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Cadets corps plans trip to Vimy Ridge Kelly Kent

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They may be going on a 10-day trip, but the 2951 Royal Canadian Army Cadets Corps (RCACC) from Vernon won’t be relaxing on their vacation.

In November 2017, a group of cadets from the Vernon corps are travelling to Europe to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Vimy Ridge. They’ll visit the battle site in uniform on Remembrance Day, while also visiting other significant military memorials in the Netherlands, Belgium and France.

“It’s going to be an intense 10 days,” said OCdt. Becky Gilmer, the group leader organizing the trip for the corps.

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The 2951 RCACC began fundraising for the trip last summer and have made a good head start so far, Gilmer said. They have a busy year ahead of them fundraising even more to lessen the out-of-pocket cost for each cadet.

Ideally, Gilmer said she’d like to see 100 per cent of the cost of the trip covered by fundraising efforts.

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“It’s going to be a trip of a lifetime for a lot of them.”

The Vernon RCACC is partnering with Education First (EF) Educational Tours to participate in its Canada’s Battlefields expedition. The group will visit multiple First World War and Second World War sites in Europe.

“Follow in the footsteps of the brave Canadian soldiers who fought on the beaches of Normandy and through the trenches at Vimy,” the EF website says. “Begin the tour by strolling along the streets and canals of Amsterdam, a city once occupied by German forces and liberated by Canada. Visit the Dieppe Canadian War Cemetery to honour those lost during the 1942 Dieppe Raid.”

April 2017 marks the 100th anniversary of the battle fought at Vimy Ridge.

While the cadets considered visiting then, they agreed it would be too busy and the experience would be better later in the year.

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The 2951 Royal Canadian Army Cadets Corps out of Vernon are planning a trip to Vimy Ridge in 2017 to mark the battle’s 100th anniversary. Their 10-day trip begins in November in Amsterdam and travels across Europe to visit several First and Second World War sites. Fundraising for the trip has already begun, including a car wash and Vimy Walk-a-thon on April 9 in Metcalfe.

Commanding Officer of the 2951 RCACC, Capt.

Marc Bedard, said several of the corps’ 40 cadets, who are between 12 and 19 years old, plan to participate in the trip.

“This is a once-in-a-life-

time type of opportunity,” he said.

Each cadet will need to raise $3,000 to fund their experience. Gilmer said that fee covers everything the cadets will need during their 10 days, except for lunch and

for a donation.

Later the same day, the cadets will join hundreds of others across Canada as they participate in the Vimy Walk. The cadets will travel 3.6 km during their walk-athon, to commemorate the 3,600 Canadians who gave their lives during the battle.

All of the pledges and donations raised that day will benefit the cadets’ trip.

the 2951 RCACC’s trip to Vimy Ridge in 2017 can be found on their website at www.2951cadets.ca.

Gilmer said the trip is open to all current cadets and new recruits up until September 2016. It’s an opportunity of a lifetime, she said, to learn a lot about Canadian military history.

“This is definitely going to be one of those vacations where you’re tired when you get home,” she said, “but I think it will be more than worth it.”

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The 2951 RCACC has made strides in its fundraisings efforts so far by hosting barbecues and bottle drives, Gilmer said, but there are also some larger events planned to boost the earning potential.

On Saturday, April 9, the corps will be stationed at the Metcalfe Fire Hall (Ottawa Fire Station 91) for a car wash from 9 a.m. to noon.

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Manotick Miler aims to beat fundraising goal for Ottawa Heart Institute Kelly Kent

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Ready, set, race!

Back for its sixth year on Sunday, May 1, the Manotick Miler is now open for registration.

Race organizer Laura Glasper of inStride Event Management hopes this year’s event will be bigger and better than ever.

“We hope it keeps growing and getting more popular,” she said. “Our goal is to someday have 10,000 participants.”

Right now the Manotick Miler sees about 1,500

participants each year, drawing large crowds to the village’s core. Considering it started with around 275 runners, Glasper said the event has come a long way.

The Manotick Miler features four race events: 10 miles, five miles, three miles and a one-mile family run or walk. The 10-mile race is certified by Run Canada, and Glasper said it is a perfect flat training route for Ottawa’s race weekend which takes place four weeks later.

The biggest draw of the day, however, is the post-race tailgate after party hosted by Big Rig.

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The Manotick Miler is set to host its sixth event on Sunday, May 1, where the aim is to smash last year’s fundraising total of $5,000 for the Ottawa Heart Institute. Registration is now open at www.manotickmiler.com.

“We want the event, including the tailgate, to become another festival for Manotick,” Glasper said. “Everyone is encouraged to come out.”

Runners and non-runners alike are invited to attend the tailgate party, which has been provided by Big Rig for the past three years. Big Rig supplies a trailer of kegs for the party and serves sodas for

kids.

The event also features kids’ games, balloon art, food and live music.

“Plan on sticking around after the race,” Glasper said, adding that the tailgate party is hard to resist.

Races kick off on May 1 at 9 a.m. with the tailgate bash starting at noon. All events are hosted at the Manotick

Arena and Community Centre at 5572 Dr. Leach Drive.

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Every year, the Manotick Miler event raises money for the Ottawa Heart Institute.

Last year, more than $5,000 was raised and donated to the organization, brining the race’s grand total to around

$30,000 so far.

This year’s goal, Glasper said, is simple: to surpass last year’s fundraising total.

“The goal is always more,” she said.

Information on registering for the Manotick Miler, sponsoring runners or making a donation can be found on the event’s website at www. manotickmiler.com.

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Inspirations Art Show to benefit three local organizations Kelly Kent

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This year’s Inspirations Art Show is good for the mind and the soul.

More than 60 artists will be showcasing their pieces at the annual Manotick Art Association Inspirations Art Show and Sale from Friday, April 15 to Sunday

April 17. More than that, the show will benefit three organizations: the Manotick Food Cupboard, the Youth of Manotick Association (YOMA) and Quiltz 4 Kidz.

“We try to make it as much of a community event as we can,” said Jaynie Coulterman, president of the Manotick Art Association.

The association’s artists

will be displaying various forms of their artistry at the show: canvas paintings, watercolours, photography, glass art, inlaid wood art, pottery and more. Almost all of the pieces on display will also be available for sale, Coulterman said.

The show will kick off on April 15 with a vernissage. Wine, cheese

and hors d’oeuvres will be served from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m.

Tickets for the evening are $10 per person and can be purchased at Office Pro, Lindsay and McCaffrey and online at www.manotickart. ca.

Admission to the show on April 16 and 17 is free, but cash donations to the Manotick Food Cupboard

are accepted.

New this year, youth from YOMA will be helping to set up and tear down the show.

In exchange, Coulterman said the Manotick Art Association will make a donation to the youth group.

The third organization to benefit from the art show is Quiltz 4 Kidz, an initiative from the Manotick United

RVCA warns heavy rain can cause local rivers to swell When it rains, it pours.

Due to what the Rideau Valley Conservation Authority (RVCA) called a “significant rain event” in a press release on Thursday, March 31, flows in rivers and streams in the Rideau River watershed were expected to swell.

“This could once again bring flooding of the lowest lying areas along rivers and streams and on lakes and

ponds,” the release stated.

With heavy rainfall of more than 30 mm expected in the days leading up to the weekend last week, the RVCA said water levels were expected to rise to levels seen previously in March.

Coupled with possible freezing temperatures on Saturday and Sunday that could cause ice to form, the RVCA warned residents to be cautious around all bodies of water.

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Libraries take to Twitter to talk fair ebook pricing Jennifer McIntosh

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The Ottawa Public Library is part of a nationwide charge for fairer ebook pricing, said library board chair and Beacon Hill-Cyrville Coun. Tim Tierney.

Tierney presented a resolution at a Federation of Canadian Municipalities meeting in early March calling on Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly to look at legislation that will deal with what he calls an unfair markup on ebook pricing for libraries.

Libraries can pay as much as three times to purchase the same ebook that the general public purchases.

Tierney said he’s pleased that the federation, which represents 2,000 member municipalities across the country, passed the resolution.

“I think it’s a clear

message that some action needs to be taken,” he said.

Unfortunately, it’s not something the general public is aware of, said Tierney.

Raising awareness is why a consortium of public libraries across the country called Canadian Public Libraries for Fair Ebook Pricing are hosting a Twitter chat on March 31.

Tierney said the Ottawa, Edmonton and Toronto libraries have taken the lead on the Twitter campaign.

Vickery Bowles, a Toronto librarian, Tierney and Sharon Karr, a manager with collection access at the Edmonton library will host the chat.

The chat will be an hour long and run from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m.

Using the hashtag #fairebookprices, Tierney will be speaking on behalf of the Ottawa library.

FAIR PRICING

“We aren’t looking for anything free,” Tierney said.

“We just want fair pricing.”

“We are paying upwards of $125 in some cases, and that’s not for unlimited uses,” Tierney said, adding that in some cases the purchase only includes a finite number of leases.

“It’s not like you can check out multiple copies of the ebooks either,” Tierney said. “It has to be returned before another user checks it out.”

The campaign is aimed at five major multinational publishers: Harper Collins, MacMillan Publishers, Penguin Random House, Hachette Book Group, and Simon and Schuster. Tierney said the cost of ebooks is prohibitive since the price of one electronic copy is more than nearly 10 paperbacks.

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Council curbs request that province approve photo radar in Ottawa ‘Divisive’ issue to be debated at transportation committee Erin McCracken

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A quest to ask the province to equip Ottawa with photo radar has been temporarily parked.

“The issue of speeding vehicles in or near residential communities is the No. 1 safety issue in River Ward and prevails across the city,” River Coun.

Riley Brockington told council March 23, while pitching a request to seek the provincial government’s permission to allow Ottawa to use the technology.

“While other issues exist – we’ve heard about guns and gangs, drug dealing, prostitution – the severity and frequency of these matters pale in comparison to excessive

speeding in our communities.”

While Brockington acknowledged photo radar “isn’t the silver bullet,” he doesn’t envision its widespread use on Ottawa’s roadways.

Rather, it could be deployed on select streets where other traffic-calming measures have proven ineffective and police presence is rare, said Brockington, who has sounded the alarm before on traffic woes after learning the Ottawa police east district traffic complaint team was scaled back at times last year from four to two officers.

That leaves the remaining two unable to adequately respond to complaints that crop up between the Rideau River and Navan, Brockington said.

“There are streets in my ward where people have told me they will not walk. Cyclists have told me they won’t cycle for fear of their own personal safety,” he said. “Is this the city that we want?”

Knoxdale-Merivale Coun.

Keith Egli spearheaded the move to have the issue debated at the transportation commit-

merits of a pilot project to explore the different ways photo radar could be implemented so it “doesn’t become a cash cow.”

Brockington acknowledged concerns that photo radar can be a money grab are partially

real, and some cities use it in excess.

However, he said his request to seek the province’s permission wasn’t designed to fill city coffers, but rather to arm the city with another safety tool.

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River Coun. Riley Brockington said his request that council seek the province’s permission to bring photo radar to Ottawa was misunderstood, and not a quest to put the high-tech system in place without public consultation. tee, which he chairs, on May 4, saying there is a lot of confusion and misunderstanding about where photo radar can be used and when.

Although Egli said he agrees that speeding is an issue, he criticized Brockington’s motion, saying it “leapfrogged” council and didn’t allow for any public delegations to come forward.

“We all know that photo

radar is a divisive issue in communities,” he said.

Before the city makes “a fundamental change in enforcement,” even on a limited number of streets, that technology is “a discussion we need to have with the public,” said Egli.

His motion was seconded

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Still two sets of rules for the same service

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he City of Ottawa’s review of its car for hire polices and regulations gets one thing right, and a lot that is still wrong.

Yes, it’s 2016 so the notion that you can stop a service such as the app-based Uber ride share operation is impossible.

Once the genie is out of the bottle, it’s impossible to put it back in.

But the recommendations that were put forward on March 31 after the city released its review of the taxi and limousine bylaw treat two things that are essentially the same thing differently, with two sets of rules for what are both, in fact, taxi services.

There are nearly 70 recommendations in the report – one of them being to allow ride-sharing programs, such as Uber to operate legally.

That is the thing the city got right.

What it got wrong is to treat Uber and the rules its drivers must operate under, differently from what taxi companies must adhere to.

Uber calls itself a “ride sharing” service, but the reality is that Uber operates exactly like

a taxi service except for the fact that it wants to call itself a “ride sharing” service. The difference in how these businesses operate is semantics.

It is perfectly understandable that the traditional taxi industry is fuming over what the city is recommending.

Coun. Diane Deans can say the city has “taken the handcuffs off the taxi industry,” but the traditional taxi industry still must follow rules and operate under a different set of regulations than its direct competition.

“Nothing about this is fair,” said Amrik Singh, who is the president of Unifor Local 1688, which represents taxi drivers. “The rules are supposed to be the same for everyone.”

One would think that is the way it should be, but the idea of a level playing field for all car for hire operations in the city has bitten the dust.

Yes, it is 2016 and the age of new technologies is well established. But when did the idea of fairness and a level playing field go out of style?

When a springtime pond is more than just a pond

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here’s a pond that’s not supposed to be there in the park.

Every year around this time it appears - a goodsized little lake, maybe a foot deep at its deepest point, formed by melting snow. As it shrinks it begins to be more like a giant puddle.

Some day, maybe, somebody will do something about it.

But I hope not. Kids wade into it. Dogs love to run through it. They drag sticks into the middle of it and drop them. It is interesting to ponder why they do that.

Gulls and even ducks float on it. And when the pond freezes over, as it can in these uncertain temperatures, people even skate on it.

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CHARLES GORDON Funny Town unpredictable, unorganized. It just appears and the neighbourhood makes use of it, one way or another. When it freezes, people appear with shovels and clear it for skating. Nobody phones city hall asking for assistance.

Spontaneity is a pretty rare thing in our day and age, especially for kids. They have a range of activities mapped out for them by their busy parents.

There’s nothing wrong with that.

Why shouldn’t kids learn to dance, play piano, play hockey, baseball or soccer?

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And because facilities are limited and time is scarce, activities have to be organized.

When you see boys and girls playing hockey, baseball or soccer, now, it is probable that they have team uniforms on.

There’s a lot to be said for that, but there’s something to be said also for kids just throwing a ball or playing soccer in the park, with no referees and their own rules.

That’s why the instant pond is so nice. There are no rules for a giant puddle, except for the ones you make up. There are no uniforms, except for rubber boots, no equipment, except for sticks you throw in for the dogs to chase.

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ence in our daily lives, you’ll fear that the pond/giant puddle’s days are numbered. A concerned parent might call city hall and demand that it be filled in. A kid might catch cold or the standing water might breed mosquitos, or something. Sports organizations might not like the unevenness of the field and ask that it be leveled out.

In a way it’s a miracle that something like that has not taken place.

It’s also a miracle that some expert on recreation didn’t put up a play structure there and then take the play structure down later because of safety concerns.

Those things could still happen. But they haven’t so far. The pond has been in existence for quite a few years now, arriving just before spring, disappearing some time in May. Maybe it’s because city hall has better things to do, higher priorities than a low spot in a park. It’s

also possible that, each year, by the time somebody decides to do something about it, the pond is gone. You can see them pulling up, with their trucks, unloading lots of equipment, only to find that there is nothing there.

It could be any of these things.

Or maybe, heaven forbid, it could be common sense. Stranger things have happened.

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Stormwater fees: principles, facts and prescriptions To the editor, The city’s proposal to initiate a stormwater fee separate from water and waste water charges has stirred much passion. In the heat of the argument, the basic principle underlying a stormwater fee needs to be reasserted: you pave, you pay.

These facts will also help clear the fog: - managing stormwater (runoff from rain or snowmelt) has nothing to do with providing drinking water to residents and businesses or with managing their wastewater (formerly known as sewage); - roadside ditches and culverts are part of our stormwater infrastructure – not to be confused with municipal drains that benefit farmers’ fields and fall under a totally separate financing and maintenance regime; - a small but significant number of households and a smaller number of businesses, mostly in rural but also in some urban areas, do not receive a water bill, yet many of them do have rainwater run off their properties.

Two straightforward directives

follow from the principle of you pave, you pay: 1. paying for capital and operating costs of stormwater infrastructure (from ditches to pipes and ponds to treatment devices) should be in proportion to the amount of hard (impervious) surface on one’s property; 2. reducing the amount of runoff at one’s property should be rewarded by seeing one’s payments lowered.

This means that setting stormwater fees in proportion to assessed property values may be administratively simple but is neither fair nor logical, and offers no way to provide incentives for reducing run-off.

We could be asked to pay for stormwater infrastructure either on the tax bill or on the water bill but the water bill has the edge.

We’ll see what we pay every other month, not just twice a year, and we’ll be happy to see the reward for efforts at reducing runoff that much more often.

Psychologically, seeing the charge on the tax bill could suggest that assessed property values and stormwater management are related,

which they are not.

Is providing incentives to reduce runoff at the lot level – resulting in less pollution and less need for infrastructure – an impossible dream?

Not at all! Dozens of cities across North America have done it. Not all have succeeded, so getting the rate structure and incentive design right is important. A prime example of a successful design is that of the City of Waterloo.

Ottawa’s extensive rural areas present a complex picture. Many rural residences have their own wells and septic fields and therefore do not help pay for the cost of stormwater management in the way residents who receive a water bill do.

Others have one but not the other.

Some infrastructure elements such as ditches and swales may be privately owned and controlled, or are financed by local improvement charges. Certain road maintenance work also serves stormwater management but how the city is accounting for this is not clear.

The city’s proposals do not come to grips with this complexity and finding out who pays how for what is

Reader sheds light on hydro rate differences for rural residents It would be unfortunate if Coun.

George Darouze were successful in his quest. The electricity system in Ontario is a complex system of checks and balances. There is no relationship between arbitrary municipal boundaries and the cost of distributing electricity.

And the Ontario government has no role in setting electricity rates; these are regulated by the Ontario Energy Board. And there is no relationship between a competitive business such as Walmart and a regulated monopoly such as Hydro One Distribution (as explained below, the entity at issue is Hydro One Distribution, not Hydro One Ltd.) Here is some simplified background information. Everyone in Ontario pays the same rate for energy (generation); this is set every 5 minutes by the IeSO based on what generation is running and what the demand is.

Everyone in Ontario pays the same for transmission (transporting the energy throughout the province on high voltage lines – these are the big steel towers you see

everywhere); this is paid to Hydro One Networks Inc., a subsidiary of Hydro One Ltd. and the amount

is regulated by the Ontario Energy Board (OEB).

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Reducing stormwater runoff at source is also good for the city’s finances. Storm sewers suffer less wear and tear, sediment in stormwater ponds accumulates less rapidly and creek erosion is reduced, resulting in less maintenance and rehabilitation costs.

The current review of the city’s water rate structure seems geared exclusively at tapping into new revenue streams and ignores the opportunity to move us one step closer to a more sustainable way of living. The opportunity should not be wasted.

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Week In Review Over this past week there were an additional three Storm Water Rate public consultations that took place across the city. The West Carleton and Navan consultations had a huge turn outs from residents expressing their concerns and asking great questions. The downtown consultation had a much smaller crowed show up. Our Ward’s consultation will take place this Saturday April 2 at 1:30 PM at the Metcalfe Community Centre. It is so important to get as many people out and raise our voices. I really look forward to seeing as many of you there as possible!

I had another very busy Tuesday for my open doors. It gave me an opportunity to talk about some of the many concerns that residents have as well as some great ideas for future events for our area. I even made a few Turkey sandwiches for some hungry visitors! I look forward to this coming Tuesday’s drop in hours from 1-5PM at my Metcalfe office. If you have some time don’t be shy to drop in and say hello!

Very late at night on Tuesday, I did another delivery to our night shift snow plow drivers to say thanks for their hard work this winter. These men and women work tirelessly throughout some of the worst winter weather conditions and I was happy to bring them a little surprise!

Thanks also to Kevin Wylie, GM of Public Works, who joined me in this opportunity.

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Pictured are some of the volunteers and staff at the House of Lazarus. From left, Nancy Christie, Louise Cornish, Judy Ryan, Linda Vanzyl, Janet Carkner and Kim Merkley.

House of Lazarus gears up for 30th anniversary celebrations Jennifer Westendorp

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It’s been 30 years since Reverend Allen Tysick started the House of Lazarus in May, 1986.

A series of fundraising events are in the works to commemorate the significant milestone.

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Janet Carkner, assistant to the HOL executive director.

On April 2, the HOL is hosting a chili dinner at the Winchester Lions Hall, located at 515 Albert Street, from 5 to 8 p.m. The event will feature good food, music, a silent auction and cake walk, with all proceeds going to the HOL. Tickets for the event are available at the HOL or at the door.

On May 14, the HOL is holding a family oriented walk-a-thon at Mountain Park.

“We are going to try to have different activities at each checkpoint,” said Kim Merkley, client services coordinator. “There will also be a barbeque and a 50/50 draw.”

She said the ‘Every Plate Full’ initiative through Food Banks Canada may be incorporated into the walk-a-thon event.

“Our goal is $3,000 and 3,000 cans of food,” said Merkley.

On June 23, there will be a customer appreciation barbeque at the HOL. The big event, a street dance party and pig roast, is set for July 23.

“That’s what we want to do, but it hasn’t been finalized yet,” said Merkley.

From May on, the celebrating will commence. The HOL plans on putting out 30 facts about the organization and

hosting 30 per cent off sales to recognize the milestone.

“It’s been 30 years and I’ve been here for half of it,” said Merkley. “When I first started, there was only five of us here.

The store wasn’t open all the time – it was closed all winter.

We hardly had any of the programs we have now.”

She explained one of the volunteers – Judy Ryan – is putting together a big scrapbook of all the news clippings about the HOL from the past 30 years.

“And pictures taken here throughout the years; anything she can find,” said Merkley.

The scrapbook will be on display at the HOL in the near future.

Currently, the HOL provides food, clothing and other services to 300 local families in need on a regular basis.

They are always in need of volunteers and donations, either monetary, food or saleable items.

“The support from the community is what has kept us going,” said Carkner.

“We wouldn’t survive without the community and the volunteers,” said Merkley.

For more information about upcoming events or to donate, visit www.houseoflazarus.com, call (613)989-3830 or stop by the office at 2245 Simms Street in Mountain.

A dozen new hires, extra vehicles to beef up paramedic service Erin McCracken

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Ottawa city council has agreed to hire 12 new paramedics and purchase four new emergency response vehicles for the Ottawa Paramedic Service. the urban core where demand is greatest,” the motion states. “Consequently, this creates a greater reliance on surrounding municipalities, which are then required to respond to the city’s rural wards.”

Council was prompted to ask staff to review paramedic services to identify operational needs and

efficiencies now and in the future.

That review is expected to be completed this spring, but council recognized “an immediate need” for more paramedics and the vehicles that will support them, according to the motion.

The new hires, which represent a “part-year budget requirement of

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A dozen new paramedics will be added to the City of Ottawa’s payroll this year.

City council unanimously approved the hires, as well as the purchase of four emergency response vehicles for the Ottawa Paramedic Service during its March 23 meeting.

“This is a very important issue across the city and this is a core service that needs to be equivalent across all wards in the city, and this motion will help this balance out,” said Osgoode Coun. George Darouze, who seconded West CarletonMarch Coun. Eli El-Chantiry’s motion calling for more resources.

The bid for change was to ensure council’s priority – and the community’s expectation – of delivering “quality paramedic services within established response times,” according to the motion.

The decision to bring on more personnel and beef up the paramedic fleet is in response to a 23-percent increase in paramedic response volumes over the past five years.

“As a result of increasing response volumes, designated rural resources are often required to respond to

$780,000,” will be funded from the They “worked to find a very admicity’s provision for one-time and un- rable solution,” he said, before also foreseen expenses, while the cost of highlighting the efforts of Di Monte adding to the paramedic vehicle fleet and his paramedic staff. is estimated at $260,000.

Of that, $220,000 will come from the paramedic service’s development charge account, while the remaining $40,000 will come out of the citywide reserve fund.

The review of the paramedic serWe offer vice and its future needs “will be considered by council prior to the development of the 2017 draft operating and capital budget city council as well as approval,” El-Chantiry told his colleagues around the table.

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Guestrooms needed for marathon runners Online service looking to connect people this race weekend Michelle Nash

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Are you a race weekend fan or runner looking to learn the tricks of the running trade from another runner?

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The accommodation service is looking for Ottawa residents who would like to open their homes up to fellow runners for the Scotiabank Ottawa Marathon at the Tamarack Ottawa Race Weekend, May 28-29.

“It’s about connecting like-minded people,” said Staybillety.com spokesperson Carolyn Waldo.

It’s also about helping outof-town athletes spend less during big city events, and potentially be able to bring

their cheer section along too.

A former two-time Olympic athlete, Waldo said she knows firsthand what it is like to travel for your sport, and how expensive it can be on your family to come watch you perform.

“This is dating me, but it was the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, and I was lucky enough to stay in a house, not a hotel. It made it possible for my family to come,” Waldo said, adding that at times, her parents had to pay more than $300 a night to cheer her on.

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change that for eager athletes looking to do the best they can and not have to worry about a pricy hotel bill at the end of the event.

“It’s not that hotels don’t have their place when it comes to events for athletes, but this is something different,” she said.

The concept is similar to Airbnb.com, in that it offers people the opportunity to list their homes as accommodation options – but that is where the similarities to those types of services end, Waldo said.

Staybillety.com is actually about sharing common interests, along with sharing a roof.

“We are partnering with

different community events, to connect people within the community,” she said.

Waldo said the accommodation service offers people a chance to get to know the community, make new friends and save money all at the same time.

As a member of Staybillety.com individuals can indicate their affiliations with school groups, organizations and events when signing up their property or themselves.

Launched at the start of March, this online accommodation service partnered with Run Ottawa to help fill the void of finding affordable accommodation for the race weekend, giving runners the opportunity to meet other runners.

The goal, Waldo said, is for Staybillety.com to donate

to different charities each month.

It is free to sign up for Staybillety, but the organization does charge a service fee to guests when they book an accommodation.

Hosts are also charged a service fee for each transaction.

Hosts get to set the price of their accommodations and Staybillety.com will also donate a portion of its proceeds towards a national charity that is picked by members.

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City gets cash boost for downtown cycling path Bi-directional separated cycling lane worth the ride: cyclist Michelle Nash

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A $325,000 boost in funding will help make riding along MacKenzie Avenue a little safer for cyclists.

The funding is thanks to the province’s $10 million Ontario Municipal Cycling Infrastructure Program, which will help pay to build a separated cycling lane along the avenue from Rideau to Murray Streets.

Ottawa-Centre MPP Yasir Naqvi made the announcement in Major Hill’s Park on March 29. Mayor Jim Watson, RideauVanier Coun. Mathieu Fleury, Ottawa-Vanier MPP Madeleine Meilleur and Dr. Mark Kristmanson, chief executive officer of the National Capital Commission joined Naqvi for the funding announcement.

Watson said he was looking forward to the project

beautifying the street, and thanked U.S. Ambassador Bruce Heyman for working with the city and both levels of government on the project.

The project will also finally remove the cement barriers that are in front of the U.S. Embassy. The costs will be shared amongst the four partners: the city, province, NCC and U.S. embassy.

Excited about the project, and on-hand to hear the announcement was avid cyclist and Walk Ottawa advocate Chris Bradshaw.

“I will definitely use it more often,” Bradshaw said.

Bradshaw admits that when taking that route at this he would jump on to the sidewalk for safety.

The new lane, he said, will not only stop cyclists from doing that, but also bring more people out on their bikes.

He added he also liked

how the low-level curb close to Rideau Street is pedestrian-friendly.

“Complete street designs are meant for all people using the streets, not just cyclists,” he said.

Meilleur said she is pleased that the lane will offer a safe, effective way to get around.

“This funding is great news for the City of Ottawa,” she said. “It will improve our cycling infrastructure while providing a safe bike path. Cycling greatly contributes to reducing congestion in our cities and it is also a good way to stay healthy while respecting the environment.”

The Mackenzie Avenue cycling corridor compliments Confederation Boulevard, said the NCC’s Kristmanson.

“I thank the province of Ontario for their contribution to this project which will advance our efforts to

foster active transportation in the urban core and build a more connected and vibrant Capital Region,” he said.

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One of Canada’s first Cold War secret agents celebrates a century Erin McCracken

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What does an alleged spy drink to celebrate a major occasion, especially when he is the man being honoured?

Instead of choosing to sip a martini, shaken, not stirred – that trademark drink of legendary silver screen spy James Bond – Frank Finnie requested a scotch and soda.

And rather than don a

tuxedo – another Bond hallmark – Finnie sat comfortably in his wheelchair, wearing a white dress shirt, charcoal-coloured trousers, navy blue tie and a cardigan.

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Their differences don’t end there.

While Bond’s death-defying actions as a British spy remain the stuff of fiction, Finnie’s “administrative work” for Canada’s then external affairs department during the early 1950s very much point to the work of a real-life man of action.

“Rumours have circulated widely that, in certain quarters, Frank was, in actuality, spying on the Russian government,” Ottawa South MP David McGuinty said during Finnie’s 100th birthday celebration on March 24 at the Windsor Park Manor Retirement Residence, on Hunt Club Road, where Finnie now lives.

At the revelation, excited murmurs rippled through the large crowd of residents who gathered for the party.

“And he may have been one of Canada’s first Cold War undercover agents,” McGuinty continued, reading from a bio of Finnie written by the centenarian’s power of attorney.

“But we don’t know for sure,” he said cryptically, with a grin.

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Not long after their return, Finnie and Win were enjoying a stroll across the Champlain Bridge when Finnie dropped to one knee and proposed. Win accepted.

She was 38 years old and Finnie was 46 when they married on Sept.

15, 1962, at the All Saints Anglican Church in Westboro.

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children born today will live to the age of 100,” McGuinty said. “So, Frank, you were a real trailblazer.

You’re setting a pattern for a lot of people to follow.”

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Finnie remained quiet, neither confirming nor denying the nature of his overseas work.

But his party guests sat enthralled, hanging onto McGuinty’s every word.

And the story only got better, as stories always do when love enters the picture.

Finnie was born in England in 1916 and came to Canada with his family when he was about three years old.

“Frank is from a very old Ottawa family,” said River Coun. Riley Brockington, who also helped mark Finnie’s birthday milestone – a day before Finnie’s actual March 25 birth date, which this year fell on Good Friday.

Finnie’s father, David McLaughlin Finnie, would eventually become the first chairman of the board of the Ottawa Civic Hospital, as it was known at the time, president of the former Bank of Ottawa and first president of the Rideau Club, Ottawa’s first members’ club.

Finnie’s father also served as an Friends of the Central early president of the Royal Ottawa Experimental Farm Golf Club in Gatineau.

“So your father was a busy man, as well,” Brockington said, prompt-

ing chuckles from Finnie’s guests, largely made up of residents and staff at the retirement home, where Finnie has lived since 2012.

Growing up in Ottawa, Finnie attended All Saints Anglican Church in Sandy Hill and the Glebe Collegiate Institute before going on to serve in the Second World War as an air force ground crewman in England.

After the war, he worked for Canada’s external affairs department, and served his first posting at the Canadian embassy in Moscow, from 1952 to 1954.

“Frank has related on several occasions that he performed ‘administrative work’ for the embassy,” Brockington revealed, adding he also “interestingly” learned to fluently speak Russian.

“Part of his ‘administrative duties’ included reading transcripts of the official newspaper of the Russian Community Party, Pravda, and sending ‘dispatches’ back to the Canadian government,” said Brockington.

It was at the embassy in Moscow where Finnie met Winifred Barns.

Their two-year courtship saw them enjoy almost daily performances at the Moscow opera and the Moscow Ballet.

“Frank reported that he and Win were transferred back to Ottawa at the same time and related that they both ‘knew that things were going somewhere,’” McGuinty said.

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Motion to be discussed further Continued from page 7

“Photo radar is not my first choice to enforce speed in Ottawa, but the fact remains that speed is a major concern.”

He and his staff have been researching photo radar for the past few months. When Toronto Mayor John Tory requested the same technology from the province in February, in an effort to reducing policing costs, Brockington gave council notice that he would ask that Ottawa make a similar plea.

But what his fellow councillors didn’t understand was that he was only seeking permission from the province before asking that staff

research photo radar.

He said staff in recent weeks asked him, “‘Why would you ask us to go through all of that work and effort, when we’re already busy, when we don’t even have permission to do that anyway? Seek permission first and then we’ll give you an extensive report.’”

Barrhaven Coun. Jan Harder, who offered the only dissenting vote against Egli’s request that the issue be sent to committee, apparently understood Brockington’s original intention.

“Again, the motion is just whether we ask the province for the right to (use photo radar), not whether or not we do photo radar,” she told Mayor Jim Watson.

But Gloucester-Southgate Coun. Diane Deans said the city shouldn’t ask for something it doesn’t desire.

“I think we need to decide if this is something we want or our community would want before we go asking for it, because you create an expectation if you ask for it, that you’re going to do it,” she said.

Brockington ultimately agreed to send the matter to committee, noting he fully embraces public consultation.

Police services board chair, West Carleton-March Coun. Eli El-Chantiry, who seconded Brockington’s motion, also supported diverting the issue to the transportation committee.

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Looking for a form of exercise that will help you relax, lose weight, lower your blood pressure, relieve aches and pains, clear your mind, and generally enjoy the great outdoors?

The Ottawa area offers a wide array of hiking possibilities, including the Rideau Trail, the Greenbelt and Gatineau Park, or simply exploring interesting communities in the region. Hiking is affordable for

all, and offers tremendous physical and mental benefits.

If you’d like to start hiking seriously, consider joining a local hiking club. The Rideau Trail Association (RTA), for example, offers a wide range of hikes for adults (most members are over 50), from a leisurely walk in the woods or in town to a vigorous tramp through challenging terrain. Outings are scheduled year round on weekends as well as some weekdays and evenings.

Letter: Hydro difference in delivery charge Continued from page 9

Where the differences come in is in distribution – taking the energy from the transmission system and delivering it to your home or business. There are many distribution companies in Ontario, mostly owned by municipalities (such as Hydro Ottawa). Each company buys its electricity and pays for generation (IeSO) and transmission (Hydro One Networks) at province-wide rates. Each company then delivers energy to customers and charges the customers its cost of buying the energy, plus an adder to cover its own cost of doing business.

Again, the distribution utilities’ local rates are regulated by the OEB, not set independently. Because each distribution company

has different costs of operation, the delivered price to customers varies by utility, but is always regulated by the OEB. Hydro One Distribution (another subsidiary of Hydro One Ltd.) is charged with delivering electricity to all areas of the province not served by municipal utilities. So its costs are always going to be higher than any municipal utility (same cost to build its power lines, fewer customers per line-mile, larger distances to travel for maintenance and repairs, etc). Its rates are also regulated by the OEB. It is this utility that serves rural customers near Ottawa.

Its rates are the same across the province, so there will always be cross-subsidizing among its customers.

So delivered price parity for

rural customers is not an electricity system issue; it is a socio-political one.

That doesn’t necessarily make it a bad idea; however, if any level of government wishes to move toward equalizing those rates, it should be done by an explicit subsidy from the taxpayer to the ratepayer, not by building the subsidy into the electricity system.

Any other solution will result in some sector of the electricity system being disadvantaged in favour of Ottawa’s rural customers.

Cross-subsidies in the system distort price signals and reduce the incentives for and abilities of users to use their energy more sensibly and effectively.

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“If you’re a novice hiker, this course will give you know-how for choosing equipment, avoiding problems, and dealing with situations that may arise on the trail,” instructor Ruth Oswald said.

The RTA, a volunteer organization, maintains a continuous trail between Ottawa and Kingston, which passes through

Merrickville and Barrhaven. It offers hikes, from easy to challenging, on the Rideau Trail as well as in and around the Ottawa-Gatineau, Perth and Kingston regions.

You can join, get more information, or register for the Introduction to Hiking course at www.rideautrail.org or by calling the Ottawa Rideau Trail Club information line at 613- 860-2225.

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Kitty proved herself to be a real good “mouser”

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other said if she lived to be 100, she’d never get used to the common housefly or the mice, both of which were in ample supply on our farm in Renfrew County.

The flies, fortunately, were only around in warm weather, but the mice had no respect for the seasons, and it didn’t seem to matter if the snow was knee deep, or we were gasping for air on a hot summer day, the mice had minds of their own.

In the cold weather, our summer kitchen kept our food chilled or frozen. An old table sat in the middle of the floor, and Mother was always frightened a wayward mouse would climb up a table leg, and help itself to whatever was there.

Her solution was to have Father fill four tobacco tins with coal oil and put one under each leg of the table. Any mouse daring to reach the top of the table had a fatal bath in the coal oil, and the food was safe. Of course, this only worked in the summer kitchen. In-

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MARY COOK Memories side the house was another matter.

No one knew how they got into the house, but it wasn’t unusual, while we sat around the kitchen table at night, to see a tiny mouse scurry across the floor, or run tight against the baseboards. And Mother, who could sense a mouse a mile away, would fly into a state of hysteria, demand Father get the broom, order the brothers onto the chase, and chaos ensued until the mouse was either caught, or found a means of escape.

Silently, I rooted for the mouse.

Now, Mother would not allow any dogs or cats in the house.

“They belong in the barn,” she’d say when I would beg to bring in one of my pets, which included a hoard of cats, one I especially liked and simply called Kitty, or our old Collie dog, which, like just

about every other dog in Northcote, was called Sport.

Father, a third generation on our farm, told stories of the pets he had as a young boy, and how the dogs and cats were just as comfortable in the house as they were in the barns. But Mother wouldn’t budge. They belonged in the barn, and that’s all there was to it.

Spring was breaking early that year, and for some unexplained reason, we were seeing more mice than usual, both in the summer kitchen, and in the house. Mother was on constant alert, and since she hated mousetraps as much as she hated the mice, catching the little critters seemed to be the only solution. That is, until that night at supper.

Father, who my sister Audrey said later, brought up the subject on purpose, said how he saw Kitty snare mouse after mouse in the barn. “She’s a real mouser, that one is,” he said, without taking a pause between mouths full of supper.

“Never saw anything like it, and

I’ve lived on this here farm forever ... but that Kitty sure can catch a mouse if one happens to cross her path. She is sure cutting down on the mouse population.”

Mother, with a fork half way to her mouth, asked Father if he was sure it was Kitty. He said he caught her in the act at least a dozen times.

It was probably more coincidence than anything else, but that night, at least three mice interrupted our card game at the kitchen table. By the time they were chased out into the woodshed, or knocked senseless with the broom, it was bedtime. The whole evening had been wasted battling the mice.

The very next morning, just before we headed for school, Mother said she thought it was time Kitty was brought into the house, where she’d be trained to sleep in a box beside the stove, eat in her own dish (heaven forbid that a cat would eat out of a bowl we used at the kitchen table), and if she was caught within a mile of one of our beds, she would be banished back out to the barn.

My sister Audrey said she was sure Kitty could read Mother’s mind. “Cats are pretty smart, you know,” she said, and who was as thrilled as I was that, finally, I could have one of my pets in the house.

No one knew what Kitty did with the mice she caught. Like a night burglar, most of her action was when we were in bed, but ever after, our house was free of mice.

And Mother, on occasion could be seen dropping a piece of salt pork, or a spoonful of gravy into Kitty’s dish in gratitude.

Finally, the mouse problem was under control. Sadly, nothing was discovered that could rid the house of the common housefly, which remained the bane of Mother’s existence all the time we lived on the farm in Renfrew County.

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Springtime is good for man OSU Force Academy Sends Four U15 and beast on the farm Boys to Canadian National ID Camp

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o the good news is the calf that was born just over a week ago is still with us. She actually does eat. She is very delicate and discreet and she just doesn’t like to eat while humans are watching.

For the first three days of her life we worried she wasn’t eating, because we never witnessed it. That feisty little calf fought us every time we tried to feed her a bottle.

She drooled out most of what the Farmer pushed into her mouth with a syringe and kicked her little hooves at us before rushing over to hide under her mother.

The calf was still kicking at nine days old, so her secret feedings were sustaining her. Thank goodness.

The Farmer let the cow and her calf out on Saturday because it was beautifully warm in the sun.

The cow couldn’t wait to get out of the horse stall where she had been in holding for the past weekand-a-half. She could smell spring through the door. Every time I went in to see her, she would press her nose up against the bars on the window as if to say she wanted to be set free. Of course, we couldn’t let her go until we were sure her calf was feeding.

Finally, she was released. Last year’s heifer calf was waiting for her outside the stable. She was still nursing occasionally from her pregnant mother, right up to the birth.

It’s something that I’m sure was a real drain on her resources. And I know exactly what that feels like because I went through the same thing when I was pregnant and still nursing a toddler.

Lucy shoved her yearling calf out of the way but there was no real need. The young heifer seemed to understand that she had lost her place at the udder. Lucy then led her little mini-me over to a dry, sunny spot and started her bath.

She had a lot of work to do after a week-and-a-half in the muddy, mucky horse stall. The three other

DIANA FISHER The Accidental Farmwife calves padded over to see what she was doing. The little bull calf tried to help wash the new baby with his tongue. Mama put her snout under his belly and lifted him off the ground, pushing him gently away.

He collected his hurt pride and returned to the kindergarten gathering of calves near the fence.

“Everyone was enjoying the first warm weekend of spring. The barn cats came out of the hay loft to stretch out and simultaneously scratch their backs on the warm, dry gravel of the driveway.”

I watched as Ginger, triple her usual size, waddled over to investigate the new calf. Lucy allowed her to sniff her newborn from head to toe. Then Ginger lifted her head, closed her eyes and breathed in the fresh, spring air. And then turned to go back to her favourite tree.

It took her a full minute to lower herself to the ground. She took a couple of different approaches before she finally opted for a full-on, ungraceful flop. Then she stretched flat out on the warm earth, and slept.

Everyone was enjoying the first warm weekend of spring. The barn cats came out of the hay loft

to stretch out and simultaneously scratch their backs on the warm, dry gravel of the driveway.

A romantic pair of robins hopped across the yard to check out the bird feeder on the side of the house. The chickadees screamed a proprietary warning.

Chelsea the sheepdog hopped up onto the fence of stones that had been collecting heat from the sun all day. She slept so soundly that she didn’t hear our dinner guests’ cars pulling up. She missed her cue to identify, announce and otherwise audibly protect the house.

As we sat in the dining porch eating our dinner, another expectant mama came out to warm herself in the sun. The groundhog who lives under the playhouse is very round and heavy now. I hope she relocates her little family before my garden starts growing, or my veggies will be in trouble.

After dinner, the younger generation walked off their meal with a leisurely stroll over the rocky field and past the stone fence to the meadow. The cows followed them, but they stuck to a diagonal path that had been beaten into the earth with their hooves.

The geese followed the line of the creek, looking for a place to rest at sunset. Their song provided the soundtrack for another perfect spring day on the farm.

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Highly Respected Goalkeeper Coach David Bellemare Joins The OSU Goalkeeper Academy.

Ottawa, ON (March 24th, 2016)OSU is very pleased to announce that David Bellemare will be joining our already impressive list of club goalkeeper coaches.

This announcement comes on the heels of securing Mike Toshack to lead up our Goalkeeper Academy. With Bellemare joining the program now, it shows a very serious intent on the part of the club to invest in the development of our club goalkeepers. Furthermore, this unprecedented cooperation between goalkeepers coaches in our region will help bring together the expertise we have, for the betterment of our players. Safe to say, this is very exciting news for OSU Soccer.

In bringing Coach Bellemare on board, OSU has secured one of the most highly respected goalkeeper coaches within North America. He is well known for his previous work within The Ottawa Fury organization, last working with their NASL professional goalkeepers. Bellemare has worked with Canadian National Team goalkeepers Taryn Swiatek, Leisha Alcia, Erin McNulty, Dayle Colpitts, Rachelle Beanlands, Audrey Bernier-Larose, Cynthia Leblanc, Chad Bush and Aidan Aylward.

He also works with The University of Ottawa Women’s Team and Louis Riel Sport Etude Program. In addition he has also served on an interim basis with CASL in North Carolina as their goalkeeping lead coach. CASL is well known to be one of the top organizations in The United States. David will be focusing on working with our Force Academy keepers as well as our OPDL and OYSL Goalkeepers.

On behalf of the entire club, we would like to welcome David to OSU. For more information, please visit: www.osu.ca About Ottawa South United Ottawa South United (OSU) is a soccer club based in Canada’s capital, Ottawa.

With some 6800 members, it is one of the largest, as well as most successful clubs in Ontario and Canada. Over 150 OSU Players have moved on to play university and college soccer both in the United States in Canada since 2003. In addition, multiple OSU players have moved on to professional clubs both in the MLS and Europe with many featuring for the Canadian national program.

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Chicken vegetable fried rice a great side dish Use cold rice as it is firmer and has less moisture than freshly cooked rice for a fried rice dish that is not mushy. Cook 1-1/2 cups (375 mL) raw rice to get 3 cups (750 mL) cooked.

Swap out the chicken for pork, beef or firm tofu.

Preparation Time: 15 min.

Cooking Time: about 16 min.

Serves: 4

• 1 onion, chopped • 1 carrot, diced • 1 sweet red pepper, chopped • 2 cups (500 mL) thinly sliced green cabbage • 3 cups (750 mL) cold cooked long grain rice • 1 cup (250 mL) frozen peas, thawed •1 tomato, chopped

Ingredients

In small bowl, whisk together oyster and soy sauce; set aside.

In wok or large skillet, heat 2 tsp (10 mL) of the oil over medium heat.

Pour in eggs and stir-fry until scrambled; transfer to plate.

Wipe out wok. Return wok to stove, increase heat to high. Add remaining oil and chicken; stir-fry for four to six minutes or until

• 1/4 cup (50 mL) oyster sauce • 2 tbsp (25 mL) sodiumreduced soy sauce • 4 tsp (20 mL) vegetable oil • 2 Ontario Eggs, lightly beaten • 8 oz (250 g) boneless skinless chicken breast, cut into pieces • 3 cloves garlic, minced

Preparation

no longer pink. Transfer to plate with eggs.

Reduce heat to mediumhigh. Add garlic, onion and carrot; stir-fry for two minutes.

Add red pepper and cabbage; stir-fry for two minutes.

Add rice and peas; stirfry for three minutes or until hot. Add reserved oyster sauce mixture, along with egg, chicken and tomato; toss to combine.

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One serving • Protein: 24 grams • Fat: 9 grams • Carbohydrate: 61 grams • Calories: 421 • Fibre: 5 grams • Sodium: 485 mg Foodland Ontario

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Upon completing a prepaid funeral arrangement with us, you will have the option of making a donation to any local parish or charity. If you choose to do so, Hulse, Playfair & McGarry will deduct the amount of your donation, up to $250, from the total cost of your prearrangement.

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Demonstrators bring ‘Black Lives Matter’ campaign to city hall Erin McCracken

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“Black lives matter” and “stop shooting us” came the chants.

More than a dozen young

people, most of them University of Ottawa students, converged on city hall, shouting their frustration over the unfair treatment of black people.

“People like to pretend like racism here isn’t a thing.

People like to pretend that black people and white people get along and everyone’s being treated equally,” said the group’s spokesperson, Centretown resident Vanessa Dorimain, who is black.

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Centretown resident Vanessa Dorimain, left, speaks into a megaphone as Somerset Coun. Catherine McKenney, centre, looks on. About a dozen demonstrators, many of them University of Ottawa students, chanted “black lives matter” and spoke out against racism during a protest at city hall on March 23.

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“But that’s not the case.

Our lives specifically are being targeted.”

Ottawa police officers, security personnel and eventually some city councillors watched as the students, many of them members of the Canadian Federation of Students, chanted into a megaphone and waved signs.

They shouted loudly but said they came in peace to call for change as well as to garner donations in support of the Toronto chapter of Black Lives Matter.

There is no Ottawa chapter at this time, but that could change given enough interest, said Dorimain, a social sciences major at the university.

Ottawa needs to have a voice in championing equal rights for black people,

she said.

“I feel like Ottawa, specifically, is very silent around issues with police brutality and things like that,” Dorimain said, adding that, in general, black people are being unfairly targeted by police and some officers are not being held accounted for their treatment of people of colour.

Ottawa has seen a recent spate of shootings, which have claimed the lives of a number of young black men. Dorimain said the significance of these tragedies have been overshadowed by a debate over whether there are enough guns and gangs officers to counteract gun violence.

“People recognize that we’re not all treated equally,” Coun. Catherine McKenney told reporters after speaking

with Dorimain. “We have to make sure that people who are more vulnerable in our society are recognized as such.

“While violence happens to everyone, it doesn’t happen equally.”

Here in Ottawa, there was universal disapproval when a Black Lives Matter mural in her ward was defaced last September.

“We got feedback from across the city from people who wanted to express it.

They were outraged with what happened,” McKenney said.

She was the only councillor to approach the group of protesters after the morning’s council meeting came to a close.

The students had hoped to gather statements from Mayor Jim Watson and his council colleagues in support of the advocacy work being done in Toronto.

Dorimain was surprised when she learned city staff had locked themselves and councillors inside council chambers during the council meeting when protestors entered city hall.

“That’s unbelievable,” she said. “That tells me that my body is automatically criminalized, that every time I walk in somewhere just talking about my life and how I want to be respected, I’m automatically seen as a criminal.”

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Police issue 79 provincial offence notices to distracted drivers in blitz Staff

Police in Ottawa and Gatineau issued 79 provincial offence notices to drivers using cell phones on March 22 as part of the Leave the Phone Alone distracted driving enforcement campaign.

The campaign saw officers in the two cities conduct city-wide blitzes that morning, targeting drivers using the handheld devices.

“With advance warning about (the) campaign, we were pleased to see that drivers heeded the warning to focus on their driving,” said Ottawa police Sgt. Denis Hull.

“These traffic initiatives serve as a reminder that distracted driving is dangerous every day and drivers should always make the choice to leave the phone alone.”

According to the Ottawa Police Service’s 2015 public survey, the top concern identified by residents on a city-wide

level was distracted driving, followed by speeding, street gangs, the presence of drugs and youth crime.

Distracted driving was also listed as the top concern on the neighbourhood level.

Following the campaign, police listed the roles that everyone can play to prevent texting or talking while driving, including: • Drivers can put their phones away while driving; • Passengers can remind drivers to focus on their driving if they reach for the phone; • Children can remind parents not to drive distracted; • Phone users can first ensure that the person they are calling or texting isn’t driving. If they are, tell them to wait until they can safely talk or text.

Anyone can take a pledge not to text and File drive at Leavethephone- Police are reminding motorists not to use cell phones while driving after a distracted driving blitz resulted in 79 provincial alone.ca. offence notices for drivers using the handheld devices on March 22.

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Council approves more supervised beach time Erin McCracken

erin.mccracken@metroland.com

Ottawa residents can look forward to a longer season of supervised swimming at four city beaches this summer.

City council voted March 23 to lengthen this year’s beach season by one week until the last Sunday in August before the Labour Day weekend – making it 72 days, up from 65 – in response to public demand to have beaches at Mooney’s Bay, Britannia, Petrie Island and Westboro supervised and maintained beyond last year’s midAugust closing date, which coincided with a heat wave.

Beach-goers can use the beaches throughout the warm months, but must do so at their own risk when they are not staffed.

“We heard from residents last summer that they wanted the beaches open longer,” said KnoxdaleMerivale Coun. Keith Egli, who moved the motion,

and which was seconded by Gloucester-Southgate Coun. Diane Deans.

More money

It will mean an additional operating cost of $31,000. This will be offset by savings with the temporary closure of the outdoor Crestview Pool in Nepean, which is being rebuilt this year.

“We heard from residents last summer that they wanted the beaches open longer.”

Knoxdale-Merivale Coun. Keith Egli

The pool facility is expected to be reopened in 2017.

“I believe councillors Egli and Deans have found an effective way of extending the beach season and keeping the budget in line, which is great,” Mayor Jim

Watson said during the city council meeting discussion.

This solution, which allows the season to be extended but within budget, was preferred over the alternative of shuffling around opening and closing dates for the city-owned beaches.

That would have resulted in some closing on different dates.

That would have created a lot of confusion for people, Egli said.

“There was also a level of unfairness in the sense that if you lived close to a particular beach you’d have access,” he told council.

“If you happened to live further away then you wouldn’t because your beach was closed.”

Additional funding to extend future beach seasons will be included in future draft budgets. In the case of the 2017 season, staff said they are confident additional dollars can be found in the parks and recreation File department’s operating This summer’s supervised beach season at four city beaches has been extended by one budget. week.

Pet Adoptions

Likos (iD #A186867)

Let’s Close the Species Gap! It’s no secret that animal welfare is a very different thing for dogs and cats. One of the most striking differences between dogs and cats in our community, and by extension, at the Ottawa Humane Society, is the numbers that enter our care with identification. While just 14 per cent of dogs admitted have either visible identification – a collar and tag – or permanent ID in the form of a microchip, only a sad one per cent of cats are so protected. This seriously inhibits our ability to return a cat to its home.

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Make fliers that include the lost date, description including any unique markings, a picture, and your phone number.

A reward motivates people!

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Make familiar sounds to attract your pet. Walk around your neighbourhood in the morning and evening calling your cat’s name.

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Put fliers up around your neighbourhood shops, veterinary clinics and anywhere else, including your old neighbourhood if you’ve recently moved.

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Place the kitty litter outside – while it may sound strange, this helps nervous or shy cats who may have bolted return to a site that “smells” familiar.

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Check with neighbours, mail courier, newspaper and other delivery people, local veterinary clinics etc.

Hi there, my name is Abby and I am an 8-year-old Shih-Poo who loves to go riding around the neighbourhood in the rear basket of my owner’s tricycle.

I am a sweet natured dog who loves people and snuggling. Playing ball, chasing squirrels and getting a tummy rub are a few of my favourite things.

I always greet visitors at the door with a toy so they can play with me.

More tips and information can be found in our website at www.ottawahumane.ca.

And please, let’s close the welfare gap between dogs and cats.

Always identify your cat!

Pet of the Week: Likos (ID #A186867) Meet Likos (ID #A186867), a sweet and loving girl looking for her purr-fect match.

Likos is a mature feline who enjoys the occasional play session.

What can you do? If you have brought a cat into your life, Her favourite pastime is curling up on the couch for some relaxing please outfit her with a collar and tag. Have her implanted with cuddles with her new family. permanent identification.

Likos would enjoy a quiet home. While she has lived with other If you lose your cat, don’t give up looking for him. We have reunited animals in the past, Likos would prefer to be the only pet in pets with their owners months after they became lost. Here are some the house, so she can focus all of her love and attention on her new best friend — you! tips from your friends at the OHS: For more information on Likos and all the adoptable animals, • Visit the Ottawa Humane Society as soon as possible. stop by the OHS at 245 West Hunt Club Rd Check out our website • View photos of most stray cats admitted to the OHS shelter at www.ottawahumane.ca to see photos and descriptions of the animals available for adoption. at www.ottawahumane.ca.

Please note: The Ottawa Humane Society has many other companion animals available for adoption. Featured animals are adopted quickly! To learn more about adopting an animal from the Ottawa Humane Society please contact us:

Website: www.ottawahumane.ca Email: Adoptions@ottawahumane.ca Telephone: (613) 725-3166 x258

Abby Do you think your pet is cute enough to be “THE PET OF THE WEEK”? Submit a picture and short biography of your pet to find out! Simply email to: dtherien@perfprint.ca attention “Pet of the Week”

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Local events and happenings over the coming weeks — free to non-profit organizations Fax: 613-224-3330, E-mail: manotick@metroland.com We welcome your event submissions. Please email event details to manotick@ metroland.com by Friday at noon.

April 7

The Ottawa Humane Society Auxiliary welcomes new members to help raise money to support the animals.

Join them at 1:30 p.m. at

the animal shelter, 245 West Hunt Club Rd behind Hunt Club Nissan.

Refreshments are served and all are welcome. For more information, call Linda 613823-6770 or go to facebook. com/OttawaHumaneSocietyAuxiliary.

April 8

The Rideau and District Old

Tyme Fiddlers Association invites you to its traditional old tyme fiddle and country music at the Alfred Taylor Centre, 2300 Community Way, North Gower from 7:30 to 11:30 p.m. We welcome all members, nonmembers and singers and musicians. For additional information call Irwin White 613-258-2258.

April 13

DEVELOPMENT APPLICATIONS / AMENDMENTS UNDER THE PLANNING ACT NOTICE OF AGRICULTURE AND RURAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE MEETING Tuesday, April 12, 2016 – 9 a.m.

The items listed below, in addition to any other items previously scheduled, will be considered at this meeting which will be held in the Champlain Room, City Hall, 110 Laurier Avenue West, Ottawa. To see any change to this meeting agenda, please go to Ottawa.ca.

Zoning – Part of 6069 Fourth Line Road 613-580-2424, ext. 24487 – Sarah.McCormick@ottawa.ca

An Introduction to Gouache will be held at the Ottawa Public Library, Manotick Branch (5499 South River Drive) on Wednesday afternoon 1:30 – 4:00 p.m.

Véronique Stéfanica will introduce participants to gouache paint, leading them through exercises on how to paint uniform backgrounds, gradations and “dark on light” painting.

While focusing on a round shape, participants will learn shading techniques, which they will use to produce a final painting. Registration online required at http:// biblioottawalibrary.ca under “Programs and Events”.

Call 613-692-3854 for more information.

Greely Gardeners Group monthly meeting, growing vegetables – Advice from a pro with Toronto

Come out for a great time and support your local charities.

Socialize with friends and play bingo for a chance to win up to $10,000 at any session.

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Mondays and Thursdays

The Gloucester South Seniors Chess Club, 4550 Bank St. (at Leitrim Road) meets every Monday and Thursday at 7 p.m., and there are immediate openings available for more chess aficionados.

Please contact Robert MacDougal at 613-821-1930 for more information.

Mondays

Play 4-Hand Euchre at Our Lady of the Visitation Parish Hall, 5338 Bank St. on Monday evenings from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. excluding holidays.

You do not need a partner.

Enjoy complimentary light refreshments. Admission is $5. For info, call 613-7697570.

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

Light refreshments served.

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Join Carole Gobeil for an exciting evening on adventure travel. Original, professional photography will help immerse you in this exciting, interactive adventure. Carole has been a travel consultant since 1975.

Registration online required at http://biblioottawalibrary. ca under “Programs and Events”. Call 613-692-3854 for more information.

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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.

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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.

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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.

Fridays

The Greely East Osgoode & District Association invites you to its Old Time Fiddle and Country Dance, Greely Community Centre, 1448 Meadow Dr. the first Friday of each month, 7:30 to 11 p.m.

We welcome all musicians and singers. Admission $5 for non-musicians, yearly membership available. For additional information, call 613-489-2697.

Ottawa Newcomers Club is designed to help women new to Ottawa or in a new life situation acclimatise by enjoying the company of other women with similar interests. We have morning, afternoon and evening events such as Bridge, Book Clubs, Gallery Tours, Walking groups, Fun Lunches, Movie and Theatre Group, Photography and Crafts.

For more information, contact our website www. ottawanewcomersclub.com or email Marilyn at newcomersclubottawa@gmail.com.

CLUES ACROSS 1. Engine additive 4. Recipe measurement (abbr.)

7. Tooth caregiver 10. Hawaiian dish 11. Retirement account 12. Basketball player Ming 13. Say suddenly 15. Carbon isotope ration (abbr.)

16. Frasier Crane’s brother 19. Framework over oil well 21. Edible mollusk 23. Handy 24. Japanese banjo 25. Microwave 26. Double-reed instrument 27. Covered

30. Leaseholders 34. Master of business 35. Herb 36. Blood clot 41. Route 45. Reach a higher position 46. American state 47. Erases 50. Expunge 53. Waits around idly 54. Came into 56. Nikolai __, Bolshevik theorist 57. 007’s creator 59. Dravidian language 60. Central nervous system 61. Male child 62. Born of 63. A period of history 64. A major division of geological time

65. Doctor of Education

weapon 29. Clutch CLUES DOWN 31. Seventh letter of the 1. Prods Greek alphabet 2. Tempest 32. Records electrical 3. Miserable activity 4. Excited 33. Car mechanics group 5. Temindung Airport 37. Speaking 6. Provides shade from 38. A formal permission the sun 39. Exploiter 7. Generators 40. Affixed 8. Newspapers 41. External genitals 9. Unaccompanied flights 42. Deity 13. Bahrain dinar 43. Eat these with soup 14. Romanian currency 44. Swerved 17. Between northeast 47. Connects two pipes and east 48. Challenger 18. London Southend 49. Ranch (Spanish) Airport 51. Righted 20. Cucumber 52. Fatty-fleshed fish 22. Lovable pig 55. Prosecutes alleged 27. Woman (French) criminals 28. Defensive nuclear 58. Swiss river

This week’s puzzle answers in next week’s issue

ARIES – Mar 21/Apr 20 Aries, you are ready to get moving and have a lot of momentum behind you. This is an ideal time to reach your goals. Don’t let your confidence waver.

TAURUS – Apr 21/May 21 Taurus, this week it is better to trust your heart instead of your head.

Sometimes you have to let your emotions guide your actions, and your gut could be telling you something.

GEMINI – May 22/Jun 21 Gemini, you have good news to share and you are eager to reconnect with some friends or coworkers. Just complete prior commitments before you begin making plans to socialize.

CANCER – Jun 22/Jul 22 Cancer, things in your life seem to be growing more challenging by the day. Make a list and tackle things as they come up so you don’t start to feel overwhelmed.

LEO – Jul 23/Aug 23 A few possibilities intrigue you, Leo, but you don’t yet know just where Here’s How It Works: you are going to direct your creative energy. Think it through a little longer.

Sudoku puzzles are formatted as a 9x9 grid, broken down into nine 3x3 boxes. To solve a sudoku, the VIRGO – Aug 24/Sept 22 numbers 1 through 9 must fill each row, column and box. Each number can appear only once in each Virgo, you may feel like you can ignore your responsibilities this week, but row, column and box. You can figure out the order in which the numbers will appear by using the numeric you cannot. Although you have plenty of free time coming up, you have clues already provided in the boxes. The more numbers you name, the easier it gets to solve the puzzle! lots to do before then.

LIBRA – Sept 23/Oct 23 Libra, someone close to you isn’t on board with your point of view. You can’t please everyone all of the time. Stay the course if you feel it is right.

SCORPIO – Oct 24/Nov 22 Scorpio, something is on your mind you need to share your feelings. Resist the urge to hold your tongue. Honesty is the best policy in your book.

SAGITTARIUS – Nov 23/Dec 21 Sagittarius, you are having a lot of fun now that you made it through a rather extensive to-do list. You can finally rest and breathe a little easier.

Make some time for yourself.

CAPRICORN – Dec 22/Jan 20 Capricorn, a busy schedule is proving problematic because so many people are demanding some face time and you want to help them all.

However, you will have to pick and choose.

AQUARIUS – Jan 21/Feb 18 Your amicable nature and willingness to let go of your own personal agenda makes it relatively easy for you to interact with a lot of people this week, Aquarius.

PISCES – Feb 19/Mar 20 Pisces, think of ways to increase your income this week. Explore all of your options, even if they mean going out of your comfort zone.

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