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New running event to help CHEO’s kids RBC Race for Kids to boost mentalhealth supports

BY ERIN MCCRACKEN

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Dustin Garron tried seven times to take his own life.

His experience is part of a crisis, he said, that has struck Renfrew County, “with enough suicides in recent years that I can easily fill the first and second

row of our audience.”

The struggle families are facing today are compounded by long wait

ferring to his own mother who was called to the hospital with news that he was close to death following his

“This is not simply about a run.”

KEVIN KEOHANE, PRESIDENT, CHEO FOUNDATION

times for help and lack of mental-health funding.

“For one mother five years ago it would be the beginning of an incredible journey,” Garron said, re-

seventh attempt.

It was after he was airlifted to CHEO that things finally changed.

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and doctors that young child’s life was saved that day, and a long but rewarding journey of recovery was about to begin,” said Garron, 22, who today is in HIS fourth year at the University of Ottawa, works as a banking advisor at RBC and is a well-known youth mental-health advocate.

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The power of running David Picketts, a senior scientist at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, and his former student Matías Alvarez-Saavedra, are part of a team that has discovered that running triggers the release of a molecule that heals certain types of brain damage in mice. It’s hoped the discovery may one day lead to better treatments for stroke and multiple sclerosis patients. For the story, turn to page 27.

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Land is not facing any additional charges, according to the OPP. He was transported to the Ottawa Carleton Detention Centre.

Land was assigned to a halfway house in February of this year to serve out the remainder of his twoBY ERIN MCCRACKEN erin.mccracken@metroland.com year sentence following a 2014 conviction for causing a riot, posA federal offender who recently session of a scheduled substance walked away from an Ottawa half- for the purpose of trafficking and mischief. way house is back behind bars.

The OPP’s Jo rd a n specialty Land, 30, was squad was arrested by “Police responded to a notified when Ottawa police Land did not at a Tim Horsuspicious person call and report to tons on MonID’d Land.” his halfway treal Road in house on the city’s east OPP DET.-CONST. STEVE SERMET Oct. 6, Serend on Oct. met said. A 8 at around 8 Canada-wide a.m.

“Police responded to a suspi- warrant was issued for his arrest, cious person call and ID’d Land,” and the ROPE Squad appealed for Det.-Const. Steve Sermet, with the the public’s help in locating him.

Land’s sentence was set to wrap OPP’s Repeat Offender Parole Enforcement Squad, said in an email. up on Oct. 23.

Local companies show off innovations at city hall jennifer.mcintosh@metroland.com

Imagine setting off fireworks next to council chambers.

That’s what visitors to the Innovation Trade Show did at Jean Pigott Place on Oct. 17.

Karman Interactive, a digital solutions company that has teamed up with the city to work on building digital, public art celebrations in advance of 2017 celebrations, brought out virtual reality equipment for people to have fun with.

“We’ve recently got into virtual reality because it’s fun and up and coming,” said Nick Kirkwood, who handles business development for the downton Ottawa-bsedcompany.

Karman was just one of the eight burgeoning companies that showed off their projects. In June, the city announced the eight local companies that were picked to participate in the municipal

migration services, housing and other supports under one umbrella.

“We have worked with the city and educational institutions,” Sharma said, adding the influx of Syrian refugees was a good opportunity to test out the idea.

The innovation pilot program is in accordance with the City of Ottawa’s multiyear economic development strategy, Partnerships for Innovation.

up and lets you know what the weather is going to be like today,” Kirkwood said.

Neiel Sharma of iStand, a technology-based service aimed at helping immigrants navigate their new home after getting off the plane, has developed new software. iStand, which is looking to team up with an as yetto-be-named partner, offers an application to help new Canadians deal with their banking information, im-

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Mike Baker, co-founder of Karman Interactive, a digtal company hoping to create interactive, public art displays in advance of Ottawa’s 2017 celebrations, plays with virtual reality hardware during the Innovation Trade Show at city hall on Oct. 17. innovation pilot program.

Under the program, eight products were chosen from 65 applications nationwide.

The products selected were tested and if they improved any city process, they would be moved past traditional procurement systems.

Kirkwood said Karman

has done a lot of work with private companies, but he foresees a lot of applications that could be used by the city and other public institutions, such as schools.

For example, virtual reality software could be used in medical schools to negate the use of corpses for prac-

tising procedures.

Another, potentially more fun-filled idea, would be to use motion-sensor cameras and animation to create digital “mascots” at bus and train stations during the 2017 celebrations.

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Funds to help CHEO add new mental-health supports for kids in need Continued from page 4

Ottawa’s newest running event will pump muchneeded dollars into mentalhealth supports for infants, children and teens at the children’s hospital.

“This is not simply about a run,” said Kevin Keohane, president and chief executive of the CHEO Foundation. “It’s about raising money that’s going to go into funding the programs which are so essential.”

CHEO has witnessed a 75-per-cent increase in “crisis visits” to its emergency department over the past five years, and a 50-per-cent spike in outpatient clinic referrals, said Alex Munter, CHEO’s president and chief executive.

Those dollars will help build an early intervention program for children up to six years old that is being designed to foster healthy relationships between kids and their parents, said CHEO’s chief of psychiatry, Dr. Kathleen Pajer.

The money will also help

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Olympic athletes Segun Makinde, left, of Orléans, and Melissa Bishop, far right, of Eganville, Ont., join Kanata South Coun. Alan Hubley, second from left, his wife Wendy, and Arnprior resident and former CHEO patient Dustin Garron at CHEO on Oct. 12.

They helped celebrate the announcement of Ottawa’s newest running race, the RBC Race for the Kids, which will generate dollars for CHEO’s mental-health programs. fund CHEO’s new Choice and Partnership Approach – or CAPA – which is a new mental-health care delivery model designed, in part, to reduce waiting lists for mental-health care.

As well, the money will target “head-to-toe” screenings, to allow the medical team to figure out of a patient who comes in for treatment of a physical ailment may also have a mental-

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health problem, she said.

It’s all about intervening early – long before a child or teen ever contemplates suicide.

“We’re about reducing suffering in our kids and

making them strong and healthy to be the next generation of adults to run our country,” said Pajer.

Garron was actually receiving mental-health care at CHEO at the same time as Kanata South Coun. Alan Hubley’s son Jamie.

Hubley fought back tears when he said the race announcement coincided with the fifth anniversary of the passing of his son, who died by suicide at age 15.

“The whole journey has all been about trying to make sure we can help others so they don’t have to go through this,” said Hubley.

His wife Wendy was also in the audience.

Six months prior to the death of their severely bullied son, the worried parents began trying to navigate the health-care system in an effort to get Jamie the mentalhealth support he needed.

“We saw it as a maze. It was really hard back then,” Hubley said. “But it’s so much better today because of the support of big and

small organizations.”

The new running event will also go a long way to boosting awareness.

As people sign up, as people talk to their friends and neighbours and colleagues about the race and why they’re doing it, something else will be happening,” Munter said. “And that is you will all be battling the stigma that surrounds mental health, and that is the reason why we, in fact, don’t have enough resources in our mental-health care delivery system.”

The RBC Race for the Kids, which will become an annual event in Ottawa, will feature timed 10- and five-kilometre closed-course runs, as well as an untimed five-kilometre family run.

Registration will open on May 1, 2017.

With Ottawa added to the race series, the bank’s race is now being held in 12 cities in six different countries, and has generated more than $26.5 million for children’s charities.

Survey says 7,700 people have their say on hospital site

BY MELISSA MURRAY

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About 7,700 people completed a survey on the proposed sites for the Ottawa Hospital’s new Civic campus.

According to Jasmine Leduc, strategic communications advisor for the National Capital Commission, more than 400 people attended the open house at the Canadian War Museum and 7,695 people responded to the survey that closed on Oct. 6.

“We are very pleased with the level of community engagement on The Ottawa Hospital federal site review to date,” Leduc wrote in an email.

The results of the survey will form part of the evaluation of each of the 12 sites for the hospital.

Kate Eggins, communications specialist for the hospital, said in a statement the hospital is committed to the NCC’s process.

“Our responsibility, as the region’s leading health-care provider and only trauma centre, is to ensure the NCC, stake-

holders and the public have all of the necessary information to make a decision that reflects the health-care perspective. We are very pleased there were 7,700 responses to the NCC’s survey.”

She added, “the new Civic Campus is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for our community that will ensure the hospital can provide 21st Century health care in the nation’s capital for the next century.”

The consultations are part of the process the commission undertakes on its projects.

Most recently, the NCC underwent extensive consultations on the development of LeBreton Flats. During that consultation, 7,939 people completed a survey. More than 3,000 people attended the open house and presentations, or viewed the webcast, according to the NCC’s consultation report.

While the number of participants in the LeBreton Flats consultations exceeded that of the hospital project, Leduc warned against comparing the two projects.

“Both are unique,” she said.

“We are very pleased with the level of community engagement on The Ottawa Hospital federal site review to date.”

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“I wouldn’t be comparing the two,” she said.

“We are pleased with the outcome of the consultations; they have been very successful to date,” she added in an interview.

There were also consultations with specific stakeholders, including Parks Canada, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, the City of Ottawa, Ontario Ministry of Health and Longterm Care, the hospital, local health integration network and more.

A recommendation on the preferred site will be presented to the NCC board at its Nov. 24 public meeting. At that meeting, the final public consultation report will be made available. The 12 sites under consideration include: • Tunney’s Pasture off Scott

Street • Lincoln Fields, near the Pinecrest Pathway • The north side of West Hunt Club Road near Highway 416 • The south side of West Hunt Club Road, near Highway 416 • Woodroffe Avenue near West Hunt Club Road • The Merivale Road, Woodroffe Avenue corridor • Central Experimental Farm – Carling Avenue (west) • Central Experimental Farm – Carling Avenue (central) • Central Experimental Farm – Carling Avenue (east) • Central Experimental Farm – near Baseline and Merivale roads • Booth Street complex • The existing Ottawa Hospital Civic campus

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Norberry apartment expansion project gets ‘cool reception’ Week In Review!

The Metcalfe Community Association held their monthly meeting this week discussing topics such as rinks, traffic calming measures, police services, parks as well as the future location of a skateboard park for youth to be active.

Check the Metcalfe Community Association facebook and website for updates.

Project officials insist plans are still conceptual

BY ERIN MCCRACKEN

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This week was a very busy week for meetings at City Hall.

The 2017 budget is right around the corner and as City Councillor we have been spending a lot of time discussing what our community and city needs for next year.

On Wednesday, we also had a very productive City Council meeting where we talked about various items such as vehicle and equipment replacements, revision on the 2017-2018 budget directions and strategy and much more!

Open Door this week was quiet but steady. It is always nice to have a little more time to chat with people that drop in on a quieter day. See you next week during my Tuesday Open Door between 1-5pm in the Ward office, 8243 Victoria Street, Metcalfe.

A few items that I wanted to take a moment to remind everyone about: October 15th is the last Saturday for the Metcalfe Farmer’s Market at the fairgrounds for the 2016 season. It is always a great place to meet new people, enjoy some coffee, and catch up with residents. I hope you get a chance to visit from 9am-1pm before they close down for the season and I look forward to seeing everyone back next year.

A proposal to expand the Norberry Residences apartment complex recently received a thorough drubbing by several tenants and neighbouring homeowners.

Many of the estimated 100 people who packed the Hunt Club-Riverside Park Community Centre on Oct. 13 to discuss the proposal were flat out against the plan to bump up the four-building, 761-unit complex with three more buildings for a total of 959 rental units.

The plan also calls for scaling back the required number of

tenant and visitor parking spots to 671.

“Who agrees with this proposal right now? If you want to kill this right away clap your hands, stand up, do something,” Norberry tenant Patrick Rheaume said, drawing applause. ”There’s your answer, right there.

“For me it’s the principle.

This area is a precious diamond in the rough of Ottawa,” Rheaume said of the Mooney’s Bay area. “They need to actually renovate those buildings (at the current site) before they even think of doing anything of that nature. This is the opposite way of where they should be thinking.”

Paul Lumsden, a longtime Springland Drive homeowner, blasted the project for being a cash grab and criticized the public meeting as a sales pitch.

See RESIDENTS, page 7

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Patrick Rheaume, a tenant of the Norberry Residences, speaks out against the Norberry apartment expansion proposal at an Oct. 13 meeting at the Hunt Club-Riverside Park Community Centre.

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When another local resident asked officials what is driving the project, planning consultant Lloyd Phillips said the Norberry apartments are aging and there is an opportunity for additional housing, but that the site’s configuration has presented many challenges.

“Is it an effort to increase the revenue from the property? It certainly is,” he said.

“They’re in business to provide housing, but in doing that they also have to follow the city’s policies and procedures and make sure that it is a workable and functional plan.”

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long with the much-ballyhooed lightrail tunnel being built under downtown, another tunnel is planned.

It will one day hold water from large storms so it is not simply dumped – sewage and all – into the Ottawa River.

The plans for this giant holding tank – the most important bit of the Ottawa River Action Plan – have been on the drawing board for far too long.

The city has the cash from other levels of government to start work, and we hope to see that work started as soon as possible.

The background: the older parts of the city have pipes that carry both sewage from homes and storm water from the streets.

When a big storm hits, the combined water is more than our sewage treatment plant can handle, and the overflow has to go somewhere. Today that somewhere is the Ottawa River.

When the storage tunnel is complete, it is designed to hold the massive inflow of water and let it flow to the treatment system at a controlled rate.

In a perfect world, the system would see all the

combined pipes separated, so sewage is treated and rain water is sent straight to the river.

But the cost of that work would be even more than the $62 million earmarked for the holding tunnel.

It will be money well spent.

It will mean the river will be cleaner and some beaches downstream will be swimmable more days each year. But it won’t be perfect.

That’s because storm water from other areas of the city heads straight to the Ottawa River without any treatment.

And that water contains plenty of pet waste – enough to bump up bacteria levels and make downstream beaches unsafe for people to swim.

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Teaching kids about money valuable lesson

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hanksgiving dinner was barely finished when the kids piped up about what they wanted for Christmas.

It was the perfect opportunity to have the conversation about money I’d been wanting to have with them for a while, but I didn’t honestly know what to say.

My son, fresh from a windfall known as his tenth birthday, had spent his money ten times over in his head before making a decision four months later.

His choices included an Xbox, a new bike, sports clothes or a Chromebook.

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The whole situation made me realize I’d been slacking on the “teaching kids about money” thing.

A while ago, I told the older kids they get a weekly allowance if they cleaned their room every Saturday.

That means washing sheets, doing laundry and vaccumming. They

haven’t routinely done this for four months, which means any money they’ve received has been ad hoc.

I reached out to Janet Gray, a financial planner with Money Coaches Canada.

“I don’t agree with giving money only for chores,” said Gray. “Kids, no matter what, need to learn how to manage money, to make money successes and make money mistakes. If it’s always tied to taking out the garbage and they never take out the garbage, they will never learn.”

Gray recommends setting a baseline of money per week.

A rule of thumb is 50 cents per year of age per week to avoid overindulgence. From there, kids can have the option to earn extra money through chores.

More important, however, is what they do with that, let’s say, $5

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per week. It’s not a spending freefor-all.

Gray suggests giving each kid four mason jars. Forty per cent of their weekly allowance can go into the spend jar, 40 per cent goes into savings, 10 per cent goes into donations and the final 10 per cent goes into investments.

They can use their spending for anything they want – no strings attached. Savings are short term, while investments are longer term, explains Gray.

“A 10 per cent investment for your 11-year-old may mean he can take driving lessons in five years,” she says. “Saving is shorter term, like the skateboard your son’s been eyeing.”

Gray recommends helping kids make regular deposits into their bank accounts.

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financial responsibility.”

We plan to spend the weekend decorating mason jars to make the whole savings thing fun.

If nothing else, the kids will be happy to have two bucks in their pockets on a regular basis to blow on candy at the local convenience store, while riding their skateboards down the street.

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The proposal calls for downsizing the number of required parking spaces from 1.2 per unit to 0.65, and from 0.2 visitor spots to 0.05 after a parking study revealed the existing lots are underused.

The developer is seeking a minor zoning bylaw amendment to lower the number of required spots since current city rules would require more than 1,000 spaces “in a giant parking garage,” Phillips said, adding this would encourage more car usage and increase traffic.

“We think this is a much more constructive and sustainable way of dealing with it and it reflects the reality of the actual usage of the site.”

If demand for parking spots from future tenants is higher than anticipated, Lahey said the strategy could be reviewed after the first building is constructed.

“Right now it costs anywhere between $30,000 and $40,000 a parking space to put below grade,” he said after residents said underground parking is needed.

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As city planner Melissa Jort-Conway and architect Rod Lahey (centre) look on, planning consultant Lloyd Phillip explains expansion plans for the Norberry Residences, which would see three new buildings with 198 units added to the site, currently home to four apartment buildings with 761 units. ington said the city’s planning committee and council have to be convinced that the parking formula is justified.

“We are not offering our streets to be parking lots,” he said.

Concerns were praised about the planned demolition of a parking garage and that future

Phillips said the new apartments will be built in phases, which means the current parkade will be available until it is removed.

“We will have to work out an appropriate number and location of spaces to serve people with disability needs and there may be special accommodation

underground spaces that will be built will be reserved for tenants of the three added buildings.

A number of current renters complained they have paid a premium for underground parking, which they said they need because they either have physical disabilities or young children.

that’s made. That’s the kind of advice we need to hear,” he said, adding the plan at this stage is conceptual.

Other concerns raised included access points that will be blocked by piled snow, the future of bicycle parking, that a new access road would cause congestion, increased traffic posing a risk to the safety of children, the employment status of current personnel and if mature trees can be saved.

Sarah Lorenz-Clement, who has been a Norberry tenant for a decade, worries about the parking situation but also said her view will be forever changed.

“I chose it because of the view and the trees,” she said.

“Now it’s going to be apartments.”

While Phillips said there are no guarantees the trees won’t be damaged during construction, he agreed they are “one of the best assets on this site.”

Some tenants also questioned the state of the current apartments.

While the property owner is aware of problems with the older buildings, Phillips said “this new development isn’t really connected in terms of funding the repair. We’re not taking

money to build those buildings away from the maintenance of the existing buildings.”

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No applications have been filed with the city yet, but city planner Melissa Jort-Conway said the proposal would require the approval of a site plan control as well as a minor zoning bylaw amendment.

Depending on when those are approved, construction on the first apartment building could begin in two years, and, pending its success, the next two buildings could be added in phases, said Phillips. The first structure would take about 14 months to construct, Lahey said.

Brockington, who acknowledged the project was met with a “cool reception” at the meeting, urged attendees to submit comments to his office within the next two weeks as he wants to meet with project officials before the applications are filed.

“It’s easier to make changes now than when the formal application goes in,” he said.

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Tulips aplenty in River Ward

BY MELISSA MURRAY

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Come spring, River Ward will be blooming.

With one of 150 Celebration Gardens planted across Canada, and the help of local councillor Riley Brockington, red and white tulips will be popping up across the ward.

When Brockington heard about a special tulip created especially for the sesquicentennial, he put in his order for 1,000 of the special red and white bulbs.

“When I picked them up they had pages and pages of orders,” Brockington said of the flower’s popularity.

Brockington will be distributing the bulbs to residents in every community of his ward.

The first recipient of a bag of 10 of the bulb with red flames created especially for the sesquicentennial, was Natalia Zubkova, of Staten Way in Central Park.

Zubkova was recently recognized for her gardens and along with a certificate received the bulbs from Brock-

ington.

He’ll also be handing out the tulips at future community safety nights and other events in the next few weeks so residents can get them in the ground before the hard frost.

“I fear the demand will exceed the supply.”

“It’s a small way to help beautify River Ward,” Brockington said of the initiative, which was paid for though his office budget. The 1,000 bulbs cost about $400.

The tulip bulbs are just the kickoff for getting River Ward ready for the country’s 150th birthday in 2017.

Brockington is also encouraging small groups that might need a little financial help for Canada 150 celebrations to reach out.

He’s setting aside some money for small grants for grassroots groups planning to celebrate in a big way.

“It’s all about community, churches, school groups are all highly encouraged to celebrate. It’s a year-long party,” he said. The city estimates about 1,200 events will be held

to celebrate the milestone next year.

“We want to remind local groups and encourage them to join the celebrations. It’s not a party that’s just happening in downtown,” Brockington said.

The National Capital Commission will have 300,000 Canada 150 tulips in its flowerbeds with thousands more in community gardens across Canada.

One garden celebrating with its own thousand tulips is located at Embassy West Senior Living, located at 1400 Carlington Ave. The garden was planted on Oct. 14.

Embassy West Senior Living received one of 150 Celebration Gardens being distributed across Canada by the Canadian Garden Council.

The garden contains 1,000 red and white bulbs.

“We feel very fortunate,” said Selma Basic, executive director of operations of the senior’s facility, in a press release on being chosen out of 400 applications received by the Canadian Garden Council.

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Mosques join together to help out students in need

BY MICHELLE NASH BAKER

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Sometimes one neighbourhood or a few cross-streets does not define a community.

Sometimes, the reach of just one or two individuals defines a community.This was indeed the case for Carson Grove Elementary School and as it would happen, a Kanata woman.

Kanata resident, Sheema Khan met the school’s principal Irene Cameron thanks to an open letter from another part of the city – the Ottawa Carleton District School Board trustee for Barrhaven and KnoxdaleMerivale, Donna Blackburn Blackburn had put a call out for help for the school, acknowledging its growing need as more and more Syrian refugee students started walking through its doors.

Khan said responding to the letter – and the school’s needs – was natural.

“It touched a nerve. I think it touched a nerve inside of everyone,” Khan said. “It’s kids. You obviously want to help.”

Khan reached out to her local mosque, the Kanata Muslim Association and asked if they could help raise money for the school.

Imam Sikander Ziad Hashmi said it was one of the easiest fundraisers they ever held.

“We raised $6,000 and all it took was an announcement from Sheema that they needed help,” Hashmi said. “When Sheema came to me that made me realize there was a real opportunity to help that these students are our next generation of leaders.”

Blackburn herself, Cameron added managed to raise $3,000 for the school last spring.

And it did not stop with just one mosque.

In total, the United Muslims Organizations Ottawa and Gatineau raised $23,000 for students in need, handing over $12,000 to Carson Grove Elementary and $11,000 to be dispersed for other schools with a need in the city.

On Oct. 12, the Education Foundation of Ottawa accepted those cheques from all the area

mosque Imams at the school.

“I’m truly amazed and touched by the way the community has come together to support the school,” Cameron said.

The school began to notice an influx of Syrian refugee students at the start of April, after many families settled in nearby apartments and homes.

A small school, with at the time, only 200 students, Carson Grove Elementary School grew to 310 students and the school’s principal Irene Cameron said they were managing by using up more classroom space, and eventually asking the board for more teachers.

In total, the school received 110 Syrian refugee students and since that time Cameron said every chance she got, she would advocate for her students and the lack of activities and programming the school could offer.

“Where ever I go I network and reach out to people to see if they can help,” Cameron said. “I talk to them and tell them about the school and my students.

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Carson Grove Elementary School principal Irene Cameron (left) and Kanata resident Sheema Khan worked together to help raise much-needed funds for city school.

Cameron has been the principal at the school for five years now, and in the past has filled out grant applications to fill in the gaps for school supplies, playground upgrades and school activities.

Cameron said the $12,000 will go a long way, and won’t

necessarily be spent all at once or in big chunks.

“We are going to have a need for a long time,” Cameron said. “I think this money will help with that for the next few years.”

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Well according to the organizers of a technology conference at La Cité collégiale, they indeed have everything to do with education.

The east-end French-language college will host EdInnovation 2016 Bilingual Ottawa – a technology conference with the objective to help teachers integrate technology to enhance student learning in kindergarten through Grade 12.

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The college has partnered with the Ottawa Catholic School Board, the French Catholic School Board, the French public school board of Eastern Ontario, the University of Ottawa and Le centre d’innovation pédagogique.

This is the third year the college will host the event and, according to the college, this is the largest bilingual technology conference in Canada.

And, an added benefit, is that because it’s being held on a weekend, school boards can send more teachers to attend .

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So far, 1,250 teachers and school administrators are planning to attend the summit.

Galuga said all of Samuel Genest Catholic School has tickets to attend.

“The entire staff is going to come and learn, which is great because everyone is taking in the same message,” she said.

This year the summit will have two keynote presentations from Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield and Google program manager John Bailey.

“We have the grandfather of Google street view coming, and a Canadian astronaut – we are so fortunate,” Galuga said.

Galuga said Hadfield will speak about how educators can push beyond comfort levels and try new things and Bailey will lead attendees on a virtual reality journey to the International Space Station using Google Cardboard – a custom headset made out of cardboard which uses smartphones to create a virtual reality.

Aside from inspirational keynotes, Galuga said there are more than 250 workshop sessions teachers can choose from for eight sessions over the two days.

Galuga said participants will learn ways to implement everything from individual lessons to school-wide technology programs as a way to build 21st century skills in stu-

dents while they learn academic subjects.

For Galuga, she said it would be hard to just pick eight sessions but coding, how to understand copyright in a digital world and learning how to create using street view as a few of her favourites.

Although the summit is geared toward educators, Galuga adds parents and students are also welcome to attend.

“These are all skills that everyone can use, there are enough sessions that people can relate to and learn from,” she said.

Before attending the EdInnovation Summit, Galuga said the college suggests educators prioritize sessions they want to attend, in case they fill up quickly.

“That way, you’ll have a first, second and third choice for every session,” she said.

There is no pre-registration for sessions.

Participants are welcome to drop in and out of sessions as they please if they find a session is not what they expected.

Lastly, Galuga said everyone should come with all devices – laptops, Ipads and cell phones – fully charged and bring charging cords.

Tickets and information about the summit are available at edinnovation2016.collegelacite.ca.

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Trick or Treat at City Hall On Saturday, October 29th, from 4:00 to 7:00 p.m., the Mayor will host a safe Halloween event in support of the Ottawa Food Bank’s Baby Basics Program. The Baby Basics Program targets the most vulnerable members of our society, infants and toddlers, whose parents lack the resources to adequately provide for them. As a result of this program, expensive items such as formula, baby food and diapers are made available to assist families in need.

Last year’s event resulted in the collection of over 6,000 pounds of non-perishable donations and $1,068.00 in financial donations for the Baby Basics Program.

Festivities begin along Trick or Treat Terrace on Marion Dewar Plaza. Residents can meet numerous costumed characters, decorate pumpkins, ride the GT Express and visit Alley Cat Avenue. The excitement continues indoors with the Spider Web Café in Jean Pigott Place and children’s Halloween movies in Andrew S. Haydon Hall.

Admission is a donation to the Ottawa Food Bank’s Baby Basic Program. Please note that this is a nut-free event.

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Fundraising campaign launched for Sir John A Macdonald winter trail

BY MELISSA MURRAY

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Instead of a blustery, vacant, unappealing pathway, Dave Adams is hoping to fulfill his dream of making the Sir John A Macdonald multi-use path an urban winter trail all season long.

But he needs a little help.

Before the first snowflakes even fly, a crowdfunding campaign for the trail has begun and has already raised almost half of its goal of $20,000.

“I’m starting with the community,” said Adams, who will be the trail’s head groomer, of his fundraising effort. “This is a community-driven initiative and if we want it, together let’s make it happen.”

So far $8,340 has been raised by 119 contributors.

The money will help pay for

a full season of grooming and new equipment for the 16-kilometre trail, which will be open from the Canadian War Museum to Dominion Station. In total, the project will cost about $50,000 this year – which includes the cost of the groomer and snowmobile.

The trail crosses through Westboro Beach, Island Park, Champlain Park forest trails, Remic Park, Lemieux Island crossing and by the Prince of Wales train bridge.

After a successful pilot project last winter initiated by the Westboro Beach Community Association and with the National Capital Commission, Adams said the project was something he couldn’t walk away from.

“The greatest compliment someone can pay a groomer is to use their trail,” Adams said.

And they did. In one hour, last winter, there were more than 216 users on the pathway.

“It was crazy busy,” he said of the pilot project, which had him bring equipment in from Nakkertok Ski Club to groom the trail.

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After that success, he approached Dovercourt Recreation Centre to be a partner in the project and to sign the agreements with the NCC to make the trail a reality this winter.

“This is about taking a community member’s dream and making it real,” said Stephen Nason, Dovercourt’s senior director of programs.

“In the winter, we are watching this resource go nowhere.”

Dovercourt plans to add pro-

gramming to the trail, including ski lessons and potentially a ski club. Nason said they’ll also look at opportunities to add programs for people who want to try fat-tire biking.

“Help us build this trail and then we’ll program the heck out of it and have a lot of fun,” he said.

Even if they can’t meet their fundraising goals, the trail will be groomed until the money runs out, Nason said.

The trail would be groomed three to four times per week from December to March.

With machine-groomed classic ski tracks and a packed centre, the trail will be multi-use for everything from skate-skiing, walking, running and fat-tire cycling.

“This is a community-driven initiative and if we want it, together let’s make it happen.”

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To fund the remaining $30,000, Adams is looking for retail and corporate sponsors, as well as businesses that might want to set up shop along the trail, renting skis or other services.

Adams is also spending time looking for grants and writing proposals to help fund the project.

“We need help from everybody,” he said, adding the project has become one backed by many volunteers and community organizations.

The deal with the NCC would last three years, with a possible two-year extension.

While the 16-kilometre trail is the goal for this winter, Adams is hoping ultimately the trail could be extended to Mud Lake, the Nepean Sailing Club and Kanata and even east towards the Chateau Laurier.

To contribute to the online funding campaign, visit https://fundrazr.com/SJAM. Winter.Trail or donate in person at the Dovercourt Recreation Centre.

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‘Hopes rising’: Concert raises funds in memory of Ottawa man

BY JESSICA CUNHA

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Family, friends and local musicians are hosting a benefit concert in memory of a young Kanata man who died by suicide after battling depression this year.

Matt Clarke-Jenkins, known as CJ to friends, died in March at the age of 19 after a three-and-a-half year battle with his illness.

The benefit concert – titled Over the Mountains – will be held on Oct. 22 at All Saints Catholic High School in Kanata. Proceeds from the event will be donated to the Queensway Carleton Hospital Foundation’s Hopes Rising campaign, a $5-million project to renovate its mental health-unit and improve care for those in crisis.

“People need some place that they can go and it’s going to be nice, it’s going to be pleasant,” said CJ’s mom Carole Jenkins. “It’ll be hopeful.”

The goal is not only to

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Carole Jenkins (centre), friends and local musicians are holding a benefit concert in memory of her son Matt Clarke-Jenkins to raise funds for the Queensway Carleton Hospital Foundation’s Hopes Rising Campaign, a $5-million project to renovate its mentalhealth unit and improve care for those in crisis. raise money for the campaign and honour CJ’s memory, but also to continue a public conversation surrounding mental illness.

“There’s a lot of kids out

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there who may be suffering in silence and this might help them come forward and say, ‘Maybe I can get help,’” said Jenkins. “I just miss him so much. Sometimes I just

don’t believe it. I can’t believe he’s not here anymore.”

CJ was very open with his mom about his illness and when he needed emergency help from the hospi-

tal. Although he had a family doctor, he did not have a psychiatrist but was seeing a psychologist for support and was taking medication prescribed through a hospital.

He bought a harmonica the day before he died, said Jenkins. When she left for her weekly horseback riding session that Wednesday, she and CJ agreed she would pick up dinner that night.

“He said ‘OK, bye mom,’ like everything was normal,” she said.

He didn’t answer his phone when she called to see what he’d like for supper. After repeated attempts to track him down failed, police were brought in and launched a search. By 2:30 a.m. the next day, the police had located CJ. “He was surrounded by so much positivity (but) the illness itself took over,” said CJ’s friend Jamey Lee, who lives in Carp and will be one of the MCs at the concert.

“We want to bring people together so they don’t feel alone.”

“And help people realize that everyone does care and they want to make a difference,” said Josh Hillier, a friend and former bandmate of CJ’s who will perform at the concert with Hey High Sun. The name of the benefit concert comes from the first track off the album The Only One on Earth, which CJ wrote, recorded and released in December 2015 under the name Dawn the Era. The album cover features a painting of mountains that he drew while he was in treatment at the QCH. As a musician, CJ did it all; he played the guitar, drums, harmonica, keyboard, bass and sang vocals.

He was also a student at Carleton University studying issues in popular music, a volunteer ski instructor for children with special needs, an extreme cyclist, a friend, a brother, a son and so much more to those who knew him.

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“He had a really, really good sense of humour and he was always up for fun – except when he was sick. He was a goofy guy; he was a by-the-book guy who followed the rules except for when he didn’t,” said Jenkins, reminiscing about the time she caught him and his friends jumping from the balcony into the pool.

But like many people – one in five in Ontario, according to statistics – CJ struggled with his mental health. For three-and-ahalf years he battled depression.

Though supported by his family, his friends and the QCH, the illness took over.

The benefit concert is a way for those who love him to raise awareness about mental health while also raising funds for improvements to the hospital that are sorely needed.

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The emergency department at the QCH has seen a 14-percent increase in the number of patients with mental health crises in the past year, said Melanie Adams, president and chief executive of the Queensway Carleton Hospital Foundation.

Thirty per cent of in-patients in

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Matt (CJ) Clarke-Jenkins, performs on stage in the past. A benefit concert will be held in his memory Oct. 22 in Kanata.

pacity coupled with increasing numbers of people seeking help mean patients are sometimes housed in other departments before being moved to the mental-health unit.

“Capacity is definitely an issue and unfortunately all the money in the world is not going to change that,” said Adams.

The Hopes Rising campaign won’t help the hospital increase its bed count, since funding for additional beds has to come through the Ministry of Health.

However, the QCH has made a request to the province to increase the number of beds by four, for a total of 28, said Adams.

What it will change, though, are the atmosphere and surroundings in the mental-health unit, which is housed in the original section of the hospital, built in 1976.

the 24-bed mental-health unit are between the ages of 16 and 30.

“We are the busiest emergency department in the Ottawa region,” she said. “This percentage increase of an already busy emergency department is quite staggering. And we’re often at full capacity.”

The hospital never turns patients away but the limited ca-

“It has not undergone renovations in 40 years,” said Adams. “It’s an eye-opener when you see how beautiful the rest of the hospital is and then you come down this corridor. It’s a tough time in their life to be in a space that’s not pleasant.”

CJ was in and out of the emergency department and inpatient unit for his depression.

“I remember visiting him in that hospital when he was really sick and each time you go it’s like a prison,” said Lee. “The beds, they’re just flat, stale and old; the place kind of smells.

The walls look like an asylum.”

“If you go somewhere like that you just feel worse,” said Hillier. “They need a better environment.”

The $5-million Hopes Rising campaign will help create privacy within the unit and build an intensive-care unit for patients

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“All patients are sharing a room. Optimally we’d like to be able to provide private rooms for patients,” said Adams.

“There’s very, very limited meeting space in the unit currently, and the waiting rooms are in places that don’t allow for privacy. When we talk about stigma around mental health, we have created our own health stigma here – we’re putting people out in a fish bowl.”

Funding will also help update furnishings and treatment units. “The hospital has been through some tremendous transformational expansion over the last decade,” said Adams, who will be attending the concert. “It’s time now for the mental-health unit.”

So far, the campaign has

raised just over $2 million. The hope is that Over the Mountains will help bring the hospital a little closer to its goal.

“To have Matt’s friends who are so young but articulate and passionate and understanding about the mental-wellness aspect, that in and of itself brings me hope,” said Adams.

EVENT DETAILS

The Over the Mountains benefit concert takes place Oct. 22, at All Saints Catholic High School, 5115 Kanata Ave. Doors open at 6 p.m. with a silent auction, and music 7-10 p.m. Tickets are $15 online at eventbrite.ca (search Matt Clarke-Jenkins benefit concert) and at the door. Donations to Hopes Rising in CJ’s name are also being accepted online at gofundme.com/2rsvjh56.

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Norberry Residences Proposed Expansion On October 13, I hosted a public open house/ consultation session that provided an opportunity for the public to better understand the proposed expansion of the current Norberry Residences, which may include three, new, 66-unit buildings.

Approximately 1,600 local households have received the information bulletin in the mail and all members of the public are invited to submit their comments/ questions to me by November 1. Prior to any formal application being submitted by the owner, I will be sitting down with them and the City of Ottawa planner assigned to this project to review the comments received from local residents. The quantity of feedback has been heavy and many constructive comments and concerns need to be addressed by the owners. If you have not already done so, please contact my office to be added to my community mailing list regarding this issue.

Obey Local Turning Restrictions There are a number of turning restrictions on local streets in the south-end of River Ward that must be respected. Motorists heading northbound on Bank Street in the Ridgemont community, between Kitchener and Walkley are reminded of multiple right hand restrictions during the morning rush hour. In addition to Bank Street, vehicles are prohibited from turning right off Walkley Road on to Springland Drive during the morning rush hour. The other restriction is during the afternoon rush hour, with vehicles prohibited from turning left off Southmore Drive East on to McCarthy Road. These restrictions are in place to reduce non-local cut through traffic and/or reduce traffic in a school zone.

Support Small Business on Saturday On behalf of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB), you are invited to help celebrate Small Business Saturday on October 22. This special day will highlight the important role of small businesses in Canada’s economy and remind Canadians about the importance of shopping locally.

Please support River Ward’s businesses and shop close to home on Saturday.

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Brian’s Brain Matters Members of Brian’s Brain Matters, the top fundraising team at the South Ottawa Race Day event at the Rideau Carleton Raceway, cross the finish line and receive medals on Oct. 16. Over the past four years, the fundraiser has generated more than $300,000 for brain cancer research in Ottawa.

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The Rideau Valley Conservation Authority (RVCA) is in the process of amending the mapping schedules for Ontario Regulation 174/06, Development, Interference with Wetlands and Alteration to Shorelines and Watercourses regulation administered within the Rideau Valley watershed under Section 28 of the Conservation Authorities Act, 1990 (as amended). The changes to the map schedules will reflect updated, revised and/or new hazard mapping.

New regulation limit mapping is proposed for the Rideau River from Hogs Back to Rideau Falls. The RVCA will host a public open house to present the proposed revised regulation maps. The open house will be hosted at the Brewer Park Pool (100 Brewer Way, Ottawa), on Tuesday, November 8 from 4-8pm. in the Lounge Room. Attend the open house or review material available online at www.rvca.ca (see Special Projects > Flood Risk Mapping Reports). If you have any questions, please contact Ferdous Ahmed at 613-692-3751 ext. 1170 or ferdous.ahmed@rvca.ca.

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Findlay Creek Community Association Annual General Meeting The Findlay Creek Community Association (FCCA) Annual General Meeting (AGM) and Town Hall is coming up Wednesday Oct 26th and will be held at the Fred Barrett Arena from 7:00-9:30pm. The Town Hall will focus on development projects in Findlay Creek and will include presentations from developers in the area. Just a reminder that the AGM and Town Hall are open to FCCA members only. If you are interested in membership for 2016/2017 please visit Findlaycreek.ca for more information.

Station Transformation in Leitrim Hydro Ottawa is currently upgrading their Leitrim substation to enhance reliability in the Findlay Creek, Hawthorne Industrial Park area and the southeast portion of their service territory. They are in the process of constructing a new, permanent second transformer at the substation to increase the load capacity and improve reliability to support the construction and residential builds in the area.

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Beware of Door to Door Imposters My office has recently received reports that there are door to door imposters hitting the streets of Ward 22 once again. The City of Ottawa warns residents to be aware of these salespeople making false claims about the quality of City drinking water. These individuals have been known to approach residents to sell water filtration or treatment systems and they are providing incorrect information pertaining to water quality. Residents are reminded that City employees do not contact residents to sell products or services, they carry identification at all times and they travel in City of Ottawa logo-identified marked vehicles. If you have further concerns or if you wish to report a suspicious visit please contact 3-1-1.

Trick or Treat with the Mayor On Saturday Oct 29th from 4:00-7:00pm the Mayor will be hosting a Halloween event at City Hall in support of the Ottawa Food Bank’s Baby Basics Program. There will be trick or treating, costumed characters and pumpkin decorating!

Last year’s event resulted in the collection of over 6,000 pounds of non-perishable donations and $1068.00 in financial donations for the Baby Basics Program. I hope to see you there!

Distracted Driving and Speeding Throughout the month of October, the Ottawa Police Service’s Selective Traffic Enforcement Program (STEP) will be focused on distracted driving and speeding. Distracted driving alone caused 25,565 collisions resulting in 6,298 injuries and 18 fatalities between 2010 and 2014. In the same time period speeding was responsible for 15,762 collisions resulting in 4,238 injuries and 74 fatalities. Safer Roads Ottawa is committed to bringing these numbers down and preventing or eliminating road deaths and serious injuries for all people in the City of Ottawa through culture change, community engagement and the development of a sustainable safe transportation environment.

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Twenty-two years after Shafiq Visram, 19, was reported missing from the Manotick area, prompting a massive ground and air search, his remains have been identified five months after they were found not far from where the Visram family lived at the time.

Visram’s family has been told their son and brother was identified.

“I know it is sad news, but it’s still good news where you’re able to tell a family that there is a possibility of knowing what happened,” Ottawa police spokesman Const. Chuck Benoit said.

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don’t know what happened,” he said on Oct. 12, the day police announced an identification had been made. “So police are going to try to resolve and give a story line to exactly what happened.”

At this point in the rebooted investigation, there are still many unknowns about the case: Visram’s cause of death, whether he died at the site where his remains were found, and how long the bones had been there.

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Human remains found at a Manotick worksite in May of this year have been identified as those of Shafiq Visram. The Manotick resident was 19 years old and in Grade 12 at South Carleton High School in Richmond when he was reported missing May 30, 1994. going to be revealed through the investigation.”

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A human jaw bone and a number of vertebrae were discovered on May 10 in Manotick’s west end, along Cabrelle Place at Maple Creek Estates, a new residential community.

The strip of new highend homes is near First Line and Bankfield roads, where

Larry Ellis, Manotick’s resident historian, said construction has been going on for quite some time, but was undeveloped vacant land years ago.

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“He stepped on the side of the rut and when he did that the bone popped out,” Carver said.

Pink called him over to look and they notified police. The area was cordoned off for a week while police combed the scene.

The day after Ottawa police announced the remains had been identified, OPP were at the home were the bones were discovered.

It was not immediately known why they were at the same residence.

The site had seen a flurry of activity in the lead up to May. Dirt had been dug up during the construction of the house and the new pool and a septic tank was installed underground in the front yard.

“That’s where the jaw bone was, on top of the (buried) septic tank in the dirt,” Carver said.

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“They also brought in fill (from other locations) and moved it around so (the bone) could have been from anywhere,” he added.

Carver, a Manotick resident, was shocked when he learned that the remains he and Pink found were that of the long missing Manotick teen. After finding the bone, Carver learned from a longtime Manotick resident about the unsolved missing person case and wondered if, in fact, the remains belonged to Visram.

“Now that I know that they found him – they may not know how he died – it actually makes me feel a little bit better,” Carver said, adding that while it is sad news, it provides at least one answer for the family.

“At least they know and are not wondering.”

Given the many questions that remain unanswered, police are essentially restarting the cold case.

And that is not without its challenges, given how much time has passed.

“You’re looking at almost 22 years between the missing person file starting and the actual (time) when his remains were found,” Benoit said. “You’re looking at time frame, evidence possibly not being there – and when I say evidence, I also mean memory.

“There are a lot of details that are hard for the investigators to look into.”

The major crime unit is now appealing to the public for information “that would assist investigators in determining the events surrounding (Visram’s) disappearance,” the department said in a statement.

Police want to speak to volunteers who were involved in searching for Visram back in 1994, as well as friends and relatives of the teen.

“The investigators have to look at that stage, as well as (if) a conversation could trigger a memory of something and possibly help the investigators to (follow) different leads and bring a certain result to this investigation,” said Benoit.

The teen was last seen at or near his Manotick home –

which Benoit said was located not far from where the teen’s remains were found – and reported missing on May 30, 1994.

Benoit did not know the time of day when Visram was last seen, and said numerous aspects about the case are not

“Now that I know that they found him – they may not know how he died – it actually makes me feel a little bit better.”

TIM CARVER, WHO REPORTED THE BONES TO POLICE

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Ron Corbett, a former Ottawa journalist who extensively covered the story of Visram’s disappearance over the years.

Given the scale of the search, he said he is “extremely surprised” Visram’s remains were found off First Line Road.

“I am stunned,” said Corbett, who now lives in Manotick. “There were choppers in the air, there were people walking a grid through just about every field in Manotick.”

At the height of the search, led by the former Manotick OPP detachment, volunteers also combed along the banks of Mud Creek, where Visram’s empty backpack was found, according to Corbett’s reporting, which also revealed that the teen’s wallet and identification were at the family’s home.

Reports also noted the brown-eyed, black-haired teen was the youngest of four children and that he and his family had emigrated from Kenya two years earlier.

Corbett interviewed one of Visram’s sisters over the years, and he first went to the family home at the time of their loved

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Ottawa police descended on a worksite on Cabrelle Place in Manotick in May. Since then, the major crime unit has announced that human remains recovered at that location are those of missing Manotick teenager Shafiq Visram. one’s disappearance. He remembers Visram’s mother was inconsolable.

It was always a story Corbett wondered about over the years.

“It was just an extremely odd story,” he said. “He was a great kid, a kid who was certainly not known to police.

There was no hint of drugs, no hint of a bad crowd.”

Visram’s sister had told Cor-

bett her brother had put a lot of pressure on himself, that he was upset about a test at school. “He just didn’t seem to be the kind of kid to pick up and disappear,” Corbett said.

Anyone with information about the case is asked to call the major crime unit at 613236-1222, ext. 5493. Anonymous tips can be submitted to Crime Stoppers by calling 1-800-222-8477.

Running rescues brain-damaged mice, Ottawa researchers find

BY ERIN MCCRACKEN

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The inadvertent discovery of the healing power of a running-triggered molecule that improved the health of braindamaged mice may one day lead to better treatments for stroke and multiple sclerosis patients.

“We were never looking for anything like this. It came out of the blue,” said David Picketts, a senior scientist with the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute and senior author of a paper on the discovery that was published Oct. 11 in Cell Reports.

“It was our eureka moment.”

His student at the time, Matías Alvarez-Saavedra, was in the lab working with mouse models that had been genetically engineered to have small cerebellums, a section of the brain that controls balance and movement.

They considered tinkering with the animals’ genes to extend their lives. Their condition was causing problems with walking and the animals were dying at 25 to 50 days, much

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Ottawa Hospital and University of Ottawa researchers Rashmi Kothary (left), Robin Parks, Yves De Repentigny, Keqin Yan and David Picketts have found that exercise helps brain-damaged mice recover, which, in turn, allows them to live longer and with improved mobility. shorter than the typical one year for healthy mice.

Instead, Alvarez-Saavedra, who is now based in New York, decided to install running wheels in the mice cages, an idea inspired after he read that ex-

ercise increased the lifespan of mice with small cerebellums.

Running turned out to be a key trigger.

They learned that exercise released a protein and neuropeptide known as VGF nerve

growth factor in mouse brains that actually healed the damaged coating that normally protects and insulates nerve fibres.

Once these coatings are severely eroded, it affects the brain’s ability to send signals. In

MS patients, it’s the result of the body’s autoimmune attack on its on cells.

The brain-damaged mice that had the running wheel at their disposal lived well over a year. But when the wheel was removed, their health began to go downhill again.

“That was really surprising to us,” said Picketts, who is also a longtime professor at the University of Ottawa. “We had the tools now.”

The overall health benefits of exercise are well known, but not at the molecular level.

“I think that’s one of the other findings, is that exercise is really well understood to have a protective effect on brain health and overall physical well-being,” said Picketts.

“But not much work has been shown of the pathways downstream from there (when molecules such as VGF are expressed), (and) how these factors work.”

that have specific neurodegenerative disorders, such as multiple sclerosis and stroke.

“We think that VGF – because it helps promote the growth of the insulation – if we can see recovery and longer remission periods in animal models with multiple sclerosis, the idea eventually would be to try and translate that into humans,” said Picketts.

It could be at least another 10 years before a human clinical trial is developed based on this research.

In the meantime, the team is also working to answer other questions about VGF nerve growth factor.

“We now know that exercise releases VGF and VGF can promote the growth of that insulation, but we don’t know how it signals to increase that growth,” said Picketts.

The team plans to follow the molecular pathway the protein takes once it is released in the brain, he said, “because there may be other targets downstream that you can use drugs to increase and promote insulation growth.”

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The Ottawa police central break and enter team is appealing to the public for help in identifying a male suspect wanted for breaking into a Hog’s Back Road business, stealing credit cards and using one to make purchases.

It wasn’t long after several credit cards were stolen during the Sept. 23 break-in that one was used, said Const. Chuck Benoit, Ottawa police spokesman.

“There were a few (other) things that were stolen, but what we’re looking for is his identification,” he said, declining to elaborate.

Images of the suspect released by police on Oct. 12 show a male buying food and a drink at a gas station convenience store.

In another image he is at a restaurant. A third image shows the suspect at a bank machine where he withdrew cash, Benoit said, adding the stolen credit card was used to make each of those purchases.

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Investigators were able to pinpoint the locations where the stolen credit card was used thanks to financial institutions.

“It does take a little bit of leg work from the investigators to get these pictures,” Benoit explained.

The break and enter was immediately reported to police, and Benoit said the stolen credit card was likely used a short time later before the cards were reported stolen and cancelled with financial institutions.

“So he could be taking chances on using two (or) three cards at the same time and whichever one works,” Benoit said.

“At this time, if the owners have all cancelled (the cards), he’s going to be flagged right away as (using) a stolen credit card.”

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Break and enter investigators are hoping the public can help identify this suspect who is wanted in connection with a breakin at a Hog’s Back business on Sept. 23.

Police say the suspect used a credit card stolen from the business to buy items at several Ottawa stores and restaurants.

Police describe the suspect as a Caucasian male, six-feet tall, 180 pounds with an athletic build. He has a chinstrap bear and short dark hair.

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If you were driving near Hunt Club Road at Bridle Path Drive the morning of Oct. 13, you may have done a double take at the sight of cash being thrown out of the window of a minivan.

The cash-throwing happened in the wake of a bank robbery that police said happened a few minutes before 9 a.m.

“Two young males entered the bank at Bank and Hunt Club at Towngate Plaza,” said Staff Sgt. Michael Haarbosch.

“They passed a note and made a demand (for cash and) indicated they were armed but no weapon was seen.”

After being in the bank for less than two minutes, the suspects made off with an unknown quantity of money and fled south down an alley that cuts between two sections of the plaza. A parked black Dodge Caravan minivan was waiting for them, according to police.

“We’re fairly confident there was at least one person waiting in the vehicle, possibly more,” Haarbosch said. “And we have information that it was a female that was driving.”

The Caravan drove along the rear of the plaza and out onto

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The Ottawa police robbery squad is on the hunt for two male suspects and a female getaway driver after a bank at the Towngate plaza was robbed on Oct. 13 just before 9 a.m.

Hunt Club Road, made an illegal U-turn to head west along Hunt Club Road before making a right onto Dazé Road. The vehicle was last seen heading north in the direction of the South Keys Shopping Centre, Haarbosch said.

Eyewitnesses saw cash being thrown out of the window of the minivan in the vicinity of Hunt Club Road and Bridle Path Drive. Haarbosch said it’s believed that may have been done to skirt robbery prevention methods, but declined to elaborate on those methods so as not to educate would-be robbers.

The cash-throwing caused something of a scene at that intersection.

“We have information of some people stopping to pick up cash and some people were telling other people not to do it,” Haarbosch said. “I don’t have a count at this point of what was taken from the bank versus what was recovered to know if we’re still missing any cash.”

No one was injured in the incident.

The robbery suspects are described as black males, either in their late teens or early 20s.

They were about 5-feet-6 with small builds.

They were both wearing sweatshirts – one red and one black – with the hoods drawn up over dark-coloured baseball caps, and used scarves or some type of fabric to cover the lower halves of their faces. They were also wearing grey pants.

No description of the female suspect was available.

This was the 23rd bank robbery of 2016. By this time last year there had been 33 bank robberies in Ottawa.

Anyone with information about the incident is asked to call the robbery unit at 613-2361222, ext. 5116, or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.

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“Exemplary” still describes QCH after 40 years Catharene Smith has worked at Queensway Carleton Hospital for 18 years. She’s the team leader in C4 medicine, and if there’s something she’s proud of, it’s the team she works with. You can see it in the way she speaks about them; she’s all smiles and relaxed posture, when talking of her friends.

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ily. Going back to the ‘old’ days when it was only one building, you knew everyone! The doctors, the people working in admin, the support staff. Everyone knew each other. That hasn’t changed, even when our hospital has grown. Working full-time, you can’t help but feel that this is a big part of your life.”

Smith has learned many things from working at QCH, but the most important thing she’s been taught is collaboration. “It’s most important in providing excellent patient care, and by working together as a team it makes our very hard jobs easier!”

During her almost two decade turn at the hospital, Smith has experienced and accomplished many things that are memorable. Something that stood out the most for her was winning the D. Aubrey Moodie People Excellence Awards – Employee of the Year in 2014.

“I felt honoured to be recognized. That’s something you really feel here, the recognition. You don’t feel like a number, you’re valued here and you get recognition for the work you do.”

Smith lit up when asked if there was something she wanted people to know about QCH.

“QCH is a great place to work. It truly has the patients’ and the staff’s best interest in mind. Even though it has expanded greatly it still has the ‘home town feel’ it has had since it opened.”

Smith went on to talk about her department specifically, mentioning the daily huddles, the Kudos cards that their unit hands out to one another, and the CEO. “Tom will sometimes drop in on the huddles. He won’t take over them, he’ll just stand back and watch and listen, and if he knows something about whatever topic we’re on, he’ll chime in. The nurses really appreciate that he does that.”

Smith took a moment when finding the perfect word to describe the hospital, even joking that she’d had to look some up on a thesaurus to get that that sounded just right.

“Exemplary,” she finally settles on.

“QCH has always strived to do what is best for patients, staff, volunteers, and the community. The patients we care for on my unit have noticed this, and, for the most part at least, they seem quite happy with their time spent here, and they’re satisfied with their care.”

“It’s hard to summarize my experience here,” she admits, noting that she’s been here for half of her life.

“Working at QCH has been a great opportunity for professional development, while providing great care to my community.”

Smith has indeed been given some great opportunities for professional development. In fact, her unit in C4 has been chosen to move to the new ACE unit once it’s completed.

“We’re all very excited. C4 has been dubbed the ghetto unit, it hasn’t been updated in a while, and we’ve worked very hard with what we have. The nurses are eager to get new equipment, and to learn new things in relation to taking care of the patients.

“Our unit is already similar to what the ACE unit will be doing, but there are still some new things we will be learning. A few nurses have already signed up for some of the courses the hospital is providing. I really think this unit deserves this chance. My co-workers have worked so hard for it, and I’m so happy that they have this great opportunity.”

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Sewage tunnel gets thumbs up to clean up Ottawa River

BY BRIER DODGE

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Municipal, provincial and federal politicians gathered along the banks of the Ottawa River on Oct. 11 to highlight funding given to the combined sewage storage tunnel.

The $62.09 million in funding was originally announced in April 2015 by the previous Conservative federal government and is being matched by the province.

Mayor Jim Watson said the Oct. 11 gathering was to celebrate the confirmation that the previously announced funding is in indeed in the federal budget of the current Liberal government.

“There was an election in the interim, we had to make sure the funding was still in place,” he said after a press conference. “So we appreciate the previous government

starting the process, and the current government for finishing it.”

The project is a part of the Ottawa River Action Plan to clean up the water in the Ottawa River. It will see two tunnels built, including an east-west tunnel through the downtown core from LeBreton Flats to New Edinburgh Park, and a north-south tunnel along Kent Street from Catherine Street to existing infrastructure behind the Supreme Court of Canada.

The combined sewage storage tunnel, which is already under construction, will store water during heavy rainfall so it can be cleaned before being returned to the river.

It is supposed to reduce the amount of raw sewage entering the river by 95 per cent.

“The Ottawa River is the jewel of Ottawa, and we need to do more,” said fed-

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eral Minister of the Environment and Climate Change Catherine McKenna, who represents the Ottawa Centre riding.

Orléans MP Andrew Leslie said the project will especially benefit “those of us in Orléans and Vanier who are downstream.” The city’s public beach at Petrie Island has battled frequent closures over the years due to high ecoli counts.

Watson said one of the driving forces behind the Ottawa River Action Plan has been Orléans Coun. Bob Monette, who spoke up because of the frequent beach closures at Petrie. Other public facilities along the water have also been affected over the years.

Earlier in the day, just downstream, local paddlers reacted to the news after a groundbreaking for a new clubhouse.

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Mayor Jim Watson (right) speaks at an Oct. 11 press conference highlighting funding committed to a combined sewage storage tunnel from the federal government.

Alison Smedley, who has been training at the Pumphouse Whitewater facility for the past 18 years, said the cleanup effort has been a long-time coming.

“It doesn’t feel like a natural space when the water

turns brown,” Smedley said.

A warning light was installed to let paddlers know if it’s safe to ride the water, but Smedley said that typically she and other canoe and kayakers know if they are able to train on any given

day based on the smell in the air.

The city of Ottawa will contribute $108 million to the project, due for completion in December 2019.

With files from Michelle Nash Baker

Province names Rowan’s Law advisory committee

BY MEGAN DELAIRE

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The Ontario Ministry of Tourism, Sport and Culture has named 15 people who will serve on the Rowan’s Law concussion advisory committee for the next year, submitting their recommendations to the government in September 2017.

The committee’s mission is to help the province execute Rowan’s Law and boost the detection, prevention and treatment of head injuries across the province, particularly in young athletes and students.

The advisory committee, like Rowan’s Law itself, is named after Rowan Stringer, a 17-year-old Barrhaven athlete who died on May 12, 2013 as the result of concussions she sustained while playing rugby.

Nepean-Carleton MPP Lisa MacLeod pushed for concussion legislation in Stringer’s name, sponsoring a private member’s bill in

2015.

While she won’t sit on the committee, MacLeod said she will be watching from the sidelines to see how the law is implemented.

“The government went through their process and I was pleased to be part of it,” she said. “But it is their show now and I’m just gonna make sure that they continue to take this as a priority and that the work that emanates from this is implemented.”

Ontario’s legislature passed Rowan’s Law in June 2016, a little more than three years after Stringer’s death, creating the first concussion legislation of its kind in Canada.

Based on the 49 recommendations that came out of a coroner’s inquest into Stringer’s death, Rowan’s Law will provide guidelines and tools for players, parents, teachers and coaches to prevent, diagnose and better respond to concussions.

Composed of medical experts, researchers, athletes

and parents, the committee will review the 49 recommendations as well a best practices currently in use, and advise on practical ways to implement those recommendations.

It is chaired by Dr. Dan Cass, medical vice-president at St. Joseph’s Health Centre in Toronto, and includes former NHL player Eric Lindros and Olympic gold medalist and gymnast Rosie MacLennan.

It also includes someone who has been committed to making Rowan’s Law reality from the movement’s beginning: Rowan Stringer’s father, Gordon Stringer.

“Aside from being Rowan’s father,” Stringer said.

“I’m there to represent parents and families in Ontario from the perspective of someone who has some concerns around concussions and is hoping to prevent our tragedy from reoccurring for another family in the province.”

Since the bill’s first read-

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Over the next year, the Rowan’s Law advisory committee, named for Rowan Stringer, pictured, will develop recommendations to guide the province in implementing the law. It will presenting those recommendations in September 2017.

ing, Stringer said, the group of people involved in supporting and implementing it has allowed him to feel optimistic about the outlook for young athletes who face the threat of concussions.

He said that optimism has

continued to grow with the formation of the new committee.

“The composition to me was excellent,” he said.

“They’ve got representation from all different areas that need to be involved: sports,

education, healthcare, and families.”

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Worrisome water boom mystery in Manotick solved

BY ERIN MCCRACKEN

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The curious addition of a string of floating buoys in the Rideau River in Manotick has now been ironed out.

The sight of the 50-metre line that essentially blocked access for residents who use a clear spit of land in the Mahogany Bay area of the river to put in their kayaks and canoes was worrisome for those who first spotted it Oct. 12.

“This is a great bay in here and a lot of us use this for paddling and kayaking,” said Mel Roberts, who lives around the corner. “A few of us on the street down there (at Eastman Avenue) just walk over with our kayaks, boats or canoe and just pop it in here.

“It seems to be shutting down people entering the water from here,” Roberts said,

while standing along the side of Manotick Main Street across from the path boaters use to put in their watercraft.

A miniature wood dock could be seen at the water’s edge in a clearing among the bulrushes.

“It’s just surprising,” he said hours before he was able to clear up the mystery.

It was a neighbour who first told Roberts about the installation of the line.

Residents wondered whether the floating line was somehow connected to plans for the construction of a new dock farther down.

Rideau-Goulbourn Coun.

Scott Moffatt said the realization of those dock plans is still a ways off.

“I know we have plans for a dock but that hasn’t materialized to the point where they’d be putting up buoys,” he said,

adding those plans are not yet funded.

Moffatt also had no idea at the time why the boom line had been placed at that location.

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Parks Canada has explained that the line was placed there temporarily and that staff would remove it within days.

“The 50 (metre) string of buoys is a dam safety boom which Parks Canada uses during the operational season to ensure safety around the Manotick dam,” Valerie de Winter, spokeswoman for Ontario Waterways Parks Canada, said in an email to Metroland Media.

Parks Canada’s 2016 operational season had recently come to an end and staff

have been working to close up sites for the winter months, which involves taking out “inwater infrastructure, such as booms,” she said.

“The boom in question was moved to its current location temporarily and will be completely removed from the water within the next few days,” said de Winter.

The news was welcomed

by Roberts, who learned the boom was mistakenly placed in that location.

“Normally they keep it near the mill,” he said.

With an assurance that Parks Canada would remove the floating line as soon as possible, Roberts planned to return to boating as soon as possible once the unofficial boat launch became free and clear once again.

“Sometimes these things have happy endings,” he said.

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Manotick resident Mel Roberts and his neighbours were surprised to see a string of buoys in the Rideau River in Manotick on Oct. 12 at the same site where people usually launch their kayaks and canoes. Parks Canada said the water boom was stored there temporarily.

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A new book has bloomed out of the Central Experimental Farm’s ornamental gardens.

Written by local author Richard Hinchcliff – Blooms, an Illustrated History of the Ornamental Gardens at Ottawa’s Central Experimental Farm – the book is the Friends of the Farm’s contribution to Canada’s 150th anniversary.

But its release highlights another anniversary; 125 years ago, the first director of experimental farm, William Saunders, planted the first rose garden.

Not long after that, Hinchcliff said, residents from Ottawa began visiting the farm to take in the gardens.

“It has been popular ever since,” he said.

“There are all these madein-Ottawa flowers that not many people are aware of.

They were hybridized especially for Canadian gardeners and bred at the farm.”

Some of those creations include the Preston lilacs, created by Isabella Preston, a world-renowned breeder who

worked on the farm from 1920 to 1946, and the Explorer series of roses, created by farm researchers.

“There’s so many interesting stories about the people involved,” Hinchcliff said.

He’s found many of them throughout his five years working on the book. One of his favourites is about a Second World War Japanese admiral.

He was invited to the United Sates through a type of post-war friendship program and when asked what he wanted to see, he set his sites north.

He wanted to meet Preston at the Central Experimental Farm.

“He was a lily lover and her fame had spread that far,” Hinchcliff said.

The book contains some of Hinchcliff’s recent photographs of the gardens, as well as historic photos that show how the farm has grown. The book has two parts: the first is a chronological history of the gardens and how research, education and beauty have transformed the gardens for more than 125 years, the second looks at the individual floral collections bred at the

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“I hope it helps people become more aware of the ornamental gardens and the history and the unique plants that were developed in Ottawa at the farm.”

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“We wanted people to understand how significant the collections are to the history of Canadian ornamental horticulture and their unique heritage value to Canadians,” she said in the statement.

This isn’t Hinchcliff’s first time writing about the farm.

He co-authored For the Love of Trees: A Guide to the Trees of Ottawa’s Central Experimental Farm Arboretum, also published by the Friends of the Farm, and now in its third printing.

The new 304-page book will be available Oct. 19 at www.friendsofthefarm.ca, at the Friends’ office in building 72 at the farm and local bookstores for $35. Profits from the book with go to enhancing and protecting the farm.

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Here’s to the farmers and the life that they lead

W

e had a bunch of little boys visit the farm recently, and it took two farmers to entertain them. As our Sunday dinner gathering wrapped up, we were faced with the question, what to do with all the kids. Our children are in their twenties now, except for our granddaughter, who is not yet walking. We don’t have any toys for boys between the ages of two and six. I had put a DVD in the machine but it quickly became quite clear that our niece Maryanne’s boys had far too much energy to sit and watch a movie.

Enter the Farmer. Farmers, plural. Another was spotted in our back forty, working a combine.

My husband has endless patience. He cooked a meal for family and friends and then wandered outside, kids in tow. While the rest of us did dishes and gathered on

DIANA FISHER The Accidental Farmwife the porch with our afterdinner drinks, he helped the boys into their boots and instructed them on the avoidance of cow paddies and electric fences.

They all joined hands and stepped into the barnyard. He lifted them up and strapped each of them onto the ATV behind him. Their three little bums just fit nicely on the bench above his seat. They were headed back to watch the combine, and they were excited. We could hear the hootin’ and hollerin’ as they bounced over the rocks in the yard and headed out to pasture.

Half an hour later, we noticed we could no longer see the ATV and we couldn’t hear it either. I figured they had gone on a trail into the forest. Another half hour went by and I started to worry that the four-wheeler was pulling its occasional trick of waiting til you get to the farthest point on the property, then konking out.

I hoped he wasn’t stuck back there with three little boys and a disabled bike.

Finally we decided to send out a search party. Maryanne and her man pulled their boots and sweaters on and headed out into the field. Just

then, we saw the ATV come barreling through the hole in the fence.

Emmett, the eldest, hopped off first. “Aunt Diana we got to drive the combine!!”

His eyes were huge with excitement. I looked at Keegan, and little Logan. They both had glowing, happy faces.

“Well. I’ve never been on a combine,” I informed him.

“I know. Uncle Jim hasn’t either. But I have!!” Emmett kicked off his boots and threw the door open to the house to go and tell the rest of the family every detail of his adventure.

That farmer likely came around the bend on his combine and saw three little faces (and one big one) watching him from their ATV and then he had a really good idea. He was likely looking forward to heading home for a hot meal himself, but he took the time to give them a good long ride around the field. He even

showed them how to drive the machine. It’s something they will never forget.

The cows wandered over to the fence to see what all the excitement was about.

I showed the boys how to gather the fallen apples off the ground, giving the fruit a little kick first to make sure they weren’t housing any wasps. Mocha the tame red cow and Dono the Bull will take the apples right out of your hand.

Mocha is unafraid and enthusiastic. She wraps her long sandpaper tongue around your hand and pulls the apple into her mouth. Dono is more delicate and polite.

He nibbles the apple off your palm and takes a cautious step backward.

The rest of the cows are too shy to be fed by hand so we bowled apples through the fence to them on the ground.

Those cows ate so many apples I’m sure they had belly

aches afterwards. Just like us.

As the sun began to set on another perfect Sunday, we heard the geese approaching.

We watched as they honked into v-formation and lowered themselves over the barnyard.

They passed directly over us, on their way to the creek. As they reached us, they stopped honking. All you could hear was their wings flapping like a steady hum. I love that sound, even more than the honking because I feel it’s almost an honour to have them fly that low over your head. You won’t hear that in the city.

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other liked to take a trip into Ottawa to visit our Lyon Street relatives before fall changed to winter. It was always on a Saturday, since it was a long trip to make in the old Model T and we’d stay overnight.

I was thrilled, because 129 Lyon St. was always a hive of activity. Aunt Vanetta and Uncle Johnny, their daughter Lil and Uncle Dick, and of course, my cousin Richard, all lived in the tenement house, and goodness knows how many families on the floors above. I knew all of Northcote could fit into that old red brick house.

It was a bright and warm fall day when we wheeled into the cinder yard that separated 129 Lyon St. from the fire station next door. As always, Mother came with the car loaded with potatoes, a couple plump chickens and a basket of crab apples.

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‘After we had been at our begging about half an hour, he grabbed the papers out of my hands, and with the sign, tucked the whole lot into a hedge we were passing on Lyon Street.’

finger along the words. “Help support the Hibernian Society.” And there was a picture of Aunt Vanetta’s church underneath the printing.

Richard grabbed a handful of the papers and the sign, took hold of my hand and led me out onto the street. I had no idea what we were doing, but I figured it had something to do with Aunt Vanetta’s church, so it must be all right.

“Here, you carry the papers,” Richard said. “I’ll carry the sign.” He produced a blue and white granite cup, one like Uncle Johnny drank his tea from and with the sign close to his chest, we started walking

down Lyon Street. Every time we met someone, Richard, all of seven-years-old, put on the saddest face I had ever seen and said, “Please help the Hibernian Society.” If someone put a penny or two in the cup, it was my job to hand them a sheet of paper off the pile I was carrying.

Never thinking anything we were doing was dishonest, I marveled at the pile of coins gathering in the bottom of the tin cup and was sure the Hibernians would be especially pleased. Well, Richard had other ideas. After we had been at our begging about half an hour, he grabbed the papers out of my hands, and with the

MARY COOK My cousin Richard was as excited as I was when we climbed out of the car and he whispered in my ear that he had a great idea how we could spend the afternoon. We went right into the parlour, dark and dank with big pieces of deep red, velvet furniture and an old upright piano crowed into the small room.

Richard showed me a stack of papers and a sign propped against the big velvet sofa. I could only read the first words, being in Primer book and all at the Northcote School, but Richard who was very familiar with the sign, read in whispers, running his

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We headed right for Richard’s favourite candy store on Albert Street. Unfortunately, Richard’s father, Uncle Dick was coming home from work, spied us, pulled over to the curb and told us to climb in the car.

Now, Uncle Dick was a smart man. It didn’t take him all day to see, and hear, Richard’s pocket bulging with the money.

When we got back to the house and Uncle Dick heard Richard’s confession, he and

Uncle Johnny laughed so hard, I thought they’d throw up. Aunt Vanetta and Aunt Lil didn’t see anything funny about the whole issue and Aunt Vanetta immediately took out her rosary, and started to say her beads, Aunt Lil ordered Richard to get out his catechism, and I was sent to the parlour to look through the family bible!

The coins were spread out on the table, and I knew without a doubt, the Hibernian Society would be a few dollars richer, but I was reasonably sure they would have no idea where the money had come from.

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Dates announced for Crashed Ice event in Ottawa

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Mark your calendar – the dates have been set to determine who in the world is the best at hurling themselves down an ice hill.

Ottawa is set to host the Red Bull Crashed Ice world championship event at the Ottawa Locks – beside the Chateau Laurier and Major’s Hill Park – on March 3 and 4.

The Red Bull Crashed Ice season was announced on Oct. 12. Leading up to Ottawa, the season will make stops in Marseille, France, on Jan. 13 and 14, Jyväskylä-Laajis, Finland, for a second year in a row on Jan. 20 and 21. Saint Paul, Minn. will be the venue for the

third race on Feb. 3 and 4, with the season concluding in Ottawa. In a press release, the championship’s sporting director Christian Papillon said this year welcomes two new environments.

“This sport just keeps growing in popularity every year and this year is definitely going to take it to the next level,” Papillon said. “… Le Vieux Port de Marseille in France is a mindboggling location because it's not even close to being a winter city, and we're going to introduce a new location in Ottawa. They're going to be insane.”

According to the organization, ice machines will create a race track to compensate for the Mediterranean temperatures in Marseille.

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course, about 400-metres long, with jumps. Skaters can travel up to 82 kilometres per hour while skating downhill.

Racers compete four at a time, with the first two to cross the finish line advancing to the next round. There are both men’s and women’s divisions.

Event organizers have made a point to host events in urban areas with interesting backdrops – such as in Niagara Falls and Quebec City – and internationally in cities such as Moscow, Helsinki, and Valkenburg in the Netherlands.

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Interactive Session Facilitated groups will take a hands-on approach to developing a concept plan for the community. At this workshop, you will work in small groups to develop a concept plan for the community based on site considerations, comments from the first public open house and direction of the City's Official Plan. Each group will share their ideas at the end of the morning.

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As the Ottawa Humane Society’s new Mobile Spay/Neuter Vehicle hits the streets, the prospect for long-term solutions to cat overpopulation and cat welfare are becoming clearer. The thing is, cats in our community live in very different circumstances, there are many reasons for the problems, and all need tailored solutions.

A significant source of overpopulation is feral cats. Feral cats are not stray.

They are generally the progeny of stray or roaming cats and have never lived with humans. They are not wildlife, nor are they pets. Their lives are generally nasty, brutish and short. According to the experts, adults cannot ever be truly socialized to humans, though their young kittens can be.

Then there are “porch” or “loosely owned” cats. These cats are socialized

to humans, though may be very skittish. They have, or had, an owner and are fed and loosely cared for by a neighbourhood. Unfortunately, the neighbourhood’s care rarely extends to veterinary care or sterilization.

Therefore, these cats are a significant source of unwanted litters. Those not vaccinated can be a reservoir for contagious feline disease.

It can be hard to identify a skittish stray or porch cat from a true feral cat.

But in a shelter, socialized porch or owned cats will generally calm with time. Feral cats do not, and may injure themselves, sometimes severely, trying to escape. Their stress can be so intense that they can die of heart failure in a cage. It is not humane to shelter a severely distressed feral cat.

The issues of each type of cat are very different and require different solutions. Since most feral cats cannot be humanely housed, the standard humane practice is “TNR,” or trap/neuter/release, that is, capture, sterilize and vaccinate, and release them where they were found. Feral cat colonies can be phased out over time through TNR. The OHS assisted volunteers to phase out the famous Parliament Hill colony several years ago through TNR in advance of government intervention that may have seen the entire colony euthanized. The OHS will support other feral colony caretakers under certain conditions through free food and sterilization at our clinic.

Porch cats can and should be socialized and rehomed. If they are rehomed through the OHS, they will leave healthy, vaccinated and sterilized to a good home that is ready and able to care for them. They will no longer contribute to cat overpopulation.

The OHS is hopeful that our efforts are going to produce very significant results and quickly, changing the world for Ottawa’s cats by resolving the problem identified in the OHS’s new five-year strategic plan, that is, too many cats will live wretched lives as long as there are too many cats.

Pet of the Week: Naomi (ID# A189212) Meet Naomi, a social and affectionate cat looking for her purr-fect match.

Naomi is a friendly kitty who enjoys hanging out with her human friends.

She’d love to curl up on your lap or even jump up on to your shoulders while you pet her.

Naomi would prefer to be the only cat in the home so she can have all of her new family’s love and attention to herself For more information on Naomi and all the adoptable animals, stop by the OHS at 245 West Hunt Club Rd Check out our website at www.ottawahumane.ca to see photos and descriptions of the animals available for adoption.

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

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

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Do you think your pet is cute enough to be “THE PET OF THE WEEK”? Submit a picture and short biography of your pet to find out! Simply email to: dtherien@metroland.com – attention Pet of the Week Ottawa South News - Thursday, October 20, 2016 45

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LIBRA – Sept 23/Oct 23 It’s time to get the creative juices flowing, Libra. Tackle a project around the house, like painting or rearranging a room. Look for a new creative hobby as well.

SCORPIO – Oct 24/Nov 22 Scorpio, you have a lot of energy and a need to strive toward perfection in all that you do. Those traits will prove valuable around the office this week.

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North Gower – A frozen berry sale takes place at North Gower United Church. Order raspberry, blueberry, cranberry, triple berry or sour cherry flavours by Oct. 21 at 6 p.m.

The pick-up deadline is Nov. 5 at 11 a.m. at the church, 2332 Church St. To order, call 613489-9737 or email gowerberries@gmail.com.

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Leitrim – A Caribbean dinner takes place Oct. 22 at 3 p.m. at the Gloucester South Seniors Centre, located at 4550 Bank Street. The event is sponsored by the Watch and Pray Ministry. For details, call Pastor Rickey at 613-277-8621.

Manotick – The Manotick branch of the Ottawa Public Library is hosting its first ever Tween Book Club on Oct. 22.

Registration is required by visiting biblioottawalibrary.ca or calling 613-580-2940.

Manotick – October is Library Month. Manotick branch patrons are invited to explore the local branch and hunt for a special bookmark hidden within the branch on Oct. 22.

Library patrons are also going to be encouraged to find the poetry in book titles by using book spines to compose a short poem as part of a Spine Poetry Facebook contest running Oct. 20 to 28.

Greely – The Greely Legion hosts an Oktoberfest dinner and dance on Oct. 22 at 8021 Mitch Owens Rd. A dinner of traditional German food will be served at 6:30 p.m. and the dance, featuring Bavarian music performed by the Accordion Miesters, starts at

8 p.m. Tickets for the dinner and dance are $20 and just the dancing is $10. For tickets, call Linda Wyman at 613-8220233, Arlene Preston at 613826-6128 or the Legion office at 613-822-1451.

Riverside Park – A used book sale fundraiser takes place at the Riverside Churches, located at 3191 Riverside Dr., on Oct. 22, from 8 a.m. to noon.

There will be more than 3,500 books of all genres.

Manotick – Maple Hill will perform live at Manotick United Church with special guests Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf on Oct. 22. Doors open at 7 p.m. and the show begins at 8 p.m. Tickets can be purchased at the Manotick Office Pro and the Manotick United Church by calling 613-692-4576 or going to 5587 Manotick Main St. For details, go to manotickunitedchurch. com.

Leitrim – A Caribbean dinner takes place on Oct. 22 at 3 p.m. at the Gloucester South Seniors Centre, located at 4550 Bank St. The event is sponsored by the Watch and Pray Ministry. For details, call Pastor Rickey at 613-277-8621.

Oct. 24

Elmvale Acres – The Pastoral Unit Paul VI invites you to a French lecture titled “The true nature of palliative care,” which will be given by Dr. Louise Coulombre on Oct. 24 at 7:30 p.m. at Sainte-Geneviève parish hall, located at 825 Canterbury Ave. Palliative care uses the body’s resources in order to create an internal and external environment which allows the body to re-establish its own equilibrium, decrease symptoms and allow the patient to die as smoothly as possible.

Admission and parking are free. Everyone is welcome.

Oct. 26

Metcalfe – An annual roast pork loin dinner will be served at Holy Trinity Anglican Church in Metcalfe on Oct. 26.

Sittings are at 4:30 and 6 p.m.

Tickets are $15. Call 613-2331556 to reserve your spot.

Alta Vista – The Harmony Club for 60+ Seniors will hold its monthly meeting on Oct. 26 at Rideau Park United Church, located at 2203 Alta Vista Dr., from 1 to 2 p.m.

Wayne Bennett, a member of the congregation, will provide an overview, reflections and photos of his recent study trip to Honduras. All seniors in the community are welcome. The church is wheelchair accessible and parking is free. This club is run by volunteers with meetings held monthly. For details, call 613-733-3156, ext. 229.

Oct. 28

Alta Vista – The FROGS Band and the Kids Today Band will perform at a Halloween coffeehouse event on Oct. 28, from 7 to 9:30 p.m. Refreshments will be available. Freewill offerings will be accepted. The musical evening will support a new Canadian family sponsored by St. Thomas and the Church of the Resurrection Refugee Outreach Working Group. The Church of the Resurrection is at 3191 Riverside Dr. Greely – Jericho Road Ministries will host its annual live and silent auction and stand-up reception on Oct. 28 at 6:30 p.m. at Parkway Road Church, 7275 Parkway Rd. in Greely.

There will be food, as well as entertainment by the Ottawa police chorus, a barbershop quartet, special music from the discipleship house members and celebrity auctioneer Dave Smith. Auction proceeds will support mental-health support and addiction recovery, and meeting the needs of the home-

less, addicted and mentally ill in Ottawa. Tickets are $30 and can be purchased by calling 613-567-5134 or emailing info@jerichoroad.ca. For details, go to jerichoroad.ca.

Oct. 29

Vernon – Osgoode Township Museum hosts a kids craft day with a Halloween theme on Oct. 29, from 1 to 3 p.m. Kids ages six to 12 can join in to make spiders, bats and masks.

The cost is $10 per child, siblings are $15 and a family of three or more is $20. Call 613821-4062 or email education@ osgoodemuseum.ca to RSVP. Alta Vista – The Annual Ecumenical Day of Sharing and Preparation for World Day of Prayer, sponsored by the Ottawa Women’s Inter-church Council, will be held Oct. 29, from 9 a.m. to noon, at Rideau Park United Church, located at 2203 Alta Vista Dr. The focus country this year is the Philippines and the theme is “Am I Being Unfair to You?” For details, call Lise at 613-723-0465, email gauvin13l@gmail.com, or call Rosalie at 613-736-0232 or email pastoral@sympatico. ca.

Elmvale Acres – The Ottawa PC Users’ Group is holding an all-day tech workshop at the Elmvale Branch of the Ottawa Public Library, located at 1910 St. Laurent Blvd., on Oct. 29, from 10:15 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. The cost to attend is $20, and this will include two coffee breaks, light snacks and refreshments. There will be four topics: Windows 10, backup strategies, protecting against malware and wireless security.

This is well-tailored to the average home computer users. For details, visit opcug.ca.

Oct. 29 and 30

Alta Vista – The art project, 2894, brings together many

voices to read the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Report. One of these readings takes place at Emmanuel United Church, at 691 Smyth Rd., on Oct. 29, 4 to 9 p.m. and on Oct. 30, 1 to 4 p.m.

Oct. 30

Riverside Park – The 13th annual Jamaica Night will be Oct. 30 at 7 p.m. at the Riverside United Church, at 3191 Riverside Dr. Enjoy an evening of Jamaican music, stories and refreshments. It will feature the Caribbean Voices and the Nepean Panharmonic Steel Band.

Tickets are $17 in advance, $20 at the door, $10 for youth and $6 for kids under 12. For ticket inquiries, call 613-726-1406.

Proceeds will support outreach programs in Jamaica.

Oct. 31

Vernon – Osgoode Township Museum is open for trick-ortreaters on Oct. 31, from 5 to 8 p.m.

Tuesdays

Alta Vista – Ottawa Lifelong Learning for Older Adults serves men and women of 55 years or older and is designed to inform, educate and entertain. The meetings are held on the second Tuesday of each month (except June, July & August) from 10 a.m. until noon at St. Timothy’s Presbyterian Church, 2400 Alta Vista Dr. Our membership fee is $15 annually. For details, call Ann at 613-7490704 or email anncoolen@ rogers.com.

Vernon – Village Voices Women’s Choir invites women who love singing. Weekly practice is Tuesday nights from 7 to 9:30 p.m. until May at the Osgoode Baptist/ Vernon United Church, 8674 Bank St., Hwy 31, in Vernon.

The registration fee $110. For more details, email catgra-

ham_59@yahoo.com, or go to freewebs.com/villagevoices.

Greely – The Greely Legion branch, located at 8021 Mitch Owens Rd., hosts live music on the first and third Tuesday of each month, from 1 to 4 p.m. Bring along an instrument to play, or come sing, listen and dance. Admission is free. For details, call Information: 613-822-1451 or 613-826-6128.

Vernon – Rock-a-bye music classes for infants, toddlers and young children and their parents or guardians take place at the Osgoode Township Museum in Vernon Tuesday mornings from 11 to 11:45 a.m. The cost is $45 per month with $50 per cent off for each additional sibling.

Call 613-821-4062 to register.

Tuesdays and Thursdays

The Manotick library branch has drop-in book clubs the last Tuesday of every month starting in October, from 1:30 to 3 p.m., and the second last Tuesday of each month starting in October, from 7 to 8 p.m., and the second Thursday of each month starting September.

Wednesdays

Blossom Park – Play 4-hand euchre at St. Bernard Parish, in the basement, every Wednesday from 1 to 3:30 p.m. The church is at 1720 St. Bernard St. in Blossom Park. For details, call Gisele Newburry at 613-739-0960.

Greely – Euchre For Fun takes place at the Greely Legion branch, 8021 Mitch Owens Rd., every Wednesday.

Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and playing begins at 7 p.m. Eight games cost $5. There will be prizes and refreshments. For details, call 613-822-1451 or 613-826-6128.

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