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Rural committee to meet in Nepean for better access Emma Jackson

vance, often the travelling meetings made it harder, not easier, for residents to attend.

For example, when West The city’s rural affairs comCarleton residents grew upset mittee will now meet at Ben over a city water testing policy Franklin Place in Nepean unless last spring, they had to drive a major issue warrants travelling out to the Osgoode Community to a rural ward.

Centre on the southern edge of The Agriculture and Rural the city to attend the relevant Affairs committee voted unaniARAC meeting, which months mously on Feb. 5 to change its before had been booked in thenregular meeting place to the councillor Doug Thompson’s former Nepean council chamward. bers at Woodroffe and Baseline That led to claims that the city was purposely trying to avoid public scrutiny.

To fix this problem, members of ARAC – led by chairman Scott Moffatt, councillor for Rideau-Goulbourn – will now meet at Ben Franklin Place unless it’s determined that a major issue warrants the meeting moved to the ward in question.

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roads, the geographic centre of Ottawa, to improve access for rural residents who want to give feedback about issues that affect them. Since amalgamation the committee has met at city hall downtown most of the year, with four meetings each year moving out to one of the city’s rural wards – Rideau-Goulbourn, Osgoode, West CarletonMarch and Cumberland.

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Breakfast club to bring rural dads together Emma Jackson

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For the lucky dads out there, Saturday morning is a time to relax, horse around with the kids and maybe enjoy a leisurely breakfast.

Now Rural Family Connections has made it possible to do all that and more with its new Rural Dads Matter breakfast club starting Saturday, Feb. 28.

From 9 to 11 a.m., fathers and their children, aged zero to six, can join guest speakers for some parenting advice, a light breakfast and a chance to bond with their youngsters in the Live and Learn Resource Centre in the old Metcalfe town hall.

The first speaker on Feb. 28 is Marisa Moher, a health promoter from South Nepean Community Health Centre. She’ll demonstrate how to organize a healthy meal.

The resource centre will also offer meet-ups on March 7 and 21, although office manager Leigh Gillies said the speakers haven’t yet been confirmed. She said they’d like to offer fun activities like birdhouse building and math and reading games.

Gillies said staff have been working with Ottawa Public Health nurse Dave Elder to develop the program, which was funded in part by a Rural Community Building grant from the city. Elder said the club is rather unique as far as dad groups go.

For one, it’s on a Saturday morning instead of during the week, and it also includes the kids; often parenting services for dads are adult-only workshops.

Elder said having programs specifically targeted to fathers is important because they can’t or don’t access parenting services in the same way moms do.

“A lot of it has to do with the fact

that the hours are not easy for dads; playgroups are often during the day and during regular business hours,” Elder said.

It offers a chance to connect with other dads and a new way to spend quality time with their kids.

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“By offering something on the weekend, it offers a chance to connect with other dads and a new way to spend quality time with their kids.”

Elder said kids do much better when both of their caregivers are equally involved in the parenting process.

“We want to empower the dads as well as the moms because it’s a partnership, even when they’re not living together,” Elder said. “The more we can engage Dad the better the children will do.”

The hope, according to Gillies, is that the three-part club will act as a pilot to launch a community-run group.

“If we can get it running out here and get one or two dads to run it themselves, they can go for it,” Gillies said. “They know better than us what they want.”

For more information call 613-8212899 or email liveandlearn@bellnet. ca. For more father-child resources visit dadcentral.ca or thenewdadmanual. ca.

Events and workshops for fathers can also be found in the calendar at parentresource.ca.

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City approves additional lots in Mahogany Manotick water main Smaller lot sizes, 14 new lots won’t change overall density: Minto Emma Jackson

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Minto can go ahead and add 14 lots to Phase 1 of its Mahogany subdivision in Manotick, unless someone files an appeal.

Residents and groups have until Feb. 27 to appeal to the Ontario Municipal Board, otherwise the draft plan of subdivision will be approved, according to a city notice.

Minto submitted its revised subdivision plan last June, catching residents off guard after several years of calm and co-operation between the developer and Manotick villagers, who mounted an unsuccessful OMB battle to stop the development in 2008.

The developer is in the process of building out Phase 1A of a five-phase 1,400-unit sub-

division between Manotick Main Street and Century Road, but sales have been much slower than expected.

The company is only selling about 1.4 homes per month on average, instead of the projected six they’d hoped for.

That has prompted Minto to bring some of its smaller, more affordable designs into Phase 1B to respond to market demand, according to Susan Murphy, Minto’s vice president of development.

Until now, Phase 1B called for 52 lots with 35-foot frontages and 145 lots with 60-foot frontages. The new plan alters a number of those to 38-foot and 47-foot lots, creating space for 14 more units. The approved plan will now offer 49 small lots and 162 large lots – a total of 211 units, up from 197.

The proposal doesn’t change the overall density of the development, which the Ontario Municipal Board set at 1,400 units with at least 75 per cent of lots being 45 feet or larger when it approved the project in 2009.

Residents were initially incensed that Minto would dare add units after assuring villagers they would respect the OMB decision.

But Murphy was able to quell some of those fears at a public meeting in November, reiterating that Minto is not trying to dupe the community into building with higher density; the units added into Phase 1 will be made up for in subsequent phases in order to stay under the required 1,400 limit, she said.

As for the smaller lot sizes, they will come with larger side yard setbacks in an effort to maintain a more rural feel, Murphy added.

Still, the city received a number of written comments from concerned residents.

“This is duplicitous at the very least,” read one comment, which accused the developer of going back on its word to make sure the subdivision is “consistent with the character of Manotick.”

“If Minto cared about affordable housing, it should

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have stated this at the outset and we could have a discussion about this.”

“Just how ugly would a gateway on a prime corner, Manotick Main and Century Road, be with smaller lots and garages facing street front?” read another. “We do not want to look like any other suburb in the city.”

Another comment doubted market demands are truly driving the change.

“We didn’t know that consumers were demanding smaller and smaller lots! Of course, it helps the developer’s profit line and that’s, apparently, very important for them and the city planners,” the commenter wrote.

Any individual or group that made a written or oral comment on the proposal has until 4:30 p.m. on Feb. 27 to file a written notice of appeal with planner Jeff Ostafichuk, including a $125 cheque addressed to the Minister of Finance, Province of Ontario.

For more information email jeff.ostafichuk@ottawa.ca.

in city’s budget, but delayed to 2019 Emma Jackson

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The city will fund the design of a new water main for Manotick this year, but residents won’t see it built until at least 2019.

The 2015 budget has allotted $1.4 million for the design of a new water feedermain from Riverside South to Manotick, to improve the reliability of drinking water supply in the village.

While the project still lists its completion date as 2016, the draft budget currently being considered at city hall amends that to 2019 in light of Minto’s slow sales in the Mahogany subdivision south of Manotick.

Almost half of the $1.4 million is slated to come from development charges, but Minto said it is selling far fewer homes per month

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ARAC can hold night meetings Change in location goes a long way towards ensuring transparency Continued from page 1

There might only be a handful of cases like that to come up in the next four years of council, he said.

A more likely solution for contentious issues is to call a special meeting outside of

the regular ARAC schedule to hear from affected residents.

“That way more people come out to it and you don’t have the optics of ‘We’re trying to avoid you’,” Moffatt said.

The committee can also schedule evening meetings at Ben Franklin if members feel there may be a lot of residents who want to address a particular agenda item.

“If the agenda’s very light, there’s not much point,” Moffatt said.

“But if there’s something that might have higher at-

tendance, we might have an evening meeting.”Moving the meetings to Ben Franklin makes more sense than city hall, he said. The downtown location has limited parking and requires rural residents from all directions to fight through traffic to get there.

The Centrepointe location has ample free parking and can be accessed easily from Hwy. 417. “It’s easier for the majority of people,” Moffatt said.

Unless otherwise specified, meetings start at 10 a.m. the first Thursday of each month.

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Conservation authority ups 2015 budget for big projects emma.jackson@metroland.com

The Rideau Valley Conservation Authority has tabled a budget 23 per cent higher than last year’s to fund a busy year full of capital projects and community programs.

The 2015 work plan has a budget of $10.7 million, up from $8.7 million in 2014. The increase is largely due to three capital projects on the books to get done this year, including the Britannia Flood Control Project in the city’s north end. The other two projects are located in Perth and Smiths Falls.

Flooding in the Britannia neighbourhood along the Ottawa River has been a longstanding problem for the Bay Ward community, but the current flood control measures only protect homes against a 1-in-25-years flood.

The city-funded project would strengthen the current berm to outlast a 1-in-100years flood, said RVCA general manager Sommer CasgrainRobertson.

“It will be high enough that if we get the 1:100 flood event, that berm wouldn’t be overtopped,” she said.

The last time the community experienced a major flood was in 1979, which saw water levels peak at 60.26 metres above sea level.

The berms and sea wall installed in 1981 can protect against water levels of 60.4 metres, but the authority puts a 1:100 year flood in Britannia at 60.8 metres.

The project is a partnership between the city and RVCA staff, Casgrain-Robertson said.

While it’s included in the conservation authority’s budget, the money will come from the city’s 2015 budget. A project proposal in 2011 put the total cost at about $650,000.

The city will also cover most of the RVCA’s increased costs for ice-breaking in the downtown core, which last year cost $1.2 million. This year the RVCA will contribute $100,000 that they’ll receive from the province, and the city will cover the rest.

Casgrain-Robertson said ice

breaking is an unpredictable cost.

“It’s very weather based,” she said. “It’s kind of like snow removal: you budget for it but you don’t know what you’ll need.”

The long, cold winters of the past few years have made it trickier to get through the ice, pushing costs up at the same time. But it has to get done.

“Its preventative,” she said.

“The last thing you want in a built-up urban environment is flooding.”

Cash for stewardship programs like tree planting and shoreline naturalization is also going up. Casgrain-

Robertson said those types of programs are incresasingly trendy, and as such are becoming more cost-effective for property owners as more external funding partners come on board.

The authority’s private land forestry program alone is going to jump nearly $200,000 this year from $563,000 in 2014 to $758,000 in 2015, CasgrainRobertson said.

Other projects and programs on the books for 2015 include: the conclusion of an algae monitoring program funded by the Ontario Trillium Foundation, completion of flood mapping from Kars to Rideau Falls,

modernization of the RVCA’s record management system, preparation for the decommissioning of the Heart’s Desire weir in Barrhaven, new equipment and programs for Baxter and Foley Mountain conservation areas, and continued leadership in the Thin Soils Working Group to address groundwater issues related to new developments on private services, including assisting the city to update its hydrogeology guideline.

The draft budget has been sent to the RVCA’s 18 member municipalities and is accepting feedback until its annual general meeting on Feb. 26.

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Week In RevIeW Saturday, February 7 – Friday, February 13 Thank you to the organizers of the Vernon and Osgoode Winter Carnivals as they were both celebrated this past weekend. There were a number of activities for adults and kids of all ages and congratulations to all of you who braved the winter snowstorm on Sunday to participate in the Vernon Community Association Breakfast.

Fortunately, those in attendance were treated to a delicious breakfast that helped make the weather seem a little more bearable. My sincere thanks to all those volunteers who gave their time and energy to all the winter carnivals in our ward. Residents are very fortunate to have great community events planned for our enjoyment.

On Monday I attended an Economic Development and Innovation Department’s sharing session entitled “Entrepreneurs and Innovation” and found it very informative. The evening was spent attending a Greely Legion Meeting.

Wednesday was another Council day followed by the 2015 Public Budget Consultation for the South End. Thank you to everyone who participated in that discussion. On Thursday I attended a very helpful information session hosted by the Deputy City Clerk and the Integrity Commissioner that reviewed the “Accountability Framework for Members of Council”. It outlined the guidelines for the Lobbyist registry, Code of Conduct, and Council Expense Policy.

Transparency is very important to the Mayor and our Council and I am happy to do my part as an elected official to ensure that is upheld.

On Friday I was honoured to be part of the annual “Councillors Feed The Hungry” at the Ottawa Mission. It was another reminder of the serious needs in our City and how we can all do our part to help those who have fallen on difficult times.

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Care centre raises $33,000 for home upgrades Emma Jackson

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The Osgoode Care Centre smashed all previous records at its third-annual Busting Out the Brews wine and beer tasting event on Jan. 30, raising $33,000 for upgrades throughout the 100-resident facility.

A sold-out crowd of 400 people tasted samples from Ontario craft breweries like Creemore Springs, Kichesippi, Beau’s and Bicycle Craft, and local wines from Perrault Blue Gypsy and Joseph’s wineries at Stanley’s Olde Maple Lane Farm.

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ing out to dance the night away and raise thousands of dollars extra for the centre.

She said it was particularly fun because everyone seemed to know each other.

“It was like a reunion of the Osgoode ward,” Hill said.

“Everywhere you walked in the room you bumped into somebody you know, either from last week or 30 years ago.”

Local rock band Ambush led the entertainment, but it was the much-coveted auction items that stole the show.

Hill said the main auction item, an Amish shed, went for $3,500.

A lace-up Boston Bruins jersey signed by hockey leg-

end Bobby Orr sold for an astonishing $1,225.

Hill said the community seemed to really pull together at this year’s event as the facility inches closer to hitting its goal of raising $500,000 by September.

With the event’s funds accounted for, the centre has already raised $400,000 since it launched the campaign in 2012. The money has been spent as it comes in on new furniture, flooring and other household upgrades.

The centre also needs to replace its roof and back-up generator, both big-ticket items.

Hill said she trusts the community will come through

with the remaining $100,000.

“The community’s already donated $400,000,” she said.

“Everybody seems to have a soft spot for the care centre, because their grandma was here or their mom or their neighbour.”

While the September deadline is technically arbitrary, Hill said the care centre is encouraging local residents, service clubs and groups to host third-party events in support of the facility, or to pass along fundraising ideas.

The care centre will host its next event on April 19 with a fashion show at Anderson Links golf club. Tickets are $40 and include a complementary drink and h’ordeuvres.

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Bus riders bear unfair burden

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ayor Jim Watson has earned a lot of political mileage thanks to his promise to keep tax hikes pegged at a reasonable rate while maintaining essential city

services.

The city’s most recent budget came in with a suggested 1.75 per cent hike to property taxes, translating to an additional $67 on the average home owner’s annual property tax bill. This year, the mayor is once again on the record as saying the budget won’t force the city to make service cuts.

This argument falls flat on its face considering the proposed 2.5 per cent increase on average to transit fares in 2015. The fare hike will result in bus and train riders paying 53 per cent of the $478-million annual cost of running OC Transpo, moving the city further away from its long-standing policy of maintaining a 50-50 split between taxes and fares to fund public transit. Since 2010, the cost of a single adult cash fare has increased from $3 to $3.55, roughly an 18 per cent increase, higher than Ottawa’s most recent property tax hikes, which Watson has promised

to cap at two per cent a year.

The proposed fare hike comes after a dip in ridership over the past three years, with the number of customer trips taken every year dropping from 103.5 million in 2011 to 96.8 million in 2014.

At the same time it is proposing to once again hike fares, OC Transpo is predicting a slight rise in ridership to 97.3 million customer trips in 2015.

This seems to defy the logic of economic thinking, unless the bus company is banking on taking on an additional 100,000 person trips every year powered strictly by the city’s population growth.

Eventually, council will face a bitter choice between holding the line at the arbitrary two per cent level in property tax increases set by Watson and preserving public transit ridership.

The alternative is cutting “nice to have� items in the budget, or searching for any fat on “essential city services� to maintain a 50-50 split.

Council should be commended for keeping property taxes low, but the cost shouldn’t be borne on the backs of transit users.

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The invasion of the small office buildings

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an you pinpoint the exact year that houses began to look like little office buildings? It just sort of happened without any warning. It’s not as if all the architects and builders got together and made a formal announcement: “From this day hence, all houses will look like little office buildings. God save the Queen.�

But, all of a sudden, there they were. Right where you expected to see that cute little bungalow that had been around since the Second World War, there was a hole in ground, a dumpster, a portable toilet, a lot of mud and, shortly thereafter, a little office building. “Whose office is that?� you might have asked one of the guys loading the portable toilet onto the truck.

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CHARLES GORDON Funny Town “That’s not an office; that’s a house,� would be the reply.

How could it be a house? There was no wood, no brick, no eaves – just a boxy thing that couldn’t be anything but a small office building.

You had questions, but no one was around to answer. Where was the slope in the roof? Weren’t flat roofs supposed to be a no-no in a place that gets a lot of snow? Could we have the bungalow back?

But there was no stopping it.

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People eventually caught on that distinctive older homes were being knocked down so that more small office buildings could be put up, but that didn’t stop them.

Which brings us to where we are now: more of these small office buildings are going up with no offices in them. It would have been some consolation if actual office buildings had begun to take on the characteristics of houses, but that hasn’t happened. They just look like small office buildings, only big.

There’s probably not much that can be done to undo this. The only way to prevent the complete takeover of Ottawa’s neighbourhoods by small office buildings is to attack the root causes.

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be? Well, you know how people are obsessed with work these days?

They can’t be out of touch for even a second, so their smartphones are constantly on and their owners are constantly checking them. Surely it’s only logical that the natural extension of refusing to let go of the workplace is to having a home that looks just like one.

Further, should you choose to work from home, as more and more people are doing and more and more people will do in the near future as downtown becomes completely inaccessible – should you choose to work from home, it may be comforting to do your work in a building that resembles a workplace. You’ll feel right at home – or right at work.

If this logic is correct, then as long as our society continues its obsession with work, we will have houses that resemble office buildings.

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a change – houses made of wood and brick with sloping roofs going up in boxy neighbourhoods, neighbours wondering what on Earth could those people be thinking, as these strange structures begin to appear, inhabited by people without smartphones.

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Police warn of scammer collecting for leukemia-lymphoma society Erin McCracken

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Fraud investigators with the Ottawa Police Service are warning the public to be vigilant after they say a man posed on several occasions as a firefighter, police officer and paramedic to collect money for a non-profit health organization.

Residents in several Ottawa neighbourhoods notified police that a suspicious male was collecting money for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society throughout January and

into February.

Three people were each scammed out of $50, according to police.

“He was portraying himself as a police officer, a firefighter (and) as a paramedic,” said Const. Chuck Benoit, Ottawa police spokesman. “He’s well-educated. If he’s presenting for the Ottawa police, he has a lot of documentation.

He’s done his research.

“He has certain pamphlets that kind of (outline) what he’s trying to raise money for, or for who.”

Investigators confirmed “That was way to easy!”

with the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of Canada that the organization is not currently conducting any fundraisers or holding upcoming races.

The suspect is described as a white clean-shaven male in his 40s, approximately sixfeet tall with an athletic build and short hair.

Anyone with information on the case is asked to contact the Ottawa police fraud unit by calling 613-236-1222, ext.

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Ottawa resident Steven Stewart was channelling his inner walrus as he went for a run through the Glebe in plummeting temperatures on Sunday, Feb. 1. The mercury touched -19 C, but with the wind chill it felt more like -27 C. More cold weather was scheduled to hit Ottawa over Family Day weekend.

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Transforming community Manotick church hosts second gender identity workshop Emma Jackson

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An Ottawa facilitator is returning to St. James Anglican Church in Manotick to continue her conversation about gender identity where she left off.

Talia Johnson is a spiritual counsellor with a focus on transgender issues, particularly in faith contexts – a perfect fit for Rev. Ross Hammond and his congregation, who have been active in creating an affirming and supportive space for marginalized groups at the church.

Johnson led a workshop there last October, a sort of

Trans 101 class, to cover the basics about the sorts of barriers people who are trans can face in secular society as well as in their faith communities.

Now, Hammond is bringing Johnson back on March 7 to talk about what that community can do to fix some of those problems and to promote an actively affirming environment.

“The thing we heard very frequently was ‘that was very interesting, but I still don’t know what to do’,” Hammond said.

That could include how to put a stop to wisecracks in the workplace, or how to appropriately ask someone who is trans, the pronouns by which they’d like to be referred.

“When in doubt don’t use pronouns or use neutral pronouns,” she advised.

Organizations especially have room for improvement, said Johnson.

“Quite often organizations will say they’re inclusive but when one scratches the sur-

face they’re barely tolerant,” she said.

Johnson said affirmative policies like offering nongendered, single person washrooms can greatly cut down on discomfort and potential for harassment in the workplace.

Updating workplace standard forms with more inclusive language is another easy fix.

And including genderbased harassment policies explicitly into the code of conduct is vital to help staff feel supported.

“To say we are inclusive and respectful of people’s gender identities and gender expressions sends a message that things should be called out, as opposed to not mentioning it at all and hoping it never comes up,” Johnson.

The workshop’s themes have changed slightly from Hammond’s original plan.

When he and youth leader Donna Rourke initially brought Johnson on board, they had planned to offer a

broad “Trans 101” workshop for the community in the fall and then invite spiritual caregivers to learn about supporting people who are trans in a faith context at the upcoming gathering.

But at the fall workshop, the community was clamouring for more information by the end of the three hours.

Conversations had veered off into unexpected avenues and at the end Hammond and Rourke felt the community deserved another opportunity to answer even more questions.

“Originally I thought as a group we would be more prepared to move on to the next level, and we’re not,” Rourke said. “We’re still normalizing the conversation.”

It’s not a bad thing; on the contrary, Hammond said.

“It reinforces the fact that this was the right thing to do,” he said.

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Facilitator Talia Johnson will lead her second workshop on gender identity at St. James Anglican Church in Manotick on March 7. tion the community wants to know what to do.”

The workshop will run from 8:30 a.m. to noon on

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To register, call the church at 613-692-2082.

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Redraw hunting boundaries in Barrhaven: Harder Councillor wants change after bullet hits Barrhaven home Alex Robinson

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Changes to hunting boundaries that run through Barrhaven could be coming by the end of the month, said Coun. Jan Harder.

The councillor called for a review of the city’s discharge of firearms by-law after a stray bullet hit a Half Moon Bay home on Feb. 1.

The owner of the house on Nutgrove Avenue found a hole in his wall a few days after, along with the small calibre bullet, police said.

Neighbors in the area said they have heard gunshots and that people are known to hunt in the adjacent forested area.

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Coun. Jan Harder has called for the review of hunting boundaries that run through Barrhaven after a stray bullet hit a Half Moon Bay couple’s home. city’s General Emergency and Protective Services, about reviewing the by-law.

Jones is treating the issue as a priority and will have redefined where hunters can

fire their guns in Barrhaven by the end of February, Harder said.

“A lesson learned here is that it’s something we need to pay attention to,” Harder

said.

“This isn’t about preventing hunters from doing their sport or feeding their families, but the fact remains this is the fastest growing area in the city.”

Ron Johnson, president of the Canadian Forces Ottawa Fish and Game club, said he did not believe his membership would have an issue with the city conducting a review.

“Our concern of course would be carte blanche restrictions that would unnecessarily prohibit viable areas that can still be hunted safely without risk to residents and other hunters,” he said.

The city’s hunting boundaries were last reviewed in 2002, a few years before subdivisions sprouted in Half Moon Bay. Many new homes were built in the area in the years that followed and welcomed new residents in 2006 and 2007.

The current by-law allows for licensed hunters to fire

their guns in areas west of Greenbank Road and south of the Jock River.

Within that area, hunters cannot discharge their weapons in a number of places, including on public land, highways and within 450 metres of subdivisions, schools or houses of worship.

Harder declined to say what the new boundaries should be, but said its time they should be reviewed.

“It’s not a knee jerk reaction,” she said of the review, which she described as a necessity because the neighborhood has grown so much since 2002.

“It’s fortunate no one was hurt, but it’s also fortunate that it happened so it was brought to my attention so we can review it,” she said.

The Ottawa police’s guns and gangs unit were investigating the incident and asked the public to contact them if they had any information concerning the stray bullet.

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Legacy Gift will generate $42.2 MILLION for CHEO over next 100 years Weldon Cochrane was an Ottawa chartered accountant and partner with the accounting firm of Coopers and Lybrand (now PriceWaterhouseCoopers) and was also the Treasurer on the CHEO Foundation Board. Mr. Cochrane had an appreciation for the importance of leaving a legacy and understood how to make an impact when he decided to made a gift in his Will to CHEO. He left the residual of his estate with instructions for it to be endowed; meaning that the capital would be preserved in perpetuity and the annual interest would be used to fund the important work at CHEO. When Mr. Cochrane died in 1985 the CHEO Foundation received $540,000

from his estate and established the Weldon Cochrane Endowment Fund as directed in his Will. Much has happened and changed at CHEO since his death and in that time his legacy gift has grown to $4.6 million.

(20%) will be reinvested bringing the total value of the fund to $6.2 million. In 50 years $15 million (80%) will go to the hospital and $3.8 million (20%) will be reinvested bringing the total value of the fund to $8.4

As CHEO marks its 40th anniversary this year, we look back and honour not only those in our community who made our local children’s hospital a reality, but also donors like Mr. Cochrane who made children a priority. Why not honour what is most important to you during your lifetime The impact of Mr. Cochrane’s generous gift is probably beyond what by considering a gift in Will to CHEO. Our he could have even imagined when he made it over 30 years ago. children, youth and families deserve to Moving forward 80 percent of the interest million. In 100 years $42.2 million (80%) will always have excellent health care, to benefit generated from this fund will be invested in go to the hospital and $10.6 million (20%) from lifesaving research and be provided medical equipment, research and hospital will be reinvested bringing the total value with the support programs to live happy and healthy lives now and forever. programs at CHEO. The remaining 20 of the fund to $15.2 million. percent will be reinvested to allow the fund His legacy lives on and continues to make to continue to grow. In 25 years $6.4 million a difference in the lives of young patients (80%) will go to the hospital and $1.6 million at CHEO today, and for future generations.

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Max Keeping Foundation to close, new fund created with leftover dollars N e w w h i t e c a p Da r i o co N t e l at e s t o s U p l aye r to j o i N p ro ac a D e m y Following in the footsteps of former teammates Kris Twardek and Vana Markarian, Dario Conte has become the third Ottawa South Unitedbrewed player to join a professional soccer club academy from an exceptional group of groundbreaking 1997-born boys.

It’s been an intense but exciting transition to a new life for Conte, one of two new players to join the Vancouver Whitecaps under-18 Major League Soccer academy in late January.

“It’s not so bad because I got welcomed by my friend from my old team,” Conte says of fellow OSU alum Vana Markarian, who joined the Whitecaps last winter. “He’s showing me the ropes right now.”

OSU Club Head Coach Paul Harris arranged a trial for Conte with Vancouver, and early in 2015, he was asked to join the Whitecaps. Conte previously had trials with a number of other pro clubs and always received positive feedback, although an offer would not follow.

“Dario displayed tremendous determination throughout those challenges, and we’re very pleased to see him rewarded with this opportunity,” Harris underlines. “For all our young players, this is a great example of what can happen when you believe in yourself and never give up.”

The experience from earlier trials served as valuable preparation for the Whitecaps audition, notes Conte, who found the initial rejections both discouraging and motivating.

“You’re sad that you didn’t make the team, but then again, you want to show that you can make a pro team and that you’re persistent enough and good enough to do something,” explains the slick attacking midfielder.

“You just keep going and keep pushing. It’s really about internal drive.”

Conte is the latest member of the storied Force 1997 boys’ group to join a pro club, along with Markarian and Twardek, a member of Millwall FC’s academy in London, UK. All three were part of the first Ontario Youth Soccer League-champion squad from Eastern Ontario in 2013.

“It’s certainly a rarity, if not a first, that three players from one team in Ottawa, a single age group, move on to join professional clubs,” Harris signals. “We’re very proud to see them move on, and we look forward to even more of our players reaching these high levels in the future.”

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The Max Keeping Foundation is winding down and will close by mid-summer of this year.

“We are no longer accepting requests for funding or granting donations,” Dave Ready, chairman of the foundation’s board of directors, said at a press conference at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario on Feb. 11. “We

have honoured all of our commitments to date.”

When Ready announced that Keeping, a retired news broadcaster who founded the charitable organization 21 years ago, was unable to attend the announcement at CHEO due to a health setback, there was a palpable sense of disappointment among those who gathered for the event.

Keeping, 72, is suffering from an untreatable form of colorectal cancer, and it has

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The foundation’s remaining $150,000 was presented in the form of a giant cheque to the CHEO Foundation for the creation of the Max Keeping Fund for Kids.

Several factors went into the decision to close the Max Keeping Foundation, including that many needs in the community are being supported through other organizations and programs, such as Canadian Tire’s Jumpstart program and the Ottawa Senators Foundation, Ready said.

With the creation of the new fund in Keeping’s name, the chairman said the broadcaster’s legacy will live on.

Keeping has long been associated with the regional children’s hospital since it opened in 1974; 12 years ago, a wing at the hospital was named after the longtime community volunteer.

“Today really is a start to a whole new relationship and adds to the great legacy that Max Keeping has built with the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario,” said Kevin Keohane, president and chief executive officer of the CHEO Foundation.

“And Max will be associated with CHEO until the doors of this hospital close, and while the building may change – there will be different buildings and new buildings – there will forever be a Max Keeping Fund for Kids.

The new fund will help cover the cost of meals, travel and accommodation expenses for families of CHEO patients that live outside Ottawa, and help with travel and accommodation expenses when they must go outside Ottawa to receive specialized medical care in other cities.

It will also assist patient families unable to afford specialized medical equipment, such as hearing devices, walkers, wheelchairs, wheelchair ramps and helmets that must be worn after surgery.

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Ryan Williams, a former CHEO patient who was born with a rare blood vessel disorder that required him to undergo 55 surgeries, was named as a CHEO Champion Child in 2001.

He remembers travelling with Keeping to Florida where they spent the day with children from other hospitals. Not long after that trip, Keeping began helping Williams with his own efforts to raise funds to pay for a medical procedure in Boston, Mass.

“Needless to say, without his guidance and support, we would not have accomplished what we did,” said Williams.

Keeping established his foundation in 1995 to help financially disadvantaged children, youth and families. At the time, the newsman was receiving numerous calls at the news station from families requiring financial help to cover recreational, athletic and health costs for their children.

Keeping was paying for those out of his own pocket.

“The number of requests – he just couldn’t keep up with the demand,” Ready said.

Over the years, the Max Keeping Foundation has supported educational grants and allowed for the creation of inner-city playgrounds, among other projects.

“I can’t think of anyone else who has had a 40-year run where if you just say the name Max in this city, you know who it is,” Keohane said.

The $150,000 contribution to the new Max Keeping Fund for Kids “is a seed that Max and his foundation are planting today,” he said.

As the fund grows in the coming years, 80 per cent of the interest from the endowment fund will go to help kids in need. The other 20 per cent will remain in the fund.

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St. Mark students embark on life-changing ‘awareness trip’ Caroline O’Neill

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“I’m just really excited.”

“I don’t want to stay in my own personal bubble.”

“I think it will be a really big step out of my comfort zone.”

Sarra St. Pierre, Connor Ladaroute and Marika Routliffe are in different classes and have different interests, but they’ll be spending a week together in Consuelo, a remote village in the Dominican Republic, with 11 other classmates, and a few teacher supervisors starting Feb. 20.

St. Mark Catholic High School is running its bi-annual Dominican Exposure Trip this week. Fourteen senior level students were chosen to attend the trip after undergoing an application and interview

process. St. Pierre, Ladaroute and Routliffe spent the past school year preparing for the trip with weekly meetings and fundraising initiatives.

“I want to travel a lot and experience other cultures,” said Routliffe. She is a grade 12 student and came to the school two years ago.

The Dominican Exposure Trip, now in its 20th year, is often confused as a vacation, but the students will not be building houses nor will they spend the week on the beach. The point of the trip is to experience life as a member of a middleclass Dominican family.

“I think the awareness trips are powerful because … they help the kids come to a place where they realize how much they really have and how fortunate they are to live in a place like Canada,” said Maureen Dufour, St. Mark’s chaplain,

earlier this month. This will be Dufour’s first awareness trip, but she has previously gone on building trips in the Dominican. Dufour said she expects the nightly reflection sessions each evening to be both an emotional and formative part of the week-long experience.

“A sense of gratitude, that’s what I want to learn,” said Grade 11 student Sarra St. Pierre. “Always be happy with what you have.”

St. Pierre said she has wanted to go on this trip since she was in the seventh grade, after hearing about the amazing experiences of older students.

The group has been meeting every Monday to take Spanish lessons, review any medications or vaccinations they will need, create packing lists and plan fundraisers. The weekly meetings allowed the students to get to know each other before they become roommates in Consuelo.

“I want to be able to explore and experience what life is like … for people who are less fortunate than us,” said Grade 11 student Connor Ladaroute.

“And take the experience into account when it comes into my own life.”

Ladaroute is responsible for ordering the pizza the group sells every Wednesday.

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Marika Routliffe, left, Maureen Dufour, Sarra St. Pierre and Connor Ladaroute have spent the past school year preparing for their trip to the Dominican Republic. and the 14 members have to be committed to raising money for both the people of Consuelo and to lower their own travel costs. In addition to selling pizza, the group has sold coffee and held a raffle.

They also hosted one of the student body’s favourite events of the year, the annual Dominican cake auction. Teachers and students donate cakes and the homerooms have a competition to see who can raise the most money. The winning class gets dibs on the first cake; this is often the group’s most successful initiative.

Some students have gone above and beyond. St. Pierre, for example, raised money to pay for her entire trip herself through babysitting, cleaning houses and sometimes asking her mom to spot her some cash.

“A year ago, I started a 52 week money challenge,” said St. Pierre. “By the end I had $1,378.”

St. Pierre, who transferred from Canterbury High School in order to have this experience, said she’s already learning about herself through the fundraising process.

“It’s really not impossible to save money,” said St. Pierre. “In the long run, it’s going to be for something I really always wanted to do.”

All three students anticipate a big step out of their comfort zones once they are billeted with their host families for the

week. Previous students have returned with stories about new cuisine, language barriers and few comforts of home.

“Just knowing that we are not even going to have running water, that is going to be a huge change,” said Routliffe.

The students will not be able to drink any of the running water in the Dominican; they will spend the week drinking out of water bottles or pitchers of purified water.

Like Routliffe, Ladaroute said he’s nervous about adjusting to a new lifestyle in a short time period.

“We won’t bring any phones and there’s only one phone line in the village,” he said. “That’s probably the most scary thing: the loss of communication.”

Dufour said she can’t wait to see how the students will act and what they will learn once they are removed from the usual atmosphere.

“It’s going to be hard for them. So any student who does this instead of a March Break trip … I think there is something they are seeking or searching for,” said Dufour. “I think this trip could broaden their world and hopefully change them.

“I think it will give them an awareness of what is just and fair here isn’t always just and fair there.”

Check back for their stories in a few weeks once Sarra, Connor, Marika and Maureen return from their trip.

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The city’s relationship with Plasco Energy Group is likely over.

City staff recommended cutting ties with Plasco on the same day the waste-to-energy company sought creditor protection, cutting 80 employees loose.

Plasco made the move on Feb. 10, a few weeks after missing a third city deadline to acquire financing to build a new $200 million facility on Moodie Drive.

The environment committee will likely put a rubber stamp on the city manager’s recommendation at a meeting on Feb. 17, the committee’s chairman, Capital Coun. David Chernoshenko said.

“It’s not in doubt that council will agree with the recommendation and end our relationship with Plasco,” he said.

The city first signed a con-

tract with Plasco in 2011 in the hope Ottawa could take advantage of lower waste disposal rates provided by the company’s plasma gasification technology to convert garbage into electricity.

The city would have paid $82.25 per tonne of waste, which would have amounted to $9.1 million a year.

“The council felt here was a promising technology that the city could help to bring along and would benefit us if they found a way to do it,” Chernoshenko said.

The contract did not tie any city funding into the new facility and required Plasco come up with financing on its own.

The last missed deadline was Dec. 31.

Chernoshenko said he did not think the city was too lenient in giving Plasco two extensions.

“It’s not as if we were giving them a break,” he said. “It was clearly taking longer for

them to get the environmental approvals, to work out kinks in their system and raise the funding.”

The contract did not tie any city funding into the new facility and required Plasco come up with financing on its own.

He explained the city had nothing to lose in the sense it wasn’t costing the taxpayer anything to have given them extensions.

The councillor said the silver lining to the Plasco deal falling through is the city will now get to pick a new leading technology as an alternative.

He said using incinerators to burn residential garbage

was an option that was still on the table, but that it is an expensive way to dispose of waste.

The city’s landfill still has more than 20 years left of capacity, but the city plans to explore other options and will likely pick an alternative in early 2016, Chernoshenko said.

A spokesman for Plasco confirmed the company has let go 80 employees and that they will get paid a month’s salary along with any vacation pay owed to them. The 25 remaining employees will be part of a restructuring, led by Randall Benson of KPMG. Plasco now has 30 days to restructure under the province’s Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act, but that deadline will likely be extended as long as the company can prove it is actively working towards a solution.

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hen Dono jumped down out of the truck in the fall of 2013 he was closer in resemblance to a black Lab than a bull calf. We watched as he strutted confidently among the much larger females and thought, that boy is going to need a stepladder.

The following spring, it was time for him to prove his mettle. In any case, he was the only bull on the farm in early 2014 and some of our cows are clearly pregnant now so it would appear he has found a way to do his job.

Strangely enough, it looks like the bigger cows are the pregnant ones. The young heifers don’t appear to have gained anything in girth over the last few seasons. Dono must have aimed high and started with the most difficult job first. And he might have lost interest or quit before he finished the job.

Big Betty never looks pregnant. She carries her babies like a big-boned European woman.

When she is going into labour she tends to be quite vocal. And then one day she just stops in mid-sentence, closes her eyes and…gives birth. We’ve never had any trouble with her. Ginger is absolutely massive, like a bulbous tug boat pulling in and out of harbour every time she enters or exits the barn. It will be difficult to get her into a pen for the birth so hopefully she is old and wise enough now to choose a sensible birthing place so we don’t have to.

Last year we brought some nice dry hay into the barn for a birthing area but it got extremely cold and one calf that was born just in the doorway to the barn froze within hours of birth. That affected the Farmer and I very deeply; we felt so bad that we weren’t prepared for that birth. The mama stood outside the door to the barn, the last place she saw her calf, and bawled for three days.

Calving season can be a dramatic time.

We have been very lucky.

We’ve never had to pull a calf.

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DIANA FISHER The Accidental Farmwife the hooves and pulling a calf out of its mother with a tractor is enough to make me faint.

We do have some sort of gentle pulling apparatus for sheep but I doubt it would work on a calf. I truly appreciate that our mamas seem to know what they are doing, for the most part.

We will be keeping a close eye on that mama who lost her calf in the snow last year, to ensure she is given access to shelter from the wind in the barn. I’m hoping we have better luck with the selenium deficiency this year.

Last season we had one calf born who just didn’t know how to suck. He liked his mom and she liked him. That wasn’t the problem.

He just didn’t seem to realize that she was also meant to be his source of food. He just cuddled up to her and she would look back at him and try to position herself so he would find the milk but he never clued in. Right away we

realized we had a problem.

Thankfully, the mama allowed the Farmer to steal some of the colostrum to feed the calf. Because without the liquid gold in that first mama’s milk, no newborn animal will thrive.

Then I went to the house to mix up some milk replacer. I started with two large bottles a day and increased it gradually until I was feeding him up to four litres of milk replacer a day. I was his only source of nutrition.

It was quite a responsibility.

That little bull calf never did reach the size of his barnyard siblings but he did just fine.

After a couple months the snow melted and he was on the new spring grass, growing every day.

You never know what drama is ahead with calving season. Here’s hoping it goes easy on us. dianafisher1@gmail.com www.theaccidentalfarmwife. blogspot.com

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here was a lot to grab my attention in church every Sunday, and it wasn’t always what the minister had to say from the pulpit. If the truth be known, I had trouble trying to figure out what he was talking about, as he flailed around pounding his bible on the rail. I was much more interested in waiting to see the well worn black book go flying into the congregation, which I was sure would happen. It would just be a matter of time.

And then there was his wife, who Mother said was a pure angel. She sat ram-rod straight, and my brother Emerson said the whole place could blow up and he doubted if she would blink an eyelash. I would spend many minutes waiting for any movement from her, which never came.

Of course, I was keenly interested in seeing what the girls I went to school with had worn

MARY COOK Mary Cook’s Memories to church. If one wore a new hat I looked at it with envy, and I was reasonably sure I was committing a mortal sin by doing so.

And then there was old Herman. He sat by the East window, and I spent many minutes staring at his very bald head. It had a glow to it, which my brother Emerson said got that way because he rubbed it with goose grease before he came to church.

My sister Audrey said that was pure nonsense. Goose grease was for shining your boots, not to be wasted putting a shine to a bald head!

Some Sundays I couldn’t take my eyes off old Herman. He was known to consume a little too much of his homemade brew on a Saturday night, and it wasn’t unusual for him to come to church the worse for wear.

He would be alright when the church service was just beginning, but with the hot sun beating on his bald head, the old stove belting out heat, and the droning on of the minister, it didn’t take long for old Herman to drop his head to his chest. And every few minutes he would waken and snap his head up, only to lose consciousness again seconds later.

Well, one Sunday, right in the middle of winter, there was someone else in old Herman’s seat! And yet, it looked like old Herman: same bulbed nose, half-shut eyes, but the shiny head was gone!

What was on his head looked very much like a tight hat of fine brown straw, and I wasn’t the only one glued to old Herman. Every eye in church was on him.

Emerson started to laugh until Mother gave him a poke that settled him down in a hurry.

My sister Audrey, who Mother always said was smart beyond her years, leaned close to me and said, “Of course it’s Herman. He’s gotten himself a wig.” I had never seen a wig in the Northcote area before.

Well, the service went on, and I lost interest in looking for new hats. My sight was glued to old Herman. That Sunday, we could have gotten along without the heat from the old stove,

because the sun was pouring in through the East window, and of course, right onto Herman.

I don’t think the minister was into his sermon five minutes when old Herman’s head fell to his chest. That in itself was not unusual, and to be expected.

What wasn’t expected was what happened to the wig. It fell over his eyes with his first head-drop, and stayed there!

It sat on his nose completely blocking his vision. With the curved seats in the pews it was impossible not to see what was happening.

The minister’s voice got louder and louder. And it wasn’t until the organist pumped her feet on the two felt pedals with force and brought her hands down with a bang on the keys to start a hymn that old Herman came to.

Of course, he couldn’t see a thing. The wig covered the front of his bald head right

down to the tip of his nose.

That in itself was enough to startle the whole church, but what it did to old Herman was something to behold.

He must have forgotten for the moment that he was wearing a wig, because he was blinded by it, and yelled in a voice that could be heard in the United Church down the road.

“Where am I? What’s goin on?”

Mr. Kallies, sitting right behind him, grabbed the back edge of the wig and righted it, allowing Herman to realize where he was. His face turned beet red, he grabbed the wig off his head, crammed it in his pocket, and bolted. He didn’t even wait for the plates to be passed for collection.

On the way home in the double cutter, my brother Emerson said the church service that day was as good as going to the picture show in Renfrew on a Saturday night!

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The Youth of Manotick group will host its first open house from 6:30 to 9 p.m. in the Manotick arena. Youth ages 12 to 16 can come and see what the drop-ins are all about, and adults are also welcome to meet the staff and board of directors, learn what YOMA has been doing and our vision for the future.

Feb. 21

Have you ever wanted to learn how to paint like a pro? Professional artist Susan Bruner will lead this exciting workshop from 10 a.m. to noon at the Osgoode Township Museum to reveal the tricks and techniques for blending acrylic paint flawlessly to create specific colours in order for you to create your own beautiful masterpiece. All materials will be provided. Cost: $25 per participant. Spaces are limited.

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Feb. 24

Estate Planning workshop at the Manotick branch of the Ottawa Public Library, 6:30 to 8 p.m.

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Professional artist Susan Bruner will lead a workshop from 10 a.m. to noon at the Osgoode Township Museum to teach the process of creating magical monochromatic works of art. Cost: $25 per participant. Spaces are limited.

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March Break programs at the Osgoode Township Museum, 7814 Lawrence St. in Vernon. 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. each day, cost $5. Wednesday, March 18 is Big Rock Candy Mountain day. Thursday, March 19 is Junior Pioneer day. Friday, March 20 is Old-fashioned Toys and Games day.

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Fizz and Slime at the Live and Learn Resource Centre. From 9 to 11 a.m. bring your kids ages 2 ½ to 4 to experience some awesome science. Cost: $20/child. From 1 to 3, kids ages 4 to 6 can get a science surprise! Cost: $25/child. Registration required at 613-821-2899.

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Ovarian Cancer Canada offers a free presentation called Ovarian Cancer: Knowledge is Power, about the signs, symptoms and risk factors of the disease. To organize one for your business, community group or association, please contact Lyne Shackleton at 613-488-3993 or ottawakip@gmail.com.

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The bar is open Tuesdays through Saturday from 6 to 11 p.m. unless otherwise posted.

The Gloucester South Seniors meet at 4550 Bank St., Leitrim for a full schedule of activities every week including contract bridge, carpet bowling, euchre, five hundred, shuffleboard and chess. Membership is $15 per year. The club is easily accessible by OC Transpo 144 and free parking. Call 613-8210414 for info.

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 613-821-1930 for more information.

Mondays:

Four-hand euchre every Monday at 7 p.m. Holy Trinity Anglican Church hall, Victoria St. in Metcalfe. Light refreshments served.

Tuesdays:

The Greely Friendship Club meeting every second Tuesday of the month for a pot luck lunch from11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Membership is $5 per year and $4 per lunch Introductory meeting free with potluck contribution.

Wednesdays:

Want to meet new friends and have a great workout? Come to the MET (Metropolitan Bible Church) every Wednesday from 12:15 to 1:15 p.m. for a free women’s fitness class with a certified fitness instructor. The sessions include a five-minute inspirational fit tip. Contact the church office at 613-238-8182.

Thursdays:

Come out and play 4-Hand Euchre at Our Lady of the Visitation Parish Hall, 5338 Bank Street every Thursday from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. during July, August and September.

You do not need a partner. Entry fee $5. Enjoy complimentary light refreshments. For information call 613-822-1430.

Every Thursday starting at 6:30 p.m. enjoy bingo at the Osgoode Legion, 3284 Sunstrum St. in Osgoode. All money raised at these weekly events goes back to the community. Bring your “dabbers” and come out to support your local legion bingo.

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The Greely East Osgoode & District Assoc, invites you to every first Friday, of each month, 7:30-11:00pm to its Old Time Fiddle & Country Dance, Greely Community Centre, 1448 Meadow Drive, Greely. We welcome all musicians & singers.

Admission $5 for non musicians, yearly membership available. For additional information call 613 489-2697.

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