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NATO veterans share Christmas dinner and goals for 2016 Every year during the Christmas season the NATO Veterans Organization of Canada comes out to Kemptville to enjoy their annual Christmas dinner.They congregate from all over at the Kemptville Royal Canadian Legion Branch 212.

There were NATO veterans from North Gower, Greely, Orleans, Smiths Falls and Almonte, Manotick and Kemptville. Just about every village and town in eastern

Ontario is home to a NATO veteran.

This year the NVOC is more optimistic than ever that many of their concerns will be addressed by the new federal government.

The president of NVOC Gord Jenkins said,” We are not a social club. We are trying to raise awareness. We are more of an advocacy organization.”

The NVOC has as its mission, to speak up for modern-day veterans of the Canadian Armed Forces in

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In an article written by NVOC member General (Ret) Paul Manson, former Chief of the Defence Staff, he describes several articles about the number of Canadian veterans.

He wrote in the Globe and Mail, “One article, which included tallies from Veterans Affairs Canada, referred to “685,300 Canadian veterans: 75,900 from the Second World War, 9,100 from the Korean War, and 600,300 from subsequent peacekeeping missions and conflicts, including at least 40,000 younger Afghanistan war vets.”

Another opinion article took up the same theme, referring to Canadian casualties in the First and Second World Wars, Korea, Afghanistan, and “numerous United Nations peacekeeping asJoseph Morin/Metroland signments.”

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Manson continued, “Stunningly absent from both accounts is even the slightest mention of what was by far Canada’s most important military activity since 1945: Our contribution to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the North American Aerospace Defence Command (NORAD) in the Cold War, from 1950 to 1990. It was a massive commitment. Several hundred thousand Canadian military members served in the vital cause of deterring Soviet aggression, thereby joining Canada’s allies in preventing the outbreak of a third world war and the nuclear holocaust that would have ensued.

That oversight is one of the primary goals of NVOC to change.”

“We are in an interesting period because we have a new government,” said Jenkins.

He said the new Minister of Veteran’s Affairs, The Honourable Kent Hehr Minister of Veterans Affairs and Associate Minister of National Defence seems to be open to listening to what the NVOC has to say.

“There has been a more positive shift at Veterans Affairs,” said Tud Kaulbach the advocacy and liaison group chair for NVOC.

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When the new government named its new ministers it included with each appointment a letter from the Prime Minister Trudeau with his expectations for that particular department.

For the Department of Veterans Affairs he had the following goals: • Work with the Minister of National Defence to reduce complexity, overhaul service delivery, and strengthen partnerships between Veterans Affairs and National Defence.

• Re-establish lifelong pensions as an option for injured veterans, and increase the value of the disability award, while ensuring that every injured veteran has access to financial advice and support so that they can determine the form of compensation that works best for them and their families.

• Expand access to the Permanent Impairment Allowance to better support veterans who have had their career options limited by a service-related illness or injury.

• Provide injured veterans with 90 per cent of their prerelease salary, and index this benefit so that it keeps pace with inflation.

• Create a new Veterans Education Benefit that will provide full support for the costs of up to four years of

college, university, or technical education for Canadian Forces veterans after completion of service.

• Improve career and vocational assistance for veterans through ensuring that job opportunities for returning veterans are included in Community Benefits Agreements for new federallyfunded infrastructure projects.

• Deliver a higher standard of service and care, and ensure that a “one veteran, one standard” approach is upheld.

• Re-open the nine Veterans Affairs service offices recently closed, hire more service delivery staff, and fully implement all of the Auditor General’s recommendations on enhancing mental health service delivery to veterans.

• Create two new centres of excellence in veterans’ care, including one with a specialization in mental health, post-traumatic stress disorder and related issues for both veterans and first responders.

• Provide greater education, counselling, and training for families who are providing care and support to veterans living with physical and/or mental health issues as a result of their service.

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The most notorious intersection in south Ottawa could soon have a traffic light if Coun. George Darouze gets his way.

The Osgoode councillor confirmed July 2 the intersection at Manotick Station and Mitch Owens roads has met the city’s threshold to install a traffic light at that location – something residents have been demanding for years.

“It’s very positive,” said Bruce Brayman, president of the Greely Community Association.

“It will slow down Mitch Owens a bit but it’s also a very dangerous corner turning on and off of Mitch Owens.”

Got your goat Hannah and Adam Nixon make friends with a goat from the Big Sky Ranch during Canada Day festivities in Osgoode on July 1. More phots on pages 9 and 10.

The Royal Canadian Legion in Manotick is getting a lift thanks to the fundraising efforts of its members and a $50,000 grant from the feds.

Employment and Social Development Minister Pierre Poilievre announced the funding from the federal government’s Enabling Accessibility Fund (EAF) at the Royal Canadian Legion South Carleton Branch No. 314 in Manotick on July 14.

The funding will be added to what the Legion itself has raised to install an elevator lift to allow the disabled better access to all areas of the building.

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A trip to Orlando, Florida should be all about having fun.

If winning the most prestigious award at the National Dance Competition held in Orlando June 28 to July 6 can be classified as having fun, then the 36 dancers from the Manotick-based Piqué Dance Studio who headed south had a great time.

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The whimsical brown and white century home at the corner of Manotick Main Street and Maple Avenue isn’t going anywhere, according to the real estate agent who helped a local resident buy the vacant property this month.

“The bottom line is, the building isn’t coming down,” said realtor James Wright.

He said his client is still “in the planning stages” of what he might use the building for. The selling agent Ron Warwaruk suggested it may be turned into some sort of office space.

The new owner could not be reached for comment.

The 120-year-old house and stable at the village’s busiest intersection last belonged to resident Reg Falls, but after he died in 2012 it was put up for sale.

The property was advertised as ideal for redevelopment, since it’s zoned for mixed-use purposes, which caused some alarm among the village’s long-time residents.

They supported Rideau-Goulbourn Coun. Scott Moffatt’s move to add the building to the city’s heritage registry in late 2013.

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Hydro One and Hydro Ottawa have begun a formal conversation about who should provide power to the city’s rural residents.

Hydro Ottawa CEO Bryce Conrad told Metroland Media the leaders of the two companies met in Ottawa the week of June 15 to discuss bringing 45,000 Hydro One residents into the city’s fold.

And so far so good.

“We had a very fruitful meeting,” said Conrad, who added there’s already “some stuff on the table.”

“We’ve got an open dialogue … so hopefully we can get to a resolution,” he said.

Right now rural customers in wards such as Osgoode, West Carleton-March and Rideau-Goulbourn remain with the provincial Hydro One distributor, despite living inside City of Ottawa boundaries.

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August

Feds to fund half of Manotick arena expansion

Manotick’s cramped and crumbling arena could get its long-awaited facelift as early as 2017, thanks to a grant from the federal government’s Canada 150 community infrastructure program.

Nepean-Carleton MP Pierre Poilievre announced on July 31 that the federal government will fund half of the $1.7 million renewal project, for up to $880,000.

The expansion will double the size of the arena’s four change rooms, which are notoriously small and often force team mates to take turns changing because they can’t fit an entire adult or teenage hockey team in there at the same time.

Osgoode museum garnering attention for artist’s arbour It’s not every day a small

community museum receives a massive art piece from an internationally renowned sculptor – which made July 28 all the more exciting at the Osgoode Township Museum in Vernon.

Volunteer welders from the International Iron Workers in Metcalfe braved the humidity alongside museum volunteers to assemble a large, stainless steel arbour amongst the beans and lettuce of the museum’s thriving community garden.

The arbour was designed and built by Ottawa sculptor Bruce Garner, who is best known locally for the massive bronze bear who guards the entrance to Sparks Street across from the National War Memorial downtown.

September

Heel N Wheel walking a new path this year

The fourth annual Heel N Wheel fundraiser will take a new road toward local cancer care when it welcomes

participants for its walking and cycling event on Sept.

13.

In the past, several routes have started simultaneously from a handful of villages in the region, as far flung as Greely and Osgoode.

But this year the organizers are simplifying things: participants will this year start at the hospital and everyone will walk and ride together through Winchester village and into the countryside along Boyne Road.

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Ng brought her two youngest children to stand with about 40 other protesters, most of them grandparents, parents and young children, outside the Bank Street constituency office of Ottawa South Liberal MPP John Fraser on Sept. 2.

Similar rallies, spearheaded by the Campaign Life Coalition, were held the same day across the province.

Protesters say too much sex-ed ‘too soon’

Excitement at the Osgoode Youth Association reached levels of game seven of the Stanley Cup finals on Sept. 9, when two Ottawa Senators staff delivered a truck load of street hockey equipment for the centre’s after school homework club.

Boys and girls clustered around the Sens Army pickup truck as Matt Wason, co-ordinator for the Sens’ fan and community development program, and intern Jason Radski pumped up the crowd with questions about how much they all love hockey.

Just days into the new school year for francophone students, Lisa Marie Ng is already vowing to take action before her son is exposed to the province’s updated sexeducation curriculum. The Riverside Park mother of three took her eldest son out of Ėcole George-ĖtienneCartier French Catholic school for a week during the past academic year to protest the new sex-ed cur-

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Home run for Harvest House Joey Spirak of the Harvest House Overcomers knocks one into the outfield during a game against the Ottawa Police Service East Division during the 28th annual Recovery Cup, held Aug. 22 at Centennial Park in Manotick. Eight teams made up of law enforcement members and residents of Harvest House competed in round-robin action.

This was the 28th year that Harvest House, a south-end drug and alcohol treatment centre, has held the Recovery Cup, with proceeds from ticket sales benefiting the centre.

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A firefighter was injured and a family of three in Manotick were displaced as the result of a two-alarm fire that destroyed their home at 1100 West Ave. on Oct. 5.

The early morning fire began on the back deck of the home and spread inside the building, requiring crews from six stations and the use of a water tanker shuttle to

the fire is estimated to have caused $650,000 in damages to the two-storey single family home.

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Rodgers by 2,098 votes in the Oct. 19 federal election in the new riding of Carleton, giving him his fifth straight electoral victory.

On Golden Pond moves from big screen to stage for Osgoode performances

Before it was a starstudded American film, On Golden Pond was a play in two acts written by Ernest Thompson.

It is with that script that members of the ITR Theatre Company in Osgoode have been working since August to bring On Golden Pond to audiences as it was originally intended to be seen:

on stage. On Golden Pond will premiere at the Osgoode Community Centre on Nov. 13.

Heavy police presence on Osgoode Main Street after break-in

Residents of Osgoode reported seeing at least seven police vehicles on the 5500 block of Osgoode Main Street after an apparent midday home break-in on Oct. 17.

Word quickly spread through social media that an incident had occurred and neighbours took to Facebook to verify that no one had been injured in the inci-

dent, despite a lack of information from police.

Several days later, police confirmed that eight people are involved in an investigation into the home break-in.

November

Osgoode legion receives update in time for Remembrance Day

For many Osgoode residents, a Nov. 8 Remembrance Day ceremony at the Osgoode branch of the Royal Canadian Legion will be their first chance to see the improvements branch members have made to the building housing it as recently as

October.

“One of our members, George Hickey, got the idea that it would be nice to have something outside the hall to support the veterans,” said branch spokeswoman Gail Burgess. “He built a white picket fence out there with the silhouette of a soldier kneeling with his gun.”

Between September and October the legion’s bar officer Laurie MacDonald painted a mural of poppies on the same wall with help from legion members Elsie Hickey and Vicki Mason.

Les Emmerson returning to Manotick Nov. 13

“And the sign said ‘Everybody welcome, come in, kneel down and pray.’”

Les Emmerson penned that lyric in 5 Man Electrical Band’s 1970 track Signs, a song that put the band on the map. Emmerson and band mate Ted Gerow will perform at Manotick United Church on Nov. 13 and everybody’s welcome, though it’s not necessary to kneel down and pray.

11 to pay homage to Canada’s fallen soldiers.

They were still filing into the square as the Canadian and American anthems were sung; the latter in honour of a guest from the U.S. navy.

Prayers were spoken, a verse from Ode to the Fallen was read, and by 10:58 a.m. the square overflowed with veterans, cadets, parents, seniors, students and everyone in between.

Day draws crowds on mild morning

Council agrees to extend Osgoode ATV trail network pilot

Hundreds of residents and military personnel from Manotick and beyond lined Dickinson Square on Nov.

City council has approved extending an ATV network

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In 2013, the city approved a temporary bylaw allowing a pilot project for all terrain vehicle (ATV) usage on certain municipal roads and road allowances in the Osgoode ward.

Also included in the program were strips of Crown land in reserve for the purpose of making a road in the future, known as unopened road allowances.

Under the bylaw, only registered members of the Nation Valley ATV Club can use the network.

This original temporary bylaw would have expired on Nov. 30.

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The Heelers formed with a pledge to raise $500,000 to help the hospital pay for its digital mammography machine. For eight years they collected donations for the hospital through their participation first in the Weekend to End Breast Cancer and later in the Heel ‘n Wheel for Local Cancer Care.

The team presented their final contribution to the hospital at this year’s Heel ‘n Wheel event on Sept.

13, and were formally thanked by the Winchester Memorial Hospital Foundation in a celebration at the hospital on Nov. 19.

It was 2013 and he was a sixth grade student stepping on stage for the first time as a munchkin in the Greely Players’ production of Wizard of Oz. Hamilton, 14, has tested his acting chops in seven theatrical productions since then, and this year he will return to Green Gables and make his debut at the National Arts Centre.

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Although discussions between Hydro One and Hydro Ottawa went well – “This time, full credit to Hydro One, they were completely transparent with us,” he said – the cost just wouldn’t add up.

“While the process and the final valuation remains covered by a confidential non- disclosure agreement, Hydro Ottawa is prepared to acknowledge that the valuation placed on these customers

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Hydro Ottawa will not bring the 45,000 rural residents currently on Hydro One into the city’s utility fold.

After months of negotiations between the two power utilities, Hydro Ottawa concluded it would be “financially irresponsible” to acquire those customers, said Hydro Ottawa CEO Bryce Conrad.

“We’re very disappointed; we thought we had an opportunity,” he said during a phone interview on Dec. 22.

Senior officials from both utility companies have met a number of times since June to exchange financial data and models.

“We tried to get a sense of the valuation. At the end of the day, their number is much higher than what we could reasonably afford from Hydro Ottawa’s perspective,” said Conrad. “(Rural) customers are paying more than what Hydro Ottawa customers are and nothing would have made me more happy than to bring them into the Hydro Ottawa family.”

The CEO wasn’t the only one disappointed. West CarletonMarch Coun. Eli El-Chantiry was also upset by the decision.

“To say I’m disappointed is an understatement. I’ve been asking

for this since 2003; now we’re in 2015, soon to be 2016, and we’re still nowhere near a resolution,” said the councillor.

“Would I rather have my residents on Hydro Ottawa? Absolutely.”

El-Chantiry is also a customer of Hydro One and understands residents’ frustration.

“This means a lot to us,” he said, adding Hydro One customers are paying, on average, $300 to $350 more than their Hydro Ottawa counterparts.

“I’m really disappointed about this because I pushed so hard to get to the negotiation table.”

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“Unfortunately, and with regret, we are unable to conclude a commercial agreement with Hydro One to acquire these 45,000 customers in the outlying areas of the City of Ottawa.”

Conrad wrote to council that to purchase the customers at Hydro One’s price would be “financially irresponsible on the part of Hydro Ottawa.” To sell the customers below the asking price “would be rejected by the Ontario Energy Board as potentially causing ‘harm’ to existing Hydro One customers.”

Approval from the Ontario Energy Board is necessary for any sale of customers between utility companies.

Conrad said it’s unfortunate the 45,000 rural residents in wards like West Carleton-March, Osgoode and Rideau-Goulbourn are paying for a “historical mistake” made during amalgamation.

“It’s hard for me to see any options moving forward other than those customers remaining with Hydro One unfortunately,” said Conrad.

El-Chantiry said he would be speaking with the mayor and other rural city councillors to see if the city will pursue the issue.

“At the end of the day, it’s not up to Hydro Ottawa or Hydro One, it’s the Ontario Energy Board. I’m not sure if this is final,” he said.

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efugees fleeing from the Syrian conflict and the brutality and terror of ISIS in Syria and Iraq are starting to arrive, and Canadians are showing their true colours as a caring and welcoming nation.

That spirit of caring and concern is certainly on display here in the nation’s capital. Numerous organizations and individual residents have been working diligently to not only say hello to our new neighbours, but have also been hard at work coming up with ways to make their transition into Canadian society as smooth as possible.

For example, Elmvale Acres sisters Maya, 7, and Clara Pepe, 9, collected almost 500 plush toys for their Stuffies for Syria campaign so that the stuffed toys can be passed on to Syrian refugees who eventually resettle in Ottawa. Or there’s east-end resident Betty Giffin, who is taking park in a nationwide effort through the Ottawa-based Kind Canada, to knit 25,000 scarves to help keep the new arrivals warm during their first Canadian winter. Ottawa residents have been very generous in trying to ease the way for the refugees to integrate into Canadian

society.

The City of Ottawa has held public forums on how to sponsor refugees, the Catholic Centre for Immigrants has been front and centre in helping co-ordinate services here, Refugee 613 is helping coordinate private sponsorships and the University of Ottawa has been very active as well, to just name a few of those who are rising to the challenge locally.

There are many others as well.

Back on Dec. 21, the province announced that about $1.33 million will be available to assist refugee resettlement in the Ottawa area, with the possibility of more funds in the future.

The government support is good and expected, but it is the individual efforts, such as the previously mentioned Stuffies for Syria campaign by two young children, and other efforts like it, that show the generosity that Ottawa residents have in their hearts when responding to the refugee crisis.

And that bodes well for how our community will absorb the refugees who will settle here, and how well the refugees will settle into our community and enrich our city in the future.

The consequences deliver, more or less

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t was in 1953 that Pogo, the great philosopher, first uttered the words “We have met the enemy and he is us.” More than half a century later the words still ring true.

Not that we mean to be our own worst enemy. We are always trying to make things better and, in doing so, we sometimes make things worse.

The Law of Unintended Consequences is at play here, although many of the unintended consequences could be foreseen had we been forelooking.

We created the plastic bag for the convenience of folks at the supermarket. Now plastic bags clog the landfills and, in many parts of the Earth, mar the scenery. The oceans are full of discarded plastic objects that pose a severe threat to marine life. We didn’t intend any of that.

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And yet we keep pumping out disposable objects, the most notable of which is the single-cup coffee thingy. Imagine how many millions of these hit the trashcan each day.

Imagine how many wouldn’t if people made coffee the traditional way. But it seemed like a convenient thing to have and we just didn’t think.

And so it goes, with ever-increasing advances for the consumer, most of them making life difficult for someone. Oops.

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read news and download music.

Daily newspapers are losing advertisers at a record rate and laying off staff. So are television stations.

Musicians no longer make money selling CDs. A few get much richer, most get a lot poorer. Oops.

Uber, which everybody seems to love, is threatening the livelihood of taxi drivers, who had to make a considerable investment and submit themselves to a lot more regulation than Uber folks do. Is that what we wanted? And Uber is expanding into other services where the unintended consequences may be similar.

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basic package or select – from the multitude of existing channels – a package that suits their needs, rather than receiving, as now, a number of channels they never look at.

That makes sense. Except: under the existing system, popular channels, such as sports, support less popular channels with which they are bundled. So the special-interest channel that appeals to you – say, a foreign-language channel or one devoted to old movies – survives courtesy of the people who want to watch more hockey or more entertainment news.

When the new system comes into effect, those specialty channels are in trouble, it appears from the carefully worded comments of the people who own them. The clear inference is that some of them might be shut down if not enough people choose them in the pick-and-pay process.

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system that rewards the majority at the expense of the minority. Is that what we intended?

The irony is that the much-lauded 1,000-channel universe turns out to be something that people don’t want all that much, and that our demand for more choice could give us, in the end, less.

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Mayor’s Report

JANUARY

By Jim Watson

2016 promises to be a big year in our city and before embarking on a year of important work to build a better Ottawa, I wanted to take a look back on the year we have just left behind.

October of 2015 brought with it Council’s one year anniversary since our election as well as the 5 year anniversary since my election as Mayor in 2010. Your continued support remains an honour which I never take for granted and I am committed to working hard to maintain your trust moving forward.

One of our guiding principles as a Council this past year – as it has been in the 4 that preceded it- is to find the balance between being prudent with taxpayers dollars in the present while making the necessary investments to ensure our city’s enduring prosperity. This means being rigorous in setting our priorities and honest in understanding that we cannot be all things to all people.

On December 9, Council passed our 2016 budget which adheres to this principle. With a 2% tax increase – consistent to what I promised in the 2014 election – we continued record investments in social housing, arts, cycling, roads (both urban and rural), and sidewalks. We also moved ahead on the single largest infrastructure investment in our city’s history since the building of the canal: our Light Rail Transit (LRT) project.

2015 saw important milestones reached as the first phase of LRT continues to be built on-time and on-budget. 2015 Adam Kveton/Metroland also brought with it commitments from the two other levels of government to fund second phase of LRT which will see extensions east to Place d’Orleans, south the Riverside South, Christmas may be past and the New Year just beginning but one last look at Christmas lights will not hurt. and West to Bayshore and Baseline at Algonquin College. We This home was decked out in the Christmas spirit from top to bottom. have never been closer to being a city fully connected by LRT and I am looking forward to finishing the work needed to realize this in the coming years.

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CHEO’s neonatal transport team now has access to a dedicated Ottawa ambulance for the emergency transport of newborns back to the children’s hospital as part of a year-long pilot project that begins in January.

Up to now, an ambulance crew picked up the team and its specialized equipment at the regional hospital and raced off to a call in CHEO’s expansive coverage area.

The ambulance and crew would return to Ottawa to tend to other calls while the neonatal specialists stabilized their patient. But that required a different ambulance from the local area be called in to take the team and patient back to CHEO, often causing the team to be stranded for hours.

“Therein lies the problem and therein lies the delay as well,” said Dr. Stephanie Redpath, medical director of CHEO’s neonatal transport team. “It takes away that service from that region.”

The team responds to an average of 440 of these types of calls every year.

But thanks to the new partnership, as well as a $30,000 donation made to the CHEO Foundation from

Scottie’s Angels Fund to pay for the first year of the pilot, which will cost CHEO $36,000, Ottawa paramedics can now remain at the call.

As part of the new initiative, the dedicated ambulance has been outfitted with a Stryker-brand powered stretcher, which can easily lift and load specialized and heavy neonatal equipment in and out of the ambulance with the touch of a button.

Previously, it took a team of four to lift a regular stretcher bearing that much weight, which impacted mobilization times, Redpath said.

“It’s a health-and-safety advancement for us because we’re no longer lifting a 400-pound incubator,” said Peter Kelly, acting chief of the Ottawa Paramedic Service.

But thanks to the new partnership and funds donated to the CHEO Foundation from Scottie’s Angels Fund, the Ottawa paramedics can remain at the call with the dedicated ambulance.

“We said if we convert this ambulance over (with the new stretcher) then we’ll be able to go A to B and do those calls together,” Kelly said. “And that’s best for the baby – a timely response back to the surgeons at CHEO.” The reality is that outcomes for babies coming in from beyond urban centres is “inferior,” which is the

reason their prompt transport back to CHEO is so important.

“Our babies on occasion weigh less than a bag of sugar and they are smaller than the size of my hand,” said Redpath.

The new dedicated unit will make “a life-saving difference,” she said.

Providing coverage in a geographic area equivalent to the size of the United Kingdom “is quite a feat,” which is why the co-ordinated effort between the hospital and paramedic service is essential, she noted.

“Dedicated units such as our NTU (neonatal transport unit) … have been shown to provide faster response times, permit customization of our equipment and also provide the use of hydraulic lifts needed to lift this 300- to 400-pound device in and out the back of an ambulance.”

Seeing the funds go to such a good cause means a lot to Smiths Falls resident Jodi Empey, whose first child, Scottie, passed away at CHEO in 1999 from complications.

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A group of residents are looking to the city for more public consultation on a plan for Ottawa’s trees.

By the end of 2016 the city hopes to have an urban forest management plan.

The goal of the plan is to create a diverse and sustainable canopy of trees within the city’s urban boundaries.

Angela Keller-Herzog, co-chair of the environment committee of the Glebe Community Association, was part of the working group.

“A lot of Glebe residents feel passionately about our green heritage,” she said.

Keller-Herzog said the issue of tree maintenance came up because a lot of trees that line Bank Street were dying.

“They weren’t planted or maintained well, so they didn’t survive,” Keller-Herzog said.

The city held a public consultation on Nov. 24.

It was the end of the first phase of the plan. The draft will be put together next fall.

The public will hear the plan in September 2016. Council and committee will hear the plan by the end of 2016.

Ecology Ottawa, Tree Ottawa, Members of Champlain Oaks, Members of Big Trees Kitchissippi, Members of the Federation

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A made-in-Canada robot that hitchhiked more than 10,000 kilometres across Canada in the summer of 2014 recently emerged from retirement to begin a new adventure – this time in Ottawa.

Known as hitchBOT and designed in 2013 by McMaster and Ryerson university reseachers, the interactive robot now calls the Canada Science and Technology Museum home.

“We’re excited,” said Tom Everrett, the museum’s curator of communications technology, who picked up hitchBOT at its creator’s home in Port Credit, Ont., buckled it into the passenger seat of his car and drove it back to the nation’s capital in November.

While the national museum has not finalized its plans for the 11-kilogram, one-metre-tall robot, or how it will be displayed

once the museum reopens in November 2017, its trip to Ottawa likely won’t be its last excursion.

“This is an active retirement for hitchBOT. He didn’t go to the museum as a final resting place,” said Everrett.

Together with the creators, he plans to develop ways the public can interact with the artifact and showcase the data it collected on its cross-country trip. It will likely also be shown at schools and public events.

“We want people to be able to talk to hitchBOT,” Everrett said.

The museum’s acquisition of the robot, which can see, hear and speak, came about after Everrett learned of the hitchhiker’s adventures through a friend who had been keeping tabs on hitchBOT’s journey as it travelled across the United States this summer.

Everrett contacted the robot’s creators, David Harris Smith, an assistant

professor at McMaster University, and Frauke Zeller, a Ryerson University assistant professor, to find out their future plans for their creation.

“At that point I thought there was only one hitchBOT like everyone else did,” said Everrett.

He was surprised to learn they had actually retired their first hitchBOT after it completed its 26-day cross-Canada adventure, from Halifax, N.S. to Victoria, B.C. in August 2014.

It turns out the researchers, who had developed the project to learn whether robots can trust humans, had constructed two hitchBOTs, but maintained one identity for them.

“After the Canadian trip it was all covered in signs, pins and buttons and stickers and all these other gifts that people gave him along the way, so they decided to retire it and upgrade some of the hardware for subsequent journeys,” said Ever-

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Tom Everrett, communications technology curator at the Canada Science and Technology Museum, has brought hitchBOT, a Canadian hitchhiking robot, home to Ottawa, where it will be added to the museum’s collection. rett.

The professors told Everrett they could discuss their plans for both robots once the little hitchhiker - which had also travelled around Germany earlier this year - crossed the U.S. Halfway into its trip from Salem, Mass. to San Francisco, Calif., it was destroyed in Philadelphia on Aug. 1.

“So that was the big news, that the Canadian one never died – it’s still alive,” Everrett said.

The bot, which has blue pool noodles for arms and legs, yellow rubber boots for feet and a clear cake lid for its head, represents

several innovations and a novel approach to artificial intelligence, the curator said.

“And on the social side, hitchBOT tells us, really, this wonderful story of Canadians connecting with one another, supporting a common goal, turning this interesting experiment into something much bigger.

“It’s not just a lab experiment where this technology’s created and information about it is disseminated to the rest of us or a product hits the market,” he said. “This technology was created and left at the side of the road, and the creators wanted to see

what would happen.”

In all, hitchBOT made 19 stops across Canada, attending weddings and going on two ferry rides.

On the same day that the museum announced on Dec. 15 that it had acquired the treasure, hitchBOT’s creators also released a joint statement.

“We are pleased that our first hitchBOT will be included in the permanent collection of the Science and Technology Museum, providing an ongoing opportunity for visitors to learn about and interact with the project,” Harris Smith and Zeller said on their hitchBOT website.

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Happiness helped warm the heart during a cold winter’s day MARY COOK Mary Cook’s Memories in the middle of the barn, waiting for what they knew was coming.

Every few minutes or so, one of the brothers would aim for a cat’s open mouth, spraying a gush of warm milk their way. They knew more would be coming, and so they sat, sometimes taking the full brunt of the spray all over their faces, and that would send me into fits of laughing.

The boys were heading for the house, and Father held back. “You wonder why the byre is warm in the winter, now do ya?” And he took my hand and walked me over to Bess, the most gentle of the entire herd.

He told me to put my hand on her flanks. I was reluctant, as I was always a bit frightened of the cows – so big – and never did they respond to any kind gesture I made towards them. Not like the sheep or the horses.

And so I held back. So Father took my hand and pulled it towards Bess. Her hide was warm to the touch. Almost like it had been heated with a hot water bottle, or the bricks we used in our beds at night to warm the sheets before we crawled between the feather tickings.

“She is so warm,” I said in amazement. And Father said all the animals in the barn were the same.

The horses too, were warm to the touch, he told me.

And together they gave off this

wonderful heat that filled the cow byre and made it fit for the cold winter nights in Renfrew County.

And I thought, they all had their own little “stoves” on their bodies.

How else could the barn be so warm?

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thought of what I had just learned.

And once again, even though I was much too young to fully understand or appreciate what happened to make our livestock give off enough heat to keep them warm when fall changed to winter, I thought it must be just another miracle.

Just like all the others that happened every day around me. Like the miracle of milk changing to cream, and cream changing to butter, how there was always enough to eat even though the Depression raged around us, and how there was always a neighbour around to give us help when we needed it.

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hile in the depth of winter, I expected the barns to be bitterly cold inside. But I was always amazed at how warm the cow byre was when the temperatures dipped well below zero. Certainly, there was no stove in there to take off the chill.

It seems to me now, so many years later, that our fall days were numbered. It felt like we went from crisp days, certainly not freezing cold, and then right into seeing mounds of snow that soon covered the 20 acre field and all but closed in our long lane leading to the Northcote Side Road.

When Father was sure the snow was here to stay, he piled mounds of it all around the base of our old log house in the hope it would help cut out some of the chill that seeped inside. There was no foundation and no cellar, and it didn’t matter how much snow Father stacked around the house, our feet in the winter, were always cold.

He did the same thing around the barn. It would take him days. I often wondered if he would finish before spring came.

But by the time the winter had really settled in, the outside of the barn would have snow piled and packed around its base, just like our log house across the yard.

And I would think that was why the cow byre was always so warm inside when it was so cold outside.

But Father, one day explained to me what helped make the barn so cozy.

It was after the milking was done, the separating finished, and everything washed and cleaned away.

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he Farmer and I are alike in that we like to keep busy. We don’t bore easily, and we appreciate quiet time, but we seem to enjoy always having at least two jobs going at once. Now that he is retired from teaching he is quite busy as a real estate agent, and then of course we do have a beef cattle farm. But apparently that isn’t enough. He likes having somewhere to go every morning, so now he has a new project. He is going to build a log cabin.

It all started when I invited some friends over for dinner. The discussion came around to a surplus of cedar logs that our friend had on his property. I could see the wheels in my husband’s head beginning to turn.

This man loves to build things. We have four-foot tall dollhouses in our basement that he built with his own hands. They were big enough for Sarah and Amy to sit inside when they were younger. They have proper wooden shingles and one of them is covered in artificial stone.

We also have a miniature playhouse outside that is quickly becoming an art installation, as it disintegrates into the earth. I have pointed out that a more urgent project might be repairing the floor on that structure so that our grandchild doesn’t injure herself in it. His reply was, “She’s small. I have a few years before I need to worry about that.� (So if you bring small children over to visit, beware the brokendown playhouse. I don’t think the staircase inside is safe either.)

My husband has built four houses, restored an old farmhouse and he has also built a couple of birch-bark canoes by hand. He is happiest when he is covered in sawdust, breathing in the smell of fresh-cut wood. He has a bunch of wood-working equipment but I just saw the Lee Valley tools catalogue arrive so I suspect he will be getting more. That makes Father’s Day and his birthday easy this year: gift certificates so the carpenter can go shopping.

The Farmer went out to survey the log collection. A deal was struck, and plans were made to trailer the wood to our house.

Now he spends his evening studying a book on how to build a log cabin. I may pull up YouTube on the big screen and find him some DIY videos but I’m pretty sure he

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prefers to learn the old-fashioned way, by trial and error. He never follows the recipe when he cooks, either, and his meals always taste amazing.

I asked him where he was going to install his new cabin. I imagined he might want to use it as a cabin in the woods. A getaway man-cave for when I’ve got the house overrun with children and grandchildren. “I can’t put it in the field with the cattle,� he explained. “They will poop all over it.�

I laughed, and then I remembered the year we had the cattle stuck in the log barn beside the chicken coop. They loved it in there. It was small enough that if they wedged themselves inside, it was cool and the bugs actually left them alone. We couldn’t keep them out of there and they kept pushing on the walls, threatening to heave the heritage building off its foundation. Eventually we had to nail a door on the outside to keep the out. They were most disappointed when they discovered it. Much mooing ensued.

No, the Farmer says he is going to build a log cabin on the front lawn. Well that sounds nice. Our grandchildren can use it as a play house. Or maybe I can put a bar and stereo and lounge in there and call it a party shack.

I haven’t told him my plans yet. I will let him happily build it before I give him my suggestions. I’m sure they will be well received.

As we say goodbye to 2015 and hello to 2016, take a moment to reflect on how much has changed in the past twelve months, and brace yourself for the next. We can’t choose our future but we can choose how we are going to react to it. Enjoy every moment and try to slow life down a bit. All the best, from me and the Farmer.

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Manotick couple opens spa in newly restored heritage home

Transforming a 111-yearold Dickinson Square house in disrepair into a serene spa turned out to be a longer process than Charmaine and Jon Cianciullo could have expected when they began

the project last September.

The results of the couple’s work on the building known as Weaver’s House have been equally surprising though, with each layer uncovered during renovations revealing a different chapter of the heritage building’s history.

Manotick groups on board with refugee sponsorship

With the federal government planning to bring the first of at least 35,000 Syrian refugees to Canada by the

end of December, Manotick residents have a number of options to support refugees, thanks to two local groups.

Founded in October, the Manotick Refugee Sponsorship Group has joined the St. James Anglican Church’s existing Manotick Refugee Sponsorship Program, becoming the second group of its kind in Manotick.

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Osgoode Coun. George Darouze attended the awards ceremony at city hall and said it made him proud to see Lee recognized among

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LIBRA – Sept 23/Oct 23 Libra, this is a good week to catch up on paperwork, filing or tedious tasks you have let fall by the wayside. Make use of the slow week to recharge.

SCORPIO – Oct 24/Nov 22 Scorpio, you will be missed as much as you miss another person this week. Wait out this separation a little while longer, keeping in mind that your reunion is on its way.

SAGITTARIUS – Nov 23/Dec 21 Do whatever you need to do to rejuvenate your spirit, Sagittarius. Spend some more time with friends and avoid prolonged solo activities. Soon your motivation will return.

CAPRICORN – Dec 22/Jan 20 Capricorn, this may turn out to be a strange week, as you can’t seem to fully focus on anything. You may get frustrated at your inability to concentrate, but that focus will return soon.

AQUARIUS – Jan 21/Feb 18 Aquarius, if you become too wrapped up in business or personal obligations, take a step back and reevaluate your priorities. Some things need to be rearranged.

PISCES – Feb 19/Mar 20 Pisces, you are on a quest this week to find the perfect gift for a friend.

This person will appreciate your efforts, and your bond will only grow stronger.

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2016 Lottery Draw Dates: Early Bird Draw: $15,000 & $5,000 (January 27, 2016) Grand Prize Draw: $20,000, plus 5 draws of $1,000 (March 17, 2016) Monthly Draws: $1,000 (Draw dates: third Wednesday April to September 2016) Winning tickets go back into the drum for future draws. Winning tickets will be eligible for only one prize on each of the draw dates. Deadline to purchase lottery tickets for the Early Bird Draw is January 25th, 2016 at 5:00 p.m. Lottery tickets sold under license in Ontario must not be advertised, offered for sale, sold or ordered outside of Ontario. Winners will be contacted by phone and their names published at www.stpats.ca. License No. 7498. Full lottery terms and conditions can be found at www.stpats.ca.

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