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News - The clock is ticking for parents of students attending Elizabeth Park Public School.

The school sits on land owned by the land the Department of National Defence and the lease is up in 2017.

A new school to serve the neighbourhood of Findlay Creek, the suburb that supports the school, has been on the Ottawa Carleton District School Board’s capital priorities list since 2002, said parent Romika Mukherjee, but nothing has materialized.

“We feel really let down,” she said, adding the fight for a new school before Elizabeth Park closes seems to be a lost cause. Education Minister Liz Sandals announced the list of local schools that would receive provincial funding on March 6. A new school for Findlay Creek was conspicuously absent. A new school for Half Moon Bay, Avalon and a

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Sumana Jana, chair of the Findlay Creek Community Association’s education committee, said a last-minute switch to the board’s capital priorities list contributed to the disappointment. An amendment to the list that saw new schools lacking an accommodation review, moved further down the list of priorities, was passed Oct. 22. The motion was proposed

by Barrhaven trustee Donna Blackburn. The result was a new school for the Barrhaven suburb of Half Moon Bay moved to the top of the list, a school for Avalon moved to the seventh spot and a new school for Findlay Creek moved to the last spot on the list.

“To us it honestly looks like this is not even a priority and as such we will not see a school in Findlay Creek in 2014-2015,” Jana said to the Ottawa South News following the board’s decision.

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Joining the revelry An Ottawa dad hoists his daughter on his shoulders to catch a glimpse of the floats in the St. Patrick’s Day Parade on March 15. The parade kicked off on Laurier Avenue in front of City Hall.

Urban design panel now open to public Changes include no time limits for developer presentations Laura Mueller laura.mueller@metroland.com

News - Residents can now attend formerly cloistered meetings of the urban design review panel – but only as observers.

March 6 marked the first open

meeting of the panel, which has been a private setting for a volunteer group of experts in architecture and land-use planning to give advice to developers and designers of major building projects throughout Ottawa.

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ings are posted on the panel’s section of ottawa.ca, which can be found by searching for “urban design review panel.”

Matthew Ippersiel, the panel’s co-ordinator, said between two and 12 people were in attendance for any given item on the

agenda that day, which ranged from the design for a new Dow Honda dealership on Colonnade Road in Nepean to a five-storey hotel in the Kanata town centre, a retail-condo building on Main Street in Old Ottawa East and an 18-storey residential building on Rochester Street in Little Italy.

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“The opening and closing ceremonies both were amazing, they really did such an impressive job,” she said.

Improvements were also made in events coverage, with every event from the games watchable either on TV or online.

“Some people were upset in Vancouver with not being able to watch their races, but the coverage in Sochi was great,” she said.

Gorbounova will now return to her job as a French-English translator for the federal government, boosted by the hero’s welcome received at the airport.

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“It felt like these were the Olympic games, whereas in Vancouver there was definitely something to be desired for coverage.”

The experience in 2010 gave Gorbounova a better idea of what to do and how to prepare for Sochi, which she felt played a big difference.

“Having been to the games before, it wasn’t a new experience to me which meant I was much better prepared than in Vancouver,” she said.

Gorbounova was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, moving to Canada in 1999 with her family, living in Toronto for six years before moving to Ottawa.Her Russian roots made the adjustment a little easier for herself, while speaking in her native tongue made her one of the most popular athletes at the games.

“It was really fun to be back there because I spoke Russian so people loved me, they were always so excited when they found out,” said Gorbounova with a smile.

Born with cataracts, Gorbounova has almost complete vision impairment, but para-Nordic skiing is in her blood.

Her mother Olga Nazarenko won a gold medal for Russia at the 1992 Paralympic Games in the discipline, with her father Mikhail Gorbounov an equally skilled middle distance and European Championship-winning marathon runner.

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Somerset House work to start soon Owner hopes to announce primary tenant in April Laura Mueller laura.mueller@metroland.com

News - Centretown residents should be seeing work done on the falling-apart Somerset House in April if the weather co-operates.

Tony Shahrasebi, the building’s owner, said the project is taking longer than he hoped because he is still in negotiations with a tenant who wants to lease the building. He’s hoping the deal will be done by the end of the month.

Shahrasebi is keeping the potential tenant hush-hush, including what kind of business it is, but he said the company is a local Ottawa chain that would occupy the entire three-storey building.

Shahrasebi said he’s ready to start work to fix up the brick and exterior of the building.

If all goes to plan, that work should be done by the fall, he said.

The design was approved by the city’s built heritage subcommittee last October.

Somerset House will be rebuilt with its heritage components intact and a new, modern addition at its rear to replace the part that collapsed.

Engineering work to design the interior of the building will take another two months after the deal is signed with the tenant, Shahrasebi said.

Then he needs to apply for permits. He’s hoping to have the whole building completed by the fall of 2015.

City council will again be asked to extend a suspension on fees the owner of the building at Somerset and Bank streets is supposed to pay for encroaching on the city’s sidewalk while the partially collapsed building is being held up by a metal support structure.

The fee suspension is an attempt to “motivate� the building’s owner to move quickly to rebuild it, says the Somerset Coun. Diane Holmes’ notice of motion to be considered at the next council meeting. “A lot of work is going to come along,� Shahrasebi said. “There is a lot of work to be done.

It’s been neglected for 100 years.�

Part of the building collapsed in 2007, when Shahrasebi’s company, TKS Holdings Inc., was working to lower the building’s foundations to create taller ceilings in the basement, Shahrasebi said.

The city and Shahrasebi were locked in a court battle for more

than four years, which started when the city’s chief building official issued a demolition permit for the building because she worried the rest of the building was going to fall down.

Shahrasebi obtained a court order to have the demolition done in stages to save part of the building, as long as it was in a safe condition, but much of the structure except for the façade and a side wall were torn down.

The once-vibrant building has remained that way – covered with graffiti and open to the elements – for four years because of the court battle.

The city sued him for costs related to the collapse and Shahrasebi countersued.

In 2012, Shahrasebi was ordered to pay the city $650,000 in a legal settlement representing the city’s costs to respond to the partial collapse.

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Residents should see work started on the collapsed Somerset House at the corner of Bank and Somerset streets in Centretown in April.

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A home for those fleeing their own Adam Kveton adam.kveton@metroland.com

News - Fleeing your home and arriving in a foreign country can’t be easy, but arriving on Matthew House’s doorstep makes a big difference.

That’s the story one refugee told of his arrival in Canada along with his pregnant wife, and what it’s like to survive while waiting to be acknowledged as a refugee.

Ivan, who preferred not to give his real name, said he arrived in Canada last May, landing in Toronto with his wife, and knowing very little about the country.

“Canada is a safe country. It’s tolerant, it’s social. Those are the basic things that we knew and they were very important for us,” said Ivan.

However, Ivan and his wife were immediately met with scrutiny, as a border guard stopped them with doubts about their visa. Though the very first impression of Canada was “kind of stressful,” overall they were excited to have arrived in Canada, he said.

Finding themselves in a foreign city, Ivan and his wife first stayed in hotels, knowing that it was too expensive and that they needed somewhere else to stay.

Still, finding a lawyer had to be a priority.

“Even before coming here, our first goal was to find a lawyer who will assist us with this process (of claiming refugee status),” he said.

Though the couple was better prepared than many for the trials of proving their refugee claims, they needed a way to survive until they were cleared.

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Matthew House executive director Miriam Rawson, left, and volunteer Claire Haas stand in front of Matthew House on March 11. to rent, and we looked in both Toronto and Ottawa,” said Ivan.

With a room available to rent in Ottawa, Ivan and his wife left Toronto to try and wait out the claim process.

But it would take longer than they hoped.

Their documents were filed quickly, but there was some problem and Citizenship and Immigration Canada couldn’t issue them their identification documents, he said.

“We ran out of money.”

Not knowing where to turn, Ivan first heard about Matthew House through the Catholic Immigration Centre. Located in Nepean, Matthew House provides a place for refugees to live and guidance during the refugee claim process.

Partnered with Furniture Bank, which is located in Kanata and helps provide refugees with some volunteer work, job skills and furniture for their own homes, Matthew House is one of a few such houses in Canada.

But Ivan didn’t know just what he would find when he got there.

“Our idea of shelter is a place where homeless people go and drug addicts, alcoholics, such people, and when we came here, it was, ‘Wow, this is a home.’”

Matthew House is a Christian organization that draws inspiration from the Matthew 25:25 Network, said executive director Miriam Rawson, referring to Bible scripture about welcoming newcomers.

With space for up to 10 people at a time, Matthew House has helped more than 100 people from dozens of countries since it started in 2010.

“Our mandate really is to help a refugee claimant through their claim process,” said Rawson. That means helping claimants get connected with legal aid, finding forms and getting them to appointments, but above all, providing them with a home.

“What we try to do is have a community atmosphere and a family atmosphere so that those people can come in and rather than just feel they are sleeping in a bed, they have a place of belonging and refuge.”

That was what Ivan and his wife found, he said.

Though they were well prepared for the legal process, help from Matthew House was always there, said Ivan.

“Any time when we felt like we needed some help,

there was somebody here ready to help us.”

Ivan and his wife lived at Matthew House for ten weeks, not just waiting to gain refugee status, but meeting other refugees and members of the community as well.

“All the people here were in the same position as we were,” said Ivan. “You see that it’s not only you in this, having a hard time.”

However, Ivan and his wife soon received refugee status, and are proud their newborn daughter is Canadian.

While Ivan and his growing family have moved into an apartment, rebuilding the life they left is still a daunting task.

But he said, “We are very happy and we are ready to go through all this.”

As for Matthew House, he said it lived up to what he thought Canada and its people would be like.

“We wish you (Matthew House) the best of luck and all the best, because we received only good things from the people there, and from Matthew House.

It’s a great example of life here.”

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Extra testing next to sinkhole showed sandy spot Pocket of sand and clay discovered amid limestone in 2011 borehole drilling Laura Mueller laura.mueller@metroland.com

News - Coun. Mathieu Fleury said the city’s initial response that “unanticipated soil conditions” were the cause of a sinkhole at the LRT tunnel is “weird” because the ground conditions were well studied.

When the Rideau-Vanier councillor received a memo from deputy city manager Nancy Schepers on March 10 indicating preliminary information from an investigation into the cause of the gaping hole at Laurier Avenue East and Waller Street was due to something the contractor, Rideau Transit Group, didn’t know about the underground conditions.

But that area was the subject of much scrutiny and additional geotechnical testing in 2010 and 2011. The underground tunnel was even shortened by 300 metres after an initial round of borehole testing in 2010 that revealed how sandy the ground is in the area. The station at the University

of Ottawa was originally supposed to be underground, but testing determined it was cost too much to shore up the ground in that area to continue the subterranean tunnel.

In later rounds of geotechnical testing, a series of three boreholes were drilled beside the road directly next to the sinkhole site. One of those samples revealed silt and clay. The other two yielded limestone, according to a 2011 geotechnical report.

“I’ve obviously been in conversation with (Schepers’) office and what I said to them is ‘I don’t get what you’re saying about the soil thing,’” Fleury said. “We knew this. It’s sand.

It’s clay. We’ve done borehole testing.

What’s unknown about it?”

Fleury said that reading between the lines of his conversation with Schepers, it seems there was a very localized anomaly in the soil conditions in the exact spot of the collapse.

“My sense as part of the discussion is that they found something at that exact location that explains why that

happened,” he said. “They wouldn’t have known apparently from the amount of borehole testing they did.”

He was told that a full explanation of what happened could be released by the end of last week, but that hadn’t happened before this newspaper’s deadline.

No one was hurt in the Feb. 21 collapse and tunneling is stopped at the east portal until that report is finished and the city manager can sign off on a metre-by-metre construction strategy moving forward, Fleury said.

He said he’s satisfied with RTG and the city’s response to the sinkhole so far – he has been kept up-to-date and is confident the contractor will fix the issue, which RTG is contractually obliged to do at its own cost.

“They’re going around and they’re doing all the analysis,” Fleury said.

“But what I need and what I think my colleagues and I want is what happened, why it’s not going to happen again and how does that impact the work there coming up.”

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Golder and Associates drilled three separate boreholes right next to each other at a site directly west of the

sinkhole location to conduct extra testing, sampling and monitoring well installation, according to the firm’s final geotechnical report in 2011.

Two of those three boreholes produced limestone samples, but a borehole dug on Aug. 3, 2011 revealed a section of silty clay and clay silt, the Golder report reveals. Eighty per cent of the sample was silt, 13 per cent was clay, five per cent was sand and two per cent of the material from that borehole was gravel. That borehole was located right beside the section of Waller Street that collapsed on Feb. 21.

The final report also found that the bedrock was very fractured in the bedrock valley that dips east of the Rideau Canal, close to where the sinkhole occurred.

The initial borehole testing conducted in 2010 was “critical” for the project, rail implementation manager John Jensen said at the time. The city made a show of releasing the initial results, with an extended technical briefing to explain the soil conditions and tunnel changes to city councillors and the media.

“For a tunnel designer and builder, the ground conditions set the construction environment,” Jensen said.

Boreholes drilled during the first phase of testing in August 2010 at the northeast corner of Laurier Avenue East and Waller, across the street from the sinkhole, and just southeast of where Waller reaches Nicholoas Street (near uOttawa’s Odell House building), revealed “fill, silty sand, clay and glacial till,” Jensen said.

The initial geotechnical investigations revealed different bedrock conditions than engineers anticipated south of Laurier Avenue, Jensen said at the time.

The bedrock there was actually deeper than was assumed in the first design phase, he said.

The bedrock examined during the first phase of drilled was mostly limestone, which is a softer stone. Jensen said more shale bedrock was found along the eastern sections of the tunnel route.

All of those underground conditions could be accommodated with standard engineering practices and contracting strategies, Jensen said in 2010.

Jensen left the LRT project in early 2013 to take a job with Metrolinx, the provincial transit agency that oversees the Presto smart card payment system used in Ottawa and southern Ontario.

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Smartphones – what a turn off

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BRYNNA LESLIE Capital Muse phone! (You know you’re an addict when you calculate long it’s been since your last drink, your last cigarette, or your last text message. As British author Allan Carr says in his famous quit smoking book, only a heroin addict would brag about going a week without; otherwise, why mention it?)

And of course, the second my in-laws were out of the driveway I ran to find my smartphone. I had to check the latest in a slew of funny cat posts on Facebook and the junk emails from travel websites. I got into a text conversation with a long distance friend who had a baby recently. And simultaneously Google Talked with my dad.

Before I knew it, 45 minutes had gone by, my husband had put the children to bed – children who had likely been whining for my attention, but I was too absorbed in my “communications� to notice.

Like I said, I’m not the

worst kind of addict – I don’t typically get my phone out at restaurants or dinner parties, for example. But something happened the other day that made me realize it’s time to put a moratorium on smartphone use in certain situations.

We had just spent a fabulous afternoon with the kids and grandparents at a sugar bush. Except for photo-taking, my smartphone had been stashed in my backpack for the entire excursion. On the way home, I was sitting in the back seat, wondering how to keep my inattentive brain occupied for 45 minutes, when I took my smartphone from its hiding place.

I had several text messages, so I began to read them. There was a notification that a young relative was in hospital; another that informed me of a dire prognosis for another loved one; and a new blog by a friend who’s undergoing cancer treatment. I read them all and answered what I could.

I got into some deep and dark from a great scavenger hunt?� where I could completely conversations. All around me, Those words from my sevenengage – not while I was the children and enjoying a rare and grandparents were complete family discussing the gloouting to the sugar rious day we’d had bush. ‘Why are we talking about Russia in the sun. They So I’ve decided were recounting to eliminate most and Ukraine, mom, when we just all the special notifications I came from a great scavenger hunt?’ receive. I’ve vowed activities, but I was elsewhere, in to become one of smartphone land, those people who dealing with crises. doesn’t answer text The texting messages instantly. made me melancholy, angry year-old.

I’ve decided to power down even. I shared a couple of Before smartphones, the when I’m out in the woods. details and put a dent in the information about my friends Because frankly, all that dinghappiness of those around me and family may or may not ing and news, distracting me as well. “Why are we talking have been shared with me. If from living in the moment – it about Russia and Ukraine, it was, it would most likely be makes smartphones quite the mom, when we just came in a phone call or face-to-face, turn off.

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ast spring I got my first smartphone. I swore to my husband and family that I wouldn’t become “one of those people.�

You know, the ones that are incessantly checking indicators every five seconds; the ones that pull out phones in the middle of decent conversations based on innuendo and mistruths so they can Google the answers; the ones who let their kids watch YouTube videos by Flo Rida; and dare I say it, the ones that let their toddlers swipe through photos in the doctor’s office waiting room?

It’s been almost a year now and I’m dangerously close to becoming a smartphone addict. They say the first step toward overcoming addiction is accepting that it actually exists.

I’m not the worst of the worst.I recognize I check my phone more often when it’s in a central location, like in the middle of the kitchen counter or, let’s say, the dinner table.

So when we have company – despite using my smartphone as a camera most days – I try to hide it away in a drawer.

This little trick works well. In fact, I went 3.5 hours the other evening when my in-laws were over without even thinking about my smart-

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t’s time we took a hard, honest look at our attitudes towards survivors of sexual violence and sexual assault.

Canada is built upon a bedrock of laws that define acceptable and unacceptable behaviour and our Criminal Code contains a lengthy section discussing the legal consequences of sexual assault.

Unfortunately, the problem isn’t rooted in the lexicon of our legal system – the fault lies in ourselves and the underlying mores of society.

Student groups at the University of Ottawa claim a “rape culture� exists on campus, an attitude that excuses, tolerates and even condones sexual assaults.

Last month, the university was hit with the news of an alleged sexual assault involving hockey players from the school’s men’s varsity team in Thunder Bay, Ont. The alleged assault took place during the team’s visit to Lakehead University for two games played on Jan. 31 and Feb. 1. Thunder Bay police are in the early stages of an investigation.

If that wasn’t bad enough, Anne-Marie Roy, the head of the university’s undergraduate student federation was later the victim of a sexually explicit chat on a private Facebook site, which she received from an anonymous email.

Roy brought a copy of the Facebook chat to a meeting of the student union board of administration in February, asking for a condemnation of those who engaged in the chat, which included two board members.

Roy was later quoted in the media as saying, “Rape culture is very present on our campuses . . .

I think that it’s very shameful to see that there are student leaders who are perpetuating that within their own circles.�

Students at the University of Ottawa have formed the independent initiative against rape culture, an organization that is urging an open discussion about attitudes existing on campus. The group is also calling for more support for victims of sexual assaults.

On May 1, the family of a Nova Scotia teenager who took her own life after she was allegedly sexually assaulted and bullied both online and at school is holding an event in Kanata to raise money to support survivors of sexual assault.

The fundraiser aims to fund cottage retreats for survivors of sexual assault to recover from their traumatic experiences.

Such initiatives spark discussion about our attitudes towards survivors of sexual assault.

Talking is often the precursor to social change.

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When it comes to cities, fun is relative

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he question of whether or not Ottawa is the town fun forgot has come up again, just when we thought we were rid of Allan Fotheringham.

A new documentary film is coming out that ponders the question of how dull Ottawa is or isn’t. It’s something that people who have been here a long time don’t think about much, except when it is raised. Then we defend or attack.

The Town That Fun Forgot was Fotheringham’s description, or probably was, back in the early 1980s, and it stuck. Most people’s feelings weren’t hurt, but some were. Most people knew that we did not, in fact, wait for the light to change when crossing a deserted street at three in the morning. Most people knew that there were places in Ottawa where music and laughter could be found. You just had to know where to look for them.

Being a place that fun forgot has something to do with being a capital, a place full of politicians, bureaucrats and — yes — journalists. Although London and Paris seemed to have escaped the accusation, Washington does not have a swinging reputation, nor does Canberra, the Swiss make fun of Berne, and don’t even mention Brasilia.

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locals expect of them. It is significant also that New Orleans doesn’t have a winter in the sense that we know it. One consequence is that clubs can be open to the street so that everybody passing by can hear the music and see the folks enjoying themselves inside.

In Ottawa, there may be quite a party going on inside, but you’ll never see it through the frosted-over window or hear it through the heavy closed doors. A little more summer would go a long way in this town, as you can learn for yourself by walking through the ByWard Market on a Friday night in June.

And by the way, that’s not always a pretty sight.

Of course, there’s no denying that New Orleans showcases its musicians while Ottawa mostly hides its. But it shouldn’t be necessary to point out that there is more to a city than what it shows its tourists. Visitors see the airport, the downtown, the hotels and restaurants, the clubs. There is more to a city’s life than that, but the visitor doesn’t see it.

Fun doesn’t have to be people shouting in the streets. It can be people enjoying themselves in each other’s homes, playing pickup hockey or eating at the not-so-trendy place around the corner.

It is interesting that at the same time The

City That Fun Forgot reappeared, a national magazine ranked Ottawa the second-best place to live among large Canadian cities.

MoneySense magazine considered such things as unemployment, health care and taxes in making its selection.

So there’s a broader definition of fun. It includes not getting attacked by extreme weather or muggers or corrupt politicians. It can be the absence of extreme poverty on the streets. For the most part, that would describe our lives here.

It may not be your idea of fun, but it’s a start.

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Mark Fisher, the trustee that represents Findlay Creek, said that the amendment was indefensible. “We had a process in place, we had talked about changes to the list at the committee of the whole and then the motion came out of nowhere,� he said, calling the move politicking.

Since being elected, Fisher said he has advocated a new system for determining board capital priorities. Once developed, it would be a multi-year capital asset plan that would look at several other criteria for building a new school,

among those criteria would be development trends in the city.

Adding clear-cut criteria would eliminate the horse trading that can sometimes happen around the board table.

Just because one neighbourhood shows up with a bus and makes a lot of noise, doesn’t mean the school is a priority,� he said. “I think a new system would be much more honest. “ Blackburn said during the October meeting that she simply wanted to see all new school builds follow a process. Barrhaven had complet-

ed an accommodation review to establish boundaries for the Chapman Mills schools and ease overcrowding at Farley Mowat and Barrhaven public schools in 2011.

Following the ministry’s announcement, Blackburn said residents should look to the province when placing blame. “During my time on the board, it’s the only instance when we have written a special letter in support of a school,� she said. “Ultimately, it was the province’s decision not to fund it.�

The same night the decision was made to amend the

list, trustees voted to send a separate letter to the Ministry of Education advocating for Findlay Creek because of its special circumstances.

When Sandals made the announcement, she said the ministry looks at the business case of each school on the list. “It’s not unusual that when the ministry staff do this scoring and evaluation of the business cases, that they will come up with a different priority order than the board has,� she

said. “If you have a couple of projects that were similar, and from our scoring of the business cases they were about the same, then we would use the board’s priority to figure if we didn’t have enough to fund both.�

Mukherjee called the amendment that changed Ottawa school rankings a game changer.

She said parents still had faith at that point that the board would find a different avenue of funding. Now that

the announcement has been made, Mukherjee said her family is looking at their options – one of which might be selling their home. Anecdotally, she said other parents in the community have been considering a move to the Catholic board. “We feel like the city doesn’t view us as a real community,� she said. “There should have been a plan in have a community school.�

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Southminster United Church to host fundraiser for mental health living with a mental illness. The concert takes place on Saturday evening, March 29, at Southminster United Church.

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Ancoura was incorporated in 2008 as a not-for-profit registered charity in Ottawa whose mission is to provide a fulfilling environment for adults living with a mental illness, through stable housing and a supportive community. Volunteers provide a “circle of friends� with the residents – a community of belonging.

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Ottawa’s vibrant Big Soul Project Community Gospel Choir and Band entertains audiences with songs of hope, love, joy and peace, performed with a soulful beat. Choir director, Roxanne Goodman, inspires the choir to lift their voices high, with music rooted in gospel, R&B, reggae, pop and Motown. Their enthusiasm is contagious, and dancing in the aisles at their concerts is always welcomed.

They have performed at Westfest, Bluesfest and the Black Sheep Inn. In the fall of 2012, Big Soul Project performed in the finale with Barbra Streisand in her Back to Brooklyn Tour.

The choir’s annual Christmas concert at Dominion Chalmers Church is always sold out, and this December’s

one was no exception. The proceeds from their Christmas concert help fund the many benefit shows they do throughout the year. And Ancoura is the recipient of Big Soul Project’s first concert of 2014.

The driving force behind this fundraiser is First Unitarian Congregation of Ottawa. A group of dedicated volunteers from the Church has been fundraising for Ancoura for several years.

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to write a book, I was pretty excited to help him.â&#x20AC;?

Nathalie said Tommyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s teacher was impressed with the novella idea as well. â&#x20AC;&#x153;She said she assigns kids to write a small book each year, but they usually write about themselves. Tommy was the ďŹ rst kid who wanted to write about his sister,â&#x20AC;? she said.

Nathalie self-published the book in 2009, with the help of a local photographer. The book, entitled Melanie and Tommy have two pet rats and one syndrome, explained his sisterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s condition and showed her as a regular kid with hobbies and routines.

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Nathalie said Tommyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s teacher Corey Fitzgerald at Kars on the Rideau helps him work on his presentations during the recess. Another book called Melanie and Tommy have two pet rats and one syndrome: Catelli Castle was published in 2012.

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News - Tommy Glatzmayer and his two pet rats have received accolades from the Ontario Community Newspaper Association.

Tommy, along with a dozen other ďŹ nalists from across the province, was named Junior Citizens of the Year during a ceremony in Toronto on March 6.

Tommy received the award for the work he has done to raise awareness about children with disabilities.

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It all started in 2009 when Tommy was in Grade one.

Kids at school had made fun of his sister Melanie â&#x20AC;&#x201C; who was born with Cornelia de Lange Syndrome â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a genetic disorder that affects a childâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s physical and intellectual development â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and he wanted to do something to make it stop.

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Nathalie said the sponsors make the travelling possible, but Tommy was always keen to help.

Tommy said heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s honoured to receive the accolades from the OCNA, but he continues doing what he does to make a difference, not for the awards.

For the ďŹ rst time this year, the Glatzmayer family is going international with the presentation. In the last two weeks of June, Tommy and Melanie have been booked at several schools in California. Nathalie said she hopes to book a show in each province they hit before entering the United States.

Each school Tommy and Melanie present to gets 10 copies of the books. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Now that we have sponsors, selling the books isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t as important as getting the message out,â&#x20AC;?

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Another new project includes a drumming and signing circle. It will be hosted at Tommyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s house each Friday once momentum builds, Nathalie said.

Tommy said he will continue to raise awareness and hopes to make a difference in the lives of kids living with disabilities. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If you see someone different give them a smile,â&#x20AC;? Tommy said.

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The panel that sat in March was slimmer â&#x20AC;&#x201C; reduced from 10 to seven members, said Dana Collings, program manager of planning and urban design. The goal is to streamline the discussion, which can get bogged down with too many people.

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Collings said the city has received some complaints about the change from people who think the design review will now happen too late in the process to have any effect.

But Collings said increasing the amount of information made available to the public will make it a stronger process. â&#x20AC;&#x153;As a member of the public, you are getting a lot of knowledge early in the application process to be able to input your desires and your thoughts,â&#x20AC;? Collings said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think from that perspective itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fantastic.â&#x20AC;?

However, Collings said optional private pre-consultations will be available for developers as the panel transitions to the new system.

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News - Tucked away in a small space in Memorial Park, the Bytowne Urban Gardeners have already maximized their existing plot of land.

So this year, in order to continue to grow both the food crop and membership numbers, the downtown “BUGs” are thinking about growing up instead of out.

The group held its annual general meeting on March 10, welcoming new and old members to a unique opportunity: an hour with a master gardener, Tom Marcantonio and the chance to learn all there is to know about gardening in small spaces.

Marcantonio, a resident of Woodpark in the city’s west end, uses every space he has in his backyard, utilizing vertical space to make room for more produce.

“For me it’s not just about the garden, for me it’s about the food,” he said to the gardeners.

Marcantonio’s workshop focused not only on how to start a garden, but how to make use of every inch of space in a garden.

He offered tips such as creating layered gardens, much like a wedding cake, allowing plants to grow close to other plants without affecting growth. He called it a bed within a bed.

“If you are a farmer with an acre of land, you have an acre of planting space, but if you are a farmer with an acre of land with a mountain in the middle, you have much more planting space,” Marcantonio said.

Planting in a triangle, he added instead of rows, also maximizes space.

“Operate like nature would,” he said. “We should pay more attention to nature, and see what she can teach you.”

Marcantonio says even before the snow thaws, he will sprinkle seed in the garden bed.

The key, he said, is to weed out the weak plants, and let the stronger ones prosper.

Gardeners who attended the workshop said the ideas were inspiring.

“There are lots of good ideas for planting in small spaces,” said Myka Riopel. “I am looking forward to trying to plant vertical this year.”

The small garden operated by the group offers families living near the Glebe park the chance to sign up for a plot.

Participants’ time must be divided into their own plots and helping maintain the overall well-being of the community garden.

The community garden was first planted in 2010 but has no room for expansion, Riopel said. The workshop is another way for the gardeners to make

the most of the room they already have.

“We have been really successful with the space we have, this may add to that,” she said.

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Although the plots are all spoken for, the garden is always looking for volunteers.

This year, the steering committee said it would like to start a new project, which would see flowers grown in the community garden plot donated to local organizations, seniors unable to come out and participate or other groups who could benefit from the gesture.

To get the project off the ground, Riopel said they are looking for someone to co-ordinate both the growing and delivery service.

“The reason we have yet to see this idea through is we have a found it a challenge to find people to give the flowers to, or find someone to help,” she said.

“It is one way we see ourselves able to engage with the greater community.”

The co-ordinator would help localize groups who would be willing to receive the flowers as well as find more volunteers to deliver them.

Riopel invites interested individuals to contact the garden at bugscoordinator@gmail. com.

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Summer art camps: creativity at its best Lifestyle - Specialized summer camps are now allowing young artists to develop their passion on an intensive basis.

Summer art camps offer classes which are both educational and lots of fun. Children can develop their skills and broaden their interests while being supervised by competent instructors, all in an entertaining atmosphere.

There are many different facets to the world of visual arts. At summer camp, young people can learn about kinds of media that they have fewer opportunities to explore at home or school, such as China ink, pastels, charcoal, oil paint, and clay. They acquire theoretical notions and draw inspiration from the great masters of the art world. Some art camps even organize an exhibit so that friends and family can see all the creations.

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Sports â&#x20AC;&#x201C; The Ottawa Senators 50/50 draws will be getting a high-tech makeover for next season.

The Ottawa Senators Foundation will be part of a pilot program with the Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment Foundation that Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation is launching this fall to improve and modernize 50/50 draws by moving to an electronic system.

The announcement at the Canadian Tire Centre March 12 featured members of the Sens Foundation and their supported charities, representatives from the Ottawa Senators, as well as politicians who made the push for provincial government to allow it.

The new system will let vendors sell 50/50 tickets electronically with handheld devices, while displaying real time jackpots allowing fans to track the funds, encouraging them to get involved. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Since the Sens Foundation was formed in 1998 and began selling 50/50 tickets, the revenue from the raffles has been over $13 million,â&#x20AC;? said Danielle Robinson, president and chief executive of the Sens Foundation.

The change is expected to increase 50/50 profits for the Sens Foundation, with doubling or tripling revenue a realistic possibility according to Ottawa - Centre MPP Yasir Naqvi.

Electronic 50/50 raffles are already in use in western Canada, with the Vancouver Canucks, Edmonton Oilers, Calgary Flames and Winnipeg Jets all seeing improved results. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The average gross jackpots in those cities has been between $60,000 and $108,000,â&#x20AC;? said Robinson.

Those numbers mean theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve experienced anywhere from 60% to 100% increase in 50/50 revenue since the change.

This is compared to the Senators who this season have averaged between $28,000 and $33,000, which at one point would have been â&#x20AC;&#x153;amongst the top of the leagueâ&#x20AC;? according to Robinson.

The increased revenues will allow the Sens Foundation to give back even more to its charitable causes like Rogerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s House, Sens at School, Sens Rinks, as well as the groups the Foundation supports such as Special Olympics Ontario and Easter Seals Ontario, who were both on hand for the announcement. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In the last 10 years the Sens Foundation has contributed $75 million to charities and local events in our community,

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Community - One young womanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s love of nature was celebrated on March 15 at the Ottawa Humane Society on Hunt Club Road, alongside some of the animals.

Maddieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Mutts and Meows drew a crowd as friends and family remembered the passing of 21-year-old Madeleine Havelock, who died in a car accident while on her way home to Barrhaven from Trent University

just before Easter last year. She was studying biology and environmental sciences at the school. â&#x20AC;&#x153;She was passionate about nature,â&#x20AC;? said Maddieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mother, Charlene.

The family aims to raise $5,000 for the Ottawa Humane Society, and the March 15 event was a first step. If they reach the goal, a row of cat pens at the societyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Ottawa adoption centre will bear Madeleineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s name.

Charlene said the location will be a â&#x20AC;&#x153;perfect matchâ&#x20AC;? for Madeleineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s memory.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;She adopted her cat, Boo, from here,â&#x20AC;? Charlene said, adding her daughter picked the cat from the societyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s special needs section and it only had three legs. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He needed special care,â&#x20AC;? she said.

The Havelock family chose the March date for Maddieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Mutts and Meows as Madeleineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s birthday was on March 19.

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Onions were a cure-all, according to Mrs. Beam MARY COOK Mary Cook’s Memories became known as Mrs. Beam’s cure all: the onion treatment.

She also thought it best to ward off future diseases before they started, and of course that meant lots of onions.

Not cooked.

Oh no. Raw, right out of the bag.

Early in the winter, Mother was advised to cut them into quarters, put them in a soup bowl, and put them inches from every bed in the house.

Father was the only one who believed this would keep the house free of germs.

Mother tried it one day in early winter, and I took a sneezing fit in bed the first night and had to get up, Emerson said he was going to throw up, and Audrey took her next-morning clothes and hung them behind the kitchen door downstairs.

That night’s chopped up onions were added to the pig feed the next day.

But we weren’t to get off that easy.

While most people had their chests slathered with Vick’s VapoRub when they got a cold, we wore a little

flannelette packet tied around our necks with string, and filled with chopped onions!

The first day we had to wear the packets to the Northcote School, we smelled like a pot of Irish stew, and everyone knew Mrs. Beam had been called in for a “treatment.”

It could have been a social disaster, but Mrs. Beam had gotten to a few other households which were threatened with some dastardly disease only onions could keep at bay. We weren’t the only ones reeking at the Northcote School.

However, Miss Crosby finally had her fill of the oneroom school house smelling to high heaven, and she sent a note home with every pupil asking that the children stick to Vick’s VapoRub and leave the onions for the stew-pot.

Using Mrs. Beam’s treatment at home was one thing, but bringing it into the Northcote School was quite another. There was no thought of staying home from school if you were under the weather. You had to be bed-ridden before you were considered sick enough to miss a day of classes.

Passing on your germs never seemed to be a concern. It was assumed, sooner or later, everyone at the Northcote School would eventually get whatever was going around, and you just hung in there and waited for it to happen.

The common cold, or what was called the grippe, was never considered a serious ailment.

However, measles, and whooping cough were a different matter. Those two meant missing school until either the rash left you, or you stopped coughing.

In either case, Mrs. Beam was called in.

And once again, the onion treatment came into play.

She would check to make sure a soup bowl of chopped onions was beside your bed if it was the measles that kept you home. But her treatment for the whooping cough bordered on child abuse.

She would cut an onion in

half, scoop it out, making it into two little boats, fill them with honey, and then pour on a few drops of coal oil.

These were put on a pie plate and chucked into the oven of the Findlay Oval, and when they started to bubble, you took a spoon and ate them.

The honey was supposed to soothe your throat, the merit of the onions went without saying and the few drops of coal-oil, no one could say what they were good for, but what they did do was cause violent stomach upheaval which was exactly what Mrs. Beam wanted to happen.

That was to get rid of whatever ailed you, in this case the whooping cough.

There was no doubt, the cure was far worse than the disease.

It got to the point where even Mother doubted the merit of the common on-

ion in treating an illness.

Instead, she made sure that just about everything she cooked for our meals had a good dose of onions chopped up in it.

No longer was there any such thing as a fried egg without onions, boiled turnips had onions added to the pot, and onions in a cream sauce appeared at least once or twice a week.

Father thought anything Mrs. Beam said, or what she handed out as treatment, was right up there with scripture.

Just like the time she said she had a cure for lumbago, but that’s another story waiting to be told.

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Only when you were seriously afflicted, did you call old Dr. Murphy, who made house calls, to come out from Renfrew, a twelve-anda-half-mile trip each way.But you had to be in dire straits indeed, because his fee was $2, or a couple of trussed up freshly plucked chickens and a batch of hot out-of-the oven sticky buns. Of course, if you broke a leg, or suffered some other serious malady, you were taken in to his office, where the fee was only a dollar. Chicken pox, measles, whooping cough, or a very bad cold were not considered serious enough to warrant a call to Dr. Murphy.

If Mother couldn’t handle it, Mrs. Beam was called in. She had a cure for everything, and most of them centred around the use of onions, a good dose of onions.

Mrs. Beam believed in the healing power of onions. It was fortunate we had a good supply, piled in the cellar in bags.

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Please join us as we share the truth of Godâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Holy Word Every Sunday from 10 am- Noon Venue: Mon. Paul Baxter School Gym; 333 Beatrice Dr. K2J4W1 Lead Pastor: Benjamin A Mua Email: hopeforallnationschurch@gmail.com Call: Ramon Octavious: 613-292-0486 â&#x20AC;&#x153;Come and experience Godâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s love and powerâ&#x20AC;?

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All are welcome to come hear the good news in a spiritually uplifting mix of traditional and forward looking Christian worship led by the Reverend Richard Vroom with Sunday morning services at 8:30 and 10.

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Pleasant Park Baptist Invites you to our worship service with Rev. Dean Noakes Sundays at 11 am, 414 Pleasant Park Road 613 733-4886 www.ppbc.ca

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Babes4Breasts donates Beauâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 4 Babes funds to vitamin D cancer research Community - Recently, Babes4Breasts (B4B) donated $19,358.41 to the Ottawa Hospital Foundation, earmarked for the breast cancer research work of the Dr. Angel Arnaout, Dr. Mark Clemons and Dr. Christina Addison team.

Funds were raised through the Beauâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 4 Babes at the Royal Oak campaign run in fall of 2013, a lead up to the 7th Annual Babes4Breasts beneďŹ t concert. Support of the community in the form of partnerships with Beauâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Brewery, The Royal Oak, Boom 99.7 and Light Switch Creative saw monies raised through Beauâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s beer sales at all Royal Oak locations.

Over 16 days, The Royal Oak donated $0.25 from each pint and $0.75 from each 60 oz jug of Beauâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sold at all locations to the cause, with a matching donation from Royal Oak Pubs Group. In addition, Beauâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Brewery donated 30 per cent from every keg sold to the Royal Oak. Despite advances in treatment, over 4000 Canadians die each year of breast cancer. The Arnaout- Clemons- Addison team is a uniquely

innovative program that performs pragmatic patient centred research designed to improve the care of current and future generations of breast cancer patients. This research has already improved the care of many breast cancer patients at the Ottawa hospital.

At present the Arnaout-ClemonsAddison team are exploring the role of high dose vitamin D in the treatment and prevention of breast cancer in 76 newly diagnosed breast cancer patients. Funds raised by B4B will be used to augment this research.

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Raising the roof season to kick off with Prairie Oyster guitarist Jennifer McIntosh jennifer.mcintosh@metroland.com

News -The 2014 season of an annual fundraiser for the Watsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Mill will kick off with a performance by Canadian country musician Keith Glass.

Glass â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a founding member of the group Prairie Oyster will hit the stage at the Manotick United Church on April 5 for the Raising the Roof festival.

Raising the Roof started in 2011 as a way to raise money to fix a chronically leaking roof on Watsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Mill.

Now that the roof is fixed, the money raised each year will go to

the Mills capital fund. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an old building, so there are lots of renovations that come up,â&#x20AC;? said organizer Terry McGovern â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a musician himself who got tagged to organize Raising the Roof when he was on the millâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s board of directors.

After the April show Terry Gillespie, from the 70s rock group Heavenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Radio fame, will rock the church on May 10.

The rest of the shows are set to take place on Sundays at the mill.

Ottawa singer/songwriter Vince Halfhide takes the stage on May 25. Duelling Pianos David Kalil, Taylor Kealey and Todd Huckabone.

Terry Tufts, a finger-style guitarist whose motto â&#x20AC;&#x153;have guitar will travel,â&#x20AC;? will hit the stage on July 27.

The Claytones, homegrown country musicians from the Valley, are set to perform on Aug. 24.

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Season tickets are $100, bringing the per show price down to $20 from $25. Anyone interested in tickets should contact McGovern at mgovet@rogers.com.

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Teen performs hard-hitting musical at Centrepointe Adam Kveton adam.kveton@metroland.com

News - A Barrhaven student’s musical about a gay teen who is bullied to the breaking played at Centrepointe Theatre on March 18 and 19 after its first showing at his high school.

The musical, entitled Break Before Bend, is the work of Elliot Wehrle, a student at Mother Teresa.

“Overall, I’m thrilled and I’m so grateful for this opportunity,” said Elliot about the attention the show has received and having it play at Centrepointe.

Break Before Bend has been Elliot’s brainchild for over two years while he’s been composing songs, writing characters and discovering just what his musical was going to be about. Though Elliot has been composing music for much of his 17 years, he participated in his first musical in high school, and thought he would try his hand at it.

“I didn’t know if I was serious about it when I had the idea,” he said.

Nor did he know just how serious the musical itself would become.

Though the show originally followed several characters in high school, Elliot eventually found himself focusing on the gay teen character.

After several years, many edits and 23 songs, Elliot’s work became a story of homophobic persecution, what it means to undergo severe bullying

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Barrhaven student and Break Before Bend’s author, Elliot Wehrle, strums while two of his actors practise at his home on March 7. and, above all, bystanders.

While the musical has a lot to do with the interactions between gay teenager Jesse and his bully, Todd, Elliot said the theme of the show resides elsewhere.

“We are not targeting homophobia here. We are not targeting bullying here,” said Elliot. “We are targeting bystanding and we are targeting apathy.”

While bullies are certainly part of the

problem when it comes to homophobic harassment and bullying in general, Elliot explained that he thinks they won’t necessarily be part of the solution either.

“What I want to focus on impacting is all of these bystanders who support people like Jesse internally, “That’s one of the big things that we look at in the musical is the whole idea that words are worthless unless actions back them

up.”

To do this, the musical tries to get into the reality of what it means to be persecuted and the effect it can have, making it heavy and raw, admitted Elliot.

However, it wasn’t until the first and only showing of the musical at Mother Teresa High School that Elliot really understood just how much of an impact the musical would have.

“A lot of teachers and students were reduced to tears and hugely impacted by it,” said Elliot. “That was when I kind of realized.”

The fact that a musical about a gay teenager was performed at a Catholic school has been the subject of a lot of interest, said Elliot, but the reality is the musical had lots of support.

“The Catholic school board was fully supportive,” he said. “They backed the subject matter 100 per cent and they backed the message 100 per cent, so that was great to see.”

While the Catholic school board and the school were involved with the editing process, only the 250 Grade 12 students at Elliot’s school were allowed to attend.

That one performance was not enough for Elliot or his cast, who have been involved in the production for over a year.

With all that work invested and all the attention the show has garnered, Elliot and the cast agreed they wanted at least a few more shows, as well as get their message to a wider audience.

Hence the two shows at Centrepointe Theatre on March 18 and 19.

It was a lot of work to get it ready.

Some of the cast, and especially Sam Turgeon-Brabazon who plays Todd (the bully), had to undergo a transformation to be able to play the polarizing characters they represent, but considering the interest in the show and its message, it’s been worth it, they said.

“I am actually friends with people and I know people in my own life who are gay and who are openly gay and have partners and all that stuff,” said Sam, “but I also know people who have gone through severe harassment because of that.”

While he admits playing the role of the bully has been tough, he recognizes the importance and the opportunity. But the play isn’t all dark and depressing, said Elliot. In an effort to give the audience a chance to relax, several lighthearted, fun songs were added, he said, which were a relief for him to write as much as much as he hoped they would be for the audience to hear.

In the end, the show is about having an impact.

“I wanted to really hit people in the gut with this thing and really shock them in a good way.”

No matter how much Elliot’s musical impacted audiences, this local talent’s first major work has certainly gone a long way.

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Aboriginal album of the year nominee George Leach will headline the festival’s first of three nights on June 13, which founder and producer Elaina Martin described as a tribute to the blues. Leach is nominated for his second album, entitled Surrender, which hits modern rock grooves, R&B stylings, balladry and many other genres.

That night will also include DJ Lakes District, Smoke Wagon Blues Band, Maria Hawkins and River City Junction.The second night’s headliner is east-coast folk-rock artist Ashley MacIsaac, but not before the festival’s traditional Tam Tam with Dr. Lee where audience members participate by banging along with 100 handmade drums, as well as whatever pots, pans and other drum-like instruments they can bring.

Next comes crooner Brock Zeman, soulful aboriginal artist Shawnee, and Ottawa’s The Peptides, who gave a preview performance during the Westfest launch at The Clocktower Brew Pub on Richmond Road.

The final night filled with Ottawa talent ends the festival with a triple DJ performance by A Tribe Called Red, whose mix of pow wow drumming and vocals with electronic music has garnered them increasing interest from audiences across Canada.

The DJ crew is nominated for electronic album of the year and breakthrough group of the year.

The Junos take place on March 30, though Westfest founder Martin said, “My prediction is all three Junos are coming to Westfest this year.”

Westfest has been going for 11 years, growing from its first fest which took place in the parking lot of a Mac’s Milk. Martin went over the festival’s history during this year’s launch with photos showing the event’s growth.

The free festival was such a success the first year that the venue had to change, moving to a lot near The Clocktower. In 2007, about 20,000 people attended Westfest, said Martin, growing to 25,000 the following year.

Martin attributed the festival’s success to its supporters, her volunteers, artists and to its loyal audience members. “Over the years, you’ve come and you continue to come,” said Martin, “and I thank you for that.”

Mayor Jim Watson and Ottawa Centre MPP Yasir Naqvi congratulated Martin on the success of the festival during the launch, noting her resolve to keep the festival free. “We’re very proud of the work you’ve done,” said Watson.

As for Martin, she said she is proud of being able to stick to the festival’s mandate: “Everyone is equal and everyone is invited.”

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Cultures in Concert to feature Orkidstra students performance Michelle Nash michelle.nash@metroland.com

Community - A group of young music students will help launch a new culture-conscious music series in Centretown.

The Leading Note Foundation’s senior OrKidstra’s Chamber Players will perform at the school’s Cultures in Concert performance on March 21. The students chosen to play are currently completing their final year at the foundation’s free after school music program available for low-income Centretown and Lowertown residents aged five to 18. The evening will be the first in what executive director Tina Fedeski hopes to turn into a series of concerts this season.

“The purpose of the concert is to celebrate the diversity of music,” she said.

The concert will also welcome National Arts Centre orchestra violinists’ quartet, the Silflay Quartet, Patti Chan, concert master of the Chinese Orchestra, and NAC orchestra member Marjolaine Fournier, who will all perform Chineseinspired music at the concert at Trillium Hall, located at the Ottawa Chinese-Canadian Heri-

tage Centre.

The organization first struck a chord in Centretown in 2007, welcoming 30 children to learn how to play string and wind instruments.

Now the centre has more than 300 students.

“Many of the students have stuck with the program,” Fedeski said. “The retention rate is remarkable. This program is about playing together and learning together.”

She said the school offers many children who would not be able to afford music lessons the opportunity to learn and excel in music.

“When you put an instrument into the hands of a child, they have to learn discipline because they have to go home and practice,” Fedeski said. “Here they learn in a group, so they also have to learn patience and compassion and teamwork. They learn the discipline of counting. Many research claims that playing instruments helps with academics and I think the joy of playing music keeps them going, you see they want to keep getting better.”

In January, Fedeski said the students participated in a workshop which saw them attempt to describe what orchestra means to them in one word.

The words they came up with included family, community, love, acceptance, compassion, awesome, fun, and joy. Fedeski

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Students from Leading Note Foundation’s senior music program will perform at the foundation’s Cultures in Concert event on March 21 in Centretown. said the school was pleased with the passion the students had and continue to have for the after school program.

The young musicians can attend every day or weekly – it’s up to them. Currently there are two locations, at the Bronson Centre in Centretown or at the satellite program in Lowertown, at York Street Public School.

Funding for the program is through donations, partnerships and grants from the city and province. Over the past seven years, the school has received $140,000 worth of instruments donated from the Ottawa community and the concert is one way the school helps fundraise for its programs.

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Aside from it’s after school program, the foundation started a two-year, in-school pilot project which expands the music programming from the centre to Cambridge Street Public School and Centennial Public School for grades 1 to 3.

“It is going really well,” Fedeski said.

“We will see how it goes and if it all goes well we would look at expanding. Really we are trying to build a community through music and expand our presence and depth in Centretown, build and make music that will resonate with the kids.

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The John Howard Society will provide around the clock supervision and support to clients.

The city will provide the society with funding under the provincial Community Homelessness Prevention Initiative.

The project is estimated to cost $6.6 million.

Along with the $947,000 from the city, there will also be a $4-million contribution from the Investment in Affordable Housing program.

Demolition of existing buildings is expected to commence early this spring with construction starting shortly afterwards.

Completion of the project and occupancy are expected by August 2015.

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News - A new affordable housing development will add more than 30 apartments to the Vanier area after the John Howard Society announced it will partner with the city on the project.

The project will see the property at 322 Gardener St. turned into a hub of affordable housing, with plans to build 34 private units, and offer shared recreation and living space, a staffed kitchen, and health and social services available to tenants.

Tina Matchette-Bianco, director of adult justice services for the John Howard Society, presented the plans to the Vanier community in February.

“We hope we can be a good neighbour,” Matchette-Bianco

said.

The organization currently has 10 offices and residential facilities in the city, offering provincial and federal offenders, parolees, and drug court participants transitional homes.

Currently, the society operates a transitional home on Ste. Anne Street.

Matchette-Bianco said that when the society moves into a neighbourhood, they have been told crime rates go down and Vanier residents who live near the Ste. Anne house agreed, stating there is little to no concern or issues stemming from the transitional house.

The Gardener home the society purchased was being utilized as a rooming house, in what the society called “poor conditions.”

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• Deer-vehicle collisions may occur as deer cross roads to and from feeders.

• Deer that come to feeders may lose their natural fear of humans and cause conflicts at other times of the year.

• A concentration of deer around artificial feeders can tempt natural predators of deer such as wolves to change their natural habits and come closer to populated areas.

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Ontario introduces law to combat invasive species News - As the province faces threats from invasive species such as Asian carp and the mountain pine beetle, the Ontario government has introduced a bill to support the prevention, early detection, rapid response and eradication of these species.

“Invasive species cost the Ontario economy tens of millions of dollars each year,” said Minister of Natural Resources David Orazietti. “With the introduction of our proposed Invasive Species Act, Ontario is taking strong action to address the social, ecological and economic threats that invasive species pose.”

Managing the impacts of just one invasive species – zebra mussels – is estimated to cost the province between $75 million and $91 million each year.

These, and other invasive species, have impacts on the natural environment that are often irreversible. Asian carp have overwhelmed some river systems in the United States, where

they now make up more than 95 per cent of the fish by weight in some areas. The European common reed, phragmites, is damaging Ontario beaches and wetlands.

More than 180 non-native aquatic species have been found to occur in the Great Lakes basin, and some have been here for decades. Invasive species are found everywhere in the province, though the majority are in southern Ontario. For more information, visit ontario. ca/invasivespecies.

If the proposed legislation is passed, Ontario will be the only jurisdiction in Canada that has stand-alone invasive species legislation.

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The proposed Invasive Species Act, which was introduced in the provincial legislature in February, would give Ontario the tools to ban activities such as possessing and transporting certain high risk invasive species,

enable rapid response actions to address urgent threats, and would help ensure compliance through modernized inspection and enforcement measures.

“Preventing invasive species from arriving and becoming established in Ontario is critical in our fight against this growing threat,” Orazietti said. “The proposed legislation would help by providing the powers to intervene earlier, so small problems don’t become bigger and lead to significant environmental and economic costs for Ontarians.”

Invasive species can enter Ontario and spread across the province in different ways.

Sometimes they are spread unintentionally – for example, recreational boaters who unknowingly transfer zebra mussels that are attached to their boat, from one body of water to another. But many times people introduce invasive species into Ontario knowingly – whether it’s purchasing invasive plants for gardening, dumping aquar-

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Sports - Roger Huestis is looking for you. Yes, looking for you if you are age 55 and over.

The 55-plus crowd can participate in any of 10 winter sports with the Ontario 55+ Summer and Winter Games Association, including alpine skiing, nordic skiing, badminton, curling, able tennis, volleyball, ice hockey, duplicate bridge, skating and 10pin bowling.

Or perhaps one of the 18 summer sports will get your attention, including, bid euchre, euchre, bocce, carpet and lawn bowling, contract bridge, cribbage, darts,

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Every senior knows it’s beneficial to get exercise, stay in contact with people and keep mentally engaged.

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Former National Hockey League player Todd White has developed his own camp in partnership with the Bell Sensplex facilities.

The White Hot Hockey Camp will be held at the Bell Sensplex in Kanata and Richcraft Sensplex in Gloucester with 10-week spring and six-week summer sessions planned, as part of the Ottawa Senators Hockey Programs lineup.

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Before the summer and spring camps, White Hot Hockey had its launch with a three-day March break session from March 12 to 14 at the Bell Sensplex.

The veteran of a 14-year professional hockey career has helped out with camps and coaching before, and felt the time was right to create his own. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is my third year coaching at the youth level, with my son and daughter and I really enjoy it,â&#x20AC;? said White. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The teaching aspect of helping kids get better and become better hockey players, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rewarding.â&#x20AC;?

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Byway siblings rise to youth cycling fame Brandon Gillet brandon.gillet@metroland.com

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Nia Byway displays the gold medal she won at the Youth Challenge Championships held in London, Ont. on Feb 22. Nia and her brother Connor, right, have been dominating the youth cycling circuit. (under 17).

Nevertheless, Nia will try to make the national team to compete in the Tour de Releve international in Rimouski, Que. and will continue to compete in youth cups across Ontario and Quebec. John Byway, Niaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s father,

thinks there could be a good chance she will make the national team. â&#x20AC;&#x153;She is very fast and a good hill climber, which is a major factor for the race in Rimouski,â&#x20AC;? he said.

Brother Connor is no stranger to the difďŹ culties of such aspirations.

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4HIS BEAUTIFUL TABBY MAY BE SHY BUT HIS TIMID DISPOSITION QUICKLY disappears when thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s toys around! Laser pointers, mouse toys, even balls of paper - he really comes out of his shell for playtime.

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POTW Article - Think Before You Buy Even in Ottawa, where we are fortunate to have good municipal legislation and an educated and mostly sensitized community, those with the best of intentions can still exacerbate a problem.

People are still purchasing dogs from substandard breeders and puppy mills, and in doing so are supporting an inhumane industry and unknowingly becoming a small part of the problem. Others continue to allow their cats to reproduce, resulting in thousands of cats and kittens in need of homes.

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Here is a brief list of what you should always consider before buying a pet, courtesy of the Canadian Federation of Humane Societies and the Pet Industry Joint Advisory Council: s (AVE YOU BEEN ALLOWED ACCESS TO THE facilities where the dogs are housed? Is the facility clean? s !RE FOOD AND WATER AVAILABLE IN THE

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s )N ADDITION TO THE ABOVE WHEN DEALING with a breeder, is documentation available conďŹ rming formal health clearances for both parents? (Such INFORMATION IS REQUIRED TO REDUCE THE likelihood of transmissible diseases and genetic disorders. s 7ILL YOU BE PROVIDED WITH A BILL OF SALE

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Sports- Connor and Nia Byway are quickly emerging as a dominant sibling-pair on the youth cycling circuit.

Nia, 13, placed ďŹ rst in four of ďŹ ve events, clinching the omnium at the Youth Challenge Championships in London Ont. on Feb 22. Connor, 16, likewise saw success this past summer, winning his second consecutive national championship making the Kanata Lakes teens the ones to watch in youth cycling. As well as winning overall in the girls under-15 category, Nia also set three new track records, surpassing even the boys her age in two of ďŹ ve events. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It felt great, and that all the training paid off,â&#x20AC;? said Nia. Her coach Don Moxley gave her a training plan that would set a different type of workout for each day focusing on endurance and weight training. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I got sick of it because Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m just in the basement working out,â&#x20AC;? Nia said.

Nia also placed ďŹ rst at the Ottawa Bicycle Girls Club Grand Prix on Jul 13, 2013, which was one of seven races in a row that she won this past summer in Ontario and Quebec. She currently competes in provincial youth cups as riders are generally not accepted to compete at the national level until they reach the cadet level

year, which is another feat on its own as he was using Niaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bike after his was damaged in a crash. More prominently, he won the Canadian track cycling championship in 2012 and 2013 in Dieppe, N.B. Connor just completed a two-week elite training road camp in California. The camp taught life lessons like cooking and cleaning after oneself, for athletes travelling to international competition, as well as physical training. The riders also had a slew of professionals in nutrition, pedalling power, and physical training to prepare them for riding with a national team. He is looking forward to trying out for the junior national track team in a few weeks in Los Angeles.

If he makes the team he will compete in the Pan American Junior Championship in Veracruz, Mexico. in June and the Junior Track World Championship in Seoul, Korea. in August. The discipline and intense training is paying off for the Byway siblings as they continue to advance in the levels of competition. Conner could even be looking at an Olympic run in the 2020 Summer Games. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re amazing kids, they work hard at school and their sport,â&#x20AC;? said mom Erika. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re so disciplined it amazes me that they spend hours training, and we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to remind them.â&#x20AC;?

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Resource centre to host free income tax clinics for low income clients Jennifer McIntosh jennifer.mcintosh@metroland.com

News - It’s tax time again.

To ease the burden on their low-income clients, the Nepean, Rideau and Osgoode Community Resource Centre is once again offering a free tax clinic at the Merivale Road location.

The popular service started March 3 and runs until April 30, said the centre’s executive director Sandy Wooley.

Two of the centre’s staff

run the clinics and file clients 2013 income tax returns Monday and Thursday evenings from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Appointments are also available on Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

“We serve hundreds of clients each year through this program,” Wooley said, adding most people find out about the clinics by word of mouth.

To be eligible for the service, clients must be under certain income thresholds.

Single people’s annual

income can’t be more than $30,000. An adult with a child can make up to $35,000 – with an additional $2,500 waived per dependant – and a couple can’t make more than $40,000 combined.

People who receive rental income, have declared bankruptcy or who have employment expenses aren’t eligible for the program.

For more information on eligibility and appointment times, visit nrocrc.org and click on the income tax clinics link.

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March 8 - May 2 The Ottawa West Arts Association presents The Awakening, March 8 to May 2. Visit the gallery to view and purchase eclectic new artworks from local artists and fill out a peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s choice ballot for your favourite artwork at the Goulbourn Recreation Complex, 1500 Shea Rd. in Stittsville. The gallery is open days a week from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. and can be found online at owaa.ca.

March 25 The Engineers Wives Association of Ottawa will hold its monthly general meeting at St. Thomas the Apostle Church Hall, 2345 Alta Vista Dr. at 1:30 p.m. The English Country Dancers will provide entertainment. For membership in the association please call 613-749-4975.

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Ladiesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Board Game Night: I am starting up a board game night for the women in our community to unwind while spending quality time with one another at a local community centre from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Space is limited. For more information or to RSVP, please email treasures.ca@gmx.net.

March 29 Flower arranging and seed starting demos and info sessions presented by the Gloucester Horitcultural Society in partnership with the Ottawa Artisans Guild Springtime Show & Sale of original handcrafted items, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Lester B. Pearson High School, 2072 Jasmine Cres.

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April 1 Join the Ottawa South Conservative Association from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the St. Elias Centre (750 Ridgewood Ave.) for an evening with The Honourable Chris Alexander, MP for AjaxPickering. Tickets are $100 each and include a delicious three-course meal and a tax credit. Contact 613-600-5103 or visit www.ottawasouth.ca to purchase tickets.

April 5 Friends of the Farm need new volunteer gardeners for the Ornamental Gardens, Arboretum and Merivale Shelterbelt, weekday mornings Monday through Friday.

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Ongoing Babytime: Stories, rhymes and songs for babies and a parent or caregiver, for ages 0 to 18 months, at the Alta Vista branch of the Ottawa Public Library. Session1: Jan. 13 to Feb. 10, from 10:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. (no registration required). For more information on these events, please contact the library at 613-890-4232.

Family Storytime: stories, rhymes, and songs for all ages and a parent or caregiver at the Alta Vista branch of the Ottawa Public Library.

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Ontario Senior Games 55+ Fundraiser and Membership Drive: In support of our seniors wishing to participate in the Senior Summer Games this August in Windsor. The event will take place at Crystal View Lodge 6 Meridian Pl in Centrepointe 22 March from 11 am to 3 pm. Meet past medal winners, 50/50 draws, live music and more.

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Strathcona Legion Mondays: social euchre at

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Friday dinner at 5:30 p.m. with entertainment at 7 p.m. (small cover). Tables available for $20. Call the branch at 613-236-1575 for more information on these events.

Ottawa Newcomers Club is designed to help women new to Ottawa or in a new life situation acclimatize by enjoying the company of other women with similar interests.

We have morning, afternoon and evening events such as skiing, Scrabble, bridge, fun lunches, book clubs, gallery tours, dinner club, and crafts.

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The Gloucester South Seniors meet at 4550 Bank St., Leitrim for a full schedule of activities every week including contract bridge, carpet bowling, euchre, five hundred, shuffleboard and chess.

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by OC Transpo Route 144 and it offers free parking. For more information call 613821-0414.

Old Time Fiddle and Country Dance at the Greely Community Centre, 1448 Meadow Dr., Greely. First Friday of every month. 7:30 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. $5/person at the door or yearly memberships available. No charge for participating musicians and singers. Join us for a good time.

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p.m. for a free womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fitness class with a certified fitness instructor. Includes a five-minute inspirational fit tip. Any questions? Contact the church office at 613-2388182.

For 50-plus: Social and line dancing, superb music and friendly ambiance. Every second Saturday at 8 p.m.

Cercle Amicale Tremblay, 164 Jeanne-Mance St., Ottawa. (Pauline Charron Hall).

For info call 613-830-2428 or 819-246-5128.

50+ Exercise Class: Please join us each Tuesday and Thursday, 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. at Rideau Park United Church, 2203 Alta Vista Dr. (at Cunningham). An hour of gentle, yet thorough movement is offered twice weekly to women and men until the end of February. The fee is $30 and should accompany the registration at the first class.

For more information, call the church office (M-F, 9-4) at 613-733-3156 ext. 229.

Mondays: Improve your Spanish speaking skills with Los Amigos Toastmasters.

The group meets at Tunneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Pasture every Monday from 4:55 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. For more information, contact Carole at 613-761-6537 or email lucani@sympatico.ca.

Conversational Spanish classes meet at the Civic Hospital, Main Building, Main Floor, Room, Room 3, at the back of the cafeteria â&#x20AC;&#x153;Tulip CafĂŠâ&#x20AC;?, from 5:15 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. For more information, please visit www. amigos-tm.ca.

Friday afternoons: Senior bowlers required for Friday afternoons, VIP Bowling League, Walkley Bowling Centre. The objective of the VIP Seniorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Mixed 5 Pin Bowling League is to encourage senior citizens, age 55 plus to participate in an activity that provides regular moderate exercise, requires no special athletic ability and to foster fellowship, goodwill and an opportunity to make new friends. Members range in age from 55 to plus 90.

There is no registration fee and the weekly bowling fee is $13. Bowling takes place Friday afternoons, 1 p.m. to 3 p.m., Sept. 1 to mid May at the Walkley Bowling Centre, 2092 Walkley Road.

Participants are placed on mixed four person teams.

To register, phone Roy or Jean, 613-731-6526 or e-mail royhoban@rogers.com.

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*O.A.C. with The Brick Card Platinum account (the Account). Minimum Purchase (excluding taxes) of $250 is required. No interest accrues during the Promotional Period. Any Brick delivery charges, GST (5%), PST or HST (if applicable), Merchant Fee (not applicable in Quebec) and other fees or charges that apply to your Purchase (e.g. environmental fees) are required by The Brick to be paid at the time of the Purchase. Any fees or charges financed on your Account, including the Merchant Fee, will form part of your Purchase under the Promotional Offer (the Offer) and for the 18 Months No Payment, No Interest Offer, will not be required to be paid during the Promotional Period. If the minimum payment on the Account during the Promotional Period is not made, the Offer will end and the annual interest rate (“Preferred Rate”) of 29.9% will then apply on any unpaid balance owing under the Offer at that time until it is paid in full. 18 Months, No Payment, No Interest: Merchant Fee is $129.95. No interest accrues and no payments are required towards the Purchase during the Promotional Period. If the balance of the Offer has not been paid in full by the Promotional Due Date, the unpaid balance owing under this Offer will be converted to a Regular Credit Purchase, and the Preferred Rate (29.9%) will apply after the end of the Promotional Period to that Regular Credit Purchase and a Deferral Fee of $42.50 (not applicable in Quebec) will be charged. Minimum monthly payments will also then apply, calculated as set out in the Cardholder Agreement and Disclosure Statement for your Account. Details for a Sample Transaction on your Credit Card Product for the 18 Months, No Payment, No Interest Promotion: Sample Purchase amount (including taxes): $2000.00, Merchant Fee $129.95, and interest charges $0.00. Total interest charges & Merchant Fee: $129.95. Total Purchase Amount (including interest charges, Merchant Fee and taxes): $2,129.95. Balance due September 2015, thereafter minimum monthly payments of the greater of 3.5% of your outstanding balance of your Purchases or $10, are due. A Deferral Fee of $42.50 (not applicable in Quebec) is charged and the Preferred Rate (29.9%) applies to the outstanding balance owing under this Offer. Annual Fee (Quebec Only): A $35.00 Annual Fee applies on the Primary Card ($0 each Authorized User Card). For this “No Payment, No Interest” Offer, the Annual Fee will be charged to the Account during the Promotional Period but is not payable until the first statement period after this Offer ends. An Account Statement will be provided monthly and cover a billing period (statement period) of 28-33 days. In Quebec, a 25 day grace period applies to the Balance, and outside Quebec, a 25-day grace period applies to any Purchase that appears on your statement for the first time. The balance under this Offer may be paid at any time before the Promotional Period ends. See your Cardholder Agreement for more information about the Offer including the fees and charges that apply. ‡Product may vary by location and may not be exactly as illustrated. We reserve the right to limit quantities by store and per purchase. To receive bonus offer or discount, complete package must be purchased and kept. +This offer cannot be combined with any other discount or free gift purchase, sale, or other promotion, unless otherwise specified. Δ Excludes discounted, clearance, “Hot Buy” deals, promoted offers, and iComfort.

Minimum mattress set purchase $799.00. ++An Electronic Recycling Surcharge will be added where applicable. Receive an amount equal to the price of the extended warranty towards your next furniture or mattress purchase. Product and service availability, pricing and selection and promotional offers may vary by store. For terms and conditions visit www.thebrick.com. See in store for complete details. Offer effective March 16 - April 2, 2014, unless otherwise indicated.

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The guest stay program at Bridlewood is designed for individuals requiring short-term accommodation for respite, recovery, or as a trial stay to see if Bridlewood is the right option for you.

Guest Stay starting at $69/day Call us to book your personal visit or for more information!

The guest stay rate is $69.00/day and services can include: assistance with daily living activities such as dressing, hygiene, bathing, access to an integrated and supportive health care team, fully furnished suites ready for move-in, access to all on-site social activities and recreation programs, laundry, housekeeping, medication assistance/support, chapel/ religions services, and availability of customized special care needs.

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Every Tuesday & Thursday • 9:00 ~ 10:00 AM Bridlewood offers a Balance and Wellness class held by Family Physio.

This class is complementary to the community. If you have any questions you may call Bridlewood at 613-521-1977.

April 12th • 1:30 ~ 3:30 PM Join us for an afternoon of Black and White movies, wine tasting, and appetizers.

May 22 • 11:30 ~ 1:30 PM Join us for an afternoon BBQ in support of the Canadian Cancer Society.

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