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Refreshed Britannia Woods community house opens Updated townhome expected to see 50,000 visits per year Steph Willems

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News - Tails and tongues were wagging on the morning of Aug. 25, as residents and their four-legged friends gathered to open Ottawa’s newest – and biggest – off leash dog run. Located in Hampton Park, near Island Park Drive and the Queensway, the 9,000square-metre, fenced-in dog run is located on National Capital Commission land that is leased and maintained by the city. Running alongside the dog run is a newly-opened multiuse pathway, constructed by the city to bridge the gap between Island Park and Kirk-

wood Avenue for pedestrians and cyclists. The pathway adds an extra four kilometers of pavement to the city’s cycling network. Though the two projects are mutually beneficial, but exclusive in terms of development, the pathway was built from dedicated city infrastructure funds, while the dog run was built using cashin-lieu of parkland funds collected and distributed by the office of Kitchissippi Coun. Katherine Hobbs. For local dog owners – who converged on the new run – the opening was the recognition of a community need. The lack of off-leash areas in the west end, especially those that contained rambunctious pooches behind a fence, was a constant concern of residents. “We know this is the start – it isn’t the finish,” said Hobbs, who spearheaded the project.

“We’ve left (the ground) natural, but we know there are some things that need to be done. We’d love to hear from you in the coming weeks.” A suggestion box will soon be placed at the site to solicit feedback from dog owners. Mayor Jim Watson, standing alongside Gary Lacey, executive director of capital stewardship for the NCC, highlighted the positive results that came from the city working alongside the federal body. “We’re really trying to do our best to take some necessary steps to provide safe passage for people who want to walk or cycle in the community,” said Watson, referring to the pathway. Lacy, who lives near Hampton Park, congratulated the city on the new installations and said he looked forward to bringing his own dogs to the park to let them off their leashes.

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Kitchissippi Coun. Katherine Hobbs, third from left, Mayor Jim Watson, and Gary Lacey from the NCC cut a ribbon at the opening of the Hampton Park dog run on Aug. 25.

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The renovation is part of a larger makeover for the Richie Street community – a beautification project aimed at making a nicer place for kids to play while moving away from a negative stigma caused by past events.

Residents of Britannia Woods helped raise $10,000 for the renewal through fundraising, and helping bring local businesses and community partners on board. “This will hopefully hold us for two to three years,” said community house executive director Mohamed

Sofa. “Our hope is to build a purpose-built facility on the edge of the community, next to Britannia Park, so we can meet current demand and future needs.” With a new facility a ways off, the re-opened community house will be a beehive of activity, serving an aver-

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age of 170 people each day. In addition to programming like homework clubs and job skills training, the modest space also contains a food pantry that serves 500 people each month. Calling it the “heart and soul of the community,” Bay Coun. Mark Taylor applauded the programs being offered out of the house. “If you add up all the visits, this house sees over 50,000 visits a year. This is amazing when you consider this is a townhouse meant for a family to live in.” Taylor said the revitalization of the community house will serve as a springboard for the planning work needed to eventually construct the future facility that will border the park. For Larry Hill, president of the community house’s board, having a new facility

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ber grand opening. The closing of the former west end YMCA on Lockhart Avenue in June of 2012 left more than a recreation and fitness gap in the community – it also disrupted the lives of those who used the Y as a social hub and meeting place.

The wait is no more – the new Y, located on the basement level of Carlingwood Shopping Mall, opened earlier this year with upgraded fitness equipment and programming space for members of all ages. A 2013 membership drive needed to secure the business case for the location was

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a success, and membership currently stands at 2,500, with room for many more. The only thing absent from the facility – a pool – won’t be missing for long. “We’re expecting it to be open very soon,” said YMCA regional manager Dylan Harries. “The pool will complete the facility.” Harries is confident the “hotelsized” 17.5-metre pool with whirlpool will be functional for the Sept. 27 grand opening. “It’s just going to be a big celebration party,” said Harries. “Everything’s new, and new members and old members will all be coming together.” Members of the previous YMCA didn’t stray far following the closure

of that facility, according to Harries. The majority came “knocking on the door” during the course of the membership drive and after the reopening. Besides offering state-of-the-art fitness equipment and training in a welllit environment, the Y is equipped with meeting and relaxation areas in order to fulfill that crucial social role. “There are couches, tables - people have that space to meet and build those friendships and relationships,” said Harries. The Sept. 27 grand opening will kick off at 9:30 a.m. with kid’s activities, a performance by Junkyard Symphony, family Zumba classes, underwater hockey, and a variety of other fitness classes.

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Choir aims to reach out to at risk youth in Ottawa michelle.nash@metroland.com

News - The people behind a new downtown project are hoping to give at-risk and homeless youth something to sing about. Partnering with the Kiwanis Music Festival, Operation Come Home has launched a new program for its transient and at-risk youth – a choir. “I think it’s pretty unique. I believe it’s the first of its kind in Ottawa,” said Elspeth Mckay, Operation Come Home’s executive director. Starting Sept. 12, young people are invited to visit Operation Come Home’s Gloucester Street location for the opportunity to sing in the choir. “At Christmas parties they all sing their heads off,” Mckay said. “The youth always want to show off their talent, so this is the natural progres-

sion.” Operation Come Home offers programs and services for more than 450 at-risk and homeless youth in Ottawa, in an effort to help them make positive changes in their lives. The idea to start a choir came from its former executive director, Kim Chadsey, now the associate executive director at the Kiwanis Music Festival. “Going back to my background, working with Operation Come Home, I wanted to do something that promoted the study of music and help get a group of young people involved in music,” Chadsey said. Turning the idea into reality, Mckay said, took about nine months. Chadsey added that when she began telling more people about the idea, she was encouraged to seek funding. The project received money from the Ontario Trillium

Foundation and the Community Foundation of Ottawa, totalling $92,000 – $82,000 over two years from the Trillium Foundation and $10,000 from the Community Foundation. The money will help pay for the choir director, program expenses, travel and food expenses. “I really hope they form a cohesive group that works well together and helps them develop self esteem,” Chadsey said. “The dedication that it takes, to do the practicing for the long run, work as a group – I am hoping this will help form its own social enterprise and one day they can charge for their gigs.” Aside from any potential performances downtown, the choir is booked to compete in the 2015 Kiwanis Music Festival, under the community choir’s category.

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Ema Lee Fashions: 11 years and counting

It was a hot June night in 2002 and everything was quiet in the small hamlet of Balderson. No one knew that in one house, there was a deal going down! Two men sat facing each other at the kitchen table in Mr. George Myers’ home. The conversation was quick and right to the point. Would Mr. Myers sell his old general store or not? That was the question. The sun was going down. The clocks on his wall ticked to their own tock. The silence had been broken. Finally a deal had been made on the back of a cigarette pack. The transformation began on the old general store and eleven years later Ema Lee Fashions is still a thriving, successful business. It is located seven kilometers north of Perth on Hwy 511 and open seven days a week. Gerry McSweeney and Emily Desjardine had no idea that the business would become such a huge success. “We are known all over for being the largest ladies clothing store in the Ottawa Valley and for being a destination shopping spot” Desjardine said. “The store is also known for it’s plethora of ladies apparel, swim suits, purses and men’s shirts”.

By Brian Turner The health benefits of fly-fishing or fishing in general have been well documented over the years, but recently experts have been able to pinpoint some of the lesser known advantages of taking up this age-old pastime. Fly-fishing provides the most improvements to the body and mind of any type of angling, from increased cardio activity to better mobility to distressing the mind, to the heart racing action of landing an elusive quarry. Tony Petrelli, owner of Green Drake Outfitters at 89 Holland Ave in central Ottawa, has been introducing area residents to better health through fly-fishing for almost 20 years. His family-run shop can handle everything a novice or veteran could need. And like any good fishing outfitter shop, there’s a dad in the store. Tony and his father Vince have been partners from the start. From clothing to gear to flies of all type, Green Drake has it all. Tony himself is a casting instructor, certified by the Federation of Fly Fishers and has been involved with the sport for over 25 years. From quality clothing brands such as Tilley, Barbour and of course the legendary Orvis line, it’s not just about looking good, but about being comfortable in the water and investing in gear that’s designed and made to last a lifetime. Green Drake (named after the bell-weather insect of the fly-fishing

world) also provides fly tying lessons where, in a one-on-one engagement, students can quickly pick up the skills to create their own temptations for local fish or for anything farther afield. Tony notes that more and more area residents are taking advantage of our unique abundance of ponds, streams, lakes, and rivers in order to find their own retreat from hectic work and family schedules. Rather than spending small fortunes on exotic vacation spots, Tony’s clients are rediscovering the true beauty of regional waters and at the same time they are gaining a deeper understanding of themselves and how they fit in an environment to be treasured and protected. He finds it ultimately fulfilling to introduce a beginner to the sport by directing him or her to tackle local bass which are plentiful and not shy about taking a handtied fly and providing a spirited struggle before being released back into the water. And it’s not only men who are taking up the sport, women, boys, and girls alike are rewarded by a closer bond with nature in the peaceful fresh waters of our area. Of course, Green Drake outfitters have the appropriate styles and sizes for every age group. Seasoned casters frequent Green Drake as well as the experience of their staff can’t be beat or found in a big-box warehouse centre or national hardware

chain. Like golfers, repeat clients know that they can learn something from any lesson provided by Tony to improve their ‘game’ and get measureable results. And of course everyone is looking for just the right fly to land their favorite catch. Tony’s travels to fishing paradises around the globe brings a world of knowledge right to the door-steps of his Westboro shop, so anyone planning a casting cruise to the coast or down south can get all the planning help they need. Tony was the first to introduce Casting for Recovery to our region, a movement started in the UK in 2006 to aid women after breast cancer surgery. As part of a therapy programme is has been proven to improve mobility and can help to reduce tissue fluid accumulation known as lymphoedema. In addition it provides a great chance to connect with other patients in a relaxing and restorative atmosphere. Green Drake Outfitters is open Monday through Friday from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm and on Saturday from 9:30 am to 5:30 pm. On Sundays you can count on finding a ‘Gone Fishing’ sign on their door. You can reach them at 613-8281915 or check out their website at www. greendrake.com. Remember, the only thing small about Green Drake Outfitters is the mouth size on the bass you’ll soon be landing.

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Adjoining Ema Lee Fashions in the “Downtown Balderson Complex” you will find Balderson Fine Foods, well known for its homemade ice-cream and the Anne and Vanessa’s Bakery. Since their last anniversary Emily and Gerry are very happy to announce and welcome the new proprietor and trained Chef Adam Porter of the Balderson Café. Adam’s theory: “Our philosophy is simple freshness is our commitment”. The Café is open from 10:00am to 5:00pm and the response from all of the customers has been extremely complimentary and positive. Emily and Gerry highly recommend that you drop in for lunch and don’t forget to try his homemade desserts…you won’t be disappointed! Come and discover Downtown Balderson!

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Please stop for school buses

arents across the city are breathing a collective sigh of relief, as the final days tick off the calendar to the start of the school year. On Tuesday, Sept. 2, tens of thousands of children will stream into Ottawa’s streets, returning to school on foot or by car or bus. Motorists will begin seeing a lot of yellow starting next week. Fleets of school buses will flood our streets as children return to elementary and high schools. Most schools welcome students back the day after Labour Day, but the French public and Catholic boards open a week earlier. The colour yellow in motorist’s language always translates to one word: caution. Motorists must keep their eyes open for children waiting on street corners. Kids will be kids, which means they are in constant motion. We must always remember the first rule of defensive driving: expect the unexpected. Children tend to offer a lot of unexpected behaviour, which occasionally involves a mad dash across the street chasing a ball or friend waiting at a bus stop. Motorists would do well to drive a little more

slowly the first few weeks of September. They might also want to reacquaint themselves with the rules of driving when approaching a stopped school bus with its lights flashing. The flashing lights mean cars must come to a halt to allow children to board the bus. It also allows children and parents to safely cross the street. By law, traffic in both directions must stop anytime a school bus is stopped with its overhead alternating signal lights flashing. If the danger of hitting a child with your vehicle isn’t reason enough, failing to stop for a school bus can result in fines up to $2,000 upon conviction and six demerit points given to a motorist’s driver’s license. And that’s only for a first conviction. Each subsequent offence can result in fines as high as $4,000 together with six demerit points and possible imprisonment for up to six months. Staying alert while behind the wheel and being aware of the rules of the road governing school buses is everyone’s responsibility. We’re all winners if we educate ourselves about the rules of the road and school bus safety.

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Canada Post’s journey down the slippery slope

e’ve had lots of exposure to NIMBY – the Not in My Back Yard – phenomenon in which people rally to protect their neighbourhoods, sometimes selfishly, often nobly. But the front yard is not immune either. Nor the side, if you happen to be on a corner. We’re seeing it already in Kanata, where there is controversy over the placing of the first of the new community mailboxes by Canada Post. There is no perfect place to put one of these. It will always be right where there is no place to park, or right in front of someone’s house, or too far to get to on foot or too close to something else. Some people are annoyed and many more will be as the process of dropping home delivery and in-

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CHARLES GORDON Funny Town stalling more community mailboxes continues over the next year or so. The annoyance factor is accentuated by the fact that nobody wants these things in the first place. How could they? People are used to reaching outside the front door for the mail. Now they have to go somewhere else for it. At least Canada Post, unlike many enterprises, is not billing this reduction in service as something that will serve the customer better. Vice President & Regional Publisher Mike Mount mmount@metroland.com 613-283-3182, ext. 104 Regional General Manager Peter O’Leary peter.oleary@metroland.com 613-283-3182, ext. 112 Editor-in-Chief Ryland Coyne rcoyne@metroland.com General Manager: Mike Tracy mike.tracy@metroland.com

It will serve Canada Post better, is the idea. Eliminating door-to-door delivery will enable it to cut costs and become more viable financially. (Those with long memories will recall that Canada Post’s mandate used to be to serve the public, before it was changed to require the corporation to turn a profit.) The irony of the community mailbox conversion is that it could make Canada Post less likely to turn a profit than it was before. Most obviously, Canada Post is losing good will over the conversion and that can’t help any enterprise. If people are mad at Canada Post, they will be more likely to use a competitor’s services. But there is another factor at work too: the customer’s attitude toward disTriBUTion inQUiries Traci Cameron 613-221-6223 adMinisTraTion: Donna Therien 613-221-6233 display adverTising: Gisele Godin - Kanata - 221-6214 Dave Pennett - Ottawa West - 221-6209 Sharon Holden - Orleans - 221-6154 Cindy Gilbert - Ottawa South - 221-6211 Geoff Hamilton - Ottawa East - 221-6215 Valerie Rochon - Barrhaven - 221-6227 Jill Martin - Nepean - 221-6221 Mike Stoodley - Stittsville - 221-6231 Janine Kivell - Ottawa West - 221-6217 Rico Corsi - Automotive Consultant - 221-6224 Greg Stimpson - Automotive Consultant - 221-6232

the mail they receive. As you know, few people write personal letters any more. Consequently, they buy fewer stamps and Canada Post must lean more heavily on distributing flyers and what unsympathetic customers refer to as junk mail. Up to now, nobody has minded that much. The advertising that forms a large part of the mail we receive is an irritant, but it’s no trouble. We take it out of the mailbox and throw it away. Now we will have to walk down the street or perhaps even get into our cars to retrieve something we didn’t want in the first place. Won’t that change our attitudes toward junk mail? Won’t we demand that Canada Post do something to reduce it? And if Canada Post is forced by public opinion to cut back on the advertising it distributes, that will cut into Canada Post’s revenues, further undermining the financial position

that the community mailboxes were supposed to improve. Oops. After this little victory on our behalf, it is hard to know what happens next. Whatever it is, we probably won’t be finding out through the mail.

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Back to School I hope everyone had a good summer. The warm weather season seems to have flown by quickly hasn’t it? As we all settle back into fall routines students will be getting prepared for school. They may require a few special items but the most important thing they will need to perform at their best in school is adequate sleep (especially teens) and a solid breakfast to begin the day. This is equally true for busy parents!

Getting to School The transportation eligibility distance for transportation assistance by the school board is 800 metres for junior and senior kindergarten students, 1.6 km for grade 1 to 8 students, and 3.2 km for students in grades 9 to 12 who reside outside the Urban Transit Area. Older students from grade 7 to 12 may be provided with bus passes rather than a yellow school bus if there is not enough students in the area to warrant this service. If your child depends on a school bus for transportation you can check local radio stations and twitter for updates on cancellations due to inclement weather throughout the school year.

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News - The city’s planning committee put a proposal for twin towers in Centretown on ice last week. The 27-storey buildings linked with a walkway near the top don’t constitute a “landmark” under the criteria the city set out for important building sites in Centretown, city planning staff said. Planners recommended the committee refuse developer Mastercraft Starwood’s application to rezone the site, but the committee decided to defer it to a future planning meeting. A new community design plan for Centretown adopted last year allows for taller buildings on certain large, important sites on major streets, but only if the development proposals “make a significant and lasting contribution to the image and identity of the

city.” The proposal for 267 O’Connor St. “falls significantly short” of those criteria, the staff report states. “It’s not a landmark,” said planning committee chairman Coun. Peter Hume said of the Mastercraft Starwood proposal. “It’s two tall buildings with a nice big sign with a bridge that links it. “There are a lot of things that landmarks should be and this sets the bar very, very low,” he said. Compounding the issue is the fact that the community design plan calling for the “landmark” criteria is currently under appeal to the Ontario Municipal Board. Once that appeal is resolved, likely this fall, city staff will create a process to review landmark building proposals and define more specific characteristics they will be looking for when recommending approval of the special buildings.

Mastercraft Starwood and the city are were also odds is the ownership of slightly less than 40 per cent open space that would be provided on the site. A last-minute change to the tall landmark buildings clause requires the open space to be deeded to the city, but Mastercraft Starwood would rather keep ownership of the parkland and pay to maintain the landscaping. The developer also wants to build a four-level parking garage under the park, which might not jive with the city’s ownership of that piece of land, the company’s planning consultant, Ted Fobert, said this spring. Fobert did not respond to a request asking about Mastercraft Starwood’s next steps. When the rezoning proposal comes back to the planning committee for consideration, the application will be re-advertised but not re-circulated to community groups.

For students who are within the eligible distance can walk to school. The OCDSB encourages active transportation (walking or biking to school) as much as possible and is working closely with the Ottawa School Transportation Authority (OSTA) and City of Ottawa to make routes as safe as possible. Did you know that walking to school improves students’ health and ability to learn?

Walking School Buses This September the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board will be piloting a project of walking school buses. This involves hiring an adult to accompany children as they walk to school and from school along an established route. Here in Bay Ward Woodroffe Avenue Public School has been chosen to be one of the five schools in our board to initiate this very exciting program. There is currently a job posting on the OSTA and Ottawa Safety Council website for this paid position. I am extremely proud of the public school’s partnership with Green Communities, Ottawa Public Health and the Ottawa Safety Council to make this project happen and optimistic that we will be able to expand this program once we have worked through this initial pilot project.

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Classes begin on Tuesday, September 2nd and for the most part students will find their class and begin right away. From time to time changes in enrolment numbers mean adjustments need to be made to class arrangements. If this is the case then teachers and principals will be working together to make any necessary transitions as smooth as possible.

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The back to school blues BRYNNA LESLIE Capital Muse They went to canoe camp. They rode their bikes, they played soccer, and we’ve been eating outdoors. The boys have each grown an inchand-a-half, judging by the short trousers I had to donate to charity this month. When September comes, it’s like flipping a switch. My tall, bronzed, rosy cheeked kids with all their

muscle and lungs full of fresh forest air will be forced to spend approximately nine hours of their waking day indoors, most of it sitting. When they’re not in school, they’re sitting on a bus or in a car. They have to sit to do homework after sitting all day long. The days

curriculum. The rest of their days will be spent in the garden, hiking outdoors and other physical ventures. I admire her and the lifestyle she’s creating for her family, but homeschooling is not for me. Outside of school hours, I’ll try to get the kids active, keep homework to a minimum and make the most of our weekends to get out in nature. Until then, if you need me, I’ll probably be in a forest somewhere far, far away.

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here’s nothing like a fish in a bucket to attract the attention of a group of kids. That’s exactly what happened on the beach last week. A kid caught a sunfish in a broken net. He put it in a bucket of water. The next thing you know a group of 10 children, aged four to 12, are standing over the thing, watching it circle. They had stopped whatever they were doing – swimming, sandcastles, volleyball – to give their full attention to the sunfish. And then there was a dad. He knew all about the fish. The kids had questions. He had answers. They wanted to hold the fish. He showed them how to lip it. He warned them some fish have teeth, so you have to be careful. They stood there in their learning circle for about 10 minutes before they dispersed. I went over to talk to the dad. “Nothing like a fish to gather the kids together.” “This is what school should be like,” he replied. And I felt that little bubble of anxiety rise in my chest. Like many parents, I start to worry as the start of another school year approaches. It’s the usual things, like forking out extra money for new shoes and underwear, planning school lunches and winding back bedtimes. But I also know my children will have a difficult adjustment to the indoor lifestyle that inevitably marks the debut of September. This year, I expect the transition to be even more pronounced. My children have spent eight of their nine weeks of vacation outdoors. We accumulated four weeks of tent camping. In between, we had day kayak trips, picnics in Gatineau Park and fishing on the Ottawa River.

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Treasures sure to be found at Centretown garage sale Laura Mueller

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News - At Centretown’s second-annual communitywide garage sale, the treasures aren’t just the things that are for sale. Organizer Wynne Quon says the Sept. 6 event is a chance for people to meet their neighbours and feel like they are part of a community. “It’s about making the neighbourhood more of a home,” Quon said. “We have a vibrant community here. It just takes a little thing to get us to meet our neighbours. Once you get a conversation going... just the fact that you love living here brings the community together.” Modelled after successful neighbourhood-wide yard sales like the Great Glebe Garage Sale, Quon set the first Super Centretown Garage Sale in motion last year. He expected about a dozen people to participate – it’s hard to get the word out for a new, grassroots event, he said.

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Gaëtanne Sartoretto, Émilie Sartoretto and Carl Meyer offer their wares during last year’s inaugural Super Centretown Garage Sale. Close to 80 sales cropped up around Centretown on the day of the first garage sale last year, Quon said. This year, he’d like to see that number triple, he said. Quon hopes people who jumped on board and held sales last year will do so

again, and tell their friends. People who came across some sales during the Super Centretown event last year might also choose to participate this time around, Quon said. Centretown resident Émilie Sartoretto participated in the garage sale last year and said

the event gave her a chance to meet and chat with neighbours she normally only encounters during a quick elevator ride. “Everyone who came by loved the idea and some were disappointed they didn’t find out in time to participate,” she wrote in an email. “By the

sound of it, we can expect a few more stands on our block this year.” People who would like to participate are invited to display their wares on private property from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. Unlike some other neighbourhoods that have huge community-wide sales every year, Centretown remains largely untapped, with basements and closets full of treasures waiting to be discovered, Quon said. “We have so much stuff and you don’t want to throw it away,” he said. Quon said he had been hanging onto a bunch of old cookie tins that he never used and an artist who happened by his home during last year’s Super Centretown Garage Sale was happy to snap them up to use in a piece. “It’s just neat about that thing – someone’s trash is another’s treasure,” Quon said. Quon is also interested in the wackiest item bought during the sale. Last year, a

gentleman submitted an item he sold for the title of “wackiest”: a footstool with a base made of elk feet. The buyer of this year’s weirdest item will get a box of SuzyQ donuts as a prize. A photo of the off item can be viewed on the Super Centretown Garage Sale’s website, supercentretown.com, along with other information about the event. Quon recommends people add their individual sale locations to the listings on gsalr.ca and using the hashtag #supercentretown to post about it on social media. Similar to other community garage sale, Quon is recommending participants donate 10 per cent of their proceeds to the Centretown Community Health Centre, for which Quon is a board member. There wasn’t a “whole lot of money” raised last year on a cloudy, blustery day, but Quon is hoping for a better turnout and more money raised this year.

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Planning chairman Peter Hume won’t run again Alta Vista councillor withdraws from election seeking better work-life balance Laura Mueller

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News - After 23 years in local politics, Alta Vista Coun. Peter Hume surprised constituents and council alike with his announcement last week that he is withdrawing from the municipal election. Hume announced in a letter to residents that the increasing demands of the job – particularly due to his accessibility through email and social media – have taken their toll and led to work dominating his life. “I had created an environment which had no work/life balance and that lack of balance wasn’t good for me, wasn’t good for my family and it wasn’t good for the way I interacted with my constituents,” he wrote. His 15-year-old daughter, Helen, played a big role in

the decision, Hume said. She recently recounted how she’d spent more time on schoolwork while in council chambers than at her desk. “I registered in April or May and I fully intended to put together a campaign. I had a campaign team,” he said. “But over the summer, we started to think about my years on city council.” Hume, 51, was first elected in 1991 and became the chairman of the planning committee in 2003. He also sits on the finance and economic development committee. Hume also served as president of the Association of Municipalities of Ontario from 2008 to 2011. Spending more time with his wife, Anne Marie, and his daughter – a skier who competes around the globe – will help fill Hume’s time. He joked that he even liked his

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After serving Ottawa as a councillor for more than 20 years, Peter Hume announced he will not be running for re-election. daughter’s idea that he could serve as a “liftie” – a ski-lift operator – over the winter so she could go train in Whistler. “For a little second there, that sounded really appealing,” Hume laughed. Hume said he will miss “being in the thick” of is-

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sues, particularly as Ottawa sees the areas around its new light-rail stations develop. But he might still be involved in development issues in the future – on the other side of the council horseshoe. Hume said he’d be pleased to play some role in bringing the type of development he supports – such as a well-designed mid-rise building in a location with the right zoning – to fruition. “I am not interested in being a lobbyist who comes down here (to city hall) and says ‘I want to expand the urban boundary, I want to blow up this (community design plan),’” Hume said. “Things that I’ve talked about and believed in – would I like to go and actually put those into practise? If I had that opportunity, I’d love to do that.” Hume leaves a big hole as the longstanding chairman of the planning committee, which he has led for 10 years. “The next head of that committee will need to be

someone who stands behind the city’s updated Official Plan, with its focus on intensification and improving public spaces,” Hume said. “You need someone who actually believes in those things to chair the committee, and quite frankly, I look around the table and I think there are lots of them that believe in the Official Plan – they all supported it – and would do a great job chairing the committee,” he said. Hume said he’d like to see the city begin to play more of a negotiator’s role in trying to bring wanted amenities and developments to Ottawa, such as a grocery store for Little Italy, which is lacking for a supermarket. Negotiating between disparate interests on council will also be important for the next council and it’s something that Hume says has served him well in his own political career. “Being able to work with Diane Holmes. Being able to work with Allan Hubley. Be-

ing able to bridge both sides of the political spectrum was something that I was always proud of as a skill,” Hume said “That I could be the (Association of Municipalities of Ontario) president – a red Tory – during a Liberal majority government – I think it was those skills that allowed me to bridge and create those coalitions that allowed projects to be successful.” Hume was quick to throw his support behind Jean Cloutier, an accountant and former Canterbury Community Association president who Hume said has long had an interest in the council seat, but refused to run against the incumbent. Cloutier registered three days after Hume announced his withdrawal. Hume said he expects more candidates to come forward and said they will be “good, qualified” candidates. The other two contenders currently registered in Alta Vista are Daher Muse Calin and Hussein Mahmoud.

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• 125 g (4 oz) light cream cheese, softened • 1 clove garlic, minced • 4 ml (3/4 tsp) dried oregano leaves • 4 ml (3/4 tsp) each ground cumin and chili powder • 24 corn tortilla cups (scoops) Salsa: • 250 ml (1 cup) diced nectarines or peaches

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Parkwood Hills good food market thriving Jennifer McIntosh

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News - Good Food Markets in the city have ballooned from three to 10 in a local food security project’s second year, said community developer with the South Nepean Satellite Community Health Centre Marisa Moher. The project, which is an initiative spearheaded by a working group of the city’s health and resource centres, aimed to provide low-cost produce in areas of the city that have little to no access to grocery stores. Moher said those barriers could either be geographical or economic in nature. “For example, if the only local grocery store is Farm Boy, which is higher end, that’s going to have an impact on your food spending,” she said. “Or the cost of public transportation is a factor – like if you’re a single mom and you have four kids and you have to take all of them on the bus with you

to go grocery shopping that’s going to affect your budget for food.” Moher said, unlike other food markets, the focus is on low-cost produce, rather than local or organic. “We have seen some where there’s a mix, but we are really focusing on improving availability,” she said. The project is funded in part by the Community Foundation and the Trillium Foundation. Each individual market is organized and staffed by the resource centre responsible for that area. In Parkwood Hills, which hosts a market each Saturday at Inverness Park, the South Nepean Satellite Community Health Centre and the Nepean, Rideau and Osgoode Community Resource Centre handle the administration and hire area residents to co-ordinate and staff the market each Saturday. Moher said the eventual goal is to let the residents run the program themselves.

“We have four co-ordinators that worked at the market last year, so they have that experience and then four other residents were hired to do support work,” she said. “When we were planning the market, one of the needs we saw in the area was a lack of employment. These positions add skills that can be put on a resume.” The Parkwood Hills Market starts each spring and runs until the fall. Moher said organizers experimented with a winter market last year without much success because of a lack of available indoor space and poor weather, but other communities, like Morrison Garden’s – which has a community house – had more luck, she said, adding a pilot market will be added to the General Burns Park in September. “There’s a high concentration of seniors in that area,” Moher said. “Mobility and transportation is often an issue for seniors, so it may be useful.”

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The walls of that old house were paper thin. And before we fell asleep, Audrey and I heard Aunty get up several times to use the chamber pot, walk across the floor to the window, and let out long and purposeful sighs. She also had the habit of talking to herself, almost whispers, but loud enough that we could hear her

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Those 100-year-old letters have now been collected into an interactive website and print collection, called Private Sully Goes to War, in an effort to help modern-day students connect with their hometown history. Project lead Jane Cooper said the letters are surprisingly accessible. “It’s a high school boy writing to his girl,” said Cooper. “They’re written in a very young voice.” They’re also fascinating for the details they reveal and conceal about his experience. “You can sense a lot of selfcensorship,” Cooper said. “He didn’t want to tell Fannie the nasty stuff.” That ‘stuff’ includes some of the bloodiest battles of the war: the Battle of the Somme and Passchendaele. Instead, many of Sully’s letters focus on town gossip and events, including how much he’ll miss the now-defunct Ottawa Exhibition. “Do you remember a certain day of the Ottawa ex. last year; my suggestion, that I might be in kharki by exhibition time this year came quite true. ... I hope you are able to ‘take it in’ this year,” he wrote to Fannie on Sept. 16, 1916. Gossip ran rampant through his letters: who was dating who, who had gotten top marks in Latin, and, perhaps most importantly, who had enlisted. In many ways, this front line postal system wasn’t so different than Facebook or Twitter today, Cooper said. “I was fascinated at how often they wrote to each other, and how quickly the letters got to each other,” Cooper said. “They’re social networking.

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Duff Crerar, Elmo Sully and Ross Campbell proudly pose in their new army uniforms after enlisting together in the spring of 1916. It’s just the technology that’s changed.” It’s changing in the schools, too; textbooks are becoming an outdated resource, and students are demanding digital media in the classroom. To this end, Cooper has partnered with Osgoode Township High School teacher David Way to develop an interactive website that will help Grade 10 history students connect with Sully and his friends Duff Crerar and Ross Campbell, who lived in their own village 100 years ago. Several media and design students at Algonquin College helped the pair design a tabletfriendly website complete with scans of the original letters, typed transcripts, photos of Sully and his friends and even a map and timeline of Sully’s whereabouts during the war. “The website is all about being able to be very interactive,” Way said. “It becomes less ab-

stract, and it goes beyond the textbook.” Cooper said the book has been in progress since she found the letters in the Osgoode Township Museum nearly 20 years ago. She thought then that she would turn them into a book, but it was only at the end of 2013 when Metcalfe resident Margaret Rivard had transcribed the letters that Cooper decided it was time. She did hours of research into Sully’s regiments so she could fill in the gaps of his whereabouts and experiences to create the book. But it was clear that to become a success it would need to be a digital creation first and foremost. “The book becomes a teaser for the website,” she said. Copies of the print edition have been mailed to teachers across the region, and Cooper hopes to sell copies to interested readers in the future.

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Racing with a bit of history Joshua Carriere, 10, from Greely races Beaverwood Road during this year’s Manotick Village and Community Association’s fourth annual Soapbox Derby on Aug. 24. The cart belonged to Carriere’s grandparents and first raced in 1968. Thirty young racers participated in this year’s derby, Carriere won the grand prize with an average speed of 34.5 seconds.

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