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A patrol officer who nabbed a male suspect in connection with a shoplifting at the Hunt Club Centre allegedly linked him to a violent

to investigate a shoplifting that occurred at a grocery store three days earlier on Jan. 12. A short time after taking the report, the officer spotted the suspect as he walked along the street near the plaza, said Staff Sgt. Michael

crime committed less than 24 hours later, according to the police robbery team. The officer was called to the plaza at the corner of McCarthy Road and Paul Anka Drive in the Riverside Park community on Jan. 15

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Haarbosch, head of the Ottawa police robbery unit. The suspect was arrested without incident. By comparing surveillance images taken from the grocery store and footage of a robbery at a convenience store in the same plaza on Jan. 13 at 2:50 a.m., the officer was able to link the suspect to both, Haarbosch said. “It was great police work on his part to seize an individual and make the arrest a short time after taking the theft report and then linking him to our robbery,” he said. During the robbery, a lone male suspect waited for a customer to leave before approaching the clerk with a knife and taking an undisclosed amount of cash and cigarettes, Haarbosch said. No one was injured in that inci-

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dent. When asked why grocery staff waited three days before notifying police about the shoplifting incident, Haarbosch said, “It may have been a matter of them reviewing the imagery and realizing (a shoplifting had occurred), so there may have been some investigation on their part.” A 22-year-old Ottawa man, who Haarbosch said is known to police, has been charged with one count each of robbery, possession of a weapon and theft under $5,000. He appeared in court on Jan. 16, and was next scheduled to appear on Jan. 18. Anyone with information on these crimes is asked to call the robbery unit at 613-236-1222, ext. 5116, or Crime Stoppers at 1-800222-8477.

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A convicted robber who police say wanted to be paroled to his hometown of Ottawa rather than Kitchener, Ont., has been apprehended, according to the OPP. Ottawa police took Curtis Richard Clorey into custody the morning of Jan. 18, three days after the OPP’s repeat offender parole enforcement squad issued a public appeal for help in locating the 22-year-old man. No further details on the arrest were immediately available, including where in Ottawa he was taken into custody. Given the former south Ottawa resident’s previous convictions, including a weapons offence, anyone who spotted Clorey was advised not to approach him, said Det.-Const. Steven Sermet, the squad’s Torontobased spokesman. “Just looking at his history of those charges that he’s serving two years and 30 days for, I would say … that is a public safety concern,” he said. The parolee was convicted of a robbery as well as a weapons offence, assaulting a peace officer and failing to comply with a probation order in August 2014 and was sentenced to two years and 30 days. The robbery was committed in Ottawa, Sermet said.

After being behind bars for more than four months at Collins Bay Institution in Kingston, Clorey was released and was to travel to Kitchener and stay in a halfway house and report to a parole officer. Clorey never showed up, breaching his parole, said Sermet. He was to have finished serving his sentence on Aug. 17, 2016.

“He wanted to stay in Ottawa – that’s why he didn’t report.” DET.-CONST. STEVEN SERMET, OPP ROPE SQUAD

“He didn’t want that (Kitchener parole location) at all but that’s where (he was assigned by) Corrections Canada,” Sermet said. “Corrections Canada wanted him to go there but he has friends and family in Ottawa. He wanted to stay in Ottawa – that’s why he didn’t report.” A Canada-wide warrant was issued for his arrest. “The ROPE squad out there (in Ottawa) – first they did their investigation, speaking to family members, friends, any associates or where he may hang out,” Sermet said, and once those avenues were exhausted, the squad turned to the public for assistance.

Suspect pours himself a cappuccino before allegedly robbing gas station

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Police are turning to the public for help in identifying a lone male suspect following a gas station robbery on Dec. 9. check things out and leave before eventually reappearing to grab some cash or other items. “The cappuccino thing – that’s a little different.” The Hawthorne Road case is one of 20 robberies that have occurred in Ottawa since the start of the year, up from seven by this time last year, Haarbosch said. Of those, there have been eight swarmings – in which a person is robbed by more than one person – and six retail rob-

beries since Jan. 1, he added. Before demanding the money from the Hawthorne Road cashier, the lone male suspect said he had a weapon, though none was seen. “He didn’t say what type of weapon he had,” said Haarbosch. No one was injured in the incident. The suspect then fled the gas station with an undisclosed quantity of cash. Police don’t know if he took off on foot or

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The suspect in a Hawthorne Road gas station robbery first poured himself a cappuccino before making his way to the counter and demanding the clerk hand over cash, according to police. “I think it was just to kill some time inside. There was probably another customer inside,” said Staff Sgt. Michael Haarbosch, head of the Ottawa police robbery unit. The suspect may also have done that to first scope out his target – a gas station in the 3400-block of Hawthorne Road, which is at the east end of the Hunt Club Park neighbourhood, which was allegedly robbed on Dec. 9 at 2:25 a.m. “We see that from time to time. That’s not altogether unusual,” he said of the suspect’s stall tactics, adding that some suspects will go into a store,

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in a vehicle. He didn’t end up taking his cappuccino with him, Haarbosch added. Police released a series of still images of the man on Jan. 14, taken from the store’s video surveillance feed, in hopes someone can identify him. In one of the images, which police said offers the best view of his face, the suspect is outside facing a store window. He is described by police as a Caucasian male, of average height. He was wearing a black ski mask, a grey sweatshirt with the hood drawn up, black gloves, work boots or hiking boots and blue jeans. He may have had a moustache. He also spoke English with no accent. Anyone with information on the case is urged to call the robbery unit at 613-236-1222, ext. 5116, or submit anonymous tips to Crime Stoppers by calling 1-800-222-8477.

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2016 Woodlot Rehabilitation Program Continues Please be advised that as the result of widespread Emerald Ash Borer infestation, the City of Ottawa Forestry Services is planning woodlot rehabilitation activities for select parks and locations in Gloucester-Southgate Ward. Tree removal in Sawmill Creek Pool Park has now been completed and will be continuing in Fawn Meadows Park, Aladdin Park, 2050 Hunt Club Parkland, and Windsor Park. Maintained areas of the parks will be cleared of tree trunks and large pieces of wood immediately. Many of the smaller branches will be mulched and spread throughout the forested area to provide a slow release of nutrients to the soil, to absorb and retain moisture for the benefit of newly planted trees, to minimize soil compaction and to deter woodlot users away from newly planted sites. The remaining small limbs will be left on-site in the naturalized areas to provide habitat for a wide range of wildlife and to retain growing sites for plants and fungi. Crews will return in the spring once weather permits to perform any remaining cleanup in the maintained parkland and to ensure the area is healthy for reforestation. Work will generally take place between 7 a.m. and 3:30 p.m., when weather permits. Only trees located on City property will be removed as part of this project and any residents adjacent to these activities will be notified through mail by the City. For more information on this project and the Emerald Ash Borer, visit Ottawa.ca/forestry or call 3-1-1. City of Ottawa Notifies Residents of Frozen Pipes During typical winters in Ottawa, some homes and businesses experience a frozen service pipe that prevents water from the watermain from reaching their internal plumbing. To minimize this, as many as 2,500 out of 220,000 homes across Ottawa receive annual notifications from the City. This year, the City will issue notices to homes that have experienced frozen water services in the past, providing residents with advance notification of a potential repeat frozen service event, how to avoid it, and what to do if your pipes freeze. Please call 3-1-1 for more information and to report a frozen service pipe. Public Input Wanted for Changes to Smoke By-Laws Ottawa Public Health is seeking feedback from residents regarding updates to the City’s smoke by-laws. These proposed changes are to protect the public from the harms of second-hand smoke and vapour from non-tobacco combustible substances and the use of e-cigarettes in public places and workplaces. Visit Ottawa.ca to review the Let’s Clear the Air 2.0 Consultation Plan. I encourage residents to contribute by visiting Ottawa.ca/tobacco to answer nine bilingual questions, calling the OPH Information Line at 613-580-6744, or emailing healthsante@ottawa.ca. Online consultation will be accepted until Jan. 24, 2016. R0013650157-0121

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It’s hoped the city’s first community kitchen will bring Albion-Heatherington neighbours together for food, feasting and fun. The kitchen, which will be built on as an addition to the west side of the AlbionHeatherington Recreation Centre, at 1560 Heatherington Rd., will feature industrialscale cooking and dishwashing equipment and a space large enough for residents to gather and cook up a storm. “This is the first community kitchen the city’s had,” Gloucester-Southgate Coun. Diane Deans said during her New Year’s Open House on Jan. 10 at the Greenboro Community Centre. “And it’s the perfect neighbourhood for it.” The recreation and community centre, which overlooks Heatherington Park, currently has a small kitchen that isn’t big enough for groups or industrial equipment. Deans, inspired after reading about a community kitchen project in Mississauga, successfully submitted the project proposal for federal funding

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Cash infusions from the city and the federal government will pay for a new $800,000 community kitchen at the Albion-Heatherington Recreation Centre. last year. As a result, the community or collective kitchen will receive $800,000. Of that, $176,000 is coming from the federal government’s Canada 150 Community Infrastructure Program, while the city is contributing $312,000 in stra-

tegic initiative funding as well as $312,000 in development charges. The money came as a surprise to Deans given the challenges she faced at council. Last year, she unsuccessfully lobbied for city dollars for improvements to the neighbour-

hood, which is in her ward. “As some of you know I fought hard for a renewal project in 2015 in the AlbionHeatherington community,” she told residents during the open house. See RESIDENTS, page 5

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“Food brings people together.” KELLI TONNER, PROGRAM DIRECTOR, SOUTH-EAST OTTAWA COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE

“Our mandate is to try and support community residents to build groups of people to come together, and everybody naturally comes together around food,” said Kelli Tonner, Albion-Heatheringtonbased program director with the South-East Ottawa Community Health Centre, which is offering insight on the kitchen.

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conversations about food security and a desire to establish a community garden in AlbionHeatherington, said Deans. With both a garden and a kitchen, neighbours would be able to grow and prepare food. A number of local residents have garden plots at Brewer Park, but the location is not as convenient, said Tonner, adding there

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is a plot of land behind the Tim Hortons at the corner of Walkley and Heatherington roads that may be considered for the garden. “Food brings people together,” she said. “And when you bring people together you build relationships, and when you build relationships you build stronger communities.” The kitchen and garden would naturally address “a difficult social issue around food security” and also go a long way to building a healthier neighbourhood, she said, noting a garden would give more people fresh food options. “We do have a lot of people who access the food bank on Heron Road, who do access the emergency food cupboard at (the) Better Beginnings (office in Heatherington,” Tonner said. “An emergency food cupboard can only give dried staples.”

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“And although I was unsuccessful in convincing the mayor and councillors to fund this vital project, the silver lining is that through those efforts the federal government selected Albion-Heatherington as a 2017 priority project for Canada’s sesquicentennial,” she explained, adding that the publicity over her failed attempt at council likely helped her cause at the federal level. “So I think the moral of the story is hard work gets rewarded.” An architect will be hired to design the kitchen, which Deans hopes will be up and running in 2017. A community consultation meeting will take place in the spring to allow local residents and groups to share their ideas for the space. Given the cultural diversity of the area, there may be special

considerations that city staff and other groups that work in the area need to be made aware of before the kitchen is built, Deans added. Organizations working in Albion-Heatherington are equally optimistic the new space will further engage residents.

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Mayor wants feds, province to pay for airport, Trim Rd. LRT Continued from page 1

“If we’re able to secure funding for the (Trillium LRT) O-Train extension to the airport then we should get shovels in the ground for that before we do the Airport Parkway expansion,” Watson said, while flanked by municipal and provincial politicians at the VIA Rail station on Tremblay Road. That’s in keeping with council’s adoption of a transit-first philosophy, “that if there’s a transit option, that should be the first priority – more people in trains and buses, less people in cars,” Watson said, adding this benefits motorists too by freeing up space on gridlocked roadways. But this will depend on whether the mayor gets his wish to have the $160-million light-rail extension to the Ottawa airport paid for by the federal government and the $155-million light-rail line to Trim Road in Orléans covered by the province. City officials have long said there isn’t enough in the city’s $1-billion contribution to partly pay for the second phase of the $3-billion LRT project to tack on the extensions during construction of lines west to Bayshore, southwest to Baseline, east to Place d’Orléans and south to Riverside South. “Our philosophy is that we believe the province would be best suited to help fund the Trim Road extension, because ultimately there was a download by the previous government of the (Highway) 174,” Watson said, adding that rail line would help alleviate congestion on the highway to Trim Road. “And the federal government, having responsibility for airports, would be best suited to fund the airport link,” he said at the VIA Rail station following a tour nearby of the Confederation Line’s new Tremblay Station, currently under construction.

Watson said there have been “positive discussions” with the province and the feds about the airport and Trim Road projects. All three levels of government are “very much aligned to working together,” and it would be “a shame” not to include the two extensions when construction of the second phase of the LRT project begins, he said. That stage is scheduled to get underway in late 2018 or early 2019. The Ottawa International Airport Authority has offered to pay part of the cost to build an LRT station at the airport, which could cost about $35 million, according to early estimates. The city is now in negotiations with upper levels of government to share the cost of phase two three ways. An announcement on that will come within the next year, Watson said. “We’re on track,” he said. PARKWAY DELAY

Plans to begin phase one of widening the parkway from two to four lanes from Brookfield to Hunt Club roads are facing a delay, with the implementation date now pushed back to at least 2020. “That is a result of a slow down in the economy. We don’t have as many development charges,” Watson said, but added the project – which carries a pricetag of $31.4 million according to 2013 estimates – could get off the ground if the city sees more growth. Still, he recognizes the importance the widening would have in alleviating congestion. “It causes some great stress for people who are trying to get to the airport to make flights on time and it’s also frustrating for people who live in the neighbourhood,” he said. Ottawa South MPP John Fraser, whose riding includes the parkway and the airport, agreed about the

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Mayor Jim Watson, centre, speaks to reporters at the VIA Rail station on Tremblay Road on Jan. 13. He says the airport LRT spur should be fully paid for by the federal government, while the province should completely cover the cost of a rail line to Trim Road in Orléans. state of the parkway, but said it’s important to first move forward on the airport spur to see what impact that could have. “There is no question that there is congestion on the Airport Parkway that affects not only the airport, but the residents who live in Ottawa South and south of Ottawa South,” he said. “We need to build public transit and see what the impact is there.” He said he plans to continue advocating that the airport spur be built sooner rather than later. “We’re a G8 capital. You can take a look at many progressive cities – their transit connection to the airport is very strong.”

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LRT wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be a free ride

ayor Jim Watsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dream of fasttracking a light-rail transit system that includes a run to the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s airport and an extension to Trim Road in OrlĂŠans sounds great, except for one rather large detail. Who is going to pay for it? Watson wants someone else to pay for it. Not share the cost, but pay for it outright. The mayor joined other politicians at the Via Rail station on Tremblay Road for a tour of a nearby worksite and to give an update on the progress of Confederation LRT line construction. In a media scrum afterwards, Watson laid out the rationale for fast-tracking an LRT airport spur and an extension to Trim Road. It all sounded perfectly reasonable, especially with an Airport Parkway widening project on the drawing board and how that could be impacted by an LRT run to the airport. Perfectly reasonable; until it becomes clear the city, in essence, is counting on getting a financial free ride with the federal

and provincial purses. Watson wants the $160-million light-rail extension (the most recent estimate of the cost) to Ottawaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s airport paid for by the feds and the $155-million light-rail line to Trim Road covered by the province. Watsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rationale for having other levels of government pick up the entire tab for the airport and Trim Road extensions? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our philosophy is that we believe the province would be best suited to help fund the Trim Road extension, because ultimately there was a download by the previous government of the (highway) 174â&#x20AC;? and such a rail line would help alleviate congestion on the highway to Trim Road. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And the federal government, having responsibility for airports, would be best suited to fund the airport link,â&#x20AC;? Watson said. Good luck with that. Ottawa residents shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t hold their breath until that happens, because it is highly doubtful the feds and Queenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Park are willing to be Watsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wallet when it comes to his LRT wish list.

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he only good thing about the economy being in crisis â&#x20AC;&#x201C; if in fact thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s happening â&#x20AC;&#x201C; is that it stops people from writing about electoral reform. Thanks for that, economic crisis. Not that you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be equally nerdish about the economy. All sorts of exotic analyses are out there as to why things arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t right. And all sorts of exotic analyses are out there as to why things arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t all that bad. Those who see the economic glass as half-empty propose complicated measures, having to do with infrastructure spending, interest rates, energy sector reforms. But sometimes simple solutions are called for. Hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one. Hire more people. When more people work, more people spend. When more people

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ing with staffers leaping to assist you if they saw you pause for the slightest second in front of a shirt or a toaster. The other day, the consumer could pause for 10 minutes and not see anyone in sight. Having found the toaster, the consumer would then search for a place to pay for it. It was way over there, far from the toaster department, in the slipper department, a desk with one person working at it. This was not a busy time, but there were five people wanting to buy things. Two staffers could have handled that in a hurry. One staffer couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t. During the wait, the consumer pondered the fact that department stores are said to be in decline. Wonder why. They could rebound. The location in shopping centres is ideal. The idea of having a variety of goods under one roof is attractive.

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in paying fewer people. Machines do our banking, collect our money and open the gate at the parking garage. Much energy and creativity is spent trying to figure out ways to contract, rather than expand. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not what made our country great and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not what sells many toasters either.

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here are days when I wish cheese wasn’t edible. I love cheese. One of my favourite movie scenes of all time is when lactose-intolerant character Kate, played by actress Meg Ryan, indulges in a plate of the fatty stuff on a train in the movie French Kiss. She knows she’s lactose intolerant. But in her attempt to be rebellious and make the most of her undesired trip to France, she decides to challenge her digestive tract. “Did you know that there are 452 official government cheeses in this country?” she asks her travelling partner, as she’s spreading and eating. “Don’t you think that’s incredible? To come up with 452 ways of classifying what is basically a bacterial process?” A bacterial process, but the result is so yummy, so satisfying, so fattening and so bad for one’s gut! So maybe you have cheese in your life too. Or

maybe you smoke, or you eat too much sugar. Perhaps you’re a total social media addict to the detriment of your life and relationships outside of virtual reality.

puff on a cig or shove a piece of stilton down your gullet. It’s like a personal assistant and a parent all at the same time. It’s your executive reasoning; in fact it’s the opposite of your executive reasoning, because it’s designed to tap into your primitive brain. The idea behind the creation, says its founder, is that it gets beyond your “human brain” to train your “reptile brain” to kick in and stop you from doing something detrimental. I’m not sure how I feel about shocking myself into

The electric shock works to alter your habitual pattern. It also makes your brain associate whatever you’re doing with something negative, and – if the videos are to be believed – even mildly painful. Apparently, the Pavlok works, even if you selfoperate it. So as you’re puffing the cigarette, you can push a button and give

yourself a shock. Maybe, then, we don’t need a gadget. Could we simply pinch ourselves, hard, when we want to stop doing something we perceive as “bad.” On the flip side, since kicking a bad habit requires something habitually good as a replacement, I’m thinking of putting the

vegetables in the cheese drawer. Perhaps I can develop a highly satisfying carrotmunching habit. I’ll let you know. One thing’s for sure – change takes time. We can develop new routines, but we have to tackle them one step at a time.

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A bacterial process, but the result is so yummy, so satisfying, so fattening and so bad for one’s gut!

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As with all things, there’s an app for that. Actually, it’s a gadget that its creator, Maneesh Sethi, claims can help you take some control. The Pavlok is a bracelet that gives you an electronic shock when you break any resolution. You can set it in advance to shock you, say, when your social media activity gets out of hand. Or you can shock yourself in real time as you

cheese prohibition, but I can see why it could work. There’s an old adage that says you can’t kick bad habits, only create new, good habits. When it comes to routine things – opening the fridge, heading for the cheese drawer – our brains are useless companions. We’ve opened the fridge, followed by the cheese drawer so many times that there’s no need for conscious processing.

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Mayor Jim Watson, centre, looks over the design of the future Tremblay LRT station on Jan. 13 during a press conference at the Via Rail station on Tremblay Road. He was joined by Ottawa South MPP John Fraser, left, Ottawa West-Nepean MP Anita Vandenbeld, Yves Desjardins-Siciliano, president of Via Rail Canada, and Nepean MP Chandra Arya.

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Tremblay LRT station to serve as important connector: officials Erin McCracken erin.mccracken@metroland.com

The future Tremblay light-rail transit station is taking shape and once open, passengers arriving at the nearby Via Rail station will be able to hop on LRT and arrive downtown within minutes, officials said. The LRT station will function as “an intermodal link” between Via’s intercity rail service and the city’s light-rapid transit system, Yves Desjardins-Siciliano, president and chief executive of Via Rail Canada, said during a press conference at the Tremblay Road Via station on Jan. 13. The Tremblay LRT connection “will bring Canadians to the nation’s parliament within seven minutes,” he said. “So it’s a great day for Via Rail and it’s a great day for Canada.” Tremblay station, where workers could recently be seen pouring concrete, will be one of 13 “world-class” LRT stations on the Confederation Line, Mayor Jim Watson said following a tour of the Tremblay construction site, where he was joined by project officials and politicians from all three government levels. “And I’m pleased to confirm that all 13 of these stations will be under construction before the end of this year,” he said. “These stations will greatly improve the customer experience for our transit users.” Assembly of the LRT trains is also now underway. “In fact, we’ll start testing some of these world-class LRT vehicles before the end of 2016,” the mayor said. “That’s right, 2016 will be the year you will start seeing Confederation Line trains running and being tested right here in the nation’s capital.” Almost 70 per cent of the city’s population will live within a five-kilometre trip to a lightrail station, said Watson, adding that LRT will “fundamentally transform Ottawa for generations to come.” Construction of the first phase of the Con-

federation Line, which is scheduled to open in 2018, is “on time and on budget,” and once open “will improve commute times through and from the downtown core,” said Watson. Excavation of the downtown Lyon station cavern is complete, and Parliament and Rideau stations are almost 70 per cent excavated. “I’m pleased to announce today that the LRT tunnel will be fully excavated by this summer,” he said. As well, more than 3.5 kilometres of track have been laid, much of it near the Belfast maintenance facility, where the light-rail trains will be parked at night, Watson said, with more large segments of track to be laid in the months ahead. Canada’s federal infrastructure and communities minister said during the event that Ottawa’s future LRT service “will be one of the most advanced and innovative transit systems in North America.” Public transit is not just about moving people from A to B. “It’s about building strong, sustainable communities,” Amarjeet Sohi said. The federal government has an “ambitious agenda” to “build the kind of communities that we all desire to live in,” and over the next two years infrastructure funding will be doubled to $20 billion, he said. Over the next decade, the federal government will invest an additional $60 billion, shared between public transit and social and green infrastructure, to boost community “resiliency.” Ottawa South MPP John Fraser, who was also in attendence, said the Tremblay station is a milestone in the construction of the LRT line, which “is creating thousands of jobs in this community, which has a significant impact on our economy.” Watson said over the course of the build-out for phase one of LRT, 20,000 person years of employment will be created – with even more coming during the larger second phase of lightrail construction.

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ƩŶ͗ ^ŽůĂŶŐĞ ĞƐĂƵƚĞůƐ͕ ^ƵƉĞƌǀŝƐŽƌ ŶǀŝƌŽŶŵĞŶƚĂů ƉƉƌŽǀĂůƐ ƌĂŶĐŚ DŝŶŝƐƚƌǇ ŽĨ ƚŚĞ ŶǀŝƌŽŶŵĞŶƚ ĂŶĚ ůŝŵĂƚĞ ŚĂŶŐĞ ϭϯϱ ^ƚ͘ ůĂŝƌ ǀĞŶƵĞ tĞƐƚ͕ ϭƐƚ &ůŽŽƌ dŽƌŽŶƚŽ͕ KE Dϰs ϭWϱ 'ĞŶĞƌĂů /ŶƋƵŝƌǇ͗ ϰϭϲͲϯϭϰͲϴϬϬϭ dŽůů &ƌĞĞ͗ ϴϬϬͲϰϲϭͲϲϮϵϬ &Ăǆ͗ ϰϭϲͲϯϭϰͲϴϰϱϮ ͲŵĂŝů͗ 'ĞŶΛŽŶƚĂƌŝŽ͘ĐĂ /Ĩ ŶŽƚ ŽƚŚĞƌǁŝƐĞ ƉƌŽǀŝĚĞĚ͕ Ă ĐŽƉǇ ŽĨ ƚŚĞ ŽďũĞĐƟŽŶ ǁŝůů ďĞ ĨŽƌǁĂƌĚĞĚ ƚŽ ƚŚĞ ƉƌŽƉŽŶĞŶƚ ďǇ ƚŚĞ ŵŝŶŝƐƚƌǇ͘ &Žƌ ĨƵƌƚŚĞƌ ŝŶĨŽƌŵĂƟŽŶ ŽŶ ƚŚĞ ƉƌŽƉŽƐĞĚ ƚƌĂŶƐŝƚ ƉƌŽũĞĐƚ Žƌ ŝĨ ǇŽƵ ŚĂǀĞ ĂŶǇ ĂĐĐĞƐƐŝďŝůŝƚǇ ƌĞƋƵŝƌĞŵĞŶƚƐ ŝŶ ŽƌĚĞƌ ƚŽ ƉĂƌƟĐŝƉĂƚĞ ŝŶ ƚŚŝƐ ƉƌŽũĞĐƚ͕ ƉůĞĂƐĞ ĐŽŶƚĂĐƚ͗ &ƌĂŶŬ DĐ<ŝŶŶĞǇ͕ W͘ ŶŐ͘ WƌŽŐƌĂŵ DĂŶĂŐĞƌ ŝƚǇ ŽĨ KƩĂǁĂ dƌĂŶƐƉŽƌƚĂƟŽŶ WůĂŶŶŝŶŐ ʹ ŶǀŝƌŽŶŵĞŶƚĂů ƐƐĞƐƐŵĞŶƚƐ hŶŝƚ dĞů͗ ϲϭϯͲϱϴϬͲϮϰϮϰ Ğǆƚ͘ ϮϴϱϰϬ ͲŵĂŝů͗ &ƌĂŶŬ͘DĐ<ŝŶŶĞǇΛŽƩĂǁĂ͘ĐĂ hŶĚĞƌ ƚŚĞ DƵŶŝĐŝƉĂů &ƌĞĞĚŽŵ ŽĨ /ŶĨŽƌŵĂƟŽŶ ĂŶĚ WƌŽƚĞĐƟŽŶ ŽĨ WƌŝǀĂĐǇ Đƚ ;D&/WW Ϳ͕ ƉĞƌƐŽŶĂů ŝŶĨŽƌŵĂƟŽŶ ŝŶĐůƵĚĞĚ ŝŶ Ă ƐƵďŵŝƐƐŝŽŶ ƚŽ ƚŚĞ ŝƚǇ ŽĨ KƩĂǁĂ ǁŝůů ŶŽƚ ďĞ ĚŝƐĐůŽƐĞĚ ƚŽ ĂŶǇ ƚŚŝƌĚ ƉĂƌƟĞƐ ǁŝƚŚŽƵƚ ŚĂǀŝŶŐ ŽďƚĂŝŶĞĚ ƚŚĞ ƉƌŝŽƌ ĐŽŶƐĞŶƚ ŽĨ ƚŚĞ ƉĞƌƐŽŶ ƚŽ ǁŚŽŵ ƚŚĞ ŝŶĨŽƌŵĂƟŽŶ ƉĞƌƚĂŝŶƐ͕ ĞǆĐĞƉƚ ǁŚĞŶ D&/WW ƉĞƌŵŝƚƐ ĚŝƐĐůŽƐƵƌĞ Žƌ ŽƚŚĞƌ ĂƉƉůŝĐĂďůĞ ůĂǁ ƌĞƋƵŝƌĞƐ ƚŚĂƚ ƚŚĞ ŝƚǇ ĚŝƐĐůŽƐĞ ƚŚĞ ƉĞƌƐŽŶĂů ŝŶĨŽƌŵĂƟŽŶ͘ ŝƌĞĐƚ ƐƵďŵŝƐƐŝŽŶƐ ƚŽ ƚŚĞ DŝŶŝƐƚƌǇ ŽĨ ƚŚĞ ŶǀŝƌŽŶŵĞŶƚ ĂŶĚ ůŝŵĂƚĞ ŚĂŶŐĞ ĂƌĞ ƐƵďũĞĐƚ ƚŽ ƚŚĞ &ƌĞĞĚŽŵ ŽĨ /ŶĨŽƌŵĂƟŽŶ ĂŶĚ WƌŽƚĞĐƟŽŶ ŽĨ WƌŝǀĂĐǇ Đƚ ĂŶĚ ƚŚĞ ŶǀŝƌŽŶŵĞŶƚĂů ƐƐĞƐƐŵĞŶƚ Đƚ͘ hŶůĞƐƐ ŽƚŚĞƌǁŝƐĞ ƐƚĂƚĞĚ ŝŶ ƚŚĞ ƐƵďŵŝƐƐŝŽŶ͕ ĂŶǇ ƉĞƌƐŽŶĂů ŝŶĨŽƌŵĂƟŽŶ ƐƵĐŚ ĂƐ ŶĂŵĞ͕ ĂĚĚƌĞƐƐ͕ ƚĞůĞƉŚŽŶĞ ŶƵŵďĞƌ ĂŶĚ ƉƌŽƉĞƌƚǇ ůŽĐĂƟŽŶ ŝŶĐůƵĚĞĚ ŝŶ Ă ƐƵďŵŝƐƐŝŽŶ ǁŝůů ďĞĐŽŵĞ ƉĂƌƚ ŽĨ ƚŚĞ ƉƵďůŝĐ ƌĞĐŽƌĚ ĨŽƌ ƚŚŝƐ ŵĂƩĞƌ ĂŶĚ ǁŝůů ďĞ ƌĞůĞĂƐĞĚ͕ ŝĨ ƌĞƋƵĞƐƚĞĚ͕ ƚŽ ĂŶǇ ƉĞƌƐŽŶ͘ EŽƟĐĞ ĮƌƐƚ ƉƵďůŝƐŚĞĚ ŽŶ :ĂŶƵĂƌǇ Ϯϭ͕ ϮϬϭϲ Ad # 2016-507-S_NoC Trillium_21012016 R0013650282/0121

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Essay contest winners offer ‘inspiring’ vision for Albion-Heatherington Erin McCracken erin.mccracken@metroland.com

Kallid Ibrahim was just 14 when he heard gun shots puncture the quiet. “There was a bunch of gangs, a

gun fight over there in the (Heatherington) park. It was very terrifying,” said Kallid, now 17. “It was teenagers fighting.” Once a beleaguered community, Albion-Heatherington – where Kallid has lived since birth – has slowly

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difference in the community through volunteering,” she said. “His essay is a fantastic example of what youth involvement can mean.” It’s not enough for adults to find solutions, Kallid said, adding it’s important for youth to have a voice. “Just getting involved in your community and making it more vibrant, for example, talking with the community residents ... and putting your ideas into a basket. “The more ideas, the more better for people so they can get an understanding,” he said. The contest emerged from Deans’ failed Albion-Heatherington revitalization pilot project proposal, that, with $250,000 in city funding, she

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been turning over a new leaf. “Now it’s a better community – the police taking away all the bad people, getting more involved in the community,” he said, adding that neighbourhood cleanups and community barbecues have helped. “It gets all the kids involved and takes them away from all the bad influences,” said Kallid, who is in Grade 12 at Ridgemont High School and hopes to attend a two-year practical nursing program at Algonquin College. These types of engagement activities, including volunteering, would be a long-term investment in bettering Albion-Heatherington, he added. His vision for positive change served as the focal point of his essay, which earned him top honours and $1,000 in the “Vibrant Communities equal Healthy Communities” youth essay contest launched last fall by Gloucester-Southgate Coun. Diane Deans. High school students living in the Albion-Heatherington neighbourhood were asked to submit essays exploring its theme. The competition was sponsored by Hydro Ottawa and judged by the South-East Ottawa Community Health Centre and the Boys and Girls Club of Ottawa. “Our first place winner takes the reader on a journey from the first paragraph,” Deans said of Kallid’s account during her New Year’s open house reception at the Greenboro Community Centre on Jan. 10. “His story of witnessing a troubling situation in his neighbourhood basketball court led him to want to make a

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said would have helped transform the community into a more familyfriendly setting, with a mixed blend of residential homes. Despite council voting it down last year, Deans said good things still came of it, including securing federal dollars – and as a result of this, municipal funding – for a community kitchen at the Albion-Heatherington Recreation Centre, as well as the essay contest. Her goal of hearing from local youth drew several “inspiring” essay submissions. “I wanted to hear from them – young people who live in the area themselves – how they can keep their neighbourhood a vibrant and healthy place to live,” Deans said. Second place was awarded to Abdulrehman Mattan, 14, who is in Grade 9 at the Ottawa Islamist School. “Our second place winner describes the transformative effect of volunteering for your community, whether that is through organizing local events, being a part of your community association or building a community garden,” Deans said while introducing the teen, who was presented with a $500 cheque from Hydro Ottawa. Abdulrehman said his community has improved since he moved there in 2006. The best thing about AlbionHeatherington “is that over time you get to know everybody. It creates a sense of family in the neighbourhood,” he said. Unfortunately, he said, the neighbourhood has a bad reputation – in part because of the clothing styles worn by several youth, including Abdulrehman’s 18-year-old brother. See NEW, page 13

New youth advisory committee to emerge from writing contest Continued from page 12

â&#x20AC;&#x153;The majority of my older brotherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s friends have their pants set down (below their hips) and they wear baggie hoodies,â&#x20AC;? the teen said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But if you get to know them theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re actually very wonderful people.â&#x20AC;? His ideas for change include getting to know oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s neighbours, beautifying the community with flower beds and trees, picking up litter and repairing sidewalks. Youth, he said, can be leaders and serve as role models for even younger generations. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Even though you might be young, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s always a way to give back to the community,â&#x20AC;? Abdulrehman said. His desire to help others doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t surprise his mother, Noura Warsame. â&#x20AC;&#x153;His personality is like that. He always likes to help everyone, and heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a very respectful person,â&#x20AC;? she said. Third place and a $250 cheque went went to Chelsee Pierre-Jerome, 16, who

attends Grade 11 at St. Patrickâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Catholic High School. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our third-place winner wrote about the power of knowing your neighbours and fostering a sense of belonging,â&#x20AC;? said Deans, adding the piece also touched on the importance of programming for young people in the neighbourhood. Chelsee, who has lived in Albion-Heatherington for the past seven years, wrote about the need for a recycling program and painting the tired, brown fences in the neighbourhood and holding resident meetings and community gatherings, such as barbecues and childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s activities in summer and winter. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think if it looked a bit better, it would inspire others to do better things in our community,â&#x20AC;? she said. In keeping with Deansâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; goal of giving young people a voice and inspiring them to become leaders and role models, Chelsee said she volunteers with a kidsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; cooking program at the AlbionHeatherington Recreation

Centre. Chelseeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mother, Josphe Pierre-Jerome said she is very proud of her daughterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s essay. â&#x20AC;&#x153;She was talking to me ... (saying), â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Oh mom, I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think everybody came from the same background. Sometimes maybe they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know the sense of community,â&#x20AC;? Pierre-Jerome said. Young people can offer valuable answers that can bring about positive change, Chelsee added. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re mostly directly involved in everything thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going on in our community,â&#x20AC;? she said, explaining that while adults organize events, they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t typically take part themselves. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So I think we know what to do best,â&#x20AC;? Chelsee said. YOUTH COMMITTEE

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s for that reason that Deans and representatives from groups that work in the area are hoping the contest entrants will come together to form a youth advisory

committee or association to develop ideas that can better their neighbourhood and engage their peers. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Any time those of us in a position of power can support a young person to have a voice, it is incredibly meaningful because theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re creative and innovative and have ideas and live this reality,â&#x20AC;? said Kelli Tonner, Albion-Heatherington-based

program director with the South-East Ottawa Community Health Centre. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When you empower them by giving them a platform I think it goes way beyond the cheques,â&#x20AC;? said Tonner, who will be telephoning all of the contest entrants to enlist their participation in the youth committee. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think these young people feel like theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been given a platform, to give

their input and their ideas.â&#x20AC;? She is optimistic each of the writers will want to get involved and contribute to their community in a meaningful way. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They will come because they are that interested in seeing things do better,â&#x20AC;? Tonner said. -To read the three finalistsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; essay submissions, turn to pages 14, 15, 17 and 19.

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I will never forget that day when I was at the neighbourhood basketball court; my outlook on the world changed dramatically. Youth from my community began to assemble; armed with weapons and ready to fight their enemies from another nearby neighbourhood. While the horrific violence flashed before my eyes, I could not help but feel saddened and powerless as I watched in disbelief. This tragic experience that happened when I was in 14 years old will help me answer this question of: How can we create a vibrant and healthy community? In this essay, I address the question above by offering

two recommendations that would make a community healthy and vibrant: volunteering and great communication amongst community leaders and community residents. I will provide three examples of how volunteering can make a community more lively and healthy. Finally, I discuss how strong communication between community leaders and community members can also play a vital role in making a community a healthy and exciting place to live. Volunteering is important to create communities that are spirited and healthy. Specifically, volunteering to make a community a safer place creates a healthy environment for everyone. For example, agencies such as Crime Preven-

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For instance, participating in community ‘cleanups,’ is a great way to feel a sense of ownership and pride of one’s community. In my household, at the end of every season, I help my Dad pick up any garbage in sight. Often times when neighbours see us tidying up, they always join us and get their children involved too. It truly becomes a fun and exciting task for everyone! This simple process of picking up trash encourages the children in the community to not litter. Thus, volunteering in community or self-led cleanups can help make AlbionHeatherington a more vibrant place to live in. Moreover, volunteering during community events is also a great way of establishing a vibrant and a healthy community. For example, Better Beginnings Better Futures hosts a community party in my neighbourhood parking lot every year in June. The entire community at large including first responders, community leaders, children, youth, seniors, and staff from social service agencies are all invited to enjoy a day of fun and laughter. This gives me and my family an opportunity to connect with all members of the community where the only difference between us is our silly face painting. Therefore, volunteering during community events helps improve community connectedness in AlbionHeatherington and also helps establish a foundation for the next important factor in creating vibrant and healthy communities: communication! Strong communication between community leaders and community members helps address community concerns. I believe good communication between leaders and residents aids the process of making a community a more healthy and lively place for everyone. It also fosters a welcoming environment. When community residents are able to communicate without fear of retaliation, this ensures that people feel comfortable sharing their ideas. For example, during the elections, I noticed that members

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Albion-Heatherington’s Kallid Ibrahim, 17, who is in Grade 12 at Ridgemont High School, won first place in Coun. Diane Dean’s inaugural essay contest on ‘Vibrant Communities equal Healthy Communities.’ The top three winners were celebrated during Deans’ Open House reception at the Greenboro Community Centre on Jan. 10. in my community had a strong sense of communication with community leaders in AlbionHeatherington. Community members were able to easily

voice their concerns to community leaders about what federal party was going to make the biggest difference for Albion-Heatherington. As

a result, the excellent communication during the elections allowed community members and leaders in AlbionHeatherington to be part of the solution on elections night! After witnessing the horrific event at the neighbourhood basketball court, it has made it clear to me that youth in my community need to be engaged in meaningful activities as volunteering in the aforementioned ways. How can we create a vibrant and healthy community? In this paper, I addressed this question by offering two suggestions that would make a community healthy and vibrant: volunteerism and communication. I provided indepth examples of how volunteering can make a community more vibrant and healthy. I also explained how strong communication between community leaders and community residents can also play an important role in making a community a healthy and lively place for all.

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Second-place essay shines light on value of knowing your neighbours Abdulrehman Mattan

What makes a good community great you might ask? Well here’s a list that will address your query: Taking Care of Your Community If everyone spared a moment of their day to pick up a piece of garbage, the outcome would be a really clean neighbourhood. Doing the little things such as picking up garbage, and removing vandalism can raise the morale of our neighbourhood and instill a sense of pride within the community. Getting To Know Your Neighbours It is very difficult for a community to be united if the people in it don’t know each other. There should be multiple yearly events such as community trips, parties, and movie nights that encourage getting to know your neighbours. If you personally know everyone in your neighbourhood then your community will be much safer, and happier too. If you can’t get to know everyone in

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Albion-Heatherington resident Abdulrehman Mattan, 14, left, smiles after he was awarded second place in the ‘Vibrant Communities equal Healthy Communities’ essay contest that was launched last fall by Gloucester-Southgate Coun. Diane Deans, centre. First place went to Kallid Ibrahim, 17, second from left, and 16-year-old Chelsee PierreJerome was awarded third place during a Jan. 10 ceremony. your neighbourhood, you can at least get to know everyone on your street. Volunteering I can’t emphasise how important it is to volunteer in your community. Without people putting in hours noth-

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Beautification, holding resident meetings focus of third-place essay Chelsee Pierre-Jerome

My original idea of a community was simply individuals living near one another. When I started writing this essay, I found a few definitions on Google that made me change my mind and helped me to understand what makes a great community and how small changes to mine could definitely keep it healthy and vibrant. A community was defined on Google as “a group of people living together” or “a feeling of fellowship with others, as a result of sharing common attitudes, interests, and goals.” First, a vibrant community must look nice and clean. The physical environment around us has an impact on the way you act. The nicer it looks, the more it will encourage us to have more of an appreciation for where we live. It will increase our willingness to participate in activities. In my community

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Albion-Heatherington resident Chelsee Pierre-Jerome, a Grade 11 student at St. Patrick’s Catholic High School, wrote an essay for Coun. Diane Deans’ inaugural essaywriting contest that earned the 16-year-old third place. Chelsee and her fellow winners were celebrated during a New Year Open House event hosted by Deans on Jan. 10 at the Greenboro Community Centre. we should get our fences painted a bolder and fresher color. They’re very dull and brown. I feel like repainting them would just change the

whole look of the neighborhood. Also, a recycling program would be a fantastic thing to have. Usually everything just gets thrown

in the dumpster. It would be much better for the environment and just having the option would make people more aware of how they’re disposing their garbage. These changes are something that would seem agreeable to everybody in the community and will revitalize the current look. Second, my community would be better if people knew each other, respected each other, and interacted more with each other. A good community is a place where we can respect one another and feel comfortable talking to other people. You feel safe around the people who live around you and act as a friendly neighbour to everyone. Our community is usually quiet but something we can do to prevent future conflicts is to have meetings every now and then for anyone that’s interested to know what it means to live in a community. There could be a committee that is made and they’ll

have the responsibility of organizing the program. These meetings will be extremely beneficial because our community is diverse, therefore not everybody has lived in this type of community before. It will help inform everybody on how to improve the community and environment around us. A third way to improve my community is by having more exciting and fun activities. During the summer time there could be community barbecues. We should also get our park updated and start with weekly activities for the children that take place at the park. During winter time there should be just as much activities to keep people occupied, particularly the youths. There are great things going on in the winter but there should be extra things added to the events that we already have just to make them more special. For example, in the winter we have an ice rink near

the park but there could also be hot chocolate that’s being sold. Having activities strengthens a community by giving everyone the opportunity to bond with each other and will help to create positive memories with one another. In conclusion, a good community is a place that looks admirable because it will encourage people in the community in a positive way. It is a place where everyone is amicable so that we could all feel safe and comfortable, as well as having an environment where there are lots of things to do especially for the youth in the community. I realized that what’s missing in most communities is a sense of belongingness that each individual should have regardless of our diversity and differences. Community is a fundamental aspect of our lives and each individual’s experience should be influential and memorable.

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Young poets and aspiring authors have the chance to hone their talents with help from the Ottawa Public Library. The library is hosting a number of workshops at its branches across the city to help prepare young writers ahead of the entry deadline for its 21st annual Awesome Authors Youth Writing Contest. Young writers, ages nine to 17, have until Feb. 15 to

submit their work for the competition. The workshops, which will explore poetry and short story writing, are free, but registration is required. Youth, ages nine to 12 years old, are invited to attend a poetry workshop at the Beaverbrook branch on Jan. 22, a short story workshop at the Carlingwood library branch on the same day, and a poetry and short story workshop in French at the North Gloucester branch on Jan. 29.

Teens, ages 13 to 17, are welcome to attend a workshop in French exploring poetry and short story writing at the St-Laurent branch on Feb. 6. And there will be a poetry and short story workshop on Feb. 13 at the Greenboro library branch. DETAILS

For details, go to biblioottawalibrary.ca/awesomeauthors, call 613-580-2940, or email infoservice@biblioottawalibrary.ca.

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Ontario is making hospital parking more affordable for thousands of patients, their loved ones and caregivers. As of Oct. 1, 2016, hospitals that charge more than $10 a day for parking will be required to provide five-, 10and 30-day passes that are: â&#x20AC;˘ Discounted by 50-per-cent off their daily rate â&#x20AC;˘ Transferable between patients and caregivers â&#x20AC;˘ Equipped with in-and-out privileges

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hey were all good neighbours, those along the Northcote Side Road. A helping hand always at the ready. They mingled over the euchre table at the Saturday night house parties, and ate in the same kitchen when they gathered for thrashing or wood-sawing days. And yet when it came to church, there was, what Father called, ‘the great divide.’ The Lutheran and United Churches in Northcote were where most of the social life of the community took place. And although both congregations joined together for events, there was often a “them and us” attitude between the two churches. Father, a staunch Lutheran, often complained that “Those Uniteds only give us the right time of day when there is a free meal in the offing.” Mother said that was sheer nonsense, because we Lutherans weren’t above filling our plates at the United Church suppers either! Take the annual Box Social for

MARY COOK Memories instance. It was always held at the United Church, sometimes in the summer, but often in the midwinter months, and we Hanemans never missed it. And that year, it was to take place as part of a Valentine’s Day celebration. Of course, anyone as young as I would not be taking a box for the party, but certainly my sister Audrey would be right in there. She made lists for days. Certainly, there would be butter tarts, and fried chicken legs, and a couple of Mother’s famous sticky buns. Packed in beautifully decorated boxes, the long table in the church hall would be stacked end to end, each one brimming with a delicious lunch, made by the young ladies of the community, and hopefully attractive enough to entice one of the young men at the

social to buy it. Some of the girls wrapped their boxes in Christmas tissue, which back then only came in red, blue, green or white, but the plainness was taken away with the use of plenty of ribbons and anything else a girl could put on the box to attract a buyer. He would then have the privilege of eating the lunch with the young girl who had made it. Of course, no one was to know who made up what box. My brother Emerson, who was much too young to enter into the contest, said it was like buying a “pig in a poke,” a phrase he picked up from Father when I wasted a whole dime on a grab bag at Ritza’s Rexall Drug Store, thinking I was getting a bottle of expensive perfume, and ended up with Lyndia’s Pink Pills for Pale People! The night of the party at the United Church, was bitterly cold. We bundled up like mummies, and headed out in the flat-bottomed sleigh, with Audrey holding her box, tightly wrapped in a spank-

ingly clean white tea towel, and then in a heavy blanket to keep its innards from freezing. I watched as she packed it. Two fried chicken legs, two of Mother’s sticky buns, butter tarts, and homemade brown sugar fudge. She wrapped it in white paper and coloured red hearts all over it with crayon. On top was a red bow, taken right off my washstand upstairs used to tie up my long red ringlets. She had washed and ironed it, and I had to admit, the box was a sight for sore eyes, and I was sure would be one of the first to be bid on. Well, after lots of frivolity, it came time to bid on the boxed lunches. Some were just in plain shoeboxes, but those like Audrey’s stole the show, and the bidding started. Audrey of course, was hoping a lad from the Barr Line she was sweet on would buy hers. Well, as it turned out, Orville, whose two eyes went in different directions, and one ear had been half ripped off in a fight with Two Mile Herman paid a full dollar

for Audrey’s lunch box. To say she was more than disappointed would be an understatement. She watched one of the Thom girls’ boxed lunches go to the boy from the Barr Line, but I was mighty proud of my sister who made the best of it. The evening ended up with a rousing square dance, then we gathered up the remains of the lunch box, and headed for home. On the sleigh Mother told Audrey she was mighty proud of her, and she pointed out how the lad had a wonderful smile, and looked as clean as a whistle. Father, sitting on a bale of hay at the front of the sleigh, could be heard saying, “Yes, and he’s a Lutheran too.” Audrey didn’t care what he was. As far as she was concerned the friendship with the lad from Admaston, began and ended at the Box Social on a cold frosty night at the United Church in Northcote. Interested in an electronic version of Mary’s books? Go to 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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Just last year, Judi Haines was lacing up her skates for the first time since she was a kid. Despite falling several times, she persevered, got up

and dusted herself off. “I was falling six times a day,” the Carson Grove resident said with a laugh. Today, the 76-year-old is hooked and skates five days a week at the Jim Durrell Recreation Centre on Walkley Road.

“The ice was taken off for a couple of months in the summer and then they put it back on before (baseball) was over, and I would leave the ball field and come here to be on the ice,” she said. Haines is organizing – and planning to part in – Ottawa’s

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inaugural Ontario Senior Games Association’s Prediction Skating Challenge. The challenge will see skaters in male and female categories aged 55 and up who will complete a three-kilometre skate, while participants 75 and up will skate 1.5 kilometres. Those 75 and up can actually compete in both distance challenges. Participants are required to guess how long it will take them to skate the required distance. They don’t need to be quick on their blades to compete or have fun. “It doesn’t matter how you skate or how bad you skate or how fast you skate, it’s just prediction anyways so anybody can win,” Haines said. The challenge is also not about trying to improve your time. “It doesn’t matter if it takes

me 20 minutes. If I’m closest to my time, I’m the winner,” she said. When she competed last year in a similar challenge in northern Ontario, Haines guessed it would take her about 11 minutes to complete 1.5 kilometres. She fell, and worried that she’d lost valuable time, she jumped back up and tried to skate faster. “If I’d just kept going at my pace I would have been about 11 minutes,” Haines said. “It doesn’t really matter anyway,” she added. “I was a winner because I went. I was a winner because I was actually skating. And I think as you get older, that’s the thing – it’s just fun.” Asked if it’s possible for people to cheat the challenge and skate at a certain pace to hit their targeted time,

Haines said the arena clock will be covered so skaters do not know how much time has elapsed. “They can try that, but they can’t wear (timing) devices,” she said, adding that while winners will receive medals, winning isn’t the point of the challenge. Members of the Ontario Senior Games Association can skate in the challenge at no extra cost. Everyone else is asked to pay the association’s $20 membership fee, which will make them a member for the year. The skating challenge will be held at the Jim Durrell arena, located at 1265 Walkley Rd., on Jan. 26, from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. To register or for more information, contact Haines by calling 613-741-5260, or emailing judihaines@sympatico.ca.

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Crowds, noise, kids, trolleys coasting past, bags circling on carousels – airports serve up a high-tempo environment for canines trying to sniff out trouble. Twenty police canines from as far away as Vancouver and Halifax converged on the Ottawa International Airport to put their noses – and their handlers – to work in a recent training exercise. The two-week session, which wrapped up Jan. 15, was the second police canine training course hosted by the airport, following last April’s inaugural four-day course. The focus this year was “train the trainer,” putting officers and their dogs through scenarios they can take home and share with colleagues. “You can have multidisciplinary dogs: explosive, drug, tracking, weapons, money,” said James Armstrong, the Ottawa airport’s vice-president of security, emergency management and customer

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Calgary police Const. Rod MacNeil trains with his police dog, Sabre, during a recent law enforcement canine training exercise at the Ottawa airport. transportation. “So we try to get across all of them and focus on the trainer and teaching behaviour patterns so they can go back and train their own folks.”

The focus of the recent course was putting the teams through off-leash and behaviour training scenarios. An airport offers a challenging environment, what

with crowds, kids and baggage carts. “The dog is off the leash and you have to rely on his discipline to do what he needs to do in a crowd,” said Armstrong, whether that is tracking an object, sitting on command or concentrating on searching a certain area. The Ottawa airport is the only one in Canada that brings in these specialty teams, allowing them to train in its public and non-public zones. “We’re the only airport they want to train with,” Armstrong added. “We’re also the only airport that offers a training environment where we allow them to move in amongst the passengers and the ground handling.” Part of the draw for the police participants was the chance to learn from the airport canine unit’s team leader, Stephen Kaye, former president of the Canadian Police Canine Association. Kaye is a world-renowned law enforcement canine trainer, Armstrong said.

The handlers and their dogs also spent one day during the exercise out at the old Hershey plant in Smiths Falls – a challenging work environment for the dogs with the many competing scents, he said. In addition to preparing the police teams for working in an airport in the event they are called in, the airport’s canine unit – all former law enforcement – also got the chance to work closely with local police, including RCMP, OPP and Ottawa police canine handlers. “When we do have a realworld emergency we’ve already established those rapports,” said Armstrong. The public was also treated to seeing upwards of a dozen of the working dogs during the recent training sessions. And while there wasn’t an opportunity to nab a criminal or sniff out any contraband, a large police presence can be a good thing. “A lot of these (handlers) come with their police cars. It’s very clear that there’s a heavy police presence at the airport,

with dogs,” Armstrong said. “So there is naturally going to be a residual effect from it. And that’s a bonus for us. There’s a lot of pros that come from doing something like this.” Airport officials are looking at making the training session an annual event, perhaps even twice annually. “We want to see it grow,” Armstrong said. DID YOU KNOW?

The Ottawa airport became the first airport in Canada to establish its own canine team five years ago, followed by Montreal’s airport. In having its own in-house canine team, the Ottawa airport has a distinct advantage in not relying on contracting the service of local police canine units, as other airports do. “You’re in competition with calls that are going on in the city for the use of that dog,” Armstrong said, adding this can mean hours-long delays.

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Local events and happenings over the coming weeks — free to non-profit organizations Fax: 613-723-1862, E-mail: Ottawasouth@metroland.com The deadline for community event submissions is Friday at noon. Email your events to ottawasouth@metroland. com.

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Enjoy stories, rhymes and songs for babies, up to 18 months, and a parent or caregiver at the Ottawa Public Library’s Alta Vista branch at 2516 Alta Vista Dr. Registration is not required. The next session happens Mondays until Feb. 8, from 10 :30 to 11 a.m. Play 4-hand euchre at Our Lady of the Visitation Parish Hall, 5338 Bank St. on Mondays from 7:30 to 9:30

p.m., excluding holidays. Partners are not needed. Complimentary light refreshments will be provided. Admission is $5. For details, call 613-769-7570.

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Enjoy family storytime featuring stories, rhymes, and songs for all ages and a parent or caregiver at the Alta Vista library branch at 2516 Alta Vista Dr. Registration is not required. The activities take place Tuesdays until Feb. 16, from 10:30 to 11 a.m.

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featuring stories, rhymes and songs for babies, aged 18 to 36 months, and a parent or caregiver at the Alta Vista library branch at 2516 Alta Vista Dr. Registration is not required. The next session happens Thursdays until Feb. 18, from 10:30 to 11 a.m. Teens, ages 13 to 18, are welcome to a drop-in “crafternoon” every other Thursday at the Alta Vista library branch, from 4 to 5:30 p.m. The branch is located at 2516 Alta Vista Dr.

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Rideau Park United Church, at 2203 Alta Vista Dr. Get moving, strengthening and stretching to the familiar beat of great tunes, each Tuesday and Thursday until March 3, from 9 to 10 a.m. All levels of fitness will be encouraged and supported by Faiza, our experienced seniors’ fitness instructor. Fees are $44 for eight weeks or 16 classes, and are payable at your first class. The drop-in fee is $8. There will be another session in March and April. For details, call 613-733-3156, ext. 229, or visit rideaupark.ca.

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The Barrhaven/Nepean & District Old Tyme Music & Dance Corp., is hosting its traditional old-tyme country music and dance on Jan. 16, from 7:30 to 11:30 p.m., in the upper level hall of the Walter Baker Centre, located at 100 Malvern Dr. Refreshments will be available. Musicians and those who love to dance, or just listen are welcome. Club memberships will be available. For details, call 613-859-5380.

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On Jan. 18 at 7:30 p.m., learn about Sharpening Your Gardening Tools with Caroline Dabrus at Top Generation Hall, located at 4373 Generation Crt. Learn what is needed and how to sharpen pruners, loppers and shovels. Admission is free and space is limited. Pre-registration is required by calling 613-749-8897. For more details, visit gardenontario.org/site.php/glouster/ about/meetings/.

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A panel on “Homecare… why it is not an easy fix” will feature Bob Cerniuk, chief executive of Carefor Health and Community Services, and Beverlee McIntosh and Zora Jackson, health professional members of the Ottawa Council of Women on Jan. 19 at noon at Rideau Park United Church, 2203 Alta Vista Dr. A light lunch will be available. For info call 613-731-2739.

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Learn about some of the more common fraud schemes aimed at seniors and receive tips on how to protect personal financial information. This session is ideal for retirees, caregivers or those holding power of attorney, and will be presented by Alice Yoch, CFP, investment and retirement planner at the RBC South Keys branch. The talk takes place Jan. 23, from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Greenboro library branch. Please register online at biblioottawalibrary. ca, or call 613-580-2940 for more information. The Ontario Genealogical Society - Ottawa Branch invites you to two events on Jan. 23. Join us from 10:30 a.m. to noon for “Genealogy: Back to Basics,” a short discussion on a family history topic followed by a question and answer session with branch members. This month’s topic will be on Ottawa Public Library resources. Then join us from 1 to 3 p.m. for our monthly presentation: “Alex Potvin and the Ottawa Fire Department.” Everyone is welcome to the free events at the City of Ottawa Archives, located at 100 Tallwood Dr. You are invited to a public lecture on “Does History Repeat Itself ?” at the University of Ottawa on Jan. 23 at 7 p.m. in the Marion Hall Auditorium, Room 150. Former Bulgarian journalist, political science professor Ivaylo Grouev, will focus on U.S. hegemony in the era of globalization. The 1.5-hour lecture with maps, charts and videos will be followed by a discussion. Hosting the lecture will be Cinema Academica and the Ottawa chapter of the Canadian Department of Peace Initiative. For details on sponsors and location, go to spiritwrestlers.com.

CLUES ACROSS 1. Women (French) 5. Hyrax 8. Distress signal 11. Trade 13. Large northern deer 14. The 3 Wise Men 15. Marten of N Asian forests 16. Hoover’s agency 17. Received an A 18. 2nd Islamic month 20. Light brown 21. Clarified butter used in Indian cookery 22. Frankness 25. Argentina’s capital 30. Citizen of Kenya or Zimbabwe 31. Noah’s boat 32. Family of languages in So. Africa 33. Inappropriate

38. Scientific workplace 41. Hungriness 43. Say to talk about an annoying topic 45. Sing and play for somebody 47. Strike buster 49. A citizen of Thailand 50. Civil Rights group 55. Honest Company’s Jessica 56. ‘__ death do us part 57. Malarias 59. Claim against another’s property 60. Mined metal-bearing mineral 61. Dashery 62. Capacity unit 63. Primary color 64. Indian dress

CLUES DOWN 1. Manuscripts (abbr.) 2. Netherlands river 3. Italian island 4. One’s own being 5. More adroit 6. Balkan country 7. Psychologist B.F. 8. Investment group Goldman ___ 9. Double curve 10. The plane of a figure 12. Ocean 14. Public presses 19. Civil Rights activist Parks 23. Cooking container 24. Arctic native 25. Founder of Babism 26. Bashkortostan capital 27. Bulky grayish-brown eagle 28. Louse egg

29. About sight 34. ___/Tuck: TV drama 35. Black tropical American cuckoo 36. Chest muscle (slang) 37. Expression of disappointment 39. One who assists 40. Antilles island 41. Served food 42. Egyptian Sun god 44. Performed successfully 45. Cavalry-sword 46. Abba __, Israeli politician 47. Jonas __, cured polio 48. The Muse of history 51. Express pleasure 52. Turkish leader titles 53. Castro country 54. Nobleman 58. ___ Lanka

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ARIES – Mar 21/Apr 20 Aries, do not allow distractions to keep you from completing tasks that need to get done. Use your ability to focus to plow through your to-do list and finish in record time. TAURUS – Apr 21/May 21 Taurus, this week you may be tempted to take risks you never would have considered before. Just don’t let excitement get in the way of common sense. GEMINI – May 22/Jun 21 Something totally unexpected will grab your attention in the next few days, Gemini. Trust your intuition to take things slowly and put out all feelers before you forge ahead. CANCER – Jun 22/Jul 22 Cancer, although you have a plan to reach all of your goals, do not put success ahead of others’ feelings. Be considerate of others even if their efforts are not up to par. LEO – Jul 23/Aug 23 Leo, proceed with caution in a new friendship or partnership. Test the waters before you devote yourself fully. This approach will ensure you made the right decision. VIRGO – Aug 24/Sept 22 Virgo, if the potential to be criticized scares you, you may not be inclined to express yourself honestly. Worry less about what others think of you and be confident in yourself.

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Russell Trails is an all-new neighbourhood in the historic village of Russell, just minutes outside Ottawa city limits, but still only five minutes further from downtown than suburbs like Kanata. At Russell Trails, you can own a beautiful ENERGY STAR® qualified single family home on a 50’ lot for about $100,000 less than you’d pay for an equivalent home in the city. There’s also a great selection of bungalows and semi-detached bungalows. And Russell offers great schools, sports, parks, and services–and a true community spirit you won’t find in the suburbs.