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trees on chopping block
News
Capital City Condors looks to spread its wings across the city. – Page 18
City must offer alternatives to cutting down ash trees: Muirhead Chantal Mack
arts
Kanata youth wins Ottawa library’s teen video contest. – Page 21
sports
West Ottawa Soccer Club gears up for start of the season. – Page 29
Out of 75,000 ash trees on City of Ottawa property, only about 10,000 will be saved, says Kanata North Coun. Marianne Wilkinson. Ottawa’s ash trees are under the attack of the emerald ash borer – a highly destructive wood-boring beetle that feeds under the bark of the tree, killing it over the course of a couple years. Matt Muirhead, president of the Kanata Lakes Community Association, said he is extremely worried about what happens to these trees. “Recently, in Trillium Woods, a protected area, I noticed all of these trees being cut down,” said Muirhead. “After further research I found that a city employee came in unannounced, without the knowledge of Wilkinson, and cut down dozens of trees. many of which were neither infected nor ash trees.” Wilkinson said that the city employee had been responding to community complaints concerning how close the trees were to the road. “They were a hazard, it had nothing to do with the emerald ash borer,” she said. EMERALD ASH BORER, see 4
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Jo-Anne Pulley and students Jayden Nguyen, Syena Bakekr and Chingis Toktamossov watch chicks in a sand table at the back of the classroom in W. Erskine Johnston Public School on Thursday, May 3.
JK kids chick it out Kindergarten class live streams hatching of chickens
Jo-Anne Pulley, the class’s teacher, went live with a webcam focused on an incubator containing 16 eggs which were provided by a farmer in Kinburn on Wednesday, May 2. Since then messages from parents, teachers across Ottawa and people from different countries, have poured in over the Livestream chat. “I just feel we’ve touched many people all over,” said Pulley. The web cam feeds to www. livestream.com/wejps which allows viewers to type messages on a chat screen. One parent’s message read: “First thing we did this morning was say hello
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A junior kindergarten class at W. Erskine Johnston Public School is taping the hatching of chickens and live streaming it over the web, allowing parents and people across the world to monitor the class project.
to the chicks!” Jennifer Bygrave, another parent, wrote: “We didn’t realize how interesting it is to watch chickens hatch – we can cancel our cable TV.” Shannon Smith, vice-principal at W. Erskine Johnston, said the success of the project has spurred suggestions for future livestream projects from other teachers at the school, such as public speaking events, plays and poetry readings. “This is the first time we’ve broadcast live,” said Smith. “We have a hunch this is just the tip of the iceberg.”
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