Glebe Report November 2014 by Glebe Report

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Vol. 42 No. 10

PHOTO: RIDEAU VALLEY CONSERVATION AUTHORITY

November 14, 2014

Aerial photo of Brewer Pond

What the heck’s happening at Brewer Pond?? By Carol Macleod

The problem with Brewer Pond

Those of you who have been around a while may remember fondly the swimming hole on the Rideau at Brewer Park. It has been closed for several decades, being slowly reclaimed by cattails. Over the years the Environmental Committee of Ottawa South (ECOS) rooted out invasive species and planted native shrubbery around its shore. It also developed a signed interpretive trail. Recently you may have noticed blue fencing around the pond as you cycle south on Bronson past Sunnyside. What’s going on?

Each spring, Brewer Pond is inundated by Rideau floodwaters. As water levels drop, trapped fish die in the landlocked pond. The bottom of the pond is 1.5 metres above the Rideau’s bottom, so not much water stays in the pond. What’s left becomes almost stagnant. Tests show that the oxygen level in the pond is so low that it cannot sustain most aquatic life, including amphibians, fish and plants. It’s definitely not a good place for fish to lay eggs or for minnows to feed or overwinter. It doesn’t even support a healthy frog or plant population. Moreover, there’s not much wetland suitable for fish habitat on the shores of the lower Rideau. (Continued on page 22)

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“Rock for Public Services” concert, The Arena at TD Place, 6:30 p.m. Glebe Craft and Artisan Fair, GCC Homes for the Holidays Tour Canadian premiere of Stolperstein, Mayfair Theatre, 7 p.m. GCA community audit of Bronson Ave. GCA Board Meeting, GCC 7–9 p.m. Abbotsford Annual Bazaar, Abbotsford House, 10 a.m.–2 p.m. Winter Craft Fair for Ottawa Food Bank Glebe Collegiate Institute, 9 a.m–3 p.m. Online registration for GNAG winter programs, www.gnag.com, 9 p.m. Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol Glebe-St. James United Church, 7 p.m.

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Abbotsford . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Advocacy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17–19 Art . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7–8 Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13–15 Business Buzz . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Community . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–3, 9 Councillor’s Report . . . . . . . . . 31 Ecology . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1, 21–23 Film . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Food . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

GCA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Glebe Annex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Glebous & Comicus.. . . . . . . . . 16 GNAG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 MP’s Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24–25 Schools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34–39

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9,316 votes for a turnout of 37.86 per cent, a couple of points below the city turnout of 39.92 per cent. About 3 per cent of the votes were cast in advance polls. In the municipal election, Capital Ward voters cast

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August 1914 By Craig Kamcke

A summer dawn by languid lake. A loon is heard as they awake. They lie abed, let sleep release. In innocence enjoy the peace. Across the sea in ancient lands, Alliances tie leaders’ hands. While armies mass, the people play, And tragically peace slips away.

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The guns of August roar in France, As endless death begins its dance. This dance will last four years and more. Engulfed they are in brutal war. By that same lake an autumn dawn, With innocence forever gone. Craig Kamcke is a Glebe resident.

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Diary of a demolition On November 4, Yaghi’s Mini Mart confectionary was demolished. Yaghi’s Mini Mart had closed and was in a state of some disrepair. Yaghi’s fell to the wreckers, starting at 10 a.m. By noon, Yaghi’s Mini Mart is no more. Photos taken by Kylie Taggart.

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Grammas to Ambuyas upcoming events Grammas to Ambuyas is a local group raising money to support the Stephen Lewis Foundation in its work to turn the tide on HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa. Here are three ways to support their work while enjoying good food and giftbuying opportunities. Fifth annual African Lunch: Sunday, November 23, 11:30 a.m.– 1 p.m. Three-course lunch is by donation (receipts for $20+) GlebeSt. James United Church, 650 Lyon Street.

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Bazaar: Saturday, November 29, 10 a.m.–2 p.m. Christmas items, Chitenges, quilted placemats, African Bronze honey, CDs, preserves. Glebe-St. James United Church. Evening at Ten Thousand Villages: Friday, December 5, 5:30–9 p.m. Stocking stuffers, gift cards, ornaments and yummy edibles. Grammas to Ambuyas receives part of all sales for the Stephen Lewis Foundation. 371 Richmond Road.

Spooks and ghoulish creatures lit up the Fourth Avenue night sky on Halloween.

Ants, grasshoppers and bees We think of ourselves as sophisticated urban dwellers, but really, we are never more than a step or two away from nature outside our doors. As nature slows around us in November, we are mindful of the slowed heartbeat of our northern life, and of the imminent need to tidy up gardens, put away summer hoses, batten down the cottage for the winter. We gather up, tuck in, close up, put away and gather round. We know from experience what frozen future awaits us just around the corner, and we recognize that soon will be the moment to pause and take care of business.

In the story of the grasshopper and the ant, we are ants by necessity, to survive in this northern land. But we are also like the bees that live in a social community and look after each other – and now need our help! With the national conversation circling around violent political action, mental health, bullying and sexual harassment, one way to make sense of it is to focus on the local, where we can maybe feel a greater possibility of making a difference. And so, we organize – elect municipal governments to act on our behalf; coach citizens about how to become

better citizens; campaign for practical needs like toilets; conduct walkability and safety audits to keep our pedestrians and cyclists safe; harvest food from public parks to feed our hungry; and work to preserve the ecology of our waters and to green up our schools. And after taking care of business, what if we were to settle into our winter cocoons with a cosy keyboard and a copy of the latest Glebe Report, and dash off a thoughtful, articulate and persuasive letter to the editor? Now that’s making a difference! Liz McKeen

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DEADLINES For Glebe Report advertising deadlines and rates, call the advertising manager. Advertising rates are for electronic material supplied in pdf format with fonts embedded in the file. Deadlines for submissions: November 21 for articles November 26 for advertising The next issue of the Glebe Report: Friday, December 12, 2014 COVER: “Fall Trees” by Molly McGonegal, age 9. Submitted by Good Morning Creative Arts. FRONT PAGE: Aerial photo of Brewer Pond, courtesy of Rideau Valley Conservation Authority.

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Contributors this issue Kathy Ablett Bob Acton Matt Armstrong Trish Ballamingie Lynn Barlow Nicole Bayes-Fleming S. L. Beattie Martha Bowers Bhat Boy Heather Bryce David Casey Elsa Cattelan David Chernushenko Katie, Clarke Meredith D. Rebecca D. Paul Dewar Clive Doucet Stephanie Dror Peggy Edwards Kathy Elborn Adelle Farrelly Zak Firestone Lisa Furrie Blair Gable Sheri Segal Glick Pat Goyeche Roland Graham Paul Green Safia H. Teena Hendelman

James Hunter Julie Ireton Mary Jaekl Will E. Jessup Craig Kamcke Angela Keller-Herzog Jaya Krishnan Mitchell Kutney Joan Kuyek Carol Macleod Eric J. Martin Judith Maxwell Christine McAllister Molly McGonegal Donald A. McKenzie Doug Milne Brian Mitchell Sharin Mithani Don Nault Ellen Schowalter Ashwin Shingadia Graham Sibthorpe Lois Siegel Richard Smith Kylie Taggart Christa Thomas Mary Tsai Sandi Webster Elizabeth Whitmore Yvonne van Lith Zeus

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Glebe comings and goings New to the Glebe

Glebe Indian Cuisine, 589 Bank Street (where formerly the New Nupur was located). Whole Foods will open in Lansdowne on November 19. “The move in has begun … so exciting!!” Sporting Life (Tommy and Lefebvre) opening at Lansdowne in November. Hours are Monday to Friday, 9:30 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Saturday 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Sunday 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Ian McLean Law Of fices opened at 816 Bank Street beside the Fourth Avenue Baptist Church. The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA), steward of the .CA domain will move its corporate headquarters to Lansdowne in spring. It will be the first office space tenant. Milestones Grill & Bar is now open at Lansdowne. Hours are Monday to Thursday, 11 a.m. to midnight; Friday, 11 a.m. to 1 a.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. to 1 a.m.; and Sunday, 10 a.m. to midnight. “We’re ready to meet some lovely new faces (over some great food and glass of wine of course).” Changes afoot

{Segue} “Renovations have begun!!! Thanks for an amazing summer, and we look forward to seeing you in the New Year!!” McKeen Metro Glebe renovations nearing completion: “Come out and see our fresh new look and feel at our Open House November 29th” Gone but not forgotten

Yaghi’s on Fifth Avenue is gone – demolished on November 4. Bucklands will be “closing for good” in December. According to sales staff, the building is being sold. The New Nupur restaurant has closed, but in its place – Glebe Indian Cuisine. Merit Travel “As of May 31st, we will be joining our Adventure Travel Company team at 375 Richmond Rd.” Delightful Tastes closed its doors in the Glebe in May, but its Greenbank Road location is open. Let us know if you see comings and goings in the Glebe. Email editor@glebereport.ca.

Lansdowne parking rules Editor, Glebe Report Open letter to Jim Watson and David Chernushenko It has just come to my attention that Lansdowne Park on-street parking is being treated as private property for parking purposes. Is this not still public land? People expect the same on-street parking conditions as in the Glebe, namely that parking regulations are not enforced at all hours, but only Monday to Friday or specific hours on the weekend, and that enforcement hours are signed. As it now stands, ImPark is a private company that is issuing parking tickets at all hours to people who do not buy a ticket at the parking machine. The signage is different from that in the rest of the city and does not indicate that a ticket from the machine is necessary – it just says one-hour parking. These tickets are $55 or $75, much more than regular on-street parking tickets, with fewer options for reduction at the City Hall First Visit office. Tickets are even being given to cars with wheelchair permits, which have special concessions on city streets. The other issue is that there is no nearby on-street parking available – this will become a nuisance especially when all the shops open. Some of the businesses (e.g. TD Bank) have moved from sites where there was free parking and plenty of on-street parking to this new, paid-parking only situation. It is not worthwhile paying for parking to quickly use a bank machine where we could easily have done it free of charge at the prior location. Even when the paid on-site parking opens, people will not want to pay or carry purchases (especially food) a long way to a parking lot. I urge the city to: • treat this as public land for parking purposes • use the same rules for parking and fines as for on-street parking elsewhere • provide free parking to people using the shops, especially evenings and weekends • have signage to indicate that a ticket is required to park on the street James Hunter

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Re: TD sign at Lansdowne Editor, Glebe Report I heartily agree with Tim Leah’s letter to the editor on this subject. I don’t know what TD hoped to gain with their sign, but doubt they intended to associate words like “eyesore,” “hideous,” “really ugly” and “disappointing” with their logo (all of which I have heard repeatedly from many different people). Really poor placement means that I am now convinced that TD has terrible taste and a poor understanding of our community. Mary Jaekl Editor, Glebe Report Here is a copy of a letter I sent to the TD Bank Ombudsman’s office: Dear TD Executives, How dismaying to see that TD Bank has turned the one feature of Lansdowne Park (Ottawa) that has some aesthetic value (the wooden structure surrounding the south side of the stadium stands) into a giant billboard ad for your bank. It’s bad enough that TD has chosen to support a development in the city that is associated with a seriously flawed and corrupt development process, but now we must look at the incredibly ugly defacing of a façade that otherwise could be quite beautiful. Facing the canal (a UNESCO heritage site) for tourists and local residents alike, it cheapens our city, as well as TD’s reputation. I urge you to reconsider this and remove the TD sign from that part of Lansdowne Park. Dr. Elizabeth Whitmore

Re: Glebe history plaque Editor, Glebe Report In her letter in the October issue, Lynn Barlow says that the wall of St. Giles Presbyterian Church seems like a suitable place to install this plaque “as the Glebe came from Presbyterian beginnings.” As a member of GlebeSt. James United Church and a former United Church archivist, I disagree with this statement. The United Church of Canada started in 1925 after the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church and the national governing bodies of the Methodist and Congregational Churches all voted in favour of church union. The Presbyterians, however, allowed their local congregations to opt out of the union. In Ottawa, when the church union votes were being taken, there were 12 Presbyterian churches. Three opted out, and nine became United Church congregations. Glebe Presbyterian Church, which at this time had been operating for 30 years, was one of the nine. St. Giles Church was started in or shortly after 1925 by people who left their former congregations, after those congregations voted for union. In addition to these historical con-

siderations, there is a practical matter we should take into account. St. Giles is a small congregation. It is quite possible that they will have to close in a few years, as many other churches have in recent years. If that happens, will we then have to find another location for the plaque? In my opinion, we should install it on the Glebe Community Centre – a building that now serves all the people of the Glebe. Donald A. McKenzie Response: The choice of St. Giles was the culmination of a process of consultation with the GCA, the BIA, the City of Ottawa, St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church and building owners in the neighbourhood. The Glebe Community Centre was considered as a possible location, but it was decided that Bank Street, where the plaque had originally been located, and which hosts many visitors to the neighbourhood, was the better location. Lynn Barlow GCA Past President

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McIntosh apples donated by McKeen’s Metro for apple pies

Follow your nose at 39th annual Abbotsford Bazaar By Julie Ireton

It’s not hard to guess one of the most popular tables at the Abbotsford Annual Bazaar – just follow your nose and the smell of cookies, fudge, pies and bread will lead you directly to the bake table. Abbotsford at the Glebe Centre’s annual bazaar is coming up on Saturday, November 29 and the doors open at 10 a.m. Every year, scrumptious desserts are

freshly created by Abbotsford volunteers, and among them are some of the senior centre’s well-known bakers. “Everyone knows about Jean Classen’s Nanaimo bar recipe,” said Thelma Beckstead. “She’s a good cook and baker and the Nanaimo bars at the bazaar go fast when people know Jean has made them!” Beckstead has volunteered at Abbotsford for 17 years and over the last couple of years she’s been helping out the bakers.

Debrah Taylor coordinates this gang of keen volunteers. She says there’s usually a great selection of baking including Christmas-type cookies, date squares, lemon squares, breads and pies. “And last year we had a fair bit of gluten-free items too,” said Taylor. Money raised at the bazaar goes directly back into programming; all of the items are donated and volunteers orchestrate the entire bazaar. It is Abbotsford’s major annual fundraiser. The bazaar also offers up jewellery, elegant treasures, a silent merchant’s auction, hand-made teddy bears, art, crafts, ladies’ clothing, used books, fine linens and flea market items. This year the residents of The Glebe Centre long-term care home will be selling their original art during the bazaar. It will be a unique opportunity to support the Art Program at The Glebe Centre (77 Monk Street). Last year, the bake table alone made more than $1,300. Taylor says she hopes the sweet stuff does equally well this year. But if you’re looking for home baking, you need to get it early in the day. Last year the sweets sold out early. Another popular item at the annual bazaar has become the frozen apple pies. McKeen’s Metro in the Glebe regularly donates a couple of boxes of McIntosh apples for the pies. “That’s what my mother always used, the McIntosh apples,” said Thelma Beckstead. The group holds an old-fashioned pie “bee” to make the pastry, peel and chop the apples, assemble and freeze the pies. Beckstead has been part of the apple-peeling team for many years. “We use Jean’s pie crust recipe,” said Beckstead.

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Thelma Beckstead chops apples for apple pies to be sold at the annual Abbotsford Bazaar on November 29.

It’s another tried and true Jean Classen recipe that’s become popular at the annual bazaar. The volunteers make about 60 pies and they sell them for $10 each. The clever salespeople sell the pies, handing out a paper apple receipt so the shoppers can browse, then pick up their frozen pie as they head out the door. See you at the 39th annual Abbotsford Bazaar, Saturday November 29 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Abbotsford is a community centre for adults 55+. Abbotsford houses the community programs of The Glebe Centre Inc., a charitable, not-forprofit organization, which includes a 254-bed long-term care home. Find out more about their services by dropping by 950 Bank Street (the old stone house) from Monday to Friday 9 a.m.–4 p.m., phoning 613-230-5730 or by checking out all of The Glebe Centre facilities and community programs on their website www.glebecentre.ca. Julie Ireton is a journalist who teaches at Carleton University and writes regularly on Abbotsford for the Glebe Report.

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Art with lots of heart Silent auction and exhibition of art by residents of The Glebe Centre

By Ellen Schowalter

A diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease or other dementia is devastating for the individual as well as for family and friends. What now? At present there is no cure, only possibilities to improve quality of life, maintain identity and find a way to communicate when words and memory may progressively go missing. Art therapy can be a valuable way to reach those for whom words are no longer meaningful or easily accessible. Images, colour and the exercise of creativity can call forth a response very different from the language-based world we inhabit. The Art Therapy Program at The Glebe Centre, now in its 10th year, is proving to be extremely successful in improving the quality of life for people living with dementia. It builds their self-esteem, helps them become more focused and offers a social context to work with others – as well as being an eye-opener for families and visitors. The program, under the direction of noted local artist Patricia Doyle and assisted by a dedicated group of volunteers, has expanded to include any resident who wants to participate, with exciting results! A different artist is featured each

month in the front lobby of The Glebe Centre. A bit of biographical information along with a selection of paintings is on view in the “Art by the Bistro” showcase. Paintings by residents enliven the walls throughout the building. You will have the opportunity to view and purchase artwork by residents at the Silent Auction, Sale and Art Exhibition on Friday, November 28, from 6 to 8 p.m., and continuing Saturday, November 29, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at The Glebe Centre, 77 Monk Street (across from Lansdowne Park). The gala Friday evening will feature refreshments and live music. Everyone is cordially invited and admission is free! All proceeds from the event will go to support the Art Program and donations are, of course, gratefully accepted. A sneak preview of artwork by Glebe Centre residents is on view at the Glebe Community Centre Art Gallery, just to the left of the main entrance, 175 Third Avenue, until December 7.

Examples of the vibrant and original artwork on view and for sale at the silent auction November 28 and 29 at The Glebe Centre

Ellen Schowalter, a Glebe resident and artist, is a long-time volunteer with the Art Therapy Program.

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“Lonesome Stranger” 60 x 48 inches; acrylic on canvas

“Kaminski’s Lookout” 72x 48 inches; acrylic on canvas

New landscape paintings at Sunnyside Library By Bhat Boy

The Sunnyside Branch of the Ottawa Public Library has hung three large new paintings of mine, in a partnership to help spruce up the imagination of the local community. The art must find the people, not the other way around. These paintings are like windows. I love to paint landscape, big soft brushes and lots of paint, so open and free compared to the tight paintings I am known for. But the landscape paintings are big! They feel too big for the walls in my

house, but here at the library they can breathe. It is so nice to see them not being crammed in, and to have them out for everyone to enjoy. There is simplicity to my landscapes, yet I think they still manage to have a taste of the fairytale. Only crows break the imagined silence – even the moose seems to be holding his tongue. I have a cottage at Aylen Lake on the edge of Algonquin Park, and a lot of my landscape is drawn from there. In the city people always come up to you and ask questions while you paint,

but in the country you can really be alone. I love the quiet and I try to paint it. I love being a Glebite – I made my first appearance in the Glebe Report in 1975, and have since appeared in many articles – but I also love that I have this other wild, cottagey side to me that walks in the woods barefoot and is not afraid of spiders. I have had a painting hung permanently in the Sunnyside Library since it was refurbished in 2010. That painting was commissioned and paid for by the Friends of the Sunnyside Library and belongs to the library, whereas the new paintings are on loan.

On a second front, I am also exhibiting landscape paintings at Roast ’n Brew Coffee Shop at Bank and Fifth during the month of November. There are 10 autumn and winter landscape paintings, all featuring the eerie quiet of the forest. As for my future plans, I want to paint more large paintings, and use colour – I think the world needs more colour – and most importantly, nuns. I must paint more nuns. Bhat Boy is an artist of wild imagination who has deep ties to the Glebe, and many paintings on Glebe walls.

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By Peggy Edwards

On October 27, 19 walkers conducted an Age-Friendly Pedestrian Safety Walkability Audit in the Glebe. The walkers ranged in age from 50 to 90 years old; some used mobility devices (a walker and a wheelchair) and one group had a friendly dog with them. Councillor David Chernushenko, who also joined in, said of the event, “I certainly learned some things I didn’t know about walkability in this community.” There was lots of chatter and neighbourly good feeling as teams of three or four walkers set out from Abbotsford House on three different 1.5 km routes. We were armed with clipboards, an audit checklist, a route map, a sidewalk hazard form and reflective safety bands. Some of the walkers had cell phone cameras, which came in handy to document problems at particular intersections or specific parts of the route. I set out with two others from Abbotsford House across Bank Street, down Bank to Queen Elizabeth Drive and back up Fifth Avenue. It was a gorgeous fall day: the trees were beautiful and the Halloween decorations made each house unique. Despite the construction at Lansdowne, we felt safe walking beside the park, thanks to several workers who were looking out for traffic and us. One colleague who was using a walker found only two accessibility issues: wet leaves piled on the sidewalk got tangled in the wheels of her walker, and steps leading to several stores on Bank Street prohibited her from going in.

Back at Abbotsford House, we were grateful for coffee, tea and goodies, and for the invitation to participate that had been extended by The Glebe Centre Community Program at Abbotsford. “We put out the call and were very pleased with the response,” said Karen Anne Blakely, “especially with the diversity of participants in terms of mobility.” The walkability audit is a project of the Council on Aging of Ottawa. The Council is partnering with three different Ottawa communities to carry out pedestrian safety walkability audits in 2014/2015 (in fall, winter and spring). The goal is to find out whether common routes in these areas are safe and supportive of older pedestrians, people with mobility concerns, children and walkers of all ages. Walkers also take note of safety for cyclists and interactions between cyclists and walkers. The walkability audit is part of looking at how Ottawa is doing as an “Age-Friendly City,” a designation granted the city by the World Health Organization two years ago. Being age-friendly involves a commitment to take action in eight domains that make a city a good place in which to grow older. Accessible, safe and affordable transportation – including getting around by foot and in a wheelchair – is one of those domains. The Pedestrian Safety Committee will work with Ecology Ottawa to analyze the findings from the audits, and produce a report showing the results and making recommendations for improvements. Any dangerous hazards found during the audits are

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Safe, age-friendly walking in the Glebe

Confusion at Lansdowne Park – who is the light for then?

reported to the City immediately. What makes a neighbourhood walkable for all ages? What encourages us to walk, wheel, cycle and use other self-propelled ways of getting around? The All-Season Walkability Checklist developed by the Pedestrian Safety Committee provides 35 questions that will help you survey your neighbourhood or walking route, and identify the aspects that help or hinder you when you walk. The checklist is divided into four parts: Safety: Street lighting, safety measures and well-maintained sidewalks/ walkways promote walking. Accessibility: Accessible streets, pathways and street crossings ensure that people of all abilities can easily move about. Convenience and connectedness: Compact and connected neighbourhoods create shorter distances

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Speed limits on the Bank Street Bridge (40 km/h) and on the shared bike lane (20 km/h) are largely ignored. Many cyclists find the bridge too dangerous and walk or ride their bikes on the sidewalk.

between destinations and promote walking. Comfort and attractiveness: An attractive, clean neighbourhood with shade, shelter, rest areas and access to toilets promotes walking. If you would like to participate in future walkability audits or for further information, please email wanderingpeggy@me.com or contact Pat Goyeche, Coordinator of the Glebe Centre Community Programs at 613230-5730 (ext. 326). Peggy Edwards is a member of the Age-Friendly Ottawa Transportation Committee who helped organize and participated in the walkability audit.

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Glebe Fit at GCI

You thought parking was an issue at Lansdowne? Mornings outside an ever-busy Glebe Community Centre

GNAG is pleased to announce that its Glebe Fit partnership with Glebe www.gnag.ca Collegiate Institute (GCI) is up and running. Working with GCI’s VicePrincipal Matt Armstrong and the head of the Phys Ed department Paul Britton, we have established a successful extra-curricular health and fitness program for the students of Glebe Collegiate. Knowing the importance and myriad benefits of incorporating regular exercise, health and fitness into the daily lives of youth, in May GCI administrators and GNAG staff brainstormed creative ways to increase participation in athletics among Glebe’s student body. This September, we put the plan into action and are offering 7 weekly fitness classes to Glebe staff and students before and after school and at lunch. The Glebe Fit program is a win-win for GNAG and GCI. The students of Glebe Collegiate benefit from a variety of health and fitness classes including cardio, boxing, yoga and boot camp. Classes are open to anybody, regardless of fitness level and, for the time being, classes are completely free. Even the teachers are getting a piece of the action. GNAG’s Community Development Fund is supporting the cost of instructors. Full-time GNAG staff instruct more than half of the seven classes per week, which also helps mitigate cost. Increasing our youth health and wellness programming has been a long-time GNAG goal and we hope that the Glebe Fit program represents only a beginning of our daytime school outreach! Weekly Schedule Time

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Sleep Out For Youth with C.A.T. Squad

For the third year in a row, GNAG’s Community Action Team (C.A.T. Squad) composed of local youth leaders in grades 9 – 12 will be participating in the Youth Services Bureau’s Sleep Out For Youth. Over 1,000 young people in our city will spend the coldest, darkest and harshest months of the year with no place to call home. That is not the only battle for homeless youth in Ottawa; many are seeking safety and stability, suffering from trauma, mental health issues, poverty, addictions and more. On November 20-21, 2014 we will sleep out overnight at City Hall, to raise critical funds and awareness for homeless youth in our nation’s capital. Last year, CAT Squad raised over $4,500 with 25 youth participating. This year, we want it to be even bigger! For more information or to find out how you can help, contact youth coordinator Tim Lamothe at tim@gnag.ca. Another Community partner

A few months ago, the new BMO Glebe community branch approached GNAG with an idea that would benefit not only families of the community but the Community Development Fund (CDF) as well.This new initiative is a win-win for all! How does it work? With the opening of a new child’s account (12 years and under) and parents’ initial deposit of $25 into the account, BMO will match the contribution by depositing another $25 into the same account within 6 weeks and contributing an equal amount ($25) to GNAG’s CDF. The offer will continue until December 31. A cheque with the total amount raised will be presented at the BMO Glebe branch on March 7, 2015, the day of their grand opening. I would like to thank BMO for their community spirit and generosity. Do you know what the CDF is used for? Here are its three main objectives: • Financial assistance for GNAG programming for Ottawa families • Community outreach projects such as the Glebe Collegiate Fit Program and the community outdoor rink at St. James Tennis Club • Capital projects, e.g.: art installation of the Christopher Griffin Raccoons, the fit-up of the Pantry GNAG outdoor rink project

We are excited that the outdoor rink will be back at St. James Tennis Club.

Winter Program Registration

Registration for our winter programs begins Thursday, December 4 starting at 9 p.m. Visit www.gnag.ca for a full listing of activities or view your copy of the GNAG winter guide inserted in this month’s issue of the Glebe Report.

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Snowflake Special, Sunday, December 14, 1 – 4 p.m. FREE

Please join GNAG on December 14 to celebrate our great community and kick off the holiday season! Snowflake 2014’s theme is frozen. This family event is our way of saying “thank you” to the community for supporting our programs and making the community centre a wonderful hub of activity. This year we will have sleigh rides, face painting, crafts, Sportball activities, live entertainment and refreshments. There will be a special performance by Glebe Collegiate Institute’s Offbeat percussion band. This event will be the highlight of the holiday season! Correction: from October 2014 Glebe Report article – GNAG Board of Directors should include Michel Ouellette and Nicole Allen. Omit Darren Cates. Our apologies.

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The Glebe of the future – what will it look like?

Not a survivor ... not yet ... Christine McAllister

www.glebeca.ca There are a number of great reasons to live in the Glebe, and at this time of year, top of my list are the gorgeous colours that brighten our streets – well, at least for the first 15 bags of raked leaves! Another great reason, of course, is the commitment to community so evident at every GCA Board meeting. When was the last time you were at a GCA Board meeting? We would love to see you – fourth Tuesday of every month at the Glebe Community Centre at 7 p.m. Readers may recall that the GCA is planning for the future. We had two important discussions to contribute to this work at the October GCA Board meeting. A development plan for the Glebe

Some communities create development plans to guide how their neighbourhoods will grow over time. The last time a development plan was produced for the Glebe was in 1980. A lot has happened in the intervening 34 years and development plans back then didn’t envision the intensification anticipated today. In recent history, City Council and Committee of Adjustment decisions on local developments have not been guided by a specific plan for the Glebe. As a result, planning decisions sometimes appear haphazard to residents. While an overall plan for development in the Glebe, created by the residents, would not compel any particular actions by the City, it could guide the GCA in responding to development applications, reviews of zoning bylaws, urban design guidelines and other planning initiatives. The articulation of a development plan would also provide guidance to developers about community perspectives on development. What would a “development plan” address? It might note areas the community feels are suited for growth or intensification, places where the focus should be on preservation (heritage, religious or institutional locations), outline an urban design strategy (streetscapes, public-realm improvements, views, sightlines), promote integration of park and open space plans, transportation and pathways plans, or provide guidance on housing, commercial activity and cultural or recreational assets. This is something for Glebe residents to build together. It will take time, research and dialogue, and a little bit of fun along the way. We would love to hear your thoughts – what does the Glebe of the future look like to you? Let us know if you are interested in joining the team that will lead this work. A vision for the GCA

If you thought 34 years was a long time, the GCA has been around even longer – 47 years! What began as a small group of residents has grown into one of the best-organized community associations in the city. We know that our history is one of our strengths, as are our long-standing (and serving!) members and the many relationships we have with political and local government officials. We also know that we need to reach out to more residents, re-populate some of our committees and establish a renewed direction for our advocacy. While the “development plan” is one aspect of a new direction, there are other areas that residents might care about: our community’s environmental footprint, traffic patterns, support for alternative transportation methods and educational assets, to name a few, and probably a few more we haven’t thought about. That’s because we haven’t asked recently. So, now we’re asking. Please take a few minutes to email us at gca@glebeca.ca to let us know your top issues for our neighbourhood. We’ll use your contributions in further engaging residents through a “town hall” meeting and other methods such as a survey that are currently in the planning stage. In other news – Brown’s Inlet

The Environment Committee has continued its work revitalizing the Brown’s Inlet ecosystem. Some residents may recall the bio-blitz held last May (40 people participated), which identified 25 species of birds, painted turtles, salamanders, egg masses and tadpoles from two toads. This baseline data will help measure improvements over time. The bio-blitz was followed by basking rafts that were placed around the ponds, making them more hospitable to turtles and toads and providing a place for them to lay eggs. The GCA has applied for a Community Environmental Project Grant so that a below-grade turtle crossing can be installed when major sewer revitalization of Ralph Street is undertaken in 2015. This may seem like a small undertaking, but revitalization is about taking small steps and building on them over time. We’re hopeful we’ll be awarded the grant, and more turtles will be found next year on the basking rafts.

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Editor’s note: Here is a story that tells of the importance of community. By Sandi Webster

I didn’t think much of it when I found the little pea-sized knot in my breast in May. After an ultrasound, mammogram and biopsy I was called to the doctor’s office one evening and given the bad news. That little lump was cancer ... War and cancer: for me, those are the two scariest words in the dictionary. The next months were filled with tests and procedures: an MRI, a lumpectomy with lymph node removal, a cat scan, a second lumpectomy, an echo cardiogram and a bone scan. As I write, I am in the middle of my chemo treatment. Cancer – I didn’t think of it much before. Now it is on my mind constantly, filling every waking moment and robbing me of my sleep. While I did quite well with the surgeries, chemo is a whole different story. The nausea, the headaches, the lack of energy, the mood swings, the depression, the lack of appetite, the dizziness and the constant overall feeling of blahhhh ... Most of the time I just want to crawl into a little hole and disappear ... I can’t, however, because I have a family ... And here is the reason for writing this article – it is a thank you. Thank you, above all, to my husband, Andrew, for his unconditional support throughout this ordeal. Even though he is working two jobs, he has not yet missed one doctor’s appoint-

ment. Thank you to my three girls, Katja, Tanja and Anika, for being unbelievably patient and caring for a sick mother with great bravery and stamina. And, even though she can’t read this, thank you to my dog, Magua, who instinctively knows when I’m having a bad day. Her constant companionship during those times is so very comforting. Thank you to all the good people who bring us delicious meals through the Food Tidings program. It is a huge help! We always look forward to seeing what’s inside the cooler on our porch – it’s a fun moment for the entire family. Thank you to GNAG for its incredible generosity towards the girls; thank you to the neighbours who are taking my dogs out; thank you for all the extra play dates and sleepovers my kids are offered; thank you for the flowers and warm cakes and soups that appear on my doorstep at regular intervals; thank you for all the emails, texts, postcards and phone calls – I treasure every one. Thank you, thank you, thank you to this great community we call the Glebe and its wonderful Glebites. I feel so very grateful and fortunate to live here. I am not sure how I would get through this without all of you, your support and your everyday acts of kindness. Next year, I have more surgery and radiation to look forward to ... such are the joys of cancer treatment. But then, hopefully, afterwards at some point I can call myself a Survivor! Sandi Webster is a Glebe resident in the throes of cancer treatment.

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The stolperstein are cobblestone-sized brass memorials, each one commemorating a victim of the Holocaust. Artist Gunther Demnig of Cologne, Germany has created some 43,500 such memorials in many countries.

Brass ‘stumbling stones’ commemorate Holocaust victims Film premiere during Holocaust Education month By Teena Hendelman

For over 45 years, the Shoah (Holocaust) Committee of the Jewish Federation of Ottawa has followed its mandate to sensitize the community about the history and lessons of the Holocaust and its impact on humanity, and to teach the dangers of racism, prejudice and genocide to the younger generation. The committee of dedicated volunteers organizes activities during the month of November to commemorate the Holocaust and to educate the next generation during the rest of the year. Past programs have heightened awareness of the role of courageous people such as Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg and Polish educator Jan Karski, who stood up to the evils of the Nazi regime. As well as organizing exhibits, programs and workshops about the Holocaust, the committee also annually recognizes excellence in Holocaust education by a local teacher with the Arie van Mansum award. Why November? November 9, 1938, the date of Kristallnacht (The Night of Broken Glass), is considered historically to be the precursor to the Holocaust. This year, Holocaust Education Month was launched with keynote speaker, Bernie Farber, one of Canada’s leading experts on the

Holocaust, anti-Semitism, race relations, minority and human rights. The title of his talk was: “The Shoah: Has Never Again Become Again and Again?” With anti-Semitism again on the rise and the world in considerable turmoil on so many fronts, Farber’s talk was disturbingly timely. On Sunday, November 16 at 7 p.m., as part of Holocaust Education Month, the Canadian premiere of the moving documentary film Stolperstein will take place at the Mayfair Theatre. The film, in German with English subtitles, tells the story of the The Stolperstein Project (http://www.stolpersteine.eu/en/), which was started by artist Gunther Demnig of Cologne, Germany. Demnig’s idea was to commemorate victims of the Holocaust – Jews, Roma and Sinti, homosexuals, dissidents, Jehovah’s Witnesses and victims of euthanasia – by creating small stolperstein, or stumbling stones – cobblestone-sized brass memorials – each for a victim of the Holocaust. He embeds them in the walkways in front of homes or places of employment, where individuals, who were targets of National Socialism, had once lived or worked and were rounded up, taken away and murdered or disappeared. Each stone begins with the words “HERE LIVED.” One stone. One name. One person. The stolperstein

“Demnig’s idea was to commemorate victims of the Holocaust ... by creating small stolperstein, or stumbling stones ... each for a victim of the Holocaust.” in front of the buildings bring back to memory the people who once lived here. Demnig cites the Talmud saying that “a person is only forgotten when his or her name is forgotten.” Glebe resident and member of the Shoah Committee Joyce Bellman, having visited Hamburg, Berlin and Vienna, stated that, “with many important memorials of the Holocaust, the most powerful for me were the stolperstein. They stop you in your tracks, reminding you of real persons in the actual place where they lived or worked. Standing outside their homes 70 years later, they come to life.” My own recent experience was the same, whether it was reading the names of Jewish men and women in front of the apartment buildings where they had resided in Berlin or the names of Celestine monks embedded in the cobblestones of the courtyard of their monastery in Salzburg. Demnig has realized over 43,500 memorials. They commemorate individuals – both those who died and survivors – who were consigned by

the Nazis to prisons, euthanasia facilities, sterilization clinics, concentration camps, and extermination camps, as well as those who responded to persecution by emigrating or committing suicide. Stolperstein lie in Austria, Germany, Hungary, the Netherlands, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Russia, Croatia, France, Poland, Slovenia, Italy, Norway, Ukraine, Switzerland, Slovakia and Luxembourg. This film program, part of Holocaust Education Month, is presented through collaboration between the Holocaust Committee of Ottawa and the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany. The film’s producer, Gunter Hanfgarn, will come from Germany for the screening and be available for discussion with the audience after the film. Tickets are $10 each and can be obtained at the Mayfair Theatre on Sunday, November 16 before the 7 p.m. start. Teena Hendelman is a contributor to, and proofreader of, the Glebe Report.

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PHOTO: STEPHANIE DROR

Authors talk shop – The Art of Story conference By Stephanie Dror

Employees from Ottawa book store Kaleidoscope Kids’ Books attended the writers’ conference, The Art of Story, put on in Ottawa by the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCWBI) East. The Art of Story invited publishing industry professionals, literary agents and established and upcoming authors to come together and talk shop. I wanted to find out who was attending, why they were there and what they got out of the experience. Industry professionals attend these events to find and nurture talent. They hope to connect with established authors, newly published authors and aspiring authors. As Kelsey Murphy of Harper Collins put it, “I love meeting and talking to passionate people, and I love to help passionate people find success.” On the flip side, attending writers’ conferences is a great first step into the publishing world, as it can set an aspiring author or illustrator on the path to publication. Not only do writers learn valuable industry tips and tricks, but they also glean constructive criticism straight from the industry professionals to whom they’ll eventually be trying to sell their writing. Attending writers’ conferences is not just about selling your story, it’s about learning how to tell it and who to tell it to. Caroline Pignat began attending SCBWI conferences with picture book manuscripts to receive critique and feedback. Today, though she has yet to publish a picture book, she is a Governor General Awardwinning young adult novelist with six books under her belt. “I met my agent at a SCWBI in Montreal ... I brought the beginnings of Egghead with me and the1 criGMSOHouseGROscarAug14.pdf 9/9/14

Rachel Eugster, local author of The Pocket Mommy, and Aimee Reid who wrote Mama’s Day with Little Gray, hold each other’s books at The Art of Story conference in Ottawa. Eugster is dressed as a character from the Moomintrolls books.

tique really showed me how to pull it together,” Caroline explained. Now Caroline is one of the industry professionals offering critique to aspiring writers. She told me that the critique process is invaluable; an author can’t really learn how to edit his or her own work alone. She says of aspiring writers, “You often feel alone in what you do and SCWBI offers great community, great networking and good fun.” She explains that these conferences are a great way to learn the business side of what can seem like a solely artistic endeavour. Caroline is one among many success stories in evidence at The Art of Story conference held October 17–19. Aimee Reid, who recently published her first picture book, Mama’s Day With Little Gray, found the SCWBI conferences were a great venue for learning about the children’s book industry, who the players are, and how to go about finding the right agent or editor for your story. Kate Jaimet, who writes the hilarious Dunces Anonymous series, attended the conference as an industry professional giving a critique but also as an author. So how do you turn a writers’ conference into a successful writing career? We’ve all heard the story of that unpublished writer going to a writers’ conference armed with a dog9:44 PM

eared manuscript and grand hopes. Her schmoozing pays off when she meets a big-time editor who, charmed by the writer’s enthusiasm, takes a look at her manuscript, adores it, and offers her a publishing contract on the spot. This is rarely how it works. For those aspiring authors and illustrators who may be daunted or baffled by the publishing industry, do yourself a favour and attend a writers’ confer-

ence. At a few hundred dollars, it is an investment that puts your passion and writing on display and gets you talking to authors, editors and agents who are all just fellow book lovers. So relax and join the conversation, and start telling your story. Stephanie Dror, Kaleidoscope Kids’ Books’ newest employee, attended the recent The Art of Story conference.

John D. Huston presents Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol Rediscover the magic of Christmas past – spend an evening with Scrooge, the Cratchits and, of course, Charles Dickens in an enchanting holiday must see! On December 6, experience the laughter, tears and joy of A Christmas Carol in the cosy atmosphere of Glebe-St. James United Church. For the past 22 Decembers, John D. Huston has re-enacted the performance of Victorian author Charles Dickens, who wrote and performed a solo theatrical version of his famous story, playing all the characters and providing the narration. Based on Dickens’ script, Huston gives a lively and authentic performance. The beloved story is woven from the interplay of Dickens’ richly-crafted text, Huston’s bravura performance and your own imagination. This show is perfect for all ages, from children 10 and up. Bring the whole family for this two-hour show with seasonal treats at intermission. Donations of toiletries and mittens will be collected for the Carlington Chaplaincy and Centre 507. “Powerful one-man theatre … in the hands of a master storyteller.” The National Post “Captivating … from start to finish.” The Ottawa Citizen Saturday, December 6, 7 p.m. Glebe-St. James United Church 650 Lyon St South

Tickets are available from Glebe-St. James Church (Tues–Fri) 613-236-0617; Compact Music, 785 Bank Street and at the door. Adults $20; children 12 & under $15; family (up to two adults and three children 12 & under) $60

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

AUTHOR

All My Puny Sorrows1

Marion Toews

Stoner2

John Edward Williams

The End of your Life Book Club3

Will Schwalbe

Room

Edna Donoghue

Best Laid Plans5

Terry Fallis

All the Light We Cannot See6

Anthony Doerr

Lost Sisterhood

Anne Fortier

Jet Set: The People, the Planes, the Glamour, and the Romance in Aviation’s Glory Years8

William Stadiem

Things Fall Apart9

Chinua Achebe

Brooklyn10

Colm Tóibín

Burned

Thomas Enger

The End of your Life Book Club12

Will Schwalbe

All Quiet on the Western Front13

Erich Maria Remarque

Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China14

Jung Chang

The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates15

Wes Moore

TITLE (children and teens)

AUTHOR

A Northern Light16

Jennifer Donnelly

Expiration Day17

William Campbell Powell

The Outcasts

John Flanagan

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Tua and the Elephant19

R.P. Harris

13 Little Blue Envelopes20

Maureen Johnson

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Abbotsford Book Club Anonymous 2 Broadway Book Club Can’ Litterers Helen’s Book Club OnLine Audio Book Club: www.DearReader.com OnLine Fiction Book Club: www.DearReader.com OnLine Nonfiction Book Club: www.DearReader.com OPL Sunnyside Branch Adult Book Club OPL Sunnyside Branch European Book Club

11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20.

OPL Sunnyside Branch Mystery Book Club OPL Sunnyside Branch Second Friday Adult Book Club Seriously No-Name Book Club The Book Club The Topless Book Club Glebe Collegiate Book Club OnLine Teen Book Club: www.DearReader.com OPL Sunnyside Branch Guysread OPL Sunnyside Branch Mother-Daughter Book Club 7-12 OPL Sunnyside Branch TBC (Teen 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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Living in Canada – fiction from east to west By Yvonne van Lith

Canada is an amazing country with so much to discover, including its Canadian prose. Let’s travel from east to west, starting with this sample of some of our remarkable authors. We start in Newfoundland and Labrador with Kevin Major’s New Under the Sun: A Novel. Here you meet Shannon Carew, who is in need of a change. She takes a job in the national parks system, which returns her to the birthplace she abandoned years before. It is a journey that brings her life full circle, making new connections and unearthing old ones. Written by Kevin Major, award-winning author and winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award, this story is a good fast read and an easy way to get to know the history of this exotic province. In From Away by Michelle Ferguson, we are whisked into the close-knit community of Lupin’s Point, Nova Scotia, where 28-year-old Marion has chosen to spend her summer at her uncle’s abandoned summer home. When Schooner Button spots her near his fishing boat and pegs her as a lobster thief, Marion realizes that this is not the sleepy cove she imagined. You will enjoy this page-turner, which is full of memor-

able characters infused with quirks that make them jump off the page. Next, head into Quebec and meet Luc Lévesque, a celebrated Quebec novelist and the anointed Voice of a Generation. In his hometown of Montreal, he is revered for his novels about the working-class neighbourhood of Saint-Henri and for his separatist views. My October, by Claire Holden Rothman, is the tale of a modern family torn apart by the power of language and the weight of history. Girl Runner: A Novel by Carrie Snyder brings us the story of Aganetha Smart, a former Olympic athlete, famous in the 1920s. But now, at age 104, she lives in a nursing home, alone and forgotten by history. When her quiet life is disturbed by the unexpected arrival of two young strangers, Aganetha begins to reflect on her childhood in rural Ontario and her struggles to make an independent life for herself in the city. A beautifully crafted and perceptive work of fiction, The Age of Hope: A Novel, by David Bergen spans some 50 years of Hope Koop’s life in the second half of the 20th century in Manitoba, from traditionalism to feminism and beyond. Set in Winnipeg, this story is an indelible portrait of a seemingly ordinary woman who strug-

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gles to accept herself as she is, and in so doing becomes unique. It is a quick and thoughtful read that will make you stop and wonder about your own life. Both Cool Water and Juliet in August take place in Saskatchewan in a blinkand-you-miss-it kind of town. With the welcome sign promising a population of 1,011, it’s easy to believe that nothing of consequence takes place here. But the heart of Juliet beats with rich stories of its inhabitants. Canadian Dianne Warren is an award-winning playwright and fiction writer. Warren has also written The Wednesday Flower Man, a book of short stories and Bad Luck Dog, which won three Saskatchewan Book Awards, including Book of the Year. Set against the divergent landscape of British Columbia, from the splendours of nature to its immense dangers, from urban grease and grit to dry, desert towns, Clear Skies, No Wind, 100% Visibility by Théodora Armstrong examines human beings and their many frailties with breathtaking insight and accuracy. Filled with richly various and compelling characters, this collection of short stories evocatively portrays the human condition. When two missionaries disappear in the remote Arctic region known as the Coppermine, the North West Mounted Police officer Jack Creed and Angituk, a young Copper Inuit interpreter, are sent on a year-long odyssey to investigate the fate of the lost priests. Part epic adventure, part romance, and part truecrime thriller, Coppermine by Keith Ross Leckie, is a dramatic, compelling, character-driven story set in 1917 in the extremes of Canada’s far north and the boom town of Edmonton. The Canadian literature scene is a strong and supportive part of our cultural landscape. We are lucky to have such diverse and thought-provoking literature.

Yvonne van Lith is a librarian and coordinator at the Sunnyside Branch of the Ottawa Public Library.

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work. “I worked side by side with the day labourers doing the same work – digging, ploughing and looking after cattle – as they did from dawn to dusk in the boiling sun.” Cobras, elephants and wild boars were a danger as well as malaria, he writes. However, Samuel had the three qualities that writers Amy Chua and Jed Rubenfeld attribute to the success of South East Asian immigrants in the United States (and Canada): a superiority complex, uncertainty about worth and place in society, and impulse control (persistence in the face of hardships). Through sheer determination and hard work, “90 per cent sweat and 10 per cent inspiration,” he managed to complete high school and an honours degree in economics from the University of Kerala. In the basement study of his home in Alta Vista, he proudly shows off the medals he has won. “They are pure gold,” he says. After graduation, life was easier. Samuel taught at the local college, applied for scholarships abroad and married Aleyamma (an arranged marriage) in an Eastern Orthodox ceremony.

The “rags to riches” myth became a reality for T. John Samuel, who rose from humble beginnings as a farm boy in Kerala, India to become a “mandarin” in Canada’s public service for over three decades (1970s–1990s). Dr. Samuel’s autobiography, Many Avatars; One Life, chronicles his personal journey as well as exploring immigration and race relations in Canada. Although he wrote the book in part for his children (for “genealogical reasons”), he also wrote it for the public record – to document the struggles his generation had to endure to find its rightful place in Canadian society. Samuel’s other careers (or avatars) include teaching, school trustee and co-owner of the now-defunct Canadian India Times. In retirement, he still keeps busy by editing and managing the South Asia Mail, an Internet weekly (www.southasiamail.com), as well as managing his real estate holdings, playing golf, and with his wife, Aleyamma, “keeping an eye on” his children and grandchildren. Early Years

Life in Canada

Samuel had a hard and grim early life in rural Kerala during the depression years. Living at the edge of a backwater near Kayamkulam where his parents were evangelists, he had to walk seven miles to attend school and nearly died of typhoid. After high school, he was admitted to college but the family was too poor to pay for board and tuition. With the scarcity of jobs and high unemployment, he decided to take on labouring

In reply to a newspaper advertisement pertaining to the Colombo Plan, Samuel was awarded a Commonwealth Scholarship to the University of Toronto – one of 16 chosen from 3,000 applicants. After the completion of his PhD in population control in 1965, Samuel worked for the Ontario government and then joined the federal government as an economist, rising to the position of chief in the

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Department of Employment and Immigration, where he undertook immigration and settlement studies. He saw the role of the federal civil service first as providing research and policy advice to ministers and second, as a model employer incorporating the best and fair practices. “The ministers come and go, some sooner than others, but you, the public servant, are there to serve the public. That is your job description,” he quotes a deputy minister as saying. But Samuel felt strongly that the higher echelons of the civil service, dominated by the “Brits,” were prejudiced against South Asians. “They used to rule India,” he says, “and regarded Indians as only good

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to be clerks, not managers.” His own branch had 15 visible minorities out of 150 employees. Under austerity in 1983, “every visible minority was redcircled (a form of demotion). I realized that I was not going to become a deputy minister or ADM, that I should not keep all my eggs in one basket, and I bought and sold properties.” He then started his own consulting firm, John Samuel and Associates, and obtained contracts to work on an engagement strategy for a racism-free workplace. Other contracts included implementation and evaluation of employment equity systems and diversity training. During the course of his life and work he came to know many politicians. He liked Joe Clark, “Extraordinary Joe” whom he describes as humble, while he saw Brian Mulroney as being most favourable to high immigration levels. Pierre Trudeau brought in bilingualism and multiculturalism. Glebe residents mentioned in his book include Clyde Sanger, who interviewed him and wrote a piece, “Canada through the eyes of immigrants” in the Globe and Mail (November 9, 1969); Andrew Cardozo; and David Dodge, then Governor of Bank of Canada, who invited the whole staff for dinner at Christmas to his residence in the Glebe. Many Avatars; One Life – Challenges, Achievements and the Future by T. John Samuel. Friesen Press, Victoria, B.C., 2013, 400 pp. $25. Also available from johntsamuel@rogers. com for $20; all profits go to an educational institution. Ashwin Shingadia is a former member of the Glebe Report Association board of directors, and a regular contributor to the Glebe Report.

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The Glebe according to Zeus

glebous & comicus In the land of Glebe

A guinea pig’s perspective on the Glebe

Big Sal supports the GottaGo Campaign

In The Language Garden Euphemisms provide dangerous comfort By Adelle Farrelly

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Capitalist pigs in deadlock with libertarian pigs The 2014 municipal election created more issues than it solved. GiddyPigs across the Ottawa region are polarized over the Hutch and Such Tax (HST). Even the Piggy Council Office (PCO) has been implicated – despite having recently issued a press release declaring its commitment to objectivity. The HST is a controversial consumer tax, collected by the Canada Rodent Agency (CRA), which then remits amounts to participating boroughs. General complaints against the tax have included its complexity – even smart pigs don’t understand it – as well as its scope – the pigs who do understand it think it is far too broad. “The ‘Such’ in ‘Hutch & Such’ includes everything!” complained Antonio, a rebel pig who owes $4.29 in back taxes on his pillaging and plundering from 2013. Other pigs have different concerns. “As a libertarian pig, I’m just against taxes generally,” stated Obelix, who last week was a capitalist pig, but found libertarianism more profitable – er, palatable. “GiddyPigs International stands to increase profits by $2.49 this year if the HST is not charged on our new annual calendar, an award-winning satirical depiction of GiddyPigs society and politics,” provided Obelix as he was leaving The Joy of Gluten Free store on Bank Street. “The apple pie is delicious,” he added, licking his tiny plump lips. Socialist pigs, by contrast, have made some very good points about the HST supporting essential services, including home parsley delivery in winter. Unfortunately, no socialist pigs were available for comment because they were too busy socializing.

In examining the etymology of words, it is all too easy to become caught up in what words “really” mean, as if their histories determine, once and for all, a straightforward, correct usage. There are times, however, in which this complacency about the meaning of a word is used to mislead. When someone wants to soften the truth of something terrible or obscene, that person can use euphemisms (literally “well speaking”) to obscure what he or she is really talking about. For those who don’t wish to confront stark truths about what is really going on, these euphemisms can provide a dangerous comfort. One of the most infamous groups to make use of euphemisms to hide what was really going on was the Nazi Party in Germany, especially in their treatment of Jews, political dissidents, homosexuals, the mentally ill and others deemed “undesirable.” Perhaps most famously, they used the term “the final solution of the Jew-

ish question” for their systematic murder of the Jews. There are many other examples, including “special treatment” for summary execution, “quarantine” or “leper colony” for the pits at which they shot and buried the ill, and even how they inscribed the phase “work will set you free” above the gates of Auschwitz, one of their most notorious death camps. Although public complacency on the part of the average German is difficult for us to comprehend, the use of euphemisms, as transparent as some of them may have been, made it much easier for people to ignore what was going on around them. When horrors are phrased in technical, comforting or obfuscating terms rather than straightforwardly, it is easy to choose not to believe that nightmarish actions are occurring that might otherwise be more obvious. Adelle Farrelly brings her insights to readers of the Glebe Report every month on the meaning and origin of words.

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Book recounts local girl’s struggle for education By Nicole Bayes-Fleming

Author of the book Teach Me I Can Learn, Stephanie Haines (right), and parents Lorraine Amyot (middle) and John Paquin PHOTOs: NICOLE BAYES-FLEMING

October 18th is a cold, drizzly Saturday but inside Ottawa’s Delta City Centre the atmosphere at the Teach Me I Can Learn book launch is warm and inviting. A small crowd of friends, family and community members sit in comfy chairs set up for the event. At the front of the room, author Stephanie Haines reads from the novel’s first few pages, in which the family in the book brings home their newborn baby from the hospital. “I cry every time I hear that first chapter,” says a woman in the audience. Teach Me I Can Learn describes the struggle between an ordinary family and an Ottawa school board when the book’s main character, Lorena, is denied education because of her disability. The book is based on the true story of local Ottawa family, the Paquins, and their eldest daughter Nicole, who has Down’s syndrome. Jullian Paquin is Nicole’s younger sister and a current journalism student at Carleton University. She describes how she and Nicole were locked out of their elementary school 13 years ago, when both girls were in grade one. Their school had special funding to help Nicole learn, but instead of using it for teaching her, she was left to colour pictures in a room separate from other students. This led their mother, Lorraine Amyot, to confront the school’s principal. “We went to school one day and there was a security guard outside saying we were not allowed to go into the school,” Jullian remembers. Both sisters were barred from the school for six months as the school refused to accommodate a student with Down’s syndrome. They spent each day protesting on the school’s property, with buses that drove by honking in support. The school board wanted Nicole to go to a segregated school for other children with disabilities, but her family refused. “They can’t learn from each other,” Jullian explains of segregated schools, “the environment that they learn in is really important.”

Nicole and Jullian Paquin, sisters whose story is recounted in the book Teach Me I Can Learn

Eventually the girls went to a different school, 40 minutes away from their home instead of two. The first version of Teach Me I Can Learn was published two years ago and written by Amyot. She wrote it as a screenplay after borrowing a script from the library to learn the format. Amyot was encouraged by her publishing company to rework it as a novel. “What moved me to do it was the injustice,” she says, “The injustice that happened to me and my family, it wasn’t right.” Amyot got in contact with Haines after a customer bought five copies of her book online and told her to “pay one forward.” Haines is a professional writer who has studied scriptwriting at Algonquin College.

She trimmed the story down and altered the names of the characters for the most recent publication of Teach Me I Can Learn. “I’ve started many novels but this is the first novel I was passionate to finish,” says Haines, who calls the book a “very inclusive project.” Amyot views their story as a tool to help other parents who face the same problems her family did. She has heard of other families who have had experiences similar to her own, where their children were discouraged from attending their home schools due to disabilities such as autism and epilepsy. “The story is still relevant today and we’re still able to help people today,” she explains, adding, “You cannot write a story like this without having lived it. You cannot even begin to think that something like this could happen.” Teach Me I Can Learn is self-published and available online at teachmeicanlearn.com. The family’s next goal is to turn their novel into a movie, with Haines writing the screenplay. Net proceeds of the book are being put towards fundraising the $200,000 they need for the film. Nicole Bayes-Fleming is a second-year journalism student at Carleton University and a regular contributor to the Glebe Report.

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On World Toilet Day, November 19, GottaGo! will be one year old. In that year, our entirely volunteer organization has managed to garner significant support for a network of safe, clean, open public toilets that are accessible to people of all abilities in Ottawa. A great capital city has great public toilets. It is time we joined London, Paris, Seoul, Tokyo, Oslo, Christchurch and other capitals in recognizing that the provision of good public toilets is a civic responsibility. The municipal election results make GottaGo! optimistic. Returning Councillor David Chenushenko and a number of other new and old councillors have declared themselves to be keen supporters of the campaign. GottaGo! has a suite of proposals to deal with the obvious need for this network: • Provide signage and an interactive map for existing toilets indicating when they are open and what services they provide. • Increase the hours and improve the design of existing toilets in parks and other public spaces to improve safety, security and accessibility. • Create new toilets where required, and make them part of all community design plans. Since May, the GottaGo! team has been focused on toilets in the proposed LRT stations. At present, there will only be toilets at Tunney’s and Blair stations, the ends of the line. There are no plans for public toilets in the Park & Rides, no toilets on the O-Train route and no plan for toilets at major transit stations. Since thousands of people will be using these stations and needing washroom facilities, it is a significant missed opportunity that they are not part of the design. Ignoring the need for open, accessible, easy-to-find public toilets is a foolish policy decision. It means fewer people will use transit. It means that those people caught short will be humiliated. It means that the need to find a place to “go” in emergencies will lead to filth and public health issues. With an aging population and increasing use of non-car transportation options, the needs will only increase with time. Over 7,000 people in Ottawa suffer from Crohn’s dis-

Joan Kuyek and David Chernushenko at a GottaGo! press conference, September 23

ease and colitis. For anyone (pregnant women, children or people with medical problems) the urgent need to use a toilet is not an option. On September 23, GottaGo! submitted a petition with over 1,000 signatures to the mayor and city councillors demanding that public toilets be installed at all LRT stations and also released “Talking Toilets,” a research study highlighting the private and public problems created when public toilets are not available. In a few short months, GottaGo! has formed working partnerships with Crohns and Colitis Canada, 1125@Carleton, and Somerset West Community Health Centre. 1125@ Carleton is working with GottaGo! “to create a team of academics, researchers and students who, together with business, the public sector and community partners, will find innovative solutions to the safety, security and cost barriers that currently impede the development of the public toilet network.” Somerset West CHC has partnered with GottaGo! in an application to the Community Foundation of Ottawa. GottaGo! has also received endorsements for its campaign objectives from many community leaders and agencies including: • Ecology Ottawa • Crime Prevention Unit of the Ottawa Police • Dundonald Park Working Group • Alliance to End Homelessness • Social Planning Council of Ottawa • Pedestrian Safety Committee of the Council on Aging • Shepherds of Good Hope • Lowertown Community Association • Vanier Community Association • Citizens Academy • JustChange.ca • Ottawa Food Policy Council • The Hub You can find background information on GottaGo! on our website at www.ottawapublictoilets.ca. Joan Kuyek is chair of the GottaGo! campaign.

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The Citizens Academy Spring Boot Camp graduation, May 2014

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Coaching citizens who want to make change happen By Judith Maxwell

At City Hall on November 11, students in the Citizens Academy’s third Civics Boot Camp presented their Action Plans and celebrated their graduation. Over six weeks, we offer them knowledge about their city, tools for civic engagement and a chance to expand their networks across the city. Most leave with greater confidence and a new sense of purpose. The Academy’s goal is to help change Ottawa’s civic and political culture. Why are we doing this? Ottawa has trouble grappling with the big intractable issues. The tendency is to announce a bit more funding or appoint a task force rather than join forces with other stakeholders and come up with a long-range plan for joint action. Yet this city is blessed with many able people who want to help make change happen. So what’s Boot Camp like? First, anyone over 18 can apply for the program. We usually get over 100 applicants and we select about 40 to represent the age, gender, ethno-cultural background and geographic regions of the city. When they arrive the first evening, they have a light supper and get to know their fellow students. It doesn’t take long for strangers to become comrades. The next step is to get to know the city, so we do some community mapping, looking at the differences among six neighbourhoods using Ottawa Neighbourhood Study profiles (www.neighbourhoodstudy.ca). They also select a topic and form a team to work on their Action Plan. Common topics are public transit, affordable housing or an environmental issue. Participants also get access to our online learning system that first evening. That’s where they can learn the institutional background to the theme of the week. There are four online modules: governance, budgeting, civic engagement and land use planning. In face-to-face evenings, they meet with an expert who provides more depth on the theme of the week. The issues around governance for example could be: What are the powers of the mayor? How does City Council set priorities? What is the significance of the Official Plan? But there is also time each evening to explore the role of the citizen and the engagement tools that help them be effective as citizens. The final session is the practicum. Using their new knowledge, each team presents their Action Plan to seasoned community leaders, who ask questions and offer suggestions. The students are nervous about presenting, but are thrilled by the interaction with the leaders. And the leaders are enthusiastic about what they have heard and seen. They know these students are well on their way to becoming the Ideal Citizen (see box).

And what happens afterward? We eat cake and pass out certificates and send them out into the world. Seriously, they go in different directions: • Two 2013 graduates were candidates for City Council last month. • Some of the teams commit to make their Action Plan real. The most visible project so far is GottaGo (see page 18). • Some decide to join their community association. • Others decide to volunteer for Citizens Academy. Thank you very much! • Others take their tools back to the places where they volunteer. What’s inspiring about all of this is the energy and commitment our students bring to the weekly sessions. One student announced in week three that his brain was “buzzing with engagement.” Several said the program is too short! Maybe, but it is a big time commitment for busy people – six evenings and four hours plus of online study. The program has been free of charge so far. All we ask is that people take the time to digest all that we offer. It is now free because it was an experiment. And we managed to make it work because we had 1.5 staff, 150 volunteers and foundations to cover cash costs – the Community Foundation of Ottawa, the Ontario Trillium Foundation, the Metcalf Foundation, the Crabtree Foundation and the Awesome Foundation (plus donations from the public). And we get a lot of pro bono support from the City of Ottawa, among others. But this is not sustaining funding. We have to start generating cash, so we are thinking about a fee, combined with scholarships as necessary. As we develop today’s citizens, we know we are really developing future leaders. Who knows where they will take us. I’m sure it will be somewhere good. Judith Maxwell is a resident of the Glebe, a co-founder of the Citizens Academy (www.citizensacademy.ca) and the former president of Canadian Policy Research Networks. The ideal citizen

• Has the passion to get involved • Knows the facts, the actors and their perspectives • Knows how to identify reliable collaborators • Knows his or her own neighbourhood, plus a sense of the common good • Understands the city, its resources, its history • Knows how to ask questions and make the pitch • Understands how to get on the agenda and get a decision

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Mr. Mutchmor’s House – this photo was taken from the south; the building was later renovated and expanded with a second wing.

The Glebe ca. 1870

What’s in a (street) name? The Mutchmors

By Christa Thomas

In 1875, eight years after Confederation and 10 years after the government moved to Ottawa, a brief announcement in The Ottawa Citizen alerted residents to the building of a new tollgate house on the road leading into town “opposite the residence of Mr. Mutchmor.” The purpose was to prevent anyone headed to the city centre from evading the toll. Tollgates were located on the boundaries between wards (By Ward, for instance, was bounded by Rideau

Street), and the official city boundary was at McLeod Street; everything to the south was country. The Glebe was farmland (much of it part of the St. Andrews Presbyterian Church Clergy Reserve), with only a few scattered dwellings, and thought only to be just reasonably accessible. A Glebe home advertised for sale in 1874 (as Katherine Fletcher discovered for Capital Walks) accordingly touted a “comfortable rural residence … within a convenient distance of the city.” One of the few houses that already existed was the Mutchmor Homestead

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– specifically referred to in the Citizen advertisement – or Abbotsford House, named after writer Sir Walter Scott’s birthplace. The Mutchmors had arrived early, having acquired Lot I (see map) around 1836. Nearby Fifth Avenue used to be called Mutchmor Street, and Mutchmor School is named after it. In 1839 the family left for the United States where economic prospects seemed better. They returned to the Glebe in 1861, just in time for the city’s transformation into the capital of Canada. They were quite a clan, even at a time when many families were large. John Mutchmor, the family patriarch, was born in 1784 in Glengarry County, Ontario, the son of Jonathan Mutchmor and Mary Livingston, loyalists who migrated into Ontario from Pennsylvania. (Jonathan could trace his family in America to before 1692.) John was married to Mary Thornton Westley, and they had nine children. One of these, Alexander Mutchmor (1837-96), was a prominent businessman and landowner in Ottawa, and Abbotsford House was built for him sometime between 1867 and 1872. Mutchmor had entered into a partnership with his cousin John M. Garland and opened a wholesale grocery and retail dry goods business under the name of Garland, Mutchmor and Co. on Sparks Street. The business also branched out into real estate. It purchased 54 acres of land in what is now Old Ottawa South – accessible via a wooden swing bridge – north of Sunnyside between Bank and Bronson, for subdivision into building lots. Mr. Mutchmor was married to Dorinda Ball, with whom he had eight children, seven of whom survived into adulthood. Glebe streets Ella and Percy, in a subdivision of lots also owned by Mr. Mutchmor west of Bank Street, are named after his two youngest children; Muriel is likely named after his eldest daughter, and Gordon after Muriel’s husband, Gordon Wadsworth. Another Mutchmor daughter, Eliza, married Hugh Billings, son of another prominent Ottawa pioneer family. Another son of John Mutchmor and Mary Westley (and brother of Alexander), Ralph Westley Mutchmor (1827-1916), was also a businessman.

The Garland, Mutchmor and Co. store at 55 1/2 Sparks Street, early 1870s

In 1870/1871, he and E. C. Barber leased 48 acres of land from St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church and built the Turf Hotel, near Fifth Avenue (then Mutchmor Street) and Bank, as well as Mutchmor Trotting Park for sporting events. Here, the Queen’s Plate was run in 1872 and 1880. Alexander Mutchmor’s store, along with a number of other businesses, closed in early 1879 in the wake of difficult economic times. Mr. Mutchmor sold Abbotsford to then Ottawa mayor C. H. Mackintosh and left for the United States. The Mutchmor family’s experience of both success and misfortune mirrors the tumultuous first decade and a half of the new Dominion of Canada. Prince Edward Island, Manitoba and British Columbia had joined Confederation – stretching the country from sea to sea – but British Columbia was already grumbling over the lack of a Canadian rail connection. Travellers had to rely on American rail lines to get there. The Father of Confederation himself, John A. Macdonald, had to resign in 1872 over the Pacific Railway Scandal (he regained office in 1878). Science and culture were advancing. Alexander Graham Bell had made the first long-distance phone call in 1871, and in 1879 Sir Sandford Fleming introduced International Standard Time. The country and its capital were changing, and so was the Glebe. Glebe resident and historian Christa Thomas blogs about Canada’s women of Confederation at www.women-ofconfederation.ca.

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What’s buzzing? The Bee-Friendlies By Angela Keller-Herzog

The Pantry Common Room was filled to capacity on October 8 for a public talk entitled “Vanishing of bees and pollinators in Canada: local and municipal actions.” The highlight was a presentation by Beatrice Olivastri, executive director of Friends of the Earth Canada. The discussion was lively and mostly centred around the state of knowledge of and regulatory safeguards for neonicotinoid or systemic pesticides. The audience included several experienced Glebe gardeners who have been creating pollinator-friendly gardens to help butterflies, bees and other pollinators. Even these seasoned Glebe gardeners were surprised and dismayed to learn that testing shows that garden centres and grow-

ers in Ontario were using those same neonicotinoid systemic pesticides in cultivating friendly blooms like salvia, daisies and alyssum. Campaigns have been initiated to ask garden centres to stop this practice, or at minimum, to label neonicotinoid-free plants. A number of municipalities including Seattle, London, Ontario and Prince Edward County have initiated local regulatory actions. Following up on this presentation, the “Bee-Friendlies” was formed. It is a group of concerned citizens who want to learn and “buzz” more on this issue. For more information contact Kim Merrett at beefriendlies@gmail. com. Angela Keller-Herzog is co-chair of the Glebe Community Association’s Environment Committee.

The environment: think global, act local – so what do we think locally? By Angela Keller-Herzog

The recent municipal election, while over and done now, had its interesting moments here in Capital Ward. It gave us a chance to find out what the leading environmental issues are in the hearts and minds of the local electorate. On October 15, there was a Capital Ward all-candidates environmental debate that was organized by a collaboration of seven local environmentally active organizations: Ecology Ottawa (Community Network – Glebe), Healthy Transportation Coalition, Greenspace Alliance, Ottawa Riverkeeper, OPIRG Carleton, Council of Canadians (Ottawa Chapter) and the Ottawa Renewable Energy Cooperative. The event generated an excellent turnout of about 50 local residents. Many of us got a chance to pose our most pressing environmental questions in what Scott Blurton described on his blog as a “marathon 2.5 hour debate.” The graphic shows an analysis of the questions asked. The issue that received overwhelmingly the most attention by attendees was climate change, carbon and

energy. Questions in this category included: “How do we reduce our carbon footprint?” “How can we become a green energy leader?” “How can we make gains in energy conservation?” and “How can we educate politicians about the alarming and accelerating evidence of climate change coming from scientists?” All three Capital Ward candidates agreed that this issue was key, but differed in how it should be addressed. Based on the questions posed to candidates, the second environmental priority of Capital Ward residents attending this debate concerned trees and greenspace, with questions about the urban canopy, the sorry state of the “Bank Street reconstruction trees” (many are dead), wetland conservation and the expansion of the urban boundary. In his closing comments, Chernushenko indicated that the environmental debate had been the best of the debates he had participated in, with a wide scope of issues but also some in-depth discussion. Angela Keller-Herzog is co-chair of the Glebe Community Association Environment Committee.

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Pumps have been installed on the pond, and excavation is underway

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Brewer Pond restoration The solution

The answer? Create 16,000 square metres of suitable fish habitat on the lower Rideau River by reconnecting the old swimming hole to the river by a large culvert, and adding brush and other underwater hiding spots to make the pond more fish friendly. The area around the old change house will be somewhat altered. Although there will be a lot of work up-front, soon only close observers and anglers will notice! Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a project that offers an opportunity to increase riverside habitat for the 40-odd species of fish that live in the Rideau system. How the project came about

How did this project, long the dream of ECOS, come about? Over more than a decade several like-minded organizations including ECOS, the Rideau Valley Conservation Authority (RVCA), the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR), the federal

Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO), the city of Ottawa, Muskies Canada and more recently Carleton University, developed a plan to return the pond to a natural wetland condition, improve connection to the Rideau River and enhance sport fishing on this part of the Rideau. Muskie Canadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s (www.muskiescanada.ca) interest in the project flowed from its mandate to protect muskellunge, an iconic fighting sport fish indigenous to the Rideau system. The club conducts research and manages muskies to enhance the sport fishery, and carries out projects designed to raise public awareness of the muskellunge. The problem, as always, was money. How could such a costly project be funded? The Department of Fisheries and Oceans requires developers to compensate when their developments destroy fish habitat. The RVCA remembered discussions about Brewer Pond, and has experience with similar but smaller restoration projects. The Brewer project is still being refined by consultants from Minto and Richcraft, with input from the local community. The estimated budget is $1 million.

What will the project involve?

As the RVCA describes it, the proposed restoration project is to reconnect this pond on the north shore of the Rideau River adjacent to the Brewer sports field east of the Dunbar Bridge and create a wetland embayment (a wetland pocket). So far the project involves excavating the pond to create three levels ranging from a depth of 4.5 meters to a one-metre shallow shelf. Brush and logs will be placed in the excavated pond to serve as shelter for fish and frog eggs and hiding spots for minnows. Channels will be dug to allow the Rideau River to flow freely through the pond. On shore, some shrubs and trees are being dug up for replanting; others will be replaced, and more trees will be added. The top several inches of soil from the surrounding shoreline will be removed and stored on site because it is full of seeds from plants already established there. This soil will be spread back on the shoreline when the excavation work is done. The RVCA sources fish and plant material locally where possible. Trees come from the Ferguson Forest Centre in Kemptville,

which also sells tree and shrub seedlings to private landowners (see http:// www.seedlingnursery.com/). Finding local wetland plants is a taller order. They currently come from southwestern Ontario but a major supplier has just closed. Benefits

At Brewer the RVCA believes the benefits of a reconnected pond for the Rideau watershed to be manifold. The pond will allow fish species year-round access into the pond and out to the Rideau River, by allowing water to flow from the river through the pond and back to the river. It will raise the level of oxygen in the water to a healthy level to alleviate fish kills believed to be related to lack of oxygen in the pond in the winter and summer months. The deeper and shallower water levels in the pond will create conditions suitable for more diverse plant material both below and above surface. The restored wetland will provide good new spawning, nursery, rearing and food supply habitat for the fish community of the adjacent reach of the Rideau River. It will provide

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The Brewer Pond restoration project is intended to provide improved conditions for some 40 species of fish, among them the muskellunge or “muskie.”

new and enhanced winter and summer refuge areas for fish. It should increase biodiversity. Finally, it will improve water quality the length of the lower Rideau River as a result of the wetland enhancement. The RVCA also hopes the project will benefit the community. The current uses of Brewer Park will not change. Sports teams continue to use the change house, so it will stay. ECOS educational signage will be retained and signs will be added to describe the project and its social and ecological benefits to the lower Rideau watershed. The project in an inner city neighbourhood is a pilot in private/public partnership. More trees will be planted around the pond, contributing to Ottawa’s 20 per cent forest cover target. The Ottawa South Community Association and ECOS will continue to use the site for environmental events focused on the restoration activities such as fish appreciation and biodiversity, and it

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will provide inner city anglers with exciting fishing opportunities. The third local partner is Carleton University. The Brewer project simultaneously provides Carleton students with educational opportunities, research questions and lessons in working with community groups. It has become a field site for several Carleton programs. Environmental Science students have analyzed sediment cores, assessed the vegetation community, and collected water quality parameters in the pre-monitoring phase of the project to enhance RVCA data. For over a year, students in the Fish Ecology and Conservation Physiology Lab have radio tracked northern pike and muskellunge in the river adjacent to the pond, a tool commonly used to provide baseline movement on the spatial and seasonal ecology fish species. The lab will continue to track these species during construction and for several years thereafter to see how they use the new habitat. If effective,

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the approach used at Brewer could be adopted elsewhere for these species. The project has been advanced as an example of how to plan and implement a habitat creation project. Students are included in meetings with project planners. The collaboration among levels of government, developers, and environmental and community organizations is considered to be a pioneer model that may become the norm for future habitat restoration projects. What will happen next?

This month and next, fencing will be erected to allow the work to be done safely and efficiently. Any remaining aquatic species will be removed and relocated to the Rideau River. The pond will then be dewatered. After the pond level is brought down substantially, excavation will begin. The pond will be shaped into the three zones of varying depths, and structures such as basking logs, sweeper trees and inverted stumps will be placed in it. The site will be stabilized using erosion control blankets

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and the new banks will be seeded. It will take approximately eight weeks, depending on weather, to complete the work and stabilize the site for winter and spring freshet. The RVCA will evaluate the project for at least five years. Each year the RVCA will look at how the fish are using the new habitat. They will assess the quality of the vegetation (how well it is growing), and plants will be replaced as needed. They will also check the stability of the new water levels to see whether the culverts are silting up and whether there is silting or settling in the pond proper. Carleton University researchers will collect fish from the pond to examine their health and will put new fish into the ponds to see how they do. We look forward to watching the implementation of this unique project on our doorstep. Carol Macleod is co-chair of the Glebe Communit y Association Environment Committee and an avid enthusiast of the natural world.

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Louis Helbig remains grounded while his photographs soar By David Casey

For Louis Helbig, a house of sticks, bricks and mortar does not necessarily make a home – it is the warmth of friends, family and neighbours that creates a welcoming community. Helbig and his wife were drawn to the Glebe in the early 2000s for that very reason. The shops are all within walking distance, which allows for daily interaction with neighbours while going about one’s business. Helbig lives and works in two apartments that take over the second floor of a grand red brick Victorian home on Patterson Avenue. It is bustling with activity, as he navigates his way through the maze of rooms, directing a small army of helpers, some adapting the space in preparation for the birth of a child, others for the launch of his newest book of aerial photography of the tar and oil sands: Beautiful Destruction. The pace is frenetic; the main office, with its large bay window overlooking Strathcona Avenue, is the hub of activity while the living room overlooking the treelined streets of Patterson and Cobalt Avenues is a place for Helbig to collect himself and get away from the frenzy. Life wasn’t always this way; Helbig grew up in Williams Lake, a logging town in the interior of British Columbia. Mountaineering, canoeing and especially skiing played a large role in his upbringing. In fact, he represented Canada as a member of the National Cross Country Ski Team. While at

university he earned an MSc in Economic History and began working with various NGOs, which ultimately led him to Ottawa. By 2006 he had realized that he and some of the people around him were being stifled by bureaucracy. He felt that too much human potential was being lost and he left. A born outdoorsman and an aficionado of flying, Helbig was able to see most of B.C., Alberta and the Northwest Territories, giving him a sense of the vastness of the Canadian landscape. It also gave him a better understanding of himself: after dedicating many years to working in an office, it was time to reinvent himself as an artist.

His first major project “Sunken Villages St. Lawrence River” came about purely by chance. On one of his many flights around the area he flew over the St. Lawrence and spotted what looked like underwater ruins. Further research and investigation informed him about the sunken villages along the seaway and thus began the process of photographing the submerged landscapes (see Glebe Report, March 2013). Canadians have adopted a certain mythology about our country, and the wilderness of the Canadian land-

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scape has dominated our identity. As a result, we produce a lot of landscape art and revere the Group of Seven. Helbig still uses the Canadian landscape but his photos are almost abstract. He has shifted our perspective in the hopes that while the photos resonate with the audience, they also allow us to think and reflect about art as more than simple pictures of lakes, trees and mountains. Our motto is “from sea to sea to sea,” so naturally we have an appreciation for landscapes. But as Canadians, do we incorporate the Arctic, the mountains, the various First Nations or unique and enduring European enclaves in towns into our national identity? In 2007 the issue of the oil sands was not omnipresent; however, thousands of Canadians were heading to Alberta to make their fortunes. Despite this mass migration of people, the media wasn’t really bringing it to light. Always interested by things hidden in plain sight, Helbig decided to investigate this phenomenon. In 2008 he travelled to Fort McMurray and rented a plane. The result is his newest book, Beautiful Destruction, featuring Helbig’s compelling photographs accompanied by 16 essays about the

tar sands from different, often opposite, perspectives. With contributors like Elizabeth May, leader of the Green Party, the former CEO of Suncor, and a local First Nations chief, his book presents a balanced study of the issue under the rubric of art. Part of our Canadian mythology is that we are cooperative and conciliatory; however, the issue of tar and oil sands is a contentious one that has only recently gained widespread media attention. The major economic and environmental impact is something that as Canadians we have not incorporated into our identities. Helbig feels that his book of aerial photos might be a good place to start. As the articulate and passionate Helbig busies himself with the preparations in his Glebe home in anticipation of what promises to be a very busy autumn, he hopes to contribute to Canada’s artistic voice while remaining thoughtful and grounded, immersed in and integral to our community. David Casey is a realtor and a regular writer for the Glebe Report. He writes about the artists among us and the creative spaces that surround them.

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she needs to go. She loves the treats on Bank Street, especially the empanadas at Morala Café and the pancakes at Flapjack’s! She is also a tea aficionado, searching out new flavours, interesting pots and teacups. Zmud will continue to create music, to share her stories with other artists,

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“In her formative years

Glebe musician Jill Zmud’s album, Small Matters of Life and Death, has been nominated for a Canadian Folk Music Award.

Glebe musician Jill Zmud nominated for Folk Music Award By Martha Bowers

I had planned to meet local singersongwriter Jill Zmud on October 22. Given the tragic events on Parliament Hill that day, we decided to postpone our meeting. I did get together with her the next day and we had a delightful chat about her music, living in the Glebe and life in general. Having grown up in Saskatoon, Zmud says, “It takes a while for a Prairie girl to feel at home, but the Glebe has done that for me.” Although she came to Ottawa in 2000 to study at Carleton University, she then went to Toronto and back to Saskatchewan, where she taught political studies at the University of Saskatchewan. But in 2006 she decided that Ottawa was a

better place for her music and the Glebe turned out to be the perfect spot. Strange as it may seem, Zmud only got into music in her early twenties when her brother, seeing that she needed a creative outlet, gave her a guitar. In her formative years she had been a dancer and found that the freedom of choreography seeped into her music. Her first album, As We Quickly Drive By, made many “best of” lists in 2009. She has been influenced by the Sarahs: McLachlan, Slean and Harmer, as well as by Joni Mitchell. Her country-folk sound is lyrical, with gospel-tinged harmonies, and her songs are light and dark, joyful and pensive. Her musical family has also had an impact on her; she sang Leonard Cohen songs in the kitchen with her

mom, and her Uncle Ed had been a member of the band Witness Inc. in the 1960s and 1970s. It was the discovery of an old dusty reel-to-reel tape of her uncle’s in her parents’ basement that was an inspiration for her recently released album Small Matters of Life and Death. Zmud says, “It’s an album tied to the celebration of life, lives and the unbreakable link to family.” There are songs about loss and grief such as “Chained and Bound,” about the death of her father, but then she jumps to the other side. Zmud was pregnant while recording the album and her daughter Violet was born just six weeks before the release! Now Zmud is in the midst of juggling her musical career with a new baby, but she has lots of support from her husband, Alan, her mom and Alan’s parents. She loves living in the Glebe – the sense of community, its compactness. Being carless, she enjoys being able to walk wherever

she had been a dancer and found that the freedom of choreography seeped into her music.”

and to perform and tour while on the steep learning curve of how to be a mamma. She has already taken the baby to an out-of-town conference with her mom as roadie. She did a show in Kingston in late October and will do a benefit for Cornerstone on November 21 at the Centurion Conference and Event Centre on Colonnade Road. Zmud is thrilled that Small Matters of Life and Death has been nominated for Contemporary Album of the Year at the Canadian Folk Music Awards taking place in Ottawa from November 27 to 29. Zmud’s records are available at Compact Music as well as online. Check out her website for information on upcoming shows: jillzmud.com. Martha Bowers is an editor, proofreader and regular contributor to the Glebe Report.

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Glebe digital creative firm has wind in its sails By S. L. Beattie

When OC Transpo riders check their smartphones to see exactly what time the number 7 will arrive at Bank and Fifth Avenue, they may not realize that the people who made this possible are sitting just a few steps away. BV02 is a cutting-edge digital creative agency that makes its home in the Glebe. What is digital creative? It is not just about designing websites, explains account lead Derek Smith. The focus at BV02 is on coming up with a multifaceted digital presence for its clients – a complete strategy for web-presence, digital marketing and mobile solutions. Analytics play a key part in developing and evaluating the strategy: figuring out who the audience is and how to engage them. Nowadays, all types of institutions, from businesses and governments, to museums and cultural institutions, must enhance their presence in the digital world as well as the real world. BV02’s work is not just to make sure their clients are there for someone who is looking for specific information on the Internet, but to help that information “get up and walk around,” says Smith. Their work for OC Transpo is a case in point. CEO Andrew Milne is the company’s founder. A successful career in digital marketing took him from Ottawa to Toronto, where he worked on large national and international accounts. But Milne had a different

vision, one that focused exclusively on digital strategy. After moving back to Ottawa, Milne founded the company in 2002, initially working from downtown Ottawa before settling in the Glebe in 2010. The company has a core clientele in the city, working with clients such as local museums, galleries, the City of Ottawa and Carleton University. It has also developed a strong national and international reputation. For example, it has worked on projects such as an app to help Aboriginal children in Saskatchewan, establishing the Federation of Canadian Municipalities’ digital presence, as well as projects for the Hutchins Centre at Harvard University and the Pulitzer organization. In September, they added an international award from the Academy of Interactive and Video Arts to their cache of W3 awards. For this award, both small firms and the huge international agencies compete on even ground. BV02 walked away with six awards, including gold in the user experience category for its work for the Ottawa Public Library. “Ottawa is a great city to work from,” says Smith. The very nature of their business means that a lot of communication happens online and

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by telephone, but “I travel a lot,” says Milne, “and Ottawa is an international city that’s a perfect hub for doing business abroad.” Milne also made a deliberate decision to bring the company to the Glebe. The young, dynamic team at BV02, now 30-strong, is a creative group engaged with their community. Being in the Glebe means Milne gets home in time to have dinner with his kids. But it also means that the company barbecue is in a neighbourhood park, and that the team is constantly engaging with the artists, designers and other creative types who make this downtown neighbourhood their home and playground. “The Glebe is going to be one of the new centrepieces for this new generation of businesses, especially with Lansdowne’s recent expansion,” says Milne. “Many of our staff are local and choose to bike, bus or walk to our offices. It’s a real lifestyle choice.” BV02 is part of a rebirth in the tech sector in this city, a community that Milne is eager to nurture. They host weekly informal drinks gatherings for colleagues working in the sector, and will eagerly share expertise and resources, including the device lab, Milne’s pet project. In fact, the company hosts Canada’s only “open device lab,” a space with just about every digital gadget you could imagine, from the latest iPhone, half a dozen models of Blackberry, a host

of android smartphones, tablets and different computers. Before a site goes live, the team can therefore test it out on many different devices to make sure the user experience with it will be smooth. And they’ll open the lab for others to use as well, whether they are BV02 clients or not. It’s a way of giving back, and of engaging with the community in a meaningful way. That open door, to colleagues, to the community, and to the exchange of ideas and creativity that comes from a location like the Glebe is all in keeping with Milne’s philosophy. So too is the story behind the tech-sounding name. The BV in BV02 stands for “boom vang,” which, as sailors know, is the device that adjusts the tension between the mast of a sailboat and the boom, the horizontal piece at the base of the main sail. In Milne’s vision, the mast is like big business: “It is affected by the direction of the sails, the wind and the boat, but it stays the course … the boom is the audience, it moves to outside forces and influence, it changes and moves, constantly in motion.” The boom vang “is the communicator between the mast and the boom. We help adjust how they work together.” A boom vang must be set at the right tension to keep the boat on course, but it isn’t fixed, instead it adjusts as necessary to adapt to changes in the wind and other forces, just as keeping on top of the digital world requires constant adjustment and adaptation. From their dock on Bank Street, Milne and his team at BV02 are aiming to chart a course for the future of digital. S. L. Beattie is a Glebe resident who enjoys learning about new businesses and flexing her “writing muscle” for the Glebe Report.

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At the flicks with Lois and Paul

The Notebook

Directed by János Szásy (Hungary, 2014) By Paul Green

Words and Pictures

Directed by Fred Schepisi (U.S., 2014) By Lois Siegel

Words and Pictures is a romantic comedy. The film opens crosscutting between the two main characters – the images take place at the same time in two different locations. We see them getting ready to go somewhere early in the morning. That somewhere happens to be an upscale prep school where they are both teachers. Dina Delsanto (Juliette Binoche) is an artist and new to the school, and Jack Marcus (Clive Owen) is an English instructor who has been there for many years. Delsanto has rheumatoid arthritis and walks with difficulty using a cane. The two main characters go through a series of conflicts in a love/hate/love relationship. What makes this film work, besides the excellent acting, is the cleverly written humour and the interesting discussions about words and pictures by the two protagonists. The screenwriter is Gerald Di Pego. Most of the students only care about getting into a good school after they graduate. Grades are key. Marcus calls them droids – robots possessing artificial intelligence. Delsanto is described as a painter who is known as “The Icicle.” It’s rumoured that she caned a student at her last school. But she is also a successful artist, selling her work. Marcus, once a talented writer, is now an alcoholic. They each have their foibles. Delsanto teaches honours art; Marcus teaches honours English. Delsanto talks about skill plus feeling ... painting is a fine art. She says that words are lies and traps. That doesn’t go over well with Marcus. He loves the power of words. He cares about them and plays word games, often challenging others. The “war” is on. Marcus challenges Delsanto to a “words versus pictures” assembly in front of the entire school. Rated 14 A. DVD: amazon.com

The Trip

Directed by Michael Winterbottom (U.K., 2010) By Lois Siegel

An ideal assignment for a journalist: write about the best food in the region and invite a buddy – someone you love to argue with – to accompany you. Sounds like a great trip. What could be better? Maybe not being stood up by your girlfriend who backs out at the last minute … This film stars Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon who are essentially playing themselves on a restaurant tour through Northern England. Steve is a food critic for the British newspaper The Observer. This is not My Dinner with Andre (1981), which was limited to a conversation at a restaurant table. The Trip is much lighter, very funny, and the food is gourmet: exquisitely beautiful and tantalizing for any palate. The Trip is a comedy with some serious undertones. The two companions constantly compete with each other. They impersonate some of the best actors in motion pictures, and their impressions are hilarious. There’s early Michael Caine, and older Michael Caine, Anthony Hopkins and Dustin Hoffman. What could be better? Perhaps the promise of a life less lonely. Note: The Trip to Italy is the new 2014 release … and the saga continues. DVD: amazon.com. Available at Glebe Video. Editor’s note: Lois Siegel taught film animation at John Abbott College (Montreal) before moving to Ottawa.

Viewers looking for some sort of Hungarian take on the eponymous Nicholas Sparks novel would do well to understand that this Notebook is far removed from the mawkish sentimentality often associated with Sparks’ work. True, one may observe that The Notebook is a coming-of-age tale set against the backdrop of wartime Hungary, but it is also a story about the human condition and how two brothers bear witness to and survive in circumstances that more often than not bring out the worst in human behaviour. In early 1944, the Germans have occupied Hungary, while the country itself is ruled by a pro-Nazi regime whose black-uniformed Iron Guard militia perform much of the Nazis’ dirty work, while generally instituting a reign of terror. In the film’s opening sequence, two 13-year old brothers – they are in fact identical twins – partake of a final meal with their parents in what appears to be a comfortable, middleclass home in Budapest. Father is in uniform; he is shortly to report for military duty. As a parting gift, the boys receive a blank notebook in which they are to record their observations about everything that is to happen to them. Mother has her own plans, which, while unclear, seem to include dumping the twins with their fearsome grandmother, whom neither the boys nor their mother have seen for years. And so begins their ordeal. Furious at being saddled with these two wretches (as she sees them), Grandmother puts them to work on her decrepit farm, and administers frequent beatings to keep them in line. Happily, the boys bear no resemblance to the twin brothers – a pair of malevolent idiots – in Franz Kafka’s The Castle. They carefully observe the goings-on around them and plan for their survival. Tired of being knocked about by nearly everyone they meet, they toughen themselves by slapping and punching one another in disciplined fashion. This so impresses the German officer billeted nearby, that he befriends the boys and later gets them out of a nasty jam with the local Iron Guard. Dutifully recording their observations in the notebook, our twin

protagonists are like Voltaire’s Candide, only there are two of them and they appear to be living in the worst of all possible worlds. On market day in the village, they give chase to a waif who has stolen an apple, only to discover a bedraggled young girl with a cleft palate who lives with her deafblind mother, or so she tells them. Later, they blackmail a priest whose sexual peccadillos have become known to them. In one of the film’s rare lighter moments, they meet the deacon’s maid who introduces them to the joys of communal bathing. Unfortunately, she will come to regret her indulgence in a little Jew-baiting as the last great roundup of European Jews gets under way in mid-1944. It is perhaps fitting that one of the few villagers to show the boys any kindness is an elderly Jewish cobbler who fits them out with new boots and does not charge them. With its unflinching gaze, The Notebook is a finely-observed portrait of a society under stress. As such, it is a worthy successor to the great films of the Hungarian new wave of the ’60s and ’70s when such directors as Istvan Szabo and Miklos Jancso, fuelled by generous state subsidies, shot films that were artistic successes, while frequently containing subtle criticism of the communist system that nurtured them. In its way, The Notebook comes full circle. The Germans depart, the Russians arrive, and the brothers understand that a return to their comfortable ‘pre-war’ life is not in the cards. From the novel by Agota Kristóf. Running time: 110 minutes. In Hungarian with English subtitles.

European Union Film Festival November 13–30

The 29th European Union Film Festival gets underway November 13 and runs through November 30. This year’s festival features international, award-winning and Oscar-submitted films from 27 countries presented in their original languages with English subtitles. All of the films in the festival are Ottawa premieres. Screenings will be at the auditorium of the Library and Archives Building, 395 Wellington Street. Advance tickets are available through the Canadian Film Institute at www.cfiicf.ca/euff. Limited tickets will be offered at the door. Tickets are $12; $8 for members, seniors and students. Passports are also available. Visit www.euff. ca or www.cfi-icf.ca for the complete film lineup.

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Master Piano Recital Series for 2014/2015

Brahms – 4 Klavierstücke, Op. 119 Charles Richard-Hamelin is one of Canada’s most promising emerging young artists. A top prizewinner in several important international competitions, Richard-Hamelin has been in high demand as a soloist and chamber musician internationally since graduating from the Yale school of music in 2010.

By Roland Graham

The Master Piano Recital Series brings great pianists, most of whom are talented young artists, to the National Capital region, increasing access for everyone to such forms of art and culture. Concerts take place at Southminster United Church, 15 Aylmer Avenue. This season, four exceptionally talented pianists will offer solo programs featuring masterpieces from great composers of the 17th through 20th centuries. An additional fifth concert will incorporate a symphonic orchestra from Montreal in a program that includes a famous piano concerto along with inspiring instrumental works. With emphasis given to young performers and new faces to the Ottawa scene, all of whom are recognized or quickly becoming recognized at the international level, the series will provide Ottawa music fans the unparalleled cultural experience they became used to last year. Please note that the concerts fall on different days of the week: two are on Saturday evenings, one is on a Wednesday evening and two are on Sunday afternoons.

Suren Barry returns to Ottawa on November 29 for the series-opening concert.

2014 concerts Saturday, Nov. 29, 7:30 p.m. Reflections Suren Barry, piano

Beethoven – Sonata in A major, Op. 2 no. 2 Chopin – Polonaise-fantaisie, Op. 61 Ravel – Miroirs Well known to audiences across Ontario and Quebec, Barry is one of Ottawa’s favourite young rising star talents. He returns to Ottawa from the Eastman School of Music for the series-opening concert, his first solo recital performance in the city in over a year.

2015 concerts Saturday, Jan. 24, 7:30 p.m. Bach and His Legacy Charles Richard-Hamelin, piano

Bach – Overture in the French Manner, BWV 831 Chopin – Ballade No. 3 in A-flat major, Op. 47 Chopin – Polonaise-fantaisie, Op. 61

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Bach – Partita No. 4 in D Major, BWV 828 Schumann – Waldszenen, Op. 82 Schumann – Arabesque, Op. 18 Brahms – Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24 A consummately accomplished master musician, Jean Saulnier is among Canada’s most dynamic and gifted pianists. A prolific performer, recording artist and pedagogue, he has collaborated with and inspired numerous musicians of national and international prominence throughout his distinguished career. Wednesday, May 6, 7:30 p.m. Pictures at an Exhibition Sofya Gulyak, piano

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Bach – Concerto in D minor, BWV 1052 Bruckner – Symphony No. 7 in E Major Orchestre symphonique de l’Isle Cristian Gort, conductor Roland Graham, piano By popular demand, the Orchestre symphonique de l’Isle returns to Ottawa to join me in presenting a favourite piano concerto in a concert designed with the whole family in mind!

All concerts take place at Southminster United Church, 15 Aylmer Avenue (Bank Street at the Rideau Canal). The church is fully wheelchair accessible and located on OC Transpo routes 1 and 7. Tickets are $25 for adults and $15 for students, except the Family Concert on June 7, which is $20 for adults and $10 for students. Series passes for all five concerts are $100 for adults and $60 for students. All concerts are free for children 12 and under accompanied by an adult. Tickets are available at The Leading Note (370 Elgin), Compact Music (785 Bank), The Ottawa Folklore Centre (1111 Bank) and the Southminster Church Office (15 Aylmer). For more information, email MasterPianoRecitalSeries@gmail.com or call 613-862-2084. I hope you will find these concerts as exciting as I do. Roland Graham is the founder and artistic director of the Master Piano Recital Series.

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Glebe Annex Community Association news

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By Doug Milne

Maeve McMahon, Sylvia Milne (GACA president), Kirsten Armstrong, Laurie Hill, Ron Poirier, Julie Stephens, David Perkins and Darlene Charron take part in the clean-up.

A big return for 10 dollars By Lisa Furrie

Members are the lifeblood of any community association, and the more members an association has, the more its work is truly representative of its broader community. That’s why, this November, members of the Glebe Annex Community Association (GACA) will be knocking on every door in the Glebe Annex, chatting with neighbours about GACA’s work and encouraging everyone to join. Why should people join a community association? (And this applies not just to GACA, but to every association working on behalf of whichever community you live in.) Perhaps the most important reason is that an association gives its community a voice with city officials. The city shares information with the association and members of the association are invited to take part in city-led projects like the Pilot Project on Pre-Application Consultations currently underway in Capital Ward. (Our GACA rep can’t wait for the next meeting of this group to be scheduled.) An association also works with the city on issues around traffic, parking, parks and community safety. But it’s not all work! Becoming involved with a community association also allows you to meet your neighbours and helps to foster a true sense of community. Our annual “Party in the Park” and semi-annual community clean-up mornings are great opportunities to meet new people and have some fun (yes, cleaning up the neighbourhood can be fun!). People who live and work in the Glebe Annex can buy a membership

for just $10. The funds raised through our annual membership drive allow the association to cover its expenses (things like paying for our annual membership in the Federation of Citizens’ Association and hosting our annual community event). These funds also let the association, in turn, be a good neighbour to surrounding communities. GACA recently made a financial donation to the Dalhousie Community Association to help fund its OMB appeal. And we’ll be helping our neighbour in this endeavour in any other way we can. For more details about the GACA, visit www.glebeannex.ca or email info@glebeannex.ca. Lisa Furrie is on the executive of the Glebe Annex Community Association.

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We were prepared to deliver a factfilled column reporting on the outcome of our Annual General Meeting scheduled to take place on October 22, but – it didn’t happen. There were many calls and emails as directors, some from lockdown positions and others tending our children in secure schools, rushed to tell us they could not be available for the meeting. The meeting was rescheduled for October 29. The results of our election of officers and committee activities will be reported on fully in the next edition of the Glebe Report. The membership committee has been diligently preparing a campaign to welcome new members (see Lisa Furrie’s article) and let people know

about our busy organization. The committee is actively seeking representatives to help spread the word and help in our campaign. Although our fees are minimal, the money collected will help defer our costs and allows us to pursue our issues with the City’s Planning Committee, if the new Council continues in the footpath of the past regime. Please welcome our membership campaign volunteers, review our professional new marketing brochure and listen to their plans for our community, as they are doing this on their own time and for the benefit of all residents of the Glebe Annex. Doug Milne is a resident of the Glebe Annex who is active in the community association.

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Living with Lansdowne

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Farewell football fans (‘til 2015), now prepare for the shoppers!

Lindt Chocolate was the first retailer to open its doors at Lansdowne.

By Brian Mitchell

The era of the Lansdowne shopping mall is now upon us. On October 1 the Lindt Chocolate store opened its doors; Winners followed shortly after. By the time this article is published, several more retailers will have opened, or be about to, such as Sporting Life (Tommy & Lefebvre), Whole Foods and the LCBO. The remaining restaurants and shops will open towards the end of the year or early in 2015. The 10-screen Cineplex is expected to begin operations in February. Over these next few months Glebe residents, particularly those living near Lansdowne, will begin to see the day-to-day impact of living with the traffic challenges created by these new business establishments in our midst. Ever since the Lansdowne redevelopment project was proposed, the response to the community’s traffic concerns by the City and the developer, the Ottawa Sports and Entertainment Group (OSEG) has been “wait-and-see – it should work.” And based on the initial experience of the new Lansdowne this past summer and the return of football to the Glebe, perhaps they are right. By most accounts, the traffic impact on the community due to Redblacks’

games is noticeably less than that of past football teams, despite selling out every game. Thanks to effective communication by the City and OSEG to get fans to use park-and-ride and transit services (both are included with a game ticket), over 65 per cent of fans are using transit, shuttles, cycling or walking to the game. This is higher than anticipated – Ottawa boasts the highest use of transit/ shuttle ridership by CFL fans. Impressive! So perhaps the City and OSEG are correct, and the community should not expect any traffic troubles from the new Lansdowne mall. Perhaps. All along it has been the day-today traffic issues associated with Lansdowne that have been of paramount concern to the community, not the 10-games per year of football. Indeed the only major concern the community raised about the transportation planning for football was the plan to send a large number of shuttle buses down residential roads such as Lakeside and Fifth Avenue. The community was right; this plan simply did not work. Thankfully the City and OSEG finally agreed with the community and, after the first two games, began rerouting all but 20 per cent of the shuttle buses onto arterial roads (e.g. Prince of Wales). And the City, supported by the NCC for the 2014

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following a formal petition by residents, now have one-hour parking until 11 p.m. and residents can purchase “guest permits” to allow their dinner guests and other short-term visitors to park up to three hours While these measures may mitigate the traffic impact, the GCA believes much more will be required to make Lansdowne work for residents and visitors alike. For now, the City and OSEG are committed to a robust traffic-monitoring program, which began with the Redblacks’ games this summer and continues this autumn with the return of the Ottawa 67s to the Glebe. In March the City will conduct its first quarterly assessment of the traffic impact of retail activities at Lansdowne. The GCA will host an information meeting next spring to share this traffic monitoring information, and to encourage residents to express their views. In the meantime, Glebe residents are encouraged to share their observations and suggestions with the GCA’s Traffic Committee by emailing traffic@glebeca.ca. Thus far, like the return of football, the impact on the community of traffic generated by Lansdowne’s Swiss chocolatier has been manageable. Time will tell whether the experience with the rest of the new businesses opening up at Lansdowne will remain as sweet. Brian Mitchell is chair of the GCA Traffic Committee.

Jim Cuddy Band to open arena at TD Place Featuring Kathleen Edwards and Autumns Canon Free concert November 15

The Jim Cuddy Band will headline a free concert that marks the opening of The Arena at TD Place, a new Lansdowne concert venue. The concert, taking place on Saturday November 15 at 6:30 p.m., is the seventh annual “Rock for Public Services” presented by CUPE Local 503 and CUPE Ontario to celebrate municipal workers in the Ottawa/Gatineau region. “This event has also been a very successful forum to raise much needed funds for some great Ottawa charities. At the end of this seventh annual concert, we hope to have raised over $150,000 for local charities” says Brian Madden, CUPE 503 President. For the second year in a row it will be a fundraiser for The Royal with the funds supporting youth mental health. Opening the show are critically

acclaimed singer-songwriter Kathleen Edwards and Ottawa rockers Autumns Cannon. A national musical treasure, Jim Cuddy, with his soulful voice, commanding stage presence and wonderful songs, will create a memorable opening night for Canada’s newest live performance venue. No tickets are required for the event; seats are first come, first served.

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season at least, withdrew its plans to use Fifth Avenue as an alternate to the Queen Elizabeth Driveway (QED) for half the games. Unlike football games where the traffic impact is immediate and measurable, it will take longer to assess the impact of the retail and other day-today activities at Lansdowne. Over the past two years the Glebe Community Association (GCA), with neighbouring associations, has been in regular dialogue to press the City and OSEG to implement measures to minimize, mitigate and monitor the traffic impact of Lansdowne on residential streets. The GCA conducted extensive community consultations in 2013–2014 to develop a series of recommendations in this regard. Alas, only a few have been adopted, although some important ones are proceeding: • Many visitors to the Lansdowne mall will have their parking paid for through their purchases (Cineplex and Whole Foods for sure, and likely several others), to help ensure they park in the Lansdowne parking lot and not on nearby streets • To encourage cycling and walking to Lansdowne, the City has improved signal lights for pedestrians on Bank Street, and for pedestrians and cyclists at the QED and Fifth; next year it will begin implementing the Glebe Neighbourhood Bikeway • The streets immediately adjacent to Lansdowne (Adelaide, Holmwood and O’Connor),

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councillor’s report We still have much to accomplish in Capital Ward

Glebe Report November 14, 2014

Lawyer JaMeS MCCULLOCH Councillor David Chernushenko

Four more years – so much to do and www.capitalward.ca so little time. So let’s get started. But first, I want to express my gratitude to all those who placed their faith in me to represent them for a second term as Capital Ward councillor. To everyone who voted, no matter whom you supported, thank you for exercising what is both a right and a privilege fundamental to democracy. Too few citizens – less than 40 per cent in the Ottawa municipal election – take the time to vote, and that’s a shame. On the other hand, I was truly amazed by the effort many voters made to ensure they could cast their ballot – advance polls, proxy votes, requests for a drive to the poll. One lady of a certain age, determined to keep her perfect voting record intact, simply wanted an arm to hold on to as she crossed Main Street. I was honoured to offer that arm. To my two competitors for the position of councillor in Capital Ward, Scott Blurton and Espoir Manirambona, I commend you for putting yourselves forward as candidates, and I thank you for bringing your ideas and your energy to the race. We had a respectful and positive competition, as seems to be the norm in Capital Ward. Long may it stay this way. As I write this column on the day after the election, I am looking forward to meeting my newly elected colleagues and to continuing my work with re-elected councillors. Although each councillor represents a specific ward, I believe we can accomplish much more and build a far better city if we think of ourselves as a team working in the interests of all Ottawa residents. I have a short list of priorities for 2014–2018. I know that many new issues will arise, many projects will require support and many crises will have to be dealt with. But if I do not keep my eye on my short list, my energy will too quickly be dissipated. Once again, here they are: • Accelerate construction of affordable housing across the city, by helping to broker cross-sector partnerships and by creating a stronger citywide affordable housing policy. • Improve public transit by completing the Confederation Line and moving quickly to finance and approve the route for Phase Two light rail, including expanded O-train service. Revise bus routes to make the most effective use of the new rail service. • Prioritize active transportation by fully implementing the Ottawa Cycling Plan and Ottawa Pedestrian Plan. • Oversee the renewal of Main Street and use this experience to apply “Complete Street” principles to other road projects, such as Bronson Avenue in 2017/2018. • Increase citywide connectivity and reduce congestion by advancing the construction date for the Fifth Ave – Clegg footbridge through a multiparty financing partnership. • Promote sustainable urban intensification and development principles, notably working with the developers of the Oblate Lands in Old Ottawa East to showcase this approach. • Give greater certainty to communities in the development approvals process through consistent application of zoning, community design plans and infill design guidelines. • Complete the “Infill Two” study, and see this translated into new bylaws. • Reduce long-distance travel needs and associated congestion by promoting smarter suburban planning and more active transportation connections. • Continue to support public health promotion through the implementation of Ottawa Public Health’s Healthy Eating, Active Living (HEAL) strategy. I want to be able to reach my constituents in a timely fashion, and email is the most efficient way. So if you wish to receive my newsletter (about every 6–8 weeks) and occasional special updates, please take this opportunity to subscribe via my website at capitalward.ca/subscribe.

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Upholding high standards of human rights and social democratic values

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Fall is one of my favourite times to be in Ottawa. I love the golden afternoon sunshine. The bright red leaves. The wonderful foods in the markets, brought fresh from the harvest by local producers. This is an exciting season in our city, and we have much to be thankful for. Yet as we take time this fall to give thanks for the blessings in our own lives, we must continue to build a better and fairer Canada for all Canadians. A few weekends ago, I spoke at the Sisters of Spirit vigil on Parliament Hill, held in honour of all the missing and murdered indigenous women in Canada. On October 4 every year, Canadians gather to formally recognize this tragically growing list, which now includes the names of more than 1,000 women. NDP Aboriginal Affairs Critic Jean Crowder and I assured the crowd that New Democrats will not rest until there is a national inquiry investigating the murders and disappearances of these women.

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Violence against indigenous women is an ongoing and systemic problem in this country, reinforced by structures, attitudes and institutions that either encourage perpetrators or refuse to recognize the existence or severity of the violence. The Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples found that some Canadian federal legislation has had a negative impact on Canadian indigenous peoples, and we have yet to acknowledge and address the role that these laws have had in perpetrating violence. Indigenous peoples traditionally honour women as life-givers, valued community members, and vessels of the cultural history and vitality of the entire people. It’s long past time for the Government of Canada to treat women and their families, indigenous and non-indigenous alike, with similar respect. In September, New Democrats were able to outnumber the Conservatives in the House of Commons and force a debate on missing and murdered indigenous women. My friend and colleague Romeo Saganash, an experienced Cree leader and the NDP’s Deputy Critic for Intergovernmental Aboriginal Affairs, delivered a passionate speech expressing the urgent need for a national inquiry. He asked the same question many of us have been asking: “Where is the Canada we used to know … the one that has the history of upholding high standards of human rights and social democratic values?” The NDP will keep working to ensure that indigenous women, their families and all Canadians get the justice and the answers they deserve. Postscript Due to recent events, I would like to share with everyone the statement I made in the House of Commons: “On Wednesday [October 22], ordinary passersby rushed to Corporal Nathan Cirillo’s wounded body, desperately pumping his chest and urging him to hold on. Ottawa lawyer Barbara Winters was telling him, ‘You are loved. Your family loves you. You’re a good man. You’re a brave man.’ Our hearts are broken by this killing of a young father, standing unarmed on ceremonial guard. “Nurse Margaret Lerhe also rushed to Corporal Cirillo’s aid. As we grapple with this tragedy, let her words guide us. She said, ‘I just think it’s doing what you should do in the time of crisis. You can’t let this bother you. You can’t let this take control of who you are and what your fundamental beliefs are.’ “On behalf of this House, I want to thank Margaret Lerhe, Barbara Winters and all the ordinary people who at a time of crisis showed us the best in our community and in our country.”

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Glebe Report November 14, 2014

Influenza 101

tects the people around them who may be more vulnerable to severe infection. It’s important to be mindful that even with vaccination, there is a chance of getting influenza if the vaccine does not closely match the influenza viruses in the community.

By Dr. Sharin Mithani

Influenza, more commonly known as the “flu,” can cause significant grief during the fall and winter seasons. It is a contagious respiratory syndrome that is caused by one of multiple types of specific viruses. It is further responsible for thousands of hospitalizations and deaths in Canada annually. While most people recover within about 10 days, certain groups are at greater risk of severe complications.

Management

If you do become infected with the influenza virus, your doctor may recommend an anti-viral medication if it is early enough in the course of the infection; this may help prevent the spread of the virus to others. Home remedies are the mainstay of treatment and include rest, increasing fluid intake, using a humidifier, nasal saline irrigation, analgesics and throat lozenges.

Effects on the body

Infection with the influenza virus affects the respiratory tract and can additionally present with fever, muscle pain, weakness, nasal discharge, sneezing, sore throat and headache. Young children may also have nausea, vomiting and diarrhea. Lung complications of influenza occur less commonly, but can progress to pneumonia and severe breathing difficulty. In most healthy people, influenza is an infection that resolves without any medical treatment. Causes and Risk Factors

There are three main categories of influenza viruses: types A, B and C. There are several strains even within each category. While both A and B are responsible for the annual influenza epidemics, type A viruses are notorious for causing serious infections. Once infected, the virus is typically present in one’s respiratory secretions. This means transmission of the infection may occur with coughing and sneezing. Your family physician may

choose to test specifically for influenza with a viral culture of swabs from your nose, although this type of testing is rare. The average incubation period, or the time between exposure to the virus and when signs and symptoms first present, is two days. Young children, the elderly, pregnant women and those with certain chronic medical conditions are at higher risk of more severe infection. Prevention

Every year, the strains of the influenza virus that are actively causing infection around the world are tracked. This helps predict what components should be included in that year’s influenza vaccine. Currently, the main method of prevention has been used with certain type A and B

influenza strains. The vaccine is recommended yearly for everyone older than six months of age including pregnant women, unless a contraindication exists. When pregnant women are vaccinated, the antibodies produced travel to the fetus and provide immunity until the infant is six months of age. It typically takes approximately two weeks for antibodies to develop that provide protection after vaccination, so it is important to get vaccinated prior to the spread of influenza that season. It is important to get the vaccine every year because immunity typically wanes and there are updated vaccines against constantly changing strains of the inf luenza virus. Although vaccination in high-risk populations is obviously beneficial, vaccinating healthy individuals pro-

Dr. Sharin Mithani is a family medicine resident at the University of Ottawa and practices at The Ottawa Hospital and Elisabeth Bruyere Hospital. She lives in the Glebe. Resources

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‘Putting students first’ – guiding principle is success

Trustee Kathy Ablett OCSB

Election results are in and I would like to thank you for your continued support of me as your Ottawa Catholic School Board (OCSB) trustee. During this next term I look forward to continuing to make sound decisions that best serve your children and our educational community. Welcome back to another school year and a very special welcome to our students entering Corpus Christi Elementary School and Immaculata High School for the very first time. I trust by now that you are settling in, making new friends and are excited by the prospect of discovering the many adventures that await you. All OCSB elementary schools now have Full-Day Kindergarten and a French Immersion pathway for all students in their home school. The OCSB has a budget of $471 million, operates 82 elementary and high schools, plus schools for adult learners, and provides quality Catholic education for 40,000 students. The guiding principles for our board include: success for students, success for staff and stewardship of resources. On this last point, we have had a balanced budget every year that I have been trustee (23 years) and have enjoyed many improvements to both of the schools in your neighbourhood. In 2015 we will be adding tennis courts at Corpus Christi Elementary in partnership with the St James Tennis Club. This year we welcome two new student trustees: Monica Silver, a Grade 12 student from Immaculata High School and Daniel McInnis, a Grade 12 student from St Francis Xavier High School. They bring the high school perspective to the table. Focus on Youth

Recently, Superintendent of Continuing and Community Education, Peter Atkinson, and Focus on Youth (FOY) Monitor/St. Anne teacher, Sam Robinson, outlined the Focus on Youth program to the Board. Focus on Youth is a unique program that provides summer employment and leadership activities for high school students, and enhances summer program opportunities for children from elementary schools. The program is a partnership between the Ministry of Education, the OCSB and local not-for-profit agencies. This summer almost 100 students were hired to participate in this win-win program; approximately 70 were trained as camp leaders and 25 were trained and worked as custodian assistants. Finally, let me provide highlights of the Continuing and Community Education Department Summer Programs report provided by the team of Peter Atkinson, Superintendent, Marianne Kayed, Manager, and Gino Milito, Principal of Continuing and Community Education. Meeting the needs of 9,020 people of all ages, the sucessful programs included: R Summer school credit program. Over 2,600 students took reach ahead, make-up and e-learning courses with a completion rate of 89 per cent. R Development Education program. Partnering with the Student Services Department, 59 high-needs special education students at 10 sites remained in school for the month of July. R Summer camps. These successful programs saw a 19 per cent increase in registration this year, serving 3,877 students in multi-sports and arts themed camps at 51 sites. R Summer International Language Elementary program. Growing 33 per cent in three years, this program teaches Cantonese, Italian, Korean, Mandarin, Russian, Dutch, Tigrinya and Spanish to grade school children. This year, 1,224 students registered, up 11 per cent from last summer. R Summer adult, non-credit ESL. English language improvement courses were taught at four sites and this year 1,056 students participated, an increase of 23 per cent. R Focus on Youth. Employment and leadership opportunities were offered to 93 high school students who trained and worked as camp counsellors and custodial assistants. R Summer Learning Program. Math Camp was offered for the second year to 44 students at two sites. These students were at risk of not meeting the provincial standard in numeracy. This program provided students with a healthy breakfast, followed by instruction in the morning and free summer day camp in the afternoon. If, at any time, I can be of assistance to you, please do not hesitate to call me at 613-526-9512. Kathy Ablett Trustee Zone 9 Capital/River Wards 613-526-9512

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Glebe Collegiate Institute

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Immaculata High School news By Don Nault

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Glebe Collegiate introduces Glebe Fit By Matt Armstrong

Last spring, Glebe Collegiate Institute submitted a proposal to the Ministry of Education aimed at getting students to be more physically active outside class time. Fortunately, Glebe’s proposal won a $20,000 grant from the ministry, and Glebe Fit was born. GCI has found a tremendous community partner in GNAG, the Glebe Neighbourhood Activities Group. GNAG is sending fitness instructors to the high school several times a week to offer fitness classes at no cost to students. These fitness classes take place before school, at lunch and after school, making it extremely convenient for students to add some fitness to their already busy schedules. Fitness class offerings include yoga, core strength, “butt and gut,” boxing and more. The wide range of activities has been popular with students. As Athletic Council member and Grade 12 student, Brendan Copeland, Dinan said, “the wide variety of activities allows us to reach out to the whole school.” So what is Glebe doing with the $20,000 in grant money? Half the money has been spent on a new floor for the school’s recently renovated fitness room. Future expenditures will include a sound system, more fitness equipment and further improvements to the fitness room. A big point of emphasis in the Glebe Fit initiative is the powerful connection between exercise and learning. Recent research on the subject is, in fact, quite conclusive: exercise promotes learning. As Harvard professor Dr. John Ratey is fond of saying, exercise is like Miracle-Gro for the brain. Dr. Ratey’s book Spark has helped people to see just how important exercise is, not just for the body but for our minds as well. “Exercise is the single most powerful tool you have to optimize your brain function,” he says. Matt Armstrong is a vice principal at Glebe Collegiate Institute.

Glebe Collegiate’s annual Winter Craft Fair for the Ottawa Food Bank By Katie Clarke

The Winter Craft Fair for the Ottawa Food Bank is back at Glebe Collegiate for its second year! Glebe Students’ Council and Leadership Development Initiative Team would like to invite community members to come out and support the Ottawa Food Bank at this student-run event on November 30. Stop by between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. for locally made food, crafts and art! This is a great opportunity to connect with local artists, get in some holiday shopping and support an important cause. If you’re a craft vendor interested in selling at this event, the cost of a table is $30. All proceeds go to the Ottawa Food Bank. Contact glebestudentscouncil@gmail.com for more information. Suggested admission is $2, or one non-perishable food item. We hope to see you there! Katie Clarke is a student at Glebe Collegiate, where she is a member of the Students’ Council and Leadership Development Initiative Team.

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Last month Immaculata, in a display of community solidarity, raised over $10,000 for the Terry Fox Foundation. The day was a huge success and over the past 22 years, Immaculata has raised approximately $228,000. We are all affected by cancer and as such the community gave back in a way that can only be described as fantastic. The staff was inspirational in leading; a special thanks to Ms. Finn and Ms. Tracy for their dedication to the cause. The day was topped off with a BBQ as a thank you for student and staff participation. Chaplain’s Corner

As we focus on the richness of our spiritual theme, “restore one another in a spirit of gentleness,” we can reflect on the tremendous start we’ve had to the school year. The generosity of our community continues to overwhelm as we receive so many uniform donations. New items are donated just when most needed. Bible Study Group

Immaculata started a Bible Study group that meets in the chapel after school on Fridays. We just finished studying Paul’s Letter to the Galatians and voted to study the well-known book of Genesis.

Our Christmas Food Baskets initiative is underway again this year. Homerooms will be asked to put together a food basket for a family in need during the season of Advent. Through fundraising and community support, we will supplement each basket with gift vouchers for the purchase of fresh food. We have a proud tradition of helping our families who need support, and I have no doubt that the students and staff will do an amazing job again this year. Immaculata Craft Fair

On December 6, Immaculata will host its annual Christmas Craft Fair from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. To learn more and check out our vendor profiles you can visit www.MACFAIR.weebly. com. Please come out to support this event! See article by Heather Bryce below. Upcoming Dates of Interest at Immaculata Nov. 20 Dec. 6 Dec. 10–12 Dec. 18

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Don Nault is a vice principal at Immaculata High School.

Handmade awesomeness in Ottawa By Heather Bryce

Immaculata High School is hosting its fifth annual MAC FAIR, a fundraising craft fair with heart! The event runs from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, December 6. Student volunteers will be on hand early in the morning, unloading cars and helping to promote the event throughout the day. You may see them around town with signs and banners – even our school mascot, Bernie Mac, will be out to enjoy the event! We will have over 100 artisans showcasing their hand-made items. We are running this fair to raise funds to help students within our school community – to ensure that all students have the opportunity to participate in athletics, clubs, excursions and other activities, regardless of their financial situation. Bring the family! There will be face-painting, button-making and colouring for the little ones. If you’re feeling hungry, you might want to take advantage of the pancake breakfast or pizza lunch. Admission is $1, which goes towards Christmas Hampers for hungry families, and your admission earns you a free ticket to our raffle with almost 100 prizes. The raffle is a highlight that many people look forward to each year. It is fun to spend time looking through all of the prizes generously donated by participating artisans and to put your ticket into the jar of the prize you hope to win! Heather Bryce is a teacher at Immaculata High School. Want to catch up, maintain your grade, or move ahead of the class in Math or English Language Arts? Need to prepare for school or other standardized exams? Deft Learning Academy can design a Grade-specific personalized program for students in Grades 1 to 12.  Best-in-class Ontario-aligned Math & English Language Arts curricula  Small group in-Academy sessions  Flexible, digital homework assignments on tablets or computers  Recognized comprehensive diagnostic assessment used by public & private schools  Supported by an experienced and trusted educator

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By Elsa Cattelan

Sticky notes, calendars, pens and ink on skin and hands; all tools used daily to help us remember. Score boards, tallies, notes in smudging pencil, sidewalk chalk that runs in the rain; all our tricks and cheats to mark our place and keep our thoughts unforgotten. Everybody writes to remember, but for some, “remembering” refers to more than mere memos. Glebe Collegiate student Khalil Daibes is one such case, as his essay “Lettre à un soldat” won first prize at the regional and provincial levels of the Legion Literary Contest in May. Submissions are graded on the basis of originality of thought, expression, presentation, grammar and spelling. To be considered for the provincial level, Daibes’ submission won at both the branch and district levels before being judged best in Ontario. Through the school, Daibes’s entire history class sent essays, poems and posters to the annual Legion Contest: all the works honouring veterans and their irreplaceable contributions to our country. The Ottawa Legion has been hosting the annual Legion Literary and Poster Contest for 50 years, accepting submissions from any and all students in the Canadian

veterans’ well-being after the war. I thought it PHOTO: OCDSB

Glebe student Khalil Daibes wins prize for essay honouring veterans

“I don’t hear a lot about our

From left, Jessica Alletson, Glebe Collegiate Institute teacher, Khalil Daibes, May 2014 winner of the Legion Literary Contest, and Brent Craig, 2nd Vice President of the Westboro Legion Branch 480

school system. The contest is divided into categories based on age; Daibes and his classmates were the youngest applicants (Grade 10) to compete in the senior category against students in Grade 11 and 12. With the only guidelines being an 800-word limit and instructions to write in French, Daibes decided to write a letter from the perspective of Joseph, the grandchild of a veteran. “I wrote in the simple and unprejudiced words of a child. I thought it would give the greatest insight into the personal struggle I was trying to convey,” comments Daibes. While he waits in the hospital staring at the sick old man his grandfather has become, the boy realizes his grandfather is not going to wake up again. The pangs of confusion, sadness and hope that Daibes adds to the piece evoke a realistic sense of what a war – even the aftermath of war – entails. “For many youth like myself, war is a subject that is heard about in the news, seen in movies or studied in school. I wanted to remind people that although we remember all those who

would be important to shine a light on that aspect of war, and how it continues to have an impact...” lost their lives in conflicts, we can’t forget about our veterans who are still living with the effects of these events,” says Daibes. True to this notion, the grandfather character suffers from Alzheimer’s disease, and Daibes compares the loss of control and mental horror of the disease to a soldier’s struggle. “I realized that I don’t hear a lot about our veterans’ well-being after the war. I thought it would be important to shine a light on that aspect of war, and how it continues to have an impact on many people.” Struggling with right and wrong, Joseph asks his silent (but breathing) grandfather how he justifies protecting his country by killing … and with only silence for an answer, Joseph comes to the conclusion that we can’t know. But if we can’t know the reasons why war begins, we can “honour and respect the way thousands of veterans followed their beliefs and put their lives on the line for a cause they thought just.” “Although the text was simply written, I tried to raise some difficult thoughts such as [justifying] killing the ‘enemy’ (another human being)

when you have no idea who they are or why they are fighting. My goal for this story was to make the reader reflect,” says Daibes. Not unlike Joseph, Daibes himself grew up fascinated by the medals and stories of his great-grandfather: a British soldier who fought and was injured in the First World War. Hearing these war stories from his grandfather, Daibes was greatly influenced and intrigued by this part of his family’s past. “Although I never met him, I heard how strong he was to carry on living his life to its full potential even after suffering such a devastating [head] injury, and I admire him for that.” So what does young Joseph conclude? How can he end his letter and say goodbye to his grandfather in a way that befits the former soldier’s actions? He can’t; both Daibes, and through him, Joseph, know that no matter what, the words won’t be enough and so Joseph promises always to remember the hero his grandfather is. The letter ends with a profound sense of hope. “That’s the purpose of Remembrance Day” comments Daibes, “to remember and reflect on the past, present and future.” Khalil Daibes didn’t enter the annual Legion Literary and Poster Contest expecting to win. He didn’t write for the sake of recognition. Daibes wrote for the same reason we all write – to remember. Elsa Cattelan is a writer and a Grade 12 student at Glebe Collegiate Institute who is active in the school’s Art Club and Book Club. The full text of the winning essay, “Lettre à un soldat” is on the Glebe Report website www.glebereport.ca.

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First Avenue Public School

Mutchmor Public School

Big events at First Avenue School By Meredith D. and Safia H.

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Since September, we have been very busy at First Avenue Public School. Lots of stuff has been going on, like the cross-country meet, soccer, the Terry Fox Run and more. On October 17, there was a soccer tournament in Gloucester. Our teams did very well! The boys came in first place and the girls came in second, losing by only one goal. The boys’ coach was Mr. McMann and the girls’ was Ms. Rhine. We’re also very proud of our runners. On October 9, 140 students ran at the Mooney’s Bay cross-country meet. The distance for Grades 5 and 6 was 2.2 km, for Grade 4 was 1.8 km and Grade 3 was 1.6 km. We do it to be active, have fun and be a part of the community! Our school has an activity called the Philanthropy Club, where students help out the environment and raise money for different charities. It’s for grades 4–6, and for students who are willing to help. The Philanthropy Club is currently working to “scare hunger,” by collecting food for the food bank. The Terry Fox Run was also a success. It took place on September 26. Students in grades 2–6 ran around Patterson’s Creek for one hour, while the SKs and Grade 1s ran in the junior yard. We think Terry Fox is a champion! These are some of the big events that have been going on lately in our school.

Mr. Firestone’s Grade 4/5 class practices its segment of the dance video assembled for Liam.

Mutchmor students come together to support family

Meredith D. and Safia H. are students in Dalya Goldberger’s Grade 4/5 class at First Avenue Public School.

By the students of Mr. Firestone’s Grade 4/5 class

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Zak Firestone is a teacher of Grade 4/5 at Mutchmor Public School. His students continually show him their creativity and heart.

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This fall, Mutchmor students are working hard to help the family of fellow student Liam Elder, who has a rare form of leukemia. On October 23, a potluck dinner was held to raise money that will help the Elder family with things like hotel costs and food while Liam undergoes treatment away from home in Toronto. In addition to the potluck organized by school council, students were encouraged to donate books from home, which could then be purchased for $1 at a book sale held at the school. The sale brought in over $800 over the course of one day.

To lift Liam’s spirits, students then put together a dance video to cheer Liam up. Students and teachers were filmed dancing to the song “Everything is Awesome” from the Lego Movie, and a video was edited and put together by one of the parents. “We hope he gets better soon and we are trying really hard to make him happy,” said a Grade 5 student. Students continue to keep up to date with how the Liam is doing.

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Why should Glashan students miss an afternoon of classes? By Rebecca D.

It’s a great idea to let students participate in Glashan’s 30th annual class relay races, because learning does not only take place in the classroom. While participating in the relays, students are able to learn other skills needed in life, such as communication, listening and people skills. My top three reasons for allowing students to participate in this event are school spirit, teamwork and tradition. I strongly believe that Glashan students should participate in the class relays because it’s a really good way to develop school spirit. School spirit is shown through cheering, dressing up, face painting, developing a positive attitude and having a great time together! It brings a lot of joy to the school – oh, and of course, it makes Glashan a memorable school for the students. This year, we were very lucky because October 2 was a beautiful, sunny day! Another reason why I think Glashan students should miss class to participate in this activity is because it

involves teamwork. For example, the relay races against other classes encourage teamwork in order to win the event. When passing and receiving the baton, you must be careful not to drop it because that will cause you to slow down, affecting your timing. Teamwork encourages us to work together to achieve a goal. Lastly, I believe it’s a great tradition that should continue. If not, then it’s not much of a tradition. Glashan has been doing this for 30 years now, which is amazing! When students come back to visit Glashan when they are older, they remember all the memories they had on the day of the Glashan’s class relays! Therefore, I believe students should continue to miss an afternoon of academic learning each year to participate in the class relays. As mentioned, this allows the school to keep its traditions, and students develop teamwork and school spirit. Rebecca D. is a Grade 8 student at Glashan Public School.

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Glashan schoolyard greening project update By Kathi Elborn

November is an exciting month as Glashan goes from grey to green! As this issue of the Glebe Report goes to press, murals are being installed on the north side (Arlington Avenue) exterior school wall. Construction-level drawings for the grounds improvement and landscaping work from the OCDSB landscape consultant are being finalized and will soon go to tender. Phase 1 of the grounds work is to be completed by June 2015. Over a dozen new trees have already been planted on the north and south sides of Glashan Public School. Three new bike racks have been installed, with more to come. And critical fundraising efforts continue, especially as we need to raise an additional $25,000 to fully finance all of the Phase 1 project components.

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With a generous grant from the Paint it Up! initiative of Crime Prevention Ottawa, local artist Nicole Bélanger was recruited to work with Glashan students to create a stunning mural depicting the students’ chosen themes of creativity and diversity. Are you curious to see what these enterprising young Grade 7 and 8 artists have been up to? Come to the launch planned for Friday, November 28 at 2:30 p.m. outside Glashan School on Arlington Avenue. Always on the lookout for sources of funding to move the Glashan Greening Project forward, our indefatigable Glashan Greening Project chair Angela Keller-Herzog learned of the Paint it Up! program. Crime Prevention Ottawa, in partnership with the City of Ottawa, offers funding for outdoor mural projects that support

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graffiti prevention, community safety and the beautification of Ottawa neighbourhoods. The Paint it Up! program is an incredible initiative that empowers youth through community arts. Glashan’s Greening Project was also recognized by Tree Ottawa for its efforts to make Ottawa a greener place. On October 14, Mayor Jim Watson, representatives of the OCDSB and the Glashan Greening Project attended a media event announcing Tree Ottawa’s goal to plant one million trees in our city by 2017 (an Ecology Ottawa-led initiative). Also on hand were Olympian Cody Sorensen, and representatives from RBC, one of the major sponsors. Principal Jim Tayler graciously accepted a small white-pine sapling on behalf of Glashan School. Do you have a child who will attend Glashan in the future? Are

Save the date! Exterior wall mural launch Friday, November 28 at 2:30 p.m. Glashan Public School What will it look like? Hint: See you later, alligator!

you a member of the community who wants to make Ottawa a greener place? Then join us! Contact GlashanGreening@gmail.com to get involved. Keep up-to-date on our progress and plans by visiting our website (www.GlashanGreening.ca) or Facebook page (www.facebook.com/ glashangreeningproject). Kathi Elborn is the communications person for the Glashan Schoolyard Greening Project.

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Glebe Report November 14, 2014

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What we’ve been up to this fall Oh autumn, if only you were followed by spring, we could totally be best friends. Despite the beautiful colours and the occasional warm day, the further we get into November, the closer we get to the day rain turns to snow and lovely crisp days turn into downright cold ones. In this spirit, young members of the Glebe Co-operative Nursery School (GCNS) have been making the most of fall activities, both outdoors on our beautiful playground and indoors doing fall-themed art, reading fall-themed books, singing songs and welcoming special guests. As is tradition, next week the children will wear their pyjamas to school on the day they put the bears to bed (is there a way to make pyjama day community wide?). Frankendance

The Frankendance was a huge success (you can always tell based on how happy and sticky the kids are when they get home). The children had an amazing morning showing off their costumes, dancing, snacking, painting pumpkins and creating Halloween crafts including candy necklaces that never made it home. The adults also had a lot of fun, snacking, socializing with old and new friends, taking pictures, drinking free coffee and sneak-eating their children’s candy (other people do this, right?). As always, Frankendance owes its success to our incredibly generous sponsors, parent volunteers and members of the community who came out to the event. A very special thank you to the following generous businesses: • Bloomfields Flowers • Farm Boy • Kunstadt Sports • McKeen’s Metro (Glebe) • Momentum Gym • Oueis Dentistry

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Picture this – a night of shopping with after-hours access to one of the best toy stores in the city. Imagine if snacks and wine were served and there was a chance to win fabulous door prizes. Oh and what if there was a silent auction as well? And a 20 per cent discount on everything in the store? This is what shopping fantasies are made of (especially in crowded malls on December 23) but for a mere five dollars, seven at the door, you can make this fantasy a reality! On Tuesday, November 25, from 6:30 to 9:00 p.m. we will be hosting our third annual Tiggy’s Shop ’Til You Drop, a night of after-hours, kid-free(!) shopping. If you don’t care about the discount and the free wine and snacks, you should really come to watch your super-competitive friends lose it at the silent auction. All proceeds from ticket sales and the silent auction go directly to GCNS. October 22

October 22 was a sad and scary day for citizens of our country, residents of our city and members of our community. The teachers were kind, professional and amazingly calm during the 3-hour lockdown, making sure the children were entertained and happy throughout. GNAG staff were also incredible, making sure that our children were given a nutritious and tasty lunch. Because preschool ends at 11:30 a.m., no one had a lunch with them. Parents did not know what to expect at pick-up when the lockdown finally ended, but what we found were content (if tired) children and smiling teachers. What a relief on such a scary and emotional day. So thank you wonderful teachers and thank you wonderful GNAG staff. There are no words to express our gratitude.

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In the kitchen across the generations By Clive Doucet

My father had seven brothers and two sisters. He was one of the youngest and when he was born my grandmother said to my grandfather, “This one doesn’t go to the barn, William. He stays in the kitchen.” And so from the youngest age, my father learned how to help his mother around the kitchen. When his brothers were milking cows, he was learning how to knead bread dough, peel potatoes and make soups, which in our village are called frico. Frico is a fish or chicken soup that some people consider to be the national dish of Acadie, although those who like potato rappe would demur. In a way, you could say that the decision of my grandmother to have one of her many sons helping her in the kitchen instead of milking cows in the morning changed my father’s life and maybe mine also. Dad became a very proficient cook and it was a skill that he never lost. When he joined the RCAF during the Second World War, he took an interest in the food of the

countries that he was passing through. In England, he learned how to make traditional English pub dishes like steak and kidney pie, and drink British beer. In Italy, he learned how to make pasta dishes and drink Italian wine. When Dad first met my mother, her own mother wasn’t so keen on a French Canadian colonial marrying her only daughter. The fact that he spoke several languages and was smart as a whip impressed her less than that he knew his way around a stove. When my parents married, my mother had never done much more than boil an egg and had to race to catch up to her new husband, and they became good cooks together. Dad transferred his own mother’s insistence on help from her sixth son in the kitchen to his own family, where my sisters and I soon learned to wash dishes, clean kitchen counters and peel potatoes. I don’t think Jamie Oliver or Martha Stewart are going to sign me up for their kitchens any time soon, but I like to cook and can put a meal on the table if you show me the way to the gar-

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Felix is learning how to peel a potato and cut vegetables, even though he doesn’t like them much.

green, red, orange and purple things that sprout in the garden. It is one thing to read about making applesauce. It’s another to pick the apples yourself and turn them into sauce. When I think back on the differences between my grandparents’ and parents’ generations and mine, one of the things that strikes me is how practically accomplished they were compared to people today. People today have lots of Internet and info savvy, but come a crisis, I would choose to rely on the people who grew up close to the land and absorbed in their growing a host of useful life skills. I was fortunate to grow up just on the edge of that time and what is now mostly a lost world – but not quite. One of the first things I did when we bought our house in the Glebe was plant our backyard parking lot with fruit trees. We now have two crab apple trees, a Macintosh and a Hawthorne. It’s amazing how much you can learn and eat from your own back yard, even a small one. Clive Doucet is a grandfather (and poet, writer and former city councillor) who lives in the Glebe.

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Glebe Report November 14, 2014

René Leduc, harvesting beets, explains how he transformed his own garden into a vegetable patch.

Jason Gray loads Brussels sprouts into boxes to be taken to the Food Bank. NCC landscape architect Tina Liu designed the gardens

Fall harvest at Commissioners Park By Kylie Taggart

On a bright fall day in October, the National Capital Commission (NCC) invited the Ottawa Food Bank and Moisson Outaouais to harvest more than 290 lbs of organic vegetables from the gardens of Commissioners Park, across from Dow’s Lake. Every May, Commissioners Park becomes one of the most photographed parks in Ottawa, with rows upon rows of perfect tulips. The beds are replanted after the tulips have lost their bloom. This year curly kale, Brussels sprouts, Swiss chard, cauliflower and red beets

were planted amongst the flowers. Tina Liu, the NCC landscape architect who designed the beds, explained that planting vegetables was a pilot project. The project was kept fairly quiet, since the outcome was unknown. It was the NCC’s first attempt at a mixed planting project of this scale. “By the end of August we saw it was going well,” she explained. “We knew we’d have a bunch of food to donate.” Liu called the Ottawa Food Bank. “It is just to do something to give back to the community,” she said. Liu said the gardens at Commis-

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Linda Cruz, a volunteer with the Ottawa Food Bank’s community harvest group, holds up some Brusssels sprouts harvested from Commissioners Park.

sioners Park are not treated with pesticides and so the donated vegetables are all organic. She said she was pleased with the aesthetic appeal of the gardens. “I think they look as gorgeous as flowers,” she said. “We’re quite delighted,” said Jason Gray, the Ottawa Food Bank’s community produce coordinator. “It has the potential to be replicated in other gardens.” The harvest from Commissioners Park will increase the diversity of the fresh produce the Ottawa Food Bank is able to provide to their clients. The Ottawa Food Bank also has a four and a half acre farm in Stitts-

ville that produces more than 70,000 lbs of fresh produce every year. Gray said the project pointed to how much space exists in the city where food could be grown. “We’re very encouraged the NCC called us up,” he said. Liu could not say whether the NCC would repeat the project. Volunteers from the Ottawa Food Bank and the Table de concertation sur la faim et le développement social de l’Outaouais helped with the harvest. Kylie Taggart is a journalist and freelance writer who lives in the Glebe.

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Tons of great new merchandise has arrived. We have the BEST selection of gadgets, baskets, pillows, rugs, table linens and bakeware. 26 years in the Glebe! 795 Bank St.

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For every winter coat purchased in November, we will donate $5.00 to help support the “Out-of-the-Cold” hot suppers sponsored by our neighbourhood churches ...and you will feel warm all over.

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GRAPEVINE

This space acts as a free community bulletin board for Glebe residents. Drop off your GRAPEVINE message or COMMUNITY NOTICE at the Glebe Report office, 175 Third Avenue, including your name, address and phone number or email grapevine@glebereport.ca. FOR SALE items must be less than $1,000.

COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS ABBOTSFORD’S 39TH ANNUAL FUNDRAISING CHRISTMAS BAZAAR plus...Art Sale by Artistic Glebe Centre Residents, 950 Bank St., Sat., Nov. 29, 10 a.m.–2:30 p.m. – Antiques & collectibles in our now larger Elegant Treasures section plus fine jewelry, toys, books, knitting, Christmas ornaments, baked goods, flea market, art, fine linens and country crafts and boutique! Also featuring: The Merchant’s Silent Auction of gifts, services & treasures donated by our generous community businesses. Free Admission…bring your own bags! CANADIANS FOR ELECTORAL SYSTEM REFORM: UNPACKING OUR VOTING SYSTEM - Can we do better? Would you like to know more about our current voting system, First-Pastthe-Post, and other systems such as Proportional Representation? Join guest speaker Elizabeth May, the Ottawa Lakeside Players and other interested Canadians for an entertaining and informative evening on voting reform followed by a reception. Bring a friend! Tues., Nov. 25, 7–9:30 p.m., First Unitarian Congregation of Ottawa, 30 Cleary Ave. (This nonpartisan event is free but donations to defray costs are welcome.) CHRISTMAS BAZAAR – St. Giles Church, Bank St. at First Ave., Sat. Nov. 15, 10 a.m. to 2 .p.m. Home baking, tourtières, knitting, jewelry, jam, pickles, books, flea market, crafts, gifts of all kinds, coffee bar with muffins and sandwiches etc. 613235-2551. A CHRISTMAS CAROL will be performed by John D. Huston as Charles Dickens, Sat., Dec. 6, 7 p.m. at GlebeSt. James United Church, 650 Lyon St. Enjoy this critically acclaimed solo theatrical version as John D. Huston brings all the characters to life and provides the narration. Seasonal refreshments and treats will be served during the intermission. Tickets available at Glebe-St. James Church office (Tues.–Fri.) 613-236-0617, Compact Music 785 Bank St. and at the door. Adults $20; children 12 & under $15; family (up to two adults and three children 12 & under) $60.

CHRISTMAS CRAFT AND BAKE SALE at Peace Latvian Lutheran Church, 83 Main St. at Lees Ave., Sat. Nov. 29, 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. and Sun. Nov. 30, noon to 1 p.m. A variety of baked goods, breads, pastries, gingerbread cookies, preserves, jewelry, Christmas cards and crafts, and a large “white elephant” table. Lunch will be served, as well as coffee and pastries. Admission free. FRIENDS OF THE CENTRAL EXPERIMENTAL FARM GIFTS TO THE FARM THAT GIVE BACK. Make a donation or become a new member and receive a free bonus gift of six CEF Heritage Building watercolour prints by artist Richard Raycraft or Rhythm and Blooms HDTV tour of 26 North American gardens set to original music. www.friendsofthefarm.ca or 613-230-3276. FRIENDS OF THE CENTRAL EXPERIMENTAL FARM GREAT GIFT IDEAS www.friendsofthefarm.ca/boutique. htm. The modern classics For the Love of Trees and Ottawa’s Farm are perennial favourites among Ottawa book lovers and holiday gift givers. Get your copies at Friends of the Farm in Bldg 72 and other locations 613-230-7632.

able from choir members, Leading Note (370 Elgin) and Compact Music (190 & 785-A Bank); $20 at door; children under 12 are free. Info: www. OttawaBrahmsChoir.ca or 613-7492391 and 819-568-8169.

Programs. Featuring: Gallery and guest artists, painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking and jewelry. Runs Nov. 27–Jan. 2015. Visit www. studiosixtysix.ca or contact info@studiosixtysix.ca / 613-355-0359.

STUDIO SIXTY SIX PRESENTS: A CLASSICAL & JAZZ GUITARIST SERIES WITH AMY BRANDON - The Intersection Between The Composed and The Improvised, Sun. Nov. 16, 4 – 5 p.m. The second of six Sunday Afternoon Concerts At The Gallery. Other dates: Sundays 4–5 p.m., Nov. 23, 30, Dec. 7, 14. Visit www. studiosixtysix.ca or contact info@studiosixtysix.ca / 613-355-0359.

THE WINTER CRAFT FAIR FOR THE OTTAWA FOOD BANK is back at Glebe Collegiate for its second year! On Nov. 30th, the Glebe Students’ Council and Leadership Development Initiative Team invite community members to come and support the Ottawa Food Bank at this student-run event. Stop by between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. for locally made food, crafts and art! A great opportunity to connect with local artists, get in some holiday shopping and support an important cause. If you’re a craft vendor interested in selling at this event, the cost of a table is $30 and all proceeds go to the Ottawa Food Bank. Contact glebestudentscouncil@gmail. com for more information. Suggested admission is $2, or one non-perishable food item.

TOPICAL TALKS AT ABBOTSFORD HOUSE, 950 Bank St., Mon. Nov. 24 - Clive Doucet will regale us with stories and pictures of his epic trip paddling a voyageur canoe from Ottawa to Washington, D.C. along historic waterways. A group of determined paddlers undertook this 42 day journey from Capital to Capital with the backing of some environmental groups aimed to raise awareness of the need to protect and restore the health of waterways. Refreshments served at 9:45 a.m. Talk begins at 10 a.m. sharp! Cost $3.

HOLIDAY CHOICES! Visit Jaya Krishnan Studio/Gallery (www. jkrishnanart.com ) from Nov. 20 to Dec. 22 for small artwork gifts: 1-137 Second Ave.; 613-695-2552.

TWICE UPON A TIME: FREE BOOKS FOR OTTAWA KIDS will be holding a fundraising concert on Sun, Dec. 7 at Trinity Anglican Church 1230 Bank St. Doors open at 3 p.m. for coffee and holiday treats. The concert of seasonal favourites performed by Voices in Harmony (formerly the Orpheus Choral Group) will begin at 4 p.m. Tickets are $15, with free admission for children under 12. Tickets can be purchased in advance from Kaleidoscope Kids Books 1018 Bank St. (across from Lansdowne Park), or at the door. Contact info@twiceuponatime.ca or visit www.twiceuponatime. ca for more info.

OTTAWA BRAHMS CHOIR ADVENT CONCERT, Sun., Nov. 30, 3 p.m. at St. Thomas the Apostle, 2345 Alta Vista Dr. The choir, under new director Christopher Askwith, with accompanist Ioulia Blinova and guest soloists, will present works by Bach, Brahms, Rutter, Schuetz (and more). Tickets prices: advance at $18 avail-

UNDER $500 HOLIDAY SHOW & FUNDRAISER OPENING EVENT, Thurs., Nov. 27, 6 p.m.–9 p.m. Studio Sixty Six is proud to partner with Centretown Community Health Centre to help raise funds for their wonderful and important programs. 10% of all art sales will be donated to Centretown CHC Pre-Teens & Youth

FRIENDS OF THE CENTRAL EXPERIMENTAL FARM HOLIDAY GIFT ITEMS. New this season, two offerings bring to mind the Farm’s beginnings in the 1880’s - apples and honey - packaged with 21st century cache. Vanessa’s Dessert Apples and Canaan Blueberry Farm honey available at Friends of the Farm www.friendsofthefarm.ca/pdf/ gifts-2014.pdf or 613-230-3276.

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available SPANISH CHATS – Want to practice your Spanish? Native Spanish speaker willing to meet up with those interested in working on their Spanish conversational skills. No lessons or grammar, just chatting. No charge. Please contact Veronica at verurzu@ hotmail.com for more info. VIOLIN LESSONS – I am an experienced violinist offering lessons in the Glebe. All ages are welcome! Now offering free trial lesson. Info: violin. reiko@gmail.com or 613-898-0040.

for sale HEINTZMAN UPRIGHT PIANO, circa 1920. Recently tuned and appraised by David Anderson, registered piano technician. His comments: This piano is in very good condition, still holding concert pitch (A440HZ). Asking $900, all offers considered. Please call 613-237-4804.

wanted TUTOR for clarinet beginner. Call David at 613-234-3663.

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

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Certified Personal suPPort Worker with all accreditation available for work in Centretown/Glebe area. Specialize in Friendly Visits. Excellent current references. 613-620-8142

handyman Will do plumbing, electrical, carpentry, drywall, painting, ceramic work. Bathroom, kitchen, and basement renovations. Warranted, insured, bonded. Peter: 613.797.9905.

Babies of the Glebe born in 2014 Special colour feature in January 2015 Deadline to submit your baby’s photo: January 5 The Glebe Report will feature your new baby, free of charge, in a special colour feature in our January edition.

HOME RENOS AND REPAIR - interior/exterior painting; all types of flooring; drywall repair and installation; plumbing repairs and much more. Please call Jamie Nininger @ 613-852-8511.

French tutor available for students at elementary and high school levels or to help adults and students brush up on their conversational French to prepare for job interviews, etc… Call Madame Cecilia at 613-236-1060

Do You Enjoy People, Love Books and Have a Desire to Contribute to Your Community? The May Court Club of Ottawa requires a Library Manager for the Phyllis Rykert Memorial Library at the Ottawa Hospital, Civic Campus. (The May Court Club of Ottawa is a vibrant, committed group of women, who have been providing community service since 1898 and who established the hospital library in 1925.) This is an opportunity for an enthusiastic person to contribute to a much appreciated service in the hospital setting, while working with a dedicated group of volunteers. Qualities Required: 1. Must have managerial and organizational skills 2. Possess good communications and liaison abilities 3. Have a love of books 4. Be able to work independently Details of Position: Part time at 16 hours per week Hours: Monday to Thursday from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm Salary commensurate with experience and qualifications Application deadline: November 28, 2014 Start date: January 7, 2015 Submit applications to: In person: Secretary at The May Court Club of Ottawa, 114A Cameron Avenue, Ottawa (Monday to Thursday between 9:00 am and 3:00 pm). By e-mail: secretary@maycourt.org

If your Glebe baby was born anytime in 2014, send us a colour photo of the baby along with the baby’s name and date of birth, both parents’ names, address and contact info (email or phone) by January 5, 2015. Send the information and a high-resolution (300 dpi) jpg of the photo by email to editor@glebereport.ca. Alternatively, you can send the information and colour photo by regular mail to Glebe Report, 175 Third Avenue, Ottawa K1S 2K2.

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GLEBE CRAFT and ARTISAN FAIR Nov 14, 6 - 9 pm Nov 15, 10 am - 5 pm Nov 16, 11 am - 4 pm