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Vol. 42 No. 7
Redblacks kick off new era at Lansdowne Park
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The stands at the Lansdowne TD Place stadium were filled to capacity with pumped football fans on July 18, the first home game of the newly minted Ottawa Redblacks CFL team. While Glebites were alive to the many possibilities for traffic and parking nightmares, it seems that (with the significant exception of the Lakeside situation) a minor miracle occurred – many from across the city took OC Transpo to get to Lansdowne, and others walked or biked. To top if off, the Redblacks won the game – their first win. The first Ottawa Fury FC soccer game at Lansdowne two days later broke attendance records and, again, there were few traffic tribulations.
Whether we count ourselves as sports fans or we can take it or leave it, Glebe residents and businesses are caught up holus-bolus in the momentum, hoopla and excitement of a major occasion: the opening of a new era for Lansdowne and its stadium. Lansdowne has been, and will continue to be, a large (and looming larger) presence in the life of the Glebe. In this issue of the Glebe Report, we explore a little of Lansdowne’s history and, while entering (at least a little) into the fever of celebration that these sports events are generating, try to place the spirit of Lansdowne into a larger frame of reference.
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August 18-23 September 4-7 September 4 September 9-10 September 10-14 September 13 September 17-21 September 20-21 September 21 September 23 September 24
Arboretum Festival, Arts Court House of PainT Festival, Brewer Park, Dunbar Bridge Online registration begins for GNAG programs, 9:00 p.m. Auditions for Oliver! Call GNAG. Ottawa Folk Festival, Hog’s Back Park Art of Imagination Day Roast ’n Brew, GCC, Orange Gallery, 2:00 p.m. Ottawa International Animation Festival Glebe Fine Art Show, GCC, 10:00 a.m.–4:30 p.m. Glebe House Tour, 1:00–4:00 p.m. GCA monthly meeting, GCC, 7 p.m. GNAG AGM, 7 p.m.
Art . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4, 17, 37 Abbotsford . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Business Buzz . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Community . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Councillor’s Report . . . . . . . 14 Cycling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Film . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27-29 GCA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Glebe House Tour . . . . . . . . 2-3
What important Glebe issue has not been sufficiently aired, in your view? How do you feel about the proposed Glebe bikeway? Are you seized with the shuttle bus shemozzle? What’s your view on Lansdowne?
Glebe Today . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 GNAG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Health . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31-33 Lansdowne . . . . . . 12-13, 20-21 Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 MPP’s Report . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24-25 Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19, 23 School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Soccer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
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Glebe House Tour returns this fall By Suzanne McCarthy HoMe descriptions by Stephanie Small
Those of you who gaze admiringly at homes featured in design magazines and blogs and long to take a closer look are in for a treat. Join us for the Glebe House Tour of five fabulous homes on Sunday, September 21 from 1 to 4 p.m. A volunteer-r un, 11-member committee starts organizing this fundraiser several months ahead by identifying potential homes to be featured. Which house in the neighbourhood has undergone renovations? Who has a great art collection or a flare for decorating? Who would be willing to open their home to more than 400 strangers? For each of the past 14 years, we have found generous and gracious Glebe homeowners
to participate in this community event. Come and see how to make older Glebe homes work for the modern family. Get inspired by the creativity and simplicity homeowners bring to their renovating and decorating. This is a self-guided tour with volunteers stationed throughout each home, with information on-hand about sources of materials, names of paint colours and contact information for contractors and designers. Want to see amazing art, sculpture, pottery, landscaping and architecture? The 2014 tour can offer you this as well. Tour-goers are invited to a complimentary tea to be held at the Glebe Community Centre from 3 to 5 p.m., hosted by a Cordon Bleu pastry chef. At the tea, tour participants may fill out a survey and enter a draw to win a free decorating consultation. A shuttle bus provides easy access to each home for those who do not wish to walk or bike.
Money raised supports the Glebe Neighborhood Activities Group (GNAG), in particular a fund used to offer financial assistance to families for child and youth programs. Suzanne McCarthy is chair of the Annual Glebe House Tour. Stephanie Small is a member of the house tour committee.
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Glebe House Tour Sunday, September 21, 2014 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. Tickets: $30.00 in advance $35.00 at the door Tickets can be purchased at: Bloomfields Flowers, 783 Bank Street Glebe Community Centre, 175 Third Avenue, 613-564-1058 / 613-233-8713 Adults and children age 11 and up are welcome, as are babes-in-arms. Tickets are limited, so buy early!
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This happy family home embraces fun for all ages, with room for everything from toys and a play kitchen to beer on tap. At the same time, it’s a beautiful calm haven, with soothing colours, flowing spaces and an indulgent master bedroom retreat. The homeowners recently gutted this 1911 home and extended it to create an open-concept design that makes entertaining easy while featuring intimate, comfortable spaces, as well as soughtafter functional elements, such as a mudroom, pantry and roomy closets.
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Take a world art tour while exploring this classic Glebe home, which is elegantly decorated with paintings, sculptures and furniture collected over the course of the homeowners’ many travels. The home’s lovingly preserved wood trim, beamed ceilings, original light fixtures, beautiful rugs and refurbished antiques help visitors imagine how it would have appeared when it was built in 1917.
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This funky new build showcases creative yet affordable design, with features that were partly inspired by the homeowner’s past work in theatre. It all sets the stage for comfortable living, great parties and movie nights. Be sure to check out the eclectic collection of paintings, sculptures and whimsical pottery. Discover how to transform your backyard into a threeseason urban oasis.
The homeowners were drawn to this spacious semi because many of its original features (dating from 1904) were still in great shape – such as intricate crown moulding, a luxurious fireplace surround, a maids’ staircase and window transoms above the second-floor bedroom doors. They’ve freshened it up and made it welcoming with a creative touch that shines in the thirdfloor play room, with its secret nooks, racing-stripe carpet and a poster-sized version of favourite toys.
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“Abandoned Farm,” acrylic by Roy Brash, one of the Glebe artists exhibiting at this year’s Glebe Fine Art Show.
Glebe Fine Art Show a local gem By Eileen Durand
This year’s 9th annual Glebe Fine Art Show will be presenting many new artists as well as a great variety of artworks in a unique community setting. The Glebe Community Centre, 175 Third Avenue, is transforming itself for the weekend of September 20 - 21 into a gallery and lounge/ café for the two-day event. Close to 20 percent of the artists will be exhibiting for the first time. Many of these artists are already well known in the Ottawa art community (Brian Seed, Lynne Morin, Anne Swiderski, Nancy Riggs and Soraya
Silvestri). Many returning artists are award-winning – to name a few: Anne Remmer Thomson (watercolour), Margaret Chwialkowska (oil), David Houlton (acrylic), John Shea (architectural landscapes in watercolour), Olaf Krassnitzky (oil and other media), and many more deserving artists.You can see the full list of artists and their biographies at: www. glebefineartshow.ca. Art students are volunteering to assist the artists in this show in return for an opportunity to display and sell their own art. The show highlights a variety of media. You will find fine artworks not only in oils, acrylics and watercol-
ours, but also in mixed media, pastel, embroidery, fine art photography prints, glass painting and crayons. It is a true local fine art exhibition. Visitors (over 1,000 last year) mostly come from the Glebe neighbourhood and the Ottawa area, but also from as far as Gatineau/Chelsea, Quebec. It is an event that is awaited yearly and has a loyal local following. Most importantly, the 30 artists exhibiting are all from the Ottawa-Gatineau region. From the Glebe area in particular you will be able to view the works of artists such as Roy Brash, Glenda Yates Krusberg and Anne Remmer Thomson. The show is held in pleasant surroundings. The Glebe Community Centre is a beautifully renovated building with a spectacular rotunda from the art deco era. Adding to the pleasant atmosphere is an open café (Mato’s Café) with tables and chairs, serving soups, light lunches, beverages and desserts throughout the show hours (10:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. every day). A live musician performs daily. Free admission and door prizes provide additional incentives to visit. According to Linda Bordage, artist and co-coordinator of the show: “The Glebe Fine Art Show provides Ottawa with a cultural event not to be missed. If you are looking to find the perfect piece for your office, family room, living room or bedroom, this event is for you. After visiting the exhibition, visitors say: ‘It is like walking through an art gallery but with one important difference: not only can you purchase the artwork right there, but you can also meet the artist at the same time!’” Eileen Durand is a Glebe resident and the media contact for the 2014 Glebe Fine Art Show.
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Art lovers browse the art on offer at last year’s Glebe Fine Art Show held at the Glebe Community Centre.
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Abbotsford’s music project Start with a keen group of folks with a love of music, add a couple of ukuleles, penny whistles and a mandolin, top it off with an eager leader and you have a burgeoning music project that’s looking for more members. “We wanted to offer this to more people. Everyone enjoyed it so much, there are others who would also enjoy it,” said Chris White, an Ottawa choir leader and community liaison at Carleton University’s radio station, CKCU. “With music, it’s the more the merrier. The reality is getting involved with music is a very healthy thing to do, socially, physiologically. It’s a form of expression,” said White. Starting in mid-September, Abbotsford at the Glebe Centre will be introducing a new music project. Over eight weeks this fall, every Wednesday afternoon, the group will gather between 1:30 and 3:30 pm. It will cost $25 for Abbotsford members, and non-members will pay an extra $20 per session. The group would like to have about a dozen participants. “We continue to try to make music the heart of activity at Abbotsford and this new program is a perfect example of how an idea takes on a life of its own when given enough time and space to grow!” said Pat Goyeche, program co-ordinator. Last year, an ad hoc music group initially got together as a jazz ensemble that included a mix of men and women and a range of ages. White said the group evolved in a fascinating way. “It turned out they weren’t really interested in jazz. So some different kinds of music were introduced including folk songs and some acoustic traditional music like Autumn Leaves and Farewell to Nova Scotia,” said White. He noted there are extra ukuleles to share and some of the members of the group have brought other instruments including guitars, recorders and a bell.
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Chris White and Kery Peterson-Beaubien, volunteers with Abbotsford’s Music Project, make musical magic in Abbotsford’s parlour.
The music program will settle into Abbotsford’s parlour on Wednesday afternoons. White said the grand, historic building across from Lansdowne Park has a good vibe. “It’s a beautiful space. It’s a comfortable environment,” said White. White’s background includes several years as artistic director of the Ottawa Folk Festival. He’s an active member of the Ottawa South community and leads children’s choirs and a men’s choir. White said he’s looking forward to the new season at Abbotsford with
the help of Kery Peterson-Beaubien, who is volunteering her time to the project. Interested participants are encouraged to get in touch with Abbotsford, 950 Bank Street, a community support centre for adults 55+. It provides the community programs of The Glebe Centre Inc., a charitable, not-for-profit, organization, which includes a 254-bed long term care home. www.glebecentre.ca Julie Ireton is a journalist who contributes regularly to the Glebe Report on issues affecting Abbotsford.
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The new fenced toddlers’ Exploration Garden on Bank Street at the eastern edge of Central Park was officially opened on July 5. This naturalistic garden was an initiative of the GCA Parks Committee in consultation with the City of Ottawa and the community, and was funded by Councillor David Chernushenko’s office under the Cash in Lieu of Parkland program.
The ever-adaptable, wily coyote While I approached the job of Editor of the Glebe Report with awe and trepidation, anxious that I would not find enough material to fill eleven issues a year, I can now say that I had nothing to worry about on that score. The Glebe is teeming with story ideas and is well supplied with enthusiastic writers and photographers who are eager to share their creative output with their neighbours. As the June 2014 editorial made clear, the Glebe Report is a collective endeavour and, I have to say, collectively – we rock! This issue of the Glebe Report has a fair amount of comment on Lansdowne. How could it not? We are currently in the throes of another Lansdowne malaise – or is it a celebration? The distinction isn’t always clear. Glebites are ambivalent about the large and looming Lansdowne – we feel we own it; we know we don’t. We regret the lost opportunities that it represents. We admire the beautiful ribbed “veil” of the south side stands. Some of us who grew up with Lansdowne as the backdrop to our youth – parking cars on the lawn to earn money for the Ex, attending high school football games (read Joe Scanlon’s article on page 12) – see Lansdowne through a lens of nostalgia for a departed youth. And indeed, the Lansdowne story goes back much further, through world wars
(see Clyde Sanger’s article on page 13) and early agricultural beginnings. The passing of this version of Lansdowne is keenly felt. And of course, we bristle at the traffic and parking incursions on our space and scoff at the pedestrian retail shopping mall. But others of us see the new Lansdowne as progress, or as evidence of prosperity, or at least as an improvement over the asphalt desert of the recent past. Some of us are football fans who relish the game and all that it entails – the emotional swings, the pride, the disappointment, the loyalty. Even the August kerfuffle over shuttle buses – this too will pass. Lansdowne will remain a part of our lives, for good or ill, and will form the backdrop to our children’s growing up. To live is to change. We will be the wily coyote, adapting to the shifting urban environment and managing to thrive alongside the most inhospitable of city landscapes. The coyote, clever beast, has even learned to swim, colonizing islands in a bid for survival. We Glebites, like the coyote, are learning to swim with the tide. Kick! Kick harder! 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: August 29 for articles September 3 for advertising The next issue of the Glebe Report: Friday, September 19, 2014 COVER: “Fifth Avenue Grocery” by Colin White FRONT PAGE: TD Place stadium during the first Ottawa Redblacks home game at Lansdowne July 18. Photo by Lois Siegel.
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Contributors this issue Corinne B. Bhat Boy Micheline Boyle Jane Brennan Andrew Cardozo Julie Houle Cezer David Chernushenko Clive Cohen Dr. Cheryl Cooper Alix Dostal Alex Dunn Eileen Durand Cara Elizabeth Adelle Farrelly Claire Gardam Laura Gauthier Leah Geller Don Grant Paul Green Pat Goyeche Julia H. Maddie H.K. Glen Hartle Sarah Hoy Soo Hum Julie Ireton Will E. Jessup Neil Kelly Erin Bender Kerbel
Jasmine L. Kendra Lee Marina Malvada Suzanne McCarthy Liz McKeen Ian McKercher Matthew Meagher Doug Milne Isabella Mindak Brian Mitchell Dr. Jay Mithani Joachim Moskau Yasir Naqvi Clyde Sanger Penny Sanger Joe Scanlon Lois Siegel Stephanie Small Ildiko Sumegi Zenah Surani Yvonne Thijsen Tick Toc Tom Mary Tsai-Davies John Wins-Purdy Amy Westland Nicola Jane Young Reel Youth Zeus
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A Lakeside Avenue resident watches the parade of shuttle buses on Redblacks game day, August 2.
Cyclists and pedestrians vie for safe passage on Pretoria Bridge.
Protected bike lanes needed on Pretoria Bridge Editor, Glebe Report In the May issue of the Glebe Report, Phil Legault wrote that the answer to “growing tension between pedestrians and cyclists” on Pretoria Bridge is clearer signage and stricter enforcement against cyclists. I agree that the sidewalks of Pretoria Bridge are highly congested. This is because it is very unsafe for cyclists to bike on the road there, with only a fading white line separating them and the heavy traffic that crosses the bridge. The solution is simple: create protected bike lanes on the road with, at a minimum, bollards clearly separating cyclists from vehicles. Then, and only then, will cyclists feel safe to get off the sidewalk. For more information about protected bike lanes in Ottawa, visit www.bikelanes.ca. Leah Geller
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More than 40 years ago, McKeen’s grocery store (now Metro) took a halfpage advertisement in the October 1973 edition of the paper, which very nearly didn’t go to press because the person responsible for collecting the money from the ads suddenly disappeared, along with the money needed to pay the printer. Understandably, many smaller advertisers didn’t want to pay for something that might never appear, but McKeen’s took the chance, and the Bank of Nova Scotia gave us a loan of $200 on trust. There were still spaces from those cancelled ads to fill throughout the first layout, however. Luckily we’d recently met a young artist, and also luckily our sons came back from Glebe Collegiate with a good story. The new principal had called all students to an assembly to talk about how they should dress – no cut-off patched jeans, no see-through blouses and so forth. As he spoke he demonstrated by slowly removing his own clothes: jacket and tie, shirt, down to his jockey shorts. So instead of ads, that edition of the Glebe Report has drawings of how this event unfolded!
With regard to the Lakeside Avenue residents’ “protest” of game-day shuttle buses on August 2, the media accounts of the day somewhat misrepresented the situation. It was a gathering of neighbours to come and see the impact of the shuttle buses on Lakeside. Some of the neighbours did cross to the other side of the street and back again but it was not a protest and we were certainly not encouraging anyone to walk in front of buses or impede them in any way. The last thing we want to do is tick off the fans on the buses as they are not responsible for the decision to use Lakeside. We are hopeful that the City recognizes the impact of 549 buses in a 4.5-hour period (an average of one bus every 30 seconds) and makes the sensible decision to move the shuttle buses off all residential streets.
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Lansdowne - le grand hodge podge! Editor, Glebe Report I am trying hard to suspend judgment on the new Lansdowne for at least two reasons. First, it is a reality and we will have to live with it. Second, real estate folks tell me it will enhance our property values. But as I look at the colossal, untidy cluster of buildings, serving various disparate services, thrown together cheek-by-jowl, I can’t help thinking that the whole thing is simply “un grand hodge podge.” Andrew Cardozo
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Glebe Neighbourhood Activities Group – lots to discover! Program Registration
Mary Tsai-Davies www.gnag.ca
Fall is just around the corner, which means registration time! Our program guide inserted in this issue of your Glebe Report will have details of our fantastic fall lineup of programs for all ages. Many of your old favourite programs are back and we have some brand new courses you are going to love. Online registration begins Thursday, September 4 at 9 p.m. for all programs and is ongoing until programs begin. Visit us online at www. gnag.ca or call 613-233-8713. All adult fitness and wellness tickets and memberships are available the last week of August. Get fit this fall and sign up!
Jane Barlow Joanne Beaubien Linda Bordage Roy Brash Matilde Brunetti (Chiocchio)
Employment Opportunities
Nancy Burke
GNAG is looking for mature, enthusiastic candidates who possess strong leadership, communication and organizational skills along with job-specific qualifications for the following positions: Part-time counsellor positions for: • Breakfast Club (before-school care program) • Quest-4-Fun (after-school care program) Full-time Kitchen Manager/Coordinator: duties include food preparation for child-care programs, instructional culinary classes and special events. Details of job postings are on our website www.gnag.ca. Please send your resumÊ to info@gnag.ca by August 19 outlining your experience, education and availability, and providing two references.
Margaret Chwialkowska David Clendenning Janis Fulton Norm Goddard David Houlton Renate Hulley Beata Jakubek Olaf Krassnitzky Linda Loder Judi Miller
Art project at the Glebe Community Centre
Lynne Morin
Renowned community artist Christopher Griffin will be creating whimsical concrete raccoon sculptures with the help of our Summer Glebe Leadership and Children’s Art Camp. Christopher has designed a series of concrete installations throughout the city. For the Glebe, he has designed a family of four larger-than-life raccoons, to be installed on the east lawn of the Glebe Community Centre. Why raccoons? Sometimes known for their pesky and mischievous character, they also symbolize family, playfulness and spontaneity. Our raccoons will be low to the ground, making them fun to sit, stand, climb and play on. The process: large blocks of styrofoam are formed in the desired shape, and layers of specially formulated concrete are added. The project was initiated as a tribute to one of our counsellors who grew up with us at the Glebe Community Centre. At the young age of 20, Zachary Lauzière, known for his “awesomeness,â€? passed away just over a year ago after a difficult battle with lymphoma. He was a kid, a volunteer, a counsellor, a friend and a mentor. Zach holds a special place in all of our hearts. His family has generously contributed to the art project in recognition of how much the centre meant to Zach and how much he meant to us. Stay tuned – the installation is to be unveiled in mid-September.
Erwin Mistlberger Kerstin Peters Anne Remmer Thompson Nancy Riggs Rose Marie Roy Brian Seed John Shea Soraya Silvestri Katrin Smith Anne Swiderski Tricia Wilmot Savoie Glenda Yates Krusberg
Thank you to our partners at RBC Ottawa Bluesfest
GNAG has a long-standing music program for youth that was initiated by the RBC Bluesfest’s Be In the Band program in 2009. The GNAG music program continuously grows in popularity because of our thriving partnership. The music programs were showcased during the annual G-factor talent show and the RBC Bluesfest this past July. This year’s Ottawa Folk Festival will be held September 10–14 in beautiful Hog’s Back Park. GNAG staff and volunteers will be at the Folk Festival running specialized workshops and activities for all ages. The festival is a five-day family-friendly celebration of music, dance, visual arts and community, featuring an eclectic mix of musical performances. The festival encourages audience involvement through participatory workshops. There is an official KidZone with activities all day Saturday and Sunday. On Sunday, September 14, GNAG will present some of our specialized courses such as circus workshops, cartooning, face painting, visual arts, Sportball, parachute games and much more! Hope to see you at the festival! GNAG Annual General Meeting
GNAG invites the community to their Annual General Meeting, Wednesday, September 24, at 7 p.m. Are you interested in volunteering or taking a place on our board? Please contact our volunteer coordinator at 613-233-8713 or email us at info@gnag.ca.
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The City of Ottawa, GNAG and The Pantry are pleased to announce that the GCC Common Dining Room is now open daily. Meet with your friends, get some work done while your kids are in programs, read a book, meet with your club. This newly renovated, quiet, comfortable space is yours to enjoy Monday to Friday from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., with The Pantry lunch service from 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. (when seating is restricted to The Pantry patrons). The Common Dining Room is also available for rent (or GCA use) nightly, subject to availability. New furniture has been specially selected to allow for boardroom, screening room, coffee house or cocktail/dinner party set up. Ask at the GCC front desk for more information.
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cycling
By Matthew Meagher
If you are a cyclist, a wannabe cyclist or even someone who doesn’t much care for cyclists, the City of Ottawa’s cycling plans for the Glebe will be of interest to you. Following extensive consultations conducted by the Glebe Community Association (GCA) Traffic Committee over the past year, the City has begun its planning to develop a Glebe Neighbourhood Cycling Plan. This represents an opportunity for the community to help make a reasonably good cycling environment even better, while considering the interests of other transportation users. A cycling plan’s main purpose is to identify cycling routes into and through the neighbourhood and to better connect those routes with the citywide cycling network. Having identified key routes, the plan will include measures to improve them, which may range from better signage and painted markings to possible structural changes. Based on the GCA consultations, input from a public advisory committee constituted for this purpose and citywide planning initiatives, the City has developed preliminary plans for key cycling routes. Those plans were presented at a public meeting held on June 25 and involve a combination of minor and potentially significant changes. Display boards from the public meeting can be found online at: http://documents.ottawa.ca/sites/ documents.ottawa.ca/files/documents/ glebecyclingplan_en.pdf. The City has identified five primary cycling corridors through the neighbourhood: O’Connor Street, Percy and Craig streets, First and Glebe avenues, Fifth Avenue and Holmwood Avenue. Preliminary design alternatives have been developed for each corridor within parameters set out in the Ontario Traffic Manual and others established by the City, namely that the proposals fit within the existing edges of the pavement and that nearterm changes not impact parking. In evaluating alternatives, the City considered safety, cycling comfort, traffic impact, impact on property, parking and the pedestrian environment, relative cost and the continuity of the route. After the plan is finalized, functional plans will be developed and implemented over a five-year timeframe, with the first improvements scheduled for this year. proposed bike corridors
1. O’Connor: This corridor will connect with segregated cycling facilities planned for O’Connor north of the 417 highway, creating a primary connection to the downtown core. Initially the route would be designated with painted sharrows on the roadway. Traffic calming measures and the conversion of intersections at
Holmwood to other routes in the neighbourhood and to Lansdowne Park. It is proposed that the route be designated by sharrows on the roadway, with green bike boxes added at the Bank Street intersection. Street parking would remain as is. East of Bank, a westbound contraflow bike lane is proposed to take cyclists from O’Connor and Lansdowne to Bank. Street parking would be relocated to the south side of the street. The City’s project manager, Heidi Cousineau, (heidi.cousineau@ Map of the proposed Glebe Neighbourhood Bikeway ottawa.ca) has noted that (from the City of Ottawa website) the alternatives being considered are prelimSecond and Fourth Avenues to twoinary in nature and are subject to way stops are also being considered. public input throughout the process. In the medium term, one alternative After functional designs are finalized, would see the removal of parking on they will be presented to the public FEATURED LISTING O’Connor south of Glebe to allow for and technical advisory committees to refine the designs. advisory bike lanes to be painted. 2. Percy-Craig: This north-south The GCA will continue to monitor and make recommendations based on corridor will connect with existing bike lanes on Percy north of the 417. the ample comments received from The City is proposing that sharrows be residents. If you prefer to submit input painted on the roadway to indicate a through the GCA, send comments to cycling route. The conversion of intertraffic@glebeca.ca at any time, day or sections at Second and Fourth avenues night. to two-way stops with traffic calming Bungalow is also being considered. A mediumMatthew Meagher is a member of the 162 Heath St -- Sprawling 3 Bedrooms/2 Baths term alternative includes the possible Glebe Community Association TrafAlta Vista - Oversized Lot - Granite Kitchen closure of Craig at Fifth, which would fic Committee. $729,000 - Double Garage create a “T” intersection with Percy and allow for safer pedestrian and cycEditors note: The GCA recently ling crossings. adopted a position on the City’s bike3. Glebe and First: This corridor way proposals. See the GCA website would provide an east-west connection at www.glebeca.ca for details. through the neighbourhood that will ultimately connect with improved bike lanes planned for Carling Avenue. The City has proposed advisory-style bike lanes, with painted markings on the road, including a buffer to protect cyclists against dooring incidents. In addition, a westbound contra-flow bike lane would be added on Glebe between Percy and Bronson, to allow connections to Carling. As part of the plan, parking would be relocated to the south side of the street and traffic calming would be implemented in the form of mid-block narrowing between Percy and Bank. 4. Fifth: This corridor would provide an east-west route that will one day link with the long-planned FifthStep 1: Register a project Clegg pedestrian and cycling bridge over the canal. The City has proposed Starting August 15, register at painted advisory bike lanes on the ottawa.ca/clean or by calling 3-1-1. roadway, and green “bike boxes” at the intersection of Bronson. Existing chicane parking would be maintained, Step 2: Get Cleaning though five spots would be removed between Muriel and Gordon streets. Encourage others to join you! Sharrows would be painted on Gordon to indicate a connection to Holmwood. On the east end of Fifth, turning Step 3: Win prizes! restrictions at O’Connor would be retained, with the potential addition of advisory markings for cyclists. Medium-term alternatives include the conversion of the sidewalk on the south side of Fifth between O’Connor and the QED to a multi-use pathway, and the development of a southbound multi-use pathway through the fire station property to connect with existing pathways through Sylvia Holden Park and into Lansdowne. 5. Holmwood: This east-west corridor would connect segregated bike lanes planned for Bronson south of
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Glebe Annex Community Association summer news party in the park
What a party! You should have been there! A larger crowd than expected came out one Saturday in late June for our very first “Party In the Park” at Dalhousie South Park (Bell Street South). Billed as a chance to meet your neighbours and introduce children to the joys of our little park, it was all of that and more. We had food, drinks, information booths, vendors, games, contests and music, music, music. Lead by professional party organizer Morris Rothman, supported by committee members who pitched in with set-up, cooking, serving and leading the many fun games, everything went as hoped. We were fortunate to have on hand celebrity judges David Chernushenko (ward councillor), Richard Parry (property manager), Carol Ann Poulin (local resident), and Sylvia Milne Glebe Annex Community Association (GACA) President to choose a winner from the many pieces of artwork produced by young community residents. Among the winners were Nahin, Sophia Marina, Amanda, Nuala, Adnan, Max and Alison. Suzanne won a challenging sidewalk chalk-art contest. Winners were also those who consumed the dozens of hot dogs, hamburgers, cookies and drinks that our team had solicited from local businesses. Once again the adults enjoyed Timbits and coffee.
During the morning we were entertained by a Karate demonstration from our own neighbourhood JKA Karate team. They proved that their hours of training were well spent. Plans are afoot for another party in the fall. Dalhousie south park adoption
If you haven’t noticed the signage, the Glebe Annex Community Association has been successful in our bid to adopt Dalhousie South Park under the city’s Park Adoption program. We have committed to regular cleanups of the park, efforts to improve the aesthetic appeal through small plantings and paint touchups. We will continue our efforts to hasten the replacement of well used and obsolete play equipment.
At the recent Dalhousie South Park party, community constable Mathew Hunt puts the cuffs on Morris Rothman for having too much fun in the park, while Peggy Kampouris, traffic and safety director, enjoys the moment.
work continues over the summer
While some committee members take time off for holidays, others are busy working on behalf of the neighbourhood and supporting neighbouring committees in their battles to hold the city responsible for its actions and decisions. It appears from the recent green box fiasco that it is in all our interests to keep meeting and talking to our city representatives. Enjoy the summer and we hope to see you all in the fall! Doug Milne reports regularly on happenings with the Glebe Annex Community Association.
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A shuttle bus needs some help navigating the turn at Bronson and Lakeside avenues on July 18 for the Redblacks home-opener football game.
Living with Lansdowne By Brian Mitchell Phase one: the stadium
By the time this article is printed, we will know if the July 18 “miracle” was repeated. Many Glebe residents described the Redblack’s home-opener at TD Place as one of the “quietest football games at Lansdowne ever.” And yet there really were 24,000 fans in attendance! Bank Street just prior to the game was described as eerily calm. Although most available on-street parking was taken up by footballgoers, there were a few vacant spaces. Holmwood Avenue beside Lansdowne did not have a single car parked on it, thanks to the new one-hour parking restriction in place. Wow! The Good
To give credit where it’s due, this came about through consistent and effective messaging by the City and the Ottawa Sports and Entertainment Group (OSEG) to advise fans not to drive to Lansdowne and to use the park-and-ride shuttles or transit instead. And the fans listened! Over 33% of attendees used OC Transpo or STO services to get to the game – well, well over the 20% projected in the transportation planning for Lansdowne! That’s an impressive change in citizen behaviour in this car-centric city – let’s hope it continues! Indeed, OC Transpo will be adding even more express buses to ferry fans for the next Redblacks game. Besides the successful messaging, another contributing factor that minimized the number of cars entering the Glebe for the events at Lansdowne was the implementation of some longrequested measures by the City and the NCC. These included the onehour evening parking and no-stopping restrictions (and guest permit system) now in place on Adelaide, Holmwood and O’Connor beside Lansdowne, and the new pedestrian- and cyclist-friendly signalized crossing at the Queen Elizabeth Driveway (QED) and Fifth. And The Ugly
One major exception to the relatively minimal impact of the return of football to our community is the use of residential roads for the OSEG park-and-ride shuttle buses. For seven hours on a Friday evening in July, the residents of Lakeside Avenue were subjected to a parade of diesel-fuming school buses rumbling outside their windows – at times there were over a dozen buses bunched up on this short Dow’s Lake street. Fifth Avenue is the other target for these shuttle buses, as residents saw on Sunday, July 20 during the Fury’s home opener. “It was far worse than we could ever have imagined” were the
words used by one Lakeside resident to describe a situation that is completely avoidable by having the shuttle buses keep to arterial roads, namely Carling and Preston, to access the QED from Bronson. Since March 2013, the Glebe Community Association (GCA) has been asking the City to respect its own regulations for these private buses, which like trucks and other large vehicles, are prohibited from using residential streets. At the time of writing, the City was considering routing some “off-peak” shuttles onto the arterial route, but it was not willing to change the residential route for the majority of the buses due to fears that the 5-10 minutes of additional driving time might discourage fans from using the shuttle service. The community association will continue to apply pressure on the City to reverse this positon and also to ensure that the use of the Fifth Avenue and Sunnyside shuttle route (instead of the QED route) is kept to an absolute minimum. Preparing for phase two: the Lansdowne shopping mall
While the community has, for the most part, been pleasantly surprised by the minimal traffic impact of the first stadium events at Lansdowne, the primary concern all along has been with the day-to-day impact of the 10-screen cineplex and the big-box stores such as Whole Foods, Sporting Life and Winners. The community association will continue to press the City to adopt measures to mitigate the traffic impact of these stores on residential streets before they begin opening at the end of this year. The GCA and neighbouring community associations will do so through the monthly (bi-weekly at times!) Lansdowne Transportation Operations Committee meetings involving the City, the NCC and OSEG. And this autumn the GCA will hold an information night, similar to the one held on June 17, to provide information to area residents on what to expect from a traffic and transportation perspective as the new cinema, retail outlets and restaurants begin to open in our community. In the meantime, residents are encouraged to consult the GCA website (www.glebeca.ca) for information concerning traffic and parking issues associated with activities at Lansdowne. The City of Ottawa has also created an online form (and, in early August, it will conduct an online survey) through which residents can provide their observations and recommendations related to Lansdowne. This form can also be accessed via the GCA website. Brian Mitchell is chair of the Glebe Community Association Traffic Committee.
Editor’s note: The regular column by GCA president Christine McAllister will return in September.
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Memories of Lansdowne… it wasn’t just the Rough Riders By Joe Scanlon
The return of football to Lansdowne Park – under the new name of Redblacks – brings back many memories, not just of the Rough Riders and not even just of football.
Between 1943 and 1947, there were two football teams in Ottawa – the Rough Riders and the Trojans. The Trojans – originally called the Combines – played in the Ontario Rugby Football Union (ORFU) and won the league championship in 1947, only to lose to the Toronto Argonauts in the playoff game that preceded the Grey Cup. The following season, the Trojans merged with the Rough Riders. While I remember the Trojans, I did not meet any of their players, but I did meet Tony Golab, the “Golden Boy,” who starred with the Rough Riders in the 1930s and again after the war. He played in four Grey Cups and was with the Rough Rider team that won the Grey Cup in 1940. I met Golab when he and a few other Rough Riders used to prepare for the season by kicking a football at what was then the St. Pat’s field (now Immaculata) on Echo Drive. A few other youngsters and I got to run after the balls and bring them back to the players. Golab lived on Main Street in Ottawa East. Like all Ottawa fans, I was intrigued when Ottawa decided to stay with a Canadian quarterback, Russ Jackson. The Riders – led by Jackson – won the Grey Cup five times with stars such as Whit Tucker, Ron Stewart and Tony Gabriel. It was Gabriel who caught the winning touchdown pass in 1976 as Ottawa defeated Saskatchewan 23-20. Other names come to mind – names like Howie “Touchdown” Turner and Bob Simpson. Simpson was probably the most versatile athlete ever to play for the Rough Riders. While with the Riders, he caught 274 passes and 65 touchdowns. As if that wasn’t enough, he
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Football at Lansdowne back in the day
represented Canada in basketball at the 1952 summer Olympics in Helsinki. Frank Clair, Ottawa’s most successful coach, guided all of the victories. Clair coached the Rough Riders from 1956 to 1969. The team never finished first in his first 10 seasons as a coach, though the Riders did win the Grey Cup in 1960. But he finished his Ottawa career with a flourish. He coached Ottawa to the Grey Cup in 1966 but lost, and then led them to first place in 1968 and 1969, both years winning the Grey Cup. I can still remember the 1968 game – which I watched on colour television (new at the time) – when Vic Washington ran 80 yards from scrimmage for the game-winning touchdown. I recall the ball dropping out of his hands and, almost like magic, bouncing right back into them. That year Coach Clair won the Annis Stukus trophy as coach of the year in the Canadian Football League. After Clair left, Ottawa never won another Grey Cup and the team gradually went downhill. Perhaps the bottom was in 1995 when Ottawa drafted Derrell Robertson, who had died the previous December. My own memories, of course, cover other football games at Lansdowne – including the first Carleton-Ottawa Panda game (when I was the public address announcer) and many other
Panda games that followed. I also attended high school games, which were often played late enough in the afternoon that spectators would line their cars along the sidelines and turn on the lights. (That was when there were only the main stands.) I recall being paid to dress up as a clown (I was a struggling Carleton student at the time) and attend a Rider game to promote a new product: Crest toothpaste. I also have one very sad memory – though it wasn’t sad at the time. When I was a student at Lisgar, Alex Grey scored the winning touchdown as Lisgar defeated Glebe in the junior semi-finals. Grey never played again. He was one of three of my high school classmates who volunteered to serve in Korea. He did not return. Baseball at Lansdowne
Lansdowne Park did not host just pro football, however. From 1946 to 1951, Lansdowne Park hosted Class C Border League baseball – only 25 cents for teenagers. The team was often inept, but so were the other teams, and the Ottawa Nationals won the title three of the six years. I seem to remember that Chuck Paul – who had learned his baseball in Ottawa East and later became a CFL official – played for the Nationals. Another member of that team was Peter Karpuk, who was chosen as the
Border League’s outstanding player in 1949. Rough Rider football fans with long memories will remember Karpuk for another reason. In the 1948 Grey Cup, with Ottawa leading Calgary, Karpuk fumbled the ball, and Calgary took it away for the winning touchdown. Karpuk eventually left the Riders, and the Nationals were replaced by an AAA farm team from the then-New York Giants. Prices went up. Attendance went down and the team folded after one season. One Ottawa coach was Paul “Daffy” Dean who, along with his better known brother “Dizzy” Dean, pitched the St. Louis Cardinals to a World Series victory. Daffy Dean was also part of some versions of a comedy sketch with Abbott and Costello – the famous “Who’s on first?” sketch. I recall two debates that centered on Lansdowne Park in those days. The first was whether there could be a “shaved” infield, and whether Ottawa could have a pro baseball team without wrecking the football field. The second was a series of votes on whether Ottawa would allow Sunday sports. Joe Scanlon, professor emeritus at Carleton University, former director of its Journalism School and current director of the Emergency Communications Research Group, has a large store of memories to share.
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By Clyde Sanger
Well now, a new era is beginning for us Glebites. With all the frou-ha-ha attending the opening of new buildings at Lansdowne, the stadium with the enormous scoreboard, Bank Street’s twin towers (perhaps not a very good term) and the stores that will someday open, there is one thing missing: a bit of history. On August 23 this year, we Glebites just might want to celebrate the hundredth anniversary of the Lansdowne parade that marked the founding of the famed Princess Pats. It’s a story of two energetic young men and one neat (in every sense) princess and the beginnings of the PPCLI (or Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry.) Both men had fought in the Boer War, but they did not know each other until Frank Farquhar arrived in Ottawa as military secretary to the Governor-General, who was the Duke of Connaught and a younger son of Queen Victoria. He also happened to be a senior Field Marshal, so had the pick of the brightest soldiers in the British Army for his Ottawa staff. He chose Lt. Col Francis Farquhar, who had collected a DSO for bravery in South Africa. Early on in his years here (1911-17), the Duke travelled to Montreal and went to see the opera La Bohème. His host was Andrew Hamilton Gault, whose family was among the richest in town. So Gault was drawn into the vice-regal world and made friends with Farquhar and the duke’s younger daughter, Princess Patricia. (Please don’t ask how a duke’s daughter can be a princess. Look it up in Burke’s Peerage.)
Came the crazy summer of 1914, the wild-eyed Gavrilo Princip shooting off in Sarajevo and the Austrians avenging their dead arch-duke, and the whole pack of Europe’s cards starting to tumble. Gault saw the signs, smelled war and talked to his friends in Rideau Hall. Raising a private regiment? Gault said he’d put up $100,000 to recruit and equip one. The GG cheered and was even smiling when Farquhar said he’d leave his job and join up. The Canadian military hierarchy were a bit sniffy – a privately raised regiment? – but at length came on side. Recruiting after Canada entered the war alongside Britain on August 4 was a mad rush, especially from western Canada. A “Legion of Frontiersmen” from Moose Jaw hijacked a train; while prominent men like Talbot Papineau came from Quebec. Farquhar volunteered to command the regiment, and Gault became second-in-command. Within three weeks enough men had been accepted to form the regiment: most had military experience in British units and fewer than one in 10 had been born in Canada. And – the point of this article – they rallied at Lansdowne Park on August 23, 1914 and held a church parade, archbishop and all, in front of a large crowd who knew the troops were due to leave on a train for a ship bound for England the next day. In the middle of it all was the beautiful princess, 28 years old, holding out the flag she had designed and embroidered. It was the “camp colour” that went with the 27 officers and 956 other ranks when they crossed to France just before Christmas.
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Princess Patricia presenting the colours to the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry regiment at Lansdowne on August 1914, just before they were to board a ship for England at the beginning of World War I.
They were the first Canadian unit “in the field”, as the title of Gault’s biography proclaims. They saw action at St Eloi, Ypres, Sanctuary Wood, Passchendaele – and “went over the top” at Vimy Ridge, while a company fought its way into Mons in November 1918 on the day before the Armistice. At least three commanding officers including Farquhar were killed by German shelling. Three soldiers from the regiment won the Victoria Cross. Lt Col Hamilton Gault, many times wounded, was commanding officer in March 1919 when the regiment arrived back in Ottawa and paraded through the streets to Lansdowne Park for a final dismissal. Princess Patricia, by then the commander-in chief, was there to receive the colours. Because of high casualties demanding turnover in those 4½ years, 229 officers and 4,857 other ranks had served in the PPCLI and it was a truly Canadian force. How is all their heroism and service remembered? A stiff-looking statue of Hamilton Gault guards the National Arts Centre; a memorial plaque to
Hamilton Gault, founder of the Princess Pats regiment
Princess Patricia, honorary colonel until her death in 1974 is in St Batholomew’s church in New Edinburgh; and a sandstone slab memorial to the Princess Pats and its two parades at Lansdowne has stood near the Aberdeen Pavilion. Let’s hope it is still there and honoured today. Clyde Sanger is a military history buff and a longtime Glebite and contributor to the Glebe Report.
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Initial public meetings have taken place for two projects aiming to make cycling to and through the Glebe more attractive and safer. Although feedback from residents has been mostly positive, two areas of concern arose from the Glebe Cycling Plan consultations: 1. There is potential for conflict between users of a proposed multi-use path through Sylvia Holden Park, connecting the O’Connor/Fifth intersection with Holmwood and Lansdowne Park. 2. The potential impact of changes proposed for Fifth Avenue on existing traffic calming measures, including alternative-sides parking placement and the possible loss of a stop sign. We are taking residents’ concerns very seriously and want to ensure that any proposed changes don’t result in a street environment that favours faster driving. Our goal is the opposite: speed reduction and lower risk to all. At this point in the Glebe Cycling Plan, no specific outcomes have been predetermined. The initial proposals stem from a first meeting of a Public Advisory Committee, and a review of earlier GCA recommendations. The earlier we can make improvements, the better, but we have plenty of time to get it right. The City set a July 10 deadline for comments to keep the process moving. Also, keep in mind there is a two-month blackout period before the October 27 election. I am currently working with project manager Heidi Cousineau to review all feedback, with the goal of communicating directly with all who comment. Green bin support
In the wake of the Auditor General’s damning report on the City of Ottawa’s contract with Orgaworld, I want to stress that diverting organic waste to an appropriate facility remains the right way to go, as does weekly green bin collection and biweekly collection of waste that cannot be composted or recycled. The real problems stem from the unsupported, overly ambitious initial tonnage targets and other aspects of the poorly negotiated contract, compounded by the unwillingness of Council at that time to switch immediately to weekly green bin and biweekly residual waste collection. This left us with an unrealistic compostable waste target, no ramp-up period, limited ability to renegotiate targets, and little incentive for residents to switch to green bins that sat for two weeks while the “garbage” still went out weekly. I support implementation of all the Auditor General’s recommendations. I support renegotiating or cancelling the existing contract, whichever brings greatest benefit and least cost to citizens. And I will continue to advocate for greater adoption and expansion of the green bin program as the most sensible, efficient, cost-effective and environmentally sound approach to dealing with residential waste.
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The budget, entitled Building Opportunity, Securing Our Future, outlines the government’s plan to generate immediate and lasting benefits for both our province and our community. We are taking actions to create more opportunity and security, including an expanded youth jobs strategy, the province-wide implementation of full-day kindergarten, reforms to modernize social assistance programs, and extra supports for Ontarians with developmental disabilities. ontario child care benefit
As you may know, this past July hundreds of thousands of Ontario families received another increase of up to $100 annually for the Ontario Child Care Benefit, while many families became eligible for the first time. With this increase, the benefit will have more than doubled to up to $1,310 annually. As part of our budget, starting in July 2015, the province will tie future increases to the child benefit to inflation in Ontario to help eligible families keep pace with the rising costs of raising their children.
“ ... Ontario’s poverty reduction strategy ... sets out a comprehensive plan to address the needs of Ontarians and build structures necessary to break the cycle of poverty. ” poverty reduction strategy
This is all part of Ontario’s poverty reduction strategy, which sets out a comprehensive plan to address the needs of Ontarians and build structures necessary to break the cycle of poverty. As stated in the Speech from the Throne, we will be introducing a new poverty reduction strategy early this fall that will build on the gains made with “Breaking the Cycle,” Ontario’s first poverty reduction strategy, which lifted 47,000 children out of poverty and kept many more from falling into it. As of June 1, the minimum wage in Ontario has increased to $11 per hour, the highest in Canada. This reflects our government’s commitment to building a more prosperous Ontario that helps people and provides more opportunities for all. We are also taking steps, via legislation, to tie future increases in the minimum wage to the cost of living. Our budget also increases wages for the front-line home, community and childcare workers that Ottawa families rely on every day. Childhood educators and other front-line childcare workers will see an increase of an average of $2 per hour over the next two years. The hourly wage of personal support workers who work in home and community care settings will also see an hourly wage increase of $4 over the next three years. Moreover, our budget also supports initiatives important to Ottawa including $65 million in funding for the next stage of the Ottawa River Action Plan, as well as $14 billion over the next 10 years for public transit and transportation infrastructure in communities like Ottawa and others outside the Great Toronto and Hamilton Area. This fund would help Ottawa to continue the momentum of building LRT in our city. Most importantly, we are committed to building a stronger tomorrow by balancing the budget by 2017/2018 in a fair and balanced way. The roadmap is articulated in the budget as part of a well-considered fiscal plan. For more information about the budget, visit www.ontario.ca/budget or www. yasirnaqvimpp.ca. If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact me at my community office at ynaqvi.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org or 613722-6414. I look forward to continue working with you and building a better Ottawa Centre together!
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Thirty Years Ago in the Glebe Report Ian McKercher
Vol. 12, No. 7, august 17, 1984 (16 pages) ALDERMAN SMITH CENSURED
FEDERAL ELECTION LOOMS
Nine candidates were contesting Ottawa Centre for the September 4, 1984 federal election. The field included three independents, and flag-bearers from the Communist, Green and Rhinoceros parties. Profiles and party priorities of the three main candidates were highlighted in the August Glebe Report. Incumbent
In August of 1984, Lansdowne Park teemed with visitors to “the Ex.”
John Evans was running for the Liberals. Lawyer Dan Chilcott was the Conservative candidate and Mike Cassidy, who had served Ottawa Centre in the Ontario Legislature since 1971, represented the NDP. Nationally, this was the “Mulroney sweep” election with the Conservatives taking 211 of 282 seats. However, Mr Cassidy took Ottawa Centre by 54 votes over Mr Chilcott, with Mr Evans running a distant third.
This retrospective is filed bimonthly by Ian McKercher of the Glebe Historical Society. The society welcomes the donation or loan (for copying) of any item documenting Glebe history (photographs, maps, surveys, news articles, posters, programs, memorabilia, etc.). Contact Ian at 613-235-4863 or ian.mckercher@opera.ncf.ca.
NOTE: All back issues of the Glebe Report to June 1973 can be viewed on the Glebe Report website at glebereport.ca under the ARCHIVES menu.
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Capital Ward Alderman Howard Smith was censured August 1, 1984, by a unanimous vote of City Council for behaviour relating to parking during the Central Canada Exhibition (CCE). Two reports from Robert Bailey, the city’s Community Development Commissioner, were at the centre of the issue. In a report released July 25, Bailey outlined a series of recommendations (limiting of front yard parking and enforcement of parking regulations included) that would be pursued in order to increase transit ridership
and alleviate traffic problems in the area of the Ex. The second report dated July 26 claimed that the Buildings Branch did not have the staff to enforce the front-yard parking ban. Alderman Smith was not happy. He circulated a letter inviting concerned residents to a public meeting of the Lansdowne Development Advisory Committee and named Mr Bailey as the person to phone if they wished to make their views known. City Council termed Alderman Smith’s behaviour “disgusting” tactics that scapegoated city staff and hurt their morale. The motion of censure ordered Smith to apologize and send copies to all constituents who had received the original letter. Alderman Smith stated that he had no intention of apologizing.
Under cumulus clouds, visitors admire the view at the Lansdowne open house on July 6.
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Art of Imagination Day By Bhat Boy
The Society for Art of Imagination is opening three exhibitions in Ottawa on Art of Imagination Day, which is Saturday, September 13. The exhibitions will be at Roast ‘n Brew, the Glebe Community Centre Gallery and Orange Gallery. The exhibitions are comprised of artists from Canada and across the world, but feature numerous Ottawa artists including Tick Tock Tom, who builds his sculptures from spare machine parts, creating robots and moving sculptures out of junk yard scrap. His “Bleeding Heart” featured at Roast ‘n Brew pumps motor oil through its valves in a rhythmic gush of blood. When I first saw this piece at a street fair in Montreal in 2011, it was squirting blood all over the pavement, but has since been refined by switching to oil. Tick Tock Tom’s “Bleeding Heart” will be making the rounds on Saturday, September 13 going from exhibit to exhibit as they open along with a colourful cast of Art of Imagination characters from across the globe. The star of the event will be Brigid Marlin, dressed as an eagle, who will fly from opening to opening with her cast of winged faeries gathering momentum as the day moves forward. The event is free and kicks off at the Roast ‘n Brew Coffee shop at 2 p.m. with the opening of the show featuring Marina Malvada’s “Angels on a Battlefield,” a spectacular, large painting of the destruction of earth. Instead of lamenting, or begging god
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for forgiveness, mankind busies himself filming it with his phones. At 2 p.m., Brigid Marlin, the founder of the society, dressed as an eagle; her flock of winged faeries, and Miguel Tio, representing the American Society of Art of Imagination, will lead the parade to the Glebe Community Centre where the exhibit opening at the Glebe Community Centre Gallery will feature many of the society’s most prominent members. Artists include H.R. Giger, who died last May. Giger spent his youth in a German concentration camp, and his work shows the darker, earlier feeling of the Imagination Society when it was first created. At the other end of the spectrum, the Glebe’s own Cara Elizabeth will be showing at Orange Gallery with her gentle fairy paintings, starting at 6 p.m. Like a modern fairy tale, Cara’s affordable paintings, bubbling over with soft mystical figures set in gently coloured textures, are far more representative of the optimistic younger generation of Art of Imagination members. I like to think of myself as an optimist, and I will have my own painting of the Glebe mounted on a rainbow trout with the Bank Street bridge spanning its tail to Old Ottawa South. Look to see if there is room in my Glebe for Lans-
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downe Park. Cara Elizabeth and I are both winged faeries, and will also be present at the Orange Gallery opening from 6 to 10 p.m. We will be serving wine and cheese. Art of Imagination Day Saturday, September 13
2-3 p.m. Artists and winged faeries gather at Roast ‘n Brew Coffee Shop, corner of Bank and Fifth 3 p.m. Parade led by our founding eagle and faeries to the GCC for art opening 6-10 p.m. Closing party at Orange Gallery, 290 City Centre Drive, Hintonburg Bhat Boy is a local artist whose works of imagination grace a number of Glebe buildings.
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REPORT TO TAXPAYERS every year including 2014’s 1.9% which was the lowest in seven years. This while maintaining our Triple A credit rating and one of the lowest per-capita debt levels of any major Canadian city. It feels like yesterday that this council was sworn in to have the honour of serving the people of Ottawa. The past 4 years have been filled with significant progress on a number of important issues. Our council has worked well together in order to see some longstanding issues resolved. We set aside bickering and dysfunction in favour of finding common ground and moving Ottawa forward. This is what allowed us to finally get shovels in ground for Ottawa’s $2.1 billion Light Rail Transit project whose underground tunnel is nearing the 50% completion mark.
By the end of this term, we will have completed $500-million worth of road, sidewalk, sewer and basic infrastructure renewal while investing a record $28 million in cycling infrastructure. And to make sure that we do not see the same scandals that other governments have seen, we proactively introduced the most comprehensive integrity package in Ontario: Office expenses are now posted online, gift and lobbyist registries were introduced, a council code of conduct was passed, and an Integrity Commissioner was appointed to oversee it all.
It is what allowed us to bring forward successively lower tax rate changes
LOCALLY, WE HAVE: • Completed badly-needed renewals of Bank Street and Bronson Avenue • Detailed design of the CleggFifth Avenue pedestrian and cycling bridge over the Canal • New crossing guard locations for Muchmor Public, Corpus Christi Catholic and Hopewell Avenue Public schools • Signalized crossing of Queen Elizabeth Driveway at Fifth • First downtown segregated bike lane in Ontario • New parking facility approved for Second Avenue
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Red chair stories Before school was out in June, the Glebe Report got in touch with local schools to see if there were any budding authors lurking in the halls of academe, whose writing could be brought into the light of day. Just for fun, we asked them to write stories – any kind of story – about the mysterious red chairs that are scattered along Bank Street. The four stories that follow are by members of teacher Manmohan Panesar’s Grade 6 class last year at First Avenue Public School: Jasmine L., Corinne B., Maddie H-K. and Julia H. More stories will follow in future issues of the The red chairs scattered along Bank Street inspired our young writers to Glebe Report. become storytellers.
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Look closer
Goodbye Elizabeth
by Maddie H-K.
By Julia H.
When you walk down Bank Street, you will see chairs. Seemingly meaningless chairs. One day, however, if you look closer, you will see more than the painted chairs on the surface. I know I did. Of course, what you see may be different than what I did. I was seven when I perceived another side of those chairs. At the time, I was in an atrocious mood. “Angelina, apologize to your sister this instant! Pinching her is never acceptable!” my mother shouted crossly. “No, she was being mean!” having a twin was such a pain! “Alright, then you can stay outside while we get ice cream,” she retorts, marching into the ice cream shop, hand in hand with my smirking twin, Jen. I collapse sulkily on a fiery red chair, a scowl plastered on my face, my hands clenched in sweaty fists. Just then, I realized that, in reality, I was perched in a small cluster of chairs. Two of which were identical: twins. Just like Jen and me. There were other chairs as well: one for my mother, one for my father, even a small one for my baby brother! A family. After that day, I learned to appreciate art, and see the hidden meaning. Now, at age 20, I am an artist (who specializes in sculptures) thanks to those chairs. My favourite subject? Family.
I sat down, my head dangling hopelessly from my petite frame and my lips formed a deep mourn. That chair I sat on now was my only comfort for my painful loss. How I wish it hadn’t changed within what seemed to be a blink of an eye like it did, my life used to be so carefully formulated with no surprises. Well that was before Elizabeth, my sweet delicate sister, died exactly one month ago to this very day. On quite lazy Saturday afternoons that droned on at the pace of me “doing” math homework my sweet little fiveyear-old sister and I went to what she called the magic chair that we could be or do anything when we sat on it. I can still faintly remember her sweet strawberry coconut shampoo and her high-pitched voice that sounded warm and inviting like a warm cup of cocoa on a blistering cold evening in late January. Everyone on Bank Street stared at us fooling around on that bright red chair like we were insane, but we didn’t care because we were together and that was all that mattered. Now it’s just me, the chair and Elizabeth’s shadow.
The chair by Corinne B.
I look up at the shimmering stars in the midnight sky. From where I sit, they seem so small, so fragile, but in reality they are unimaginably large. Strong. Stable. The cool metal of the chair tickles my hand’s bare flesh, as it so often does. I have been here before. This is where I go to dream. I dream of the hope that I grasp so rarely, drowned in a world of sorrow and despair. I smile. I smile at the sparse joy that the chair provides. The chair is not magic, but it feels so magical, like all my worries, all my pain, is just... gone. The feeling wraps itself around me, holds me tight and keeps me safe. The chair doesn’t represent protection and refuge for one, but for all. It represents a complete and pure togetherness that so few are lucky enough to notice. It represents a community.
The passive past by Jasmine L
When I was younger I made the biggest mistake of my life: I was passive. Too passive. I would let opportunities fly by me and I neglected to seize them. I just sat there and watched my life go on without me. It was like I was a ghost; not living in the present and not having any fun. I walked impatiently yet slowly towards the chairs on the corner of Fourth and Bank. A few days prior to this I had received an anonymous letter telling me to meet at the chairs and they would reveal my future lifestyle. I reached the chairs and waited anxiously for someone to come. I waited and waited and waited! Eventually I decided they would never come and I sat down, disappointed. Then a lifechanging miracle happened! The words, “Live in the present, you will never be the same again” flashed once in my mind then disappeared. It was then that I realized how passive I was and took the chair’s advice.
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The cast of Odyssey Theatre’s The Financier (Turcaret), playing until August 24 at Strathcona Park. Glebe resident Andy Massingham (in red) plays the lead role.
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This summer, Strathcona Park in Sandy Hill is alive with Odyssey Theatre’s 28th season of “theatre under the stars.” Glebe resident Andy Massingham plays the title character in this year’s production of The Financier (Turcaret). The comedic show sees Turcaret, a tax collector/loan shark, swindled by those around him as he swindles others. In typical Odyssey style, the production is influenced by commedia dell’arte and every character is in beautifully designed masks. In describing his character, Andy jokes that Turcaret is “vain, driven, ridiculous... and absolutely adorable!” Odyssey’s shows are physical and Andy’s idols (whom he has studied over his career) have prepared him
loose, wander-around atmosphere, and I feel I can do whatever I like... from browsing in record and retro shops to biking to Dow’s lake or the canal only five minutes away.” So what’s next for this local star? “Next up is School For Wives at the Gladstone, then Alice Through the Looking Glass and Stuff Happens at the NAC and then Best Brothers at GCTC. In a few years time I will be loving life and making a racket somewhere, with at least one vacation having taken place.” The Financier (Turcaret) runs until August 24 in Strathcona Park.
for the role. “I began (my career) by idolizing Charlie Chaplin, his way of moving and storytelling, and then I got hooked on all types of art.” Andy is not new to the Odyssey stage. “I was in their first show, 28 years ago!” said Andy. “Then it took a couple of decades to get back, but I’ve acted and directed with them for the last several years.” He is delighted to be back in the park after directing last year’s Arms and the Man. “Strathcona Park is a magical place to come back to and it’s great to work with Odyssey Theatre’s artistic director, Laurie Steven, for the first time since that first season!” Over the last 28 years, Andy has been involved in all aspects of the theatre. “It’s been my love and vocation… I’ve acted, taught, directed and created across this great country and am
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Celebration was in the air on July 18 as the CFL’s Ottawa Redblacks defeated the Toronto Argonauts at the newly minted TD Place stadium at Lansdowne. Glebe Report photographer Lois Siegel captured the spirit of the day.
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these teams finished 10th and 9th respectively. We are lucky to have a talented group of guys from all over the globe on our side. Stand out players from the spring season include Toni Donatelli, Sinisa Ubiparipovic, Tommy Heinemann and, of course, our captain Richie Ryan in the midfield. There is also an impressive amount of Canadian talent on the roster. In the spring season we saw Mason Trafford and Drew Beckie consistently working well together on defense and Andres Fresenga get playing time on defense as well. In the midfield, we have Philippe Davies from Montreal and Mauro Eustaquio. We also have strong back-up goalkeepers in Chad Bush and Marcel DeBellis, who has had some success as a keeper in Europe. Carl Haworth is an Ottawa native who had a very strong spring season as a forward, along with Pierre-Rudolph Mayard, who played on the Montreal Impact. Many of our Canadian players have been called up to the U23 National Team, including Fresenga, Beckie, Davies and Haworth, a testament to the strength of the Fury and the positive development of soccer in Canada. The home stadium, TD Place, is impressive – not only centrally located, but also beautifully laid out in a lovely setting on the Rideau Canal. It is perfectly designed for natural light and the views looking out from the stadium are impressive. As important as cheering on your team in the stands is the support of the surrounding community. Many of the local restaurants and businesses have been welcoming the Fury and their supporters by offering pre-game hangouts and game-day deals. The Ottawa Fury boasts three groups of supporters: The Bytown Boys Supporters Club (www.bytownboys.ca), Stony Monday Riot (www.stonymondayriot.com) and Fury Ultras (www.furyultras.ca), all with meeting places and opportunities to get involved. Stony Monday Riot meets at Original Burger Joint before Fury home games, while the Bytown Boys congregate at the Georgetown Sports Bar, both venues are close to the stadium and are great places to meet other soccer fans before the games. Be sure to take in a game at the new Lansdowne stadium this summer. In soccer, the team’s energy is often fuelled by the excitement of the fans. The players rely so much on the atmosphere, and home stadium advantage is far more coveted than in any other sport. An away win is something hard to come by and if your team performs well on the road, you can count yourself lucky. They need your support to succeed! This is your chance not just to observe a sporting event, but to be involved and part of the history. They are a talented group of players being lead by an excellent coach. Be proud of them! Kendra Lee is an ESL teacher and an avid soccer fan who welcomes the arrival of the newly minted Ottawa Fury FC.
profile Owen Dunn, tennis phenom, competes for Canada
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By John Wins-Purdy
Immediate Occupancy PHOTO: ALEX DUNN
I remember when Owen’s mom dropped him off for his first summer camp at St. James Tennis Club – he let go of his mom’s hand and ran out onto the court, not looking back. It was as if he were home. Patricia McKim, Owen’s Nana, introduced Owen to the sport of tennis when he was a toddler, as they watched all of the Grand Slams together. Patricia would provide Owen with the background on all of the players and Owen would discuss his tennis dreams with her. When Owen was ready to play he enrolled in the after school program at St. James Tennis Club. In the St James after school lessons, we separate our five to nine-yearolds into three groups based on skill, “heart”, and age. The youngest beginners are called Rabbits, the intermediates are Foxes, and finally, the strongest and most experienced are Eagles. It was clear to Owen what his first goal was: to become an Eagle. It didn’t take long, and before he knew it, he was flying with the other Eagles, playing points, serving and volleying, and competing at the top of the group. The fact that Owen could step onto the court at age eight and start competing in a game he had never played before was amazing. Of course, instruction and drills are a big part of the lesson but these didn’t interest him as much. He enjoyed nothing more than playing and competing with his friends. Using the Progressive Tennis system with scaled-down equipment, smaller courts, and lower/easier bouncing balls enables kids like Owen to hit the court and play right away at a young age. When I began teaching at St. James 14 years ago, the youngest student we had that could rally from the baseline with consistency was nine years old and this was after years of private and group lessons and practice against a wall. Today, we have juniors that can rally and play points as young as five years old and this, after only a few weeks of learning and practicing. Tennis in Canada is experiencing a truly remarkable revolution in how it’s being introduced to kids age 10 and under. Tennis is more fun, inclusive, and affordable than ever before in the history of the game. At nine years old, Owen’s passion for tennis was fervent. He completely dove into competitive tennis by enrolling in year-round coaching at Carleton (I was his coach), playing six days a week (he would have played seven days but he wasn’t allowed!) and competing in over 20 tournaments across Ontario from Sudbury to Toronto in 2013. Owen was honoured by the Ontario Tennis Association for finishing second in Ontario on the U10 Future Stars Tour at the end of the season. In September 2013, Owen was the only boy from Ottawa named to the Ontario Provincial U10 Team where “the aim of the Provincial Program is
Owen Dunn, a tennis phenomenon and Grade 4 student last year at First Avenue Public School, has just returned from the Americas Team Games in Florida, where he was one of four boys representing the Canadian Junior Davis Cup and competing for Canada.
to regroup top players from around the province to assist in the development of U10 and U12 international player competencies and norms. Striving to acquire international level competencies at a young age is a key area for player development in Canada.” Owen’s dream of playing for his country came true this May when he was one of four boys selected by Tennis Canada to represent the Canadian Junior Davis Cup team at the Americas Team Games in Boca Raton, Florida from August 8 to 14, 2014. The Americas Team Games give the top players from the Americas (North, Central and South America) and the Caribbean an opportunity to train and compete with each other for their countries and interact with children from different cultures. Owen and his teammates had the opportunity to compete against the best U11 players from these countries. From an Eagle in the St. James after school lessons to playing for Canada’s Junior Davis Cup team – not too shabby, Owen! I can’t express how proud I am of Owen and all that he has accomplished so far. We at St. James continually strive to provide a friendly and encouraging environment for all kids to learn how to play this wonderful sport, in hopes that they might grow wings and soar to great heights like this Eagle did. John Wins-Purdy is head coach and manager at the St. James Tennis Club and regional coordinator for the Ontario Tennis Association.
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Left to right, co-owners of the House of TARG Mark McHale and Paul Granger, Mayor Jim Watson and co-owner Kevin Birger
By Erin Bender Kerbel
When an old arcade machine was dropped off in Ottawa musician Paul Granger’s rehearsal studio four years ago, he never imagined it would lead to the creation of a popular music venue and pinball bar. The Targ arcade game, given to 40-year-old Granger by a friend, ended up being a hit at the studio, where over 25 local punk bands rehearse. “All the bands started playing Targ when they came to rehearse,” said Granger. “Then one of my friends stopped by and saw the machine, and he owed me a couple months of rehearsal time so he gave me a pinball machine instead of paying me.” From there a collection of old pinball and arcade games started, and House of TARG was born. “I went on Kijiji and started looking for old pinball machines.
Genuine Food and Wine Bar, agrees. “I think it’s the novelty of pinball that attracts people. Plus the perogies are amazing,” said MacLeod. MacLeod’s friend and co-worker, Graham Taylor, thinks the unique idea attracts an interesting crowd. “The mix of punk music, pinball and perogies is genius. It attracts a wide range of people. The old punkers in there along with the young hipsters makes for a really unique vibe,” said Taylor. Walking into the dimly lit bar it is impossible to miss the huge range of people of all ages drinking beer and playing pinball together. It can get loud, with music booming and voices calling out perogy orders over a PA system, but the noise doesn’t seem to scare anyone away. “There is no specific demographic we’re targeting, we just want nice people to come. It doesn’t matter how old you are or what you look like, you will always be accepted here. It’s awesome to see the 80-year-old dudes playing next to the young 19-and-20year-olds who are just discovering the bar scene,” said Granger. There have even been a few big-name musicians who came to check out the
Erin Bender Kerbel is a Ryerson University journalism student who enjoys the arts and culture vibe in her hometown, Ottawa.
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House of TARG: punk, perogies and pinball
I drove all around Ottawa picking them up for the studio,” Granger said. “My studio was the first House of TARG before we moved into this venue, and people could just come in and play pinball while we had bands playing.” The new House of TARG, which opened in April, is located at Bank Street and Sunnyside Avenue. It is co-owned by Granger and two other musicians, Mark McHale and Kevin Birger. It continues to house punk shows and now boasts a collection of about 40 pinball and arcade machines. TARG also serves a unique menu of handmade perogies. “I’m half Ukrainian, and every year at Christmas I would make a big batch of perogies and hand them out to my friends,” Granger said. “That’s where the idea to serve perogies came from. We wanted to try something different.” With six types of perogies available, including mushroom, vegan and gluten free, and dessert versions, they proved to be a hit. “The perogy idea really caught on,” said Granger. “It’s funny, before we opened we thought people would be most excited about the live music, but people really seem to be excited about the perogies and pinball.” TARG regular Harlan MacLeod, who works across the street at Taylor’s
Graffiti decorates the underside of the Dunbar Bridge at last year’s House of PainT festival.
House of PainT Festival 2014 The annual House of PainT Festival is a free outdoor hip-hop festival that features the best in Canadian urban arts and culture, showcasing graffiti, breakdancing, DJs and MCs from across Canada. This year’s festival, now in its
venue, including Barenaked Ladies front man Ed Robertson and the Sam Roberts Band. The TARG staff also focus on keeping the venue safe, cheap and family friendly. “We want to stay away from the “scary bar” atmosphere and always try to be respectful. It’s free entry from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. before the shows start so a lot of families come for dinner,” said Granger. “It’s great because kids can keep themselves busy at the pinball machines and parents really appreciate that. “We try to keep the cover cheap too, usually five or 10 dollars, so the music is accessible to everyone.” Mandie Norton, whose band, Criticull, played the venue in July, thinks TARG is a great place for local bands to get noticed. “When my band played here, there was a mix of people here for the pinball, and here for the show. People would just come to play pinball and then they’d discover our band so that was great,” said Norton. In terms of future goals, Granger has a few on his mind, both big and small. “We’re trying to get the band Rush to come play,” said Granger. “We also want to start farming out our perogies to local stores. But the ultimate goal is to raise enough money to buy a submarine. We want to take our perogies, games and music on the submarine and cruise the world. That’s our silly dream.” House of TARG is open Thursday to Sunday between 5 p.m. and 2 a.m.
11th year, will take place from September 4 to 7 in Brewer Park and under the massive, concrete Dunbar Bridge (where Bronson crosses the Rideau River, next to Carleton University.) House of PainT is also a block party and community barbeque that invites you to sit on the grass, listen to good tunes, eat tasty food and watch amazing artists and dancers in action. As a free community event, House of PainT takes hip-hop back to its roots – promoting community consciousness, political awareness and artistic development through art, dance, music and spoken word. The festival offers workshops for local urban artists, concession stands selling art, clothes and crafts by local artists, a kids’ corner, and Ottawa’s own legal graffiti wall showcasing freeform public art (located under the bridge). For details, visit www.houseofpaint. ca.
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A sight singing class unfolds at St. Giles Presbyterian Church
Sight singing at St. Giles by Joachim Moskau
Arboretum Festival relishes local music and food By Liz McKeen
The first thing you should know is the Arboretum Festival is not held at the Experimental Farm’s Arboretum – so don’t go to the Farm expecting anything but lovely trees. But if it’s music and food and art you want, the Arboretum Festival has lots to offer. Launched in 2012, the festival brings us local, new music, as well as local food and progressive art. It has grown from a one-day event to a multi-day music festival and cultural celebration. This year’s festival takes place outdoors from August 18 to 23, once again on the grounds of historic Arts Court, 2 Daly Avenue. An alternative to Ottawa’s traditional festival culture, Arboretum aims to showcase Ottawa’s emerging music and media art, and also takes a keen interest in local gastronomy. For example, on Friday, August 22, chef Steve Mitton of Murray Street will offer roast pork on a spit and barbequed corn on the cob at the Backlot
Barbeque, while chef Marc Doiron of Town will bring fruit cobbler, banana cream s’mores and lemon meringue cupcakes. Other gastronomic goodies will be provided by Gong Fu Bao, Ottawa STREAT Gourmet and The Merry Dairy food trucks. But the big draw is the music. This year’s lineup includes Julie Doiron and the Wooden Stars, the Hilotrons, Fiftymen, PS I Love You, The Yips, Adam Saikaley Trio, Constantines, Kevin Drew of Broken Social Scene and more. An all-week festival pass ($50 plus HST) will give you access to the Arboretum weekend outdoor stage as well as all showcase venues and after parties. Or you can buy a Friday main stage pass for $25 plus HST, which also gets you into the Backlot Barbeque, or a Saturday main stage pass for $30 plus HST. Passes are available online (with fees) at www. ticketweb.ca, or from Vertigo Records (193 Rideau Street), Antique Skate Shop (9 Florence) or Compact Music (785 Bank or 1-206 Bank).
To “face the music” gets a new twist at St Giles Presbyterian Church in the Glebe. Organist and passionate choir master Desmond Hassell has launched a tutorial avalanche to teach all comers, young or old, rich or poor, the surprisingly simple basics of singing a song straight off the printed score. The philosophy is simple – even Mozart, Verdi and Bach began with “do-re-mi.” Classes have been enjoyed since early March, and what started out as eight sessions over eight weeks ended up, by popular demand, as 15 sessions going to the end of June. There was a lot of learning through singing, from Brahms’s lullaby to Bobby Shafto. The main object was to know what note of the major scale you are currently singing, while being able to hear mentally the next note demanded by the printed copy. Lots of other skills were covered, the most difficult being the ability to
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read and perform rhythms. Everybody learned the elements of how to pick out a tune on a keyboard, and how helpful that was in learning a melody. The most important lesson was that progress can be made only in very small steps, that we need to analyze a problem and reduce it to its smallest component parts, which we then tackle one at a time. Mr. Hassell’s teacher in Ireland told him that perfection can only be reached by eliminating errors one by one. The donation-driven effort was in aid of the Centretown Emergency Food Centre, for which we raised about $1,000. The action resumes in September. If you would like to participate, please contact the church office at 613-2352551 or office@stgilesottawa.org.
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The Glebe according to Zeus
glebous & comicus In the land of Glebe
A guinea pig’s perspective on the Glebe
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The perils of e-books! “In this day and age when technology abounds, it is imperative to instill in the young pig a taste and appreciation for real, paper books,” exclaimed Zeus as he visited the Glebe Guinea Pig (GGP) Library on Strathcona. “For that reason, I insist that all the young pigs, and selected squirrels, visit the GGP Library to really sink their teeth into at least one book every summer!” “Personally, I always have at least four or five books on the go at any one time. It’s important to have variety. Some are hard cover, some soft cover – some have the old, thick paper, that’s always a treat. Books are a way to experience stories firsthand – to really chew them over,” exclaimed Zeus with genuine enthusiasm. Indeed, guinea pigs have long been known as voracious consumers of books – summer top sellers include Game of Loans, in which the power structures of the ancient Peruvian pig
bankers are painstakingly traced to explain the popularity of the presentday pigenomic theory that locates the plight of the skinny pigs in their own passivity. On a lighter note, Hay is the New Parsley, a novel based on the real life experience of a guinea pig imprisoned in a U.S. pet store for nearly three months, soared to #1 in just five weeks. “However, e-books are dangerous,” warned Zeus. “The young pigs are attracted to them because chewing on the plastic keeps the teeth fashionably short – but they are highly toxic! For this reason, I started my EatPray-Poop class in the Glebe for the young ones to learn the appreciation of paper books. We take a bite out of each book, and then discuss it.” To join Zeus’ Eat-Pray-Poop Club, please send $5 to Zeus@GiddyPigs. com. Meetings are held ad hoc at the GGP Library.
One of the newly painted bike sharrows on the Bank Street Bridge
By Adelle Farrelly
Ottawa is a very bike-friendly city, and continues to make improvements in that direction all the time. Every subject area comes with its own lingo, of course, and the way officials and enthusiasts alike talk about cycling is no exception. A prominent example from the new City Bikeway proposal is “sharrow.” If this word stumps you, don’t be alarmed. It is a neologism (or “new word”), and a portmanteau at that. A portmanteau is any word formed by squishing two words together, meaning and all. Thus smoke and fog become smog, and shared (lane) and arrow become sharrow. Okay, you say, that is all well and good, but what is a share-lane-arrow/sharrow? As cyclists and motorists increasingly find themselves in each other’s spaces, city planners must update infrastructure to accommodate both, and one simple, cost-effective method is painting bikes with two chevrons over them (think bike-in-a-house, another name for the symbol) to let drivers and cyclists know that cyclists have the right to the full lane. In other words, sharrows are arrows indicating that a full lane must be shared and drivers must not edge cyclists off the road. The word was first used by Oliver Gajda, a planner with the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Authority in lieu of “shared lane pavement markings,” which is, admittedly, a bit cumbersome. His name for the San Francisco-designed stencil stuck around, as did the symbol itself, and both are set to make their mark here in our fine city. Adelle Farrelly, a new mother, brings her delight in new words to readers of the Glebe Report.
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Ottawa International Animation Festival – not just for the kids By Nicola Jane Young
Picture this. It’s mid-September – Snoop Lion’s serenading swagger is a distant memory, Folk Festival crooners have packed up their gear and trimmed their beards. The curtain falls on another summer festival season in our nation’s capital. But is it time to settle back into your old routine? Not quite. Check out the Ottawa International Animation Festival (OIAF), a timely reminder that there’s more to this town than hockey and politics. September 17 marks the kick-off date for the annual five-day festival, bringing together some of the most creative and diverse animation talent from across the globe since its inception in 1976. This year, 110 films are in the running for the coveted Grand Prize, representing 24 countries and a myriad of genres from horror to sexual satire to straight-up comedy. Canada alone boasts 11 short films in the competition. Seth’s Dominion, a documentary by Montreal filmmaker and Concordia professor Luc Chamberland promises to intrigue with its focus on veteran Canadian cartoonist Gregory Gallant, who goes by the pen name of Seth. Gallant’s varied oeuvre includes graphic novels, model buildings, and the illustration and design of a new deluxe edition of Stephen Leacock’s Canadian comic classic, Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town, released to critical acclaim this past fall. Beyond the competition itself, the
Showcase screenings are one of the bigger draws of the Festival, providing a stage particularly generous to the next generation in animation with the always-inspiring Student Showcase. Two local animators will have their work showcased this year: Mike Geiger with On the Subway, featured in the Canadian Showcase, and Dougall Dawson with The Plug, presented during the Canadian Student Showcase. (Fun fact: Dawson is a recent graduate of Algonquin College’s Animation Program which, in case you were wondering, is ranked 16 out of the top 20 animation study programs in the world. That’s right, the world!) So give the OIAF a chance and find out why cartoons aren’t just for kids! That said, there is fun for the whole family with the Short Films for Kids and Series for Kids competitions taking place on Saturday, September 20, with local kids as judges. For a chance to sit on the Kids Jury, children between the ages of eight and 11 are invited to submit a one-page essay about their favourite animation film/ character, a video recording or an animation film using an iPad app. For details on the Kids Jury contest and more information about the Ottawa International Animation Festival, visit www.animationfestival.ca. Nicola Young is a Glebe resident and amateur cinephile, more often than not found trying to rent movies at Glebe Video with her Mayfair membership card and vice versa.
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Meet Louisa Thorne: at age 88, Glebe Collegiate alumna is combatting ageism Louisa Thorne was born and raised in Ottawa and attended Glebe Collegiate. Now, her life story, along with those of several other older adults, has been captured in a unique film project. Louisa is one of 10 residents from the Colonel By retirement community being celebrated through the Revera and Reel Youth “Age is More” film project. This initiative of Revera (a Canadian provider of seniors’ accommodation and services) aims to challenge stereotypes about aging and promote an age-inclusive society. In their efforts to break down age barriers and foster intergenerational friendships, Revera partnered with Reel Youth, a not-for-profit organization that works with youth to make films about important social issues. The group has created a series of short documentary films that explore the lives of seniors in a few Canadian cities. Residents of Colonel By Retirement Residence, located south of the Glebe community across the canal, are the stars of the latest films, which were produced and directed by youth from the area.
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By Jane Brennan
Louisa Thorne, 88-year-old Glebe Collegiate alumna, and young Ottawa filmmaker Aniek Le Moine band together to challenge stereotypes about aging.
Louisa said she easily found mutual interests with the youth. Growing up, she attended school in the Glebe community, where she participated in activities such as volleyball and basketball. In the film, she talks about her thoughts on love, her family and her experience periodically living in Quebec while her husband worked at a pulp and paper mill before she returned to our local community as a nurse at the Ottawa Hospital. Other residents featured include Polly McKeen, who was also born in Ottawa and studied at Ottawa Ladies’ College (now condominium apart-
ments on First Avenue) and the Ottawa School of Art; as well as Nadine Heins, a recipient of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal and a volunteer for over 35 years at the Museum of Civilization. Each of the documentaries is a wonderful story on its own, but when the films are viewed together, it’s clear that the young filmmakers were inspired by the seniors’ stories of lives lived fully and well. According to Revera, age discrimination towards both youth and older people is Canada’s most widely tolerated form of social discrimination. And because many youth do not have the opportunity to interact with older adults and vice versa, it’s likely that the two groups even hold stereotypes about each other! Through this project, the youth and seniors both were able to get a glimpse GMSElemAdGR14.pdf
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of the world through a different lens. You might even say that some stereotypes were broken. To watch the films, visit the Revera and Reel Youth “Age is More” film project at www.ageismore.com. Jane Brennan is the executive director of the Colonel By Retirement Community, which neighbours the Glebe.
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At the flicks with Lois and Paul Tim’s Vermeer A Penn & Teller Film (U.S.A., 2013)
By Lois Siegel
If you are an artist, then you know that Johannes Vermeer was a 17th century Dutch painter. You know about paints and brushes, and you are familiar with his work. But what you may not know is how Vermeer achieved the glowing quality of his images, which resemble photographs. Tim Jenison wants to paint a Vermeer. He chooses “The Music Lesson.” “It seems almost impossible,” he realizes, “because I’m not a painter.” He’s an inventor. He can fix things; he’s a computer graphics guy; he created the Video Toaster; he invented the Electric Moth; and he’s the founder of New Tek in San Antonio, Texas. Tim’s Vermeer is not for everyone. It’s a technical film that will fascinate you if you are into details, if you are an inventor, or if you like to find out how things work. You may not understand everything Tim Jenison explains, but that doesn’t matter. The study engages your attention. We are told that Vermeer’s paintings reveal no sketches underneath. The work seems almost magical, similar to a photograph. Tim believes a camera obscura was used: an optical device that projects an image of its surroundings on a screen. He decides to create his own apparatus using a mirror. This allows him to copy the colours exactly as those Vermeer produced. The projected image can be traced. He only uses paint materials that Vermeer had: he grinds and mixes pigments to make paints. He learns how to make lenses and builds them like those in the 17th century. He learns to read Dutch. The project becomes a way of life as he immerses himself in Vermeer’s world. The story goes abroad. Tim wants to see the original Vermeer paintings in person. He also arranges to meet English artist David Hockney, artist Martin Mull, mathematician Philip Steadman, and British neurobiologist, specialising in vision and the development of the brain Colin Blakemore. He even asks the Queen of England to allow him to see the original “The Music Lesson” by Vermeer that hangs in Buckingham Palace. This is no minor endeavour. The creation of Tim’s Vermeer is seen through a series of dissolves. We watch in amazement as the picture evolves. A tremendous feat is accomplished over a period of 1,825 days. There are times during the process that you sense that Tim would very much like to be finished with this project. But Tim does quit... and his Vermeer now hangs in a bedroom over a fireplace. DVD: Release June 2014. 80 minutes. PG 13. Available from Glebe Video
Hold the Ketchup Directed by Albert Kish (Canada, 1977)
Not everyone smothers their eggs with ketchup. Immigrants coming from Europe or Asia introduce new styles of cooking when they come to Canada. Hold the Ketchup focuses on new Canadians and what they eat. We see families enjoying the food they know. Their traditions are passed on for generations. They are French, Italian, Hungarian, Japanese, Portuguese, Romanian, and many more. “Immigrants can sleep like a Canadian, dress like a Canadian, do things like a Canadian… but we can never eat like a Canadian.” Available Online: The National Film Board of Canada https://www.nfb.ca/film/hold_the_ketchup/
The Immigrant Directed by James Grey (U.S.A., 2014)
By Paul Green
The great waves of immigration to the United States, which occurred in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, form the backdrop to some of the more iconic chapters in American history. The experiences of the huddled masses, fleeing poverty, pogroms, and war, and arriving at the legendary Ellis Island immigration facility outside New York City, have been woven into the fabric of the American Dream as immigrants – or, at any rate, many of them – climbed, rung by rung, the perilous ladder of social mobility to take their place in the great melting pot that was American society. For many of the new arrivals, however, the experience of the American Dream had a decidedly nightmarish quality to it and it is precisely this phenomenon that director and screenwriter James Gray sets out to explore in this cautionary tale. Enter Marion Cotillard, an actor of remarkable depth and versatility, in the role of Ewa Cybulska, a Polish refugee (she is from Silesia) who arrives at Ellis Island in 1921. Accompanying Ewa is her sister Magda, who is promptly diagnosed with tuberculosis and confined to quarantine and possible deportation. Ewa herself faces deportation on the grounds of alleged “low morals” – it seems the immigration authorities already have a file on her shipboard behaviour. In a wonderfully felicitous turn of bureaucratic phrase, she is deemed “liable to be a public charge”. Into this picture steps Bruno, a well-dressed but dubious sort played by Joaquin Phoenix, an actor who seems to excel at playing complicated, unpleasant characters. Bruno represents something called the Travellers Aid Society, but is in fact a fixer, a go-between and a pimp who produces a burlesque show. Bruno is also well connected and knows whom to pay off, not least the immigration authorities who allow him to monitor the new arrivals as he seeks new victims, I mean talent. In short order, Bruno spots Ewa and rescues her from her predicament. Ewa, however, is no fool; although she is vulnerable, she is also smart enough to realize that Bruno is not to be trusted. Still, she is desperate – desperate for herself and for her sister Magda, whom Bruno has promised to help. Ewa must string along with Bruno and at the same time avoid becoming enmeshed in his machinations. It is this clash of wills that sets up much of the film’s dramatic tension. Cinematographer Darius Khondji has filmed The Immigrant in rich tones highly evocative of the early 20th century urban squalor that marked this period in American life. The vaudeville and burlesque scenes are remarkable for their tawdriness and humanity. Also noteworthy are Enrico Caruso singing to the Ellis Island detainees and Jeremy Renner as a vaudeville magician who catches Ewa’s eye. While Marion Cotillard shines in the role of Ewa, whose slightly lurid tale of degradation and guile set against a backdrop of betrayal cannot fail to impress, Joaquin Phoenix’s Bruno is a vivid portrayal of a born hustler whose life seems more tenuous than that of the immigrants he seeks to exploit. At times, he seems more a lost soul than a reprobate and therein may lie Ewa’s salvation. The Immigrant succeeds as a wonderfully unsentimental and edifying portrait of a tumultuous period in American (and North American) history. Running time: 120 minutes. In English and some Polish, with English subtitles.
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by Isabella Mindak
A new restaurant called Segue, phonetically pronounced as seg-way, meaning: to proceed to what follows without pause, opened in the Glebe in June of this year at 749 Bank Street, replacing the Italian Fratelli restaurant. But based on the story behind its birth, the name Serendipity might have been a better fit. A while back, successful restaurant owner and partner at the Fraser Café in Ottawa, Ion Aimers, was visiting his café when he came to know a “star” server who worked there by the name of Lindsay Gordon. In time, Aimers also met Gordon’s life partner, Rich Wilson, a passionate chef, who visited the café to have a meal and see his lady love. Unbeknownst to Aimers, Gordon and Wilson had decided to take a week off to discuss a game plan for starting their own business. During that time, Aimers met with the Valente brothers whose family were owners of the Fratelli restaurant in the Glebe and were anxious to sell. In a coincidental turn of events, Aimers immediately thought of Gordon and Wilson and gave them a call. Suddenly, Gordon and Wilson’s dream of owning a restaurant fell into their laps while they were planning for it. “It was crazy,” said Gordon. “Everything fell into place.” Since then, the three entrepreneurs have partnered to rapidly open the doors of the Segue restaurant, both
figuratively and literally, to the desires of the neighbourhood. “We want to let the guests know that we care about what they want,” said Wilson. “I think it’s important that people know that we’re listening and we will adjust things where possible.” “You really need to listen to your guests,” said Aimers. “They’re not always right, some of the suggestions might not fly, but if for instance they want a certain kind of wine and it’s viable, we’ll carry it.” The current menu often includes ingredients from local producers in the form of seven main dishes, eight appetizers and several desserts. Wilson likes to change some of those items once a week so that regulars can sample different delectable experiences whenever they visit. Wilson, a red seal-approved chef with experience at the reputable Queen Charlotte Lodge in British Columbia and Beckta Dining & Wine restaurant in Ottawa, is a native of Peterborough, Ontario who, while studying political science at university and trying to make ends meet, took a quick turn when he discovered a great love for cooking in restaurants. Coincidentally, his partner, Gordon, also from Peterborough, was studying sociology and communications when she realized, while working to pay bills, a bigger love of serving. Aimers, on the other hand, had started as a dishwasher 40 years earlier, and over time, made his way to restaurant ownership.
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“There’s always something very appealing to me about getting a bunch of people together and having them work as a unit,” said Aimers. Aimers, the more mature partner in the group of three, believes the combination of youthful insight, talent and experience is an advantage for their restaurant and that their common goal of caring for the guests is what will drive their success. Since they had to move into the business quickly, they will close for a short time in January to work on their restaurant’s aesthetic identity. But it’s been decided that they want to offer a relaxed environment where everyone, of any age, in casual to business attire, is welcome and that the service and food is always great. “We want people to think that they can come here as they are, after work, with a couple of friends, a glass of wine and some appetizers,” said Wilson. “We don’t want it to be a place you only come to for your anniversary.” Wilson adds that he’s inspired when
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Sunscreen savvy by Dr. Cheryl Cooper
We’re told that we should wear sunscreen to protect us from the sun’s harmful rays, which may ultimately cause skin cancer. We are also told, however, that 90 per cent of Canadians are vitamin D deficient and the best way for our bodies to get vitamin D is to expose ourselves to the sun without sunscreen. Then, of course, there is the ongoing debate over whether sunscreens, with all of their chemical ingredients, are even safe to be applying continuously to our skin whenever we are in the sun. Which is worse, sun exposure, vitamin D deficiency or slathering ourselves with harmful chemicals? Confused? That’s no surprise. How do we sort through the confusion about the risks of sun exposure, vitamin D deficiency and using chemical sunscreen? As when I address any problems with my patients, let’s take one at a time. Let’s start with what we know. Ultraviolet (UV) radiation from the sun is the number one cause of skin cancer, and UV light from tanning beds is just as harmful. Exposure to sunlight during the winter months puts you at the same risk as exposure during the summertime. Vitamin D is essential for the human body to function properly. It regulates over 200 genes, in cells all over the body – including the brain, heart, kidney, bone, intestine, skin, gonads, prostate, breast, parathyroid gland and immune system. Vitamin D is important for bone health because it regulates calcium and phosphorus levels in the blood. It can suppress the immune system to fight against conditions like rheumatoid arthritis, lupus and multiple sclerosis, and it can activate the immune sys-
tem to fight cancer and infections like tuberculosis, pneumonia, and the flu, and decrease the risk of heart attacks and strokes. Vitamin D helps to prevent diabetes by modifying the release of, and response to, insulin. In order to get enough vitamin D to ensure that there isn’t a deficiency, take a supplement vitamin D3 every day or spend 10 to 15 minutes in the sun with as much skin exposed as possible. For those with highly sensitive skin or who don’t get out much into the sun, a vitamin D supplement is essential, especially in the winter. A simple blood test can tell you what your levels are. If you are low, you should be retested until your levels are in the recommended range. We know that sunscreen can protect us from getting burned and ultimately from skin cancer, but while we’re so busy not getting burned, we’re slathering our skin with known toxins like benzophenones, PABA and PABA
esters, cinnamates, and parabens to name a few. (Go to http://www.skinbiology.com/toxicsunscreens.html for more detailed information on the toxins in sunscreen.) As a porous organ system, we know that everything we put on our skin is absorbed to some degree into our skin and then our bodies. There is evidence that many of the chemicals in sunscreen produce free radicals in the body, which, in turn, can lead to an assortment of illnesses including cancer. Here are some guidelines for gaining the benefits from the sun without increasing your risk of skin problems: • Always protect your face from the sun. Wear a hat or put sunscreen of at least SPF 15 on your face. It has fragile skin and is susceptible to sun damage of all kinds. Nothing will age your face faster than having it exposed to the sun. So cover up to keep your face safe and young. • During the day, expose your arms
or legs to the sun during a walk or any time you are outside for about 10 to 15 minutes. This short amount of time is enough to get your daily dose of vitamin D. If you can’t spend this time every day or in the winter months, you should be taking a supplement of Vitamin D3. • For any amount of time greater than 15 minutes, cover your skin up with clothing or non-toxic sunscreen of at least SPF 15. Even if there is a light haze in the sky, cover up – the sun’s rays can penetrate through and cause damage. • Protect your eyes by wearing good quality sunglasses and a hat! The ultraviolet rays of the sun can damage your eyes as well. Never allow your skin to get burned! Dr. Cheryl Cooper is a Glebe doctor of naturopathic medicine and president of Vitallife Integrative Medicine.
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Glebe Physiotherapy and Sports Injury Clinic has expanded By Don Grant
For over 20 years, Glebe Physiotherapy and Sports Injury Clinic at Fifth Avenue Court has treated clients ranging from youth to elite athletes to seniors. With only 730 square feet, service was limited to one physiotherapist at a time with minimal room for exercise therapy. On May 1, after extensive renovations, Glebe Physiotherapy opened in the space previously occupied by UPS next door, thereby doubling its square footage. “The new space will allow us to treat more clients, especially during busy hours. We will have the room to have two physiotherapists working at the same time. This will help us to meet demand for services which have increased fairly steadily over the last few years,” said Marjolein Groenevelt, PT and long-time Glebe resident. “We will have a quiet treatment room which is needed for some clients, such as those with headaches, concussions and vestibular treatments. In addition, the larger gym space will be an important part of the expanded services.” The expanded space will allow for more balance work, including gait education and exercises. Balance work is important for clients with an ankle sprain or a need for concussion or
post-operative rehabilitation, and for seniors working on fall prevention. The clinic now has a treadmill for walking, an excellent warm-up before beginning treatments like spinal or arm therapy. For runners, the treadmill will allow for running assessments. The physiotherapists at the clinic carefully sift through running research, and watch most runners run in different footwear. “Our other important focus is on providing services to an aging population. We are seeing people in their 50s, 60s and 70s who might need exercises such as those in BoneFit, which are safe for low bone-density conditions like osteoporosis or to treat spinal conditions such as postural changes, pinched nerves or spinal compression fractures.” Overall the new space offers a better flow and work environment. One thing that hasn’t changed, however, is the presence of Bhat Boy’s charming Glebe-scape that greets you when you come in, a reminder of how our neighbourhood evolves while retaining its unique character. Don Grant is executive director of Ottawa Centre EcoDistrict Inc., which envisions a smarter downtown core for Ottawa.
Flashing lights and floaters By Dr. Jay Mithani
Visual disturbances such as flashing lights, floaters, and/or veil-like movements in one’s vision can indicate potentially sight-threatening ocular conditions. While these symptoms may not always require immediate surgical or therapeutic intervention, their onset would warrant a visit to an ocular health professional for proper management. Often, time is of the essence and immediate ocular health evaluation is the first step to preserving vision. This article highlights three major causes of visual disturbances: vitreous syneresis, posterior vitreous detachment and retinal tear/ hole/detachment. The “jelly-sac”, which comprises the centre of our eyes, is called the vitreous humour, and it is responsible for the vast majority of floaters in patients. The vitreous is primarily made of water, some salts, and collagen fibres. The main function of the vitreous is to remain clear and occupy the space between the crystalline lens and the neurosensory retina. Vitreous Syneresis
Over time the vitreous humour, or vitreous, undergoes changes in property: it liquefies from its initial gel-like state. The liquefying, or syneresis, is due to collagen fibres in the vitreous clumping together – it is these clumps of fibres that result in the most common cause of benign floaters. When light hits a collagen fibre on its way to the retina, it casts a shadow on the retina; these fibres can take on various shapes, sizes and shades, though they are commonly gray to translucent spots or linear strands that move around with one’s eyes. Eventually, syneresis can cause vitreous humour contractions, and a further source of visual disturbance (Cleveland Clinic, 2014). Posterior Vitreous Detachment
A posterior vitreous detachment (PVD) happens when the vitreous humour separates itself from the retina potentially resulting in flashing lights and floaters. As syneresis liquefies the vitreous humour, it can lead to shrinkage, contraction, and its eventual collapse from the retina. As the vitreous humour releases itself from the retina, it can tug or create traction of the retina resulting in photopsia or flashing lights. Blood vessels can also be severed by traction from the vitreous humour resulting in many small floaters from blood released by the vessels. A very large ring-like floater,
known as a Weiss Ring floater, can also result from a PVD. Sometimes, the retina itself can tear or detach as the posterior vitreous comes off the retina (RNIB, 2014). Retinal Break
A retinal break can result from a PVD, and cause a shower of floaters, flashing lights, and a veil-like movement in vision. A retinal break is an actual tear or hole in the retina. The retina contains many blood vessels that may be severed, resulting in the release of blood cells, which appear as hundreds of small floaters. Furthermore, a retinal tear or hole can cause the retina to detach itself completely from the back of the eye – this results in a veil-like movement of vision. After it has detached, the retina is in an oxygen-deprived state and it is essential that immediate effort is made to have the retina surgically reattached. It is imperative that patients take action and seek medical attention to help prevent a retinal break from advancing to a retinal detachment (Gerstenblith & Rabinowitz, 2013). In the event you experience a subtle visual disturbance, look to your optometrist to follow-through with appropriate medical care. Upon diagnosis of a specific ocular disorder, you may be followed up in-office by your optometrist, or referred to an ophthalmologist for either a second opinion or surgical intervention. In the event you are unable to see an optometrist immediately, it is highly encouraged you seek emergency medical care from any physician for appropriate evaluation and follow-up. Sleeping off a visual disturbance is discouraged as it can result in permanent vision loss. Your sight is precious so do not take any unusual changes for granted! Dr. Jay Mithani is an independently practicing optometrist and Glebe resident. References
Cleveland Clinic. (2014). Posterior Vitreous Detachment. Retrieved from Cole Eye Institute: http:// my.clevelandclinic.org/cole-eye/ diseases-conditions/hic-posterior-vitreous-detachment.aspx Gerstenblith, A. T., & Rabinowitz, M. P. (2013). The Wills Eye Manual. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. RNIB. (2014, January). Posterior vitreous detachment. Retrieved from Eye health: http://www.rnib.org.uk/ eye-health-eye-conditions-z-eye-conditions/posterior-vitreous-detachment
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by Zenah Surani
Have you ever taken a look at the extensive selection of probiotics at your local pharmacy and wondered where to start? You’re not alone. As a pharmacist, I get several questions about probiotics daily. Let’s get to the gut of the matter – with probiotics. The human body is home to hundreds of different micro-organisms such as bacteria, fungi and protozoa. This mix of micro-organisms is known as the body’s “normal flora”. In the digestive tract, for example, the normal flora are helpful and aid in digestion, absorption of nutrients and the elimination of wastes, and protect against the invasion of disease-causing bacteria. Just as no two people are exactly the same, normal flora differ from person to person – the individual mix depends on many different factors such as age, ethnic background, diet and others that are yet unknown. Normal flora themselves do not cause disease, but an imbalance or breakdown of normal flora may result in disease. This disruption can occur when one takes a course of antibiotics, or when disease-causing bacteria enter the system (which can occur when travelling). Commercially available probiotic products usually consist of bacterial strains that are commonly found in the normal flora of the gut and urogenital system. Probiotics can compete with “bad” bacteria for space in the intestine – they can latch onto the walls of the intestine and block them from finding a spot to grow. Some strains of probiotics can produce antibacterial substances that make it hard for bad bacteria to grow. WHEN Are Probiotics Beneficial?
Current research shows a benefit to taking probiotics for gastrointestinal issues such as antibiotic-associated diarrhea (AAD), traveller’s diarrhea, and irritable bowel disease. There is also moderate evidence that probiotics may be beneficial in the prevention of recurrent yeast infections, atopic eczema, colic in babies and even respiratory infections. A course of antibiotics for sinus or tooth infection, for example, can
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kill off much of the normal flora in the human digestive tract. Without the protection of normal flora, the environment in the intestines becomes more appealing for “bad” bacteria. This could result in diarrhea. AAD is defined as three or more loose bowel movements for two or more days within 14 days of starting antibiotic therapy. About 30 per cent of patients on antibiotic therapy will experience AAD. However, research shows that adults and children who take a probiotic when also taking antibiotics have almost a 50 per cent reduced risk of diarrhea. The best results were seen with a specific strain of Lactobacillus rhamnosus; however, there is beneficial evidence for the bifidobacteria and saccharomyces boulardii probiotic species as well. Bacteria, viruses and parasites can bring on traveller’s diarrhea. It is defined as three or more loose bowel movements in 24 hours when travelling, and blood in the stool and fever are often experienced concurrently. It is estimated that it affects 10 million people annually. Studies have shown that S. boulardii and a probiotic combination of Lactobacillus acidophilus and Bifidobacterium bifidum were effective in both preventing the onset and decreasing the severity of traveller’s diarrhea. Patients with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) often experience alternating bouts of diarrhea and constipation, and suffer from bloating, gas and abdominal pain. Evidence for the patented probiotic products Align (containing B. infantis) and VSL#3 (a combination of probiotics) is promising, indicating possible improved symptoms within weeks of starting supplementation. Unlike medications and most vitamins, the strength of probiotics is not measured in milligrams (mg). Since probiotics consist of live cultures, the unit of measure is CFUs, or colony forming units. It is not uncommon to see products with millions or billions of CFUs, as the human gut contains trillions of bacterial cells. Pay close attention to how the probiotic needs to be stored. Some probiotics require refrigeration to maintain the labelled CFU count. Others are formulated
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Getting to the gut of the matter
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with freeze-dried organisms to keep them stable at room temperature. Does all Yogourt contain probiotics?
When people think of probiotics, they often think of yogourt. However, many dairy products, including some yogourts, have been processed under conditions that kill beneficial probiotic cultures. It is important to read the label when purchasing yogourt – the words “made with active cultures” are not enough. The words “contains live cultures” or “contains live bacteria” should be written on the labels – these are the ones that contain beneficial probiotics. Are Probiotics Safe?
The safety profile is very good for probiotics, with few reports of adverse side effects when taken by healthy adults. However, individuals taking immunosuppressant medications and certain blood thinners should use caution when taking probiotics. When taken to prevent antibiotic associated diarrhea, the probiotic should be taken either two hours before or after taking the antibiotic dose. Also, avoid antifungal medications when taking the probiotic S. boulardii. Individuals with allergies or sensitivities should consult their pharmacist before choos-
ing a probiotic product. Probiotics have become more mainstream of late and it’s not uncommon for a physician to prescribe probiotics along with a course of antibiotics. However, with so many different brands and strains of probiotics out there, it’s important to stay informed – ask your pharmacist about the best choice for you. Zenah Surani is a pharmacist and the new owner of the Glebe Apothecary. References
Canadian Pharmacist’s Letter. Probiotics Self Study Course #130103 PowerPak CE. “Probiotic Use is Expanding in GI disease management. Are you up to date?” http://www. powerpak.com/course/content/110216 “The Role of probiotics in children with gastrointestinal disease.” USPharmacist. http://www.uspharmacist.com/content/d/feature/c/48142/ “Probiotics supplementation: what Pharmacists need to know to recommend safe and effective formulations” https://www.pharmqd.com/ node/96681/lesson “Probiotics: The Inside Story” The National Centre for Competency Testing. https://www.ncctinc. com/documents/Probiotics%20-%20 The%20Inside%20Story.pdf
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New programs at Glebe Montessori School We are excited to announce the opening of two new programs in September at Glebe Montessori School (GMS). In addition to our Montessori preschool (ages 3 to 6) and elementary (Grades 1 to 6) classes, GMS will open its doors to toddlers 18 to 36 months. It is never too early to start learning, and our toddler fullday program provides children with the best introduction to a Montessori education. We are responding to community requests and are happy to accommodate the siblings of our present students! In September, GMS will also offer an innovative program, Montessori Mediated Learning, designed for children who are advanced learners with specific needs and who require mediated learning with low teacherto-student ratios. This program integrates the pedagogy and psychology of Dr. Maria Montessori and Dr. Reuven Feuerstein, two doctors renowned for their groundbreaking theories and contributions in the field
of child psychology and education. Dr. Feuerstein’s belief that “everyone – regardless of age, etiology or disability – has the immeasurable ability to enhance their learning aptitude and heighten their intelligence” reflects the essence of Dr. Montessori’s educational philosophy. Using cognitive interventions based on brain-based learning, Montessori Mediated Learning incorporates Dr. Feuerstein’s Instrumental Enrichment into Montessori pedagogy to enhance children’s cognitive function for academic learning and achievement. Dr. Feuerstein’s Instrumental Enrichment “helps students learn how to learn” and provides them with the concepts, skills, strategies, operations and techniques necessary to function as successful, independent learners. For more information on GMS’s Montessori Mediated Learning, we invite you to arrange a meeting with the founding director, Dijana Bate. PHOTO: ALIX DOSTAL
by Yvonne Thijsen
Yvonne Thijsen is the Glebe Montessori School secretary and has worked at the school for many years. Glebe Parents’ Daycare nurtures children’s growth in many ways. The daycare centre will be expanding its programs in area schools this September.
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Big changes are afoot for the Glebe Parents’ Daycare, which has played an important and much-valued role in the care of many of the children in our community over the years. Glebe Parents’ Daycare is pleased to announce that beginning in September 2014, the daycare family is expanding with new preschool programs in First Avenue and Hopewell schools and a new toddler program beginning shortly after at the main centre on Fifth Avenue. Glebe Parents will also be providing the Extended Day Program in First Avenue, Mutchmor and Hopewell. “We are so excited about the opportunity to welcome so many new children to our programs,” says Laura Robertson, a preschool teacher at the main centre for the past 25 years. “We are very proud of the programs at our daycare and the wonderful cooperative atmosphere between parents and teachers that we work hard to foster. We believe that cooperation and communication between parents and teachers are key in supporting children’s learning and development.” The various new programs will mean more parents and children in the community have the chance to benefit from the rich and nurturing programs already offered by the daycare. “One of the things I appreciate most about the daycare is the close collaboration between teachers and the parents,” says Christina Amos, a Glebe resident and parent of a child in the First
Avenue program. “I am thrilled that even more children in our community will benefit from this wonderful care environment.” The expertise and cooperative attitude of each of Glebe Parents’ Daycare teachers, the low rates of turnover among those teachers, and the clean, safe and beautiful environments offered by all of the daycare family’s facilities helps parents to rest assured that their children are in very good hands. As parents with children in daycare know, having that confidence can help to make each day easier. Glebe Parents’ Daycare is a non-profit daycare with locations in the Glebe and Old Ottawa South, in addition to family home childcare. Established in the Glebe in 1972, the Glebe Parents’ Daycare family provides care from infant up to school age, including care for kindergarten and school age children at First Avenue and Mutchmor schools in the Glebe, and Hopewell in Old Ottawa South. There are daycare spaces at Glebe Parents’ Daycare available from September 2014. If interested, please contact Karen Robinson at gpdc_ pc@bellnet.ca first please, then 613-233-9268, x. 130 or visit www. glebeparentsdaycare.ca for more information. Alix Dostal is a Glebe resident and happy parent of a child who has attended a number of the programs offered by the Glebe Parents’ Daycare. Amy Westland is also a happy parent of a child who is enjoying the kindergarten program there.
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Existential bears and boats poignant and hilarious by Ildiko Sumegi
A bear, some may say, is the perfect companion: soft and warm on the outside but harbouring a latent ferocity – someone to guard you through the darkest night. If you find yourself adrift in a little rowboat on the seas of life, you will be lucky indeed to find that you are not alone in that boat, and luckier still to find that your companion is a talking bear! Here are a few children’s books for various ages, each featuring a bear, a boat and a hint of existentialism. U.K. author Dave Shelton has recently won the British Branford Boase Award for his thoroughly unconventional debut children’s novel A Boy and a Bear in a Boat (David Fickling Books, 2012). Mr. Shelton’s title really does say it all. There is a boy. He climbs aboard a little rowboat and asks the captain of the boat – the bear – to take him across the water. The trip should not take very long, but time slides by, day turns to night, and the bear continues to row the boat at a steady contented pace through a succession of days. Most of this book, like life, is taken up with incidentals – sandwicheating, boredom, bickering, rowing – and yet somehow the reader finds it necessary to keep the pages turning. Over the course of the book, we witness the development of a relationship between boy and bear that is alternately poignant and hilarious. The boy is bored. The journey is taking too long. They are running out of food. The bear, however, appears unconcerned, chalking up the ridiculous delay in their arrival to “unforeseeable anomalies in the currents”. At
one point he suggests that the boy take advantage of the “complimentary onboard entertainment”, which turns out to be a game of I Spy. The boy is less than thrilled: there is not much to spy except blue sea and blue sky. And because nothing much is happening, when something does happen, even if it is a small thing, we all sit up and take notice: a cloud, the moon at night, a plan to catch fish, a tiny speck of rock on a map covered entirely in blue water, the scent of danger (“or is that marmalade?”). It’s not that nothing big ever happens. There is a storm, a strange ship in the mist, and a frightening encounter with a sea monster, but these things by themselves are not what the story is about. It is about life and friendship and maintaining hope in the face of an uncertain future. This may sound a bit heavy for ages eight to 12, but Dave Shelton manages to pull it off with humour and a light touch. If you are looking for something to read to a younger crowd, why not stick with the theme of bears and boats? The Abandoned Lighthouse (Roaring Brook Press, 2011) by Albert Lamb and illustrated by David McPhail is a nice read for ages four to seven. A little rowboat is the means by which a bear meets a boy and his dog, quite by chance, at an abandoned lighthouse atop a rocky island. The new friends work together to save a ship from dashing itself upon the rocks. In the end, our protagonists drift back to the mainland in the little rowboat before going their separate ways. This book works as a simple story, but it leaves you with the sense that you have read something more – a tale that points
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to those small, inexplicable chance encounters that can change the course of large events. For preschoolers (ages three to five) Eve Bunting’s Little Bear’s Little Boat (Clarion Books, 2003) illustrated by Nancy Carpenter highlights the changing nature of a small child’s existence. When Little Bear outgrows his little orange boat, he goes in search of someone else who might be made happy with the gift of a handme-down boat. My focus group (it’s only fair to point out that it consists of exactly one four-year-old) absolutely loved this book. The idea that Little Bear had a destiny (“to grow and grow”) that was different from that of the boat (“to stay the same size”) really hit home. All three of these books are available at the Ottawa Public Library, so pop over, pick up a book, and let a bear guide you through some existential waters. Ildiko Sumegi is a Glebe resident, mother of two boys, and owner of a well-used library card.
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WHAT YOUR NEIGHBOURS ARE READING Here is a list of some titles read and discussed recently in various local book clubs: TITLE (for adults) Lives of Girls and Women The Orenda
AUTHOR Alice Munro
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Joseph Boyden
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Let’s Just Say It Wasn’t Pretty 3
Diane Keaton
Mrs. Poe
Lynn Cullen
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Candy: A Century of Panic and Pleasure 5 A Delicate Truth
Samira Kawash John Le Carré
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The Lullaby of Polish Girls 7
Dagmara Dominczyk
The Summer of the Big Bachi 8
Naomi Hirahara
The Sense of an Ending 9
Julian Barnes Katherine Boo
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers
TITLE (for children and teens)
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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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by Christine Burbridge
Labyrinths are a wonderful tool for prayer and meditation, helping to keep the user focused on contemplation. They appeared in ancient Greece, but perhaps one of the most famous labyrinths is the one in Chartres Cathedral in France, dating from 1201, where it is thought to have represented a Christian’s pilgrimage to Jerusalem. At Glebe-St. James United Church, we created a portable labyrinth two years ago. The complex design was drawn and painted on Tyvek (plastic material used to wrap houses). In recent months we have offered dropin sessions for our neighbours to walk the labyrinth. We were encouraged by the interest shown and decided to make it a permanent fixture. Having done the research, consultations and paint testing, we began construction on July 6. A string was fixed to the centre point on the floor and 12 concentric circles drawn to create the skeleton of the labyrinth. The largest circle is 32 feet in diameter. The next step was to add the turns (labryses), ensuring that there is one continuous path from the entrance of the labyrinth to the centre. (We wanted a labyrinth after all and not a maze where you could get lost!) After the design was verified, we applied masking tape to ensure that
the edges of our painted lines were well defined. Ten rolls of masking tape later, we were ready to start painting. A primer was applied and then two colour coats. It was really satisfying to peel back the masking tape and see the clean lines of the design. After a final cleanup of stray pencil lines, the design was sealed with a finish coat. When the paint cured, our custodian applied a floor sealer over the whole floor. Fraser Hall is fairly modern looking, so we opted for a contemporary design with 11 circuits based on the medieval labyrinth at Chartres, without the lunations (curlicues) around the outside and petals in the central circle. The same teal-coloured paint also appears on the trim in the room, so there is a real sense of the labyrinth fitting in and being a part of the original design of the room. Beginning in September, the red doors at 650 Lyon Street will be open from 3 to 5 p.m. on the first Sunday of each month for you to experience the serenity of the labyrinth yourself. Watch for the reminder on our sandwich board sign at the corner of First and Lyon. Come and find the quiet centre.
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A labyrinth is born!
Glebe-St. James church members keep between the lines as they paint a labyrinth onto the floor of Fraser Hall.
Christine Burbridge is a member of Glebe-St. James United Church and, with Judy Wolanski, facilitates the church’s labyrinth. Tada! The new, contemporary-design labyrinth at Glebe-St. James church. Drop in on the first Sunday of the month to walk it.
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Glebe Art in our Gardens and Studio Tour
Art lovers gathered under an arbour of fiery trumpet flowers in artist Maureen O’Neill’s backyard.
PHOTO: lorrie loewen
PHOTO: julie houle cezer
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France-Marie Trépannier’s abstract art attracted admiring glances.
The New Art Festival
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ABBOTSFORD AT THE GLEBE CENTRE – VOLUNTEER DRIVERS NEEDED Drive seniors to medical appointments in your own vehicle. Mileage is reimbursed. Volunteer hours are flexible and according to your schedule. Call Lonelle at 613-238-2727 ext. 353 for more information. ABBOTSFORD AT THE GLEBE CENTRE – VOLUNTEERS NEEDED to escort seniors on our van coming to Abbotsford. Assist with lunch and social program for these seniors. Volunteer also needed to serve lunch from our servery to members at Abbotsford. Call lonelle at 613-238-2727 ext. 353 for more information. ABBOTSFORD AT THE GLEBE CENTRE – VOLUNTEERS NEEDED TO REACH OUT TO ISOLATED SENIORS in the community. Are you interested in regular visits with seniors in their homes? How about making a daily phone call to isolated seniors? If so we can use your talents. Call Lonelle at 613-238-2727 ext. 353 for more information. BOXED WINE THEATRE PRESENTS: ESSAY & MEXICO CITY by Hannah Moscovitch, Fri., Aug. 22, 8 p.m., Sat., Aug. 23, 8 p.m., Sun., Aug. 24, 8 p.m. The Avalon Studio, 738 Bank St. Ticket sales at the door will commence at 6:30 p.m. and seating at 7:30 p.m. each night. Seating will be first come first serve. Any tickets sold at the door must be paid for in cash; to reserve tickets and pay at the door, email boxedwinetheatre@gmail. com. Tickets: $15 for Adults; $10. for students. Student tickets must be purchased at the door. ENCORE FASHIONS - Consignment Quality Almost New Apparel, 109A Fourth Ave. at Bank St. Open Wed. 10-2, Thurs. 4-6:30, Sat. 10-1. Reopens: Wed., Sept. 10. Look for us in our new downstairs location!
EXCAVATION OF A PRE-CONTACT ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE AT VINCENT MASSEY PARK. You are invited to participate in archaeological excavations aimed at gaining a better understanding of the pre-contact occupation of this site some 4,000 years ago. The activity will be directed by an NCC archaeologist. Sat., Aug.. 23, 9 a.m. 5 p.m. and Sun., Aug. 24, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Info: www.ncc-ccn.gc.ca/property-management/what-we-manage/ calendar-events/excavation-of-a-precontact-archaeological-site or Ian Badgley, archaeologist, NCC (613239-5678, ext. 5751). FISH FRY DINNER and Silent Auction at St. Thomas the Apostle Anglican Church, 2345 Alta Vista Dr. (by Fire Hall), Fri., Sept. 26. 5 p.m. - 7 p.m. Also take out. $15 for adults and $8 for children. Advance tickets available at Church office (613-733-0336) weekday mornings. MASTER GARDENER LECTURE – Sept. 9, 7 - 9 p.m. Spring Bulbs: an essential for every garden with Mary Ann Van Berlo, $12 member, $15 nonmember, Bldg 72 CEF Arboretum east of Prince of Wales roundabout. Info: friendsofthefarm.ca/events. htm#lectures or 613-230-3276. NEW OTTAWA DOLL SHOW - Come to the New Ottawa Doll Show and Sale on Oct. 25, at the Ernst and Young Centre, 4899 Uplands Dr., 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. Featuring dolls, toys, teddy bears and miniatures. Admission: a cash donation to the Ottawa Food Bank (minimum $2 please).
OTTAWA BRAHMS CHOIR welcomes new director Christopher Askwith. Rehearsals for new season start Mon,
Sept. 8, 7 - 9:30 p.m., Southminster United Church at Aylmer/Bank St. We welcome new and old members. Come and join us! Info: www.OttawaBrahmsChoir.ca or 613-749-2391.
SAMSONITE HARDSIDED BRIEFCASE: $12. – LEATHER BRIEFCASE WITH SHOULDER STRAP: $10. Both are in good condition. Call: 613-5940139.
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NEW SIMMONS LOVE SEAT AND MATCHING CHAIR, both for $200. New set was over $900. Love seat is L 60” x D 33” x H 25” and matching chair L 32” x D 33” x H 25”. Colour: dark orangey/rust; has been in smoke free very clean adult home. Reason for selling is that I now need a large queen sofa bed instead. Set is great for small apt. and ideal for student mainly because of the price. Please call 613-232-2225.
STUDIO SIXTY SIX PRESENTS A YEAR IN REFLECTION, a selection of art works from our 1st year of emerging artist’s exhibitions, plus the work of a few new artists we will be featuring in 2015. This summer exhibition will end Sept. 1. Contact: 613-3550359, info@studiosixtysix.ca or visit www.studiosixtysix.ca – the studio is situated at 66 Muriel St.
LOST On July 2, between 6 & 6:30 p. m, I lost a ROYAL BANK ENVELOPE WITH $800 (8-$100 BILLS) CASH INSIDE on Bank St. in the Glebe. I took out the cash from the Royal Bank (1st Ave) and walked to the Papery (5th Ave) where I think I may have lost it. The cash was for something very special so I am understandably upset about losing the money. I would greatly appreciate the return of the money. If you had found it, email dsimmy0077@ yahoo.com … I am offering a reward for its return.
WANTED STUDIO SIXTY SIX WILL PRESENT THE NEW PHOTOGRAPHERS SHOW, Sept. 4 - Oct. 9 with the opening event on Thurs., Sept. 4, 6 p. m. - 10 p.m. Contact: 613-355-0359, info@ studiosixtysix.ca or visit www.studiosixtysix.ca – the studio is situated at 66 Muriel St.
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