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Shira Schwartz, president of the Carleton University Biology Society, gazes at an owl butterfly perched on the end of her finger.

Carleton’s butterflies a hit!

Carleton University’s popular annual Butterfly Show, held October 3 to 12 in the steamy greenhouse in the Nesbitt biology building, featured 1,300 butterflies representing 41 different species. More than 1,000 students and 10,000 visitors were expected to attend the show.

Preparations for the show, organized by biologist Edward Bruggink, are complicated. They range from preparing the greenhouses to ensuring the safe unpacking of the imported pupae and their introduction to their new environ-

ment, through supervising the butterflies’ metamorphosis stage when they emerge from their chrysalis, to watering and feeding the “show” butterflies. Biology students from Carleton and the University of Ottawa volunteer their help. The owl butterfly, pictured above, is one of the most interesting species in the exhibit.

Native to the rainforests of Mexico and Central and South America, it is known for its huge eyespots that resemble the eyes of an owl, presumably to ward off potential predators.

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October 18.............. Heritage Ottawa Walk, Bank and Clemow, 2–3:30 p.m.

October 19.............. Federal Election October 22.............. YouthFIT Launch Party, GCC, 7 p.m.

October 24.............. Master Piano Recital, Southminster United Church ................................ 7:30 p.m.

October 25.............. GNAG Pumpkin Patch Party, GCC, 3:30–6 p.m.

October 25.............. Frankendance, Glebe Co-op Nursery School, GCC, ................................ 10 a.m.–12 p.m.

October 27.............. GCA Meeting, GCC, 7 p.m.

October 27.............. Gloucester Cathedral Choir, St. Matthew’s Anglican ................................ Church, 7 p.m.

October 28.............. GACA AGM, GCC 6:30 p.m.

November 11.......... New Studio Chamber Singers, Southminster United ................................ Church, noon

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Kenneth Watkins sees retirement as an opportunity to exercise a different part of his brain. This former scientist spent his working years in electron microscopy, working in the Pathology Department at the University of Montreal. Now, thanks to Abbotsford House, as a retiree Watkins is finding himself enjoying his artistic, creative side.

“Suddenly I discovered the arts,” explained Watkins. “A lot of this stuff is new to me. I’m like a child discovering something different.”

After retirement, Watkins and his wife, Henriette, moved to Ottawa and soon became members at Abbotsford.

Both of them take part in courses at the seniors’ centre across from Lansdowne Park. “People don’t realize the quality of the instructors. There’s not a dud among them,” said Watkins, who has taken art and drawing classes.

He also attends exercise courses at the centre two or three times a week, including aerobics, muscle strengthening, balance and mobility classes.

He explained one of his favourite discoveries has been the calligraphy class. “That’s a wonderful class. It’s complete Zen and the concentration is incredible,” said Watkins.

The calligraphy class is held every

Wednesday morning and is taught by Joan Massey, who has studied the art for many years and formerly taught evening calligraphy courses at the Ottawa school board. Massey said the seniors she teaches at Abbotsford take the classes for a variety of reasons. “Usually they’ve admired the beautiful writing. People want to use calligraphy for art projects, signing cards or making signs,” said Massey.

She said many people use computers and printers for signs these days, yet it’s definitely not a lost art. “There’s actually a very active Calligraphy Society of Ottawa and there are major conventions in the U.S. every year.”

Massey agrees with Watkins that most people find writing calligraphy a very meditative, absorbing activity that appeals to many different types – no matter their interests and backgrounds.

For Watkins, retirement has offered him a window into a different world and Abbotsford is offering him an appreciation of the arts. “As soon as I walked into Abbotsford the second time, they all knew my name,” said Watkins. “It’s a joy. You hear laughter here all the time.”

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The Glebe Fine Art Show took place at the Glebe Community Centre on September 19 and 20.

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The Glebe Little League baseball team won the citywide Rookie championship this summer.

Eric Wan (facing the camera) ties for first place in the chess tournament held October 4 at the Glebe Community Centre.

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“Simply” by Andreas Fobes (acrylic on cardboard) an example of Andreas Fobes’ “garbage” series, recently displayed at Café Morala, painted on cardboard found in black box recycle bins

Young Glebe artist in experimental mode

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ever, he said he isn’t trying to send any specific meaning to viewers of his artwork.

“I think that kind of philosophy or message behind it will come through time just by making a lot of stuff, and it will get more focused,” he explained, “but right now I’m just sort of trying it out, having fun with it and playing around with different mediums.”

Fobes lists illustrator Bill Watterson of Calvin and Hobbes fame as one of his early inspirations in drawing. He said while he’s always been interested in illustration, he’s now considering a degree in education once he’s finished his undergrad, with the hopes of becoming an art teacher.

Fobes said one of his favourite things about art isn’t necessarily the final project but the process of creating it. He explained there are times he

Andreas Fobes grew up in the Glebe and attended Immaculata High School. While he never received formal training in art, he took a year off following graduation to work on his portfolio and experiment more with painting. He’s now in his second year at Mount Allison University in New Brunswick studying fine arts.

“I was always really into drawing … so I used to do that all the time,” Fobes said. “I had a bunch of animal encyclopaedias and I used to go through those and copy drawings from them.”

Fobes recently had pieces of his “garbage” art on display at Café Morala, and is currently working on putting together an art show with his classmates in New Brunswick. How-

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can become so wrapped up in painting or drawing that hours can pass without him realizing it.

“It’s very meditative almost, when you’re drawing or painting or anything like that,” he said. “You can kind of clear out your head and not worry

about all the other things you have going on. You can just focus.”

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

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The Pomeroy House – new kid on the block Creating and running a new restaurant is not for the faint of heart. To succeed, you need a pinch of hard work, a dash of culinary flair and a flavourful bouquet of passion. Fortunately, the creative team behind The Pomeroy House offer those ingredients and much more.

The three business partners behind the Glebe’s new kid on the block live and breathe the food business.

Chef Rich Wilson worked as a chef at a number of restaurants including Beckta; and General Manager and Wine Director Lindsay Gordon served at Fraser Café and helped manage lunch service at Beckta on Elgin Street. She is also engaged to Rich.

Established restaurateur Ion Aimers provides additional oversight.

Readers will recall {Segue}, a “kitchen in transition” on Bank Street at First Avenue. True to its name, this pop-up enterprise opened for five months, then closed its doors to allow for extensive renovations. Everything from city permits, electrical and mechanical work and wall demolitions had to be addressed. In August 2015 – 10 nerve-wracking months later – The Pomeroy House threw open its doors.

Wilson and Gordon first met 10 years ago while they were both working at a restaurant in Peterborough. The two forged a love affair of each other and a passion for food. They moved to Victoria, then to Ottawa where they continued to work in restaurants. A couple who enjoys cooking for friends at home, they dreamed about opening their own restaurant, a place that would be warm and welcoming.

Every detail of The Pomeroy House has been lovingly considered, starting with the choice of name – the maiden name of Gordon’s “Nana” who taught her the importance of manners and hospitality. Because she had played such a pivotal role in their lives, Gordon and Wilson decided to pay tribute to her by naming their new restaurant after her. The interior, carefully created in association with a design architect, features reclaimed Ontario barn beams across the interior ceiling. Whiskey decanters serve as lights over the bar and parts of the original brick wall are showcased. The space comfortably accommodates 63 din-

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The Pomeroy House serves meat sourced from local farmers in Quebec and Ontario.

Lindsay Gordon and Rich Wilson, two of the three partners behind The Pomeroy House

ers, including 17 at the bar. A tall table by the front door serves as a spot for walk-ins and communal dining. A cozy alcove for six at the back of the dining room boasts an intimate view of the kitchen through a window where all the magic happens.

And what about the food? Wilson aims to “…source the most sustainable product because it tends to be the best product.” In line with that philosophy, The Pomeroy House partners with suppliers who share similar values. Fruit and vegetables are supplied by Rideau Pines Farm and Juniper Farm; oysters come from The Whalesbone; seafood is from Organic Ocean in British Columbia; chickens, geese and ducks come from Mariposa; meats arrive from Quebec and Ontario, including whole lambs from local farmers. An in-house pastry chef oversees the desserts. While the seasonal menu offers appetizers and mains not found on the {Segue} menu, by popular demand, two items have made a return – the hot chicken and the ribs.

Lindsay Gordon and Rich Wilson are confident that their new venture will be an attractive addition to a neighbourhood that boasts a variety of culinary styles. While word of mouth is still the most tried and true way of spreading the news about The Pomeroy House, social media, including a Facebook page and Twitter feed, enhance the restaurant’s virtual presence. Diners seeking to make reservations can choose either to call the restaurant directly or book online.

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The experience of offering lunch and dinner at {Segue} and working 17-hour days with one day off in five months demonstrated to Wilson and Gordon the importance of pacing. At the time of writing this article, The Pomeroy House is open for dinner.

Once the kitchen staff and servers are fully settled into their new roles, the restaurant will open for lunch. A staggered approach will afford the partners the opportunity to offer an unparalleled dining experience that

focuses on quality, consistency, hospitality and comfort.

Residents from the neighbourhood and beyond welcome The Pomeroy House and wish this young couple every success for realizing their dream of opening their own restaurant.

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Images of the Glebe Glebe comings and goings CHANGES AFOOT

Kettleman’s Bagel Company reported on October 6 that the renovations currently underway are “80% done. We still have the garage doors to be installed and some internal work.” (Facebook) The corner of Bank & Fifth is now clear of the fire debris and hoardings from the April 9 fire.

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Corner of Bank and Fifth On October 6, the last of the debris from the April 9 fire was removed and the plywood hoardings taken down, leaving an open, flat space with a cement platform, smack on the corner of Bank and Fifth. This is a prime location, for the Glebe and for the city. It cries out for creativity in filling it, at least temporarily, until new building begins.

Perhaps this could be a practice run for ImagineGlebe. What are our most original, interesting, functional, attractive and yet (one hopes) do-able ideas?

Let’s be practical. It’s October – so no patios, no skateboard park, no wading pool. What would work throughout the fall and winter?

Start with a cluster of benches for the weary shopper – an easy win. How about a speaker’s corner, for anyone with a point of view and a bent for declamation? Or a stage for plays and music performances? A flat surface for sidewalk art? A petting zoo?

At Christmas, a fabulous big Christmas tree lighting up the sky, surrounded by two or three metal fireplaces (the kind that the NCC uses on the Canal during Winterlude). Fires draw people like magnets, and perhaps all those people in one place will inspire a food truck to set up shop with hot chocolate or hot cider.

It’s on the bus route – maybe a pop-

up information booth on the LRT? Or a survey booth for people to register their opinions on the future of Bank Street as a “Mainstreet?”

Opportunities are sometimes fleeting. This one has the advantage that it’s likely not permanent, so we can stretch our wings and be a little unorthodox, with few consequences. Shall we be bold?

“Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?”

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COVER photo: Marigolds bloom on Holmwood by Liz McKeen FRONT PAGE photo: Lorrie Loewen

GOODIES <3 is a new homemade food place at 103 Fourth Avenue (replacing The Tea Party). This is its second location, the first being in Kapuskasing. They sell home-style food in mason jars. www.facebook. com/everydaygoodieseveryday Eddy’s Diner at 777 Bank Street (former location of the Corner Bar & Grill) offers all-day breakfast “because breakfast is the best meal of the day!” Open Monday to Sunday, 7 a.m. to 11 p.m.

Ottawa International Film Festival headquarters has moved to Lansdowne. It’s now located in the Horticulture Building, 1525 Princess Patricia Way. GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN

The Clearance Store at 755 Bank Street was a three-month pop-up sidebar project of Capital Home Hardware. It operated from June 22 to the end of September and is now closed.

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TWIGS (Those Who Initiate Greener Spaces), Glebe Collegiate’s environment club, has adopted First Avenue under the city-wide Adopta-Roadway program. It’s official – there’s a sign up! “TWIGS is an environment club bent on making a difference around our school and community.”

Contributors this issue Anna Baccin Jennifer Barnaby Dijana Bate Nicole Bayes-Fleming Micheline Boyle Bob Brocklebank David Chernushenko Barbara Coyle Des and Joan Doran Clive Doucet Adelle Farrelly Judy Field Caitlin Fortier Mathieu Gaudet Pat Goyeche Roland Graham Paul Green Trevor Greenway Julie Ireton Will Jessup Craig Kamcke Kate Lalumiere Margaret Lavictoire Lorrie Loewen Anne Le Dressay

Eric Martin Christine McAllister Kate McGregor Shawn Menard Doug Milne Brian Mitchell Tracy Morey Margret Brady Nankivell Yasir Naqvi Ali Ramezani Clyde Sanger Ellen Schowalter Beverley Smith Jeff Smith Zena Surani Robert Taylor Mary Tsai Basia Vanderveen Becca Wallace Keenan Wellar Melanie Willis Judith Wouk Zeus

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My Lansdowne compromise Editor, Glebe Report Re: “Lansdowne Farmers’ Market in 2015” by Ali Ramezani (Glebe Report, September 2015)

When a stranger knocks Editor, Glebe Report A stranger knocked at my door. “I thought that you may like to have this,” he said as he handed me a small photograph, roughly two and a half inches by four inches. As I studied the picture, my heart raced when I recognized its content: our house, with “ancient” dignitaries in a carriage on the roadway in front.

“June 1939!” he said.

In the carriage sat King George VI, then King of England, and Queen Elizabeth, and in the background, our house! The King and Queen were on their way to, or returning from, Lansdowne Park, travelling on the Queen Elizabeth Driveway. Today, our house looks just as it does in the picture;

immediately beside it, with Union Jacks flying and people on the front porch, stands a large house. Today, the site of that large house is a part of the parking lot for the high rise located on Second Avenue.

I mumbled “thanks” to The Stranger, asked his name and how he came to have the picture.

“Ted,” he said, and added that his inlaws lived in Old Ottawa South at the time. Then he rode off on his bicycle.

So, this letter is to repeat our thanks to Ted the Stranger on the bicycle, and to invite him to please communicate with us again so that we may fully express our appreciation for his thoughtfulness in such a wonderful gift.

Des and Joan Doran

Bank Street planning – let’s get brutal Editor, Glebe Report Just a note to say how much I enjoyed September’s issue of the Glebe Report.

It is tempting to simply list all the articles and illustrations that I liked starting with the cover and Philip Craig’s portraits, then moving on to Clyde Sanger’s remembrance of Flora.

But I will restrain my admiration.

What I do want to do is reflect a little on Carolyn Mackenzie’s two-page trot through the City and community planning process for Bank Street.

It was knowledgeable and extremely diplomatic, avoiding anything that might be construed as political or partisan. Let me be brutal and political for a few minutes.

Land planning is always about politics. What Mackenzie calls the default “mainstreet” is the developer option.

It’s a squashed down high-rise strip.

It maximizes land use and profits and minimizes development costs.

The only community-friendly thing about the developer option is that it’s six stories and not 14. To move the city planners off this option takes the patience and energy of Sisyphis.

The Community Development Plan or CDP that Mackenzie refers to was a very effective tool in my day on Council for creating a main street plan that was sensitive to the actual community environment. And all the Traditional Mainstreet plans that have been successful were done after a two-year, sometimes many-year, Community Development Plan process. Amazingly, the Ontario Municipal Board supported them against the developer’s option. (I say amazing because the OMB rules in favour of developers about 98 per cent of the time.) What was the City’s response? They got rid of the Community Development Plan process.

Clive Doucet (former Councillor, Capital Ward)

Speeding cars on Fourth Avenue a menace Editor, Glebe Report I’m a long-time resident of Fourth Avenue in the Glebe and I’m concerned about the number of cars speeding along Fourth Avenue to and from Bank Street during the evening rush hours.

What typically happens is that drivers arrive at Fourth Avenue after travelling south along Lyon Street.

They then realize that they cannot continue to Fifth Avenue. Drivers then turn left and zoom up Fourth Avenue to reach Bank Street. Car access to Fifth Avenue from Lyon Street has been permanently blocked to make the area around Mutchmor School at the corner of Fifth and Lyon Street safer for children.

The posted speed limit is 40 km but drivers go much faster than this, putting children and others in danger.

Two cats have been hit and killed in recent years: RIP to two neighbourhood cats, Bean and Popcorn!

Can something be done to permanently slow traffic down this stretch of Fourth Avenue? Speed bumps? Other traffic-calming measures?

During the weekly evening rush hour, it’s quite frightening and will not be long before another cat or a human is injured, especially now that attendance has increased at Mutchmor School and children are going up and down this stretch of Fourth Avenue every day.

Jennifer Barnaby

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Thank you to the Glebe

Photo: Beverley Smith

King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in June 1939 travelling on the Queen Elizabeth Driveway in Ottawa

“It would indeed be sad to think that the Farmers’ Market is being punished for the bitter feelings Glebe residents have retained from the Lansdowne’s redevelopment experience….It would be a sad day if we lost the Lansdowne Farmers’ Market because of...unresolved feelings from the opposition of Glebe residents during the Lansdowne development saga.”

My personal compromise is to not deprive myself of activities that I enjoyed before the construction. I have always loved the Farmers’ Market and go every week. As well, I attend concerts such as the Big Soul Project, featured on the front page of the same issue. I will also continue with my dentist, whose office downtown fell victim to development and is relocating to Lansdowne.

Other items that I can purchase somewhere else, I seek elsewhere in the Glebe if possible, or elsewhere in the city.

Editor, Glebe Report On the weekend of August 14 to 16, six of us from Paper Bead Works held a sale of african jewellery on Fourth Avenue in the Glebe. We drove over from the southern Georgian Bay area to sell the work of our group of 32 beaders from northern Uganda. This project of ours, to teach and sell the group’s paper bead jewellery, began in 2008; this was our first sale in Ottawa.

We were extremely pleased by the reception we received in your beautiful Glebe; we owe the neighbourhood a huge thank you.

First, we would like to thank Philip Craig for the use of his Fourth Avenue studio/gallery. Thank you, Philip, for that very generous gift. Thank you, also, to Dianne Craig and Krystyna Smith for all of your assistance.

Next, we would like to give a huge shout-out to Karen at Von’s and Flippers for all of her promotional efforts for this event. Karen and her staff were frequent visitors to the sale. In

Left to right, Dianne Craig, Karen Von Merveldt, Krystyna Smith and Toni Andrews from Paper Bead Works

addition, we would like to thank the neighbourhood for welcoming us with such warm enthusiasm. All of the residents and businesses could not have been more supportive. We are very grateful to all for making our event such a success. Because of this success, more children will be enrolled in school, more health care will be available, more bikes can be purchased and there will be more money for business loans.

A big thank-you to the Glebe; it is a very special area of Ottawa. We loved it!

Beverley Smith paperbeadworks.com Clarksburg, ON.

The poetry of Lansdowne Editor, Glebe Report Since the Lansdowne TD branding is still an issue, here’s my take on it.

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Corporate Conceit It abuts a UNESCO heritage site, so it’s true my heart kind of sank.

Now Lansdowne Park is ablaze with the logos of a bank.

The cold stark ads abound.

TD won’t just house your seat, it’ll confirm business rules all – power by the corporate elite.

Did the OSEG boys ever mention they’d be cashing in on the side by selling off stadium branding to a corp at a price they’d hide?

The Canal’s not sacred either, its view once a calm sensation.

Look up now from the Canal at Bank: Can TD mean Total Domination?

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The Glebe according to Zeus

glebous & comicus In the land of Glebe

A guinea pig’s perspective on the Glebe

Guinea pigs: swing voters?

“Guinea pigs have been catered to as a swing voter group this election, but few have the proper identification to register,” explained Roam Vronsky, political pundit pigeon. “They’re notoriously bad with money, and so even getting a utility bill in their own name is unlikely. And most of them don’t drive due to short sightedness.”

“We went to the Elections Canada site and our names were nowhere!” exclaimed Tubby-Tub, long-time Glebe resident. “And mine wasn’t either,” added a distraught Snowpuffy, a single pig who rooms with two cats and a biped.

Worse, expat-pigs living outside the Glebe for more than five months also cannot vote due to a new rule. “I grew up in the Glebe, but I had to move to Centretown to be near my place of employment, Troubadour Books, on Bank Street,” exclaimed an irate Rodin. “I should be able to vote! I am a Glebe pigizen through and through!”

Several cats interviewed remain unconcerned, and even support the new rules.

“Everyone knows the Glebe guinea pigs originally came from Lowertown, so they’re not old stock Glebe residents,” said Ronald Dump, a fat cat from Second Avenue who said he had no trouble buying a driver’s licence and utility bill to vote this year.

It is hard to know what impact the guinea pig contingent has on voting outcomes. Although most are socialists, enjoying parties and coffee dates, the group has been known to be swayed last minute by fears of grass shortages and promises of carrots.

Visit www.elections.ca for voting information.

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In The Language Garden

An etymological camping trip

By Adelle Farrelly

Camping season is over for most people by this time of the year, leaving me wistful that I never took advantage of it. To make myself feel a little better, I’ve decided to take an imaginary camping trip through etymology.

“Camping,” a leisure activity performed in relative solitude, finds its way into English via Latin “campus,” which is pretty much the opposite of a vacation in the wilderness. Campus, of course, is a word now used to describe an academic or even work setting (is Tunney’s Pasture a campus in the same way Carleton or uOttawa are?), but it originally had a martial, or military, usage, referring to the fields where troops would set up or perform military exercises. To encamp, therefore, was to set up a base of operations in a field, very often in tents or other temporary structures. It was a natural progression for “hanging out in a tent for fun” to be called camping as well.

“Tent” does not originate in a shelter-type word at all, however, but from the Latin verb “tendere,” to stretch, referring to the material stretched out to make the structure in question. By the Middle Ages, the past participle (roughly translated as “a stretched thing”) became a word of its own in Medieval Latin, “tenta.” From Latin, then, to Old French (“tente”), and from Old French to Middle English (also “tente”) by roughly 1300. Many Middle English words had “e” at the end of them, which we’ve since dropped or ceased to pronounce, and tente would likely have been pronounced more like tentuh than tent.

In any case, as the days grow shorter and nights a little cooler, stay safe and sheltered, looking forward to next summer season.

Adelle Farrelly delights in bringing us her insights into the meaning and origin of words.

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Editor’s note: This article is based on a Carleton University Science Café lecture held September 16 at the Sunnyside Branch of the Ottawa Public Library.

Since 9/11 and other acts of terrorism, security has become increasingly important for the travelling public.

Most travellers recognize that screening at airports and other public places is in the interests of safety for all.

However, almost all of us are stressed when going through the security line in an airport, wondering if something about us will set off alarms and delay our travel. We may already be experiencing the jangled nerves of travelling: airports are often crowded, and we may be fatigued, in a hurry or in a high emotional state from family leave-taking or reunions.

It might help to know a little about how these airport security scanners and other point-of-contact technological devices work.

Airports have used passenger-scanning techniques for many years in the form of sniffer dogs. As we know, dogs have a greater capacity than humans for picking up scents and can be trained to identify certain harmful substances. Although dogs are still used, other technologies have emerged to complement our K9 friends in the detection of harmful materials or objects.

Metal detectors

Metal detectors generally take the form of an archway that passengers walk through or hand-held devices that are used to “wand” passengers.

These devices consist of two coils of wire, to which power is applied to one.

This coil creates an electric field that is “felt” by the second coil, creating a stable electrical current in the second coil. This electrical field is altered when a metal object is passed by the coils, registering as a change in the electrical current in the second coil and indicating the presence of metal to the user.

X-ray scanners

All bags that pass through security are scanned by small wavelength radiation called X-rays that pass directly through most soft substances. More dense materials block X-rays, allowing the security staff to create an image of the contents of a bag or suitcase.

RF scanners

Similar to X-ray scanning, RF scanning uses long wavelength radiation

to create an image of the surface of an individual. Passengers stand in a screening area and the radiation is bounced off them to a detector, where an image of anything that they may be concealing is produced within a computer. The end user (security staff) is alerted to any suspicious items on a person, but is not able to see the image produced by the device.

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Through the magic of chemistry, we now have technology to carry out a similar function to that of a dog’s nose.

Security staff use swabs to mechanically pick up traces of potentially hazardous material such as narcotics or explosives. They then put the swab in a small scanner that looks at the molecular composition of the substance on the swab. The scanner can identify the presence of harmful substances by identifying their molecular signatures within complex chemical mixtures. It screens the molecules for size and can recognize patterns of harmful substances based on size distribution.

Puff tests

A newer technology now in use in some airports and at the CN Tower is a puff testing machine. These devices puff a stream of air at passengers as they go through the line and suck away molecules from their hair and clothing. These molecules are scanned in the same way to identify potentially harmful substances.

False readings?

How reliable are these machines? A great deal of research has been done to create profiles of combinations of various substances that may be encountered at an airport, and training algorithms have been created to allow staff to identify potentially harmful substances. False positives do happen, however, and I am currently working with the RCMP to try to find ways to minimize them.

Research now is focusing on increasing the robustness and sensitivity of the technology, and also on miniaturizing it and finding other ways to make it less intrusive. For example, in the future, passengers may not even be aware of a puff test being carried out as part of the air-handling systems in the room.

Jeff Smith is assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry at Carleton University and director of the newly opened Carleton Mass Spectrometry Centre.

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George McIlraith

The eight MPs of Ottawa Centre

By Clyde Sanger

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enjoyed this job. Yes, it was created in 1968, and we voters in our open-spirited way have given all three main parties their chance to shine. Four Liberals have had it for 32 years, three New Democrats for 14 years and one Progressive Conservative squeezed in for part of one year. A full field: the riding has drawn hopefuls carrying 15 different banners, from Rhinoceros to Libertarian, and in one election it hosted up to a dozen candidates.

George McIlraith, the riding’s first MP, was hardly new to politics.

He’d started with Mackenzie King in 1940, and he had won nine elections earlier in Ottawa West. His political machine ran on smoothly through Pearson’s leadership when, as Government House Leader, he steered the caucus past the rocks of the Flag Debate and Medicare. He was Pierre Trudeau’s solicitor-general, and somewhere along the way ran Public Works and has a bridge over the Rideau Canal named after him. In 1972 he moved on to the Sen-

ate, and died in 1992.

Ottawa-born Hugh Poulin was a quieter Member, a lawyer on the Liberal back benches. He couldn’t match McIlraith’s 57 per cent share of the vote and Hugh Segal twice ran close behind him for the Progressive Conservatives. Not his fault; the Liberal vote was fading nationally by mid1978 when he was appointed to the Ontario Superior Court and resigned.

In the by-election that followed, the Liberals fell to third place and aha! a Progressive Conservative seized the moment. Robert de Cotret is hardly remembered here, as he was out the door within eight months. But he had a doctorate in business economics and, after he lost in May 1979, Prime Minister Joe Clark made him a Senator and Trade Minister. He was resilient and resigned to fight – and win – a Quebec riding in 1984, and under Brian Mulroney, had two Cabinet jobs and the Canadian post at the World Bank. We lost a good man.

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Cotret’s case, Ottawa Centre voters went against the tide, and returned to the Liberal stream with John Leslie Evans (1979-84). He was born in Seattle and grew up in Florida, did some time as a professor at UBC and was a prized economist whom the latter-day Trudeau used as Parliamentary Secretary in the Finance ministry.

Here we go again, voting against the Mulroney tide of 1984. The first New Democrat to win here tripped home with 54 votes more than the Tory Dan Chilcott (and Evans a sad third). But Michael Cassidy (in those years our neighbour) was used to close finishes. He had been an Ottawa alderman and gone to Queen’s Park in 1971. He led the party for nearly four years, unkindly described as “an unhappy interlude” after the brilliance of Stephen Lewis. Unkind, for he was a thoughtful if solemn MP, who cared a lot about the Algonquin people. He passed the leadership on to Bob Rae after a poor election showing and

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Skiing and childhood friends on your doorstep (avoid those who became developers). Lots of bright graduates, lively dinner parties and no complaining farmers. Fun all year round. And, above all, the prestige of representing the country’s core.

Let’s glance at the riding’s 47-year story and at the eight men who have

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headed back to better things here.

Cassidy had a full four years in opposition to the Mulroney government and was in the fight against the negotiations on the Canada-U.S. trade pact, the big issue of the 1988 election. Cassidy wasn’t finished with the “good fight.” Appointed

by Bob Rae to the Board of Ontario Hydro, he resisted the Harris government’s efforts to privatize it, and then moved to Lanark to the struggle to keep multinationals from despoiling the Hay River.

Now comes Mac Harb, a bright 20-year-old student arriving in 1973 from Lebanon, who in 15 years got an engineering degree from the University of Ottawa, worked for Northern Telecom, taught at Algonquin College, was elected to Ottawa city council, became deputy mayor, and then beat Maude Barlow for the Liberal nomination – and edged past Mike Cassidy by 760 votes to become our MP at the age of 35.

Wow! Is there any stopping him?

No, there was no stopping Harb.

Somehow he managed to win the next three elections, reaching a peak of 52 per cent of the vote in 1993 against two strong opponents, and then sliding by stages to 40 per cent in 2000. Time to move elsewhere, he must have thought, and his loyalty to Jean Chrétien paid off with a Senate seat in September 2003.

He made his mark, though not always positively. He fought against Sunday shopping, and said odd things about homelessness in Centretown. He also wanted to legalize municipal brothels. In the Senate in 2009 he introduced Bill S-210 to end the seal hunt and kept up his campaign.

When the Senate housing scandal broke, Harb was charged for mortgage fraud and breach of trust in February 2014. He had already resigned and repaid $231,000 for living expenses that he had claimed for properties in Cobden and Westmeath as his “primary residence.” His trial, due in 2016, concerns mortgages he obtained on these buildings.

Meanwhile, the Ottawa Centre seat was vacant from September 2003 until the following June, and Ed Broadbent came out of political retirement in January to win the NDP nomination over Paul Dewar, and then handily defeat Richard Mahoney, the Liberal candidate, by 6,200 votes. But he announced within a year he would not seek reelection, so as to have more time to care for his ailing wife, Lucille. So Paul Dewar was ready to take on Mahoney and win by a margin of 5,000 votes.

This account now impinges on the present election, and should remain non-partisan. So all I will say about Paul Dewar’s next two election wins is that he won by margins of 8,000 and 18,700 over his nearest rivals.

And he has been foreign affairs critic since 2011.

Finally, the September issue of this paper carried the profiles of five of the hopefuls (four men, one woman) contesting Ottawa Centre this time.

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A better title could be “The MightHave-Beens.” The best of them were four women. Jean Pigott trailed John Evans in 1980; Maude Barlow lost the Liberal nomination to Mac Harb in 1988; Marion Dewar was second in 1993; and Penny Collenette trailed Paul Dewar in 2008. They each shone elsewhere: chairing the NCC; heading the Council of Canadians; being Ottawa’s much-lauded Mayor; and holding the appointments job under Mulroney (and being married to the defence minister).

There were good men, too. Hugh Segal, now Master of Massey College; Irving Greenberg; Ian Lee, the economist; Bryce Mackasey, David Langille and Robin Mathews; and our present Councillor David Chernushenko.

And, doubtless, good winners and losers to come.

Clyde Sanger, journalist, author and poet, is a long-time Glebe resident who contributes to the Glebe Report on a wide range of topics.

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On September 9, 2015, at the Bronson Centre, I was proud to announce that the Seniors Community Grant Program is providing $55,730 directly to nine nonprofit organizations in Ottawa Centre.

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Through the Seniors Community Grant, Club Casa de los Abuelos is receiving $8,000 to partner with local health organizations to deliver health education classes. Other organizations receiving funding include: • $3,000 to Ottawa Sui Yi Multicultural Arts Academy to organize cultural walking tours and art classes focusing on local scenery; • $10,000 to the Active Jewish Adults 50+ to provide an interactive music therapy program to build social and cognitive well-being; • $10,000 to Canadian Organic Growers Inc. to deliver therapeutic organic gardening programs to seniors in residences; • $9,730 to Domestic Pioneers: Senior Volunteers Learning and Sharing in Community to initiate volunteer opportunities for local seniors; • $10,000 to the Jewish Youth Library to deliver a conference on personal health and well-being; • $3,000 to the Ottawa Chinese Community Service Centre to provide information to Chinese-speaking seniors on available health-related resources in their community; • $3,000 to Yet Keen Seniors Day Centre to administer five field trips for seniors with an emphasis on being active in the outdoors; and • $10,000 to Artswell to deliver a program that will allow seniors to express themselves through a variety of art forms.

Through the Seniors Community Grant Program in 2014, we supported four local projects in Ottawa Centre with $17,320 in funding. This program has been such a success that Ontario doubled the grant program to $2 million this year in order to support 367 not-for-profit community projects in the province.

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GNAG 2014–15 AGM update Our motto, “community working for the community,” is represented through our elected volunteer board of directors, committee members and portfolio advisors. These incredible members are dedicated to responding to the community’s needs and interests.

Mary Tsai This was a very big year. Here are a few highwww.gnag.ca lights.

• GNAG received a provincial grant from the Ontario Sport and Recreation Communities Fund. This grant, offered by the Ontario Ministry of Sport, Recreation and Tourism, will help support and sustain a brand new two-year initiative called YouthFIT. This exciting project aims to provide barrier-free fitness and sport opportunities for the youth in our community.

• GNAG’s summer camps portfolio grew, with more than 4,700 registrations processed over the 3,000 registrations of the summer of 2014.

• Alongside the significant growth in programming, staff and budget, we continue to ensure the affordability and accessibility of our programs to all. Recognizing that the overall budget nets less than one per cent, we can safely say that GNAG’s program fees are equitable.

• Our goal is to ensure program subsidization for families in need. Last year GNAG funded 100 percent – over $12,000 – towards financial assistance.

• We are working with Amsted to install a new storage and deck area at the Glebe Community Centre.

• We are launching of a new website and online registration system. Look for more details in the November 2015 Glebe Report.

• We conducted a full review of our risk management policy.

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GNAG is excited to announce that we will be hosting the annual Pumpkin Patch Party on October 25 from 3:30 to 6 p.m. This event is perfect for children walking to 12 years of age. Admission is $7 per child. Adults and infants are free! We also have parent-and-tot-friendly activities if you need to get away from the Halloween frenzy. Tickets are on sale now. Please note, children 9 and under must be accompanied by an adult.

GNAG/St. James Tennis Club outdoor rink

Two years ago GNAG, in partnership with the City of Ottawa and the St. James Tennis Club, relocated the Mutchmor skating rink to the tennis courts in order to accommodate Mutchmor School’s expansion. The school board has made it clear it can no longer host the rink on the field and that remains the status quo.

While GNAG is enormously proud of the success of this pilot project, we have determined that it is not financially feasible to continue, as it is a highly unique set-up.

The City is faced with a $42 million budget deficit this year but is making every effort to avoid increasing taxes and user fees. Working within these tight financial constraints, it has been able to allocate an additional $1,000 towards the rink’s overall operational budget this year. While this is a step in the right direction, this increase will not be sustainable for the long term.

The rink requires a protective liner to preserve the integrity of the tennis court’s surface. Consequently, the budget for the community rink will be short the cost of the liner as well as the cost of removal and storage for future years and GNAG cannot afford to fund this portion of the project.

GNAG undertakes multiple special projects that are more in line with our mandate (eg. providing subsidies for families in need, supporting Glebe Community Centre building improvements and extended operating hours, and renting offsite programmable space). While GNAG is excited to operate the rink on the courts for one more year, sadly we are not able take it on for future years without additional financial and labour support.

Should the City be able to find additional dollars for this project, GNAG and St. James will gladly reassess the feasibility of running the rink at its current location beyond our commitment to the 2015–16 season.

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Lansdowne: Have your say on how it’s working out so far With the first summer season of soccer watching, restaurant hopping, movie going, folk festing, skateboarding, retail shopping, Redblacks cheering and farmers’ marketing behind us, it’s time to take stock. What has been the impact thus far of the controversial Lansdowne project on the Glebe community now that we have some experience with it?

So, during the month of October the Glebe Community Association is conducting an online survey of Glebe and Dow’s Lake residents. The survey will seek feedback on what has been a primary community concern with the redeveloped Lansdowne: traffic.

But the survey will also try to understand how residents are using the new Lansdowne site, what they like about it and how it can be improved, beyond strictly its impact from a traffic perspective. Results of the survey will be shared with the community through the Glebe Report in December. Feedback obtained concerning the traffic impact of Lansdowne (including pedestrian, cycling and public transit issues) will also be shared with the Lansdowne Transportation Monitoring Operations Committee, which includes representatives from the City of Ottawa, the NCC and the Ottawa Sports and Entertainment Group, as well as community representatives

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Lansdowne: How’s it working for you?

from the Glebe, Old Ottawa South and Old Ottawa East.

The online survey can be accessed via the Glebe Community Association website (www.glebeca.ca) or directly via www.surveymonkey.com/r/ GlebeLansdowne, and will remain open until the end of October. Residents preferring to complete a printed version of the survey can pick one up at the Glebe Community Centre.

Brian Mitchell is a member of the GCA’s Traffic Committee and represents the GCA on the Lansdowne Transportation Monitoring Operations Committee.

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Glebe Report October 16, 2015

One year in with the new Lansdowne

Catherine James-Zelney, PFP Financial Planner

As a glorious late summer recedes into memory, Glebe residents have a chance to take stock of how that elephant in our midst — Lansdowne Park — is affecting our lives, businesses and even Councillor property values. We’ve been through a full year David Chernushenko of sports events, playing host to a well-attended www.capitalward.ca international soccer tournament, plus resident hockey, soccer and football teams.

We’ve seen our first year of the Ottawa Farmers Market in its new location, and the arrival of a plethora of new retail and food/beverage establishments. We finally opened the Urban Park, including a completely renovated but relocated Horticulture Building. We’ve hosted AC/DC (who could forget?), complete with cannon volleys and more stretch limos than I knew existed. Most recently, we hosted CityFolk, and the Marvest events at venues throughout the Glebe BIA. So what do you think? Most readers are aware of the Lansdowne redevelopment’s divisive history, and most have heard (or shared) the many fears about traffic, parking, noise, loss of retail business, etc. But what has the reopening of Lansdowne actually meant for you? Please tell me, in as concrete terms as possible, what you are experiencing. What do you like or not like? What kinds of changes might be made to the site itself, and to the way the City and the Ottawa Sports and Entertainment Group manage the site, traffic, parking and more?

I welcome your feedback. City Council is due to receive the first Lansdowne Annual Report in November or December, and I’d like to use the occasion to share our own residents’ annual report with Council.

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Final paving on Bank; bike lane on Holmwood

When Bank Street was rebuilt, the final “lift” or layer of asphalt between Holmwood Ave. and the Bank Street Bridge was delayed because ongoing construction at Lansdowne would have ruined it. Now, we should see that asphalt put down in late October, and a similar resurfacing of Holmwood at the same time. The Holmwood work includes two speed humps to be reinstalled between Bank and Adelaide. And while eastbound bikes will use a shared lane, there will be a new dedicated, westbound contra-flow bike lane on the north side, continuing around the corner and up O’Connor to Fifth Ave. To make the contra-flow lane possible, parking will shift to the opposite side of both streets — to the south side of Holmwood and east side of O’Connor. Some residents opposed this decision, but besides being the preferred option based on public consultations, traffic rules require a contra-flow lane to be on the left of moving traffic. The new arrangement will create more parking spaces in a parking-constrained area.

More park

The Sylvia Holden Park saga continues. First the park was clear-cut and built on. Then the name was transferred to the existing/remaining park next to Lansdowne, bordered by O’Connor and Fifth. Now, good news: City land to the west of the fire station has been declared surplus and will formally become parkland.

I’ll be working with the GCA to consider possible “improvements” to this newly available piece of land.

Budget time

The 2016 Budget is being developed as I write. This will likely be another very tight year unless citizens and their councillors have an appetite for tax and rate increases beyond the stated target of 2 per cent. I welcome your thoughts on that target, and any specific suggestions for finding savings, whether by outright cuts or through investments that will ultimately save money. If you feel a larger increase is in order, tell me how you would allocate that revenue.

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Left to right, David Kingstone, Julie Kingstone and Keenan Wellar, taking in the inaugural Redblacks game, with their future Glebe home in the background

Back in the Glebe – but higher up

By Keenan Wellar

It’s great to be back in the Glebe.

Back in 1995, my future wife Julie Kingstone and I moved to our first apartment together on Third Avenue.

It was from that apartment that we made the decision to develop a charitable organization for people with intellectual disabilities and their families in the Ottawa community.

At the time, the non-profit startup was no more a long-term career choice than our choice of an apartment was a decision to lay down neighbourhood roots. Like most people who spend any time in the Glebe, we certainly enjoyed it, but sometimes you have to leave before

you can understand what you are missing.

Like a lot of young couples our real estate hopes had turned to thoughts of ownership and, in the housing boom of the late 1990s, opportunities in the immediate neighbourhood seemed out of reach. We then went on an epic journey throughout the region as our interests and careers motivated us to try different locations. This included the far northwest, Dunrobin, to pursue our passion for kayaking daily, followed by a move to the northeast, Orleans, where we spent three years hosting young adults with intellectual disabilities in an in-law suite, to give them some life-skill practice before moving out to their own apartments.

We have now made an enthusiastic return to the Glebe, where we are temporarily renting at Lansdowne in The Vibe while we await completion of our condo in The Rideau. The timing of it all could not have been more perfect.

We have reached a point in life where we do not want a big space to take care of, and where we prefer to visit parks and enjoy a walkable neighbourhood rather than maintain our own yard.

While the changes at Lansdowne and the resulting pros and cons are yet to be fully understood, having lived on the corner of the property (right across from Kettleman’s – yes, some traditions just get better) for the past 10 months, we remain enthusiasts for Lansdowne and for the Glebe as a whole.

The impact on our mental and physical health is dramatic and apparent, even if our little car (we used to have two of them) is feeling neglected in the parking garage. Gone are the weekends dedicated to driving to a big box store to “load up” for the week.

Back is our old Glebe habit of buying small amounts of fresh foods as part of our routine during the walk home from work.

Gone also is the exercise equipment or the need to drive the car to find somewhere to go for a walk. In addition to daily jaunts to the office and back, we have enjoyed walks along the river and the Canal (there’s a great loop from here to Hog’s Back that we highly recommend).

Living in the The Rideau is probably not for everyone. In watching the Redblacks play over the past two seasons, or watching the fireworks at the AC/DC show on September 3, it has not been lost on either of us that our backyard is now a stadium with lights and speaker systems. And yet, in our lengthy search for the right place to settle and stay settled, we are hopeful that “the new Glebe” is exactly what we are looking for.

With occupancy scheduled for late November, we can’t wait for the first opportunity to book the guest facilities and host friends old and new. Perhaps some of you reading this are soon to become our new neighbours and we look forward to meeting you!

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It would be easy to forget how LiveWorkPlay began 20 years ago as a fledgling non-profit organization for people with intellectual disabilities and their families in the Ottawa area, and to take for granted the leadingedge organization that it has become. But it’s important to stay grounded and take time to reflect. We have made an effort with this 20-year milestone to take time to remember where we came from and to gather ourselves with supporters new and old to launch into the next 20 years. In June of this year we celebrated the anniversary of LiveWorkPlay with 350 guests.

The event was so well received that it spurred me on to author my first book, The Courage to Fail, the Will to Succeed: Twenty Years of the LiveWorkPlay Experience 1995-2015. The book was launched on September 8 with support from Mayor Jim Watson, with whom we shared a laugh about our first LiveWorkPlay open house in 1997, where Watson was one of the only invited guests who showed up. This was not the case in 2015, as our new office at 2197 Riverside was packed with enthusiastic supporters and I was humbled by the kind reception to the book.

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Terry Fox Run on the Confederation Bridge On the morning of Sunday, September 20, to mark the 35th anniversary of Terry Fox’s Marathon of Hope, runners and walkers surged across the 13 km Confederation Bridge between Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick.

I’ve always wanted to walk on the bridge, so it was an easy decision to combine the Terry Fox event with a trip to the Island to visit with family.

In addition to raising money for the Terry Fox Foundation, I wanted to do the walk in recognition of people in my life who have been affected by cancer. I also made the offer to friends and co-workers that I would carry names they provided. It didn’t take long to gather over 30 names that I proudly carried during the walk.

The alarm rang at 4 a.m. (3 a.m.

Ottawa time) for a 5 a.m. pick up by my cousin and her friends. When we arrived at the bridge, volunteers were already busy directing cars to the parking areas and organizing participants onto shuttle buses to the starting positions.

Participants of all ages assembled in the growing light. Many wore team T-shirts in support of a family member or friend. Volunteers were handing out stickers that read “Terry Fox ran for me. I’m running for….” People were thinking back 35 years to the Marathon of Hope – the amazing physical

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By Margaret Lavictoire

The 35th annual Terry Fox run and walk on the Confederation Bridge between P.E.I. and New Brunswick on September 20

challenge of running day after day – and how one person could inspire the country and create a lasting legacy.

By the time the runners started at 7:15 and the walkers at 7:30 there were thousands sweeping forward, eager to get moving.

The morning was pleasantly warm.

An intermittent breeze from the south

helped us along (but was challenging for the participants heading toward New Brunswick). Clouds threatened a few times, even producing a faint rainbow, but it didn’t rain.

All in all, the walking was easy, being caught up with the crowd and with so much to see. The most dramatic scene was the rise in the middle

of the bridge for the shipping channels, with crowds moving in each direction filling the bridge.

By 10:30, we were back in PEI – tired, happy, hungry – looking forward to the 40th anniversary event.

Margaret Lavictoire is a Glebe resident with P.E.I. roots.

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Pedestrian safety and bikes – a polemic This past July, a mature, adult, male pedestrian – a long-time resident of the Glebe – was injured and traumatized by a female cyclist riding on the sidewalk over the Canal on the Bank Street Bridge. The anonymous cyclist remains unidentified.

Sadly, this story came as no surprise to me. I have lived in the Glebe for 20 years, but in the last couple of years I have witnessed a rising tension between pedestrians and a certain type of cyclist. I have shared my concern with colleagues on the Traffic Committee of the Glebe Community Association.

As a consequence of urban intensification policies, scarce spaces have become the subject of competition and conflict – witness the dispute between dog owners and parents of toddlers over park spaces, for example.

There are, no doubt, many cyclists in the Glebe who are conscientious. I am privileged to live near entire families of cyclists who leave nothing to be desired in terms of consideration and civic duty.

But I fail to sympathize with the behaviour of some local cyclists.

Readers who have encountered cyclists on the Canal pathways speeding by pedestrians instead of slowing down, or imposing their presence on narrow sidewalks, will have no difficulty understanding my feelings. I have asked or reminded cyclists not

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By Ali Ramezani

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to ride on sidewalks on a number of occasions. Bicycles are considered vehicles and are subject to laws governing traffic on the street. There is no justification for ignoring stop signs, for example, if one is serious about one’s personal safety.

But more disconcerting than this behaviour is the reaction to my warnings that I have received from a tiny but vocal group of cyclists I call the Bike Lobby. This small group has been actively lobbying to add bike lanes on the streets and avenues of the Glebe. Further, they are on rec-

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ord as advocating the removal of street parking spaces and have gone as far as siding with big developers in calling for the elimination of Ottawa’s minimum parking requirements bylaw.

This bylaw sets a specified minimum number of parking spaces to be provided by any new residential or commercial development. As it stands now, those developers that are unwilling or unable to meet these minimum parking requirements must make a payment “in lieu of parking.” These payments are then used to alleviate parking woes in the neighbourhoods where they are collected. If these requirements are eliminated, you can imagine what a boon this would be for big developers.

Behind the Bike Lobby’s opposition to parking spaces, in the Glebe in particular, is the belief that everyone should ride a bike and that people should be discouraged from other alternatives. In this way, more space would open up for cyclists and this would encourage the rest of the population, who currently don’t ride because they don’t feel safe, to do so.

You don’t see or hear them advising their fellow cyclists to respect stop signs or wear helmets. Instead, they appeal to abstract environmental concerns. If everyone bikes – regardless of age and personal circumstance or constraints – problems stemming from the world’s addiction to fossil fuel

will be magically resolved. Our Bike Lobby friends believe that by making the personal choice to cycle – cycling being regarded as a virtue – they can undermine the political economy of the oil industry, which is built upon complex and century-old geopolitical structures grounded in Western foreign policy in the Middle East, not to mention globalization and the addiction of our consumer society to cheap goods produced abroad.

In the meantime, because of neighbourhood parking woes, The Glebe Centre has lost much of its volunteer force – approximately 150 volunteers – and health care providers are reluctant to visit vulnerable clients in the Glebe. And finally, the Glebe’s Bank Street independent businesses are folding up their tents one after the other.

The bike lanes now increasingly visible across the city and the neighbourhood do nothing to make anyone feel safer.

Ali Ramezani is a member of the Glebe Community Association Traffic Committee and a Glebe pedestrian. ~ Editor’s note: What do you think?

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Glebe Report October 16, 2015

Beat your body’s stress reaction

By Zenah Surani

Although fall started off this year with two weeks of exceptionally warm weather here in Ottawa, it also marked the end of the lazy, dog days of summer and, for many people, back to the busy routine that September always brings. In turn, I have lately been approached by many clients of the store for more information about natural supplements (other than the well-known Vitamin B complex) to help during stressful times. Here is more information about a selection of those supplements (please note that natural supplements to aid with sleep issues will be covered in a future article). It’s important to check with your pharmacist before trying any of these supplements, especially if you have any medical conditions and if you are taking any other prescription or nonprescription medications.

Gamma-aminobutyric acid

GABA, short for gamma-aminobutyric acid, is the primary inhibitory neurotransmitter of the central nervous system, meaning that it has a calming effect. Anxiety disorders like panic attacks are related to low GABA activity in the brain. GABA acts to oppose the primary excitatory neurotransmitter in the brain, glutamate. The reason why we feel more awake in the morning after our cup of coffee is because caffeine inhibits GABA’s release. This also explains why too much caffeine can make us jittery – there’s not enough GABA to counteract the excitatory glutamate!

Tranquilizing drugs like benzodiazepines work in the opposite way of caffeine – they mimic GABA’s effect, strengthening it. There are many products on the market that contain GABA as their active ingredient that are touted as natural alternatives to these prescription drugs. There is some preliminary evidence that taking 200 mg daily of GABA does help to calm the nerves and ease anxiety. Many supplements contain more than this amount per capsule, but the amount of GABA taken orally which then passes the blood-brain barrier to exert its effect is likely much less. GABA is likely safe if taken for up to 12 weeks, however its use should be avoided in pregnancy and breastfeeding. GABA may cause drowsiness, so initiating use should be done with caution.

L-Theanine

Another interesting compound is L-Theanine, the major amino acid found in green tea and also certain types of mushrooms. It’s thought that

L-Theanine works to decrease anxiety by increasing levels of serotonin and GABA in the brain. A Japanese study done in 1999 found, by using an EEG, that L-Theanine increases alpha brain wave frequency. This was found 40 minutes after oral administration of L-Theanine (50-200 mg) to study subjects. The alpha band of brain wave results in a state of mind that is relaxed and focused but not drowsy.

This result, however, was only found at higher doses of L-Theanine than what is typically found in a cup of tea (about 20 mg). There is also some preliminary research being done for the use of L-Theanine in dementia as well as high blood pressure.

Rhodiola

The root of the plant rhodiola rosea has been used historically in ancient eastern cultures to increase vitality and mental capacity, and it is also known as a type of “adaptogen,” a substance that helps the body adjust to various physical and environmental stressors.

Rhodiola contains a number of different compounds, however the one to look for is the extract containing 3 per cent rosavin and 1 per cent salidroside, because this is the form that has evidence for antidepressant and mild sedating effects. Similar to the other compounds discussed so far, rhodiola has an inhibitory effect on the brain’s neurotransmitters. Rhodolia is reported to have several drug interactions, so caution should be exercised if one is also on other medications.

Ashwagandha

Another traditional “adaptogen” is Ashwagandha, a plant used in Ayurveda, the medicine of ancient India.

It is also known as Indian ginseng because it is said to have rejuvenating properties. Animal studies showed that pre-treatment with ashwagandha extract before a swimming endurance test (a continuous, progressive situation) prevented stress-induced gastric ulcers. Ashwagandha’s mechanism of action is said to be similar to that of GABA. Ashwagandha has also been used in the treatment of arthritisrelated pain.

Sources 1.

Natural Medicines Database, Pharmacists’ Letter. www.naturaldatabase. therapeuticresearch.com

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AOR Infosheets, www.aor.com

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“L-Theanine and its effect on mental state” http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18296328

Zenah Surani is the owner/pharmacist of the Glebe Apothecary.

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Greg Stone plays Original Burger Joint on September 19 during Marvest.

Suit n’ Toques plays Whole Foods on September 18 as part of Marvest.

David Taggart of the Strain plays Irene’s on September 18 during Marvest.

Marvest a musical wonderland – with benefits!

By Trevor Greenway

During the weekend of September 18-19 the Glebe was transformed into a musical wonderland with more than 60 local bands playing free live shows in both conventional and unconventional spaces.

The event, dubbed Marvest, brought visitors to the Glebe, put more feet on the street, put more shoppers in stores and, most importantly, animated the area to create something fun for our most important customers, our local residents.

Marvest is a perfect example of an event that balanced the needs of businesses with the vibrancy any wider community can enjoy. It helped merchants in the Glebe and provided something special for the local population to experience first hand.

“There were lots of people who actually hadn’t been in the store before and just stopped by because it was so easy to walk in, they didn’t have to make a commitment,” says Octopus Books owner Lisa Greaves, who hosted several Marvest shows in her small Third Avenue bookstore. She said more events like Marvest – that bring people into stores and give the local community a free outing – are what is needed to bring the business

community and the residents together.

She said Marvest was embraced by the local community and got “neighbours” into her store for the first time.

“It was amazing, because it was all sorts of people that I have seen walking up and down Third Avenue before that had never come in or we had never spoken to before,” added Greaves. “It was locals, but it wasn’t people I knew.

It was nice to get to know some of the neighbours.”

The Glebe Business Improvement Area (BIA) is committed to championing these types of events, exciting activities that showcase the area in an authentic way, true to the character and personality of the neighbourhood we love. Whether it is through promotions, partnerships or programming, creative initiatives that take on a life of their own and create a great pedestrian experience and overall excitement, it is good for businesses and good for people.

“I believe our work over the next couple of years will contribute to the well-being of our businesses and the wider community equally. The loyalty of our local residents is strong and their sense of pride is unmatched – they’re our best customers. Our businesses benefit from this and it’s one of the main rea-

sons why the Glebe is so special,” says Glebe BIA Executive Director Andrew Peck. “Our future investments in programming and on-street enhancements will only serve to enhance something great, a remarkable neighbourhood with a rich history and lots to enjoy.”

Aside from a few noise complaints, the response to Marvest from the local community was overwhelmingly positive, according to Christine McAllister from the Glebe Community Association. She said free daytime events for all the busy families in the Glebe are what make the difference between a good community and a great one.

“Events that have something for everybody, in particular families where people can bring their kids and the kids have something to do along Bank Street, are important,” says McAllister.

She added that most people choose to live in the Glebe because it has a bit of a European culture, where residentss can do all their shopping locally for fresh goods they will cook up later that night. Having things for their kids to do during these errand-running times are what families really need.

“For Glebe residents – we do tend to gravitate towards doing our shopping in the Glebe. I think it’s a prime reason people move to the neighbour-

hood,” added McAllister. “A parent can always sort of bribe their kids to go shopping with them if there is something for the kids to do.”

Another great example of programming that engages the community is the Glebe Spree, the contest that puts a $10,000 shopping spree into the hands of a lucky shopper. The contest is set to start again this November but is being reimagined to create even more excitement for those who participate.

The last three contests have been won

by Glebe residents, not surprisingly given the number of entries that come from the Glebe.

“We all love the Glebe Spree contest I just wish I could win,” joked McAllister.

The Glebe BIA is in the midst of planning and exploring a number of fun new initiatives to support its businesses, attract new customers, and engage and involve its best patrons close to home. If you have suggestions, ideas or would like to provide us with feedback, please feel free to send us your thoughts at info@intheglebe.ca.

We’d love to hear from you.

Trevor Greenway is responsible for communications at the Glebe Business Improvement Area.

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“Swimming” by Linda Bordage (oil, 12x12)

“Sous-bois ombragé” (Shaded Underwood) by Diane Bertrand (hand-felted wool, 24 x 36)

Glebe Community Centre Gallery ‘postscript’ show

By Ellen Schowalter

Following closely on the very successful exhibit held in the main hall of the Glebe Community Centre on September 19 and 20, several members of the Glebe Fine Arts Group are presenting a postscript show in the Glebe Community Centre Gallery, located just to the left of the main entrance. Five artists are participating: Linda Bordage, Roy Brash, Diane Bertrand, Christiane Kingsley and Rose Marie Roy. Please stop by and enjoy the colourful, vivid artwork by these five talented painters. Bios of three of the participating artists are featured below. The show runs through to Sunday, November 1.

Rose Marie Roy

Rose Marie Roy works in both oils and acrylics. Born in Italy, she is naturally inspired to use warm European colours. As a writer and poet, Roy tries to recreate images with words; in painting, she strives to invoke images with a brush or a knife. Living close to the Rideau River in Ottawa, there are many opportunities to capture her love of colour, whether it be the elegance of swans, the playfulness of ducks, the glory of autumn or the brilliance of snow. This is her vision that she hopes to share with the world – turning the ordinary into the extraordinary.

Rose Marie Roy can be contacted by email at rosettaroy@gmail.com.

Diane Bertrand

These works of art are part of Charms of the Underwood, a series I created

using wool, a sustainable resource I patiently hand-felted in my Aylmer studio. With 3-D art, I hope to incite viewers to appreciate the beauty hidden in the most humble creatures living in our forests, so they will treasure them and protect their fragile environment.

Born and raised in Mont-Laurier, in the Laurentians, I spent my childhood and teenage summers on the shores of Lac-des-Iles, surrounded by the unspoiled nature of its undergrowth.

I was taught at a very young age to respect life, even in its most humble forms.

After many rewarding years as a schoolteacher, I moved to Paris for five years where I experimented with art and visited numerous museums and galleries. I indulged in the same thing in most European capitals.

Since my return to Ottawa in 2000, I have passionately devoted all my time to artistic creation. After using acrylics to paint series depicting women’s condition and my vision of men’s interests, my life came back around to my first love: the underwood fauna.

Seduced by its softness and warmth, I found there was no better medium than wool, an animal by-product, to represent wildlife, and decided to use it as my new medium. I gradually replaced acrylic colours with this renewable resource, and went from 2-D to 3-D artistic representation.

My work is shown and sold in galleries in Québec, Montreal, Gatineau and Ottawa. I am especially gratified that many of my fellow artists have acquired one or more of my 3-D felt art.

“Adorning Les Jardins Tuileries” by Rose Marie Roy (acrylic, approximately 9 x 7)

Diane Bertrand may be contacted at Dianebertrand07@gmail.com. Her website is www.dianebertrand.ca.

Linda Bordage

I continue to learn new styles using oils to paint the scenes that all have a special meaning for me. The east coast of Canada, where I was born, has a special place in my heart and often inspires me to paint scenes of the ocean, sand and sky as witnessed in some of my East Coast, European and local paintings. I often try to capture the water’s movement and the reflections of colours surrounding it. Recently, I have begun to include more figures and buildings in my paintings. I continue to take courses and workshops (oils predominantly but in the past, pastel and acrylics). I paint mainly in my studio but do some plein-air paintings as well.

“More than a Pair” by Rose Marie Roy (oil, 8 x 10)

I often paint from photos that I have taken on my travels such as some recent trips to Europe, and try to capture the light and warmth I felt at the time. My colours are often bright and cheerful. Having studied figures, I find adding them to landscapes or cityscapes much more interesting, both for me and for the viewers. Keeping to simple shapes, colours and design is important in creating my art. Some of my art is on display every year at the Glebe Fine Arts Show.

Linda Bordage’s website is www. lindabordageartist.blogspot.com.

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22 Glebe Report October 16, 2015

What part of ‘fatal if left untreated’ is unclear?

By Kate Lalumiere

It’s a question that I and my mother Jackie continue to ask of anyone who will listen.

We are a mother-daughter duo aiming to spread awareness in the capital about hemochromatosis.

With this blood disorder, an overload of iron is deposited in vital organs like the pancreas, the heart and the liver. Early symptoms can be as mild as chronic fatigue and joint and muscle pain, but if left untreated the disorder can be fatal.

In September the Canadian Hemochromatosis Society hosted an awareness seminar at the Riverside Hospital. It is clear that Ottawa still has a lot to learn about this disorder and as a resident of the Glebe, I hope to raise awareness by reaching out to the Glebe community and beyond.

If it’s not caught early enough, that’s when the damage is done. The organ basically shuts down due to iron overload and that’s when it can become fatal.

“Hemochromatosis is not very well known, even within the medical world,” explained Jackie. “A lot of the time it’s misdiagnosed. If it’s caught, it’s very treatable, but often it’s found too late.”

Sadly, it was caught too late for my father and Jackie’s husband, Tom Lalumiere. He was diagnosed in 2011 and two years later, he passed away.

“Kate’s Dad, and my husband, passed away from hemochromatosis prematurely,” said Jackie.

“We didn’t feel like we got enough support. It wasn’t caught fast enough.”

Due to lack of awareness, the symptoms often get mistaken for something else. Hemochromatosis can be detected by testing for high levels of ferritin in the blood. But, in Tom Lalumiere’s case, he had already been affected by the disorder for many years before diagnosis. Widespread damage to his liver had already occurred.

After he started treatment for hemochromatosis

– phlebotomies, where blood is released a pint at a time – Jackie began to do research. That’s when she found the Montreal chapter of the Canadian Hemochromatosis Society.

“I called them up and spoke to a woman and she was fantastic,” Jackie said. “She told me so much about the disorder that I wasn’t even aware of.”

For example, hemochromatosis can be a genetic disorder (called hereditary hemochromatosis or HHC). For every person affected, immediate family members should also be tested as a preventive measure.

One in 300 Canadians could have the hemochromatosis gene, with certain populations at higher risk such as French Canadians and descendants of Eastern Europe.

Currently, there are several hemochromatosis chapters throughout Canada and the Ottawa chapter is celebrating three years since its inception.

Shortly after Jackie spoke to the Montreal chapter, she decided Ottawa needed a chapter of its own.

The Ottawa chapter hosts awareness events like the annual event held recently.

“We attend health and wellness conventions, and cultural fairs and we host a golf event in May – it’s a fun day to help support the society, with lots of games and prizes,” explained Jackie.

The Ottawa chapter is always looking for more volunteers to help out with events. The commitment is minimal – just a few hours a month.

Anyone who has questions about hemochromatosis is encouraged to get in touch with the Ottawa chapter or visit www.toomuchiron.ca.

Lives could be saved so easily. The information is available and we are here to share it.

Kate Lalumiere is a founding member of the Ottawa chapter of the Canadian Hemochromatosis Society. Her father was diagnosed with hemochromatosis in 2011.

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What is it? Hereditary hemochromatosis (HHC), or iron overload – an inherited disorder that causes the body to absorb 2 – 3 times the normal amount of iron. Excess iron builds up in vital organs, joints and tissues.

How common is it? HHC is the most common genetic disorder affecting Canadians.

What are the symptoms? Early symptoms include chronic fatigue, depression, abdominal pain, aching joints, especially in the knuckle and first joint of the first and second fingers, loss of sex drive, discolouration or bronzing of the skin. Later symptoms may include Type II diabetes, hypothyroidism, heart disease, liver disorders.

Is there a test for it? Yes, a simple blood test can detect iron overload, but it is not part of the standard blood test. Your doctor must request an iron series profile.

Is it treatable? Yes. Currently, the main treatment is removal of blood (like a reverse blood donation) until iron levels return to normal, then periodic blood removal (2 to 6 times a year) to maintain the levels.

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memoir Superbus

Glebe Report October 16, 2015

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Anne in the Superbus days in 196

5 with brother Antoine (Tony), who

Two of the new riders were John and Moe, both undersized, who had been the butt of bullying at Lorette West. The older boys welcomed them back as a source of entertainment. Joe C. remained oblivious, and I would hear and hate the laughter from the back as the bullies came up with ingenious ways to torment the younger boys. Having been the frequent butt of bullying myself, I felt for John and Moe. John was frequently slow to get off the bus at our stop because he had to untie his laces from Moe’s or gather up his belongings from wherever they had been scattered. I can’t imagine how Moe fared on his own for miles more. The principal, Sister Farmer, heard about the bullying and assigned seats on the bus. The bullying stopped or at least toned down.

Superbus wasn’t all bad, and neither was the Heatherdale Road. When the road was good, I spent the whole trip looking out the window. The land was very flat and the few farmsteads were east of the road. The west was open field with only fences to break it up, hardly a tree in sight. A view of nothing, people might say, but I loved it. I didn’t so much look at the view as at the emptiness above it – the

Photo: courtesy of anne Le Dres

When I was in Grade 10, we finally had a school bus to take the Lorette West students to high school in Lorette. Before that, parents had organized car pools.

The bus was a squat orange vehicle with rounded corners, half the size and twice the age of the other busses, and it was quickly christened Superbus. It served us for two years. It had three or four rows of seats and a large open back section with benches all around. The driver was Joe C., who drove as if he was the only person on the bus. He was oblivious to the noise and chaos behind him, including the active participation of his two sons in the tormenting of the younger boys.

In the morning, my brother and I were the last to be picked up before a side trip to Heatherdale School. I hated that side road. It was narrow, its ditches were deep and it was literally a dirt road – fine in dry weather, but when it rained, the dirt turned into very greasy mud through which the bus would slither and slide. Joe C. never seemed to slow down, regardless of road conditions.

I also hated the turnaround at Heatherdale. After the pick up in the schoolyard, the bus backed out so far across the road that I had a preposterous vision of it doing a back flip. Its rounded edges seemed made for rolling and flipping. But Superbus never had an accident, never got stuck and never broke down. On greasy-road days, I sat through the Heatherdale side trip with one hand tightly clenched on the back of the seat in front of me, the other on my books. When my brother John joined the high-school crowd in the second year of Superbus, he laughed at me. “Why worry about what you can’t control?” he asked. I saw his point, but I couldn’t change.

At first, the choice of a seat was a free-for-all, though my brother and I had few options in the morning. I hated the open section at the back with everybody crowded together and the bullies having a much easier time harassing those of their targets who hadn’t gotten a seat. The first year was bad enough, but the second year was even more troubled.

say

By Anne Le Dressay

never rode Superbus

unobstructed distance that only an extensive flatness of land or water can give. I especially loved it in winter, when the land was a uniform, featureless white. The clear air and vast sky made it possible to see for miles. I didn’t just look, I took it in so that it became part of me. It was a deeply spiritual experience. When I read later that people internalize the landscape in which they grow up, I felt validated.

I am who I am because of hours spent gazing out over open prairie, some of it from the windows of Superbus.

When I was in Grade 12, consolidation closed the rural schools and Superbus retired in favour of a regular-size bus that picked up all the students from Lorette West, not just high school. Some other bus took over the Heatherdale route.

Anne Le Dressay grew up in rural Manitoba. She has a Ph.D. from the University of Ottawa, and taught English Literature and Creative Writing for a number of years at private colleges in Alberta. She is the instructor for the Writing Memoirs courses at Abbotsford House.

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24 Glebe Report October 16, 2015

By Margret Brady Nankivell

St. Matthew’s Anglican Church musical director Kirkland Adsett is thrilled that a famous English choir will be performing at the church later this month. The Gloucester Cathedral Choir, which has musical roots stretching back centuries, will perform at St. Matthew’s Anglican Church in the Glebe on Tuesday, October 27, at 7 p.m. The touring choir will present a joint concert of 20th- and 21st- century sacred music with St. Matthew’s choirs. The performance is on a freewill offering basis.

“We are honoured to have the Gloucester Cathedral Choir visit us,” says Adsett. “They are one of the top choirs in the world and it is an extraordinary opportunity for us to sing with them.”

Featured works include the Collegium Regale Evening Service by Herbert Howells (1892-1983) and Lo, the Full, Final Sacrifice by Gerald Finzi (1901-56). Both pieces were first performed in the 1940s.

Directed by Adrian Partington, the Gloucester Cathedral Choir will also sing spirituals from A Child of Our Time by Sir Michael Kemp Tippett (1905-98), an experimental composer who was influenced by the jazz and blues he heard when he visited the U.S. One of the leading composers of 20thcentury church music, the one-time communist also wrote several operas.

St. Matthew’s choir will sing works by contemporary composers Ola Gjielo (1978– ) and Canadian Rupert

Lang (1948– ). Norwegian-born Gjielo, who now lives in New York, studied at Juilliard and London’s Royal Academy of Music. His CD with the Phoenix Chorale was named the best classical vocal album of the year by iTunes in 2012.

Lang is the musical director of Christ Church Cathedral in Vancouver and founder of the city’s children’s choir. He studied at the Royal School of Church Music in Salisbury, England, and the University of Cambridge.

His haunting Kontakion, sometimes sung at memorial services, is bound to be a concert highlight.

The medieval Benedictine Abbey of St. Peter, Gloucester, became Gloucester Cathedral in the 16th century following King Henry VIII’s split with the Pope and the establishment of the Church of England. The cathedral’s choir consists of 20 boy choristers, nine lay clerks (professional adult singers) and three choral scholars.

The choristers receive scholarships to attend the King’s School, also founded by the mercurial Tudor king.

The Gloucester Cathedral Choir tours about every three years and this is the choir’s first tour to Canada. It includes churches and schools in Toronto, Mississauga and Port Hope. Past tours have included South Africa, Sweden and the U.S. Last year the choir released a CD commemorating the “War to End All Wars.” The choir also participates in the annual Three Choirs Festival that dates back to 1715. The festival rotates among Gloucester, Worcester and Hereford.

Photo: Courtesy of Gloucester Cathedral Choir

Superb British choir to visit the Glebe

The Gloucester Cathedral Choir, with musical roots stretching back centuries in England, will perform at St. Matthew’s Anglican Church on Tuesday, October 27, at 7 p.m.

Margret Brady Nankivell is a music lover, a member of St. Matthew’s Anglican Church and a regular contributor to the Glebe Report.

The Gloucester Cathedral Choir Tuesday, October 27, 7 p.m.

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Glebe Report October 16, 2015

Music at Southminster supports refugee sponsorship

by Robert Taylor

Roland Graham, artistic director of Doors Open for Music at Southminster, announced at the weekly music series’ first fall concert on September 23 that the series would be lending its support for a local group working on the sponsorship of a Syrian refugee family.

The Ottawa South Committee for Refugee Sponsorship (OSCRS) has been meeting since the spring of this year. The ecumenical group includes members from the Anglican and United churches, Quakers and Muslims, as well as people with no religious affiliation. Its base is Trinity Anglican Church on Bank Street in Old Ottawa South.

A family of Syrian refugees has been identified and the committee is now working to gather information and complete the forms needed for sponsorship. There is a lot of work to be done, now and after the family arrives, since the OSCRS will be responsible for the family during their first year in Canada.

Many in the community have been seeking meaningful ways to assist in the wake of this great humanitarian disaster. The Doors Open for Music at Southminster series’ role will be to educate people about this initiative through the concerts it presents each week, and through email to its regular subscribers who now number in the hundreds.

Members of the OSCRS commit-

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tee will be present at each Wednesday noon-hour concert over the fall (the fall series continues through December 16) to provide information about the project and receive donations or pledges of support.

The need is urgent. According to the United Nations Refugee Agency, as of June of this year, “globally, one in every 122 humans is now either a refugee, internally displaced or seeking asylum.”

Potential supporters will be invited to pledge a suggested $25 a month for four months or make a one-time donation of any amount. All donations will be eligible for charitable tax receipts.

The goal is to accomplish this objective by many modest donations from people working within their means.

For further information contact Robert Taylor, who chairs the refugee committee, at r_taylor@rogers.com or 613-230-3903.

The Doors Open for Music weekly noon-hour concert series is presented on Wednesdays at Southminster United Church, located on Bank Street next to the Rideau Canal. Concerts are a mix of classical music, jazz and more. Admittance is by freewill offering with proceeds going to remunerate the artists and defray production costs.

See this page for the lineup of remaining fall concerts.

Because we can – Support to refugees Dear neighbours, If you would like to join a local group of residents organizing the sponsorship of one or more refugee families, please contact us.

We are calling ourselves the Ottawa Centre Refugee Action (OCRA) group. We are a combination of community people and members of some of the local churches and synagogues. The United Church of Canada and Jewish Family Services already have a formal relationship with Citizenship and Immigration Canada (they are Sponsorship Agreement Holders), so that the bureaucracy of sponsoring families will be easier to manage and the waiting time reduced. These partners also have valuable experience in sponsoring, welcoming and supporting refugees.

We will need all kinds of contributions ranging from financial ($18,000 – $37,000 per sponsorship, depending on the size of family), to professional services (dentists, psychologists, etc.), to housing, to household articles and, not least, to volunteer time to help with communications, coordination, welcome, acculturation and settlement.

We have designed a pledging system so that we can match community resources to needs. We are forming constituent groups for sponsoring families and groups of 8 to10 people that will be the personal support network for each sponsored family.

If you want to help, contact us at ottawacentrerefugeeaction@gmail. com.

Thank you.

Tanya, Angela, Mira, Marilyn, Paul and a growing list of friends and neighbours PS. It all started here in the Glebe….

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Robert Taylor is a retired public servant who chairs the Ottawa South Committee for Refugee Sponsorship.

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26 Glebe Report October 16, 2015

Faces

By Craig Kamcke

photo: Roland Graham

The faces at the Cenotaph Did send along a telegraph Of battles fought, of comrades lost, Of deadly flights, of convoys tossed.

The New Studio Chamber Singers at Southminster

Doors Open for Music at Southminster marks Remembrance Day Special free noon-hour concert

By Roland Graham

With Remembrance Day falling on a Wednesday this year, organizers of the popular Doors Open for Music at Southminster (DOFMS) weekly noonhour concert series realized they had an opportunity to mark the occasion with a special musical event.

Taking place on Wednesdays at noon hour throughout the year (save for July and August), the DOFMS series presents 45-minute concerts each week with admittance by freewill offering. Now in its third season, the series regularly draws an audience of over 150 people to enjoy a wonderful range of classical, jazz, folk and contemporary music.

To mark November 11, 2015, the New Studio Chamber Singers under my direction will present a program of 20th-century choral works on the themes of peace and remembrance.

Featuring the Requiem by Herbert Howells, composed in 1932-33, comprising devotional psalms, scripture and passages from the liturgy for the dead, the concert will explore works by composers who wrote music following or inspired by the First World War. Titled Dona Eis Requiem – Latin for “grant them rest” – the concert will provide an opportunity for people

of every background to meditate on the sadness of war and our collective need to strive continuously for peace.

People who won’t have the opportunity or prefer not to acknowledge Remembrance Day through traditional ceremonies may especially appreciate this concert.

The New Studio Chamber Singers is an Ottawa-area choir made up of fine choral singers from the city and beyond. This will be their first concert under my direction.

The Doors Open for Music at Southminster concert series is presented

by Southminster United Church, located on Bank Street next to the Rideau Canal. The series is funded by freewill offerings received at concerts each week. The church is fully wheelchair accessible. For more information, please call the church office at 613-862-2084 or consult its website at www.southminsterunitedchurch.com.

Roland Graham is artistic director of Doors Open for Music at Southminster and musical director of Southminster United Church. He lived in the Glebe for several years while studying music at the University of Ottawa. Following Master’s work in Montreal, he has returned to the city to work as a choral director, concert producer, pianist and composer.

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Is Sicily carved in those eyes, The heat, the dust, the wounded cries?

The training that preceded it?

The first ashore, the first man hit?

The Last Post played, the wreaths all laid, The vets form up for their parade.

With jaunty step they start their march – Some stumble, others search for starch.

That fellow has a naval gait, Beside him there his wartime mate.

The midnight watch, the freezing cold, The U-boats lurking, ever bold.

The faces tell a hundred tales Of Hong Kong hills, Atlantic gales, Of English gals, the canteen dance Of Normandy and freeing France.

Eyes right, they pass the viewing stand, Then they disperse, some shake a hand.

Then homeward bound to lonely flat, To sip a sherry, feed the cat.

“Faces” is one of the poems by Craig Kamcke in his book called To Stand and Fight: Poems of Canada at War, 2009.

music

Glebe Report October 16, 2015

Fine Canadian pianist makes Ottawa debut

Master Piano Recital Series MATHIEU GAUDET: Geniuses and Death

October 24, 7:30 p.m.

Southminster United Church 15 Aylmer Avenue

By Roland Graham

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W. A. Mozart Adagio in B minor K 540

Photo: Mathieu Gaudet

After a wonderful season-opening concert, which featured the talented Charles Richard-Hamelin – who is now in Poland competing in the highly prestigious International Chopin Piano Competition – the Master Piano Recital Series (MPRS) continues on October 24 with the second concert of its 2015/16 season.

On Saturday, October 24 at 7:30 p.m. at Southminster United Church, located at Bank Street and the Rideau Canal, Canadian pianist Mathieu Gaudet will present a program entitled “Geniuses and Death” featuring works

by Mozart, Schubert and Chopin. Far from an assortment of standard classics by frequently heard masters, Gaudet’s program will showcase late works by great composers at the zenith of their creative powers.

The journey starts with Mozart’s highly original Adagio in B minor, one of only two instrumental pieces by the composer written in this somber tonality. Schubert’s monumental Sonata No. 18 in C minor will follow, taking listeners through many diverse harmonic and melodic landscapes.

Culminating appropriately with Chopin’s sweepingly romantic Barcarolle in F# major, this program will treat the audience to a collection of some of the most mature and refined strains

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Mathieu Gaudet, Canadian pianist featured in the second concert in the Master Piano Recital Series, to take place October 24 at Southminster United Church

of classical piano music ever written.

Since his debut on the international stage playing Brahms’ Second Piano Concerto under the legendary pianist/ conductor Leon Fleisher, Gaudet has been in high demand across Canada, the United States, Europe and Asia as a chamber musician and soloist. His two albums, dedicated to Rachmaninoff and Schumann respectively, were received with critical acclaim and have been heard frequently on CBC and Radio-Canada.

Part of a long tradition of superb pianists hailing from French Canada, Gaudet studied with many of the great teachers of his generation, including Julian Martin, Paul Stewart, Marc Durand and André Laplante. In addi-

tion to his work as a concert pianist, teacher and recording artist, Gaudet – rather Dr. Gaudet – is also a medical doctor, working two days each week in the emergency room of a busy Quebec hospital.

Featuring no less than seven concerts this season, the Master Piano Recital Series continues to break down traditional barriers to classical music, making it ever easier for Ottawa music lovers to experience the fabulous treasury of classical piano music. Despite the omnipresence of the piano in popular culture, opportunities to hear excellent pianists playing virtuoso piano repertoire to a high standard would otherwise be far more rare in Ottawa.

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F. Schubert Sonata No 1 in E major D 157 Sonata No 18 in C minor D 958 F. Chopin Last 6 Mazurkas: Op 63 no 1, 2 & 3; Op 67 no 2 & 4; Op 68 no 4 Barcarolle in F# major Op 60

Tickets are $30 for adults, $25 for seniors and $10 for students, and can be purchased at the Southminster Church Office or online by credit card through the newly redesigned series website, www.mprs.ca.

Special group rates and pay-whatyou-can arrangements can be made through the website or by calling the MPRS information number, 613-8622084. Further information on Mathieu Gaudet can be found online at www. mathieugaudet.com.

Roland Graham is artistic director of the Master Piano Recital Series at Southminster United Church.

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28 Glebe Report October 16, 2015

At the flicks with Lois and Paul

Une nouvelle amie (The New Girlfriend)

Directed by François Ozon (France, 2014)

By Paul Green

Learning to Drive

Directed by Isabel Coixet (UK, USA, 2015)

By Lois Siegel

In many ways, Learning to Drive is a love story, but it’s not your usual romantic fare. It’s a strong connection between very good friends. The main characters come from very different cultures and, as their stories constantly intercut, we gain a perspective on how some people’s lives are not always like our own.

Wendy (Patricia Clarkson) is a literary critic. She works at home, and that’s where her life has been – stuck in books. Her 21-year marriage loses its lustre, and her husband has a midlife crisis where, instead of buying a sports car, he has an affair. Reality hits when Wendy realizes he has left for good and isn’t coming home.

At the insistence of her daughter Tasha (Grace Gummer), Wendy decides to learn how to drive. All this time, she didn’t have to. Her husband drove her. Darwan (Ben Kingsley), a Sikh Indian, becomes her instructor.

He’s struck by her sadness and wants to help her live an active life again.

Darwan lives in a rooming house in Queens. He teaches driving during the day and drives taxi at night just to survive. He’s not rich, and he’s not married. His sister’s son lives with him. We see glimpses of his life during religious services, cooking at home, doing laundry and watching cricket matches with the guys in the rooming house. In his country, marriages are arranged.

He gives Wendy driving lessons, but he also adds words of wisdom… On driving: “You must see everything. Be

aware of living.”

When bullies harass him in the street yelling “Osama,” he says, “You can’t always trust people to behave properly. People think I look dangerous.” But he seems to take things in stride….this is the way things are.

Wendy faces various driving obstacles: night driving and crossing a bridge. Darwan calls it “the road in the sky.” He warns her about road rage: “Be calm, and in life as well.

You can arrive in one, two or three pieces.” His philosophy hits home.

The film is full of subtle humour.

Darwan faces his own challenges.

His sister in India sends a wife to him – someone he has never met. He meets her in the airport by holding up a placard with her name on it: Jasleen (Sarita Choudhury). That is the “romantic” setting where he first meets her. She doesn’t speak much English, is uneducated and scared.

There are changes in the lives of both Darwan and Wendy. Wendy gets “fixed up” with a man at a restaurant dinner party. Jasleen watches TV to learn English. All their lives are constantly intercut in the film. It’s only when Jasleen finally ventures outside the small apartment that her life comes alive. The film seems to be saying: One has to make life happen. It’s up to you.

Passing the driving test is just a backdrop for the real stories in the film. Darwan and Wendy have a solid friendship that could lead to something more, but they live very different lives and because of this, they must move on.

It was perhaps only a matter of time before French director François Ozon tackled the subject of just what does it mean to be a woman; so many of his previous films – The Swimming Pool, 8 Women and Dans la maison come to mind – have featured predominantly female characters and a thinly disguised exploration of the role of women in (bourgeois, usually) society.

And such concepts as man, woman, bisexual, gay and straight – are they fixed notions, social constructs, or are they all points on a continuum?

One hears a great deal about “fluidity” these days.

In The New Girlfriend, Ozon ventures into this territory, but does not play it for comedy. In a toney Parisian suburb, Claire (played by everywoman Anaïs Demoustier) lives next door to David (Romain Duris) whose wife, Claire’s best friend from childhood, has died from complications following the birth of their child. Claire’s husband (Raphaël Personnaz) is handsome and attentive; he leads an ordered life and has ideas to match.

One day, following up on her husband’s suggestion that she look in on David to see how he is getting on, Claire walked in on him only to find a blond-haired young woman in a flowery summer dress sitting on a divan with her back turned. She turns around and Claire, somewhat to her horror, realizes that “she” is in fact David. Muttering some excuse, Claire turns quickly to leave. David, his infant son still in his arms, begs her to come back and listen to what he has to say.

Claire does so, reluctantly at first, and as she listens, there develops a complicity between these two that will eventually jeopardize Claire’s own marriage. It seems David has been dressing up as a woman for some time. His late wife knew about it and tolerated it, perhaps because he only indulged in this practice when she

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wasn’t around. Then, for a time he stopped, only to pick up again after his wife’s death, perhaps now as a way of coping with her loss.

And here is where it gets interesting. As Claire, who has herself lost her best friend, consents to collaborate with David/Virginia in helping him/ her choose her clothes, apply makeup and so forth, she becomes involved with David in an effort to recapture some of the intimacy and complicity she also shared with David’s wife.

To be sure, there are some predictable sequences: David makes his awkward first steps in public as Virginia; Claire takes Virginia to the mall to shop for clothes and there is an outing to a nightclub where things get complicated. When the (perhaps) inevitable physical attraction develops, a panicked Claire bolts, leaving a bewildered Virginia in her wake.

Some humorous moments arise when the two “couples” (i.e. Virginia, Claire and husband) are out together and Claire’s husband, when he isn’t wondering whether his wife is having an affair, muses aloud that there is something “gay” about David.

In an odd funereal touch, the meaning of some images seen near the beginning of the film is not revealed until the end. For the most part, however, Ozon keeps things on track and generally steers clear of farce.

Actor Duris is beguiling in the role of David/Virginia and the very underrated Demoustier (a current favourite of mine) is enchanting as David’s friend, neighbour and almost lover.

I am indebted to Elle critic Florence Ben Sadoun for the quote by Simone de Beauvoir that so succinctly sums up this film: “One is not born a woman; one becomes a woman.”

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A Halloween classic, The Rocky Horror Picture Show can best be described as wildly entertaining, even 40 years after its release in August 1975. In its 40th anniversary year, the movie continues to draw in fans who revel in the audience participation, and not just on Halloween.

I remember dancing to “The Time Warp” and belting out “Don’t Dream It, Be It” with other Rocky Horror goers at Cinema V, a repertory theatre that was on Sherbrooke Street in Montreal in the 1970s. Rice, newspaper, toast, confetti, toilet paper and noisemakers were among some of the props we brought with us.

The newspaper came in handy early on in the movie: two of the main characters, Brad Majors (played by Barry Bostwick) and Janet Weiss (played

by Susan Sarandon) are driving on a country road during a rainstorm on a cold November night. Their car ends up with a flat tire. They head out on foot in search of help, Janet covering her head with newspaper in an attempt to stay dry. That’s when we moviegoers covered our heads with newspapers as well, and others let loose with water pistols.

The young couple find their way to a castle hoping to use a telephone, only to come upon the mad scientist, Dr. Frank N. Furter (played by Tim Curry). He introduces himself as a “sweet transvestite from Transexual,

Transylvania.” Brad and Janet are greeted by people dressed in elaborate costumes who are attending a convention at the castle; they witness the birth of Frank N. Furter’s lab creation, Rocky, followed by several zany scenes.

A screening of The Rocky Horror Picture Show typically includes a “shadow cast” – a group of fans dressed in costume who act out the entire movie, usually at the side or in front of the screen. “Call backs” are a big part of audience participation – commentary from the audience on action as it’s happening onscreen.

Fans of Rocky Horror have continued the tradition of shadow casts, call backs, and bringing props and dressing in costume at the Mayfair Theatre. Mél Boyer, general manager at the Mayfair, adds that bubbles have replaced rice and confetti during the shows… the latter two being way too messy to clean up. You’ll still find toast, water guns and toilet paper among the fans’ paraphernalia.

Emily Thiessen watched Rocky Horror for the first time in 2012, at age 22. She was hooked and joined the Absent Friends shadow cast as part of the Mayfair Theatre’s Rocky Horror viewings a year later. Her role in the 10-member shadow cast group is Magenta, the castle maid.

Thiessen says, “I’m impressed how Rocky Horror has continued to grow over the years and has found a place in 2015 with the same message.”

Currently a student in television production at Algonquin College, Emily is working on a documentary of the 40th anniversary of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Her documentary will be screened as part of the Digi60 Filmmakers’ Festival – www.digi60.

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The Rocky Horror Picture Show and its “shadow cast” is a regular at the Mayfair Theatre and a 40-year phenom that had its premiere right here in Ottawa in 1975.

org – at Centrepointe Studio Theatre in December.

When I asked Boyer why she thinks Rocky Horror has endured at the Mayfair over the years, she was quick to answer, “It’s so much fun! Shadow cast adds so much more to it than just sitting and watching the movie. It has a great soundtrack, and you make like-minded friends in line as well.”

The Rocky Horror Picture Show is a cultural phenomenon. While the majority of Rocky Horror fans at the Mayfair are in their 20s, Boyer says many older folks keep coming back.

She recalls a mother who brought her 14-year-old daughter to experience Rocky Horror at the Mayfair, and now her daughter comes regularly with her friends.

In addition to several viewings on and around Halloween, Rocky Horror is shown at the Mayfair every

second Saturday of each month except November when the Absent Friends shadow cast takes a well-deserved break. For the Halloween showings, you’ll see lineups outside the theatre with moviegoers dressed as characters from the film. The “dress up” is a great fit with the theatre’s ambiance, and you’re likely to find a staffer dressed as Magenta dishing out popcorn at the candy counter.

Boyer adds that “people should see Rocky Horror at least once… it’s one of the best things to do in town!”

Check the schedule for Halloween show times at www.mayfairtheatre. ca.

Judy Field is the advertising manager of the Glebe Report and publisher of Healthwise Ottawa. Her youthful antics reveal a whole other dimension to her talents.

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Fantastic fantastical fiction

By Anna Baccin

As the leaves turn colour and drop along with the temperature, you may find your thoughts turning to pumpkins, and then Halloween naturally follows. Is this spooky time of year just for kids? Definitely not! Many of us find it fun to experience a bit of fright by visiting a haunted house, watching a horror movie or reading a scary story. H.P. Lovecraft said, “The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.” If having the bejeezus scared right out of you is not your idea of fun, maybe you would settle for something simply unusual and different. You can freely indulge in your childish fascination with the fantastic, and I mean fantastic in the literal sense: imaginative or fanciful, remote from reality. This is the time of year to suspend your disbelief and revel in a bit of fantasy, whether it is spiced with a snippet of fear or not.

Neil Gaiman, called a “master of fear,” has won numerous awards for his fantasy fiction. In The Ocean at the End of the Lane (William Morrow, 2013), Gaiman leads us into a fantastic and bizarre world. The narrator returns to his childhood home to attend a funeral, and finds himself compelled to disturb the past out of curiosity. He finds himself driving back in time to childhood memories that were “waiting at the edges of things.” We begin with a seventh birthday party to which no one came.

When we meet the three women who live at the end of the lane, the Hempstocks, after the opal miner lodging with the narrator’s family commits suicide in the family car, things begin to turn strange and frightening. The opal miner’s suicide has unleashed monstrous consequences. Part of the danger is that the adults, the narrator’s parents, are totally oblivious and unaware of what’s really going on.

The child is forced to be resourceful and help to save them all. A frightening, nightmarish tale beautifully told with touches of wisdom.

The Golem and the Jinni (Harper, 2013), Helene Wecker’s debut novel, tells the story of two supernatural creatures, one a golem fashioned of clay brought to life by a corrupt kabbalist, and the other a jinni made of fire freed accidentally from the copper

flask in which he had been imprisoned for a thousand years. Both mysteriously appear in New York at the end of the 19th century. They struggle to fit in alongside the many immigrants who have flocked to the city and, when they finally meet, they recognize in each other that which sets them apart and prevents them from truly belonging. Since they both have no need for food or sleep, they wander about the city together trying to understand themselves and human behaviour. Although they argue, they begin to bond: “You understand what my life is like, even when we disagree.” And thus a love story between two lonely creatures begins, but their world is threatened by a powerful and evil villain intent on enslaving them both. A blend of historical fiction, fantasy, folklore and magical realism, including philosophical questions concerning faith and superstition, this book took Wecker seven years to research and write. An unusual and imaginative work of fantasy.

If you prefer your fantastical fiction in smaller doses, you can try some short story collections. Neil Gaiman collected 16 tales for young adults in Unnatural Creatures (Harper, 2013).

Although most of these stories have been previously published elsewhere, this is a great collection for fans of fantastical creatures such as griffins, werewolves and unicorns, but you will also encounter even more unusual creatures, such as a flesheating blob. The Collected Stories of Carol Emshwiller (Nonstop Press, 2011), a collection of more than 80 short stories covering 50 years from a versatile and imaginative writer, are arranged chronologically so that one can follow her evolution. Fans of sci-fi might be most familiar with the short story “Creature” from 2002, which won a Nebula award. Willful Creatures (Doubleday, 2005) by Aimee Bender contains 15 imaginative stories filled with strange and surreal creatures that inhabit magical worlds.

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All of these titles are available at the Ottawa Public Library.

Anna Baccin is Children’s Programs and Public Service Assistant at the Sunnyside Branch of the Ottawa Public Library.

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

AUTHOR

Dead Cold1

Louise Penny

The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox2

Maggie O’Farrell

Family Furnishing3

Alice Munro

The Man Who Loved Dogs4

Leonardo Padura Fuentes

The World Until Yesterday

Jared Diamond

The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 19146

Margaret MacMillan

The Laughing Monsters

Denis Johnson

1913: The Year Before the Storm8

Florian Illies

The Broken Shore9

Peter Temple

Perfume

Patrick Süskind

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AUTHOR

Chat par-ci, chat par-là

Stéphane Servant

The Great Cake Mystery: Precious Ramotswe’s Very First Case12

Alexander McCall Smith

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Abbotsford Book Club Broadway Book Club Can’ Litterers Helen’s Book Club Seriously No-Name Book Club The Book Club

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Sunnyside Adult Book Club Sunnyside European Book Club Sunnyside Mystery Book Club Sunnyside Second Friday Adult Book Club Sunnyside Club de lecture en français pour les enfants Sunnyside Mighty Girls Book Club

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

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Social history raises new questions Alice in Shandehland: Scandal and Scorn in the Edelson/Horowitz Murder Case

By Monda Halpern (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2015) Reviewed by Ian McKercher

Monda Halpern’s Alice in Shandehland is a real-life murder mystery with a decided twist. You know whodunit by reading the blurb on the back cover.

On the night of November 24, 1931, Ottawa jeweller Ben Edelson met with his wife, Alice, and her lover, Jack Horwitz, in Edelson’s Rideau Street jewellery store. Horwitz was shot by a 32-calibre gun owned by Edelson and died in hospital four hours later.

Edelson was arrested and charged with first-degree murder.

On January 16, 1932, after a threeday trial, a jury of 12 men acquitted Ben Edelson. The mystery is: why?

A SOCIAL HISTORY

Halpern, associate professor of history at Western University, has done painstaking research to bring the reader to the streets of Lowertown and Sandy Hill 84 years ago. Her book is a thought-provoking examination of life in Ottawa in the 1930s.

(Full disclosure – I’m a huge fan of social history – history that brings to life the common person. I studied history at a time when wars and peace treaties – what was referred to as “gun and trumpet” history – were given pre-eminence to the exclusion of almost everything else.)

Halpern excels in detailing the mores and prevalent social attitudes

Halpern notes, however, “…despite this climate of bigotry, the Edelson/ Horwitz case elicited no anti-Semitic response. Newspapers rarely mentioned the Jewish background of the case’s leading figures, and the comments were never pejorative in nature.

Ben’s immigrant and religious background were never ridiculed in the courtroom, nor did it adversely affect the outcome of the case.”

This leads one to wonder why this murder trial was an exception to prejudice. Wouldn’t a legal public trial have been excellent cover to disguise pervasive racism and hang Ben Edelson?

That didn’t happen.

that shaped the behaviour of the day.

She admits to a wider goal than merely recounting the events surrounding the death of Horwitz and the trial of Edelson. She “…uses the Edelson/Horwitz case as a lens through which to investigate prevailing attitudes regarding the interconnected issues of gender, ethnicity and class.”

THE “UNWRITTEN LAW”

Halpern attributes Edelson’s acquittal to two factors extraneous to the evidence presented in court.

First, she claims that Edelson’s middle-class propriety made him a tough target for a jury of his peers to send to the gallows. Edelson was a successful self-made businessman with no criminal record. He had immigrated from Russia as a teenager, first to New York, then Montreal before settling in Ottawa in 1920. He was married with seven children and was a respected member of the small Ottawa Jewish community.

Her second thesis is that Edelson benefited from “the unwritten law,” “a Victorian doctrine which claimed that a father, husband or brother whose female kin was seduced by another man had a right to kill him in order to protect his property (his women) and manly honour.”

To facilitate an acquittal, Edelson’s lawyer, Moses Doctor, argued that the gun had fired accidentally in the midst of a scuffle. Halpern contends that the accident theory that Doctor advanced might have been little more than a ruse for the jury’s implementation of the unwritten law. “Influenced

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by his portrayal of Ben as the loving husband to a selfish harlot,” she writes, “the jury’s sympathy for Ben and contempt for Alice overshadowed both his potential guilt and any possible feelings of anti-Semitism.”

So-called “honour killings” are viewed today as the barbaric customs of backward ethnic communities. It is startling to consider similar values cited as a standard of moral behaviour in the predominantly white AngloSaxon Ontario of the 1930s.

There are a couple of mysteries that Halpern doesn’t solve.

ANTI-SEMITISM?

There is no contesting that virulent expressions of anti-Semitism were pervasive at the time. She quotes Richard Menkis as saying, “The 1930s were the bleakest period for Canada’s Jews … immigration quotas, as well as professional, academic and social barriers all served to reinforce the inferior status of Jews.”

The title Alice in Shandehland (Yiddish noun meaning “shame” or “disgrace”) suggests that the adulterous transgressions of Alice Edelson in taking on a lover, betraying her marriage vows and undermining her family’s status in the small Jewish community were social suicide.

Yet the Edelsons did not flee Ottawa after the trial. Alice’s husband Ben did not reject her. She remained an active member of the Ottawa Jewish community until she died in 1972.

Is that the price of shameful behaviour? That’s nothing compared to the shunning of transgressors that takes place in Mennonite communities if the description in Miriam Toews’s A Complicated Kindness is close to the truth.

Ian McKercher’s first work of historical fiction, The Underling, was published in 2012. The sequel should be out early in 2016. He is also the president of the Glebe Historical Society and a regular Glebe Report contributor.

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Glebe St. James Skating Rink

Readers may remember that when construction began for the addition at Mutchmor School, the beloved Mutchmor skating rink had to find a new home to accommodate construction staging. The Glebe St. James Tennis Club and Glebe Neighbourhood Activities Group (GNAG) came to the rescue, with the support of the GCA and other community members, and the new Glebe St. James Skating Rink was born. This much-enjoyed rink has been largely supported over the past two years by GNAG and community donations, and with less city funding than was previously provided for the Mutchmor rink. However, this is not a sustainable approach and beyond this year, the operation of the rink is at risk (see Mary Tsai’s article elsewhere in this issue). The GCA has been supportive of this community asset in the past, and we encourage interested Glebe residents to be in touch with Councillor David Chernushenko if you have questions or concerns about the City’s decision not to provide sufficient funding for this community asset.

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ImagineGlebe

ImagineGlebe is a communityvisioning project initiated by the GCA. The first phase will focus on Building a Vision for Bank Street: Strengthening our community’s traditional mainstreet. If you look carefully, upwards of 30 per cent of properties on Bank Street in the Glebe are in need of some form of (re)development. A broadly supported, community-developed vision can guide the transformation of surface parking lots and underdeveloped sites and spaces in a way that will contribute to the vibrancy, liveability and attractiveness of Bank Street. The objective of this initiative is to develop a forward-thinking vision supported by a broad cross section of the community – residents, business owners, developers. Our approach to building this vision for the future is to be creative, collaborative and positive. The end goal is to develop recommendations aimed at reinvigorating and further animating Bank Street. The ImagineGlebe Committee of the GCA will be seeking your input on these issues and we are eager to hear from you. Stay tuned for more information on upcoming consultation events.

Get involved!

Fall is a time when people look for ways to be more active in their community. If this sounds like you, we have some ideas. ImagineGlebe will need help reaching out to Glebe residents; the rejuvenated Health and Social Services Committee will be organizing a community forum with various local and community police services, and the Education and Tenants committees are looking for members. Finally, please join us at a monthly meeting on the fourth Tuesday of the month – we would love to hear your thoughts on any community issues. The next GCA meeting will be October 27 at 7 p.m. in the Glebe Community Centre’s Multipurpose Room.

Community response to the Syrian refugee crisis

Many people are concerned about the refugee crisis unfolding in Europe and the Middle East. Ottawa residents recall the organized response to the Vietnamese refugee crisis in the 1970s and wonder how we should respond now as a community. The GCA has been exploring this issue. If support for refugees has your attention and you have ideas we should consider,

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Glebe Annex Community Association update

By Doug Milne

I have a burning question about GACA: What will we do if no one volunteers?

It was only three years ago that this community, threatened by an adverse situation, quickly formed an association to tackle issues surrounding a proposed major infill construction development which appeared to be rushing headlong through the Planning Department bureaucracy at City Hall without proper public consultation with local residents.

GACA arose from out of nowhere and, with informed residents and many hours of hard work by volunteers, that issue and others surrounding the proposal were met head on in an action-packed public Planning Committee meeting.

Other concerns were addressed, such as renewal and maintenance of our Dalhousie South Park, security and cleanliness in our streets, vigilance of traffic, and infrastructure proposals and continuing development concerns in the Annex.

Residents of our neighbourhood agree that the Annex is becoming a much safer, cleaner and more pleasant place to reside, thanks to the efforts of 14 dedicated volunteer directors and their friends, neighbours and members of GACA. Thus we come to our dilemma. How do we proceed as a vibrant, caring community without a full slate of officers? Several of our directors cannot volunteer their time next year due to work commitments, health and other issues. We therefore are looking for up

to five new volunteers to continue in their footsteps.

So this is a shout-out to our readers. For younger people, who might remember parents or relatives volunteering in their community, is it your time to serve? For seniors or recent retirees, perhaps now is your opportunity to use your newfound free time to make new friends and support our lifestyle in the Annex. Busy hands make happy hearts.

If you have issues or concerns with some aspect of life in the Annex, this could be the time to act.

Should you be interested in volunteering or working with the board on special projects, please contact us through our website at www.glebeannex.ca. Committee members are available to chat if you want to learn more about what is involved in helping to make our neighbourhood a great place to live.

Our Annual General Meeting is scheduled for October 28 at 6:30 pm at the Glebe Community Centre, at which time each committee chair will file a report with updates and plans for the coming year.

Guest speakers will be Councillor David Chernushenko, who will speak briefly on Capital Ward 17 matters, and Constable Matt Hunt, whose presentation, Scams Against Seniors – How to Protect Yourself, will be of special interest.

In other news: it is a busy time for our committees. With the onset of fall, the start of school and residents back in town, our leaders are on the streets and online working on funding for upgrading our parks, preparing

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for the now annual fall clean-up (we could sure use a hand or two here), and dealing with other issues such as a new student housing development being proposed for our area.

We must also fund our efforts by selling memberships annually. The $10 membership dues we collect from each household are put to good use for community benefit, but equally important is the knowledge that we have the full support of the majority of residents when we dialogue with City Hall, developers, the media and our local security forces.

Tip for residents: be sure to remove all valuables and lock your vehicles when parking on our streets. We’ve experienced some unwelcome visitors in the last few weeks. Please report any incidents of this nature as our city police are tracking occurrences and locations.

At the September GACA board meeting, the majority present approved the set up of a Contingency Fund consistent with our mandate to review and lobby on behalf of the community on City planning initiatives and development applications. This fund will be serviced by a portion of the proceeds from our membership drive and other donations.

A recent proposal by an individual for acquisition of city-owned lands on Arthur Lane backing on a residence on Cambridge St S. is being given close scrutiny and comment by our GACA Planning Committee. Do you have a comment? You can contact us at info@glebeannex.ca to share your thoughts. We’ll ensure that you are heard.

High on the list of important actions of our committees is our interaction with other local associations and their special interest committees, which we frequently support on their issues and in return gain their advice and cooperation. Christine McAllister, president of the Glebe Community Association; Bhagwant Sandhu, president of Dow’s Lake Residents’ Association; and Jamie Liew, leader of the Dalhousie Association’s current appeal to the OMB, and the many volunteers in the Federation of Citizens Associations are all invaluable in assisting our efforts to make a difference in the Glebe Annex.

See you at the AGM on October 28.

Doug Milne is active in the Glebe Annex Community Association and keeps Glebe Report readers up to date on GACA news.

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Can citizens talk to city hall?

By Bob Brocklebank

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“What do you think?” is a question posed by journalists, friends, spouses … and occasionally government officials, either elected politicians or bureaucrats seeking input from you, the “engaged citizen.” Governments at all levels have declared their interest in “citizen engagement” or “public participation” – but turning this abstract concept into reality is a challenge.

This topic is of special interest to the FCA – the Federation of Citizens’ Associations – the city-wide umbrella organization of community groups, whose first objective is to “encourage citizen participation in the planning and development of the community.” Both the Glebe and Glebe Annex community associations are active members.

The government closest to citizens is the municipality. The city deals with local matters that directly affect people in their daily lives. While city hall does try to listen to residents, neither city hall nor citizens seem satisfied with their relationship.

The story of public engagement in Ottawa

When the amalgamated City of Ottawa emerged from the 12 former municipalities in 2001, the issue of public participation was recognized as an area for action. In 2003 a policy on public participation was adopted.

A “roundtable” was to be established, but funding for it was never provided and the policy became a dead letter. The goal of “a more connected, stronger community through public participation” was mentioned from time to time, but all memory of the policy disappeared.

With the election of a new City Council in 2010, the idea of citizen engagement was dusted off and bold commitments made. In December 2010, Council called for “an in-depth review of public engagement” with a report to be presented in 2011. In fact nothing happened for a couple of years while this “hot potato” was passed around among reluctant departments of city staff. After all, a study on public engagement would not likely win plaudits from elected officials or from the public at large. The elected councillors could (and did) say, “What about me – I am in touch with the public; that is my job.” The public might use it as an opening to criticize anything and everything about the city.

For citizens interested in raising new issues through a formal city procedure, opportunity was reduced by the elimination of many of the city’s advisory committees in August 2012.

Anyone could speak to an advisory committee about a matter within each

committee’s broad mandate. Such citizen access is now limited to the few remaining advisory committees and to the Agriculture and Rural Affairs committee, the only standing committee providing such access.

In early 2013, long after the June 2011 target date for completion, the public engagement review began. The press called it “the consultation on consultations.” Five public meetings were held, including one organized by the FCA. Members of the public raised concerns about the way that public input was sought by the City, with some feeling that city consultations were not genuine – just for show.

But some specific recommendations for improvement emerged, which were reflected in a report submitted to Council in December 2013. One recommendation was that the City should inform residents as to what kind of interaction they were engaged in: an information session (telling residents about a decision already taken), a consultation (seeking residents’ views on possible alternative courses of action) or delegation of authority (giving some degree of decision-making power to residents through a forum of some kind with the potential to influence the outcome).

After small focus groups reviewed draft documents over the autumn of 2013, a public participation strategy was presented to Council in December 2013. The strategy called for city staff to be trained, guidelines prepared for public consultation and target dates set for implementing improvements.

Council adopted the strategy with little discussion.

Can citizens talk to city hall yet?

Has there been genuine improvement? It may be too early to judge.

However, staff prepared a “scorecard” which was presented to Council in July 2015 about achievements in the 201014 term of Council. It showed that the public engagement strategy had been completed. This is open to dispute – there is no ready tool to allow citizens to find consultative opportunities on the city website nor has a prime official responsible for public engagement been identified – two specific milestones in the strategy.

The timetable adopted by Council calls for a status update on the public engagement strategy sometime this fall. The FCA and other community groups will be watching closely. Readers are invited to send comments on consultations (such as the recent budget consultations) to the author and to the Glebe Report.

Bob Brocklebank is the Glebe Community Association’s representative on the Federation of Citizens’ Associations.

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The renovated and expanded Mutchmor Public School opened on September 16.

Welcome back to school Let me take this opportunity to welcome back students, parents and staff to the 2015-16 school year. For residents of the Glebe, I know this is a very busy time. Traffic picks up in our community, making commutes longer, summer OCDSB Trustee vacations come to an end, and our schools are filled with new and returning students. This is Shawn Menard often accompanied by excitement and anxiety shawn.menard@ocdsb.ca and many questions can arise in these first few weeks. If you have any questions or concerns related to back to school, please don’t hesitate to be in touch with me at shawn. menard@ocdsb.ca .

Mutchmor – First Avenue “Switch”

On September 16 I attended the Mutchmor Open House to celebrate the new addition to the school. Tours were held, with the Grade 6 class showing parents and community members around the new space. It does an incredible job of blending historic characteristics with a new and vibrant feel. The school has much more learning space, including an open-air outdoor classroom area. I know this was a difficult transition and switch for many, particularly the families that lived through two years of construction. I hope the completion of this project brings some closure and that the community at both First Avenue and Mutchmor see positive benefits.

Congratulations to Hopewell School community

An incredible effort by parents, students and the local community has resulted in enhancements to the well-being and outdoor experience of children attending Hopewell. A brand-new yard with play structures, green space and outdoor classroom space has taken shape, and is absolutely beautiful. The fundraising, advocacy and determination shown by the leadership group at this school have paid off, and the Every Leaf Counts campaign has been very successful to date. I invite you to take a look at the progress yourself: www.facebook.com/ hopewellyard Glebe Collegiate Institute

In the summer I spoke to the 2015 graduating class at Glebe Collegiate Institute. My remarks focused on the successful and caring students that make up the next generation of leaders. These students care more about sustainability, diversity and global awareness. They want to make a positive difference in our world and they will.

Busing Changes

The Ottawa Student Transportation Authority is responsible in Ottawa for busing both Public and Catholic school board students. It also determines the walk-zone maps and eligibility for busing. Beginning in 2011 a review of walk zones and hazards took place. As a result, some students’ eligibility for busing may have changed. Mutchmor, Hopewell and First Avenue all saw changes, which in some cases were significant in my view. For more on these changes, please go to www.ottawaschoolbus.ca.

Labour action in Ontario

This situation continues to evolve. With a tentative deal reached provincially with OSSTF (high-school teachers), the talks have evidently been challenging at the elementary level. This bargaining process is new, and deals must be reached both locally and provincially, depending on the responsibility. As this situation continues, it becomes increasingly difficult for students, staff and parents. There is a need for fair negotiation, with all parties at the table as soon as possible.

It is expected that escalating work-to-rule or strike action will continue until the issue is resolved. This includes the possibility of full withdrawal of service for certain days of the week beginning in October. For updates, please visit www.ocdsb.ca.

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Centre 507: Safe haven and stepping stone By members of the Centre 507 Board of Directors

Living in an urban centre, we often get used to the sights, smells and sounds of city life that surround us every day.

It’s easy to tune out our surroundings, including people who may be perceived as being on the margins of our society.

Thankfully, we have places like Centre 507 that make it their business to welcome and support those in need.

Housed in Centretown United Church at 507 Bank Street near Argyle, the Centre provides a safe and friendly environment. It meets basic needs with coffee, soup, snacks, clothing and toiletries. But the Centre’s social workers also provide extensive personal support from crisis intervention to supportive listening and counselling to referrals to other social services.

As the logo says, Centre 507 is truly a safe haven and stepping stone.

Here’s the story of someone who is very grateful to Centre 507.

Elizabeth

When asked if she is willing to talk about life before rehab for drugs and alcohol, Centre 507 participant Elizabeth Hillier says simply, “It wasn’t much of a life.”

For the last five years, Hillier has been doing a great job of building a better life. She showed courage and perseverance in moving from Brampton to Ottawa in 2010 for a treatment program that lasted a year. But when it was over she was still isolated. She hardly knew anyone. Fortunately, someone steered her to Centre 507,

Centre 507 is located in Centretown United Church, corner of Bank and Argyle.

Centre 507’s community garden in planter boxes on Bank Street yields plenty of greens.

where she found food, clothing and friendships.

On Friday, October 23, the Centre invites you to be part of this community by participating in our Fall Fling.

Fall Fling is an evening of fun and fundraising to support Centre 507.

This event will include live music by OrKidstra, a group of young performers from under-served communities who have received musical training from the Leading Note Foundation. It will also include a chili dinner, silent auction and door prizes.

Though the Centre receives ongoing funding from the City of Ottawa and the United Church of Canada, it takes plenty of community support to keep it in business. “Money is always tight,” says Richard LeBlanc, executive director at Centre 507. “Though the last year has been a tough one, we’ve really overcome adversity by using innovative ways to stretch our dollars.”

Tickets for the Fall Fling are available at Centre 507 for $25 or call 613-233-5626. The Centre is at 507 Bank Street near the corner of Argyle Street.

Centre 507’s Fall Fling

Feeling human

The positive, warm and safe atmosphere that staff and participants create at Centre 507 is what differentiates it from other drop-ins in Hillier’s mind.

When a former landlady turned the heat off during the day, Centre 507 quite literally kept Hillier warm too.

One of her favourite 507 services was lost when funding cuts forced the cancellation of the Life Skills program. Each week, Coffee Talk saw some 507 visitors and a staff member make a trip to the Second Cup, where they shared coffee and conversation.

Often the talk turned to important personal matters. “Going for coffee in a public place with a small group really helped me to feel more human,” says Hillier.

She says that she still faces challenges every day, from staying clean and sober to keeping depression at bay.

She says she has done a lot of hard work to get her life in order, but knows

Elizabeth Hillier has dropped in at Centre 507 for five years while she rebuilds her life after rehab.

that much more lies ahead.

Giving back to 507

On the mid-September Sunday when Hillier told her story, she had been busy until well into the afternoon, volunteering at Southminster United Church’s corn boil and potluck lunch.

She also gives back to Centre 507, serving as a participant board member, watering the vegetable planters on the sidewalk and, twice a week, making the soup.

Hillier’s story is just one of many examples of Centre 507 changing lives. Almost half of those who use the Centre will make it part of their lives for more than two years while they work to improve their situations. More than half will visit the Centre two or three times a week. Some people have been visiting it for decades.

The Centre 507 Board of Directors, chaired by Ross Snyder, operates the Centre as a drop-in support service for those in need.

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Grandmothers in solidarity In sub-Saharan Africa, grandmothers are raising some 15 million children and young people orphaned by AIDS. Here in the Ottawa/Gatineau region, 23 groups of Canadian grandmothers and “grand-others” support their efforts to make a better life and future for themselves and their families.

Grammas to Ambuyas is a group that meets monthly at the Lord Lansdowne Retirement Residence to raise funds and awareness, and advocate for policies and programs to improve the situation for the grandmothers in Africa. As a founding member of the group, I’ve seen firsthand that this is meaningful volunteer work, and I’ve found new friends and old in this active network in our region.

The grandmother groups channel the money they raise to grassroots organizations in Africa through the Stephen Lewis Foundation. The money provides grandmothers and the children in their care with seeds for gardens, income generation activities, bereavement counselling, HIV awareness training and testing, home visits, support groups, school fees, housing and more.

Local groups are collaborating in the Grand Marketplace, to be held on Saturday, November 14, at the Churchill Seniors’ Centre, 345 Richmond Road, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. “It will be a grand bazaar,” says Fatma Maged, “with high-quality, gently used goods, beautiful crafts and

homemade food at ridiculously low prices. Grandmother Moon will be there to read your tarot cards and you can get a delicious homemade lunch at the Sweet and Savoury Café.”

“The Grandmothers Campaign is based on respect and solidarity, not charity,” says Laura Tanner. “The courageous African grandmothers are the unsung heroes of Africa. They are the experts in what is needed and what to do.”

How You Can Get Involved

• Join a group. You don’t need to be a grandmother; grand-others are always welcome. Contact barb. coyle@rogers.com for information on groups near you.

• Join us on November 14 at the Grand Marketplace, Churchill Seniors’ Centre, 345 Richmond Road, 9 a.m. – 3 p.m.

• Learn more about the grandmothers’ advocacy efforts at www.grandmothersadvocacy.org.

• Donate directly to the Stephen Lewis Foundation and learn more about the Grandmothers to Grandmothers Campaign at www. grandmotherscampaign.org.

Long-time Glebe resident Barb Coyle is one of the founding members and co-leader of Grammas to Ambuyas, a granny group that meets in the Glebe and has been supporting the Grandmothers to Grandmothers Campaign for eight years.

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Left to right, Fatma Maged, Grammas to Ambuyas; Wanda Maurice, Riverside Grannies; and Peggy Edwards, One World Grannies, show off some of the goods available for purchase at the November 14 Grand Marketplace.

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Montessori programming is well known for accommodating children’s individual learning styles and pace.

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By Dijana Bate

“Imagine a method… beyond limitations… that improved how EVERY person learns … for children with special needs to gifted students and everyone in between!”

– Dr. Feuerstein Glebe Montessori School’s innovative Montessori Mediated Learning (MML) program is designed for elementary students, ages 6 to 12, who are advanced learners struggling with gaps in their academic foundation, attention deficit disorder, dyslexia, anxiety, past trauma or mild autism

spectrum disorders, including pervasive developmental disorder and Asperger’s syndrome. MML students are personally and academically supported to reach and enhance their learning potential in a low 4:1 student-to-teacher enriched Montessori educational environment.

Montessori programming is well known for accommodating children’s individual learning styles and pace. It is also known for its high educational standards. Through early exposure to academics during their Montessori preschool years, our elementary students (Grades 1 to 6) have learned to be focused, self-motivated, independ-

ent and strong in their mathematical, reading and writing skills. Yet, for some children with specific needs, the Montessori elementary curriculum can be challenging. It was especially disheartening when a Glebe Montessori School (GMS) preschool student, who experienced significant academic or behavioural issues, could not advance to GMS’s Grade 1 level.

For this reason, GMS searched for an effective model, resulting in our MML program, which made it possible for our children to continue their education at our school, even when they required intervention and additional support. MML integrated the pedagogy and psychology of Nobel Peace Prize nominees, Dr. Maria Montessori and Dr. Reuven Feuerstein, two doctors renowned for their groundbreaking theories and contributions in the fields of child psychology and education. Utilizing the cognitive interventions founded on brain-based learning, MML’s programming combines Dr. Feuerstein’s Instrumental Enrichment (FIE) with Montessori pedagogical principles to improve children’s cognitive functions for academic learning and achievement. FIE “helps students learn how to learn and provides them with the concepts, skills, strategies, operations, and techniques necessary to function as successful, independent learners.”

To date, FIE has been successfully used worldwide in a variety of frameworks, including enrichment programs for underachieving and gifted children, and remedial programs for special needs children.

The goal of our MML programming is to strengthen emotional intelligence, academic performance, study and critical thinking skills, selfmotivation, self-discipline, social and personal skills, self-confidence, communication skills, creativity, community outreach and character development.

At GMS, students participate in MML programming during the threehour morning Montessori work cycle, within a hands-on learning, multi-age, dynamic educational setting. During the afternoon hours, MML students join elementary classmates for specialist classes and workshops, which include French language, physical education (gym), music, theatre, fine arts, and science, technology and engineering labs.

To learn more about Glebe Montessori School’s MML program and how it can benefit your child, please visit our website at www.glebemontessori. ca and contact us for an appointment at gmsinfo@glebemontessori.ca or by phone at 613-237-3824.

Dijana Bate is the founder of the Glebe Montessori School.

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Politicians get a lesson in horticulture at St. Anthony School on September 15, during a day of planting to green up the playground.

Preschoolers play in the Glebe Co-op Nursery School playground.

The new school year has begun!

By Becca Wallace

On September 25, hundreds of Glebe Collegiate Institute students participated in a Terry Fox run from the school to Parliament Hill, running down Glebe Avenue to the Canal and picking up Lisgar students along the way.

The new school year has started at the Glebe Co-op Nursery School (GCNS) and the kids are settling in nicely. The weather in September was great and the kids have been able to start and end their days outside in our playground. It gives them the opportunity to run around, play in the sand, climb the play structure and slide down the slide. Then it’s time to head into the classroom for some indoor fun. The teachers set up sensory bins, there is always a fresh pile of Playdoh on a table and every week new toys appear on the carpet. The kids are free to paint at the easel or do a craft at the craft table. And if someone needs some quiet time there is a couch and a library filled with books related to that week’s theme. This year (thanks to all our fundraising last year) we were able to purchase a new play kitchen! Everyone is super excited about that.

Throughout the year the GCNS has several fundraising events and some of the best are coming up soon.

These events are an important part of the co-op. They help create a sense of community amongst our families, they bring the neighbourhood together and they help us purchase awesome new things for the school (like our new bouncy castle!!).

TIGGY’S SHOPPING NIGHT!

In November the GCNS will host my personal favourite event, the Mrs. Tiggy Winkle’s Shopping Night. Once the store is closed for the night they open it up again just for us. For $5 ($7 at the door), you are able to shop while eating snacks and sipping wine. There are door prizes and a silent auction.

And the best part: you get 20 per cent off everything in the store. This event is open to anyone, so tell everyone you know who has little ones they need to buy Christmas presents for. This year the event will be held on Wednesday, November 18.

STILL LOOKING FOR A PRESCHOOL?

Both our toddler and preschool classes are full right now, but spaces do become available throughout the year. If you are interested in learning more about the school, please get in touch with us at info@glebepreschool.com, check out our website at www.glebepreschool.com, like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter or just drop by the classroom at the Glebe Community Centre and talk with our fabulous teachers.

Becca Wallace is the communications chair for the Glebe Co-op Nursery School board. Her son is enjoying his second year at the school in the preschool class.

FRANKENDANCE!

Mutchmor Public School sports a row of off-set “hitching posts” along Fifth Avenue that seem to be a mystery to all. What are they for? Are they not-yet-finished benches? Something for kids to lean on when lined up at the school? A subtle fence to keep people off the flower beds?

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Our first event of the school year is the Frankendance, being held on Sunday, October 25, from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. in the main hall at the Glebe Community Centre. Admission is $5 per family. There will be crafts of all sorts including pumpkin painting, making candy necklaces, drawing and colouring pages. There is also a raffle, a bake sale, a bouncy castle and plenty of dancing. The Frankendance is open to everyone, so tell all your friends!

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Glebe residents enjoy decorating their yards for Halloween

Quilt display at the Quiltco Show and Sale, September 26 and 27

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Heritage Ottawa The Glebe, Clemow West of Bank Street – Sunday Walking Tour Sunday, October 18, 2015 2–3:30 p.m.

Take a ramble through a designed landscape, along a parkway and into a park, and learn about this area’s rich social and architectural history along the way. Once known as Clemora Park, this district immediately became one of Ottawa’s most scenic and desirable residential areas, and home to leading local and national politicians, businessmen, doctors and civil servants. The tour visits Clemow Avenue west of Bank Street and will present some history of selected homes on Powell Avenue and Central Park West.

Guide: Andrew Elliott, Archivist at Library and Archives Canada and Glebe resident Heritage Ottawa members $5; non-members $10 Meet at the northwest corner of Bank and Clemow.

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New season You have probably noticed the art exhibits in the Board Room at the Glebe Community Centre, just to the left of the main entrance, which change monthly.

Over the past decade, emerging and established artists exploring a wide variety of subject matter in a diversity of styles have been featured in this wellused community space. These shows stimulate and offer visual enrichment to a huge number of viewers throughout the year. We are especially happy that children taking part in programs at the Centre are able to experience visual art in a comfortable and easy way.

Artists: How to apply for a showing If you are an artist working in a two-dimensional medium and would be interested in exhibiting your work in this friendly venue, please send three digital images of the works you would like to show to GCCArtShows@gmail. com. Your application should include: • medium and dimensions of the work • your name, address, phone number and email • optional: a short (50 words) artist’s statement Only two-dimensional work suitable for a family-use space can be accepted, and only applications in this format can be considered for jurying. (Please do not contact the Community Centre or Glebe Report about exhibiting.)

The new season has begun, and the first show is on until November 1!

October 21 – Etudes Take One! Selections from Frédéric Chopin’s legendary piano studies, Op. 10 & 25 Antoine Joubert, piano

November 25 – Schumann Revisited Favourite works and contemporary music inspired by Robert Schumann Christopher Goddard, composer & piano

October 28 – Musique de salon French Impressionist music for harp, flute and viola Caroline Leonardelli, harp Pascale Margely, flute Sarah Ross, viola

December 2 – Miguel de Armas Trio Powerfully rhythmic strains of AfroCuban jazz by Ottawa’s favourite Latin jazz trio Alex Bellegarde, bass Michel Medrano, drums Miguel de Armas, piano

November 4 – Etudes Take Two! Franz Liszt’s dazzlingly virtuosic set of 12 Transcendental Etudes Yohan Jager, piano November 11 – Dona Eis Requiem Herbert Howells’ Requiem and other choral works for remembrance and peace New Studio Chamber Singers Roland Graham, conductor November 18 – Pictures from the East Exotic music for four hands by Robert Schumann, Nikolai RimskyKorsakov and Camille Saint-Saëns Ioulia Blinova & Ruby Jin, piano

December 9 – Advent Mysteries Pipe organ works for Advent by J.S. Bach, Dieterich Buxtehude, Felix Mendelssohn and Max Reger Barbara Hallam-Price, organ December 16 - ‘Tis the Season A medley of contemporary styles including jazz, blues, rock and pop create a groovy take on Christmas Elise Letourneau, piano/vocals/flute Tim Bedner, 7-string guitar Admission is by freewill offering ($5, $10 or $20 is suggested). The church is fully accessible, located on OC Transpo routes 1 & 7.

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Open call for poetry submissions Poets in the Glebe neighbourhood and surrounding areas

The Glebe Report monthly community newspaper will begin publishing a number of poems as a regular feature, four times a year, beginning in the fall 2015. The feature, to be called "Poetry Quarter", will be curated by JC Sulzenko, Glebe poet, author and educator.

We are looking for poems with qualities that reflect the people in the Glebe, their sensibilities and their lives –– poetry of any kind, on any topic (within the bounds of public discourse). Poems should be original work, unpublished previously in any medium, and not exceed 30 lines in length.

We are interested in receiving submissions of poetry from: adults, teens 14 to 17 (high school students), or children 9 to 13 (about grades 4 to 8). We are open broadly to submissions from poets who live, work, study or volunteer in the Glebe or its close neighbouring communities.

Submissions of poetry for the Glebe Report's Poetry Quarter should be emailed to editor@glebereport.ca Submit up to 7 poems at a time as a WORD .doc or .docx attachment. Include your contact information.

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About monstrous goals – completing the Ironman race It had been a longtime dream of mine to complete an Ironman race. You might wonder what motivates me to train for months to spend one day swimming 3.8 km at sunrise, cycling 180 km, and running a marathon (42.2 km) at sunset that very same day.

Health is important to me. My mother passed away at the young age of 64 due to ovarian cancer. We miss her and I wish our kids and kids of all ages could have healthy and active moms and grandmas living well into older age. And while finding the time to be healthy can be a luxury, it’s the best investment to keep our minds and bodies youthful and vibrant. For me, the right fit at the moment seems to be triathlon racing.

I had never done an Ironman race before, and although I ran several marathons recently and took part in adventure races a long time ago, this would be only my third triathlon. I learned to swim freestyle in January and bought a road bike in March, having gone to spin classes prior to that.

This goal was big, hairy and audacious and it required months of work and dedication. During the long days of endurance training, I focused on the fact that I want to be there for our kids and I want them to feel inspired and realize their own goals. The ripple effect of positive energy continues to be enormous.

Ironman Muskoka

But you may be curious about the event itself. Many people ask me how it goes, how one can manage so much activity, what one eats, etc. Here is a very brief account of my experience completing the inaugural Ironman Muskoka on August 30, 2015.

On the night before the race, I couldn’t sleep. It’s common. At 3 a.m. I tiptoed around my sleeping family, showered and secured some strong coffee. I was told that I was the first to pick up a breakfast box. Way ahead already, I mused. As I headed out the hotel door, it was pitch black

outside. It was not even 5 a.m. and the walk from Hidden Valley to Deerhurst Resort was a quick up and down with a very round red moon above. I carried only the minimal morning bag while the bike was waiting for me in transition. After the final preparations, I found a quiet corner inside and opted for a brief yoga session before heading down to the beach.

The Swim

It was a beautiful Muskoka cottage country morning, but as I stood in line at the water I felt apprehensive about being kicked in the face under water.

To my surprise, I ended up loving the swim and from there, a quick short run up a hill to change and onto the bike, and hello, hills! Good thing I spent the summer riding in Gatineau Park!

The Bike Race

When a tsunami of fancy cyclists passed me, I told myself that I was a good swimmer. Oh, the power of positive self-talk (the bike course is a double 90 km loop). During the last 8 km of the ride, my body felt bent and I briefly questioned if I could unfold, continue and start a marathon. I did not want to let doubt creep in, but I questioned if this were really possible. Just smile, enjoy the day and the views, I thought. I laughed that off, though, because I never heard so many shouts of “you inspire me!” which is the cat’s meow, as are the kids’ faces as they look up at you. I made my best effort to show each of them a big smile to encourage them.

The Marathon

I finished the bike leg and once out on the run, it wasn’t long before fatigue set in. I found myself reaching for anything offered at the beautiful buffet stands: Pepsi, Red Bull, orange slices, grapes and, later, chicken broth.

I thought about stopping to put BandAids on my blistered feet, but I was sure that if I stopped or sat down, that would be the end. I met a runner who was upbeat and we stuck it out together during the final 20 km. Luck-

Photo: FinisherPix

By Basia Vanderveen

Front row, Zosia and Hugo Vanderveen; back row, Basia and Tim Vanderveen

ily, we heard a lot of cheers to propel us on and when we did reach the finish after sunset, I was high on adrenaline, joy and relief.

Evidently, anything really is possible. This journey has been about family and community and I’m

immensely grateful for the support of those near and far.

Basia Vanderveen is a wife, mom, consultant, coach and athlete. She can be reached at basia.vanderveen@gmail. com.

@glebereport

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GRAPEVINE

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

community connections

ABBOTSFORD’S 40TH ANNUAL CHRISTMAS BAZAAR – Most-wanted donations: antiques and collectibles (jewellery, pottery, glassware, paintings and other rare or whimsical items) for our Elegant Treasures Sale. We are also looking for books (no magazines, Reader’s Digest, text books or encyclopaedias please). Bring donations to 950 Bank St. (the old stone house across from Lansdowne Park), open Mon.–Fri., 8:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m.

(613-230-5730). “The Best Bazaar in the City” will be on Sat., Nov. 28, from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

Ave. at Bank. Designer men’s and women’s clothing, jewellery, accessories, and a gift table stocked with new and vintage treasures and collectibles. Come out and enjoy some live jazz, refreshments and home baking.

CHOIRS! CHOIRS! CHOIRS! Concert to help bring a refugee family to Canada featuring 6 choirs, 3 soloists and the Kevin Hassell Instrumental Ensemble. Sun., Oct. 25, 2 p.m. at St Giles, 729 Bank St. Admission is pay what you can. Info: office@stgilesottawa.org or 613-235-2551.

GRAND MARKETPLACE, Sat., Nov. 14, 9 a.m.–3 p.m., Churchill Seniors’ Centre, 345 Richmond Rd. Hosted by Granny Groups in the region. Highquality, gently used goods; handmade crafts and goodies; homemade lunch at the Sweet & Savoury Café. Proceeds to the Grandmothers to Grandmothers Campaign of the Stephen Lewis Foundation.

CHRISTIAN ORTHODOX ICONOGRAPHY – Spruce Riordon, retired Dean of Engineering at Carleton U., will lecture on the historical development of iconography, and in particular the style of icon found in Orthodox Christianity, Thur., Oct. 29, 7 p.m. at the Glebe Community Centre multipurpose room. Visits to Bulgaria, Turkey and Greece kindled his interest in Orthodox icons. This lecture is the sixth in a series of GNAG-sponsored lectures by retired Carleton professors.

GLEBE ST. JAMES UNITED CHURCH FALL BAZAAR, 650 Lyon St., Sat., Nov. 28, 10 a.m.–2 p.m. Featuring baked goods, Christmas crafts, children’s toys, newish books, jams and jellies, frozen dinners, collectibles and you will be able to dine at our famous Tea Room. Info: 613-236-0617.

THE HANDBELL CHOIR OF ST. ANDREW’S CHURCH, 82 Kent St., would be delighted to have new members until the end of October, especially any interested in ringing the bass bells. Info: www.

StAndrewsOttawa.ca, contact@StAndrewsOttawa.ca or 613-232-9042.

10TH ANNUAL MARTINI MADNESS in support of CROHN’S & COLITIS CANADA. Join Ottawa’s finest autumn social mixer on Fri., Nov. 13 at Lago on Dow’s Lake at 7 p.m. Featuring gourmet dinner stations, martinis, local art sale, jazz band with silent & live auctions. New for 2015: afterparty upstairs from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. with live DJ & charity gaming tables. $90 early-bird ticket sale ends Oct. 31.

Purchase tickets at www.martinimadness.ca or call co-chair Jon Beckman 613-783-6877.

LEARN AND EXPLORE SPEAKERS’ SERIES AT ABBOTSFORD HOUSE, 950 Bank St., each Wednesday, 1–2:30 p.m. $2 admission, includes speaker, tea/coffee and a home-made treat! Oct. 21, Katherine Arnup, PhD CPCC, a Life Coach, specializing in transitions, aging and end of life, will present the topic of her book I Don’t Have Time for This! A Compassionate Guide to Caring for Your Parents and Yourself. Oct. 28, Ann Nowak, RN, BN. Med, a Public Health Nurse for the City of Ottawa, will present Sweet Dreams ...that somewhat elusive state of both feeling and being well rested.

Nov. 4, Karim Gwaduri, Financial Advisor at Edward Jones will present a seminar on Focus on Fixed Income.

Nov. 11, Dr. Kerry M. Abel, a professor in the Department of History at Carleton University, is back. This time her topic will be Are the Inuit “Indians”? The Curious Story of Canada and the People of the North.

ENCORE FASHION’S FALL SHOWCASE, Nov. 7, 10 a.m.–2 p.m., Fourth Avenue Baptist Church, 109A Fourth

LOG DRIVE CAFÉ AT ABBOTSFORD HOUSE, 950 Bank St., with artist Ken Ramsden who will perform ori-

CHRISTMAS BAZAAR, Sat., Nov. 7, St. Thomas the Apostle Anglican Church, 2345 Alta Vista Dr., 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. Lunch from 11 to 1 p.m. Baked goods, clothing boutique, jewellery, handicrafts, books/CD’s, plants, The General Store, etc.

ginal and traditional heritage songs of Upper Canada’s lakes, waterways and forests. Fri., Oct. 23, 7:30 –9 p.m.

Admission $10 at the door. (Doors open at 7 p.m.)

speaking, reading and writing skills at any proficiency level and in a fun way. Homework help or customized learning plan. Email slowfrench@ yahoo.ca or text/call 613-581-7351.

SOUTHMINSTER UNITED CHURCH CHRISTMAS BAZAAR, Sat., Nov. 14, 9 a.m.–1 p.m., 15 Aylmer Ave. at Bank St. (please enter by the Galt St. door).

There will be jewellery, collectibles, baking, jams and jellies, gift baskets, handicrafts, Christmas decorations, purses, books, a Kids Only gift area, a Cake Walk, a Silent Auction and other tables of interest. The Red Berry Café will be open at 9 a.m. for muffins and coffee and the Christmas Bazaar luncheon will be served from 11:30 a.m. until 1 p.m.

GARAGE in the Glebe to store a car for the winter season. Please call 613233-4810.

OTTAWA PRIVATE SCHOOL EXPO – Considering Private School? Oct. 25, 12 to 4 p.m., Delta Ottawa City Centre. RSVP at www.ourkids.net/expo if interested in attending.

OTTAWA ROCK CAMP FOR GIRLS, an annual, non-profit three- day event for girls aged 13 to 17 of all experience and skill levels where they learn and practise an instrument (bass, guitar or drums), form a band, learn a song together, and perform at a showcase concert – all under the guidance of local female musicians. Camp will take place from Fri., Nov. 6, to Sun., Nov. 8. The cost is $20 per person, but this fee will be waived upon request in order to include campers from all economic backgrounds. No musical experience required! If you are a selfidentified girl between the ages of 13 and 17, please apply by Wed., Oct. 21.

Registration is limited to 20 campers.

Go to: www.ottawarockcampforgirls. com for the registration form and more information on the Camp.

for sale ELABORATE CANDELABRA (vigillight holder from a church) $200; TWO CARVED, ASIAN STYLED WOODEN PANELS, both 5¼” wide, one 35½”, one 32” long, $30 each. Call Elaine at 613-234-2233.

POLYMER CL AY EQUIPMENT – Retired polymer clay artist selling equipment. Tools, findings, books, clay, etc. Low prices, need to downsize. Call Christine at 613-238-1985.

HOUSE-SITTING ARRANGEMENT – Retired professional woman and long-time Glebe resident seeks house-sitting arrangement for the 2014-15 winter season. References available. Email: pvbatt@yahoo.ca or ph. 613-788-3221.

wanted TO RENT by retired professional woman, minimum 2-bedroom apartment or house; preferably with access to garden/yard. Glebe, Ottawa South, Rideau Gardens areas. References available. Email: pvbatt@yahoo.ca or ph. 613-788-3221.

Small Apt. Housecleaning. 3 hours every 2 weeks ($80) 613-2347503

TOPICAL TALKS AT ABBOTSFORD HOUSE, 950 Bank St., on Mon., Oct. 26. Barb Clubb, Ottawa’s former City Librarian will present Dewey & Digital: New library Service in the Age of Ebooks and Social Media.

Refreshments (a muffin, juice and a coffee) served at 9:45 am. Talk begins at 10 a.m. sharp! Cost $3.

available FRENCH TUTOR – Dedicated, experienced teacher (B.Ed., MA), MA), native speaker of French, can help you/ your children learn French or improve

Where to find the glebe report

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

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Will tutor in your home, your daycare or the library.

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ElEmEntary tutor JK-8 Certified Ontario teacher available to tutor evenings and weekends in my home or yours. Please contact judith1slater@yahoo.ca for more information.

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

Want garden fresh black peppercorn?

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Handmade BaBy Quilts Variety of prints, sizes and colours. Price: $45. - $80.

One-of-a-kind gift.

Call: 613-730-2411

HOME RENOS AND REPAIR - interior/exterior

Insanity LIVE classes at KV Dance Studio Mondays 10am, Fridays 9:30am, Saturdays 9am

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painting; all types of flooring; drywall repair and installation; plumbing repairs and much more.

Please call Jamie Nininger @ 613-852-8511.

THE GLEBE BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT AREA

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING Tuesday, November 10th at 6:30pm

Horticulture Building, 1525 Princess Patricia Way Lansdowne

Give The Best Gift Ever...

If you are a member of the Glebe Business Improvement Area (BIA), join us on Tuesday, November 10th, 2015 at 6:30pm for the Glebe BIA Annual General Meeting. This year’s event will be held at the newly renovated Horticulture Building at Lansdowne in the Glebe.

With so much going on in the area there’s a lot to be excited about and this event is designed to help further the momentum we can all share in and benefit from. It is your chance to know more about your business improvement area and the volunteers and staff behind it. We all know how great the Glebe is and our success depends on having a committed and engaged membership at all levels.

A Year of Flowers

Learn more about the activities and direction of the Glebe BIA, meet and network with members of the Board of Management and forge relationships with others operating a business in our great urban neighbourhood. Come out and join us – share your ideas, give us feedback and learn more about the Glebe BIA while connecting with your local business community.

Call or drop by our shop for details

Kindly RSVP to info@intheglebe.ca. We hope to see you there!

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Glebe Neighbourhood Activities Group Glebe Community Centre

175 Third Avenue, Ottawa, ON K1S 2K2 613-233-8713

www.gnag.ca

Great Glebe Pumpkin Patch Sunday October 25 3:30 - 6:00 pm $7.00 / child CASH ONLY

candy carnival cookie decorating face painting sweet treats haunted house kinder fun house preschool crafts

Glebe CRAFT & ARTISAN Fair

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Friday, November 20, 6 - 9 pm Saturday, November 21, 10 am - 5 pm Sunday, November 22, 11 am - 4 pm

Many thanks to our volunteers for all their hard work and our sponsors for their support

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FREE ADMISSION

Join us on Thurs, Oct 22 at 7 pm for the official launch of

YouthFIT

Children 9 and under must be accompanied by an adult.

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: a comprehensive youth fitness program offered at GNAG and at Glebe CI

Meet incredible instructors and see our line-up of unbelievable sport & fitness programs

FREE GIVE-AWAYS and PRIZES