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A large crowd enjoyed the beautiful weather and activities at Larkin Park as the West Barrhaven Community Association held their annual Winter in Brrrhaven winter celebration Saturday. Horse drawn sleigh rides through the park, skating on the outdoor rink and a chili cook-off inside the clubhouse were all part of the activities. For more on the winter festivities, visit the Barrhaven Independent Facebook Page.

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The IndependentAnniversary

Barrhaven Independent 30 years, 30 people: Ray Desjardins

As we celebrate our 30th Anniversary, the Barrhaven Independent will be featuring 30 people who have played a prominent role in building and shaping our community from the time we were a sleepy little suburb in 1990 to the thriving city of more than 100,000 we are now.

In this issue, we are featuring Ray Desjardins, who was the driving force behind the formation and success of the Barrhaven Legion.

In 2005, the Barrhaven Legion received its charter and opened its doors. The one thing Desjardins was most proud of was that in 2005, which was recognized as the Year of the Legion in Canada, the Barrhaven Legion Branch 641 was the only new Legion to open its doors.

Before Barrhaven had a Legion, Desjardins and other local residents were members of the Bells Corners Legion, while others belonged to the Manotick Legion. Desjardins had been reading a book on the History of the Legion up to 1994 called “Branching Out.” Desjardins invited Gus Este, Gordon Ley

and Ernie Hughes to his house to discuss the possibilities of having a Legion in Barrhaven.

“We just took the ideas the old guys had in 1926 and applied them to today,” he told the Independent back in 2005.

With the support of the community and local politicians at all three levels, the wheels were in motion for Barrhaven to have its own Legion.

“In order for us to form a new Legion branch, we had to have 50 new members,” Desjardins said to the Independent in 2005. “We were all members of the Bells Corners Legion, so we had to go out and find 50 people in the community that had never been members of any Legion.”

Barrhaven Councillor Jan

Harder was a key figure in helping them get organized.

The group officially received its charter in April, 2005. They were able to get a location in a strip mall at Cedarview and Kennevale. Eventually, they moved to their larger, present location at 3500 Fallowfield Road.

Desjardins served as the first Barrhaven Legion president, and was also the Legion’s lay chaplain. His vision for the Legion helped it become one of the fastest growing and most active Legions in Canada, with its membership growing nearly tenfold in its first five years.

In June, 2019, Ray Desjardins passed away at the age of 78.

Desjardins was employed with the Canadian Tourism Commission for 35 years, retiring in 1995 as Director of Marketing USA and the Americas.

A seasoned hands-on executive, Desjardins generously shared his exemplary talents in the many community activities he supported, strengthened or built. He was the former Chair of the Perley and Rideau Veterans’ Health Centre Foundation

Ray Desjardins, centre, received the Order of Ottawa in 2013. With him are Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson, left, and Councillor Jan Harder, right. BI archive photo by Mike Carroccetto Board, serving four terms, as well as a member of the Foundation’s Finance, Compensation, Investment, Strategic

Planning, Communications and Executive Committees.

Desjardins was a recipient of the Order of Ottawa in 2013.

He was invested as a Knight Commander of The Order of St. George, as well as twice receiving The Queen’s Jubilee medal.

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The IndependentFOCUS ON YOUTH Cappies nominations a highlight for high school drama student Name: Mary Bagley

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Age: 17 School: St. Francis Xavier High Grade: 12 Parents: Doug Bagley & Veronica Doyle (Deceased) “These are the two greatest people in my life. My dad is the superhero of the house. There isn’t anything he can’t do. He has taught me so much about life and true happiness. He works as a plant operator at Novozymes by day, and is a killer rockstar by night.

Brother: Darcy (11), St. Jerome Elementary School.

“He’s also like a computer when it comes to hockey stats.

He can tell you the number and facts about any player, past and present in the NHL.” Pet Peeve: “Seeing as I attend the school with the largest population in the board, the halls get pretty crowded. One of my biggest pet peeves is slow walkers. I have to refrain from yelling in the halls, because people take so long. Other then that, my only other pet peeve is disrespectful/ungrateful people.

Oh, and people who chew with their mouths open. I’d say their equally unacceptable.”

Part-time Work: “This past

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summer I was a camp counsellor at Christie Lake Camp. Truly, this was the best experience of my life. The camp is primarily for kids who are from low-income households. It gives kids the opportunity to go to a summer camp that they normally wouldn’t get the chance. I could write 15 novels on my adventures this summer, but for the sake of the paper, I’ll save that for another day.”

Favourite Subjects: “My favourite subject has always been drama production. Although it’s not a mainstream subject that everyone knows, it’s the class that has taught me the most. Through play analysis’ I’ve been able to really work on my writing and comprehension.

The class combines my love for theatre and visual art. I’ve learned problem solving, sewing, construction, and art and design. It’s crazy seeing all of the aspects that go into making a show.”

What do you enjoy reading for pleasure? “I enjoy reading musician biographies, most of which are published in magazines like Vogue or Rolling Stone, or are also published

as novels. In terms of the magazines, the way the reporter describes the interview setting is so detailed. It’s like your sitting in the room with the artist. Rolling Stone is publishing a series where musicians are interviewing musicians. It’s like Christmas has come early.”

Who is your favourite author? “Well if we’re going off of my last answer, I’d say that my favourite reporter would be whichever musician is interviewing the other. Or on a more literary note, I love S. E. Hinton.

I think I’ve read The Outsiders 13 times. Stay gold Ms. Hinton, stay gold.”

What is your greatest accomplishment? “My greatest accomplishment occurred in June of this past year. I was nominated for two Cappies – essentially the Tony’s/Oscars for high school theatre. I was nominated for my portrayal as the Cowardly Lion in The Wizard of Oz, in the categories best comedic actress and best ensemble (along with the Tin Woodman and the Scarecrow).

The character pushed my physicality and acting abilities quite a bit. I’ve never been someone who does anything with an end goal of fame and glory, but it felt so humbling to be recognized for a character that I loved so much. To be honest, I’d say the best accomplishment was the performance I gave, rather than the nomination.”

School Activities: “I’m a current member of the Social Justice Club, Student Council, the School Play, Ski Club, and the Best Buddies program. I was also lucky enough to be a Core Leader at our school’s Leadership Camp, a member of the varsity Swim Team for two years, a member of the Relay for Life committee (as well as being a keynote speaker for the event), and a member of the I Love Me program. I’ve also been fortunate to attend many student conferences and board wide workshops/events, such as the We Well Being Youth Summit, We Day and the Peace and Justice Conference.

The past four years have been incredible. Of course I have to thank the teachers who organized all of these. I really love the community aspect of involvement. Judging by that list, some may say I love it a little too much. Maybe I’ll go into a little retirement.”

Other Activities/Interests: “Not that I have much of it when the school year picks up, but in my free time I really enjoy music. Making it, playing it, analyzing it, really anything to do with music. It’s something I keep pretty private. My dad plays also, so we have some equipment that we use in the basement to jam out. Music is a like a therapy for me. I lost my mom when I was twelve, and truly the only thing that cheers

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me up when I miss her, or really stuck in a grief hole, is to sing.

It’s really my cure for dealing with any emotion.”

Career Goals: “With graduation approaching this year I’m definitely planning on going into the arts world. I’ve applied to an arts teaching program and a production program. My main plan is to hopefully become a music or drama teacher, just as my own drama teachers, Mrs.

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I would love to share my love for the arts with kids. The other option is to go into arts administration, and potentially become a professional stage manager at the NAC, or a theatre advisor there as well. A dream career would be a conceptual designer for performance tours, but that dream is a bit more difficult to plan out.”

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Residents at the Ravines get to experience the “Suite Life”

By Jeff Morris Barrhaven Independent It was a night to remember for the residents at the Ravines Retirement Home, near Prince of Wales and Hunt Club just north of Barrhaven.

A group of a dozen Aramark employees – many of whom were from Barrhaven and the area – who work in the suites at Ottawa Senators games at Canadian Tire Centre visited the Ravines Tuesday night. They spoiled and pampered the residents, recreating the experience of being in a suite at an Ottawa Senators game.

“Seniors love hockey just as much as the rest of us do,”

said Carol Harper, Aramark’s Director of Premium Seating at Canadian Tire Centre. “They may not get the opportunity to come to games at the arena, or experience being in a suite for a game. What we are doing for this night is bringing a suite for a Sens game into their home, where they are comfortable and they don’t have to travel.”

Ravines Sales Manager, Patrick Crawford of Barrhaven, worked with the culinary staff at the home to prepare a menu of snacks and beverages very similar to what is served in the suites at Ottawa Senators games.

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Gala Volunteer Ottawa (VO) will be holding its’ 10th Annual VOscars Awards Gala on the evening of April 23, 2020, at Ottawa City Hall. The VOscars celebrates Ottawa’s vibrant volunteer community and gives special recognition to those individuals and organizations that have made a difference in our community.

Do you know of someone who exemplifies the spirit of volunteering? Do you know a young person or senior who has made a significant contribution to our community through their volunteering efforts? Do you know a corporation, business or organization that supports volunteering among its employees or that has built a successful volunteer program or promotes our community’s diverse populations in

volunteering? If so, nominate them at www.volunteerottawa. ca or contact Suzanne Seebach at sseebach@volunteerottawa.ca.

2020 VOscars Award categories include the Mayor’s Award for Volunteer Spirit; Outstanding Youth Volunteer Award; Outstanding Senior Volunteer Award; Leadership in Corporate Volunteerism; Professional Leadership Award and, Outstanding Volunteer Program Award. The deadline for volunteer nominations is Wednesday, February 12, 2020.

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“It was a wonderful event, and everyone had a great time,” said Bharath. “Our residents have been looking forward to this night for a long time. And the fact that the Senators won got everyone cheering and having a fun night.”

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RAVINES continues from page 4 Alena Bharath, the Recreation Manager at the Ravines, decorated the theatre room at the home in Ottawa Senators colours and made sure that the close to 100 special hockey fans attending the event were comfortable and had fun. Former Boston Bruin defenceman Rick Smith, who won a Stanley Cup playing alongside Bobby Orr in 1970, visited with the guests and told stories about his career and signed autographs. Jean Payette, a former Quebec Nordiques

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Ottawa Police Service takes action against hate We like to think that we, as Canadians, and as residents of the City of Ottawa, are better thank this.

But we are not.

Racism, Anti-Semitism, Muslim-phobia and hatred toward the LGBTQ community have all been trending upward in our city over the last few years. We have seen it just in the last two weeks with the hate-motivated incident at the National Holocaust Monument in Ottawa. We saw it again last week with the vandalism of an Indigenous painting at Algonquin College.

The Ottawa Police Service is taking action.

The OPS has reintroduced a section specifically focused on Hate Crimes, which will further enhance changes it made to its online reporting system that make it easier for residents to report hate-motivated incidents.

The OPS has always had officers trained and focused on hate crime investigations but this decision adds more resources and centralizes this important investigative section.

“As a result of community and stakeholder feedback, we’re adding two new Hate Crime investigators to the Security Intelligence Section to help identify trends and community safety concerns,” said Chief Sloly said. “We re-evaluated how we accepted hate-motivated incidents from the public and we know that responding to incidents of hate will have a far-reaching impact on the well-being of our communities.”

Officers in the Hate Crime Section will monitor and triage all incoming reports to ensure a timely, consistent and effective response to all hate-motivated incidents in the city. The section will focus on the prevention of hate-motivated incidents through public education, outreach, and the development of intelligence to address extremism. It partners with the province’s Community Safety and Well-Being plan (CSWB), and includes sharing of information with other police services in the Nation’s Capital.

“We know that hate motivated crimes are often under-reported,” said Chief Sloly said. “We want people to know that we take such incidents seriously and we are here to help.”

In 2019, Ottawa received 110 reports of Hate Crime, up from 104 in 2018 and 95 in 2017.

In 2017, the OPS introduced a new method for reporting any hate-motivated incident online at ottawapolice.ca/onlinereporting. This was put in place so that family members or friends could assist those who were experiencing language or other barriers file a report in the comfort of their own homes.

“In the past, any hate-motivated incident, like racist graffiti, had to be submitted by either the business or property owner,” said Chief Sloly said. “But with this new reporting system, anyone can report a hate motivated incident. This will help us address community concerns quicker.”

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Sorry folks, Wally World is closed

Steven and I pulled into Magnetic Hill. It hill?”

I kind of thought that might freak me out, and was the last stop before we left Moncton on our recent roadie to Sackville, New Brunswick. It I wasn’t willing to take that chance.

I told him the story about working at a sports was a kind of stepfather-stepson trip as we visited Mount Allison University, the school he has collectibles convention in Atlanta back around the turn of the century. One of the autographed committed to going next year.

We listened to the GPS and drove into what guests was a retired baseballl player who had appeared to be a snow-covered starter kit of a played in the 1960s and 1970s. He told us the story of an old teammate theme park. It was deserted. who wouldn’t get on a flight I laughed and looked at Stefrom Atlanta to St. Louis beven, and there was only one cause the flight left at 5:30 thing I could think of say- FROM THE OTHER p.m. and arrived at 5:15 p.m. ing to him.

“I ain’t getting on no time “Sorry folks, Wally machine,” he told his teamWorld is closed. The moose Jeffrey Morris mates, totally not grasping out front shoulda told ya.” the concept of Atlanta being We both laughed.

We figured we had to see it on the way home. on Eastern time and St. Louis being on Central I mean, we are Canadian, and we had never been time. The fact that Atlanta was in the National to Moncton before. How could we not see it? League West Division and St. Louis was in the And isn’t Magnetic Hill even in a Stompin’ Tom East really complicated the situation.

“I don’t think Magnetic Hill will freak us out song?

“Maybe they turn the magnet off for the win- the way that baseball player was freaked out,” I COUNCILexplained to him. “But what if the magnet pulls ter,” I told him in my signature turn of mocking sarcasm. “Maybe it’s like one of those giant us into a dark forest filled with centaurs or someCORNER horse shoe-shaped magnets like the oneMayor Wile E. thing creepy like that. I’m responsible for you. I Suzanne Dodge Coyote ordered from Acme when he was trying can’t risk it.”

We ripped across New Brunswick, crossed the to catch the Roadrunner, and they have some guy Quebec border, and found ourselves at a Subway turning it off and on.”

We stayed at the luxurious Hampton Inn near St-Louis-de-Ha!-Ha! It was too dark to take in Moncton, which always includes free wi-fi a selfie by the sign. I am sure everyone who has and free breakfast the following morning. The ever driven through there has had to have their picture 20-something Harry Potter fanatics workingTHE be-NOT SO taken with that sign.

Geez, no Magnetic Hill, no St-Louis-de-Selfhind the counter were excited the previous day NEW GUY when I asked them about Magnetic Hill. Their ie!, what kind of road trip was this?

Tim Ruhnke “You know, our quest for weird Canadian inner-Moncton blossomed as they could not wait to tell us about this marvel of nature. We were touristy stuff could have been a lot worse,” I told him. only about two kilometres away.

“How?” he replied.

“It’s kind of cool,” the young man behind the “Well, there’s now a bridge that connects counter said. “It’s an optical illusion that makes Prince Edward Island to the other Maritime provyou think you are rolling up hill.” inces,” I explained. “We could have gone to AvThe girl beside him interrupted him.

“Don’t tell them,” she urgently said through Village.”

WALKER onlea HOUSE He had no idea what Avonlea Village was. a face filled with panic. “You’re going to ruin it “It’s a recreation of the town where Anne of for them.”

Susan Vallom Green Gables is from,” I told him.

Too late. Rrrrreeeeeaaarrrrrr. The cat was out “Who?” of the bag.

“Anne of Green Gables.”

“I can’t believe you told me and wrecked it “The Ginge chick that CBC keeps making all for me,” I told the guy at the counter, who I think thought I was serious. “You may as well have these dumb shows about.”

He said he would rather stab himself in the gone back in time 40 years and told me Darth Vader was Luke Skywalker’s father. You may as eye than visit Avonlea Village.

BLAKE’S Our day at Magnetic Hill will come. I doubt well have told me the chick in the Crying Game TAKES that we’ll hit Avonlea, though. I told Steven to be is really a dude. How are we going to experience proud of the great Canadian tourist destinations Magnetic Hill now that you have told us it’s all Blake McKim he has already seen. The giant nickel in Sudbury smoke and mirrors?”

Even in the winter, you can drive into the Ma- was one. The giant apple along the 401 in Port gentic Hill Park, even though it is snow covered Colborne was another. And we can still add the and everything is closed for the winter. We decid- world’s largest axe from Nackawick, NB and the ed to drive around, and even contemplated taking world’s largest fiddle in Sydney, NS to our list of must see attractions for the next trip. a test drive up, or down, or whatever, the hill.

Or we could just fly.

“It’s snowing and the roads are icy,” Steven We both liked that option. observed. “Do you think we could slide up the

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How did Transit Next get the winning bid for Stage 2 LRT

Never in my wildest dreams did I think the job of City Councillor would entail so much detective work. But, there’s a huge mystery hanging over Ottawa and it needs solving.

I’m referring to the Stage two LRT contract.

How did TransitNext with the lowest technical scores wind up with the winning bid? Getting an answer is taking on urgency because of the utter failure of Stage 1 LRT to provide reliable train service.

Mayor Jim Watson, and City Manager Steve Kanallekos are surprisingly dismissive of our concerns and queries. “Nothing to see here,” they say, “our Auditor General Ken Hughes found all the rules of procurement were followed.”

That is in fact true. But it doesn’t answer why.

Why was the lowest technical score not disqualified? Does it have something to do with how the rules of procurement were written?

Stage two LRT is the second biggest project in Ottawa’s history. Unlike Stage 1, City Management chose not to partner with Infrastucture Ontario, throwing away the oversight that would have provided.

Then City Managers chose to ignore the standard practice of publicizing the rules of procurement and the Request for

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Proposals. Auditor General Ken Hughes questioned that, suggesting we would have had much more transparency and openness if those documents had been made public.

I have spoken to several people with procurement expertise who tell me if the RFP had been available for Councillors to read they would have found the discretionary clause used by the City Manager to not disqualify the worst bid.

Then there’s the delegation of authority. Coun-

cillors gave away all their power to request information, or to be informed of issues. That was a huge surprise to many. But remember this procurement process was unlike any they had dealt with before.

Did they sign away their rights out of ignorance or did Senior City managers deliberately sideline them?

So many questions that need answers. My council colleague Shawn Menard and I have filed a notice of motion asking for an independent third party review of the processes that led to TransitNet winning the Stage 2 contract. We will work on getting that through council on Feb. 12. In the meantime I’ll continue to try to get to the bottom of Ottawa’s Stage 2 LRT mystery.

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A battle fought, a battle won Six months after surviving the fight of his life, Barrhaven Independent Editor/Publisher Jeff Morris shares his story about what it means to beat cancer

By Jeff Morris I’m not special.

What happened to me might happen to you. Maybe it already has. If it doesn’t, it will happen to someone close to you.

My story about fighting cancer is no different than anyone else’s. Everyone’s details may be different, but the soul of the story is always the same.

Last January, my world got turned upside down. I was hit from behind while turning right at a red light. I bumped my head – not hard.

There was no damage to my car, no damage to the car that bumped me, and we laughed it off and went on our way.

Looking back, I wish I would have got the name of the woman who hit me from behind.

She saved my life.

At the time, I thought nothing of it. But at night, I was getting headaches – searing headaches – where I bumped my head. I had been feeling crappy and getting headaches for months, but these headaches were really intense. I figured I had another concussion. That’s what it felt like.

Eventually, at the urging of a friend and business associate, Jason MacDonald, I went to Kemptville District Hospital. In triage, I told them I had a bump on my head and concussion systems. Dr. El Safiti felt the bump, made some sort of hmmmm sounds, and decided to x-ray my head.

I thought that was weird. XRays don’t show concussions.

After a couple of hours, the doctor came back. Great, I can finally go, I thought. The Diva had been texting me.

What’s wrong? What did they say? Are you coming home for dinner?

He looked at me and the next two questions changed my life.

“Can we talk in the quiet room?”

Quiet room? What’s that?

Is the sports talk radio station I’m listening to on my phone bothering anyone?

He closed the door.

“What’s your family’s cancer history?”

Um, I have a concussion.

Are you sure you have the right file?

“You don’t have a concussion,” he said. “In fact, where you hit your head, you don’t even have a skull. I want you to look at the x-ray.”

He showed me the x-ray.

My skull had a hole in it.

Literally. It was the size of a hockey puck, maybe larger.

“Something has eaten your skull,” he said.

What I quickly learned was that when you have cancer, they don’t tell you what they think you have. Instead, they do tests to eliminate what you don’t have. He wanted to test me right away for leukemia. I think he knew right away that it was either plasmacytoma or multiple myeloma. They are the same cancer – a white blood cell cancer that originates in the bone marrow and forms tumours on your skull, spine or stem cell – only multiple myeloma has more than one tumour and plasmacytoma is one tumour that has not yet spread. It’s rare. The Ottawa Cancer Centre gets about a dozen cases a year.

Meanwhile, the Diva was texting me.

How do I tell her by text I have cancer? Suddenly, this got real.

A lot went through my mind at that moment. I wasn’t upset. In fact, I got very competitive. I was pissed off that cancer dared mess with me.

“Tell me what to do,” I told the doctor. “Cancer picked the wrong guy.”

The bump on the head may have been fate. But this was more than fate. I was standing dead smack at the intersection of serendipity and irony.

The most difficult part of this journey was telling the kids. I had to have a one-on-

one with five kids – my two sons, both in their 20s, and my three stepsons, all teenagers. I told them all not to worry. This would be routine.

I’ve got this. We kept it quiet for them more than anything.

I didn’t want the Diva and the kids to face a barrage of questions from people asking about me every day.

My cancer was a lot harder on them than on me.

For the next few months, there were tests, tests and more tests. Blood tests, urine tests, full body x-rays, CTScans, PETScans, and of course, my favourite, MRIs, where they would practically spray me down with Pam and shoe horn me into a claustrophobic tube where I would sit for the next 30 or 40 minutes with loud buzzers and screeching, avoiding opening my eyes to avoid a panic attack.

The best case scenario, I was told, was plasmacytoma.

And, fortunately, that’s what I had. I was in stage 3.

In May, we went into the Civic for an appointment with the neuro surgeon. The Diva, my rock throughout this whole ordeal, came to the appointment with me. We were going to talk about the next steps. The doctor said he wanted us to look at the computer screen. “This is in your brain,” he said. “It’s life threatening. The first opening we have on the OR table, you’re going in. You have 60 minutes to do what you need to do to get things in order.”

Before the surgery, the surgeon asked if I had any questions. Dr. Alkareif was one of the two brain surgeons who did the surgery. He explained to me what the procedure would be. I didn’t understand anything. He asked me if I had any questions.

“So, um, on family board game night, when you played Operation, you never hit the sides and made the buzzer go off, did you? Like, you always won, right?” He didn’t

Six months ago, Jeff Morris celebrated his last cancer treatment after losing a large chunk of his skull and undergoing brain surgery. like that. They showed me the titanium plate that was going into my head. I asked if they could put a red light behind my eye so I could have, like cyborg vision.

He just looked at me, disgusted, and left the room.

Evidently OHIP doesn’t cover that.

The hole in my skull was growing rapidly and the tumour was growing at an alarming rate. They cut my skull about an inch around the hole, went into my brain, took out the tumour, put stitches in my brain, removed part of the dura – the skin or membrane of the brain – put the metal plate in, and then stapled my head shut. The tumour was the size of a tennis ball.

When you go under for an operation, there is no concept of time. If you have gone through it, you know what I mean. You are lying there, waiting for the anesthetic to kick in, you blink, and you are suddenly in the recovery room wondering what the hell just happened.

I went from chatting with the orderly who put me under to lying there with my head cut open and my brain prodded. All I could hear was the nurse talking to the guy in the bed next to me on the other side of the curtain.

“Doug, do you know where you are? Doug, Doug, where are you? Doug, do you know where you are? Doug, Doug, Doug, where are you?”

Then I heard a voice closer to me..

I was groggy, in the worst pain of my life, and Doug’s nurse was getting on my nerves.

“How are you Mr. Morris?”

“I’m doing better than Doug,” I said. “He hasn’t got a f---ing clue where he is.”

I heard the kids laugh. And then I heard the Diva.

“Oh. He’s back. That’s my Jeff.”

What I didn’t know at that point was that Dr. Personality who was undefeated in Operation had gone into the waiting lounge and asked to

speak to the Diva in the hallway. Her stomach sank. The way he asked, she thought I was dead. He told her I was fine. But it was Friday. And he said had they waited until Monday, I would not have survived the weekend.

The worst was over, but there was a new set of challenges ahead. I still had cancer. And now I was missing a third of my skull. It was another month of tests. More blood work, MRIs, and bone marrow tests to determine my treatment.

I told Gary how weird it felt with a metal plate. I could feel my skin, but my skull was numb.

“You’re a numb skull,” Gary, my co-worker, said excitedly. He uses that one every chance he gets. I can also manipulate and move the metal plate around. I’m probably not supposed to, but, hey, I get bored. I told him that not only am I a numb skull, but I think I’ve got a screw loose, too.

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BARRHAVEN INDEPENDENT Cancer continues from page 8 Before my journey, I always avoided talking about cancer. It made me uncomfortable. Now, I was on the other end of that. No one tells you how to act when someone close to you has cancer.

People with cancer don’t change, but people around them do. You don’t have to walk on egg shells. If you don’t know what to say to someone battling cancer, just say “Keep fighting.” “Be strong.” “You’ve got this.”

“We’re thinking of you.”

When someone acts all goofy with me now, I act pathetic and tell them, oh, it’s horrible, and the worst thing is that it’s one of the very few cancers that is contagious.

Then I fake a sneeze into my hand and watch them. And sometimes I tell them they used smart intelligence in my surgery. “In fact, in this slot in my head where the staples were, I can put a Rosetta Stone DVD in and learn a language while I am sleeping.”

In the summer, it was daily radiation treatments at the Ottawa Cancer Centre.

I chatted with people there every morning. Everyone had cancer, and everyone had a story.

The friendships and bonds made were deep. The compassion was incredible. Sure, I wasn’t always positive.

One time I was kind of fed up when no one else wanted

to take part in the Radiation South Waiting Room Dance Off. I totally would have won anyway.

Rather than ringing the bell after my last treatment, I planned on coming back the next day with my family and friends to ring the bell with everyone there. Little did I know that when I got home that day, the Diva had planned a huge surprise party for me.

One of our best friends, Jill Kraft, even had a bell made and engraved, so I got to ring the bell in front of everyone after all.

The recovery from surgery and radiation has been challenging. I am still exhausted.

I have vertigo. I have no stamina. Some days I have no voice. I can’t stay asleep at night and I can’t stay awake during the day. I don’t know what the new normal will be yet. But I am slowly getting better. Each week is better than the last.

The one thing I learned through all of this was what it means to beat cancer.

Before, I thought it was black and white. If you live, you beat cancer. If you die, cancer beats you.

But that’s not at all how it works.

Beating cancer isn’t the end game. Beating cancer is something you do every single day.

Beating cancer is waking

The medical name for the cancer that caused the tumour, which was the size of a tennis ball when removed, is plasmacytoma. There is not yet a cure for plasmacytoma and multiple myeloma, which originate in the bone marrow, but treatments are improving every year.

up in the morning, knowing it’s a great day to be alive, and deciding you are going to have a positive outlook that day.

Beating cancer is all about your mannerisms, your tone of voice, your body language.

Beating cancer is making the choice to try and inspire and encourage your brothers and sisters who are fighting.

We’re all like apps on our phone. We can drain the devices which are our bodies and souls, or we can recharge them.

Beating cancer is knowing and understanding your limitations, and accepting that it’s okay. Sometimes, you have to rest and let the people who love you to fight for you. I took three naps a day through the fight. Before last year, I may have taken three naps in my entire life.

Beating cancer means being strong and confident but at the same time being humble. I prayed every day, but I found the thought of praying for myself almost offensive. The first day I was in the waiting room for my first of many tests at the Ottawa Cancer Centre, I chatted with a guy who looked about 35. He asked what I was in for and I told him a tumour had eaten part of my skull. I asked him about his situation.

“I have pancreatic cancer,” he said. “I’m hoping to live until the fall so I can be there for my little girl’s first day of school.” From that moment on, my tumour seemed so trite and trivial.

Beating cancer means allowing yourself to fully trust the people who love you.

That could be family, friends, or co-workers. I consider Gary all three. Outside of my family, Gary has been my biggest support, and I can’t thank him enough. We like to pump each other up about how we are old school. What I am most proud of is that I had brain surgery Friday, and on Tuesday, we got a newspaper to print without missing a beat. No one knew what we were going through, and no one had to know.

Beating cancer means letting yourself cry. Emotionally, you’ve got to let yourself bottom out. I cried at the Ot-

Last July, Morris underwent daily radiation treatments on his brain at the Ottawa Cancer Centre. tawa Senators Hockey Fights surgery and losing a huge So if you’re fighting or Cancer Night. I cried watch- chunk of your skull to cancer you know someone who is ing America’s Got Talent and get back out there, then fighting, I will leave you with when seven-year-old leuk- that’s a life lesson by example something that the late, great emia survivor Tyler Figueroa that transcends football and college basketball coach Jim played the violin. When I felt sports. And showing them Valvano said during the last like I needed to cry, I put in that I can do it is, for me, a days of his very public fight Field of Dreams and watched big win against cancer. with cancer.

Kevin Costner’s character My family has been such “These are the seven most play catch with his dad at the a source of strength through important words,” he said. end. It gets me every time. this journey. David, my father “Don’t give up, don’t ever Thank God we don’t have the in law, checked on me three give up.”

Notebook on PVR or the plate times a day. My wife has been It’s a great day to be alive, in my head would have rusted incredible through all of this. and thank you for letting me from the tears.

Jon, her brother, called me share my story with you.

But most of all, beating every day from Vancouver. And to those of you who are cancer is not letting it take The kids have been amazing. in the middle of a fight, live away your passions. I love My family saved me, and so by these words: Tough times being a newspaper editor, and many other people did too. don’t last, tough people do.

I won’t let cancer take that I am now six months in away from me. I love base- remission, but beating cancer ball. I watched 450 games is not over. I’m still fightand opened a lot of packs of ing, and I imagine I always baseball cards. I was able to will be. Myeloma has a high continue being a Canadian recurrence rate. If it comes Football League off-field of- back, I will just have to ficial. I’m nowhere near be- chemo up and keep fighting. ing able to be on the field Maybe by the time it comes again as a referee. I’m too back, there will be a cure. I tired and it’s too dangerous. might die with cancer, but I When I do return, it will be will not die from cancer. For doing kids games, and I will the rest of my life, I will be have to wear a helmet. Foot- tested at the Ottawa Cancer ball referees don’t wear hel- Centre every 90 days. mets, and I am sure that there There is a 65% chance will be some idiot parent in it comes back. But let’s use the crowd who will mock me baseball as a metaphor. If and chirp me for wearing one. there’s two out in the ninth After the brain surgery and But if I can show the kids on and I’m down by a run, and the insertion of a titanium the field, and their parents if I’ve got a guy coming up to plate in his skull, Morris had and families in the stands, the plate who is hitting .350… his head stapled shut and that you can overcome brain I like my chances. went home two days later.

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Valentine’s Day is an opportunity to show the ones you love just how much you care about them. This is achieved through various gestures, including giving heartfelt gifts.

Research from Business Insider found that 51 percent of Americans now celebrate Valentine’s Day. While a recent poll from Insights West found that although many Canadians view Valentine’s Day as overly commercial, 75 percent still plan on celebrating it. People are still spending big bucks on making Valentine’s Day special. The National Retail Federation indicates Americans spent more than $20.7 billion on the holiday in 2019 and forecasters predict similar spending in 2020.

Every Valentine’s Day, certain gifts emerge as the most popular. While certain gifts are common, there are ways to make them seem fresh and exciting. Here are some ideas for Valentine’s Day gifting.

Flowers The National Retail Federation estimates that people spend around $2

billion on flowers for gifts. While roses are much sought after, thinking outside the bouquet can produce unique results. Choose different blooms, perhaps a loved one’s favorite flower or something regional. Potted plants also will last longer than cut flowers, giving them more staying power. Skip bouquets in favor of table centerpieces, which can be eyecatching.

Jewelry Gifting jewelry can be tricky because it is such a personal gift that must tie into a sweetheart’s style. It may be tempting to go with something large and flashy or full of diamonds, but a better option is to take inventory of what your loved one wears on a daily basis and try to mimic the size and scope in your gift.

Other thoughtful jewelry gifts include understated pendant necklaces or bracelets engraved with key dates or the names of their children. Colored gemstones in lieu of diamonds also may be a striking choice.

Entertainment Dinner and a movie

is a classic date night, but on Valentine’s Day restaurants and theaters may be overcrowded and only offer limited menus.

An alternative can be to arrange for a gourmet meal to be delivered and wrap up a new streaming movie/TV device already primed with a subscription to his or her favorite streaming service. Then all you need to do is snuggle on the sofa for a romantic night in.

Chocolates and candy Roughly $1.8 billion is spent on candy each

Valentine’s Day, says the National Retail Federation. A box of chocolates certainly can fit the bill, but other options abound.

Perhaps a sweetheart has a favorite candy that recalls his or her childhood or prefers a chocolate maker from his or her hometown. Purchase those items to add a bit of nostalgia. Make the holiday magical by setting up a candy bar right at home, where your sweetheart can pick and choose from candies displayed in eye-catching bowls and

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Thoughtful Valentine’s Day gifts can make the day even more special for sweethearts.

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The IndependentCOMMUNITY Barrhaven Legion recognizes local students for their artistic talents

By Charlie Senack

On Sunday, January 26, more than 40 Barrhaven students were recognized for their artistic talents during the Barrhaven Legion’s annual Remembrance – Poster and Literary awards ceremony.

Mayor Jim Watson and Councillor Jan Harder joined in on the celebrations, alongside over 50 family members, friends and teachers.

According to the Barrhaven Legion’s website, this contest aims to involve Canadian school children from grades 1 to 12 in the importance of not only Remembrance Day but also the act of honouring military heritage.

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Students from St. Mother Teresa High School were among those recognized by the Barrhaven Legion in their Remembrance Day Contest. For more coverage, visit the Barrhaven Independent Facebook page.

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The IndependentCOMMUNITY Mild weather draw large crowd to annual Winter in Brrr-haven

By Charlie Senack

Last weekend’s warmer weather was welcomed during the annual “Winter in Brrrhaven” event which took place at Larkin Park on Saturday, February 1.

The day featured outdoor skating, sleigh rides, games and performances by Disney princesses and Little Ray’s reptiles. The highlight of the day was the annual chili cook off which was won by Greenfields Gastro Pub for the third year in a row.

“I’m feeling pretty good considering we are the champions two years in a row — this being our third,” said owner Hailey Rooney.

“We had to defend our title so that was really important to us.”

The day was put on by the West Barrhaven Community Association. Co-organizer Darrell Bartraw said

Greenfields has always been a proud sponsor of the event, noting the former owners of the restaurant once tried something a little different which turned out to be a highlight.

“I remember at one of the first Winter in Brrrhaven events we had Greenfields entered and they brought a green chili,” Bartraw said.

“It was green tomatoes, white beans, chicken instead of beef and it was one of the best chilies we had that time. It was amazing.”

Many local businesses took place in the annual chili cook off including; the Heart and Crown, Broadways Bar and Grill, Montana’s, the Royal Oak, the Works, Greenfields and Copper Branch which offered a plant-based option.

Thanks to the warmer weather this year with temperatures reaching a high of

-2, Bartraw said they had the biggest crowd yet, attracting over 1,000 Barrhaven residents. It was so well attended volunteers had to run out last minute to purchase more hot dogs to keep up with the lunch-rush.

“We had Little Rays reptiles which had a huge crowd as did the princesses,” he said. “Boom radio came out and helped us out with our music which is awesome and BrokerLink insurance came through with a donation that helped pay for our hot dogs and some other things.”

“I think the weather was really cooperating,” echoed West Barrhaven Community Association President John Scholman. “It was really great to have the sleigh rides and having the rink fully operational thanks to the rink operators.”

The event took place from 11 am to 2 pm and

Winter in Brrrhaven drew a large crowd to Larkin Park last Saturday.

Charlie Senack photo

was well attended. Bartraw, Scholman and the other organizers hope to make it an

even bigger event next year.

Greenfields on the other hand hopes their chili will

win over the hearts of Barrhaven residents again next year.

From climate change to Canasta at next month’s Limmud 2020

By Louise Rachlis For Limmud Ottawa Dozens of fascinating speakers will provide lots to talk about and lots of fun at Limmud 2020, a festival of Jewish learning, Sunday March 15 at the SJCC. The line-up of speakers includes some from Barrhaven, includ-ing Rabbi Menachem Blum of the Ottawa Torah Centre.

Timely and topical, one of the panels will be “Weighing in on Quebec’s Bill C-21,” with panelists Canada Research Chair

Robert Barsky, Richard Marceau of CIJA, and Yasir Naqvi, CEO of the Institute of Canadian Citizenship and former MLA and Attorney General of Ontario.

The all-day event will cover many vital topics of the Jewish world and beyond, from ethical aspects of the environment and ethical eating, the soul, and global antisemitism, to “The History of Bagels from Europe to North America.”

Speakers come from nearby and around the

world, from anthro-pologist Dr. Rohee Dasgupta offering “Perspectives on Jewish-ness and Indian Jewish Identity” to environmental psychologist Dr. Mirele B. Goldsmith on “From Moses to Greta: Leadership lessons for facing up to climate change.”

The fun and games include Canasta, a favourite pastime of Jew-ish women, many of whom have played for decades with the same people. Avid Canasta players Hinda Packard and Nancy Kaplan, authors of Can(am)asta!: The Offi-

cial Handbook for Playing Canasta and Samba, will teach about the game’s history and techniques, and afterward, lead the play at a Canasta Dem-onstration Station.

Born and raised in Ottawa, Baruch Sienna will speak on “Juda-ism and the Environment: Beyond Bal Tashkhit.” He believes that Judaism’s ancient texts have many valuable lessons con-cerning “consumerism, sustainability and stewardship.”

“Limmud participants come from very diverse

backgrounds, re-ligious affiliations, age, gender, religious practice, nationality, and level of Jewish knowledge,” said Jenny Roberge, one of the founders of Limmud Ottawa in 2012.

Limmud Ottawa is affiliated with Limmud International, and has partnerships with the Max and Tessie Zelikovitz Centre for Jew-ish Studies at Carleton University, the Vered Jewish Canadian Studies Program at University of Ottawa.

It all takes places mor-

ning and afternoon at the SJCC March 15. Adult admission for the day is $36 and includes all sessions and a light kosher lunch.

Limmud is aiming for a day of Zero Waste, and so please bring your own reusable water container.

Register online at www. limmudottawa.ca or on facebook.com/limmudottawa . Pre-registration online is highly recommended as the event sells out.

See the full list of speakers on the website at limmudottawa.ca .

Local Indo-Canadians among those who took part in protest On February 1, many Barrhaven residents took part in a protest in front of the High Commission of India opposing the National Register of Indian Citizens (NRC), Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) 2019, and the National Population Register (NPR).

According to protest organizers, these are all unjust laws passed to oppress indigenous, Muslim, and other socio-economic min-

orities in India. The CAA and NRC together render several million people in India disenfranchised, and have a devastating effect on Muslims as well as socio-economic minorities, Dalits, Adivasis, and other historically oppressed groups, they said.

Protestors said they fear that all such citizens would be placed in detention camps located in Assam, Karnataka and other regions

in India. The historical legacies of such a move, which they say makes it very similar to the Nuremberg model followed in Nazi Germany, raises concern for the future of the country, its Constitution, its people, and its historically plural fabric.

Around 1.9 million people have been rendered stateless and ‘illegal’ after the NRC was implemented in Assam. Kashmir has been under lockdown for over six

months.

“We denounce the Indian Government’s revocation of Article 370 of the Indian constitution, thereby stripping Muslim majority Kashmir of its special status,” a press release stated. “We strongly condemn the police violence against students and peaceful protestors in India. We in Ottawa join the global movement of protests to show our support for a plural and inclusive

India. We demand the withdrawal of the CAA, NRC, NPR and stress the importance of upholding the rights of all religious minorities; and condemn the excessive use of force by the police against the peaceful protest by citizens of India.”

The protest was organised by the Ottawa Chapter of IndoCanadians 4 Humanity – which was set up in order to respond to the injustices being com-

mitted in India today, and oppose the implementation of CAA, NRC and NPR. Retired Prof. Shadbano Ahmed, Dr. Chinnaiah Jangam, Mr. Tanveer, and Mr. Mehmood Shaikh are the founding members of IndoCanadians 4 Humanity, Ottawa Chapter. This collective is committed to a sustained opposition to the growing fascist forces in India and the rise of the Hindutva state.

BARRHAVEN INDEPENDENT

The IndependentCOMMUNITY LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Nikic’s letter on Stonebridge Golf Course misses the point

The Editor, In his recent letter to The Barrhaven Independent, Mr. Nikic with StonebridgeFacts once again displays the fundamental misunderstanding that his group has had regarding the Stonebridge Community Association negotiated solution which has been approved for the future of the golf course land owned by Mattamy.

The issue has never been about the pros and cons of buying or operating a golf course. Rather, it has been about preserving the greenspace that our community enjoys, whether a golf course or eventually open land. The (eleventh-hour) idea of finding a golf course operator to invest in the property and potentially operate it for 20 years is not a permanent solution.

The approved approach, to have the ability to purchase the

FRIDAY, February 7, 2020 Page 15

Midget eAgLeS FOOtBALL the NepeAN eAgLeS FOOtBALL CLuB hAS SOMe exCitiNg NewS FOr the 2020 Midget SeASON!

The Club will be formally partnering with Myers Riders... expanding on a partnership at the Midget level that has existed for over 15 years commencing in 2003.

A new nAMe And ColouRs will be pART of This venTuRe

Please join us on Wednesday, February 12th from 7:00pm-8:30pm property if and when Mattamy decides not to continue operating the golf course, is one that we can all depend upon as permanent and empowers the community to have control of our future decisions.

Moreover, it constitutes a terrific compromise between the community and Mattamy, with the City backing us up for

the long term. The advantages to everyone living in the area are very clear -- green space forever, only limited development and new construction, and property value protection for all homeowners.

George Macdonald, Stonebridge

Cambrian Room, 2nd floor at the Minto Sports Complex (Quinn’s Point) located in Half Moon Bay in Barrhaven.

Any questions regarding this event may be emailed to Rob McLaurin at rmclaurin@rogers.com --- THe agenda for THe evening iS aS followS --7:00pm Introductions • 7:05pm Overview… How did we arrive here?

• 7:20pm Head Coach introduction… Philosophy, Goals and Objectives • 7:30pm Q&A • 8:00 Adjourn Any questions regArding this event mAy be emAiled to

rob mclAurin At rmclAurin@rogers.com

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