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A high ratio of autism diagnoses among children of Canadian Armed Forces personnel is prompting a deeper look into whether it may be linked to their military parent suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.

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After being called to the scene on Dec. 26 around 5:30 p.m., fire crews were able to quickly bring the flames under control within nine minutes at 3339 Paul Anka Dr. in the Hunt Club community, said Sean Tracey, assistant deputy

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“Across North America smoking is one of our largest causes of fire.”

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One or more cigarettes were left smouldering in a can outside the vestibule.

The fire and extensive smoke caused an estimated $50,000 in damages, said Tracey.

No one was injured in the incident, but a mother, who was home at the time, and her two teenaged children, who had been away from the premises when the fire broke out, were displaced.

This incident serves as a re-

minder that smokers should place their cigarette butts and ashes in water or sand and in non-combustible containers, Tracey said, and also urged residents to ensure they have two escape routes.

“In this case here that vestibule was blocked, so again, as part of everybody’s home fire safety plan they should have two ways out,” he said, noting the vestibule was the primary exit for residents living in that part of the complex.

Fires in Ottawa that are caused by cigarettes happen far too frequently, said Tracey.

“Across North America smoking is one of our largest causes of fire.”

Ottawa Fire Services also expressed gratitude for the assistance the Salvation Army and the Red Cross provided to displaced residents.

“Again, to point out at this time of the year, this is where shareable contributions help out those organizations to help mitigate the impact of fire on citizens in Ottawa,” Tracey said. “And so they’ve been valuable partners for us over the years, so we appreciate everything that they’ve done.”

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A number of residents attempted to quash flames with a garden hose at a row-house complex at 3339 Paul Anka Dr. in the Hunt Club neighbourhood on Dec. 26. Smouldering materials in a cigarette butt can outside the premises caused the fire, which caused about $50,000 in damages, according to fire officials.

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Children of military members with PTSD need help: director Continued from page 1

“It could be a misdiagnosis because they’re exhibiting these behaviours, but is anybody looking at ... if anything (is) going on with their parents?” said Francesca D’Ambrosia, acting executive director of the Military Family Resource Centre of the National Capital Region, a non-profit that supports 11,000 military members, 8,000 spouses and 9,000 dependents in the Ottawa area, the Outaouais region of Quebec and as far south as Cornwall and north to Arnprior.

Military social workers are also seeing increasing numbers of military children and youth labelled with learning challenges, as well as a hodgepodge of other symptoms and issues.

“We’ve got this entire group of kids that are suffering from these very unique situations that other kids are not, because they are being raised by parents with PTSD,” D’Ambrosia said.

“It seems to be something we’re noticing more and more.”

It’s a national trend that those supporting military families behind the scenes, such as D’Ambrosia and her team at the capital region’s military family centre, have seen emerge over the past 10 to 15 years, which matches the time line for the Canadian military’s involvement in Afghanistan.

More than 40,000 Canadian military personnel were deployed to the region over the course of more than 12 years, with many personnel serving multiple tours-ofduty, according to the Canadian Armed Forces website.

For those military parents suffering from PTSD, it can manifest itself in several ways, D’Ambrosia said.

The psychiatric disorder is said to be an extreme reaction to stress and develops in response to an extremely traumatic experience, according to the Canadian military’s website.

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anxiety disorder and other conditions such as panic disorder, phobias and obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Symptoms, which can include nightmares and flashbacks, withdrawing, mood swings and irritability as well as disturbed sleep, are present for a minimum of one month and interfere with a person’s ability to function at work, home or in social situations.

“When you have a parent with extremely high anxiety, that manifests in your kids,” D’Ambrosia said, adding that some children are, in turn, lashing out and exhibiting a range of behavioural issues because of what they are experiencing and observing at home.

“We’re trying to find something that’s giving them an outlet without actually poking the finger at them and saying, ‘You’ve got issues,’” she said.

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Francesca D’Ambrosia, acting executive director of the Military Family Resource Centre of the National Capital Region, left, Janique Babin, the centre’s special events and volunteer co-ordinator, and Catherine Villeneuve, the centre’s communications and public affairs co-ordinator, are part of the team organizing the centre’s third-annual Victory Ball fundraiser, taking place at the Fairmont Chateau Laurier on Jan. 30. existing programs and services to help more military children and teens who have a parent with PTSD. The gala black-tie event at the Fairmont Chateau Lau-

rier on Jan. 30 will feature an Old Hollywood theme with a nod to the 1930s, and bring together past and present military brass and business leaders for a four-course

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The master of ceremonies will be comedian and American military brat Andy Hendrickson.

The event raised tens of thousands of dollars over the past two years, with proceeds going toward the centre’s mental-health programming for military youth in 2015 and establishing emergency housing for military members and families as well as expanding family, separation and support services in 2014.

The goal this year is to expand its range of programs that are therapeutic for military kids, but don’t feel like counselling, such as horseback riding, D’Ambrosia said.

The centre hosted an Amazing Pirate Race for the first time this summer that drew 30 military dads and their children, ages 12 and up, who spent the day travelling around the city on public transit, bonding over a challenging treasure hunt adventure.

“My goal for the centre is that instead of being reactive – we deal with it when it comes up – I’d like to have these things in place to just blanket it so that we include it in every service that we deliver,” D’Ambrosia said.

Her long-term vision also includes boosting the number of social workers from seven to 15, and working with school boards to get military kids the psycho-educational assessments they need sooner.

The comprehensive evaluation of a child’s

learning challenges takes up to two years to acquire through school boards. Privately, it can be done much quicker but comes with a hefty price tag.

“I would love to be able to say: A) we can get you in on a special list that is reserved for military children so you don’t have to wait and, B) we would love to be able to cover the costs,” D’Ambrosia said.

Factor in often frequent military postings and children may have to start back at the bottom of a new wait list if they move elsewhere and change to a different school board, she added, which could further set them back.

Centre staff also recognize they can play a role in educating teachers on the military lifestyle, helping them understand what their military students may be going through and how that can impact their learning.

D’Ambrosia said these training opportunities could be done through a lunch-and-learn session or an evening workshop. “(For) a lot of those kids, their issues are their parent is leaving,” D’Ambrosia said.

Improving communication between educators and parents of military kids is also needed.

“Some of these teachers don’t even know the parents are in the military,” she said.

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The toddler’s grandmother woke up just before 3 a.m. and discovered smoke “… coming from the floor vent in her bathroom,” said assistant deputy fire chief Sean Tracey.

The home suffered an estimated $50,000 in damages after smoke and flames broke out in the floor joists between the basement and first floor of the rental home at 1815 Kingsdale Ave. on Dec. 23 just before 3 a.m.

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Grade 11 and 12 students also gave from the heart, assembling enough gift items to put together 99 wrapped shoeboxes for the Shepherds of Good Hope Christmas Shoebox campaign.

alarm in the basement had activated in a timely fashion or whether its sound was muffled.

“Although we call for one smoke alarm per floor, in some cases you could have rooms being closed off where you might not hear working smoke alarms,” Tracey said, which is why it’s best to have more than the minimum requirement of one smoke alarm smoke per floor and one outside each bedroom area.

“You can never have enough working smoke alarms.”

The cause of this fire is electrical in nature, which Tracey said was confirmed by the Electrical Safety Authority.

“So it appears to be that at some point in time there was some mechanical damaging to the wiring, and this did short out,” Tracey said.

He added that this type of damage can be caused by a staple or nail put through the wiring or the covering of the wiring fraying over time.

“This could have been an issue over time,” Tracey said.

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ow that 2015 has come and gone, 2016 is a fresh slate for the city of Ottawa.

There is a never-ending list of items we would all like to see on some kind of wish list for the city in 2016.

From an aging infrastructure to a coherent transit strategy to rural roads, there is a great deal Ottawa residents would like to see resolved.

Light rail promises to bring Ottawa commuters into the 21st century. To achieve that goal the city will need to secure infrastructure funding so that the second phase of the light rail project can continue. A green light on the east- and west-end extensions would be appreciated.

When the light rail reality begins to blossom, hopefully it will be alongside a well-maintained bus service.

A coherent transit strategy in other parts of the city, not blessed with light rail, is a wish many residents have. Expansion of traffic-bearing roads in one direction at the expense of common sense on others can create challenges for us all. One strategy driven by an agreed on traffic and community philosophy would ensure a consistent and

logical pattern of road growth.

Rural neighbourhoods will need some thoughtful planning solutions as rural roads become busier than ever.

The local athletic organizations like the Ottawa Lions Track and Field Club produce fine athletes.

Hopefully, as the summer Olympic Games arrive, Team Canada will include many of these local athletes. There is nothing like being able to cheer for your own.

Art and culture is more important than we can ever know. The music is the sound a culture makes as it talks to itself and the expression of that culture helps its members understand who they are.

This year’s Bluesfest is another nice way Ottawa residents can share their love of music and the stories the music tells. A great lineup of performers for the 2016 Bluesfest would be at the top of any Ottawa resident’s wish list for the new year.

Making Ottawa the best that it can be should not be a challenge, but instead an opportunity to think out of the box and look for solutions that rival the status quo.

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There were lots of bad ones too, but that’s for another time.

In no particular order, here are some things to like about 2015: 1. The first arrival of Syrian refugees and the impressive effort, both by government and volunteers, in making that possible. It brings to mind Project 4000 in 1979, which showed our city in its best light.

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3. The Redblacks. Wasn’t it fun to go to the Grey Cup? Wasn’t it fun for Ottawa to remember what the Grey Cup is? Beyond that, it was good to see football be reborn in the city, the interest and fun it

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in more significant areas. Perhaps the refugee situation is one.

5. That new pedestrian bridge, the AdĂ we Crossing, between Donald Street and Somerset East.

It can only change life for the better. We need more of them.

6. The apparent demise of smart mailboxes. It’s not absolutely certain that they are doomed, but the new government clearly recognizes that they are a political liability.

7. The apparent shift of the Memorial to the Victims of Communism. If it proceeds it will be smaller and elsewhere. Somebody suggested the Diefenbunker, and that seems like a good spot.

8. Change of government. No partisanship is intended here. I probably said the same thing in 2006 when the Tories came in and the Liberals went out. A change of government every few years energizes the city. People change jobs, there is movement, excite-

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Obviously, not everyone can be happy about this – museum directors, for example, and MPs who have to learn where the Opposition benches are. But in a government town it is a good thing when people become interested in government again.

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The best financial advice I can give to you in the month of January is to avoid any temptation to spend. There are all kinds of sales in January – white sales, postChristmas sales, auto sales on 2015 models that need to be moved off the lot. Avoid them all.

Find that thing – or those things – that are killing your budget one Toonie at a time. It may be hitting the drive-thru every morning. Perhaps it’s those sneaky checkout purchases of lip balm to add to your bathroom drawer collection. Maybe it’s magazine subscriptions, or cable TV that you never watch now that you’re addicted to YouTube.

For me, at one time or another, it’s been all of the above. Now that I live a life of boredom, I attempt to avoid all those things.

Shop the flyers and stock up on sale items if you can. Become best friends with your slow cooker.

There are a number of cool things online that show you how to buy, make and freeze 40 crock pot dinners in an afternoon.

What better way to spend a Saturday after the holidays than chopping eight pounds of chicken

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Don’t have a crock pot? This can still work for you, if you can find 90 minutes or so in the evening to throw the ingredients in a large soup pot or a Dutch oven.

Don’t have a freezer? Find a friend that does. But whatever you do, don’t buy a freezer!

Pay off any outstanding bills, and vow to use cash or debit for the majority of your purchases this year. If you have a credit card balance from your Christmas overload, or you forgot to pay your telecom bill, suck it up and pay it off as much as you can without further increasing your debt for next month, even if it means eating beans every night.

Use cash for everything. I rarely use my credit card, except for on-

line or travel purchases I can pay off immediately. I lack a certain organizational element in my brain that differentiates between credit and cash.

More than a decade ago, when I used my credit card frequently, I would forget that I made certain purchases and I would essentially double-spend – using the cash in my account to make new purchases rather than to pay off my credit card. It’s easier to avoid this with online banking that shows your credit card balance in real time, but I still avoid credit whenever I can.

Start saving. Several years ago, I wasn’t sure how to start saving because I got caught up in the allocation of the money. Was I saving for retirement or my kids’ education? Was I saving for a trip or for car repairs?

At some point, I just started saving, and I made it automatic. It was a simple piece of advice from an uncle who works as a financial adviser: just save the money and allocate it later. Eventually, I did

divvy the money up into different accounts, but the first step was having it disappear automatically from my chequing account.

Already saving? If you’re expecting a cost-of-inflation increase, a salary increase or any new money, allocate it to autosavings right away. If you’re low income, start having $10 or $20 or $50 per week

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Follow these five steps and I can assure you life may become boring for a while, but your financial situation will improve greatly. What’s more exciting than that?

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Fire caused an estimated $20,000 in damages to a food distribution centre at Belfast Road and St. Laurent Boulevard, but the financial tally is expected to be much higher, according to fire officials. “(There was) extensive smoke damage throughout the warehouse,� said assistant deputy fire chief Sean Tracey, adding that damages will be significantly higher because food operations will be impacted by the inte-

rior damage.

Fire crews were called to the Mid-East Food Centre at 1000 Belfast Rd. on Dec. 20 before midnight after a report of smoke in the building, Tracey said.

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Of the $5.5 million the province has already allocated to assist arriving refugees, $1.33 million will be headed to Ottawa. In total, the province has committed to allocating $8.5 million over the next twoand-a-half years, meaning more announcements will come in the New Year.

The first round of funds will support key areas of the resettlement process, which is already.

Ottawa Centre MPP Yasir Naqvi said, “$800,000 will go to the Catholic Centre for Immigrants, who will be co-ordinating settlement services for refugees.�

The remaining money will be split between Refugee613 and the University of Ottawa refugee sponsorship support program.

The CCI will deliver case management and housing support while referring refugees to local agencies to deal with other needs.

Refugee 613 is co-ordinating private sponsorships and helping integrate arriving refugees, while the U of O’s program will train lawyers and law students to provide legal support for the preparation of sponsorship applications. “The Catholic Centre for Immigrants applauds the province for providing this early funding to help us scale up settlement services,� said Carl Nicholson, executive director of CCI.

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The building was also not equipped with sprinklers.

Firefighters took precautionary measures in the event the building became fully engulfed in flames, which it ultimately did not.

Once they discovered the source of the fire, crews were able to quickly knock down the blaze and bring it under control by 12:17 a.m. “(The fire) was found in a storeroom at the back and it appeared to have been a spliced electrical cord that then had storage materials stored on top of it,� Tracey said of the source.

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Kanata resident Simon Huang is a long way from his family home in northern China.

That means he all too often misses gatherings in which his family comes together to celebrate the start of the new year in the lunar calendar, and make tasty homemade jiaozi dumplings together from scratch.

“It’s my favourite food,” Huang said.

But in a matter of weeks, he will get the chance to bite into a jiaozi here in Ottawa, and start the Chinese New Year off right.

“In the north, everyone will get together and make the dumplings,” Huang said. “So it brings everybody together. You can chit-chat at the same time, catch up on what they have been doing the entire year.

“It’s more about the get-

together and (making) the dumplings,” said Huang, project co-ordinator with the new non-profit Ottawa Asian Fest, which is organizing the CIBC Chinese New Years Festival at the EY Centre on Sunday, Feb. 8, from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.

Without the widening of the heavily congested Airport Parkway and the O-Train extension to Riverside South, traffic will only get worse, says the association president representing Riverside Park.

David Hutchinson’s community regularly experiences traffic backlogs on Riverside Drive, some of which are due to motorists opting out of using the predominantly two-lane parkway.

Both the parkway and Riverside Drive are bursting at the seams due to booming growth in Riverside South and Findlay Creek.

“My perspective is that we can say we don’t like all this and we don’t want these roads to be developed, but the fact is the congestion will just be worse in a year if we don’t do it because the development is a fact, it’s there,” said Hutchinson, president of the Riverside Park Community and Recreation Association. “With so many people in Riverside South, we need that Airport Parkway corridor to be better utilized.”

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“I feel great that the criminals have been caught and I hope now that they are brought to justice,” said close friend Mohaimen Hyder, a Queen’s University student who first met the victim in 2013 through a mutual friend. Chowdhury was studying at Queen’s at the time and switched to Carleton this year.

The arrest of two Ottawa men, ages 19 and 20, was announced on Dec. 20.

The pair have been jointly charged with one count of manslaughter and one count of robbery.

cial issue with many, many tentacles. We’re looking at issues of mental health and addictions and the market for drugs, which is a part of what drives the drug trade,” she said.

“We’re looking at poverty. We’re looking at issues of divided neighbourhoods.”

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The city has begun its environmental assessment study of the widening of the Airport Parkway, between Brookfield Road and the Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport, as well as the widening of Lester Road.

Absolutely devastated and angry – that’s how Kim de Bellefeuille-Percy felt the day she received a letter confirming the news that St. Elias Child Care & Family Resource Centre in Ottawa’s Mooney’s Bay Park neighbourhood will close due to financial reasons.

The Jan. 20 announcement that it would cease operations on Feb. 20 gave parents of the approximately 70 children at the non-profit centre one month to search for alternate care.

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Last week’s announcement that the school had won a $100,000 grand prize from the Aviva Community Fund will allow construction to go ahead this summer on the construction of a new fully accessible playground for senior students ages nine to

An elderly woman, who was found unresponsive by firefighters after they began fighting a fire at her South Keys home at 3340 Kodiak St. on Feb. 7, is being remembered by her neighbours as kind and active in the community.

“She was very intelligent, involved in the community, as well,” said one woman, a neighbour, who asked not to

Performers with the Ottawa-based Success Lion Dance Troupe were to put on a traditional lion dance parade to ward off evil spirits and bring good luck during the inaugural Chinese New Year’s Festival at the EY Centre Feb. 8.

Gone will be a 30-year-old wooden play structure and sand-covered playground at Clifford Bowey Public School that would have kept Tocchi and his wheelchair on the sidelines, once he graduates in June to the school’s senior program.

The Max Keeping Foundation, which has helped more than 6,000 families since it was created 21 years ago, is winding down and will close by mid-summer of this year.

“We are no longer accepting requests for funding or granting donations,” Dave Ready, chairman of the foundation’s board of directors, said at a press conference at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario on Feb. 11.

“We have honoured all of our commitments to date.”

Safety concerns are prompting the dismantling of two weather-worn artifacts that have sat for decades in Technology Park on the

grounds of the now closed Canada Science and Technology Museum.

Deterioration of the towering Convair Atlas 5A rocket, on loan to the museum from the United States air force since 1973, and a rusted green oil pumpjack that has been on the grounds since 1967 has worried museum staff that visitors to the site could become injured.

St. Elias Child Care & Family Resource Centre has closed its doors for good, despite attempts by concerned parents to lobby for an extension they said would give them more time to seek out alternate childcare.

In the lead up to the Feb. 20 closure, a promising proposal was developed between parents of children at the non-profit daycare and parish council representatives with the St. Elias Antiochian Orthodox Cathedral, which managed the centre in the Mooney’s Bay Park community.

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Eight versus six storeys looked much more appealing to Shannon and Dave MacDonald, who joined more than 50 people at a public presentation on the project held at Brookfield High School on Monday, Feb. 2.

be identified due to privacy concerns. “She stayed active.

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“She would have us over for tea and things like that,” she said of her neighbour, whom she identified only as Geraldine.

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MARCH Long waiting lists for children and teens who need to be assessed for an eating disorder have prompted a research team at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario to develop a new educational website designed to better inform parents and caregivers of children, nine to 18, who may be suffering from an eating disorder or eating difficulties.

“As practitioners, we were frustrated and concerned about the wait lists for an eating disorder assessment in Ottawa and other parts of the country,” said Dr. Wendy Spettigue, an associate professor in the University of Ottawa’s department of psychiatry.

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Thirty-seven military personnel arrived in Ottawa late last week after waging a different kind of battle overseas.

The team of doctors, nurses, medical technicians, physician assistants and support personnel – the majority of them from 2 Field Ambulance and 1 Canadian Field Hospital at CFB Petawawa – spent more than two months in the West African nation of Sierra Leone providing medical care to local and international health-care workers infected with or exposed to Ebola, a rare but often deadly

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“They were treating healthcare workers who had or were suspected to have Ebola virus disease,” said Maj Nicole Meszaros, spokeswoman for Canadian Forces Heath Services, who is based at the National Defence Medical Centre in the Riverside Park community of Ottawa.

The axing of 40 to 50 jobs at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario will impact patient services despite assurances

from hospital administrators that beds and clinics won’t be closed, says one of three union officials representing employees at the hospital.

CHEO announced March 11 it expects to reduce approximately two to three per cent of its 1,750-member workforce across all of its departments to make up for a $6.7-million shortfall in its $243-million annual budget, a funding gap which administrators said was brought on by funding “pressures” from the provincial gov-

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When it comes to fighting climate change, the writing is on the wall in Ottawa.

“Ontario is falling behind in the production of electric cars compared to Japan, the U.S. and Europe,” said Kanata resident Allan Poulson.

He drove his electric car, a converted Ford Ranger, to a town-hall meeting on climate change at the RA Centre on March 11 to share his ideas with the Ontario government, which is developing a 35-year strategy and five-year action plan on climate change and strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Poulsen was one of about 130 people who attended the public consultation session, one of 15 being hosted across the province by the Ontario Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change before it releases its strategy and action plan before the end of the year.

APRIL While some shoppers were surprised when they were recently met with locked doors at several Ottawa Future Shop locations, the head of the Ottawa Chamber of Commerce was surprised it took the company until now to consolidate its two electronic retail brands: Future Shop and Best Buy. “I’m surprised it took this long to rationalize that, just having the two brands out there,” said Ian Faris, president and chief executive of the Ottawa Chamber of Commerce.

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was thrown from a Dodge Charger allegedly seen fleeing a murder scene in the Hunt Club Park community in early February.

Several officers with the emergency services unit looked for evidence along the east side of Hunt Club Road between Hawthorne Road and Highway 417.

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Parent company Best Buy Canada announced Saturday, March 28 it was permanently shuttering 66 Future Shops across Canada, including locations in Kanata and Nepean.

No charges will be laid by police against the driver of a garbage truck that struck and killed an Ottawa woman as she rode her bike in the Ride the Rideau charity last summer.

The police collision investigations unit announced March 25 it has closed an investigation into the death of Laurie Strano, 40. The mother of two served as director of quality, patient safety and risk management with the Royal Ottawa Health Care Group.

Proposed plans to construct three post-secondary student rental apartment buildings on Brookfield Road are now on hold.

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Madison Huibers, 3, of Nepean keeps the beat while drumming on a Junkyard Symphony exhibit on Sunday, April 12 during the second day of the 14th annual Kidsfest – Capital Parent & Kids Show at the EY Centre.

Redfoxco had applied to the city for approval of a site plan to construct the first of three apartment buildings with ground-floor retail space at 770 Brookfield Rd. in the Riverside Park community, just west of Brook-

field High School.

The full build-out of the complex called for 540 units that could accommodate between 1,200 and 1,500 student tenants. Redfoxco hoped the first building would be ready for tenants

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Ottawa police officers spent the better part of a day searching along Hunt Club Road for a suspected murder weapon – a firearm that investigators believe

Reports by 30 parents that their children were showing symptoms after an unapproved pesticide was sprayed inside Charles H. Hulse Public School has prompted the transfer of staff and students to the empty Parkwood Hills Public School in Nepean.

Even as school board officials were figuring out busing details April 21, Parkwood Hills school, located at 60 Triverton Dr., was being readied before students were welcomed the morning of April 22.

When Dr. Jim Walker pedals 108 kilometres this fall to raise money for cancer research, he will not only

be thinking of the cause, but also of Laurie Strano, who was killed during the Ride the Rideau charity cycling event last September.

Emergency responders hadn’t yet arrived when Walker came upon the accident site on River Road in Manotick where Strano, a 40-year-old mother of two, had died after she was struck by a garbage truck.

Seven signs will find their way back to city street corners this spring to point drivers toward the Park’N Fly on Uplands Drive.

Council agreed on April 15 to allow the private company, which provides longterm parking and shuttle services for Ottawa airport customers, to reinstall seven of its 19 signs that had been in place on city properties since 1998.

They were all taken down last spring after Mark Laroche, CEO of the Ottawa Airport Authority, complained they were illegal.

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Mother and Father look back at the year that was

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oth Mother and Father said it had been an up-anddown year, and it was coming to a close.

That year, I remember that night so well. We had yet to clear the supper table, and it was unusual for either of them to loiter after the meal was over.

Father anxious to get to his favourite spot in front of the Findlay Oval to read the Ottawa Farm Journal, and Mother looking forward to sitting at the cleaned off table to write in her beloved diaries. But that night they stayed, sipping their tea and talking about the year that was about to end.

Father remembered the hot summer day, and the terrible storm that killed 11 of our cows seeking shelter under the big tree on the west hill. And I could see Mother’s eyes mist over, recalling the terrible loss, and then seeing neighbours, one

MARY COOK Memories after the other, the next day, walk down our long lane, either leading a young heifer or steer to replace what we had lost.

“What would we have done without our good neighbours?” she said.

It had been an up and down year for the crops, Father said, but by some miracle, the hay mow was full, and the grain bins had enough in them to see us through the winter and into the next cropping.

And they reminisced on about the year that had

been. Mother talked about the cellar full of vegetables, preserves and pickles, and the sauerkraut barrel in the summer kitchen.

“Blessed indeed,” she said to no one in particular.

Then they both chuckled, recalling how we five kids all came down with the whooping cough at the same time.

“And nobody died,” Father chuckled, remembering the many trips Mrs. Beam made to stir up her special concoctions bound to cure anyone of everything. “Sure great to have someone like

Mrs. Beam around,” Mother said. “And we didn’t have to call old Dr. Murphy out from Renfrew once.”

“Yes, its been a good year,” Father said again.

“Goodness knows what the next 12 months will bring, but the past 12, even with a few bumps along the way weren’t that bad.”

And then they talked about turkey-fair day, just passed. Even though it is called turkey-fair, chickens, geese, homemade butter and soap, and Mother’s special sticky buns, were all loaded onto the flat-bottomed sleigh and driven into Renfrew to sell.

“Boy, that was sure a stroke of luck, wasn’t it?”

Men wearing white coats over their winter clothes walking up and down Raglan street, stopped at our sleigh, and bought every goose, turkey and chicken we had brought from the farm. And it didn’t take

long to get rid of the other things on the sleigh either!

I thought this was a good place for me to add my two cents.

“Sure were lucky, weren’t we Mother?”

She paused for a few minutes before answering, and then she said, “No, not lucky, Mary. We were blessed.”

Father was getting up from the table, having recalled all the good things that had happened to us over the past year, when Mother reached over and held onto his arm. “And Albert, today I had enough money in the sugar bowl to pay Briscoe’s General Store what I owed. My bill came to $2.80 cents. It sure feels good to go into the new year, not owing a cent.”

I went to bed that night, just as the year was about to end, with a warm feeling, that didn’t come only from the feather tickings and the

hot bricks wrapped in towels at my feet. I could put the talk of the Depression that often hung over our heads like a black cloud, out of my mind. At least for a while. And before I went to sleep, I prayed that the next year would be as good as the last.

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For Ottawa’s 45,000 rural residents still served by Hydro One, it’s a tale of two cities.

While urban residents pay one rate for their electricity, those served by the provincial corporation pay “significantly more,” according to Cumberland Coun. Stephen Blais.

It’s a chronically unfair situation he hopes to end once and for all after 15 years of broken negotiations.

Blais will introduce a motion at the next council meeting asking Mayor Jim Watson to get a firm commitment from the province that Hydro Ottawa will be able to compete in a fair process to purchase those Hydro One customers if the province decides to sell.

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Staff Sgt. Robert Drummond, with the Ottawa police major crime unit. “But as soon as the first responders got there it became obvious that was not the case.”

with an image of what Ottawa means to her: the Parliament Buildings.

The nine-year-old and her Grade 4 Featherston Drive Public School classmates got a head start on May 1 when they drew images of their favourite Ottawa landmarks and scenery minutes after Mayor Jim Watson, Alta Vista Coun. Jean Cloutier and Rideau-Vanier Coun. Mathieu Fleury launched a postcard-drawing contest to mark Ottawa’s 2017 celebration year.

Just days after a 21-yearold Riverview Park man was shot to death in Eastway Gardens on May 3, residents in the tight-knit community were breathing a sigh of relief that police had arrested two Ottawa men in connection with the city’s third homicide this year.

Matt Shillington, who lives about 120 metres from where Sharif Said was gunned down, was thrilled to hear news of the arrests, which were made on May 6.

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

When police initially were called to the scene on Sunday, May 3 at approximately 6 a.m., they thought they would be dealing with a motor vehicle accident “just because there was a victim down on the ground and a car on the road,” said

More than 4.6 million passengers – most of them travelling domestically – passed through the Ottawa International Airport in 2014, representing an increase of less than one per cent over 2013.

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

Jean Cloutier watch as Grade 4 Featherston Drive Public School students Safaa Hemat, 10, front left, Amalya Katz, 9 and Ammar Al-Saami, 9, draw pictures they might submit for a new Ottawa 2017 postcard-drawing contest that was launched May 1 at the school by the three municipal representatives.

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Ontario during its 32nd-annual telethon on June 6 and 7.

Last year, the telethon, which is featured annually on CTV Ottawa, helped generate a record-breaking $7,121,350 to help the hospital pay for specialized medical equipment, fund hospital programs and staff training and support of research at the CHEO Research Institute.

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2015 IN REVIEW As 2015 comes to an end, I would like to take the opportunity to give an overview of some of the initiatives we have been working on at City Hall.

In my first year, I have been working closely with residents to identify Ward priorities for this term of council. I believe a good councillor is an accessible councillor and that is why within my first 100 days in office, I opened a constituency office in the Rideauview Community Centre, delivering on a key campaign commitment. I have also hosted multiple open houses in Barrhaven, Riverside South and Findlay Creek to hear from residents on what they want for our community. Finally, I am in regular contact with community association presidents across the Ward.

This first year has set the foundation for financial decisions and initiatives going forward in my term and I have led by example by returning my car allowance, bringing $27,600 back to city coffers. On the legislative front, I have brought forward a motion that will help the City find significant administrative savings by conducting ongoing administrative reviews and institute a challenge function for internally-facing programs and services across departments while subjecting administrative allocations to a robust review by leadership across the organization including councillors.

Our community is one of the fastest growing in Ottawa. We see this in the Riverside South and Findlay Creek communities and that is why I will continue to champion infrastructure investments for our ward. In fact, this year alone we have seen investments in new parks, intersection improvements and modifications as well as new schools. More recently, I hosted a business roundtable with our economic development branch, my provincial and federal counterparts and local business owners to ensure a strong and vibrant business community.

I have also been active with the veteran community.

As many of you know, I recently championed a motion allowing vehicles displaying veteran’s plates to park for free in the on-street areas around the National War Memorial and parking garage at City Hall on Remembrance Day. I have also been working with the Barrhaven Legion on their Cenotaph project.

“It’s almost flat growth,” Mark Laroche, president and chief executive officer of airport authority, said during the organization’s annual general meeting at the Hilton Garden Inn on May 6.

“But, if I can be an optimist, it’s green shoots and it should be leading back to normal growth within 12 to 24 months.”

Riverside Park residents whose homes back onto a Via Rail line where a side track is now being built are calling on the Crown corporation to put the breaks on the project until their questions are answered.

Via Rail representatives apologized to about 60 residents during a community meeting at the Riverside Churches on May 21 for not notifying them sooner about its plans to construct a $2.5-million, 762-metre-long railway siding along a section of track between Riverside Drive and Walkley Road.

Via is in the process of constructing the siding in the Riverside Park community to

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Steve MacLean Public School in Riverside South and Jockvale Public School in Nepean were awarded two of 10 national awards at the 2015 Ottawa Entrepreneurial Adventure Showcase – one of nine held across the country – at the National Gallery of Canada on May 27.

“To win one of the 10 – a national innovation award – is a huge honour and recognition,” said Betty Weil, Ottawa-Gatineau program manager with the Learning Partnership’s Entrepreneurial Program. “We’re the only (city) that had three.

We were lucky, honoured and grateful – so proud.”

As Valérie Assoi rounds a small building looking for an outlet to power a sound system, she cuts across a basketball court where two pre-teens bounce a ball back and forth.

“Are you here for the community clean-up?” she asks them, slowing her purposeful stride to wait for their answer.

The boys glance at each other.

“If you don’t do it, who will?” she says, before heading to her car and zipping off to what will soon be her new office on the ground floor of a nearby Timbercreek Communities high-rise apartment building in Herongate.

In her bright pink shirt, Assoi is a neon force in constant motion.

Hired in March by the South-East Ottawa Community Health Centre as a community developer, Assoi’s job over the next year is to help create building blocks that will bring residents together to foster a more tight-knit community, one that feels safer, more secure.

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Five cyclists have been killed in the last six collisions involving cyclists and heavy trucks between 2009 and 2013.

“There were 1,568 (cycling-related) collisions, 1,245 injuries and 15 cyclists who have been killed (in the same timeframe),” said Mayor Jim Watson, who called the statistics “troubling.”

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Provincewide, 18 of 129 deaths between 2006 and 2010 involved trucks, according to an Ontario coroner’s review into cycling deaths.

The Ottawa-area fatalities involving large trucks and cy-

clists was a driving force behind the launch of the city’s new Stay Safe, Stay Back advocacy campaign at city hall on May 28, where a parked Tomlinson dump truck was surrounded by small plastic markers demonstrating the no-go zones for cyclists.

Ottawa’s fire chief is recommending Station 36 and Station 55 in the city’s east end be consolidated into one new station as early as 2017, and for another new station be built in Kanata North three years later.

Fire chief Gerry Pingitore made the recommendations at a technical briefing on June 11, ahead of the release of a three-year fire station location study. The city won’t actually gain more stations if the changes are approved as for each new station being built, an old one is being closed.

In the east end, Station 36 on Industrial Avenue and Station 55 on Blair Road would both close and combine into one brand new Station 36 in 2017. It would

likely be built at the cityowned public works garage on Cyrville Road near Innes, Pingitore said.

Sixteen city employees have been fired and dozens of others have faced lost pay, suspensions and disciplinary actions over the past two years.

That’s all thanks to the city’s fraud and waste hotline, which received 336 reports of fraud, theft, misuse of city assets and unethical conduct over the course of 2013 and 2014, according to an auditor general report released June 15.

Over that time there were 15 cases of theft, 36 cases of misused city property and time and four cases of unethical conduct.

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Laird, who has lived in his Walkley Road home between Bank Street and Riverside Drive since 1969, said the offramp will bring more traffic to the already congested area, a residential community he said is suffering from heavy rush-hour traffic, speeding

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YEAR IN REVIEW Continued from page 22

The transgressions ranged from bad driving -- one employee was caught holding a dog on their lap while driving a city vehicle -- to drug and alcohol abuse to theft of thousands of dollars-worth of city property, including $3,000 in audio equipment and $8,400 in scrap metal.

Beginning in July, the Southway Hotel will undergo a significant renovation and reopen in December as the Zlepnig family’s third Waterford Retirement Residence, providing 114 suites for lease in independent and assisted living, including 21 memory-care living units for people with Alzheimer’s and dementia.

Four months after a known gang member was shot to death in the city’s first homicide of 2015, major crime investigators have arrested and charged two men with first degree murder.

The arrests, announced June 19, came two-and-ahalf weeks after police offered up a $50,000 reward on June 3 for “new information” leading to the arrest and prosecution of those responsible for the killing of 27-year-old Yusuf Ibrahim in Hunt Club Park.

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.

The city is not yet ready to actively pursue a publicprivate partnership for the construction of Riverside South’s first multi-use recreation complex.

City staff are recommending the city hold off for at least another year before seeking a P3 partner, according to a memo to councillors on June 19.

Concerns over the imminent loss of home mail delivery service in south Ottawa have begun to mount after residents were notified earlier this week that Canada Post will be installing community mailboxes there in 2016.

Communal lock-boxes in urban communities across Canada are replacing home delivery amid declining volumes of mail, resulting in

less revenue for the Crown corporation, which doesn’t rely on taxpayer dollars.

The bolstering of the guns and gangs unit with extra officers in response to a record 49 shootings last year wrapped earlier this month just as police are contending with a recent spate of such incidents and firearm-related calls.

“We’ve said, ‘We’re in a position where we’ve got the gun violence under control, albeit there continues to be shootings – there’s (21) so far – but 11 of those are street gang related,” said acting police Chief Jill Skinner. This time last year there were 18 shootings.

known as MERIT, which stands for Multiagency Early Risk Intervention Tables.

Their goal is to work together to identify individuals and families who are at risk of further victimization or criminal behaviour or close to spiraling out of control, headed toward a crisis.

Police and paramedics are among more than 20 professionals from local, regional and provincial agencies and community organizations – including youth and social workers, schoolteachers, health-care professionals, housing and community health workers – who began teaming up last month as part of a new six-month pilot program

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These can only become re-

ality if the city can entice the provincial and federal governments to cough up more than $1 billion each for the second stage of the project.

The $155-million Trim Road extension and the $160-million airport link will both undergo an environmental assessment.

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Residents walk over the Airport Parkway bridge with Gloucester-Southgate Coun. Diane Deans and River Coun. Riley Brockington during a Sept. 2 safety audit of the pathways in the area. Men and women both say they would think twice before walking in the secluded and dark area at night.

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Ng brought her two youngest children to stand with about 40 other protesters, most of them grandparents, parents and young children, outside the Bank Street constituency office of Ottawa South Liberal MPP John Fraser on Sept. 2.

Though still very much opposed to the Alta Vista Hospital Link now under construction in their neighbourhood, Riverview Park residents say they are trying to make the best of a bad situation.

After years of an information drought, about 40 residents were given what they described as a rare chance to preview the next steps in the project, including three road connection options that would tie in the new route to Ring Road at the hospital complex, where CHEO and the Ottawa Hospital’s General campus are located.

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ber of parliament for the fifth time.

Mayor Jim Watson held a forum on Syrian refugee resettlement efforts on Oct. 1 to link potential sponsors with community organizations, faith groups and agencies, as well as access free legal expertise during a clinic hosted by the Canadian Association of Refugee Lawyers and the University of Ottawa Refugee Sponsorship Support Program.

The event also coincided with the launch of Refugee613.ca, an organization that will co-ordinate the efforts of local sponsorship agencies and settlement organizations to ensure the city is ready to meet the needs of refugees who come here.

Striking English public elementary teachers and some support staff have until Nov. 1 to negotiate a contract and end their partial strike or face sanctions, such as docked pay.

The measure, announced

by Premier Kathleen Wynne and Education Minister Liz Sandals on Oct. 23, is designed to hasten negotiations and put an end to the workto-rule actions.

Alarmed by rising traffic volumes, including trucks, speeding and motorists tailgating and passing stopped school buses, River Road residents are petitioning to bring safety back to their street.

More than 50 Herongate families have been told they must move out by Feb. 29, 2016, to make way for the construction of a new multiunit residential development expected to begin next year.

Ottawa South Liberal incumbent David McGuinty’s winning streak continued after the polls closed on Oct 19, securing his place as a mem-

NOVEMBER To meet unprecedented demand for mental-health and psychiatric services, reduce wait times and improve access to care for children and youth struggling with complex mental-health programs, CHEO and the Royal Ottawa are thinking outside the box.

Faced with a 75-per-cent surge in kids harming themselves, CHEO is renewing its partnership with the Royal to develop the five-year Young Minds Partnership.

A second round of bomb threats emailed to Ottawaarea high schools prompted Ottawa police to search Louis-Riel in Blackburn Hamlet, Franco-Ouest high school in Bells Corners, Ridgemont High in Alta Vista and South Carleton High in Richmond.

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Eleven swans, including nine white mute or royal swans and two Australian black swans, were taken out of their summer habitat sites on the Rideau River in Ottawa on Nov. 5, as scheduled, before winter sets in.

But given the weakened and rotting state of their usual winter facility at a leased NCC property on Leitrim Road at Bank Street, city staff are now preparing to relocate the swans for the winter months to Parc Safari in Hemmingford, Que. Ottawa police are investigating after demonstrators “stormed” the taxi dispatch headquarters of Coventry Connections at the start of a day of action on Nov. 13 by union members and airport taxi drivers amid an ongoing labour dispute.

DECEMBER Residents got their first look at proposed plans to

redevelop the Elmvale Acres Shopping Centre and add four nine- to 26-storey rental apartment buildings over the next 20 to 25 years.

As well as creating more than 800 living spaces, mall owner RioCan is also looking to give the complex a complete redesign, add new retail shops and keep most of the existing retail tenants.

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That’s all the RedBlacks needed to clinch the team’s first Grey Cup victory in just their second year of existence, quarterback Henry Burris told reporters after the team returned home to Ottawa on Nov. 30 the day after losing the Canadian Football League championship 26-20 to the Edmonton Eskimos in Winnipeg.

Though there are still two years to go before a Canada Science and Technology Museum opens, officials are optimistic the complete overall of the facility will attract visitors, members and rave reviews.

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A second charge has been laid against an Ottawa man in connection with the June hit-and-run death of a Riverside South father of two.

The accused was first charged with failure to remain at the scene of an accident causing death. Now, collision investigators have upped the tally, charging him with dangerous operation of a vehicle causing death.

Robbery investigators are focusing their efforts on Herongate where swarmings are on the rise. There have been about 11 since mid-November.

Rehabilitation of the Walkley Road Transitway overpass and Sawmill Creek culvert has stalled and the

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Although no longer a kitten, Dunkin is still full of kitten-like energy. He loves to run around and play with his favourite toys. He also enjoys chatting with his human friends.

Dunkin would prefer a home with older teens rather than young children. He would love new owners with an active lifestyle, who will spend lots of time playing with him. Could you be Dunkin’s purr-fect match?

For more information on Dunkin and all the adoptable animals, stop by the OHS at 245 West Hunt Club Rd Check out our website at www.ottawahumane. ca to see photos and descriptions of the animals available for adoption.

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Elmvale Acres sisters Maya Pepe, 7, left, and Clara, 9, are surrounded by some of the almost 500 plush toys they collected in December for their Stuffies for Syria campaign. The stuffies have since been donated to the charitable organization, Helping With Furniture. city has fired the general contractor hired to do the work for breach of contract, according to River ward’s councillor.

Despite the taxi union’s announcement that the four-month labour dispute involving airport fleet drivers has been resolved, their employer insists no deal has

been struck.

“We are a little miffed about Unifor’s statement,” said Hanif Patni, president and chief executive of Coventry Connections.

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outside while your sophisti-cat will seek out her litter box when you first introduce her to your home. If your adult kitty has experienced the joys of the scratching post, she’ll choose that over your curtains — unlike a kitten who doesn’t know the difference. “Sit” and “stay” are likely already part of your mature dog’s vocabulary.

Change the life of a mature pet with a new home and watch the kitty purrs and doggy kisses roll in. As your local humane society, we hear many stories from happy adopters who chose to bring home an older pet and were thrilled by the loving, long-term bond they developed with their new friend.

To meet your perfect match, visit the OHS at 245 West Hunt Club Rd. or check out www.ottawahumane.ca to learn more.

Please note: The Ottawa Humane Society has many other companion animals available for adoption. Featured animals are adopted quickly! To learn more about adopting an animal from the Ottawa Humane Society please contact us:

Website: www.ottawahumane.ca Email: Adoptions@ottawahumane.ca Telephone: (613) 725-3166 x258

Pugsley My name is Pugsley. I am a 12 year old pug. I love to dress up and Xmas is my favorite time of the year. Merry Xmas everyone.

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But mature pets have an edge over their younger counterparts in many ways. Adult cats and dogs, while full of life and energy, can also appreciate your occasional couch-potato ways. Take a leisurely stroll by the canal with your mellow canine instead of a mad dash with your puppy. Spend a Sunday cat-napping to some classical music with a kitty who shares your refined tastes.

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38. Japanese sash 39. Afresh 40. Bluish green 41. Inspire with love 43. Without (French) 45. Counterbalance container to obtain net weight 46. Express pleasure 47. Cheap wine (Br.) 49. Signing 50. ___ compilation, compiling computer language 53. Have surgery 57. Being trompe-l’oeil 58. Extremely mad 59. Day 60. Small coin (French) 61. Snatched CLUES DOWN 1. Cry 2. Wings 3. Baseball play

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ARIES - Mar 21/Apr 20 Aries, you are familiar with the expression, “Your eyes are bigger than your stomach.” This week you have bitten off a project that is just too much to chew. Enlist some help.

TAURUS - Apr 21/May 21 Taurus, you are on a roll, and now it is only a matter of maintaining momentum for a few more days. Don’t let anyone slow you down this week.

GEMINI - May 22/Jun 21 Gemini, you may not know where your path is taking you, but you are fully aware that an adventure is in store. Take some time to prepare for the unknown that lies ahead.

CANCER - Jun 22/Jul 22 Learning from your mistakes can help you to grow, Cancer. Accept a challenge presented to you this week, even if it scares you. You may find it’s not so challenging after all.

LEO - Jul 23/Aug 23 Leo, many opportunities are within reach, but you are just not sure which way to go. Seek advice from Pisces when you get a spare moment.

VIRGO - Aug 24/Sept 22 Virgo, no one will know what you’re like deep inside unless you share a few secrets. You don’t have to give everything away, but let some information slip out.

LIBRA - Sept 23/Oct 23 Some can see straight past your protective facade, Libra. So why not take it off and simply let others see the real you? You won’t be disappointed, and neither will they.

SCORPIO - Oct 24/Nov 22 Now is not a time to drag your feet, Scorpio. You have a full slate of tasks to tackle, and it seems like the hours will slip away quickly. Recharge and refocus.

SAGITTARIUS - Nov 23/Dec 21 Sagittarius, you never shy away from a challenge, but you also know when to pick your battles. If something arises this week that seems a waste of time, pass it by.

CAPRICORN - Dec 22/Jan 20 Capricorn, when a past conflict pops up this week, push it aside. It is better to focus on the positive things that are in store for you rather than problems from the past.

AQUARIUS - Jan 21/Feb 18 Don’t let anyone tell you that you can’t accomplish something, Aquarius.

As you have proven time and again, you simply need to set a goal in your sights to get things done.

PISCES - Feb 19/Mar 20 Pisces, when you love someone, it can be difficult to step aside and let that person make his or her own mistakes. Be patient.

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