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“We believe we must have a world-class transportation system that is inter-modal, reliable, convenient and efficient,” Laroche said. To that end, funding for an airport station “fits the kind of infrastructure spending that is allowable, so we are prepared to proceed in that direction.”

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Police have released a photo of a white Ford pick-up truck they say resembles the vehicle involved in a hit-and-run that claimed the life of 39-year-old Andy Nevin, as he cycled along Leitrim Road, west of Albion Road, just before 6 a.m. on June 28.

Police are on the lookout for a white Ford pick-up truck and its driver believed to have struck and killed a 39-year-old father of two as he cycled along Leitrim Road early Sunday morning.

Paramedics were called to the scene, just west of Albion Road, just after 6 a.m. on June 28.

They treated the victim for a traumatic cardiac arrest and “despite aggressive resuscitation measures by paramedics, the man was pronounced dead at the Ottawa Hospital trauma unit,” paramedics said in a statement.

Collision investigators have since been trying to piece together what happened, and turned to traffic cameras mounted in the area. There is one at Leitrim and Albion roads and another at Leitrim and Gilligan roads, which is closer to where the collision occurred.

Police have also been appealing to the public for help, and on Monday afternoon released a photo of a white Ford pickup, believed to be similar to the vehicle involved in the fatal collision. The vehicle may be an F-250 or F-350, model year 2004-05.

Officers recovered pieces of the truck at the roadside where it collided with the cyclist, identified on social media by friends of the victim as Andy Nevin.

“They strongly believe the vehicle would have front-end damage,” said Const. Marc Soucy, Ottawa police spokesman.

When asked what direction the truck and cyclist were heading the morning of the crash, Soucy said in-

vestigators are still trying to determine what happened.

“Until they find the (vehicle) or the driver, it’s pretty hard to say,” he said.

Soucy said collision investigators have ways of piecing together a timeline in cases where there may not be many witnesses.

“We can go between the time (the victim) was found and the time he may have left his house,” Soucy said. “As far as the route, we’re not sure because there’s different routes from his house.”

“They strongly believe the vehicle would have frontend damage.”

Const. Marc Soucy, police spokesman

Police are hopeful someone may have seen something or were passing through the area between 5 and 6 a.m.

“That’s why we’re asking people with any information, whether they think it’s small or insignificant, to call us and let us determine the significance of that information,” Soucy said.

Within a day of the tragedy, an online GoFundMe page had been set up to raise money for the victim’s two teenage sons, and had generated almost $2,000 in one day.

Seema Singh said she created the page to honour Nevin’s memory and in support of his boys.

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An online fundraising page, set up in support of Andy Nevin’s two sons, had raised almost $2,000 its first day.

“Obviously, it’s very sad,” Alex deVries, vice-president of Citizens for Safe Cycling, a notfor-profit, membership-based organization of Ottawa-area cyclists that promotes bicycle use and safe cycling.

“These kinds of things often make people think that cycling is unsafe,” he said. “The statistics do not support that cycling is becom-

ing unsafe.”

While cycling-related fatalities and injuries involving vehicles make the headlines, “these are exceptions,” deVries said, noting that according to city statistics between 2003 and 2013, there were no reported cycling collisions on that stretch of Leitrim Road where Nevin was killed.

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A few days before the collision, the family had begun moving into a home in Riverside South, rented

by Singh’s boyfriend, who went to high school with Nevin’s wife, Nadia Robinson.

Nevin had left the new house the morning he was killed to cycle to his old house and do some painting and patchwork to fix it up before officially handing back the keys.

Singh had gone over to see Nadia the morning of the collision to give her a second set of keys.

“She’s nice and the boys are nice and I just wanted to help them out,” she said of her fundraising efforts. “Instead of saying, ‘Oh, if there’s anything I can do,’ I just thought this is something.

I’d rather get it started. Her family and friends could circulate it and hopefully it will help them out.”

Singh said the situation is heartbreaking.

“It was so sad. I was balling my eyes out,” she said. “I was in shock. I was just with her earlier that day.”

To make a donation to the fund, go to gofundme.com/y4nt44.

lives in bike-vehicle collisions in Ottawa between 2003 and 2013, an average of two per year – fewer than the number of pedestrians killed in Ottawa, deVries said, referring to stats the cycling organization obtained from the city.

In that same timeframe, the data shows there are about 300 reported collisions involving vehicles and cyclists each year. In fact, the number of cyclists involved in crashes is much lower than it used to be, said deVries.

“One of the things that is quite noticeable in terms of trends is that there is an increased adoption of cycling. It really has been tremendous over the last 10 years,” he said.

“The numbers suggest even in the last five years a 40 per cent increase in cycling,” deVries said, referring to stats that paint a picture of cycling in downtown Ottawa between 2006 and 2011, and which he said are similar across the city.

Anyone with any information on the hit-and-run is asked to call the collision investigation unit at 613-236-1222, ext. 2481, or call to Crime Stoppers at 1-800-2228477.

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City traffic experts will consider the effect of closing one left turn lane onto River Road in an effort to appease the angry residents who live along the street.

Traffic services manager Phil Landry made the promise at a public meeting in Riverside South on June 24, where residents from GloucesterSouthgate and GloucesterSouth Nepean made sure their concerns were heard loud and clear – so loud, they often drowned out Landry’s answers to their questions.

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“We can go back and take a look, and maybe we can go back to a single (turn lane),” Landry told the audience. “I’m not making any promises but we’ll see what the impacts are to do that.”

For some members of the audience, that didn’t go nearly far enough. Rick Smithers received a deafening round of applause and cheers when he demanded the city close both turn lanes to non-local traffic in the morning and afternoon rushes.

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Residents report bumper-tobumper traffic on the two-lane road that often prevents them from leaving their driveways – especially since many drivers are also speeding, they said.

According to city traffic data, the number of cars on River Road daily has jumped from 8,500 on average before the bridge opened to about 13,200 this spring.

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He said Transport Canada regulations limit him from investing in mass transit projects, so he’s not able to put up any money for the tracks themselves.

But incorporating a rail station into his upcoming terminal expansion plans to redo the check-in and security areas would be a perfect way for the airport to get involved.

“If we know what’s coming we can engineer that flow-through and make it much more convenient,” he said.

The airport link is supposed to cost about $155 million if it’s built between 2018 and 2023 in conjunction with the Trillium OTrain extension to Riverside South.

But it’s not part of the city’s approved “affordability network” laid out in the 2013 transportation master plan, so if the link is going to get built, it’s going to have

to get funding from another level of government.

Laroche said he’s happy to help the city make that happen, if it means the airport can be connected to a modern light-rail network that will help him increase the city’s economic viability – and therefore the number of passengers moving through his terminal.

“You typically have only one shot,” Laroche said. “If you don’t get it done at the same time as the Trillium line extension, it’s unlikely that it will get done. We are loathe to let that happen.”

The announcement came as the finance and economic development committee considered functional designs for three light-rail expansions as part of the city’s $3billion, 30-kilometre stage two package: west to Bayshore and Baseline stations, east to Place D’Orléans and south to Bowesville Road.

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But staff also included full functional designs and cost estimates for the rail spur and another $160-million extension to Trim Line in the east end in the hopes that provincial and federal funding will allow them to get built, too.

Councillors expressed some surprise at the airport authority’s offer. Gloucester-Southgate Coun. Diane Deans implied that level of co-operation was perhaps missing from previous meetings on the issue.

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You can expect to pay from 1.5-to-4 percent of the purchase price of your home up front in closing costs. These costs include legal fees, appraisals, property transfer tax, HST (where applicable) on new properties, home and title insurance, mortgage life insurance and prepaid property tax and utility adjustments. ?5? Test drive your monthly housing payments to learn how much you can truly afford.

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Keep in mind that this is not a normal interest rate environment. Don’t over-extend because there is a good chance interest rates will be higher when your term is up. Have your broker do the math on what a doubling of interest rates five years from now would do to your monthly payment.

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Hyperparenting ruining kids’ health

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fter two days of summer camp at a city-run recreation centre, my son asked if I could pull him out of the program.

“What’s the problem?”

I asked him. It seemed right up his alley – a bit of art, some sport, some swimming. He’s so active; I thought it would be perfect for him.

“We haven’t gone outside in two days,” he told me.

I was really surprised.

Sure, the community centre is well-equipped to run the kids around indoors– there’s a gym, a pool and various studio spaces – but I assumed that at least part of summer camp had to be held outside. Surely there’s a law against keeping kids indoors in June, I thought.

I asked the camp counsellors about the program.

They defended their decision to stay indoors, saying the first day it was too hot and the second day it was too wet. “It wasn’t raining, exactly,” said one. “But we thought the kids might get wet and muddy if they played on the wet ground because it had rained in the morning.”

I promptly withdrew my son from the program.

No matter how loudly we scream or how much research is produced, camp counsellors, schools and especially parents just aren’t getting the message: Our children are in a health crisis. We’re no longer on the brink. We’re there.

the authors note is essential to achieving physical activity guidelines.

Further, when adults aren’t available to supervise, the kids are more likely to be sitting indoors – often on screens. Just being indoors – whether in a community centre or a basement – encourages kids to be stagnant.

“Access to active play in nature and outdoors—with its risks—is essential for healthy child development,” the report states.

“We recommend increasing children’s opportunities for self-directed play outdoors in all settings—at home, at school, in child care, the community and nature.”

The authors note that when kids are outside, they are more physical and play for longer periods of time.

Children are also more curious in natural settings and move more in nature than on fabricated play structures.

BRYNNA LESLIE Capital Muse Don’t take my word for it. In its annual report card released in June, Participaction awarded Canadian kids a D-minus when it comes to physical fitness. This

kids ages five to 17 are getting the daily recommended 60 minutes of exercise, the report card notes. The authors say if we want to turn these numbers around

“Surely there’s a law against keeping kids indoors in June, I thought.” time, the adults are clearly to blame, according to the report’s authors.

The report, released in early June, cited helicopter parenting, time spent indoors and general over-supervision of kids’ activities as the primary reasons kids in Canada are continuing to slide in health indicators.

Fewer than 10 per cent of

rapidly, adults need to “get out of the way and let kids play.”

Why? Kids are more likely to be active when they are unsupervised. Modern culture’s hyper-obsession with keeping kids under watch at all times has led to a decline in their overall activity, making them less likely to take risks, which

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But it’s not just about getting them outside, it’s about letting them go it alone.

“Hyper-parenting limits physical activity and can harm mental health,” cites the report. “When children are closely supervised outside, they are less active.”

This generation of adults needs to think very carefully about the damage we’re doing to an entire generation of children. Sure, community centres are great and there can be lots of fun things to do indoors. I’m most grateful for them when it’s -25 C in February. Organized sports can be fun and help kids stay active, too.

But if, instead of a 91 per cent failure rate, we want to get 90 per cent of kids meeting the minimum daily requirement of physical activity, we need to just let the kids play, outside, alone, where the trees are and the screens aren’t.

RCAF wing reunion this fall To the editor,

Along with three other RCAF Wings and the 1 Air Division headquarters, RCAF Station #3 (F) Wing, Zweibrucken, West Germany, played a crucial role in Canada’s NATO commitment to provide security and stability for Europe during the postwar era.

From Sept. 9 to 13, a 50th anniversary reunion will be held at CFB Comox.

All three wing brats are invited to attend. For further information contact the reunion committee chair David Godfrey at 3wingbrats@gmail. com.

Robert Allan

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Making time for the kids

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s if freedom from classes weren’t enough, councillors and staff at city hall have given children across Ottawa another reason to cheer by moving forward with new guidelines for booking sports fields and ice surfaces.

This new policy will help ensure scheduling is done in a manner that should see kids get the best crack at time on soccer fields, ball diamonds and rinks during times that are best suited for young athletes. In a society where kids are stuck in front of screens more and more, anything that makes physical activity more accessible – and less expensive -- is worth exploring.

What city staff has devised is an end to the practice of recognizing “historic use,� which sees teams and organizations that have used a surface at a specific time in the past favoured for that time slot and location when new schedules are produced.

Tighter deadlines for giving up unwanted time slots, granting clubs and associations more scheduling flexibility and stricter criteria for when adults are able to book “prime time� slots are also part of the

changes being put forward by the parks and recreation department.

These changes will hopefully have the effect of not only making more time slots available, but will also help newer clubs and leagues – such as girls hockey – secure less expensive city rinks and fields, rather than paying for private facilities, which cost more. That raises the cost to play, which in turn acts as an obstacle on the road to growing those sports.

Opening up as many recreational opportunities as possible for as many different segments of society as possible should be among the top goals of this city.

The more chances people – and especially children – have to be active, the better our city will become.

An active city will be a healthier city, and a safer city. Any more changes council can make with this in mind would be most welcome.

Children and parents should be very happy with this move by the city. The rest of us should be happy too, even if it means some adult hockey teams need to start playing at different times during the day or night.

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You all know the Canada Day drill

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his is the week when we gather together to celebrate Canada or just run off to the country and let someone else do it.

Ottawa has Canada Day down to a formula. The run-up is predictable: a big announcement is made about the artists who will be playing in the big show on the Hill, followed by gripes from people who say they’ve never heard of the artists who will be playing in the big show on the Hill.

There are suggestions about where best to see the fireworks and there are comments on how ridiculous the suggestions are. And there is always at least one forlorn soul who writes that Canada Day should still be called Dominion Day. After that, the population divides

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and you are fortunate enough to have one, you head for the cottage. If you are even more fortunate, you head for someone else’s cottage.

A certain amount of dealing with crowds is necessary here too, but these crowds are on the Queensway, trying, like you, to get away from the crowds. Fortunately this is not, like Toronto, a city that takes forever to get out of, but in the few moments while you are creeping along, you might be briefly tempted by the thought that it might be more enjoyable to be on foot downtown, wearing something red.

And of course when you finally get to that quiet spot beside the lake, the one that usually makes you feel like you are in a Group of Seven painting, you may find that there

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is a bit less solitude than you were counting on. A substantial number of cottage Canadians like to celebrate their country by buzzing around lakes in boats and other motorized things. Still, you’re not elbow to elbow on Elgin Street, are you? And things do calm down at night – until the fireworks begin.

In recent years, there has been research showing that fireworks around lakes can be damaging to wildlife, frightening animals and birds and disrupting their normal activity. No one seems to have paid much attention, despite the fact that the family dog is among those affected.

Today’s cottage fireworks are not to be confused with what happens around Parliament Hill on July 1, but they are not as far removed as they used to be. Originating a half century or more ago with the tradition of little children waving sparklers on the dock, the July 1 fireworks have been EDITORIAL MANAGING EDITOR: 4HERESA &RITZ

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transformed into status competition for grown-ups. On and on they go, bigger and bigger, louder and louder – and not just on the actual day, either. There is no rest on July 2.

On July 2, it is nice and quiet in downtown Ottawa.

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Police find body of alleged murder suspect in Rideau River Alex Robinson

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Police found the body of a murder suspect in the Rideau River on June 27.

Police divers had been searching for any sign of the man, who police identified as Muhab Sultanaly Sultan, 23 , since he jumped into the river a few days earlier on June 24. The man allegedly

tried to run over two police officers on bicycles in downtown Ottawa that afternoon, police said.

One of the officers was hit, but suffered only minor injuries.

After a chase that went from the corner of King Edward Avenue and Rideau Street to Wiggins Private, the suspect abandoned his car and jumped into the river.

A few hours later, police received calls from residents who had seen a man trying to swim across the river near Range Road and Mann Avenue.

Police tried to reach the man, but as they got close, he went under water.

Sultan was wanted in the June 14 murder of 18-yearold Jeremy Cook, in London, Ont.

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That’s still within the range that staff had expected 10 years ago when they were planning the bridge, Landry said.

But where the traffic patterns differ, he said, is when it comes to Earl Armstrong.

That road – a four-lane arterial designed to take most of the bridge’s commuter traffic – jumped from 4,600 cars a day last spring to nearly 16,000 this year, but it’s not nearly as much as staff expected.

The plan was for Earl Armstrong to take about 70 per cent of the commuter traffic in the rush hour, channelling vehicles to Limebank so they can head north into the city.

But the split is more like

50/50 at the moment, largely, Landry suspects, because there’s a perception that River Road is a shortcut.

Indeed, that route is about one kilometre shorter than taking Earl Armstrong to Limebank, but the more easterly route offers a four-lane segregated road with passing opportunities and a consistent 80 km/h speed limit. speeding

River Road changes its speed limit three times before drivers spill onto Riverside Drive, and since the bridge opened residents have reported an increase in speeding through their neighbourhoods.

Between Earl Armstrong and Tewsley Drive, the limit is 60 km/h, but drivers went

an average of 73 km/h, according to speed board data collected by the city. From Ryeburn Drive to Leitrim Road, where the limit is 70 km/h, drivers went an average of 79 km/h.

But the real problem area was around Balmoral Drive, where the speed limit drops back down to 60 km/h. Drivers were clocked at an average of 80 km/h in that spot – and that’s with a speed board encouraging drivers to slow down.

Police conducted an enforcement blitz in June, and over five days they issued 27 tickets to drivers who were all going about 20 km/h over the limit.

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But Gloucester-South Nepean Coun. Michael Qaqish doesn’t see this as possibly delaying the project since the money used to purchase land where the complex could be built isn’t expected to flow from development charges until 2017.

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Argument leads police to Kilborn Avenue marijuana grow-op erin.mccracken@metroland.com

An argument between two men drew the attention of police, who uncovered an almost $1-million marijuana grow operation at a home on Kilborn Avenue.

Patrol officers were called to reports of a disturbance at a home in the 1200 block of Kilborn Ave. in the Billings Bridge area at 9:50 p.m. on June 25.

“As they were investigating that particular call they noticed evidence of a grow-op,” said Const. Chuck Benoit, Ottawa police spokesman, noting the patrol officers then seized the property and called in drug unit investigators who came armed with a warrant.

The team seized 949 marijuana plants with a street value of $949,000, 4.3 kilograms of pot valued at $20,000, 10 methamphetamine pills, a small quantity of powdered meth, a digital scale, packaging and documents, according to police.

Calling the bust “significant,” Benoit said “it is the luck of the draw on this call. Patrol were called for something else and landed upon a grow-op.”

He didn’t know how developed the crop of pot plants was, but said

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in cases involving indoor operations, plants grow year-round due to the theft of hydro electricity and are often in various stages of growth.

“They did steal electricity from Hydro,” Benoit said of the Kilborn operation. “So (in general, suspects) are able to grow these plants from start to end at different stages during the year.”

Benoit said it’s believed the Kilborn residence was used for some time to grow pot plants.

“To get that type of business up and growing, you need to do a lot of work,” he said. “There’s a lot more than just putting light bulbs on top of plants.”

A 34-year-old Ottawa man was arrested at the scene and is now facing charges related to the unlawful production and possession of a scheduled substance for the purposed of trafficking, and theft of electricity.

A second man at the scene, who Benoit said had been arguing with File the first suspect, is still wanted by A 34-year-old Ottawa man has been arrested and charged in connection with the discovery of a marijuana investigators. grow operation at a home in the 1200 block of Kilborn Ave. on June 25. A second male suspect, who police “He was identified on scene, but said escaped the night of the bust, is still wanted in connection with the crime. then took off,” he said. “He escaped while patrol were investigating.”

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Province, Hydro Ottawa in talks Emma Jackson

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Hydro One and Hydro Ottawa have begun a formal conversation about who should provide power to the city’s rural residents.

Hydro Ottawa CEO Bryce Conrad told Metroland Media the leaders of the two companies met in Ottawa the week of June 15 to discuss bringing 45,000 Hydro One residents into the city’s fold.

And so far so good.

“We had a very fruitful meeting,” said Conrad, who added there’s already “some stuff on the table.”

“We’ve got an open dialogue … so hopefully we can get to a resolution,” he said.

Right now rural customers in wards such as Osgoode, West Carleton-March and Rideau-Goulbourn remain with the provincial Hydro One distributor, despite living inside City of Ottawa boundaries.

Those customers were not transferred to the municipally-owned Hydro Ottawa during amalgamation in 2001.

It wouldn’t be an issue except those rural customers have complained of higher distribution costs and poor reliability compared to their urban counterparts.

Neighbours on either side of a street are sometimes split by the hydro boundary – and when they compare bills, those

on the provincial side often find they’re paying as much as 30 per cent more.

The dual-distributor system has caused other bizarre divisions too. Place d’Orléans Mall, for example, is serviced on one end by Hydro Ottawa and on the other by Hydro One – meaning half the building can lose power while the rest stays lit.

The issue has surfaced several times over the past 15 years – most recently this spring, when Cumberland Coun.

Stephen Blais passed a motion at council asking the province to allow the city to bid on its own residents – but the two distributors have never been able to strike a deal, usually because of the asking price. Previously, estimates have put the price tag at about $94 million for the customers and the infrastructure that serves them.

It’s early days, but Conrad said he’s hopeful he can have some sort of draft deal to share with Ottawa residents before Hydro One goes ahead with its initial public offering later this fall.

The provincial government is putting 60 per cent of its company on the market to raise money for infrastructure and transit projects.

But if a deal isn’t finalized by then, “It’s not the end of the world,” Conrad said. “I’d rather get a good deal than a fast deal.”

He said any agreement between Ottawa and the province would be separate from the public sale process.

Neither Energy Minister Bob Chiarelli nor Mayor Jim Watson were immediately available for comment, but Energy Ministry spokesperson Jennifer Beaudry said the department is “pleased both sides are talking.”

“This is a positive step forward on this issue,” she said in an email. “As discussions are ongoing and this process needs to unfold, we look forward to further updates from Hydro Ottawa and Hydro One.” The ministry’s mood wasn’t nearly so warm in the spring, when it blamed the city for the stalled negotiations because it wouldn’t take part in a binding arbitration process to decide on a price.

Watson said at the time that he would only support absorbing the city’s rural customers if rates for current customers would not go up as a result.

Mayor Watson did address the issue at the recent Greely Community Association annual general meeting June 10, saying that the issue is one of fairness that all Ottawa residents pay the same hydro rate.

“You are all Ottawa taxpayers, you should have the same rates,” Watson said. “We have to get a fair deal, it’s the right thing to do.”

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The most vocal teams will soon no longer be able to lobby to make sure they get their favourite field, ice pad or time slot.

A new policy from the parks and rec department is looking to do away with “historic use” – the practice of giving a coveted time slot to the same team year after year simply because they’ve always had it – in an effort to level the field when it comes to renting ice pads, soccer fields and baseball diamonds.

“This says ‘blank slate’: apply for what you need and we will allocate,” said parks and recrecreation manager

Dan Chenier, who led four information sessions on the proposed changes in June. “As a municipality we’re striving for equitable access.”

That’s great news for smaller or younger leagues, which have had to compete with the city’s oldest leagues for the most convenient times.

In hockey for example, girls’ minor leagues haven’t been around as long as the boys’, so they don’t have the advantage of historic use when they apply for ice time. And since the kids aren’t available to play in off-peak times like the afternoon or late at night, that’s caused huge discrepancies in how much time the girls are granted versus the boys.

Nalin Bhargava, president of the Ottawa Girls Hockey Association, said his group did a comprehensive study of ice-time allocations last year and found that girls’ teams are getting about 57 per cent of what they ask for from the city, versus 80 per cent for the

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The city is currently reviewing its sports policy in order to end the historic practice of giving popular time slots at ice rinks and baseball and soccer fields to the same teams. boys.

What they don’t get from the city, they have to buy from private ice pads like Bell Sensplex. That’s an expensive problem: while primetime city ice costs $162.82 an hour, private ice costs up to $320, Bhargava said.

The approximately 300 ice hours the girls have to buy

privately can cost the league about $48,000 a year, Bhargava said – and over time it adds up to much, much more.

That makes the sport even more expensive for female participants at a time when the cost to play hockey is already a major barrier to many families.

“It’s clearly discrimina-

tory,” Bhargava said.

But allocations manager Linda Tremblay said it’s not so much a girls versus boys issue, but rather the problem of a newer sport trying to break into a limited amount of ice time.

And that’s what the new policy is trying to fix.

If council approves the changes this fall, the new sports allocation policy would see a major overhaul including: • The end of historic use as a factor in allocations • Use of financial records to validate registration numbers (since allocations are formulated on the number of players) • Tighter deadlines for returning unwanted allocations, so they can be redistributed to other teams. This will also reduce the number of sports spaces sitting idle across the city.

• Stricter criteria for determining which adults are allowed to play during “prime

time” (before 9 p.m.).

It’s not going to be easy; Chenier said leagues – especially the minor boys’ leagues, which stand to lose the most time – may not be happy about having to pay for more private ice next year.

But they’ll no longer be able to lobby their councillor to get the times they want – at least, not in theory.

Chenier said once council approves the changes, staff will have that legal mandate to put the brakes on backroom dealing.

“Will we be able to weather the storm? I think so, because we have integrity in the policy and we know this is what we need to do,” Chenier said.

The policy will head to the city’s community and protective services committee sometime this fall, and then on to council. If approved, the new policy will apply to the 2016 sports fields allocations system first, and then will be implemented in arenas for the 2016/17 fall hockey season.

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“We can’t just jump into something when we’re not ready. It takes time for the money to kick in, all the factors to be lined up and we want to do this properly and we want to make sure we have all our facts.”

The memo, which was requested by the previous council to learn what could be done to expedite the project with a P3 partnership, revealed there currently is no one waiting in the wings to partner with the city to make the complex a reality, forecast to cost $59.5

million.

However, the city has received inquiries over the last year from parties interested in working with the city to build the arena portion, according to the memo.

But Qaqish said the city wants a multi-purpose complex.

“We want the pool, we want the rinks and we want the community rooms,” he said.

The city’s wish list also includes multiple sports fields.

While the city has its eye on two district parks in Riverside South where a new com-

plex could be constructed, the city doesn’t own them, nor are they serviced with water and sewer lines, Qaqish said.

One of those spaces, which is owned by the developer Urbandale, is located behind St. Francis Xavier Catholic High School, at the northeast corner of Limebank and Spratt roads.

That’s currently identified by staff as the preferred location.

“It’s a few years away from servicing,” Qaqish said.

“That’s another piece (that’s missing). We want a piece of land that’s ready to go.”

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implications of building that new centre are,” Qaqish said.

“Is (the Minto complex) being used by these (Riverside South) residents? Is there less demand? Is there more demand?”

The city is also currently studying its sports facility allocation policy, under which ice time scheduling rules

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would change. The results of that review are expected to go before council later this year.

“It is anticipated that a full year of allocation of arenas under the revised policy would provide better information on the demand for ice time in Riverside South and Findlay Creek and also help guide the city’s requirements in a potential P3 request,” the

memo stated.

Under a P3 model, the city would need to buy ice time, another reason why it is important to examine demand.

“I think the demand will be there, but the question is: is it there now?”

In fact, staff are reporting that demand for ice time across the city is actually down, said Qaqish, who has told staff that while that may be true, the south end of the city is experiencing a population boom and the demand for ice time there reflects that growth.

While there are currently too many “balls in the air” for the project to happen in the short-term, that doesn’t mean the city would turn away an interested developer in the meantime, said Qaqish, who plans to continue pushing for the project and keep his ear to the ground on potential interest from the private sector.

“If there’s an opportunity to move forward on any component of the future recreation facility before 2017, then we’ll obviously do that,” he said. “We’re open to all options to move this forward as soon as possible.”

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especially if they are already serviced or can be serviced sooner, which would save time and money, said Qaqish, adding that if a private partner, such as a developer, provides a parcel of land to the city for free, then the forecast $4.5 million the city may earmark for the land could be instead be spent on the complex.

“That gives us a bit of flexibility with the money,” Qaqish said.

The city is also currently in the process of conducting a number of reviews, the results of which could alter the rec centre plans. One such review is examining employment lands across the city. Through that, another potential parcel of land for the centre could be identified, the councillor said.

The staff memo also highlighted the need to figure out exactly how much demand there is for ice time, especially with the opening of other south-end recreation complexes, such as the Minto Barrhaven Recreation Complex.

“I think staff, at least in the report, one of the other things they’re saying is let’s step back a bit and see what the

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Mayor Jim Watson’s first tele-town hall on the 2016 budget process covered every Ottawa issue you can think of on June 25.

For one hour, residents were invited to call in to the city’s first-ever phone conference, where they could listen to the discussion and sign up to tell Watson what they’d like to see included in next year’s budget.

The mayor, the city manager, the city treasurer and most department managers were on hand for the discussion so that listeners could get the most accurate answers.

Watson billed the tele-town hall as an experiment to help

residents weigh in on the budget before anything even gets drafted. He had predicted as many as 1,000 people could listen in during the hour, but only about 50 people actually did. That’s compared to 20person turnouts at regional inperson consultations last year.

Twelve people actually signed up to talk; two speakers got back in line and had time to ask a second question. And when the hour was up, only two people were left in the queue, according to Watson.

Another eight questions were asked via social media.

But the people who did speak covered a capital city’s worth of topics: from public washrooms in the city’s lightrail stations to crumbling rural roads to restoring funding to

downtown homeless drop-in centres.

Vanier Cycles tweeted at the mayor to ask for more cycling infrastructure funding in next year’s budget. Watson didn’t promise anything, but he reiterated the city’s commitment to cycling projects; the north-south bike corridor on O’Connor Street was just approved last month, he reminded listeners. But he also recognized the city’s cyclists will always want more than what the city has to give.

“It’s probably not as much as some cycling enthusiasts would like, but we are making progress on our cycling plan that was approved in the last council,” Watson said.

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Mayor’s Report

Lansdowne in the Summer

By Jim Watson

Despite what some may say about how much fun there is to be had in Ottawa, I am continually amazed at how many exciting opportunities take place daily, in our city.

Each spring, I am impressed and proud to see the multitude of cultures, people and organizations that welcome the public into their respective communities.

This past month, Ottawa made history as a host city to the largest single sport event in Canada’s history, the FIFA Women’s World Cup. As one of the largest sporting events in the world, all eyes descended on Ottawa as we welcomed the best female soccer players from around the world.

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Medical lab technician, Milenko Dragic, works with a 25-millilitre bag of umbilical cord blood at the Canadian Blood Services’ Cord Blood Bank processing facility in Nepean on June 25, the day the national public bank officially launched. The cord blood donation, which is rich in stem cells, will be tested before it can be added to the bank and used by a waiting transplant patient suffering from one of more than 80 diseases and disorders.

Eager to showcase the newly rejuvenated Lansdowne Park to residents, and the world, the City has worked hard to ensure all features of the project are completed and free to enjoy for the summer.

National public cord blood bank officially launches

Before the rejuvenation project began, Lansdowne Park consisted of almost 30 acres of asphalt and approximately 230 trees. Compare this to the current 1.8 acres of asphalt and 850 trees; you will see how truly significant this has impacted Lansdowne and its neighboring communities. By transforming Lansdowne Park from an asphalt tarmac into a green park space, it has become a true gathering place, as was originally intended in the 1800s.

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Wearing a pristine white lab coat and blue protective gloves, Milenko Dragic gently carries a plastic pouch with 25 millilitres of umbilical cord blood.

So small, it fits in the palm of the medical lab technician’s hand, with room to spare.

He then lays it down on a specially lit countertop inside the Canadian Blood Services’ stem cell manufacturing facility in Nepean, one of two in Canada that, along with five hospital collection sites, make up the new national public Cord Blood Bank, which officially launched June 25.

Dragic sets to work, preparing to draw a two-millilitre sample from the bag that will be tested for contaminants, such as HIV and hepatitis. Time is of the essence as the stem cell-rich blood must be frozen within 48 hours after the blood is collected following birth.

“It’s so exciting. It still doesn’t get old to me,” says Heidi Elmoazzen, director of the national bank, as she watches Dragic work inside the

laboratory. “It’s always remarkable to me that we started with something that was originally medical waste and we’ve processed it into this little 25-ml bag that’s life-saving for somebody.”

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The unit of blood, brought in from Brampton, Ont., 24 hours after a woman gave birth and voluntarily donated her umbilical cord blood, is enough to potentially save the life of someone fighting one of more than 80 diseases and blood disorders, such as leukemia, lymphoma or sickle cell anemia.

“Right now it’s at least 80 diseases and disorders, but that list keeps growing,” Elmoazzen says.

The magic of the cord blood is its high concentration of blood-forming stem cells, which are less mature than adult stem cells, and for that reason, they don’t need to be a perfect match.

About 25 per cent of patients in need of a transplant – which is done by way of a blood transfusion – find a match within their families.

Though there are 635,000 publicly banked cord blood units around the world and 25.5 million adult donors,

half of Canadian patients requiring a transplant are without a match.

And their numbers have tripled in the past five years.

“Right now in Canada, at any given time, we’re searching on behalf of almost 1,000 people waiting for a stem cell transplant,” Elmoazzen says, adding that many patients who have trouble finding matches are from ethnically diverse backgrounds.

“We have a lot of ethnic groups in Canada that you don’t find in other parts of the world, such as our First Nation, Inuit, Métis population,” she says. “And we have a lot of mixed marriages here in Canada, so that causes some challenges when you’re looking for stem cell donors.”

Since the country’s first cord blood manufacturing facility opened in Nepean in September 2013, almost 5,000 birthing mothers have donated their cord blood. However, through a rigorous testing process to ensure donations are free from contaminants and that they are concentrated with enough stem cells, the number of stored units is much less; little more than 850.

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In addition to the many recreation programs, events and farmers market that will take place regularly at Lansdowne, other summer features to be enjoyed are; - Skate Board Park - The Water Plaza reflecting pool and “Uplift” monument - Children’s Play Area - Basketball Courts - Heirloom Apple Orchard and the Civic Gardens Free to enjoy for sports with the family or a relaxing picnic; the “park” has finally been returned to Lansdowne through the addition of the Great Lawn. With capacity to welcome 17,000 people, world-class urban park is sure to be a feature enjoyed for generations to come.

If you would like to learn more about events taking place, recreation programs or Lansdowne Park itself, visit Lansdownepark.ca. For other activities and events at Lansdowne, visit tdplace.ca for details.

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The Ottawa Hospital depends heavily on the kindness and generosity of everyday citizens when it comes to funding cancer research and care, and on June 23 it showed its gratitude in a lasting way.

A donor wall listing the names of more than 700 Ottawa residents was unveiled outside the critical care wing of the Ottawa Hospital’s cancer centre, located at the General campus.

The wall puts faces to the $40.5 million donated towards cancer care in Ottawa since 2008, and highlights the importance of community involvement in specialized healthcare.

“The way philanthropy makes a difference is that the provincial funding provides the hospitals with a standard of care, but philanthropy takes it beyond the standard of care,” said Tim Kluke, president and CEO of the Ottawa Hospital Foundation.

“The latest clinical trials, research techniques, robotics, Cyberknife – that’s 100 per cent funded by the community. It’s critical to expand research and provide a service people can’t get anywhere else.”

Private donations are more important than ever these days, given the financial state and shifting demographics of the province.

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All service has been moved to use bus lanes on Regional Road 174 / Highway 417 and other parallel corridors. Bus routes have been designed to minimize customer inconvenience and maintain key transfer points. Many buses to/from downtown will bypass Hurdman Station to keep travel times as quick as possible. The station platforms at Train Station and Blair Station will be relocated to allow for construction of the new light rail stations and platforms.

The routes that will travel on Highway 417 bypassing Train Station include Route 114 &199. Frequency of service on Route 1 will be improved on weekends to accommodate the projected increases in ridership demand with the continued commercial growth of the Lansdowne Park development. Route 147 services will be removed from the EY Centre Monday to Friday before noon due to very low ridership. As ridership declines across the system due to the end of the school year, summer vacations, and with improved weather which allows easier cycling and walking, the frequency of service is adjusted. This summer, the number of trips will be reduced on Routes 4, 87, 98, and 114.

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City to Apply Roadside Herbicide for Wild Parsnip Starting last week the City began to apply roadside herbicide to areas infested with wild parsnip.

The 2015 strategy is to reduce growth of wild parsnip in areas that are highly infested while ensuring environmentally sensitive areas and public safety are not adversely impacted. All residents with property abutting the locations to be sprayed should have received a pamphlet about wild parsnip and the strategy for 2015 and will have the chance to opt out if they would like. The herbicide application may be expanded later this year however, residents will be contacted in advance of any additional spraying taking place. This application of herbicide is limited in our ward and thus will have limited impact.

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It was a similar answer for Kathryn Jamieson, chairwoman of the Ottawa Museum Network, who called in asking for the city to increase support for the Renewed Action Plan for Arts, Heritage and Culture, which council approved in 2012.

This year’s strategic initiatives process has scaled back the promised operational funding for local arts and heritage organizations because of affordability. Watson said the city is doing its part for arts funding by investing $40 million in the Arts Court and Ottawa Art Gallery redevelopment – but they can’t do everything.

“There’s no question the arts are an important aspect to our city’s quality of life, but we have to balance all of the needs,” Watson said.

That seemed to be the theme of the evening: that the needs of a growing capital city must be balanced with keeping taxes at or below the inflation rate.

Requests for more public toilets in transit stations, increased funding to fix the rural road system and a more aggressive approach to building complete streets were all met with the same answer: the city’s doing what it can, but taxpayers aren’t made of money.

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“Staff have taken notes and we will make sure they are fed into the budget process,” he said.

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“Actually, we’re doing quite well for a new bank,” Elmoazzen says, noting the Canadian public bank has higher standards than other banks.

Once the number of accepted donations was high enough, Canadian Blood Services launched its national and international cord blood registry around the start of this year.

In addition to providing Canadians with an ethnically diverse bank, the operation will also represent a cost savings to the health-care system.

“Right now all the cord blood units that we get are from international sources we pay for,” Elmoazzen says.

Each unit costs an average of $42,000, and while a child or small adult may only need one unit, larger adults can require two – significantly adding to the expense.

The national bank has been years in the making.

Several elements had to first fall into place: provincial and territorial health ministries (with the exception of Quebec) agreed in 2011 to contribute $48 million over eight years to establish the bank, with $12.5 million coming from Canadian

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Canada’s new public Cord Blood Bank will mean patients waiting for a transplant can look closer to home.

Blood Services. The agency launched its inaugural fundraising campaign as a result to help offset the set-up cost.

The bank has been created in stages, beginning with the opening of the Ottawa processing facility at 40 Concourse Gate in 2013, around the same time it began partnering with

the Ottawa Hospital’s Civic and General campuses, where cord blood can be donated by willing mothers who give birth there.

A collection site was then established at Brampton Civic Hospital in July 2014, followed

by the B.C. Women’s Hospital and Health Centre in Vancouver and the Lois Hole Hospital for Women in Edmonton in January of this year.

That coincided with the opening of a second cord blood processing and storage facility in Edmonton, which is similar to Ottawa’s in that they can each store and cryopreserve up to 7,000 stem cell blood units at -196 Celsius.

Canada was the only G7 nation that didn’t have a public bank – some banks have been around since the late ’80s or early ’90s, but Elmoazzen says the delay worked to Canada’s advantage.

Experts here were able to look to other models around the world.

“Because we were a little bit late to the game it actually allowed us to get a lot of key learnings from what other banks have done.”

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Shooter aimed to kill: police Erin McCracken erin.mccracken@metroland.com

Ottawa police and Ottawa Community Housing security officers plan to boost their presence in the Fairlea area of Heatherington after multiple gunshots recently shattered the evening quiet.

One woman who lives near the tenant parking lot at the corner of Fairlea Crescent and Gore Private where gunfire erupted on June 24 just after 9 p.m. said she immediately knew the quick succession of bangs wasn’t caused by fireworks.

“It was scary. What if I was walking my dog down there last night?” said the woman, who declined to provide her name.

She immediately went indoors to sit on her couch in her living room, her back against the wall and away from windows and doors – just in case.

In the wake of the recent gun violence, she said she will no longer al-

low her teenager out past 9 p.m.

“No way in hell in this neighbourhood,” she said. “I just don’t trust it. People coming up to him – I don’t want anyone coming near him. I’d rather him sit and play on his Xbox.”

The parking lot where the shooting occurred is sketchy, even in the daytime, she said.

“I won’t go past here at 4 o’clock.

I’m terrified. But that’s why you have to mind your own business and stay away from it.”

Patrol officers were the first to respond to the area after several 911 callers reported the gun violence around 9:20 p.m. Officers with the guns and gangs and DART units, Sgt. Mike Saunders included, were next to arrive.

But a break in the case came not long after the shooting when an eagle-eyed patrol officer spotted a sedan – with an undisclosed number of occupants inside it – parked behind the Tim Hortons and Wendy’s

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Three bullets punctured a sedan in this parking lot at the corner of Fairlea Crescent and Gore Private in the Fairlea community of Heatherington the evening of June 24. No one was injured in what police say was a targeted attack. restaurants at 1900 Walkley Rd., near Conroy Road.

The car had been shot at least three times.

Saunders said he doesn’t believe the violence was gang-related, but isn’t yet ruling out that possibility.

The people inside the car are co-operating with police, but investigators don’t yet know the motive behind

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One shooter is believed to be responsible. Officers combed the parking lot, which sits nestled between row houses, and found six bullet shell casings, which are now being analyzed by the police forensic identification unit.

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leads for suspects, but we don’t have anything firm or actionable right now,” Saunders said, adding there is a possibility that there may be multiple people involved in the attack.

While there are still many unknowns in the case, Saunders said the shots were meant to kill.

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“I think any time you point a firearm in the vicinity of a person, or especially in a vehicle – you don’t know where people are sitting exactly – so yeah, I would not say it’s a warning at all,” he said, adding that some of the bullets penetrated the vehicle.

“It was a full-on (targeted) shooting.”

That parking lot, closed off on one side with chain-link fencing that has been cut and bent back, has been the scene of gun violence in the past. About seven years ago shots were fired on police there, according to residents.

“It’s not a new thing, and I’ve had long conversations with police and OCH security staff and the councillor to say that we do not want that particular parking lot to become blood alley square,” said Peter Stockdale, who has lived in Fairlea since 1988 and serves as president of the Fairlea Community Association. “So it’s a long-running concern. That’s a convenient place for drug transfer.”

Stockdale said he has noticed an increase in “activity” at the parking lot over the last six months, but

not to the degree he witnessed five years ago, when problems there peaked and the parking lot “had effectively been taken over by drug dealers.”

Still, he said he is “... surprised it had been quiet here for as long as it has been. I had been expecting it to happen earlier.”

Saunders also confirmed the lot is a known drug-dealing site.

“It’s an area that has seen shootings before, and there has been reported gang activity there,” he added. “I would say there’s great things about the neighbourhood, but it does have that element for sure.”

Though he didn’t believe any nearby homes were hit by bullets, Saunders said it is always a worry that a stray round could hit an innocent bystander.

“That’s why we want to find the people who are (responsible) for it for sure,” he said.

Another woman who lives in the area said she is now considering moving away because of the incident and due to a recent spate of fires in the row houses there.

“This is the pattern that we’ve seen before,” said Stockdale.

“We’ve seen people afraid and they move. It’s not new.”

The day before the shooting the woman said she saw drug dealing in the parking lot in the middle of the day.

“And they were smoking pot,” said the woman.

Her grandson, who knows the area, told her in the past there is a Fairlea gang and a Heatherington gang.

“Rival gangs,” she said. “And he was jumped one time by the Heatherington gang because they knew he lived off of Fairlea.”

In the nine years she has lived in the Fairlea area, she said the community has gone downhill.

“I won’t even go out at night anymore,” she said, adding that dealers have lived in nearby housing units in the past.

It’s also a neighbourhood where resident keep to themselves.

“People just don’t want to get involved,” she said.

Police are urging anyone with information on the case or who may have seen something the night of the shooting to call the guns and gangs unit at 613-326-1222, ext. 5050.

Those people who don’t feel comfortable calling police can make an anonymous call to Crime Stoppers at 1-877-222-TIPS.

change in Heatherington: Coun. Deans Council to consider funding request for pilot project July 8 Erin McCracken erin.mccracken@metroland.com

Heatherington is primed for change.

If the community’s councillor has her wish fulfilled and earns the support of council on July 8, a new form of revitalization and redevelopment could come to Heatherington, sooner rather than later.

Gloucester-Southgate Coun. Diane Deans is asking for $250,000 from the city’s strategic initiatives fund for a pilot project that was recently passed by the city’s planning committee that could help transform the area into one with more mixed residential homes that would attract more families.

“It’s about revitalizing that community and redeveloping it and trying to

GLOUCESTER-SOUTHGATE COUN. DIANE DEANS not have so many low-income people in a neighbourhod, just to change the mix a little bit,” she said of her desire to see future development in the community branch out from more social housing.

“It’s not about gentrification,” she said.

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“Every community needs to be a mixed community to be a healthy community, and when you have too much poverty in one neighbourhood, problems arise,” she said.

“This is about the entire community and it’s about looking at what we can do to make it a healthier community.

“Maybe it’s changing the mix of housing a little bit, having more moderate income homes,” said Deans, who did a year’s worth of research on the pilot project with Heatherington in mind due to its “golden opportunities.”

The city has already devoted a number of resources to Heatherington to try and curb problems, but typically only after they arise.

“It’s all after the fact. It’s not trying to address the root cause, which is constructing too many homes where there is too much poverty,” said Deans, who has spoken with Somali mothers in the neigh-

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Kelli Tonner, Heatherington-based program director of community services with the South-East Ottawa Community Health Centre, says Deans’ proposal for change in Heatherington is coming at a ‘strategic time.’ bourhood who say their children have been approached by drug dealers at the bus stop or mail box.

Dean’s proposal “is a good start,” said Peter Stockdale, a longtime Fairlea resident and president of the Fairlea Community Association.

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the solution, but not the only improvement that may effect change.

“I would say employment and integration of youth, especially male youth, to get them out of guns and gangs and radicalization would be my number one priority,” Stockdale said.

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Prevention is key and is the goal of the strategic initiative, said Deans, who believes now is the ideal time to launch the pilot.

“There’s opportunities in that community that exist that don’t exist in other communities, like land holdings that we have.”

The city owns a three-hectare parcel of land in the area, and with community input, that space could be developed into a valuable resource, such as a community garden. Hydro Ottawa also has nearby property that it might be looking to sell.

Deans envisions the creation of a community garden and kitchen, but said people who live in the community will be the designers of change.

Already many improvements have been made by collaborating with community leaders.

“This is a really strategic time to be having a conversation with all these opportunities aligning themselves,” said Kelli Tonner, Heatheringtonbased program director of

community services with the South-East Ottawa Community Health Centre.

Taking that one step further would be engaging residents and community partners to learn what their vision is for the neighbourhood, she said.

Deans said this would be a crucial ingredient.

“I want it to be a bottom up consultation and have the community tell us what needs to change there, what they’d like to change there, what would improve their community,” she explained. “I want to start there.”

Walkley Road, between Bank Street and Heron Road, was also recently designated as an arterial main street, which would pave the way for more mixed-use residentialcommercial buildings.

“So that’s a new opportunity because you want to have jobs where people live too,” said Deans. “There’s lots of opportunity there. We just have to seize it while it’s there.

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to get on with the project.”

If approved, the first step would be to develop a requestfor-proposals to find a partner to help facilitate the project.

“There’s a lot of people in North America that have been doing these kinds of projects.

Ottawa is really behind,” Deans said.

Deans has also found support in John Fraser, Liberal MPP for Ottawa South.

“A new model of social housing, more mixed use and developing the community in a different way and using available land that is there that is owned by the city – I think it’s a smart initiative,” he said.

“I think that anything that further develops communities and connects communities together, connects people together, is going to help reduce things like crime and give more opportunities for young people,” Fraser said.

Mayor Jim Watson declined to comment on the proposal before it goes before council July 8.

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Safety officers in Ottawa Community Housing neighbourhoods will soon see their hours expanded on weekdays.

Currently, OCH community safety officers patrol and respond to more than 160 municipallyowned social housing communities, Monday to Friday, from 2 p.m. to 8 a.m., and 24 hours on weekends.

“We’re looking at even increasing the number of hours and to start at noon instead of 2 (p.m.), again to ensure further presence in the community,” said Stéphane Giguère, chief executive officer of Ottawa Community Housing Corporation, the city’s largest social housing provider.

The change will come into effect within the next two weeks, and is something the landlord was considering over the past three months following an internal review.

OCH currently has 33 community safety officers on its payroll who patrol on foot or in one of 10 cruisers, among other duties.

Giguère said there is no need for additional hires, given the landlord’s partnership with Ottawa police and other agencies, such as community resource centres, in responding to calls for service.

“The investigative portion will remain with Ottawa Police Services, whereas for us it will be more on the prevention side and for the post-incident side,” he said.

Stéphane Giguère The number of safety officers was boosted last year from 27 or 28, also following an internal review of OCH’s response readiness after gun violence broke out in a number of social housing neighbourhoods – 2014 was a record year in Ottawa for shootings.

Just last week, an OCH community was the scene of a shooting. In the days following gun shots on June 25 in the Fairlea area of Heatherington, OCH planned to increase patrols for about seven to 10 days. The corporation has 290 tenants living in the area.

“We will be on site patrolling more frequently, engaging with our tenants, talking with our tenants, ensuring that, as well, for anyone who was involved directly or indirectly in the incident, we will encourage them to make the call to Ottawa Police Service officers or to our call centre if they

prefer talking with us,” Giguère said.

Whenever there is a major incident such as this, the CEO said it is normal protocol for safety officers to boost their presence in impacted neighbourhoods to reach out to residents.

“Like with the recent shooting, within the next couple of hours following the incident, early in the morning, we were going door to door,” he said. “The goal was first to reassure our tenants that we are there, that they need support, because we know it can trigger anxiety or stress, and we want to ensure the people that they can count on us for a resource.”

Serious incidents, such as this, make up an average of about two to three per cent of the 250,000 calls that come into OCH’s call centre each year. Most are requests for maintenance or complaints related to noise or parking, Giguère said.

While the corporation has for years worked closely with Ottawa police, it recently cemented the partnership when the two agencies signed a letter of agreement.

“We were really looking at strengthening, formalizing and consolidating that type of relationship that we were having on an informal basis since many, many years,” Giguère said of the letter signed June 22.

The agreement ensures both parties are on the same page when there’s a need to intervene in an OCH community and “provide safe and secure solutions to ten-

ants,” he said.

For instance, by formalizing the partnership, Giguère expects to see better response times as well as an improvement in OCH’s ability to provide police with the necessary support during calls.

It will also better allow for information-sharing between the two, and police will be able to notify the housing corporation about any issues they spot on OCH properties, Giguère said.

“The letter of agreement’s key goal is the development of a strategic and intentional approach to address criminal and anti-social behaviours in OCH communities, through tenant engagement,” according to an Ottawa police statement. “Under the agreement, the OPS will continue to have the authority to act as an ‘agent of the landlord’ on OCH property.”

While there are privacy rules each agency must continue to respect, “having said that, from a community standpoint, where we both do intervention or prevention in the same area, we can compare notes about the area,” said Giguère.

The partners can also continue to collaborate on how to improve safety by making design improvements, such as adding lights.

Last year, surveillance cameras were installed for the first time in the Michele Heights area of west Ottawa to monitor alleyways and parking lots where nighttime shootings were taking place.

The letter of agreement will remain in place for five years.

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Phase one of this project would see the Parkway widened between Brookfield Road and Hunt Club. The Parkway would shift to the west, north of Walkley Road. Noise mitigation structures, whether natural or constructed would have to be installed to address already noisy conditions. Staff are also considering whether to recommend the construction of a southbound off-ramp at Walkley Road. They believe this would alleviate some of the cut-through traffic pressures that commence at the Brookfield off-ramp and filter their way through the community via Flannery and Springland.

However, the opening of the off-ramp would generate an additional 500 cars per hour, half would travel east, the other half would travel west, along Walkley Road. The speed and volume of traffic on Walkley is already a concern for many local residents. With the congestion of McCarthy Road during the afternoon rush hour, many new motorists to Walkley Road, via the off-ramp, would simply cut through the community along Southmore Drive East, Thorndale and Provost.

I plan to meet city staff in July to follow up on a number of concrete suggestions I heard at the public meeting and have been receiving from residents via email. I plan to get a better understanding of what the designation of a Parkway really means. I would also like to better understand the feasibility of widening the Parkway to three lanes instead of four, using the third lane as a rush-hour lane only, two lanes northbound in the morning, two lanes southbound in the afternoon. Suggestions have been received to examine the designation of Walkley Road between the Parkway and Riverside Drive, why it has remained as an arterial and what the ramifications would be if was changed to a more residentialfriendly designation.

Finally, I will also push staff to better explain their plans to mitigate noise along the Parkway corridor and to emphasize that before any off-ramp is built, City Council must be presented with a detailed plan that will eliminate opportunities for cut through traffic on residential streets.

Ideally, as I have been saying for many months now, the OTrain would be extended first, including the new station at Walkley Road, which will help take cars off roads, but that will not be ready until the autumn of 2023. A widened Parkway with a potential off-ramp at Walkley Road can be ready by late 2018.

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ommy Rohr was that wonderful farm hand who wandered in off the tracks one day.

He was a home boy from England, and begging for a job, he said he would work for nothing more than a bed to sleep on and three meals a day. He ended up with a couch in one corner of the back kitchen, his belongings neatly packed underneath, and with a guarantee of a flat fifty of Player’s cigarettes from Briscoe’s General Store every week as payment for his labours.

It was a long time before Father was able to afford to offer him a few dollars a month. But Tommy Rohr seemed pleased with the arrangement. As he often said, he didn’t need much else.

He had a thin, dark skinned, leathery kind of face, and I guess had he allowed it to grow would have had a black beard to match his jet hair. But all the time Tommy lived with us, he was clean-shaven and meticulous about his appearance, which was the only reason he was allowed to have that first meal at our kitchen table when he wandered in off the tracks.

MARY COOK Memories Mother would not tolerate anything but the cleanest of hands, and a face free from whiskers.

Every morning, Tommy would take his place beside Father at the washbasin on the bench beside the back door. A small wood framed mirror hung rakishly from a nail, and Father’s razor strap was right beside it. Tommy and Father shared the basin of hot water and the mirror, but for Father that is where his hospitality ended. No one was allowed to use his razor strap, not even Tommy Rohr. And so poor Tommy would use a whit stone to sharpen his black handled razor about once a week.

But alas, the whit stone did little to keep the blade keen enough for a clean shave.

I liked to stand beside Tommy in the mornings and watch this ritual

of his shaving beside Father. There was never a word spoken between the two men. This was serious business, this morning shave, no time for frivolities.

Father would be done in jig time.

He would give his razor a dozen or more swipes on his strap, and then he would get down to the serious business at hand.

Tommy on the other hand, after lathering his face with the homemade bar of soap, and not having had the benefit of the strap, would take much longer. I would stand there entranced as Tommy dragged the dull razor over his cheeks. It seemed to take forever to complete one sweep, and I silently wondered if men shaved differently because they came from England.

Father would finish, swish off his razor in the basin of hot water, dry it on the huck roller towel, fold it in two, place it carefully in its felt lined box, and set it on the window sill where it stayed until the next morning.

After Tommy had made several slow and calculated sweeps, I would see little pinheads of blood appear.

And every time that happened, Tommy would lean into the mirror and look as if he had never laid eyes on his own face before in his life. I was so fascinated I wouldn’t have moved from the spot if the house caught on fire. sprung a leak

And every time he sprung a leak (as my brother Emerson took to calling his razor nicks), Tommy would stop shaving, tear a smidgen of newspaper off a page he had at the ready, and carefully place it over the wound.

By the time he was finished shaving, his face looked like lace tablecloth, with all these little pieces of paper stuck to his cheeks. All the time he would be cursing the razor.

By that time Father would be settled in at the head of the table digging into his fried potatoes and salt pork. And every time he saw Tommy take another piece out of his face, Father would wince and screw up his face as he himself had been inflicted.

Well, this went on for ages after

Tommy had become part of our household. And finally Father made a gesture that was completely against his principles. He thought a man’s razor strap was as personal as his long underwear. No one touched it but the man to whom it belonged.

But one day Father could stand it no longer. There stood Tommy in front of the mirror after a particularly torturous morning of lacerations with these dabs of newspaper stuck all over his face.

Father rose from his breakfast, went to Tommy, took the razor from his hands, rinsed it off, and began slapping it up and down on the strap. I thought he was going to take it from its moorings. He handed it back to Tommy and said, “now let’s hope that’s the last of the wounding.

I guess you’ll have to use the strap instead of the whit stone. Can’t have you bleeding to death every morning.”

It was the end of my fascination with Tommy and his daily shaves.

And it was the start of a new relationship between him and my Father.

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The Victims of Communism memorial has been drastically reduced in size, but the NCC has moved closer to finalizing its controversial location.

The National Capital Commission presented a significantly smaller design for the proposed monument at its board of directors meeting on June 25, but it also approved starting a decontamination project on the site in preparation for the monument’s construction – something Rideau-Rockcliffe Coun. Tobi Nussbaum called “discouraging.”

He said the NCC’s advisory committee on planning, design and realty had expressed clearly in the minutes of its May project review that it does not support putting the monument in the vacant site beside the Supreme Court of Canada, because it has long been reserved for a third court building to complete a “judicial triad” on the capital’s most recognizable road.

Nussbaum has been vocal about the fact that the monument’s location goes against the NCC’s long-term vision and plan, which the city and other stakeholders approved in 2006.

He even passed a motion at city council last month asking the federal government to find a new location

for the monument.

The site decontamination approval, which passed 6-3, takes the NCC one step further from saying no to the site, Nussbaum said. The directors should have instead respected its advisory committee’s wishes and asked Public Works to compile a list of alternative sites.

One director did suggest the green space just west of the monument’s proposed location would be a better fit, as the long-term plan labels it a public green space.

But that conversation went nowhere.

The NCC still has to approve the final design, and at that point it could take its last opportunity to consider other sites. But Nussbaum said concerned residents can’t rest on their laurels. public opinion

“I think it’s really important for the public to continue to let the government of Canada know how they feel about the proposed site,” he said.

The monument is meant to honour the 100 million lives lost under totalitarian communist regimes of the 20th century, while promoting Canada as a land of refuge.

The NCC had originally proposed putting it several hundred metres down the road in the Garden of Provinces and Territories, but that wasn’t prominent enough

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The plans for a victims-to-communism memorial beside the Supreme Court of Canada has been reduced in size and footprint by nearly half. for the private group Tribute to Liberty, which has been spearheading the project and ran the monument’s design competition last year.

The winning design, which was announced in December 2014, was supposed to cover 60 per cent of the property.

But now it will only take up 37 per cent of the site – and it could be reduced even further to more like 33 per cent, according to NCC planning director Stephen Willis.

He said there’s a hierarchy to monuments in downtown Ottawa; nothing can be taller or larger than the National War Memorial, which is about 21 metres from top to bottom.

The communism memorial would have been just over 14 metres at its tallest point – under the revised design, the height now peaks at eight metres.

But the proposal also had a

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The footprint is now comparable in size to the Canadian Firefighters’ Memorial near city hall, Willis said.

The monument has three parts: a series of “memory folds” (long, concrete tri-

angles featuring 100 million pixels), a “bridge of hope” that visitors can walk across to get a full view of the folds, and, in front of the folds, a human figure and images from the totalitarian regimes that left 100 million dead to hammer home the point.

The original design called for seven folds ranging in height from 2.3 metres to 14.35.

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The bridge of hope was set to peak at 11 metres high, but that’s been reduced to 5.16 metres.

As for the “troubling” imagery in front of the folds, Willis said the NCC has convinced the artist and Canadian Heritage to shift the memorial’s theme away from the horrors of communism and towards celebrating Canada as a “land of refuge” for millions of immigrants and refugees.

To that end, Willis said the artist is considering incorporating images from the passports and immigration papers of thousands of people who arrived in Canada seeking a new, democratic home.

To further soften the design, a dramatic coloured lighting plan has been softened to “gentle, white lighting,” Willis said.

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ExtraOARdinary fun TOP LEFT: Spray flies through the air as a dragon boat team gets ready to compete at the Tim Hortons Ottawa Dragon Boat Festival on June 27. More than 165 teams and about 4,500 people competed throughout the weekend.

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Lucinda Nowell’s career in rhythmic gymnastics has been steadily progressing since the age of six, through thousands of hours of training and hard work.

But with Nowell’s first shot at the Pan Am Games, or any world games for that matter, just a few weeks away, the athlete said it all feels like it’s paying off.

“It’s just really exciting to be representing your country,” said Nowell, who grew up in Kanata.

She and five other Canadian rhythmic gymnastics team members will compete in the group competition in mid-July at the Toronto 2015 Pan Am Games, performing two routines they hope will wow the judges and earn them a spot in the finals and a chance at a medal.

But before that, the team is off to Spain for one last intense training session to polish their skills before the Games and a busy summer after that, said

Nowell.

“Last year I competed at a few world cups and world championships, but I haven’t been to a Games yet, so it’s pretty exciting,” said Nowell.

“It being in Toronto, it’s pretty cool now because you see things on TV about it and signs on the road, and it’s just exciting to know that you are going to be in it.”

Nowell says the team has progressed beyond what they were capable of last year, and that their fast-paced, high-energy pair of routines should put them in contention for the finals, and perhaps a medal as well.

“I think that’s sort of expected of us,” she said.

It’s a lot to accomplish for someone who transitioned from solo to group competition a little over a year ago.

“It’s almost like learning a different sport,” she said of the change.

While the focus on technique is still key, the group competition is more about precision in movement, with each member of the group having to do their

part precisely when needed.

Rhythmic gymnasts perform a routine consisting of dance and acrobatic techniques, often using one or more apparatus – ball, hoop, clubs or ribbon.

Solo competitors perform one routine per apparatus, whereas groups perform two routines using a combination of apparatus that are chosen every two years, said Nowell.

This year, the groups are performing one routine with five ribbons, and another with two hoops and three sets of clubs.

“Ribbon is hard because it’s six metres (long) and there are five of them, so getting tangled, that’s something you have to watch out for,” said Nowell.

“The hoop and clubs is impressive because there are two different apparatus, so you get to do things that are completely original that no one would get to do in individual.”

While Nowell said she is feeling really good with her team’s progress, the Pan Am Games promises to be a competition like no other. With so many other athletes participat-

ing and events taking place, staying focused on the competition will likely be difficult, she said.

But, this being her first Games, Nowell said she really doesn’t know what to expect.

“Some of the other girls on the team talk about the Games that they’ve been to, like the

Olympics and the last Pan Ams, and they are all so excited about this,” she said.

The Pan Am Games will be a chance for the group to go for glory and not worry about qualifying for another competition, said Nowell, with the world championships in September being the next qualifying round

on the road to the Olympics.

The Pan Ams are a huge accomplishment all its own, and a result of many years of dedication, she said.

“My whole career I’ve just been wanting to see how far I can get, and that’s what’s been motivating me,” said Nowell.

“Hard work pays off.”

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Derby offers special needs kids chance to participate in race day Brian Dryden brian.dryden@metroland.com

This summer’s soapbox derby in Manotick is going to be a special one for kids with special needs.

For the first time, the annual end-of-summer event in the village that will be held on Sunday, Aug. 30 will include Super Kids races that give youngsters with special needs an opportunity to participate in the fun.

“What is different this year is that we are including races for Super Kids,” Sheila Dubyk, vice-president of special events with the Manotick Village Community Association, said of the international program created to provide children with special needs the opportunity to take part in the sport.

The Super Kids program uses custom built two-seater derby cars specifically designed to allow children between eight

and 18 years of age who have a physical or developmental challenge to participate.

“MVCA is delighted that the Canadian headquarters of Super Kids in Peterborough is lending us two of their special carts this year so that we can offer children with special needs in the Ottawa area with the opportunity to participate in a soapbox derby,” Dubyk said, adding Manotick’s derby is the only one in this area to offer the Super Kids program this year.

The carts on loan from Peterborough are expected to arrive in Manotick on Aug. 16.

Registration for the event at Centennial Park, next to the Manotick Arena, is well underway with all the information potential participants need available at the community association’s website, manotickvca.org.

Along with the races to be held on the soapbox racecourse

on the Beaverwood Road hill, the races and picnic in the park will also include music, a craft table for children, face painting, balloon figures from Dr. Kaboom and a barbecue lunch of hot dogs and hamburgers.

Participants must be at least seven years of age to race and can purchase a kit online, or make a race cart from items found around the house. Specifications for the carts can also be found on the association’s website. The organization also has a limited number of carts available that have been sponsored by associations and businesses in the community for youth who do not have a racing cart.

The association has 14 available slots for riders in the sevensponsored carts.

Promotion of this year’s soapbox derby shifted into high gear in June during Manotick’s Dickinson Days weekend June 5 to 7, soapbox derby organizer

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“Dickinson Days was the kickoff of the publicity for the derby. I’m organizing the derby as we speak,” said Haan, who was recently honoured at the community association’s annual general meeting for his service to the group. Haan’s last day as a board member with the group was at the AGM on May 28.

Haan, who remains very active with community events through his work with the Manotick branch of the Canadian Legion and his ongoing involvement with the soapbox derby, said the reason he stepped away as a board member is that he couldn’t guarantee he could attend all the necessary meetings because of all the other activities he has on his agenda.

Although he’s no longer a board member, he remains as active as ever with community events in Manotick.

“Absolutely, I am staying involved,” he said. “I’ll continue to do as much as I can for as long as I can.”

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RADIOFREQUENCY TECHNICIAN LOCATION – OTTAWA, ON STATUS – FULL TIME

Best Theratronics Ltd. is a Canadian company of TeamBest™.

We became a member of the Best family in May 2008. We manufacture external beam therapy units and self-contained blood irradiators. We have created a new product line of cyclotrons (B14p, B35p and the B70p) for radioisotope production. The team brings with it a diverse range of knowledge from around the world. TeamBest™ is driven by one primary goal - to provide the best products and services to customers.

Jim Tubman Chevrolet is growing and are currently seeking two enthusias c, experienced professionals to join our automo ve sales team.

If you are looking for a change, please give us a call. We have a robust plan for growth. As one of Canada’s premier automo ve brands, we are seeking individuals that are looking for an opportunity of a life me.

We provide: • Above average compensa on with performance based bonus • Travel allowance • Strong marke ng plan • Health beneďŹ t package • Leadership support This is your opportunity. Please contact Rick Ra er at 613-733-4050 or rra er@tubmanchev.com CAREER OPPORTUNITY

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MANAGER VOLUNTEER AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT SERVICES Full-Time

Hospice Renfrew is a 6 bed residential hospice providing end of life comfort care and short-term stays for palliative respite care and pain and symptom management. We are currently recruiting for a Manager of Volunteer and Community Development Services.

Reporting to and under the direction of the Executive Director the incumbent participates as a member of the Hospice Renfrew management team to provide collaborative input into the development and implementation of strategic and operational plans and objectives. The manager leads an integrated volunteer program in clinical and non-clinical support service areas and works to actively engage the broader community throughout Renfrew County to enhance community capacity and partnership development in palliative care services.

Full position description is available at www.hospicerenfrew.ca Please note that only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

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Minister - Rev. William Ball Organist - Alan Thomas Nusery & Sunday School, Loop audio, Wheelchair access

470 Roosevelt Ave. Westboro www.mywestminster.ca

The West Ottawa Church of Christ

Email: admin@mywestminister.ca

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

St. Clement Parish/Paroisse St-ClÊment at l’Êglise Ste-Anne

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

in Metcalfe on 8th Line - only 17 mins from HWY 417 s WWW 3AINT#ATHERINE-ETCALFE CA

The Redeemed Christian Church of God

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Family Worship at 9:00am

Sunday Services: Bible Study at 10:00 AM - Worship Service at 11:00 AM

613-722-1144

Sunday Masses: 8:30 a.m. Low Mass 10:30 a.m. High Mass (with Gregorian chant) 6:30 p.m. Low Mass

South Gloucester United Church

meets every Sunday at The Old Forge Community Resource Centre 2730 Carling Avenue, Ottawa, ON K2B 7J1

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10 Chesterton Drive, Ottawa (Meadowlands and Chesterton) Tel: 613-225-6648 parkwoodchurch.ca

Sunday Worship - 10:00 a.m.

Summer Sunday School

located at 2536 Rideau Road (at the corner of Albion) 613-822-6433 www.sguc.org UNITED.CHURCH@XPLORNET.CA

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Sunday July 15th 10:00 am

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Watch & Pray Ministry

Worship - Sundays @ 10:00 a.m.

Worship services Sundays at 10:30 a.m.

Worship Leader David Sturtevant (Meets at St. Emily’s Catholic School 500 Chapman Mills Drive.)

Tel: 613-225-6648, ext. 117 Web site: www.pccbarrhaven.ca

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Dominion-Chalmers United Church

You are welcome to join us!

Sunday 11:00 a.m.

Worship & Sunday School 1350 Walkley Road (Just east of Bank Street) Ottawa, ON K1V 6P6 Tel: 613-731-0165 Email: ottawacitadel@bellnet.ca Website: www.ottawacitadel.ca

Sunday Services Worship Service10:30am Sundays Prayer Circle Tuesday at 11:30 10:30 a.m.

Rev. James Murray 355 Cooper Street at O’Connor 613-235-5143 www.dc-church.org

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St. Timothy’s Presbyterian Church 2400 Alta Vista Drive (613) 733 0131 Sunday Worship at 10:00 a.m.

Sunday School; Ample parking; A warm welcome OC Transpo route 8 awaits you.

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

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BOOKING & COPY DEADLINES WED. 4PM CALL SHARON 613-221-6228

FOR ALL YOUR CHURCH ADVERTISING NEEDS CALL SHARON 613-221-6228

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Connected to your community

Ottawa fencer taking a stab at Olympic Games Former RA Centre athlete to compete at Pan Am Games Alex Robinson

alex.robinson@metroland.com

When Kelleigh Ryan was younger, she never thought fencing would become her favourite sport.

But having stuck with it for 18 years and learned to love it, the 28-year-old is now headed to the Pan Am Games for the second time as part of the Canadian fencing team this summer in Toronto.

Ryan grew up in the Glebe as a member of an active family that encouraged her to play three different sports throughout the year. She played soccer during the summer, skied in the winter months and practiced karate year-round. She eventually decided she was

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Kelleigh Ryan has been selected to represent Canada in women’s fencing at the 2015 Pan Am Games in Toronto. not enjoying karate anymore and at the age of 10, picked up a sword.

She fell in love with the sport and joined the fencing

club at the RA Centre to hone her skills.

Ryan said that while fencing was not her favourite sport at first, it grew on her quick-

ly.

“I really like the one-on-one feeling of it, but I think over the years I’ve realized there are more and more things I

really like,” she said. “I really enjoy the technical preparation and the tactical game you get to play.”

Ryan competed in her first nationals at around age 15 and by then she was training four times a week. She competed at the World Championships every year since 2009 and had the honour of representing Canada at the 2011 Pan Am Games in Guadalahara, Mexico.

After the fencer graduated from Glebe Collegiate, she completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Ottawa, before going on to do her master’s at Carleton University, where she won athlete of the year in 2010. She then moved to New Jersey two years ago to pursue serious training.

She now trains 25 hours a week in fencing and spends the rest of her time working as a personal trainer and at the front desk of her gym.

At this year’s games in Toronto, Ryan will be competing in the women’s foil, individually and as part of a team.

She’s said she’s looking forward to having family and friends in the crowd on home soil.

“Having the hometown crowd will be really exciting and it’ll have a great atmosphere,” she said.

With an eye on making the Olympic Games next year in Brazil, Ryan said her results at this year’s competition will not matter too her as long as she improves.

“I need to keep on working and keep my sights on improving myself,” she said. “I’m not going to focus on my results too much this year.

“Whatever happens, happens. As long as I continue to improve my own fencing, it will be a great year. I’m going to do whatever I can and ideally that will mean going to the Olympics.”

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• 2 pork tenderloins, trimmed • 50 ml (1/4 cup) each sodium-reduced soy sauce and honey • 25 ml (2 tbsp) Dijon mustard • 15 ml (1 tbsp) finely chopped fresh gingerroot • 2 cloves garlic, minced Bok Choy • 6 baby bok choy • 50 ml (1/4 cup) rice vinegar • 45 ml (3 tbsp) vegetable oil

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Place the tenderloins on a cutting board, and slice lengthwise almost but not all the way through. Open the tenderloin like a book, pressing down to flatten, and place them in a large shallow dish.

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The following is a full list of categories from the Ontario Community Newspapers Association Better Newspaper Awards in which Metroland East placed top 3 • Arts & Entertainment – Nepean-Barrhaven News/Nevil Hunt (2nd) • Business & Finance – Peterborough This Week/Sarah Frank (2nd) • Education Writing – Ottawa South News/Erin McCracken (1st) • Best Investigative News Story – Ottawa South News/Erin McCracken (3rd) • Best News Story (Circ. 10000+) – Orleans News/Brier Dodge (1st) • Best News Story (Circ. -9999) – West Carleton Review/Derek Dunn (3rd) • Best Rural Story (Circ. -9999) – West Carleton Review/Jessica Cunha (3rd) • Stephen Shaw Award for Reporter of the Year – Kawartha Lakes This Week/Mary Riley (3rd) • Best News Photo (Circ. 10000+) – Kanata Kourier-Standard/Adam Kveton (2nd) • Photographer of the Year – Peterborough This Week/Lance Anderson (1st) • In House Promotion – Smiths Falls Record News (1st) • Silver Quill Awards (25 years of service in community newspapers) – Theresa Fritz, John Curry, Laurie Weir, Ryland Coyne Canadian Community Newspapers Association Awards: • Best Feature Story (Circ. 12,500+) – Ottawa South News/Erin McCracken – 1st • Best Feature Series (Circ 4,000-12,499) – Manotick News – 3rd

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When Melanie McCann wakes up in the Pan Am athletes’ village on July 18, she will face a full day of testing in not one, but five sports against some of the world’s best athletes.

As a modern pentathlete, McCann, 25, has spent the last nine years mastering fencing, show jumping, swimming, target shooting and running.

Her training and determination, paired with the support of her team of four coaches, carried her to the Pan Am Games in 2011 and the Olympics in 2012, and in July it will take her from her home in Nepean to Toronto for her second Pan Am Games. If she performs well enough on July 18, her participation in the Games will earn her a spot in the 2016 Summer Olympics.

“I can earn my Olympic berth at the Games here on

home soil which is likely to never happen in my career again,” she said. “So to get that chance to compete in front of a home crowd on home soil, and earn a second Olympic berth is absolutely the ultimate dream at this point.”

McCann’s first brush with modern pentathlon came in her hometown of Mount Carmel, Ont., between London and Lake Huron. McCann, already a competitive swimmer and high school track and field athlete, was spotted at a track meet by a coach from Goderich, who invited her to try fencing and shooting under his instruction.

Eventually she learned to ride horses, and by 2004 she had competed in her first national level pentathlon, taking home a gold medal. Although McCann began her athletic career as a swimmer, she finds it the most challenging discipline. She says fencing is her meilleure.

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sport at the age of 15 and ever since I learned how to fence I’ve just grown to love it,” she said. “It’s often called the human chess game, and rightly so because you’re always trying to play your opponent and outwit them and trick them a little bit. I really enjoy that part of the game and how it’s mental as well as physical.”

McCann began training under her head coach John Hawes in 2009 and moved to Ottawa in 2010 to continue training with Hawes full time. As her head coach, Hawes is at the hub of a team of coaches that train and support McCann.

“He’s an exceptional coach in modern pentathlon, and he’s really been the key to my success in my career over the years,” she said. “We really work well together and he has so much experience. So it was only natural for me to move there (to Ottawa) to train under him and work with John every day.”

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“Melanie is one of those athletes who is prepared to prepare to win. She does absolutely everything she possibly can to be ready on the day,” Hawes said. “She’s a very talented athlete. She’s very tough mentally, she’s got all those attributes which are common to the very best athletes in the world and it’s going to be quite fun to watch her at the Games this summer.”

McCann’s second Pan Am performance will begin on July 18 with an 11:15 a.m. fencing tournament and will see her compete in all five pentathlon disciplines throughout the day, finishing with the combined running and shooting event at 6:40 p.m.

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The Elephant in the Room The Ottawa Humane Society has been long opposed to captive wild animals in entertainment. In 2002, it lobbied city council to ban elephants and other captive wild animals in circuses and other entertainment. The city instead instituted a licensing regime. The OHS responded that the city should not license animal cruelty.

Faced with a drop in ticket sales from paying customers no longer willing to show their children the results of cruel training on wild animals, some circuses have implemented a new business model.

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As every year, they’ll be telling the community that the elephants love performing, are trained humanely, and are treated like kings. They will tell say these are “domestic elephants.”

There is no such thing as a domestic elephant. Domestic animals have been bred over thousands of generations to enhance physical or behavioural attributes such as docility, reliability and predictability. Circus animals have been trained to do tricks, but they still remain wild and are inherently unpredictable.

The principal training “tool” for elephants is an ankah. It is used in two ways: The sharp pointed hook is used to inflict pain or to pull on the delicate areas of the elephant’s skin. The blunt end is used to beat uncooperative elephants.

Between shows, animals that would naturally migrate tens of kilometres a day, wait in leg irons for their next performance.

The circus will tell you that the OHS inspects it. This, at least, is true. However, the inspection is limited to immediate distress as defined by current highly inadequate legislation.

Some have argued that these acts teach us about the natural world. There is nothing natural about an elephant in a skirt trying to balance on a ball. The time of exotic animal circuses is over. Members of the community can take a small step to end animal suffering by saying no to supporting them. Vote with your dollars and don’t buy tickets.

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Ottawa karateka Jasmine Landry began practising karate at the age of six, following in the footsteps of her older brother Eric.

On July 25 she will represent Canada in the 2015 Pan Am Games, one of the largest international competitions for karate, which is not currently an Olympic sport.

Landry, 22, has tested her skill nationally and internationally since graduating from the junior to the adult competition level in 2014.

That year she placed fifth in the Pan American Championships in karate and she placed third in the 2015 North American Cup in April.

But the Pan Am Games, she said, will be the highest point of her career so far.

“I’m very excited, more than for the championships, especially because it’s a multi-sport competition and that’s not something I’ve been exposed to,” Landry said.

“Karate’s not yet in the Olympics. We’re hoping to be in the next one. So this is a big deal and we’re hoping it means more exposure for the sport too.”

The Pan Am Games are the world’s third largest international multi-sport competition, surpassed in size and scope only by the Olympic Summer Games and the Asian Games.

More than 7,000 athletes from 41 countries across the Americas and the Caribbean will convene in Toronto during July and August to compete in 36 Pan Am sports and 15 Parapan Am sports.

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Jasmine Landry demonstrates some karate moves against Canadian Olympic team mascot Komak during an Olympic Day celebration in Montreal on June 12, 2015. which will allow her friends and family to follow her on her journey to her biggest international competition so far.

“It’s always nice to compete in Canada. You have all the comforts of home and everyone close by to support you. It’s nice to have the support,” Landry said, add-

“So this is a big deal and we’re hoping it means more exposure for the sport too.”

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ing that her family and some friends will travel from Ottawa to Toronto this month to see her compete in the Games.

Landry moved to Ottawa from Nova Scotia with her parents and brother when she was 15 and began training with sensai Germain Bisson at Karate Cama in Gatineau that year.

Although the commute from her home in Nepean to the dojo is not a short one, Landry currently trains five to six times each week for up to two hours each session in preparation for the Pan Am Games.

In addition to regular training, Landry, who graduated from the University of Ottawa this year, works part time helping to socialize a fiveyear-old boy with autism and plans to study behavioural science at Algonquin College beginning in September.

Bisson said Landry’s drive and dedication to her work are what earned her a spot in the international games.

“Her attitude made that possible,” Bisson said. “She’s very serious. She gives 100 per cent, all the time.

“We’re lucky to have Jasmine. It’s a big plus for us, her attitude and her behaviour.

Landry will compete in the first round of the women’s 68-kg competition on July 25 at 1 p.m. The semifinals and gold medal finals will take place after 8 p.m. the same day.

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Local events and happenings over the coming weeks — free to non-profit organizations Fax: 613-224-3330, E-mail: Ottawasouth@metroland.com The deadline for community event submissions is Friday at noon. Email your events to ottawasouth@metroland.com.

July 6

The Ottawa Public Library is launching its TD Summer Reading Club.

The Alta Vista library branch is hosting a launch celebration on July 6, from 2 to 3 p.m. Registration is not required. The branch is located at 2516 Alta Vista Dr. Call 613-5802424, ext. 30426 for details.

July 7

Hannah Beach, author of the book, I Can Dance the Outdoors to life, will be guiding participants in exploring movements for wind, water, stars and more, as well as in the creation of your own story vignettes using dance, fabric, music and ideas. The program on July 7, from 2 to 2:45 p.m., is for kids ages seven to 12. Registration is required. The Alta Vista branch of the Ottawa Public Library is located at 2516 Alta Vista Dr. Call 613-5802424, ext. 30426 for details.

July 7, 14, 21 and 28

Take part in Summer Family Storytime with stories, rhymes, and songs for all ages and a parent or caregiver.

No registration is required. The program takes place Tuesdays, on July 7, 14, 21 and 28, from 10:30 to 11 a.m.

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July 9

A Curtain Call program for children ages four to six takes place at the Alta Vista library branch on July 9, from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. Registration is required. The Alta Vista branch of the Ottawa Public Library is located at 2516 Alta Vista Dr. Call 613-5802424, ext. 30426 for details.

Enjoy tabletop gaming for ages 10 to 12 on July 9, from 2 to 3 p.m. Registration is required. The Alta Vista branch of the Ottawa Public Library is located at 2516 Alta Vista Dr. Call 613-580-2424, ext. 30426 for details.

July 10, 17, 24 and 31

Roll the dice, pick a suit or grab a nunchuk. Come play cards, board games or Wii at the Alta Vista library branch. No registration required. The program takes place Fridays, on July 10, 17, 24 and 31, from 2 to 4 p.m.

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July 15

Children seven to nine are invited to make some noise at the Alta Vista library branch on July 15, from 10:30 to 11 :30 a.m. Registration is required.

Unleash your musical beast at a treblemakers program at the Alta Vista library. The program is for ages 10 to 12 and takes place July 15, from 2 to 3 p.m.

July 16

Summer Toddlertime with stories, rhymes and songs for babies, 18 to 36 months, and a parent or caregiver takes place July 16, from 10:30 to 11 a.m. No registration is required.

The Alta Vista branch of the Ottawa Public Library is located at 2516 Alta Vista Dr. Call 613-580-2424, ext.

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July 20

Create a labyrinth with stencils, unexpected forms and pictorial compositions and use inks, straws and your breath to solve it on July 20, from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m.. The program is for kids ages seven to 12.

Registration is required.

Enjoy mind-bending illusions at the Alta Vista library branch on July 20, from 2 to 3 p.m. The program is for ages 10 to 12. Registration is required.

August 10 to 14

Camp Awesome: This week-long Christian day camp program sponsored by the Ottawa Presbytery of the United Church takes place at Rideau Park United Church, 2203 Alta Vista Dr., and serves children ages four to 12. Led by trained staff, activities will include games, crafts, drama, singing, water fun, story-telling and learning about important

topics. The camp runs each day from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Children bring their own lunch. Cost per camper is $70 if you register on or before June 14 and $80 after that date. Optional childcare is available each day both before and after camp for an additional fee. For more information and to register online, go to the Camp Awesome link on the church website at rideaupark.ca, or call 613-7333156, ext 229.

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The Divertimento Orchestra, an Ottawa-based group of musicians, has openings in its string sections and for second trumpet and flute/piccolo.

The orchestra began in 1984 as a small ensemble playing in someone’s basement and has evolved into a fullfledged community symphony. For details, and audition requirements, email elsaslater@magma.ca, call 613-823-1200 or visit divertimento.ca.

July 11

The Ottawa Humane Society Auxiliary is hosting a garage sale on July 11, from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. The rain date is July 12. Funds raised during the event, which takes place at 59 Larkin Ave. in Barrhaven, will support the animals of the Ottawa Humane Society. Donated items will be accepted the morning of the sale at 8 a.m. For more details, call Nancy at 613-825-1621.

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The Alta Vista branch of the Ottawa Public Library offers a summer babytime program with stories, rhymes and songs for babies up to 18 months and a parent or caregiver. Registration is not required. The program runs Mondays, June 22 and July 13, from 10:30 to 11 a.m. The Alta Vista Library is located at 2516 Alta Vista Dr. For more information, call 613580-2424, ext. 30426.

July 14

Explore the ABCs at the Alta Vista library branch on July 14, from 2 to 3 p.m. The program is for ages four to six. Registration is required. The Alta Vista branch of the Ottawa Public Library is located at 2516 Alta Vista

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Building connections on the pitch A torrential downpour couldn’t stop young people from enjoying some soccer at the Community Cup in Brewer Park on June 28. The annual event looks to give newcomers to Canada as well as established Ottawa residents the chance to play soccer and build connections in a co-ed recreational soccer tournament. More than 20 people also participated in an official ceremony to become Canadian citizens, kicking off the day-long tournament and festival.

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