee voted to begin the $1.2 million project before the snow flies this fall.

When “That will never happen to me” happens.

However, that was too good to be true, as RideauGoulbourn Coun. Scott Moffatt discovered too late that the private property the city needs to build the connection has not yet been purchased by city staff.

“We haven’t bought the property yet so we couldn’t start on our desired start date,” Moffatt told about 40 residents at his mid-term town hall meeting on Oct. 9.

Since the city’s procurement process requires a 90day waiting period, there is no longer enough time to buy the property and start the project before winter sets in, Moffatt said.

He said the community is “lucky the owner wants to sell to us, and only us,” he told residents.

The project will now start in April, with an approximate completion date scheduled for July.

Moffatt said the project was always scheduled to be finished in the summer anyway.

But there is one benefit to delaying the project, he said.

“It’s allowed us to seek Ministry of Environment approval on installing storm sewers, which will allow us to put sidewalks in,” he told residents. “It’s a tiny, tiny silver lining with otherwise terrible news.”

The sidewalks would be built along Van Vliet between Richard Street and Bridge.

Manotick Village Community Association president Klaus Beltzner called the delay “bittersweet.” While he wants the plan to go ahead as quickly as possible, he has also been pushing for sidewalks to be included with that project and others slated for future road work.

Connecting Van Vliet to Bridge with a signalized intersection has long been a priority for residents living on the south end of the island.

There are only three connecting streets onto Bridge from the south, and none of

those intersections are signalized, making it difficult for drivers to turn left towards the village core.

In June, residents provided feedback for two options to connect the Long Island intersection with a street on the south side of Bridge.

Along with the Van Vliet option, Moffatt also proposed extending South River Drive in a curve behind the medical centre to connect with Bridge instead. An overwhelming majority supported the Van Vliet solution, an option that had been on the table for several years.

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EMC news – Traffic issues were the hot topics at a midterm town hall meeting hosted

by Rideau-Goulbourn Coun.

Scott Moffatt in Manotick Oct. 9.

As Moffatt nears the middle of his four-year term, the councillor is visiting each community in his riding to talk about his accomplishments so far and to gather feedback on residents’ priorities for the rest of his term.

At the Manotick meeting, traffic issues dominated conversation. Topics ranged from the Van Vliet connec-

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Resident Janet Gray talks about the traffic issues on Bankfield Road, which she said she lives with every day.

quality of life. “On a summer day during construction season there’s always some dump truck or heavy vehicle going by, and it basically has robbed me of the use of my backyard,� Millar said.

He said the road was resurfaced several years ago, which helped temporarily, but the noise and vibrations are slowly returning.

Beltzner said reducing the speed limit would also reduce the noise and vibrations.

He urged residents across the village to support the Bankfield Road residents, who “live with the noise every day.�

from the heavy trucks going by. Beltzner said the road bed is not made for such a high volume of heavy vehicles – as many as one in five – and needs to be rebuilt in order to withstand the traffic and avoid vibration problems for nearby houses.

However Moffatt said at the meeting that he won’t change the speed limit until he has evidence of a speeding problem or a bigger group of people come to him with complaints.

He said with only 12 or 13 emails so far, he can’t make a decision for the whole village.

And opinions are clearly split on the matter; several residents butted heads on the issue at the meeting.

One resident who lives on Potter Road off Bankfield said there is no speeding or traffic problem on Bankfield whatsoever, and he never has trouble turning onto the arterial road.

He urged the councillor not to change the speed.

Bankfield resident Brian Millar, however, said speed is not the problem. The noise and vibrations from the constant passing of heavy trucks, however, has affected his

Moffatt also proposed changes to the intersection at Main and Bridge Street, the largest in the village and one of great contention with many drivers in the area.

One of the intersection’s biggest problems, Moffatt said, is that the two northbound lanes on Main Street are caught up with left and right-hand turns. The backup creates congestion for drivers trying to turn right onto Bridge, and causes cutthrough traffic along Clapp Lane and through Dickinson

Square.

To address these issues, Moffatt proposed changing the eastern northbound lane to a right-turn lane only, while banning left-turns in the western northbound lane.

He said only about two cars per hour turn left at that spot, and there are plenty of other opportunities to turn left earlier on Main as drivers come north. “I want to see if it’s something the community is interested in as a short term solution,� he said.

One resident said that seniors are instructed to turn left at lights for better security, and this solution would take that opportunity away. However Moffatt said he believes turning left at Main Street is possibly the most unsafe place in the village, and that turning left further south, even if it wasn’t at a light, would be safer for seniors.

Another resident suggested turning the intersection into a roundabout or a traffic circle, an idea that has been tossed around for several years.

Moffatt said it may be an option but it hasn’t been studied and would be more of a long-term solution.

Moffatt is collecting feedback on his idea before he implements any changes.

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Cenotaph to be restored in time for Remembrance Day Emma Jackson emma.jackson@metroland.com

EMC news – Osgoode Township’s cenotaph in Metcalfe will be restored and updated in time for Remembrance Day. The work to restore the monuments in front of the Metcalfe town hall and to add the names of four fallen World War 1 soldiers to a new sub-base was awarded to a Vankleek Hill stone mason company.

The contract was on hold until Veterans Affairs confirmed a $3,000 grant for the project last week.

Delays in confirming the grant had made timelines touch and go. The project leaders weren’t sure the work was going to get done in time to honour Canada’s veterans on Nov. 11 as they had

hoped.

Local historian Coreen Atkins-Sheldrick, who spearheaded the $7,000 project when she discovered the missing names earlier this year, said she’s relieved the work will be done on time.

“I’m so glad. It’s very important,” she said.

Nepean-Carleton MP Pierre Poilievre said he worked hard to get a guarantee.

“We got it in writing that we’ll get it done by Remembrance Day,” he said. He said he will likely host an unveiling in the lead up to the annual memorial day.

Poilievre hosted a groundbreaking ceremony on Oct. 11 with Atkins-Sheldrick, Osgoode Village Community Association representative Rob Brewster and members of the legion.

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MP Pierre Poilievre joined legion members, Osgoode Village Community Association director Rob Brewster, amateur historian Coreen Atkins-Sheldrick, and Martel and Sons representative Yvon Lacroix to break ground at the Osgoode Township cenotaph, which will be restored and updated in the next two weeks.

Martel and Sons, was there to begin washing the stones.

The cenotaph is a regional memorial remembering fallen

soldiers from the first and second world wars who came from Osgoode Township.

Space will be left on the

new sub-base to add more names if Atkins-Sheldrick confirms that more are missing.

As many as 10 other names could potentially go on the memorial, but she needs to confirm their ties to the area.

Greely association president to stay on another year EMC news – A small group of Greely Community Association members voted to amend their constitution to allow their president to stay for a third year.

The association’s constitution states that a president can only serve a two-year term before stepping down.

However current president Bruce Brayman said that “no one has stepped up” to take over the role, and without a vice president to backfill, the association needs someone at the helm.

Five members voted unanimously to change the constitution to allow a three-year presidential term.

The current executive team was acclaimed for another year as well.

Brayman said the biggest problem facing the association is lack of volunteers and participation. Canada Day and Winter Carnival are always well received, but he said it’s difficult to grow.

“We’re trying to liven it up, but it’s hard with so few volunteers,” he said.

This summer’s Canada Day was profitable, and next year Brayman hopes to make even bigger profits at the Canada

Day event so they can provide a bigger and better fireworks show.

The organizers currently buy about $10,000 worth of

pyrotechnics but Brayman said he would like to buy $15,000 if he can.

Much of the event’s funding comes from government

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Casino vote wins despite councillors’ concerns Laura Mueller laura.mueller@metroland.com

EMC news - One of city council’s most impassioned debates on Oct. 10 resulted in the city lending its support for a possible new casino in Ottawa.

The 19-5 city council vote means the city will “signal its interest� in a possible new gambling facility somewhere in Ottawa to the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation,

an agency of the provincial government. Any actual proposals from private developers willing to build a casino wouldn’t arrive for another year.

Rideau-Goulbourn Coun.

Scott Moffatt, one of the councillors who voted “no,� said the casino fix is in. He was leaning towards supporting the idea, but he said that the more research he did, the more he realized it was a bad move for the city and

particularly his rural ward, where people are supportive of the employment options at the Rideau Carleton Raceway. Representatives from the raceway have said they will submit a bid to expand the facility into a casino, but Mayor Jim Watson has signaled his preference for a more urban gaming facility.

Paul Godfrey, chairman of the gaming corporation, has said he wants to bring casinos “where the people are.�

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City council voted 19 to 5 to signal its interest in a possible new gambling facility somewhere in Ottawa. “It’s impossible for me to support this and support the Rideau Carleton Raceway,�

Moffatt said during the city council debate on Oct. 10.

He said he has no faith in the gaming corporation. “They show no drive to take into consideration what we said (during the finance and economic development committee) on Oct. 2 about the Rideau Carleton Raceway,� Moffatt said. “Unless we only say, ‘Rideau Carleton Raceway,’ they will come back with anything but.�

No one on council was willing to move a motion to limit the lottery corporation’s search to areas outside the

city’s core or specifically the raceway site.

UNKNOWNS

The councillors who voted against the casino motion said there are too many unknowns.

From the possible location to the amount of revenue the city could stand to see from a casino, a lot of information is yet to come.

Capital Coun. David Chernushenko said there wasn’t any evidence or research in favour of a casino that could outweigh the cacophony of negative comments from his constituents.

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“Once a big project gets going, it becomes awfully hard to apply the brakes,�

Chernushenko said.

Innes Coun. Rainer Bloess said he had a “cynical feeling� about the issue and asked why Ottawa wouldn’t have started discussing this topic sooner, like many other Ontario municipalities. Still, he voted in favour of looking at a potential casino. “This is really going forward somewhat blinded,�

Holmes said before voting in favour of continuing the process.

That miffed Gloucester-Southgate Coun. Diane Deans, who said she couldn’t understand the logic of her reticent council colleagues who were still willing to vote for the idea of a casino. “Don’t kid yourself. This vote matters,� said Deans, who voted against the motion along with Moffatt, Chernushenko, Rideau-Vanier Coun.

Mathieu Fleury and Beacon Hill-Cyrville Coun. Tim Tierney. “I don’t believe we should be handing over our city’s future on such as fundamental issue to the OLG,� Deans added.

Part of the problem is that neither city staff nor councillors fully understand the level of input the city will have into where a new casino would be located.

The city definitely has veto power over OLG’s casino proposal; the city has the final say on rezoning any land that a proponent wants to build a casino on.

But what is more vague is the city’s level of influence over suggesting where it would prefer to see a casino.

The gaming corporation will run a call for proposals and choose the best casino plan and location. OrlĂŠans Coun. Bob Monette wanted to know whether council could have any input before that decision is made. For instance, he asked if the city could be presented with the top three options, allowing council to indicate to the gaming corporation which one was most likely to be approved.

Bidding processes don’t work that way, the mayor said.

He said it’s possible the gaming corporation would bring forward its second-favourite proposal in the event the city rejected the top bid, but city manager Kent Kirkpatrick said he will have to talk to the gaming corporation to clarify the process.

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Manotick church to host drug information session

A vendor sets up in front of Dickinson House in Manotick on Oct. 6, during the business improvement area’s annual Fall Harvest Festival. BIA director Donna Smith said the day was a great success, with many visitors and excellent weather to enjoy the festive Emma Jackson feel throughout the village. emma.jackson@metroland.com

Workshop aims to make parents aware of drug addiction symptoms

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EMC news – As Manotick reels from news of a blossoming drug problem among its youth, one church is hosting an information session to help parents prevent their children from becoming addicted in the first place.

On Saturday, Nov. 3 St. James Anglican Church will partner with the local community police officer to present “Kids and Drugs,� an RCMPdeveloped program geared to parents of kids in Grades 5 to 9.

A drug specialist will be on hand from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. to discuss specific drugs available in the community, such as the powerful prescription opiate fentanyl, which has caused several teen overdoses in the village in recent months and left 17-year-old Tyler Campbell dead on Aug. 4.

The specialist will discuss current drug trends, signs and symptoms of drug use, and the powerful role parents can play to help their children make

good decisions.

Church staff Sam Hills said the program was planned long before the village’s fentanyl problem was exposed in the media – but it’s well timed. “People are just becoming more aware and there was a death recently, so it’s needed,� she said.

Community police officer Arun Daniels said at a town hall meeting on Oct. 9 that the drug abuse is leading to crime in the community as well, because the kids need to finance their next high. “Anywhere there are drug issues you will find crime, because people need to feed their habit,� he said. “It’s a small amount of people but it amounts to a large amount of crime.�

He cited a rash of break and enters across Manotick and Barrhaven that investigators believe are connected to the drug abuse problem.

While Manotick’s fentanyl problem was brought to light this fall, Hills said drug issues have been apparent in the village for many years.

“Even years ago I understood there was a lot that parents weren’t aware their kids were doing,� said Hills, whose children are now in their early 20s. “It’s important that parents are aware of the signs.�

The workshop is limited to 30 registrants and there is a cost of $5 to cover refreshments.

St. James youth co-ordinator Donna Rourke originally planned the workshop in June while the youth group was running a Dickinson Days program with the community police. She said she hopes parents take away a better understanding of how to steer their kids away from the path of drugs and crime. “As a parent...any help I could ever get helping my kids make good decisions was always welcome. This particular drug may be new but the drug problem’s not new,� she said. “My personal hope is for it to help parents help their kids make better decisions.�

To register, call Rourke at 613-825-1913 or Hills at 613692-2082.

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For more than a year, City staff have been talking with rural citizens about land use and zoning in preparation for the 2013 OfďŹ cial Plan review. This work is now complete and the next step is to explain how the new land use policies will change the City of Ottawa Zoning By-law as it applies to villages. The staff presentation will begin at 7 p.m.

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Ottawa gets an ash borer wake-up call

Waupoos hoping to save Christmas

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WAKE UP CALL

The experts said this year marked a big wake-up call about the emerald ash borer, which was first identified in Ottawa in 2008.

“I learned it takes a shock to the system to get people to notice,” Barker said.

Before 2012, there were “a lot of whispers in the background,” but this year his company has had three times as many bookings for free treatments or removals.

Many of the residents in attendance wanted to know what they could do as neighbours and community associations to help fight the problem.

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The Federation of Citizens’ Associations held a forum on the emerald ash borer at the Overbrook Community Centre on Oct. 9.

– a trend of community groups organizing a group treatment, where a company is hired to come and inject or remove infected trees in a concentrated area, such as along a street.

The neighbours are often able to negotiate group discounts that way because the process is more efficient, Barker said.

Besides that, neighbours can just help spread the word, all the experts said. It is estimated more than 20 per cent of the tree cover in Ottawa is ash, and many of those trees are on private property. Educating neighbours about what they can do to combat the big is essential, Lamirande said.

FUNDING

The city has been putting about $2 million per year into treating and removing city trees infected with emerald ash borer, and earlier this summer city council approved an extra $1 million for this year. Environment committee co-chairman Keith Egli attended the event and delivered news that the committee will be looking for $4 million in funding to combat the emerald ash borer in 2013.

While James O’Grady of the Federation of Citizens’ Associations said he was happy to hear that the funding could be going up, he added it won’t be enough. The city will still have to remove the dead trees and replant new trees, and those costs will only rise.

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EMC news – A non-profit vacation spot is reaching out to the community to help save Christmas.

Waupoos Farm is a Christian-run rural farm on Rideau Road that provides low-income urban families “staycation” opportunities to enjoy a cottage setting they otherwise can’t access in the city.

Each Christmas the centre’s three host families invite needy families to celebrate on the farm, but this year the Christmas magic could end if they can’t pay the bills.

Waupoos resident Zdena Harder said the coffers are running low after their chief fundraiser left at the end of May. They hired new help, but grant opportunities were missed while they trained new staff.

“Putting together ... the information that grant applications require takes a while, so we had a period where we couldn’t apply for any grants,”

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“Having the ability to go somewhere for Christmas and not have to worry about what you’re going to do ... it’s a really unique opportunity. We really want to provide that,” she said.

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EMC news - Experts are banking on a predator wasp to beat a bug that’s devastating Ottawa’s ash trees.

More than 50 concerned residents gathered at a Federation of Citizens’ Associations of Ottawa-Carleton forum at the Overbrook Community Centre on Oct. 9 to hear about the devastating impact the emerald ash borer has had on Ottawa’s tree cover – and what can be done to slow it down.

Currently there is no way to stop the beetle, which burrows under the bark of ash trees and kills them. Pesticide injections every two years can prolong a tree’s life, but so far, there is no way to completely beat the bug.

But there is hope in the form of a wasp – the emerald ash borer’s natural predator in Asia. While the city has spoken very cautiously about the possibility of introducing a stingless wasp, experts at the Oct. 9 forum said the wasp is the only hope for North America’s ash trees.

“It’s the way forward,” said Bruce Gill, a federal research scientist with the Canadian Food Inspection Agency. “It’s not a common pest in China because they have a predator … We need to restore the natural balance.”

The wasp is being tested in several states south of the border, but it could be more than 10 years before it might be brought to Canada. A federal agency could make an application to try that method here or a specific city could apply and go through the paperwork.

The process is so complicated, Gill said he’s crossing his fingers than some of the wasps will eventually fly north and arrive in Canada as a “naturally occurring species.”

Until then, treating trees will be critical, said Joe Meating, whose company, BioForest, produces the main (and until recently, only) pesticide used to combat the emerald ash borer in Ottawa.

“We’re buying time for predators to be introduced,” Meating said. Early treatment is key, he said, or there may be nothing for the wasps to save, if and when they are brought to Canada.

Even if the wasp never comes here, it’s not worth waiting to treat or cut down infected trees, said Sean Barker, director of the Eastern Ontario Arborists.

“It’s definitely going to cost more later,” Barker said.

Another local arborist, George Lamirande of Davey Tree, said the longer the borers are left to decimate a tree, the more hazardous and therefore costly it becomes to remove. Furthermore, leaving an infected tree until it absolutely must come down provides a food source for the beetles to continue to multiply in that area.

“It’s critical for it to get out of the way,” Lamirande said.

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OPINION

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Women’s hockey to be feast for starved fans

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ockey starved fans will soon be treated to a feast, when Ottawa plays host to the 2013 IIHF Ice Hockey Women’s Championship next April.

The games will take place at the Nepean Sportsplex and Scotiabank Place from April 2 to 9, with the world’s top 10 teams competing for the world championship.

The tournament comes as welcome news to a city struggling with the loss of

revenue from the National Hockey League lockout.

There’s no telling how long the lockout will last – it could range anywhere from a month to an entire season.

Fans have been placed once again in the middle of a dispute between owners and players over revenue sharing, a conflict that has left casualties among hotels, restaurants and other businesses that depend on money generated

by NHL games.

The women’s world hock-

ey championship is expected to generate $30 million in economic activity, according to Cyril Leeder, president of Senators Sports and Entertainment, one of the hosts of the tournament during a press conference on Oct. 11.

The games are also expected to bring in an estimated 200,000 spectators, he said.

Spectators who will rent hotel rooms, purchase food at restaurants and buy gas at gas stations, boosting the city’s

economy and encouraging temporary job creation.

The last time a Canadian city hosted the women’s world hockey championship, in 2007, the games generated $29 million in the city of Winnipeg.

The games also promise some exciting hockey, with the best players in the world competing for their countries.

Some of these players will be putting on the Team Canada jersey for the first time and competing for their

country on an international stage, an honour that overshadows any medal count or the amount of money generated by the tournament.

Fans will also be treated to a revival of the long-standing rivalry between Team Canada and Team USA, traditionally two of the best teams in women’s hockey.

The tournament will also serve to inspire a new generation of hockey players, some of whom may aspire to one day compete on a na-

tional and international stage.

Let’s face it, women’s hockey does not receive the same amount of coverage or support as men’s hockey.

If the NHL lockout wipes out the 2012-13 season, people won’t be distracted by the playoffs, giving a boost to the profile and fan base of women’s hockey.

The federal government has announced it will support the tournament to the tune of $500,000 – a welcome investment in our national sport.

The women’s world hockey championship serves as a reminder that NHL hockey isn’t the only game in town.

COLUMN

Life in a super-sized society CHARLES GORDON Funny Town

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e may not be getting better but we’re certainly getting bigger.

You realize this every time you go shopping. Look how big the shopping cart is – way bigger than it used to be. It’s like you’re pushing a truck down the aisle. The stuff you put in it is big too.

And we should have mentioned how big the store is. If you walked from one side to the other without stopping to put any big items in your big cart it would still take you five minutes.

The store is big because it has a big selection – not just groceries, but chairs and TV sets and toys and pharmaceutical stuff. Some of those things are bigger than you expected to find in a grocery store, but fortunately you have a big cart.

You pay your big bucks and wheel the big cart out to the parking lot, which is really big.

Most of the cars in it are big too. That’s a good thing for carrying big groceries, maybe not so good in other respects.

In fact, there are a whole lot of respects in which big is questioned, but not by too many people yet. When “big� is used as an adjective in our society it means “good.�

Then you drive onto the big highway that goes where small neighbourhoods used to be.

It would all be alarming if you suddenly arrived from a place where things were smaller, but those of us who have been around here for a while have got used to all this bigness.

Look what we’re getting in Ottawa: more big buildings, a big development at Lansdowne Park, a big casino. You don’t see politicians

bragging about the small things they’ve created. They may have forgotten how to do that.

Big is all around us. When we go to the movies it is to a big building with many big theatres inside with wide seats and ample legroom. When we order snacks at the movies the small popcorn is huge and so is the small drink.

It is no surprise that people are getting to be pretty big too. A lot of experts worry abut that, but how do you expect people to stay small in such a big environment?

Not that everything is big. Some things that we wish were big aren’t, such as parking spaces.

And then there are airplanes. About the only place where we are treated as if we were small is on airplanes. The seats are narrow and the legroom is only adequate for children. Those of us who are not children feel as if we have accidentally stumbled onto the wrong plane, a children’s plane. Maybe somewhere on the tarmac is the proper plane, a grown-ups’ plane with seats that fit us and aisles where two grown-ups can walk by each other.

But on this airplane we just feel too big now. The feeling intensifies when we are brought a meal. It is on a tiny tray with little utensils wrapped in plastic which we find there is no place to put once removed. Our fingers are too big to perform the tasks demanded of them. We are all thumbs and the thumbs are too big, too.

You know the feeling. As you wrestle with all of this your shoulders collide with the shoulders of the person next to you. Somewhere inside one of the bits of plastic are a tiny plastic fork, a tiny plastic knife, a tiny salt and a tiny pepper and something to wipe up any food you might spill if you are ever able to get it unwrapped.

You wish, while you struggle, that you were in a giant movie theatre with a small (big) popcorn and a small (big) drink and that the movie theatre could fly.

You appreciate bigness suddenly, except for your own.

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Carleton University student Erika Rose is one of the students helped former Ottawa forests and greenspace advisor committee chairwoman Heather Hamilton on Oct. 11 with a tree-identifying project which will help count the tree canopy in city parks. Hamilton’s goal is to point out the ecological services a tree can add to the city’s structure. ing ash trees are healthy.

This canopy count will help the Old Ottawa South community have an idea the amount of trees that will potentially be lost in the parks.

“We can put a plan together to replace the trees, if need be,” he said.

“Things are really in tough shape there (at Windsor Park), with 30 to 40 emerald ash that are on death row, wind damaged trees and vandalized

trees.”

Planting is nothing new for Lascelles and the environment committee. More than 15 years ago, he and other members of the neighbourhood planted around 300 trees in Brewer Park, along the river, in an effort to protect the habitat.

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EMC news - A tree canopy project taking place in Old Ottawa South plans to identify types of trees growing in area parks and the value the trees offer the neighbourhood and city.

On Oct. 11, a group of Old Ottawa South residents, Carleton University students, officials from the Rideau Valley Conservation Authority and Heather Hamilton, a former forests and green space advisory committee chairwoman, gathered to count the tree canopy in Brewer Park.

Hamilton said she got involved because she was looking for a fun community project. Since the city is only taking stock of street trees but not in parks, it was just right.

“We’re filling in the gap.” she said.

The objective of the project, which is also taking a canopy count in Windsor Park, is to use the data collected to prepare a report which will include information on all the trees in the park.

The report will include location maps and global positioning system data, pictures, species and size of the trees.

“It would be nice for us to get a picture from both the neighbourhood and city perspective,” Hamilton said.

“To see how much parks are contributing to the overall health of the city.”

She explained such factors as a tree’s contribution to controlling storm water run-off, air pollution and local weather temperatures.

“Without trees, it would be hotter, more polluted and your basement might be flooded,” Hamilton said.

The catalyst for this project has been the emerald ash borer. The beetle has burrowed itself in ash trees all over the city and as a result thousands have been lost.

For Mike Lascelles, chairman of the Ottawa South Community Association environment committee, this project will help the neighbourhood have a better understanding of what types of trees are in the parks and whether any exist-

Mike Lascelles has been fighting for trees in Old Ottawa South for years. He helped plant a number of trees in Brewer Park more than 15 years ago and is back at it again and on Oct. 11 he came out to help Carleton University students, the Rideau Valley Conservation Authority, and former Ottawa forests and greenspace advisor committee chairwoman Heather Hamliton on a tree-identifying project.

Hamilton’s goal is to point out the ecological services a tree can add to the city’s structure.

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taking note of the diversity, which is a difficult task, Scott Danford and Dan Cooper from the Rideau Valley Conservation Authority are also helping with the project.

“Sometimes it can be very hard, these guys are the experts, it is great to have them,” Lascelles said.

Erika Rose, a fourth year environmental sciences student at Carleton is one of the students participating.

For Rose, being out in the field is the best kind of experience she can get and having the opportunity to do her research in Brewer Park, her neighbourhood, is even better.

“I thought it would be cool to do something in the neighbourhood where I interact and live,” Rose said.

“It is better than just reading about it. Here you are in the field, learning first hand.”

The project, Hamilton said is something neighbourhoods across the city can also start.

“Anyone can do this, as long as you can access some sort of expert for the identifying,” Hamilton said.

“Certain aspects are not difficult, and some keen naturalists could do it.”

The group will complete the Brewer Park and Windsor Park counts, Hamilton said, by mid-October.

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FOOD

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Tips, trivia and why Louis XV liked cold soup

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ccasionally instead of passing along a recipe, I write a column filled with kitchen shortcuts and helpful tips. If Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve come across some interesting bit of food trivia, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll include that as well.

This week, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll take you from graham wafer crusts to King Louis XV of France.

INTEGRITY UPDATE: TRANSPARENCY AND OPENNESS AT CITY HALL

By Jim Watson

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During the 2010 election, I committed to an integrity package â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a set of proposals that would bring a new level of transparency and openness to City Hall.

3OME OF THE PROPOSALS WERE THINGS THAT EXIST IN OTHER MUNICIPALITIES

or at the provincial or federal level. However, the difference was that there were no scandals or conďŹ&#x201A;icts driving these changes in Ottawa. The integrity package was about establishing a fundamental system of accountability where nothing before EXISTED ,EADERSHIP ON THESE ISSUES MEANS BEING PROACTIVE NOT reactive. Working together, we are establishing the checks and BALANCES THAT CITIZENS EXPECT OF THEIR ELECTED OFlCIALS

â&#x20AC;˘ When you need to press a graham wafer crust into a springform pan, sometimes itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard to find just the right tool. If you use your fingertips, they get greasy and covered with crumbs. A fork doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get right to the edge of the pan, and it flattens only a small area at a time. â&#x20AC;˘ One of the best tools is a round potato masher, the kind that has square holes, not curved lines of wire.

The curved shape fits the edges of the springform pan and the large size covers a

pastry on them.

PAT TREW Food â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Stuff bigger area with each impression. â&#x20AC;˘ Another handy item to keep on hand in your kitchen is a box of thin latex gloves, the kind that food preparers use in commercial establishments.

Put on a pair of gloves whenever youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re handling a messy mixture in the kitchen.

Whether youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re pressing crumbs into a springform pan, shaping meatballs, working with dough or mixing meatloaf, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll let you get right in there with your hands, yet keep them clean.

A word of caution:, donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t re-

use gloves that youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve used on raw meat, fish or poultry.

Throw them out to avoid possible contamination of other foods. â&#x20AC;˘ To tenderize beef stew, add one or two tomatoes to the pot. Tomatoes contain an acid that breaks down meat and tenderizes it naturally. â&#x20AC;˘ If your glass or plastic cutting board slides across the kitchen counter when youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re using it, dampen a dish cloth, and lay it on the counter under the cutting board. This also works on the large plastic sheets when rolling out

â&#x20AC;˘ If you have one of the large rectangular glass or plastic cutting board, measure its length and width. Many are just the right size for rolling out dough into a rectangle for making pastries such as cinnamon rolls. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re also handy for making French bread when the dough needs to be shaped by rolling it back and forth on a flat surface. â&#x20AC;˘ Which brings us to King Louis XV of France. According to one story, he was so afraid of being poisoned that he had several servants taste his food before he ate it. By the time the soup reached him, it was cold.

He liked it so much that he had it served cold from then on. That â&#x20AC;&#x201C; supposedly â&#x20AC;&#x201C; is why the creamy French potato soup, vichysoisse, is always served chilled.

I am pleased to update you on the progress we have made.

OfďŹ ce Expenses /NE OF OUR lRST ACTS OF OFlCE WAS TO BEGIN POSTING OUR OFlCE EXPENSES ONLINE TO SHOW TAXPAYERS HOW THEIR MONEY IS BEING spent. Every month, you can visit ottawa.ca to see how Members OF #OUNCIL AND SENIOR MANAGEMENT ARE SPENDING THEIR OFlCE budgets.

Integrity Commissioner In August, we appointed an Integrity Commissioner, Robert -ARLEAU -R -ARLEAU HAS YEARS OF PARLIAMENTARY EXPERIENCE

including 13 years spent as the Clerk of the House of Commons.

He has also served as the interim Privacy Commissioner of Canada and as the Information Commissioner of Canada. The Integrity Commissionerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s role is to act as a resource for Members of Council on integrity issues, as well as to make recommendations to City Council about accountability measures.

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Part of my day as Mayor and that of your City Councillor is meeting with various individuals who are legitimately seeking to change or implement a particular policy or by-law. Until recently, there WAS NO WAY FOR CITIZENS TO KNOW WHO #ITY OFlCIALS WERE MEETING with or on what topics. Our new Lobbyist Registry changes this.

A lobbyist is an individual who is paid to represent a business OR lNANCIAL INTEREST !NY TIME THEY COMMUNICATE WITH A PUBLIC OFlCE HOLDER THEY MUST REGISTER THEIR COMMUNICATION WITHIN 15 days. In turn, citizens are be able to visit the City website at ottawa.ca/lobbyist TO SEE WHO THEIR ELECTED OFlCIALS ARE MEETING with and about which issues.

4HE REGISTRY IS THE lRST OF ITS KIND IN THE MUNICIPAL SECTOR IN #ANADA

and stands on the principle that public policy should be made PUBLICLY 4HE ,OBBYIST 2EGISTRY CLEARLY DElNES LOBBYING ACTIVITIES and advocacy work. It also omits advocacy activities by not-forPROlT GROUPS LIKE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATIONS Next Steps I am proud of the progress we have made, but there is still more to do. Our new Integrity Commissioner will soon oversee the CREATION OF A CODE OF CONDUCT EXPENSE POLICY AND GIFTS REGISTRY FOR Members of Council. These will provide additional transparency, AND SET THE GROUND RULES FOR HOW WE EXPECT OUR ELECTED OFlCIALS to conduct themselves.

At the City of Ottawa, we are setting a higher standard of transparency and openness because City Council is showing leadership on this issue. I am proud that we have delivered on our commitments, and I look forward to continuing to make progress ON THE INTEGRITY lLE R0011670637-1011

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Old, tilted silo had striking Italian look MARY COOK Mary Cook’s Memories No one paid him any heed.

The next day, Emerson came into the house and gathered up his sheets of paper and the book on the Tower of Pisa and headed outside.

“I have something to show you,” he announced to anyone within earshot.

Earl and I were the only ones interested and we followed Emerson through the kitchen. He headed right for the silo. There was an old stump beside the silo -- I wouldn’t go near it because that’s where the chickens got the axe.

Emerson knew I hated that part of the barn yard, so he went down the hill a few paces and beckoned Earl and me to follow. The silo was in front of us. Emerson held up his pencil and squinted as he leveled it in his eyesight.

“See how the silo tilts?

Just like that one in Italy. I wouldn’t be one bit surprised if whoever built it used the same plans as the tower in Italy. And maybe even had a hand in helping building this

one here.”

While that made perfect sense to me, Earl was much less impressed.

“The one in Italy is made of stone,” Earl said. “This here silo is made of old pieces of lumber and Emerson, you know as well as I do that the reason it’s tilted is because it’s over 100 years old and was built on a bit of a hill.”

Besides, he added, “our great grandfather built the silo when he came from Germany. This here silo has nothing to do with a building in Italy.”

Now, as well as liking to draw buildings, Emerson also liked to hold funerals for anything that passed away on the farm. Dead birds found out on the grass, even a frog that was found in a rain barrel at the back of the house, were all subjected to Emerson’s idea of a fitting funeral. I had no idea if Emerson made it up or if it was actually in the book from the library, but he said funerals were held in front

of the Leaning Tower of Pisa and from now on, any funeral he would be conducting would be in front of our old wood silo. Well, as luck would have it, a few days later, Mother had ordered Everett to get some chickens to take into her customers in Renfrew. That meant a trip to the stump behind the silo.

Emerson decided these poor chickens needed a proper funeral and we would all meet behind the silo as Everett wielded the axe.

I was having no part of it.

Earl, who was as squeamish as I was when it came to beheading the chickens, said he had chores to do and the last I saw of Earl he was heading for the barn. I was already getting on an apron in the kitchen and looking for something to do.

Emerson showed his disgust by stomping outside with his papers in hand, heading for the silo, looking for something to bury. There wasn’t a dead bird or any

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t all started when Emerson brought the book home from the Renfrew library.

While the rest of us picked story books, Emerson always wanted a book about buildings. There wasn’t a large choice of books on buildings at the Renfrew library, and that day Emerson found one all about some huge structure in Italy. It changed his life drastically.

Emerson loved buildings.

Mother managed to buy him big pads of plain white paper and he spent hours drawing buildings. Poor Emerson, we’d say. Who ever heard of glass buildings? Who ever heard of towers made completely of windows and some with elevators going up the outside? We’d think how odd Emerson was, not like the rest of us who were content to look through the Eaton’s catalogue.

The book was all about some strange building in Italy, called the Tower of Pisa. Emerson was spellbound, not because it was so tall and was built in some strange country, but because it had a lean to it. Little did we know at the time what he had in mind.

“We have one just like it. Right here on this here farm,” he announced after about three nights of gazing at the pictures in the book.

other dead critter in sight and he had to give up on the idea of holding a funeral in front of the silo that day, because Everett said if he came within a mile of the stump, Emerson could help with the slaughter.

We were all saved from another discussion about future funerals held behind the silo, because like everyone else who borrowed a book from the Renfrew library, Emerson had to take the book about the Leaning Tower of Pisa back in a week or pay a cent every day. It was the last we heard of the likeness between our old silo and some tower in Italy.

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Watson’s Mill bringing history back from the dead Emma Jackson

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EMC news – Watson’s Mill usually tries to bring history alive, but this October staff are simply hoping to reveal the undead.

On the evening of Friday, Oct. 27, the Haunted Ottawa Paranormal Society will lead two groups in a paranormal investigation of the 150-yearold grist mill in Manotick.

Using professional equipment such as night vision cameras, electronic voice phenomenon (EVP) recorders and laser screens, the two groups will search the three-floor industrial building for the ghost of Anne Currier, who was killed on the one-year anniversary of the mill’s operation - and never left.

Many have felt her presence before: education officer Cam Trueman said not a day goes by that visitors don’t report a creepy feeling or a brush with the other side.

In 1861, the 20-year-old Ann Crosby had only been married to mill co-founder Joseph Currier for six weeks when her skirts were caught up in the mill’s gears and she was dashed against a pillar, killing her instantly.

Today, visitors and staff report a heaviness or weight on their chest as they ascend the

Manotick’s Watson’s Mill has several ghosts inside. stairs to the attic, and a similar feeling in the basement – a feeling that turns them back immediately.

Trueman said the paranormal society has also found evidence of a ghost belonging to a young boy, who was possibly drowned in the basement.

An angry man has also been detected in the attic.

On Oct. 27, the first group will search the mill from 6 to 9 p.m. The second group will begin at 10 and end at 1 a.m.

In previous years the mill has taken up to 70 visitors in one big group, but Trueman said they’re splitting that number into two smaller groups this year.

“We’ll give people a better experience without feeling cramped. It’s a bit more intimate,” he said. The small-

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Also new this year, Trueman will lead each group on a brief orientation of the mill before they start their investigation, so they’re more in tune with who and what they’re looking for.

Everyone will also get a souvenir t-shirt from the experience, Trueman said.

Tickets are $25, and since its Halloween weekend visitors are encouraged to dress up in spooky costumes – but hold the superhero tights.

“We hope for no Batmans or Spidermans, we want them to be spooky people,” Trueman said.

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EMC news – Rich aromas of smoky whisky and gourmet appetizers filled Watson’s Mill on Thursday, Oct. 11, when about 45 people gathered to try a taste of Scotland.

Whisky expert Geoffrey Skeggs led the tasting sessions, which included four types of single malt scotch whisky. He paired them with a variety of appetizers from the Mill Tavern in Manotick.

He began with a 10-year-

old whisky from the Springbank area of Scotland. He said the scotch he chose is “a tour of Scotland in a single glass.”

He paired it with an applewood smoked cheddar.

The second dram was Bruichladdich’s Port Charlotte whisky from the island of Islay. He described it as “peaty” with aromas of plastic bandaids and seaweed. He paired it with candied ginger, because he said strong whiskies need strongly flavoured food pairings.

Skeggs then introduced

a Glenfarclas scotch from Speyside. The scotch is sweet with notes of fruit because it was aged in sherry casks. He paired it with chocolate.

The final dram was also paired with something sweet – a butter tart – to go with the port flavours in the Glenmorangie scotch from the Highlands.

Mill manager Isabelle Geoffrion said it’s nice to host formal events like whisky tastings, because regular visitors get a chance to see the mill in a different light.

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LEFT: Karolle Screaton takes in the aroma of a single malt scotch whisky at the annual tasting event.

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Stay in the Swim thiS winter City of Ottawa Pools offer something for everyone!

The City of Ottawa invites you to escape from the cold into one of our indoor pools. Winter is a great time to improve skills, learn something new, or take on a new fitness challenge. City of Ottawa pools offer something for all ages!

Parents and their infants/ toddlers can enjoy some time together in swimming lessons for children ages three months to three years.

Classes focus on water orientation, building confidence, socialization, and learning through games.

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The Ottawa Stingers play in Quebec and Ontario tournaments, and planned to leave for Las Vegas to compete several days after the Parasport Festival.

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Water safety starts with learning to swim. City of Ottawa pools offer swimming lessons for children of all ages. Pre-schoolers and children can progress through the Red Cross program improving their swimming strokes and skills, making new friends, and developing skills that can lead to a life-long appreciation for water-related activities. Youth and adult lessons are also available for those looking at taking on a new challenge or improve on existing skills.

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Russell House pub tops $12,000 for Winchester Hospital Staff

EMC news - The Russell House pub has raised more

than $12,000 for the Winchester District Memorial Hospital Foundation after a successful golf tournament

this summer.

Edna and Terry Robinson, the pub’s owners for more than 20 years, have long supported

the hospital with fundraisers, and their golf tournament at Cedar Glen golf course on Aug. 13 raised $1,100 to take

them over the $12,000 mark.

“Dozens of golfers helped to make this year fun and fruitful, proving how great things can be done when people come together for a good cause,” said hospital foundation spokesperson Chelsea McIntyre in a statement.

Edna Robinson said it is only natural to support their local hospital.

“In our line of work, we have the capacity to help,” she said. “It’s really just our way of giving back.”

As a result of this perspec-

tive, the Robinsons have hosted many golf tournaments, trivia nights, and other unique fundraising events both at their establishment and elsewhere.

Located at 108 Mill Street in Russell, the Russell House pub is proud to have been serving area residents for over 150 years. Whether for a home-cooked meal, a pint, or a game of pool or darts, patrons enjoy all of the pub’s offerings amidst the comfortable setting, McIntyre wrote in a statement.

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Rogers Communications Partnership proposent d’installer un système d’antennes qui se trouve à 1536 Rue Sale Barn, comme suit : - une antenne cellulaire 70m Rogers Communications Partnership is proposing an antenna system at 1536 Sale Barn Rd., which consists of the following: - a 70m self-support cellular antenna Once completed the antenna system will measure 70 metres in height. Industry Canada is responsible for the approval of this antenna system, and requires Rogers Communications Partnership to review this proposal with the public and local municipality.

Rogers Communications Partnership invites you to attend our Community Information and Comment Session at the Greely Community Centre, 1448 Meadow Dr., Greely, ON, on November 7th from 6:30-8:30pm or within 30 calendar days of the date of this notice provide by e-mail or letter your comments, and/or request to be informed of the City’s position on the proposed antenna system. Please contact: Eric Belchamber 306 Legget Drive Kanata, Ontario, K2K 1Y6 (613) 220-5970 eric.belchamber@rogers.com After reviewing this proposal the City of Ottawa will provide its position to Industry Canada and Rogers Communications Partnership.

Rogers Communications Partnership will respond to all reasonable and relevant concerns, and the City will be taking into account comments from the public and the proponent’s response to each when providing its position to the proponent and Industry Canada.

Une fois les travaux terminés, le système d’antennes mesurera 70 mètres de hauteur. Industrie Canada, qui est responsable d’approuver ce système d’antennes, exige que Rogers Communications Partnership passent en revue la présente proposition avec le public et la municipalité locale.

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Rogers Communications Partnership donnera suite à toute préoccupation jugée pertinente et raisonnable, et que la Ville tiendra compte des commentaires du public et de la réponse du promoteur à l’égard de ceux-ci au moment de faire part de sa position au promoteur et à Industrie Canada.

The Ottawa South Women’s Connection hosted their fall fun fair that featured bake sale, white elephant, books and crafts on Oct. 11 at the Fred Barrett Arena on Leitrim Road. Pictured here is Sylvia Parker from Manotick selling jewelry at the event that attracted about 30 women from south Ottawa.

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and adults. Jewel is a special needs dog because she suffers from arthritis pain. She is on pain medication, which she will need to continue after she is adopted, possibly for the rest of her life. Jewel’s new family should take her to their veterinarian to prescribe pain medication and to discuss treatment options that may slow the progression of her

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If you are looking for a senior dog, with lots of character and love to share, then come to the OHS Adoption Centre and meet Jewel!

TOOQUE - This neutered male, brown and white tabby cat is approximately 6 years old. She was surrendered to the shelter by her owner on

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Tooque loves to play with toys and people. He has a very friendly disposition and gets along well with other cats. He has also lived with a dog for a short while. He’s learned to come when you “click” your tongue and would be happy to come live with you, but always indoors please where it’s safe!

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their tired bones. Some older pets may have difficulty climbing stairs. For cats, moving a litter box for easier access away from stairs is a helpful change. Cats should always be kept indoors for their own safety.

Grooming Older dogs and cats tend to groom themselves less often and this can lead to tangled fur and skin problems. Be sure that you or a professional groomer tends to your pet, is sensitive to joints that may be stiff and looks out for lumps, bumps or changes in the skin. Keeping nails short allows your pet to walk more comfortably, especially if arthritis is a factor.

Preventative Care Exercise in moderation is one aspect of preventative care for aging pets. Keep your dog or cat going as they

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Keep them active mentally and physically to keep them sharp.

Take note of any behavioural changes such as appetite, thirst and elimination habits. Report any changes to your veterinarian.

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Schedule regular veterinary examinations – it’s one of the most important steps you can take to keep your senior pet in good health. These exams

can catch and delay the onset or progress of disease and can help in the early detection of problems such as arthritis.

Healthy senior pets should visit the veterinarian every six months Senior pets are special friends who deserve to have their remaining time, quality time.

As pets get older, there are many ways owners can ease the aging process for their cat or dog. Your senior pet will need special attention in these areas: Nutrition Obesity in pets is often the result of reduced exercise and overfeeding and puts your pet at risk for heart disease. Obesity also puts strain on the joints. As a result of their decreased activity, older pets have lower calorie requirements. Special foods with less protein and fewer calories can help keep your pet’s weight under control.

Consult your veterinarian for a balanced diet that will meet the needs of your pet.

Shelter Owners can provide a warm, quiet, soft place to help their pet sleep and cushion

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On Oct. 10, city council voted 20-3 to give final approval for a half-billion-dollar deal to revitalize Lansdowne Park.

Lansdowne a done deal Laura Mueller

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cerned that the city is handing over the reins of a piece of public land to private developers. Deans said the partnership is the most difficult, complicated deal the city has ever entered into and she is not certain it’s a good thing for taxpayers.

“Ultimately I think our taxpayers are going to be paying the price for many, many years to come,” Deans said.

Chernushenko said that despite his opposition to the project, he acknowledges it will be moving forward and has been focused on making it the best it can be.

“We need to make sure it works for them (Glebe residents) and that it was not on their backs this was built,” he said. Chernushenko called on his council collegues to support important transportation and transit plans that will be essential to making the development work, including a

planned $17.5-million footbridge over the Rideau Canal, connecting the Glebe and Old Ottawa East.

“There will be a cost to it, but it’s essential,” he said.

Mayor Jim Watson said it was a proud moment for him because it shows council can get things done at city hall.

“Public said stop dithering and start digging,” Watson said. “Waiting for perfection is going to kill any project … . It hasn’t been easy, but in the end, it will be magnificent.”

City manager Kent Kirkpatrick said the rigorous design review panel process “established a new level of urban design” for the city. “(It is) expanding our understanding of what’s possible in Ottawa,” Kirkpatrick said.

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Bob Monette, a longtime supporter of the project, said the redevelopment and the addition of football will make Lansdowne

a tourist destination.

Watson reiterated his argument that the public-private redevelopment will replace 0.73 hectares of asphalt with public spaces and a park.

He said the project will also “close the gap” between the communities of Old Ottawa South and the Glebe.

Football is scheduled to begin in 2014, and the timelines will be tight. The project has faced 18 months of delays due to the design review panel asking for tweaks to the project and two legal challenges brought forward by the Friends of Lansdowne and the Lansdowne Park Conservancy. Kirkpatrick said the construction schedule will be a “complicated dance” that will mainly hinge on the construction schedule for the parking garage, but the timing allows for typical delays that might result from weather or other minor issues.

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City council voted 20-3 to give its final approval to the multi-million-dollar deal with the Ottawa Sports and Entertainment Group, paving the way for one of the largest con-

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The deal, four years in the making, will see the city’s Frank Clair Stadium received major overhauls to enable the return of a Canadian Football League team. Construction of an underground parking garage will make room for a mixed-use development including an office tower, condos, shops and a cinema. The portion of the site between the Aberdeen Pavillion and the Queen Elizabeth Driveway will be transformed into an urban park with a water feature, orchard, and public event space.

The vote wasn’t unanimous.

The councillor for the ward in which the park sits, Capital Coun. David Chernushenko, voted against the final report, as did Gloucester-Southgate Coun. Diane Deans and Somerset Coun. Diane Holmes.

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St. Michael and All Angels Anglican Church 2112 Bel-Air Drive (613) 224 0526 Join us for regular services Beginning September 9 – Sundays at 8:00 & 10:00 a.m.

Church school and youth group Rector: Rev. Dr. Linda Privitera – Everyone welcome – Come as you are – www.stmichaelandallangels.ca

ALL WELCOME Sundays at 10:30 a.m.

The Salvation Army Community Church Meeting at St. Andrew School 201 Crestway Dr. 613-440-7555 Barrhaven www.sawoodroffe.org

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Sunday Services 9 am Teen Breakfast Club Adult Sunday School (Childcare provided) 10 am Worship Service Nursery and Children’s Sunday School

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Minister: James T. Hurd Everyone Welcome

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Sunday Services: 8am and 10am Thursday Eucharist: 10am Nearly New Shop/Book Nook Open Thursday, Fridays 1pm - 3:30pm and first Saturday of each month: 10am - Noon 8 Withrow Avenue 613-224-7178

470 Roosevelt Ave. Westboro www.mywestminster.ca

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Heb. 13:8 “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever

Tel: (613) 276-5481; (613) 440-5481 1893 Baseline Rd., Ottawa (2nd Floor) Sunday Service 10.30am – 12.30pm Bible study / Night Vigil: Friday 10.00pm – 1.00am Website: heavensgateottawa.org E-mail: heavensgatechapel@yahoo.ca

Minister - Rev. William Ball Organist - Alan Thomas Nusery & Sunday School, Loop audio, Wheelchair access

Parkdale United Church

The Redeemed Christian Church of God

Heaven’s Gate Chapel

St. Richard’s Anglican Church

Worship 10:30 Sundays

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Pleasant Park Baptist Invites you to our worship service with Rev. Dean Noakes Sundays at 11am 414 Pleasant Park Road 613 733-4886 pleasantparkbaptist.org

Celebrating 14 years in this area!

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Worship and Sunday School 9:30 Contemplative Worship 11:15

Service Time: Sundays at 10:30 AM

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Rideau Park United Church

Refreshments / fellowship following service

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Place your Church Services Ad Here email srussell @thenewsemc.ca Call: 613-688-1483

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Female hockey players aiming for university careers brier.dodge@metroland.com

EMC news - For top female hockey players, it’s as much about the athletics as it is the academics.

University and college level play is the main goal for most junior competitive players.

“For the girls, the highest level they can basically play other than Team Canada is college,” said Nepean Junior Wildcats head coach Dave MacDonald. “It’s what I would call their NHL.” MacDonald has put a heavy emphasis on performance off the ice, in the classroom, for his players.

His players are in the right league to get recruited to a university program, playing in the 20-team Provincial Women’s Hockey League.

“It’s great to be a good hockey player but first of all you have to be a good student,” MacDonald said. “The

academics are the most important thing for these kids.”

American schools need to see strong standardized testing results and high school grades before offering players scholarships.

While players on the team range in age, the majority on this year’s team are Grade 12 students. Though it’s a Nepean team, training at the Nepean Sportsplex and doing dryland training at Scotiabank Place in Kanata, players come from all over the region to play for the Wildcats, one of two Ottawa teams in the PWHL. The Ottawa Senators Women’s Hockey Club also has a team in the league who the Wildcats face.

MacDonald said there are a growing number of opportunities for women to play university level hockey in Canada.

Nipissing University and Laurentian University have just started new women’s teams this year.

MacDonald played hockey for Laurentian University; hockey carried his own daughter through a successful career with the Carleton University Ravens team.

As a new coach for the Wildcats, he wants to bring his experience with the university system to the players to make sure they have the option to play hockey in future years.

“I know what it takes to get there,” he said. “I know what a student athlete has to do to be successful, and that experience is very valuable.”

Two players from this year’s team are also playing for the provincial team, with Lauren Miller from Brockville on the first team, Team Red, and Kanata’s Taylor Thurston on the second team, Team Blue.

Three more players made it to the selection camp.

It will hopefully help the team when the provincial championship comes to their own backyard. This year’s championship tournament is being help in Ottawa in conjunction with the women’s world championship.

It will be a nice break from

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the frequent travel the team makes to play Toronto-area teams, hitting the road almost every other Thursday night to travel for games or tournaments.

MacDonald hopes the team will make at least the semifinal round and finish in the top four teams in the league. Despite a 16th-place finish last year, about three-quarters of this year’s team is new to the Wildcats.

“This will be a big year for us,” he said.

He thinks they have it in them, with a group that

he said is very close, and committed to one another.

“They get along extremely well,” he said. “Basically, they’re a great group of girls to coach and very talented.”

But what it comes down to at the end of the day is hard work on the rink, balanced with hard work off it.

“That’s what we have to stress as a coaching staff – the education has to be number one,” said MacDonald.

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Local events and happenings over the coming weeks — free to non-profit organizations Fax: 613-224-3330, E-mail: manotick@metroland.com

Oct. 17:

Come to the Ogoode library branch for the ABC’s of Fraud from 2 to 3 p.m. Tips to protect seniors against identity theft, internet fraud, investment scams, bogus charities and illegal telemarketing. Presented by the Rotary Club of West Ottawa and endorsed by Ottawa Police Services. For more information, contact InfoService at 613-580-2940. Online registration is required.

Oct. 18-20:

Kids under six are welcome if accompanied by an adult.

Program runs from 1 to 3 p.m. Cost: $5.

Oct. 21:

Holy Trinity Anglican Church will host a roast pork dinner with all the trimmings in Metcalfe on Sunday, Oct. 21. Sittings are at 4:30 and 6 p.m. Cost is $15 per person and tickets are available by calling M. Stanley at 613233-1556.

The Ottawa Public Library’s Osgoode Branch will be closed from Thursday, Oct. 18 to Saturday, Oct. 20 to receive improvements. The book drop will be available during the closure. The nearest alternate service locations are the Manotick, Metcalfe and North Gower Branches.

For more information, contact InfoService at 613580-2940 or InfoService@ BiblioOttawaLibrary.ca or visit BiblioOttawaLibrary.ca.

Oct. 23:

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Oct. 24:

Ottawa Public Health well water sample collection dates: Oct. 23 at MacKinnon’s Foodland and Metcalfe Variety; Oct. 29 at Richmond Community Centre from 3 to 8 p.m. and Ashton General Store and Munster Mac’s Milk. For more information, call 613-580-6744 ext. 26173 or ext. 15251 or visit ottawa. ca.

Oct. 19:

Come to Youth Net’s Focus Group at O-YA to have your voice heard and be part of O-YA’s future Mental Health related programming. Open to youth ages 13 to 18. The program runs from 6 to 7:30 p.m., with free pizza at 5:30 p.m. To register, please email o-yacentre@rogers.com.

Oct. 20:

Children ages six and up are invited to the Osgoode Township Museum for this year’s Halloween Craft Day to make a variety of spooky Halloween creatures including spiders and owls, as well as some amazing Trick-or-Treat bags to use on Hallow’s Eve!

The Greely library branch will offer a screening of Surviving Progress from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Some of the world’s foremost thinkers, activists, bankers, and scientists challenge us to overcome progress traps, which destroyed past civilizations and lie treacherously embedded in our own. For more information, contact InfoService at 613-580-2940. Online registration is required.

Discover the wisdom and wit of traditional stories with Jennifer Cayley from 7 to 8 p.m. at the Osgoode library branch. Jennifer Cayley performs tales that are rich in imagery, adventure, emotion and which deal with the stuff of everyday life. Offered in partnership with MASC. For adults aged 50-plus. For more information, contact InfoService at 613-5802940. Online registration is required.

St Paul’s United Church Kenmore presents a musical evening with the Russell Male Choir at 7 p.m. Refreshments will follow the performance.

Admission is $10. Contact Marilyn Moffatt at 613-8212626 or Marion McEwan at 613-821-2342.

Oct. 25 - Nov. 22:

Bonding with baby: Plan to attend these five 1.5 hour classes and learn infant massage and baby sign language.

Tuesdays starting Oct. 25 from 1 to 2:30 p.m. Cost: $75. Live and Learn Resource Centre, 8243 Victoria St., Metcalfe. For questions

or to register, please call 613821-2899.

Oct. 27:

The Haunted Ottawa Paranormal Society will present an evening of education and fun at Watson’s Mill on Oct. 27 from 6 p.m. to 1 a.m. Tickets are $25 each.

Visitors for the evening have to be 14 years of age and up.

The Haunted Ottawa Paranormal Society are modern day ghost busters who will share their experiences investigating supernatural events.

There will also be a ghost tour of Watson’s Mill. For more information call 613692-6455.

Mini quilt workshops at Manotick United Church, Oct. 27th and Nov. 10th, from 9 to 3 p.m. Cost $60, including lunch. Call 613692-0949 to register.

Halloween family storytime at the Manotick library!

Come dressed in your costume and join us for spooky stories, a movie and a craft.

Saturday, Oct. 27 from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. Register at biblioottawalibrary.ca or call Manotick Library 613-6923854 for more information.

Halloween Bash at the Osgoode Public School Gym! From 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. enjoy lots of spooktacular halloween activities, candy, a haunted house and new this year a giant Pumpkin Pinata at 10 a.m. Presented by the Osgoode Co-operative Nursery School. Children 10 and under welcome - wear your costume. $5 each or $10 per family.

Craft and bake sale from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. at the Osgoode Legion. Donations of baked items can be brought to Osgoode Legion on the morning of Oct. 27. To reserve, phone Joan Valdstyn at 613-258-7644. Buy Christmas gifs early and support the Legion.

Nov. 3:

St. James Anglican Church in Manotick and the community police are co-hosting an education program called “Kids and Drugs.” A drug specialist

will attend to discuss the specific drugs out in the community now.

The presentation will run from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. and will cover current drug trends, signs and symptoms to look for, the role and power of parents, talking with children and helping them make good decisions.

We are interested in reaching the parents of and/or youth leaders working with grades 5-9. Registration is limited. Cost is $5. Call Donna Rourke at 613-825-1913 or Sam Hills at 613-692-2082.

Nov. 6:

Join Alan Cumyn for an author reading and discussion of the many aspects of fiction writing from 7 to 8 p.m. at the Greely library branch.

Alan Cumyn’s books include the Giller Prize finalist Burridge Unbound, and the acclaimed Great War novels The Sojourn and The Famished Lover. Offered in partnership with MASC. For adults aged 50-plus. Online registration is required.

Nov. 6-Dec. 11:

Are you thinking of getting pregnant? Already pregnant?

Ongoing series of workshops for parents-to-be at the Metcalfe Live and Learn Resource Centre include presentations on healthy babies/ healthy children, nutrition for pregnant mom, yoga/exercise/ dance, birthing companions/ doulas/midwives, breastfeeding/bottle feeding/nutrition for baby, infant massage, child birth/postpartum. Takes place Tuesdays 5:45 to 7:30 p.m. Call 613-821-2899.

Nov. 10:

A First Words speech and language screening clinic for children from birth until eligibility for senior kindergarten who live in the City of Ottawa will take place at Osgoode Youth Association, 5479 Osgoode Main St. from 9:15 to 11:30 a.m.

No appointment necessary.

For more information, call Ottawa Public Health at 613-580-6744 or visit www. firstwords.ca. Hosted by Live and Learn Resource Centre, a program of Rural Family

Connections.

Osgoode Legion’s Remembrance dinner will be held on Saturday, Nov. 10. Veterans are free. Guests are $10.

Enjoy cocktails from 6 p.m. with dinner following at 7 p.m. Tickets will be available at the bar in early October.

For further information, contact Peter Valdstyn at 613258-7644.

Nov. 13:

Rural Family Connections will host its annual general meeting on Nov. 13 at 7:30 p.m. All members of the Metcalfe Co-operative Nursery School, Metcalfe Home Daycare, Live and Learn Resource Centre and the general public are invited. If you’re interested in attending please RSVP by November 5 by calling 613-821-2899.

Nov. 17-18:

Annual Christmas Bazaar at Our Lady of the Visitation, 5338 Bank St. South. Open 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Nov. 17, and 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Nov.18. Christmas gifts for sale along with a canteen serving light refreshments.

Nov. 21:

Join us at the Osgoode library for a screening of Bone, Wind, Fire and the Mystery of Mazo de la Roche. The film is an intimate and evocative journey into the hearts, minds and eyes of Georgia O’Keeffe, Emily Carr and Frida Kahlo—three of the 20th century’s most remarkable artists.

Mazo de la Roche transformed herself from an obscure Canadian writer into one of the most widely read and internationally renowned authors of her day. Screening begins at 7 p.m. Online registration is required.

Nov. 24:

Don’t miss the annual Christmas craft and gift show by the Community Christian School. The event features local businesses and artisans offering a wide array of gift items. The show takes place on November 24 at CCS, 2681 Glen St. Metcalfe.

Doors open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. There will be a Christmas cookie decorating station for children, as well as a canteen serving a delicious luncheon and refreshments.

Parking and admission are free.

Ongoing:

Osgoode’s Country Creations Christmas Artisan and Craft Fair is looking for vendors for its annual event to be held at the Market Square Mall, from Friday, Nov. 30 until Sunday, Dec. 9.

If you are interested in participating in this co-operative fair, please contact Marlene at 613-826-1511 or Mary Louise at sweetpeas@ sympatico.ca. Proceeds from rental fees are donated to the Osgoode Care Centre.

The City of Ottawa’s new collection calendar is currently being delivered to homes.

Residents are encouraged to watch for their calendar in the mail, as it contains important information regarding waste collection.

The new calendar also provides information about upcoming changes to the City’s solid waste collection schedules. For more information, please visit ottawa.ca or call 311.

Old Time Fiddle and Country Dance takes place the first Friday of every month from 7:30 to 11:30 p.m. $5/person at the door or yearly memberships available. No charge for participating musicians and singers. Join us for a good time.

Mondays and Thursdays:

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 613821-1930 for more information.

Tuesdays:

In Harmony, a woman’s chorus, is welcoming new members. Practices are from 7 to 8:30 p.m. on Tuesdays.

Call 613-722-0066.

Bats are hiding out in the Children’s Museum. Find them all to win a special Halloween treat!

Until October 31 at the Children’s Museum.

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PARTY WITH SESAME STREET ON SATURDAY! Dress up in your best costume for Halloween surprises, games and treats with your favourite Sesame Street friends! Decorate your own mini-pumpkin and join our DJ for a dance party. Make sure to keep your camera handy for appearances by Walkaround Elmo, Cookie Monster and Abby Cadabby!

Saturday, October 27, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. | Grand Hall Free with Museum admission | For details visit civilization.ca/programs

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ARIES - Mar 21/Apr 20

LIBRA - Sept 23/Oct 23

TAURUS - Apr 21/May 21

SCORPIO - Oct 24/Nov 22

GEMINI - May 22/Jun 21

SAGITTARIUS - Nov 23/Dec 21

CANCER - Jun 22/Jul 22

CAPRICORN - Dec 22/Jan 20

LEO - Jul 23/Aug 23

AQUARIUS - Jan 21/Feb 18

VIRGO - Aug 24/Sept 22

PISCES - Feb 19/Mar 20

Aries, you may need some creative strategies to clear up some conflicts in your schedule this week. You must be quite popular since you have so much going on.

Taurus, there’s so much to get done this week that you may not know where to begin. Making a list of your responsibilities may help you get organized.

Gemini, you may be on the fence about making a large purchase, but the stars indicate that now could be a good time to buy and things will work in your favor financially.

Cancer, instead of rushing along through the daily grind, take some time to slow down and enjoy the scenery along the way. This will help you clear your head and relax.

Leo, the weekend will not be fun unless you finish up all of your work at the office. Don’t procrastinate and leave all the difficult tasks until next week.

Projects around the house seem to grow with every passing day, Sagittarius. If you do not think you can get them all done on your own, it may be time to hire a professional.

Experiencing car troubles, Capricorn? This may be the ideal time to go shopping for a new vehicle. A new ride can lift your spirits and put to rest those fears about your current vehicle.

Don’t work yourself silly, Aquarius. It’s good to be productive and company-minded, but not if it comes at the price of your health. Recharge before you tackle anything else.

Pisces, while it can be challenging to sit idle, lazy days are very often great ways to catch up on some rest and personal time.

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Mayor Jim Watson

Mid Term Progress Report to Taxpayers Budgets: Keeping rates below 2.5%

Lansdowne Park Revitalization

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• Recreation fees frozen

• Work has begun to revitalize Lansdowne Park

• $14 Million to fight poverty and build new affordable housing

• CFL and pro soccer franchises secured

• Ottawa on the Move – A citywide transportation initiative to build and improve our roads, sidewalks and cycling network

• FIFA Women’s World Cup in 2015

• Significant increase in green space and trees

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Tourism

• Light Rail tenders are out: Contracts to be signed in December; Construction to start in 2013

• Sports Hall of Fame, Rink of Dreams and Barbara Ann Scott Gallery opened at City Hall • Aggressive plan to attract major events:

• Four-year labour deal signed with OC Transpo

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• Expanding O-Train service • New Double-Decker buses • Lower fares for seniors

NHL All Star Game JUNO Awards Women’s World Hockey Championship Men’s Basketball Championship

• Canada’s 150th Anniversary Task Force created

• U-Pass made permanent

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