SW2012EMCXmasAd1.qx
What’s your family breathing?
Ducts Today... eathe Healthy Tomorrow!
e uct ng
7:04 PM
Page 1
TOTAL EMC DISTRIBUTION 474,000
Manotick
Clean Your Ducts Now!
50 OFF
$
SAVE
DUCT CLEANING
R0011756145
NG
YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER
8/27/56
613-258-1262
845 Prescott Street, Kemptville www.RBHeating.com
Inside NEWS
The Metcalfe Lions are supporting the Pennies for Puppies campaign for a Barrhaven woman with multiple sclerosis. – Page 5
CITY HALL NEWS
Four ‘rural champions’ have received Diamond Jubilee medals from Nepean-Carleton MP Pierre Poilievre. – Page 10
ENTERTAINMENT COMMUNITY
A local author is humbled by the enthusiastic response to her book, which explores her sister’s time in the Royal Ottawa Sanitorium. – Page 29
www.YourOttawaRegion.com
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2012
613-738-0330
Truck route upgrade helps village share the load Emma Jackson
emma.jackson@metroland.com
EMC news –Residents welcomed a step to reduce trucks through their village last week when the city added several suburban arterial roads to its truck route network. Hundreds of trucks drive through Manotick’s village core each day, using Mitch Owens Road, Bridge Street and Bankfield Road as a de facto ring road between Highways 417 and 416. Community leaders like Klaus Beltzner, president of the Manotick Village Community Association, have been fighting to share that burden with suburban communities north of the village. Making sure newly built arterials connected to the Strandherd-Armstrong bridge are designated as truck route options is a big part of that plan. “If those roads were not designated we would have a very hard time,” Beltzner said. The community received confirmation on Nov. 21 that roads like Strandherd Drive and Earl Armstrong Road will be added to the updated truck route map in January 2013. Strandherd between Woodroffe Avenue and Prince of Wales Drive, Earl Armstrong between River and Limebank Roads, and Limebank between Earl Armstrong and Leitrim Road will all be added to the city’s truck route as “restricted load” routes come January. Once the city completes standard testing to determine they can carry heavy truck traffic at full capacity, the roads will be updated to “full load” routes and the maps will be revised. The Strandherd-
Armstrong Bridge will be added once the bridge is complete and open to traffic. Beltzner said the update is excellent news in his fight to reduce trucks through Manotick’s village core. “For me, it’s very big,” he said. “It means we have a chance to share the load.” Rideau-Goulbourn Coun. Scott Moffatt said adding the arterial routes has always been part of the plan. “The bridge was designed and is being built to accommodate trucks,” Moffatt said, noting that it’s hard to know what impact the new routes will have on Manotick’s truck traffic. “You can’t really speculate until it comes into effect. We’ll see what happens when the bridge opens.” Gloucester-South Nepean Coun. Steve Desroches has said he doesn’t support through traffic using Barrhaven as a thoroughfare, but Beltzner said the effort to reduce trucks in Manotick would not put undue pressure on Barrhaven and Riverside South. “Our slogan is ‘share the load,’” Beltzner said. “It’s not really fair to push all the trucks from one community onto another community. It’s to try to get better sharing.” Moffatt said it will likely be local truck traffic using the new bridge anyway, because it doesn’t make sense to use it as a through traffic route. “It does make it quicker and easier for local trucks,” he said. “There’s a lot of local traffic that comes through Manotick that maybe will find it a better route to use the Strandherd bridge.” See MORE, page 9
EMMA JACKSON/METROLAND
Paddle and jive Grade 2 twins Patrick and Liam Geraghty, 7, paddled through class on Friday, Nov. 23 during St. Leonard Catholic School’s annual dance-a-thon. This year’s theme was ‘I Am Canadian’ and the school was teeming with explorers, hockey players, coffee cups and flags. For the full story, see page 7.
Santa to visit Osgoode Ward Emma Jackson
emma.jackson@metroland.com
EMC news – Santa Claus will have to put his supernatural time management skills to work as he makes his way to several Christmas events across Osgoode ward this weekend. While it may seem impossible that jolly old St. Nick can be in several places at once, the magic of Christmas will ensure that all the good little boys and girls in the ward can visit Santa wherever they live. OSGOODE
Santa’s work begins at 7 a.m. on Saturday, Dec. 1, at
the Osgoode community centre, during the annual pancake breakfast and silent auction. The event is a fundraiser for the Osgoode Co-operative Nursery School, and runs until 11 a.m., when Santa needs to prepare for the village parade. The Santa Claus parade down Osgoode Main Street begins at 11:30 a.m. Santa’s helpers will collect any letters to Santa and drop them off at Canada Post on behalf of the children. Frosty the Snowman will participate and the Stay Puff Marshmallow Ghostbusters will also join in. Santa said he’s pleased to visit the village of Osgoode early.
Advance Towing & Recovery
613-521-5971
613-262-9512
www.palmerrecycling.ca
www.atrottawa.com
See MAKING, on page 3
Help CHeO Help tHe kids
Scrap Car Pick-Up | Yard Clean-Up | We can provide 10 to 40 Yard Boxes
WE WILL PAY YOU CASH FOR SCRAP METAL OF ANY KIND OR SIZE! Donate your old vehicle or scrap to CHEO through our Cars 4 Kids and receive a charitable tax receipt.
R0011712329_1101
Cars 4 Kids
va
“I can tell you that I am very excited and I‘m looking forward to both these events,” Santa wrote in the Osgoode Village Community Association newsletter. “I am also looking forward to having my picture taken with you at the breakfast with Santa. I love pancakes and sausage. See you all there.” Trinity Bible Church will also have a float, and organizers said it has a “surprise giveaway” for attendees. “It’s a chance to share with people that we’re not here to take from them, we’re here to serve,” said pastor Shawn Ketcheson.