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Police are investigating at least two south Kanata break-ins, with at least one of those happening the day after a resident

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Police cuts could lead to unanswered noise complaints Coun. voices concern over police policy change Jennifer McIntosh

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Rideau-Vanier Coun.

Mathieu Fleury is calling foul over a decision by Ottawa police to cut corners by not attending calls for noise complaints.

Fleury called on community and protective services

committee chair Diane Deans to write a letter to the police services board, expressing their concern about what that will mean for residents.

The change in policy is planned for April 1.

After that, police will only respond to a noise complaint if there’s a threat to public safety.

Anthony Dimonte, acting general manager of emergency and protective services, said the change will stretch bylaw services a little thin.

Fleury said if the change goes ahead, Ottawa would be the only municipality in the province that only has a bylaw response to noise complaints.

Deans asked DiMonte to report back on the resources it would take for bylaw to handle noise complaints alone.

“We shouldn’t work in such silos in the corporation where OPS can make a decision with that kind of impact to bylaw without notice to council,” Deans said.

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Sign design: Bridlewood association launches contest designs will be chosen and put up at the Trans Canada Trail entrance near Shetland Park.

The first place winner will receive a $200 cash prize and choose which side of the sign their design will be featured on, while the second place winner will receive $100 cash prize. The association will also provide $500 in total for painting supplies so the

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The association has launched a design contest, open to 13- to 19-year-olds living in Bridlewood. Two

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This is the first time the association has undertaken this contest, said Lorraine Pigeon with the community association. She said the sign contest was instigated by its deteriorating state.

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Police are investigating several break and enters in south Kanata, where at least one resident had their house broken into the day after they moved in.

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Bridlewood commented that at least one break-in occurred in the Monahan Landing neighbourhood.

Residents said a woman moved into her home on Feb. 25, and at about 4 a.m. the next day heard someone on her main floor and called police. Another resident reported they had someone break into their new residence a few days after moving into their home in Monahan Landing.

Police verified that they

are aware of break-andenter incidents like this in the south Kanata area, and that they are investigating them, but said they could not share any more information.

Kanata South Coun. Allan Hubley said he is aware of the break-in that happened in Monahan Landing, but not of any others.

“As far as house breakins go, that is very rare,” said Hubley, though they aren’t unprecedented in the area.

Most thefts are a case of doors being left unlocked

and electronics quickly swiped from cars or houses, he said, though he noted he was on the scene of a police arrest last summer in south Kanata where thieves were caught after stealing from multiple homes that were not yet occupied.

“The police take this stuff very, very seriously so if there is something starting up like a crew (of thieves) starting to work break-ins, the best advice I can give residents is ‘Lock your doors,’” said Hubley. “That’s usually the difference-maker.”

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Sharing the load: Gender inequality at home

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f you’re a married woman, you may find yourself doing an hour more of housework per day than your male partner.

If you’re a mother, you can safely double the time you spend cleaning and caring for the home and those in it. And while the gender gap is narrowing in Canada, men are still doing less than women, even in couples where both partners work.

Does that rub you the wrong way? It should.

Or maybe you’re thinking, “but my husband cleans toilets.” Good for him, but toilets are negotiable in this scenario. Making beds is nice and a man who cooks is a verifiable catch, in my opinion.

But if you really want to ensure gender equality in your house, the answer may lie in the laundry room.

Get him to wash your delicates and you’re clear on a number of fronts.

That’s the idea behind an award-winning television ad for laundry detergent out of India that has caught the imagination of North Americans and people across the developed world under #ShareTheLoad.

In it, a father observes his daughter return from work, taking work calls, caring for her child, starting dinner and doing the laundry, all while her husband sits on the sofa watching television.

At the end of the ad, the father writes a letter, apolo-

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Researchers in the U.S. found that marriage created a housework hierarchy

Facebook’s chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg, summed up the meaning behind the ad quite nicely.

“The real win is the way they are changing stereotypes and showing that a more equal world would be a better world for all of us,” Sandberg wrote on her

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The ad was designed to take on gender stereotypes in India. But inequality between the sexes on the home front is alive and well here in North America too.

Researchers in the U.S. found that marriage created a housework hierarchy. According to a University of Michigan study, marriage creates seven hours of extra housework each week for a woman. A man, meanwhile, is saved an hour of chores each week when he “takes a wife.”

Based on 2005 daily journal data that researchers have been studying since 1968, the study shed some light on persistent gender equality within households.

No surprise that when children are added to the equation, women are ever more likely to be dust-busting their way around the house; more with each increase in the number of offspring.

“They found that young

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single women did the least amount of housework, at about 12 hours a week.

Married women in their 60 and 70s did nearly twice that amount, while women with more than three children spent 28 hours a week cleaning, cooking and washing,” Reuters reported at the time of the study’s release.

But it doesn’t have to be this way. One of the answers may lie in our own parenting. Are we treating boys and girls differently when it comes to household responsibilities? Statistics would suggest we are.

Philanthropist Melinda Gates shed some light on the numbers in a February 2016 blog post, entitled, “The Gender gap nobody is talking about.”

Gates pulled 2014 U.S. data from the OECD’s gender, institutions and development database and cross-referenced with more nuanced numbers to demonstrate that the gender gap starts in childhood and is perpetuated by the media.

“Girls do 100 hours more chores than boys in a year. Boys are 15 per cent more likely to be paid for their chores,” writes Gates.

“Mothers may no longer be chained to the stove, but they still do three times more cleaning and four times more laundry than men. Only one out of every 50 people you see in TV commercials doing laundry or running after kids is a man.”

While the scenario is slightly better in Canada, we have yet to pronounce full equality on the home front. If we want to see a future where our daughters more equally share housework with their spouses, they need to see not only

their dads, but also their brothers, tackling some of those domestic chores.

Start by showing the boys how to run that big clotheswashing machine that may be hiding in your basement.

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We share this city with a nation

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or decades the people of Ottawa – if not all of Canada – have dealt with a form of taxation without representation.

The National Capital Commission bills its responsibility as making the capital “a dynamic and inspiring source of pride for all Canadians, and a legacy for generations to come.”

It’s a lofty goal, paid for by all Canadians.

The decisions of the NCC board may often puzzle the locals, but without the NCC, Ottawa would be planned from a purely municipal outlook, when it certainly deserves a greater world view.

This is the capital city for all Canadians.

Unfortunately, the NCC has had to deal with federal governments that also believe in political interference, governments that have considered short-term political expediency the trump card, forgetting the “legacy for generations to come” part that is a function of taking a long-term view.

Big plans and big budgets can draw our focus to the short term; we want what we

want, and we want it now. Those big plans and budgets also make politicians – who must keep their eyes on getting re-elected – over-excited, ready to build themselves a legacy.

Every decision made by the NCC should be taken with the long-term implications as its primary focus. We are all here on a temporary basis.

With a clean slate, the Trudeau government has set new and welcome parameters for the NCC. That doesn’t mean there will be no political interference, but it has already delivered some good news.

Someone in the federal government has realized that the NCC’s physical jurisdiction actually overlaps that of local governments in two provinces.

The mayors of Ottawa and Gatineau are now non-voting members of the NCC board of directors. That this is a new situation, when the NCC has been around since 1959, is shocking.

But what’s done is done. Bring on the clean slate.

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t is almost comical, the disputes we get into over how to protect ourselves from ourselves. Many difficult situations, not to mention a lot of arguing, could be prevented if we just behaved better, but that is not our nature.

Here are a couple of examples – noise bylaw enforcement and photo radar. In a perfect world we wouldn’t need them. But people drive too fast and people have parties and people who have parties have neighbours.

In days gone by, this situation was dealt with by a combination of bylaw officers and police. But now there is talk of scaling back, with some residents fearing that no one will show up to ask the folks next door to keep it down.

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That’s small consolation to the folks next door when the party has spilled out onto the lawn and the screaming from the second floor may not be all in fun. But is there a magical solution? No. But there may be a magical solution to another instance of people behaving badly. That’s

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the question of too-fast driving in residential areas. Photo radar has been proposed by an Ottawa city councillor and the debate has begun to rage.

There are two issues really: effectiveness and civil liberties.

The second is easier to deal with.

While it is true that surveillance cameras, such as photo radar, intrude on our privacy, these would not be the first.

In fact, cameras are trained on us in all sorts of public spaces.

We may not have reached the Big Brother stage of say, London, where it is apparently difficult to move without being on camera.

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to, as long as drivers think the cameras might be there. The mere thought of cameras can act as a deterrent to would-be speeders.

There are a lot of tricky details to work out, for sure, including the fact that cameras show cars, not people. But there’s no harm in trying.

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one on the street where we live?

If the civil liberties horse has left the barn, the question of effectiveness remains. Would photo radar work? It got good reviews when it was in effect in the early ’90s on Ontario highways, before it became politically expedient to end it. But how well could it work in neighbourhoods?

You can see it working on major streets, where the buses run.

But major streets are not what concerns parents. Major streets have stoplights and, in key areas, crossing guards.

What worries a parent is his own quiet street which somebody uses, too fast, as a shortcut, or is just not paying attention.

The driver doesn’t even have to be speeding to be a danger to children playing on that street; 50 km/h or even 40 is way too fast.

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Mayors join NCC board Jennifer McIntosh

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Mayor Jim Watson said he’s anxious to begin working with the National Capital Commission as an ex-officio member of the board.

“I think we (Ottawa and Gatineau mayors) can bring a unique perspective,” he said.

“And we can bring the NCC perspective to council. They are not always right and we are not always wrong.”

The commission announced on Feb. 29 that the board of directors had voted in favour of having the two mayors – Watson and Gatineau’s Maxime Pedneaud-Jobin – join the board as nonvoting members.

The city has been asking for a voice on the commission’s board for a long time, namely because the commission’s decisions have an impact on city planning.

Watson said he was pleased the federal Minister of Canadian Heritage Mélanie Joly worked so quickly on the file.

Joly recommended the board

the bar in terms of openness and transparency, and these decisions are part of an effort to serve the public interest.”

The mayors’ participation will be governed by the same code of conduct, confidentiality provisions and conflict of interest rules required of NCC board members.

A statement from the commission said the mayors would be present during all board discussions with the exception of certain items, including lawyer-client privilege, human resource or privacy matters and matters concerning the official residences.

amend its bylaws to include Watson and Pedneaud-Jobin.

“I look forward to attending the first board meeting,” he said.

“I am delighted with the NCC’s decision to invite the mayors of Ottawa and Gatineau to their board meetings as observers,” Joly wrote in a press release. “In this spirit of openness I intend to ensure that aboriginal people are also represented on the commission’s board. Our government is committed to raising

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Several outlets reported that family and friends confirmed the 30-year-old man shot and killed by Toronto police on March 4 was Devon LaFleur. He was last reported missing

by Ottawa police – and possibly armed with a handgun – earlier that same day.

Ottawa police reported on March 4 that LaFleur had gone missing that morning and was last seen near Hazeldean Road.

At that time, he was described as standing 6-2 with a medium build and wearing a camouflage jacket and beige pants, and police said, “His family is concerned for his safety.” Police added he may have been armed with a handgun and was driving a white Ford Escape.

Police cautioned that anyone who spotted him should not approach him.

The next day, Ottawa police posted on Facebook that LaFleur was located, but no other information was given.

Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit released information that same day reporting that a 30-year-old man had been fatally shot by Toronto police the night of March 4.

LaFleur’s family have confirmed the man who was killed is LaFleur, say multiple media outlets.

The SIU’s report says that police became involved with a man outside a residence on Bayview Avenue in Toronto. “There was a confrontation and several officers discharged their firearms.”

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The agency has identified three “subject officers” and nine “witness officers” as part of the investigation.

Though police made no mention of it in their initial missing person release, friends of LaFleur said he had a history of mental illness.

According to Torstar News Service, Nayef Abdul, a childhood friend of LaFleur’s, said LaFleur was institutionalized with mental illness as a teen.

“He was the most gentle happy man I ever met in my life. It’s such a shock, we’re all talking here; how did the guy we know get out of here and go there and get killed by the police?”

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City could dip into reserves to deal with 2015 deficit Jennifer McIntosh

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City council will consider a plan to balance the books for 2015 by dipping into the city’s reserve funds.

The city ended last year with a $42-million shortfall, which city treasurer Marian Simulik said is much better than the numbers originally forecast.

Simulik credited the savings to minimal snowfalls in November and December, as well as the city’s hiring freeze.

She suggested the city’s reserves are healthy enough to use them to deal with the deficit. Even with the removal of $42 million, reserves are expected to hit $267 million by the end of the year, Simulik said.

During a March 1 finance and economic development committee meeting, Gloucester-Southgate Coun. Diane Deans asked how much of the reserves – that come from sources such as the gas tax – are earmarked for specific items that need to be used for transit projects.

Simulik said approximately $100 million comes from the gas tax, which the city is using to build the light rail the Confederation Line.

City staff plan to do an inventory of the city’s reserves and report back before the end of this year, Simulik said.

“We haven’t had refresh of them since 2002,” she said. “There’s new methodology out there that takes

a risk-based approach to figure out how much is enough. There’s a sweet spot between not too much and not enough.”

HIRING FREEZE QUESTIONS

Deans question whether the city’s hiring freeze impacted service levels, and said she wonders what will happen to the budget once it’s lifted.

City manager Kent Kirkpatrick said there’s still a freeze at the executive level, which will be in place until the city meets the reduction targets set out during the budget process.

He said the hiring freeze only applies to positions that don’t impact front line service.

Kanata South Coun. Allan Hubley congratulated staff on their “quick action,” to deal with the deficit.

Mayor Jim Watson cited lower than expected water meter revenues, high snow clearing expenses and OC Transpo maintenance costs as unforeseen aspects of recent spending.

“We have reserves for the reason that we can’t always budget precisely,” Watson said, calling the reserves a kind of rainy day fund.

Watson added the budget performance review – brainchild of Hubley and Knoxdale-Merivale Coun.

Keith Egli – will help to create an early warning system if a department is in danger of going over budget.

Watson also said the city

would review snow clearing standards.

weren’t really blocking the roadway. He said a review could mean a better use of the city’s resources.

Watson said the city is on much more solid ground financially than at the close of 2015.

“We heard today the reserves are healthy,” he said.

The finance and economic development committee’s decision to use the reserves to pay off the deficit will need to be approved by council.

service levels

“In some cases we will be increasing the level of service and in some cases, where we are going above what we need to, we will be decreasing it,” he said.

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Christine Hauschild has been living her dream for three decades. Licensed in Real Estate in 1986 Christine quickly becoming a highly respected and award winning Realtor in Kanata, setting herself apart with a talent and skill for Custom home design, marketing and sales.

Over the years she has continued to lead the industry by utilizing her honed design and marketing skills while allowing her fundamental joy and energy of working with her clients to shine through. In 2003 Christine chose to make Royal LePage Team Realty her new home. Quickly her marketplace responded and Christine saw her market share increase to the top 1% of Royal LePage Realtors in Canada.

“Having fulfilled my desire to custom design and market and truly provide the best in service possible to my builder clients, I decided to transition into selling resale homes. This provided me the opportunity to work for myself and create my own kind of business on my terms. Without hesitation I joined Royal LePage, a well known top National Brand. Due to the many years working with so many clients around Ottawa, and having had the construction background as well as having worked with so many builders to develop communities from the ground up, my resale and referral business grew quite quickly.”

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Today Christine is growing again.

With a new location opening at 2188-B Robertson Road, Nepean, in Bell’s Corners, Christine is well positioned to make the most of real estate investments for her clients.

“Kanata has been my home for 26 years and is where I have raised my family. Naturally it makes sense to work in the area you live in. Over the years my business has grown beyond Kanata and across Ottawa to include Stittsville, Nepean and many rural areas”.

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“We have been keeping our eye out for the right ‘home’ for us to move into for quite some time and it is extremely difficult to find a property that coincides with my vision. Royal LePage Team Realty had an office in Bells Corners many years ago and it makes sense for us to open our own Boutique location there.

This allows us to service clients from all over.”

The gleaming, modern new office is a former builder’s model home.

“This worked out perfectly for us. It is a tremendous fit! It completely echoes the experience I have always dreamt of providing for my clients.”

With a desire to be challenged every day within the ever changing marketplace, Christine and her team are dedicated to providing clients with a unique, personal experience with the assurance of quality and reliability. That’s why they have consistently ranked in the top 1% in Canada for Royal LePage and she recently received Royal LePage’s Lifetime Chairman’s Award after having held that position for 10 consecutive years.

Christine has put together a dedicated team of professionals who work together to bring you the best service in the industry. With two additional Sales Representatives, a Home Staging and Decorating Consultant and two full-time Office Administrators working under her brand, Christine strives to give her clients the best customer service possible throughout their entire real estate transaction.

“I believe that there will always be those who want and need personal service. In a world that is going to the extreme ‘do it yourself’, I believe our high level of service will enable us to maintain our position of excellence and continue to grow.”

With an open invitation for everyone to drop in to the new office, Christine continues to live her dream.

“I have had the rare opportunity in my life to love what I do every day and I never lose sight of that. I do not take what I have for granted and try to always give back.”

“My tag line is ‘Building a foundation of trust, one home at a time’. This is an ode to my experience in New home construction yet continues on with each and every client I work with.”

Commitment and professional ability have carried Christine a long way in her career, and yet she is still right at home, doing what she loves best.

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It’s 2016 – more women should reach for the top: Coun. erin.mccracken@metroland.com

Women not only can make it to the top, they are needed there, said Gloucester-Southgate Coun. Diane Deans, one of four women serving on the 24-seat city council.

“I think that is starting to resonate,” she said during her annual celebration to mark International Women’s Day on March 8.

And Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has helped reinforce that message with his appointment of an equal number of women and men to cabinet, she told the crowd of women who gathered in the ballroom at a high-rise on Rivergate Way. “But we still have a long way to go. In 2015, the World Economic Forum predicted that it would take – get this – until 2133 to achieve global gender parity,” she said.

The theme of International Women’s Day this year is pledge for parity, which is a cause that hits to close to home for the longtime city councillor.

“Tell me if I’m asking too much – I for one am not willing to wait 117 years for women to take up 50 per cent of the seats on Ottawa city council,” said Deans, who encour-

ages more women to get involved and make a difference, serving as mentors to young women.

“I think we can do better than that.”

The United Nations is campaigning to speed that up, and Deans said it’s possible that Ottawa city council could see an even gender split by 2030.

Boards and institutions across Canada have vowed to actively recruit women for top positions.

In 2015, 56 per cent of Canada’s largest companies adopted policies to address the deficit of women on their boards, which Deans said is encouraging.

But that leaves more than 40 per cent that still need to embrace change.

Research shows those women in leadership roles are making a huge difference, that they often outperform their male counterparts in various fields, such as sales, she noted.

But worldwide, half of women are unemployed and those who do have paying jobs make threequarters of what their male colleagues earn in the same position and with the same education, Deans said while wearing a white Equal Voice T-shirt with the words “… because it’s 2016.”

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Gloucester-Southgate Coun. Diane Deans, centre, hosted her annual International Women’s Day celebration on March 8, bringing together dozens of women, including Lynne Hamilton, left, Ottawabased national chair of Equal Voice, Eva MacLeod, Hunt Club Park-area resident, Kimothy Walker, former CTV News Ottawa anchor, and Kanata North Coun. Marianne Wilkinson.

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ganizers with Equal Voice, announced that over the next three weeks there will be a social media campaign driving home the message that more women need to be elected at all levels of political office in Canada.

The campaign coincides with a fundraiser. All proceeds raised through the sale of specially designed T-shirts will help spread the message promoting gender equality.

“While we have come so far ... we’re not there yet,” said Kimothy Walker, former longtime CTV News Ottawa anchor, who served as keynote speaker during Deans’ celebration.

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Declining enrolment leads to public school job cuts Staff report details academic, administritive cuts, with more to come Megan DeLaire

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Public school board staff presented a report on March 1 that painted a more detailed picture of the positions to be cut in the 2016-17 school year.

The Ottawa-Carleton District School Board’s latest staffing report outlines a reduction of 89 positions, but says that 50 additional cuts are necessary.

Of the 89 cuts, some are positions provincially mandated to meet classroom size requirements, because student enrolment is expected to drop by 300 elementary students and 25 secondary students in the 2016-17 academic year.

The rest of the cuts, including support staff and administration, are up to the discretion of the board.

The report said some cuts – like those of 27 provincially mandated elementary teaching positions and two provincially mandated secondary positions – are the direct result of declining enrolment.

“In spite of what we thought was an extremely conservative projection last year for elementary (enrolment), we saw that we’ve lost kids at a number of grade levels, not just in the kindergarten grades,” said Mike Carson, the board’s chief financial officer and superintendent of facilities.

While previous reports by staff suggested that 35 discretionary teaching positions should be cut, the most recent report calls for 55 reductions, including 14 resulting from the recently approved changes to French language instruction in kindergarten and

instruction in kindergarten and the learning disability program.

The board expects to save another $2.5 million to $3 million through service and utility efficiencies, leaving the remaining $7 million. Board staff said that discretionary academic staffing cuts are expected to save $5 million.

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Public school board staff and trustees gathered on March 1 to discuss job cuts both inside and outside of classrooms in the 2016-17 academic year. the learning disability program.

These 55 reductions include 42 elementary positions, 9.5 secondary positions and four school administrator positions.

Discretionary cuts – targeting positions that aren’t bound by provincial class size requirements – come as

the board faces major budget pressures, including the challenge of saving $7 million in staffing costs in the upcoming school year.

The board originally needed to curb spending by $14.4 million, but saved $4.4 million by restructuring the extended day program fee structure, French

Beyond teaching positions, board staff suggested that discretionary cuts should include staffing at adult high school, elementary level English as a second language, and teachers assigned to help students with hearing or visual impairments.

Staff suggested that 11 learning resource teacher positions could be cut, and admitted that students could feel the effect of that loss inside of the classroom.

“Although this reduction will have some impact on services available in schools … staff will work closely with (human resources staff) and principals to maximize the effectiveness of the learning resource teacher and learning support teacher positions,” the report said, adding that it would ensure “that allocations are equitable across schools.”

Cutting several viceprincipal positions is also recommended in the report.

According to staff, the remaining 50 cuts not outlined in the report could affect positions outside of classrooms, like central and school-based administrative, clerical and technical positions, supervisory staff, education assistants, professional staff, maintenance and senior administration.

Board staff will present their final recommendations during the March 22 committee of the whole meeting.

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A new policy that would give Ottawa’s English public school board the power to sanction trustees for unethical or chronically disrespectful behaviour is another step closer to becoming reality.

“There’s always been a need to get something in place which clarifies where you get disagreements among trustees, that are personal disagreements as opposed to disagreements over an issue,” said Lynn Scott, trustee and chairwoman of the OttawaCarleton District School Board’s subcommittee that is developing the inaugural code of conduct for trustees.

“How do you mediate that?” she said.

The subcommittee’s five trustees unanimously agreed on March 2 to send the draft policy to the board’s next committee of the whole meeting for debate on March 22.

Once approved, the board would have the power to censure a trustee who breaches the code, bar a trustee from attending all or part of a board or committee meeting or ban a member from committee meetings for a period of time set out by the board.

“There was concern expressed at the meeting that could be indefinite, and that’s why we’re deciding whether there should be a specific time in there and what that specific time should be,” said Shirley Seward, River trustee and board chair.

Staff will be seeking legal advice on what would be a reasonable period of time.

“Right now, the policy doesn’t talk about any term of time and doesn’t specify that boards of trustees should be judicious or fair,” Seward said.

The policy would not allow a trustee to be removed from the board.

Committee member Donna Blackburn, trustee for Barrhaven and MerivaleKnoxdale, expressed concern that an elected trustee

who is barred could be replaced with a board-appointed representative.

She pointed to the case of an Ontario trustee who was barred from board meetings for three years before she resigned and was replaced.

“There needs to be something in this code that prevents a trustee from being ineffective,” Blackburn said during the meeting, adding this “is a very serious issue that needs to be addressed.”

APOLOGY ACCEPTED

Blackburn herself was recently the focus of a complaint by a trustee for remarks made to the media in January, in which she called colleagues who oppose a proposed rate hike for before-and-after-school programs “whack jobs.” She also dropped an F-bomb.

After receiving a written complaint, Seward said she sought legal guidance on how to deal with it in the absence of a code of conduct.

She said the lawyer’s answer was that the board needs to have a code in place.

Blackburn said she has since tried to make amends for the name-calling and cursing, which she admitted was “inappropriate.”

Scott, who is trustee for West Carleton-March, Stittsville and RideauGoulbourn, and Seward both said Blackburn can’t be sanctioned for past remarks once the new policy takes effect.

“As far as I’m concerned that is over,” Seward said.

“She did apologize. Her apology was accepted and that’s it.”

Once the policy comes into effect, the code would give the board the ability to govern trustee conduct, holding them accountable for illegal or negligent actions, libelous or slanderous statements, or for not conducting themselves in a professional manner.

It also states they should not make personal, demeaning or disparaging comments about staff or board

members, and should respect the views of others and not share confidential information.

INCREMENTAL STEPS

The policy also sets out the steps that would be taken once a concern, ranging from the complainant speaking with the trustee whose behaviour is in question to an informal review. If that is unsuccessful, a formal review could be launched by the chair or vice-chair and investigated internally or by an outside party.

If a trustee breaches the code, any levied sanctions would require a public vote by at least two-thirds of the 12-member board of trustees.

“I see this as nothing more than what we’re asking of our students and staff in that we’re spelling out what the expectations for trustees are and as an effort to hold trustees accountable,” Chris Ellis, trustee for Rideau-Rockcliffe and Alta Vista, said at the meeting. “It’s not to punish trustees.”

Seward agreed, and said in an interview she hopes the board never has to use it.

“It’s meant as something that all trustees can agree with and that in itself, I think, is the real value of it, the fact that it discourages people to do things because the code of conduct is there, the whole board will have eventually a role in approving it, and it’s common language that is understood by all,” she said.

“It should be a deterrent.”

While there is a code of ethics in place, the board of trustees began informally looking at developing a code of conduct during the last term of office, something the province asked all boards to develop a number of years ago, said Seward.

“We’re one of the few boards that doesn’t have one yet,” she said, adding the subcommittee met last June and September, but the process was delayed amid a teacher labour dispute.

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Helping with Furniture trying to keep up with demand Helping With Furniture, an Ottawa charity, has been helping families and individuals start over for years, by giving donated household items and furniture to those getting a fresh start.

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A call for help had been issued after the Canotek Road space became jammed with furniture.

“There was a time when it became clear that any more donations wouldn’t fit,” PerehinecCatana said.

The bottleneck for the organization now is transporting donations into the warehouses and to the people who receive them.

Helping With Furniture has asked those who make donations to try and drop off items if possible.

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People are referred through service workers, or refugee sponsors can file an application on behalf of a family they’re sponsoring.

When they are approved, they get a checklist, where they enter names of family members and check off what items are required.

Helping With Furniture can’t always provide everything to every family – there are lots of items they’re running low on – but volunteers do their best to package together a complete home set.

Currently, there is a high need for all sorts of donations, but especially new or gently-used bedding, small appliances and beds.

“Every donation you do, every drop off, people are amazed,” Perehinec-Catana said.

An Ottawa resident, who did not want to be named, was at the east-end warehouse on March 2 to pick up furniture for his family, Syrian refugees currently living with him.

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Nepean South Infrastructure Projects Open House Monday, March 21, 2016 Walter Baker Sports Centre, Upper Concourse, 100 Malvern Drive 5:30 to 8:30 p.m.

Residents are invited to attend an Open House at which four infrastructure projects planned for Nepean South will be presented.

Participants will have an opportunity to discuss the projects with the study teams and provide feedback.

Municipal Class Environmental Assessments (EA) These Municipal Class EA studies are being undertaken in accordance with Ontario’s Environmental Assessment Act. Comments received will be collected under the Environmental Assessment Act and, with the exception of personal information, will become part of the public record.

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Chapman Mills Drive Extension and Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) Presentation will be held at 6:30 p.m.

They were sponsored by a local church and arrived in Canada in January, and brought very few belongings with them.

“With the help of the local community, we managed to rescue him to start a new life,” he said.

The eight family members have all been crammed into his family’s home, sleeping three to a bed, but several were about to get their own townhouse.

He showed up with his brothers to pick up new beds, dressers, and other furniture to help his family get started in their new home.

“When they left Syria, they just thought of safety. They left everything,” the man said. “Look what the community is doing. They’re giving a new life to these people.”

The City of Ottawa has initiated the Chapman Mills Drive Extension (Longfields Drive to Strandherd Drive) and Bus Rapid Transit (Greenbank Road to west of Cedarview Road) EA Study to determine the most appropriate means to accommodate and manage increasing transportation infrastructure requirements around the Barrhaven Town Centre area. The EA study is being undertaken in accordance with Ontario’s Environmental Assessment Act, fulfilling requirements as a Municipal Class EA process for a Schedule ‘C’ project.

Donations are accepted at Helping with Furniture on Saturday mornings and Wednesday evenings. Volunteers are also welcomed at the same times. Volunteers who are able to drive to do pickups are especially needed at this time. To get involved or make a donation, visit helpingwithfurniture.org.

At this third and final Open House, participants will have an opportunity to provide feedback on the Recommended Plan. Residents are encouraged to provide comments by April 4. For more information on the project, please visit ottawa.ca/chapmanmillsextension.

Kennedy-Burnett Stormwater Management Facility The City is conducting a Municipal Class EA and Functional Design for the expansion and retrofit of the Kennedy-Burnett Stormwater Management Facility. The existing facility is an online wet pond that was constructed in 1976. The facility will be retrofitted to meet current City of Ottawa and Ministry of Environment and Climate Change stormwater treatment standards and expanded to meet the demands of the development of Nepean South.

At the Open House, participants will learn of the preferred alternative for expanding and retrofitting the facility. For more information on the project, please visit ottawa.ca/kennedyburnett.

Greenbank Road Watermain The City is conducting a Municipal Class EA and Functional Design Study for the Greenbank Road watermain between Jockvale Road and south of the Jock River. The study will determine the most appropriate alignment for a 610 millimetre diameter transmission watermain including methodology for crossing the Jock River. The watermain will improve water supply and reliability in the Nepean South development area. Planning and construction of the watermain will be coordinated with the approved widening and realignment of Greenbank Road. The study is carried out in accordance with the requirements of Phases 1 and 2 of the Municipal Class EA. For more information on the project, please visit ottawa.ca/greenbankwatermain.

Planned Construction Nepean Collector Sewer - Phase 2 The City is constructing a 2.4 kilometre long, 1050 millimetre diameter sanitary collector sewer. Phase 1 of the South Nepean Collector Sewer was constructed in 2005/2006 and ends at Jockvale Road just north of the Jock River. Phase 2 will extend from Phase 1 toward Strandherd Drive and will service the development of Nepean South. Sewer construction is scheduled to begin this summer and to be completed by spring 2017.

For more information on the project, please visit ottawa.ca. ________________________________________________________________________________________ Accessibility is an important consideration for the City of Ottawa. If you require special accommodation, please contact the project lead or email pgmpublicengagement@ottawa.ca before the event.

For further project information or to provide comments, please contact: Chapman Mills Drive Extension and Bus Rapid Transit Jabbar Siddique, P. Eng. Sr. Project Engineer, Environmental Assessment

Planning and Growth Management 110 Laurier Avenue West, Ottawa, ON K1P1J1 Tel: 613-580-2424, ext. 13914 E-mail:Jabbar.Siddique@ottawa.ca Kennedy-Burnett Stormwater Management Facility

John Bougadis, M.A.Sc., P.Eng. Senior Project Manager, Infrastructure Planning Planning and Growth Management 110 Laurier Avenue West, Ottawa, ON K1P 1J1 Tel: 613-580-2424, ext.14990 E-mail: John.Bougadis@ottawa.ca This notice first issued on March 10, 2016

Greenbank Road Watermain

Joseph Zagorski, P. Eng. Senior Project Manager, Infrastructure Planning Planning and Growth Management 110 Laurier Avenue West, Ottawa, ON K1P 1J1 Tel: 613-580-2424, ext. 22611 E-mail: Joseph.Zagorski@ottawa.ca South Nepean Collector Sewer - Phase 2 Jonathan Knoyle, P. Eng.

Senior Engineer, Infrastructure Projects Infrastructure Services Department 100 Constellation Crescent, Ottawa, ON K2G 5J9 Tel: 613-580-2424, ext. 16436 E-mail: Jonathan.Knoyle@ottawa.ca Ad # 2016-507-s_Nepean South Infrastructure Projects_10032016

Marianne Wilkinson

Serving Kanata north

City Councillor, Kanata north TOWN HALL MARCH 23rd The last Town Hall was cancelled due to weather, so the March meeting will take into account items that were to be covered on that day, including a presentation on the proposed park design for Richardson Ridge. Save this date at 7 pm in the Beaverbrook Library to get caught up on what’s happening in your community.

OTTAWA 2017 Canada’s 150th celebration year is fast approaching. I’m consulting with cultural groups in the community about holding an event featuring Canadian culture through the eyes of local groups. If you’re interested in taking part or helping with such an event please contact my office.

EXPANSION LANDS PUBLIC MEETING – SAVE THE DATE – The tentative date for the final public meeting on the new community planned along March Road north of Morgan’s Grant and Brookside is March 30th at 6:30 pm in St. Isidore’s Church Hall.

INTERIM PROPERTY TAXES are due on March 17th – This bill is 50% of last year’s taxes. All changes resulting from the 2016 budget will show on the final tax bill in June. Interest of 1.25% per month (or part month) is charged on overdue accounts.

New property assessments based on your property value as of January 1, 2016 are being prepared by MPAC and will be mailed to you later this year. They will be used to calculate property taxes starting in 2017.

SELECTIVE TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT PROGRAM (STEP) This month local police forces will focus on distracted driving, unsafe lane changes and speeding. The program is designed to provide information, lay charges and improve road safety for items that are the cause of many accidents, injuries and fatalities. With children on Winter Break and spring melting conditions, next week there is a greater need for vigilance and safe driving practices.

TRANSIT ROUTE CHANGES Changes to many transit routes are happening on April 24th.

These include cancellation of route 188 in Arcadia due to very low ridership, cancelling some early morning or late night routes, including the 92 & 93, where ridership is low, revising route 182 to serve more of the Kanata North Business Park, and time adjustments to many routes. There are also major changes due to LRT construction, such as having all buses to downtown using local streets from Tunney’s to downtown in June. Check times on your routes in advance at the OC Transpo website.

TEEN’S VIDEO CONTEST – Teens from 13 to 18 are invited to create a one-minute video about their favourite book and upload it to YouTube to be eligible for great prizes. The contest ends on April 4th. Details are on the Library website or email InfoService@BiblioOttawaLibrary.ca.

HYDRO ONE TREE CLEARING involves tree trimming, tree removal and spraying brush and stumps with Garlon RTU. In Kanata North, I’ve been informed that it will take place along Huntmar from the 417 to Richardson Side Road, east along that road to Terry Fox, north on Terry Fox to the railway and then east along the railway to the hydro substation just west of March Road.

OASIS in KANATA, March 21, 7–9pm, Oasis, a place for caregivers of people with mental illness, presents a free information session entitled “Health Headlines: Hope or Hype?”, at Glen Cairn United Church, 140 Abbeyhill Drive. Find out about reliable sources of health information and evidence available on the Internet. No registration required. Visit www.TheOasisKanata.ca for full details.

Contact me at 613-580-2474, email Marianne.Wilkinson@ottawa.ca Follow me on Twitter @KanataNorth to keep up to date on community matters.

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Lee Chamney, a Centretown resident, loads a dresser into a truck for a Syrian refugee family who was at Helping With Furniture’s Star Top Road location on March 2 to pick up donated furniture.

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Expropriations Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. E.26.

NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR APPROVAL TO EXPROPRIATE LAND IN THE MATTER OF an application by the City of Ottawa for approval to expropriate the easements described in Schedule A attached hereto for the purposes of the Richmond Forcemain Repairs and Modifications Project including but not limited to permitting the construction, use, operation, inspection, alteration, maintenance and/or repair of an existing 500 mm sanitary sewer forcemain, a new 300 mm sanitary sewer forcemain to facilitate repairs to the existing forcemain, a new section of 600 mm sanitary sewer forcemain parallel to the existing forcemain and works and improvements ancillary thereto and including temporary easements, 12 months in duration, for purposes including but not limited to repairing the existing 500 mm sanitary sewer forcemain, constructing the 300 mm and 600 mm sanitary sewer forcemains, entering on, under and through the easement lands described in Schedule A attached hereto with all vehicles, machinery, workmen and material for construction, excavation, and grading, and undertaking all other works ancillary to the Richmond Forcemain Repairs and Modifications Project.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that application has been made for approval to expropriate the easements described in Schedule A attached hereto.

The Property Sketches referred to in Schedule A forming part of this Notice, are available for viewing during regular business hours at the City’s Client Service Centre, 1st Floor, City Hall, City of Ottawa, 110 Laurier Avenue West.

Any owner of lands in respect of which notice is given who desires an inquiry into whether the taking of such land is fair, sound and reasonably necessary in the achievement of the objectives of the expropriating authority shall so notify the approving authority in writing, (a) in the case of a registered owner, served personally or by registered mail within 30 days after the registered owner is served with the notice, or, when the registered owner is served by publication, within 30 days after the first publication of the notice; (b) in the case of an owner who is not a registered owner, within 30 days after the first publication of the notice.

The approving authority is: The Council of the City of Ottawa 110 Laurier Ave. W. Ottawa ON K1P 1J1.

The expropriating authority is: City of Ottawa 110 Laurier Ave. W. Ottawa ON K1P 1J1.

Dated at Ottawa this 3rd day of March, 2016.

CITY OF OTTAWA Gordon E. MacNair Director, Real Estate Partnerships & Development Office Schedule A Those lands in the City of Ottawa described as follows: An estate, right, or interest in the nature of a permanent easement in the following lands: Part of PIN 04430-0267 (LT) being part of UNIT 57, PL 4D-17, S/T LT343099, geographic Township of Goulbourn, City of Ottawa, designated as Parcels 1 and 2 in Property Sketch No. 18336-1c.dgn.

Part of PIN 04430-0268 (LT) being part of UNIT 72, PL 4D-17, S/T LT449329, geographic Township of Goulbourn, City of Ottawa, designated as Parcels 1 and 2 in Property Sketch No. 18336-2c.dgn Part of PIN 04430-0325 (LT) being part of PT UNIT 65, PL 4D-17, being Parts 1, 4 and 7 on Plan 4R-17172, geographic Township of Goulbourn, City of Ottawa, subject to an easement in favour of The Corporation of the Township of Goulbourn over Part 4 on Plan 4R-17172 as in LT445881, designated as Parcels 1 and 2 in Property Sketch No. 18336-3c.dgn.

Part of PIN 04430-0324 (LT) being part of PT UNIT 65, PL 4D-17, being Parts 2, 5 and 8 on Plan 4R-17172, geographic Township of Goulbourn, City of Ottawa, subject to an easement in favour of The Corporation of the Township of Goulbourn over Part 5 on Plan 4R-17172 as in LT445881, designated as Parcels 1 and 2 in Property Sketch No. 18336-4c.dgn.

Part of PIN 04430-0327 (LT) being part of PT UNIT 65, PL 4D-17, being Parts 3, 6 and 9 on Plan 4R-17172, geographic Township of Goulbourn, City of Ottawa, subject to an easement in favour of The Corporation of the Township of Goulbourn over Part 6 on Plan 4R-17172 as in LT445881, designated as Parcels 1 and 2 in Property Sketch No. 18336-5c.dgn.

An estate, right or interest, for a limited time in the nature of a temporary easement for a period of 12 months in the following lands: Part of PIN 04430-0267 (LT) being part of UNIT 57, PL 4D-17, S/T LT343099, geographic Township of Goulbourn, City of Ottawa, designated as Parcels 3 and 4 in Property Sketch No. 18336-1c.dgn.

Part of PIN 04430-0268 (LT) being part of PT UNIT 72, PL 4D-17, S/T LT449329, geographic Township of Goulbourn, City of Ottawa, designated as Parcels 3 and 4 in Property Sketch No. 18336-2c.dgn.

Part of PIN 04430-0325 (LT) being part of PT UNIT 65, PL 4D-17, being Part 1, 4 and 7 on Plan 4R-17172, geographic Township of Goulbourn, City of Ottawa, subject to an easement in favour of the Corporation of the Township of Goulbourn over Part 4 on Plan 4R-17172 as in LT445881, designated as Parcels 3 and 4 in Property Sketch No. 18336-3c.dgn.

Part of PIN 04430-0324 (LT) being part of PT UNIT 65, PL 4D-17, being Parts 2, 5 and 8 on Plan 4R-17172, geographic Township of Goulbourn, City of Ottawa, subject to an easement in favour of the Corporation of the Township of Goulbourn over Part 5 on Plan 4R-17172 as in LT445881, designated as Parcels 3 and 4 in Property Sketch No. 18336-4c.dgn.

Part of PIN 04430-0327 (LT) being part of PT UNIT 65, PL 4D-17, being Parts 3, 6 and 9 on Plan 4R-17172, geographic Township of Goulbourn, City of Ottawa, subject to an easement in favour of The Corporation of the Township of Goulbourn over Part 6 on Plan 4R-17172 as in LT445881, designated as Parcels 3 and 4 in Property Sketch No. 18336-5c.dgn.

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How to get and stay healthy Second in a threepart commentary Jake Cole and Al Coldham

In our last article, we promised a list of tips that help you to maintain and improve your health and even help you heal better. These are all based on solid evidence but also contain a little dose of common sense. There should be no need for the public to have to tease through confusing, complicated and compromised information and in that sense, our health system has betrayed us.

It also appears that we have, or have been encouraged to have, a fatalistic mind set that tells us: eat and do whatever we want and then rely on our doctors for medications and procedures when health problems appear. But the science shows that this is simply not so. Indeed most of the leading causes of death are preventable, our

genetic makeup may account for only 10-20 per cent of the risk.

Our top 10 tips

Is this list all we need to know? For sure no, but it can be a good start.

1. Eat more fresh, raw vegetables and fruit and less meat in your diet. You control your food intake so this one tip is literally, in your hands. Eating meat regularly increases your odds of contracting cancer and other serious diseases 2. Don’t smoke. If this is news for you, then you really need to read the rest of this list.

3. Eat less sugar, salt, fat.

These three food elements are all addictive, cheap, and except for some types of fat, bad for us. They are almost always heaped into commercially available, fast food.

4. Eat organic foods as much as possible. Pesticides, fungicides, herbicides, and

other chemicals are routinely added to our food. Some foods have more of these additives than others. We also recommend avoiding all genetically modified foods – too many unknowns there.

5. Exercise regularly, preferably outdoors. It can be hard to get started but typically, once you start exercising routinely, it gets easier and you’ll truly enjoy it.

6. Avoid radiation - that is cell phones, x-rays. power lines, electrical outlets, excessive sunshine, etc. The cumulative impact of these different forms of radiation may not be obvious or even fully understood – a lot like smoking in the past.

7. Use personal and household products made without harmful chemicals.

Check the ingredients before you buy and here’s a rule of thumb: the longer the list and the more words you don’t understand, the worse it likely is for you.

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Ounce of prevention a good start Continued from page 22

8. Get your workplace checked for cancer-causing chemicals. Many industrial and even office workplaces have dangerous substances in the air, in various liquids, and even in the furniture. Canadian labour laws give you the right to have a safe working environment. Make sure yours is.

9. Burnt food, especially meats, can be cancer-causing. Try not to burn your food and if you do, don’t eat the burnt parts.

10. Don’t use supplements and vitamin pills as a substitute for a healthy diet and lifestyle.

In our next article we will point you to a list of resources: books, videos, and web sites that will help bring the truth into focus and motivate you to move toward a more healthy life.

The only way to beat cancer

If there is one specific disease we want to highlight, it’s cancer, probably the most scary one we know of. This disease invades the body, lives and feeds off the host, and can end up killing him/her.

According to the Canadian Cancer Society, it’s considered the number one killer in Canada, causing some 80,000 deaths per year. Close to 200,000 Canadians will contract it this year. Over 40 per cent of us will get it in our lifetimes and about 25 per cent will die from it. About 40 per cent of those who get it don’t live for more than five years.

As if that’s not bad enough, the current treatments for most cancers are brutal, have uncertain outcomes, and often come with serious, longterm side effects. The cancer society states that about 50 per cent of cancers can be prevented.

Incidentally, while many health agencies promote early screening as a tool for preventing cancer, let’s be clear. Screening does nothing to prevent cancer but only (maybe) detects the disease early, usually sending the patient into treatment sooner with uncertain outcomes, where, for the health system, the money is.

Want to beat cancer? Don’t wait for that ever-elusive cure. Try not to get it. The tips here can help and in our next article, we’ll tell you about a great web site with many more cancer stopping ideas.

Revised Notice of Completion

Class Environmental Assessment Tri-Township Sanitary Sewer Collector Replacement

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In February 2001, the City of Ottawa completed a Schedule B Class Environmental Assessment (EA) to review sanitary sewer infrastructure upgrades for the West Urban Community area of Ottawa. In the 2001 Environmental Screening Report (ESR), the preferred alternative identified several projects which would increase the overall performance and capacity of the sanitary servicing for the West Urban Community. The ESR concluded that a new trunk sewer would be constructed to convey flow from the Kanata North area, and the existing Tri-Township Collector (TTC) sewer south of the railway line and the March Ridge Trunk (MRT) sewer would be relined and rehabilitated to extend their service life.

More than 10 years have passed since completion of the 2001 EA and the condition of the TTC has deteriorated. A review of the original EA in the current planning context was undertaken to evaluate the rehabilitation of the TTC and the MRT. The TTC is currently at its maximum capacity and it is proposed to be replaced with a new larger diameter sewer to convey future projected flows for 2021 and 2060. A portion of the MRT will also be replaced and lowered to eliminate the existing siphon under Watts Creek. The EA Review has identified the preferred alignment for the TTC and MRT replacement sewers and confirmed that this revised solution does not present any new environmental implications as compared to the 2001 EA. By this Notice, the EA Review is being placed on the public record in accordance with the requirements of the Municipal Engineers Association Municipal Class Environmental Assessment (2000, as amended 2007 and 2011). Please note that only the changes proposed in the EA Review are open for review.

For further information on this project, to submit comments or to inspect a copy of the EA Review report, please contact the City of Ottawa’s project manager at the address below: Adrian Munteanu, M.A.Sc., P. Eng. Infra Assessment Engineer – Infrastructure Renewal Water Resources Assets Asset Management Branch / Infrastructure Services Department City of Ottawa 100 Constellation Crescent, 6th Floor Ottawa, ON K2G 6J8 Tel: 613-580-2424, ext. 13822 Fax: 613-580-6068 E-mail: adrian.munteanu@ottawa.ca If concerns arise regarding this project, which cannot be resolved in discussion with the municipality, a person or party may request that the Minister of Environment make an order for the project to comply with Part II of the Environmental Assessment Act (referred to as a Part II Order), which addresses individual environment assessments. Requests must be received by the Minister at the address below within 30 calendar days of the first publication of this Notice. A copy of the request must also be sent to the City at the address below. If there is no request received by April 9, 2016 the project will proceed to detailed design and construction as presented in the planning documentation.

Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change Operations Division Environmental Assessment and Approvals Branch 135 St. Clair Avenue West, 1st Floor Toronto, ON M4V 1P5 This Notice issued March 10, 2016. *Information will be collected in accordance with Ontario’s Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act. With the exception of personal information, all comments will become part of the public record.

Ad # 2016-507-S_EA TTC_10032016

Karen McCrimmon Serving Constituents of Kanata-Carleton

Member of Parliament Kanata-Carleton

Thank you to the dedicated group of volunteers of the Kanata Seniors Council on advocating for seniors in our community. I had the privilege of celebrating the council’s 20th anniversary on Thursday. Congratulations on the success!

School Visit – Holy Trinity Visiting schools is one of the most enjoyable activities I have the chance to take part in. This week I participated in the civics class at Holy Trinity High School and was extremely impressed by the calibre of the questions. We had the chance to discuss Parliament Hill, Question Period, and climate change. Our youth are extremely engaged and interested in asking the tough questions that must be answered for us to be able to leave a better future for the next generation.

25th Anniversary of the Liberation of Kuwait I had the opportunity to represent Minister Kent Hehr at the War Museum for the 25th anniversary of the Liberation of Kuwait during the First Gulf War. Canada played an important role in Operation Friction which was a thirty-five nation coalition.

This event allowed me to express my respect and gratitude to the thousands of veterans and their families for their sacrifice and commitment to our country. It is always an honour to be able to listen and engage with veterans across our community and Canada. For more information I encourage you to visit: http://goo.gl/d3cYli West Ottawa Business Excellence Awards Gala I was delighted to join Mayor Jim Watson in congratulating the recipients of the West Ottawa Board Trade Business Excellence Awards. Awards were given out to Capital City Condors, DS Plumbing, Clariti Group Inc., Brookstreet, Amsted Design-Build, and The Scottish & Irish Store. These companies were recognized for being leaders in various categories. Andrew Scott with Pita Pit was recognized as the Young Entrepreneur of the Year, and Mark Saunders with Saunders Farm was recognized for Business Leader of the Year. It is always impressive to see the amount of talent in Kanata-Carleton and I look forward to seeing our business sector grow in our community. Congratulations to all!

Tech Tuesdays – Our Technology Sector On March 1st I had the chance to once again attend Tech Tuesday. This event featured Jenna Sudds, the Executive Director of the Kanata North BIA who gave an in depth presentation on the current state of our local business community. This gave me another important opportunity to learn about the challenges and success our business community has had. I look forward to the next opportunity I have to engage with our vibrant and growing business community.

Working for and Representing Kanata-Carleton It is such an honour and privilege to serve as your Member of Parliament and I look forward to meeting and working with you all. Please feel free to contact our office at 613-592-3469 or by email at Karen.McCrimmon@parl.gc.ca. Also, you can follow me on twitter @karenmccrimmon.

Contact me at 613-592-3469 email Karen.McCrimmon@parl.gc.ca Follow me on Twitter @karenmccrimmon Website: kmccrimmon.liberal.ca

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Allan Hubley Positive Change for Kanata South

City Councillor Kanata South Week in Review We had another wonderful International Women’s Day event this past week at Don Cherry’s. Thank you to all the residents who were able to join us and to Trie Donovan and Angela Grant Saunders, our guest speakers, for their great presentations. I would also like to thank Dan and his staff at Don Cherry’s for the great service.

Hope to see you at next year’s event!

Toll roads As reported in the media last week, there are a group of Councillors who want to explore adding tolls to the roads that you use to move around the city and I want you to know that I will not support this motion.

The notion that your tax dollars went to build Lansdowne, and now, some would have you pay more than someone living downtown to visit there is outrageous. The fact that your tax dollars pay for the city’s efforts to promote the core for tourism, business improvement etc. and the fact that now these councillors feel you should pay a toll to visit the core is beyond reason. It’s misleading to you, that the same people who say that you should abandon your car and take a bus, are the same people who know that our buses are already full and that there are no plans at the moment to add more capacity until LRT is built.

The fact they tried to push this through with no notice to you is just insulting so if you feel that you don’t support this, please let me know and I will fight this move on your behalf . Not all Councillors will fight this new tax on people that chose to live outside the core, so I can’t predict the outcome only that this is a very disturbing change.

Please visit my website www.councillorallanhubley.ca to vote for or against toll roads into the city.

Bookmobile The book mobile has been providing a library service to Bridlewood for two years and visits the Eva James Community Centre on Friday’s from 10am-noon.

The Friday stops at Eva James have been enjoyed by families while making books and videos easily available. Unfortunately attendance has dropped below the minimum required to keep this service, so we may lose the service in the next round of budget cuts. I would like to hear from residents if they would be interested in other options.

E-Newsletter Sign up If you would like to sign up to receive my E-Newsletter as well as important notices, please visit my website www.councillorallanhubley.ca to sign up!

Upcoming Events March 21st: The Oasis Kanata will be hosting another free information session from 7-9pm at the Glen Cairn United Church (140 Abbeyhill Dr.). This session is entitled “Health Headlines: Hope or Hype?”. More information can be found at www.theoasiskanata.ca Working for Kanata South: It is my privilege to serve as your Councillor. Please feel free to contact my office with any concerns or comments, by phone: 613-580-2752, or by email: Allan.Hubley@ottawa.ca. You can visit my website for more information: www.councillorallanhubley.ca or follow me on Twitter: @AllanHubley_23.

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Kanata Seniors’ Centre member Rollande Lemay-Carriere, left, receives a piece of the Kanata Seniors Council’s 20th anniversary cake from its president, Sarah Trant, during a celebration at the centre on March. 3.

Kanata Seniors Council celebrates 20 years Adam Kveton

adam.kveton@metroland.com

The organization that convinced an unwilling city to build the Kanata Seniors’ Centre celebrated its 20th year in existence on March 3.

History was recounted and cakes were cut with the help of city councillors, providing an interesting contrast to seniors’ story of their struggle convincing what was then the city of Kanata to build the centre.

The Kanata Seniors Council was started in 1996 with the express purpose of having a centre built. Seniors had been pushing for a centre for many years prior, with the city of Kanata recommending one be built by 1995.

Though attempts to get city councillors on board floundered, the Kanata Seniors Council brought the Happy Companions, the Heritage Club and the Golden Era Club seniors and others together to take on the task.

But to accomplish this, seniors would have to overcome one particular characteristic.

“The seniors are just too damn polite,” said Owen Prince, the man who headed up the fundraising committee for the centre, “and I never was.”

THE RUN-AROUND

Kanata seniors had been lobbying the former city of Kanata to fund the creation of a seniors centre for years, said Prince, but they were told time and time again it couldn’t happen.

“The leader of the seniors would go cap in hand to the mayor and she would explain that all-in-all there just wasn’t any money at all for a seniors centre,” said Prince. “He would come back and convince the seniors that, nope, there is no money.”

However, that notion was tested when the city spent nearly $1 million on beautifying the city to win a Communities in Bloom national award, he said. The next year, the city spent just over $1 million on the contest, and that was the last straw.

“The seniors were up in arms over that and I said, ‘You know, there’s your proof,’” said Prince.

Asking Prince to help them eschew politeness, the seniors lobbied individual councillors and got a yes-vote from the city. However, the seniors council would have to raise a minimum of $150,000 as part of the agreement.

As head of the fundraising committee, and with help from Judy Laughton in particular, Prince and his committee raised $240,000. The funds helped to pay for the centre that includes a kitchen, despite opposition from the city, said Prince.

He estimates the city spent about $1 million on the centre, and it was officially opened in December 2000, a few weeks prior to amalgamation with the City of Ottawa.

CELEBRATION

The work of Prince, Laughton and others was highlighted at a March 3 event at the centre, with current Kanata

Seniors Council president Sarah Trant presiding.

The politicians in attendance – including Mayor Jim Watson and Kanata-Carleton MP Karen McCrimmon – remarked on the contribution volunteers continue to make at the centre, which is mostly run by volunteer seniors. Trant pointed out past-president of the seniors council Kay Dubie, and director Liz Tucker in particular.

Watson congratulated the seniors on their years of work and the centre, saying, “You’ve got an amazing facility that’s quite frankly the envy of many other parts of the city.”

The centre is one of four city-owned seniors centres in the city, and has members from Nepean to West Carleton.

The Kanata Seniors Council began with a goal of having 200 members, but that has since grown to about 1,000, said Prince.

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Local municipal politicians and the mayor, Jim Watson, right, present Kanata Seniors Council president Sarah Trant, second from right, with a certificate celebrating the council’s 20th anniversary on March 3.

Members recount struggle with city to open centre Continued from page 24

Seeing what the council and the centre has been able to accomplish over the years, Prince said the work involved has been worth it.

“It’s a tough thing, being a senior,” he said. “You figure that if not (for the centre), what would seniors be doing except sitting at home and watching TV? But this way they expand

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Some members of the local hockey scene were less than pleased about a shake up to the city’s facility rental policy – which includes arenas, soccer fields and baseball diamonds.

The community and protective services committee heard a report on the allocation policy refresh at its meeting on Feb. 25.

The current framework for allocating ice time or baseball diamonds from the city is to look at an organization’s historic use from the previous year.

Under the new guidelines, the city would assign times based on the number of registered participants and the playing time standards established by their governing bodies.

Groups that have been getting more than their share will lose time.

Committee chair Diane Deans calls the policy refresh historic.

She said she’s heard from residents that the existing guidelines can edge out, newer girl leagues, creating a tax on girls who want to play sports such as hockey.

Included in the plan will also be stiffer penalties for returned ice time.

Dan Chenier, manager in the city’s parks and recreation department, said the changes won’t be significant, and city staff could offer workshops on the new ice time application process.

Under the new plan, ice time that’s returned once the season starts, will cost the organization returning it 25 per cent of the fee.

Denis Dumais, president of Hockey Eastern Ontario Minor, said that booking ice times around playoffs can get complicated and penalties will come out of the pockets of parents.

“It’s $300 an hour for private ice,” he said.

“That’s an impact on parents.”

Bryan Gormley, president of Ottawa Centre Minor Hockey Association, said the league doesn’t always know how many kids will register in each division – and not all rinks are created equal.

“We know that we can’t have midget players (16-17) playing at Brewer, it’s not big enough and some players can get hurt,” he said, adding he returns ice at the beginning of the season for days he knows for sure they won’t use it, such as Family Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas break and March break.

Gormley questioned the rationale behind the change.

“If you think there’s ice going empty in this city, you’re dreaming,” he said.

Another resident who asked not to be named, handles the booking for an adults league named the Mighty Hacks.

He said their original time slot was 9 p.m. at the Nepean Sportsplex, then the ice time was moved to 9:30 p.m. and then later to 10

were consulted about the change, and asked committee for the delegated authority to raise fees up to 10 per cent.

Innes Coun. Jody Mitic supported the move concerning cancellations.

Staff said 15 per cent of booked ice time gets returned.

“Taxpayers are on the hook for that 15 per cent,” he said. “The new policy is not about the penalty, just an incentive to do better.”

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While he said he understands it can be hard to break into the city’s arenas if you’re a new league – he likes the status quo.

“There’s something to be said for an established league that has come back over multiple years,” he said, adding he got an email from the city about a 5.6 per cent fee increase in December.

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Being transgender continues to be a scary, even dangerous thing to reveal to people.

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Together, Amanda and her daughter Alexis decided to share Alexis’s story, not just with her friends and community, but to the online world as well.

“There is a big risk putting yourself out there like that,” acknowledged Amanda, but the hope is that seeing a family support their transgender daughter will help others going through transition, and teach the general public what it’s like.

“The only way to make it so that we don’t have to be afraid is to normalize our lives with the general population,” she said. “So that’s what we’re trying to do.”

THE BLOG

When Alexis came out to her parents, Amanda had been writing a blog for about eight years.

Called the Maven of Mayhem, it started out as an atypical mom blog where Amanda could share the funny and messy side of being a mom of three while staying anonymous.

As the years went on, Amanda shared more and more personal aspects about her life – things like becoming suicidal after intense bullying at school and a descent into depression, struggling with alcohol at age 14, being homeless at 16, and somehow getting through it all with help from groups like the Youth Services Bureau.

By the time she had shared all that, Amanda was no longer anonymous, but her family still was.

But as Amanda was sharing her story, Alexis was going through her own internal struggle starting at about the age of eight.

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“I felt that there was definitely something that wasn’t right with me,” Alexis said of that time. “It wasn’t something that was wrong; I just felt it was something different about me that didn’t quite fit into that typical traits category.”

Alexis, still living as a boy, would go to one friend’s

house and play videogames, and another friend’s house to play with Barbies. She also went through an intense Hannah Montana phase, recalls Amanda.

These interests were hard to explain to her male friends, said Alexis. Boys just didn’t typically like some of these things, and they made that known. That was just one aspect of the depression that overtook Alexis and her interests dwindled until she didn’t really like to do anything, unsure what she should or shouldn’t like.

Her family got her help, but she still didn’t know what was wrong.

“I was very closed off and didn’t really have much of a life outside of myself,” said Alexis. “It was very hard for me before I came out, but I didn’t even know what was off about me for all those years … I only found out what I was actually feeling in 2014, about a week before I came out.”

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Fed up with not knowing, Alexis began searching for answers on the Internet, and eventually found something that rang true for her – she was a girl in a boy’s body.

Excited to finally know what was happening to her, Alexis drafted an email explaining everything to her parents. It wasn’t easy. Scared and unsure, Alexis closed her eyes and clicked send, she said.

“I felt relief, I felt sadness, I felt worry, I felt happiness, lots of different things,” said Alexis.

It was an emotional rollercoaster for Amanda as well.

“I still remember my blood running cold when I read her words,” recalled Amanda in a blog post she wrote about a week ago, “and how I had to pull myself together to go into her room and tell her how much I love and support her.”

To Alexis’s relief, her parents were supportive and accepting of her and who she now knew she was.

“They took it wonderfully,” she said. “Thank you.

Can’t thank you enough for that.”

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Amanda Jetté Knox, right, and her daughter, Alexis, speak at the Youth Services Bureau for Microsoft’s #My24Hrs campaign on Feb. 29. The company sought out courageous storytellers who used technology to tell their story.

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Some families with transgender children pack up and move to a new place after their child comes out to them, said Amanda. That way no one but the family would know about their child’s transition. But that wasn’t an option for Alexis’s family. They had only recently moved to Kanata.

So Alexis’s transition would be witnessed by friends, classmates, teachers and neighbours. She, by necessity, had to be public with who she was and the change she was going through.

So when Amanda asked her if she should stop blogging altogether, Alexis said no. She wasn’t afraid to let others know her story.

Under the pseudonym “Gutsy,” Amanda told her daughter’s story. But then, it wasn’t long until a major media outlet asked for an interview. After that, the whole family went public, Alexis’s name and photo in news stories and on Amanda’s blog.

“I wasn’t worried about people knowing,” said Alexis.

“I was worried maybe a little about a little bit of bullying happening … I had some concerns that I was willing to deal with if I had to.”

However, Alexis’s experience has been largely positive, she said, perhaps even more than either she or her mom would have expected.

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used technology to help tell an empowering story, and asked them to speak at special events as part of the high tech company’s #My24Hrs campaign.

For Alexis and Amanda, that meant telling their story to a group of workers with the Youth Services Bureau – the same group that helped Knox when she was suffering and need to learn how to cope. During the talk, Amanda explained that those same skills are helping her today.

She’s also been able to pass them on to Alexis, who is also using their services herself.

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Ottawans bust out the moves at fitness fundraiser Erin McCracken

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Working up a sweat never felt so rewarding.

Hundreds of people worked up a sweat for a good cause, raising hundreds of thousands of dollars for cancer survivors during the fifth and final Bust a Move Ottawa fitness fundraiser, held this year at the Ottawa Athletic Club on March 5.

It generated $301,000, helping to bring the final total raised through Bust a Move to more than $1.5 million.

“Everybody has put in so much time and effort and have really dedicated themselves to the cause,” said Jess Palmer, former NFL football player and New York City-based Good Morning America commentator, who served as the event’s celebrity fitness instructor.

The much-needed dollars this year will help offset the cost of the Ottawa Regional Cancer Foundation’s After the Bell pilot program, that is set to launch this coming fall or next winter, which will allow cancer survivors to benefit from a free two-day retreat where they can learn how to transition back to regular life

after they get the all-clear from their oncologists.

Programs such as After the Bell and the foundation’s unique cancer coaching program, which pairs cancer-care experts with cancer patients and their relatives to help them navigate the daunting challenges they face following a diagnosis, serve as much-needed resources for the entire family, Palmer said after putting hundreds through their paces at the athletic centre on Lancaster Road.

The event drew 200 participants on about 30 teams. Each team member was required to contribute a minimum of $1,000 to join in on the day’s fitness sessions, which ranged from yoga to aerobic workouts and kick-boxing.

Palmer not only has a personal connection to Ottawa – he lived for almost two decades in Nepean’s Pineglen community, he has also been touched by cancer.

He lost a good friend, former New York Giants linebacker Quincy Monk, to an aggressive form of the disease last November. Monk was 36.

“I went and visited him in North Carolina as he was struggling and going through it,” Palmer recalled.

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TV personality and former NFL quarterback Jesse Palmer, who grew up in Ottawa, shows off some muscle power along with Bust a Move co-chairs Krista Kealey, left, Trina Fraser and Melissa Shabinsky during the fifth and final Bust a Move athletic fundraiser at the Ottawa Athletic Club on March 5.

“That’s really when I realized how many people it affected.”

The disease didn’t just impact Monk following his diagnosis, but also his wife and their young children and Monk’s parents and brother.

“It was just heavy, very emotional for them,” Palmer said, adding that’s

where programs offered by foundations come in to provide a holistic approach, helping families cope together.

The After the Bell program will fill a gap for men and women trying to get back to their regular lives posttreatment, he added.

“I think (cancer) impacts men and women very differently, physically and emotionally,” said Palmer.

There may be confidence issues due to physical changes, such as weight and hair loss, caused by cancer treatments, and some survivors might be trying to cope with a change in attitude towards them – something they can seek help with at an After the Bell retreat.

They may be seen as more fragile due to their health issues, he said, when they just want to be treated as they were before they became sick.

Cancer’s impact on Ottawans is staggering, said Palmer, adding that every two hours someone in Ottawa is diagnosed with cancer, and that there are more than 7,000 new cases here every year. As well, every eight hours a woman living in Ottawa is diagnosed with breast cancer.

“You’re not just affecting 7,000 people, you’re affecting 7000 people plus their circle,” Palmer said of the need for specialized care programs.

“So it’s a lot.”

For more information on programs provided by the Ottawa Regional Cancer Foundation, go to ottawacancer.ca.

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Twins Bronwyn and Sloane Parker came into the world so fast and furiously, their parents didn’t even have time to process the date.

The fraternal twin girls were born on Feb. 29, a date that only comes around every four years, at the Civic campus of the Ottawa Hospital.

Tammy Parker went into labour at 5:15 a.m. at her Carleton Place home, and husband Jamie sped to the hospital. They arrived at 6:05 a.m., and before 7 a.m. came around, both their twin girls had entered the world via caesarean section.

Bronwyn was born at 6:53 a.m. at 3.8 pounds, and sister Sloane was born two minutes later, at 3.7 pounds.

“It honestly went zero to 60,” said Tammy, of her quick and early labour. “We both came in flying and freaked out.”

on Feb. 29 this year. Another eight were born at the Montfort Hospital on Feb. 29, so there will be more than a handful of parents who will have to decide when to celebrate their child’s first birthday next year.

The Parkers haven’t decided yet if the twins will celebrate on Feb. 28 or March 1 in non-leap years, and said it might depend which day is closer to the weekend each year.

“It’s really cool, and not something we ever thought would happen,” Tammy said.

“It’ll be a neat thing to go back and look at.”

There are likely to be a lot of family jokes as the girls grow up as they will only celebrate their first real birthday in 2020 when they are fouryears-old.

“It means when they’re 16, I can put a four on their fourth birthday cake,” Jamie said. “And it’ll be a long time before they get the car.”

She wasn’t due until April 28, though she had a caesarean section scheduled for midApril. It’s common for twins or multiple babies to be born early.

She’d even been in the hospital the night before feeling ill, but there were no signs she’d go into labour overnight.

Because of the quick labour, the babies had already entered the world before Tammy and Jamie realized the uniqueness of their birth date.

“It didn’t really register until much after they were born,” Jamie said. “They leapt into the leap year.”

Even though they were born early and will likely stay in the special care nursery for a few weeks, both babies are healthy, and their parents are thankful for the hospital staff who delivered and have looked after them.

Between the Civic and the Ottawa Hospital’s General campus, 12 babies were born

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IN MEMORIAM BOYD In loving memory of our dear sister Edith who passed away March 9, 2002 In our home she is fondly remembered.

Sweet memories cling to her name.

Those who loved her in life sincerely still love her in death just the same.

Sadly missed Wendell, Miriam Ross & Eileen and families

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Interested sub-contractors will be invited to take part in the RFP process for the projects when they are issued during the year and will also be required to work with Carillion to become one of their accredited sub-contractors.

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Shirley Ann Brown (nee Dodd) died in her sleep on Tuesday, March 01, 2016. She was 83 years old and in the final stages of COPD. She lost her beloved husband John (Farmer) Brown in 1989 and lost touch with her remaining brothers Bryan Dodd (Ann), Barry Dodd (Lorraine), David Dodd and sister Roma Mason (Bill) and many nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by the late Dawna, Beulah, Betty, Gib and Ola. She spent the last 10 years raging against life; using every available vice she could find to throw at it. And in the end, still railing, I was the last one listening. She always told me that the truth would set me free and I searched for meaning in that statement’s profundity my whole life. I have yet to find my truth but these last few years have allowed me the opportunity to get closer to hers - the ravaging, isolating, complex, distraught, contradictory, distorted, unconventional version of it.

Ironically, her version has set me free. For it has taught me love - the deepest most unconditional kind and acceptance in the face of its uncompromising, unabashed ambiguity. May the gift of her truth guide me to my own with wisdom and clarity but until that day arrives with its glorious revelation, may she rest in peace, with hers, forever. We would like to thank the nurses and staff at Garden Terrace for their incomparable support and assistance. All donations can be sent to the Residents Council of Garden Terrace, 100 Aird Place, Kanata, ON K2L 4H8 A gathering will be held in Constance Bay at a later date to honour her life and her struggle to live it.

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Peacefully, at the Ottawa Civic Hospital, on Thursday March 3, 2016, at the age of 74.

Dear husband of Jessie McFarland Morton.

Brother of Ray (Susan) and Jack (Cindy).

Survived by his nephews and nieces, David, Andrew, John, Jane, Jonathan and Fiona.

Jim will be missed by the McFarland family.

Predeceased by his parents John and Laura Morton.

Friends visited the family at the Alan R. Barker Funeral Home, 19 McArthur Ave., Carleton Place, on Monday March 7, 2016, from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., and on Tuesday from 10:00 a.m. until the funeral service in the Chapel at 11:00 a.m. Interment later in the spring at Auld Kirk Cemetery, Almonte.

For those who wish, a donation to Smiths Falls Reformed Church or Gideons Canada, would be appreciated by the family.

I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I’ve kept the faith: henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give to me at that day.

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Massey: Dorothy We wish to thank all who helped us through a difficult time in the loss of our Mother Dorothy Massey. Thank you for your prayers, flowers, cards and food. We especially thank the nursing staff and Doctors at the Perth Hospital.

Dorothy Massey’s family

An amazing husband, father, father in-law and poppy who passed away far too soon on March 12, 2015.

Nothing can ever take away The love a heart holds dear, Fond memories linger every day, Remembrance keeps him near.

We love you always and forever.

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In Loving Memory of a dear Wife, Mother and Grandmother who passed away

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Loving remembered, sadly missed

Peacefully in hospital, Carleton Place, Ontario on Friday, March 4, 2016.

Predeceased by her husband Ralph Laughren.

Much loved aunt of Brian Brule and his wife Vicki. Many thanks to dear friend Vicki and other friends. Survived by several great-nieces and great-nephews.

Friends may call at the Alan R Barker Funeral Home, 19 McArthur Avenue, Carleton Place on Thursday, March 10, 2016 from 1 p.m. until time of service in the Chapel at 3 p.m. with Rev. Barry Carr officiating.

Spring inurnment at Bishops Mills Cemetery.

For those desiring, donations to the Carleton Place & District Memorial Hospital would be appreciated by the family. www.barkerfh.com

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Laughren, Mary Madeline “Jean”

RATH Richard “Clare” Paul 1930 - 2016

Loving wife of George Thompson for 49 years. Mother of Debbie Letts (Ted) and Cindy Loftus (John), proud grandmother of Jennifer DeVuono (Joe), Jason Letts (Mary Ann), Sarah Loftus and Johnna Loftus. Great Grandmother to Rebecca DeVuono, Matthew DeVuono, Nathan Petrunewich-Letts and Warren Petrunewich-Letts. Survived by sister Dory Anne Nolan (Ernie), brother Bob Bennett (Joan) and sister-in-law Thelma James (Allan).

Predeceased by infant son, Kenneth. Special friend of Lynn Wright and Tammy Cole-Easter.

Friends were received at the Alan R. Barker Funeral Home, 19 McArthur Ave., Carleton Place on Tuesday, March 8, 2016 from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m.

Funeral service was held in the Chapel on Wednesday at 1 p.m.

Spring interment at St. James Anglican Cemetery.

For those desiring, donations to the Cancer Society or the Alzheimer Society would be appreciated. www.barkerfh.com

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Peacefully in hospital, Carleton Place, Ontario on Friday, March 4, 2016, in her 91st year.

Dear aunt of Brian Burns-Nickle and Jennifer Devost. Survived by several great-nieces and great-nephews. Predeceased by sister Jean Burns-Nickle and brothers Arthur, George and Roy. Friends were received at the Alan R. Barker Funeral Home, 19 McArthur Avenue, Carleton Place on Wednesday, March 9, 2016 from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Funeral service will be held in the Chapel on Thursday at 11 a.m.

Spring interment at Boyd’s United Cemetery www.barkerfh.com

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Clare Of Richmond, ON., in his 86th year.

Beloved husband of Irene (nee Giles). Much loved father to Paul of Richmond, ON., Rodney (Debbie) of Perth, ON., Karen of Richmond, ON., and Dale (Lisa) of Kinburn, ON. Proud grandfather to Travis of Perth, ON., Shane of Stittsville, ON., also Tim and Kyle of Kinburn, ON. Survived by his siblings Ann (Bob), Charlie (Debbie), Elaine (John), Mary, also brother-in-law Elford, as well as his nieces and nephews.

Predeceased by his parents, brothers and brothers-in-law Menzie and Ivan.

Family and Friends Visited C. R. GAMBLE FUNERAL HOME & CHAPEL INC. 127 Church St., Almonte, ON 613-256-3313 On Monday, March 7, 2016 from 2-4 pm & 6-8 pm. Chapel Service was held on Tuesday, March 8, 2016 at 11am. Reception followed at the Almonte Legion. Spring interment at St. George’s Anglican Church Cemetery in Clayton, ON. Donations in memory of Clare may be made to St. John’s Anglican Church in Richmond, ON., or a charity of your choice.

Condolences & Tributes: www.crgamble.com

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Police’s missing person unit feeling pinch of staffing shortage Officers from the emergency services unit can be assigned at any hour to search for an elderly person, for example, who has walked away from their residence and may be at risk due to extreme weather conditions. Mental state is also a possible factor, and missing children are priority cases.

“High risk guarantees immediate attention,” said McKenna. “It all depends on what are the risks of each individual call.”

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The temporary reassignment of one of two of the Ottawa police department’s investigators who handle thousands of missing person investigations every year has left the unit even more short-staffed than usual.

As a result, Sgt. Reno Rushford, who heads up the unit, and his lone investigator, are unable to focus on cold cases.

“If we’ve got 16 on the board missing ... instead of two people going through and making sure everyone’s covered, I’ve got one person looking at everyone now,” said the 29-year Ottawa policing veteran who has been leading the unit for just over a year.

“It’s very difficult. It’s hard to get in a car and go start seeing people because you have to prioritize, obviously.”

His reassigned officer, who left late last year to help offset the department’s patrol-staffing shortage, is expected to return in May. In his absence, the small team must rely on other units, such as patrol officers and district investigators.

“When they do have the bodies to be able to do go looking for people, then they definitely do help, especially after hours and weekends – they take good carriage of the files,” Rushford said of the district officers, who are assigned to different geographic areas within city limits.

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Ideally, Rushford’s remaining constable would like to follow up on each case herself.

“In a perfect world, I’d settle for three at the lower end,” he said of his need for more officers. “I wouldn’t mind four, five, six.”

Three would mean each officer could get out of the office and engage with chronically missing youth, who make up the bulk of the caseload.

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to go and sit down and (say), ‘Let’s have a chat here. What’s been going on? What can we do to make this stop?’” said Rushford.

That’s why building a rapport with those kids who are considered “frequent flyers” is essential, but remains a challenge given staffing limitations.

“Right now, with one person doing over 2,000 missings in a year, you can’t get out to do that,” Rushford said.

His unit is dealing with “a sizable increase” in cases. In 2014, the unit fielded 2,500 reports, while last year, it dealt with 2,739 cases.

With a six-officer unit, Rushford said officers could work staggered shifts to cover the entire day and investigate more files.

Despite the pressure, there are no immediate plans to add more officers, said Insp. Joan McKenna, who oversees the unit.

“We will always be investigating missing persons to a certain extent, but we always have the resources should (the risk factors) escalate to another level,” she said. “So we’re not going to augment (the unit) at this time.”

After-hours reports are triaged, with patrol officers assigned to follow up to gauge the urgency of the case and a missing person’s risk level.

While the unit’s caseload runs the gamut, from looking into international cases such as a parent refusing to return a child to their other parent in Ottawa, to following up on leads for other Canadian police departments, the majority of the investigations involve youth who fail to return to their group homes before curfew.

Rushford’s unit often turns to the human-trafficking section to ask officers there to keep an eye out for a missing kid. They have the expertise, experience and connections that make them an invaluable partner.

“My one person can’t do that,” Rushford said.

In 2014, 29 per cent of the unit’s missing person files involved youth living in Ottawa’s group homes. That number climbed to 32 per cent between January and September last year. At least 75 per cent are repeats.

Social media and cellphones have become a means to track down missing youth.

“It’s better now that we have more tools available to us,” Rushford said, adding that activity on a youth’s Facebook account can help police determine if a teen is in trouble.

His unit also relies on humantrafficking investigators, the police mental-health unit, as well as school resource officers, who have proven indispensable in connecting with teens.

“They actually deal with the kids, which is what I’d like my investigators to be able to do,” Rushford said.

“But we don’t have the time to do it.”

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With an upswing in Ottawa’s aging population, the specialty unit is fielding more and more reports of missing seniors – many of them elderly patients who have walked away from hospitals, psychiatric facilities and retirement residences.

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Cold cases could be reviewed with more manpower: sergeant But it can be challenging for officers to gain timely access to details that can help officers track someone down.

Police far too frequently receive conflicting or outdated information about a senior’s medical condition.

There have also been times when retirement home staff insist they can’t access a resident’s file without a manager – which can be a roadblock after hours.

“It’d be nice to know when you walk in: What bank does he deal with?

What’s his cellphone (number)? Is he on any kind of registry? What is his actual medical condition diagnosed by a doctor?” said Rushford.

Encouraging retirement staff to share relevant information can be a tough sell with some managers uneasy about revealing confidential information.

“We’re trying to save someone’s life here,” said Rushford, adding that a person can be found more quickly and tens of thousands of dollars in police time saved if certain details

are shared from the get-go.

With seniors trying to stay in their homes longer, the unit also regularly fields calls about individuals with dementia or Alzheimer’s who have walked away from their own homes.

“Fifty years ago everyone on your street knew everybody,” said Rushford.

“Today, you can walk by the people that live right across the street or next door ... and nobody will even know who that man is.

“So that’s part of the problem, too.”

Technology can help track down missing seniors, but the onus is on retirement home officials, families and caregivers to adopt it, the sergeant said.

The available technology ranges from a GPS-enabled cellphone application to door alarms. Identification bracelets can also help, Rushford noted.

COLD CASES

With the unit’s staffing pressures, prioritizing cases remains key.

Rushford and his lone investigator doesn’t have the time to open or review un-

solved or cold cases.

There are files that “we should be looking at once a year ... get fresh eyes looking at them,” Rushford said.

“It’s something that best practices would indicate that you would do. However, with our manpower we just can’t do that.”

There are currently at least seven missing person files that have run cold, though there are 11 listed on the Ottawa police website.

Rushford said some of those are being handled by major crime officers, who investigate homicides or suspected cases of foul play. Another seven files involve suspected parental abductions of children taken out of Canada.

Often times, cold cases, such as that of Justin Rutter, will make the news on the anniversary of when the person was reported missing. The 14-year-old was reported missing by his family after he failed to return to his Lowertown home on Oct. 8, 2009.

Unless a new lead or tip comes in, the unit doesn’t have the time to sift through historic files, in-

cluding Rutter’s case, said Rushford.

With a larger missing person unit, more officers could be dedicated to reviewing cold cases, conduct follow-up calls and chase leads, he said.

“But with one person, unless something specific comes in with regards to it, nothing’s happening,” he said. “If someone’s been missing for 10 years, they’re not as much as a priority as a 14–year-old that went missing last night

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“Quite often people are quite shocked when they’re told they may have the option of just observing a cancer,” said Dr. Rodney Breau, prostate cancer surgeon and epidemiologist at the Ottawa Hospital’s General campus.

That’s because the word “cancer” instantly makes people think of a potentially life-threatening condition that requires immediate treatment.

But the study, published Feb. 29 in the prestigious Canadian Medical Association Journal, shows this is not always the case and that more patients than ever are being monitored on a regular basis without ever having to undergo invasive treatments, or their treatments are being delayed until their risk level elevates.

Surveillance includes a physical exam, including a prostate exam, every three to six months, a specialized blood test, possibly imaging tests, such as MRIs, and, over the years, tumour biopsies.

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The research involved studying the medical files of 477 low-risk prostate cancer patients living in the Champlain Local Health Integration Network region who were

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Calling the findings “significant,” Breau said the results revealed that not only could many of these patients be managed without treatment, but that about 59 per cent were still being actively observed after five years of follow-up and hadn’t required surgical intervention.

It’s hoped the report, which Breau said is the world’s first comprehensive study with such high-quality data, will also signal to the medical community that screening is key.

In fact, deaths due to prostate cancer have been cut in half due to this, with the introduction of a specialized blood test for a prostate-specific antigen in the early 1990s.

But there has been a downside to screening because it increased the rate in which men diagnosed with low-grade tumours were being treated unnecessarily, even though their cancer wasn’t likely to impact their lives, said Breau.

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“Because there are so many risks, I think in many cases, despite these lowgrade tumours being cancers, treatment is actually worse than the disease,” he said.

As a result, some groups, such as the Canadian Task Force on Preventative Health Care, don’t recommend prostate cancer screening at all, which has proven to be controversial, Breau said.

But he is hoping the study will alter that recommendation, helping to save more lives in the process since early detection can be key.

“So the ability to maintain the benefits of screening and reduce the downsides, the harms, is very, very significant, especially when you consider that three per cent of all men in Canada will die from prostate cancer,” Breau said, adding this

is quite high and represents “a real population health issue.”

About half of the estimated 24,000 Canadians who are diagnosed with prostate cancer each year have a low-risk, slow-growing form. That’s 12,000 men who can potentially avoid harmful treatment and side effects.

Increasingly, doctors in the Champlain LHIN, where more than 200 prostate cancer surgeries are performed every year, are recognizing the benefits of active surveillance rather than immediate invasive procedures.

At the start of the study in 2008, 32 per cent of patients with low-grade tumours were being managed with active surveillance.

By the end of the study in 2013, that had risen to 68 per cent, and many may never need surgery, said Breau, adding that in the

U.S. just 30 per cent of lowrisk patients were actively monitored during the same period.

The move to active surveillance has been nothing short of a “dramatic paradigm shift,” said Breau, who authored the research study, titled ‘Active Surveillance in Canadian Men Diagnosed with Low Grade Prostate Cancer,’ with 10 other Ottawa researchers, including lead author Dr. Octav Cristea, a urology resident doctor at the Ottawa Hospital and uOttawa.

“We have really seen that over time clinicians have come around to say, “This is the right thing for many patients,’” said Breau.

“And so we’re more likely to offer it to patients, and patients are more likely to accept it with the knowledge that we’re treating most of our patients that way with surveillance instead of with treatment.”

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Business is already hopping for fledgling farmer Andrew Afelskie and his livestock, of which he hopes to have one million by June.

To hear Afelskie describe it, keeping so many animals in a nine-by-twelve metre space is easy.

Then again, his are only a few centimeters long. The Sandy Hill resident is in the business of crickets – edible crickets – and it’s not a far cry from what he was doing before he learned about insect farming.

“Before this I was in-

less conventional venture when some friends told Afelskie about insect farming.

Afelskie admits he resisted the idea initially, but came around quickly.

“It just took me about a week of hopping on the Internet and researching it a bit,” he said.

“And it just blew my mind how awesome insects are as a food source, for the future especially.”

Business has been so good for Afelskie that, after starting GrowHop – his food-grade cricket farm – in his home last November with a modest batch of bugs, he had to move his operation into a Nepean warehouse in January when he realized how high the demand for his cricket flour is.

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A 2013 report by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations supported the idea that insects can be a viable food source, providing enough energy, protein and amino acids to meet the dietary requirements of humans. They are also high in fatty acids and rich in copper, iron, magnesium and other micronutrients.

The report, Edible Insects - Future Prospects for Food and Feed Security, said a 100-gram portion of crickets contains between eight and 25 grams of protein.

“It’s a complete protein, it has all your amino acids,” Afelskie said.

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Crickets make a nutritious and sustainable livestock: farmer “You get all the organs as well. The organs of animals are so good for nutrition and we rarely ever eat them, but with insects, you grind up the whole cricket and you get it all.”

Afelskie said that insects can also be farmed more sustainably, with a smaller ecological footprint than traditional livestock like beef, pork and poultry.

In terms of the amount of food yielded per kilogram of livestock feed, he said that crickets yield more than traditional livestock, with a ratio of one kilogram of crickets per 1.5 kilograms of feed.

“Which is insanely efficient,” Afelskie said.

“And not only that, but we can grow them indoors, all year round.”

GROWING A HERD

Combining two novel forms of modern agriculture, Afelskie makes the best of his urban warehouse by practising urban farming, building upward instead of out.

Afelskie stores his live crickets in rearing bins on industrial pallet racks – large steel shelving units often found in warehouses – two shelves high. As his stock of crickets – which he calls a herd – grows, he hopes to build upward as high as five shelves. By fall, one year after opening, he hopes to grow that population to three million crickets.

More than just a dietary supplement with a small ecological footprint, Afelskie said he actually likes the taste of cricket flour, which he de-

scribes as nutty and chocolaty, with notes of dandelion root and chicory.

“By default I’m kind of like the quality control guy, so I’ve been eating them now pretty consistently,” he said. “They’re really good with carrot muffins. I guess the protein factor kind of makes it taste similar to nuts.

It’s super interesting.”

With help from his food lab manager, Laura Shine, who attends Concordia University and studies entomophagy – the practice of eating insects – Afelskie has mixed his cricket flour into homemade crackers, energy bars and granola, which he sells in addition to the flour.

He said it will take hard work and a lot of money to grow his operation enough to meet large-scale demand, so he’s turned to crowd funding to help boost GrowHop financially.

“We’re just not there yet, so with this in mind we’re doing an Indiegogo crowd funding campaign to scale up our farm more efficiently.”

For now, GrowHop’s goods are available through the company’s website and at local organic food festivals and farmers markets.

“The demand is there, which is really great,” Afelskie said. “Right now, since our supply is lower, we’re just selling straight to consumer. We see all this demand and we can’t fill it, so this is a way that we’re going to get it to people now, and bring this cash back into the farm so that we can deliver.”

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“It’s pretty exciting,” he said, adding he’s inspired by some of the work done by others who were named community builders.

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The United Way celebrated the city’s volunteers on March 2.

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Tim Sheahan, a Barrhaven resident who is the vicepresident of operations for the Bell Warriors Football club, said that the team came out to a practice to give him the good news.

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Ottawa trips made for happy memories MARY A unt Vanetta, I thought, looked exactly like the Queen. With a cloud of snow-white hair, the bluest eyes I had ever seen, and so different from Uncle Johnny, I often wondered what they saw in each other.

With a bunch of other relatives, she lived at 129 Lyon St., all in separate apartments, and right next door to No. 2 fire station.

Goodness knows where everyone slept, because Aunt Lily and Uncle Dick and their son Richard, lived there too. I know all this because once we got the old Model T Ford in a trade, there was no stopping Mother from taking frequent trips into Ottawa and 129 Lyon St. How I loved to visit Aunt Vanetta and Uncle Johnny.

It was said amongst the family that Aunt Vanetta practically lived at the Catholic Church a couple blocks away. Rain or shine, she went to mass every morning without fail.

Family gossip also said Uncle Johnny never darkened the church door!

He said Aunt Vanetta went to enough masses to bless the entire length of Lyon Street.

If we were lucky enough to be at 129 Lyon St. when she was going off to mass (she often went in the middle of the day too), we were first treated to a lecture on the importance of being “once a Catholic, always a Catholic,” aimed directly at Mother, which didn’t sit well with Father, a staunch Lutheran.

It wasn’t above Uncle Johnny, who drove a huge steamroller for the City of Ottawa, to let out a string of swear words, for no reason at all. The only one who seemed to take offence, or even notice, was Aunt Vanetta. And her little hand would flutter to her chest to make the sign of the cross.

When I was alone, I tried to do it too, but I could never remember if you touched your forehead

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Memories or your heart first. And I thought it was very important to get everything in order, or you’d get it from God. It wasn’t unusual to see Aunt Vanetta off in the parlour alone saying her beads, which I knew were called a rosary, while everyone else was in the kitchen sitting around the big oilcloth covered table. When the beads weren’t being fingered in her hands, they were kept in her spotlessly

clean apron pocket.

I’m not sure if Aunt Vanetta thought there might be a flicker of hope that one of us from out there in Renfrew County would become Catholic, but one Easter, she presented the five of us children with our own rosary.

Mother, once a Catholic, said, “Isn’t that lovely,” and Father vowed to never again darken the door at 129 Lyon St. Of course, that threat

was short-lived. He liked Uncle Johnny, and I often saw him laugh so hard that the tears rolled down his face at the jokes and stories told around that kitchen table. Father smoking his pipe, and Uncle Johnny with a big fat cigar hanging loosely from his mouth.

Often the big steamroller was parked in the yard beside the house, and it reeked of tar, and Uncle Johnny would let each of us country kids climb up behind the wheel, which was the biggest steering wheel I had ever seen, and he would start the engine just so that we could pull a rope that hung inside the cab. That tug would set off a horn that my sister Audrey said could probably be heard on the outskirts of Ottawa. And I would think how lucky was my cousin Richard to live at such a house where there was so

flyers. coupons. deals. cash back.

much excitement.

When it was time to head back to Northcote, I would be very quiet in the Model T and relive all the excitement that swirled around 129 Lyon St. Aunt Vanetta and her strong faith, Uncle Johnny, who when he talked could be heard two blocks away, and the various cousins and aunts, all living together under one roof. It was like going to another world.

It would be many de-

cades later that I saw 129 Lyon St. levelled to the ground to make way for a many-storied hotel, leaving me with warm and colourful memories of another time and another place.

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Local events and happenings over the coming weeks — free to non-profit organizations Fax: 613-723-1862, E-mail: kanata@metroland.com The deadline for community event submissions is Friday at noon.

March 10

International Women’s Day Breakfast hosted by Coun.

Notice of General Meeting

Through March 11

The Ottawa West Arts Association presents Sparkle.

Visit the owaa gallery to view striking new artworks from local artists and fill out a People’s Choice ballot of your favorite works at the Goulbourn Recreation Complex, 1500 Shea Rd., Stittsville. Open seven days a week from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m.

The Kanata Food Cupboard announces the date of their Annual General Meeting: April 13th, 2016 7:00 PM Upstairs Hall, St. Paul’s Anglican Church 20 Young Road

March 16

Please Note: Any Proposed Amendment to a Sub-Amendment Must Be Received By The Secretary At Least Seven Days Prior to The AGM

Resume writing and job search help drop-in at the Beaverbrook branch of the Ottawa Public Library, 3 p.m. Bring your resume. An

Expressions Of Interest In Joining The Board Must Be Sent To The Chair As Soon As Possible. Expressions Of Interest May Be Sent To The Chair.

Information Sessions feature free talks on a wide range of topics by mental health specialists and individuals with lived experience.

Visit www.TheOasisKanata.ca, Email info@TheOasisKanata.ca, or call 613-435-1100 for more information.

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Multi-week courses, provided by accredited organizations at nominal cost, help caregivers better care for themselves and their loved one.

Next information session: March 21, 7 pm: Health Headlines: Hope or Hype?

employment specialist from the Community Employment Resource Centre is here to review it with you and to help you with your job search.

Drop-ins welcome. For adults and teens.

March 19

Everyone is invited to the Kanata Legion/Ladies’ Auxiliary’s annual St. Patrick’s Day Dinner and Dance fundraiser at the Royal Canadian Legion, branch 638-Kanata. Reception at 5 p.m. and dinner 6 p.m.

Enjoy a typical Irish menu, including Irish beef stew and a sing-a-long and/or dance to Irish songs by the International Set Band. Tickets are $20 and must be picked up on or before March 15 at the Kanata Legion, 70 Hines Rd. For details: 613-591-5570 or www.kanatabr638.ca.

The Ontario Genealogical

Society - Ottawa branch presents two events: from 10:30 a.m. to noon is a Genealogy: Back to Basics lesson, and this month’s topic is Genealogical Resources of Eastern Ontario with John Patton.

From 1 to 3 p.m. Tad Findley will present A Unique Approach to Publishing Family Research. All are welcome, both events are free. City of Ottawa Archives, 100 Tallwood Dr. For more details visit ogsottawa.on.ca.

March 21

The Oasis in Kanata, a place for caregivers of people with mental illness, presents a free information session entitled Health Headlines: Hope or Hype? from 7 to 9 p.m., by Jeannette Smith, liaison officer with the Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health, at Glen Cairn United Church, 140 Abbeyhill Dr. Smith will

provide an introduction to reliable sources of health information and evidence available on the Internet. No registration required. Visit www.TheOasisKanata.ca for full details.

March 23 and 24

Orientation sessions for Daffodil Month volunteers.

Donate three hours to save a life. Daffodil pins will be sold during the first two weekends of April. To sign up online please visit www.ottawa. myccsschedule.ca.

April 5

The Zone– Kanata North Open House from 5 to 9 p.m. at the Richcraft Recreation Complex, 4101 Innovation Dr. Youth aged 12 to 18 and their families are welcome to drop by at the Zone – Kanata North to meet new people and try new activities.

Special guest: Lego expert JK Brickworks. There is ongoing facilitated programming every Tuesday from 5 to 9 p.m. For more info, contact Jenna at jboucher@wocrc.ca or 613-591-3686, ext. 277.

The Ontario Senior Games is holding a 5 Pin Bowling Challenge starting at 1 p.m. at Walkley Lanes. You are invited to become a member of the senior games and take part as a member of a team or in singles. This is a pins over average fun bowling event designed to encourage bowlers of all skill levels the chance to compete. Medals will be awarded to the winning team and singles winners, door prizes, 50/50 draw, followed by buffet supper at OLG casino on Albion Road.

If you would like to participate call Roger Huestis at 613 822-4539 or email sportinglylg@gmail.com.

The Oasis in Kanata offers information, education, and support for caregivers of people with mental illness.

Caregivers Matter, a professionallyfacilitated monthly support group, is designed to help caregivers build capacity, confidence, and resilience.

Wilkinson from 7 to 8:30 a.m. at the Mlacak Centre, 2500 Campeau Dr. RSVP to kanatanorth@ottawa. ca. Hear from MP Karen McCrimmon and special guest speaker MP Anita Vandenbeld.

April 7

ESL classes in levels 1-4 and 5-7 starting Thursdays through May 26, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at Fellowship Baptist Church, 1078 Klondike Rd. Register by email at fellowshipbaptistchurch@bellnet.ca or call 613-591-324.

CLUES ACROSS 1. Exclamation that denotes disgust 4. Climbed over 10. Has 50 states 11. Able to move 12. Prime Minister (abbr.)

14. Cotangent (abbr.)

15. Particle 16. Fastened 18. Wonders 22. Surpassing all others 23. Provides basement access 24. Daily 26. North Dakota 27. Related to gulls 28. Provoke 30. Lake __, one of the Great 31. Police department

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Throat illness South Dakota Contains iron (Brit.)

Sees what the future holds 39. The extended location of something 40. Cobalt 41. Dwells 47. Reprimand 49. Agree to a demand 50. Talented in or devoted to music 51. Gospels 52. European defense organization (abbr.)

53. Edge of a cloth 54. Equally 55. Experience again 57. Female sheep 58. Made vanish

59. Unit of force (abbr.)

of the gull family 21. Auld lang __, good CLUES DOWN old days 1. ___ up 25. Term of affection 2. Rear of (nautical) 29. They __ 3. Purses 31. Polynesian wrapped 4. Samarium skirt 5. A way to take forcibly 32. Far down areas in the 6. On or into sea 7. Metric capacity unit 34. Delivered a sermon (Brit.)

36. Any physical damage 8. Assign to a higher 37. A Seattle ballplayer position 40. Raccoonlike animals 9. Delaware 42. Odd 12. Post-traumatic stress 43. Delivery boys disorder 44. Billy __ Williams 13. Island 45. Icelandic poems 17. Central processing 46. A Scottish tax unit 48. Central Florida city 19. Pitchers 55. Rhenium 20. Long-winged member 56. -__, denotes past

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Here’s How It Works: Sudoku puzzles are formatted as a 9x9 grid, broken down into nine 3x3 boxes. To solve a sudoku, the numbers 1 through 9 must fill each row, column and box. Each number can appear only once in each row, column and box. You can figure out the order in which the numbers will appear by using the numeric clues already provided in the boxes. The more numbers you name, the easier it gets to solve the puzzle!

ARIES – Mar 21/Apr 20 Without your knowledge, you have made it to the top of a very influential person’s list. This can only mean good things for your future, Aries. Be proud of yourself.

TAURUS – Apr 21/May 21 Friends and family who seem meddlesome may have more noble motives, Taurus. Give these loved ones the benefit of the doubt and be glad they care so much.

GEMINI – May 22/Jun 21 Gemini, a big project means you will be working with others in the week ahead. Put your best foot forward and be receptive of others’ ideas and suggestions.

CANCER – Jun 22/Jul 22 Cancer, you are full of energy this week, but for whatever reason you are still holding back. Don’t be afraid to unleash that energy and get to work.

Others will be impressed.

LEO – Jul 23/Aug 23 Mull an invitation before responding this week, Leo. You can find both pros and cons to accepting the invitation, and taking the time to consider it will ensure you make the right call.

VIRGO – Aug 24/Sept 22 Virgo, a healthy sense of ambition will move a project along much more quickly than you or others had imagined. Once the work is done, you’ll have plenty of time to relax.

LIBRA – Sept 23/Oct 23 A person from your past may come into your life, Libra. He or she stirs up old emotions, and you may need to take a step back in a current relationship. Think things over carefully.

SCORPIO – Oct 24/Nov 22 Scorpio, your ambition is growing, but you are already beginning to feel overwhelmed. You may need to put the brakes on any new endeavors for a little while.

SAGITTARIUS – Nov 23/Dec 21 Any business transactions you make this week can have a lasting effect on your financial status, Sagittarius. This means carefully considering every purchase.

CAPRICORN – Dec 22/Jan 20 Capricorn, expenses are piling up, and soon your stress levels may be rising as a result. You can use a dose of good news, and it’s coming this week.

AQUARIUS – Jan 21/Feb 18 Someone is rubbing you the wrong way, Aquarius. Just walk away and don’t let this person get under your skin. Taking the high road will serve you best in the long run.

PISCES – Feb 19/Mar 20 Pisces, the week ahead is full of promise. Your energy levels are soaring, and you are poised to meet new people and make things happen.

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