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Residents who attended a public consultation on May 2 weren’t sold on the idea that paid parking will free up scarce on-street spots in Westboro. The meeting, organized by Kitchissippi Coun. Jeff Leiper, served to illustrate the results of a 2014 study on the parking situation along the Richmond Road retail strip in Westboro, as
well as provide a forum on possible solutions to lack of available parking spaces. The study, which built on an earlier 2011-12 study, showed that the lack available public parking space in the westernmost area of the neighbourhood often exceeded the 85 per cent occupancy threshold that constitutes a high-pressure situation. See PROPERTY, page 6
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Cycling for a cause More than 1,000 cyclists gathered on Lebreton Flats on the morning of May 3 to participate in the 70 kilometre Ericsson Cycle for CHEO event, part of a day-long series of walk, run and skate events benefitting the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario. The CN Cycle for CHEO event is the hospital’s largest pediatric cancer fundraiser; the 70K event alone raised more than $66,000.
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would one day take advantage of lower waste disposal rates promised by the company’s cutting-edge plasma gasification technology. The city would have paid Plasco $82.25 per tonne of waste and $9.1 million a year to convert its garbage into electricity. The contract did not tie any city funding to the proposed facility and required Plasco to come up with the money on its own to build it. Plasco, however, never found the financing it needed, and the deal fell apart. The city officially cancelled its commercial contract with the company on March 3. While the commercial agreement was over, the city was still in negotiations to get the $300,000 letter of credit released by Plasco. The company originally had a 30 day deadline to restructure under the province’s Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act, but that deadline was extended until July 17, according to court documents.
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A motion introduced by Cumberland Coun. Stephen Blais calling for the city to pursue the acquisition of thousands of rural customers from Hydro One, moving them to the Hydro Ottawa rolls, was carried at a recent council meeting. Currently, there are 45,000 Hydro One customers in Ottawa’s more rural areas paying more than those on Hydro Ottawa’s services after the issue wasn’t dealt with at amalgamation. The discrepancy in billing can see significantly higher bills for houses located literally across the street and exactly the same size in rural parts of the
city. “It was an issue that should have been dealt with at amalgamation, yet for some reason Hydro was left off the table,” said Mayor Jim Watson at the April 29 city council meeting. “It was the wrong decision.” It’s a complicated issue – even Place d’Orléans shopping centre has wonky billing, as half the mall is served by Hydro One, and half by Hydro Ottawa. Blais himself experiences the Hydro One billing, as he moved partway through his last term as a councillor within Cumberland Ward. At the council meeting, Blais urged council to support Watson in formally requesting the province ensure Hydro Ottawa
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Blais said previously it’s an urgent matter, because if Hydro One assets are sold to someone other than Hydro Ottawa, it could be nearly impossible to ever buy them back. “A foreign bank or Bay Street equity firm isn’t going to want to break up an asset they’ve just spent hundreds of millions or billions on buying,” he said. After Blais announced his intentions to bring the motion forward to council, a spokeswoman for Energy Minister Bob Chiarelli said in a statement that binding arbitration would have resolved the issue, but the city refused to take part. Watson said he remains opposed to such a move. “That’s almost like a game of Russian roulette,” Watson said. “I’m not willing to leave it to an arbitration settlement. It’s a complete unknown. “You don’t know what the end result is going to be, and it could be an expensive decision that could adversely affect our Hydro Ottawa ratepayers… (it) could go very badly against us.”
participate in the procurement process to try and buy back the 45,000 customers from Hydro One at fair market value. It’s a timely move, as the province has recently expressed interest in selling off parts of Hydro One. The province announced on April 16 that it would seek to “broaden ownership” through an initial public offering, gradually selling off small parcels of up to 10 per cent while retaining the largest stakehold in the utility. “It seems to me the time is right for Hydro Ottawa to once again offer to buy those,” Blais said. “We’re not asking for special treatment – we’re asking for the opportunity to pay fair market value.” Waston supported Blais’ motion that would see him send a letter urging Hydro One to take part in a procurement process. “My hope is that by writing and putting pressure on the provincial government ... that this matter is resolved,” Watson said. “I think there is a tipping point in the sense that there is going to be movement on the 40 per cent sale of Hydro (One). I think now is the time to ask.”
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A movement that had been quietly brewing for years leapt to the front page of newspapers recently following a sharp upturn in cases of preventable childhood diseases. The anti-vaccination movement is blamed for the resurgence of once-common childhood diseases like measles and whooping cough, with pockets of disease now springing up in areas with low vaccination rates. In response, the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario is urging parents to “Spread the facts, not infection” with a new website and an online petition for the establishment of a national immunization awareness week.
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Federal health minister Roma Ambrose meets with Issac Valdez-Cadet, 8, at CHEO on April 29 during the launch of the hospital’s new immunization campaign and related website. The website, spreadthefacts.ca, was developed by CHEO, and garnered the at-
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When vaccination rates fall below a certain threshold, cases spread and an outbreak occurs, putting others in danger. Dr. Carrol Pitters, CHEO’s chief medical officer, has worked at the hospital since the mid-1980s, and never thought such a campaign would one day be required. “I think we’re all quite disappointed, really, that we’re back here trying to encourage what we know is good and what we know will protect children,” said Pitters. This past winter saw a continent-wide outbreak of measles stemming from one sick child who visited Disneyland in California last December. That eventually led to 130 children becoming ill, several of whom returned home to the Montreal area before
29. “Vaccinations are safe and effective in protecting us from many serious diseases,” said Ambrose in a media release. “I urge Canadians to protect themselves, their families and their communities. Get the facts about vaccination from reliable sources and get vaccinated.” Diseases like measles not only harm children and can lead to serious, potentially fatal side effects, but it can also endanger infants who are too young to be immunized. Normally, ‘herd immunity’ protects the most vulnerable by surrounding them with a well-immunized population. In this scenario, any case of the disease that crops up is usually limited to one person, doesn’t spread to others, and dies out in the populace.
showing symptoms. For Pitters, that outbreak was the straw that broke the camel’s back. CHEO began developing the information campaign in response to it. “We’ve seen a couple of outbreaks, and particularly with measles, which is such a preventable disease,” said Pitters. “To know it’s preventable, when people are suffering from this, is really quite disturbing … We’re hoping with this website, with this campaign, that giving people the right information and making them more aware will actually make a difference, and may encourage a few more people to go out and protect their kids - and protect the rest of us - by getting vaccinated or vaccinating their children.”
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Ever wondered what the inside of a frog looks like, but felt too squeamish to dissect one? A new exhibit opening at the Canadian Museum of Nature in May is set to offer the opportunity to see what’s under different animals’ skin, without getting your hands dirty. “It’s all about a method that aims to show specimens in a different way,” said Kamal Khidas, a curator of ver-
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This leads to negative local effects, such as overflow onto side streets. A similar study targeting Wellington Street West will commence in June. “When the study was replicated in June of 2014, it showed that demand for parking increased,” said Scott Caldwell, program manager for parking studies at the city. In the interim period, a paid parking garage with 36 public spaces was built at the Westboro Station condominium building, but even with new directional signs, it has been a challenge to get motorists to use this option, he said. Another solution Caldwell proposed was reducing the three-hour limit on the 37 spaces that line Danforth Avenue to increase turnover. Leveraging private parking was another possibility. However, it was the main driver of the meeting (laid out on the first display board as one walked into the room, and featured prominently in the online
notice of meeting) which had people talking - paid parking. One resident asked if paid parking was “too big of a hammer” to wield to solve the problem, given that the problem was somewhat localized. Others questioned whether paid parking would even serve to free up spaces at all. On-street parking rates in Ottawa are among the highest in the country at $3 an hour “We’re not considering any one-size-fits-all strategy for either Westboro or Wellington West,” said moderator Dennis Van Staalduinen, an independent consultant and community activist. Another resident demanded a list of pros and cons for each proposed solution, while another bemoaned the lack of bike racks in the area to serve the very cycling that the city encourages. Yet another stated he was suspicious that the proposal was “a revenue generation exercise” for the city, asking Caldwell what the turnover rates were in the area. Caldwell said the turnover rates hadn’t changed between
the earlier and later study. “If the amount of time spent in a spot remains the same, and if (people’s) behaviour is unlikely to change whether there is a meter there or not, what is the function of a meter?” the man asked. Van Staalduinen responded by saying there was “exhaus-
creased demand for parking in the westernmost part of the study area. “We’re not table setting, we’re just looking at the tools we’ve got,” said Caldwell. “(Paid parking) is not a foregone conclusion.” Louise Radmore of Paradigm Properties, Inc., drove
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tive data” on the issue laid out in the 2005 book The High Cost of Free Parking by Donald Shoup. One resident pointed out that since the initial study, the linear park adjacent to Richmond and Golden had become home to a popular seasonal farmer’s market that draws people in from outside the neighbourhood, something that could account for the in-
three hours to be at the meeting, and wanted to see a solution that included more parking spaces. She was representing Athlone Investments, Inc., a block of small retail tenants that make up part of the area’s “healthy business demographic” – a retail mix that she said is threatened. “Our retailers are dying … I hear every day ‘I’m dying – my clients can’t park,’”
said Radmore. “It’s going to decimate the little stores. The only people who will be able to afford to rent there will be chains. Independent businesses can’t.” She asked Leiper what he would do if it was his decision. Leiper said he was “going back and forth on the issue.” “I’m hesitant – I’m openminded, but I’m hesitant to putting a surface parking lot or a garage or something that is going to take more traffic down our residential side streets,” he said, adding that he’s received hundreds of resident complaints about traffic on side streets. Leiper asked Radmore whether lack of parking was the real threat to businesses, given the high rents charged in the area. “My operational costs are half property taxes,” said Radmore. “Sorry – the rents developers charge is because of the prices we have to pay for the properties. If you don’t think there is an immediate impact
on city coffers – every time there is a vacancy, the property taxes drop in half, the city gets half as much money if it sits vacant – that should be an incentive. How many vacancies do you need before you can afford to buy a parking spot? When I hear that you’re even considering doing nothing – sorry, I’m angry.” Radmore said it took the city nine months to erect a sign pointing out the presence of nearby parking because in order to do so, they needed to review their city-wide sign bylaw. “This going too slowly – if we don’t do something, in five years it will be a disaster zone,” she said. A firm course of action was not decided on by the conclusion of the meeting, though Leiper had said previously that if decided on, paid parking could appear by the end of the year. A public consultation similar to the May 2 meeting will be held in the early fall to discuss the findings of the Wellington West parking study.
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University of Ottawa master plan looks to spruce up campus Plan looks to guide development over next 20 years alex.robinson@metroland.com
The University of Ottawa has plans to usher in major changes to its campus over the next 20 years to optimize its land and build green infrastructure. University representatives presented a master plan outlining the changes to council’s planning committee at a meeting on April 28. The plan will include restoring heritage buildings, building new ones and developing more green space and pedestrian-friendly infrastructure. “We are a major post-secondary education institution in Canada and our intention is to make it look that way over the next 20 years,” said George Dark, of Urban Strategies, who is working with the university on the plan. More than 80 per cent of the school’s 50,800 students, staff and teachers already do not use a car to the get to the university. The school expects to boost that percentage higher, with the expansion of the city’s LRT system. “By virtue of having this system developed all across the city is the university can also decant itself over the city,” Dark said. One of the proposed pieces of green infrastructure will be converting a parking lot near one of its social science buildings into an open green space for pedestrians. Trees will be planted along King Edward Avenue, which the university hopes to better integrate into its campus by redeveloping property and installing a park along it. The University of Ottawa is also looking to build more bike and pedestrian friendly pathways along the Rideau River, in the southern part of its campus. The vision fits within the city’s current official plan and zoning bylaws, meaning any part of it would only require a site plan approval to move ahead. Dark said the university has few plans to expand further into Sandy Hill. “The aspirations to continue to build in Sandy Hill are almost nonexistent with the exception along Henderson,” he said. Barrhaven Coun. Jan Harder, who serves as the planning committee chairwoman, heralded the plan to build an open green square, where a parking lot currently is. “What you’re doing with your parking lot x is very much what
they’re doing in Stockholm, Denver, Arlington and Seattle and it’s great to see it happening here,” she said. “It’s such a benefit.” Councillors also asked about the school’s plans for housing. University officials said they expect to bring 1,000 new residence spaces online by the end of the summer with the construction of new buildings and the conversion of a hotel on King Edward Avenue. The university has worked on the master plan for more than two years, holding a number of public consultations to develop it with residents, students and staff.
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Much at stake in labour battle
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ust like the mercury rising in thermometers across Ontario these days, temperatures are rising in the latest chapter in a series of showdowns between the provincial government and the teachers unions. The last time this happened, back in December 2012, Dalton McGuinty was still premier, autumn was turning into winter and relations between Queen’s Park and the teachers were just as chilly as they are today. That dispute, which the unions characterized as a fight about rights and the province said was about money, was among the factors that saw McGuinty move on to a secluded life of Ivy League academia and started the process of current Premier Kathleen Wynne’s rise to power. How little has changed in a few short years. From the province’s perspective, it was about holding the line on salaries then, just as it is now. The teachers are once again claiming it’s an attack on rights, not about pay. Two things should shape this dispute, but likely won’t: the province still has significant budget woes,
and teachers are still well paid. Whether those facts have any influence over the negotiations remains to be seen. Eventually one side will cave in, yet by then some sort of damage will be done to the rest of us. Either the province will cave, as it did back in 2012, and we’ll be stuck with the bill or, after some sort of disruption in our schools, teachers will grudgingly return to work, smarting from a battle lost. Back in 2012, this newspaper supported a different notion: all differences aside, what must be held foremost in the minds of all parties is that education is about our children. Children are the future of this province, and any shot it has at returning to prosperity has a lot to do with them. Bitterness or cold calculation today will only lead to ruin tomorrow. Some sort of compromise needs to be struck that allows the province to move forward with reducing the deficit, while at the same time ensuring satisfaction and security for teachers. This is far from an easy task, but it’s what must be done to ensure that Ontario doesn’t continue to lose its way.
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Give Sparks Street pedestrian mall a break
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hey’ve started talking about cars on Sparks Street again. You could have predicted it, because it happens every time somebody notices Sparks Street. When somebody notices Sparks Street, particularly if it is after business hours, somebody notices that there are no people on it. Then they start talking about putting cars on it again, as if that would solve something. It would; it would solve the problem of there being no cars on Sparks Street. But it wouldn’t solve anything else. For much of the time -- say, 9 to 5, May to October -- there isn’t much that needs solving on Sparks Street. People are out and about, chatting, eating food from one of the food wagons, listening to a busker,
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CHARLES GORDON Funny Town watching a juggler. It’s not the kind of thing that tourists come from far and wide to see, but it’s OK. It’s better than just another street with cars on it. Over its 48-year history, they have tried various things to “save� the Sparks Street mall. Most of the saving consists of putting new objects in the middle of it -- furniture, kiosks and some structures that, frankly, it’s hard to know what they are. After a few years, those objects are carted
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away and new ones are put in there. Then there are events, mostly involving food competitions of one sort or another. These draw well, but they leave eventually and it becomes the same old Sparks Street again. The main problem is that the big stores decided, around the time the Rideau Centre opened in 1983, to leave Sparks Street. So Sparks Street is no longer a shopping destination. Another problem, which may solve itself as more and more condos and apartment buildings go up, is that most of the population decides to leave Sparks Street too, as soon as the workday is over. Sparks Street needs to be thought of as the place to go, and it isn’t. The place to go for shopping is the Rideau Centre, or one of the DISTRIBUTION INQUIRIES 4RACI #AMERON ADMINISTRATION: $ONNA 4HERIEN DISPLAY ADVERTISING: 'ISELE 'ODIN +ANATA $AVE 0ENNETT /TTAWA 7EST "RAD #LOUTHIER /RLEANS #INDY 'ILBERT /TTAWA 3OUTH 'EOFF (AMILTON /TTAWA %AST 6ALERIE 2OCHON "ARRHAVEN *ILL -ARTIN .EPEAN -IKE 3TOODLEY 3TITTSVILLE *ANINE +IVELL /TTAWA 7EST 2ICO #ORSI !UTOMOTIVE #ONSULTANT 'REG 3TIMPSON !UTOMOTIVE #ONSULTANT
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suburban malls. The place to go for drinking and dining is the ByWard Market. Sparks Street is the place to go to look at the structures in the middle of it and try to figure out what they are. To be thought of as the place to go, Sparks Street needs excitement. If there had been riots on Sparks Street after the elimination game against Montreal that would have put Sparks Street on the map. People would go down in the off season to see where the riots happened. During the playoffs they would go down there to riot. But there weren’t any riots, despite the Senators having been robbed by the ref of the tying goal, despite Subban breaking Stone’s wrist, despite the plain old injustice of it all. To their credit, Ottawans, unlike, say, Vancouverites, just aren’t rioting people. When the ref ruins everything, we write letters to the editor. CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING SALES:
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And even if there were riots, they would have taken place on Elgin Street, which somehow got to be the Sens Mile. Sparks Street can’t catch a break. Putting cars back on it would just add insult to injury.
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Put your spouse first
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ith three kids, a business and a fat cat, it’s not easy for me to make time for my spouse. Pondering this made me realize many parents are great prioritizers, but a lot of us really aren’t great at prioritizing our marriages. It’s easy to skirt the issue and say, “I’ll prioritize my spouse when the kids get older.” But we’re lying to ourselves. Sure, older children develop independence, but they continue to take up a lot of time, money, energy, plus physical and emotional space. Regardless of age, kids have homework, friends, tantrums, extra-curricular pursuits, never mind issues that keep parents up all night. Ask married friends with kids to be honest about how often they share a bed with the spouse for an entire
BRYNNA LESLIE Capital Muse night. You’re sure to discover there’s a lot of couch sleeping going on. But with work commitments, personal chores, lack of money, time, fatigue, no babysitter, it’s hard to organize regular date nights, right? Maybe, and yet, in spite all those seemingly valid excuses we still manage to hustle the kids to their regular piano lessons, hockey practices and friends’ birthday parties, don’t we? Maybe we do spend time together every day. But are we truly focused on one another? Smartphones and
social media are so pervasive it seems the entire world is invading our most intimate relationships. I’m not going to be as bold as one Huffington Post columnist who, in April, claimed she is consistently able to prioritize her spouse – that would be nothing but a bold lie on my part. But at times, I have been able to bump my husband up the hierarchy, and when I do, it’s a great thing. I’ll be honest, budget, timing and fatigue have made regular date nights difficult for us over the years. I’m
frequently guilty of scheduling all kinds of space for my children, my friends and my clients, without a single line item in my calendar for my spouse. At times, we’ve overcome this by keeping our marital dates as simple as possible – taking a walk, meeting for lunch during our work day, or playing a board game in the evening after the kids are in bed (early). When we’ve been successful, we’ve put the spouse-only time in the calendar and stuck to it just as we would to any other activity. And we have a rule: Don’t talk about the kids. But we should have another rule: No smartphones. I’m so guilty of responding to the alluring beep mid-conversation instead of staring deeply into my husband’s eyes. One of my clients enforces “presence” at meetings, which means no texts, emails or social media
when we’re engaging with team members face-to-face. The same should apply to quality time with anyone, but spouses in particular. How can you possibly have a meaningful conversation or intimate quality time with your spouse when Jan from Australia is distracting you with a hilarious YouTube video of her cat she just shared on Facebook? You can’t. A couple of things we do consistently well though. We greet each other in the morning – first thing. It’s amazing how quickly a parent will go to grab a crying baby or even routinely hug a child. But do you hug your spouse each morning? And do you do it first? Regardless of the early hour, if we’re late, if we look or smell bad, if the kids are screaming, or if we had an argument before bed, my husband and I hug in the kitchen and say, “good morning.” I can’t say it happens every day, but we do it enough that it’s become a meditation of sorts, like flossing.
We don’t let the kids in our bed. If you want to bump your spouse up the food chain, get the kids out of your bed. Period. Sometimes it’s nice to cuddle with kids. Sometimes it’s necessary if they wake in the night crying. Go to the child’s bed temporarily if you must, but don’t let them into yours. Especially once you’re through the baby stage, make the marriage bed a sacred place, the one place that only the parents get to own completely. And try to sleep in it, together, as often as you can. And cuddle. Keeping a marriage rolling through the ups and downs of parenting is pretty challenging. It seems logical that my spouse get some priority time and space in my life, even if he can’t be top dog all the time. I’m not always successful at giving him that, but I do think it’s a worthwhile and necessary pursuit – which reminds me, it’s time to update my calendar and turn off my smartphone notifications permanently.
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Tropical greenhouse to reopen at Dominion Arboretum Reopening follows renovations, coincides with Mother’s Day, plant sale Steph Willems steph.willems@metroland.com
A little taste of the tropics is returning to the centre of Ottawa. After nearly five years of renovations and a delayed reopening, the tropical greenhouse in the Dominion Arboretum will reopen to the public on May 10. Housing more than 500 varieties of tropical plants, the heritage greenhouse is one of the few indoor jewels of the sprawling Central Experimental Farm. Unlike other installations devoted to agriculture, the tropical greenhouse provided an oasis from the often harsh conditions outside, and a tourist attraction for when the arboretum’s public gardens are buried under snow. “It’s a huge plus,” said Denise Kennedy, a volunteer gardener with Friends of the Central Experimental Farm. “(We’re) constantly getting
calls asking us when the greenhouse will open.” The farm falls under the stewardship of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, though the Friends have taken upon themselves to promote and preserve the natural beauty of the farm. An extensive restoration of the greenhouse was required due to the prolonged heat and humidity housed within the structure. The restoration process followed strict guidelines based on original materials and technologies to ensure the historic structure remained true to its original intent. In February, the tropical greenhouse received an Architectural Conservation Award from the City of Ottawa. The reopening is timed to coincide with Mother’s Day, which is also the day the Friends hold their popular annual rare and exotic plant sale. That sale, held May 10 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., will draw 25
growers from across eastern Ontario and western Quebec, as well as many returning customers. “We put an invite out to all kinds of nurseries and specialty growers,” said Kennedy. “This year we will have four garden accessory vendors as well.” Held in the parking lot adjacent to the Neatby Building at the corner of Carling Avenue and Maple Lane, the sale draws from the urban neighbourhoods surrounding it – areas normally far away from the closest nurseries. “We have a lot of the same people who keep coming back,” said Kennedy. “The growers talk to those who come to the sale and answer questions, and many come back due to that one-onone with the growers.” Information on the sale and the activities and attractions of the experimental farm can be found by visiting friendsofthefarm.ca.
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May is Bike to Work Month Bike to Work Month focuses on promoting cycling as part of the daily commute to work. Bike to Work Month encourages commuters to consider cycling, promotes cycling safety, and raises awareness about cycling infrastructure. The City of Ottawa has celebrated Bike to Work Month since 2010. The 2013 Transportation Master Plan (TMP) sets a goal of increasing the cycling modal share from three percent to five percent of morning peak period trips. The TMP also seeks to have cycling account for eight percent of all trips in the downtown core. Carlington Book-Box Launch On Saturday May 9, 11am, at the Alexander Community Centre, members of the community will be on hand to join me in launching the Carlington Book-Box. This community-based program of drop a book, take a book, will facilitate book sharing within the community. A big thanks to Carlington resident Anna Du Vent for spearheading this initiative and Rick Lane, our carpenter. If you have a moment on Saturday, please drop by and join the festivities. Legal Action: Airport Parkway Bridge As River Ward residents are well aware, the construction of the Airport Parkway Bridge was challenged with delays and rebuilds due to significant construction errors. On December 3, 2013, the Finance and Economic Development Committee directed the City Clerk and Solicitor to seek recovery from Genivar and any other party, the additional costs associated with the construction delays and necessary changes to the design of the Airport Parkway Pedestrian/Cycling Bridge. The City Clerk and Solicitor retained external counsel, given the breadth and complexity of these matters, to both respond to the claim by Bray against the City and to advance the related claims against Genivar by the City and any other responsible party. The City’s pleadings were served in June 2014 and seek contribution and indemnity as against Genivar and/ or other parties for any amounts that the City may be required to pay in respect of the Tomlinson/ Bray matter, as well as approximately $5.8 million in damages arising out of the need to redesign the Bridge. The pleadings phase of the proceeding is now complete and the case can now move to the discovery phase, in which the parties will have to exchange all of their documents and will also have an opportunity to examine a representative of each of the other parties. Once this phase is completed later this year, the parties will participate in a mediation session to try and resolve the case, as is required for all lawsuits in Ottawa. If the case is not resolved, the court will likely look to schedule the trial some time in 2016. When I have met with the City’s legal team my message has been consistent: recoup as much taxpayer money as possible.
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The city revealed recommendations for the western light rail extension on April 29, which included removing and adding stations along the line and establishing routes for construction detours on April 29. Plans for the extension were disclosed in what the city called the final western extension open house at city hall. Representatives from the city’s transportation planning department said that the final plans revealed on April 29 for the LRT track and its corresponding stations were deemed the most suitable out of 12 options. Factors considered when choosing the final route included economic feasibility, environmental impact, transit efficiency and accessibility, and working around municipal infrastructure including a large underground water main and a large underground sanitary sewer. The city confirmed that Queensway station would be decommissioned and replaced with a new Queensview station further west. Two other new LRT stations confirmed include Cleary station on Cleary Avenue and New Orchard station between Clearly and
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Construction on the Confederation Line West LRT Extension will involve transforming existing transit stations and constructing new ones. Lincoln Fields stations. Lincoln Fields station will be reconstructed slightly north of its current location, beneath Carling Avenue. The presentation addressed concerns by some residents about whether tracks would be laid over Byron linear park. According to the presentation, the LRT line would be below grade on the northern edge of the park. “There’s thousands of people who use that park,” said Charles Biscope, a resident of nearby Alison Street. “But I think, by the looks of it, it’s going to be OK. Then again, it’s way down the road.” The presentation also addressed fears that construction of the LRT
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extension from Lincoln Fields station to Baseline station would negatively affect the ecology of Pinecrest Creek and the surrounding woods and trails. Planning consultant David Hopper said that the watershed, which has been reshaped over the years by development, would be returned to its original alignment as part of construction along the corridor. Hopper added that former wetland areas along the Pinecrest corridor would be restored in order to re-naturalize the area and mitigate flooding. On the topic of road traffic during the construction process, Hopper said that in addition to Scott Street and Richmond Road, Carling Avenue and Hwy. 417 would be used to re-route buses from the existing Transitway during construction between Tunney’s Pasture and Dominion stations. Karen Large, who lives near Scott Street, was relieved by the prospect of other roadways being used to re-route bus traffic. She and many residents in neighbourhoods along Scott have expressed concern about the impacts of LRT construction on local traffic. “I’m really encouraged today because they’re actually taking a lot of our ideas and they’re utilizing them for phase two. We kept asking them where the buses were going to go, there’s 2,500 buses a day,” Large said. “Now what I’m very excited about, and was not expecting, is that they’re now reconsidering some of their design.” Among topics that left some people concerned were plans for Cleary station to be constructed on Cleary Avenue behind the Unitarian House of Ottawa, a retirement facility. Residents of Unitarian House worried about sound and vibration during construction, as well as changes to the geography of the Unitarian House parking lot. Residents also questioned the large bus staging area Hopper said would be constructed as part of LRT modifications to Bayshore station. City transportation planning representatives said public comments would be considered in future planning and engineering of the western LRT extension.
Elementary teachers to begin work action on May 11 Steph Willems
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Elementary teachers are expected to dial back their work mandate on Monday, May 11 after the union representing them notified the public of province-wide strike action. The Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario notified the provincial government and Ontario Public School Boards’ Association on May 5 that teachers and occasional teachers
would begin strike action on May 11. High-level talks between the union and province reached an impasse late last month, leaving the possibility of strike action a near certainty. Unlike the public secondary school teachers, who have already begun walkouts in three Ontario school boards, the ETFO will encourage work-to-rule activities, with teachers no longer taking part in certain aspects of their job. If it comes to pass, the strike action
by 76,000 teachers will affect 817,000 Ontario elementary students. In a news release issued on May 5, ETFO president Sam Hammond stated, “We are not going to comment on strike action details publicly until we’ve had an opportunity to communicate with all our members this week … What’s important to realize is that the government and OPSBA want to layer on more bureaucracy into the education system, and compromise the ability of teachers to do what’s
best for our students.” According to the ETFO, the bargaining process fell apart due to the province’s demands, which include the removal of class size language from collective agreements, and directions on how teachers should manage their preparation time. The Ottawa-Carleton District School Board issued a notice on its website following the announcement, stating that elementary teachers will likely not participate in
EQAO testing, professional development, and will perform limited duties in report card preparation. “Based on the information received, parents can expect elementary schools to remain open and classes running as usual,” the board stated. “All extended day programs will operate as regularly scheduled. The school district will provide more information about the specific services that the union is withdrawing in the coming days.”
Have Your Best Garden Ever in 2015 It’s no secret that a great garden starts with great soil. Soil is a source of nutrients, air and water essential to the establishment of healthy root systems in plants; but its supply is not infinite. A neglected soil is far less likely to yield the results you are looking for in your perfect garden. Over time your soil can become nutrient deficient, compacted or thin which can make it difficult to grow and lead to poor plant health. A great soil is rich in nutrients, PH balanced and has excellent tilth, allowing for easy air and water flow. Furthermore, a great soil should also be built up enough to allow your plants’ roots plenty of room to grow deep and thus access more water and nutrients. How can you take a tired, dull soil and turn it into a great soil? This can be accomplished using a number of techniques. One of the easiest ways to improve such a soil is by using an amendment or enhancer that is made up in large part of organic matter. Soil amendments are designed to be mixed in with existing soils to bolster areas in need of improvement. The ideal time to introduce organic matter into your growing areas is in the Fall. This allows the beneficial microorganisms in your soil more time to become active before gardening season arrives. Not to worry though! Even if you missed the window last fall, you can still get more out of your soil this Spring. There are great products on the market that can make a real difference in the results you see from your garden this year, including Manderley’s Premium Garden Soil – which can be conveniently delivered right to your driveway in an easy-to-store cubic yard bag. Manderley’s soil mix is a 100% natural product consisting of black earth, organic fertilizer, compost, sand and lime. The organic content in the mix is quite high, which promotes microbial activity in your growing area. Microorganisms will work hard to mineralize the organic nutrients giving your plants more food for healthy growth. Each component in this mix contributes particles of different sizes and shapes. This results in improved airflow and drainage and reduces the risk of over compaction. The organic-based soil will also provide excellent water retention; something your plants’ roots will really appreciate. Giving your best garden ever the head start it deserves isn’t rocket science. Follow these easy steps for best results: Step one - determine how much soil you need. Keep in mind that you should aim to maintain at least a 6” soil depth (pro tip – top off your growing areas with 2” of soil every Fall to make up for soil loss caused by erosion, etc.). Step two - go get your soil, or better yet, have it delivered without the mess or hassle. Step three - till or turn over the existing soil in your growing areas. Step four - add in your soil mix and ensure that your beds reach the appropriate depth. It’s that easy. Understanding the importance of maintaining a healthy soil is the first step in reaching your garden goals for 2015. By following these four steps and giving your plants proper care throughout the gardening season, you’ll be amazed at the difference. R0013258951-0507 Ottawa West News - Thursday, May 7, 2015
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Grassroot Grannies to host 9th annual plant sale Adam Kveton
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The Grassroot Grannies are holding their ninth annual plant sale with hundreds of hardy flowers for sale in support of hardworking grandmothers in Africa. The annual Plant Sale and Market Place, taking place on May 9 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., will include pots, Grassroot
Grannies greeting cards, handpainted bird houses, stained glass ornaments and gently used jewelry, as well as, for the first time, used scarves and purses. The location of the sale has changed this year to Rutherford Way, near Roland Michener Park in Beaverbrook. Signage will point the way to the location, said Grassroot Granny Stella Val.
The sale has been an important fundraising tool for the grannies, who raised $8,000 from the event last year, contributing to the $300,000 total the group has raised in eight years. “They are just unrelenting,” said Val of the grannies’ work ethic. Val has been a member of the group for three years, saying she joined “because I was
retired and I wanted to do something meaningful.” The grannies support grandmothers in sub-Saharan Africa who are raising grandchildren orphaned by the AIDS pandemic. As a grandmother heavily involved with six grandchildren herself, Val said she empathizes with the hard-working African grandmothers, though they take on so much more.
“Some of those grandmothers, they are not 100 per cent healthy, and they have this burden that they accept so willingly and with so much love that I just think we should support them,” said Val. Money raised from the Grassroot Grannies’ events goes to the Stephen Lewis Foundation’s Grandmothers to Grandmothers campaign, which supports projects aimed
at improving nutrition, health care and education for the African grandchildren, while enabling grandmothers to make money of their own. Val said she hopes this ninth plant sale does as well as it has in previous years, providing a good selection for gardeners and those hunting for mother’s day gifts. Horticulturalists will be on site to give information on how best to care for the plants. The event will take place rain or shine. For more on the Grassroot Grannies, visit grassrootgrannies.com.
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t was especially warm that April. The snow had long since gone, and the days were warm enough that the roads were no longer muddy ruts, and we could even see spring buds coming out on the trees. Our winter clothes, including our despised long underwear, had been packed away, and we could smell the mothballs Mother had generously scattered into the trunk in the upstairs hall where our wool sweaters and other heavy clothing would sit out the hot summer months. The creek at the bottom of the West Hill had receded, and the Bonnechere River had settled into a gentle current cutting through the lower reaches of our farm. Spring was warm enough to be called summer, and that was all it took for my three brothers to decide it was now time to go swimming in the Bonnechere, even though the month of
MARY COOK Mary Cook’s Memories May had yet to begin. Of course, Mother put the kibosh on that idea. There would be no swimming until the 24th of May, and that’s all there was to it. My brother Emerson said if they waited that long, the summer would be half over at the rate we were going. Emerson went outside to the big thermometer that was nailed to the house with “Supertest” in bright yellow letters on top. “It’s 75 degrees,” Emerson wailed. “I don’t care if it says 100! There will be no swimming until the 24th of May,” Mother said, slamming the screen door shut
with a bang. Father came from the barn to get a cold glass of water, using his battered straw hat as a fan. He took his red polka-dot handkerchief out of his back overall pocket, and wiped his face, sending streaks of dust from the hayloft down his face. “Sure is hot in the barn,” he said. Emerson was joined by my brothers Everett and Earl in a plea for a dip in the Bonnechere. Well, they could have saved their breath. There would be no swimming until the 24th of May, and that’s all there was to it. Emerson wanted to know
what was so important about the 24th of May. He reminded Mother that was almost a month away, and by that time, with the heat and all, the Bonnechere could easily be nothing more than a trickle, and the summer would be half over, and that would be the end of swimming. My older and much wiser sister Audrey and I headed for the swing in the grape arbour. The leaves were yet to come out, but the vines were thick enough that the sun had yet to penetrate. I thought, since I seldom had Audrey all to myself, that this would be a good time to ask her what was so important about the 24th of May. “Well,” Audrey said leaning back, “Mother says a lot of things should wait until the 24th of May, and a lot of things change on that day too.” I waited for Audrey to speak. She looked like she
was falling asleep. I was sitting across from her, and I nudged her with the toe of my shoe. “I’m thinking. I’m thinking,” she said. And then she rhymed off a few things, which made little sense to me, but obviously were important to Mother. “Well, you will see that Mother never wears a summer hat to church until the 24th of May. She said in New York any woman caught wearing a summer hat before the 24th of May would be considered a woman of poor taste.” Audrey took a long breath. “And you certainly wouldn’t wear white gloves before then for the same reason. And that same goes for summer shoes too.” I was mulling over this bit of news in my mind’s eye. For the life of me I couldn’t understand why a date on a calendar was so important. And then Audrey reminded me of the many little flat wood boxes of sprouted seeds
waiting to be put into the garden. “Never, ever, has Mother transplanted those boxes until after the 24th of May. You’re too young to remember, but one year she planted every last box, and two days later, the frost came, and killed every last one of the plants.” I had no idea what plants getting hit with frost, wearing a summer hat and white gloves and summer shoes, and swimming all had to do with the 24th of May. Audrey started to doze off in the swing. I mulled over all she had said, and I figured, next to Easter and Christmas, the 24th of May must surely be one of the most important days of the year. I couldn’t wait for that date to roll around, and I decided right then and there, I would write in my diary all that had happened on that date so that years down the road, I would remember what an important day it was when I was very young.
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www.shirleyseward.com 613-851-4716 LABOUR RELATIONS SITUATION The labour relations situation is challenging for all of us. Here are some recent developments. Secondary Teachers Legal Strike Position Our secondary teachers and occasional teachers (OSSTF) remain in a legal strike position. The OCDSB is one of seven Ontario school districts which OSSTF has targeted for strike action. At the time of writing this article (April 30), strike action is underway by OSSTF at the Durham District School Board and the Rainbow District School Board; and notice of strike action has been provided to the Peel District School Board beginning May 4th. OSSTF must provide 5 days advance notice of any planned strike action to the OCDSB. To date, we have not received notice and we remain committed to negotiating fair and fully funded collective agreements for our employees. Elementary Teachers Legal Strike Position The Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario (ETFO) announced on Friday April 27th that it had received a ‘no board’ report. This means, Ontario’s public elementary teachers and occasional teachers will be in a legal strike position May 10, 2015. The union is required to provide five days notice prior to taking any legal strike action.
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Magnificent mile Residents from Kanata and surrounding areas take part in the Ruddy-Shenkman Hospice Hike on May 3, an annual walk in Kanata benefitting Hospice Care Ottawa. The event was held in the memory of Roly Hein, late president of R.E. Hein Construction and noted charity donor. A fundraising walk also occurred at May Court in support of the organization. The Ruddy-Shenkman Hospice on McCurdy Drive is seeking to add 10 beds to its facility.
Until such time as we receive official notification of a strike, regular operations will continue at all elementary schools. A minimum of five days notice must be provided to schools boards before any strike action is taken. The district will advise the community immediately if strike notice is received. Communicating With You We understand that the potential for labour disruption can create anxiety for our students, parents and staff. We will be communicating regularly with parents and students to ensure that you have as much information as possible, so that you can make informed decisions and undertake any contingency planning.
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mind for the studio, but they have not finalized where it will be parked yet. Alford’s firm has been working out of a basement studio in the Glebe over the last four years, working on projects such as an innovation centre at the Bayview Yards. The firm is set to leave the Glebe and take its work on the road with the new CloudLab. PrototypeD Team has also leased some space in the Gallipeau Centre in Smith’s Falls, where it expects to do the majority of its manufacturing going forward. The CloudLab will stay in Vanier until October, at which point, Alford hopes to take it across Ontario to other communities to help support rural economic development. Alford said if Vanier residents see the CloudLab as something they could see themselves using in the long term, he would be open to the possibility of having a permanent hub in the neighbourhood at some point in the future.
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aged to skip the car and take the bus, particularly routes 147 and 99, which go directly to the EY Centre from the Greenboro Transitway station, where parking is free. A press release on the transportation options reminds transit users that the 87 bus runs every 20 minutes, the 99 every half hour and the 147 every hour. OC Transpo is planning to bump up the number of buses and increase frequency in the area the weekend of the convention, Péron confirmed, adding that more buses may be added depending on the volume of traffic. The 147 bus will be key for convention-goers and, more importantly, the 99 bus, which stops at the EY Centre, Péron said. The best option, he said, is the 97 bus, which runs every five minutes during peak times and stops at Uplands Drive off the Airport Parkway
on the way to the airport. Those riders will have to walk across the parking lot at the EY Centre. There won’t be a free shuttle bus to the event this year. “It’s something we hope to work towards one day,” Péron said. “We’re not quite there yet though.” POLICE PRESENCE
There will be an increased police presence around the EY Centre this weekend to ensure traffic keeps moving. Three officers will be directing vehicles on Hunt Club Road and Uplands Drive, and officers will be stationed at each entrance to the EY Centre parking lot and another will be at Uplands Drive and Breadner Boulevard. Another officer will be patrolling on motorcycle to assess the traffic situation. And more digital signs will
be added on Hunt Club Road and the Airport Parkway to direct motorists to use the parkway if they wish to get to the airport, or to use Uplands Drive if they are travelling to the EY Centre. PARKING OPTIONS
Motorists heading to Comiccon on Uplands Drive will be directed to park at the overflow parking lot at the former CFB Uplands – that lot will have two entrances this year – while drivers coming from the parkway to the convention will be directed to use the EY Centre parking lot. EY Centre management plans to double the number of parking staff at the centre and payment takers at the overflow lot at the base. The cost to park at both lots will again be $8 per day and cash is preferred. Parking at the centre is
somewhat limited because Comiccon has grown so much that part of the lot is earmarked for lines of waiting fans “because Ottawa fans are quite enthusiastic and turn out in great numbers even before the doors open,” Péron said. “We’ve had somebody turn up as early as 4 o’clock in the morning to get in line.” Attendees must also wait outside beneath tent canopies before being allowed in to see a star during one of the panel discussions in the large hall, which can hold up to 2,000 people. “The wrinkle here is that we have to be able to house that lineup of 2,000 people before that panel starts,” Péron said, adding that if people lined up inside the centre, it would mean losing too much space. For more details on the event, visit ottawacomiccon. com.
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Up-and-coming violinist Trevor Wilson has just taken his next step to becoming one of Canada’s foremost orchestral performers with his acceptance to the National Youth Orchestra of Canada. Having auditioned with close to 500 talented young musicians from across the country, the 20-year-old Beaverbrook resident was one of 100 selected to take part in the professional training orchestra for emerging artists, said National Youth Orchestra Canada in a news release. A violinist since age five, Wilson comes from a long line of fiddle players, the passion having been handed down from his great-grandfather to his grandfather, then on to Wilson’s uncle, Cameron Wilson, who has performed as a member of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra and the CBC Radio Orchestra. Wilson’s uncle was also a member of the National Youth Orchestra, making his acceptance another step in line with his family’s musical achieve-
ments. But despite his strength and passion for the violin, and excitement at having been accepted to the National Youth Orchestra, Wilson said he hopes the experience helps him further another goal – one which steps out from his family’s narrative. Wilson is working towards being a conductor, he said, in the hopes of expressing himself “in a way not possible when playing the violin.” “Ever since a very young age I knew that I wanted to be a musician,” said Wilson in an email. “It has always been my life’s primary focus and source of inspiration.” Performing in various groups, one of Wilson’s most inspirational experiences has been performing in northern Europe as co-concertmaster of the Ottawa Youth Orchestra Academy’s senior orchestra in 2012. “Being a part of this group brought me much closer to the musical community and gave me a good idea as to what being an orchestral musician was all about,” he said. Though Wilson’s work performing in orchestras like the University
of Ottawa Orchestra and the Ottawa Symphony Orchestra continued, he nurtured a love for composing as well, he said. “My uncle served as an important early inspiration on that front,” said Wilson. But Wilson’s latest musical interest has been conducting, he said, inspired by American conductor Leonard Bernstein. “(His) emotional investment into music performance was appealing to me, and so I tried to imitate his gestures,” said Wilson. That’s where his interest in conducting comes from, he said – communicating emotion in a more relevant way. “As a performer, one has to concentrate on the physical act of playing an instrument,” he said. But, in order to be convincing, the performer also has to act out the music he or she is playing. That means moving about in a way that isn’t necessary to play the instrument, but is necessary to communicate the music to the audience. “In conducting … the same kind of concentration is required, but I
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Kanata violinist Trevor Wilson was recently accepted to the National Youth Orchestra of Canada, becoming one of 100 people selected from nearly 500 talented musicians across the country. He hopes the experience will help him to becoming a conductor. can channel that emotion to manifest itself in the actual act of conducting, which is very appealing to me as it allows me to express myself in ways not possible when playing the violin,” said Wilson. To become a conductor, Wilson needs to continue working on his grasp of music and how successful orchestras operate, he said, and that is where performing with the National Youth Orchestra of Canada will help.
The orchestra operates from June 21 to Aug. 11, incorporating a comprehensive training program with concerts taking place in Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton and Ottawa. “The (National Youth Orchestra of Canada) being composed of such talented young musicians, I hope to meet and bond with others who share a similar passion for this art,” said Wilson.
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Eastway Gardens rocked by city’s third murder of 2015 Police appeal for witnesses to come forward Erin McCracken
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Multiple gun shots shattered the early morning quiet Sunday, claiming the life of a 21-year-old Riverview Park man in the small, close-knit Eastway Gardens community. When police initially were called to the scene on Sunday, May 3 at approximately 6 a.m., they thought they would be dealing with a motor vehicle accident “just because there was a victim down on the ground and a car on the road,” said Staff Sgt. Robert Drummond, with the Ottawa
police major crime unit. “But as soon as the first responders got there it became obvious that was not the case.” A Honda Civic sat unmoving in the middle of Tremblay Road at Belfast Road. Nearby, the victim of the gun shots, Sharif Said, lay motionless. Police said Sharif was found by a passerby. When first responders arrived he was quickly whisked away in an ambulance to the trauma centre at the Ottawa Hospital’s Civic campus. Drummond said Sharif died from his injuries in hospital. A little more than 24 hours after major crime investiga-
tors launched the city’s third homicide investigation of 2015, police were tight-lipped about the case. Drummond, who is managing the case, would not say whether detectives have any suspects or persons of interest on their radar, nor would he confirm if the shooting was gang- or drug-related. “I can say that the victim was known to us,” he said. While Drummond also would not comment on how many bullet casings were recovered at the intersection, which reopened Monday morning, Matt Shillington, who lives in Eastway Gardens, where the streets are named for the letters of the alphabet, said he and his wife
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Police were called to Tremblay Road at Belfast Road on Sunday, May 3, where a 21-year-old Riverview Park man was shot to death. Police are appealing to anyone who may have heard or seen something when shots were fired to come forward. were roused from sleep by the staccato sound of five to eight shots going off, one after the other. “We woke up and it was
like pop, pop, pop, pop, pop,” said Shillington, who lives about 120 metres away. “And we thought maybe it was construction.”
He dozed off for a few minutes, but doubts niggled his mind that perhaps the loud, heavy-sounding bangs had been caused by something else and he got up to look out his window. “I could see the car (the victim’s Honda Civic) from our bedroom window,” he said of the vehicle, its doors open. “We could see everything, so I knew something was wrong.” Regardless if the shooting was a targeted attack, bullets whizzing through the air pose enormous risk, Shillington said. “That’s come across my mind too a couple of times – the fly-by shots,” he said. “Anybody could have been walking, driving, cycling,” said Kim Lamont, president of the Eastway Gardens Community Association, who has lived in the area for almost 18 years. See AREA, page 29
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“My biggest thing is that anybody could have been around. I mean, the White Horse Restaurant is there,” she said of the popular eatery on Tremblay at Belfast. “Lots of people go there for breakfast. It’s like anybody could have been an innocent bystander.” Eastway Gardens is the kind of place where residents keep in touch and are caring and watchful, Lamont said, adding that her neighbourhood has rarely been touched by gun violence or gang activity – the last nearby shooting was in 1999 in which five people died, including the shooter, at the OC Transpo garage located on St. Laurent Boulevard. While the victim is from another community, Lamont said the gun violence “still happened. It found its way to our neighbourhood. It just leaves me speechless.” The victim lived with his siblings and parents in the Blair Court neighbourhood on Station Boulevard, in the Riverview Park community, according to media reports. “The community house will continue to do what we do best by providing a safe place for community members to access programs, services and other supports,” said Kristy Donnelly, executive director of Blair Court Community House, the day after the killing. The community house, one of 15 across Ottawa, provides free programs and services to about 50 member families living in 70 Ot-
tawa Community Housing Corporation units located along Station Boulevard. Not long after police were called to Tremblay Road, just a four-minute drive away more officers cordoned off Sandford Fleming and Terminal avenues, where a pick-up truck had crashed. At first, police thought the two crime scenes might be connected, but Drummond said the incident will likely be investigated as a trafficrelated offence either by east division officers or the collisions unit. “We’re satisfied that it’s unrelated,” he said. “Initially, we held that scene and processed it until we knew
more about the first scene.” Police are looking to speak to anyone who may have seen or heard something in the vicinity of the shooting, or have information about “any incident out there involving that vehicle (the Honda Civic) and that young man,” Drummond said. “So we’re talking early morning, 6 a.m. timeframe, all along that Tremblay Road area. “If they saw any interaction between the victim, that vehicle or any other people or another vehicle ... we’re interested.” Tipsters can call the major crime unit at 613-236-1222, ext. 5493, or anonymously call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.
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OSU Connects Players to the Professional Ranks Ottawa, ON (April 27, 2015) – OSU is very pleased to announce that Ndzemdzela Langwa (’98) and Theo Bair (’99) have been offered positions within the Vancouver Whitecaps Residency program after successful trials in Vancouver this week. For Theo, this represents an opportunity for him to further his development within the professional ranks after spending time with numerous local clubs. Bair was able to attend the Combine for one of the two days, which was enough to impress Whitecaps Residency Technical Director, Craig Dalrymple. Bair has played in the OYSL for the last two seasons and consistently been one of the top goal scorers at the provincial level. In moving to Vancouver, this represents an opportunity for him to continue to develop and test himself within the USSF Academy league. For Ndzemdzela “Zoom” Langwa, this move is another opportunity in his fledgling career. He has previously been part of the Toronto FC Academy while also representing our country with the Canadian U16 National team. Langwa was a key contributor with the OSU 1997 Force Academy team, that now has four members within professional clubs. “Zoom” will now have the opportunity to again join forces with former Academy Graduates Vana Markarian and Dario Conte within the Whitecaps organization. When reflecting on the recent event, Craig Dalrypmle noted that “the level, and depth, of soccer potential in Ottawa is impressive. The combine provided an opportunity for Whitecaps FC to gain much needed exposure to this player pool. We were extremely impressed with how well the combine was conducted and are very pleased with players we were able to identify.” In addition to Langwa and Bair, several other players from the Talent ID Combine were identified and have been added to their club database for monitoring. Additional players are also in discussion with the Whitecaps for potential upcoming trials. “The Whitecaps Combine event has been a great success and showed the level of talent within the city of Ottawa. It was extremely satisfying to see the level of co-operation across the city which allowed many players the opportunity to put themselves in the shop window and achieve such positive outcomes,” OSU Technical Director Paul Harris commented. Following on the success of this first Talent ID Combine, it is believed that it will now become an inaugural event for players in Ottawa.
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Bass Pro Shop planned for Tanger Outlets canned Brier Dodge and Adam Kveton brier.dodge@metroland.com
Bass Pro Shop won’t be coming to Kanata after all. The decision was confirmed by Bass Pro spokeswoman Mary Mardis on May 4. While customer ser-
vice representatives from the company responded to customer inquiries on May 4 that the Kanata store was in the works for a 2017 opening, the Mardis confirmed the project wouldn’t be moving forward. “We are not moving forward with the Kanata store
at this time,” she said in an email In February, Bass Pro said they were still moving forward with the Kanata store, despite the announcement that Cabela’s, another major outfitter chain, was also coming to Kanata. Cabela’s is planned for the
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west side of the new Tanger Outlets shopping centre and north of the Canadian Tire Centre in a Taggart Realty Management development. Bass Pro announced in late 2013 that it would be anchoring a 210,437-square-metre Broccolini Construction development, on the east side of the new Tanger Outlets shopping centre, saying it planned to open in 2015. “Is Cabela’s still coming?” said Arnprior’s Scott Coady, an active hunter and fisherman, when he heard about the Bass Pro cancellation. “That’s my first reaction, but that’s too bad, because (Bass Pro) is a fantastic establishment. “It would have been interesting and a little strange to have both (Cabela’s and Bass Pro) so close together. It’s too bad Bass Pro isn’t coming, but as long as we have one outdoor superstore on the west end, that’s great and I’m happy.” The proximity of the two outdoor outfitters was not a problem, said Bass Pro spokeswoman Katie Mitchell in February, after saying Bass Pro still intended to open in Kanata. “We are in lots of markets that also have Cabela’s close by, so I don’t think Cabela’s has a bearing one way or the other on whether or not we put a store there,” she said. However, Kanata North Coun. Marianne Wilkinson said in February that she had doubts the U.S. retailer would stick with their original plans in light of the Cabela’s announcement. Taggart’s vice president of development, Jeff Parkes, also
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other sites in Ottawa, but said Broccolini is working with another large-scale retailer to replace Bass Pro as an anchor for their Kanata retail site. He said the new store is not an outdoor outfitter, but is a recognizable name, adding he couldn’t comment further as the deal has not yet solidified. Perkins said he hoped to have construction on the Kanata site start in early 2016. The closest Bass Pro Shop to Ottawa is at Vaughan Mills in Vaughan, Ont. Ottawa will be the second Ontario Cabela’s location, with the first location in Barrie.
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Usually, shows by Ottawa companies are scheduled as part of the festival’s smaller satellite events. “This is one of Canada’s largest theatre festivals,” he said. “And it’s rare that Ottawa companies get showcased there.” Devine co-founded the theatre company in Vancouver in 2004 but moved to Ottawa with his wife Alexa and their three children in 2014, settling in Nepean. Alexa Devine and Ottawa actor Brad Long will co-star in Re: Union. Long is a Barrhaven resident who teaches in the performing arts department at Algonquin College. Devine said despite being a newcomer to Ottawa and its theatre scene, his family and his theatre company feel welcome here. “We’ve got a more active
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community life here already than we did in Vancouver. We couldn’t be more thrilled with it,” he said. “Just like the social experience we’ve had with our neighborhood, the local theatre community has openly welcomed Horseshoes & Hand Grenades Theatre. From what I’ve heard, we fill a void here, in that we’re an established, professional, small theatre company.” The cast of Re:Union will begin rehearsing on May 18, logging 42 hours each week for two weeks leading up to the festival. Devine has hired a team of 15 cast and crew members from Ottawa, Vancouver, Los Angeles and Montreal. He expects the production to cost between $65,000 and $70,000 and relies on grants from the Ontario Arts Council and fundraising campaigns, including an Indiegogo.com
crowdfunding page, to cover that cost. But it’s not for nought. For the people behind Horseshoes & Hand Grenades and other companies participating in the festival, putting their works on display at Magnetic North represents an opportunity for exposure on the world stage. The festival draws an audience of producers and presenters from across North America and Europe who look for exceptional content to bring to their local theatre markets. “This opportunity at Magnetic North is the best showcase we could have imagined,” Devine said. “This festival is a launch pad for exporting Canadian theatre.” Re:Union deals with the true story of a Quaker man in America who died after setting himself on fire to protest
the Vietnam war with his baby daughter and United States Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara as witnesses. The story fictionalizes the journey of the man’s daughter 36 years later to confront McNamara about her father’s death. “It’s a very powerful story, and the ending is quite sad,” Devine said. “Essentially, it’s a David and Goliath story about the impact that individuals can have against social injustice.” Re:Union will run from June 5 to 9 at Academic Hall, on the University of Ottawa campus. Tickets can be purchased at the National Arts Centre box office and through ticketmaster.ca. Donations to cover the cost of the production can be made through the company’s crowdfunding campaign at igg.me/at/reunion-magnorth.
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Beaverbrook author Kathy Clark launched her latest book, the second inspired by her parents’ experiences during the Holocaust, on April 18 at the Beaverbrook branch of the public library. This new book, The Choice, is inspired by her biological father’s experiences in Auschwitz, the notorious concentration camp where hundreds of thousands of Jews were killed by the Nazis. Sharing those experiences formed part of Clark’s reunion with her biological father, whom she hadn’t seen since she was about four months old. A Jewish family living in TIM CLARK/SUBMITTED Author Kathy Clark signs her new book, The Choice, during the launch of the book at the communist Hungary, Clark’s mom divorced her biological Beaverbrook branch of the Ottawa Public Library on April 18. father, and later escaped from Hungary during the 1956 revolution with Clark’s adoptive father several years later. It would be seven years before Clark cold join her parents in Canada. But, when she arrived in Toronto, she was told the man she had thought was her father would have to adopt her. “That’s when I found out that I had another father – my biological father,” said Clark. “I was only 10 at the time.” Not knowing how to navigate Hungarian bureaucracy to
re-connect with her biological father and busy growing up, getting married and having a family, Clark did not take up the search for him until 2000. But, eventually, she did find him, and the two were able to meet. At the time, Clark was working on her second book and first about the Holocaust, Guardian Angel House, based on her mother and aunt’s experiences hiding in a convent in Budapest where nuns sheltered them alongside 120 other Jewish children during the Second World War. “Therefore (I) was interested in his story as well, to see what had happened to him during the Holocaust, and he told me,” said Clark. What came out of that talk, along with research and interviews with other Auschwitz survivors, was The Choice, a story about a 13-year-old Jewish boy whose family is pretending to be Catholic to escape persecution. But, unwilling to hide his identity anymore, the boy reveals that he is a Jew, and he and his family are sent to Auschwitz. Clark’s father was reluctant to speak about his experiences in too much detail, and so the book is a representation of what a young boy would have experienced at Auschwitz, but inspired by particular events
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A man died after a single car crash on Fallowfield Road at Eagleson Road early on April 26.Ottawa paramedics arrived on scene at about 4 a.m. and found one of two occupants ejected about 15 metres from the vehicle, which had rolled over, said Ottawa Paramedic Service spokesperson, J.P. Trottier. Paramedics pronounced the ejected man dead at the scene. He was 23 years old, said Trottier. The second occupant of the vehicle, also a 23-year-old male, was sent to hospital in stable condition, he said. The man was treated by paramedics for back pain, an arm injury and a laceration to the head, said Trottier. “He was in stable condition, good vital signs throughout, awake throughout,” he said, and his injuries were not life threatening. The crash left closures along Eagleson Road and Fallowfield Road for several hours, said po-
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Police are investigating a fatal, single car crash that took place on Fallowfield Road at Eagleson Road in the early morning of April 26. lice. The incident is now under investigation, and police are asking that anyone with information about it contact the Ottawa Police Collision Investigation Unit at 613-236-1222. Another motor vehicle accident in Kanata occurred April 26, this time on March Road between Morgan’s Grant Way and Terry Fox Drive. The southbound lanes of
March Road were closed after a motorcycle collided with a car, leaving the motorcycle driver unconscious. Paramedics received a call at about 12:53 p.m., said Trottier. The motorcyclist, believed to be in his 50s, had sustained life-threatening injuries and was transported to hospital, he said. No one else involved in the collision was delivered to hospital, said Trottier.
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Amalya Katz quickly takes a sheet of blank paper, plucks the lid from a marker and fills the page with an image of what Ottawa means to her: the Parliament Buildings. The nine-year-old and her Grade 4 Featherston Drive Public School classmates got a head start on May 1 when they drew images of their favourite Ottawa landmarks and scenery minutes after Mayor Jim Watson, Alta Vista Coun. Jean Cloutier and Rideau-Vanier Coun. Mathieu Fleury launched a postcard drawing contest to mark Ottawa’s 2017 celebration year. “And one of the ways we communicate with people, and maybe not so much now, but in the olden days we used to have things called postcards,” Watson told the children. Students at 245 elementary schools, 65 high schools and five alternative schools across four school boards in Ottawa have until May 21 to design a postcard. A panel of professional artists will then choose the best from each grade – 1 through 12 – which will serve as the official Ottawa 2017 postcards to mark Canada’s
150th birthday. “And whoever’s postcard design we choose, that student will be able to bring their whole class down to city hall and we’ll have a nice ceremony and a pizza party for the whole class,” Watson said, adding that the student will get to travel to the event in an OC Transpo double-decker bus. Each winner will also receive a framed commemorative copy of their postcard design. “We want you to put on the postcard what you love about Ottawa,” he said. “So is there a special place or a special scene? Who has an idea now?” Several children raised their hands to pitch several suggestions: an Ottawa sign, Parliament Hill, the outdoor spider sculpture at the National Art Gallery and the Canada flag. “Maybe a Stanley Cup?” one boy offered. “I like that. Very optimistic,” Watson said, smiling. “Because, you know, the Stanley Cup was created in Ottawa so it came from Ottawa. So that’s an excellent idea.” Whether the drawing is of a museum in Ottawa, a favourite park, features the children’s school, or even a picture of
their family, Watson said “It’s really important we get as many entries as possible because of all the entries we get, we’re going to pick one that’s going to be the official poster of the 2017 celebration.” Cloutier, co-chair of the Ottawa 2017 organizing committee along with Fleury, told the students, who attend school in the Alta Vista ward, that Canada’s 150th birthday year will be very exciting. “It’s going to have concerts, it’s going to have festivals, it’s going to have parades. It’s going to cross the whole city and it’ll be for the entire year. “What do you think of a birthday that’s going to last a whole year?” he asked, prompting giggles and grins from the young French immersion students. “Think of the cake. Would a birthday that lasts a whole year be great? It sure would.” The postcards that are created through the contest will be available to be sent out around the world, and can serve as an invitation to celebrate Canada’s milestone year in the nation’s capital, Watson told the youngsters. “We want to invite as many people as possible to come and visit Ottawa,” he said.
School’s Kindness Club helping send kids to camp Student volunteers raise funds for Christie Lake Kids through clothing sale Megan DeLaire mdelaire@metroland.com
A group of student volunteers at Leslie Park Public School known as the Kindness Club raised hundreds of dollars for Christie Lake Kids through a used clothing sale on April 22 and 23. The club’s fourth annual Gently Used Children’s Clothing Sale raised $465 for Christie Lake Kids, selling items for between $1 and $3 each. Christie Lake Kids is a charitable organization that provides recreation and skill
building programming at no cost to youth from low-income families. Funds from the clothing sale will support the organization’s week-long Christie Lake Camp trip. Out of a student body of 120, 25 students are members of the Kindness Club. Those students filled a large area of the school gymnasium with clothing for the sale over a two-week period in April, donating their own clothes and collecting donations from the school’s staff and students. Club members, ranging in age from six to 12 years old, sorted the clothing, advertised and organized the sale and sold the clothes with the help of adult volunteers. Anne Lavoie teaches Grade 1 at the school and founded the club in 2012. The group meets once a week during the school year
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The Kindness Club with teacher Anne Lavoie. The group spends one school lunch-period each week brainstorming ways to help both their local, and the global community. to plan charitable volunteer activities on local and international scales. “I think it’s important for the kids to get some perspec-
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need to be glad that we have these things. Evelyn MacIver, 9, is a newer member who joined the club this year after she gained some perspective living in South Asia for three years. “I like to do it because I lived in Bangladesh last year and I saw so many people that didn’t have money, clothes, food or water,” Evelyn said. Lavoie said that although she founded the club and oversees its projects, the students are the main source of its initiative. “They all work hard. I mean, they’re a lively bunch and they get the jobs done. And it’s all their ideas too,” she said. “Every year we get together in September and they say, ‘This is what we want to do.’ They are enterprising, and all for the right reasons.”
IN THE MATTER OF THE ONTARIO HERITAGE ACT No ce of Inten on to Designate The City of O awa, on April 29, 2015, established its inten on to designate 7 Bayview Road under Part IV of the Ontario Heritage Act for its cultural heritage value. Descrip on of Property The City of O awa Workshops, 7 Bayview Road, is a one and two storey reinforced concrete building located on Bayview Road in west O awa.
Are you interested in the future development on Preston Street North? The City is looking for your help and ideas. A end this session to learn more about the zoning op ons for development on and around Preston Street North between Somerset and Albert Street, including: • •
tive on the fact that they maybe have a lot more than other people do and that it’s important for them to help others in any way they can,” she said.
“Some of them are six years old and yet they can make such a huge difference in the lives of people who maybe don’t have as much as they do.” Last Christmas, the Kindness Club organized a garage sale to raise funds for Free the Children. That event also raised about $450, which Lavoie said was typical of the Kindness Club’s annual garage and clothing sales. According to Lavoie, many of the club’s members return each year that they attend the school. Shayan Saddiq, 11, has been a member of the club for at least two years. “We do this so we can raise money for different charities and different areas that need food or water,” Shayan said. “It helps kids that need other things that we have. And we
What height the buildings should be along the Mainstreet The possible range of commercial uses, such as cafes, retail stores, businesses or office space that could be allowed How the development in the surrounding residen al streets could evolve in the future
You’ll also find out about the project’s melines for comple on and approval by City Council. Once approved, the Zoning By-law and Official Plan amendments will provide greater clarity for residents, developers, businesses, property owners and others on how different land uses can be integrated along Preston Street North and the adjacent residen al areas. How do I get more informa on? A end this session and visit o awa.ca/prestonnorth for maps showing the review areas and other background informa on. Accessibility is an important considera on for the City of O awa. If you require special accommoda on services, please contact Emily Davies no later than noon on Wednesday, May 6.
Heritage Value The cultural heritage value of the City of O awa Workshops lies in its being a good example of an industrial building influenced by the Modern style, its historical associa ons and its contextual significance within the former industrial hub of west O awa. The City of O awa Workshops is a good example of the type of industrial building built throughout North America in the first half of the 20th century. Constructed in 1941, as part of a larger complex of City buildings, it was designed by Joseph Holmes Irvine, City of O awa Design Engineer. The building is constructed of reinforced concrete with a brick veneer. Features of the building associated with the Modern style include the flat roof, plain, unadorned façade and the large steel framed windows with inset hopper windows. The cultural heritage value of the City of O awa Workshops also lies in its historical and contextual importance within the former industrial hub of west O awa. It is one of the few remaining examples of this prominent industrial area centered on the railway tracks. The complex func oned as a maintenance yard, workshops and storage. Located on the border of the historic community of Mechanicsville, the City of O awa Workshops is an important symbol of the area’s industrial and railroad boom of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Objec ons Any person wishing to object to this designa on may do so by le er, outlining the reasons for the objec on and any other relevant informa on. This le er must be received by the Clerk of the City of O awa either by registered mail or personally delivered within 30 days of the publica on of this no ce. When a no ce of objec on has been received, the Council of the City of O awa will refer the ma er to the Conserva on Review Board for a hearing and a report. For more informa on please contact:
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five years, rather than re-enrolling in university after college. This will lessen many students’ debt burdens by lowering the number of years of study they will need to finance, Beauvais said. “You reduce your student loans. Rather than needing loans for seven years, you need them for five years,” she said. “A lot of students can not necessarily afford to go outside the city to pursue their education, so besides the University of Ottawa and Carleton University, there are other choices. We’re here.” The university already has other articulation agreements with La Cité, but the new one will open the door to students in three new programs – human relations, conflict studies and social communication. Tracy-Ann Gagnon, a communications student from Trois Rivière, Que., is one of many students who have already benefited from one of the agree-
ments. Gagnon just completed her first year at the university after graduating from La Cité in April 2014. “It’s exciting because it’s a complete training. You have the practical and the theoretical,” she said. “If I decide finally I don’t want to go into journalism, I have complete information.” Saint Paul University also has agreements with a number of English institutions such as Algonquin College. Moving forward, Beauvais said the university is in the process of creating an agreement for university students who want more practical training and want to finish their studies at a college. “Somebody might start at the university but say ‘oh my, I want to pursue this in a different way. I want more technical tools,’” she said. “So we’re starting to build bridges in that direction too, from the university to the college.”
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Manotick author Holly Bodger holds an advance copy of her first published novel, 5 to 1, in her writer’s room at her home. She will be featured at a book signing at an Indigo store in Barrhaven on Saturday, May 16, before heading to the United States for similar events in New York and San Francisco. Advance copies have been getting rave reviews, including from USA Today, which said
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leaves even after the book is closed.” “I’ve always known that I wanted to be a writer,” Bodger said during an interview at her comfortable Manotick home,
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where she has created a writer’s room suitable for an author who is now focussed on writing for the teen fiction market. Although Bodger, who has worked as a technical writer
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tice forms of gender selection, either for cultural, religious or political reasons. The world that Bodger creates in 5 to 1 not so far-fetched. It’s a complex issue that has become dear to her heart. On her personal website, http:// hollybodger.com, besides information about her work as a writer there is also facts about gender selection and a trailer for a film called, It’s a Girl. “Obviously, I have exaggerated it to make a point, but it is a very serious issue,” she said. With the completion of her first published novel, at least the process of writing was something that she was familiar with. Now, for the University of Ottawa grad, comes the completely new experience of promoting her own novel. First on her schedule is a book signing event at the Indigo Bookstore at 125 RioCan Ave. in Barrhaven on Saturday, May 16 from 11 to 3 p.m. After that she has events lined up with other authors in New York and San Francisco on the horizon.
from time to time, tags are still important as a quick and visual way of identifying your pet. The OHS holds monthly microchip clinics. The cost is $50 — a small price to pay for a lifetime of security. Dates for upcoming OHS microchip clinics can be found at: www. ottawahumane.ca/microchip. For more information, call 613725-3166 ext. 221 or e-mail microchip@ottawahumane.ca.
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Imagine a place in the Year 2054 where gender selection has led to a ratio of boys to girls of 5 to 1. A place where marrying off your young daughter is the norm, and mothers, rather than rebelling against the system, instead facilitate the status quo and create a process in which boys must compete to win their future mate. Imagine finding the voice to create such a place in your mind and write about it. Manotick writer Holly Bodger has imagined just such a place. It is the setting of her first published novel, 5 to 1. Bodger has been harnessing her imagination through the written word since a very early age. She wrote her first book, a two-page novel, at age six as a young child growing up in Manotick, and has been on the career path since then that leads to the official release of 5 to 1 by major publishing house Alfred A. Knopf on May 12.
and now in the publishing field, has written in many forms and many styles over the years, over time she realized that her true voice as a writer of fiction appeals to young readers. “You pour your heart into a book. You have to find a voice, and write in that voice,” she said of the many works of fiction she has written as she has evolved as a writer. “Everyone has different tastes, everyone likes different things. If it is not rational to you, then you are not being true to yourself as a writer.” The subject of her new novel 5 to 1, which has a unique structure written in both verse and prose from the different viewpoints of a girl and a boy who are both trapped by the expectations that fall upon them in the society in which they live, did not emerge out of thin air. About three years ago, she read a medical article on the ethics of gender selection and its consequences on both girls, and even boys, in places such as China and India that prac-
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Local events and happenings over the coming weeks — free to non-profit organizations Fax: 613-224-3330, E-mail: ottawawest@metroland.com
May 7
The Friends of the Farm will host a master gardener lecture from 7 to 9 p.m. The talk is titled Rejuvenating a Tired Garden, and will led by Mary Reid. Step-by-step approach to renovate your garden. The fee is $12 for members or $15 for non-members $15. The event takes place at Building 72 at the Central Experimental Farm arboretum, east of the Prince of Wales Drive roundabout. Call 613-230-3276 or visit friendsofthefarm.ca for more information. The Ottawa Humane Society Auxiliary will hold its next meeting Thursday 7 May, 1:30 pm at the Shelter, 245 West Hunt Club Road. New members welcome. For more information call Linda 613-8236770, email OHSAuxiliary@ gmail.com, or visit www.facebook. com/OttawaHumaneSociety Auxiliary The OHS Aux is also hosting an Art and Collectibles auction at Maclean and Associates 1523 Laperriere Ave Sunday 10 May. Doors open at 8:45 a.m. All
funds raised go to support the animals of the OHS. www.macleanandassociates.com
May 8-18
Retired? Under-employed? Looking for an adventure? Why not tiptoe through the tulips with us this spring as a volunteer with the Canadian Tulip Festival. We are currently recruiting for folks who are fun, outgoing and love the outdoors – you don’t need to know flowers. The festival runs from May 8 to 18. Contact us at volunteer@ tulipfestival.ca for information.
May 9
Vendors are wanted for the Woodroofe High School tailgate sale. Put your yard sale on wheels and join us on Saturday, May 9 from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., rain or shine. The cost is $10 for two parking spots. Contact whstailgate@gmail.com or 613-868-3354 for more information.
The Highland Park Lawn Bowling Club will host an Open House on May 9 from 2 to 4 p.m. (Rain date May 10 from 1 to 3 p.m.). The club is located at the corner of Golden and Byron avenues in Westboro. All are welcome. Please wear flat-soled shoes for tryout. For more information, visit highlandparklawnbowling.ca. There will be a public viewing of the Nepean Horticultural Society of Members Spring Flower Show from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Nepean Museum, located at 16 Rowley Ave. Come enjoy a variety of flowers and plants to be judged for prizes by the society. For information call 613-228-0153 or 613-224-7184. Learn to make super healthy homemade smoothies with Rosy Hannam on Tuesday June 9, 2015. 9:15-11:00 a.m. Speaker and music guest included with refreshment, childcare and door prizes for $5 or $2 first time. Reservations are essential. 613-721-1257. Sponsored by the Ottawa West Women’s
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pairings, a chance to bid on great silent auction packages and more! For tickets go to odysseytheatre.ca.
May 10
Ottawa Central Women’s Connection invites you and your friends to a Victorian Tea Party from 1 to 3 p.m. The event will feature a faith story from Linda Reed, and music will be from Cathy Goddard. Admission is $10 and $2 for first timers. The party takes place at Calvin Christian Reformed Church, located at 1475 Merivale Rd. Please RSVP by calling Bethany at 613435-2222.
The Friends of the Farm will host a rare and unusual plant sale on May 10 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., rain or shine. The sale will feature new and retuning specialty growers and plant vendors plus new products – garden accessories. The event is free and takes place in the Neatby Building parking lot at Carling Avenue and Maple Drive. Call 613230-3276 or visit friendsofthefarm. ca for more information.
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Odyssey Theatre is holding a fun new craft beer tasting event, Taste & Toast, in support of its 30th anniversary. It will take place at Corner Bar & Grill, 344 Richmond Rd., on May 13 from 6:30 to 9 p.m. Tickets are $20 and include eight samples of craft beer from four local breweries, guided tastings led by brewery experts, light food
The Ottawa Association of People Who Stutter, a self-help group, will meet at Lakeside Gardens Centre, 102 Greenview Ave, from 7 to 9 p.m. on May 6 and 20. For information, visit oapws.c, email david.burton2@rogers.com or call 613-725-3443. Drop ins are welcome.
Please join us as we celebrate the Grand Opening of our Memory Care Neighbourhood at Symphony Senior Living Kanata After extensive renovations, we’re pleased to open our newest Memory Care Neighbourhood. Come and see for yourself why Symphony is the preeminent leader in the field of Memory Care (Alzheimer’s and other Dementias) in Canada.
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FOR YOUR FAMILY!
LIBRA - Sept 23/Oct 23 Libra, it is up to you to initiate action in a situation that leaves you somewhat uncomfortable this week. Don’t hesitate to step up and take charge. SCORPIO - Oct 24/Nov 22 A difference of opinion may be highlighted at work this week when you are confronted by a coworker, Scorpio. Act with integrity, but be firm with your resolve. SAGITTARIUS - Nov 23/Dec 21 Sagittarius, others may try to stop you from having fun, but you are determined to enjoy yourself. Your entire week is focused on having a good time with friends and family. CAPRICORN - Dec 22/Jan 20 Capricorn, although you cannot control all of the changes in your life, you do have firm control over your personal health. Don’t put off revamping your diet and exercise plan. AQUARIUS - Jan 21/Feb 18 Aquarius, close friends will keep you pretty busy over the next few days, but you can handle it. Let off steam with a few different fun activities when time allows. PISCES - Feb 19/Mar 20 Use caution when making decisions this week, Pisces. You can be prone to impulsive behavior, and you don’t want to find yourself in trouble. 0507
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ARIES - Mar 21/Apr 20 You are a mystery lately, Aries. No one is quite sure what you will do next and you may like to surprise. But share your plans every so often with those closest to you. TAURUS - Apr 21/May 21 Taurus, surround yourself with positive people who maintain optimistic outlooks. Many opportunities will open up if you keep a positive attitude. GEMINI - May 22/Jun 21 Gemini, you may resist social activities this week at first, but soon you will get swept up in the fun and lose your inhibitions. Use social activities as a way to network. CANCER - Jun 22/Jul 22 Cancer, if you are thinking about a career move, it’s about time you put your plans in motion. This week you may find you are full of energy and ready for a new challenge. LEO - Jul 23/Aug 23 Leo, a renewed sense of enthusiasm has you eager to get started on future plans. Perhaps a new course of study will suffice and pave the way for new experiences. VIRGO - Aug 24/Sept 22 A chance encounter with an old flame stirs up feelings you didn’t realize you still had, Virgo. Even if these feelings are less dramatic, you’re still tempted to act on them.
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And, on Saturday, June 6th, the Ottawa Regional Cancer Foundation is sparking a lemonade stand movement and hosting the 3rd annual Cardel Homes Great Canadian Lemonade Standemonium presented by Palladium Insurance. Sarah Bickford and her three kids - Olivia, 11; Gwen, 9 and Elliot, 5 – they have already begun to recruit their team members for the Lemon Bursts stand. This year they are going bigger than ever, enlisting the help of 12 families and involving more than 27 kids. They will all be volunteering at multiple stands in their Nepean neighbourhood and out front of Fresco’s on Elgin Street. “I know how hard the struggle with cancer is,” explains Sarah, who was diagnosed with Hodgkins Lymphoma in 2007 when her youngest child was just 18 months old at the time. “As a family we wanted to do something to give back – and this is something that we could all do together. It’s really great and the kids love it, and the response they we get is so incredible. People are so generous.”
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Over the last two years of the campaign, more than 600 kids have hosted hundreds of stands and helped to raise close to $120,000 in support of the Ottawa Regional Cancer Foundation. Team Ronick/Team Kang has been one of the top fundraising stands each year, led by 10-year-old Ronick Kang his little sister Maeya. They host their stand in honour of their grandma, Balwinder, who was diagnosed with cancer two years ago. “I was really sad and I wanted to help her,” explains Ronick. “I found out about the campaign online and it just grew from there.” Ronick says the key to his success is finding the right stand location – one with a lot of foot traffic. This year their stand will once again be located close to the Starbucks, near the corner of Terry Fox Drive. Ronick and Maeya have ambitious plans for their stand – and have already got their parents and aunts on board the project. “We are going to paint homemade signs, have music at our stand and bake chocolate chip cookies to sell too!”
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