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$7M science park coming to museum Erin McCracken
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A new outdoor science park is coming to the Canada Science and Technology Museum that will allow the adventure to begin even before visitors go inside the revitalized museum when it reopens in fall 2017. A water feature, climbing structures, picnic areas, shady spots, a seniors’ fitness circuit, special events,
festivals, year-round interactive programming – the vision for the space will depend on Canadians. “I think it turns it from a really amazing museum we’re going to open to an incredible destination,” said Christina Tessier, director general of the Canada Science and Technology Museum, which is currently under construction. See PARK, page 7
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The National Capital Commission is clarifying its position about the proposed construction of an underpass at the south end of Billings Bridge. Capital Coun. David Chernushenko, whose ward includes the underpass, has said the route will offer convenience “and take some of the risk out of an already complicated intersection.” However, the underpass is not included in the NCC’s budget for the 2016-17 fiscal calendar year due to “multiple competing priorities,” confirmed Cédric Pelletier, a strategic communications advisor for the NCC. Though the NCC never committed to sharing the construction price tag with the city, Pelletier said this doesn’t mean the NCC won’t help with the costs of the underpass in future. “As the NCC is always looking for opportunities to improve the safety of pedestrians and cyclists who use the NCC’s pathway network, we would be happy to work with the city to move up the timeline should additional funding be secured,” he said, adding that the commission’s board of directors regularly reviews the budget and whether projects can be added. The NCC, which owns the riverfront pathway in the Billings Bridge area, and the city are splitting the cost of the preliminary design plan for the underpass at the intersec-
tion of Riverside Drive and Bank Street. The design work is scheduled for completion at the end of this year or early next year, said Pelletier. Because the design is still in the early stages, the price tag for the entire project is not yet known. “With design and estimated costs, the NCC will be able to better consider this pedestrian and cyclist improvement in light of all other future projects in line with its corporate priorities,” Pelletier said. The city has set aside $380,000 for its share of the underpass, said Phil Landry, the city’s manager of traffic services The city first approached the NCC in 2014 to collaborate and find a solution “to the challenges pedestrians and cyclists felt as they crossed Bank Street along the NCC pathway adjacent to Riverside Drive,” Landry said in an email. “The option of building an underpass (similar to what is in place on the north side of the Billings Bridge) was seen as a means to address these concerns and the NCC and city agreed to undertake design work for the underpass,” he said. Last spring, the city asked the NCC to work together on developing a preliminary design to improve access to the Rideau River Eastern Pathway on the south side of Billings Bridge, Pelletier said. “The NCC agreed to the city of Ottawa’s proposal to begin design work despite not having the necessary funds to pursue the project in the short term,” he said.
Teen swarming suspect arrested thanks to tips from public Erin McCracken
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Robbery investigators are thanking the public after several tips led them to a swarming suspect in Alta Vista. Public tips began rolling in on June 2, just hours after investigators publicly released photographs of a male suspect as he was leaving the scene of a swarming incident at a commercial building in the 1700-block of Bank St. on May 16 at around 3:35 p.m. “It’s really the tipsters that phoned in and made the identification,” Staff Sgt. Michael Haarbosch, head of the robbery unit, said as he credited the public for helping, in part, to resolve the case. A female in her early 20s had been walking to the building on her way to work, and just before entering the premises saw three or four males outside. They followed her into the building and into a stairwell, where they pushed her down the stairs and snatched her cellphone, according to the
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A 15-year-old Ottawa boy has been arrested and charged in connection with a swarming in which a group of males pushed a woman down a flight of stairs at a commercial building in the 1700-block of Bank St. on May 13, say police. Other suspects wanted in connection with the case have not yet been identified. robbery squad. The victim, who suffered minor injuries, was taken to hospital. A witness reported seeing two males leave the building and split up. When she saw the victim exit the building crying, the witness followed
one of the suspects and took several photos of him. The witness returned to the crime scene to share the images with police. Many more tips came in the day after the robbery squad made a public appeal
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vehicle,” Haarbosch said. However, following suspects is never advised, given the risk involved, he added. “He knew what the witness was doing,” Haarbosch said. “You never know how somebody is going to react when you do that (take their photo).” In the wake of the teen’s arrest, he has refused to cooperated with investigators. As a result, two or three other suspects wanted in connec-
tion with the swarming have not yet been identified, said Haarbosch. They are described by police as black males, possibly between 18 and 24 years old. Anyone with information on the case and the suspects who remain at large is urged to call the robbery squad at 613-236-1222, ext. 5116. Anonymous tips can also be submitted to Crime Stoppers by calling 1-800-2228477.
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On the hunt for those responsible for destruction of forts Erin McCracken
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Two impressive homemade forts built in the woods of Hunt Club’s Paul Landry Park have been trashed two years in a row, leaving some residents upset and bewildered by the senseless actions of a few. John Sankey, a longtime Hunt Club resident and past president of the Hunt Club Community Association, is calling out those behind the destruction. “To the person responsible for destroying the forts: Paul Landry Park is for all of us in the community,” Sankey recently wrote on the association’s Facebook page. “Destruction of things that make our park special to us is more than insensitive, it’s hateful to all who live in our community.” The first fort was constructed sometime last year, com-
plete with a roof of branches and walls made of stones and more branches. It was pulled apart a few months later. “There was a lot of stone work and there was a lot of branch work. Those branches weren’t right there,” Sankey noted. “They had to be brought in from where they cleared the ash trees (elsewhere in the park).” A second fort built in the same location earlier this year was taken apart much more quickly this time around. It was still standing on June 1, but had been demolished by the time residents gathered at the park on June 5 for the first ever Paul Landry Park cleanup and meet and greet. Sankey has no idea who built each of the engineering marvels. “It certainly wasn’t a onehour project,” he said. “If there were a couple of boys, they might have been able to do it in a weekend, but going
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creation told Sankey it was even more amazing than the one spotted in 2015. Whereas last year’s structure appeared to have been haphazardly kicked down, the recently built fort was systematically destroyed. “A huge number of the stones were carted away some distance, and the branches trailed out over a huge area,” Sankey said. “Somebody really set out to destroy it.” When he saw what had happened, he said he almost felt sick that someone would be that deliberately destructive – and that it has happened two years in a row.
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John Sankey sits beside the remains of a second fort built earlier this year at the same Paul Landry Park location. “This construction project was fascinating not just to the builders but to all visitors from our community who visited it. It was a work of art,” he wrote on Facebook. By posting about it on Facebook, Sankey wanted to send the message that such destruction is not tolerated. The hope is also that someone may send in a tip to either share the names of those behind the destruction or even those of the fort builders. The decimation of the forts is also disappointing because many Hunt Club residents, as well as members of the Hunt Club Community Organiza-
tion, have been working to revitalize Paul Landry Park, said Sankey. The park was recently culled of infected ash trees and city workers have been in to replant. As well, city funds have been secured to improve the park in 2017. Each fort was a unique addition to the park, which many agree has needed some tender, loving care. “I’d call it a work of art,” Sankey said of the fort he was lucky enough to see last year. “It was well made. It wasn’t thrown together at all. There was a fair amount of thought and a lot of effort.”
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A movement opposing the provincial government’s plan to widen Highway 417 from Carling to Maitland avenues is growing. The plan also includes a later stage to widen the highway from Maitland to the 416. Some city councillors and residents are asking that the project be postponed and any money dedicated for the project be used instead to extend light rail service to Kanata. Lawyer Mark Scrivens, who lives in Kitchissippi ward on Sherwood Drive near Parkdale Avenue close to the 417, started a petition that already has more than 200 signatures against the announcement. “I was in disbelief,” Scrivens said of the announcement, which took place on May 25. The province said the project aims to ease congestion and shorten commute times. Work is to begin this fall and be completed in 2020. “There’s so much attention being paid to the LRT because of the construction and people are excited about it and anticipating its arrival,” he said. “I think people understand it’s a major investment and feel good about the investment.” But that’s not how he feels about the highway. “I think a lot people think (the highway) is an unfortunate legacy piece of our infrastructure in Ottawa because what it does to our neighbourhoods. To hear that the province wants to continue to encourage more use of it by widening it was kind of shocking and disappointing.” But Scrivens’ main objection is the cost of the project and there’s no evidence the widening would actually decrease commute times or congestion. “It’s clearly expensive, it probably won’t work. There are any number of traffic studies that have established that widening of highways just induces greater use of
the highways and make it clogged again.” Spending money on LRT would support the province’s goal of reducing greenhouse gases and would encourage more people from Kanata to take public transit, instead of the highway, he said. Scrivens will be forwarding his petition to Premier Kathleen Wynne and he’s also hoping to speak to his Ottawa Centre MPP Yasir Naqvi about the province’s plan and why it’s worthwhile to rethink it. Naqvi is also addressed in a letter that was sent by three city councillors, including Somerset Coun.
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These conceptual visuals of the future outdoor science park planned for the grounds of the Canada Science and Technology Museum is designed to inspire Canadians wishing to offer their vision and ideas for the space. The first of two public consultation periods was recently launched, as was a fundraising campaign for the park.
Park designed to serve as year-round destination with outdoor programs Continued from page 1
“This is that final piece that really revolutionizes that site,” Tessier said. Public input on the park is now being sought online and during a round of public events. “We think this park outdoors allows us to provide a free space in front of the museum for anybody to access,” said Tessier. “We’re really hoping it’s a gateway into the museum for people who may not have seen themselves as museum-goers or felt that the museum was inaccessible. “This is where they start before they come into the front doors.” A $7-million capital fundraising campaign recently launched and the plan is to build the park in phases as the money comes in. A portion of it could be opened around the same time as the museum. “The cherry on the sundae for us was an outdoor science park where kids could come in over the entire year,” said Alex Benay, president and chief executive of the Canada Science and Technology Museums Corporation, which manages three national museums in Ottawa, including the science and tech museum. “The site becomes pretty much one of the top
destinations in eastern Ontario.” The museum’s current outdoor landmarks, including the lighthouse, a radar installation, telescope and locomotive, have long been the main features of the science park. Some may be moved around, though it will depend on the location of a brand new $156.4-million collection and reserve cen-
of the park will depend on the results of a site master plan, which is now being developed and will soon go to the National Capital Commission for review. That plan will map out the entire eight-plus-hectare site, including the location of the park, a parking lot, the museum and the collection and conservation centre. There is almost four
“There is a lot of space there to do something really innovative and visionary.” Christina Tessier, museum director general
tre that will be built on the site. A majority of that facility is scheduled for completion by summer 2018. “So they’re not going to disappear,” Benay said of the park’s landmarks. “I think what we’re going to hear is they are iconic and important to our community,” Christine added. But given the $80.5-million renewal of the museum and its approaching 50th anniversary, it was time the park was given a refresh with something “a little bit more engaging for today than 1967,” Benay said. The location and size
hectares to work with for the park. “There is a lot of space there to do something really innovative and visionary,” Tessier said. The park consultation process has already met with success, and museum staff have sought feedback from local community associations and Alta Vista Coun. Jean Cloutier and his staff. The first consultation stage will wrap at the end of June, and a second phase will then begin. “At that point people will actually be able to see a couple of options on what the park could look like …
and then they can provide a response to what they’re seeing, rather just kind of a blue sky vision,” Tessier said, adding the consultation period will close in September. Museum officials plan to unveil the working design of the park at that time. The corporation recently hired Calgary-based 02, a planning and design company, and Vlan, a landscape architectural firm in Montreal, to help craft the vision for the park. Alberta-based Beakerhead science, art and engineering programming organizers are also being consulting on how science, technology, engineering, arts and math can be incorporated in year-round outdoor programming at the park. “We definitely want to have a space where we can take the learning outside,” Tessier said. You can help design the future park by taking an online survey at cstmuseum.techno-science.ca/ en/visit/museum-renewal. php, and by dropping by a Community Jam on June 25, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., rain or shine. The free outdoor event at the museum will feature a skateboard clinic, graffiti painting, music, food trucks and more.
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here was good news on the morning of June 8 when the earth opened up and a massive sinkhole swallowed a section of Rideau Street in downtown Ottawa. Despite the giant hole in the heart of the city, no one was injured. That no one was injured, except for the city’s civic pride, is a blessing considering the number of OC Transpo buses that go by the very spot where the road collapsed, not to mention all the cars and pedestrians who flow through that part of town on a weekday morning. Within 24 hours city crews stabilized the sinkhole by pouring concrete into it, and the foundations of nearby buildings had all been secured and the hole was no longer expanding, according to the city. Now the investigation into why this happened is underway. “It took a month for us to find the answers with the sinkhole on Waller Street, and this is significantly larger,� said Mayor Jim Watson during a media briefing with emergency services and city department heads the day after the large sinkhole made national headlines. The media briefing was the second within 24
hours. And there are plenty of questions that need to be answered with the two most pressing before moving forward being: Did the tunnelling for the city’s light rail project have anything to do with the road collapsing and is the city’s infrastructure in such bad shape that water main pipes are bursting all over the place? The mayor and senior city staff say it could take weeks to get Rideau Street in front of the Rideau Centre back in service, and may take a couple of months before all the answers to what went wrong are known. The timeline is the least of the worries right now. How long it takes to determine the reasons for this near tragedy is less important than getting those answers right, so that such a situation does not happen again, especially since there is a lot of tunnelling going on downtown for the LRT project. What should be first and foremost in all of the investigations surrounding the sinkhole is that public safety should be the No. 1 priority going forward. And that means if it takes a month or two, or even longer, to get to the bottom of this “hole� mess, so be it.
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egardless of what finally happens with Ogilvie Square, the debate over it will turn out to be helpful for the city and those who live in it. Last week the plans for the square were unveiled — a blocklong plaza on Nicholas Street between Rideau and Besserer, closed to traffic and available for special events. It will have trees and bicycle racks but no chairs or benches. Various reasons have been given for this, including the need to maintain access for emergency vehicles. But that’s not what people are talking about. They’re talking about what seems to be a conscious effort to discourage panhandlers and homeless people, of which there are many in this part of town. A city planner said that “we’ve
CHARLES GORDON Funny Town chosen to take a more adaptable approach and be able to monitor the success and failures of the seats as opposed to putting something in permanent and then having nothing but complaints come in for people ... loitering or panhandling ...� In other words, benches attract the homeless, so no benches. I usually avoid reading Comments sections online, but the one below the original Citizen article on this issue is worth a look. It shows the range of attitudes on homelessness in this city. Among the attitudes expressed are some very enlightened ones.
They say, among other things, that people other than panhandlers need places to sit. More significantly, they say that keeping homelessness out of sight is not the way to deal with it. There are other opinions, of course, such as the view that the homeless are coddled in Ottawa, but they are far outnumbered by those who believe the city has made a mistake here. Online Comments sections are not always accurate reflections of public opinion, but my guess is that City Hall is getting an earful on this subject and, on the basis of the strength of the arguments presented, will change its mind. This was so close to a great idea — creating a new public space in an area that needs it, closing it to traffic, sticking some trees in there. All it needed was something to make it more invit-
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ing, such as a place to sit down. That would be nice for older people and people with disabilities, among others. If that turned out not to work, for whatever reason, the city could always take the benches away. That might cost some money, but everything costs money. Putting up that elaborate playground at Mooney’s Bay costs money. All the 150th anniversary hoopla is costing money. The homelessness issue is frustrating. But let’s not forget that it’s the homeless who are the most frustrated. To those who say Ottawa coddles the homeless, imagine yourself in that position. It’s not a walk in the park. It’s frustrating and complicated and Ottawa has made some good efforts to help. What this debate shows is that there could be significant public support for more effort. As always, the key to solving
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ne thing about having multiple children is you start to feel like an expert in parenting. You look at others, struggling with new babies and mishandling toddlers, and you feel a bit cocky because you’ve got this parenting thing down. Perhaps because of our relaxed attitude, our third child has been the easiest kid ever. With our age and wisdom, we hired a lot of help to keep us – and her—relaxed. At one point, we had three adults looking after our six-month-old at all times, which was funny, really, because she just sat on a blanket and played. Now on the cusp of her fourth birthday, she’s still the easiest-going kid. We never experienced terrible twos, no temper tantrums, no problem. That is, until we took her overseas. Within two weeks, we experienced all of the challenges of toddlerhood. Every meal we sat down to – lovingly prepared by one set of Scottish relatives or another – launched an all out battle. She couldn’t sit in the booster seat, she forgot how to use utensils, she used her outdoor voice, and spent many meals under the table or hanging sideways in her chair. All organized nourishment was rejected as “disgusting,” even classic favourites like lasa-
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gna, in a daring insult to the chefs. Despite my daughter’s historically-proven ability to walk – even skip – long distances, this kid refused to set foot to cobble when we visited Edinburgh. She had to be carried, pushed in a stroller, (not easy on cobble), or ride on someone’s back. Each time we tried to get her to stand up, she’d crumple into a blob in the middle of the walkway, refusing to move. One evening, crammed into a camping caravan with five kids, my dear daughter completely lost it. We’d taken away her wooden sword which she’d been flailing around the trailer, threatening cousins and siblings, alike. In an extreme twist of events, she took out her frustration on her 11-year-old brother, pounding and kicking him with all her might and all her limbs. To his credit, he didn’t fight back. Mom jumped into retrieve little darling off
her brother as she was mid-swipe. As I scooped her up, her head came down, right into my un-manicured thumbnail. The blood was astounding. The cousins were frightened. She now has a scar under her eye. The following day, as my own brother and his spouse prepared a lovely barbecue in the hot sun (yes, we had sun in Scotland), my daughter reached her peak. As dinner was announced, she threw herself onto the grass and started screeching in a tone I’ve never heard. We didn’t know what to do. There was no coaxing, and certainly any physical intervention was out of the question after the thumbnail incident. She was a wild animal. To my brother’s shock, my husband and I just left her there, pounding the ground and swatting the air with her limbs and exhibiting that inhuman highpitched siren sound, while we graciously accepted our kabobs and potatoes and tried to carry on a conversation. I’m guilty of bragging to my brother and his spouse about how lovely and easygoing my dear daughter is, how intelligent and creative she is, how calm
and empathetic and reasonable she is for her age. What justice for them to have my daughter completely lose it in their backyard, something their neighbours will discuss for years to come, I’m sure. As soon as we got home, my daughter calmed down.
‘We never experienced terrible twos, no temper tantrums, no problem. That is, until we took her overseas.’ As I’ve been writing this column, she’s been playing blocks and animals in the corner, making up voices, singing songs, and not once interrupting my work. But I’ve learned my lesson. To all you parents out there – the ones that have had a toddler lose it in the grocery store, on a bus, at grandmother’s house – I’m sorry I ever judged you. Kids have a fantastic way of making us humble, don’t they?
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Parkway widening approved despite some opposition at council Jennifer McIntosh jennifer.mcintosh@metroland.com
Council approved the environmental assessment for the $91-million, threephase, plan to widen the Airport Parkway on June 8, despite some dissent from downtown councillors. Rideau-Rockliffe Coun. Tobi Nussbaum said he was “astonished” that the staff report didn’t establish baseline traffic figures for the future that didn’t include a widening of the road. “I learned the authors of the study didn’t consider how the demand or the use of the road would be considered,” he said. “What they told me is that they made all their assumptions that traffic would be the same, which is false.” Nussbaum said he plans to meet with staff to find out how it’s possible that a $800,000 study didn’t take all factors into account. While he said he didn’t think anything could be done about the current study, he wants to make sure it won’t happen again. “I have to address it at this point, moving forward to try and correct the mistake – make sure it doesn’t happen again,” he said. Capital Coun. David Chernushenko
said solidifying a plan to widen the road, in advance of the opening of the Trillium Line – an expansion of the city’s O-Train service that runs parallel to the parkway – is akin to spending money with both hands. The environmental assessment calls for the expansion to start with expanding the parkway to four roads between Brookfield and Hunt Club roads, with an off ramp at Walkley Road. The first phase would be $31 million, but shovels likely won’t be in the ground until at least 2020. The next part would be widening the parkway from Hunt Club to Lester Road, then widening Lester from the parkway to Albion Road, then from Albion Road to Bank Street. Council also received a petition with 175 signatures of area residents that are against parts of the project, most notably the off ramp at Walkley Road and the widening of Lester Road to Bank Street. Keith Egli, who serves as chair of the transportation committee, defended the public consultation on the file. He said that with a city the size of Ottawa, there is no magic bullet to deal FILE with congestion issues. “The expansion of the parkway is just Council approved the environmental assessment for the $91-million, three-phase, plan to widen the Airport Parkway on June 8, despite some dissent from downtown councillors. one part of the solution,” he said.
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Ottawans mourn victims of Orlando mass shooting erin.mccracken@metroland.com
Many came draped in rainbow flags. Some carried American flags. Others cupped lit candles that flickered in the chilly breeze. Hundreds of Ottawa residents stood at the base of the Canadian Tribute to Human Rights Monument on Elgin Street as a show of solidarity in the wake of the worst mass shooting in U.S. history at a popular gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla. in the early morning hours of June 12. “We matter,” said one man, standing on the steps of the monument. “And we’re all valid, and I love you all.” The candlelit vigil, organized by Ottawa Capital Pride on June 12 for 8 p.m., drew many well-known Ottawans. “When we heard the news, we didn’t really know what else to do except ask you to gather,” said Tammy Dopson, chair of Ottawa Capital Pride. A TERRIBLE LOSS
While there were still many unknowns about the unfolding tragedy earlier in the day, she said, “What we do know is that our community suffered a terrible loss for Orlando. Our trans community, our queer community of colour – I don’t know if we will ever know why. “I don’t think there’s a rationale. We asked you to come here tonight to talk, share stories, hug, love.” In a Facebook post issued earlier in the day, Capital Pride officials expressed outrage over the attack and profound sadness over the loss of
life. Capital Pride organizers asked vigil attendees to bring candles to the event “as the light of tolerance, peace and pride shall not be extinguished by dark and violent acts of hate.” One woman at the vigil, who wore a Pride flag around her shoulders, also climbed the stairs of the monument to read out a handful of names of the victims, and lead the crowd in a moment of silence. Meanwhile, Ottawa Centre MP Catherine McKenna said it wasn’t a night for speeches. “It’s a night where we come together as a community, and I think what we need to do tonight is talk to each other, hug each other, make new friends … and understand that an act of hatred can’t spread that hatred.” FLAG AT HALF MAST Photos by Erin McCracken/Metroland
Hours before the vigil, Mayor Jim Watson requested that the pride flag be raised in front of the city’s Heritage Building and that the American flag be flown at Marion Dewar Plaza at city hall until sundown on June 16. “We are fortunate to live in a city and a country that embrace diversity, and where people are free to love who they wish to love,” he said in a statement. The tragedy south of the border is a reminder that progress must continue until a “climate of acceptance is extended to all members of the LGBTQ community around the world,” said Watson. Likewise, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau issued a statement in which he expressed his shock and sadness over
A woman adds to the growing collection of flowers, notes and candles on the steps of the Human Rights Monument at city hall on June 12. Hundreds of people gathered at the site to take part in a vigil in the wake of the Orlando, Fla., mass shooting that claimed the lives of 49 people earlier that same day. the “domestic terror attack,” in which 49 people were shot to death and more than 50 wounded by a suspected lone gunman. “On behalf of the Government of Canada, Sophie and I offer our condolences and prayers to the families and friends of those lost today, and wish a full recovery to all those injured. We stand in solidarity with Orlando and the LGBTQ2 community,” Trudeau said. “We grieve with our friends in the United States and Florida, and offer any assistance we can provide.”
Reuben Wynne and Ahsley Fuentes, of Old Ottawa East, take part in an emotional vigil at the Human Rights Monument. The event drew several people wearing Pride flags and holding U.S. flags in solidarity.
Notice of Community Consultation NAV CANADA proposes changes to Ottawa flight paths NAV CANADA is seeking public input regarding proposed changes to flight paths for aircraft arriving to Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport. The proposed flight paths are estimated to save up to two minutes flying time for arrivals while greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reductions are estimated at 750 metric tonnes each year. Where possible, portions of flight paths have been relocated over less populated areas. Some of the new approach paths will lever new technology – known as Required Navigation Performance (RNP) – that combines satellite-based positioning with modern flight management systems, allowing an aircraft to fly a precise route. This allows for the design of flight paths that are shorter and that provide for a continuous descent. Initially, only a small portion of aircraft – less than 25 per cent – will be equipped to fly the new procedure. As part of the proposed redesign, some standard arrival routes are also being updated. No changes are proposed for departure routes. NAV CANADA has made information – including maps – on proposed flight path changes available online at www.navcanada.ca/YOW. Residents are invited to learn about changes and provide feedback using the comment tool available on the website by June 30, 2016. Residents can also attend the following Open House Consultation Event: June 22, 2016 – 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Maurice-Lapointe School Gymnasium 17 Bridgestone Dr. Kanata, ON K2M 0E9 R0013833834
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Majority of Rideau St. businesses open as city continues sinkhole fix Jennifer McIntosh
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Many businesses were forced to shut their doors after a sinkhole opened up on Rideau Street June 8. Emergency crews acted to evacuated the area quickly, since the sinkhole had also caused a water main and gas line break. Over the weekend, city crews were working at the site, Coun. Mathieu Fleury/Submitted removing water from the light More than 75 per cent of the businesses forced to shut their doors following a sinkhole rail tunnel and working with that measured approximately three street lanes that opened up on Rideau Street June 8. affected businesses.
As of June 13, the Chateau Laurier, the Westin, Milestones, the Metropolitan, the Rideau Centre, the Bay and Chapters have reopened with full or partial services. The first phase of concrete work to stabilize the sinkhole is complete and crews are working to restore the infrastructure damaged by the road collapse. Drinking water advisories will remain in place until Ottawa Public Health can determine the water is safe for consumption, the memo says.
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Hilliard Francis, of Emvale Acres, shows off some of his extensive collection of mostly infantry items, many from the Second World War. Francis was one of dozens exhibitors and vendors who showcased their historical military treasures during the Ottawa Service Battalion Association’s third annual Military Hobby Show, on June 12 at the Major E.J.G. Holland VC Armoury on Walkley Road.
In accordance with Section 34(10.7)(a) of the Planning Act and Section 3.(1) of Ontario Regulation 545/06, notice is hereby provided that a Zoning By-law amendment proposal is being considered by the Planning and Growth Management Department of the City of Ottawa. LANDS SUBJECT TO THE PROPOSAL These City-initiated zoning amendments will affect lands throughout the City of Ottawa. PURPOSE AND EFFECT OF THE PROPOSED AMENDMENTS Amend Section 55 to reduce the permitted height of an accessory building and/or structure from 4.5 metres to 3.6 metres. Additional items to correct anomalies (errors) in the Zoning By-law may be added on a priority basis. FURTHER INFORMATION For additional information or to provide comments, please contact: Tim Moerman, MCIP, RPP Planner Policy Development and Urban Design 110 Laurier Avenue West, 4th floor Ottawa, ON K1P 1J1 Tel: 613-580-2424, ext. 13944 Fax: 613-580-2459 Email: tim.moerman@ottawa.ca
If a person or public body does not make oral submissions at a public meeting (meeting date, time and location to be determined) or make written submissions to the City of Ottawa before the proposed by-law is passed, the person or public body is not entitled to appeal the decision of the Council of the City of Ottawa to the Ontario Municipal Board. If a person or public body does not make oral submissions at a public meeting (meeting date, time and location to be determined) or make written submissions to the City of Ottawa before the proposed by-law is passed, the person or public body may not be added as a party to the hearing of an appeal before the Ontario Municipal Board unless, in the opinion of the Board, there are reasonable grounds to do so. Dated at the City of Ottawa this 16th day of June, 2016. 12 Ottawa South News - Thursday, June 16, 2016
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Portions of Colonel By Drive were opened June 10 to allow access to the Westin and the ByWard Market. Road closures remain in place along portions of Rideau Street and Sussex Drive. At a media briefing on June 10, Mayor Jim Watson said it will be one to two weeks before Rideau Street is fully operational. Steve Cripps, head of the city’s rail implementation office, estimated the hole measured 29 metres wide, 40 metres long and roughly five metres deep.
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Summer Solstice Aboriginal Festival to forge cultural appreciation Event to feature strong Inuit theme Erin McCracken
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The grounds of Vincent Massey Park will soon be transformed into a whirlwind of colour, culture and music, as drummers, dancers and artisans come together for a three-day celebration. Summer Solstice Aboriginal Festival, an annual event that shines a spotlight on First Nations, Inuit and Metis culture, history and identity, offers a cross-cultural exchange in the National Capital Region. The public showcase, taking place June 17 to 19, is designed to foster connections between aboriginal and nonaboriginal people, as well as between the different First Nations, Métis and Inuit communities. “The Summer Solstice is unique in that we always have a lot of involvement from our Inuit and Métis and it brings all of the groups together,” said Trina Mather-Simard, executive director of Aboriginal Experiences, Arts & Culture, which puts on the annual spectacle. “We get to educate that they are distinct cultures and traditions, as well as learn from one another.” Last year’s festival drew record crowds of more than 40,000 people, in part, because of the beautiful summer weather, but also because of the bounty of free programming. “I think we’re seeing a lot of growth because when
people come out they don’t know what to expect, and they have a great experience,” Mather-Simard said. “I think it’s a real word-ofmouth kind of thing.” This year, the festival will mark the 20th anniversary of National Aboriginal Day, which is held June 21. New and returning highlights will include an international powwow competition and music by DJ Shub, formerly with A Tribe Called Red. George Leach, a Juno-winning aboriginal musician, will return to the festival to perform after a 10-year hiatus. Inuit throat singers Tarniriik, who performed during Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s swearing-in ceremony last year, will also perform. “We also have a really strong Inuit theme this year,” Mather-Simard said, adding that a main stage attraction will be Artcirq from Nunavut. “It’s a circus that came out of a community that had a lot of desperation amongst the young,” she said, adding the founder used circus arts to give young people a new set of skills. They now travel around the world showcasing their circus productions. New this year, festival organizers are partnering with First Air, which is celebrating its 70th anniversary. The northern airline, which flies out of the Ottawa International Airport, is bringing about 70 Nunavut youth to the upcoming event, many of whom have never travelled this far south before. “This is a regally good op-
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The annual Summer Solstice Aboriginal Festival will take place at Vincent Massey Park June 17 to 19. The free family fun, which last year drew more than 40,000 people, will feature a marketplace, live music, an international powwow competition, circus performances, workshops and art pavilions. portunity for them to come down south and see something on such a scale and see other Inuit youth be a part of it,” Mather-Simard said, adding it will help empower them as well as build important connections with other communities. In keeping with this year’s Inuit theme, visitors can drop by the festival’s inaugural Inuit visual arts pavilion and see artisans at work, including a comic book artist, soapstone carvers, beading artisans and artists creating face-painting tattoos. “So we’ll see what a distinct culture it is, and some similarities and differences,” Mather-Simard said, noting there will also be a Métis pavilion. “I think you’ll leave with a sense of how rich and
“I think you’ll leave with a sense of how rich and diverse all of the cultures are.” Trina Mather-Simard, executive director, Aboriginal Experiences, Arts & Culture
diverse all of the cultures are.” About half of those who attend the celebration are non-aboriginal, and MatherSimard thinks the festival is helping forge new connections and bolstering a deeper appreciation for and understanding of indigenous communities. About 4,000 students from several Ottawa-area public and Catholic elementary schools have been invited to take part in an Education Day, which takes place
this year on June 20. They’ll learn about powwow, be entertained with theatrical storytelling, make artistic creations, play unique games and see their indigenous peers showcase their artistic talents. “I think education is really important in getting young people out and having that experience so it doesn’t seem like it’s something from a history book – it’s living and breathing,” Mather-Simard said. While designed to be edu-
cational, Summer Solstice is also about being fun and interactive. Festival-goers can try a new 122-metre “big kids” zipline in the park. As well, Ottawa Circus School will have activities for people to try, said Mather-Simard. “It’s a really light way to get to know the culture, and feel comfortable talking and learning and having fun,” she said. For a full lineup of events and shuttle-service details, visit ottawasummersolstice. ca, or facebook.com/OttawaSolstice. Vincent Massey Park is located at the corner of Heron Road and Riverside Drive. Paid parking will be available on site.
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Former councillor seeks nomination for new Carleton riding Thompson hopes to return to politics after 31 years as a councillor Kelly Kent
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Retirement just doesn’t suit him. Doug Thompson, who has more than 31 years of experience in local politics, recently announced his intent to seek the nomination for the Ontario Progressive Conservative (PC) Party in the new provincial riding of Carleton. “People keep asking me why I can’t just enjoy retirement,” Thompson said. “I guess I just feel I have more I can give.” In the 2018 provincial election, the existing provincial riding of NepeanCarleton will be split in two. With current MPP Lisa MacLeod having announced her intent to run in the Nepean riding, Thompson said he saw an opportunity to run in his hometown riding of Carleton. “I know the area,” he said. “I think I would be an asset
to the community in an MPP role.” Thompson has been a resident of the Osgoode area for more than 40 years.
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He began his political career after retiring from 35 years as a teacher and principal, serving as a councillor of Osgoode for 14 years. He hung up his councillor’s hat when he was elected to be the mayor of Osgoode in 1997, where he served until amalgamation with the City of Ottawa in 2000. From 2000 to 2014, Thompson resumed his position as an Osgoode council-
lor, this time within the city’s realm. He retired of his own accord in 2014 and has been busy ever since. “I’m still very active within the community,” he said. Thompson is involved in dozens of community organizations. He is the chair of the South Nation Conservation Authority, a director of Conservation Ontario, a director of the Greely Business Association, a director of the Metcalfe Agricultural Society and a director of the Ottawa Carleton Plowmen’s Association to name a few. Even so, he said he’s excited about the opportunity to get back into politics on another level. “It’s something different. I’m ready for a new challenge,” he said. If he were to be successful in receiving the PC nomination and then in winning the election, Thompson said he has a good idea of what he’d like to champion.
Energy costs for rural residents in particular, he said, are a major concern. “My first day on the job I’d be working on that,” he said. Thompson would also like to work on youth issues and engagement, programs and assistance for seniors and bettering the health care system. Thompson was quite involved in the opening of the
Osgoode Youth Association (O-YA) and is still working with the Osgoode Care Centre board today. “I really, truly believe that my experience in local politics would be an asset on the provincial level,” he said, adding that his familiarity with the area’s constituents would also be helpful. All in all, Thompson said the motivation to seek party
nomination comes from a feeling that he still has a lot to give to his community. “I just feel I have a lot to offer,” he said. “Politicians have the power to get things done. You can help take care of things that matter to the residents. “Politicians can make a difference if they really want to, and I want to make a difference.”
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The Vankleek Hill-based Beau’s All Natural Brewing Company is partnering with Ottawa 2017 to provide the beer for the national birthday celebrations next year. Mayor Jim Watson announced the partnership at Datsun restaurant on Elgin Street on June 9. As a result of the deal, 1 million bottles of the company’s flagship beer – the Lug Tread – will have a Ottawa 2017 logo on them. The patriotically packaged pint will be available wherever Beau’s is sold. “They will be going across the country,” said company CEO Steve Beauchesne during the announcement. Watson said the celebrations wouldn’t be possible without the help of private sector partnerships. “Beau’s is a great Ottawa success story,” he said. “As we welcome an influx of visitors to our country’s 150th birthday celebrations, it’s a great opportunity to invite them to discover and delight in the many flavours of the capital region.” Beauchesne said, rather than opt for an exclusive deal, Beau’s wants to work with other local craft beer companies such as Kichesippi Beer Company and Big Rig Brewery. Beau’s is Canada’s largest craft producer of organic beer and will celebrate its 10th anniversary on July 1.
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Pedestrian Crossovers Coming to Gloucester-Southgate Ward A new style of crosswalk is coming to Gloucester-Southgate Ward. The Province of Ontario amended the Highway Traffic Act (HTA) in January 2016 to allow for a new type of crosswalk that could be installed on low speed, low-to-medium volume roadways. Under the changes to the HTA, drivers and cyclists will be required to yield for pedestrians at these new crossings. Motorists and pedestrians can familiarize themselves with these new crossings and their markings by visiting ottawa.ca. With this change to the HTA, the City of Ottawa will be installing up to 60 new pedestrian crossovers each year for the next three years at warranted locations across the entire City of Ottawa. This work is set to begin this month and Gloucester-Southgate Ward has been selected to receive four of these new crosswalks. Our pedestrian crossovers will be located at: Huntersfield (70 metres south of Thornhedge), Cahill (east of Marlin Pvt.), D’Aoust (between Bank and Timbermill), and Queensdale (west of Sawmill Creek). For more information, please visit dianedeans.ca or call my office at 613-580-2480. Annual 55+ Tea a Success! On June 15, more than 200 residents aged 55 and older from Gloucester-Southgate Ward joined me for my annual afternoon tea at the EY Centre. This special event is held each year in June and celebrates the contributions of seniors. I would like to thank everyone for attending and enjoying a wonderful afternoon with me and my staff. I’d also like to take the opportunity to thank the many local businesses who donated prizes for our raffle and I encourage residents to support these generous businesses. They include: Moncion’s Your Independent Grocer; Montana’s BBQ & Bar, South Keys; The Royal Oak, Hunt Club Road; Produce Depot, Towngate Mall; Shoppers Drug Mart, Southgate Mall; Staples, South Keys; Gabriel’s Pizza, Towngate Mall; Starbucks, South Keys; Boston Pizza, Conroy Road; The Works, Bank Street; Mr. B’s March House Restaurant; Sawmill Creek Pool & Community Centre; Thai Lanna Restaurant; Hunt Club Manor; Bowring, Daze Street; Lone Star Texas Grill, Gibford Drive; Bulk Barn, South Keys; Metro, Southgate Mall; Greenboro Library; The Keg, Hunt Club Road; KS on the Keys, Daze Street; Greenboro Community Centre; Mayor Jim Watson; The Waterford Retirement Community. If you would like to be included in next year’s event, please contact my office at 613-580-2480 to have your name added to the list. Reminder of Transit Changes in Greenboro East I would like to remind residents that there will be changes to OC Transpo routes 43, 114 and 143 that will be implemented this month. For more information, call OC Transpo at 613-842-3653.
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Annual Road Resurfacing in Leitrim and Riverside South As part of the City of Ottawa’s annual infrastructure maintenance cycle, road resurfacing will occur to improve roadways and the citywide transportation network. The road resurfacing program will begin this month and will continue until the late fall. This work is tentatively planned to begin the week of June 13, 2016. Locally the following roadways will be resurfaced during the day and evening and will involve minor lane interruptions: River Road from Mitch Owens Road to Leitrim Road, Lester Road from 100m west of Alert Road to Bank Street, Snake Island Road from Stagecoach Road to Bank Street, and Ramsayville Road from Leitrim Road to Mitch Owens Road. Completion is anticipated by the end of September 2016. Canada Day at Claudette Cain Park The Riverside South Community Association hosts their annual Canada Day Celebrations at Claudette Cain Park on 660 River Rd (near Earl Armstrong). A daytime event with inflatables, petting zoo, pony rides, BBQ, zip line, balloon clown, and cotton candy will run from 10am – 2pm. Special guests include a magician at 10am and the Junk Yard Symphony at 11am – 12:30pm. Cake will be served at 1pm. The Findlay Creek Community Association will be partnering with the Riverside South Community Association to host fireworks that evening. The second portion of the event will begin at 8pm with glow sticks and fire dancers at 9pm. Fireworks will start at 10pm.
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Above: Edna Goyette of Aylmer, Que., holds her six-year-old Yorkie, Tika, during the inaugural Ottawa Dog Festival on June 12. The two-day festival at the RA Centre, which drew hundreds of canines and their human companions, featured pet massages, dock-diving demos and a fenced-in dog park where pooches played together.
Starting this week, Bank Street will be reduced during weekday off-peak hours from four lanes to two at a point 200 metres south of Leitrim Road, to accommodate replacement of a culvert, road rehabilitation and landscaping. The speed limit in the work area will also be reduced to 60 kilometres an hour. Work will continue for approximately six weeks.
Right: Michael March, of Watertown N.Y., watches as his three-year-old black Labrador, Maverick, lunges for a target over water during a dockdiving demonstration during the festival.
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The Government of Ontario committed to give the City of Ottawa over $1 billion dollars to help fund the expansion of Stage 2 of its LRT line. Stage 2 will now extend the Ottawa LRT route to the east from Blair to Trim Station, to the west from Tunney’s Pasture to Bayshore Stations, to the south from Greenboro Station to Bowesville Station in Riverside South, and to the southwest to Baseline Station. The original plan for Stage 2 was to add 30 kilometres and 19 stations to the first phase of the LRT, which is expected to be completed in 2018. The extensions announced this morning will add 6.5 kilometres of track and three extra stations. The additional money provided by the Province will go towards a spur to Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport with a new station at the EY Centre and an extension to Trim Road in Orléans. Construction of Phase 2 is expected to begin in 2018 and be completed by 2023. Ottawa Ranked the Best Place in Canada to Live Ottawa has received the prestigious designation of being Number 1 on the list of Best Places to Live in Canada and the Best Places for New Canadians by MoneySense magazine, based on a ranking of 219 Canadian cities. Ottawa also made the Top 10 for Best Places for Families and Best Places to Retire. The top ranking reflects the City of Ottawa’s multi-year economic development strategy, Partnerships for Innovation, which is investing in initiatives that encourage: Investment attraction, and business expansion and retention, Entrepreneurship and innovation, Tourism development, and Research and information tools. The City of Ottawa is working to make the city a premiere destination in which to invest, work, live and play. It is working closely with local economic development partners, such as Invest Ottawa, Ottawa Tourism, the Chambers of Commerce, Boards of Trade and Business Improvement Areas to achieve this objective.
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The Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre is now home to a pilot project designed to deliver swift access to medically supported alcohol withdrawal until March 2018.
The Alcohol Medical Intervention Clinic on Carling Ave. provides urgent follow-up services for people with potentially life-threatening alcohol problems who have been referred by the Ottawa Hospital’s emergency department. “This program is important for two reasons. First, it will improve access to
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LIGHT RAIL TRANSIT IN OTTAWA As the MPP for Ottawa South, I was proud to stand alongside Premier Kathleen Wynne last week as she announced that the Ontario government will be committing more than $1 billion toward the City of Ottawa’s Light Rail Transit (LRT) expansion project. The commitment will add 30 kilometres of new tracks and 19 new stations to the LRT system including a link to the Ottawa MacDonald-Cartier International Airport. The airport link and extension south to Bowesville will help reduce congestion here in Ottawa-South and connect people to jobs within our community. This commitment is the largest provincial transit investment in Ottawa’s history and will offer the citizens of Ottawa-South fast, efficient service while also lowering greenhouse gas pollution, improving air quality and fighting the issue of climate change. Construction on Stage 2 is scheduled to start in 2018, once the Stage 1 Confederation Line is completed, and is expected to create nearly 1,000 full-time jobs. This announcement comes as a part of the largest investment in public infrastructure in the province’s history and displays the importance in investing in infrastructure projects such as the LRT to the government’s economic plan to grow Ontario’s economy and create jobs.
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Ottawa’s Roger’s House is getting a financial boost from the province to the tune of more than $179,000 for palliative and end-of-life care services. “Hospices are special places that provide compassionate care to patients and families at a challenging time in their lives,” Ottawa South MPP John Fraser said in a statement, issued following the funding announcement on June 10 at Roger’s House, which is located near CHEO on Smyth Road. “They are a critical part of Ontario’s plan to ensure access to high quality palliative and end-of-life care,” said Fraser, who also serves as parliamentary assistant to the minister of health and longterm care. Hospices in the Champlain region have been tapped to
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Ottawa South MPP John Fraser announces on June 10 that Ottawa’s Roger’s House will be receiving more than $179,000 for palliative and end-of-life care services. receive $2.8 million over three years as part of the government’s 2016 budget in which
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ing hospice beds. That translates to $15,000 per adult bed and $22,400 for each pediatric bed, according to the province. “The increased funding for existing hospice beds will help ensure that the high quality palliative and end-of-life care provided by hospices remains in the community for future generations,” the provincial government said in a statement. “This investment will enhance compassionate end-oflife support that relieves suffering and improves the quality of living and dying.” Such support for community hospice palliative care was welcomed by Rick Firth, president and chief executive of Hospice Palliative Care Ontario. “Hospice care in Ontario is a community driven initiative, supported by local donors and volunteers, as well as government,” he said in a statement. “Government support is crucial to help meet the need and demand for care.”
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In Queen’s Park and at home in Barrhaven, June has been a pivotal month for the family and friends of Rowan Stringer. Three years after her death, her name will now be synonymous with Canada’s first concussion legislation, and a popular rugby pitch in Nepean. Ontario’s legislature passed Rowan’s Law, an opposition private member’s bill proposed by NepeanCarleton MPP Lisa MacLeod, on June 7 after the bill received unanimous support from all political parties. The bill was co-sponsorship by NDP MPP Catherine Fife and Liberal MPP John Fraser. “We’re quite euphoric today, pretty proud of ourselves,” MacLeod said in an interview with Metroland Media. “We’ve done something substantial, and I think we’re going to see more protection for athletes in amateur sport and minor sport.” Based on 49 recommendations that came out of a coroner’s inquest into Stringer’s death, Rowan’s Law is intended to provide guidelines and tools for players, parents,
teachers and coaches to prevent, diagnose and better respond to concussions. Stringer, 17, died of complications from multiple concussions she sustained while playing rugby in May 2013. Her parents, Gordon and Kathleen Stringer, approached MacLeod the month after Rowan’s death seeking help to change concussion laws in order to make playing sports such as rugby safer for young athletes. As well as receiving support from all provincial parties, Rowan’s Law was publicly endorsed by Rugby Canada, Rugby Ontario, and retired NHL hockey player Eric Lindros, who sustained multiple concussions during his NHL career. In January, Rugby Canada launched its PlaySmart player welfare system, a program that aims to educate players, parents, coaches, match officials and administrators on player welfare and concussion management. Despite gaining traction through widespread support, the bill recently appeared to be threatened when it was stalled in committee amid fears that the provincial government would prorogue the legisla-
ture for the summer before it could pass Rowan’s Law. “If we did not pass the bill today, it more than likely would have died on the order paper,” MacLeod said on June 7. After its approval in legislature on June 7, MacLeod said the bill would receive royal assent from the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – a formality – on June 9, at which point the new law would come into effect. The next step, she said, is to form a committee of experts who will have one year to develop a framework for implementing Rowan’s Law in Ontario. “It will be up to the government, as of (June 9), to develop the public appointment process for the 16 committee members from five ministries,” she said. MacLeod believes Rowan’s Law could go nationwide, with several federal senators already having expressed interest in introducing federal concussion legislation. Earlier in the spring, she said, the Senate invited Lindros and herself to participate in a forum on the topic. “And then the minister of culture and tourism and sport has told me that in the next month the
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provincial and territorial ministers of sport are meeting with the federal minister and the first item on their agenda is concussions and Rowan’s Law,” she said. ROWAN’S PITCH
Days before Rowan’s Law received the green light in the legislature, the Barrhaven Scottish Rugby Football Club renamed its rugby pitch at Ken Ross Park Rowan’s Pitch in a June 4 ceremony. That day was the opening day of the club’s spring season. “Naming the pitch after Rowan is not only our club’s way of remembering and honouring her, but also highlights Rowan’s Law and concussion awareness,” Barrhaven Scottish president Barb Gillie said in a media release. “She was an incredible rugby player, a funny and loving person, and one who was always giving of herself.” Stringer was captain of the rugby team at John McCrae Secondary School and played for the Barrhaven Scottish Rugby Club. The renaming event drew members of the local rugby community, MacLeod, Stringer’s parents and some former teammates, as well as
Barrhaven Coun. Jan Harder and Innes Coun. Jody Mitic, who both worked to gain approval from the city for the pitch to be renamed. As part of the celebration, club teams played rugby throughout the day, Ross’ Your Independent Grocer and Bells Corners based Whiprsnapr Brewing Co. provided food and beer, and club sponsor Bin There Dump That collected food donations for the Barrhaven Food Cupboard using one of its construction bins. Just days before learning with certainty that the country’s first concussion legislation, in his daughter’s name, would become a reality, Gordon Stringer thanked those who had worked to associate his daughter’s name with safer sports. “We are very honoured that the Barrhaven Scottish RFC have chosen to remember Rowan in such a poignant way,” Stringer said during the renaming ceremony. “Having her name and her story that goes with it will be a reminder for people to remain active and healthy, but, most of all, to play smart and play safe regarding concussion and brain injury prevention.”
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London mother walks to Ottawa to raise awareness for diabetes Michelle Nash Baker
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Imagine having to wake up your children every hour, or half hour throughout the night just to make sure they will not slip into a coma. Would it make you want to walk from London Ont. to Ottawa to speak to the health minister about it? Well, for Jenn Miller that was exactly what she decided to do and on June 6 she finally made it to the Canadian Diabetes Association at 45 Montreal Rd. Both Miller’s daughters, Haylee, 13, and Lilee, 11, have Type 1 diabetes – a disease in which the pancreas does not produce any insulin. Without insulin, glucose builds up in the body’s blood instead of being used for energy – in short carbs are your enemy. “At first I had no clue what diabetes was,” Miller said. Miller said she took her oldest, Haylee, to see the doctor when she was eight, to address her health issues. “They told us her glucose was really high, and I thought she would get a shot,” Miller recalls. Miller said she thought there was a diabetes shot and they would go home – instead they were told to go to emergency where they were explained that Haylee had Type 1 and that most likely she would need a pump to help administer rapidacting insulin. Lilee was diagnosed when she was 10-years-old. Miller said both recognizing something was wrong, as well as diagnosis was easier, having already taken care of Haylee four years prior. Lilee takes daily injections of insulin to manage her glucose levels. Costs for people vary across Canada, but according to the Canadian Diabetes Association it’s particularly difficult for lower-income earners. Depending on income level ($20,000, $40,000, $80,000) the range of out-of-pocket cost for Type 1 using a pump is between $543 to $1,657. For multiple daily injections, in Ontario out of pocket costs range from $1,061 to $2,344. Miller’s two children receive Ontario Disability Support Program funding to help supplement the costs associated with
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Jenn Miller signs the Diabetes Charter for Canada at the Canadian Diabetes Association in Vanier on June 6 — a charter that outlines expectations and obligations that are important to people living with diabetes. Miller arrived in Ottawa after walking 758 kilometres from London, Ont., in an effort to raise awareness for the disease. the disease. “It covers a lot but not all,” Miller said, adding both her and the girls’ father, Tom Lentz, do not have health insurance and on top of the equipment that is covered, the girls get money from the government to help supplement the other costs. Medical costs
For Miller, she said this helps, but she also feels everything should just be covered. “If you give people a cheque, you can’t guarantee it will go to their medical costs,” Miller said. “It should just be covered.” This is why Miller started her walk, which her girls, Lentz and family and friends supported. With 758 kilometres between London and Ottawa, Miller walked 30 km a day, beginning her journey on May 2. She did not meet with Health Minister Jane Philpott, her main goal, but said she was optimistic her journey was worth it, as both the Canadian Diabetes Association and her team have been talking with Philpott’s office. “This has definitely raised awareness which was the number one mission,” Miller said. Daily life with two daughters diagnosed with diabetes is not easy, but Lentz said Miller and he co-parent well to ensure the
girls are healthy and happy, and that does include waking them up in the middle of the night to check their glucose levels. “Sometimes you have to feed them a snack in the middle of the night because they are too low,” Miller said. “At one point I began to worry that I was giving them sugar in the middle of the night
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Ultimate Dinosaurs arrive in Ottawa Michelle Nash Baker
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Young or old, if you love dinosaurs make your way to the Canadian Museum of Nature this summer. The museum opened its latest exhibition, Ultimate Dinosaurs, that features dinosaurs from the ancient supercontinent of Gondwana. The show features 16 fully-articulated skeletons and explores the formation of Gondwana, which took place roughly 145 million years ago, and how the creatures on this supercontinent evolved there in isolation – there is even one dinosaur that shows evidence of being a cannibal – and eventually how this supercontinent eventually split into South America, Africa, Madagascar, Australia and Antarctica. Even though the museum already has one of the best dinosaur collections — most of their skeletons are complete or near complete — its scientists say it’s hard to pass up this travelling exhibition that has a species that is even bigger than a Tyrannosaurus rex. “This showcases dinosaurs we don’t get to see in North America,” said museum palaeontologist Jordan Mallon. A big kid himself, Mallon admits there is some pretty cool dinosaurs in the exhibit he was excited to see. “Some of them are just so different and weird to us, they are bigger and stranger,” he added. “I’m as excited as the kids are about this.” The biggest part of the show is of course Giganotosaurus — no, that really is it’s name — he’s huge — larger than T-Rex, at 12 metres long, this dinosaur is thought to be the largest land predator ever to have lived. Coming from Argentina, Gigan-
otosaurus lived about 110 million years ago. More than 80 per cent of all of its bones have been found – which means this guy is a sight to see – even if Mallon truly believes TRex’s bone-crushing jaw would devour him in a fight. And what is the largest dinosaur that may have lived? Well, that guy is too big for the exhibition hall, but there is the opportunity to have some sort of an idea as a portion of Futalognkosaurus’ three-metre tall skeletal leg is on display. Futalognkosaurus is a giant long-necked sauropod (lizard-footed) dinosaur that stretched 110 feet long and is believed to have weighed as much as 10 elephants. The Ultimate Dinosaurs exhibit opened on June 11 and runs until Sept. 5. Aside from the impressive skeletons, which do look like they could come to life, the exhibit offers an interactive experience like no other. How many of us have desired to step over the glass barrier to look directly up the dinosaur’s ribcage for a better view – well with interactive iPads that is exactly what you can do as museum goers can check out the dinosaur in the flesh with the interactive option that allows you to get a feel for how massive some of these guys were. Bronze casts, activity stations, giant murals make up the rest of this exhibition. To check out the exhibit, a surcharge does apply, $10 for adults, $7 for children three to 17 years old and seniors. In the past Toronto and Vancouver have been the two other Canadian venues to host this show.
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‘No drone zone’: Signs, safety campaign launched ahead of draft federal legislation safety campaign “will add another layer to the risk mitigation toolkit” for Canadian airports, said Mark Laroche, president and chief executive of the Ottawa International Airport Authority. It can be challenging to track down the owner of a drone that is breaking the law, Garneau admitted.
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The federal government is getting tough on drones operating near airports and aircraft. Canada has had drone regulations in place since 1996, but given their growing threat to aviation safety, the unmanned aircraft are now the focus of a new national safety campaign and have prompted the creation of new ‘No Drone Zone’ signage. “We face a challenge: a growing number of incidents where drones are flying too close to aircraft and airports,” Transport Minister Marc Garneau said while announcing the campaign at the Ottawa International Airport on June 13. Two CF-18 fighter jets were deployed from Bagotville, Que., to Ottawa after two drones were sighted on May 25, one several kilometres away from the Ottawa airport and another in the vicinity of the Parliament Buildings. The day before the announcement, a drone was sighted 25 metres away from
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Ottawa-area MPPs take on new roles around cabinet table Michelle Nash Baker
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Three Ottawa-area MPPs will take on new roles in the provincial cabinet. Premier Kathleen Wynne announced changes to her cabinet on June 13. There are 30 members in the cabinet with 10 ministers taking on new roles and seven new members added. Ottawa West-Nepean MPP Bob Chiarelli will move from the energy ministry and become minister of infrastructure — now a standalone ministry, responsible for the implementation of the province’s $160 billion investment in roads, bridges, schools and hospitals. Ottawa-Centre MPP Yasir Naqvi will continue his role as government House Leader and now also becomes Attorney General of Ontario. “The new cabinet is a blend of continuity, experience and new ideas and energy,” Naqvi said in a statement. “I am eager to get to work with my fellow cabinet
members and all caucus colleagues as we implement our four-part plan over the next two years.” Women now make up 40 per cent of the cabinet. Former cabinet member OttawaVanier MPP Madeleine Meilleur said she hopes to see more women enter politics and take on leadership roles within the government. After 25 years in politics, Meilleur announced her resignation on June 9. Ottawa-Orleans MPP Marie-France Lalonde will take over Meilleur’s longtime role as minister of Francophone Affairs, as well as minister of government and consumer services. Speaking of taking over Meilleur’s role as lead francophone minister, Lalonde said she is privileged to have her as a mentor. “Some of her legacy or some of her projects I will be carrying over, and what I’m hoping the people of Ontario will see is that I have learned from a very respected person, but I’m also my
own person,” Lalonde said. Changes to the cabinet include: • Deb Matthews will remain as deputy premier and, as minister of advanced education and skills development. Matthews also becomes Ontario’s first minister responsible for digital government. • Mitzie Hunter is minister of education • Liz Sandals will move from minister of education to become president of the Treasury Board •Indira Naidoo-Harris is associate minister of finance responsible for the Ontario Retirement Pension Plan. • Michael Chan will lead Ontario’s first stand-alone ministry of international trade. •Dr. Eric Hoskins will remain minister of health and long-term care and will continue to implement Ontario’s Patients First: Action Plan for Health Care. The minister of health and long-term care will have full carriage of the province’s integrated
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Laughing really does matter. Two Syrian families that have found temporary refuge in Lebanon are currently waiting to come to Ottawa, thanks to the generosity and support of Ottawa residents, including several from Riverside South. To help the refugees rebuild their lives here, a night of comedy is planned for June 26 at Absolute Comedy. While sponsorship is a very serious matter, an evening filled with laughter -- for a good cause -- is a positive addition to the fundraising efforts. “I think that kind of attitude is good,” said Riverside South resident Peter Shand, who is part of a volunteer group known as Riverside South for Refugees. “I know in our group we try to have fun because it’s a lot of work, and people enjoy it.” They are working to bring a Syrian couple here through a private sponsorship with South Gloucester United Church, which is located south of Findlay Creek. Sponsorship application forms were submitted at the end of May, and now the waiting begins and the fundraising continues. “When we hear from Citizenship and Immigration Canada we’ll have some idea. Even then it could be half a year or longer,” Shand said of the couple’s arrival.
The entire process has been an eye-opening experience. “It’s a ton of work and things changed as we went through the paperwork. The rules have changed,” Shand said. “It’s quite a fluid situation.” The Riverside South group is now also working to bring over a mom and her four children with First United Church in Westboro, the Downtown Ottawa Organization for Refugee Settlement to Canada, as well as residents from Hunt Club and Little Italy. The family is originally from Syria, but like the other couple being helped, they fled to Lebanon. GIVING BACK
For Shand, the opportunity to give back drew him and his wife, Jan, to Mayor Jim Watson’s refugee resettlement open house last October. “It’s a time of life kind of decision. I’m working but I’m close to retiring,” Shand said. “I was thinking now it’s time to give back. I was looking for things to do, in my the back of my mind.” The Shands then connected with Gloucester-South Nepean Michael Qaqish, who is the city’s special liaison for refugee resettlement. They also reached out on the Riverside South Community Association’s Facebook page, which has a large and enthusiastic following. Little by little, their group has grown. All of those now involved
with the Riverside South for Refugees core committee came together as strangers, but have embraced working closely with one another. Another 30 people have also been helping spread the words, offer support and donate money. Through their network, they have so far raised $18,000, plus $2,000 in pledges, towards their $75,000 goal to support the two families. “It was truly, truly a grassroots, ad hoc committee,” Shand said. “It was just us reaching out to the community.” In January, he met with other community groups in his quest for more answers about the sponsorship process, and he was asked to help out other refugee families. “We’re actually thinking of doing two more other than the initial (Syrian families),” he said. What began as a initiative in Riverside South has fostered important connections beyond its boundaries. “It really is a citywide effort, I think,” Shand said. Tickets for the comedy fundraiser, which takes place at Absolute Comedy, located at 412 Preston St., must be purchased by June 19. The cost is $25 for a single ticket or $40 for two. For event details and to purchase tickets, email rs4refugees@gmail.com, call Peter Shand at 613-822-9666, or visit the group’s Facebook page at facebook.com/RS4Refugees.
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Monument honours 150 years of Italian immigration to Ottawa Melissa Murray
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A monument honouring Italian immigration to Canada was unveiled during the
city’s Italian Week on June 10 in Piazza Dante, at the corner of Booth Street and Gladstone Avenue. The monument, donated by the city of Montelapiano,
Italy, cleared customs earlier that day, just in time for the ceremony. It commemorates 150 years of immigration to Ottawa, from 1856. Mayor Jim Watson,
thanked his counterpart from Montelapiano, Arturo Scopino, for his generosity and “beautiful gift.” Italian Week
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the links between Italy and Canada. “Italy has not forgotten your generosity, we are very grateful,” Nava told the crowd attending the event that circled the piazza. According to the monument’s inscription, the goal of the piece is to convey the message of “two worlds whose lives, culture and identity are deeply intertwined.”
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Faces of the first air war the focus at Canadian War Museum Melissa Murray
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After more than two years of work, a new exhibit, called Deadly Skies – Air War 19141918, opened at the Canadian War Museum on June 10. It encompasses the stories of nine people who fought in the war, including Eric Ohman, a Canadian pilot who routinely flew in combat patrols and escorted observation planes. Ohman’s daughter, Audrey Ohman Southward, attended a preview of the exhibit and spoke about her father, who died at age 65 when she was 19. “He didn’t go on about the war too much,” Ohman Southward said. But what he did talk about was his friends and the camaraderie among those fighting in the war. Ohman’s goggles and other possessions are displayed, alongside about 80 artifacts. “He spoke of the joys of flying, the noises and wonderful sights,” she said. He
also spoke about his training and how he learned to fly with his teacher kicking the back of his seat in the plane, telling him to go right or left, up or down. “It was very primitive, but it worked,” she said. Ohman crashed during training and his face was injured. More than once, he arrived back from a mission to find he was listed as missing in action and his belongings were neatly packaged with a label – “deceased officer’s kit.” Near the end of the war, he was shot down again, but was able to land his plane in Lille, France. He was the first Allied airman to arrive there and was given keys to the city by the mayor. “He was a lovely, outgoing and friendly man, but he found death very sad – it was hard on him,” Ohman Southward said of her father. Long after his death, she found 200 letters he wrote from overseas to his family.
After watching a National Film Board documentary, called Aces – A Story of the First Air War, and seeing Ohman featured in the film, Ohman Southward’s husband was inspired to type out those letters and bind them so his children could know their grandfather. The letters offer a more sanitized version of his missions, but his diary provides a clearer picture. “It tells the real story. He didn’t tell his family the horrors until after the war,” Ohman Southward said. When Cathy Newman, a niece of Ohman Southward, read the letters, she was able to see why her grandfather was loved so much. “I even get a little emotional about it. He was such a sweet soul, a musician, an artist and a jewelry designer,” she said, adding he witnessed so much. See INTERACTIVE, page 38
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Audrey Ohman Southward and Gordon Southward stand with an illustration of Ohman Southward’s father Eric Ohman, a Montreal pilot who served during the First World War at the Canadian War Museum on June 9. Ohman’s story is featured in the museum’s new exhibit, called Deadly Skies – Air War, 1914-1918, on until Jan. 29, 2017.
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The Deadly Skies exhibit uses a graphic novel format to tell museum-goers about the experiences of nine different individuals, both civilian and military, on both sides of the conflict.
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“To witness what he saw and to still be so sensitive is a testament to the man he was,” she said. Visitors have the opportunity to explore Ohman’s story through a graphic novel that’s available for purchase from the museum. The pages of the book also line the walls of the exhibit, telling the stories of training, observation, bombings and aerial combat. “The exhibition is not about tactics and technology. Ultimately it’s about the people who fought through the air war in different parts of the world and from both sides of the conflict,” said John Maker, curator of the exhibit. Featured in the exhibit are: • American pilot Marjorie Stinson, • German aerial observer Gunther Pluschow, • French balloonist Maurice Arondel, • Canadian observer James Moses, • German Zeppelin commander Heinrich Mathy, • Canadian bomber pilot Henry Wiser, • the Red Baron – Manfred von Richthofen • English resident Ada May Smith, who experienced a bombing raid at eight years old. The research for the exhibit was done in archives in Canada, the United States, Australia, the U.K., France and Germany. Maker has also been working with the families of those featured, including the Ohmans. “We’re bringing these stories out of the archives, old newspapers and people’s attics and we are now presenting them for the first time in a new and exciting way,” Maker said. But one of the most difficult parts of the entire exhibit was creating the graphic novel – in colour. Maker said researchers had to comb through documents to find colour references to get the illustrations as historically accurate as possible. The exhibit also features interactive elements. Museum-goers can step inside a re-created balloon to try their hand at observation, suit up in a pilot’s gear and test their own flying abilities. Deadly Skies runs to Jan. 29, 2017, and then the museum will convert the show for travel. Maker said he hopes the exhibit can be featured across the country. “There’s already some interest in Europe,” he said. 38 Ottawa South News - Thursday, June 16, 2016
Everything on track for Innovation Centre at Bayview Yards Jennifer McIntosh
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Everything is on track for the opening of the city’s Innovation Centre at Bayview Yards, said Saad Bashir, the city’s director of economic development and Innovation. The city is expected to match the $15 million in provincial funds dedicated to the project, and is hoping to receive news of federal funding for the incubation hub soon. Start-up businesses that can’t afford to lease file space are expected to take advan- The city’s Innovation Centre is expected to open at Bayview Yards this fall, providing tage of the space. space for new businesses that can’t afford to lease space. So far, the city has spent a total of $9.9 million. The bulk of the spending – $8 million – went to the building and the land. The anchor tenant will be Invest Ottawa, which has outgrown its space on Aberdeen Street. City staff presented renderings of the building at 7 Bayview Rd. during the June 7 meeting of the finance and economic development committee. The committee designated the building as a municipal capital facility, which exempts the property from municipal and school taxes. A grand stairwell is to be the central focus. There will also be a 300seat auditorium, a café and a concierge on the ground floor. There Invitation aux portes ouvertes et assemblée will be a digital media lab, a training Invitation from the Eastern Ottawa Resource générale annuelle du Centre des ressources Centre Open House and Annual General room and 18 meeting rooms. de l’Est d’Ottawa The city’s post secondary insti- Meeting tutions – Algonquin College, Car- On Monday, June 27, 2016, The Eastern Le lundi, 27 juin 2016, Le Centre des leton University, University of Ot- Ottawa Resource Centre would like to welcome ressources de l’Est d’Ottawa vous souhaite la bienvenue à notre nouveau siège social. tawa and La Cité collégiale – will be you to our new head office. Stop by after À compter de 13 h, arrêtez nous voir pour represented at the centre. All four 1:00 pm for our Open House and a ribbon nos portes ouvertes. Il y aura une cérémonie schools will be connected with the cutting ceremony at 4:00 pm before we begin d’inauguration à 16 h avant de débuter notre site via rail once LRT is launched. our Annual General Meeting 5:00 pm. assemblée générale annuelle à 17 h. Mayor Jim Watson said the build- Our new address is at the Gloucester Centre, Notre nouvelle adresse est au Centre Gloucester ing will emulate Communitech in 1980 Ogilvie Road, Suite 215. 1980 Ogilvie Road, Suite 215. Renseignez-vous sur notre organisme, ce que Waterloo or MaRS Discovery Dis- Learn about our organization, what we have accomplished and what we are planning for the nous avons accompli et ce que nous prévoyons trict in Toronto. pour l’année prochaine! “It will be a place where one or upcoming year! two entrepreneurs can take something from a dream to the next Shopify,” Watson said. “There’s no more room for incubation space at Invest Ottawa’s current location.” The centre is slated to open in the fall.
City Councillor/Conseiller Municipal River Ward/Quartier Rivière Walkley Road Bridge Work Construction work to complete repairs to the Walkley Road Bridge and Sawmill Creek culvert is expected to recommence by the end of the month and will last until late October. One lane of traffic in each direction will be closed. The remaining work includes replacement of the access link slab to the Transitway towers on the south side of Walkley Road, installation of the new concrete columns under the new access link slabs, rehabilitation of Walkley Road bridge deck, and repairs to the Walkley Road/Sawmill Creek culvert liner. To expedite construction, OC Transpo has agreed that the two transit towers on the south side of Walkley Road will be closed, with a temporary bus stop slightly to the west of the station. New Pedestrian Crossing on Owl Drive The City of Ottawa is unveiling new pedestrian crossings this week and the first one in River Ward will be on Owl Drive at Pigeon Terrace. Owl Drive is home to both Bayview PS and Holy Family School, as well as Owl Park. This new pedestrian crossing is critical and will provide a safer crossing for pedestrians by providing a dedicated location to cross. Pedestrian and Construction Zone Safety During the month of June, the Ottawa Police will be focusing their attention on pedestrian safety as well as construction zones. Between 2010-2014, there were 1,752 reported collisions involving pedestrians, resulting in 36 fatalities and 225 injuries. During the same time period, there were 873 collisions in construction zones, with 1 fatality and 225 injuries as well. Please yield to pedestrians in crosswalks and take note of your speed while in construction zones this summer across Ottawa. Official Name for the Heron Road Bridge On behalf of the Ottawa and District Labour Council, I am sponsoring their application, as the local City Councillor to officially name the Heron Road Bridge. On August 10, 1966, the south-span of the Heron Road Bridge collapsed while under construction, resulting in 9 deaths and 55 injuries. This has remained the most devastating one-day construction accident in the city’s history. As such, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the accident, the City is consulting this month on the proposal to name the bridge, the Heron Road Workers’ Memorial Bridge. Public feedback is being sought and can be sent to namingottawa@ottawa.ca or by calling 613-580-2424 ext 13430. Fire Hydrant Testing Starting this week, the City will start its annual fire hydrant testing. Approximately 2,000 hydrants are scheduled for full-flow testing and mini-flow testing will occur on the remaining 20,000 hydrants. Full-flow testing discharges water at a high rate to verify the hydrant’s flow capacity. Full-flow testing is only required initially to identify flow capacity and then once every 10 years to adequately reassess the hydrant. Mini-flow testing slowly discharges water ensuring it is functional in the event of an emergency.
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There was a time when Dr. Harold Atkins and Jennifer Molson would never have envisioned that one day they’d pass each other in the hallways of the Ottawa Hospital’s General campus, each going about their busy work days. Today, they are colleagues. Atkins is a stem cell transplant physician, while Molson is a research assistant in the Ages Cancer Assessment Clinic. “It’s a wonderful feeling to see her,” Atkins said. In addition to being colleagues, Molson is also Atkins’ patient, and that of Dr. Mark Freedman, a neurologist, senior scientist and direc-
tor of the MS Research Unit at the General campus. Fourteen years ago, Molson became the fifth person to have her diseased immune system stripped away with chemotherapy and then receive a transplant with her own blood stem cells as part of a clinical trial to treat her early, aggressive multiple sclerosis. Less than a year after Atkins performed the transplant in 2002, which gave Molson a brand new immune system, she went from relying on canes, a wheelchair and around-the-clock care at the hospital’s rehabilitation centre to walking down the aisle at her own wedding. REMISSION
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Dr. Mark Freedman, left, Dr. Harold Atkins and Marjorie Bowman, far right, trial coordinator and advanced practice nurse, all of whom are based at the Ottawa Hospital’s General campus, are helping patients, such as Kanata’s Jennifer Molson, who are suffering from early, aggressive multiple sclerosis reclaim their lives. An MRI revealed a devastating MS diagnosis. Her dream of one day working for the RCMP was quickly derailed as her immune system attacked her central nervous system, causing inflammation in her brain. Her condition worsened until she required 24-hour care. Freedman’s and Atkins’ pioneering clinical trial was seen
as her last chance. In 2002, Molson underwent 10 rounds of chemotherapy to wipe out her immune system, followed by the transfusion. “Then we put back blood stem cells, which are like seeds and will grow into a new immune system,” said Atkins, medical director of the regenerative medicine program at
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The long-term study data revealed that for the majority of patients, degeneration had not only been stopped in its tracks, but the inflamed brain
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“When we showed the Ministry of Health the cost of the transplant versus the cost of the medicine, their answer to us was, ‘How many (transplants) can you do?’” Freedman said. “The procedure pays for itself in a year.” The treatment is best suited for the estimated five or six per cent of MS patients who are at high risk of early progression and have not yet suffered irreversible damage. Many others have asked for the procedure, but Freedman said about 90 per cent of cases can be controlled with various effective treatments. As well, the procedure is risky and can result in death, especially for older patients or those with other health problems. “It’s not worth sacrificing your life. You’re not going to do a heart transplant on someone who has mild heart disease that you can manage with a couple of drugs,” Freedman said. Early on in the clinical trial, one patient died of liver failure and another suffered
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’m not interested! Mother almost yelled in Earl’s direction, as he framed the kitchen door crying his eyes out. His nose was spouting blood like a fountain, and covered his shirt, and I could see he had also scraped his knees. He yelled louder, this time adding that Emerson had almost killed him. Again, Mother said, “I’m not interested. And go out and sit on the back stoop. You’re getting blood all over the floor that Audrey just scrubbed.” That’s how Mother dealt with fighting among the boys. Come to her for sympathy or to have her intervene, and they were sent packing. I was more interested in the fights than was Mother. The three brothers were all
MARY COOK Mary Cook’s Memories different sizes, and it had nothing to do with their ages. Emerson, the middle brother, was a whopper. At 12 years of age, stood just under 6-feet tall. Everett was somewhere in the middle, even though he was the oldest of the three. Earl was the youngest, but growing fast, and it looked like he would soon be taller than Everett. So they were a mixed lot. But when it came to fighting, Emerson usually came out on top. I found out that a fight
could start over the simplest disagreement. It often had to do with barn chores. Whose turn it was to milk Ethel, the cow who wouldn’t stand still, and who you could count on kicking over the milk pail at least once every milking. Or whose turn it was to shovel the manure out the back door of the barn. A simple argument would spill over into a dragged out fight at the drop of a hat. The boys also fought over slingshots. Slingshots were everywhere.
They sat on the rail at the back door, and hung from the post at the gate. Always at the ready. There was always a squirrel or mouse to get rid of, or empty tin cans to knock off the back fence. Who owned what sling shot was the cause of many a scrap. Finally, Everett started scratching his initials on the ones he had made. But that didn’t work, because the three brothers had the same initials … and so the fight was on when it came to ownership. The boys never went to Father to settle a fight. His response was completely different from Mother’s. While Mother sent the injured packing, Father would simply find jobs for the three boys to do, and
they were never jobs they particularly enjoyed. Raking up the smoke house ashes was a hateful job, and the three brothers knew perfectly well if Father was asked to settle a fight, he almost always sent the complainer to the smoke house. It would take days to get the smell of smoldering hickory off the offender’s body. Even several dips in the Bonnechere failed to do the job. So going to Father to settle a fight was a last resort. Although I often argued with Emerson, he knew better than to make body contact. Back then boys simply did not hit girls. My sister Audrey and I never fought. I was too
in awe of my much older sister, who I thought was just about the smartest girl in all of Renfrew County. But I was always amazed at Mother, who could be most sympathetic to our woes and concerns, but could simply turn her back on my brothers fighting. Audrey said it was because she never liked to take sides. Audrey said she could be defending the very person who started the fight in the first place. And Audrey said, that in itself, could start another donny-brook. Interested in an electronic version of Mary’s books? Go to https://www.smashwords. com and type MaryRCook for e-book purchase details, or if you would like a hard copy, please contact Mary at wick2@sympatico.ca.
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FLOOR PLAN JUNE 2016 It’s likely the most important investment you’ll ever make. So now that the me has come to purchase your new home, you want to make sure you get it right. With so many choices on the market today, though, it’s difficult to know how to get started on turning your dream into a reality. There are so many components in your plan to consider: would you like to live in the city, the suburbs or maybe the country? Of course there are the financial considera ons, how much are you willing and able to spend? What type of home are you looking for, a large single family dwelling with plenty of greenspace or a townhome that might require a li le less maintenance? Or perhaps a condominium is more to your liking? Here in O awa, the possibili es are extensive. So many of Canada’s top home builders operate in the na onal capital region, offering a wide array of housing styles designed to meet the needs of today’s busy families. And Metroland Media is pleased to bring you closer to these awardwinning builders through our monthly supplement, Floor Plan 2016. In this fourth edi on, appearing in your weekly community newspaper, read about some of the exci ng new home designs that are available to you, the services being offered as well as more informa on on the latest innova ons.
A glance at HOME PRICES ACROSS CANADA (NC) With much a en on to home prices these days, property owners are increasingly curious about the value of their homes. According to the Royal LePage House Price Survey, Canada’s residen al real estate market showed strong year-over-year price increases in the first quarter of 2016. The Greater Vancouver and Greater Toronto Area (GTA) real estate markets con nue to lead the country in home price apprecia on while Quebec shows promising signs of renewal, par cularly in the Greater Montreal Area. The median price of a home in Canada increased 7.9 per cent year-over-year to $512,621 in the first quarter of 2016. The price of a two-storey home rose 9.2 per cent year-over-year to $629,177, and the price of a bungalow increased 6.8 per cent to $426,216. During the same period, the price of a condominium increased 4.0 per cent to $344,491. “A glance at our na onal House Price Composite points to a very strong Canadian real estate market, yet the findings contain extreme regional dispari es of the kind we haven’t seen in over a decade,” said Phil Soper, president and CEO, Royal LePage. “Like an economic triumvirate, the impact of rock-bo om interest rates, the low Canadian dollar and a rapidly
expanding U.S. workforce are s mula ng economic growth and housing demand in our largest metropolitan areas. Conversely in ci es like Calgary, the ongoing
drags in depressed energy prices and worrisome employment trends have taken a material bite out of sales volumes.” To view the chart with
aggregated regions and markets visit royallepage.ca/houseprices. This site provides historical house price data as well. newscanada.com
Doing your homework is key to purchasing the new home that’s right for you. We’re pleased to provide this special sec on to help make that process just a li le easier. And look for more ideas in our next Floor Plan supplement inside your Metroland newspaper Thursday, August 18.
Helpful tips for NEW HOME OWNERS
Ryland Coyne Editor-in-Chief Metroland Media East
(NC) It may have seemed like it took forever for your new home to be complete, but moving day has arrived at last. Even so, there are countless things to do before you get settled so here are some tips to make the process a smooth one:
Vice-President & Regional Publisher Peter Bishop Editor-in-Chief Ryland Coyne Managing Editor Theresa Fritz Director of Advertising Cheryl Hammond General Manager Mike Tracy New Homes Account Specialist Geoff Hamilton 613-282-6834
Read up on the warranty Almost every new home built in Ontario comes with warranty coverage that is provided by the builder and backed by Tarion. In addition to deposit coverage and delayed closing compensation, there are also three separate warranties on new homes. Together, they last up to seven years and include defects in workmanship, violations to the Ontario Building Code, defects in electrical, plumbing and heating systems, and coverage for major structural defects. Your builder should be providing you with a Homeowner Information Package before you take possession with detailed information about the warranty. It is also available at tarion.com.
Inspect your new home carefully Before you move in, your builder is required to take you through a Pre-Delivery Inspection, also known as a PDI. Look for any items that are incomplete, damaged, missing, or not operating properly and make sure your builder notes them on the PDI form. Take pictures of any damaged or incomplete items. If necessary, those photos can be submitted to Tarion – the administrator of Ontario’s new home warranty program – at a later date.
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Maintain your new home In order to keep your home in good shape for the long run and to maintain your warranty rights, be sure to perform the needed maintenance year-round. There is a comprehensive checklist of seasonal home maintenance tasks on the Tarion site, and remember: ongoing maintenance helps to ensure that your statutory warranty is protected.
Wait to make renovations and repairs Since your new home is under warranty, it’s your builder’s responsibility to take care of any defects that you identify – and in fact, renovating a new home can actually jeopardize your warranty rights. Additional information on your new home warranty is available at Tarion.com newscanada.com
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RUSSELL TRAILS in Russell Looking for modern living in a small town atmosphere only minutes from the city? Russell has plenty of charm and the services and businesses needed for everyday living. Only a short commute to KƩĂǁĂ Žƌ 'ĂƟŶĞĂƵ͕ ZƵƐƐĞůů ŝƐ adjacent to Highway 417 with ƐĐŚŽŽůƐ͕ ƐŚŽƉƉŝŶŐ͕ ƐĞƌǀŝĐĞ ĐůƵďƐ͕ ƐƉŽƌƚ ĂƐƐŽĐŝĂƟŽŶƐ ĂŶĚ Ă rich agricultural heritage. Tartan Homes is proud to be ĐƌĞĂƟŶŐ Ă ŶĞǁ ŶĞŝŐŚďŽƵƌŚŽŽĚ that maintains the cultural heritage of the community. ZƵƐƐĞůů dƌĂŝůƐ ŽīĞƌƐ ϮͲƐƚŽƌĞLJ ƐŝŶŐůĞ ĨĂŵŝůLJ ŚŽŵĞ ŇŽŽƌƉůĂŶƐ and brand new bungalow ŇŽŽƌƉůĂŶƐ ʹ Ăůů ŽŶ ϱϬ͛ůŽƚƐ ʹ ĂƐ ǁĞůů ĂƐ Ăůů ŶĞǁ ƐĞŵŝͲĚĞƚĂĐŚĞĚ bungalows. :ƵƐƚ ĞĂƐƚ ŽĨ KƩĂǁĂ͕ ZƵƐƐĞůů ŝƐ ƐƚĞĞƉĞĚ ŝŶ ƌƵƌĂů ŇĂǀŽƵƌ͘ ZƵƐƐĞůů dƌĂŝůƐ ŽīĞƌƐ ƚŚĞ ƐĞƌĞŶŝƚLJ ŽĨ small town living with the best in Tartan quality homes. Tartan homes in Russell Trails feature ϵ͛ ƐŵŽŽƚŚ ĮŶŝƐŚ ĐĞŝůŝŶŐƐ ŽŶ ƚŚĞ ŵĂŝŶ ŇŽŽƌ͕ ĨŽƌ ďƌŝŐŚƚĞƌ ƌŽŽŵƐ and a more spacious and classic look. All Tartan homes have ůĂƌŐĞƌ ǁŝŶĚŽǁƐ ŽŶ Ăůů ůĞǀĞůƐ͕ increasing natural light to save ĞůĞĐƚƌŝĐŝƚLJ ĂŶĚ ƚŽ ĐƌĞĂƚĞ Ă ǁĂƌŵ͕ natural interior environment. Russell Trails features ůŽĐĂůůLJͲĐƌĂŌĞĚ ŬŝƚĐŚĞŶƐ ĨĞĂƚƵƌĞ ŽǀĞƌƐŝnjĞĚ ŝƐůĂŶĚƐ͕ ϰϬ͟ ƵƉƉĞƌƐ ĐĂďŝŶĞƚƐ͕ Ă ďƵŝůƚͲŝŶ ĨƌŝĚŐĞ ůŽŽŬ͕ ƐŽŌͲĐůŽƐĞ ĚƌĂǁĞƌƐ ĂŶĚ ĨĞĂƚƵƌĞƐ ƵŶŚĞĂƌĚ ŽĨ ŝŶ ĐŽŶǀĞŶƟŽŶĂů home designs. Basements are ǁĂƌŵĞƌ͕ ĚƌŝĞƌ ĂŶĚ ďƌŝŐŚƚĞƌ ƚŚĂŶŬƐ ƚŽ ZϭϬ ĨŽĂŵ ďŽĂƌĚ ŝŶƐƵůĂƟŽŶ ƵŶĚĞƌ ƚŚĞ ŇŽŽƌ ĂŶĚ oversized windows. zŽƵ ĮŶĚ ƐƉĂĐĞ ĨŽƌ ĞǀĞƌLJƚŚŝŶŐ ŝŶ Ă dĂƌƚĂŶ ŚŽŵĞ͕ ǁŝƚŚ ŵŽƌĞ ƐƚŽƌĂŐĞ ĂŶĚ ŝŶŶŽǀĂƟǀĞ ƵƐĞ ŽĨ ƐƉĂĐĞ͘ tĂůŬͲŝŶ ĐůŽƐĞƚƐ͕ ǁĞůůͲ designed mudrooms and laundry rooms mean you will have room to keep everything in its place. All Tartan homes are built to meet the rigorous most current E Z'z ^d ZΠ ƐƚĂŶĚĂƌĚ ĨŽƌ ĞŶĞƌŐLJ ĞĸĐŝĞŶƚ ŶĞǁ ŚŽŵĞƐ͘ /Ŷ ĨĂĐƚ͕ Ăůů ŵƵƐƚ ƉĂƐƐ Ă ϭϯͲƉŽŝŶƚ ŝŶƐƉĞĐƟŽŶ ĂŶĚ ĂŝƌƟŐŚƚŶĞƐƐ ƚĞƐƚ conducted by an accredited E Z'z ^d ZΠ ĂƵĚŝƚŽƌ͘ dĂƌƚĂŶ ŚĂƐ ďĞĞŶ ďƵŝůĚŝŶŐ E Z'z ^d ZΠ ƋƵĂůŝĮĞĚ ĐŽŵŵƵŶŝƟĞƐ longer than any builder in Canada. &ĞĂƚƵƌŝŶŐ ĐƌĂŌƐŵĂŶ ŝŶƐƉŝƌĞĚ ĞdžƚĞƌŝŽƌƐ͕ ZƵƐƐĞůů dƌĂŝůƐ ŝƐ ĂĨͲ fordable luxury living with qualͲ ŝƚLJ ĐŽŶƐƚƌƵĐƟŽŶ ƚŚƌŽƵŐŚŽƵƚ ĂŶĚ ǁĞůůͲĚĞƐŝŐŶĞĚ ůŽƚƐ͘ Model homes now on sale ŝŶĐůƵĚĞ ƚŚĞ Z/' h ƐƚĂƌƟŶŐ Ăƚ Ψϯϵϴ͕ϵϬϬ͘ dŚŝƐ Ϯ͕Ϭϴϯ ƐƋ͘ Ō͘ home has 4 bedrooms and a ĨƵŶĐƟŽŶĂů ŐŽƵƌŵĞƚ ŬŝƚĐŚĞŶ ǁŝƚŚ ĞĂƟŶŐ ďĂƌ ŽǀĞƌůŽŽŬŝŶŐ Ă breakfast area and entertainͲ ment sized great room with ĐĞŶƚƌĂů ĮƌĞƉůĂĐĞ͘ dŚĞ Z/' h ŚĂƐ Ă ƐĞƉĂƌĂƚĞ ĚŝŶŝŶŐ ƌŽŽŵ͕ convenient laundry/mudroom that leads to oversized garage. The large master bedroom has a
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Take a panoramic view WHEN BUYING A NEW HOME
(NC) As you choose your next place to live it’s important to see what is going on around you. You may be concentrating on selecting the perfect floor plan, the right finishes and whether or not to purchase upgrades, but today, new neighbourhoods offer so much more than just a house or condominium to go home to. Many communities are built with a very specific buyer in mind and can come with special conveniences or facilities. For example, a development catering to young families might have a brand new school, parks, or even a new community centre with a swimming pool. It may appear that these extras are the choice of the developer, but in fact, the municipality usually makes them a condition of approval. So the perfect neighbourhood for you and your family may be breaking ground right now. Some of the important questions to get answered beyond floor plans, like how long you may have to wait to enjoy it all, include:
What isn’t part of the picture?
One thing not normally included in a builder’s model of a new community is the parking bylaws. The local municipality office will have information about this for your street and the streets around you. This is important if the availability of street parking is important to you. Your local and provincial levels of government will also have more information on what will be built around you. The municipality signs off on any future development plans for the community so you will be able to see if there is intensification planning in anticipation of population growth. This could mean the green spaces around you now may be developed into more houses or condominiums, schools, or commercial buildings.
How long do I have to wait?
For condominium living, new construction projects may be
sold with plans for indoor or outdoor pools, a lounge, and perhaps a putting green or tennis court. However, you may have to wait some time before everything is completed. In fact, you may be living in a construction zone when you first move in. Under Ontario’s new home warranty program, there is compensation for delays when it comes to your unit, but there is no warranty protection for delays in the completion of the common elements. So although your condominium unit may be ready, the common elements such as the lobby, hallways and any other amenities like a gym or pool room may still be under construction for a period of time after you take possession of your unit. Another important part of the new home buying process is the warranty protection that is provided by your builder and backed by Tarion. If you’re in the market for a brand new home read up on the warranty protection at Tarion.com. newscanada.com
“JOLT PINK” bearded carnation a great summer flower Name:
“Jolt Pink” bearded carna on
Latin name: Dianthus barbatus “Jolt Pink”
Family: Caryophyllaceae
Possible colours: Pink
Height: 40 to 50 cm
Spread: 30-35 cm
Exposure: Sun
Planting: Rich, cool, well-drained soil Submi ed Flowering: The “Jolt Pink” bearded carnation impresses with its big pink flowers throughout the summer. From June to September 6 Floor Plan East Edition - Thursday, June 16, 2016
Specific maintenance and care
Producers have already won several awards for this variety because it is the most drought-tolerant cul var currently available on the market. To prolong flowering, which is con nuous throughout the summer, remove dead flowers; the results will surprise you. Ideally, this carna on should be grown in cool, welldrained soil, but it can tolerate many soil types, from clayey to sandy. Various tests have also found that this flower con nues to bloom well even when the weather turns cool in early fall.
Interesting fact
This compact, durable carna on with a contemporary look has many advantages: it a racts pollinators, especially bu erflies; its flowers are edible and their pink colour adds a beau ful, decora ve touch to your dishes; it looks great in container arrangements as well as flower beds; and it produces big pink flowers on strong stems.
BUILT WITH PRIDE…. a Longwood tradition For over 25 Years Longwood has been building some of the most successful family and Adult Lifestyle Communities in the Ottawa Region.
Current Developments include; Deevys Homestead- a Community of Adult Lifestyle Bungalow Townhomes located in the established Neighbourhood of Bridlewood, Kanata, Richmond Gate – Adult Lifestyle Bungalow Townhomes located in The Heart of the Village of Richmond, Mondavi Court – An Enclave of Townhomes and semi-detached homes on a Cul-de-sac in Orleans next to Parks
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and recreation and Morris Village – single family homes in the Family Friendly Neighbourhood of Rockland. New home designs are carefully planned and drawn to meet the needs of all lifestyles, from singles buying their first home to professional couples looking to downsize from a large home. Longwood excels at knowing their buyers and giving them the home they desire.
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“MANNEQUIN BLUE MOUNTAIN”
mealy sage is low maintenance in garden Specific maintenance and care
Name:
“Mannequin Blue Mountain” mealy sage
Latin name:
This is a wonderful plant for people who don’t have much me to devote to their yards. Except for watering on hot days, this sage needs hardly any maintenance at all, especially if it’s grown in containers. Flowering is excellent from early summer un l the first frost, as long as it’s planted in cool, well-drained soil. This plant is an eye-catching addi on to any flower bed with its spectacular appearance and large, showy flowers.
Salvia farinacea “Mannequin Blue Mountain”
Family: Lablacées
Possible colours: Blue-violet with a touch of white
Height: 50 cm
Spread:
Interesting fact
50 cm
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“Mannequin” mealy sage was developed by an American company that is well-known for gene c research and the crea on of unique and spectacular plants. Experts agree that this new cul var will be extremely popular with gardening fans because of its prolonged flowering and minimal maintenance requirements..
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Planting: Cool, well-drained soil
Flowering: From June to September
Try no-cost and Keep your low-cost cooling HOME SAFE tips in your home (NC) Your bags are packed, the car is loaded and your tickets are in hand. You’re finally ready for that relaxing summer getaway you’ve been anticipating all year – or so you think.
(NC) A lot of money is spent on the energy needs of our lifestyles, but did you know that Ontarians spend the majority of their energy dollars controlling the temperature of their home? In the summer, this means keeping it cool, so before cranking up the air conditioning, try a few alternatives first. Even if you’re using air conditioning, you’ll use less and that will lower your electricity use. Here are some helpful guidelines from Hydro One:
Draw the curtains on heat - In the morning, open
windows to let cool air in. Then close them, and draw your blinds or drapes during the day. Your home will retain much of the cool morning air.
Let fans move the air - Ceiling fans help cool down your
home. They don’t use much electricity and can help reduce the need for air conditioning. Make sure ceiling fans blow air downwards in summer.
Cool down your menus too - One of the easiest things
you can do to conserve energy and keep your house cool is to avoid using appliances that heat up the home. In the summer, use the barbecue and include more cold foods and salads in your menu. Try not to use major appliances in the middle of the day.
The real problem may be humidity - Humid homes feel hotter. Use exhaust fans in kitchens, bathrooms and laundry areas to expel the air directly outside (not into walls or attics). Avoid air-drying clothes in the home and don’t store firewood inside. Check around the house - Examine the caulking and
weather stripping around your windows and doors. People tend to think this is a winter preparation, but it is just as useful in the summer to ensure that you keep the cool air in. If you have a window air conditioning unit, clean or replace the filter monthly. Dirty filters may restrict air flow and reduce efficiency.
Turn it off - Lights, appliances and home electronics use a lot of
power and give off heat. During the summer, it’s more important than ever to turn them off when you aren’t using them. You’ll save energy twice. Additional tips are available at www.HydroOne.com/SaveEnergy. newscanada.com
8 Floor Plan East Edition - Thursday, June 16, 2016
In the last minute hustle and bustle of planning for vacation, many Canadians leave their homes without planning for their proper protection. Empty houses are attractive targets for breakins, which is a real threat for homeowners.
“Planning ahead is essential to ensure that you don’t return home to unfortunate surprises,” says Glenn Cooper from Aviva Canada. “The key is to take a few simple steps to make it look like you haven’t left at all.” Cooper suggests these five tips the next time you travel:
1. Keep it to yourself: Posting holiday
plans and live updates on social networks such as Facebook, Twitter or Instagram could alert potential thieves of your empty house. Keep the details of your vacation plans off social media and save the sharing for when you return home.
2. Get a house-sitter: Arrange
for a house-sitter while you are gone, or ask a neighbour that you trust to check-in daily. Give this person the key to your house, but don’t hide it around your home where it could be found by a potential burglar, especially not under the flower pot or door mat!
“Planning ahead is essential to ensure that you don’t return home to unfortunate surprises,” says Glenn Cooper from Aviva Canada. “The key is to take a few simple steps to make it look like you haven’t left at all.”
3. Set timers: Program the lights in different rooms of your home to switch on intermittently.
4. Make arrangements for newspaper and mail: Piled up mail or newspapers on your doorstep are an obvious sign that you are out of town. You can cancel, temporarily divert deliveries, or ask your neighbours to pick them up for you.
5. Maintain your yard: An overgrown yard
could be a telling sign that your home is empty. Arrange to have your lawn mowed and your grass watered while you’re away. With these tips in mind, you can concentrate on enjoying your summer escape and coming back to your home revitalized. More information is available from your insurance broker. newscanada.com
QUALITY AND VALUES keeps PHOENIX HOMES rising KƩĂǁĂ ŝƐ Ă ĚŝǀĞƌƐĞ͕ ůĞĂĚŝŶŐͲĞĚŐĞ ĐŝƚLJ ǁŝƚŚ ǁŽƌůĚ ĐůĂƐƐ ĂŵĞŶŝƟĞƐ͘ ŶĚ LJĞƚ͕ ŝƚ ŝƐ ĐŽŶƐŝĚĞƌĞĚ ƚŽ ďĞ Ă ůĂƌŐĞ ͞ƐŵĂůů ƚŽǁŶ͟ ďLJ ƚŚŽƐĞ ǁŚŽ ĐĂůů ŝƚ ŚŽŵĞ͘ dŚĞ ƌĞĂƐŽŶ ŝƐ ƐŝŵƉůĞ͘ YƵĂůŝƚLJ ŚŽŵĞ ďƵŝůĚĞƌƐ ůŝŬĞ WŚŽĞŶŝdž ,ŽŵĞƐ ŚĂǀĞ ďƵŝůƚ ĐŽŵŵƵŶŝƟĞƐ ƚŚĂƚ ƌĞŇĞĐƚ Ă ƌĞůĂdžĞĚ ůŝĨĞƐƚLJůĞ ŶĞƐƚůĞĚ ŝŶ ŶĂƚƵƌĞ͕ ǁŚŝůĞ ŽŶůLJ ŵŝŶƵƚĞƐ ĨƌŽŵ ƚŚĞ ƉƵůƐĞ ŽĨ ƚŚĞ ŶĂƟŽŶ͛Ɛ ĐĂƉŝƚĂů͘ EŽ ŵĂƩĞƌ ǁŚĂƚ ĂƌĞĂ ŽĨ ƚŚĞ ĐŝƚLJ LJŽƵ ƉƌĞĨĞƌ͕ WŚŽĞŶŝdž ,ŽŵĞƐ ŚĂƐ ƚŚĞ ŚŝŐŚĞƐƚ ƋƵĂůŝƚLJ͕ ĞŶĞƌŐLJ ĞĸĐŝĞŶƚ ĂŶĚ ĞŶǀŝƌŽŶŵĞŶƚĂůůLJ ĨƌŝĞŶĚůLJ͕ ďĞƐƚ ǀĂůƵĞ ŚŽŵĞ ĂǀĂŝůĂďůĞ ŝŶ LJŽƵƌ ƉƌŝĐĞ ƌĂŶŐĞ͘ ͞tĞ ŚĂǀĞ Ă ŚƵŐĞ ƐĞůĞĐƟŽŶ ŽĨ ǁĞůůͲƚŚŽƵŐŚƚ ŽƵƚ ŇŽŽƌ ƉůĂŶƐ ĨŽƌ ĞǀĞƌLJ ƐƚLJůĞ ŽĨ ůŝǀŝŶŐ ŝŶ ĚŝǀĞƌƐĞ ĐŽŵŵƵŶŝƟĞƐ ƌŝŐŚƚ ĂĐƌŽƐƐ ƚŚĞ ĐĂƉŝƚĂů ƌĞŐŝŽŶ͕͟ ƐĂLJƐ ZĂŚƵů <ŽĐŚĂƌ͕ sŝĐĞ WƌĞƐŝĚĞŶƚ ͞^ƵĐŚ Ă ŵĂƐƐŝǀĞ ǀĂƌŝĞƚLJ ŽĨ ƉƌŽĚƵĐƚƐ͕ ďƵLJĞƌƐ ĂƌĞ ƐƉŽŝůĞĚ ĨŽƌ ƐĞůĞĐƟŽŶ ǁŝƚŚ ƐŽ ŵĂŶLJ ŽƉƟŽŶƐ͘͟ ,ŽŵĞƐ ĂƌĞ ĨƵŶĐƟŽŶĂů ĂŶĚ ĐŽŵĨŽƌƚĂďůĞ͕ ŶŽ ŵĂƩĞƌ ǁŚĂƚ ƉƌŝĐĞ ƌĂŶŐĞ Žƌ ůŽĐĂƟŽŶ͘ tŚĞŶ ŝƚ ĐŽŵĞƐ ƚŽ ŐĞƫŶŐ ƚŚĞ ŵŽƐƚ ŽƵƚ LJŽƵƌ ŚŽŵĞ ŝŶǀĞƐƚŵĞŶƚ͕ WŚŽĞŶŝdž ŝƐ ƚŚĞ ůĞĂĚĞƌ͘ ͞tĞ ŚĂǀĞ ŵĂĚĞ ŝƚ Ă ƉŽŝŶƚ ƚŽ ĞŶƐƵƌĞ ƚŚĂƚ ǁĞ ĂƌĞ ƚŚĞ ďĞƐƚ ǀĂůƵĞ ŝŶ ĂŶLJ ĂƌĞĂ͕ ĐŽŵƉĂƌĞĚ ƚŽ ĐŽŵƉĞƟƟŽŶ͘ 'ĞŶĞƌĂůůLJ ƐƉĞĂŬŝŶŐ͕ ǁĞ ĂƌĞ ŽŶĞ ƐƚĞƉ ĂŚĞĂĚ ŽĨ ƚŚĞ ĐŽŵƉĞƟƟŽŶ ʹ ƋƵĂůŝƚLJ ĮŶŝƐŚŝŶŐ͕ ďŽŶƵƐĞƐ͕ ĂŶĚ ƵƉŐƌĂĚĞƐ͘ tŚĞŶ LJŽƵ ĚŽ ƚŚĞ ŵĂƚŚ͕ LJŽƵ ǁŝůů ĂůǁĂLJƐ ĮŶĚ ƚŚĂƚ ǁĞ͛ƌĞ ĂŚĞĂĚ͘͟ WŚŽĞŶŝdž ,ŽŵĞƐ ŚĂƐ KƩĂǁĂ ĐŽǀĞƌĞĚ ŝŶ Ăůů ĚŝƌĞĐƟŽŶƐ͘ tĂŶƚ ƚŽ ďĞ ŝŶ ƚŚĞ ǁĞƐƚ ŶĞĂƌ ƚŚĞ ĨĂƐƚͲƉĂĐĞĚ ŚŝŐŚͲ ƚĞĐŚ ďƵƐŝŶĞƐƐ ĐŽŵŵƵŶŝƚLJ͍ &ĞƌŶďĂŶŬ ƌŽƐƐŝŶŐ ŝƐ <ĂŶĂƚĂ͛Ɛ ŵŽƐƚ ƉƌŽŐƌĞƐƐŝǀĞ ŶĞǁ ĐŽŵŵƵŶŝƚLJ͘ tŝƚŚ ƚǁŽ ŶĞŝŐŚďŽƵƌŚŽŽĚƐ͕ &ĞƌŶďĂŶŬ ƌŽƐƐŝŶŐ ĨĞĂƚƵƌĞƐ ƐŝŶŐůĞͲ ĨĂŵŝůLJ ďƵŶŐĂůŽǁƐ ǁŚŝůĞ dĞƌƌĂ &ůĂƚƐ Ăƚ &ĞƌŶďĂŶŬ ƌŽƐƐŝŶŐ ƉƌĞƐĞŶƚƐ ǀĂůƵĞͲŵŝŶĚĞĚ ĐŽŶĚŽƐ͘ ^ŽƵƚŚĞƌŶ ŽƉĞŶ ƐƉĂĐĞƐ ďĞĐŬŽŶ ŝŶ &ĞůƚŽŶ ŽƵƌƚ͕ ĂƌƌŚĂǀĞŶ͘ dŚĞƐĞ Ϯ ĂŶĚ ϯ ƐƚŽƌĞLJ ƚŽǁŶŚŽŵĞƐ ŚĂǀĞ Ăůů ŽĨ ƚŚĞ ĨĞĂƚƵƌĞƐ LJŽƵ ĐŽƵůĚ ĂƐŬ ĨŽƌ ǁŝƚŚ Ă ůŽĐĂƟŽŶ ƚŚĂƚ ŝƐ ŚĂƌĚ ƚŽ ďĞĂƚ͘ dŚŝƐ ƐŝƚĞ ŝƐ ǁĞůů ƵŶĚĞƌ ĐŽŶƐƚƌƵĐƟŽŶ ƐŽ ŵŽǀĞ ĨĂƐƚ ďĞĨŽƌĞ ƚŚĞLJ ƐĞůů ŽƵƚ͘ &ƌŽŵ ƚŚĞ ĞĂƐƚ͕ ,ŝůůƐŝĚĞ sŝƐƚĂ dŽǁŶŚŽŵĞƐ ŝŶ KƌůĠĂŶƐ ŝƐ ĂŶ ĂīŽƌĚĂďůĞ ǁĂLJ ƚŽ ŽǁŶ LJŽƵƌ ĨƵƚƵƌĞ ŶŽǁ͕ ǁŝƚŚ ĂŵĂnjŝŶŐ ĞdžĞĐƵƟǀĞ ϯ ƐƚŽƌĞLJ ƚŽǁŶŚŽŵĞƐ ĂǀĂŝůĂďůĞ ŶŽǁ͘ tŝƚŚ ďĞĂƵƟĨƵů ǀŝĞǁƐ ŽĨ ƚŚĞ 'ĂƟŶĞĂƵ ,ŝůůƐ͕ ,ŝůůƐŝĚĞ sŝƐƚĂ ǁŝůů ĂůƐŽ ŽīĞƌ ƚŚĞ ƉŽƉƵůĂƌ ůŽǁͲƌŝƐĞ dĞƌƌĂ &ůĂƚ ĐŽŶĚŽƐ͕ ĚƵĞ ƚŽ ďĞ ƌĞůĞĂƐĞĚ ƐŚŽƌƚůLJ͘ >ŽŽŬŝŶŐ ĨĂƌƚŚĞƌ ĨƌŽŵ
ƚŚĞ ƌƵƐŚ ĂŶĚ ďƵƐƚůĞ͍ &ŝŶĚ LJŽƵƌ ƉĞƌƐŽŶĂů ƉĂƌĂĚŝƐĞ ŝŶ tŚŝƚĞ dĂŝů ZŝĚŐĞ ŝŶ ůŵŽŶƚĞ Žƌ ^ŚĂĚŽǁ ZŝĚŐĞ ŝŶ 'ƌĞĞůLJ͘ ŽƚŚ ƐŝƚĞƐ ĨĞĂƚƵƌĞ ǀĞƌLJ ůĂƌŐĞ͕ ĨƵůůLJ ƐĞƌǀŝĐĞĚ ƉƌŽƉĞƌƟĞƐ ǁŝƚŚ ĂƌĐŚŝƚĞĐƚƵƌĂů ƐƚLJůĞƐ ƌĞŵŝŶŝƐĐĞŶƚ ŽĨ ĐŽƵŶƚƌLJ ůŝǀŝŶŐ͘ WĂƚŚǁĂLJƐ Ăƚ &ŝŶĚůĂLJ ƌĞĞŬ ŝƐ ǁŚĞƌĞ ǀĂůƵĞ ŵĞĞƚƐ ĐŽŶǀĞŶŝĞŶĐĞ ǁŝƚŚ ϯϱ ĂŶĚ ϱϬͲĨŽŽƚ ƐŝŶŐůĞ ĨĂŵŝůLJ ŚŽŵĞ ůŽƚƐ͕ ĞdžĞĐƵƟǀĞ ƵƌďĂŶ ĐŽŶĚŽƐ ĂŶĚ ƐƚLJůŝƐŚ ƚŽǁŶŚŽŵĞƐ͘ Ŷ ŝĚĞĂů ůŽĐĂƟŽŶ ĨŽƌ ĨĂŵŝůŝĞƐ͕ WĂƚŚǁĂLJƐ Ăƚ &ŝŶĚůĂLJ ƌĞĞŬ ŝƐ Ă ǀŝďƌĂŶƚ ĐŽŵŵƵŶŝƚLJ ǁŝƚŚ Ăůů ƚŚĞ ĂŵĞŶŝƟĞƐ͕ ŽŶůLJ Ă ƐŚŽƌƚ ĐŽŵŵƵƚĞ ƚŽ ĚŽǁŶƚŽǁŶ͘ dŚŝƐ ĐŽŵŵƵŶŝƚLJ ǁŝůů ďĞ ůĂƵŶĐŚŝŶŐ ůĂƚĞƌ ƚŚŝƐ ƐƵŵŵĞƌ ĂŶĚ ŝƐ ƐƵƌĞ ƚŽ ƐĞůů ŽƵƚ ĨĂƐƚ͘ WŚŽĞŶŝdž ,ŽŵĞƐ ŝƐ ĂůƐŽ ƉƌŽƵĚ ƚŽ ŽīĞƌ ƐƉĂĐŝŽƵƐ ĞƐƚĂƚĞƐ ŝŶ ĂƌƉ Ăƚ ŝĂŵŽŶĚ sŝĞǁ ƐƚĂƚĞƐ͘ EĞƐƚůĞĚ Ăƚ ƚŚĞ ŝŶƚĞƌƐĞĐƟŽŶ ŽĨ DĂƌĐŚ ZŽĂĚ ĂŶĚ ŝĂŵŽŶĚ sŝĞǁ ZŽĂĚ͕ ŝĂŵŽŶĚ sŝĞǁ ƐƚĂƚĞƐ ĨĞĂƚƵƌĞƐ ǁŝĚĞ͕ ϱϬ ĂŶĚ ϲϬ ĨŽŽƚ ůŽƚƐ ǁŝƚŚ ƉŝĐƚƵƌĞƐƋƵĞ ĐŽƵŶƚƌLJ ůĂŶĚƐĐĂƉĞƐ͕ ĂŶĚ ĞĂƐLJ ĂĐĐĞƐƐ ƚŽ ƚŚĞ ĐŝƚLJ͘ KŶůLJ ŵŝŶƵƚĞƐ ĨƌŽŵ <ĂŶĂƚĂ͛Ɛ ďƵƐƚůŝŶŐ ŚŝŐŚͲƚĞĐŚ ďƵƐŝŶĞƐƐ ƉĂƌŬ ĂŶĚ ƚŚĞ ƌŽŽŬƐƚƌĞĞƚ ,ŽƚĞů͕ ƚŚĞ dĂŶŐĞƌ KƵƚůĞƚ ƐŚŽƉƉŝŶŐ ĐĞŶƚƌĞ͕ Žƌ <ĂŶĂƚĂ ĞŶƚƌƵŵ ǁŝƚŚ ŽǀĞƌ ϳϱ ďƵƐŝŶĞƐƐĞƐ ŝŶĐůƵĚŝŶŐ ďĂŶŬƐ͕ ĚŽĐƚŽƌ͛Ɛ ŽĸĐĞƐ͕ ƐĂůŽŶƐ͕ ŬƐƚŽƌĞƐ͕ ĐůŽƚŚŝŶŐ ĂŶĚ ƐƉŽƌƚƐ ƌĞƚĂŝůĞƌƐ͕ ŵŽǀŝĞ ƚŚĞĂƚƌĞƐ͕ ƌĞƐƚĂƵƌĂŶƚƐ͕ ŝĂŵŽŶĚ sŝĞǁ ƐƚĂƚĞƐ ǁŝůů ďĞ ƚŚĞ ƉƌŝĚĞ ŽĨ ƚŚĞ ĐŽŵŵƵŶŝƚLJ Ăƚ ƉƌŝĐĞƐ ǁĞůů ďĞůŽǁ ĐŽŵƉĂƌĂďůĞ ƉƌŽƉĞƌƚLJ ŝŶ ƚŚĞ ĐŝƚLJ͘ ǀĂŝůĂďůĞ ĨŽƌ ƉƵƌĐŚĂƐĞ ƚŚŝƐ ƐƵŵŵĞƌ ĂŶĚ ĐŽŵƉůĞƚĞĚ ďLJ ƐƉƌŝŶŐ ϮϬϭϳ͕ WŚŽĞŶŝdž ƋƵĂůŝƚLJ ŚŽŵĞ ĐŽŶƐƚƌƵĐƟŽŶ ǁŝůů ĨĞĂƚƵƌĞ ƚǁŽ ĂŶĚ ƚŚƌĞĞͲ ĐĂƌ ŐĂƌĂŐĞ ƐŝŶŐůĞͲĨĂŵŝůLJ ŵŽĚĞůƐ ŽŶ ďĞĂƵƟĨƵůůLJ ůĂŶĚƐĐĂƉĞĚ͕ ǁŝĚĞ ůŽƚƐ͘ ƵŶŐĂůŽǁƐ ǁŝůů ƐƚĂƌƚ ĂƐ ůŽǁ ĂƐ Ψϯϵϵ͕ϵϬϬ ĂŶĚ ϮͲƐƚŽƌĞLJƐ ǁŝůů ƐƚĂƌƚ ϰϰϵ͕ϵϬϬ͕ ŶĞĂƌůLJ ΨϱϬ͕ϬϬϬ ĐŚĞĂƉĞƌ ƚŚĂŶ ƐŝŵŝůĂƌ ŚŽŵĞƐ ŝŶ <ĂŶĂƚĂ͘ tŚĂƚ ŵĂŬĞƐ Ă WŚŽĞŶŝdž ,ŽŵĞ Ă ƐƚĞƉ ĂďŽǀĞ ĐŽŵƉĂƌĂďůĞ ďƵŝůĚĞƌƐ͍ YƵĂůŝƚLJ ďƵŝůƚ ŝŶ Ăƚ Ă ƉƌŝĐĞ LJŽƵ ƐŝŵƉůLJ ĐĂŶ͛ƚ ďĞĂƚ͘ ͞tĞ ŚĂǀĞ ƚŚĞ ůĂƌŐĞƐƚ ƐĞůĞĐƟŽŶ
ŽĨ ŵŽĚĞůƐ ǁŝƚŚ ƐŽ ŵĂŶLJ ŽƉƟŽŶƐ͘ dŚĞƌĞ ŝƐ ůŝƚĞƌĂůůLJ ƐŽŵĞƚŚŝŶŐ ĨŽƌ ĞǀĞƌLJŽŶĞ͕͟ ĞdžƉůĂŝŶƐ ZĂŚƵů <ŽĐŚĂƌ͘ ͞tĞ ǁŽƌŬ ǁŝƚŚ ƚŚĞ ŚŽŵĞ ďƵLJĞƌ ƚŽ ďƵŝůĚ ƚŚĞŝƌ ĚƌĞĂŵ͘ tĞ ŐŽ ƚŚĞ ĞdžƚƌĂ ĚŝƐƚĂŶĐĞ ƚŽ ƚĂŝůŽƌ ĞĂĐŚ ŚŽŵĞ ƚŽ ƚŚĞ ƵŶŝƋƵĞ ŶĞĞĚƐ ŽĨ ƚŚĞ ďƵLJĞƌ͘͟ >ŽŽŬŝŶŐ ĨŽƌ ƐƉĞĐŝĂů ĂĐĐĞƐƐŝďŝůŝƚLJ͍ WŚŽĞŶŝdž ,ŽŵĞƐ ŽīĞƌ ĐƵƐƚŽŵ ĞŶƚƌĂŶĐĞƐ͕ ǁŝĚĞƌ ĚŽŽƌǁĂLJƐ ĂŶĚ ŚĂůůƐ͕ ĂŶĚ ƐŽ ŵƵĐŚ ŵŽƌĞ͘ ͞tĞ ŽīĞƌ ƚŚĞ ďĞƐƚ ǀĂůƵĞ ĂŶLJǁŚĞƌĞ͘ tĞ ŝŶǀŝƚĞ
ƉĞŽƉůĞ ƚŽ ƐŚŽƉ ĂŶĚ ĐŽŵƉĂƌĞ͘ tĞ͛ůů ĂůǁĂLJƐ ŚĂǀĞ ƐŽŵĞƚŚŝŶŐ ƚŚĞ ŽƚŚĞƌƐ ĚŽŶ͛ƚ͘͟ YƵĂůŝƚLJ ĂŶĚ ǀĂůƵĞ ĂƌĞ ŚĂůůŵĂƌŬƐ ŽĨ ƚŚĞ ZͬWŚŽĞŶŝdž 'ƌŽƵƉ ŽĨ ŽŵƉĂŶŝĞƐ͘ hŶĚĞƌ ƚŚĞ ĚŝƌĞĐƟŽŶ ŽĨ ĨŽƵŶĚĞƌ ƵĐŬŽŽ <ŽĐŚĂƌ͕ Zͬ WŚŽĞŶŝdž ŚĂƐ ďƵŝůƚ ŵŽƌĞ ƚŚĂŶ ϳ͕ϬϬϬ ŚŽŵĞƐ ŝŶ KƩĂǁĂ ĂŶĚ ƚŚĞ ƐƵƌƌŽƵŶĚŝŶŐ ĂƌĞĂ ƐŝŶĐĞ ϭϵϵϳ͘ /Ŷ ϮϬϬϯ͕ ZͬWŚŽĞŶŝdž ĞdžƉĂŶĚĞĚ ŝƚƐ ŽƉĞƌĂƟŽŶ ƚŽ ŝŶĐůƵĚĞ ĐŽŵŵĞƌĐŝĂů
ĚĞǀĞůŽƉŵĞŶƚƐ ƐƵĐŚ ĂƐ ƌĞƐƚĂƵƌĂŶƚ ĂŶĚ ƌĞƚĂŝů ƐŝƚĞƐ͘ DĂŶLJ ƌĞƚĂŝů ƉůĂnjĂƐ ĂŶĚ ĂƉĂƌƚŵĞŶƚ ƚŽǁĞƌƐ ĂƌĞ ŶŽǁ ƉĂƌƚ ŽĨ ƚŚĞ ĐŽƌƉŽƌĂƚĞ ƉŽƌƞŽůŝŽ͘ /Ŷ ƚŚĞ ƐƉƌŝŶŐ ŽĨ ϮϬϭϭ͕ WŚŽĞŶŝdž ,ŽŵĞƐ ůĂƵŶĐŚĞĚ ƚŚĞ ŵŽƐƚ ĂĚǀĂŶĐĞĚ 'ƌĞĞŶ dĞĐŚ ŚŽŵĞ ƚŚĞ ŝƚLJ ŽĨ KƩĂǁĂ ŚĂƐ ĞǀĞƌ ƐĞĞŶ͘ /ƚ ŵĂĚĞ ƵƐĞ ŽĨ ĞǀĞƌLJ ƐŝŶŐůĞ ĂǀĂŝůĂďůĞ 'ƌĞĞŶ dĞĐŚŶŽůŽŐLJ ĂŶĚ ĞǀĞŶ ŵĂĚĞ ƵƐĞ ŽĨ ƐŽŵĞ ƉƌŽƚŽƚLJƉĞ ĞƋƵŝƉŵĞŶƚ͘
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Use the RIGHT PAINTBRUSH for the job Lifestyle - Is it for edges or large areas? Do you need natural bristles or synthetic? Big or small? When it comes to paintbrushes, there is certainly no lack of choice. The following is a short guide to help you choose the model that suits your needs, so that you don’t paint yourself into a corner. First of all, invest in good quality brushes; they will last a long time if you follow the manufacturer’s care recommendations. Be sure to choose a brush with the appropriate bristles for the type of product to be used. • For water-based paints (latex, acrylic), use polyester or nylon/polyester bristles • For oil-based products (alkyds), use natural bristles (often boar bristles) or nylon/polyester bristles
The shape of the brush also has to be specific to the job. Rounded brushes are ideal for three-dimensional surfaces (such as mouldings) and edges. Flat brushes are perfect for work that doesn’t require precision. Angular brushes are great for edges and drawing a narrow line. Flat, wide brushes should be used for applying varnish, while very wide models are useful for covering big surfaces, such as a patio.
Tricks of the trade Before painting, rub your brushes on a rough surface in order to get rid of any loose bristles. Once the job is finished, clean them in the recommended manner and leave them to dry upside down by hanging them on a piece of string (if there isn’t already a hole in the handle, one can easily be drilled). When dry, always store your brushes with the bristles pointing up so that they keep their shape.
WALLPAPER here, there, and everywhere Lifestyle - If you’re one of those people who thinks that wallpaper is a thing of the past, maybe you should think again. With a bit of imagina on and good taste, it can confer a surprisingly whimsical touch to your home. Whether it’s to revamp an old piece of furniture, dress up a folding privacy screen, or enhance a decora ve object, wallpaper can be used in a number of unexpected ways. Use wallpaper to: • create a trompe-l’oeil headboard for a bed • dress up an old sideboard • decorate the mantelpiece • personalize a lampshade • brighten up stair risers • cover a chest of drawers, side table, or bookshelves • enhance a bathroom cupboard • embellish the inside of wardrobes or drawers • decorate a doll house • give a touch of glamour to document storage containers • create a decora ve wallpaper border or a sliding panel effect Of course, you could also use wallpaper for its original purpose, which is to add colour and visual interest to the walls of a room. You can paper an en re room, one wall, or even a ceiling that you’d like to accentuate. Submi ed For your decora on project Use your creativity to turn wallpaper into your favourite to be a success, be sure to decorating material. choose good quality wallpaper. These days it is available in an impressive range of pa erns, colours, and textures and is easy to use as well. Now all you have to do is sit back and enjoy your works of art. 10 Floor Plan East Edition - Thursday, June 16, 2016
Create a safe haven with a fence Whether it’s for safety, privacy or simply for the look, fencing your yard can add instant curb appeal to your home. A fence keeps children and pets inside the enclosure while safeguarding the house and yard. It also adds an interesting visual element to your property.
Before building Do plenty of research. Contact local authorities to find out about current regulations and to ensure that there are no telephone cables or gas lines where you want to dig. You should also check your certificate of location to be absolutely sure of where your property boundary is located.
Choose the material If your fence is meant to be functional and the look doesn’t really matter to you, a chain-link fence remains the cheapest
option on the market. Aluminum and ornamental iron fences won’t rust, are virtually maintenance free and come in a wide variety of styles. PVC fences are very popular and give plenty of low-cost privacy, but their plastic look could put off those more concerned with esthetics. While any of the above options are viable choices, wood still remains the best fencing material. It requires regular maintenance, but the effort is well worthwhile. Its timeless appearance and the endless ways it can be customized appeal to just about everyone. Once you’ve decided which sort of fence you want, you can either build it yourself or entrust the job to a professional fence installer. Afterwards, why not embellish your new fence with greenery or some flowers? Let your imagination run wild, as well as your green thumb!
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Kenjiro Monji, Japan’s ambassador to Canada, presents Nepean resident Leonard Edwards, former ambassador of Canada to Japan, deputy minister of Foreign Affairs and deputy minister of International Young T-ball players from several Trade, with a certifi cate of West merit during a ceremony Ottawa and Ottawa East at the Japanese Embassy on Juneincluding 8. The certifi cate T-ball teams, south, was awarded to Edwards along Japan’s Order of west and eastwith Ottawa, Orléans and the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver his contribuNepean, facedStar offfor during the first tions to strengthening between ever ties T-ball game Japan playedand onCanthe ada in the areas ofgrounds politics, of theParliament economy and Hill culture. on June Nearly 50 guests, including government cials and 12. The event, which offi marked the family, friends andlaunch formerof colleagues Edwards atNational of Little League tended the ceremony reception Weekand in the Canada, June at12the to am18, bassador’s residence. was organized by Little League SUBMITTED/ Canada, with EMBASSY supportOF JAPAN from Ottawa West-Nepean MP Anita Vandenbeld and Nepean MP Chandra Arya. The event was modelled off of the T-ball on the South Lawn games first initiated by former U.S. president George W. Bush at the White House in 2001.
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Captain, Olympian, and community builder. Now Daniel Alfredsson can add doctor to his name. Alfredsson and Gail Asper, a humanitarian and advocate for human rights, received honourary degrees from Carleton University during the school’s convocation on June 7. The former Ottawa Senators captain joked he only had to deliver a five minute speech to receive his doctor of laws — adding he knew all the graduates seated before him had to work a lot harder. The Sweden-born, adopted Canadian told the
audience when he came to Ottawa in 1994 all he knew was hockey, but that if any of the new graduates work hard at something they know, love and are passionate about, anything is possible.
“Believe in yourself. I know it’s a cliche, but the best cliches get repeated because they are true.” Daniel Alfredsson
“Believe in yourself,” Alfredsson said. “I know it’s a cliche, but the best cli-
ches get repeated because they are true.” Alfredsson added nothing is hard work when it’s your passion. Carleton recognized Alfredsson, not only for his contributions to hockey, but for his commitment to the community. Alfredsson said it was eight years ago when he began raising awareness and has worked to overcome the stigma that surrounds mental health issues. “It is a part of my life, and my future. It gives me strength and is my inspiration,” he told the graduates, adding they should seize what is their inspiration and never give up.
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Former Ottawa Senators captain Daniel Alfredsson, right, receives an honourary degree from Carleton University on June 7.
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Local events and happenings over the coming weeks — free to non-profit organizations Fax: 613-723-1862, E-mail: Ottawasouth@metroland.com The deadline for community event submissions is Friday at noon. Email your events to ottawasouth@metroland. com.
June 17
The Hallelujah Gospel Chorus presents Last Stop on the Gospel Train, a final performance of the choir’s most-loved songs. The event takes place on June 17 at 7 p.m. at Centretown United Church, located at 507 Bank St. Freewill offerings can be made to the charity of your choice. For details, call 613-592-6959. You can help bring a Syrian family to Ottawa while enjoying a night of uplifting vocal music. On June 17, an evening with the Shout Sister Choir will take place at Emmanuel United Church,
located at 691 Smyth Road, beginning at 7 p.m. Tickets are $15 and are available at the Dempsey Community Centre (613-247-4846), the church office (613-7330437) or at the door.
June 17 to 19
Celebrate National Aboriginal Day with free family fun during the Summer Solstice Aboriginal Festival and International Competition Pow Wow June 17 to 19 at Vincent Massey Park. Experience and celebrate the diverse aboriginal cultures of the National Capital Region. There will be a powwow competition, family fun zone, cultural programming, family friendly main stage performances, workshops and arts and crafts and an aboriginal marketplace.
Admission and programming are free. Paid parking is available on site and a park and ride shuttle service will operate from the Greyhound downtown bus depot. For details, go to ottawasummersolstice.ca. Ottawa Garden Days, held annually on Father’s Day weekend, June 17 to 19, is Ottawa’s tribute to National Garden Days, a coast to coast to coast celebration of the role of gardens in our communities and in our lives. More than 200 gardening activities, events and destinations will be taking place across the city, providing opportunities for gardening enthusiasts, families, schools and tourists to spend time in their own garden, visit or take part in a favourite garden
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experience, get inspired at their local garden centre or travel to a nearby gardening destination. There’s also a chance to win great garden prizes from Via Rail, Garant, Gardendecor.ca and Scott’s Miracle Grow. Find contest details and a list Ottawa Garden Days activities at gardensottawa.ca.
June 18
A parking lot sale and barbecue has been rescheduled to June 18, from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. The sale will feature treasures and books, and much more St. Thomas the Apostle Anglican Church, located at 2345 Alta Vista Dr. Need a table? Spaces are available for $20. Call Jim at 613-523-2487. The Ottawa branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society hosts two free public events on June 18. From 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. is Genealogy: Back to Basics, a short lecture on a genealogical topic followed by a Q & A session with Ottawa branch members. This month’s topic is genealogical proof standard with Heather Oakley. From 1 to 3 p.m., Brenda Krater will present the Strange Tale of the Baby in the Basket that was Left on the Door Step,” the story of her ancestor Sidney Williams, who was left on a door step in 1880. For details visit ogsottawa. on.ca. The event takes place at the City of Ottawa Archives, located at 100 Tallwood Dr. in Room 115.
June 19
The Manotick School of Music will present their
fourth annual lawn concert at 2 p.m. on June 19. Come and visit Dickinson House in the Square in Manotick, and enjoy the music presented by the young students. Homemade ice cream will be an added treat. The House is open daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. This year’s special exhibit is Trades and Professions of Days Gone By. Admission is free; donations are welcome. Purchase your tickets by June 19 for a chance to see some comedy and support the efforts by Riverside South for Refugees to bring Syrian refugee families to Ottawa. The comedy night takes place June 26 at 7 p.m. at Absolute Comedy, located at 412 Preston St. Single tickets are $25 or $40 for two. For details or to buy tickets, email rs4refugees@gmail.com or call Peter at 613-822-9666.
June 21
La Leche League meeting, providing mother-to-mother breastfeeding support takes place June 21, from 9:45 a.m. to noon, followed by optional potluck lunch at 3230 Uplands Dr. Call 613-238-5919 for the unit number. Bring your breastfeeding questions and concerns, talk about your joys and challenges or come and just listen. Babies and young children are always welcome, as are your female relatives and friends.
June 25
The eighth annual Water Garden Tour, hosted by the Greater Ottawa Water
Garden Horticultural Society, will take place on June 25. This year’s tour will feature 10 beautiful water gardens of various designs and sizes. One site will also be showcased at night. The event takes place 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and from 9 to 11 p.m. The cost is $20 per person, and children 12 and under are free. Tickets and tour booklets for this self-guided tour will be available after May 1 at a number of south Ottawa locations, Artistic Landscape Design at 2079 Bank Pl., Peter Knippel Garden Centre at 4590 Bank St. Proceeds will go to a community project involving a water feature at the Ruddy-Shenkman Hospice in Kanata. The 137th Ottawa Venturer Scouts invite you to come to their “Nothin’ VENTURE’d, Nothin’ Gained” yard sale on June 25, starting at 8 a.m., in the parking lot of the Gloucester Presbyterian Church, located at 91 Pike St. Everything from household items, clothes and furniture to toys and games will be sold. There will also be activities for kids and freezies on sale. Proceeds go to support upcoming youth activities, such as camping weekends. For details, go to 137thottawascouts.com or email gc@137thottawascouts.com or call 613-526-1434. St. James Anglican Church of Leitrim hosts a Strawberry Social and yard sale on June 25, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The church is located at 4540 Bank St., at Leitrim Road. The outdoor event, held rain or shine, will feature all-day entertainment with music, singing and dancing, a play titled “Somewhere That’s Green,” a historical tour of the grounds and church, a morning and afternoon barbecue, strawberry shortcake, yard, bake, book and plant sales, games, possibly a fire truck, as well as vendors and crafters. Bring your lawn chairs and picnic blankets.
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ARIES – Mar 21/Apr 20 You are motivated to explore new relationships this week, Aries. Do so without jeopardizing existing relationships. Speak about your plans with others as you work things through. TAURUS – Apr 21/May 21 Taurus, it’s best to address an uncomfortable topic or situation directly, even if you would rather sweep it under the rug. Choose your words wisely and you will get by. GEMINI – May 22/Jun 21 You may be sitting on edge as you try to manage a sticky situation, Gemini, but rest assured that things will work out in your favor. Do not worry about things for too long. CANCER – Jun 22/Jul 22 Cancer, while you may want to steer clear of large groups this week, in some instances, it just may be unavoidable. Look for friends at large gatherings and enjoy the time together. LEO – Jul 23/Aug 23 Leo, push past your hesitation and try something that scares you. You may be surprised at how much you actually enjoy it when you give new things a chance. VIRGO – Aug 24/Sept 22 Do not waste too much time over-analyzing your feelings, Virgo. Trust your gut instincts because you are on the right path and you will soon realize it.
LIBRA – Sept 23/Oct 23 Libra, take some time to smell the roses this week. No matter how hectic your schedule, a little time to relax and appreciate the little things is just what the doctor ordered. SCORPIO – Oct 24/Nov 22 Scorpio, spend some time on your own this week without the noises of the outside world creating any interference. It is good to recharge once in a while and clear your head. SAGITTARIUS – Nov 23/Dec 21 Focus your attention on those actions that will help you be most successful, Sagittarius. This means not getting swept up with trivial things in your path. CAPRICORN – Dec 22/Jan 20 Capricorn, progress is hard to come by lately. Find a system that works for you and you will soon start to gain some momentum. Allow events to unfold at their own pace. AQUARIUS – Jan 21/Feb 18 Straightforward actions will help others see your motives more clearly, Aquarius. Make time to share your intentions with friends or coworkers if you desire their support. PISCES – Feb 19/Mar 20 Pisces, long-term planning becomes a priority in the week ahead. Put future goals that involve finances at the top of your list.
Pet Adoptions
Marbles
Hello, My name is Marbles, I am a Blue Merle Pomeranian and I am 5 months old. My mom got me from California in December. I have beautiful blue eyes and a very fluffy coat. I love being around kids, it’s my favorite thing in the world and I love to cuddle with my mom. I also have an Instagram page with my sister who is a pom too @thepommyduo.
Meet Mysty (ID# A186892)
They Need a Special Place in Your Heart Our June adoption promotion is Behind the Label. It’s our play on Behind the Music from the cable music station VH1. It is all about finding homes for special needs cats. We hope that you will look beyond the term special needs and see the real cat behind the label. Animals at the OHS are special needs for a lot of reasons. They are generally relatively minor: a heart murmur with no discernible symptoms, arthritis, allergies which require a special diet, or another health issue that a loving and committed family would accept.
To promote the special ones, we reduce our usual adoption fee by half, and in June we are offering the equivalent of a first free vet visit by waiving the other half of the usual fee. Of course,special needs animals are only adoptable if our community will adopt them. We can do the pre-adoption medical work, we can promote the heck out of them, but at the end of the day, it is only you who can provide them a home.And when you do give them a home, it really isn’t the animal that’s special, it’s you. Pet of the Week: Mysty (ID# A186892) Meet Mysty, a friendly girl looking for her purr-fect match. Mysty is a beautiful grey tabby who enjoys having her fur brushed. She is an affectionate cat who absolutely loves chin rubs. Mysty gets along great with adults and children. She enjoys the company of canine friends, but would prefer to be the only feline in the home. Could Mysty be the pet for you? For more information on Mysty and all the adoptable animals, stop by the OHS at 245 West Hunt Club Rd. Check out our website at www.ottawahumane.ca to see photos and descriptions of the animals available for adoption.
Please note: The Ottawa Humane Society has many other companion animals available for adoption. Featured animals are adopted quickly! To learn more about adopting an animal from the Ottawa Humane Society please contact us:
Website: www.ottawahumane.ca Email: Adoptions@ottawahumane.ca Telephone: (613) 725-3166 x258
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