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EMC sports - More than 6,500 players were set to hit the ice on hockey rinks in Ottawa for the 14th edition of the Bell Capital Cup. The competition ran from Dec. 28 to Jan. 1 with the opening ceremonies, Bell Capital Cup Fanfest and Esso Friendly Games held on Dec. 27 at the Bell Sensplex in Kanata. “This National Capital Region hockey extravaganza continues to showcase great minor hockey action, skills competitions and the Scotiabank/Canadian Tire all-star games,” said Scott Lawryk, general manager of the Bell Capital Cup, in a press release. The city played host to 380 teams from 19 divisions for the annual atom and peewee hockey tournament. This year, teams from Canada, China, Finland, Germany and the United States vied to hoist the Allen J. MacDonald Memorial Trophy. The Kourier-Standard went to press before the championship games were held. “On behalf of the board of directors and our many volunteers, I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of the minor hockey associations and administrators, players and families who continue to take part in the Bell Capital Cup and build on what is a splendid foundation for this annual holiday tournament,” said Lawryk. See FIVE DAY, page 11
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for children with intellectual and physical disabilities. Turris and a few of his teammates, including Eric Condra and Peter Regin, helped the nearly 100 children, ages six and up, learn skating, shooting and stick handling drills at the Jack Charron Arena in Glen Cairn. The Condors, members of the club’s A and AA teams
in Rockland and Kanata, were happy to see the Senators take the ice, with many of the children pausing during drills and scrimmages to give their National Hockey League mentors hugs, followed by huge smiles. Those smiles keep bringing the Sens back to the Jack Charron Arena, said Turris. See IT BUILDS, page 19
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News in Review: July to December A huge brush fire that wiped out more than 40 hectares of a nature trail in Bridlewood, a new development submitted for the Town Centre lands and the Prime Minister visiting Glen Cairn to light a Christmas tree – 2012 was an eventful year in Kanata. In this week’s issue, we look back over the last six months of news stories covered in the Kourier-Standard. JULY
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• West-end youth gave the March Road overpass a colourful facelift over a 10day period in June and July to help combat graffiti. The teens, ranging in age from 14 to 18, were hard at work on day eight, July 5, finishing up the two murals as part of the Paint It Up! program. A ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the completion of the murals was held on July 12. • A vandalized stone monument to Canadian soldiers killed in Afghanistan was restored at the memorial garden of the Royal Canadian Legion’s national headquarters in Kanata by early July. The stone Inukshuk was toppled by vandals sometime over-
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night on June 27, leaving the statue in pieces. • Capital Hoedown organizer Denis Benoit, president and CEO of Concert International Inc., issued a statement on July 9 officially cancelling the 2012 event. The city pulled the festival’s three-day special event licence after Capital Hoedown failed to pay $150,000 still owing for use of Walter Baker Park in Kanata. Capital Hoedown then moved the event to the Numech Ranch, a private venue on rural land south of Stittsville but the city refused to give the event a permit for the site. • A huge brush fire in the city’s west end burned more than 40 hectares of a nature trail near Bridlewood in midJuly. At its peak, 70 firefighters battled the blaze on the Lime Kiln Trail, between Moodie Drive and Richmond Road, which first flared up on July 12. Three firefighters were taken to hospital with heat-related conditions, who were later released. • The ninth-annual Kanata Klassic kicked off at the March Tennis Club on July
16. The seven-day tennis tournament had close to 100 participants this year and raises funds for the Canadian Cancer Society. • A defence research and development company in Morgan’s Grant was awarded a $565,000 federal contract to help develop technology to increase the data transfer capacity of military aircraft. Carleton-Mississippi Mills MP Gordon O’Connor announced the contract awarded to Edgewater Computer Systems Inc. at the company’s headquarters at 1125 Innovation Dr. on July 19. • The Distress Centre of Ottawa hosted safeTALK, a three-hour suicide alertness workshop – held in partnership with the Kanata Haven Youth Centre and Reach Up Ottawa – for a number of people on July 25 at the Lion Dick Brule Community Centre. The training session taught the audience how to respond if someone opens up to them about suicidal thoughts, how to spot potentially suicidal behaviour and how to connect people with resources. See POLICE, on 3 1025.R0011697930
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• The 1st Kanata Scouts billeted a group of Inuit youth from Pangnirtung, Nunavut, for 10 days in July. The exchange trip was a chance for the two groups to share their culture. In August, 13 of the Scouts were billeted in Pangnirtung, Baffin Island and Auyuittuq National Park. August
• Hundreds of little league baseball players turned out for the 17th annual Scott Tokessy Memorial Gold Glove Tournament held in Kanata on Aug. 3 to 5. Five of the 34 teams competing in the nation’s largest little league tournament were from south Ottawa. Games were held at seven ball diamonds in Kanata. To date, the charity baseball tournament has raised $255,000 for CHEO’s cardiology department to fund research and the purchase of equipment. • Farmers weren’t the only ones being hit hard during the drought. The Galloping Goat Farm, a sanctuary for abandoned farm animals in Dunrobin – part of the Constance Creek Wildlife Refuge – suffered from a hay shortage. With a lack of water came a shortage in crops; farmers were selling less hay than usual because they were unsure if they would get a second cut before the winter. • Ottawa police tore down an illegal camp site in Kanata on Aug. 13. Police officers said teenagers had been squatting in the woods located off Kanata Avenue, between Campeau and Earl Grey drives, and across from the Best Buy in the Kanata Centrum. No one was at the site when police ar-
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The Grassroot Grannies complete their third-annual Ride to Turn the Tide event on Sept. 7, with the group of grandmothers, grandfathers and grand-others raising more than $43,000.
• A Bridlewood family raised $5,000 in funds and food for the Kanata Food Cupboard over the course of five hours on Aug. 11. The Crepeaults, founders of the non-profit Kreative Kids Who Kare, unloaded dozens of boxes of non-perishables and handed over a jar of money to the food cupboard on Aug. 15.
Cancer Society. • Close to 300 people turned out for an end-of-summer meeting to discuss a two-tiered, 10- and 15-storey apartment building, coupled with six three-storey townhomes, that was proposed for development at 1131 Teron Rd. The consensus of many in the audience was that the proposed development was too high and doesn’t fit within the garden community, which is comprised of mostly lowrise, single family homes and townhouses.
• Nine-year-old Jasmine Quirk and Grace Dixon, 7, founded the Charity Group, which is made up of their friends, ranging in age from five to 12. The Charity Group held a neighbourhood carnival at the Quirk’s home on Brodeur Crescent on Aug. 25 to raise funds for the Canadian
• Parents at Saint-Rémi French Catholic elementary school were preparing to raise money to build two play structures for the new Kanata Lakes school. The school’s parent transition committee was looking to raise $60,000 from corporate donations to build a play structure for junior and senior
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• A group of young entrepreneurs prepared to launch a new app that allows users to share videos using their smartphones in September. Crewcam Inc., a startup based in the Kanata North Research Park, released the video app for Apple iPhone users.
Hundreds of uniformed police and peace officers from across the country march onto Parliament Hill to pay tribute to their fallen comrades at the 35th annual Police and Peace Officers’ National Memorial Day on Sept. 30. • The In Club, run by the Kanata Seniors’ Centre, celebrated its 23rd anniversary this year. The club has grown over the past two decades, and now boasts more than 300 members, who range in age from
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• Community figure Tom Flood was honoured for his volunteer work with a Mayor’s City Builder Award on Sept. 12. Flood, who has lived in south Kanata since 1970, helped to shape the community through his extensive volunteer service. • A controversial plan to build a mid-rise condo in Beaverbrook received a cool response from residents at a public meeting held on Sept. 18. The developer, who owns the land at 2 The Parkway, submitted a last minute revision to the project’s site proposal, calling for changes to the building’s height, setback and landscape. The MorleyHoppner Group revised the proposed height of the midrise building to nine storeys, down from 10 storeys in the first revision, and 16 storeys in the original plan.
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• Const. Lori Fahey took over the position of community police officer for Kanata and Stittsville on Oct. 1. Fahey replaced Const. Ryan Strotmann, who held the position for four years. Fahey, a police officer for 18 years, has worked as a school resource officer, was the community officer for Kanata/Stittsville back in 2002, worked road patrol and most recently was the community police officer for Bayshore. • The afternoon recess at Bridlewood Community Elementary School started out like any other on Oct. 3 until the yard was overtaken by a flash mob. More than 300 grades 1 through 8 students were smiling, laughing and dancing to the rhythm of Flo Rida’s Good Feeling, when to their surprise, the teachers got in on the act. Then, as quickly as it started, everyone dispersed and went back to their previous activities. • A Bridlewood homeowner was in shock after he came home on Oct. 6 to see that someone had spray-painted “F--K NI---RS” and “KKK” on the front of his townhouse. Philippe Savoie said Ottawa police came to his house on Meadowbreeze Drive around 3:30 a.m. to investigate and were treating the incident as a hate crime. A large, black X marked the front of his garage and his front door. The left side of the garage was also littered with profanity and two front lights were covered in spray-paint. Savoie said the hate crime was very unusual because he lives in such a family-oriented, multicultural neighbourhood.
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Students from a number of west end elementary schools take part in a cross country meet at the Kanata Recreation Complex on Oct. 12. The 11-year-old boys kicked off the two-kilometre run. • Students at John Young Elementary School took part in setting a world record on Oct. 12. The school was one of 135 locations – eight in Ottawa – that set a record for the most practical science lessons taught simultaneously across Canada. The lecture was on Bernoulli’s principle, which involves the movement of a fluid through a pressure difference. Heather Darch, a scientist at Environment Canada and parent of Grade 3 student Timothy, taught the lesson involving balloons, air, straws and cups of water. • Technology expanded the classroom around the world for students at Stephen Leacock Public School. A group of 27 grades 7 and 8 students connected with their counterparts in rural Tanzania over Skype, an online video-message chat program, on Oct. 15. The Skype call was set up by Canadian non-profit Wa-
terCan, which provides the world’s poorest people with access to clean water, basic sanitation and hygiene education. • Katimavik woman Christine Boothby was named the new Kanata trustee on the Ottawa public school board on Oct. 18 after Cathy Curry stepped down from the position. Boothby ran against Curry during the 2010 municipal election. • Urbandale Corporation asked the city to rezone seven blocks of land within the Kanata Town Centre. The developer was looking for a mixture of residential, mixed-use and open space on currently undeveloped land. The Urbandale submission was the main topic at a Kanata North ward meeting on Oct. 22. See PRIME, page 5
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• The West Ottawa Soccer Club hired its first-ever chief executive officer to manage the rapidly growing organization. Bjorn Osieck assumed the post of CEO after spending the past six and a half years at the helm of the British Columbia Soccer Association, the third-largest soccer governing body in the country, with roughly 150,000 registered players, coaches, officials and volunteers. NOVEMBER
• A hockey team for children with special needs, the Capital City Condors, became an arm of the Bell Capital Cup tournament. The Condors, a hockey club that caters to youth ages six and up with intellectual and physical disabilities. The team participates in the Special Hockey International Tournament but this will be the first mixed tournament for the Condors.
• The Kanata Food Cupboard announced a new initiative that aims to give people in the community more choice when it comes to the help they receive. The Fresh Food Revolution and grocery store concept – launched at the cupboard’s location at 20 Young Rd. on Nov. 22 – gives clients the chance to choose their own produce and food items for their families. People will be able to make their selection based on their own needs, food restrictions and preferences instead of being given a predetermined hamper of food items. • Paul MacLean, the head coach of the Ottawa Senators, surprised a group of 11-yearold minor peewee hockey players when he and and his assistants – Dave Cameron, video-coach Tim Pattyson and
team services organizer Jordan Silmser – walked on the ice on Nov. 29. MacLean put the Kanata Blazers through a series of skating and stickhandling drills. DECEMBER
• The Western Ottawa Community Resource Centre hosted a vigil on Dec. 6 in remembrance of 14 women were killed by a gunman at École Polytechnique in Montreal in 1989. Fourteen flames were lit in memory of each of the women. A 15th candle was lit for all the women who have suffered violence at the hands of others. • Kanata South Coun. Allan Hubley supported ditching planned extensions to Hope Side Road after a study revealed the environmental impacts are too great in early December. Instead, Hubley said he is in favour of expanding Richmond and West Hunt Club roads to deal with a burgeoning population, especially as the Fernbank lands begin to fill up with residential development. See ELEMENTARY, page 6
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• Prime Minister Stephen Harper made a surprise visit to the Glen Cairn Tennis Club on Nov. 14, participating in a Christmas tree lighting ceremony. The prime minister arrived shortly before the start of the event, which started with Christmas music by the Glen Cairn Public School handbell choir, a group of grades 7 and 8 students.
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• A video created by Lisa Pivato’s Grade 11 French immersion class at Holy Trinity Catholic High School went viral. The class created a spoof of the hit song Gangnam Style by South Korean pop singer Psy. The Kanata school’s entry, titled Holy Trinity Style, was entered in the University of Ottawa’s video contest to find the best French class in the province.
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• Two sets of twins were selected from the Cheer Sport Sharks to join the club’s world cheerleading team, the Swell Sharks. Beaverbrook twins Ashleigh and Jenna Dodunski and Stittsville twins Savannah and Celena Ethier all received the good news and were set to practice in Cambridge, Ont. in December. • Elementary schools across Ottawa were shut down on Dec. 12 as thousands of teachers with the English public school board held a one-day strike to protest Bill 115. The legislation gave the education minister the power to impose a contract on thousands of workers if unions and school boards couldn’t reach local agreements before Dec. 31. The walkout of teachers from 117 schools in the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board was one of several rotating strikes held across the province. At Stephen Leacock Public School in Beaverbrook, a group of 19 full- and parttime teachers carried handmade signs protesting Bill 115, legislation they say takes away their collective bargaining rights. • Urbandale Corp. detailed plans to develop nearly 10 hectares of the Kanata Town Centre lands during a public
meeting held at the Mlacak Centre on Dec. 13. More than 100 people attended the meeting hosted by Kanata North Coun. Marianne Wilkinson and Marc Magierowicz, the city planner working on the project. The developer is looking for a mixture of residential, mixed-use and open space on currently undeveloped land. • A new youth soccer club in Kanata will hold its first season starting next May. The National Capital Industrial Soccer League announced in mid-December the creation of the Kanata Dragons Athletic Club for recreational players between the ages of four and 18. The Dragons will play on outdoor fields in Kanata used by the NCISL next year and use the 100-metre by 60-metre outdoor artificial-turf field at the Richcraft Recreation Complex starting in 2014 when the recreation centre, now under construction, opens.
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• Capital City Condors players had the chance to skate with Ottawa Senator Kyle Turris, as well as a few other Senators, who came out to participate in a Dec. 22 practice and scrimmage held by the Condors, a hockey team for children with intellectual and physical disabilities.
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Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow
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ecember 2012 ended with a bang not a whimper. That is if you don’t count the moans and whines from various residents after they were hit with two big snowstorms and 50-plus centimetres of snow. Ottawa residents haven’t seen weather like this for years and it’s understandable that it will take some of us a little time to adjust. First and foremost, the inclement weather has been
accompanied by a rise in the cases of colds, the flu and other illnesses. But that is mostly a product of people huddling together inside and sharing their germs. The first part of any intelligent person’s survival guide for the Great Canadian Winter must begin with an old adage you probably heard from your mother: wash your hands. Wash them frequently. And if you’re sick, stay
home and recover. Many workaholics will show up at the office even while fending off a bad bout of the bubonic plaque. While their work ethic is commendable, it only serves to spread the sickness to coworkers. Stay home, rest up and return to work recharged and healthy. But the cold weather and heaps of white stuff aren’t all doom and gloom. Winter is a season of play
for ski and skating enthusiasts. Owners of ski hills in Quebec and Ontario are bubbling with jubilation over the recent snowfall. Skiing on real snow, you see, is a whole new experience compared to gliding down the artificial stuff. As for Canada’s national sport, volunteers across the country are out in force clearing the ice pads and outdoor rinks to make way for the legion of children hungering
for a game of scrimmage hockey. The average 10-year-old boy or girl’s eye’s light up when they see the thermometer dip below zero and hear that the roads are choked with snow. Of course that can only mean one thing. A school snow day and a morning spent chasing a piece of vulcanized rubber with their buddies on the local rink. January also sees the arrival of the Bell Capital Cup, bringing together hundreds of teams, both from Ontario and Quebec and other countries and thousands of atom and
peewee-age hockey players. This year, the cup features the Capital City Condors, a team with players with intellectual and physical disabilities. For these children, the winter and the opportunity to play hockey is a thing of joy. An emotion that can’t help translate to the hearts of volunteers who run the team and onlookers who watch them play. For those who hate the winter, let your Grinch hearts defrost a little and take notice of the opportunities that present themselves. Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow.
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Planning the great Canadian event CHARLES GORDON Funny Town
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he thing about anticipating a great event is that the event is always great in anticipation. It’s only when it becomes a real event that it risks being disappointing. So bring on the 150th anniversary celebrations, Canada’s next big birthday, scheduled for 2017, unless government cutbacks cause it to be postponed. Already, the government is said to be putting out feelers to Canadians, asking them for ideas on how the event can be properly marked. According to reports, cross-country consultations are beginning this month. The aim is to make the 150th as memorable as the 100th was. Those who were there remember it as a pretty good one, but it might be different this time. It’s pretty difficult to imagine this government or any future one laying out the kind of dough that was spent in 1967. Expo 67 was only the biggest of many large expenditures. Don’t forget the hundreds of centennial projects that were built across the country. If not for the centennial there would be empty spaces where a lot of the arenas and concert halls are in Canadian cities. Not to say that our present-day governments, at all levels, are stingy, but is there another word that describes them better? Furthermore, our taxpayers are far less adventurous in spirit than they were in 1967. It’s with these facts in mind that we have to consider the contribution we will make to the cross-country consultations. In order to gain government acceptance, proposals to celebrate
the 150th have to be, let’s say, modest in scale. Better still, they have to include provisions for corporations to pay for them. So where does that leave us, here in the capital? Under different circumstances we might think of the 150th as the perfect occasion for the unveiling of the long-discussed portrait gallery, which was once to be located across from Parliament Hill. But we won’t get that now. Maybe, instead, a PowerPoint presentation sponsored by a bank. There are some possibilities in the idea of re-enactment. This year there were re-enactments of key battles in the War of 1812. Maybe some of that could be done in 2017, re-enactments of key moments in the national capital’s history, with due consideration of budgetary realities. Actors, as long as they are not paid too much, could portray Charlotte Whitton battling with city councillors, Thomas D’Arcy McGee breathing his last, Pierre Elliott Trudeau walking in the snow. Developers could take time off from their busy schedule putting up new condos to restage the destruction of LeBreton Flats. Staging the reconstruction of LeBreton Flats might not be possible at the moment. Celebrations of this sort should also look forward. Peering into the future is always interesting. In 1967 it may have been imagined that the Ottawa of 2013 would have public transit flying through the air, hologram movies projected into the night sky and an enlightened government capable of anticipating the needs of the people. None of this has come true, but the exercise is still worth the effort. So let’s think about Ottawa 2117 as presented this year at Expo 17. Public transit flying through air, except in a tunnel. Hologram movies available to elite cable subscribers. One more building on the LeBreton Flats. Still no portrait gallery, but they’re thinking of using the last building in the city that isn’t a condo. In other 2117 developments, the 19-digit telephone number comes into effect, additional parking is on Mars and another bridge to the Quebec side is under active study.
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D) I grumbled about the weather all day, mostly on Twitter.
D) I meant to, but I thought the world was going to end last week and never got around to it.
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the day playing outside.
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y middle child exerts a lot of confidence. He’s a solid reader. He’s good with numbers. He can kick a ball onto the roof of the school – all areas in which a six-year-old wants to excel. Unfortunately, his confidence in the tasks he does well often causes him to be falsely confident in other areas of his life. And this is where a sixyear-old becomes a ticking time bomb. He’s not as cautious as he should be when skiing or tobogganing down the ice hill at Green’s Creek. This is why a helmet is recommended. It turns out most of us are like my six-year-old. While confidence in our areas of expertise is generally regarded as a good thing, we have a tendency to allow our confidence to overflow into areas where it is unfounded – not so good. This is particularly true when we experience success. If I win a writing award, for example, and I happen to have an appointment with my financial advisor the same day, it’s likely I’ll select more risky investments than normal. This is based on the false belief that my success in an area where I’ve trained and practiced
BRYNNA LESLIE Capital Muse must naturally spill over into areas where I have no expertise. It’s like that scene in the movie Bridget Jones’s Diary, where, following a great first day as a television producer, Bridget has a “sneaking suspicion” she’s also a master chef. That she ends up making blue soup, orange pudding and green gunge for her birthday dinner demonstrates the folly of her thinking. But while overconfidence can be problematic, we can also take advantage of this tendency to experience new things and to keep our resolutions going beyond Jan. 31. January is a month when people are inherently optimistic. There’s something about the new year that has each of us pushing the reset button, ready for a fresh start. It’s the reason we use January as an excuse to resolve to go to the gym, quit smoking
or save more money. We all become a little nutty in January. Unfortunately, February is another type of month altogether. The confidence we felt as the calendar turned over to 2013 starts to dwindle, as we realize we’ve gained, rather than lost, weight, or that we’ve started drinking red wine in lieu of smoking. But perhaps we could use our tendency for overconfidence to carry us through. Try riding this high – on a good day, rather than reaching for a glass of wine to celebrate, head for the gym. If you experience some sort of success at work in February, try mastering a new recipe that evening in the kitchen. If you win a hockey game, try a new sport that very week. You may fail, but at least you had the confidence – or false confidence -- to try. As I say to my sixyear-old, however, it’s best wear a helmet, just in case.
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Five-day tourney raises money for local charities Continued from page 1
Last year’s Bell Capital Cup saw 410 teams participate from 19 divisions with more than 7,000 players. Teams from the United States, Finland, Germany and South Korea competed in the tournament. WELL REPRESENTED
The Ottawa-area was well represented, with a number of teams competing for the top spot, including the Kanata Blazers, Nepean Raiders, Ottawa Sting, Ottawa Valley Silver Seven and Gloucester Rangers. “As always, the highlight of the festival (was) the 1,000-plus hours of tournament games and the lasting memories they create for all participants,” said Lawryk. Kanata native and former Sens forward Todd White again served as honourary chair at this year’s event. The Bell Capital Cup’s 19 divisions, including two girls teams, played more than 800 games on 31 ice surfaces across the city, from Stittsville to Navan. Each division’s championship game was played at
Scotiabank Place. The board of directors of the Ottawa International Hockey Festival was expecting 20,000 visitors to the area and about 12,000 hotel rooms to be rented for the event.
As always, the highlight of the festival (was) the 1,000-plus hours of tournament games and the lasting memories they create for all participants. SCOTT LAWRYK GENERAL MANAGER BELL CAPITAL CUP
The five-day tournament has raised more than $2.4 million in support of minor hockey and local charities since it began in 1999. Last year, $150,000 was raised through Bell Capital Cup initiatives. FILE
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Beaverbrook resident receives royal treatment Tech worker protects royal websites from hackers Jessica Cunha
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It’s one of those lifetime experiences and opportunities that you really couldn’t turn down. GORDON HENDERSON
“They took us into the room that overlooks the balcony that the Royal Family goes out to on special occasions,” he said, adding they were served coffee, tea and cookies. “I think we saw places in the palace that other people don’t get to see. “It was a great, great experience.” The Diamond Jubilee celebrates the Queen’s sixtyyear reign, which has been matched only once before, when Queen Victoria ruled for 63 years and seven months.
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EMC news - A Beaverbrook resident received the royal treatment when he was invited to meet the Queen. Gordon Henderson, director of business development at DOSarrest Internet Security, met Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace in October. His company protects the Royal Household’s websites from hackers. “They had us form a line and some mirrored doors open and low and behold there’s the Head of State and the Duke of Edinburgh,” said Henderson, former president of the Kanata Beaverbrook Community Association. “They read our names out and one by one we met the Queen. I bowed…we shook hands and I said ‘It’s an honour to meet you, Your Majesty.’ After greeting the Queen I did the same thing with Prince Philip.” “It’s one of those lifetime experiences and opportunities that you really couldn’t turn down.” The Queen met a number of people and recognized various businesses that contributed to the success of the Diamond Jubilee.
“We were applauded for our good work,” said Henderson. “They were really happy for what we’re doing for them.” Henderson said he received a personal tour of Buckingham Palace and met with the royal household’s information technology and telecommunications staff.
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Gathering ice blocks always sent chills MARY COOK F or reasons which escape me today, I was always home from school on the day Father went to the Bonnechere to bring ice in for the ice house. I think now, it was because Mother knew how very anxious I was when Father went to the river and in my childish mind I was sure I could save him from any disaster if I too was on the Bonnechere. Father had been watching the river for weeks and then one day he went down with the auger and burrowed a hole to see how thick the ice was in the very centre of the river, where the water was the deepest. It was ready. It was time to bring in the blocks of ice for the ice house. Through necessity, the ice house was always built on the north side of the barn. This protected it from the sun. It was a small, black building, not much bigger than the smoke house, with no windows, only a narrow door just wide enough to allow one
Mary Cook’s Memories body inside with the big iron ice-tongs. Now the day had arrived when Father would go to the river with the team of horses and flat-bottom sleigh along with the tools he needed for cutting out the ice. I was filled with both dread and admiration. I lived in fear that Father would slip into one of the holes from which he had taken a block of ice and be lost forever. At the same time, I marveled at how this single day would provide us with ice for the rest of the winter and, if we were lucky, until this same exercise was repeated the next year. If I was with him, I figured I could look after him and make sure he was safe.
What I could do, I had no idea. But just being with him, I knew would keep him safe. I was bundled up like a mummy and Father wore a second pair of bib overalls over his winter clothes. His big cowhide mitts covered two pairs of wool mitts, a fur hat with the ear lugs down was tied securely under his chin, his pipe, as always hung loosely from his mouth and we were ready for the trip across the back field, down the other side of the west hill to the Bonnechere. The ice on the river cracked and snapped under the sleigh. I fervently prayed the horses, sleigh and Father and I wouldn’t end up on the bottom of the river. We came to the very centre of the Bonnechere and the
long process began. Father, using the auger, burrowed four holes, forming a square into the ice. Then, with the needle-nosed saw, he cut a swath from one hole to the other three. This was when I was filled with dread, because I knew what was coming. Once the square was freed, the block instantly flew from the water, sometimes rising above the very ice we stood on, splashing great gushes of water all around. Most of it landed right on Father. Now the block was ready to be hauled out and put on the sleigh. This step was repeated until the sleigh was covered with blocks and they were piled three deep. Here, I took on a new fear. What if the sleigh was so weighed down that the horses, the sleigh, the cut blocks of ice, and myself went to the bottom of the Bonnechere? By the time the last block was heaved onto the top row of ice, Father’s overalls were slick with frozen water. It was all he could do to climb onto the front of the sleigh and head the horses back to the
ice house. As soon as we were on firm ground, I said my silent prayer of thanks that we had been saved from a freezing death in the bottom of the Bonnechere. Father’s work, however, was far from over. Once back at the ice house, he had to unload the blocks one at a time, each probably weighing 45 kilograms, and place them in rows inside. Father could hardly walk upright with the weight of his frozen overalls, but he was not ready to change into dryer clothes yet. The horses had to be put in the barn, fed and bedded. Only then did he head for the house and the warmth of the kitchen. Mother had to strip him of the frozen outer layer and the overalls were draped over the wood-box to melt and dry. The brothers would be pressed into service on Saturday, as they headed to the sawmill to bring back load after load of sawdust and cover the blocks in the ice house. The sawdust was free, the owner of the mill glad to be rid of it.
So for another winter, and hopefully well over the summer, we would have ice for the ice box in the kitchen of that old log house. We considered ourselves very privileged indeed to have the big oak Barnett bought by grandfather who couldn’t understand how anyone could survive without an ice box. After that day on the Bonnechere, and after his supper, Father, completely spent of every ounce of energy, would go to his usual spot in the kitchen. He would settle into the rocking chair in front of the Findlay Oval, lift his stockinged feet onto a cushion on the oven door and promptly fall asleep. The Ottawa Farm Journal or the Family Herald and Weekly Star would have gradually slipped from his gnarled hands. I would watch his gentle breathing and I would be filled with such caring. Again I would say my prayers of grateful thanks that Father had survived another day of bringing in the ice from the Bonnechere.
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Les Petits Ballets offers recreational and pre-professional dance and movement classes. 11-35 Stafford Road, Nepean Ontario K2H 8V8 Phone: 613-596-5783 Fax: 613-721-6139 Website: lespetitsballets.com Les Petits Ballets is a non-profit company which presents dance in association with the City of Ottawa. Now in our 35th year! Ballet training teaches children poise and confidence. For adults, it is an excellent way to increase flexibility and muscular strength. Les Petits Ballets is a non-profit school that presents dance instruction in association with the City of Ottawa. Now in our 35th year, Les Petits Ballets offers recreational and pre-professional dance and movement classes in spacious, well-equipped studios at the Nepean Creative Arts Centre and at various locations throughout Nepean. Entrance to the pre-professional program is by audition only. Members of our Performing Company are selected from our pre-professional students. Visit our website at www.lespetitsballets.com to print a registration form and for more information about the school and our upcoming performances.
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Ballet level i Instruction in Russian ballet syllabus, barre and centre work is available for interested individuals. No previous training required.
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les Petits Ballets Registration information Winter 2013 registration has begun. Choose the method that’s most convenient for you! Download a form at lespetitsballets.com and mail registration form and cheque to: les Petits Ballets 11-35 Stafford Road, Nepean Ontario K2H 8V8 Or Register in person at Nepean Creative Arts Centre 35 Stafford Road, Unit 11 - payments by cash or cheque. Please make cheques payable to Les Petits Ballets – Please date cheques: Winter session – January 7, 2013
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terms and conditions of registration: • Cancellations – courses are subject to cancellation due to insufficient registration – if this occurs a full refund will be issued. • Withdrawals/refunds – full refund before the class starts less a $10 administration fee. Refunds in first three weeks of classes will be prorated for classes attended less a $10 administration fee. No refunds after the third week of classes. • Returned cheques – a service fee of $15 will be applied to all cheques returned because of non sufficient funds. • Les Petits Ballets does not send confirmations of registration. You will only be contacted if the class is not proceeding as scheduled. • All Les Petits Ballets classes should qualify for the Fitness Tax Credit and these will be issued at the end of the session. No classes on February 16-18 (Family Day), March 11-17 (March Break), March 29-April 1 (Easter) and May 18-20 (Victoria Day weekend). Kanata Kourier-Standard EMC - Thursday, January 3, 2013 17
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‘It builds his self confidence and he just loves it’: Condors mom “They’re just laughing and giggling and so happy,” said Turris. “They’re having a good time and I’m having a great time as well.” The Condors are always excited when they come out to play, he added. “They’re putting on their gear as quick as they can in the locker room. They get out here and they’re just pure happiness and it’s really neat.” Turris first heard about the Condors from Matt Carkner, a former teammate and roommate and an enthusiastic supporter of the special-needs hockey club. Carkner introduced Turris to Jim Perkins, who co-founded the Condors in 2008. “He asked if I’d be interested in coming out and skating with the kids,” he said. “I fell in love with them.” A CHANCE TO PLAY
There was a time when Dillon’s mother, Sue Riley, thought her son would never have the chance to play Canada’s national sport. “I didn’t think it would be possible for him to be part of a hockey team just given his special needs,” she said. “It builds his self-confidence and he just loves it. He looks forward to it every week.” This is Dillon’s third year playing for the Condors. “Every year we see him progressing,” said Riley. “He’s out there now shooting pucks and scoring even – it’s awesome.” It’s not just being on the ice that captures his imagination, she added, saying her son enjoys the whole experience of coming to an arena every Saturday, sitting in the locker room with his friends and just being part of a team. “It means a lot,” she said. “It really warms your heart when you see him out there as part of a team, and very proud.” EXPANSION
Shana Perkins and her husband Jim started the Condors in 2008, after watching a team of children with special needs play hockey in Cambridge, Ont. “We were so inspired by the kids and the families and the difference it was making in their lives,” she said. “We came back to Ottawa and said, ‘If this doesn’t exist, then we need to start it here.’” The Perkins got together with a few friends and organized a game at an arena in Beckwith Township. “We had three players for our first session,” she said. Since then, the number of players has expanded to nearly 100 children. Now in its fifth year, the Condors boasts two Kanata teams, a team in Rockland, one in Cambridge, Ont., and another in Gatineau. The Condors are also set to debut teams in Carleton
Place, Huntsville, Ont., and Calgary in the new year. The Condors require ice time scheduled on the same days and times, because many of the players have special needs that demand a strict routine, said Shana. This year, the Condors were able to take about 20 names off the waiting list, thanks to ice time donated by the Kanata Minor Hockey Association and with help from the City of Ottawa. “There’s definitely a need for more teams,” said Shana. “There’s tons of kids who don’t have the opportunity to play ice hockey, not just
is ongoing all season. Player registration is available on the website at capitalcitycondors.org. The team is always looking for help on and off the ice, and are in specific need of adult volunteers. Volunteer registration is also available on the website. She and Jim are also looking at starting a hockey league for blind and visually impaired players, as well as a team for those who are confined to wheelchairs. The Perkins will also be working with Courage Canada, based in Vancouver, to develop hockey for people who are blind.
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in Ottawa, but also in cities across Canada.” The Condors have been contacted by people across Canada, including Calgary and Winnipeg, as well as other countries, asking about starting up similar clubs in their cities. The hockey club is putting together an information package, describing the Condors experiences and offering a start-up guide. “Really, one of our goals, our dreams, is to see this program spread,” Shana said. “That’s what we’d like to see happen, every city and town in Canada has a special-needs hockey team.” Registration for the team
This year, the Condors have become an arm of the 2013 Bell Capital Cup tournament, which runs from Dec. 28 to Jan. 1 and attracts teams from across the world. The team participates in the Special Hockey International Tournament but this will be the first mixed tournament for the Condors. Last year’s Bell Capital Cup saw 410 teams participate from 19 divisions with more than 7,000 players. Teams from the United States, Finland, Germany and South Korea competed in the tournament. The 2013 Bell Capital Cup runs from Dec. 28 to Jan. 1. Aside from participating in the Bell Capital Cup, the Condors are also gearing up to host the 2015 Special Hockey International Tournament. The team put forward its bid in 2011 after seeing how much the players enjoyed participating in the event. With files from Jessica Cunha
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EMC entertainment - An Ottawa saxophone quartet says it’s filling a niche market by offering a different sound. “Nobody’s ever heard of a group like this. We’re so unique,” said Jarrod Goldsmith, founder of Sax Appeal. “Even in the world, it’s not a very common ensemble.” Sax Appeal is made up of four Ottawa-area musicians: Orléans resident Goldsmith on baritone saxophone; Mike Mullin from the downtown core on tenor saxophone; Gatineau resident Dave Renaud on alto saxophone; and south end resident Christine Davies on soprano saxophone. “I’m creating a market for a group like this because nobody’s ever heard of a sax quartet,” said Goldsmith. “We play any genre of music; we’re versatile.” The group came together two years ago when Goldsmith developed the concept of a sax quartet. “This is my full time job,”
he said. “I work with the best musicians in town. “When we play, I want to add to the ambiance of the event.” Sax Appeal has played a number of corporate and private events, including the Gatineau Hot Air Balloon Festival. “We played the Muppet Show theme song at the balloon festival for the kids,” said Goldsmith. “We’re versatile; we’re different.” The group plays everything from classical numbers to jazz pieces, from Celtic to Christmas songs, from funk to reggae and “everything in between” added Goldsmith. “What makes the city vibrant? It’s the cultural life and that involves having live music.” CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
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Katimavik woman walks for memories Annual Alzheimer’s fundraising event continues to grow across city Jessica Cunha
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EMC news - The Walk for Memories in support of the Alzheimer Society of Ottawa and Renfrew County came about 17 years ago thanks to a Katimavik woman and a Nepean business. Tracey Pagé, an accountant with Collins Barrow Ottawa LLP in Bells Corners, developed the idea of the fundraising walk. The firm created a committee to choose a charity it could work with. “We talked about wanting to give back,” she said. “(To) try to align ourselves with a charity we could really, really give to.”
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chapter. “They had to purely work on the donations. It was such a small budget,” she said. “They were trying to do so much with so little. I had seen the good they do.” So she set up a meeting with then executive director Kathy Wright and developed the idea of a fundraising walk. That first walk, back in 1996, raised $22,000 with 175 participants. “It was a lot of fun; it was a lot of work but we considered it a success,” said Pagé, who has been on the Walk committee since the beginning. “As a volunteer and with support from Tracey’s coworkers and backing of her employer, she led the initiative and the Walk for Memories started in 1996,” said Debbie Seto, spokesperson for the Alzheimer Society of Ottawa and Renfrew County. The event is held annually on the last Sunday in January at the conclusion of Alzheimer Awareness Month. WALK
Her grandfather had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in the ’80s and at that time, it wasn’t a widely-known disease, she said. “I’d never even heard the word before that,” said Pagé of the diagnosis. At the time, the Ottawa Alzheimer’s Society had no government funding so when Collins Barrow decided to join forces with a charitable organization, Pagé suggested they work with the Ottawa
Every year, Collins Barrow is the lead sponsor and a number of employees and retired accountants volunteer their time to co-ordinate the walk. “It’s a great, great group of people,” said Pagé. “Volunteers come year after year. They really enjoy seeing the good that’s done. “The firm jumps in with both feet to really, really try and support the Alzheimer’s Society.” All the money raised stays
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This year’s Walk for Memories in support of the Alzheimer Society of Ottawa and Renfrew County will take place on Jan. 27 at the Carleton University Fieldhouse. From left, co-emcee Max Keeping, , walk committee members Laura Tippet and Tracey Pagé, warm-up leader Dan Bittle of Family Physiotherapy and co-emcee Kurt Stoodley take part in last year’s event. in the community to fund programs and respite care offered by the Alzheimer’s Society. “The funds are raised to support their programs and give the support to families that need it,” said Pagé. “I had seen how important respite care was.” This year’s walk will take place on Jan. 27, inside the Carleton University Fieldhouse. Registration begins at 9 a.m. with a warm-up at 10 a.m. followed by the walk. Pagé said hosting an indoor walk during the winter helps set the fundraiser apart from the traditional outdoor summer walks. “The day itself we just really try to make fun,” said
Pagé. “(Teams) usually have a theme and to see them marching around as a group with so much spirit, usually they’re inspired by someone.” Five walking challenges from one to 10 kilometres are available. There will be music, a kids’ activity centre and refreshments, free parking, and “a few surprises,” said Pagé. TRADITION
For the second year, the Sons of Scotland pipe band will lead the first lap around the track. “It’s a really nice tradition,” said Pagé. “We’ve always had, since year one, a bagpiper lead the first lap.”
The Walk for Memories first began in the Carlingwood Shopping Centre, but four years ago moved to Carleton University because the number of participants grew too large. “We always like to see our numbers grow. That’s our biggest goal,” said Pagé. “What started off as a really small event is turning into a well known city-(wide) fundraising event.” Back in 1998, Pagé participated in the walk while she was nine months pregnant. “… All of us were convinced her baby was going to be born at the event,” said Seto. “(It was) a memorable moment for us who have been
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EMC news - Jane Johnson’s house was all decked out in Christmas splendor, but there has been something missing for more than 30 years. Her daughter, Kimberley Anne Friendship passed away in 1977 from an aggressive form of childhood cancer called neuroblastoma. The disease often begins in the adrenal glands and by the time it has been diagnosed it has spread. Johnson said Kimmie was diagnosed on Easter weekend in 1976 and died in October of 1977 – when she was just eight years old. Despite her short life, Johnson said she left a legacy of love, selflessness and courage. In an effort to honour that memory, Johnson has written a cookbook called Kimmie’s Rainbow of Hope Cookbook. The book – which Johnson sells at the General and Civic campuses of the Ottawa Hos-
to the hospital system that helped her family, Johnson volunteers in the intensive care unit at the Civic campus of the Ottawa Hospital.
pital – was printed by the Ottawa Hospital. Johnson sells it for $20 a copy and hopes to raise some money towards research. The recipes are all her own and Johnson credits the support of her surviving children, friends and family for the support to put it all together and have it printed. “It took me about 30 years to put it together,” she said. The proceeds from the book will go to support neuroblastoma research at CHEO and SickKids in Toronto. While treatments are getting better, Johnson said she wants to save other children from the ordeal her Kimmie went through. “After her diagnosis, she courageously endured surgery, 59 cobalt treatments, countless tests and chemotherapy for a year,” Johnson said, adding that grief for a lost child is like a wound that never quite heals. Now as a way to give back
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The Kanata woman also helps out at CHEO and stays in touch with her daughter’s former doctor – who continues to do research on neuroblastoma. Johnson said she recently printed another 500 copies of the book and hopes to sell them all. For more information on where to get the book visit. www.facebook.com/KimmiesRainbowOfHopeCookbook#!/KimmiesRainbowOfHopeCookbook.
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EMC news - Ottawa police participated in a multiagency enforcement effort in downtown neighbourhoods on Dec. 14 and 15. Codenamed Prancer, the effort was designed to educate and enforce infractions related to traffic, parking, noise, disturbances, public intoxication, drug use, aggressive panhandling and property damage. Charges were laid for 640 violations of provincial statutes and city of Ottawa by-laws including numerous
traffic and parking violations, trespassing, public intoxication, open alcohol and aggressive panhandling. Four criminal charges were laid for impaired driving, driving over .08 blood alcohol content, possession of stolen property and assaulting police. The assaulting police charge was laid in relation to an altercation in an overcrowded bar. An overcrowding charge is also pending against the establishment. The approach, focused in the Byward Market, Low-
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EMC news - After two weeks of competitive can collecting, Castlefrank Elementary School’s Holiday Food Drive has come to an end. The school raised 1,573 items during the two-week
collection period. Mrs. Byrtus’ kindergarten class brought in the most nonperishable items per student and the class will be rewarded for the hard work with a pizza party. Close behind, in second place, was Mrs. Blaseg’s
Grade 7 class, which organized the food drive, and tied for third is Mrs. Rockburn’s and Mrs. LeBlanc’s classes. Throughout the two weeks, students counted and sorted the cans and used their math skills to graph each class’ progress. FILE
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EMC news - Tired of snow already? Come join us for some winter “garden therapy” as the Kanata-March Horticultural Society kicks off another year of fine speaker series talks to inspire and educate our neighbours. Our 2013 program features the following presentations: • Jan. 8: Member’s garden presentations. • Feb. 5: Square foot gardening: gardening to save work, seeds, time and money plus seed exchange. • March 5: Growing alpine and drought tolerant plants in our climate. • April 2: The beauty of annuals. • May 7: Growing dahlias in a garden. • June 4: Culinary herbs in the garden and on the table: how to grow, store and use herbs in recipes. • Sept. 3 – Gardens of Scotland. • Oct. 1 – The winter garden: planning and planting for the naked garden • Nov. 5 – Christmas decor and holiday flowers. On Tuesday, Jan. 8, horticultural society members Mel Maki and David and Shelley Sissing will present lessons learned while developing their properties, including the installation of a new water garden. The meeting runs from 7:30 to 9 p.m. at the Old Town Hall, 821 March Rd. (entrance to the Old Town Hall is on Klondike Road across from the Shopper’s Drug Mart). There is a $5 fee for nonmembers.
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Medical staff at the Ottawa Hospital’s Skills and Simulation Centre work perform an emergency cesarean section during a simulated birth training exercise on Dec. 19.
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EMC news - The danger wasn’t real, but the situation presented at the Ottawa Hospital uOttawa’s Skills and Simulation Centre happens all too often. On Dec. 19, media and select members of the public watched as physicians delivered a baby by emergency Cesarean section after detecting a slowing fetal heartbeat. The difference today was that the baby – and the mother delivering it – were simulation mannequins. The exercise served to illustrate the tools and training that take place at the simulation centre, located on the grounds of the hospital’s Civic campus. The Ottawa Hospital Foundation is in the midst of raising $2.5 million to expand the centre and add state-of-the-art research tools and equipment. “The 21st century has brought with it great medical advances – we know more about diseases then we’ve ever known and our technology has really evolved to where we now do operations through incisions the size of buttonholes,” said centre director Dr. Viren Naik. “Unfortunately, our medical education hasn’t changed that much. The apprenticeship model is still the backbone of how we teach doctors today. There are some problems with that apprenticeship model,
in that with the exponential growth in (medical knowledge), there may be too much to learn in a finite training schedule.” Naik said simulation centres allow doctors to further their knowledge of emerging technologies and new procedures. The star of Monday’s demonstration was the aptly-named Noelle, an anatomically-correct “advanced patient simulator mannequin” that stands in for a live patient during training. These mannequins have the capability to talk, cry, sweat and go into shock. During the simulation, doc-
tors and nurses assessed the condition of the mother and baby before wheeling the patient into another room to have the Cesarean section performed. All told, the exercise took just over six minutes, a condensed version of a live situation. Dr. Glenn Posner, obstetrics program director and lead instructor of ob/gyn simulation, said the exercise was an example of a “crash Cesarean section” carried out if it is determined the baby’s life is in danger. “These are the reasons we walk around in scrubs all day,” said Posner, describing the
need for staff members to be ready for medical emergencies at all times during their shift, even when on break. The value of the exercises carried out in the centre lie in the analysis carried out afterwards, said Posner, where the doctors, nurses and specialists recall their actions and judge where any improvements could be made. “That’s where the real reaching value is in simulation,” said Posner. “It’s not even about the event that happened in here, it’s what happens next door during the debriefing, and how we learn from this experience.”
At the Planning Committee on January 14th it is anticipated that the applications for zoning at 2 The Parkway and for the Town Centre Lands will be on the agenda. At time of writing these have not yet been confirmed so check on Ottawa.ca or my website for confirmation. My position on 2 The Parkway has been consistent with that of the community - to maintain the 5 storey limit, ensure that any building is well set back from both Teron Road and the Parkway, to save the large trees along the Teron Road and as many others as possible, to have no vehicular access onto Teron Road and for parking to be underground. The latest submission meets all of those points except for height, which has been reduced to 7 storeys. I understand that Planning Staff are comfortable that the 7 storey limit meets the existing Official Plan. If that height is recommended to the Committee (at time of writing I haven’t seen it) then I will support the recommendations. Taking it to the OMB to try to get 5 storeys would be unlikely to succeed since the zoning would conform to the City’s Official Plan and the OMB is required to make their decision based on the Official Plan. Congratulations to the hundreds of residents who worked on this item and have succeeded in getting the height reduced from 16 storeys to 7 storeys. Quality participation with logical suggestions and well documented concerns does make a difference.
BE CAREFUL VENTURING ONTO ICE With the cold weather we’ve been having the ice is becoming thick but may not yet be safe. Generally follow this guideline: r DN GPS XBMLJOH PS TLBUJOH BMPOF r DN GPS TLBUJOH QBSUJFT PS HBNFT r DN GPS TOPXNPCJMFT r DN GPS ñTIJOH IVUT Clear blue ice is usually the strongest; white opaque or snow ice is half as strong as blue ice. Grey ice is unsafe. The greyness indicates the presence of water.
COMMUNITY RINKS & SLEDDING HILLS Thank you to the many volunteers who keep our outdoor community rinks flooded, clear of snow and available for free community skating. In Kanata North many of the rinks are now open. Major rinks are near All Saints, Stephen Leacock, Ecole Publique and Juanita Snelgrove Park. Community groups get a small stipend from the City to cover basic expenses but community volunteers are critical for their maintenance. Check with your community and offer to help out. The City’s 56 sledding hills are now open, including Walter Baker Park on Terry Fox. Many other locations are used informally. Please ensure that any hill used is safe, without obstacles and with a clear run out that will not end at a road. 6OEFS UIF BHSFFNFOU UIF ,BOBUB (PMG $MVC JT BWBJMBCMF GPS DSPTT country skiing..
ZERO WASTE AT CITY HALL The City is encouraging everyone to work towards achieving zero waste – that is that everything is reused or recycled. As a start, at City Hall offices will no longer have waste baskets. They will continue to have blue boxes for paper and at several locations there will be green bins and blue bins for other waste. I’m encouraging all residents to do what they can to approach zero waste. As well I’m putting out a challenge with details to be available at my January 14th Ward Council
WARD COUNCIL Save January 14th and come to the next Ward Council meeting in the Program Room at the Kanata Senior’s Centre from 7 to 9 pm. I’ll report on the closure of the Beaverbrook Library during construction of an addition, on a new waste challenge, provide updates on zoning and development issues, on the 417 construction and on revisions to the City’s Official Plan and Master Transportation Plan. All are welcome to attend.
OVERNIGHT WINTER PARKING If you haven’t yet signed up for an alert when overnight parking is not permitted due to snow conditions then do it now. There is a sizable fine if vehicles are left on the road and the ridge of snow/ice creates a hazard for others. The alert is free and lets you know both when the ban starts and when it is lifted. Details are at ottawa.ca. R0011841360.0103
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Competition looks to find Ottawa’s best home chefs Non-chefs face off with sweet treats and savoury dishes from home kitchens Brier Dodge brier.dodge@metroland.com
EMC news - Centretown’s chefs don’t all earn their living in the kitchen. They range from graduate students to parents, and the best of the non-professionals will face-off on Jan. 12 at 6 p.m. at Babylon on Bank Street. It’s all part of the My Neighbourhood Bites events, being held in various locations across the city over the coming months. The event is organized by Taboo Eats’ Donna Henhoeffer, who puts the call out for amateur cooks to enter their neighbourhoods’ cook off. Everyone who enters is invited to a judging event, where they show up with two portions of their dish. From there, the best dishes advance to the public event. That means that, along with a team to assist them, the cooks are asked to create several hundred samples in a full commercial kitchen. Henhoeffer, who has managed a catering company, sets up the commercial kitchen and helps the cooks adjust the recipes to be made in large amounts to be sample friendly. The sheer size of the batches can be overwhelming for someone whose biggest meal probably doesn’t exceed a family Christmas dinner. There is no entry fee and all the ingredients for the big night are provided for them. “They can do something
with just a great recipe,” Henhoeffer said. “It’s an opportunity for people to be creative.” On Dec. 17, a variety of dishes came forward, ranging from a halibut taco to a vegan cheesecake. The people behind the dishes were just as diverse, including Emel Isilgan, whose son entered her in the event – and told her only two hours before the competition. She made a Middle Eastern rice and chicken dish called kabsa, which she learned to cook while living in Saudi Arabia. Isilgan said she often would host a variety of European friends who would ask her how to make her Middle Eastern dishes, leading to impromptu cooking lessons in her kitchen. Keith Savage, who lives only a few blocks away from the tasting at The Hub on Bank Street, brought his chickpea and corn falafel with sweet lime toum. Savage works from home, so he’s able to get in and out of his kitchen on a regular basis, even blogging about it. The inspiration for the dishes came from a variety of places, whether it was Mom’s recipe with a twist, or a taste picked up while travelling abroad. That’s just the point, Henhoeffer said. Food is a social thing, meant to be shared. The cooking competition calls for amateurs, which means they are not-certified chefs. Someone who has
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worked in a kitchen is eligible to enter the competition, as long as they have their own creation. The food will all be made several hundred times over for the big event on Jan. 12, where attendees will vote for their favourites. The top three will have their recipes published in a cook book, which will benefit the Ottawa Food Bank, and the overall winner will advance to the Ottawa-wide finale in the late spring. Henhoeffer had to smile when amateur chef Savage hit the nail on the head with the competitions’ aim. “My goal is to dispel myths about cooking,” he said. “That you have to be a chef to do it.” The event at Babylon, located at 317 Bank St., will
feature the best chefs from the Dec. 18 judging. The event has a $5 admission fee, with tasting cards available for $10 for two, or $20 for five. There will be alcohol for sale, but all ages are invited to come to enjoy the tastes of the neighbourhood. Some of the upcoming events include: • Ottawa catch-all, partnered with Winterlude at the Kichesippi Brewery from 5 to 10 p.m. on Feb. 2 (cooks apply by Jan. 14). • Vanier, partnered with Winterlude and the 2nd Annual Vanier Winter Carnival at the Richelieu Vanier Community Centre from 5 to 10 p.m. on Feb. 16 (cooks apply by Jan. 31). • Sparks Street/Parliament Hill, April 23 from 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., location to be deter-
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EMC news - A Grade 12 student at Colonel By Secondary School is hoping to pick up skills at a national conference that can help him further his anti-bullying and acceptance messages. Zac Johnstone, a volunteer with Jer’s Vision and co-president of the school’s SAFE (Students Advocating for Equality), will attend the Forum for Young Canadians in late February. The forum brings together groups of 100 students from across Canada at a time, to meet with federal politicians, participate in sessions, and network with one another. There will be three different sessions, and the Chapel Hill resident will participate in the Feb. 24 to March 1 conference. “It’s a set for if you’re interested in politics,” he said. “I think it’s going to give me tools to have more impact in the community.” He was told about the conference by his mother’s friend, and was endorsed by his school and supported by Coun. Tim Tierney in his application. His volunteer job, Jer’s Vision, is with the national organization that promotes diversity in youth, including
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Zac Johnstone is a Colonel By Secondary School Grade 12 student who will be participating in the upcoming Forum for Young Canadians. Johnstone is also a volunteer with the anti-bullying organization Jer’s Vision and co-president of the school’s SAFE club. eliminating bullying and homophobia. The school’s SAFE club runs similar initiatives, hosting a Day of Purple, an antibullying assembly and a talk addressing suicide in Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgendered and Queer (LGBTQ) youth. Anti-bullying and anti-homophobia events are important to Zac because he came out last year. He’s been able to tell incoming Grade 9 students, and
older Colonel By students, through anti-bullying presentations. Giving the students an actual physical representation of a gay student is positive, he said, and helps with one of his goals: to eliminate homophobic language. “We’re a very good school overall, but you always need to work towards the bigger issues,” he said. “There are still a lot of people that are hiding (being LGBTQ youth).”
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While preventing homophobia and homophobic language is important to Zac, it isn’t all he stands for. He has goals of eventually being a politician, and hopes the forum will help give him better knowledge of how to achieve his goals. Participating in a mock House of Commons session
and networking with politicians will help him gain the knowledge of what he could expect if he furthers his career. “It’s very different having a technical knowledge, versus a personal one,” he said. “It’s a network for a future political career.” If Zac doesn’t go into politics, he wants to consider a career in a field such as his work with Jer’s Vision. He hopes
to attend Carleton University next year to study politics and human rights. He’ll get to return to the next two sessions of the forum, not as a participant, but on behalf of Jer’s Vision, to present to the attendees on the work the organization does. To follow Zac through his volunteer work at Jer’s Vision and elsewhere, look for him on Twitter as @ZacJohnstone.
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Frolic, feasting and merriment promised at Fools performance Michelle Nash
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EMC news - Ottawa’s best known jesters will unveil a season of foolishness at the Company of Fools annual Twelfth Night Celebration. The event will take place at the National Arts Centre on Jan. 5. Over the course of the evening, the company plans to reveal three upcoming productions as well as offer highlights of this past year’s 10th anniversary celebrations, where it presented its Torchlight Shakespeare production.
The company will also be raising money throughout the evening, aiming to collect $5,000 to support the Fools’ winter season. As a tease to draw people to the Twelfth Night Celebration, the company has released a few details about the three productions. • One of the shows will require 18 cast members, but will have no director. • Two of the shows will require the same key character, to be played by Chris Ralph. • All three shows will be at the “pass the hat” price tag. The pay-what-you-can price for this year’s produc-
tions will commemorate the Torchlight Shakespeare’s anniversary. According to the Fools, frolic, feasting and merriment are planned to help loosen purse strings at the NAC show. The evening stars core Fools Al Connors and Scott Florence, with guests Margo MacDonald, Catriona Leger and Chris Ralph to name a few. Tickets are available through NAC box office for $25. For more information about the show, please contact the Company of Fools at 613-863-7529.
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seum added that Opera Lyra is working on audience outreach and marketing, as well as keeping the company’s budgets under control. The company’s next opera will be La Traviata which will be presented in concert at the National Arts Centre in March 2013. Artistic director and conductor Tyrone Paterson
will lead the production. The new board of directors features chairman Rabinovitch, treasurer Richard Monk, secretary John Coleman and directors Patti Blute, Richard Jenkins, Andrew Leslie, Gilles Levasseur, Monica Patten, Irma Sachs, Sheridan Scott and Mary Frances Taylor.
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EMC news - Despite the winter wind, children can wander into a world of sun and sand thanks to a new novel by Kars resident Jennifer Bergin. The book – called Jungle Jim and Jungle Jen in the African Savannahs – is the first of a series of educational, geographically-themed adventures. The savannahs are characterized by their ecosystem and wildlife. One of the more famous regions is the Serengeti in north Tanzania. Bergin, a native of Barrhaven, said she would like to explore the Congo and Australia in subsequent books. With the help of editors Edward and Ruth Madziire, who came to Barrhaven via Zimbabwe, Bergin was able to accurately describe the African locale and wildlife. “Like Jen in the book, I learned about the animals from patient teachers,” Bergin said. From mongoose meetings
to elephant rides, the main character Jen learns from Jim – a patient biologist. She even spends time with a local tribe. Bergin, a mother of three, said the book took her about a year to illustrate and put together. “I kind of got away from it, but I have been a cartoonist for years,” Bergin said, adding she has done cartoons for the Clarion and the Barrhaven Independent in the past. “I just started doodling and the idea came to me,” she said. The novel was published by Balboa Press. Bergin said it was convenient because she could publish the books on demand, which brought the cost down. “It has been a great experience, I am really looking forward to getting started on the next books,” she said. SUBMITTED
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EMC news – Jack MacLaren is betting that selling off Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation (OLG) won’t land his Progressive Conservative party in hot water with legal authorities. MacLaren’s boss, PC leader Tim Hudak, made public last month an election-style white paper called “Paths to Prosperity”. He proposes changes to health care, energy production, labour relations, and items such as selling off the LCBO and OLG. However, critics claim privatizing OLG would be illegal, since the Criminal Code of Canada says gambling must be “conducted and managed” by the province. MacLaren doubts that will make a difference. “I don’t think it is illegal,” MacLaren said. “We would have the regulatory authority. All the laws and regulations would remain.” He said a PC government, which could come as early as spring if the Liberals call an election and lose, would continue to collect significant tax revenue from a privatized OLG. But MacLaren shrugs
his shoulders at the notion that 9,000 people working in the province’s casinos would be paid less were a private owner to take over. “We don’t know they are going to pay them less,” he said. OLG is in the midst of selling off almost every facet of its operation. LCBO sell off The PCs would disband the foreign-owned monopoly behind the Beer Store. They would also allow corner stores to sell beer and wine, an idea first proposed in the mid-1980s by Liberal leader David Paterson. More contentious is their idea to sell off the LCBO, which brought $1.6 billion in profit last year to government coffers. After the white paper was made public, the PCs admitted they had no idea how much more money the province stood to gain from privatizing the LCBO. A 2005 report commissioned by the Liberal government, penned by the Beverage Alcohol System Review Panel, concluded that greater competition would bring in about $200 million or more per year. Social opponents say
boosting alcohol sales will lead to greater domestic violence, drunk driving accidents and more. Fiscal opponents say selling off a revenue generator is short-term gain for long-term pain. Champions of the middle class say goodpaying LCBO jobs, some of the best jobs in rural Ontario these days, would be replaced by lower end convenience store clerk jobs. Still, according to the Canadian Taxpayer Federation, the number of liquor stores in Alberta has increased by 613 per cent since privatization came into effect in 1993. Revenue in Alberta went from $625 million (when adjusted to today’s dollars) to $687 million, said Derek Fildebrandt, Alberta director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation. “Selection and convenience is where Albertans are treated at least somewhat like adults when it comes to alcohol, especially relative to Ontarians,” Fildebrandt said. “Alberta’s alcohol regime is far from perfect and there are many lessons that we can learn from other jurisdictions, but in the meantime, Ontario can take a lesson from Alberta.”
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EMC news - A new committee in Lowertown aims to look at all issues related to homelessness in the neighbourhood. Created with the support of Rideau-Vanier Coun. Mathieu Fleury’s office, the committee will focus first on homelessness in the community. The Lowertown Community Association first announced the move at its annual general meeting on Nov. 12. The committee’s first event saw members meet with staff from the shelters in the neighbourhood. Fleury said the meeting was meant to inform, educate and have a dialogue with the community, something the councillor has been keen to participate in since was elected. Lowertown residents Dwight Burgess and Shannon Poole will head the committee. “This is the sort of the thing we needed from the community association to be proactive in the community and inform residents about the meetings and committee’s results,” Fleury said. “In Sandy Hill we have the Town and Gown committee ... (and) we wanted to have something similar in Lowertown, but needed residents’
participation. Now we do, so it is good because we can have a broad discussion about the issues.” Association president Marc Aubin is happy the neighbourhood is participating. “We want to be a partner in looking at this issue,” he said. “It may be the city and the province’s problem, but it is our community and we are living with it.” The larger scope of the committee, Aubin said, would be to address crime and other levels of poverty in the neighbourhood. But for now, it is all about gaining knowledge. “That is the number one thing: to inform ourselves and inform our residents,” he said. “Then we will be able to talk about what more we can do. “It is something that residents have been mentioning the need for since I have been engaged as president.” What, if any, influence the association can have on the issue, Aubin said, is not necessarily the point. Instead, it is to help where help may be needed. “I think ultimately we would like to be a partner at the table. We want to improve our communication with organizations in the community.” Fleury agreed, adding the
focal point for now remains on educating residents on the shelters and organizations at work in the neighbourhood. The Lowertown community has a number of homeless shelters and many crime prevention programs, including Lowertown Our Home. Run out of the Lowertown Community Resource Centre, the Crime Prevention Ottawa initiative focuses on youth and children in the Lowertown east neighbourhood. Fleury said this new committee is not to dismiss what that organization already does, but to create a wider discussion concerns in the neighbourhood. The committee’s first meeting was very informal, Fleury said, with residents, a representative from the Ottawa police and the executive director of Sheppard’s of Good Hope in attendance. In the new year, Fleury said the meetings will be about connecting with Crime Prevention Ottawa and Ottawa Community Housing. “But first, the meetings will be about education, and establish understanding before we can engage specific ideas,” Fleury said. Residents interested in joining the committee can contact Fleury’s office by calling 613580-2482.
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EMC news - “I drive a tractor when I need to, but I’d rather be in the barn.” This about sums up Karen Eastman Velthuis, a thirdgeneration dairy farmer who owns about 200 head of cattle south of Metcalfe on Marvelville Road. The long-time 4-H volunteer was awarded the 2012 Women of Excellence award from the Federated Women’s Institutes of Ontario at the Royal Winter Fair in November, an accomplishment she said she didn’t expect. “I was very honoured,” Velthuis said. The mother of two can’t remember a time she wasn’t working with cows. She grew up on Riverdown Holsteins farm, which Velthuis’s mother Betty Eastman inherited from her own mother. Betty and her husband Ron live next door, and are still very much involved in running the farm, although Velthuis and her husband John bought the farm from them several years ago. As a girl, Velthuis was an active participant in the local 4-H club, which taught her how to showcase her dairy calves and cows. Later, when Velthuis had just started her bachelor of agriculture science at the University of Guelph, she agreed to lead the 4-H club in the summers
when she was not in class. Though she took a brief break from leading 4-H after finishing university, it would not be long before she and her new husband John were involved again. They led the local 4-H club for about five years together in the 1980s. When her children Kelly and Justin, now 21 and 16, joined the club, Velthuis once again volunteered her time, and she has been doing it ever since. “If you add it all up it’s well over 20 years,” Velthuis said, noting that she doesn’t plan on giving it up any time soon. “There are less and less people volunteering, and it’s an area where I have some experience.” That’s an understatement. When it comes to showing cows and calves, Velthuis is a bona fide expert. For 42 consecutive years 4-H calves have lived at Riverdown, and Velthuis and her family show cattle at a number of fairs and competitions every year, including the Royal Winter Fair. Velthuis is also responsible for organizing three dairy cattle shows at the Metcalfe Fair each September, including the Eastern Ontario-Western Quebec 4-H championship show on the final day of the fair. And for 28 years, she sat on the committee for the Eastern Ontario-Western Quebec Holstein show in Kemptville, and
was the show’s first female president. She retired from her role several years ago. Velthuis said she is happy to do any necessary work on the farm, but it’s the calves who have her heart. “(The calves) have always been there. They’re like kids, you watch them grow up and see how they turn out,” Velthuis said. However, Velthuis makes specific breeding decisions to create the calves, which makes watching them grow into cows even more interesting, she said. Even in the Velthuis family kitchen, cows are an everpresent fixture. The smaller, indoor cows take the form of cookie jars, salt and pepper shakers and figurines. Velthuis said there would be even more scattered around the busy room if not for the sprawling snowman figurine collection she put out for Christmas. “There wasn’t enough room for the cows with all the snowmen,” she laughed. Her kitchen window curtains are completely covered with rows of ribbons won at the many cattle shows the family has attended over the years. Any extra wall space is filled with sports team photos and her children’s myriad ribbons, trophies and awards. In whatever free time Velthuis had when the kids were growing up, she coached
several of their community baseball, hockey and soccer teams. She was always an enthusiastic athlete in high school, doing everything from cross-country running to broomball, and still plays hockey and ball hockey. “Sports and cows – that’s
where I put most of my volunteer time,” she said. The provincial women’s institute federation president Evelyn Peck said in a statement that Velthuis is very deserving of the annual award. “Karen has had and will continue to have a tremendous
impact on the Royal (Winter Fair), 4-H, the Holstein Club, and the Eastern Ontario and Western Quebec championship shows,” Peck said. “Karen’s nominators feel strongly that Karen is extremely deserving of this award. She is an inspiration to so many.”
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MULDOON, Mary and Francis You left us beautiful memories, Your love is still our guide And though we cannot see you You are always at our side. Forever in our hearts Love always, Your children Margaret, Irene, Anne, Willie and Audrey
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MATERIALS MANAGER Must have minimum of 7 years experience in Managing and have ERP/MRP experience with a College diploma or University degree in business PRODUCTION SCHEDULER / PLANNER Must have minimum 5 years experience in production scheduling BUYER/ PURCHASING AGENT Must have 5 years experience as a buyer. Knowledge of fiber optic parts is an asset. QA MANAGER Must have minimum 8 years experience as a QA Manager. Must have good communication and organizational skills along with an understanding of mechanical drawings and inspection of mechanical parts is an asset. QA ENGINEER/TECHNICIAN Must have minimum 5 years experience. Requires good understanding of mechanical drawings and inspection of mechanical parts is an asset. NETWORK/COMPUTER ENGINEER Must have minimum of 4 years, hands on experience. Must have experience with network planning, designing, implementation, administration and help desk support.
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Superintendent Team As a team, you will both be responsible for customer service, cleaning, minor repairs and maintenance of the interior and exterior of a residential property in Ottawa. Related experience and good communication and computer abilities are a must. A competitive salary and beneďŹ ts package, including on-site accommodation, await you! Please apply on-line at minto.com or fax your resumes to (613) 788-2758, attention: Jensa. $ % $# !!' %! ' ( # !! %%! #(' )( $#!- ' ! ( # ( ' + !! $#( (
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NEWS
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Volunteers make Christmas brighter for needy families Jennifer McIntosh jennifer.mcintosh@metroland.com
EMC news - Dozens of volunteers packed 150 Christmas Hampers at the Hellenic Centre on Prince of Wales Drive on Dec. 20. Despite the extra cheer, Julie SĂŠguin, communications co-ordinator for the Caring and Sharing Exchange said there were more than 10,000 people on the waiting list for assistance in the form of a gift voucher from Giant Tiger. The Christmas Exchange Program, founded in 1915, provides assistance to families and individuals who face economic hardship. The ex-
change provides either a food hamper or redeemable gift certificate to people referred to them by over 300 community organizations in the city. The organizationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s co-ordination service helps to eliminate duplicate applications and ensures that everyone receives help. SĂŠguin said priority for Christmas hampers is given to recipients with mobility issues, seniors and single parents with many children. Organizers were hoping to be able to mail gift vouchers to more people on the waiting list in the days leading up to Christmas. Anyone interested in do-
nating can do so at www.Caringand Sharing.ca. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Many people in Ottawa who are facing economic hardship just want to feel normal and share in the spirit of the season,â&#x20AC;? SĂŠguin said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A warm festive meal can go a long way.â&#x20AC;?
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Volunteers pose with turkeys and other goodies as they begin to pack 150 hampers for needy families at the Hellenic Centre on Prince of Wales Drive on Dec. 20.
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Local events and happenings over the coming weeks — free to non-profit organizations Fax: 613-224-3330, E-mail: news@yourkanata.com The deadline for all community event submissions is Friday at noon.
Jan. 6
Canadian Parents Of Murdered Children (CPOMC) will host its next monthly facilitated peer support meeting from 2 to 4 p.m. in room A1 of Kanata Baptist Church, 465 Hazeldean Rd. For details, visit cpomc.ca or call 613-492-1978. From 6 to 7:30 p.m., Trinity Presbyterian Church invites the community to join them in a Royal Celebration of Epiphany, the Christian festival marking the arrival of the Magi to celebrate Jesus Christ’s birth. This exciting evening will appeal to all ages but will be especially fun for children and families. Our featured guest, Kathie Kompass from the Ottawa StoryTellers, will captivate her audience by making the story of the Wise Men come alive. Several other activities including crafts, a King’s
Cake and a Magi photo booth promise to make this a very special evening. For more information, contact Meghan at 613-806-8141 or visit trinitykanata.ca for more information. This event is free and takes place at 110 McCurdy Dr.
Jan. 7
The Katimavik Hazeldean Community Association will be getting together on Jan. 7, to present its “Lighten the Night” Christmas Holiday Season Home Lights Contest awards including Home Depot Gift Cards to the winning homeowners, Hazeldean Mall sponsored cards to the special mention homeowners and to announce the winner of the Best Block designation. The gathering will be in the community room of Katimavik Elementary School, 64 Chimo Dr. at 7:30 p.m.
Jan. 8 to Feb.26
The Kanata Art Club is sponsoring a series of eight class-
es in acrylics with instructor Paul Blair. Non-members wishing to participate in these classes are required to join the club by completing the membership form on our website at KAC1.ca. Membership is $30. There is also a registration fee for the classes. Call 613-599-4959 for more information.
Jan. 9
The Kanata Art Club is holding its first winter monthly meeting from 7 to 9 p.m. at 1030 Riddell Dr. A guest speaker is planned. Art enthusiasts are welcome to attend but are encouraged to join the club at some point by completing the membership form on our website at KAC1.ca. Membership is $30. Call Gail Brooker at 613-592-2904 for more information.
Jan. 12
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The public is invited to attend an open rehearsal for our February concert of light choral music at St. Paul’s Anglican Church, 20 Young Rd. at 7:30 p.m. For details and to reserve music, please call 613-592-1991 or visit kanatachoralsociety.ca
Jan. 16
Heritage Ottawa offers a free public lecture on adding contemporary layers to historic districts. To be held at 7 p.m. at the Ottawa Public Library Auditorium, 120 Metcalfe St., corner of Laurier Ave. W. Drawing on national and international experience and expertise in the heritage field, François LeBlanc will present and discuss examples from each category. This lecture will be in English. More details are available by email at info@heritageottawa.org, calling 613-230-8841 or online at heritageottawa.org
The annual Robbie Burns Supper will take place from 6 to 11 p.m. at 140 Abbeyhill Dr. in celebration of the Great Scottish Bard, Robbie Burns. Join Sherry’s School of Highland Dance, the Ottawa Cape Breton Session Band, and Charlie Inglis from the Scottish Country Dancing Society in an evening of dining and dancing. The UCW will be serving a traditional roast beef dinner, entertainment will be provided by Sherry’s Dance School with the Ottawa Cape Breton Session and Charlie Inglis leading instruction for Scottish Country Dancing. Tickets are $20 for adults and $10 for children under 12. There will be a cash bar. Contact Sherry Sharpe at 613-592-2777 or at sherry@ highlanddancingschool.com for tickets.
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Families are invited to celebrate Family Literacy Day at the Ottawa Public Library, Centrepointe branch at 101 Centrepointe Dr. from 2 to 3 p.m. Children’s entertainer, Tante Caroline, will share songs and stories in French and English for all the family to enjoy. This event is free and no registration is required.
Feb. 6
Heritage Ottawa offers a free
public lecture on the eighth annual Bob and Mary Anne Phillips Memorial Lecture. Guest speaker is Charlotte Gray at 7 p.m. at the Ottawa Public Library auditorium, 120 Metcalfe St., corner of Laurier Ave. W. Lecture will be in English. Details can be found at info@heritageottawa.org, 613-230-8841, or online at www.heritageottawa.org
Until Feb. 11
Used books are needed. The 24-hour book drop is now open until Feb. 11 at Kanata United Church, 33 Leacock Dr., for the Feb. 21-23 Book Fair. Please, no magazines, encyclopedias or textbooks. For details, call 613-5925834.
March 20
munity Christian Reformed Church, 46 Castlefrank Rd. 613-831-7458 or 613-8606767 and check the website at ottawagoodfoodbox.ca.
Wednesdays
Does food rule your life? Tired of diets that don’t work? Give Overeaters Anonymous a try. Meetings every Wednesday, from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the West Carleton Community Complex, 5670 Carp Rd. The Kanata Chess Club meets every Wednesday at 7 p.m. at St. Martin de Porres Catholic School at 20 McKitrick Dr. Players of all ages and playing abilities are welcome. Contact Jenny Belousov at 613-680-3572 for details.
Heritage Ottawa offers a free public lecture on Rediscovering Lowertown at 7 p.m. at the Ottawa Public Library Auditorium 120 Metcalfe St., corner of Laurier Ave. W. Marc Aubin, a sixth generation resident of Lowertown and president of the Lowertown Community Association, along with fellow members, will share perspectives on the community’s successes and challenges in protecting and restoring the area’s heritage. Lecture will be in English. Questions are welcome in either official language. Details can be found by emailing info@ heritageottawa.org, calling 613-230-8841, or online at heritageottawa.org.
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Children’s preschool programs are on at the Beaverbrook library. All programs are drop-in. Check the website biblioottawalibrary. ca for details. Make a difference in your community by joining the dynamic team of volunteers at the Ottawa Hospital. Please call volunteer services at 613-761-4279 for details. Waste Management has an approved Ontario Electronic Waste depot at 254 Westbrook Rd., open Monday to Friday, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., to drop off electronic items for disposal at no charge. The Ottawa Good Food Box is a non-profit program to buy fresh fruits and vegetables once a month. The cost for a small box is $10, medium box $15, and $20 for a large box. Boxes also contain a newsletter with nutritional information, recipes and cooking tips. For details and to order please call the distribution site Kanata Com-
Kanata Mixed Bowling League is looking for new members. We meet at 7 p.m. at the Merivale Bowling Lanes, 1916 Merivale Rd. Contact Sean Baizana at 613-680-4918 or email ronzert@hotmail.com for details. The Nepean-Kanata Rotary Club meets every Thursday at 6 p.m. at the Holiday Inn & Suites in Kanata, 101 Kanata Ave. For details, visit nepeankanatarotary.com. The Toastmasters Club meets every Thursday at 6:45 p.m. at 4026 Richmond Rd., Bells Corners Legion. For details, visit toastmasters.ca.
Ottawa English Country Dance Club meets from 7:30 to10 p.m. at the Mlacak Centre, 2500 Campeau Dr. The cost is $10 per evening which counts toward the yearly membership of $60. The first evening is free. For details, visit ottawaenglishdance.org or call Brenda at 613-839-0055.
Saturdays
The Kanata Youth Baskeball Association hosts Small Ball from 9 to 10:15 a.m. at Jack Donohue Public School, 101 Penrith St. The cost is $130 for boys and girls ages five and six. The KYBA will teach basic skills development, proper footwork, passing, catching, dribbling and shooting.
Sundays
Bingo at the Kanata Legion, 70 Hines Rd., every Sunday at 1 p.m. Win up to $1,500 weekly. Play all games for as little as $11. For details, call 613-591-5570.
ARIES - Mar 21/Apr 20
LIBRA - Sept 23/Oct 23
TAURUS - Apr 21/May 21
SCORPIO - Oct 24/Nov 22
GEMINI - May 22/Jun 21
SAGITTARIUS - Nov 23/Dec 21
CANCER - Jun 22/Jul 22
CAPRICORN - Dec 22/Jan 20
LEO - Jul 23/Aug 23
AQUARIUS - Jan 21/Feb 18
VIRGO - Aug 24/Sept 22
PISCES - Feb 19/Mar 20
Aries, there are some things that need to be accomplished this week despite the your reservations. Find a way to make the best of the situation.
You are coasting on a high of good fortune, Libra. Don’t worry, it isn’t going to slow down anytime soon. Enjoy all of the opportunities that come your way.
Taurus, enjoy an active week ahead that includes a very busy social schedule. Instead of trying to swim against the tide, let it take you along.
It takes more than just good ideas to find success, Scorpio. There is also a lot of follow-through and legwork that goes into every scenario. Start working through the particulars.
Take care of things on your own this week, Gemini. Others around you will be just as busy, so put your head down and get started on the many tasks at hand.
You won’t be able to rest until you solve a problem that has been bugging you, Sagittarius. But the solution won’t immediately present itself.
Sarcasm is not the right approach this week, Cancer. Focus on being amiable to all of the people you interact with the next few days and reap the rewards. Secrets have a funny way of catching up with you, Leo. Although it can be hard to be honest, upcoming situations will work out much more easily if you are.
It may take a little more time to work through the long todo list, but that will make the satisfaction of getting the job done that much more worth it, Aquarius.
You have no reason to question your confidence this week, Virgo. Give yourself a pep talk to make it through a sticky situation, and things will turn out alright.
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Words can be interpreted in many different ways, Pisces. Choose what you say wisely so you don’t give anyone the wrong impression.
This weeks puzzle answers in next weeks issue
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