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Speeders ticketed on Bridge Street Kelly McCarthy kmccarthy@metroland.com

Speeders, watch out!

The Manotick Village Community Association (MVCA), reported in their weekly newsletter on Aug. 22 that at least one driver has been issued a doublefine ticket for speeding along Bridge Street the town’s core.

The portion of Bridge

Street in Manotick between River Road and Manotick Main Street is a designated Community Safety Zone and has a set speed limit of 40 kilometres per hour.

Const. Marc Soucy of the Ottawa Police confirmed that officers can issue double-fine tickets in those areas, as well as in school zones and construction zones.

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Competition brings out the best in everyone Nepean-Carleton MPP Lisa MacLeod was delighted to pilot the only blue tractor during the VIP competition at the opening ceremonies of the Canadian Plowing Championship on Aug. 24 at the Anderson Links Golf Course, as she competed against other city representatives. She placed second to Osgoode Coun. George Darouze.

Taste of Manotick Huge crowds flocked Manotick Main Street and the Manotick Mews for the annual Taste of Manotick event on Saturday, Aug. 20.

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In a bid to extend Metroland Media’s reach for its readers and advertisers, the Manotick News will merge with the Ottawa South News starting with the Thursday, Sept. 15 edition.

The new Ottawa South News will be distributed to Greely, Metcalfe, Osgoode and Manotick, growing its reach to more than 50,000 homes each week.

“This is a natural development for Ottawa South as the city continues to expand,” says Peter Bishop, Metroland Vice-President and Regional Publisher.

“Coverage of community news and events will continue to be featured for

Manotick and surrounding areas as well as from across the city. And advertisers will be able to reach an extended audience in the city’s south end from a single source.”

The newspaper will continue to operate out of the Metroland East office at Unit 4, 80 Colonnade Road.

The expansion also marks the return of former Manotick News reporter Brian Dryden, now as the Ottawa South News Editor.

Contacting the paper via email, whether submitting an advertisement, community event, letter to the editor, photo or press release, does not change. The list is as follows: • General Manager Mike

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Double-fine ticket issued in community safety zone: MVCA Continued from front page

The MVCA newsletter stated that on Monday, Aug. 15, police issued six tickets to speeders – including the double-fine ticket to “an impatient driver who illegally passed another vehicle” who was adhering to the posted speed limit.

While Soucy could not confirm the number of tickets issued in Manotick that day, he did say that the police presence could have been in response to a complaint-driven hotspot. Police keep track of

speeding complaints received in a certain area, he said, and will regularly enforce problem areas.

Speeding has been an issue for residents in Manotick and its surrounding areas for years. The MVCA has long supported a campaign urging motorists to “Keep it to 40” in the village, especially in Community Safety Zones such as the one along Bridge Street.

The Village of Manotick has two additional Community Safety Zones, the MVCA newsletter states: one on Long

Island Road and another at St. Leonard School.

“The MVCA thanks the many residents who have embraced the Manotick Community ‘Keep it to 40 km/h’ road safety program to watch out for pedestrians and cyclists in Manotick and safely share the road with them,” the newsletter continues.

Soucy said that it is up to an officer to judge the situation and gauge whether or not a double-fine is warranted in community safety, school or construction zones.

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The Manotick Village Community Assoication has reported that six speeders were ticketed for exceeding the 40 km/h limit within the Bridge Street Community Safety Zone on Monday, Aug. 15 - including one who was issued a double-fine ticket.

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All welcome at annual ROSSS Walk of Care Fundraiser to benefit adult day programs Kelly McCarthy kmccarthy@metroland.com

Rural Ottawa South Support Service (ROSSS) last year supported 3,722 clients, delivered 7,385 Meals on Wheels and provided 3,291 hours of respite care – and now, they’re looking for the community’s support.

The fifth annual Walk of Care, benefitting ROSSS, is scheduled to take place on Saturday, Sept. 10 on the Osgoode multiuse pathway at the Osgoode Youth Association (O-YA) at 5479 Osgoode Main St. The walk raises funds to support ROSSS’s adult day programs, which provides

stimulating activities for clients and lightens the load for caregivers.

“Our goal is to revive engaging activities for our clients,” said Courtney Rock, community outreach, volunteer and development manager with ROSSS. Two days a week, ROSSS hosts an adult day program consisting of various activities. Some days, clients will participate in the Music & Memory program. Music & Memory is a not-for-profit organization that trains caregivers to curate personalized playlists for their clients on iPods. Staff gather the favourite songs of participants and play them during the session.

“You really see our clients transform when they hear these songs,” Rock said.

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Cy Leman (left) and Earl Windsor, volunteers at the Rural Ottawa South Support Service Walk of Care, were soaked with rain at last year’s event. This year’s fifth annual event on Sept. 10 hopes both to raise $5,000 to support ROSSS’s adult day program and for better weather.

“Music has such a strong connection with memory.”

Other days they’ll do

what’s called “armchair travel”, where clients experience slideshows or presentations

about exotic places like England, Ireland or Africa.

Some days are more simple, doing arts and crafts, baking cookies or other engaging activities.

ROSSS supported more than 891 attendances at their adult day programs last year, but Rock said they’re hoping to expand the service going forward.

Rock said that ROSSS would like to expand the program from two days a week to three days a week, and would like to increase participation across their catchment area.

This year, ROSSS is hoping to break their $5,000 fundraising goal at the Walk of Care.

Previous years have generated between $4,000 and $5,000 – but with the hopes of program expansion, Rock said they’d like to exceed those expectations this time around.

The walk begins at 10 a.m. on Sept. 10 on the multiuse pathway. Day-of registration begins at 9 a.m., at a cost of $15, but it can also be done in advance online at www.walkofcare.ca. Participants are encouraged to collect pledges for their 5K walk, which is open to all ages.

The benefit of using the multiuse pathway is that it is fully accessible, Rock said, so strollers and wheelchairs are welcome. Leashed dogs are also welcome, Rock said.

“It’s also a lovely, picturesque walk,” she added.

Rock also mentioned that participants don’t have to complete the full 5K if they are unable to. “Do what you can,” she said.

Afterwards, there will be snacks and refreshments at O-YA. For more information, or to register, visit www.walkofcare.ca.

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I must say that the Councillor Day at the Capital Fair was an amazing experience! It was the first time that the Fair had tried this and I was quite happy to be a part of it. For the first hour on Opening Day, the free Midway rides and the amount of people that stopped to say “thank you” was heart warming! The Hydro Petition was at my booth and now has even more signatures!

Later on that day, I participated in a food demo by Orchard View where the audience was able to sample the food immediately following the show. This allowed me to interact with so many new people, as well as countless familiar ones. I met and learned much about a famous clown by the name of DooDoo The Clown. He has a fascinating story of bravery that hit the media last November when he and his clown friends helped rescue a woman that was being assaulted on a sidewalk as they drove by. Way to go DooDoo! The early evening was the official opening of the Fair followed by a beautiful reception.

A well-deserved thank you goes out all the volunteers and staff that work tirelessly to put on this great Fair. Many thanks go out to Orchard View for participating in the food demo and to Capital Fair General Manager, Harley Bloom, for inviting us to participate this new idea of “Councillor’s Day”.

OWBA has made quite the splash this week with their booth at the Capital Fair and then again at the Ottawa Champions game. It is great to see the interaction they are having with the general public and promoting Osgoode Ward Businesses. Keep up the great work OWBA and thank you to all the volunteers that donate their time to be at these events!

Osgoode Ward night at the Ottawa Champions game was well represented by many residents from our Ward; not only in the stands, but also by displaying a few of the hidden gems that Osgoode Ward has to offer to the public! The ITR theatre company performed a one-hour short play in the family bbq area of the Stadium, to a captured audience who were enjoying a bite to eat before the game. The Bytown Ukulele Group was well received and given compliments by so many people as a unique group of musicians with an array of songs. This large group of 30 people were performing just outside the concourse as people filed in for the game and they too had a captured audience that stood around to hear them. Other participants included, IceFire Foods from Osgoode and again, we saw OWBA there too.

I learned quickly how to pitch, with the expert help of the Pitching coach from the Ottawa Champions. He is a great teacher, because not only did throw make it across home plate, it also was at the right height to hit!

David Gourlay, President of the Ottawa Champions, presented me with my own official Ottawa Champions #20 Darouze jersey and the game ball. What a great night to play ball with the perfect weather and a great crowd! Thank you to Davyd Balloch, Assistant General Manger, for working closely with my office staff to make this evening a great success and thanks to all the businesses and individuals that bought tickets to either join us or donate to groups for the game. It shows great community spirit once again!

The Canadian Plowing Championships are in progress this week, until August 27th. This huge national event is where the two winners will go on to represent Canada, next year at the International Plowing Championships in Kenya. The Ottawa Carleton Plowman Association is the host of the Canadian Plowing Championships and this year, the Patterson family is hosting it at their Anderson Links Golf Club in Carlsbad Springs.

This is a tremendous undertaking by Gib & Elsie Patterson, their family and countless volunteers that have been planning this for the last year. The evening welcome reception, held on Tuesday at Anderson Links Golf Club, brought together the competitors from all across Canada, where they were able to “meet and greet” and enjoy a great buffet. I was honoured to be introduced as the City Councillor that sat on the planning board and a supporter of rural events that highlight what the community can offer. After a few short speeches, the evening carried on.

Early the next morning, the VIP plowing competition began that included MP Pierre Poilievre, MPP Lisa MacLeod, Mayor Jim Watson, and several City Councillors. I am happy to say that the Mayor was able to ride the plow without incident; I’m even happier to announce I managed to take first place over him this year! MPP Lisa MacLeod came in second place. It was truly an intense time to make sure that my plow lines were solid and straight, but it happened! Great instructions from my plow trainer also helped I’m sure!

I am looking forward to the rest of the week and all fun the activities with the CPC. I love that O-YA has come up with the Annual Councillor’s Challenge event to help challenge youth in the leadership group and really engage them in an activity that requires group brainstorming! This year, the challenge that I presented to them was to come up with events for 2017 that will encompass O-YA and ROSSS and put them on the map for the rural part of 2017.

It was quite exciting as we had Mayor Jim Watson and Councillor Jean Cloutier also speaking about leadership qualities and Ottawa 2017 events. The short video presentation that Councillor Cloutier had really got them excited to get started on this challenge. We will check back with them in a few weeks and see what they have prepared.

The Osgoode branch of the Ottawa Public Library had their End of Summer Party to conclude this year’s TD Summer Reading Club. The age group ranged from 4-12 years of age and included a magic show, crafts and a cake. What a fun way to end a beautiful summer! Thank you for including me in your party.

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In September 2008, the City of Ottawa completed the Riverside South Community Master Drainage Plan Update (MDPU) and Riverside South Community Infrastructure Servicing Study Update (ISSU) in support of the Riverside South Community Design Plan (CDP). The study was part of a Schedule B Class Environmental Assessment (EA) to review infrastructure servicing alternatives for the Riverside South Community area of Ottawa. The final MDPU identified the preferred stormwater management alternative.

In October 2012, the City of Ottawa released revised sewer design guidelines with new criteria for stormwater management and storm sewer design. In addition, changes to the City of Ottawa Official Plan are promoting increased density of development and significant land use changes.

An update to the CDP was initiated in 2014 and finalized in 2016 to reflect land use, density, and transportation changes.

To supplement the CDP, an update to the MDPU was completed to review the overall drainage plan for the study area that integrates with and enhances the natural environment of the study area. The update was divided into two study areas based on the receiving watercourse; directly to the Rideau River or to Mosquito Creek via proposed stormwater management facilities. This notice pertains to the MDPU Report for areas draining to the Rideau River “Rideau River Study Area” which presents an update to the existing natural environment of the study area as well as recommends a preferred stormwater management strategy for the proposed Riverside South Community.

By this Notice, the 2016 MDPU is being placed on the public record in accordance with the requirements of the Municipal Engineers Association Municipal Class Environmental Assessment (2000, as amended 2007, 2011 and 2015). Please note that only the changes proposed in the MDPU are open for review.

Copies of the Riverside South Community Master Drainage Plan Update for the Rideau River Study Area are now available for reviewing at the following locations: Ben Franklin Place Client Service Centre 101 Centrepoint Drive Ottawa, ON K2G 5K7 Tel: 613-580-2400 City Hall Client Service Centre 110 Laurier Avenue West Ottawa, ON K1P 1J1 Tel: 613-580-2400 Ottawa Public Library – Ruth E. Dickinson Branch 100 Malvern Drive Ottawa, ON K2J 2G5 Tel: 613-580-2796 For further information on this project or to provide written comments, please contact the either of the representatives below: John Sevigny, C.E.T. Senior Project Manager - Infrastructure Approvals Development Review City of Ottawa 110 Laurier Avenue West, 4th Floor Ottawa, ON K1P 1J1 Tel: 613-580-2424, ext. 14388 Email: john.sevigny@ottawa.ca

Matthew A. Ford, P.Eng. Water Resource Project Engineer Stantec Consulting Ltd. 400 - 1331 Clyde Avenue Ottawa, ON K2C 3G4 Tel: 613-724-4363 Email: matt.ford@stantec.com

If concerns arise regarding this project, which cannot be resolved in discussion with the municipality, a person or party may request that the Minister of Environment make an order for the project to comply with Part II of the Environmental Assessment Act (referred to as a Part II Order), which addresses individual environment assessments. Requests must be received by the Minister at the address below within 30 calendar days of the first publication of this Notice. A copy of the request must also be sent to the City at the address below. If there is no request received by October 1st, 2016 the project will proceed to detailed design and construction as presented in the planning documentation.

Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change Operations Division Environmental Assessment and Approvals Branch 135 St. Clair Avenue West, 1st Floor Toronto, ON M4V 1P5 This Notice issued September 1, 2016.

Information will be collected in accordance with Ontario’s Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act. With the exception of personal information, all comments will become part of the public record.

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City and police agree to keep public in the dark It’s funny how those whose paycheques are paid for by the public hate it when the public gets a glimpse into the inner workers of their operations.

How else can residents of Ottawa take the comments that have been coming from the mayor and the police chief when it comes to the internal strife going on within this city’s police force.

On Aug. 25, just a day after a protest in front of police headquarters demanding justice in the case of Abdirahman Abdi, a Somali man who died after a confrontation with police in the city, the mayor, police chief, police union head and police board chair gathered in private to clear the air over what appears to be ongoing dissension within police ranks.

After that closed door meeting, the mayor emerged to concede the meeting wasn’t a “love-in”, but said they all agreed to work together to solve any issues within the force.

But, and this is the key for those in the public, they will do this working together like they held their meeting, behind closed doors and out of public view. “Our members have a very difficult job to do out there. It’s been compounded by some of the very public discussion that has been taking place within the media,” said Ottawa Police Chief Charles

Bordeleau. “We all agree that these conversations have no place in the public forum.”

Good to know that they all agree that the city’s police force’s internal issues are nobody’s business but theirs.

The internal discord came to light last March, when Const. Paul Heffler sent a letter to his colleagues criticizing senior staff for treating rank-andfile officers like “dime store security guards.”

Since then, Ottawa Police Association president Matt Skof has been publicly vocal about several police board decisions, including a plan to fold community officers into a patrol unit. He has even called for the police board’s chair to resign. And that prompted Watson to say that any cops that are unhappy with their jobs should quit.

There’s no doubt residents would like to know issues causing internal strife within their police department are addressed.

Unfortunately, residents of the city will now have to sit back and wait for the mayor, police chief, police association and police board chair to deem them worthy of knowing what is going on once they have decided what is appropriate to let their bosses — the public — know.

New pedestrian bridge might be good solution

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t first glance, you might be a bit disappointed that some of the big federal transportation money announced for Ottawa last week was for a pedestrian bridge.

There was money for trains, buses, design, transit structures, and so on.

But how does a pedestrian bridge help ease our congestion woes, you might ask.

Well, it makes big sense the more you think about it. The more people walk, the fewer people drive and this bridge — over the Rideau Canal linking Fifth and Clegg avenues — will get more people walking to a venue where traffic is always an issue, Lansdowne Park.

The Corktown Footbridge linking the University of Ottawa and Centretown has made life more convenient for residents of both

CHARLES GORDON Funny Town areas. You can tell by how many people are using it, at all hours of the day.

We have also seen, in the Adàwe Crossing over the Rideau River between Sandy Hill and Overbrook, how positive it can be to give people the opportunity to get from one neighbourhood to another without having to get in a car. A pedestrian bridge to Lansdowne could enliven the place, which often seems woefully underpopulated in the days between major sports or entertainment events.

Supporters of Lansdowne insist

that parking is not a problem there, that ample on-site parking exists, but the relevant fact is that people think parking is a problem and that keeps some of them away.

Many of them will be happy to walk to Lansdowne, if given the opportunity.

A new bridge has the additional benefit of bringing people from one neighbourhood into another that they don’t normally walk to.

Who knows what can result from that, bringing Glebeites into touch with folks from Ottawa East?

Certainly nothing bad.

In a more general sense, footbridges turn cities in a more liveable direction. In any city, and certainly in ours, the best neighbourhoods are those where people can get what they need, do what they want to do, on foot or with a bicycle.

Although everybody seems to

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understand this, in the abstract, we have somehow been moving in the wrong direction for years, putting up residential developments with no stores nearby, building huge superstores great distances away from the people who use them, allowing small neighbourhood stores to be driven out of business by overpowering competitors, not to mention high rents and increasing property taxes.

Those neighbourhood stores have a better chance of surviving if people are nearby and able to get to them easily. Widening the Queensway does nothing for this.

The next few years will see major changes in the way people get around, with light rail causing shifts in where people choose to live and how they choose to get from here to there. Or at least that’s the hope.

When you consider all those changes, adding one more footbridge is not a dramatic initiative, to be sure. But dramatic steps have not been getting us anywhere.

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Maybe small steps are worth a try.

Look at how significant the small undertaking of creating downtown bike lanes has been.

If cities are to survive and thrive past the age of vehicular strangulation, there have to be more people on foot.

So any money devoted to this most ancient form of transportation is money well spent.

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Test your luck at Guide Dogs Motorcycle Ride Kelly McCarthy kmccarthy@metroland.com

Canadian Guide Dogs for the Blind is inviting motorcyclists to test their luck and enjoy a day of cruising for their Guide Dog Motorcycle Ride on Sunday, Sept. 11.

The 28th annual event, organized in conjunction with the Ottawa River Riders and the Canadian Motorcycle Cruisers, is a 200-kilometre ride to Iroquois, Ont. that raises funds for Canadian Guide Dogs for the Blind. Each year, around 150 riders generate between $2,000 and $3,000 for the organization.

“It’s a well attended event that is always popular with riders,” said Steven Doucette, event and guider co-ordinator with Canadian Guide Dogs.

To add another layer of fun to the event, riders can participate in a dice-run component, where riders are encouraged to roll dice at rest stops along the route and keep track of their scores. Prizes will be awarded in categories such as highest roll and lowest roll at the barbecue later in the day.

Doucette said that the event is an “all-brands” ride, open to motorcycle enthusiasts of all makes, models and abilities; there’s no need to be affiliated with a club, either.

Riders from the Ottawa River Riders, a local motorcycle club, have been assisting with the planning and execution of the Guide Dog Motorcycle Ride for the last

19 years as a way to give back to their community.

“We took it over from another club in 1998,” said Shayne Wood, a member of the Ottawa River Riders who has held the position of president and vice president in the past.

Last year, the Ottawa River Riders were joined by the Canadian Motorcycle Cruisers – a club of more than 250 members – who also wanted an outlet to help out their community.

“We’re good, social people who want to do something good and fun,” said Eric Poulin, a road captain with the CMC. The Guide Dogs Motorcycle Ride is open to everyone, and the $20 registration fee includes the 200-km ride, a barbecue, prizes and a tour of the guide dog kennels.

“Even if you don’t ride, come out for the barbecue,” Poulin said.

Registration for the event is done on-site at the Canadian Guide Dogs facility between 9 and 10 a.m. The cost is $20 per person, and the ride begins immediately afterwards.

Canadian Guide Dogs for the Blind has provided more than 790 professionally trained guide dogs to Canadians since it was established in 1984. Doucette said events like the ride are important sources of income for the organization and every penny helps train dogs for people in need.

For more information on the Guide Dog Motorcycle Ride, visit www.guidedogs.ca.

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The 28th annual Guide Dogs Motorcycle Ride is open to all riders on Sunday, Sept. 11.The ride includes a dice run component, where participants roll dice at rest stops for the chance to win prizes.

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Acting Aladdin Participants in the Osgoode Township Museum’s summer drama camp this season spent two weeks bringing to life the classic Disney tale of Aladdin. Front row, from left: Melanie Reinhardt, Jane Hayes, Zoey Boszormeny. Back row, from left: Spencer Tripp, Angie Robinson, Justin Robinson.

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An Environmental Study Report (ESR) has been prepared to document the planning and design process and the recommended plan for widening of the corridors. The ESR is available for public review at the following locations during regular business hours for a period of 30 calendar days, starting on September 9, 2016.

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The Part II Order request must be received by the Minister of the Environment and Climate Change during the 30 day review period and a copy of the request should be forwarded to the City of Ottawa. If there are no requests received by October 11, 2016, the project will be considered to have met the requirements of the Municipal Class EA, and the project may proceed to design and construction as presented in the ESR. Minister of the Environment and Climate Change, Ontario The Honourable Glen R. Murray 77 Wellesley Street West, 11th Floor, Ferguson Block, Toronto, ON M7A 2T5 With the exception of personal information, all comments will become part of the public record.

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Unhealthy behaviours cut six years from Canadians’ lifespans, study reveals Erin McCracken erin.mccracken@metroland.com

Snuff out that cigarette, lace up your sneakers and start snacking on some veggies.

Unhealthy behaviours related to smoking, diet, physical inactivity and alcohol are shaving six years from the lives of Canadians, and causing about half of all deaths here.

“If no Canadians smoked and we all did our 150 minutes of physical activity a week, the Canadian life expectancy would be six years longer,” Dr. Doug Manuel, an Ottawa family doctor, public health researcher and lead author of a study published Aug. 16 in the medical journal PLOS Medicine.

Those six years came as a surprise to Manuel.

“I’m always expecting it to be lower,” he said. “I’m always taken aback by the magnitude – how important health behaviours are or how healthy living is important to your health.

“It’s huge,” he said. “Fifty per cent of deaths we attribute to unhealthy living.”

The survey revealed that: • 26 per cent of deaths were caused by smoking, • 24 per cent of deaths can be blamed on physical inactivity, • 12 per cent of deaths were caused by poor diet, • 0.4 per cent of deaths were due to unhealthy alcohol consumption.

“We’re not surprised that smoking is number one,” Manuel said, though added that smoking rates in Canada are improving. “But we are surprised that physical activity and diet is quickly approaching what smoking is.”

Top risk factors were also broken down by gender. Smoking shaved 3.1 years from the lives of Canadian men, while women lost three years due to physical inactivity.

SOME GOOD NEWS

The decline in smoking rates has made a big difference in the health of Canadians, and diet and physical activity rates are improving.

There are also modest improvements in our fruit and vegetable intake. Trans fats have also declined within the food industry, which is helping.

“I’m saying there is optimism,” Manuel said.

And the eight-person research team discovered that people who followed recommended healthy

behaviours lived 17.9 years longer than those who didn’t.

CRUNCHING THE NUMBERS

ing or other things.”

The hope is also that this will draw Canadians into the health discussion.

HOW HEALTHY ARE YOU?

The public can also determine their estimated life expectancy by answering questions about their health behaviours at www.projectbiglife.ca, an updated lifespan calculator first developed by the research team during an earlier study focusing on the health behaviours of Ontarians.

The survey demonstrates that if changes are made, years could be added to their lives.

The team has already been working on another study to compare Canada internationally, including the U.S. Other risk factors, like cholesterol, have been added to that survey.

Those findings are expected in six months to a year.

The results of the study, which reflect 98 per cent of Canadians, are not only eye-opening, but also ground breaking in the way scientific researchers crunched the data.

“If no Canadians smoked and we all did our 150 minutes of physical activity a week, the Canadian life expectancy would be six years longer” DR. DOUG MANUEL

“What we presented to that journal is saying this is a new way of estimating the burden from smoking and these other health behaviours compared to what (the World Health Organization) and others have been doing for quite a while,” said Manuel, who is also a senior scientist at the Ottawa Hospital, a senior medical adviser at Statistics Canada, a professor at the University of Ottawa and a lead public health researcher at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, which funded the study with Ontario’s Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care.

Processing the enormous amount of survey information was not easy. The team developed statistical models to look at the health factors, and created a predictive algorithm – a formula known as the MPoRT Mortality Population Risk Tool – to predict death based on the responses to the Canadian Community Health Survey, which asked about Canadians’ health behaviours.

The researchers followed up to find out whether participants had died and the contributing causes of death.

New computer programs had to be developed to execute the algorithm, which is being made available to other countries for their own studies.

It’s hoped the Canadian study’s results and methods will help direct change in this country.

“For us as scientists, it’s providing the tools for those ‘what ifs’ for the policy folks to be able to evaluate or test out different policies,” said Manuel. “There’s not a lot of estimates, believe it or not, when we’re developing policies for smokManotick News - Thursday, September 1, 2016

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Goldie Ghamari visits voters in Kars Joseph Morin joe.morin@metroland.com

It’s true that the only constant seems to be change.

On Oct. 4, 2018 there will be a provincial election in Ontario. In this part of Ontario there will be a riding change which will make the election more interesting than in the past.

The Nepean-Carleton riding, now represented by Conservative Lisa MacLeod, will be split in two creating two new ridings, one called Nepean and the other Carleton. Carleton is decidedly more rural than Nepean.

Lisa Macleod has committed to run in the Nepean riding leaving the Carleton riding open for new faces.

Former Ottawa councillor Doug Thompson has already thrown his hat into the ring for 2018 and area voters have been voting for Thompson for years either as an Ottawa councillor or as the former Osgoode Township’s mayor. A new face on the political scene is Golsa Ghamari. She has adopted the Goldie as her nickname.

She lives in the Strandherd Bridge area almost in the middle

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Goldie Ghamari is seeking the Conservative nomination to be the Conservative candidate in the 2018 provincial election. She wants to represent voters in the new riding called Carleton formaly called Nepean-Carleton. She held a meeting in Kars on Aug. 11 to introduce herself. Here she poses with Georgina and Bill Tupper from North Gower. of the new riding. She has a degree in political science and in law. She started up her own law practice after graduating from Ottawa University.

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gation disputes involving interpreting domestic commercial projects, shareholder disputes, international sales contracts just to name a few people and business based subjects.

Before running in the election, Ghamari has to first be nominated

to run by the Conservative riding association who will pick a candidate in 2017.

Ghamari held a meet and greet meeting in Kars on August 11 at the Kars Recreation Community Association Hall.

“It went really well,” said Ghamari who is dipping her toes in political waters for the first time.

As a young adult she was involved in volunteering and doing community service. Her education has paralleled her desire to help people. “Volunteering has been a family tradition,” she said. “That is something that has been instilled in me since I was 13 by my parents.”

Ghamari came to where she is now, seeking the nomination for the Conservative spot in Carleton by a circuitous route.

“I had originally wanted to go into medicine, but as it turned out I had a phobia over needles,” she said When asked what she wanted to do with her life she realised the answer was to be able to help people.

In the end that was led her to a political science degree and then a career in law.

“Law school was my next move,” she said. “I would still be able to help people but in a different way.”

As she progressed through her studies and began to actually work with people over their legal issues

she realised that sometimes people find themselves up against unfair laws and situations.

She realised that being more political might be the way to help more people.

“My parents immigrated to Canada with just two suitcases and $50,” she said. “My grandparents were illiterate.”

Ghamari believes in second chances and respecting people. “I believe in small government and a free market economy.”

She says the kind of decisions the province has been making make no sense. “You have to look at the future and you have to be proactive about it.

We have to take the province to the next level.”

She feels Ontario is at the beginning of a great technical revolution and issues to be looked at in the future are Ontario’s aging infrastructure and healthcare.

Ghamari is enjoying a great deal of support in her bid to take the nomination. One of her supporters former MP Bill Tupper feels that she is a credible candidate.

“She is a unique candidate with a law degree and a degree in political science, with her own business and is tri-lingual,” said Tupper.

“Tupper believes that Ghamari has the kind of skillset that any political party would be looking for.

Protest for marks one month since Abdi’s death Protesters demand justice for Abdirahman Abdi at rally at police headquarters Melissa Murray mmurray@metroland.com

A rally outside police headquarters, marking one-month since the death of Abdirahman Abdi who died following a confrontation with police, began with chants of “fight for freedom” and “black lives matter.”

“One of us could be next,” said Mikayla Vattiata, a member of the Ottawa Black Diaspora Coalition to a crowd of about 200 people. Some of those in attendance were holding signs demanding "Justice for Abdirahman Abdi", others with signs alleging the Ottawa Hospital was negligent in its handling of Abdi upon arrival at the hospital and another saying “murder covered up here.”

Abdi, a 37-year-old Somali-Canadian man, died after a confrontation with police outside his home on 55 Hilda St. in Hintonburg on July 24. Police were called to a nearby coffee shop following reports of “assaultive” behaviour. The provincial Special Investigations Unit is now investigating the circumstances surrounding Abdi’s death.

Coalition member Leila Moumouni-Tchouassi said the rally was a way of re-

membering Abdi.

“We’re celebrating the life of someone they have taken from us and are actively trying to erase,” she said of Abdi’s death. “No matter how much they spin the story, no one deserves to be treated this way.”

She outlined the demands the group is making which include: • Charges laid against the two officers at the centre of the SIU’s investigation • Public release of the full SIU report • Collection and release of all race-based data by the SIU • Ontario’s attorney general to enact recommendations of the Iacobucci Report on Police Encounters with People in Crisis across the province

“We are outraged and ready to resist.

His name is not forgotten today, not ever. We demand justice now.”

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• Ontario’s attorney general to undertake a similar expanded investigation into police encounters with people living with disabilities,

end any practices in which there is collaboration with police or the Special Investigations Unit to withhold information from the families/next of kin and the public • Counselling and support services for family and members of the community that witnessed Abdi’s death Vanessa Doriman, also a member of the coalition, said she refuses to let

Abdi’s name be forgotten.

“We are outraged and ready to resist. His name is not forgotten today, not ever. We demand justice now.”

The SIU released a statement on the protests, which were held in communities across Canada, including Toronto, Kitchener, Winnipeg, Edmonton, Vancouver and Hamilton. The Toronto protest was held outside SIU headquarters in Mississauga.

In the statement, the SIU says it respects the right of

Canadians to “protest and express their opinions in a peaceful manner.”

The statement also acknowledges that the Black Lives Matter organization has made several demands related to the civilian oversight body and outlines how the body is governed.

It notes the Ontario government has appointed an Ontario Court of Appeal judge to lead an independent review of the SIU and two other agencies that oversee police conduct in the province.

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A protester lifts his sign asking for Justice for Abdirahman Abdi, a 37-year-old man who died following a confrontation with police on July 24, during a rally outside police headquarters on Elgin Street. August 24, 2016. including autism and other cognitive disabilities • Ministry of Health and Long-term Care to investigate the extent to which paramedics and the Ottawa Hospital allegedly colluded with police to withhold information about Abdi’s death • Physicians who allegedly authorized the withholding of information about Abdi be stripped of their medical licence • The Ottawa Hospital

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Win the gift of flight with Canadian Guide Dogs raffle Win the gift of flight with Canadian Guide Dogs raffle Kelly McCarthy kmccarthy@metroland.com

This winter, one lucky duo could be jetting off to a sunny destination for free – courtesy of Canadian Guide Dogs for the Blind.

For the second time, the Manotick-based organization is hosting a raffle for a free round-trip flight to any WestJet destination. The “Gift of Flight” tickets are donated by the airline each year to ensure 100 per cent of raffle sales benefit Canadian Guide Dogs for the Blind.

For $20, participants can purchase one of 705 available raffle tickets and solidify their chance to win the grand prize. The final draw will take place on Dec. 30 of this year.

“It’s a great opportunity,” said Steven Doucette, events and guider co-ordinator at Canadian Guide Dogs. “WestJet flies to a lot of locations.”

The winner of the raffle will receive round-trip tickets for two from any WestJest destination to any other WestJest destination. Last year’s winner, Doucette said, was thinking of using the prize to travel to Dublin, Ireland – but the possibilities are endless.

Doucette explained that the tickets do not need to be used to depart from Ottawa. For example, the winner might choose to fly to Vancouver or another city before using their tickets to head to Hawaii. The tickets will be valid until Dec. 15, 2017 and must be purchased by persons at least 18 years old.

While WestJet has been donating Gift of Flight tickets to Canadian Guide Dogs for several years, they

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Canadian Guide Dogs for the Blind is hosting its second raffle for Gift of Flight tickets, donated by WestJet. For $20, participants can enter a raffle to win round-trip flights for two to any WestJet destination.

used to be auctioned in a silent auction. The new raffle draw is a win-win for everyone, Doucette said, because the cost for participants is only $20 and the organization raises significantly more money for their cause.

Canadian Guide Dogs for the Blind usually brought in around $3,000 to $5,000 by auctioning the WestJet tickets in the silent auction. In contrast, last year’s raffle brought in more than $10,000.

“We hope to do that again this year,” Doucette said.

Tickets for the raffle can be purchased at the Canadian Guide Dogs for the Blind headquarters in Manotick (4120 Rideau Valley Dr. N), online at their website (www.guidedogs.ca) or by calling 613692-7777 – but Doucette said to get them early.

There are only 705 tickets available by law, and there’s a possibility they will sell out quickly.

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It’s not always fun to sit down with children to do homework. Imagine what it’s like for them, after a whole day of school.

Turning homework into a game can help take the stress out of homework.

These strategies can help make this obligation more fun for everybody.

• Play school with your child. Find yourself a little desk, let her pretend to be the teacher, and ask her to show you how to write out her spelling words. This is especially effective if you create a “blackboard” with a piece of paper taped to the wall.

• Allow your child to move around while working. After sitting all day at school, your son might have difficulty sitting still at the kitchen table. Allow him to stand up, and ask him to say his multiplication tables while throwing you a ball.

• Reward work with play. Come to an agreement with your child to play with him or her for 5 minutes for every 15 minutes of concentrated effort (or any other ratio that works).

• Invest in some educational computer software that will help your son feel excited about learning grammar, math, and other subjects.

• Exchange privileges for achievements.

For example, you might agree that your child can go to bed 15 minutes later than usual if she can finish her math homework in fewer than 15 minutes. Timing her will increase her concentration, but be realistic about the challenges; you don’t want to discourage her.

• List each homework job to be done on a separate piece of paper and let your child pick the next task to tackle. Include a surprise note, on which might be written “take a 10 minute break” or “enjoy a second story at bedtime”; this will add a touch of anticipation and encouragement to the jobs.

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Some advice for parents of teens that are about to start college or university Do you feel anxious, insecure and nostalgic as your teenagers begin their post-secondary education?

It’s normal.

Your children are now young adults, and you may be feeling unsure of your role in their schooling now that they’re becoming more and more independent.

Here are some tips for handling this situation: • Encourage your children to verbalize their feelings about continuing their studies at a post-secondary level.

• Show that you support them and are truly interested in their studies.

• Make sure your children are aware of the importance of attending classes regularly.

• Be on the lookout for signs of fatigue and a lack of interest or motivation. If you

see any of these, don’t judge their behaviour; try to understand it.

• Don’t focus only on their marks. If your children aren’t very talkative about their marks, don’t keep at it all the time. Keep communication channels open by asking general questions. How is school going? Are you happy with your program? Which activities interest you the most?

• Ask about which student support services are available at the institution (academic or career guidance, learning support, psychological counselling, etc.). If necessary, encourage your children to use these services.

Lastly, don’t underestimate the role you can play as a parent in your child’s postsecondary education.

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BACK TO CLASS FALL REGISTRATION Keys to a positive return to school We are approaching the time of year when families jump out of holidays and start their back to school routine. Here are a few tips to help make the back to school transition easier: 1. A great day starts with a good night’s sleep. Staying up late in the summer is a habit that a lot of kids and parents get into. A few weeks before school starts up, make sure that a regular nighttime routine is followed. Put the kids to bed earlier and wake them up at the time they would have to get up for school. This will help them ease into the earlier mornings once classes begin.

2. Get yourself up and ready first. Parents also need to get into the swing of things when kids go back to school. Get up slightly earlier than normal to make

sure you have time for yourself and your kids. Making breakfast and lunch, packing book bags and getting outfits ready takes some extra time, and you don’t want to throw off your own morning routine.

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Fall can be an expensive time of year. Back to school fashions and cool weather requirements mean stocking up the wardrobe. To keep things fresh and interesting for your children, all while taking care of your budget, be a resourceful shopper. First of all, check to see what you can keep for another fall before you replace everything, especially fall jackets, hat and mitt sets, and sweaters.

Stylists suggest taking a good look at summer clothes before putting them away until next year. Some summer items are suitable for coordinating with fall clothing. Belts or accessories, for example, can be worn with warmer textured, winter fabrics. For a fall look that makes sense, keep it to 30 percent light, colourful, or flowered items for 70 percent of winter clothes.

Before hitting the stores, make a list of the key cloth-

ing items you will need. These can be used as basics that can be coordinated with just about anything else. Staples for your family’s wardrobe might include a well-cut black jacket for teenage boys, neutral coloured pants for little boys, and all-purpose grey leggings for little girls. Closets should only contain a limited number of flamboyant, multicoloured items, as such styles quickly become outmoded or their owners soon tire of them.

Don’t be shy about asking family and friends if they have hand-me-downs in good shape for your children. It’s a great way to recycle, and it’s easy on the wallet. Likewise, if your closets contain clothes that are past their best, taking them to a dressmaker might give them new life. And those items that no longer suit your needs or sizes can be brought to a local used clothing store for resale or for fabric recycling.

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The quality of the backpack is much more important than a fashionable brand name.

Backpacks have to be replaced often because of the changing size of their owners, and since they will likely only be used for a year or two, there’s no need to pay astronomical prices.

Make sure your child’s backpack is the appropriate size for their height.

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In addition, the straps should always be easy to adjust. If the bag has plenty of compartments, your child will be able to spread the weight evenly throughout the backpack and reduce discomfort in the back and shoulders.

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An ambulance rolls up to a hospital’s emergency department and paramedics quickly bustle their sick or injured patient inside.

Up until about five years ago, a patient in stable condition with a less severe health condition likely had to wait for hours to be seen by a doctor, depending on how swamped the ER was.

That delay meant paramedics were also forced to wait, sitting on the sidelines unable to respond to 911 calls, until their patient was finally moved into the department’s clinical area for treatment.

A new round of much-needed dollars for 49 hospitals in 20 Ontario municipalities, including Ottawa, will ensure wait times don’t climb beyond about a half hour.

The province is providing more than $16 million to cover the cost of 300,000 nursing hours at sites across Ontario. Of that, a total of $1.5 million will go to the Ottawa Hospital’s Civic and General campuses and the Montfort and Queensway-Carleton hospitals.

“Our emergency department sees a growth of between two and five per cent of volume in visits every year, and that really puts a strain on the system,” Renate Ilse, vice-president of clinical programs at the Ottawa Hospital, said during an announcement at the General campus on Aug. 19. “And it can actually plug up the emergency departments so that when the ambulances come in it’s very difficult to offload the non-priority patients in a timely way.

“So programs like this and this funding really, really helps us.”

This year’s renewed funding will cover the cost of almost 11,000 nursing hours at the Civic and General emergency departments. That works out to about 15 hours a day at each campus, seven days a week. At the Montfort and Queensway-Carleton hospitals, that translates to about 11 hours a day each.

The program has made a difference in reducing ambulance offload times since its inception in 2008-09. Before that, 90 per cent of patients were waiting for ER care an average of more than two hours.

“With the application of this program that time has been brought down to between 30 and 40 minutes,” said Dr. Guy Hébert, an emergency room doctor who oversees both the General and Civic emergency departments.

“In other words, we’re very successful in getting (patients) off the

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Dr. Guy Hébert, an emergency room doctor who also oversees the emergency departments at the General and Civic campuses of the Ottawa Hospital, says provincial funding for ER nurses who monitor less urgent patients after they are brought in by ambulance frees up paramedics and ensures care is received more quickly. ambulance stretcher into a clinical care bed and that permits the ambulances to go back out there at the ready for the community,” he said.

“It saves an immense amount of time and it accelerates the start of care for the patient.”

Of the ambulance offload patients brought to the Ottawa Hospital emergency departments, 15 per cent of cases are considered lower to moderate severity.

Still, an average of 60 ambulances arrive every day at each Ottawa Hospital campus.

“I’m sure a good 40 to 45 of those would qualify to benefit from the offload (nursing service),” Hébert said.

“And we want that to continue,” said Ottawa South MPP John Fraser, who also serves as parliamentary assistant to Ontario’s minister of Health and Long-Term Care.

“The standard is about 30 minutes and once it goes over that it begins to affect the effectiveness of our emergency services,” he said. “So we want to make sure that doesn’t happen.”

“I do want to stress that those pa-

tients that arrive at hospital with lifethreatening conditions will be given that high priority,” he said, flanked at the announcement by Ottawa-Orléans MPP Marie-France Lalonde and Ottawa Centre MPP Yasir Naqvi.

Patient volumes soared after the Montfort Hospital opened its new ER in 2010. It saw a jump by 20,000 patients, bringing the annual total to 55,000 or 150 to 160 patients a day.

“We did see quite a significant improvement with that program so it needs to be sustained,” said Dr. Bernard Leduc, president and chief

executive of the Montfort Hospital.

Fraser acknowledged the growing demand for emergency medicine and the desire for more money, not just renewed dollars.

“The Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care is working with the paramedic services and the hospitals on a plan going forward for 20172018,” he said. “We’re continuing to be committed to this program and we’re going to improve it.”

An interview with Ottawa paramedic officials was not possible before press time.

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‘It wasn’t a love-in’: Mayor, police brass to keep internal strife internal Mayor and police brass say they will work together after months of publicly aired strife Lucy Scholey

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The mayor and top police brass say they will work together, following a tumultuous few months of publicly aired internal strife.

Chief Charles Bordeleau, Ottawa Police Association President Matt Skof, and police services board chair Eli El-Chantiry met with Mayor Jim Watson behind his office’s closed doors on Thursday morning.

But despite the heated back-and-forth in recent headlines, they decided to keep details of the private meeting to themselves.

“Our members have a very difficult job to do out there. It’s been compounded by some of the very pub-

lic discussion that has been taking place within the media,” said Bordeleau. “We all agree that these conversations have no place in the public forum.”

Watson described it as a “very thorough and frank discussion” about issues that can be dealt with internally, at the board level, or provincially. The four plan to meet again in two to three weeks to talk about progress.

“It was respectful, but it wasn’t a love-in,” said Watson, of the meeting.

The internal discord came to light last March, when Const. Paul Heffler sent a letter to his colleagues criticizing senior staff for treating rank-andfile officers like “dime store security guards.”

Since then, Skof has been publicly vocal about several police board decisions, including a plan to fold community officers into a patrol unit. He called for El-Chantiry’s resignation after the police board

chair denied morale among officers was low. Last week, Watson said that if any cops are unhappy with their jobs, they should quit.

The four city and police leaders took a different tone – publicly, at least – on Thursday.

“As we’ve all agreed, something needs to change,” Skof said. “We’re hopeful to see that in the coming weeks.”

– With files from Emma Jackson

From left: Ottawa police services board chairman Eli El-Chantiry, Mayor Jim Watson, Ottawa Police Association President Matt Skof and Chief Charles Bordeleau address reporters on Thursday.

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For the love of a good book

M

y love of books started with Nancy Drew. As a primary school student I would head to the high school in the afternoon to wait for my dad, who taught there. After visiting the cafeteria for a still-warm chocolate chip cookie I would follow the strange maze of half-staircases and cavernous hallways to end up at one of the most modern rooms in the old building: the library.

There was plenty of natural light flowing into the library because of all the windows but the books were kept in the centre of the room, away from the light. If you stood in the centre of the bookcases you were surrounded by a dusty, musty smell that has been filed in my memory among my favourite perfumes and aromas. Dusty books are right up there with Guerlain perfume from Paris and

DIANA FISHER The Accidental Farmwife fresh baked bread.

Every day I would sit on the floor in between the bookcases, facing a row of about 100 Nancy Drew books. I began at the beginning. Volume 1, The Secret of the Old Clock. Carolyn Keene brought girl-detective Nancy Drew to life, describing everything from what she ate to how she dressed, what she thought and felt and saw. I was mesmerized.

And I read my way through that book, and another, and another, until I had finished the whole series.

When I didn’t understand a word, I went to the librarian, Mrs. Scott. Her

nickname was Dusty but she was anything else. Wavy red hair and energy to spare, she bustled me over to the dictionary and had me look each mysterious word up in turn. I still do that today when I meet a new word.

After finishing the final Nancy Drew book in that original series of 100, I asked Mrs. Scott (her real name was Ramona) if there were any other similar books she would recommend. Books with strong female characters I could emulate in my imagination.

“You’ve finished all the Nancy Drew books.” She seemed a little bewildered

and doubtful.

“Well…yeah…unless you’ve got more somewhere,” I answered.

When my dad came to collect me that afternoon Mrs. Scott notified him that I, at age ten, had read all the intermediate level Nancy Drew books. The next thing I knew, I was sitting alone in a stuffy office in the back of the library, taking a test to determine my I.Q. The librarian had suggested I be enrolled in classes for ‘enriched’ students from now on, because I was clearly brilliant. I failed the test miserably.

“I told you she isn’t enriched,” scoffed my dad.

“She just loves books.” And that was the end of that.

After working my way through the books in the high school library, I got permission to walk to the town library after school.

Sometimes I walked and read at the same time. I

knew the path between the public school and high school and college where my mom worked so well, I never tripped.

Sometimes I was late for piano lessons, however, because I would walk right by the house with my nose in the book, missing the address altogether and having to double back. I preferred the afternoons I was free to head to the college campus where I would climb a tree and sit there, reading, obscured from the view of the college students passing on the pathway beneath by the thick tapestry of leaves.

Yes, I was a bookworm. I still am. It’s my guilty pleasure, my stress relief and my escape as well as my inspiration and my challenge.

This weekend, North Grenville will once again host the region’s largest book fair. It’s in a huge warehouse at the Ferguson Forest Centre. Money raised at the

fair goes to the Kemptville Youth Centre, to help them pay their annual utilities bills.

The books are conveniently categorized so you can find your favourite themes easily. I always head straight for the Canadian female writers. Elizabeth Hay, Camilla Gibb, Alice Munro…but they have tens of thousands of titles every year and they sell for a buck or two so you can afford to venture off into unknown territory if you’re intrigued by something new.

So grab a big tote bag and head to the book fair this weekend, fellow book lovers.

You can indulge this guilty pleasure, at least, knowing you are simultaneously doing something awesome for a very good cause in the community. Dibs on the Nancy Drew. dianafisher1@gmail.com www.dianafisherbooks.com

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Veterinary Medical Association tells us that cat owners are far less likely than dog owners to take their pet to the veterinarian regularly.

Regular veterinary care is essential for all pets, not just dogs. Visiting a vet can help keep your cat healthy and can help prevent costly emergency vet visits. Your vet can spot many illnesses early so you can treat your cat before it becomes too expensive or worse, too late to fix. Vaccination helps keeps cats safe from contagious disease. Having your cat spayed or neutered is the best way to help reduce the number of homeless pets in our community. And, sterilization keeps your cat healthier by lowering her chances of getting diseases, like some cancers and also helps end unwanted behaviour issues. Also your veterinarian is your go-to resource to prevent parasites like treat fleas, ticks, and worms.

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There are so many benefits to regular veterinary care. If you cat hasn’t been lately, why not celebrate National Take Your Cat to the Vet Day and take her?

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Not Just for the Dogs There are quite a few awareness “days” out there that you may not have heard of. There are the little-known and off-beat National Squirrel Appreciation Day and International Hug Your Cat Day; there is the mainstream and better-known Earth Day. There are also a dozen or so that we in animal welfare wish everyone knew about, such as Chip Your Pet Month and Spay Neuter Awareness Month — identification and sterilization being among the most pressing issues in the Ottawa Humane Society’s work.

P.S. If you haven’t yet signed up for this year’s Wiggle Waggle Walkathon or Run for the Animals, we hope you will. It is our biggest and most important event for the animals of the year and it’s a great day out. The animals depend on you and this year’s pledges are lagging. Please register at www.ottawahumane.ca/walk and begin collecting pledges today. See you on September 11th!

Pet of the Week: Mikey (ID# A187619) Meet Mikey, a big boy with lots of love to give who is looking for a new home.

Mikey is an affectionate cat who greets all of his visitors at the shelter with happy purrs. He is very playful, and especially enjoys trying to fit into cardboard boxes that may be too small for him.

Mikey loves the spotlight and would prefer to be the only cat in the home, so he can have all of the attention – and cuddles – to himself. If you think Mikey might be your purr-fect match, stop by the shelter to meet him today!

For more information on Mikey and all the adoptable animals, stop Among the days we wish would catch on is National Take Your Cat by the OHS at 245 West Hunt Club Rd Check out our website at to the Vet Day which was on August 22, because the simple fact is www.ottawahumane.ca to see photos and descriptions of the animals that too few cats receive regular veterinary care. In fact, the Canadian available for adoption.

In the twilight of his life now, at 14, Jasper spends most of his time sleeping and dreaming of the days he used to run alongside his human companions in the snow. He remembers eating all their Christmas baking and the croissants meant for guests, stealing items off the barbecue, and having long naps in their bed while they worked.

He especially loves sunbathing while they garden, occasionally looking up to see if they need direction. Blind when he was rescued by the Humane Society 12 years ago, his vision was restored and he has never looked back.

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:

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Dandelion wine was just a fact of life at Mary’s house in Northcote

W

e had been picking dandelion greens for days. We had to be careful to just take the leaves, letting the roots stay anchored. That was so they would regrow.

And only the most tender part of the plants, the new leafs, making it easier for Father to cull through them, picking out only what he considered perfect for the job at hand.

Eventually, the shelves in the cellar would have bottles of dandelion wine sitting right next to Mother’s cu-

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Memories cumber pickles and raspberry preserves. And if it wasn’t for Uncle Herby bringing bottles from Bronfman’s Distillery where he worked in Montreal (sometimes full of what was brewed there, and sometimes just empty bottles for Father), he would have had to use any jars Mother hadn’t already put down on the shelf in the

cellar.

So by the time the wine was bottled, you wouldn’t know if it had been made in our kitchen out at Northcote, or bought from a real store, if there was such a place. Certainly, I never knew Father to come home with a bottle of liqueur for which he would have to spend hard earned money!

Dandelion wine, and homemade beer, were just a fact of life at our house in Northcote.

We put the newly picked leaves in one of Mother’s clothes hampers, and it would

take Father a whole evening, to take each one out, examine it, and finding it suitable, put it in a big crock. He layered the leaves as if they were tiny pieces of paper until the crock was almost full. We had a lot of dandelions on the farm!

Then he would take the big preserving kettle, which had been simmering away on the Findlay Oval, and cover the leaves with the boiling water.

Some would float to the top, so Father would anchor them with a dinner place with a well scrubbed flat iron on top to hold everything down.

Then the crock was moved to the bake table, where it sat for a few days, sending musty smells through the whole house, which I hated.

Father never once looked in the crock while the leaves were slowly fermenting.

“Don’t want to disturb them,” he’d say. And then after he figured they had been sitting there long enough, he scrubbed his hands until

they were red (Mother saw to that), then squeezed hands full of the leaves until they were almost dry, piled them on a tray, emptied the water out of the crock, and dumped the mess into the largest cooking pot Mother had in the house.

The pot was put on the stove, and I have no idea where the moisture came from, but within minutes you could hear the soggy dandelions simmering.

Three oranges and a lemon would have been sitting on the bake table for days, an extravagance reserved only for winemaking.

Father cut them into thin slices, and added them to the simmering pot, with a few good dashes of ginger out of a Rawleigh’s tin from the cupboard.

I could see Mother flinch as Father dumped a brown paper bag of sugar into the pot too.

Then Father would go to his rocking chair, light his

pipe, open the Ottawa Farm Journal, and wait.

Finally, the pot was hauled to the bake table, and let cool right down until Father could add some yeast, which was bought to make bread and sticky buns. I knew Mother wasn’t at all pleased at all the money that went into Father’s dandelion wine.

And there the crock would sit for days, while it fermented to Father’s liking.

Often he would take a spoon, dip it into the crock and say, “By gar, that’s good let me tell you.”

Finally, after what Mother said the whole house smelled like a brewery, Father strained it, bottled it, and it would be moved to the cellar.

Interested in an electronic version of Mary’s books? Go to https://www.smashwords. com and type MaryRCook for e-book purchase details, or if you would like a hard copy, please contact Mary at wick2@sympatico.ca.

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Local events and happenings over the coming weeks — free to non-profit organizations Fax: 613-723-1862, E-mail: manotick@metroland.com We welcome your event submissions. Please email event details to manotick@ metroland.com by Friday at noon.

Sept. 1 If you like to knit, sew, paint or bake you can help raise funds to support the animals of the Ottawa Humane Society and meet a great group of people. Join us 1:30 p.m.

Thursday Sept. 1 at the animal shelter.

Arrive early at 12:30 p.m. for a free guided tour behind the scenes. 245 West Hunt Club Rd. behind Hunt Club Nissan. Refreshments are served and all are welcome.

For more information, call Linda 613-823-6770 or go to facebook.com/OttawaHumaneSocietyAuxiliary.

Wine tasting event Saturday, Sept. 10, from 7 until 10 p.m.

The Osgoode Township Museum will be offering a wine tasting event hosted by local sommelier Anna Beale. An assortment of Canadian wines will

be sampled, and horsd’oeuvres will be provided.

Cost: Tickets are now on sale at a cost of $30 per person.

Spaces are limited. For more information, or to register please contact the museum by phone at 613821-4062, or e-mail manager@osgoodemuseum.ca St. James United Church located at 5541 Osgoode Main St., is back again serving up a Hearty Breakfast on Saturday, Sept. 10 from 8 to 10 a.m.

The menu is complete with eggs, sausage, ham, baked beans, hash browns, pancakes, fruit, toast and assorted beverages. All are invited to attend this freewill event.

Sept. 11 Ottawa River Riders and Canadian Motorcycle Cruisers are teaming up to organize a charity motorcycle ride on Sunday, Sept.11, 2016.

Everyone is welcome to the 28th annual Guide Dog Motorcycle Run no matter what kind of motorcycle

you ride. Registration is from 9 to 10 a.m.. Depart once you’re signed up and begin the 200-km ride through Eastern Ontario.

Cost is $20 per person, which is paid on-site. Admission includes the ride, prizes, a barbecue, and a chance to tour the kennels at Canadian Guide Dogs for the Blind.

The Guide Dog Motorcycle Ride is a rain or shine event, with 100 per cent of the proceeds directed to Canadian Guide Dogs for the Blind.

The ride starts and finishes at the National Training Centre of Canadian Guide Dogs for the Blind, 4120 Rideau Valley Dr. N, Manotick. To learn more about this event or Canadian Guide Dogs for the Blind, visit www.guidedogs. ca or phone (613) 692-7777.

Ongoing Daily until October, dailyguided tours of the Watson’s Mill and Dickinson House 10 a.m. to 5 p.m; Famous used book store 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays Farmers Market 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday Grinds 1 to 3

p.m. Freshly ground flour available. Visit watsonsmill. com 613-692-6455.

Ovarian Cancer Canada 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 613488-3993 or ottawakip@ gmail.com.

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.

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 613-769-7570.

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 pot-luck contribution.Wednesdays Want to meet new friends and have a great workout?

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Thursdays 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.

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Our Lady of the Visitation Parish will be hosting Euchre Night on every Thursday night through the summer months, July, August and September.

No partner required, light refreshments. For more Information call Marie at 613 769 7570 or Marcel at 613 797 8651.

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ARIES – Mar 21/Apr 20 A playful and generous spirit make you a favorite friend to have around, Aries. Many may be clamoring for your attention, and you do not know where to direct it first.

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GEMINI – May 22/Jun 21 Romance may get in the way of logic this week, Gemini. This is sure to be exciting, but try to maintain your focus. Keep lines of communication with your significant other open.

CANCER – Jun 22/Jul 22 Cancer, do your best to overhaul your finances. Some recent purchases might have made you vulnerable, and now is a great time to regain control.

LEO – Jul 23/Aug 23 Leo, a sudden burst of creativity will inspire you and others in the days Here’s How It Works: ahead. Keep up the great work you’re doing, and don’t be afraid to take chances.

Sudoku puzzles are formatted as a 9x9 grid, broken down into nine 3x3 boxes. To solve a sudoku, the numbers 1 through 9 must fill each row, column and box. Each number can appear only once in each VIRGO – Aug 24/Sept 22 row, column and box. You can figure out the order in which the numbers will appear by using the numeric You are given to behaving selflessly, Virgo. But this week you can still help clues already provided in the boxes. The more numbers you name, the easier it gets to solve the puzzle! others and take your needs into consideration. Ask for help if you need it.

LIBRA – Sept 23/Oct 23 Libra, resist the urge to overindulge in food or beverages this week.

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SCORPIO – Oct 24/Nov 22 Scorpio, you’re focused on furthering your career, but responsibilities at home must be weighed before making a final decision. Don’t give up; just reevaluate your timing.

SAGITTARIUS – Nov 23/Dec 21 Sagittarius, rather than dreaming of faraway places, make a plan to travel.

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CAPRICORN – Dec 22/Jan 20 Capricorn, gifts might start coming your way and you don’t understand all the generosity. Accept what is offered and recognize that you deserve it.

AQUARIUS – Jan 21/Feb 18 It’s easy to expect others to keep your pace when you have all of your ducks in a row, Aquarius. However, not everyone works on the same schedule that you do. Allow time to catch up.

PISCES – Feb 19/Mar 20 Pisces, promising more than you can possibly deliver at this time will not win you any admirers. Others will appreciate your honesty.

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