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Proposals for Lansdowne 2.0 losing money. Important questions remain outstanding. For example, are 1,200 units the appropriate number for this site? Can current municipal infrastructure support that many new units? Is the type of new housing being proposed (one- and two-bedroom condominiums) the kind of new housing that Ottawa needs at the moment? With Lansdowne being public land, should the City use its leverage with prospective developers and require a significant increase in deeply affordable units (units that cost way less than 80 per cent market rent)? Given the affordable housing crisis in our city, surely the City can significantly increase the amount of affordable housing and make it a condition in the sale of air rights, even if this ends up costing the City money.

By Anthony Carricato The City of Ottawa has been working with the Ottawa Sports and Entertainment Group (OSEG) over the past year to develop a plan to make Lansdowne financially self-sustaining, and their revitalization plans were shared on April 20 during a meeting of the Lansdowne Stakeholder Sounding Board. In short, there are major changes being proposed in what is becoming known as Lansdowne 2.0.

New arena and replacement of the north stands

Less than 10 years after the City invested $136 million to renovate and update the Civic Centre and improve the north stands, city staff and OSEG are recommending these city-owned assets be demolished and replaced. The north stands would be rebuilt with fewer seats, and a new 5,500 seat arena/event centre (the existing Civic Centre has 9,500 seats) would be built under an expanded berm that would be inaccessible, and result in reduction of usable park space. The location of the proposed arena is curious, given the City is aware that the soil under the berm is toxic and they will have to pay to remove it. When Lansdowne was redeveloped in 2012, the City determined that soil remediation was too expensive, which is why the berm is there today. The new, smaller arena is expected to improve the fan experience, increase attendance at Ottawa 67s games and fill a gap in Ottawa by providing a contemporary “medium-sized” venue for mid-sized music and cultural events that are currently bypassing Ottawa on national tours. The City believes this new venue will support its music

Proposed concepts for Lansdowne 2.0. shared at the Lansdowne Stakeholder 42 Proposal to theMeeting City of Ottawa Sounding Board in April. Proposals include building three new condo towers, a new and smaller arena and new north-side stands. PHOTOS: COURTESY OF OSEG

strategy, supplement the offerings of existing music festivals and ultimately enhance the tourism appeal of Ottawa. If the City is serious about achieving its climate objectives, it should take this opportunity to build a carbon neutral arena/event venue.

More housing at Lansdowne and the sale of air rights

Three 20-plus-storey towers are being proposed next to the new north stands on Exhibition Way, creating 1,200 new dwelling units of which 120 units (or 10 per cent) are required to be “affordable.” In selling the air rights to build these high-rises, the City will look for a buyer

that will be required to find a partner to operate the affordable units for the next 50 years. Regrettably, the units will not be deeply affordable; rather, they are being proposed as “low-end of market” (80 per cent of the average market rent currently found in the Glebe). Rezoning will be required to add more housing since the current zoning only permits 280 units at Lansdowne. Steve Willis, the City’s general manager for Planning, Infrastructure and Economic Development, says the large number of units being proposed and limiting affordable units to 10 per cent were integral to making the revitalization plans self-financing and prevent the City from

Improvements to the heritage buildings and Aberdeen Square

Under the plan, there would also be much-needed repairs to heritage buildings at Lansdowne Park, including to the roof and floor of the Aberdeen Pavilion. The Horticultural Building would get heating and air conditioning, to make it more useable during winter cold spells and summer heat waves, along with technical upgrades needed to support events and programming. Aberdeen Square would see a facelift to enhance it with more trees, shade and outdoor seating, and improvements to better accommodate pedestrian access and active transportation.

Financial Plan to rely on “air rights” and diverting new property taxes from towers

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financial-risk analysis to assess revenue neutrality and affordability of the revitalization plans. The sale of the air rights and “tax increment financing,” which is the projection of future property tax revenue from the 1,200 new units, appear to be the main financial inputs. But does diverting 90 per cent of new taxpayer revenue to pay for new facilities make sense? How will we pay for other municipal costs? The staff report indicates that the City will look to “annual budget tax increases…for funding City tax-supported services.” Does council support this approach? Changes are also being considered to the financial “waterfall” scheme – revenue now goes first to OSEG to pay down its equity in the original development; changes could give the City more cash distributions sooner to help it pay for new construction. Event

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On May 6, council’s Finance and Economic Development Committee (FEDCO) approved the plans in principle, and the project will go to full council on May 25. Approval in principle allows City staff to continue with Tower next steps that will include spending money onCpublic consultation, starting the rezoning process, applying p for new land use and further developing legal Event agreeCentrewaterments with OSEG on changes to the financial Lobby fall agreement. Willis insists council is simply being asked for “approval to start these plans, not approval to finish these plans.” Without comprehensive public consultation across the city, especially so close to the upcoming municipal election, one obvious question is: What’s the rush to have this approved now? Willis indicated City staff are fulfilling the desire of city council which Aberdeen passed a motion in July 2021 to have them return to Pavilion council by the second quarter of 2022 with a plan to make Lansdowne financially self-sustaining. Furthermore, the City wants to provide OSEG the certainty it desires on the future of the site. On numerous occasions, Willis indicated that a future city council could reverse these plans and change the financial structure, then adopt new plans or do nothing at all. Only time will tell if a future council decides to change course, and what it would cost taxpayers to amend or cancel the plans city council is being asked to approve now.

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rigorous public consultation and feedback from residents, is a way to better integrate the site into our Residential community and better connect it withStair the Rideau Ceremonial Lobbymost importantly, a transportation plan Canal and, Event Centre/Stadium/ Outline of Existing Retail to get visitors and the new high-rise residents to Residential/Retail Loading and from Lansdowne. OSEG and the City have both identified this as a serious concern even though it is currently missing from the plans. With a lack of parking on the site, no rapid transit along Bank Street and reduced lanes over the Bank Street Bridge, the goal of increasing the number of visitors from four million to five million a year is going to be a challenge, and it will have serious impacts on nearby residents and

41 small businesses in the Glebe, Old Ottawa East and Old Ottawa South. The City’s new Official Plan designated Lansdowne Visitor Park as one of its “special districts,” so we should Parking expect Residentialcomprehensive public engagement on the Lobby of this valuable city-owned land before signififuture cant decisions are made. It’s clear these revitalization plans are good news for OSEG, but only time will tell if they are also good news for the city as a whole and for the residents and small businesses in our community. 41

Anthony Carricato is the chair of the Glebe Community Association Lansdowne Committee, a member of the Lansdowne Stakeholder Sounding Board and a resident of Fifth Avenue.

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Lansdowne 2.0 – what’s the rush? By John Dance The City of Ottawa and Ottawa Sports and Entertainment Group (OSEG) want to demolish Lansdowne Park’s northside stands and the arena beneath them and build new stands and a new entertainment centre/arena. The project was given “approval in principle” on May 6 by council’s Finance and Economic Development Committee (FEDCO) and will go to full council later in the month. Please consider emailing your city councillor to say this is too rushed and it looks like a bad deal for taxpayers. The proposal would have the $332-million cost paid for by selling air rights to build three residential towers in the middle of the park, by diverting the new property taxes from the towers and new commercial space on their ground floors and by receiving additional revenue from the so-called “waterfall agreement” with OSEG. This “revenue neutral” proposition is anything but. To use the new taxes for repaying the new Lansdowne debt, every taxpayer in the city will have to pay additional taxes to cover the incremental cost of municipal services for the 1,200 new units in the towers. Secondly, why should the proceeds from the sale of air rights go to a new stadium/entertainment centre rather than to a variety of other higher-priority items that the city hasn’t been able to fund, such as deeply affordable housing? That said, I’m not advocating the sale of Lansdowne air rights for anything: having three new

20-plus-storey towers will not make for a better park. Thirdly, the revenue source of funding from the waterfall is hopelessly optimistic. The City has yet to receive a cent from the waterfall – why would we imagine this is going to significantly change? There are numerous other issues. Is Lansdowne the right site for a new arena/entertainment centre, given there is no LRT access and never will be? As we all know, there is no eastwest driving access to the park. In terms of north-south access, we have the clogged Bank Street and an NCC parkway that was never meant to be a route for commercial purposes. The LRT needs all the support it can get – building a new entertainment centre with no LRT connection makes no sense. Also, it’s hard to believe that a new Lansdowne arena facility will contribute to the success of the Senators’ bid to get a new home on an LRT route. The Senators don’t get a subsidy – why

should OSEG’s teams’ facilities be subsidized? Lansdowne 2.0 should be an election issue, not something that lame-duck Jim Watson pushes through. It should be subject to intensive consultations before there is any consideration of approving it in principle. Thus far there has been no public consultation. Please write to your councillor!

Having three new 20-plus-storey towers will not make for a better park.

John Dance is an Old Ottawa East resident who takes a keen interest in city affairs, and keeps Glebe Report readers informed about important matters.

Lansdowne 2.0 should be an election issue, not something that lame-duck Jim Watson pushes through.

The proposal for Lansdowne 2.0, a dubious proposal that should not be rushed through city council, has not benefitted from public consultation.

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Affordable housing at Lansdowne? The Lansdowne 2.0 plan currently on the table proposes that, as required, 10 per cent of the 1,200 housing units in the three 20-plus-storey high-rises (or 120 one- or two- bedroom apartments) are to be designated “affordable,” defined as costing 80 per cent of the average rent in the neighbourhood. Merriam-Webster defines affordable as “having a cost that is not too high.” It’s a fairly straightforward concept and surely one that most people have a common understanding of. But when it comes to development and housing, it becomes a little bit of a squishy idea. The clear, unadulterated concept of affordability starts to erode

when we begin to talk about “deeply affordable” housing. Does that imply that merely “affordable” isn’t really, so we have to go to the next level, “deeply affordable”? For those in Ottawa and in the Glebe who are earning minimum wage, or who are living on a disability pension, or on any inadequate fixed income, will these “dwelling units” be truly affordable? I’m trying to picture, say, a single mom of two young kids, who goes to the food bank when she runs out of money at the end of the month, and whose kids live on KD and day-old specials – can we see her living in a high-rise overlooking the stadium and restaurant

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Comings & Goings � Readi Set Go closed its doors in the Glebe on April 30. Facebook: “Can’t believe it has been 11 years since we opened our door for business. Today is the last day we are open for business in the Glebe…It has been a wonderful 11 years, and we are grateful for all your support for our small and local business! We will continue operating at 136 Bank Street location, and we are open 24/7 at our online store ReadiSetGo.ca!” Percy Street is closed to cars at the Queensway underpass. Pedestrians and bikes can still use the underpass.

Contributors this month Marc Adornato Glen Armstrong Shelby Bertrand Martha Bowers Anthony Carricato Susan Carter Sylvie Chartrand Gabrielle Dallaporta John Dance Colette Downie Judy Field Rachel Fiset Sandy Garland Gilles Gerber Katie Gibbs Joel Harden Scott Healey Anne-Marie Iemmolo Carolyn Inch Julie Ireton Gillian King Julie Leblanc Katherine Liston

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LETTERS

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POETRY

QUARTER JUNE 2022 The Poetry of freedom

Lansdowne – penny wise, pound foolish Editor, Glebe Report With the leaking of proposals for the new Lansdowne 2.0, the Glebe is truly reaping what it sowed. By doing all it could to undermine the redevelopment of Lansdowne; by demanding a smaller, lesser, cheaper project, the community undermined its success. The Glebe’s myopic focus on preserving its “ambiance” as a playground for aging boomers who lucked into multi-million-dollar homes now means the whole city has to pay for its mistakes. The Glebe should be

focused on making space for new growth and housing to revitalize it and give it some life; instead, it fights anyone who wants so much as a beer in a park or to rent a non-substandard apartment or asks them to pay a cent more in property tax. The Glebe is a perfect metaphor for our current challenges as a city and a society – fun and freedom for the lucky, pain and labour for the rest of us. Gilles Gerber

We need to do more to share COVID vaccines globally Editor, Glebe Report As a long-time Glebe resident and advocate for social justice and human rights, I cannot let World Immunization Week pass without pointing out what Canada should be doing for vaccine equity. During this World Immunization Week, Canada and other rich countries must move beyond the rhetoric of “we’re all in this together” to real action to end global vaccine inequity. A few facts about the state of immunization against COVID-19: • 2.8 billion people, largely in low- and middle-income countries, remain completely unvaccinated against COVID-19; • The World Health Organization estimates that some 100 million people have been pushed into extreme poverty by the pandemic; • Years of progress in global health and poverty reduction have been wiped out; and • Variants continue to emerge. As McGill professor Dr. Mahukar Pai says, “We’re playing a game of whack-amole, and the virus is winning.” But Canada is still withholding its support for the TRIPS Waiver (a proposal to temporarily waive intellectual property rights that would allow manufacturing of vaccines in low- and middle-income countries), even though more than 100 governments at the World Trade Organization support the waiver. Although Canada has committed to sharing 200 million vaccine doses with COVAX (the global vaccine-sharing facility), we have only delivered 15 million. Meantime, we are allowing precious vaccines to go to waste or expire. Low-income countries need a stable and predictable supply in order to roll out vaccines to their populations. And there needs to be an increase in overall development assistance so that these countries have stronger capacity to deliver these vaccines and other life-saving medicines. Those in the privileged Glebe should take action to promote greater global health equity around the world. Susan Carter Grandmothers Advocacy Network

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ELECTION

PROVINCIAL ELECTION CANDIDATES IN OTTAWA CENTRE The election will take place on June 2. Here are the candidates for Member of Provincial Parliament for the riding of Ottawa Centre, in alphabetical order by party. The statements of candidates were edited for punctuation only.

Shelby Bertrand,

Green Party of Ontario

My name is Shelby Bertrand, and I am honoured to be running for Ottawa Centre with the Green Party in our upcoming provincial election. I moved to Ottawa Centre seven years ago and fell in love with this vibrant, active and diverse community. After four years working with Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada and then two with Services Canada, I left the public service to pursue graduate studies at the University of Ottawa and represent Ottawa Centre environmentalists in two federal elections. Residents of Ottawa Centre vote Green because they want leaders that give the environment the priority it deserves. The Green Party plans to put environmental living within reach of average working citizens by creating green jobs, bringing building codes and standards for provincial infrastructure in line with net zero goals, and incentivising electric transport. As an MPP, I

would strive to protect our environment and ensure Ottawa Centre residents can proudly contribute to the health of our future. Residents of Ottawa Centre should vote Green because of the people-centered issues I am passionately pursuing in 2022. Ottawa Centre residents deserve affordable housing. Everyone deserves mental health and addictions services to be as accessible and normalized as physical health services. Indigenous residents deserve an equal quality of life. When I visit community members at their doorsteps, they tell me just how worried they are about our healthcare system. They tell me about struggles to find family doctors. They tell me about crowded ER waiting room marathons. They receive care lined up in beds in hallways, sometimes for multiple days, surrounded by chaos. They may not receive post-acute care after leaving the hospital, like visits from a PSW. Their relatives may stay at a hospital for months if no long-term care bed is available for them in the community. COVID has made leaders confront the longstanding fragility of our acute care system. Ontario’s hospitals constitute one piece of healthcare. They currently do the jobs of the others. Patients find themselves going to hospitals for issues that could be addressed in community care settings, private homes and specific mental health and addictions services. Health does not start in a hospital. It starts in a neighbourhood. Ontarians deserve health promotion, not illness treatment. The Green Party is calling for a healthcare system that is proactive, not reactive. On June 2, vote for the party committed to delivering real care to Ontario’s people.

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Bold Climate Action

We are at a now-or-never moment for climate action, and it is at the core of why I am running to be your MPP. We cannot afford four more years of Ford’s environmental destruction. The Ontario Liberals have a bold and feasible climate plan. We will get to work ensuring our electricity system stays green and supports the transition to electric vehicles with up to $9,500 in rebates. We will use nature-based solutions to protect green spaces and build an active community through historic investments in public transit and dedicated active transportation funding.

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Students, families and teachers have struggled through three disrupted school years. We will help students recover from learning disruptions by capping class size at 20 and hiring

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Joel Harden,

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New Democratic Party of Ontario Hi neighbour, Joel Harden here, your NDP candidate for Ottawa Centre, running for re-election as your MPP. As the election approaches, I want to reflect on the past four years and highlight how the Ontario NDP will help people in Ottawa Centre. With June approaching, the Ontario NDP is the party best positioned to defeat Ford, end the cuts to our social services and bring change to Ontario. Over the past four years, I’ve been honoured to work with our MPP office team, volunteers and community groups to build a movement in Ottawa Centre. Our work is about more than just an election – this is about building strength in our community. We’ve won gains for seniors and people with disabilities by unanimously passing Voula’s Law in the legislature, ensuring families aren’t barred from seeing their loved ones in care. We were there for our schools and for kids hurt by cuts to the Ontario Autism Program. We’ve supported nurses and other public sector workers targeted by the wage caps in Bill 124. We’ve helped tenants hurt by massive rent increases. And we stood up for workers and small businesses left behind during COVID-19. I got into politics because Jack Layton and Olivia Chow showed me that politics can be done differently. They showed me that you can listen, organize and empower people through politics. That’s why I’m excited to be campaigning on the Ontario NDP’s plan which will provide hope to people who have been let down by the Ford

None Of The Above party (NOTA)

government. An NDP government will put your health first, by bringing in universal mental health care and pharmacare, making birth control free and expanding the federal dental care plan. We’ll take the profits out of long-term care and home care, and build 50,000 desperately needed beds across the province. We’ll address the climate crisis with the urgency it demands, by getting Ontario to net-zero emissions by 2050, launching the world’s most ambitious building retrofit program and expanding the greenbelt. We have crucial commitments for Ottawa Centre, like hiring 30,000 nurses and addressing the family doctor crisis. We’ll ensure students have access to French learning close to home, and eliminate Public-Private-Partnerships (P3) and stop signing wasteful P3 contracts like Ottawa’s beleaguered LRT. We know that our city and province deserve so much better. Let’s elect an NDP government that will put people before profit and bring the change we need. In solidarity, Joel

Scott Healey,

My friends, Would you like to sip a nice Merlot while having a picnic in Vincent Massey Park? How about fresh eggs from your neighbour’s backyard chickens in Hintonburg? Or let your kids have a pop-up lemonade stand along the canal without a permit? Well right now you can’t. But if I am elected, YES WE CAN. Together, let’s end this nanny state. In my first 10 days I would: Day 1: Donate 50% of my MPP salary to food banks and hire a BIPOC/ LGBTQ2+ team. Day 2: Legalize chickens, goats and community cows, and give tax breaks for planting fruit trees in your yard. Day 3: Legalize booze in public spaces because we’re adults, not children. Day 4: Connect all fitness gyms to the electrical grid #RenewableEnergy. #PeoplePower Day 5: Get AC and VR headsets into all Long-term Care Homes. Day 6: Introduce free education and transit in Ottawa, and give Galen Weston and Tobi Lutke the bill. Day 7: No rest here! I’ll stop churches from ringing their bells, make them pay taxes and take the “catholic” out of “catholic schools” and hospitals. Day 8: I will rename LeBreton Flats to “LeBreton Shacks” and allow 1,000 temporary low-income polyblock homes to fill that space to help the rental and housing crisis. Day 9: End daylight savings time. Even if it’s just in Ottawa Centre.

Day 10: “Spark it up on Sparks Street!” I would turn Sparks Street into Canada’s only Red Light District, thereby fixing tourism and the economy. But wait. How is this possible? Many of these things are not provincial jurisdiction, one might say. True. The three levels of bureaucracy (Municipal, Provincial, Federal) are a HUGE challenge to getting things done. We need a less-complicated system that works faster. If elected, I would team up with City Councillors, Feds, local businesses and YOU to get things done the way WE want. I would form a new Direct Democracy Referendum Department (DDRD) tasked with designing a voting app that you could use to vote on every policy and bill. Imagine that? You, having a direct say on cross-jurisdictional policies that affect your neighbourhood and your life. If food security and skyrocketing rent and home prices are a concern for you, or you’re tired of government over-reach into your lives and pocketbooks, then vote for me and together let’s end this nanny state. Vote None Of The Above!

Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario After a long career in the Canadian Forces, many friends and associates have asked me why would I want to enter the world of party politics; why not just retire, relax and do something you enjoy. It is indeed a good question and one that I can answer without difficulty. A lengthy professional career has provided me with the opportunity to develop the skill sets required to meaningfully contribute to a political party I have supported my entire life, the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario. The 1981 provincial election was my first. I knew instantly who I would be supporting and contributing my energy and time to; the Ontario PCs led by the late Bill Davis. Politics became a passion, but I soon wandered down another path, a commitment to my country through service in the military; but my interest never wavered. It’s cliché to say we need good people in politics; we do, our democracy depends on it. To make a difference that matters, one has to get it done. Leadership, consensus building and reasoned decision-making are often lacking. I don’t lack these qualities. We all care about health care, the environment, public transit, education and care for our seniors. However, without a competitive and creative

Glen Armstrong,

New Blue Party economy that generates high-paying jobs, all of the programs above cannot be supported. The Progressive Conservative Party led by Doug Ford is moving Ontario past the pandemic to an economy that works for workers and provides value for taxpayer’s money. The 2022 provincial election is my first campaign. The real question is not why do you want to be a candidate for the Progressive Conservatives but why in Ottawa Centre? Ottawa Centre is a tough riding for PC candidates. Nothing should remain static however, and it’s time for pragmatic representation at Queens Park, not driven by ideology and crusading but experience and the ability to get things done. The challenges our society faces are difficult and complex, there is no simple solution. What I promise the citizens of Ottawa Centre is that I will represent you in a Progressive Conservative government with dignity and professionalism and ensure that you have a strong voice at the table. Ontario and Ottawa remain one of the best places in the world to raise a family and live one’s life. I want to keep it that way. I count on your support on June 2.

I believe in these solutions to ensure our province’s future is one of hope, opportunity and prosperity. If elected, I: 1. will fight to end all COVID-19 mandates, including: a complete repeal of Doug Ford’s emergency measures; a ban on COVID-19 vaccine passports; a reduction in the powers of local bureaucrats; and restitution for those harmed by emergency measures applied by the governments of Justin Trudeau or Doug Ford; 2. will oppose the $100 million taxpayer subsidy of Ontario’s political parties, ban lobbyists from party politics and crack down on voter fraud in internal party elections; 3. will promote a free press by cancelling the Toronto Star’s $500-million, online-gambling licence (gifted by the Ford PCs) and taxing all corporate media that receive any of the $600-million, federal government taxpayer “bailout” subsidy from the Trudeau Liberals; 4. will support growing Ontario’s economy at five per cent of GDP annually, starting with taking down wind turbines to reduce electricity prices and

improving productivity; 5. support tax relief by cutting the HST from 13 per cent to 10 per cent and axing the Doug Ford carbon tax; 6. will support education reform by reducing administrative costs, introducing alternative schooling tax credits and stopping “woke” activism with the removal of critical race theory and gender identity theory from our schools; 7. will support dignity and transparency in our healthcare by expanding early treatment for COVID-19 and clearing the backlog of procedures by rehiring healthcare workers and offering choice in services.

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Glebe Annex Community Association looks back at the year By Sue Stefko The Glebe Annex Community Association (GACA) is preparing for our annual general meeting, which will again be run virtually on Wednesday, May 18 from 7 to 8:30 p.m. People can reach out at info@glebeannex.ca for the Zoom link. Our headline presentation this year is by Canada Lands Company, which will provide results from the public consultation for the 299 Carling Avenue park. Councillor Shawn Menard will give his update, and GACA will give a rundown of some of the notable activities in the community over the last year. As always, development will be at the forefront. Our neighbourhood, which measures about 500 metres by 350 metres, continues to see an astounding amount of development, both planned and in progress, especially considering its size. The first of the ongoing projects was the John Howard Society site at 289 Carling. Construction began on the six-floor, 40-unit building in December 2020 and is expected to continue until late this summer. While residents were spared blasting, there were months of hoe-ramming, which coincided with COVID lockdowns, making the experience a difficult one for many. Metres away, construction on Katasa’s 16-storey retirement residence “The Clemow” at 275 Carling began last August. This time, residents endured both blasting and hoe-ramming, as bedrock was removed to make way for five storeys of underground parking. Initially slated to take six months

GACA volunteers building the pollinator garden in Dalhousie South Park PHOTO: GABRIELLE DALLAPORTA

(until about this past February), excavation lasted until this April, fraying the nerves and patience of residents as work continued six days a week in the final push to finish. Work has recently started on the parking garage; construction of the actual building will begin in the fall and take 18 months to complete. Meanwhile, Canada Lands’ 299 Carling project, expected to include four towers ranging from eight to 20 storeys, bringing an additional 550 units into the neighbourhood, finally received zoning approval in January, more than four years after public discussions began in November 2017. A smaller-scale development recently underwent a hiccup when the previous

owners of 7 Maclean sold the land after receiving site plan approval to build a three-storey, seven-unit building. The lot was recently purchased by Canci Realty; in the coming years, we expect 26 units to be added to the existing apartment building on 385 Bell Street South, which abuts the 7 Maclean property. All these projects are occurring within the boundaries of the Glebe Annex, yet there are also other major developments in the works nearby, such as the Booth Street Complex, Arnon’s plans for a much-anticipated grocery store at 450 Rochester, the new Civic Hospital, Katasa’s proposed 26-storey development at 774 Bronson and other developments near Carling and Preston.

As for traffic news (and there’s going to be more of it!) the Glebe Annex is now a designated 30 km/hr zone, with gateway speed signs installed last November to reduce speeding and make the neighbourhood safer for pedestrians and cyclists. Work also continues on the Midtown Bridges project, which will replace 10 bridges in five locations on Highway 417 between Preston and Percy streets. Last year, Orangeville was closed to become a staging area – it will remain closed at Lebreton Street South until the end of 2025. The noise barrier and all the trees and vegetation on the south side of the 417 were removed, with the Ministry of Transportation continuing the rebuilding process throughout this year, replacing the Rochester overpass this summer and the Bronson overpass next summer. This year is shaping up to be another busy one. GACA plans to conduct another community clean-up, starting from Dalhousie South Park, on Saturday, May 14 from 10:30 a.m. until noon – if it rains, we will do it the following day, Sunday, May 15. Our annual membership campaign, which will be done virtually, will kick off at the AGM on May 18. We also hope to restart some in-person social activities this year and will be seeking our members’ input as to what they would like to see. We hope the community will join us for all these activities as we kick off another busy year. Sue Stefko is president of the Glebe Annex Community Association.

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GNAG will receive grant funding from Canada Summer Jobs through Employment and Social Development Canada. We are extremely grateful for the support of the government and our federal MP, Yasir Naqvi. The funding, which we have received in the past, will again be used to integrate children and youth with special needs who require one-on-one or low-ratio support in our Summer Day Camps by hiring specialized staff. It has been an integral part of our Integration Support program, and we couldn’t be more excited to be able to continue to offer this vital service to the community. At GNAG, we believe all children of all abilities deserve to fully participate in the summer camp experience! If you have a child who may require special assistance or low-ratio support to have the best summer camp experience possible, we want to hear from you! Head to our website GNAG.ca for details. Interested in applying to be an Integration Support Worker this summer? Apply now! Send résumé and cover letter to Jason Irvine at jason@gnag.ca.

Financial assistance for GNAG programs

GNAG is committed to ensuring that its programs and services are available to everyone in our community. While we strive to make our programs affordable, sometimes families and individuals need financial assistance to help cover costs. Where does the GNAG subsidy fund come from? The fund is drawn directly from GNAG’s Community Development Fund, raised through fundraising. We receive no funding from municipal, provincial or federal governments for our subsidy program. GNAG has three options to participate in our recreational programs for all ages, memberships (including fitness and pottery),

day camps and childcare. We understand the cost of living is rising, making it harder to justify registering for that program you have always wanted to try or signing up for a fitness membership. The cost of summer camps adds up. GNAG’s financial assistance program can help reduce fees so that you can enjoy a program without the financial strain. The application process is very easy and confidential. For further information, go to GNAG.ca and click on JUMP TO - Financial Assistance.

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Perennial Exchange

Gardeners great and small are welcome at the annual Perennial Exchange on May 19, 6:30 – 8:00 p.m. Come to this free community exchange! Are your day lilies getting crowded? Are your hostas overgrowing? Bring your extra plants and seeds to exchange, as well as your questions and ideas. Good compost is welcome too. If you don’t have anything to exchange this time, come anyway. There is always lots to share. Located on the Second Avenue exterior stairs of the Glebe Community Centre.

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highlighted key issues that have yet to be addressed, including transportation and transit, the impact on heritage buildings and on the environment, and the lack of transparency and accountability for the Lansdowne Partnership financial plan. While we want the decision delayed until after public input, the City’s Finance and Economic Development Committee (FEDCO) approved the project in principle on May 6. Even if that is the case, the GCA will continue to press for transparency and public engagement on the future of Lansdowne. Public land deserves public consultation. We are very much looking forward to an in-person Great Glebe Garage Sale on Saturday, May 28. We had two years of virtual sales due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and we are not quite “back to normal” yet in terms of the levels of COVID-19 in our community. Please follow public health advice and stay safe. We are looking forward to seeing lots of folks in the neighbourhood. It’s a great chance to enjoy spring weather, connect with neighbours, recycle items to keep them out of landfills and support the Ottawa Food Bank – since the sale began in 1986, we have encouraged participants to donate 10 per cent of their proceeds to the food bank. Finally, the GCA’s annual general meeting will be held virtually on June 14 at 7 p.m. Please join us! Watch for more details about the meeting, including information about guest speakers, on our website and social media. We will have a few vacancies on the board next year and are always looking for people who would like to be more involved. There are several committees and lots of projects on the go, and all of this is powered by the work of volunteers. If you are interested in becoming more involved, please feel free to contact me (gca@glebeca.ca) or June Creelman, one of the GCA’s vice presidents (vp@glebeca.ca). Our regular board meetings take place on the fourth Tuesday of most months. Our next meeting will be on May 24 at 7 p.m. over Zoom. If you would like to attend, please contact Janet, the board secretary, at secretary@glebeca.ca.

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Lansdowne 2.0 and Older Adult Forum Lansdowne Park has been a controversial city hall issue for the better part of 15 years. During this term of council, it has come up three separate times. First, during the pandemic, to sustain operations and extend the deal with OSEG; then, when we convinced the City and OSEG to pull back on a proposal to privatize operations for the remaining public portion of the site (the great lawn, the horticulture building, Aberdeen Pavilion and Square and the public playgrounds); and now, with Lansdowne 2.0. You could excuse the neighbourhood for being weary of the ever-changing deal that was struck, albeit amid controversy, just a decade ago. In July 2021, City Council tasked city staff to work with OSEG to develop plans, cost estimates and a full citywide consultation for another round of revitalization of Lansdowne Park. The immediate impetus for this decision was the state of the north-side stands, including the Civic Centre, as well as public-realm improvements. Nearly a year later, there has been no public consultation, but the project was given “approval in principle” by the Finance Committee on May 6, and it will go to full council on May 25. It would see 1,200 housing units added to the site in three high-rise towers, with a rarely used financial arrangement where taxes from the towers would be allocated to pay for the new debt the city would take on to pay for new northside stadium stands, a new arena/event centre and more retail and office space. There is also a list of proposed public improvements over several years. Along with some worthwhile ideas are a lot of questions and concerns. Why was the report released with only seven business days for consideration by the public, without consultation? Why is there no solution for transportation being proposed? Why is the City willing to take on $239 million more in debt to finance this objective over others? Why are the 10 per cent of so-called “affordable housing” units likely to be above market rent for Ottawa if we are selling off public air rights? What about the deal that was struck by the provincial

planning authority just a decade ago as to the amount of housing on the site? How much of the public greenspace would be affected by the proposed new arena/event centre? We went through these questions at a recent Capital Ward Lansdowne 2.0 discussion which you can watch by googling Capital Ward YouTube. It is clear to most that the original Lansdowne deal has had its shortcomings, most of which were pointed out at the time – a big-box retail mix instead of an urban village, transportation concerns for the 100 events a year, a major change to the financial return the City was expecting from the Lansdowne waterfall (from $93 million to $0) and tree retention issues. The deal has also seen improvements to site use and upgrades to entertainment and sporting facilities. In 2019, we released a white paper on Lansdowne, calling for it to become truly “A Place for People.” That is what we’d like to see with this Lansdowne Revitalization 2.0. In order for that to happen, the City should allow robust discussion before any decisions are made, instead of putting a stamp of approval on a plan that requires much debate. Residents have a lot to contribute, and they should be heard.

Capital Ward’s Older Adult Forum

On May 19 at 6:30 p.m., we will be hosting Capital Ward’s Older Adult Forum on Zoom, in collaboration with Seniors Watch Old Ottawa South, which has partnered with other seniors groups in the area. We will discuss such topics as the lack of primary care and support services available to the older adult population. Featured panelists include Dr. Laura Muldoon, director of primary care at Somerset West Community Health Centre, and Ann Good, a health consultant with decades of experience helping clients to access homecare and to age in place. You can visit shawnmenard.ca/events to register. Shawn Menard is City Councillor for Capital Ward. He can be reached directly at Shawn.Menard@ottawa.ca.

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GREAT GLEBE GARAGE SALE ONLY A FEW DAYS AWAY By Colette Downie The Great Glebe Garage Sale is a popular community event that, except for the past two pandemic years, has been held on the fourth Saturday of every May since 1986, when it was established by the Glebe Community Association. This year, it is planned for Saturday, May 28 from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. The giant porch, lawn and driveway sale – together with the Bank Street merchants’ sidewalk sale – has become an annual community festival and recycling event, attracting thousands of people to the neighbourhood. The 2020 and 2021 in-person editions were cancelled due to COVID-19 in favour of an online sale. From the start, the GCA has encouraged sellers to donate 10 per cent of their proceeds to the Ottawa Food Bank. In 2019, the neighbourhood raised almost $12,000. Donations can be made online through the Ottawa Food Bank website at OttawaFoodBank.ca. Volunteers will be accepting cash donations at the Ottawa Food Bank table near McKeen Metro on Bank Street, and they will also be selling party and baking items donated by Bulk Barn. As well as donating directly, sellers can post items for sale on the GiveShop marketplace with proceeds going directly to the food bank. If you’d like to donate sales proceeds from a special item directly to the food bank, QR codes that can be printed out and affixed to items will be available closer to the sale. The GCA hopes all these options will help ensure that we reach our

This year’s Great Glebe Garage Sale and Bank Street sidewalk sale takes place May 28. Donation of a portion of sales to the Ottawa Food Bank is encouraged.

fundraising goals. While Ottawa Public Health points out that outdoor activities carry a lower risk of COVID transmission than indoor activities, it also recommends that everyone assess their own level of risk in deciding whether to attend large events. Tips on how to do so can be found at ottawapublichealth.ca. Anyone can sell their stuff whether they own or rent property (renters may need permission from their landlord to use common areas). No permit or special permission is needed to set up a sale table, though they cannot be put

on public areas, streets or sidewalks. If you plan to sell cooked food such as hamburgers and hot dogs, you will need a permit from the City of Ottawa – expect a visit from a food inspector to ensure you comply with public health requirements for selling food. If media interest is any indicator, we suspect that the Great Glebe Garage Sale will attract lots of buyers and sellers this year. This is one of the first large, outdoor, community events in Ottawa, and we have heard from many people and organizations that they have growing piles of stuff to sell and pass on.

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We hope that you’ll join in on May 28. Maybe like me, you’ll be busy selling stuff that piled up during two years of lockdown cleaning and decluttering. I hope you’ll find time to grab something to go from your favourite coffee place in the Glebe, maybe hit a bake sale and enjoy the spring weather while you check out the garage and sidewalk sales. Colette Downie is the volunteer coordinator of the Great Glebe Garage Sale for the Glebe Community Association.

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Finding a doctor in our neighbourhood By Carolyn Inch and Sandy Garland Senior Watch of Old Ottawa South (SWOOS) has reached out to residents of Old Ottawa South, the Glebe, Glebe Annex and Old Ottawa East in the past to find out what will impede us from healthy aging in our communities. One clear message we heard is that there is not enough primary care for seniors . . . or anyone for that matter. Primary care is the linchpin to most other services that are required for seniors to comfortably age in their community. Without referrals from your primary care provider, many seniors will find themselves without the support they need. We want to encourage you to find a doctor, establish that relationship and be informed of other great community services that are available. As of the end of March, we are aware that Lamira Medical Clinic at the corner of Bank and Kilborn is accepting patients (613-736-6946). The Appletree Medical Group has walk-in clinics located throughout the city and one central number (613482-0118). They say that applicants will have a family doctor within two or three weeks, but the doctor may be located in any one of nine or so clinics from Orleans to Kanata. Another option, thanks to the pandemic and the ability of doctors to bill OHIP for telephone consultations, is MD Connected. This telephone-based or digital service can be found by typing those words into a search bar. MD Connected is a multinational company that advertises a Glebe location and that they will be opening a physical office shortly. While we have been discouraged by the lack of primary care, we have been very impressed by Abbotsford House at the Glebe Centre. A one-of-a-kind non-profit, Abbotsford can be a first point of contact for seniors in our area, especially for those who do not have a family doctor. Abbotsford works with Home and Community Support Services (formerly LHIN) to figure out what health care services are needed and how to provide them. Casual services such as yard work is provided by volunteers free or for a nominal fee. Some offerings, like fitness, require certified instructors, so there is a charge. A big benefit of Abbotsford is that seniors can get involved in fitness, a craft class or book club, help out with the annual

jumble sale and raffles or join the board. Seniors can meet other seniors and talk to staff – by the time they need help in their home, they know where they can get it. SWOOS is working diligently to develop a local health hub, and we encourage anyone interested in working on the health care file or sharing their experiences with primary health care or home care

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to contact us at SWOOSadmin@oldottawasouth.ca. Carolyn Inch is a long-time resident of Old Ottawa South who is optimistic that she will have a doctor within walking distance before she isn’t able to walk any more! Sandy Garland has been living in OOS for over 40 years and intends to continue for another 40.

Concerned with health care? Write to our MPP candidates By Senior Watch of Old Ottawa South Politicians need to hear your concerns, and letters count! If the lack of primary care in our area and the problems with home care are important to you, please write to the Ottawa Centre candidates in our upcoming provincial election – by email, by mail or both. The letter below may be helpful as a guide and may also be found on the Ottawa South Community Association website (oldottawasouth.ca). Feel free to change any part of it and make it your own. Dear (Ottawa Centre candidate’s name): I am a resident of Ottawa Centre and am writing to you today to ask what you plan to do about the lack of primary care (family doctors or nurse practitioners) and the difficulties with home care in your riding. I understand that there are between 80,000 and 100,000 residents without doctors in Ottawa, many of them in Ottawa Centre. Of these, at least 20 per cent are seniors, who are rapidly rising in numbers. And those seniors will have to rely on walk-in clinics and hospital ERs for care, with no access to the comprehensive medical care that is important for aging healthily.

Instead of enabling aging in place, Ontario seems to promote long-term care facilities, which benefit neither individuals nor our health care system. Considering the lack of access to comprehensive health care in your riding, what will your party do to increase the supply of both primary and home care? Sincerely, Some addresses for candidates: Progressive Conservative: Scott Healey scotthealey.ottawacentre@hotmail.com PO Box 4606, Station E, Ottawa, ON K1S 5H8 New Democratic Party: Joel Harden JHarden@ndp.on.ca 109 Catherine St., Ottawa, ON K2P 0P4 Liberal: Katie Gibbs katiegibbs@gmail.com 445 Churchill Ave., Ottawa, ON K1Z 5E1 Seniors Watch of Old Ottawa South (SWOOS) is a committee of the Old Ottawa South Community Association that advocates for seniors and senior health care in Old Ottawa South and surrounding neighbourhoods.

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ABOTTSFORD

Destination Abbotsford, for the Great Glebe Garage Sale and Doors Open By Julie Ireton After a two-year hiatus due to the pandemic, Abbotsford at the Glebe Centre is once again inviting the public to the old stone farmhouse across from Lansdowne Park for Doors Open Ottawa on Sunday, June 5. While it will mark 20 years for this popular event in the city, Abbotsford House is celebrating 150 years since its construction. Originally built in 1872, Abbotsford was the private residence of Alexander Mutchmor. In the late 1800s, the home stood on a two-acre treed lot with a stable and gardens. It eventually became a home for elderly residents and was known as the Protestant House of Refuge. Today, the heritage house offers numerous activities for seniors including aerobics, language classes, community support services and day-away programs for people with Alzheimer’s and dementia. These programs benefit from fundraising

throughout the year, events that have largely been on hold throughout the pandemic. This spring, for the first time since 2019, organizers are throwing their energy into the senior centre’s major fundraiser at the Great Glebe Garage Sale on Saturday, May 28. It will be held both indoors and outdoors, rain or shine. Look for art, books, jewellery, women’s clothing and lots of flea market items. Deb Hogan started volunteering at Abbotsford last fall and quickly became one of the many members involved in sorting through hundreds of items donated by the community for the garage sale tables. “Every box we open is unique and kind of a window into the home that it came from,” said Hogan. “I often find myself thinking, what’s the story behind these items?” A huge variety of treasures come in the door, she says. In the past week she unboxed a dozen champagne glasses

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Abbotsford House, built for Alexander Mutchmor in 1872, will be open to the public during Doors Open Ottawa on June 5.

and two hand-stitched quilts. “We treat the donations with great respect. They meant something to somebody at some point,” she said. About a dozen volunteers have been working in pairs, a couple of days a week, to get ready for the sale. Bev Hellman, who relocated to Ottawa from Saskatchewan to be closer to her daughter and grandchild, said the volunteer group has allowed her to meet new friends. “I didn’t know anyone before,” said Hellman. “We call ourselves the fleas. We’re women who love to go to garage sales, second-hand and antique stores.” One of the volunteers researches the rarer or more valuable donations and recently discovered they’d acquired a $500 cup and saucer. While the garage sale brings in money to aid Abbotsford programs, organizers realize that the time they

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From Odessa to Ottawa:

a harrowing war-torn journey By Venice Smolnik

My name is Venice, and I come from Ukraine. At the age of 23, just a few days after my birthday, I have gone through hell and back. I was born and lived my whole life in Odessa. My mother abandoned me when I was 13, and my father died just last year. I have nobody else. I had an uneasy upbringing, and I only had one year to overcome grief and adjust to living on my own. I hoped that things would get better in 2022, and then the war struck my country. I have been friends with Lauren Wohlfarth, whose family lives in the Glebe, for a long time, and when she told me that her family was willing to shelter me, I cried. Not only because I was touched by their kindness, but also because I had to face the fact that I was leaving behind the only home I ever knew. I left my home on the evening of March 4, after hearing about an evacuation train heading to Lviv. The wagon was filled to the brim with people. We were standing in the train’s hallway, thankful that we got on. Thankful for the 15-hour train ride we would have to endure standing through the night. Thankful for a chance to survive. I spent the night lying awake on the floor of a train room. When we arrived in Lviv, we were greeted by lines of white tents and volunteers who offered warm food and

supplies to everyone. They gave me hope and also a warm bowl of borscht. Next, an hour-long bus ride dropped all of us off at a gas station in the middle of nowhere, with a very vague idea of where the Poland border was. Apparently it was 30 kilometres away. I lost the people I was travelling with, but found more people soon. Way more people. I ended up in the middle of a tightly packed crowd of people that lasted for many, many kilometres. So little space was left, we simply couldn’t walk. We had to stand for hours and then take a half a metre step towards the destination. Occasionally, everyone was asked to make way for the cars filled with humanitarian help, heading towards Ukraine. It became harder and harder, as more people came. It took around 24 hours to reach the gates to Poland. And after hours of waiting, finally, they simply opened the gates and let us in. People – women and their young children – had spent the night standing and waiting, with very limited food and water. I wish none of those kids ever got to experience the hell that this line was. Crossing over the border seemed to give everyone a second wind. After another bus ride, we were brought to a refugee centre. A simple building filled with enough mattresses and resources, but seemingly more people than it was able to shelter. I was lost, sick and hungry, and I had yet to find a way to travel to Vienna, where I was to meet up with Lynn Armstrong, Lauren’s mother. I asked the volunteers for help, but none of them knew how to help me. Then one of the volunteers said he will get me help. He said he will call his friends, and they’ll take me to a safe place where more Ukrainian families are right now.

Venice Smolnik, recently arrived from Ukraine, is touched by a surprise birthday celebration.

I admit I was scared. To be told by a person you just met that a car will take you to a safe place in the middle of the night was a risky offer to take. I had nobody to find me if it had gone wrong. But it didn’t. They brought me to a safe private house in the outskirts of Poland, where I was given my own bed, food and medical attention that I needed. I had no idea where I was, but surrounded by brave soldiers and more Ukrainian families, I finally felt safe. I fell asleep for the first time in three days. The first time I woke up, still sick, I had every Ukrainian mother who was also sheltering in that house come into my room and offer me various types of medicine for my flu. After a few days, I was doing much better. I just had to find a way to travel to Vienna. And the volunteers from that place made it possible in the safest way imaginable. They had people – a group of friends who had a van – who were taking Ukrainians to their specific destinations in Europe. I travelled along as they delivered an elderly pair to Germany. They were incredibly caring with us, staying awake to

drive through the night and getting us food along the way. After delivering the elderly pair to their destination and making sure they were safe, they took me to the hotel in Vienna and walked inside with me until I was in my room. The next morning, Lynn arrived at that hotel. For the next month, she guided me through the process of getting a Canadian visa. It had ups and downs, but in the end I got my visa. And I was finally able to enter the world of kindness and maple syrup known as Canada. Lauren’s family has been incredibly kind to me. Not only have they given me shelter, they’ve also given me the care and support I’ve never had before. To my surprise, I got to celebrate my birthday again, this time crying from happiness I still find hard to believe. And just recently, I was able to find out the name of the organization that sheltered me and gave me a ride. They call themselves IMES (Immediate Medical and Evacuation Service), and they are simply a group of volunteers who couldn’t sit at home and do nothing, as we were suffering. I was told they have grown since I was last there, now having about 200 cars helping them take displaced Ukrainians to their safe destinations across the whole of Europe. As an organization, they depend on donations to keep on delivering humanitarian help and delivering us to safer places. For those interested to help, their site is imes-info.net. I cannot thank them enough for making Ukrainians feel safe in the darkest moments of our lives. Venice Smolnik, a resident of Odessa, Ukraine, made the treacherous journey from Odessa to Ottawa to escape the war, with help from friends in the Glebe.

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Some of you might remember my article from last month’s Glebe Report, “Behind the mask – say what?” where I explained how my paid employment came to a halt two years ago, once masks became an everyday part of our lives. Being hard of hearing, relying on lip-reading to supplement my hearing-aid use, I was no longer able to work as a supply teacher in the school board. Here’s what I did next. I’d worked as a house painter with College Pro in my early 20s and continued to develop my skills with both interior and exterior work over the years. When supply work was scarce and during the summer, I always returned to that job. During March Break 2020, I contacted my Ottawa painting clients to start banging my paint cans together to drum up more work. First up was a family on Clemow. They live in a two-stairway, three-storey, hide-and-go-seek haven house – three generations of family, plus Porsche (their dog) needed me! It became my second home for a few weeks, while I gouged cracks, taped and mudded ceilings and walls, sanded, primed, rolled ceilings and walls. I then carried on by sanding floors, restaining, then eurathaning with multiple top coats, wherever I was told! It was a great way to stay safe as COVID-19 tore through the country. Once all my tarps were washed and dried and my painting gear was tucked away, my next thoughts were of my first ex-mother-in-law’s cottage! (Still with me?) Does anyone know a cottage that doesn’t need maintenance work? After getting family permission to go up for a long weekend, I loaded my car with food, water and a first-aid kit, then drove and finally paddled to the island cottage on Black Donald Lake. It was still pretty cold in mid-April, but I did manage a 15-second dip in the lake! Yes, I did scream! Later, after warming up, I assessed what work needed doing. The leaking chimney was still leaking, some rotten wood siding needed replacing, back steps needed some new boards, the breezeway floor looked very worn, and some new screens were needed. I knew I’d be watching a bit of YouTube! So, where does this knowledge and confidence come from? Mum and Dad. My dad loved visiting me in Canada, as there were always jobs that he could do with me. Side by side, he was the knowledge and I was the gofer. Over the years, I learned by watching, then by doing. There’s not much I won’t try, apart from electrical – I leave that to the professionals. I still insist on calling a Phillips screwdriver a “star” screwdriver, as it doesn’t resemble any Phillips I know, but it does resemble a star! Mum taught me resilience. What skills do I have? What knowledge do I have? Where can I use it for the greater good? A week later, buoyed with my dad’s confidence and my new-found Youtube knowledge, I packed my car with my tape measure, circular saw, drill with long extension cord, screwdrivers and hammer, 60 feet of bevelled wood siding, Tyvek waterproof wrap for under the siding, stain, metal paint, caulking, painting gear, pry bars, work gloves, swimsuit and 10 days of food and water.

When COVID hit and mask-wearing became de rigueur, leaving the hard-of hearing author without her teaching job, she spent the summer learning new ways to repair a cottage – a crash course in resilience. PHOTOS: JUDITH SLATER

Upon arrival, I pre-stained the wood and left it to dry overnight in the breezeway. Next morning, I was up the ladder, onto the roof, removing the rest of the rotten siding around the chimney. With my drill and circular saw set up on the roof, extension secured, I was ready to install the new Tyvec. Multiple trips up and down for scissors. Retrieving the pencil as it rolled off the roof. Measuring five times, cut once, okay– sometimes twice. Pre-drilled holes, overlapped the right way, nailed into place, caulked sides, stained a second time. I stood back to admire my work. Not bad! Best was me doing a giddy dance after the first rainfall. No drips! Next was flipping a step board that had a protruding knot. Then sanding the floor of the breezeway. That was a dusty few hours though my respirator mask kept my lungs clear of dust. The lake was my friend that day. Armed with a bucket and soap, I managed to clean off with chilly water before taking my daily “bigger” bath! Without painting myself into a corner, I finished two coats of floor stain and returned the furniture, ready for summer’s outdoor dining. It’s so great being hard of hearing at the cottage. Why? Well, it’s so quiet at night. The birds’ morning chorus isn’t a chorus until I’m ready for it, which is right after my first cup of coffee. Once my aids were in my ears and switched on, the lovely sounds kept me company as I cut, nailed, painted and swam. Knowing that mosquitoes and black flies were still a few weeks away, screen repair got underway. Next was the temporary repair of the back steps. With my food and water running out, I threw a few thousand rocks at the shore, knowing they’d roll back into the water in a few weeks. Then I got out the chain saw to cut up one large tree that had fallen during the winter before wistfully returning home to contemplate, ‘What’s Judith going to do next?’ Judith Slater is a former Glebe resident, now just around the corner in the Golden Triangle. She loves keeping busy. She recently Cleaned up the Capital along Argyle and Park avenues, as well as parts of Catherine and Chamberlain! Currently, she is being a “Granny Nanny” for a friend’s elderly mom, keeping Granny company while the family are on a long-deserved vacation.

BUSINESS BUZZ

Glebe Report May 13, 2022

Mr Puffs’ Greek treats a crowd-pleaser

By Anne-Marie Iemmolo The latest dessert craze to hit Lansdowne Park is Mr. Puffs, a pastry shop featuring a classic Greek dessert that can be garnished with an endless variety of toppings. It is located on the corner of Marché Way and Paul Askin Way, just across from Winners and Sporting Life. The bright orange logo and inviting atmosphere have attracted customers from throughout the community. The shop is known for its specialty puffs. The puffs or “loukoumades” are a traditional dessert in Greek culture. The name says it all. The puffs are about the size of a golf ball. Customers can choose how many puffs they’d like and the kind of toppings they’d like to try. “It’s like lighter than a regular donut, and it’s much crispier on the outside, which is what kind of makes them special,” explained Emma White, a team leader who has worked at the shop since it first opened at the beginning of the year. The yeast-based dough is made and fried in-house. The dough is vegan and peanut-free. In Greece, the puffs are traditionally topped with honey, but at Mr. Puffs, the toppings are endless. Customers can choose from a variety of toppings and flavours like maple syrup or Bueno, a flavour inspired by Bueno Kinder bars. The puffs can also be served with a dollop of Greek yogurt or English cream. The menu also features other beverages and delicacies. Some are rooted in

Emma White serves a loukoumade or Greek dessert at Mr Puffs, now open at Lansdowne. PHOTOS: A-M IEMMOLO

Greek cuisine, while others are sweet staples like milkshakes and ice cream. Mr. Puffs opened amidst another wave of COVID-19. Finding staff, marketing and promoting the brand were some of the many challenges at the start. But White noted that the community was extremely welcoming and helped support the business as it launched. “We have gotten lots of support from the local community, and they’re all excited to have something new in the

neighbourhood,” said White. The first Mr. Puffs location was opened in Montréal by founder Billy Siounis. As business began to thrive, Siounis started to expand, opening multiple locations across Canada. There are 25 stores across the country, including one in Gatineau, but the Lansdowne location is the first in Ontario. Quality customer service is one of the many important elements at Mr. Puffs. “I like to see them smile,” said Prince

Komahan, the store manager. “The word gets passed through, you know, by people, that there is good customer service here and that we’re friendly types.” He explained that making memorable experiences for customers has helped the store establish itself in Ottawa. The Lansdowne location has also helped introduce Mr. Puffs to a variety of new customers – with the Redblacks, 67s and Ottawa Atletico all playing there, the shop hopes the influx of sports fans will produce new fans of its desserts. Komahan says staff are now preparing to release their summer menu, filled with fresh, new treats for customers to enjoy. As employees prepare for a busy summer season, they continue to find ways to expand their reach. “We’ve gotten quite a few orders on Uber Eats,” says White. “And we’ve recently just started on Skip The Dishes as well. And we’re also available on DoorDash.” Customers can head to mrpuffs.com for more information on store locations, hours and nutritional facts. Anne-Marie Iemmolo is a third-year journalism student at Carleton University.

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BUSINESS

Irene’s Pub: A community hub determined to stay jamming By Rachel Fiset Bars, pubs and music venues have been among the businesses hit the hardest during the COVID-19 pandemic. Irene’s Pub, which has been operating in the same location on Bank Street for more than 35 years, has always prided itself on being a gathering place for people to come together while enjoying live music, said owner Mike Estabrooks. However, as both a live-music venue and a pub, Irene’s was definitely a victim of the trying events of the past two years. “It’s extremely hard to do business when your business is serving customers and you don’t have any customers to serve,” said Estabrooks. For Estabrooks and Irene’s, the hardest part of the pandemic was access to current information and short-notice closures. Between the province and the city, it was a challenge to understand which restrictions to enforce. “It was very difficult to find out what exactly we were and what exactly we were not allowed to do,” he said. Especially disheartening was being forced to close on short notice because food that was already purchased went to waste at great expense. “There’s all kinds of people without access to food. So, for us to just be throwing it out, it just, kills me.” The live music component to Irene’s didn’t make things easier. The pub books events about three months ahead, so constant lockdowns and changing restrictions left Irene’s in a cycle of booking, cancelling and rebooking. Still, Irene’s staff was determined to keep the pub a place of community. “We, like all other businesses, started coming up with creative ideas to generate revenue,” he said. To combat lockdowns, Irene’s offered virtual livestreaming of the music. They combined this with their Friday night “Food Club,” where the pub offered a three-course takeout dinner with a free ticket to join the livestream, allowing patrons to enjoy great food along with entertaining music from the comfort of their own homes. “The first ones were a bit rocky, I won’t

lie,” Estabrooks said, noting the challenges of livestreaming bands and singers, “but we got it down to a science where we had, at some points, 150 to 200 people joining our live chats.” Estabrooks spoke about how at the beginning of the pandemic, the livestreams were a great way of reuniting the community with local music, despite having to stay at home. “There was a sense of community and comradery, we all had a little bit of longing for socialization. So, we were happy to be able to provide that,” he said. Estabrooks said Irene’s was able to survive the pandemic because of two incredibly important factors: the staff and the community. While many pubs and restaurants had to let some of their staff go during lockdowns, Irene’s was able to retain all its staff, some of whom have been working at the pub for more than a decade. Although the decision to keep all staff on board resulted in financial losses, Estabrooks is happy he was able to keep staff “family” on board throughout the openings and closures. Giving a heartfelt thanks to the community for its support, Estabrooks said loyal customers were definitely what kept the pub going during the pandemic. “It was super warming, sometimes emotionally,” he said. Even though Irene’s serves traditional, comfort pub food – not necessarily what you’d crave too many days in a row – he saw customers coming in to eat seven days a week. Estabrooks mentioned that throughout closures, customers even came in to buy takeout

Mike Estabrooks, long-time Irene’s staffer and since July, the owner of Irene’s Pub, is grateful for the support of the community during the pandemic, and is looking forward to an exciting summer of pub life and live music. PHOTOS: RACHEL FISET

beer, though it cost more than at The Beer Store or LCBO. “They gave any sort of excuse to fork over a bit of money during the hard times; it was very warming.” Estabrooks said now that mandates and restrictions seem to be loosening for a while, he’s extremely excited for the summer. He has been working at the pub for more than 13 years and will celebrate his one-year anniversary as its owner in July. It’s certainly not the only thing he’s looking forward to. Hidden away in a little courtyard, on the other end of

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Spring has arrived in the Glebe! ITEM(S) TO BE REMOVED FROM PARK

WHERE TO DISPOSE

PAPER LITTER

HOME RECYCLING BLACK BOX

CANDY WRAPPERS, WRAPPING, STRAWS, STYROFOAM CONTAINERS

HOME GARBAGE

CANS, GLASS/ PLASTIC BOTTLES, PLASTIC UTENSILS, PLASTIC CONTAINERS

HOME RECYCLING BLUE BOX

LARGE PLASTIC ITEMS SUCH AS TOYS

ON-SITE PICK-UP

CIGARETTE BUTTS

HOME GARBAGE

BROKEN GLASS

HOME RECYCLING BLUE BOX

ADULTS ONLY SHOULD PLACE PIECES COLLECTED IN A PLASTIC CONTAINER WITH A WELL FITTING LID

DOG FECES

HOME, GREEN BIN

FECES CAN BE FLUSHED DOWN THE TOILET IF REMOVED FROM A COLLECTION BAG. IT CAN ALSO BE PLACED IN THE REGULAR GARBAGE IF WRAPPED IN PAPER AND SEALED INTO A LEAK-FREE BAG.

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By Zoe Sutherland The City of Ottawa’s 29th annual spring Cleaning the Capital campaign is now underway! Come join members of the Glebe Community Association’s Parks Committee in the cleanup of a Glebe park near you. We need your help to make our neighbourhood parks immaculate and enticing again after winter. Cleanup will entail picking up litter, animal waste removal, raking/tidying beds, sweeping up cigarette butts, erasing graffiti and removing unwanted large or small items that undermine the safety, beauty or tranquillity of the parks. Everyone is welcome – kids, adults, friends and other family members. No special ability is required, just a willingness to do what you can. Please wear long pants, long sleeves and bring gardening gloves if you have some. Other items that would be useful but not necessary include rakes, grabber tools, outdoor brooms, plastic containers with a well-fitted lid, leaf bags and disposable plastic bags. The fun is planned for SATURDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 14. If it rains, we will try again on SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 15. Spring Cleaning the Capital is a volunteer-led, city-wide campaign that started in 1994. The campaign aims to bring residents together to make our whole city clean and green. The proper disposal of items removed is emphasized, as detailed in the table below. For further information about projects, campaigns and programs that the Glebe Community Association Parks Committee is working on, please visit: www.glebeca.ca/ parks-committee. Should you have any ideas or concerns relating to Glebe Area Parks, please email parks@glebe.ca.

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GLEBE PARKS AND VOLUNTEER LEADS PARK NAME AND LOCATION

LEAD NAME

BROWN’S INLET, BROADWAY AVENUE

N/A

CAPITAL PARK, ELLA STREET

EMELIE BRASCHI

CENTRAL PARK EAST & THE EXPLORATION GARDEN, BANK STREET

ELIZABETH BALLARD, MEGHAN STOREY & PETER MCKENZIE

CENTRAL PARK WEST, BANK STREET

CONNIE BOYNTON

CHAMBERLAIN PARK, BETWEEN LYON & PERCY

JASON & JANINE ANDERSON

DALHOUSIE PARK

SUE STEFKO, SCOTT TEMPLETON

GLEBE MEMORIAL/ GLENDALE PARK, GLENDALE AVENUE

ANGUS MCCABE

LIONEL BRITTON AKA THE TOT-LOT, FIFTH AVENUE

MEGHAN SCHREINER

PATTERSON CREEK LAGOON, CLEMOW AVENUE EAST OF BANK

WILLIAM PRICE

PATTERSON CREEK PARK, LINDEN TERRACE

ZOE & KINSEY SUTHERLAND

SYLVIA HOLDEN PARK, THE DOG PARK AND FIREHALL PARK; O’CONNOR STREET

HEATHER DOUGAN

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BIRDS By Jeanette Rive

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Swallows are the small-winged acrobats, swooping and diving, chasing small insects. They are the aerial insectivores, a group of birds which includes swifts, flycatchers and Purple martins. Sadly, as with so many birds, their numbers have diminished over

Swallows,

the aerial acrobats The iridescent blue feathers of the Tree swallow catch the light. PHOTO: JEANETTE RIVE

the last 50 years because of the decline of the insects they eat due to widespread use of insecticides in agriculture and domestic gardens. Environmentalists are pushing for much stronger regulations as these insectivores eat hundreds of insects a day. The Tree swallow is the most common swallow around here, seen over waterways and ponds such as Brewer Park, where nesting boxes have been erected, and Dow’s Lake, where the Northern rough-winged swallow can also be seen.

Tree swallows in flight are wonderful to watch, their iridescent blue feathers catching the light as they swoop quite close to the surface of the water or fly as high as 50 metres in the air. Also, listen as they chirp while in flight! They can fly up to 45 km an hour to catch prey. They can even be playful, dropping a feather in mid-air and flying down to catch it – perhaps practising their skills. (The Peregrine Falcon is the world’s fastest bird, reaching diving speeds of 186 km an hour.) Tree swallows are migrants, flying to Florida and Central America to winter. Unlike many birds, they migrate during the day, roosting in large flocks at night, causing a murmuration as they swoop around before landing in the trees. They winter further north than other swallows, living on bay berries when insects are not available. They are the first swallows to return around mid-April, coming back to the same nesting site every year. Choosing a new mate every spring, they are socially monogamous, though the male will venture elsewhere to mate with another female. Tree swallows nest in cavities in trees, such as holes drilled by woodpeckers – their name comes from where they like to nest (though they also use nesting boxes!), just as Barn swallows get their name from nesting in barns. The male selects a site and shows it to his prospective mate, and there is often much competition to claim the best nesting spots. He initiates nest building by placing a bit of nesting material and some feathers, and the female completes the process. Four to six white eggs are laid – no colour needed to protect against predators because the nest is in a cavity and well-protected – and incubated by the female for 13 to 16 days. The eggs will hatch in the order

they are laid. Both parents feed the babies, who leave the nest after about 20 days. The parents continue to feed them for another five to six days. There is only one brood a year. How do you tell the difference between a swift and a swallow? Swifts fly higher than swallows, spend most of their lives airborne, are generally darker in colour (soft browns and greys) and their bodies are shorter and a bit plumper. But the main difference is that swifts cannot perch! If you see a bird perching upright on a nesting box, telephone wire or reed, it’s a swallow. Swifts have long claws which are only suitable for clinging to vertical walls inside chimneys or in hollow trees and caves. For a close view of Purple martins, go to the Nepean Sailing Club where there is a martin house with about 96 nesting holes. The air around is filled with busy martins flying in and out feeding their young. They also arrive in April and leave around mid-August. You may have read about the outbreak of Avian flu. It affects mostly waterfowl such as ducks, geese and some raptors, but some poultry farmers in the area have also had to cull their flocks. It is expected that the virus will fade over the summer, but it is recommended that feeders and bird baths be kept extra clean. If you see a goose or duck behaving abnormally, don’t call Safewings or the Wild Bird Care Centre – neither can accept them. Go to the Safewings website safewings.ca to learn about symptoms and, if necessary, the telephone numbers of the Canadian Wildlife Health Cooperative, which is monitoring the situation. Jeanette Rive is a Glebe bird enthusiast and regular contributor to the Glebe Report.

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• d e i r F n e k c chi By Tim O’Connor

It’s called Southern fried chicken, but we Canadians are brought up to love the stuff. We start as kids infatuated with chicken fingers or nuggets, and we grow into fried-chicken-chewing adults. Yet, most of us never make it at home because it’s intimidating. It doesn’t need to be. We have this notion that we need a whole day and a massive kitchen because we’ll be breading chicken 5,000 times, and then you need a big deep fryer or giant pot of oil. Really, all you need is a shallow pan with enough oil to cover a third to half of the chicken. I prefer a Dutch oven because it holds the heat better. It also seems more authentic, and the more beat-up your Dutch oven is, the better. Making fried chicken is easy. We’ve got to bring back the days of Shake ‘n’ Bake. It can be as easy as putting chicken in a paper bag with your flour mix and shaking it, then frying it in a pan with oil and finishing it in the oven. Air fryers also work, though I prefer my fried chicken in a pan.

Fried chicken doesn’t need to be intimidating.

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Tim-Fried Chicken I start with a marinade of salt, pepper, sour cream and milk or butter milk. The bacteria in the sour cream or buttermilk tenderize the chicken and gives it that tang. You can also use coconut cream and milk, about a 50-50 mix, with a teaspoon or tablespoon of rice wine vinegar or other vinegar. You can add egg for thickness, but it’s not necessary. I add a little Tabasco sauce for heat. Put it with the chicken in a Zip-loc bag in a bowl in the fridge for two to eight hours, the longer the better. So put your floured apron on, turn up some good old country music, get your Southern drawl on and shake, fry and bake some tasty chicken. Tim O’Connor grew up in the Glebe and is head chef at Flora Hall Brewing.

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Seasoned Glebe novelist knows how to spin a tale Death by Misadventure by Ian McKercher

Review by Bob Nielson The suspicious Ottawa death of a Norwegian major-general. A hit and run during a December blizzard that shuts down Ottawa. A harrowing sleigh ride across a Gatineau lake. A handful of dead military men. Those are just some of the twists that will keep readers glued to Death By Misadventure, the latest Frances McFadden mystery by Glebe novelist Ian McKercher. McKercher’s previous three novels (The Underling, The Incrementalist and Carbon Copy) are mainly set in Ottawa in the 1930s and 40s. All have the delightful Frances McFadden, secretary to the Governor of the fledgling Bank of Canada, as their central character. The first two books were historical fiction – coming-of-age stories in which Frances, like the Bank itself, matures quickly amid the challenges of the Depression and the Second World War. Carbon Copy overlaid the

The story is firmly anchored in Ottawa in December. You can almost feel the crunch of snow underfoot murder-mystery genre onto the historical fiction. In Death By Misadventure, our hero is still with the Bank, which has grown into a major Canadian institution, just as Frances has grown into a supremely capable secretary. Actually, to say that fails to do her justice. She is a great deal more than the word “secretary” implies. Frances has huge responsibilities and finds herself rubbing shoulders with people from all strata of Ottawa society, including politicians, diplomats and bureaucrats. Friends in the RCMP, the Ottawa Police and Military Intelligence quickly learn what a useful ally she is with her keen eye, sharp intelligence

and wealth of contacts. It’s one of the quiet achievements of the novel that Frances’s job always seems demanding and interesting. It’s easy to imagine a bored secretary jumping at the chance to do some sleuthing as an antidote to paper-pushing, but it’s not like that. Granted, her workplace is organized and responsible, with trusted colleagues working harmoniously. The dark and dangerous world that her sideline takes her into, on the other hand, is full of lies and intrigue. At the core of this novel, set in December 1942, is the death of Carl Gustav Fleischer, a Norwegian major-general whose apparent suicide raises questions that lead investigators down unpredictable pathways. Frances is called upon to help, but her demanding job means she is constantly juggling commitments. The fast pace of Frances’s life is in keeping with the pace of the novel; the action starts on the first page, and it doesn’t slow down. How did Fleischer die? What’s his backstory? Why are Russian and American spies interested in him? Is there a conspiracy to hide the truth? Frances discovers it’s a very dangerous world for those trying to answer these questions. If you’ve read McKercher’s earlier novels, you’ll know that the prose is crisp and restrained. The dialogue carries the story. He doesn’t tell you all that much – he lets the characters tell you. Your knowledge of what they do is largely embedded in what they say. That’s a treat, because the dialogue is rich and varied, with a lot of witty banter, giving the novel a pleasantly light-hearted quality that balances the dark tale of greed and murder.

The story is firmly anchored in Ottawa in December. You can almost feel the crunch of snow underfoot. There are many references to Norway and a strong sense of the war affecting everything everywhere, but Ottawa is our stage, and we are keenly aware of where we are. In the end, the case is basically solved. I say “basically” because not everything is cut and dried. We learn how Fleischer died, but one mystery leads to another, and they all lead to larger questions that lack simple answers. This is wartime, and there are a lot of state secrets to be kept. The reader, like Frances, gets to know enough to feel satisfied, but a world caught up in a global conflict remains somewhat shadowy – not a place for moral certainties. Fleischer himself is a complex character. Even the killers and thieves in this story act from motives that often involve loyalty and patriotism. As the opening quotes for the novel tell us: “There are many ways to be virtuous or to fail at it” and “The difference between life and death depended on miniscule, seemingly unimportant things, and the smallest decisions. . .” Death By Misadventure is well worth reading. It keeps you interested and keeps you guessing. You’ll feel comfortable in the hands of a seasoned novelist who understands how to spin a tale and how to take you to another time and place. The novel retails for $25. Contact the author at (613) 235-4863 or ian.s.mckercher@gmail.com, or local bookstores. Bob Nielson is a former resident of Findlay Avenue currently residing in Jambaroo, Australia.

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thriller & mystery review

By Sylvie Chartrand Here is a summary of some of the books I have read so far this year, in the order I read them, not by favourites. I mostly like mystery novels, but hopefully you can find something that appeals to you. The Huntress, by Kate Quinn Kate Quinn is a New York Times bestselling author of historical fiction. A life-long history buff, she has written seven historical novels, including The Alice Network, the “Empress of Rome Saga” series, and the “Borgia Chronicles” series. All have been translated into multiple languages. The Huntress weaves the separate narratives of three central characters. Nina Markova, a brave and reckless Soviet Russian, always wanted to fly. She risked everything to join an all-female night bomber regiment to fight the Nazis during the Second World War. When her plane went down behind enemy lines, she met a young and trusting English fighter. They survived together, until the day they met The Huntress, a woman accused of war crimes, often against children, in Poland. Ian Graham, a British war correspondent gave up his job to become a Nazi hunter. One case is haunting him, the Huntress. Nina Markova is the only witness who escaped the Huntress alive. Together, they try to find her. In post-war Boston, 17-year-old Jordan McBride dreams of becoming a photographer. Her long-widowed father marries a German widow, Anneliese, who has a child named Ruth. Jordan is happy for her father and for having such a thoughtful stepmother, but something doesn’t feel right, and Jordan becomes curious about Anneliese’s past. The Long Call, by Ann Cleeves Ann Cleeves is the author of more than 30 critically acclaimed novels and in 2017 was awarded the highest accolade in crime writing, the Crime Writers Association Diamond Dagger. She is the creator of popular fictional detectives Vera Stanhope and Jimmy Perez, who can now be found on television in ITV’s Vera and BBC One’s Shetland. Cleeves worked as a probation officer, bird

observatory staff, cook and auxiliary coast guard member before she started writing. She lives in North Tyneside near where the Vera books are set. The Long Call is the first book in a new series called “The Two Rivers.” Detective Matthew Venn lives in North Devon with his husband Jonathan Church, who works for the Woodyard, which has a day care for people with disabilities. The body of a man who has been stabbed washes up on the shore near their house. During the investigation, two women with Down Syndrome who attended the day care are kidnapped. Since the murdered man, Simon Walden, had been volunteering at the Woodyard, Matthew needs to figure out what if any connection he had with the women. This investigation causes Matthew to revisit his past and the people he left behind because of his rejection of the strict evangelical community in which he grew up. Deadlock, by Catherine Coulter Catherine Coulter is the New York Times bestselling author of 86 novels, including the FBI Thriller series and the Brit in the FBI international thriller series co-written with J.T. Ellison. Coulter lives in Sausalito, California with her husband. FBI Special Agent Dillon Savich witnesses two men trying to kidnap a woman. He fights them off and rescues the woman who turns out to be Rebekah Manvers, wife of the wealthy congressman Rich Manvers. While he tries to figure out who would want to kidnap her, he receives a box containing one third of a puzzle. Once assembled, he sees an ancient pier and a sidewalk littered with human remains but has no clue where this picture was taken. Then a second part of the puzzle arrives, and Special Agent Pippa Cinelli recognizes the picture as her hometown, St. Lumis, Maryland. Savich sends Pippa to investigate undercover. On

her second day there, she is attacked and left in an abandoned building. Who knew she was coming? She needs to trust the local police chief, Matthew Wilde, for help. While Savich drives to St. Lumis to check on Pippa, his home is set on fire with his wife and child inside. Savich has his suspicions about who is messing with him, and he must stop them before they succeed in getting revenge and wiping out the witnesses who could put them in jail for a long time. These books and so many more are available at the Ottawa Public Library! Sylvie Chartrand is a public service assistant at the Sunnyside Branch of the Ottawa Public Library.

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Reading

Here is a list of some titles read and discussed recently in various local book clubs: TITLE (for adults)

AUTHOR

BOOK CLUB

Lear’s Shadow

Claire Rothman

The 15 Book Club

The Pull of the Stars

Emma Donoghue

The 35 Book Club

The Red-Haired Woman

Orhan Pamuk

Abbotsford Book Club

Nomadland

Jessica Bruder

Broadway Book Club

What Strange Paradise

Omar El Akad

Can’ Litterers

Drive the Plow Over the Bones

Olga Tokarczuk

Helen’s Book Club

Truth be Told: My Journey Through Life and the Law

Beverley McLachlin

Seriously No-Name Book Club

The Magician

Colm Tóibín

The Book Club

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

Taylor Jenkins Reid

Topless Book Club

If your book club would like to share its reading list, please email it to Micheline Boyle at grapevine@glebereport.ca

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FILM

Classic ‘spaghetti western’ powerful and captivating The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

A wonderful screwball legal comedy My Cousin Vinny (US, 1992) Directed by Jonathan Lynn

Review by Barbara Popel When you think of actor Joe Pesci, what do you think of? A terrifyingly psychopathic Italian gangster? The manager of a violent boxer? A burglar? Well, if you’ve never thought of Pesci as a comedian, treat yourself to two hours of wonderful comedy – My Cousin Vinny. Pesci plays Brooklyn lawyer Vincent (Vinny) LaGuardia Gambini. Vinny is a former auto mechanic who, after six tries, finally passed his bar exam six weeks ago. He’s planning to specialize in personal injury cases, but when his young cousin Bill and Bill’s friend Stan are arrested in Alabama for murder – a murder they didn’t commit – they need a defence lawyer. So even though Vinny has never attended a murder trial and knows nothing about judicial procedure, he arrives from New York with his fiancée, Mona Lisa Vito (the superlative Marisa Tomei), to be the boys’ lawyer. Vinny and Mona are real “fish out of water” in small town Alabama, and this is played for exquisite laughs. Vinny’s idea of blending in is to wear fancy black cowboy boots with silver toe caps. Mona’s skin-tight leather clothes, bouffant hair and décolletage make her seem from another planet. Their first encounter of grits for breakfast is priceless! If you’ve never had grits…well, it’s an acquired taste. Tomei won the 1993 Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in this role, and it’s easy to see why. She and Pesci are

totally credible as a smart sassy couple who have been engaged for 10 years. They have their own private way of talking to each other. For example, there’s a scene involving an annoying dripping tap that escalates from tetchiness to playacting that gets more and more extreme (“It’s the kind of wrench NASA uses!” she yells) to a touching, loving denouement when Vinny agrees with Mona that, yes, the tap is broken. Every other cast member is downright perfect. But I’d be remiss if I didn’t single out Fred Gwynne as the courtly by-the-book Judge Chamberlain Haller. You may remember this 6-foot-5 actor from the TV show The Munsters. The scenes between him and the vertically challenged, loud-mouthed Pesci are an acting class about how funny a scene between two complete opposites can be. Speaking of the law, My Cousin Vinny is number three on the American Bar Association’s list of Greatest Legal Movies. And Vincent Gambini came in at number 12 on the association’s list of Greatest Fictional Lawyers (Who Aren’t Atticus Finch). It’s that accurate in portraying the American legal system. Give yourself a treat. See My Cousin Vinny. Youse will love it. Running time: 120 minutes Rated: 14A Available: AppleTV, Cineplex, Disney, Crave, Google Play, Hoopla, Microsoft, Prime Video, StarZ, YouTube Barb Popel has lived in the Glebe since 1991. At university in the early 1970s, she was introduced to the joys of film. She’s been an avid filmgoer ever since.

(Italy, 1966) Directed by Sergio Leone

Review by Angus Luff The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is a 1966 Italian/American Western film that follows Blondie (Clint Eastwood), a hardened gunslinger, and Tuco (Eli Wallach), a loud mouthed, short-tempered outlaw, as they work a deal to use Tuco’s bounty to get cash around the west. But, just when their deal ends, they find a carriage running in the desert with all the passengers dead except one known as Bill Carson (Antonio Casale). The dying passenger tells Tuco of money buried in a cemetery, but as Tuco tries to get water for him, he tells Blondie the name of the grave it’s buried under before dying. Because only Tuco knows the name of the cemetery and only Blondie knows the name of the grave, they reluctantly team up to find the cash. Cold-blooded hitman Angel Eyes (Lee Van Cleef) is also searching for Carson’s money, and an adventure ensues to see which individual makes the journey out alive, who grabs the cash and who falls by the wayside. The film has a simple, accessible plot, but Sergio Leone, Ennio Morricone and the crew make brilliant strides to captivate the audience with this journey. Blondie, Tuco and Angel Eyes aren’t likeable good people, yet they go through so much pain, suffering and sorrow that you begin to second guess who to root for, who to hate, who should win and who shall fall. The way the film plays around with relationships and truces between characters is spellbinding. You start to love and hate these characters the more they backstab each other, make truces, one-up each other and torture each other.

The film explores trust, hope and despair within its characters so well that it makes some films which try to tackle the same topics look embarrassing and weak in comparison. It is one of the most entertaining and captivating films in cinematic history, and with such genius and enthralling story and characters it becomes easy to see why the film has the reputation it does. Music and direction are also big factors in my love for this film. Sergio Leone manages to get every crevice, nook and cranny of the west to look as dirty, gritty and real as possible. The claustrophobic, intimate, extreme close ups contrast with grand, wide shots – it’s impressive that one director can expertly master the two directorial opposites. The west feels alive, sometimes beautiful and dreamlike, but mostly cruel and unrelenting. The set pieces and standoffs expertly flow one into the next, as the film gains a rhythm and flow between scenes, locations and dialogue, so that the long running time never feels apparent, as Leone sweeps you into this incredible adventure. The music from Ennio Morricone is a masterpiece in its own right. It’s brimming with adventure, hope, despair and energy – the film’s electrifying music never gets old, always feels appropriate, and has the same impressive variety in styles, as the directing has the same variety in its scope. The music has the power to make you feel so immersed in the conflict that you feel as though you are the third character in this story, with the characters, in the locations, searching for the cash. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is a lot of things. It’s sometimes dark, sometimes light, funny, exciting, brutal, violent, suspenseful, hopeful, cynical, and while it might seem daunting and intimidating at first, as soon as you’ll see it, you’ll begin to understand the rhythmic, electric power this film has over everyone who has seen it. It’s one of those films that go beyond simple entertainment and become an indescribable experience that you’ll never forget. This film continues to soar through the sky, glowing as a testament to the power of filmmaking, never slowing down in its old age, as new films struggle to approach its excellence. No matter what I say about the film, there will still be more to comment on, so rich in detail and emotion, that it easily wraps you in this believable and wonderful journey, and as soon as the film reaches its end you’ll be wanting to watch it all over again. Running time: 177 mins Available on MGM and Prime video channels Angus Luff is a student at Glebe Collegiate. He grew up in the Glebe and is obsessed with movies.

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EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE A ROMP THROUGH A PARALLEL UNIVERSE Everything Everywhere All at Once (US, 2022) Directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert

Review by Kate Roberts I think Waymond Wang (Ke Huy Quan) says it best: “Everything is OK.” That may be so, Waymond, but what about everywhere? Everyone? Simultaneously? The movie with this year’s toughest title to remember, Everything Everywhere All at Once, is like walking in the ocean and meeting a sudden 20-foot drop-off. All was normal just seconds ago but now the world is full of half-baked coral and unblinking creatures, and my brain is water. Remember the old days when every year had a theme to its movies, like pirates, superheroes, vampires or post-apocalyptic teenagers? Well 2022 is the year of the multiverse. Let your common sense go, free your mind and open your third eye to the possibility that another you in another world created another timeline by not reading this review. Every life is rife with potential, but Evelyn Wang (Michelle Yeoh) can’t help feeling like hers has been squandered. She and her husband, Waymond, live above their dry-cleaning business and are currently struggling to file their taxes. The incessant judgement from her father, Gong Gong (James Hong), and rebellion from her daughter, Joy (Stephanie Hsu), don’t help the stressful situation. Pleasing the IRS is Evelyn’s top priority – that is, until her useless husband seems to snap out of his uselessness on the way to their tax meeting and begs Evelyn to help him save the universe. Her day takes a very weird turn. Moments later, tired of the IRS agent Deirdre (Jamie Lee Curtis), Evelyn decides to do as her not-quite-husband requested and splits her existence in two: one is still pretending to listen to Deirdre while the other is in a janitor’s closet dodging an attack from not-quite-Deirdre. I

imagine this is a pretty close description of how it feels to be audited. What follows is a sprint through the building as not-quite-Deirdre hunts Evelyn down and not-quite-Waymond explains the intricacies of the multiverse. Parallel-universe movies are almost as hard to describe as timetravel movies, and Everything Everywhere All at Once is no exception. For example: Alpha Waymond comes from a universe that freely travels to other universes through extreme moments of embarrassment, and in doing so they disrupt the new universe’s copy identity to give the travelling imposter access to all of the copy’s skills – except, if you travel to too many universes, your brain overloads, and you either fry or turn into a supreme being who worships bagels and maims stuffed animals for fashion. Voila. If you haven’t seen Everyone Every Time All the Wheres, I’m sorry, that’s the best summary that I can do. If you have seen it – this is a pretty accurate description, no? This film is batshit crazy. The trick to staying afloat is to just let go. If you think about it too hard or linger on a scene for too long, you will be lost forever. But if you let the exposition flow and take the many, many action breaks to mentally catch up, you should be fine. What I deeply appreciate about Everything Everywhere All at Once (aside from being an original story) is that it’s told in real time. We follow Evelyn from her IRS meeting through the building as chaos breaks loose. When she jumps to another life, 30 seconds there are 30 seconds gone from her original space. This format helps us stay grounded – at least for chapter 1. All the Things Everyplace Many Times takes place over three chapters: 1. Everything, 2. Everywhere, 3. All at once. The first chapter is mostly exposition as we study string theory while dodging attacks and learning kung fu. I’d say that chapter 1 is much heavier than the others (which is true for runtime), but chapters 2 and 3 are thick

with content. Once we get the gist of who is where, Everything Everywhere All at Once serves up a massive plate of feelings. This movie is about potential, about skills, about good vs. selfish and about love. If The Matrix hooked up with Matt Haig’s The Midnight Library, their rebellious lovechild would be this movie. Relationships are different in every life, and Everything Everywhere All at Once doesn’t naively preach the concept that love transcends the multiverse. In some worlds, it does, but not all, and Evelyn gets the rare opportunity to explore which relationships mean the most to her, why and how they became that way. That is, when she’s not learning knife skills or expanding her lung capacity to stay alive. When it’s not pushing the boundaries of philosophy or reviving the kung fu movement, Everything Everywhere All at Once exists to show off the best of Michelle Yeoh and stretch the laws of fashion. Evelyn picks up many skills from many lives, and essentially evolves

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Running time: 2 hours 19 mins Showing in theatres Kate Roberts grew up in the Glebe and is a movie addict who has been writing reviews since 2013. Her reviews can be found at plentyofpopcorn.wordpress.com.

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The Art is back in the park! By Michelle Potter I first joined the team at The New Art Festival in 2019. That first fest was such an incredible experience for me. It was such an honour to work behind the scenes for this big and beautiful event. And what a perfect weekend it was– gorgeous weather, happy artists, smiling friends. Without knowing it at the time, we were going out with a bang – that festival was to be the last for three years because of the COVID-19 pandemic. But now we are absolutely thrilled to say that The New Art Festival is back in person in the park! And we’re celebrating our 30th year! (The last two still count.) Goodness, it’s been a dull and drab time, hasn’t it? It would be so easy to focus on all that, to focus on the years we’ve missed. It would be easy (and a little cathartic?) to complain and lament about the things we’ve lost. But with the world opening back up and with spring in full bloom, I’m going to focus on the positive and celebrate. I’m going to celebrate our artists – the people who make this festival what it is. The people who paint, photograph,

collage and show us the world on a canvas. The people who sew, mend, knit and give us the gift of warmth. The people who sculpt tiny worlds for us to visit and explore. The people who make the jewellery and accessories that allow us to express our individuality. The people who blow glass so delicately that you’re sure it could float away in the slightest breeze. The people who put their heart and soul into their work and in all that vulnerability, share it with all of us. I’m going to focus on the applications I get the honour of receiving and reviewing. The emails that make it a pleasure to open my inbox every day. The ones that make me feel like I’m walking around in my own private art gallery – one that’s open just for me and allows visits in a robe and slippers. I’m going to feed off the positive energy I get from our social media pages. The artists who excitedly share our event with their followers. The fans who tell us how much they’ve missed us. I’m going to give thanks to our volunteers. To the dozens of people who work so hard and give so much of themselves and their time on festival weekend.

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Those who make sure the garbage cans don’t overflow. Those who make sure the roads and pathways are safe. I’m going to thank our food vendors. The ones who fill our park with scrumptious smells. The ones who prep and cook nonstop all weekend, so that our bellies may be full and happy. I’m going to focus on our sponsors. The small local businesses who have supported us for so long, who stood by us during this pause and who have so graciously offered to sponsor us again. I’m going to focus on the way an artist’s face lights up when they receive

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a sponsor’s award. And I’m going to celebrate our park. Our beautiful Central Park. I moved to the neighbourhood about two years ago and walk by the park almost every day. I look over, and I can see it. I see the rows upon rows of tents. I see the trees and the creek and the sunshine. I hear the birds singing and the children laughing. I hear our beloved park calling our name, welcoming us back home. There’s something special about this festival. Something magical. It is such an incredible display of talent, of community, of joy. We’ve missed it so much. And we’ve missed all of you. If there’s anything this time away has taught us, it’s that distance does indeed make the heart grow fonder. Please join us! The New Art Festival is happening June 11 and 12, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Rain or shine, you’ll find us in Central Park in the Glebe. We’ll have over 150 artists exhibiting their work. We’ll have local food vendors and entertainment. And we’ll have porta potties. So you and your friends and family can make a whole day of it. For more information, please visit our website or social media pages: thenewartfestival.ca; thenewartfestival on Facebook and Instagram. See you in the park! Michelle Potter is a local crafter, art lover, event planner and slipper enthusiast.

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The Glebe Art in Our Gardens and Studio Tour is a popular (and COVID-safe!) way to see local artists and their works on foot or by bike. Mark your calendars for July 9 and 10.

Art in Our Gardens and Studio Tour By Martha Bowers

After a two-year hiatus, the Glebe Art in Our Gardens and Studio Tour is coming back this summer! It will be held on the weekend of July 9 and 10. During 2020-21, in the midst of COVID-19, we were fortunate to have a pop-up gallery for a few months in one of the empty stores at Lansdowne Park. The artists were happy to have a safe

place to exhibit their work during that difficult time. But now we are so excited to re-launch the tour in its original outdoor setting and to welcome visitors back to the lovely gardens of our Glebe neighbourhood. This year you will see many familiar returning artists but also some new faces. There will be a range of art from painting to pottery to photography to glass-art window design.

Visitors will be pleased to hear they will be eligible to win a work of art by one of the artists by filling in a ballot during the weekend. Information and maps of the art sites will be available by June on social media, in local stores and on our website www.glebearttour.ca.

Mark your calendars for this signature summer event and support local artists, important members of our community whose creativity brightens up our lives and our homes. Martha Bowers is an organizer of the Glebe Art in Our Gardens and Studio Tour.

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Perley Health creative arts instructor Cynthia O’Brien works on the exhibit. PHOTO: GILLIAN KING

Perley Health creative arts instructor Gillian King sets up the residents’ art as part of the “Wingspan” exhibit at the Ottawa Art Gallery until May 22. PHOTO: CYNTHIA O’BRIEN

Perley Health long-term care home residents at work in the clay studio. Yolanda Robertson (left) contemplates her swan. Paul Louiseize (right) adds glaze to his Mourning dove, while Kathleen Cronier (middle) sees eye-toeye with her Barnyard owl. PHOTO: GILLIAN KING

Spreading their wings through art By Judy Field

Birds have the freedom to soar, and residents of the Perley Health long-term care home have taken this freedom to new heights. “Wingspan,” an exhibit currently on at the Ottawa Art Gallery, features thematic artwork of birds that residents did during the pandemic. Given that Perley residents interact with birds year-round – from building bird houses in the woodworking studio, feeding birds in the courtyard and birdwatching (especially during lockdowns) – the inspiration for the exhibit was born. Through the Perley’s Ozerdinc Grimes Family Therapeutic Recreation and Creative Arts program, residents are encouraged to express themselves with

paint, wood, sculpture and ceramics. “We make art here every day,” says Gillian King, Perley’s creative arts instructor. “[The exhibit] expands peoples’ knowledge of what can happen in a long-term care home and what we do day to day to give life meaning and give life purpose.” Seniors can participate in the different art modalities available when they move in to the Perley, and many come to the studios with little or no previous art experience. In 2020 at age 67, resident Paul Louiseize started to paint and was then introduced to ceramics. “Art has always been inside of everybody,” he says. “Everybody has it. You got to let it out.” In preparation for this exhibit, residents transformed slabs of clay into their birds of choice.

Pounding the clay with mallets and then using rolling pins, they learned to use new tools to affix wings and etch facial features. Choosing colours from the variety of glazes available sparked much discussion and encouragement among residents around the studio table. Residents also created paintings and sculptures for the exhibit. “There are a lot of really beautiful and rich conversations that came out of making works for this show,“ said King. “Wingspan” runs until May 22 at the Ottawa Art Gallery. Judy Field volunteers in the Perley Health’s Creative Arts Studio and loves working with the residents. She is the long-time advertising manager for the Glebe Report.

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Spring, a time of renewal Spring is here, at least officially! Over the past month, whether you were celebrating Ramadan, Passover, Easter, Vaisakhi or Nowruz, it has been a time of renewal and rebirth. Our local shops and farmers’ markets are opening again, and we are feeling hopeful for a safe and healthy summer of get-togethers and barbecues. However, given that COVID-19 is still amongst us, I strongly suggest following public health guidelines, especially masking and vaccination. As we enjoy warmer weather and the easing of restrictions, we are also showing solidarity with the people of Ukraine whose suffering and resilience has moved us all. Our federal government has implemented further measures including a dedicated Canada-Ukraine authorization for emergency travel (CUAET) program and providing relief to European partners who are currently supporting displaced Ukrainians. This allows for targeted charter flights to Canada, short-term income support for up to six weeks to

ensure basic needs are met and temporary hotel accommodations for up to two weeks. Our support for Ukraine, for democracy and for human rights remains unwavering. The federal government also released Budget 2022 on April 7. From the very beginning, our government has been focused on growing the middle class and building a better Canada that leaves nobody behind. I am thrilled that the budget focuses on many of the priorities of our community of Ottawa Centre. The key focuses of this year’s budget are: making housing more affordable, continuing the fight against systemic racism, delivering on climate action and clean air, and moving forward on reconciliation with Indigenous communities. Here are some specifics: Housing: Making housing more affordable • Introducing the Tax-Free First Home Savings Account to make it easier for young Canadians to

save for their first home. • Implementing a two-year ban on home purchases by foreign buyers. • Introducing a Tax-Free Home Savings Account of up to $40,000. • Launching the Accelerator Fund to build 100,000 new homes. Climate change: Investing in a clean economy • More incentives to encourage the use of zero-emission vehicles. • More investments to support renewable electricity projects. • Create a new agency to sustainably manage Canada’s resources, further protecting our land, lakes and oceans. Dental care: Investing in a new dental program • Investing more than $5.3 billion to provide dental care to Canadians starting with 12 year olds, then expanding to under 18 year olds, seniors and persons living with a disability in 2023. • No co-pays on dental care for families with an annual income below $90,000. Systemic racism: Fighting against discrimination and hate • Launch a new Anti-Racism Strategy and National Action Plan on Combatting Hate with a funding of $85 million over four years. • Funding of $50 million over two

years for the Supporting Black Canadian Communities Initiative, to continue empowering Blackled and Black-serving community organizations and the work they do to promote inclusiveness. • Providing $11.2 million over five years to push back against religious discrimination, hateful rhetoric and racism at home and abroad. Indigenous communities: Focus on reconciliation • Investing in the RCMP’s National Centre for Missing Persons. • Closing the gaps in housing for Indigenous peoples. • Investing $686.1 million to improve health outcomes in Indigenous communities. You can read more at canada. ca/budget. In addition to these new measures, Ontario families will soon benefit from Canada’s $10-a-day national childcare and early-learning program. This federally led initiative will meet families’ needs for childcare that is high-quality, accessible, affordable and bilingual. As we emerge from the pandemic, our government will continue to focus on Canadians and build a better future for everyone. Please don’t hesitate to reach out to my office at 613-946-8682 or via email at Yasir.Naqvi@parl.gc.ca for more information on these initiatives, or assistance.

Ottawa stands with Ukraine A great example of the community coming together to support Ukrainian relief efforts was Atlético Ottawa’s “Pay What You Can” initiative at their April 9 home opener in the Canadian Premier Soccer League at TD Place that supported the Canada-Ukraine Foundation. Sporting a special yellow and blue kit to honour Ukraine’s national flag, Atlético Ottawa defeated Cavalry FC 1-0 in front of an enthusiastic crowd that braved the cold weather – a great start to the season! Once again, thanks to the people of Ottawa for their generous support of local and international causes. We can always count on you!

By Jim Watson

Jeff Hunt (left), Andrii Bukvych (middle) and Jim Watson (right) pose for a picture at TD Place to launch the “Pay What You Can” initiative ahead of Atlético Ottawa’s home opener on April 9. CREDIT: CITY OF OTTAWA

That same day, I wrote to Sean Fraser, the minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, to advise that the City of Ottawa is prepared to help in welcoming the eventual influx of refugees from across Ukraine. Work and dialogue on this front are ongoing, and I want to thank the federal government for its collaboration to date. I also want to take this opportunity to thank Ottawa residents and businesses for their support from the very beginning. While struggling to recover from the pandemic, residents and businesses in Ottawa are raising funds and donating proceeds from sales to the Canadian Red Cross and other organizations helping Ukrainians on the ground. That’s the Canadian way – and I’m so proud of it.

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I know that the people of Ottawa and Canadians across the country are horrified by the atrocities that we are witnessing in Ukraine as Russia continues to show a blatant disregard for the international rule of law, destroying peace and security in the region. Millions of Ukrainians have been forced to flee their homes, while others stay and fight against the Russian occupation of their communities. Ukrainian society is defined by a love of freedom and democracy, and I know we have all been inspired by the bravery of the citizens, soldiers and leaders of Ukraine. I’m proud that Canada is home to the world’s third largest Ukrainian diaspora, with almost 1.4 million citizens of Ukrainian descent. Canadians stand in solidarity with the people of Ukraine, and we continue to do what we can to support those impacted by this growing humanitarian crisis. A few weeks ago, I met with Andrii Bukvych, the chargé d’affaires at the Ukrainian Embassy in Canada, outside the Russian Embassy at the corner of Charlotte Street and Laurier Avenue, to put up street blades that read “Free Ukraine Libre” as a symbolic gesture of support for its people and as a daily reminder to those living at the embassy that Ottawa stands with Ukraine.

Jim Watson is the mayor of Ottawa.

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PLANNING OP-ED

Public and private developers’ role in bad planning Let’s put it to voters in the upcoming provincial and municipal elections By Ken Rubin In the upcoming provincial and municipal elections, private developers’ stranglehold on building more high-rises, upsetting neighbourhoods and creating urban sprawl will feature prominently. But so should the role played by municipal, provincial and federal institutions in partnership with private developers. For instance, not many people assume The Ottawa Hospital, whose main money comes from the province, is a developer, but it is. It is building a large hospital on sensitive parklands at the Experimental Farm that it got for free. The tender bid has just gone out for construction of the controversial parking garage. Yet the hospital, with a $500-million fundraising campaign underway, sees no need to pay for and build a transportation extension from the O Train to make their ill-chosen site more accessible to its clientele. Those costs will exceed $200 million. It should not be the taxpayers of Ottawa who bear the costs to ease traffic congestion and to help patients get safely to the hospital. Then there’s the City’s claim that taxpayers will not pay a cent for selling off Lansdowne Park air rights for condo towers. The site is already full of high-rise condos and box stores. But now Ottawa Sports and Entertainment Group (OSEG) wants the city to push through a plan before the October municipal election to build more high-rises while extending its time to pay back the City. But it’s the National Capital Commission (NCC) who for years has been the one selling off the most public land to private concerns, claiming they are surplus lands. It started big-time when area developer Marcel Beaudry became the powerful NCC chair and continues under the current chair, former city councillor Toby Nussbaum. It includes the unelected NCC going ahead with privatizing the last remaining large downtown public space at LeBreton Flats. First to be sold off cheaply was land for Claridge Homes’ high-rises. Then a setback occurred with the collapse of the RendezVous proposal by the Ottawa Senators and the Trinity

Development Group for a combination arena and massive condo project. So the NCC moved selfishly to divide the land into sectors so more area developers could benefit, meaning more lucrative revenues would come their way. The first such sector, just sold to the Dream Company, is between the Pimisi LRT station and the misplaced “downtown” library, a condo area the NCC cynically calls the Library District. Final negotiations for that deal, though, must include the NCC and Dream sharing in and paying for an enclosed, winterized, moving sidewalk between Pimisi station and the Adisoke Library for library clientele. As well, the NCC is going to be “voting” next month to turn the area between Pimisi and Bayview LRT stations into a resurrected sports entertainment arena to be sold to an area entrepreneur. No serious consideration has been given to using this high-traffic area for a national and local public meeting space and wellness centre, with the rest of the tract set aside for a grand central park. The myth that the damage to Ottawa’s landscape is being done solely by private developers must be dispelled. It’s the City, for instance, that gave the unconditional approvals at no cost to private developers building large towers at LRT stations. Public institutions, however, like the Central Library and the Civic Hospital got secondary treatment nearby but no direct LRT entry. Add to the equation Premier Ford, now up for reelection, who has helped developers and urban sprawl immensely by passing laws to get rid of unwanted local zoning and planning regulations. While the City of Ottawa is dissatisfied with Ford’s intrusion into its planning turf, the City and Ford share similar goals of not wanting any substantial, restrictive, planned and public-led sustainable urban growth. Two upcoming elections – one provincial and one municipal – are the time to debate these cozy developer relationships and the role played by public agencies, and to choose candidates to fight back against such detrimental partnerships.

Public entities like The Ottawa Hospital and the City of Ottawa play an increasingly influential role as urban developers in their own right. PHOTO: LIZ MCKEEN

Ken Rubin lives in the Glebe and writes on local planning issues. He is reachable at kenrubin.ca.

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Your spring maintenance checklist By Paul Myk No one likes to be nagged, but if you haven’t tackled your spring maintenance chores yet, now is the time. The shift into spring is the perfect time to think about your home’s seasonal to-do list. And having a regular schedule of maintenance needs can put a stop to the most common – and costly – problems before they occur. While regular maintenance should be done throughout the year, spring is the time to assess any winter damage to your home, start repairs and prepare your space for the warmer months. Here is a handy checklist of tasks that should be done each spring (and some that should be done year-round). 1. Have fireplaces, wood stoves and chimneys cleaned and serviced as needed. 2. Clean or replace furnace air filters to close out the season. (This should be done monthly when heating your home.) 3. Shut down, drain and clean your furnace humidifier; close the damper on units with central air conditioning. 4. As the warmer weather sets in, turn on power to your air conditioner and check the system. (It should be serviced every two to three years.) Clean or replace the filter. 5. Check your dehumidifier and drain. Clean if needed. 6. Turn off gas furnace and fireplace pilot lights where possible once you no longer need to heat your home. 7. Test well water quality. (You should test for bacteria every six months.) 8. Check smoke, carbon monoxide and security alarms, and replace batteries if you didn’t when the clocks changed. 9. Test your hot water tank’s temperature and pressure relief valve. Caution: It can release hot water that can cause burns. Check your

manual before testing. 10. Clean windows, screens and hardware. Replace storm windows with screens (repair or replace where needed). 11. Once all danger of frost has passed, open the valve to your outside hose connection. 12. Walk the perimeter of your home, checking your foundation walls for cracks, leaks or signs of moisture. Repair as needed. 13. Make sure your sump pump is working. Check that the discharge pipe is connected and drains water away from the foundation. 14. Re-level any steps or decks that moved due to frost or settling. 15. Check for and seal any holes in your exterior cladding that could allow in small pests. 16. Clear your eavestroughs and downspouts of debris, and check for loose connections. Make sure water will flow away from the foundation. 17. Clear all drainage ditches and culverts of debris. 18. Once it warms up, repair and paint fences where needed, but allow wood fences to dry before tackling. 19. Start your spring landscape maintenance; fertilize young trees if needed. If you don’t feel comfortable tackling some of these tasks, consider hiring a qualified professional to help. Many companies have a dedicated home care team to handle home upgrades, maintenance and repairs. They can assess and provide a maintenance plan that will help you avoid costly damage and repairs if left unattended. TIP: Make sure you take pictures of anything you might want to share with an expert for advice or to monitor or remind you of a situation later. Paul Myk is a project manager in the Home Care Division at Amsted Design-Build. He has more than 20 years of construction experience working throughout North America and Europe.

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The Mystery of the green tent By Sarah Prospero

My big brothers’ green canvas tent held the key to their mysterious “boy-ness” – and their precious collection of Hardy Boys books!

another week; I have to be quick about the whole business of choosing one and settling down to read, a decision based primarily upon the appeal of the cover picture – Miss Tuttle be damned – and how aptly it illustrated what was suggested by the book’s never terribly fascinating title. I must also be mindful of the time because Mark and Charles, the “big boys” (not to be confused with the “little boys,” Max and Tony, who have yet to graduate to the tent) are off being boys somewhere along the shore or in the woods, hunters and foresters that they are. I know they’ll be gone a while because they are always out and about during these midday hours, when it’s too early for the beach and too late to stay in bed. They’ve taken with them their bone-handled hunting knives, the terrifying ones sheathed in tooled leather, their prized possessions. When I lie down to read, I don’t know which sleeping bag belongs to which

brother, but I do know that they will be back soon and that their reaction to my having infiltrated their lair isn’t always predictable, so I have to get down to business immediately. Some days I am welcome to be there; others, not so much. To tell you the truth, I am interested in the lives and adventures of the Christie boys as much as I am in the Hardys. Maybe more. Entering their tent is as close as I can get to them and all their fascinating boy-ness. So I am looking for clues in that tent – spent matches, GI Joe comics, shards of flint, things that will reveal to me a little bit about the mysterious world inhabited by my big brothers. Sarah Prospero is a retired Toronto high school English teacher, now happily living and writing in Almonte, having discovered that she loves writing, especially about growing up at her family cottage on the Ottawa River.

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If you grew up bookended by brothers and your only sister was vastly older than you – 10 years older! – your first introduction to mystery novels and amateur sleuths was not the intrepid Nancy Drew but the fabulously clever Hardy boys, Joe and Frank. Personally, I scoffed at Nancy – I didn’t even like her name. I imagined her far less plucky than she was reputed to be, even kind of namby-pamby if you know what I mean, which if truth be told was a completely unfair assessment, given that I never even cracked open one of her books, let alone cracked one of her mysteries. But never mind all that, nor Miss Tuttle, the wobbly, waddling old librarian with the wispy hair, who prefaced each of our visits to the Arnprior library with the admonishment to never judge a book by its cover – though I doubt she split the infinitive. I rejected all the Caroline Keene titles featuring pert, perfect, little Nancy’s blonde, all-American looks without a second thought. But those Hardy boys – they were another story. Those were some good-looking detectives a girl could be interested in. Though a little preppy, to be sure, in their Oxford cloth buttondown shirts and old-man cardigans, I found their looks ever so appealing, especially the way a shank of dark, shiny hair always seemed to have fallen down over their foreheads as they scrambled fearlessly up a dark stairway into an even darker attic, flashlight in hand, eyes gleaming with excitement.

Clark Gable had that hair in Gone With the Wind. Joey Tribiani did too in the best episodes of Friends. Maverick, aka Tom Cruise in Top Gun, sported the same look. So, I might add, did my handsome husband. But I digress. The real reason I couldn’t get enough of Frank and Joe was that reading their adventures provided my only excuse to enter the mysterious realm of the army-green oilskin tent that my brothers occupied each summer on the lawn outside our cottage. Once inside, not only could I consume book after book of Hardy boy adventures, just as brothers Mark and Charles did, I could poke around inside my brothers’ lair. If I close my eyes for a moment and concentrate my memory on that tent, I can almost smell the thick, pungent scent of the thick, waxy canvas, its pervasiveness coating the interior like new paint on a wall. I can hear the zipper whinge as I pull it quickly up and then back down, careful to keep out the bugs. I feel the hot air through the netting and the sun’s warmth that has been collecting in the tent all morning. There are tall lanterns with their crisscrossed hangers, unlit matches and burnt-out ones strewn carelessly beneath the lamps. There are rumpled sleeping bags, bright plaid flannel interiors exposed to the filtered daylight that streams through the walls and floats as you head into its atmosphere, hovering all around you as though you are underwater in a faintly murky, silent new world. And there are the books, the latest batch brought home last week, due in

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IN & AROUND

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Texting, according to Generation Z By Sophie Shields

The Glebe according to Zeus

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Mask surplus sparks new fashion line! The Glebe is buzzing with chatter about where and how to get this season’s three must-haves from GiddyPigs’ new Upcycle Fashion line. “I just LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the Reverse Cravate Hat! It’s not just sophisticated, it’s a true fashion classic,” gushed Donna Vercatchy, renowned fashion pig from Little Italy. “Few can come up with one fashion innovation in a decade, let alone three in a couple of weeks!” she asserted. Just how did Zeus do it? “Innovation is a matter of seizing opportunity,” explained Zeus, GiddyPigs CEO and designer of the fashion line. “When Mr. Ford lifted the mask mandate in Ontario, I was ready to act fast as the masses sought to de-clutter their closets and corporations needed to unload their stock. The rest is fashion history.” Indeed, fashion history is in the making! Throngs of dogs at the Sylvia Holden Dog Park can be seen sporting the new Chapeau KN95 popularly dubbed “K9”. Sales are through the roof for BoHo Bottoms, and the Reverse Cravate Hat is up for multiple

fashion awards. The accolades do not seem to stop. Forbes listed Zeus as number 1 on their World’s Greatest Corporate Pigs List, bumping Tusk, Bozos and Rump. Concurrently, environmentalists are hailing GiddyPigs.com upcycling as the wave of the future. Getta Thumbguard, edgy environmental youth activist, was seen wearing BoHo Bottoms at her latest school strike, week 193.

Texting is a landmine of unwritten rules: periods are passive aggressive; three exclamation marks make you untrustworthy; and a laugh-cry emoji can be downright anxiety-inducing. So before you unwittingly insult the teens in your life again, let’s get your texting etiquette up to speed. 1. Periods or full stops in texting are passive aggressive. Imagine this conversation: JOE: “How are you?” BOB: “Good.” While some people might read that as a perfectly normal text chain in proper English, for generation Z there is no question: Bob is upset with Joe. Is Bob angry that Joe hasn’t texted him in a while? Should Joe know better than to ask how he is? Either way, avoid texting anyone with full stops unless you’re angry with them, in which case go right ahead. 2. Two exclamation marks is the perfect number – or four. But three exclamation marks comes across as too socially perfect – it makes me wonder if you felt obligated to send this text and are faking your excitement. So, as a rule of thumb, !! is the way to go – it shows you are And rumours are swirling that the illustrious pig is most likely to receive this year’s Nobel Pig Prize for managing to impress both the corporate and environmental world. Some question the frenzy, however. “Isn’t the K9 and the Reverse Cravate

more excited than ! but not as sycophantic as !!!. If need be, !!!! can be a strong response as well – it tells me you really are excited and aren’t just following social norms. 3. The abbreviated OK – “K” or a thumbs-up emoji – is seen as an easy response, which means that the other person doesn’t care about you. For instance, I recently received a “K.” from my mother in response to my “Can you pick me up?” Literal chills. While my mother may have meant nothing beyond it was OK for her to pick me up, the abbreviated response, aligned with the full stop, cut me cold and deep. Obviously, I took the bus home. So, the next time you text a young person, avoid full stops and using three exclamation marks. And if an OK is needed, add a smiley face. Or better yet, call them the old-fashioned way. They may not answer, but at least they won’t be insulted. Sophie Shields is a Carleton student studying global literature and a proud Franco-Ukrainian who is learning German. She is the social media coordinator for the Glebe Report. Hat just the same thing?? And ‘chapeau’ just means ‘hat’!! What am I missing?” asked Bob, a student and part-time barista. “Bob is from a small fringe minority of anti-fashioners. He deserves no response,” explained Zeus’ communications officer.

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TULIPS

Canadian Tulip Festival turns 70! The Canadian Tulip Festival, held online the last two years due to the pandemic, is back in person this year from May 13 to May 22 and is celebrating it’s 70th anniversary. The festival commemorates Canada’s role in the liberation of the Netherlands in the Second World War and the annual gift of tulip bulbs from the Netherlands. The display of colour and blossom in Commissioners Park at Dow’s Lake can be stunning. You can also meet some of the NCC gardeners who look after the tulips and ask them questions – how do they decide what colours to combine? How do they time the blooms? Everything you’ve always wanted to know about tulips! Tulip Bingo at $5 per card is twice a day at 2 p.m. and 3 p.m. in Commissioners Park. You can win prizes and after Bingo, play Plinko! New this year are night-time activities. You can view the tulips at night along the Dow’s Lake boardwalk lit by UV blacklight, which is how the bees and butterflies see them. In conjunction with the National Film Board, there will be free screenings of NFB movies every evening at 8 p.m. The idea is to bring a blanket or chair and some popcorn, or get something from the food truck. Film offerings include a range of NFB classics from the short animation Log Driver’s Waltz or The

Big Snit to Indigenous films like Forgotten Warriors as well as historical and nature films. The website gives the full schedule with running times. A “Ghosts of the Glebe” guided tour will also take place at night, at a cost of $20 per person (children 12 and under free). Ghosts of the Glebe is an extension of a project started by Glebe resident Dave O’Malley, who researched young men who left the safety of their homes in the Glebe to fight in the Second World War and never returned. Photographs of the young men were published in the Glebe Report of November 2019 (“Neighbourhood of Sacrifice: mapping the loss of Glebe families in the Second World War,” by Dave O’Malley). This issue, as are all back issues of the Glebe Report, is available online at glebereport.ca. During this night-time walking tour, the stories of three young men, one from each branch of the military, will be brought to life. Tours will take place daily from 8 to 10 p.m. on weekdays and 8 to 10:30 p.m. on weekends. The festival will end with a bang: fireworks at 10 p.m. on Sunday, May 22, weather permitting. Thrill to the spectacle of fireworks reflected in the waters of Dow’s Lake! Virtual programs will also be available. For more information, go to tulipfestival.ca.

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Fall registration opens for Glebe Cooperative Nursery School By Julie LeBlanc One of central Ottawa’s longest running preschools, the Glebe Cooperative Nursery School (GCNS) is the perfect place for your preschool child to blossom. GCNS is a non-profit licensed childcare centre in which parents can take an active role in creating an exceptional learning environment for their child. GCNS is located in the fully accessible Glebe Community Centre in the heart of our community. The children learn and play in our bright and spacious classroom. The classroom is organized into carefully planned learning centres. These learning centres allow the children to choose their own activities and to work and play independently or in small groups at their own pace and ability level. Learning centres include special areas for reading, science and discovery, dramatic, cognitive toys, blocks, sensory exploration and art. The classes also have regular access to the main hall in the community centre. GCNS is one of the only nursery schools in the city that takes the children outside to play year round. Our fully fenced yard is equipped with a variety of materials to provide opportunities for gross motor and social experiences. We have exclusive use of this yard when we have outside playtime. The goal of our program is to provide a positive learning experience, a social experience, and to encourage the development of the whole child. We want to lay the foundation for a lifelong love of learning. We want the children to view school as a positive place. We want them to learn to love finding out new things, to learn how to make friends and to learn that

adults other than their parents can be fun, caring and trustworthy. Children are considered competent, capable of complex thinking, curious and rich in potential. The Glebe Cooperative Nursery School began in September 1977 as a parent-child playgroup. Over the years, the playgroup evolved into a preschool staffed by highly experienced, professional early childhood educators. There are two programs offered from September to June. The Toddler Program, for children ages 1.5 to 2.5 years, takes place on Tuesday and Thursday mornings from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. Here, children eager to play will enjoy the learning activities in their first entry into early education. Wonderful, loving teachers, a bright cheery environment, and lots of learning opportunities provide a happy start to learning and socializing. The Preschool Program for children ages 2.5 to 4.5 years takes place on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings, from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. Through independent engagement in stimulating activities, and directed learning time with educators in small

The Glebe Coop Nursery School, located in the Glebe Community Centre at Third and Lyon, aims to instill in young children a lifelong love of learning. Registration for the fall Toddler and Preschool programs is now open. PHOTOS: COURTESY OF GCNS

groups, preschool children develop the social, physical, intellectual and creative skills that form the foundation for success in their ongoing education. The morning program is an excellent way of preparing for junior kindergarten. The Glebe Neighbourhood Activities Group also offers a supervised Lunch Club program within the community

centre from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., as well as a variety of supervised afternoon preschool programming from 1 to 2:30 p.m. to extend your child’s day. Visit glebepreschool.com for more information and to register your child. Julie LeBlanc is a Glebe Coop Nursery School parent and is responsible for communications.

Good Morning Creative Arts & Preschool is on the move! By Katherine Liston After 30 years in Logan-Vencta Hall at 174 First Avenue, Good Morning Creative Arts & Preschool (GMCAPS) will be moving in 2023. Many Glebe residents have fond memories of attending or dropping off their children (or grandchildren!) at one of the school’s many programs and will miss the sight of the yellow sunshine sign. While the children and educators will be sad to say goodbye to 174 First Avenue, everyone is so excited about this new move and the adventures in store for GMCAPS. Luckily, we are not moving far away – after the recent sale of Logan-Vencta Hall, we are looking for a new home in the neighbourhood. After exploring a variety of options, we are thrilled to be in discussion with a local community organization about sharing its space. We look forward to revealing details of the new location soon. However, preparing the new space and making sure that GMCAPS can continue to provide high-quality programming for a variety of age groups will involve extensive renovations. GMCAPS offers morning and full-day programs for toddlers and preschoolage children, as well as after-school art-based programs with pick-up from local schools including First Avenue, Mutchmor and Corpus Christi. At

Children play with sensory tables and tabletop toys in the classroom.

Preschool children play with mats and large wooden blocks in the gross motor playroom.

Logan-Vencta Hall, children enjoy use of two rooms: a classroom that includes learning and playing stations for activities like arts and crafts, dramatic play and circle time; and a gross motor playroom with slides, big blocks, mats and ride-on toys. The school’s priority is to make sure the new space provides children with an environment that supports their ability to play and learn. The relocation and associated renovations will involve major costs, and our fundraising team has been hard at

work. GMCAPS would like to extend a huge thank you to volunteer coordinator and fundraiser Afsana Kabir, as well as to the local businesses who donated to our Valentine’s Day Raffle: Le’s Jewellery, Capital Home Hardware, Wilf & Ada’s, McKeen Metro, Wine Station, Bloomfield’s, Burgers & Fries Forever, Top of the World, Planet Coffee, True Loaf Bread, La Roma, Purple Urchin and Knifewear. GMCAPS students showcased their artwork at a fundraiser art show, the first in-person

event since the start of COVID-19, held at St. Giles Church on May 6. The relocation isn’t the only exciting thing coming up. We are also looking forward to warm summer weather and – the highlight for many kids – summer camp! GMCAPS offers art-based camps for children ages three to eight years old. The camps run from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. each day. Camps are filling up, but spaces are still available through the summer! The themes for this year include fairy tales, Storyscapes, space, nature, science, world art, adventures and superheroes. To register or to ask for more information, contact Karen at goodmorningpreschool@gmail.com. Katherine Liston is a Glebe parent volunteer at Good Morning Creative Arts & Preschool.

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COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS

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DOORS OPEN OTTAWA: ABBOTSFORD HOUSE is 150 years old this year. We are looking for history buffs and helpful folks to organize the archival displays and help show off Abbotsford on Sun., June 5 as part of Doors Open Ottawa. Please contact Lonelle Butler at volunteer@ glebecentre.ca or call 613 238-2727 ext. 353. ABBOTSFORD SENIOR COMMUNITY CENTRE (950 Bank St.) is now accepting books, puzzles, jewellery, greeting cards, art, elegant treasures flea market items and women’s clothing in excellent condition to sell in house at Abbotsford and at the Great Glebe Garage Sale on Sat., May 28 to help support the Centre’s much needed fundraising efforts! Thank you for your donations. FRIENDS OF THE FARM ANNUAL PLANT SALE (friendsofthefarm.ca/event/2022-friends-of-thefarm-plant-sale/), Sun., May 15, 8 a.m.-1 p.m., RAIN OR SHINE. Admission is free, with donations to FCEF gratefully accepted. GREAT GLEBE GARAGE SALE is back in person on Saturday, May 28. Ten per cent of proceeds from the sale to go to the Ottawa Food Bank. MASTER GARDENER LECTURES (friendsofthefarm.ca/fcef-annual-events/master-gardener-lectures/). Every year the Friends of the Farm (friendsofthefarm.ca/) partner with the Master Gardeners of Ottawa Carleton to offer timely and informative presentations. Due to the COVID19 pandemic, our lectures went online in 2021 and will continue virtually in 2022. Registration required to obtain the Zoom link. The 2022 Master Gardener Lectures include: Paint with Blooms on Tues., May 17 and Another Gardening Year behind Us on Tues, Sept 13. Pre-payment is required. Go to info@friendsofthefarm. ca to register and obtain the link to the Zoom presentation. THE NEW ART FESTIVAL is back in Central Park in the Glebe for its 30th year on June 11 and 12, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. More than 150 artists, local food and entertainment. Admission is free. thenewartfestival.ca OLD OTTAWA SOUTH GARDEN CLUB (oldottawasouth.ca/programs) Peony Tour and Talk at the Central Experimental Farm (Tour), Thurs., June 2, 12:30-2:30 p.m. Peonies have had a constant and important presence in the gardens of the Central Experimental Farm. Join us for a presentation on various types of peonies, including the work of A. P. Saunders and his contribution to the world of peonies. Peony care including growing peonies from seed, planting, maintenance and dividing plants will be discussed. Tour and talk will be led by Blaine Marchand, director of the Ornamental Gardens and Arboretum with the Friends of the Central Experimental Farm, and Bill Wegman, leader of the Peony gardening team at the Central Experimental Farm. People will meet at the peony

Sunrise on Holmwood beds, close to the traffic circle on Prince of Wales Drive, at 12:30 p.m. Paid parking will be available in the main parking lot for the Central Experimental Farm, which is south of the Ornamental Gardens, off Prince of Wales Dr. Please register by May 31 through The Firehall at oldottawasouth.ca. Adult programs, garden club tour. This tour is included with club membership. The fee for non-members is $7. All are welcome. OTTAWA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ONLINE PLANT AUCTION, Fri., May 20, 10 a.m.–Sunday May 22, 6 p.m. The link for the online auction will be posted a few days before the event: ottawahort.org/event/ohs-plant-auction-andsale. The OHS spring online plant auction is back. Mark your calendar for this popular event. Plant pickup for successful bids will be at St. Mark’s Anglican Church (1606 Fisher Ave.) on Tues., May 24. PARKS CLEANUP Join members of the Glebe Community Association’s Parks Committee in the cleanup of a Glebe park near you. The fun is planned for SATURDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 14. If rain, we will try again on SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 15. We need your help to make our neighbourhood parks immaculate and enticing again after winter. Everyone is welcome; kids, adults, friends and other family members. No special ability is required, just a willingness to do what you can. Please wear long pants and sleeves with gardening gloves. Other items that would be useful but not necessary: rakes, grabber tools, outdoor brooms, plastic containers with a well-fitted lid, leaf bags and disposable plastic bags. PARKS CLEANUP OF DALHOUSIE SOUTH PARK. Join members of the Glebe Annex Community Association on Sat., May 14 from 10:30 to noon at Dalhousie South Park. PERENNIAL PLANT SALE FOR CHARITY, Sat., May 21, 1 p.m., 126 Fentiman Ave. Large pots of mature organic perennials, many for less than $10. Fifty species available (for

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