Glebe Report December 2014 by Glebe Report

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Vol. 42 No. 11

PHOTO: Liz McKeen

December 12, 2014

“Moving Surfaces,” the work of public art at Lansdowne, was created by Vancouver artist Jill Anholt. It was illuminated for the first time at a ceremony on November 28.

Moving surfaces On November 28, the Horticulture Building was officially opened with a ribboncutting ceremony and the Lansdowne work of public art, “Moving Surfaces,” by Jill Anholt was illuminated for the first time. Anholt, a Vancouver-based visual artist who specializes in site-specific works of public art, spoke at the ceremony, describing her sculpture as a fluid melding of light, colour and movement that is meant to echo the waters of the nearby Rideau Canal. The east side of the piece is intended eventually to serve as an illuminated canvas for other artists to display their works.

On the same day, the Horticulture Building hosted its first event, the Ottawa Guild of Potters’ holiday show. Within days, the Lansdowne Park Skating Court was open for public skating, complete with heated changing shack and Beavertails (there will be skating lessons for adults and kids beginning in January). And of course, many openings of retail shops and eateries at Lansdowne – among the largest, Whole Foods, Sporting Life and an LCBO – and a great deal of Bank Street business bustle (see page 5 for details). The Glebe is indeed a “moving surface.”

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“Imagination and Architecture” art exhibit, GCC Art Gallery Ottawa Farmers’ Market Aberdeen Pavilion, Lansdowne Park, 9 a.m.–3 p.m. 2014 Community Winter Party, GCC, 1–4 p.m. GNAG Castles & Capitals Trip Information Night, GCC, 6–8 p.m. Taste in the Glebe, GCC, 5:30–8:00 p.m. Bach and his Legacy, Master Piano Recital Concert Southminster United Church, 7:30 p.m.

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Why Ottawa?

The day before the opening, as I sat in Francesco’s Coffee chatting about Whole Foods, I asked Lisa Slater, “Why Ottawa?” Slater said the company had done market research to find the right location for expansion before settling on Ottawa. “It was a combination of landlord and market.” Ottawa’s population is well educated and has a reasonably high income; Ottawa has three universities, two colleges and more in Gatineau. Now, people are more aware of the connection between food, health and the total well-being of a person. Said Michael Bashaw, “We have never closed a store.” The Whole Foods Store

The shop at Lansdowne is 41,000 square feet, occupying nearly half a block on the east side of Bank beside the new LCBO outlet, with which it shares some 230 customer parking spots. The entrance is at street level, where a coffee shop is tucked away beside an escalator that carries customers to the main floor with its many departments

– areas for local farmers’ products, cheese, baked goods, fresh produce, meats, etc. The store carries over 100 products from 50 Ontario and Quebec suppliers, but also many more from international sources. It has a restaurant, three well-known Ottawa chefs and a “community room” where local nonprofit groups can meet. The design, unique to the Glebe and Ottawa, was ready two years ago, and incorporates the rich history of the neighbourhood. Of the 165 full- and part-time staff, 15 come from other parts of Canada and 150 from Ottawa-Gatineau. In addition, company managers and workers from Ontario, B.C. and the U.S. came for the opening. Walter Robb, a co-founder from Austin, Texas, said the company believes in a direct relationship with its employees, not through a third party. Their benefits include a store discount, health, vision and stock options. The company is an excellent employer and turnover is less than 10 per cent. The organization is “flat” with store team leaders, associates and members. Slater has an open door policy: “Anyone can come and talk to me.” Slater has a lot of experience. Born into a business family, she owned a coffee wholesaler, a restaurant and a bakery. For the past 13 years, she worked at Whole Foods in Yorkville (Toronto), Oakville, and Square One (Toronto) before coming to Ottawa. She is newly elected to the Board of the Glebe BIA and she loves to cook, bake, cycle, hike and practise yoga. I talked to customers and staff on opening day. Customers Renee and Stephanie Decary from Lowertown and Vanier commented, “Very good variety – there is no equivalent store in Ottawa.” Lisa Zografos, a staff member in the Fromagerie, said their cheese comes from all over the world – Italy, France, U.S., U.K. – as well as locally. Ben Smith, Assistant Manager, Meat, who moved to Ottawa,

Lisa Slater, Whole Foods Store Team Leader, has years of experience in the food industry and was recently elected to the Board of the Glebe BIA.

explained the rule of no antibiotics or hormones and the five-step animal comfort standards adhered to by suppliers. The company

Founded in 1980 in Austin, Texas, Whole Foods Market (www.wholefoodsmarket.com) has 10 stores in Canada, eight in the U.K. and 382 in the U.S., accounting for some $12.9 billion in sales in 2013. The aim of the company, “to do well while doing good,” is the essence of Conscious Capitalism, a book written by company co-founder John Mackey. In 1992, the company stock stood at $2.17 per share, rising to a high of $79 in 2005. It plunged after the financial crisis of 2008, but more recently has soared again to $95. The company “averaged same store growth of about 8 per cent for 25 years through all types of economic environments,” according to Conscious Capitalism. Whole Foods and Lansdowne

Michael Bashaw acknowledged, “There are passionate feelings about [Lansdowne] development” but is convinced that, for Whole Foods, “results will be good over a long period.” Said Slater, “We want to be here for a long time and grow deep roots.” Ashwin Shingadia is a Glebe resident and regular contributor to the Glebe Report.

“Robert” the excavating company takes up residence on First Avenue in late August 2014.

A familiar Glebe saga By John Crump

It’s a sight familiar to Glebe residents. One day you have a street and the biggest problem is where your visitors are going to park. Sure, sometimes a big hole opens up in front of your house, water flows out of the ground, basements flood and repair crews appear (even on Christmas Eve). With cast iron water mains dating from the beginning of the last century or earlier, it’s not surprising there are occasional problems. Then you get the word. Your street is scheduled for reconstruction. The work will begin in the spring. Then it will begin in July. Late in August, just before school starts, “Robert” arrives. Robert is the excavating company, but on our street the huge machines bear-

ing the company name were quickly given their own anthropomorphized identities. There was even a big spray painted parking spot for “Robert.” Robert and his human and mechanical friends quickly set about their work. The hordes of kids heading to First Avenue Public School are rerouted (mostly) and the street is torn up. Holes are dug. Holes are filled in. New holes are dug. Then the rain comes. It falls for days and the glacial silt under the old roadbed liquefies and flows into your house, usually care of your dog. Or kids. Holes appear in everyone’s front yard and neighbours debate the merits of paying extra to remove old lead pipes. The expression “money pit” takes on new meaning. Then one day you notice a change. Your house is vibrating as machines

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The opening ceremonies took place outside in the cold at 9 a.m. on November 19 with a “breaking of bread.” Around 300 people waited in line, some as early as 6 a.m. The first 500 customers received a gift card. Lisa Slater, Store Team Leader, thanked all who were there, including her team, and mentioned local causes supported by Whole Foods – Big Brothers, Ottawa School Breakfast Program, Ecology Ottawa, The Distress Centre, The Youville Centre and Operation Come Home. Michael Bashaw from Chicago, president of Whole Foods’ Midwest Region, said, “This is our coldest opening day, but we are here to stay.” Mayor Jim Watson congratulated Whole Foods for “investing in the city and giving back to the community.”

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New asphalt is laid in a single day and reconstruction crews depart. They will be back in the spring for final touches.

pound the new roadbed into place. A few days later, you smell it. New asphalt is laid in a single day. Suddenly, it’s quiet again. Cars park in both directions, drivers unsure whether our one-way street remains

temporarily two-way. The snow falls. We await the final touches next spring. John Crump is a longtime Glebe resident and an avid follower of the First Avenue reconstruction saga.

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Images of the Glebe

PHOTO: Liz McKeen

Skaters at the Lansdowne Park Skating Court head for a hot sweet pastry on a cold December morning.

Janus in January tals, passages and endings, depicted always with two faces, one looking to the future, the other to the past. And as the month of January, his namesake, approaches, what better time to take stock of where we were and where we’re going? Like Janus, the Glebe Report looks both ways at once. We record and celebrate the comings and goings of the changing Glebe landscape, welcoming the future with Business Buzz articles and planning and ecology pieces. At the same time, we look to the past and pay tribute to the roots and heritage of our Glebe neighbourhood, through profiles, personal memoirs and articles saluting our history and built heritage. We also try to give voice to readers of all ages, from grandparents and parents to children, almost as soon as they learn to write. Help us look both ways. I invite you to lend your voice to the pages of the Glebe Report. Liz McKeen

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Whole Foods opened at Lansdowne on November 19 to much fanfare (see page 2). Sporting Life opened at Lansdowne on November 20. “We are open and we can’t wait to meet you! Whether you are a snow enthusiast or like to cozy up by the fire, we’ve got the equipment, fashion, footwear and accessories you need for this snowy season.” Free Form Fitness will be opening a fourth location at 787 Bank Street at Third Avenue (where Roots used to be) on January 1. Construction began on October 24. The Source at Lansdowne is now open. The LCBO at Lansdowne, some 8,462 square feet in size, opened on December 4. The LCBO

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at Bank and Powell closed on December 3.

Members, Glebe Community Association Transportation Committee:

The Tea Party Café opened a second location at 103 Fourth Avenue in the Glebe. The Lansdowne Park Skating Court, a refrigerated outdoor rink, opened on December 2. BMO Bank of Montreal is now open at Lansdowne. Local Public Eatery is now open at Lansdowne. The Dailey Method is opening early 2015 at Fifth Avenue Court. “Real Fitness – No Holds Barred!” CHANGES AFOOT

Delilah in the Glebe is back in business after the flood in September. “We are thrilled to be back serving our wonderfully loyal customers - you are the best!” McKeen Metro in the Glebe welcomed the community to their post-renovation open house on November 29. “It was time to give the store a little face lift,” said Rebecca McKeen, director of the fourth generation grocery store. “The Glebe is evolving quickly and we wanted to evolve as well.” Rebecca is a newer face in McKeen Metro, recently taking over from her father, owner Jim McKeen. GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN

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Contributors this issue Bob Acton Seema Akhtar Nicole Allen Melanie Bauman Graham Beaton Catherine Blake Martha Bowers Bhat Boy Micheline Boyle Geof Burbidge Karen Cameron Barre Campbell David Chernushenko Neil Copeland Deborah Cowley John Crump Kathi Elborn Adelle Farrelly Maddy G. Pat Goyeche Paul Green Steve Harris Pamela Hilchie Ella Hodgson-Pageau Wes Hodgson-Pageau Julie Houle Cezer Soo Hum Julie Ireton Will Jessup Rylee K. Robert Lacombe John Last Jean Macdonald

Sam Macdonald Mike Mankowski E. J. Martin Christine McAllister Ian McKercher Jamie McMillan Rosanna McMillan Brian Mitchell Jay Mithani Shannon Moore Jake Morrison Shirley Moulton Yasir Naqvi Rebeca Oueis Paul Pageau Patricia Paul-Carson Jeanette Rive Tori Roberts Jason Robichaud Bruce Rosove Ellen Schowalter Paul Sharp Ashwin Shingadia Lois Siegel Judith Slater Ildiko Sumegi Jim Tayler Christa Thomas Susan Townley Mary Tsai Penny Whitmore Zeus

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Lansdowne parking paradox – a conversation

Glebe comings and goings Ottawa Farmers’ Market home for the holidays! A Christmas Market took place at the Aberdeen Pavilion at Lansdowne on three weekends in December, with free parking at Brewer Park ($3 parking at Carleton) and a shuttle bus from Brewer to the Aberdeen Pavilion. A winter farmers’ market will take place in the Aberdeen Pavilion from January 11 to May, when it will again move outdoors.

We in the Glebe are reeling from a barrage of new. New businesses are opening every day at Lansdowne. Established businesses on Bank Street are trying new things, offering new services, renovating, advertising. Businesses are disappearing from the scene. New businesses establishing themselves on Bank Street or “off-Bank Street.” Long-time establishments like Yaghi’s Mini Mart toppling in the space of an hour or two and infill houses and multiple dwellings popping up like gophers out of holes. At the Glebe Report, we are perched on a point of pivot, a fulcrum of sorts. Look one way, we see a Glebe radically changed and changing still – with all the excitement of the new, full of promise and potential. Look the other way, we see how things used to be – and we revel in the sweet comfort of the familiar. Janus, the Roman god of beginnings and transitions, has something to teach us. He is the god of gates, doors, por-

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Lansdowne love Editor, Glebe Report As a teenager I enjoyed playing baseball at Lansdowne Park. Later I took up curling, and in 1970, our wedding reception was held in the banquet hall under the stands. Lansdowne Park held great memories – that is, until we moved back to Ottawa in 1999 after being away for 25 years. The entire site was poorly kept – principally an asphalt parking lot with dilapidated buildings. As I walked my springer spaniel each day along the canal I was struck by the incredible contrast between the beautifully landscaped NCC grounds and the apparent abandonment of the Park by our elected officials. Who in City Hall was looking out for this gem? Clearly there was no champion within the City, and I include my past ward councillors, who had neither the awareness to recognize a tremendous opportunity nor the vision to see the potential. Opportunity is the food of visionary entrepreneurs and Ottawa was extremely fortunate to have Ottawans step forward to bring Lansdowne Park back to life. Yes, the City had to ante up funds to help with construction, and well it should after years of neglect. A few have called the process flawed and, I now read, corrupt. Some have played guitars outside City Hall, engaging in litigation that saddled our taxpayers with a significant bill, all while taking absolutely no initiative to remedy what was best described as an abandoned site. Aesthetics is a judgement of taste. Recent letters to the Glebe Report would seem to imply that the letterwriters’ aesthetic assessment is in the majority. I disagree. The architect has created a people place with unlimited potential. He has integrated beautiful living spaces, an outstanding sports facility, open park space, an incredible area for little tots, and spaces for skate boarding, basketball, curling, sitting, walking and riding. He has preserved architecture and, no matter where you walk, skateboard, ride or run, it feels like a place for everyone. TD Bank is one of the most generous corporations in our country and by branding the football stadium, they are letting the world know they support our sports teams and, by association, that they will continue to be a good corporate citizen, a great employer for our children, and financially committed to making Lansdowne Park a people place. The “aesthetics police” have got it wrong. The branding on the southside stands enhances TD Bank’s reputation and the 23,998 fans that join my wife and me for each Redblacks game would seem to support this premise. Jamie and Rosanna McMillan

I have read the piece in the Glebe Report regarding parking spaces for the development at Bank and Fifth. My strong feeling is that it makes sense not to require additional parking spaces in the Glebe for that project development. I believe there is an important lesson on parking from Lansdowne. By not providing much parking there, a large contingent of football fans have chosen the park-at-a-distance-and-bus-to-Lansdowne option. This is a big contrast to how it was previously. I remember when football game days were a nightmare because people coming to the Glebe for the games would drive fast and erratically, seeking that perfect parking spot, knowing that if they did not find an onstreet spot, they could always park in the Lansdowne grounds, but for a significant parking fee. That has now ended, so far at least. The lesson is that people will make a decision to leave their car outside the Glebe or even at home if they know parking is not available. But they’ll still come by other means. So, I’m glad that the development at Bank and Fifth will not provide an added incentive to people to bring their cars to the Glebe. Parking and land use zoning

I’d also like to mention that I would prefer, for the same rationale as above, that our zoning laws not require parking when new single or multiple resident developments are approved. If we do not accommodate cars, it is more likely that people will do without them. This would allow development of houses that don’t have to sit above a garage, as virtually every new infill house in the Glebe now does. One of the goals of City Council in allowing infill development is to encourage people to live in central areas of the city where they will be able to use public transit, cycling or walking as their means of transportation. Let’s encourage those who are not car users to build in the Glebe. Not requiring parking space for each new house will avert the need to put a garage below the living space, thereby raising the house and those who live in it high above street level, distant from their neighbours. Bruce Rosove

Lansdowne lights

has been a transportation success due to some special efforts to get people onto transit and out of their cars. I’m thinking that the motivation for that was largely the lack of parking. My hypothesis is: if we build infrastructure for cars, we’ll get cars. If we build infrastructure for transit, cycling and walking, we’ll get people using these methods at least in larger measure than we would otherwise. So one first step is to stop accommodating cars.

Editor, Glebe Report I’ve been trying to figure out why the lights at the Lansdowne stadium (TD Place) are always on at night even when events aren’t happening. I noticed that even the TVs inside the empty stadium were on the other night. I tried to find information about this, but failed. I was wondering if someone at the Glebe Report might have better luck than I did discovering why the quiet stadium is wasting so much electricity.

Bruce Rosove

Yuletide greetings to Thornton Ave neighbours

Paul Sharp Response:

Editor, Glebe Report

The lights are on at the stadium during periods of maintenance. We have crews working on removal of paint on the field and various other maintenance procedures in the stadium. In addition, stadium lights need to burn for a significant amount of time in order to be broken in. This process takes time and that’s why they’ve been illuminated when no events are taking place on the field. In the concourse, we often have groups holding events at night, which requires the presence of lighting and the function of TV monitors.

Now that the Yuletide Season is upon us, my husband and I would like to extend a holiday greeting to our neighbours on Thornton Avenue, and to say “thank you” for your many thoughtful gestures and greetings on special days of the year. These greetings came in many forms, such as personally created cards made by “little hands,” not to mention delicious goodies from a generous parent’s kitchen. It made our “twilight years” worth reaching. As Charles Dickens’ Tiny Tim would say: “Merry Christmas to all, and God bless us every one.”

Barre Campbell Media Relations Manager Ottawa Sports and Entertainment Group

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Response from Bruce Rosove: I agree that football at Lansdowne

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Response from GCA Traffic Committee: This is certainly a topic that has many views on both sides of the argument. I agree though that most residents concur that the return of football to the Glebe has been a success in terms of getting people out of their cars and using transit instead. However it should be noted that this was done through an aggressive program of adding special transit services and including free OC Transpo service with every game ticket. That’s not the case for retail activities. Food for thought.

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Maggie Cox is the ‘Pot of Gold’ on this journey Maggie Cox is always at the wheel, but she doesn’t go anywhere. Her wheel spins slabs of clay as she teaches, creates works of art and function, and instills a love for the art of pottery. For more than three decades, Cox has been teaching pottery at the Glebe Centre’s Community Programs at Abbotsford – the seniors’ centre across from Lansdowne Park. In the basement studio there’s a wheel, a kiln and all the clay the participants could use to mould, pinch or roll. “If I didn’t spend so much time at Abbotsford, I’d have to clean my house,” laughed Cox. Originally from California, Cox and her late husband initially came to Ottawa for his job at Carleton University, but she quickly got busy in the city’s pottery community. Cox has taught pottery for several continuing education programs in the Ottawa Carleton District School Board and the 74-year-old started teaching at Abbotsford long before she was a senior herself. She says her pottery classes are more than creating artful or useful pieces – she says they’re therapeutic and they’re social. “It takes you out of yourself for a bit. You can think about something other than what you’re doing. It’s a wonderful activity for people,” said Cox. “I teach in a traditional way with all the building techniques: pinch pots, slabs, coils.”

PHOTO: PAT GOYECHE

By Julie Ireton

Maggie Cox at her potter’s wheel in the Abbotsford basement

The seniors she teaches range in age between 55 and 90. Some suffer from the effects of arthritis, cancer or strokes, but she shows everyone how to adapt. One of her students, Lorie Root, recently nominated Cox for a community award. “She welcomes new students with open arms and makes it clear they are free to explore their creative side,” said Root. Cox’s daughter, Andrina, is also a potter and fills in as teacher at Abbotsford when her mother goes south for the winter. Cox says she learned from the best as a young girl. “My mother’s a great teacher in that she is very generous in her wisdom and she wants you to discover the best in yourself. Everyone finds great comfort and solace in massaging clay into something to hold sustenance to share.” Maggie Cox teaches at Abbotsford every Thursday. She said it’s the day of the week she most looks forward to. She says making pottery is something she plans to do forever. “It’s interesting getting old, but I’m still doing the same thing. I love teaching pottery and I enjoy the students tremendously.” Abbotsford is a community support centre for adults 55+. Abbotsford houses the community programs of The Glebe Centre Inc., a charitable, not-for-profit, organization that includes a 254-bed long-term care home. Find out more by dropping by 950 Bank Street (the old stone house) Monday to Friday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., call 613-230-5730 or check out The Glebe Centre facilities and community programs at www.glebecentre.ca. Julie Ireton is a journalist and long-time supporter of Abbotsford who contributes regularly to the Glebe Report.

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Dr. Carolyne Thain, a recent arrival to the Glebe, provides orthodontic care to both children and adults.

Meet the orthodontist in the Glebe By Rebeca Oueis

After studying biomedical sciences at the University of Ottawa, Dr. Carolyne Thain transferred to the University of Montreal to study in its five-year dentistry program. She graduated as a dentist in 2010, finishing first in her class and winning the top academic award. Dr. Thain developed her interest in orthodontics during a research placement at the Sainte-Justine Children’s Hospital in Montreal, where she also learned of the clinically intensive orthodontic specialty program at Jacksonville University in Florida. She was accepted into the Advanced Specialty Education Program in orthodontics and dentofacial orthopedics at Jacksonville University. Although Dr. Thain was the youngest orthodontic resident in her class, she quickly earned her classmates’ respect and was elected class president. Upon some reflection, they decided to refer

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to her as the class “Prime Minister” because she is Canadian! After successfully completing the National Dental Specialty Examination of the Royal College of Dentists of Canada, Dr. Thain returned to practise in Canada. She is a board certified orthodontist and Fellow of the Royal College of Dentists of Canada. She is also a member of the Cleft Lip and Palate Team at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario. Dr. Thain aims to provide excellent orthodontic care in a professional and attentive manner. She treats children, adolescents and adults, and is fluent in both French and English. Her expertise includes metal braces, ceramic braces, Invisalign as well as Incognito (lingual) braces. Rebeca Oueis is a Glebe resident, mother of six and business administrator for Oueis Dentistry. “I love the people I work with and the patients who over time become friends.”

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Causeway Foundation’s holiday cards have been a staple in Ottawa for 14 years, raising over $170,000 for the programs and services of Causeway Work Centre. Causeway programs are geared toward individuals who struggle to find meaningful employment and live independently due to mental illness, addiction, poverty and other barriers. This year, the campaign boasts four appealing greeting card images from local artists. Bhat Boy is back again with an imaginative take on classic Ottawa scenes – buses ferrying us to holiday parties, geese saluting the Glebe as they begin their journey south, giant tulips springing up around Parliament. Art by Geof H. Burbidge captures the magic of the Parliament buildings at Christmas, illuminated by thousands of delicate lights. The cards will be sold at supportive retail outlets throughout the city, including Escape and Octopus Books in the Glebe. To see this year’s images and a complete list of retailers, email info@causewayfoundation.org. Packages of five cards and envelopes sell for $10. Pamela Hilchie is chair of the 2014 Causeway Holiday Card Campaign.

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councillor’s report Making Bronson Avenue more complete

Councillor David Chernushenko

It’s hard to believe that the section of Bronson Avenue running through the www.capitalward.ca Glebe was once a thriving, tree-lined boulevard. It looks and acts more like a suburban arterial road with each passing year. All is not lost, though. Plenty of Glebe, Glebe Annex and Dow’s Lake residents are looking forward to the reconstruction of Bronson in 2017-2018. Many here, buoyed by the impending transformation of Main Street in Old Ottawa East, are wondering how the City’s newly adopted “Complete Street” policy might be applied to Bronson. A Complete Street is one that balances the needs of all users and recognizes that people on foot, bike and bus have as much right to use and enjoy the space as those behind the wheel of a car or truck. It puts less emphasis on travel time and more on the actual life of the street and its varied users, whether they are 8 or 80. Safety and livability rank as highly as speed. Bronson – a critical north-south travel corridor that carries a considerably higher volume of traffic than Main – is highly unlikely to see a motor vehicle lane removed or a full cycle track added, due to its limited width. But we can and should expect more than a simple sprucing up of existing sidewalks and a new layer of asphalt. Full road renewal is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to re-imagine what we want for – and from – a major street. For Bronson, there are additional factors at play: Rezoning the section from the Queensway to Carling as a Traditional Mainstreet (part of the City’s 2014 zoning review, to be debated and voted on by Council in February): The objective of Traditional Mainstreet Zoning, as per the Official Plan adopted in 2013, is to guide the evolution of a street and some adjacent properties to create more of a mixed-use community, with local retail and services and a moderate increase in density. Building heights are capped at six storeys, tapering down to four where they abut residential properties. Implementation of safety features south of the Rideau Canal (Autumn 2015): Drivers entering and leaving the Glebe will see speeds reduced by the introduction of a new signalized crossing just south of the Bronson Bridge, reconfigured on- and off-ramps from Colonel By Drive and some lane narrowing to accommodate full cycle tracks in several spots. Introduction of the Glebe Bikeways network (Spring 2015 – Autumn 2016): This winter, the City will present an extensive plan to improve intersections, create special lanes on some streets and designate recommended bike routes on many others. Increased frequency of O-Train service, the planned extension further south and additional stations along the existing route (Winter 2015 – 2018): When complete, the O-Train will be a more viable alternative to driving along Bronson and the Airport Parkway. Renewal of Bronson Avenue (2017 – 2018 construction seasons): Complete replacement of sidewalks and the roadway between the Queensway and the Rideau Canal, including underground water and sewer pipes. While local residents have diverse views and priorities and voice different opinions of the changes they want to see for Bronson, their top concerns are closely linked: • Traffic calming and safety improvements • Improved on-street environment • Greater walkability People want to be able to stroll along the sidewalk, stand at a bus stop and visit stores and restaurants along Bronson without being subjected to constant noise, spray and dust. Full reconstruction of Bronson will allow us to implement specific measures in support of these goals. For example, local residents will surely benefit from more signalized crossings, wider sidewalks, larger bus stops and better waiting areas at corners. Increased on-street parking at strategic places during off-peak hours would also be helpful. While some people argue that removing existing spaces on the east side of Bronson would improve traffic flow and safety, studies indicate that onstreet parking is one of the most effective deterrents to speed and erratic driving. It may be that the current parking spots are so few and come so late in the northbound trip through the Glebe that drivers are startled when they suddenly see parked cars. Adding similar spaces as far back as Fifth Avenue may prove more effective. A true renewal of Bronson Avenue may result in a less Complete Street than what is planned for Main Street, due to various constraints. But we must aim for something better than the status quo. We have the chance in the coming year to identify what we want from and for Bronson, what is technically feasible and the specific changes that will take us there. I will announce the public consultation process early in the new year. Please sign up for my newsletter at www.capitalward.ca/subscribe if you want to receive updates. Best wishes for this holiday season and a Happy New Year to all!

mpp’s report Ontario government renews commitment to reduce poverty

Glebe Report December 12, 2014

MPP Yasir Naqvi yasirnaqvimpp.ca

In 2008, the Government of Ontario launched its first poverty reduction strategy entitled Breaking the Cycle. By 2011 we had lifted almost 50,000 children out of poverty and kept many more from falling into it. This summer, we released Realizing Our Potential, a new five-year strategy based on the belief that we can break the cycle of poverty in Ontario. Our new strategy continues to focus on reducing child poverty through initiatives that will give our kids the best possible start. We are increasing and enhancing the Ontario Child Benefit to keep pace with inflation and offering access to early learning through Full-Day Kindergarten, now available to every four- and five-year-old across the province. We are also investing $32 million over the next three years to expand the Student Nutrition Program to serve about 56,000 more school-aged children and youth. Moreover, we will also invest in children’s long-term health by expanding access to health and dental programs such as prescription drugs and vision care, as well as in earlier identification and treatment of mental health issues. Realizing Our Potential recognizes that employment is also critical to reducing poverty. This is why one of the central tenets of the new strategy focuses on helping those who face challenges in the labour market obtain the skills they need to find work and provide for themselves and their families. Ontario has already raised the minimum wage to $11 per hour, the highest in Canada, and recently passed legislation indexing it so that it never falls below the cost of living. In addition, our government will boost youth employment by removing obstacles, enhancing work experience and promoting entrepreneurship through initiatives such as the Youth Jobs Strategy and the Ontario Youth Apprenticeship Program. Our government will also sharpen its focus on people who face barriers to employment, including persons with disabilities – who are also people with tremendous abilities. Our first strategy changed the conversation about poverty. It taught us that when people have a place to call home, they are better able to manage other challenges in their lives. This is why our government has outlined a long-term commitment to ending homelessness. As a starting point we are enhancing funding for our Community Homelessness Prevention Initiative by $42 million, for a total investment of nearly $294 million per year. This unique program allows local governments to develop homelessness programs tailored to their community’s needs, because a program that works in Toronto may not work here in Ottawa. We know that a significant number of homeless people are struggling with mental health issues. That is why we will be allocating $16 million over three years to create 1,000 new supportive-housing spaces to help Ontarians living with mental illness. Reducing poverty and helping everyone realize their potential are part of the government’s plan to build up Ontario by investing in people, building modern infrastructure, and supporting a dynamic and innovative business climate. However, reducing poverty requires a collaborative approach. The solutions do not reside in one ministry, or one program or one level of government. In order to help all Ontarians realize their full potential we need to work together as a community. To learn more about Ontario’s new poverty reduction strategy visit my website www.yasirnaqvimpp.ca or www.ontario.ca/povertyreduction. Should you have any questions or feedback about this initiative, please do not hesitate to contact me at my Community Office at ynaqvi.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org or 613-722-6414. I look forward to hearing from you.

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GNAG’s most successful youth program is heading across the Atlantic! www.gnag.ca Join GNAG staff Tim Lamothe and Mary Tsai Davies and travel expert Brenda Perras (a Glebe mom and Lisgar Collegiate teacher) for the trip of a lifetime! We’re heading to Europe’s most famous capitals: London and Paris. Enjoy making memories with your friends as we visit Windsor Castle, Versailles, the Eiffel Tower and more! The best part? Develop lifelong leadership skills in communication, teamwork, problem solving, conflict resolution and trust. Incorporating our leadership curriculum ensures this trip will not only be fun but also educational and valuable. Who wouldn’t love a Survivor challenge in the heart of downtown Paris? This custom-designed 11-day trip is the best way to kick off the greatest summer of your life. Here are the details: • 11-day trip to London and Paris for youth in Grades 9 to 12 • Total cost: $2,900 • Dates: June 29 – July 9 (approx.) • Includes: return flights, Eurostar train, all local transportation, hotel accommodation, breakfast and dinner daily (lunch not included), entrance to all museums and sites on itinerary, guided walking tours of both capitals, admission and tour of three castles (plus three optional) • Leadership development training includes workshops on communication, problem solving, trust, teamwork, confidence building, conflict resolution and more • Maximum 30 participants • $100 (non-refundable) is due upon registration; $500 (non-refundable) due February 20; $2,300 (remaining balance) due April 20 An information session will be held on Wednesday, January 14, 6 – 8 p.m. at the Glebe Community Centre. The GNAG / St. James Outdoor rink is back!

As you may recall, last year many Glebe-based organizations, in collaboration with neighbourhood school councils and the City of Ottawa, found a creative solution to saving the Mutchmor rink by relocating it at the St. James Tennis Courts. This was not a simple feat. Through extensive research, St James Tennis Club manager John Wins-Purdy came up with the innovative idea of installing a specially made liner for outdoor rinks that would protect the tennis court surface. This year, a higher quality liner was purchased for us by our new friends from BMO in the Glebe. Once again, the Glebe community will enjoy Canada’s favourite winter activity here in the heart of our neighbourhood! On behalf of GNAG and the Glebe community, a huge thank-you to BMO in the Glebe for their support and enthusiasm. See you on the ice! Winter Program registration ongoing

Winter only gets better and better in the Glebe! We don’t want you to miss out on some of the best programs in the city. We offer an array of workshops, programs, events and activities that inspire and motivate and that are fun for all! Find us on Facebook and see our staff’s favourite pics. Need a holiday gift idea?

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GNAG has a fantastic lineup of activities for this year’s Holiday Break Camp! We are offering five days of adventure and excitement for children in SK – Grade 6. Activities include specialty workshops, inner tubing at Le Domaine de L’Ange Gardien, a trip to Midway Family Fun Centre, crafty creations, wacky games and much, much more! Register today while spaces are available. Call the GCC for details at 613-233-8713.

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What’s happening at the Glebe Community Association

Christine McAllister www.glebeca.ca

I’m writing this month’s column in the final days of November, wondering when the snow is going to arrive so we can start skiing, tobogganing and shovelling! All the same, I was happy to walk ice-free to the last GCA meeting of the year. Here are some updates on what’s current. Lansdowne traffic

November was a big month at Lansdowne, with the opening of Whole Foods and Sporting Life and the launch of the Ottawa Farmers Market annual Christmas Market. From here on in, the impact of Lansdowne’s day-to-day activities will become more fully apparent. Early reports are that there has been a significant loss of on-street parking, with particular impact near the Glebe Centre (we hope ongoing negotiations between the Glebe Centre and OSEG will provide some access to the Lansdowne parking garage for Glebe Centre employees). The GCA continues to participate on the City’s Lansdowne Transportation Monitoring Operations Committee, both receiving information (including traffic monitoring data) and raising local concerns. Glebe Neighbourhood Bikeway and O’Connor Street Bikeway Projects

Have you noticed the new painted bike lane on First Avenue? This is one piece of the Glebe Neighbourhood Bikeway. Glebe, First, Fifth and Holmwood avenues are proposed as the east-west routes while O’Connor and Percy will be the main north-south bike arteries. These streets are to become more bike-friendly under the plan while the Glebe portion of O’Connor (Isabella to Fifth) will be an important part of the O’Connor Street Bikeway to get cyclists from downtown to the far end of the Glebe. Plans for the Glebe Neighbourhood Bikeway are under technical review by City staff and while not yet confirmed, these measures are to be implemented in 2015 following community consultations this winter. Bronson – a Traditional Mainstreet?

Readers may have heard about City plans to rezone Bronson (between Carling and the Queensway) to Traditional Mainstreet (TM), in keeping with the Official Plan. This conjures images of casual strolling to quaint stores in a pleasant environment, much like Bank Street (though unlike Bronson). While the overall objective appears reasonable, TM zoning includes increased maximum heights (from four to six storeys) and “wrap-around” commercial uses (e.g. the first three houses on Powell from Bronson could be converted to commercial activity). This could significantly impact the northwest section of the Glebe – both positively and negatively. Supported by many residents in the affected areas, the GCA worked with David Chernushenko, City Councillor, to propose amendments to maintain current permitted height and residential zoning. Other community associations raised similar concerns. In the end, the City’s Planning Committee directed City staff to review and report on the proposed amendments, expected to be considered by the new City Council in February. Contribution to Glashan Schoolyard Greening Project

From time to time, the GCA has the opportunity to invest in projects that have significant positive impacts for our community. For instance, last year we were able to make a donation to the new rink at the Glebe-St. James tennis court. This year, the GCA has agreed to support the Glashan Schoolyard Greening project with a $2,000 contribution. Approximately 240 Glebe kids attend Glashan, which, although outside the traditional Glebe borders, is considered an important educational asset for our community. If you are interested in further supporting the project, consider ordering chocolate for the holidays via www.glashangreening.ca/shop. Looking beyond our borders

The GCA is a member of a citywide organization called the Federation of Citizens’ Associations of Ottawa-Carleton (FCA). As you might guess, the FCA is a forum where community associations share information and work together on citywide issues (think Canada Post mailboxes). As one of the longer-established community associations in the city, the GCA both benefits from and makes an important contribution to this broader group. As always, there is more we can do – we have a small committee to ensure effective representation at the FCA but are in need of more members. If you have been thinking of getting more involved in the GCA, and are interested in citywide issues, this might be the place for you! Send us an email at gca@glebeca.ca. I want to take this opportunity to thank all Glebe residents who give of their time to this community. I especially want to thank GCA Board members who work hard on the many issues that impact all of us. Happy holidays and my best wishes for happiness, health and serenity in 2015!

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Congratulations to program staffer Jason Irvine and his wife Lindsey on the birth of their little man, Cole Jack Alan Irvine, born on November 19 and weighing over nine pounds. I met baby Cole at the GCC and he seemed to really like it here – no surprise! Welcome to the GNAG family, Cole.

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Bronson ‘active transportation’ audit anticipates reconstruction By Steve Harris

A hardy group of individuals from the Glebe, Glebe Annex and Dow’s Lake communities gathered on November 22, a cool, blustery Saturday, to evaluate the state of Bronson in terms of its walkability, bike-friendliness and accessibility. The section of Bronson from Highway 417 to Colonel By Drive is scheduled for reconstruction when water mains and sewers are replaced between 2015 and 2018. The Glebe Community Association (GCA) Traffic Committee sponsored the audit as preparation for upcoming 2015 consultations with city planners. Equipped with tape measures, timers, wheelchairs and clipboards, several subgroups ventured out to tackle a section of Bronson each, using a survey instrument created by the team, with the generous assistance of Ecology Ottawa, Walk Ottawa and Rescue Bronson. The audit consisted of 31 questions pertaining to sidewalks, bike lanes, curbs, traffic lights, speed limits, bus shelters and more. The questionnaires will be analyzed to create a report similar to previous audit reports prepared for Centretown and Lowertown.

The GCA Traffic Committee encourages users of Bronson to take a close look at the street and take their own notes over the winter to prepare their suggestions for improvements in the way we see and use that street. The aim is not to make Bronson a fullfledged “Complete Street” (like Main Street will be after reconstruction now underway), but rather to improve it as much as possible, given its current function. Such reconstructions happen only about every 50 years, so we must seize the opportunity at hand. It is important to remember that, like it or not, the City values the input of organizations more highly than that of individuals, and the earlier the input, the more likely it is to be taken into consideration. The audit will result in a formal report from all the communities to the City and our Councillor. Anyone wishing to complete one of the surveys either alone or in a group should do so before the end of December. Please contact Karen Hawley at Ecology Ottawa at 613-860-5353 or visit ecologyottawa.ca. Steve Harris is a member of the Glebe Community Association Traffic Committee.

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With the new commercial and residential uses at Lansdowne, there has been much speculation about the redevelopment of several properties along Bank Street. One recent proposal for a two-storey commercial project at Bank and Fifth was publicly criticized as being underdeveloped in terms of the site’s potential, while the suggestion for another sixstorey project was considered overdeveloped. Just what should the people who live, work and play in the Glebe expect of our Traditional Mainstreet? According to the City of Ottawa’s Official Plan, “Mainstreet” is a General Urban Area designation for a street that allows for delivery of a range of daily goods and services to the local community, as well as specialized services to meet the needs of those who live outside the neighbourhood. “Mainstreets generally developed prior to 1945, designated as Traditional Mainstreets, typically set within a tightly knit urban fabric, with buildings that are often smallscale, with narrow frontages and set close to and addressing the street, resulting in a more pedestrian-oriented and transit friendly environment.” For those commercial districts developed in the 1950s and 1960s, there may be a blend of traditional main street and the car-oriented arterial main street. In the Glebe, Bank Street from the Queensway to the Rideau Canal has the designation of Traditional Mainstreet (TM) Zone. Lansdowne, although on Bank Street, is not a designated TM Zone. One of the stated purposes of the TM Zone is to ensure that development maintains street continuity, scale and character. The TM Zone stipulates both non-residential and residential uses that are permitted. Typically, the ground floor is for commercial use while upper floors are for residential use. Car-oriented services such as gas bars, service stations and drive-through facilities are not permitted to be developed within this zone. The TM zoning also sets a maximum building height to retain the pedestrian-oriented nature of these important commercial districts.

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During the 1970s, a height restriction of 35 feet was applied to most of the Glebe. With the adoption of the City’s Glebe Development Plan in the 1980s, a maximum height for Bank Street was set at 45 feet, or not more than four storeys. Although the general TM Zone has a higher maximum of not more than six storeys, the City’s zoning consolidation in 2008 restricted the TM Zone for Bank Street from Pretoria Avenue to the Rideau Canal to a maximum building height of 15 meters (49.2 feet). The 1980s also saw the introduction of commercial uses on the second storey, as reflected in a few redevelopments such as Fifth Avenue Court. Since commercial use requires higher ceiling heights, it is difficult to accommodate more than two or three storeys within the 15-metre maximum. Many of our existing structures remain commercial on the first floor with one or two storeys of residential above. One recent redevelopment project at Strathcona and Bank saw a building with one-storey commercial and three additional storeys of residential, with the higher floors set back from the street. All proposals for three or four storeys on Bank Street should include commercial and residential components. Over time, we should expect to see many of the properties on Bank Street being redeveloped, especially where one-storey structures exist today. If and when redevelopment of a property on Bank Street is proposed, it is important that meaningful public consultation be undertaken. It is important that you, as a member of the Glebe community, have an opportunity for input. What do you think is important about our Traditional Mainstreet and its future? The Glebe Community Association would love to hear your thoughts about the future development of Bank Street. Please forward your comments to planning@ glebeca.ca.

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John Woodhouse can feel every crack and bump in the sidewalk on Bronson. Unlike pedestrians whose feet absorb the changes, his electric wheelchair struggles to move over them, making it uncomfortable and dangerous for him to travel along the street. “I’m very concerned about curbs and the state of the sidewalk, because I’m a four-season driver,” he said. Woodhouse is one of a dozen individuals who gathered on Saturday to discuss changes to improve safety for pedestrians and cyclists along Bronson Avenue in the Glebe. “Bronson is such a highway in the middle of the city. It’s very noisy and people like to speed up,” Woodhouse said. “There’s absolutely no concern for pedestrians.” “I think that doing an audit is terrific because you can look at the things that are really problem areas and have them addressed before the construction starts,” said Dianne Breton, chair of the volunteer group Ottawa Seniors’ Transportation Committee. Karen Hawley, the Community Network Coordinator of Ecology Ottawa, echoed this statement. “The whole street will be upended, so we figured that it’s a great opportunity to get suggestions from the community,” she said. Resident Steve Harris said he wants safe crossings on Bronson so that people on both sides of the street feel part of the same neighbourhood. “One of the reasons I got involved,” he said, “is that this road separates this neighbourhood from the rest of the Glebe. It’s a real barrier, because you feel you can’t actually walk across it. It’s a beautiful area and it’s just cut off by this street. It doesn’t have to be,” he said.

Volunteer and cyclist Les Whitney agreed with Harris. “There has to be connectivity. You really can’t avoid Bronson,” Whitney said. Resident Jason Vallis lives on Bronson and is mostly concerned about the speed of cars driving by. He has a newborn baby and said he fears for the safety of his family. “I appreciate that it’s a regional road and that it’s an arterial route, but for me it’s the speed and the lack of enforcement,” he said. “This is a dangerous road, and we have an opportunity to get drivers to slow down and realize that people live here.” The speed limit in the area is 50 km/h, but residents feel that drivers frequently travel at least 15 to 20 km/h faster. In October 2012, 27-year-old Carleton University student Krista Johnson was killed while cycling on Bronson near Holmwood Avenue. While some improvements to Bronson near Carleton have already been made, including brighter streetlights and new bike lanes, residents feel more changes are needed. Councillor David Chernushenko is working to redesign the existing ramps between Bronson and Colonel By and improve pedestrian crossings in the area. Former Capital Ward candidate Scott Blurton participated in the audit and hopes to see Chernushenko implement the changes that he proposed in his platform. For now, the community is doing what it can to ensure the safety of its residents. “We want to establish a vision of what can be improved,” said Harris. “This is an area that is in the process of change,” added Whitney. “We’ll see how the city responds.” Shannon Moore is a student at Carleton University and contributes when she can to the Glebe Report.

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importantly, what is the cost? (Permeable driveways are two to three times the cost of non-permeable asphalt, but last four times as long. It is worth it on so many fronts – the aesthetics of our neighbourhood roads and pathways, the environment, the water table level, and the benefit of local waterways free and clear of pollution.) Our thanks again to Stu Campana and Jose Aguilera for their time and energy in making this a successful evening. The Environment Committee’s next guest speaker will be Dr. Paul Beckwith on climate change, January 14, 2015 at 7:30 p.m. at the Glebe Community Centre. Watch for more information on the Glebe Community Association’s website. Judith Slater is a member of the Glebe Community Association’s Environment Committee.

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Celebrate the holiday season with your young readers with some new Christmas and Hanukkah books. For the very youngest there is Toddler Christmas: Activities, Games and Stories for Excited Toddlers! by Katie Saunders. Brightly coloured with thicker paper and a padded cover, it is filled with recipes, I-spy games, crafts and stories sure to keep preschoolers busy. The cheery illustrations are reminiscent of Lauren Child’s Clarice Bean series. Also for the younger reader is Alfie’s Christmas by highly respected children’s author and illustrator, Shirley Hughes. The Alfie series continues with a story about Alfie and his family as they prepare for Christmas. Singing carols, decorating the tree, opening the advent calendar, making cards and presents, there are so many things to do! Alfie has been charming children and their parents for generations but this is his first Christmas book. With their first picture book, Lori Evert and Per Breiehagen have created a work of art. The Christmas Wish tells the story of Anja, their daughter, as she ventures through ice and snow on skis, helped by several animals, to find Santa Claus before Christmas. Anja looks as if she has just stepped out of a Scandinavian fairytale, dressed in a plaid jumper, Nordic sweater and elf cap. The photographs

are digitally altered and give the story a realistic but magical feel. Another new illustrator, Richard Collingridge, creates a magical read with When it Snows. Through his imagination and the help of a book, a young boy escapes into a magical world filled with polar bear rides, fairies and elves. Sumptuous paintings draw the reader along through the snowy landscape and into the magical world of the young boy. The Gift of the Magi is a holiday classic and Dara Goldman gives us a charming retelling with Boris and

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Here is a list of some titles read and discussed recently in various local book clubs:

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The evening of November 12 saw a room full of eager, chatty attendees munching on homemade fudge and drinking tea, waiting in anticipation of what would prove to be a very interesting two-hour information-sharing session on permeable paving. So what is permeable paving? In short, it is ground cover that lets water drain through it, allowing it to return to our precious water table below the city. In his presentation, Stu Campana, coordinator of the Water Program at Ecology Ottawa, explained how with virtually every rainfall, the city’s sewage system overflows, causing thousands of litres of raw sewage to flow into the Ottawa River. One of the main issues is that sewage from our homes combines with rainwater and it all travels to the treatment centre for processing. Every rainfall overburdens the system, with no easy solution in sight. Campana also described how you can harvest water for use in your garden. Techniques include using water barrels or underground retention systems, or simply installing eavestroughs with water run-off onto your front and back garden away from your home’s foundation. Jose Aguilera, CEO and co-founder of Fractal Tectonics, has a solution. He builds and installs triangular-shaped pavers with built-in gaps, which allows rainwater to flow through. Algonquin College showcases his first major endeavour, which also shows off the

pavers’ other feature – its reusability. The paver’s design allows removal for storage and reuse. Imagine a street that needs a temporary surface, post excavation and prior to paving? (Bronson, Bank, Fifth, Fourth, Third are streets that come to mind from the past.) Imagine partial completion, topped with these pavers, until the work is finished with permanent paving. This would be a nice change for the residents who now have to weave through potholed, temporary gravel roads to get to their homes during construction. The pavers can be used permanently too. Since they assist in water drainage, they reduce the need for winter salting of roads and sidewalks. The pavers outlast asphalt by many years. For permanently installed pavers, when infrastructure maintenance is required (for example, a burst pipe), some pavers can be temporarily removed, the repair completed, and the pavers returned to their original position. As we know, asphalt patches shift and crack over time, causing ongoing resurfacing issues during the freeze-thaw cycle that is the expensive focus of Ottawa’s late winter season. Other examples of permeable paving include interlock paving that has built-in expansion spaces between stones, permeable asphalt (yes, there is such a thing) and gravel. The evening was a successful information session with an active audience keen to ask questions. Are building permits needed? (No.) How long does it take? (Roughly two or three days for an average sized driveway). Most

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The gift of fiction By Ildiko Sumegi

Fiction, by its own definition, is something unreal, a fabrication. However, we make a great mistake if we confuse unreality with unimportance. Stories allow us to step into the life of someone else, to experience another person’s thoughts, hopes, dreams and fears. A story offers its readers a chance to empathize with others and this is a wonderful gift to give a child. To this end, almost any story will do, but if you find yourself at a loss for choice, here are a few suggestions that may be of interest. You can find all of these books at the Ottawa Public Library. Very Last First Time (Groundwood Books, 1985) by Jan Andrews and illustrated by Ian Wallace. Not many of us have walked on the bottom of the sea floor in the dead of winter … and not many of us ever will. But for Eva, an Inuit girl living in Ungava Bay, this will be the (very last) first time she collects mussels under the ice all by herself. Jan Andrews and Ian Wallace bring this memorable

experience to life with emotion and thoughtful detail in a striking picture book. Short-listed in 1985 for the Governor General’s Literary Award, this is a lovely read for ages five to eight. Akimbo and the Elephants (Bloomsbury, 2005) by Alexander McCall Smith and illustrated by LeUyen Pham. Alexander McCall Smith (author of The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency) invites young readers to step into the life of Akimbo, a boy who lives on the edge of a game reserve in Africa (the exact country is left open for speculation). This is the first book in a series featuring Akimbo and his encounters with various animals on the reserve where his father works as a park ranger. Faced with the tragic and unlawful hunting of elephants for their ivory, Akimbo does what any other ecologically-minded child would do: he hatches a plan to infiltrate a gang of ivory poachers in order to bring them to justice! McCall Smith has used simple prose and a gentle touch in the portrayal of this clever and resourceful boy. Pham’s occasional black-and-white illustrations add to the excitement. This is a short chapter book for ages 7 to 10.

Savvy (Dial Books for Young Readers, 2008) by Ingrid Law. Mibs Beaumont lives with her family on a strip of land between Kansas and Nebraska. She is about to turn 13. For a Beaumont, your 13th birthday brings with it a special ability – a “savvy.” One of Mibs’ brothers can stir up the wind. Another brother has control over electricity. Their mother’s savvy is the ability to do everything perfectly. When tragedy strikes and her father is left in a coma after a car accident, Mibs wishes and then decides that her savvy (when it arrives) will give her the ability to save her father. On the day of her birthday party, while her savvy is still as yet unclear to her, Mibs attempts to reach her father in hospital by stowing away on a pink delivery bus filled with boxes of pink bibles. Two of her brothers join her as well as the local preacher’s children, and when the bus takes an unexpected turn, the children find themselves at the beginning of a journey that will test their nerves and challenge their assumptions. This is a touching coming of age story about compassion and self-acceptance. Savvy is a 2009 Newbery Honor Book, and would make great reading for ages 10 and up.

The Boy Sherlock Holmes: Eye of the Crow (Tundra Books, 2009) by Shane Peacock. Eye of the Crow is Shane Peacock’s first installment in The Boy Sherlock Holmes series. The year is 1867. Young Sherlock is 13 years old, friendless and with no proper place in London’s social order. His curiosity about a recent murder leads him into complications of attachment and loss that will shape the man he is to become. This is a gritty historical detective novel. Peacock does not shy away from the filth, squalor and injustice that pervade 19th century London and that is one reason why this book shines even through the dust and grime of its own description. Be forewarned: this is a book that may shatter some fairytale illusions – there is no room for a truly happy ending in the world of young Sherlock Holmes. Winner of the Arthur Ellis Award for Juvenile Crime Fiction, Eye of the Crow is a thrilling and emotional ride for ages 12 and up. Ildiko Sumegi is a Glebe resident, mother of two boys and owner of a well-used library card.

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The first library transformed from a used shipping container and opened in 1992. It has since become the hub of the community and attracts dozens of eager children every day.

Glebe bookstore celebrates Africa By Deborah Cowley

Kaleidoscope Kids’ Books, the colourful Bank Street bookstore across from Lansdowne Park, has teamed up with an African charity, the Osu Children’s Library Fund (OCLF) to offer some of their charming photo-illustrated books – a perfect gift for young children. The bookstore is carrying a selection of these books. They include a book about letters and numbers and a book of opposites. A few are designed specially for the youngest learner – ages three months to three years – with lively photos and simple texts. Three storybooks suit children age four or five. The paperbacks are $10 and the two hardback copies are $13. The faces and objects in the books are drawn from OCLF’s seven libraries in Ghana’s capital, Accra. They were created by OCLF founder Kathy Knowles, who used her stellar photographic skills to design the books. They were initially intended to encourage reading among the members of her own libraries in Ghana, but word spread and they have reached many other African countries. The books have also proven to be popular in North America, where sales help to ensure that they can be distributed at a much lower cost to African schools and libraries. Apart from its flourishing publishing project and its seven large community libraries in Accra, the OCLF (www.osuchildrenslibraryfund.ca) has helped more than 200 smaller initiatives around the country and elsewhere in Africa. Its eighth and largest library is opening this month.

The project has come a long way since 1989 when Canadian Kathy Knowles and her family moved to Accra, where her husband worked with a mining company. She always loved reading, so brought along many of her family’s favourite books. Most afternoons, she sat with her four young children under a tree in their garden and read them stories. Immediately, six neighbourhood children spotted this tiny reading circle and asked to join. They told their friends and before long, the circle had expanded to 70 children! To accommodate more children, Knowles turned their garage into her first library, installed small chairs and tables, asked visitors from Canada to bring over more books and trained her housekeeper, Joanna Felih, to run the library. Within weeks, 300 children had registered and become the proud owners of a laminated library card. Given that the small library faced Osu Avenue, it was known as the Osu Library. Shipping-container library

When John Knowles’ term ended, Knowles was determined to keep the library going. She purchased a used shipping container, raised the roof, cut out windows and doors, installed ceiling fans, painted it bright blue and placed it on a donated piece of land. She put Joanna in charge and the library opened in 1992. At the Ghana Board’s insistence, the library later became known as the Kathy Knowles Community Library and has become a popular landmark in the capital, even winning an entry in the Bradt Guide to Ghana.

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Back in Canada, Knowles continued her mission to bring books and literacy to those in Ghana. Thanks to twice yearly visits to Ghana coupled with a dawn to dusk work schedule run from the top floor of her Winnipeg home, she and a team of volunteers raise the necessary funds to maintain the existing libraries and plan future ones. The newest and largest facility opens this December. A publishing venture takes off

Early on, Knowles recognized that the only books available for children in Ghana were the few imported from Britain or those published locally but on poor quality paper and without colour. In 2000, a Ghanaian publisher invited her to share the costs of publishing a book for young children. Knowles took a childhood memory of one of her literacy students and the simple story became Fati and the Honey Tree, complete with colour drawings and durable paper. The

story of Fati spread like wildfire and quickly replaced Cinderella and Snow White as hundreds of children’s most popular book. Fati’s success clearly demonstrated that children love a book whose pages showed surroundings familiar to them. So Knowles set to work snapping photos of children and images drawn from her libraries. These turned into a succession of photo-illustrated books – 40 so far – that have become the most popular books in every library and excellent tools for early readers, teachers, ESL instructors and any child who loves books. Deborah Cowley is an Ottawa writer and broadcaster who has travelled to Ghana with Kathy Knowles and is the author of The Library Tree: How A Canadian Woman Brought The Joy Of Reading To A Generation Of African Children (available from Amazon.ca as an e-book or from the author at www.deborahcowley.wordpress.com).

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Mystery pig Obelix a social sensation! Cirque du More-Hay in Montreal? “It might be gluten,” offered Alan Pickerstein, Glebe resident and antiglutenist, “there are just too many baguettes in Montreal.” Others believe it was much more sinister. “Isn’t it odd he doesn’t speak French?” raised Paul from Glebe Video. But most disagree. “I doubt it’s anything sinister – he’s not a handy pig. He comes to the store on game nights, but it’s only to eat the free popcorn,” explained Catherine from Home Hardware. The result? Obelix has been hailed as the latest It-Pig whose attendance at holiday soirées is in hot demand. Obelix himself was too busy to chat. “I mustn’t be late for my tux fitting at Glebe Tailoring. John and Chris are taking me to Erlings for carrot bisque! Perhaps in the New Year?”

As the holiday festivities and parties are in full swing, Glebites just cannot get enough of Obelix, the interim CEO, CFO, COO and POO of GiddyPigs.com! Hailing from Montreal, the pig is known for his impeccable taste and style. “He only wears Efani or J.C. Périé frames,” confirmed Wendy of Optical Excellence. While the corpulent pig was bused to Ottawa specifically to broker a hot merger between GiddyPigs.com and Squirrels-R-Us, he apparently is more interested in arts than business. Indeed, the Glebe theatre scene is abuzz with rumours that the pig will offer a Master’s Class at the Ottawa Acting Company this winter. “He was absolutely riveting in Death of a Salespig last year,” chimed Chris Ralph and John Muggleton simultaneously, with tears in their eyes. But if his true love is the arts, why did the pig turn down the coveted position of theatrical director for

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Be it Resolved By Adelle Farrelly

Counting down the last few days of 2014, do you have your resolutions ready for 2015? All too often, in the New Year’s context, “resolution” means “well-meaning goal that peters out by March,” but perhaps an exploration of the word’s etymology will help steel your resolve and this will be the year promises are kept. Speaking of resolve, the word is related to resolution (just imagine the V as a U). Both are from the Latin resolvere. Surprisingly, resolvere has more in common with dissolving than the steeliness you might expect. It means loosen, and the noun resolutio means the act of breaking things down into simpler parts. From this you can see how “solving” a problem by finding the “solution” is related as well. Resolution used in its current sense, to remain unwavering, first entered

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usage in the Renaissance, relatively recent in the whole history of Latin. Nevertheless, it is helpfully reassuring when considering which resolution to make for the new year to think back to the older meaning. Often, resolutions fail due to overreach – at least, mine do. I make large goals that I then tackle with an unsustainable gusto. This year, inspired by that older meaning of resolution, rather than psych myself up to face a large challenge, I will instead be tackling a problem by breaking it down into its components. In other words, by seeking to understand rather than conquer. In my case, I will contemplate what drives some of my poorer eating habits. What about you?

Be the change that you want to see in the world – that is the theme of Big Soul Project’s Christmas concert this year. Big Soul Project embodies this theme throughout the year as well. Using the money they raise from their usually soldout Christmas show, Big Soul Project gives back to the community by performing at fundraising events for other non-profit organizations all year. This past year, Big Soul Project helped to raise thousands of dollars for worthy causes, such as: • Ancoura, an organization that provides stable housing and a circle of friends for adults living with a mental illness • Friends of the National Youth Orchestra of Jamaica (NYOJ) Foundation, to help bring 25 young musicians in the orchestra (which offers free classical music education to promote social change) to Canada to perform

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Our own community’s Fourth Avenue Baptist Church Mom & Me program, a weekly program where children and the adults who take care of them can meet, along with an early childhood educator, to have fun, play and connect with others Big Soul’s Christmas concert promises to entertain, but also empower and inspire with songs of hope, love, joy and peace. There will be dancing in the aisles! So come out and be the change with Big Soul Project and The Deep Groove band. The concert is on December 20 at Dominion-Chalmers United Church. See www.bigsoulproject.com for more information. The full dress rehearsal, also a fundraiser, is on December 15 at the Fourth Avenue Baptist Church. You can get in with a cash or food donation for the Food Bank. Doors open at 7 p.m., concert starts at 7:30 p.m. Seema Akhtar is very happy to sing with Big Soul Project every Monday night at Fourth Avenue Baptist Church.

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A big basket of flowers in the window of a new shop at 782 Bank Street caught the eye of 17-year-old Jean MacLean in November 1939. She was delighted to see that it was a jewellery store and immediately decided that she was going to buy something. She bought her first watch there; later on her engagement ring when she became engaged to Sam Macdonald, and then her wedding band. This 75-year relationship is still going strong! In the summer of 2012, the store held a surprise 90th birthday tea party for Jean Macdonald, who still lives in the Glebe. Eastman Davidson was born in Ottawa in 1912. He learned the art of jewellery–making at high school in Detroit, where his family moved during the Depression. When the family moved back to Ottawa in 1932, he took up the watch-making trade before setting up a small jewellery shop in the living room of his home. In 1939, with $200 in cash and credit, he set up shop in the Glebe “subdivision.” The following year, he married Margaret Flack, who was working as head checker at the Loblaws just across the canal in Ottawa South. It was wartime, but the shop thrived. Jewellery shops typically sold much more than fine jewellery: flatware, costume jewellery, purses, chinaware, and luggage. Eastman, along with other watchmakers across the country, was called up to join the Air Force to work on airplane instrumentation. Daughter Judy Davidson Richards recalls that her mother was worried when told Eastman was going to be posted to Victoria

Island, fearing it was the other side of the country, but it was nearby on the Ottawa River, so he was able to come home in the evenings and continue working for the business and repairing watches. The family lived upstairs at 802 Bank Street above Loretta’s pastry shop when Judy was born in 1950. Judy got her training early at her parents’ shop: first folding gift boxes with a friend after school at Mutchmor, then in her teens learning to string pearls, and at 17, learning bookkeeping. In 1964, the shop moved to its larger and more modern location. In 1972, Richards came back to the family business full-time. As her parents eased into retirement, the business passed to the next generation and Richards took over formally in 1982, although her father would visit the store right into the 1990s. Present owner John Anderson started at the store as gemologist and appraiser in 2007 – initially hired for the Christmas period. He started working with a watchmaker at 16 and graduated from the Gemological Institute of America in California. He also received the title of Certified Gemologist Appraiser in 2009, the highest achievement awarded by the American Gem Society. Impressed by Anderson’s ethos, which reminded her of her father’s, Richards felt she could phase out her involvement in the store, leaving it in his good hands. He took over ownership of the shop in 2010. Reflecting on the store’s success over 75 years, Anderson says they consider themselves a destination shop. Approximately a quarter of their business comes from the Glebe; the rest is

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city-wide. Much of their business is still custom design but with their own laboratory, they also do many appraisals as well as stone testing and diamond grading. Anderson is also aware of evolving tastes and the increasing use of technology in the industry. For example, 3D printing will be able to produce a prototype of a piece of jewellery immediately, and CAD (computer-assisted design) programs are already used in intricate design. He has also noticed that jewel-

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Margaret and Eastman Davidson, 1970s

Thank you for continuing to support our neighbourhood businesses! Happy holidays from the Glebe Report.

From left, Judy Davidson Richards, former owner of Davidson’s Jewellers, Jean Macdonald, its first-ever customer in 1939, and John Anderson, current owner

lery designers are becoming better known, with recognizable brands. The Davidsons always hoped their clients would be lifetime customers and indeed, generations of families have used Davidson’s Jewellers. Clients are loyal, as is their staff: Lori Killeen, senior sales representative, who started part-time while in high school, will be celebrating 40 years with the store next year. In the words of client Jean Macdonald, “There was always such courtesy shown to customers. Staff was always helpful and there was never any pressure

to make a purchase.” This attitude is what will keep clients coming to Davidson’s Jewellers for many years to come. A final message from Anderson: “Please don’t be intimidated by the locked door. This is mandated for insurance purposes. Just ring the bell, you will be welcomed!” Jeanette Rive is a longtime supporter and occasional writer for the Glebe Report, and has been known to admire a piece of modern jewellery from time to time.

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Davidson’s Jewellery, 1964. Right to left: Eastman Davidson, Margaret Davidson, two staff members, Helen Fitzpatrick (bookkeeper for over 30 years) and Walter Whitehead (watchmaker for over 30 years).

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World-renowned photography exhibit to come to Ottawa

“Zanzibar Laneway” by Catherine Blake

Catherine Blake Cornstalks and Countryside January 5 – February 1 An exhibition of paintings by Catherine Blake will take place at the Wild Oat from January 5 to February 1. Cornstalks and Countryside will feature Lanark County and other landscapes, and treatments of cornstalks and other plants in various media. Catherine Blake grew up in Japan and Canada, and has an international outlook. She trained in Canada as an art teacher, and has taught art and other subjects in schools and camps, and in children’s and adult classes in Ottawa, Vancouver, Toronto and England for many years. Most recently, she spent a year and a half with CUSO in Zanzibar teaching teachers. Blake studied ceramics in England,

and had her own pottery studio first in Toronto and then (from 1978 to 1987) in Almonte, where she ran Bywater Pottery with her husband. When travelling, she keeps a sketch journal that aids in creating art on her return home. In the winter of 2013/2014, she had two exhibitions in Almonte that featured acrylic works based on drawings and photographs from her time in Zanzibar. Some of her work includes mixed media, such as a treatment of a door of peeling paint, which she spied in a meandering laneway (most doors in Zanzibar are locked with padlocks). She has exhibited her works in the Almonte town hall and public library, the Green Door Restaurant in Ottawa and the Nepean Visual Arts Centre. Blake’s art preferences are currently acrylic, watercolour with pen and ink and mixed media. More recently she has explored the Japanese aesthetic of wabi-sabi – seeing beauty in the ephemeral, the old, the understated, the commonplaces of life around us –

“November Fields” by Catherine Blake

hence returning to the fading sunflowers and withered cornstalks of the countryside near Almonte. Some mixed media works became more abstract. Artist Catherine Blake may be contacted at catherine.blake7@gmail.com.

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There are places in the world where it is more dangerous to be a woman in conflict than a soldier. One of those places is eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Nestled among lush green hills in central Africa, a serene landscape masks the horrors that have haunted the people of eastern DRC for years. Ongoing conflict and insecurity in the region have ravaged communities and devastated families. Throughout the war, sexual violence has been used as a tactic to oppress and marginalize women. The resulting physical and emotional trauma restricts the freedom of women and girls, while stigma tears at the fabric of their families and communities. But a group of courageous and resilient women is rising up as activists, survivors, visionaries and leaders. Beauty in the Middle: Women of Congo Speak Out presents the story of the conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and the grassroots women’s activists who have mobilized against incredible odds to end rape, seek justice and establish lasting peace in their country. In February of 2014, the Ottawabased Nobel Women’s Initiative led a delegation of Nobel peace laureates, activists and journalists to Democratic Republic of Congo to meet women working to bring sustainable peace to the region and end the scourge of sexual violence. Although a peace agreement was signed in 2002, rebel groups, foreign militias and the Con-

PHOTO: THE NOBEL WOMEN’S INITIATIVE

By Tori Roberts

Renowned photographic exhibit Beauty in the Middle: Women of Congo Speak Out will come to Ottawa in January as part of a SPAO symposium The Shrinking World of Photography.

golese army continue to instil fear in the civilians of North and South Kivu. Despite the volatility, women-led movements have emerged, employing innovative strategies to advocate for protection and justice. One foundation working in the DRC is the Fond pour les Femmes Congolaises (FFC), a women’s fund that supports grassroots women’s rights organizations that promote and defend the rights of women and girls. Founded and led by fearless activist Julienne Lusenge, the FFC has funded more than 60 projects from over 35 organizations that focus on eliminating sexual violence, deliv-

ering empowerment programming for women and girls and providing public health education about HIV/AIDS. On January 22, 2015, Julienne Lusenge will be bringing the worldacclaimed photo exhibit, Beauty in the Middle: Women of Congo Speak Out, to the SAW Gallery Ottawa. The exhibit, which debuted in London at the Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict in June 2014, features the photography of award-winning New York Times photojournalist Peter Muller, sharing the heartbreaking and inspiring stories of women affected by the ongoing conflict in Democratic Republic of Congo.

The exhibit will be the centrepiece of the 2015 School of Photographic Arts: Ottawa (SPAO) photography symposium called The Shrinking World of Photography. A vernissage will be hosted by The MATCH International Women’s Fund, the Nobel Women’s Initiative and SPAO at SAW Gallery on Thursday, January 22 to generate support for the Fond pour les Femmes Congolaises. All funds raised from the exhibit will go directly to the FFC to provide critical funding to grassroots organizations working to advance the rights of women and girls in Democratic Republic of Congo. Spend an evening being captivated by the stories of women in Congo and be inspired by their journey toward peace and justice at the Beauty in the Middle: Women of Congo Speak Out launch on January 220. To learn more about the event or purchase tickets, visit: http://matchinternational.org/ events-campaigns/. Tori Roberts is a student in the Carleton University School of Social work and has worked alongside both the Nobel Women’s Initiative and The MATCH International Women’s Fund.

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Margo Thomas’s painting “Grandma Dinelle’s Trunk” is about things she found in her attic and remembering her grandmother in Hintonburg.

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“Pick Your Own” (oil) will be exhibited at Francesco’s Coffee Company.

Shirley Moulton January 2015

Carole Comeau’s painting “Fly Away” is a whimsical and romantic view of her community, Little Italy.

Imagination and architecture – art by students of Bhat Boy By Ellen Schowalter

December 8 – 21 Glebe Community Centre Art Gallery Noted painter and teacher Bhat Boy, who describes himself as an “artist of wild imagination with deep ties to the Glebe,” has organized an exciting exhibit of work by the students in his

Mary Richardson’s painting “In the Woods” reminds us that everyone’s home is not the same. Her paintings have an element of humour, with a dark gothic edge.

three “Imagination and Architecture” classes. One group has been working and meeting at the Glebe Community Centre (GCC) and two others in his studio. Webster’s dictionary describes imagination as “the faculty of forming images in the mind; the artist’s creative power” and architecture as having roots in the notion of “master

builder.” Bhat Boy has challenged his students to think outside the box and use their imagination to create art, to form the images in their minds and then build a painting from there. He emphasizes the dialogue that results from engaging the viewer to enter the world created by the artist’s imagination. The goal is not a pretty painting, but rather communication on a deep intellectual and emotional level.

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Bhat Boy is a dedicated teacher, well-grounded in technique as well as historical art knowledge. There will be a concurrent exhibition of his students’ work at the Firehall in Old Ottawa South, December 10 – January 3. The gallery in the Glebe Community Centre, 175 Third Avenue (at Lyon St.) is located just to the left of the main entrance.

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By Christa Thomas

“When [Mr. Sparks] divided his farm [Lot C in concession C of Nepean] into town lots, he named one of the principal streets ‘O’Connor Street’ after me.” Thus reminisces Daniel O’Connor, truly one of the city’s pioneers, rather modestly, in his Diary and Other Memoirs, recalling the event that inscribes him into Ottawa – and Glebe – history. Having lived just around the corner from O’Connor Street for many years, I have often wondered, when crossing and re-crossing it, whether the eponymous Mr. O’Connor was a particularly important man, since he has a fairly long street named after him (does size matter? is there some correlation?). So, I hope you’ll forgive me for investigating a street of which only a section is located in the Glebe, but I was curious to learn about the O’Connors. Daniel O’Connor came to the area long before Ottawa assumed its role as capital of a confederated Canada. He was among the first to settle in Bytown, in 1827, just after canal building had begun, and was encouraged to do so by Colonel By himself. Daniel’s wife, Margaret, née Power, whom he had married

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spirit that had contributed to the success of the shopping area. They feared that a chain store might attract loiterers and crime. However, they realized that the status quo could not be maintained because rents had increased to a level that only chain stores and restaurants could afford.

O’Connor Street, 1869, looking south from Parliament’s West Block toward the Glebe a long way off in the countryside …

child. (No wonder Margaret was travel weary!) These inauspicious beginnings notwithstanding, Daniel O’Connor quickly realized that the canal would make Ottawa “an important point for trade and commerce.” Thus began the rise of the O’Connors in the city. Daniel became not only an important businessman but also one of the first justices of the peace and a judge of the court of requests appointed by the government, as well as treasurer of Carleton County (formerly Dalhousie District), Chairman of the Grammar Board and Chairman of the Board of Health. After Mary Ann, there were six more children. Of these, Daniel Jr. was a wellknown lawyer, long-time partner of Judge Robert Lyon, and Conservative solicitor for the Dominion Government. His son, Henry Willis-O’Connor, joined the Governor General’s Foot Guards in 1906. He served during the First World War, and from 1915 to 1920 was aide de camp to Sir Arthur Currie (first Canadian commander of the unified Canadian corps of the CEF). He also served, at the rank of colonel, as ADC to five successive governors general until his retirement in 1946, taking the span of his family’s eminence and shaping influence in the city to well beyond a century. During that time, O’Connor Street in the Glebe was sometimes in the news – in 1899, for instance, city aldermen heatedly discussed blocking O’Connor through the Glebe in consequence of proposed CPR tracks along Isabella – and its appearance changed. In the 1890s, Patterson’s Creek was shortened to end near it, and in 1907, the O’Connor Street bridge was added. To me, the street’s appearance in its Glebe section best captures the O’Connor family’s distinction. Glebe resident Christa Thomas blogs about Canada’s women of Confederation at www.women-of-confederation. ca.

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“Dow’s Great Swamp,“ 1832, sketched by John McTaggart (notice the steamer)

Daniel O’Connor and his wife Margaret, 1820s

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Vol. 12, No. 11, december 14, 1984 (32 pages) CHANGES ON BANK STREET SPARK CONTROVERSY

The complexion of the Glebe’s business strip along Bank Street has recently undergone a change that could herald a metamorphosis for the entire community. Zig Zag Fabrics (at 792 Bank, corner of Third, where Il Negozio Nicastro is today), a Glebe landmark for 24 years, had just been replaced by a Becker’s milk store. This was seen as marking a shift from businesses operated by independent retailers to outlets owned or rented by chains and large developers. Some business people saw the Becker’s store as a symbol of the destruction of the friendly community

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Thirty Years Ago in theGlebe Report

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What’s in a (street) name?

in 1824, also had a hand in the decision, for when the couple arrived, she was “so wearied with travelling and its discomforts,” according to his diary, “that she was quite willing to give the place a trial.” Their arduous journey was undoubtedly made more fatiguing by travelling with their young child (who would die soon after their arrival). What is more, Margaret was pregnant with the couple’s second child, a daughter, Mary Ann, who was the first girl settler born here. Daniel was born in Tipperary, Ireland in 1796, and already had an adventurous life behind him when he arrived in Bytown. Well educated, he had worked in commerce, but became bored, and in 1819 purchased a commission to serve in South America. Later, he visited Savannah, Baltimore and New Brunswick. Upon immigrating in 1826, Daniel and Margaret scouted out a series of locations, including Kingston and Utica, N.Y., only to land in Ottawa en route to Montreal on what was meant to be their return journey home. Travelling north from Prescott, they nearly didn’t make it across the Rideau River, because there were “but a few women [at the Billings’ farm], who did not wish to attempt ferrying us across.” Luckily, “a farmer on the other side named Mr. Dow came across in his canoe,” and not only gave them (and what furniture they carried) a lift, but also took them in for the night. (Braddish Billings had married Lamira Dow of Merrickville, and two of her brothers, Abraham and Samuel Dow, were neighbours just across the river.) The next morning, they walked the three miles to Wellington Street “through the woods to the place where the outlet of the canal was to be located,” taking turns carrying their

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Feedback from a Glebe Community Association survey by Brooke Briggs indicated that traffic and limited parking were threats to local economic viability. Customers had often told merchants “I didn’t stop here last time because I couldn’t find a place to park.” Alderman Smith was quoted as saying, “To reduce traffic in the area we must change the public’s perception that there is parking to be found in the Glebe.” He felt that enforcing a ban on front-yard parking by fining both residents and parkers would be an important deterrent. GIFTED STUDENTS SETTLE IN

It was still too early to judge if the new Grade 9 Gifted Programme established at Glebe Collegiate in September was bearing results. Mrs. Lindsay, the programme coordinator, said that educational research suggested gifted students required

Grade 12 art students from Glebe Collegiate armed themselves with brushes and paint in an effort to give the windows at Ottawa postal station ‘E’, on Fourth Avenue, a bit of holiday cheer.

a programme that was qualitatively differentiated from those of other

students in order that they may best realize their potential.

This retrospective is filed bimonthly by Ian McKercher of the Glebe Historical Society. The society welcomes the donation or loan (for copying) of any item documenting Glebe history (photographs, maps, surveys, news articles, posters, programs, memorabilia, etc.). Contact Ian at 613-235-4863 or ian.mckercher@opera.ncf.ca.

NOTE: All back issues of the Glebe Report to June 1973 can be viewed on the Glebe Report website at glebereport.ca under the ARCHIVES menu.

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Hey doc, what’s a ‘lazy eye’?

An open letter to Ottawans, Ottawa’s taxicab companies have been serving Ottawans for over 50 years. You have relied on us to get you to where you want to go at all hours of the day and in all kinds of weather. We thank you for your loyalty and trust in us. We are working hard to earn your continued confidence. When you get into an Ottawa taxi, you can expect a safe ride and to be sure that you’re in the hands of a trained, professional driver who is adequately insured and who will charge you a fair price. Being responsible for the safety of passengers is always a tremendous responsibility, and it’s our number one priority. Unregulated car for hire services have started to operate in Ottawa. Operators of unregulated cars for hire are flouting Ottawa’s taxicab bylaw and provincial transportation laws. Before getting into an unregulated car for hire, here are three things you should know.

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Ottawa’s taxis are secure When you ride in a taxi, know that you’re fully covered should an incident occur. Full commercial carrier insurance is only available to licensed taxi operators and it protects everyone in the unlikely event of an accident including the driver and passengers as well as cyclists, pedestrians and other motorists.

True lazy eye (amblyopia)

True lazy eye, or amblyopia, occurs when one seemingly healthy eye does not see well even with correction. The poor vision is a result of an uncorrected prescription in childhood during the early stages of visual development. Amblyopia can occur if there is a significant difference in prescription between the two eyes – in this case, the brain may ignore one eye if it is not able to interpret visual information from that eye very well. To prevent amblyopia from permanently setting in, prescription correction to correct far-sightedness, nearsightedness or astigmatism is critical in early childhood. With correction, the brain is forced to use both eyes until the amblyopia is reduced or eliminated. Sometimes an eye turn, or strabismus, can cause the brain to ignore one eye and amblyopia may set in; accordingly, in these cases, it may be necessary to patch the non-turned eye to force the brain to use the turned eye. The earlier in childhood that treatment is initiated, the greater the success in eradicating the amblyopia. Otherwise, untreated amblyopia can result in permanently weakened vision in a patient’s adult life (Doctors of Optometry Canada, 2013).

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Before you get in an unregulated car for hire, think! Make sure you understand the risks of using an unregulated car for hire service. Is the car safe? Is the driver fully trained? Will you be insured should an accident occur? Are you getting a fair deal? Is there a number you can call to speak to management? Next time you need a taxi, please call or hail a taxi. You can even use our convenient mobile app which you can download at www.Ottawataxiapp.ca to book your safe, secure ride with one of Ottawa’s regulated taxi companies.

What isn’t lazy eye?

Having two different prescriptions for each eye is very common. A stronger prescription in one eye does not automatically mean the eye is lazy or amblyopic. If one is seeing equally well with each eye through glasses or contact lenses, then there is no amblyopia present. Similarly, if a patient has a turned eye, that does not automatically imply the eye is lazy or amblyopic;

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The term “lazy eye” is a common topic of discussion in the exam room. At the first visit, patients are probed as to whether they have ever been diagnosed with a lazy eye before. It is not uncommon for patients to respond with uncertainty and confusion, as the term inherently implies a wide range of different eye conditions. Sometimes vague terminology helps the practitioner learn more from a patient than more specific terms! This article will distinguish a true lazy eye diagnosis from other conditions commonly called lazy eye.

A child wearing an eyepatch in an attempt to cure amblyopia.

if the turned eye by itself sees as well as the non-turned eye, then there is likely no amblyopia present. Finally, there are patients who have an eye that wanders – an eye that turns inward or outward with fatigue, as the day progresses or with specific tasks. Many patients assume that this is a lazy eye, but it may actually be a binocular vision disorder whereby eye muscles cannot keep the eyes aligned with one another. A wandering eye may benefit from special lenses (progressive or prismatic) or vision training to help align the eyes (Gerstenblith & Rabinowitz, 2013). The term lazy eye tends to be a blanket term for when one eye is different from the other. This can lead to panic for many patients or parents of patients who worry about having a condition that may affect them for the rest of their lives. There’s never a wrong question in the examination room, so if there is any confusion or doubt, just ask! A comprehensive ocular health examination by your optometrist can help clarify the presence of the true condition and, if caught early, the chances of recovery are increased. Dr. Jay Mithani, optometrist, is a Glebe resident and is excited to share that he will be opening the Glebe’s first independent physician-owned family optometry clinic in the New Year – stay tuned for details!

Manage your expectations

The first thing to be mindful of is managing expectations. For instance, this may not be the ideal time to start a new diet or to try to lose weight. Instead, plan how to introduce parts of the new diet while allowing for certain “bad” foods to remain in moderate amounts (as long as a specific health condition does not require an immediate change). Consider shifting the goal of weight loss during the holidays to that of weight maintenance. Changes in expectations may reduce feelings of frustration over a restricted diet or over the lack of weight loss during the holiday season. Plan ahead

Next, it is important to have a plan for how to eat healthily over the holidays. If you will be eating at parties or family gatherings where there is no control over meal options or food preparation, plan to: • Eat a snack or small meal before the event. This way, temptations will not be as strong for sugary or fatty foods, pre-meal appetizers or eating to excess. • On arriving at the party, don’t head straight for the food. Take time to talk to other guests, as this will distract you from temptations and from eating throughout the event. • Take time to look at all available food choices, and balance your selection with healthier options (vegetables and fruits). • Keep in mind which foods are highest in fat and sugar (sauces, gravy, stuffing, desserts) and avoid them or moderate their intake. • Be mindful of portion sizes. Eat to a feeling of satiety and not to fullness. • Remember to consider calories in drinks and alcohol – and don’t drink to excess. Hosting a holiday meal

If you are hosting a holiday meal, plan to include recipes that are healthy, reduce or substitute foods that are higher in fats and use serving strategies to contribute to better portion control: • Start the meal with an appetizer low in calories and fat. For instance, use a vegetable puree to add great flavour to different foods. One example: sea scallops on a cauliflower puree with toasted almonds and mint. • Start the meal with a hearty soup. A great holiday soup is beet borscht topped with fresh-cut dill (which gives great seasonal colours). You can limit salt intake by making your own broth using dried mushrooms (consider dried porcini or chanterelle mushrooms). • Serve a winter salad before the main course. Consider a thinly sliced roasted-beet salad with goat cheese, kale or arugula, toasted hazelnuts and maple balsamic vinaigrette.

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The holidays can be a difficult time of year for people who are trying to stick to a healthy diet. From office parties to social events and family gatherings, there are many opportunities to overindulge in foods that are high in fat and sugar – negatively affecting weight, blood pressure, blood sugar and cholesterol. While maintaining a healthy diet around the holidays can be challenging, there are simple steps that you can take when attending an event or when preparing a meal to ensure that you continue to be healthy and to enjoy the foods of the season.

References Doctors of Optometry Canada. (2013). Amblyopia (Lazy Eye). Retrieved from Eye Health Library: http://doctorsofoptometry.ca/amblyopialazy-eye/ Gerstenblith, A. T., & Rabinowitz, M. P. (2013). The Wills Eye Manual. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.

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Editor’s note: The course in “Writing Your Memoirs,” offered at Abbotsford House and taught by Anne Le Dressay, has brought out some wonderful stories by local residents. We share two of these stories by John Last.

By John Last

A home birth The family came to Adelaide from the north of England about the time I graduated from medical school in 1949. Alan was an engineer, Mary had been a nurse-midwife before they married and began making babies. They lived across the lane behind our home in my last three years in general practice in Adelaide in the 1950s. The oldest of their children, a girl also called Mary, was 14. Young Mary was mature beyond her years, an outstanding student who radiated competence and social skills. Her mother told me that young Mary had first said she was going to be a doctor when she was six, and had never wavered from this ambition. She asked if she could read my textbooks and I willingly consented. She became our babysitter, and I soon got used to seeing her absorbed in my medical books. Her mother, Mary senior, was pregnant again, her sixth, and all was going smoothly. She asked me to arrange for a home birth. I had to tell her we didn’t do home births in Australia, and a few days in hospital would be a pleasant rest. I booked her into the nearby cottage hospital. She shrugged, smiled, said nothing. When she came for her routine prenatal visits she often brought young Mary, and asked me to let the girl listen to the baby’s heart.

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I showed her also how to identify the parts of the growing baby’s body. One afternoon young Mary knocked at our back door: could I come to see her mother? I went across the lane from our back garden to their home. Mary senior was in labour. She and young Mary had cleaned the room, perhaps the whole house, meticulously. There wasn’t a speck of dust anywhere. The bed had a rubber sheet over the mattress and extra lights from other rooms lit it up like a sports arena. A baby’s cot stood ready for the new arrival. A bowl of water mixed with disinfectant, and clean towels were laid out on a bedside table, on which a pressure cooker also sat. Young Mary told me this held sterilized scissors and tape to cut and tie the baby’s umbilical cord. She stood calmly at the bedside, wristwatch in hand, timing her mother’s contractions. She told me these were coming every two min-

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utes. My examination revealed that the birth was imminent. I suggested it was time for her to go to the hospital a few blocks away, but I knew as I said it that I was wasting my breath. She was determined to have this baby at home. What’s more, she wanted young Mary to assist me. I accepted the inevitable and asked young Mary to nip across the lane to tell my wife what was going on. Alan was at his company’s offices in Melbourne and was due home next morning on the overnight train. We’d have to manage without his help. I remembered a few other things that might be useful so when young Mary came back, I too made a quick dash through our back garden to pick up my medical bag. I was gone less than five minutes, but events move fast during childbirth. When I got back, young Mary was holding the baby’s head, gently turning its shoulders so these would deliver smoothly – Mary senior’s expertise was guiding young Mary. I took over as the rest of the baby, a boy, slid out, bellowing lustily. Another push squeezed out the placenta. Young Mary opened the pressure cooker to get the sterilized scissors and tape. I nodded for her to go ahead. She tied

and cut the umbilical cord, sterilized the cut end, her hands moving confidently as if she had done this many times before. She had tucked her hair into a headscarf but she didn’t have a facemask and I saw her expression change from concentration and determination to delighted pleasure. I put drops in the baby’s eyes, young Mary draped a blanket around him and passed him to her mother whose outstretched hands steered him to her breast. Mary senior confided how she’d planned it all. She wanted to have the baby while Alan was out of town because he would worry about risks and would side with me about sending her to the hospital. She’d had three home births in England and much preferred these over going to the hospital – “medicalizing childbirth,” she called it. Young Mary told me a week after baby Liam was born that she had decided to specialize in obstetrics. John Last is an Australian-born physician who has been a professor of epidemiology and public health at the University of Ottawa since 1969. At the age of 88, he is still teaching, or as he terms it, “corrupting the minds of innocent young students.”

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Thomas McKay, who bought the land in 1868 and moved into the house around 1872. “And the McKay stone house, known as Elm Bank, didn’t actually look anything like Abbotsford!” The photo above, sent by Pat Goyeche, coordinator of community programs at Abbotsford, is said to be the real Abbotsford House, built for Alexander Mutchmor between 1867 and 1872. By 1878 it was the home of Ottawa mayor Charles Mackintosh. The photo dates from post-1888 when it had by then become the Protestant Home for the Aged.

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Pour une Femme (For A Woman)

Directed by Diane Kurys (France, 2014) By Paul Green

112 Weddings

Directed by Doug Block (U.S., 2013)

Doug Block is a videographer. He shoots weddings of total strangers and delivers the videos. Then he never sees the happy couples again. One day he begins to wonder what happened to all these people he filmed after they lived together. Were they still in love? He contacted 112 former clients and asked them how their lives were now. Did their marriage turn out as they dreamed it would? The response is often surprising and very frank. Although Block’s film favours the down-side of marriage, it also explores the lives of people and the challenges and conflicts they have faced over the years. Marital bliss seems to be strongest the day of the wedding. After that, a new reality sets in. Block asks couples how they have managed living with another person and how their lives have changed. Women no longer want to be stay-at-home moms. We see how the addition of children affects marriages and what compromises are made. Small grudges grow until couples drive each other nuts. Block explores less traditional marriages: a partnership ceremony instead of a legal one and same sex marriages. An articulate rabbi attests that marriage is not a perfect institution. He talks about the economic reality. And despite all the pre-wedding planning, things can go wrong … a caterer calls and cancels three days before a wedding. But there is also humour – like the guy who shows up for his wedding wearing a long, t-shirt-looking, unfashionable top and tennis shoes. And then there’s the question: Will you still love someone when their teeth are gone? There’s sadness – when a child or parent becomes ill, and a man describes the time he went berserk and spent $7,000 on books in three days. The dynamics of two families coming together, with relatives from different countries, is also interesting. In 112 Weddings, “happily ever after” is perhaps wishful thinking … If you are married or divorced or have thought about either, you might want to see this film. Block explores the “mystery” of marriage and many not so happy endings. DVD: Amazon.co.uk

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By Lois Siegel

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Baseball Girls

Directed by Lois Siegel (Canada, 1995) Documentary: The National Film Board of Canada Editor’s note: The reviewer Lois Siegel directed this film. From seven-year-olds playing baseball, learning the rules of the game, to 60-year-olds playing slo-pitch softball, Baseball Girls explores the private and professional lives of women obsessed with the sport they love. Using animation, archival stills and live-action footage, this zany and affectionate feature documentary details the history of women’s participation in the largely male-dominated world of baseball and softball. This documentary won multiple awards and was selected as one of the best documentaries in Canadian Cinema for 1996 by Take One film magazine’s Toronto Film Critics’ Poll. View the film online free at: National Film Board of Canada: www.nfb.ca/film/baseball_girls YouTube: www.youtube.com / watch?v=alJg0SkLii4 Available at Ottawa Public Library

Many films about the Second World War and the Holocaust – and the consequences that flowed from these events – have come out of France since 1945. Few directors have been as well placed or motivated to delve into this period as Diane Kurys, a filmmaker who has devoted much of her career to reconstructing the lives of her parents and the parlous times in which they lived. She first tackled this subject in 1983 with the release of Coup de foudre (Entre Nous), which tells how her parents met and married in a French internment camp in 1942. Her debut feature in 1977, Diabolo menthe (Peppermint Soda), explores her childhood and early adolescence in a family marked by divorce and separation. Pour une femme is a film of Anne’s remembrance, that moves seamlessly between the immediate postwar period and the 1980s. In the opening sequence, we encounter an old man living alone in genteel poverty with his dog, somewhere in the French countryside. In the background, a news item on the radio about François Mitterand and the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior. Cut to Lyons in 1945: a French Jewish couple, Michel and Léna, are back in France after wartime exile, applying for citizenship, something Michel neglected to do before the war. Michel (Benoît Magimel) and Léna (Mélanie Thierry) live peaceably enough; Michel is a member of the Communist Party and their social life revolves around the Lyons cell. Though not a Communist herself, Léna befriends Madeleine, a character who also turns up in Coup de foudre. Michel has opened a men’s clothing shop but is having a hard time making a go of it. Anne is able to recall much of this on her own, but it is only after going through her mother’s letters and photos following her death that Anne (a lovely performance from Sylvie Testud) and sister Tania are able to start filling in some of the blanks. Back to Lyons in the late ‘40s, Michel and Léna’s comfortable if complacent marriage is jolted by the startling reappearance of Michel’s brother Jean, thought to have perished in the camps.

Jean (Nicolas Duvauchelle) is charming and mysterious … and very cagey about his recent activities. He reveals only that he has recently left the USSR; subsequently, we learn that he is wanted by French police in connection with the botched killing of a Nazi war criminal. Anne discovers a book in her mother’s papers in which her mysterious uncle is prominently featured. Expert crosscutting between the 1940s and the 1980s, accompanied by voice-over narration by Anne, is adroitly handled and keeps the viewer in the larger picture. The backstory about the affair between Léna and Jean probably happened, but many of the details doubtless sprang from the imagination of Anne, the alter ego of Diane Kurys, who has evidently thought a great deal about the lives of her parents in the years preceding her birth. Michel and Léna loved each other very much, though it is likely that Léna’s love was suffused with gratitude towards Michel who saved her life by marrying her when he did. Léna left Michel when Anne was six. The film closes with a poignant mix of pathos and French political humour as Anne and her sister attend at their father’s passing. Excellent performances by Mélanie Thierry and Sylvie Testud (well known for her portrayal of Françoise Sagan in Sagan) mark this highly evocative autobiographical film from Diane Kurys. In an interview, Kurys, always more comfortable working in the past, once summed up her career by quoting the French poet Alfred de Vigny, who wrote: “If I write their story, they descend from me.”

“I’m not sure how we’re going to manage to keep our doors open this year, but we’ll find a way. We always do,” said Kerry Kaiser. Kaiser has been the coordinator and sole employee of the Centretown Emergency Food Centre for the past 20 years, and in that time has seen her fair share of ups and downs. “Many residents are not aware that the Centretown Emergency Food Centre has been the local food bank for residents of Centretown since 1975. It’s hard to help when people and businesses just down the road aren’t aware that their neighbours turn to us for help,” Kaiser said. The “Centretown” designation encompasses people living from Wellington to Billings Bridge, and from Lyon to Main Street, including the Glebe. The Food Centre distributes food donated through the Ottawa Food Bank, from local churches, schools and businesses, and from generous individuals. The Food Centre also purchases a large quantity of perishable food items, providing clients with a three-to-four day supply of nourishing food according to their family size – an amount that would cost approximately $40 per person if bought at a grocery store. Clients can visit once a month, and the Centre also offers them referrals to other services, cooking demonstrations and nutritional information. In past years, demand for the Food Centre’s services has varied with the rise and fall of the economy, but in recent years there has been a steady increase in client use. In 2013, the Centre served over 10,000 men, women and children. To offer this help, the Centre spent over $105,000

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“Sadly, the Food Centre has already seen a significant increase in the number of children they serve – 1,304 children by the end of this October, compared to 1,248 by the end of last October.”

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on food in 2013 to supplement donated food. Sadly, the Food Centre has already seen a significant increase in the number of children they serve – 1,304 children by the end of this October, compared to 1,248 by the end of last October. “The Food Centre receives generous support from our parent organization as well as the Centretown Churches Social Action Committee (CCSAC), the City of Ottawa and the Ottawa Food Bank,” said Kaiser. “Despite the additional support of many donors, this does not meet our funding needs, especially when the Food Centre is likely to spend $110,000 on food this year. Moreover, our rent is increasing sharply this January.” With annual costs now reaching $200,000 and expected to keep rising, funding is becoming a growing challenge for the Food Centre. An annual grant from the City of Ottawa covers most of their staffing costs and local churches provide another generous amount as well as organizing food drives, while support from individual donors and local businesses account for over 35 per cent of their revenue. Nevertheless, it’s the clients that indicate the importance of the Food

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Centre: “I didn’t know there was help like this out there. Thank you!” said one. Another said, “I know you are doing your best with what is available and with what you have. I appreciate your efforts when I come. Thanks.” Businesses and individuals can help bring stability and a brighter future to the many marginalized people in our community by donating to the Food Centre. A gift of: • $100 helps feeds nine people for three days • $200 helps feed five families for three days • $450 covers powdered milk costs for one month The Centretown Emergency Food Centre (www.cefcottawa.org) is open on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday afternoons. With only one full-time staff member, the Centre is run with the help of a large number of dedicated long- and short-term volunteers. The Food Centre is a registered not-for-profit organization and charitable receipts are issued for all donations over $10.

Local churches that support the Centretown Emergency Food Centre include: Blessed Sacrament Catholic, Fourth Avenue Baptist, Glebe-St. James, St. Giles Presbyterian, St. Matthew’s Anglican, and Religious Society of Friends. You can donate by sending a cheque made out to Centretown Emergency Food Centre to: 507 Bank Street, Ottawa ON K2P 1Z5. You can also donate online through the Canada Helps website (www.canadahelps.org) by accessing the Centretown Churches Social Action Committee’s donation page. You can also help by organizing a food drive. Non-perishable food donations are always welcome and can be left at the back door of Centretown United Church (entrance off Argyle) during the Centre’s operating hours. Tel: 613-232-3059. Jason Robichaud is a student at Algonquin College who volunteers with the Centretown Emergency Food Centre.

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The year I moved solo into a nearby hotel on the night of December 23 to guarantee a good night’s sleep was the year I realized that it was time to deal with Christmas stress. But it didn’t happen quickly. Like many families, it was my kids who pushed me into it as they grew up and moved out. The year before, I had gone to bed on the 23rd at my usual 10:30 bedtime. I was awakened by my husband when he came to bed an hour later, and three times after that, as each of my university-age children crawled in from their respective parties. The next morning I felt like a wet rag – how would I organize a Christmas Eve party for 22 members of my extended family, clean up, stuff stockings and prepare the turkey for the next day’s feast?

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How I learned to reduce holiday stress and sleep soundly in my own bed

By Patricia Paul-Carson

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Last year, I ate Christmas Day dinner at a Chinese restaurant with my husband and son. Obviously, things had changed. And while the changes were good, they didn’t come easily to me. I hung on to Christmas traditions like a toddler hangs on to a favourite blanket. I felt responsible for everyone’s happiness and I thought I could ensure it through the cards, the gifts, the turkey, the party, the stockings, the decorations, the clean house and the singing of “Bring Me a Figgie Pudding” while carrying in the rum-soaked flaming dessert of my mother’s recipe. And then my kids grew up. Everyone realized that Christmas was getting out of hand. I wanted to eliminate the burden of finding 70 or more imaginative and inexpensive Christmas gifts for seven stockings,

including those for our two sons-inlaw. I was told that they, the stockings that is, were sacrosanct. But my kids decided that each of us would buy a gift or gifts totaling no more than $20 for each stocking, other than their own. That sounded good to me. Then they decided that each person would buy only one $50 gift for the person whose name they picked out of a hat. This meant that nobody was spending more than $170 on family gifts, including the stockings. I could live with this too. And now that the kids were married, we had to deal with the matter of where they would spend Christmas. Like most families, we are happy to share our children with their in-laws. Last year both my daughters spent Christmas with their husband’s families, so my husband, son and I were on our own. While the family who lives in the same city as we do thoughtfully invited us to their Christmas Day dinner, my son, who was working during the day, wanted to spend the evening quietly. And that is how we came to spend Christmas Day at a Chinese restaurant. The restaurant was full of cheer, the cacophony of many melded lan-

guages bouncing off the ceiling. Young couples arrived in their jeans, hugging each other, with snowflakes still on their pea jackets and in their hair. It didn’t feel awkward, lonely or sad. Hardly a Norman Rockwell Christmas, but it was lovely. And besides, the Sunday before Christmas, my husband and I and our five kids had celebrated with turkey, the fewer gifts, a decorated tree and lots of laughs. We spent Christmas Eve at a friend’s. This year, we will have all our children with us on Christmas Eve and Christmas morning, and then one couple will leave to visit their other set of parents. The rest of us will hang out in our pj’s in front of the fire eating leftovers, going for walks or reading the books we receive as gifts. It took a long time to get to this relaxed pace, with my kids leading the way. But, whew, it sure is wonderful. And on December 23, I will be in my own bed, with my husband by my side. Patricia Paul-Carson is an Ottawa resident who blogs about being a parent of adult children at www.parentingadultchildren.ca.

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The weather outside is frightful, but it isn’t slowing down any of the toddlers at Good Morning Creative Arts and Preschool (GMCAPS). The children are as energized as ever, enjoying their classroom rituals and forging alliances with new friends. It is their banter and constant questions that make my job fun and give me the opportunity to see the world through their eyes. The two- and three-year-olds begin their day with friendly “good morning” greetings to the teachers and their peers as they walk into the classroom. Their hellos are akin to Norm walking into the bar at Cheers – they definitely make themselves at home in our school. One boy’s favourite greeting to his teacher as he sits to paint a poppy is “Boo, I scared you.” Not quite good morning, but friendly nonetheless! Since the weather has turned and winter viruses are going around, some of the students have been missing classes. The others never fail to notice when a classmate is away sick. Even at the tender age of two, their compassion shines through. They continue to ask when friends will return. When a classmate falls, another asks, “Is he ok?” and rushes to give a comforting hug. According to an article in Parenting Magazine, “Children have an inborn capacity for compassion. Small in stature themselves, they naturally identify with stuffed animals,

other kids, pets and underdogs.” During show-and-tell one day, a teacher was trying to give the class clues about a mystery object in a bag. The object was a flower and the clue was: something beautiful that you give to someone in the summer. A boy immediately put up his hand and asked, “Is it love?” I am so lucky that I get to hear declarations like this every day. It reminds me how precious and extraordinary everything is when you are two or three, and every experience is new and exciting. The children at GMCAPS also like to celebrate their peers’ achievements. When one boy saw another cutting with scissors he joyfully observed, “Now he has a new skill!” As educators, we are trained to teach preschoolers the basic skills of life, to help them navigate the world. But it is often my students who teach me the most about life. They are filled with love and wonder, they are not afraid to fail and they enjoy the moment. They find the simplest things the most rewarding, like playing with water – using whatever they find to transfer water from one vessel to another, all the while spilling it everywhere, of course. The twos and threes also enjoy taking care of their baby dolls and pushing them in strollers. It is endearing to see them model grown-up behaviour – although we don’t want them to grow up too fast! Toddlers are anything they want to be: artists and inventors, astronauts and

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Student teachers come to First Avenue By Rylee K. and Maddy G.

In November, student teachers came to our school. They want to be teachers for various reasons. “I think it’s important to educate kids,” said Gabriella Bensason. “I really love kids and I want to help kids and [I] love teaching,” explained Kelsi Leach. “I believe it’s important that I be part of this amazing journey that you are on,” added Mrs. Martinez. They said it’s challenging being a student teacher, because they find it hard to adapt and it’s their first time in an actual classroom. Interestingly, most of them had a different job, like marketing and international development, before being led to teaching. Student teachers stay for four weeks. In the first week they get to know the class because every class is different. They also start to observe and take notes. The second week they plan an activity. The third week they plan and deliver a lesson. The last week they get to be a teacher for the day. That’s how it works. Do you want to be a student teacher? Rylee K. and Maddy G. are students at First Avenue Public School.

Students in the preschool program at Good Morning Creative Arts and Preschool relish learning new skills, whether it be art or pulling a loaded wagon.

musicians. In their universe, they don’t care what people think and they don’t overthink, period – they just jump right in. The children here are like the original band of brothers and sisters. They begin in preschool, which is like basic training, and many of them deploy to kindergarten together. Their bonds may last a lifetime – just like our student teachers, who started with us at age two and now, as high school students, remain close friends while volunteering at our school. If you would like to join our wonderful family, there are still limited spaces available in the two-year-old and threeyear-old programs and a few spots in our after-school creative arts program

for children in Junior Kindergarten to Grade 6, with an after school pick up option from First Avenue, Mutchmor, Corpus Christi and Glebe Montessori. We also offer use of our space and toys for birthday parties (ages two to four) as well as the option of an instructorled art workshop party for ages 5 to 12. We will be offering a Parents’ Night Out every month, when your kids can hang out with us for the evening for dinner and an art workshop. Please contact Director Karen Cameron for more information about GMCAPS and everything we have to offer. Melanie Bauman has been a teacher at Good Morning Creative Arts and Preschool for the past 15 years.

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Artist Nicole Bélanger works with students to create murals in the Glashan Greening art project funded through Crime Prevention Ottawa’s Paint It Up! initiative.

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The Glashan Gator mascot comes to life, thanks to Glashan student artists.

Glashan Schoolyard Greening update By Kathi Elborn

Go Gators! The Glashan Gator mascot is alive and well, now residing high up on the exterior north wall of the school. If you haven’t seen the first two of the four murals now displayed on the outside school walls, take a walk by Arlington Avenue. Under the guidance of local artist Nicole Bélanger, a team of 36 students toiled away in the basement shop at Glashan Public School to create highly textured models or maquettes reflecting the students’ themes of creativity and diversity, as represented by the Glashan Gator. Professional digital photos capturing the 3D aspects of the maquettes were then enlarged to four times their original size and transferred to durable metal dibond panels.

A ceremony held in November celebrated the launch of the murals – a vital artistic component of the overall schoolyard revitalization that will enhance our community for years to come. While the alligator and crocodile up there on our school wall settle into a period of brumation, we humans must get on with holiday preparations! With Christmas only two weeks away (aack!), the Glashan Green Team has a couple of great gift suggestions for you. Glashan Greening has teamed up with La Siembra to sell their nut-free, fair-trade chocolate bars, coffee and hot chocolate. Glashan parent Tom Hanlon-Wilde visited classes in late November to talk with our Grade 7 and 8 students about fair trade practi-

“Installation”: Murals are installed as student artists look on.

ces and the farmers all over the world that La Siembra partners with. Stuff someone’s stocking with some of this delicious chocolate and you will be a popular elf for sure! As much as 40 per cent of proceeds raised will go directly to our greening efforts. Another great gift idea – give the gift of a community legacy. Purchase an inscribed donor leaf in a friend’s or family member’s name for the Glashan Donor Tree! The tree will be permanently installed in the school’s main hallway. To check out either of these gift ideas, visit www.glashangreening. ca/gifts for order forms and details. There’s white stuff on the ground but we are still thinking green! Now that the detailed construction documents have been signed off and approved, the Ottawa Carleton District School Board has put the landscaping work out for tender and will review bids from qualified contractors. We eagerly look forward to spring 2015 when ground (and asphalt) will be

broken and the first phase of the schoolyard greening gets underway. The priority areas will be an outdoor classroom with seating and plantings along the north side of Arlington Avenue, and more tree planting and greening along the Catherine Street south side. Depending on our fundraising and contracting prices, we will be able to implement even more greening and achieve the full scope of the schoolyard greening plan. As we head into the New Year, keep your fingers crossed for us and help us fundraise! Even better, join us in our efforts to see this through! Contact GlashanGreening@gmail.com to get involved. Keep up to date on our progress and plans by visiting our website (www.GlashanGreening.ca) or Facebook page (www.facebook.com/ glashangreeningproject). Kathi Elborn is responsible for communications for the Glashan Green Team.

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Ottawans were shocked by the early arrival of winter a few weeks ago and had to quickly dig out their mitts, hats and coats. Although the weather was unseasonably frigid for November, can you imagine how much colder it gets in northern Canada? But thanks to a Glebe resident, many people in remote northern communities have been receiving hand-knit hats, mittens, blankets, socks, slippers and sweaters for the past seven years. When she was turning 40, Anita Barewal and a friend decided that, rather than celebrate with an exotic trip or other adventure, they would do something meaningful and collect knitted clothing to send to children in isolated northern climates to help keep them warm during the long, dark winter. Families in the Canadian North often struggle to balance the cost of warm clothing against other essentials such as food and shelter so it seemed like a perfect thing to do. The women formed the Warm Hands Network and put the word out for donations through Glebe business Yarn Forward. Within a month they had collected 50 items to send to the Innu in Labrador and by the end of the year they had 800 articles of clothing! The Network is now international with some 400 knitters around the world. About 50 per cent of donations come from other countries and 50 per cent from Canada (10 per cent from Ottawa). Barewal and her Ottawa group link the artisan knitters, crocheters, communities and shippers,

Anita Barewal (in pink), one of the founders of the Warm Hands Network, works with members of partner airline First Air to ship warm mittens and other hand-made knitted goods to northern Canada.

but all of the items come to her Glebe home on First Avenue for sorting, packaging and shipping. First Air is a generous partner that delivers the boxes to northern communities at no or marginal cost twice a year. Local physicians who travel to the North to provide medical services in clinics will also take boxes of clothing as part of their luggage. When the boxes arrive in Rankin Inlet, Gjoa Haven, Pond Inlet, Innuvik, Iqualuit, Cape Dorset, Igloolik, Moosonee and Resolute Bay, community partners who include local health workers, elders, school and daycare leaders ensure that the clothing goes to those who need it. In the past month,

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Grandfathers, daughters and roller coasters By Mike Mankowski

My daughter is expecting a baby and she tells me I will be “one of the best grandpas ever.” This endorsement gives me some hope, but I still have doubts about the choices I made for my child and wonder if my sins will be passed on to her and her children as well. I wonder now if I should have taken her for lunch a few times to veggie places like The Wild Oat or The Joy of Soy House and less often to Tim Horton’s and Pizza Hut. As I look back, more budwig cream and fewer Boston creams might have been a healthier choice. For her, anyway. For me, the Timmer and I are still tight. Big time. Maybe I should have rented fewer scary videos and more musicals for her on weekends and cut back on the

bacon-flavoured microwave popcorn I served with the videos. The package said the bacon was “smoked with sweet apple wood,” so I figured a fruitsmoked popcorn had to have some kind of nutritional value. Today I am not so sure. And instead of teaching her how to make wicked flatulence sounds with her armpit, which really annoyed her second grade French immersion teacher, perhaps I should have devoted more time to helping her with her exercise de jogging de tête. If I had, she would probably have more money today or maybe own her own home. It’s hard to know. What I do know is that she learned how to rip those sounds from either armpit in both official languages, which is an extraordinary accomplishment for a seven or eight-year-old

child when you stop to think about it. In fact, her French ones were better than her English ones. A clean accent with a bit more timbre. As for nourishing her soul, I confess I blew that. I should have taken her more often cross-country skiing and canoeing and taught her how to appreciate the beauty and quiet of nature. You know, hearing nothing but the swish of the skis in the silence of the forest or the creaking of the canoe as it slides atop a lake or among the lily pads of a hidden lagoon. Stuff like that. But no, I had to take her to water parks and to Canada’s Wonderland to ride the big roller coasters. In the front seat, no less, where it is a law that you have to wave your hands over your head to prove you are unafraid or an idiot, even though you are belted in tighter than a fighter pilot because the drop in some places is straight down and you’re pulling up to something like 15 Gs on most of the turns. Of course she loved every moment of it. These days, with the spectre of grampahood stalking me wherever I turn, I realize I could have taught her more about what it means to be a human being, what we are meant for, and how we ought to behave toward one another. I didn’t do that, and this bothers me. It bothers me because the domin-

ant culture of the world into which my grandchild will be born believes modern science has answered these questions. It hasn’t, and unless someone else counters with better answers, he or she could easily fall prey to this common belief. Modern science can form a perfect theory that explains the material world. But when scientists attempt to explain what a human being is, particularly when it is being human, they cannot account for themselves within that same theory. They cannot utter a single word about love or death or what one ought to do on a normal Saturday afternoon. Now, in my pre-geriatric days, still self-absorbed and wondering about my parenting flaws, I am aware that I could have spoken more to my daughter about love and what it means to be a human being. Yet in spite of these failures and many others, I am predicted to be one of the best grandpas ever by a young mother who was as wonderful a child as a dad could ever imagine. This gives me some hope, though I am aware this prediction may suddenly collapse when my teenage grandchild wants me to ride the big roller coasters with him or her, and my “condition” at that time, whatever it is, won’t allow it, but I am trying not to think about that. Mike Mankowski is a resident of the Glebe and president of the ROMEO (Retired Old Men Eating Out) Breakfast Club.

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I just left Ethiopia, an amazing country in eastern Africa. We spent time in Addis Ababa, went north to an ancient town, ate some good food and saw some pretty interesting sites. While my dad was at a medical conference, my mom, brother and I were left to explore Addis Ababa on our own. We checked out some museums, saw some traditional Ethiopian dancers and sat in a lot of traffic. Addis Ababa was a very busy, chaotic city with lots of different smells. One of the things that puts Ethiopia’s capital worlds away from Canada’s capital is what you see walking along the sides of the streets. There were herds of goats, live chickens, big trucks and a lot of people. I tried to imagine all this chaos on Bank Street, but I just couldn’t do it. Addis Ababa wasn’t my favourite place in Ethiopia (I don’t love big, crazy cities) but I still think it’s a great city. We escaped the big city when we went north to Lalibela, a town with some very old churches. In Lalibela, you can find the biggest monolithique (carved from one stone) church in the whole world. The churches were mostly fascinating, except when our tour guide went on about history (once in a while all I could make out was “yadayadayada”). It was actually pretty cool to step into a church that people had carved out of stone, thousands of years ago. People say that men chipped away at the stone during the day, while angels helped build the churches at night. If you don’t believe in angels, then it remains a great mystery how 11 big churches were carved into stone within 25 years. I find it incredible that after thousands of years, the churches of Lalibela are still in use. When we went for a tour of the churches, we saw

nuns, priests and a bunch of kids with their parents. Some of the little boys were training to be priests and had been there all night. A few of them were tucked underneath a carpet, sleeping on the hard, dusty ground. Lalibela was probably my favourite part of Ethiopia. Another great thing about Ethiopia is that I finally got to meet my great-great-great-great … grandma! Unfortunately, I couldn’t quite hug her, because she was in a glass encasement. Oh yes and, not to mention, she is 3.2 million years old! Lucy was the first upright hominid to be discovered and, if those genius scientists are right, everyone is a descendant of Lucy – even Justin Beiber! Another thing that makes Ethiopia unique is the food. All through the countryside, you can find big fields of tef, a grain used to make injera. Injera is sort of like a thin, sour pancake. I know that doesn’t sound very appetizing (I find it horrible on its own) but with wat – a mix of lentils, meat, or vegetables – and a couple of Ethiopian spices, it’s delicious! You can get Ethiopian food in North America but I would say none of it is as good as the real thing. The food is one thing I’ll definitely miss about Ethiopia! I think Ethiopia is a great country and I’ll remember it for a long time. I tasted spices I may never taste again, saw some really cool things and met some sweet little kids. I would recommend going to Ethiopia and hope to be back again some day. Next, we’ll be going to Tanzania and Morocco, so you’ll hear about them soon. Ella Hodgson-Pageau is an 11-yearold Glebe resident who loves to write and is on a 10-month trip to Africa with her family.

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In addition to free home delivery, you can find copies of the Glebe Report at Abbas Grocery, Acorn Nursery, Adishesha Yoga, Arrow & Loon, Bank of Montreal, B.G.G.O., Bloomfields Flowers, Booster Juice, Brewer Arena, Brewer Pool, Bridgehead, Brittons, Brown’s Cleaners, Corner Bar and Grill, Douvris Martial Arts, Ernesto’s Barber Shop, Escape, Farm Team Cookhouse and Bar, Feleena’s, The Flag Shop, Flight Centre Travel, Forno Antico, 107 Fourth Avenue Wine Bar, Francesco’s Coffee Company, The French Baker, Glebe Apothecary, Glebe Community Centre, Glebe Fashion Cleaners, Glebe Meat Market, Glebe Pet Hospital, Glebe Smoke Shop, Glebe Tailoring, Glebe Trotters, Glebe Video, Hillary Cleaners, Hogan’s Food Store, Il Negozio Nicastro, Irene’s Pub, Isabella Pizza, Jericho Café, Kardish Foods, Kettleman’s Bagel Co., Kunstadt Sports, Marble Slab, Mayfair Theatre, McKeen Metro Glebe, Mister Muffler, Morala’s Café, Naji’s Lebanese Restaurant, Olga’s Deli and Catering, Pints & Quarts, The Palisades, The Pantry, Pet Valu, ReadiSetGo, RBC/Royal Bank, Reflections, Roast’n Brew, 7-Eleven, Scotiabank, Second Avenue Sweets, Shafali Bazaar, Silver Scissors, Spa Royale, Subway, SushiGo, TD Bank, Third Avenue Spa, Von’s Bistro, Watson’s Pharmacy and Wellness Centre, The Wild Oat, Yarn Forward & Sew-On, The Works, ZaZaZa Pizza.

born in 2014 Deadline to submit your baby’s photo: January 5

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TWO PROFESSIONAL VIOLINISTS playing light classical music for events in Ottawa. Please contact cotton.string.duo@gmail.com for more information, booking or questions.

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Babies of the Glebe

The Glebe Report will feature your new baby, free of charge, in a special colour feature in our January edition.

PIANO TEACHER Fifth year Bachelor of Music student with grade 8 RCM. Looking to teach beginners, young and old. Will come to your house (provided you live in the Glebe or nearby)! Email piano.teacher.nic@gmail.com or call Nic at 613-234-6395. Please leave a message.

FRIENDS OF THE CENTRAL EXPERIMENTAL FARM GREAT GIFT IDEAS (www.friendsofthefarm.ca/boutique. htm) The modern classics For the Love of Trees and Ottawa’s Farm are perennial favourites among Ottawa book lovers and holiday gift givers. Get your copies at Friends of the Farm in Bldg. 72 and other locations. Info: 613-230-7632. THE GLEBE CENTRE COMMUNITY PROGRAMS AT ABBOTSFORD wishes to publicly acknowledge success of our 39th Annual Bazaar and heartily thank the community of members, volunteers, neighbours, friends and sponsors for making it so. If you missed it…you have another chance…Come to the mini-bazaar running from Dec. 3 to 18, 9 a.m. – 4 p.m., Monday through Friday at Abbotsford, 950 Bank St. Also get fit and find fun at Abbotsford …pick up

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FRIENDS OF THE CENTRAL EXPERIMENTAL FARM GIFTS TO THE FARM THAT GIVE BACK Make a donation or become a new member and receive a free bonus gift of six CEF Heritage Building watercolour prints by artist Richard Raycraft or Rhythm and Blooms HDTV tour of 26 North American gardens set to original music. www.friendsofthefarm.ca or 613-230-3276.

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Housecalls available Free parking Students & seniors welcome. We care for dogs, cats, ferrets, rabbits, reptiles, birds & other pets Dr. Hussein Fattah DANJO CREATIONS (613)526-4424

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December 12, 2014

“Late Winter Trail” by Nicole Allen

Glebe Neighbourhood Activities Group Glebe Community Centre

www.gnag.ca

175 Third Avenue, Ottawa, ON K1S 2K2 Tel: (613) 233-8713 or (613) 564-1058

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BE in the BAND is coming back to the Glebe Meet and greet and evaluation: Wed., January 7, 5:30 - 7:30 pm

Call the GNAG office to book

WINTER Registration ONGOING online www.gnag.ca

Holiday Break Camp Monday, December 22 $55 (daily rate) $210 Full break 5 days

9:00 am - 4:00 pm

Tuesday, December 23 Monday, December 29 Tuesday, December 30 Friday, January 2

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Taste in the

Taste tickets - a great holiday gift! “the best cocktail party of the season”

Thursday, Jan. 22 5:30 - 8:00 pm