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Unsung heroes of the Glebe!

Tracy Harnish (right) and sons Mackenzie (left) and William

by Marnie Wellar

One of the most important jobs at the Glebe Report is delivering the paper to every home in the neighbourhood. The Glebe Report is the little newspaper that gives the people who live here a way to share and work together on things we care about in our community. Everyone needs to have a chance to read it and join in.

There are a lot of homes, so it takes a lot of people to do it. Every month, 200 volunteers deliver over 5,500 papers to homes!

All kinds of people have Glebe Report delivery routes – kindergarten kids, teenagers, new parents, older folks. These volunteers deserve loads of acclaim because even though it’s fun, it’s hard work, too – and some of these volunteers are very young. Good job!

Would you like to deliver the Glebe Report? We have a few routes available,

MARK YOUR CALENDARS Oct. 22.................... Leukemia/Lymphoma walk, Sat 5–8 p.m. Aberdeen ................................ Pavilion Oct. 23.................... Standing Room Only tea dance, Sun 1–4 GCC Oct. 25.................... GCA monthly meeting, Tue 7 p.m. GCC Oct. 27.................... Talk on marajuana, Thu 7 p.m. GCC Oct. 29.................... Pumpkin Derby, Sat 1 p.m. Aberdeen Pav. Oct. 29.................... St. Matthew’s Church treasure auction, Sat 12–5 Oct. 29.................... Glebe St. James Church showcase, Sat 7:30 p.m.

Oct. 30.................... GRAND market, Horticulture Bldg, Sun 9–3 Oct. 30.................... Great Glebe pumpkin patch, Sun 4–6:30 GCC Nov. 11–13............. 260 Fingers show and sale, Fri 6–9, Sat/Sun 10–5 ................................ GCC Nov. 13.................... Capital Grannies African lunch, Sun 11:30–1 ................................ Glebe St. James Church C

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and you can always try one out and see how you like it before you make a commitment.

Do you live in an apartment building that isn’t getting the Glebe Report? If you are able to place papers in the lobby, common area or mailroom of your building, we can drop off a bundle in your building foyer addressed to you.

Sincere gratitude to everyone who helps with Glebe Report home delivery – you’re all very much appreciated!

Turn the page to meet some of the sweethearts and community builders who deliver the Glebe Report.

Marnie Wellar is the volunteer Circulation Manager of the Glebe Report, responsible for wrangling the 200 volunteer carriers. She can be reached at circulation@glebereport.ca.

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OUR VOLUNTEER CARRIERS One Friday a month you’ll pick up bundles of papers and drive them around to the homes of carriers.

It doesn’t take long, it’s not hard, but it’s a crucial part of bringing the Glebe Report to the community.

Could you take it on?

Call Marnie to talk about it.

Attention high school students: delivery of the Glebe Report counts for volunteer hours!

Welcome to The Element High School Glebe Collegiate – Community Living class Zachary Shannon

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Mary Ahearn, Jennie Aliman, Tyler, Luke & Claire Allan, Alton-Shantz family, Michel Arpin, James Attwood, Aubry family, Andre Beauregard, Adrian Becklumb, Beckman family, Inez Berg, Mary Lou Bienefeld, Daisy & Nettie Bonsall, Robert & Heidi Boraks, Martha Bowers, Bowie family, Jonah & Benjy Brender, Gregory Briggett, Adélaïde Bridgett, Deborah Broad, Bob Brocklebank, Alice Cardozo, Ava & Olivia Carpenter, Ryan & Charlotte Cartwright, Nathaniel Collins Mayer, Sebastian, Cameron & Anne Cino, John Connor, Coodin family, Denys Cooper, Sammy & Teddy Cormier, June Creelman, JJ Crowe, Georgia Davidson, Richard DesRochers, Oscar & Jane Dennis, Marilyn Deschamps, Diekmeyer-Bastianon family, Dingle family, The Element High School, Nicholas, Reuben, Dave & Sandra Elgersma, Amanda & Erin Frank, Judy Field, Gabriel & Octavia Francis, Fredrico Family, McE Galbreath, Joann Garbig, Glebe C.I. - Community Living class, Caroline & James de Groot, Matthew & Ryan Goetz, Matti GoodwinSutton, Gary Greenwood, Ginny Grimshaw, Hamer-Wilson family, Henry Hanson, Martin Harris, Hook family, Cheryle Hothersall, Matthew Hovey, Christian Hurlow, Illing-Stewart family, Jack & Lily Inskip-Shesnicky, Jeevan & Amara Isfeld, Jonathan & Emma Jarvis, Janna Justa, Mr. & Mrs Laing, Lambert family, Jamie & Katherine Laundy, Jacob Lavoie, Alexander & Louisa Lem, Phrasie Le Sann, Kim Lewis, Justin Leyser, Jaiden and Vinay Lodha, Ben, Parker & James Love, Annaline Lubbe, Joanne Lucas, Jim Lumsden, Nick Stewart Lussier, Macdonald family, Jennifer, John, Owen & Ian MacNab, William Maguire, Pat Marshall, Isaac McGuire, Julie Monaghan, Diane Munier, Sana Nesrallah, Mary Nicoll, Sachiko Okuda, Tracy Parrish, William and Mackenzie, Brenda Quinlan, Beatrice Raffoul, Don Ray, Mary & Steve Reid, Barbara Riley, Jacqueline, Lucy and Adam Reilly-King, Ned Rogers, Anna Roper, Emile & Sebastien Roy-Foster, Bruce Rayfuse, Lene Rudin-Brown, Sidney Rudin-Brown, Paige Saravanamuttoo, Casimir & Tristan Seywerd, Zachary Shannon, Short family, Kathy Simons, Judith Slater, Eamonn Sloan, Grady, Ella, Audrey Kennedy Squires, Stephenson family, Alex & Claire Stoney, Joanne Sulek, Karen Swinburne, Eric & Steven Swinkels, Zita Taylor, Mackenzie Thomas, Spencer Thomas, John & Maggie Thomson, Trudeau family, Hugo Vanderveen, Caroline Vanneste, Josh VanNopppen, Veevers family, Jonah Walker, Erica Waugh, Katja & Tanja Webster, Patrick and Ciara Westdal, Allison Williams, Zoe & Nicole Wolfenden, Howard & Elizabeth Wong, Ella & Ethan Wood, Gillian & Jake Wright, Sue Ann Wright, Nathaniel & Maggie Wightman, Young-Smith family, Gord Yule.

Leslie Varady (left) and Carolyn Borer paint a mural on the wall of Bridgehead on Second Avenue, as part of the Glebe BIA juried mural project. The pair painted the Wild Oat mural last year. Borer owns the Roll Her Sleeves Painting company.

Delivery Routes Available Dow’s Lake Rd. Crescent Heights Rd. Pretoria - O’Connor to Bank Pretoria - QED to O’Connor Rupert St. Findlay Ave - Torrington Pl. to Bronson Bronson Ave. - Fifth Ave. to Canal Bridge Plymouth St. - Bronson to LeBreton South Also looking for volunteers to deliver to the Glebe Annex.

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Lansdowne and Glebe story one for the textbooks Editor, Glebe Report It was with some sadness that I read recent letters to the Glebe Report’s editor: “Loving Lansdowne” by Arwen Widmer Bobyk, August 2016; “Lansdowne critics,” by David Archer; and Vivian Croll’s “Move on,” September 2016. These letters bring many old adages to mind, one of which is “those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” And we are not talking about distant history. The Glebe’s opposition to Lansdowne’s development plan, the legendary grassroots mobilization, the unprecedented fundraising, and the subsequent lawsuit, all represent a David and Goliath battle by our neighbourhood that surely belongs to the urban planning textbooks, and about which we should feel very proud, regardless of the outcome.

The letters to the editor and Mayor Jim Watson’s self-congratulatory, self-serving piece have one thing in common: Glebe residents should now move on. Collectively we are asked to forget that City Council set aside a previous Council decision to hold an international competition for the design and development of this city jewel, based on a telephone call made to Ottawa’s mayor by a developer. A prime piece of land, including a park, was handed over to private hands in a complicated deal that even the city’s officials could not defend with a straight face. Every central city councillor voted against it, including our own, and Friends of Lansdowne spearheaded an epic battle to resist the conversion of the park to a mall.

I hold no ill feelings toward those residents (mentioned above) for being misinformed about why this neighbourhood was up in arms against a powerful merchant of bricks and mortar with infinite resources. But the letter

by Mayor Jim Watson is an entirely different matter.

It was under his watch as mayor of the old city that the deterioration of Lansdowne accelerated. We owe Bob Chiarelli, then chair of OttawaCarleton’s Regional Municipality

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(RMOC), who upset Watson’s plan to give it away during his first mandate by offering to take it off the City of Ottawa’s hands in the late nineties for $1.

Mr. Watson claims that, “financially, the plan sees the city receiving a dividend of over $32 million over the life of the agreement.” I invite his worship to explain to us what that “life” means and where the money is coming from?

As I understand it, it’s coming from rents from the Aberdeen Pavilion and the Horticulture Building, both still public buildings. Why are we charging for these buildings, which are publicly supported already, asking the public to pay twice?

Further, there is nothing coming from the mall investments at all. Last year OSEG reported nearly a million dollars in deficit. Mr. Watson also forgets to mention that the city found itself on the hook to compensate the subcontractors OSEG declined to pay, and for $17 million in roof repairs to the stadium that were supposed to have been included in the “fixed price” for the stadium. I’d like to see someone put together a list of real costs of Lansdowne to the city.

Strangely, Watson refers to “the doom and gloom that Glebe grocery stores would close,” saying that it “didn’t happen.” Mr. Watson, which planet are you living on? If you take the time to walk the Glebe on Bank Street between the highway overpass and the canal, you will notice numerous stores that have long been closed as a result of inability to pay the rent. And we have not seen the end of it.

The late mayor Marion Dewar guided Ottawa’s development for seven years. Her untarnished legacy of vision and achievements forever lives on. She is in a class of her own. Mr. Watson, on the other hand, has been Ottawa’s mayor for almost a decade. His name will only be a footnote in the historical annals of the city, forever associated with transformation of an historic and irreplaceable public space into an ugly shopping mall.

Ali A. Ramezani

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Editor, Glebe Report I especially enjoyed the “Language Garden” article in the September 9 issue of the Glebe Report. If I may share some of my pet peeves: • Whenever I hear of the “amount” of people, rather than the number, I expect that these people must have been weighed.

• So often one hears “I could care less” when the speaker means the opposite.

• A n d w h y i s e ve r y t h i n g “impacted” these days, rather than affected?

• The amount of “narrative” has exploded recently.

Thanks for the Glebe Report – always interesting!

Irena Bell

Correction In the September Glebe Report, page 8, the caption for the top right photograph should read: “Syrian refugee kids enjoying the GNAG summer camp, with Rafael Flores.” The bottom right photo caption should read: “Children attending the GNAG refugee family summer camp, with teacher Ash Abraham Coutu.” The Glebe Report regrets the error.

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Learning the Lansdowne lessons Re: Lansdowne critics, move on!

(September Glebe Report) Editor, Glebe Report Perhaps it may help other communities wondering what to do to rejuvenate a prize public asset if we heard some factual data from residents and businesses instead of municipal hyperbole. For example, would the established purveyors of food (the Glebe Meat Market, McKeen’s, Nicastro’s, etc.) be willing to share their actual revenues over the last few years? Would Minto be willing to reveal why five out of the nine Bank Street retail outlets remain vacant at Bank + Fifth after more than a year?

How about the residents in, and those facing, the curious social experiment in “back-to back” houses on Holmwood? And the local opinions of the less-than-stunning architecture of the much vaunted “gateway” buildings that lurk ethereally above the shops of the plaza we surrendered valuable public space to build?

Not to mention the obnoxious “TD” adorning the view from a national heritage site. And, what of the opinions of those seeking a quiet space of the tinny “music” that has to be tolerated on a walk to admire the visage of the Horticulture Building? Has anyone recorded the opinions of the Farmer’s Market stallholders when their space is sequestered for a public event, or even their level of custom compared with the time at the relaxed amenities at Brewer Park?

As for traffic and parking, perhaps again a survey of local residents and retailers might correct the impression of endless space and convenience. It works, but perhaps only just, as the developer for the Beer Store & Mr Muffler shop lot is about to find out. A well-grounded critique might be helpful. This is not about “moving on,” but about being realistic and admitting that maybe it could have been done better, so that others can learn the lessons of urban planning and green space use.

Frank Johnson

Beer Store/Mr. Muffler redevelopment Editor, Glebe Report On Tuesday 13 September the Board of the GCA passed a motion about the development proposal for 890– 900 Bank Street. We appreciate the very considerable work that went into the comprehensive paper for the City, against the tight deadline imposed by the City for comments and we are reluctant to take issue with the precise wording of the motion adopted.

However there are two apparent nonsequiturs in the motion that may compound confusion and have unintended sequellae.

In the preamble the motion states: “Whereas...negative impacts to neighbouring residential properties are unreasonable and have not been sufficiently addressed.” But the motion then goes on to propose “While some consideration to increased height may be possible above the current 15m cap, this should only occur if it does not introduce negative impacts on the abutting properties nor the community generally.” Are there negative impacts or are there not? We do not understand the rationale for considering increased height when there are already negative impacts. Which aspect of planning rationale does this consideration address?

To add to the confusion, the preamble states: “Whereas this would be a very significant development

on Bank Street that could set some critical precedents.” But then the motion concludes with “Such consideration for any additional height beyond 15 m height exception should not set a precedent...” Either you set a precedent or you don’t. You cannot set a precedent and then say it is “not a precedent” – consideration of additional height will set a precedent, full stop.

We sincerely hope that the City will take on board the comment from its own Urban Design Review Panel on a five-storey proposal for 667 Bank Street, as reported on the GCA website: “... overbuilt, that the height and massing did not provide an appropriate transition to the residential properties to the east, nor to the park to the north.

Also, they were clear in stating that given the site circumstances, height should respect the current bylaw maximum of 15m.”

That is the kind of clarity we had hoped for, but did not have time to discuss extensively with the GCA Planning Committee or Board before the meeting. We have submitted this letter in the hope that further discussion can take place as this application progresses through the City’s planning process.

Frank Johnson, on behalf of the residents likely to be most affected by the 890–900 Bank Street development

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Glebe comings and goings New to the Glebe

gcCafé (Glebe Community Café), operated by GNAG upstairs in the Glebe Community Centre where The Pantry used to be, held its grand opening on October 6. “From healthy grab-and-go breakfasts and lunches for busy parents, early riser fitness clients, and local teens too often tempted by fast food, to afternoon lunch and takeaway nutritious family meals, the gcCafé has a mandate to serve and support us all.”

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Quesada Burritos & Tacos, Unit 102, Lansdowne “The joy of Mex.” “There are now over 60 Quesada Burritos & Tacos locations across Canada, with more opening every month!” (www.quesada.ca)

Is Bank Street healthy?

Bank Street in the Glebe is our “Traditional Mainstreet” in planning terms, but it is, I think, more than that. I recall years ago when visiting relatives in the Glebe (I didn’t grow up in Ottawa), I noticed that instead of saying “I’m going shopping” or “I’m off to get groceries,” a cousin or an aunt would more likely say, “I’m going to Bank Street – want anything?” It was a place, an activity, almost a presence.

If the Glebe were a book, you might say Bank Street was a character.

Bank Street is important to us. So how is it doing these days?

On the development side, the Beer Store and Mr. Muffler sites and the

McHale’s site are slated for development and the parking lot of La Strada has development plans. At Fifth, the building that burned down in April 2015 is being rebuilt almost as it was (a single storey), with plans for a Pizza Hut and – ta da! – a McDonald’s.

Glancing up and down the street, we also see quite a few vacancies: Britton’s (vacant since January 10, 2015); the former Buckland’s; the former LCBO; Snap Fitness. The former McIntosh & Watts is empty, save for an anti-puppymill display. And then we come to 99 Fifth, or Fifth + Bank as they now call it, where there are still three vacancies on the ground floor.

Now with the recent OMB ruling, Bank Street businesses in the Glebe have the option to open on statutory holidays like New Year’s Day and Canada Day. Presumably it is hoped that this will help them remain competitive, in light of Lansdowne and a tight retail market.

So is this a healthy street? I get a sense that there are underlying issues.

Sure, development will and should happen (at least, appropriate development), but why all the long-standing vacancies?

Just asking is all.

– Liz McKeen

AMTI Angie’s Model & Talent Agency, 825 Exhibition Way, Suite 203, Lansdowne (above LOCAL/JOEY’s). Take the red elevator to 2nd floor. “Established in 1990, Angie’s Models & Talent International (AMTI) has helped countless young men and women succeed in the world of fashion, theatre and film. Headquartered in Ottawa and Toronto, with a satellite office in Montreal, our models and actors travel across top fashion & entertainment markets.” (Facebook) Treetop gifts and clothing, 755 Bank Street (where Fab Baby Gear was) opened in September. “Naturally inspired.”

Rumours abound of a McDonald’s and a Pizza Hut coming to the corner of Fifth and Bank, rising from the ashes of last year’s fire.

Changes Afoot

Bloomfields opened a second shop in October, located at 1280 Wellington West.

GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN

Glebe Indian Cuisine at 589 Bank Street closed in October.

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Lavazza Espression at 900 Exhibition Way in Lansdowne has closed.

Contributors this issue Kathy Ablett Dijana Bate Irena Bell Micheline Boyle Jody Brian Ron Casselman David Chernushenko Adam Coplan Don Cormier Ash Abraham Coutu Barbara Coyle John Dance Nadine Dawson Amanda DeGrace Frank Dimech Clive Doucet John Haysom Jeanne Gauthier Paul Green Dianne Holland Julie Ireton Bonnie Johnson Frank Johnson Nola Juraitis Suzanne Landis Ken Larose Anne Le Dressay Carolyn Mackenzie Laurie McLean Elaine Marlin Randal Marlin

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Whatever the weather Getting help removing snow from their steps and driveway can mean the difference between living independently and going into residential care for some Ottawa seniors.

The City of Ottawa funds agencies including The Glebe Centre’s Community Programs and Support Services at Abbotsford to provide “SnowGo.” This program aims to subsidize and hire companies to remove snow at the homes of low-income seniors over 55 and people with disabilities.

“We appreciate it. It definitely takes the anxiety away,” said Judy Katz, whose father benefits from the SnowGo program. “It gives him the freedom to go out whenever he wants to.”

Katz said she wants to help spread the word that this program is available to seniors, because it’s “good to know they don’t have to pick up the shovel to dig themselves out and it helps them stay at home longer.”

Before the snow begins to fly, Kirsten O’Brien at Community Support Services at Abbotsford has been busy contacting seniors who used the program last year and those looking for snow removal this winter. “Some of the families are so appreciative of their parents being able to stay home longer,” said O’Brien. “It allows them to main-

tain their independence by being able to get out to appointments without any risk trying to do it all themselves.”

The SnowGo subsidy is available to people living alone who have a yearly gross income below $31,500 or for families and couples with less income than $39,500 annually. “But some people we assist have incomes lower than $7000,” said O’Brien. She takes in applications and asks for statements of earnings to make sure the clients meet the necessary criteria. Then O’Brien contacts pre-approved snow removal companies who will provide the service.

“It depends on their needs,” said O’Brien. “Some people wish just to have their driveway cleared. Others need their steps and sidewalk cleaned.”

Last year, the Abbotsford team was able to help 27 clients with the SnowGo program. Their catchment area boundaries are the Queensway to the north, Hunt Club Road to the south, the Rideau River to the east and Fisher Avenue to the west.

Katz said her mother and father only speak Cantonese, which is an added obstacle, so she acts as the go-between. “This contractor provides continuity for my dad, and even though there’s no subsidy he also provides lawn care in the summer too.”

Abbotsford is your community support centre for Adults 55+. We

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by Julie Ireton

Kirsten O’Brien discusses the SnowGo program, which helps seniors clear snow in winter, with senior Dorothy.

are the community programs of The Glebe Centre Inc., a charitable, notfor-profit, organization that includes a 254-bed long term care home. Find out more about our services by dropping by 950 Bank Street (the old stone house) Mon–Fri, 9–4 p.m., telephoning 613-230-5730 or by checking out

all of The Glebe Centre facilities and community programs on our website www.glebecentre.ca.

Julie Ireton is a print and broadcast journalist, educator, and longtime supporter of Abbotsford House and its programs.

Focus on body image and eating disorders Over the coming months, Glebe residents and the Glebe Neighbourhood Activities Group (GNAG) will be working together to promote an enhanced focus on positive body image and self-esteem, and better educate the community about how to recognize and prevent eating disorders.

Eating disorders are the most fatal form of mental illness, yet are among the most misunderstood, and are chronically underfunded within the health care system. While as many as 380,000 Ontarians may meet the diagnostic criteria for an eating disorder at any given time, there are only 48 beds available throughout the province. There are a scant 12 beds for the entire Eastern Ontario region, six for youth and six for adults.

Hopewell Eating Disorder Support Centre offers services and support to individuals with eating disorders and their family and friends in the form of peer support groups and mentoring programs to help fill the gaps in the physical and mental health care system. Hopewell also performs a vital prevention and outreach role within the community to help people better recognize and understand eating disorders.

Glebe resident Lynn Miles, one of Canada’s most accomplished and award-winning singer/songwriters, will be performing at Shenkman Arts Centre in a fundraiser called “Folk ‘n’ Fashion” on Wednesday, November 23. The event, emceed

by Majic 100’s Katherine Dines, will help raise much-needed funds so that Hopewell can continue to offer its programs and services to communities in Eastern Ontario.

“I am honoured to be a part of this event, and to shed light on this devastating mental illness,” said Miles. “It is so important to give voice to these issues, to help alleviate the suffering of individuals, and to support family and friends who assist them through their recovery process.”

Photo: Courtesy of Lynn Miles

by Jody Brian

Lynn Miles will be performing at a fundraiser for Hopewell Eating Disorder Support Centre at the Shenkman Arts Centre on November 23.

Miles’ musical set will be followed by an inspirational and stigma-smashing fashion show by Canada’s own Wear Your Label, a clothing company co-founded by Kayley Reed, an eating disorder survivor. The mission of Wear Your Label is to encourage individuals to take ownership of their mental health rather than fear the labels that narrowly define them.

Their clothing creates the time and space to have conversations about mental health.

While it may be uncomfortable to talk about eating disorders, these

conversations need to happen. Eating disorders kill between 1,000 and 1,500 Canadians every year, the same numbers as melanoma. We need to talk more about how to recognize and address the warning signs before the disease has a chance to take root.

Hopewell is teaming up with GNAG to offer a program in the winter 2017 session called Celebrate EveryBODY to help start the dialogue. The goal of Celebrate EveryBODY is for youth to learn about overall health and have a better understanding of what influences their decisions, how to cope with obstacles, and how to identify signs or symptoms of unwell behaviour. It is geared towards boys and girls in grades 7 – 9.

“With the constant bombardment of images through social media and advertising today in our society, it should come as no surprise that a teen’s self-concept and self-worth can easily become linked to the ‘perfect illusions’ they are exposed to,” said Tim Lamothe, GNAG’s department manager of Youth, Outreach and Leadership. “Teens should know that we are here for them, and that it’s okay to talk about it.”

With Celebrate EveryBODY, a trained facilitator will lead youth through a five-week program comprising weekly sessions on healthy relationships, peer and media influences, coping and resiliency skills, eating disorders and mental wellbeing.

“One of our primary goals in all of our youth programs at the Community Centre is to empower youth to feel comfortable and confident in their own skins,” said Lamothe. “We are really excited to be partnering with Hopewell to deliver Celebrate EveryBODY.”

To purchase tickets for the November 23 Folk ‘n’ Fashion fundraiser, please visit www.shenkmanarts.ca.

Registration for Celebrate EveryBODY will begin December 1 through www.gnag.ca. For more information on Hopewell, its programs and services, please visit www.hopewell.ca or email info@ hopewell.ca.

Jody Brian, a Glebe resident, is the executive director of Hopewell Eating Disorder Support Centre. As a caregiver to family members with mental health issues, she is a staunch advocate for greater awareness, services and supports for patients and their loved ones.

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Look up and appreciate the refurbished lantern tower roof at Glebe St. James United Church at the corner of Lyon St. South and First Avenue. NorthCo Services did the work over the summer under the guidance of Tom Tanner and Fishburn Sheridan & Associates Ltd (FSA).

Autumn happenings at Glebe St. James

by Barbara Coyle

Even if you don’t attend regular worship services at Glebe St. James United Church on Lyon Street between First and Glebe avenues, I’ll bet you know your way around the building. Maybe your kids or grandkids have attended the Glebe Montessori School, which has made its home on the lower level for the last 20 years. Perhaps you’ve been to community meetings to support Syrian refugees. Scouts, Guides, Sparks or Brownies may have brought you in. Or maybe taken a silent walk through the labyrinth that has been painted on the floor in Fraser Hall. Funerals, baptisms, weddings, concerts, quilting retreats, book launches, fundraisers for the Grandmothers to Grandmothers campaign of the Stephen Lewis Foundation may have brought you in, or perhaps the Great Glebe Garage Sale, Christmas bazaars, movie nights or scrabble days. The list is endless. And faithful members remain committed to maintaining the beautiful building and ensuring an ongoing, affirming ministry in the capable hands of Reverend Teresa Burnett-Cole.

Mark your calendars now for these exciting events at Glebe St. James.

Ticketed events have limited seating so please purchase your tickets ASAP. Saturday, October 29, 7:30 – 9:30 p.m.: Glebe St. James Showcase featuring percussion duo Rev. Teresa Burnett-Cole and award-winning recording artist Jesse Stewart; two theatre companies; The Manotick Brass, Gord Thomas & Danielle Soucy/ukulele; Savoy & Glebe St. James choirs;

Glebe Montessori Children’s Choir; Lorena Duncan/piano; Dan Trumpler/ flute ; Canterbury Trebles; Frances MacPhail Scholarship Award. Tickets $25 in advance, $30 at the door. Call Dudleigh at 613-233-2500 or email dudleighcoyle@gmail.com.

Sunday, November 13, 11:30 a.m.

– 1 p.m.: African Lunch hosted by the Capital Grannies, Aylmer Gogos and Grammas to Ambuyas. Proceeds go to the Grandmothers to Grandmothers campaign of the Stephen Lewis Foundation. No tickets; simply make a donation when you attend.

Together we can turn the tide on HIV/ AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa.

Saturday, November 19, doors open at 7 for 7:30 p.m.: Heather Dale Concert and Reception. Join Canadian recording artist/touring musician Heather Dale and her band for an evening of original Celtic compositions that will get you tapping your feet and begging for encores. Tickets $25 in advance, $30 at the door.

Dudleigh 613-233-2500 dudleighcoyle@gmail.com; Don 613-567-0796 donhall2020@gmail.com; Compact Music in the Glebe.

Saturday, November 26, 10 a.m.

– 2 p.m.: Christmas Bazaar with books, frozen foods, gently used children’s toys and books, home baking, jams, jellies, treasures and crafts, coffee and muffins, tearoom lunch.

Barbara Coyle has been a member of Glebe St. James for over 30 years.

Church helps meet her needs for community, a lived spirituality and making a difference in the world.

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On October 22, thousands are expected to come out to the Great Lawn at Lansdowne for the 2016 Light the Night Walk in support of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of Canada.

Light the Night filled with inspiration and hope

by Suzanne Landis

The Great Lawn and Aberdeen Pavilion at Lansdowne Park will once again be the stage for the 2016 Ottawa Light the Night Walk in support of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of Canada.

Thousands of participants are expect to gather on the Great Lawn next to the Aberdeen Pavilion on October 22, 2016 for a 5 to 8 p.m. walk along the beautiful and historic Rideau Canal holding illuminated lanterns, red for supporters, white for survivors and gold to remember those who have lost their lives to blood cancer.

This year’s walk promises fun for all ages and will include live entertainment, indoor kids’ zone, free light refreshments and more.

“It’s a memorable evening and a great place to gather with family, friends and co-workers to show your support and help out a great cause,” said Shannon Parker, Ottawa Walk Chair. Parker’s son Jonathan is a survivor of acute lymphoblastic leukemia and currently doing well

and working with his father.

Eight-year-old Lincoln Tuinder is in Grade 3 now. Lincoln was diagnosed on October 5, 2014 at the age of six with mixed acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL). Lincoln received a bone marrow transplant from his older sister, Amber, in January 2015 after two intense weeks of chemotherapy, and he has been cancer free since. He goes for checkups every three months.

Jonny and Lincoln will lead the walk this year as Honoured Heroes and invite you to join them on October 22 to walk in support of those living with blood cancers.

All funds raised from the Light the Night Walk are used to fund the most promising research across Canada.

Register for free at www.lightthenight.ca.

Suzanne Landis is the former editor of the Glebe Report (2005–2010) and works as campaign manager for the Ottawa Light the Night Walk. She now lives in Montreal with her family.

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NCC’s Rendering of Queen Elizabeth Place crossing. The new pedestrian crossing of Queen Elizabeth Drive just to the west of the Bank Street Bridge should be completed by mid-November.

Pedestrian and cycling projects funded by feds

by John Dance

Safe pedestrian and cycling connections in the Glebe area received a massive boost with Ottawa Centre MP Catherine McKenna’s announcement of federal infrastructure funding for Ottawa.

Initial headlines highlighted the $10.5 million contribution to the FifthClegg Canal footbridge but buried in the detail were a number of other local projects that will make it safer and easier for pedestrians and cyclists, notably the new crossings of Queen Elizabeth Drive and the underpass of Bank Street on the south side of the Rideau River.

Indeed, the safe crossings of the Driveway at Queen Elizabeth Place just to the west of the Bank Street Canal

bridge and at Commissioners Park near Dow’s Lake will be completed by midNovember.

Although under discussion for many years, efforts were stalled by a lack of a funding source for the crossings.

The federal infrastructure program will contribute half the $750,000 cost, with the city paying the balance.

Both crossings will be wide, raised and of concrete construction with pedestrian-activated “rapid flashing beacons” that require motorists to stop.

As a result of consultations in June, there will be 40k/hr speed limits for both crossings, including by the “Man with Two Hats” monument about 150 metres to the west of the new crossing.

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creation of a large “island” between the parkway lanes, the removal of the Driveway’s westbound right-turn lane and the realignment of the through lane to improve sightlines. And a “zebra” marking crosswalk will be made across Queen Elizabeth Place in addition to the markings for the parkway crossing as was suggested during consultations.

The National Capital Commission had proposed to restrict access to the Two Hats monument but as a result of consultation its existing crossing will be maintained and made safer through the reduced speed limit near the Commissioners Park crossing.

The new underpass of Bank Street on the Riverside Drive side of the Rideau River will make it easier to walk and bike along the Rideau River Eastern Pathway and will match the underpass on the north side of the bridge.

“Though this underpass does not remove the need for a full redesign of that intersection and rebuild of the bridge over the long-term, it will allow many users to bypass this constrained and often scary at-grade crossing of Bank Street,” said Capital Ward Councillor David Chernushenko.

Just above the underpass is where cyclist Meg Dussault was killed in 2013 when struck by a cement truck. A ghost bike marked the site of the accident and, to the dismay of many, was removed in May by the city.

“The current configuration is that east-west cyclists need to cross Bank Street at surface level at Riverside Drive,” said Alex deVries, Vice President, Citizens for Safe Cycling.

“The waiting areas here are often full, and cyclists are to dismount at the crosswalk. This would provide a fast way for continuing cyclists to avoid the intersection, making the route safer,

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faster and easier. It’s worth noting that this doesn’t address the cycling issues of Billings Bridge or Bank Street further south.”

The federal infrastructure program will cover half of the $2 million project, with the City paying the balance.

No specific construction start date has been announced although it is to be completed no later than April 2019.

Other local infrastructure projects supported by the federal infrastructure program include pathway construction along the Trillium Line (O-Train) from Carling to Dow’s Lake, design of a footbridge connecting Carleton University and Vincent Massey Park, and extensions of the Rideau River Western Pathway in Old Ottawa East.

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Canal crossing signals major shift in active transportation • Design funding for I took a great deal of pleasure in the recent extension of the Trilfederal government lium Pathway from funding announceCarling Avenue to ment that chose to Dow’s Lake, with a highlight and use as signalized crossing at its backdrop the site of Prince of Wales Drive a new pedestrian/cyc• Design of a new ling bridge over the multi-use path crossRideau Canal. Pleasing the Rideau River Councillor ure in knowing this b et we en Ca rleton David Chernushenko bridge will be of enorUniversity and Conwww.capitalward.ca mous value to Glebe federation Heights residents and visitors, alongside the Trillium and in realizing it repline, allowing pedesresents an important shift in priorities trians and cyclists to avoid the from the three levels of government Airport Parkway and Dunbar supporting it.

Bridge The Fifth-Clegg Bridge is proof that the importance of “active transEnhancing our Traditional Mainstreet (TM) portation” is finally being widely recognized. More and more people are As the Glebe’s official TM, Bank telling us they would walk, cycle and Street presents many faces between roll more for work, fun or exercise if the Queensway and the Canal: resigovernments built infrastructure that dential, commercial, park, seniors’ makes it appealing to do so: safer, conresidence, long-term care, parking venient and more pleasant. Providing lot, patio, bus stop, entertainment viable alternatives to driving encourdistrict, stadium and place of social ages more of us to get around by interaction. Residents and visitors may other means. When large numbers of wish to see the street enhanced and people do that, society benefits from updated, but not at the expense of TM improved public health, increased attributes and character. According to public security, reduced pollution and this year’s Imagine Glebe community greenhouse gas emissions, and more visioning exercise, people want more vibrant streets. of the things they like about Bank.

The federal government making Given the current flurry of developer interest in several properties, we want a big deal out of emphasizing active to know what they will do to protect, transportation and public transit as cornerstones of its infrastructure proenhance and advance our TM? Here’s my evaluation of four of those projects is in itself a big deal.

Some will think this shift doesn’t jects.

667 (La Strada parking lot): A go far enough (while others decry it as going too far), but remember that, plan to develop this site seems respectnot long ago, this major announceful of the street-level engagement ment would have been about widening attributes of a TM. The request for a highway or building a bridge excluadditional height is above the zoning sively designed for driving. It’s a allowance and imposes significantly more shade on neighbours and the change of significant symbolic and Exploration Garden. No formal applipractical value at a time when we need to take urgent action to address cation has been submitted; changes physical inactivity, the resulting public can be expected. health epidemic and the climate crisis 852 (McKale’s): This four-storey about which I often write. proposal respects existing zoning and I’m glad we now have the municipal, contributes to residential and commerprovincial and federal governments cial choice. It also enhances the TM aligned in our vision of a city where by removing a surface parking lot and it’s increasingly appealing to get sidewalk drive-over lanes, replacing around by active and public transporthese with street-level commercial units and underground parking. tation.

Aside from the bridge, many other Fifth Avenue “burnt-out block”: projects were announced, including The owners are rebuilding these retail units at the previous one-storey height, enhancements to the Confederation and Trillium O-Train lines, improveas required by their insurance. The ments to multi-use pathways, removal of cross-sidewalk surface parking on Fifth Avenue is a modest extensions of many paths, new cycimprovement. A shame they cannot ling tracks, and widened shoulders on rural roads. add another storey or two.

Specifically of interest to Glebe and 890/900 (Mr. Muffler/Beer Store): Capital Ward residents: This proposal for an eight-storey seniors’ residence with supportive ser• Two new pedestrian crossings of Queen Elizabeth Dr., at Comvices and commercial units violates missioner’s Park and at Queen the TM in many ways. It effectively Elizabeth Place, to be constructed doubles the allowable height while in Oct.-Nov. 2016 removing existing parking supply • An underpass along the Rideau and adding parking demand. I am River at the south end of Billings hard-pressed to find redeeming TM Bridge, allowing east-west pathattributes, but many drawbacks, such way users to avoid the daunting as substantial overshadowing of neighlevel crossing at Bank Street bours.

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Back on the hill Parliament is back in session and there is a very active legislative agenda for the fall! I would like to take this opportunity to highlight some of the work I’ve been involved in over the last couple of months.

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tribute to a man whose legacy is still very much alive. Terry’s achievements have been awe-inspiring.

His Marathon of Hope in 1980 began a tradition that has raised over $650 million for cancer research.

MP Catherine McKenna

During last fall’s On August 23, I election, I talked about www.catherinemckenna.liberal.ca reducing mail-outs and announced that 57 finding more environtransit infrastructure projects totalling nearly $156 million mentally friendly ways to engage will be supported in Ottawa through with the people of Ottawa Centre. I the Public Transit Infrastructure Fund, now hold Facebook chats on local rida new federal infrastructure funding ing issues, set up pop-up office hours program. Of this, $10.5 million in throughout the community, and have federal funding will support the conconvened three town halls on issues struction of a footbridge across the important to riding residents. As Rideau Canal at Fifth Avenue. well, I have launched a new weekly e-newsletter that you can sign up for Getting federal funding in place for this footbridge was one of my camat: www.cmckenna.liberal.ca/emailpaign commitments, and I am thrilled updates/. to have been able to follow through on this promise. The footbridge will Commission for Environmental Cooperation connect vital parts of our city, making it easier and safer to bike and walk In early September, I had a chance across Ottawa. I’m working with my to join experts and political leaders provincial and municipal counterparts from Mexico, the United States and to ensure that construction begins Canada in Merida, Mexico to take before the end of 2017. part in a forum as part of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation’s Eid-al-Adha Joint Public Advisory Committee. The On September 12, I visited the forum focused on the impacts of climate change on biodiversity from both Ottawa Mosque with Prime Minister Trudeau and Ottawa area MPs to celeenvironmental and economic perspecbrate Eid-al-Adha with members of the tives. It was inspiring to listen to young Muslim community. Diversity truly is scientists speak on emerging scientific Canada’s greatest strength, regardless research related to ecosystem-based of our faith, culture or country of oriadaption to climate change. gin and I was extremely honoured to take part in the celebration.

Keep in touch with us We want to hear what issues are Terry Fox Run important to you, so please feel free I enjoyed tying on my running to get in touch with our office at 613shoes and joining other Ottawa Cen946-8682 or Catherine.McKenna@ tre residents for the Terry Fox Run parl.gc.ca. And don’t forget to follow at Carleton University on September us on Facebook at McKenna.Ottawa 18. It was terrific exercise and a great and Twitter @CMcKennaOttawa. www.catherinemckenna.liberal.ca

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The Glebe Business Improvement Area (BIA) has announced that Glebe businesses will be allowed to open on an additional six statutory holidays after the Ontario Municipal Board sided in favour of the Glebe’s application for an exemption from the Retail Business Holidays Act. The OMB decision went into effect as of September 29, granting Glebe stores the option of remaining open on Thanksgiving Day and five other holidays including New Year’s Day, Family Day, Victoria Day, Canada Day and Labour Day. “We couldn’t be happier that our members can now choose for themselves whether opening on a holiday is beneficial to their operations, or not,” said Glebe BIA executive director Andrew Peck. “Not one

business is obligated to open on any or all of exempted dates, and we fully respect the choices of individual businesses, but this exemption now gives them that choice.”

The Glebe BIA’s application for the exemption was based on the Glebe’s proximity to tourist attractions and landmarks, its mix of shops and restaurants, and events and festivals happening in the area. The BIA consulted with its membership and the surrounding community and received support to pursue the application. It is preparing an information package for its members, including material for employees that outlines their rights under the Employment Standards Act with respect to working on a holiday.

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Glebe Report October 14, 2016

Two days of

GCA in full swing!

K ids a re back in school, activities are in full swing and community meetings are back on the calendar!

A lot is happening in our neighbourhood.

Here is a snapshot of what has been occupying our attention.

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GCA’s 50th Celebration

Next year marks 50 years of the GCA advocating on behalf of o u r c o m m u n ity. We think that’s worth celebrating! A small committee has Christine McAllister Floating Dock at been struck to plan www.glebeca.ca Patterson’s Creek fun events throughIt seems the new out 2017. In addition floating dock at Patterson’s Creek has to a year-end party, we are planning been a huge success! Anyone strolla photo contest, a commemoration ing past the dock this summer likely event/dedication of some kind (think would have seen canoes, kayaks and tree-planting or a time capsule), an stand-up paddle boards in the water, “amazing race,” reviving Underground launched from the new dock. The nice Sound for a concert and a series of hissurprise was to see people young and torical columns in the Glebe Report. old sitting on the dock, checking out We are hoping to find people previthe water and enjoying being closer ously involved in the GCA to come and celebrate with us. If this sounds to nature. This is a great communlike a fun way to be involved, let us ity asset that we hope Parks Canada will make a permanent feature. If you know! enjoyed the dock this summer and Better Community would like to see it back next sumCommunications mer, let Catherine McKenna, our MP There is a lot going on in this and Minister of the Environment and Climate Change (responsible for Parks neighbourhood and we constantly Canada), know at ec.ministre-minisstrive to share what we know in ter.ec@canada.ca . the best way possible. However, we know we could do this better and Beer Store/Mr. Muffler Property more efficiently. We are currently We were very pleased to hear that looking for people to join our Comour councillor, David Chernushenko, munications Committee to help with takes a similar view as we do on this. You could write a monthly the eight-storey building proposed newsletter or help with building a for 890/900 Bank Street. The GCA communication plan, for instance.

Either way, you’ll have a lot of fun agrees with the need for developand interesting things to do. ment on these properties, but feels the height (which ranges from six to There is lots of opportunity to make eight storeys) and massing of the proa difference in our community – from posal would have negative impacts on coming to a monthly GCA Board the community, particularly the tradmeeting to getting involved in any one itional mainstreet at that end of the of our many activities. We welcome Glebe and neighbouring residents on all who are interested in participating Monk Street. We hope to continue to and will find a spot for you to help. work with David in encouraging a betFor information on any of the GCA ter design for this property. committees, folks should visit the new GCA website, www.glebeca.ca, and Recent Public Consultations reach out to committee chairs. You Two consultations conducted can also follow the GCA on Twitter recently by the City and Ottawa Public @glebeca.

Health might be of interest to readThe GCA is a volunteer, noters. The Ottawa Police Service held a for-profit, membership-based and consultation on community policing City-recognized organization advoservices, the results of which may have cating for a liveable, sustainable, implications for the community police diverse urban neighbourhood. The liaison officers for the Glebe. Also, GCA informs, consults and engages Ottawa Public Health conducted a surwith residents and other groups in the vey on drug-related harm reduction Glebe on issues of importance and services, including safe injection sites. promotes the interests of our comThe GCA Health and Social Servimunity to all levels of government and ces Committee will be reviewing the other organizations. We meet on the results of these consultations to idenfourth Tuesday of each month from tify any impacts on the community.

7 to 9 p.m. at the Glebe Community Please let us know if you are interCentre. The next meeting is October ested in joining the committee to 25. All are welcome.

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A golden year for GNAG GNAG 2015 – 2016 AGM

Once again, GNAG fulfilled its primary role in delivering high quality programs and services to residents of the Glebe and the community at large. As the Executive Director of GNAG, I am very proud of our organization, our board, our staff, our volunteers and our partners for this year’s accomplishments. Together, we continue to do great work for this community.

Highlights

success. I am also grateful to the GCC City of Ottawa staff, the GNAG team, our volunteers, our partners, and you, our clients, for making GNAG a very important part of this community.

GNAG welcomes the 2016 – 2017 board of directors

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Season

Number of programs/camps How many ran Number of participants

Summer 2015 (10 weeks)

319 day camps

90%

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Summer 2016 (9 weeks)

295 day camps

95%

370 / week

Fall 2015 – Spring 2016

1104 programs

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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 is $2M, GNAG nets less than 1 per cent, We can safely say that GNAG’s program fees are very equitable.

This year’s fundraising efforts raised over $45,000 towards GNAG’s Community Development Fund (CDF), of which 35 per cent was put towards program subsidization for our families in need. In 2015 – 16, GNAG CDF assisted 35 families financially (that’s 60 people) so they could attend GNAG courses and camps.

GNAG is the recipient of two summer employment grants, one from the province and the other from the federal government. $17K allowed us to create two summer counsellor positions and a new Integration Support (IS) program to better serve our summer camp participants with special needs who require one-on-one or low-ratio support. This year we actively prioritized services that support the inclusion, integration and accommodation of children and youth with special needs as part of our commitment to children of all abilities. This funding resulted in us hiring three IS workers to help seven very special children enjoy a positive summer experience.

GNAG’s YouthFit is a two-year project initiative and we just successfully completed the first year. The Ontario Ministry of Sport and Recreation Communities Fund supports the program through its mandate to provide barrier-free fitness and sport opportunities for youth in our community. This year we offered free classes at Glebe Collegiate Institute (GCI) plus classes at local primary schools including Mutchmor and Corpus Christi. Moving into our second year, GNAG’s YouthFIT program will offer free courses at First Avenue Public School and will be

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integrated into GCI’s Spark Program, which is founded on the principle that kick-starting the day with physical activity is the best way to prime the brain for a day’s learning. GCI has 15 students in the program, pre-identified as students who can benefit from this alternative, innovative educational model. GNAG is proud to be running weekly phys ed classes for these students that are formally included in the curriculum, one of the original and ultimate goals of the YouthFIT program.

This past summer, GNAG offered a free ESL Summer Day Camp to 12 Syrian refugee families and all 60 of them enjoyed the five-week ESL family camp at First Avenue school, courtesy of GNAG, the Glebe Community Association, the Ottawa Community Foundation, private donors and Ottawa Centre Refugee Action (OCRA).

Last fall Amsted Construction sponsored the building of a new storage unit and deck at the Glebe Community Centre.

In November 2015, GNAG launched a brand new website and online registration system.

The City of Ottawa awarded GNAG the contract for the gcCafé. We will be opening our doors starting Tuesday, October 11. For more information on the gcCafé, you can find us at gnag. ca/gcCafe. We hope to see you there!

I would like to congratulate and thank the 2015 – 2016 GNAG board of directors. Their wise insights and careful decision-making have been instrumental in GNAG’s continued

I look forward to working with this year’s board as we strive for excellence in achieving our goals.

Officers Michel Oullette, Chair Kate McCartney, Vice Chair Brad Sigouin, Treasurer Elspeth Tory, Secretary

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GNAG is excited to announce that we will be hosting the annual GNAG Halloween Party on Sunday, October 30 from 4 – 6:30 p.m.

This event is perfect for children walking to 12 years of age. Admission $7 per child; adults and infants 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 that children 9 and under must be accompanied by an adult.

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Congratulations and thank you to the 2016 House Tour team, volunteers and home owners. This year’s Glebe House Tour featured five beautiful Glebe homes and attracted more than 300 tickets holders, raising more than $13,000 towards GNAG’s Community Development Fund.

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Now that the kids are back in school, and families across the city are settling into a routine, there is one activity on the calendar that many moms should write in with a black marker: time for you. It’s easy to forget to take “me time” when you are busy planning the next family meal, signing school forms or getting ready for a big presentation at work. While our partners offer us a lot of support, we still need to find ways to step out of the mothering role and take time to nourish our own passions.

Here are eight ideas to help you schedule time for yourself this fall.

Don’t let the routine of the season or the hectic schedule of your family prevent you from making yourself a priority. Pull out the calendar and pencil in some plans.

Head to the spa or for a massage.

When was the last time you pampered yourself? Book a day, half day or even an hour when you can visit your favourite spa or salon to get a little spoiled. Bank Street has a few great places you can try, including the Third Avenue Spa. Start a new book. Reading seems like a luxury when the days are short, but getting lost in a fictional world with gorgeous words filling your mind is a great escape. Head to your local library, ask a friend to lend you her recent mustread or stop in at Kaleidoscope Kids for a good selection of books.

Walk the neighbourhood. This is one of the most beautiful times of the year. The leaves are changing colours and the air is crisp and refreshing.

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A fitness class at FITMOM Ottawa, which has several locaitons including Southminster United Church in Old Ottawa South

Walking around the Glebe is a calming way to reconnect with the area in which you live and maybe meet a few of your neighbours.

Grab a tea or coffee at the local café. It’s a joke among parents that drinking a hot cup of coffee is nearly impossible when the kids are little.

Indulge in a fresh, steaming cup of your favourite hot beverage (with a little pumpkin spice flavour?) by sitting in your local coffee shop and taking in the surroundings. The Glebe has a plethora of fantastic coffee shops.

Why not try them all?

Sign up for a new class or try a new hobby. Have you always wanted to paint or try pottery? Now is the perfect time to step out of your comfort zone and try something new. If you go alone, you may meet some wonderful people, or grab a friend to go with as

a way to catch up together.

Draw yourself a bubble bath – and lock the bathroom door. Up to you if you want to enhance the ambiance with some candlelight, but there is nothing like a hot bath to relax you on a cool night after a long day.

Plan a night out. Whether it’s a date night or girls’ night out with friends, plan adult-only time away from the house. Head to a favourite restaurant, catch a live show or enjoy a movie; no crayons or bedtime story needed.

Sign up for an exercise class. Mom and baby classes like those that FITMOM Ottawa offers are great if you want to exercise with your baby, or if you prefer a solo workout, FITWOMAN classes will do the trick.

Moms lead busy lives and often, physical activity is last on your priority list. Staying active will actually

give you more energy and patience as you navigate your way through parenthood.

Whatever suggestions you decide on to take time for yourself, it’s important that you add them to your calendar.

And, if you choose exercise, we’d love to welcome you to one of our FITMOM or FITWOMAN classes! For more information or to view our class schedule, visit www.fitmomottawa.com.

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The Standing Room Only big band will play on October 23 at an afternoon tea dance at the Glebe Community Centre.

Standing Room Only a hit in the Glebe

by John Haysom

You may recall articles in the January and May Glebe Reports about dances staged at the Glebe Community Centre by the Standing Room Only Big Band (SRO). A Sunday afternoon “tea dance” in January was an outstanding success with a large turnout of dancers. A Saturday evening dance in May was less successful, so SRO has decided to return to its Sunday afternoon tea dance format that has worked so well at the Almonte Old Town Hall for more than 10 years.

What is a tea dance? Tea dances are afternoon dances that were popular in the 20s, 30s and 40s when big bands were king. They were generally held in hotels and, of course, always featured a live big band. The “tea” in the name indicates the absence of alcoholic beverages.

The next Glebe Community Centre tea dance will be on Sunday, October 23 from 1 to 4 p.m., with doors opening at 12:30 p.m. Admission will be $15 per person at the door, cash only.

Another Glebe Community Centre dance is planned for April 30. In the

interim, tea dances will be held at the Almonte Old Town Hall on November 20, January 22, February 19 and March 19.

But tea dances at the Glebe Community Centre are not the only SRO performances in the Glebe. For the past two years, SRO has played a major role in the opening events of the Tulip Festival, which took place at Commissioners Park beside Dow’s Lake in 2015 and at the Aberdeen Pavilion this past spring. The Aberdeen event was a swing dance staged jointly by SRO, the Tulip Festival and

the Ottawa Swing Dance Society. An estimated 400+ people were throwing themselves around the pavilion with gay abandon, dancing to swing era music.

Tea dances are a bit more subdued – swing music yes, but also ballroom dances such as waltzes, mambos, cha-chas and tangos, all at appropriate tempos.

More information on Standing Room Only and its performances in Ottawa and Almonte is available on SRO’s website at www.srobigband. weebly.com and on Facebook.

John Haysom is a Glebe resident and member of the 15-piece big band Standing Room Only.

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by Neville Nankivell

St. Matthew’s, the Anglican Church in the Glebe, has a new rector whose work and spiritual experiences have been strikingly diverse. The 45-year-old Rev. Gregor Sneddon’s background includes professional music, university degrees in business administration and theology, a variety of religious and entrepreneurial activities, and lots of worldwide travel.

Rev. Sneddon was previously the rector of Ottawa’s St. Luke’s Church where he led the transition of the St. Luke’s Lunch Club and Drop-in Centre into a diocesan community ministry now called St. Luke’s Table. It’s a day program offering hot meals and other services to the homeless and those in rooming houses.

Rev. Sneddon was born in Vancouver, grew up in Ottawa and went to Nepean’s J.S. Woodsworth Secondary School. As a young man, he lived in New Orleans, Louisiana, where he was a professional guitarist and played in blues and jazz bands that toured Canada, the USA and Europe.

As a young seeker, he became involved in Sufism while living for 10 years in a British Columbia community. Sufism is often described as the mystical path of Islam and like Christian monastic orders it has many lineages. “Its path is one of transformation within the love and mercy of God, taming the ego in service to the true self,” Rev. Sneddon says.

At one time when single, he lived a monastic life at Holy Cross Priory in Toronto, a house of the Anglican Benedictine Order of the Holy Cross. A monastic vocation was not to be, however. He later married and he and his wife Amanda have a young family – William, 7 and Eliza, 5. Amanda is a registered practical nurse at the Perley and Rideau Veterans’ Health Centre, often dealing with Alzheimer’s and dementia.

Rev. Sneddon teaches as a seasonal professor at St. Paul University where he completed his theological studies, specializing in pastoral theology and

Eastern Christian studies. He blogs for the Anglican Church of Canada and is active with Contemplative Outreach Ontario. For several years he was the chaplain at Ottawa’s Centre 454, which provides drop-in support services for the homeless. He has served on several Anglican Church of Canada committees and boards.

While at St. Luke’s, Rev. Sneddon created a strong communications program, led a revitalization of worship space and introduced new forms of worship services. These included a Sunday afternoon “Eucharist in the Round” where the congregation gathers around the altar and sings communally.

At St. Matthew’s, his ministry will focus on continuing to build vibrant links to the community, fostering a culture of care and leading the congregation in powerful, sacramental Christian worship.

When 13, young Gregor was baptized and confirmed at Ashbury College Chapel in Ottawa. He says the meaning and commitment of baptism remains at the core of his hopes for church revitalization. The whole concept of baptism has dropped off in our communities and he says, “people get baptized and we never see them in church again.” He wants to reclaim baptism as a fundamental part of Christian life.

With its changing demographics, Rev. Sneddon believes the Glebe community is “a goldmine of opportunity” for attracting more young adults and families to the parish. His hope is that St. Matthew’s will continue be seen as “an oasis of spiritual beauty” and through its good works as a life-affirming service to the community and the world.

Rev. Sneddon succeeds the Rev. Canon Pat Johnston, who retired in February after 10 years of leading the church’s opening up to the community and 33 years of being a priest. The Rev. Rhonda Waters, who came from Montreal, was interim priest-in-charge for several months.

She has now made her home in Ottawa and was recently appointed rector of the [Anglican] Church

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St. Matthew’s new rector: building community links

Rev. Gregor Sneddon, the new rector of St. Matthew’s Anglican Church

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Neville Nankivell is a long-time St. Matthew’s parishioner and a member of its Communications Committee.

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Summer without the iPad You would think there can’t be much to be learned about raising children. After all, mothers and fathers have been doing it for a couple of hundred millennia, but questions still surface. Did Paleo husband and wife sit around the campfire discussing programming for their offspring? I’m guessing they did. They probably worried about Johnny’s spearthrowing lessons or if Janice’s wall paintings were up to par. It’s always been natural and normal for parents to be anxious about giving their kids the best chance in life.

The problem is what is natural and normal changes as society changes.

Spear throwing isn’t so much in demand these days, although wall painting is still plenty popular. The other problem is that ideas about how to raise the next generation are also changing, so it can get confusing. My grandmother’s generation was told by baby-raising experts that they shouldn’t pick up their daughters when they cried. If she did this, it would slow the child’s ability to develop regular sleeping and eating patterns, which would be bad. Wanting to be the best mother, she would sit at the top of the stairs weeping while her daughter cried in her bedroom down the hall.

Now, we’ve got attachment theory, which tells young mothers that this is all wrong, they must be “attached” to their infants. So parents sleep with children until there’s not enough room in the bed. The good news is there seems to be fewer weeping parents. On the other hand, the grinding of teeth has gone up.

My own take on baby holding is if you want to hold the baby, do it and if

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by Clive Doucet

Felix and Clea by the sea

Felix shows his grandfather a crab he found.

you don’t, don’t; but I wouldn’t put much stock in what I have to say. I’m just a grandparent and grandparenting has its own challenges. First of all, grandparents can be a little on the cranky side and not want to throw themselves headfirst down slides or participate in other obvious joys.

Grandparents also grew up differently than the parental generation, and thus are often plagued with their own ideas about parenting. Sometimes this is a good thing, sometimes, not so much.

I grew up in a world without iPads, iPhones and so on. I’m kind of still there.

I will email people but that’s about it.

I’m not even fond of Goggle facts. When looking for illumination, I like to grope my way along shelves looking for something called a book, a heavy thing with dark, immoveable print on it.

When grandson Felix and granddaughter Clea came down to Cape

Breton, the first thing I did was park Felix’s iPad in a place where he could not find it. It was my peculiar thought that we’d try to amuse ourselves without any virtual help. We walked down to the harbour to look for crabs under the rocks. We went swimming. Sometimes, we went to a real beach and played in the waves. Sometimes we played hide and seek around the house in the long grass.

Sometimes, Grandpa refused to play at all and just said, “Go play outside. We’ll do something exciting later.” (N.B. It’s important not to define later.)

Felix read two books in two weeks.

We built a fire pit and collected rocks.

Clea became a paddleboard fanatic.

Three and half hours was her record for standing up and falling in the water laughing. The paddle part of paddleboarding didn’t seem to matter.

I can’t say I learned anything like this from my own grandfather. He was still working a small farm and I did chores with him starting with milking the cows in the morning, ending with splitting wood in the evening. The idea of him going swimming with me would have been ludicrous. I never thought Grandfather had the slightest interest

in entertaining me. I just accepted that Grandfather defined his day, not me. It was my job to figure out how to fit in with his life, not the reverse. Although I didn’t think about it at the time, it turned out this was a very valuable thing to learn. Later, it would help me in countless ways.

I don’t have a small farm, but I do have a house in a hayfield not far from the old farm. There I think my grandchildren are learning many of the same things I did with my own grandfather, but not in the same way and not the least of which is, grandfathers are their own peculiar universe.

I was lucky then that my parents let me run outside their control for the summer and I’m lucky now that my children and son-in-law let me visit the horrors of unprogramed time on their children, which I’m guessing wasn’t too terrible because Felix never did ask for his iPad back.

Clive Doucet is a former city councillor for Capital Ward, a writer and poet. His last book was Urban Meltdown: Cities, Climate Change and Politics as Usual.

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GRAND Market supports African grandmothers Ottawa grandmothers supporting the Stephen Lewis Foundation Grandmothers Campaign are putting the finishing touches on a major event.

Last fall’s GRAND Market was such a successful fundraiser that it is moving this year to a bigger venue, the Horticulture Building at Lansdowne Park on Sunday, October 30, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

The emphasis is on quality goods from clothing to collectible treasures that have been donated and carefully vetted before acceptance for the sale. One World Grannies, the event’s organizer and the group to which we belong, guarantees you’ll find a range of gently used clothing from cheap and cheerful to designer duds.

Women’s accessories, children’s toys, games, “treasures” for your home, books, handmade beds, clothing for the family canine and much more will also be on offer, and at ridiculously low prices.

And that’s not all. Fourteen other grandmother groups in the region are presenting art, pottery, home décor, textiles, beautiful crafts, food and plants. There will also be homemade treats at the Sweet and Savoury Café and tarot card readings by Grandmother Moon.

2016 is a significant year. It marks the 10th anniversary of the launch of the Stephen Lewis Foundation Grandmothers Campaign to support African

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Members of the One World Grannies model some of the clothing that will be for sale at the GRAND Market on October 30 in the Horticulture Building at Lansdowne. From left: Sandi London, Val Swinton, Diane Holmes, Cathy Blauer

grandmothers. These women have lost their adult children to HIV/AIDS and struggle to care for their grandchildren and other orphaned children they have taken into their homes. The scale of personal and societal upheaval is staggering; in sub-Saharan Africa alone, there are over 15 million young people orphaned by AIDS and nearly 26 million people living with HIV/ AIDS. In response to this crisis, 240 grandmother groups have sprung up across Canada since 2006, including 23 in the Ottawa-Gatineau region. This uniquely Canadian fundraising and advocacy movement has raised in excess of $25 million to date in support of grassroots initiatives in Africa such as HIV education, food and medicine distribution, home-based health care, and school

fees and uniforms. The Grandmothers Campaign also supports African grandmother groups who are advocating for their rights.

At last year’s GRAND Market, the collaborative efforts of area grandmothers raised close to $18,000 for the cause and hopes are high for a substantial increase this year as a result of the larger venue at Lansdowne.

As women with children and grandchildren in a land of plenty, we want to do what we can to help. Our relationship with African grandmothers is one of respect and solidarity, not charity. They use their on-the-ground knowledge to implement what needs to be done. African grandmothers are the unsung heroes of Africa who are holding that continent together.

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by Kate McGregor

W hen John Anderson became president of Davidson’s Jewellers in June 2010, he took the helm of a wellestablished family business with a loyal clientele and deep roots in the Glebe. Now, six years later, he has realized his dream of building an in-house jewellery repair and manufacturing workshop on the premises of the store at 790 Bank Street.

Offering in-house jewellery repair and manufacturing services means that most of the work for customers can take place right on the premises without having to rely solely on outsourcing pieces by mail or FedEx. The new workshop is located in the basement of the store and was carefully planned and executed with the health and safety of its employees front and centre. Every detail was considered, from how the gas would be installed, to how the dust would be extracted and where the clean air sources would be.

Construction of the workshop started in January 2016 and was completed in June. The workshop is located adjacent to the Gem Room where jewellery is graded and appraised, and is dominated by industrial-sized, silver ducts. This is also the room where Walter Van Der Molen and Sandi Webster work.

Having used their services off-site, it was a natural fit for Anderson to hire Van Der Molen and Webster for the new workshop. Van Der Molen is a

certified goldsmith from Holland who started work in the industry at age 17.

He came to Canada nine years ago and lives in Aylmer. Webster is a master goldsmith from Switzerland who started in the business at age 16. She came to Canada at age 23 and lives in the Glebe. Together, the duo offers a combined 60 years of experience as certified goldsmiths who design, create and repair jewellery.

Van Der Molen and Webster stress the importance of the rigorous formal training they received in their countries of birth to certify as goldsmiths.

It means that customers can trust the integrity of the advice and services they receive from Davidson’s Jewellers.

Workshop services include repairing, restoring and remaking pieces of fine jewellery, ring sizing, claw retipping, chain soldering, clasp replacement, pearl and bead stringing, cleaning and polishing.

The synergies of two goldsmiths working together in one space are evident. As Van Der Molen pointed out, “We both assist each other very well. We talk about each other’s work, we talk about new designs and there is a creative process that takes place.”

Webster added, “There is nothing I have not seen before in a repair… there is a wisdom we have in terms of what to do.”

With Van Der Molen focusing primarily on repairs, Webster spends much of her time on custom work, employing wax carving, an age-old technique, as the starting point for

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Sandi Webster (left), a master goldsmith from Switzerland who started in the business at age 16, and Walter Van Der Molen, a certified goldsmith from Holland who started at age 17, bring a combined 60 years of experience as certified goldsmiths to the design, creation and repair of jewellery in the new workshop in Davidson’s Jewellers.

sculpting new pieces of jewellery.

Like contemporary artisans the world over, Van Der Molen and Webster work in an industry that seeks to balance the creativity of hand crafted work with new technologies. While computer-assisted design programs are becoming increasingly popular for jewellery designs, the software cannot match the artistry Webster employs to create a one-of-a-kind engagement ring.

On the other hand, the purchase of a laser welder for the workshop was a smart purchase. The newest generation of equipment uses a sharply focused beam of light to produce very high heat on a small area to weld broken pieces of jewellery together without the risks associated with the older torch technology that required that gemstones be removed from their mounts first before applying heat.

So, next time you are wondering if your mother’s pearl necklace is worth re-stringing or if you should have the gemstone in your favourite ring

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by Carolyn Mackenzie

Want to know what people think about the proposal for a mixed-use building on Bank Street at the current site of the Beer Store and Mr. Muffler?

“One of the great strengths of the Glebe is its village-like character…

The proposal, therefore, destroys an entire block of that special character… An inadequate setback from the street combined with the mass of building above the street-level stores would significantly reduce any urban village atmosphere.”

“Any development of those lots should meet the current zoning rules, i.e. Traditional Mainstreet height limit of 15 m. The proposed building is nice looking but it is too big. It will cast big shadows and cause high winds and impact the residential nature of the street (Monk) behind it…It is simply too tall.”

“Part of what is special about the Glebe is its main street feel. That the urban space is pedestrian-scale... This is all lost when we build buildings of this size...Lansdowne is a success. It’s working... To build on this success, the answer is not to build taller buildings north of Lansdowne. It’s to keep building on what is working on Bank north of [Lansdowne] park.”

“Bank Street may be a commercial street, but right behind it is a relatively low-density residential neighbourhood, with a human scale. The proposed development would loom over this part of the Glebe to the detriment of its neighbours… The proposal would probably be fine if the height were reduced to five storeys and the density reduced somewhat.”

Those comments are typical of the 50+ emails we received in the last month. The strong consensus is that people are keen to see this lot developed and there are certainly some positives with the proposal. However, the scale takes away from the pedestrian-friendly main street and it does not transition properly to the low-rise residential neighbourhood. I should note that of the many emails received, one resident was fully in favour of the plan.

Residents who live on the east side of Monk Street and will be “wrapped” by the proposed L-shaped building are even more pointed in their objections to the scale of the building. They are looking at having six storeys going up within three metres of the back of their properties and eight storeys going up to the south. They have very strong

objections about additional sun shading, privacy, general building loom, and potential wind impacts. They point to the zoning bylaw that limits height to 15 metres (four storeys) and normally requires that a building would have to be set back 7.5 m from their rear lot lines, although a zoning technicality reduces this to 3 m in this case. Nearby residents on side streets already under significant traffic and parking pressure are leery of the impacts of a residence entry on Monk Street.

After a vigorous discussion, the Board of the Glebe Community Association (GCA) recently wrote to the City to request that the proposal be modified such that: • the building height of the “Mr. Muffler” portion of the property backing onto Monk Street residences should be restricted to the current 15 m/ four storey cap.

• the portion of the building that shares side yards with residential properties on Monk Street should also remain at the 15 m height, although some consideration for additional height may be possible if it can be clearly demonstrated that this would not introduce negative impacts to the abutting properties nor the community generally.

• eight storeys fronting Bank Street are incompatible with the low-rise character in the core of the Glebe’s Traditional Mainstreet and create unacceptable impacts and disruption of the continuity of low-rise building heights. While some consideration of increased height may be possible above the current 15 m cap, this should only occur if it can be clearly demonstrated that this would not introduce negative impacts and would respect both the community vision and Traditional Mainstreet guidelines.

• the side yard setbacks should be a minimum of 3 m where they abut residential properties.

• consideration of any additional height beyond the 15 m height exception should not set a general precedent for any future zoning amendment requests on Bank Street in the Glebe. Rather, it recognizes the special characteristics of this lot, in particular, the fact that it is a “through-lot” to Monk Street, which may allow for some additional massing while remaining compatible with the character of the neighbourhood.

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Source: Canderel’s planning rationale document submitted to the City of Ottawa.

Beer Store / Mr. Muffler redevelopment: ‘eight storeys is too high’

Proposed redevelopment of 890–900 Bank Street (the Beer Store/Mr. Muffler site)

by Canderel. The proposal is for an eight-storey mixed-use building with commercial uses that include a retirement residence fronting on Monk Street.

comments to the City have been posted on the Glebe Community Association’s new website (www.glebeca.ca). Follow links to the Planning Committee page.

What do you think?

Share your views and help shape Bank Street by emailing the Glebe

Community Association’s Planning Committee at planning@glebeca.ca, the City at ann.o’connor@ottawa.ca, and our Councillor at david.chernushenko@ottawa.ca.

Carolyn Mackenzie chairs the GCA’s Planning Committee.

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The Nest – for when baby is born

by Amanda DeGrace

A pregnant woman often goes through what’s called “the nesting instinct,” readying herself and her home for the arrival of the new baby. For some it means cleaning and nursery decorating frenzies. For others, it means cooking up a storm to pack the freezer with meals for weeks to come. For dads, it can be a whole other experience, including baby proofing, crib assembly and so on.

Little Lotus Yoga and MotherWit Doula Care have joined their efforts with the idea in mind of having a safe space for parents and little ones to learn and grow.

We have created a new way for parents to engage in that all-important instinct in a space called The Nest, located on Bank Street between Second and Third avenues. The goal is to have a hub for all things pre- and post-natal to help parents and caregivers prepare to welcome their babies, with workshops and classes, and play and support groups.

As I lived, worked and raised my family, I noticed that while Ottawa had a lot of wonderful family-focused programs, I was forever travelling to multiple locations. Breastfeeding support was in one location, playgroups in another and a workshop on first aid in yet another.

I dreamed of one space that felt like home, to nurture little ones with support and having a community feel alongside other new parents.

When I first met MotherWit Doula Care’s owner Lesley Everest, it was a meeting of the minds. Our long-held beliefs in the nurturing of families through care and education were in lock step and I knew I had met someone very special and talented, someone who can make you feel comfortable from the first moment. It wasn’t long before I was introduced to MotherWit Ottawa’s team leader Christine Crook and we began talking about this new idea we had: The Nest.

However, The Nest is only the latest iteration of care and education that Little Lotus Yoga has created in the Glebe.

My team and I have been offering programs at GNAG for 10 years, including Little Lotus Mom and Baby Yoga, and that won’t change with the addition of this

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Amanda DeGrace, owner of Little Lotus Yoga and co-founder of The Nest, and her family

new space. Instead, The Nest promises to be an expansion of the already amazing programs available in the community.

Between Little Lotus Yoga and MotherWit Doula Ottawa, team members will be organizing and running a range of workshops and activities for parents, caregivers and parents-to-be. MotherWit Doula Care Ottawa will offer Prenatal Education classes, Meet the Doula nights and Mom support groups. Little Lotus Yoga will be offering pre-natal-

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and post-natal-focused yoga classes, and a variety of yoga classes for women in all stages of life. We will also be running our Safe Parent First Aid classes, Prepare For Birth with Yoga workshops, workshops with sleep experts, playgroups and more.

With all of these offerings, one can easily imagine The Nest becoming a focal point in the community for parents; a one-stop resource. That’s the goal, ultimately. Crook and I would like The Nest to become the place that people think of when they want help in preparing for a new arrival or for ongoing programs that bring parents and children together, learning, exercising, achieving and dreaming.

We welcome other organizations with similar values into The Nest, such as Anna Belanger & Associates who will be offering infant massage. For now, The Nest is open only during workshops and playgroup times, so check out Little Lotus’ or MotherWit Ottawa’s Facebook page for upcoming events.

Amanda DeGrace, founder and president of Little Lotus Yoga, has been offering programs in the Glebe for over 10 years.

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The Glebe according to Zeus

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Glebe Musings by Laurie Maclean

A guinea pig’s perspective on the Glebe

Guinea pigs prep for Lansdowne Pumpkin Derby The Glebe guinea pigs are hard at work designing their racecar for the second annual Lansdowne Park Pumpkin Derby.

“Last year we were unfairly disqualified,” complained Hans, a senior pumpkin auto engineer at GiddyPigs. com. “It’s a conspiracy against us! We read all 18 rules and nowhere does it state that you cannot ride in the pumpkin during the race. Who has a race with no drivers!?! It’s not our fault the fat, furless bipeds cannot fit in their pumpkin vehicles!” sputtered Hans.

“The age categories are also grossly unfair. We have to race with 14-yearolds, but we only live 5 to 8 years!!

And I won’t even mention the fact that we also have no thumbs!”

Others have a different memory of last year’s event and the disqualification. “The challenge for us is to avoid eating too much of the pumpkin when modelling and driving it as that can really affect the integrity and

safety of the auto,” explained Pilote, head of GiddyPigs.com’s new Wheels, Integrity, and Navigation (WIN) unit.

“Last year the design team was a little overzealous during assembly, and our driver, Bon Vivant, ate a hole through the left side of the vehicle while being wheeled to the start line. He then fell asleep. Sadly, our vehicle was disqualified for failing to move past the start line,” explained Pilote. “But this year,” he added with enthusiasm, “we’ve monitored the design stage to ensure no overeating and have also filled the pumpkin interior with apple snacks for the driver,” said Pilote. “We know we’ll win this year!”

The second annual derby is scheduled for Saturday, October 29 at 1 p.m., Aberdeen Pavilion. To compete, registrants must apply by Thursday, October 27, 2016, according to the website: www.ottawa.ca/2/en/ the-1st-annual-lansdowne-park-pumpkin-derby.

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St. Matthew’s Treasures Auction on October 29 St. Matthew’s Anglican Church’s wonderfully eclectic Treasures Auction will be held on Saturday, October 29, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. The sale, which includes both live and silent auctions, is also a wonderful place to meet and mingle because admission includes fabulous nibbles, a tea and coffee room and a wine bar. And true to the tradition of the church, musical entertainment is provided.

Bidders can purchase lovely gifts, stays at vacation properties and items such as dinners and theatre tickets.

This year we are offering stays at at least three Canadian cottages, a fourweek stay at a Florida Gulf Coast condominium within the period December 2016 to January 2017, and a stay in Shediac, New Brunswick.

Unlike most auctions, St. Matthew’s does not charge a “buyer’s premium” (usually 17 per cent), making purchases at this sale quite affordable.

The church has received some superb works of art by notable Canadian and European artists. These include limited edition prints by Arthur Lismer, Nicholas Hornyanski and Jean Paul Lemieux, one of Quebec’s most important 20th century painters. Ottawa South artist Simon Brascoupé’s joyful “Two Hummingbirds,” a limited edition print used for auction promotional materials, will also be offered in the live auction. We are grateful for the artist’s permission to use his work.

Also available are paintings by Canadian war artist Robert Hyndman and other important Canadian painters,

including Kent de Condé, Rita Bryanski, Gabriel Joseph Gely, Wilma Pinkus, James Barbour and Mary Pfaff, as well as a coloured-pencil sketch by noted portrait painter Bernard Poulin. Some excellent Inuit soapstone carvings are also available.

Musical entertainment between the exciting live auction segments will include an interlude with harpists Susan Sweeney Herman and Janine Dudding of Acacia Lyra, jazz interpretations by St. Matthew’s musical director Kirkland Adsett on piano, and a capella singing by the Glebelles, many of whom sing in St. Matthew’s choir.

The auction has received important support from local merchants, including McKeen Metro, Davidson’s Jewellers, Donohue & Bousquet, Capital Home Hardware, Flipper’s/ Von’s, Champagne dit Lambert, and the Glebe Pet Hospital. Tracy Arnett Realty is sponsoring the wine bar.

Also featured is a Boutique Sales Room where people can buy stunning sterling silver jewellery, china, pottery and crystal at great prices and the inimitable Silver Vaults that sells fine silver – some very old – jewellery, crystal and china. This year, the silent auction bazaar in the church hall will display Canadiana and fine English furniture, as well as lovely carpets and other handsome items.

We have also received some musical instruments, including a handsome Kawai digital piano, a flute and two accordions, and will offer musical and live entertainment opportunities, such as concert and theatre tickets.

This year’s auction will raise money

still needed for the church roof and for the FACES refugee program that is committed to supporting several families over the next several years.

Registration is $20 adults, $10 students (pre-register at www.stmatthewsottawa.ca or register at the door).

The price includes nibbles, admission to the tearoom, and a glass of wine or other beverage (ID may be required).

Margret Brady Nankivell is a longtime St. Matthew’s parishioner and chair of the concert and auction committees. She is a frequent contributor to the Glebe Report.

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by Margret Brady Nankivell

“Indian Bronze Horse,” one of the items to be sold at the St. Matthew’s Treasures Auction on October 29

“The Old Red Church, Ottawa South” by Robert Hyndman, to be sold at auction

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The Linden House Theatre Company has produced some great plays in the last 10 years. And Glebe resident Marlene Spatuk has been part of that success since its very beginning.

A mutual acquaintance brought Spatuk and me in contact and I asked for help in marketing our 2007 maiden production, The Lady’s Not For Burning by Christopher Fry. What’s the attraction for Spatuk? “I love the way this company has grown and developed a wonderful relationship with its audience,” she said. “When the actors and the audience connect, then theatre really comes alive.”

Over the years, the company has attracted a number of talented and experienced actors to bring comic classics by such theatrical luminaries as Noel Coward and Somerset Maugham to Ottawa audiences. We have also allied ourselves with a number of community groups and have shared many thousands of dollars over the years with a variety of good causes, including Cornerstone, a program for women in crisis.

Since that first production in 2007, Spatuk has had a hand in most aspects of the company’s behind-the-scenes work. Drawing on her previous experience at the National Arts Centre, she designs and produces programs.

She has been assistant director and prompter, and has dabbled in set decoration, being particularly proud of her faux marbling job on the fireplace mantel for 2010’s Blithe Spirit.

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ons in maid costume, and it’s there that the positive relationships among crewmembers really pay off. “You spend hours together with these people in dark close spaces. You need to keep calm, stay on top of what you have to do, and do it quietly.”

Spatuk continued to make the commute to keep up with her Linden House work after a move to Wakefield, while also assisting with programming for the 2014 Ta Da! Festival.

Back in the Glebe after a two-year absence, she is pursuing yet another aspect of theatre, having studied playwriting at the Glebe-based Ottawa Acting Company under acclaimed Ottawa performer and writer Pierre Brault. “I write every day in my government job, which makes it a challenge to write for pleasure,” said Spatuk. “Staying involved in Linden House has kept me motivated to pursue this new passion with joy.”

This anniversary year’s production aims to live up yet again to the Linden House slogan “Theatre for the joy of it!” Imaginary Lines is all about what we say and what we imagine saying.

It launched the career of famed British playwright Reggie Oliver when he wrote it in 1985 at the request of director and playwright Alan Ayckbourn.

Imaginary Lines will take place on November 4, 5, 11 and 12 at 7:30 p.m., with two Sunday matinees on November 6 and 13 at 3 p.m. at Elmwood Theatre in Rockcliffe (261 Buena Vista Road). Tickets are $25, available online at lindenpro.ca, at Books on Beechwood at 35 Beechwood Avenue or by calling 613-842-4913. Free parking is available onsite.

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Janet Uren is a writer, community actor and producer at the Linden House Theatre Company, which she founded Marlene Spatuk “on book” in rehearsals for Imaginary Lines in 2007.

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Thirty Years Ago in theGlebe Report

value reassessment. Capital Ward was most affected by this change, with an average tax increase of $206 per unit.

Both Alderman Quinn and GCA President Jim McCarthy spoke out against the change, claiming those on fixed incomes would be heavily penalized.

year’s second place finish.

Glebe Collegiate graduate John Latulippe of First Avenue won $200 in the previous year’s Carleton University High School Writing Contest with a short story titled “The Poet.”

The story was written as a Grade 13 writing assignment.

Once again, heavy summer rains brought a flood to the Glebe Collegiate sub-basement music room. “It’s a safety issue, and is as regular as the flooding of the Nile in Egypt,” said veteran music teacher Stan Clark.

He had been drawing the flooding problem to the attention of school principals and Ottawa Board of Education officials for 17 years to no avail.

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City Hall had approved the 14-unit condominium-townhouse proposal for the Whyte House property at 520 the Driveway in July. Since then, Archbury Development Corporation changed ownership. The new owner, Richard Harmon, said that the units would retail in the $300,000 range, and construction would begin as soon as 60 per cent are sold.

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Sheila Pocock, who had previously

done the books for the Playgroup, stepped in to take over as Business Manager at the Glebe Report.

She replaced long-serving Margie Schieman, who would carry on volunteering at the paper as proofreader and layout assistant.

GLEBE COLLEGIATE

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

Glebe Collegiate’s student newspaper, the Novae Res, won first place in the Citizen’s annual newspaper and yearbook contest. Co-editors Michael Vickers and John Palmer and faculty advisor Mark Zamparo were pleased with the improved showing from last

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260 Fingers – top ceramic artists converge for exhibition and sale

Heather Smit’s oil cans can be purchased at this year’s 260 Fingers.

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Glebe Community Centre 175 Third Avenue Opening/Vernissage: Friday, Nov. 11, 6 – 9 p.m.

Saturday, Nov. 12 and Sunday, Nov. 13, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.

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Ceramic work has spread its wings and is catching some well-deserved limelight! The ceramic world has become something akin to sexy!

Members of 260 Fingers know this and celebrating high-calibre ceramic work is the reason this special exhibition and sale was established 12 years ago. This November 11 – 13, the 26 ceramic artists and potters of 260 Fingers 2016 will congregate at Ottawa’s Glebe Community Centre for their annual exhibition and sale of some of the most inspiring and diverse ceramic work from Ontario and western Quebec. The shows breadth and caliber are recognized as unique in the province, featuring work from functional to sculptural, wood-fired to electricfired and formal to funky to highly decorative.

On Friday, November 11, from 6 to 9 p.m., the gorgeous, domed atrium of the Glebe Community Centre will open its doors to visitors eager to be among the first to view and purchase this year’s new works. The vernissage is open to all and is a festive celebration of ceramic work with music, food and drink. The show continues Saturday, November 12 and Sunday, November 13 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Artists will

be present all weekend. Tours of the show take place each afternoon at 2 p.m., offering an opportunity to hear about each artist’s unique work and process and to ask questions.

260 Fingers features numerous award-winning artists with international followings. Four of our own 260 Fingers artists – Lisa Creskey, Paula Murray, Reid Flock and Cynthia O’Brien – were among the 100 artists at the prestigious Biennial of Ceramics in Taiwan this past summer.

Others have participated in national and international residencies, and still others have had exhibitions locally and internationally. 260 Fingers is an opportunity for the artists to present their newest and, in many cases, most daring or challenging work.

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Chasing the muse It was a sunny day in the late summer of 1963. I was 13 and just beginning to act on the conviction that I would be a writer, a conviction entertained since shortly after I discovered books. Until now, I’d written little besides school assignments, but with the stirrings of adolescence, which brought with them an expansive sentimentality, I decided to seek literary inspiration in the natural world. I’d picked up the idea somewhere that writers benefit from time alone in nature.

We lived in the country, so nature was close by. In fact, it was in our backyard, where a strip of woods bordered the Seine River, a narrow greenish stream impressive only in spring, when it overflowed and flooded the woods, the garden and sometimes up to the house. But my brothers were probably in those woods with their friends, and true inspiration required solitude.

Supplied with paper and a pencil, I walked the half mile or so to the bridge, most of the way along the historic Dawson Trail that was our road to Winnipeg. Then I cut through a neighbour’s field, enjoying the pull of the long grass against my legs as I angled away from the usual beaten-down shortcut to the school and headed directly to the bridge.

From the bridge, I noted a rare spot where the riverbank was flat and grassy right to the water, forming a small earthy ledge above the greenish-brownish stream. It was even sheltered by overhanging bushes. I

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by Anne Le Dressay

The woods and river behind my old home in their current highly civilized incarnation, all the underbrush cleared away

made my way down the steep slope and through the bushes and sat on the grass with pencil poised. Now what? Inspiration gave no hint of approach.

I looked around and noticed a twig insect struggling over the grass. I’d never seen one before, probably because it was well-camouflaged – it looked like a walking twig – and also because I’d never slowed down enough to look. I tried to draw it and then to describe it in words and found both surprisingly difficult.

A voice calling from the bridge inter r upted my effor ts. It was

Sam, leaning on his bike. He was a schoolmate of my age. He asked if I was okay and I said yes, or maybe he asked what I was doing and I said just sitting, and he got on his bike and left. I thought nothing more of that, except that if I did this again, I should look for a more hidden nook.

No lightning bolt of inspiration came, not even a spark. Once interrupted, I lost interest in the insect and turned to the river, hoping that sunlight on the water would prove better inspiration. But the river was not inspiring, and besides, it stank.

The summer flow was too sluggish

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I headed back home, disappointed in the experiment. Chasing the muse in the natural world is uncomfortable. The ground is hard and lumpy, and you often end up sitting on twigs or pebbles. There’s the risk of bugs crawling over you or into your clothes. Sitting on the grass always makes me itch from imagining those bugs even when they aren’t there.

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When I got home, I learned that Sam had stopped in to tell my family where I was just in case they wondered. I was surprised and put off. It was none of his business or my family’s. For the first time, it occurred to me that my behaviour could seem odd. I wondered if Sam thought I might be considering suicide by drowning. The pencil and paper could have been for a suicide note.

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St. Matthew’s Messiah geared to a young audience The upcoming Handel’s Messiah concert on November 19, 3 p.m. at St. Matthew’s Anglican Church will have a new family-friendly approach to it this year. As a Saturday afternoon performance, it will be a shortened version of the hugely popular English-language oratorio.

Presented at St. Matthew’s for more than 20 years, this is the first time for a “children’s” version geared especially to a young audience. However, St. Matthew’s music director Kirkland Adsett, who will conduct the concert, says it will still be suitable for all ages to enjoy.

“Children and their parents should respond well to the music,” he said, “because I have chosen some of the most popular choruses and arias of Handel’s spiritual gem.”

The concert by the combined choirs of St. Matthew’s with an orchestra will be about half the length of Handel’s English-language classic. It will also be a freewill offering at the door.

A highlight of this hour-and-a-quarter version of the traditional pre-Christmas concert will be a special narration by The Rev. Professor Kevin Flynn, an honorary assistant at St. Matthew’s and director of the Anglican Studies Program at Saint Paul University.

Fr. Flynn’s narration will focus on the life of the Messiah (Jesus as the Messiah called Christ), the original libretto

Photo: K. Racine

by Neville Nankivell

St. Matthew’s music director Kirkland Adsett will wear period costume when conducting November’s “family” Messiah concert.

by Charles Jennens (scriptural text from the King James Bible), and interesting facts about Handel and his musical techniques.

“Apparently John Wesley, the 18th century Methodist leader, was one of those who first heard the Messiah,” said Fr. Flynn. “He reported that ‘some parts were affecting, but I doubt it has staying power.’ Clearly, Wesley was a better theologian than a music critic.”

Handel composed the oratorio in 18 days in 1741 in what has been described as “a white-hot frenzy of creativity.”

He was a German-born composer who lived in England and his oratorio is one of the most frequently staged pieces of Western sacred art music. It has spoken to generation after generation, said Adsett, “and it never loses its lustre.”

Another twist to the St. Matthew’s performance is that Adsett will conduct in an 18th century period costume such as Handel might have worn.

Neville Nankivell is a long-time St. Matthew’s parishioner and a member of its Communications Committee.

St. Matthew’s Messiah Concert

Saturday, November 19, 3 p.m.

No intermission.

St. Matthew’s Anglican Church, 130 Glebe Avenue (just west of Bank Street).

Information: 613-234-4024 or www.stmatthewsottawa.ca.

No tickets sold for this event; freewill donations gratefully accepted.

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Shakespeare lives on in song Shakespeare knew the power of music – to soothe Orsinio’s lovesick heart, to taunt Malvolio for his misplaced affection, to trace the scorned Ophelia’s madness, or foretell Desdemona’s tragic death at the hands of her lover.

Just as Shakespeare’s words have lived on, so too has music inspired by his writing.

To commemorate the 400th anniversary of the great bard’s death, Cantata Singers of Ottawa, under the direction of Andrew McAnerney, will perform Shakespeare in Song on October 30 at 3 p.m. at St. Joseph’s Church.

The concert will feature 500 years of music inspired by an enduring love affair with this great man of words.

The concert comprises popular music of his day that Shakespeare included in his plays. In Twelfth Night, Feste baits Malvolio with “Ah Robyn,”

by William Cornysh, a song lamenting the lady who, alas, loves another.

Henry IV Part 2 features the rousing drinking song, “Un jour vis un foulon” by the prolific and versatile Renaissance composer, Orlando Lassus.

The concert also contains music said to have been written especially for Shakespeare by his musical collaborators. Thomas Morley, the most popular composer of secular music in Elizabethan England and a contemporary of Shakespeare, likely composed “It was a lover and his lass,” which is found in As You Like It. In 1612, Robert Johnson II wrote “Full Fathom Five,” which is sung by Ariel when greeting the survivors of

the shipwreck in The Tempest.

Rounding out the program will be a selection of music inspired by Shakespeare’s words in the 400 years since his death. Three major works will be featured: Vaughan Williams’ evocative “Three Shakespeare Songs,” jazz-legend George Shearing’s settings of Shakespeare’s poetry and plays entitled “Music to Hear,” and “Songs from Shakespeare” written for the Stratford Festival by Canadian composer and recipient of the Order of Canada Harry Freedman.

What tribute would be complete without perhaps the most famous piece associated with Shakespeare?

Vaughan Williams’ beautiful choral arrangement of “Greensleeves,” referenced in Merry Wives of Windsor, is sure to please, though perhaps not as much as the excited Falstaff, who cries out: “Let the sky rain potatoes! Let it thunder to the tune of ‘Greensleeves’!”

Come, enjoy an afternoon of choral music in a beautiful setting, and celebrate the power of Shakespeare’s words to delight and inspire artists and audiences alike!

Shakespeare in Song will be performed on Sunday, October 30, at 3 p.m. at St. Joseph’s Church, 174 Wilbrod St. Tickets are available at the door, or may be purchased at The Leading Note or Compact Music. To purchase tickets online, or to find out more information about Cantata Singers of Ottawa and its 53rd season, visit canatatasingersottawa.ca.

Nadine Dawson is a member of the Cantata Singers of Ottawa.

Illustration: Nadine Dawson

by Nadine Dawson

Shakespeare inspired much beautiful music, to be featured at the Cantata Singers of Ottawa concert, Shakespeare in Song, on October 30 at 3 p.m. at St. Joseph’s Church, 174 Wilbrod.

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The Incrementalist brings back familiar characters Reviewed by Terrence Rundle West

Glebe author Ian McKercher’s second novel, The Incrementalist, will not disappoint his fans.

Written as a sequel to The Underling, many of the familiar characters are back. It’s 1940 with citizens lining up to do their duty in the war with Germany. There’s a snap to the country that only our grandparents would recognize.

Frances McFadden is caught up in the spirit and set to play her role but this time she’s no longer the “underling” of the first novel. Promotion comes fast in these trying times and Frances finds herself thrust into the position of head secretary to the Governor of the Bank of Canada.

Tasked with shoring up the office for the onslaught of total war, Frances finds herself navigating in the wake of a man who, while brilliant on the broad strokes, is challenged on minutiae and detail. These of course fall on her shoulders as the bank wrestles with the complexities of putting the country on a war footing; unrealistic financial demands from a struggling Britain, prospects of a widespread flight of capital and transformation of Canada from peace to a war-time economy.

In Europe the future looks bleak: the Lowlands, France, Denmark and Norway have fallen; the British Expeditionary Force has fled the continent through Dunkirk; France has it’s gold reserves on the high seas dodging u-boats, destination Halifax; Britain is under daily bombardment.

Having declared war along with the Mother Country, Canada finds itself facing the German menace with little more than 12,000 personnel in uniform; this has to be grown and it’s up to the bank to steer a fiscal policy that will enable it to happen. By 1945, 1,030,000 will have served.

Meanwhile the Brits are demanding fighters, arms, ships and supplies, not sometime in the future, but immediately. How to put the economy on a

The Incrementalist: A Novel,

by Ian McKercher. (Burnstown Publishing House, 2016) Book launch Sunday, October 23 at 7 p.m. in the hall at Glebe-St. James United Church (650 Lyon Street at First).

All are welcome. total-war footing and pay for it has the bank reeling with Frances caught up in the vortex.

It’s all heady stuff for Ottawa High School of Commerce dropout Frances McFadden who takes on the challenge with all the common sense and pluck we’ve come to know her for. There’s no time to bask in past victories. She has much to learn, not all of which is pleasant.

As secretary to the governor, she finds herself in situations her humble upbringing has not prepared her for; panicked government officials, indus-

trialists eager to milk the war effort, society snobs, not to mention Vincent Massey, Canada’s imperious High Commissioner to the United Kingdom who manages to make life difficult for her.

But for Frances there’s a price to pay. While she has plunged into the heady world of twelve-hour workdays, weekends at the office and working trips to foreign capitals called at a moment’s notice, her friends have been expanding their own personal horizons through relationships, marriage and families.

As the story progresses the reader

is struck with the haunting fear that Frances is on a path that few would willingly choose. Her leap to the position of personal secretary to the governor early in the story comes with the unexpected death of her predecessor, the indomitable, ruthlessly efficient, secretary behind the man, Miss Briscoe.

Is Frances on the way to becoming the new Miss Briscoe? Is there a lonely death in a sterile hospital, bereft of flowers or mourners, with little more than the satisfaction of a life of faithful service and a job well done, in her distant future, too? Would this be enough for Frances, or anyone, to go out on?

More to the point, is she even cognisant of the perils of the path she’s on?

Is it really just the hectic workload that has her reaching for the Duoro Port come day’s end?

Frances’ struggle is not unique.

Many are those who have been forced to make decisions affecting their profession and personal growth.

At what point does duty trump personal growth? There’s an equilibrium, of course, but not all find it. Poor decisions are made, with life-long consequences. Frances is young. Does she have the maturity to find her equilibrium or grab onto it if she does?

There’s a refreshing homeyness to this novel and the times in which it is set. The war brought us together in a way that modern Canadians can only dream about. Frances haunts paths familiar to Ottawa readers; lunches in the Canadian Grill at the Chateau Laurier, photos by Karsh on Sparks Street, milk from Clark’s Dairy, lumber from D. Kemp Edwards, Sundays at Knox Presbyterian.

And the people rushing past in these exciting days; Jack Pickersgill, Arnold Heeney, Lester Bowles Pearson, Vincent Massey, C.D. Howe and Walter Gordon come off like members of a collective family.

Frances for sure is one of us. And so are the characters in this engaging novel.

In the end this is our city, our history, our people. Frances is one of us.

Terrence Rundle West is the author of Not In My Father’s Footsteps, Ripe for the Picking and Run of the Town (historical fiction). In 2007 he was the recipient of the Northern ‘Lit’ Award.

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Books to help us celebrate Ottawa’s 150th anniversary in 2017

by Frank Dimech

In 2017, the City of Ottawa will celebrate the 150th anniversary of Canada’s confederation and the national capital. I will celebrate the glorious past, present and future of our wonderful capital and home by accessing a collection of pictorial records.

My literary “snapshots” were found in the Ottawa Room in the Main Library.

Ottawa: An Illustrated History (Lorimer Press, 1986) by local author John H. Taylor starts from the beginning of Bytown’s early days as a military garrison and lumber town.

This is an enjoyable introduction richly illustrated with 150 historical photographs and original maps.

Ottawa: A Guide to Heritage Structures (Local Architectural Conservation Advisory Committee (LACAC), 2000) and 125 Years of Building Our City (Ottawa Construction Association, 2014) are two books that dovetail the capital’s beautiful heritage buildings and the contribution of our private and public buildings to the present. Both titles will be good starting points for heritage walks in our neighbourhoods. Our local cemeteries (rural and urban) are the epitaphs to the history of Ottawa for local residents and genealogists searching for names and birth dates of family members in Ottawa or for heritage walks. The Ottawa Room at the Main Library is a great resource for information on the locations of our cemeteries.

Every capital city relies on an efficient public transportation system. The Canal for commercial and pleasure boating and our streetcar system have played a major role in the rapid transit of passengers in Ottawa. Ottawa’s Streetcars (Railfare, 2006) by local writer Bill McKeown narrates the history of the Ottawa Electric Railway to today’s OC Transpo. The book has 256 pages and over 300 historical photographs.

Staying on track, Ottawa is now in the process of constructing a 21st century light rail transit (LRT) system. Council and budget reports and plans for the north-south corridor LRT project are available in the Ottawa Room at the Main Library. As in the past, today’s transportation connects our communities in our city.

One community of Ottawa is “the

Glebe,” a richly diversified and vibrant neighbourhood. Local residents-turnedauthors have chronicled its heritage and contributions of its neighbours.

The Glebe: A Walking Tour (Heritage Ottawa, 2013) by John McLeod describes the beautiful heritage residences in the Glebe designed from 1912 to 1932 by architects W.E. Noffke and Cecil Burgess (for example, St. Matthews Anglican Church). Another title to check out is The Story of the Glebe (Ottawa, 1999) by John Leaning, chief architect of the National Capital Commission, covering the growth of the Glebe from 1800 to 2000.

One institution that has contributed to Ottawa’s communities as early as 1906 is the Ottawa Public Library, which originally was a Carnegie library (the original Carnegie stained glass window is located at the Main Library downtown). We now have 33 locations and are currently participating in a project to build a new central library (one downtown site is at Lebreton Flats). The Library Book: An Overdue History of the Ottawa Public Library, 1906– 2001 (Ottawa Public Library, 2002) by Phil Jenkins is a “check out” item for all readers, and like the LRT, the Library is on track for a better and stronger Ottawa.

Frank Dimech is information librarian at the Sunnyside Branch of the Ottawa Public Library.

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SOIRÉE DE CONSULTATION PUBLIQUE

Open a book and fly away!

26 OCTOBRE 2016

by Ildiko Sumegi

Projet d’ouverture d’une école élémentaire catholique pour les secteurs Vieux Ottawa Sud, Vieux Ottawa Est et Le Glebe Un comité de parents appuyé par le Conseil des écoles catholiques du CentreEst (CECCE) convie les parents des secteurs Vieux Ottawa Sud, Vieux Ottawa Est, Le Glebe et les environs à une soirée de consultation publique. Cette soirée a pour objectif de sonder la population sur l’intérêt d’ouvrir une école élémentaire catholique pour les enfants de la maternelle à la 6e année.

Au cours de cette séance de consultation, les membres du groupe de travail qui étudient présentement la possibilité d’ouvrir une nouvelle école, vous expliqueront les détails du projet. Une période de questions a aussi été planifiée pour que les personnes présentes aient la chance de faire part de leurs questionnements et commentaires.

26 octobre 2016, à 19 h Amphithéâtre de l’Université St-Paul 223, rue Main, Ottawa (ON) K1S 1C4 Vous êtes aussi invités à suivre la page Facebook «Projet école élémentaire catholique Vieux Ottawa Sud/Est» à l’adresse www.facebook.com/projet ecolevieuxottawa pour rester informés en temps réel des avancements du projet.

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PUBLIC CONSULTATION EVENING OCTOBER 26, 2016 Proposal to Open a French Catholic Elementary School Serving Old Ottawa South, Old Ottawa East and the Glebe A parents’ committee supported by the Conseil des écoles catholiques du Centre-Est (CECCE), is inviting parents in Old Ottawa South, Old Ottawa East, the Glebe and the surrounding areas to a public consultation event. The purpose of the consultation is to gauge interest in opening a French Catholic elementary school for children in junior kindergarten to 6th grade.

During the consultation, members of the parents’ committee currently studying the possibility of opening a new school will give an overview of the project.

There will also be a question period for attendees and an opportunity to share comments.

October 26, 2016, 7 pm Saint Paul University Amphitheatre 223 Main Street, Ottawa (ON) K1S 1C4 You can also follow the “Projet école élémentaire catholique Vieux Ottawa Sud/Est” page on Facebook at www.facebook.com/projetecolevieuxottawa for updates on the project.

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Birds have populated our art and our stories for as long as anyone can remember. They give physical form to concepts that have none. Wisdom, for example, is an owl whose enormous eyes take in the world. Pride is a peacock parading his fan. Grace is a swan gliding across a glassy lake. And Freedom too is often a bird; which bird exactly might be up for debate, but I think we can all agree that it is definitely not a penguin!

There are many children’s stories featuring birds of all different sizes and shapes and meanings. Here are a few that may be of interest.

Swan: The Life and Dance of Anna Pavlova (Chronicle Books, 2015) by Laurel Snyder and illustrated by Julie Morstad. Ages 6–8 World-renowned ballet dancer Anna Pavlova was born in 19th century Russia to the daughter of a poor laundress.

Her journey was one of transformation and though she took many different shapes on stage, her beauty, her grace, and her sad end make her first and forever the Swan. Anna was a little girl with a big dream who grew into a lovely woman with an even bigger heart. She set out to share her gift and her good fortune with those who were not necessarily so fortunate.

Poet and novelist Laurel Snyder sets her words upon the page like steps in a dance, and Anna’s death is painted with a gentle touch. Canadian artist Julie Morstad tells the tale with delicate illustrations that are graceful in and of themselves. Her artwork pulls you into a world where hope balances on tiptoe.

This is a gorgeous book for the young dancer or dreamer in your life.

Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer (Alfred A. Knopf, 2015) by Kelly Jones and illustrated by Katie Kath. Ages 9–11 When Sophie and her parents inherit her late Uncle Jim’s dilapidated old farm, they trade in their urban life in L.A. for a quiet setting in the country.

And when an unusual chicken shows up on the farm one day, Sophie takes it upon herself to take care of it to the best of her abilities. Eventually more chickens appear, each one with its own strange superpower. It would be hard enough being the new kid in town and learning to care for the special needs of these truly remarkable fowl, but Sophie has an even more pressing concern. There is a chicken thief about: she’s clever, she’s persistent and she’s after Sophie’s unusual chickens!

The story is told in letters written by Sophie to her late Uncle Jim and to her deceased Abuela (grandmother). Full of fun chicken facts and the thoughtful antics of an extremely resourceful heroine, this book would make good reading for anyone who is feeling a little less than exceptional. Occasional black-and-white illustrations by Katie Kath add humour with a lively touch.

Chickens are, well, they are ordinary. But Kelly Jones has crafted a tale of exception and extra-ordinariness in which a lonely child can and does achieve something special.

Gabriel Finley and the Raven’s Riddle (Schwartz & Wade Books, 2014)

by George Hagen. Ages 10–12 The raven is a tricky bird to pin down, not least because he is a trickster himself in some cultures. Is the raven dark and menacing, a bringer of death? Or is he a cunning and benevolent friend? George Hagen has written a story that plays upon this dual nature.

Twelve-year-old Gabriel Finley loves riddles. His father fancied a good riddle himself in his day, though he has mysteriously disappeared. And it seems that ravens too hold riddles in high regard!

When Gabriel befriends an orphaned raven named Paladin, he sets in motion a chain of events that will lead him and three of his friends to Aviopolis, a city of birds deep under the earth. There he hopes to free his father from the clutches of a monster known as Corax.

Half-raven and half-man, Corax seeks to conquer the world above with the help of a legendary wish-granting necklace called the torc.

This book has it all: mystery, magic, adventure, a writing desk that likes to dance and even a bit of gore thrown in for the more blood-thirsty among us. But for all its fantastical flights of fancy, this is ultimately a story about friendship and acceptance, kindness and compassion. Fans of fantasy and riddles will enjoy this debut children’s novel from George Hagen.

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

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Understanding religion – don’t expect watered down or sugar coated Book review by Randal Marlin

Antonio (“Nino”) Gualtieri is a wellknown Glebe personality, a popular Carleton University religion professor, now emeritus and living in Ottawa East. He is outspoken on issues of social justice and is a forceful debater.

With this book he offers a lifetime of accumulated wisdom, drawn from academic and ordinary life experience. It is an extraordinary collection of fragmented reflections and narrations, titled Disclosures: Symbols, Worlds, Selves.

Don’t expect watered-down or sugar-coated presentations, to appeal to a wide audience. As he says at the outset the work is “notes to myself.”

But he has had an adventurous life, shared with his late wife Peggy, his three daughters and late son, and different portions of the book will interest many different people. The interplay between cosmological thinking and down-to-earth living is a constant throughout the book.

A former United Church minister who experienced doubts about the faith and the usefulness of his role in helping people deal with grief, Professor Gualtieri embarked on a mission to understand other great world religions, spending enough time in the Middle East, Central and South Asia and the Canadian Arctic, often with his family, to understand how the different religious beliefs worked to affect the daily lives and interactions in the communities he visited.

Gualtieri gives us a sustained combination of sociological, anthropological and historical perspectives on religion. In a secular age, it’s common to find those who view religion, all religions, as forms of superstition that somehow hang on like abandoned churches – barely tolerated, awaiting disappearance with the final triumph of science.

Such people ask, against background imagery of medieval torture and religious wars, why should taxpayers get tax benefits from supporting religious institutions? What’s to stop someone inventing a new “religion,” say cockroach worship, and claiming a tax benefit?

To this, Gualtieri has a ready answer.

Religion is marked by certain essential features, without which it would be wrong to speak of a genuine religion. One of these is that it responds to some of our deepest needs, such as a sense of belonging and identity in light of our fear of death, our experience of pain, the loss of loved ones through sickness, war, and suchlike.

In his words, “I understand religion as participation in a symbol system that creates selfhood because the symbols communicate a vision of reality and a value system that responds to the threats and crises of life.”

Another feature of genuine religion is the existence of ritual, needed as a constant reminder of the application of the relevant worldview to significant milestones of life, such as birth, puberty, marriage and death.

“The interplay between cosmological thinking and down-to-earth living is a constant throughout the book”

Antonio R. Gualtieri, Disclosures: Symbols, World, Selves (Victoria, B.C.: Lifeworld Press, 2016)

He warns against translating this view into conventional theological terms such as “belief in God” for two reasons. First he doesn’t think that “believing” is primarily what religious people do and, secondly, “one can have a religious worldview that does not entail gods or supernatural beings.”

Although he expressly does not want to minimize the dark side of religion, such as the 16th century massacre of French Huguenots or modern-day killings in the name of radical Islam, his main aim is to “try to understand what the proponents of various traditions might want to say about some of life’s pressing existential questions, and to grasp their salvific and transformative intention.”

Most people will need a dictionary to understand his frequently uncompromising terminology. A recurring word is “soteriology,” understood in the Christian tradition as relating to

the saving of fallen man through the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, both God and man, whose suffering and death perform a redemptive role.

The word soter in Latin means “saviour,” and again in the Christian tradition the existence of this saviour gives hope to all believers in Christ, and a meaning to their own sufferings and future death.

Gualtieri sees all major religions as performing in some way an analogical “salvific” role in giving meaning to suffering and death, and a large part of his book is devoted to exploring and explaining parallels with Buddhism (in its different forms), Hinduism, Judaism, Confucianism, Animism and suchlike.

It’s impossible to convey in this short review all the interesting things Professor Gualtieri has to say – among them the connections between religious belief and ethics, where behaviour of adherents doesn’t always follow what the tradition seems to dictate. This is sometimes a good thing and sometimes not, showing the importance of critical reason with respect to any faith.

But critical reason has many proponents in today’s world. Professor Gualtieri engages with the thought of a wide variety of major historical and modern thinkers to show how a deep understanding of religion makes us more able to understand and interact sympathetically with so many other people on this planet, both on a theoretical and on a very practical level.

Randal Marlin is a philosopher and educator and a regular contributor to the Glebe Report.

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

The Pearl that Broke Its Shell

Nadia Hashimi

Marijuana – what should we believe?

To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee

Famous Last Words

Timothy Findley

The Elegance of the Hedgehog

Muriel Barbery

People whose ideas about marijuana were formed in the 20th century will remember the fear and apprehension about the supposed dangers of that substance, some of it lingering from the 1930s film Reefer Madness.

A lot of the supposed harmful effects have since been recognized as false and overblown, but that doesn’t mean it is totally benign. So who or what should we believe?

Those looking for enlightenment have a chance to hear a highly credentialed expert on this subject.

Retired Carleton University psychology professor Peter Fried will talk on “What You Need to Know about Marijuana” on Thursday, October 27, in the Multipurpose room of the Glebe Community Centre, 175 Third

Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town

Stephen Leacock

Stalin’s Daughter

Rosemary Sullivan

The Elegance of the Hedgehog

Muriel Barbery

Woman of the Dead (Totenfrau)

Bernhard Aichner

Nemesis

Jo Nesbo

The Remedy

Thomas Goetz

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AUTHOR

Super Sourde

Cece Bell

El Deafo

Cece Bell

Avenue, at 7 p.m.

Fried joined the Department of Psychology at Carleton University in 1968 and retired in 2006 with the title of professor emeritus and distinguished research professor. Dr. Fried has been studying the effects of marijuana and pregnancy for over 35 years. Funded primarily by the National Institute on Drug Abuse in Washington, DC, this work has yielded a wealth of information that has formed the basis of several books, over 200 scientific articles and hundreds of talks to scientific and professional organizations.

The lecture is part of a series, sponsored by GNAG, by retired professors from Carleton University. It is free and open to the public.

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

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‘Cleaning the Capital’ Glebe parks fall 2016

by Zoë Sutherland

Come and join in the fun! Tim Horton’s Cleaning the Capital fall initiative is here again for the last time in 2016. The various park cleanups are a great way to engage with our Glebe community and have a hand in ensuring that our shared spaces are safe and pleasant for one and all. Volunteers are much needed and all ages are welcome. Bring your gloves, friends and family. Willingness required but no experience necessary!

Save the Date for 2017!

2017 will shortly be upon us and as we all know it is a very significant year. On July 1, 2017 Canada will turn 150 years old. We would like to celebrate this milestone by making our neighbourhood look beautiful and welcoming to residents and visitors. This means that the Tim Horton’s Cleaning the Capital spring initiative will require as many volunteers as possible. Our Glebe Parks Committee representative for Glebe Memorial Park, a.k.a. Glendale Park, Angus McCabe asks that we all join him in the cleanup of this well-used and beloved park by adding the date April 29, 2017 to your calendar.

Watch this space for more dates at other parks in the Glebe and Glebe Annex areas.

Glebe Parks Committee update

This spring we launched two excit-

ing projects that have undoubtedly enhanced our lives and our enjoyment of the Glebe.

Our very own Catherine McKenna, MP officially opened the dock launch in the Rideau Canal at Patterson’s Creek on May 10. The addition of the docks to the canal has been extremely popular, used by people with canoes, kayaks and paddleboards alike. The season was brought to an end on Thanksgiving Monday, October 10, and the canal will be drained to make way for freezing so that our next season of activities can begin.

The Glebe Pop-up Parklets located at Bank and Third, and Bank and Second were installed on streetside car parking spots. Shoppers and passersby have used and admired the parklets and can continue to do so until the end of the season. Carleton University architecture students designed these small wooden outdoor spaces for and on behalf of the Glebe Parks Committee. Chair Sam Harris and member Connie Boynton have cared for the parklets, with artwork donated by Glebe Community Centre summer campers. These tailor-made structures will be disassembled and stored locally in the hope that they can be reused in 2017.

Help wanted! Central Park West

Calling all gardening enthusiasts! Central Park West has two flowerbeds that are in need of some ongoing seasonal TLC. The beds

are located at the base of the stairs that lead from Bank Street into the park (at the east end of the park) and between the stairs and the ramp on the north side. A small group of volunteers would be ideal, with gardening knowledge and knowhow.

Both beds have lacked care for some time and are in need of weeding, soil preparation and planning. 2017 is an important year and the Glebe Parks Committee would like to see all flowering areas in full bloom and looking their best for the celebrations. If you are interested and have skills to share please contact connieboynton@rogers.com.

New Firehall Park on Fifth Avenue

Design work on the new park space at the corner of Fifth and O’Connor continues. The community will be asked for feedback once potential designs have been determined.

Coming Soon

Find out more about the Glebe Parks Committee at our website where you can read our mandate and meeting minutes, and get in touch with ideas and suggestions: www.glebeca.ca/ parks.

Zoë Sutherland is a member of the Glebe Parks Committee.

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Conquering head lice Now that the kids are back in school, it’s not only cough and cold season, but it’s also lice season! We always get a large number of parents coming into the store in the fall asking about lice treatment options. In this article, I will talk about everything you ever wanted to know, or didn’t want to know, about lice and how to get rid of these pesky critters.

Head lice live and breed on the scalp and feed on blood. A typical head louse is about 13 mm long and can either be off-white in colour, or brownishred after feeding on blood. Lice have a 16-day lifespan and a single female louse can lay up to 150 nits, or eggs.

Nits latch onto the hair shaft tightly and hatch about a week later. The newly hatched louse becomes a fully-fledged adult after 8 days, and only then can be transmitted to other people.

Lice do not fly and cannot be transmitted via pets. The only way they are transmitted is through direct head to head contact, and also through the sharing of hats and brushes. The mainstay of diagnosis for lice is careful investigation. Careful observation of the hair by systematically combing through it in sections with a fine tooth nit comb is the best way to do this.

A good way of doing this is to apply conditioner all over the hair and then comb it, then wipe the conditioner off the comb and spread it out to inspect the nits or lice.

Although lice infestation is not a life-

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by Zenah Surani

threatening situation, it can cause stress and may result in missed days of school as some schools have a “no nit” policy.

Anyone found with live lice should be treated. Treatments for lice are available without a prescription; however, they are kept behind the pharmacy counter. Treatment directions are different depending on the product, so be sure to consult your pharmacist for proper instructions. The entire family does not need to be treated if one member has been found with live lice; however, bedmates should consider treatment, and all family members should be inspected for the presence of lice. Pets do not need to be treated.

Typically, all treatments should be done right away and then repeated after seven days for full efficacy.

Historically, pyrethoids such as Nix and Kwellada, were the first-line treatment for lice, but recently it’s been found that lice are becoming increasingly resistant to these products. On the plus

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Because of resistance to the pyrethoids, manufacturers have come out with products that work on the lice in a physical manner instead of chemical, a mechanism that is less likely to be susceptible to resistance. Isopropyl myristate/cyclomethicone (Resultz) is one such option. It essentially dissolves the exoskeleton or outer shell of the louse, resulting in death. Although it can be used on children over two years of age, there are no studies on its use on pregnant and breastfeeding women. The Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care did an evaluation on this product and found that its success rate was 46 per cent compared to pyrethoid products.

Another promising solution to the lice problem is dimethicone (NYDA).

It is a synthetic oil that coats lice and causes them to suffocate. It has no studies on use in pregnant and breast-

feeding women, but can be used on children over two years of age. The eight hours that dimethicone must be left on the hair could be unappealing; however, studies have shown that when used this way, it’s been 100 per cent effective. Therefore, this is an excellent option to consider.

All bedding, towels and items that have come into contact with the hair belonging to the affected individual should be washed in hot water or stored in plastic bags for two weeks, since lice typically cannot survive off the scalp for longer than two days.

Source: “Managing head lice: an overview for pharmacists.” Canadian Healthcare Network, 2016.

Zenah Surani is the pharmacist and owner of the Glebe Apothecary. She writes a regular column for the Glebe Report.

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Dance with the falling leaves this autumn

by Kristin Jillian Shropshire

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is a complete system of medicine focused on promoting and maintaining health by striving to achieve systemic balance. According to TCM theory, Qi, or vital energy, travels through the body in a regular, predetermined pattern through a system of energy pathways, or meridians, to all parts of the body.

We experience health, vitality and balance when the flow of Qi is smooth and unobstructed. When there are blockages in the natural movement of Qi, disharmony and a reduced sense of wellbeing will ensue.

One of the most basic theories of TCM is the theory of Yin-Yang, which holds that every object in the universe consists of two opposite aspects that are in continual mutual restriction and interaction. Yin is dark, cold, damp, nurturing, female, water and

earth. Yang is light, heat, dry, assertive, male, fire and heaven. Yin and Yang are at once in opposition and interdependence. They are opposite ends of the same spectrum, but also have a mutually consuming nature.

As one increases, the other decreases, and yet, one often transforms into the other. Yin and Yang are distinct but inseparable.

According to TCM philosophy, everything in the universe is interconnected. Given the lens of interdependence and interrelation through which it sees the cosmos, it should come as no surprise that TCM holds that we are all affected by changes in our natural environment. TCM recognizes six external, weather-related energies that can cause imbalance and disharmony in the body. They are referred to as the Six Pathogenic Factors or the Six Pernicious Influences.

These energies are wind, cold, dampness, dryness, heat and summer heat.

Wind is a Yang pathogenic factor and is responsible for causing symptoms that wander and change. Cold is a Yin pathogenic factor and causes the sudden onset of symptoms of chilliness, headache and body aches. Cold can damage Yang energy. Dampness is a Yin pathogenic factor that causes sluggishness, lethargy, and sticky discharges. Heat, a term often used interchangeably with Fire, is a Yang pathogenic factor. Heat can manifest with symptoms such as fever, inflammation, constipation and dry skin.

Dryness is a Yang pathogenic factor closely related to Heat or Fire. The big difference is that it involves more drying of the body fluids. Symptoms include dry eyes, nose and mouth, and dry cough. Summer Heat is a Yang pathogenic factor that depletes Qi and body fluids, which can cause dehydration and exhaustion.

According to TCM, autum n correlates with the lungs, which dominate the skin, respiration, body fluids metabolism, blood circulation, immunity and sadness. Since the vitality of summer has been extinguished, everything needs to turn inwards to prepare for the harsh winter.

Dietary therapy is one means of

smoothing our transition through the changing seasons. Autumn involves a lot of dryness: an itchy throat, a dry nose, chapped lips, rough skin and hair loss. We need to eat foods that promote the production of body fluids that lubricate the body. Foods to consider incorporating into an autumn diet include nuts, seeds, pear, pumpkin and honey. It is recommended to eat more food with sour flavours and reduce pungent flavours since pungent foods such as onions and ginger promote perspiration and body cooling, while sour foods such as lemons and grapefruits have astringent properties and prevent the loss of body fluids.

Our bodies require extra fluids to offset the dry environment during the fall. There is a reason why soups, stews and porridges are so popular at this time of year.

Traditional Chinese Medicine employs diet and food therapy, acupuncture, tuina massage, cupping, qigong and other holistic therapies to help restore the body to a state of optimal balance. TCM works on an energetic level to affect all aspects of our being: mental, physical, emotional and spiritual. One of the remarkable things about TCM is that not only can it be used to correct existing imbalances – such as stress, pain, insomnia and digestive discomforts – it can also correct imbalances prior to the appearance of symptoms.

Balance is a moving target. To maintain our equilibrium in a changing environment, we need to adapt and change along with it. Fall is a time to self-nurture and prepare for the colder weather ahead. Rest, relax, eat local food that is in season and take the time to get good sleep. Your body will thank you.

Kristin Jillian Shropshire, MS, ROHP, R.Ac., is a registered nutritionist, registered acupuncturist & faculty member of the Institute of Holistic Nutrition at Glebe Health & Wellness.

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mind to look for comparisons, similarities, patterns and context, all of are essential to simplifying tasks. A large project may be daunting, until we can break it down into smaller units, always keeping in mind the bigger picture.

Be organized inside & out!

by Dijana Bate

Seek the silence

Editor’s note: This is one of a series of articles by Dijana Bate, founding director of the Glebe Montessori School, on educating children for life.

Think of the times you felt your frustration level surge. Often, those moments were linked to some form of disorganization, whether it was misplacing your keys or frantically multi-tasking to meet a deadline after procrastinating. Consider disorganization of any kind a waste of time and energy, triggering stress, confusion and fatigue. Transforming disorder into order is far less taxing than putting up with daily drama and disarray; all the more reason to immediately start organizing your own space, time, thoughts and, basically, your life!

Organizational skills rarely come naturally. It’s perplexing why such important life skills are seldom taught in elementary school – or even better, pre-school. Three major guidelines can assist a 3- or 99-year-old to improve organizational and time management skills.

Clean, simple and orderly

First, focus on the advantages of a “prepared environment.” Pay attention to creating a clean, simplified and orderly environment, all of which contributes to a healthy frame of mind. Start with the home. Organize living spaces, attending to the smallest details, such that everything has a place and is in place. Streamline what is in the environment; anything that isn’t used or appreciated, give to someone else who can use it.

The preschooler who experiences a sense of order knows where everything is and where items must always be returned. The child’s bedroom is organized to foster independence, which builds self-confidence! Toys are stored in containers, books are displayed on shelves, clothes are arranged to facilitate self-dressing, a table or desk is equipped with a replenished supply station, and a station with child-friendly cleaning tools is provided. Support children in taking responsibility for keeping their bedrooms tidy. In fact, they will take pride in sharing household tasks.

Focus on essentials

Second, prioritize, schedule and plan ahead. It’s the unknown that we fear the most. Transitions are challenging for children and adults alike – what can we expect next? How are we going to achieve a goal? Advance planning helps

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define the problem or task, and puts effective strategies in place that increase efficiency and productivity. Logically executed lists are great problem solvers.

Pinpoint the essentials then eliminate the nonessentials. Excess baggage in any form is a burden. Control your calendar for scheduling, guaranteeing punctuality and allocating adequate time for the completion of any task. Long-term assignments become far more manageable when using the “divide and conquer approach” to getting the job done. Capitalize as well on the vast array of technology options, including task manager apps that are available to further support planning and time management.

Children, too, need to learn these lessons, prioritizing what they’re going to do first, second, etc., understanding the impact of making choices and recognizing the importance of being on time. The preschooler who is informed ahead of the daily schedule will feel more secure and in control, knowing what to expect. Visuals are extremely helpful to children for checking off tasks, giving reminders or highlighting special events, e.g. illustrated colour-coded schedules, calendars, charts. Your child will welcome having expectations, responsibilities and schedules clarified.

Look for patterns

Third, categorize, classify and

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Finally, clean out the clutter in your mind. Mozart told us, “The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.” The mind that practices silence, whether during meditation, yoga, quiet reflection, or otherwise, will experience greater awareness and creativity. Encourage your children to participate in mindful activities, so they can connect within and feel comfortable with silence.

It takes conscious, disciplined effort to be organized, but the physical and mental exertion is far greater for those who remain disorganized. A favourite New Yorker cartoon shows a boss saying to his secretary, “If you follow these guidelines, you should be out of your depth in no time.” For you to reach the pinnacle of success, learn from your mentors, then proceed to forge your own path, create your own guidelines and make your own rules.

Meanwhile, remember these words of Sir Winston Churchill: “To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour.”

Dijana Bate is the founding director of the Glebe Montessori School.

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Welcome back

Glebe Cooperative Nursery School FRANKENDANCE 10 a.m. to 12 p.m., October 30 Glebe Community Centre Bring your toddlers and preschoolers to a Halloween party made especially for them! Put on your costumes and come enjoy the pumpkin decorating, dance lessons, photo booth, bouncy castle, Froot-Loop necklace making and more!

Admission is $5 at the door.

All proceeds go to the Glebe Cooperative Nursery School.

Visit us at the Ottawa Farmer’s Market as we help raise funds for Community Veterinary Outreach (visit vetoutreach.org for more) Pet Halloween costume contest Pet food drive (please bring donations) Veterinarian on hand to answer questions Nail trims and ear cleaning by donation Face painting (for the human kids) and more...

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Returning to school is an held on September 17. exciting time of meeting Stay tuned for a future OCSB Trustee new friends and beginupdate on this remarkKathy Ablett ning new activities. able young woman and www.capitalward.ca Our caretaking and her mission. trades staff worked tirelessly over the summer months to prepare schools Corpus Christi news As was the case at Immaculata, for the first day and coming school Corpus Christi’s school population year. We are very proud of the work accomplished this year in cleaning and has grown. We received several new preparing the schools for our students. registrations over the summer and are happy to add new students to our Immaculata High School news community. Beyond our commitment The 2016–2017 school year is off to academic excellence in all areas, this year Corpus Christi students will to a great start with an increase in be working hard on learning about the student population and new students showing their MAC pride with mindset and how, when we change our an opening week scavenger hunt. A thinking, we can sometimes improve very well attended Meet the Teacher our learning. night was held on September 14 feaThis year, Corpus Christi has partturing a performance by members of nered with St. Patrick’s Home to build Immaculata’s high school band, and relationships between our students and the new principal, Norma McDonald, the residents at the home. Some of the gave an overview of Immaculata’s residents worked hard to provide the music for our Thanksgiving liturgy school innovation plan for student on October 6. We look forward to the achievement and well-being. Chaplaincy Leader Leah Daly shared our many exciting possibilities that this school board’s new spiritual theme intergenerational connection offers.

“Sent to be the good news” and School The Glebe Neighbourhood ActivCouncil Co-Chairs Heather Duggan ities Group (GNAG) received a and Tanya Smith encouraged parents prestigious grant last year to help to get involved with the Immaculata young people develop active lifestyles Parent Council. and healthy attitudes around nutrition, We have excellent staff members fitness and sport. One of the goals of the program is to break down any barat Immaculata and they are there to riers that might prevent youth from guide you through another successbecoming physically active. Given ful academic year. Their support is both our proximity and long associainvaluable as they ensure that every student achieves success. tion, the GNAG approached us to help The next time you are at Immacufurther develop the opportunities for lata you may want to have a look at fitness within our community. This the newly upgraded large gym floor. will be our fourth session of enjoying It was refinished over the summer programs through the Youth Fit grant. with new game-line painting as part Our students will enjoy yoga, dance of a program to update competitive and boot camp this fall at lunch time in our gym. gyms in high schools. It is the pride of MAC’s Athletic Department!

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by Megan Doyle Ray

The First World War had ended just four years earlier when Glebe Collegiate Institute first opened its doors to students in 1922. The mood was celebratory, the Jazz Age was in full swing.

On Friday October 28, the cafeteria at Glebe Collegiate will be transformed into a 1920s Jazz Club where alumni, current and former staff, students, parents and community friends will gather to celebrate Glebe Collegiate’s first decade, the Roaring Twenties.

The evening will feature the live music of The Chords, a local band that includes two former Glebe teachers, Bruce MacGregor and Brian MacMillian, a signature Glebe 1920s cocktail, Charleston demonstrations and lots of Glebe memorabilia.

“The idea is to hold an annual event to celebrate the decades leading up to Glebe’s 100th anniversary in 2022.

This year we’re celebrating the 1920s, Glebe’s first decade. Next year’s celebration will highlight the 1930s and 40s, the following year the 1950s, and so on until we reach 2022, which isn’t really that far away,” said Steven Massey, Principal of Glebe Collegiate.

The evening is turning into a Glebe reunion of sorts, as many former Glebe students and staff are keen to return to their old school. Guests are invited to dress the part in 1920s fashion.

Proceeds from this event will go toward the school’s Learning Commons Library renovation project.

Tickets are $25 and available either at the Glebe Collegiate main office, between 8 a.m. and 3 p.m., or online at www.glebe.ocdsb.ca or www.universe. com\glebeginjazz. A limited number of tickets are available, so be sure to get yours soon!

Megan Doyle Ray is from a family of three generations of Glebe students.

She graduated in 1983; her father Brian Doyle attended in the 1950s, then returned as a teacher, and later head of the English Department; and both her children have attended Glebe. She lives across the canal in Old Ottawa South.

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Sports at Glebe back in the day – the 1930s

by Adam Coplan

There are so many things that make Glebe Collegiate a great school, whether it be the outstanding arts program, dedicated and excellent teachers and staff, or, of course, sports. Glebe has arguably the longest and most successful sports history in the Ottawa area, and the tradition thrives today.

At Glebe, our motto is “Strive for the Heights,” and our sports teams, past and present, have demonstrated this for generations.

There are multiple similarities and differences between the Glebe of 2016 and the Glebe of the 1930s. One similarity is the success of our sports teams. As some may know, sports teams at Glebe often do really well.

Enthusiastic and experienced coaches, along with dedicated athletes, help to strengthen athletic competition. Previous articles have chronicled last year’s spring and winter sports, and many of those results were podium finishes and impressive scores. Looking at some of the archives of Glebe Athletics in the 1930s, it was exciting to see that there were countless newspaper articles reporting historic championships and memorable victories for Glebe athletes over 80 years ago.

One 1930s headline in The Citizen read “6,000 See Glebe and St.

Did someone you know attend Glebe Collegiate Institute in the 1920s or 1930s? We’d love to include them, or memories of them, in our Gin and Jazz celebration. For more information, please contact glebeinstitutefund@glebeschoolcouncil.ca.

Pat’s Battle for Title.” High school sports are exciting, provide a great atmosphere, and are fun to watch, but attendance at these events today is usually limited to the students of the schools involved. However, back in the 1930s, this was clearly a big deal!

Having 6,000 people attend a high school title game is a lot, especially when you compare it with attendance today. The average attendance in 2015 for an Ottawa Fury soccer team home game was 5,164 and for an Ottawa 67s home game was 3,484, several thousand fewer than attended a 1930s Glebe high school football game!

What baffles me is that the Fury and these WNBA teams are professional sports teams in professional leagues, and the 67s play in the highest level of junior hockey competition. Judging by these statistics, back in the 1930s, people were more interested in high school athletics than people in 2016 are in some professional sports. That tells you how much high school competition meant to the people of that time. They used high school sports as one of their prime sources of sports entertainment. It didn’t matter who was playing; even if you weren’t connected with a certain high school, you went and watched the games because they were fun, exciting and had a great atmosphere.

Another difference between now and then is that the terminology used in the 1930s was monumentally different from the way we communicate today.

For example, one article described the members of a 1938 softball team as nerds and eggheads. If I used terms like that, it would be deemed unacceptable, as today, those terms are used to make fun of someone.

One similarity that I found is how much Glebe Collegiate supports and cheers on their sports teams. Unlike in the 1930s, our high school sports don’t seem to generate as much interest from adults, but the love of athletic activity from within the school still speaks volumes. Our incredible coaches and excellent athletes show how much of a sports school Glebe can be. If that’s not enough, we have all 1,500 students to back them up.

The 1930s were a thriving time for Glebe Collegiate sports teams, with all the support they had and the interest that the games drew. With all the similarities and differences between these two decades, one thing is clear – the storied tradition of sports at Glebe has, does and will always “strive for the heights.”

Adam Coplan is a Grade 10 student at Glebe Collegiate with a love of sports, and is a budding sports reporter.

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Lyndra Griffith as Princess Katharine and Gail Larose as Alice, her lady-in-waiting, in Act III, Scene IV of Henry V, in a reading of excerpts from Shakespeare’s plays put on by the Ottawa Society for the Arts and Sciences

Ottawa Society for the Arts and Sciences

by Elaine Marlin

Have you heard of the Ottawa Society for the Arts and Sciences (OSFAS)? If not, you are missing something really interesting.

OSFAS was formed five years ago as a forum for the discussion of current issues in the arts and sciences. Modelled on societies popular in Ottawa’s early days, OSFAS presents lectures and panel discussions, and the occasional dramatic performance, free to the general public, three or four times a year.

So often, people are stuck in their professional silos unable to mingle, discuss or collaborate with people in other disciplines. Whether they are artists, scientists, scholars, writers, researchers, communicators or community organizers, they long to broaden their experience. To combat this isolation, the society’s aims, as expressed on the OSFAS website (www.osfas.ca), are:

1. to allow for formal discussions, in the shape of panel debates or lectures, on topics that straddle areas of current interest to those both in the arts and sciences or which relate to major political, social and cultural questions; and 2. to provide a relaxed atmosphere outside of the workplace in which people in the learned and related professions can socialize on a relatively informal basis.

Topics vary widely – some might say wildly – from Beavers: the most powerful animals in the world (Michael Runtz) to Butterflies of Ottawa Gatineau (Rick Cavasin); from Being modern: what the Enlightenment can still teach us (Douglas Moggach) to Ideas of north: variations on a theme of Glenn Gould (Tom Henighan), to Cinema in the digital age (Laurence Kardish). Several Glebe residents have given talks, including Chris Dornan speaking

on How to communicate with other worlds: from Sputnik to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, and Randal Marlin presenting Truth, lies and propaganda: ethical communication in the age of spin.

Last May, in a break from the usual format, teams of actors presented excerpts from Shakespeare’s plays to commemorate the fourth centenary of his death. The passages chosen centred on essential themes of human behaviour and emotion. It was such a hit that a repeat performance took place this September at Carleton University under the direction of Douglas Campbell with Josh Beer as producer.

OSFAS has a distinguished board and advisory committee co-chaired

by Gail Larose, a woman of both acting and organizational ability, and Josh Beer, adjunct professor in the

College of Humanities at Carleton.

Members come from varied backgrounds including the public service, our two universities, the private sector and the arts.

To join the society and to receive advance notice of lectures and events, sign up online at www.osfas.ca or come to one of the events. After every lecture and question period there is a convivial meeting in a pub across the street. This is a great chance to meet the presenter one-on-one and an excellent venue to continue the discussion with other attendees.

The next meeting will take place on Thursday, November 10 at 7 p.m. on the topic: A reading of war poetry from classical antiquity to the 20th Century,

by Gail Larose and Josh Beer. The readings will focus on the sufferings of war as they affect the participants, their families and loved ones. Events take place at the Main Branch Auditorium of the Ottawa Public Library, 120 Metcalfe Street at 7 p.m.

Stay tuned for information on a highlight of the 150th anniversary celebration of confederation: Sharon Buckingham, award-winning screenwriter, producer and story editor, will be speaking on Colonel By and the Duke of Wellington: the story of one man’s courage and another man’s treachery. It’s a behind-the-scenes look at the building of the Rideau Canal.

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Curried lentils wow the SHAD judges

until tender (7–9 minutes).

4. Add cooked lentils and some water if the mix is too dry, adjust for salt and pepper and let simmer at a gentle boil for 15–20 minutes, until lentils are soft.

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by Marisa Romano

Sometimes life brings us to unexpected places. This is what happened to me this summer when I received a phone call from Brian Burns, a Glebe resident and former university faculty member involved in the organization of SHAD Carleton.

Accepting his invitation to speak a few words on food security has opened a door into a world unknown to me, a world of excellence and bright creative minds eager to think outside the box and propose bold and innovative solutions to important problems. It also brought me to the discovery of an easy and appetizing recipe for curried lentils.

The SHAD program (www.shad. ca/) is run by SHAD Valley International, a non-profit organization based in Waterloo that provides an opportunity for outstanding high school students to share a life-changing experience with like-minded peers.

The program nurtures innovation and experimentation under the tagline “uncommon purpose,” and guides students through the planning of projects on selected themes. Carleton is one of the first Canadian universities to join SHAD, and one of the 12 institutions that hosted a four-week-long immersive program this summer. The 2016 theme was “how might we improve food security for Canadians?”

As defined at the 2009 UN World Summit, food security is achieved when there is continuous access to safe and nutritious food to support a healthy active life. Food security is lacking not only in third-world countries. Isolated communities and areas where nutritious food is not readily accessible or affordable can also be found in our cities where busy food banks support food-insecure people.

Later, I was invited to provide the students with feedback on their projects.

The Dragons Den- style presentations by the five teams were outstanding and all the proposals were based on interesting and sound ideas, but one in particular caught my attention.

Curried lentils were a hit with the judges at the SHAD program held at Carleton University this summer on the theme of food security for Canadians.

One of the teams, Pink House, presented “Impulses,” a kit containing various combinations of separately packaged non-perishable ingredients for easy and quick meals with pulses as a source of protein. This is a potentially viable alternative to fast food as it could help busy households quickly dish out nutritious and affordable meals. Pink House offered a taste of their product and treated the judges to a delicious dish of curried lentils that, I noticed, disappeared quickly from all the bowls.

Although “Impulses” was not chosen as the project to represent SHAD Carleton at the final national SHAD Cup in October, it is certainly an idea worth further exploration, especially if all the recipes included in the kits are as appetizing as the one that we judges savoured.

Pink House agreed to share the recipe with readers of the Glebe Report:

nutmeg and cinnamon ½ tsp allspice ⅔ cups onions, diced ½” ½ cup green lentils ¼ cup carrots, diced ½” ¼ cup celery, diced ½” ¾ cup tomatoes, diced ½” ⅓ cup zucchini, diced ½” 1 pinch each, salt, black pepper Method: 1. Rinse and boil lentils in water for 15–20 minutes.

2. Heat oil in frying pan. Sauté garlic, ginger and spices until the garlic is golden.

3. Add the vegetables and sauté

I checked with Glebe Collegiate before filing this article to find out if anyone from our neighbourhood school had made the list of 701 students selected from the 1,500 who applied to this year’s SHAD program worldwide. Christine Mac-Fan, the SHAD coordinator for the school, put me in contact with one of the three students who just joined the network of 15,000 SHAD alumni.

Anna Green, a grade 12 student, raved about her experience at Memorial University. Green is a resident of Rockcliffe who chose Glebe Collegiate for its French immersion and extensive sport programs. She heard of SHAD from a friend who participated last year and attended Mac-Fan’s orientation class. “It was my first time in Newfoundland,” she beamed. “The experience has been great, I had great program assistants and made friends I am still in contact with…. But no, no team worked with pulses.”

One intriguing coincidence is that both Memorial University and Carleton University will present very similar projects at SHAD Cup: a system to grow spirulina, an alga currently used as a food supplement.

Good luck to both teams!

Marisa Romano is a Glebe resident and former scientist who is working with Pulse Canada to spread the word about pulses (the dry seeds of legumes) as a nutritious food, in this, the International Year of Pulses.

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At the flicks with Lois and Paul

Les Innocentes directed by Anne Fontaine (France/Poland 2016)

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Bad Moms Directed by Jon Lucas, Scott Moore (USA, 2016)

by Lois Siegel

The film is hilarious.

Three moms have been trying to be good moms… they do the grocery shopping, schlep their kids to school and soccer practices, do their homework for them and make dinner. The kids are spoiled. The moms suddenly realize that the expectations for modern mothers are unmanageable. It’s a losing battle. They are always late, can’t handle all the responsibilities and their lives are just plain dull and exhausting.

Brainstorm: What if they became “Bad Moms.” Bad could be fun.

Amy (Mila Kunis) is the leader of the exodus. She exclaims: I’m so tired of trying to be the perfect mom. I’m done.” She’s had enough and convinces the other two to become partners in “mom crime.” Carla (Kathryn Hahn) is a divorced mom and already unconventionally wild. She hits on men as she drops off her lumbering, over-sized kid at school, and Kiki (Kristen Bell) says she has no friends, but she does have four young kids and a husband who does nothing to help around the house. Her dream: she fantasizes about being in a car accident as a relief to her uneventful life – two weeks in the hospital away from it all, lying in bed, eating Jell-O and watching TV. Sounds desperate.

Their opponents are three “do gooder” PTA (Parent-Teacher Association) moms. The president of the PTA is Gwendolyn (Christina Applegate).

“She who must be obeyed” is a control

freak and rules with spite and revenge.

Her PTA meetings last 2 – 3 hours, and they are definitely sleep-inducing.

Her bake sales list 14 ingredients that are not allowed – complete with a police force to “arrest” offenders. Her cohorts are Stacy (Jada Pinkett Smith) and Vicki (Annie Mumolo). They all lust over a ‘hot’ widower, Jesse (Jay Hernandez).

The Bad Moms go on a fun-filled binge – they invade the supermarket, party in bars, go to movies, and learn to love their lives. Amy stops doing her kids’ homework and making their breakfast. She tells her daughter, “Well, if you can’t go to college, you might as well be a teacher.” The Bad Moms revolt: all stops out.

When Mila (Bad Mom) decides to run against the PTA president in an election, there are many surprises, including a cameo with Martha Stewart playing herself. Producer Suzanne Todd convinced Stewart to fly to New Orleans for the shoot. “We had big plans for dinner for her, but at the very last second it blew up and wasn’t going to happen,” Todd explains. “We asked her to join us for the regular on-set movie catering… I remember feeling it was one of the more low moments of my producing career – pushing Martha Stewart through our salad bar.”

The cinematography expertly emphasizes humour as slow motion is used to highlight chaotic scenes.

You won’t stop laughing… and do stay for the credits. The actors’ real moms appear on screen with their actor daughters talking about their lives.

It’s a great “girls-night-out” film, but bring your guy. He’ll love it.

Running Time: 100 minutes DVD – Release: November 1, 2016 available on Amazon.com

This is an astonishing film and probably the finest effort from French director Anne Fontaine whose previous films include Coco avant Chanel, Gemma Bovery and Adore.

The drama that unfolds in Les Innocentes takes place in Russianoccupied Poland in December 1945, scant months after the end of the war in Europe. It is based on events apparently set down in the private diaries of one Madeleine Pauliac, a doctor and active participant in the French Résistance. Mathilde, as she is known in the film and played here with preternatural calm and assurance by actress Lou de Laâge, is a young French doctor assigned to a Red Cross medical mission in postwar Poland. Mathilde comes from a secular, working-class background; at one point, she confides to her cynical Jewish colleague over drinks that her parents were both Communists.

One day at the mission, after a long shift, a nun who has journeyed from a nearby Polish convent approached Mathilde. Sister Maria implores the doctor to accompany her to the convent where one of the sisters urgently requires medical attention. After some hesitation – it seems the mission is not really supposed to treat Polish civilians – Mathilde agrees to go with Sister Maria.

Upon arrival, the doctor is shown to the room of a novice who is, astonishingly, very pregnant and also in great pain. She quickly diagnoses a breech

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birth and performs a Caesarean section, thus saving mother and child.

Now there is much mystery surrounding this pregnancy, not least because no one will talk about it, not even, at first, Sister Maria who violated discipline to bring Mathilde into this situation. The atmosphere in the convent, apparently located in an isolated, snow-covered and denselywooded corner of rural Poland, is heavy. It is only gradually and then only as Sister Maria opens up to her that Mathilde learns the terrible truth.

It seems that months earlier, when Soviet troops were moving through this region, they forced their way into the convent on at least three occasions.

They raped a number of novices, leaving at least seven of them pregnant.

With great skill and dignity, the writers, veteran Pascal Bonitzer and Anne Fontaine herself, have laid out an impossible situation, one fraught with peril for all concerned. The status of the Polish Catholic church, now under Communist rule, was already very tenuous, and should these tragic events become known, it would place the Church in an untenable position. The novices themselves, doubly traumatized by the physical assault on their bodies and by the violation of their oath of chastity, feel a deep sense of shame, despite being the innocent victims they are, as indeed the title suggests. In addition to their mortification, some are even torn by the pangs of a motherhood they have not sought. And one or two are approaching madness. There is an outstanding performance here from actress Agata Kulesza as the Mother Superior, an excellent representation of an authority figure who feels compassion for her charges on the one hand, coupled with a determination to suppress the scandal at all costs, on the other.

Also noteworthy is the performance of Agata Busek in the role of Sister Maria. Though she too was raped, Sister Maria knew a man before taking her vows, hence the resilience she displays in dealing with her own situation, while providing invaluable assistance to Mathilde.

Another issue that arises is what to do with the babies, particularly when the Mother Superior is forced to recognize that her initial approach – adopting them out almost as soon as they are born, or worse – is just not working.

Les Innocentes is a searing drama of the human condition that is quite unlike anything I have seen on the screen in a very long time. The acting, writing, cinematography and pacing – the story does not unfold quickly – are superb. However, it is the actors in particular, with their unflinching portrayal of human beings in extremis, that is, human beings who are distressed, afflicted and under great pressure, who carry this remarkable film.

Running time: 115 minutes. Rating 14A. In Polish and French with English subtitles.

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India in the Glebe

India in the Glebe!

I live near the corner of Bronson and Carling. I walk a lot. I try to be a “mindful” walker: I stop. I pause. I look. I wonder. Suddenly, I am finding India everywhere.

Along Dows Lake, the Air India Flight 182 memorial. On 23 June, 1985, an Air India plane, “Kanishka,” crashed into the Atlantic Ocean. A total of 329 people were killed, including 268 Canadian citizens, mostly of

Statue of M.K. Gandhi outside River Building, Carleton University

Indian origin. A vigil is held there every year.

Onwards, searching. At the Sunnyside branch of the Ottawa Public Library, I type “India” and 3,850 entries show up. I find a book called Questions and Answers by Vikas Swarup, which was the basis for the movie Slumdog Millionaire. All the well-known Indian authors are here – Jhumpa Lahiri, Salman Rushdie, Vikram Seth and more. I find books relating to India on travel, history, culture and philosophy. I find CDs from popular Bollywood music to Ravi Shankar and DVDs of Indian movies.

I think everyone should watch a Bollywood movie once. It is best enjoyed with a friend from India, and if you don’t have an Indian friend, find one, or call me.

Walking out of the library, I go north on Bank Street, pause for a moment to gaze at the canal while crossing the

iconic Bank Street Bridge. Between TD Place and Chamberlain Avenue there are at least three Indian restaurants. I have also found an Indian food truck somewhere next to a park between Bay and Lyon.

Amazingly, I learn, there is a lot more of India to discover within blocks of where I live. At Carleton University, there is a statue of the Father of India, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. This man who was born in the 19th century continues to influence us in the 21st century. He not only created a revolution of non-violence (a bit of an oxymoron), he created a generation of thought that led not only to a universal civil rights movement, but even to our own Prime Minister today, when Mr. Trudeau says we, as Canadians, can teach better than we can bomb!

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There are also three Indian/Hindi radio shows that I am aware of on the Carleton radio station CKCU FM (full disclosure: I am informally associated with one of these shows).

I began this “India in the Glebe” quest with the idea that it be confined to the places I can walk. Within an hour walking distance, I found an abundance of India.

I alluded to the importance of having an Indian friend. I will conclude with this: If you don’t already have an Indian friend, make an Indian friend.

Invite this Indian friend to dinner.

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Beds of marigolds growing along Dows Lake recall the fragrance and colours of India.

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Some months ago, I saw an ad for a butter chicken sandwich at a popular franchise. “Really – India in a wrapper,” I said to myself.

Then I saw flowers, marigolds blooming all around Dow’s Lake.

I grew up with these flowers. I love their smell. I love their religious connotations. In the India I grew up in, marigolds were a part of every ritual: births, weddings, deaths. I confess that I plucked one as I walked along the canal, at the risk of being ticketed, and then I smelled it for the time it took me to walk to Bank Street. I plucked each petal and cast it along my pathway, thinking, “may you be as blessed as I have been walking this path.”

Then I saw a tiny piece of garbage on Bronson and Catherine. I am not even sure you can find this in India any more – a wrapper from a breath freshener that says, “For Export Only.”

The package contains ingredients that I think are banned in India because they might be carcinogenic, but they are still hugely popular in India, and evidently, Ottawa.

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ENCORE FASHION’S FALL SHOWCASE, Nov. 5, 10 a.m. -2 p.m. Fourth Ave. Baptist Church, 109A Fourth Ave. at Bank. Designer men’s and women’s clothing, jewellery, accessories, gift table stocked with new and vintage treasures and collectibles. Enjoy live jazz, refreshments and home baking.

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GRAND MARKET, Oct. 30, 9 a.m. - 3 p.m., Horticulture Building, Lansdowne. Giant sale for Stephen Lewis’ Grandmothers Campaign. Women’s clothing, books, art, pottery, crafts, & more. 613-864-6442.

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New ringers welcome throughout October. Contact our director, Lynn Boothroyd, contact@standrewsottawa.ca or 613-2329042.

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IRISH SENIORS’ SOCIAL GROUP OF OTTAWA meets every Tuesday 11 – 2, Sept. to June. Potluck lunch and activities. $3 fee.

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MARIJUANA LECTURE Carleton University’s Prof. Peter Fried will lecture on “What You Need to Know about Marijuana,” Thurs., Oct. 27, 7 p.m. multipurpose room, Glebe Community Centre, 175 Third Ave. MARTINI MADNESS 11th annual autumn social mixer in support of CROHN’S & COLITIS CANADA, Thurs., Nov.10, 7 p.m., Lago on Dow’s Lake. Ticket includes appetizers, gourmet dinner stations, martini sampling and photo booth. Featuring local art sale, jazz band with silent & live auctions.

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Glebe Report October 14, 2016

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HOME RENOS AND REPAIR

Book Launch with Ian McKercher

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

Call Becklumb’s for Furnace Sales and Service.

613 710-1015 The Glebe’s only HVAC contractor

Sunday, October 23rd at 7:00 PM Glebe St. James United Church hall 650 Lyon Street

handyman No HST charged. Will do plumbing, electrical, carpentry, drywall, painting, ceramic work. Bathroom, kitchen, and basement renovations. Warranted, insured, bonded. Peter: 613 797-9905.

(corner of First Avenue)

OTTAWA PRIVATE SCHOOL EXPO November 6th - Shaw Centre See page 9 for details

Owners get a stronger ROI CATS R US Canada’s One and Only Cat Boutique is seeking a part-time (weekday mornings) sales associate. Perfect for a retiree!

Please apply by sending resume to meow@catsrus.com

When you join Your Credit Union you become an owner and that means you get the highest possible return on your investments.

2.25%

ON A 48-MONTH TERM DEPOSIT

That’s 40% higher than most banks and 45 times the interest you earn in a typical savings account. All deposits are insured and we will even cover any transfer costs your bank charges you up to $100.

IT’S JUST A BETTER WAY TO BANK Higher returns, lower fees, North America’s #1 rated banking app, and complete financial services to fit your unique needs, that’s how ownership makes banking better.

YourCU.com 1-800-379-7757 14 Chamberlain Ave. • 1541 Merivale Rd. • 2016 Tenth Line Rd.

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October 14, 2016

“Dreams of Home” by Nola Juraitis

Glebe Neighbourhood Ac0vi0es Group Glebe Community Centre

175 Third Avenue, O9awa, ON K1S 2K2 613-­‐233-­‐8713

www.gnag.ca

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

Children 9 and under must be accompanied by an adult.

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

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

www.ottawa.ca

Glebe

CRAFT & ARTISAN

Fair

Fri, Nov 18, 6 -­‐ 9 pm Sat, Nov 19, 10 -­‐ 5 pm Sun, Nov 20, 11 -­‐ 4 pm

FREE

ADMISSION Join us for LUNCH at the Glebe CC Mon -­‐ Fri 11:30 -­‐ 2:30 pm

building a better community one bite at a time Check the website for updated hours and menu