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Ottawa police fraud investigators are on the hunt for a London, Ont. man who is facing 16 criminal charges after they say eight different grocery stores in the city fell prey to quick-change scams last month. In each case, police say the suspect approached a cashier to purchase a small item. “Once the transaction is completed, he requests change for big bills, confusing and interrupting the cashier as he/she is calculating the amount,” police said in a statement on Jan. 29. “He then takes the money out of the cashier’s hands and starts counting it himself, placing some of the bills in his pocket while the cashier is still removing bills from the register.” In each incident, the suspect then placed several bills on the counter and threw some into the open cash register – a distraction that allowed the suspect to pocket more money,
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‘Rusty, you might be gone, but you won’t be forgotten’: Dewar Mark Garneau said he was surprised by the news Baird was stepping down. “As parliamentarians, we develop a bit of an instinct to know when some of our colleagues one day lose the sacred fire,” Garneau said. “If there is one person in this chamber whose passion never seems to have abated one second, who always had fire in his eyes and still has fire in his eyes, it is surely
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“The time has come to start a new chapter in my life,” he said. Baird has served in a number of cabinet portfolios, and has been minister of foreign affairs since 2011. He was first elected to represent Ottawa West-Nepean in 2006. Before that, he was a cabinet minister in the provincial government of former Ontario premier Mike Harris. MPs lined up to hug and shake hands with the outgoing minister before opposition MPs paid tribute to him on Tuesday morning. “John has served this place with passion,” said NDP foreign affairs critic and Ottawa Centre MP Paul Dewar. “He has served his electors well and if I might say Rusty, you
John Baird,” he added. Mayor Jim Watson released a statement Tuesday morning, responding to Baird’s resignation. “I want to thank Minister Baird for his years of public service to Ottawa, to Ontario, and to Canada,” the mayor said. “I always respected his desire to fight for what he believed in and for the residents of Ottawa whom he represented.”
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Hawthorne school opens doors to families in need Erin McCracken erin.mccracken@metroland.com
Principal Tom Macartney opens the doors to a small classroom at Hawthorne Public School. Inside, the desks have been replaced by garment racks filled with sweaters, pants, shorts and jackets, as well as tall shelving units lined with non-perishable food items, toys and books. More toys and stuffed animals line one wall of the transformed classroom, and shoes, boots and more reading materials are tucked below a chalkboard. Some items from the school’s new Community Cupboard, which officially opened Thursday, Jan. 29, have already been given away to students in need of warm winter clothing. Another child received a lunch box. Many of the parents of the 260 students at the kindergarten to Grade 8 school are struggling to make ends meet, some of them new Canadians who have left their lives and profes-
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Student teachers Evie Marshall, left, and Carly Sandell, right, organize shelves at Hawthorne Public School’s new Community Cupboard sional careers behind in their home countries. “And they’re coming here waiting to get certification or documentation they need in order to pursue their chosen professions in engineering or medicine or law and accountancy, that
sort of thing,” Macartney said. In the meantime, many are relying on social assistance while they are trying to find work in their field and at the same time raise their families. “And that money goes so far and at certain times of the month we know
there’s a greater need,” he said. “We hope we can take some of the stress out of the home.” The premise behind opening the Community Cupboard and providing supplies to the school’s families in need really began as a way to engage more parents in life at the school, located on St. Laurent Boulevard. After he was appointed last spring to his current role as Hawthorne’s principal, Macartney met with parent volunteers who spoke of the challenge of getting more parents involved in activities at the school, such as field trips, reading in the classroom or sharing their expertise with students. The majority of active volunteers are parents of the 75 children who attend gifted programs at the school – less than half of the entire student body. When Macartney began serving as school principal last September, he knew donated clothing and other items had been tucked away in closets, cup-
boards and other spaces throughout the elementary school – much of it donated over the years by parents, staff and other schools in the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board. “I think people have lost track of what was actually in there,” he said. Everything was placed in a vacant classroom last fall and University of Ottawa student teachers South Keys resident Karen Reyburn, Brittania resident Evie Marshall, Carly Sandell from Sandy Hill and Christina Smyth from Nepean, who are doing their work placements at the school, took the project under their wing. “I did not expect for there to be this much stuff. It’s absolutely amazing, and the attention that it’s already getting from the community and parents and students and teachers – I think it’s a little overwhelming in a great way,” said Marshall. “It’s a welcoming space. We’re excited about that.” See SUPPORT, page 7
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eemingly unbeknownst to many Ottawa residents, a $3.1-billion game-changer has been taking shape below ground. Construction of the $2.1-billion light-rail line has mostly been mostly invisible thus far, with very little impact on the downtown streets above. Almost 600 metres of tunnel has been excavated in Centretown and Sandy Hill. Despite being the largest infrastructure project in Ottawa since the Rideau Canal was built in 1832, many residents seem unaware of the mammoth project or what it will mean for their lives. Candidates for city council said people they met on the campaign trail late last year didn’t seem to have a sense of the overall project, and how it will change the city. Now, we have a tangible way to connect with what light rail will mean for Ottawa’s future. A replica of one of the 34 Alstom Citadis trains that will run down the 12.5 kilometres of track was unveiled at Lansdowne Park last week. People can view it every day until the end of March from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. at the Aberdeen Pavilion. And while they’re there, they
can get a sense of how Ottawa is about to change. When the trains begin running in 2018, transit users will be able to board every four minutes to ride the 13 stops between Tunney’s Pasture in Hintonburg and Blair Station in the east. For part of the trip, riders will be able to look out the window and see how proximity to transit prompts cranes to crop up on the skyline, building some of the city’s tallest buildings. When passengers disembark the trains downtown and emerge from the underground stations, they’ll see vibrant streets that will likely contain more bicycles than buses, since all the Transitway buses will be removed, having been replaced by more efficient underground trains. Wider sidewalks, patios and a host of businesses to serve the hordes should eventually spring up around the stations. In the meantime, the LRT construction is about to become a lot more real to people as the Transitway outside the downtown is converted to a rail line, forcing buses to be detoured. It might be hard to envision now, but take a trip to Lansdowne, step onto the train and take a trip into the future.
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esidents of Boston and Long Island and parts of the Canadian Maritimes might agree that it was an historic blizzard they lived through last week. Residents of Ottawa might sit here smugly watching other people battle storms while we bathed in sunshine (although not warm sunshine). But residents of New York, New Jersey and Philadelphia are wondering what all the fuss was about. How come all the roads were closed, the subways shut down, flights cancelled in those places and nothing much happened. Not surprisingly, weather forecasters are taking a bit of beating and reacting with humility. The U.S. National Weather Service director said his organization should have
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was repeated by CNN correspondents on the scene, each of them standing in what appeared to be normal surroundings. One reporter urged his camera to zoom in on the ground beside his feet, where he kicked at something that might have been a thin coating of slush. Maybe my screen wasn’t big enough, but it horrified him and it was meant to horrify us. Even more graphic was the guy who announced that he was going to show us what horror awaited us on the roads. With the camera pointed out the window, he drove down a highway. The wipers were on, but aside from that it looked like a normal gloomy February day in Ontario. Horror was not co-operating but the media folks would not be stopped. It was as if they had planned a trip into Jurassic Park, wound up in a petting zoo by mistake but hadn’t really noticed. On they would go, EDITORIAL MANAGING EDITOR: 4HERESA &RITZ
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h, Canada, we’re getting old. The average age of a Canadian in 2013 was 40. In 1971, the average age was 26. If this trend continues, Canada will be middle aged by 2027. The millennials I wrote about last week may not be as lucky as I thought. They should hit their prime just as the second cohort of baby boomers decides to retire and, as research suggests, millennials should bypass my generation (Gen X) to get top jobs. There’s only one problem: The baby boomers – especially the ones in top jobs -- aren’t retiring. Of course, some are. But there are a lot of hangers on. In many industries, this isn’t a bad thing. The old guys and gals have wisdom and experience. They can be great mentors, consultants and trainers. I’m not ageist. Did you know this is the first time
BRYNNA LESLIE Capital Muse in history that four generations have worked side-by-side? What diversity! I think it’s great. At the same time, in a country where career positions are slimming out and unionized positions are hard to find, the elders aren’t moving out fast enough to make room for youth. Look at teaching, for example. Every year, Ontario universities have graduated thousands of kids who qualify with the Ontario College of Teachers. And for the last
12 years or so, most of those thousands can’t find jobs in their own province, or even their own country. Many of the graduates are young and talented people who want a chance to make a mark in their careers – for which they’ve trained at least five years – and they’d like to make a dent in their student debts. After five years of university, they also deserve to start making steps toward their financial futures. But call them spoiled, call them privileged, call them what you will: Mil-
lennials are not starting out with the same opportunities as the generations that came before them. A big part of that is the boomers that refuse to call it quits from the increasingly rarified salaried positions. If you’re at least as old as the average Canadian, you may scoff. But let’s take a look at some facts. First, younger generations are required to train ever-longer for jobs that don’t exist at the end of their training. (Teachers being another great example now that Ontario has introduced a cash-grab policy of extending teacher training over two years instead of one – this after the kids already acquire a three-to-four year degree). No offence to teachers, for whom I have the utmost respect, but after achieving a high level of education, much of their training is really – and is desirably – on the job, not sitting in a university classroom listening
to irrelevant lectures on curriculum that won’t exist by the time they actually get a job eight years hence, But I digress. Teachers, engineering technicians, researchers – they all have to do “one more year in school to qualify,” all the while increasing debt. And then they graduate and there are no jobs. By the time many of them find and keep a career position in their thirties, they’re not only mired in debt, but they’re stuck paying for pensions of the three generations before them, with no time to save for their own. I get that people are living longer than they have historically. I understand that means some of us will be working well into our seventies before we get to retire. But for the boomers and many of Generation X amassing wealth, while simultaneously collecting pensions in the seventh decade of life, is a choice for many in secure, pensioned jobs. For the millennials who follow – unless unions enforce against double dipping – they’re in the penalty box
for another decade, waiting for boomers to die or move on. And when they finally land one of those prized career positions with benefits, they’ll be paying into pensions they may never collect, they’ll have nary enough to pay for housing in the meantime, and if they’re so lucky in good health (probably without publicly funded healthcare as it exists now), they’ll work until they’re octogenarians out of necessity, not out of choice. I’m not an ageist, but surely the boomers can retire, find hobbies, discover high-paying consulting positions, collect their fat pensions, and leave the salaried, pensioned jobs for the kids.
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Come September, 12-year-old Marco Tocchi will be playing with the big kids. Gone will be a 30-year-old wooden play structure and sand-covered playground at Clifford Bowey Public School that would have kept Tocchi and his wheelchair on the sidelines, once he graduates in June to the school’s senior program. Last week’s announcement that the school had won a $100,000 grand prize from the Aviva Community Fund will allow construction to go ahead this summer on the construction of a new fully accessible playground for senior students ages nine to 21 – funding that would have taken parent volunteers three to four more years to raise. “Now he’ll be able to play with whatever friend he wants to play with and go do what they’re doing,” said Marco’s mother, Cathy Lambert-Tocchi, a member of Clifford Bowey’s school council of parent volunteers. “It’s overwhelming,” she said of the news the project had earned enough online votes last December to win one of the top prizes in the competition. “It’s really, really nice because he can be part of it.” Teachers, staff and parents at the school, which services 104 developmentally challenged students ranging from four to 21 years old who live east of the Rideau River, waited with fingers crossed for more than a month in the lead up to the Jan. 27 announcement. Lambert-Tocchi suspected something was afoot when fellow parent volunteer Françoise Slaunwhite invit-
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Clifford Bowey Public School council chair Raymonde Barbeau, left, principal Laurie Kavanagh, and parent volunteers Cathy Lambert-Tocchi and Françoise Slaunwhite will soon say goodbye to the school’s outdated playground behind them. Their school won a top $100,000 Aviva Community Fund prize on Jan. 27 for the construction of a new accessible playground, which gets underway this summer. ed her to come to the school Jan. 27. “I knew there was something,” she said with a smile. Standing at the back of the gym, she held an iPad to videotape the assembly and held back her own cheers upon learning the school had won in order to better capture the excited re-
actions erupting around her. Still, happy tears welled in her eyes. Raymonde Barbeau, chair of the school council, screamed in delight and shock after learning of the victory just minutes before the news was officially revealed along with the names
of other grand prize winners on Canada AM’s nationally televised broadcast that morning. Since then Barbeau has repeatedly watched the YouTube video LambertTocchi filmed, which has since been viewed more than 1,000 times on the group’s Facebook page.
“I was on Cloud 10 watching them on Cloud 9,” said Barbeau, whose daughter Marie-Helene attends the school. Slaunwhite, who helped spearhead the school’s first ever community dinner and silent auction last November that raised $14,000 for the project, was the first to breathe a sigh of relief when Aviva representatives called her the week before. During the call, she told the two Aviva fund officials her daughter attends Clifford Bowey. “And then they said, ‘Well, Nathalie is going to have the best $100,000 playground that (the school) could ever have,’ and then they clapped in the background,” she recalled. “I was shaking. I’m sure I had a huge smile on my face.” The shock is only now beginning to give way to excitement. “Just the whole magnitude, it’s still sinking in for me right now, just what it means to the school and what it means in terms of how the school really came together and all of Ottawa and outside of Ottawa,” she said of the 6,299 votes received between Dec. 1 and 10 that placed the project among the top 20 entries out of more than 700 across Canada that competed for funding. “It just shows how concretely the support that is out there for our students and just for all of Ottawa.” The new play structure, which will feature ramps and a wheelchair-accessible picnic table as well as a specially designed swing, will be available for Clifford Bowey students during school hours and open to the public the rest of the time. “Our new play structure will allow full access, so our students who do use wheelchairs and walkers and have mobility challenges will be able to play alongside the students who don’t,” said principal Laurie Kavanagh. See SCHOOL, page 12
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The new play equipment and rubberized surface will give Slaunwhite’s five-anda-half-year-old daughter Nathalie a completely different play experience. The rubberized surface will cushion any falls, and without the sand to distract her, she will spend more time playing on the equipment. “So it is a playground where I can bring all of my kids,” the mother of five said. “The whole concept of the playground does make it inclusive. “Now this is a place where anyone who has a special needs child can bring their family to our playground and everyone can play.” The project would have taken several more years to realize without the community’s support, said Kavanagh. Last fall, the Community Foundation of Ottawa provided a $15,000 grant to the project.
And the school’s parent council generated almost $40,000 in the last two years, and is already looking to raise more money through the school’s annual swim-athon, from Feb. 9 to 20. Playground funding is also coming from the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board, and the school is waiting to hear back on additional community grant applications. “We couldn’t have done this alone,” Kavanagh said. “It really was a community effort.” SAFETY VILLAGE
The school’s principal already has her sights set on another large-scale project that will also benefit her students, helping them to learn valuable safety lessons in an interactive outdoor learning environment. Efforts will ramp up this spring to develop the design and budget for a safety village on a vacant plot of land
at Clifford Bowey. Then fundraising efforts will begin. “There’ll be some stop signs, stop lights, because we do have our adapted bikes, so the (students) can go out and bike on the paths that we’ll create,” Kavanagh said of the project, first envisioned by a school staff member who pitched the idea about two years ago. “We’re always trying to find new ways to reach them through equipment and technology and we rely heavily on our resources, such as our occupational therapist, our physiotherapist,” she said. “It’s important that we collaborate with them to make sure that we’re meeting all of the sensory modalities of our students.” To donate or to learn more, visit boweyfoundation.org. To view Lambert-Tocchi’s video taken the day the school learned it won the Aviva Community Fund prize, visit youtu.be/dzIMYNcuLCg.
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A victory for military families Well-known Ottawa resident and philanthropist Dave Smith, left, dons his military finery in his role as honourary colonel, alongside MC Evan Carter, during the second-annual Victory Ball at the Fairmont Château Laurier on Jan. 31. Organizers hoped the event would generate $40,000 in support of youth mental-health programs offered through the Military Family Resource Centre of the National Capital Region.
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St. Elias may extend daycare closure amid parents’ concerns Erin McCracken
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The imminent closure of the St. Elias Child Care & Family Resource Centre may be extended to Aug. 31, giving parents of children at the Mooney’s Bay Park neighbourhood more time to find other child care. The proposal that was to be considered by the parish council of the St. Antiochian Orthodox Cathedral the evening of Monday, Feb. 2, is said to include a $6-a-day increase in fees. And parents who stay on will be required to commit to a time period, possibly until Aug. 31. “A $6-a-day-increase, I think that’s a no-brainer,” said River Ward Coun. Riley Brockington, who helped bring together concerned parents and parish council members last week to hatch a plan that would give parents more time to make other arrangements. Parents say they were dealt a serious blow with the Jan. 20 announcement the St. Elias childcare centre would close on
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The closure of St. Elias Child Care and Family Resource Centre may be extended to Aug. 31 to give parents more time to find care for their children. Feb. 20. The parish council has said the daycare operation suffered financially for more than four months due to a 30 per cent exodus of children in the wake of the province’s full implementation of junior kindergarten last September. At least 40 children would have to stay on at the centre to make the extension feasible for the daycare operation, Brockington said.
“I think it’s great for the families that still need care, assuming they can afford it,” said Kim de Bellefeuille-Percy, a Mooney’s Bay Park resident who worked quickly after the announced closure to find care for her son and daughter in two other locations outside the neighbourhood. “It’s actually a lot of money.” The fee increase may be reasonable for those families who
don’t have other options, she said, adding that current daycare fees at the centre range depending on the age of the child. Her children started at their new daycares this week, and de Bellefeuille-Percy said her commute to her son’s new daycare on Tuesday morning was very long. “They’re not close together, right,” she said of her children’s childcare centres. Even with the proposed extension, she won’t move her youngest child back to St. Elias “because one transition is enough,” she said, but added she may consider signing up her school-age daughter, who has is now receiving before- and afterschool care at her school, for a March Break camp at St. Elias. “I want to be sure that this is going to stick,” de BellefeuillePercy said of the proposed extension. “If it’s going to fold in two months then forget it. So I’m going to wait and see until the dust settles.” Even if an extension is granted, the closure heightens the need for childcare in the area.
“I totally understand the need for this service,” Brockington said. “It is a fact that River Ward is underserved by licensed childcare centres.” Other possible locations for a new neighbourhood daycare were floated at a meeting on Jan. 24 between worried parents and municipal, provincial and federal politicians. Two sites that were discussed previously had daycare operations, including the Sir Charles Tupper Building on Riverside Drive and the Villa Marconi Long-Term Care Centre on Baseline Road. The Villa is considering two proposals, one from a Quebec consortium and another from “a reincarnation or incarnation of St. Elias, but some people think it could take up to a year to get all of the approvals,” Brockington said. Cara Oastler, a mother of two children who has been meeting with the parish council on behalf of concerned parents, confirmed the council was putting together an extension proposal based on input from parents
ahead of the council’s meeting Monday night. “Despite the fact that it was very disruptive getting the notice with only a one-month timeline, the board has been very, very accommodating and willing to work with us,” said Oastler, who has been encouraged by the collaboration between parents and the council. Since the Jan. 20 announcement, the experience has made Oastler realize how important it is for daycare operators and parents to work together. “I think it might be advisable for daycares to have parent representation on their board,” the Sandy Hill resident said, adding that if this had been in place at St. Elias then the recent eleventh-hour efforts possibly could have been avoided. Oastler planned to write government representatives with the suggestion. “Parents are the biggest stakeholder group here because we represent the families and the kids, and we’re very invested in making sure daycares stay viable.”
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Findlay Creek school funding expected this year: trustee ‘All that development and there’s not a single school:’ city councillor Erin McCracken
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Provincial funding for the construction of the first public elementary school in Findlay Creek is likely on its way this year, according to the public school trustee for the area. “The ministry is very likely to provide funding for the school in 2015,” Zone 7 public school trustee Mark Fisher said in an email. In a letter to Ontario’s minister of education, the new councillor for the Gloucester-South Nepean ward recently added his voice to repeated calls for provincial dollars – the final step needed to make the kindergarten to Grade 8 school a reality. “The commitment to build this school was a major factor in the
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great concern among all residents,” Coun. Michael Qaqish wrote in a letter dated Jan. 21 to Minister of
Education Liz Sandals. The community’s population has risen to about 7,800 people and approximately 2,500 homes, reason why the councillor has asked for the province’s “urgent support.” “All that development and there’s not a single school,” he said in an interview, adding that some families have moved out of the community due to lack of schools in the area, while others even now are considering relocating. “A lot of people were led to believe they’d have one by now.” “Firm assurances” that a new school would be built by 2014 were first made by the school board to residents in 2006 and have been repeated “virtually every year since,” Qaqish told Sandals, adding that the school board recently changed its priority ranking of the new school from third to fifth to eighth place. In the letter, he made mention that he understands the ministry will “consider and determine” funding for eight new schools in Ottawa, which have been included by the school board on a prioritized list. The growth in the community,
coupled with the Department of National Defence’s decision to not renew the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board’s lease of Elizabeth Park Public School at the former Uplands base past 2017 makes the need for a new Findlay Creek school very time-sensitive, said the councillor who ideally would like to see a new school open in time for September 2017. “That’s where the vast majority of kids in Findlay Creek go,” he said and referenced 2012 statistics that reveal 190 Findlay Creek students attended Elizabeth Park Public School that year. “We don’t want to be in the situation where we’re scrambling to … find a solution in the eleventh hour.” School board officials are expecting to hear soon from the province on capital projects “and I expect that the Findlay Creek project will be at or very near the top of the list given that Elizabeth Park Public School is slated to close in 2017,” Fisher said, adding that this closure will displace hundreds of schoolchildren – most of them Findlay Creek residents. See SOUTH-END, page 17
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For that reason, “we really are approaching an emergency situation because it takes time to complete a project like this from conceptual planning, permitting, construction and relocation,” said the school trustee, who, in the lead-up to the 2014 municipal election last fall, said he hoped the province would announce in February when the school would be constructed. A parcel of farmland east of the intersection at Kelly Farm and Findlay Creek drives has already been zoned for the school, and the school board has earmarked $1.3 million in its budget for the pre-design of the new facility. “I’m working hard to make this project a reality, and while we have experienced a number of bumps along the way, we are getting close to having shovels in the ground,” Fisher said.
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A site off of St. Laurent Boulevard is a good spot for a 44-bay transport truck depot, the ward’s councillor says. Alta Vista Coun. Jean Cloutier said a planned Apex Motor Express truck terminal at 1599 St. Laurent Blvd., at the end of Triole Street, fits the city’s plans for the industrial area near Belfast Road. “It is a good area for this,” Cloutier said. “It is zoned properly ... It’s a good development and a good use of land.” The facility would consist of a single-story, 2,178-square-metre building, including 224 square metres of office space. The site would be surrounded by a chain-link security fence. Only half of the property southeast of Triole Street is proposed to be developed at first, according to the site-plan application. The facility would provide good employment for people in the area, the councillor said, which fits with the city’s designation of the site as an employment area. The property, which is currently a vacant field, is neighboured by a heavy industrial equipment sales and rental
centre, two two-story office buildings and the city-owned former rail yard. An older single home in the middle of the industrial area abuts the proposed truck-depot site at the site’s northeast corner. No modifications to the Belfast-Triole intersection are needed in order to accommodate truck turns, according to a transportation overview submitted to the city. Cloutier did have one concern: what direction the truck drivers might take if they leave the depot and want to head eastbound, since there is no eastbound on-ramp for Highway 417 at St. Laurent. The city is now accepting comments on a site-plan application for the facility and Cloutier is encouraging area residents to contribute their feedback by emailing kersten.nitsche@ ottawa.ca.
This vacant property east of St. Laurent Boulevard and north of Innes Road is proposed to be developed into a transport-truck depot. The facility would only cover the eastern portion of the property (to the right) at first.
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Gang strategy will not cost ‘millions’: Crime Prevention Ottawa Alex Robinson
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and when they become a parent. The program’s facilitators will start working with gang members when they are inside prison to form relationships with them. Once they are out, the workers will try to help provide them with housing and family counselling. Worsfold said the organization is aiming to have up to 30 gang members leave their criminal past behind them every year. “They need to reimagine themselves as someone worthwhile in a completely different law abiding manor,” she said. Key to the process is ensuring they replace their criminal income with a legal job and that they form healthy relationships with non-gang related individuals, said Worsfold. “There need to be real viable options for them for a decent life going forward,” she said. Worsfold stressed that while the strategy aims to work with 30 gang members a year, the program can only help them if they are willing participants. The city should not expect to see immediate results, she said. “This is also a long process. Major life transitions don’t happen in a week or a month,” she said.
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Given the size of Ottawa’s gang population, the city’s proposed gang exit strategy will not require a price tag of “millions,” the executive director of Crime Prevention Ottawa said at a recent meeting. Ottawa has a gang population of 485, which works out to 55 gang members per 100,000 residents, said Nancy Worsfold, the organization’s executive director. Los Angeles has 45,000 gang members and a rate of 1,100 gang members for every 100,000 residents. “If you’ve got a client base of 45,000 you can spend millions. But in Ottawa, where you’ve got a potential client base that’s much smaller, you need a different approach,” Worsfold told the Crime Prevention Ottawa board of directors at a meeting on Feb. 2. Crime Prevention Ottawa declined to give specifics as to how much the program would cost, as it is waiting to see how much they can obtain from the city. “We’re working with the mayor’s office as well as other city departments to see how much money we can get,” said Coun. Shad Qadri, who
serves as chairman of the board. “At the present time we have not identified a number.” Crime Prevention Ottawa launched the Ottawa Gang Strategy in 2013, a long-term plan aimed at tackling gang issues. But the plan lacked an exit strategy to help gang members get back on their feet after they are released from prison. Prompted by a recent rash of gang shootings, Mayor Jim Watson recently announced he is working to secure funding for and exit strategy through the budget after the city saw 49 shootings in 2014. At the recent board of directors meeting, Worsfold unveiled some details of the strategy, which will be a “case management” program run in partnership with the John Howard Society and the Ottawa Community Immigrant Services organization. It seeks to provide adult gang members with a case worker who will deal with them on a one-on-one basis to make sure they get the services they need. Crime Prevention Ottawa has identified three specific times in a gang member’s life when they are most vulnerable to being steered away from gangs: when they leave jail, when they are seriously injured
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Colin Simpson, the city transportation planner in charge of the study, said Albion Road wasn’t included in the study due to affordability constraints in the transportation master plan. Other residents were concerned about traffic bottlenecks closer to downtown on Bronson Avenue. “If you put lanes on the parkway, it will impact Bronson,” said Bill Danson, who lives near Hunt Club Road. “You can’t just ignore it.” Travel patterns show that motorists who use the parkway aren’t all going downtown in the morning, so many vehicles will exit the parkway before it turns into Bronson, Simpson said. Jian Wu, who lives in South Keys, wondered about the possibility of using reversible lanes on the parkway, which would involve adding signals along the length of the road to indicate when more lanes are open for traffic heading downtown in the morning, which would then be reversed to ensure there are more lanes available for southbound traffic in the after-work peak period. That option would be very expensive, said Ron Clark, a consultant from Parsons the city hired to work on the project. Moreover, the visual impact of the required signals would conflict with the parkway’s designation as a scenic entry route into the city. And despite appearances, the traffic volume is fairly balanced in both directions, Clark said. The prospect of more traffic on a widened Lester Road troubled a number of residents, including Bev O’Hara, who said the traffic on Lester is already so heavy that she sleeps in her living room during the summer because the traffic noise is too loud in her bedroom facing Lester Road. “The noise that exists now is unbearable,” she said, adding the vehicle exhaust fumes are also an issue. Deerfield Village resident Sharon Haig said the city should consider the current difficulties that local residents have in turning on or off Les-
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Residents speak out during a Jan. 26 meeting kicking off a study on whether to add lanes to the Airport Parkway. Many residents who shared their concerns during the meeting questioned whether widening the road would lead to any improvements or whether it could cause more traffic issues elsewhere. ter Road in fast-moving traffic. Preservation of the green space and wildlife habitat in the wetland around Lester Road is also important to area residents, Haig said. O’Hara drew applause from the crowd when she said the road shouldn’t be widened at all due to the city’s investments in transit. “Why are we widening roads to make it easier for people to use cars?” she asked. “We spent millions and millions of dollars on alternative forms of transportation ... Why bother?” The Airport Parkway widening study is being done in conjunction with a study looking at extending the O-Train Trillium line south to Bowesville Road, with a potential spur to the airport. Still, there will always be a percentage of the population for whom transit doesn’t fit their needs, said Clark. Although Simpson said the study so far has focused on double-checking the transportation master plan data that demonstrates the need for the extra lanes, Clark said the study team will be sifting through public feedback and “making a decision on whether to move forward or not” in the coming weeks.
The project has been on the city’s “to-do” list for decades, Simpson said, and most people who offered feedback in advance of the meeting were in favour of the road widening. Airport expansion and paths
Simpson said he’s most excited about the other transportation options the road-widening projects open up. A network of pathways would be built alongside the parkway, including an extension of the Sawmill Creek path to the EY Centre convention facility. Pathways along the extended Trillium line O-Train route would also be planned to link into the parkway paths, Simpson said. The construction project would also allow the city to plan for new road links north of the airport, including a planned road that would connect the parkway to Uplands Drive north of the EY Centre. The plans also include a rough idea of where a new road could be built off Lester Road, east of the parkway, to facilitate development in lands owned by the Macdonald-Cartier International Airport Authority.
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Brookfield student residences questioned by residents Erin McCracken erin.mccracken@metroland.com
Two options are on the table for the first phase of a proposed student apartment complex for Brookfield Road to allow concerned residents to choose a taller structure in exchange for more of a buffer between the property and nearby backyards. Eight versus six storeys looked much more appealing to Shannon and Dave MacDonald, who joined more than 50 people at a public presentation on the project held at Brookfield High School on Monday, Feb. 2. “I don’t mind the higher storeys, but I really like them pushed back,� Shannon said following the presentation, attended by the project’s architect, Barry Hobin, officials with real-estate development company Redfoxco, which owns the property, River Ward Coun. Riley Brockington, River Zone public school trustee Shirley Seward and city planner Simon Deiaco.
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Riverside Park residents John MacDonald, left, and Larry Cassie discuss proposed plans for a student apartment complex on Brookfield Road prior to a public open house on the project that drew more than 50 people to Brookfield High School on Monday, Feb. 2. The six-storey design includes a 15.8-metre setback allowance between the complex and neighbouring backyards. An eight-storey option would translate into a 26.5-metre setback. Both designs would accommodate surface parking
and landscaping. The site is currently zoned for up to nine storeys. The eight-storey design is a trade-off the MacDonalds may be willing to consider in exchange for more space between the backyard of their home on
Egan Road and the back of three proposed apartment buildings that would accommodate 1,200 to 1,500 student tenants in 540 units. The first building would feature 180 units. “I like that extra distance,� said Shannon. “And they can
build in additional landscaping that gives us additional privacy, that extra space.� The public consultation meeting was just one step in the company’s bid to seek approval of a site control plan application. The current plan is for a six-storey structure. “I have to say it’s very rare to see two options considered during the plan’s review,� said city planner Simon Deiaco. Ottawa architect Barry Hobin, project manager Gavin MacDonald and Deiaco fielded a number of questions about the proposed development concerning parking, shading, noise from students, vehicles and ventilation systems, safety of homeowners and Brookfield High School, as well as worries over subletting and the potential for partying. There will be three rental options for one and two semesters as well as for the full year. “The benefit of this type of project is as an owner and operator, we’ll control that so the student doesn’t have to worry about subletting,� said Gavin
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MacDonald. Larry Cassie, who has lived on nearby Garner Avenue for 38 years, said he would welcome students to the neighbourhood, but the design of the back of the complex holds little aesthetic appeal to him because he said it resembles one big wall. Architect Barry Hobin said the residences will offer staggered sections and other design features. “It’s not like going to Barrhaven where there’s a little bit of brick on the front of the building and a vinyl siding behind,� he said. Unlike Cassie, Dave MacDonald is worried about being neighbours with students who won’t have a vested interest in the community. “The sense is that this is just going to be short term. People are just going to come in, go nuts and bugger off,� he said. “But with a condo it would be nice because there’s at least a commitment to the community.� See NOISE , page 23
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His brother and neighbour, John MacDonald, would prefer a mix of high rises and two- and three-storey townhomes in the area rather than what he calls “a long-term hotel.” “Bringing students in I don’t see how that’s going to be of any value to the community because students are there for one or two years so they don’t really have any, I believe, concern for the community because they’re not going to live in it for the rest of their lives,” John said. When asked for assurances that neighbourhood safety would be a priority for Redfoxco, Gavin MacDonald said the complex will have 24/7 security. “We cannot let it go down
… because if it is, if it gets that reputation, we won’t be able to rent it,” he said. The project was also met with optimism, with one man at the meeting saying he has watched over the last 10 years as doctors and dentists have moved out of the area, which has struggled to maintain its current retail sector. “I would personally hope that that kind of development would attract those kinds of resources back to our community,” he said. On the ground floor, the mixed-use development could accommodate a total of 1,393 square metres of retail and commercial space, including 464 to 557 square metres in the first building. “We feel strongly that the project is a connector in the community because of the
bicycle path, because of the pedestrian walkway, because of the link to the residents to the south, (and) that we’re all within that 600 metres of that … (Confederation Heights) train station,” said MacDonald, the project manager. “So the connectivity is important and the commercial will enhance that.” Redfoxco is hoping the first building in the project would be ready for September 2016. The public has until Feb. 22 to provide feedback on the proposal to city planner Simon Deiaco by calling 613-580-2424, ext. 15641, or emailing simon.deiaco@ottawa.ca. To view the plans, visit ottawa.ca/devapps and enter ‘770 Brookfield Road’ in the search field.
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Technology upgrades planned for six libraries Ottawa Public Library tables $45.1-million budget Laura Mueller laura.mueller@metroland.com
The Ottawa Public Library plans to spend $45.1 million in 2015, including money for planning a new central library branch and upgrading technology for several local branches. The Carp, Constance Bay, Fitzroy Harbour, Elmvale Acres, Ruth E. Dickinson and St. Laurent branches are slated to be upgraded to RFID technology (radio-frequency identification), which streamlines the process of checking materials in and out. The technology, which the library began rolling out in 2012 starting with the Hazeldean branch, is aimed at freeing up staff time and speeding up the task of processing books and other library materials.
equipping staff in branches that are using the RFID technology, DÊsormeaux said. No service or staff reductions are planned for the library in 2015, she said. Although the Ottawa Public Library has been facing shortfalls in its expected $150-million annual revenue from overdue fines, DÊsormeaux said the introduction of online payment is expected to improve fine collection, as is the recent re-opening of the busy Beaverbrook branch. Still, the library is accounting for less revenue from fines in the future. Most of the reduction in anticipated revenue will be offset using funds from the library’s expected $1.03 million budget increase, DÊsormeaux said. Most of that increase, $625,000, will go towards contractual salary increases. Another $85,000 will boost the maintenance and grounds-keeping budget. Citywide budget consultations are set to take place from Feb. 4 to March 1. Details for meetings across the city are posted on ottawa.ca. The library board is expected to approve the budget at its meeting on March 3.
in March. The library is also getting the ball rolling on a new library branch to be built somewhere in Gloucester-South Nepean Ward. The branch, which likely wouldn’t open until 2018, will be funded through development charges the city collects when new homes are built in the area. Other improvements planned for 2015 include $70,000 to extend an entrance canopy at the Carlingwood branch, as well as $35,000 for new furniture and equipment – possibly computers or Chromebook tablets – for the soon-to-be-expanded Constance Bay FILE branch. Those are two of the smaller projects The proposed 2015 Ottawa Public Library budget includes technology upgrades for RFID (radio-frequency identification) tracking systems to library staff intends to complete using $785,000 in leftover capital funds. streamline material sorting at six branches across the city. That money has been sitting in several The proposed library budget tabled other partner that could help provide a accounts since as long ago as 2010 due on Jan. 28 also includes $240,000 to location and building for a new central to a variety of reasons, including that some projects cost less than anticipatcontinue planning for a suggested new library. A consultant is currently working ed and other projects were abandoned main library branch. The idea, which was part of Mayor Jim Watson’s re- on a business case for the new main due to changing the library board and election platform, would likely lead library and Watson said in his state-of- city council changing strategies, said to a partnership between the city and the-city speech on Jan. 28 that public Monique DÊsormeaux, the library’s a private developer or business or an- consultations on the project will begin manager of corporate services. The rest of the money will go to a number of small, mostly technology-based initiatives focused on better
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Capital cracks snowman record Hundreds of people descended on TD Place in Lansdowne Park on Sunday, Feb. 1 to help break the Guinness World Record for most snowmen built in an hour. In total, the crowd constructed 1,299 one-metre snowmen, each with two arms, two eyes and a nose. It was tough going for the builders; with only light, fluffy snow to work with instead of the more stable packing variety, many snowmen looked more like snowblobs – or, as TV personality Rick Mercer put it, “snow pyramids with arms.” The event raised awareness and funds for mental health resources like the Dave Smith Youth Treatment Centre and Do It For Daron.
Above, Torrey MacPherson (aka Duff Man) and his Jack Astors management team Matt Blackburn and Jeff Stanton scramble to build their snowmen as part of a group effort to break the Guinness World Record.
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Horse-drawn sleigh rides. The crisp sound of skates on ice. Children laughing in the snow. Family Day in Ontario is just around the corner, signalling the return of the South Keys Greenboro Community Association’s Family Day Winter Festival. “It’s very exciting this year because we’ve gone bigger,” Barbara D’Amico, association president, said of the fifthannual outdoor event that is scheduled for Monday, Feb. 16, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., at Pushman Park. In addition to offering a
diverse selection of activities and games that have annually drawn hundreds of people to the park, this year’s festival will feature several new additions, including a petting area with donkeys and miniature horses brought in by 710 Excursions, which is also providing sleigh rides. “So kids are going to be able to actually ride small ponies,” D’Amico said excitedly. Also new this year, an entertainer from Orbital Talent will bring smiles to people’s faces as he juggles and creates fantastical balloon creatures. He’ll also don skates and entertain on the ice. “He’s going to be a fun, goofball kind of guy and he’s going to entertain everybody,” she said. “We’re really excited about him.” There will be plenty to eat and drink during the special day. The 137th Ottawa Scouts will host a campfire and serve marshmallows and hotdogs for a nominal cost, while Alterna Savings and Credit Union will
provide steaming cups of coffee and hot chocolate, as well as snacks. Festival-goers will get the chance to sample a new sweet treat during the gathering. Pre-made maple taffy will be served up in small cups of snow for $1 each. “It’s going to be as authentic as you can possibly get,” D’Amico said. Tried-and-true staples of the outdoor festival will include the highly anticipated chili cook-off. Residents from the community will once again be bringing steaming hot homemade chili for everyone to try. The crowd favourite will be awarded a prize, courtesy of Gloucester-Southgate Coun. Diane Deans. The Family Day celebration will also give many residents the opportunity to see inside the Pushman Park field house for the first time. Its opening was delayed due to concerns over the design of the structure’s roof. See FAMILY, page 28
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Families enjoy a beautiful sunny winter’s day on the ice at Pushman Park during a past Winter Festival hosted by the South Keys Greenboro Community Association. The volunteer-based organization will host its fifth-annual outdoor community celebration on Family Day, Feb. 16.
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It was hoped but not guaranteed that the heated and lighted structure would be available in time for the winter carnival, and D’Amico said she couldn’t be happier that the room is finally ready for people to change into their skates – during the festival and anytime they’d like to use the outdoor rink at the park.
A winter carnival also isn’t complete without a visit from winter royalty. “Another big, big draw is we will have an ice queen and ice princess coming to take pictures and say hello to all the people in the neighbourhood,” said D’Amico, referring to two characters from Glass Slipper Princess Parties, who will be visiting with festival-goers from 11:30 a.m.
until 1:30 p.m. They will be posing for photographs and handing out autographed sheets to their young fans. Also on the lineup will be radio station Boom 99.7’s Dylan Black, who will be MCing the winter showcase. Games and activities will include tug of wars, parachute games, and snow painting. The event relies on the ef-
forts of more than 20 volunteers from the association, Alterna and the community, including several local teenagers, who will be coming to run hockey activities and other on-ice games, such as a shoot-to-win contest. Last year’s Family Day Winter Carnival drew between 150 and 200 people from the community. “That’s the part that motivates me,” D’Amico said. “And I get all mushy and gushy because the more people talk to each other and they get together as a community, the more I’m happy.” Families in South Keys and Hunt Club Park need not look any further than their own neighbourhoods to spend the
long weekend embracing winter with friends, relatives and neighbours, D’Amico said. For the first time, the South Keys Greenboro Association and the Hunt Club Park Community Association are crosspromoting and supporting each other’s festivals, which take place the same weekend on different days. Hunt Club Park’s SnowBlast Winter Carnival happens Saturday, Feb. 14 at Elizabeth Manley Park, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The local celebration is being held in conjunction with Canada-wide community hockey events to mark Hockey Day in Canada. “So we’re going to go to theirs and they’re going to go
to ours,” D’Amico said, adding the associations, whose communities are neighbours, often collaborate on initiatives. It only made sense to support each other’s outdoor winter party. “The more the merrier,” she said. “It’s a winter extravaganza in South Keys-Hunt Club.” Admission to the South Keys Greenboro Community Association Family Day Winter Festival is free. Nonperishable food items and monetary donations will be accepted in support of the Pavilion Food Bank. Pushman Park is located at 1270 Pebble Rd. For more details on the event, visit southkeysgreenboro.com.
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Children paint the snow at Pushman Park during a previous Winter Festival hosted by the South Keys Greenboro Community Association. The group will host its annual celebration at the park on Family Day, Feb. 16.
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Battle of Ontario raffle to support guide dogs Emma Jackson
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Two lucky hockey fans can get up close and personal with the Sens as they cream the Leafs in March, thanks to an insurance broker in Manotick. Co-operators broker Bill McDonald has donated his season’s tickets in the 100-level of the Canadian Tire Centre for the next Battle of Ontario matchup between the Ottawa Senators and Toronto Maple Leafs on March 21. Worth $235 each, the tickets will be raffled off at $10 per ticket in support of the Canadian Guide Dogs for the Blind, headquartered in Manotick. “The Battle of Ontario is just great, and it’s almost a guaranteed sellout all the time,” McDonald said. “(Spectators) pay a fortune to be up in the 300 level.” His tickets, however, are in the 100s, “Just up from the net,” McDonald said. “You’ve got a good view.” The raffle prize includes a parking pass, and can be ac-
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Orléans hosted Prime Minister Stephen Harper on Jan. 25 as he gave a lengthy speech to riding association members and invited guests at a private event at Garneau high school. The packed auditorium welcomed the prime minister, whose attendance wasn’t announced until a few days prior. The event was billed as a winter carnival hosted by Ottawa-Orléans MP Royal Galipeau and the prime minister’s wife, Laureen Harper. Both Galipeau and Laureen spoke briefly, but the spotlight was on the prime minister, who gave a speech touching on a variety of topics as he appeared to be in full campaign mode. “The measure of good government, the true test of leadership, lies not in achieving success in times of stability and peace, but doing so during times of risk and gain,” Harper said. “Our Canada
is moving in the right direction.” He switched back and forth from French to English several times in front of the bilingual crowd, which included families with young children who played with Conservative party-branded balloons in the aisles. Harper said Canada has seen five years of steady economic growth and employment numbers are up, but challenges still exist in the energy sector and for young job-seekers. He also discussed the party’s anti-terrorism bill, introduced later the same week. “Jihadist terrorism is not a future possibility, it is a present reality,” Harper said. “Violent jihadism is not simply a danger somewhere else. It seeks to harm us here, through horrific acts like deliberately driving a car at a defenceless man.” He said the proposed legislation contains measures to give police and security agencies tools to fight terror-
ism. “This future is taking shape before us and we will not rest until our job is done,” he said. The crowd gave standing ovations and large rounds of applause following several of the prime minister’s talking points. Conservative member Galipeau currently holds the seat in Ottawa-Orléans with, but he will be challenged in this year’s election by retired lieutenant-general Andrew Leslie. Liberal supporters believe Leslie is capable of winning the riding.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper addresses the crowd of Conservative party supporters during an event largely attended by riding association members on Jan. 25 at Garneau high school. Brier Dodge/Metroland
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PLANNING A LEGACY GIFT AS PART OF YOUR ESTATE PLAN CAN HAVE POSITIVE TAX BENEFITS Did you know that you can designate a charitable organization as the direct beneficiary of a part or all of your retirement funds? By Paul St. Louis, LL.B, TEP Vice-President, Doherty & Associates
Many people who have been faithfully putting away funds regularly into registered retirement savings plans are only peripherally aware of the large embedded tax liability within these funds. For those holding such plans, the general idea is to draw on these funds later in life (you must begin doing so in the year following the year in which you turn 71) when your taxation rate may be lower. When the funds come out of the
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he beginning of a new year, for most of us, is a time to reflect on the year that has just past. As a writer, I look back at many columns I should have done differently, and there are one or two which would have been better had they never seen the light of day. However, there is little that can be done about either case at this late date. What I can do, with the gracious consent of my long suffering editor, is tell my readers a few of the things that continue to make my work both challenging and gratifying, and certainly interesting. Perhaps in doing so, I can enlighten those who have asked questions, given me advice, and shared with me, their own stories over the year. There were columns, some more than others, which elicited questions from readers on those people I write about.
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him. One of the most cherished readers the column has elicited is a young man, still in his early teens, who had his father drive him all the way from his home in the Upper Ottawa Valley to meet me. What an honour that was. It is heartwarming indeed to know that my simple stories appeal to people of all ages, and this young man proves to me that memories told, hold no boundaries and appeal to people of all ages. Just a few days ago I was sent a picture of a very young girl, curled up on a couch, reading a Mary Cook story. And so I go into another year with gratitude and with hope. I am truly grateful to this paper for giving me the privilege of telling my stories. I am indebted to those loyal readers who take the time to send their feedback. I appreciate that the families left, of those who have passed on, have given me permission to continue to include their loved ones in my stories. See EVERY, page 47
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“It’s kind of funny. It’s like it’s just not an experience without having (de Haitre) there with me,” Blondin said in an interview made available by the Ottawa Sports Awards. “I couldn’t be happier than to have him by my side receiving this award.” Both competed in the Winter Olympics, and Blondin has had an amazing season on the World Cup circuit – she’s currently ranked first in the world in the mass start event. De Haitre is a double threat, as an international competitor in both speed skating and cycling, competing in the Commonwealth Games as a cyclist following his Olympic debut at only 19. “It makes it that much more special,” de Haitre said of being honoured alongside Blondin. “Two local athletes from the same club who both move to Calgary, join the national team, reach our goals by making it to the Olympics, and now we’re looking forward to a long road ahead.”
The Cumberland native has also trained with the Ottawa Bicycle Club. He credited his dual sport success to youthful enthusiasm and ‘ignorance is bliss.’ Blondin said winning the award named after another Ottawa successful speed skater – Kristina Groves – was special for her. Groves was a multi-time winner of the award. FOOTSTEPS
“Seeing that she’s gotten it in the past, to me, it makes it a little bit more meaningful. It’s almost as if I’m following in her footsteps, and I guess if I’m female athlete of the year, it means I’m on the right track,” Blondin said. “It’s cool for me to be able to say I’m that much closer to potentially being a world champion and being half as great as Kristina Groves was.” The Carleton Ravens men’s basketball team won the male team of the year award – an honour they’ve taken home nine of the past 12 years.
The Rachel Homan rink also repeated as the female team of the year award winners, which they’ve won four of the past five years. Male coach of the year was also from men’s basketball, but this time from the University of Ottawa, as James Derouin, the Gee-Gees coach, took home the award. The Ottawa native captained the GeeGees as a player years ago. The female coach of the year was Kanata’s Claudette Faubert. The Special Olympics track and field team coach works with one third of the athletes who were selected for the national team for next year’s Special Olympics World Games. The volunteer coach is also a Special Olympics snowshoeing coach. While the major award winners were announced, one athlete from every single sport as well as athletes from every team that won a provincial or national title were also honoured. In all, more than 100 awards given out to the city’s best amateur athletes.
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PETRIE (ID# A175545)
Meet Petrie (A175545), a fun-loving pointer who’s ready to find a jogging partner for life! Petrie is a very active boy who would be a wiz at keeping you on track with you New Year’s resolutions. He is also super smart and would love to have an owner who will ensure he stays challenged with lots of fun, durable toys. Petrie would enjoy bonding with you at an OHS obedience classes and already knows how to sit like a true gentleman for treats! He’s a cuddle bug who would do best as the only animal in a household — he wants all your love to himself! For more information on Petrie and all the adoptable animals, stop by the OHS at 245 West Hunt Club Rd. Check out our website at ottawahumane.ca to see photos and descriptions of the animals available for adoption.
Every letter, every email is cherished, and all are answered. Although I often have to rely on email if an address is lacking, I am an inveterate letter writer, and I am sure one of Canada Post’s best customers. And so it is with heartfelt gratitude to you, devoted readers, who are the real heroes of my stories, that I give my thanks.
Without you, there would be no reason to write of my memories of that special time in my life. And of course, for this paper for giving me a venue, I offer my appreciation. May 2015 be a time when you too will want to make note of those times in the year, which were special to you, and may you remember those people who will have touched your days in a meaningful way,
so that they too will become cherished memories, and become part of the fabric in your own book of life. Interested in an electronic version of Mary’s books? Go to smashwords.com and type MaryRCook for e-book purchase details. If you would like a hard copy, please contact Mary at wick2@sympatico.ca.
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February is Spay/Neuter month. This month, make the most important decision you can make for your pet’s life. It’s a simple fix. Spaying or neutering your pet may not seem like a big priority, but putting it off, or deciding against it, can lead to bigger problems than you’re bargaining on — for you, your pet, and your community. How great are the rewards? Well, let us tell you... 1. Your pet’s health will benefit Spaying helps prevent uterine infections and breast cancer, which is fatal in about 50 per cent of dogs and 90 per cent of cats. Spaying your pet before her first heat offers the best protection from these diseases. Neutering your male companion prevents testicular cancer, if done before
six months of age. 2. Your pet’s behaviour — and your sleep — will be snefit! Unspayed felines can go into heat every three weeks during breeding season, yowling at all times of day and night as they seek out mates. Intact males tend to roam widely, escaping from houses and yards and risking injury in traffic and fights with other males. They mark their territory by spraying strong-smelling urine all over the house. Many aggression problems can be avoided by early neutering. Neutered animals, on the other hand, tend to focus more attention on their human families. 3. Your pocketbook will thank you Spay/neuter is a one-time cost. It’s a lot less than vet bills to treat your unaltered cat after it gets into a fight
Please note: The Ottawa Humane Society has many other companion animals available for adoption. Featured animals are adopted quickly! To learn more about adopting an animal from the Ottawa Humane Society please contact us:
Website: www.ottawahumane.ca Email: Adoptions@ottawahumane.ca Telephone: (613) 725-3166 x258
with a neighbouring tom, or the ongoing cleaning bills to rid the house of urinemarking odours. 4. Your community will thank you Every year across our country, hundreds of thousands of cats and dogs of all ages and breeds are abandoned. We see it every day at the Too many suffer as strays; too many are euthanized. These high numbers are the result of unplanned litters that could have been prevented by spaying or neutering. Even just one litter, and even if you can find them homes... those are homes that could have been taken by homeless animals in need. This month, help the Ottawa Humane Society spread the word. Spaying and neutering is not just a good idea, it’s a lifesaving choice.
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Local events and happenings over the coming weeks — free to non-profit organizations Fax: 613-224-3330, 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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located at 2516 Alta Vista Dr. For more information, call 613-580-2424, ext.30426.
Feb. 7
Whitestone Clinic is hosting a Facing Heartbreak spousal support group every Monday until mid-February at 6 p.m. The 12-week drop-in support group launched Nov. 24. Participants are asked to contact the coordinator and to purchase the book, Facing Heartbreak: Steps to Recovering for Partners of Sex Addicts. The clinic is located at suite 217, 38 Auriga Dr. For details, email the clinic at contact@whitestone.clinic.
A masked carnival five-course dinner and dance, the only Venetian-style carnival by the Italian Community in Ottawa, is being presented by the Fogolat Furlan Italian Club at St. Anthony Soccer Club, located at 523 St. Anthony St., at 6:30pm. Everyone is welcome. Tickets are $55 per person. Prizes will be awarded for best costumes. Entertainment will be provided by Orchestra Duo Oz. For tickets, call Frank at 613-521-8437.
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The Ottawa Humane Society Auxiliary is looking for new members. The next meeting will be held at 1:30 p.m. on Feb. 5 at the shelter, located at 245 West Hunt Club Rd. Refreshments will be served and everyone is welcome. For more info, call Linda at 613825-1621, or go to facebook. com/OttawaHumaneSocietyAuxiliary.
Feb. 5, 12 and 19
The Alta Vista branch of the Ottawa Public Library will host Toddlertime, featuring stories, rhymes and songs for babies ages 18 to 36 months and a parent or caregiver. No registration is required. The sessions run from 10:30 to 11 a.m. The library branch is
A Black History church service will take place at Riverside United Church on Feb. 8, beginning at 11 a.m. The service will feature guest speaker Jean Peart. Everyone is welcome. There will be a coffee hour after the service. The church is located at 3191 Riverside Dr. The Fairlea Community Association will be holding its annual Winterfest at Fairlea Park on Fairlea Crescent on Feb. 8, from noon to 3 p.m. Everyone is welcome to come and enjoy various winter activities. Halal food and hot chocolate will be served for a nominal price.
Feb. 9
The Alta Vista branch of the Ottawa Public Library will
host Monday Babytime, featuring stories, rhymes and songs for babies up to 18 months and a parent or caregiver on Feb. 9, from 10:30 to 11 a.m. No registration is required. The library branch is located at 2516 Alta Vista Dr. For more information, call 613-5802424, ext.30426.
Feb. 10 and 17
The Alta Vista library branch will host Family Storytime, featuring stories, rhymes and songs for children of all ages and a parent or caregiver. No registration is required. The sessions run from 10:30 to 11 a.m.
Feb. 10 and 24
Drop in with your knitting and share advice, ideas and conversation with other knitters The free sessions run from 7 to 8:30 p.m. every second and fourth Tuesday of the month from September to August. The next gatherings of the Greenboro Knit Wits take place Feb. 10 and 24 at the Greenboro branch of the Ottawa Public Library, located at 363 Lorry Greenberg Dr. For more details, call 613580-2940.
Feb. 11 and 18
The Alta Vista branch of the Ottawa Public Library will host Wednesday Babytime, featuring stories, rhymes and songs for babies up to 18 months and a parent or caregiver. No registration is required. Program-
ming is from 11 to 11:30 a.m.
Feb. 12
The Ottawa South Women’s Connection and Stonecroft Ministries hosts an event on Feb. 12, from 9:30 to 11 a.m., featuring a faith story, singer, door prizes and refreshments at the Fred Barrett Arena, located at 3280 Leitrim Rd. Door prizes will be available. Admission is $5. Call 613-2490919 for details.
Feb. 13
The Alta Vista branch of the Ottawa Public Library invites children ages six to 12 to participate in Valentine’s Day crafts. Registration for the program requires a valid library card for each registrant. The event runs from 2 to 3 p.m. The library branch is located at 2516 Alta Vista Dr. For more information, call 613-5802424, ext.30426. The Strathcona branch of the Royal Canadian Legion hosts its second-annual Chili Cook Off on Feb. 13. To enter, call the branch by Feb. 11 at 613236-1575. Everyone is invited to sample the chili in exchange for donations to local cadets. The branch is located at 1940B Bank St.
Feb. 14
A free bra-fitting clinic will be held every second Saturday of the month at Milo Mode Women’s Consignment Bou-
tique, located at 2901 Bank St. in Blossom Park. Women will be fitted and measured for their correct bra size by a certified bra fitter from The Ottawa Bra Clinic. Women are also invited to attend and ask questions during the event, which takes place from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. The next session is Feb. 14. For details, visit ottawabraclinic. com. A Valentine’s Dance will take place at the Strathcona branch of the Royal Canadian Legion on Feb. 14. Cost is $30 per person, which includes a meal, dessert, a galss of win and entertainment provided by Ward Flynn. For details or for tickets, call the branch at 613-236-1575. The branch is located at 1940B Bank St.
Feb. 16
The non-profit Gloucester Horticultural Society hosts a Forced Bulbs and Preserves Show on Feb. 16 at 7:30 p.m. at Top Generation Hall, located at 4373 Generation Crt. Admission is free and pre-registration is required by calling 613-749-8897. Visit gardenontario.org/site. php/glouster/about/meetings for details.
Feb. 17
St. Thomas the Apostle Church is hosting its annual pancake supper on Feb. 17. Sittings will be at 5 and 6 p.m. The meal will include pancakes, sausages, ham, beans and ice cream. Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for children and are avail-
able in advance at the church office on weekday mornings. The church is located at 2345 Alta Vista Dr. Call 613-7330336 for details. Everyone in the community is invited to a Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper at Rideau Park United Church, located at 2203 Alta Vista Dr., on Feb. 17, starting at 5:30 p.m. The supper is being organized by the Rideau Park Scouts who will also be cooking the pancakes. Prices are $8 for adults and $5 for children. Tickets may be purchased at the church office Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and on Sunday mornings and the night of the event. For details, contact the church office at 613-733-3156, ext. 229.
Feb. 22
A Sunday Jammin’ Brunch is being organized by the Strathcona Branch of the Royal Canadian Legion for Feb. 22. The meal takes place from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Local musicians will entertain between 1 and 5 p.m. Call the branch at 613-2361575 for details. The branch is located at 1940B Bank St.
Ongoing Gloucester South Seniors offers a full schedule of activities every week, including contract bridge, carpet bowling, euchre, five hundred and chess. Membership is $15 per year. The club is located at 4550 Bank St. in Leitrim. For details, call 613-821-0414.
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YOUR HOROSCOPE ARIES - Mar 21/Apr 20 Aries, you may feel that a goal is beyond reach, but you can get there if you are willing to make some sacrifices. Make a decision quickly this week.
CROSSWORDS
TAURUS - Apr 21/May 21 Many different people, including loved ones and colleagues, hold you in high regard, Taurus. That’s because you are a forward thinker willing to take chances.
GEMINI - May 22/Jun 21 Gemini, take a careful approach to any obstacles that come your way this week. A problem that arises will require some thoughtful analyis and a slow and steady approach.
CANCER - Jun 22/Jul 22 Cancer, be honest about what you desire, even if it seems like getting it is impossible. You never know what you can achieve if you push yourself and have a little patience.
LEO - Jul 23/Aug 23 Leo, you have many good ideas and are ready for many of them to come to fruition. Muster up some energy and clear your schedule so you can conquer the tasks at hand.
VIRGO - Aug 24/Sept 22 Virgo, you have more in common with a colleague at work than you originally imagined. Pool your resources and work as a team to get the job done.
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LIBRA - Sept 23/Oct 23 Libra, you may have to be a little more assertive than usual to get your way this week. If you have good ideas, stick behind them and make your voice heard.
SCORPIO - Oct 24/Nov 22 Set goals that are difficult to reach, Scorpio. This is a great way to push yourself to be the best you can be. Expect some special news to arrive very soon.
SAGITTARIUS - Nov 23/Dec 21 Something that may have been important to you a few days ago has lost its luster this week, Sagittarius. Don’t pursue it any longer because it’s not worth your time.
CAPRICORN - Dec 22/Jan 20 Capricorn, make the most of a business opportunity that presents itself in the coming weeks. This opportunity could be the chance you have long been waiting for.
AQUARIUS - Jan 21/Feb 18 Don’t push yourself beyond your limits this week, Aquarius. There’s no rush to get things done and no need to subject yourself to fatigue or burnout.
PISCES - Feb 19/Mar 20 Pisces, do not let your daydreams get you into trouble. Harness your imagination in the next few days so you can focus on the here and now.
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