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GNAG welcomes new executive director By Geoff Kellow and Elspeth Tory How does one replace the irreplaceable? This was the daunting job facing members of the hiring committee of Glebe Neighbourhood Activities Group (GNAG), who were assigned the task of finding a new executive director to replace Mary Tsai. GNAG is very pleased to announce that Sarah Routliffe will be the new executive director, following in Mary’s very substantial footsteps. Mary has successfully led the organization for the last 30 years, building it from the ground up, creating a welcoming environment for anyone walking through the community centre’s doors. The committee, composed of four board members, one former board member and one community member, had to find the right person to move the organization forward as it recovers from an extremely challenging few years under COVID. Knowing the close-knit nature of the Glebe community, the board recognized the importance of a well-planned, unbiased and transparent hiring process. After several consultations and hours of research, GNAG engaged Ottawa-based Keynote Executive Search. “You need to hire with your heads, not just your hearts,” said Kelvin Shaw from Keynote, and he set the committee up perfectly to do just that. After conducting multiple rounds of interviews, the hiring committee is delighted to welcome Sarah Routliffe, who has spent more than a decade as the general manager and executive director of the Jack Purcell Recreation Centre in Centretown. Her direct experience in similar non-profit, expanding recreational programming while interfacing with the City and its partners, makes her uniquely suited to take on the job and able to hit the ground running. This, along with

Index ABBOTSFORD �� 12 ART......................................... 16, 17 BUSINESS BUZZ ��8 COMMUNITY................................23 DEMOCRACY...............................18 FILM.............................................20 FOOD............................................19 GARAGE SALE�� 7 GLEBE HISTORY ��6, 29 GLEBOUS & COMICUS ��30 MEMOIR.................................31, 32 PLANNING...................................... 2 POETRY QUARTER ��24, 25 REFUGEES.................................... 15 REPS & ORGS........1, 10, 11, 27, 28 SCHOOLS.................................6, 33 SENIORS......................................13 STORM AFTERMATH ��3 THEATRE................................21, 22 UKRAINE......................................16

her impressive interpersonal skills and strategic vision, won over the committee despite incredibly tough competition. Routliffe is looking forward to getting to work with the amazing team at GNAG and immersing herself in the Glebe community. “Having worked in a similar community non-profit for the past 15 years,” Routliffe said, “I’ve always been impressed by the programming and overall enthusiasm that GNAG brings to the Glebe and recreation as a whole.” Routliffe was born in Ottawa and attended the University of Ottawa where she studied communications with a minor in theatre. She started work as an after-school counsellor and worked her way up to executive director. “Not everyone is fortunate enough to have their passions line up with their career, but I am truly invested in community development and recreation, and I’m so excited I get to continue that work in the Glebe!” As for Mary, she’s looking forward to the change. “I agree with the saying that retiring from your dream job is bittersweet,” she said. “I am sad, but ready to move to life’s next chapter. There is a new sheriff in town, and I hear she is a dynamo. Sarah Routliffe, welcome to the GNAG family. You are going to love it here.” We’d like to extend our thanks to the other hiring committee members (Sarah Wilson, Heather Moncur, Colleen Mooney and Liz Izaguirre) for their time and dedication to the process. And on behalf of the entire community, welcome, Sarah! We look forward to having you lead GNAG into a bright new future. Geoff Kellow is chair of the Glebe Neighbourhood Activities Group (GNAG) Hiring Committee. Elspeth Tory is chair of GNAG.

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GNAG is pleased to welcome Sarah Routliffe as its new executive director.

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New Art Festival......................June 11-12, 10-5, Central Park Art in our Gardens and Studio Tour.....July 9-10, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. Glebe Community Association AGM........ June 14, 7 p.m., Zoom Mary Tsai Retirement BBQ.................. June 16, 6-8 p.m., GCC The Tempest................... July 20, 7 p.m., Patterson Creek Park Beandigen Café.............................................................Page 8

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PLANNING

Change is the only constant – more development in the Glebe Annex By Sue Stefko There is more change afoot in the Glebe Annex, with yet another proposed development. While most of the development has been occurring at the south end of the neighbourhood, this one is planned for the north, close to the Queensway. It is situated at the north end of Bell Street South, where Orangeville turns into Bell. Four homes, 273 to 281 Bell, which date back to the 1890s, will be demolished to make way for two new (but connected) apartment buildings, one on Bell and the other backing onto the laneway at Arthur Lane South. Two existing homes, 269 and 271 Bell, which abut the highway, will be left in place. However, they are owned by the same developer and are described in the proposal as future development prospects. On the Bell Street side, the developer plans to build a six-storey building containing 12 studio and 29 one-bedroom units. Ground floor units will have private patios. On Arthur Lane South, the building is to be four storeys – one storey of above-ground parking below three storeys of living space. For that portion, four one-bedroom units and four two-storey, two-bedroom units are proposed. That makes a total of 49 units in the two buildings, which will have a

landscaped courtyard with bike storage between them. They will be connected by a covered walkway at the second storey. The developer is proposing several environmental features. These include enhanced insulation, radiant heating and cooling powered via a heat pump (there will be no natural gas on site), high-thermal-performance windows, low-flow water fixtures and high efficiency appliances. The developer also commits to exploring the use of greywater recycling and semi-permeable paving. When it comes to height, the proposed complex complies with zoning requirements on the Arthur Lane side, but it’s two storeys too tall on the Bell side. It also diverges from current zoning by providing only seven parking spaces, far fewer than the 19 residential spaces and four visitor spaces required. It does, however, provide 56 bicycle parking spaces when only 25 are required. Although more bike spaces are appreciated, the Glebe Annex isn’t served particularly well by transit, especially in the winter when most people do not bike, and it’s a fairly long walk to buy basic goods like groceries. Another divergence from zoning is the shortage of multi-bedroom units – a building this size is supposed to have 12 units with two or more bedrooms; this one

Existing houses at 273-281 Bell Street South

has only four. All in all, there is much to like about the proposal. Some of the homes to be torn down have been vacant for some time; using this land more productively to bring life back to the area is a welcome change. More rental units are needed during a housing crisis, and the proposed environmental features are laudable. At the same time, it is difficult to lose four more single-family homes to mostly studio and one-bedroom units, especially in a neighbourhood with fewer families moving in. The price of land has rendered singlefamily homes and larger, family-oriented units unaffordable for most. This particular parcel of land, measuring 145 by 117 feet, was put on the market for $5.8 million in the spring of 2021. With prices like that, it’s increasingly challenging for a developer to stay within zoning and provide family-oriented dwellings. And so it is becoming more common in this neighbourhood and many others to see single-family

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STORM AFTERMATH

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Storm destruction In the derecho of May 21, 2022, trees came down and power lines were disrupted all around the neighbourhood. A derecho (Spanish for “straight”) is a widespread, long-lived, straight-line wind storm that is associated with a fast-moving group of severe thunderstorms. This high-impact derecho had winds up to 190 km/hour and was accompanied by at least one tornado. Some hydro customers in the city lost power for more than a week.

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EDITORIAL

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Runners in the Ottawa Race Weekend make their way along Queen Elizabeth Drive Sunday morning May 29. PHOTO: LIZ MCKEEN

Glebe Report Association Annual General Meeting, May 17, 2022 Remarks by Co-Chairs Andy Joyce and Jennifer Humphries (delivered by A. Joyce) GRA board member Bhagwant Sandhu opened the meeting: I request that everyone join me in acknowledging that the AGM is being held on the unceded lands and territories of the Anishinaabe people, comprised of the Ojibwe, Chippewa, Odawa, Potawatomi, Algonquin, Saulteaux, Nipissing and Mississauga First Nations. The Anishinaabe have always lived here as the defenders and the customary guardians of the Ottawa River watershed and its tributaries. We thank them for their generosity and offer to join them in their efforts for self-determination, as well as the healing and the decolonization process that we share together. Andy Joyce, co-chair of the Glebe Report Association Board of Directors along with co-chair Jennifer Humphries, delivered these remarks: We had hoped to hold this meeting in person, but with the Omicron surge, your directors reluctantly decided to hold a virtual meeting. We sincerely hope that all of our future meetings will be held in person. First of all, we’d like to tell you about some comings and goings. We are delighted to introduce our new director and treasurer, Lynn Johnston,

and our second new director, Bhagwant Sandhu, both of whom joined us in January. We would like to acknowledge the valuable work of Line Lønnum as treasurer over the past three years. Line is now on maternity leave, but continuing as a director. I think it’s safe to say that her little one is our first Glebe Report Board baby in a while! On the distribution front, I would like to express our appreciation to Louise Green who has served as our Distribution Manager for the past year. Louise is now leaving us but has done a great job, including working with our Commercial Distributors to ensure that not only all residences but a huge number of businesses receive copies of the Glebe Report. In 2021, the Glebe Report board and production team continued to cope with the pandemic, while forging ahead in some exciting new areas. We have recently struck a Diversity Committee that will consider the Glebe Report’s approach to diversity and make recommendations to the board on how to deepen our commitment to diversity going forward. We have also established a Website Redesign Committee that is developing a plan to refresh and renew our web presence. Following up on the recommendations of a web design consultant, a key part of our redesign

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will be making our site responsive on all platforms: that is, PCs, Macs, tablets and mobile phones. Another critical element is to enhance our analytics capability to ensure our readers are connecting to us so that our advertisers see value in advertising online with us as well as in print. Our goal is to launch our new website in 2023 in time for our 50th anniversary year. Yes, the Glebe Report will reach its 50th birthday in June 2023. We are forming a 50th Anniversary Committee to identify appropriate ways to celebrate this wonderful milestone. Once again in 2021, the Glebe Report achieved excellence in content and format. Our editor Liz McKeen made sure to cover the issues important to our Glebe community, in particular focusing on the people of the Glebe, including our own Glebe Report scholarship winners at Carleton University and Glebe Collegiate. We will leave the financial report to Lynn, our treasurer. However we would like to note that we concluded our fiscal year ending November 2021 with a surplus of $1,515. This is excellent news, given the stresses and challenges of the pandemic on all of us, especially for local businesses that advertise in the Glebe Report. Finally the board continues to emphasize the Glebe Report’s exposure on social media. We now have 2,000 Twitter followers and 1,000 on Instagram. As well, we have over 600 e-newsletter subscribers. And, while we will be enhancing our website through the redesign project, our current site receives a substantial number of visitors, regularly achieving 7,000 pageviews each month. Let me conclude with a few much-deserved thanks. Many thanks to our fantastic production team members who contribute so much time and effort to produce our high quality newspaper. In this group, we acknowledge with pleasure and gratitude 25 years of dedicated service by Judy Field as our Advertising Manager. Thanks to our numerous volunteer writers and proofreaders, and area captains and carriers for their tremendous efforts on behalf of the paper. And thanks to our advertisers and loyal readers. Without you, there would be no Glebe Report. And I think you will agree, that would be a tremendous gap in the life of our community. We offer one last note of thanks to CONTACT US 175 Third Avenue Ottawa, Ontario K1S 2K2 613-236-4955

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our fellow directors for their valued time and support over the past year and to all of you here this evening and to everyone in the Glebe neighbourhood who contributes so much to our superb community newspaper. Please keep on doing it! Glebe Report Association Board of Directors: Shabana Ansari Vaughn Guy Jennifer Humphries, co-chair Lynn Johnston, treasurer Andy Joyce, co-chair Patricia Lightfoot Line Lonnum John MacNab Beatrice Keleher Raffoul Bhagwant Sandhu Steve Zan Glebe Report Production Team: Teddy Cormier, Commercial Deliveries Eleanor Crowder, Commercial Deliveries Judy Field, Advertising Manager Louise Green, Distribution Manager Liz McKeen, Editor Debbie Pengelly, Business Manager Peter Polgar, Web Editor Sophie Shields, Social Media Jock Smith, Layout Designer Roger Smith, Copy Editor

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Comings & Goings � SEN Asian Cuisine at Lansdowne has closed its doors. SEN was the only “indie” restaurant at Lansdowne. Beez Kneez pop-up ice cream truck has set up in Kunstadt Sports’ parking lot, brought to you by Banditos Restaurant. Second Avenue Sweets will be closing it’s doors for good, as of June 30, 2022.

Contributors this month Iva Apostolova Matthew Behrens Martha Bowers Marie Briscoe Blake Butler Randy Cameron Janice Cameron-Caluori Anthony Carricato John Dance Pat Goyeche Don Greenfield Joel Harden Jennifer Humphries Andy Joyce Geoff Kellow Kigor Jean-Denis Labelle Chris Leggett Angus Luff Randal Marlin Claire Marshall

Tom Martin Ian McKercher Shawn Menard Marion Moritz Yasir Naqvi Michael Kofi Ngongi Susan Palmai Douglas Parker Caroline Phillips Mustafa Rashid Vicki Robinson Marisa Romano Larysa Rozumna Kevin Shoom Laura Smith Sue Stefko JC Sulzenko Elspeth Tory Susan Townley Mary Tsai Jim Watson Zeus

LETTERS

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Memoirs from Marty Hamer

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Editor, Glebe Report Please let your readers know that a new book of memoir, written by wellloved and dearly missed Glebe resident Marty Hamer, was accepted into the catalogue of the Ottawa Public Library and now resides at her beloved Sunnyside Branch. Margaret & Mary, Mostly Memoir was a legacy project for her family, friends and neighbours and was published in late 2021. The collection contains 55 pieces of “finished” writing that she left behind when cancer claimed her in early 2020. The stories tell of her early life in Kingston and the new suburbs of Toronto and of her adolescence on the West Island of Montreal. In “Backup to 1972” she takes her readers into the swirling and colourful life of a “hippie house” on the Glebe’s Fourth Avenue. Her mother’s advancing dementia in the 1990s moved Marty to write many pieces that helped her process dear Mary’s illness. These stories make up the bulk of the book’s fourth section, True Life Stories. If you knew her voice, you will find it again in these lovely memoirs. Randy Cameron life-partner, curator, publisher Marty Hamer’s family will host a celebration of her life at the First Unitarian Congregation of Ottawa, 30 Cleary Avenue on August 6 at 3 p.m.

Farewell to the tulip festival? Editor, Glebe Report It was wonderful to have the Tulip Festival back this year! Despite the major weather events, the festival was an enormous success, with tens of thousands of people enjoying the tulip beds and events at Commissioner’s Park. Not to mention the fireworks! Will we still have the festival in a couple of years? It is difficult to imagine hours-long traffic jams being tolerated next to the new Civic Hospital campus. The hospital is also unlikely to appreciate having its parking garage filled with the cars of tulip watchers. And can you imagine allowing a fireworks display next to a hospital?! Enjoy the Tulip Festival while it lasts. Kevin Shoom

Prior to the “Lansdowne Live” redevelopment, Sylvia Holden Park was a green oasis on the corner of Bank and Holmwood.

Lansdowne befuddlement

Stunt driving on First Avenue

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How trustworthy are OSEG and city officials when it comes to presenting an accurate portrayal of what has been dubbed Lansdowne 2.0 to City Council? To judge from the pictures and language used to sway the public into accepting the most recent redevelopment, the answer has to be very little or not at all. An advertisement in the Ottawa Citizen for November 10, 2009 depicts a rendering of an aerial view looking north that sketches a long line of flourishing, well-developed trees. What actually resulted was the axing of trees to make room for housing and underground parking. Mayor Jim Watson in his recent defense of Lansdowne 2.0 claimed that Lansdowne had been a “ghost town” with tumbleweed going through it. “There was nothing taking place there unless you had a ticket.” There is no acknowledgement that Sylvia Holden Park, a green oasis that existed then at the corner of Bank and Holmwood, was much loved by visitors to Lansdowne. Local residents had planted some 85 trees with the help of the city to provide an interesting sweep of green along Holmwood from Bank to O’Connor. Similarly, there was a Farmer’s Market next to the Aberdeen Pavilion. And demonstrations held in Lansdowne against the Lansdowne development show that it was a vibrant gathering place. City councillors have many reasons to vote against Lansdowne 2.0. One of them is the funny-money accounting and false assurances that the city’s investment in Lansdowne 1.0 (“Lansdowne Live”) would be recouped through new revenue money according to a “waterfall” arrangement. The waterfall, as we now know, turned out to be a dried-out wadi for the city. Another problem is the notion of air rights. This is in place of normal property rights, which include title to the land. The situation could be described as the city “not giving up land.” But it’s also a way for a developer to saddle the city with headaches connected to buildings not designed to last beyond a certain time, 35 years or whatever the correct figure is. Apparently the developer or successors have the option to hand over a derelict building to the city to deal with. This doesn’t seem a responsible arrangement for future taxpayers. Surely city councillors should not be tying the hands of the next council. Lansdowne deserves much more public consultation and transparency before a penny of taxpayers’ money is spent furthering the aims of a group that has befuddled people so much in the past. Randal Marlin

Our kids have a right to safe streets they can play on! Please slow the cars!! The Great Glebe Garage Sale onceagain live was a wonderful day! To experience our streets full of happy, smiling people slowly meandering from street to street is a special joy. Remove the cars, slow them down, what an incredible difference it makes to our neighbourhood. Unfortunately later that day a frightening incident occurred on our street. Once the Great Glebe Garage Sale closed down, neighbours’ kids and their friends took to the street to play road hockey. Within minutes, to our utter shock, a speeding car heading down the street down shifted gears with such force, right where the kids were playing, so loudly that we all thought it was an explosion. We and several other parents ran to the street, concerned that kids had been hurt. The driver sped off, far exceeding the posted 30k/h speed limit and likely in the “stunt driving” zone. First Avenue between Percy and Bronson experiences high-speed cars and trucks racing down our kids’ street, often the wrong way, on a daily and nightly basis. This is a one-way street in a school zone, a bus route, with no bike lane and no street parking to slow down traffic, and shockingly, absolutely no traffic calming interventions. I have brought this to the attention of our councillor Shawn Menard on at least eight occasions in person and with letters and nothing has been done to make this street safe for our kids! As we see traffic calming measures being installed all over the Glebe, we wonder why once again First Avenue has been abandoned in its attempts to control speeding vehicles. And again, with great frustration and serious concern for the safety of our kids, we offer some suggestions to ensure children are safe to play on their streets: • Install a speed-monitoring device to verify what we are experiencing (this simple request has been made at least 10 times!); • Install a new speed capture/fine camera (it will be a big money capture); • Install a bike lane; • Install a stop sign at the corner of Chrysler and First Avenue; • Install traffic slowing street markers; • Remove teacher parking in lieu of parking for locals. If you share our concern for the safety of kids not only on First Avenue but on all streets, please tell our City Councillor Shawn Menard at CapitalWard@ ottawa.ca. And make our streets safe for kids, not fast moving vehicles! Chris Leggett

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GLEBE HISTORY

Glebe Collegiate Institute, this year celebrating one hundred years, has a rich history and presence in the community. PHOTO: LIZ MCKEEN

Glebe Collegiate Institute – a historic landmark By Blake Butler This September marks the 100th anniversary of Glebe Collegiate Institute (GCI). The school has been home to more than 40,000 students and 3,000 teachers since it first opened in September 1922. It is a fixture of the Glebe community. As current GCI student Zahra Duxbury explained in the April edition of the Glebe Report, the school was initially built as an expansion of the Ottawa Collegiate Institute (OCI), now known as Lisgar. A growing local population and provincial policies such as the 1919 Adolescence School Attendance Act created crowded conditions at OCI. Construction began in October 1921, and the new collegiate institute opened its doors less than a year later. With the building not yet fully completed, the “official” opening was delayed until May 1923. That ceremony was held in the new assembly hall and included music by the OCI orchestra and speeches from prominent local figures such as R.H. Grant, Ontario’s Minister of Education, and G.H. Bowie, OCI board chairman. The school may have been constructed as an expansion to OCI, but students and teachers quickly found ways to make their new home distinctly their own. In 1923, a committee of students and teachers chose blue and yellow (inspired by the University of Michigan) for the school’s colours. The formation of a student council and the Lux Glebana, the student yearbook, followed two years later. Local athletic achievements and 1926 Dominion championships in basketball and rowing – the rowing team also won an international championship that year – elevated the young school’s athletic reputation. A rivalry with Lisgar was also established during these early years. The infamous “Great Bun Fight” of 1925 was one prominent episode in this history. That year, Lisgar students were invited to the Glebe school’s first Military Ball. As former GCI student Elizabeth Serson wrote in her 1947 commemorative

history, Glebe: The First Twenty-Five Years, “no one knows who threw the first bun…But in two seconds the air was filled with whizzing missiles. Benches and tables were mounted for better aiming, and the cafeteria was separated into two well-defined camps.” The battle was eventually put to a stop by principal A.H. McDougall. A healthy rivalry continues to exist between the two schools today. By the 1930s, enrolment eclipsed 1,300 students – more than could fit in the main assembly hall. This growth brought greater recognition from the OCI board, and in 1931, Glebe Collegiate Institute became its own entity, separate from Lisgar. Glebe continued to make great strides that decade. In 1932, the Glebe Science Club – the first high school science club in Ontario and one of the first in Canada – was formed. Male and female athletic teams continued to do well too. Men’s football and basketball won 14 and 15 Eastern Ontario Secondary School Association (EOSSA) championships respectively between the mid-1920s and mid-1940s. Women’s basketball and track teams also claimed multiple EOSSA championships in the 1930s. The Second World War led to a steep decline in attendance, as many students and teachers signed up for military service. Life at the school changed significantly too. Lesson plans included topics such as map reading, Morse code and meteorology. Twice a week, students marched, practised bandaging and held air raid drills. Glebe students also raised money to support the war effort. The fighting had a devasting impact on GCI and the Glebe community. According to Serson, a total of 198 Glebe students and teachers died in the Second World War. The school grew in the years following the war. In 1967, the High School of Commerce – which had shared the building with GCI since 1929 – moved to its new site at 300 Rochester Street. While the space was briefly filled by the Eastern Ontario Institute of Technology, it was soon taken over by GCI. Student voices acquired greater

prominence in later decades with the creation of the student newspaper, Novae Res, in 1965. Initially started by students, the paper became part of an accredited journalism course overseen and supported by teachers during the 1970s and early 1980s. Novae Res continued to publish until the early 2000s. Its successor, Glebe Gazette, was started by students just a few years ago. Major educational changes came when the school introduced its bilingual program in 1972. GCI was one of many Ontario schools that incorporated French-language training into

its curriculum following the passage of the federal government’s Official Languages Act (1969) and Ontario’s Official Languages in Education Program. Glebe students continued to excel in academics and extracurricular activities. During the late 1980s and early 1990s, Glebe’s physics team finished in the top three in the Sir Isaac Newton competition nine times. The robotics team has had similar success since the mid-1990s, placing in the top three in nine national competitions. Between 2006 and 2012, local newspapers ranked GCI as the top sports high school in the Ottawa-Carleton region four times. During his speech at the school’s opening ceremony, R.H. Grant remarked that “it was not stone or steel that made a school but something living and real, the spirit of the school.” That has certainly been the case at GCI. Over the past century, students, teachers and staff have shaped GCI into the school that it is today. This year’s 100th anniversary provides a great opportunity to reflect on its history and to imagine what is ahead for the school’s next century. Blake Butler is a Glebe resident and history PhD candidate at Western University.

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Beandigen Café extends an Indigenous welcome

Beandigen Café owners Paula Naponse and her daughter Jayde Micah-Naponse

By Marie Briscoe Beandigen Café on Exhibition Way at Lansdowne Park is a recent addition to the Glebe. It is owned and run by Paula Naponse and her daughter Jayde MicahNaponse, and it showcases Indigenous art along with serving coffee, drinks and snacks. The name Beandigen loosely translates to “welcome” from their Anishinaabemowin (Ojibway) dialect, and that is the goal of the café – to make everyone feel welcome. As soon as you walk in, you are met with a colourful display of art on each side and tables to sit at while enjoying great coffee and food. While offering some baked goods, including bannock, they are working to expand their menu with other traditional food. “We miss our home, and this provides a little piece of home,” said Naponse.

“Ottawa needed a place for Indigenous people to gather, celebrate and display art and food in a social environment. The café also allows non-indigenous people in the Ottawa community to learn about Indigenous culture.” That is what most distinguishes the café from other places, she added. “We are Anishnawbe owned and operated, and the focus is on Indigenous goods. This will never change.” Beandigen was the winner of the Ottawa Sports and Entertainment Group’s Lansdowne pop-up proposal competition last summer, and it had a grand opening on November 12 with music, prayers and speeches by the owners and representatives of Lansdowne Park and Tourism Ottawa. Naponse and Micah-Naponse were grateful for the opportunity and hope that they can make the shop a permanent fixture at Lansdowne. They

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have extended their lease until this December. Both Naponse and Micah-Naponse are artisans from Atikameksheng Anishnawbek First Nation near Sudbury. Micah-Naponse moved to Ottawa in 2012 for university, and her family followed in 2015 for work. Both have been selling their art online and were excited to have the opportunity to display it in person. Originally the café was to feature their own silkscreened items (Ondarez Clothing and Goods) and beaded work (Jayde Micah Design). They quickly realized they could also include the work of other Indigenous artisans. What they now have available includes paintings, beadwork, clothing, blankets and sewing. They are also planning to host workshops and events such as Indigenous Day, moccasin making, silk screening, quill art, paint nights and beading workshops. Down the road, catering small events is a possibility, and so is opening another location in their own community. The café did well after opening last November, but it had to close in January because of COVID. Things were slow in February and March, but now they are looking forward to the summer months. They love their location at Lansdowne and have found the Glebe in general to be very welcoming. Most of their advertising has been through Instagram and Facebook, and they have had customers from across the city. The owners agreed to share their recipe for bannock. Micah-Naponse says it is best served warm, with butter, jam or other tasty spreads. But if you’d rather not bake, you can

stop by the café to try the bannock along with your preferred drink. Take the opportunity to browse the art and crafts for sale. Beandigen is located right beside Goodlife Fitness. You can watch for coming events at Beandigen on Instagram @beandigencafe or on Facebook. Their email is beandigen@gmail.com.

Beandigen Café Bannock Ingredients: 3 cups flour 2 tbsp. baking powder 1 tsp. salt 1 tbsp. sugar (optional) 1 ½ cups water or milk ½ cup vegetable oil Directions: Combine dry ingredients. Combine vegetable oil with water (or milk) and add to the dry ingredients. It is important not to overmix the dough. It should just barely come together. Grease a large non-stick ovenproof pan, add the dough and bake at 350 F for 25 to 35 minutes or until golden brown. If you would rather fry the Bannock, grease the frying pan and cook over medium heat. You can make two patties of dough and heat on both sides until golden brown.

Marie Briscoe is a long-time Glebe resident and graduate of Carleton University. She is retired from the public service.

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As I leave GNAG, there are many things that my younger self would have done well to know. I was moved and inspired by my husband’s recent retirement letter to his younger self and decided to follow his lead. Here we go: • The work is fun, challenging and interesting. You will learn that GNAG is all about people and family. • You will help raise thousands of children. Some you will teach and many you will learn from. You will hire a number of them and you will even help look after their future children. • You will have two of your own and like many, they will make GCC their second home. • You will lose both your parents. Your mom early in your career and your dad near the end. You will be grateful for their love and support. They will also remind you that people are counting on you and to always do your very best. • At a big GNAG event, your extended family will surprise you by showing up. They will proudly cheer you on from the sidelines. • You will meet the Mermaids (a group of women colleagues) and they will become your life-long friends. • You will work with the most supportive, dedicated and intelligent board members. You will be in constant awe of the amount of volunteer time they put into this place. They will always have your back and you will feel overwhelmed with gratitude and clueless on how to thank them properly. They become your friends too. Foster those friendships and thank them often. • You will meet Paul O’Donnell and he will ask you to dress up in most humiliating costumes and go out in public. He will teach you humility, how to have fun, to be yourself and to love what you do. He too will be a lifer.

• Clare Davidson-Rogers will be like a sister to you. She will understand you like no other. She is happy when you are happy, she is sad when you are sad. She will take care of you no matter what. In fact, she will take care of everyone. • You will work your butt off, and you will make your family volunteer to do everything. They will always be proud of you and slightly annoyed with you for keeping long hours. Thank and hug them often! • You will hire and work with the most amazing and creative team who will do just about anything for this community. They take great care of you, each other, and this neighbourhood. They become your second family. Do not take them for granted and celebrate them often. Each one of them deserves a medal because sometimes you can be a real pain in the neck. • People will come and go throughout your career, including those who are very close to you. Some stay in touch, some move on and some pass away. It will be very hard at times. There will be people around you who will help you through the tough times. Accept their help and thank them. • You will take on some creative and challenging projects. Some will be a huge success and will continue to evolve and go on for years. Some will be a flop. Stand up, shake it off, learn from your mistakes and move on. • You will spend the last two years or so of your career working online. You will see your colleagues, your clients, your friends and your family like they’re on TV. Everybody is working from home and it will be hard. Having a loving and supportive husband and a cute cuddly dog helps a lot. The world stops for a while, restarts and then

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than half my life. She responded with “now you can start living.” She is right and that is my cue to go.

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It has been a great life at GNAG. Thank you for the best ride ever and thank you to those who joined me. I have things to do, places to go, courses to teach and courses to take. I will not be far. GNAG will always be a part of my life.

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GCA embraces summer in the Glebe Summer is upon us! The May long weekend was another challenging time for our city because of the devastating storm. I am thankful for hydro employees and first responders who take care of us during times of crisis. It is a warm and sunny day as I write, and I am feeling grateful. The GCA had a busy May. We were pleased to host the first candidates’ debate for Ottawa Centre for the provincial election. The election will be over by the time you’re reading this, and I know our board is looking forward to working with our MPP. The recorded debate is available on our Facebook page: facebook.com/GlebeCA. We also hosted the first in-person Great Glebe Garage Sale since 2019, and it was great to see so many folks in the neighbourhood again. Since the sale started in 1986, we have encouraged neighbours to donate some of their proceeds to the Ottawa Food Bank. Many people used the food bank for the first time when their food spoiled after the May long weekend storm. We are so glad the garage sale was able to support the food bank at this crucial time. If you haven’t yet made your donation, please consider doing so at ottawafoodbank.ca/ the-great-glebe-garage-sale-is-back/. May is membership month at the GCA, and we did a door-to-door canvass this year in addition to our online campaign. Please renew your membership at www. glebeca.ca if you haven’t done so yet. Your support enables us to advocate for our community. We have also been busy with the discussions on the future of Lansdowne Park. In addition to commenting on some specifics of OSEG’s most recent proposal, we advocated strongly that comprehensive, city-wide consultation be done before any major decision. We will know, by the time you’re reading this, whether City Council decided to move forward with this work. Regardless of their decision, we will continue to advocate for a Lansdowne Park that is a success for residents and businesses in our neighbourhood and for the city as a whole. Finally, we had a full agenda at our May board meeting. We were pleased to welcome Anna Cuylits and Carolyn Inch from Seniors Watch Old Ottawa South, who gave a presentation about their advocacy to bring an innovative health hub to serve seniors in the Glebe, Old Ottawa South and Old Ottawa East. The board decided to support being part of their work. We also passed motions that adopted

a conflict of interest policy for the board and guidelines regarding GCA support for legal counsel on planning-related matters. This is my last column as GCA president, so please indulge some reflections. The Glebe is a special place in Ottawa. We’re trying to build something here – a liveable neighbourhood that is close to local services and businesses, connected by safe and active transportation, a welcoming place that encourages people to form connections, feel a sense of belonging and look out for one another. Early in the pandemic as our conceptions of place became super-local, the idea of 15-minute neighbourhoods became increasingly popular. The Glebe is as good an example of this concept as our city has. Does this mean we have it all figured out? Nope. Not even close. There is still more to do. We need developers who share this vision. We need more and better recreational and cultural spaces. We need more affordable housing. We need to improve our transportation mix to prioritize those who are walking and riding bikes, so that these modes of transport are safe and inclusive. Building and improving means we need ideas from the neighbourhood, from other parts of Ottawa and from other cities. And most critically, we need the support of our elected representatives. To that point, I encourage all of us to think about this fall’s municipal election as an important opportunity to work with a new mayor and council to keep building a better Glebe and a better Ottawa. One last thing, because no one does anything important alone, I have people to thank! First to councillor Shawn Menard, MPP Joel Harden, MP Yasir Naqvi, our former MP Catherine McKenna and those who work in all your offices – thank you for your support and dedication to our community. I am also grateful for the committed board members with whom I’ve been able to work. These volunteers give so much time and talent, and they show what people who care can do together. We have our annual general meeting via Zoom on June 14 at 7 p.m., when we will name the new executive and board. All GCA members are welcome – please join us! Contact Janet, the board secretary (secretary@glebeca.ca), if you would like to attend. Finally, thanks to you, neighbours, for your involvement and support of your community association. I hope you all enjoy a safe and healthy summer. I’ll see you on the sidewalk.

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Shawn Menard Councillor, Capital Ward

N 613-580-2487 E capitalward@ottawa.ca T @capitalward E shawn.menard@ottawa.ca www.shawnmenard.ca

In times of disaster, we see the importance of community Like many of you, my family and I experienced days without power after the storm last month. In fact, as I write this, it’s the Thursday after the storm, and power still isn’t restored to my street. Many areas in our ward were severely affected by the storm, and I spent the following days on the impacted streets, seeing who was still without power and providing information and assistance as I could. Hydro Ottawa crews, assisted by workers from other cities and regions, have been working 24/7 to restore power as quickly as possible. I am incredibly grateful for the dedication and professionalism of these crews. Their tireless efforts cannot be ignored. It was a difficult time for many residents, and the effects were not felt equally. On Tuesday, my team and I headed to 507 Riverdale, an Ottawa Community Housing building. It was without power, and many residents have mobility issues that make it difficult to leave their apartment, especially when power is out and there’s no lighting in the hallways and the elevator isn’t working. In recent years, we’ve had many extreme weather events, including tornadoes, record flooding, massive snowstorms, extreme heat waves and significant dry spells. Right now, the primary job is to get help to people who need it, but there are also some lessons we can take from this. As climate change continues and worsens, we will be more and more susceptible to these types of events,

and we need to make sure that our city is resilient, that we are prepared. We will need to ensure that we have the money and resources to help people, providing food, shelter and power. And we will need to enact and enforce city policies to mitigate the effects of climate change to the best of our abilities. That is one lesson to take from this disaster, but there is another lesson, and it’s one I have learned and relearned multiple time during my time as councillor: we have a strong and caring community. At the beginning of the week, when things were at their worst for many people, other residents stepped up and shared food and power sources. People contacted our office asking to help, and we were able to connect them with those in need. When we went to 507 Riverdale, we brought some food and supplies, but our office could only do so much, so we put a call out for help. Other residents showed up with more food, coffee and power supplies. It was good to see, and I was so glad that I am part of a community like this. We’ve seen this before. During the worst of the pandemic, residents checked up on each other and took food and groceries to those in need. During the occupation, we provided safe walks downtown to help people feel comfortable when they left their homes, and we came together at Billings Bridge to stop members of the convoy and send them back. When we come together, we don’t

just provide food and support, we also provide community and camaraderie, and that can be just as important. It has been a difficult two years for everyone, and we all get tired, but when I see the heart of this community, when I see us come together to help each other, it reinvigorates me. It makes me proud to be your councillor, and it inspires me to be the councillor you deserve.

Good news about the Bank Street Bridge

The city has confirmed that crews will begin work on the Bank Street Canal Bridge this spring. It’s been a long process. Our office began working on this issue shortly after coming

into office. Two years ago, after public consultation, we were able to get approval for an improved design for the bridge, including separated bike lanes and improved sidewalks. It has taken a bit of time to finalize the design, secure funding and select a contractor to do the work, but now that’s all taken care of, we expect the work will be completed in the fall or early winter. We thank the community for its patience and for all the work many of you did by consulting and advocating for this improvement. Shawn Menard is City Councillor for Capital Ward and can be reached at Shawn.Menard@ottawa.ca.

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Abbotsford House celebrates 150 years in the Glebe By Pat Goyeche Built 150 years ago in 1872, in the gothic revival style, Abbotsford House was named by its builder and first owner, Alexander Mutchmor. He named it Abbotsford House, after Sir Walter Scott’s home in Scotland. By 1889 it had been purchased by a group of philanthropic Protestants from the then only other private owner of the house, Mayor Charles H. Mackintosh, who had purchased it in 1879. The original site of the Protestant Home for the Aged, as it was then called, was on the current grounds of the Canadian Mint. The vision was to create a home to “assist those who through age, infirmity and misfortune, were unable to help themselves.” Such a facility was much needed at the time, and the sale of Abbotsford to this group was timely. In August 1889, the Ottawa Journal carried a sketch and accompanying article about Abbotsford House (Protestant Home for the Aged), which gives a sense of how significant a step this was. Abbotsford House was renovated in 1928 with the addition of a wing to make room for more residents. It was again renovated in the mid-70s and converted into a Seniors Recreational Drop-in Centre. It remains a Community Centre for Ottawa seniors who are 55 plus. Abbotsford is known for its wellrounded and affordable offerings of recreational and social activities as well as community support services to this day. It is the community-based wing of The Glebe Centre and has been since 1975. Inside, three original marble fireplace mantels still adorn the parlour and dining room. The ceiling in the front entrance is edged with decorative moulded plaster. The house was officially recognized as a Designated Heritage Property in 1984. The official plaque can be found outside the building under the bay window in the dining room. In April of 2022 Abbotsford at The Glebe Centre was fortunate to receive the 2021 Glebe Heritage Restoration Award from the Glebe Community Association Heritage Committee for the refurbishment of the front porch and restoration of the bargeboard gables that adorn the “old stone house” across from

Abbotsford House became the new location of the Protestant Home for the Aged in 1889, in happy anticipation of improved accessibility by means of a future streetcar line (which did indeed come to pass). SOURCE: OTTAWA JOURNAL, AUG. 23, 1889

Members of the GCA Heritage Committee awarded the 2021 GCA Heritage Award to Abbotsford House.

Lansdowne Park. The community centre’s regular hours are Monday through Friday 8:30 am – 4:30 pm. Members of the public are always welcome to visit and shop in our Boutique, where patrons will find quality second hand women’s clothing, jewellery, books, puzzles, elegant treasurers and art, as well as handmade crafts and teddy bears. As a charity that is not fully funded we rely on these sales to help maintain our quality programming and services. Abbotsford is your seniors’ active living centre for

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adults 55+. It houses the community programs of The Glebe Centre Inc., a charitable, not-forprofit, organization which includes a 254-bed long-term-care home. Find out more about our services by visiting or telephoning 613-230-5730 during regular business hours or by checking out all of The Glebe Centre facilities and community programs on our website glebecentre.ca. Pat Goyeche is coordinator of community programs at Abbotsford House.

SENIORS

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National Grandparents Day 5K walk

Seniors imagine a morning in an Abbeyfield home. If you’re interested in bringing one to the neighbourhood, contact SWOOS. PHOTO: PAT GOYECHE

Abbeyfield, anyone? By Marion Moritz Given that “70 is the new 50,” have any of you been thinking of moving from your family home, seeking less labour-intensive residences, looking into “senior housing?” If the answer is yes, you may be interested in a homey, community-based concept being examined for the Ottawa South/Glebe neighbourhoods. Conventionally, many seniors opt for “aging at home,” with auxiliary help as situations require, seniors’ residences or long-term care facilities. As an alternative, there is a non-profit solution exemplified by Abbeyfield Canada. Abbeyfield’s core mandate is to provide affordable accommodation and companionship for elders within their own community. Abbeyfield homes provide privacy and independence to seniors who are healthy, mobile and independent but wish for the option of shared dining, companionship and a family atmosphere. Typically, an Abbeyfield home is converted from a larger home, equipped with an elevator if necessary, and provides private suites for up to 10 residents who collectively share the dining room, kitchen, laundry and living spaces. Privacy is ensured by having one’s own suite, yet companionship and shared activities are readily available. An Abbeyfield home is a registered charity operated within a non-profit

business model which provides for a live-in house coordinator for meal preparation and volunteers who tend to property management and larger housekeeping services. Residents pay a monthly rent, furnish their own suites and may opt out within terms of their lease. A home exists in Ottawa – to learn more, search for the Abbeyfield home on Parkdale Avenue. Others are located in Toronto, Durham, Caledon and Vancouver. A group of citizens from Ottawa South and the Glebe have been brought together by Senior Watch of Old Ottawa South (SWOOS) and have formed a committee to examine the feasibility of bringing an Abbeyfield home to the neighbourhood. To this end, we are eliciting an expression of interest from the community at large, prior to establishing the non-profit charity designation and an intensified search for an appropriate location. If you think this model of senior living would be appropriate for you or a loved one, or if you would like to help on this project and wish more information, please contact SWOOSadmin@oldottawasouth.ca. Additionally, if you know of a large residence, structure or even empty land that might be suitable for an Abbeyfield home, please contact SWOOSadmin@ oldottawasouth.ca.

With Sunday, September 11 being National Grandparents Day, Abbotsford House will use the occasion to launch its first 5-kilometre fundraising walk. Wanting some artwork to capture the theme of children walking with the grandparents, staff reached out to Mutchmor Public School students for help. Twentysix entries were received, and Abbotsford members voted for their favourite. This is the winning entry, done by Grade 5 student Melody!

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Newcomer Mustafa another FACES success stor y By Don Greenfield and Tom Martin

Rashid is a project manager helping in the restoration of the heritage Perth County Courthouse. PHOTOS: MUSTAFA RASHID

FACES seeks justice by assisting refugees to come to Canada and by supporting the refugees’ transition to a new life here. FACES is committed to being inclusive and open in refugee sponsorship regardless of faith, ethnicity, health condition or sexual orientation. FACES also believes there are benefits in working together and in reaching out to the local community for commitment and support in the pursuit of its purpose.

Mustafa Rashid was a recent engineering graduate working in Baghdad in 2012 when he attended a peaceful demonstration calling for the release of political prisoners in Iraq. Because of his participation, he was targeted for reprisal by a militia group known for sectarian attacks and was forced to leave Baghdad and his job. Almost a year later, in September 2013, he left Iraq for Turkey, where he enrolled in a Master of Science program in Engineering. When ISIS took control of Ramadi, Mustafa’s family’s hometown, his sister joined him in Turkey. Mustafa completed his MSc, began his PhD and got a job working for the International Organization for Migration (IOM), a UN agency working with national governments to resettle refugees, mainly Syrian, living in Turkey. FACES is a group of volunteers from three churches – St. Matthew’s, St. Giles and Glebe-St. James – and from the wider community who have supported more than 75 newcomers to Canada. FACES “met” Mustafa in late 2015 when he was assisting FACES as an IOM contact in Turkey coordinating other sponsored families. FACES applied to sponsor him for resettlement in Canada in June 2016. Three years later he arrived in Ottawa. During his first year in Ottawa, Mustafa studied to improve his English. He found a downtown apartment, joined a salsa group and took tango lessons. He got a bicycle and spent his free time exploring Ottawa. At the start of the COVID lockdown, he was online looking for work and before the end of his first year in Canada, he found a full-time job as a project coordinator with a commercial renovation company. After two years of handling many projects with the company, Mustafa had the opportunity to become part of a big project that had an impact on the community: the Perth County Courthouse, a heritage building that opened on May 9, 1887. Recently Mustafa moved to a new company to take on a more senior position as a construction project manager. He works mainly on multi-unit residential properties, planning and coordinating all aspects of the construction process including working relationships with engineers, architects and vendors. Mustafa is very grateful to have settled in Canada. He has truly embraced the available opportunities. When asked how Canada could improve its resettling of refugees, Mustafa responded, “First, there is a need to accelerate the visa processing period. It took three years from the time my application was submitted to my arrival in Canada. For many applicants, this wait entails a period where life is very hard and sometimes dangerous. Second, Canada would benefit from better programs to integrate newcomers into the work force and make use of their education and work experience. Many people with higher education, such as engineers

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and doctors, do Uber because it is hard for them to obtain Canadian accreditation of their training received abroad.” Mustafa is still discovering Ottawa and Canada. During the pandemic, he created a YouTube channel @Dr.Toffi and an Instagram page @drtoffi and published traditional Iraqi recipes in both Arabic and English. Mustafa continues to enjoy dancing as part of the Latino dance community in Ottawa. He is preparing with his dance team for a “flash mob” that will take place in June at the Place des Armes in Montreal. He hopes someday that he will be reunited with his sister and her husband who are still living in Turkey. FACES have agreed to sponsor the couple, and hopefully they will arrive in Canada within the next two years. It is clear to the volunteers at FACES that Mustafa will succeed in Canada and be a valuable member of Canadian society. He is a friendly, outgoing man with a great sense of humour who wants to take part in everything his new country has to offer. Don Greenfield and Tom Martin are FACES volunteers.

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Pysanka: to Ukraine with love Fundraiser in support of Ukraine By Larysa Rozumna Long-time Glebe residents Oresta Korbutiak and I along with Laryssa Korbutiak, all first-generation Canadians of Ukrainian descent, came together and raised more than $90,000 to help Ukraine fight for freedom, while celebrating the richness and cultural beauty of our ancestral homeland. We felt compelled to do something to help the besieged victims in Ukraine and to give a little insight into the depth of pride Ukrainians have for their traditions and culture and why they are fighting so valiantly to preserve them. The theme of the event was pysanka. Pysanka is one of the most interesting forms of Ukrainian decorative art. Its history dates back centuries and is rooted in pagan rituals recognizing the coming of spring, and their creation is undertaken just before Easter. Pysanka comes from the word to write. As such, the traditional folk designs are written in beeswax on a raw egg, not painted. The pysanka is filled with symbolism. The pysanka was believed to protect against evil, to bring good luck, good health and wealth, and to provide a bountiful harvest. Today the pysanka has become a symbol for peace. Pysanka: To Ukraine with Love was a sold-out event with over 200 attendees and was held at the elegant allsaints event space on April 25. The funds raised are going to the Canada-Ukraine Foundation and UnitewithUkraine (Defenders of Ukraine). The venue, a former Anglican church, made for a stunning backdrop with stained glass windows, high vaulted ceilings and exposed stone walls. The space was kindly donated by Kelly Mounce, an investor in allsaints. The evening’s program began with Oleh Replansky, who sang a powerful version of Ukraine’s national anthem,

From left, Oresta Korbutiak, Larysa Rozumna and Laryssa Korbutiak, who organized the fundraiser Pysanka: To Ukraine With Love, held April 25

followed by a beautiful dance by Ottawa’s Svitanok Ukrainian Dance Ensemble, who welcomed guests with the traditional presentation of bread and salt – symbols of Ukrainian hospitality. Carissa Klopoushak, a violinist with the National Arts Centre Orchestra and artistic director of Ottawa Chamberfest, gave a stunning performance, combining folk music with singing. An agonizing video entitled Close the Sky showed the assaults by Russian troops in Ukraine and raised goosebumps. The crowd also saw a special video address from Istan Rozumny, brother of one of the organizers and a film director/actor who lives and works in Kyiv. He said, “I’ve had close friends killed. I’ve had close friends have their homes destroyed, their livelihood destroyed. But I’ve been doing what I can to help Ukraine’s cause.” Rozumny also spoke of visiting the mass graves in Bucha. “It’s a sight that I will never forget. It will stay with me

Pysanka is a form of Ukrainian decorative art dating back centuries, and has become a symbol of peace. PHOTOS: CAROLINE PHILLIPS

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reassurance of his safety to his mother from Winnipeg, knowing she would be in the audience. During the event, Miroslawa Bilaniuk and Oksana Yarosh displayed their talents decorating elaborate pysanky. The guests were awestruck by their intricately designed masterpieces. Throughout the evening, attendees could bid on dozens of graciously donated silent auction items, including an oil landscape of Ukrainian farmers working in a golden wheat field. It was painted by local Ottawa artist Christopher Griffin and sold for $15,000. The event concluded with the crowd coming together to sing along to John Lennon’s peace anthem “Imagine,” led by Carissa Klopoushak on guitar. The guests went home with a “koshyk,” a traditional Ukrainian Easter basket containing a unique handcrafted pysanka and “paska” (special Easter bread) and decorated with pussy willows and periwinkle. This keepsake was a small symbol of the people of Ukraine, the beauty of the Ukrainian culture and the fight to save Ukraine. If you are interested in helping Ukraine, please consider donating to: UnitewithUkraine: unitewithukraine. com/donate_today or Canada Ukraine Foundation: cufoundation.ca/ Larysa Rozumna is one of the organizers of the fundraiser Pysanka: to Ukraine With Love.

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After lockdowns and shutdowns, isolation and quarantine, convoys and storms, we all are anxious to resume a more normal life. So we are excited to announce the relaunch of the Glebe Art In Our Gardens and Studio Tour! This popular annual Glebe tradition will be held on the weekend of July 9 and 10. With 25 artists at 17 sites conveniently located for easy walking or cycling, there will be art to suit a wide range of interests. After two years of limited opportunities to exhibit or sell their works, the artists are looking forward to showing their work again. And people look forward to seeing what returning artists have been working on, which new artists have appeared and how the gardens have changed. The tour offers local artists the opportunity to show and sell their works in their own neighbourhood, and it also provides a venue for discovering and promoting up-and-coming artists as well as guest artists from outside the Glebe. Exhibiting art in garden settings is one of the most charming aspects of the tour as the gardens will be in mid-summer bloom. And we are continuing with

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the popular ballot prize as an incentive for art lovers to visit as many sites as possible. Although we do not know what the COVID situation will be in July, we are confident that the Glebe art tour, being an outdoor event, will be a safe activity. We ask visitors to be respectful and careful when around others. Come out between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. on July 9 and 10 to support local artists. Take a break on a patio, stop for a coffee at an independent café and enjoy a summer weekend in the Glebe. Site maps and cards with the list of artists will be available in Glebe shops and the Glebe Community Centre, and there will be notices on social media. Information is also available on our website at glebearttour.ca. Welcome back to the Glebe! Martha Bowers is a Glebe resident, art lover and organizer of Art in Our Gardens, who can often be found helping out at Morala Café.

The House of PainT is a free, outdoor, hip-hop jam that showcases graffiti, breakdancing, DJs and MCs (poetry and rap) from across Canada. The festival usually takes place at the legal graffiti wall under the Dunbar Bridge (under Bronson Avenue near Carleton and Brewer Park) every summer. This location has been dubbed House of Pain by local artists and writers. However, because of COVID, the hip-hop and urban art festival collaborated this spring with DJs, musicians, poets and dancers to put on 18 acts in free concerts in five different neighbourhoods in Ottawa across three weekends in May and June, bringing local talent, music and art directly to porches, patios and front yards of the communities, inviting us to step out of our homes and help welcome art back to the street. The concerts took place in Ramsey, Ritchie, Overbrook and Caldwell neighbourhoods and showcased

local talent at the footsteps of these communities. House of PainT aims to celebrate and elevate hip-hop by supporting local and upcoming artists. Along with the free concerts for the community, House of PainT filmed each artist’s performance. The recordings will serve as promotional assets for each artist that they can use to support and grow their artistry. The shift to publishing film is also reflective of House of PainT’s commitment to making the urban arts safe and accessible to all amidst concerns for public safety and wellbeing. The recordings will increase accessibility to the work of the artists through digital delivery and allow for an expansive reach of the urban arts to new and committed fans in Ottawa-Gatineau and beyond. Videos of the performances are on the Facebook page at HouseofPainTFestival.

This year’s House of PainT hip-hop and street arts festival took place in a series of free community concerts across Ottawa. Videos of performances are hosted online.

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Anthony Carricato is a former candidate for City Council (2018), Citizen Transit Commissioner, Glebe Community Association board member and resident of Fifth Avenue.

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Glebe Report June 10, 2022

Skillet chard

Skillet Chard Ingredients: A large bunch of fresh Swiss chard Olive oil, about 3 tsp Garlic to taste Hot pepper flakes to taste Salt to taste Bread crumbs, toasted

from the monastic table of Valserena By Marisa Romano Monastic tables are humble; they offer dishes prepared with attention and respect for the ingredients received from the land. The preparations are modest; they follow recipes handed down by word-of-mouth from generation to generation, some with mediaeval origins. The measures are by eye, by pinches and by handful. The result is unpretentious food that nourishes the working body and the contemplative mind. It does not happen to many people to step into the guarded private monastic space of cloistered nuns, women who closed the doors to the distraction of the external world to follow their call to a life of prayer, contemplation and study of the scriptures. I was gifted that opportunity a few weeks ago during my first trip “back home” since the beginning of the pandemic. Founded in 1968, the Cistercian monastery of Our Lady of Valserena is located along the Italian Etruscan coast at the outskirts of the mediaeval town of Guardistallo, 50 kilometres south of Pisa. The modest buildings that make up the hermitage are nestled on a hill surrounded by olive trees and a forest that covers most of the land belonging to the monastery. From there, the eye stretches beyond the ancient olive groves, the orderly vineyards, the fragrant umbrella-pine forests and the evergreen Mediterranean macchia to rest on a blue strip of the Tyrrhenian Sea. This is where a community of 40

nuns of the Cistercian Order of Strict Observance live, pray, study and work. Life in the monastery abides by strict obedience of the 15th-century rules of Saint Benedict; their spirit is summed up in the motto ora et labora (pray and work). The days start before sunrise with the first of the communal prayers that mark the rhythm of daily activities conducted in silent mindfulness. The labour that supports the community and international projects in Aleppo and Angola is in the fields where summer and winter gardens supply food for the community table, and the over one thousand olive trees provide extra virgin olive oil for the monastic kitchen and the lucky “outsiders” who purchase it before the surplus runs out. Work is also in the laboratory where modern machines churn out creams, perfumes and soaps – cosmetics for the cure of the body and the skin are sold on site and shipped for sale outside the monastery (emporiumest.it/monastero-valserena/). The recipes used in the laboratory come from France, brought by the sisters’ founders of Valserena. Following the monastic tradition of the use of medicinal herbs, herbal extracts for the cosmetics are made on site from plants harvested from the gardens and fields of the monastery. I am guided through the property by two sisters eager to show the riches of the surrounding land, grateful for where their life path has taken them. The place is striking, lush from the recent rains, beautifully taken care of. It inspires a sense of peace, harmony and

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Directions: Separate the white ribs from the green leaves. Slice the ribs in small pieces and cut the leaves roughly. Keep separate. In a skillet over medium heat drizzle the olive oil. Add the sliced white ribs, the chopped garlic and hot pepper flakes mix and sauté for a few minutes. Add the rest of the leaves with a little bit of water (note: water may not be needed if the leaves are just washed and still wet), cover the skillet and let cook until wilted. Uncover and continue cooking at higher temperature until the liquid is absorbed, about 5 minutes. Adjust for salt and sprinkle toasted breadcrumbs before serving.

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Whimsical film stumbles a little The Northman

(U.S., 2022) Directed by Robert Eggers

Review by Iva Apostolova The Northman’s director Robert Eggers, whose credits include The Witch: A New England Folktale (2015) and The Lighthouse (2019), is reputed to be one of the most important directors of his generation. His directorial credits, while not numerous, clearly point to his high-art cinematic roots. Let’s just say that Robert Eggers is not Ron Howard. I really wanted to love the movie and while I liked it for its whimsical, theatrical feel, I realized it left me wanting. Cinematic epic stories, especially ones involving battle scenes, are their own species. Where Ron Howard or Ridley Scott would have effortlessly risen to the occasion, I found Robert Eggers stumbled a bit. Battle scenes take a lot of choreography and involve complicated camera angles. The Northman’s on-the-ground, full-frontal, static type of camera is reminiscent of theatre mise-en-scènes, something that Eggers has experience with from his earlier directorial credits. The movie reminded me a lot of The Green Knight (2021) with its folktale-type of parlance and mystic visions. At one point I actually wondered if I had ended up, by mistake, at an Aronofsky movie. I certainly appreciated the introduction of mysticism (through the main character, Amleth’s prophetic visions) into a story about a culture largely associated with raiding and colonizing. I only wish that these were not as many, especially because they were heavily CGIed, in stark contrast to the ultra-realism of the rest of the scenes. To add to that, the accented speech of the characters, in combination with the folk-type of expressions, made the delivery of the story a bit laboured. I suspect The Northman was a product of Eggers’

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fascination with Viking mythology and folklore (I mean, Viking history is beyond spellbinding, if the popularity of the two shows, available on Netflix, Vikings, and Vikings: Valhalla is anything to go by!). Unfortunately, as a result, he ended up with a movie that tried to do too much. It felt to me like a cross between The Witch, The Green Knight, and Hamlet (or Macbeth, if you will), each story more complicated than the next. Otherwise, the scenery and the star power of The Northman are nothing to sneeze at. Most of the production takes place in Iceland, so the landscape is absolutely breathtaking, verging on otherworldly. Alexander Skaarsgard, who plays Amleth, is phenomenal; his body transformation alone is Oscar deserving. While Anya Taylor-Joy is somewhat typecast, worth mentioning are the nuanced performances delivered by Nicole Kidman as Amleth’s mother, the Danish star Claes Kasper Bang as Amleth’s uncle, and last but not least, the rising Swedish star, Gustav Lindh as Amleth’s stepbrother. Lindh’s ultimate on-screen vulnerability in the 2019 Queen of Hearts (original title Dronningen) can give even Thimothée Chalamet a run for his money! Running time: 2h 16m Rated 14A Playing in theatres Iva Apostolova is a professor of philosophy at Dominican University College.

Simple but powerful film captures a child’s gaze My Neighbor Totoro (Japan, 1988) Directed by Hayao Miyazaki

Review by Angus Luff My Neighbor Totoro is a 1988 Japanese animated film directed by Hayao Miyazaki. The film tells the simple story of sisters Mei (Chika Sakamoto) and Satsuki (Noriko Hidaka) as they move to the countryside with their father to live closer to their hospitalized mother. In this new home, the sisters witness forest spirits that only they can see and they make friends with the creatures and embark on multiple magical adventures. In many ways, My Neighbor Totoro is the perfect children’s film. It’s so easy and nice to watch for any age, but at no time is it cheesy or sappy – it’s so understated and meticulous in its approach. Many modern animated children’s films have licensed pop songs, celebrity voices, pop culture references, obnoxious characters and colours, yet zero passion, heart, care or purpose is included. With all those films in mind and thinking about what children’s animation has become, watching Totoro is such a breath of fresh air, the exact opposite of your usual Dreamworks or Illumination projects. The film is so peaceful and gentle, as many quiet and understated moments give the more fantastical big moments much more power and memorability. This simple, calm and peaceful film is ironically so much more powerful and memorable than most big-budget animated films today because of its unique charm, lifelike characters and genuinely wonderful and

magical presentation and tone, even if what’s being shown on screen is something mundane and simple. The joy and freedom of being a child is not captured better in any other film than this. A simple task such as getting a pail of water filled, exploring a new house or getting wood for the furnace during a storm becomes an exciting, wonderful or scary thing because of the lack of experience you have as a child. You haven’t experienced much as a child, therefore everything is more exaggerated, important and more exciting. We mostly forget as we get older how the world once seemed so large, expansive and wonderful, but to go back to see what that world was like, to experience that joy once more and to witness the earth’s beauty in its purest form is portrayed no better than in this special film. Not only does this film understand what it was like being a child, it also conveys the experience of having a sibling and how enjoyable and difficult those relationships can be. The realism of this family and its ups and downs is absolutely astonishing, considering that this is an animated fantasy film from the 80s. It doesn’t entirely rely on showing the magical and joyous times of being a child; it also delves

into the fears and dread of what may come of the hospitalized mother. That willingness to dive into both joyous and dreadful times of childhood says something about Miyazaki’s commitment to making a true, meaningful and timeless children’s classic that holds up much better than most media being put out nowadays. Hayao Miyazaki and his team at Ghibli have made many great films, as their majesty and commitment bleeds into every project they create. Their films are so rich and lush in their details and visuals, yet equally amazing to watch play out. Miyazaki gets the most acclaim for his more awe-inspiring, majestical, bombastic works, such as Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke and Howl’s Moving Castle. All great films in their own ways, but this film speaks to me in a way no other film has – I feel it’s much more impressive that an understated, quiet film can be entertaining, interesting and conveys much more than some adult-oriented films struggle to convey in three hours. It’s such a beautiful, captivating and astonishing piece that it’s shocking it’s as good as it is. I encourage everyone to seek out this film, get lost in it and enjoy a reminder of why life is worth living. Running time: 1:26 Available on Netflix Angus Luff is a student at Glebe Collegiate. He grew up in the Glebe and is obsessed with movies.

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Puppets Up! Festival artistic director and master puppeteer Noreen Young with friends. PHOTO: KIGOR

Puppets Up! family festival in Almonte, with a Glebe twist By JC Sulzenko

After a hiatus of six years, Puppets Up! International Puppet Festival returns to Almonte from August 12 to 14, and this Glebe writer plays a part in it. Students from Almonte schools under Jenny Sheffield’s direction will present my story The Magnolia Thief on a tree-lined path, an “alameda,” during the two-and-a-half day extravaganza of world-class performances. I narrate the voiceover. I feel honoured that this year’s Puppets Up! International Festival will stage the premiere of The Magnolia Thief, a very urban fairy tale. Having local students as the performers adds to my delight. My thanks go to the festival’s artistic director Noreen Young for this opportunity. Written for young children and families, The Magnolia Thief was inspired by my love for the magnolia in our Glebe backyard. It’s a rhyme about trouble that comes into a peaceful city garden. Saying more would give away too much of the plot! Our magnolia began as a shrub, a gift I received for Mothers’ Day when our children were small. It now measures 40 by 40 feet. I wrote The Magnolia Thief as a way to honour the tree and acknowledge the pleasure its blossoms give us each spring. Just visualizing the magnolia in bloom sustains me through the winter months. Since 1970, Noreen Young, acclaimed puppeteer and Member of the Order of Canada, has been involved with over one hundred television programs, including the award-winning series, Under the Umbrella Tree (1986-1993). The Puppets Up! International Festival is Young’s brainchild. This year’s lineup features performances by troupes and puppeteers from Ontario, Quebec, Indonesia, Iceland and the US, including The Frogtown Mountain Puppeteers, Tanglewood Marionettes and Joshua Holden. Over the weekend, there’s a Puppets Up! parade (on both Saturday and Sunday), plus street entertainment and a kids craft tent. For The Magnolia Thief, Noreen created the set, props and puppets around three characters in the story – The Little Man, the Tree and The Giant. I first worked with Noreen when she created puppets and animated a playground tour across Canada to teach young children the meaning of new symbols on hazardous products labels. The campaign included television spots which still can be screened at www. youtube.com/watch?v=R3aFSahUHtg.

I’ve been a huge fan of her work from that day on. It’s a great pleasure to work with Noreen again in the context of this year’s Puppets Up! Festival. A few years ago, I wrote a poem based on interviews for my series that captures how each of my subjects chose a particular direction for their life’s work. This is the poem which evolved from discussions with Noreen and which appeared in my debut collection in 2017 from Point Petre Publishing, South Shore Suite…POEMS. After Gepetto It must be odd … living with all those puppets you made What did you intend when you sculpted their faces in clay Added foam for flesh Layered latex for soft, almost skin Painted all in colours, true-to-life When you clothed them in what their real-life models wear When you spoke for them Your inflection, gestures, mimicry: uncanny It must be odd … taking on each character while still knowing who you are Without a puppet in your hands, you blush You speak with a gentle rush of breath No harsh words, but no nonsense, either So, it must be odd … Children, parents call to your puppets embrace them like friends, like family without ever having learned your name

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Classic Theatre Festival re-launch at Ottawa Arts Court By Matthew Behrens

For thousands of Ottawa residents, no summer calendar is complete without a visit to the Classic Theatre Festival. That journey just got easier with the festival’s highly anticipated re-launch this August at Arts Court Theatre following a successful decade in Perth. This award-winning professional company – which celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2019 before the pandemic – hosts some of Canada’s top theatrical talent performing timeless hits from the golden age of Broadway and the London stage. The company’s board decided that a move to Ottawa, where over half of its audience lives, made the most sense as the festival emerged from two years of shutdown. For those who have been missing that special summer theatre feeling of gathering with family and friends to share in a story well told, the festival will stage a Tony “Best Play” award winner. Running eight times a week from August 5 to 28, Jan de Hartog’s The Fourposter is an enduring, comedic chronicle of a marriage during an era of world-shaking social changes. This beloved Broadway classic – which follows a couple through 35 years of marriage, from a nervous wedding night through childbirth and parenting, mid-life crisis, empty nesting and the realities of aging – is, in the words of artistic producer Laurel Smith, “both a tender and at times incredibly funny exploration of an institution that most of us participate in and complain about a lot, but which ultimately represents the foundation for so many adult lives.” Legendary marital comedy The smash-hit original Broadway production, starring real-life couple Jessica Tandy and husband (and Canadian) Hume Cronyn, was described by a New York Times reviewer as “the most civilized comedy we have had on marriage for years.” A musical version of the play, I Do, I Do, played on Broadway in the 1960s. Playwright de Hartog led a busy life as a Nobel prize-nominated author and social critic who first rose to prominence with a novel celebrating Dutch sailors,

Alison Smyth and Scott Clarkson in the Classic Theatre Festival’s production of the thriller Wait Until Dark. PHOTO: JEAN-DENIS LABELLE

published days before Nazis occupied the Netherlands. The novel drew the ire of the Nazis and de Hartog was forced into hiding. While disguised as an elderly woman in a nursing home, Jan came up with the idea for the play. Lying in a four-poster bed, he imagined a life he might not live, given the high mortality rate of anti-Nazi partisans. He then participated in nonviolent resistance to the occupation, hid Jewish children and eventually escaped the Gestapo. Plays with a special feeling “The plays of the festival’s mandate period have a special feeling like many of us get watching Turner Classic Movies,” explains Smith. “There’s a universal quality to them that speaks to our hopes, dreams and common humanity. They remind us of our species’ remarkable capacity to overcome seemingly impossible barriers with good storytelling, fantastic humour and characters you just want to embrace and take

home after the show.” The festival promises a “Summer Theatre in the Capital” experience that recreates the milieu that made it a popular Perth destination. An entertaining and informative pre-show talk half an hour before the curtain rises situates audiences in the play’s period, exploring social and cultural references not familiar to everyone. The lobby hosts a loonie-toonie book sale boasting rare finds. Sale proceeds fund the festival’s Save-a-Seat program, which partners with social services agencies to provide free tickets to low-income community members, allowing them to attend the theatre in dignity. “Live theatre is an unforgettable experience and should be accessible to all,” Smith says of Save-aSeat, which distributed 2,500 free tickets during the festival’s first decade. “It shows how the arts can contribute to community cohesion.” Arts Court Theatre is fully accessible and air conditioned and it will feature newly installed True HEPA air cleaners. All staff and volunteers are vaccinated and masked and audience members will require masks to enter the theatre space. “This horrible virus is still with us, so we seek to create the safest possible space for the most vulnerable: the elderly, immuno-compromised and others vulnerable to the ravages of this pandemic,” says Smith. Discounts for Glebe Report readers! The Fourposter runs at Arts Court Theatre, 2 Daly Ave., August 5 to 28, from Wednesday to Sunday at 1:30 p.m. and on Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. Glebe Report readers will enjoy a 10-per-cent discount on ticket purchases when ordering by phone and mentioning this article. To order tickets, visit classictheatre.ca or call (613) 695-9330. Matthew Behrens is a freelance journalist and associate producer with the Classic Theatre Festival.

A Company of Fools presents The Tempest After two long years, a Company of Fools returns with its Torchlight Shakespeare in the Park Summer Tour. This summer, a Company of Fools presents The Tempest, touring to over 40 local parks throughout Ottawa and beyond.

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in 1920s New Orleans, where magic and music come alive in the bayou. Exiled to a deserted island 12 years ago, Prospero, the former Duke of Milan, plots his revenge on the man who usurped his throne: his own brother Antonio. As a ship bearing Antonio draws closer to the island, Prospero uses all his wit and mystical powers to ensure he can enact his plan of reclaiming his power and establishing his daughter, Miranda, as princess in a rival kingdom. But in order to do so, Prospero must confront his true enemy – himself. Grappling with freedom and forgiveness, will Prospero be able to see what truly matters before it’s too late? “Now I will believe that there are unicorns. . .” (The Tempest, Act 3, Scene 3)

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Public Foods, a community fridge and pantry being launched by Glebe St. James United Church, Ottawa Community Housing and Carleton University, is under construction by volunteers at 415 MacLaren. PHOTOS: SUSAN PALMAI AND MARISA ROMANO

Community building opportunities abound By Susan Palmai We all care deeply about our beloved city of Ottawa and specifically our neighbourhoods – the Glebe and Centretown. Further, we treasure our citizens, some more vulnerable than ourselves. If you are an early riser, an opportunity to help others awaits at Fourth Avenue Baptist Church on the corner of Fourth Avenue and Bank Street in the heart of the Glebe. Volunteers are needed to provide breakfast to youth aged 16 to 24 years. Haven Too is an overnight shelter, part of Fourth Avenue Baptist Outreach running Wednesdays and Thursdays. Youth are welcomed in for a warm meal at 9 p.m., given a safe refuge for the night and then a nutritional breakfast before they leave in the morning. Volunteers arrive at 7:15 a.m. make coffee and serve juice, cereal, toast, eggs, fruit and anything else of their choosing. Dishes and cleanup are usually finished by 8:45. We currently have very capable volunteers who would love to work with new folks

who are looking to make a small difference in the lives of young people. Two staff members of Haven Too are always present. A second opportunity awaits at 415 MacLaren Street in the form of the Community Fridge and Pantry, called Public Foods. Many cities across the country have outdoor community fridges which operate under the mantra Take What You Need – Leave What You Can. Thousands of kilos of food waste in our city is a disturbingly large problem, constantly increasingly. Grocery stores, restaurants and similar businesses throw away food from which others could benefit. Community fridges and pantries address this problem by accepting the surplus and everyone benefits. Glebe St. James United Church, Ottawa Community Housing and Carleton University have joined forces to begin such a program in Centretown. Arlington Five Café has generously donated a fridge for the project. Once opened, hopefully by summer, we will be looking for community

collaborators: restaurants and grocery stores to offer food; individuals to stock the fridge, check on it daily and take on other tasks associated with our project. If you see yourself as a volunteer at either of these projects, please let me know at palmaisusan@gmail.com.

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POETRY QUARTER

THE POETRY OF FREEDOM

The Glebe Report’s Poetry Quarter asked poets to send in their poems on freedom in all its dimensions, from the personal to the global, the practical to the spiritual. Here is a selection of the many excellent submissions received. The Glebe Report’s Poetry Quarter is curated by JC Sulzenko.

The Presentation of Self Goffman, 1959, a framework using Theatrical performance As a metaphor To explain Everyday social interactions (You’ve read it, I don’t need to explain) You guide and control What your audience sees It’s a good trick And surely my hat Would be off to you If I were wearing one Isabelle Gingras [The poem refers to The Representation of Self in Everyday Life by Erving Goffman, 1965, Anchor Books Edition.] The Cage of Bars I built myself a cage of bars All finely wrought in brass, And locked myself inside that cage And prayed that this would pass.

Freedom Being caged feels like being at the bottom of the deepest ocean. It’s always dark and tragic. Your body feels immobilized and frozen. Your scales are ripping off like your muscles squeezing in pain. Your brain non-functional, your life is basically worthless. No more happiness to live through, your anger is as strong as a bomb and your mind is as dark as a black hole. Things are odd and unlikely, I’m not myself. It’s stronger than me, it’s bigger than me, it’s darker than me, it’s taking over me, but what is it? Who am I? Where am I? I’m caged up in my mind. My body is a cage. I can’t find the key. The key does not even exist. I feel stuck. Many keys have tried but none can unlock me. I am lost in the ocean, I don’t know how to live. A key comes and dives, swimming to the darkest point. She reaches my lifeless mind. She arrives and I start floating. My life seems to find its purpose. I start floating up on the highest cloud. My body heats up and my happiness is as bright as the sun. Full of sunlight, her key fits perfectly and my body feels something I have never felt. She is giving me a new feeling that I have never felt before. A positive feeling. It’s stronger than me, it’s bigger than me, it’s brighter than me. It’s the feeling of being free, being uncaged, and it’s so freeing. Naéma Soleil, Grade 8, De La Salle

The lifelong link of one who loves, The slender passing glance, Were lost to me as in my cage I watched while others danced. And then I thought as on they danced How like they were to me Before I built my cage of brass And quietly lost the key. I was that man who made a wall Of roughly finished stone, And built himself into that wall To hold himself alone.

From Hamburg to Ottawa Freedom from within A vision, a journey Months pass by as plans unfold Failure to materialize A realization, a cry A soul’s journey that was meant to be All in the hope of freedom from within Karla Lemus-Heimberger

The silken thread of living life, The brightly turning wheel, Were lost to me as in my wall I shunned what others feel. And then as others passed me by I thought so clearly yet How like they were to my first self, Before the mortar set. So, I built that cage of bars All finely wrought in brass, And locked myself inside that cage And prayed that life would pass. Bob Barclay

Where Doth Freedom Come I am old and have seen much But not enough Chances I did not take Foolishness I could not live without But sitting here, quiet as a bug, That crawls beneath my feet What power I have What holds me back? Ignorance All else… Sarai Porritt

SEPTEMBER 2022

POETRY QUARTER

Hello, welcome. farewell, adieu. Send your Poetry Quarter poems that illuminate arrivals or departures (physical or metaphorical), that explore new beginnings or close chapters. Share a eureka moment of coming or going, starting or ending.

As usual, poems should be: • Original and unpublished in any medium (no poems submitted elsewhere, please); • No more than 30 lines each; • On any aspect of the theme within the bounds of public discourse; and • Submitted on or before Monday, August 29, 2022. Poets in the National Capital Region of all ages welcome (school-age poets, please indicate your grade and school). Please send your entries (up to 5 poems that meet the criteria) to editor@glebereport.ca. Remember to send us your contact information and your grade and school if you are in school.

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Shorn Little Lambs Shorn little lambs, for the flies are a feast, cuz they’re easier prey when they’re free of the fleece. But the lambs are set free from each tiny-wing beast, when they’re dressed for the shops to be sold by the piece. And so we get shorn by the shears of our years. By the fears and the tears and the long perseveres. By our debt in arrears. By the net racketeers. By the loss of our dears and our own telomeres. By the jeers from the mirrors when a blemish appears. By what happens to rears fed burritos and beers. From each beast that besieges the field of our feast, is there--short of departing--a certain release? No, there’s none at this time. For the present, at least. We’re just not really free ’til we’re resting in peace. J. D. Finnerty

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Freedom Healthy, safe Learning, eating, choosing Freedom is respectful kindness Peace

Freedom is to feel safe Rights. Everyone has them Everyone is special Everyone should be free Talia H, Grade 3 Hopewell Avenue Public School

Lara S-E, Grade 3 Hopewell Avenue Public School

All should be free! Freedom Freedom should be for you and me No war please We want to grow and be left alone We want to have a great home We want to be safe wherever we go I like this, you like that You should be free, just like me Freedom you should be free and be like me Freedom Should Be For You And ME !!!! Sophie J, Grade 3 Hopewell Avenue Public School

Freedom is peace Rights are here to help us Enjoy nature Everyone should be able to enjoy freedom Do what you want Other people should feel free Make peace not war June W, Grade 3 Hopewell Avenue Public School

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SUMMER READING CLUB STARTS NOW! By Susan Townley We are all ready for summer to begin this year! A sure sign of summer is the arrival of the TD Summer Reading Club, and this year the Ottawa Public Library is ramping up in-person programming in library branches. There will also be some exciting online programming available through our website. Every summer across Canada, more than 2,000 public libraries encourage children to keep reading during the school vacation and participate in the TD Summer Reading Club, a free, bilingual program sponsored by TD Bank. Library summer reading clubs provide an important way for children to maintain their reading skills, confidence and motivation. Children who participate in summer reading clubs not only maintain their grade level in reading but enter the fall a few months ahead. This year more than ever, the challenge of not falling behind in reading skills over the summer is critical. Most importantly, through the summer reading club, libraries encourage a life-long love of reading! This summer we have some special guest performers joining us at Sunnyside Branch to offer programs for a variety of ages and interests. On Tuesday, July 5 at 2 p.m., join Let’s Talk Science, a Canadian charitable organization focused on education and skills development for children and youth in Canada through science, technology, engineering and mathbased programs. They encourage

active learning and discovery outside the classroom. On Thursday, July 21 at 2 p.m., dance with Luv2Groove. Participants will get lost in movement while interacting, building self-esteem and expressing their creative minds. Limited only by their imaginations, participants will explore various ways to move their bodies through space and time. Get ready to move, groove and have FUN! On Tuesday, August 2 at 2 p.m., meet violist, composer and teaching musician Kathryn Cobbler. She is a loop pedal violist who has performed in some of the most notable concert series in Ottawa, including Music & Beyond, the Shenkman Arts Centre and Music at Southminster, right here in our own neighbourhood. While listening to different atmospheric pieces played by Kathryn with her viola, participants will paint landscapes and reflect on people, places and images that inspire them to tell their life stories. Participants will learn painting techniques and reflect on the music and type of imagery they experience. These programs will require registration with a library card. You can register online on our website @BiblioOttawaLibrary.ca Besides these amazing performers, we will have some other fun programs to celebrate Summer Reading Club at Sunnyside. On June 18, we will kick off the 2022 TD Summer Reading Club with a Get Your Summer Read on Day. Join us at

2 p.m. to help build and decorate a garden home for our local fairies. There are weekly programs all summer long for school-age children to build, craft and create. Whether you love dragons, dinosaurs, fairies or spinning a spell, we have a program that you will enjoy. We will end the summer with a bang with a Fancy-Dress Party on August 25 at 2 p.m. Dress to impress! Don your princess, knight or favourite mythical-character costume, and join us in the library for a parade. Don’t have a costume? No problem! Create your own shield, crown or wand! Along with our special programming for school-age children, we offer a weekly Family Storytime and Babytime for the younger children all summer. Many of these programs will also require registration with a

library card on our website @BiblioOttawaLibrary.ca You can join the club anytime throughout the summer, starting June 13. You do not need a library card to join the TD Summer Reading Club, but you will need one to register for many of the programs. You can visit your local library branch or bookmobile stop to grab a Summer Reading Club kit or to sign up for a library card. Keep your eyes peeled in the Children’s Department at Sunnyside all summer long for our scavenger hunts. Fun and prizes await! Hope to see you soon at Sunnyside Library! Susan Townley loves to sing, dance and have fun in the Children’s Department of the Sunnyside Branch of the Ottawa Public Library.

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Second Avenue Sweets closing its doors Reflections after the provincial election Dear Glebe Report readers and Ottawa Centre voters: Thank you. It has been the honour of my life to serve our community as your MPP, and I am deeply humbled to continue as your MPP for another four years. From the convoy to the recent storms, our community has demonstrated deep compassion and solidarity in taking care of each other, and organizing for the change our community needs to thrive. Our MPP office will support further organizing in our community. And I will remain here, for each and every one of you, when you need an advocate. I can’t thank you enough, and I’m excited to get back to work. Knocking on doors this election, our campaign volunteers and I had the privilege of having more than 20,000 conversations with our neighbours. These conversations reminded me of

how much more work we have left to do in Ottawa Centre and Ontario. One such conversation was with a man named Jean-Marc, whose door I knocked on during the campaign, and who took a moment to tell me about his struggles. Jean-Marc was recovering from a hip surgery that was delayed three times. He is permanently disabled, and lives on the meagre income offered by the Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP), a maximum of $1,169/month. We talked for a while about the issues he was thinking about this election, health care and raising ODSP among his top priorities. There are many in our community like Jean-Marc who are struggling, and I am looking forward to getting back to work for them in the Ontario Legislature to reduce hospital wait times and increase ODSP payments,

key campaign commitments the Ontario NDP made this election that we will keep pushing for from the Ford government. I’d like to hear from you on what you would like our MPP office to focus on for Ottawa Centre over the next four years. You can write to me with your thoughts at jharden-co@ndp.on.ca. Stay tuned also for our “Thank you BBQ” tour across Ottawa Centre this summer, where we will gather in different neighbourhoods across the riding, enjoy some delicious food and hear from you on what our province’s future should look like. I will be bringing potato salad, watermelon, and plenty of grillables! Make sure to sign up for our MPP newsletter at joelhardenmpp.ca/sign_up for updates on these BBQs and other events. My very best, Joel Harden

It is with a heavy heart that I share the news that Second Avenue Sweets will be closing its doors for good, as of June 30, 2022. Our loyal clientele and dedicated staff have enabled us to withstand the challenges of COVID-19. However, inflation, supply chain issues and the increasing cost of supplies continue to be a challenge. Compounding this is the difficulty of attracting and maintaining adequate staffing. All of these factors have made signing on to a new lease simply too daunting. As a result, I have made the difficult decision to close our doors. I realize that after 15 years in this community, many of our loyal customers will be saddened or frustrated by my decision. Some will never understand the sacrifices that my family and I have had to make. It has been a labour of love, and at times a trial. But now, I feel that it is time to hang up my apron, and spend more time with my kids, my husband, and my aging father. It has been an honour and a privilege to have been included in your celebrations, family dinners, traditions, and holiday feasts. I would like to wish you all the best and thank you for your patronage. On to the next adventure! A message from Ellen Harris, owner of Second Avenue Sweets

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Hiring now: apply for Canada Summer Jobs The Aberdeen Pavilion dates back to 1898, when it was built to host the Central Canada Agricultural Exhibition. PHOTO: CITY OF OTTAWA

Celebrating the history of the Aberdeen Pavilion

By Jim Watson Yes, the old Ottawa Ex is being revived for one day this summer! After decades of being nothing more than a parking lot surrounded by crumbling infrastructure, we revitalized Lansdowne Park and made it a real people place with new sports teams, retail, restaurants – not to mention a tremendous amount of greenspace, trees, gardens and even an apple orchard. Lansdowne is a jewel in Ottawa’s crown – and it’s in no small part because of the wonderful heritage buildings we have preserved on that site and once again made available to the public. Both the Aberdeen Pavilion and the Horticulture Building have become very popular venues. The Aberdeen Pavilion is a one-ofa-kind structure that dates back to 1898, when it was built to welcome the Central Canada Agricultural Exhibition. In the following years, it served as a meeting point for soldiers heading to combat in the Boer War and the First World War. It also had an ice pad where the original Ottawa Senators won the Stanley Cup in 1904. That building has seen it all, and it remains the only unsupported building of its kind in North America. Unfortunately, after decades of neglect in the second half of the 20th century, the Aberdeen Pavilion

was abandoned and taken over by thousands of pigeons before being condemned for demolition. On July 2, 1992, Council voted to reverse that decision and to invest the funds required to save the building and to restore it to its former glory. I was pleased to work with councillors Peter Hume and Joan O’Neill to put together a package to save and restore the pavilion. I am proud that we’ve worked with the Central Canada Exhibition Association and a number of key partners to mark the 30th anniversary of that important day on July 2 this summer. For the occasion, we will host an old-fashioned exhibition at Lansdowne that will undoubtedly bring back some good memories for many residents who enjoyed the Ex – and probably create some new ones for those who weren’t around at the time. This one-day event promises to be a great time for guests of all ages, with a number of attractions that will be available free of charge. These include an Ottawa Archives exhibit on the Ex, live entertainment in English and French throughout the day, buskers, local fair booths and food vendors, a classic automobile demo, a farmers’ market, a petting zoo and a TD Place “fun zone” that involves locker room visits with local athletes and mascots. I hope to see many of you out on July 2 to celebrate the history of Lansdowne Park and the Aberdeen Pavilion from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., beginning with a Freedom of the City ceremony at 9:30 a.m. featuring various dignitaries. Please visit www.Ottawa.ca/AberdeenHeritageFair for more details ahead of this fun exhibition!

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Finally, summer is here! I look forward to a summer of meeting with constituents, joining community events and hosting a few of my own! We all deserve a break after a difficult start to the year, and I look forward to connecting with you over the coming weeks. Earlier this month, I was thrilled to join Parkways for People in celebrating the opening of Queen Elizabeth Driveway for active use. As Member of Parliament for Ottawa Centre, it is my priority to take bold action on climate change and help make Ottawa a greener capital. I have been working with the National Capital Commission (NCC) to ensure we have more active transportation in Ottawa. Whether it is Colonel By Drive or Queen Elizabeth Drive (QED), it is my strong belief that one side of the Rideau Canal should be reserved for residents to run, walk, bike and roll. From July 1 to September 5, QED will be open exclusively for active use seven days a week. This will help the NCC to obtain the important data needed to assess how we can enhance our parkways and build a greener city. From May 13 to October 10, weekend bikedays are back on QED. I am also working with the NCC to seek additional bikedays on Colonel By Drive, as many residents have been advocating for this as well. In more good news, Carlington Community Health Centre celebrated the grand opening of their renovated facility, which includes 40 affordable homes for seniors through a partnership with Ottawa Community Housing. I supported their rehabilitation project

when I was MPP for Ottawa Centre, and it is incredible to see the result of their hard work and determination. I look forward to continuing to support innovative projects and programs such as this, that offer inclusive and quality services to residents. Every summer, young people in our community seek summer jobs. This year, 635 jobs were approved right here in Ottawa Centre through the Canada Summer Jobs program. This program offers quality and meaningful work experience for youth and provides them with an opportunity to develop and improve their skills. Organizations like the YM/YWCA, the Boys and Girls Club, Meals on Wheels, Parkdale Food Centre and many more will be able to hire young people between the ages of 15 to 30 this summer. For more information on how to apply – visit www. jobbank.gc.ca/youth for a full list of employers. Lastly, we know how challenging the last few months have been for our local businesses, especially in the downtown core following the 24-day illegal occupation. Our government quickly developed a program, the Downtown Business Relief Fund, administered through Invest Ottawa to provide much-needed support to these businesses. Over 500 businesses benefitted from this funding. Our government will continue to support businesses, including the tourism sector at large, to revitalize our downtown core, restore vibrancy and promote economic growth in the National Capital Region. A reminder that my community office is located in Hintonburg at 404-1066 Somerset Street West, and we are here to help. Please do not hesitate to reach out at 613-946-8682 or via email at Yasir. Naqvi@parl.gc.ca. Enjoy the summer with friends, family and loved ones, and I hope to meet you soon!

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Thirty Years Ago in the Glebe Report This retrospective is filed bi-monthly 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.s.mckercher@gmail.com. Note: All back issues of the Glebe Report to June 1973 can be viewed on the Glebe Report website at www.glebereport.ca under the PAST ISSUES menu.

Market value assessment Two separate articles on the negative aspects of Market Value Assessment (MVA) dominated the June 1992 Glebe Report. Alderman Jim Watson outlined how MVA could have a negative impact on the Glebe. He explained that current (1992) property taxes were based on 1980 assessments. The proposed changes would see taxes calculated based on the current market value of each property. Watson stated that “market value assessment was an unfair tax system, particularly for people on fixed incomes.” Jim McCarthy’s front-page article went into more detail on “the evils of MVA in older neighbourhoods.” He wrote that 88.6 per cent of residential properties in Capital Ward would experience tax increases. He felt MVA was particularly unfair to long-term residents, lower-income property owners, the elderly and tenants. It penalizes owners for improving their properties, contrary to the best interests of the community. It taxes potential but unrealized capital gains and bears no relationship to the municipal services consumed. He felt

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MVA was expensive, flawed and required much subjective judgement on the part of assessors. McKale’s gas pumps close After 35 years in the business, on Saturday, May 30 (1992), Marlin McKale pumped his last litre of gasoline at his service station at Fifth Avenue and Bank Street. By the following Monday, the Petro Canada sign was down, and a bulldozer had excavated the large underground holding tanks. McHale said he regretted closing his pumps, but a combination of oil companies’ tight profit margins, the spread of self-service pumps and real estate costs meant it wasn’t profitable to run a gas station anymore. He planned to keep his bays open to continue servicing cars. McCrank’s opens Partners Gary McCrank and Don Ramsey had just opened McCrank’s Cycles at 889 Bank Street behind Irene’s Pub to offer top quality repair and maintenance services to Ottawa’s cycling community.

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Breaking the tendency toward thought As the city heats up, Glebe guinea pigs uber en masse to Prince Edward County to enjoy the cooler weather, fine amenities and nature excursions. As is well known, however, guinea pigs suffer an array of disorders, the prime one being a tendency toward thought. “Guinea pigs are unique in that they must constantly fight their inherent drive to examine life and existence. This kind of tendency leads to malaise, ennui and sometimes much more debilitating conditions, such as loss of appetite. In severe cases, it can lead to weight loss, which requires immediate and ongoing spa treatments, imported parsley baths and costly hand feeding,” explains renowned rodentologist, Matthew Rippeyoung, also vacationing in Prince Edward County. Indeed, they are so prone to thinking that guinea pigs have been credited with philosophical breakthroughs and treatises since before the pre-Socratics. Before Pythagorus could even pronounce “hypotenuse” and when Heraclitus was known simply as the village pyromaniac, guinea pigs had already solved all the problems of philosophy.

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“Guinea pigs discovered early on that philosophy is a disease and they poured a lot of funds into prevention. At birth, guinea pigs are scheduled into free, lifetime therapy. They are taught since daycare the perils of thinking, coupled with positive reinforcement for not paying attention, dozing and robo-eating. Each memorizes, with no explanation provided lest it trigger thinking, Ludpig Wittgenswine’s philosophical mantra: ‘Whereof one cannot eat, one must remain silent’,” added Quebec rodent historian and part-time landscaper, Daniel LePage. While education is important, Zeus, CEO of GiddyPigs.com, recently developed a vaccine to treat the tendency toward thought once and for all. “If metamodernism is not a disease, I don’t know what is. We knew that the postmodernism virus would mutate eventually into an even more virulent contagion, which is why we were ready with our vaccine first.” To order Zeus’ Anti-Moderna vaccine, please visit GiddyPigs.com. Cash or gold bullion only.

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Among the things I remember most vividly from school is the following grammar rule: you cannot start a sentence with because, because because is a conjunction. A neat rule; simple and easy to understand. Unfortunately, like a few other things I was taught in school (Pluto will always be a planet!), it turns out this was never quite true. Because you can start a sentence with because, or any other conjunction for that matter. But what are conjunctions? What do they do? What is their purpose? Conjunctions operate the way hallways and staircases in a house do; they establish links and create connections between words, phrases and clauses. They enable us to form complex, elegant sentences while avoiding multiple, choppy and inelegant short sentences. They come in three types: coordinating, correlative and subordinating. Coordinating conjunctions join and provide balance between equivalent phrases and clauses. The most common among these are: for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so; aka the FANBOYS. Think: to be or not to be; sweet and sour;

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some winter days are cold, yet bright and sunny. Correlative conjunctions, such as neither/nor, come in pairs and work together to create a nice balance in a sentence. For example, remember Dr. Martin Luther King cautioning us that human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable. Subordinating conjunctions link dependent and independent clauses and signal some relationship between the two, including showing contrast or a causeand-effect relationship. Some common subordinating conjunctions include because, though, while, when, if. Think of T.S. Elliot reminding us that we are the music while the music lasts. And next time someone quotes the conjunction rule to you, why not edify them by quoting in return these timeless words of wisdom by Ralph Waldo Emerson: Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not. Michael Kofi Ngongi is a new Canadian originally from Cameroon, another bilingual country. He has experience in international development and is a freelance writer interested in language and its usage.

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A Glass of red wine at three By Douglas Parker These days, if weather permits, I often find myself sitting on our small front porch at three o’clock, drinking a glass of red wine – mostly old vines as it’s called – and munching on a handful of Miss Vickie’s. Three o’clock; you can pretty much set your watch by it. Miss Vickie’s, they’re addictive, I know. Bad for you to boot. Hence, just one handful. Some days I wish I had bigger hands. I feel a bit guilty about sitting on the porch, especially if I’ve had a day where I haven’t done much: a crossword, maybe reading, some television. Neighbours wander by from time to time. We acknowledge each other with a simple “hi,” but it doesn’t go much farther than that. Presumably they have things to do and so do I, although it looks as if I’m not doing anything but drinking wine and eating some chips. I justify what others might see as laziness, because I believe that drinking red wine and eating Miss Vickie’s is, in fact, an activity, broadly defined. However, I do get little stabbing pains of guilt when I realize how busy my wife always seems to be: gardening and cooking in the summer; in the winter, well, that never used to be a problem because we always travelled, mostly to Europe. But until recently, we were captives in our own house and she found other things to do. In addition to cooking and cleaning the place and playing bridge and zooming with her book club, she made a quilt from several of my old silk neckties. And then she made another with the ties that were left over. I was astonished. Some days she disappears and ascends to the third floor where she cleans out cupboards tucked under the eaves. If

she calls on me to help her lift stuff up or down because she can’t manage the weight, I’m there to help. She’s Crusoe, I’m Friday – some days. When she’s going through stuff, she sometimes finds old photographs that she shows me. If they’re of people, I usually recognize them. If they’re of places or things, I often don’t. My wife has a remarkable memory. She’ll look at a photo and tell me a story about it – where it was taken, why it was taken, when we were there if it was a place. Usually, I don’t recall with any degree of specificity what she recalls with astonishing clarity. Often her question is, “Don’t you remember that?” Sometimes I feel like a failed Jeopardy contestant in my own house. One day I saw her with a street map of Venice sitting beside her while she was reading a Donna Leon novel. She was following Brunetti’s meanderings through Venice on the map, pointing out places where we’ve been and noting places we might explore down the road. “Don’t you remember that place?” Nope. Rhymes with dope. Sometimes it’s annoying not to remember what she remembers. On the other hand, it’s great to have a partner with a photographic memory when you’re travelling. She studies places to go and how to get there before we leave the place we’re staying. And once we get there, she takes the map and off we go, easy as pie. If we go back to a place we’ve been to a couple of days before, she can get there without the map, as if she’s native to the place. And I’m talking big, confusing places: London, Paris, Rome. It’s perfect for me; she’s my never-failing tourist guide. I never worry about us getting lost, it never happens as long as she’s with me.

She leads, I follow. She finds places I could never find and that allows me to write about them. What a great memory. What a great gift – most of the time. Trained in Classics, I’m her Aeneas, she’s my Sybil. So there I am, sitting on the porch, seemingly doing nothing but drinking red wine and rationing my handful of Miss Vickie’s while my wife’s doing everything. But actually I am doing something I regard as valuable. I’m thinking. That’s something, I reckon. Today I’m thinking about a good friend I’ve known for years. Neither of us lives in the same city we once did. He taught English; I taught Classics. Cognate subjects, so to say; cognate friends as well. Our families used to spend a lot of time in each other’s company. Then we both retired, and he moved somewhere else, as did we. No longer able to talk face-to-face, we spent a lot of time on the phone, maintaining our relationship, exchanging, essentially, trivia. Trivia is crucial to telephone conversations between friends. Nothing said is that important, but, taken together, all of it is very important for what it signifies. Both people on either end of the telephone are certain enough of their friendship to allow the other the freedom to engage in trivia and free associate. Ingenuous, two-way chat. Nothing rehearsed, everything extemporaneous, one thing leading to another, chewing the fat. Both of us were good fat chewers. Comfortable fat chewers, mostly of trivia. But now my friend is in the process of moving to another country. Almost like he’s been extradited. Nothing he wants to happen. Nothing his family wants to happen. Nothing I want to happen. I

still phone him almost as much as I used to. Once a week. But now my side of the conversation must be scripted and rehearsed. Before I ring his number, I practice what I’m going to say: talk about the weather, maybe start there; talk about the Blue Jays whom I know he likes; talk about what might be happening where we both used to work. Then I phone. I ask him how he’s doing. On good days, he stays with me. Other days no. On those no days, he’ll say, “I’m still alive,” almost always. I then mention the Jays; I pray that he’s watched yesterday’s game and that he remembers it. I just assume that he has and burble on about it. Invariably, he’s say to me, “How are you folks?” I tell him. A few minutes later, he says, “How are you folks?” I tell him again. He knows the lines that give him comfort. And I know mine. Each of us knows his lines as if both of us are characters in a Beckett play. Eventually, we end the conversation and hang up. He always thanks me for calling. I really believe he means it. That’s gratifying. In another week, I’ll call him again and we’ll replay the same conversation, more or less. Keep it going, I want to keep it going. I know I will be heartbroken when we no longer can keep it going, when one day my friend on the phone says to me not “How are you folks?” but “Who are you folks?” Then I’ll know that his move to that other country has happened. Douglas Parker is a 30-year Glebe resident with an interest in English Reformation literature, history and theology.

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Three Jugs By Claire Marshall Just like Goldilocks’ three bears, the jugs were big, middle and baby-sized. And like the three bears, they were as much a part of my childhood as any fairy tale. The terracotta jugs were glazed within to hold water, but plain, rough and unglazed on the outside. A thick band of cream slipware ran around the rims. Fat-bellied and thick handled, they sat – one, two, three – on a windowsill in the first house I remember. They were older than me, though. My Mother bought them at Woolworth’s for threepence when my parents set up house together in 1938 on Hopton Road, Streatham Common in England. My sister was born the following year. The jugs were usually empty, but sometimes one would hold spring flowers or a bouquet of royal purple, blood red and white anemones with dark green fuzzy stems. Colours came alive against the cream and burnt-orange of the jugs.

Our houses were never our own, but the things in them were. It was the things that made home: books, pictures, dishes and the jugs. In Montreal, they sat on a teak wall unit alongside Swedish glass and contemporary ceramics. In Calcutta, the jugs found themselves between a dancing Shiva and an ivory Krishna. In Sydney, they lived in the family room; in Cleveland, on a bookshelf above the TV. When my parents retired, my mother asked whether Gabrielle or I would like to have the jugs. We both said yes but didn’t want to split the set. So ensued a very rare argument between us. Gabrielle claimed she had known them longest. I dismissed that. It wasn’t my fault I was the second child. On my part, I wanted them to decorate my apartment though wasn’t sure how long I would stay there. Gabrielle argued she could give them a stable home in her house. She almost won with that point. Instead, we cut a deal. We would share them: a few years with her in Toronto, then back to me in Ottawa.

She went first, and I thought I’d never see them again but was surprised when she moved out west and gave them to me before she left. So a few years later, I tucked them into my suitcase and schlepped them out to Victoria. Her turn, and she was thrilled. They are with me again now. They came back in 2004 in a parcel her husband shipped to me after Gabrielle died. When my Mother died just two years later, I filled the jugs with spring flowers and took them to the gathering at the funeral home. Big, middle and baby-sized they sit – one, two, three – on a kitchen shelf, filled with flowers sometimes, memories always. They won’t go down in the family. Threepence jugs from Woolies aren’t legacy material. But I hope they will be with me my whole life and maybe a day or two after. Claire Marshall enjoys her class in memoir writing with Anna Rumin.

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GLEBE PARENTS’ DAY CARE TURNS 50! By Janice Cameron-Caluori The Glebe Parents’ Day Care (GPDC) began in 1972 and by August of that year was incorporated. In May 1973 GPDC found a permanent home in the basement of the Glebe Community Centre. Daycare alum Maggie Kerkoff remembers: “I worked for 13 years at a hip and happening place called Glebe Parents’ Daycare. It was the 70s. Wide-legged jeans, broomstick skirts, cotton tops and dresses from India were all staples in the daycare worker’s wardrobe.” This was long before the current community centre renovations and at that time the daycare space was shared with other users. Every evening the daycare furniture was put away in a small room and every morning it came back out to set up for a new day. The space was a venue for parties, coffee houses and other community events. The environment was substandard but the care was first rate. Kerkoff recalls that there were only a few places like it in Ottawa. Not only was it a cooperative with everyone being paid the same wage, it was also a joy to work with such professionals. “The workers, for the most part, had all graduated with their Early Childhood Education diploma. Some had teaching degrees and some were nurses. All had a professional background, which served well in the daycare, and all were the most caring and professional folks you would want helping to encourage the development of the youngsters in their care. “The children received two snacks and a hot, nutritious lunch each day. Outdoor play was very important, no matter the weather. Learning through play, both inside and outside, ensures the children were ready for the challenges of school when that time came. After-school programs for school-aged children offered a safe place for children to continue their learning in a fun and safe environment.” In 1978 GPDC unionized under CUPE and joined the Ottawa Federation of Parents’ Childcare promoting quality, non-profit childcare. Parents even had a unique opportunity to contribute to their child’s care. “In fact, as a parent you were expected to put in a certain number of hours each week to help with things such as cleaning the toys, sharing unique talents like music and art and reading with the children.” However, staff and parents had a dream for a better

daycare space, a purpose-built daycare. There were none like this in Ottawa back then. Most childcare facilities were relegated to church and community centre basements. Not the ideal environment for the care of young children. In the early 80s a federal funding grant of $600,000 was secured but as no location in the Glebe was zoned for non-profit daycare, the funding was returned unused. The planned redevelopment of Lansdowne Park in the mid 80s offered a perfect location. And so the fundraising began. Through Sneezy Waters’ “coffee houses,” Saturday afternoon movie showings and harvest suppers, the day care raised $170,00, and, in time, additional government funding was secured. Finally, an architect parent drew up the plans with the staffs’ expert input and we were off! In the summer of 1990, the GPDC opened the first purpose-built daycare in Ottawa; a flagship for childcare in Ottawa. Kerkoff recalls the support day care provided for parents long before extended parental leave. “It would be many years before mothers were given the option of staying home for one year with their babies. That meant that there were babies as young as six weeks who were brought each day to the daycare so that their parents could work. This is a fact that would be quite shocking for the parents of today.” In fact today federal politicians are working on a national childcare program, ECE is recognized as a profession and both moms and dads can take parental leave. A lot really has changed in 50 years! The legacy of the daycare continues for future generations. “Friendships have been forged among the staff and parents. The children of the original parents at Glebe Parents’ Day Care have brought their children to the centre, and now their grandchildren also attend.” Happy 50th anniversary GPDC! Here’s to the next 50 years of serving children and families, may the future be bright and may many more memories be made. The GPDC’s main centre on Fifth Avenue cares for infants, toddlers and preschool children and houses a licensed home childcare program. GPDC has school age satellite programs in Hopewell, Muchmor and First Avenue schools. Janice Cameron-Caluori, ECE, B Ed, worked at the Glebe Parents’ Day Care from 1980 to 2018.

The York Street Farmers' Market is back! Saturday mornings from May-October, 9AM - 2PM in the ByWard Market. Marchés d’Ottawa Markets is excited for another year of the York Street Farmers’ Market. Running down York, Ottawans and visitors alike are invited to spend their Saturday mornings with us, shopping for fresh farmed goods at this producer-only farmers’ market. Make the most of your Saturdays! Come be introduced to new and expanding local farmers and producers as you explore the region's best!

The Glebe Parents’ Day Care moved to 10 Fifth Avenue in 1990.

The author, with Liam, at the 25th anniversary of the Fifth Avenue building in 2015

Preschool children wearing Glebe Parents’ Day Care hats PHOTOS: JANICE CAMERON-CALUORI

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COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS ABBOTSFORD SENIOR COMMUNITY CENTRE (950 Bank St.) is unable to collect donations of books, art, jewelry, elegant treasures of flea market items at this time. We are bursting at the seams with donations that were so graciously donated to us for our Great Glebe Garage Sale fundraiser in May. Our volunteers, who sort, price and sell, will take a break over the summer and we will start collecting again in the fall. Thank you for your generous contributions. ABBOTSFORD SENIOR COMMUNITY CENTRE (950 Bank St.) – Stay tuned for the Summer Program Guide coming out in mid-June. In addition, please note that our Atrium Book Store will be open all summer and that people will be welcome to shop in the Boutique for good-quality ladies clothing as well as handmade crafts and teddy bears! ALLIANCE FRANÇAISE OTTAWA GATHA CONCERT – On the occasion of her Canadian tour, the Alliance will be welcoming Gatha for a concert, on June 15. When French pop meets cello – this is what the talented Gatha offers us through her unique musical style which combines classical music with a dense and luscious pop, topped with rhythmic lyrics. You can dive into this beautifully interpreted music when listening to her voice and her lyrics. Wed., June 15, 7:30 p.m. at Club SAW, 68 Nicholas St., Ottawa. Tickets: www.eventbrite.ca/e/ billets-concert-gatha-339298048597 ART AT AF OTTAWA – Until June 23, Alliance

Française (www.af.ca/ottawa/en/#/) is pleased to present We Can Start Over Again, the first solo exhibition of Ottawa-based artist Jose Palacios. This selection of paintings showcases the stylistic breadth of his intuitive, experimental and process-based approach to visual art, which lead to unexpected interplays of colour, line and space that invite the viewer to see anew. CELEBRATION OF LIFE – Marty Hamer’s family will host a Celebration of her Life at the First Unitarian Congregation of Ottawa, 30 Cleary Ave. on Aug. 6 at 3 p.m. Please note: A double-vaccination policy is in effect at the present time. The DEMENTIA SOCIETY OF OTTAWA AND RENFREW COUNTY has a NEW WEBSITE: dementiahelp.ca/ – It’s clean, bright, easy to navigate, bilingual and offers over 400 pages of information and resources regarding brain health and dementia as well as 75 in-person, virtual education and social and recreational activities offered at no charge. The new site also introduces a new way to register for virtual and in-person education and activity sessions and to book appointments. We hope you will find this simpler and more intuitive as you can register directly on a program page – no more clicking to other sites. THE GLEBE ART IN OUR GARDENS AND STUDIO TOUR IS BACK! July 9 and 10, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. We are looking forward to welcoming visitors back to our neighbourhood to support local artists. Site maps available in Bank St. shops and the community centre or visit www.

Runners in the Ottawa Race Weekend head towards the Bronson bridge.

glebearttour.ca for more information. PROBUS Ottawa is welcoming new members from the Glebe and environs. Join your fellow retirees, near retirees and want-to-be retirees for interesting speakers and discussions, not to mention relaxed socializing. See our website: www.probusoav.ca for more detailed information about the club and its activities as well as contact points, membership information and meeting location. We will be meeting in-person on Wed., June 22 for a talk from David Chernushenko on the subject of “Can Compelling Storytelling Drive Social-Political-Ecological Change”? FOR SALE Set of six beautiful SUMMER GREETING CARDS featuring photos of the Central Experimental Farm and the Ornamental Gardens in all their mid-year glory, taken by Richard Hinchcliff, author of Blooms: An Illustrated History of the Ornamental Gardens (also available in our Boutique - friendsofthefarm.ca/boutique/). The cards include gorgeous images of the Ornamental Gardens and the Farm in summer and are perfect for sending greetings to friends and family or for a gift set. COMMUNITY To the woman who bought parts for SAILBOAT MODEL at GREAT GLEBE GARAGE SALE: I forgot to give you the instructions! Please contact 613-728-1783. I am a Mandarin speaker.

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We are filled to the brim with everything that you need for summer entertaining. We have bbq accessories, outdoor serving dishes, flower pots, cocktail glasses, new outdoor mats, Turkish towels, picnic baskets and mesh food covers. ~ Celebrating 33 years in the Glebe ~

795 Bank St.

613 235-8714

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Katia Garcia, Alex Polowin, Crazy Pho You owner Khanh Luu, with son Maximus Luu.

Crazy Pho You on Bronson recently hosted a celebration in honour of Alex Polowin’s 97th birthday. Alex is a WWII veteran who was the first non-French serviceman to receive the French Legion of Honour medal. An Ottawa street was renamed Alex Polowin Avenue in his honour.

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Flora Footbridge by John Dance

Glebe Neighbourhood Activities Group Glebe Community Centre

GNAG.ca

175 Third Avenue, Ottawa, ON K1S 2K2 613-233-8713 info@gnag.ca

Community Party June 16, 6 - 8 pm

Please book a FREE -cket for each person a5ending, so GNAG can plan for the barbecue accordingly.

Ticket link is at GNAG.ca.

Summer Camp Pre and Post care coming soon. Stay tuned for registra-on date.

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