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EMC news – From birth, a Blossom Park youngster has battled with a rare disease, one that not so many in the medical community know about – sialidosis, a genetic disease developed either at birth or within a child’ first year.

For 13 years now, Tyler Huneault has defied the odds to battle the disease.

His body doesn’t produce a certain enzyme that breaks down and disposes of waste nutrients.

The teenager is the only known child living with this disease in the whole of North America, said his family.

Huneault said he hopes one day there will be a pill that one would take and make everything better for sialidosis patients.

A team of researchers led

by Prof. Suleiman Igdoura at McMaster University in Hamilton are studying the disease with hopes of understanding the diseases and possibly developing a treatment.

This breakthrough can only happen if this kind of research is funded, said Tyler’s family.

Over the past 10 years, Huneault has raised more than $200,000 for the research, through the now popular Tyler’s annual garage sale held at his home in Blossom Park.

“He hopes one day there will be a pill to fix his disease,” said Huneault’s mother, Ida Ryan.

Ryan added that the garage is a way of getting the word out to the community to support the research.

Huneault’s parents say they are proud of the way their son has overcome many medical issues.

About 350 runners participate in the annual 32-kilometre run from the Kanata Running Room store on Hazeldean Road, Kanata, to the Taggart Family Y in downtown Ottawa. Runners were requested to make a donation of $20 will that will go towards improving a Y Kids Academy. Organizers were expecting to raise about $4,000 from the run.

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EMC news - Ottawa will welcome the world’s top female soccer players in 2014 and 2015 after the sport’s governing body, FIFA, revealed the city as one of six host sites for the Women’s World Cup during a press conference on May 4.

The announcement was made following a girls’ youth friendly soccer match on the front lawn on Parliament Hill.

Minister of State (Sport) Bal Gosal, accompanied by FIFA president Sepp Blatter and Canadian Soccer Association pres-

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“We are extremly grateful to FIFA for providing us with the opportunity to host this most important competition,’ Maestracci said. “And we would like to officially welcome the Canadian cities from coast to coast today.”

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Ottawa was among seven Canadian cities vying to become one of six host cities. The other host cities will be Montreal, Winnipeg, Edmonton, Vancouver and Moncton, N.B., leaving Halifax as the odd city out.

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In a statement, Mayor Jim Watson said Ottawans were thrilled to serve as official host city for the world’s premier women’s sporting event.

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period the youngster, who is a Grade 7 student at PierreSavard Secondary School but hasn’t attended class for five months now, was on dialysis until Dec. 1 when he had a transplant.

“Since the kidney transplant his health has improved but still has a bit of tremor from medication,” said Ryan.

These issues include a bone marrow transplant when he was 18 months old, and recent kidney transplant.

“That creates a whole different quality of life but a cure is still needed,” said Ryan.

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As they celebrated five months after Huneault’s transplant last week, they took time to be thankful to the family that lost somebody five months ago - whose organ was donated to their son.

“It goes beyond earthly words really. How do you say thank you – you can’t,” said Ryan.

A staunch Catholic, Ryan compared the person whose organ was donated one that came over to help Jesus when he fell as he was carrying the cross.

“That is how I feel. Watching as mother Mary would have watched,” Ryan said as she fought tears.

“That anniversary doesn’t just come up with just our joy it comes with remembrance

of somebody else that is not here.”

When, doctors from The Hospital for Children in Toronto called the family to tell them that there was a kidney going to be available for Huneault, the family went into a state of shock.

“Huneault had been placed on the transplant list for two years, but we never expected it to happen that soon,” said Ryan.

When they received the call, they were told to be in Toronto as soon as possible.

The doctors were required to carry out secondary blood tests to confirm the march.

“You don’t know you will get the transplant until after the secondary test,” said Ryan.

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the better match was the one that gets the organ.

“At about five o’clock in the evening, the surgeons came in and said it was the perfect kidney for Tyler and he was in surgery at 6.30 p.m.,” Ryan recalled.

The surgery went well and Huneault has been recovering very well, according to the mother.

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“He is a resilient and an exceptional young man,” she said.

Huneault is an avid swimmer but could not do it for the past three years he has been on dialysis.

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The residents of Shearwater Court in Hunt Club will start being the eyes and ears for each other when they launch a neighbourhood watch on May 16.

According to Linda Dubois, president of the Shearwater Court Tenants Association, the initiative aims to get residents involved in discouraging and preventing crime at the local level.

Shearwater Court is a neighbourhood home to 74 families with more than 225 residents who have identified a need to bring a neighbourhood watch into their community.

“The program helps neighbours watch out for neighbours,” said Dubois.

She hopes it the program with make their community less inviting as a target for thieves and any other criminal activities.

“When neighbours get together and cooperate with police services – crime can be reduced,” said Dubois.

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The ultimate success of neighbourhood watch depends largely on a commitment to cooperate between area residents and the police and between residents themselves.

The association has partnered with different organizations that include Ottawa police services, Ottawa community housing, and the Hunt Club/Riverside Community Services Centre among others.

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Mohamed added that a strong community involvement is encouraged because neighbourhood unity can deter crime that threatens residents’ peace and safety.

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“When neighbours work together, they can combat crime in their area the most effective way — before it starts. Neighbourhood watch encourages active participation in crime prevention,” said Mohamed.

“By simply getting to know the neighbours around you, you’ll be well positioned to recognize someone or something that’s suspicious. As part of the program, you can learn.”

For Ottawa South community police officer Gary McCoy, the watch program was first introduced to help neighbours watch out for neighbours.

“When you have people who are connected to each other, who know each other, who feel comfortable with each other work together to solve whatever issues their community faces,” said McCoy. He added that having networks like these in community makes police work easier when problems do come up, get on top of them and take care of them.

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EMC news - Ottawa police are partnering with Rideauwood Addiction and Family Services for their annual walkathon, which raises funds to improve treatment for people with addiction and concurrent mental health issues.

“The walkathon provides us a chance to play an important role in the delivery of critical addiction counseling services by raising the profile of Rideauwood’s only fund raising event,” said Ottawa police Chief Charles Bordeleau. “We hope the community will join us in support of this worthy cause.”

This year’s walkathon is being held on May 12 at the

Ron Kolbus Lakeside Centre, 102 Greenview Ave. Registration is at 8:45 a.m. A barbecue, entertainment and a silent auction will follow.

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Rideauwood serves about 3,000 clients a year for substance abuse, addiction and mental health-related problems. In partnership with the Ottawa Drug Treatment Court, Rideauwood also provides day treatment for nonviolent crimes associated with addiction.

To register, or for more information about the walkathon, go to www.rideau wood.org.

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MacLaren asked to clear record on OSPCA Laura Mueller laura.mueller@metroland.com

EMC news - Carleton-Mississippi Mills MPP Jack MacLaren vows to keep fighting for reforms to animal welfare law in Ontario, even as a government minister charges him with spreading misinformation about the Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

The issue arose after MacLaren introduced a private member’s bill aimed at fixing what he sees as a conflict of interest at the OSPCA. The bill was defeated at Queen’s Park on March 29.

Ted McMeekin, Ontario Minister of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, called on MacLaren to clear the record after he was reported to have claimed the OSPCA’s conflict of interest arises in part because the non-profit group gets money if it lays charges for animal abuse.

That is not the case, however. The municipality would get that revenue, while the society could still bill owners for the care of their animals of it decides the animals must be removed from the property.

The thrust of MacLaren’s Bill 47 – the second version of his suggested changes to the Ontario Animal Welfare Act – relied on his argument

that the OSPCA is operating both as a “police force” and a “charity.”

“It’s a case where fiction became fact,” said Mark Cripps, spokesman for McMeekin.

The minister was judicious, saying that perhaps MacLaren was misinformed by his advisors. Still, he agreed that while MacLaren made a positive contribution by opening the issue to discussion, he also muddied the waters with inaccurate information.

“There may have been some misunderstandings in what I said,” MacLaren said in response.

“I tried never to say anything that wasn’t true. If I did, it was an accident.”

MacLaren said he didn’t recall making any statements that money collected from fines goes to the OSPCA, “But if I did, I apologize,” he added. “Somebody might have assumed I said that … .

But the issue isn’t fines. The issue is oversight and accountability.”

McMeekin credited McLaren’s private member’s bill with creating an opportunity to discuss animal welfare at Queen’s Park.

But had it passed when it was discussed in March, McMeekin said, it would have been “profoundly unhelpful.”

“All is not lost,” MacLaren said. “I think we did a very successful job of raising a problem. The problem at the OSPCA is that there is no oversight or accountability of the enforcement people at the OSPCA – period.”

The Animal Welfare Act falls under the Ministry of

Reporter hosts online chat with Mayor Watson Staff

Do you have a burning question to ask the mayor?

Here is your chance: Metroland Media’s Ottawa city hall reporter, Laura Mueller, will moderate a neighbourhood-focused online chat with Mayor Jim Watson on Thursday, May 17.

It’s your chance to pose questions about issues affecting your neighbourhood directly to the mayor. From community design plans to arts funding to road reconstruction, if you have a question, concern or idea for the mayor, this is your chance to share it.

Since the EMC is your community newspapers, we want this chat to be about concerns that directly affect your community. Tell the mayor

what matters to you and your neighbours – right in your backyard.

The online chat will take place at www.jimwatsonottawa.ca/askjim on May 17 between 12:30 and 1:30 p.m.

To participate, send questions to laura.mueller@metroland.com before the chat, or post your questions on Twitter using the hashtag: #AskJim. You can ask questions and follow along during the live chat on the 17th, and the chat will be archived on the website along with previous chats.

The mayor began hosting monthly online chats in December of 2011 to provide an outlet for residents to discuss municipal issues and ask questions. Each chat is moderated by a member of the media to ensure they are fair and objective.

Community Safety and Correctional Services, but the issue is very important to farmers, so McMeekin said he will be bringing together a group of stakeholders, including groups representing farmers, to discuss these issues and come up with an appropriate response.

The agriculture, food and rural affairs spokesman Cripps said the government is looking into possible memorandums of understanding with agricultural groups to allow them to send an observer if the OSPCA enters a property to investigate allegations of animal mistreatment. The Dairy Farmers of Ontario already have a similar agreement.

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Jack MacLaren appeared at the Ottawa Valley Farm Show at the CE Centre in Ottawa in mid-March, where he made an announcement about his proposed private member’s bill about reforming the Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. The bill was defeated March 29.

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Infrastructure repairs worth inconvenience to residents

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f you’ve got a child crying in the backseat of the car because he or she has to go to the bathroom only seconds after dressing them in a full snowsuit, there isn’t much room for negotiation.

It’s not a fun stop to make, but it’s not up for debate. If they have to go, they have to go. Even if you have to spend several minutes taking off all the layers and more time putting them back on, it is worth it. It’s only for the worse if

the child should, let’s just say, spring a leak.

The same logic applies to infrastructure projects such as the new Orleans water main.

Those 100,000 people are currently served by one water main, which is of the same vintage as the Barrhaven pipe that broke last year.

That community went through a good chunk of the summer under severe water restrictions after the water main, installed in 1976 beneath Woodroffe Avenue,

broke during the winter of 2011.

According to the city, it’s going to cost more – $25 million more – than originally estimated to build the new main. But the new $75 million estimated cost would be money the residents will wish the city would have spent if the water main were to ever break.

The main serves the growing suburbs of Orleans and Cumberland which is only going to see rising demands

on the water supply in years to come.

Engineers have presented reports indicating the pipes are degrading at a rate higher than expected, which means a fix can’t be postponed for much longer.

But the slowly ticking time bomb that lies under the streets of east Ottawa isn’t the only water main woe on the city’s horizon.

The city has plenty of ancient pipes running under its streets that rupture on a

regular basis during the winter months, causing disruption for homeowners, business owners and drivers alike.

Some of these water mains lie underneath streets, such as Elgin Street downtown, that have been resurfaced in recent years.

But if tearing up what is essentially a brand new road is what needs to be done to ensure vital infrastructure is secure, it simply needs to be done.

These types of projects

aren’t fun to undertake, much like the inconveniences of broken pipes. And they don’t make for “sexy” unveilings by city councillors once the work is done.

But water bans and boil water warnings are even less sexy. Hopefully we’ve learned the lessons of last summer and we do what it takes to make sure the city’s water supply is secure.

Fool us once, shame on you. Fool us twice, shame on us all.

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A museum for all Ottawa’s quirks CHARLES GORDON Funny Town

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here’s been some time now to consider Mayor Jim Watson’s notion of a museum of popular history on Wellington Street and it seems pretty good. Watson wants to call it Canada House and that could be OK, although a bit dull.

There is a degree of civic glee at finally having something in that building, which formerly housed the U.S. Embassy and would have housed the portrait gallery until the Conservative government thought differently.

But we can let bygones be bygones. The important thing is to put something in the building so it doesn’t get torn down. Because you know what we would get then. Yes: condos deplore a vacuum. Do we need another condo? No, nor do we need another glass office building.

So the proposal for a museum of popular history is welcome, although not uncontroversial. Someone has made the suggestion that we already have an appropriate location in the Museum of Civilization just across the river.

After all, any collection of significant Canadian artifacts and moments would have to contain some political exhibits and politics is civilization, isn’t it?

For my money, the Ottawa location works better, if only because it will preserve a distinctive building and sit nicely in an area that needs more attractions. Now, given the speed at which planning decisions involving several levels of government are taken around here, we probably don’t need to rush too much to offer advice on what should go into the new museum.

But still, the opportunity has arisen. The mayor mentioned such possible exhibits as

Céline Dion’s first gold record; a replica of the Canadarm, Bryan Adams’ first guitar, Sidney Crosby’s stick from the gold medal game in the 2010 Olympics, Terry Fox’s T-shirt and Bombardier’s first snowmobile.

Those are all worthy suggestions, but they lack important components reflective of life in the nation’s capital. We need something that reflects the excitement of Ottawa life.

Ottawa mayors could fill an entire room.

There’s the toy gun Charlotte Whitton pulled on the board of control in the ‘50s, for example.

And what about the underwear Lorry Greenberg was wearing when he jumped into that fountain in 1975? There is no shortage of other important figures in our city’s history. What about Lenny the Lynx? The Ice Hog? John Turmel? Alanis, before she had a last name.

Rare inanimate objects might include an ashtray from L’Hibou. Come to think of it, an ashtray. And don’t forget Nepean’s muchcelebrated balanced budget, Charles Lynch’s harmonica and Frank Clair’s glasses. Speaker’s Corner on Sparks Street could be replicated, ideally without any speakers.

Speaking of Sparks Street, rare historical photos would reveal that people once walked on it after 5 p.m. Other photos in the museum would reveal that cows once walked in Barrhaven, Rideau Street was once a bus shelter and Meech Lake was once a lake. Also the old railway station was once a railway station, as opposed to what it is now, namely, an empty railway station. There is so much in our past that is almost too exciting for a museum.

That obviously includes the world of sport.

For sure, there has to be something representing the several Rough Rider eras — Russ Jackson, Whit Tucker, Vic Washington, Bobby Simpson, Tony Gabriel, Billy Cooper, Wonderful Monds and, while we’re at it, some photos of Horn Chen and the Gliebermans, preferably taken when they were leaving town.

Finally, some before-and-after photographs of LeBreton Flats would be nice additions, except for the fact that the after pictures would be identical to the before.

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Steve Desroches Deputy Mayor Councillor, Gloucester-South Nepean Earth Day 2012 I would like to thank all the residents who came out to my Earth Day Tree Planting this year. I was pleased that the event was a great success again this year. Once again, thank you for your volunteering efforts and continuing to participate in these community initiatives.

I would especially like to thank Moncion’s Independent Grocer and Coco’s Café in Riverside South for generously providing the continental breakfast and coffee for the event.

New South Ottawa Watermain will improve reliability and service growth I am pleased to announce that the new watermain in South Ottawa is now fully operational. The new $15 million watermain was installed to service the current and future growth within the south end of the City, including Barrhaven and Riverside South. The new watermain will also serve to provide a secondary water supply to both pressure zones to ensure a continuous reliable water supply.

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Jo-Anne Pulley and students Jayden Nguyen, Syena Bakekr and Chingis Toktamossov watch chicks in a sand table at the back of the classroom in W. Erskine Johnston Public School on Thursday, May 3.

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A junior kindergarten class at W. Erskine Johnston Public School is taping the hatching of chickens and live streaming it over the web, allowing parents and people across the world to monitor the class project.

Jo-Anne Pulley, the class’s teacher, went live with a web cam focused on an incubator containing 16 eggs which were provided by a farmer in Kinburn on Wednesday, May 2.

Since then messages from parents, teachers across Ottawa and people from different countries, have poured in over the livestream chat.

“I just feel we’ve touched many people all over,” said Pulley.

The web cam feeds to a livestream site which allows viewers to type messages on a chat screen.

One parent’s message read: “First thing we did this morning was say hello to the chicks!”

Jennifer Bygrave, another parent, wrote: “We didn’t realize how interesting it is to watch chickens hatch – we can cancel our cable TV.” Pulley has also created a Facebook page for the class project.

Shannon Smith, vice-principal at W. Erskine Johnston, said the success of the proj-

was worried about them.”

Pulley said she is teaching her students the science of life changes and seasonal changes, through the study of the chicks.

“We watch it start as an egg and develop as a chick,” she said.

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Once the chicks are ready to leave the incubator, the teacher brings them to a sand table lined with newsprint, warmed by an overhead heat lamp.

Notes welcoming the birth of chicks created by the students are pinned to the walls of the sand table.

One of the notes said: “I love chicks. Chicks is soft. I love you chick.”

When the children go home at night they can still keep track of the chicks development using the livestream website.

After a few days – and many visits from students across the school – the chicks will return to the farm.

“I’m so excited when they come out of the egg,” said Luke Cornell Conboy, 4.

“They’re fragile.

“I like the white ones (because) that’s my favourite colour.”

Gracie Li, 5, said she likes watching the chicks “when they say, ‘Cheep, cheep.’”

Ottawa South United recognized with award I would like to congratulate Ottawa South United Soccer (OSU) on their recent achievement of receiving the 2012 Gold Level Club Excellence Award by the Ontario Soccer Association. OSU is the first soccer club in Ottawa and Eastern Ontario to receive the Gold level award.

Congratulations to Bill Michalopulos, Ottawa South United’s President and Jim Lianos, General Manager of Operations along with all their hard-working volunteers for making this club such a great local success story.

Johnny Canuck’s now open in Findlay Creek As you may know, Johnny Canuck’s Bar and Grill is now open in the Findlay Creek commercial plaza located at the corner of Findlay Creek Drive and Bank Street. I am happy to see the continued progress of the commercial area, bringing goods and services to a growing community.

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CHICKS

Pulley started the chick incubation project on April 12, taking 16 eggs from Wayne Senior, a farmer in Kinburn, who for several years has offered chicken and duckling eggs to various teachers at the school for incubation and study.

Over the past month, the junior kindergarten students have kept track of the days leading up to the hatching and have read stories about chickens.

Pulley was a little nervous the night before the hatching.

“I woke up really early. I didn’t sleep well because I

Riverside South stormwater pond City Council has approved the Riverside South Development Corporation’s application for the construction of a stormwater management pond for the developments on the east side of Limebank Road. As you may know, stormwater management ponds are critical as they work to collect and retain the stormwater in the community.

They help contain rainfall surges and release them slowly to reduce downstream flooding.

Riverside South community garage sale The Riverside South community garage sale will take place on Saturday, May 12. Please visit www.riversidesouth.org for more information or if you would like to participate.

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ect has spurred suggestions for future livestream projects from other teachers at the school, such as public speaking events, plays and poetry readings.

“This is the first time we’ve broadcast live,” said Smith.

“We have a hunch this is just the tip of the iceberg.”

One of the teachers at the school has suggested setting up a web cam to witness the birth of a calf at an Ottawaarea farm.

“Calf cam!” said Smith.

“The parents can see what’s going on and continue the learning at home,” she said.

“I’m a big proponent of expanding the learning beyond the classroom.”

Many of the teachers at the school already provide blogs informing parents about what their children are learning about in class, including homework assignments and photographs.

Live streaming allows parents to keep tabs on what their children are learning even when the travel overseas, said Smith.

Now operational, the new 5.8km watermain serves both the East and West communities of Ward 22. Should a water disruption occur in the future, the impact would be minimal to the Barrhaven and Riverside South communities as a result of this new watermain connection.

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Fisher School Trustee Zone 7 www.markďŹ sher.org Capital Priorities It has been a busy twelve months with respect to moving forward on a number of capital priorities for Zone 7. First, we are moving forward with the construction of a new elementary school in Chapman Mills, which is due to open ofďŹ cially in early 2013. Beginning in 2012, students designated to attend the new school will be housed at the Parkwood Hills Public School temporarily. Second, the school board is building a new addition on to Steve MacLean Public School. The addition will help the board integrate the full-day kindergarten program at the school and to help manage growth in the Riverside South area. Staff at the school board also recognizes that within the next 10 years a new elementary school and a new secondary school will be required to keep pace with ongoing development in the community. Finally, I continue to push for a new elementary school in Findlay Creek.

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The Civic Hospital Neighbourhood Association is taking on a campaign to lower speed limits on their streets from 50km/hour to 40.

Civic Hospital neighbourhood petitioning for lower speed limits Kristy Strauss kristy.strauss@metroland.com

EMC news - Peter Eady is tired of seeing cars zooming through his neighbourhoodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s streets, going higher than the posted 50-kilometre-per-hour speed limit.

Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why the Civic Hospital neighbourhood resident, along with members of the areaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s community association, is starting a petition campaign aimed at lowering the speed limit on area roads to 40 kilometres per hour. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have kids playing on the street and seniors walking their dogs. Their safety is more important than someone trying to get to work early,â&#x20AC;? said Eady, who will be going door-to-door asking his neighbours to sign the petition which heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll give to the city.

His goal is to get the required 66 per cent of all resi-

Student Transportation After almost a decade of having different transportation protocols than the Ottawa Catholic School Board, the two boards have come together under the auspices of the Ottawa Student Transportation Authority to harmonize our policies governing student transportation. As a result, the following changes for Ottawa Carleton District School Board students will take effect in September 2012. Pick-up distance for JK-SK will be 0.8 km or more; Grades 1 to 8 will be 1.6 km or more; and Grades 9 to 12 will be 3.2km or more.

Parents Reaching Out (PRO) Grants Since 2006, the government has supported almost 9,000 PRO Grants to School Councils and 280 Regional Grants. This is a total investment of nearly $14 million to help increase parent involvement in support of student achievement and well-being.

Applications for the 2012-2013 PRO Grants are now open and the last date to apply is Friday, June 8.Please read the program guidelines and terms and conditions prior to submitting your application.

School Councils can apply online at http:// education.factorial.ca.

dents on the affected streets to sign the petition.

Those streets include Fairmont Avenue, Kenilworth Street, Bayswater Avenue, Loretta Avenue, Hickory Street, Beech Street and Sherwood Drive.

Even though some of the streets go into the Hintonburg and Dalhousie communities, Eady said thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been support from groups in both neighbourhoods.

Another main message Eady hopes to get across through the campaign is to remind drivers to drive the way they would in their own neighbourhoods. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m no angel. I have a heavy foot when I get on the Queensway,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But the successful method of enforcing this is through knowledge and education. And itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s up to the neighbourhood to enforce

it.â&#x20AC;?

Through the campaign, he hopes drivers will also become more aware of their surroundings.

Kitchissippi Coun. Katherine Hobbs said sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;100 per centâ&#x20AC;? behind the neighbourhood associationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s efforts. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I want to make sure people do adhere to that speed limit,â&#x20AC;?

Hobbs said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We should be feeling safe in our neighbourhoods. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m very supportive of it and will help in any way I can.â&#x20AC;?

Hobbs said one of the trafďŹ c measures sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d like to see in Kitchissippi is having visual art, for example, to show drivers theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re on a residential street and to drive with extra caution. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d really like to start doing different pop-up projects within Kitchissippi,â&#x20AC;? she said.

Eady said itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time for the

street to have lower speed limits because of close calls with speeding cars â&#x20AC;&#x201C; including a fatality that happened at Sherwood and Carling Avenue a couple years ago. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sherwoodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a big problem,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Drivers need to remember theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re coming into our neighbourhood, into somebodyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s backyard.â&#x20AC;?

He added that speeding issues arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just a problem for the Civic Hospital neighbourhood, but also for growing areas like Hintonburg and the Glebe. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re all going through growing pains,â&#x20AC;? Eady said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;(Lowering speed limits) is one of those classic winwins.â&#x20AC;?

The neighbourhood association will ofďŹ cially launch its speed limit campaign on May 15 at 7 p.m. in the Civic Hospital Amphitheatre.

Minister of Education Parent Consultations â&#x20AC;&#x201C; &ULL $AY +INDERGARTEN Parents are an integral part of the Full Day Kindergarten Program and play an important role in supporting their childâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s learning. The Ministry of Education is looking for guidance from parents regarding effective communication about their child(ren)â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s learning, especially from parents who have or have had a child(ren) in Full Day Kindergarten. The evening consultation session is scheduled as follows: Thursday, May 17, 2012, from 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm at the Confederation Education Centre, 1645 Woodroffe Ave., Nepean.

Please register by email to Mary Lynn McRury (mary.lynn.mcrury@ocdsb.ca).

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Manconi cleans house at OC Transpo Six transit managers replaced in shakeup Laura Mueller laura.mueller@metroland.com

EMC news - After only a couple months on the job, the new general manager of OC Transpo is cleaning house.

An almost complete management overhaul at OC Transpo was announced in a memo from transit general manager John Manconi to city councillors on April 30.

When the dust settled, the only manager left standing in the level just below Manconi is Pat Scrimgeour, manager of transit service planning and reporting. He will take on an expanded role bringing both transit planning and reporting on results into one branch. Six

other managers received walking papers, with taxpayers on the hook for the $650,000 worth of contract payouts.

Manconi said he is “highly sensitive” to the cost and weighed the decisions carefully.

He said he assessed the former managers’ understanding of and commitment to the two main values he began espousing when he took over the transit service: customers and employees.

“In some cases, those aren’t aligned, or they don’t have the skill sets, or it’s not part of what they believe in in terms of leadership roles,” Manconi said.

“I put together the team that I believe are needed (and) respected by the organization, have a combination of passion and experience and believe in the focus of customer service and employee engagement.”

The new managers have taken over their roles in an “acting” capacity, but their

roles could be made permanent if they are the right fit, Manconi said.

The new acting managers coming from within OC Transpo include Troy Charter for the transit operations branch, Jim Greer for the transit fleet maintenance branch, James Babe for the transit safety and enforcement branch, Dan Villeneuve for the capital projects and facilities management branch and Jocelyne Begin for the strategic initiatives and business planning branch.

David Pepper, formerly of the Ottawa Police Service, will take on a new role at OC Transpo in the business and operational services branch.

While no other major structural changes to OC Transpo management are planned, Manconi said, he may be looking at minor tweaks in order to achieve the priorities set out by the transit commission.

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OC Transpo’s new general manager, John Manconi, put his stamp on the transit service last week by clearing out OC Transpo management.

United Way announces funding for programs across Ottawa Michelle Nash Michelle.nash@metroland.com

EMC news - A support system for parents with suicidal and mentally ill children and a culinary teaching program are among the more than 100 agencies set to receive support from the United Way Ottawa this year.

On April 30, the United Way announced $27 million worth of investments in programs across the city, which will see 116 programs will receive funding.

“We are here today thanks to the hard work and commitment of thousands of volunteers and more than 100,000 individual and corporate donors – people and organizations who believe that they can make a real difference by being a part of United Way” said Rick Gibbons, United Way Board Chair.

Jeffery Dale, who leads the committee in charge of making funding decisions, said it was extremely hard to choose one program over another. Dale’s committee sifted through 193 proposals from 105 agencies.

“It is incredibly tough to decide where the money will go,” Dale said. “It can be agonizing because all programs and proposal are great and if we had more money, we would give it to everyone.”

Phyllis Grant-Parker’s organization, Parents Lifelines of Eastern Ontario, a support system for parents who have suicidal or mentally ill children was one of the organizations which received funding.

A total of $54,486 from the United Way has helped make a group of volunteers become something much greater.

“This funding is huge,” Grant-Parker said. “We have networks of volunteers and we have been doing the best that we can, but with this money

we will be able to formalize the organization,” A woman whose own son has battled mental illness, she said she understands first hand what it is like to feel lost when it comes to wanting to help an ailing child.

“I was given hope when I found my support system, this will offer many more parents

the same chance,” GrantParker added.

Her son Andrew has come a long way since the early years of battling his illness and is now a youth councillor for the organization.

Grant-Parker said she is very proud of her son.

“He is an inspiration,” she said. “That he has taken

from being someone who has needed help to the position of helping others, I am just so proud.”

Panini-Xpress, a program run through the Vanier Community Service Centre, has also received $43,441 in funding. The 12-week program helps individuals learn the trade of cooking and running

a catering business.

The call for proposals process was introduced last year and has changed the way the United Way hands out funding. To continue to help ease the transition for agencies no longer funded, $811,000 has been set aside as a transition fund.

The 2011 campaign fell $1

million short of its $33 million goal. That shortfall in turn contributed to an overall decrease in revenue of $2.5 million. This means $340,000 less funding is available for the various agencies helped by the United Way. The decrease has also led the United Way to reduce staff by 13 positions.

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18 people displaced by fire in Greenboro, $2 million damage Eddie Rwema eddie.rwema@metroland.com

EMC news - A fire at a Greenboro row house complex on May 7 left 18 people displaced and caused an estimated $2 million of damage.

Firefighters responded to the three-alarm blaze at 93 Inverkip Ave., at about 4:23 p.m. near Johnston and Conroy roads.

In a statement Ottawa fire spokesman Marc Messier said

three units were destroyed and were left with considerable damage.

“The fire spread to units 95 and 97, but crews stopped it before it caused serious damage to 99, and also protected the next row of units, which sustained minor damage from heat on the exterior wall,” Messier said.

The occupants of 93 were not home at the time and the other residents were evacu-

ated safely.

All of the residents except for one family had insurance.

Both Ottawa paramedics and police were also on the scene assisting.

The Red Cross and the Salvation Army were also called in to assist.

The fire marshall’s office has been notified and will attend the scene to continue the investigation.

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Alive to Strive Hannah Burrows, left, Caleb Lewis, Sean Burrows, Natasha Robb and Holly Burrows, in front, take part in the Alive to Strive Race at the Terry Fox Athletic Facility on April 29.

More than 470 people registered for the race and it raised roughly $14,500 for the Alive to Strive Kidney Fitness Project fitness and weight loss grants and $4,000 for charity.

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CN Cycle for CHEO raises $652,499 for kids Diane Special to EMC Ottawa South

EMC news – About 5,000 participants cycled, in-line skated and walked the downtown routes while raising a grand total of $652,499 in support of pediatric cancer as part of the CN Cycle for CHEO that took place at the Canadian War Museum on the Ottawa River Parkway on May 6. The 2012 McDonald’s Dream Team was on hand to represent the thousands of kids who rely on CHEO each year.

Over the past three months, CHEO cancer patients, fiveyear-old Jeremy Melara, nine-

year-old Micaela Egan and 14-year-old Trevor Young have been helping promote the event, while raising funds themselves to help the thousands of kids just like them who are fighting cancer.

In a statement Sean Finn, executive vice-president, corporate services, and chief legal officer at CN, said he was pleased with the amazing turnout.

“CN is extremely proud to play a role in a great event raising funds that will make a big difference to the lives of children and their families as they battle cancer.”

Just prior to the start of the

Esso 15K Cycle the annual “Tori’s Angels” tribute was held as a memorial to all of the children at CHEO whose lives have been cut short by cancer. The tribute is named after Tori Carswell, member of the 2002 Dream Team who lost her battle with cancer in 2004 at the age of nine years old.

CN along with other corporate sponsors helped to underwrite the costs of the event which allows every dollar pledged by supporters to benefit the CHEO Foundation, Candlelighters and Ronald McDonald House and in turn, the children and families af-

fected by cancer.

“We are so happy and proud that the people in the community continue to make the CN Cycle a success.

It is always so inspiring to see so many work so hard to help kids with cancer. On behalf of all the kids I want to thank the participants, volunteers, sponsors and donors for their dedication to the CN Cycle for CHEO,” Kevin Keohane, chief operating officer at the CHEO Foundation, said in a statement.

Proceeds from CN Cycle for CHEO will be presented on the CHEO Telethon on June 9.

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Public meeting to review the draft concept plan resulting from the Blossom Park East Area Traffic Management Study – May 15, 2012 The City of Ottawa’s Area Traffic Management Study in Blossom Park East is nearing completion. I requested this study on behalf of residents in order to identify transportation concerns within the community and develop cost effective and feasible solutions to the concerns. The area under study is bounded by St. Barbara Avenue to the north, Conroy Road to the east, Queensdale Avenue to the south and Bank Street to the west. Many of you attended the first public meeting on this study when it was launched in December 2011, and provided your comments. A Public Working Group comprised of residents and community stakeholders was also formed to work with City staff and provide additional community perspective throughout the study process.

Based on the feedback received from the first public meeting and the Public Working Group, City staff has developed a draft concept plan proposal that illustrates their recommended transportation solution for the community of Blossom Park East, which they would like to present to the community.

I would like to invite you to a second public meeting hosted by City staff to review and provide your comments on City staff’s draft concept plan proposal for the Blossom Park East community. The meeting will take place on Tuesday, May 15, 2012 at 7:00 p.m. at the Greenboro Community Centre, Meeting Rooms A & B, located at 363 Lorry Greenberg Drive. I look forward to seeing you on May 15th.

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You are invited to meet Ottawa’s New Police Chief I am very pleased to introduce Ottawa’s New Police Chief to GloucesterSouthgate residents on Tuesday May 22nd at 7:00p.m. in meeting rooms A and B at the Greenboro Community Centre, located at 363 Lorry Greenberg Drive. This is a great opportunity to listen to a presentation by keynote speaker Charles Bordeleau Ottawa’s new Police Chief, and fellow Gloucester-Southgate resident. Additionally, East District Inspector Patrick Flanagan and our local officers will be speaking about community safety and summer police operations. Following presentations, residents will have the opportunity to have their questions and concerns addressed by members of the Ottawa Police Service. For more information, please contact my office at 613-580-2480.

Spring Cleaning and Household Hazardous Waste Spring cleaning season is upon us and I would like to encourage you to dispose of your hazardous household waste in the safest and most environmentally friendly way. I would also like to remind residents that there are a number of options available for the disposal of household hazardous waste. You can find out more about these options by visiting the City’s web site at ottawa.ca/hhw or by phoning 3-1-1.

Get the whole Ottawa story by visiting our 10 local museums.

They’re affordable, easy to find, fun to visit and offer hands-on activities that kids love.

Spring Time Reminder for Pet Owners I have had several residents bring to my attention that a large amount of animal waste is not being picked up by owners or is being tossed into park/community garbage bins. I would like to offer a friendly reminder to everyone to clean up after their animals so we can keep our parks, trails, and pathways tidy. Leaving animal waste in a park or community garbage bin is prohibited and owners should be disposing of this waste at home. For more information and tips on animal care visit Ottawa.ca.

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Condors look to spread wings over Ottawa Kanata couple help children with disabilities hockey dreams take flight Chantal Mack

Four years ago, Jim and Shana Perkins founded the Capital City Condors, an ice hockey team for youth ages six and up who have been deemed ineligible to play on any other team in the City of Ottawa due to a disability.

On-ice coaches who emphasize fun, skill development, sportsmanship and teamwork supervise each player on the ice.

“It all began when my wife and I were in Cambridge,” Jim said.

“When we were there, we saw a children’s hockey team made specifically for those with disabilities.”

He said the team and the happiness shown by its players amazed his wife and himself.

“After the game, a woman asked us if we would like to speak with her son who was a member on the team. We ended up speaking with him for about 10 minutes. He was so excited to be on the team,” Jim recalled.

“When we finished speaking with him, we noticed his mother was crying,” said Jim. “As it turns out, her son used to avoid strangers and have

difficulty talking to people and making eye contact with those outside his family. She said that playing on this hockey team is what opened him up.”

Seeing the life-altering differences the team had made for this boy and his family, Jim and Shana decided to look for a similar organization in Ottawa and become involved with it.

“We were surprised to see that a team for these kids didn’t exist in Ottawa,” Jim said.

“As a result, we decided to make our own.”

It all started with a summer camp with three youths playing hockey. Since then, interest has continued to grow, both in size and community involvement.

Growing from only three players, the Condors now has two teams – one in Kanata and one in Rockland – and is looking to create more.

“We keep getting emails from parents about our program,” Jim said. “I always thought that we may be making the dreams of a few of these kids come true by giving them the opportunity to play, but I never thought about the

dreams of the parents.

“A family emailed me, thanking us for our program, saying they never thought they would be able to be ‘hockey parents,’ and that we had made this dream of theirs come true.”

With over 300 players now on a waiting list to play, the Perkins family has noted a need to expand to create these new teams.

“Right now, we are currently looking into finding ice time in Barrhaven,” Jim said.

“By the fall of next year, we are hoping to start another team out in Gatineau.”

Creating new teams and maintaining them doesn’t come without a cost.

Each youth is given two jerseys – one black and one red – and their needs to have special ice time booked, as well as insurance.

This is one of the reasons behind the annual friendship game, Jim explained.

The annual friendship/ fundraiser game is a chance for the Capital City Condors to play against other teams, such as the Kanata Blazers.

On March 3, the secondannual friendship/fundraiser game took place at the Bell Sensplex, raising $2,650 to help cover costs and demonstrate the support and acceptance of all abilities to play the great game of hockey.

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Jim Perkins founded the Capital City Condors with his wife Shana. The Condors is a hockey team for youth aged six and up who are disabled and deemed ineligible to play by other Ottawa teams.

More fundraisers are underway, in hopes to build up the necessary funding to continue expanding the team.

Ottawa Senators defenceman Matt Carkner, who has

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become immersed in the program and has been named as honorary captain of the Condors, will be hosting the team’s first fundraising golf tournament on June 4 at the

Greyhawk Golf Club in Cumberland.

More information about the fundraiser, and the Capital City Condors is available at www.capitalcitycondors.org.

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Jose Canseco looks to hit a homer for charity Michelle Nash michelle.nash@metroland.com

ple come out and support the cause,â&#x20AC;? Malamud said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Baseball fans will get to see a great baseball star and all in the name for a great program at CHEO.â&#x20AC;?

Following the derby, an all-star game has been organized with a number of professional athletes including Shaun Van Allen, Doug Frobel, Jason York in addition to some local radio personalities.

There will also be a silent auction after the game where a number of sports memorabilia will be up for grabs, including autographed items from baseball hall of famer Roberto Alomar, Trevor Gretzky and the Gretzky family and Hayley Wickenheiser.

The derby starts at 2 p.m. with the all-star game at 3:30 p.m. and the silent auction at 5:30 p.m.

All of the proceeds to the charity will go to CHEOâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Autism program. So far they have sold around 1,000 tickets.

Tickets are $12 and can be purchased online at homerunsforautism.webs. com or at a number of locations including Sears on Innes Road, 417 Suzuki, East Side Marioâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s at 526 West Hunt Club Rd, Kelseyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s at 130 Earl Grey Dr. or Car Club at 300 Moodie Dr.

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Evan Malamud has challenged Jose Canseco to a home run derby on May 12 to help raise money for autism programming at the Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hospital of Eastern Ontario.

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EMC sports - An Ottawa man has challenged former Major League Baseball star Jose Canseco to a home run competition to raise money for a local charity.

The Home Run Derby with Canseco will take place on May 12 at the Ottawa Baseball Stadium.

The event is to help support Home Runs for Autism, a non-profit organization which raises money for the Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hospital of Eastern Ontario autism programs.

Home Runs for Autism founder and the derby organizer Evan Malamud described the upcoming event as a family-friendly show with lots of giveaways. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is going to be a fun time,â&#x20AC;? Malamud said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are going to make a real show out of it.â&#x20AC;?

To prepare for the competition, Malamud said he has been training around the clock. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I am going to make sure I am ready,â&#x20AC;? Malamud said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Jose (Canseco) is not going to see me coming.â&#x20AC;?

The idea for the event came from Twitter. Malamud follows Canseco on the social media network and said Canseco is constantly calling people out, like Mike Tyson,

to a challenge of strengths, but no one was challenging him, until Malamud. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I always looked up to him as a kid and I see him challenging all these other tough guys with no real responses and so I challenged him â&#x20AC;&#x201C; I called him out,â&#x20AC;?

Malamud said.

He said he never really thought it would actually happen, but sure enough Canseco responded. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He wrote back, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;I accept â&#x20AC;&#x201C; I complete you,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;? Malamud said.

According to the baseball fan, he still did not believe it would actually happen until his cell phone rang while at work.

Canseco is coming to Ottawa for free â&#x20AC;&#x201C; normally he would charge for an appearance, but told Malamud the charity sounded important and having a soft spot for children, wanted to make sure all the money raised would go to the children.

Excited to play baseball with his childhood hero, the father of threeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s true goal is to raise as much money as he can.

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Manotick family becomes library’s dearest friend Emma Jackson emma.jackson@metroland.com

EMC news - Few children would ask for piles of books on their birthday and even fewer would forgo presents altogether so the whole community can enjoy an expanded collection at their local library.

But Manotick residents Nathan and Daniel Innes are not ordinary children.

Apart from reading their way through virtually every nonfiction book at the Manotick library, the boys have also donated thousands of dollars in would-be birthday presents to buy books, furniture and other items on the branch’s wish list.

On Tuesday, May 1, the boys and their parents were awarded the Ottawa Public Library’s Order of Friendship in recognition of more than a decade of financial and volunteer support at the Manotick branch.

Barrhaven Coun. Jan Harder, who serves as the chairwoman of the Ottawa Public Library, said the family’s support of the library is “significant” and “special.”

“You hear now about kids that are making a difference, all kinds of differences...but you’re the only two boys or girls that I know of in Ottawa that are making such a difference for the library,” she told the boys at an award presentation in the library.

Their father, Chris Innes, said the donations began before the kids were born, when he and his wife Deb would sponsor magazine subscriptions and add to the branch’s book-buying coffers each year.

The donations took on new significance when Daniel, now 13, was born.

“When the kids came along, it was a way for the kids to learn on their birthday it wasn’t about them receiving, it was also about giving back to the community,” he said. “They were able to actually see the results of that.”

The boys would tell the library which type of books they wanted the librarians to spend their birthday money on, beginning with picture books and moving gradually to graphic novels and easy readers.

As the boys got older, they began requesting non-fiction books that ran the gamut of virtually every topic imaginable.

Nathan, now 10, is particularly fond of books about dogs, photography and boats.

Chris Innes said the contributions were calculated very simply: take the child’s age and add two zeros.

It was a way to increase the donation each year, he said.

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Sixty five thousand trees on the chopping block Chantal Mack

Out of 75,000 ash trees on City of Ottawa property, only about 10,000 will be saved, said Kanata North Coun.

Marianne Wilkinson.

Ottawa’s ash trees are under the attack of the Emerald Ash Borer – a highly destructive wood-boring beetle that feeds under the bark of the tree, killing it over the course of a couple years.

Matt Muirhead, president of the Kanata Lakes Community Association, said he is extremely worried about what happens to these trees.

“Recently, in Trillium Woods, a protected area, I noticed all of these trees being cut down,” said Muirhead.

“After further research I found that a city employee came in unannounced, without the knowledge of Wilkinson, and cut down dozens of trees.

Many of which were neither infected nor ash trees.”

Wilkinson said that the city employee had been responding to community complaints concerning how close these trees were to the road.

“There were a hazard, it had nothing to do with the Emerald Ash Borer,” she said.

Muirhead said that the reason this event worries him is “if a city employee can come in and chop down all of these trees that are on, what I know

as ‘protected land’ without the knowledge of our councilor, how do we know the ash tress won’t be cut down in the same way.”

“What I don’t understand is how cutting down a tree will prevent the beetle from moving to the next one. Other alternatives need to be considered,” Muirhead said.

According Muirhead, cutting the trees down is not the only option. The other way of dealing with the infected trees is to inject them with TreeAzin.

The City of Ottawa website identifies Canada’s only approved treatment for these ash trees, TreeAzin, as a “a biological insecticide, made from a natural product of neem trees, developed by the Canadian Forest Service and BioForest Technologies Inc.” Trees are usually injected once every two years for 15 years.

Donna DuBreuil, president of the Ottawa-Carelton Wildlife Centre, said that options need to be evaluated.

“Community consultation has not been done,” she said.

“The community needs to have a chance to share their opinions on how the situation should be dealt with.”

Oakville, which has about 7,500 ash trees, according to DuBreuil, has been injecting their trees and has been “quite successful.”

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Matt Muirhead, president of the Kanata Lakes Community Association, stands beside one of the trees cut down in Trillium Woods.

“We need to look at strategic removal and injection,” DuBreuil said.

In Oakville, for a 40 centimetre tree, injection costs about $200 every two years for 15 years, DuBreuil explained, adding that the cost of cutting down a tree is about $1,000.

“When we factor in removing the tree and planting a new sapling, the costs are very comparable. The biggest

difference being the cost of injections is spread out over time,” she said.

“We need to be pennywise, not pound-foolish.”

Wilkinson said that because of the large difference in amount and in size of ash trees in Ottawa, the cost of injections is double the cost of that in Oakville.

“We’re trying to save some trees, but it’s costly to inject them all,” Wilkinson said.

“The city has already injected several thousand trees.

We are hoping to save about 10,000,” she said. “This number may be added to once evaluations are completed.”

Wilkinson said that ash trees on private property must be dealt with by the landowner.

“We are, however, trying to involve the community,” Wilkinson said.

“If a community member

notices a tree they feel should be saved that the city has not decided to inject, they are able to refer it for treatment.

The injections will be paid for by that community member, it’s similar to adopting a tree.”

Concerned residents can suggest a tree for treatment or removal through the Canadian Food Inspection Agency at 1-866-463-6017 or e-mailing the city at 311@ottawa.ca.

FIRE HYDRANTS: TESTING FOR YOUR SAFETY This summer, as in past years, the City of Ottawa will be testing municipal fire hydrants on various streets throughout your community. Fire hydrant testing may result in temporary inconveniences, such as poor water pressure and brown or rust-coloured water. It is important to note that temporarily discoloured City water is not harmful to your health.

This ongoing maintenance procedure ensures that our hydrants are ready, should Fire Services require their use.

Over the next few weeks, the City will be testing fire hydrants in the following neighbourhoods:

3EASON /PENING AND -OTHER´S $AY 4EA AT /TTAWA´S (ISTORIC 3ITES If you’ve never visited Billings Estate National Historic Site, Cumberland Heritage Village Museum or Pinhey’s Point Historic Site before, this is the summer to do so! Explore the stunning heritage buildings and sprawling grounds of Ottawa’s Historic Sites. Take the whole family to Billings Estate National Historic Site or Pinhey’s Point Historic Site to celebrate Mom while enjoying traditional tea on the lawn.

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Old Ottawa South bids farewell to board members Michelle Nash michelle.nash@metroland.com

EMC news - A new wave of volunteers are preparing to take the helm of the Ottawa South Community Association after a number of longtime leaders retired from service a the recent annual general meeting.

The May 1 meeting saw president Michael Jenkins said good bye to a number of dedicated board members who will be stepping down. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I want to give a special thank you for all the hard work,â&#x20AC;? Jenkins said.

David Law, Grg Strahl, Lisa Drouillard, Anna Sundin and trafďŹ c committee co-chairman Brendan McCoy are all retiring. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Brendan (McCoy) has served valiantly in what is a very difďŹ cult role,â&#x20AC;? Jenkins said.

Retired Carleton professor Don Westwood will be taking McCoyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s place on the trafďŹ c committee. An Old Ottawa South resident since 1971, Westwood said he was eager to participate in the community association. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is not just about inďŹ ll and intersections, it is about want-

ing to give back to a community which has meant so much to me,â&#x20AC;? Westwood said.

The meeting wrapped up a number of committee reports from the previous year including from the program committee, which celebrated their ďŹ rst year back the associationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s community centre at the Firehall since the it underwent major renovations.

Concerns were addressed about the overcrowding of the areaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s popular After Four program, an after school option for working parents.

Some parents asked why the program could not make changes to accommodate more children.

Past chairwoman, Sundin, who served as chairwoman of the program committee, said it was something they were looking into, but may not be something which can be solved by the start of the new school year in September. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is a difďŹ cult issue and there is no easy answer,â&#x20AC;? Sundin said.

New board member Sara Fraser asked if there was any way they could speed up the process.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Maybe if we put more heads together, we could get something accomplished before the new (school) year?â&#x20AC;?

Fraser said.

Ideas from the ďŹ&#x201A;oor included ďŹ nding more rented space for the after school program and changing the registration dates and notiďŹ cations, so if a child is not accepted (it is a ďŹ rst come ďŹ rst serve basis) then parents have time to make other arrangements. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think it is fair to say the new program committee will take time to look at this at some length to see what options we can come up with,â&#x20AC;?

Jenkins said.

The evening took a sad turn when Jenkins addressed their retiring executive director of 22 years, Deirdre McQuillan. â&#x20AC;&#x153;From the bottom of our hearts, we thank you very much,â&#x20AC;? Jenkins said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is a hard time for us all because Deirdre (McQuillan) has been a ďŹ xture in this centre and community for so many of us.â&#x20AC;?

The association will be back to work on May 17 for their monthly meeting at 7 p.m. at the Ottawa South Community Centre at 260 Sunnyside Ave.

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Cleaning time in South Keys The South Keys Greenboro Community Association held its annual Capital clean up event on April 28. About two dozen people showed up to remove trash and rake leaves around the Greenboro Pavilion, Greenboro Park and Pushman Park.

Ottawa residents have been working together to help clean the nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s capital since the Cleaning the Capital campaign began in 1994. In 2011, 86,288 volunteers participated in over 1,343 cleanup projects, collecting 149,278 kilograms of litter during the spring and fall cleaning campaigns.

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The new executive team for the Old Ottawa South Community Association was unveiled at the groups annual general meeting on May 1.

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Orleans water main cost jumps $25 million City staff tells environment committee construction costs are rising Laura Mueller laura.mueller@metroland.com

EMC news - An unexpected 50 per cent jump in the cost for a backup water main to Orleans could see other water infrastructure projects bumped down the city’s priority list.

Often described by city councillors as one of the most “unsexy” municipal projects, replacing the city’s aging underground water pipes took on new importance after an outdoor water ban had to be instituted in the city’s south end last summer when a large water main under Woodroffe Road broke.

Orleans and Cumberland

are served by only one water main that’s the same vintage as the Woodroffe water main last year and its condition is deteriorating at a faster rate than city engineers would hope.

It needs to be replaced, but last week a city report revealed the project could cost around $75 million, or $25 million more than originally anticipated.

There are a few reasons for the increase, city staff told the environment committee on May 3. The original estimate was “high level,” meaning it was too broad in scope to contemplate some of the detailed, expensive challenges that

have arisen.

Construction costs are rapidly rising and city staff says two additional water main segments are needed, both of which involve tunneled highway crossings and difficult connections to the existing system, according to the city’s report. The project also has an expanded scope at the Green’s Creek ravine crossing.

The extra $25 million could come from reshuffling other water infrastructure projects in the queue, said Dixon Weir, the general manager of environmental services for the city.

If the pipes aren’t built, the east end’s only back-up water supply is a reservoir that can’t hold enough water to serve the growing suburban communities in east Ottawa. Around 100,000 people live there, the

same population as Sudbury, city planner John Moser told councillors on the environment committee on May 3.

‘Why rip up recently constructed roadways and increase costs? .’

OVERBROOK COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION

The new water main will have two parts: a west link and an east link. The major water main for the west link will extend north from near Highway 417 in the vicinity of North River Road, across RCMP property to the Vanier Parkway and then follow Coventry Road east to St. Laurent Boulevard.

The Overbrook Community

Association sent councillors an email on May 3 expressing support for that new alignment, but is concerned about the disruption the project would cause in its neighbourhood. The association’s email says that west Presland Road is heavily used by pedestrians and cyclists to connect with National Capital Commission pathways along the Rideau River.

The email goes on to say: “The main sewer line of North River Road was recently constructed two years ago and millions of dollars were spent on this and new road, sidewalk, curb construction along North River Road. Why rip up recently constructed roadways and increase costs?”

The east link is another new major water main that will extend east from Ogilvie

Road at Blair Road to Montreal Road and then follow the northern edge of the Highway 174 corridor into Orleans, via Youville Drive.

Construction of the water main has been pushed up twice. It was originally planned for 2017-21, but the 2009 infrastructure master plan said it should be done sooner.

It was re-evaluated last year after the city decided to take another look at the condition of its water mains in light of the Woodroffe burst, and construction is now scheduled for 2013.

The timing also helps align the water main construction with digging needed for the light-rail system.

Coventry Road is now anticipated to be reconstructed as part of the project.

Year-long Champlain celebrations taking shape for 2013 Celebration to focus on youth, education, says Cumberland councillor Laura Mueller laura.mueller@metroland.com

EMC news - Plans are well underway to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the arrival of Samuel de Champlain at the site that would eventually become the city of Ottawa.

Cumberland Coun. Stephen Blais, who brought the idea for a celebration forward, says the 2013 celebration will serve as a good dress rehearsal for the 150th anniversary of Confederation in 2017.

“The more people who know about Champlain’s importance … I think the bet-

ter sense of history we’ll all have,” Blais said. “From my perspective we would all be more enriched the more we know about our common history … It’s something I don’t think we do a good job at.”

Most of the events associated with the Champlain celebration will focus on youth and educating them about Canadian and Ottawa history through the theme of discovery and exploration, Blais said.

Youth visual art and literary competitions are planned, as is a short video contest, all with prize money available.

But Blais said he would like to encourage all local community groups and organizations to adopt the Champlain/ exploration/discovery theme for any regular or new events they are planning for 2013.

“I’ve been inundated with people who wanted to pitch ideas,” he said.

Champlain was an explorer and cartographer who helped colonize Acadia and found Quebec City in 1608. Known as the Father of New France, Champlain travelled along the Ottawa River while looking for the great “western sea” and came upon what is today Ottawa and the upper Ottawa valley.

Champlain was the first explorer to describe and document Ottawa, including detailing the presence of the Algonquin people in the region.

A plan for the celebration also includes partnerships with business improvement areas across Ottawa to develop menu items related to the theme, including dishes served during Champlain’s time.

Blais said he hopes to help create a dining passport that visitors could use to sample the Champlain-themed dishes at different restaurants.

A report approved by the finance and economic development committee on May 1 lists $27,500 worth of funding

‘From my perspective we would all be more enriched the more we know about our common history … It’s something I don’t think we do a good job at. .’

CUMBERLAND COUN. STEPHEN BLAIS

Winterlude would be the biggest target, Blais said, and the city has approached the National Capital Commission about incorporating the theme into its annual winter festivities.

A slew of community groups – particularly francophone groups – have already come onboard to help with the 130 events already in the works, Blais said.

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Cumberland Coun. Stephen Blais said the 2013 celebrations will serve as a dress rehearsal for Confederation milestone in 2017. for those initiatives.

The city will also work with community groups to

help them find other sources of funding if they want to put on Champlain-themed events.

Jumpstart launches One Million Red Balls campaign nized sports and recreation this summer.

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The One Million Red Balls campaign runs until the fourth annual Jumpstart Day on May 26. The campaign aims to raise $2 million to help 20,000 children across Canada participate in orga-

goal for ourselves this year… because we know that Canadians are up to the challenge,” said Dan Thompson of Canadian Tire Jumpstart Charities.

“Being a part of a team, getting coached for the first time, or taking a lesson is an important part of childhood.”

Canadian Tire Jumpstart hopes the red balls will become a lasting, national symbol for child’s play and that they will give customers a tangible reminder of their contribution to helping children get involved with sports and recreation.

Customers are encouraged to take a picture with their

Jumpstart red ball and share it online at OneMillionRedBalls.ca, which will be turned into a custom photo mosaic.

Donations to Jumpstart help the one in three Canadian families that cannot afford to enrol their children in organized sports and recreation.

All funds raised through the One Million Red Balls campaign and on Jumpstart Day stay within the local community to help local children.

Since 2005, Jumpstart has helped more than 417,000 kids across Canada by removing the financial barriers that prevent children from participating.

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Visitors come out every year to the Canada Agriculture Museum’s annual Sheep Shearing Festival, which is held at the museum every spring.

Sheep shedding coats Kristy Strauss kristy.strauss@metroland.com

EMC community - Sheep at the Canada Agriculture Museum will feel much more comfortable as warm weather approaches after the museum’s annual Sheep Shearing Festival.

“It’s quite the event,” said Marie-Sophie Desaulniers, director of visitor experience at the museum. “We shear the sheep because the weather is eventually going to turn nicer, and they’re going to be too hot so we want them to be a bit more comfortable.”

The festival, which takes place at the museum from May 19 to 21, will feature a professional sheep shearer as well as a variety of activities for the whole family. “(The professional shearer) takes his sweet time with every single sheep, so you get to

see everything,” said Desaulniers, adding that visitors will have a chance to learn how to make wool products after the coats are sheared.

“The first time you spin isn’t the most easy,” she said. “But we’ll have real spinners who will be there to show you.”

Desaulniers said the weekend festival will also feature sheep herding and will have live demonstrations on the museum grounds.

In addition, visitors will be able to see animals they don’t normally see at the museum, such as alpacas.

“Alpaca farmers are taking some of the animals and talking about alpaca farming, so they’ll be here over the weekend to show you what these animals look like,” Desaulniers said.

She also said that the fes-

tival is an annual success and visitors are often impressed with how much can be done with wool and all the work that goes into making sure sheep are comfortable during the warmer months.

“We’re shearing sheep mainly for their own comfort,” Desaulniers said. “That’s a big part of what raising animals in agriculture is about – making sure the animals are comfortable.”

She said visitors are most surprised by how small the sheep actually look once their coats are taken off and she hopes the festival promotes a greater understanding of where wool comes from and the process it goes through.

“I really hope (visitors) get that there’s much more to fibre than you might think of,” Desaulniers said.

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Resident hopes to get clean water flowing in Africa Emma Jackson emma.jackson@metroland.com

EMC community - A North Gower man is hoping to convince Ottawa residents that supporting global water projects, even with sums as little as $25, is more than just a drop in the bucket.

Brian Stratton, a water expert who works with the Rideau Valley Conservation Authority in Manotick, recently travelled to Uganda with Ottawa-based charity WaterCan, which supports low-tech, lowcost water projects in villages across Africa.

The trip made such an impact on him, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been spending his free time this spring making presentations to family and friends, service clubs and other groups to spread the word about how much difference even $25 can make. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Obviously I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t ďŹ x the problem, but Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m trying to make people aware,â&#x20AC;? Stratton said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;As Canadians, I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think most of us understand the severity of the problem,â&#x20AC;?

He said $25 can provide one person in Uganda with a lifetime supply of water through new wells and better sanitation that protect and preserve drinking water.

According to WaterCan,

nearly one billion people do not have access to safe drinking water â&#x20AC;&#x201C; mostly those living in rural areas â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and nearly 2.6 billion are without basic sanitation facilities. Sub-Saharan Africa has the biggest problem, with 69 per cent of people living without proper sanitation facilities.

Stratton said itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s well-known that drinking contaminated water, usually as a result of poor sanitation, can cause disease and death. But there are other consequences of poor sanitation, particularly in small villages. â&#x20AC;&#x153;For schools, many times they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have adequate toilets or latrines, so as the students get older, especially the girls, it gets too difďŹ cult so they stop going to school,â&#x20AC;? Stratton said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;(If) they get a brand new latrine they can enjoy school and continue going to school.â&#x20AC;?

His tour across Uganda was organized by WaterCan and showcased some of the projects the charity has undertaken across the country and continent. Low-cost and low-tech projects are preferred, so that the technology doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t break down or need to be replaced very quickly.

For example, WaterCan will install gender-divided, multistall latrines at a school, which

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Brian Stratton travelled to Uganda with WaterCan, and is now sharing his experience with the community. He, along with family members, from left, wife Melanie, daughters Ashley and Julia and dog Abby, participated in the I Walk for Water event on Earth Day on April 22 in Ottawa. feature a rainbarrel tank to store water for hand-washing.

WaterCan also teaches general sanitation and hygiene rules to make sure raw sewage is not contaminating drinking water sources.

Stratton made a presentation to his colleagues at the conservation authority on April 26, and on Earth Day he and his family walked six kilometres through Ottawaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s downtown

core as part of the I Walk for Water event for WaterCan. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If (villagers) donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have a new water system they typically have to walk a long way to get water,â&#x20AC;? Stratton said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;(The walk) replicated what they do every day, although theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re also carrying water.â&#x20AC;?

He urged residents to visit the WaterCan website at watercan.com to ďŹ nd out more and even donate to the cause.

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Annual ArtsPark gears up in Hintonburg Kristy Strauss kristy.strauss@metroland.com

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No student left behind Students at Broadview Public School presented a cheque for $4,000 to the Education Foundation of Ottawa on May 4. The foundation has promised to ensure that no student will be left behind when others are on a field trip because of the cost.

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and have a Hintonburg connection,â&#x20AC;? said Normand.

The event will also feature craft centres which includes 40 exhibitors of hand made goods and foods. The craft centre will feature crafters from across Ottawa. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We decided to open the craft centre to the broader community,â&#x20AC;? said Normand. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We want that to be really thriving and makes for a lively atmosphere when we have a whole street full of vendors.â&#x20AC;?

The event will also bring back the bike parade that was introduced last year.

Normand added that the eventâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s organizers are still looking for volunteers to help out on that day from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

For those interested in volunteering, email: info@hintonburg.com or call 613-7987987.

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EMC entertainment - Hintonburgâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Parkdale Market will be celebrating the arts once again this year with its annual ArtsPark event on May 26. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a family event and thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something for everybody,â&#x20AC;? said Patti Normand, an artist who is not only helping to organize the event, but will have her art on display as well.

The event, now in its eighth year, celebrates local artists who all have a Hintonburg connection. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We really want to showcase Hintonburg and celebrate Hintonburg talent,â&#x20AC;? said Normand. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a great event and a lot of fun.â&#x20AC;?

In addition to the usual displays of visual art and performances for kids and adults, the event will also have a lit-

erary works tent where visitors can ďŹ nd books by local authors and even have a meetand-greet with some self-publishers. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been wanting to do,â&#x20AC;? said Normand.

Live music at the market will also be part of the festivities and will feature performances by childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s band Hey Buster, as well as the like of Sara Hallman and Micarza Camaro. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a variety of folk to rock,â&#x20AC;? Normand said, adding that the performances will take place all day.

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Just Kiddin Theatre opens curtain on new programs Emma Jackson emma.jackson@metroland.com

EMC news - Metcalfe’s Just Kiddin Theatre announced a range of program changes on Saturday, May 5 that founder Andrie Nel hopes will allow more children to participate while providing expanded options at introductory and advanced levels.

Three new programs will offer choice at a range of skill levels for youth actors in rural south Ottawa and a new funding model will allow the theatre to hire professionals and provide more structured programming, she said.

Since the theatre began in 2005, participation has increased dramatically and Nel and her group of volunteers have tried their best to keep up to demand.

But the theatre has finally reached its breaking point.

Although Nel said she is “extremely excited” about the changes, she knows they will be a big adjustment for families that have participated in the non-profit children’s theatre since it began in 2005, particular around the issue of cost.

Until now, the theatre’s performance-based program Mainstage has been volunteer-run and subsidized, costing $100 per child to perform in an 18-week session. But beginning in September, that program will be billed “at market rate” or $400 per child per session.

Nel said it wasn’t the ideal solution, but had to be done.

“It’s causing me heartburn, I’m really not pleased that it has to happen,” she said. “The reason that has had to happen is we now can’t keep doing it on our volunteer structure,

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Metcalfe’s Just Kiddin Theatre hopes more children will be able to participate on stage at introductory and advanced levels. we need to hire people.”

Mainstage’s program structure will remain the same: open to everyone over age nine, and offering speaking parts for everyone in the various original plays produced throughout the school year.

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But Nel said she had to create new programs to offset how production-based Mainstage has become.

She said she has heard comments that individual children don’t get the

attention they need and that there’s not enough time spent on skill development because of the pressure to pull together a quality show.

A new program called Setting the Stage will take care of that. Beginning in September, the new program open to children aged nine and up will teach introductory theatre skills, with a focus on one particular aspect in each three-month session.

The first session will focus on sound and voice.

Nel said the program will be 50 per cent skills development and 50

per cent preparation for an end-ofsession production that will showcase the session’s chosen theme. The performances will be for family and friends only, and free of charge.

Setting the Stage will be offered at the subsidized rate of $100, which Nel said will rely on grants and fundraising to maintain. It will also be the ideal program for children with special needs, a group Nel has always encouraged to join the theatre, because it provides more time for one-on-one attention, collaboration and learning without the

pressure of a full production.

Nel said she has also realized that Mainstage, being open to all, has become too introductory for some participants.

“Some of our returning kids that have been with us since day one, they’ve done all that introductory stuff and they’re looking for more challenge,” Nel said.

For them, she has created the Repertory Company, an advancedlevel, audition-only theatre group that will operate like a community theatre. The cost for those cast in a role would be covered for members and $50 for non-members.

“Any kid can try out, it’s an open audition,” she said. “This is based on whether you are the right person for that role, the way it works in real theatre.”

This company could see adults cast in some roles, but Nel said it will “favour opportunities for kids” in its play selections and casting choices.

On top of the weekly sessions, the theatre will also introduce oneoff Saturday workshops every few months beginning in October. They are open to everyone, but Nel said the workshops have been scheduled and designed to augment the skills learned in the Setting the Stage program.

The theatre’s third year of summer drama camp will remain unchanged.

Nel said she expects to accommodate 180 kids next year instead of 144, and hopes the changes will help even more rural youth discover the magic of theatre.

“Now we are creating a model where we can now offer more and get our name out there,” she said.

Woman honoured for work with newcomers Brier Dodge brier.dodge@metroland.com

EMC news - Orleans resident Shabnam Assadollahi was recognized by Ottawa-Orleans MP Royal Galipeau and Coun.

Bob Monette for her work with multiculturalism.

Galipeau spoke in the House of Commons on March 9, following International Women’s Day. He read his speech again in

Orleans as he thanked Assadollahi for her work in Orleans.

“Ms. Assadollahi founded a number of multicultural programs to help newcomers – particularly women – adjust to their new country,” he said.

“Through her compassion and understanding of the realities facing newcomers, this exceptional woman is such an asset to our great country.”

Born in Iran, Assadollahi was jailed for 18 months at

the age of 16 for speaking out against the government.

“I was just a little kid, and I started speaking up for myself,” she said.

She moved to Turkey in 1984, and came to Canada three years later – first to British Columbia, then to Orleans ten years ago.

Since moving to Canada, Assadollahi has done a wide range of work to help newcomers adjust, including trans-

lating radio shows into Persian. She continued this work in Ottawa, as the producer and host of Radio Ottawa’s Persian program Hamseda.

She has also translated children’s books into Farsi for distribution in Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan.

A month ago, she received a provincial Leading Women Building Communities Award, given by Minister responsible for Women’s Issues Laurel

Broten.

“I’m almost lost for words and can barely express my excitement and inspiration with receiving this recognition,” Assadollahi said.

She said that she is conscious of how she can contribute to making society more compassionate and humane.

In Orleans, she has worked with English as a second language classes through the Ottawa Catholic School Board.

Because of funding cuts, the classes are no longer available at the Orleans United Church, but she still teaches at a variety of Ottawa locations.

“I truly believe that education is the only road to freedom,” she said. “To me, this award is more than recognition of my work in the community; it is a symbol of the trust that you have placed in me as an individual. It truly encourages me.”

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Blind-deaf skater a step closer to Olympic dream Brier Dodge brier.dodge@metroland.com

EMC news - Kevin Frost dreams of one day winning an Olympic gold medal in his sport.

But Frost doesn’t have to worry about making the right time to do it – he already holds multiple world records and championship titles.

He’s spent the past eight years pushing to make visually impaired speed skating an event at the Paralympics so that hopefully, in Russia 2014, he can achieve that dream.

And now he’s competing in a major stepping stone to getting skating there, an International Skating Union (ISU) sanctioned blind world championship short-track event in Scotland.

“Just to get it to the Russia Olympics would be a gold medal for me,” said Frost, an Orleans resident and Gloucester Concordes speed skater who will leave on May 17 to compete.

He started racing with the Concordes at the Bob McQuarrie Recreation Complex, where he skated his way to a 10th place world finish in master’s level racing.

And despite being both legally blind and deaf, he has competed in the able-bodied master’s level racing.

Frost has Usher Syndrome, which caused him to lose his hearing as a youth and most of his vision as an adult.

So it’s no surprise that he’s the world champion in the visually impaired circuit.

Speed skating has different distances, but two different events, championships and arenas – one for short-track, and one for long-track.

Long-track is easier for impaired skaters because there are less turns, but Frost has competed in both.

A world champion in blind longtrack skating, this will be his first chance at a short-track world title.

“This could be huge,” he said.

“That this is an ISU event is a stepping stone. It’s the first short-track ISU event ever.”

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Frost previously won the Ontario provincial championship for his age group in the short-track skating for able-bodied skaters.

The first time he competed in a long-track championship, he was swarmed following his race by trainers, volunteers and racers.

“I asked, ‘what’s going on?’”

Frost said.

“And the trainer told me that they couldn’t believe my time.”

He said that the most satisfying part of achieving those results is inspiring other visually-impaired skaters to show them what level they can perform at.

“I want to set a bar for them and other skaters to be better, faster,” he said. “I’ve achieved a lot of my dreams now and I want others to take it further.”

Because the sport isn’t officially sanctioned in the Paralympics, Frost isn’t eligible for funding, so he relies on fundraisers.

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Kevin Frost was at Topper’s Pizza in Orleans on May 2 for a fundraiser towards his trip to Scotland to compete in the ISU sanctioned blind world championship short-track speed skating event. Frost hopes that this will soon be an Olympic sport.

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Margaret Trudeau speaks about mental illness at The Royal Kristy Strauss kristy.strauss@metroland.com

Over the past week, there have been concerns raised about VIA Rail’s plan to increase the speed of their Express Trains. While I have been assured by VIA that all safety concerns have been considered and addressed, I contacted them to get additional information on the safety measures they have taken to ensure the continued safety of the Barrhaven community. Here is what they told me:

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feel in prison,” Trudeau said.

“I felt like I let down everyone who lived me and knew me. I realized that I was ill, so ill, and I needed to take it on.”

She said that with The Royal’s help, she felt like she was given a second chance – something that she feels women especially who are incarcerated should have.

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EMC community - The Friends of the Farm are hitting the open road for a bus trip across Quebec that will also serve as a fundraiser for the group that cares for parts of the Central Experimental farm and ornamental gardens.

“I try to develop trips centred around gardens and making it enjoyable for members and for the public,” said Denise Kennedy, who’s organizing the four-day trip.

On July 15, the bus will leave from the Agriculture Museum parking lot at 8 a.m. and will drive towards Rimouski. The group will visit Domaine Joly de Lotbinière gardens and will stay at a hotel overlooking the St. Lawrence River.

On July 16, the bus will continue on to Grand-Métis visit the Reford Gardens. That night, visitors will travel to and stay in Rivière du Loup. The next stop on the trip on July 17 will be a ferry ride to St.

Siméon on the north shore of the St. Lawrence. Participants will have a chance to visit art galleries and many restaurants in downtown Baie St. Paul.

On the final day, July 18, participants will take the bus to St. Anne de Beaupré and will visit the provincial park at Montmorency Falls.

There will also be a farewell dinner that night in Hudson, Que., and the bus will arrive back at the Agriculture Museum parking lot by 9 p.m.

Kennedy said she hopes participants walk away with good memories and camaraderie.

“People will come out of this with renewed friendships and new friends, and will have seen a wonderful area of the country,” she said.

Kennedy also said the event is selling out fast, and anyone who’s interested can call the Friends of the Farm office at 613-230-3276 or visit their website at friendsofthefarm. ca.

The City of Ottawa was first notified of VIA’s plans to implement changes at Fallowfield in June 2011 and has been in discussions with City staff to work together to implement these higher speeds.

More recently, VIA has also agreed to delay the speed increase for an additional 60 days to allow for further consultations.

In cooperation with the City, Ottawa Police and VIA officials will be present on-site for the first day of operation, as well as the days that follow, to monitor the crossings and ensure safe operation.

VIA trains are already travelling at 100 mph through other areas of the city like Vars, Cyrville, Orleans and Gloucester.

Even further examples can be found at the over 250 at-grade crossings across Canada, in even larger communities like Cornwall, Brockville, Kingston, Oshawa and Toronto.

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“Until you walk in someone’s shoes, you don’t know,” Trudeau said. “The prisons are where we’re putting our mentally ill, but we must help them.”

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She also said she lost the ability to take care of herself, eat right and live a healthy life.

“That’s probably how you

VIA is currently wrapping up a $16 million infrastructure investment project on the portion of track that runs through Barrhaven and serves Fallowfield Station. The investment project’s main focus was safety, including significant improvements to the majority of level crossing warning systems, the addition of a signalized train traffic control system and the installation of security fencing to prevent trespassing. In addition, as part of this investment project, VIA undertook a detailed safety review on every crossing in Barrhaven as well as an overall safety review to ensure that the scope of the investment included any issues that had to be addressed for 100 mph operating speeds at Woodroffe and Fallowfield crossings.

At Greenbank, the increased speeds at Fallowfield Station will only translate into an approximate 20 mph increase in speed, to 87 mph, while all other crossings in Barrhaven will remain at the same speed as today. Every crossing is equipped with a warning system to alert people approximately 30 seconds before the train comes to the crossing, regardless of the speed.

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EMC news - Margaret Trudeau gave a candid account of her struggle with mental illness at the Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre on May 4, recounting a life of depression, addiction and struggles with bipolar disorder.

Trudeau – an author, mother, mental health advocate and former wife of prime minister Pierre Trudeau – spoke at The Royal’s mental health and corrections conference about reaching out to mentally ill female offenders.

“I haven’t been incarcerated, but I’ve certainly offended,” Trudeau joked as she opened her talk about her struggle with mental health.

She spoke about her depression, reliance on drugs and alcohol and struggle with bipolar disorder.

“I stopped dancing, playing, laughing, and you just get consumed by grey,” Trudeau said. “I had no spark.”

Before she visited The Royal for help, she said she often blamed others, like her husband or nannies, for her depression.

The highs and lows she went through dealing with bipolar disorder also left her feeling as if it couldn’t be corrected.

“I could be the best, the absolute best, or so detestable, so angry rude and mean,” Trudeau said. “I certainly never had peace of mind until I accepted help.”

When she found herself being taken to The Royal by the police, she also said she

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lenge. She said the goal is to spread the word about this local food fair to residents across the city.

“We have noticed that people in Ottawa don’t really realize that there is a farmer’s market in Old Ottawa East,” Browning-Shelp said. “What we thought is, if we could showcase the market, from R0011392393

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the whole season, strawberries to pumpkins and used one of those market months to exhibit the pictures it would make people aware that the market exists.”

The challenge is open to people of all ages – Browning-Shelp said she had entries from photographers as young as nine last year. Those who participate are required to print and frame their photos so if they are chosen as one of the best photos, the committee can put them on display at the Green Door Restaurant located at 198 Main St. “I am really impressed with what was submitted, for a first go at this, it was amazing,” Browning-Shelp said.

As a way to give back to the community, BrowningShelp and the other challenge organizers decided to put the photos in a silent auction to raise money for the Springhurst Park Revitalization project. Anyone interested in bidding for a particular photo on display at the Green Door are asked to approach the cashier to put in their bid.

“We wanted to give to something and it came up as one of the options,” Browning-Shelp said. “It is kind of a forgotten park in Old Ottawa East and could really use some refurbishing. We thought it was a lovely fit, a neighbourhood challenge to help raise money for a neighbourhood park.”

The community has been working at revitalizing the park from some time. With a capital community grant from the city, residents still need to raise $6,500 to make it happen.

“They are almost there already, we are hoping this will give them a little more help,” Browning-Shelp said.

The location for the exhibition was chosen because it is both situated across the road from the farmer’s market and is a popular stop for people across the city, BrowningShelp said.

The restaurant owner, Rob Farmer, has also produced a

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EMC news - In an effort to promote its farmer’s market across the city, a group of Old Ottawa East residents is holding the second annual Main Market Photographic Challenge.

The challenge called on shoppers to take photos of the

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On May 7 the committee handed out prizes for the top photographers from the contest.

Browning-Shelp said anyone who is interested in participating in this year’s challenge can contact her for more information at shelp@ magma.ca.

The exhibition and silent auction will run until May 26.

The Main Farmer’s Market opened on May 5 and runs until Oct. 27, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. every Saturday. All the products are from local producers within 160 kilometres, or 100 miles, of the market.

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Pontiac School of the Arts in Portage du Fort, Quebec. Diverse and intriguing classes for children, youth and adults including wet felting, multi media landscapes, advanced photography and more!

Information for Pontiac School of the Arts, the Stone School Gallery and the Pontiac Artists Tour: www.artpontiac.com

Sat. May 12, 8.30-1.00.

Roundhay Drive (off Newhaven/Knoxdale Road), Manordale. Multi-Family Yard Sale.

Something For Everyone.

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European- Pro Painters. Free estimates fully insured, exteriors & interiors, residential & commercial, restoration work over 75 years experience. Contact Steven (613)761-2386. All work Guaranteed for 2 Years smohrpainting@gmail.com Home Inspection Certified home inspector available. Includes infared scan, multi point report, and clean reliable service. Call 613-796-4236.

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INTERIOR PAINTING Professional Work. Reasonable Rates. Honest .

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St. Richard’s Anglican Church annual garage sale. Saturday May 12th 9 am-2 pm. 9 Rossland Avenue (613)224-7178.

KANATA RENTAL TOWNHOMES

3 Bedrooms, 2.5 Bathrooms, 5 appliances and more, located in established area, on site management office, 323 Steeplechase Dr. (just off Stonehaven Dr) Kanata, K2M 2N6, call 613-592-0548

FOR RENT

KANATA Available Immediately 3 bedroom townhouse, 1.5 baths, 2 appliances, unfinished basement, one parking spot. $1007 per month plus utilities.

613-831-3445 613-257-8629

Beekeeping Equipment and Honeybee Supplies. Debbee’s Bees, 434 McCann Road, Portland, ON K0G 1V0. Phone (613)483-8000. www.debbeesbees.ca

GARAGE SALE Great Yard Sale- 2961 Linton Road Area (Bank & Walkley).

Riverside Park South. Saturday May 19. Rain Date May 20. Antiques, furniture, collectables, etc. Great buys (613)737-5226.

May 12, 8-2. 28 Knollsbrook Dr. Barrhaven. Downsizing.

TV, snowblower, bookcases, tools, stain glass, garden items, etc.

Merivale United Church, Yard Sale. To Raise Funds for a New Church Organ. Saturday, May 12th, 7:30-12:00, 1876 Merivale Rd. just South of Hunt Club Rd. A large selection of Items, woodworking tools, garden tools, books, Cd’s, furniture, jewellery, etc.

No clothing or electronics.

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Competitive, Energetic, Honestly a MUST!

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Disability Products. Buy and Sell stair lifts, scooters, bath lifts, patient lifts, hospital beds, etc. Call Silver Cross Ottawa (613)231-3549. *HOT TUB (SPA) Covers-Best Price. Best quality. All shapes and colours.

Call 1-866-652-6837. www.thecoverguy.com/newspaper

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CEDAR HEDGES 6 ft. HIGH. Free delivery with full truck load. Freshly dug.

Greely Area. $6.25/tree.

Gerry 613-821-3676

DRIVERS WANTED AZ, DZ, 3 or 1: Terrific career opportunity with outstanding growth potential to learn how to locate rail defects using non-destructive testing. No Exp. Needed!!

Plus extensive paid travel, meal allowance, 4 weeks vacation and benefits package.

Skills needed -ability to travel 3 months at a time, valid license, high school diploma or GED. Apply online at www.sperryrail.com under careers. Click here to apply, keyword: Driver.

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Confidential, Fast Affordable, A+ BBB rating, assures Employment & travel freedom.

Call for FREE INFO Booklet.

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HELP WANTED!!! Make $1000 a week processing our mail!

FREE supplies! Helping Homeworkers since 2001! Genuine Opportunity! No experience required. Start immediately! www.mailingbrochures.net

Looking for persons willing to speak to small groups, 1 on 1 presentations. A car and internet necessary.

Diana (866)306-5858.

Need a helping hand? Our dedicated and mature caregivers (50 years+), thoroughly screened and insured, provide light housekeeping, companion care, dementia care, respite care, child care, shopping, transportation, handy work and other services. Call Seniors on Site at 613-422-7676 or visit www.sosonsite.com

HUNTING SUPPLIES Hunter Safety Canadian Firearms Course. Carp. June 1, 2 and 3. Wenda Cochran (613)256-2409.

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REAL ESTATE OPEN HOUSE Friday April 27 (4-7 p.m.), Saturday April 28 (Noon - 4 p.m.).

Saturday, May 12 (noon-4 p.m.) & Sunday, May 13 (noon-4 p.m.)

Real Estate Auction Date: Saturday May 26, 2012 at 1 p.m. SHARP!

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Dan Peters CPPA Auctioneer & Certified Appraiser Amanda Todd CPPA Auctioneer & Certified Appraiser (613) 284-8281 or Auction Hall (613) 284-1234 email: info@danpetersauction.com Website: www.danpetersauction.com

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3646 Gliderway Private, North Grenville (Located off River Road - Midway Between Manotick & Kemptville). Large Unique Waterfront Home Featuring Side-by-Side In-Law Suite with many possibilities. For Full Listing, info & Pictures please see Website.

LIVESTOCK Black Angus bulls for sale from proven AI Sires.

613-267-6192, will keep until grass time.

MARINE 16’ bowrider power boat with galvanized trailer and 70 h.p.

Johnson motor, not used much in the last couple years.

Comes with depth ga., 2 paddles, anchor, bilge pump, swim ladder. $3,700.

(613)923-1712 or hobohobo5@hotmail.com

MORTGAGES If You Own a Home or Real Estate, I Can Lend You Money: It’s That Simple! Your Credit/Income Is Not An Issue.

Steve Daigle (613)863-0649 sdaigle@mortgagealliance.com Lic:10717 $$MONEY$$ Consolidate Debts Mortgages to 90% No income, Bad credit OK! Better Option Mortgage #10969 1-800-282-1169 www.mortgageontario.com

In-House Pet Grooming. Pet Grooming done in your home. www.inhousepetgrooming.com Call 613-485-9400 ask for Joyce or email joycevallee@gmail.com

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WORLD CLASS DRUMMER (of Five Man Electrical Band) is now accepting students. Private lessons, limited enrollment, free consultation. Call Steve, 613-831-5029. www.stevehollingworth.ca

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FOR SALE CEDAR TREES for hedging, now booking installation jobs, for Spring plant. We deliver installation available. Serving Ottawa and surrounding area.

3-4 Ft $5 each. 4-5 Ft $6 each 5-6 Ft $7 each. Hedge trimming, reasonable rates www.warrencedarproducts.com or phone 613-628-5232

A&M LAWN Maintenance: Lawn & Garden Clean-up, Aeration, Lawn cutting. Maynard 613-290-0552

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Beautiful treed views. 8 Acres of Park Setting.

Secure 24hr monitoring.

MORTGAGES 1ST & 2ND /L.O.C. Private Funds Available Credit Problems? I have solutions. Please contact Jack Ronson 1-855-847-7337 Metro City Mortgages, Belleville. Licence#M08004515 Broker#10202

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HELP WANTED

Hiring Sheet Metal Workers.

We are looking for registered apprentices and licensed sheet metal workers to work in a commercial environment.

Competitive salary, benefits and RRSP package provided.

Email: ventilation_@hotmail.com Fax Resumes: (613)489-0008.

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Hunter Safety/Canadian Firearms Courses and exams throughout the year. Organize a course and yours is free. Call Wenda Cochran 613-256-2409.

PETS

MORTGAGES

LAWN & GARDEN

100-$400 CASH

www.rankinterrace.com RENOVATIONS CONTRACTOR IKEA kitchens, ceramic tile, hardwood, laminate, basements, carpentry & decks.

Experienced. Seniors discount. Please contact Ric: ric@SmartRenos.com or 613-831-5555.

TOP DOLLAR PAID for used guitars, amplifiers, banjos etc.

No hassle - pickup MILL MUSIC RENFREW 1-877-484-8275 or 613-432-4381

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ALL CHIMNEY REPAIR & RESTORATION. Brick & stonework.

Workmanship guaranteed. Free estimates.

Call Jim, 613-291-1228, or 613-831-2550

HUNTING SUPPLIES

FOR SALE

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COMING EVENTS WESTBORO

LEGION BRANCH 480 389 Richmond, Rd. Ottawa.

BINGO every Wednesday at 6:45p.m. Door and canteen open at 5:00p.m 613-725-2778

PERSONAL ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: Do you want to stop drinking?

There are no dues or fees for A.A. Membership. The only requirement is a desire to stop drinking. Phone 613-258-3881 or 613-826-1980.

FREE TO TRY!!

1-866-732-0070 *** Live girls.

Call#7878 or 1-888-628-6790, You choose!

Live! 1-888-544-0199** Hot Live Conversation! Call #5015 or 1-877-290-0553 18+ TRUE Advice! TRUE Clarity!

TRUE Psychics! 1-877-3423032 or 1-900-528-6256 or Mobile #4486 (18+) 3.19/min. www.truepsychics.ca

PETS DOG SITTING. Experienced retired breeder providing lots of TLC. My home.

Smaller dogs only.

References available. $17-$20 daily.

Marg 613-721-1530.

Kemptville Waterfront, 75’ permanent dock, 4 bedroom brick house, town services, new heat pump, oil furnace, gas fireplace. $399,900.

(613)258-2481 rainacr@sympatico.ca

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WORK WANTED

WATERFRONT COTTAGES 6- 3 Season Rustic Cottages Fully equipped with Appliances and Furniture Leased Land including Fresh Water, Septic.

Located inside Private RV Park, On Constant Lake. Serious Inquiries Only, For more information 613-649-2255

Masonry work, new construction, brick, stone, parging, repairs, pointing and chimney repair.

Please call Al (613)868-0946 or (613)830-2346.

Quiet adult campground near Merrickville on Rideau River.

Big lots. All services. Good fishing.

Season $1150.

613-269-4664.

WANTED Modern Year Round Bungalow on Beautiful Lower Beverley Lake,Fantastic Views.

Details at PropertyGuys.com listing 15977 $269,900 Private Sale (613)928-2795

SEND A LOAD to the dump, cheap. Clean up clutter, garage sale leftovers or leaf and yard waste. 613-256-4613

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Wanted- red bricks. Used and preferably old. 613-264-8380.

613-688-1483

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Renovated 2 bedroom cottage little Silver Lake near Westport/Perth. Private double lot, 200ft shoreline. Electric & wood heat, screened porch, bunkie, laundry.

(613)863-4560.

TRAILERS / RV’S 1998 Infinity 36’ Class A motorhome, 454 Chev Vortex motor, 109,000 km, no pets, no smoking. Selling for health reasons. Priced to sell fast. $18,500. (613)542-8010.

28’ Prowler with 12x24 fully insulated add-on, with woodstove, at Sylvania Lodge (Dalhousie Lake), $5,000. Linda (613)723-7288 or Brian or Linda (613)278-0091.

31 FOOT Park Model ,2004 Prowler sleeps 4, full stand up shower A/C. Specially built trailer, call for details, with decks, shed . Must see in person. $19,900 or best offer.

Can be seen at Camel Chute Campground check it out at www.camelchutecampround.ca 613-851-2865 Seasonal RV Park White Cedars Tourist Park Waterfront Cottages for rent And Large Fully serviced Lots 30 amp, water, and sewer Small Private RV Park Great fishing, swimming and Activities, Viewing by Appointment Only.

613-649-2255 www.whitecedars.com

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REAL ESTATE & CONTENTS AUCTION SALE Saturday May 26, 2012 At 10:00 (House At 12:00 Noon) Estate Of Glen McCurdy At 556 Townline Rd., Kemptville

Carrie Hands, CAI, CPPA, Auctioneer & Appraiser Jason Hands, Auctioneer

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We will be selling the estate of Glen McCurdy including the house at 556 Townline Rd, Kemptville, ON. One acre parcel of land in a very desirable location just outside of Kemptville.

Glen was a mechanic and has many tools sell.

Some of the items include: Wood splitter, tools, tool boxes, vintage tractors, Yard Machine Roto Tiller, Poulan Lawn tractor, wheel barrows, meg welder, band saw, fibre glass boat, utility trailer, dehumidifier, wood stove, vintage Suzuki GT500, highboy dresser, Washer, Dryer, Fridge, Stove, coffee table, filing cabinets, life jackets, binoculars, sewing machine, silver and silver plates dishes, gas whipper snippers, clocks, water cooler, desk, double bed. Many items to be discovered.

For house viewing and terms of sale contact the auctioneer. Note that the house is sold as is where is.

Terms: Cash, Cheque (with ID) AL’S AUCTIONEERING KEMPTVILLE 613-258-1654 or 613-258-7099 email: teri.brown@sympatico.ca

4 Bedroom Cottage 15 Rue Strathcona Norway Bay, Bristol, PQ Saturday, June 9 @ 11:00 a.m.

Open house Sunday, May 20, 1 – 3 p.m.

This cottage sits on a 66’ X 100’ lot. Enjoy the much coveted private sand beach, eat-in kitchen, 3 piece bathroom/laundry room, oil furnace, propane hot water & stove. Sells with the majority of furnishings. Please visit www.handsauction.com for terms and conditions.

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Summer Weekly Rental Waterfront bungalow on the Mississippi River, near Carleton Place.

This 7 room + 2 bathroom house is the perfect place for your family to get away to.

Clean, safe, shallow water is ideal for swimming, canoeing and kayaking.

Scapa North America, a leading manufacturer of bonding and adhesive components is seeking a Process Engineer for its Renfrew Operations.

Located in the heart of the beautiful Ottawa Valley, Renfrew is conveniently located 50 minutes west of Ottawa.

The Process Engineer will be involved in broad scope engineering responsibilities including process development, equipment and building maintenance, machine design, environmental control, product development, capital projects, cost reduction and general problem solving.

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Diabetes Educator / Education Coordinator Permanent, Full Time

The Arnprior & District Memorial Hospital is located in the Town of Arnprior, less than 30 minutes northwest of Ottawa. There are approximately 300 staff, 260 volunteers, and a growing number of medical staff providing exemplary care to over 30,000 residents of West Ottawa, McNab/Braeside, Arnprior and portions of Mississippi Mills.

Currently we have 1 vacancy for a Diabetes Educator & Educator Coordinator. The incumbent will be responsible for two key areas: Administering the Diabetes Education Program in conjunction with the Clinical Dietitian to include developing and revising policies and procedures; participating in regional groups to improve access to diabetes education, identify client needs and develop education programs accordingly to support patient care. The incumbent will act as a resource to both staff and physicians in the management of diabetes and will initiate and work collaboratively with physicians to adjust diabetic medications and insulin for outpatients.

Administering the Clinical and Corporate Orientation Program to include identifying learning needs and coordinating/developing education and in-service programs accordingly for staff, volunteers and physicians (i.e. Corporate Orientation, Nursing Orientation, Non-Violent Crisis Intervention, Emergency Preparedness/ mock disasters, Pain Pump Program Protocol etc.). Responsibilities will also include a financial management component to review monthly budgets and perform variance analysis.

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Please mail or drop off resume to : Dr. Selwyn de Souza 1907 Baseline Rd. Unit 101 Ottawa Ontario. K2C OC7

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The Perth and Smiths Falls District Hospital is a two site 97 bed acute care facility serving a catchment area of 44,000 residents of Perth and Smiths Falls and surrounding area. We are a fully accredited Hospital that delivers a broad range of primary and secondary services and currently seeking:

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The Operating Room/Perioperative Nurse will provide patient care as per knowledge, skill and ability within the professional scope, conduct and demeanour of practice of an R.N. and the Standards of Practice as approved by the College of Nurses of Ontario, while ensuring that the CNO ethical guidelines for behaviour and CNA Code of Ethics is adhered to.

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Qualified applicants are invited to send a resume and letter of application, in confidence, to: Human Resources Department Perth and Smiths Falls District Hospital 60 Cornelia St. West, Smiths Falls, Ontario K7A 2H9 Email: amclean@psfdh.on.ca Fax: (613) 283-0520 www.psfdh.on.ca

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• Current registration with the College of Nurses of Ontario.

• C.P.R. Certification • Must be able to participate in On-Call Roster.

• Ability to lift and move patients.

• Ability to respond to an ad hoc workload.

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills • Ability to work as a team member.

• Commitment to ongoing education in pre, intra and post-operative nursing.

• Current OR experience (within the last five years) or at least 2 years experience in acute care and a Post Graduate Certification in Operating Room Nursing.

• Perioperative Certification (CNA) preferred.

• Police Record Check is essential

We appreciate your interest, however only candidates under consideration will be contacted.

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Students, parents and teachers at Assumption Catholic School are asking the community to help them in raising $50,000 to build a new play ground structure.

The school launched their fundraising campaign on April. 30.

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EMC community - A Vanier-area elementary school is appealing to the community to help it transform its barren, sandy yard into a new playground for students.

Assumption Catholic School held an event at their school on April 30 to launch its $50,000 playground fundraising campaign.

The campaign follows on the heels of an announcement in February by Sen. Vern White, the former Ottawa police chief, who nominated the school to participate in a program run by Let Them Be Kids, a non-profit organiza-

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“We double our money every time we raise some money,” said school principal Luce Paradis at the launch.

“Our goal is really to provide a yard where everybody can play.”

The project to be led by Let Them Be Kids will be a barn-raising event – the entire playground will be remade in a little over eight hours on

June 16.

“We need people to help build,” Paradis said.

The playground’s old play structure had to be removed due to safety concerns. Paradis said the school’s original goal was to conduct a fiveyear fundraising campaign to replace the structure and the recent developments have definitely exceeded her expectations.

“I don’t know if huge is a big enough word. It is a huge deal,” Paradis said. “What we have is the fortune of having very important people supporting a very humble cause.

We were talking about a play structure that has turned into a

playground revitalization and we want the Vanier community to take advantage of it.”

The new playground will include a play structure and other playground equipment, outdoor classroom and a garden.

The school announced a number of ways members of the community can contribute to the campaign. A sidewalk sale and car wash will be held on May 26, greeting card packages featuring work by Grade 5 students can be purchased for $10 and the school is holding a raffle for an original painting by local artist Katerina Mertikas. The raffle tickets will go for $5 each and the draw will take place on June 8.

To get the structure built in one day, the school will need a number of volunteers to help with construction, clean up, leading children’s activities and to help prepare and serve food.

At the launch, new police Chief Charles Bordeleau was the first to sign up to lend his time for the cause.

By the end of the event, three pages were full of volunteer names.

The Quartier Vanier business improvement area helped organize the event where community leaders, businesses, politicians and parents showed up to participate in the launch.

“Children are the future of our community,” Marwin ElRassi, director of the Quartier Vanier board. “It’s always a win-win situation. We help them and one day they will help us. And we’re always trying to improve the neighbourhood.”

For a school that has not had a lot of practice fundraising, they are off to a good start.

“Everybody is being stretched so we can’t do this all the time,” said Paradis. “I have a lot of respect for the community here so this is a once in a blue moon project.”

During a penny drive at the school, the students collected $9,520.37.

El-Rassi’s hair salon, Rassi Couture donated $2,425 and Mike Sangster from Telus Mobility donated $2,500.

To make a donation or to sign up as a volunteer, visit the school located at 236 Levis Ave. or online at assumptionplayground.ltbk.ca.

OSU CERTIFIED GOLD

BY ONTARIO SOCCER ASSOCIATION Pictured above left to right: OSA President Ron Smale presenting OSU President, Bill Michalopulos with the Gold Club Excellence Award.

Ottawa South United (OSU) is honoured to receive the coveted 2012 Gold Level Club Excellence Award by the Ontario Soccer Association; Ontario’s soccer governing body. OSU becomes the very first soccer club in Ottawa and Eastern Ontario to receive the Gold level award, joining a very small group of other clubs in Ontario which also received the gold designation.

“Everyone associated with OSU should be very proud of this outstanding achievement,” said Bill Michalopulos, Ottawa South United’s President. “This Gold Award is not just about the quality soccer program we offer, but just as important, also recognizes the strong foundation of quality governance, community involvement and forward thinking upon which the club is built.”

The Ontario Soccer Association’s Club Excellence Award is a province-wide recognition program for soccer clubs that are run efficiently and offer a safe, healthy and enjoyable environment for anyone involved in soccer. The program requires Clubs to demonstrate development and execution of long term plans, strategies and policies in 4 key areas: Personnel, Governance, Community Involvement and Technical. Three different levels of Excellence were awarded for 2012: Gold, Silver and Bronze. These designations are not mandated or required by the OSA but are aspirational in nature. “As one of Canada’s leading and largest soccer clubs we must strive to demonstrate leadership in all areas of operating a soccer club” Michalopulos added.

“This prestigious award from our highest governing body is another example of Ottawa South United’s long term strategic approach to developing soccer in the community for all players,” said OSU Board member Stephen Campbell. “Since forming in 2003, we have constantly strived to improve club practices to better serve our membership and players while ensuring OSU and its staff and volunteers are a big part of the Ottawa community.”

There are approximately 1150 Soccer Clubs in Ontario, serving more than 375,000 outdoor players and 85,000 indoor players each year.

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Aly Franklin, who was born with a hole in her heart, wants to give back and help another child who might have to face the same challenges.

Mother-daughter team show heart in upcoming charity walk Kristy Strauss kristy.staruss@metroland.com

EMC community - Aly Franklin is a proud Brownie, loves colouring and painting, swimming and being with her cat Hershey and dog Harley.

The eight-year-old Ottawa girl was also born with a hole in her heart and has faced surgeries, check ups, hospital stays and lives with a tear in her aorta.

But through it all, her mom Tina said her daughter still has a ton of energy.

“A little too much energy sometimes,” she said.

The mother and daughter team, who have stayed so strong over the last eight years, will be taking part in the Heart and Stroke Foundation’s Dress Red Walk taking place on May 12 – Mother’s Day weekend - on the Arboretum paths.

“It’s kind of to thank the people that helped fix my heart,” said Aly. Tina said the pair have taken part in fundraising events to help the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario and feel it’s important to give back to the Heart and Stroke Foundation.

“We do it every year because it’s one of the ways we give back,” Tina said. “If it wasn’t for fundraising efforts, then there wouldn’t be money for research.”

Tina remembers the day eight years ago when her daughter was born. She had rosey cheeks and looked completely healthy, although she said her breathing was a bit different.

But when Tina brought her daughter back for weekly checkups, doctors noticed she wasn’t gaining much weight.

The family went to CHEO with her daughter and doctors there found she had a hole in her heart.

“I was in shock and I thought I was a horrible mother,” said Tina, who refused to leave the hospital without seeing her daughter after her first surgery.

“The procedure is so invasive and they had to stop her heart so they could work on it,” she said. “They said it was going to take a bit of time to see her, but I said I don’t care – I’ll wait.”

Tina still remembers seeing her baby, who was roughly 10 pounds at the time, in an adultsized bed with breathing tubes and wires covering her body.

“There was hardly anywhere where you could put your hand,” she said. “We had a long way to go.”

However, Tina said Aly progressed quite quickly and was out of the hospital 10 days after her surgery.

Four months later, doctors found there was a tear in Aly’s heart and they also noticed her blood pressure was lower.

They did a scan, and also found a clot in Aly’s leg.

“They said she has the biggest clot we’ve ever seen,” Tina remembered, adding that Aly had to get injections from home for a while after.

Up until two years ago, Aly was on Asprin to help keep her blood thin. Tina says her daughter now has what’s called a persistent intimal flap, which is a tear in her aorta.

However, Tina said Aly is doing great, is a foot shorter than her brother and she can do everything any other eightyear-old can do.

Aly said she hopes to raise about $200 or $300 for the Heart and Stroke Foundation in this year’s walk She said it means a lot to her that she can take part in the five-kilometre walk and help another child who might have to go through the same things she has.

“It makes me really happy,” Aly said.

The walk kicks off at 1101 Prince of Wales Dr. at the corner of Baseline Road. Registration starts at 8 a.m. and the walk will begin around 9:15 a.m.

For more information on the walk, visit the website at fitforheart.ca or call 613-7275060.

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Emerson pays dearly for his little prank

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here was nothing that frightened me more than going out to the outhouse alone at night.

This time of year, when a sudden howling wind and rain storm could strike at any minute, my fear was magnified many times over.

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go to the outhouse regardless of the time of day or night.

Sometimes at night I could persuade my sister Audrey to go with me, but if she was busy with her scrapbooks at the kitchen table, it took a lot of coaxing to budge her from her chair. Then I was left to shudder and shake as I wended my way through the summer kitchen, then the back shed and out into the black night, around the clump of cedars to the little building which served as our bathroom.

My three brothers never bothered to take a light with them when they went out at night, but I wouldn’t even go into the back shed without a lantern, so frightened was I.

Jim Keay Donates Vehicle to CN Cycle for CHEO The Keay family of Jim Keay Ford Lincoln are providing another huge assist to CHEO this spring by once again donating a 2012 Ford Fiesta which will be won by a participant in the upcoming CN Cycle for CHEO. The announcement was made during a special event at the Jim Keay’s Orleans dealership on February 23 which featured an autograph session with Ottawa Senators Chris Phillips, Matt Carkner and Peter Regin.

It was a busy night with lots of happy

fans including three incredible patient representatives from CHEO. The McDonald’s Dream Team – Micaela Egan (9), Trevor Young (14) and Jeremy Melara (5) – were all smiles as they were presented with autographed sticks by the Keay family and their Senators heroes.

The three CHEO cancer patients will be cycling or walking on behalf of all the kids at CHEO in the CN Cycle for CHEO on Sunday, May 6th.

The vehicle donation by Jim Keay is his way of encouraging the community to

raise as much money as possible for CHEO and to come out cycle or walk along with these kids at the CN Cycle.

Registered participants will earn a ballot to win the 2012 Ford Fiesta for each $250 raised through fundraising for the event and the lucky winner will be announced at the event.

The Keay family and the staff at Jim Keay Ford Lincoln encourage you to participate and support your local children’s hospital. For complete details please visit www.cncycle.ca.

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door and put a match to the wick. I stood at the door leading out into the summer kitchen hoping someone would offer to go with me.

No one budged. I couldn’t even find Sport. He was probably in the barn hiding from the pounding rain and wind.

I had no choice. I was on my own.

I went through the summer kitchen and I could hear the rain pounding on the tar-paper roof, and pulled open the shed door which was no easy feat at any time. It never quite fitted right and by the time I got it open, the lantern was flickering and the rain met me full in the face.

I ran the few feet behind the cluster of trees like someone possessed, slammed into the privy, bringing the lantern in behind me.

It didn’t take me long to finish the job at hand, but I sat there trying to muster up the courage for the return trip back to the house.

Well, I had two choices: face it or spend the night in the privy. I grabbed the lantern and tore towards the shed. I was sure I had left the door open, but it was closed.

It opened inward, and I figured one good shove would get me into the safety of the shed. But it wouldn’t budge.

There I was standing in the pouring rain, the wind gather-

ing force, locked outside the back shed.

This had never happened before.

I put the lantern on the step, backed up about 10 feet and made a lunge for the door, hitting it with every ounce of strength in my young body. It hit something solid, but there was enough of an opening to let me slide through into the shed. And there lying on the floor, with his hands over his face, was my brother Emerson!

“You almost killed me,” he shouted.

“Then why were you holding the door?” I wanted to know. There was such a commotion that it brought both Mother and Father out of the kitchen. Father was carrying another lantern and it was soon obvious to everyone what my brother Emerson was up to. Blood was pouring out his nose and already his left eye was swollen where he had taken the full blow of the shed door.

He didn’t have to be told.

He washed his face in the basin on the bench at the back door, wiped his nose on the huck towel and headed upstairs for bed. Father shook his head and said, “Will that boy ever learn?” Mother said she doubted it and went back to writing in her diaries at the kitchen table.

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Ottawa Senators Chris Phillips, Matt Carkner and Peter Regin are shown along with CHEO oncology patients Trevor Young, Jeremy Melara and Micaela Egan.

If it was a bad night, with wind howling through the trees and the shed door rattling like someone was trying to break in, I would take Sport, our old collie dog, with me and make him stay outside the door of the privy.

Then I would tear back into the house like someone possessed, never taking a backward glance, in case something evil was on my heels.

My brother Emerson delighted in terrifying me and he was always able to pull off some terrible deed without Mother noticing, which was a real talent of his.

When I headed for the privy one night, it happened to be one of those nights when the wind howled and a pounding rain was beating against the shed door.

I had squirmed in my chair at the kitchen table, until it was impossible to wait any longer.

Audrey was talking on the phone on the wall to her friend Iva and my three brothers were busy at the things they liked to do at night, playing Snap, whittling, and Emerson drawing the glass buildings he was sure were going to change the world.

I was doomed to go out alone. Father took the lantern off the bench near the back

As a medical oncologist at The Ottawa Hospital, Dr. Neil Reaume has treated hundreds of cancer patients – and all of them have a story to tell.

“Every patient is different in their own way, and everyone has a story that’s touching,” said Reaume, who is also the director of the Hospital’s medical oncology training program.

But one story he heard during the inaugural Ride the Rideau event in 2010 – The Ottawa Hospital Foundation’s signature fundraising event in support of cancer research at the Hospital – was particularly unforgettable.

While volunteering as a ride guide, he met a young woman from Montreal who was riding “the biggest, clunkiest mountain bike I’d ever seen,” he recalled.

“I kept running into her at the rest stations. When we saw her at the end, we congratulated her for making such good time. She admitted that she was an avid rider, but that she was riding her dad’s bike – he had died one year to the day of the ride from colon cancer. She had

Medical oncologist Dr. Neil Reaume plans to participate in the third annual event on Saturday, September 8.

found out about Ride the Rideau the week before, and raised $3,000 in just seven days. My jaw just dropped.

I won’t forget that one.”

The 42-year-old Reaume, who is a member of the Ottawa Triathlon Club, enjoyed the event so much that he returned to Ride the Rideau last year, the event’s second, but this time as one of the 715 riders. Over two years, the event has raised a total of $2.7 million.

“The number of people who are inspired by the event is so eye-opening,” he said.

“It shows that people see value in the cause. After all, cancer is documented as the No. 1 killer in Canada. The Ride growing in leaps and bounds is a reflection of how people are embracing the cause.”

While cancer touches most people’s lives, Reaume is especially grateful for the incredible success of the event.

Ride the Rideau funds the work that he is involved in as a researcher, which includes international lung and kidney cancer studies, as well as other clinical trials. There are over 70 trials currently taking place at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, with thousands of patients taking part annually.

Reaume is thrilled that there are so many people out there who are just as passionate about the fight against cancer as he is.

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To join Dr. Reaume in the event, or to sign up to volunteer, visit www.ridetherideau.ca.

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Food facts: cinnamon, potato chips and Campbell’s

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ften when I’m reading about food, I come across interesting bits of information. In this week’s column, I’m passing along some food trivia that I thought you might enjoy.

The most popular spices in the United States used to be cinnamon and black pepper.

In 1986, more than 11 million kilograms of cinnamon were consumed. In the same year, pepper consumption was more than 34 million kilograms.

Shredded wheat cereal was developed by a middle-aged lawyer in the 1890s. Kool-Aid has been around for more than 90 years.

Shopping carts were invented by an observant grocer who noticed that his customers stopped buying when the small basket on their arm became too heavy.

Once upon a time there were no potato chips. S mechanical potato slicer was invented in the 1920s and by the early 1930s, Frito’s and Lay’s potato chips were introduced and the rest, as they say, is history. An ordinary potato chip is only about 1.5 millimetres thick. Some, however, such as certain brands of ridged chips are twice as thick.

There has never been a real

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Food ‘n’ Stuff Betty Crocker. She was first introduced as a homemaker by General Mills in 1921, but it wasn’t until 1936 that her face was shown. Since then, her face, hairstyle and clothing have been changed at least seven times. In 1936, she had short, marcel-waved hair. In 1972, her hair was a lightlyteased, more bouffant style and by 1986, she had taken on a blow-dry look.

The inventor of peanut butter was an American doctor who, in the 1890s, ground up peanuts as a nutritious, easily digested food for his older patients. More than 300 uses have been discovered for peanuts, including shampoo and shoe polish.

There are over 20,000 edible plants in the world, but most of the food we grow comes from only 20 species.

Campbell’s, a name synonymous with soup, was founded in 1869. By 1905, it marketed 21 varieties of con-

densed soup, plus pork and beans in a can. The company continued to develop new products over the years. In the period between 1980 and 1986 alone, more than 400 food products were created.

In 1920, Charles Ranhofer, former chef of Delmonico’s restaurant, wrote The Epicurean, over 1,000 pages on the “Culinary Art”. It included information on table and wine service, menu suggestions for a variety of restaurant meals, as well as for breakfasts, dancing parties, garden parties, supper buffets and ladies’ luncheons. He stated that a 14-course dinner, served with 10-minute intervals, would take 2 hours and 20 minutes.

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Donation boxes for the Association for Workplace Tragedy Family Support – known as Threads of Life – will be displayed at LCBO checkout counters until May 26.

Threads of Life supports the healing journey of families who have suffered from a workplace fatality, traumatic life-altering injury, or occupational disease.

It supports more than 1,200 family members across Canada.

LCBO donations will be used to provide one-on-one peer support to these families in Ontario and annual regional family forums where families attend to learn healthy coping skills.

“We appreciate the support we receive from LCBO, its employees and especially its customers,” said Threads of Life executive director Shirley Hickman.

Threads of Life is one of 28 provincial, as well as numerous local charities, that

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Barrhaven Food Cupboard open to new future Nevil Hunt nevil.hunt@metroland.com

EMC news - The international Occupy movement points at the one per cent that holds wealth beyond the reach of the remaining 99 per cent, but Barrhaven turns those numbers upside down.

In south Nepean, about one per cent of the population needs assistance from the Barrhaven Food Cupboard and the other 99 per cent show their generosity by filling the shelves and donating cash.

And while most organizations hope to grow, volunteers at the food cupboard hope for the opposite.

“Our preference is to get smaller and smaller,” said volunteer Ken Lee. Instead demand for services increases most years and the cupboard is outgrowing its home at the Barrhaven United Church.

The cupboard started operating as part of a church organization based in Bells Corners before becoming a committee of the local United Church in 1985. Now the cupboard is being spun off to stand as its own organization.

“This teenager has grown and it’s time for him to leave home,” said Sara Surjadinata, the current chairwoman of the church committee that runs the BFC. “We realized we needed to get into the community more. We couldn’t manage to do it alone.”

Surjadinata said she was very encouraged to see more than 50 people at the cupboard’s first-ever general meeting on May 1 at the Barrhaven Legion. The evening saw the first

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Jessie Findlay, left, accepts an award recognizing her volunteer work for the Barrhaven Food Cupboard.

The award was part of the cupboard’s first general meeting, which sets up the organization as an independent body. board elected, including president Ken Ross.

The food cupboard distributed about 19,000 kilograms of food in 2011, including 104 Christmas hampers. In contrast, just eight hampers

were handed out back in 1990.

Surjadinata said two community events give a big boost to donations each year: the Santa Claus Parade hosted by the Lions Club and Come Sing Noel, which is organized by lo-

cal churches.

“We’ve always had very strong community support,” said volunteer Linda Graupner, adding that community groups, schools, service clubs and businesses are invariably willing

to help collect or donate food. “We’re building on a very strong foundation.”

Lee said the space crunch at Barrhaven United Church means there’s no room to store perishable food. The cupboard staff instead uses cash donations to buy gift cards from grocery stores so clients can buy fresh and frozen foods.

The volunteers would like to find a new, larger space to store and distribute food, although the cost of a new site will be a challenge.

The Barrhaven cupboard serves about one per cent of the local population: roughly 700 people annually out of about 70,000 residents. He said there about 15 per cent of clients use the cupboard’s services regularly due to chronic illnesses, disabilities or low incomes.

Job losses and short-term financial emergencies trigger occasional demand; about three-quarters of the people who need assistance from the cupboard use the service less than six times in a year.

“It could happen to any of us,” Graupner said.

Lee said demand for food in Barrhaven is not currently at the provincial average, which could mean the cupboard will see more clients as time goes on.

He said three per cent of Ontarians use food banks.

“Chances are that over time our population is going to reflect Ontario,” Lee said.

“I can see a tremendous increase (in demand) if it went from one per cent to just two per cent.”

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She gets along best with owners who can read kitty body language well, as she can sometimes give little nips if she is overstimulated.

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For more information about these or other animals available for adoption, please call the Adoption Centre at 613-725-3166 ext. 258 or visit www.ottawahumane.ca.

HAVING ISSUES WITH THE LOCAL WILDLIFE? YOU ARE NOT ALONE. As urban development encroaches on previously untamed areas, more human-wildlife conflicts result. People are frequently confronted with many wildlife species, including raccoons, groundhogs, squirrels, skunks, and a variety of birds.

These animals have largely managed to adapt well to our presence. Humans, on the other hand, are still mastering this living arrangement. It is important for people to understand the need for effective, lasting, and humane solutions to occasional conflicts with wildlife.

If you find an injured wild animal that is bleeding, has a broken limb, is walking in circles or falling over when walking, or another

obvious injury, please contact Ottawa Humane Society’s Emergency Services at 613-725-1532.

For large wildlife, such as deer, moose and bear, please call Ottawa Police Services at 613-236-1222.

If a wild animal does not show any signs of injury, then it is best to leave it alone.

Wildlife issues are temporary problems and there are solutions.

It seems daunting, but if you work out a solution, you can make sure you never have this problem again.

Property owners are responsible for dealing with their wildlife situation humanely and legally. There are solutions and tips available at www.ottawahumane.ca to get the animals to relocate on their own.

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you are only seeing one animal, it may not be alone. The birthing season runs from late February to early October, and the babies are helpless when first born and not yet able to leave their nest or den with mom. If you scare the mother away, she may abandon her young.

It is critical not to trap young inside, as they will perish, possibly falling between walls and requiring expensive drywall removal and causing very bad odours if they die in inaccessible areas.

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Multi-unit dwelling conversions in Sandy Hill get closer look Michelle Nash michelle.nash@metroland.com

EMC news - Sandy Hill residents applauded a motion brought forward at a recent planning committee meeting that will see a pilot project put in place to increase oversight on any plans to convert area homes into multi-unit dwellings.

The cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new infill guidelines were discussed at an April 10 meeting and at the request of Rideau-Vanier Coun. Mathieu Fleury, Kitchissippi Coun.

Katherine Hobbs put forward a motion to include a potential amendment governing home conversions. The amendment, which would be a pilot project

in the Sandy Hill neighbourhood at first, would compel anyone seeking to turn a singleunit dwelling into a multi-unit dwelling of three units or more to submit a site plan control application. Currently, developers or individuals need only apply for a building permit.

At an Action Sandy Hill meeting on April 30, residents commended the move. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think it is important the councillor went further than what the study called for,â&#x20AC;? said Jane Gurr, chairwoman of the planning committee for Action Sandy Hill. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This amendment has exceeded our expectations.â&#x20AC;?

House conversions, the board

said, are becoming more and more popular in the neighbourhood which houses numerous students from the University of Ottawa. Fleuryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s plan seeks to have these types of conversions go through the scrutiny of a site plan control approval. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The infill guidelines were created because of complaints and concerns from residents,â&#x20AC;?

Fleury said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What we felt was missing was something on conversions, where big houses get turned into a number of smaller units.â&#x20AC;?

Site plan control is a city-regulated process used to control a number of features on a devel-

opment site. Community organizations can make concerns know during the approval process and city staff must approve a development before a building permit can be issued. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In some cases it is dealing with garbage, in other cases it is parking,â&#x20AC;? Fleury said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is another layer to protect the neighbourhood with these type of conversions.â&#x20AC;?

As a pilot project, city staff would report back to planning committee in three years with an evaluation of the amendment and would make recommendations.

Gurr said the Action Sandy

Hill planning committee had hoped something like what Fleury proposed would be adopted, but they did not expect anything until the infill study guidelines were approved. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is a great example of going to our councillor with serious issues and concerns and getting a response,â&#x20AC;? Gurr said.

Action Sandy Hill president Christopher Collmorgen said he would like to see stronger penalties for developers who do not comply. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We see people who decide it is better to ask for forgiveness then permission, there should be a way (to make) the penalty

so severe people wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t risk it,â&#x20AC;? he said.

City council was due to vote on the amendment at a meeting on May 8. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When we are talking about these things, there is not one motion that will solve everything, but we are trying to solve it one bit a time,â&#x20AC;? Fleury said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We need more layers, this is one layer.

We need to still define rooming houses and get the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s building code department to make sure people are not just complying to codes, but to make sure there is proper livable space.â&#x20AC;?

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Grade 1 student represents Ottawa at Ontario Chess Challenge in Toronto Brier Dodge brier.dodge@metroland.com

At the Ontario championship, he was second after the preliminary round.

He had hoped to beat his 2011 finish of third place, but in the end, he placed sixth out of 36 competitors.

Alexander is excited to play hockey next year as well, but will continue to play in a chess tournament every month to prepare for next yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Grade 2 championships.

Winners from the Ontario Chess Challenge this year

will advanced to the national championships in Halifax, NS.

Grade 1 student Alexandra Hou, pictured here with his father, recently returned from the Ontario Chess championship.

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meets every Sunday at The Old Forge Community Resource Centre 2730 Carling Avenue, Ottawa, ON K2B 7J1

Location: St. Thomas More Catholic School, 1620 Blohm Drive

Sunday Services: Bible Study at 10:00 AM - Worship Service at 11:00 AM A warm welcome awaits you For Information Call 613-224-8507

Join us for worship, fellowship & music Nursery, children and youth ministries One service at 10:30 am Sunday mornings

Riverside United Church St. Richardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 3191 Riverside Dr. (at Walkley) Anglican Church Sunday Worship & Sunday School at 11:00 a.m.

Sunday Services: 8am and 10am Thursday Eucharist: 10am Nearly New Shop/Book Nook Open Thursday, Fridays 1pm - 3:30pm and ďŹ rst Saturday of each month: 10am - Noon 8 Withrow Avenue 613-224-7178

www.magma.ca/~ruc (613) 733-7735 Refreshments/Fellowship following the service.

Worship 10:30 Sundays Minister - Rev. William Ball Organist - Alan Thomas Nusery & Sunday School, Loop audio, Wheelchair access

470 Roosevelt Ave. Westboro www.mywestminster.ca

Parkdale United Church 429 Parkdale at Gladstone Ministers Rev. Dr. Anthony Bailey Barbara Faught - Pastoral Care Melodee Lovering - Youth and Children Worship Service - 10:30 am 613-728-8656 Sunday School for all ages pdale@trytel.com www.parkdaleunitedchurch.ca Nursery Available

Come & worship with us Sundays at 10:00am Fellowship & Sunday School after the service

Invites you to our worship service with Rev. Dean Noakes Sundays at 11am 414 Pleasant Park Road 613 733-4886 pleasantparkbaptist.org

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Our Saviour Lutheran Church

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EMC news - A Maple Ridge Elementary School Grade 1 student recently represented Ottawa at the Ontario Chess Challenge.

Alexander Hou, 7, made his second trip to the provincial championship after beating Viscount Alexander Public School student Kevin Yang for the Ottawa title in February.

The provincial championship was held at the end of

April in Toronto.

The championships are divided up by age, though Alexander competed last year by invitation because there is no Ottawa championship for kindergarten aged players.

Alexander started playing chess two years ago, in junior kindergarten, after his older sister Emily taught him how to play. He now works with a chess tutor on a regular basis to improve his skills.

Pastors John & Christine Woods Upcoming Events: See website (613) 224-9122 www.alfc.ca for details email: alcf@magma.ca Our Mission: Christ be formed in us (Galatians 4:19)

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Osgoode snowmobilers named club of the year Emma Jackson emma.jackson@metroland.com

EMC news - The OsgoodeCarleton Snowmobile Club had a full tank of excitement on April 28 when the club found out it’s been named Canada’s snowmobile club of the year.

The club was already gathered to celebrate winning a new drag worth more than $13,000, used for grooming trails, in recognition of its hard-working volunteer base.

The piece of equipment was won by District 1, which covers the Ottawa Valley, and the Osgoode-Carleton Snowmobile Club took it home because it had so many volunteer recruits and hours logged throughout the 2011-12 season.

But the announcement that the 2011 Ontario club of the year had also won the Canadian Council of Snowmobile Organizations’ 2011 national excellence award for outstanding snowmobile club took the celebrations over the top.

“You can’t win anything more, that’s the biggest,” said George Darouze, president of

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He said it was a huge surprise to win the national award even though the club swept the Ontario awards gala last September, taking the two top awards for club of the year

and volunteer of the year. He said another club from Ontario won the national title in 2010, and with competition from Quebec and other snowmobiling provinces it didn’t seem likely an Ontario club could win it again so quickly.

But win it they did and on June 9 the club’s executive will accept the award at the International Snowmobile Congress in Massachusetts.

Darouze said the conference is the largest gathering of international snowmobile clubs

from across the world, including representatives from Russia, Sweden and other nations that use the machines.

Osgoode Coun. Doug Thompson congratulated the club in an email, noting Darouze’s personal impact on the organization.

“Please extend my sincerest congratulations to your executive and club members on this remarkable achievement,” Thompson wrote. “Your tenure as president has made tremendous advance for the snowmobiling industry.”

While the recognition is nice, it’s the new equipment that will have a real impact for the club, Darouze said.

The three-metre drag, which is a toothy flatbed literally dragged behind a tractor along the trails, is about 30 centimetres wider than the club’s current equipment, which will make the trails 60 centimetres wider by the time the tractor goes up one side of the trail and down the other, Darouze explained.

“We can make our trail a bit

wider and safer for snowmobilers,” he said.

The equipment was donated by MTN, a Canadian snow equipment company, to the Ontario Federation of Snowmobile Clubs to hand out to the district with the most volunteer hours and recruits. Darouze said the club will donate its old drag back to the district so other clubs can use it.

“We need to share with different clubs,” he said. “They might be in need of a new drag or a smaller drag.”

Though the snow is gone until next winter, the club has been busy this spring.

On April 22, it held its annual landowners and volunteer appreciation dinner, which thanks landowners for letting club members snowmobile across their land and recognizes volunteers for a job well done. On May 2 the club hosted its annual general meeting at the Red Dot Cafe in Osgoode, and the following Saturday hosted an evening to celebrate the national award.

New Edinburgh participates in province-wide heritage study Trillium Foundationfunded study to weigh success of heritage conservation districts Michelle Nash michelle.nash@metroland.com

EMC news - During the month of May residents in New Edinburgh will have the opportunity to take part in a province-wide heritage study.

The Heritage Conservation District Study is being conducted by the Heritage Resources Centre at the University of Waterloo.

The second such study conducted by the university, it follows a 2009 study that looked at 32 districts desig-

nated before 1992. This study will look districts designated between 1992 and 2002, to determine if the designation goals have been achieved, whether residents are satisfied with the results and what, if anything, influences the performance of heritage conservation districts.

New Edinburgh Community Alliance board members, speaking at their most recent meeting, said they were happy to participate in the study.

“We are more than happy to participate,” said Michael Histed, chairman of the alliance’s heritage committee.

The project is partly funded by the Ontario Trillium Foundation and the Architectural Conservancy of Ontario. To carry out the study, volunteer

historical societies or heritage districts are invited to participate.

Alliance president Joan Mason felt participation in the study was a great way to both promote their community and its heritage preservation.

“I think it is a great opportunity for us,” Mason said.

The heritage committee will be canvassing alliance members to participate in the survey.

The province-wide study will be co-ordinated by Kayla Jonas, a heritage planner at the Heritage Resources Centre. She also conducted the 2009 survey, when 681 resident surveys were conducted by door to door volunteers from municipal heritage committees, sale trends and properties were analyzed, data on

requests for alterations was collected and examined, and districts were evaluated based on performance.

Among the key findings of the 2009 study were that heritage conservation districts work, real estate values rise more consistently and it is not any more time consuming to make appropriate alterations to properties.

The report recommendation was that more districts be created.

Residents living in New Edinburgh who are interested in participating in the study can contact Jonas at kajonas@ uwaterloo.ca. This portion of the study needs to be complete by the end of June.

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Local events and happenings over the coming weeks â&#x20AC;&#x201D; free to non-profit organizations Fax: 613-224-3330, E-mail: patricia.lonergan@metroland.com

The South Keys Greenboro Community Association introduces the first annual sale day in South Keys Greenboro on Saturday May 12.

Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re encouraging everyone whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s planning a yard sale for this year to get out there and make a deal! For more information, including how to get a public listing of your sale on our site, as well as to be entered into a draw for a $25 gift certificate from Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Gradyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Outpost.

May 14: The HavenleaChapman Mills Community Association (HCMCA) will host a community information night at 7 p.m to coincide with our Annual General Meeting, at Farley Mowat Public School.

Please join us to learn more about what the HCMCA does in the community, to hear from Councillor Steve Desroches regarding updates within Ward 22 and elsewhere in the city, and to also hear from the a repre-

sentative of the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s traffic safety office. For more information, go visit www. hcmca.ca May 18: Voices from the Dust .Free Family History Conference, from 6:30 p.m to 9 p.m at the Ottawa Ontario Stake Family History Centre, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1017 Prince of Wales Dr., Ottawa. No registration necessary. All are invited to come and enjoy speakerlead workshops, displays, and free refreshments. For more information visit www. ottawastakefhc.on.ca.

May 26: Come to Manotick Public Schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2nd Annual Spring Fair on Saturday, May 26 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and enjoy things like a Gladiator joust, a bouncy castle, a petting zoo, pony rides, carnival games, silent auctions, presentations and much, much more.

May 19: Yard sale at St. Thomas the Apostle Church, 2345 Alta Vista Drive (by fire hall) from 8 a.m to 1 p.m. Spaces available for $25 in advance. For more information contact Don Harrison at 613-733-6218.

Yard sake at the South Gloucester United Churchâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s from 8 a.m to 1 p.m. Treasures, Baking, Books, Crafts.

The sale will be at Albion and Rideau, just down the road from the Rideau Carleton Raceway.

May 25: Waupoos Farm Murder Mystery and Dinner.

Waupoos Farm is a charity in Ottawa South that provides holidays to families in need. This charity is supported primarily through private donations and foundation grants. We are holding our fifth annual dinner, silent auction and interactive radio play, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dial NHL for Murderâ&#x20AC;?, with Master of Ceremonies Max Keeping to fundraise for our programs. It will start at 6:30 p.m. at the Our Lady of the Visitation banquet centre, 5338 Bank Street. We

May 31: The 137th Ottawa Scouts Group is hosting a Scouts Canada Open House on Thursday, May 31 from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Greenboro Pavilion, 14 Tapiola Crescent. Scouts offer active programs for youth, ages 5 up to 26.

Bring the whole family and begin the adventure. Come meet the leaders, play fun games & activities and learn all about Scouts.

To find out more about this event or how to join Scouts, check out our website www.137thottawascouts. com or contact Yvonne by e-mail at gc@137thottawascouts.com or by phone at 613-5261434.

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May 12: Garage Sale and Fun Fair, from 10 a.m to 2 p.m (rain or shine), at Emmanuel United Church, 691 Smyth Road. Come and have lunch, buy some goodies at the bake table, let the kids enjoy the childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s activities, partake of the live entertainment, and purchase bargains galore. Bring a canned or dry good for the food bank if so inclined.

Call 613-733-0437 if you need more information.

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to sell your unneeded or outgrown clothing, toys or other household items? If so, why not join many other vendors by renting a space for $20 and benefit from our ideal location and large number of buyers. Space is limited so call (613) 823-7088 to reserve your spot! Reservation deadline is May 25. If you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have goods to sell, be sure to drop by to see all of the treasures and grab yourself a bargain.

June 13: The Canada Agriculture Museum Foundation will host its sixth annual Baskets with Panache! fundraising event on Wednesday, June 13 from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. In its first five years the event has raised $176,000.

Those donations translate to 12,500 children with financial or physical challenges being able to participate in exciting educational experiences. Taking place in a heritage barn at the Canada Agriculture Museum, the Baskets with Panache! event features the lively setting of a traditional country fair with some unique twists. Contact contribution@technomuses. ca or 613-991-6271.

Ongoing: Ottawa Newcomersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Club invites women new to Ottawa to join our activities and meet some new friends.

Activities include: bridge, scrabble, walks, luncheons and dinners, book club, sightseeing, travel cafes and craft hours. For more information call 613-860-0548 or ottawanewcomers@hotmail. ca.

Gloucester South Seniors, 4550 Bank St., Leitrim, offers a full schedule of activities every week, including contract bridge, carpet bowling, euchre, five hundred, shuffleboard and chess. Membership is $15 per year. The club is easily accessible by OCTranspo number 144, and has free parking. For more information call 613-821-0414.

from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. For information, contact Marie at 613-826-1221 or email Osgoodedancescottish@ gmail.com.

Mondays: South Ottawa four-part harmony community choir at St. Timothyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Presbyterian Church, 2400 Alta Vista Dr., from 7:30-9 p.m. Newcomers are welcome, especially sopranos, no auditions are held and no experience is necessary. For more information call Jo at 613-731-0895.

Mondays: GET W.I.T.H It Walking Program at Hillcrest High School, from 6-8 p.m. Drop in anytime. Get the benefits of walking indoors during the cold, dark months. Run in partnership with the Heart Institute & Healthy Lifestyle and Diabetes Program. Wheelchair and stroller friendly. Please bring a water bottle and comfortable walking clothing. For more information contact Shannon Merizzi at 613-798-5555 (81806) Tuesdays: In Harmony, a womanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s chorus is welcoming new members. Practices would be from 7 to 8:30 p.m. If interested call Chris Peacock at 613-722-0066 Tuesdays: The Hogs Back 50+ Club meets every Tuesday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the front room of the Boys and Girls Club, 1463 Prince of Wales Dr. at Meadowlands and Hogsback.

Bring a bag lunch or come for cards, crafts, friendly chatter and camaraderie. We welcome all New Canadians with new ideas and hope that we can add to yours. Drop in and check us out. For more information call Shirley @ 613 - 225 - 8089

Mondays and Thursdays: The Gloucester South Seniors Chess Club, 4550 Bank St., meets at 7 p.m. Immediate openings available for more chess aficionados.

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

Every second Thursday: Join ROSSS for â&#x20AC;&#x153;Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s For Dinner?â&#x20AC;? cooking class at Moncionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Your Independent Grocer at noon followed by one hour of grocery shopping. You will attend a food demonstration, sample the creation and receive a copy of the recipe. You will then have one hour of grocery shopping.

Transportation service includes door-to-door service in Osgoode, Metcalfe and Greely for $7. For information call 613-821-1101.

Wednesdays: Enjoy Scottish country dancing for fun, friendship and fitness! Share the music and joy of dance. You do not have to be Scottish. You do not have to wear a kilt - but you can. No experience or partner is required. Meet Wednesday evenings at the Osgoode Community Centre

Wednesdays: Are you looking for a fun way to spend an afternoon while meeting new people? Then join us for an afternoon of bridge. Takes place at St. Aidanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s church located at 955 Wingate Dr (temporary location while Emmanuel United Church undergoes reconstruction) from 1 p.m.-3:30 p.m. All skill

levels will find a challenging foursome. For more information call 613-733- 0437.

Fridays: Five pin bowling league is to encouraging senior citizens over the age of 50 to participate in an activity that provides regular moderate exercise, requires no special athletic ability and to foster fellowship, goodwill and an opportunity to make new friends.

Members range in age from 50 to 90. There is no registration fee.

The league is a fun, noncompetitive league, experience not required.

Bowling takes place each Friday afternoon between 1 p.m and 3 p.m at Walkley Bowling Centre, 2092 Walkley Rd. Ottawa.

Participants are placed on mixed four person teams. To register, call Roy or Jean Hoban at 613-73l-6526.

Free community programs: Come out to Hunt Club-Riverside Park Community Centre and participate in the following free programs. â&#x20AC;˘ Mondays 1 p.m-3p.m and Wednesdays 9:30 a.m-12:00p. m: Join our Seniors Social Drop-In program. Come in for an informal chat, play a game of Rummy-o or Bingo, have a cup of coffee/teaâ&#x20AC;Śso much you can do! â&#x20AC;˘ Monday Movies 1 p.m3p.m: Come and enjoy a variety of oldies movies each Monday. A calendar is available at our front desk. â&#x20AC;˘ Last Monday of the month: Book Club (3-4 p.m) Join other avid readers to discuss the book of the month. â&#x20AC;˘ Tuesdays (9:30am-12 p.m.): Crochet and Knitting Club: Bring your crochet and knitting material and join others for interesting conversations while sharing your patterns. â&#x20AC;˘ Tuesday and Thursdays: Walking Club (1:15 p.m-2:15 p.m) Come out and join us for a walk in our gymnasium. Go at your own pace as you exercise to bopping music! â&#x20AC;˘ Thursdays: Games Afternoon (1:30pm-3:30pm) Come out and play a game of cards, trivia, board games, puzzlesâ&#x20AC;Śor bring out one of your favourites!!

For more information, please contact Jackie Ough at 613-260-1299.

Newcomers club: Ottawa Newcomersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Club invites women new to Ottawa to join our activities and meet new friends. Activities include bridge, scrabble, walks, luncheons and dinners, book club, outings, and craft time.

Check www.ottawanewcomersclub.ca. For more information call 613 860 0548 or ottawanewcomers@ hotmail.ca.

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