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SENIORS SANTA Be a Santa to a Senior program hopes to collect 700 presents for city’s seniors.

Bill Teron, known as the “Father of Kanata”, has pledged to help bankroll a legal fight against a proposal to build a 16-storey highrise in Beaverbrook.

Teron, who bought up 1,214 hectares of land in the late 1950s to create the “garden community” of Beaverbrook, , said he would match up to $50,000 in community donations to fight the Morley Hoppner Group’s condo proposal.

“I’m here to support the community,” he said. “We took 50 years to plan this community, and in a few months you can attack the rule of law? This is as outlandish as you can get.”

The developer has proposed a 16-storey, 125-unit building for 2 The Parkway, where the former Canada Post office is located.

“I’m well aware of what is good planning. This is the most outrageous contrast I’ve seen, ever,” said Teron.

The group working on behalf of Beaverbrook residents will consult with lawyers, and if need be take the fight to the Ontario Municipal Board (OMB).

“We must win for Kanata, for Ottawa, for all the municipalities. Or else we may as well all quit as architects and planners,” said Teron.

Ken Hoppner, president of the Morley Hoppner Group, said times and needs have changed since Teron developed Beaverbrook.

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The Kanata North Business Park is looking at creating the 18th business improvement area in the city.

Around 30 property owners and tenants gathered at The Marshes Golf Club on Monday, Nov. 28 to discuss the possibility for the high tech area.

“We’re looking at…enhancing business in this part of Kanata North,” said Kanata North Coun. Marianne Wilkinson.

The steering committee, which has been meeting for the past six months, outlined what a business improvement area (BIA) could do for companies in the area, which include high tech firms, retail stores, restaurants, hotels and day care providers.

“It provides a strong voice,” said Patrick Ferris, co-chair of the steering committee and an employee with the Kanata Research Park Development Group. “If our business sector is to grow we need a voice.”

A BIA could help with marketing, hosting special events, communication with city hall on issues relating to the area and economic development, he said.

“It’s the members who decide the issues,” said Ferris, adding

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About 30 property owners and tenants attended a meeting to discuss the possibility of creating a business improvement area for Kanata North. a BIA could help draw in new businesses to Kanata North.

The proposed area for the BIA corridor includes March Road, Hertzberg Road, March Valley Drive, Terry Fox Drive, Innovation Drive, Legget Drive and Klondike Road. It doesn’t include residential properties

within those areas.

BIAs are funded through a levy paid by owners and tenants with all money staying in the area.

The levy is determined by a company’s assessed property value, the assessed value for the entire area and the annual bud-

get for the BIA. Rates change depending on the number of employees and size of a business.

“You can have a lot of variation,” said Wilkinson.

The steering committee will host a follow-up meeting tentatively scheduled for Feb. 29,

2012, where it will be decided if the proposed BIA will go to a vote.

One attendee said he was concerned the choice to create an improvement area was being forced on business owners.

Thirty per cent of the companies in the area would have to vote no to stop the formation of an improvement area, said Wilkinson.

“If it’s formed, there’s no opting out,” she said. “It’s up to the people in the business community. I’m not forcing it down everybody’s throats.”

Other attendees said they were interested in what a BIA could do for Kanata North.

“I’m open; I can’t see it not helping,” said Roderick Hall, the chief financial officer for Gallium, located on Legget Drive. “I think it’s worth investigating.”

Sharon Andrew, who was representing the Kanata North Dental Office on March Road, said having a BIA could help companies solve issues and work together to find solutions.

“Definitely there’s room for improvement to help the businesses,” she said. “The money’s not an issue.”

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HIGHRISE BATTLE, from 1 “You can’t expect a development that was designed in the ’60s and ’70s to be able to respond to the policies that are in place in 2012 and the different market forces that are out there,” he said.

There is always resistance to change, he said.

“It’s new. So it’s change. So (some) would say it doesn’t fit,” said Hoppner. “Anything that’s new to an existing situation can be characterized as not compatible.

“There’s opposition to every condo in Ottawa.”

Condos have recently become popular in the city, meeting the needs of an aging baby boomer community, Hoppner said.

“There is a drive to intensify, there’s a market demand for smaller (housing),” he said. “You have to respect the fact we evolve and change. We’re not here to ruin the community.”

The proposed development will have up to 125 units and 160 people are on a waiting list to look at the apartments.

Hoppner said he’s willing to work with the community and will be on hand at a meeting on Dec. 12 where residents can ask questions and voice their concerns.

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“John Sigler and his wife showed up on my doorstep with a bouquet of flowers and $1,000,” said Howell.

So far around $15,000 has been collected. The group of concerned residents is planning to meet with legal counsel over the next few days.

“If they say ‘Look you don’t have a hope in hell,’ we’ll back off and give people back their money,” said Stirling. “What we’ve got to have is legal help.

“Beaverbrook is a planned community.

It sets a precedent for more and more unplanned development.”

Kanata North Coun. Marianne Wilkinson said neither staff nor council have yet approved the development.

“It’s very clear that most of the population don’t want it,” she said. “But I have some that do.”

‘UPRISING OF CIVIC INTEREST’

The travelling village dinner was set up for neighbours to meet and interact, said Howell.

A few days after the invitations went out, a sign was posted at 2 The Parkway saying there was a proposal to rezone the land.

“The news of the rezoning application at the post office hit Beaverbrook LEGAL BATTLE like 9/11,” said Stirling. “It sent shivers of disgust through people in and beyond Andrew Stirling and his wife Eileen Beaverbrook.

Howell, who live on Reaney Court have “When everybody in the community been collecting funds from the commulearned about this, the typical response nity to pay for legal consultation and a was ‘Oh my God.’” possible OMB hearing.

Over 200 people were contacted about “The whole thing came at us in two the dinner and around 120 people particiweeks. The developers have had six pated, ranging in age from 14 to 80. months, a year, to make their decisions.

“The dinner became politicized,” said We’ve been having to scramble,” said StirHowell, adding out of the 200 people she ling. “That’s not a very fair process.” talked to only two residents thought the People have donated $100 to $1,000 to high-rise was a good idea. “When you put help the cause, said Howell, the director an elephant in the room that’s what everyof heritage preservation for the Kanata one talks about.

Beaverbrook Community Association “The thing just snowballed to an enor(KBCA). mous uprising of civic interest.”

“No one is turning me down,” she said.

Teron was hosting the dessert course of The morning after the dinner, long-time the evening when it outgrew his home, so resident John Sigler, who advised former the diners moved to the Mlacak Centre.

Prime Minister Jean Chrétien on 9/11, “It’s Beaverbrook that is being atknocked on Stirling and Howell’s door. tacked,” said Teron. “This is going to have to stop.”

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A host of roads in Kanata north are set to reopen in December after being closed for construction.

Statewood Drive, Leacock Drive and Goulbourn Forced Road are all set to reopen before the new year, said Kanata North Coun. Marianne Wilkinson during her ward council meeting on Thursday, Nov. 24.

Statewood is expected to reopen by Friday, Dec. 2, reconnecting the side street to the Terry Fox Drive extension.

Goulbourn Forced Road has a tentative reopening date of Dec. 16, said Wilkinson, while Leacock Drive should be passable for motorists before Christmas.

Larger development projects are subjected to site-plan control.

Another change to save time is in the length and details of reports city committees will receive. The planning committee and the agriculture and rural affairs committee will now get one- to two-page briefs, instead of lengthy reports detailing the

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One city councillor wants to know how much Ottawa is paying for protests that “cross the line.”

Innes Coun. Rainer Bloess asked staff to calculate how much the city paid to deal with Occupy Ottawa protesters, who camped out in Confederation Park from Oct. 15 to Nov. 23.

Although the couple-dozen protesters occupied a federally owned National Capital Commission Park, Bloess said that the city had to pitch in, including workers from Ottawa Public Health and the police force.

The police spent about $24,000 over the 40-day protest, $16,000 of that on Nov. 23, the night the NCC issued eviction notices to protesters.

City spokesman Barre Campbell said other departments aren’t ready to release their figures, but the full report is expected to come to city council in December.

While Bloess said he respects the right to protest, he wanted to remind council that it doesn’t come without a cost.

“Each time there is an incident, there is a cost to the city,” Bloess said. “It’s not just absorbed in.”

Having that dollar figure in hand might influence how the city approaches similar situations in the future, Bloess said.

“There is a difference between a protest and squatting in the park.

“There is a place for legitimate dissent, but there is a limit to what people can do under the guise of protest.”

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Planning and growth management manager John Moser confirmed that all studies would need to be done before councillors would be expected to comply with a new seven-day deadline to sign off on certain types of site plans.

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n a bid to increase transparency at city hall, one worries if Ottawa will actually end up stifling democracy.

A proposed lobbyist registry is ruffling some feathers at city hall, but perhaps community advocates should be the ones with their guard up.

This shouldn’t be the reaction to a policy meant to tell us who is influencing decisions at city hall, but in trying to come up with a comprehensive way to track who is lobbying political decision makers, the city is on its way to crafting a draconian version of a lobbyist registry that could discourage regular citizens from calling up their councillor about a neighbourhood issue.

The registry would distinguish between different types of lobbyists, paid and unpaid, but all would be required to list their names. Councillors would have to record each contact with those designated as lobbyists, whether it’s a casual curbside conversation about snowplowing or a business lunch about an upcoming development application.

That distinction makes Ottawa’s proposed registry “the most sweeping in the country”

according to the Lobbying Law Bulletin. “It is no exaggeration to say that, if adopted in its current form, the bylaw would alter the role of citizen engagement and neighbourhood activism in Ottawa’s democratic, political process,” writes Guy Giorno, whose study on the topic is cited in the City of Ottawa report recommending the lobbyist registry.

In other jurisdictions, “lobbying” is defined as a paid relationship. Not so in Ottawa, if this registry is adopted.

In a move that’s “radically different” from any other jurisdiction, Giorno writes, volunteers working on behalf of non-profit organizations and community groups would also be considered lobbyists.

While communities should be celebrating a victory in government openness, they may instead be finding ways to cope with the additional complexities of revealing how often they speak to their councillor, and about which topics.

Mayor Jim Watson has the right idea: Transparency should be paramount. But not at the expense of engaged, grassroots community members.

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retired guy’s life needs some excitement now and then, which is why I decided to take a ride on a city bus. The bus has been the main topic of conversation in the newspapers and on the radio and TV. If you were looking for drama, the bus was the place to find it.

When I worked downtown, I used to take the bus all the time. This was a few years ago, before there started to be drama and tension on the bus. The way I remember it, I got on the bus in the morning, usually got a seat after the high school kids got off, read the paper for awhile, got off at my stop and walked the rest of the way to work.

It was decidedly lacking in drama.

The bus drivers were nice, although none of them sang. The passengers behaved themselves. Occasionally someone would have his headphones turned up too high so that a tinny whine leaked out. But that was it.

I figured the real drama was happening in the cars, from what I heard from my colleagues who drove to work. They had tales of delays, traffic jams, crazy drivers on the Queensway, road rage and such. My time on the bus couldn’t com-

CHARLES GORDON Funny Town pete with that. Nothing much happened.

The same thing going home. I might have to wait a bit, but that wasn’t too dramatic. I might have to stand for awhile, but there were worse things in life. The bus might take half an hour instead of 20 minutes if the traffic was bad but I had a book to read. The thing I liked best was that I arrived home in a decent frame of mind, unlike the car drivers, who had those veins in their necks bulging from trying to keep from screaming.

Obviously, from reading all the reports, times had changed. The bus had become a combination of Blackboard Jungle and Saturday at the Opera. I had to see it.

But something went horribly wrong.

First, the bus arrived on time, which wasn’t supposed to happen. Then the bus driver was friendly. Then there were no unruly passengers on board. Then the bus driver didn’t sing. Nor did he talk on a cell phone. It was too quiet, as they say in the movies, just before it gets noisy.

Quiet was OK once I got used to it.

I had a book to read. The bus hopped onto the Transitway and got downtown in a hurry. Getting across downtown was another matter, but nobody on the bus seemed to be impatient about it. No passengers yelled at the driver or vice versa.

The bus got to the Rideau Centre and I got off, thinking: “That was weird.”

Well, maybe there would be some drama on the ride back. I had lunch downtown, did a little browsing for this and that and then went to wait with lots of other people for the bus. Several pulled up, none of them mine, which was OK because I wanted to see if any drivers would walk off and refuse to go any farther. None did.

Hmmm. Soon my bus arrived. I got on.

The driver was friendly. I got a place to sit and read my book. The passengers minded their own business. The auto-

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mated announcing of the stops went well. The driver didn’t sing, nor did the passengers. I looked around for vigilantes with cell phone cameras but didn’t see any.

Fortunately there was a fair amount of drama in the book I was reading because there wasn’t any on the bus. It didn’t arrive late, as far as I can tell. The passengers got off without insulting the driver.

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Police believe an organized group is burglarizing the homes of people in the South-East Asian community.

Ottawa police Sgt. Cal Ghadban said 21 such homes have been broken into in Barrhaven and Kanata since May. “We’re seeing (the break-ins) mainly in the afternoons,” Ghadban said. “They are taking jewelry, gold and passports, and leaving other stuff.”

The police believe the cases may be related to a similar string of thefts in Toronto a few years ago.

Ghadban said it’s possible the same people may be involved, or someone is copying the crimes.

To date, there has not been any violence involved in the break-ins.

Investigators are asking anyone with information to contact Det. James Kusiewicz of the Ottawa police break and enter section at 613-236-1222, ext.2638, or Crime Stoppers at 613-233-8477.

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Around 50 people turned out for the Kanata Seniors Council’s Western Ottawa Seniors Summit to discuss what’s needed for an aging population on Friday, Nov. 25.

Residents from across the west end, including those from Kanata, Stittsville, Carp, West Carleton, Richmond and Nepean, attended the meeting held at the Kanata Recreation Complex.

“We had quite a diverse group,” said Kay Dubie, president of the Kanata Seniors Council. “We were very pleased with (the turnout).”

The all-day event centered on the City of Ottawa’s consultation survey to help develop an Older Adult Plan. The plan aims to determine what is needed for an aging population and how best to implement those services.

“The strongest comments were for transportation: the lack of it on the weekends, the lack of it to the rural areas, the changes to the routes that aren’t convenient to seniors,” said Dubie. “Housing was the second strongest one, looking for affordable senior housing.”

Attendees were broken off into small working groups to discuss

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Working groups discussed the positives and negatives of Para Transpo service during the Western Ottawa Seniors Summit, hosted by the Kanata Seniors Council, on Nov. 25. eight categories of services provided by the city.

The working groups discussed the positives and negatives relating to: transportation, housing, outdoor spaces and public buildings, public safety and security, social participation, communication and information, civic participation and employment and community support and health services.

“When people are discussing things in a group, things get raised that wouldn’t otherwise,” said Kanata North Coun.

Marianne Wilkinson. “I’m hoping a lot of ideas will come out of this.”

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Adele Muldoon, a Dunrobin resident, said bus service within the west end needs to be addressed. Transferring from one bus to another can be difficult for those with mobility problems.

“I think it’s getting around the community that’s the biggest problem,” she said.

Other attendees said they would like to see buses in the rural areas of the west end. Some suggested OC Transpo partner with private contractors to create access, said Dubie.

However, it wasn’t all negative comments for OC Transpo.

Many attendees said they were pleased with the free bus service for seniors and regularly took advantage of the free rides.

Access to Para Transpo was a big issue for those with limited mobility and continually came up in the working groups.

Catherine Gardner, who lives in Bells Corners and uses a wheelchair, said she’s not satisfied with the Para Transpo service.

She said it’s often easier to get on an OC Transpo bus, if there’s room, than to schedule a pick up from Para Transpo.

“It could be an hour wait,” she said.

If her plans change on short notice,

such as a cancelled meeting, Gardner said she could be stuck waiting for hours until her scheduled pick up time.

She added that an interchangeable transit pass for both OC Transpo and Para Transpo would be beneficial to those who use both services.

Many others said the fees were too high for Para Transpo, said Dubie.

“They suggest a Para (Transpo) free day for seniors,” she said.

Others suggested having “hub” locations for pick up and drop offs, such as at malls. Transit riders could take a regular bus to a central location where Para Transpo would then pick them up to take them home, said Dubie.

Other suggestions raised at the summit included: • Making traffic walk signal times longer.

• Making the print larger on street signs.

• Encouraging developers to build more bungalows.

Many attendees said: the city’s recreation facilities are excellent, they enjoy the walking paths, they feel safe in the city, and they like the count down system on walk lights, according to Dubie.

There are around 20,000 seniors in west Ottawa, a number set to double in the next 20 years, said Dubie.

By 2031, there will be more seniors than youth under age 15 for the first time ever, and the 65-plus crowd will make up 22 per cent of the city’s population.

“Ottawa is the second highest destination for seniors to retire,” said Wilkinson, with Victoria, BC being the first. “We have a lot of seniors’ residences here. The Kanata Seniors Centre has more than 1,000 members.”

City council will vote on the completed plan next year, and funding pressures that come from the plan would be addressed in the budget in future years.

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Highrise proposal sparks opposition from residents ‘It’s over half the height of the Statue of Liberty’ JESSICA CUNHA jessica.cunha@metroland.com

Over 200 Beaverbrook residents packed themselves into Hall A of the Mlacak Centre to hear about a proposed highrise development for The Parkway during a public meeting on Thursday, Nov. 24.

Developer Morley Hoppner Group bought almost half of a hectare of land at 2 The Parkway, where the former Canada Post office is located, and has submitted a rezoning application to the city to build a 16-storey, 125-unit apartment building.

Many who attended the meeting were outraged and said the proposed structure doesn’t fit in with the garden community of Beaverbrook, which is comprised mostly of low-rise residential houses and townhomes.

“This is completely out of character for Beaverbrook,” said Gary Sealey, president of the Kanata Beaverbrook Community Association (KBCA).

“This (community) is what we want to protect.”

The community association passed around a petition to halt the proposed development. Bill Teron, known as the “Father of Kanata” and John Mlacak were at the top of the list.

“All people can say is, ‘Oh

my God’,” said Eileen Howell, who sits on the executive of the KBCA. “It’s Beaverbrook’s 9/11.”

A number of residents raised the concern about the “invasive nature of 16-storeys,” overlooking the backyards of neighbouring houses on Teron Road and Penfield Drive.

“It’s over half the height of the Statue of Liberty,” said John Donelly. (The Statue of Liberty is around 107 metres from the ground to the torch; the proposed 16-storey highrise is 49 metres).

“I think the overwhelming majority of the community believe the height and mass is…completely out of context with the neighbourhood,” said Donelly, who lives off Leacock Drive and moved to the area with his family two years ago.

“All people can say is, ‘Oh my God’. It’s Beaverbrook’s 9/11.”

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“The style of the neighbourhood is the reason we bought a home here,” he said.

He added the proposed development would put pressures on the surrounding streets where traffic is already backed-up during morning and afternoon rush hour.

Others were worried about what a new development could do to the current overcapac-

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The Kanata Beaverbrook Community Association provided residents with schematic drawings of the 16storey, 125-unit highrise building proposed by the Morley Hoppner Group for 2 The Parkway. The developer is looking to rezone the property. ity in Kanata north’s public schools.

“Our schools are already overcrowded,” said one woman.

City planner Marc Magierowicz said comments are received from a number of institutions – including the school board – when a developer asks for a rezoning.

A meeting with the developer is scheduled for Dec. 12 at the Mlacak Centre at 7:30 p.m. where residents can ask questions and voice their concerns and comments over the proposed development.

Kanata North Coun. Marianne Wilkinson said she is working with the KBCA and Bill Teron, and will work with the planning committee and developer, to keep the character of the community intact.

“We are working on how we

can set it up to keep the character of Beaverbrook,” she said.

“You want to make sure it fits the community.”

APPLICATION “Anybody can apply for zoning but it doesn’t mean they’re going to get it,” said Wilkinson about the developer’s application for the property.

The site is currently zoned as minor industrial and the Morley Hoppner Group has put forward an application asking for a rezone to a residential fifth (R5) density.

“Right now we’re still in the initial stages,” said Magierowicz, adding he’s received about 125 comments so far from residents within Beaverbrook about the proposed highrise.

The city planner said he is collecting comments from city

departments, external agencies and the public before the city makes its recommendations for the rezoning application.

The application is set to go before the planning committee on Feb. 6, 2012, but the date could change, he added. At this meeting, residents are invited to get up and speak on the topic.

“It’s our goal to get something we think reflects the public interest,” said Magierowicz.

“We do look at the character of the area.”

Ken Hoppner, president of the Morley Hoppner Group, will be present at the Dec. 12 meeting.

“We’re willing to work with the community,” he said.

Questions and comments can be directed to Magierowicz by calling 613-580-2424 ext. 27820 or emailing marc.magierowicz@ ottawa.ca.

Community associations must register as lobbyists under new rule LAURA MUELLER laura.mueller@metroland.com

Community associations, advocacy groups and average citizens are some of the people who would have to register as “lobbyists” under proposed sweeping municipal rules.

In the draft version of the city’s new lobbyist registry, the only people who would be exempt from having to register as a lobbyist would be officials from other levels of government, or from other municipalities.

The city’s new governance renewal subcommittee heard a report on the proposed registry during its first meeting on Nov. 18, but the committee won’t actually consider whether to approve the proposal until its Dec. 1 meeting.

If the city goes ahead with the

initiative, Ottawa would be only the second Canadian municipality to set up a formal framework for reporting lobbying. Toronto is the only city that has something similar.

The registry is the first of a series of initiatives Mayor Jim Watson promised during the election as a means to bring more “accountability and transparency” to city government.

The lobbyist registry would be a “very important cultural change” at city hall, said deputy city clerk Leslie Donnelly.

“You can’t stop bad things from happening,” Donnelly said. “But you can tell people who is influencing decisions.”

The registry would require city council members, paid lobbyists and unpaid advocates to register all lobbying activities.

Whether it’s a lobbyist paid to advocate in favour of a planned

development, or a resident who wants a stop sign on his or her street, they would be seen as lobbyists under the registry (although it would distinguish between traditional lobbyists and community members).

The proposed changes threw some councillors for a loop.

Rideau-Goulbourn Coun.

Scott Moffatt worried that some of his rural residents require his help when requesting land severances, and having to register as a lobbyist in order to do that would be an additional hindrance.

In a ward with an abundance of community associations and politically active residents, Kitchissippi Coun. Katherine Hobbs said that type of activism might be discouraged if residents knew the topic of their meeting with the councillor would be made public.

Others wondered how they would be able to separate lobbying from advice, and how they would determine a possible lobbyist’s connections.

“You could hear from the same person three times in the same day, and how are you supposed to know whether that is lobbying?” said Knoxdale-Merivale Coun. Keith Egli. “Some people wear multiple hats.”

LOOPHOLE One major potential loophole to the registry was revealed during the Nov. 18 meeting.

If a council member is the one to initiate a conversation, it wouldn’t be considered lobbying under the proposed guidelines, Donnelly said.

That was in response to Cumberland Coun. Stephen Blais, who asked if it would be con-

sidered lobbying if he phoned a developer to ask him to build a 20-storey building instead of 12 storeys.

“Ultimately, there will be 100 ways to get around the rule,” said Watson, who heads the governance renewal subcommittee.

“It’s about accountability.

When in doubt – register,” the mayor added.

Councillors, particularly Kanata South Coun. Allan Hubley, raised questions about the amount of their office staff ’s time it would take to enter lobbyists’ names and a log of each time they lobby the councillor.

Donnelly said the amount of work it would add to each councillor’s office would be negligible, but she said setting up the lobbyist registry will necessitate an additional full-time staff member in the clerk’s office.

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A zoning request that will allow Minto to build a 160-unit housing development near March and Sandhill roads is almost ready to send to council, said Kanata North Coun. Marianne Wilkinson.

Minto applied to the city for a residential zoning for 760 March Rd., which backs on to Sandhill, for 156 stacked townhomes and four free-hold street townhomes.

“We’re very close to finalizing this one,” said Wilkinson during a public meeting on Thursday, Nov. 24.

The proposed development is adjacent to St. John’s Anglican Church and the Blue Heron Co-operative Homes, with Shirley’s Brook running through the property.

A resident at the meeting said she was concerned about the level of privacy that could be expected for those visiting loved ones at their grave sites, as well as the level of noise.

City planner Mark Young said Minto has plans to put in a hedge between the cemetery and the yards of the stacked townhomes, as well as have a 7.5-metre buffer from the hedge to the yards.

A number of “large-growth” trees will

also be planted, said Young.

The level of traffic to be expected from 160 new units and speeding along Sandhill is “a major accident to happen,” said Colette Berthiaume, a Sandhill resident.

Young said the city looked at the traffic study for the rezoning and has determined Sandhill has the capacity.

However, the study was completed over the summer, said Ron Saucier, a Kanata resident.

“It eliminated traffic from the school and those on holiday,” said Saucier. “I would suggest all these numbers are completely screwed.”

Wilkinson and Young both said it was something they could “maybe look at again.”

Erin O’Connor, the project co-ordinator for Minto’s proposed development, said the company is still open to hearing the public’s opinion.

Young said he’s now in the process of reviewing the site and landscape plans. The next step will be taking the application to the planning committee on Jan. 24, 2012, although the date may change.

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City crews were guaranteed to pick up at least one zone during the bidding process to determine who will collect garbage and recyclables from Ottawa homes when the city switches to biweekly garbage pick-up in November of 2012.

In the end, the city and CUPE-503, which represents the city crews, partnered to be successful in snapping up two zones, while private companies will take care of the remaining three (coun-

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The hefty cost of landfills SECOND IN A THREE-PART SERIES

BY DON CAMPBELL, THANA DHARMARAJAH NEVIL HUNT AND LAURA MUELLER Garbage in Ontario is a mess.

Durham and York are building a controversial incinerator to burn 140,000 tonnes of garbage a year.

On Nov. 7, the provincial Ministry of the Environment gave the go-ahead for Orgaworld — the facility that processes Ottawa’s organic waste — to accept diapers, dog waste and compostable plastic bags but the City of Ottawa has yet to give the green light.

Simcoe County — a community that attracts vacationers and retirees — faces a dire situation with less than six years of life left for three of its four landfills.

Communities are flailing as they try to manage waste within their own borders. Some are already sending garbage out of town. Some are still working on setting waste diversion targets.

Others are revising them. And some like the Region of Waterloo don’t have waste diversion targets at all.

At least six communities surveyed by Metroland (for this Special Report on provincewide Trash Troubles) have landfills that will run out of space within 10 years. The mountains of trash that Ontarians are throwing into the garbage instead of their blue boxes are forcing other communities to try to find more space in their already bulging landfills.

But the Metroland report shows new landfills are difficult to build because government of Ontario approvals required to create new facilities are hard to get, lengthy and costly.

“You can spend six, seven, eight years preparing and not get an approval at the end of the day,” said Adam Chamberlain, a Toronto environmental lawyer.

“Approving a landfill in Ontario is not for the faint of heart.”

In fact, the Ministry of Environment hasn’t approved a single new landfill site since 1999.

During that time 147 small landfills have closed, leaving Ontario with 958 existing active landfills.

But many of those are small and not classified as capable of taking on a major municipality’s trash.

About 85 per cent of Ontario’s

waste goes to only 32 Ontario landfills classified by the ministry as “large.”

The main reason trash is creating problems is that municipal landfills are filling up with garbage that should be recycled or reused, including cardboard, plastic bottles, milk cartons and paper.

The biggest offender is plastic.

A report by Stewardship Ontario shows that about 176,500 tonnes of plastics — including 30,906 tonnes of plastic bottles — were chucked into the garbage instead of the recycling box in 2009, the last year for which provincewide figures are available. That means three-quarters of all that plastic — including 44 per cent of plastic bottles — ends up in landfills.

Another culprit is paper packaging, the cardboard boxes and milk and juice containers that could be recycled as well. About 34 per cent of that material, or 122,396 tonnes, ends up in landfills too.

One Ontario landfill operator, Bob Beacock, regularly spots these recyclable items as they tumble out of the garbage trucks at the Brock site, east of Toronto.

But he only has time to rescue the odd scrap metal or tire.

“We can’t just get out of the machine and start picking out pop cans,” the Brock site operator said. “You just know you’d be here 16 hours a day. That’s the public’s obligation.”

Like most municipalities, Ottawa is trying to send less trash to landfills. The key is diverting waste to other places – recycling and composting – and that requires residents’ involvement.

Reducing the use of landfills can save taxpayers money because new landfills come with hefty costs. It’s up to cities and towns to convince residents that the cost-savings are worth the effort of recycling or composting, or that their efforts can have a positive impact on the environment.

“Do we do it to save money on our taxes or do we do it because it’s the right thing to do?” asks Marie McRae, an Ottawa city councillor and chair of the city’s environment committee.

McRae said the Trail Road landfill – which takes Ottawa residents’ solid waste – will be full at current rates by 2035. Use of the black, blue and green bins could extend that by years or even decades.

Starting in November 2012, Ottawa residents will see a change in pickups: • Green bin every week.

• Black and blue bins on alternate weeks.

• Other solid waste once every two weeks, although people can request weekly pickup in certain circumstances, usually when the home is producing diapers.

McRae estimates the city and its taxpayers will save $9 million annually by going to biweekly garbage pick-up.

She said biweekly garbage collection will trigger greater use of the green bin because it will offer residents a way to dispose of “yucky stuff ” every week.

“Not everyone will participate,” she said, “and we expect

the people who are recycling and composting now are likely to do it more.”

Marilyn Journeaux, the city’s manager of solid waste services, said the best case scenario would see residents reduce the current solid waste going into the Trail Road landfill; saving tax money and helping the environment at the same time.

Today, Ottawa residents dump 200,000 tons of solid waste into the landfill. Journeaux said that number could be greatly reduced by sending 100,000 tons annually to Plasco for gasification, with another chunk sent to Orgaworld for composting.

The city’s contract with Orgaworld costs taxpayers $7 million annually. While the contract allows the city to send 80,000 tons of organic waste for compost-

ing, last year residents only sent 55,000 tons for composting.

Residents will need to have a clear understanding of what can go in the green bin when the city goes to biweekly garbage pickup.

The city’s website can tell you which items go in which bin, and McRae said homes with children will have another source of information.

“There are bins in the schools and the kids are the ones who know which bin to use,” she said.

Almost anything can be composted or recycled today, but there is still some confusion.

McRae said grocery store bags, Styrofoam or cling-wrap doesn’t belong in the blue bin and should be placed in the regular trash.

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City council’s resident tech guru is fed up with confusion and delays surrounding the release of live GPS bus location data and is looking to take action on the file.

Beacon Hill-Cyrville Coun. Tim Tierney wants the city to overhaul how it approaches technology initiatives for OC Transpo.

This comes after news that only 28 per cent of the bus fleet has been outfitted with new GPS devices, when that project was supposed to be almost complete.

Instead of being done by the end of the year, OC Transpo is now looking at the first three months of 2012, Transpo general manager Alain Mercier wrote in a memo to city councillors on Nov. 24.

On top of that, it means OC Transpo still isn’t ready to release live GPS data about bus locations, so that people who have smart phones could use applications to locate their buses.

“It is very disheartening. I am not happy about it,” Tierney said, adding the outraged phone calls and emails he has been receiving about the issue are justified.

Tierney also has concerns about if and when bus GPS information will be made public as “open data,” so developers can use that information to power their own mobile applications.

OC Transpo is still working on an advertising model that will ensure the city can generate some revenue off of its own official bus times “app,” but if there is no money to be made, Tierney wants assurances that the data will be released to the public anyway.

The city says the GPS data it currently uses to run its “560560” text-message bus arrival service isn’t frequent enough to make public. OC Transpo wants to wait until it has more frequent, reliable GPS data and a revenue-generating advertising scheme for a smart-phone application before the GPS data is released publicly.

But those answers aren’t good enough for Tierney, who says that on top of all the delays, the 560560 text-message service isn’t even working properly.

The service displays scheduled bus times if the bus in question is still at a garage, or if the bus’s GPS system is down. But there is no way for someone using the service to tell whether it’s actually live GPS data, or simply times from the bus schedule.

“If we’re going to roll something out, it can’t be half-baked,” Tierney said.

The problem is especially grating for bus users given the challenges from service cutbacks on Sept. 4 as part of the massive route optimization, Tierney said.

“If we’re removing the frequency of service in some areas, to replace that, we should offer tools that are consistent,” he said. “We can only gain the public’s trust once. A failure in the system makes it hard to keep that trust.”

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A seniors’ care organization is asking residents to help bring Christmas cheer to older adults who have no family.

The Home Instead Senior Care establishment is hosting the fifth annual Be a Santa to a Senior fundraiser, which provides gifts to seniors in Kanata and around the city who wouldn’t normally receive any presents during the holidays.

“Christmas is all about family and children. There are a lot of seniors out there who feel alone and forgotten at Christmas. It’s a way of making them feel like someone does care about them,” said Lesley Sullivan, owner of the Home Instead Senior Care office located in Kanata. “We’re looking for the public to help out.”

This year, the number of requested gifts has grown with 700 people on the list. Last year, the fundraiser provided 600 presents to isolated seniors.

“It’s taken off like crazy,” said Sullivan. “It just shows how many seniors are out there requiring these gifts.”

Home Instead Senior Care partners with local charities and agencies – including Meals on Wheels, Friends of Hospice Ottawa, The Good Companions and many community resource centres – to identify isolated seniors, living either in their own homes or in retirement residences, who require some holiday happiness.

Last year, Meals on Wheels requested around 110 presents, said Sullivan.

This year the charity is asking for 200 gifts.

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Students from Kars Public School helped wrap the 600 gifts collected last year for the Be a Santa to a Senior program run by the Home Instead Senior Care organization. This year, the fundraiser is hoping to bring in 700 presents. ents’ reactions to the gifts, as well as their thanks.”

Home Instead has set up Christmas trees in the Carlingwood Shopping Centre food court and at three Shoppers Home Health Care stores (located at 420 Hazeldean Rd., Kanata; Place D’Orleans; and Westgate Shopping Centre). People can choose a tag with a senior’s name and gift idea from the tree, buy the gift and put it unwrapped under the tree, with the tag attached.

“We collect the gifts, we wrap them and deliver them to the agency that provided the name and they deliver them to the clients,” said Sullivan.

Those who receive presents aren’t necessarily financially-needy, said Sullivan, adding what they need is emotional support.

“We know of older adults who have

no one during this festive season and that makes for a very sad and lonely time…it’s important to reach out to isolated older adults during this special time of the year.”

Home Instead will host a gift wrapping party on Dec. 19 from 1 to 4 p.m. at its location at 555 Legget Dr., Suite 121, and is looking for volunteers to help prep the presents.

For more information and to volunteer, contact Sullivan at 613-599-6906 or visit the websites www.homeinsteadottawa.ca and www.beasantatoasenior.com.

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Allowing new types of plastic to be accepted in blue bins led to the city collecting 37 per cent more recyclables over the summer.

“It’s excellent news,” said River Coun. Maria McRae, chairwoman of the environment committee.

But there is still a learning curve to educate citizens and councillors about what items are allowed in the bins.

Self-professed environmentalist and councillor for Capital Ward, David Chernushenko, surprised some of his council colleagues by announcing

that even he thought he could put plastic bags into the blue bin after the city changed the rules in June.

Plastic bags, in fact, are about the only things that can’t go into the blue bin following the change. Bags and other “film plastics” such as wrappers, along with Styrofoam, are not allowed in blue bins. But all other plastics, including “clamshell” containers often used for fruits or take-out food, are now allowed.

That’s a message the city needs to do a better job of getting out, said Kanata North Coun. Marianne Wilkinson.

“We haven’t gotten the message out about plastic bags,” she said.

Marilyn Journeaux, the city’s manager of solid waste services, agreed.

She said the city will be launching an awareness campaign paid for by the industry that manufacturers recyclable products.

“It’s an ongoing effort – continually educating new residents,” Journeaux said.

If people don’t follow the rules, their blue bin could be left behind unemptied with a note indicating it is too contaminated by non-recyclables. Usually, though, it’s simply a matter of removing a couple of items, so the collection workers take care of it.

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Compelled not only by these cycling deaths in Ottawa during the past few years but also the near misses they see every day, more than two dozen cyclists gathered on Saturday, Nov. 26 to come up with recommendations to submit to the Ontario coroner for an upcoming report.

Organized by Mike Powell, chairman of the city’s roads and cycling advisory committee, the Saturday morning session sought to gather input

from the cycling community and other concerned citizens on the topic of cycling safety.

The cyclists at the session raised ideas ranging from better enforcement of the rules of the road, to creating a more consistent and meaningful accident reporting process, to the implementation of a province wide cycling safety awareness campaign.

The session was in response to an invitation by the Office of the Chief Coroner of Ontario for the public to submit comments and recommendations to be considered as part of a review of cycling deaths across the province from 2006 to 2010.

Powell was encouraged by a session that produced some

productive discussions about cycling safety.

“The overwhelming consensus of ideas here today were reasonable ones,” he said. “We’re not talking about crazy things or banning cars or anything like that. I think there’s a recognition here that – most people here are motorists as well – that there’s a give and take needed and different situations require different things.”

The responses gathered at the session, Powell said, would be translated into a combined submission to the coroner’s office on behalf of all those in attendance.

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More than two dozen Ottawa cyclists gathered at city hall on Saturday, Nov. 26 to talk about cycling safety and contribute a series of recommendations to a Ontario coroner’s review of cycling deaths across the province.

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Ottawa is talking the talk on saving urban trees from being cut down, but now it needs to walk the walk, say city staff.

It has been two years since the city enacted a bylaw aimed at protecting trees larger than 10 centimetres in diameter on private properties larger than one hectare in the urban area. The bylaw also applies on “distinctive” trees of more than 50 cm in diameter on properties of less than a hectare. The city needs to approve a report to chop down a tree in those situations.

The policy’s heart is in the right place, but it’s not doing much good because city staff are completely swamped and unable to keep up with the work needed to enforce the bylaw, according to a report the city’s planning committee heard on Oct. 8.

Since the bylaw came into effect in June of 2009, the city has reviewed tree conservation reports for 119 new developments and 96 developed sites.

All of those reports must be vetted by a planning department forester, and right now, the City of Ottawa only has one on staff.

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Coun. Katherine Hobbs, who said the issue was of “critical importance” to residents in her ward and across the city.

“There’s no teeth to the bylaws that exist about cutting trees down (that) you don’t have permits for,” she said.

City staff proposed another change to make the bylaw more effective.

Staff suggested switching the rule so that sites larger than one hectare would need to follow the “distinctive” tree rule, rather than the 10-centimetre rule those owners must currently abide by.

Following the 10-cm rule just made for an “onerous” process, when most requests dealt with diseased or unsafe trees, or simply regular tree maintenance, according to Martha Copestake, the city’s planning forester.

The Eastern Ontario Landlord Organization agreed.

John Dickie, the chair of the organization, said trees are an attractive feature landlords do their best to keep and maintain.

“They don’t remove them unless they have to due to safety and maintenance issues,” he said.

The changes will still create the same result for which the bylaw was created, Copestake said.

“This is consistent with the original intention: to protect big old trees in residential neighbourhoods,” she told the committee.

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• What changes, if any, would you suggest be made to built cycling infrastructure?

• What changes would you make to cycling awareness and education?

• Are there any legal changes that can make cycling safer?

Diane Dupuis, secretary of the Kanata Nepean Bicycling Club, said it was a worthwhile event and was pleased to see cycling safety issues catching the attention of officials at the provincial level.

“I think it will have a greater impact than if it was done at the municipal level,” she said. “Hopefully the recommendations won’t get buried in the report, they will get implemented and some good can come out of this so that we can prevent cyclist deaths in the future.”

Another cycling advocate at the session, Citizens for Safe Cycling president Hans Moor, said he was impressed by the constructive nature of the discussions.

“I’m always nervous that it becomes a bit

of a bashing against drivers, but you could hear a lot of positive feedback,” he said. “I think it was very important that people recognize that cyclists are not holy either, that they make a lot of mistakes. It was good to see that cyclists are actually worried about other cyclists’ behaviour.”

While he agreed with Dupuis that it was important the issues are being discussed at the provincial level, he said the impact of the review would inevitably be less immediate than local initiatives.

“You know that things move very slowly, so I think we’re looking probably five to 10 years before you’ll start to see things implemented,” he said, adding that if a few of the recommendations from the review see the light of day, it would be regarded as a success.

Led by Toronto west regional supervising coroner Dr. Dan Cass, the review will look to identify common factors that may have played a role in cycling deaths that occurred in Ontario from 2006 to 2010, and where possible, will make recommendations to prevent similar deaths. The review is expected to wrap up in spring of 2012 and a report will be issued afterwards.

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Carly McMaster, from the Chrysalis House womens’s shelter, was on hand to accept quilts donated by Kozy Comforters at the Kanata Legion, on Monday, Nov. 28. Kozy Comforters is a group that makes quilts for people fighting cancer and women and children staying at the Chrysalis House. Above, from left, are Cecilia Hurtubise, Carly McMaster, Shirley Yakabuski-Milligan, Christine Walton, Jane Thompson, Marit Allen, Coral Sato and Nancy Sawyer.

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Kozy Comforters is once again stitching together a merry Christmas for abused women and their children staying at the Chrysalis House women’s shelter.

Every year the women’s group creates a colourful collection of pillows and quilts to donate to families at the women’s shelter.

“We all know someone who has had to leave an abusive situation,” said Shirley Yakabuski-Milligan, a long-time member of Kozy Comforters.

“The ladies love making the children’s quilts.”

Kozy Comforters, a group of women who make quilts for people fighting cancer, was founded in 2003, the year before the Chrysalis House opened in Kanata.

“There’s 24 beds, we made the commitment to cover each bed with a quilt,” said Yakabuski-Milligan.

This year, 15 of the group’s

women have created 17 quilts and 16 pillowcases for families staying at Chrysalis House.

“We just do something so they can give something to the children at Christmas time,” said Yakabuski-Milligan.

Members of Kozy Comforters, who meet every Monday at the Kanata Legion, start the work at the Legion branch and finish the work in their homes.

The quilts and pillowcases are a welcome gift, said Carly McMaster, a women’s advocate at the Chrysalis House.

“It’s kind of perfect,” she said. “because it is Christmas and because we can use them as gifts – they’re beautiful quilts.

They’re very cozy and warm.”

The Chrysalis House is now accepting donations for the Christmas season, including: women’s, children and babies clothing, hygiene products, new toys, DVDs, gift cards and presents suited for adult women.

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A 19-year-old Beaverbrook resident is using music as a way to relate to other people.

Yanis Khamsi, a former Earl of March Secondary School student, has been writing and singing songs since he was eightyears-old.

“I really wanted to articulate myself in other ways than plan conversation,” said the general arts student from the University of Ottawa. “I always though I could express myself better.”

Khamsi said he was shy about performing in high school, worried he would be judged.

“I was really shy about performing songs in high school because I would inevitably be judged based on who I was, not what I wrote. I often fantasized about recording songs under an alias but now that I’ve (more or less) settled into my own skin, I feel comfortable playing shows and showing people recordings of songs,” he wrote on his Facebook fan page.

Since starting university, the acoustic soul singer and songwriter started performing at bars and coffee shops within the city to help fight the “first year blues.”

“Everyone tells you it gets better from high school when you go to university. You show up and you kind of expect things to happen for you; you expect to be given things,” he said. “I took the first year blues and put

it into musical blues. I realized I could socialize and interact with people through music.

“I’m so happy I got the nerve to actually do it.”

A lot of his music has dark undertones, something he relates to his four years of high school.

“I guess it kind of relates to the whole high school experience being not really that great,” said Khamsi, who moved to Kanata when he was in Grade 8. “It wasn’t easy being new; it’s good to have that catharsis.

Thank god I had a guitar with me to let it out.

“I can’t write happy go lucky songs. It always has to have some lyrical pessimism to it, some darkness to it.”

Khamsi describes himself as a happy person in his day to day life.

“A darker side of myself comes out lyrically and musically,” he said.

An example is his song “Our Picture,” which he wrote after experiencing the break up of a relationship.

“I really needed to get it out of me. The song just came out and sends me to my knees, it sends me to my knees every time I sing it,” said Khamsi.

The song asks the question where he’ll be in life in 10 years.

“Will I have done anything with my life, will I have found the right person?” he said. “I think the most heart wrenching song I’ve written.”

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“If Usher came to my door and wanted to make me the edgier Justin Bieber I wouldn’t object,” said Khamsi. “I’m content performing live.”

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“I’m really trying to make music that is soulful and that connects with people,” said Khamsi. “I feel like with these songs I’ve connected with the truest and purest part of myself.”

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BIG SOUL PROJECT GOSPEL CHOIR A Kanata singer will perform with Big Soul Project Gospel Choir at its annual Christmas concert at Dominion Chambers Church in Ottawa on Dec. 10.

The concert starts at 7:30 p.m. and tickets are $20 each, free for children 11 and under. Tickets are on sale at Compact Music, located at 190 Bank St. and 785 and a half Bank St. Anne Haining, a Kanata resident, has sung with Big Soul Project Gospel Choir for six years.

“I have such fun singing and performing with Big Soul,” she said. “We deliver a fun and energetic performance that usually gets the audience dancing in the aisles.”

Big Soul Project started over 12 years ago with a membership of just six people.

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Building on last year’s spectacularly successful annual concert, BSP presents Believe - Croire, a fresh program following in the tradition of the choir’s engaging and uplifting sound. Under the direction of Roxanne Goodman (accomplished pianist and jazz vocalist) this choir is not to be missed.

“The Christmas concert is the highlight of our performance year”, said Haining. “In our efforts to support our community we perform at a variety of causes and non-profit organizations in and around the Ottawa-Gatineau area.”

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Library’s homebound service ‘just like Christmas’ JESSICA CUNHA jessica.cunha@metroland.com

The Beaverbrook branch of the Ottawa Public Library brings a little bit of Christmas to residents of Kanata north once a month.

The homebound service brings the library to those who are confined to their residence due to age, disability or illness.

Anjana Bala, public service assistant for adult programming and outreach services with the Ottawa Public Library, has been delivering books, CDs, DVDs and audio novels to residents in Kanata north for 15 years.

“When she comes it’s just like Christmas,” said Louise Hamilton, a resident of Chartwell Kanata Retirement Residence for 10 years. “It’s one of the highlights of the month.”

She said if it wasn’t for Bala and the homebound service, she wouldn’t have the opportunity to borrow books.

“It would be very difficult,” she said, of trying to get to the Beaverbrook library branch.

Hamilton takes out an average of 12 books every book, her favourite being crime novels.

The homebound service visits Chartwell once a month on the third Tuesday, from 3 to 4:30 p.m.

“It’s a terrific service,” said Marjorie Gratton, a resident of Chartwell since

2006. Partially blind, Gratton has glaucoma and has undergone three cornea transplants and seven eye operations.

“They supply me with books on tape,” said Gratton, who averages about six audio books a month. “I’ve always thought reading was a great pastime.”

Both Hamilton and Gratton had nothing but praise for Bala and the way she runs the service. Bala chooses all the materials from the library based on each person’s personal preference.

“She’s a very nice person,” said Gratton.

“And she loves her job,” added Hamilton.

‘IT’S REWARDING’ Bala, who lives in Morgan’s Grant, said the homebound service is important to the seniors; it delivers materials for free, there is no limit on how much they can borrow and those who use the service don’t pay late fees.

“If they’re unable to come to the library we bring the library to them,” said Bala. “We bring a variety of materials that may be interesting.”

The service is available to Ottawa residents of any age who are confined to their home for more than three months. Bala visits Chartwell, the Walden Village Retirement Residence and about five to seven houses every month.

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Marjorie Gratton and Louise Hamilton, residents of Chartwell Kanata Retirement Residence, check out the materials available at the monthly visiting library table.

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“It’s making a difference in their lives.”

The library visit also has a social component for the residents, said Claudia Hoyos, the office and activity manager at Chartwell.

“We have a big list of residents who come down – they really look forward to it,” said Hoyos. “Most of the residents here can’t go out. They really appreciate the service.”

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Ottawa is talking the talk on saving urban trees from being cut down, but now it needs to walk the walk, say city staff.

It has been two years since the city enacted a bylaw aimed at protecting trees larger than 10 centimetres in diameter on private properties larger than one hectare in the urban area. The bylaw also applies on “distinctive” trees of more than 50 cm in diameter on properties of less than a hectare. The city needs to approve a report to chop down a tree in those situations.

The policy’s heart is in the right place, but it’s not doing much good because city staff are completely swamped and unable to keep up with the work needed to enforce the bylaw, according to a report the city’s planning committee heard on Oct. 8.

Since the bylaw came into effect in June of 2009, the city has reviewed tree conservation reports for 119 new developments and 96 developed sites.

All of those reports must be vetted by a planning department forester, and right now, the City of Ottawa only has one on staff.

The department’s draft 2012 budget includes a request to hire another forester

to help enforce the bylaw.

That was good news for Kitchissippi Coun. Katherine Hobbs, who said the issue was of “critical importance” to residents in her ward and across the city.

“There’s no teeth to the bylaws that exist about cutting trees down (that) you don’t have permits for,” she said.

City staff proposed another change to make the bylaw more effective.

Staff suggested switching the rule so that sites larger than one hectare would need to follow the “distinctive” tree rule, rather than the 10-centimetre rule those owners must currently abide by.

Following the 10-cm rule just made for an “onerous” process, when most requests dealt with diseased or unsafe trees, or simply regular tree maintenance, according to Martha Copestake, the city’s planning forester.

The Eastern Ontario Landlord Organization agreed.

John Dickie, the chair of the organization, said trees are an attractive feature landlords do their best to keep and maintain.

“They don’t remove them unless they have to due to safety and maintenance issues,” he said.

The changes will still create the same result for which the bylaw was created, Copestake said.

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“Because students with disabilities are such an

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By allowing able-bodied students, Kristin Batterton and Emily Baxter, an opportunity to spend a day in a wheelchair the students begin to understand what it means to have a disability and to understand and appreciate that all types of physical disabilities can participate in sports together as equals.

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POWER PLAY The March Road Sobeys donated over $1,660 in grocery gift cards to the Kanata Food Cupboard on Thursday, Nov. 24. During the month of October, for every power play goal scored by the Ottawa Senators, the grocery chain donated $100 in gift cards to the food cupboard. The chain also raised funds by offering customers healthy snacks for 25 cents, raising $365. Pictured are franchise owners Joanne Foget, left, and Allan Foget, right, with Kanata Food Cupboard co-ordinator Karen Waters, centre.

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When the city completes a technology shift to create a Service Ottawa system, residents will be able to make service requests by email, Facebook or even Twitter.

That change will start to take place this month, but deputy city manager Steve Kanellakos assured city councillors that traditional methods of contacting the city, such as phoning 311, will still be available.

The new options will provide better service and better two-way communication, said Donna Gray, a city staffer who gave the finance and economic development committee an update on the project on Nov. 7. Service Ottawa will include automatic reports and notification to the person who made the request.

“This is one of the key initiatives that will actually change how people experience the frontline services,” Kanellakos said.

It will also change how city staff works by streamlining requests.

For example, if someone calls the city to request tree trimming for an unsafe branch, city foresters would automatically receive that instruction on their mobile devices, and the person who called it in would be automatically notified that the trimming is taking place. Right now, that notification doesn’t occur, and the process is delayed by paperwork.

With the introduction of Service Ottawa, the city is aiming to ensure all the information it gives out, whether it’s over the phone, in person at a service centre or online, is the same. Right now, there can be some discrepancy as information is located in many different places and not al-

ways updated. Storing information in a central Service Ottawa database should fix that, Gray said.

There will be other features, too, including virtual tours of city facilities, an opportunity for businesses to create online profiles and a real-time notification system to instantly add information about “unforeseen events” or emergencies to the greeting of all city phone lines.

By the end of the year, Gray said 145 service transactions will be able to be completed online. That figure represents almost 70 per cent of the top calls to 311.

Automating many of those requests by putting them online will cut down on the city’s labour costs by eliminating the equivalent of 47 full-time jobs,

Gray said.

By the end of 2012, when the transition is complete, 400 city phone lines will be reviewed and consolidated into the 311 service, and two service counters and two call centres will also be consolidated.

Other Service Ottawa initiatives include: buying teleconferencing equipment to reduce travel costs for staff, adding more advanced technology to manage the city’s vehicle fleet and retrofitting city buildings to make them more energy efficient.

The project will cost $79 million to implement and is expected to save $40 million annually by trimming operating costs.

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The peewee major A Kanata Blazers were a finalist at the 40th Annual Guelph Power Play Tournament which was held from Nov. 25 to 27. The team lost 5-2 against the Centre Wellington Fusion. The coach Peter Kenny was really proud of his team who battled until the end despite the loss of two forwards during the game.

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KANATA SPORTS CLUB The Kanata Sports Club is celebrating 25 years of supporting local amateur athletes and teams.

Since the club first opened its doors in 1987 it has donated more than $1.5 million to the community.

The club is planning a weekend full of great events for June 8 to 9, 2012, to celebrate the 25th anniversary, which will be open to everyone.

The sports club is looking for new members, offering a single annual membership for $25.

Anyone who would like to join should visit the club, located in a hall upstairs at the Jack Charron Arena in Glen Cairn, 10 McKitrick Dr. Applications are available online at www.kanatasportsclub.com.

The sports club is planning to host its annual Christmas Trivia Party and Dance on Saturday, Dec. 3, starting at 7 p.m.

Tickets cost $15 per person.

The trivia challenge starts at 7 p.m.

Teams with a maximum of six members will compete against one another, testing their knowledge of a variety of subjects.

The evening’s trivia challenge will be followed by snacks and live music by Divided Highway.

Todd White talks hockey during last week’s Hot Seat hosted by Mark Papousek at the Kanata Sports Club, located in the Jack Charron Arena in Glen Cairn, on Friday, Nov. 25.

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The dance starts at 9 p.m. – a great way to kick off the Christmas season or to see what the Kanata Sports Club is all about, said the sports club executive.

Everyone is welcome to attend the event.

For more information or to register a trivia team, call 613-836-7433 or send an email to kanatasportsclub@sympatico. ca.

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Kanata schools to host b-ball tourney KANATA YOUTH BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION The Kanata Youth Basketball Association will host the 18th annual Chris Paulin Memorial Tournament at schools throughout Kanata on Dec. 2 to 4.

The seven-division tournament (U12, U14, U16) will donate money to the “Do it for Daron” initiative, a program that promotes youth mental health and wellness.

The Kanata Youth Basketball Association has partnered with the Ottawa Catholic School Board, Boston Pizza and Adidas.

The funds raised through the various tournament initiatives will be donated to the Royal Ottawa Health Foundation’s Youth Program- “Do it for Daron”.

Divisions and main schools for tournaments throughout the weekend Friday through Sunday: • MJ atom boys: -A.Y. Jackson and W.O. Mitchell.

• MJ. bantam boys – All Saints.

• MJ midget boys – Earl of March.

• MJ bantam girls – Sacred Heart (Stittsville).

• Midget girls – Holy Trinity.

For more information, please see the Kanata Youth Basketball Association website at kyba.goalline.ca/page. php?page_id=31745.

Food Cupboard to open Christmas site KANATA FOOD CUPBOARD

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Schools in Kanata will play host to the 18th annual Chris Paulin Memorial Tournament this weekend.

The Kanata Food Cupboard is inviting the public to join its annual Christmas Site grand opening.

This event also coincides with the OC Transpo Fill The Bus Drive, where buses from three local grocery stores will be delivering the numerous food donations generously given by the community.

This large food drive also requires the assistance of volunteers to help unload the buses, for which anyone is welcome to participate.

The unloading of food donations will then be followed by a party, including cake and coffee, and music courtesy of a local school band. Mayor Jim Watson and other local representatives, including councillors Alan Hubley and Marianne Wilkinson, will also be in attendance.

Volunteers are welcome to bring along family and friends.

Students can fulfill their volunteer community service requirement by helping to unload the buses.

The food cupboard’s grand opening will be held on Saturday, Dec. 3, from 4:30 p.m. to approximately 7 p.m. The Christmas site is located at 2 The Parkway (off of Teron Road) in the old Canada Post Office building. Parking is available at Earl of March High School. This is an outdoor event, so please dress warmly.

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The annual OC Transpo Fill the Bus Food Drive in support of local food banks will take place.

You can support the Kanata Food Cupboard by dropping off non-perishable items at the following locations: Great Canadian Superstore on Eagleson Road, Loblaw’s in the Centrum and Laura’s Your Independent in the Hazeldean Mall. At 4 p.m. the food cupboard will have its official opening of its Christmas Location at 2 The Parkway and the public is welcome to make a human chain to help unload the buses that will arrive at 5 p.m.

Book Ends will be held from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Beaverbrook library branch on Campeau Drive. The Friends of the Ottawa Public Library will hold a fabulous holiday sale, featuring all gently-used adult fiction at 50 cents each. We also have a wide selection of CDs, DVDs and juvenile books. Funds raised go towards enhanced library services in the local community.

DanceClub. Tickets are available for the New Year’s Eve Dance, Friday, Dec. 31, held at the RA Centre, 2451 Riverside Dr., Ottawa. $70 until Dec. 3, $75 after. Purchase tickets online at our website or with cash only in person at the Christmas Dance.

The meeting will be in the Community Room of Katimavik Elementary School, 64 Chimo Dr., beginning at 7:30 p.m. All residents of Katimavik-Hazeldean are welcome.

Gracenote presents Vesper services at Trinity Presbyterian Church, 110 McCurdy Dr., 3:30 p.m. Enjoy an hour of contemporary Christian music woven through readings, prayer and meditation. All are welcome. Free will offering. Call 613-592-6959 for info.

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Canadian Parents Of Murdered Children (CPOMC) hosts its monthly facilitated peer support meeting, 7:30-9:30 p.m. in room A1, Kanata Baptist Church, 465 Hazeldean Rd., Kanata. Information: www.cpomc.ca or 613-492-1978.

Canadian Celiac Association Ottawa Chapter annual potluck dessert party; bring your favourite gluten-free dessert and join the festivities! Starts at 6:30 p.m. Riverside Churches of Ottawa, 3191 Riverside Dr. More info: celiac@magma.ca or 613-786-1335.

The Katimavik-Hazeldean Community Association meeting will discuss the Capital Hoedown in Kanata, the role KHCA may have in supporting isolated seniors and the impact of the proposed lobbying by-law on KHCA.

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The Kanata Beaverbrook Community Association’s annual Christmas holiday party will take place in the Beaverbrook Community Centre from 7-10 p.m. In addition to the usual holiday fare and historical displays of Beaverbrook there will be music by the local Rothwell and Moffett group and a supervised party for children.For further information contact Dot Smale 613-592-1897.

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The Glen Cairn United Church presents its 20th annual Cookie Walk, Craft Fair and Silent Auction, 9 a.m. to noon, 140 Abbeyhill Dr. The Kanata Baptist Pioneer Clubs is sponsoring the Children’s Christmas Shop at the Kanata Baptist Church, 465 Hazeldean Rd., from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Only children are allowed to enter, ages three to 13. All items are priced $0.25-$3. We will provide a helper for the younger shoppers. For this shop to operate we take donations of new and used items and wrapping supplies. If you wish to help us please call Wendy at 613-838-2847 or

Walden Village will host its Annual Christmas Craft Bazaar and Tea from 1-4 p.m. 27 Weaver Cres., Kanata. For more info call 613-5913991.

The Kanata Dance invites you to its Christmas Dance, a non-profit community dance for singles and couples over 30 from 8 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. The dance is located at John Mlacak Centre, 2500 Campeau Dr., Kanata. Admission $10, Members $8. Dance to Celebrity DJ’s Randy & Louise. Cash bar, pizza, snacks, coffee and tea. Primeline: 613-860-1036. Dance Schedule: www.kanatasinglesclub.org. Email: KSCDanceClub@hotmail.com. On Facebook: search Kanata Dance. On Twitter: search KSC-

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The Kanata Kiwanis presents the Kiwanis Idols in a “Do It For Daron” fundraising dinner and concert from 6-10 p.m. at the Villa Lucia Supper Club, 3430 Carling Ave. All funds raised from the event go to support Do It For Daron and mental health programs at the Royal Ottawa Hospital. Tickets are $40.

Call 613-831-9900 or 613-596-1346. Visit www.kiwanisidol.org or email hdoctor@ rogers.com for more info.

• MONDAY, DEC. 12 Community Bible Church invites seniors to the free “Wise Guys and Gals Drop-In” for coffee, home baked sweets, lively conversation and presentations. All seniors are welcome, regardless of religious affiliation. From

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An official meeting with the owner of the lands at 2 The Parkway on rezoning of the area at 7:30 p.m. at the Mlacak Centre, Halls A & B, 2500 Campeau Dr.

• UNTIL DEC. 16 The Katimavik-Hazeldean Community Association invites Katimavik-Hazeldean residents to join in the KHCA Christmas-Holiday Season Home Lights Contest. Nominate the decorated home that best lightens the night in your neighbourhood with an email to president@khca.on.ca. Tell us the street address of the nominated home, why you admire the decorations and your name and address. You may nominate your own home. Deadline for nominations is Friday, Dec. 16. Prizes will be awarded to the top three homeowners and the special “Best Block 2011” designation assigned to a Katimavik-Hazeldean block. For more information visit: www.khca.on.ca.

• CHRISTMAS TREES The Royal Ottawa Hospital’s 25th annual Christmas tree sale begins Saturday, Dec. 3 and runs through to Saturday, Dec. 24, or until the trees are all sold out. The trees are Nova Scotia balsam fir, cut just before being shipped to Ottawa. All profits are used to provide activities and experiences for clients and families. The lot is located on the grounds of The Royal, 1145 Carling Ave. and will be open from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m., Monday to Friday and on weekends from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

• SATURDAY MORNINGS Beaverbrook residents interested in the present and future of our distinctive community are invited to join in a friendly discussion, while enjoying coffee and goodies, each Saturday morning between 9 and 11 a.m. in the lower meeting room of the Beaverbrook Community Centre, 2 Beaverbrook Rd. For further information contact Mary at 613-4354184 or k-b-family@rogers.com.

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Please check our web calendar for speakers and themes for future months.

• TUESDAY, DEC. 6 The Western Ottawa Community Resource Centre’s peer support program invites the public to attend its annual Dec. 6 Vigil, commencing at 5:15 p.m. at 2 MacNeil Crt., Kanata. The Vigil is to remember the 14 female engineering students murdered at École Polytechnique, and to honour all women who are victims of violence.

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The Kanata Beaverbrook Community Association will host its annual Christmas party on Wednesday, Dec. 7.

As usual this annual event will be held in the main upstairs room of the |Beaverbrook Community Centre. The party begins at 7 p.m. and continues until 10 p.m.

As well as the traditional refreshments and historical displays, two new features have been added.

The locally-based musical group Rothwell and Moffett will perform folk music, prior to an engagement at the National Arts Centre on December 10.

And, recognizing the number of younger families mov-

ing into the Beaverbrook community, supervised children’s party, with games and crafts, will be held in the lower meeting room.

For those relatively new to Beaverbrook there will be an extensive display of photographs, maps, and documents providing the story of creation and development of the award winning community.

Entrance to the Beaverbrook Community Centre is from the parking lot at the west end of the Beaverbrook mall, off of Beaverbrook Road. (Hopefully, the construction will be completed by then.)

Those attending are invited to bring donations for the Kanata Food Cupboard.

For further information contact Dot Smale at 613-592-1897.

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Salary Range: $55,045 - $64,759 (under review) The Town of Arnprior is located about 45 km west of Ottawa and has a population of about 7,800. The Town is inviting applications from qualified candidates to fill the full-time position of Deputy Treasurer.

This position will report directly to the Treasurer and will be responsible to manage the day-to-day administration of the general accounting, revenue collection and payroll operations, as well as provide assistance and support to the Treasurer in carrying out financial functions relating to planning, budgeting, analysis, monitoring as well as preparing monthly and quarterly financial reports for Departments and Council.

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Qualifications • Chartered accountant; • Experience with Caseware, Taxprep, and Microsoft Office; • Ability to deal with all types of clients in various economic sectors.

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Duties Reporting to the managers, your primary duties will include: • Preparing working paper files in assurance and compilation engagements; • Participating in field work on assurance engagements; • Preparing personal and corporation income tax returns; • Assisting with other professional engagements as assigned by the managers.

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Metroland is an equal opportunity employer. We thank all applicants for their interest; however only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

TIGER & REAS - We have immediate openings for the following positions at our Slave Lake Manufacturing Plant and Wabacsa Operations in ALBERTA. REAS Industries Ltd. - immediate opening for: FIELD TRANSPORTATION SUPERVISOR responsible for monitoring the transportation processes and ensuring compliance.

TIGER & REAS 1) Journeyman Boom Truck Operators 2) Vacuum Truck Mechanics 3) 3rd Year Apprentice Mechanics 4) Journeyman Mechanics 5) Pressure Truck Operators 6) Hydro -Vac Truck Operators 7) Combo/Vacuum Truck Operators 8) Millwrights 9) Finishing Carpenters 10) Class 1 Drivers Competitive wages, benefit package, Camp live-in.

Interested parties submit the following: A) An up to date resume for position applying for B) A current 5 year driver’s abstract for driving position To: HR@Tigercalcium.com or by fax to HR @ 780-464-0829 NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE

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“For further information, please consult the Town of Arnprior website at www.arnprior.ca” Submission Deadline: Interested candidates are invited to submit a resume and covering letter, to be received no later than 4:30 p.m. on Monday, December 19, 2011, to: Jacquie Farrow-Lawrence, Town Clerk Corporation of the Town of Arnprior 105 Elgin Street West Arnprior ON K7S 0A8 Fax: 613-623-9960 Email: jfarrow-lawrence@arnprior.ca

All applicants are thanked for their interest, but only those selected for an interview will receive a response. Information collected will be used in accordance with the Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act for the purpose of job selection and will not be used for any other purpose.

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