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Coun. argues for Mooney’s Bay fix Park pavilion left off of project list BY JENNIFER MCINTOSH
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River Ward Coun. Riley Brockington has cried foul over the list of projects the city included for submission under the clean water wastewater fund. The fund – made possible by money from the
federal government and Infrastructure Ontario – could exceed $92 million, according to a staff report. Among the approved projects are the design of the Lemieux Island water purification plant intake improvements and the Mud Creek bank stabilization. Brockington said noticeably absent is the Mooney’s Bay pavilion. The pavilion, which houses the Baja Grill and public washrooms, gets its
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The deadline for submission of the list of projects under the fund is Oct. 31 and projects must be ready for completion in March 2019. City staff said the Mooney’s Bay pavilion isn’t there yet. Council was to have the final say on the list at its Oct. 26 meeting. Brockington asked staff to identify $2 million in lower priority projects before council, and planned to introduce an amendment to include the project.
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A toaster fire caused the evacuation of a low-rise apartment building at the Ottawa Community Housing Corporation’s Blair Court community. Ottawa fire crews were called to 1508 Station Blvd. in the Riverview Park neighbourhood on Oct. 18 at 3:15 p.m. “The first Ottawa Fire Services crew on scene confirmed the toaster was still on fire on the kitchen countertops,” Capt. Danielle Cardinal, Ottawa fire spokeswoman, said in an emailed statement. “A working fire was declared and the situation was quickly brought under control by crews.” By the time emergency responders arrived, residents had already evacuated the complex and many stood outside watching firefighters work in the second-floor unit of a three-storey low-rise apartment building. A man standing at the fence said his sister called him to tell him her toaster oven had caught fire. The man, who did not provide his name, said he didn’t know how the appliance had caught fire. Fire crews checked the premises for potential spreading by removing
dry wall and other building materials. Thermal imaging cameras were also used. Once the flames were squelched, the building was ventilated of smoke. The cause of the fire was not known and the damage estimate is less than $50,000, Cardinal later said in an interview, adding damages were considered minor. She did not know how many people living in the affected unit were displaced by the fire, but said no one was injured in the incident. Though she said everyone involved did the right thing in evacuating and calling the authorities, Cardinal took the opportunity to issue a reminder and urged residents to watch over their cooking and to turn off the stove or other appliances if they leave the kitchen even for a short time. “Please be vigilant when you are cooking, ensure you have working smoke alarms and take the necessary precautions to avoid fires,” Cardinal said, adding that an evacuation plan should also be created and practised. She also said residents should never return to a building to help extinguish flames or to rescue people, property or pets. “Evacuate to a safe area at a safe distance from the emergency,” Cardinal said.
Policing shift expected to affect noise complaint enforcement Councillors question impact of downloading resident complaints about noise to bylaw services BY Jennifer McIntosh
“The police need to see themselves as a community partner. Downloading these calls brings pressure on city services.”
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The downloading of noise complaints to the city’s bylaw services has left some councillors wondering if it would be possible to move to a 24-hour service model. A report on the impact of the Ottawa police decision to no longer respond to noise complaints by staff in bylaw services made its way to the community and protective services committee on Oct. 20. Rideau-Vanier Coun. Mathieu Fleury said he’s tired of the politics between the police service and the city. “The police need to see themselves as a community partner. Downloading these calls brings pressure on city services,” he said.
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Fleury said last year there were 777 noise complaint calls to bylaw that weren’t dealt with in the same day – asserting that without support from police that number will only grow. Bylaw services stays open until 4 a.m. on Friday and Saturday nights. The rest of the week, they stay open until 2 a.m. College Coun. Rick Chiarelli said it sends the wrong message. ‘Do whatever they want’
4 a.m.,” he said, adding calls to bylaw going unanswered created a vigilante retaliation in one of his ward’s neighbourhoods.
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Infinity Convention Centre opens in south Ottawa Opening timed ahead of 2017 birthday celebrations BY ERIN MCCRACKEN
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Ottawa’s newest convention centre is now open for business, timed to meet the city’s celebration needs as it prepares to mark Canada’s 150th birthday in 2017. “This is about eight years in the making,� said Anu Sohal, who co-owns the $20-million Infinity Convention Centre, located at 2901 Gibford Dr. off Hunt Club Road. “We thought the timing was right with 2017,� she said. “We knew we had to be open by 2017.� Being in the hotel business, she and her fellow co-owners, including her husband T.J., his brother Sonny, Sonny’s wife Kiran and longtime Ottawa entrepreneur Anand Aggarwal, have seen an increased demand in bookings
for Canada’s sesquicentennial celebration year. “Our rates for the summer are probably close to 200 per cent over our regular rates,� Sohal said of the demand for a place to stay, particularly next July and August. “If you try to book now for July 1 you won’t find a hotel in Ottawa.� Though she said their convention centre opened a bit late to draw the bulk of event bookings for 2017 birthday bashes, Sohal said she is confident the new space will fill an important need. “It helps us with overflow,� she said. The Infinity was just an idea when the partners opened the Holiday Inn Express & Suites, their first Ottawa hotel, located next door to the centre. See WE’RE, page 5
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The centre’s opening was timed to follow the construction of their other hotels. They opened a Marriot Residence Inn at Bank Street and Walkley Road in 2013, then a high rise of loftstyle condos, known as the Legendary Warehouse, behind the Marriott. A Hampton Inn by Hilton, located on Gibford Drive off Hunt Club Road, followed last year. Next up, a Homewood Suites by Hilton is now under construction nearby Infinity at Paul Anka Drive and Dean Martin Crescent. The opening is planned for early 2018. Being in sales eight years ago, Sohal said phone calls kept coming in from people seeking wedding venues, meeting spaces smaller than what is offered at the Shaw Centre downtown, as well as interest in a site close to the Ottawa International Airport. “There was a lot of little things that kept coming up,” she recalled. “We thought there really is a need for something like this in this area.” MAKING A SPLASH
Since hosting their first event at Infinity – a wedding – on Oct. 1, bookings are now stretching well into next year and beyond. Their invite-only gala grand opening, which was emceed by eTalk host Ben Mulroney on Oct. 15, also attracted a lot of attention. “We wanted to make a splash in the city,” said Sohal. “I think the south end gets ignored a little bit. We want-
ed to let the city know downtown is not the only swanky spot.” One upcoming event booked for Infinity will actually be held in tandem with the nearby EY Centre, which is located on Uplands Drive close to the airport. Infinity will be the venue for a VIP tasting event for the Ottawa Food and Wine Festival in November.
“We wanted to let the city know downtown is not the only swanky spot.” Anu Sohal, co-owner
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“Although EY is hosting it,” Sohal said. “We’ll have one aspect of that event. “So we’re hoping for a lot of that too, partnering with (the) EY Centre,” she said. “We’re not the EY and the EY is not us.” There are other distinctions that set the two venues apart, such as the opulence of Infinity. The wedding and events centre boasts a 1,400-square-metre ballroom and about 743 square metres of prefunction and lobby space. The Infinity can accommodate 1,200 people for meetings or 900 for banquets and receptions. The entire centre was designed to
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Alta Vista’s SainteGeneviève school opens doors for renovation reveal It’s a ‘together school,’ principal says of $8.7M makeover’s impact By Erin McCracken
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Heavy equipment can be seen cleaning up the remains of the demolished Canterbury section of Sainte-Geneviève French Sainte-Geneviève French Catholic elementary school in Alta Vista on Oct. 18. The kindergarten to Grade 6 school has been undergoing an extensive Catholic elementary school underwent a massive transretrofit and renovation over the past year.
Notice of Public Open House #2: Workshop Barrhaven South Urban Expansion Area Community Design Plan Pierre-Savard French Catholic High School – 1110 Longfields Drive Saturday, November 5, 2016 9 a.m. to 12 noon Join us to learn about the ongoing development of the Barrhaven South Urban Expansion Area Community Design Plan, and participate by providing your ideas for the concept plan. The integrated Planning Act and Environmental Assessment Act process is being followed for the Barrhaven South Urban Expansion Area Community Design Plan. 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. Your ideas and suggestions will make a difference Your participation and feedback are integral components in the development of the CDP and will provide the project team with information to further develop the vision for the new community. To Participate: Register today! To secure your spot at this workshop, please register, with your preferred language for the group discussion, before noon on Thursday, November 3, 2016 by email at KRoberts@morrisonhershfield.com. Accessibility is an important consideration for the City of Ottawa. If you require special accommodation services, please contact Cheryl Brouillard before noon on Thursday, November 3, 2016. If you would like to be added to the mailing list for this project or have comments or requests, please contact one of the Planners below. Be sure to visit the website for further information ottawa.ca/en/southbarrhavencdp We hope to see you there! Cheryl Brouillard, Planner City of Ottawa 110 Laurier Avenue West, 4th Floor Ottawa, ON K1P 1J1 613-580-2424 ext. 13392 Email: cheryl.brouillard@ottawa.ca 6 Ottawa South News - Thursday, October 27, 2016
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formation, its doors will soon open for a public reveal. “It really creates a community, a more together community,” school principal Carole Payant said of the massive makeover. After funding for the retrofit and renovation was secured in 2014, half of the school’s 595 students were relocated for the 2015-16 academic year to an empty school at 991 Dynes Rd., not far from Hog’s Back, which is owned by the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board. Payant essentially became a principal of two schools with the same name. “We didn’t want to split families,” she said of the temporary move. “This community has been wonderful. They’ve been so supportive.” And while there was an enormous amount of coordination involved in operating both, maintaining open lines of communication with parents and keeping tabs on construction, Payant said the finished product is all worth it. When students and the 55 teachers and staff were welcomed back on the first day of school in September, Payant said they were amazed at the transformation. “The children were so excited,” she recalled. “When I saw that, it was a confirmation to me that all the work was worth something.” The school actually grew many years ago when the
nearby St. Mark’s English Catholic school was purchased by the French Catholic board. The two school sites, which date back to the 1960s, were physically linked in 1967, but it created a jumble of hallways, a labyrinth so complex it would take ages to get from one end to the next and people could lose their way.
“The children were so excited.” Carole Payant, principal
When Payant was made principal about five years ago, she could see where change was needed for the pre-kindergarten to Grade 6 students as well as for staff. The $8.7 million makeover — $7.5 million of which came from Ontario’s Ministry of Education and $1.2 million was sourced from the French Catholic school board — included a remodelled entrance at 2198 Arch St., an elevator, a relocated stairwell, the construction of a two-storey addition and the existing Arch wing was remodelled. These two sections were then linked by the length of a new halfway, which features an abundance of skylights and the interior classroom windows that overlook the corridor are tinted different colours. The project has elevated security, improved the working atmosphere for teachers and enhanced student learning. See PUBLIC, page 7
Public invited to tour transformed school Continued from page 6
“I call it a ‘together school.’ Everybody is together,” Payant said. “The way it was set up two years ago, you really had two schools. “The teachers wouldn’t see each other. Brothers and sisters could spend days without seeing each other. They (only) saw each other on the bus because everything was so far away. “It was hard to manage,” she said. The gym was also redone, five portables were removed, there’s more play space and classroom space. The daycare was given a separate entrance. The old St. Mark’s section was demolished in recent weeks and heavy equipment has been at the site cleaning up the remains. That aspect of the project came to $550,000. “That is going to give space for the daycare’s yard because there is small yard right now,” Payant said, adding this work is scheduled to wrap up by the end of November, as well as the creation of a daycare kiss-and-ride where parents can drop off their children. The city also agreed to widen the sidewalk out front along Arch Street to improve accessibility and safety. And over the next month a pathway will be installed along Canterbury Avenue that students can use to walk and cycle directly to the school yard and away from where buses drop off and pick up kids on Arch Street. “Right now all the biking, the busing is in one place,” Payant said. “It’s just too many people.” YOU’RE INVITED
The public is invited to tour the school during a grand re-opening celebration on Nov. 27, from 10 a.m. to noon. “Even neighbours who approached me said, ‘We’re so excited for you guys and we would like to see the school,’” Payant said of the interest shown by Alta Vista residents. Those who drop in are in for a surprise. “When people walk in the school they don’t
Notice of a proposed Open House and Public Meeting in accordance with Section 26 of the Planning Act
Draft Official Plan Amendment Employment Land, Agricultural Land, and Growth Projections This is to give notice of a proposed Official Plan Amendment that results from the review and update the Employment Lands, Agricultural Lands and the Growth Projections. The proposed amendment will amend Official Plan policies and the designation of some land in both urban and rural areas.
Open House – Monday, November 14, 2016
The purpose of the Open House is to provide the public with information concerning the Draft Official Plan Amendment and to allow the public to ask questions. Two sessions will be offered on Monday, November 14, 2016 at Ben Franklin Place, 101 Centrepointe Drive as follows: Agricultural Land and LEAR only Drop in from 2 to 4 p.m. Main floor, Room 1C Agricultural Land, LEAR, Employment Lands and Growth Projections Open House at 6 p.m. Formal presentation at 7 p.m., followed by Q&A Main floor, former council chambers
Public Meeting – Tuesday, November 22, 2016
The purpose of the Public Meeting is to provide the opportunity for the public to make oral and written submissions to the City prior to the amendment being considered by the Council. The Public Meeting will be held as part of the regular scheduled Planning Committee meeting at 9:30 a.m. Ottawa City Hall, 2nd floor, Champlain Room, 110 Laurier Avenue West.
Summary of proposed changes
The Growth Projections will extend the timeframe of the Official Plan from 2031 to 2036. This change results in new projections for future population, households and employment, text changes to the plan, and an assessment of the supply and demand of land to meet anticipated housing demand. The changes proposed for Employment Lands include the conversion of excess urban employment lands to non-employment designations, the re-designation of Enterprise Areas, a new Rural Employment Area designation and amended policies and land use permissions.
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The Agricultural Land review results in changes to the Land Evaluation and Area Review (LEAR) system, recommends changes to the Agricultural Resource Area designation in some areas, and updates the terminology of the Official Plan to reflect the changes in the 2014 Provincial Policy Statement.
Carole Payant, principal of Sainte-Geneviève French Catholic elementary school in Alta Vista, and some of her Grade 2 and 3 students show off some of the changes the school has undergone and that the public can finally see during a grand re-opening celebration on Nov. 27.
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recognize it at all,” Payant said. “I’m quite excited to open it to the community, because it’s a unique school,” she said. “You will not see another one like this.”
If you wish to be notified of the decision of the City of Ottawa on the proposed Official Plan amendment, you must make a written request to the City of Ottawa or register to be notified at ottawa.ca/officialplan.
Go to the city’s website at ottawa.ca/officialplan to review the draft amendment and background information.
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The City of Ottawa would like to receive any comments concerning this proposal. Please forward comments to the undersigned planner via mail, facsimile or e-mail. Comments received will be considered in the evaluation of the proposal.
If a person or public body does not make oral submissions at the public meeting or make written submissions to the City of Ottawa before the proposed official plan amendment is adopted by Council, the person or public body is not entitled to appeal the decision to the Ontario Municipal Board. If a person or public body does not make oral submissions at the public meeting, or make written submissions to the City of Ottawa before the proposed Official Plan amendment is adopted by Council, the person or public body may not be added as a party to the hearing of an appeal before the Ontario Municipal Board unless, in the opinion of the Board, there are reasonable grounds to do so. Direct your written submissions and/or questions to: Bruce Finlay, Planner Planning, Infrastructure and Economic Development Department City of Ottawa 110 Laurier Avenue West Ottawa, ON K1P 1J1 Tel: 613-580-2424, ext. 21850 Fax: 613-580-2459 Email: planning@ottawa.ca Dated at the City of Ottawa this 27th day of October, 2016
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his week one of the most powerful symbols of collective memory and honouring sacrifice is once again starting to be on display across the country. That symbol is the poppy. Starting Oct. 28, poppies will be available to the public in the lead up to Remembrance Day Nov. 11. This year’s National Poppy Campaign was launched at a special event hosted by Gov. Gen. David Johnston on Oct. 19, in which the Gov. Gen. honoured Canadian veterans from past military campaigns. The public act of wearing a poppy at this time of year is a way for the nation to remember our shared collective history as a country that has never turned away when duty called, and that we, as a nation, will never forget the sacrifices of our veterans who have served in our military. And while Canadian military personnel have been active in recent years in such places as Afghanistan and the ongoing fight against the murderous thugs that call themselves ISIS, the number of veterans from such military campaigns of the past such as the First and Second World Wars and Korea are dwindling with the passage of time. The poppy honours those who have served in our
military and keeps alive forever the memory of the 117,000 Canadians who have given their lives for our ongoing freedom in conflicts around the globe. “With each poppy we remember someone who is no longer with us,” Johnston said at the poppy campaign’s launch. “It’s now our responsibility to pass on what we know to keep the memories alive.” Each year, approximately 18 million poppies are distributed across Canada, and Canadians wear them with pride, with heavy hearts, and with respect for those who have served and those who have died. The campaign, which was officially adopted in Canada in 1921 by the Great War Veterans’ Association (the predecessor of today’s Royal Canadian Legion), acts as a symbol of what this country is all about, which is why most Canadians, in one form or another, support the poppy campaign and wear a poppy on their lapels. It is not, and never should be, an empty fashion statement. It is a statement about what this country represents, which is why it is a unifying national campaign that everyone should stand on guard for. Let’s put on our poppies in the lead up to Remembrance Day, and then on Nov. 11 let’s all proudly stand together again.
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’ve always been a big advocate of sleep. Any parent knows, however, that kids can go through strange periods of disrupted sleep, insomnia or even sleep without feeling well-rested. According to the Canadian Sleep Society (CSS), 40 per cent of kids don’t get enough sleep. Teenagers are especially susceptible to sleep deprivation, with 60 per cent of 12-17-year-olds citing daytime fatigue. Lack of sleep can affect children’s health and wellness. Kids who are tired are more likely to show up in emergency rooms, with fatigue cited as a primary trigger of playground accidents. Kids who don’t get enough sleep can have difficulty regulating weight and exhibit behavioural problems that mimic attention deficit hyperactiv-
BRYNNA LESLIE Capital Muse ity disorder (ADHD), according to CSS. As any parent or teacher knows, the combination of these things can make it really difficult to keep kids on track with work, chores or even extracurricular activities. But sometimes, it seems, it’s hard to get kids to get the minimum nine hours per night of rest they need. In fact, the average night’s sleep for a Canadian child is 7.8 hours. There are some good strategies – limit sugar and caffeine, have a regular bedtime routine that helps
trigger the kids to relaxation, maintain the bedtime on weekends, and limit light in the evening (including screens). All of these things work well for adults as well. And, besides not being grumpy and distracted, I recently learned more about the benefits of getting a good night’s sleep. According to an article in the October issue of New Scientist, our unconscious mind needs us in a state of shuteye to regenerate and learn. In a 2014 study conducted by researchers at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, Sid Koulder and his research team had volunteers push a button with their left or right hand when they heard the name of an animal or object as they fell asleep. They then had the same subjects
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listen to words while they were sleeping, while monitoring their brain activity. “Even while asleep,” writes journalist Simon Makin in New Scientist, “activity continued in the brain’s motor regions, indicating that the sleepers were preparing to push the correct button.” The researchers concluded that when the brain is in stand-by mode in the early hours of sleep, individuals can continue to analyse words and the meaning behind them. It makes me think of the cliché of listening to recordings of a foreign language while sleeping and becoming a master in Italian. In fact, 20 years ago I used this method to memorize 400 years of poetry for a university English exam and found my recall ability unmatched compared to anything I did in an awake state. In the New Scientist article, however, Makin notes that once the individual is in deep sleep, the brain goes into shutdown mode. But our EDITORIAL MANAGING EDITOR: Theresa Fritz, 613-221-6225
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unconscious mind can still work for us; it’s in this period of restorative sleep that our minds process the events of the day. I don’t know about you, but I’m going to spend my evenings hitting the play button on those French lessons I’ve got on CD. There are only so many hours in the day. I might as well let my unconscious work for me.
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Pedestrian hit by vehicle in Billings Bridge was jaywalking: police BY ERIN MCCRACKEN
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No charges will be laid after a vehicle struck a man as he jaywalked across Bank Street near Riverside Drive, according to police. Ottawa police were called to Bank Street, between Kilborn Avenue and Riverside Drive, on Oct. 18 at 11:50 p.m. “There was a man who was hit by a vehicle right at 1365 Bank St.,” said Const. Chuck Benoit, Ottawa police spokes-
man. “He was crossing the road, not at the intersection.” He confirmed the pedestrian was jaywalking at the time. That stretch of Bank Street spans four lanes. Benoit said the man suffered a broken leg and was transported to hospital. The northbound lanes of Bank Street, between Kilborn and Riverside, were closed to oncoming traffic during the investigation, but were reopened just before 5:30 a.m. prior to the morning commute.
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Take one empty park-and-ride. Combine with garden vegetables, local meats and homemade jams. Serve fresh. That’s the recipe for success OC Transpo could be cooking up all over the city if a pilot project in Riverside South goes ahead next year. Coun. Michael Qaqish wants to re-zone part of the park-and-ride on Earl Armstrong Road to allow a farmer’s market there on weekends. It has never really been done before. OC Transpo’s Pat Scrimgeour said past community use at park-and-rides has been largely limited to one-off occasions, not weekly events. But if the Riverside South plan is approved – and goes well – transit commission chair Coun. Stephen Blais said the partnership could make sense for other suburban neighbourhoods, too. “It’s a great way to make use of a community hub,” said Blais. “We spend a lot of money building park-and-rides, and if we can get more value and use out of them, that’s even better.” OC Transpo’s vast suburban lots sit largely empty on weekends, but they’re usually centrally located and easy to get to, Scrimgeour said. His team is on board with the Riverside South plan: it’s simply a matter of making sure the drivers who do use the park-and-ride on weekends have a place to park, and that set-up and tear-down doesn’t interfere with the week-
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Former Canada and the World Pavilion gets some new long-term tenants Royal Canadian Geographical Society to create new centre for geography
Councillor/Conseillère Quartier Gloucester-Southgate Ward
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Get the Flu Shot!
It’s that time of year again when free flu shot clinics are open around the city. Protect yourself and your family from the flu this season by visiting your family doctor, participating pharmacies or even a number of community clinics around the city offering free flu shots. Upcoming locations near our ward include: Wednesday, November 2 Fred Barrett Arena 3280 Leitrim Road 3:30 to 7:30 pm A full list of locations of clinics for 2016/2017 can be found on our city website at: http://ottawa.ca/en/residents/public-health/flu-clinics
REMINDER: Snow Tour 2016
In preparation for the upcoming winter season, I will once again be taking part in my annual Snow Tour of Gloucester-Southgate Ward. City Staff from the Public Works Department will join me mid November to review areas which could be the cause of snow maintenance issues during the winter months. If you have an area in mind that has an ongoing snow clearing problem please contact my office at diane.deans@ottawa.ca or call 613-580-2480 to be added to the list. Deadline to submit your snow clearing problems is Wednesday, November 9th.
REMINDER: Essay Contest
I am happy to remind Gloucester-Southgate residents that I have launched the “Your Vision for 2067” youth essay contest. As we prepare for the excitement of celebrating Canada’s 150th anniversary in 2017, it is important that we take a moment to reflect on how our country has evolved over the past 50 years and contemplate our vision for the next 50 years. Contest eligibility includes: • Must be a resident of Ward 10 (boundaries can be found online or by calling 613-580-2480) • Student in grades 9-12 • Entrants cannot be relatives of the judging panel. • Prizes: 1st - $1000, 2nd - $500, 3rd - $250 All submissions MUST be received no later than 4 p.m. on November 14, 2016. Essays can be sent via email to diane.deans@ottawa.ca or hand delivered to the addresses below: Greenboro Community Centre (Diane Deans’ Office), 363 Lorry Greenberg Drive Better Beginnings, Better Futures, 1485 Heatherington Road, Unit 22 For more information on the essay contest visit my website: www.dianedeans.ca
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Geography in Canada just found itself a new home. As of Oct. 24, the Royal Canadian Geographical Society officially took possession of the former Canada and the World Pavilion building on Sussex Avenue. The property, located at 50 Sussex Dr. between Rideau River falls and the Ottawa River, has been vacant since 2005 when the exhibition hall was closed. The building’s owner, the National Capital Commission, said it has rented out the property over the years for a month here and there, or for a specific event, but that this would be a long-term tenant. The lease the two partners signed is for five years. Renovate building
The society announced it will renovated the building and make it Canada’s Centre for Geography and Exploration. The centre is scheduled to open its doors in 2017 as a Confederation Pavilion during Canada’s 150th anniversary. Following the signing, chief executive officer of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society and Canadian Geographic Enterprises John Geiger and the National Capital Commission’s chief executive officer Mark Kristmanson toured the property, showing off both it’s attributes as well as discussed the changes the space will undergo as it transforms into the new centre including two exhibition spaces and a 210-seat auditorium with multiple screens to serve as a state-of-the-art, multi-purpose venue for lectures, film screenings, conferences and similar events. The aim will be to celebrate the physical and human geography of Canada, with a particular emphasis on the geography of Canada’s Capital Region. The fully refurbished building will open in April 2018 as the headquarters of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society.
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Alex Trebek, honourary president of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, shows off the new space for the society, 50 Sussex Ave. Trebek attended an announcement on Oct. 24 that the former World Pavilion building will be Canada’s Centre for Geography and Exploration. Alex Trebek, honorary president of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society attended the announcement and said the appeal of the property was all about location. “Well, does it get any better than this?” he asked during his speech. The long-time television game show host of Jeopardy added the society is hopeful the home is a long-term one, adding the centre will create a dynamic new platform to engage Canadians in celebrating their incredible physical and human geography. When the NCC put a call out for tenants in 2012, a market analysis from October 2010 indicated market rate would be $250,000 a year, or $20,000 a
month. The NCC would not comment on what the society will be paying for in rent, but did say the annual maintenance costs for the building would be around $200,000. ‘Seemed crazy’
Currently the society is located in a strip mall on Lola Street in Overbrook. Geiger said the idea to move to the Sussex Avenue location started about five years ago when he first heard about the vacant building. “At the time it seemed crazy to go from a strip mall to this,” Geiger said. As the new headquarters, the Centre will also be the public face of the Royal Canadian
Geographical Society, a nonprofit organization founded in 1929 that aims to make Canada better known to Canadians and the world. The Society publishes Canadian Geographic and Géographica magazines, and its educational program, Canadian Geographic Education, has more than 18,000 educatormembers. Rideau-Rockcliffe Coun. Tobi Nussbaum said he’s excited to finally see something happening in the space. “It’s hasn’t benefited anyone sitting empty,” Nussbaum said of the building, adding that he’s encouraged that Geiger mentioned there’s opportunity for the community to utilize the space.
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Day of pampering Above: Dakota Doyon, 12, gets her first ever manicure from a Gel Moment technician at the National Women’s Show on Oct. 22. The women’s show, held semi-annually at the EY Centre, features vendors, fashion shows and demonstrations. At right: Robyn Hogan (left) and Kathryn Warren strutted their stuff to promote the Glebe’s Fred Astaire Dance Studio at the National Women’s Show on Oct. 22. The pair, both instructors, were set up at one of the many booths that visitors to the show could drop in on.
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Former city staffer to take a run at Carleton provincial seat By Jennifer McIntosh
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Jay Tysick, former chief of staff for College Coun. Rick Chiarelli, is throwing his hat into the electoral ring at the provincial level. Tysick, who graduated from South Carleton High School in Richmond, and grew up in the newly re-jigged riding of Carleton, has entered into the Conservative party nomination race for that riding. Tysick has the backing of former Osgoode councillor Doug Thompson, who was at first a candidate himself until withdrawing over what he said was internal party politics. “It’s kind of something I want to stay out of, but I think he would do a great job,” Thompson said of Tysick as a candidate for the Tory nomination in the riding. Tysick, 42, lives in the community of Valley Stream, in Nepean, near the Queensway Carleton Hospital, but he said he has a good handle on the issues of Carleton riding residents having grown up there.
Aside from his work with Chiarelli, Tysick has served on the executive of the local community association for several years and is no stranger to advocacy work. He currently works as a lobbyist and communications consultant for Faraday Partners, where he’s a managing partner. Tysick was working on Thompson’s campaign before the former Osgoode councillor pulled out of the race. “I believe Doug would have been the best,” Tysick said. Now Thompson has agreed to make the rounds with Tysick and talk to residents. Lawyer Goldie Ghamari is one of the other contenders, along with Brandon Purcell, who works as a Conservative aide on the Hill. Neither of those two candidates are local, argues Tysick. “Traditionally the area has had really good representation,” Tysick said. “I want someone who’s going to fight for the riding and they’re not from the area.” As the clock ticks down, with only days to go, Tysick is doing
all he can to get out there and drum up memberships. Under normal circumstances, the party wouldn’t be allowed to host the nomination before the beginning of 2017, but because the Carleton riding is new, the local executive was allowed to select an earlier date. Tysick said he plans to run a grassroots campaign and get out and talk to as many people as he can before the deadline hits. If he’s selected as the candidate, Tysick said he wants to work on garnering support from younger voters. “I think for too long we have been focused on negative politics,” he said. “People want to hear our ideas about what we are going to do to make the province better.” The PC nomination meeting for the Carleton riding is scheduled for Nov. 5 at the Alfred Taylor Centre in North Gower at 2300 Community Way. Registration begins at 9 a.m. and closes at 10 a.m. sharp. -With files McCracken
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Gov. Gen. officially launches 2016 National Poppy Campaign Poppies available to the public starting Oct. 28 BY MICHELLE NASH BAKER
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According to Canada’s Governor General, a poppy can tell many stories. From soldiers, ambassadors, peace keepers these are stories that help define Canadians, Gov. Gen. David Johnston said on Oct. 19 during the launch of the annual poppy campaign. Johnston and his wife Sharon were the first two Canadians to receive their poppy, and in turn, pinned a poppy on Dominion president of the Royal Canadian Legion David Flannigan and Grand President of the Royal Canadian Legion Larry Murray. The flower, Johnston said, acts not only as a means to remember the fallen, but to also allows Canadians to keep those memories alive. "With each poppy we remember someone who is no longer with us,” Johnston said. "It's now our responsibility to pass on what we know to keep the memories alive.” Johnston opened the ceremony with
the famous poem by John McCrae In Flanders Fields, stating the words in the poem are the reason generations come together to pin a poppy on their lapel. “Those words, written more than 100 years ago by Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae, bring us together today,” Johnston said. “He inspired generations to adopt the poppy as the symbol of remembrance, and every year, we gather at Rideau Hall for the launch of the National Poppy Campaign. And every year, since the beginning of my mandate, I have reflected on what this symbol means to veterans. What it means to the men and women who wore the uniform, who sacrificed and fought and suffered for us.” Murray, echoed Johnston’s comments, adding it’s an honour that the legion is in charge of remembrance for Nov. 11, adding the poppy is the eternal recognition of the service of all men and women who protect our freedoms. Poppies will be available to the general public beginning Oct. 28. Each year, approximately 18 million poppies are distributed across Canada. The National Poppy Campaign was officially adopted in Canada in
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Dominion president of the Royal Canadian Legion David Flannigan and Gov. Gen. David Johnston help launch the National Poppy Campaign on Oct. 19 by pinning the first poppy on Johnston. 1921 by the Great War Veterans’ Association (the predecessor of today’s Royal Canadian Legion), poppies
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Section of Rideau Street closed to traffic until new year UPCOMING EVENTS BY MICHELLE NASH BAKER
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Drivers and cyclists will have to detour around Rideau Street, between Sussex and Dalhousie Streets, until the end of the year. Even buses, taxis and delivery vehicles will have to use detours. However pedestrian access to businesses and residences will stay open. The closure began on Oct. 19. According to RideauVanier Coun. Mathieu Fleury, the closure is needed to move forward with light rail transit construction. Fleury said the work is entirely related to the sinkhole that opened up on June 8. Tunnel
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“The entire tunnel has been excavated except for the 31 metres on Rideau Street,” Fleury said. The sinkhole that was about three traffic lanes wide – near the intersection of Rideau and Sussex – closed Rideau until June 30 and shut down nearby businesses. Buses were
detoured onto the Mackenzie King Bridge. Fleury said he is happy that, this time around, buses are being rerouted on multiple streets. “With different routes things might not get so congested,” Fleury said. Several OC Transpo routes are affected, including: • Routes 1 and 7 will operate via Daly Avenue and will stop at the intersection of Rideau and Dalhousie, and Daly and Nicholas • Routes 2 and 4 will operate along Albert and Slater, and will end at the corner of Elgin and Sparks streets • Route 9 will end at Dalhousie and Rideau, and will start at Sussex and Rideau • Routes 12 and 18 will stop at Rideau and Dalhousie, and will end at Daly and Nicholas. The first stop for eastbound trips will be at Daly and Nicholas • Route 14 will operate via the Mackenzie King Bridge • With these changes, the sections of Routes 2 and 4 east of the canal will not operate, and the sections of Routes 9 and 12 west of the canal will not operate “That was way to easy!”
Originally Rideau Transit Group – the company managing light rail construction – planned to work in the evenings, boring holes into the concrete to shore up the soil around the sinkhole area. However, Fleury said that the set up and take down involved each evening and morning was cutting into the time available for working on the problem. OC Transpo
“This will keep things on track and on time,” Fleury said of the closure of the portion Rideau Street. During the closure there will be a free OC Transpo shuttles on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights between 10 p.m. and 3 a.m. that will connect the ByWard Market to the Mackenzie King Bridge, with various pick-up spots. For more info, visit octranspo.com. STO customers should visit sto.ca. For more information on city programs and services, visit ottawa.ca or call 311. You can also connect through Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. “I just clicked and saved 90%”
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It's time to scare the mayor again at his 10th annual Halloween party at city hall. Mayor Jim Watson is hosting the trick-or-treat event on Oct. 29 from 4 to 7 p.m. in support of the Ottawa Food Bank’s Baby Basics Program. The event encourages families to help others this time of year by donating food and other supplies to the program. It all gets started on Trick of Treat Terrace in Marion Dewar Plaza where participants can trick or treat with the mayor, meet costumed char-
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Mayor Jim Watson is hosting a trick-or-treat event on Oct. 29 from 4 to 7 p.m. at city hall in support of the Ottawa Food Bank’s Baby Basics Program. Participants can trick or treat with the mayor, meet costumed characters and decorate pumpkins.
Admission is a donation to the Ottawa Food Bank’s Baby Basics Program.
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Admission to the event is a donation of a non-perishable item. Cash donations will also be accepted.According to a press release, the Baby Basics Program helps parents by providing high-demand items such as food, formula, diapers, baby wipes and more. For more information about the event, visit Ottawa.ca, or call 613580-2401.
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Retired teacher facing new sexual assault charges BY Megan DeLaire mdelaire@metroland.com
Police filed additional sexual assault charges against retired teacher
he assaulted four teenagers while working as a teacher between 1970 and 1982. He now faces 35 new charges, including indecent assault, gross inde-
Donald Greenham on Oct. 18. Greenham, 73, was originally charged with 14 counts of sexual assault and indecency on Aug. 22 following an investigation into claims
“The Ottawa Police will respect a victim’s wishes to pursue or not pursue the matter before the courts. The reporting of these incidents by victims to police is key for investigators to identify suspects and determine crime trends.” Staff Sgt. Angela McDade
cency and intimidation as the result of complaints from seven new victims. “The Ottawa Police will respect a victim’s wishes to pursue or not pursue the matter before the courts,” said Staff Sgt. Angela McDade. “The reporting of these incidents by victims to police is key for investigators to identify suspects and determine crime trends.”
team’s coach for the years 1980 and 1982. Former students of Greenham’s have said he also coached the boys’ lacrosse team at Bell High School, and that he served as a guidance counselor in the past at Greenbank Middle School and Bayshore Public School.
Recent charges
According to the public register of the Ontario College of Teachers, Greenham earned his teaching certificate in Ottawa in 1964 and retired in 2013. He is scheduled to appear in court on November 22. Police continue to investigate, and are concerned there could be more victims. Anyone with information is asked to contact the police’s sexual assault child abuse unit at 613-236-1222, ext. 5944.
The most recent charges stem from incidents police say allegedly occurred between 1971 and 1981, while Greenham was teaching with the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board. The victims range in age from 13 to18 years old. Although police did not specify at which schools Greenham taught and coached, archived news coverage of Bell High School’s senior basketball team lists Greenham as the senior
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Elizabeth Erkaya (right) of Elections Ontario shows Marion Orleans the voting process during a voters education seminar for new Canadians hosted by Elections Ontario at the TAIBU Community Health Centre in Malvern, Ont., near Toronto, in advance of the Scarborough-Rouge River byelection. The Office of the Premier announced Ottawa-Vanier’s byelection will take place on Nov. 17.
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Muslim leader stresses need to love your country Visiting Muslim leader meets with PM during stop in capital BY BRIER DODGE
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Donald Trump doesn’t act like a man who wants to be president, said the leader of what’s considered to be the fastest growing Muslim sect in the world, who was in Cumberland on Oct. 18. Caliph Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad visited the Ahmadiyya Muslim Mosque in Cumberland as a part of a tour of Canada in the 50th year of the Muslim organization’s Canadian presence. The Caliph is originally from Pakistan, but lives in London, England, and is the world leader of the religious organization with millions of members worldwide. While in Cumberland, the Caliph took a short break from meeting with local Muslim families to speak about a number of topics with Metroland Media, ranging from his meeting with Prime Minister
Justin Trudeau the day before, to the use of technology and the radicalization of youth. He is not worried that Trump, who has made what some consider shocking statements about the Muslim population, will be able to act on his words if elected in the American presidential election in November. ‘Just nonsense’
He said that some of the statements Trump has made about the Muslim community are “just nonsense” and even if he is elected, he’ll have a hard time being backed by his own party to implement the policies he’s touted during his campaign. He doesn’t have the same concerns about Canadian politics, though he does promote G8 countries, including Canada, in the United Nations working together to prevent radicalization, and the moni-
toring of Islamic schools and mosques. During his meeting with Prime Minister Trudeau, he said they discussed world issues including the crisis in Syria. He didn’t have any concerns with Canadian policy accepting refugees, but said Canadians do need to be aware of world issues because today, the world is a global village. “Canada is already taking good measures to absorb refugees.” he said. “Canadians are always very generous.” Muslims in Canada — and in countries around the world — are taught as a part of their faith to love their country, the Caliph said. Anyone who doesn’t, is going against the teachings of Islam. “A Muslim, a Christian, or a Jew or anybody, if he’s a true citizen then they should respect each other,” he said. “It’s said that Muslims are not honest to their country,
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what people are using it for. He also has words of wisdom for the local Ahmadiyya Muslim community, and said to remember the message that he has been spreading. He said once someone has accepted and integrated into their country, they won’t feel like the odd one out, or different. “The love of your country is part of your faith,” he said.
“Even from childhood, our children are getting this message. This message is engrained in their minds, that they have to be law-abiding always. “They have to be loyal, and they have to show proper integration into the country… Elders as well, those who have migrated, even the immigrants or refugees who came here are very well integrated.”
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City to hire property management company to run retail spaces in light-rail stations BY Jennifer McIntosh
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Week In Review! The last day of the Metcalfe Farmers Market was a busy place on Saturday, as they wrapped another great season in Metcalfe. Many of the vendors are already preparing for the upcoming Christmas Market in Greely.
I had the opportunity to present the 2016 Metcalfe Fair Executive Board with a Certificate of Congratulations on their 160th Anniversary of the Fair. President Brian Johnston gladly accepted the certificate after I addressed the board with a few words on how important the Fair is to the community and the pride I feel for being their Councillor. I am so happy to be involved with this truly fantastic Fair. Congratulations! The Girl Guides were out in full force in Osgoode this past Saturday with their delicious cookies for sale. Next time you see your local Girl Guides, please help support them in this fundraising effort by buying a box of their cookies. The annual Clothing Exchange at Trinity Bible Church saw more than 400 people pass through the doors. This is an exchange, where people can come and pick up donated household and clothing items, for no charge. Be sure to get there early next year as items go FAST! On Tuesday, there was a very special planting of Red and White tulips and the commemorative 150th Celebration flame tulip here in Metcalfe. The Town Hall garden was one of three major gardens in Metcalfe that was chosen as a site to plant these beautiful tulips to kick off Canada’s 150th Birthday celebrations. As previously mentioned in last week’s newsletter, Metcalfe resident Gail Burgess won 1,000 tulip bulbs in the Canada’s ‘150th Anniversary Celebration Garden’ Giveway and she generously donated them to our office. We held a bulb planting ceremony including various associations in the community including, school children, Veterans, members of protective services and myself. I was very pleased to take part in the ceremony along with many residents and school children. We teamed up with Metcalfe Community Association executive member Elli Kapsalis to divide and distribute the remaining bulbs. We look forward to holding a blooming ceremony in the spring. Stay tuned for updates on this event and everyone is welcome to join in.
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A property management company will be hired to run retail space in the city’s transit stations. The city’s transit commission approved the recommendation after a report from staff recommended the practice on Oct. 19. The report recommends a system-wide strategy for retail space. There are existing spaces at Bayshore, Lincoln Fields and Place d’Orléans stations. Pat Scrimgeour, the systems planning manager for OC Transpo said traditionally the retail brings $75,000 in revenues for the city each year. “It’s more about improving safety and convenience than making money,” Scrimgeour said, adding the lack of floor space makes it hard to attract big business. Aside from the spots on the existing Transitway, the plan calls for dedicated retail space located at Tunney’s Pasture, Rideau, Hurdman and Blair stations. Knoxdale-Merivale Coun. Keith Egli wanted to know if city staff had crunched the numbers on leasing out the retail space and attracting business with in-house staff in the city’s real estate department. “Wouldn’t it be cheaper to do it in house?” he asked. General manager John Manconi said doing the project in house would consume too much valuable time and money. “The best way to engage the local marketplace is to go out to market,” he said. “Our real estate people don’t have the retail experience. They can’t lure the big ones; the Starbucks.” Kanata North Coun. Marianne Wilkinson pointed out that if there’s retail space, there would have to be washrooms. To develop a best practices approach the city looked at 10 North American transit agencies, including Vancouver and San Francisco. Typically, the types of retail they found were convenience stores, coffee shops, vending machines and flower shops. “There should be a tailor at the Blair Station called
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Aside from the retail plan, the transit commission got a sneak peek at what the new stations would look like. Maps will show the Confederation Line as red, the route will also be labelled 1. The Trillium Line will be green and be marked as 2. Scrimgeour said staff have
looked into the possibility that travellers may be colour blind and dealt with that. “At no point will the colour be the only way to determine where you’re going,” he said. He added that the shades were evaluated to ensure they’d be distinguishable from each other regardless of whether or not the viewer is colour blind.
Opening of Mooney’s Bay playground right around the corner By Erin McCracken
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Aching to try out the Mooney’s Bay playground? A soft opening of the play structures is tentatively planned for later this fall if the weather cooperates, according to Dan Chenier, the city’s general manager of parks and recreation. Billed as Canada’s largest outdoor playground by Sinking Ship Entertainment and its Giver! children’s TV show, the play space has been kept behind fencing since the show’s filming wrapped in late August. The production company “continues to work with their contractors to complete the playground and the adjacent landscaping,” Chenier said. FINAL STEPS
The work is scheduled to be completed in the next few weeks and landscaping will begin once that leg of the project wraps up, he said.
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Children across the city will soon be able to try out the play structures that make up the newly constructed Mooney’s Bay playground, billed as the largest outdoor playground in the country. The official grand opening will take place July 1, 2017, and will be featured on the television show. The $2-million play-
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idents opposed the location, the removal of large trees at the park and that there was no advance public consultation.
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Grandmothers’ market moving into Lansdowne BY MELISSA MURRAY
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The market hosted by the Ottawa grandmothers is on the move. The Grand Market, which supports African grandmothers as they work to raise grandchildren orphaned by HIV/AIDS, was such a success last year that this year’s event will be held in Lansdowne Park’s horticulture building on Oct. 30 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. “We did that because it was an even bigger success than we expected,” said Val Swinton with One World Grannies about the first-ever market in the city. “It was very crowded and it didn’t make for a happy shopping experience.” Last year there wasn’t enough room in the Churchill Seniors’ Centre in Westboro to put out all of the things they had for sale, but the new venue will provide space for more tables, more space and more things to offer. Despite the cramped space last year, it was still a very successful event, Swinton said,
adding it raised about $18,000. This year, the grandmothers are hoping to almost double that with a goal of raising $30,000. Last year’s event was a bit of an experiment, after local grandmothers visited a similar market in Kingston to see if it was something that could work in Ottawa. Before last year, One World Grannies imported jewelry from a fair-trade workshop outside Nairobi, Kenya, and sold it to other grandmother groups across the country. In total, those efforts raised about $800,000 for the Stephen Lewis Foundation. The market will have tables of crafts, art, pottery, handmade birdhouses and other gifts as well as a large second-hand merchandise offering. “We’ll have gently-used clothing and accessories at ridiculously low prices,” Swinton said, adding it was the largest draw at last year’s market. Grandmother Moon will also be providing tarot card readings. This year, the foundation
celebrates 10 years since its formation. Since then, about 240 grandmother groups have popped up in Canada, including more than 20 in the Ottawa region. The market has invited grandmothers groups from all across the city to take part in the event. One of the local groups is the Grandmas AIDing Grandmas based in Blackburn Hamlet. The Blackburn grandmas, who also participated last year, have made chocolates and preservatives to sell. The group of 16 grandmothers frequently team up with the other grandmother groups and takes part in events, supporting each other and raising money. Some of the members even held a “bark bee” to make different types of chocolate bark to be sold. “It’s going to be a fabulous day of really interesting things,” said one of the Blackburn grandmothers, Barbara Nolen. For more information, visit Submitted stephenlewisfoundation.org or Colleen Murray and Val Swinton, members of One World Grannies, manned the toy www.grandmotherscampaign. table at the 2015 Grand Market. This year’s market is taking place Oct. 30 from 9 a.m. org. to 3 p.m.
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A new online diagnostic tool helps small businesses gauge their productivity and efficiency levels. The Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC), which works exclusively with entrepreneurs, released its free “productivity and benchmarking tool” to celebrate Small Business Week, which ran Oct. 16 to 22. “You are able not only to have the ratio of productivity for your own business but you can compare your business with every other business in your sector,” said Pierre Cléroux, vice-president of research and chief economist at BDC, during a business after hours event hosted by the West Ottawa Board of Trade on Oct. 20. BDC and Statistics Canada compiled data on 600,000 businesses in Canada across all sectors (excluding those that have 50 companies or
less), covering 90 per cent of all companies and sectors, said Cléroux. The report gives an efficiency ratio from 0 to 100 per cent. “According to these results you’ll get some direction,” said Cléroux. “If you get 90 per cent, you’re doing very well … If you get 15 per cent you have a lot of work to do and the system will give you a lot of reading of best practices to improve your productivity.” Business survey
Cléroux spoke to a room of about 80 business professionals at the Lockheed Martin training centre in Kanata. BDC also released a report, “Productivity Matters: Benchmarking Your Company to Up Your Game,” on how Canadian entrepreneurs measure their productivity, earlier in the week. The survey of 1,500 small and mid-size businesses found that only nine per cent measure their productivity using
global metrics, said Cléroux. Thirty-seven per cent use formal but partial metrics, 33 per cent use informal metrics, and 21 per cent have no metrics at all. “The challenge we have in Canada is most small and mid-size firms are not measuring their efficiency,” he said. “It’s difficult to understand what’s going on if you don’t have the proper measure of productivity. If you’re not as efficient as you should be as a business, you are leaving money on the table.” The benchmarking tool has been in the works for two years, said Cléroux, and was created to help small businesses maximize their productivity. The benefits of doing so include increased profits, new business opportunities, improved quality of goods and services, increased revenues and better competitive positioning, he said. Entrepreneurs can enter their tax information into the proper fields to receive a
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Algonquin College to receive $43M infrastructure boost Feds, province join together for education investment Staff
Algonquin College is poised to receive a $43-million infrastructure investment intended to help increase the school’s capacity for creating jobs, contributing to research and fostering innovation. Ottawa West-Nepean MP Anita Vandenbeld announced the joint federal-provincial investment at the college on Oct. 12, standing in for Navdeep Bains, federal Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development. Vandenbeld was joined by Ottawa West–Nepean MPP Bob Chiarelli. “I have experienced firsthand Algonquin College’s impact in our community as an educator and bridge builder,” Vandenbeld said in a media release. “With this investment we are ensuring Algonquin College will continue to provide a
world-class education.” The investment is the product of commitments by the college, two levels of government and other sources to enhance and modernize the school’s research facilities and make them more environmentally sustainable. As a result, $21.9 million will come from the federal government and $2.9 million will come from the provincial government. The college will contribute $9.5 million and other sources will contribute an additional $10 million. ‘World class’
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As a young boy selling copies of Scotland’s national and weekly newspapers, Bill Fairbairn didn’t know that one day he would join the ranks of the journalists who filled those news pages. Today, the 81-year-old Riverview Park resident still keeps the tools of his trade at the ready. And just as his soft-leaded pencil, notebook and camera are ever present, so too is his love for chasing the news. Fairbairn’s journalism career, which has included several roles — newsboy, proofreader, printer, reporter, desk editor, foreign copytaster (selecting stories), journal-
ism instructor and published author — has spanned more than seven decades on three continents. “That’s the job I enjoyed most, being a reporter,” Fairbairn said. “I liked the emergency of running after the story. The chase.” That is evident in the pages of his newest book, Newsboy! Adventures from a life in journalism, which was released earlier this year by Baico Publishing. “This book provides an insight into what actually happened around those newshounds of the old school pounding Underwood typewriter keys with scant knowledge of the technical revolution ahead,” writes fellow Riverview Park resident Car-
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Riverview Park resident Bill Fairbairn, holding a collection of his newspaper articles, continues to work as a reporter at age 81. His career began at age 15 and since then he has covered news on three continents. His career is the focus of his new book, ‘Newsboy! Adventures from a life in journalism.’ “It taught me about the great things that were going on in the world at the time, all of these crises that Britain was involved in,” he said of the Second World War and other conflicts in Kenya, Malaysia and Ireland. The infantryman was assigned to work in the orderly room where his typing skills
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“That was a great story,” he said of the article published in the Blythe News, a twiceweekly British paper Fairbairn wrote for from 1956 to 1958. “This is a great newspaper. Thursdays and Mondays we came out. It was hard, and it was a broadsheet.”
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Bill Fairbairn can still be seen using shorthand while covering news for his community newspaper.
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Change has been his constant companion. His career took him from such papers as the Sun in both London and Africa during the 1960s to large papers in Zambia and Kenya, and in Canada at the Gazette in Montreal, Radio Canada, the Ottawa Journal, the Montreal Star as well as the Legion Magazine. “I went from movable type to InDesign – pressing a button on a computer – to send all these pages to the printer. I still think it’s magic,” Fairbairn said with a laugh. His is an industry in deep flux today. Fairbairn said there
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Bill Fairbain holds a scrapbook of some of the newspaper stories he wrote over several decades for the more than 15 newspapers and media outlets he worked for on three continents. are pros and cons to high-tech advancements and the growing emphasis on web reporting. “As a journalist I’m worried about it. As an author I’m
not. You don’t need to plow through documents like this,” he said, flipping through yellowed newspaper clippings of stories he wrote before Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and
former prime minister Stephen Harper were born. Technology has cost journalism some of its talent. Fairbairn said he has seen far too many good journal-
ists fall by the wayside because they struggled to adapt. “The problem with the new technology is that not all journalists can handle it,” he said. “And if you know more about technology than you know about journalism, you might get on much, much better.” Fairbairn hopes his autobiography will provide important lessons for today’s journalism students. “I hope they learn the basics of journalism – news judgement. That hasn’t changed,” he said. “Everything has changed but news judgement hasn’t.” Newsboy!, after all, is writ-
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ten by a still active reporter who also just happens to be an octogenarian. “There’s not many that can write a book like this,” Fairbairn said. “They’re all dead.” Today, he remains just as single-minded when sniffing out a story before deadline. And he hopes his new book will serve as a legacy. “There’s a lot of things I wished I had put in, but I was anxious to have the book published,” he said with a chuckle. “Because, you know, at 81 you’re getting on.” For a copy of his book, email befair@sympatico.ca.
‘A piece of Manotick is gone’ as Falls House comes down: historian By Erin McCracken
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Disappointment continues to ripple through Manotick in the wake of the recent demolition of the Falls House, a distinctive home built in 1896. “A piece of Manotick is gone,” said Larry Ellis, a longtime Manotick resident and local historian. “I’m sorry to see it go. No question about that.” There was never an intention to tear down the home, said Rideau-Goulbourn Coun. Scott Moffatt, who worked with the new owner of the property as well as community leaders for a year in hopes of preserving the building, located at the corner of Manotick Main Street and Maple Avenue. Around the time it was put up for sale in 2013, the councillor applied to have it added to the city’s heritage register, giving the city 60 days’ notice if a demolition permit was sought. That heads’ up would have
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The Falls House was built at the corner of Manotick Main Street and Maple Avenue in 1896. It was torn down earlier this month, and there are now plans to redevelop the lot into an office building. allowed the councillor to have the house assessed for possible heritage protection. When it was purchased in 2015, the owner, a Manotick resident who works in the financial sector, hoped to turn it into a coffee shop and build
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The Falls House, located at what some consider the gateway to Manotick, was demolished on Oct. 17 after a year’s worth of brainstorming to try and save it, according to Scott Moffatt, the area councillor. the second floor had been blocked off and hadn’t been heated, causing significant damage. There were cracks in the walls and in one room the ceiling had caved in. “There’s really nothing of significant character inside
office space in back, said Moffatt. “From the outside it looked great,” he said of the 120-year-old home. “Inside it was another story. It was never maintained.” The rooms were small, and
the house,” said Moffatt, who brought several community leaders in for tours to discuss options with the owner. “They all saw the reality inside the house.” Klaus Beltzner, president of the Manotick Village and
Community Association, said the community is saddened by the loss of this “Manotick icon.” However, he said everything possible was done by community leaders, the owner and Moffatt to find a way to prevent the building from being torn down. Beltzner said it was determined the structure was unsafe and not of sufficient heritage value. “Despite this, additional efforts were made to consider stabilizing the building and have it moved to a parking lot across Maple at Manotick Main, but the costs were prohibitive as it also involved the need for a high dollar purchase of the parking lot,” Beltzner said in an email to Metroland. Another site was also considered, but Moffatt said relocating the Falls House would have cost $25,000 to $50,000, plus hundreds of thousands of dollars to upgrade and transform the home. See REPLACEMENT, page 34
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And the slanted foundation and outdated plumbing would have also been very expensive to address. “It’s unfortunate,” said Moffatt, who, prior to demolition, took several photos and filmed a video of the home’s interior, which he plans to soon post on his website. The Falls House was built by Alexander Montgomery, who purchased the land for $400. John and Dora Falls bought it in 1935, and it passed on to their son Reg, who died in December 2012, leaving the home to his nieces. “Reg was in the army during the war and I knew him very well after the war,” Ellis said of the army veteran, whom he visited at his home many times over the years. “I think he would have liked to have seen it kept as it was, as the gateway or the entrance to Manotick,” said Ellis. “It was one of the first things you see when you come in right at the corner of Bridge and Main.” The Falls House had a distinctive design. It was a narrow home with a tin roof and gingerbread-style roofline trim. A barn located at the back served as a horse stable at one time. “Manotick’s lost something,” Ellis said, adding the “the fear” now is that its replacement “will be so modern it won’t fit in with the rest of the town.”
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The deterioration of the Falls House forced a change of plans, said Rideau-Goulbourn Coun. Scott Moffatt. He also worries other aging and vacant buildings in the village core could share the same fate one day. Beltzner confirmed that efforts are now underway to ensure the community has a say in the vision for that corner of the village. “The community leaders and Coun. Moffatt are working with the owner to design a new building at this location that is acceptable to the community,” he said. FUTURE VISION
A three-storey office building with ground-floor commercial space is now in the works for the vacant lot, which is zoned for village mixed use. Moffatt said he has presented the owner with some workable design options. “It’s fine for the building to
be new and to look new, but it also needs to somehow respect the character of Manotick. A brand new glass-steel structure doesn’t fit the village,” he said. The area of Manotick in question could use a makeover, Moffatt said, to extend the village feel and give residents and visitors a reason for walking farther north beyond the core. “This is not a street corner that screams heritage at all,” Moffatt said. While he doesn’t yet know what the timeline is for the rebuild project, he doesn’t want the lot to sit empty for years on end. “I think it’s a first step along the way,” Moffatt said of the redevelopment. “Obviously, it would have been much nicer to have kept the Falls House and have that be incorporated into the entire vision, but it just wasn’t in the cards.”
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Committee flooded with opposition to stormwater fee Irresponsible to continue along current course: Moffatt By Jennifer McIntosh
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Rural homeowners flooded the city’s environment committee meeting to try and halt a proposed stormwater fee on Oct. 18. The fee – part of the city’s new rate structure for water and sewer bills – would be charged to every homeowner. Rural residents on well and septic would pay significantly less than urban residents and it would be phased in over four years. Despite that, several residents called for the fee to be a part of the road tax, similar to the way it was before the city amalgamated. Rideau-Goulbourn Coun. Scott Moffatt, who defended the new rate structure, despite calls from several of his residents to vote against it, said that it was irresponsible to continue along the present path. Water rates have steadily increased since 2011 – by as much as seven per cent more in some years. “Basically if you use less, then we just charge you more
Coun. Scott Moffatt for it,” Moffatt said, calling the practice irresponsible. “People didn’t elect me to get re-elected, they elected me to do a job,” Moffatt said. Right now the only residents paying into the city’s $42-million stormwater mitigation program are the ones paying water and sewer bills. Under the proposed plan, rural residents would be on tap for approximately $2 million of those expenses. Following the unanimous approval by committee, the plans are one step closer to becoming reality. Council will have the final say on Oct. 26. Several residents called for the fee to be part of the road tax. “Let’s call it what it is,” Ken
Holmes said. But Moffatt said you can’t fit a square peg in a round hole. “Shifting the whole envelope ($42 million) on to the road tax would be a significantly higher increase,” he said. West Carleton Coun. Eli El-Chantiry said he wanted to know where the money for road maintenance would come from if the city starting dipping into the road tax to pay for stormwater mitigation. Klaus Beltzner, president of the Manotick Village Community Association, was one of the few residents to speak in favour of the plan. “As a starting point for a new rate structure, you’ve done a great job,” he told city staff. “This has been a rough ride for a lot of people.” On the flip side, Shirley Dolan, with the Carleton Landowners Association, said that the issue shouldn’t even be before the environment committee. “In rural Ottawa, it’s not an environment issue, it’s a road issue,” she said. Former councillor Glenn Brooks found himself on the hot seat after criticizing the plan. Brooks said the city has a spending problem. His successor, Moffatt, asked him to defend a 2001 council vote to put stormwater services on the water and sewer rate
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Adele Muldoon, from West Carleton, speaks to the environment committee about the new water and stormwater rate proposal on Oct. 18. budget, rather than the property tax budget. “We make the best decisions we can based on the information we have at the time,” Brooks said. Brooks, who said his property has no ditches, suggested
the city give him a refund for its water running onto his land. Another sticking point of the plan is that low volume users would pay a little more for their water because a portion would now be a fixed rate. “It’s Ottawa’s version of
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Learn how to become a Martian with new app Canada Aviation and Space Museum launches new science game BY Michelle Nash Baker
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If Ottawa residents ever wondered what it would be like to build a colony on Mars, there’s an app for that. The Canada Aviation and Space Museum launched the museum’s newest mobile application on Oct. 18. Space Frontiers: Dawn of Mars lets players be a commanding officer of M.E.T. 003, the third Mars Expeditionary Team, players are on a one-way mission to land and establish the first permanent settlement on Mars. Players explore real Martian locations through narrative gameplay, and turn a fledgling outpost into a thriving metropolis.
Alex Benay, president of the Canada Science and Technology Museums Corporation said the app brings science to people’s homes. “Being able to bring science culture to the world, instantaneously, is something that we are really interested in,” Benay said. Elements of STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, mathematics) education are incorporated through tasks such as controlling a fleet of rovers and extracting precious resources from Martian soil. This newest endeavour by the museum in the digital world presents another example of its goal to engage youth and promote STEAM education. The app was developed with Toronto’s SEED Interactive,
specialists in gamified marketing, experience design and creative development. This is the third mobile application developed by the museum. This is the third mobile application the museum has developed with the other two, Ace Academy and Ace Academy: Black Flight have seen tremendous success. Black Flight alone was downloaded more than 100,000 times in more than 170 countries. The corporation will release another app before the end of the year – connected to the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum – called Bee odyssey. Benay said the move to go beyond the museum’s brick and mortar was prompted in part by the closure of the Canada Science and Technology Museum in 2014. “(The) closure of the museum helped us see beyond the walls,” Benay said. “You have
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MP for Vaudreuil-Soulanges and Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister for Youth Peter Schiefke checks out the Canada Aviation and Space Museum’s newest mobile application on Oct. 18. Space Frontiers: Dawn of Mars lets players be a commanding officer of M.E.T. 003, the third Mars Expeditionary Team. The players are on a one-way mission to land and establish the first permanent settlement on Mars. to see outside the box. You have to, because your home is gone.” The Canada Science and Technology Museum is scheduled to reopen in November 2017. Benay, who has a back-
ground in software development, said so far he loves the Space Frontiers: Dawn of Mars but he didn’t see complete success until his son tried it. “For me personally its up my alley, but my son is 12 and has
played it and loved it. That tells me we did something right,” he said. The game is available for free download in the iTunes store and is also available on Google Play.
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e have tried tracing the roots of our blended family, to limited success. I mean, we know where we started and the journeys taken to get us where we are. But the meat of the stories, the memories and the tales, are not there. Not yet. I would like to get some more meaningful details to fill in the gaps. There are websites that you can subscribe to that help you to trace your family history. One of the biggest is run by the Mormons – The Church of Latter Day Saints. They have records on family history like you wouldn’t believe. It’s pretty freaky to plug your great-grandfather’s name into the system and see him pop up on a ship’s registry, bringing him here from overseas. To start your family in Canada. If you aren’t fully committed to writing your family his-
DIANA FISHER The Accidental Farmwife tory and you’re just curious about where your roots are planted, you can wait until one of those genealogy sites has a ‘free weekend’, which they do about twice a year. You will get a few details to get you started on building your family tree. One of the best ways to get a rich family history recorded, of course, is to interview your elders. We European Canadians don’t have a traditional storytelling custom but perhaps we should. Wouldn’t it be cool to know why you love Spanish music or seafood – even though you live in a land-locked section of the
Canadian Shield. Your roots might be in the Mediterranean – maybe your ancestors lived by the ocean. On my side of the family tree, we know there is a County Cullen in Ireland, and there is a Leeson Street in Dublin. I’ve never been, but I’d love to see the Isle of Man where my grandmother’s family comes from. The Fisher side of the family started with two home children. If your family started in Canada from the United Kingdom between 1869 and the late 1930’s, there is a good chance your branch of the family tree began with
a home child. The Home Children migration scheme, founded by Annie MacPherson in 1869, sent over 100,000 children to Canada, Australia, South Africa and New Zealand. In many cases the children were orphaned or born to poor families who could not afford to feed them. In some instances the children were in reform school, having been accused of such crimes as stealing bread, likely to feed their starving families. MacPherson worked with the poor and witnessed what amounted to child slavery in the matchbox industry of London. There was a labour shortage in the colonies, and too many children in care of the state, so off they went. MacPherson honestly believed she was sending the children to a better fate, in lands of opportunity. Most
of them never saw their families again. They endured the overseas voyage, landing in an unknown place, and were taken in by complete strangers. Most home children were given work on small farms. A great deal of them were given lodging in the barns, with the animals. Not many found a bed of their own in the farmhouse, where three square meals a day were served. You can find a wealth of information online about the home children. It’s a history unimaginable to most of us – having to give your child up because you have no food for him – and then learning he has been sent overseas to labour on a farm. Many of these children were as young as 7 or 8 years old. The distribution centres for these home children were in Belleville and Galt, Ontario and Knowlton in the Eastern Townships. There is a strong likeli-
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hood that many of our local families can trace their roots back to these children. In the case of my husband’s family, their story in Canada began with a little boy from the UK who landed on a dock in the Maritimes. He was taken in by a farming family and spent his next few years in North Augusta – just about a fifteen minute drive through the countryside from our farm. Filling in the gaps of his story will be difficult, as not everything was kept on record during those years. But it’s a valuable story to pass down through the generations, so we will try. Then our children and grandchildren will know where their independence, strength and fortitude comes from. www.theaccidentalfarmwife. blogspot.com dianafisher1@gmail.com
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y sister Audrey was getting desperate. Her best friend Iva had a steady boyfriend, Melany was already married, and Audrey only went out once, on what could be called a real date, and that boy from the Barr Line latched on to a girl from Douglas right after, and had been taking her to the church socials ever since. Mother assured her, her time would come. After all, she was still young, and in her last year at the Northcote School. Secretly, I was delighted that Audrey didn’t have a steady beau. That meant the long winter nights could be spent with the both of us sitting at the kitchen table going through Eaton’s catalogue, a pastime I dearly loved. Out of the blue one night, the phone rang, and it was
MARY COOK Mary Cook’s Memories
‘It seemed to me that less than an hour had passed when we heard a car come in the yard, then we heard a car door slam, and Audrey burst into the kitchen like she had been shot out of a cannon!’ for Audrey and a lad from several miles away asked her to a dance in Douglas. Well, was she excited and by Saturday night she had tried on every dress in her scant wardrobe and that day
her hair had been tied up in rags and her lisle stockings washed and hung beside the Findlay Oval to be dried. I could see the dim lights of the lad’s car coming in our long lane and I was
thoroughly disappointed that Audrey ran outside to meet him before he had a chance to come into the kitchen so that I could get a good look at him. It was going to be a long evening ahead. I played jacks, looked through the catalogue on my own, which was no fun at all, and was colouring the picture in the Ottawa Farm Journal on the “Children’s Page”. I doubted Mother would let me stay up until Audrey got home, and I knew I wouldn’t shut an eye until she crawled into bed beside me. It was sure going to be a long evening ahead. It seemed to me that less than an hour had passed when we heard a car come in the yard, then we heard a car door slam, and Audrey burst into the kitchen like she had been shot out of a cannon! She was talking so fast,
I could hardly understand what she was saying. Mother told her to calm down and Emerson offered that he thought the lad must have turned out to be a Catholic. Well, finally Audrey calmed down enough to tell us, he hardly spoke a word. She had to do all the talking all the way to Douglas and when they reached the dance hall, he left her standing at the door and he headed right over to a group of boys standing across the room. He finally wandered over to where she was, grabbed her hand and headed for the dance floor. “Other than a few grunts, he never said a word. I did all the talking.” It turned out he wasn’t much better at dancing, either. “I told him I had a headache and wanted to go
home. I even had to get my own coat, because he headed for the door as if he couldn’t wait to get outside.” I hated to admit it, but I was secretly delighted the date had turned out so badly. My beloved sister wouldn’t be tearing out of the house every Saturday night after all! Audrey’s rag-wrapped curls were hanging over her forehead and she had mud on her newly washed lisle stockings. Her final words summed up the night in proper fashion. “He’s as dead as a mackerel. He just doesn’t have the brains to lie down.” Interested in an electronic version of Mary’s books? Go to https://www.smashwords. com and type MaryRCook for e-book purchase details, or if you would like a hard copy, please contact Mary at wick2@sympatico.ca.
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Ottawa skaters pick up medals at speed skating World Cup selections BY BRIER DODGE
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OSU adds Traian Mateas to Club Technical Staff OSU is pleased to announce that Traian Mateas, a National B designated coach, will be joining our coaching staff, effective October 14th, 2016. Coach Mataes will take over head coaching duties for the highly successful OSU 2002 Boys OPDL. In addition, he will be working with boys teams within the U13-U18 age groups. OSU is committed to continuously add to the quality and depth of our coaching staff, with Traian being the fifth nationally licensed coach as part of our staff. Trian is well known, within the soccer community of Ottawa and the province as a whole, for a long-line of successful players and teams, primarily from his time as Club Head Coach of FC Capital United. He has close to thirty years of experience in youth development, while previously servicing as a head coach of the EODSA programs. He has also served as an OSA instructor for coaching courses and certification within the province. Previous to being a coach, he was a professional player within the Romanian Professional League before coming to play in the Canadian Soccer League between 1985-1987. OSU is excited to have Traian as part of our technical staff and welcome a coach who is well respected and who has earned a reputation of excellence over many years within our soccer community. Please take a moment to welcome him to OSU around the fields this Fall!
Ottawa South United (OSU) is a soccer club based in Canada’s capital, Ottawa. With some 6800 members, it is one of the largest, as well as most successful clubs in Ontario and Canada. Over 160 OSU Players have moved on to play university and college soccer both in the United States in Canada since 2003. In addition, multiple OSU players have moved on to professional clubs both in the MLS and Europe with many featuring for the Canadian national program.
Ottawa-based speed skaters cleaned up at the recent Speed Skating Canada long track fall World Cup selection races in Calgary that wrapped up Oct. 23. Ivanie Blondin won all four of the races she competed in, and sat out competing in the mass start because as the current reigning world champion, she’s already pre-qualified to compete in the first World Cup race of the season. Blondin took home gold medals in the 1,500-metre, 1,000m, 3,000m and 5,000m events. She said she was nervous going into the races because of changes based on the setup of her skating boots, and she’s been suffering from bursitis to her ankle. “Before trials, I was getting really nervous because I didn’t know where I was at,” she said in a press release. “This is definitely reassuring for me to know that I am posting fast times and that I’m strong. I’m not fully rested yet, so that’s a positive thing to see that I am able to push through and perform well when I need to.” Blondin was joined by two other Gloucester Concordes alumni at the Calgary Oval: Vincent de Haître and Isabelle Weidemann. Weidemann had podium finishes of her own, finishing second to Blondin in the 1,500 race, while setting a new personal best. “That is the first really big personal best that I’ve had in a while,” Weidemann said in a press release. “I came in with a little bit more of a distance mindset and I didn’t know if I could whip out some sprints. I’ve been working a lot on my technique with (my coach) and we’ve been focusing on my starts, especially to improve my openers.” In the mass start event that Blondin sat out, Weidemann finished third, and in the women’s 3,000m she finished second. “Everyone’s times are coming down this season, the other women are doing so well,” Blondin said. “Isabelle is doing incredibly well and it’s good motivation that we are finally starting to fill the really strong women’s long distance team again.” MEN’S RACES
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De Haître brought home a gold medal in the 1,500m race, finishing
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Ivanie Blondin in Ottawa last year, after she won the mass start world championship title. ahead of three other skaters who raced within the time standard to skate the distance at the World Cup, including Olympic medalist Denny Morrison. It was Morrison’s first sanctioned competition in 18 months after a 2015 motorcycle accident and a stroke last April. De Haître also won a gold medal in the 1,000m race. “I watched a lot of video last night, even Denny’s world record here in 2007 and it gave me a few ideas on what I wanted to do in my
race today,” said de Haître in an Oct. 23 press release. “I put it in my race plan and did my best to follow it. It gives me confidence going into the 1500m at World Cups knowing that I finally have a go-to strategy and that I can work forward from here.” The first World Cup of the season is Nov. 11-13 in Harbin, China. With the results from the Calgary selection race, Speed Skating Canada will name the final roster over the next few weeks.
Patients feel a connection at Queensway Carleton “Our daughter was in a car accident in 1984,” Margaret Sadler begins, explaining why she chose to start donating to Queensway Carleton Hospital. “She hit the review mirror – one of her eyes was severed, she had some terrible lacerations on her face, and her jaw was broken. She was taken to the Queensway, where she was attended to right away. She went into the operating room; they operated all night. The doctors did a tremendous job, and you can’t see a scar today.” Margaret and her husband Don were so impressed with the level of care that they started donating shortly after their daughter was released from the hospital. “One of the girls in the foundation says that it shows we’ve been donating since 1995. But we were making them long before that – probably since 1985.” It’s not only their personal experiences with the hospital that spurred them into giving back. “We heard lots of good reports about the hospital, and the staff is always so pleasant when you go in,” Margaret says. “It’s always very welcoming when you walk through the front door. We’ve heard some very good patient experiences involving QCH.” Don added his own experiences, mentioning that he’s been to many of the hospitals in Ottawa. “We realized from the exposure we got of
the hospitals, that they all needed donations. So we decided to donate to the one that meant the most to us, where it would be the most effective, and where we knew the money would be used for beneficial things.” Their donations have increased since they started contributing more than 30 years ago. “Now as we get older, when a lot of our friends are celebrating birthdays or anniversaries, they don’t want gifts anymore, so we make a donation to the hospital,” Margaret says. Last January, Margaret had a symptom that seemed like a TIA, a mini stroke, and was brought straight to the hospital. She was treated within 10 minutes, and sent for tests within three days of the incident. “With my experiences over the years, we just find them very pleasant. I find the hospital very kind and welcoming.” In fact, any time Margaret or her husband have had to go to Queensway, they’ve been impressed with what they have experienced. “I’ve gone to the James Beach Health Care Centre due to the A-fib issue. The hospital may be a bit smaller, but it’s more personal, and the volunteers just play such a part in that.” They have been a part of Queensway since it was only eight years old, and the Sadlers have watched it grow from the small hospital it used to be. “You go to the Queensway – other than going to the Heart Institute, which QCH transfers
you to – and everything you need is there now. Doesn’t matter what test you need to do – putting on a heart monitor, getting an ultrasound – it’s all there. “They’ve got doctors that specialize in (almost all of) the different fields.” Her husband adds, “For somebody new coming in to the city, this hospital would be the handiest place to go. I find that the more positive the patient is, the more positive the hospital is going to be. They’re going to treat you well.”
“It’s always very welcoming when you walk through the front door. We’ve heard some very good patient experiences involving QCH.” Margaret Sadler
“For somebody new coming in to the city, this hospital would be the handiest place to go. I find that the more positive the patient is, the more positive the hospital is going to be. They’re going to treat you well.” Don Sadler
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47. Administrative review board 49. Small tower 52. Central American fruit 56. Cigar 58. Bring to life 60. Linked together in a chain 62. Marinara, BBQ are two 63. Mail CLUES DOWN 1. Expression of creative skill 2. Nonclerical 3. Credit card company 4. Ancient Chinese city 5. Personas 6. More (Spanish) 7. Close to 8. Nigerian City 9. Pals 10. Internal 12. Type of tent 13. Beloved Princess 16. Supplementing with difficulty 17. Region in Mississippi
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ARIES – Mar 21/Apr 20 Things are rushing by at breakneck speed, Aries. There’s nothing you can do to slow down the pace, and you may be carried along for a while. Just hold on and enjoy the ride. TAURUS – Apr 21/May 21 Taurus, when you relax and let people in, they can get a better assessment of the real you. Put yourself out there and let others get to know you for the great person you are. GEMINI – May 22/Jun 21 Gemini, you’re capable of coming up with brilliant strategies on a moment’s notice. When a new situation presents itself, give yourself some extra time to come up with a course of action. CANCER – Jun 22/Jul 22 Cancer, you may be ready to take an emotional risk this week, but you are not sure where to devote your efforts. Put your heart out there, and it won’t let you down. LEO – Jul 23/Aug 23 Leo, put yourself in another person’s shoes for a bit. Doing so may help Here’s How It Works: you see things from that person’s perspective, and that will only serve to benefit your relationship. Sudoku puzzles are formatted as a 9x9 grid, broken down into nine 3x3 boxes. To solve a sudoku, the numbers 1 through 9 must fill each row, column and box. Each number can appear only once in each VIRGO – Aug 24/Sept 22 row, column and box. You can figure out the order in which the numbers will appear by using the numeric Virgo, some big news could be on the horizon, but you’ll have to be patient clues already provided in the boxes. The more numbers you name, the easier it gets to solve the puzzle! and wait for the news to be delivered. Try to find ways to fill the downtime.
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Cheese puffs with onion jam make great appetizers Choux pastry is more familiar in desserts such as éclairs, but can also be used to make elegant appetizers, packed with a savoury filling. A food processor makes for a quick and easy method. Both the puffs and filling can be prepared ahead. Prep Time: 45 minutes Cooking Time: about 50 minutes Baking Time: 45 minutes Makes about 100 puffs and 3 cups (750 mL) Onion Jam Ingredients
Onion jam: • 1/4 cup (50 mL) unsalted butter • 2 lb (1 kg) Ontario Red Onions, about 8, halved and thinly sliced • 1 cup (250 mL) Ontario Dry Red Wine
• 2 tbsp (25 mL) granulated sugar • Salt and pepper Cheese Puffs: • 5 Ontario Eggs • 1/2 tsp (2 mL) salt, preferably Kosher • 1 cup (250 mL) water • 1/3 cup (75 mL) unsalted butter • 1 tsp (5 mL) each Dijon mustard and granulated sugar • 1/4 tsp (1 mL) hot pepper sauce • 1 cup (250 mL) shredded Ontario Swiss-style or Cheddar Cheese (about 4 oz/125 g) • 1 cup (250 mL) all-purpose flour Preparation
Onion jam: In large skillet, melt butter over medium-low heat. Add onions and cook,
stirring often, until soft but not brown, 20 to 30 minutes. Stir in wine; increase heat to medium-high. Cook, uncovered, until all the liquid has evaporated, about 15 minutes. Stir in sugar; cook five minutes. Season with salt and pepper to taste. (Make-ahead: jam can be made up to three days ahead, cool, cover and refrigerate. Warm to use.) Cheese puffs: In small bowl, using fork, beat together one egg and a pinch of salt. Set aside for glaze. In medium saucepan, bring water, butter, mustard, sugar, hot pepper sauce and remaining salt to a boil, stirring to melt the butter. Remove from heat and immediately add the flour all at once. Beat with wooden spoon until mixture is well combined
and leaves the sides of the pan, about one minute. Cook over medium heat for two minutes, stirring constantly. Transfer mixture to food processor and let cool two minutes. Add remaining eggs and process, stopping to scrape down the sides of the bowl, until eggs are incorporated and mixture is thick, smooth and shiny, about 30 seconds. If too thick, add 1 tsp (5 mL) of egg glaze. Add cheese and process for five seconds. Using two small spoons, drop dough onto two parchment paper-lined sheets to form mounds 1-inch (2.5 cm) across, 1/2-inch (1 cm) high
and 1-inch (2.5 cm) apart. Brush lightly with egg glaze. Bake in 425°F (220°C) oven for 15 minutes. Reduce temperature to 300°F (150°C). Remove baking sheets from oven and pierce the side of each puff with sharp skewer. Return to oven and bake until golden brown, 15 to 20 minutes. Place baking sheets on wire racks to cool until slightly warm, about 10 minutes. Cut off tops with serrated knife to fill. Fill each puff with about 1 tsp (5 mL) of onion jam. (Make-ahead: store cooled puffs in an airtight container at room temperature for up to two days. Warm puffs for
three to five minutes before filling. Or freeze for up three weeks. Place frozen puffs onto baking sheet; heat in 350°F (180°C) oven until warmed through, 8 to 10 minutes.) Nutrition
One serving (1 Puff with 1 tsp/5 mL Onion Jam): • Protein: 1 gram • Fat: 1 gram • Carbohydrate: 2 grams • Calories: 25 • Fibre: 0 grams • Sodium: 20 mg Foodland Ontario
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Local events and happenings over the coming weeks — free to non-profit organizations Fax: 613-723-1862, E-mail: Ottawasouth@metroland.com The deadline for community event submissions is Friday at noon. Email your events to ottawasouth@metroland.com.
Oct. 28 and 29
Billings Bridge – Dare to enter a haunted house at the Billings Estate Museum on Oct. 28 and 29. The spooky self-guided tour is designed for ages 16 and it begins at 7 p.m. The last tour starts at 10:30 p.m. The cost is $10.20 per person, and visitors can reserve specific time slots in advance. For details, to make reservations or to volunteer, call 613-247-4830, or email museums@ottawa.ca. Billings Estate is located at 2100 Cabot St.
Oct. 28
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. Tickets are $30 and can be purchased by calling 613567-5134 or emailing info@ jerichoroad.ca. For details, go to jerichoroad.ca.
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 reserve your spot.
Riverside Park – 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, located at 3191 Riverside Dr., will host.
Pleasant Park – Two OCDSB elementary schools are teaming up once again for the highly popular Pleasant Park/Hawthorne Used Book Sale on Oct. 29. from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Pleasant Park Public School, located at 564 Pleasant Park Rd. The fundraiser will feature thousands of gently used books, which will cost between 50 centres and $2, as well as a bake sale, chilli lunch and free Starbucks coffee. Funds collected go toward a number of initiatives, including new gym equipment, electronic supplies and library books. People can drop off donated books between October 24 and 27 at
Oct. 29
Vernon – Osgoode Township Museum hosts a kids craft day with a Halloween theme on
Pleasant Park School, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. through the front door or 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. through the gym door.
Oct. 30
Enjoy an annual roast pork loin dinner at Holy Trinity Anglican Church in Metcalfe on Oct. 30. Sittings take place at 4:30 and 6 p.m. Enjoy delicious homemade pies and desserts. Reservations are available by contacting M. Stanley at 613233-1556. The cost is $15
Oct. 31
Vernon – Osgoode Township Museum is open for trick-ortreaters on Oct. 31, 5 to 8 p.m.
Nov. 4
Mike Mundell’s Fish Fry takes place Nov. 4, from 5 to 7 p.m., at the Riverside Churches, 3191, Riverside Dr. The cost is $20 per person and you can eat in or take out. Children 10 and under eat for $8. The meal will feature fish and chips, assorted
salads, apple crisp, ice cream, tea, coffee and juice. There will also be a cash bar. Tickets available at the church office or at the door of the event. For details, call 613-733-8185 or 613-733-7735.
Nov . 5
Alta Vista – Mark your calendars and join us Nov. 5, 1 to 4 p.m. at Rideau Park United Church, 2203 Alta Vista Dr., for a Christmas Treasures Bazaar. The bazaar offers something for everyone, from meat pies to homebaking, jams and relishes. Search out the Book Alley for great reads and the General Store for household and sporting goods. Drop by the children’s toys, games and electronics area, and make a bid at the silent auction. Stop by the Tea Room for refreshments and conversation. For details, visit rideaupark.ca, or call 613-733-3156, ext. 229. Hunt Club – There will be a
Zumbathon held to raise funds for Birch Haven Rescue and Rehabilitation at the Hunt Club-Riverside Community Centre on Nov. 5, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. The event will showcase six Ottawa-area Zumba instructors. Tickets are $20. For more information, email eviskrevis@hotmail.com.
Nov. 5 and 6
Greenboro – Drop-in to view a model railway in action at the Greenboro branch of the Ottawa Public Library, located at 363 Lorry Greenberg Dr. A 16 by 20 foot British-themed display of 20 interconnected modules will be on display presented by the Ottawa British members of the British Railway Modellers of North America. The exhibit will be on display Nov. 5 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and on Nov. 6 from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. For details, call 613-5802940. For more events, turn to page 53
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That spooky night when little fairy princesses and mini pirates holler for suckers and gummy bears can be scary and even dangerous for Fluffy and Fido. Here are six tips to help keep your pets safe this Halloween: 1. Keep cats indoors: Cats allowed to go outside may become the target of people who want to hurt them. Keep cats inside where it’s safe. 2. Don’t take the family dog along when you’re trickor-treating: Even friendly dogs can get spooked on Halloween
and there’s a risk your dog could run off and get lost. Leave your dog at home. 3. Use decorations with caution: Keep your pets away from lit pumpkins and electrical cords to avoid shocks and burns. 4. Keep candy out of your pet’s reach: Chocolate can be poisonous to many animals including dogs, cats and ferrets. And don’t forget about wrappers — they can cause your pet to choke. 5. Don’t dress your pet in a costume unless you know he/she enjoys it: Some costumes can cause stress and injury to pets, making it tough to move, hear, breathe, bark or see. Never leave costumed pets unattended. 6. Make sure your pets are properly identified: In case your pet runs outside, make sure he or she has a collar, tag and microchip so they’ll increase their chances of being returned home. It’s a good idea to keep pets in a separate room of the house so they can’t slip out. Find more pet tips at: www.ottawahumane.ca/your-pet/animal-tips/. Pet of the Week: Noah (ID# A189228) Meet Noah, a friendly and playful kitty looking for his new best friend. Noah is an affectionate boy with a wonderful purr-sonality. He likes to try and bury his food to save it for later and when he’s in a happy mood he’ll roll over on to his back for belly rubs. He loves to spend his days playing with his favourite wand toy or simply gazing out the window. Noah would prefer to be the only cat in the home so he can have all of his new family’s love and attention to himself, but with his loving disposition he’ll be the only cat you need. For more information on Noah 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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Hi, My name is Valery. I love going out for walks with my mommy, Fiona. I also like sitting around and keeping Moira & Peter company. I was adopted from a rescue shelter in Wakefield where I was well-loved, but I really dig my groovy chill home in Westboro. My Auntie Carla and Uncle Wardo sometimes call me General Tito, but I still love them anyways!
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Local events and happenings over the coming weeks — free to non-profit organizations Fax: 613-723-1862, E-mail: Ottawasouth@metroland.com Continued from page 52
Nov. 6 Riverview Park – The Riverview Park Community Association is hosting a fall social in support of the community and a Syrian refugee action group on Nov. 6. At Lebanese Place, located at 919 Industrial Ave. Cocktails and mingling begin at 6 p.m. and the buffet dinner is at 7 p.m. There will be door prizes, live entertainment, a silent auction and a 50/50 draw. Tickets are $35 and can be purchased by emailing riverviewparkca@gmail.com or calling 613-731-6646. Manotick, Dow’s Lake, Rockcliffe – Hospice Care Ottawa is launching ticket sales for its annual fundraiser, Homes for the Holidays. The home tour takes place Nov. 18, 19 and 20, and will feature eight elegant homes in Rockcliffe, Dow’s Lake and Manotick decorated to the nines by local florists. The holiday popup shop, gingerbread village and handmade emporium will be back by popular demand. Tickets are $50 each. Visit hospicecareottawa.ca or call 613-2602906, ext. 222, for more details or to purchase tickets. Greely – Join the Greely Legion, local dignitaries and community croups for the Laying of Wreaths Service to honour those who have served or are now serving our country. Personal wreaths may be placed. The service takes place Nov. 6 at 3 p.m. at 8021 Mitch Owens Rd. For details, call Linda Wyman 613-822-0233 or 613-822-1451. Our Lady of the Visitation will host its annual turkey dinner on Nov. 6 with sittings at 4 and 6 p.m. Everyone is welcome to attend the OLV Banquet Hall, located at 5338 Bank St. Tickets are $15 each, children
ages seven to 10 eat for $7 and those six and under eat for free. To reserve tickets, call Claudette at 613-822-2007 or email events@olvottawa.ca. Proceeds will support the OLV mortgage fund.
Nov. 9
Gloucester-Southgate Ward – Are you a parent looking for home daycare, a caregiver with space in your daycare? Come to a Child Care Connection meeting on Nov. 9, from 6:45 to 7:45 p.m., at the Ontario Early Years Centre, located at 2330 Don Reid Dr. For details, go to ccprn.com, or call 613-749-5211, ext. 24. Child Care Providers Network is a non-profit, charitable organization that provides information, training, resources and support to home child-care providers.
Nov. 10
Greenboro – Windows 10 represents a considerable change from Windows 7 and Chris Taylor, president of the Ottawa PC Users’ Group, will talk about some of the important changes both visible and “under the hood.” If you find Windows 10 confusing, or just want to know more about what’s hidden, this session is for you. It takes place at the Greenboro library branch at 363 Lorry Greenberg Dr. from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Register at biblioottawalibrary.ca or phone 613-580-2940 for details.
Nov. 11
Alta Vista – Alta Vista branch 6908 of the Knights of Columbus will hold its next macaroni and bean supper for the public on Nov. 11 at the SainteGeneviève parish hall, located at 825 Canterbury Ave. Doors open at 5 p.m. and dinner will be served at 5:30 p.m. The meal includes beans and macaroni, bread and butter, coffee, tea, onions in vinegar, and dessert. Cost is $8 for adults and
children under 12 eat for free. Proceeds support a children’s Christmas fundraiser.
phone 613-580-2940 for more information.
Greely – A Remembrance Day service takes place on Nov. 11 at 11 a.m. at the cenotaph in Greely, weather permitting. If the weather does not cooperate, it will be held in the Legion hall. Please meet in the Legion lounge at 10:45 a.m. Light refreshments and fellowship will follow.
Greenboro – From Ushuaia at the tip of Argentina, travel consultant Carole Gobeil had the pleasure of exploring the fjords of Patagonia last December. As a total contrast, two months later, she departed from the same port and enjoyed a completely different expedition ship journey eastbound towards the Falkland Islands, South Georgia and Antarctica. Their history links them, but their scenery is worlds apart. The presentation is at the Greenboro library branch at 363 Lorry Greenberg Dr. from 7 to 8:15 p.m. Register at biblioottawalibrary.ca or phone 613-580-2940 for details.
Nov. 12
Greely – A euchre tournament takes place Nov. 12 at the Greely Legion branch at 8021 Mitch Owens Rd. Registration and a light lunch begin at noon and playing starts at 1 p.m. The cost is $15.00 per person. There will be prizes for first, second and third places. For information, call 613-822-1451 or 613-826-6128.
Nov. 13
Greely – The Conservative Leadership Conference will bring Conservative Party leadership candidates to Greely, giving Conservatives the chance to meet them and hear them debate the issues. The event, hosted by Carleton MP Pierre Poilievre, takes place at Orchardview Conference Centre, 6346 Deermeadow Dr. in Greely on Nov. 13. Tickets are available at carletonconservativeassociation.ca.
Nov. 14
Greenboro – Information on protecting your elderly loved ones from fraud, as well as downsizing or moving to a retirement residence, maximizing retirement income and advice for caregivers will be presented by Alice Yoch, a financial planner with RBC Financial Planning, at the Greenboro library branch, located at 363 Lorry Greenberg Dr. from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Register at biblioottawalibrary.ca or
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Nov. 19
Alta Vista – Candy Cane Bazaar takes place at St. Timothy’s Presbyterian Church, at 2400 Alta Vista Dr., Nov. 19 from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. We offer baking, deli, jewelry, crafts, a silent auction and Christmas treasures. A delicious hot lunch will be served between 11:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. The cost for the luncheon is $15.
Ongoing
Alta Vista – Enjoy gentle yoga on Wednesdays, 5:30 p.m., starting Sept. 28 or on Fridays, 9 to 10 a.m. starting Sept 30, continuing through October and November at Rideau Park United Church, 2203 Alta Vista Dr. Join one or both of our new yoga classes. Instructor, Lynda Spalding will lead beginner to advanced students through a gentle flow mat class. Fees are $25 for eight weeks or $50 if taking two classes per week. The drop-in fee is $5. For more details, call the church office at 613-733-3156, ext. 229.
Citywide – The Salvation Army needs Christmas kettle volunteers. Two hours of your time can make a lasting difference. There are 38 indoor kettle locations in shopping areas all around the city. For details or to sign up at ottawaboothcentre.org/kettle-campaign or call Kristine 613-241-1573, ext. 307. Citywide – Hospice Care Ottawa offers in-home support and day hospice programs throughout the city. These programs are open to individuals living with a life-limiting illness. Other programs are available to support caregivers and those who are bereaved. Our nurses will visit you to provide assessment. All programs and services are provided at no charge. Call 613-591-6002, ext. 23, for details. Leitrim – The Gloucester South Seniors meet at 4550 Bank St. in Leitrim for activities every week from Monday to Friday afternoon. The activities include carpet bowling, chess, contract bridge, euchre (4 & 6 hand), and five hundred. Membership is $15 per year. The club is accessible
by OC Transpo bus 144 and parking is free. For details, call 613-521-7540. Citywide – Hospice Care Ottawa offers in-home support and day hospice programs throughout the city. These programs are open to individuals living with a life-limiting illness. Other programs are available to support caregivers and those who are bereaved. Our nurses will visit you to provide assessment. All programs and services are provided at no charge. Call 613-591-6002, ext. 23 for more information. Alta Vista – The Divertimento Orchestra, an Ottawa-based group of musicians, is looking for new members in the percussion and strings sections. The orchestra began in 1984 as a small ensemble playing in someone’s basement and has evolved into a full-fledged community symphony. For details, and audition requirements, email elsaslater@magma.ca, call 613-823-1200 or visit divertimento.ca. Rehearsals are held Thursday evenings from 7:30 to 10 p.m. at L’Église St. Thomas d’Aquin, located at 1244 Kilborn Ave.
November 10 - 13, 2016 Thursday & Friday - 7 pm Saturday - 11 am & 3 pm Sunday - 2 pm
Performing Since 1990
The Lakeside Players
lakesideplayers.com
The daughter of Cinderella is about to marry the son of Snow White, banishing evil from Pantoland forever or so the ancient prophecy says.
$7 Children, $12 Adults $10 Seniors and Students Reserved seating
tickets@lakesideplayers.com lakesideplayers.com, 613-667-2224 Ron Kolbus Lakeside Centre, Britannia Park Free parking - OC Transpo #16
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