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News - A local shop in the ByWard Market wants people to get inked for a good cause.

For $80, Living Colour Tattoo will permanently give interested individuals a way to remember giving to charity this year by way of a holiday-themed tattoo.

The shop’s tattoo artist Jamie Kleinveld created the event in an effort to raise money for the Christmas Exchange Program, a program through the Caring and Sharing Exchange. “I think when it comes to charity, every little bit helps,� Kleinveld said. “It’s nice to give back to the community. They don’t take long to do and it feels good to help out.�

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Canterbury High School student Jessica Burnside sings with local teen band Reach during a Christmas video release party at Fat Dog Studios, located in the Hunt Club area, on Sunday, Dec. 15.

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Arts – Christmas came early for six Ottawa-area teens as they performed for a packed studio on Sunday, Dec. 15 during their ďŹ rst-ever video release party.

The co-ed teen band Reach formed about

18 months ago after the young musicians all took part in a summer ‘Rock Star Camp’ run by Fat Dog Productions at their studio off West Hunt Club Road.

While some of the band members attended separate camp sessions, they all came together that September for a weekend rock star school, which studio owner

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Chad Nesrallah had formed after watching great bands break up time and again when camp ended. “We thought, ‘What would happen if we just kept going?’� Nesrallah said. “We’ve been kind of holding out for bands that are going to stick together ... (and) these guys were very serious when they came in.�

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The five-person band – plus original member Jessica Burnside, who came back to sing during the video release party – hails mostly from Canterbury High School, and has big dreams.

Their romantic Christmas ballad, Watch the Stars With Me, was written last Christmas but it was too late to market over the extended holiday season. This year, it has been released on iTunes and the band hopes the video released on Dec. 15 will be a catalyst to help them break through the white noise of the music industry.

“It would be cool to get signed to a label,” said Canterbury High School guitarist Jack Johnson.

“We’re going to try to guide them through the maze, if that’s what they want to do,” added Nesrallah, who acts as the band’s director. “There

has to be a new hit song next week, so why not (Reach)?”

Singer Jessica Bianconi, a Grade 9 student at Canterbury High School, said the band has about nine original songs and wants to eventually record an album.

“We’ve played a lot of venues to see how the audience responds to us and we haven’t really had a negative experience yet,” she added.

On Dec. 15 the group performed an hour-long set that included several upbeat originals as well as covers of songs by Bruno Mars, Kelly Clarkson and Foster the People. At the end of the set, Nesrallah introduced the video for Watch the Stars With Me, to wild applause from the audience of friends and family gathered in the studio.

For more information about Reach, visit themusicfactory.ca or find Watch the Stars With Me on YouTube.com.

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Sensational visit The Ottawa Senators made their annual Christmas visit to CHEO on Friday, Dec. 13, signing autographs, posing for photos, and handing out gifts and high-fives for patients and their families. The special trip included a traditional rendition of Jingle Bells performed by some of the newest and y oungest players. At left, centre Kyle Turris connects with a young CHEO patient and his family.

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Waupoos Farm getting ready for the holidays Donations, volunteers needed to help non-profit farm function Emma Jackson emma.jackson@metroland.com

News – The Waupoos Farm families are making their facility as homey for the holidays as possible.

The Rideau Road farm just east of Bowesville Road is run by three families of Catholic volunteers, who live on site to host low-income families for week-long vacations away from the city’s daily grind.

The farm is especially welcoming over the Christmas and New Year breaks: decorated trees glisten in the common areas, black cats jump and play in the snow alongside the children who live there, and even the farm’s refrigerators are dressed as festive snowmen.

While all the cottages are booked for both week-long breaks over the holidays, the farm is still looking for a host family to entertain the guests over the second week, said Lee-Ann Garcia, one of three women who live on the farm with their husbands and children.

The regular live-in families

have farm duties to attend to and Garcia said having another family dedicated to hosting the cottagers creates a more welcoming atmosphere.

That family would lead activities, get to know the cottagers and help them with anything they need.

“It’s difficult to volunteer as a family, so it’s a really unique experience to be able to do that,” Garcia said.

Throughout their time, cottagers can visit the farm’s pigs, chickens and rabbits, decorate gingerbread houses, participate in a Christmas Eve pageant and enjoy festive meals with the other families staying at the farm.

“It’s nice for the cottagers to experience that sort of community,” said Garcia.

The winter vacation also includes wagon rides, skating, a visit from Santa on Christmas day and even some donated gifts that cottagers can wrap up for their children.

Over the New Years break, three wise men will also visit with gifts for the children.

Each family has a Christmas tree in their cottage, and a

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Waupoos Family Farm live-in hosts Zdena Harder, left, her children Daniel, Isabelle and Joshua Harder and fellow host Lee-Ann Garcia are ready to welcome families to the farm over the Christmas holiday. box of decorations will allow the kids to trim it before Santa comes.

But the farm is always in need of more supplies and resources. Skate sharpening is a big need, as the non-profit organization can’t afford to

sharpen the approximately 100 pairs of kids’ skates they have set aside for use on their outdoor rink.

The farm is also looking for gently-used adult skates and helmets for all ages, as well as gingerbread house kits.

For those who want to volunteer but can’t commit to a whole week, Garcia said volunteer drivers are needed to transport families from urban Ottawa to the farm, as many of their guests don’t have cars and OC Transpo doesn’t ser-

vice the area.

Although the farm is set up for Christmas, Garcia stressed that the farm welcomes families of all faiths and beliefs.

For more information about the farm visit www.waupoos. com.

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Scots host traditional New Years party Michelle Nash michelle.nash@metroland.com

News - People from across Ottawa are invited to get a little Hogmanay-wild at city hall to celebrate the arrival of 2014.

TD Hogmanay ’13 is a free Scottish-styled New Year’s Eve party taking place at city hall, starting at 6 p.m. The event, complete with haggis, whisky and a whole lot of Scottish music and dancing, promises to offer a good time for the whole family. “We wanted to bring a flavour of modern Scotland to Ottawa,� organizer John Ivison said of last year’s inaugural event. “People really took to it.�

Back again this year, the volunteer-driven event is aiming to surpass the 7,500 people who took part last year, Ivison said..

The party kicks off with a social gathering complete with dancing and music, Scotch tasting and skating at the Rink of Dreams.

Back by popular demand, there will also be Braveheart face-painting.

“This is a unique opportunity for Canadians of all backgrounds to come together in a moment of fun and celebration – in both typical Canadian and Scottish style,� said Kevin MacLeod, chairman of the Scottish Society.

The evening will include a Scotland time zone countdown at 7 p.m., and it wouldn’t be a Scots New Year celebration without a little fire, so at midnight, fireworks will light up the sky over city hall.

Scottish folk-rock legends Wolfstone, local band Ecosse and a Celtic band from Hamilton, Ont., Poor Angus, will each perform during the night.

Fiona Hyslop, cabinet secretary for culture and external affairs with the Scottish government, said Scotland and Canada have strong links reaching back through history and these bonds continue to grow and thrive today. “This Hogmanay event will help celebrate our shared history and recognize Scotland’s achievements and ambitions in the 21st century,� Hyslop said.

OC Transpo service will be free after 8 p.m. and parking at City Hall is also available for free, making it easy to make the trip downtown for the event.

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During this Christmas and holiday season, I am taking the time to reflect on 2013 and to think about those persons whose light has shined so brightly this year.

I am particularly thankful for the meaningful time spent with my husband Paul and our families, friends, co-workers and River Ward neighbours. We have many things to be thankful for.

I wish you and your family a wonderful Christmas and holiday season, and a happy and healthy 2014. I look forward to connecting with you in the New Year.

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Bytown gets a little spooky this Christmas Michelle Nash michelle.nash@metroland.com

News - If you are looking for a way to shake in your winter boots this holiday season, take a ghostly walk to the Bytown Museum.

Haunted Walk Ottawa and the Bytown Museum will host Nightmare Before and After Christmas this month, offering brave souls the opportunity to hear a few Christmasthemed ghost stories on Dec. 21, 27-28.

“This is just a fun, overChristmas-time event at the museum,” said executive director Robin Etherington.

“The building is known for ghosts, we don’t go that way with our programming and that’s why we partnered with Haunted Walk, they have the freedom to do that.”

The Bytown and Haunted Walk Ottawa have co-hosted a Halloween walk for the past 10 years. This will be the second year the two will partner for a holiday scare.

The majority of the tour will take place inside the museum, starting first on Sparks Street walking towards 1 Canal Lane. Sandy Trueman,

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The Bytown is about to get a little frightening this holiday season, with three haunted walks scheduled to end at the city’s oldest stone building. operations manager for the museum, said she is excited for the event, as there are often many visitors in town for the holidays who are looking for something to do.

New to the museum her-

self, Trueman said she has yet to experience anything too spooky in the building, but has heard ghost stories from fellow employees.

“It’s always a little spooky here,” Trueman said.

Haunted Walk manager Jim Dean said the Bytown is the city’s oldest stone building, and with age, he added, comes a little ghost-related history.

“There are some tour guides who refuse to do tours in the

museum,” he said.

The perpetrator is a ghost named Duncan McNab, a former store keeper at the Bytown. McNabb, Dean said, was known as a trickster and when it comes to haunting, McNabb is known to be the trickiest of them all.

“One time I was in the Bytown, setting up for one of the Halloween walks,” Dean said.

“As I was walking up the staircase I heard the sound of footsteps behind me, I turned, and there was no one behind me so I continued up the stairs and heard it again only this time it seemed to be right behind me.

I don’t get scared too easy, but that had me scared.”

Many of Ottawa’s oldest buildings are thought to be haunted, Dean said.

“We forget that in the early days of Ottawa it was one of the most dangerous cities,” Dean said. “There were upper town and Lowertown gangs and lots of violence. Murders were very common, the history was a violent one and a lot of the ghost stories we hear, whether it’s from the Bytown, the old jail or one of the other old buildings – they connect to that history.”

Not getting into too many scary details, Dean added that one time a group of tour guides holding a meeting at the Bytown late at night all ran from the building.

“It’s one of the most haunted buildings, there is often a real sense of fear,” he said.

When it comes to any type of haunting during this walk, Dean said, it will be more about spreading a different kind of holiday magic.

“It is almost like Halloween has its own feel, as does the holiday season,” he said.

“Christmas has its own magic – there is already this sense of magic and wonder and our walk will play into that.”

The walk will include ghost stories and frightening tales of holiday traditions from around the world. The 75-minute tour departs at 8:15 p.m. on Dec. 21, and 27-28 from 46 Sparks St. Tickets are $15.75 for adults, $13.75 for students, $9.75 for children age six to 12 and children under six are free.

To find out more information about the walk or to purchase tickets please visit hauntedwalk.com or call 613232-0344.

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This is not the first time the parlour has contributed to the community at Christmas time.

Last year, Kleinveld offered a similar holiday tattoo promotion, with money raised being donated to Toy Mountain. In November, the tattoo artist inked seven tiny moustaches on Ottawa bodies to help raise money for prostate cancer. â&#x20AC;&#x153;For me, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a way to create art,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not just about donating money to a cause. Like most tattoos, it can also help people commemorate something in their life too.â&#x20AC;?

The themed tattoos include a snowman, Rudolf, a gingerbread man, a candy cane heart and a stocking.

Kleinveld said her favourite is the candy cane heart. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I tried to include some images that were festive but still common enough that some people who might hesitate to

get a Christmas tattoo would be able to enjoy as well, such as the dove, the snowflake and the bow,â&#x20AC;? she said.

Kleinveld was this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s winner of the organizationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; s annual Christmas Exchange Ornament contest and said the idea for the fundraiser came out of that. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think the ornament turned out beautiful,â&#x20AC;? Kleinveld said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really neat to see something I drew on paper turn into a real product, and I am glad I could be part of such a neat project.â&#x20AC;?

The ornaments are available at Hallmark Davis Agency stores for $25, and feature copper which once covered the roof of the Parliament Buildings from 1918 to 1996.

The Caring and Sharing Exchange began in 1915 as the Christmas Exchange program, offering both food hampers and Giant Tiger gift cards to low-income families as well as offering co-ordi-

nation for the many social service organizations and programs in the city, including co-ordinating gift-giving for the Salvation Armyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Toy Mountain.

Last year, more than 23,000 people in Ottawa asked for assistance, with 10,502 people receiving help.

According to Caring and Sharingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s executive director, Cindy Smith, the need is great to ensure families receive assistance. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Last year, despite the generosity of the Ottawa community, we were unable to meet SUBMITTED the need, leaving more than half to go without,â&#x20AC;? Smith Living Colour Tattoo parlour in the ByWard Market will be offering up festive permanent tattoos this season to help out the Caring and Sharing Exchange. said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This year things are looking better, but we still have a large waiting list at this time.â&#x20AC;?

The small tattoos, Kleinveld said, wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t take up much of her time, allowing all the NOTICE OF ADOPTION proceeds of the fundraiser to go to the program.

Comprehensive Amendment No. 150 to the City of Ottawa OfďŹ cial Plan The following notice is provided in accordance with the provisions of subsection 17 (23) of the Planning Act. At its meeting of December 11, 2013, the Council of the City of Ottawa adopted OfďŹ cial Plan Amendment No. 150 in response to a requirement of the Planning Act that municipalities review their ofďŹ cial plans not less than every ďŹ ve years.

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Purpose and Effect of OfďŹ cial Plan Amendment No. 150 The purpose of Amendment No. 150 is to ensure that the Cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s OfďŹ cial Plan is consistent with the Provincial Policy Statement (2005). As well, the purpose of Amendment No. 150 is to implement changes to the City of Ottawa OfďŹ cial Plan that have been approved by City Council as part of the comprehensive review of the OfďŹ cial Plan carried out in accordance with Section 26(1) of the Planning Act. The provisions of Amendment No. 150 apply city-wide.

Amendment No. 150 makes changes to many parts of the OfďŹ cial Plan. Some of the main areas addressed by the Amendment include new and revised policies to: s 5PDATE THE INTRODUCTORY SECTIONS TO UPDATE THE #ITY S OBJECTIVES AND TO ENCOURAGE 4RANSIT /RIENTED $EVELOP ment; s %STABLISH CLEARER POLICIES WHERE INTENSIl CATION THAT SUPPORTS 2APID AND 0RIORITY 4RANSIT WILL BE ENCOURAGED s 3ET THE STAGE FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF ,IGHT RAIL 4RANSIT INCLUDING UPDATES TO THE DENSITY TARGETS FOR MAJOR stations; s #ONSOLIDATE URBAN DESIGN POLICIES AND THE #ITY S DESIGN OBJECTIVES s 'OVERN THE CONVERSION OF EMPLOYMENT LAND FOR OTHER PURPOSES s 'UIDE THE LOCATION AND ASSESSMENT OF HIGH RISE BUILDINGS s )NCLUDE ADDITIONAL PROVISIONS FOR THE SEVERANCE OF RURAL LOTS AND THE PROHIBITION OF COUNTRY LOT SUBDIVISIONS s #REATE A STRUCTURE FOR THE REVIEW OF 6ILLAGE GROWTH IN THE FUTURE

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EDITORIAL

Feds slam door on mail delivery

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he announcement that Canada Post will end home mail delivery in the next five years is the beginning of the end for mail service in this country.

Reduced service and a higher cost is a death knell for any company. The cutbacks will no doubt be a self-fulfilling prophecy as cuts to service in turn cut into the current level of demand.

Maybe the real plan is to sell off Canada Post.

And itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rather sad that the federal government would announce this just as MPâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s leave on their Christmas break, leaving no chance for debate.

The change will mean a great deal to seniors and folks with any disability that makes a trip to a community mailbox tricky.

This will likely be an election issue in the future as seniors take their right to vote very seriously.

Beyond delivery of letters, mail carriers do provide social interaction for people who may feel isolated. Carriers can also check in on seniors who live alone, and they act as the eyes of the community because they know residents and can report suspicious people.

In the U.S., the postal service is legally required to deliver six days a week. In Britain, the Royal Mail has been privatized, although citizens can still

expect minimum standards will be met. Canada has geographic challenges unlike those countries â&#x20AC;&#x201C; greater distances and fewer people and pieces of mail.

If the cutting of home delivery is carried out as planned, we may be headed for a private delivery service in the not-too-distant future. If Canada Post has no monopoly, we could see more delivery trucks from competing firms on our streets; not a good deal for the environment when one carrier can do the job.

As the price of a stamp goes up and up, eventually those private companies may see their chance.

The cost of postage will rise to $1 for an individual stamp next spring, meaning next time the holidays roll around, postage may cost more than the Christmas card inside the envelope.

Our federal government is creating conditions for Canada Postâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s failure. The die has been cast, so make your voice heard.

If home mail delivery is valued by Canadians, why should we not accept that the system may run at a loss? Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what our tax dollars are for: to deliver basic, important services to all.

If you care about home delivery, tell your MP. It might be nice to send your thoughts in a letter.

While you still can.

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Beginning next year, some five million of us, living in cities, arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t going to get mail delivery at the door any more. So why would we send Christmas cards to anyone living in cities? And why would any of them send cards to us?

True, there is something faintly heartening about never again having to pick up a pen and scrawl 100 or so times that nothing much different happened this year and hope to see you next year. But thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not the point, is it?

Nor is it the point that this will increase the number of people telling us in electronic greeting cards that nothing much different happened this year.

Leaving seasonal aspects aside, the point is that voodoo economics has made victims of us once again. Canada Post has decided, first, that it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make enough money and, second, that the way to make enough money is to make itself irrelevant.

That doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t usually work.

We have seen this pattern, although less dramatically, in OC Transpo, where the

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A couple of bad assumptions are at the root of all this. The first is that, in these changing times, door-to-door mail service is no longer needed and that people can happily walk to the community mailbox or whatever it is.

Well, some people cannot walk happily anywhere. As we are constantly being reminded, the population of Canada is rapidly aging, providing us with even more people who donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t walk happily. Nice timing, Canada Post.

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As for changing times, they do not affect everyone the same way. Yes, there are people who do all their correspondence and all their bill-playing electronically. Yes there are people whose cheques are deposited automatically. Yes, those people probably donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t need mail delivery at the door.

But not everyone is like that, not even in cities. This is where the decision makers make the common mistake of assuming that the people on their street are the same as the people on every street. Just because everyone you know has several computers and WiFi in their homes doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t mean everybody else does.

Further, even some of the people who are comfortable with computers are not comfortable entrusting their financial dealings to the Internet. That may be an overly cautious view but, heaven knows, years of reading about Internet fraud, identity theft and various other boondoggles has created a healthy skepticism.

The second bad assumption is even more profound -- it is that Canada Post has to make a profit. Who says? For many years, the consensus was that if itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a public service and people need it, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no reason it needs to make money. The postal service was like the educational system.

That changed, 30-some-odd years ago, when governments began to be run by people who hated government. Many of todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s big thinkers grew up with Margaret Thatcherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s picture on the wall of their rooms in the fraternity house. If it didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make a profit, they learned, it shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t exist.

So there goes Canada Post. It will be interesting to see how this is received politically.

At first glance, the decision appears to be a gift for opposition parties. They are fighting to see who can be first to stand up for Canadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s seniors. At least in the next election there will be one issue people can understand.

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Many people were up in arms about the announcement, suggesting it was an affront to our democracy, a slight against the elderly and the disabled and an unprecedented move.

“Conservatives are destroying Canadians’ long-treasured postal services,” said NDP Transport critic Olivia Chow in a statement. “These jobkilling and service-cutting measures will isolate seniors, the poor and the disabled living in urban areas.”

On the one hand, I agree with Chow. I know many seniors who already rely on friends, neighbours and paid services to get their milk, clean their homes and get them to doctors’ appointments.

It seems unfortunate that they may have to outsource mail collection as well. She’s wrong about the job killing though. Canada Post will eliminate 8,000 positions in the restructuring, but 15,000 of its employees are slated for retirement in the next five years anyway.

Before we get too caught up in ideology, we need to look at the reality.

Canada Post – like many of its global counterparts – has been bleeding money for years.

In the digital era, the majority of people no longer rely on mail service for routine transactions like bill payments and income cheques. The same is true across the western world.

As one pithy publisher I know said, if we lose door-

BRYNNA LESLIE Capital Muse to-door service, it’s our fault.

Don’t decry the loss of a service we don’t use.

It’s like people mourning the death of hard copy newspapers, even though they haven’t purchased one in a decade, or those who protest the closure or reconfiguration of schools, despite the declining numbers of young people in this country.

Yes, we need a postal service. But we don’t need a fat postal service, running on a 20th century business model propped up by our tax dollars.

And let’s be clear about one falsehood touted by critics: centralized pick-up for mail is not unprecedented in this country.

Many Canadians have never had the privilege of doorto-door service and they’re probably wondering what all us urban foxes are whining about. When I was a kid, my family moved from the city to a small town. It became part of our daily routine to stop by the local post office to collect envelopes from behind lockand-key.

Some people didn’t have a box, so they had to time their visits to match post office hours, which in those days was pretty limited. This still represents the reality in small towns across Canada.

New housing developments have long been relying on centralized mailboxes. Those liv-

ing in condominiums have to go to the main floor of their buildings to see what treasures await them behind lock-andkey.

It’s not that big of a stretch to take this precedent into urban centres, especially if the cost-saving measures help us to maintain Canada Post as a Crown corporation.

Make no mistake, Canada Post had to cut back or be cut out entirely. Britain’s Royal Mail – with a much longer and richer history than our own postal service – was privatized this year.

While it was viewed as an enviable option by some in Ottawa, I personally think it’s crude to privatize what is still, for some, for the moment anyway, an essential service.

Taxpayer-funded organizations are not purely about supply-and-demand, revenue and profits; they exist to level the playing field, to fill gaps in private-sector offerings.

At the same time, it doesn’t make sense for taxpayers to fund services at last century’s levels for the sake of nostalgia.

Canada Post has made a bold decision. But in my mind, it’s a good one. And, at the end of the day, maintaining its status as a leaner Crown corporation, rather than privatizing, will likely serve to protect thousands of unionized jobs in this country.

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More infants in Eastern Ontario will have access to lifesaving emergency services with the expansion of the neonatal transport team at the Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO).

Recently, I had the pleasure of announcing that our government is investing more than $3 million over two years to support the expansion of treatment for sick newborns before and during transit from Eastern Ontario hospitals to CHEOâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s neonatal care unit.

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News - A special cooking competition aims to help out low-income families in the Vanier area in 2014.

Eight chefs from across the region will participate in the second edition of the National Capital Culinary Competition, an event that will raise money for the Vanier Community Service Centre. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This event is a great endevour that benefits many local families,â&#x20AC;? said Michael McLellan, vice president of the centreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s board of directors.

Partnered with CitĂŠ CollĂŠgialeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s culinary arts and culinary management programs and the Sheraton Hotel Ottawa, members of the service centre, the college and the ambassadors officially launched the event on Dec. 9.

Money raised from the March 4, 2014 event will help out the centreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s family support services program and the school readiness program, HIPPY. The inaugural event partnered with the Belgian Embassy, offering a Belgian-inspired menu and raising $12,000 for

the centreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s programs, as well as providing money for two CitĂŠ bursaries.

The college plays a large role in the event, as two students get the opportunity to work with one of the eight participating chefs.

The other students enrolled in the culinary programs help cook the meal for the main event.

This year, Belgian Ambassador Bruno Van der Plujm passed the torch to the Embassy of Spain and Ambassador Carlos Gomez-Mugica Sanz The collegeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s co-ordinator for the culinary program, Wayne Murphy, said choosing Spain as the host country was in part inspired by that countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s interesting dishes. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When we discussed which embassy we hoped we could have partner with us, we discussed it would be great to have Spain,â&#x20AC;? Murphy said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This year was all about the cooking. And we thought, Spain is on the cutting edge when it comes to its dishes.â&#x20AC;?

The Spanish embassy was happy to oblige. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We just wanted to help,â&#x20AC;?

Gomez-Mugica Sanz said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also a way for us to show our culture.â&#x20AC;?

More information about the cooking competition and the programs the event is raising money for is available at cscvanier.com.

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News - All students are active thinkers by nature, but not all students know how to think actively when it comes to classroom learning or at-home studying.

According to Oxford Learning’s CEO and founder, Dr. Nick Whitehead, this is because, like many other school skills (such as studying, organization, and focus) active thinking is a skill that students need to be shown

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“Active learning is not a skill restricted to the classroom. Children (and adults, too) should always be thinking about the world around them.

In fact, the more that children develop this skill outside the classroom, the more they are able to apply it in class.”

Dr. Whitehead outlines three simple steps for students to follow to practice their active thinking skills: • Before the activity, whether

it’s doing a craft or sitting down in class, students should pause to try reflect on what they already know about what they are going to do.

This primes the brain to get it ready learn something new.

• During the activity students should ask themselves questions to draw connections or highlight details, like “What is this similar to?”

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Dr. Whitehead says that parents can encourage active thinking by prompting conversations about learning and by asking the right questions.

Instead of asking, “how was school?”, more specific questions such as “how was math class?” or “what concepts did you learn today?” are more helpful.

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Steve Desroches Deputy Mayor Councillor, Gloucester-South Nepean Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays From my family to yours, I would like to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year. At this time of year, we all take a moment to look back at the blessings in our lives and I would like to thank you all for the honour to serve you at city hall. I look forward to renewing friendships, meeting new acquaintances and working together in 2014. I wish all the best to all of you this holiday season.

The Prince’s Operation Entrepreneur Program I was pleased to participate in the Prince’s Operation Entrepreneur program. The workshop was aimed at assisting transitioning military personnel, veterans and their partners the education, financing and mentoring needed to start and sustain their own successful business.

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Cameron Highlanders of Ottawa (Duke of Edinburgh’s Own) - St Andrews Day Dinner As Deputy Mayor, I was honoured to represent the City at the Cameron Highlanders of Ottawa St. Andrew’s Day Dinner. The Cameron Highlanders of Ottawa have a long standing history in our City, tracing their roots back to 1866. It was a pleasure to share haggis with Major General Wynnyk and Brigadier General Omer Lavoie at this special event.

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I would like to extend a big thank you to all the children who participated in my annual Christmas Card Design Contest. I was impressed by the creativity shown in the many entries I received. Congratulations and a special thank you to Chloe at St. Emily’s Catholic Elementary School for her winning submission!

Volunteer Opportunities for 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup I would encourage interested residents and youth in the community to become a volunteer for the FIFA Women’s World Cup next June. As one of the official host cities for the event, there will be a number of volunteer opportunities for local residents to participate and ensure the smooth delivery of the most successful FIFA Women’s World Cup ever.

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Sam, our Hospitality Manager, supplied us with the cucumber sandwiches and yummy sweets to remind us of other teas gone by. Today we will be in the bistro for a special drink of the week – a white cranberry martini. Each week it changes so everyone has a chance to sample something different. I enjoy the Knit and Natter group where those of us who knit use wool donated to knit mitts, hats and scarves for the snowsuit fund. I also enjoy books so it’s natural that I enjoy the Book Club where I can discuss a particular book each month with eight to ten other enthusiasts. The list goes on and on. The residents play bridge and will soon be having a euchre group. What I enjoy most is Misia’s enthusiasm for life. It is catching, and on a ‘blue day’ it raises my spirits.”

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News - Special postcards will be delivered to men at the Ottawa Mission this holiday season thanks to Ottawa-based Kissy Post.

The postcard company will host a homelessness information session and fundraiser on Dec. 24 in the ByWard Market, part of an effort to raise awareness and cheer this holiday season.

Organizer and owner of Kissy Post, Kaitlin McNamara, said she decided to hold the event to help herself and others become better informed about the issue.

“I don’t know enough about homelessness in my own city,” McNamara said. “I’ve never been the type of person to give money to someone on the street. This is my way of contributing; by words of encouragement, and helping out an organization that provides food, shelter and other accommodations.”

The event allows anyone who

wishes to send a special message to someone at the Ottawa Mission to come down to Blue Bird Coffee on Dalhousie Street to donate a minimum of $5 to write a message on one of the company’s post cards.

McNamara will hand-deliver the messages and any additional funds following the event.

The mission’s executive director Peter Tilley will attend the event to offer up information about what the organizations does, and who it helps.

“I know we all have different opinions on homelessness,” McNamara said, “but we can all agree that something has got to change.”

The idea is that people can drop by any time between 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

“I’m hoping entire families will show up to show their kids what I mean by, ‘a true holiday.’ ” McNamara said she hopes to raise at least $500, and hand out about 150 postcards to the men at the mission that night.

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News - Facing stiff competition from big-box stores and even drugstores with growing food sections, the formerly ubiquitous corner store is going out of fashion.

In addition to business pressures from competitors, the disappearance of convenience stores is also due to city policy, said Alain Miguelez, the city’s program manager for zoning and intensification. Many of the shops are

located in residential areas where landuse zoning doesn’t actually permit businesses to operate.

“When a store closes, it can’t come back,” Miguelez said.

The city wants to know if residents would like to see more mom-and-pop stores in their neighbourhoods.

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Miguelez said the city is looking to promote livable, walkable neighbourhoods that have services located where people live, whether it’s a convenience store, barbershop or laundromat.

Chris Penton of the Vanier Community Association said the study will be especially beneficial for his neighbourhood, as the area is in need of more retailers.

Having businesses located where people live will give them a reason to get out and walk around their community and perhaps meet a neighbour they wouldn’t otherwise encounter, Miguelez said.

“But we’re not looking to create little main streets,” he added. Re-zoning entire residential streets for business use is not on the table, he said. Rather, his department is looking at small pockets, likely on high-visability corners, where an entrepreneur could establish a successful small business that is supported by its surrounding neighbours.

With cutbacks in government jobs, unemployed workers might look to entrepreneurship as the next stage in

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their careers, and starting with a small storefront would make that possibility more accessible to new business owners, Miguelez said.

“That kind of micro retail opportunity could be a good incubator for people to take the plunge,” he said.

You can let the city know what you think about the idea by visiting the public consultations page in the city hall section of the city’s website, ottawa.ca, and filling out an online questionnaire before Jan. 31, 2014. Questions include what you think about existing neighbourhood commercial

uses and their locations, what kinds of businesses should be allowed in residential areas, how close they should be to main streets and the accessibility of the locations by various modes of transportation.

Interested residents can also contact the planner in charge of the study, Andrew McCreight, be emailing andrew. mccreight@ottawa.ca.

The results of the study will be brought to the city’s planning committee in August of 2014.

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News - A local group is looking to create suicide prevention “gatekeepers” in two local high schools.

Students and staff at Glebe Collegiate Institute and West Carleton Secondary School will be the first to benefit from three years of Ontario Trillium Foundation funding in the amount of $183,000 for Ottawa’s Community Suicide Prevention Network to provide a high school peer support program.

The goal is to build schools’ capacities to address mental health concerns and prevent suicides. The network will tackle that goal in three different ways.

“It’s about building shepherds, not necessarily identifying weaknesses,” said Joanne Lowe, executive director of the Youth Services Bureau and cochairwoman of the suicide prevention network. Young people are talking to each other about mental health issues and suicide, so arming them with useful information on how to react and how to connect their peers with resources is critical, Law said.

First, the program will involve youth leaders in schools by training them to deliver mental-health programming to fellow students with a special focus on inclusion for gay, lesbian, bisexual, two-spirited and questioning students.

Young people will also have access to Source of Strength training, which provides instruction for student leaders on how to engage and connect with their social networks to promote the idea of seeking help and link their peers with caring adults. The training teaches young people how to see their challenges through a lens of awareness of the resources

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Joanne Lowe, executive director of the Youth Services Bureau and co-chairwoman of the Community Suicide Prevention Network, speaks at a Dec. 6 event reporting on the network’s activities and launching a new program in local high schools. that are available to them when things get tough.

“It’s an amazing, evidencebased program,” Lowe said.

“It’s to build resilience within the school staff and a sense of acceptance for diversity within the schools.

“It’s going to open a lot of doors,” she said. At the same time, the initiative will provide safeTALK training all staff members at the schools, as well as young people and parents.

The training helps people assess suicide risk; make referrals to appropriate resources; and build awareness about gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender issues and the effects of homophobia.

The programming will eventually be offered to six Ottawa schools over the next three

years, but it will get underway at the Glebe and West Carleton high schools in the new year. A total of 2,511 students and 192 staff at both schools will take part in the program in 2014.

Combining all three of those approaches will create a powerful effect of awareness in schools, said France Thibault, principal at the Glebe school.

While many of her staff already has safeTALK training, the new program will make that education and those values universal.

“The teachers are very excited to take it,” Thibault said.

“They want to help kids,” added Reg Lavergne, principal at West Carleton Secondary School.

The project is particularly exciting for schools and school

boards because it will strengthen their connections to community partners, Lavergne said.

The Community Suicide Prevention Network got underway in 2010 and this year marked the first time it provided a report on its activities.

With a simple goal of preventing suicides in the community, the network brings together a number of local groups to build awareness and capacity to tackle suicide.

The network held Ottawa’s first summit on youth suicide in February of 2012 to support recognition of what members of the community can do to respond to young people in mental health crisis. A suicide prevention day was also declared on Sept. 10.

The network also produced a guide called Know What To Do, which discusses how to react and offer help when a young person is having suicidal thoughts. The guide is available by calling 613-729-0577 ext. 1252 and the information is also posted at facebook.com/ preventingsuicide.

A “lifeline” for parents and families was also set up. Offered 20 hours a week, the service provides access to “family navigators” who can consult with families that don’t know where to turn in a mental health crisis.

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So God imparts to human hearts The blessings of His heaven.

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Kanata caricaturist scores with hockey humour Jessica Cunha jessica.cunha@metroland.com

Arts - Randy Duncan scores with satire in his second book He Shoots… He Skewers 2!

10 Minutes for Crosshatching.

The Katimavik caricaturist has been drawing political and sports cartoons off and on since the mid-80s, amassing enough content to fill two books, with hopes of a third in the near future.

“Hockey is supposed to be fun and what better way of enjoying the game than laughing at it, with it, a bit of both,” he said. “Anyone who’s a hockey fan who sees this book is going to enjoy it.”

Duncan’s work spans the decades, with past greats and current stars all vying for space.

“It’s a mix of old and new,” said Duncan. “There’s no time period. The perspective is of a caricaturist looking back on the NHL.”Duncan got the idea for his first book, He Shoots...

He Skewers!, after amassing a large number of sports cartoons. Originally, he was going to include various types of sports, but narrowed his subject matter down to hockey by the time he decided to self-publish. Summit Studios picked up the first book and Duncan toured the country.

The book was done as a tribute to the stars of the NHL past and present as seen through a caricaturist eyes, my eyes. I had it span from the Richard-Howe era to the present, which at the time was 2009, he said.

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Ottawa caricaturist Randy Duncan releases his second book, He Shoots… He Skewers 2! 10 Minutes for Crosshatching, which features 112 pages of humorous hockey hijinks.

His second book, in what he hopes becomes a trilogy, includes a number of humorous hockey hijinks, highlighted with captions that explain the satirical situations.

“I think I like the humour overall better in the second book to be honest,” said Duncan. “The humour is probably

more consistent and I think it might be a little funnier.

“Being a follow up, this book picks up where I left off on the last one. I’m trying to once again balance between young stars and past greats, while focusing on the Original Six and Canadian clubs.

Crosby, Ovechkin and the

Sedins figure prominently, as well as a good deal of Senators material.”

Duncan’s artistic career started in high school when he drew caricatures of his teachers. “I was always doing pictures,” he said. “You put them in kind of a goofy scene.

“One of the teachers, I had

done one of him before, and he said ‘Well, that’s what you should be doing.’”

Duncan studied fine arts and graphics design at Concordia University, where he learned to hone his craft and play a little hockey on the side with the school team. As a backup goaltender for the

Concordia Stingers during the 1982-83 season, Duncan used his talent to skewer his teammates with caricatures.

He still plays for fun, and can often be found in nets at the Kanata Recreation Complex. Duncan’s work has been published on a freelance basis in a number of newspapers, including the Montreal Gazette, Ottawa Citizen, Winnipeg Free Press and the Edmonton Journal.

“I’m trying to have fun with it,” he said. “Hockey is a game of fun, it’s entertainment. I’m trying to have fun with the players. Even players I like a lot, I’m still making fun of.”

He’s even met a couple of the players he’s lampooned.

The one he remembers best is hockey legend Gordie Howe.

“I showed him a picture and it was in the rough stages. He laughed at the idea,” said Duncan. “He’s every bit as classy off the ice as on it. It was fun to meet him and have his reaction be like that to a picture.”

Living in Ottawa, he cheers for the Senators, as well as players he’s a fan of from other teams.

“I cheer more for players now. I’m a big Crosby fan,” he said. He Shoots… He Skewers 2! 10 Minutes for Crosshatching is available at a number of local book stores just in time for the holidays, including Chapters in Kanata, South Keys, Rideau, and Pinecrest, Coles at Bayshore Shopping Centre, and Indigo in Barrhaven.

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She didn’t answer right away, and when she did, I noticed a catch in her throat, as if she was going to cough, and she said I had to remember that Santa had a long list of children who wanted some things he just couldn’t supply. I knew then, I wouldn’t be seeing the white rubber galoshes with the fur down their fronts.

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Mother sat and looked at what had been done to try to make the kitchen (the only room in the house warm enough to sit in during the winter), presentable for the holiday season, and she let out a long sigh.

Audrey said Mother was remembering the many Christmas decorations she had when she lived in New York, and which she had described to my sister.

Things like silver bells for the outside of the door, candlesticks made of pure white wax, and glass holders in the shape of small pine trees for the dining room table. We didn’t even have a dining room on the farm in Northcote.

Audrey said this time of year Mother tried, but couldn’t get her Christmases in New York out of her mind. She remembered shopping in Macy’s Department Store, having

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After Audrey explained it, I understood that Mother secretly pined for all she had left behind in her beloved New York to come to the backwoods of Renfrew County, where every penny was hard-earned.

Instead of going to the city bank for money, Mother went to the blue sugar bowl in the back-to-the-wall cupboard to take out a few pennies from her “egg money.”

My sister said it was sometimes a sad time for Mother, even though the rest of the family was all caught up in the Christmas spirit out there in Renfrew County.

Audrey said I wasn’t to think it was anything I had done to make mother sad. That made me feel better. Not a lot better, but a little better just the same. Audrey said to me that I was to try to make our mother forget about her life in that far-away city, and it had nothing to do about being good she said. It had everything to do with trying to keep Mother’s mind busy in our home out there in Northcote.

I asked Audrey how I could do that, and being clever like she was,

my sister had the perfect answer.

I was to say often how pretty the kitchen was with its hand-made paper streamers stretched across the room, how I loved the smell of her mincemeat pies, and how I loved going into Renfrew with her when she delivered her wares door to door.

That seemed simple enough to me. I like to think it worked, as I took my wise sister’s advice to heart.

That year was not unlike any other Christmas on the farm during those lean Depression days. As the day grew closer, Mother’s mood changed. Baking consumed many hours.

We five children could hardly contain our excitement.

The Christmas concert was ahead of us, the smell of the big pine tree already in the corner of the kitchen filled the room, and there were whispers of secrets not to be shared.

There was joy in the house. We would be celebrating the true meaning of Christmas in the Lutheran Church, neighbours would come and go, and we would return their visits.

And Mother, for a time, put behind her the memories of another time and another place.

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Couldn’t she braid grass, knit dishcloths, do cross-stitch on tea towels, and recite the Lord’s Prayer and the 23rd Psalm without forgetting a word?

So that day in December it was my very clever sister Audrey who told me a secret about our mother that I believed with all my heart to be the gospel truth. It also explained why Mother did the things she did on occasion.

Audrey said there was a perfectly good reason why Mother’s mind sometimes seemed to be a million miles away around Christmas time. I certainly was aware that her thoughts often seemed to be somewhere else, especially when I asked her a question about our own Christmas which was coming up, an occasion which filled me with great anticipation.

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tions open, but its original aim to appeal to both federal and provincial governments to occupy the space turned out to be difficult.

“We tried really hard to secure tenants, but unfortunately slow economic times and an over-supply of office space available in the area made it hard to secure those tenants,” Jolin said.

The president added the group had wanted to appeal to other francophone groups as tenants, also with no luck. Residents had welcomed the proposal with open arms, stating the building could help with the revitalization of Vanier’s main commercial strip.

Rideau-Vanier Coun. Mathieu Fleury broke the news to the Vanier Community Association at a meeting on Dec. 10.

“So this means we are no further ahead than we are now?” Elaine Léger asked the councillor. “It’s a major setback,” Fleury said. He FILE added the association is expected to continue to The Association des enseignantes et des enseignants franco-Ontariens announced its plans maintain the site. Aside from owning the propto build a seven-storey building at 250 Montreal Rd. has been put on hold indefinitely. erty at 250 Montreal Rd, the association also owns property at 240 Montreal Rd. and owns sociation said it had hoped to create a neigh- 500 workers using the building. Instead, the as- 290 Dupuis. bourhood social hub with its glass and red sociation will move its office to 290 Dupuis St. Plans to build at 250 Montreal began because concrete facade, and by bringing street-level in the new year. the association’s office space at 681 Belfast Rd. shopping and eateries for the area.

The association was to occupy the top floor had been expropriated for the city’s light rail Originally, the project envisioned around of proposed building, but needed to lease the transit project. Jolin pointed out that although remaining space to make the $25 million proj- the development project is on hold, the associaect possible. tion is looking forward to becoming part of the Jolin said the association will keep all op- Vanier community.

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The owners of the property, the Association des enseignantes et des enseignants franco-Ontariens, the teacher’s association for the French public school board, announced its decision to put the project on hold at the start of the month, citing a lack of tenants for the new building.

“We left no stone unturned,” said Carol Jolin, president of the association. “We’ve been working on this project, to fill those floors for a good two years.”

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Infiniti Rakes in Awards Recently, at the Los Angeles Auto Show, industry giant AOL Autos announced it selected Infiniti’s Backup Collision Intervention (BCI) as a finalist for its 2013 Technology of the Year Award. Available on Infiniti’s QX60 and QX60 Hybrid luxury crossover, BCI is an advanced active safety system that can detect objects the driver may miss when backing up and even apply the brakes momentarily to get the drivers attention.

AOL Autos’ annual Technology of the Year award recognizes vehicle manufacturers from around the world who have elevated the industry by incorporating technology into their vehicles that advance the connectivity, telematics, active safety and fuel economy of cars and trucks on the road today. Following an online popular vote at AOL Auto’s website (completed as of this date), this year’s winner will be announced at the 2014 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January. But that’s not all for Infiniti’s flagship crossover.

For eight years, IntelliChoice.com and AutoPacific.com have teamed up for the annual Motorist Choice Awards, recognizing vehicles that marry both high consumer satisfaction and outstanding ownership value over time. This year, IntelliChoice recognized the Infiniti QX60 twice, as the premium segment winner in both the “People Mover” and “Kid Friendly” categories.

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Not to be outdone by its bigger cousin, the QX50 took a major award recently.

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Infiniti’s Q30 Concept, the next step in Infiniti’s strategy to expand into new premium segments, made its North American debut recently in Los Angeles.

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News - A woman walked to a podium set up outside the Western Ottawa Community Resource Centre and asked to take the microphone during a candlelit vigil for victims of violence on Dec. 6.

She stood in front of the crowd of people, gathered to remember and honour those who lost their lives at the hands of others. She asked them to also remember those who are still here.

“I know we are here to remember all the women who are dead today.

They are not living. They are victims of violence,” the woman told the crowd. “I’d like to tell you a short story about a victim of violence who chooses to live.

“She’s alive today and she’s victimized and needs justice.”

Two years ago, this woman attended the vigil, shedding tears because she could relate. She knew what it was to suffer abuse at the hands of others. She was victimized by a supervisor at work and harassed and abused by her partner of 14 years.

She didn’t know where to turn.

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After her impromptu speech, the woman posed a question to the crowd and city hall officials gathered at the vigil.

“Does the City of Ottawa only light candles for those who are dead? Or are they able to provide

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Shoulders straight, voice clear, the woman thanked everyone for listening.

She walked back to her three children, who were grouped by the door, and hugged them.

The four of them left before the vigil was finished.

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Fifteen candles are lit during the annual Dec. 6 vigil at the Western Ottawa Community Resource Centre.

The vigil is held on the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women to honour the 14 women killed in 1989 by a psychologically disturbed gunman at École Polytechnique. The day also recognizes all women and children impacted by violence by lighting a 15th candle.

The annual vigil is held on the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women to honour the 14 women killed in 1989 by a psychologically disturbed gunman at École Polytechnique. The day also recognizes all women and children impacted by violence.

Members of the Kappa Sigma fraternity at Carleton University attended the vigil this year, as they have in the past. Alex Anderson said it’s an important issue that needs to be addressed by everyone.

“Violence against women crosses all cultural, religious, economic and age classes.

National statistics say that 50 per cent of Canadian women have experienced at least one incident of physical or sexual violence after the age of 16, said Mayor Jim Watson, who attended the vigil with councillors Marianne Wilkinson, Eli El-Chantiry and Shad Qadri.

And it continues to happen in neighbourhoods across the city. “We need to continue to stand together, men and women, to speak out and educate, to make a change for the better in our community and our society,” said Watson.

There are a number of resources available for women and their children looking to leave an abusive household or for those who want more information: • Western Ottawa Community Resource Centre: 613-591-3686 • 24-hour crisis line for Chrysalis House: 613-591-5901 • 24-hour Women’s Crisis Line: 613-745-4818 • Femaide assaulted women’s help line: 1-877-336-2433 • Ottawa police partner assault line: 613-236-1222 ext. 5407 More resources and information are available at wocrc.ca.

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I recently had the chance to sit down with Matt Dineen, a local resident, to talk about how Dementia has forcefully and unexpectedly made its way into his young familyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s life. Mr. Dineen is a teacher, husband and father of three young children. In January, his wife Lisa was diagnosed with Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD). Here is his story: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Almost two months after the diagnosis, the unfortunate circumstances which this evil disease had wrought, necessitated that Lisa (a highly-educated 44 year old woman) be placed in a secured unit in a long-term care facility here in Ottawa. Since then, I have been without spouse and the children have been without a mother.â&#x20AC;?

Unfortunately stories like this seem to be more and more common. It is an issue of importance for countries across the globe, which is why on December 11th, our Government attended the G8 Dementia Summit in London, England. By working together with other nations, we can harness the best research, innovation and partnerships to help prevent or delay the on-set of dementia. We can also collaborate to improve the quality of life, care and treatment of those afďŹ&#x201A;icted with this disease and their families.

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Two â&#x20AC;&#x201C; potentially three â&#x20AC;&#x201C; local groups want to compete to form or expand a business improvement area to include the portion of Rideau Street between King Edward Avenue and the Cummings Bridge.

Such a merchantsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; group, called a BIA, would lobby on behalf of all the businesses along the street and co-ordinate efforts such as beautification, area marketing and neighbourhood cleanups. The groups are funded through a mandatory tax levy charged to each business within the boundaries and the businesses must agree to form the BIA and pay the levies as part of the process.

Rideau-Vanier Coun. Mathieu Fleury said the recent rebuilding of the street has focused attention of potential re-

development of the area, which is mostly populated by corner stores, shwarma eateries, small shops including a pawn broker, as well as a Loblaws grocery store, the Bytowne Cinema and a number of offices.

The competition over the area is the first time such a situation has happened, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s forcing the city to come up with a new policy for how to choose which group will get to pursue a study and organizational effort to establish a business improvement area.

The Downtown Rideau Business Improvement Area that represents businesses along the street between George Street and King Edward is one logical choice that could expand to include the rest of Rideau Street to the east. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just bringing the resources of the BIA to the whole street,â&#x20AC;? said Donna Holtom, chairwoman of the Downtown Rideau groupâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s board and owner of SantĂŠ Restaurant and

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But now, there is a new kid on the block looking to do the same thing.

Sharon Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Sullivan, a Sandy Hill resident and business professor from the University of Ottawa, has gathered a steering committee to push for a new BIA for Sandy Hill that would include the eastern section of Rideau Street.

Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Sullivan didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to talk on behalf of the 12-person group, which is just getting established, and wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t say what boundaries it would want the new BIA to have or how many businesses have expressed support. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re excited about it,â&#x20AC;? said Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Sullivan, who teaches in the Telfer School of Management.

She got started on the campaign in August because she said Sandy Hill is a â&#x20AC;&#x153;wonderful heritage neighbourhoodâ&#x20AC;? with unexploited business opportunities. Before she began approaching merchants, the businesses had never talked to each other, she said.

Unifying the voices of neighbourhood businesses at city hall and beautifying the streetscapes in the area are priorities for her, Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Sullivan said.

Bytown Cinema owner Bruce White said heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d give Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Sullivan kudos for at least approaching local businesses to ask if theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d like to get involved, but he said he and other merchants heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

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White said heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unlikely to get involved with efforts to establish a BIA because of the high level of disinterest he experienced from business owners last year when he attempted to boost communication during the reconstruction of Rideau Street. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Honestly, it was pretty eyeopening that in the face of one common, galvanizing bond, that there was so much apathy,â&#x20AC;? he said.

White said there could be a net benefit to having a group to represent the local businesses, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more difficult to undertake initiatives when the BIA is small and has a correspondingly small budget. His business is already a unique destination in the city, so it would likely benefit the least.

Fleuryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s motion approved by city council on Dec. 10 directs the economic development and innovation department work with the Downtown Rideau BIA, Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Sullivanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s group as well as the ByWard Market BIA, which might also take an interest, to assess the options.

That study will take a year and then city staff will present a recommendation on which group should get the green light in the first few months of 2015. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The city is kind of at odds to say who deserves it,â&#x20AC;? Fleury said.

The councillor doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have a preference who leads the efforts, he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I just want something that functions.â&#x20AC;?

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Trimming the tree OLG management staff Tammy McMullan and Shaun Armitage decorate a Christmas tree in the lobby of the Township of Osgoode Care Centre on Dec. 10. The Rideau Carleton Raceway team visited the long-term care facility for the second year to help decorate and bake Christmas cookies, as part of the United Way’s community action day program.

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December 17th through 23rd: 5:30 pm Contemplative Vespers

Riverside United Church

December 24th: Family Christmas Service 4 pm Carol Singing 9:30 pm Christmas Eve Choral Eucharist 10 pm

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10 Chesterton Drive, Ottawa (Meadowlands and Chesterton) Tel: 613-225-6648 parkwoodchurch.ca

Christmas 2013 Christmas time … by God’s calendar Sunday, December 22 – 10:00 a.m.

Mary’s time - A time to be who God wants me to be

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Jesus’ time - The time to live!

Christmas Eve Family Service

Wednesday, December 25 – 11:00 a.m.

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Christmas Eve Service from 5pm-6pm

414 Pleasant Park Road 613 733-4886 www.ppbc.ca

The Redeemed Christian Church of God

Heaven’s Gate Chapel Heb. 13:8 “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever

Tel: (613) 276-5481; (613) 440-5481 1893 Baseline Rd., Ottawa (2nd Floor) Sunday Service 10.30am – 12.30pm Bible study / Night Vigil: Friday 10.00pm – 1.00am Website: heavensgateottawa.org E-mail: heavensgatechapel@yahoo.ca

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Christmas Events and Services All Saints Lutheran Church 1061 Pinecrest

Pastor Rev. Kelly Graham 613-692-4228 www.knoxmanotick.ca Nursery Care provided

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December 25th Choral Eucharist 10 am “All are welcome without exception”

Sunday Services: Bible Study at 10:00 AM - Worship Service at 11:00 AM

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CHRISTMAS EVE SERVICES 5:30pm - Family Service 7:30pm - Traditional Candlelight Service

BARRHAVEN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Children’s program provided (Meets at the 7th Day Adventist Church 4010 Strandherd Dr.) Tel: 613-225-6648, ext. 117 Web site: www.pccbarrhaven.ca

Celebrating 14 years in this area!

Tuesday, December 24 – 7:00 p.m.

ST CATHERINE OF SIENA CATHOLIC CHURCH Christmas Mass Times: Tuesday December 24th: 7:00pm & 9:30 pm Wednesday December 25th: 7:00 am & 11:00 am Advent Penance Service: Saturday December 21st: 7:00 pm Sunday Mass times: 9:00 am, 11:00 am, 7:00 pm in Metcalfe on 8th Line - only 17 mins from HWY 417 613-821-3776 www.SaintCatherineMetcalfe.ca

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WESTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Worship 10:30 Sundays

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Our area houses of worship invite you to rejoice this Christmas season with praise, reflection, song and prayer. Their doors are always open, so please join them in celebrating the true meaning of the season.

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.

December 24: Family worship at 7:00 will be preceded by a Carol Sing at 6:30

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DND employees to move to Bells Corners in 2015 chase in 2010, with rumours circulating that bugs and listening devices had been found at the site.

OfďŹ cials conďŹ rmed on Dec. 13 that a sweep of the building hadnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t turned up any bugs.

Ottawa-OrlĂŠans MPP Phil McNeely also challenged the move by ďŹ ling a complaint with the Commissioner of OfďŹ cial Languages. He argued the headquarter relocation would cause an exodus of OrlĂŠans residents and damage the francophone community.

The new headquarters would only be 17 kilometres from the existing location and would be phased in, hopefully mitigating the impact to employees, said ofďŹ cials.

Public works manages all government facilities and there is no word yet on the fate of the DND headquarters building on Colonel By Drive, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s likely it will house another government department.

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Celebrity sighting Old Ottawa South resident Jeannie Campbell and her dad Eric Campbell cozy up with the seasonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s biggest celebrity at a community Christmas celebration at the old firehall on Sunday, Dec. 15. Despite the snowy weather, the firehall was packed with families looking to meet Santa, decorate cookies and get their faces painted like reindeers.

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St. Timothyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Presbyterian Church 2400 Alta Vista Drive (613) 733 0131 Sunday Worship at 10:00 a.m.

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Minister: Alex Mitchell sttimothys@on.aibn.com www.sttimsottawa.com

All are Welcome Good Shepherd Barrhaven Church Come and Worshipâ&#x20AC;Ś Sundays at 10:00 am 3500 FallowďŹ eld Rd., Unit 5, Nepean, ON

Advent Season (Dec 1st to 22nd) Sunday Masses Saturday evening 5:00 pm, Sunday morning 8:30 am & 10:30 am Daily Masses Monday to Saturday 9:00 am Confessions Monday to Saturday 8:45 am to 8:55 am Saturday 4:45 pm to 4:55 pm CHRISTMAS SEASON December 24th, Christmas Eve â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Nativity of the Lord 5:00 pm Mass with Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Pageant - 7:30 pm Mass with Choir 12:00 am Midnight Mass with Cantor/Organist and Procession to Creche December 25th, Christmas Day â&#x2C6;&#x2019; Nativity of the Lord 10:30 am Mass with Choir December 31st, Feast of Mary, Holy Mother of God 5:00 pm Mass with Cantor/Organist January 1st, Feast of Mary, Holy Mother of God 10:30 am. Mass with Choir

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St Aidanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Anglican Church

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Sunday worship - Holy Eucharist 8:00 am & 10:30 am 10:30 am - Play Area Christmas Eve at 7:30pm - Holy Eucharist Christmas Day at 10:30am - Holy Eucharist

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Roman Catholic Church 415 Piccadilly Ave. (near Island Park) 613-728-0201 www.saintgeorges.ca

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News - Senior government ofďŹ cials said the ďŹ rst wave of Department of National Defence employees will move to Carling Avenue starting in late 2015.

During a technical brieďŹ ng given to members of the media on Dec. 13, ofďŹ cials from Public Works and Government Services, Department of National Defence and Shared Services Canada outlined the six-year plan to consolidate the defence headquarters in the former Nortel building.

The government purchased the property in 2010 for $208 million. The retroďŹ ts and renovations will cost $506 million and another $41 million will pay for transition costs related to existing leases. The original estimate for the project was $790 million.

Some of those savings are

being credited to streamlining information technology costs as a result of the creation of Shared Services Canada in 2011.

The cost of the move will be mitigated by the $750 million in savings on the part of public works over the next 25 years. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A lot of the facilities we currently use are leased and are downtown, so they are costly to maintain and costly to retroďŹ t,â&#x20AC;? a senior government ofďŹ cial said.

Defence department operational facilities will remain at Star Top Road, along with some downtown and Gatineau locations, but the move will mean the number of locations in the capital region will be reduced to eight from more than 40.

The Carling campus will house 8,500 employees when the ďŹ nal phases of the move happen.

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News - Crossroads Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Centre is the calm in the centre of a storm.

The light blue and yellow hues of the centreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s therapy and free play rooms is meant to be inviting so clients can share their stories.

The centre, which is on Courtwood Crescent, off of Maitland Avenue, was founded in 1995. It helps children under the age of 12 who have been in contact with the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s police or ďŹ re services and hopes to turn them around before they end up permanently in the system.

Take the story of Steven, a pseudonym given to a case child and youth worker Shannon Mullen is currently working with. The name has been changed to protect his identity.

Steven was referred to the centreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s arson prevention, or TAPP-C program, through his schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s resource ofďŹ cer.

Stephen had engaged in anti-social behaviours both at school and at home. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He was deďŹ ant, and there was some stealing,â&#x20AC;? Mullen said.

The goal of TAPP-C is to intervene and build skills like anger management, social skills and problem solving strategies for kids and their families.

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The work usually begins at home.

Because of some trauma earlier in his life, Steven didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t trust his parents to have his best interests at heart. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t feeling supported,â&#x20AC;?

Mullen said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There was also a lack of trust on the parentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; side.â&#x20AC;?

Mullen said in order to make the environment more positive, the parents had to look at Stevenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s behav-

iour from a different light. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They had to understand things he was doing in light of past triggers,â&#x20AC;?

Mullen said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And he needed to be comfortable voicing his concerns.

We worked on coaching the parents to respond in an empathetic way.â&#x20AC;?

Barriers like traumas, learning disabilities and mental health concerns can cause some of the anti-social

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Pet Adoptions Meet Jade (A148944), a ďŹ ve-year-old female German shepherd-Siberian husky mix who canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t wait to run and play with her new forever family.

Jade is one of the lucky dogs at the Ottawa Humane Society who is currently participating IN THE ,%!$ ,EADERSHIP %DUCATION WITH !DOLESCENTS $OGS PROGRAM /N HER DAILY excursions to â&#x20AC;&#x153;school,â&#x20AC;? Jade is learning a whole repertoire of new commands and skills that she canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t wait to bring with her to her new home!

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behaviours, but Michael Hone, executive director of Crossroads, said rather than writing kids off, society as a whole needs to work harder to remove some of those barriers. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A lot of people assume these behaviours are on purpose, but these kids would do well if they could,â&#x20AC;? he said. And the ďŹ gures appear to bear that out.

Crossroads gets funding from the United Way and the provincial ministry of Child and Youth Services.

For the TAPP-C program, which receives referrals solely from schools, police or ďŹ re services, they measure a reduction of behaviour, no further contact with police and stability at home. For the last reporting period the improvements on the group measured were 85, 87 and 98 per cent respectively. Those ďŹ gures are based on the organizations work with 50 clients. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We measure the results and set goals for the outcomes as a result of the intervention,â&#x20AC;? Hone said.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a collaborative approach. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I often accompany the parents into the schools to discuss how we can best accommodate the children for success there,â&#x20AC;? Mullen said.

Mullen also looks to other community organizations to work with the family on related issues.

While the environment for Steven is much improved, he will need to continue therapy, something Mullen said is currently being set up. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s never perfect, but now when conďŹ&#x201A;icts arise, the family is better equipped to deal with them,â&#x20AC;? Mullen said. Along with the TAPP-C program, Crossroads also has a walk-in mental health clinic and a community-based family support program.

For more information, visit www. crossroadschildren.ca.

For more information on Jade and all our adoptable animals, stop by the OHS at 245 West Hunt Club Rd. Check out our website at ottawahumane.ca to see photos and descriptions of all our available animals.

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Shirley Seward Listening, Learning and Leading

Vice-Chair of the Board shirley.seward@ocdsb.ca

www.shirleyseward.com 613-851-4716

SCHOOL IS OUT! HAPPY HOLIDAYS It is that time of year again. If your children are like mine, they are excited by the prospect of the holiday break. It is a time to unwind, spend time with family and friends, and enjoy good food and company. It is also a time to reďŹ&#x201A;ect on what we have achieved, and to begin thinking about the year ahead.

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ENERGY AND RENEWAL IN RIVER ZONE

Residents, community partners and local politician all attended the Vanier Community Service Centreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s annual Snowflake Breakfast to help raise money for the local food bank Partage Vanier on Dec. 6.

As I have visited our River Zone schools this fall, I have noticed an almost tangible sense of renewal and energy.

Breakfast fundraisers surpasses goal

s &OR EXAMPLE AT A RECENT ACADEMIC CEREMONY ) attended with Council Co-Chairs at BrookďŹ eld High School, newly appointed Principal Steve Collins stressed the priority BrookďŹ eld is placing on academic achievement and high standards as it moves forward;

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News - Support held strong at this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s annual Partage Vanier fundraiser breakfast.

Hundreds lined up for a hearty breakfast at the Centre Pauline-Charron on Dec. 6, supporting the eighth annual Vanier Community Centreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Snowflake Breakfast, a fundraiser for the communityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s food bank. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The strength of our community resides in the amazing support from the residents and the different organizations to this causeâ&#x20AC;? said Grant Toole, a board member for the

Vanier Community Service Centre.

The event raised $36,500, which surpassed the organizersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; goal of $25,000 and close to $6,000 more than last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s event.

Partage Vanier needs the boost in funds to help feed hungry families this winter.

A total of 650 people attended this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s event, where community leaders, firemen, Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers and local politicians, including area councillor Mathieu Fleury and MPP Madeleine Meilleur, serve up breakfast.

To feed the hundreds of supporters, volunteers start preparing breakfast as early as

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Students from Samuel-Genest Catholic School also lent a helping hand, working the tables, offering tea and coffee and collecting coats as people entered the centre.

Partage Vanier feeds approximately 500 families in Vanier each month.

The Snowflake Breakfast is the food bankâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s only event-organized fundraiser to help support families this year.

Donations are accepted throughout the year.

More information is available at cscvanier.com.

I am honoured to be the newly-elected Vice-Chair of the Ottawa Carleton District School Board. At the December 3, 2013 annual organizational meeting, my fellow Trustees re-elected Jennifer McKenzie as Chair, and elected me the new Vice-Chair of the Board. In this capacity, I will continue to work very hard for River Zone schools, parents, students and communities. At the same time, I will make every effort to inďŹ&#x201A;uence overall progress at the Board in critical areas including student achievement and well-being, special education, the needs of recent immigrants, and equity.

SHIRLEY SEWARD is the Vice-Chair of the Ottawa Carleton District School Board and the Trustee for River Zone. She is a member of the Agenda Planning Committee and the Budget Committee. In the past she has served as Chair of the Education Committee and the Audit Committee. She also has served as a Director of the Ontario Public School Board Association (OPSBA), and the Ottawa Carleton Education Network (OCENET).

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Local events and happenings over the coming weeks — free to non-profit organizations Fax: 613-224-3330, E-mail: Ottawasouth@metroland.com

Dec. 22 The Annual Choir Christmas Concert will take place at 4 p.m. at Rideau Park United Church, 2203 Alta Vista Drive (at Cunningham). The Concert will feature music of Rideau Park’s Chancel Choir, the Northwinds Brass, and Touch of Brass Handbells. All are welcome. Freewill offering. Join us in celebrating the Christmas season. For more information: 613-733-3156; or www.rideaupark.ca.

Dec. 31 The Rideau and District Old Tyme Fiddlers Assoc invites you and yours to a traditional New Year’s Eve Dinner/ Dance, Alfred Taylor Community Centre, North Gower.

Happy Hour 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. Catered buffet beef and turkey dinner, dessert, etc. 7 p.m. party favours, bar service. Music 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. by the renowned Dennis Harrington and Heritage Country Band, $30 a person. Reserved tickets only. For additional information please call Ron

613-489-3746 or Gerry 613 692-4122.

Dec. 31 New Years party at Strathcona Legion -1940 Bank Street, no membership required. Lots of free parking, the full package with meal, champagne toast, life entertainment and party favours, only $60 pick up advance tickets before it sells out. 613-236-1575.

Jan. 6 CFUW-Ottawa General Meeting, “A Conversation with Grete Hale” speaker Grete Hale. Free and open to the general public. Come listen to a repected business person, and community leader, 1 p.m.

Riverside United/Church of the Resurrection Anglican, 3191 Riverside Dr. Ottawa K1V 8N8, 613-421-1370 www.cfuw-ottawa.org

Jan. 20 Garden Soil Demystified – Organic Soil Amendments for the Urban Gardener, sponsored by Gloucester Horticultural Society. Simon Neufeld, Certified Crop Advisor, will review what’s available to ensure that your vegetables are grown in a sustainable and healthy way.

4373 Generation Court, 7:30 p.m. sharp. Free admission.

Pre-registration recommended (613) 749-8897.

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Jan. 26 The Walk for Memories is Ottawa’s premier indoor fundraising walk. It is scheduled for Sunday, January 26 from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. in the Carleton University Fieldhouse. The goal this year is $275,000. Funds raised stay in the community to help people living with dementia.

The Alzheimer Society of Ottawa and Renfrew County provides support, education and resources for people with dementia, as well as their families and caregivers. Form a team, or come out as an individual and join in the fun.

Ask your family, friends and colleagues to join you, or to sponsor your Walk. To register, go to www.walkformemories.ca. For more information: www.alzheimer.ca/ottawa or contact thicks@asorc.org 613 523 4004 ext. 132

Looking for an inexpensive gift? Friends of the Farm offer the perfect solution - two informative and entertaining books for the naturalist or historian on your Christmas list. “For the Love of Trees” celebrates the heritage collection of trees in the Central Experimental Farm Arboretum. “Ottawa’s Farm” is about the men and women who lived and worked at the Farm during its first hundred years. Both are available on site, 613-230-3276, www. friendsofthefarm.ca.

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.

Strathcona Legion Mondays: social euchre at 1 p.m., Wednesdays, social drop-in darts at 6:30 p.m.

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.

Ongoing 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.

For more information, visit

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.

In Harmony, a woman’s chorus, is welcoming new members. Practices are from 7 to 8:30 p.m. on Tuesdays.

Call 613-722-0066.

Want to meet new friends?

Have a great workout? Come to The MET (Metropolitan Bible Church) every Wednesday from 12:15 to 1:15 p.m. for a free women’s fitness class with a certified fitness instructor. Includes a fiveminute inspirational fit tip.

Any questions? Contact the church office at 613-2388182.

Mondays

Conversational Spanish classes meet at the Civic Hospital, Main Building, Main Floor, Room, Room 3, at the back of the cafeteria “Tulip Café”, 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 SENIORS’ 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.

The league is a fun, social, non competitive league, experience not required. 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.

Improve your Spanish speaking skills with Los Amigos

at your local LCBO between

December 15 9:00 am • 11:00 am • 2:00 pm Refreshments will be served at 1:30 pm

December 1st and January 4th

“Good News of Great Joy” Christmas Eve Celebration

Giving Back In Our Community campaign

as part of the

4:00 pm • 5:45 pm • 7:30 pm

Look for the donation boxes or make a donatio n with your purchase .

Sunday Worship Services 9:00 am • 10:50 am • 11:00 am

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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 613821-0414.

Toastmasters. The group meets at Tunney’s Pasture every Monday from 4:55 to 6:30 p.m. For more information, contact Carole at 613761-6537 or email lucani@ sympatico.ca.

CHEO’s kids

Christmas Musical

2176 Prince of Wales Drive, Ottawa metbiblechurch.ca • 613.238.8182

our website at www.ottawanewcomersclub.ca or call 613-860-0548.

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SONS OF SCOTLAND present BURNS NIGHT (largest Burns Event in Eastern Ontario). Celebrate the anniversary of the world-famous poet’s birth at the Delta Ottawa City Centre Hotel, 101 Lyon Street, Ottawa. Includes traditional Burns Supper which includes haggis, ballroom and Scottish country dancing to the big band sound of the 7-MONTEREY; a cabaret show featuring Garth Hampson and Shawne Elizabeth and the Sons of Scotland Pipes and Drums. Time, cocktails: 6 p.m.; dinner at 6:45 p.m. Tickets: $65. For reservations call (613) 5215625 or email: burnsargyle@ gmail.com. Semi-formal or highland attire.

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St. Aidan’s Anglican Church invites you to join in an “Evening of Christmas Carols with the Emmanubells from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Refreshments in the church hall. Every one welcome. For more information, call the church office at 613-733-0102.

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