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News - A last-minute amendment to the public school board’s capital priorities list on Oct. 22 moved a new elementary school in the Barrhaven suburb of Half Moon Bay to the top spot.

Ryan Knuth, director of public relations for the Half Moon Bay Community Association said residents are thrilled and surprised by the vote.

“I spoke with trustee Donna Blackburn before the meeting and we were hoping that was going to be the outcome,” he said. “But I had made cases in front of the board before, so I knew it could go either way.”

Knuth said the suburb currently has more than 3,000 homes, and based on approved developments it will have almost double that by 2016.

Knuth said students are currently attending Barrhaven Public School, Jockvale Elementary and Cedarview Middle School.

“I would say students are being transported six to eight kilometres each way for school,” Knuth said.

Blackburn’s amendment asked the board to move those schools that haven’t had board approved accommodation reviews further down the wish list.

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Singing for a cure For the seventh year in a row, local singer-songwriters gather for Babes4Breasts, a fundraiser for the Ottawa Regional Cancer Foundation’s music therapy program and the Maplesoft Centre for Cancer Survivorship Care. The concert took place at Southminster United Church on Oct. 24 and featured local artists Amanda Rheaume, Matthew Barber, James Keelaghan, Ana Miura and Lyndell Montgomery.

Unique cemetery within a park Claudette Cain Park home to 19th-century graves Sabine Gibbins sabine.gibbins@metroland.com

Community - On any day of the week, Claudette Cain Park is quiet. Few souls are about.

The city-owned park, located on River Road in Riverside South, is nestled along the banks of the Rideau River, next to the future Strandherd-Armstrong Bridge.

There are soccer fields, a splash pad and even a baseball diamond, and is a

popular site for community events, such as Canada Day. But Claudette Cain Park has a special factor which separates it from many other parks in the city.

It has a cemetery.

The small cemetery, protected by a iron fence, is a private one which dates back to the 19th century.

According to the City of Ottawa Archives, the land was once owned by the Moodie family. Their home also housed the post office, circa 1870-1900. As time went on, the house and property were sold to their next door neighbour, Arthur Caldwell, and the post office moved to another location.

As Gloucester-South Nepean Coun.

Steve Desroches explains, it was not uncommon for families to build a family plot on their land in those days.

What’s unique about this cemetery is the fact it could be the only one located in a city park, he said. The only other one he could think of is at Billing’s Estate.

“It’s quite an oddity that we have a cemetery located right in a city park in the ward,” he said.

“To have a quiet, century-old cemetery right in the vicinity of a rapid-paced community, nestled in a beautiful spot on the banks of the Rideau River is special.”

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The 11th-hour change moved a new school for Avalon, a suburb in Orléans, from the top spot to number seven. It also bumps a new school for Findlay Creek from fifth to eighth.

Blackburn said without a boardapproved study of adjacent school space it wasn’t responsible to put the east-end school ahead of other projects.

“There are 100 spots at Henry Larsen (Public School) that could accommodate some of the overflow,” she said, adding all parts of the city should be studied before priorities are set.

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Chapman Mills Public School was opened in September to handle excess students from Farley Mowat and Barrhaven public schools. The board did an accommodation review in 2011 and redistributed students to ease crowding. At the time Farley Mowat and Barrhaven public had 17 and 19 portables respectively.

It was Blackburn’s second kick at the can.

She proposed a similar motion at the Oct. 1 committee of the whole meeting that put forward a list of schools that had accommodation reviews or “similar studies” completed. It was defeated.

“I think the spirit of the motion got lost in that discussion,” she said, adding she simply wanted to ensure the board followed a process when choosing priorities for the wish list set to go to the Ministry of Education on Oct. 31.

Orléans and Cumberland trustee John Shea said the amendment left him speechless.

“I thought we had closed this issue at committee of the whole,” he said, calling the last-minute move unfair.

“It’s not transparent,” he said. “We had a list that we had developed with the criteria staff had chosen. Then we completely changed that with no notice to the public. No one from Orléans or Findlay Creek was present.”

Shea scoffed at the suggestion that Orléans students could be moved around to accommodate the overflow at Avalon Public School.

“There has been some decline in enrolment in other parts of Orléans, but people forget it’s quite large – 110,000 people – bigger than Barrhaven or Kanata,” he said. “I can get to Embrun during the rush hour in the morning faster than I can get to parts of Orléans that are north of the (highway) 174.”

Six trustees voted in favour of the amendment, five opposed and one abstained, Shea said.

“It was the thinnest of margins possible,” he said, adding he hopes the ministry takes the business case for a new Avalon school into consideration.

“Hopefully they’ll see it is the board’s first capital priority despite

what happened last night,” he said.

Mark Fisher, trustee for much of south Ottawa, said only looking at accommodation reviews to compile the list doesn’t take into account other factors that can make projects a priority.

“Staff have dozens of criteria they look at,” he said. “Pressures of full day kindergarten, class sizes and location are just a few. By limiting the list to accommodation reviews, we only have a very narrow view.”

While Fisher said he supports a new school in Half Moon Bay, he said he didn’t like politicking to get it farther up the list.

“As far as I am concerned all the projects are number one and they all have strong business cases,” he said.

“But it’s hard for me to tell residents to trust in the process when things like this happen.”

A new school in Findlay Creek is sorely needed, he said, adding the Department of National will not renew the lease beyond 2017. While the new list allows for staff to draft a special letter in support of a Findlay Creek that will be circulated to Ottawa area MPPs, Fisher said it’s tough to explain to his constituents why the project dropped three spots on the list for no apparent reason.

“A new school for Avalon and Findlay Creek have been on the list since 2006,” he said. “It’s unfortunate this process pits one community against another, which is why I supported simply moving the projects that hadn’t received money from the last round of funding to a new list.”

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Fisher added the site for a new school in Findlay Creek has already paid for and has servicing. The board voted in favour of purchasing land in Half Moon Bay the same night it was put to the top of the list.

But Blackburn said she remembered calls for following the accommodation review process when the board was faced with the decision to either renovate or rebuild Broadview Public School.

“Barrhaven has done its fair share in terms of accommodating growth pressures,” she said.

The amended list of priorities will be presented to the Ministry of the Education at the end of the month for funding.

The new list in order of priority: • New school for Half Moon Bay 13.65 million • Broadview Avenue Public School rebuild $17.8 million • West Carleton Secondary School addition $6.4 million • New Stittsville secondary school $36.1 million • A.Y. Jackson Secondary School addition $6.4 million • Viscount Alexander Public School addition $2.43 million • New Avalon II elementary school $13.65 million • New Findlay Creek elementary school $13.65 million.

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Luckily, the cemetery has always been free from vandalism, too, he added.

“The community has been so good and respectful to the cemetery,” Desroches said.

“The park and cemetery are now maintained by the city, and the community continues to respect it. The park can become very active with soccer games, and the population of the park has grown over time.”

It seems, too, that the souls buried there mind their own business as well.

“I haven’t heard of any of ghost stories,” said Desroches.

THE GRAVES

The cemetery, which carries the unofficial name of Moodie Cemetery has five tombstones.

The larger gravestone bears the name of James Moodie, who was born in 1813 and died on Nov. 5, 1873.

An inscription reads: “A faithful friend a husband dear, a tender parent lieth here, great is the loss we here sustain, but hope in heaven to meet again.”

His name appears on another smaller gravestone which clearly shows the effects of the changing weather conditions.

Moodie’s wife, Christina, is also on the gravestone. She passed away May 18, 1901 at the age of 75.

Another gravestone reads Thomas Moodie, who died on Dec. 25, 1904 at the age of 59. It’s not known what his relation is to James Moodie.

His wife Grace Drysdale is also on the marker. She died on April 19, 1926 at the age of 74.

Thomas Moodie’s and Grace Drysdale’s names share a spot on one side of the larger gravestone

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Coun. Steve Desroches poses in the cemetery, which dates back to the 19th century and was built originally as a family plot. The cemetery is located in Claudette Cain Park in Riverside South, and could be one of the few parks in the city which has a cemetery. that James and Christina Moodie’s are on.

Other smaller gravestone include the names Thomas Hawkins who

died on March 20, 1889, who was 11 years old; John James Nixon, who died on July 30, 1891 and was nine years old; Alice Nixon, who

died on Jan. 6, 1880, and was only one year old.

Another gravestone simply reads “William, son of Wm. and Margaret

Nixon”.

This stone appears to be broken and the bottom portion of it was replaced at some point.

Homes for the Holidays just around the corner!

by Robert Greenslade The eleventh annual Homes for the Holidays tour on November 15, 16 and 17, is only days away and anticipation is building for this very special event. The tour, now its eleventh year, supports end-of-life care programs offered by Hospice Care Ottawa, including those at the May Court Hospice.

“Homes for the Holidays will help us improve hospice services in Ottawa and reach our goal of increasing the number of area beds,” noted Lisa Sullivan, Executive Director of Hospice Care Ottawa. The tour is open daily from 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. and features six outstanding homes in the neighbourhoods of Rockcliffe Park, Rothwell Heights, the Glebe, Old Ottawa South and Island Park Drive.

Prominent area florists and designers will volunteer their decorating skills to the homes: three reflecting a specific seasonal theme (Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and New Year’s Day) and three highlighting the festive spirit of the holidays. For example,104 Black Maple Private features a “Very Special Christmas Eve”. This home is one of a collection of six elegant residences on the street. Mood Moss Florist and Jacobsons Gourmet Concepts combine their decorating talents to this home.

Another Rockcliffe Park home, the residence of the Swiss Ambassador to Canada (494 Lansdowne Road North), is a stately French Château-style home, decorated for the tour

by Tivoli Florist. This house was acquired by the Government of Switzerland in 1948 and enjoys frontage on picturesque McKay Lake.

Striking 13 Massey Lane in Rothwell Heights is decorated by Stoneblossom Floral Gallery. The home features mature trees and is notable for its cedar shingles, copper roof accents and front canopy.

A “Christmas Morning Wonder” (Tinseltown offers the Christmas decorative magic here) awaits visitors to 8 Thornton Avenue, just steps from bustling Bank Street. It’s interesting to note that the homeowner and her father worked closely to design the exterior and interior of this sun-drenched home.

A relatively new home, designed by Barry Hobin and decorated by Mill Street Florist, 900 Colonel By Drive’s stucco and stone exterior gives way to a light and airy interior and preserves ties to its past by retaining the property’s 150-year-old stone wall.

And visitors will not want to miss 512 Island Park Drive, decorated by Michael Courdin Design, for the “New Year’s Eve Celebration”! This contemporary home features many windows which give the house a strong connection to the outdoors.

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Centretown elects pro-development president Laura Mueller laura.mueller@metroland.com

News - The Centretown Citizens Community Association breathed a sigh of relief when not one, but two candidates for president presented themselves on the floor of the group’s annual general meeting Oct. 22.

After going into the meeting without the prospect of a leader, Tom McVeigh was elected as president, setting the association on a more pro-development course.

“One problem people sometimes have with me is I’m a little more of a proponent of development,” McVeigh told the crowd of approximately 60 members who gathered to vote by secret ballot.

He went on to explain that once rules for development are set in stone through something like the Centretown community design plan, the community association should do everything it can to advocate for developers to pay for as many community benefits as possible.

“The things we love are paid for by the things we hate,” McVeigh said. “That’s where I support development. When it’s done right, it can help us.”

Things like parks or small parkettes are most likely to be built in Centretown with the aid of money from developers, so the community should work to ensure it gets something out of the development boom, McVeigh said – as long as the developments are well planned and follow the city’s guidelines.

McVeigh’s election furthers the association’s warming attitude towards developers. Last year, after acknowledging that both the association and a group

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Tom McVeigh, left, was elected as president of the Centretown Citizens Community Association after he and Peter Thorn, right, put their names forward during the group’s annual general meeting at the McNabb Community Centre on Oct. 22. of local developers shared concerns about the city’s ideas for the community design plan, the association’s board and developers joined forces to jointly propose an alternate plan. That move didn’t sit well with some members of the association and a couple hundred people packed a church hall to discuss it.

Although his personal views may conflict with others in the association and on the board from time to time, McVeigh said, his job will be to strive for consensus and then represent the views of the board, even if he may not share them.

McVeigh has lived in a building he owns in west Centretown since 1997. Living with a young

child, another on the way and his elderly mother in a building with both residential and commercial tenants, McVeigh said he has a good grasp on some of the dominant issues in the community. Fighting for resources for the ever-increasing number of families and children coming back to Centretown, not to mention seniors, is im-

portant to him, he said.

Aside from being a property owner, McVeigh said he doesn’t have any other conflicting financial interests; he works as a restaurant manager at the Wellington West eatery Absinthe.

McVeigh was one of two candidates to present themselves on the floor of the meeting after several months of the board seeking a potential presidential candidate to replace Jordan Charbonneau, who held that role for two years. Peter Thorn, who was later elected to the CCCA board instead, put his name forward because he said the association should have a choice in the election.

During the annual general meeting, the association also voted to alter a number of bylaws and heard from two speakers, including Christine Leadman, the new executive director of the Bank Street Business Improvement Area. The BIA plans to expand its southern boundary from Gladstone Avenue to Catherine Street, which was met with cheers from the crowd.

Elizabeth Kristjansson, lead researcher for the Ottawa Neighbourhood Study, presented local data about the neighbourhood and invited the association to make use of the new website, neighbourhoodstudy.ca.

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Sports - Metcalfe’s ringette community helped its favourite sport a mark half century of success on Oct. 22.

Ringette Canada brought its 30-day, 15-city road show to the village as part of its ongoing celebration of ringette’s 50th anniversary. The evening was a partnership with the Metcalfe and District Ringette Association, and included a free skate with two Ringette Canada mascots, a skill-building session with National Ringette League players and a game between the Ottawa Ice and Gloucester Devils NRL teams.

Ringette Canada’s sport development manager Frances Losier said the road show is a way to promote awareness of the sport while giving strong ringette communities across Canada a chance to celebrate. “We were looking for places

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Since then, ringette associations have popped up across the country and the sport has become a popular activity for young girls.

On Oct. 22, young ringette players got a chance to see just how far ringette can take you, as several members of the Gloucester Devils and Ottawa Ice led skill-building drills and games on the ice. The national-level players had the girls sprinting up and down the ice, stopping at the blue line and taking shots on net.

Later, the two teams faced off in an elite-level game in the arena.

Metcalfe association president Paul Charbonneau said the celebrations coincide with his associationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 40th anniversary, which just added an extra level of excitement to the festivities.

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f for no other reason, Ottawaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s city council should be applauded for bringing a muchneeded dose of stability to an otherwise messy political scene with its 2014 draft budget tabled last week.

Amid the gusting winds of a Senate scandal on Parliament Hill and the simmering gas plant saga surrounding the minority Liberals at Queenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Park, voters in this city should be thankful that, at a minimum, there is stability on Laurier Avenue.

For the fourth year running, the council led by Mayor Jim Watson has presented a budget that has managed to keep the accompanying property tax hike below 2.5 per cent (the hike will be a mere 1.9 per cent in 2014 if the plan passes). That is no easy feat, especially considering the wide-ranging scope of infrastructure and transportation-related projects either underway or being planned across the city.

But with an election only a year away, what is in store for Ottawans when the bills start arriving for the grand vision that is the transportation master plan (also in draft form currently) and things like Canadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 150th birthday celebration? Will modest tax increases still be a viable option when itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time to fund rail to OrlĂŠans (and Riverside South, Algonquin College and Bayshore)?

The sesquicentennial is something that shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be underestimated in the years to come: yes the federal and provincial governments will pick up much of the tab, but the temptation will be strong for municipal politicians to make their mark when the country celebrates a century and a half of Confederation.

And what of political ambition? Next October voters head back to the polls to pass judgement on this council and those seeking to supplant the current class of civic leaders. Will fiscal prudence be enough to sway the hearts and minds of Ottawa? Or will a new, more expensive vision win the day?

New parks, community centres, libraries, arenas, baseball diamonds, soccer fields and cycling lanes are things that many people want, yet are often told the city canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t afford. Who is to say voters couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be sold on an extra one per cent on their tax bill in exchange for such civic improvements.

The next election will doubtlessly be a referendum on Watson, especially his tight control over the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s purse strings. This doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t mean he wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t change his tune by the time election season gets underway late next summer, but it would be surprising if he did.

In the meantime, residents should rest easy knowing scandal and chaos are nowhere to be found at city hall â&#x20AC;&#x201C; just business as usual.

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tâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a rather abstract concept for city planners and city councils to think about, but one of the biggest threats to any city, including ours, is the curse of sameness.

Sameness has the power of the economic system behind it, not to mention certain cultural forces as well.

To illustrate, look at a recent headline in the Globe and Mail: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Put away your souâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;wester. Chic is the new norm in Newfoundlandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s big city â&#x20AC;&#x201C; so are espresso bars and restaurants with a refined culinary focus.â&#x20AC;?

Inside, the article begins: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ten years go, it was impossible to get a decent cup of coffee in downtown St. Johnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s.â&#x20AC;? But, the article cheerfully goes on, oil-driven economic prosperity has changed all that: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard to walk for a block on Water Street, the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s main drag, without hitting a slick cafĂŠ.â&#x20AC;?

Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll note the sense of relief here, in that â&#x20AC;&#x153;all across the city, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a newfound sense of urban cosmopolitanism that seems to have everyone a bit gobsmacked.â&#x20AC;?

In other words, St. Johnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s could be becoming more like Toronto. Is that good? Perhaps it is if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re from another place and your priority is finding a cup of coffee. But not so

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CHARLES GORDON Funny Town much if you live there and want your town to keep its identity. And not so much if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re from another town and want to see a place thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s different from the one you came from.

Sameness is not an overnight thing. It has been creeping in for decades, beginning in the suburbs and working its way downtown.

I remember visiting St. Johnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 25 years ago and walking around a mall looking for something Newfoundlandesque to bring home as a present. I couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t find anything. Everything in that mall I could have found at Bayshore.

But then, malls do that. Generally speaking, the stores in them are part of national or continental chains. The merchandise comes from elsewhere.

Although many city cores, including, actually, St. Johnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, retain their distinctiveness,

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the suburban sameness trend has intensified in the past 25 years, propelled by the big box store and the power centre. If you went to, say, the Centrum in Kanata, you could just as easily be in a suburb of Birmingham, Alabama as in a suburb of Ottawa, Ontario.

There is probably no fighting this. Free trade, globalization â&#x20AC;&#x201C; all todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s economic forces push it. It doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t help that we, the consumers, are doing some pushing of our own, demanding the same products, the same services, the same slick cafĂŠs that are available elsewhere.

We also want all the same television shows and with them, we see the same advertisements for the same products that are seen everywhere else.

Given all that, it is a wonder that anything distinctive survives anywhere. Still, it is an incentive to protect what we can of the things that separate one community from another.

There is more to city life than slick cafĂŠs.

At the very least we can make our slick cafĂŠs different from other citiesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; slick cafĂŠs.

It comes down to protecting and encouraging local owners. How this is to be done is not easy to figure out or someone would have figured it out by now. We sort of know what not to do. We know not to say yes to every

developer who wants to put a condo where a theatre was. But we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know where to find the courage to say it.

We know not to let commercial rents rise so high that only chains can afford to pay them. But again, we havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t found a way to do that.

We know we should be encouraging local shoppers to shop local, but again, how do we do that, particularly when the chains are selling stuff cheaper?

A good start would be at least to recognize what is unique about the city and recognize that it is worth keeping.

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verybody’s hating Sen. Mike Duffy these days.

Maclean’s magazine wrote a scathing profile of Duffy’s rise in broadcasting. We learned all about what a horrible person Duffy was, about his near lifelong ambition to be appointed to the Senate. We learned he allegedly manipulated and threatened his way to the top of CTV, demanding hundreds of thousands of dollars in compensation, plus wardrobe allowance; that he hired and fired producers at whim.

Assuming the Maclean’s feature is true, however, it tells us more “news” about CTV, the institution, than it does about Duffy. It was the institution that allowed Duffy to be – it was the institution and its executives that promoted him, supported his quirky demands (such as calling him “the senator”) and fostered Duffy’s sense of entitlement.

Then along comes Prime Minister Harper and makes Duffy’s dream come true.

Harper appoints Duffy to the Senate, representing Prince Edward Island. Nobody seemed to care at the time that Duffy hadn’t lived on P.E.I. for decades. Everyone believed in his happy persona and they were delighted to have him.

And Duffy went on to travel the country, raking in tens of thousands of dollars at fundraising dinners for the Conservative Party, attracting the attention of local media (free advertising) wherever he went.

Some national publications – notably Maclean’s – started sniffing around senator expense claims. They found out Duffy was spending nearly twice as much as some of his colleagues.

Initially the journalists were told to go away and Duffy was staunchly defended by his Conservative colleagues on the Hill, including Prime Minister Harper, himself.

It was around that time that Duffy – so the story goes – outlived his usefulness to the Conservatives.

At first they protected him.

But after too much bad media, the Conservatives did what they’ve done to so many innocent Hill staffers and Prime Minister’s Office

Then along comes Prime Minister Harper and makes Duffy’s dream come true

officials over the past seven years – including former chief of staff Nigel Wright – they threw Duffy under the bus.

At least, they tried. But Duffy was too big to get stuck under there – not physically, but figuratively speaking. As the media trial of Duffy escalated, the wily senator was hiring himself a lawyer and preparing to do what he’s always done best – spill the beans, get the gossip, tell the truth that’s whispered in the limestone

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halls of Centre Block, away from the microphones and the cameras.

Duffy announced to the Senate this month that Harper – the prime minister, himself – not only knew about the expense claims, but ordered Duffy to pay them back. The deed is done – the prime minister is directly implicated in all the shady dealings.

Perhaps Duffy is having his comeuppance. But at the same time, let’s not cloud the real problem – something even Harper used to believe: the Senate is a sick institution.

Deloitte, the firm hired to audit Senate expenses, essentially said senators may have made some questionable claims, but the Senate makes its own rules and it allowed the claims to go through.

Duffy may be the morally corrupt, ruthlessly ambitious individual the media has painted him to be, but there is no doubt he has been made a scapegoat for a much larger problem. There is a systemic sickness that needs to be addressed. The Senate is a place of entitlement where many, long before Duffy and the others now under the spotlight, have been permitted to spend taxpayer money without scrutiny. And if Duffy’s allegations of the prime minister’s direct involvement are true, it would seem the fish is rotting from the head.

The City of Ottawa has prepared an Environmental Management Plan (EMP) to support the Community Design Plan for Phase 2 of the East Urban Community. The EMP identifies the stormwater management solution for the study area, which is bounded by Renaud Road to the north, the CPR railway tracks to the south, Mer Bleue Road to the east and Phase 1 of the East Urban Community to the west.

The Environmental Management Plan has been completed as a Master Plan under the Municipal Class Environmental Assessment (EA) process. The Master Plan identifies the stormwater management infrastructure requirements for future development in the study area. This notice serves as a Notice of Completion for the following projects: stormwater management pond (Schedule B); and diversion of drainage between watersheds (Schedule C).

The East Urban Community (Phase 2) EMP report details the study process, findings and recommendations. Consultation for the EMP has included technical advisory committee meetings and public open houses as part of the class environmental assessment process and is documented in the report. The public is invited to review the EMP at the following locations: Ottawa Public Library - Main Branch 3rd Floor (Ottawa Room) 120 Metcalfe Street Ottawa, ON K1P 5M2 Tel.: (613) 580-2945

Ottawa Public Library – Orléans Branch 1705 Orléans Boulevard Ottawa, ON K1C 4W2 Tel. (613) 824-1962

City Hall Client Service Centre 110 Laurier Avenue West Ottawa, ON K1P 1J1 Tel. (613) 580-2400

Orléans Client Service Centre 255 Centrum Boulevard Ottawa, ON K1E 3V8 Tel. (613) 580-2400

For further information, or to provide written comments, please contact: Amy MacPherson City of Ottawa Planning and Growth Management Department 110 Laurier Avenue West Ottawa, ON K1P 1J1 Phone: (613) 580-2424, ext. 14873 Fax: 613-580-2459 E-mail: amy.macpherson@ottawa.ca Written comments must be provided within thirty calendar days from the date of the first issuance of this Notice. If concerns regarding the project cannot be resolved through discussion with the City, a person may request that the Minister of the Environment make an order for the project to comply with Part II of the Environmental Assessment Act (referred to as a Part II Order) which addresses individual environmental assessments. Requests must be received by the Minister at the address below by November 25, 2013. A copy of the request must also be sent to the City of Ottawa Project Manager, Amy MacPherson. With the exception of personal information, all comments will become part of the public record.

The Honourable Jim Bradley Minister of the Environment 77 Wellesley Street West 11th Floor, Ferguson Block Toronto, ON M7A 2T5 Phone: (416) 314-6790 Fax: (416) 314-6748 E-mail: minister.moe@ontario.ca This notice first issued October 24, 2013.

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NOTICE OF COMPLETION Municipal Class Environmental Assessment (MCEA) Carp Snow Disposal Facility Background In January 2012, the City of Ottawa initiated a study to establish a new snow disposal facility in the City’s west end. The City’s strategic snow disposal plan (2002) had identified the need to provide for 308,000 m3 of disposal capacity within one or more snow disposal facilities in the west end. This MCEA study was conducted as a Schedule B project in accordance with the requirements of the Municipal Class Environmental Assessment, as amended 2011, an approved process under the Environmental Assessment Act. The Process Public Open House (POH#1) was held in February 2013 to present the problem definition. Public Open House # 2 was held August 6th 2013 to present the results of the various site investigations undertaken during 2012/2013 to characterize the site and the environment; identify the alternative designs and mitigative measures being evaluated; and describe the recommended preferred design/solution. Both POHs were held at the Goulbourn Municipal Building Council Chambers at 2135 Huntley Road, Ottawa ON. Information presented at the POHs is available on the City of Ottawa website (see below for link).

The recommended solution involves the development of a snow disposal facility (SDF) on a 23.4ha property located at civic address 2125 Carp Road that can accommodate approximately 350,000 m3 of snow collected from Kanata and nearby areas. The SDF development will include a 1-2ha meltwater pond to treat the runoff from the snow melt and a 4-5ha stormwater pond to treat storm water from on-site and off-site sources. Several mitigative measures have been proposed to minimize impacts from the SDF development and include a right-turn deceleration lane along Westbrook road, improving drainage beneath Westbrook Road, construction of a berm along the east property limit to mitigate noise, landscaping along the east and north limits for visual screening, and a liner beneath the meltwater pond and its outlet to protect groundwater quality.

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Rainy day reading Saturday was perfect book weather, and no one had better selection of reads than Pleasant Park Public School. The school, in partnership with Hawthorne Public School, held its eighth annual used book sale on Oct. 26, with books collected over the course of the summer from parents and community members. Money raised goes to fund the purchase of non-essential school supplies, like sports equipment and classroom electronics.

From left, Hawthorne school council member Laurel Sherrer is seen with Pleasant Park parent council members Crystal Orlik-Dunnet, Andrea Thomson and Anne Gardner.

Comments received from the POHs and from the agency circulation, the public and other participants have been incorporated into the final report. All comments received were collected in accordance with the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act and the Environmental Assessment Act, and have become part of the public record.

Property for sale Lot for residential development 9 Leeming Drive – Crystal Beach area

The final report is available for public review at the following locations: http://ottawa.ca/en/carp-snow-disposal-facility-0 City of Ottawa Client Service Centre 110 Laurier Avenue West Ottawa, K1P 1J1

The Ottawa Community Lands Development Corporation (OCLDC), a municipal corporation, is selling a development property at 9 Leeming Drive on behalf of the City of Ottawa. The property is located on the east side of Leeming Drive just east of Crystal Beach Drive and abuts Maki Park.

Ottawa Public Library, Stittsville Branch, 1637 Stittsville Main Ottawa ON K2S 1A9 (telephone 613-836-3381 for hours) This project is being planned in accordance with Schedule B of the Municipal Engineers Association Municipal Class Environmental Assessment (2011). If concerns arise regarding this project, which cannot be resolved in discussion with the municipality, a person or party may request that the Minister of the Environment make an order for the project to comply with Part II of the Environmental Assessment Act (referred to as a Part II Order), which addresses individual environmental assessments. Requests must be received by the Minister at the address below within 30 calendar days of the first publication of this Notice. A copy of the request must also be sent to the City contact below. If there is no request received within the designated time (no later than November 24th, 2013), the City will proceed to detailed design and construction.

Minister of the Environment Ministry of the Environment 77 Wellesley Street West 11th Floor, Ferguson Block Toronto, ON M7A 2T5

Carolyn Newcombe, Project Manager City of Ottawa 100 Constellation Crescent, 6th Floor Ottawa, ON K2G 6J8 Phone: 613-580-2424 ext. 28230 Fax: 613-580-2587 Email: Carolyn.Newcombe@ottawa.ca

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$2,200,000.00 plus HST

Offers must be on our standard Agreement of Purchase and Sale form, which will be provided upon request, and must be accompanied by a $50,000 certified deposit cheque made payable to the City of Ottawa and include a concept plan showing the general layout of the development and potential building elevations and a demolition plan. The sale will be subject to a development agreement and option to repurchase agreement.

For more information please visit ottawa.ca or contact Bill Hamilton (613) 580-2424 ext. 26977 Email: William.Hamilton@ottawa.ca

This first Notice was published October 24th, 2013.

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News - Homeowners in Ottawa’s rural area will see an average of an extra $55 on their city tax bill in 2014.

That 1.9 per cent increase – the smallest municipal tax-rate increase in seven years – was proposed in the city’s draft budget, released on Oct. 23.

The increase for urban homeowners is slightly larger – an average of $62 extra per home.

Residential garbage fees would be held at $82 and recreation fees will continue to be frozen – a promise the mayor made during his election campaign in 2010. The mayor’s salary and councillors’ office budgets will also stay the same.

The equivalent of 55 full-time jobs would be eliminated without layoffs if the budget passes.

All of those positions were vacated by employees leaving or retiring in the last six months and the city is not keeping them open for future hires.

Next year is also when residents and businesses will see a number of key city services go online: the MyServiceOttawa online account will let people view and pay water and tax bills online, as well as apply for a number of licences and permits. A mobile app for 311 service requests is also in the works.

With a large glut of Ottawa on the Move road and sewer construction projects as well as the first phase of light rail out of the way, the city isn’t planning many large new construction projects, so the city won’t have to take on any additional debt in 2014, Mayor Jim Watson said. The city does plan to take out new debt equivalent to the amount of debt it will retire from its books in 2014, said city treasurer Marian Simulik.

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Mayor Jim Watson speaks to the media after revealing the city’s proposed spending in the draft 2014 budget.

Kennevale Drive is also set to be studied.

The city also plans to complete a $2.7-million environmental assessment for the extension of the O-Train line to Bowesville in 2014.

Pedestrian improvements planned for the south end mainly relate to improve connections to schools, transit and parks, Cycling facilities would see $2 million in improvements in 2014, including a network of neighbourhood bike lanes for Barrhaven, according to the budget. It contains money for a new cycling transportation planning staffer.

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In the draft budget, Rideau Valley Drive would get $2.6 million for replacement of storm sewers, the road , curbs and sidewalks between Rogers Stevens and Dorack drives.

Ottawa on the Move will continue with 150 projects hitting the ground in 2014 rebuilds of Sherry Lane and Brent Avenue.

In the south end, roads to be resurfaced include: • Parkway Road • West Hunt Club Road • Antares Drive • Apple Orchard Road • Yorks Corners Road • Old Prescott Road • Albion Road • Leitrim Road • Baseline Road • Knoxdale Road The city has budgeted $1.5 million for road renewals in the Greenboro area.

Overall, the city plans to spend $45 million to resurface roads in 2014 and an additional $4 million to improve traffic flow through key intersections during rush hour, including the intersections of West Hunt Club Road at Merivale Road and at Woodroffe Avenue.

Studies for the widening of roads mentioned in the recently released draft transportation master plan – the Airport Parkway (Brookfield to the airport), Lester Road, Earl Armstrong Road and Chapman Mills Drive – are also proposed to be done in 2014 for $2 million. The widening of Strandherd Drive from Fallowfield Road to

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As communities in the south end continue to grow, a slew of new parks and rec centres are set to be built: • The completion of the Minto Recreation Complex in Barrhaven • Greely Village Centre Park • Water Dragon Park • Fraser Fields Park • Leitrim East Neighbourhood Park • Boothfield Park • Citiplace Park 2 • Creekview Park • Fraser Fields Linear Park • Summerhill Park Overall the city plans to spend $2 million to improve accessibility in its parks and buildings, including the Inverness Community Centre.

Six libraries, including Greely and Greenboro will get technology upgrades to use radiofrequency identification tracking for materials.

For libraries, the city is planning to permanently increase its annual budget for e-books by $50,000.

Monday, November 4 Special Meeting – Transit Commission 10 a.m., Andrew S. Haydon Hall

Thursday, November 7 Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee 9:30 a.m., Champlain Room,

Tuesday, November 5 Finance and Economic Development Committee 9:30 a.m., Champlain Room

Friday, November 8 Planning Committee – Special Meeting 9:30 a.m., Andrew S. Haydon Hall

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There is one remaining public consultation at which residents can ask questions and share thoughts on the draft budgets: Thursday, Nov.7 at council chambers in city hall, 110 Laurier Ave. W. from 7 to 9 p.m.

Feedback on the draft budget can also be emailed to budget2014@ottawa.ca or your city councillor, or you can tweet feedback by tagging #ottbudget on Twitter.

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News - On Nov. 1, Ontario energy consumers will face an occurrence that’s become the commonplace and expected – another hike in the cost of electricity.

This represents a roughly 21 per cent increase over average rates from the same time three years ago, and a 63 per cent increase from five years ago, according to figures from the Ontario Energy Board.

Following a similar bump in April, the new figures bring the cost of electricity to 7.2 cents per kilowatt hour during off-peak times, 10.9 cents/kWh for mid-peak, and 12.9 cents/kWh for on-peak usage.

Take a walk down an urban or suburban street in Ottawa at 10 or 11 at night and the fresh scent of clothes drying will often waft across the sidewalk as residents looking to lower their bills use high-consumption devices like clothes driers in off-peak times. Despite this conservation effort – one pushed aggressively by the Ontario government – off-peak rates are rising faster than on-peak rates, meaning residents pay ever more despite changing their lifestyles in order to conserve energy and save money.

The same outcome applies to other efforts that have higher buy-ins, such as ditching a home’s incandescent bulbs in favour of compact fluorescent lightbulbs or replacing old appliances with newer, high efficiency ones. Such efforts can only go so far toward mitigating the cost to the consumer when the price of electricity is rising at such dramatic rates.

Operating mostly during peak periods, the province’s small and medium-sized businesses and larger industries face the same cost chal-

lenges, on top of the pressures of a changing marketplace. For many, temptation lies in lower-cost jurisdictions located just across Ontario’s many borders.

Later this fall, the Ontario government will update its long term energy plan – a document last updated in 2010 – to chart a course forward with the province’s energy grid. Critics of the government are saying Premier Kathleen Wynne must use this opportunity to seriously reconsider the policies and decisions made under her predecessor, Dalton McGuinty, and make an effort to mitigate the impact of skyrocketing electricity rates in the hopes of retaining businesses and rekindling investment in the province.

In addition to rising rates, the gas plant scandal that has almost consumed much of the leg-

It’s no wonder that people and businesses find it hard to pay for excessive capacity.

PETER TABUNS

islative agenda this past year has increasingly drawn the public’s attention to Ontario’s complex and often misunderstood energy grid.

“I would say the Liberals made really bad choices in the energy file,” said Peter Tabuns, NDP energy critic and MPP for Toronto-Danforth. “We’re getting hit by high prices because we have to pay profits (to energy producers) ...

It’s no wonder that people and businesses find it hard to pay for excessive capacity.”

The recent announcement that Ontario will refurbish the Darlington Nuclear Generating Station and Bruce Power nuclear plant, rather than pursue new builds pegged at more $10 billion, came with a price tag of $180 million – roughly the same amount already spent on environment approvals and project planning for the now-abandoned new nuclear facility. “(Ontario) doesn’t have the demand and couldn’t pay for it anyway,” said Tabuns, referencing projected power demand used to craft past policies – projections that have since fallen short of estimates.

“It was apparent years ago that this (proposed) plant wasn’t necessary and was not affordable, so why spend $180 million (in planning)?”

Tabuns has called for the province’s auditor general to investigate the province’s expenditures on the nuclear file.

SOLAR AND WIND

The complex green energy file – especially the investments in solar and wind energy production made under the province’s Green Energy Act – “didn’t come cheap” and “wasn’t handled well,” said Tabuns.

Solar and wind production is heavily subsidized, with contracts put in place to guarantee net revenue for producers, due to the unreliable nature of those energy sources. The Ontario Power Authority’s feed-in-tariff (FIT) and microFIT programs ensures guaranteed prices far above the wholesale cost of electricity over a fixed term for producers, with the province being the sole buyer.

The operators of gas plants, which pick up the slack when wind and solar aren’t producing power, enter into an agreement with the OPA

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These payments and others are reflected in the “global adjustment” added to power bills.

The global adjustment reflects the actual cost of generation, rather than the going rate for electricity, and is a large part of the year-over-year increases ratepayers are seeing.

The global adjustment joins the harmonized sales tax (which was added to hydro bills in 2010) and the debt retirement charge (left over from the breakup and reorganization of Ontario Hydro under the Mike Harris-led governments of the 1990s) on residents’ bills.

Progressive Conservative energy critic Lisa MacLeod, who serves as MPP for Nepean-Carleton, reiterated PC leader Tim Hudak’s pledge to scrap the FIT program if elected.

MacLeod said province’s focus should be on tailoring the energy plan with the view of increasing jobs, the revenues from which would help tackle the province’s $260 billion debt.

“We need several different elements in our capacity-building system – hydro, nuclear, and gas, but we shouldn’t be subsidizing our energy,” said MacLeod, adding the scrapping of the new nuclear build could harm investment over the long term.

“By cancelling the nuclear build, the Liberals are effectively saying that they don’t think the economy can be restored. The energy demand now is low due to the loss of manufacturing jobs, but you have to think of the long term, not the here and now …”

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“It’s very difficult to get manufacturing plants back due to the unpredictability of the (energy file) and it doesn’t create confidence for companies to bring their businesses here due to skyrocketing energy rates. Business owners tell me the global adjustment is killing them.”

With interest payments topping $10 billion per year on a growing debt load, Ontario needs new revenue sources to get the budget imbalance under control and many would prefer that cash to come from new taxpayers, rather than existing taxpayers.

Green Party of Ontario recently criticized the lack of efficiency and conservation in the energy sector via a media release posted on the party’s website.

“The Liberals’ inaction

on conservation is costing us money, wasting resources and failing to prepare Ontario for the future,” said party leader Mike Schreiner, calling the inaction “irresponsible.”

Schreiner cited a report from the Environment Commissioner of Ontario that criticized the province for creating barriers for municipalities seeking to create local energy systems – a move that could help the conservation cause, and perhaps the economy, too.

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“Innovative local energy solutions create jobs and save money,” said Schreiner.

The C.D. Howe Institute, a public policy think tank, added its voice to the debate in September with the release of a paper titled A New Blueprint for Ontario’s Electricity Market, authored by economist and

professor A.J. Goulding.

He said the province needs to make changes in the roles and functions of its energy institutions, starting with the need to “isolate policymakers from implementation agencies.”

“The Ontario power sector has oversupply, a mismatch of generator capabilities and needs, rising prices to final consumers, a lack of transparency in prices, and volatile and contradictory policies,” he said.

“The government’s failure to rely on either sound planning or market principles has meant that the province has not procured generation capacity at a long-run least cost.”

Besides the politically expedient gas plant decisions, which occurred in the lead-up to the 2011 provincial election, prior decisions were made that unnecessarily added to the burden shouldered by ratepayers.

In December, 2011, then-

auditor general Jim McCarter slammed the McGuinty government for rushing into its Green Energy Act (2009) without thinking of the final cost to ratepayers, saying the environmental goals could have been achieved for a fraction of the cost.

For starters, the wind turbine investment deal with South Korea-based Samsung, which was the showpiece of the act, was created and approved “with no formal economic analysis” to determine if it was a good deal for the province and its ratepayers, with no consultations occurring with either the Ontario Energy Board or the Ontario Power Authority.

McCarter also said that of the 50,000 jobs expected to be created by the act, a figure touted

by Liberal candidates during the 2011 election, the majority would be short term, one-time construction jobs.

Since the gas plant scandal broke, followed by the resignation of McGuinty, the Liberals now claim the act created 31,000 green energy jobs of all types.

ENERGY MINISTER

The fallout from the scandals, as well as the responsibility of moving the energy sector forward under the minority government, now falls on Ottawa West-Nepean MPP Bob Chiarelli, who was named energy minister in February.

Despite the unenviable task of moving forward from increasingly unpopular policies he had no part in crafting, Chiarelli maintains his ministry is making positive headway and defends the Liberals’ initial investments in the energy sector.

He said the system inherited by the Liberals back in 2003 was “unreliable” and lacked

sufficient maintenance.

Since that time, the Liberals have invested $21 billion in generation capability and maintenance and more still in transmission line upgrades, he said.

“Rates are based on what you invest in the system,” said Chiarelli. “There was a spike in prices in order to play catchup.”

Mitigation measures in the form of the Ontario clean energy benefit and the Ontario energy and property tax credit were two of programs created to help consumers, said Chiarelli, adding that benefits exist for northern residents and industry as well.

Without revealing the contents of the upcoming longterm plan, Chiarelli did say the province is “starting to turn the corner” on rate increases.

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al energy planning, he added.

Chiarelli wouldn’t speculate whether rates could trend downward, rather than simply slowing their upward course.

“I’m not predicting anything right now,” said Chiarelli. “The (longterm plan) will deal with the projected rate.”

He added, “All existing types of generation and transmission will be in the (long-term) plan in one way or another - it just depends on how it’s prioritized. But, there will be renewable energy moving forward, along with hydro, gas, and a nuclear base load.”

“The biggest step taken is cancelling new nuclear,” said Chiarelli.

“That would have been a rate increase going forward … and we have assured reliability based on what we have.”

A need for $4 billion in system improvements was eliminated through conservation, he added, and a renegotiated contract with Samsung earlier this year took $3.7 billion out of the agreement with the Green Energy Act partner.

Chiarelli said that recent changes to the FIT program would see more tax revenue flow to hosting communities than before, while providing more local input (but not veto power) for those communities. Early work is starting to encourage region-

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Public health budget promotes food safety, active kids Laura Mueller laura.mueller@metroland.com

News - More restaurant inspections and getting kids to walk or bike to school are priorities in the city’s 2014 public health budget.

Ottawa Public Health is proposing to spend $12.4 million in city dollars in addition to $42.6 million in funding from the province next year.

The health department says it will need about $1 million more than it did last year to continue offering the same services.

That’s within the two per cent increase cap that city council set for each department at the beginning of its term.

In the budget tabled on Oct. 21, public health manager Esther Moghadam said the agency wants to reinvent some of the money it’s saving, including $600,000 in efficiencies from having nurses work remotely with laptops.

Public health is also reducing its base budget by eliminating three positions from the books that have been vacant for several years.

The health authority wants to put $391,000 of those savings back into expanded programming, including more food-safety inspections of high-risk restaurants, outdoor food vendors and special events and programs aimed at increasing physical activity levels for schoolchildren, including promoting walking and biking to school.

That would include eventually developing active-transportation plans for all 230 public elementary schools in Ottawa.

The city is already working on demonstration plans with 12 schools, said Ottawa Public Health manager Sherry Nigro.

Health board chairwoman Coun.

Diane Holmes said the city has “gotten away with murder” by not providing infrastructure that lets kids safely get to school by walking or biking.

Holmes said she thinks school boards bus students from door to door because the city doesn’t provide safe infrastructure for them to walk or bike.

Wallace Beaton of Green Communities Canada conducts similar active transportation audits.

He told the committee his group has faced a slow and frustrating process to get the city to agree to infrastructure improvements.

“You run the risk of creating expectations that you are not able to meet,” he said.

Trevor Haché of Ecology Ottawa said the board’s support of a “complete street” policy in the proposed transportation master plan is a step in the right direction in that regard, but it doesn’t go far enough.

“It won’t achieve results unless it’s comprehensive,” he said, suggesting the board tell the city to adopt the 10 key elements developed by the National Complete Streets Coalition in the United States, which include specific implementation steps, performance measures and design criteria, among other factors.

Transportation committee chairman and health board member Coun.

Keith Egli said he and city transportation staff have agreed to meet with

Ecology Ottawa on that topic.

Health board member Marguarite Keeley said staff should pay special attention to how to increase physical activity for children who live and go to school in rural areas, since they have fewer safe ways to get to school on foot or by bike.

Public health is also proposing a one-time investment of $200,000 to continue a program to improve infection control standards in personal service businesses such as tattoo and body-piercing parlours and full-service salons that offer things like acupuncture.

Public health is working on a training program for operators of those types of business, as well as a public education campaign.

But a couple members of the board of health, including Dr. Atul Kapur, said the city should look at requiring those businesses to be licensed.

“It surprises me that in the city of Ottawa you need a license to be an auctioneer, but you don’t need a license to be a body piercer,” he said.

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There is one remaining public consultation at which residents can ask questions and share thoughts on the drafts budgets: Thursday, Nov.7 at council chambers in city hall, 110 Laurier Ave. W. from 7 to 9 p.m.

Public delegates can present to the health board on the draft budget on Nov. 18. City council is set to approve the budgets on Nov. 27.

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News - Mayor Jim Watson called for co-operation from the federal and provincial levels of government to build the extended light-rail system he envisions.

In an address on Ottawaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s economic outlook delivered to local business leaders on Oct. 24, Watson said the proposed Stage 2 plan to bring light rail east to Place dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;OrlĂŠans, west to Bayshore and Baseline stations and to bring the O-Train south to Bowesville can only happen if the upper levels of government are on board. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The federal and provincial governments were excellent team players with the first phase of light rail,â&#x20AC;? Watson said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are counting on them to continue to be our partners.â&#x20AC;?

The mayor called out OrlĂŠans MP Royal Galipeau for suggesting the city write to Santa Claus for funding for the project shortly after it was announced. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Well, you know, Santa made a pre-Christmas visit to Toronto and gave them $660 million for a three-stop sub-

MAYOR JIM WATSON way extension,â&#x20AC;? the mayor said during his speech.

Ottawa only wants its fair share of the federal governmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s infrastructure funding program, which will dole out $53.5 billion for infrastructure projects across Canada over the next decade.

Ottawaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s $975-million ask of the federal government represents two per cent of the federal infrastructure fund â&#x20AC;&#x201C; less than Ottawaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s proportion of the countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s population, which is three per cent, Watson said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I expect our local MPs will work with us to ensure

our city gets its fair share as well,â&#x20AC;? Watson said.

He urged politicians in other levels of government to look beyond the next election to the future generations that could benefit from the transit system. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Projects like this one are bigger than any one mayor, premier or prime minister,â&#x20AC;?

Watson said.

The mayor also had a message for people who donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t see the value of a $3 billion investment in the next phase of light rail.

Pitting drivers against transit users and cyclists is a debate of the past, Watson said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our economic future is too important to resort to such oldschool arguments,â&#x20AC;? he said.

Even those who could never see themselves hopping on a train, bus or bike can see the benefit of one less car in front of them on the highway, Watson said.

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• 625 ml (2-1/2 cups) all-purpose flour • 10 ml (2 tsp) baking powder • 10 ml (2 tsp) cinnamon • 7 ml (1-1/2 tsp) nutmeg • 7 ml (1-1/2 tsp) ground ginger • 4 ml (3/4 tsp) salt • 2 ml (1/2 tsp) baking soda • 325 ml (1-1/3 cups) vegetable oil • 425 ml (1-3/4 cups) granulated sugar • 4 eggs, lightly beaten • 15 ml (1 tbsp) vanilla • 750 ml (3 cups) loosely packed, coarsely grated carrot • 1 apple, peeled and chopped Icing • 1 package (125 g /4 oz) cream cheese, at room temperature • 25 ml (2 tbsp) butter, at room temperature

• 375 to 500 ml (1-1/2 to 2 cups) sifted icing sugar • 2 ml (1/2 tsp) vanilla • Squeeze of lemon PREPARATION

Lightly grease a 25-centimetre (10-inch) bundt pan. In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, salt and baking soda.

In a large bowl, whisk the oil with sugar then eggs and vanilla, then stir in the flour mixture until blended. Stir in the carrots and apple. Scrape the mixture into the prepared pan and smooth the top as best you can. Bake in a 180 C (350 F) oven until toothpick in-

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ften, when I was sitting at the old pine table at night with the coal oil lamp giving off faint shards of light, I examined the hands of those around me.

For reasons I was never able to explain, I was deeply interested in other peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hands. Even though the same blood ran through our veins, there werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t two of us with the same hand shapes.

I would look over at Father, slouched in the old rocking chair close to the Findlay Oval, and I could see his hands holding the Ottawa Farm Journal. They were small hands, I thought, for a man, but I knew them to be powerful. They were calloused and wore the look of hard labour, and they could tie up a pig or roll a heifer with ease.

But when he ruffled my hair, as he often did when he passed me, his hands were gentle and loving.

My sister Audrey had long tapering fingers and I always thought her hands were narrow. I would look at them and try to compare them with my own, which, even with a young eye, I could see that mine

MARY COOK Mary Cookâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Memories were wider by far. How I would envy Audrey her pretty hands.

I knew too, that the reason she was able to do such beautiful hand work, embroidering French knots and lazy daisies on our tea towels and pillow cases, was because she had the perfect hands for the job.

Even the hands of my three brothers differed from each other. Earl, the smallest, had hands that suited his slight build.

Everett, the oldest of the three, had hands that were already beginning to show he would be expected to carry his weight on the farm. He complained of calluses and often said his fingers hurt. There was little sympathy for Everett -he was needed on the farm and the sooner he got used to hard work the better off he would

be, Father told him.

Emerson, the biggest of the three, but the middle son, had big hands. They matched perfectly his big frame and his almost six-foot height by the time he was 12 years old.

But Mother always said Emerson had the hands of an artist. How she could tell, I had no idea, but she believed one day Emerson would be a great artist or a builder of fine buildings with those hands. So she squirrelled change out of her egg money from the blue sugar bowl and took advantage of Ritzaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Rexall Drug Store one cent sale and bought him art paper and soft leaded pencils, so sure was she that Emersonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hands would one day make him famous.

I would look at Mother, too, sitting at the end of the table, with her diaries spread

out around her, with a bottle of real ink in front of her and a pen. She always wrote in her diaries with ink, never with pencil. If would look at her hands and then at mine, I would think that our hands of all those in the family were the most alike.

Her two little fingers, like mine, had a slight bend in them. I would watch her, face down over her diaries, and I would hope that one day I too could fill scribbler after scribbler with my thoughts and wishes, just like my mother.

We children were never allowed to read her diaries â&#x20AC;&#x201C; â&#x20AC;&#x153;diaries are privateâ&#x20AC;? she would say â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and we knew better than go near them, stacked in neat piles on one of the top-most shelves of the back-to-the-wall cupboard.

Sometimes, she would write so quickly, as her thoughts came and for so long, that she would have to stop and rub her fingers to ease the stiffness.

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At an early age, I noticed the difference between a greeting handshake and one that was used to close a deal.

In greeting, the hands were pumped, up and down, up and down, like a pump handle.

But if a deal was coming to a close, the hands met in a clasp and one handshake was all it took.

It was impossible to live in that old log house in Northcote, and not be aware of hands. Clean hands, too â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Mother was a stickler for clean hands. The wash basin sat on

the bench at the back door, the water changed often, a homemade bar of soap in a saucer beside it and a huck towel on a roller on the wall. No one got within a country mile of the table at mealtime without a thorough wash of the hands.

We never set out for school without washing our hands.

The last thing we did before we crawled into bed at night was wash our hands. Emerson, who thought Mother took this clean hands business too far, often could be heard saying, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think we must have the cleanest hands in all of Renfrew County.â&#x20AC;?

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CHEO taking ouch out of immunizations Hospital launches Be Sweet to Babies campaign

River Ward City Councillor Conseillère, quartier Rivière

during the injections and only four babies were held in a frontfront position.”

As a result of their findings, CHEO’s Be Sweet to Babies research team decided to post their own video on YouTube demonstrating effective pain reduction techniques being put into practice.

The goal of the project is to help parents and care providers to find better ways of managing children’s pain during vaccinations.

“It’s mind-blowing how these simple distractions can help them,” Harrison said.

“It really does give them comfort.”

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Canada is the greatest country on this planet and we owe our lifestyle and our freedom to the brave men and women who have served and are currently serving our country.

Veterans’ Week is fast approaching and it gives us the opportunity to reflect on the significant contribution that our Veterans have made and continue making. We remember and thank those persons who made the ultimate sacrifice.

During Veterans’ Week, there are many commemorative ceremonies and events taking place across Ottawa and Canada. River Ward is home to many Veterans and to the Royal Canadian Legion - Strathcona Branch “595”. I am honoured to participate in Strathcona Branch’s Remembrance Day parade and ceremony, and will be laying a wreath on behalf of our Ward.

Thank you to all of our Veterans and their families.

We are forever grateful.

2014 Draft Budget The City of Ottawa’s 2014 Draft Budget was tabled on October 23, 2013. The draft budget proposes a stable financial plan, which respects taxpayers’ expectations that the City will live within its means, improve service delivery and invest strategically in initiatives which will shape the community in future years. Please visit ottawa.ca/budget2014 for more information, including the draft budget documents.

You can comment on the proposed budget by contacting me directly, attending a budget consultation hosted by the City or by registering as a budget delegation at any of the Standing Committee meetings. The budget consultation for central district is taking place next week:

News – Babies can say goodbye to the “ouch” when it comes to getting their flu vaccine.

CHEO recently launched a new program called Be Sweet to Babies, aimed at helping parents find way to reduce the pain when it comes to immunizations.

The research team behind the project is lead by Dr. Denise Harrison, chair in nursing care of children, youth and families at CHEO and University of Ottawa.

The group put together a YouTube video which demonstrates ways for parents to help alleviate the immunization pain.

As many moms and dads can tell, said Harrison, immunizations can be painful for infants and distressing for parents, but it doesn’t have to be.

Through breastfeeding or offering their infant sugar-water, the pinch of the needle is not even felt.

“This is something we all need to consider doing from a parent’s perspective,” she said.

But, she added, the majority of parents or doctors are not made aware of these simple and effective ways to reduce the pain.

Research shows that breastfeeding babies or giving them sugar water (also known as sucrose), as well as holding them upright in a secure front to front position, effectively reduces pain during immunizations.

“Sugar water is also given to young mammals,” said Harrison. “It increases their endorphins.

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Dr. Denise Harrison has been researching the calming effects of sucrose in infants and children when it comes to relieving them from painful procedures, such as needles. babies up to one year of age, she said. While breastfeeding and sugar water work best for babies, upright front-front holding and distraction work for young children as well while they’re given immunizations, she added.

However, these strategies are rarely used by health care providers and parents. There are hundreds of videos currently on YouTube of babies being injected; however, proven pain reduction techniques are rarely used.

“Some nurses and doctors don’t even know about this, which is why we are trying to show the video to as many people as possible,” she said.

CHEO’s Be Sweet to Babies research team carried out a review of 142 of the videos.

“We noticed almost all of the babies cried before or during their injections, with some crying solidly for over two minutes after the injections,” said Dr. Harrison.

“No videos showed breastfeeding or use of sugar water

The team will monitor the number of hits, comments, likes and dislikes the video receives over the next 12 months. It will also monitor all newly posted videos to see whether effective pain reduction strategies are starting to be implemented as a result.

“At CHEO, we believe in using evidence-driven health care to ensure the best outcomes for our children, youth and families,” said Harrison.

In addition to the YouTube videos, CHEO, in partnership with Ottawa Public Health, has developed and disseminated immunization pain fact sheets.

These fact sheets have easy-tofollow advice on how to reduce pain during injections for babies, children and teens.

For more information about Harrison and her research, visit www.cheori.org and click the link on the right-hand side of the page.

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Anti-speeding program at full force in River Ward Sabine Gibbins sabine.gibbins@metroland.com

News - Speeders, take note.

The city has zero tolerance for speeders â&#x20AC;&#x201C; especially in River Ward.

River Ward Coun. Maria McRae recently asked the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s traffic investigations and surveys department to undertake a Speeding? Zero Tolerance! campaign on Prince of Wales between Meadowlands Drive and Normandy Crescent. The campaign, which started on Oct. 25, is in its last week. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It will address ongoing speeding concerns brought forward by residents living directly on Prince of Wales Drive, as well as in the adjacent neighbourhoods,â&#x20AC;? said McRae in

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a letter to residents.

The city placed a total of eight temporary Speeding? Zero Tolerance! signs, four facing northbound and four facing southbound throughout the corridor.

In addition to these signs, there are speed radar trailers on the shoulder in each location for one to two days at a time.

The campaign includes: static signs placed along the corridor on a temporary basis with the Zero Tolerance message, speed trailers and speed radar boards deployed along the corridor during the week of Oct. 28, as well as Zero Tolerance police traffic enforcement blitzes for speeding and all traffic violations during the week of Nov. 4 to 8.

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Conroy Road street light project The City of Ottawa has awarded the Conroy Road street light installation project to Black and McDonald Limited. The project involves the installation of 3 kilometres of new roadway streetlights along the western shoulder of Conroy Road from just south of the Conroy Pit parking lot near Hunt Club road to just north of the Bank Street and Conroy Road intersection. In total, 50 new streetlights will be installed along this busy corridor to improve illumination and roadway safety. Construction is expected to commence in early to mid November 2013 and be completed by the winter of 2014.

For more information please contact my ofďŹ ce at 613-580-2480 or diane.deans@ottawa.ca Public Meeting: Site Plan Control Application for a New Shoppers Drug Mart â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 2492 Bank Street

Babyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first year key to preventing childhood caries Community - Infants should visit the dentist by age one, and regularly thereafter, says the Canadian Dental Association. â&#x20AC;&#x153;These early visits can identify and address signs of tooth decay, promote good oral health habits, and are an investment in lifelong health, says association president Dr. Peter Doig.

The Canadian Institute for Health Information recently investigated the extent of hospital-based day surgery for early childhood caries in Canada.

Among the findings, CIHI reported early childhood caries as the leading cause of day surgeries for children ages one to five. The public cost of surgery for these caries is $22 million per year for hospitalization alone.

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The City has joined with local school boards to launch a competition to name the three â&#x20AC;&#x153;Roadheaderâ&#x20AC;? excavation machines that will dig the Confederation Line LRT projectâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s downtown tunnel. Grade 4 classes from the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board, the Conseil des ĂŠcoles publiques de lâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;est de lâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Ontario, the Conseil des ĂŠcoles catholiques du Centre-Est, and the Ottawa Catholic School Board are invited to submit their suggested names to their teachers.

The City is requesting two English names and one French name and each Grade 4 class may submit one name for consideration.

School boards have until noon on Thursday, November 7, to submit the proposed names, including the name of the school and class that submitted them. Selected names will be announced later in November, 2013. For more information, visit ottawa.ca/confederationline.

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In preparation for the upcoming winter season, I will once again be taking part in my annual â&#x20AC;&#x153;before the snow ďŹ&#x201A;iesâ&#x20AC;? tour of GloucesterSouthgate Ward on Thursday November 14th between 10 a.m.-2 p.m. City Staff will join me to review areas which could be the cause of snow maintenance issues during the winter months. If you have an area in mind that has an ongoing snow clearing problem please contact my ofďŹ ce at diane.deans@ottawa.ca or 613-580-2480 before November 13th to be added to the list.

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The City of Ottawa has received a Site Plan Control application to construct a Shoppers Drug Mart retail store at 2492 Bank Street.

The 60, 000 square metre property is surrounded by Towngate Plaza to the west, Donnelly Ford to the east, Sawmill Creek to the south and Southgate Mall to the north. The purpose of the application is to partially demolish the existing vacant building currently on the site in order to accommodate the proposed 16, 000 square ft Shoppers Drug Mart retail store. The site plan application proposes a total of 79 parking spaces, additional landscaping and pedestrian sidewalks/walkways. There are two access points proposed for this site. One full turn movement access will be shared with the adjacent Donnelly Ford Dealership, and the second access will be a right in/right out turn into the proposed Shoppers Drug Mart. I invite you to attend a public meeting to hear a presentation from the developer on this application. The meeting will be held on Tuesday, November 12th at 7:00 p.m. at the Greenboro Community Centre located at 363 Lorry Greenberg Drive. The applicant will make a formal presentation at 7:00 p.m. and will answer questions and receive comments from the community shortly thereafter.

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Come to Worship - Sunday 10:30 Bible Preaching, Hymn Singing & Friends

Minister - Rev. William Ball Organist - Alan Thomas Nusery & Sunday School, Loop audio, Wheelchair access

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meets every Sunday at The Old Forge Community Resource Centre 2730 Carling Avenue, Ottawa, ON K2B 7J1

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off 417 exit Walkey Rd. or Anderson Rd.

Worship - Sundays @ 6:00 p.m.

Join us for worship, fellowship & music Nursery, children and youth ministries Sunday Service at 10:30 am Rev. Kathryn Peate

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Sunday Masses: 8:30 a.m. Low Mass 10:30 a.m. High Mass (with Gregorian chant) 6:30 p.m. Low Mass

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St. Clement Parish/Paroisse St-ClĂŠment

You are welcome to join us!

1350 Walkley Road (Just east of Bank Street) Ottawa, ON K1V 6P6 Tel: 613-731-0165 Email: ottawacitadel@bellnet.ca Website: www.ottawacitadel.ca

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FOR SALE Apples, cider and apple products. Smyths Apple Orchard, 613-652-2477.

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TOWNHOMES 3 Bedrooms, 2.5 Bathrooms, 5 appliances and more, located in established area, on site management office, from $1495 + up Urbandale Corporation 323 Steeplechase Dr. (just off Stonehaven Dr.) Kanata, K2M 2N6 Call 613-592-0548 HELP WANTED

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SALES AND MARKETING MANAGER The position will coordinate and supervise the day to day operations of sales, marketing, tradeshows and Online Catalog Department.

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QA MANAGER Must have minimum 8 years experience as a QA Manager. Must have good communication and organizational skills along with an understanding of mechanical

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PRODUCTION SCHEDULER / PLANNER Must have minimum 5 years experience in production scheduling FIBER OPTIC PRODUCT MANAGERS Responsible for R&D, Production and sales of fiber optic products, such as fiber pigtailing of laser diode/lasers or polarization maintaining fiber components or high power components or hermetic/ photodiodes/ feed thru for opto electronic packaging or fiber optic sensors.

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KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: We are looking for an innovative and resourceful cyclotron scientist to join our development team. This role will assume significant responsibilities for project planning, design, commissioning and operation of new accelerator systems.

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Ottawa Chorus prepares for international competition ‘We are absolutely aiming for the top 10’: director Jessica Cunha jessica.cunha@metroland.com

Arts - In a harmonious lead-up to its 30th year, the Canadian Showtime Chorus is preparing to head to Hawaii for an international singing competition this November.

The chorus, which features more than 100 vocally-talented women from across Ottawa and the valley, will participate in the Sweet Adelines International competition, which runs from Nov. 4 to 9 in Honolulu.

“We’ll be seeing some of the top choruses in the world,” said Nancy Lambrechts, a Katimavik resident.

“Just to experience this whole international competition on such a grand scale (is amazing).”

The Canadian Showtime Chorus is just one of hundreds of groups from around the world – including Sweden, New Zealand, Australia, Great Britain, and the United States – that belong to Sweet Adelines International, which focuses on the art of barbershop harmony.

Even though they’re up against strong competition, the Ottawa chorus is aiming for the top.

“We are absolutely aiming for the top 10,” said Canadian Showtime Chorus director and founder Sandie Nason, who lives and works in Nepe-

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The Canadian Showtime Chorus, which features women from across the city, will participate in the Sweet Adelines International competition, which runs from Nov. 4 to 9 in Hawaii. an. “All of the judges who have seen us have said we have everything we need to make the top 10.”

In Hawaii, the chorus will perform two songs in six minutes – Time After Time and Oh, You Beautiful Doll.

“When the lights come up there

will be 10,000 people in the audience,” said Nason.

“We want to move that audience.

We want them to get teary … and we want their heart to race and laugh a little.”

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day at the Nepean Creative Arts Centre in Bells Corners and works with coaches on the weekends leading up to the competition.

“It’s incredible walking into a room with 100 excited women because they don’t hide it,” said Nason.

“They are just (so) excited. Me, I’m just hugely proud of them because they’ve worked so hard.”

The Ottawa chorus is part of the largest region in the Sweet Adeline organization, competing against 30 other choruses in the regional contest to land a spot at the international competition.

This is the fifth time the Canadian Showtime Chorus will compete at the international level. The Canadian Showtime Chorus will celebrate its 30th anniversary in January.

Nason had been a chorus director in Alberta for five years when she moved to Ottawa. She didn’t want to lose her connection to the Sweet Adelines so she went door-to-door in Barrhaven, handing out pamphlets about what she wanted to do.

The first meeting saw four people gather at the Larkin House community building, which the singers shared with hockey players.

“It’s hard to put into words. Sometimes I look at them now and I’m awestruck,” she added.

There are women of all ages who participate in the chorus, ranging from young 20s to late 70s. The tagline is “Real women. Real harmony.

Real fun.”

For more information, visit www. canadianshowtimechorus.com.

Brando is an outgoing and playful, five-year-old, neutered male, domestic shorthair cat who arrived at the OHS in February from another shelter. This interactive kitty loves to engage in play with people and toys. He especially loves feather wands, laser pointers and “Cat Dancer” toys. Bruno enjoys being groomed and having his ears scratched and, although he is happiest when he has your full attention, he is also content to relax on a window sill and watch the birds and squirrels outside. Brando would make a lovely companion on walks as he enjoys walking on a harness.

Brando is a “Special Needs” cat because he is currently being fed a hypo-allergenic and may require ongoing veterinary care. To learn more about Brando, please contact the Ottawa Humane Society at 613-725-3166 ext 258 or visit us at 245 West Hunt Club Rd. Visit the OHS website at www.ottawahumane.ca to see photos and descriptions of all of the animals available for adoption.

Stop by the Adoption Centre, weekdays 11:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., Saturdays 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and Sundays 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

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during the colder seasons when it’s especially dangerous. 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.

It’s best to limit the amount of outdoor time for any animal in frigid temperatures, so take your dog for lots of short walks instead of one long one. Remember never to leave an animal in an unheated car for long periods of time.

The OHS recommends that cat owners keep their cats indoors year ‘round. If your cat does go outdoors, make sure it’s only for short periods and ensure your cat is inside overnight.

If you see an animal in distress or without adequate shelter from the cold, call the OHS emergency line at (613) 725-1532.

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Stay inside: Pets should be kept inside during cold weather. Dogs that live outside require, at minimum, a doghouse soundly built of weatherproof materials and positioned facing away from prevailing winds. Make sure the doghouse is elevated and insulated, with a door flap and bedding of straw or wood shavings. Animals that are outside need a constant source of fresh water, so check your dog’s bowl often to ensure it hasn’t frozen over.

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But even a small amount of antifreeze can be harmful, or even fatal, to your pet. Consider a less toxic alternative to ethylene glycol-based antifreeze that is most commonly used. A new propylene glycol-based antifreeze available at many retail outlets and is safer for pets and humans alike.

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.

Know their limits: Just because Fido has his very own coat doesn’t mean he is staying warm on your long fall walks. Just like people, pets’ tolerance to cold weather differs individually based on their coat, activity levels, health and

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Oct. 17-Dec. 5 Writing your joyous autobiography.

Do you have stories to tell? Stories of courage, of humour, of a different time in history? No great expertise required; but some exercises to consider interesting style. Easy-going, with appreciation, not critiquing.

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p.m. to 4 p.m. at Rideau Park United Church, 2203 Alta Vista Drive (at Cunningham). The Bazaar offers something for everyone, from meat pies to homemade baking, jams and relishes. You can peruse the gift baskets, the Christmas decor, Ladies’ Boutique and the garden centre. Be sure to search out the Book Alley for a great read and the General Store for household and sporting goods. Drop by the children’s toys, and make a bid at the Silent Auction. After shopping, stop by the Tea Room for refreshments. For more information, see www.rideaupark.ca or call 613-733-3156 ext 229.

Nov. 8 Nov. 2 St. Aidan’s Annual Yuletide Bazaar, 934 Hamlet Road (near Elmvale Acres Shopping Centre). Shop and come and enjoy lunch in our Celtic Café. For more information call the church office at 613-733-0102.

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Mike’s Fish Fry, hosted by the Riverside Churches, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., dinner includes cod fillets, potato salad, coleslaw, baked beans, french fries, and buttered rolls with home made apple crisp and ice cream for dessert, along with tea, coffee, and juices.All for the fabulous price of $15 per person!

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Nov. 10 Music at the Temple presents Laura Young, classical guitar, 7:30 p.m., 1301 Prince of Wales Drive. Adults $20 and students $15. Parking at the rear. Contact N. Bercovitch at 613731-9278 for additional information.

Nov. 16 St. Timothy’s Presbyterian Church, 2400 Alta Vista Drive invites you to participate in our Candy Cane Bazaar between 10:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. We offer you: baking, deli, books, crafts, jewellery, “treasures”, and a silent auction. A delicious lunch will be served between 11:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. Luncheon cost is $12. Church is handicap accessible.

Nov. 23 Christmas bake and craft sale at Villa Marconi, 1026 Baseline Rd. Delicious home baking includes items such as Italian cookies and cakes as well as Christmas baking.

Christmas crafts created by the Golden Age Group and staff at Villa Marconi will be on sale. Money from the sale will help run programs

for the Golden Age Group as well as the residents of the long-term care facility.

Nov. 23 The 3rd Annual Ottawa Tea Festival takes place at the Ottawa Convention Centre between 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. Enjoy musical performances, classical dances, and tea ceremonies from the tea regions of the world.

As well, tea experts will provide presentations about tea and answer questions. It is an ultimate foodie destination, celebrating a vast array of tea houses and artisanal food producers from the Ottawa area. There will be lots to taste from delicious teas and to tasty treats. For tickets & more information visit our website at www.ottawateafestival.com.

Ongoing Mondays, from Nov. 4-Dec. 9, 10:30 to 11 a.m.

Babytime (Session 2) at the Alta Vista Library, 2516 Alta Vista Dr. Stories, rhymes and songs for babies and a parent or caregiver. 0-18 months. (Closed Nov. 11.)

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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.

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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. Membership is $15 per year. The club is easily accessible by OC Transpo Route 144 and it offers free parking. For more information call 613-821-0414.

Greely Community Centre, 1448 Meadow Drive, Greely. Old Time Fiddle and Country Dance. 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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