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Alta Vista entrepreneur wins grant to start summer business. – Page 7
headed to the Olympics
Ottawa man named to Canada’s 4X100 relay team Eddie Rwema
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Family and friends gather at retirement home to celebrate South Keys’ woman’s 100th birthday. – Page 9
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Manotick-band the Bush Pilots return to the Bluesfest stage on July 15. – Page 11
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EMC sports - Ottawa’s Oluseyi Smith has won a spot on Canada’s men’s 4x100-metre relay team heading to the 2012 London Olympics this summer. The Ottawa Lions Track and Field Club member won a bronze medal at the track and field trials held in Calgary on July 1, running the 100-metre dash with a career-best time of 10:22 seconds. It was the fastest 100 metres of Smith’s career. The 25-year-old former student at Fielding Drive Public School and Brookfield High School in south Ottawa considers qualifying for London as his greatest atheletic achievement. “Canada has a lot of good sprinters – young ones and even older ones that are still competing today,” said Smith. “For me to finish third at a national championship, is a good achievement because I was ahead of a lot of good sprinters. Another Ottawa runner, Oluwasegun Makinde, who attended Colonel By Secondary School in Gloucester, was also named to the team. Smith’s running career began while in Grade 5 at Fielding Drive where he was actively involved in track and field. “I was doing track and field in elementary school,” said Smith. See SMITH, page 3
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Revving up the blues Dry River Caravan’s Matt Smith, left, with his bandmates perform on the Black Sheep Stage at Bluesfest on July 5. The band is a six-piece folk dance band from Ottawa that also includes lead singer John Aaron Cockburn, Daniel Grewal, Liam Smith,Robin Meyer-MacLeod and Craig Pedersen. Other acts performing at Bluesfest that evening included the electropop act LMFAO, Charles Bradley and his Extraordinaires, Dragonette, Johnny Sansone and Monkey Junk.
Hume mounts campaign against beetle Eddie Rwema eddie.rwema@metroland.com
EMC news - The emerald ash borer beetle is eating Ottawa’s ash trees and one city councillor is determined to educate his ward about the deadly beetle. After releasing the first of three new short videos created by his staff about the emerald scourge, Hume has now placed educational signs around Alta Vista with hopes of helping guide residents to the new emerald ash borer (EAB) web page put together by his of-
fice. The signs depict a large emerald ash borer beetle and say, “The EAB Could Be In Your Tree”—the tagline for Hume’s entire summer emerald ash borer educational campaign. “This situation is very grave - you can’t stop this beetle you can only manage the infestation and therefore the sooner you know that you have the beetle the sooner we can take action,” said Hume. Forty signs went out into the community, strung around trees at intersections where cars and pedestrians will see
them. In three to four weeks, the signs will be moved to other areas in the ward. “The reason is simple residents need to know about this scourge - and that is why I have created the entire EAB campaign from my cool videos to the very visible signs - to increase awareness,” said Hume. “With awareness comes the ability to assist the city in managing this environmental pest.” The entire EAB Could Be In Your Tree campaign was begun by Hume to augment efforts already made by his office
to better educate the Alta Vista community—an area of town where ash trees are numerous and badly hit by the beetle. More public education strategies about the emerald ash borer are on their way later this summer, said Hume’s office. The campaign aims to educate residents, said Hume, and make sure that they have the correct information so that they can help the city fight this beetle and hopefully manage the infestation and extend the life of ash trees. See HUME, page 2
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