Glebe Report June 2015

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June 12, 2015

Runners in the Tamarack Ottawa Race surge past the Lansdowne stadium.

Race Weekend in the Glebe The Tamarack Ottawa Race Weekend thundered through the Glebe on May 23 and 24, the same weekend as the Great Glebe Garage Sale. More than 49,400 runners participated in one of six races: the Kids’ Marathon; the 2K; the 5K; the 10K; the Half Marathon; and the grueling 42.2-kilometre Marathon. Most popular was the Half Marathon at 14,288 participants. Next was the 10K race at 13,227 runners. A highlight of the weekend was Kenyan Gladys Cherono’s

record-breaking run of 30:56 in Saturday’s 10K race, 25 seconds faster than the previous record.

The International Association of Athletics Federation has designated the Ottawa 10K as one of only four “Gold label” 10K races in the world, and the Ottawa Marathon has been given a Silver label.

Next year’s Ottawa Race Weekend will happen the weekend of May 28 and 29, 2016.

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WHAT’S INSIDE

June 17...............Capital Ward Seniors’ Lunch ................................ Colonel By Residence, 11:00 a.m.

June 20–21..........The New Art Festival ................................ Central Park (Bank & Clemow), 10 a.m–5 p.m.

June 20–21..........Books for Blooms Book Sale ................................ Central Experimental Farm, 10 a.m–4 p.m.

June 23...............GCA Meeting, GCC, 7 p.m.

June 25...............Strawberry Social BBQ Lunch ................................ Abbotsford House, Noon July 4–5..............Glebe Art in Our Gardens Tour, 10 a.m.–4 p.m.

July 9–Sept. 27.....Beyond the Edge: Artists’ Gardens ................................ Land Art Exhibit, Central Experimental Farm July 24–25...........Torchlight Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors ................................ Central Park, 7 p.m.

July 26................Victorian Tea, Central Experimental Farm, 2–4 p.m.

Abbotsford . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

GNAG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Art . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30–32

Health . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39–40

Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7, 20–21

History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Business . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18–19

Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Councillor’s Report . . . . . . . . . 35

Memoir . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22–23

Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

MPP’s Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Film . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26–28

GACA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–5

GCA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Schools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42–43

GGGS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24–25

Travel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44–45

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By Pat Goyeche

The Glebe Centre’s community programs at Abbotsford has had a makeover! It began with the generosity of members, volunteers and families who contributed to the Caring Tree over the holiday season. The Members’ Council helped to create this fundraiser that made possible the purchase of brand new shuffleboard and air hockey tables as well as the re-felting of our snooker/pool table.

Now both the general membership and clients of the Day Away Program have new and fun ways to participate in recreation.

The games room looked inviting for members and clients with the new game boards and upgraded felt on the pool table, but that made the worn out carpet look even worse. The old carpet had seen better days – many boots and shoes. A fair amount of duct tape held it together. So we got to work. We replaced the carpeting in the common areas of the second floor and now the games room looks great!

One good thing led to another when we were selected to receive federal funding through the New Horizons for Seniors Program 2014. This program provides funding to organizations such as ours that help seniors realize their wish to engage with their communities through active living and social activities.

The New Horizons funding allowed us to purchase new refrigerators in the community kitchen as well as new appliances (dishwasher, stove and refrigerator) in the Day Away kitchen, which serves clients in the early stages of Alzheimer’s Disease or dementia. We are now able to replace the activity/lunch tables as well as new countertops and cupboards in the Day Away kitchen. Although the 1980s are remembered fondly by many, this year

it was time for a much needed and appreciated makeover and revamp!

The Government of Canada’s New Horizons for Seniors Program made this a reality.

Over the years The Glebe Centre’s community programs at Abbotsford have managed to obtain grants and extra monies through federal and provincial programs targeting the improvement of services and facilities for seniors in our community. We are very appreciative of these programs and for the tenacious staff and volunteers who work to improve the facility.

The Glebe Centre Inc. fosters a “we can do it” attitude and actively works to ensure that the needs of community programs are met.

Come and see for yourself the many enhancements at Abbotsford and know that we are working hard to find the monies to complete some major projects that to date have not been completed, such as new windows for our heritage home, much needed floor replacement on the main level and refurbishing of the front porch.

At first glance you would be forgiven for thinking that many of the needs of Abbotsford have been or are being met, but this fresh face hides a hidden financial reality. The community programs housed at Abbotsford are not fully funded. We have several funders contributing to the Outreach Services, Day Program, Luncheon Program and Membership Programs but we must raise funds so that we can keep our doors open and offer remarkable programs and necessary services. Next time you check the “Abbotsford Community Programs” box on your donation card from The Glebe Centre, please know that you are helping to keep the programs you know and love in operation. If you would like more information about donating to Abbotsford please call

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We continue to offer innovative programs and a pleasant space to enjoy the company of friends. We will continue to implement facility improvements as funding allows – we all enjoy the fruits of our labour with the help of the generosity of funders and all those individuals who give both time and money to help ensure the continuity of our programs. We thank you for your continued support and we really hope you fully enjoy our makeover.

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By Selena Beattie

On a day like any other in 1988, 18-year-old Peter Dillon was in Yaghi’s convenience store on Fifth Avenue when the owner’s daughter told him that her brother had just gotten an audition for a new television series to be filmed in Ottawa. “I ran home,” says Dillon, “called the station, and talked my way into an interview.

The next call was to OC Transpo to figure out how to get to Merivale Road.” He didn’t know it at the time, but that successful audition would land him the part in the teenage soap opera Denim Blues, and launch a successful career acting in film and television. It is a career that would take him much farther afield than this Ottawa neighbourhood, which he called home until the age of 22. Now, Dillon has come full circle and is back in the Glebe, teaching other Ottawa actors how to work successfully in front of the camera at The Acting Company.

In the interim, he has had a varied range of experiences. “I think I have 65 credits,” he says, “everything from small parts in big films like The Bone Collector, to big parts in small films, like a movie that I shot in Ottawa here last year called Corrupt, that is going to be released soon … and then last year I played the vice-president of the United States in a TV series!”

Pursuing an acting career hasn’t always been easy. After Denim Blues, there were few opportunities in Ottawa for professional screen gigs.

“Everyone was saying that Vancouver was where it was at, that’s where

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you’ve got to be … so I packed up and moved from the Glebe to Vancouver,” says Dillon. “I quickly realized how expensive the world was!” It was a far cry from hanging out at the Glebe Community Centre. Like so many other actors, Dillon took whatever jobs came, including an episode of Secret Lives, a fictionalized “confessional” show, in the style of Dr. Phil.

He was so convincing as a trucker with a problem using prostitutes that friends of his brother back home in Ottawa began telling the family they were really concerned! But the acting work in Vancouver wasn’t as steady as he had hoped, so Dillon moved back east to Ottawa, signing with an agent in Montreal where a lot of filming is done. To support his career, Dillon also has a murder mystery dinner theatre production company.

More recently, he finds himself dividing his time between Toronto and Ottawa, and travelling for roles whenever necessary.

The life of an actor means being available to work when and where the work is. “Last year, I had 50 days on set, which is fantastic for an actor to work 50 days in a calendar year … but you’ve got to hustle for that.” Some of that time was in Montreal, some in Toronto, some in Ottawa. “That’s the kind of lifestyle you have to have,” he says. “You have to be driven, you have to go where that work is.” It isn’t an easy life, says Dillon with a laugh, “but it’s a fun life!”

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A selfie of Peter Dillon coaching actress Dina Renon at The Acting Studio

years in, he decided to take a break to focus on building his own career. But every once in a while he would pick up a class or do some coaching for other aspiring actors working up to an audition. Now, The Acting Studio cofounder John Muggleton has lured his long-time friend back to the classroom (or, rather, the studio). With a focus on screen acting, Dillon’s classes take a practical approach to imparting what an actor needs to know about being in front of the camera.

“It is completely different from theatre,” says Dillon. “On camera, the audience is right there, so every wink, every raised eyebrow has a much bigger impact.”

When shooting, you could be handed a script shortly before you go on set, and have to create chemistry with the other actors you are working with, perhaps only having met them 30 minutes before. There is so little rehearsal you really have to be prepared, notes Dillon, unlike theatre where there can be weeks or months of rehearsal. “The key,” says Dillon, “is really investing in the scene.” The three most important things he focuses on in his classes are “being prepared, being confident and being invested.”

The changes in technology from when he first started out make a big difference, he notes, both when working with others, and for his own career. Now, he can shoot a scene on

an iPad and watch it immediately, so that he can see how a certain line comes across or adjust a nuance. It is a technique he uses regularly in both the classes he teaches and the private one-on-one coaching he does. Technology also makes it easier for actors based in Ottawa to audition for parts they might otherwise not have had access to without travelling long distances. It is not uncommon for a first audition to be done via Skype or by sending a video clip. All of which is a lot faster, and easier than having to figure out the bus connections to Merivale Road!

Peter Dillon’s screen acting classes are on hiatus for the summer, although he continues individual coaching.

Screen acting classes with Peter Dillon will resume at The Acting Studio in the fall. However, there are many other courses for both adults and children offered over the summer. You don’t need to be an aspiring professional to enjoy the classes. The Acting Studio co-founder John Muggleton notes that many participants take a class to feel more confident in public speaking for their careers, or just as an enjoyable diversion and hobby. Full information on classes and workshops is available at www.actingcompany.ca.

Selena Beattie takes an interest in matters of the Glebe and writes occasionally for the Glebe Report.

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By Nicole Bayes-Fleming

Editor’s note: This is the third in a series of personal profiles of political candidates in the federal riding of Ottawa Centre. Damian Konstantinakos is the Ottawa Centre candidate for the Conservative party.

Damian Konstantinakos can trace his family’s heritage in Ottawa back for over a century. The son of a Greek father and French-Canadian mother, his mother’s side of the family has a long history on Somerset Street.

Konstantinakos himself grew up in the Hunt Club area, attending St. Patrick’s high school. He has two younger brothers who also live in the Ottawa area. “Every Sunday is family day,” he says. “We all get together for dinner at one of our three houses and our dad comes by, and we get to see the whole city that way.”

Konstantinakos received his bachelor’s degree in engineering from Queen’s University, and later did his MBA through Queen’s at its Ottawa location. He credits this experience for giving him a broader understanding of the capital. “You can grow up in the city, you can work in the city, and think of it as two things: either high tech or government,” he explains. “I found there are so many other organizations, businesses and fields that thrive in this city.”

Following his degree, Konstantinakos began working in the telecom industry with Nortel. He continues to work there today at Ciena, which bought a portion of Nortel. His jobs

have given him numerous travel opportunities, visiting places as far away as Japan and Australia. Konstantinakos explains he finds travel exciting, because it gives him the chance to see what people in other countries think of Canada.

Currently, Konstantinakos lives in the Glebe with his young family. His wife, Kirsten, recently completed the baking arts program at Algonquin College. The couple have two children, two-and-a-half-year-old Lysander and six-month-old-Kalandra. One of the family’s favourite pastimes is taking evening walks together, either along the canal or through Ottawa’s vibrant streets.

Throughout his childhood Konstantinakos adored playing hockey and baseball, although he admits he wasn’t too good at either. He was part of his high school football team and says he is pleased to see the sport return to Ottawa. “It was amazing for me to take my son and daughter to their first football game like my parents took me to my first Rough Riders games back in the day,” he says.

Konstantinakos combines his enjoyment of football with his passion for cooking by hosting themed Super Bowl parties for friends and family.

He likes to spend as much time in the kitchen as he can, and over the years he’s experimented with making cuisines from scratch such as Thai and Mexican.

He says he often meets people who are surprised to find an engineering graduate working in politics, but explains it’s a field he’s had an inter-

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Meet Glebite Damian Konstantinakos

Damian Konstantinakos (right) with his wife Kirsten, two-and-a-half-year-old Lysander and six-month-old Kalandra. Damian Konstantinakos is the Conservative party candidate in the federal Ottawa Centre riding.

est in since he was young. “I grew up in a political house,” Konstantinakos says. “My family and I were very engaged in politics, never really on the same side. My dad and I would argue at the dinner table from the time I was a teenager.”

His father greatly influenced him growing up, pushing him to ask questions and form his own opinions.

“When I ran in 2007 and our signs were up – he said, ‘You know, I came here 40 years ago, and our name is on signs in the city now,’” Konstantinakos says.

According to Konstantinakos, it’s important for people to become more aware of how accessible politics truly is. He points out that it’s easy for people to become involved through volunteering.

“I don’t think we disagree with one another as much as pundits and pollsters would have you believe. What people need to do more of is engage with their neighbours,” Konstantin-

akos shares. “Don’t shy away from talking to people who are willing to have a conversation with you on an issue, but may disagree with you.”

He says he believes people in the city are informed about the issues but don’t feel engaged, a reason why he finds it important to be present in the community and speak with voters.

“I knocked on a door in 2011 at 8:30 at night, and a gentlemen came to the door of the apartment building,” Konstantinakos recalls. “He and his family had just moved here. And he said – ‘You’re the candidate, you’re the candidate and you’re here.’ He couldn’t accept that, he woke his kids up to meet me. He said: ‘This is what they do here.’ That was the line that struck me. ‘This is what they do here, they come and they meet you.’”

Nicole Bayes-Fleming is a Carleton journalism student and a regular contributor to the Glebe Report.

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Central Park surprise path rescue

By Elizabeth Ballard

Most Glebe parks have been adopted by the GCA under the City’s Adopt-aPark program, organizing volunteers to do semi-annual cleanups. A few, like Central Park East, have been independently adopted.

Headed by Susan Courage and Peter Mackenzie, the Friends of Central Park East formally adopted their park in 2012 and have led park cleanups each spring and fall, removing tons of leaves, brush and garbage, digging out the pernicious dog-strangling vine, and discretely adding traditional perennials.

The Friends of Central Park East celebrated the 2015 May Day weekend with a standard cleanup and, for the first time, an unanticipated marathon restoration of the heritage paths of Central Park East.

In 1912 Central Park paths were clean-edged and wide enough for people to stroll together. By 2011 grass encroached and most were narrowed to dirt paths. A few nearly disappeared. Ottawa’s “Park Lifecycle Asset Renewal” budget is underfunded by about $30 million annually and renewal of Central Park East paths is not expected for the near future.

After years of hoping the City might restore the paths, word came from the Councillor that the Adopt-a-Park program could be the route to obtaining grit for the park paths. The labour would need to be volunteer.

A request went forward to the Adopt program for limestone screening to be delivered after mid-June’s annual New Art Festival in the park. This schedule allowed time to edge and scrape the

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paths in May and June and to organize high school students and strong, youthful neighbours to wheelbarrow the stone onto paths.

Surprisingly, the dump truck gods awoke from a century’s slumber to deliver 20 yards of limestone dust.

But oops! To our wide-eyed alarm, it arrived on Friday, May Day morning, seven weeks too soon and the day before the scheduled spring park cleanup.

Stone dust compacts when wet, and rain was predicted for Monday. On Saturday the marathon to distribute stone before the rain began.

By the end of the weekend, more than 30 adults and 10 kids had joined their volunteer efforts in the most exhausting two-day park cleanup ever.

New and returning volunteers chatted, slathered on the sunscreen, and joined work teams raking, dragging, scraping, shovelling, and hauling: more than 75 bags of leaf and organic litter were amassed, many bags of garbage were collected and by Sunday evening the stone grit pile had been distributed around the park.

Two of the clean-up crew opined that the City should undertake maintenance work of this scale rather than relying on highly unprofessional volunteers. The remaining crew laboured on and congratulated each other on the transformation achieved.

Had the timing been otherwise, no doubt it would look even better, but many meters of lost path were reestablished, and many surviving paths have been renewed.

Without the opportunity to edge or scrape the paths in advance or to line up appropriate extra labour, those on hand courted sore muscles and exhaustion but mirabile dictu: more than half the paths of Central Park East have been improved.

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Mystery and murder in Kingston Butterfly Kills

By Brenda Chapman (Dundurn Press, 2015)

work of fiction, the issues raised within its pages are not. My communications career in the federal government introduced me to research issues of family violence that sparked the germ of an idea for the overarching storyline.” While I found parts of the mystery difficult and disturbing to read, I certainly got the sense that Chapman feels passionately about her topic and is using her novel to shine a spotlight on violence against women.

Reviewed by Gillian Campbell

It is always a pleasure to read a novel that takes place in a familiar setting – to picture the world in which the action is happening helps to make it seem more real. Local author Brenda Chapman’s first novel in the Stonechild and Rouleau series, Cold Mourning, takes place throughout Ottawa, which animates it for those of us who know Ottawa well. For her second novel in the series, Butterfly Kills, Chapman has moved the story to the smaller university town of Kingston, which will also be familiar to many readers.

The main focus of this mystery is the death of a young woman – a Queen’s student – who works on the Queen’s Help Line. Subsequent crimes that take place don’t seem to be related at first, but as the story progresses, the detectives uncover disturbing connections. At the end of the story, the young woman’s death is tied to a brutal rape, an honour killing, incest and domestic violence. Chapman does not shy away from describing these brutal incidents in detail.

One of the main issues I found with Cold Mourning is that Chapman relies heavily on coincidence as the story unfolds. Although there are several crimes that prove to be related in Butterfly Kills, the connection amongst them seems more believable and less coincidental than in Cold Mourning. In Butterfly Kills, the different facets of the story come together well at the end, in perfect murder mystery fashion.

Safety is a primary concern at all university campuses, and this novel addresses issues of student safety as well as domestic violence and honour killings – all very real and serious issues that we don’t like to think about. In her acknowledgements Chapman writes, “While Butterfly Kills is a complete

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selves too seriously and become unbelievable (and unlikable) to the reader. For the first few chapters, I thought that might be the case, but Stonechild does grow as a character over the course of the novel.

It is Chapman’s secondary characters, however, who steal the show. Chapman opens the novel from the perspective of the murdered student, which is an excellent way of drawing the reader into the novel and giving us a connection with the victim.

Her description of the musty basement apartment captures the dinginess of student housing – both at Queen’s and at many other universities. The reader watches the murder happen from the victim’s point of view, which makes it more real than if it were described in third person. Another character, Gail, is a psychology student who plays subtle mind games with her co-workers at the Queen’s Help Line to see how they will react. Most people can remember a quirky character like this from their university or high school days.

Chapman does a great job of capturing university life at Queen’s and the city of Kingston in general.

Having gone to university at Queen’s, I was interested in reading this novel as many of the characters work at the Queen’s Help Line. While I never worked on the Queen’s Help Line myself, I certainly knew people who did. Reading about life on campus and the descriptions of the buildings – from the stately limestone buildings to the shabby student housing – was a pleasure. Chapman definitely knows Kingston and has captured well the student vibe at Queen’s.

In Butterfly Kills, Brenda Chapman has written a gripping and disturbing sequel to Cold Mourning. It is not a fun read in the sense that an Agatha Christie or a P.D. James novel is, but it provides a gritty look at the consequences of domestic violence and abuse. While the story may be hard to read at times, it touches on physical and emotional violence that does exist in our society – although, one hopes, not to the concentrated degree evident in the novel.

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Espression LavAzza “Italy’s favourite coffee” now open. 900 Exhibition Way. Sunset Grill “Famous all day breakfast” now open daily, 7 a.m. to 4 p.m., at 100 Marché Way. CRAFT Beer Market hopes to open later this year or early 2016 at Lansdowne adjacent to TD Place.

CRAFT Beer Market is a premium casual restaurant with three locations in Calgary, Edmonton and Vancouver. Ottawa will be their first in Eastern Canada.

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The Lansdowne stadium is sporting a new-look sign during the FIFA Women’s World Cup.

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to teach a class, or a public servant to routinely make use of the building’s shower facilities before starting the day’s round of meetings.

But, in the immortal Dickensian turn of phrase – “Please, sir, I want some more” – I note with satisfaction the return of the pink bike rack at the corner of Bank and Second. But as greater numbers of people start using their bikes more often to get around, more people are searching for bike parking. At various times of the week and day, I have arrived on Bank Street

to find not only every rack full, but every signpost as well. I have had several small (and pleasant) conversations with other bikers as to which of us was seeking parking and which of us was just leaving, as we negotiated our way around the scarcity of bike racks. And at the Glebe Community Centre, many a morning sees all the bike racks full by 9 a.m.

Yes, there are more bike racks than ever. But are there enough? I suggest not quite yet.

—Liz McKeen

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CHANGES AFOOT

Greater Goal Way. The City of Ottawa has designated Bank Street in the Glebe and Old Ottawa South (from Isabella south to Riverdale) temporarily as “Greater Goal Way” (or Allée du Grand But) in honour of the FIFA Women’s World Cup soccer tournament at Lansdowne June 6 – July 5.

St. Matthew’s Anglican Church.

“Leaks will soon be a thing of the past as work has begun on our roof!

Scaffolding can be seen around the building and workers abound [in the]… complex job of replacing the 85-year-old slate roof. The work will continue all summer and into the fall.”

Gone but not forgotten

McIntosh & Watts has closed up shop and is gone from Bank Street.

Contributors this issue Lynn Armstrong Janice Ashworth Elizabeth Ballard Lynn Barlow Nicole Bayes-Fleming Selena Beattie Nick Bermudez Janice Bernstein Daisy Bonsall Martha Bowers Bhat Boy Micheline Boyle Roy Brash Ben Bulmer Lonelle Butler Gillian Campbell Luke Carroll Cassandra Carson Cate David Chernushenko Elizabeth Chiang Neil Copeland Stirling Coulter-Hayward Peter Dillon Allison Dingle Michael Edwards Randy Erwin Adelle Farrelly Pat Goyeche Trevor Greenway Steve Harris Tim Heath Teena Hendelman Laura Hodgson

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The Glebe Report is online wherever you go!

By Elizabeth Chiang

It’s 2015. Yes, the Glebe Report is online. We have resources on our website that will help keep you connected to what’s going on.

Are you looking for the perfect summer reading list? Did you know that all back issues of the Glebe Report can be downloaded from our website under the “Archives” tab?

Or, if you prefer to search online for specific topics, use the search bar, located underneath our logo on the main page, or at the top of the sidebar for other pages, and the power of Google keyword search will help you find all the articles you need.

We’ve been around since 1973, that’s a lot of history to catch up on!

Our collection was digitized several years ago and it is a great resource for anyone who is interested in the rich history of the Glebe. Our community has certainly changed over the decades, with new neighbours, new stores, new streets and the evolution of existing establishments.

Imagine looking back to the vintage advertisements of the 70s and 80s!

If you’re wondering what to do for the weekend – or if your great aunt Esther comes for a surprise visit and you find yourself looking for last minute entertainment options – be sure to check out our Community Events Calendar, an ongoing resource that highlights interesting events happening in, or near, the Glebe.

For listings of events that are family-friendly and open to the public, please submit the following information to website@glebereport.ca:

• Name, date and time of event • Duration, location and cost of event (if applicable) • Contact person, phone number and email address • Website of event • Description of event (100 words max.)

• Photo or graphic (to be included if space permits) Our website also boasts an ever growing online photo gallery, with images contributed by volunteer photographers. So far, topics have ranged from construction, to gardens, to firefighters, to Remembrance Day, to community events. Do you have an idea for a photo series? We’re open to suggestions! Let us know at editor@ glebereport.ca.

We’re also on Twitter with 600 followers and counting! Follow us for updates about community events, announcements, contests, traffic and weather. Help us reach 1,000 followers before the end of the year! More importantly, tweet us @glebereport if you have news to share.

And if you’re not on Instagram, you’re missing out on #foundintheglebe. Check out the hashtag on Instagram, share and participate, and be part of this quirky foundobject photography movement, based right here in our community!

Instagram is also a great place to share event photos, street scenes and snapshots of daily life in the Glebe.

Follow us and keep us posted @glebereport.

Elizabeth Chiang is the Web Editor at the Glebe Report, managing the Glebe Report website and our various social media.

Complete Streets in the Glebe Editor, Glebe Report The new Complete Street Policy, approved in 2013 by the City, endorses the design of our roadways to accommodate the needs of pedestrians, cyclists, transit and motor vehicles in support of promoting sustainable communities.

The reconstruction of Main Street in Old Ottawa East, scheduled for completion in 2016, will be the first to apply this new policy. Bronson Avenue, scheduled for reconstruction from the Queensway to the Rideau Canal, will be the next big challenge for the Complete Street policy.

However, the reconstruction of Bank Street was completed before this new policy came into effect.

Bank Street is our primary commercial and employment centre for the Glebe. Many of the commercial and residential buildings were constructed prior to the 1960s and the predominance of the automobile in Ottawa. With the introduction of the Ottawa Electric Railway’s trolleys in the 1890s, residents could now commute to the downtown while leaving their horse and buggy at home. This transit also encouraged the people of Ottawa to come to the Glebe for many events, especially at Lansdowne Park.

Known as one of the original “streetcar suburbs” in Ottawa, transit services on Bank Street remain an important option for local residents, employees working

in the Glebe, and those destined for the revitalized Lansdowne.

With the Traditional Mainstreet designation, this zoning respects the pedestrian orientation of a mature residential neighbourhood and its needs as a viable commercial centre. With Bank Street’s reconstruction in 2011, the wider sidewalks and new light standards were welcomed enhancements to pedestrians’ safety. Additional bike racks encourage cyclists to leave their automobiles at home. Bank Street remains a major route between transit hubs. Many of the principles for a complete street were implemented on Bank Street and its success, I would hope, has contributed to the new Complete Street policy and future implementations.

I think there are still some enhancements to Bank Street that can be made without requiring significant investment of City resources. As a community, let’s ensure that new developments on Bank Street respect the pedestrian nature of the Glebe by ensuring wheelchair accessibility. Let’s ask for better traffic light management to enforce the posted 40 km speed limit, especially during rush hour. Let’s promote the fact that the automobile is not a necessity for so many who live, work or play in the Glebe.

Neil Copeland Long-time resident and GCA volunteer

Proposed development on Queen Elizabeth Drive Editor, Glebe Report I have several concerns about the proposed development on Queen Elizabeth Drive between Fourth and Fifth avenues. What began as a project to demolish three houses and build two semi-detached, three-unit condos has now grown into two low-rise apartment buildings with a combined density of 18 units and underground parking, at the expense of an entire row of attractive and representative Glebe houses that are to be demolished.

Surely the City and Glebe residents should be concerned about this.

Why create disruptive infill along the Driveway bordering the Rideau Canal, now a UNESCO world heritage site, instead of preserving the existing streetscape?

The development is attractively designed, but too massive in scale for such a small site. At 50 feet high, it far exceeds the current height limit of 30 feet. Elevator shafts on the roof will further disrupt the harmony of the neighbourhood. These restrictions were well known to the developer when he embarked on the project.

Where is the respect for neighbours who will be negatively impacted by the building’s excessive height, among other issues? Where is the green space one expects to see surrounding such prestigious housing?

Height should not be negotiable at such a prestigious location.

Allison Dingle

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Editor, Glebe Report I understand that Roca Homes has submitted or will be submitting a re-zoning application for the purpose of constructing a 4-storey, 18-unit apartment building at 372 Queen Elizabeth Drive and 1 Fifth Avenue. I am writing to raise my concerns for re-zoning the area to allow such a massive building structure along the Queen Elizabeth Driveway.

The proposed building is out of scale with the houses in the neighbouring area and along the Queen Elizabeth Driveway, which are all 3 storeys high. Although the proposed building has only 18 units, the building structure itself is too massive and will not contribute to the harmony of the neighbourhood. It will contribute to the loss of natural sunlight, privacy and green space by neighbouring homes. The height of the development will dwarf the neighbouring homes, which will potentially affect their property values.

There is already a high-rise apartment building on Third Avenue that has a garage entrance from the corner of Fourth Avenue (north side). The garage entrance for the proposed building will also be on Fourth Avenue (south side). It will increase traffic on this quiet residential street.

There are many good developments that blend in very well with the neighbouring homes, such as the one at 27-31 First Avenue. I would like to ask the City to encourage the builder to come up with a design that will contribute to the harmony and greening of this quiet residential neighbourhood. I am not against redevelopment, but against the R-4 re-zoning (from existing R-3).

Three floors maximum plus the elevator boxes would be acceptable.

A Concerned Owner

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GCA looks on its shelf of jam jars June is one of the best months of the year – it is warm (well, mostly), more and more of us are outside with activities, and we finally get to see what our kids have been working on at the end-of-school-year concerts. Things also wrap up for the GCA in June, and when we take stock of our own activities throughout the year, the satisfaction feels like a whole shelf full of homemade jars of jam! Here are a few things we’ve been working on.

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The GCA Traffic Committee hosted an information night at the Glebe Community Centre early in May to discuss day-to-day traffic issues now that Lansdowne Park is mostly opened, as well as the Glebe Neighbourhood Bikeway. This event followed a significant amount of consultation over the first few months of full retail activity at Lansdowne, which confirmed that while traffic issues associated with major events, such as football games, were better managed than expected, parking and congestion associated with day-to-day activities present greater challenges for the community. Nearly 100 Glebe residents attended along with Councillor David Chernushenko, City and OSEG officials. There were many fantastic questions from the audience, including pointed ones regarding proposed changes at the wonky corner at Fifth Avenue, Craig and Percy streets. In response to these questions, the City has promised consultations in particular on the proposed measures at this corner.

While many of our initial recommendations for managing Lansdowne traffic have now been adopted, we continue to advocate for a number of recommendations that we believe will help ensure Lansdowne’s success for all parties: (1) Undertake proactive measures to ensure a greater proportion of visitors use transit when heading to Lansdowne. (2) Allow residents on the streets closest to Lansdowne on the west side of Bank Street to adjust parking policies, if they wish, to address a near-complete loss of residential parking due to the Lansdowne redevelopment. (3) Install a safe crossing of the Queen Elizabeth Driveway by the south entrance to Lansdowne (Bank Street). (4) Accelerate the construction of the pedestrian bridge from Clegg to Fifth. (5) Ensure all shuttle buses used for Lansdowne use arterial roads and avoid residential streets such as Lakeside.

Bronson Reconstruction and Revisioning

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input and provide suggestions on how the redesign can address some functional issues and make Bronson a more multi-functional street. In addition to an Active Transportation Audit and a survey, a public workshop was held to brainstorm ideas on how Bronson Avenue can be improved when it is reconstructed. The result of all of this work is a significant set of recommendations, which you can access on our website. It’s been presented to Councillor Chernushenko, who participated in a number of local discussions on the topic. The report is another fantastic example of the work done by some of your friends and neighbours to improve our neighbourhood.

Next Year’s GCA

By the time you receive this issue of the Glebe Report, we will have held our Annual General Meeting and elected next year’s board of directors. There will be a few changes: some directors have decided to move on to other activities, some are taking on new roles at the GCA and we are excited to welcome a number of new people to the board. One big change is the departure of Brian Mitchell, who has been the Chair of the Traffic Committee for a number of years. I would like to take the opportunity in this column to express my gratitude to Brian for all of his great work. Brian shepherded the GCA’s Lansdowne traffic advocacy through an extensive survey, community consultations and door-todoor engagement with Glebe residents.

Many of the resulting recommendations have now been implemented and I am certain we are all better off as a result of Brian’s leadership. Thank you Brian and may the wind be always at your back!

In addition to these changes on the board, after having considered the survey and community consultation results, we’ve decided to focus some of our attention on increasing community engagement and representation, enhancing our website, improving our communications and outreach through a marketing strategy, and responding more effectively to local issues. If supporting your community by working in any of these areas is of interest to you, we want to hear from you!

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Glebe Annex Community Association news The Glebe Annex Community Association (GACA) executive committee made a special trip to Abbas Grocery and corner shop to present co-owner Radi Abbas with an honorary membership award in GACA, in recognition of his enthusiastic and never-ending support of our association. Radi Abbas and his brother Mike have successfully managed the establishment since their parents, who founded the store over 40 years ago, retired. We are ever in their debt for their constant offers of free bottled water, soft drinks, coffee and other treats as volunteers go about the neighbourhood on cleanups, park duty, membership drives and other community activities.

Radi and Mike provide extended hours of service to our residents who often drop in for that forgotten loaf of bread, milk, a hot coffee and sandwich or many of the other items kept on hand to meet the needs of a bustling community.

The shop has become a popular local meeting place where stories are retold, political futures are discussed and decided, and neighbourhood news is exchanged. Both Radi and Mike have always taken time to meet and get to know their clients, whom they consider friends, and they look forward to their regular visits. Students in the area quickly find out who knows what’s happening in the Glebe Annex

PHOTO: DOUG MILNE

By Doug Milne

GACA presented Abbas Grocery co-owner Radi Abbas with an honorary membership award in GACA, in recognition of Abbas’ enthusiastic support. Left to right, Peggy Kampouris, neighbour and Traffic and Safety Committee chair; Radi Abbas, co-owner of Abbas Grocery; and GACA president Sylvia Milne.

and who can help with whatever their current issue might be. Radi, particularly, is very concerned that our young people be kept safe and unharmed.

Even before the GACA was formed, they were supporters both physically and financially of the needs of community groups. GACA president Sylvia Milne recognized Radi’s efforts and thanked him, his family and staff for providing a community service and promoting goodwill within the neighbourhood.

Abbas Grocery, located directly across from the Dalhousie South Park on Bell Street South, is a haven for youngsters looking for a special treat after a day of play in our now wellmaintained children’s park. The park benches are often shared in the evenings with neighbours sipping a cup of Abbas’ coffee and enjoying the ambiance.

We encourage all residents of the

Glebe Annex who need milk, bread or a sweet treat at a late hour to visit Abbas. You’re sure to find something to satisfy that craving. Ask Radi or Mike to see the award and thank them for being our neighbour.

The community association’s board of directors has continued to meet regularly and consider pressing issues too numerous to publish here.

Please access our community association web page (www.glebeannex.ca) to keep abreast of the issues, including an update on the apprehension of a thief who made news in the neighbourhood on Mother’s Day weekend.

Moral of that story: do not leave valuables in your parked vehicles – it’s an invitation to potential burglars.

Your membership and financial support are important to the success and well-being of the organization, which works towards a cleaner, more attractive, friendly and informed

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neighbourhood. We seek input on development plans and our concern is for a safe, healthy and child-friendly environment. We are currently looking for people with a bit of time to contribute to these ideals. Perhaps you would like to become a street representative who could keep us informed of any issues in your area with which we might assist. Any ideas to enhance this vision are always welcome.

GACA recently “adopted” Dalhousie South Pa rk, under the Adopt-a-Park program initiated by the City of Ottawa. We are actively seeking replacement of existing equipment, maintaining the grounds, and lobbying for augmented capacity for this well-used facility. Neighbours are reminded that there is absolutely no smoking allowed in and around this location.

GACA supported Ottawa’s semiannual drive to Clean Up the Capital by inviting residents to help rake, pick up and clean up in the Glebe Annex. Over 50 adults and children turned out to get the job done. What a great feeling of pride we felt to meet old and new neighbours and see the enthusiasm with which they tackled the project! When the task was completed, we enjoyed a social time and munched on doughnuts and coffee supplied by Tim Horton’s on Bronson Avenue, bottled water from Abbas and hot dogs provided by GACA. Please welcome our volunteers when they approach you for your annual membership or, better still, contact us online. We can be reached at info@ glebeannex.ca.

Doug Milne is a Glebe Annex resident active in the Glebe Annex Community Association.

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GNAG turns up the heat this summer Generous donation from BMO Glebe

On Sunday, May 24, BMO Glebe celebrated its Mary Tsai grand opening with a ribbon cutting ceremony. www.gnag.ca Children with smiling painted faces and their families gathered in front of the branch on Marché Way enjoying the free barbeque and ice cream. The BMO mascot bear was also there sharing giant hugs with family and friends.

Mayor Jim Watson and Andrew Peck, the executive director of the Glebe BIA, were in attendance. BMO has been an avid supporter and participant in the Glebe community. Since they opened their doors in November 2014, they have been involved in various community activities including the GNAG Snowflake Special and the GNAG/St. James outdoor rink, and have offered a multitude of workshops at the Glebe Community Centre (GCC), as well as sponsoring the recent Strut your Stuff art show and sale.

At the event in May, GNAG received a donation cheque of $1,025 towards GNAG’s Community Development Fund. This was the result of a community campaign that was initiated in November 2014, whereby families were given the incentive to open their children’s savings account. BMO contributed $25 to each child’s account and matched the same amount towards GNAG’s CDF fund.

From the get-go, branch manager Eugeniya Tsetlin and her team at Glebe BMO have been extremely community minded and supportive. On behalf of GNAG and the community, our great thanks for your generosity; you truly exemplify the importance of building strong neighbourhoods.

Strut Your Stuff & Glamour in the Glebe

This year’s Mother’s Day weekend saw glitz, glamour and glitter at the GCC. Congratulations to the steering committees of Strut Your Stuff Art Show and Sale and Glamour in the Glebe for organizing these two beautiful events.

Amsted builds a shed for GNAG

Amsted is celebrating its 25th anniversary and to honour this special occasion, they looked for ways to increase their efforts to give back to the communities that have helped them build and beautify Ottawa throughout the years!

In addition to sponsoring our annual Glebe House Tour, they reached out to us looking for volunteer opportunities for their team of professional carpenters to donate their time and expertise towards a great community project.

They will be designing and building a community storage unit outside the front doors of the GCC. Glebe House Tour is September 20

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Capital Home Hardware and summer fitness

Capital Home Hardware hosted a Renovation Celebration in early June. To celebrate the changes, GNAG has donated a gift certificate for the GNAG Summer 2015 Fitness program. The winner of the gift certificate will be able to learn some great exercises at GNAG’s classes to go with a fantastic BOSU ball from Capital Home Hardware. GNAG’s summer fitness schedule (available online at www.gnag.ca) has something for everyone – yoga, boot camp, pilates and zumba.

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Students and seniors – a winning combination!

Another school year is about to end and for residents at The Glebe Centre that means Tuesday bingo with the students of Glebe Montessori will be on summer vacation.

On the first Tuesday of every month, seniors living at The Glebe Centre have benefitted from spending time with Glebe Montessori student volunteers. In other years, students have participated in a wide range of activities supporting our senior population.

This past year, bingo was the go-to activity for both residents and students. With the assistance of staff, students set up the game, helped to escort residents to the activity area and then provided one-to-one support for those residents needing extra assistance. Students took turns calling out the numbers and announcing the winners.

We have been privileged to have this ongoing commitment from Glebe Montessori and its students. They will

PHOTO: COURTESY OF GLEBE MONTESSORI

By Lonelle Butler

The students of Glebe Montessori have helped out with Tuesday night bingo at The Glebe Centre throughout the school year.

be our future volunteers and for me personally, it has been rewarding to see the students come back to the Glebe and complete their high school community service hours. It is a true community partnership that allows a connection between students and seniors with lasting results, as young and old alike share strengths, talents

Summer is...

and most important, time.

If you are interested in volunteering at The Glebe Centre in either long-term care or community support (Abbotsford House) please contact the Coordinator of Volunteer Services at 613 238-2727 ext. 353 or email volunteer@glebecentre.ca. We currently have a variety of opportu-

nities for potential volunteers. We are a not-for-profit charitable home and for information on fundraising please contact Tracy Crowder at tcrowder@ glebecentre.ca.

Lonelle Butler is the coordinator of volunteer services at the Glebe Centre and Abbotsford House.

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Who is Underground Sound and what are we up to?

Depending on costs, extensibility of projects, feasibility and desirability, the following projects have made the short list: 1. Murals on frequently tagged walls 2. Lighting on Bank Street 3. Plaque or banner making the old streetcar pole stand out 4. Clock in the Glebe This summer, Underground Sound will be tackling these four projects.

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us at: 2015undergroundsound@gmail.com.

Lynn Barlow is a member of the Underground Sound group tackling Bank Street beautification.

PHOTO: LYNN ARMSTRONG

In 2005, a small group of people came together to raise money through concerts and fundraisers for the purpose of burying the wires under Bank Street. Members of the group ranged from merchants such as Scotiabank, Ian Boyd from Compact Disc and Jim McKeen from McKeen Metro Glebe to residents such as June Creelman, Leslie Fulton, Caroline Vanneste, Bob Brocklebank and Janet Sutherland.

Some were Glebe Community Association members and some were Glebe Business Group people (now the BIA).

The dream was to remove the wooden hydro poles and have the wires buried.

In March 2011, the City of Ottawa came up with a cost-benefit analysis framework for an underground wiring policy. It took into account affordability, desirability and technical feasibility. On average it costs $2.5 million per kilometre to bury wires, 4 to 10 times more than the cost to rebuild above-ground hydro poles.

In this report the City analysed eight sample streets in the city: Metcalfe, Elgin, Bank in the Glebe, Bank Street south, St. Joseph, Strandherd, Eagleson and Perth Street. In the case of Bank Street in the Glebe, the cost was estimated to be between $6.5 and $11 million due to several cost factors, such as the relocation of telecom wires and land rights for pad-mount transformers, underground cable chambers and the actual cost of the transformers themselves plus sectionalizers.

The total cost of burying the wires for all eight streets came close to $100

million. The City decided, based on the cost-benefit analysis, that there was no financial return for the City to invest in the burial of wires, in view of its need to meet other demands such as existing infrastructure renewal and other funding priorities.

Over 20 per cent of roads are in need of resurfacing or reconstruction in Ottawa, and the annual budget typically allows less than two per cent of these needs to be addressed. Without a new source of funding, adding the cost of hydro burial would further affect the City’s ability to plan and carry out infrastructure renewal projects. The City considered the expense and the reasoning, and determined it to be too costly at that time. Planning staff recommended that burial of wires on City rights-of-way be undertaken only when the full cost of burial is paid for by the requesting party, or as otherwise approved by Council on a case-by-case basis.

As a result, on May 24, 2011, Bank Street reconstruction began without the burial of wires.

Today in 2015, Underground Sound has approximately $49,000 that was raised through concerts and fundraising. Since this money couldn’t be put towards burying the wires, it will be used instead for beautifying Bank Street. It still fits with the Underground Sound mandate “for the purposes of promoting and fostering the beautification of Bank Street, Ottawa in the Glebe.”

In the past year, Underground Sound has received close to 50 different ideas on how to beautify Bank Street.

How many of us walk right by this old streetcar pole on Bank Street (near the lions at Reliable Parts) without realizing its place in Glebe history?

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Bronson reconstruction update

By Jason Vallis

On April 30, Glebe community members nominated by the Glebe Community Association’s Traffic Committee participated in the first Public Advisory Committee (PAC) meeting with city planners and our Councillor, David Chernushenko, to discuss the Bronson Avenue reconstruction. The meeting was a preview of the city’s initial design for the stretch of Bronson between the Queensway and the Canal following the replacement of the main combined sewage and water mains. This construction is slated for 2018–2019 but is subject to future council approval.

The meeting allowed for members of the PAC to present findings from community surveys and walkability audits conducted over the last year by the Glebe Traffic Committee in partnership with Ecology Ottawa. City planners also presented some of the constraints and opportunities such a large reconstruction project provides.

Leading up to this meeting, the Glebe Traffic Committee had collected feedback from hundreds of local residents regarding their current concerns with Bronson and suggestions for improvement. Responses ranged from detailed observations regarding sidewalk widths to largescale suggestions of dedicated public transit lanes, or reversing traffic flow to accommodate commuters. Common throughout the results was a concern for the safety of pedestrians and cyclists on Bronson Avenue due to cars speeding, changing lanes erratically and running red lights. Glebe residents also commented that Bronson is an essential main artery from downtown to the airport and must be kept as such. In the end, the GCA formally adopted six recommendations

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on April 28 that were provided to the city in a 26-page report summarizing the findings of the two audits and an online survey: 1. Improve driver adherence to the rules of the road, speeding, redlight running and yielding to pedestrians 2. Improve pedestrian safety on Bronson sidewalks 3. Improve and increase number of safe options for pedestrian crossing 4. Improve cycling safety by linking Bronson bridge infrastructure with the Glebe Neighbourhood Bikeway 5. Encourage safe and efficient traffic flow (reduce congestion and improve roadway efficiency) 6. Improve the streetscape and environment in keeping with its residential nature and Traditional Main Street designation, including provisioning of street trees and adequate underground soil volume for the trees.

Each recommendation was complemented with suggested measures for consideration, such as removing parking between Carling Avenue and the Canal and narrowing lanes to reduce vehicle speeds, and providing wider sidewalks for pedestrians. The report also looked at the impacts of projects outside the immediate reconstruction area, such as the widening of the airport parkway, and provide suggestions to alleviate upstream traffic congestion with better high-speed transit solutions and park n’ ride options.

The city planners were pleased to see such a detailed report, commenting that it makes their job easier to understand the communities’ concerns at the beginning stages of the design process. It was also acknowledged that not all suggestions were

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unanimously supported by all Glebe residents, such as the introduction of a signalized crossing between Carling and Fifth Avenue.

For their part, the City engineer and an engineer from Robinson Consultants presented the main objective of the Bronson reconstruction, as well as some design considerations, before walking the PAC through their initial design. The primary objective of the project is to replace aging underground infrastructure dating as far back as 1887, in addition to improving the surface works. Design considerations include ensuring proper pedestrian facilities and linkages to neighbourhood bike paths.

Measures to reduce vehicle speeds were also presented, such as maximizing on-street parking – a method that some members of the PAC did not find very effective, given current parking restrictions and high vehicle speeds.

Finally, the group studied a series of design boards that showed a revised Bronson Avenue within the same curb

boundaries, but with tighter side street corners and reduced side street widths.

Most dramatic was a design option to introduce a signalized intersection at Kippewa Drive and Bronson Avenue, which saw the removal of the island and the street width reduced to eight meters, a significant improvement for pedestrian safety.

With the initial PAC meeting complete, members will review the material presented and provide feedback to the City to ensure the proposed design meets the recommendations approved by the GCA board. A general public viewing of the updated design is tentatively scheduled for this summer with a follow-up public open house on the detailed design in late fall. Watch this space for further details and feel free to provide feedback to traffic@glebeca.ca.

Jason Vallis is a member of the Dow’s Lake Residents Association and the Glebe Community Association (GCA)’s Traffic Committee.

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Do’s and don’ts of travelling with your adult children

By Patricia Paul-Carson

Holidays with adult children are a far cry from stewing over how to occupy your young children during the 10 long weeks of summer. But like all vacations with children, no matter what their age, they are a live and learn experience.

As I white-watered down a river in Costa Rica with my husband and adult children, our handsome muscle-bound guide obviously felt the need to quell the look of terror in my eyes.

“OK, Mama! Just reach out and grab my arm as you go down these chutes. I will stop your tube from turning over.” Like the rock climbing, perhaps I should have sat this one out. But I managed, despite spilling into the warm water regardless of the proffered arm. I even received special consideration from the guide, who pulled my canvas tube through quiet river sections while the others had to paddle on their own. Apart from the fact that the guide kept calling me “Mama,” the day was a dream. If this is vacationing with adult children, I’m all for it.

But according to Glebe travel agents I have made some classic mistakes on holidays with my adult children, apart from overextending myself physically.

On the Costa Rica vacation, we planned too much. Five of the six of us were gung-ho to do everything from seeing turtles laying eggs to snorkelling to touring organic and fair trade coffee plantations at breakneck speed, but one of us, exhausted from work, wanted some time to lie by the pool. We adjusted our schedule and found it benefitted everyone.

“You need to balance everyone’s wishes,” says Darren Prashad, the manager of Merit Travel on Richmond Road, formerly in the Glebe. “Level of physical activity, food, interest and accommodation all need to be taken into account.

The kids may like to stay at a hostel but Mom and Dad may want more comfort.”

On our Australia vacation, we worried needlessly about our then universityaged girls. They wanted to take part in Sydney’s street parties on New Year’s Eve, and while we agreed, we were scouring the streets at 2 a.m. looking for them. They arrived back at our apartment an hour later, safe and sound, happy and tired. It would have helped if we had taken a deep breath, and realized that they had lived through similar experiences without us in Toronto and Montreal.

“Buy a SIM card for your kids’ cell phones, give them money for a taxi home, do whatever it takes to make you feel comfortable, but realize your adult children may want to do activities on their own,” says Eoin Gibbon, an international travel consultant with Flight Centre on Bank Street.

There are other issues that can arise.

Spending every waking hour together is one. Prashad recommends families take small group tours designed for up to 16 people. He says this way all members of the family are doing the same activity but they will have other people to interact with if family togetherness becomes overwhelming.

Our family has found that having ample space for everyone is also critical. We have rented villas and condos, which provide more space and are often cheaper than hotel rooms. A kitchen allows us to make our own food, a cross-cultural adventure itself as we wander through open air markets figuring out what to eat.

Budget is also a concern. While Prashad says, in his experience, parents foot most of the bill for holidays, Gibbon suggests that it is a good idea to get the kids to pay part of it to ensure everyone is invested in the trip.

All three travel agents that I spoke to said that money is not a silver bullet for a great holiday. Wen Jin from Mid Earth Travel Agency on Bronson Avenue says she has planned seven-day trips within Canada.

“Parents with adult children can have a wonderful, enriching and inexpensive vacation right here in Southeastern Ontario at Parks of the St. Lawrence,” says Susan Le Clair of the St. Lawrence Parks Commission. “They can camp at one of our eight campgrounds along the St. Lawrence River or stay in a cabin or the new family lodge on Woodlands Island on the Long Sault Parkway.” She adds that Upper Canada Village will host Food Lovers’ Field Days and the Iron Pan Competition during the third weekend of August, which includes taste testing, heritage cooking demonstrations and heirloom garden tours.

And if your kids don’t want to vacation with you? Take heart. Even travel agents don’t necessarily travel with their kids. Wen Jin says she rarely serves clients who travel with adult children. “Children want to travel on their own or with friends,” she says. “I just sent my daughter on a trip to China without me.”

Patricia Paul-Carson is an Ottawa resident who blogs at www.parentingadultchildren.ca about being a parent of adult children, and writes occasionally for the Glebe Report.

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Algonquin College student newspaper wins award The Algonquin Times was awarded the top rank this year for Outstanding Campus Newspaper by the Canadian Community Newspapers Association (CCNA). This is the first time the 30-year-old paper has been given this award by the CCNA, although they have placed first in the Ontario Community Newspapers Association competition 10 times.

According to Algonquin Times past advertising director and Glebe resident Stirling Coulter-Hayward, the award takes into account everything from the cover of the journal to the type of advertising to production values.

The Algonquin Times is a student newspaper printing 4,000 copies per issue, run by students from the combined Algonquin College programs for journalism, and advertising and marketing communications management.

Said Coulter-Hayward, “The Algonquin Times was run by two different courses of students – the journalism students on one hand, and I was on the advertising side. So we collaborated like we would in the real world to put out a bi-monthly.”

Coulter-Hayward said that the students in his year didn’t change the paper drastically but that it was the small things they did that led to their success. “There has been a lot of incremental growth and one of the things that I liked to do … was kind of build on what was done before,” Coulter-Hayward said. “We updated the websites and connected them to

PHOTO: COURTESY OF STIRLING COULTER-HAYWARD

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Stirling Coulter-Hayward (right) holds the award for outstanding campus newspaper given this year by the Canadian Community Newspapers Association to the Algonquin Times, the campus paper of Algonquin College in Ottawa. Coulter-Hayward, Glebe resident, was advertising director.

devices to make a big name for students and anyone who consumes media.”

Coulter-Hayward also attributed the award to the fact that they had a strong editorial staff to work with. “They were super involved in municipal politics but also stuff that was going on on campus – basically things that students would be interested in.” Coulter-Hayward said that it was necessary for the advertising and journalism sides to collaborate for the paper to be successful.

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“There was a sales staff who would go out and sell ads ideally to companies focussed on students. So we also had graphic designers who would produce the ads for them and that was one of the ways we would make money and keep the paper afloat.” Coulter-Hayward was the advertising director, which meant he had a large role to play in the paper’s development. “I was kind of guiding the ship, so it was a lot of making sure we were publishing on time and mak-

ing sure there are no spelling errors.

From making sure things were getting in at the right time, to distributing, to running the social media account, to running promotions and events on campus,” Coulter-Hayward said.

Coulter-Hayward recently graduated from the Advertising and Marketing Communications Management program at Algonquin. He previously attended Carleton where he studied journalism in his first year. CoulterHayward said he enjoyed his time in university but found the hands-on approach at college more beneficial for him. “It’s part of the curriculum which is fantastic. I enjoyed university, I think it was great and fun, but I think it speaks about college in the fact that it gives you real hands-on work,” said Coulter-Hayward.

The award is given to both student cohort years that worked on the paper.

Coulter-Hayward, being a Glebe resident, was able to attend the press conference at Algonquin for the award.

Many of Coulter-Hayward’s co-workers were not able to attend due to jobs in other cities.

The Algonquin Times student newspaper will have the opportunity to win the award again in 2016, as a new batch of students will enter first year of the Advertising and Marketing Communications Management and the Journalism courses at Algonquin College.

Luke Carroll is a Carleton University journalism student living in the Glebe, and is the sports editor for The Charlatan.

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Joy Creations – a new Glebe gem Joy Creations opened its doors to the public at the beginning of April, showcasing handmade jewellery, all designed and handcrafted by the store’s proprietor, Joyce Barnard.

Barnard has been designing and making jewellery for the last 12 years and has been planning to open a store for the last five. Together with her gemologist business partner, Samuel Tang, the pair has now made this a reality.

“We had this planned five years ago when we first met, but we couldn’t find a place, and we didn’t have enough resources,” says Tang. “Eventually we found a place, the time is right, so we decided, ‘you know what, let’s go ahead.’”

Barnard had previously worked designing and manufacturing jewellery back in her native South Africa, but since she started calling Ottawa home seven years ago, she’s been spending valuable time looking after her grandchild and making the stock for the store.

“We bought all the stones and things five years ago, and since then I’ve been making it at home, and looking after my grandchild,” says Barnard.

Barnard designs and makes everything by hand, specializing in necklaces, bracelets and earrings.

Using silver, leather or silk in combination with gemstones and freshwater pearls, every design is different from the next. Pieces take anywhere from one to four hours to complete

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Joyce Barnard, owner of Joy Creations, a new jewellery store at 740 Bank Street, and business partner Samuel Tang

depending on the complexity of the design.

When it comes to inspiration Barnard’s passion for the craft is very evident. “I love the colours, I love the materials and I love putting them together,” says Barnard. “It’s like when spring comes and you see a blossom, once I’ve created something, it gives you the same feeling.”

Barnard says she chose the Glebe because she thinks the residents who live here will appreciate her work, “They enjoy art, and they like the finer

Joyce Barnard at work making handmade jewellery for Joy Creations

things in life.” Apart from showcasing her craft at the store, Barnard has a worktop where customers can see her working meticulously, crafting her intricately detailed jewellery.

The pair also has bigger plans for the store and by the end of June hope to have turned the office into a lab for gemological services and evaluations.

“If someone has bought something somewhere else and they want to check it under a microscope, we do it all in front of them. They can see the process and see it for themselves,” says Tang.

Tang describes the place as “a disaster” when they moved in. A very old carpet and a wavy floor didn’t make things easy, but now with the tatty carpet gone and new level flooring installed the store is almost complete.

All the showcases and fittings were handmade by both of them, “Nothing is bought here, everything is custom made,” says Barnard.

As well as gemological services Tang also does 3D jewellery design.

The design is created using 3D computer software, which is then turned into a mold using a 3D printer. The printer builds designs layer by layer using wax and resin to create molds that then can be used to form jewellery from the metal of your choice.

With such precision technology Tang has the tools to make very intricate designs, which are completely custom made and unique to the individual.

The combination of Barnard’s traditional handmade crafts and Tang’s hi-tech skills promise the pair a blossoming future in the Glebe.

Ben Bulmer is a Glebe Report “Business Buzz” writer, highlighting new businesses in the Glebe.

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Renovation at Capital Home Hardware: the realisation of a dream “It was always my dream to own a business,” says Marc Clement. “My grandfather owned a general store and on my day off I would help him in his store.” Isabel Lamarche’s father also owned Home Hardware stores in Alexandria, Alfred and Casselman. She worked for him for many years.

In 2008, Marc and Isabel bought a Home Hardware store on Beechwood Avenue in New Edinburgh. Three years later, a fire destroyed the shop. Marc and Isabel were heartbroken. But, says Marc, “We were looking even before the fire to expand. A year later, we bought the Capital shop from Chuck Hillock, moved into our own house in the Glebe and had another baby!” They now walk to work.

The store neighbourhood serves many communities. “Just as many of the current 155,000 customers come from the Glebe as Ottawa South and the rest of Ottawa,” says Marc.

Upward expansion was not possible, as there are other tenants above the store, nor was there room to expand sideways. They decided to renovate by redoing the floor to achieve expansion without closing the store. The renovation is huge, probably the first since moving to its present site in 1985

PHOTO: ASHWIN SHINGADIA

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Isabel Lamarche and Marc Clement, owners of Capital Home Hardware, managing renovations

from Bank and Fifth. Prior to that, the building was occupied by a Volkswagen dealership. The Hillock family turned it into a hardware store.

While tearing up the floor, they found old decorated wood floors going back to nearly 40 years. Shelves are being moved around, with much work being undertaken at night. Marc says, “Except for the paint section, everything else has been moved.” He wants to thank all his customers for continuing to bring their patronage amidst these changes. The renovation improves the store layout design and provides 10 per cent more shelving space. A new paint desk and

an automatic paint dispenser will be installed. The new parking structure across the road will have 150 spots, most of them for public use. The angle parking on Second Avenue will likely remain the same.

Shopping hours are 8.30 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Monday to Wednesday (summer until 8 p.m.) and on Saturday. Thursday and Friday the shop is open until 9 p.m. and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Orders by phone and online are very welcome, says Marc, and home delivery is available.

Home Hardware is involved with the local community and participates in programs such as Communities in

Bloom, the Special Olympics, Tree Canada Foundation, Sick Kids Foundation, the United Way and area food banks.

To thank Capital Home Hardware customers for their patience during renovations and to celebrate the new look, free popcorn is handed out every Friday and Saturday.

Ashwin Shingadia is a Glebe resident who writes on business and other topics for the Glebe Report and has been a member of the Glebe Report board.

(A version of this article first appeared in the OSCAR.)

photos: Liz McKeen

It’s been forty years

Elias Monsour, owner of Fifth Avenue Grocery, says 40 years is enough. The store is for sale.

Fifth Avenue Grocery, the second-tolast corner store in the Glebe, is up for sale. Said owner Janet Monsour, “We love the area, and we’ll miss the neighbours. But 40 years – it’s enough.”

The corner store was held up by armed gunmen in January 2014 and again at knifepoint in April. The owners recently received a note of apology from three of the robbers.

“On behalf of me and two other I would like to apologize for a robbery that happened in your store. I hope you can forgive us for our foolish actions and accept this compensation in return.” The envelope containing $200 was delivered in person.

Said Elias Monsour, “We came in 1976. Forty years is enough.” None of his children are interested in running the store, but he pointed out that new owners can choose to operate it as a corner store if they wish.

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Have fun reading this summer

by Ildiko Sumegi

Summer is nearly upon us and with it the quest to fend off boredom and provide something to compete with the television and computer. Here are a few books for various ages that may help keep summer reading a fun and amusing activity of choice. All of these books can be found at the Ottawa Public Library.

Sam and Dave Dig a Hole (Candlewick Press, 2014) by Mac Barnett and illustrated by Jon Klassen As the title suggests, Sam and Dave have decided to dig a hole. They don’t have any outrageous plans, but they are hoping to find something “spectacular.” Mac Barnett tells the tale, but it’s the story combined with the visual humour provided by Jon Klassen’s illustrations that really lift this book into the category of a “read again.”

Decisions are made by the two boys that bring them on many occasions to within a hair’s breadth of something spectacular, but they always pass it by,

digging their way first in one direction and then another. In the end, something spectacular does happen, and the boys end up exactly where they began … or do they? This is a fun and funny book for ages four to seven with a somewhat existential ending that will leave you scratching your head.

Bink and Gollie (Candlewick Press, 2010) by Kate DiCamillo and Alison McGhee and illustrated by Tony Fucile For those readers aged six to eight who find themselves floating in the seeming void between picture books and beginner chapter books, Newbery award-winner Kate DiCamillo has teamed up with Alison McGhee and Tony Fucile to bring us Bink and Gollie. The book consists of three short stories that see the girls navigate the tricky terrain of a lasting friendship. There is a disagreement over a pair of painfully bright socks, a trip to the Andes, and an intrusion on their friendship when Bink acquires a

new “marvelous companion”.

This book is heavy on illustrations and spare on text, but the text that is there is finely crafted and injected throughout with a dry sense of humour that many will appreciate. Thoughtful and intelligent but with a charming simplicity, this is a book about girls that will leave both girls and boys hankering for more. And luckily for those who do find themselves hankering, there are two more books in the series.

Whales on Stilts (Harcourt, 2005)

by M.T. Anderson and illustrated by Kurt Cyrus When Lily goes to work with her father on Career Day, she realizes something is amiss. It could be that he works out of an abandoned warehouse, or it may be the armed guards posted threateningly in the Research and Development department; it might be the fact that her dad’s boss, though sporting a pin-striped suit, wears a sack over his head and has unusually rubbery hands. Whatever the cause of her suspicions, Lily’s anxieties

are only increased when she realizes that her father cannot be persuaded to see the facts, such as they are. When pressed, he is unconcerned: “It’s not really as suspicious as it seems.

We’re a midsize company devoted to expanding cetacean pedestrian opportunities.” And by this, he means that they make stilts for whales.

As in all great children’s books, we find that the adults are not quite up to the job, and Lily and her two friends Katie and Jasper must save the day. Unlike Lily, who considers herself to be a bit boring, both Katie and Jasper are stars of their own book series. Katie, who has considerable experience fighting off zombies and werewolves, is often being interviewed by the writers of her Horror Hollow book series. Jasper, on the other hand, is a Boy Technonaut who spends his time inventing amazing gadgets, outwitting baddies, and drinking Gargletine Brand Patented Breakfast Drink.

This is an outrageously smart and funny read – a tongue-in-cheek ode to classic science fiction, action comic book series, and detective/mystery in the vein of Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys. Occasional black and white drawings by Kurt Cyrus add even more fun to this ludicrous tale. Whales on Stilts will make hilarious reading for ages nine to twelve. And since it is only the first book in the Pals in Peril series (also known as M.T. Anderson’s Thrilling Tales), there is a lot more summer fun to be had with Lily, Katie and Jasper.

Ildiko Sumegi is a Glebe resident, mother of two boys, and owner of a well-used library card.

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Sweetland

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The Wolf in Winter4

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The Seventh Link5

Margaret Mayhew

Leaving Before the Rains Come

Alexandra Fuller

The Dinner7

Herman Koch

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Her Fearful Symmetry

Audrey Niffenegger

Blue Future: Protecting Water for People and the Planet Forever9

Maude Barlow

The Rosie Project10

Graeme C. Simsion

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Matrons and Madams

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Busted: A Tale of Corruption and Betrayal in the City of Brotherly Love12

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Indian Horse13

Richard Wagamese

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books Summer reading is just around the corner!

By Susan Townley

With summer on its way, the annual TD Summer Reading Club program is just around the corner as well. This program, sponsored by the Toronto Dominion Bank, encourages children to read all summer long through regular visits to their local public library.

More than 1,900 public libraries participate nationwide, with almost 700,000 children reading over 1.2 million books each summer. This program runs at your local library from mid-June until Labour Day weekend, with each child receiving an activity kit filled with games and ideas to encourage literacy.

This year’s summer reading club theme is “play,” something we all enjoy doing in the summer! To complement this year’s theme, here are a few playful titles available at your local library.

Andy Pritchett makes his picture book debut with Stick! This energetic, colourful book tells the story of a little dog who is incredibly excited about the really cool thing he just found, a stick! Sadly, the other animals he meets along the way are not as excited.

He eventually meets another dog who appreciates the wonders of his discovery. With only six words, this book works well as an early reader as well as a picture book. Pritchett has captured the joy of finding a friend who wants to play the same game as you.

Another book of few words is Andrew Larsen’s See You Next Year.

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A young girl describes the annual week-long summer vacation she takes with her parents to the beach. This charmingly illustrated picture book captures the comfort of returning to the same place each summer and the joy of building family memories and meeting new friends.

Also by Larsen is In the Tree House, an equally charming story of a boy’s adventures in his tree house. He begins by sketching out spectacular ideas for a tree house and soon his enthusiasm spreads to his brother and father. The building of the tree house leads to the best summer ever, with the boys hanging out together, playing games and reading comic books in their hideaway. Summers go by and his big brother has his own friends and doesn’t climb trees anymore. While the boy is king of the tree house now, he misses his brother. Then a neighbourhood blackout changes everything for one more perfect night. With the streets plunged into darkness, his big brother comes to the tree house and they once again play games for hours.

Something that seems to keep the children playing all summer long at the library is Lego. Once again we will be having Lego Fridays with our Block Party programs every Friday afternoon all summer. Daniel Lipkowitz has brought the Lego world to life in his series of Lego Play Book idea books. Filled with photos and creative ideas for Lego building from the Dorling Kindersley publishing group, this series celebrates the over 50-year-old tradition of Lego.

Susan Townley is children’s programmer and public service assistant at the Sunnyside Branch of the Ottawa Public Library.

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Our daughter Tricia passed away unexpectedly on March 4, 2014 at the age of 33. I’m attempting to write her biography. The stories below will be in it.

By Gerry Liston

It was not a dark and stormy night, but it was Halloween again – one of Tricia’s favourite days of the year.

Not only could you put up creepy decorations and wear funny or terrifying costumes, but there was candy. Lots and lots of candy – if you were persistent! When it came to collecting candy, few were as diligent as Tricia. There came a time when her older sister Vanessa wanted to go out with her friends – alone.

Consequently, on a few occasions, I accompanied Tricia, the young trickor-treater, on her rounds.

This particular year was colder than most, but that didn’t deter Tricia. She was well known for outlasting her peers while trying for just one last big score. So as the crowds dwindled and frost settled on everything in sight, she trudged on through the night, her pleading father in tow. Long ago she had learned the dedicated Halloweener’s technique of collecting her loot in a heavyduty pillowcase. This year she had refined the system by bringing along a backup sack. The best part of this was giving old Dad the full load to carry while she was refreshed with an empty receptacle.

As the night wore on, my patience

and aching back finally wore out and I drew the line. We were at the end of a block that I considered to be the logical end to our neighbourhood.

“That’s it! We’re going home.” Tricia was beside herself with grief and pleaded for just a little longer. Soft touch that I was, I relented but gave her an ultimatum. She could choose one last block and then that was definitely it! As it happened, close by was a portion of Echo Drive lined with large homes and filled with well-to-do people. Naturally this was her choice. She’d hit the motherlode for sure!

What she hadn’t noticed was that only one side of the street had buildings on it. The other side was a tree-filled embankment on a steep slope down towards the Rideau Canal. Horrors! Only half as many houses to canvas! Secondly, most of the buildings were well back from the road. A long walk in and another back out. By the time we were halfway down the block, she had amassed a total of one apple. Many people didn’t appear to be home and the few that answered the door confessed to having no treats. Thoroughly disgusted, she eventually came upon the last home on the block. Eureka!

It was closer to the road and had an array of Halloween decorations all lit up! Triumphantly, she marched in and pressed the doorbell. A middle-aged man answered with a large basket in one of his arms. After a brief conversation with Tricia, he doled out some goodies and while

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When I asked what the problem was she snarled, “That guy’s a dentist and he gave me toothpaste and a brush!”

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Sweet Marie

By Gerry Liston

In March 2004, spring break from Bishop’s University was imminent for Vanessa, while Tricia was about to graduate from Humber College’s Comedy and Writing program. At this point Tricia had decided to adopt her stage name “Sunny” permanently.

She remained “Sunny” from then on.

Pat had been encouraging the girls to visit my mom, their 91-year-old grandmother, Marie Liston, in Brockville.

Although in poor health and residing in a seniors’ home, she was still in possession of a sharp mind and a keen sense of humour. Both girls had loved her from the time they were old enough to recognize her. Part of their fondness sprang from the fact that she was a kind, gentle woman who listened to people attentively, including small children. The visit took place as planned, during their school breaks.

They met up in Brockville and it was off to Grandma’s, where a happy reunion ensued. Those in the home required significant assisted living. Consequently, the tone in there was frequently somber. On this day, however, the girls’ arrival prompted excitement for my mom, as well as a pleasing interlude for neighbouring residents and some of the staff. The girls entertained with stories of their schools and social activities and at one point Sunny broke into her interpretation of a dancing turkey. Because of her extensive improvisational training, the moves were greeted with peals of laughter and it was the talk of the home for days.

That evening, they stayed overnight with relatives and the next day it was back to Grandma’s. This time it was her turn to entertain the girls with stories. She recalled seeing a car for the first time in 1919. It was near her home in the tiny village of Westport. She was on a dirt road with some friends picking apples when this noisy contraption lumbered past. By then they had all heard of cars, but it was mesmerizing to actually see and hear one in action. A few years later, she graduated high school and was off to Normal School in Ottawa to become a teacher. She said that while attending the school, there were sometimes wonderful outings on weekends, when she and her friends would be given

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rides out in the country for picnics.

Their destination had been all the way out to Dow’s lake!

Both girls were mesmerized by these descriptions of bygone days and how things had changed. My mom then told them about some more recent occurrences that she enjoyed.

She described a trip she took to Vancouver to visit their aunt and my sister Eleanor, as well as winning a contest that provided her with a glorious tour of Jamaica. Jamaica was highlighted for her by a trip down a river on a bamboo raft piloted by a goodlooking, muscular, young fellow. Time flew by and eventually they were down to one last story. Mom was quite elderly in her story, but still able to do some supply teaching. As she walked down the street one day, she noticed a boy of 12 or so stopped at the corner up ahead. She speculated that he may have been a disgruntled student.

When she approached, the boy, pointing at some dog poo, said, “Hey lady.

Did you drop that?” She looked at the mess and advised, “Why no, dear, you saw it first. It must be yours.” As he stood with his jaw drooping and nothing to say, she chuckled to herself and continued on her walk. Sunny and Vanessa were lost in fits of laughter.

Like all good things, the visit ended.

Both girls said goodbye and went on their separate ways. The following year of 2005, Vanessa graduated from Bishop’s, and Sunny, having completed her Humber College training, continued to pursue her career aspirations in Toronto. The 2004 visit was the last time Sunny would ever see her Grandma Liston. Sadly in 2005, sweet Marie passed away, due to pneumonia. She was 92.

Gerry Liston is retired from the Department of National Defence.

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Vocalist Wallis Giunta will appear July 9 at Southminster United Church as part of this year’s Music & Beyond festival.

minster; Music of Versailles (July 8) and Daniel Bolshoy (July 15) at St. Barnabas. And, of course, Pirates of the Rideau, a free concert on a moving ship, takes place along the Canal from Dow’s Lake to the NAC on Monday, July 6 from 4 to 6 p.m.

See the full line-up on the Music & Beyond website at www.musicandbeyond.ca. Most events are included with the festival pass. Early bird pricing for passes – ending July 3 – are $150 for adults, $70 for students and $40 for youth 15 years of age or younger. Festival passes and tickets are available

for purchase at the Music & Beyond office, 51 William Street, many area outlets, and online at www.musicandbeyond.ca.

For more information, please contact Audrey Taylor, Media Coordinator, at media@musicandbeyond.ca or 613241-0777, ext. 509, or Sylvia Hughes, Marketing, at marketing@musicandbeyond.ca or 613-241-0777, ext. 510.

Teena Hendelman is an avid appreciator of music and a regular contributor to the Glebe Report on a variety of subjects.

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Music & Beyond’s 2015 festival takes place from July 4 to July 17 at various locations around the city, many in the Glebe and Old Ottawa South.

Hundreds of world-class artists will perform music and a wide range of other art forms and cultural disciplines in 75 concerts and events.

Founder and artistic director Julian Armour is very excited about the upcoming festival: “I feel that each day offers new highlights and I’m completely delighted with the incredible people that have agreed to be part of the festival. The wide range of ‘beyond’ activities will make this a very fun and exciting festival for absolutely everybody!”

First time performers this year are Grammy Award winning guitarist Jason Vieaux; genre-defying and brilliantly original pianist Chilly Gonzales; choral music legend Morten Lauridsen; acclaimed early music ensemble Fuoco E Cenere, performing three shows, including one with marionettes and another with actors, cooking and tastings for the audience; Giller Prize winner Sean Michaels, whose novel Us Conductors ties in closely with the electronic musical instrument, the theremin; and the superb British a cappella vocal octet, VOCES8.

Other highlights include a huge party – National Gallery Soirée – an evening filled with music and visual art at the National Gallery of Canada, featuring over 150 short concerts throughout the museum, each performance reflecting the art in specific

galleries. Cirque Fantastic will collaborate with an all-new show linking acrobatics, juggling and other circus performances with music. People can enjoy dancing and music at the Tango Soirée held in the stunning Parliament Ballroom at the Shaw Centre overlooking the Rideau Canal. Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin will host a concert of music that highlights some of the legal problems of the great composers. One of North America’s rising vocal stars, Wallis Giunta, will offer a recital called “Ladies and Gentlemen!” where she takes on a range of male and female roles.

Many artists who have become festival favourites over the years are returning, including the Vienna Piano Trio, the Auryn Quartet, worldrenowned countertenor Daniel Taylor, the Theatre of Early Music, Ottawa soprano Donna Brown, the Hannaford Street Silver Band, the National Arts Centre Orchestra and the chamber orchestra Thirteen Strings.

As always, there will be lots of programming for young people, including the free Ottawa Family Music Expo, which offers over 120 short concerts, workshops, demonstrations, games and more. New this year is their Pizza Concert Series: A Taste of Cello (July 7), Savouring the Harp (July 11) and Lunch-time Rendezvous (July 16).

Concerts taking place in the Glebe and neighbouring Old Ottawa South and Centretown include The Auryn Quartet (July 5) and VOCES8 (July 10) at St. Matthew’s; Wallis Giunta (July 9), Donna Brown and Stefan Mendl (July 11) and Us Conductors with Sean Michaels (July 14) at South-

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Musical feast cooking up for the Glebe this summer

By Trevor Greenway

Eats, beats and grilled meats. That’s what will be cooking up at TD Place July 11 when Canadian DJ Skratch Bastid rolls into town with a busload of beats, burgers and big name DJs for an all-day outdoor dance party.

The Canadian DJ scratch master is travelling across the country for his Bastid’s BBQ tour – a cross-country dance party celebrating food, music and, of course, soaking in the sun. He stops in Ottawa July 11 for the firstever DJ show at TD Place.

If you’re already dreading hearing the typical thump thump club music on repeat all weekend, you need not worry about this party – Bastid and crew aren’t just typical DJs who mix from club anthem to club anthem; they’re talented turntablists who mix up everything from the Beatles and Jackson 5 with more modern day dance beats. There will be something for everyone at this musical feast – kids, adults and everyone in between.

“It’s a great opportunity to animate the space and create some events for the community that are all-ages,” said TD Place Booking and Event Marketing Manager Erin Coyle. “Especially if you have a family, it’s difficult to do these types of things sometimes. It’s a great opportunity for the whole family to get out and dance.”

If you are unfamiliar with Bastid’s

Skratch Bastid brings his BBQ dance party to TD Place this summer.

work, a quick YouTube search is all you need to understand his diversity on the decks. He runs the gamut when it comes to musical genres and seamlessly blends everything into one dynamic set that keeps the floor bouncing. His show at TD Place will be no different. “He is a great DJ, very diverse,” added Coyle. “This is yet another opportunity to introduce the community to the space.” The tunes will start in the early afternoon and run into the evening with tickets at $15.

But that’s not the only thing happening at TD Place this summer, not by a mile. Glebe residents and Ottawans from beyond will be serenaded by the amazingly talented Serena Ryder July 3 and get this: the entire show is free. TD Place is putting on the show to kickoff home opening weekend for the Ottawa RedBlacks and the Ottawa Fury. “What a chance to showcase a great artist and do it by throwing a big free weekend party,” said OSEG CEO Bernie Ashe. “This gives us a chance to open our doors to people in Ottawa who otherwise might not have come.”

Ottawa will be “Thunderstruck” on Sept. 3 when Aussie rockers AC/DC blast into town for a massive outdoor concert at TD Place Stadium. Angus Young and crew are hitting the road this summer with their Rock or Bust World Tour and they are stopping by to play some new tunes and classics in the Glebe this fall.

And if you couldn’t get enough of that 80s love song, “Lady in Red,” then you probably already have your tickets to Chris De Burgh on Sept. 25.

De Burgh is on tour with his new record Hands of Man – the 20th studio record of his impressive career.

And things will get wild all along Bank Street this fall. You’ll think you’re in Austin, Texas during its SXSW music festival. Eighty local bands will spill out into various venues along Bank Street from September 18 to 20 as part of the CityFolk festival. It’s called Marvest and promises to deliver an eclectic menu of food, music and culture to the Glebe.

The idea was spawned from CityFolk and Ottawa Bluesfest Exec-

utive-director Mark Monahan’s visit to Austin’s SXSW festival last year, and seeing how the vibe of a festival can be spread out into entire neighbourhoods, he wanted to replicate it here in the Glebe. Bands playing at Marvest won’t be only rocking traditional music venues either; think bike shops, hair salons and specialty shops. Everyone in the Glebe will be bobbing while they eat, shop or stroll.

“When you see people on a dance floor, everyone is smiling from ear to ear,” said Bluesfest Communications Director and former co-owner of the Rainbow Bistro AJ Sauvé. He expects the festival to bring the entire neighbourhood together to celebrate art and culture in the Glebe. “Everybody who is there has something in common.

Music brings people together and that is what Marvest will do.”

There are also tons of local shows happening at music joints in the Glebe this summer. Irene’s Pub has music every Thursday through Sunday with bands like Ottawa rockers Small Black Dog hitting the pub July 3. Ottawa soft rock kings PleasureCraft will be bringing all the “yacht rock” the Glebe can handle when they cruise into the pub July 11.

FarmTeam Cookhouse & Bar offers up grub and tunes every Friday and Saturday nights, with a DJ spinning “lounge party tunes” on Fridays and a local live band on Saturday nights.

So pick up a pair of festival shoes, a decent backpack, a good water bottle and just spend your time strolling through the Glebe this summer; there will be lots to see – and hear.

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Time travelling through song with the Sunset Singers

By Martha Tobin

“Music is love in search of a word.”

—Sidney Lanier Music allows us to time travel. Some music evokes such strong memories that we are instantly transported back decades to a moment in our life – sometimes even a moment that we had not remembered until the very first chord of that song. Other music has us pondering the future. And then there are songs that make us appreciate the present and encourage us to savour that very instant and hold onto it for as long as we can.

This is the reaction of the audience when the Sunset Singers perform. The singers are a group of a dozen or so seniors ranging in age from 60 to 88 years old. They tap into their own life experiences and memories and share joy through the community via song. They sing songs of their era that conjure up emotion and take their audience on a journey through time.

The Sunset Singers started singing a few years ago with Roxanne Goodman, the renowned choir director of Big Soul Project Gospel Choir. For some members it was a way to get out of the house.

For others, they saw it as a way to make some new friends. Still others decided that they really did want to try and sing even though someone had once told them they couldn’t.

The members of the Sunset Singers

realized that if they were getting so much joy and fulfillment from the songs they were singing together, why not “take the show on the road” and reach out to other seniors. Now they go to retirement residences around the city and, as one member says, “bring a sense of identity back to these people” through song.

In fact, seniors in the audience are encouraged to sing along or dance. Songs like “Lean on Me,” “This Little Light of Mine,” “Cruising Down the River” and “We’ll Meet Again” are favourites that often evoke tears of joy in the audience.

The Sunset Singers not only touch their audience emotionally but at the end of each performance, they make a point of going into the audience and shaking hands and hugging their fans.

The Sunset Singers love to sing as much as they love to give back to the community. On Saturday, June 20 at 3

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p.m. in the Studio at Centrepointe Theatre, the members of this choir and Roxanne Goodman will put on their Songs to Remember Spring Concert.

For $20 you will take a “walk down memory lane” through songs and a few skits. All money raised will be donated to local charities like St. Joe’s Supper Table and the Autism Society.

Your admission fee includes drinks and dessert served after the two-hour show. You can also participate in a silent auction with many outstanding prizes generously donated by Ottawa businesses.

Come and time travel with the Sunset Singers. You will love and laugh and sing. You will live in the past, the present and the future. You will be supporting a wonderful group of singers and a number of great charities. What better way to spend an afternoon? And who knows

… you too may want to join the Sunset Singers.

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A guinea pig’s perspective on the Glebe

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BREAKING NEWS: FIFA playbook leaked!

The Glebe Report has learned that the Royal Canadian Guinea Pig Police (RCGP) have been investigating a high profile case of leaked FIFA playbooks.

Upwards of 200 copies of a secret soccer playbook were found scattered in the Lansdowne/TD Place parking area last Saturday. “The RCGP has not ruled anything out at present but can confirm that international espionage is being considered, as well as littering,” stated film critic Paul from Glebe Video, and interim RCGP spokesperson. “Laser Zone is verifying whether the copies were made locally or not, and we should have more information in the next 24 hours. The playbook is highly complex and is believed to be the result of years of strategizing.”

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in 2012. Despite the leak, they remain strong contenders for the World Cup!” Based on the Glebe Report’s expert analysis, it does look like the playbook may belong to several local rodents and not the Canadian women’s team.

“There is a guinea pig wearing a Canadian cap that looks astonishingly like Puck from GiddyPigs!” noticed Bruce from Optical Excellence, though he didn’t recognize any of the others.

Glebe Report tracked down Obelix, interim CEO, CFO, COO and POO of GiddyPigs, at Morala drinking lemonade with John Muggleton of the Ottawa Acting Company. Obelix denied any association with the leak: “I don’t much care for soccer – I hear the grass is all fake and causes gas.”

Muggleton agreed, but did look suspiciously bloated.

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By Adelle Farrelly

It’s good to be nice. Or is it? When we use the word “nice,” unless we are being sarcastic (“Nice going there, buddy!”), we usually mean something along the spectrum of blandly inoffensive to wildly positive. “She seems nice,” we might say about a friend-of-a-friend after speaking to her for only 30 seconds, or “He’s a genuinely nice person,” when enthusiastically endorsing a co-worker. The origins of all this niceness, however, are not so nice.

Historically, nice was actually not that great a thing to be.

It comes from Latin verb nescire (to not know, be ignorant) or adjective nescius (ignorant, unknowing).

We usually think of the words we’ve received from Latin, often via French, as the lengthier words in our vocabulary (for example, intelligent vs smart), but nice is a nice exception. It started out meaning ignorant in English too,

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but then from there became silly, then simple, then straight-forward or painstaking, particular, and discerning, and from there, respectable and virtuous, until (finally!) in the 18th century, pleasant, satisfactory, friendly and attractive. It may make its way back around again some day; I would argue that process has started. After all, despite the shift in meaning to a more positive connotation over the centuries, I would rather be described as good, kind, brave, or even competent any day over nice. “Nice” has an inexplicable sense of ineffective blandness to me, neutral to the point of complacency. If you feel differently, that’s nice too, but if it’s all the same to you, I would be happy relegating “nice” back to the neutral-to-negative category of attributes.

Adelle Farrelly delights in bringing her insights into the meaning and origin of words to Glebe Report readers.

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By Bhat Boy

The New Art Festival: bringing you art for a generation The New Art Festival Saturday and Sunday, June 20 and 21 10 a.m. – 5 p.m., rain or shine Central Park at Bank and Clemow Free admission!

Much like the Great Glebe Garage Sale, the New Art Festival (TNAF) has become a Glebe institution over the past generation. Both are cultural phenomena, largely invented in the Glebe.

Culture is an industry that is alive and well under our very noses. It goes on in basements, attics and spare bedrooms all over the Glebe with virtually no government subsidies, showing no signs of being exported to China.

In 1993, the first year of the festival, we all set up in a circle under the big silver maple in Central Park on a hot Saturday in June and someone brought a didgeridoo. The secret to the festival’s success is that it is really for the artists. It is as though the public caught on that they could sneak in and buy art, sometimes dressing like artists so as to not look suspicious.

For one weekend in June every year,

the festival grew out of the mud like a medieval city. Before we knew it, the festival was out of control: we had to jury applications; create parking control; and stop wayward artists from setting up on the sidewalks.

One would think that an outdoor arts festival would be weather dependent, but according to Chandler Swain, our fearless leader, there are hundreds of umbrella-bearing patrons “in the greenroom,” waiting for the rain to start so all the sunsoaking riff raff will clear out of the park. These plastic-cloaked, hardy art purchasers emerge from their houses the moment the clouds release their droplets and descend the steps of the park, even as the faint of heart flee for the safety of the coffee shop.

Swain, owner of an Almonte gallery and general store and maverick of the Ottawa art scene, has been running TNAF for the past 10 years.

Our government would have us think that “Art” is for the elite, something that should be put on a pedestal. Modern art will go nowhere if everyone insists on supporting dead artists. Forget the gallery, go for a walk in the park, support the arts industry by buying art from an artist who is breathing, an artist who might just create something next week thinking about the conversation they had with you in the grass. Bring the kids, bring the dog, run around, don’t be afraid to touch things, pretend it’s not the gallery, because it’s not. These are real artists in the real world, to whom you can talk, not just read about on plaques. And it’s not just for grown-ups, because kids can learn about art too.

Arts and crafts, like other cultural ideas, have to be passed on

from generation to generation. The festival is not just about products sold, but is also about lives changed.

Meaghan Haughian, who grew up in Old Ottawa South, produces some of Ottawa’s edgiest art. When I asked her how TNAF affected her when she was growing up, she told me, “I started participating in 1999 in my last year at Canterbury. As a high school student, I didn’t know anything about marketing my work or the practical business side of being an artist. TNAF allowed me to try new things in an easy-going atmosphere. It was the perfect place for me to get my feet wet without the pressures and responsibilities that come with exhibiting in a gallery and helped me build my community. I continue to have close friends that I met at the festival. I still have fans who come to my shows and collect my work – I never would have met them if it weren’t for TNAF. It’s the people and the energy that bring me back. So many artists participate year after year – it’s exciting to see them again and to see how their art has changed.”

These words sound all too familiar to me; the foundations of my own successful art career are built on relationships and lessons that I learnt from our festival in Central Park.

That’s the thing – it is our festival.

The success of TNAF is the product of a neighbourhood that believes in the arts and culture industry.

Bhat Boy is a notable Glebe artist whose works grace a number of local buildings, and who was one of the founding artists who initiated Art in the Park, now called The New Art Festival.

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Shakespeare in Central Park

Fifth anniversary of Glebe Art in Our Gardens and Studio Tour

By Martha Bowers

Summer 2015 marks the fifth anniversary of the revival of the Glebe Art in Our Gardens and Studio Tour, which will be held on the weekend of July 4 and 5. Momentum has been building over the past five years, bringing attention to local artists and attracting many visitors to our neighbourhood for this highly anticipated event.

Although there are many art tours in our region, it is always special to meet your talented neighbours and support their work.

This year there is a mix of artists, some of whom have participated in previous years, as well as new ones.

They will be exhibiting their work in outdoor settings conveniently located throughout the Glebe in a variety of lovely garden environments. Sites will be grouped together for easy walking or cycling, so you don’t have to worry too much about parking.

One of the returning Glebe artists is Roy Brash, located at 67 Fifth Avenue. Brash’s love of nature had a major impact on his art and on his later depictions of animals, landscapes and water scenes. He admires in particular the power and beauty of water.

Brash says that he perceives nature as perfect and feels humble when trying to replicate its beauty on canvas.

“I believe that a painting should

“Sandpipers,” by Roy Brash

tell a story and provide interest to the viewer. Vivid colours and design are important and I try to use them to express mood and motion,” says Brash. “I also enjoy the meditative side of painting.”

Brash has exhibited at several shows and galleries and won many awards.

His works now hang in private, public and corporate collections across Quebec, Ontario and the U.S. Artists help to enrich our community with their creativity and dedication to living and working in the Glebe.

Through their art they offer unique interpretations of life, making the viewer appreciate the visual power of art that can be joyful, sad, beautiful or disturbing, but always evoking an emotional response. All who come out to the Glebe art tour will find something that moves them in some

way. And this year we are offering a prize to the art lover who visits the most sites over the weekend.

Brochures listing the artists’ names as well as a map showing the studio and garden locations for this year’s tour will be available in Glebe shops and at the GCC. In addition, on the tour weekend there will be signs at various street corners to indicate the locations of art sites. Information is also available on the website at www. glebearttour.ca.

Be sure to mark July 4 and 5 on your calendar. Rain or shine, the tour will go on!

Martha Bowers is an art lover, a member of the organizing committee for the Glebe Art in Our Gardens and Studio Tour and a frequent contributor to the Glebe Report.

A Company of Fools is back with its ever-popular Torchlight Shakespeare, bringing Shakespeare to Ottawa parks all summer long! This season’s production is the farcical play, The Comedy of Errors.

When two sets of identical twins separated at birth are brought to the same town by circumstance, mistaken identities abound! Antipholus and his servant Dromio (of Syracuse) arrive in Ephesus, which turns out to be the home of their twin brothers, also called Antipholus and his servant Dromio (of Ephesus). When the Syracusans encounter the friends and family of their twins, the result is a series of comical mishaps that challenge the possibility of truly knowing your friend, spouse, neighbour and self!

Directed by Catriona Leger, this season’s cast includes Warren Bain, Al Connors, Scott Florence, Gabrielle Lazarovitz, Geoff McBride and Katie Ryerson, with costume design

by Vanessa Imeson and set design by David Benedict Brown.

Bring a lawn chair or blanket, bug spray and your sense of humour. Passthe-hat donations are collected at the end of the performance and can be in the form of cash or cheque.

More information and a detailed park schedule can be found at www. fools.ca or by phoning 613-863-7529.

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‘Kathy’s Peony’

PHOTO: SYLVIA YOUNG

By Sylvia Young

“Kathy’s Peony,” a commemorative quilt by Sylvia Young, one of the many quilts on display at the Quilt Co Show & Sale at the Glebe Community Centre September 26 and 27.

Beyond the Edge: Artists’ Gardens Land Art Exhibition >>>> July 9 – September 27 Central Experimental Farm

Beyond the Edge: Artists’ Gardens is pleased to announce its second land art exhibition exploring innovative ideas and conceptual responses to the notion of “a garden as art.” The exhibition will again be presented in collaboration with the Canadensis Botanical Garden Society (CBGS) at the Central Experimental Farm – a rural oasis within Ottawa’s urban core.

The Beyond the Edge exhibition is intended as a precursor to con-

This 38-inch square art quilt is a tribute to my friend Kathy Blake, who passed away in May 2013.

Kathy and I met at work 36 years ago. She was an avid gardener who taught me a lot about perennials.

When she had to move from a house to a rented flat, she planted her favourite perennials in my backyard to save them until she could afford a new house. The peach heritage peonies loved their new sunny location and multiplied like crazy over the five years that we took care of them.

When Kathy came to relocate the plant to her new house, I am thankful that a bit of root got left behind and multiplied to fill the space again. I take photos every year as the blooms open up to worship the sun.

I learned to dye fabric at classes given by Elaine Quehl, a local fabric artist. When she offered to teach a class on how to make an art quilt from a photograph in the fall of 2012, I jumped at the chance and chose one struction of the Canadensis national botanic garden and a platform to bring public programming about the relationship between landscape and art, highlighting the avant-garde.

The 2014 inaugural Beyond the Edge: Artists’ Gardens attracted thousands of visitors, who were engaged and delighted by six installations that incorporated plant material and the landscape itself.

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of my peony photos. I dyed all of the fabrics for the peony, leaves and backing myself. The background fabric was purchased from Elaine. This quilt took two years to complete. I had started it before Kathy died but had to put it away while I mourned her passing. This winter, I started beading the centre in January and finished the quilting in late March.

“Kathy’s Peony” hangs in our living room, a reminder of my dear friend and the many happy times we spent together.

“Kathy’s Peony” will be on display at the Quilt Co Show and Sale, September 26 and 27 at the Glebe Community Centre.

Sylvia Young is a retired industrial engineer who started to make clothing at age 12, using her mother’s machine. She began to quilt and make fabric art seriously in 2005. She has been a member of Quilt Co for the last five years and will have at least 10 quilts and wall hangings at the Quilt Co Show & Sale. with the Canada Council Art Bank, which is lending three monumental outdoor sculptures to the project.

Each installation, created by collaborative teams of artists, designers, landscape architects, architects, students and others, will incorporate one of the Art Bank sculptures.

The exhibition will take place from July 9 to September 27, 2015, with the opening event July 9, and Team Talks/ Culture Day weekend events on September 26-27.

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one might expect, and everything happens at once.

All the other characters in My Beautiful Laundrette are equally marvelous.

There are hilarious scenes with traditional Pakistani superstitions clashing with modern living, including a successful attempt at voodoo by a wife towards her husband’s mistress. There’s also a scene with greasy punks who crawl over a stalled car, terrorizing the inhabitants.

One location is particularly haunting.

A labyrinth of trains, constantly moving in all directions, passes outside a decrepit apartment building creating a cacophony of images and sounds. The effect is stunning.

You will be exposed to a new world when you enter My Beautiful Laundrette. Your wash will never look the same.

My Beautiful Laundrette Directed by Stephen Frears (U.K., 1985)

By Lois Siegel

As the titles move through the spindry sequences to swirl onto the screen, the viewer immediately knows that something unusual is up. My Beautiful Laundrette washes its way into your heart and makes you wish you could also bring your laundry to England and meet the characters on the screen.

This film has a bit of everything: politics, social comment, punks, good guys, bad guys, cars, trains, love and soapsuds.

Ali is an alcoholic, ex-Pakistani journalist who lives with his son Omar in a run-down flat in London. Omar is enticed into the world of riches by his businessman-uncle Nasser who wants to help his brother. He gives Omar a job.

The film reeks of nepotism, but Omar’s uncle makes him pay his dues, by washing expensive cars for a few days. Then Nasser promotes him to accountant and presents him with a car. Next, Omar is given his uncle’s failing laundrette to operate in a punk-infested district of London as a final test.

Omar redecorates the place into a slick, state-of-the-art, fashionable, colourful gallery where the delighted local clientele slither in. But Omar doesn’t transform the place single-handedly. He recruits an old school chum – Johnny, a lower class, two-toned punk.

You may not recognize him, but Johnny is played by a young Daniel Day-Lewis.

The duo is charming in their attraction to each other, and unpredictable is the key to this movie. Nothing happens as

97 minutes. DVD: Amazon.ca. Release Date: July 21, 2015. Can be pre-ordered.

The Decline of the American Empire (Le Déclin de l’empire américain) Directed by Denys Arcand (Canada, 1986)

Decline seethes with comedy and drama and is entertaining and engaging. Love and sex in the American 20th century are explored.

The subject matter may not be everyone’s cup of tea or give a realistic view of the world, but the film is not trying to be “real” in that sense. It is merely taking an unscientific sampling of what goes on behind closed doors, creating a very humorous collage of our human foibles and vulnerabilities.

Decline tells us something about ourselves and the world in which we live, and if we look closely enough, we might understand why many people are unhappy with what they have chosen to do with their lives.

The actors are excellent and represent a who’s who in Quebec cinema: Rémy Girard, Yves Jacques, Pierre Curzi, Daniel Brière, Dominique Michel, Dorothée Berryman, Louise Portal, Geneviève Rioux and Gabriel Arcand.

The Decline of the American Empire was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language film in 1986.

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Leviathan

Directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev (Russia, 2014)

By Paul Green

To suggest that Kolya, the protagonist in this weighty film, is a modern-day Job may be an overstatement. However, he is a good man who is severely tested, and there are strong echoes of the biblical story. Moreover, when a film’s title directly references Thomas Hobbes’ 1651 treatise on government and the need for a social contract, one may be certain the director has some political intent.

On the strength of such films as The Return and Elena, Andrey Zvyagintsev has established a reputation as a maker of ambitious, psychologically well-grounded dramas that speak to the human condition and admit of no cheap manipulation. There is a naturalistic flow to these films that suggests Dostoyevsky or Tolstoy, and a breadth and depth commensurate with that of Russia herself.

Kolya lives in a small coastal city somewhere in the northwest of Russia, possibly near the Barents Sea. With him are his second wife Lilya, with whom he is still very much in love, and his son Roma by his first wife. Roma loves his father but clearly harbours resentment for his stepmother, an unhappy state of affairs that bodes ill for all concerned.

For her part, Lilya (a lovely, nuanced performance here from Elena Lyadova) is serious, soft-spoken and stoic as she puts up with her husband’s drinking and her stepson’s indifference. While we admire her forbearance, one senses that Lilya is not a happy woman.

Kolya’s more immediate problem is the fact that both his home and adjacent auto-repair business sit on a piece of prime real estate that is currently the object of an expropriation order by the powerful and corrupt mayor, Vadim.

Kolya has filed numerous appeals, all of them rejected by the courts.

We learn all this during a remarkable sequence that hints at the arbitrary and capricious nature of Russian justice, where the state prosecutor, a woman later seen in conference with Vadim,

reads aloud a summary of Kolya’s case in such rapid-fire delivery that viewers are half-convinced they are listening to an automaton.

Into this situation comes Kolya’s lawyer Dmitri, who has compiled a dossier on Vadim that may cause him some serious political difficulties. Indeed, in one of the few, even mildly humorous moments in Leviathan, we observe the mayor fulminating at his underlings.

“I’m worried,” he says. “I’m really goddamned worried. Where did he get this information … and who’s paying the son-of-a-bitch? That’s what I’d like to know!” And on and on – a classic paranoid rant. Roman Madyanov, who plays Vadim, is very effective, as he stops well short of caricature.

In another instance of what may well be some sly political commentary, Vadim meets frequently with the regional Orthodox bishop, who is clearly an ally. Funny thing about the bishop – when he and Vadim confer alone, he sounds like Marlon Brando in The Godfather; but when he delivers a sermon in the final scene that serves as an epilogue, he actually does sound like a bishop. Except that the venal mayor can scarcely understand what he is talking about. God sees everything, Vadim says to a small boy in church; this is a bit rich even for Vadim, who apparently hasn’t a spiritual bone in his body.

Just as Kolya’s case starts to show promise, the whole thing goes south.

Some very unexpected but plausible developments involving his lawyer Dmitri, his wife Lilya and an ill-starred shooting party place Kolya squarely on the road to tragedy.

As one critic has sharply observed, Kolya has become not so much Job as the beached whale itself. Beyond the high-calibre performances from a very committed group of actors, I would single out the work of the cinematographer who has turned to good account the stark beauty of a Russian landscape overlaid with bleak images of a decaying industrial infrastructure.

Running time: 140 minutes. In Russian with English subtitles. Available at Glebe Video.

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Funding public transit and infrastructure

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Better health care

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The government is investing $2 million for a new PET-MRI at the Brain Imaging Centre at the Royal Hospital’s Institute of Mental Health Research to foster the next generation of research in Ottawa. A new five-floor expansion of the University of Ottawa Heart Institute is part of the $11 billion the government is investing in health care infrastructure over the next decade to better serve Ottawa residents. In addition, a new $20 million Health Technology Innovation Evaluation Fund will support homegrown, innovative health technologies, such as those created in the Ottawa technology sector.

Quality education

More than $11 billion over 10 years is being provided to school boards to build new schools, such as in Ottawa to accommodate 412 full-day kindergarten students. This funding will help build more schools in areas of high growth, and improve conditions of existing school facilities.

Increasing access to post-secondary education

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OSAP reforms will support Ottawa students and ensure greater access at our post-secondary institutions by indexing the maximum student aid levels available and the amount of loan forgiveness annually. Investments are also being made in business accelerators that will encourage entrepreneurship in our universities and colleges.

Supporting youth employment

The government is helping 150,000 more youth find a good job through the renewed Ontario Youth Jobs Strategy, by adding $250 million in funding over the next two years.

Ontario is also investing $20 million to launch Experience Ontario, a program to provide guidance to graduating high school students.

More money for local tourism

Ottawa will benefit from $5.9 million to promote and celebrate the 400th anniversary of Francophone presence in Ontario and from the government’s commitment to “make Canada’s 150th birthday an occasion for pride and celebration.” In addition, we are

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investing $2.9 million this year in 29 festivals and events – such as, Chamberfest, Jazzfest and Bluesfest – to celebrate our region’s diversity, heritage and culture.

Creating jobs

The government added $200 million to its $2.5 billion Jobs and Prosperity Fund, allowing Ottawa businesses to access additional supports to encourage innovation and create more jobs.

Our Eastern Ontario Development Fund will continue to provide support for small and medium-sized businesses.

Support for seniors

Ontario is doubling the Seniors Community Grant Program to $2 million per year, which will help seniors stay active in our local communities.

Expanding this program will build on the success of local organizations, such as the Somali Centre for Family Services and Connecting Miles of Smiles in Ottawa, currently benefiting from this program.

Affordable housing

The City of Ottawa will benefit from the extension of the Investments in Affordable Housing program for an additional five years, building on the $4 billion in affordable housing investments since 2003, the largest investment in the province’s history and raising social assistance rates.

More child care

Ottawa child care providers will benefit from the additional $44.5 million being invested annually to stabilize fees, improve the reliability of child care, and better meet the needs of child care operators and parents.

Reducing poverty

Ottawa community groups will be able to access a new $50 million fund to combat poverty in new, innovative, evidence-based ways – specifically at the local level.

Our government will continue to make investments in Ottawa to improve our quality of life, prosperity and well-being. As your MPP for Ottawa Centre, my goal is to make sure that Ottawa remains the best place to work, live and raise a family.

Through investments in healthcare, education, transit infrastructure and culture, the Government of Ontario is supporting our community towards that goal.

To learn more about the budget, please visit: www.ontario.ca/budget.

Should you have any questions or feedback, please do not hesitate to contact me at my community office at ynaqvi.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org or 613-722-6414. I look forward to hearing from you.

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councillor’s report O’Connor bike lane promises much better conditions, but it’s not perfect

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Opinion poll With an election in the offing, the Glebe Report wants your thoughts on: “Why I’ll vote (or not

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A recommendation to proceed with a north-south www.capitalward.ca bike lane on O’Connor Street, from Parliament Hill to Lansdowne, will come to Council for approval in late June. The proposed design would see dedicated/segregated lanes for the entire Centretown section and some of the Glebe section, but not all – the report recommends shared lanes between Strathcona and Fifth avenues.

As is typical of a major project affecting many people and organizations, the recommended outcome will not satisfy everyone. To the many people who advocated for a dedicated cycling lane along the entire recommended route, with no exceptions, I hope you will understand that the City made a concerted effort to achieve that result. In the end, though, there were enough significant obstacles to conclude that a shared lane was the better option in some sections. Where the impacts on residents and institutions with unique and very real needs could not be reconciled with a dedicated lane – from Strathcona to Fifth – the City’s managers and I agreed to a “shared lane” approach combined with additional traffic calming measures.

Since this decision was first communicated in early May, I have spent many hours reviewing the route and discussing possible improvements. I hope Council will approve the project with the following modifications: • Extend the dedicated bike lanes further south an additional four blocks from Strathcona to Glebe Avenue, with the exception of the parking and service area to medical offices and a diplomatic loading zone. This would result in shared use lanes for only five blocks, from Glebe to Fifth; • Designate O’Connor St. as a 30 km/h zone from Pretoria to Holmwood; • Modify bulb-outs with a “ride over” feature to eliminate the need to continually enter/exit the travel lane; and • Add traffic calming features such as speed humps in two locations where stop signs are more than a block apart

vote) in the next federal election.”

Send us your response in 75 words or less via email to editor@glebereport.ca, or reply to our Twitter @glebereport #vote or #notvote.

June Special

Review of water rate structure

The City is reviewing the way residents and businesses are charged for water services. The Water, Wastewater and Stormwater Rate Structure Review will examine best practices in other municipalities, with a view to establishing a new approach that’s fair to all customers while ensuring the system’s long-term financial sustainability.

The current system, which relies on variable, consumption-based revenues to pay largely fixed costs, is not financially sustainable. Water consumption in Ottawa has decreased by nearly 15 per cent over the past decade, which is undeniably good news in terms of preserving a precious natural resource. But, because the costs to maintain the infrastructure don’t decrease along with consumption, it has also led to significant revenue shortfalls for the provision of essential services.

The City’s current rate structure includes two main charges: $1.699 per cubic metre for water consumption, and a sewer surcharge for wastewater and storm water services, set at 117 per cent of the water use charge.

Over the years, many residents have pointed out that the current rate structure, where storm water costs are included as part of the sewer surcharge, is unfair, because properties that do not receive water bills are not charged for the maintenance of storm water infrastructure from which they benefit. Downtown parking lots pay nothing for runoff that must be absorbed by the sewer system, and rural ratepayers on wells and septic systems pay nothing towards the City’s drainage ditches and other storm water management and flood-control systems.

Although revenue stability should be a primary goal of any new approach – this essential service must pay for itself through rates – the review will consider five other guiding principles: fairness, affordability, transparency, preserving gains in water conservation and supporting economic development.

Staff will report back with options for a new rate structure in early 2016. Members of the public will have opportunities to provide comments and review the options as part of this process, with public engagement sessions planned for fall 2015.

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Seniors living in Capital Ward (the Glebe, Glebe Annex, Dow’s Lake, Old Ottawa South, Old Ottawa East, Heron Park and Riverside) are invited to a special lunch I am hosting at the Colonel By retirement residence on Wednesday, June 17. Come to hear our special guest speaker, learn about seniors’ services provided by the City of Ottawa, and of course enjoy a nice, free lunch.

Sherry Nigro, Manager of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention at Ottawa Public Health, will give a talk on healthy ways to protect your independence and improve your well-being, and discuss features of the City that enhance livability and contribute to age-friendly environments.

Seating is limited, so register now via info@capitalward.ca or 613-580-2487.

The Colonel By is located at 43 Aylmer Ave. Doors open at 11 a.m.

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Thirty Years Ago in theGlebe Report

Ian McKercher was dished out and visitors travelled back through time in the memorabilia room. The celebration was organized by the Mutchmor Parents’ 90th Anniversary Committee, under the direction of Mrs. Anne Hargadon.

RATNA RAY ADVISES PREMIER

Vol. 13, No. 6, june 14, 1985 (28 pages) MUTCHMOR TURNS 90

Cover art by Michael and Amanda Olson

WORKOUT ON BANK STREET

On Thursday, June 6 (1985), morning traffic on Bank Street was stopped between Fifth and First avenues so about 200 Glebe residents could participate in a stretch-out with Brenda Lauzon, fitness organizer for CBC’s Midday program. Students from

First Avenue, Mutchmor and Corpus Christi schools joined T-shirt clad local merchants and residents for the community workout. Luzon’s exer-

cise clips are taken from scenic spots across Canada, and Glebe residents would appear on national television later that week.

NOTE: All back issues of the Glebe Report to June 1973 can be viewed on the Glebe Report website at www. glebereport.ca under the ARCHIVES menu.

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.

PHOTO: TREVOR GREENWAY

Mutchmor Public School celebrated its 90th year of operation with a series of events on May 30 (1985). Students, staff and parents congregated on the playing field just after noon to release 300 colourful helium balloons carrying messages, names and the school address across Canada. Former principals Dick Zadow and Jack Donaldson both spoke fondly of their days at Mutchmor.

An evening program included song numbers performed by the Primary and Junior Choirs. Miss Frances Iverson, who taught at Mutchmor from 1925 to 1931, recounted many humorous anecdotes. A giant birthday cake

Glebe resident Ratna Ray had been named to a 10-member team of advisors assembled to prepare Liberal leader David Peterson for his transition to power after 42 years of Tory government in Ontario. Ray was one of the Glebe Community Association’s two vice-presidents. She had served as special assistant to former official languages commissioner Keith Spicer.

She had been executive secretary to the National Unity Task Force under former Ontario Premier John Robarts and Jean-Luc Pepin, and was executive director of the federal Labour Department’s Woman’s Bureau.

The new Glebe history plaque was unveiled on May 12, and is located on the south wall of St. Giles Presbyterian Church on the corner of Bank and First. Left to right, Karen Dimock of St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church; Claudia Chowaniec, Clerk of Sessions of St. Giles Presbyterian Church; Councillor David Chernushenko; Lynn Barlow from the GCA; Andrew Peck from the BIA; and Avery Marshall from the City.

Glebe history plaque returns

By Lynn Barlow

You might have seen a blue bronze heritage plaque on the brick wall of St. Giles Presbyterian Church recently. It is the “Founding of the Glebe” history plaque, which returned to our neighbourhood on May 12.

The original plaque had been mounted on a metal post at the corner of Bank Street and Second Avenue, beside Feleena’s, on October 20, 1991.

Sixteen years later, when changes

were made to the corner’s sidewalk and patio area, the plaque vanished (maybe it took off for Rio or went for a dip in the Dead Sea, no one really knows.)

Since 2012, the GCA has been working with several residents, St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, St. Giles Presbyterian Church, the BIA and the City to create a new plaque. Many people helped to bring back the plaque: Ian McKercher, Janet Sutherland, the City’s editing department, Beatrice

Raffoul, June Creelman, Bob Brocklebank, Natalie Mezey, Avery Marshall, Claudia Chowaniec, Stan Currie, Rob Brandon, Reverend Tony Boonstra, Sheila Urquhart, Elizabeth Phillipson, Reverend Karen Dimock, Louise Aronoff, Andrew Peck, Jim McKeen, Judy Richards, Arthur Loeb, Carol MacLeod, Elizabeth Ballard, Bill Price, Vaughn Guy, Johanna Persohn, John Mcleod, John Leaning, Councillor David Chernushenko and many more.

The GCA and St. Andrew’s had shared the cost of creating the first plaque, and the City had agreed to

maintain it once installed. A great big thank you to the City is in order for creating and installing the new plaque, in a place that should be safe for a long, long time. (We can only hope this plaque doesn’t have the same penchant for wandering as the old one).

If you haven’t seen the plaque yet, go visit it and take a friend or your child – it will give you a great sense of community.

Lynn Barlow is a member of the Glebe Community Association and a lover of heritage.

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The Central Experimental Farm’s tropical greenhouse has reopened to the public. Visitors are invited to stroll through the tropical climate and explore the enhanced tropical collection, which includes papayas, frangipani, oleander, ficus, jade and a xeric bed.

After nearly 100 years of maintaining heat and humidity year-round, the greenhouse needed repair and restoration. Work was carried out by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada between 2011 and 2015, following standards for the conservation of historic places in Canada. Original materials were preserved to restore the building’s appearance and included the installation of a new pathway, planters and lighting; refurbishment of the foundation; and refurbishment of paint on the steel frame and wood glass frames. Tropical plants were preserved in the AAFC Eastern Cereal and Oilseed Research Centre (AAFC)

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Tropical greenhouse reopens

The Central Experimental Farm’s tropical greenhouse has reopened after restoration.

greenhouses during renovations, which are also located at the Experimental Farm.

The work was so successful it was recognized by the City of Ottawa through the presentation of a 2012/2014 Ottawa Architectural Conservation Award of Excellence in Restoration. “The restoration of the Lord & Burnham Co. greenhouse was based on solid historical research

and the use of original materials and technologies to reinstate the building’s jewel-like appearance. The restoration work was conducted with a light hand, letting the elegance of the original structure itself shine through.”

–Ottawa Architectural Conservation Award of Excellence jury Built in 1928, the octagonal greenhouse was originally located at Major’s Hill Park. It was moved to its current

location at the Central Experimental Farm in 1938, where it was used for horticulture research. It became a tropical greenhouse open to the public in the 1970s and was designated a federal heritage building in 1996.

Come and see for yourself! The tropical greenhouse is open Sundays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

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By Janice Ashworth

A crowd of 60 residents was clearly bolstered April 23 after hearing the message from electricity utility officials from Burlington, Vermont. “You can have your cake and eat it too,” said Neale Lunderville, General Manger at Burlington Electric Department, in reference to running the city on 100 per cent renewable energy with stability and low rates. Lunderville was joined by Ken Nolan, Manager of Power Resources at Burlington Electric Department, who spoke over video connection to a rapt audience gathered at Carleton University. In Burlington’s case, a big portion of approximately 45 per cent comes from wood biomass, the remainder from hydro, wind and solar.

Ottawa city councillor David Chernushenko moderated the event, and made frequent comparisons to the situation in Ottawa where the 100% Renewable movement is just getting started. That movement was recently boosted with the announcement earlier this month that Vancouver pledged to run on 100 per cent renewable energy by 2050. Next month Chernushenko

(Capital Ward) and fellow councillor Riley Brockington (River Ward) will travel to Vancouver to represent the city in a renewable cities conference.

Later in the evening Chernushenko was joined by Don Grant of the Ottawa Eco-District, Joan Haysom of the University of Ottawa Sunlab, and Dick Bakker, president of the Ottawa Renewable Energy Cooperative for a spirited panel discussion on what it would take for Ottawa to do what Burlington has done. Panelists stressed the advantage of a decentralized renewable powered electricity grid, the potential to leverage activities of city-owned Hydro Ottawa, the need to update building codes, and the local economic benefit of purchasing and generating local renewable power instead of importing fossil fuels to the region.

The Ottawa Renewable Energy Cooperative (OREC) hosted the event.

OREC has 400 members across the city investing in 13 solar generating projects on schools and other buildings. OREC members invest in these projects and earn an annual dividend.

The fourth securities offering of the Ottawa Renewable Energy Co-op was launched on May 21, providing

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trustee’s report A summer of budget deliberation and labour action My focus for this column is on two overarching topics that are important to the future of public education in Ottawa. The Ottawa Carleton District School Board’s budget and the labour actions we have seen in Ontario.

School Board Budget 2015

Dear Silver Scissors customers, Silver Scissors Salon is temporarily operating out of Water Salon, 3685 Riverside Dr. We are back home in the Glebe at 877 Bank St. in early July 2015.

In May, staff tabled the first draft of the 2015–2016 OCDSB budget.

It contains $855 million in spending measures, with a modest use of reserves to balance the budget. Continuing challenges in Ontario’s budget situation mean that on a go-forward basis the Board is anticipating tighter times. As chair of the Budget Committee, my goal has been to ensure proper process and limit the effect of reductions on areas such as special education and those that would adversely affect the well-being of students. I will be operating under that principle during budget deliberations and encourage you to take part by contacting me or at: http://www.ocdsb.ca/ ab-ocdsb/ob/Pages/CurrentBudget. aspx.

2015 Budget Meetings

For info and appointments, call 613.236.6408 or email book@silverscissors.ca We appreciate your ongoing support through this difficult time.

Thank you, Eli, Bruce and Laila and the team

• May 12: Presentation of the staff recommended budget • May 25: Delegations and debate • June 8: Debate, if required • June 15: Debate, if required • June 22: Board meeting (budget approval) Questions and comments can be sent by e-mail to budgetinfo@ocdsb. ca.

Labour Action in Ontario

Unless you have been living under a rock, you have no doubt heard

OCDSB Trustee Shawn Menard shawn.menard@ocdsb.ca

about the labour action taking place in Ontario. The situation is a difficult one for staff, students and parents, and the goal should be to resolve it as soon as possible. In my view, this will only happen with movement away from opening positions tabled, to a negotiated and fair settlement for all parties.

As of May 11 teacher and occasional teacher members of the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario (ETFO) have begun “phase 1” workto-rule strike action by withdrawing from Ministry of Education initiatives, including EQAO testing. As of May 21 secondary teachers in Ottawa will be taking a similar course of action, withdrawing administrative duties.

Thus far, teachers in Ottawa will remain in schools to carry out their instructional duties with students, provide extra help, maintain field trips and contact with parents. The situation is such that it could deteriorate further however, and with Catholic Board teachers also providing a strike mandate, the Province could find itself in a much more protracted state. Talks must resume and hard lines in the sand should be left behind for a fair negotiated settlement. For updates please visit ocdsb.ca.

Thanks for reading through this.

If you have any questions don’t hesitate to contact me at shawn.menard@ ocdsb.ca.

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This one-day event on June 20, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., is possible thanks to a grant from the RBC Blue Water Fund, in partnership with Green Communities Canada. Kick-off is at 10 a.m. with MP Paul Dewar, MPP Yasir Naqvi and Councillor Catherine McKenney.

Depave Paradise events are taking place at six sites across Canada this year.

Over the past three years, Depave Paradise participants have removed over 1,000 square meters of asphalt at schools, churches, public lands, community centres and housing cooperatives. The gardens and permeable pavement installed in place of the asphalt soak up water into the ground, filtering it through soil and plants, avoiding runoff and pollution and protecting local water bodies.

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Allergies and your eyes

By Jay Mithani

We all know someone with persistent itchy, red, watery eyes around this time of the year that make “getting out and about” in the nice spring season quite difficult for them. Ask these individuals what’s wrong, and they typically reply “allergies” in between sneezing or wiping a runny nose. Seasonal allergies typically peak in sufferers between the transition of seasons – winter to spring months and spring to summer months. The clinical term for eye-related symptoms of seasonal allergies is allergic conjunctivitis.

Allergic conjunctivitis is triggered by “allergens” that float through the air, including dust and pollen. During the spring season tree pollens are abundant, while in the summer season grass pollens exert their dominance.

These pollen particles are normally quite harmless, but in allergy sufferers they induce an allergic response whereby their bodies react to the allergen. When it comes to the eyes, they water in an effort to dilute the allergen and flush it out; accordingly, as the nose and eyes are connected via a draining nasolacrimal duct, a stuffy nose often goes hand-in-hand.

Allergens can also cause profound itchiness, which typically worsens with rubbing of the eyes, and causes subsequent redness. This vicious cycle usually requires some sort of pharmaceutical assistance.

Relief comes in a few forms for allergic conjunctivitis sufferers. As a first line of defense, patients are advised to avoid contact with allergens as much as possible. This means

closing windows and using an air conditioner (to keep cool) with a regularly replaced air filter. Along the same line, staying indoors when weatherchannel broadcasted “pollen count” levels are high is an excellent method of prevention. For most, though, staying indoors in warm weather is not a desired option, in which case a trip to your Doctor of Optometry’s office is well warranted. For mild allergic conjunctivitis symptoms, artificial tear instillation every few hours can flush out irritants. For moderate to severe allergic conjunctivitis, prescription drops can quickly and aggressively stop allergic conjunctivitis symptoms.

These prescription drops are typically antihistamines and/or mast cell stabilizers that work to reduce or stop the body’s over-reaction to the allergens on the eyes. Finally, speak to your Doctor of Optometry about dailydisposable contact lenses, which can reduce build-up of allergens on the eyes. Don’t delay – take control of your allergy symptoms today!

Dr. Jay Mithani is a current Glebe resident and owner/optometrist at the Nuvo Eye Centre – Glebe optometry clinic and optical, inside Fifth Avenue Court at 99 Fifth Avenue. Visit www. nuvoeyes.ca for more information.

References • All About Vision. (2015). Eye Allergies: How to Get Relief From Itchy, Watery Eyes. Retrieved from Allergy Eyes: http://http://www.allaboutvision.com/conditions/allergies.htm • Gerstenblith, A. T., & Rabinowitz, M. P. (2013).

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Practice safe sun – make it a sunburn-free summer

By Zenah Surani

It’s that time of year again – time to start thinking about sunscreens!

(Although, in an ideal world, we should all be wearing sunscreen year round!) Here’s everything you need to know to make sure that you and your family are safe in the sun this summer.

UVA and UVB are two types of ultraviolet radiation from the sun (tanning beds and sun lamps also produce

UV rays as well) that can contribute to skin cancer in humans. UVB rays are the cause of the painful, red sunburns that we are all too familiar with after a sunny long weekend. These rays are also responsible for wrinkles and skin damage and are the most intense between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. UVA rays penetrate deeper into the skin and can cause damage to the skin’s DNA, thereby accelerating the skin’s aging process.

UV rays are powerful and are present even on cloudy days. They reflect more intensely off sand, water, pavement and even snow (which is why it is important to wear sunscreen all year round). The rays can penetrate glass as well, making us susceptible to sun damage even when we’re in the car.

The Sun Protection Factor (SPF) refers to UVB rays only and is a ratio of the number of UV rays needed to produce sunburn while the sunscreen is on the skin, as compared to when there is no sunscreen on the skin. It’s important to remember that SPF is not a linear scale; so an SPF of 30 will not give you double the protection of an SPF 15 product. In fact, SPF 30 blocks 96.7 per cent of UVB rays, while SPF 15 blocks 93 per cent.

I usually advise people to look for sunscreens that are labelled “broad spectrum.” This means that they have been tested to block UVA rays in addition to UVB rays. All broad spectrum sunscreens must also have a minimum SPF of 15.

Even when using high quality, high SPF sunscreens, most people do not apply enough to make them effective.

It’s important to apply 2 to 3 tablespoonsful (or one shotglass full) to cover the entire body. It should be applied at least 15 minutes before sun exposure and ideally reapplied every two hours, or after 40 to 80 minutes of swimming or sweating and after drying off. Sunscreen labels indicating

“water resistance” must indicate how long the sunscreen is effective during water exposure. Lips are often neglected, but are just as susceptible to the damaging rays of the sun. It’s best to choose a lip balm with an SPF for adequate protection.

Some people are concerned about vitamin D absorption when using sunscreens. It’s true that vitamin D does come from the sun’s rays, but it can also be taken in the form of supplements. It’s especially important to wear a good sunscreen if taking certain types of medications that can make the skin more sensitive to the sun. For instance, many topical medications for acne, antibiotics and chemotherapy medications can cause sunburns faster if precautionary measures are not taken. Even some creams available over the counter, for instance, moisturizers containing alpha hydroxy acids, can make the skin more susceptible to burning.

The more sunburns a person has, the higher the risk of developing skin cancer. Practise safe sun!

Zenah Surani is a pharmacist and owner of the Glebe Apothecary. references • Canadian Pharmacists’ Letter: The Great Outdoors: A Skincare Guide for Pharmacists (Volume 2014) • US Pharmacist.com. “Shedding the light on sunscreen”

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Parents of children under the age of 24 months are now scrambling more than ever for child care, thanks to the passing of the Child Care Modernization Act on December 4, 2014. This new legislation affects all forms of child care, from community centre dropins to informal home based care to licensed daycare centres. In particular, this legislation sets new number restrictions for independent home caregivers while at the same time increasing the ratio of children per caregiver at licensed daycare facilities.

With the implementation of full-day kindergarten, many child care centres have had to shut down without giving parents much time to find new child care. Now, with this new legislation, all forms of child care will face challenges.

For licensed daycare centres, the ratio may be changing from 1:3 (one caregiver to three children) to 1:5 for children aged 12 to 18 months, with a maximum of 15 children in that age group. I have to wonder – how will they get the kids dressed for outdoor play? Will there be outdoor play? For kids 24 to 30 months old, the ratio could increase from 1:5 to 1:8, and the maximum group size will increase to 24. Wow! On the other hand, independent caregivers are being limited to two children under the age of two and possibly three under three years old. While this isn’t unreasonable in theory, the reality is that most threeand-a-half year olds are in full-day

Caregivers and their charges gather outside the Glebe Community Centre.

small number do. The “two under two” rule would still apply, however.

My question is: if informal childcare is reduced, who is going to look after children under two? I have certainly not heard of any initiatives coming about to make up possibly 140,000 lost spaces.

My prediction is that over the next two years child care is going to be tricky (an excellent daycare word) to find and tricky to deliver. It may also cost significantly more because of the restrictions on numbers and ages. There will be waves of frustration. Parents looking for one-year-old spaces now are going to have a difficult time. It will appear that there will be hope for them when their kids turn two but there will be so many of them that those available spaces will be gobbled up quickly. Even licensed centres will face this problem, where who knows what a classroom may look like. This situation may happen

Since 2013, provincial governments in New Brunswick, Ontario and Quebec have introduced legislation to reduce the earned benefits of their employees and pensioners and there are indications, depending on the result of a recent civil suit brought against the New Brunswick government by their retirees, that the federal government may not be far behind.

T he Fe dera l Sup era n nu at es National Association (FSNA) has joined with other pensioner organizations to form the Canadian Coalition for Retirement Security to ensure the protection of public and private sector employees accrued and retirees’ pensions and benefits. The coalition is composed of 23 organizations representing close to 6 million working and retired Canadians. In the coming months, the association, as part of the coalition, will mount a non-partisan campaign to leverage public support for federal and provincial legislation to protect benefits earned by public and private sector employees and retirees. The results from recent focus groups organized by the association make it clear that

Canadians want the federal government to live up to the commitments they have made to their pensioners and employees and see not honouring these commitments as “despicable” and “shameful.”

The association has met with the leaders of the federal political parties including opposition leader Thomas Mulcair, who has promised to support legislation to protect accrued benefits, and Liberal leader Justin Trudeau, who has been sympathetic toward the idea. The association has not yet been able to meet with anyone from the government.

In the months leading up to the federal election, the association will launch the “Honour Your Promise” campaign on the web to mobilize members to get involved in the election and to highlight these issues in every riding across Canada. As well, all-candidate meetings will be organized in key ridings across the country to discuss these issues. For more information go to the FSNA website at www.fsna.com/.

Randy Erwin is co-editor of the newsletter of the Federal Superannuates National Association, On Guard.

because centres and caregivers may close, waiting for this round of oneyear-olds to turn two.

In June, a new FAQ sheet is going to be brought forward by the Ministry of Education; then there will be a crunch to see what it really means and how it will affect us all.

I am hoping to put together a meeting over the next short while so that stakeholders and officials can help us understand these changes. I welcome feedback, so please feel free to contact me at kprestonthomas@gmail.com. If you are interested in participating in a meeting please let me know.

If in this article I have presented any numbers that may not be accurate, please keep in mind that the ambiguity of the situation will therefore be accurately presented.

Kate Preston-Thomas has been a child care provider for 30 years, beginning as a nanny in the Glebe in 1985.

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school now as a result of the full day kindergarten model. If caregivers are limited in these ways, our rates are likely to rise significantly. Many caregivers may give up altogether, which doesn’t help the people looking for care for their children of any age. Shared nannies will also be held to the same number restrictions as independent caregivers.

For parents seeking care for their under two-year-olds, the new reality is that one third to one half of current spots will be gone from informal care situations.

Right now, independent caregivers are trying to determine how many spaces they have and possibly will have. The initial interpretation of the legislation is that children under two who are currently being looked after by caregivers will be grandfathered, but grandfathering rules are confusing. Indeed, the entire legislation is bewildering, with convoluted wording and obscure meaning. Here is the website link: http://goo.gl/8jR5Bl. New regulations can be brought forward any time, and the speed with which the royal assent was received for the Act leads me to believe that, come September, we could be faced with caregivers having to cancel contracts if the date of implementation (currently January 1, 2016) is brought forward to an earlier date.

Changes have been swift, and quite frankly, when 80 per cent of children in the province are in unlicensed child care, I wonder how the province is going to get this information out to caregivers and parents in a timely fashion. The fines are stiff for contravening these new rules. It is unclear how they will be applied.

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Building life skills for children – creativity, community and continuity

“I like that it’s so intimate and cozy. We have a big hour and a half to explore ideas. When the children talk about the book, they motivate and inspire each other, and we have so much fun asking ‘now what can we do with this?’” Melanie explained.

Even when you’ve been adapting successfully to community needs since 1981, it can be hard to anticipate exactly how external changes will impact a small, established neighbourhood school like Good Morning Creative Arts and Preschool (GMCAPS), which offers creative arts programming for children from ages 2 to 10.

With full-day kindergarten fully implemented in Glebe schools this year, for example, GMCAPS expected lower demand for their afternoon classes and responded by closing their popular half-day kindergarten and Storyscapes programs. But by October they were getting calls from parents exploring different options.

With no official cap on kindergarten class size, our 3-to-5-year-olds have been in crowded classrooms with as many as 30 children and high teacher-tostudent ratios. Even with Early Childhood Educators (ECEs) assigned to each class, there can be as many as 15 children per adult.

Storyscapes at GMCAPS offers a twice-weekly afternoon alternative for little ones, with a limit of eight children per teacher. The focus is on building literacy skills through creativity, by “bringing books to life.” I asked teachers Sandy Bulchak and Melanie Bauman, both of whom have been with GMCAPS for over a decade, to describe why Storyscapes works, and why they’re so happy to be restarting the program now that it’s clear there’s still demand.

“Some children aren’t really drawn to letters and reading. But books are now more important than ever.

They can engage and inspire our children more deeply than screens. So we invite the students to share their favourites, expose them to new stories and old classics, and develop thematically related activities. The point is not to recreate the pages with drama or art but to make room for inspiration and let them run with it. Given the space and opportunity to express themselves, the children are brilliant. It’s a gentle, fun, and creative way to foster early literacy,” Sandy told me.

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Melanie Bauman, celebrating 15 years teaching at GMCAPS, listens to Grace’s building ideas.

Sandy shared her thoughts on the importance of fostering creativity. “With Storyscapes and the preschool programs, we’re of course encouraging independence and helping develop social and emotional skills. But a hugely important aspect is giving children a moment to themselves to stop, breathe and create. It doesn’t matter if it makes a mess or how it turns out. There’s no pressure or expectation, just the opportunity. We’re all continually pulled along the spectrum of highly structured organized time, which is necessary to get things done, and the ridiculous chaos of life. Creativity happens somewhere in the middle. Of course, some children exhibit obvious artistic talent and could further develop their skills more formally. But every child who comes through our programs is given space and time to think creatively, to be creative, to stop and look at things in a different way, and that’s something that they will bring to everything important in life – their friendships and relationships, their work and their studies.”

When I reminded Sandy that she’d been with the school for 10 years, she said with a twinkle in her eye, “How did it go by so quickly? I had no intention of staying – I was only covering Karen’s maternity leave

Students and safe tech Glebe Collegiate Institute (GCI) and Ottawa Public Health (OPH) partnered to launch Safe Tech, an extracurricular initiative to raise awareness about the effect of technology on mental and physical health. GCI principal France Thibault founded the project and invited students, teachers and public health representatives to initiate the program this year.

Tu Nguyen, an OPH nurse, and Thi Nguyen, a youth facilitator for the City of Ottawa, worked collaboratively with a team of teachers and students from GCI. Teacher lead Robin Small said, “Our students showed outstanding critical thinking in tackling this timely, important issue.” A team of seven GCI teachers – Heather Morse, Dinu Chande, Victoria Nutting, Tunde Forrest, Mauro Aristegui and Jasmin Schuster – worked together to make this a successful learning experience.

To determine the most relevant technology-related issues, a diverse group of Glebe students participated in two focus groups last November.

From these focus groups, two engaged Grade 12 students, Jaydon Burke and Gabriella Yankowich, were selected as student leaders for the project.

Jaydon Burke reflected on his reasons for participating: “There are

PHOTO: COURTESY OF DAISY BONSALL

By Daisy Bonsall and Vincent Kelly

Daisy Bonsall and Andrea Kenney’s media entry was a finalist in the competition.

many things that affect the mental and physical health of students, and technology is becoming one of the main contributors. This is why I joined safe tech: to raise awareness about this pressing issue that affects students every day.”

Yankowich and Burke presented their findings to educators at the district and school level as well as to classes of students. Their work revealed that while both males and females had much to say about the issue, they were dealing with different problems.

Yankowich stated, “Technology is important, but we have to be careful that its capabilities do not surpass our

Sandy Bulchak, celebrating her 10th anniversary at GMCAPS, encourages Evie, Clodagh and Nora to explore.

and had plans for my own creative pursuits. But for me there is nothing better than teaching young children. Every day I get to peek through their window into the world of magic they still partially inhabit. I feel so lucky that parents give us this time with their children. It’s a lovely environment. I suppose that’s why one year easily turned into 10.”

Sandy is not the only long-standing staff member.

This is Melanie’s 15th anniversary with GMCAPS, and Director/Teacher Karen Cameron’s 14th. Why have they stayed? “It’s been amazing.” Melanie told me. “I love the smallness of our school – that it’s like a family. And the community has been so supportive.

We have parents and a board who have been just wonderful, so we’ve always been able to work together and adapt to changes, develop new programs, and grow – without losing our focus on what’s right for the children. I love looking back on each year. I feel so happy about what we’ve done with our students, and I just love that so many keep coming back.”

For more information about GMCAPS and its preschool, lunch, afternoon and afterschool programs, check out www.gmcaps.com or contact director Karen Cameron at goodmorningpreschool@gmail. com or 613-276-7974.

Rebecca Sandiford is a parent of an alumnus of Good Morning Creative Arts and Preschool, as well as one current and one future student.

moral and ethical brains.”

The Safe Tech initiative had two important outcomes. The first was a contest open to all students, allowing them to develop awareness about the link between health and technology.

Tu Nguyen and Thi Nguyen met with Glebe students to facilitate learning and to build on the issues raised in the focus groups.

A video called Are you Using Technology? Or, is Technology Using You? was created by students to launch the Safe Tech initiative at an April assembly. Students were encouraged to submit media pieces (for example, posters, videos, websites) to the contest, which aimed to convey a message about using technology safely. By the time the contest closed on May 15, 150 students had submitted 96 unique and interesting entries.

A second Safe Tech outcome, a survey, was created by two classes, and answered by students on a volunteer basis. GCI’s department head of business, Dinu Chande, said, “We spent a lot of time exploring some of the potential negative physical and mental effects of overuse of technology. It seemed to resonate with many of the students. They then appreciated the opportunity to use their creativity to raise awareness and try to make a real impact through their media projects. It was a great learning experience, and also a lot of fun!”

Although not all students participated in it, the survey revealed three major usage trends. First, female

students felt that technology had a greater impact on their lives even though male students reported higher usage. Second, there was a correlation between longer usage and self-reported focus issues. Lastly, less than 10 per cent of students share all of their online passwords with their parents.

Some of the survey questions were based on issues discussed by Glebe parents during a Parent Technology Night held in April. That evening included a presentation from Jaydon Burke on the Safe Tech initiative.

Then parents heard a presentation by the Ottawa Police about the dangers of the online world.

From our principal’s point of view, “It is obvious that technology presents challenges to all of us. Who among us who has a smart phone is not tempted to do his or her emails, read and send texts, and even just relax with their phone? As a school, we feel it is important that our students learn to see technology as a tool for improving learning, and to learn restraint at the same time. As teachers and parents, we believe it is important that we help our children to take the time without cell phones, computers, or televisions, to reach out to our friends and families and build upon our personal strengths and talents so that we live life fully.”

Daisy Bonsall and Vincent Kelly are Grade 10 students at GCI. Both students participated in the Safe Tech contest.

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By Phoenix

Poetry in the Glebe

Waterfall (A diamante poem) beautiful, dangerous mesmerizing, gurgling, tumbling misty, hypnotic, mysterious, alive breathing, rippling, scaring silent muddy swamp

Mutchmor Public School Grade 4 student poems contributed

by Zak Firestone, Grade 4/5 Gifted teacher at Mutchmor

Dolphins (A rhyming poem) You only see a flash of grey, but underneath is a dolphin.

Playful and helpful in every way, Learn to swim and you’ll be with them.

By Cate

By Maggie

Dragons (An alliteration poem)

Where the Wind Goes (A haiku)

Dragons’ dens are dazzling and dangerous.

Dragons devour the delicious dead.

Dragons deprive you of your diamonds and dignity.

Dragons decimate and destroy Dragons decided to deliver me devastating dreams.

Doom and darkness describe dragons, and daschunds and dalmations detest them.

blows across oceans zooms over meadows below strong, free, fly with me Sparrows (An alliteration poem) Sparrows lay surprise speckled eggs in small nests on swaying sticks Sparrows savour scrumptious seeds Sparrows sing sweetly in the salty sky The study of sparrows is sometimes said to be ornithology Sparrows slowly wake me so early on Sundays Sparrows softly flutter in the summer sun.

Envy (A five-senses poem about an emotion)

Happiness (A five-senses poem about an emotion) Happiness is a rainbow in the sky, a multicoloured wonder.

It tastes like bananas in yogurt.

It sounds like my favourite songs.

It smells like the ocean and homemade cookies coming out of the oven.

It looks like relaxing in the shade during the summer while playing my guitar It makes me feel like a budding flower.

Envy is an inverted pyramid of self-hatred and brownish greenish muck.

Envy tastes like hot chili peppers and spinach, with a large side of sand.

Envy sounds like a morning sparrow singing in the distance but you’re unable to hear because a dump trucks rattles on.

Envy smells like your neighbours are having a barbecue but you’re too busy cleaning the cat’s litter to take a good whiff.

Envy looks like a pouting face and rainy day that no one can escape.

Envy makes me feel bad about myself and makes me want to improve.

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Glebe Collegiate ‘Kids for Kids’ CHEO drive

By Janice Bernstein

Students from Glebe Collegiate Institute (GCI) have again shown their commitment to community. On May 14, more than 350 students from Grades 9 to 12 raised $16,500 in just three hours. This is the fifth year of our Glebe “Kids for Kids” CHEO drive and to date we have raised over $80,000 for the CHEO foundation.

A lot of work happens before the drive. A dedicated group of students starts gathering donations to help run the drive. These include money to pay for the free barbeque we offer the students before they go canvassing, prizes for after-school activities run by our CHEO drive team and, most importantly, volunteer hours donated by community members. The students organize an assembly to inform the GCI population about the drive.

Guest speakers at the assembly have included Max Keeping, Ken Evraire, incredibly eloquent youth ambassadors from CHEO, as well as our own students who have spent many hours, days, even months at CHEO. As the momentum builds between the assembly and the night of the drive, teachers form teams, inviting any and all stu-

dents to join.

Finally the night arrives; students stay after school to play sports or participate in a scavenger hunt organized by the student team. At 5 p.m. they head to the front of the school for the barbeque, then off to find their teacher team leader to get their route to canvass. For many, this is their first time canvassing and they come back excited about the experience.

The drive could not take place without our volunteers, including parents who drive students to the farthest canvassing routes and more than 45 teachers and support staff who lead teams, organize drivers and tally the money. We would also like to acknowledge this year’s sponsors: McKeen Metro, Stella Luna Gelato, Wag Pet Shop and Delusions of Grandeur.

Thank you to everyone who donated.

If you would still like to donate, you may do so online at http://www. cheofoundation.com/kids-4-kidscheo-drive/ or in person by visiting Glebe Collegiate’s main office.

Janice Bernstein has been teaching mathematics to Glebe students since 2005 and is one of the staff advisors for GCI “Kids for Kids” CHEO drive.

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Female Athletes (Villa Romana del Casale)

Our teacher Maricetta at the Festa of Santa Rosalia, in Palermo

Dreaming of Sicily In the early seventies, my husband Fil and I went on a backpacking holiday through Turkey. In the middle of Capadoccia, in a tiny tourist office, we encountered a middle-aged Italian couple from Turin. As well as Italian, the wife knew some French, which the agent didn’t understand, only a little English, and so I offered to translate.

It turned out they had travelled from Italy in their own car, and a week of luxury touring and a life-long friendship ensued – but that’s another story!

Their friendship, however, led me to study Italian and develop an enduring interest in Italy’s culture and countryside. With summer on its way, I am planning another holiday in Italy, this time concentrating on Sicily.

Palermo will be my base, so I can take in the many sights I missed on our first visit three years ago. Though Palermo’s grandeur is much diminished from its glory days when Donna Franca Florio, Queen of Sicily’s Art Nouveau, entertained the crowned heads of Europe, the city still has a lot to offer the visitor.

The Festa of Santa Rosalia, the patron saint of Palermo, takes place in July. Rosalia was the daughter of a noble Norman family (descended

from Charlemagne) who chose to become a hermit and whose holy relics saved Palermo from the plague in 1624. The celebrations culminate in a nighttime parade with the saint’s statue borne through the streets on a rose-strewn barge and a fireworks display over the harbour.

The city also has many museums, galleries and churches: particularly beautiful is the Palatine Chapel in the Palazzo dei Normani. There is even a puppet museum and theatre, listed by UNESCO. The puppets are sometimes as tall as five feet and perform in elaborate medieval costume.

Two other UNESCO sites can be visited on day-trips from Palermo.

One is the archeological area of Agrigento: an impressive sight at any time of day, and even more so at dusk, when the temples are illuminated against the evening sky.

The other is the Roman Villa del Casale, noted for its perfectly-preserved mosaics, among them a series of “bikini-clad” female athletes, but also scenes of everyday life, not to mention monstrous mythical figures.

On our earlier visit, I took a course on Sicily’s art and history from the Halisa Club School. Our teacher, Maricetta, had the gift of making history not just educational, but also entertaining: I

Noah’s Arc (Cappella Palatina)

PHOTO: TIM HEATH

By Harriet Smith

Sicilian Puppets

had never known about the waves of invasions that had overrun Sicily: Phoenician, Carthaginian, Greek, Roman, Byzantine, Arab, Norman, Angevin, Spanish, all of them leaving their mark on the culture of today’s Sicily.

Like Maricetta, I am now a bit in love with the amazing 12th century monarch Roger II, known as Stupor Mundi, “Wonder of the World.”

In addition to classes, we went on two of the cultural excursions offered by the school: one took us around the historic centre of Palermo to view examples of the Arab-Norman period and the Baroque and Liberty styles, the latter named for Sir Arthur

Lasenby Liberty, an early exponent of Art Nouveau; the second was to the Cathedral of Monreale (soon to be added to the Italian treasures recognised by UNESCO). Its interior is an illustrated Bible, made up of familiar stories executed in magnificent mosaics.

So much for dreaming, now comes the time for planning. Maybe some of you will be tempted to include Sicily on your next itinerary: if so, Buon Viaggio!

Glebe resident Harriet Smith is an enthusiastic Italophile who tries to spend three weeks in Italy every year.

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The author and local kids drench a motorcycle rider during Myanmar’s Water Festival.

Wesley Hodgson-Pageau atop an ancient temple in Bagan, Myanmar.

By Ella Hodgson-Pageau

One of my favourite stops on my family’s around-the-world trip is Myanmar (Burma), a smallish country right next to Thailand. It feels very, very far from France (our last destination). Along with the obvious distance, there’s the weather – here, it gets up to 40 degrees, daily! Then there’s the culture, which (of course) is very different. Also, there’s a lot more poverty here than in France. Myanmar is a pretty unique place!

Unlike the African and European countries we’ve been to, Myanmar only opened up its borders to tourists a few years ago. Although this might lead you to think that the Burmese people would be wary and unsure of foreigners, that’s not the case at all!

Most people were so excited to see tourists that when they saw my brother and me, a gigantic smile would spread across their faces, and they would either wave or come talk to us. People would even come over and ask to take pictures with us! By the time we got ready to leave Myanmar, I was starting to sympathize with Selena Gomez!

However, this excitement may soon come to an end, as more and more tourists are visiting Myanmar.

One of the places that’s on every Myanmar tourist’s list is Bagan, a city surrounded by ancient Buddhist temples. Most of them were built between the 11th and 13th centuries and, believe it or not, a lot of them are still in use! Myanmar is mostly made up of Buddhists, so at almost all hours of the day, you can find people worshipping or meditating in the temples.

Even though it did eventually get a little boring, Bagan was still fascinating.

I would definitely recommend it to anyone visiting Myanmar!

While we were in Bagan, a Buddhist celebration called the Water Festival was taking place. Buddhists believe that by dumping buckets of water on people, they’re washing away those people’s sins. Basically, this means a 4-day water fight. You can’t even step out on to the street without getting soaked! If you go for a walk along one of the busier roads, you’ll find groups of kids all huddled around a barrel of water with buckets in hand, ready to drench anyone who dares to pass by them. The funny thing was, even seconds after being completely doused, everyone had giant smiles on their faces! At first I thought it was kind of weird, dumping water on random strangers, but then I started to find it really fun. We were thinking of bringing the water festival to Ottawa next April. I mean, hey – maybe we’d start a trend!

After the Water Festival, we headed out on a boat to explore the Mergui Archipelago (some islands off Myanmar’s coast). Those islands were like paradise, times two! White beaches, warm sun, palm trees laden with coconuts, and a wild rainforest just a few feet back from the beach. And you know what the best part was? There wasn’t anyone else there. Not one hotel! I think the reason for this is that you need a special licence to visit these islands (unless you were born there). However, they are starting to develop. We found a tour company that would take us out to the islands,

PHOTO: PAUL PAGEAU

Myanmar – go for the Water Festival!

A Burmese woman wanted to have her photo taken with author Ella HodgsonPageau and her brother Wesley.

and let us sleep on the boat. One night, I actually got to sleep up on the deck, which was really cool. In the morning, I was woken up by the local fishermen, coming back with their morning’s catch. The Mergui Archipelago was definitely a highlight of our trip!

Another thing I quite liked in Myanmar was the food. It was a mix of Thai and Indian, often with a bit of spice.

Burmese people eat mainly rice, stirfrys, noodles and curries. During the Water Festival, we tried some traditional foods. My favourite Water Festival treat is a doughy ball with a chunk of cane sugar in the middle, often eaten with shredded coconut. A

Burmese woman told me that sometimes, tricksters stick a chili pepper in the middle, instead of a chunk of cane sugar. I was sure careful after that!

After seeing a bit more of Southeast Asia, we will be going to my favourite country in the whole world. It’s got kind people, amazing landscapes, and the best maple syrup around! It’s been an awesome trip, but I think I’ll be glad to finally get back home.

Ella Hodgson-Pageau is an 11-yearold Glebite and writer on a 10-month trip around the world with her family.

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ART ON THE FARM presented by Friends of the Farm, Sat., Aug. 5, 10 a.m.–4 p.m. Rain date: Aug. 16. Artists working in various media will display and sell their original works under the trees of the Central Experimental Farm. Bldg 72, CEF Arboretum, east exit off Prince of Wales roundabout.

Free admission and parking. Information and Registration Forms for Exhibitors. Info: www.friendsofthefarm.ca or 613-230-3276.

During this year’s Great Glebe Garage Sale, the Glebe Report asked treasure-seekers to enter our Instagram contest (hashtag #gggscontest and @glebereport) by taking a selfie with their fabulous find.

Our contest winner was @rmknuth, with her Fisher-Price cash register.

BOOKS FOR BLOOMS ANNUAL USED BOOK SALE presented by Friends of the Farm, June 20-21, 10 a.m.–4 p.m., Bldg 72, CEF Arboretum, east exit off Prince of Wales roundabout. Info: www.friendsofthefarm.ca or 613-2303276.

GARDENING LECTURE: Edible Ornamental Plants by Telsing Andrews from Aster Lane Edibles presented

by Friends of the Farm, Tues., July 7, 7–9 p.m., Bldg 72, CEF Arboretum.

Explore the world of edimental perennial plants. Though not a surprise to many that vegetables are attractive and at home in the flower bed, the extraordinary number of delicious ornamental edibles (edimentals) that have been used traditionally have often been forgotten or under explored. Telsing will detail some favourites along with how to incorporate them into a beautiful garden. Cost of this lecture is $12 FCEF member, $15 non-members. To register or for information e-mail us at info@friendsofthefarm. ca or call 613-230-3276.

GLEBE ART IN OUR GARDENS AND STUDIO TOUR 2015: July 4-5, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Enjoy a summer weekend in the Glebe and support local artists.

Site maps and brochures are available at www.glebearttour.ca or in Bank St. shops and the Community Centre.

HERITAGE OTTAWA WALKING TOUR, VILLAGE OF HINTONBURG, Sun., June 14, 2 p.m., St-François d’Assise Church, 20 Fairmont Ave. Named for Joseph Hinton, a shopkeeper and civic official, the village of Hintonburg was incorporated in 1893. The tour will take you through the heart of this interesting, eclectic and socially varied neighbourhood, rich in heritage. Guides will be Linda Hoad and Paulette Dozois, community leaders. Heritage Ottawa members $5, non-members $10. Info: info@heritageottawa.org or www.heritageottawa.org or 613-230-8841.

OTTAWA’S NATIVE PLANT GARDEN DAYS (Free Event), Sun., June 21.

Learn about wildlife gardening and landscaping with indigenous flowers, trees and shrubs. Visit locations across city including Kanata, Central Ottawa, Manotick and Orleans. Bilingual offerings (educational material and on-site discussion) vary at each site.

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SOBRIETY HOUSE 13th CHARITY GOLF TOURNAMENT will take place at Hammond Golf and Country Club, 600 Golf Rd, Hammond, Ont. on Wed., July 8. Registration starts at 11 a.m., Shot Gun Start at 12 noon. A $20 fee during registration will enter you in all the contests (special exception for Poker). Golf Tickets: $120 each. Lunch and dinner will be provided. For more information, go to sobrietyhouse.ca/ up-coming-events/sobriety-annualgolf-tournament. Contact Sobriety House at sobrietyhouseottawa@gmail. com or call 613-233-0828.

SUNSET SINGERS SPRING CONCERT presents “Songs to Remember” on Sat., June 20 at 3 p.m. In the Studio, Centrepointe Theatre, 100 Centrepointe Dr. Following two hours of

great entertainment, patrons will be treated to free refreshments, and an opportunity to take part in the Silent Auction. Tickets are $20, available in advance at The Leading Note, 370 Elgin St., Compact Music, 785 Bank St. or at the door. All proceeds go to local charities.

THREE DAYS - THREE GARDENS! BUS TOUR presented by Friends of the Farm, June 23-25. Visits to the Victorian Sonnenberg Estate in Canandaigua, N.Y., the Royal Botanical Gardens in Burlington, Ont., and the Parkwood Estate National Historic Site and Heritage Garden in Oshawa, Ont. Price includes bus transportation, entrance fees to the three gardens, two nights’ accommodation, two full breakfasts, lunch at the RBG, and the services of a Friends’ tour guide. Cost is $450 per person for double occupancy; for single occupancy, add $145.

Reserve early, first-come first-served!

Email Friends of the Farm office for more information or call 613-2303276 and ask for Denise Kennedy, tour organizer.

VICTORIAN TEA presented by Friends of the Farm, Sun., July 26, 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Rain date: Sun., Aug. 2.

Classic tea will be served under the trees of the Central Experimental Farm Arboretum. Enter the best hat contest and don period costume (optional). Bring a patio chair and listen to the live music. Formal Tea $10 at Bldg 72, off the east exit of the Prince of Wales roundabout. Plenty of free parking. Info: www.friendsofthefarm.ca or 613-230-3276.

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THE URBAN FOREST AND TREE IDENTIFICATION GUIDED TOUR presented

by Friends of the Farm, Sun., July 19. Linked to a path shown in For the Love of Trees. Tour leaders are Owen Clarkin and Roman Popadiouk. Location TBA. Although the tour is free and open to the public, please register in advance at info@friendsofthefarm. ca or call 613-230-3276. Donations to the Friends of the Farm will be accepted during the tour.

WOOD AND OTHER PRODUCTS FROM TREES GUIDED TOUR presented by Friends of the Farm, Sat, Aug. 15.

The relationship of trees and their products to all walks of life, including arts and crafts.Tour leaders are Eric Jones and Jacob Sheppard. Location TBA. Although the tour is free and open to the public, please register in advance at info@friendsofthefarm.ca or call 613-230-3276. Donations to the Friends of the Farm will be accepted during the tour.

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

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June 12, 2015

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Glebe Neighbourhood Activities Group Glebe Community Centre

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175 Third Avenue, Ottawa, ON K1S 2K2 613-233-8713 or 613-564-1058 info@gnag.ca

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Glebe House Tour Sunday, Sept 20 1 - 4 pm Sponsorship opportunities available, call 613-233-8713 or info@gnag.ca Mark your calendars for this amazing tour. Get a glimpse of some modern, newly renovated, eco/green friendly and classic homes in the Glebe.

SUMMER PROGRAMS 2015 Register online

Sport & Splash Music & Movement Kids Sportball Soccer Family Tae Kwon-do, Adult Fitness, Adult Pottery Adult Dance - Ballet, Reggaeton, Baby-Wearing Ballet, Street Dance, Groove Fit