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Who lives here? The house with the white picket fence Our series continues with a small house that has very big neighbours

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Anne Hamilton lives on Edison at Princeton in the small house with the white picket fence. See extra photos at kitchissippi.com. Photo by Andrea Tomkins

In the meantime, she will continue to enjoy her life in Westboro. She retired about two years ago. One of the aspects of living in Westboro she enjoys the most is the close proximity of shops and retail outlets. She is proud of the fact that she did all of her Christmas shopping last year on foot in the shops along Richmond Road.

Anne also likes the quirkiness of Westboro. The older homes reflect the aspirations of people who wanted to build their dream homes, their starter homes or, in her case, a little blue and

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On July 1, 1991, her offer to purchase was accepted. Once the deal had closed, Anne spent the first two weeks stripping layers of wallpaper from the different rooms. The carpet was also removed, including some blue shag version in the bathroom. As far as she can tell, the house may have originally been a small two-room cottage. It has had, by her estimate, at least two additions over the years.

Larger projects followed the cosmetic changes. Over the years she has also remodeled the bathroom and kitchen, created a cozy den and had hardwood flooring installed.

Work was also done to improve the basement and create enough space for the furnace. The renovations unearthed an old newspaper, The (Ottawa) Evening Journal from 1908, which was likely used for insulation.

(Back then, the paper cost 1 cent!)

The presence of the old newspaper suggests Anne’s home was originally built around the turn of the 20th century.

Today, the generous yards that surround the house are perfect for her dog, Katie, who loves visitors and never seems to tire from chasing and returning a red plastic ball.

While Anne has lived happily in her home for 26 years now, she and her property are not immune to the redevelopment trend that has become so prevalent in Westboro.

The bungalow immediately beside her home was razed about five years ago and a builder erected two very large single homes. As a result, the loss of morning sun in her bedroom prompted Anne to have a bay window installed in the adjacent living room, which lets more light into the home.

Across the street are two modern, single-family homes and to the north, across Princeton Avenue, sixteen single family homes will soon be built on a large property that was once part of the Sisters of Jean D’Arc convent grounds.

Despite all of the development activity around her, Anne has no problem with the concept of infill. “I just wish,” she says, “that they’d build more community friendly houses.”

As for the future, Anne has no intention of moving. “There is no offer that would attract me,” she says, flatly.

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Anne Hamilton woke up one morning in the summer of 1991 and thought: “I think I’ll buy a house today.”

Having rented a small one-bedroom apartment in the Glebe, she figured the time had come to buy a home of her own. She even had an image in her mind of the kind of house she was after. “What I saw in my mind was a little cottage with trees, a dog and a cat.”

Later that day Anne bought a copy of the Ottawa Citizen and scanned the real estate section. An ad for a modest, cottage-like home on a generous 66 x 100-foot lot, surrounded by tall trees at 552 Edison Ave. in Westboro attracted her attention. Anne was no stranger to Westboro, as her parents had moved from Toronto to a home on Wesley Avenue where she and her three siblings lived for several years.

Before long, Anne was on the phone to the real estate agent who promptly advised her there’s no basement and no washer or dryer.

“She obviously didn’t think that I’d be interested without those, and it obviously didn’t deter me. And I did take my clothes to the laundromat for the first 22 years I lived here.”

Anne also recalled the agent suggested she peek in the windows to make sure she was interested before scheduling a visit.

Approaching the house through the gate in a picket fence, Anne was immediately impressed with the little blue and white wooden house. It reminded her of her grandparent’s summer farmhouse near Ilderton, Ontario. It was at that moment Anne decided this was the home for her. It was the only house she looked at.

Despite comments from her lawyer, who told her she could buy a brand new house in Barrhaven for the same amount of money (approximately $135,000), and a caution from the real estate agent not to pour money into the place, Anne was undeterred.

“I was looking for a home, not an investment,” she says.

She talked to a friend who had some renovation experience, who said the building could be renovated without too much hassle. Another friend said that they liked the feel of the house. “Besides,” Anne points out, “it was bigger than my one bedroom apartment.”

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“My best advice is don’t worry about the past, enjoy the moment, and the future will just come.

“I was born in Israel, and I grew up there. I’ve been living in Ottawa since 2010. I’ve lived in the Kitchissippi area the entire time. I like that this area is central and everything is accessible. There’s a lot of places to walk, even if it’s just by the river, and the river is

my favourite part of this place.

I grew up on the beach in Israel, but there is no rain there. I miss that it is warmer in Israel, but it also gets too hot, and I kind of like it here.

Maybe I miss having a dry summer and a summer with no rain.

“My children speak French and Hebrew. I read stories to them every night in Hebrew and only talk to them in that

language. My wife speaks French to them and they go to a French school.

“In the future, I’d love to visit Churchill, Manitoba to see the polar bears. I’ve probably been to 20-30 countries in the world. Ecuador was pretty cool, Iceland was pretty cool, Alaska was amazing, Calgary was pretty good, Banff was pretty awesome.”

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Canada and abroad. Yet she knows there’s a treasure trove right here, not far from at her Tweedsmuir Avenue door.

“I love the Ottawa River. I know I’m really fortunate to live so close to it and be able to come here anytime to look for birds.”

In fact, this section of river and shoreline is designated an Important Bird and Biodiversity Area (IBA) by BirdLife International, for being globally important for the conservation of bird populations. The Lac DeschenesOttawa River IBA covers a stretch of river and shoreline from Quyon, Quebec almost to the Chaudiere rapids.

Nature Canada works with BirdLife International to identify IBAs and develop conservation plans. According to Ted Cheskey, Senior Conservation Manager with Nature Canada, this IBA encompasses important habitat for species at risk, and reflects the need for connectivity to other major nature fea-

Kitchissippi’s Bev McBride leads birding excursions for the Ottawa FieldNaturalists Club. She’s pictured here on the shores of the Ottawa River, which is part of an internationally designated Important Bird and Biodiversity Area (IBA). Photo by Andrea Tomkins

if they’re constantly disturbed and fly up and land again, they’re using up their energy stores.” Being aware of the birds, and keeping ourselves and our pets at a distance, can help the birds complete their migration successfully.

For birds, the IBA offers food, shelter, a safe place to raise children, and some undisturbed time to rest.

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Bev McBride is being interviewed and giving the conversation her full attention, but doesn’t miss a beat when asked what birds she’s noticing, on the shore of the Ottawa River downstream from Westboro Beach. Like rapid-fire, she lists them.

“I hear American Goldfinches over there,” she says, gesturing to the vegetation on her left. “Northern Cardinals in the shrubs along there,” further up the bike path. “Song sparrows all along here, and those are Ring-billed Gulls out on the water.”

Her ears and eyes finely-tuned by decades of birding, Bev’s observations are a revelation to a non-birder, ears straining to discern the Goldfinches’ chirps amidst the thrum of insects and sounds of the river.

Together with her partner Dave Moore, Bev leads local excursions for the Ottawa Field-Naturalists Club and has made numerous birding trips in

tures such as Gatineau Park and the Greenbelt. It’s important for the sheer numbers of certain species that pause for part of their life cycle here or pass through, including Red-throated Loon, Brant, Herring Gull, Greater Black Backed Gull, and Chimney Swift.

The IBA provides food, shelter, nesting areas and roosting areas for the birds. While birding hot spots like Mud Lake are outside the Kitchissippi neighbourhood, we have several key places here as well. Bate Island, at the Champlain Bridge, is notable for water fowl, such as Common Golden-Eye ducks. For many years Bev coordinated the local sector of the Christmas Bird Count (an international census of birds) and one year the volunteers noted 500-1000 Common Golden-Eye roosting at Lemieux Island. It’s also a significant spot for Ring-Billed Gulls and Double-crested Cormorants, whose numbers are on the rise in the IBA. Nature Canada developed a conservation plan for the IBA in 2014 and identified key threats to the birds, including the increasing recreational use of the river and the loss of chimneys which Chimney Swifts use to roost.

Fall migration is underway for many species, and fall recreation for humans.

When migrating birds pause here during a long trip from the Arctic. “They use their stops to re-fuel,” says Bev, “so

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Among the host locations participating in this year’s GEDO Ottawa is a Hintonburg-area home owned by Mark and Megan Rosen. The couple and their two daughters are nearing completion of their home, located at 105 Bayswater Avenue, which they hope to certify as a Passive House (also known as a Passivehaus).

Certified Passive Houses are homes that meet very high energy efficiency standards. In areas with cold climates like Ottawa, home heating contributes the lion’s share of one’s carbon footprint.

“On the scale of global environmental impact heating energy in a climate like ours is a greater challenge than almost all the other factors combined,” says Mark. “So it really made sense to start there, and to start with the Passive House heating target.”

Mark is the lead architect and Passive House consultant on the home. He says that in the time that he and his family have been living there (close to one year), they have used nearly 80% less energy heating their home. The house employs a shallow geothermal ground loop, an energy recovery ventilator, an electric heat pump hot water tank, and is greywater ready.

While there are only a handful of Passive Houses in the greater Ottawa area, Mark is hopeful that this won’t be the case for long. “I believe that, not too long from now, there will be a time when the market recognizes that this is a better way to build houses, with products becoming more available,” says Mark. “And at the same time, you will have regulations coming from the other end, pushing houses towards this standard.”

Cities in Canada like Vancouver are beginning to incentivize Passive House construction through the relaxation of certain regulations for those undertaking the certification process. They are also introducing stricter energy efficiency measures in their new building code called the “Step Code” in which there are numerous tiers of energy efficiency targets. Over time, the tiers with the lowest targets will begin to drop off, causing a gradual shift toward more and more energy efficiency.

To learn more about the Green Energy Doors Open showcase visit ottawagedo.org. For more information about Mark and Megan’s home, go to webuildahome.ca.

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“These showcases will include a panel of electric vehicle owners sharing their road trip travel experiences, an electric vehicle garage, as well as two energy efficient tiny homes designed and built by Carleton University students.”

“I believe that, not too long from now, there will be a time when the market recognizes that this is a better way to build houses, with products becoming more available.”

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These showcases will include a panel of electric vehicle owners sharing their road trip travel experiences, an electric vehicle garage, as well as two energy efficient tiny homes designed and built by Carleton University students. Meanwhile, participating individuals and businesses all across the city are inviting the public to explore their green homes and offices and to learn more about green energy projects and green infrastructure.

“SMARTNet Alliance is a green energy business incubator, and the green energy industry is where we operate,” says Raymonde Lemire, the Alliance’s Business Services director.

“So obviously, events like GEDO fit in perfectly with our mandate.”

Understanding and sharing rapidly evolving trends in the environmental sector is a primary focus for the Alliance. Through a variety of services, it supports organizations and businesses that promote environmental sustainability and provide fair and well-paying jobs for their employees.

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A taste of “Tastes” Tastes of Wellington West took place on September 16. This annual street festival, which is organized by the Wellington West Business Improvement Area (WWBIA), gives residents and visitors alike a “taste” of what the area has to offer.

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Hintonburg residents Kim Truong-Trieu and Kayla Wemt are enjoying their first time at the Tastes of Wellington West. Here they are tasting samples of natural electrolytes from Watson’s Pharmacy & Compounding Center.

John and Rebecca Bruser recently moved to Ottawa from the Northwest Territories. They are enjoying their first experience at the Tastes of Wellington West with 3 1/2 month old Zach, who is sound asleep as they enjoy a pastry from a local shop.

Danika Smith (right) volunteered to try pottery at the Hintonburg Pottery Shop with instructor Ginger McCoy who loves sharing her knowledge and experience with others.

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The rooftop VIP Lounge was a hit with showgoers, and the weather couldn’t be better. Here, photographer Stenley Debrosse, captures moments.

The first annual Westboro Fuse Fashion event took place on Saturday September 23. This evening of fashion, art, and food was produced by the Westboro Village BIA in conjunction with The Loft West and Q West in support of Cornerstone Housing for Women.

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hat does the future of health care look like in Ottawa? It’s not just a topic for medical professionals, futurists, and tech start-ups, it’s an exciting conversation that is happening right now with ordinary citizens, all levels of government, and staff and neighbours of The Ottawa Hospital.

The planning of a new campus of The Ottawa Hospital on Carling Avenue is giving Ottawans an unprecedented opportunity to engage in the design process, reimagine health care delivery, and create a new vision for Ottawa itself.

In order to look at the future of health care, it’s important to take a look back. Hospitals have been around for centuries, mainly as a place to shelter and heal the most vulnerable members of our society. In the not-too-distant past, they were large institutional buildings designed almost entirely from the health provider’s perspective, not the patient’s – large wards, a factory feeling – diagnosis, treatment, and a farewell. In sharp contrast, a modern Ottawa hospital offers patients a more holistic approach to health care, a place that addresses disease prevention and health promotion in addition to being a hub for patient care, education, and research. Dr. Jack Kitts, CEO of The Ottawa Hospital describes this idea as “the continuum of care.”

Hospitals were always about caring for patients, but more so than ever, they’ll be part of a system that follows the entire continuum, from public health, disease prevention, healthy living, right through to primary care, acute care, and post-hospital care as well.

The new Ottawa hospital will be a modern, eco-friendly, 21st century health care facility that will build on The Ottawa Hospital’s international reputation. Dr. Kitts describes the new campus as a place of bright open areas punctuated with green spaces – walking paths, bike paths, and wellness gardens – to facilitate a patient’s recovery but also make it a pleasant place to work.

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isolation. It’s a reimagining of a significant part of Ottawa’s real estate. Guiding some of the key decisions will be a major consultation process with stakeholders and the wider community.

“The major part of the public consultation, where I think they’ll be most engaged, is the whole design and vision for the hospital,” says Dr. Kitts. “How does it fit into the neighbourhood, how does it blend with the streetscape, how much greenspace, where would it be, all sorts of things. How high, how large? The public will be very much engaged in the design and vision for the hospital.”

In time, Ottawa residents should also expect restructuring at the General and Riverside campuses. Part of the planning process will also determine which departments remain at which campus, with the intention of bringing certain services together to gain efficiency and ultimately improve patient care.

“There will be lots of planning, lots of benchmarking, looking at best practices, and

involving a lot of people,” says Dr. Kitts, “but knowing that the biggest thing we’ll have to plan into this new hospital is to be flexible for whatever the future might bring.”

Built-in flexibility is a “green” idea that ensures the new building will operate at maximum efficiency and provide good value, not just in 10 years when it’s built, but over the next 100 years. How does flexibility come into play? Imagine new medical techniques and treatments that won’t require overnight stays and free up hospital beds and staff, space which then can be used for something else.

Imagine that in 50 years it becomes common for Ottawa residents to order driverless cars to bring them to their appointments. We will need to be ready to adapt to changing times.

There are a lot of things we don’t know about the future. (Dr. Kitts is still hoping for a Star Trek style diagnostic tool like the tricorder.) We don’t know what new discoveries and inventions will come along, but we can predict that 21st century health care will be fully digitized, with health information at the fingertips of health care providers as well as patients. We can also predict that medical treatments will be personalized to a greater degree. The traditional “one size fits all” approach to treatment is already disappearing in some departments. For example, not everyone who has the same type of cancer should get the exact same treatment. Personalized health care is a better fit for a patient’s needs, and often results in faster recovery and fewer side effects.

It’s not too early to start talking about what will happen to the current Civic campus.

“I think it’s exciting to be able to think about how we might incorporate this site into the new hospital,” says Dr. Kitts. Once again, he goes back to the desire to encompass that continuum of care, because the discussion is about more than just a tertiary care hospital.

How it could integrate with the new campus on that continuum of care? Dr. Kitts speculates as to whether it could become a part of our “health village,” with retirement living, assisted living, long term care, or palliative care.

“As good as the health care system is today, I hope that each year it’s going to get progressively better and easier, both in prevention and cure,” says Dr. Kitts. “That’s where this hospital really prides itself in offering tomorrow’s health care, today.”

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Cross Training With a Difference St. Martin’s promotes whole-self fitness

By Sharron Hanna In the athletic realm, cross training can involve a mix of aerobic, strength training and flexibility workouts that lead to whole body fitness. Transferring that concept into the Christian realm yields a mix of activity that can provide young people especially with a firm grounding in Christian values, community support and involvement.

At St Martin’s church in McKellar Park neighbourhood, children and young people will be able to experience the benefits of Cross Training being offered every Sunday throughout the fall, winter and spring of the year.

Hannah Marsh, the recently appointed Director of Youth and Family Ministries, is the inventive point person responsible for coining the name and delivering the Cross Training program. She brings a wealth of wisdom, teaching and coaching experience to the post.

Born and raised in Ottawa with deep roots in the Ottawa Valley on her Mom’s side and British roots on her Dad’s side, Hannah is a “McKellarite” having completed her public and secondary schooling at Broadview Public and Nepean High.

She then attended North Bay’s Nippissing University, renowned and respected for the excellence of its teaching and nursing programs, where she earned an Honours BA and a Bachelor of Education.

Upon graduation in 2013 Hannah headed overseas for teaching assignments in several East London schools leaving behind her St Martin`s church family and her own family who have been a mainstay of parish life for the past fifteen years.

Before St Martin’s Cross Training gets underway Sunday, September 17, the Original

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Hannah took time out to share a bit about her life and times and the place Christian religion can have in a young person’s life.

In considering the documented fall away in church going by young families and declining parishioner numbers, Hannah is guardedly optimistic that formal Christian religion is adapting to the changing times, albeit slowly.

Given that parents want the best for their children, Hannah has no problem agreeing that despite the overloaded schedules of young families, building in some exposure to formal religion is important.

Even though many parents are themselves the product of burgeoning Sunday School classes in the 1960’s that grounded them in the values they now raise their children by, they have stepped away from attending, in part she feels, because religion strikes them as being outdated. “Its not a popular thing.”

Hannah herself did not attend Sunday School as such, but, throughout her younger formative years grew up with kids from blended, single parent and same gender families all of which helps her keep a pulse on the current times and realities. Hannah looked online for inspiration on what to call the program seeking something that offered a transition from the more formal, rigid weekday school classroom and in the process opening up a lot of doors that don`t have to be labelled school.

Her experience teaching Muslim, Hindu and Christian students in East London schools affirmed for Hannah the role that Cross Training can play in reinforcing Christian values here in her home community.

A key takeaway for St Martin`s

The new Director of Youth and Family Ministries at St Martin’s Church in McKellar Park, Hannah Marsh, has her eye on the horizon and her mind fixed on blending religious teaching with a healthy lifestyle. Photo by Sharron Hanna

Cross Training is that it’s about way more than just bible stories. It’s about community, serving and about Jesus being more than just a teacher. A key message to parents and parishioners from Hannah: Don`t be afraid to get involved.

Involvement is essential, otherwise, the children and young people will conclude it is not important.

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Hampton Iona Community Group: Ward 15 Looks 4Ward

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Today’s meeting for tomorrow’s community

By Lorne Cutler, Pres. HICG Think about the qualities that drew you to live in the neighbourhood of Hampton Iona and/or the surrounding Westboro and Wellington Village areas. What made this a place in which you wanted to live, raise a family and retire? How do you feel about the way your neighbourhood is developing now? What concerns you? What excites you? How do we retain the qualities that make this a special part of the city in which to live, while dealing with issues such as intensification, and opportunities such as the (LRT)?

Come and join us for a “big picture” conversation concerning the future of our corner of Kitchissippi Ward. With significant new development, infill, and changing transportation systems, Hampton Iona and the rest of Kitchissippi Ward will look significantly different in 10 or 20 years.

How can we have a voice in what our future will look like? What role can citizens play in designing our neighbourhoods and city; and coping with change? How can we make sure that our social and physical infrastructures keep pace with population growth?

On October 18 from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m., the Hampton Iona Community Group (HICG) will be holding a public conversation called Ward 15: Looking 4ward, with Councillor Jeff Leiper.

Facilitated, by our own professional facilitator Ken Hoffman of One World, Ward 15: Looking 4ward will be an opportunity to learn more about what is envisioned by the City of Ottawa for our area, and for us to work in small groups to discuss what is important to us.

From population projections to the impact of the LRT on our neighbourhoods, this will be an opportunity for all of us to learn more about the future, the role we can play, and that of our community association, in helping to make decisions.

While we have all had concerns and complaints about both the impact and implementation of intensification, we recognize that growth is going to happen. On October 18th, we will learn what we need to do to have City revise our Secondary Plan so that it has teeth, and what our role is in revising the Plan.

While the Ward15: Looking 4ward event is intended for residents of the Hampton Iona area, if you care about the future of Westboro you may be interested regardless where you live in the ward.

Ward15: Looking 4ward will be held in the second floor demonstration kitchen (handicap accessible) at the Loblaws Superstore (Richmond Road and Kirkwood). For details or questions, please contact HIGC at webmaster@ hamptoniona.ca. We look forward to seeing you on October 18th.

By Jennifer Johnson, Supervising Librarian As the season changes, and school resumes, the Rosemount library continues to be a gathering place and service hub for the community.

Programs for the very young start a new schedule on the week of September 12th, including Toddlertime on Tuesdays at 10:15 a.m.; Family Storytime on Wednesday at 10:15 a.m.; and Babytime on Thursdays at 10:15 a.m. and 2:00 p.m.

Saturdays will host an exciting, new format of Family Storytime, “Stay and Play.”

Stories will be part of a welcoming morning, where families can enjoy playing and visiting together, starting at 10:00 a.m.

The English Conversation Circle will resume on September 20th, from 7:00-8:00. Volunteers are available to share a friendly, relaxed learning experience with adult language learners.

All programs are drop-in.

The Rosemount branch continues to support all learners with wifi access, public computers with printer, and a fleet of Chromebooks for borrowing within the branch. Books and magazines are always available in the branch, and if your interests range more widely, materials can be put on hold and transferred to Rosemount from other libraries with larger collections for reading pleasure and learning.

As part of the OPL 150 events, Rosemount will host a special program on Saturday October 28th, called Haunted Library. Planning is underway for a storyteller, a monster program, and the chance to create a memorable photo moment. Watch for more details on this special event.

Rosemount Library, 18 Rosemount Ave. rosemount@ biblioottawalibrary.ca.

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We Have a Winner!

Hintonburg boasts world’s BEST gelato

By Allyson Domanski As the September 14th issue of Newswest was going to print, Stella Luna Gelato Café owner Tammy Giuliani was winning big at the Gelato World Tour Finals in Remini, Italy.

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The award-winning flavour -- a dark chocolate fudge with bourbon and maple-encrusted pecans -- was amazing. I took home a 1/2 litre. Magnifico. And congratulations.

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Enriched Bread Artists Open Studio

Celebrating 25 Years

150th birthday. Unique and inspired cakes created for this project by EBA artists area instead on display during EBA Open Studio at 951 Gladstone Ave, just west of Preston.

Exhibition continues: Friday, October 20 & 27: 6:00 - 9:00 p.m.

Saturday, October 21 & 28: 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Sunday, October 22 & 29: 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Admission is free.

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Participating artists: Sarah Anderson, Marianne Burlew, Heidi Conrod, Tami Galili Ellis, Colette Gréco-Riddle , Marika Jemma, Sayward Johnson, Gayle Kells, Gillian King, Natasha Mazurka, Juliana McDonald , Jenny McMaster, Christos Pantieras , Bozica Radjenovic ,

Mana Rouholamini , Daniel Sharp , William Staubi , Cindy Stelmackowich, Svetlana Swinimer, Tavi Weisz, Joyce Westrop, and Yvonne Wiegers The Enriched Bread Artists is a non-profit, artist-run organization dedicated to the promotion of visual artists through the provision of studio space. Its long-term mandate commits to providing education and promotion of the visual arts through exhibitions, workshops, seminars and the production of visual arts projects for both public spaces and galleries.

The EBA is located on the first and second floors of 951 Gladstone Avenue in Ottawa, in a former bread factory built by the Standard Bread Company in 1924.

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By E.B.A. PR Committee This October, Ottawa’s largest art studio cooperative is celebrating its 25th Annual Open Studio with a two-floor contemporary art exhibition. Located in an old bread factory, the Enriched Bread Artists (EBA) studios house 22 artists working in diverse media, including painting, drawing, photography, sculpture and digital media.

Visitors can explore each studio, encountering the artists in an intimate context, and discover how they work.

In addition, this year, EBA is the proud recipient of a grant from the Ottawa 2017 Arts, Culture and Heritage Investment Program.

The grant is being used toward the development of our project, Cut the Cake – Celebrate!, a collaborative and celebratory project themed with the Ottawa 2017 mission to celebrate Canada’s

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Rosemount Library

The City should commit to a new plan

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By Blaine Marchand, R.E.A.D. The upcoming year will be an auspicious one for the Rosemount branch library building, which, in November 2018, will mark 100 years at its current location. The branch first opened in 1911 and was located in different locations around the area.

In the lead-up to the centennial, the Ottawa Library Board (OLB) has asked for a business case to consider whether the building, built to serve a small population of about roughly 18,000 people, can continue to meet the modern needs of a catchment area of 41,000 people, or whether a new site should be found. The business case will be presented at the October 10th Board meeting, 5:00 p.m. at City Hall.

“For years, Rosemount has been at the top of the OPL’s priority list for capital renewals,” stated Joshua Nutt, chair of the Rosemount Expansion and Development (READ) committee, in a letter recently sent to Mayor Jim Watson and Councillor Tim Tierney, Chair of OLB. “Now is the time to look to the future and create a new Rosemount that will serve the next generation of library users in our community.”

A century ago, Rosemount Library’s sole purpose was books for readers. Today, a modern library must function as a community hub and respond to diverse requests. While Rosemount ranks first in terms of circulation by square footage, it ranks 21st out of 25 for the size of facility.

It can offer books, DVDs and CDs, but it has limited computer access, poor seating areas, no teen space and no meeting rooms for its users.

“A new library is needed to serve the needs of a growing population,” Nutt told me. “Intensification is taking place in Kitchissippi Ward at an alarming rate. In 2016 alone, 639 new places were built. In fact, our ward accounts for 1/3 of the infill across the five urban wards of the central area.”

Intensification plus the recent reassessment of house values in the ward has enriched the city’s tax yield. The question is whether any of these increased revenues will be allocated toward a new library

For the Rosemount Ave. branch of the Ottawa Public Library, November 2017 will mark 99 years in its present location. The building serves more than three times the number of readers it was intended to accomodate and regular users are wishing for improvements for the Rosemount building’s centennial next year.

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building for our area. During consultations held with the community in the spring of 2016, participants came to the conclusion that the current building is inadequate and that renovations will not allow the branch to serve the community by today’s standards. Their view is that a new library close to the current location is a must.

In other areas of the city, the OLB has recognized this. Carlingwood and St. Laurent branches, which serve comparable population sizes, are two or three times as large. The Carlingwood at 19,960 sq. ft. was renovated, and St. Laurent more than doubled in size to 13,540 sq. ft. Rosemount was expanded in 1932 and received a renovation in the 1980s. But its relatively small size at just over 6000 sq. ft. is problematic in a community whose population continues to grow.

Other Canadian cities such as Winnipeg, Edmonton and Toronto have put in place a vigorous renewal program for their aging library infrastructure. This has included modernization, expansion or complete replacement and relocation. All with the goal of meeting the new library, information and community needs of citizens.

Ottawa should likewise have a comprehensive plan for our city libraries.

“READ recognizes there are competing priorities,” Nutt added. “While our neighbourhood does not have access to the same level of development charges as do

Cst Neilly’s Neighbourhood

Tips to avoid theft from vehicles

By Cst Dawn Neilly Do you own/rent/drive a vehicle? Do you park it in your driveway, on the street, in parking lots or parking garages?

Do you, all the time or from time to time, leave things in your car? If so, you are a potential victim of theft – either the theft of your vehicle or of its contents.

Thefts from vehicles in particular are rampant in Ottawa. Look at the number of accessible cars on the street and you can imagine why they’re a popular target. It takes no time at all to see if a door is unlocked or to do a “smash and grab”

if the doors are locked.

Here’s a scenario for you to think about: you’ve parked your car at the mall while you go in to do a quick bit of shopping. Because you’re only going to be gone a few minutes, you don’t bother locking it. You’ve just come from the gym and you’ve left your gym bag on the back seat. A guy down on his luck comes by, sees his opportunity, rifles through the bag and finds a pair of runners that are a nice replacement for the worn out ones he’s wearing which he leaves for you in your bag. True story.

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Frontier College needs both French and English speaking volunteers to support children and youth in reading and homework at the Rosemount Public Library on Wednesdays from 4:30-5:30 pm. Training is provided.

You do not need teaching experience and a Police Check is completed free of charge. Please contact sbrydges@ frontiercollege.ca or 613-816-1403.

For more info see frontiercollege.ca other parts of the city, this should not be an impediment to our residents having access to high-quality library services offered in other branch libraries. READ hopes the business case will recommend the OPL and the city think creatively, explore partnerships, and do right by those who live in the Rosemount catchment area. The Board should commit to a plan for a new Rosemount library that will serve our community for the next 100 years.”

You can imagine that if you’re someone who has no money and vehicles that have stuff in them are easy to break into, they’re a temptation that can’t be resisted. You might think there’s nothing to get too excited about in your car – smelly runners? – but to someone else it’s a gold mine.

A smash and grab is a simple operation for the thief, but it’s going to leave you with a major headache. The cure?

Keep your vehicle locked, leave nothing visible inside (hiding something under a blanket doesn’t count) and put an “All Valuables Removed”card (I have some at the Wellington Community Police Centre) in the window to make it very clear you’re not worth the effort.

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House is Back in Session

By Catherine McKenna, MP, Ottawa-Centre As the summer winds down, and as I prepare to join my colleagues back on Parliament Hill, I thought it would be great to look back on some accomplishments, and highlight some of the important work we have planned.

This summer, Ottawa Centre received federal funding for some really exciting and important initiatives. Through the Canada Summer Jobs program, 133 organizations received a total of $1.4 million to hire students in the community: The Boys and Girls Club of Ottawa and The Soloway Jewish Community Centre received $590,648 to upgrade their infrastructure; the Social Planning Committee of Ottawa and The Wood Manufacturing Council received funding to provide training to close to 150 youth; The Canadian Council of Aviation and Aerospace received $220,000 to hire post-secondary graduates for

their first job in aerospace manufacturing, and up to $1.09 billion was announced for Ottawa Light Rail Transit Stage 2 Project.

There are other topics I heard a lot about while knocking on doors in the riding this year. I am proud of the progress our Government has made in these areas: • A bill was introduced to legalize, strictly regulate, and restrict access to cannabis by July 2018. This legislation will, for the first time, make it a specific criminal offence to sell cannabis to a minor.

• Tax relief measures for deployed Canadian Armed Forces personnel and police officers were announced in May and it is no longer a requirement for sponsored spouses to live with their sponsor for two years in order to keep their permanent resident status. These changes are great news for residents of

Biking Gets a Little Greener

Growing Futures at NCC’s Bike Days

“Seeing a group of 4 ten-year-olds giving up part of their weekends to sell pedalpowered green smoothies was indescribable.”

There are a lot of positive milestones to look back on, but I know we still have plenty of work to do.

I look forward to getting back to the Hill to represent the people of Ottawa Centre and to represent our country as the Minister of Environment and Climate Change.

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to participate in the Bike Days was appealing. Thus began an adventure. We recruited a small group of students ( the majority of which were boys) who had been in a Growing Futures classroom at Connaught Public School.

The youth had experience growing and selling greens, and fit the bill for young entrepreneurs. We had some extra frozen greens that the students had grown during the school year, so the students thought green smoothies could be a good idea. But then how would we possibly have fresh green smoothies on a bike path?

Enter the Greenilicious Blender Bike. One of our incredible volun-

• In June, Bill C-18 received royal assent. As the Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Bill C-18 is something I am particularly proud of as it protects to ecological integrity of Rouge National Urban Park.

The Rouge has an incredible diversity of natural and cultural treasures and has some of the oldest Indigenous sites in our country. Such a unique place deserves the same level of ecological protection as every other national park in our country.

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By Lucia Eyzaguirre It all started in May, when the National Capital Commission made a call to action for all its young entrepreneurs to set up kiosks along the Parkway for Sunday Bike Days. As the administrative assistant for the Parkdale Food Centre’s Growing Futures, I was thrilled. A chance for our youth to be in the public eye?

Outside in the sunshine? Yes, please.

Let me back up and introduce the wonderful organization I work for. The Parkdale Food Centre (PFC) is a food bank that works to increase food security and food justice in its community.

The Centre hosts cooking workshops and has a plethora of programs that foster and strengthen community ties and individual skills. One of those programs is Growing Futures, which is a social enterprise that uses hydroponic growing systems to teach youth about food, finance, and entrepreneurship, thereby laying the groundwork for a healthier and more resilient community.

We have almost 40 hydroponic systems all over the city, and half of those in primary school classrooms. It all sounds great on paper, but I promise it’s a thousand times better in person.

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September 28, 2017

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By Anna Borris All Mike and Dave wanted to do was catch a Number 2 bus on Wellington Street and head downtown to see the new James Bond movie, “Goldfinger,” starring Sean Connery.

Their first mistake was to invite Karen and me to come with them.

Goldfinger wasn’t our first choice, and we were always sidetracked by the many things to do along the way.

We started at my house, and ambled along Wellington Street, but as we passed Beamish’s, it occurred to me that it was time to start looking for some new fall clothes. I’d had my eye on a corduroy jacket in the window, but so far my budget didn’t stretch that far.

“You don’t mind if we stop in at Beamish’s do you?” I asked with my most persuasive grin.

Mike couldn’t help rolling his eyes and Dave sighed loudly. They had a good idea how the day would go once we started looking at clothes and makeup.

“Why don’t you meet us downtown later?” Dave suggested. “We can hang around the Honeydew on Bank Street for a while then meet you at the Regent.” The Regent Theatre at Bank and Sparks played first-run movies and was, along with the Capitol at Queen and Bank, one of downtown’s high points for Ottawa movie goers.

“OK, here comes your bus, maybe we’ll see you downtown later.”

Karen agreed.

We tried on a few things, but I had no luck finding anything that I liked.

Karen found some jeans she absolutely had to buy. Of course we were drawn to the makeup counter, looking for the latest shades of eyeshadow, lipstick and nail polish.

Just as we left Beamish’s another bus went by, so we stopped in the Bata shoe store window to admire the sling backs and the square toed dressy shoes with buckles. No more buses appeared, so we hurried on

down the street sprinting past the Elmdale Theatre and the Grace Hospital. When we approached Sherbrooke Avenue we realized we were starving. Starving meant chips and gravy so we turned in the door of the Galaxy restaurant, totally out of breath. “Where’s the fire?” asked George, the friendly owner. “Where have you been lately?” asked his brother Frank.

“There’s one of the pool-hall boys” Karen whispered after we settled into a booth. Sure enough a tall lanky version of Fonzie sloped into the restaurant to buy cigarettes, then headed back across the street to the second-storey pool hall. We thought the boys who frequented the pool hall were dangerously fascinating, although they never gave us a second glance; we were far too immature to interest them.

“Do you really feel like going downtown now?” I asked Karen, when we were stuffed full of chips.

“Not really, even though we’ll miss seeing Sean Connery.” Karen replied. “Let’s go back to the Elmdale instead. Marnie’s playing, it’s an Alfred Hitchcock movie.”

“I haven’t been to the Elmdale since I took my five year old cousin to see ‘The Birds’ last year,” I said with regret. “Can you believe I did that? I think I traumatized her for life, but I really didn’t know it was a horror movie. Let’s go to the Elmdale.”

“OK. We’ll tell the boys we somehow got distracted, they know what that’s like.”

Without a second thought we backtracked down Wellington Street to the Elmdale Theatre and arrived just in time for an afternoon full of suspense where, to our surprise and delight, the stars of ‘Marnie’ were Tippi Hedren and Sean Connery.

SEPTEMBER 30 & OCTOBER 1 – BOOK SALE Don’t miss this big book sale at Dovercourt Community Centre (411 Dovercourt Ave.) Thousands of gently used books and lots of children’s books. All proceeds go to K.L.E.O Support Group education programs in northern Thailand. Saturday, September 30 from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. & Sunday, October 1 from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

SEPTEMBER 30 - PARKDALE UNITED CHURCH FALL RUMMAGE SALE The Parkdale United Church Fall rummage sale will be taking place on Saturday, Sept.

30 from 9 a. m. to noon. Use the Gladstone Avenue door. Clothing, household items, toys, books, electronics, furniture, linen, plants, sports items, oodles of items. Donations are welcome but must be delivered before Sept. 27. For information please call 613-728-9686 or go to parkdaleunitedchurch.ca.

SEPTEMBER 30 - ONE WORLD, ONE TULIP Plant the new yellow Friendship Tulip, the symbol of Peace, at Iona Park, between 10 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. and take home a few for your own garden. “Yoga in the Park” will be offered by New Moon Yoga, at the same time. Please bring your mat.

OCTOBER 16 - WHAT IS EXPEDITION CRUISING? Cruising is a popular way of traveling today.

There are many types and sizes of ships navigating the globe. Carole Gobeil has a yearning for smaller and more intimate ships. She enjoys meeting people around the world who favor traveling on these expedition ships. Getting closer to nature, wildlife, and the locals are all part of what we call expedition cruising. Come and find out more! Happening at the Carlingwood Library on Monday, October 16 at 7 p.m.

Registration is required. For more information go to biblioottawalibrary.ca.

with current staff and students. For more detailed information, please visit the reunion web site at https://sites.google.com/site/ nepean67reunion/welcome-1.

OCTOBER 20 - TRIVIA CHALLENGE FOR CHARITY Get a team together and compete for cash donations for your favourite charity at the Westboro Legion (389 Richmond Rd.) Door, bar and Café 480 open at 6 p.m. and the tournament begins at 7:30 p.m. Cost: $10 per player (maximum team size six).

Reasonably priced pre-game food, door prize speed draws, early bird team draw prizes, and more. Team registrations are accepted on a first-come, first-served basis at www.rcl480.com. For info call 613-2628647.

OCTOBER 21 – WOODROFFE UNITED CHURCH FALL BAZAAR Items available include china, books, bake table, silent auction, toys, jewellery, used furniture and much more. 207 Woodroffe Ave. from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Refreshments and lunch available. For more information, please contact Woodroffe United Church at 613-722-9250.

OCTOBER 20 & 21 - KITCHISSIPPI UNITED CHURCH FALL RUMMAGE SALE The Kitchissippi United Church Fall Rummage Sale will be taking place Friday October 20 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., and Saturday October 21 from 9 a.m. to noon.

Clothes, books, toys, kitchenware, small appliances, boutique specials and more! 630 Island Park Drive. Please call 613-722-7254 for info.

OCTOBER 21 - KIWANIS WATCH-IT SHRED-IT DAY The Kiwanis Club of Ottawa is holding their Annual Watch-It Shred-It Day fundraiser on Saturday, October 21 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Hampton Park Plaza (Carling and Kirkwood). Cost is $8.00 per box (size of a bankers box, approximately 12” x 16” or similar size) with a maximum of five boxes per person.

OCTOBER 21 - NEPEAN HS CLASS OF ‘67 FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY REUNION Members of the Nepean HS Class of 1967 are organizing a Fiftieth Anniversary Reunion, to be held at Nepean High School on Broadview Ave on Saturday, October 21.

All grade 12 and 13 graduates from 1967 and classmates who graduated after grade 12 in 1966 are invited to come back and relive memories of their high school days, meet their former classmates and mingle

NOVEMBER 18 - FAMILY DANCE WITH LIVE MUSIC Come dance with your young family, grandkids or kids you know at a super fun community dance in the heart of Westboro!

Fantastic live traditional music (think fiddles). No experience necessary as all dances are taught and very family-friendly. 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. with optional potluck after!

For more details go to ottawacontra.ca/ familydance. Can’t make it to the November dance? Mark these dates in your calendar: January 20 2018, March 17 2018, April 21, 2018.

WESTBORO LEGION’S BINGO AND LEAGUES Bingo every Wednesday night at the Westboro Legion. Doors open at 4:30 p.m. for Café 480 and games begin at 6:30 p.m.

Everyone is welcome. Join us with your friends, or come and meet new friends. Funds raised are donated back to community organizations. We also have bid euchre, darts, pool and sandbag leagues on a weekly basis.

For more information visit rcl480.com or call 613-725-2778.

WESTBORO LEGION’S SATURDAY POOL Free Pool from noon to closing upstairs at the Westboro Legion. Everyone is welcome.

For more information visit rcl480.com or call 613-725-2778.

TOASTMASTERS Above & Beyond Toastmasters meet all year round on Monday nights (except Holiday Mondays) at 7 p.m. at the Ottawa Civic Hospital on the Main Floor in the Bickell

Room. It is a friendly atmosphere where one can learn to hone their leadership skills and become more confident in speaking.

YOUR COMMUNITY ASSOCIATIONS For up-to-date news on your neighbourhood, stay in touch with your community association. Information about events, traffic changes, development, neighbourhood clubs, volunteer opportunities and board meetings is available from the following community association websites.

Champlain Park Community Association champlainpark.org Civic Hospital Neighbourhood Association chnaottawa.ca Hintonburg Community Association hintonburg.com Hampton-Iona Community Group hamptoniona.wordpress.com Island Park Community Association islandpark.wordpress.com McKellar Park Community Association mckellarparkcommunity.wordpress.com Mechanicsville Community Association facebook.com/MechanicsvilleCA Wellington Village Community Association wvca.ca Westboro Beach Community Association westborobeach.ca Westboro Community Association lovewestboro.wordpress.com

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OCTOBER 18 - A CONVERSATION WITH COUNCILLOR LEIPER The Hampton Iona Community Group will be hosting a seminar, “A Conversation with Councillor Leiper - Ward 15 looking 4Ward,” at 7 p.m. in the demonstration

kitchen at the Real Canadian Superstore on Richmond Road. See Newswest for details.

Information will also be available at hamptoniona.wordpress.com.