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Same name and address, but new museum awaits

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It has the same name and the same address. The steam engines are still there, and the Crazy Kitchen has returned.

And that’s where the similarities end at the brand new Canada Science and Technology Museum, which officially reopened Nov. 17.

Museum officials hope the size, scope, redesign, expanded exhibition space, borrowed international exhibits and hands-on immersive experiences will draw more than half a million visitors over the next year — up from the 300,000 to 350,000 people who were visiting the facility on St. Laurent Boulevard per year before it was hastily closed in September 2014 due to mould.

“This is a world-class science and technology museum when you walk in through the doors here,” Christina Tessier, the museum’s director general, said during a media preview Nov. 15.

“I think people are going to be truly amazed that it really is all new.”

The $80.5-million overhaul, which involved all 200 of the museum corporation’s staff, saw the museum stripped down to almost nothing and then rebuilt on the same footprint with 7,400 square metres of space for 11 exhibits.

It represents a 10-per-cent boost or an additional 740 square metres of space, allowing staff to showcase double the artifacts.

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Information sessions planned about Civic hospital campus

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leased its consultation plan created by a third-party group.

“This is about what’s hearing about what’s important for people in terms of health-care needs, design issues and how people would want to get involved further in the engagement process,” he said.

The sessions will include three different presentations. The first will be about health planning, demographics and generally what health-care needs are.

The second presentation will be by the project’s architect, showing examples of health centres across the country and around the world. The last presentation will include more information on the engagement process.

After the presentations, presenters and hospital representatives will be available to discuss issues and answer questions. There will also be an online survey for residents to weigh in on.

The feedback will be used as the hospital begins to take shape, Etzinger said.

In the new year, a number of working groups will come together and participants will go through a selection process. Those groups will work together on key issues such as parking,

access, green space to find solutions and common ground.

Each of the meetings run from 7 to 8:45 p.m.: • Nov. 27, at John G Mlacak Centre, 2500 Campeau Dr., Kanata, • Nov. 29, at Nepean Sportsplex, 1701 Woodroffe Ave., • Dec. 4, at Cornwall Civic Complex, 100 Water St. E., Cornwall, • Dec. 5, at the Best Western Inn and Conference Centre, 1 International Dr., Pembroke, • Dec. 7, at the Tom Brown Arena, 141 Bayview Rd., Hintonburg, and • Dec. 11, at the Old Town Hall, 61 Main St., Old Ottawa East.

The planning process for the hospital’s new campus includes five stages that will be supported by public consultation. Planning is expected to take five years, followed by construction.

The engagement document identifies the issues of most concern as parking, increased traffic, campus access, connectivity and loss of park and green space, interest in design and landscape architecture and the existing civic campus and impact on local businesses.

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Councillors still at odds over casino expansion

BY JENNIFER MCINTOSH jennifer.mcintosh@metroland.com

Osgoode Coun. George Darouze and Gloucester-Southgate Coun. Diane Deans are still at opposite sides of the table when it comes to the 14-table expansion of the Rideau Carleton Raceway’s gaming facility.

The city’s committee of adjustment, which considers applications for minor tweaks to new development — things like parking — approved an application on Nov. 15 from Hard Rock International to increase the number of gaming tables at the Rideau Carleton Raceway from 21 to 35.

While Darouze sees that as an economic boon for rural Ottawa South, his colleague, whose ward abuts the casino, sees as an underhanded way to get around council’s cap.

“The number we came up with back in 2011 wasn’t flexible,” Deans said of the earlier decision to limit the number of tables to 21. “I am not happy; this was sneaky and underhanded.”

Even back in September when council considered the agreement with Hard Rock to take over operations of the RCR, councillors were clear that they wanted to stick with the same number of tables, Deans said.

Deans said she was frustrated because the city has planning staff that should have pointed out to council that a “hold zone” on the casino site would have shut the back door that Hard Rock went through.

“I learned that from the planning consultant they (Hard Rock) hired,” Deans said. “Councillors aren’t planning experts; we rely on planning staff for that.”

She added she suspects staff were aware in September, when council approved the deal that saw Hard Rock take over operations of RCR, that city staff were aware the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation was interested in expanding the number of tables.

Deans said council should have been made aware that was a possibility.

Deans was one of six councillors — including Mathieu Fleury, Catherine McKenney, Tobi Nussbaum, Jeff Leiper and David Chernushenko — to oppose the move.

The group wrote a letter to Trevor Armstrong, the vice-president of operations for Hard Rock Ottawa, asking it to withdraw the application.

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The city’s committee of adjustment, which considers applications for minor tweaks to new development, approved an application from Hard Rock International to increase the number of gaming tables at the Rideau Carleton Raceway.

Councillors who wrote the letter felt the application should undergo the same rigour of a regular rezoning application — which requires open discussion at the city’s planning committee and council.

Darouze disagrees.

“I am thrilled with the decision.” he said, adding the committee of adjustment is the appropriate venue for the application.

Darouze challenged those councillors who are concerned about the social impacts of gambling to refuse cheques from the Ontario Trillium Foundation — which gets the bulk of its funds from OLG. It’s a line Mayor Jim Watson used during the debate in December.

Darouze said today’s reality is different than when council decided on the cap, and Hard Rock must develop a business model that works.

Darouze said Hard Rock and the OLG are not only businesses, but positive forces in the community.

To the argument that there are social impacts of gambling that the city will be on the hook for,

expansion of gaming would trigger a series of conditions that council put in place to protect neighbouring residential communities from adverse traffic impacts, including Blossom Park and Emerald Woods,” she wrote in a Nov. 2 blog post.

The conditions included that the proponent be required to complete a community transportation study, which would include looking at the possibility of moving the RCR entrance to Bank Street, widening surrounding roads and improving public transit.

Darouze said gambling would happen anyway with the casino across the river in Gatineau.

“The approach that many of my colleagues have taken to this project has been a source of great frustration for me. If any other developer came forward looking to invest $320 million dollars, the red carpet would be rolled out,” he wrote in a Facebook post on Nov. 17.

But Deans says the expansion will result in traffic woes for surrounding communities.

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Hunt Club Park resident crafts whodunit murder mystery

BY ERIN MCCRACKEN erin.mccracken@metroland.com

It may seem unusual for a retired lawyer to cast the starring role in a work of fiction to a lawyer who has been murdered, but Hunt Club Park resident Glenn E. Rivard has done just that.

“Write about what you know, they say,” he said with a laugh.

“There may have been some deep psychological reason,” Rivard quipped about the reason for his choice. “Lawyers are both reviled, but also considered pillars of the community.”

One Dead Lawyer invites readers to figure out who murdered Jimmy Stone, no easy feat given the cast of interesting characters introduced within the pages of the self-published book.

Detectives Lazarus Johnson and Dick Nederland, from the invented Frontenac Police Department, are on the case, tasked with untangling Stone’s life and navigating a host of suspects ranging from disgruntled law partners and a psychopath to a lady of the night, ex-lovers and a sister described as devoted but unconventional.

Stone is described as a lawyer who worked hard for his clients. However, several were convicted.

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It is intended to be entertaining and darkly comedic, and is narrated by a sardonic reporter who offers a light touch.

“When I sat down to write it, I imagined myself in a big comfy chair at a fireplace telling a story to friends and family,” Rivard said.

Before retiring from his law career in 2014, he had already taken writing courses and honed his craft by writing short stories.

The same year he retired, one of his works won an Ottawa Public Library short story contest.

“It was an encouraging win,” he said.

At the start of his legal career Rivard worked for a legal aid clinic and wrote self-help papers on legal issues, a process he discovered he enjoyed.

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“I hope that they’ll enjoy the reading of it as much as I enjoyed the writing.”

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His career then took him to the Canadian Department of Justice where he led a policy team focusing on law reform related to family issues. And in the latter half of his career, he provided legal advice to Health Canada.

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Crackdown urged on Pleasant Park speeding The worry among local residents is that such poor driving habits will result in injury for cyclists or pedestrians.

“They can hit people,” Beaupré said of residents trying to cross the busy street. “We’re getting a turnover in the community so we have seniors, young families.”

She and her group have advocated for a number of changes to address the problem, including unsuccessfully requesting a reduction in the speed limit from 50 to 40, particularly near Pleasant Park Public School.

Alta Vista Coun. Jean Cloutier, who has been meeting with concerned residents since May, said traffic behaves differently along three sections of Pleasant Park: near the railway tracks and transitway between Alta Vista and Riverside drives, between Alta Vista Drive and Lynda Lane and then closer to the Elmvale Acres Shopping Centre to the east.

He said he is less concerned about the stretch in front of Pleasant Park Public School since it is set back from the road and located at a three-way stop at Lynda Lane. However, he acknowledged that the curve in front of the allotment gardens, near Dorval, is a

BY ERIN MCCRACKEN erin.mccracken@metroland.com

Residents along Pleasant Park Road are hoping to put the breaks on what they say is a chronic speeding problem.

“Neighbours on the street have been complaining for years that there are a lot of speeders,” said Francine Beaupré, who has taken up the charge on behalf of her neighbours – almost 30 families – who share her concerns. “It’s 50 kilometres, but no one really goes 50.”

Beaupré has lived on that fastpaced stretch for 21 years and in the last decade she has witnessed an increase in traffic, and with it speeding between Haig Drive and Delmar Drive and to Lynda Lane, as well as drivers rolling through stop-sign intersections, such as at Pleasant Park and Haig Drive.

“We call them the coasters,” said Beaupré, who lives west of Haig Drive in the Canterbury and Elmvale Acres neighbourhoods.

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It’s increasing.”

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Francine Beaupré is among a group of about 30 families that have been advocating for measures along Pleasant Park Road to curb speeding. high as 80 or 90 km/h.

“When they hit the garden plots just past Dorval (Avenue), it’s a free for all,” Beaupré said.

“It’s a speeding strip.”

And with a future redevelopment planned for the nearby Elmvale Acres Shopping Centre, which will see the addition of four residential apartment towers, she expects to see an increase in cutthrough traffic, which is already on the upswing as motorists head to and from the hospital complex on nearby Smyth Road.

problem.

“Speeds are quite high there,” he said. “It’s open. There’s the allotment garden on both sides and the green space on the other side and they’re whipping through.”

To combat speeding, movable and permanent digital speed boards have been installed in recent months based on locations suggested by residents.

Speed boards have been shown to reduce speeding by six per cent.

“It’s not insignificant,” Cloutier said.

They are key to making drivers realize how fast they are really going.

“What we’re very much doing in this neighbourhood is education with digital speed boards,” he said.

Other temporary traffic-calming measures, such as flex sticks, are not possible because it’s a bus route.

Still, he encourages residents to report speeding to police.

“At the end of the day it’s education,” Cloutier said of the key to change. “Drivers who break the law, drivers who are not sensitive to others will eventually get demerit points, (and) have high insurance rates.”

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Bank Street Resurfacing Deferred to 2018 I have recently been advised by city staff that the remaining resurfacing work on a portion of Bank Street from Conroy Road to Albion Road, along with the road work on Winnegreen Court has been deferred to the spring of 2018 due to weather. City staff have confirmed that the road resurfacing on Bank Street and Winnegreen Court will be completed in 2018 and that snow clearing operations for this winter season on Bank Street will not be affected by this deferral. Once this road work is completed in 2018, this section of Bank Street will have resurfaced north and south bound lanes as well as paved shoulders. If you have any questions about this project please contact my office at 613-580-2480 or email diane.deans@ottawa.ca.

I would like to remind everyone of the winter overnight parking regulations that are now in effect throughout the city. From November 15 to April 1, there is no parking on city streets between 1:00 a.m. and 7:00 a.m. when 7 cm or more is forecast by Environment Canada in the Ottawa area.

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Findlay Creek co-author connecting Canadians with pioneering musicians

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Canadian musicians of the ‘50s, ‘60s and ‘70s aren’t the most well-known or memorable artists of their time, but to Ottawa-based authors Mark Kearney and Randy Ray, their stories are a significant part of Canadian history.

The unknown stories of bands and singers who were popular when the authors were young are something they have always been interested in, ever since they started to collect these stories more than 40 years ago.

Though they began writing about the musicians in the 1980s, it was only about a year ago when they rehashed the stories and decided to turn them into a full-fledged book.

As The Years Go By follows a series of conversations detailing the lives and stories of some of Canada’s folk, pop and rock pioneers.

By writing this book, the authors hoped to create a feeling of nostalgia for those who knew these musicians in their childhood and adolescence.

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‘As The Years Go By,’ a book by co-authors Mark Kearney and Randy Ray, depicts the lives and stories of Canadian musicians who were popular in the ‘50s, ‘60s and ‘70s.

“What we want people to do who read the book is to read a story and kind of be reconnected with their past,” said Ray, who lives in Findlay Creek. His co-author lives in London, Ont. He remembered how hearing a certain song today that was popular when he was in school will sometimes take him back to dances he attended with his wife.

Kearney and Ray discuss band life and stories with

roughly 150 musicians and artists from across Canada, from such groups as the Esquires and the Five Man Electrical Band.

They catalogued highs and lows, hit songs and performances, as well as behind-the-scenes conversations with managers, producers and promoters.

Though the book focuses primarily on artists from the ‘50s to ‘70s, Ray said the problems the musicians had to face while coming up in the music world are still relevant today.

“What these bands went through — bad management, bad record deals, the challenges, lousy equipment — is nothing different than most young bands coming up the pipe today,” he said.

This book was a long time in the making.

Ray and Kearney started composing these stories in the ‘80s when they were working together in London, Ont., where they worked as journalists.

Finding these bands and singers was the biggest challenge of the writing process, as Google and the internet didn’t exist back then.

They had to find the musi-

Heron Road Separated Cycling Facilities (Data Centre Road to Bank Street) Open House and Online Consultation

Open House Monday, November 27, 2017 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

Jim Durrell Recreation Centre - Elwood Hall 1265 Walkley Road OC Transpo route 44 Free parking is available Online consultation November 23 to December 4, 2017 Ottawa.ca/HeronWestCycling

The City of Ottawa has initiated a functional design study for separated cycling facilities in the Heron Road corridor between Data Centre Road and Bank Street. This project is jointly funded through the Government of Canada’s Public Transit Infrastructure Fund.

Functional design drawings of the proposed cycle tracks will be available online and at the Open House. Potential connections between Heron Road and nearby pathways and transit stops will also be shown in plan form. Both the online consultation and the open house drop-in format give you the opportunity to review the designs, to provide your comments and to direct questions to City staff.

Accessibility is an important consideration for the City of Ottawa. If you require special accommodation, please call or e-mail the contact below before the event.

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You have the opportunity to review the functional design and fill out the feedback questionnaire at the open house on November 27, 2017 or online at ottawa.ca/HeronWestCycling between November 23 and December 4, 2017.

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The functional design will be refined based on comments received from the public. The detailed design will be carried out in early 2018. The project is not currently funded for construction, and so no date for implementation can be provided at this time.

Complete the feedback questionnaire or email your questions/comments by Monday, December 4, 2017 to the project manager below.

Paul Clarke, P.Eng. Project Manager Transportation Services Department City of Ottawa 110 Laurier Avenue West Tel: 613-580-2424, ext. 29882 Email: Paul.Clarke2@ottawa.ca

cians themselves.

Though getting in contact with them was difficult, meeting and interviewing these artists was a huge privilege for Ray and Kearney.

An especially big moment in the writing process for Ray was when he got the chance to speak with Denny Doherty of the Mamas & The Papas. Doherty’s story was an ideal addition to

the book, and one that Ray has always favoured.

“He showed that a Canadian can make it huge,” he said.

For the duo, music is a giant part of Canada’s culture. It is something that people of all ages can listen to and connect over. Music, not just that from the past, brings Canadians together.

These artists featured in the

book are almost ambassadors of Canada.

They put Canada on the map with their hits that went big, and made outsiders want to visit with their lyrics depicting Canadian territory and history, said Ray. As The Years Go By was released in June, and is available in print and as an e-book. For details, visit triviaguys.com.

Notice of Study Commencement and Open House Albert and Slater Streets Functional Design Study and Slater Street and Bronson Avenue Environmental Assessment Study Tuesday November 28, 2017 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. (Presentation at 6:30 p.m.)

Council Chambers and Jean Pigott Place Ottawa City Hall, 110 Laurier Avenue West

Albert and Slater Streets Functional Design Study The City of Ottawa is studying Albert Street, Slater Street and the Mackenzie-King Bridge between Empress Avenue and Waller Street. The study will explore opportunities to improve walking, cycling, transit and general traffic along these streets by reallocating existing Transitway lanes after the O-Train Confederation Line opens in 2018. The study findings will contribute to the City’s planned integrated road reconstruction west of Bay Street and for interim roadway modifications east of Bay Street.

Slater Street and Bronson Avenue Environmental Assessment Study The City of Ottawa is conducting an environmental assessment (EA) to evaluate design alternatives for Slater Street between Empress Avenue and Bronson Avenue and for Bronson Avenue and Commissioner Street between Albert and Slater streets. The EA process will involve developing, assessing and evaluating alternatives, leading to a Recommended Plan to improve pedestrian circulation, cycling facilities, traffic circulation and access to adjacent properties. This study will follow the Municipal Class Environmental Assessment (MCEA) for a Schedule “C” project, undertaken in accordance with Ontario’s Environmental Assessment Act. Your participation in the Open House is an important part of the study where you can discuss the project with the study team and provide feedback. Comments are welcome throughout the EA process and will be collected under the Environmental Assessment Act and, with the exception of personal information, will become part of the public record. Information about the studies is available on the City’s website at ottawa.ca/albertslater Accessibility is an important consideration for the City of Ottawa. Contact the City’s project managers for additional information or if you require special accommodation.

Please confirm your registration at albert-slater@ottawa.ca by November 24, 2017.

If you are unable to attend the open house, the information will be posted to the study web pages.

Nelson Edwards Senior Project Manager, Transportation Planning Transportation Services Department Tel: 613-580-2424, ext. 21290 Email: albert-slater@ottawa.ca

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OPINION

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Season is open to everyone

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t’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year is the title of a song first released in 1963, with Andy Williams as the singer. The song, which celebrates various activities of the Christmas season, particularly being with those you love, has become a holiday standard.

In these days leading up to Dec. 25, the song serves to remind us of everything we have to look forward to at Christmas time. It’s a time when, at least for a while, we forget all the everyday matters that seem to intrude on our daily lives, making us cynical, upset or worried about where the world is going these days.

Whether it is the current sexual harassment scandals that are plaguing Hollywood and Washington, the Donald Trump-Rocket Man war of words that fearfully could lead to real war, or, closer to home, the Salvation Army emergency shelter proposal for Vanier, there’s always something to keep us worried about our world and its future.

The Christmas season, though, gives us a break from these worries and concerns.

The time leading up to Christmas, with its many seasonal events and activities, serves to take our minds off these issues and get us

thinking about this “most wonderful time of the year.” These weeks include a plethora of Christmas craft fairs along with parades, Santa Claus appearances, concerts and, of course, that universal pastime that consumes all of us from now to Christmas Day, shopping.

In today’s multicultural society of which our prime minister speaks so often, some might claim that Christmas is a Christian celebration that does not fit with the many faiths and cultural groups that make up the Canada of 2017. But such a claim would be wrong because Christmas is, at its very heart, not an event per se but a feeling, a time when family and friends and good wishes toward all take over our thoughts. This is a feeling that we all can share here in Canada.

So, it really is “the most wonderful time of the year,” a time when we can celebrate what is most cherished in our lives, namely family and friends, and when we can all put aside our cynicism and worries and embrace what the Andy Williams song advocates with its lyric, “And everyone telling you to be of good cheer.”

The Christmas season is now underway. Let’s all enjoy it.

The Grey Cup and that hometown feeling

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he Grey Cup still matters.

The Canadian Football League has had its ups and downs over the years, including a disastrous attempt to expand into the United States. Franchises have folded.

But by and large, when Grey Cup time rolls around, Canadians show up and tune in. There’s no reason to expect it to be any different on Sunday when the 105th Cup game kicks off at TD Place in Ottawa.

Among those watching will be the diehard fans who have kept up their interest in Canadian football through bad times and good. They will be holding the same Grey Cup party they’ve been throwing for years. They will be joined by the people who are not quite sure who is playing, but who always watch at Grey Cup time. Add them all up

game to be halted for a day in 1962!

Ice in Montreal, the winning team putting staples in their shoes for traction! Snow in Edmonton! A horse in a hotel lobby in Toronto!

Funny Town The wider field! The single point for a missed field goal! The Mounties carrying the Cup! The award for the Best Canadian! and it is quite a few people. By one There is an over-all perception measurement, about four million that fewer Canadians pay attention Canadians looked at last year’s to the Grey Cup than they did in, game. That’s a lot, even by Stanley say, 1976, when the Ottawa Rough Cup standards.

Why do they watch, those who are Riders won the cup, or 1962, when Winnipeg won the Fog Bowl. That not serious football fans? Surely it may be true. But it’s also true that must be because they know everyfewer Canadians pay attention to one else is watching, that they are sharing a Canadian experience with any single event these days.

In 1962, there were only two other Canadians. In this globalized world, how many opportunities are English TV channels. The National Football League, which now comthere to do that? petes heavily for Canadian sports And there’s no doubt it’s Canafan interest, was much less of a big dian. Three downs! Fog causing a

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deal. In 1976, there was no Netflix, no home computers, no internet — in general, a lot less competition for our interest. So if viewership is down, no wonder. Viewership for everything is down.

Somehow, in the face of that, the Grey Cup survives, which is a major accomplishment. Communities still go out of their way to host it and show visitors a good time — well, maybe not so much last year in Toronto, but that’s an exception.

It’s good to have it here. It will be interesting to see how Lansdowne Park, which has been a controversial addition to theEDITORIAL Ottawa landscape, MANAGING EDITOR: handles the many events leading up Theresa Fritz, 613-221-6225 to the game.

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were around in 1976 for Gabriel’s catch and Ottawa’s victory still remember it as happening at Lansdowne Park, even though it actually happened in Toronto.

But it’s a small country, which is partly the point. A football game can unite us, even if it’s not played in the snow.

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Free museum admission a must Michelle Nash Baker’s Oct. 26 report on Clinton Cowan’s concerns with the increase in admission charges at the renovated Canada Science and Technology Museum illustrates the problem that faces all Canadian families when it comes to spending money on visits to our capital’s museums and national gallery.

As residents of Riverview Park in the Alta Vista ward since 1976, we too, like Clinton Cowan, took our kids to the science museum on a frequent basis. The crazy kitchen and the hatching chicks were ideal things for our young kids to see and enjoy.

Now, as grandparents, we will be considering taking our nine-year-old granddaughter to the newly reopened museum.

However, we heard the prices of admission and membership have increased. It will cost us $37 to take her there after the opening on Nov. 17. That’s two seniors and one child. If we were younger it would cost $17 for each adult and $11 for the nineyear-old for a total of $45. This is starting to be way beyond our limited budget.

There are a couple of nice additions to being a member as Cowan mentions. First of all it

includes three Ottawa museums, the science museum, the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum and the Canada Aviation and Space Museum. Secondly, it permits free admission to over 300 museums worldwide when you are travelling. So, if you can afford it, becoming a member is worth it.

A couple of years ago we drove down to Washington, D.C. There are numerous museums and galleries to visit in that nation’s capital. Every one of them was free. There were many people from around the world visiting them. The famous British Museum in London has free admission. Three of four Tate galleries are free. At the large and

Covering face not a requirement of Islam Re: Editorial, Nov. 2, 2017.

Just to let you know, the covering of the face is not a requirement of Islam at all.

Even during the time of the Prophet, his wife Aisha did not cover her face. This is in the Quran. In fact, she was allowed to have bracelets on her arms. It is also acceptable for women to have their lower arms uncovered. Look around you. How many Muslim women do we all see on a daily basis

whose faces are covered? Virtually none.

If the covering of the face were a “requirement” of Islam, they would all have their faces covered. What we have here is an extremely small and loud group trying to convince us the covering of a woman’s face is a “religious” requirement of Islam, which it is not and everyone is falling for this deception. Even when women make their pilgrimage to the Hajj, their faces and hands are

imposing Victoria and Albert Museum admission is free.

In Australia, the National Museum in Canberra has free admission. In Berlin there is a great technology museum and the admission is around $25 for a family of up to five. The Musée du Louvre in Paris is free for some.

The third-party analysis that was done prior to the implementation of the new fee structure only compared admission fees in the National Capital Region, not with other museums around the world. We do have many visitors from other countries, so that was a very limited analysis. If we want the nation’s museums to play a full part in advancing the

not covered and this pilgrimage is a requirement that all Muslims must do at least once in their lifetime.

If you were to check it out, most of the Islamic countries do not have the requirement for women to cover their faces. In all religions, there will always be extremists, even in Christianity. This is why they are called extremists, ISIS being one of the worst ones and there are other groups as well.

With regards to Quebec’s Bill 62, this has nothing to do with racism or intolerance of

any kind and then to loudly proclaim that is so, well too bad. It isn’t! Bill 62 legally allows a Muslim woman to actually practise her faith without extremists forcing her to do otherwise. The covering of the head, no issues at all. The covering of the rest of her body but not her face, no issue.

Extremism, I have a very real issue with that. Quebec took a legal stand against extremism and everyone is outraged. Give me a break!

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Returning favourites, new exhibits offer immersive experience Continued from page 1

“That’s a real cornerstone for us,” said Tessier.

Merging past and present is very much a theme of the museum, with the introduction of augmented and virtual reality with some of the artifacts, as well as a projectable façade and an LED canopy that is believed to be the largest of its kind in Canada.

Museum staff have launched apps, such as a robot-building mobile game called Artebots, that have reached more than 1.3 million people in countries such as Russia, India, Brazil and Mexico.

“People all over the world are fascinated by the creativity of Canadians and can access our collection through these mediums,” said Fernand Proulx, interim president, chief executive officer and chief operating officer of Ingenium, the new name of the corporation that manages the museum, as well as the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum and the Canada Aviation and Space Museum.

The Crazy Kitchen+ and the steam locomotives are returning fan favourites.

“I think there’s certainly a nostalgia factor for people,” Tessier said of the trains.

The kitchen, though it now

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Dawn Hall, an exhibition interpretation officer, says the Crazy Kitchen+ was renovated to its original state to channel a farmhouse kitchen inside the newly reopened Canada Science and Technology Museum. has a different exterior, will continue to provide an immersive experience that sends mixed messages to the brain with its tilted floor.

“It puts you off-kilter a little bit,” said Tessier. “Parents want their kids to go through and have the same experience that they had as a kid.”

Dawn Hall, an exhibition interpretation officer, said it has been renovated to its original state to channel a farmhouse

kitchen.

“We wanted to make sure it was true to the original experience that our visitors knew and loved,” she said.

The museum is also now top-of-the-line in humidity and temperature control, helping it attract loaned artifacts from around the world, including a Eustachio Divini telescope dating back to the 1600s, from Italy’s Galileo Museum.

“It’s not something in our old

building we would have been able to do,” Tessier said.

New museum highlights also include a demonstration stage where scientists, makers, inventors, engineers, explorers and students will share their work through live-streamed talks and demos to reach Canadians beyond the museum’s walls.

Once inside the main doors, visitors can head down a corridor that stretches from front to back and is lined with displays

of more than 700 treasures. The visual and interactive bounty that can be found beyond artifact alley includes a glacier experience, an overhead sculpture with 1,867 light bulbs, a 30-metre mural, a nuclear fusion reactor and wearable tech that includes the biometric gear worn by Stittsville gold medal wrestler Erica Wiebe at the Rio Olympics.

There is also the Zooom play and discovery room for children up to age eight, a new hands-on maker studio and a tiny house.

The Quiet Cube is another new addition that allows visitors to experience silence.

The anti-echo or anechoic chamber is modelled after those built for sound developers and researchers to absorb echoes and create a baseline to research and test sound technology.

The exhibit includes artifacts from the former Ottawa-based Nortel anechoic chamber where telephone and microphone technology was developed.

Inside the room, wedges attached to the walls break up and absorb sound waves, confusing ears that are always searching for subtle reverberations and sound.

“We didn’t want to just talk about these spaces that researchers do sound research in,” curator Tom Everrett said. “It really changes your experience when

you get to walk into one of these spaces, as opposed to just reading about it.”

It’s just one of thousands of examples that showcase the creativity and innovation in the science, technology, engineering, arts and math (STEAM) that are at the heart of the museum, signalling a fresh start.

“It’s the beginning of our next 50 years,” Tessier said.

DID YOU KNOW?

Construction is in full swing on the north side of the museum on a $156-million collection and conservation facility, where the museum corporation’s collection will be consolidated and stored.

The four-storey facility will be four times the size of the museum.

“Like all museums, the large majority of our collections end up in storage,” Tessier said.

After construction wraps in early 2019, it will take two years to move every artifact inside.

Once open, staff will give guided tours to the public.

The final piece of the plan includes fundraising $10 million to build an outdoor science park on the grounds. Its timeline will depend on when the money can be raised, but will take one to two years to build.

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Saying goodbye was never so hard

BY ERIN MCCRACKEN erin.mccracken@metroland.com

For more than three-anda-half years, I have been welcomed into your living rooms, backyards, community centres, churches and neighbourhoods across south Ottawa, from Eastway Gardens to Blossom Park.

More recently, within the past year, you’ve welcomed me as I also took up coverage of rural Ottawa, from Greely and Manotick to Kars and Vernon.

It’s been an adventure and rewarding, to say the least. I cherish holding the print copy of the Ottawa South News in my hands every Thursday, scanning through it to ensure it’s the high-quality, engaging product we strive to produce each week.

South Ottawa is a veritable beehive. The list of stories I’ve written is almost at the 2,000 mark, and they’ve taken me on an incredible journey, whether it was going into a burning building with Ottawa firefighters, flying to Haiti for a one-day aid mission or covering former U.S. president Barack Obama’s final visit to Canada.

I’ve met your children and

your pets, listened as you shared your loss, watched you take risks, overcome enormous adversity, give back, fight back and think outside the box, champion a plethora of causes, come together and painstakingly work to safeguard your neighbourhoods.

It is difficult saying goodbye to that — to you — as I take up my new role as a digital editor for Metroland newspapers.

I’ll still be based at our Ottawa newsroom, but will also be working out of our Smiths Falls and Renfrew newsrooms to promote our news online through our websites and social media channels.

I’ve been passionate about digital for quite some time, and I am looking forward to enhancing Metroland’s online presence, helping connect more of you with the stories our reporters are working on.

We really are a one-stop source of news across Ottawa and the Valley, and it’s exciting to think I can support our award-winning editorial teams to better connect with you, our readers, online, and provide you with an enhanced multimedia

storytelling experience.

Your new Ottawa South News reporter, Alexandra Mazur, will welcome your story pitches, as Ottawa South News editor John Curry already does.

I know I will be leaving the paper, which I quickly came to love, in the hands of a great team.

Being a reporter is a privilege, something I hope I never forget.

And I know you won’t have seen the last of my byline. As many of you know, reporting is my passion and has been since I first studied journalism in 1997.

I appreciate the trust you have placed in me to tell your stories, and that you picked up a print edition of the Ottawa South News or read us online at www.ottawacommunitynews. com and also at www.facebook. com/ottawacommunitynews.

Although I couldn’t get to every story pitch, every email and phone call I received was enormously appreciated.

The paper is a reflection of the communities you are passionate about building and improving.

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BY ERIN MCCRACKEN erin.mccracken@metroland.com

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Guns and gangs officers are investigating two shootings in south Ottawa over the weekend, one in Heatherington and another hours later in a south-end industrial park off St. Laurent Boulevard.

Shootings focus of two unrelated investigations

BY ERIN MCCRACKEN erin.mccracken@metroland.com

Patrol and guns and gangs officers were kept busy over the weekend investigating two shootings in south Ottawa.

Police first responded to reports of a shooting — the city’s 61st of 2017 — in the 1400-block of Heatherington Road in the Heatherington neighbourhood on Nov. 18 around 8:30 p.m.

The canine unit was called in to search for suspects, but none were located, said Const. Chuck Benoit, Ottawa police spokesperson.

It’s not known whether one or more people are being sought.

One man was found suffering from a single gunshot wound. He was transported to hospital for treatment of a non-life-threatening injury, Benoit confirmed.

The man, who is 25 years old, was the intended victim, but investigators are still piecing together the motive for the crime. Benoit could not confirm if the shooting is gang-related.

“They’re still working on details from the scene as well as statements,” he said of eyewitnesses.

“No suspects have been arrested in this case.”

Heatherington has been a beehive of police activity in recent weeks.

Police responded to a shooting in the same block on Oct. 12 where homes had been struck by stray rounds. One man was hit by a bullet while he was in his bedroom.

The victim and the houses were not the intended targets, Benoit said in a previous interview.

Three days later, on Oct. 15, police raided the 1500-block of Walkley Road during a drug investigation.

Officers raided a home and seized marijuana, cocaine, crack cocaine, MDMA, morphine, two handguns, cash and a loaded magazine for an assault rifle.

A 26-year-old Ottawa man and a 27-year-old Ottawa woman were arrested and charged with several firearm- and drug-related charges.

Hours after the most recent Heatherington shooting, patrol and canine officers responded to multiple reports of shots fired in the 1500-block of Triole Street on Nov. 19 at 1:15 a.m.

Benoit said the shooting occurred outside a business in the area, which is an industrial park off St. Laurent Boulevard and Belfast Road.

“No suspects at this time, and there are vehicles that fled the area,” Benoit said, adding that no vehicle descriptions are available.

“No victims, so no injuries were reported, even at hospitals,” he said. “And we’re working on cameras and witnesses at this time.”

It’s not known how many shots were fired.

The police guns and gangs unit has taken over the case.

Anyone with information on either case is urged to call the guns and gangs unit at 613-236-1222, ext. 5050.

Two robbery suspects are now equipped to remove hair and tattoos, though whether they have the expertise or that was their intent when they lifted the goods from a St. Laurent Boulevard business is unclear.

“I don’t even know if they knew what they were taking,” said Staff Sgt. Michael Haarboch, head of the Ottawa police break-and-enter unit. “At a lot of these places, they’re looking for cash floats or computer equipment.

“They could have gone in there looking for that specifically, and it could have been the exact opposite – they had no clue what they were actually grabbing; they really thought it was a printer,” he said.

Two male suspects targeted a service provider business in the 2300-block of St. Laurent Boulevard, just west of Walkley Road, on Nov. 4 around 8 p.m.

“They were observed exiting a van with pry bars and they pried open a door and returned to the van a short time later. They removed esthetic equipment from the premises,” Haarbosch told Metroland Media in an earlier interview.

His investigators are now hoping

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Two suspects are wanted for breaking into a business in the 2300-block of St. Laurent Blvd. on Nov. 4 around 8 p.m. Two tattooremoval machines and a laser hair-removal machine were taken, according to investigators. that revealing that two tattoo removal machines and one laser hair removal machine will jog someone’s memory and entice them to call in a tip that can help crack the case.

The devices are each four feet high, two feet wide and three feet long – almost the size of an office printer.

The suspects’ entry to and exit from the business was caught on video surveillance, as was their vehicle, which police say is an older model, grey Kia Sedona with tinted rear windows and a roof rack. The front licence plate was missing.

The first suspect, who drove the van, is described by police as a Cau-

casian male, five-foot-10, with a medium build. He wore a black and white tuque, a black jacket, possibly with a North Face logo, black track pants, greyish shoes with white soles and black gloves.

The second suspect, who was the passenger, is said to be male, six-foottwo with a stocky build and a noticeable belly. He wore a black balaclava, a black baseball cap, a black jacket with a hood, a charcoal-coloured shirt, black joggers, possibly of the Puma brand, and grey gloves.

Anyone with information about this case is asked to call the robbery team at 613-236-1222, ext. 2655.

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At left: Westboro’s Cléante Théorêt, 11, with the Ottawa Gymnastics Centre, performs aerial flips for the crowd during the Help Santa Toy Parade on Saturday, Nov. 18. The 48th annual event, which travelled from city hall to TD Place, collected hundreds of toys for children in need in Ottawa.

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Above right: Santa Claus gives a wave to the crowds along Bank Street during the parade.

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Suspect hunted in bank robbery spree

BY ALEXANDRA MAZUR amazur@metroland.com

Ottawa police have released security photos of a man suspected in a string of six bank robberies in Heron Park, Ridgemont, Orléans, Carlington and Cardinal Heights between Nov. 6 and 17, in hopes of getting information about the suspect’s identity.

Staff Sgt. Michael Haarbosch, head of the Ottawa police robbery unit, said in an interview there’s no pattern as to when and where the suspect hits the banks, but investigators believe that the robberies are being carried out by the same person.

The first occurred on Nov. 6, at 2:05 p.m on the 1400-block of Carling Ave. in Carlington.

The second happened in the 2700-block of Alta Vista Dr. in Ridgemont on Nov. 9, at 9 a.m. The third occured the next day, Nov. 10, at 6:30 p.m. oin the 1600-block of Montreal Rd. in Cardinal Heights, and the fourth was committed the Nov. 14, just after noon, in the same block.

The last two robberies were on Nov. 17. The suspect hit a bank in the 1500-block of Bank St. in Heron Park at 12:55 p.m., but fled empty-

handed, only to hold up another bank on the 4300-block of Innes Rd. in Orléans two hours later, where, for the first time, the man produced a knife.

Haarbosch said he doesn’t see the robberies stopping anytime soon.

As for whether the crimes are escalating, the first five robberies were carried out without a weapon.

“This guy has tended to be non-violent,” said Haarbosch “But these things have an inherent risk of going bad.”

The suspect is described as a Caucasian male, about fivefoot-eight to five-foot-10, in his mid-20s, with a fair complexion and light-coloured facial hair.

Haarbosch, in a press release, said the suspect has made “very deliberate efforts to conceal his identity.”

He added that they have surveillance images of the suspect at each of the locations, and that he was not always wearing the same outfit.

Anyone with information regarding this robbery is asked to call the robbery pnit at 613236-1222, ext. 5116. Anonymous tips can be submitted by calling Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.

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Students from the University of Ottawa, Carleton University and Algonquin College competed in teams to win the Mayor’s Cyber Challenge Cup on Nov. 18. Held at Carleton, four students from the top teams had the opporunity to interview for fullypaid internships with sponsoring companies. From left are Francisco Trindad, a Lincoln Fields resident, Hunt Club resident Abdulwahaab Ahmed and Muhammad Owais Bawany, a resident of Riverside South.

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The Ottawa police robbery squad is hunting a lone suspect after six banks were hit in less than two weeks in Heron Park, Ridgemont, Orléans, Carlington and Cardinal Heights.

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City of Ottawa Notice of Proposed Zoning By-Law Amendment Updates to the Flood Plain mapping In accordance with the Planning Act and Section 5.2.3 of the Official Plan for the City of Ottawa, notice is hereby provided that the City of Ottawa is commencing Phase 2 of the amendments to update the flood plain mapping in the Zoning By-law.

PURPOSE AND EFFECT OF THE PROPOSED AMENDMENT In 2012, the City of Ottawa partnered with the three Conservation Authorities having jurisdiction in the city, the Mississippi Valley, Rideau Valley and South Nation Conservation Authorities, to update the flood plain mapping in the Zoning By-law. The updated mapping is based on the most accurate information available regarding the elevation of lands adjacent to watercourses.

LANDS SUBJECT TO THE PROPOSAL Phase 2 of the amendments will affect lands adjacent to the following watercourses: Constance Creek; Huntley Creek; Feedmill Creek; the Rideau River from the Ottawa River to Burritt’s Rapids, and; watercourses within a large portion of the South Nation Conservation Authority watershed.

Do you know someone who is involved in worthwhile community service, is contributing while living with a limitation, has performed a heroic act, demonstrates individual excellence, or is going above and beyond to help others?

If so, nominate them today!

A detailed map showing the current boundaries and proposed boundaries of the flood plain overlay in the Zoning By-law is available by going to ottawa.ca/floodplain.

A Zoning By-law amendment report is anticipated to go to Planning Committee, Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee and City Council in March 2018.

Nominations are open until November 30, 2017.

Forms and information are available from this newspaper, and from the Ontario Community Newspapers Association at ocna.org/juniorcitizen.

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Manotick’s St. Mark (left) and Orléans’ St. Peter high schools went head-to-head for the NCSSAA Tier 1 Championship title at Carleton University on Nov. 18. St. Peter shut out St. Mark 36-0.

Sunday, December 3, 2017 at 1:30 PM at the National Military Cemetery at Beechwood Cemetery. Wreaths Across Canada encourages Canadians to make a personal connection with veterans by placing balsam wreaths at their headstones. Wreaths Across Canada is a non-profit organization dedicated to honouring and remembering all the men and women of the Canadian Armed Forces.

• The Tree of Life Sunday, December 3, 2017 between 4:00-6:00 PM at the Beechwood National Memorial Centre. The Tree Of Life is an evening for people who are living with grief to be supported by a circle of community, to remember and honour your loved one and be nourished through ceremony, beauty, and inspiration. Bereaved Families of Ontario – Ottawa Region is a small charity that provides support to people for all types of loss as well as education about grief and bereavement and support training for professionals and volunteers.

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• Christmas Candlelight Service Sunday, December 10, 2017 at 6:00 PM at the Beechwood National Memorial Centre.

This is a special way to remember loved ones with a service featuring a candlelight memorial with carols and a tree-lighting ceremony. We encourage you to bring an ornament to place on our outdoor tree in memory of a loved one. A non-perishable food item for the Food Bank is welcomed.

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Province ends strike CHRISTOPHER WHAN christopher.whan@metroland.com

Algonquin students, along with several hundred thousand other college students in Ontario, were back in class Nov. 21 after the Ontario government passed back-toschool legislation on Nov. 19 The five-week strike saw little movement between the two sides and after college faculty members of OPSEU voted overwhelmingly against an offer from the College Employer Council in a forced vote, Premier Kathleen Wynne said she and her government were looking into any avenue available to get students back in class.

The College Employer Council called for a vote from OPSEU members earlier this month. The forced vote was a one-time option given to the employer council under the Colleges Collective Bargaining Act. Back-to-work legislation was introduced on Nov. 17 and was passed 39-18.

The Ontario government said in a statement released Nov. 19 that all outstanding issues are to be negotiated in binding mediation-arbitration.

“The College Employer Council and OPSEU have five days to agree on a mediatorarbitrator, or one will be appointed by the minister of labour,” the statement reads.

OPSEU is unhappy with the outcome. OPSEU president Warren Thomas said the delay in intervention serves to benefit the council as opposed to the workers.

“The Liberals let the strike drag on until they could justify their legislation in the court of public opinion,” he said.

“In doing so, they played right into the hand of the College Employer Council, which had been aiming for legislation, not negotiation, all along.”

The government is adamant that this was the best solution to get students back to class.

“Students were in the middle of the strike for too long,” said Minister of Advanced

Education and Skills Development Deb Matthews. “We needed to put students first, and get them back to their studies. This legislation ensures students can get back to the classroom and refocus on their education.”

This was the longest strike in faculty history at 32 days and will most likely see the winter break altered and, according to the colleges, a potential extra two weeks added to the end of the school year.

The Ontario government has promised that full-time domestic and international students will be eligible to receive up to $500 for unexpected costs caused by the strike.

This support will not count against a student’s OSAP assessment.

After two weeks, if the returning students are unsatisfied with the condensed schedule, students who wish to withdraw from college because of the strike are eligible for a full tuition refund. This also applies to apprentice students.

Taste test

Above: Tia Bowring, a west Ottawa resident, hands out chocolate samples from Cococo Chocolaterie Bernard Callebaut during the Tea and Chocolate Festival at the Nepean Sportsplex on Nov. 18 and 19.

Right: Riverside South residents Laura Mahmoud (left) and Tina Chalhoub taste test some chocolates during the festival.

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Salt: While the salt used on roads and driveways is helpful in preventing spills, it can irritate the sensitive pads on the bottom of your pet’s feet. Keep a towel by your front door and wipe down your pooch’s paws after a walk so they aren’t tempted to lick them clean.

Fresh water: If you keep any water bowls outside for your animals during the winter, be sure to check the supply a few times a day to ensure it isn’t frozen over. If you are unable to provide fresh, clean water regularly throughout the day you need to provide an insulated, heated water bowl in order to keep the water from freezing.

Car engines: Cats and wildlife are drawn to the heat generated by your car’s engine on cold days. Make sure you bang on your car’s hood to avoid injuring a sleeping creature.

Antifreeze: The taste of antifreeze is tasty to many animals, and they’ll readily consume it if given the chance. But even a small amount of antifreeze can be harmful, or even fatal, to your pet.

When adding antifreeze to your vehicle, pour carefully and clean up any spills that may occur. It’s also a good idea to check that your car isn’t leaking fluid.

Identification: Having an animal run away from home at any time of the year is troublesome, but especially during the winter season.

Make sure your best friends are equipped with proper identification, including a collar, tag and microchip to ensure they have the best possible chance of finding their way back to you.

Pet lizard rescued from burning home

BY ERIN MCCRACKEN erin.mccracken@metroland.com

A pet lizard was rescued by firefighters from a burning house in Riverside Park over the weekend.

Fire crews were dispatched to 2570 Egan Rd., southeast of Riverside Drive and Brookfield Road, after multiple 911 callers reported flames coming from a single-family home on Nov. 19 at 8:20 a.m.

Carolyn Gauthier, who lives nearby, said she was alerted to smoke by a neighbor.

The family was away when the fire broke out, but Gauthier

remembered that they have a pet lizard named Snake. She approached a police officer to ask firefighters to rescue it.

“They checked to see (if) he was alive,” Gauthier told Metroland Media.

“Thankfully he was. He’s now at another neighbour’s who has the same type of lizard.”

Upon arrival, a working fire was declared at 8:24 a.m., brought under control at 8:56 a.m. and completely out at 9:49 a.m., the Ottawa fire department’s communications team said in an email.

Damages to the structure are estimated at $250,000 and the content loss is valued at $100,000.

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Ottawa firefighters rescued Snake the lizard from a burning house in the Riverside Park neighbourhood over the weekend.

Greenboro robbery suspect linked to Kanata crime

BY ERIN MCCRACKEN erin.mccracken@metroland.com

One of three suspects arrested for a convenience store robbery in Greenboro has now been linked to a similar crime in north Kanata the same day.

“They’re linked together by the type of place that was hit, the MO and good quality surveillance imagery from both premises,” said Staff Sgt. Michael Haarbosch, head of the Ottawa police robbery unit.

Patrol officers took the trio into custody just minutes after a store was targeted in Greenboro on Tapiola Crescent on Nov. 12 at 8:25 p.m.

Two had gone inside and de-

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The robbery unit has charged a Greenboro robbery suspect for a similar crime that happened hours earlier in Kanata. manded cash and cigarettes before fleeing to a waiting vehicle.

The vehicle was then stopped minutes later by officers in Old Ottawa South. During the traffic stop, several knives, an airsoft pistol and the stolen cash and smokes were seized, Haarbosch said in a previous interview.

Two of the suspects are 18 and the third is 21 and all have been charged with robbery and weapons possession as well as conspiracy. Two have been charged with wearing a disguise.

Robbery investigators then went back through recent unsolved robberies to see if links

could be made.

Police then announced on Nov. 16 that additional charges were laid against one of the 18-yearold men in connection with the Nov. 12 robbery of a convenience store in the 1000-block of Teron Road in the Beaverbrook neighbourhood of north Kanata.

That crime happened at 12:40 a.m., several hours before the Greenboro store was hit.

A lone man entered the store and demanded cash and tobacco products. He was armed with a knife at the time, said investigators.

That man is facing a similar string of charges: robbery, wearing a disguise and possession of a weapon.

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St. Mark CHS put on a beautiful tribute to soldiers showing the sacrifices wars from the past and present.

In a presentation, film footage showed the similarities between eras, commemorating selfless acts of bravery and camaraderie. The collaborative group of cadets also laid a wreath beneath a lit candle and a cross in memory of those gone, but never forgotten.

Metcalfe Remembrance Day Metcalfe held a touching Remembrance Day ceremony with a capacity crowd outside the Town Hall.The beautiful weather brought so many people together to pay their respects to the those who passed. The laying of the wreaths is always a special moment to take in, as each individual takes a moment to reflect on the sacrifices of those that have served our country. Children, Veteran’s, members of our Emergency Services, churchgoers, and everyone in between came for the same purpose, to remember. Refreshments were served in the Town Hall following the ceremony.

Youth Action Showcase 2017 This annual event hosted at City Hall involves many high schools throughout Ottawa who send a small delegation of students to showcase some solutions for issues in their communities. The groups have a chance to directly connect with their Municipal leader as they explain and discuss their ideas. This year both Osgoode Township High Sschool (OTHS) and St. Mark Catholic High School (SMCHS) participated from our Osgoode Ward. OTHS showcased Gun Violence; Youth Homelessness and Homelessness, while SMCHS addressed the Manotick Skate Park and Racial Profiling. Each school was well represented with intelligent students who put forth great solutions to community problems. It also gave me the chance to connect to help them with their endeavours.

Well done!

The Ottawa Professional Firefighters Breakfast This annual breakfast is held in memory of Ron Phillips Sr. by the Ottawa Professional Firefighters Association (OPFFA), with a guest list of dignitaries from all levels of government. Ron Phillips Sr. was a member of the OPFFA before his passing and now his son is also a member. John Sobey welcomed all the guests with a short introduction and background on why they hold the breakfast, followed by a thank you for each guest. This breakfast gives an opportunity for civic leaders and the Professional Firefighters to speak with each other, make connections and bring up issues of concern.

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Join Mayor Jim Watson in a wonderful winter setting, with activities both indoors and out.

• Meet Santa and Mrs. Claus • Enjoy ice skating • Roast marshmallows around campfires • Take horse-drawn wagon rides • Indulge in hot chocolate, cookies, Beavertails and fresh fruit from Orleans Fresh Fruit.

A man asking for food and water at a clothing store in the Banff-Ledbury neighbourhood quickly upgraded his request.

According to investigators, he changed his mind when he saw a cash transaction taking place inside a clothing store at the Bankbridge Place plaza at 2019 Bank St., between Kitchener and Ledbury avenues.

When the suspect first entered the store on Sept. 15 at 6 p.m. and asked for food and water, he didn’t appear threatening and was seated and offered what he’d asked for, said Staff Sgt. Michael Haarbosch, head of the Ottawa police robbery unit.

But once the man saw the cash, he indicated he had a knife and took the money, before calmly walking away. No one was injured in the incident.

Robbery investigators are now trying to identify the suspect and a second man, considered a person of interest.

Both were seen on video camera surveillance at the business.

As well, a witness out running an errand had spotted the person of interest standing outside.

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“He was kind of hanging around,” said Haarbosch. “This guy was actually calling out for the first guy who was still in the store.”

When the witness returned, she saw the same man standing near a parked car under the nearby Bank Street overpass. He was still calling out to the suspect.

Investigators say it’s possible the suspect left the store and headed for the parked car around the corner, under the bridge.

There is also some indication he was seen at the nearby Walkley Centre plaza, located at the northwest corner of Bank Street and Walkley Road.

“We have some information that he had hung around there or had been seen there previously,” Haarbosch said, but added those details are sparse. “If it was accurate, it would tell me he’s potentially local to area.”

Police describe the suspect as a black male in his 60s, with a greyish beard and long dreadlocks that were covered with a cap. The person of interest is said to be a black male and bald with a heavier build.

Anyone with information on the case is asked to call the robbery unit at 613-236-1222, ext. 5116.

One of three suspects arrested for a convenience store robbery in Greenboro has now been linked to a similar crime in Kanata the same day.

“They’re linked together by the type of place that was hit, the MO and good quality surveillance imagery from both premises,” said Staff Sgt. Michael Haarbosch, head of the robbery unit.

Patrol officers took the trio into custody just minutes after a store was targeted in Greenboro on Tapiola Crescent on Nov. 12 at 8:25 p.m.

Two had gone inside and demanded cash and cigarettes before fleeing to a waiting vehicle.

The vehicle was then stopped min-

utes later by officers in Old Ottawa South.

During the traffic stop, several knives, an airsoft pistol and the stolen cash and smokes were seized, Haarbosch said.

Two of the suspects are 18 and the third is 21 and all face a rash of charges.

Police then announced on Nov. 16 that additional charges were laid against one of the 18-year-olds in connection with the Nov. 12 robbery of a convenience store in the 1000-block of Teron Road in north Kanata.

That crime happened at 12:40 a.m., several hours before the Greenboro store was hit.

A lone man entered the store and demanded cash and tobacco products.

He was armed with a knife at the time, according to police.

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t was a mystery to me. How Mother could fill out a form, put it in an envelope, enclose no money, put on a three cent stamp and send it off to the people who sent out Eaton’s catalogue, and within days, the mailman would deliver a package right to our door.

It was called a C.O.D. order, and I knew that meant Mother had to come up with whatever the mailman asked for when he left the parcel. There it was that day when I came from the Northcote School, sitting on the bake table at the back door ... a big parcel wrapped in heavy brown paper, and tied with cord. Our winter order from Eaton’s had arrived, and it would be opened after supper, only once the dishes had been washed, the table wiped clean, and dried with a flour bag tea towel.

We five children could hardly wait. Even though my sister Audrey and I had poured over the catalogue until it was dog-eared, we knew that in the parcel would be only what was completely necessary to get us over the winter. The Christmas toy section,

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blue fleece lined bloomers. I didn’t mind them when they were brand new, but by the time half the winter was over, they would be faded and ugly as sin from many washings, and soakings from sliding down the little snow-covered hill at the Northcote School.

And on the very bottom of the parcel was a neatly folded piece of Dan River cotton … soft coloured plaid with navy blue lines interwoven. Mother would find good use for it. A new house dress, a blouse for Audrey or me?

Maybe new aprons.

I was sitting beside Mother, and I leaned over and pressed my nose tight against the new material, and then I smelled the new underwear, even Father’s combinations. And that too was a miracle, I thought. How something could come from so far away, travel by train all the way to Northcote, and still smell so fresh. All I knew about Eaton’s was that they sent us a catalogue twice a year, and whatever Mother needed would be parceled up and sent to us on the farm. A miracle indeed.

the pages of tin boxes of candy, the pretty dresses ... all frivolities … and certainly wouldn’t be part of Mother’s order. But that didn’t matter ... what Mother unwrapped would be brand new, and that in itself was something to look forward to.

Father was the only one who wasn’t sitting around the kitchen table when it came time to open the parcel from Eaton’s. Mother was at the head of the table, and we children in the spots we always used for our meals, and I looked around and every one of us had our fingers interlocked just like we did when we prayed in church.

Mother handed Audrey the string, who already had a piece of cardboard ready. And there it was - Mother’s order. There was new combination underwear for For an e-copy of Mary’s books, Father, longjohns for my brothers, and new underpants for visit smashwords.com and type Audrey, soft with mauve lines in MaryRCook, or email wick2@ them, and for me the hateful navy sympatico.ca for a hard copy.

Kanata Light Rail Transit Planning and Environmental Assessment Study Open House #2 Date: Thursday, December 7, 2017 Location: Kanata Recreation Complex, Hall A, 100 Charlie Rogers Pl, K2V 1A2 Time: 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. (presentation at 6:30 p.m.)

OC Transpo routes: 61, 88, 167 Parking is available The City of Ottawa has initiated this Planning and Environmental Assessment (EA) study to develop a Recommended Plan to extend Light Rail Transit (LRT) from Moodie Drive to Kanata. Extending LRT to Kanata is identified in the Ultimate Network in the City’s 2013 Transportation Master Plan (TMP). The previous Open House for this project was held in June 2017. At that time, the City presented the evaluation of alternative corridors and identified a preliminary preferred corridor.

To date, the Study Team has finalized the recommended corridor and at this open house will present design details on the recommended plan, station locations and concept designs, and the requirement for a light maintenance and storage facility.

The Environmental Assessment portion of the study will be undertaken in accordance with the Transit Project Assessment Process (TPAP) as prescribed in Ontario Regulation 231/08, Transit Projects. The City must consider alternative corridors and designs for the project, undertake public and agency consultation, assess the potential environmental effects of the Recommended Plan and identify measures to mitigate any such impacts.

Information to date is available at ottawa.ca/KanataLRT. Comments received will be collected under TPAP, and with the exception of personal information, will become part of the public record.

Accessibility is an important consideration for the City of Ottawa. If you require special accommodation, please contact the project manager below before the event.

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How connected Canadians use and love the internet

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n any typical morning, I wake up, check my email, check social media, scan online news, post something to LinkedIn and adjust my online calendar. Only then do I make coffee.

I then spend approximately six to eight hours daily on the internet for work, alternating between two laptops and a smartphone.

As it turns out, for once in my life, I am pretty much the norm in Canada.

According to the most recent survey by the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA), released in November, Canadians love the internet.

In fact, almost half of us admitted we’d give up fast food for a year to guarantee internet access. More than a third of us said we’d ditch coffee or alcohol, if we had to, to get online.

Fortunately, we don’t have to give up anything to connect. Canadians are a connected people. Nearly 90 per cent of us, no matter where we live, have internet access.

Three-quarters of us spend up to four of our waking hours on the internet daily. Canadians love the internet.

CIRA’s 2017 Factbook, released annually, is one of the most telling pieces of research we have on Canadian online behaviour, the state of Canadian internet infrastructure and our relationship to our devices.

BRYNNA LESLIE Capital Muse There are a few fun facts in this year’s edition. For example, who knew that New Brunswick has the fastest download speeds in the country? Yup, if you’re a gamer, says the CIRA report, New Brunswick is the place to be.

And despite smartphone use more than doubling since 2013 — 67 per cent of us now use smartphones regularly to access the internet — the vast majority (90 per cent) of Canadians continue to use desktop devices most often.

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gain “three hours per day” by shutting down your work email, or that employers could get more out of employees if they just banned email.

A 2014 article in Fortune magazine went further, predicting that instant and collaborative messaging would mean the demise of email within 12 months.

But Canadians haven’t listened to the naysayers. When asked by CIRA about the top reasons we access the internet, 91 per cent of us cited email in the top 10. We love sending those desktop messages back and forth across the net.

Despite our rampant use of the net, Canadians don’t have a lot of trust in the infrastructure. The majority of us are skeptical about the security of data crossing into the U.S., and yet only a third of us realize that the bulk of our data does cross the border regularly.

There is a really neat project out of the University of Toronto called

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IXMaps that allows you to test where your data travels. It’s eye-opening!

Online shopping has grown exponentially in Canada.

Eighty-two per cent of Canadians told CIRA they’d purchased something online in 2016. But we’re nowhere near the levels of our U.S. and European counterparts.

In the U.K., for example, Eurostat tells us that 87 per cent of people there have shopped online in the last year.

A study by Square and MercuryAnalytics found 96 per cent of Americans made an online purchase in 2017.

Canadians do have trust issues, and we trust ourselves the most. More than two-thirds of Canadians said they prefer to make purchases on Canadian websites — those with a .ca domain.

As for me, I’m just happy that my behaviours are normal. It’s 5 a.m. I’m off to post something on LinkedIn. Happy surfing!

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To hunt or not to hunt, that is the question Y DIANA FISHER

ou don’t venture into our neck of the woods without an orange vest this time of year. The regular deer hunting season is wrapping up but muzzle loader week is about to start. We aren’t exactly hunter’s paradise like in the Muskoka region, for example. But we do have our fair share of hereditary hunters. They have grown up with it as part of their lifestyle and culture.

As we are located about 15 minutes out of town, we have a fair amount of neighbours who are neither familiar nor comfortable with the sport of hunting.

Those who hunt are, for the most part, respectful of those who do not wish to see hunting happening in their neighbourhood. They might hear it, but they shouldn’t see it.

I find after the first few days of the hunt, if a party is not successful, they may become careless.

I was taking a walk one morning a few Novembers past, and I saw a man in orange backing up toward the road.

He stood in the ditch and held his gun up to aim back into the field he had

The Accidental Farmwife just left. I stopped just a few feet behind him.

“Do me a favour,” I asked, “and don’t shoot until I’m around the corner!”

You aren’t supposed to hunt anywhere near a roadway but this group probably had a dog chasing the deer out of the bush and they didn’t want the animal to make it to the road. I heard the gunshot just as I rounded the corner.

Most motorists would agree they would prefer not to see a deer near the road either. That is one of the positive effects of hunting in our region: it lim-

its the number of animals that end up in front of a moving vehicle, risking the lives of the driver and passengers as well as the deer.

Hunting is a great way to ‘naturally’ control the deer population.

The rules are there for a reason, however. It is not cool to bait deer with corn or sweetfeed. You can feed them to help them last through the long, cold winter but you should not be luring them out into the open just so that you can shoot them. A true hunter gives the animal a fighting chance.

It’s as though the universe has to

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offer the animal up to the hunter, or it just isn’t fair.

We have 200 acres of mixed forest, pasture and crops. In my 10 years here I have only seen deer a few times. We have seen signs of them, when they leave their antler scratches on the trees or paw the soft earth on the tractor lane.

But you really have to know what you are looking for. I never would have found those marks on my own.

These elusive animals are so good at hiding, it really is a miracle when one appears close enough to the hunter in his deer stand to actually be shot.

Venison is a nice, lean meat so it’s a very healthy menu choice.

Our hunter/chef prepares his venison like a roast and we often serve it with red pepper jelly or mushroom gravy. He only shoots the animal that he thinks will make a good meal. If he shoots it, we eat it. There is no trophy hunting here. The King of the Forest in his 10-point glory is safe from the Hunter and his gun.

Fergus and I are looking forward to the end of hunting season for a num-

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ber of reasons.

The Farmer has cut a trail through the woods for us, so we are anxious to check it out on our daily walks. It isn’t safe to go out there at the moment, however, because we have hunters on all our neighbouring properties and our doe-coloured dog tends to spring and bound like a deer.

Fergus also finds the sound of gunshots to be a bit startling.

He barks and demands to go outside, where he stands and stares in the direction of the shots, growling and harrumphing to himself.

In deer season it’s usually only one shot, however. That’s all you get so you had better know what you are shooting at.

There is one thing Fergus loves about deer hunting season. When we are finished our meal of venison, it doesn’t make a great leftover. The meat becomes a bit dried out and tough.

If you wash off all the gravy and spices, however, and chop it into little pieces, it makes an excellent treat for a young Golden Retriever.

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“This state of the art building will serve the hearts in our community for many years to come” said Jim Orban, President and CEO of the University of Ottawa Heart Institute Foundation. “The Heart Institute is grateful to CP for stepping in to help us promote our fundraising efforts and to serve as a corporate leader through the CP Has Heart initiative. “ As part of the free and open to the public 105th Grey Cup Festival at Lansdowne Park November 23-26, CP will be sharing their space with the Heart Institute.

Look for the giant heart monument just inside the entrance and register for a CP Has Heart Passport.

Once registered, you can participate in family friendly games and activities – including a #BeautifulHearts selfie booth - throughout the site and learn about heart health plus you’ll have a chance to win daily prizes and a pair of VIP 2017 Grey Cup tickets!

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Sleigh rides, breakfast, a visit with Santa are sure signs that Christmas is coming soon to Riverside South.

Even before the cold winter temperatures arrived and registration opened, residents were eagerly anticipating signing up for the daylong Christmas celebration on Dec. 2.

The festivities begin with a breakfast, which is already 70-per-cent sold out, at St. Jerome Public School from 9 a.m. to noon. There will be two sittings at 9 and 10:35 a.m., and the fun includes crafts and photos with Santa Claus.

Then the third annual Toy Mountain parade will take over

Photo courtesy Coun. Michael Qaqish

Santa waves from the back of a pick-up truck during the 2016 Riverside South Christmas parade. New this year, the Dec. 2 parade will travel along Spratt Road. a new route from 1 to 2 p.m.

“We’ve changed it up. We’re running down Spratt and we’re having it run from St. Jerome, up Spratt to Bernard-Grand-

maitre (school),” said Lesia Gilbert, events co-ordinator with the Riverside South Community Association.

The parade, which typically

draws 400 to 500 spectators, used to wind along six kilometres, but this year will span a one-kilometre stretch.

“It was a bit too long,” Gilbert said of the previous layout, adding that road closures are also needed and the shorter route won’t trap area motorists.

More parade participants are welcome to register for free.

And a prize for best float will be up for grabs this year.

“We wanted to make it bigger. We want to keep adding more floats and having more people attend so we’re hoping this year we’ll be able to do that,” Gilbert said.

The parade will again include a toy trailer for the collection of new, unwrapped toys that residents can donate for the

Toy Mountain toy drive.

A new parade feature will be the collection of non-perishable food items for the Ottawa Food Bank.

“They have a shortage because of the weather causing problems with their farm,” said Gilbert. “This time of year is when they need the most and when they’re short. It just seemed to go along with the spirit of this parade, because the parade is all about giving, giving to Toy Mountain.

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“Our neighbourhood has always been quite generous with endeavours such as this,” said Gilbert. “I’m hoping they’ll be able to step up in traditional Riverside South fashion and collect lots of toys and food to help out the less fortunate,” said Gilbert.

The fun concludes with the annual horse-drawn wagon rides at the Rideauview Community Centre, from 5 to 8 p.m.

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Anyone interested in entering a parade float, donating or sponsoring for the toy drive or volunteering the day of the celebration, can email events@ riversidesouth.org.

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Until Dec. 14

Vernon – The Osgoode Township Musueum has kindermusik music-and-movement classes until Dec. 14, from 11 to 11:45 a.m., for kids up to age four and their caregivers.

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Until Dec. 19

Hunt Club – A Creative Art Club for adults of all ages are invited to bring their art supplies to the Hunt Club-Riverside Park Community Centre on Tuesdays, from 9:30 a.m. to noon until Dec. 19 and from Jan. 16 to May 22. The cost is a $2 weekly drop-in fee.

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Alta Vista – Enjoy an old fashioned roast beef dinner on Nov. 24 at Rideau Park United Church, 2203 Alta Vista Dr., starting at 5 p.m., with a second sitting at 6:30 p.m. After supper, treat yourself to apple crisp for dessert, along with tea and coffee. All are welcome. Tickets: $18 for adults and $10 for children ages six to 12. For tickets, call 613-733-3156, ext. 229., or come to the church office

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North of Greely – On Nov. 25, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., choose unique hand-crafted and environmentally responsible Christmas gifts and holiday baking at Our Lady of the Visitation’s annual sale at 5338 Bank St. Canterbury – The Alta Vista council of the Knights of Columbus hosts a Chinese supper on Nov. 25 at 6 p.m., with doors opening at 4:30 p.m., at Sainte Genevieve in the basement hall at located at 825 Canterbury Ave. There will be a 50/50 draw. The cost is $16 for adults and children under 12 eat for free. Tickets must be purchased in advance by calling Brian Albert at 613837-3227 or 613-495-4375, or Robert Belter at 613-5234420, or Bernard Lamarre at 613-521-6420.

Vernon – There’s a Christmas Craft Sale on at the Vernon Hall, 7950 Lawrence St. on Nov. 25, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. with more than 30 vendors selling baking, pies, jewelry, Tupperware, knitting, sewing, soaps and more. Call Helen at 613-821-3685 for details.

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Riverview Park/Eastway Gardens – A Fashion FUNraiser partnership between Shepherd’s and Kiwanis Club of Ottawa West in support of OrKidstra takes place Nov. 28 from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Shepherd’s location in the Train Yards. Tickets are $35.

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Leitrim/Findlay Creek – St. James is one of the oldest (1860) and smallest churches within the area and a spectacular lighting show will start with our Lighting Ceremony on Nov. 30 at 7 p.m., which will include refreshments to follow. The lighting will continue to Jan. 8, from 7 p.m. til morning. Drive down Bank Street to the corner of Leitrim (4540 Bank St.) or take the bus which is right at the door. We ask, if attending the opening, please donate mittens or hats for our Mitten Tree, all for the less fortunate.

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Manotick – Lynn Miles is performing at Manotick United Church on Dec. 2 Miles will be accompanied

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Nepean – The Ottawa Humane Society Auxiliary will be selling homemade baked goods and crafts at the OHS Christmas open house on Dec. 2, from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at 245 West Hunt Club Rd. For details, call 613-8236770 or visit facebook.com/ OttawaHumaneSocietyAuxiliary.

Alta Vista – Just Gifts is a fair trade and local product Christmas market that takes place Dec. 2, from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., at Emmanuel United Church, 691 Smyth Rd. For details, call the church office at 613-733-0437.

Manotick – St. James Anglican Church, at 1138 Bridge St., hosts its annual Christmas market on Dec. 2 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. There will be homemade puddings, home-baked sweets, frozen dinners, handmade gifts, and a homemade lunch with dessert. Children can do their own Chrismas shopping in the tiny town Christmas boutique. Santa will also be making a visit.

Dec. 5

Metcalfe – Metcalfe & District Lions host turkey bingo on Dec. 5 at the Metcalfe Lions Den on the fairgrounds on Eighth Line Road. Doors open at 6 p.m.

Dec. 8

Canterbury – Enjoy a bean or macaroni supper at SainteGenevieve parish hall, located at 825 Canterbury Ave., on Dec. 8. Doors open at 4:30 p.m., and supper is served at 5:30 p.m. The cost is $8 for adults, and children under 12 eat for free. Funds raised will go to the Alta Vista Branch

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Dec. 9

Vernon – Local artist Susan Bruner of Bruner Brushstrokes is hosting a paint and perk, a series of monthly painting workshops at the Osgoode Township Museum.

The workshops are offered Saturday mornings, from 9:30 a.m. until noon. A different painting will be featured every month, and all participants will create their own rendition of the painting to take home!

The cost is $45. Please call 613-821-4062 or email education@osgoodemuseum.ca to register.

Riverside Park – Join us in defending human rights. Riverside United Church’s annual Amnesty International Write-a-thon will be held at Riverside United Church, 3191 Riverside Dr. on Dec. 9, from 9 a.m. until noon. Bring a pen, a friend and some stamps.

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GUS’S KITCHEN AND BATH

Christmas Specials

ON NOV. 23RD - DEC. 16TH

“OVER 100 SOLID WOOD CABINETS ON OUR SHOWROOM FLOOR TO VIEW IN PERSON”

LARGE VARIETY OF VANITIES

GREY VANITIES WITH GRANITE COUTERTOPS

• Solid wood Construction • Maple doors & Draws • Soft close slide and Hindges • Available in Sizes: 30”, 36”, 42”, 48, 60, 72,

Starting From

1095

$

48” NARROW SOLID WOOD WHITE VANITY WITH PORCELAIN TOP ON SALE:

• Size 48” x 18” • Available in: White, Grey, Walnut

$

1195

48” NEWCASTLE VANITY AND PARADISO GRANITE TOP

$

BLOW OUT

1095

36” SOLID WOOD ESPRESSO VANITY & PORCELAIN TOP ON SALE

• Stains Colours: Grey, White, light Walnut, Dark walnut, and Espresso

• Also available: medicine cabinets, side cabinets, Mirrors, Toilet Hampers, Linen Towers

• Sizes: 30”, 36”, 42”, 48”, 60”, 72”

595

60” SOLID WOOD ESPRESSO VANITY WITH MARBLE TOP

Starting From

995

1000 GRAM DUAL FLUSH TOILETS

SALE

$

195

Reg. $395

NEW CYCLONE SKIRTED

• 2pc toilet • 4.8L Single Flush • 3”Flush Valve • Fully glazed trapway

• 1pc dual flush toilet • 17’’ comfort height • 1.8 & 4.8 L per flush

SALE

195

$

Reg. $595

• New Cyclone Flush system • 17” Bowl Height • Fully glazed trapway

SALE

79

SHOWER PANELS 1pc stainless steel

995

$

1295

$

44” x 44” x 82”

ON SALE

NEW 18” HIGH MOUNTS

$

Rain Shower, 6 Body Jets, Handspray, Frameless Tempered Glass With Seat

Reg. $2295 38” x 38” x 82” Reg. $2495

SLEEK DUAL FLUSH

ON SALE

• 6MM glass • MAZAK HARDWARE • Available in many sizes for bathtub doors, shower doors, and walk in tub shower doors *NEW TO CANADIAN MARKET ONLY AVAILABLE AT GUS’S*

595

189/

SINGLE LEVER FAUCET BRUSHED B NICKLE

BI-FOLDING FRAMELESS, TRACKLESS, FULL ACCESS DOORS

$

Starting at • Solid Maple Doors & Drawers • Soft Close Slides & Hinges $ lin.ft • 3/4” Plywood box Construction • Mitred & Shaker Door Styles

ON SALE

99

$

FREESTANDING 1PC TUBS

395

$

Reg. $695

5FT STAINLESS STEEL SHOWER DOOR

$

295

$ Starting From

1095

ONE PC QUARTZ WALLS

50% OFF

• Fully stainless steel (all parts) • 10mm glass • Frameless

NO GROUT LINES!

60” x 32” Acrylic $ Base Reg. $550 On Sale: $300

Starting at

795

Reg. $2295

20

$

Sq. Ft.

Reg. $40 sq. ft.

2183 Carling Ave. • 613-828-2284 www.guskitchenandbath.com 32 Ottawa South News - Thursday, November 23, 2017

8” FAUCETS CHROME OR BRUSHED NICKLE

SHOWER HOUSE

$

$

SOLID WOOD KITCHEN CABINETS

Many Colours, Sizes and Accent Pieces

STORE HOURS

Monday-Saturday 10am - 6pm SUNDAY - CLOSED

PRICES OF THE YEAR!

SPECIAL BUY!

2

22

SAVE

SPECIAL BUY!

-45° C

9

SAVE

50

97

SAVE

50

%

†

80

%

%

NOW

XTREME ICE MELTER.

20kg. Effective to -31°C. 199-3495-2.

ARMOR ALL -45°C DE-ICER WINDSHIELD WASHER FLUID. Melts frost and ice from

Limit 4 per customer.

While quantities last. Rainchecks unavailable.

windshields and reduces refreezing. 3.78L. 299-4508-0. While quantities last. Rainchecks unavailable.

SAVE

YOUR CHOICE

65

%

9

999

NOW

61˝ TELESCOPIC 3-IN-1 SNOW BRUSH.

RED SILICONE BAKING SHEET. Non-stick surface for all your baking needs

199 NOW

9

87-2520X. Reg 21.99 Boot not included.

SAVE

SAVE

99

GRIPONS. Traction spikes in sizes M-XL.

55

60

%

99 ea

and rolls up for easy storage. 42-0900-8. Reg 9.99

Designed for trucks and large vehicles.

30-4434-2.

Reg 19.99

%

SAVE

30

%

NOW

166

GRANULATED SUGAR.

2kg bag. 53-8311-6.

Reg 2.49 Limit of 4 per customer.

YOUR CHOICE

NOW

399

NOW

FOLDING LOCKBACK KNIFE.

10M BLOCK HEATER CORD OR BLOCK HEATER TIMER.

5 utility blades. 57-5084-6. Reg 11.99

52-2413-2/8835-2. Reg 24.99-34.99

Product may not be exactly as shown.

SPECIAL BUY!

12

99

OUR

LOWEST

PRICE OF THE YEAR †

SAVE

6

94 ea

NOW

6

2

94

94

CLEAR 80L WHEELED STORAGE TOTE. 142-1282-4. Reg 16.99

9 X 12´ VALUE TARP. Great for home projects or outdoor use. 40-5030-2. Reg 7.98

SPECIAL BUY!

89

60

99

%

NOW

250´ ALCAN ALUMINUM FOIL OR 1000´ PLASTIC WRAP.

53-0331-6/3062-8. Reg 11.99-13.49

SAVE

60

14

99

DELUXE CHROME PRO HAIR CUTTING KIT. 22 pieces with

3 X 4´ VINYL MAT AND BONUS 16 X 30˝ VINYL DOOR MAT. Indoor or

BONUS MAT

battery-operated trimmer. 43-8310-2.

Reg 39.99

NOW ea

sound and Bluetooth functionality takes gaming to another level. 299-4183-0.

outdoor use. 299-3964-8.

While quantities last. Rainchecks unavailable.

DECORATIVE MESH RIBBONS. Selected colours. Each 21˝ x 9 metres. 151-3239X. Reg 10.00

While quantities last. Rainchecks unavailable.

SAVE

SAVE

45

SAVE

70

75

%

%

%

NOW

9

399

X ROCKER GAMING CHAIR. 2.0 Stereo ®

SAVE

75

%

NOW NOW

449

12 X 18˝ BAMBOO CUTTING BOARD. Model may vary by

10-pack. 42-8940-4.

Reg 14.99

89 ea

MAX ALKALINE BATTERIES. 16-pack

8

NOW

999

ALL-PURPOSE MICROFIBRE CLOTHS.

88

AAA or 24-pack AA. 65-0052-2/1020-2.

Reg 19.49

store. 142-8365-6. Reg 39.99

HEAVY-DUTY, 8-OUTLET POWER BAR. 6´ cord. 52-7261-2. Reg 39.99

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Carling Ave 613-725-3111

Barrhaven 613-823-5278

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*See instore for details.

Offer expires on December 28, 2017.

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Merivale Rd 613-224-9330

Carling Ave 613-725-3111

*See instore for details.

Offer expires on December 28, 2017.

Barrhaven 613-823-5278

Bells Corners 613-829-9580

Kanata 613-599-5105

Findlay Creek 613-822-1289