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Kanata Kourier-Standard 44 Pages
44th Year, Issue 46 November 25, 2010
Riding challenge: MPP faces riding hostile takeover bid. P4
Bullying lawsuit: Catholic board settles out of court. P4
Food for Thought: Holiday Inn hosts a tasty fundraiser. P12
Beaver Pond buy a high priority: city Council approves SMH land swap LAURA MUELLER KOURIER-STANDARD City council has tasked the new council with finding a plan to acquire 29.5 hectares of land in the South March Highlands. Councillors voted 13-8 in favour of pursuing a strategy to purchase the land or obtain it through a land swap during a special council meeting on Nov. 22. In the meantime, Kanata North Coun. Marianne Wilkinson was also successful in getting council to support her motion to swap four hectares of that land. While she originally negotiated with the developer to swap just under five hectares, it was determined that part of that was road allowances the city already owns. Recent public outcry over plans to develop on the environmentally sensitive wetlands and forest prompted the councillor to look into ways to protect it, including the land swap. “This is something you can do for the community right now,”
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Wilkinson told her fellow councillors. “It’s a very important first step.” Wilkinson said the developer, KNL, was “agreeable to this one particular part of the exchange,” alluding to the fact that the developer doesn’t want to part with any more land than that. COMMUNITY WAKES UP Some councillors, including Knoxdale-Merivale Coun. Gord Hunter, wondered why this issue was coming to council now, when the lands have been slated for development since the 1960s. “The community has finally woken up,” Wilkinson said, adding that “errors have been made” in the past, when there was a chance to protect the land before the development got to this stage. She also said many members of the community are willing to pay to protect the land, either through fundraising, or perhaps a special levy. BEAVER POND, SEE 3
DANIEL NUGENT-BOWMAN PHOTO
Alison Greene, left, and Brigite Baker hold up a sign in front of the Scotiabank Place entrance on Nov. 17 to remember their friend Daron Richardson, 14, who died on Nov. 13 after complications from a suicide attempt the previous day. A ceremony was held at the Scotiabank Place to celebrate Daron’s life and draw attention to the stigmas surrounding teen suicides, which account for 17 per cent of deaths among youths in Canada.