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Multiple gun shots shattered the early morning quiet Sunday, claiming the life of a 21-year-old Riverview Park man in the small, close-knit Eastway Gardens community.

When police initially were called to the scene on Sunday, May 3 at approxi-

mately 6 a.m., they thought they would be dealing with a motor vehicle accident “just because there was a victim down on the ground and a car on the road,” said Staff Sgt. Robert Drummond, with the Ottawa police major crime unit. “But as soon as the first responders got there it became obvious that was not the case.”

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Police said Sharif was found by a passerby. When first responders arrived he was quickly whisked away in an ambulance to the trauma centre at the Ottawa Hospital’s Civic campus.

Drummond said Sharif died from his injuries in hospital.

A little more than 24 hours after major crime investigators launched the city’s third homicide investigation of 2015, police were tight-lipped about the case.

Drummond, who is managing the case, would not say if detectives have any suspects or persons of interest on their radar, nor would he confirm if the shooting was gang- or drug-related.

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Police are looking to identify a male suspect they believe is responsible for a home invasion at an apartment on Riverside Drive in late March.

Upon hearing a knock at his door, the male occupant opened it and a man pushed his way inside of the unit, located in the 1500 block of Riverside Drive in the Riverview Park community on March 27 at about 7 p.m.

A scuffle broke out and the occupant, who is in his 50s, suffered minor injuries, but did not require medical treatment, according to police.

The suspect then searched the premises and snatched several items of monetary value, said Staff Sgt. Michael Haarbosch, head of the Ottawa police robbery unit.

The suspect was in the apartment only a matter of minutes.

Haarbosch wouldn’t disclose the types of items taken in order to protect the integrity of the investigation.

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“There was a pre-existing relationship between the two parties, but not to the degree that they formally knew each other,” Haarbosch said, adding that the occupant did not know his alleged assailant enough to be able to identify him.

It wasn’t until April 29 that investigators released an image of the male suspect in the elevator taken from surveillance video filmed around the time of the robbery.

“There were some steps in the investigation that were taking place that basically led us to this point of having to go to the public with the photo,” Haarbosch said, adding that the wait, in part, was to see if police could first identify the man.

The suspect is described by police as an English speaking black male between 20 and 30 years old, five-footeight to five-foot-10 and 170 pounds with an athletic build.

Anyone with information about the incident is asked to call the robbery unit at 613-236-1222, ext. 5116, or make an anonymous tip to Crime Stoppers by calling 1-800-222-8477.

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Police were called to Tremblay Road at Belfast Road on Sunday, May 3, where a 21-year-old Riverview Park man was shot to death. Police are appealing to people to come forward if they heard or saw something when shots were fired around 6 a.m.

– the last nearby shooting was in 1999 in which five people died, including the shooter, at the OC Transpo garage on St. Laurent Boulevard.

While the victim is from another community, Lamont said the gun violence “still happened. It found its way to our neighbourhood. It just leaves me speechless.”

“We woke up and it was like pop, pop, pop, pop, pop. And we thought maybe it was construction.”

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The victim lived with his siblings and parents in the Blair Court neighbourhood on Station Boulevard, in the Riverview Park community, according to media reports.

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House, the day after the killing.

The community house, one of 15 across Ottawa, provides free programs and services to about 50 member families living in 70 Ottawa Community Housing Corporation units on Station Boulevard.

Not long after police were called to Tremblay Road, just a four-minute drive away more officers cordoned off Sandford Fleming and Terminal avenues, where a pick-up truck had crashed.

At first, police thought the two scenes might be connected, but Drummond said the incident will likely be investigated as a traffic-related offence by east division officers or the collisions unit.

“We’re satisfied that it’s unrelated,” he said. “Initially, we held that scene and processed it until we knew more about the first scene.”

Police are looking to speak to anyone who may have seen or heard something in the vicinity of the shooting, or have information about “any incident out there involving that vehicle (the Honda Civic) and that young man,” Drummond said. “So we’re talking early morning, 6 a.m. timeframe, all along that Tremblay Road

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“If they saw any interaction between the victim, that vehicle or any other people or another vehicle ... we’re interested.”

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“I can say that the victim was known to us,” Drummond said.

While he also would not comment on how many bullet casings were recovered at the intersection, which reopened Monday morning, Matt Shillington, who lives in Eastway Gardens, where the streets are named for the letters of the alphabet, said he and his wife were roused from sleep by the staccato sound of five to eight shots going off, one after the other.

“We woke up and it was like pop, pop, pop, pop, pop,” said Shillington, who lives about 120 metres away. “And we thought maybe it was construction.”

He dozed off for a few minutes, but doubts niggled his mind that perhaps the loud, heavy-sounding bangs had been caused by something else and he got up to look out his window.

“I could see the car (the victim’s Honda Civic) from our bedroom window,” he said of the vehicle, its doors open.

“We could see everything, so I knew something was wrong.”

Regardless if the shooting was a targeted attack, bullets whizzing through the air pose enormous risk, Shillington said.

“That’s come across my mind too a couple of times – the fly-by shots,” he said.

“Anybody could have been walking, driving, cycling,” said Kim Lamont, president of the Eastway Gardens Community Association, who has lived in the area for almost 18 years.

“My biggest thing is that anybody could have been around. I mean, the White Horse Restaurant is there,” she said of the popular eatery on Tremblay at Belfast. “Lots of people go there for breakfast.

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Eastway Gardens is the kind of place where residents keep in touch and are caring and watchful, Lamont said, adding that her neighbourhood has rarely been touched by gun violence or gang activity

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Suzan Gauvreau is among a group of parents considering taking legal action after their children, including Gauvreau’s 10-year-old daughter Mayghen, became sick from a pesticide spraying at Charles H. Hulse Public School. important.”

Charles Hulse school on Alta Vista Drive is expected

to reopen sometime between May 11 and 19, following renovations and an addition-

review and to inform future practices about the use of insecticides in schools.”

The school board initially said its pesticide contractor applied Konk 400 in three classrooms and the Andrew Fleck daycare at the school, though Ottawa Public Health said it was told two washrooms and the daycare had been treated.

The board said the product is not on its list of approved pesticides.

Symptoms included burning eyes, scratchy or irritated throat, itchy skin and headaches, according to Ottawa Public Health, and a few people reported feeling nauseous, sweating more than usual, weakness or clumsiness, vomiting or diarrhea.

Gauvreau’s daughter, Mayghen, who is in Grade 5 at Charles Hulse, came home

al cleaning.

“Considerable work has been undertaken at Charles H. Hulse,” Sharlene Hunter, spokeswoman for the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board said in an email.

“The school has been thoroughly cleaned; the ventilation system has been cleaned and redirected in some areas; cupboards have been removed and reattached; drywall in some areas has been removed and replaced; library books have been treated and personal belongings have been bagged and removed.”

The board is continuing to work with its partners in “sorting through a very complicated set of issues,” Hunter said.

“The school district will be working with a third party to undertake a more detailed

with itchy eyes.

Those symptoms were caused by breathing in solvents rather than the chemical propoxur, which are ingredients in Konk 400, according to the health agency.

Last April, Health Canada updated the labelling of propoxur to “provide additional protection for children as a precautionary measure,” the ministry said in an email.

It required that stronger concentrations not be used inside schools and public buildings, such as schools and daycares.

Existing labels must be changed by June 2016, but Health Canada said it is encouraging companies to use other products to treat cockroaches in schools.

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J

ust like the mercury rising in thermometers across Ontario these days, temperatures are rising in the latest chapter in a series of showdowns between the provincial government and the teachers unions.

The last time this happened, back in December 2012, Dalton McGuinty was still premier, autumn was turning into winter and relations between Queen’s Park and the teachers were just as chilly as they are today. That dispute, which the unions characterized as a fight about rights and the province said was about money, was among the factors that saw McGuinty move on to a secluded life of Ivy League academia and started the process of current Premier Kathleen Wynne’s rise to power.

How little has changed in a few short years. From the province’s perspective, it was about holding the line on salaries then, just as it is now. The teachers are once again claiming it’s an attack on rights, not about pay.

Two things should shape this dispute, but likely won’t: the province still has significant budget woes,

and teachers are still well paid. Whether those facts have any influence over the negotiations remains to be seen. Eventually one side will cave in, yet by then some sort of damage will be done to the rest of us.

Either the province will cave, as it did back in 2012, and we’ll be stuck with the bill or, after some sort of disruption in our schools, teachers will grudgingly return to work, smarting from a battle lost.

Back in 2012, this newspaper supported a different notion: all differences aside, what must be held foremost in the minds of all parties is that education is about our children. Children are the future of this province, and any shot it has at returning to prosperity has a lot to do with them. Bitterness or cold calculation today will only lead to ruin tomorrow.

Some sort of compromise needs to be struck that allows the province to move forward with reducing the deficit, while at the same time ensuring satisfaction and security for teachers.

This is far from an easy task, but it’s what must be done to ensure that Ontario doesn’t continue to lose its way.

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Give Sparks Street pedestrian mall a break

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hey’ve started talking about cars on Sparks Street again.

You could have predicted it, because it happens every time somebody notices Sparks Street.

When somebody notices Sparks Street, particularly if it is after business hours, somebody notices that there are no people on it.

Then they start talking about putting cars on it again, as if that would solve something. It would; it would solve the problem of there being no cars on Sparks Street. But it wouldn’t solve anything else.

For much of the time -- say, 9 to 5, May to October -- there isn’t much that needs solving on Sparks Street. People are out and about, chatting, eating food from one of the food wagons, listening to a busker,

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Over its 48-year history, they have tried various things to “save� the Sparks Street mall. Most of the saving consists of putting new objects in the middle of it -- furniture, kiosks and some structures that, frankly, it’s hard to know what they are. After a few years, those objects are carted

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away and new ones are put in there.

Then there are events, mostly involving food competitions of one sort or another. These draw well, but they leave eventually and it becomes the same old Sparks Street again. The main problem is that the big stores decided, around the time the Rideau Centre opened in 1983, to leave Sparks Street. So Sparks Street is no longer a shopping destination.

Another problem, which may solve itself as more and more condos and apartment buildings go up, is that most of the population decides to leave Sparks Street too, as soon as the workday is over.

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To be thought of as the place to go, Sparks Street needs excitement.

If there had been riots on Sparks Street after the elimination game against Montreal that would have put Sparks Street on the map. People would go down in the off season to see where the riots happened. During the playoffs they would go down there to riot.

But there weren’t any riots, despite the Senators having been robbed by the ref of the tying goal, despite Subban breaking Stone’s wrist, despite the plain old injustice of it all. To their credit, Ottawans, unlike, say, Vancouverites, just aren’t rioting people. When the ref ruins everything, we write letters to the editor.

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And even if there were riots, they would have taken place on Elgin Street, which somehow got to be the Sens Mile. Sparks Street can’t catch a break. Putting cars back on it would just add insult to injury.

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ith three kids, a business and a fat cat, it’s not easy for me to make time for my spouse. Pondering this made me realize many parents are great prioritizers, but a lot of us really aren’t great at prioritizing our marriages.

It’s easy to skirt the issue and say, “I’ll prioritize my spouse when the kids get older.” But we’re lying to ourselves. Sure, older children develop independence, but they continue to take up a lot of time, money, energy, plus physical and emotional space. Regardless of age, kids have homework, friends, tantrums, extra-curricular pursuits, never mind issues that keep parents up all night. Ask married friends with kids to be honest about how often they share a bed with the spouse for an entire night. You’re

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But with work commitments, personal chores, lack of money, time, fatigue, no babysitter, it’s hard to organize regular date nights, right? Maybe, and yet, in spite all those seemingly valid excuses we still manage to hustle the kids to their regular piano lessons, hockey practices and friends’ birthday parties, don’t we?

Maybe we do spend time together every day. But are we truly focused on one another? Smartphones

and social media are so pervasive it seems the entire world is invading our most intimate relationships.

I’m not going to be as bold as one Huffington Post columnist who, in April, claimed she is consistently able to prioritize her spouse -- that would be nothing but a bold lie on my part. But at times, I have been able to bump my husband up the hierarchy, and when I do, it’s a great thing.

I’ll be honest, budget, timing and fatigue have made regular date nights difficult for us over the

years. I’m frequently guilty of scheduling all kinds of space for my children, my friends and my clients, without a single line item in my calendar for my spouse.

At times, we’ve overcome this by keeping our marital dates as simple as possible – taking a walk, meeting for lunch during our work day, or playing a board game in the evening after the kids are in bed (early). When we’ve been successful, we’ve put the spouse-only time in the calendar and stuck to it just as we would to any other activity. And we have a rule: Don’t talk about the kids.

But we should have another rule: No smartphones.

I’m so guilty of responding to the alluring beep mid-conversation instead of staring deeply into my husband’s eyes. One of my clients enforces “presence” at meetings, which means no texts, emails or social media when we’re engaging with team members faceto-face.

The same should apply to

quality time with anyone, but spouses in particular.

How can you possibly have a meaningful conversation or intimate quality time with your spouse when Jan from Australia is distracting you with a hilarious YouTube video of her cat she just shared on Facebook?

You can’t.

A couple of things we do consistently well though.

We greet each other in the morning – first thing.

It’s amazing how quickly a parent will go to grab a crying baby or even routinely hug a child. But do you hug your spouse each morning? And do you do it first? Regardless of the early hour, if we’re late, if we look or smell bad, if the kids are screaming, or if we had an argument before bed, my husband and I hug in the kitchen and say, “good morning.” I can’t say it happens every day, but we do it enough that it’s become a meditation of sorts, like flossing.

We don’t let the kids in our bed. If you want to

bump your spouse up the food chain, get the kids out of your bed. Period. Sometimes it’s nice to cuddle with kids. Sometimes it’s necessary if they wake in the night crying. Go to the child’s bed temporarily if you must, but don’t let them into yours. Especially once you’re through the baby stage, make the marriage bed a sacred place, the one place that only the parents get to own completely. And try to sleep in it, together, as often as you can. And cuddle.

Keeping a marriage rolling through the ups and downs of parenting is pretty challenging.

It seems logical that my spouse get some priority time and space in my life, even if he can’t be top dog all the time. I’m not always successful at giving him that, but I do think it’s a worthwhile and necessary pursuit -- which reminds me, it’s time to update my calendar and turn off my smartphone notifications permanently.

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Of course, Mother put the kibosh on that idea. There would be no swimming until the 24th of May, and that’s all there was to it. My brother Emerson said if they waited that long, the summer would be half over at the rate we were going.

Emerson went outside to the big thermometer that was nailed to the house with “Supertest” in bright yellow letters on top. “It’s 75 degrees,” Emerson wailed. “I don’t care if it says 100! There will be no swimming until the 24th of May,” Mother said, slamming the screen door shut with a bang.

Father came from the barn to get a cold glass of water, using his battered straw hat as a fan. He took his red polka-dot handkerchief out of his back overall pocket, and wiped his face, sending streaks of dust from the hayloft down his face. “Sure is hot in the barn,” he said.

Emerson was joined by my brothers Everett and Earl in a plea for a dip in the Bonnechere. Well, they could have saved their breath.

There would be no swimming until the 24th of May, and that’s all there was to it.

Emerson wanted to know what was so important about the 24th of May. He reminded Mother that was almost a month away, and by that time, at the rate we were going, with the heat and all, the Bonnechere could easily be nothing more than a trickle, and the sum-

mer would be half over, and that would be the end of swimming.

My older and much wiser sister Audrey and I headed for the swing in the grape arbour. The leaves were yet to come out, but the vines were thick enough that the sun had yet to penetrate.

I thought, since I seldom had Audrey all to myself, that this would be a good time to ask her what was so important about the 24th of May. “Well,” Audrey said leaning back in the old wood swing, “Mother says a lot of things should wait until the 24th of May, and a lot of things change on that day too.”

I waited for Audrey to speak.

She looked like she was falling asleep. I was sitting across from her, and I nudged her with the toe of my shoe. “I’m thinking. I’m thinking,” she said.

And then she rhymed off a few things, which made little sense to me, but obviously were important to Mother.

“Well, you will see that Mother never wears a summer hat to church until the 24th of May. She said in New York any woman caught wearing a summer hat before the 24th of May would be considered a woman of poor taste.” Audrey took a long breath. “And you certainly wouldn’t wear white gloves before then for the same reason. And that same goes for summer shoes too.”

I was mulling over this bit of

news in my mind’s eye. For the life of me I couldn’t understand why a date on a calendar was so important.

And then Audrey reminded me of the many little flat wood boxes of sprouted seeds in the kitchen waiting to be put into the garden.

“Never, ever, has Mother transplanted those boxes until after the 24th of May. You’re too young to remember, but one year she planted every last box, and two days later, the frost came, and killed every last one of the plants.”

I had no idea what plants getting hit with frost, wearing a summer hat and white gloves and summer shoes, and swimming in the Bonnechere all had to do with the 24th of May. Audrey started to doze off in the swing. I mulled over all she had said, and I figured, next to Easter and Christmas, the 24th of May must surely be one of the most important days of the year. I couldn’t wait for that date to roll around, and I decided right then and there, I would write in my diary all that had happened on that date so that years down the road, I would remember what an important day it was when I was very young.

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t was especially warm that April. The snow had long since gone, and the days were warm enough that the roads were no longer muddy ruts, and we could even see spring buds coming out on the trees.

Our winter clothes, including our despised long underwear, had been packed away, and we could smell the mothballs Mother had generously scattered into the trunk in the upstairs hall where our wool sweaters and other heavy clothing would sit out the hot summer months.

The creek at the bottom of the West Hill had receded, and the

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Health Canada took swabbings at the school, and while the results are not back, “preliminary results do not show a risk of concern,” it said.

“The pesticide application at Charles H. Hulse Public School followed the old label instructions,” according to Health Canada.

The school was closed April 17 to 19 for a thorough

cleaning and additional ventilation, but despite getting the green light from Ottawa Public Health that the school was safe to reopen April 20, staff that day reported the return of symptoms and a strong odour.

That prompted the board to temporarily bus staff and students to the vacant Parkwood Hills Public School in Nepean, starting April 22.

“This has been an extreme-

ly challenging situation for everyone and as a district we apologize for the disruption and the anxiety that this has created for students, staff and their families,” Hunter.

Meanwhile, the company that sprayed the school said it is co-operating with government authorities in the ongoing investigation.

“The health and safety of our customers and their guests, especially when chil-

dren are involved is our top priority, when dealing with pesticide application,” Glenn Boyet, Pennsylvania-based spokesman for Rentokil in North America, said in a statement. “In this case and in all cases, Rentokil complies with current regulations and labelling procedures for the application of any pest control material at any location.

“This includes using proper amounts as well as the way

in which material is applied by our technicians.”

Ottawa Public Health confirmed it is not investigating reports the same pesticide was used in Rideau High School because the agency did not receive any complaints from students, parents or staff.

“Pesticides are used regularly in all types of settings to control various pests, they are done by licensed operators who are regulated by the

(ministry of environment and climate change),” the health agency said in an email.

“That said, OPH will assist the school board in reviewing its current policy and procedures around pest control. “ Though her daughter’s school is expected to reopen soon, Gauvreau said she remains wary.

“How do we know that’s not going to happen again?” she said.

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Be a hero: take the bus to Ottawa Comiccon Erin McCracken

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With more than 43,000 people expected to attend the three-day Ottawa Comiccon at the EY Centre this weekend, organizers are hoping new traffic and parking initiatives will make getting to the event less of an event.

“The day in question that had us concerned was the Saturday of the show last year where traffic reached a level we had not seen before,” said Scott Péron, vice-president of operations for Ottawa Comiccon. “It basically caused a 45-minute delay for people coming down the Airport Parkway trying to get to the airport.”

There was a shorter delay for motorists on Hunt Club Road and Uplands Drive.

“It certainly affected our attendees and, to a certain extent, it also affected our own operations because we were having trouble getting our guests to the building as well,” Péron said.

He and his team held initial talks with the EY Centre, city staff and Ottawa police in

January to begin developing a strategy. OC Transpo became involved later in the process.

Last week, convention organizers rolled out their plans for an increase in parking lot attendants, as well as more police officers who will help ensure people get to where they are headed, whether it’s to Comiccon or the Ottawa International Airport, among other destinations.

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Comiccon fans are encouraged to skip the car and take the bus, particularly routes 147 and 99, which go directly to the EY Centre from the Greenboro Transitway station, where parking is free.

A press release on the transportation options reminds transit users that the 87 bus runs every 20 minutes, the 99 every half hour and the 147 every hour. OC Transpo is planning to bump up the number of buses and increase frequency in the area the weekend of the convention, Péron confirmed, adding that more buses may be

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The 147 bus will be key for convention-goers and, more importantly, the 99 bus, which stops at the EY Centre, Péron said.

The best option, he said, is the 97 bus, which runs every five minutes during peak times and stops at Uplands Drive off the Airport Parkway on the way to the airport.

Those riders will have to walk across the parking lot at the EY Centre.

There won’t be a free shuttle bus to the event this year.

“It’s something we hope to work towards one day,” Péron said. “We’re not quite there yet though.”

POLICE PRESENCE

There will be an increased police presence around the EY Centre this weekend to ensure traffic keeps moving.

Three officers will be directing vehicles on Hunt Club Road and Uplands Drive, and officers will be stationed at each entrance to the EY Centre

parking lot and another will be at Uplands Drive and Breadner Boulevard.

Another officer will be patrolling on motorcycle to assess the traffic situation.

And more digital signs will be added on Hunt Club Road and the Airport Parkway to direct motorists to use the parkway if they wish to get to the airport, or to use Uplands Drive if they are travelling to the EY Centre.

PARKING OPTIONS

Motorists heading to Comiccon on Uplands Drive will be directed to park at the overflow parking lot at the former CFB Uplands – that lot will have two entrances this year – while drivers coming from the parkway to the convention will be directed to use the EY Centre parking lot.

EY Centre management plans to double the number of parking staff at the centre and payment takers at the overflow lot at the base.

The cost to park at both lots will again be $8 per day and

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Ottawa Comiccon organizers recently announced several new initiatives aimed to ease parking and traffic flow during the three-day event at the EY Centre, May 8 to 10. cash is preferred.

Parking at the centre is somewhat limited because Comiccon has grown so much that part of the lot is earmarked for lines of waiting fans “because Ottawa fans are quite enthusiastic and turn out in great numbers even before the doors open,” Péron said.

“We’ve had somebody turn up as early as 4 o’clock in the morning to get in line.”

Attendees must also wait

outside beneath tent canopies before being allowed in to see a star during one of the panel discussions in the large hall, which can hold up to 2,000 people.

“The wrinkle here is that we have to be able to house that lineup of 2,000 people before that panel starts,” Péron said, adding that if people lined up inside the centre, it would mean losing too much space.

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Citywide student postcard contest launches for Ottawa 2017 Erin McCracken

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Amalya Katz quickly takes a sheet of blank paper, plucks the lid from a marker and fills the page with an image of what Ottawa means to her: the Parliament Buildings.

The nine-year-old and her Grade 4 Featherston Drive Public School classmates got a head start on May 1 when they drew images of their favourite Ottawa landmarks and scenery minutes after Mayor Jim Watson, Alta Vista Coun.

Jean Cloutier and Rideau-Vanier Coun. Mathieu Fleury launched a postcard-drawing contest to mark Ottawa’s 2017 celebration year.

“And one of the ways we communicate with people, and maybe not so much now, but in the olden days, we used to have things called postcards,” Watson told the children.

Students at 245 elementary schools, 65 high schools and five alternative schools across four school boards in Ottawa have until May 21 to design a postcard. A panel of profes-

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Rideau-Vanier Coun. Mathieu Fleury, back left, Mayor Jim Watson and Alta Vista Coun.

Jean Cloutier watch as Grade 4 Featherston Drive Public School students Safaa Hemat, 10, front left, Amalya Katz, 9 and Ammar Al-Saami, 9, draw pictures for an Ottawa 2017 postcard-drawing contest that was launched at the Alta Vista school on May 1. sional artists will then choose the best from each grade – 1 through 12 – which will serve as the official Ottawa 2017 postcards to mark Canada’s

150th birthday.

“And whoever’s postcard design we choose, that student will be able to bring their whole class down to city hall

and we’ll have a nice ceremony and a pizza party for the whole class,” Watson said, adding that the students will get to travel to the event in an OC Transpo

double-decker bus.

Each winner will also receive a framed commemorative copy of their postcard design.

“We want you to put on the postcard what you love about Ottawa,” he said. “So is there a special place or a special scene?

Who has an idea now?”

Several children raised their hands to pitch several suggestions: an Ottawa sign, Parliament Hill, the outdoor spider sculpture at the National Art Gallery and the Canada flag.

“Maybe a Stanley Cup?” one boy offered.

“I like that. Very optimistic,” Watson said, smiling. “Because, you know, the Stanley Cup was created in Ottawa so it came from Ottawa. So that’s an excellent idea.”

Whether the drawing is of a museum in Ottawa, a favourite park, features the children’s school, or even a picture of their family, Watson said “it’s really important we get as many entries as possible because of all the entries we get, we’re going to pick one that’s going to be the official poster

of the 2017 celebration.”

Cloutier, co-chair of the Ottawa 2017 organizing committee along with Fleury, told the Featherston students, who attend school in the Alta Vista ward, that Canada’s 150th birthday year will be very exciting.

“It’s going to have concerts, it’s going to have festivals, it’s going to have parades. It’s going to cross the whole city and it’ll be for the entire year.

“What do you think of a birthday that’s going to last a whole year?” he asked, prompting giggles and grins from the young French immersion students. “Think of the cake. Would a birthday that lasts a whole year be great? It sure would.”

The postcards that are created through the contest will be available to be sent out around the world, and can serve as an invitation to celebrate Canada’s milestone year in the nation’s capital, Watson told the youngsters.

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Ottawa, ON (April 27, 2015) – OSU is very pleased to announce that Ndzemdzela Langwa (’98) and Theo Bair (’99) have been offered positions within the Vancouver Whitecaps Residency program after successful trials in Vancouver this week.

For Theo, this represents an opportunity for him to further his development within the professional ranks after spending time with numerous local clubs. Bair was able to attend the Combine for one of the two days, which was enough to impress Whitecaps Residency Technical Director, Craig Dalrymple. Bair has played in the OYSL for the last two seasons and consistently been one of the top goal scorers at the provincial level. In moving to Vancouver, this represents an opportunity for him to continue to develop and test himself within the USSF Academy league.

For Ndzemdzela “Zoom” Langwa, this move is another opportunity in his fledgling career. He has previously been part of the Toronto FC Academy while also representing our country with the Canadian U16 National team. Langwa was a key contributor with the OSU 1997 Force Academy team, that now has four members within professional clubs. “Zoom” will now have the opportunity to again join forces with former Academy Graduates Vana Markarian and Dario Conte within the Whitecaps organization.

When reflecting on the recent event, Craig Dalrypmle noted that “the level, and depth, of soccer potential in Ottawa is impressive.

The combine provided an opportunity for Whitecaps FC to gain much needed exposure to this player pool. We were extremely impressed with how well the combine was conducted and are very pleased with players we were able to identify.”

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Ever wondered what the inside of a frog looks like, but felt too squeamish to dissect one?

A new exhibit opening at the Canadian Museum of Nature in May is set to offer the opportunity to see what’s under different animals’ skin, without getting your hands dirty.

“It’s all about a method that aims to show specimens in a different way,” said Kamal Khidas, a curator of vertebrate collections at the museum.

“That’s the magic of this exhibit.”

Created by Body Worlds, the exhibit, called Animal Inside Out, pulls back the skin on dozens of species, from a shark and ostrich to a giraffe, camel and even a human body.

Body Worlds was behind the internationally acclaimed and controversial exhibition that displayed the insides of human bodies that had been preserved using a process called plastination.

Animal Inside Out’s specimens were also preserved using the method, which replaces bodily fluids with plastics. It was invented by anatomist Gunther van Hagens in the 1970s.

“It allows you to see how all the different systems are attached – how muscles attach to bones,” Khidas said.

“Everything has been left in place, unless it’s been removed to show something else.” The exhibit hopes to educate visitors about the similarities

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The cadavers of a baby camel and an adult specimen are displayed at the Animal Inside Out exhibit at the Canadian Museum of Nature.

Plastination was used to preserve the animals’ bodies in a way that they can be manipulated and the skin removed so that their anatomy can be displayed. between humans and other organisms by showing the complexities of anatomy that are usually hidden.

“This is so unique because this is not how we experience the world,” said Nicole Dupuis, an exhibition content developer at the museum.“There are so many similarities between different animals, but the exhibit also does a great job of showing the differences.”

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“I was going to go into the studio and do a five-song acoustic EP live-offthe-floor, just me and my guitar,” Allard said. “But then people started hearing it. People started wanting to make it bigger.”

Chameleon is the product of Allard’s exploration of different music genres and she has incorporated different musical sounds and instruments – somewhat of a departure from her penchant for writing what she calls pop-format songs.

“It goes from folk to pop to jazz to electronic,” Allard said, adding that synthesizers were also used. One track is a cover of George Michael’s Careless Whisper.

“It was a fun time and a lot of exploration for me,” she said of recording. “I think with most of our projects we end up taking way too long to make the music, but I think it turned out pretty good in the end because of that.”

Allard sings and plays guitar, piano and ukulele for the album, and also featured are Dean Watson on bass and electric guitar, Sebastian Romanutti on piano, Jamie Holmes on drums and percussion, Ed Lister on trumpet and Justin Duhaime also plays guitar.

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When asked how long it takes to put out a debut solo album, Danielle Allard chuckles.

“Not long enough,” the Ottawa singer-songwriter said. “But as Keith Richards says, ‘An album is done when you stop working on it.’”

The graduate of Canterbury High School’s vocal performance program is just days away from celebrating the release of her first album as a solo artist, entitled Chameleon, at The Bourbon Room in downtown Ottawa on May 9 at 7 p.m.

Her name for the nine-track EP is a perfect fit.

“The lyrics are really important to me and it’s exploring a time in my life when I was changing quite a lot,” said Allard, 25.

The songs were written during a time of growth, as her life fell apart and later, as she rebuilt herself.

“You can see that in a lot of the lyrics, so it was about being more adaptable and trying to evolve through it all and then it ended up being a very appropriate name just because of all the genres we ended up exploring,” said Allart, who lives in downtown ottawa.

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Ottawa singer-songwriter Danielle Allard’s new album will be available starting May 10.

“Chameleon was just meant to reflect the lyrical content and then it ended up reflecting the music as well.”

Though her new EP is a full-length record, it started out as a smaller proj-

“I never thought I’d be where I am right now.”

Danielle Allard, singer-songwriter

To say she is thrilled with the end result is an understatement given the buzz that has been generating in advance of Saturday’s release party.

“I was not expecting it to explode and turn into this,” she said.

In fact, she’s amazed she has come this far, even though she has gravitated towards music and performing since she was just two years old.

She began playing piano at seven, and during her high school years at Canterbury, which she said turned her life

around for the better, she learned guitar and fine-tuned her piano skills.

“It saved my life,” said Allard, who grew up in Carp but was bullied as a child for being different.

It was her principal at the time, Peter Gamwell, who encouraged her to pursue music.

After Canterbury, she moved to Kanata while she studied communications at Carleton University.

As a member of the Go Long (!) trio, Allard recorded her first EP in 2012 – a folk album entitled, Strings Attached.

“I never thought I’d be where I am right now,” Allard said. “I don’t know if I ever thought that I’d make that first album that I did years ago, let alone what’s happening now.”

She will be performing every Thursday this summer at Live on Elgin, and will soon play the TD Ottawa Jazz Festival and its OLG After Dark Series, the Calabogie Mountain Man Music Festival and Music in the Pines, a festival near Plantagenet, Ont. Tickets to the album release party at The Bourbon Room, located at 400 Dalhousie St., are $10 in advance at danielleallard.com, or $15 at the door.

Beginning May 10, Chameleon will be available at Compact Music, and on iTunes and Spotify.

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For train accident survivor, Sarah Stott

Main Street Renewal Project

More than 625 people gathered to raise funds for train accident survivor Sarah Stott during a fundraiser and T.J. Speakeasy reunion at Tudor Hall in the Hunt Club community on April 25. The event generated more than $35,000, which will help pay for rehabilitative equipment and services for Stott, who lost both legs after she was hit by a train in Montreal last December. Most of her fingers were also amputated due to frostbite she suffered while waiting for help.

Monday, May 11, 2015 6 to 9 p.m.

Room 120 Saint Paul University Laframboise Hall, Ground Floor 249 Main Street, O awa The City of O awa invites you to an Open House for informa on about a construc on project that is scheduled to begin this spring with final comple on in 2017. Design drawings will be on display for your review. Staff will also be on hand to provide informa on and receive comments.

WHY:

IN THE MATTER OF THE ONTARIO HERITAGE ACT No ce of Inten on to Designate The City of O awa, on April 29, 2015, established its inten on to designate 7 Bayview Road under Part IV of the Ontario Heritage Act for its cultural heritage value.

Descrip on of Property The City of O awa Workshops, 7 Bayview Road, is a one and two storey reinforced concrete building located on Bayview Road in west O awa.

Heritage Value The cultural heritage value of the City of O awa Workshops lies in its being a good example of an industrial building influenced by the Modern style, its historical associa ons and its contextual significance within the former industrial hub of west O awa.

The City of O awa Workshops is a good example of the type of industrial building built throughout North America in the first half of the 20th century. Constructed in 1941, as part of a larger complex of City buildings, it was designed by Joseph Holmes Irvine, City of O awa Design Engineer. The building is constructed of reinforced concrete with a brick veneer. Features of the building associated with the Modern style include the flat roof, plain, unadorned façade and the large steel framed windows with inset hopper windows.

The cultural heritage value of the City of O awa Workshops also lies in its historical and contextual importance within the former industrial hub of west O awa. It is one of the few remaining examples of this prominent industrial area centered on the railway tracks. The complex func oned as a maintenance yard, workshops and storage. Located on the border of the historic community of Mechanicsville, the City of O awa Workshops is an important symbol of the area’s industrial and railroad boom of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Objec ons Any person wishing to object to this designa on may do so by le er, outlining the reasons for the objec on and any other relevant informa on. This le er must be received by the Clerk of the City of O awa either by registered mail or personally delivered within 30 days of the publica on of this no ce. When a no ce of objec on has been received, the Council of the City of O awa will refer the ma er to the Conserva on Review Board for a hearing and a report.

For more informa on please contact: Lesley Collins, MCIP RPP Heritage Planner City of O awa Planning and Growth Management Department 110, avenue Laurier Ave. West, 4th Floor O awa, ON K1P 1J1 Tel: 613.580.2424, ext. 21586 E-mail: lesley.collins@o awa.ca

The exis ng street infrastructure has reached the end of its life-cycle, and the City has iden fied the need for reconstruc on. The recommended design was approved by City Council on July 17, 2013. The City planned this project under Schedule C of the Municipal Class Environmental Assessment (EA) process. The EA process was finalized in September 2013 a er the comple on of an Environmental Study Report. On this basis, Main Street will be renewed as a “complete street” featuring cycle tracks, wider sidewalks, on-street parking, and space for streetscaping.

To accomplish this, vehicle lane reduc ons will be implemented in some loca ons.

The street design varies along its approximately 2 km length.

WHAT: The construc on work will renew infrastructure in your neighbourhood. Specifically, the works proposed include the introduc on, rehabilita on and/or replacement of: • Sidewalks, cycling facili es, and transit facili es • Opportuni es for street ameni es including landscaping and public art • Street ligh ng and signage • Watermains, sanitary, storm and combined sewers • Lateral services to the property line • U lity reconstruc on as required • Traffic control signal system • Road structure and pavement WHEN: This work is planned to begin in spring 2015 and final comple on is an cipated for summer of 2017.

WHERE: Construc on will take place on the following streets: • Main Street – Echo Drive to the Rideau River • Rideau River Drive – Main Street to 130 m south of Main Street At this me, all interested persons are invited to a end a fourth Public Open House. The purpose of this Open House is to present the plans for street reconstruc on. This includes: • The final detailed designs • Construc on phasing and ming • Traffic management plans, including detours • Interim transit service • Interim pedestrian and cycling routes • Stakeholder communica ons It is important to note that for sec ons of Main Street, only southbound traffic will be maintained during construc on. Northbound traffic will be detoured via Riverside Drive, Bank Street and Isabella Street.

Addi onal informa on on the traffic management plan and associated detours can be found at h p://o awa.ca/en/city-hall/planning-and-development/main-street-renewal.

City staff and the project consultant will be on hand to discuss the project and respond to ques ons.

Accessibility is an important considera on for the City of O awa. If you require special accommoda on, please contact the undersigned.

For further informa on or to provide comments, please contact the City’s project manager or the consul ng team project manager at the addresses below.

Josée Vallée, P.Eng. Infrastructure Services Department Design and Construc on Municipal East Branch City of O awa 100 Constella on Crescent, 6th Floor O awa, ON K2G 6J8 Tel: 613-580-2424, ext. 21805 Fax : 613-560-6064 E-mail: josee.vallee@o awa.ca

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New play structures will be installed at Weston Park in the coming weeks to replace aging wooden playground equipment at the park, located at 955 Pleasant Park Dr. The work is expected to be completed by the end of May or the beginning of June.

“All the parks in Alta Vista need some TLC,” said Alta Vista Coun.

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ing last year’s municipal election on the need to update parks in the ward.

“The developed neighbourhood is about 50 years old and a lot of the park structures are about that age.”

Weston Park will soon feature new or repaired benches, a gazebo, two play structures for different age groups, separate play equipment, a new swing set, as well as improved drainage and a smoother play surface that is up to standard “and that accommodates, of course, wheelchairs,” Cloutier said.

“With the new (paved) surface a child in a wheelchair can be wheeled right up to a swing; a harness kind of swing that keeps them nice and safe and secure.”

Weston Park is a popular destination for residents in the Pleasant Park and Saunderson Drive neighbourhoods as well as for people living at the apartments on Othello Avenue, said Cloutier, adding that care and maintenance of parks is important

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“If we the city take care of the parks, it costs money, it’s an investment, but it’s good for children and it’s good for surrounding property,” he said.

The $100,000 improvement project is being paid for from the city’s parks and recreation and capital budgets.

Ideas for Weston Park first began to be submitted in 2012, and the following year former Alta Vista councillor Peter Hume hosted a community meeting at the park where residents provided insight on the future of the community space.

The design created by city staff was finalized early last year. Construction was supposed to begin late last fall, “but weather and other projects that may have run over time prevented the start of the renovations,” Cloutier said.

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Councillor to offer inaugural neighbourhood office hours Continued from page 24

With the work set to begin soon, a portion of the park will be temporarily off limits.

“There will certainly be some interruptions to the community’s enjoyment of the park while the construction is going on so that it is safe and efficient,” said Cloutier.

Upgrades are also needed at other parks in the Alta Vista community that also have aging wooden structures, including Sheffield Glen Park, located at 2320 Southvale Cres., and Hawthorne Park at 2139 Tawney Rd. Next on the to-do list will be community consultations about Sharel Park at Featherston Drive and Connecticut Avenue, Hutton Park near Smyth Road, and Featherston Park behind Featherston Drive Public School.

“They are all parks that would need the same kind of

attention,” Cloutier said. “It’s certainly time to start consulting with those communities as to what is desirable and what is not desirable to have in those parks and what changes they would like to see.”

The community consultation process will take place later this year.

MEET AND GREET IN THE WARD

Cloutier will soon begin holding neighbourhood office hours in Alta Vista to give residents an opportunity closer to home to meet and chat about issues or simply to say hello.

“I’ve wanted to do it and this is the first opportunity to do it,” he said. “It’s very casual, very informal.

“Because of my proximity to downtown I don’t have a ward office at Canterbury Community Centre or elsewhere in the ward.”

Residents are invited to drop by 3 Sisters Bakeshop, located at 1791 Kilborn Ave., on Saturday, May 9, from 1 to 3 p.m.

Issues people want to share may run the gamut, from frustrations over the city’s budget consultation process, which Cloutier said he has been hearing, or drainage issues, paving, snow clearing last winter, whether money should be spent on a new library, garbage pickup and perhaps about OC Transpo changes coming at the end of June, said Cloutier.

“Residents can set the agenda and I’ll chat with them whatever it is they want to chat about,” he said.

Future neighbourhood office hours will be held June 13 and July 11, though locations have not yet been selected.

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CHEO launches info campaign to curb anti-vaxx movement Steph Willems steph.willems@metroland.com

A movement that had been quietly brewing for years leapt to the front page of newspapers recently following a sharp upturn in cases of preventable childhood diseases.

The anti-vaccination movement is blamed for the resurgence of once-common childhood diseases like measles and whooping cough, with pockets of disease now springing up in areas with low vaccination rates.

In response, the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario is urging parents to “Spread the facts, not infection” with a new website and an online petition for the establishment of a national immunization awareness week.

The website, spreadthefacts. ca, was developed by CHEO,

and garnered the attention of federal health minister Rona Ambrose during a visit to the hospital on April 29.

“Vaccinations are safe and effective in protecting us from many serious diseases,” said Ambrose in a media release.

“I urge Canadians to protect themselves, their families and their communities. Get the facts about vaccination from reliable sources and get vaccinated.”

Diseases like measles not only harm children and can lead to serious, potentially fatal side effects, but it can also endanger infants who are too young to be immunized.

Normally, ‘herd immunity’ protects the most vulnerable by surrounding them with a wellimmunized population. In this scenario, any case of the disease that crops up is usually limited to one person, doesn’t spread to others, and dies out in the popu-

lace. When vaccination rates fall below a certain threshold, cases spread and an outbreak occurs, putting others in danger.

Dr. Carrol Pitters, CHEO’s chief medical officer, has worked at the hospital since the mid-1980s, and never thought such a campaign would one day be required.

“I think we’re all quite disappointed, really, that we’re back here trying to encourage what we know is good and what we know will protect children,” said Pitters.

This past winter saw a continent-wide outbreak of measles stemming from one sick child who visited Disneyland in California last December. That eventually led to 130 children becoming ill, several of whom returned home to the Montreal area before showing symptoms.

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“We’ve seen a couple of outbreaks, and particularly with measles, which is such a

preventable disease,” said Pitters. “To know it’s preventable, when people are suffering from this, is really quite disturbing …

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University representatives presented a master plan outlining the changes to council’s planning committee at a meeting on April 28.

The plan will include restoring heritage buildings, building new ones and developing more green space and pedestrianfriendly infrastructure.

“We are a major post-secondary education institution in Canada and our intention is to make it look that way over the next 20 years,” said George Dark, of Urban Strategies, who is working with the university on the plan.

More than 80 per cent of the school’s 50,800 students, staff and teachers already do not use a car to the get to the university.

The school expects to boost that percentage higher, with the expansion of the city’s LRT system.

“By virtue of having this system developed all across the city is the university can also decant itself over the city,” Dark said.

One of the proposed pieces of green infrastructure will be converting a parking lot near one of its social science buildings into an open green space for pedestrians. Trees will be planted along King Edward Avenue, which the university hopes to better integrate into its campus by redeveloping property and installing a park along it.

The University of Ottawa is also looking to build more bike and pedestrian friendly pathways along the Rideau River, in the southern part of its campus.

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city’s current official plan and zoning bylaws, meaning any part of it would only require a site plan approval to move ahead.

Dark said the university has few plans to expand further into Sandy Hill.

“The aspirations to continue to build in Sandy Hill are almost non-existent with the exception along Henderson,” he said.

Barrhaven Coun. Jan Harder, who serves as the planning committee chairwoman, heralded the plan to build an open green square, where a parking lot currently is.

“What you’re doing with your parking lot x is very much what they’re doing in Stockholm, Denver, Arlington and Seattle and it’s great to see it happening here,” she said. “It’s such a benefit.”

Councillors also asked about the school’s plans for housing.

University officials said they expect to bring 1,000 new residence spaces online by the end of the summer with the construction of new buildings and the conversion of a hotel on King Edward Avenue.

The university has worked on the master plan for more than two years, holding a number of public consultations to develop it with residents, students and staff.

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Gloucester-Southgate Tree Update Gloucester-Southgate Ward will be full of activity this spring as the City of Ottawa’s Forestry Department has begun their spring tree planting program. This program will include the extensive removal of both dead and dying Ash trees in our local parks and along our pathways. This will be followed by the replanting of new trees and operations will continue into the fall planting season.

To keep you up to date on the latest information, I have included below the current removal and replanting schedule for trees in our community.

Spring Removals Tree removals have taken place in the following parks; Calzavara Family Park, Karsh Park, Dossetter Park, and Elizabeth Manley Park.

Additional Parks scheduled for removals this spring will include Pushman Park, Greenboro Park, Reston Park, Emerald Woods Park, Sawmill Creek Park, Kemp Park and the Greenboro Pathway (west).

Spring Replanting Replacement trees are scheduled to be planted in the following parks this spring; Calzavara Family Park, Elizabeth Manley Park, Karsh Park, and Dossetter Park.

Fall Replanting Additional planting will also take place in the following parks this fall; Emerald Woods Park, Greenboro Park, Kemp Park, Reston Park, Sawmill Creek Park, and Pushman Park.

For more information on the park and pathway management plan or if you have a specific concerns in your area, please contact my office at diane. deans@ottawa.ca or by calling 613-580-2480.

Residents can also visit www.ottawa.ca to learn more about the City’s tree strategy.

The University of Ottawa’s master plan sets out how the school would like to grow and develop over the next 20 years. University representatives presented their plan to the city council’s planning committee at a meeting on April 28.

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Rachel Aubry has been leaving it all on the track, focusing full-time on her running for the first time ever.

The Orléans-raised sprinter, who attended Cairine Wilson Secondary School, received funding to be able to focus on her track and field career full-time.

She was able to leave her part-time physiotherapy clinic job in Guelph, which she got after she graduated from the University of Guelph two years ago, to compete full time with the Speed River New Balance Track and Field Club.

The hard work has paid off for Aubry, who was set to compete in the World Relays championships in

LABOUR RELATIONS SITUATION The labour relations situation is challenging for all of us. Here are some recent developments.

Secondary Teachers Legal Strike Position Our secondary teachers and occasional teachers (OSSTF) remain in a legal strike position. The OCDSB is one of seven Ontario school districts which OSSTF has targeted for strike action. At the time of writing this article (April 30), strike action is underway by OSSTF at the Durham District School Board and th‎e Rainbow District School Board; and notice of strike action has been provided to the Peel District School Board beginning May 4th. OSSTF must provide 5 days advance notice of any planned strike action to the OCDSB. To date, we have not received notice and we remain committed to negotiating fair and fully funded collective agreements for our employees.

Until such time as we receive official notification of a strike, regular operations will continue at all elementary schools. A minimum of five days notice must be provided to schools boards before any strike action is taken. The district will advise the community immediately if strike notice is received.

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Rachel Aubry was scheduled to compete at the World Relays championships in Nassau, Bahamas.

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Nassau, Bahamas, in the 4x800-metre event on May 2 and 3.

The Canadian women’s 4x800metre team finished in sixth place at the World Relays championship with a time of 8 minutes, 16 seconds.

She last competed for the national team as a junior in 2009, so this is an important step in the right direction, as she has her sights set on the 2016 Olympic Games.

“Everything is kind of in preparation to try and make the 2016 Olympic team,” she said, from Flagstaff, Ariz., where she was training in advance of the World Relays. “That’s kind of everybody’s goal, so that’s my goal for the next year: to progress enough to make a stab at that Olympic team.”

Aubry would need to qualify in the 800-metre individual run, which means both hitting a certain time standard (two minutes, one second) as well as being among Canada’s top three runners in the event.

She said one of the deepest competitive fields right now in Canadian track and field is the women’s 800metre race.

Currently, she’s run a personal best time of two minutes and two seconds, only one second off the Olympic standard. the goal

“The ultimate goal is to always get rid of that two minute barrier,” she said. “This season I’m looking to take off at least a second.”

To qualify for this summer’s Pan Am Games in Toronto, she’s already met the standard, and would have to prove she’s one of Canada’s top runners.

She has until June 15 to post her fastest 800-metre time. The top two fastest Canadian women will advance.

She’ll compete alongside some of her competition for those valuable spots in the relay race. Aubry joins Canadian runners Karine Belleau-Béliveau, Rachel and Elizabeth Whelan to form the four-person relay team.

“It’s funny because we’re all friends – but on race day, we want to beat each other,” Aubry said. “For this race, it’ll be cool to be a team.”

She said their goal as a team was to make the top three and end up on the podium.

“It’s super exciting,” she said.

“This is just kind of one step along the way towards the bigger goals.”

Ottawa Lions runner Segun Makinde, who is also from Orléans, was also named to the World Relays team for the 4x100-metre relay. Another Ottawa Lions runner, Farah Jacques, was named to the women’s 4x100 metre team.

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City Councillor/Conseiller Municipal River Ward/Quartier Rivière Victoria Day Fireworks Gala The largest event in Ottawa for Victoria Day will run again this year in Mooney’s Bay Park. The Riverside Park Community and Recreation Association (RPCRA) is hosting the annual gala on Sunday May 17, commencing at 5pm through to dusk, when the fireworks are set to go off. Volunteers are needed. Please send an email to fireworks@ riversidepark.ca for more information.

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Chantal Beauvais, the rector of Saint Paul University, and Lise Bourgeois, president of La Cité collégiale, sign an articulation agreement on April 27. agreements with a number of English institutions such as Algonquin College.

Moving forward, Beauvais said the university is in the process of creating an agreement for university students who want more practi-

I have called a public meeting for Monday May 11, 2015 to review the site plan application from Otto’s BMW, located at 660 Hunt Club Road at Paul Anka Drive. The proposal calls for a two-storey addition, creation of a new parking lot directly west of the current location and the possibility of building another entrance to the dealership from Hunt Club Road. Please attend the open house where the proponent, City Planner, Councillor Diane Deans and myself will be in attendance. It will be held at the Hunt Club Riverside Park Community Centre, 3320 Paul Anka Drive starting at 7pm.

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“Somebody might start at the university but say ‘oh my, I want to pursue this in a different way.

I want more technical tools,’” she said.

On April 26, I visited and met with every business owner/manager of the stores in Riverside Park, mainly the Ridgewood Mall, and those along Riverside Drive and Brookfield Road. In addition to introducing myself and stressing that I will do what I can to ensure they are as successful as possible in the Riverside Park community, I listened to their concerns about various issues in the neighbourhood. Earlier in April, I visited businesses on Merivale Road between Kirkwood and Carling in the Carlington neighbourhood. Let’s do our part and support our local businesses!

May is Bike to Work Month Bike to Work Month focuses on promoting cycling as part of the daily commute to work. Bike to Work Month encourages commuters to consider cycling, promotes cycling safety, and raises awareness about cycling infrastructure. The City of Ottawa has celebrated Bike to Work Month since 2010. The 2013 Transportation Master Plan (TMP) sets a goal of increasing the cycling modal share from three percent to five percent of morning peak period trips. The TMP also seeks to have cycling account for eight percent of all trips in the downtown core.

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Saint Paul University has signed a new agreement with Ontario’s two French colleges to let their students apply diploma credits to a degree.

The articulation agreement, signed on April 27, will allow students from La Cité collégiale and from Collège Boreal, in Sudbury, to transfer credits from a few programs towards gaining a bachelor degree.

“For us its win-win-win because it’s a way for us to attract students to the university,” said Chantal Beauvais, the rector of Saint Paul University.

“We’re getting some quality students into our classrooms. Those students are more mature and they’re focused on their studies and they know what they want to do. It brings the rest of the classrooms up.”

The agreement will mean students will be able to get both a diploma and a degree in just five years, rather than re-enrolling in university after college. This will lessen many students’ debt burdens by lowering the number of years of study they will need to finance, Beauvais said.

“You reduce your student loans.

Rather than needing loans for seven years, you need them for five years,” she said.

“A lot of students can not necessarily afford to go outside the city to pursue their education, so besides the University of Ottawa and Carleton University, there are other choices. We’re here.”

The university already has other articulation agreements with La Cité, but the new one will open the door to students in three new programs – human relations, conflict studies and social communication.

Tracy-Ann Gagnon, a communications student from Trois Rivière, Que., is one of many students who have already benefited from one of the agreements. Gagnon just completed her first year at the university after graduating from La Cité in April 2014.

“It’s exciting because it’s a complete training. You have the practical and the theoretical,” she said.

“If I decide finally I don’t want to go into journalism, I have complete information.”

Saint Paul University also has

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The museum is now set to celebrate its 10th anniversary in its current location with a day of free admission and special activities on May 9.

“We’ve brought stories of courage, sacrifice and sorrow to Canadians, and they responded with unwavering support,” said Mark O’Neill, the museum’s president.

“I hope that many of those who’ve been moved by our exhibitions and programs will join in our 10th anniversary celebrations.”

More than five million people have poured through the museum’s exhibits since it left its old Sussex Drive location in 2005 and moved across to Lebreton Flats.

The day of celebration will feature tanks and armoured vehicles rolling along in the museum’s North Plaza in demonstrations as historians will be available for free tours and veterans will be on hand to tell war stories. Visitors will also be able to get a rare glimpse at the museum’s vault, which contains art, uniforms and equipment.

The museum has also launched a social media campaign to extend the celebration beyond May 9. The initiative asks Canadians to share their experiences of the museum on Twitter using the hashtag #WarMuseum10, or on YouTube, using the words “My #WarMuseum 10 Story” in the title.

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Brian Briggs is already looking forward to seeing his neighbours out bright and early making the rounds through South Keys and Greenboro on the look out for deals and unique finds.

For the second year, the South Keys Greenboro Community Association is organizing its neighbourhood garage sale for May 16, from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. In case of rain, the event will move to May 17.

South Keys, Greenboro and Hunt Club Park residents are encouraged to register their garage sales that take place the same day, so the addresses can be posted on the association’s website. In addition, there will be tables of goods at the Greenboro Pavilion, located at 14 Tapiola Cres.

“If they want to set up here (at the pavilion) they can rent tables for $5 and it goes to the Pavilion Food Bank,” said Briggs, a local resident and volunteer director with the association, who is organizing the sale day.

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Brian Briggs, a volunteer director with the South Keys Greenboro Community Association, is leading organization efforts for a community garage sale on May 16 at the Greenboro Pavilion, complete with a barbecue and other activities. Sales will take place that day around the neighbourhood.

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Other highlights on the day of the community sale will be a barbecue provided by the

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Last year’s sale was held June 8, but Briggs said changing the date to May this year provides an advantage.

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May people are still cleaning out their garage and they don’t have everything quite ready,” he said.

By holding it early in the season, the South Keys Greenboro association is hoping to beat the rush.

“And we are one week before the Great Glebe Garage Sale so people aren’t going to be tired of garage sales yet. And it’s not too early where we still have time to promote it,” he said, adding he has been making the rounds, knocking on doors with fellow volunteer Nick Bachusky to let people know of the upcoming sale.

Also a plus, a number of garage sales had already been planned to take place the same day, such as on Gentle Gate Crescent, which is near the pavilion, said Briggs.

The hope is the South Keys Greenboro garage sale will become a highly anticipated event in the years to come.

“We’re only in the second year so yes, hopefully it gets a lot more organized where people will be like, they’ll know this is the date on the calendar if you talk to anyone,” Briggs said. “That’d be nice.”

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Sarah Bickford and her three kids - Olivia, 11; Gwen, 9 and Elliot, 5 – they have already begun to recruit their team members for the Lemon Bursts stand. This year they are going bigger than ever, enlisting the help of 12 families and involving more than 27 kids. They will all be volunteering at multiple stands in their Nepean neighbourhood and out front of Fresco’s on Elgin Street.

“I know how hard the struggle with cancer is,” explains Sarah, who was diagnosed with Hodgkins Lymphoma in 2007 when her youngest child was just 18 months old at the time. “As a family we wanted to do something to give back – and this is something that we could all do together.

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Team Ronick/Team Kang has been one of the top fundraising stands each year, led by 10-year-old Ronick Kang his little sister Maeya.

They host their stand in honour of their grandma, Balwinder, who was diagnosed with cancer two years ago.

“I was really sad and I wanted to help her,” explains Ronick. “I found out about the campaign online and it just grew from there.”

Ronick says the key to his success is finding the right stand location – one with a lot of foot traffic. This year their stand will once again be located close to the Starbucks, near the corner of Terry Fox Drive.

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KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES • Networking with local leading companies through sourcing leads, cold calling, and research, resul ng in sales of mul -media pla orms. • The desire to consistently a ain and/or surpass sales and hi ng revenue targets to earn market compe ve incen ves. • Inspire and excite customers with your own crea ve and eec ve adver sing solu ons and play a key role in the overall success of the organiza on. • Keep connected with both new and exis ng clients to encourage ongoing sales as well as integrate new products to oer a more robust por olio. • Provide consul ng, using out-of-the-box thinking for crea ng proposals to mee ng customer’s marke ng needs. • Develop and maintain strong business rela onships with decision makers to build lucra ve business opportuni es. • Interact with a variety of personali es and ensure superior customer sa sfac on through professional customer service. • Nego ate and structure sales agreements with new and exis ng customers while maintain posi ve business rela onships. • Work with an energe c, suppor ve and team-oriented department while simultaneously achieving your own independent goals. • As part of this role, you will be required to handle credit card informa on. Metroland Media is PCI compliant company, and requires people in this role to take PCI training to handle cards in a safe and compliant manner.

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A warm welcome awaits you For Information Call 613-224-8507

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We welcome you to the traditional Latin Mass - Everyone Welcome For the Mass times please see www.stclement-ottawa.org 528 Old St. Patrick St. Ottawa ON K1N 5L5 (613) 565.9656 The Redeemed Christian Church of God

Heaven’s Gate Chapel Heb. 13:8 “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever

Tel: (613) 276-5481; (613) 440-5481 1893 Baseline Rd., Ottawa (2nd Floor) Sunday Service 10.30am – 12.30pm Bible study / Night Vigil: Friday 10.00pm – 1.00am Website: heavensgateottawa.org E-mail: heavensgatechapel@yahoo.ca

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Invites you to our worship service with Rev. Dean Noakes Sundays at 11:00 am Please visit our website for special events.

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2400 Alta Vista Drive (613) 733 0131 Sunday Worship at 10:00 a.m.

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Dominion-Chalmers United Church Sunday Services Worship Service10:30am Sundays Prayer Circle Tuesday at 11:30 10:30 a.m.

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An open letter to our fans, from the Ottawa Senators What a ride! The last two - plus months have been an incredible run, as our team came together to overcome the greatest deficit in NHL history to qualify for the playoffs.

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The city has secured $300,000 in a settlement with Plasco Energy Group to decommission the waste-to-energy company’s demonstration facility on Trail Road.

The settlement was finalized on April 29, according to a memo sent by city solicitor Rick O’Connor to council.

“This will confirm that the city has no reached a settlement with Plasco and the Bank of Nova Scotia,” he said in the memo.

“The settlement agreement, signed by all three parties, was filed in court in Toronto on Wednesday, April 29, 2015, and the court approved its execution this morning.”

The $300,000 settlement will be held for six months by the city’s external legal counsel, before the city can start to dismantle the demonstration facility, which is on city land near the Trail Road landfill.

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The city has secured a $300,000 letter of credit from Plasco to dismantle its demonstration facility. ny sought creditor protection and cut 80 employees loose.

Plasco had missed multiple deadlines to secure financing to build a new $200 million facility on Moodie Drive.

Plasco’s relationship with the city dates back to 2006, when the company leased some city land to explore its innovative technology.

The city then signed a con-

tract with Plasco in 2011, hoping Ottawa would one day take advantage of lower waste disposal rates promised by the company’s cutting-edge plasma gasification technology.

The city would have paid Plasco $82.25 per tonne of waste and $9.1 million a year to convert its garbage into electricity.

The contract did not tie any city funding to the proposed facility and required Plasco to come up with the money on its own to build it.

Plasco, however, never found the financing it needed, and the deal fell apart. The city officially cancelled its commercial contract with the company on March 3.

While the commercial agreement was over, the city was still in negotiations to get the $300,000 letter of credit released by Plasco.

The company originally had a 30 day deadline to restructure under the province’s Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act, but that deadline was extended until July 17, according to court documents.

Councillors considering new meeting opening Brier Dodge

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City council stopped its traditional pre-meeting prayer following a Supreme Court ruling last month, leaving a bit of an uncomfortable silence around the horseshoe in Andrew Haydon Hall.

Since then, it was proposed on April 29 that council start the bi-weekly meetings with a silent moment of reflection instead of a prayer.

The April 15 council meeting was the first meeting of Ottawa’s city council to omit the prayer.

The Supreme Court ruling addressed a battle to say a Catholic prayer before council in Saguenay, Que., but many other municipal governments have taken the decision into consideration as well.

Kanata North Coun.

Marianne Wilkinson dis-

agreed with the proposal to replace the prayer with a silent moment, and said she doesn’t like the concept of a moment of reflection because moments of silence are generally reserved for remembrance of a death or tragedy.

“At council, I don’t think we’re remembering, we’re acting,” she said. “I don’t like this way of dealing with it because moments of reflection are usually for remembrance.”

She said she’d like to have the chance for council to discuss how to deal with the lack of an opening prayer in the future.

“I’d like to have some discussion,” she said. “The amendment is there just to say this is to be discussed with council and brought back (to a future meeting) is all I’m asking for.”

Council members agreed to have the issue discussed at a future date.

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1. Place avocados, lime juice, miso paste, and paprika into blender and blend 2. Add coconut water; continue blending until you achieve creamy consistency 3. Add sea salt to taste 4. Ladle soup into 4 bowls and drizzle hemp seed oil over top 5. Garnish with coconut yogurt and basil leaves Nutritionals: Calories: 319 | Total Fat: 23.9 g | Cholesterol 0 g

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Currently, there are 45,000 Hydro One customers in Ottawa’s more rural areas paying more than those on Hydro Ottawa’s services after the issue wasn’t dealt with at amalgamation.

The discrepancy in billing can see significantly higher bills for houses located literally across the street and exactly the same size in rural parts of the city.

“It was an issue that should have been dealt with at amalgamation, yet for some reason Hydro was left off the table,” said Mayor Jim Watson at the April 29 city council meeting. “It was the wrong decision.”

It’s a complicated issue even Place d Orléans shopping centre has wonky billing, as half the mall is served by Hydro One, and half by Hydro Ottawa. Blais himself experiences the Hydro One billing, as he moved partway through his last term as a councillor within Cumberland Ward.

At the council meeting, Blais urged council to support Watson in formally requesting the province ensure Hydro Ottawa participate in the procurement process to try and buy back the 45,000 customers from Hydro One at fair market value.

It’s a timely move, as the province has recently expressed interest in selling off parts of Hydro One. The province announced on April 16 that it would seek to “broaden ownership” through an initial public offering, gradually selling off small parcels of up to 10 per cent while

retaining the largest stakehold in the utility.

“It seems to me the time is right for Hydro Ottawa to once again offer to buy those,” Blais said. “We’re not asking for special treatment – we’re asking for the opportunity to pay fair market value.”

Waston supported Blais’ motion that would see him send a letter urging Hydro One to take part in a procurement process.

“My hope is that by writing and putting pressure on the provincial government ... that this matter is resolved,” Watson said. “I think there is a tipping point in the sense that there is going to be movement on the 40 per cent sale of Hydro (One). I think now is the time to ask.”

Blais said previously it’s an urgent matter, because if Hydro One assets are sold to someone other than Hydro Ottawa, it could be nearly impossible to ever buy them back.

“A foreign bank or Bay Street equity firm isn’t going to want to break up an asset they’ve just spent hundreds of millions or billions on buying,” he said.

After Blais announced his intentions to bring the motion forward to council, a spokeswoman for Energy Minister Bob Chiarelli said in a statement that binding arbitration would have resolved the issue, but the city refused to take part.

Watson said he remains opposed to such a move.

“That’s almost like a game of Russian roulette,” Watson said. “I’m not willing to leave it to an arbitration settlement. It’s a complete unknown. You don’t know what the end result is going to be, and it could be an expensive decision that could adversely affect our Hydro Ottawa ratepayers… (it) could go very badly against us.”

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Imagine a place in the Year 2054 where gender selection has led to a ratio of boys to girls of 5 to 1.

A place where marrying off your young daughter is the norm, and mothers, rather than rebelling against the system, instead facilitate the status quo and create a process in which boys must compete to win their future mate. Imagine finding the voice to create such a place in your mind and write about it.

Manotick writer Holly Bodger has imagined just such a place. It is the setting of her first published novel, 5 to 1.

Bodger has been harnessing her imagination through the written word since a very early age. She wrote her first book, a two-page novel, at age six as a young child growing up in Manotick, and has been on the career path since then that leads to the official release of 5 to 1 by major publishing house Alfred A. Knopf on May 12.

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Manotick author Holly Bodger holds an advance copy of her first published novel, 5 to 1, in her writer’s room at her home. She will be featured at a book signing at an Indigo store in Barrhaven on Saturday, May 16, before heading to the United States for similar events in New York and San Francisco.

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which said “5 to 1 is intriguing masterpiece the imagination and even after the book is

“I’ve always known that I wanted to be a writer,” Bodger said during an interview at her comfortable Manotick home, where she has created a writer’s room suitable for an

emerging author who is now focussed on writing for the teen fiction market.

Although Bodger, who has worked as a technical writer and now in the publishing field, has written in many forms and many styles over the years, over time she realized that her true voice as a writer of fiction appeals to young readers.

“You pour your heart into a book.

You have to find a voice, and write in that voice,” she said of the many works of fiction she has written as she has evolved as a writer.

“Everyone has different tastes, everyone likes different things. If it is not rational to you, then you are not being true to yourself as a writer.”

The subject of her new novel 5 to 1, which has a unique structure written in both verse and prose from the different viewpoints of a girl and a boy who are both trapped by the expectations that fall upon them in the society in which they live, did not emerge out of thin air.

About three years ago, she read a medical article on the ethics of gender selection and its consequences on both girls, and even boys, in

places such as China and India that practice forms of gender selection, either for cultural, religious or political reasons.

The world that Bodger creates in 5 to 1 not so far-fetched.

It’s a complex issue that has become dear to her heart. On her personal website, hollybodger.com, besides information about her work as a writer there is also facts about gender selection and a trailer for a film called, It’s a Girl.

“Obviously, I have exaggerated it to make a point, but it is a very serious issue,” she said.

With the completion of her first published novel, at least the process of writing was something that she was familiar with. Now, for the University of Ottawa grad, comes the completely new experience of promoting her own novel.

First on her schedule is a book signing event at the Indigo Bookstore at 125 RioCan Ave. in Barrhaven on Saturday, May 16 from 11 to 3 p.m. After that she has events lined up with other authors in New York and San Francisco on the horizon.

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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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The Alta Vista library branch hosts stories, rhymes and songs for babies up to 18 months and a parent or caregiver on May 11 and 25, from 10:30 to 11 a.m. No registration is required. The branch is located at 2516 Alta Vista Dr. For details, call 613-5802424, ext.30426.

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library branch May 13, 20 and 27, from 11 to 11:30 a.m.

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Family storytime programming, including stories, rhymes and games for all ages and parents and caregivers, takes place at the Alta Vista library branch takes place on May 12, 19 and 26, from 10:30 to 11 a.m. Registration is not required.

Thursdays in May

The Alta Vista library branch hosts programming for toddlers, ages 18 to 36 months, and their parents or caregivers, featuring stories, rhymes and songs on May 14 and 21 and 28, from 10:30 to 11 a.m.

Registration is not required.

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May 8

The Lebanese and Arab Social Services Agency of Ottawa will provide an introduction to Canadian employment, including the National Occupational Classification, labour market information and tips on networking. The event takes place on May 8, from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m., at the Greenboro branch of the Ottawa Public Library.

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A plant and seed exchange take place at the Greenboro library branch on May 9, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Get together with other gardening lovers and exchange plants, seedlings, seeds or cuttings.

Gardening accessories are also welcome. The library branch is located at 363 Lorry Greenberg Dr. A free labyrinth workshop led by a certified labyrinth facilitator will be held May 9 at St. Aidan’s Anglican Church, located at 934 Hamlet Rd. Call St. Aidan’s at 613-7330102 for details.

The Church of the Resurrection, located at 3191 Riverside Dr., will hold a garage, book and plant sale on May 9, from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. There will also be a bake table during the sale.

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Patients, family members and caregivers are welcome to attend a Sjogren’s Syndrome support group on May 9, from 1 to 3 p.m., at St. Thomas the Apostle Anglican Church, located at 2345 Alta Vista Dr. There is no admission, but non-perishable items for the food bank would be appreciated. For information, call Gail at 613526-5433.

The Calvary Christian Reformed Church is having its ninth annual yard sale on May 9, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.

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summer sale, featuring used clothing, furniture, books, toys and games as well as a flea market and a bake sale on May 9, from 8:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. The church is located at 2400 Alta Vista Dr. Rideau Park’s production of Disney’s Aladdin Jr. is on May 9, with two performances at 2 and 7 p.m. at Rideau Park United Church, located at 2203 Alta Vista Dr. There will be 29 youth and children performing in this exciting musical, with many more working behind the scenes.

Come one, come all and join in the fun! For tickets, call 613-733-3156, ext. 229, or come to the church office, from Monday to Friday, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tickets are $10 for children and seniors, $15 for adults and families with two adults and two ore more children pay $40.

Accomplished guitarist and songwriter Terry Tufts will perform in concert on May 9 at 2 p.m. at Manotick United Church, 5567 Manotick Main St. Tickets arte $30 per person or $80 per family.

Refreshments will be provided. For information, call 613-692-5676.

May 12

On May 12 at 10 a.m., the Riverside Grannies will be showing a film released by the Stephen Lewis Foundation, “African Grandmothers Tribunal: Seeking justice at the front lines of the AIDS crisis.” The film follows three grandmothers from Uganda and Swaziland. Emphasis is on the need to provide better protection for the human rights of African grandmothers. The event takes place at the Riverside United Church, at 3191 Riverside Dr.

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The Greely Community Association’s next meeting is May 13 at 7 p.m. at the Greely Community Centre, located at 1448 Meadow Dr. The speaker will be community police officer, Const.

Stephanie Lemieux. For more information, visit facebook. com/greelycommunity or greelycommunity.org.

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ARIES - Mar 21/Apr 20 You are a mystery lately, Aries. No one is quite sure what you will do next and you may like to surprise. But share your plans every so often with those closest to you.

TAURUS - Apr 21/May 21 Taurus, surround yourself with positive people who maintain optimistic outlooks. Many opportunities will open up if you keep a positive attitude.

GEMINI - May 22/Jun 21 Gemini, you may resist social activities this week at first, but soon you will get swept up in the fun and lose your inhibitions. Use social activities as a way to network.

CANCER - Jun 22/Jul 22 Cancer, if you are thinking about a career move, it’s about time you put your plans in motion. This week you may find you are full of energy and ready for a new challenge.

LEO - Jul 23/Aug 23 Leo, a renewed sense of enthusiasm has you eager to get started on future plans. Perhaps a new course of study will suffice and pave the way for new experiences.

VIRGO - Aug 24/Sept 22 A chance encounter with an old flame stirs up feelings you didn’t realize you still had, Virgo. Even if these feelings are less dramatic, you’re still tempted to act on them.

LIBRA - Sept 23/Oct 23 Libra, it is up to you to initiate action in a situation that leaves you somewhat uncomfortable this week. Don’t hesitate to step up and take charge.

SCORPIO - Oct 24/Nov 22 A difference of opinion may be highlighted at work this week when you are confronted by a coworker, Scorpio. Act with integrity, but be firm with your resolve.

SAGITTARIUS - Nov 23/Dec 21 Sagittarius, others may try to stop you from having fun, but you are determined to enjoy yourself. Your entire week is focused on having a good time with friends and family.

CAPRICORN - Dec 22/Jan 20 Capricorn, although you cannot control all of the changes in your life, you do have firm control over your personal health. Don’t put off revamping your diet and exercise plan.

AQUARIUS - Jan 21/Feb 18 Aquarius, close friends will keep you pretty busy over the next few days, but you can handle it. Let off steam with a few different fun activities when time allows.

PISCES - Feb 19/Mar 20 Use caution when making decisions this week, Pisces. You can be prone to impulsive behavior, and you don’t want to find yourself in trouble.

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