Images of the Glebe Let’s celebrate our 50th

A message from the chair of the Glebe Report 50th Anniversary Committee, Beatrice Kelleher-Raffoul, and from board co-chairs, Shabana Ansari and Jennifer Humphries

It is always about the people, the people of this community who have volunteered to ensure that for five decades, the Glebe Report has been one of the most successful community newspapers in the region.

This is truly something to celebrate.

We want to thank all the volunteers who have given their time, enthusiasm and expertise to create, produce and distribute our newspaper for half a century. And we thank the dedicated group of people from across our community who continue to do so.

In this year’s issues, we will re-introduce to you a number of members of the teams who, over the decades, have made the Glebe Report happen. Many people have served as editors, copy editors, layout designers, proofreaders, advertising managers, business managers, social media coordinators, contributors, distributors, area captains, deliverers and more. You may know some of these people as neighbours or as fellow participants at events. No doubt you’ve seen many of them shopping at our local businesses, whose owners and managers we deeply appreciate for their unwavering support over these five decades. www.glebereport.ca

As we embark on our next decade, we ask members of the Glebe, Glebe Annex and Dow’s Lake to join us in ensuring that our first-class newspaper remains relevant to our community. Join our board. Contribute to the news of our community. Volunteer, giving a few hours or many – every bit counts!

We are looking forward to launching a new website, expanding our online presence and social media reach. More to follow soon.

A 50th anniversary demands a party, and we invite you to join in. Our official “birthday” is in June, but we’ll be celebrating all year long!

Established in 1973, the Glebe Report, published by the Glebe Report Association is a monthly not-forprofit community newspaper with a circulation of 7,500 copies. It is delivered free to Glebe homes and businesses. Advertising from merchants in the Glebe and elsewhere pays all its costs, and the paper receives no government grants or direct subsidies. The Glebe Report, made available at select locations such as the Glebe Community Centre and the Old Ottawa South Community Centre and Brewer Pool, is printed by Winchester Print.

EDITOR............................ Liz McKeen editor@glebereport.ca

COPY EDITOR.................... Roger Smith

LAYOUT DESIGNER............. Jock Smith layout@glebereport.ca

GRAPEVINE EDITOR............ Micheline Boyle grapevine@glebereport.ca

WEB EDITOR..................... website@glebereport.ca

SOCIAL MEDIA................... Sophie Shields

ADVERTISING MANAGER...... Judy Field advertising@glebereport.ca

613-858-4804

BUSINESS MANAGER........... Debbie Pengelly accounting@glebereport.ca

DISTRIBUTION MANAGER.....

COMMERCIAL DISTRIBUTORS Hilda van Walraven circulation@glebereport.ca

Teddy Cormier, Eleanor Crowder

PROOFREADERS................ Martha Bowers, Jennifer D'Costa, Jeanette Rive

AREA CAPTAINS................. Martha Bowers, Bob Brocklebank, Judy Field, Jono Hamer-Wilson, Deb Hogan, Brenda Perras, Della Wilkinson

Glebe Report seeks volunteer Website Manager

To mark our 50th anniversary, Glebe Report is launching a fresh new website. The only piece missing is someone to manage it. Someone with a solid understanding of content management, security and firewalls, with a proven ability to create, update and maintain website content.

If you have relevant training and experience, we want to talk to you ASAP. This volunteer and part-time position will appeal to community-oriented people, preferably those who live in the Glebe. If you like working in a team-oriented, not-for-profit setting, please contact us right away at chair@glebereport.ca to have a chat and to get a copy of the core responsibilities for this position.

Glebe Report publishes 10-11 issues annually. Our team includes a volunteer board of directors and a volunteer production team. Production team members receive honoraria.

CONTACT US

175 Third Avenue Ottawa, Ontario K1S 2K2 613-236-4955

TFI@glebereport

SUBMIT ARTICLES editor@glebereport.ca.

OUR DEADLINES

For Glebe Report advertising deadlines and rates, call the advertising manager. Advertising rates are for electronic material supplied in pdf format with fonts embedded in the file.

Views expressed in the articles and letters submitted to the Glebe Report are those of our contributors. We reserve the right to edit all submissions. Articles selected for publication will be published in both a printed version and an online version on the Glebe Report’s website: www. glebereport.ca. Please note: Except for July, the paper is published monthly. An electronic version of the print publication is subsequently uploaded online with text, photos, drawings and advertisements as a PDF to www.glebereport. ca. Selected articles will be highlighted on the website.

The Glebe Report acknowledges that its offices and the Glebe neighbourhood it serves are on the unceded lands and territories of the Anishinaabe people, comprised of the Ojibwe, Chippewa, Odawa, Potawatomi, Algonquin, Saulteaux, Nipissing and Mississauga First Nations.