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A local soccer club is hoping the city reins in its decision to host the Capital Hoedown in Kanata.

The West Ottawa Soccer Club (WOSC) has asked the city to consider other venues for the country music festival instead of hosting the event at Walter Baker Park.

“These are athletic fields; they are not made for this type of event,” said Brian Mason, president of the soccer club.

“If it rains, can you imagine the damage? It would ruin it. It’ll be years before it can be used in the form of athletics.”

Kanata South Coun. Allan Hubley met with the west Ottawa and Ottawa and Nepean soccer clubs on Saturday, Dec. 3, to discuss some of the concerns over the use of the fields during the Hoedown.

“They were making decisions thinking the whole park was being used for the event,” said Hubley, adding the promoters have rented the entire facility for the event but will not be using all the facilities.

He said the event will be set up near the baseball and soccer fields located off of Maple Grove Road.

The stage will be set up in the corner of the park closest to the Bell Sensplex.

“That’s where the bulk of the people will stand,” said Hubley. “We recognize that there’s a higher risk for damage on that field than the other fields.”

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Mason said he provided Hubley with a list of more “suitable” venues for the festival, including the Nepean National Equestrian Park and Scotiabank Place.

He added the difference between the Hoedown and Canada Day in Kanata is where the events are located.

“Most of Canada Day, most of the event itself is on the asphalt and at the bottom of the toboggan hill,” said Mason. “There might be a few people who find their way to open spaces and fields but the entire day might be about 10,000 people.”

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ceived a $5-million insurance policy paid for by the promoter to ensure coverage in the event any damage to city property, the park or roads takes place, said Hubley.

“You can have all the money in insurance you want to have, we need the fields to play on,” said Mason. “We need the soccer fields to be in a usable condition.”

Mason said the soccer club supports the event, just not the venue.

“Many of our members will be attending; it’s the venue is completely wrong,” he said.

“We are 100 per cent against this being the venue. Simply move it to a suitable location.”

Mason said the soccer club wasn’t consulted prior to the event announcement.

Hubley said the day of the announcement that the Hoedown was coming to Walter Baker Park he called the soccer club to tell them about plans to protect the recreation fields.

Hubley said he has the support of the mayor, his colleagues on council, and the community to bring the Hoedown to Kanata.

“I think everybody has stepped back now because they’ve seen from my point of view,” Hubley said. “I certainly feel a lot better now because I know what their concerns are.

“The message I got from them is they’re not going to come out all excited about this event because it does disrupt their playing schedule for the weekend, but they were more confident that we are trying to do something to help them.”

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Mason said there is no doubt that the field will be damaged.

That field is going to be damaged, it will just be the degree of damage,” he said. “If it’s dry weather you’re just going to destroy the grass. If it rains prior to or during the event you’re going to destroy the field.”

The pathway that runs through the middle of Walter Baker Park is where the concession stands will be located, said Hubley.

“They’re actually going to be on pavement there,” said Hubley. “That will work as a natural barrier to the fields that are closest to Terry Fox.” He added he’s working on the possibility of putting fencing around the remaining soccer fields to keep people off the grass.

“What they asked for and what I’m trying to negotiate for them is fencing around the fields to act as a secondary barrier to prevent anybody from getting on that,” said Hubley.

Mason said after talking to the councillor the club stills hopes the city will find an alternate site.

“My main concern quite simply is the city asset, the city and taxpayers’ asset, which are the fields,” he said.

“The cost of the fields is just astronomical to maintain them…and refurbish them. We want the assurance that these fields will be protected.”

The soccer club is the primary user of the fields at the park and spends thousands of dollars every year in fees for members and other clubs to use the fields, he said.

“We are concerned that the damage caused will result in stoppage in play, unplanned repair costs, and a shortened sport season,” said Mason.

With up to 100,000 visitors expected at the three-day festival, he said the soccer club’s board doesn’t think the fields can be protected from high traffic and heavy equipment.

“Sport fields are not designed to withstand repeated and heavy usage,” he said.

The West Ottawa Soccer Club is the second largest youth soccer club in Canada with 8,000 members, he said, adding if the fields go offline for repairs after the event, it could affect “tens of thousands of people just on the soccer side.”

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At least two homes on Leacock Drive suffered sewage backup on Tuesday night after a manhole cover wasn’t replaced during reconstruction of the sewers, allowing heavy rains to enter the system.

Kanata North Coun. Marianne Wilkinson said she received calls from two homeowners reporting flooding as a result of the oversight on Nov. 29. “(The sewers) got filled up with debris and backed up into the homes,” she said.

“It wasn’t on purpose, it was an accidental thing. It was someone not being careful.”

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“Their insurance will cover all of the damages,” said the homeowner, adding her basement was flooded with about three inches of sewage water.

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Maybe less than we would have had without it but we still do have floods,” she said. “It’s very frustrating.”

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She said the reconstruction work on the sanitary sewer system should be completed in December, with Leacock Drive reopening before Christmas. Next spring the contractor will finish additional work, such as landscaping.

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Re: Teron bankrolls highrise battle, Dec. 1, KKS. In the article, it mistakenly said $15,000 had already been raised. In fact, only half that amount has been raised. About $15,000 is needed for the first phase, which is to seek legal counsel. The group is asking for the community’s help in raising the funds. We regret the error.

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The debate over a large increase to make OC Transpo’s U-Pass “revenue neutral” was the lone contentious issue before city council approved its 2012 budget.

Council passed the 2.39 per cent tax increase unanimously and barely any changes were made to the draft budgets presented on Oct. 26, with the exception of a few amendments to correct errors or to shuffle small amounts of cash between programs.

The only significant change came when Kanata South Coun. Allan Hubley convinced the environment committee to shift $200,000 out of community sustainability programs and spend it on tree planting instead.

The approval of the $2 billion 2012 budget comes after one month and 15 public meetings that yielded little outcry from the public.

It means that the average urban home assessed at $304,800 will pay $75 more on the tax bill next year.

Mayor Jim Watson attributed that to crafting a budget focused on “listening” to residents and stakeholders.

That’s in contrast to 2011, when the budget was all about “correction” and fixing issues left behind by the last council following the October 2010 election, Watson said.

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The church invites people to come for a quiet service of encouragement and support.

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ed in just under an hour and a half, with the U-Pass issue generating the only significant amount of debate.

Some councillors, including David Chernushenko (Capital), Peter Clark (Rideau-Rockcliffe), Mathieu Fleury (Rideau-Vanier) and Diane Holmes (Somerset) were hesitant about the cancellation of youth and semester passes.

OC Transpo argues those discounted passes will no longer be needed because students have access to the U-Pass, which would be mandatory for all university students as part of their student fees.

But it’s still up in the air whether students will approve a $70 increase in the U-Pass to $180 a year in order to make it revenue neutral. Students will vote in referenda on that issue in February. If they vote down the increase, the U-Pass will be dead, and students who need to take transit will pay regular adult fare.

Like all fares, the $94 adult monthly pass is set to go up 2.5 per cent next July.

Chantle Beeso, vice president of student issues for the Carleton University Students’ Association, said the association won’t recommend students vote for the U-Pass fare increase, but it won’t recommend they vote against it, either.

“We’re just going to give students the facts … and let them make the decision,” Beeso said, adding those facts will include the percentage increase in the fare compared to all other fare categories, as well as the reduction in bus service for students following OC Transpo’s massive Sept. 4 route optimization.

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Bloess wanted to double the $5.5 million allotted to help OC Transpo deal with overcrowding, and he also wanted to let seniors ride the bus for free during all non-peak hours. Those motions were both ruled out of order.

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We saw thousands of people across North America and around the world spend weeks camped out in parks. For what, exactly?

A lot.

To begin with, Occupy brought together people from disparate groups with a common cause. One, to fight for social and economic equality, and two, to speak over the heads of the politicians, who regardless of their party have often disappointed the 99 per cent by siding with the one per cent. They took the protest to those who hold genuine power and influence in our democracy: the ultra-rich and their corporations.

It’s a powerful phrase: “We are the 99 per cent.”

It says everything to those willing to hear, and nothing to those who refuse to listen. To sympathizers on the left it means social justice; to the moderate right it means the restoration of capitalism by the dismantling of monopolies and oligarchies.

Occupy has made it impossible to ignore growing inequalities and related social injustices. The subject is now discussed with some depth in work-

places, universities and, yes, even newspapers.

Even the business-friendly Conference Board of Canada is heeding the warning, pointing out income inequality has risen more in Canada than in the U.S. since the mid-1990s and awarding Canada a C grade for its equality of income.

The inequality gap was huge by the end of the 19th century, which helped spur the rise of communism. Today, the moderate right understands that by allowing middle class incomes to stagnate over the past 30 years, the consumer spending that drives the economy was bound to fizzle. Keep squeezing the middle class and we’ll see more than simple verbal demands for wealth distribution.

Setting aside these types of discussions that took place regularly at Occupy protests, critics pretended to be baffled by the apparent lack of a central message. Yet they were fully aware that should some such catch-phrase as “down with capitalism” take hold, it would be ease to vilify.

But the occupiers never fell for it. They insisted everyone had a unique and legitimate beef to pick with the one per cent. And by doing so they prolonged the discourse. That there is now a chance to restore balance is an accomplishment the Occupy Movement can be proud of.

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mong the many arguments presented so far in the Great Hospital Parking debate is this one: If hospital parking were free, everyone would use it – doctors, nurses, volunteers, friends of people in the neighbourhood and people stashing their cars before catching the bus downtown. This would mean no parking left for patients and people visiting them.

If you turn the argument on its head, it means this: The only way to ensure that there is parking for hospital patients and visitors is to charge for it.

We have developed an extremely advanced and sophisticated society if we can come up with theories like this. In fact, it is a sure sign that we have moved well past Nineteen Eighty-Four, our slogan now being not “Freedom is Slavery” but “Free Parking is No Parking.”

A further 1984ish argument has also been published: namely that making parking free would encourage more people to drive, thus causing damage to the environment. “Paying for Parking Means Cleaner Air,” the slogan could read.

All of this comes about because the Canadian Medical Association Journal printed an editorial advocating the elimination of hospital parking fees,

CHARLES GORDON Funny Town on the grounds that they constituted a barrier to health care, a hidden user fee and, therefore, a possible violation of the Canada Health Act. Predictably, everyone has reacted because nothing gets Canadians more riled up than parking, with the possible exception of snow removal. And perhaps cable TV costs. Horror stories abound, and you will have lived through some of them, particularly if a loved one has spent an extended time in hospital and you visited frequently. Doctors quoted by the Journal tell of patients who are more focused on parking fees than on what the doctor is telling them, or who even rush off before a full consultation because they don’t want to pay another hour’s worth of parking fees.

The hospitals say that they need the

revenue. It is a tidy sum, although a small fraction of their overall costs.

That it is necessary is the result of the province not giving them enough money.

The provinces, meanwhile, won’t give hospitals the money because the feds won’t give the provinces enough money.

So, to reduce that to terms we can all understand, we are paying $13 for parking because the provincial and federal governments want to balance their budgets.

Not that they are having any success with that. The conclusion to be drawn is that if we want hospitals to give us free parking we will have to help them find ways to raise more money. But how?

They’re already selling handicrafts in the lobby, renting out space to donut shops, putting donors’ names on stuff, running galas and who knows what else. Perhaps they could sell chocolate bars. Perhaps they already do. It is probably out of the question to bring back pay toilets.

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ratively at a premium.

If you could find a spot, and fairly close, you probably wouldn’t mind as much paying for it. There are places you pay to park and places you don’t and there is not much sense in it. As some have pointed out, you don’t pay to park at the church or synagogue. Or the shopping centre – yet. On the other hand, they charge you to park at the airport and the train station. Why do they do that?

Answer: Because they can.

The hospital is in the same position.

Going there isn’t optional. You go there because you have to and you pay whatever. Don’t forget that it helps the environment.

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FRIENDS OF HOSPICE OTTAWA Friends of Hospice Ottawa raised $9,100 at a Christmas luncheon and fashion show held at the Holiday Inn and Suites Kanata on Nov. 13.

A sold-out crowd of 170 ladies who attended and enjoyed a delicious lunch, participated in a silent auction and were entertained by eight volunteer models outfitted

by ACT 11’s upscale consignment fashions along with new fashions and accessories.

The guests enjoyed their lunch while viewing delightful designer fashions.

Models were dressed from head to toe with adorable fascinators, leather highfashion boots, stylish shoes, dresses, coats and casual relaxing attire. All items were available to purchase at the end of the show.

The models were beautifully made up by Image Solutions Group, Teresa and Terry Lynn McCarthy and Christine Oliver from Christine’s Hair Design in Richmond.

Friends of Hospice Ottawa also featured a diverse silent auction.

Also featured this year was a Lucky Card Draw where people picked a card and paid the face value and had an opportunity to win one of three high-end baskets.

The event was a huge success, not only in raising funds, but also in increasing

awareness about what Friends of Hospice Ottawa does on a daily basis to meet the growing needs of people dealing with lifethreatening illnesses in the West Ottawa region.

Friends of Hospice Ottawa is very grateful to the companies and individuals who donated items for the silent auction and to ACT 11 for being an awesome corporate partner for the event.

Friends of Hospice Ottawa is a registered charity dedicated to providing coordinated community-based hospice palliative care programs.

Hospice palliative care aims to relieve suffering and improve the quality of living and dying. Friends of Hospice Ottawa is committed to: • Providing compassionate professional and volunteer care to people facing a life threatening illness and to their families.

• Offering services that are integrated with other community services regarding community based palliative care.

• Advocating on behalf of clients for increased public and government awareness of hospice palliative care services and unmet needs.

• Ensuring that Friends of Hospice Ottawa is welcoming and accessible to all the diverse communities within our area of service.

The Glen Cairn United Church is holding a special service for all those who find Christmas a difficult time of the year.

The service will be hosted by the church’s pastor care team on Wednesday, Dec. 17.

Glen Cairn United Church is located at 140 Abbeyhill Dr. in Glen Cairn.

The service is called a “Service of Hope and Light for the Longest Night.” A The holiday season can be a difficult time for some people.

It may be that job loss, illness, loneliness, loss or absence of a loved one make Christmas a time of sadness.

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Earl of March Secondary School will hold its annual holiday concert, on Wednesday, Dec. 14, starting at 7 p.m.

The music program will feature selections from our grades 9 and 10 bands, as well as our jazz ensemble and the senior band (grades 11 and 12).

Sing along to favourites –the audience is sure to be impressed by the instrumental ability and musical selections of each band.

For the entry fee, please bring a donation to the Kanata Food Cupboard – our charity of choice for this holiday season.

A silent auction and bake sale round out the evening, and the money raised from these activities directly support the music program here at Earl.

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dividuals have donated top-notch merchandise and services, such as: • A champagne balloon flight for two (value $2,000) from Geoff & Bobbie McGowan.

• A $400 voucher towards driver instruction at Young Drivers of Canada.

• Two pairs of Sens 100-level tickets.

• Three months of keyboard lessons from the Kanata Music School.

• A SonicCare electronic toothbrush from the Hazeldean Dental Group.

• Tickets to the NAC and Great Canadian Theatre Company theatres, Ottawa 67s tickets, gift baskets, and much, more!

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We look forward to seeing you on Dec. 14 for the Earl of March Secondary School Holiday Concert, located at #4 The Parkway, Kanata.

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Morgan’s Grant man has a blast at NASA launch JESSICA CUNHA jessica.cunha@metroland.com

Andrew Symes, the Morgan’s Grant man who was chosen by NASA as one of 150 Twitter followers to cover the launch of a Mars rover, said the experience couldn’t have been more perfect.

“It was everything I thought it would be and more,” said the 32-year-old marketing communications consultant. “Being able to be there for the actual launch was the icing on the cake.

He said he may have to travel back to Florida for future launches, even if he has to sit on the side of the road.

“Now I’m sort of hooked. You say it’s a once in a lifetime opportunity; now I worry I have the bug and I’ll want to see another launch.”

The Kanata man was in Florida from Nov. 22 to 26, with the launch of the Mars rover Curiosity scheduled for his last day.

He was part of a NASA “Tweetup,” which allows people from the general public with an interest in space to witness a launch up close.

The Twitter followers were stationed in the press area at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center for the launch from the air force base in Florida.

They had a front row view of the lift-off from five kilometres away.

“Once it hits 10 seconds there’s literally that 10, nine, eight countdown,” he said. “As soon as the countdown hit zero we started to see the rocket lift off. It started to move up slowly, then built up speed and everyone was cheering. I was just hooting and hollering; my heart was racing. I actually got pretty emotional; there were tears in my eyes.”

He said the sound and light created by the launch was louder and brighter than what can be captured on film.

“There was a brightness; it’s almost like looking at the sun but in a tinier area,” he said. “It’s pretty loud. First you see the rocket launching and then the sound hits you about five or six seconds later. It was sort of this rolling thunder sound that came from it.”

After the rover disappeared above the clouds, the attendees filed back to the Twent (Tweet tent) where they were able to watch the rocket reach space.

“We were incredibly excited to have seen that,” said Symes, adding the rocket made it safely to space and is currently on its way to Mars.

All the while Symes was Tweeting about his experience and the atmosphere around him. Symes, who uses the Twitter handle @FailedProtostar, sent out over 200 Tweets during his four-day stay in Florida.

“Anything interesting I would Tweet out,” he said. “I wanted to convey what I was feeling and what I was hearing.”

‘AMAZING’ Aside from watching the Mars rover launch, Symes had the opportunity to see the rocket up close, talk with mission scientists and rub elbows with the likes of Bill Nye the Science Guy and Will.I.Am of the Black Eyed Peas.

On Nov. 24, the group toured the space centre and enjoyed an American Thanksgiving dinner at a local restaurant. The official event began on Friday, when the group was treated to talks with scientists who had spent close to a decade workAndrew Symes photo ing on the Curiosity rover.

Andrew Symes had the opportunity to get up close to the Mars “We spent the whole morning hearing from Curiosity rover before the launch on Nov. 26. these experts about the mars mission that was go-

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Andrew Symes poses with Bill Nye the Science Guy before the Mars Curiosity rover launch on Nov. 26. ing to happen,” said Symes. “They told some really amazing stories. One of them had been working on this for almost 10 years. This is almost a decade long process to build something like this that’s going to Mars.”

That afternoon, the group received an in-depth tour of the Kennedy Space Center and saw the 50storey high vehicle assembly building where the rockets are put together. They were then taken to the launch pad to see the rover up close.

“That was amazing to see a rocket standing basically ready to launch,” said Symes, adding the group was so close they were able to see the logos and stickers.

“We were close enough to see all the details. It was really beautiful to see this rocket that was going to be launching the next day.”

Saturday morning, Nov. 26, Symes had to be at the space centre for 6 a.m. to hear from more special guests before the 10 a.m. launch.

“We got to hear from Bill Nye the Science Guy,” said Symes. “He’s exactly like he is on TV. He’s funny and interesting. He has a way of making everything understandable and accessible.”

The other surprise guest was Will.I.Am of the Black Eyed Peas.

“He’s passionate about getting kids interested in space,” said Symes. “He’s just as cool as you’d expect in person.”

Symes said he’s made a number of new friends from around the world and is now following them on Twitter.

“I made a lot of new friendships because it was really easy to talk to these people because we all share a passion for space travel.”

Symes is blogging about his experience and posting photos from his four-day adventure at www.canadianastronomy.wordpress.com.

“It was the perfect day,” said Symes. “It was everything we could have asked for.”

The Curiosity rover is expected to reach Mars

by August 2012. The two-year mission will include an investigation on an area of the planet to see if microbial life could have once existed.

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Library to host meeting on west district expansion JESSICA CUNHA jessica.cunha@metroland.com

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The meeting will take place on Dec. 15, from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Mlacak Centre, 2500 Campeau Dr. For more information, email westdistrict@biblioottawalibrary. ca.

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Students at Glen Cairn Public School creamed their Terry Fox Run goal by raising over $1,000 for the charity foundation.

For their fundraising efforts, students from kindergarten to Grade 8 had the chance to witness their Principal Pat Furlong smacked with three cream pies to the face during a school assembly on Wednesday, Nov. 30.

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Julian Hayward, a Grade 4 student, said the event was important to help other people who are battling cancer.

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The developer, the Morley Hoppner Group, has submitted a rezoning application to the City of Ottawa for the lands at 2 The Parkway to build a 125-unit apartment building.

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Seeing waste in a different light The importance of finding sustainable alternatives for dealing with our garbage

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A tattered basketball shoe, a Donald Duck plastic toy, VHS tapes and a championship trophy sit scattered in a sorting room at Canada’s largest waste recovery plant.

These are some of the more unusual items that sorters have pulled off the production lines of the Material Recovery Facility (MRF) in Brampton, where Peel Region’s residential blue box items arrive to be separated, sorted and bundled.

“If you stand around here long enough you will see all sorts of things,” said Peel waste supervisor Kevin Mehlenbacher.

Only about 45 per cent of recyclable items from households across Ontario ever make it to one of these plants.

More than half of municipal garbage goes to landfills instead.

Peel sells much of the material that comes to this plant in Brampton to China and the United States, where it is reused in new products like aluminum cans or plastic bottles. The region’s total take is roughly $10 million a year.

In Ottawa, with a population of approximately 300,000 fewer people, that revenue was around $8.4 million last year. But the city estimates that an additional $535,000 in lost revenue went into the landfill because people throw recyclables into the garbage.

If households started recycling more, municipalities could strike deals with a new breed of entrepreneurs who understand that garbage equals dollars.

The North American waste stream contains about $8 to $10 billion worth of valuables, said Wes Muir of Waste Management Canada, a private recycling and disposal company.

A major challenge for municipalities is finding markets for recyclable materials. ”Recycling has been around for three decades, but the problem is that end markets have not been established for many materials,” said Muir.

Thirty to 40 per cent of North American recycled materials are going to China, India and South America, where demand is growing. There is a booming market for aluminum cans — which fetch the highest price of all materials — as well as PET and HDPE plastics, Muir said. (See recycling marks graphic, far right) There’s a move in the municipal waste sector to find new ways of making money for towns and cities by encouraging companies to tap into the value of what society is throwing away. The more waste a municipality can sell, the less it has to spend of taxpayer dollars to manage garbage. Hopefully consumers would buy in as well, leading to higher recycling rates — relieving the pressure on landfills.

Ottawa is positioning itself as a global leader in that regard, said Coun. Maria McRae, the chair of the city’s environment committee.

The city is preparing to sign a contract with Plasco Energy Group pending council approval on Dec. 14. The deal, which will require the city to ship 300,000 tonnes of garbage to the Trail-Road plant for 20 years, will see Ottawa become home to the first such facility in the world that uses plasma gasification to turn trash into electricity.

“It’s a solution to a very bad problem globally, but it also represents extra revenue, and, I think, bragging rights,” McRae said. “It would be great for Ottawa to say, ‘This is a made-in-Ottawa solution.’”

The locally-owned company and the city have been working together since 2005, and Plasco is currently oper-

ating as a demonstration facility that can process up to 88 tonnes of trash each day.

If Plasco and the city strike a deal and if Plasco gets the proper approvals from the Ministry of the Environment, it could be the first commercial plasma gasification facility in the world.

It’s also a safer alternative to incinerating waste, which is done elsewhere, including in the southern Ontario region of Durham, McRae said.

Only about one per cent of waste in Ontario is incinerated now. The only residential incinerator is the Algonquin Power Energy From Waste Facility in Brampton.

The plant burns about 500 tonnes of mostly residential waste and generates 9 megawatts of continuous energy -- enough to power 5,000 to 6,000 homes.

Advocates say incineration is an acceptable solution because it generates energy from material that would otherwise be landfilled. Critics say incinerators cause air pollution and that the most energy efficient materials to burn — such as paper and plastic — are also highly recyclable.

“I am not saying (incineration) is a good idea, but it’s maybe something you will see more of,” added Philip Byer, a University of Toronto professor whose specialty is municipal waste management.

Other companies are taking regular household consumer waste and flipping it. Terracycle, founded in 2001

by Princeton University freshman Tom Szaky, produces more than 1,500 products ranging from duffel bags made out of old Kool-Aid and Del Monte drink pouches to park benches and tables made from plastic containers.

But these industries are in their infancy and municipalities need solutions now. Incineration may be a route more communities are willing to take, said Byer.

Over in the U.S., Texas-based Terrabon is developing technology that converts organic materials and commercial food wastes into organic salts, which is then made into a high-octane gasoline. They are using what’s in our green bins.

“In a world of diminishing landfill space it’s important to find sustainable alternatives in dealing with waste,” said Malcolm McNeill, the chief financial officer.

The technology exists only on a demonstration scale, but when commercially ready has the potential to process 800 tonnes of wet waste a day — the type of system that could some day pay to get Ontario’s organic waste.

The push to view waste as a resource — instead of as a problem — has also seen companies convert trash into new products, a model known as up-cycling.

Toronto-based Therma Green Innovative Foam Technologies uses a byproduct of the manufacturer E.F. Walter Inc. to develop products such as holding ponds for irrigation, synthetic turf, landfill covers and liners as well as green roofs. They are made in part from the high-density polyethylene foam waste generated by E.F. Walter for a range of industrial products. Therma Green is an example of how waste that’s currently being landfilled could be profitably reused.

SOLUTIONS Experts say one of the most important solutions to today’s landfill problems is to force manufacturers to create more reusable products, an approach known as extended producer responsibility (EPR).

“EPR is effectively making what goes into the waste stream the problem of the people who put the products into the market in the first place,” said York University environmental studies professor Mark Winfield.

This is done by forcing manufacturers to redesign products so they can be reused or requiring manufacturers and businesses to pay a government imposed fee on hard-to-recycle products.

Winfield said Ontario could legislate EPR policies similar to the European Union, which forced producers to make cars and packaging easier to take apart in pieces that can be reused. But there is no move toward that kind of policy in Ontario at the moment.

Just before the recent provincial election, the Ontario Zero Waste Coalition sent 10 recommendations for Ontario’s waste management future to each candidate. The group’s top priority was to see politicians develop a coherent reduction strategy.

“Diversion is nice, but the first thing everyone likes to forget is reduction,” said coalition founder Liz Benneian.

She said the government is “leery” about even mentioning reduction because of the potential consumer backlash, but added environmental entrepreneurialism could be a boon to the Ontario economy.

“Everyone needs to be honest about the situation,” she said. “We are not going to get anywhere with this problem unless we start looking seriously at reduction.”

That message will also be part of Ottawa’s 30-year waste master plan, which is currently in the formative stages.

“We used to talk about ‘reduce, reuse, recycle,’” McRae said. “We have gotten into a situation as consumers where we have stopped thinking about the first two ‘R’s as more important than the last ‘R.’”

RECYCLING: What the numbers mean The recycling code printed on plastic containers indicates the type of resin used in the material. Some resins are easier to recycle than others or are useable in a wider range of recycled products.

The City of Ottawa currently accepts all of the following products.

1 PET (or PETE) Used for soda, water, and some beer and liquor bottles, containers for mouthwash, medicine, drugs, peanut butter, vegetable oils. Recycled into fiberfill for clothing, rope, car bumpers, tennis ball felt, carpets, boat sails, shopping bags and furniture.

2 HDPE (high-density polyethylene) The opaque plastic used for toys, milk jugs, juice bottles, bleach, detergent and shampoo bottles, butter and yogurt tubs. More stable than PET and safer from hormone-like chemicals, it can be recycled into plastic lumber and Tyvek mailing envelopes.

3 PVC (polyvinyl chloride) The least recyclable plastic, releasing dioxin in manufacture and as it ages. It is used in plumbing, shower curtains, wire jackets, siding, windows, dashboards, outdoor furniture, and jungle gyms. PVC items are generally one-use, becoming trash when discarded.

4 LDPE (low-density polyethylene) Used for wrapping films, dry-cleaning, sandwich and tote bags as well as condiment squeeze bottles, clothing, furniture, and carpets. Recycling uses more energy than producing plastics from new materials so most LDPE ends up in landfills.

5 PP (polypropylene) Does not contain Bisphenol A. It is used in yogurt and margarine tubs, condiment squeeze bottles, bottle caps, drinking straws, medicine bottles, Tupperware, and new BPA-free baby bottles. It can be recycled into relatively few products and few recyclers accept it.

6 PS (polystyrene/styrofoam) Made into take-out food containers, coffee cups, egg cartons, disposable plates, cups, meat trays and insulation. Readily leaches toxins into foods when heated even moderately. Styofoam is an environmental hazard that can kill animals and birds who eat it.

7 Other This category is a “catch-all” that includes non-numbered plastics. Packaging material in this category is now being collected by the City of Ottawa.

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Giorno also suggested the city look at further punishments for lobbyists themselves. While elected officials would be fined for breaking the lobbyist bylaw, lobbyists themselves would merely have their names revealed.

There should also be a higher standard for lobbyists to disclose their activities, because they are the ones who know when they are lobbying, Giorno said.

It will be difficult to fault a councillor for not knowing that a resident in their ward who wants a road repaved actually works for a paving company, for example.

Gloucester-Southgate Coun. Diane Deans made a similar point. The way the guidelines are drafted, “I have to get myself into the mind of the lobbyist and determine what their intention is,” she said.

Land-use planner Ted Fobert of FoTenn Consulting noted the registry’s potential impact on his profession.

While Fobert and his contemporaries appear before city council and committees as paid consultants on behalf of their developer clients, they are required to adhere to a professional planning standard in the advice they give, Fobert said.

Planners’ advice is in the interest of the public good and professional standards, not the paycheque they get from a developer, he said.

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Mayor Jim Watson gave that direction at a Dec. 1 meeting of the governance renewal subcommittee, which met to discuss a sweeping new lobbyist registry aimed at increasing the transparency of how decisions are made at city hall.

“My intention was not to cast the net so far and wide … that a community association would have to classify themselves as a lobbyist,” Watson said. “We are pioneers and we don’t exactly have a road map to follow.”

But the draft rules, which go further than any other jurisdiction in Canada according to one expert, were met with some disdain from community members who felt they would be labeled as “lobbyists” if they advocated for their communities as volunteers.

Marita Killen, president of the Centretown Community Health Centre’s board of directors, articulated the thoughts of many members of the public who spoke at the meeting.

She said the lobbyist registry is as good idea, but including unpaid advocacy work in the definition of a lobbyist would discourage people from contributing to their community associations and non-profit groups.

“We feel strongly that this initiative will be of benefit,” Killen said. “I’m here because of the unintended consequences with concern to citizen engagement.”

Killen said the registry would limit her board’s ability to advocate to the city on behalf of the health centre’s clients.

Guy Giorno, an Ottawa lawyer and expert who penned an analysis of the draft lobbyist registry in the Lobbying Law Bulletin, told members of the governance renewal subcommittee the city shouldn’t try to define the difference between “advocacy” and “lobbying.” Instead, it should focus on which activities need to be made more transparent.

Watson responded by asking city staff to redefine what a lobbyist is. College Coun. Rick Chiarelli also wanted some clarification, including a definition of a “bona fide” community association.

Committee members questioned Giorno for his opinion at length. Giorno pointed out that there were a couple potential holes in the draft policy, including how it applies to individuals acting in their own financial interest and how it would relate to professional organizations such as unions.

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The Kanata Stallions beat the top ranked Carleton Place Canadians on Tuesday, Nov. 29 at the Kanata Recreation Complex with a 3-2 score. First star went to Ryan Donnelly of Kanata, second to goalie Brandon Lane of Kanata and third to Zach Rodier of Kanata. The Stallions were trailing, or tied, for all of the game until Donnelly scored the game winner with a minute and a half left. Defenceman Alexander Robinson turns the puck around for the Stallions.

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Front desk services include making a report about a collision or incident, as well as criminal and police records checks. Outside of these hours, the same services are available at Ottawa Police Headquarters, 474 Elgin St., which is open 24 hours a day.

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The Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources checked 432 hunters, laying 33 charges and issuing 32 warnings, during a recent enforcement blitz.

Enforcement efforts were focused in the City of Ottawa and the counties of Prescott-Russell, Stor mont-Dundas-Gleng ar ry, Leeds-Grenville and Lanark.

Conservation officers were assisted by officers from the Ottawa police and the OPP during the 2011 fall deer hunt from Nov. 7 to 20, checking for compliance under the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Act and its regulations, the Off-Road Vehicles Act and the Liquor Licence Act. Three firearms were seized during the blitz.

During a joint patrol with the OPP, two charges were laid under the Criminal Code of Canada for possessing a firearm while prohibited and for unsafe storage of a firearm.

A number of investigations are ongoing and further charges are expected.

Charges were laid for a range of offences, including: • Failing to wear hunter orangewhile hunting.

• Unlawfully possessing a firearm at night.

• Unlawfully hunting waterfowl in special hunting area.

• Hunting deer with no licence.

• Careless hunting.

• Possessing a loaded firearm on a roadway.

• Discharging a firearm from a roadway.

• Trespassing for the purpose of hunting.

• Having no helmet while operating an all-terrain vehicle.

• Failing to provide information required on a seal.

• Unlawfully possessing a firearm in vehicle/boat.

• Making a false statement to a conservation officer.

Special emphasis was placed on safe hunting practices and wearing the required hunter orange.

Some hunters wore less than the required minimum area of orange clothing or none at all.

To report a natural resources violation, call 1-877-TIPS-MNR (847-7667) toll-free any time or contact your local ministry office during regular business hours.

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Kanata Theatre Kids will perform “A Year with Frog and Toad”, based on a series of children’s books, at the Ron Maslin Playhouse this holiday season.

Director Karen Boese has searched the area for talented singers and actors, assembling a cast of teens from Earl of March , Sacred Heart, A.Y. Jackson and Arnprior District high schools, as well as members of the Kanata Theatre Kids youth drama program.

The play will open at the Ron Maslin Playhouse on Dec. 27 to 30 with 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. matinees on Dec. 27 and 29, at 7 p.m. on Dec. 28 and 1 p.m. on Dec. 30.

For tickets and information call the Kanata Theatre Box Office at 613-8314435.

FROG AND TOAD The Muppets may have conquered television and the silver screen, but should Kermit ever venture onto a Broadway stage, he will find himself following in the webbed foot prints of two fellow amphibians named simply Frog and Toad.

Toad and Frog first appeared in children’s books during the 1970s as two coldblooded best buddies with warm hearts,

particularly where their friendship is concerned.

Their gentle stories were the brain child of author Arnold Stark Lobel and featured titles including “Frog and Toad Together”, “Frog and Toad are Friends,” “Frog and Toad All Year” and “Days with Frog and Toad”.

Their relationship is the perfect blend of complementary personalities, with Toad as the grumpy worrier and Frog as the more happy go lucky of the two.

Together they share adventures, cookies and tea, and delight in doing secret favours for each other.

As popular as these books were, they reached new heights when Lobel’s daughter Adrianne, a theatrical designer and producer, commissioned a musical based on her father’s stories.

“A Year with Frog and Toad” was workshopped in 2000 at New York Stage and Film at Vassar College, and premiered in August 2002.

From there it travelled to New York off-Broadway’s The New Victory Theatre and performed to sold-out houses before a further triumphal run at the Great White Way’s Cort theatre. “A Year with Frog and Toad” the musical garnered several Tony Award nominations in 2003; for Best Musical, Best Book of a Musical and Best Original Score.

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Novelist’s debut work nominated for two awards JESSICA CUNHA jessica.cunha@metroland.com

A former Kanata resident’s debut novel was nominated for two awards this year, including the 2011 Giller Prize Reader’s Choice Award.

Nerys Parry, who grew up in Bridlewood and now lives in Old Ottawa South, recently published her first novel “Man & Other Natural Disasters.” The book was also nominated for the Colophon Prize for fiction.

“It felt really good,” said Parry about the nominations. “I felt to be in pretty good company, especially for a debut novelist.”

Her book was a finalist for the Colophon Prize and tied for seventh out of more than 130 books for the reader’s choice award.

“It was a really nice win,” she said. “It was a wonderful opportunity.”

The idea for “Man & Other Natural Disasters” came to her 11 years ago when she was pregnant with her second child, living in New Zealand.

“I was hanging up laundry,” said the Industry Canada employee. “All of a sudden I had this voice come to me, this paragraph, which is still in the novel, the prologue.”

The novel follows the main character Simon who is living in a fugue state as he tries to navigate his memories and come to terms with his past.

“The fugue, it’s a neurosis that can occur,” said Parry. “It’s where someone takes on a whole new personality and past and history and that takes over their lives.

“The whole point was to try and get to the true story. It was clear he wasn’t telling the truth.”

The novel is based on historical events

that occurred in Calgary in the 1960s involving the Freedomite Doukhobor movement.

“It’s based on true historical events,” said Parry. “It talks about terrorism.”

She said while she was completing her research many sources didn’t want to discuss that time period.

“They didn’t want to talk about that time, it was an embarrassment,” she said.

“I think we need to look at what happened in the past, try to understand what the people felt like, what gave rise to such extremism and realize that it’s in us.

“The more we know about it the better able we’ll be to face it honestly.”

Parry will be at Mother Tongue Books, located at 1067 Bank St., on Friday, Dec. 9, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. with two other authors as part of the Three Women/Three Books event. The authors will discuss sex, politics and religion in writing.

“We will be sharing our views on what it is like being a woman writer tackling taboo subjects, and reading some of the juicier sections of our books,” said Parry.

She added attending events and reader’s groups are one of her favourite things to do, aside from writing.

“The things people find in the book that you didn’t see yourself are always surprising and interesting. I love talking with the readers,” said Parry. “You remember why you wrote it, it’s to hear what the readers think.”

She hopes that others enjoy reading “Man & Other Natural Disasters” as much as she did writing the book.

“Hopefully it’s an enjoyable read; it’ll Submitted photo open peoples’ eyes to something they’re Former Bridlewood resident Nerys Parry’s debut novel was nominated for two awards this not aware of.” year. “Man & Other Natural Disasters” was a finalist for the Colophon Prize and tied for For more information, visit Parry’s seventh out of more than 130 books for the 2011 Giller Prize Reader’s Choice Award. website at www.nerysparry.com.

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Heather Graham, principal at W.O. Mitchell Elementary School was presented with the 2011 Meeting Fundamental Needs Award at the Growing Up Great awards on Monday, Nov. 28. just north of Orillia, Ont. “It’s fantastic,” said Graham. “They take the best of the best in Ontario and facilitate them to be a leader.”

SCHOOL PROGRAMS Alta Vista was one of the first five schools to join the Healthy Active Schools Program. When Graham was transferred to D. Aubrey Moodie, she worked on developing the program for the Nepean students.

Graham helped to create a snack program to feed students who may not otherwise have a meal, along with healthy snack coordinator Susan Molson.

The snack program feeds an average of 180 kids out of 360 students every day, she said.

“There are some big needs as far as just getting fed every day,” said Graham.

“For some kids it’s the best meal of their day.”

Eight students are chosen at a time to help prepare and serve the snacks.

“It provides healthy snacks and teaches the right kids how to make these snacks,” said Graham.

Students have learned to make things such as pita chips, banana bread, spinach bars, hummus and salsa.

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A Kanata principal has been recognized for her work at three Ottawa schools over the past number of years.

Heather Graham, principal at W.O. Mitchell Elementary School was presented with the 2011 Meeting Fundamental Needs Award at the Growing Up Great awards on Monday, Nov. 28.

Graham was recognized for her work in promoting the Healthy Active Schools Program, which she piloted in 2006.

She partnered with Ottawa Public Health to pilot the project when she was principal of Alta Vista Public School, and later at D. Aubrey Moodie Intermediate School. She continued the program when she came on board with W.O. Mitchell this school year.

Building on the success of the pilot, the program was expanded to all four Ottawa school boards in 2009.

“I’m not used to it,” said Graham about being honoured. “You’re just thinking, ‘This is my job, this is what I do. I don’t need an award for this.’”

Jama Watt, director of the Growing Up Great partnerships said it was important to honour Graham’s commitment to children and youth.

“Heather’s work through the Healthy Active Schools Program has enabled children in our community to make healthy food and activity choices,” she said.

The program creates opportunities for students to learn how to be active and make healthy choices.

The program at W.O. Mitchell was already in place when Graham joined the school community this past September.

“This is a school that has just a ton of physical and health initiatives already,” she said.

“The kids are active and they are fairly healthy already at this school (but) they have some other needs. In this community with what’s gone on, there are some issues where you need to be looking at the social and emotional needs.”

Through the program, W.O. Mitchell offers a range of activities and workshops for students and parents to promote overall health.

One of the best programs at the school is one that promotes student leadership, said Graham.

“The kids can do it,” she said. “The positive is that more (activities) happen and it grows kids self esteem. Allowing them to take that leadership role is just fantastic for them.”

Students run intramural sports during the lunch hour recess, monitor the classrooms during the lunch period and run a host of student-led groups, including a video club and spirit assembly group.

“We just tell them it’s your responsibility to be a leader, to help the little ones,” said Graham.

“They just do that without question.

It’s really quite fascinating.”

The principal is working on recommending a number of Grade 7 students attend a summer leadership camp at the Ontario Educational Leadership Centre

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“I don’t know anyone who doesn’t love to see Christmas lights, and for at least a few weeks a year, at the start of the dreariness of winter, we get to turn our community into a festive wonderland,” says BMGCA president Paul Arbour.

Briarbrook and Morgan’s Grant residents are invited to nominate the best decorated houses in their neighbourhood by sending an email to christmas@bmgca.ca with the street address of the nominated home and the reasons you admire the decorations. You can nominate your own home.

The deadline for nominations is 11:59 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 16. Judging will take place on Sunday, Dec. 18. Houses will be judged on use of colour, overall esthetic and degree of difficulty.

Steve Stewart, possibly better known in Ottawa as “Speedo Steve” is once again asking residents to take the plunge and raise money to fight children’s cancers. In total, nearly 300 chillers lined up two by two last Jan. 1 to jump down to a hole about three metres wide cut into the Ottawa River.

The veteran dipper and Loblaw’s employee organized the first dip for the President Choice Children’s Charities in 2008, where he and 45 others turned out and raised $3,800 for the charity.

Last year he teamed up with Sears to organize the first Sears Great Canadian Chill. Two events in Ottawa and Toronto managed to raise more than $20,000 for the Sears Charitable Foundation, which aims to Stop Kids’ Cancer Cold. Another 100 dippers were raising money for the Presidents Choice Children’s Charity.

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ST. ISIDORE BUILDING COMMITTEE EXECUTIVE The newly built St. Isidore Catholic Church in rural Kanata will open its doors just in time for Christmas.

The first mass at the church, located at 1135 March Road, will be held on Dec. 17, starting at 5 p.m.

The building committee’s executive said that although grateful for the generous support of All Saints Catholic High School where Sunday masses have been held for several years in the gym amid the basketball hoops; those parishioners welcome a more church-like setting.

St. Isidore, a landmark 124-year-old church, was taken down in July 2010 after it was clear that a rapidly growing parish family could not be adequately accommodated in the aging building, said the church building committee.

Years of emotional and intense planning and parishioner sacrifice have culminated in a new worship space that now completes the St. Isidore campus in Kanata north - next to an elementary school by the same name.

Dedicated, original stained-glass windows were restored by Northern Art Glass Inc., an Ottawa-based company that also custom-made a spectacular round recently donated window high behind the altar.

The steeple design has been replicated from the old church. The stone and noble coloured stucco visually unite the older rectory and parish hall. A large canopy serves as both a striking focal point and a protected drop-off entrance.

The lighted spire houses the restored 318-kilogram brass bell that will soon be calling the faithful on Sunday mornings.

Indoors, stone columns reach to the sky with lit beams made of B.C. fir.

In the foyer, a statue of St. Isidore (patron of farmers and rural communities) stands on a pedestal of original stone conserved from the former and once ex-

clusively-rural church.

Despite higher than expected excavation costs and rapidly increasing steel prices, the $5.5-million structure is on budget.

The generosity of more than 900 contributors (both Catholic and non-Catholic) allowed the church to be built in record time.

And funds continue to come in, said the church’s building executive committee.

“All monies collected go directly into building the church,” said Deacon Des Adam, “There are no free lunches - not even free coffee.”

With a seating capacity of 570, it meets all new provincial seismic building code standards and is a beautiful addition to March Road, said the church’s building committee.

Designed by Ralph Vandenberg of Vandenberg & Wildeboer Architects Inc., the building has timeless style and contemporary elegance to carry it into and beyond the next century, said the church’s building committee.

After years of provisional set-up, chairs will be stacked for the final time following mass at All Saints Catholic High School on Sunday, Dec. 11 at 10 a.m.

The new church will open its doors for 5 p.m. mass on Dec. 17 and again on Dec. 18 at 8:30, 10 and 11:30 a.m.

Christmas masses are scheduled for Dec. 24 at 4:30 p.m. (with a children’s pageant) 7:30 p.m. and 11:30 p.m. and Dec. 25 – 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. All are welcome.

Throughout 2012, regular services will be held on Saturdays at 5 p.m. and Sundays at 9 a.m. and 11 a.m.

An official dedication is planned for Saturday, Jan. 14, 2012 at 5 p.m., with Archbishop Terrence Prendergast presiding. More details are available from the parish office at 613-592-1961 or at http:// stisidorekanata.com.

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Premier Dalton McGuinty met student’s leaders at Glebe Collegiate on Nov. 30 to promote the Accepting Schools Act, which would give more power to schools in the province to punish bullies.

“It’s a very important first step,” he said. “So I’m thankful for it.”

The next step is to introduce legislation requiring schools to report a bully’s actions to their parents and ask them to come to the school to discuss their children’s actions.

“What are they going to do about it?” asked Hubley. “Why don’t we bring the parents in and say, here’s the situation, what are we going to do about it?

“Parents need to be responsible for their children, and if they can’t be responsible, we need to have the means to help these kids.”

Progressive Conservative MPP Elizabeth Witmer, a former education minister, tabled her own private member’s bill on bullying the same day as the Liberals theirs.

Though McGuinty admitted not having gotten a chance to read through the Witmer bill, he said he was looking forward to working with them.

“The most important thing is that they are both informed by the same objective,” he said.

“There is a lot that we have in common and I am convinced we can find a lot of common ground here.”

His comments were supported by PC MPP Lisa MacLeod, who represents Nepean-Carleton.

“The premier spoke about co-operation and we are speaking of co-operation and I think it can be done,” said MacLeod.

She said she was proud the two parties were all on the same page.

“We just need to continue to keep up that good will to get their bill and our bill together,” she said.

Najlla Sadaat, a Grade 12 student at Glebe Collegiate, said it was great to see the government taking action on the issue of bullying.

“I think it will help and it will make bullies think twice before they actually take an action,” said Sadaat.

“If we take it on step by step it will go away hopefully.”

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Bullies in Ontario schools could face expulsion under a new provincial bill introduced by the Liberal government last week at Queen’s Park.

Premier Dalton McGuinty was at Glebe Collegiate on Nov. 30 to promote the Accepting Schools Act, which would give more power to schools in the province to punish bullies while also ensuring schools can engage in early intervention to stop aggressive behaviour.

McGuinty told a group of Glebe students, many of whom were part of the school’s anti-bullying committee, the legislation was necessary because the government wanted to make such behaviour culturally unacceptable in the same way that drinking and driving or smoking have become.

“It is going to ensure that all our schools and school boards take concrete measures to identify bullying, intervene, prevent and ensure that they are progressive consequences all the way including expulsion,” said McGuinty.

He said through the legislation his government wanted to send a stronger signal that bullying would not be tolerated under any circumstances.

“We need to send a strong message to students in our schools that bullying is a very serious offence – serious misbehaviour, so serious that it can merit the most serious consequence that we have in our schools, which is expulsion,” he stressed.

He said the proposed legislation was geared towards making sure that all schools across the province provide a safe and secure environment that accepts all “our students regardless of their background.”

“We want to say no as a society to bullying and that begins in our schools,” McGuinty said.

Expelling a student who engaged in serious bullying was necessary, he said, to send a clear message that the behaviour was unacceptable. This would only happen as a last resort, however.

“Young bullies could turn into more dangerous older bullies which is why it is important that we provide necessary support for both bullies and the victims while they are still young in our schools,” McGuinty said. “In the most serious cases, bullying can lead tragedies where young people feel so helpless and hopeless that they take their own lives and we experienced that in our own community here in the case of Jamie Hubley.”

Hubley, the 15-year-old son of Kanata South Coun. Allan Hubley, had been bullied in school and struggled with depression before taking his own life in October.

During an interview with the KourierStandard the councillor said he supports the Liberals anti-bullying legislation.

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Plasco ready to take 300 tonnes of trash LAURA MUELLER Laura.mueller@metroland.com

The city’s proposed deal with Plasco would give Ottawa control over how much garbage it delivers to the facility to turn into electricity, and it wouldn’t require the city to invest in building the plant.

Councillors, including environment committee chairwoman Maria McRae, applauded the draft deal released on Friday, Dec. 2. It would see Ottawa-based Plasco Energy Group build the world’s first plasma gasification facility in Ottawa, near the Trail Road landfill site.

“It’s great to see us back here today with this potential breakthrough for waste in Ottawa,” McRae said.

The deal will be debated by the environment committee on Dec. 12 and by council just two days later. It would see the city agree to supply the facility with 300 tonnes of leftover garbage each day for 20 years.

The facility could be up and running as soon as June of 2013, which would make it the first of its kind in the world. The terms of the agreement state it would have to be operational by June of 2016 at the latest.

The city wouldn’t be on the hook for the capital investment of constructing the facility. The money would start to flow when Plasco’s operations get underway, and it would cost the city around $9.1 million a year to send waste to Plasco.

That means the tipping fee is $83.20 per tonne of garbage, compared to the $105 Durham Region will spend to send a tonne of garbage to its new incinerator.

It costs the city around $4.7 million net to operate the Trail Road landfill each year, but without reducing the amount of garbage Ottawa residents produce, that landfill will be full by 2035.

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Plasco CEO Rod Bryden addressed city councillors and the media during a Dec. 2 briefing on the company’s proposed deal with the city.

A more detailed report will be released on Dec. 5, with a lengthy presentation to follow at the Dec. 12 environment committee meeting.

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Plasco CEO Rod Bryden said it is unlikely the company would choose to keep its headquarters in Ottawa if the city rejected the deal.

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cling could add seven more years to the landfill’s life, but Plasco could add an additional 28 years, making the landfill useable until 2070, said Dixon Weir, the city’s manager of environmental services.

Plasco stands to generate 1.4 megawatt hours of electricity per tonne of garbage.

The city stands to earn revenue from the project, too, if all goes well.

If Plasco makes more than $34.1 million, the city receives the first $822,000 of that. If the company makes more than $37.4 million, the city receives 25 per cent of those additional revenues.

Because the city has partnered in the development of the technology since 2005, it will also receive a $5 “marketing fee” for every tonne processed at any other Plasco plant constructed in North America, up to a maximum of $3 million per year and a total of $18 million over the life of the contract.

The contract is the best deal the city could negotiate, according to city manager Kent Kirkpatrick.

“My opinion is that this contract has benefits in it for the City of Ottawa that other municipalities that follow won’t have, quite frankly,” he said.

After the plant is up and running, there would be a “ramp-up” period of three years, during which Plasco could reduce the amount of trash it takes from Ottawa.

While Plasco only has one chance to do that, the draft contract would allow the city to change the amount it must deliver to Plasco 15 times over the 20-year contract.

The plant will take all of Ottawa’s leftover residential garbage, and it doesn’t have to be sorted or contain certain percentages of different types of waste.

Plasco recently received a certificate of approval for its process from the provincial ministry of the environment.

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Police are seeking two suspects in connection with a robbery at a pharmacy in the 2900 block of Carling Avenue.

The robbery took place on Nov. 29. Suspects robbed the cashier of an undisclosed amount of cash.

Both are described as white men between 20 and 30 years of age. The first man was described as being 5’8” with a thin build and wearing a blue baseball cap, a grey and blue rain jacket and grey pants.

The second man was wearing a baseball cap, dark pullover and dark coloured pants.

The cashier was not injured in the robbery.

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Impaired driving and speeding on police’s radar in December OTTAWA POLICE Impaired driving and speeding are on the city’s selective traffic enforcement program (STEP) radar in December.

Impaired driving enforcement will be further bolstered with the city’s integrated road safety program teaming up with the CAA north and east Ontario to deliver additional Reduced Impaired Driving Everywhere (RIDE) checkpoints.

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and weather conditions also took its toll on Ottawa roads last year.

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Each month since 2004, it has been profiling and enforcing two initiatives that target specific traffic safety priorities.

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If the city wants to reduce the amount of road salt in its diet, it needs to get private property owners on board as well.

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It’s a strategy the city has recently subscribed to as the next step in its efforts to reduce the environmental impact and cost of dumping salt onto city roads, parking lots and sidewalks.

But the city can only control how much salt it uses on its own properties, and far more salt is used on private parking lots and paved areas, said Gloucester-South Nepean Coun. Steve Desroches, who was the driving force behind the summit.

In fact, about half of the salt that hits the ground in Ottawa each winter is on private property, said Bob Hodgins, the Smart About Salt Council’s executive director.

“I think the City of Ottawa can play a leadership role,” Desroches said.

The city is taking the lead by experimenting with a “brine” solution for deicing sidewalks that contains organic compounds, including beet juice, Desroches said.

“We’re going to continue to be aggressive with technology,” he said.

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“Too often we think that the private and public sectors are at odds,” Karakasis said.

“It’s great to see the city is on the same page.”

Karakasis said most of the people in attendance were enthusiastic about the concepts presented, especially because reducing salt use can lead to lower insurance rates because there is less chance of salt eroding structures on the property and making them unsafe or requiring more frequent, costly repairs.

The summit and a Smart About Salt training program offered early in November are the start of an “explosion” of salting contractors getting on board, Karakasis said.

Now that both the city and private property owners are thinking about road-salt use, they will be looking for contractors to be certified by the Smart About Salt program, Karakasis said.

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MARCH RURAL COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION The March Rural Community Association has invited Julie McKercher to its December meeting at the Old Town Hall, 821 March Rd., on Wednesday, Dec. 14, starting at 7:30 p.m.

McKercher is the rural community developer with the Western Ottawa Community Resource Centre, and she will be speaking to the audience about how she assists communities to increase participation and build on partnerships with other groups, in order to build safe and vibrant communities with increased resources.

The community association will be asking for her assistance and advice as it will soon be surveying its residents regarding how the community association

can best engage residents in a number of issues.

McKercher has been involved with the Constance Bay community and will be sharing lessons learned from their success in developing a resident-led initiative that has increased its volunteer base and is now engaged in carrying out a community consultation and action-planning.

Following this brief presentation the community association will enjoy its annual Christmas social, where we share cookies and snacks and take the opportunity to chat informally with friends and neighbours.

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New lactation consultation clinic for nursing mothers in Carleton Place desmond.devoy@metroland.com

Because babies and breasts don’t come with instruction manuals, a new drop in centre hopes to help new mums navigate the sometimes confusing world of breastfeeding.

Gisele Gobeil, a registered nurse and lactation consultant has started a new private breast-feeding drop-in centre at the back of the Ottawa Valley Midwives offices in Carleton Place.

It has been up and running at that location for about five weeks now, every Friday from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. She has also been running a Kanata drop-in clinic on Wednesdays from 1 to 3 p.m. at the Kanata Community Christian Reform Church, for three years with her business partner Sonya Boersma.

“The community health centres have breast-feeding drop-ins within the city, but (there are) none in the west end, and definitely none in Carleton Place,” said Gobeil, who hopes that the CP office reaches mothers in Perth, Almonte, Smiths Falls and surrounding area. “It’s less expensive than a home visit,” she added of the drop-in. “(But) I’ll drive up to an hour outside of the city to do home visits. I felt that Carleton Place isn’t a bad place for people to be coming from a lot of different angles.”

She admits that hers is a private practise – “I need to earn a living too” – but that no one is ever turned away if cost

is an issue. A mother also does not have to be a client of the Ottawa Valley Midwives to access her service.

“I find that women quit (breastfeeding) for the wrong reasons,” said Gobeil.

While some women experience pain while breast feeding, a surprising number of women have difficulty feeding their children naturally because of psychological blocks because of physical or mental abuse the mother may have, or may still be, suffering.

Breast feeding is also not exclusively feeding a baby from a woman’s breast.

“Breast feeding is what you personally define it to be,” said Gobeil.

Some women pump their breast milk and feed it to their child in a bottle, while other women breast feed, but “top up” their hungry baby with formula.

While choosing whether to breastfeed a child is a woman’s choice, Gobeil still sees a stigma in society about breastfeeding in public.

“In the shopping malls, there still has to be a lot of public education done with the public about breast feeding being the natural way to feed your baby,” said Gobeil. She noted that public breast feeding is legal throughout Canada.

“When I see a mum breastfeeding in public, I go up to her and congratulate her because she is doing what is best for her and her baby,” said Gobeil, before adding that “it is not for everybody and we respect that as well…(But) it’s too

easy to criticize people.”

She said she wanted her clinics to be a safe place for women to go to get support in a non-judgmental environment.

“It’s too easy to criticize people,” she said. “We’re always there for them.

You’re not abandoned.”

She did note that studies have shown that there is a decrease in cervical and breast cancer amongst women who breast feed, as well as heart disease, osteoporosis and even post-partum depression. There are health benefits for baby too, including a decline in juvenile diabetes, less ear infections, allergies, Crohns and colitis. It has also been found to be good for oral development.

“The longer you breast feed, the better,” said Gobeil.

In her experience, Gobeil has found that a poor latch is very often the culprit for breastfeeding problems.

“The causes could be a multitude of problems,” said Gobeil.

As one would expect, the clinic usually attracts women, but fathers are invited too, and they also play an important role in the decision a woman makes to breast feed their child.

“The most important person to have an impact on the mum if she will continue to breast feed is the father,” said Gobeil.

The clinic charges $20 for the first Carleton Place visit, and $10 for each visit thereafter. For Kanata patrons, the first fee is $30, and $15 thereafter. For details, please call 613-831-3180.

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Gisele Gobeil, registered nurse and private lactation consultant, holds her “practise baby” in the back meeting room of the Ottawa Valley Midwives offices in Carleton Place following her Friday afternoon consulting session.

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Community Calendar â&#x20AC;˘ SATURDAY, DEC. 10 Get in the seasonal spirit by joining the fun at the Mayorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 11th Annual Christmas Celebration from 2-6 p.m., at the Aberdeen Pavilion, Lansdowne Park.

â&#x20AC;˘ SUNDAY, DEC. 11 The Kanata Kiwanis presents the Kiwanis Idols in a â&#x20AC;&#x153;Do It For Daronâ&#x20AC;? fundraising dinner and concert from 6-10 p.m. at the Villa Lucia Supper Club, 3430 Carling Ave. Tickets are $40.

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

more info visit www.cbcstittsville.com, or call 613-836-2606.

â&#x20AC;˘ THURSDAY, DEC. 15

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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.

The next meeting of the Kanata and District Breast Cancer Support Group will be held at 7 p.m. in Hall D, Mlacak Centre, 2500 Campeau Dr., Kanata. For information, contact Jan at 613-592-4793.

The Katimavik-Hazeldean Community Association presents KHCA Christmas-Holiday Season Home Lights Contest.

Nominate the home that best lightens the night with an email to president@khca.on.ca. Include: street address of the nominated home, why you admire the decorations and your name and address. You may nominate your own home.

Deadline is Dec. 16. Prizes will be awarded to the top three homeowners and the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Best Block 2011.â&#x20AC;? Info: www.khca. on.ca.

â&#x20AC;˘ TUESDAY, DEC. 13 The Probus Club of Western Ottawa meets at 33 Leacock Dr., Kanata at 10 a.m. for coffee followed by a guest speaker. On Dec. 13, Jamie Lunn, born with only part of her right arm, will speak on â&#x20AC;&#x153;Being a member of the War Amputee Program.â&#x20AC;?

For further information call Pat Thompson at 613-591-1390.

â&#x20AC;˘ MONDAY, DEC. 12 Trinity Presbyterian Church will hold a Blue Christmas service for people dealing with personal loss and sadness starting at 7:30 p.m. The service will offer a time of prayer, candle lighting and song. Trinity is located at 110 McCurdy Dr. For information, contact Rev. Shaun Seaman at 613-836-1429.

Share your ideas about what you want in your library of the future at the pre-design consultation on the expansion of the Beaverbrook Library, at the Mlacak Centre from 7-9 p.m.

â&#x20AC;˘ SUNDAY, DEC. 18 Learn how to be a spy by closely examining the spy of all Christmas spies, the Grinch! Includes: story time, arts and crafts, cookies and hot chocolate and the chance to learn spy skills. From 1-3 p.m., 3911 Carp Rd., Carp. For ages 5-7. www.diefenbunker.ca, 613-839-0007. Contact administration@diefenbunker.ca to reserve a spot as space is limited!

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The Briarbrook and Morganâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Grant Community Association presents Christmas Lights Decorating Contest. Send an email to Christmas@bmgca.ca with the street address of the house you think is the best decorated by Dec. 16. You can nominate your own home. Judging will take place on Dec. 18. Prizes will be awarded to the top three decorated homes. Info: www.bmgca.ca.

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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. Drop-in from 10-11:30 a.m. at Community Bible Church, 1600 Stittsville Main St. For

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