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Local resource centres need your help

COVID-19 may have canceled Orléans’ annual Santa Claus parade, but it hasn’t canceled Gilles Leger’s light display in front of his home on Belcourt Boulevard. FRED SHERWIN PHOTO

By Fred Sherwin The Orléans Star The east end’s two community resource centres are appealing to area residents to help make up for the loss in third-party fundraising efforts canceled due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

In years past, the Orléans Cumberland Community Resource Centre (OCCRC) and the Eastern Ottawa Resource Centre (EORC) have been the beneficiaries of a number of holiday events including the Lions Magical Village and the Orléans Christmas Choirfest, both of which have been canceled this year. The Navan Christmas Craft Show and the National Capital Artisans Traditions Christmas Craft Show, which traditionally collect food and monetary donations for the resource centres in lieu of admission, have also been canceled.

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The COVID-19 pandemic has hit the resource centres with a double whammy. It has driven up demand, while limiting fundraising efforts, making it that much more important for contributions from the general public.

The OCCRC has several ways in which residents and local businesses can help make the holiday season a little brighter for area families experiencing financial hardship.

The first way is to sponsor a family. When you register to sponsor a family, you can choose the size of the family based on how much you’re able to donate. Sponsoring a family of two requires a $170 donation. A family of three requires a $180 donation and so on. You also have an option of providing each child in the family with one or more gift cards.

The second way to help families in need is CONTINUED ON PAGE 2

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the Angel Tree program enables individuals, families and businesses to donate to the resource centre which in turn uses the funds to purchase gift cards for families in need so the parents can use them to purchase gifts for their families.

The EORC which serves the portion of Orléans west of Queenswood Heights including the communities of Avalon, Chateauneuf, Chapel Hill, Convent Glen and Blackburn Hamlet, is also accepting donations for its Christmas programs.

Other ways you can help out the two resource centres is to make a donation to the food bank or the Salvation Army’s Toy Mountain campaign.

To contact the Orléans Cumberland Community Resource Centre call 613 8304357. Likewise, to contact the Eastern Ottawa Resource Centre call 613-741-6025. For more information about the Toy Mountain campaign visit www.ottawaboothcentre.org.

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East end COVID cases hit two-week plateau

By Fred Sherwin The Orléans Star According to the latest data released by Ottawa Public Health, the rate of community spread of the COVID-19 virus has plateaued in the east end.

During the two-week period between Nov. 2 and Nov. 16, a total of 85 people tested positive for the coronavirus in the east end’s three municipal wards – Orléans Ward, Innes Ward and Cumberland Ward.

That compares to 86 people who tested positive during the previous two period from Oct. 19 to Nov. 2.

Looking at the wards individually, there were 31 new cases in Orléans Ward between Nov. 2 and Nov. 16 compared to 25 new cases during the previous two-week period; there were 13 new cases in Innes Ward, down from 29; and 41 new cases in Cumberland ward, up from 32.

Unfortunately, the numbers in the east end are not reflective of the city as a whole which saw a 37 per cent drop in new cases

in the two-week period between Nov. 2 and Nov. 16 – going from 969 between Oct. 19 and Nov. 2 to 607 new cases.

The decrease in new cases city-wide is reflected in a lower positivity rate which has gone from a high of 4.1 per cent on Oct. 28 to 1.6 per cent on Nov. 15.

Six students, five staff test positive at École élémentaire catholique Des Pionniers

The number of student cases in the east end has gone up dramatically from 13 on Nov. 6 to 21 as of last Friday. However, more than half of the cases are confined to two schools in the French Catholic school board.

According to the province-wide list of schools reporting at least one positive case of COVID-19, 7 students at École élémentaire catholique De la Découverte in Avalon had tested positive for the coronavirus between Nov. 6 and Nov. 20, while six students and five staff members had tested positive at École élémentaire catholique Des Pionniers

in Fallingbrook during the same two-week period.

Elsewhere, two students tested positive at École secondaire publique Louis-Riel and École secondaire catholique Béatrice-

Desloges; two students tested positive at St Matthew High School; and one student each tested positive at Good Shepherd Elementary School in Blackburn Hamlet and St Theresa Elementary School in Avalon.

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Orléans designer creates face mask for deaf and hard of hearing

By Fred Sherwin The Orléans Star Graphic designer Jody Maffett didn’t think COVID would affect her life all that much back in March. After all, she’s worked from home for a very long time and her hearing – or lack of it – hadn’t posed much of a problem.

“I am great at communicating via text and e-mail. If I need to go to a meeting, I make sure I can see everyone’s faces because I read lips,” says Maffett.

But COVID proved to be a unique challenge when she – who is the only driver in her household – went grocery shopping after the mandatory face mask requirement was implemented.

“It was really tough at first. I mean, it shouldn’t be that difficult a transaction, right? But all of a sudden, the world changed.”

Maffett developed an interim system that helped her function reasonably well, but it involved a lot of finger pointing and waving her hands around.

It’s really difficult in stores where they have to tell you which checkout aisle to go to. In her case, Maffett has to walk up to

the person and ask them to indicate which aisle to go to using their fingers.

“Being hard of hearing or deaf is an invisible disability – I’ve lived with it since I was a teenager, so I’m used to telling people to look at me when they speak,” says Maffett.

While most people are understanding and accommodating, because they can’t see the disability, they forget – sometimes in seconds – which is why Maffett started searching online for face masks that could communicate for her. In the early days, people were sending her images of face masks with clear film over the mouth.

“Those are terrific, but only if the other person is wearing one. I’m not going to buy a bunch and hand them out wherever I go,” she laughs.

When Maffett failed to find anything appropriate, she made a couple by hand.

People often stopped her and asked where she got them. So she took her love of typography and went ahead and had a batch made professionally. She then posted her creation on Facebook and waited to see if there was any interest – she was inundated with requests. They sold out quickly.

Graphic designer Jody Maffett models the face mask she designed.

FRED SHERWIN PHOTO The phrasing ‘I AM HEARING IMPAIRED’ has not been entirely welcome by those who prefer the terms deaf and hard of hearing. “I just wanted a short and sweet message that got the point across. That said, I am compiling a list of people who have said they want masks that say ‘I AM DEAF’ or ‘I AM HARD OF HEARING’.”

Jody currently has a two options of masks (quantities are limited): 180 gsm cotton and 100% recycled polyester. The cotton ones sell for $12, while the polyester are $20.

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A reason for optimism The news that the entire world has been waiting for finally arrived last week with the announcement that two vaccines being developed to combat the COVID-19 virus have been found to be more than 90 per cent effective during Stage 3 trials.

It didn’t talk long for the mainstream media to jump to the unscientific conclusion that mass immunization could be possible by the spring. But that may be overly optimistic at best and mere wishful thinking at worst for several reasons.

First, the announcements were made by the pharmaceutical companies that are developing the respective vaccines and by press release no less.

Second, the companies in question – Pfizer and Moderna – offered little in the way of actual safety data. Third, the results of the Stage 3 trials are still under peer review, the positive results of which are critical to their continued development, mass production and widespread application.

For one thing, there is scant little data on how effective the vaccines will be on the elderly and those with compromised immune systems and other underlying health conditions. For another, it’s still not known whether the vaccines will prevent transmission of the COVID-19 virus, or mainly just prevent people from getting seriously ill. Those are a lot of unanswered questions. Still, it’s hard not to be optimistic.

If the vaccines are found to be safe and just as effective among the senior population and others at high risk as they are among the general population, then they will provide the light at the end of the pandemic tunnel everyone is hoping for. And the light will grow even brighter when other vaccine candidates join the parade such as Oxford-AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson which are not far behind Pfizer and Moderna.

Other companies in the vaccine race include Sanofi, GlaxoSmithKline and Novavax. When it comes to fighting a global pandemic the more the merrier.

If all goes well – and that’s a big if – the very first Canadians could be getting vaccinated as early as January.

The Canadian government has already spent $1 billion to buy at least 154 million doses of vaccines from the five aforementioned drug companies, nearly all of which have been producing vast quantities of their vaccines to the tune of hundreds of millions of doses in the hope they will be found to be safe and effective.

That’s good news for Canadians. It means that Canada will be among the first countries in the world that will be in a position to mass immunize it’s population. The next big unanswered question is whether or not our federal, provincial and municipal governments will be ready to implement a mass immunization program when the vaccines begin arriving.

The optimist in me thinks they will be. I also believe it will happen as early as April or May. Of course, that may be wishful thinking on my part, but as we enter what will be a very long winter, optimism is a welcome companion.

– Fred Sherwin, editor

Fredrick C. Sherwin, Editor & Publisher fsherwin@orleansstar.ca The Orléans Star is a bi-weekly publication distributed to 44,000 residences in Blackburn Hamlet, Orléans and Navan. The newspaper is locally owned and operated by Sherwin Publishing Inc., 745 Farmbrook Cres., Orléans, ON. Inquiries and delivery issues should be sent to info@orleansstar.ca.

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Ford government fails to address looming climate change threat This past week, the Auditor General of Ontario The government has used the COVID-19 pandemic released several audits on the governments perfor- as an excuse to undermine important environmental mance on reducing greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) regulations. and protecting the environment.

The Auditor General revealed that the Environment Her conclusions were startling.

Ministry used a regulation to susReducing greenhouse gas emispublic consultation requireQueen’s pend sions is still not a government-wide ments. However, only 9 of 276 Park priority. exempted proposals were urgent The Ontario Government’s inacand related to COVID-19.

Corner tion in several important areas will The auditor found the governmean Ontario risks missing its 2030 ment has little capacity to monitor Stephen Blais carbon reduction targets. species at risk. There are roughly Twenty-four percent of Ontario’s GHGs come from 2,200 species at risk in Ontario and about 75 per energy use in buildings like natural gas to heat our cent are found within lands that are protected by the homes and commercial buildings. province. Due to understaffing the province has almost The Auditor General concluded the government no information about how these species at risk are has made little progress on addressing these GHGs doing. and has no effective monitoring or enforcement for Perhaps most concerning is the fact that there are energy efficiency standards. no targets for conserving water, decreasing hazardous In her report on the Ontario Governments compli- and toxic substances in products, improving the ance with the Environmental Bill of Rights (EBR) the water quality of lakes, or protecting and recovering auditor had equally concerning conclusions. endangered species. You can’t track what you don’t The Auditor General found that multiple govern- measure. ment ministries were in non-compliance with their Ontarians expect their government to take action responsibilities under the EBR. on addressing the existential threat posed by climate She also concluded the Ministry of the Environment, change. In addition to taking little action to reach Conservation and Parks is not leading by example climate change goals, the government exploited the when it comes to Ontario’s environment. pandemic to undermine environmental regulations.

Health Canada needs to up its game during vaccine void Another month, another column and another winter is upon us. Over the last two weeks, I’ve stared out the front window and seen my neighbours hard at work stringing Christmas lights across bushes, trees and eavestroughs. And many of them are going all out in 2020 compared to previous years.

Can’t say I blame them, given that it’s going to be a long, dark and quasiquarantine atmosphere over the next four months. A little artificial cheer to brighten up those 12- to 14-hour spans without sunshine over the next six to eight weeks is appreciated. On a positive note, some promising vaccine candidates are on the horizon.

But be patient – if you are in good health, it will be late spring or summer 2021 before you get you jab, or jabs, in the arm.

Keeping with the pink skies and shiny unicorns vibe, we are about halfway through the pandemic. By Labour Day next year, air travel, cruising, organized sports and arts events, along with mass gatherings will tepidly begin again.

How we spend our time, and our money, between now and then will be important.

Walter Robinson Guest Column Orléans Star readers already know where I stand on support for local businesses and community groups. Thanks for all you are doing and please do more, it is more important than ever.

Earlier I mentioned watching the neighbours from my window. I would have helped but was spending 14 days in self-isolation. Fear not, we were not sick.

Instead we were abiding by the Quarantine Act after spending a week away on a Caribbean beach. A First World hardship, but instructive in other ways.

Planning for our fortnight of relative isolation was interesting. How much food does a couple need, can the freezer accommodate all of it and do we have enough toilet paper? Do medicines need

to be refilled and of course, do we have enough wine? Wink wink.

Upon our return, the border officials in Toronto were very clear, once you get to Ottawa, go straight home, do not communicate with others, no gas, mailbox, or check-ins with friends and we dutifully complied. Over the next 14 days the farthest I have ventured from my house was six metres (twice) to put garbage and recycling at the end of my driveway…wearing a mask and using gloves each time.

Luckily for us, we have a stone patio in our backyard and a table and chairs set on the porch. As well, the weather was unseasonably warm for the first week of our isolation. Garage workouts were helpful to keep the body moving along with a great selection of books and a buffet of binge-watching options.

Nonetheless, it was a relief to be able to leave my property and walk to the mailbox this past weekend although I felt a tad winded after such exertion. After two weeks of scraping together a paltry fourthousand steps per day, this little jaunt

seemed like a 5km run.

My a-ha moment from this experience is a greater empathy for what self-isolation or lockdown must have been like for those who live in apartments and seniors in their residences or long-term care facilities this past spring. For some folks, this was an eight- to 14-week affair and sadly, they will see a few periods of extended isolation in the coming months.

Even the most introverted amongst us need some form of external stimulation and a modicum of social interaction.

A Tom Hanks-esque stoic existence as Chuck in the film Cast Away painting and talking to a Wilson volleyball is not fun.

Health Canada needs to up its game before the end of 2020 and approve rapid tests, serological analyses and other interventions so the first six months of 2021 can be one of better contact tracing, targeted isolations and quarantines only when necessary.

Weeks and months of lockdowns for our most vulnerable need to be the rarest exception, not the broadest rule in response to COVID-19.

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COMMUNITY BRIEFS Orléans Poppy Campaign raises over $100K despite pandemic challenges

ORLÉANS – Orléans residents have once again demonstrated their immense generosity by donating over $100,000 to the this year’s Poppy Campaign. The ongoing COVID pandemic forced the Orléans Legion Poppy committee to come up with some innovative ways to collect donations including several drive-thru sites where members of the public could make a donation and pick up their poppies, or purchase Lest We Forget face masks and lawn signs. In past years, funds raised through the local Poppy Campaign have been used to purchase equipment for Perley and Rideau Veterans’ Health Centre, provide funding to the Military Family Resource Centre, the local Army and Air Cadet groups, Heroes Mending On The Fly Canada and the Calabogie Peaks adaptive winter sports program for military veterans with disabilities. Other funds have been used to help pay for medical aids such as hearing aids, wheelchairs or walkers for veterans or their widows or widowers, or to help them out if they find themselves in financial crisis.

Christmas Angel fundraising initiative moves online ORLÉANS – Every December for the past eight years, a group of regulars at Taproom 260 (formally D’Arcy McGee’s) have organized a night of live music to raise money for families with children undergoing cancer treatment. When it became apparent the COVID pandemic would force the cancellation of this year’s live event, the group of friends was determined to find another way to hold their Christmas Angel fundraiser.

And so, starting on Dec. 1, people will be able to visit Taproom260.com and purchase raffle tickets for more than 20 great prizes. Twelve of the prizes will be unveiled on the website each day between Tuesday, Dec. 1 and Saturday, Dec. 12, when all the winning tickets will be drawn. The raffle tickets will be available both online and at the restaurant on Centrum Blvd. The tickets will be $10 each, or 3 for $20. Proceeds from the raffle will be used to purchase gift cards for the families which will be chosen in collaboration with the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario. “Hopefully we can help out a few families and shed some happiness during this terrible time,” says co-organizer Pat Lowell.

City establishes COVID-19 vaccine distribution task force

ORLÉANS – In order to ensure readiness when COVID-19 vaccines become available to Canadians, the City of Ottawa is proactively creating a Vaccine Distribution Task Force under the leadership of Emergency and Protective Services with key stakeholders such as Ottawa Public Health and in coordination with the City’s Emergency Operations Centre. The Task Force will develop a comprehensive plan for vaccine distribution in Ottawa, working with key stakeholders to develop strategies for the orderly and coordinated distribution of possible vaccines. The plan will include consideration of internal and external partners, vulnerable populations, the ongoing work of the city’s Human Needs Task Force and will include the development of an associated communications plan. The Task Force will also monitor developments and refine its planning in response to updates from senior levels of government, public health authorities, pharmaceutical companies and internal and external stakeholders. Until vaccines become available, Ottawa Public Health reiterates that it is imperative for all residents to continue to adhere to local public health guidelines to limit the spread of COVID-19 in our community.

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(L to r) Innes Ward Coun. Laura Dudas, Orléans MP Marie-France Lalonde, Orléans MPP Stephen Blais, Orléans Ward Coun. Matt Luloff, and Cumberland Ward Coun. Catherine Kitts join Sonshine executive director Len Goddard (third from left) in cutting the ribbon for the Sonshine Community Inclusion Centre. FRED SHERWIN PHOTO

Sonshine opens Community Inclusion Centre in Orléans STAR STAFF – Orléans special needs residents now have a new hub to access local services, thanks to the efforts of the Sonshine organization which recently opened the firstever Community Inclusion Centre.

Located at 3735 St. Joseph Blvd. between Tenth Line and Trim Road, the Community Inclusion Centre is equipped with six private classrooms including an accessible computer lab and life skills room; two large activity spaces with a removable wall to make one large room; a learning kitchen; two barrier-free washrooms with ceiling track lifts and adjustable height change tables; and two Snoezelen rooms specially

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There is also a plan to create a nearby sensory garden in the spring.

The 6,000 square foot facility was built with proceeds from both the federal and provincial levels of government, as well as several private donors including Home Depot, InSpired Signs, Kitchens by Design, Pathway Hyundai, Zodiac, Surgenor, REM Charrette and Omegema Insurance.

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Artists of all stripes need our support to survive the pandemic

Ward boundary review final report ignores concerns of rural residents

While I’ve alluded to my love of the arts in the past, I thought I’d take this opportunity to dedicate this column to my friends and colleagues who we’ve increasingly turned to over the course of this pandemic, but are reaping little to none of the benefits of the extra attention they are receiving as of late.

The cards, under even favourable conditions, are stacked against our artists. Musicians survive on the shows that they play and any music that they produce, at a high cost, represents a mere calling card for the talent they share with us. While we are seeing higher output from our favourite musicians, either in the form of livestreams, or recorded material, this represents such a minuscule amount of their overall earning potential, with subscription services providing an incredible distribution platform but without providing the level of earnings required to survive on this income alone.

It’s the venues, the live engineers and promoters that really make the difference

In January, city council launched a review In my first week at City Hall, I met with of Ottawa’s ward boundaries. Late last week, the consultants and shared the community’s the final report was released and it has sig- concerns along with suggestions on how nificant implications for their concerns could be Cumberland Ward. addressed.

Ward boundaries are Disappointingly, the reviewed periodically to final report does not balance population numreflect my feedback and bers and ensure effective maintains creating a new representation. Due to suburban ward and mergCumberland Ward 19 population growth new ing rural Cumberland boundaries are desired in with Osgoode Ward. advance of the 2022 municipal election.

One significant change adds the developed In July, prior to the by-election and while area of Cumberland Ward along the Ottawa Cumberland Ward was without a councillor, River, all the way to the eastern boundary of independent consultants presented city Ottawa, to Orléans Ward. council with five options for re-configuring The Ottawa Ward Boundary Review 2020 Ottawa’s wards. A sixth option was presented Recommendations Report is to be considered to council in August. In all six options, a by the City’s finance and economic developnew suburban ward is created in suburban ment committee on Dec. 1 and by city Cumberland and the rural portion of council on Dec. 9. The full report and map Cumberland is merged with Osgoode Ward. are available on the City’s website.

During my campaign, I heard strong I will continue to voice my opposition opposition from the ward’s rural residents to what has been proposed for Cumberland against this change. Many of them were Ward and I am counting on my council concerned about the geographic size of the colleagues for their support. Should you new ward; the impact on the francophone wish to share your feedback with me please community; and the loss of a rural contact my office at catherine.kitts@ottawa. representative on council. ca or 613-580-2489.

for our artists. The merchandise, records and door sales at live shows are what make it all worth it for the fledgling musician. Likewise, it’s the vernissages and residencies that make up the bulk of opportunities for earnings and exposure for visual artists. I despise that word, exposure – it is often offered as a form of payment for artistic service – it is not.

So what can we do in this time of isolation?

Well, after you stream that new record by Jacquie Neville, Radmore, Area Resident, Twin Flames, or Blinker the Star, buy it!

In physical form or digitally, proactively find a way to support the artist.

Same goes for the Dan Martelocks, Marc Ardonatos or Sean Sisks of Ottawa – don’t just scroll and like, pick up a cool, new piece for your living room. Buy a gift for a relative. Contact the artist directly and order a shirt, album or painting. It might mean the difference between having the opportunity after the pandemic and not. In these dark times, we turn to the light of our artists. Let’s support them.

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Cumberland studio offers unique one-of-a-kind gifts STAR STAFF – Looking for something unique for that special person on your Christmas list? Well, there is a store just 10 minutes from Orléans that offers one-ofa-kind gift items made by local artists and artisans in nearly every price range.

What is the name of this magical place you ask? It is the Da Artisti Studio and Gallery located in Cumberland Village, just a short drive away.

The studio specializes in fused glasswork made by the owner Wendy Canci along with unique jewelry, printed scarves, framed paintings and sculptures, and natural unscented soaps and lotions by R&R Soaps.

Among the local artists featured at Da Artisti is Deborah Lyall, who specializes in fibre and textile art. She is also a professional art framer who turns excess pieces into unique “Gallery Bees” which come with key and a special message to the recipient that they are loved. The Bees start at $25.

You can also find cherry wood cribbage boards made by former Cumberland mayor Brian Coburn at the studio alongside fine wood designs by Ron Lacroix and breathtaking wood-burning art created by his wife and partner Joanne Lacroix.

But what Da Artisti Studio and Gallery is most well-known for is the fused glasswork created by its owner Wendy Canci. From gorgeous wall hangings and decorative bowls

to fused glass night lights and key chains, no two pieces are alike. The multi-coloured pieces come to life as the light is reflected off each glass element.

You won’t find anything like it in Orléans.

The same can be said for the stained glass creations by Diana Atkinson and paintings

by Cumberland artist Danielle Beaulieu.

The biggest challenge that Wendy Canci has is in convincing residents living in Orléans that the studio is not as far away as they may think.

“People talk all the time about going to studios in Merrickville, but we are a lot closer and we carry a wide variety of art pieces created by some very talented local artists,” says Wendy.

The quality of the artwork can not be overstated. You would have to travel to the Byward Market or further afield to get the same type of craftmanship you will find at the Da Artisti Studio and Gallery.

The gallery also carries unique one-ofkind handmade jewellery by Barbara Ham, Nathalie Brunelle and Janet Evans that are very affordable.

In fact, almost everything at Da Artisti can fit into any Christmas shopping budget, or you can simply purchase a Da Artisti gift certificate which can be redeemed for merchandise or classes at a later date.

Da Artisti is open Wednesday to Friday

Among the creations you will find at the Da Artisti Studio and Gallery in Cumberland Village are fused glass creations by owner Wendy Canci (top), fibre and textile art by Deborah Lyall (right) and handmade jewelry by Janet Evens, Barbara Ham and Nathalie Brunelle. STAR PHOTOS from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Saturdays and Sundays from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. They are closed on Mondays and Tuesdays.

You can visit their website at www.daartisti.ca or their Facebook page at www.facebook.com/DaArtisti.

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Work on Orléans Health Hub more than 80% complete

By Fred Sherwin The Orléans Star If you’ve driven down Mer Bleue Road anytime recently, you may have noticed a large glass building on the northeast corner of the traffic circle at Brian Coburn Boulevard.

The building is the future home of the Orléans Health Hub, a project that has been in the making for more than 10 years.

The concept of a multi-disciplinary health centre to serve the residents of Orléans was first put forward by former Ontario premier Dalton McGuinty in 2009 at the behest of former Ottawa-Orléans MPP Phil McNeely.

A number of funding and planning delays followed until the facility was included in the 2017 budget by Kathleen Wynne who succeeded McGuinty as premier in 2013.

The job of building the health hub and deciding which services will be provided in the facility was left up to the Montfort Hospital and the Local Health Integration Network.

Construction began in 2019 and has continued unabated except for a brief suspension in work during the early stages of the pandemic shutdown last spring.

The 96,000 square foot facility is now more than 80 per cent complete and is on schedule to open next summer. Whether or not the current COVID-19 pandemic will delay those plans is anybody’s guess.

The only thing that’s certain is that if a vaccine is available by that time, the health hub will play a central role in any mass vaccination program. Until then, work will continue on the inside of the building through the winter and into the spring.

At some point, when it’s completed and normalized health care returns, the health hub will provide integrated services for newborns to seniors including diagnostic and treatment services in the areas of mental health, pediatrics, geriatrics, out-patient support services and rehabilitation services.

In the meantime, the Montfort Foundation must raise $12 million it committed to as part

of the $87 million project. A recent donation by former JDS Uniphase executive Yves Tremblay and his wife, Sylvie Villeneuve, totaling $1 million, has brought the total amount raised so far to $3 million.

Montfort Foundation board chair Ron

Caza is confident they will raise the remainder of the money by the time the ribbon cutting ceremony is held next summer and the doors are opened to the public.

For more information about the Orléans Health Hub, visit theorleanshealthhub.com.

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Keeping Our Distance Is Bringing Us Together

It’s a challenging time for all of us.

When the time arrives, we’ll be re-opening our doors and welcoming new homeowners to discover our wonderful community.

Until then, stay safe, follow government guidelines and respect your neighbours.

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