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With a star glowing above, with students singing with angeliclike voices, with a Christmas tree becoming a beacon of light, with a nativity scene happening in a wooden stable – it all combined to bring the true spirit of Christmas to the atrium at Sacred Heart Catholic High School in Stittsville on Thursday evening, Dec. 1. It was the first-ever family tree lighting liturgy and ceremony held at the school, with over 200 parents, families, guests and students filling the atrium for the event. Sacred Heart principal Cindy Owens, in welcoming everyone to this inaugural tree lighting event at the school, noted that holding such a ceremony shows the unique sense of Catholic community which prevails at the school. She praised the creativity of both students and staff in developing the concept, noting that it was a joint idea of both the student council and its teacher advisors. A parade of lights led off the ceremony, with students carrying
candles to the foot of the stable which would later be the focus of a nativity scene. And what more appropriate hymn to open the ceremony with but the always moving “Silent Night.” Sacred Heart chaplaincy leader Richmond Guillermo delivered the opening prayer, asking for God’s blessing for all on the four week journey through Advent. Following a scripture reading, the tall tree in the three-storey atrium was lit in a threefold ceremony – the bottom third, the middle third and then the top third were illuminated, resulting in a tree that was a glow of lights. It was a time for awe, for thanks, for believing. And what better way to do this than with the singing of “O Come All Ye Faithful,” calling everyone to the celebration of God’s presence on earth. The voices of the angels in heaven could not have filled the atrium with more vocal beauty than did the student choir as it sang the words of this traditional Christmas hymn. “O Come Let Us Adore Him, Christ the Lord” rarely has sounded so appealing and inviting. See TREE LIGHTING, page 2
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WESTWIND RECORDER Westwind Public School student Clayton Sibthorpe plays a recorder at a recent assembly at the school in Stittsville.
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Munster residents want their community to stay as it is. This was the message delivered at a public meeting on Thursday evening, Dec. 1 at the Goulbourn Town Hall (former Goulbourn municipal building) at Stanley’s Corners, held by city of Ottawa staff to report on the findings of a series of consultations held last spring with residents of the city’s villages. See NO CHANGE, page 30
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Tree lighting at Sacred Heart After a weekend filled with very exciting Christmas events throughout Rideau-Goulbourn, my focus, as has been the case quite often in this first year, shifts to garbage. This time, it’s Plasco. This week, a report on Plasco’s ability to process the City of Ottawa’s residual waste was released, to be tabled for full discussion and vote at the Environment Committee on December 12. Just to provide some background, in June 2008, City Council authorized staff to finalize and execute a Letter of Intent for a full scale waste conversion agreement with Plasco. Furthermore, Council delegated the City Manager to execute such an agreement pending Certificate of Approval from the Ministry of the Environment. For those of you who may be unaware, Plasco is an Ottawa-based company specializing in plasma gasification as a method to convert garbage into energy. The surprising thing about the directive from Council in 2008 is that it never actually required the agreement to come back to Council. Thankfully, our City Manager has veered from this directive giving our current Council an opportunity to speak to the agreement and either approve or dismiss it. With the history behind us, let’s look at some key points about this agreement. The proposed agreement with Plasco is a 20 year contract with four 5 year options, meaning the potential life of this deal is a maximum 40 years. The City would be obligated to provide nearly 110,000 cubic tonnes of waste each year, or 300 tonnes per day. That number is just over half the residual waste that goes into the Trail Road Landfill each year. Whereas our goal continues to be reduce, reuse, and recycle, staff have figured out a number (300 tonnes/ day) that would still be achievable throughout the course of the contract. What does this mean for the goal of “Zero Waste”? That’s a question that will definitely be asked at next week’s Environment Committee meeting.
From page 1 Students Tim Hickey and Ashleigh Mount delivered the prayer intentions, followed by a closing prayer and the uplifting hymn “Joy to the World.” But this was not the end. Tim Hickey then recited a spiritual version of “The Night Before Christmas,” assisted by students who portrayed various roles as they acted out a nativity scene centred on the wooden stable in the atrium. These students included Andrea Dias Soonets as Mary, Spencer Donnelly as Joseph, Erin Hansen and Dakota Sabourin as angels, Bryden Bekkers as a shepherd and Tyler Nield, Jeremy Francispillai and Joshua Woodruff as the three wise men. The tree was decorated with Christmas balls, 75 in all, representing the students, teachers and staff at Sacred Heart. Bells, doves and a paper chain, all symbols in their own right, were added to the tree decorations as well. The tree lighting ceremony, which ended just before 7 p.m., 45 minutes
On the financial side of things, Plasco assumes the financial risk involved with building their facility. The City would have to pay a tipping fee of $83/tonne, compared to $93/tonne at Orgaworld and $105/tonne at the proposed incinerator in Durham. Another difference between the Durham incinerator and the Plasco plant is capital costs. The Regional Municipality of Durham will pay $272 Million to get their plant up and running whereas the City of Ottawa pays nothing to build the facility by Plasco. If approved, Plasco will begin operating its commercial facility between 2014-16. It’s estimated that with this agreement with Plasco, the life of the Trail Road landfill will be extended by 100%, meaning there will be enough room to keep the landfill operational until 2070. It all sounds good on the surface, but what are your thoughts? I will learn more about this agreement this week and at Committee on December 12 before the vote and full Council will vote on this agreement on December 14. Please let me know what you think about this agreement with Plasco. Did 2008 Council make the right decision in moving forward with Plasco? Is this Ottawa-based solution the best option for our municipal waste? Email me your thoughts at Scott.Moffatt@ottawa.ca or call me at 613-580-2491.
after it began at 6:15 p.m., was followed by a number of family activities and fellowship opportunities. This included sipping hot chocolate and apple cider while youngsters got to decorate cookies and colour candy canes. Funds raised at this tree
lighting ceremony through the accepting of donations for ornaments and snowflakes are going to the CHEO Mental Health Art Therapy Program, the Shepherds of Good Hope Women’s Program and the Stittsville and Richmond Food Banks.
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Sacred Heart Catholic High School student Ashleigh Mount, left, reads a prayer intention as student Tim Hickey, right, listens at the tree lighting liturgy and ceremony which was held at the school in Stittsville on Thursday evening, Dec. 1.
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EDITORIAL
Christmas lights A big part of Christmas, especially preparations for this most awaited of holidays, is the putting up of Christmas lights. It can be on the house or on an adjacent tree or on bushes or, well, just about anywhere. Driving around the streets of Stittsville and Richmond these days, there are many, many homes which are aglow with Christmas lights. It’s one of the most wonderful things leading up to Christmas and really gets you in the spirit. Many homeowners and businesses spend a lot of time putting up their Christmas lights and decorations. We think that it would be a good thing if these efforts were recognized in some way. We
would suggest that the Stittsville Village Association, for instance, should implement a Christmas lights contest for the community, with recognition certificates presented to the winners in both a residential class and in a commercial class. Perhaps the Stittsville Village Association could partner with Ontario Hydro (after all, it’s their electricity that people are using) in such an endeavour. The hardest part of it all may be judging as judges would have to drive around all of the streets in the community, checking out the best lit homes and businesses. But this can certainly be done and could add a marvelous touch to the pre-Christmas activities in the community.
But other than organizing the judging, such a contest is a slamdunk, quite simply because homeowners and businesses are putting up these Christmas lights and decorations in any case. They are not doing it to enter a contest; they are doing it to get in the Christmas spirit, to maintain a family tradition, or to just have some fun in the days leading up to Christmas. So, the lights are there; the efforts have been made; all that has to be done is judge the results. We think it’s a great way to enhance community spirit and give some recognition to those who go above and beyond and create a spectacular, eye-catching display of Christmas lights. We hope it happens.
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Why paying for hospital parking is good for you Among 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 EightyFour, 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 en-
CHARLES GORDON vironment. “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, 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. The irony of it all is that many of the complaints about paying for hospital parking spaces would disappear if it were actually possible to find them. True, at some hospitals, such as the Riverside, parking seems ample, but at others, such as the Civic, parking is literally and figuratively at a premium.
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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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Pewter at library JOHN CURRY Pewter has staying power, no doubt about it. It earliest piece made from pewter is from an Egyptian tomb dating to 1450 BC. But despite its ancient beginnings, pewter today remains a desirable material for many. What can be done with pewter today can be seen in a display that is currently on exhibit in the display case in the ArtSpace area at the Stittsville branch of the Ottawa Public library. It features over 30 pieces of the handmade pewter pieces made by Ottawa pewtersmith Colin Hamer, ranging from mugs to jugs to plates to goblets to candle holders. The display will be at the library for the month of December. Mr. Hamer is one of only a few Canadian pewtersmiths – a craftsperson who can form and shape a sheet of pewter by hand using hammers or can shape a pewter disc against forms on a lathe or can combine simple pewter shapes into more complex ones such as tea pots, jugs, candle holders and oil lamps. His designs range from classical, traditional pieces to more modern designs. He has over 100 different pieces in his online catalogue. His pewter pieces on display at the Stittsville library are very shiny and bright. This is the look of new pewter. Over the years, a pewter object becomes duller and gray due to handling. Colin Hamer can be contacted at 613-829-0146 or by email at pewter@hamer.ca. His website can be found at www.hamerpewter.com.
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You can now enjoy all that Mother Nature has to offer along the Trans Canada Trail west of Stittsville without leaving home. That’s because much of what can be seen along this portion of the Trans Canada Trail, from wildlife to plants to sunsets to scenery, can now be found in a newly published coffee-table style book by Stittsville photographer Sylvie Sabourin. This new book, entitled “Emotions,” a name which works in both English and French in keeping with the bilingual nature of the book’s text, features over 170 colour photographs capturing scenes from all four seasons of the year along this stretch of the Trans Canada Trail from Stittsville west to just past the Jinkinson Road. “It all came together for me at this point in my life,” says Sylvie about how this book, her first ever, came to the published. A noted photographer who has her own photographic exhibitions on occasion, Sylvie has been taking photographs along the Trans Canada Trail west of Stittsville for a number of years. While she herself can sometimes take a couple of hours just to go a little distance on the Trail as she is caught up in the beauty of a sunset or a moon rise or something else, she started to realize that many other Trail users did not seem to be watching their surroundings and appreciating the nature around them; rather, they seemed to be listening to music with earphones or otherwise occupying themselves. They were not seeing the spectacle of nature all around the Trail that she was seeing and so she wanted to share this with them in some way, not only with what she was seeing along the Trail but also with what she was feeling at the same time. For instance, she sees every sunset along the Trail as being a little miracle of colours. She wanted to share with others the awe and serenity which she feels generally from watching nature along the Trail. Sylvie is hopeful that when people look at the photographs in her new book, they will perhaps be able to see what she sees in nature along the Trail and perhaps be able to feel some of the awe that she feels as well. She deals with all four seasons of the year, starting with summer which she calls a visually strong season and finishing with spring which in her view has two parts: an earlier part which sees the snow disappear but in which things tend to be cold and gray, and a later part in which spring bursts forth in all of its glory. But she still found times when a photograph taken in the earlier spring period, while not necessarily portraying a beautiful scene, still was a scene that made her feel something. It all goes back to emotions, as per the title of the book. “Because that’s what it’s all about,” she says. Every photograph in the book except for one of a raccoon was taken while walking along the Trans Canada Trail from Stittsville west to just past Jinkinson Road, a distance of only six or seven kilometers. The photos were taken over the course of three years as she had to
re-visit certain scenes and sites to capture what she had missed or did not capture initially. Sometimes this meant waiting a full year until that particular time of season came along again. Indeed, Sylvie admits that the photographic work could still be going on since nature is always changing but she had Sylvie Sabourin to draw a line of Stittsville in the sand and finish the book. She has always wanted to produce a book as she has always felt the need to share her words and pictures with others but she never knew what form the book would take until now. She says that it took her a long time to produce this first book not only because she had to accumulate life experiences but also, quite simply, as she says, she had “to get the guts to do it.” She had to whittle down thousands of photographs that she has taken along this stretch of the Trans Canada Trail to the 170 used in the book. “It was very gradual,” she says about the process of selecting the photographs used, saying that at times she would add some photos and at other times she would take some out, refining the photos to be used. “Those are my favourites in the book,” she says. How the photos which were selected were created varied. She recalls that on one occasion, she spent two hours at a particular spot along the Trail, trying to capture a very particular scene. It never happened. And yet on other times, she would just be out for a walk on the Trail and be taking some shots that would turn out great. “Some of them just happened,” she says, especially some of the wildlife shots and shots involving interesting cloud formations. “Some days the magic doesn’t happen,” she says about her on and off again success with her photos. She explains it by saying that on some days, she is just more open to seeing and feeling the things around her. She frequently takes only one photograph of a scene, trying to take the best photo possible each time that she presses the camera shutter. “Most of the time I try to take the perfect picture every time,” she says, explaining that this to her is the challenge involved in photography. Sylvie has found that working on the book and getting it ready has not taken time away from the photography work for which she is known. “It has more taken time away from sleeping,” she jokes. She still walks along the Trans Canada Trail and is still taking pictures and marveling at what she sees there. “I am still taking pictures if what I see
makes me feel something,” she says. While the book will have a special appeal to Stittsville and area residents who are familiar with the section of the Trans Canada Trail where the photos were taken, Sylvie feels that the book has a general environmental appeal that should appeal to those in other parts of Canada. She worked with Baico Publishing Consultants Inc. of Ottawa in producing the book and has a lot of praise for Baico president Raymond Coderre who was an enthusiastic supporter of her work right from when he first saw it. Sylvie was also helped by a friend in France who put her photos and text into a format appropriate for publishing. This helped in getting it published. She is happy that at the last minute she
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was able to include three photographs dealing with the wetland at the lookout along the Trans Canada Trail which dried up this past summer, creating something of a furore among Trail enthusiasts. She did not intend that these pages would be preachy or strident but rather would just show another aspect of what can happen in nature. Sylvie has another book in the works, although it is far from finished. It will deal with 100 photographs that inspire her, along with accompanying text. But she still has more photographs to take for it before it takes its final shape. Right now, Sylvie is concentrating her efforts on the marketing and sale of “Emotions.” She can be contacted by email at sylviesabourin@rogers.com.
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Budget 2012- lowest tax increase in five years On November 30th City Council approved the budget for 2012 with the lowest tax increase in five years, 2.39 per cent, in keeping with the guidelines set by Council last year. Budget 2012 will allow the City to proceed with much needed city-building infrastructure projects. Ottawa on the Move will see roadwork and bridge repair, sidewalk upgrades, sewer and culvert improvements and cycling infrastructure investment across the length and breadth of Ottawa. The plan will advance the work by many years and help prepare the City to host Canada’s sesquicentennial. Ottawa on the Move will see improvements to all transportation networks across the city. Council made the decision to maximize transportation choices for our residents in advance of the light rail construction period and in advance of Canada’s 150th anniversary of Confederation in 2017. Through the Ottawa on the Move program, $340 million worth of projects will be completed and a record amount of funding will go towards cycling initiatives. The budget includes a continued freeze on fees for City recreation programs, a transit fare increase limited to 2.5 per cent and an investment of $5.5 million in additional funding for OC Transpo to add some 66,000 service hours to address the almost six per cent growth in transit ridership on our transit system. Also, for the first time since 2004, the City is reducing the size of its workforce. For the owner of an average home assessed at $304,800, the 2012 budget will mean a property tax increase of $75 for the year. The rate-supported budget for the water and sewer services will be presented in January.
John Manconi, General Manager of Public Works, and his staff for showing leadership in this endeavour. Winter Clearing As winter is now upon us I would encourage you to visit the City’s web site at http://ottawa.ca/residents/onthemove/driving/road_ sidewalk/plowing_salting/when_how_en.html to learn more about how and when the City does snow removal. In the past my office has received phone calls from residents that are frustrated because their road has not been cleared when they think it should have been. There is a method to how the City prioritises its’ snow removal. Please remember that winter parking restrictions are in effect as of November 15th. Snow removal may be planned during the day or night even when no snowfall is forecast. When crews plan to remove snow, they will post temporary “no parking” snow removal signs ahead of time alerting motorists when snow removal is planned and when parking is not permitted. Do not park where you see temporary “no parking” snow removal signs posted or your vehicle will be ticketed with a fine and towed to a nearby street. This restriction applies to all vehicles, including those with on-street parking permits. Mayor Watson’s Christmas Celebration On behalf of Mayor Watson I would like to extend an invitation to residents to attend the Mayor’s 11th annual Christmas Celebration on Saturday December 10th at the Aberdeen Pavillion, Lansdowne Park.
After the draft budget was tabled at City Council in October, the City held four city-wide public meetings.
The celebration will include a visit from Santa, crafts, carousel and train rides, face painting, music and live entertainment, and some tasty treats provided by Beaver Tails and Papa Jack popcorn.
The 2012 operating budget for the City of Ottawa is $2.5 billion and the capital budget is $850.8 million.
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The City of Ottawa is in strong financial health, with the lowest debt-per-capita among the big Canadian cities. By accelerating our investment in capital projects, at interest rates below three per cent, it is estimated the City will save $12.9 million. A full package of budget information can be found at ottawa.ca/ budget2012 City “Beets” a path with Smart About Salt The City of Ottawa is working in partnership with local public and private sector organizations, local snow removal contractors and other key stakeholders to move forward with salt management best practices as a means of protecting the environment and being fiscally responsible. The City is pleased to be working in collaboration with other jurisdictions to make smart choices about how and when we use salt to improve safety, while ensuring our actions are in the best interests of our residents and the environment. At a Smart About Salt Summit held on November 29th by the City of Ottawa and by public and private sector groups, Smart About Salt Council, Landscape Ontario and the Ontario Good Roads Association, participants shared best salt management practices and learned how the City has employed innovative management strategies and technology to reduce its reliance on salt for de-icing area roads, driveways, sidewalks and parking lots. By implementing smart salt practices, we will not only achieve environmental benefits, but also reduce winter-maintenance costs and extend the capital life of our infrastructure. The Public works department has been experimenting with a solution containing beet juice on pathways at a handful of city facilities. The juice helps the de-icing mixture stick to the pavement so it doesn’t run off. It will be spread with a rechargeable push-machine. I would like to thank Councillor Steve Desroches for holding the Smart About Salt Summit. I would also like to express my thanks to
On December 10th I invite families and their children to come to the Goulbourn Recreation Complex to join in some holiday fun. We will be decorating Gingerbread cookies starting at 10am. Santa Claus will be taking a break from his busy schedule to come and visit us and I will be announcing the winner of the Christmas card contest. Thank you to all of the kids who entered the contest. I am so impressed by all of the wonderful creations. A Time for Sharing The Holiday season is a time for sharing. Too often we get caught up in the material aspect of the Holidays, focusing on making everything perfect. I would like to take this opportunity to encourage everyone to remember those less fortunate and to consider performing an act of kindness that will brighten someone’s heart. It could be something as simple as a donation to the Food Bank or Toy Mountain. You could contact your local Church or school to assist with a family in need. Merry Christmas to all. Always listening and acting on your concerns As your Councillor, I always welcome your keen input and ideas on how we can sustain and improve Stittsville. Please contact our office anytime by phone at 613-580-2476 or by e-mail at Shad. Qadri@ottawa.ca. My ward office is situated in the Goulbourn Recreation Complex, located at 1500 Shea Road. Please note the winter hours of operation are Mondays 9-2pm, Wednesdays 3-8pm, Fridays 9-5pm, and Saturday 9am-1pm. Please do not hesitate to pay us a visit. I welcome your call or email to arrange an appointment. If you are not part of my electronic outreach list and would like to be added, please contact my office to ensure you receive pertinent information concerning our community. Further information about any of these articles can be found on my website or you can contact my office to obtain details. R0101124114
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Richmond’s Rebecca Brown is tops SPECIAL TO THE NEWS Rebecca Brown of Richmond is the 2011 Ontario Colleges Athletic Association (OCAA) women’s rugby player of the year. A co-captain of the St. Lawrence – Kingston Vikings, Rebecca is both an offensive and defensive stalwart. During the season, she played a number of positions with one constant – she played them all very
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4-H in the Richmond area. The Vikings went undefeated in the regular season this year with a record of five wins and a tie in six games. This was quite an improvement over the team’s record of one win and three losses in the previous season. The St. Lawrence Vikings led the East Region in scoring with 154 points. The Ontario Colleges Athletic Association handles intercollegiate athletics in the province.
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Seeing waste in a different light The importance of finding sustainable alternatives for dealing with our garbage
LAST IN A THREE-PART SERIES BY DON CAMPBELL, THANA DHARMARAJAH AND LAURA MUELLER
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.
SOURCES: DAVID SUZUKI FOUNDATION, AMERICAN CHEMISTRY COUNCIL Donald Campbell, Dean Tweed // THE HAMILTON SPECTATOR
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Talent, generosity at ‘Sounds of Christmas’ JOHN CURRY john.curry@metroland.com
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Gerry Seed sings “The Huron Carol” in the Sounds of Christmas concert in Richmond last Sunday evening, Dec. 4.
Richmond’s got talent. Richmond’s also got generosity. Both were very much in evidence at the annual “Sounds of Christmas” advent service and concert at St. Philip’s Church Hall in Richmond on Sunday evening, Dec. 4. An array of performers ranging from dancer Donna Marie Jessome to singers like Danielle Masson, Kelcy Myers, Jena Spurrell and Gerry Seed to a piano playing duo to performance groups like the grade six students of St. Philip’s who presented a drama combining Santa with the Baby Jesus provided an entertaining evening to the crowd of about 160 who attended the event.
And at the end of the evening, thanks to two rounds of donation collections, a total of $886.71 in cash was collected for the Richmond Food Bank. In addition, donated food items for the Richmond Food Bank filled a table at the rear of the hall. It all ended with the singing of “We Wish You A Merry Christmas” by the five clergy who hosted the event – Rev. Carla Van Delen of St. Paul’s United Church; Rev. Teresa Charlton of St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church; Rev. Michel Dubord of St. John the Baptist Anglican Church; Rev. John Spurrell of Grace Assembly Pentecostal Church; and Rev. Bob Poole of St. Philip’s Catholic Church. It was Rev. Spurrell who acted as MC for the concert. After the opening advent service which involved the symbolic lighting of the five candles of Advent
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– hope, peace, joy, love and Christmas -, the Goulbourn Male Chorus under the direction of Robert Dueck and accompanied on the piano by Barbara Creech got the entertainment started with what is becoming the group’s trademark song “We’re the Men of the Chorus,” followed by two other seasonal tunes. After Donna Marie Jessome opened up the concert with a liturgical dance, followed by Danielle Masson singing “Breath of Heaven,” Ivy Garland wowed the audience with her violin, playing “If Ever You Were Mine” and “Buckskin Reel.” The duo of Kelcy Myers and Jena Spurrell sang “Love Story” after which Alexander Todd did a Christmas reading “Before Time Began.” After grade six students from St. Philip’s School presented a drama in which Santa explains to a new elf about the true meaning of Christmas as found in the Baby Jesus, Gerry Seed sang “The Huron Carol,” accompanied by the St. John’s Church worship support group with Saundra Vandenberg accompanying them on the piano. Gerry’s deep voice continued with “When A Child Is Born,” after which the duo of Rev. Teresa Charlton and Leslie Dods, who is the organist at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, played a couple of piano duets – four hands on the keyboard at one time. “Silent Night” and “Pastorale from Handel’s Messiah” were their choices for their keyboard duet. A rousing rendition of “Alleluia” delivered by the St. John’s worship support group, a song “Strange Way To Save The World” by Jena Spurrrell, a last minute reading of “The Night After Christmas” and the challenges facing Mrs. Claus from St. Paul’s United Church, a presentation by the Grace Assembly spelling out “C-H-R-IS-T-M-A-S” and the meaning of each letter (C is for Christ Child, etc.), a skit featuring Anne Renaud and Saundra Vandenberg in which Anne, as a bag lady, sings about shopping to the tune of Jingle Bells and a closing liturgical dance performed to the “Huron Carol” by five ladies from St. Philip’s Church rounded out the concert.
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Performing in a drama “Santa Adores Jesus” in the Sounds of Christmas concert in Richmond last Sunday evening are Matthew Chapeski, left, as Santa and Jessica Berryhill, right, as a new elf.
Male Chorus in ‘Sing Noel’ The Goulbourn Male Chorus is holding a Christmas concert “Sing Noel” this Sunday, Dec. 11 at 4 p.m. at St. John’s Anglican Church on Fowler Street in Richmond. Sylvia Wallace, Karen Colenbrander and Saundra Vanderberg will be guest performers. Everyone welcome.
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Life as a frog can be pretty exciting. Just ask eight year old Madeleine Schoenborn of Stittsville who will be play the role of a frog in the production of the Nutcracker being presented by Ballet Jorgen at the Centrepointe Theatre in Nepean next weekend. Madeleine got the frog role after an audition at the Nepean Creative Arts Centre. Since her selection, she has been attending weekly rehearsals at the Nepean Creative Arts
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Madeleine Schoenborn of Stittsville will be playing the role of a frog in the upcoming Ballet Jorden production of the Nutcracker at the Centrepointe Theatre in Nepean.
Centre, perfecting her role as a frog. She is building up strong quads hopping like a frog and her arm muscles are getting stronger as well as she holds a toadstool above her head throughout her dance routine. Her weeks of rehearsal will culminate in participating in three performances of the Nutcracker at the Centrepointe Theatre – on Saturday, Dec. 17 at 1 p.m. and again at 4:30 p.m. and on Sunday, Dec. 18 at 1:30 p.m. This is a Canadian version of the Nutcracker which was developed by Ballet Jorgen in collaboration with the McMichael Canadian Art Collection. In it, the Nutcracker receives a Canadian twist as audiences are taken on Klara’s familiar magical dream journey as she arrives in Canada and experiences winter landscapes filled with snowflakes, lumberjacks, Mounties and wildlife such as dragon flies, squirrels, chipmunks, deer, beaver and bears. Madeleine, who attends Ecole Maurice Lapointe in Kanata, is a busy dancer as she not only is involved with this Nutcracker production by Ballet Jorgen but she also does tap, jazz, folk and ballet dancing at Allegro Danceworks in Stittsville. Now in her fourth year at Allegro, she is on the studio’s competitive dance team for the first time this year. Madeleine finds dancing fun and enjoys the people with whom she dances. She likes the feeling that she gets from exercising, even the sore muscles, and loves any costumes involved, even that of a frog. She started ballet dancing when she was three years old and now a regular week for her is 45 minutes of jazz on Tuesday, an hour of tap and an hour
of ballet on Wednesday, another hour of ballet and an hour of jazz on Saturday and then competitive team rehearsals on Saturday afternoon. When you add in the rehearsals that she is now doing for the Nutcracker, she has a packed dance schedule every week. Madeleine’s involvement with the Nutcracker really started last year when her mother offered to take her to see a performance of the Nutcracker at the National Arts Centre (NAC). “Mommy, I don’t want to go to see the Nutcracker. I want to be in the Nutcracker,” was Madeleine’s response to the offer. So this year she auditioned for the NAC’s Nutcracker, one of 120 dancers to do so. While disappointed that she did not get a part in this NAC production, her disappointment turned to joy when she auditioned for the Ballet Jorgen’s Nutcracker and landed the role of one of the frogs in the production. Ballet Jorgen Canada, founded in 1987, annually tours across Canada, augmenting its touring cast with young local dancers like Madeleine. Ballet Jorgen Canada gives over 120 performances a year in both rural and urban communities across Canada. Ballet Jorgen will be presenting the Nutcracker, a Canadian Tradition, at the Centrepointe Theatre in Nepean on Saturday, Dec. 17 at 1 p.m. and again at 4:30 p.m. and on Sunday, Dec. 18 at 1:30 p.m. These are the performances in which Madeleine Schoenborn of Stittsville will be dancing. Ballet Jorgen will also be presenting the Nutcracker at the Shenkman Arts Centre in Orleans on Monday, Dec. 19 at 7 p.m. and again on Tuesday, Dec. 20 at both 1 p.m. and
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$25,911.11 total tells the 9 RUN RUN story JOHN CURRY john.curry@metroland.com
The total tells the story, in more ways than one. A giant cheque in the amount of $25,911.11 has been presented to the Do It For Daron (D.I.F.D.) youth early intervention study for mental health, the proceeds from this year’s 9 RUN RUN emergency services running event which was held in Stittsville on Saturday, Oct. 22. The $25,000-plus figure is
not only $9,000 more than was raised at the inaugural event two years ago where the funds were directed to the youth drug treatment and education program (s.t.e.p.) in Ottawa but the $911 in the final figure raised reflects the 9-1-1 telephone number which alerts the city’s emergency services to incidents requiring their assistance. And the 11 cents in the amount raised reflects the year of the run – 2011. This has become a tradition
with 9 RUN RUN, with the donations always including $911 and ending in coins reflecting the year of the run. Hence, last year’s run raised $16,911.10 while this year’s total was $25,911.11. The presentation of the funds raised, the final piece of the 2011 run, happened on Thursday, Nov. 24 at the Royal Ottawa Foundation for Mental Health on Carling Avenue in Ottawa where 9 RUN RUN representatives led by race director Brenda
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Taking part in the formal giant cheque presentation of $25,911.11, proceeds from this year’s 9 RUN RUN emergency services run in Stittsville, to the Do It For Daron campaign for youth mental health at the Royal Ottawa Hospital in Ottawa on Thursday, Nov. 24 are, from left to right, 9 RUN RUN volunteers Anne Paliwal, Eva Burnett and Monica Van Dam, race director Brenda Tirrell, Ottawa Deputy Fire Chief Allen Karkkainen, city of Ottawa Stittsville ward councillor Shad Qadri, Team Fire representative Kendra Shaw, Ottawa Police Service chief Vern White, city of Ottawa manager of emergency and protective services Susan Jones; Ottawa Paramedic Service deputy chief Pierre Poirier, top emergency services fundraiser Matt Moffitt and interim president and CEO of the Royal Ottawa Foundation For Mental Health Andree Steel.
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Tirrell joined with representatives of the Ottawa Fire Service, Ottawa Police Service, the Ottawa Paramedic Service, city of Ottawa Emergency and Protective Services and city of Ottawa Stittsville ward councillor Shad Qadri to officially hand over the proceeds from the run. Andree Steel, CEO of the Royal Ottawa Foundation For Mental Health, said that the funds raised by the 9 RUN RUN emergency services run would go to help fund a youth early intervention study that is now underway. This study will provide data that should show that mental health information should be included in the curriculum in schools. It is being funded through the Do It For Daron initiative and is now fully funded thanks to the 9 RUN RUN funds and other fundraising. Tracey Welsh, special events coordinator for the Royal Ottawa Foundation for Mental Health, told those at the cheque presentation ceremony that this 9 RUN RUN event was one of the Foundation’s biggest third party fundraisers this year. She reminded everyone that fundraisers held for the Royal Ottawa Foundation, whether small or large, all contribute much appreciated funds for the work that goes on at the Royal Ottawa. She praised the 8 RUN RUN event, noting how a number of Royal Ottawa staff took part in the event. “This was just such an exciting event for us to be part of it,” Ms. Welsh said. Race director Brenda Tirrell noted the great support which the event received from the community in terms of both volunteers and corporate support. She commented that while the three emergency services
usually come together, it is not usually at a fun event like the 9 RUN RUN is and so this makes the event somewhat special for them. She announced that the third annual 9 RUN RUN emergency services run would be taking place on Saturday, Oct. 20,2012. Following the presentation of the giant cheque, Royal Ottawa Foundation For Mental Health CEO Andree Steel presented Brenda Tirrell with a certificate of appreciation from the Royal Ottawa to the 9 RUN RUN organizing team. This year’s 9 RUN RUN event featured a half marathon as well as a 10K run and a 3K fun run. Local businesses that supported the event this year included Bradley’s Insurance (half marathon run sponsor), Bushtukah (10K run sponsor), BMO Nesbitt Burns (3K fun run sponsor), Sobeys (finish line sponsor), Brown’s Your Independent Grocer (Chiefs chili cook off sponsor), McDonalds, Coldwell Banker, Main Street Physiotherapy, Kunstadt Sports, Popeye, Myers Kanata, Lone Star, CVT 2, BOB-FM, Creo Marketing, Rotary Club of Ottawa – Stittsville and Stittsville TD Bank. In addition, various businesses around the community announced the upcoming 9 RUN RUN event on their outdoor signage. The Ottawa Senators donated a box for the use of the top emergency service fundraiser in this year’s run, Matt Moffitt of the Ottawa Fire Service. The Senators also donated two sets of ten tickets each to the top fundraiser, Dave Costanzo of Stittsville, who in turn donated the tickets to the Boys and Girls Club, and also to the second top fundraiser, Team Haggerty headed by police officer Amy Haggerty of Stittsville.
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First, the Richmond Fair. Then the District competition. And now it’s on to the provincial competition. These are prize winning quilts, to be sure. They are the grand champion quilts from this year’s Richmond Fair. One was machine crafted by Joan Read of Millennium Quilting in Almonte, inspired by her daughter’s fascination with Halloween. Joan has ties to the Richmond area as she traces her family roots to the Hartin family of Fallowfield. The other quilt was created by Lynda Smyth of Stittsville. She did this heirloom quilt totally by hand, displaying a workmanship that is of museum quality. It’s a real jewel.
In any case, both quilts won at this year’s Richmond Fair and moved on to the District One level where they went up again quilts from other fairs throughout Ottawa and Eastern Ontario. There are 19 fairs in District One. In the District competition, both of the Richmond Fair quilts were first place champions. Now these quilts will go on to compete in the provincial competition at the annual convention of the Ontario Association of Agricultural Societies which will be held in February at the Royal York Hotel in Toronto. The superb craftsmanship and design of these two quilts should stand them in good stead as they go up against quilts from across the province.
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Christmas music fills bank branch JOHN CURRY
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Christmas music filled the TD Canada Trust branch in Stittsville over the noon hour last Friday, Dec. 2. The non-stop music was sung by Leo Maiorino who accompanied himself on the guitar. Leo is the brother of branch manager Maria Harrington. “I’ll Be Home for Christmas,” “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,” and “Santa Claus Is Coming To Town” were just a few of the Christmas tunes which Leo sang. Indeed, his sister marveled at how Leo was able to keep up a constant flow of Christmas music while never repeating the same song. This musical noon hour was all part of a special day at the TD Canada Trust branch which not only featured Christmas music but also had a bake sale on the go, raising funds for Toy Mountain. The branch is currently collecting toy donations for Toy Mountain and will continue to do so until Wednesday, Dec. 14. Anyone with a toy to donate for the less fortunate this Christmas can just drop into the branch and add it to the growing pile of toys, the branch’s own mini-mountain. Manager Maria Harrington once again this year is just amazed at the generosity of the community in this regard as she points out the variety and quality of the toys already dropped off. After the toy drive for Toy Mountain ends on Dec. 14, the branch will be collecting food items and donations for the Stittsville Food Bank. The Christmas songs and Toy Mountain bake sale were not the only activities going on last Friday at noon. The branch also had Alex Kirk from Lapointe’s in Kanata there, handing out samples of soup for people to try right on the spot.
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Elaine Kealey, left, purchases an item at the bake sale for Toy Mountain at the TD Canada Trust branch in Stittsville on Friday, Dec. 2, as she is being served by TD Canada Trust staff members Kyle Diloreto, centre, and Lindsay Langer, right.
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At the TD Canada Trust branch in Stittsville last Friday, Dec. 2 where a fundraising bake sale was held for Toy Mountain and where Leo Maiorino sang Christmas songs at noon time are, from left to right, Whitney Lewis, Julie Dagg and Patty Feasby, all staff members at the Stittsville branch; Kimberly Northcott, a TD Canada Trust human resources staff member; singer Leo Maiorino; Alex Kirk of Lapointe’s in Kanata, who offered samples of soup from Lapointe’s at the noon time event; Stittsville branch manager Maria Harrington; and Debbie Warner and Rosalyn Johnston, staff members at the Stittsville branch.
‘Fill-the-Bus’ SPECIAL TO THE NEWS
The purpose is to fill up an OC Transpo bus with food items and that’s just what happened in Stittsville last Saturday, Dec. 3. At the annual “Fill-the-Bus” food drive, an OC Transpo bus parked for the day in front of Brown’s Your Independent Grocer was jammed with what ended up being 9,445 food items, all donated by community members to help the Stittsville Food Bank help those who need assistance during the coming Christmas season. But this was not all. In addition, to the food items donation, there was also $1,035.25 in cash donated to the Food Bank. Brown’s Your Independent Grocer was one of four YIG stores in the Ottawa area where OC Transpo buses were parked during the day for this food drive. There were also buses parked at various Loblaws and Real Canadian Superstores across the region, collecting food items and donations for other food banks. OC Transpo driver Carlos Morbey looked after the bus at Brown’s Your Independent Grocer, while the Stittsville Food Bank had volunteers on site throughout the day, helping receive the food and cash donations.
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Mackayla McKenzie Skogen, left, and Diana Leeanne Lacasse, right, place some food items in a box during the OC Transpo “Fill The Bus” food drive at Brown’s Your Independent Grocer in Stittsville last Saturday, Dec. 3.
Two proposed plans SPECIAL TO THE NEWS Two proposed plans of subdivision for development in the Stittsville area are now going through the approval process. Mattamy Limited is proposing a 92 home subdivision on a five hectare parcel of land immediately east of the Fairwinds South subdivision that is already draft approved. The other proposed plan of subdivision deals with a 4.55 hectare parcel of land on the north side of Fernbank Road
just east of Shea Road which is currently the home and property of Roger and Margaret Stone of Stittsville. The proposal is for a development of about 70 single detached homes, with lot frontages ranging from 11.58 metres to 13.72 metres. The housing density proposed is just slightly lower than the density target established for low density land use in the Fernbank Lands community design plan which covers this land. There will be a public meeting held for public input about this proposal but no meeting date has been set as yet.
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New faces on SVA executive JOHN CURRY
in one of the four leadership positions on the executive. Doug Sutherland, while remaining as an SVA director, has stepped down as vice-president as he has no intention of becoming SVA president at any time. He has been replaced by Phil Sweetnam who has been an SVA director and who has agreed to move up to the presidency in the future. Marilyn Jenkins is continuing as the SVA president for another year. Claude Keon is remaining as the SVA treasurer while Tanya Hein is continuing in her role as the SVA secretary. Returning directors include David Jenkins, Theresa Qadri, Christine Hartig and David Fairbrother. Metin Akgun remains on the executive as the SVA’s immediate past president.
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Four new faces have joined the executive of the Stittsville Village Association (SVA). Elected as directors at the SVA’s recent annual general meeting were Tim LaPlante, who is the owner of the new Sobeys in Stittsville; Laurie Scheer, a former longtime business person in Stittsville, operating Lauri’s Boutique, a ladies’ wear shop; Jamie Lynn Young, a financial advisor; and Morgan O’Grady who is involved with the Stittsville Youth Connexion program and will represent youth on the executive. Stepping down from the executive are directors Ken LaRue and Anthony Tsoukanas as well as youth director Katrina Harder. There has also been a change
SVA re-thinking award JOHN CURRY
discontinuation of the award. In her report on the award, she also suggested that perhaps the SVA may have to re-examine the award’s relevance with a view to presenting it in a different format or perhaps just discontinuing it altogether. The SVA received five applications for the award this year. The award carries with it a $200 prize. Mrs. Jenkins admitted that $200 is not a lot of money today but noted that the amount is significant for the SVA which raises all of its funds from the community.
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The annual Award for Excellence in Civic Leadership which the Stittsville Village Association (SVA) presents to graduating students in the three local high schools is going to be up for review by the SVA executive. SVA president Marilyn Jenkins suggested at the organization’s recent annual general meeting that due to the limited number of applications received from students, the SVA is going to have to look at possible
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Members of the new 2011-2012 executive of the Stittsville Village Association are, front row, seated, left to right, director David Jenkins, director Laurie Scheer, president Marilyn Jenkins, treasurer Claude Keon and director Theresa Qadri; and, back row, standing, left to right, director Christine Hartig, immediate past president Metin Akgun, director Dough Sutherland, director David Fairbrother, secretary Tanya Hein and director Jamie Lynn Young. Missing from the picture are vice-president Phil Sweetnam and directors Morgan O’Grady and Tim LaPlante.
What’s up, doc, in Stittsville? ….Basket winners at the Nov. 19 Christmas bazaar hosted by the Catholic Women’s League of Holy Spirit Parish were Susan Billo, spa basket; Claire Trudel, kitchen basket; Phyllis Moore, harvest basket; and Louise Beggs, work/men’s basket. Eunice Lemyre won the 5th Avenue earrings and necklace which was donated and Joan Frost won the polished belt buckle donated by Mel-Jo Designs….A Christmas carol singalong will be featured at the next “Wise Guys and Gals Drop-In” session on Monday, Dec. 12 from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. at the Community Bible Church on Stittsville Main Street. All seniors in the area are welcome to attend these sessions. Besides the singalong, there will be coffee and home baked sweets served at the Dec. 12th session…Gaia Java coffee shop at the Shoppers Drug Mart plaza now has its coffee roaster up and running and is selling roasted beans to the public. Gaia Java coffee is also now serving toasted sandwiches and soups which are proving a big hit in the colder weather. Music lovers should not the music nights that are happening at Gaia Java….. Christopher Hinman and Anthony Tomacic, both of Stittsville, are among 87 Ottawa area Chartered Accounting students who have passed this year’s Canada-wide Uniform Evaluation which is one of the world’s most challenging professional entry examinations. Written in September, this evaluation examination assesses competencies including essential knowledge, professional judgement, ethics and the ability to communicate. Only those who complete the Uniform Evaluation as well
as the other components of the CA qualification program such as education and practical experience get to use the designation of Chartered Accountant. There were 1,135 successful Uniform Evaluation students in Ontario this year….Four staff members at the TD Canada Trust branch in Stittsville are receiving all-expenses paid trips to Florida for being members of the TD Canada Trust Champions Club which identifies them as elite staff members in the world of TD Canada Trust. Off to Florida are Michelle Zalger, Chris Smith, Patty Feasby and Deb Lafontaine. In addition, branch manager Maria Harrington has won a trip to Puerto Rico for being in her Champions Club designation in the manager’s grouping…Former Goulbourn township mayor and former city of Ottawa councillor Janet Stavinga of Stittsville was one of those scheduled to sing with nine other former Ottawa-area municipal mayors and current city of Ottawa mayor Jim Watson at the Villa Marconi on Baseline Road in Ottawa last Sunday morning. Calling themselves the “Old Grey Mayors,” this has become an annual tradition with the group singing Christmas songs at a local retirement residence…Ted Tokaryk, who lived in Stittsville since the 1990’s, passed away on Thursday, Dec. 1 after a four year battle with cancer. He was 54. A retired city of Ottawa firefighter, he was a home and building inspector. He is survived by his wife Joanne, his daughters Hailey and Hannah and his son Jimmy. The funeral service was held on Tuesday, Dec. 6 in the chapel of the Kelly
Funeral Home on Eagleson Road in Kanata. In memoriam donations to the Tourette Syndrome Foundation of Canada would be appreciated by the family…Giant Tiger in Stittsville has an angel tree up, seeking donations of toys and gifts for the special needs children and youth served by Main Street Community Services of Stittsville. Any support that you can give to help would be appreciated. Just drop into Giant Tiger and be an angel tree supporter….If you want to see cheerleading at its finest, plan to be at the Capital City Storm’s Holiday Showcase on Friday, Dec. 16 at Sacred Heart High School. The Capital City Storm Tiny, Mini, Youth and Parent teams will all be showing off their moves at this event. The Capital City Storm junior and senior competitive teams are attending their first competition of the season this coming Saturday, Dec. 10 in Oshawa….Santa Claus will be at the Goulbourn Recreation Complex this Saturday, Dec. 10, as he is dropping in on the annual Christmas cookie decorating event hosted by city of Ottawa Stittsville ward councillor Shad Qadri. Everyone is invited to drop in…. The Goulbourn Male Chorus is holding a Christmas concert “Snack, Cider and Song” on Sunday, Dec. 18 at 4 p.m. at Holy Spirit Catholic Church on Shea Road. Trinity Hilltop Ringers, a bell ringing group, the St. Thomas Anglican Church’s Children’s Choir and the Yuletide Ladies’ Chorus, a group specially formed for this concert, will be guest performers. Everyone is welcome to attend and enjoy this concert...
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Christmas songs filled the lounge area at the Stittsville Villa retirement residence last Saturday afternoon, Dec. 3 thanks not only to the voices of the Goulbourn Male Chorus but also to the voices of the residents themselves. This afternoon of Christmas music, presented by the Goulbourn Male Chorus, featured three singalong selections for the residents who filled all of the sofas and chairs in the lounge area for the concert. â&#x20AC;&#x153;O Come, All ye Faithful,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Joy to the Worldâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Silent Nightâ&#x20AC;? all saw the resident join in with the voices of the Male Chorus to fill the lounge with the strains of these well known Christmas tunes. The Male Chorus, dressed in their white shirts and ties, were joined for this concert by two guest flute players, Christine Philipson and Crystal Payne, who accompanied the chorus on several songs. The Male Chorus was directed by Robert Dueck with Barbara Creech on the piano. After the opening â&#x20AC;&#x153;A Family Christmas Spectacular,â&#x20AC;? the residents in the audience were
treated to a solo of the Advent song â&#x20AC;&#x153;How Will We Know Himâ&#x20AC;? by chorus baritone Craig Edwardson, accompanying on the flute by Crystal Payne. After three following tunes by the whole chorus and the robust singalong â&#x20AC;&#x153;O Come, All ye Faithful,â&#x20AC;? the chorus sang the German/Austrian folk song â&#x20AC;&#x153;Still, Still, Stillâ&#x20AC;?, accompanied by Christine Philipson on the flute. An eight-voice ensemble of the chorus then performed an â&#x20AC;&#x153;a cappellaâ&#x20AC;? rendition of â&#x20AC;&#x153;While By My Sheep.â&#x20AC;? This led to the whole chorus singing â&#x20AC;&#x153;Wassail Songâ&#x20AC;? in the same a cappella style. Ten members of the chorus then performed what director Robert Dueck called a â&#x20AC;&#x153;snappy little tune,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Born, Born in Bethlehem,â&#x20AC;? before the concert finished up with the singalong hymn â&#x20AC;&#x153;Joy to the World,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;O Holy Nightâ&#x20AC;? featuring soloist Ian Moody and the finale song, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Peace, Peaceâ&#x20AC;? sung by the chorus, followed by a singalong of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Silent Night,â&#x20AC;? with chorus members leaving their massed position and mingling individually among the residents, singing with them and extending Christmas greetings. This was the first performance by a choir at the Stittsville Villa this December.
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A people parade SPECIAL TO THE NEWS There were lots of people watching and lots of others participating in the annual Santa Claus parade in Richmond last Saturday, Dec. 3. Not only did crowds line the parade route, especially along McBean Street between the Bakery corner and the Richmond Public School corner, but also many of the floats were filled with people as well, such as the Air One Heating and Air Conditioning float with a sports team aboard. City of Ottawa Rideau-Goulbourn ward councillor Scott Moffatt termed the parade “awesome” in his remarks at the Lighting of the Park ceremony at Memorial Park later in the day, commenting on the huge crowd which had turned out. Parade co-organizer Leslie Abraham, speaking at the Lighting of the Park ceremony, likewise noted the huge turnout. John Brummell photo “We were very, very pleased with how it turned City of Ottawa mayor Jim Watson, centre, left, waves from the city of Ottawa float in the Santa Claus parade in Richmond last Saturday, as he is joined by fellow “wavers,” from left to right behind him, Rideau-Goulbourn ward councillor Scott out,” she said about the parade after announcing the winners of the two awards presented annually to recMoffatt, Stittsville ward councillor Shad Qadri (partially hidden) and Theresa Qadri, wife of councillor Qadri. ognize effort and creativity among the floats. The “AHH” Award goes each year to the entry whose lights, colour, glitz and sound combine to produce an “ohh and ahh” factor among onlookers. This year’s “AHH” Award went to St. John’s Anglican Church, a flatbed truck filled with a re-enactment of the royal wedding earlier this year, with Rev. Michel Dubord as the Archbishop of Canterbury and others playing other roles such as Will and Kate and members of the Royal Family, all wearing hats. The Bright Bulb Award is presented annually to the parade entry that is most innovative, interesting, fun and/or inspirational. This year’s Bright Bulb Award winner went to the Richmond Brownies float, specifically for its hand painted snowflakes and the attention to detail which prevailed on the float. At the Lighting of the Park ceremony, both Leslie Abraham and her co-organizer Pat Laninga were thanked for their work in assembling the parade. John Brummell photo This year’s parade included participation by politiThe Richmond Curling Club float, accompanied by a giant walking curling stone, moves along the route of the Santa Claus cians at all levels of government. City of Ottawa mayparade in Richmond last Saturday, Dec. 3. or Jim Watson was there, riding on the city of Ottawa float, along with Rideau-Goulbourn ward councillor Scott Moffatt and Stittsville ward councillor Shad Qadri. Recently elected Carleton-Mississippi Mills MPP Jack MacLaren waved to onlookers all along the paIn addition, all 25 banners were JOHN CURRY After a couple of singalong Christrade route as he rode on his float. erected in groups of five high up in mas songs like Frosty the Snowman john.curry@metroland.com Carleton-Mississippi Mills MP Gordon O’Connor the park, forming a backdrop for the and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, also waved to onlookers as he rode along the parade Lighting of the Park ceremony. This interspersed with thanks to those There’s Dasher and Dancer and route in a vintage automobile driven by Bruce Webyear’s banners are red with their who helped out with the parade earPrancer, Vixen, Comet and Cupid, ster. colourful designs done by the younglier in the day as well as the dozen and, oh yes, Donner and Blitzen But the parade had much more than just politicians. sters, with each creator’s name at the sponsors who helped with the light– names well known in this holiday There was a float with South Carleton High School bottom, along with the year 2011. ing of the trees at Memorial Park season as Santa’s reindeer. band members, some wearing Santa hats, playing This year’s Lighting of the Park and followed by the presentations But while less known, other names Christmas tunes as they rolled along the route. ceremony saw a clear sky dotted to the 25 youthful banner creators, which are going to be well known in There were two entries featuring a team of horses with stars and a half moon. Just there was an audience countdown Richmond as the holiday season propulling the float – Brophy’s Financial Planning, with minus one on the thermometer, (10,9,8,7 etc.) leading to the turning gresses are Maddy, Isabelle, Colin, a pair of black horses doing the pulling and Jason’s there was no wind to add to the cold on of the lights in the park at 6:25 Shannon, Rachel, Thomas, Katie, Landscaping, with the float also powered by horsefactor. Indeed, the flags on the flagp.m. Trees at the park were suddenly Shelby, Michael … the list goes on power – literally. poles at Memorial Park hung limply aglow with Christmas lights – some and on. Indeed, there are 25 names in And there were other floats that brought to spirit throughout the ceremony. There was all red, some all blue, some all green, total and they will be hanging right of Christmas to Richmond – St. Paul’s United Church, not even a trace of a breeze. some multi-coloured. out there for all to see from now on Richmond valu-mart, Richmond Loyal Orange Lodge, About 150 people attended the cerBut this was not the end of the certhrough the winter. Each name is Richmond Curling Club with its gaggle of youngsters emony which began when Rev. Tereemony. boldly printed on the seasonal street riding on the float, the St. Philip’s Knights of Columsa Charlton of St. Andrew’s PresbyAlthough the singing of “Here banner designed and created by the bus and more. Topping it all off, of course, was the red terian Church welcomed everyone to Comes Santa Claus” did not produce youngster. These banners are being suited jolly gentleman, Santa Claus, bringing up the Memorial Park just after 6 p.m. Her an appearance by the jolly red-suited erected on the poles along McBean rear as he rode in the bucket of an Ottawa Fire Serfellow MC was Rev. Carla Van Delen gentleman, a subsequent singing of Street where they will hang for the vices ladder truck, shouting out Christmas greetings of St. Paul’s United Church. “Jingle Bells” saw Santa arrive in an holiday season and beyond. to one and all. Following the parade, which started at City of Ottawa Rideau-Goulbourn Ottawa Fire Services fire truck, comThese 25 youngsters, winners in 11 a.m. at South Carleton High School and ended at ward councillor Scott Moffatt, in plete with flashing lights and siren the Richmond Village Association’s the Richmond Plaza, refreshments of chili and hot his brief remarks at the ceremony, blaring. annual street banner contest, were chocolate were served at the plaza. The Goulbourn Kipraised the great job done by the Santa joined the crowd at Memohonoured at last Saturday evening’s wanis Club provided the hot chocolate while St. Paul’s youngsters on the street banners, rial Park just after 6:30 p.m. and, Lighting of the Park ceremony at United Church made the chili lunch which was served saying that seeing a community getsitting in a red chair, chatted with Memorial Park in Richmond. Each by those from the Grace Assembly. The Richmond ting together and working with its youngsters about their Christmas youngster was called up onto the Bakery provided baked treats for the day’s activities youth is really what life in a commuwishes. portable stage to receive a certificate in Richmond. nity is all about. as well as a white and red scarf.
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The inaugural interim Board of Directors of the newly formed Jackson Trails Community Association (JTCA) is staying in place until membership grows and a formal election is held. This was determined after some discussion at the new Association’s first general meeting in Stittsville on Sunday evening, Nov. 20. President Danny Gariepy agreed that while the current interim Board will allow the JTCA to speak on behalf of the community to the city of Ottawa, developers and other communities and work towards some short term and longer term goals, a formal election for the Board could probably be held this coming September. Currently the JTCA wants to enlist more support so that the community can be canvassed to sell memberships and promote the new organization. A total of 18 memberships were sold at the general meeting which was attended by about 30 people. The interim board was elected at an Oct. 30 meeting of the formation committee which was created as a result of community meetings following the arson fires in early September with the express purpose of forming a community association as well as creating a Neighbourhood Watch program. Besides Danny Gariepy as president, others on the interim Board include Tim Larocque as vice-president, John Egan as secretary and Danah Aris-Burger as treasurer. Zone Directors include Keith
Mathers, Natalie Roy, Rob Giamaria and Debbie Panagiotopoulos. There is still a need for zone directors for some areas of the community. The zones have been determined geographically in the belief that different parts of the community face some different issues. For instance, those adjacent to Stittsville Main Street have concerns about speeding that may not be a problem for some in other parts of the community. Among issues identified are speeding on Stittsville Main Street, access to the pond, pathway access, the arson fires and a Neighbourhood Watch program. Mr. Gariepy said that the short term goal of the JTCA is to deal with issues facing the neighbourhood, issues adjacent to the community and issues facing Stittsville as a whole. Other goals include increasing membership, obtaining corporate sponsorships, developing a comprehensive web presence, formalizing the JTCA’s relationship with the city, obtaining community support for the Neighbourhood Watch program, developing a worship relationship with the Jackson Trails developer and neighbouring landowners, and planning community BBQ’s and other activities to bring residents together. “It’s about neighbour getting to know neighbour,” Mr. Gariepy said in explaining the basis for having a community association. Communication vehicles to get the message out will include a community billboard, the website www.jacksontrails. ca, a Facebook page, a door-to-door canvass, notices at community mailboxes and word of mouth.
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A voice from Munster will be among nine of the Ottawa area’s top young singers performing at a fundraiser for the “Do It For Daron” campaign. Alexandra Maheral, 16, of Munster will join eight other singers from the Kiwanis Idols program in performing at the Christmas Party fundraiser being held at the Villa Lucia Supper Club on Carling Avenue in Ottawa this coming Sunday, Dec. 11. The dinner will be served at 6 p.m. with the entertaining running from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.
All of these singers will be backed up by the Kiwanis Idol seven piece band. Presented by the Kiwanis Club of Kanata, this Kiwanis Idol fundraiser for “Do It For Daron” will be hosted by CTV Ottawa’s community ambassador Max Keeping. Tickets at $40 each for this fundraiser are available by calling Eldon Fox at 613-831-9900 or emailing hdoctor@rogers.com. The “Do It For Daron” campaign is geared to raising awareness of youth mental health issues.
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Friendship Club luncheon COLLEEN DENNIS The Christmas luncheon for the Friendship Club will be held on Wednesday, Dec. 14 at the Glen Mar Golf and Country Club on Fernbank Road west of Stittsville.Lunch will be served at 12 noon with a menu of roast turkey will all the trimmings. The Seabrook Singers will be providing the entertainment. Everyone in the community is welcome to attend. Those planning to attend should contact Gloria at 613-831-8819 or Rosemary at 613-8366354. Line dancing has started up again on Wednesdays at 10:30 a.m. at the Johnny Leroux Stittsville Community Arena hall. There are still spots available. Those interested should contact Rosemary at 613-836-6354. Friendship Club activities at the Johnny Leroux Stittsville Community Arena hall include bridge on Fridays at 1 p.m. (contact Lorraine at 613-599-3297); carpet bowling on Wednesdays at 1 p.m. (contact Gloria at 613-831-8819 or Beryl at 613821-6329); and shuffleboard on Tuesdays at 2 p.m. (contact Shirley Healey at 613-831-2712).
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Taking art classes at Art Mad in Stittsville give adults the opportunity to improve their art skills and techniques. But these classes also have another asset – they’re fun. You only have to talk to those involved to realize this. “It’s fun,” says Sarah Farrell, who took a figure drawing class at Art Mad and had her work on display at an art show at the Art Mad Gallery on Wednesday evening, Nov. 30. “It’s a nice place to come and do this,” she added. This class at Art Mad was her first art class in years, since instruction at the Ottawa School of Art three decades ago. Over the years, she has done a lot of pen and ink sketching. She is now hoping to expand into watercolour painting after Christmas. For Gerry Chamberlain, a class in acrylic mixed media had the same result as Sarah discovered – fun. “It like the class I took in mixed media – it was a lot of fun,” he said at the art show which saw his mixed media painting of goldfish sell. Gerry had painted with oils about 20 years ago but work commitments kept him away from doing much art. Now, he wants to get back to it. He has learned about mixed media and its emphasis on different textures in his Art Mad class and now he wants to work at improving his skills with
oils and watercolours. Carmen Renaud, who had a fall scene of a pathway through woods on display at the art show, has found watercolour painting and is part of a group that paints regularly at Art Mad. She was one who did not believe that she could raw. However, some doodling for her grandchildren led her first to colour pencil drawing and then to watercolour painting which has now become what she describes as her “passion.” “I just like the way the colours play on the paper,” she says about watercolour painting, while admitting that she also dabbles with acrylics as well. Helen Gordon, another who participated in the art show, is also another who has discovered the wonders of painting with watercolours. A longtime practitioner of fibre art, she started doing watercolours about a year ago and found that she had a talent for it. “Now that I know how to do it, I’m hooked,” she says about watercolour painting. Sheryl Moher, another artist with work at the art show, had a unique distinction – she was the only artist whose work was the total product of her imagination. “It’s totally out of my head,” she said about her seascape scene which she did in the mixed media class at Art Mad.
She had taken an acrylics class back in 2007 but had not taken any other class until she enrolled in this mixed media class. She has recently returned from a trip to Italy so she may have lots of scenes from that country to draw in the future. This past fall Art Mad at the Shoppers Drug Mart plaza in Stittsville has offered classes for adults in various art styles including acrylics, drawing, watercolours, mixed media and figure drawing. After Christmas, Art Mad will be offering art classes for adults ranging from drawing and watercolours for beginners to figure drawing to acrylics and mixed media. There will even be a new class in digital photography. Art Mad can be contacted at 613836-1100 or via email at info@artmad. ca. Its website can be found at www. artmad.ca.
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A Christmas carol singalong will be featured at the next “Wise Guys and Gals Drop-In” session on Monday, Dec. 12 from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. at the Community Bible Church on Stittsville Main Street. All seniors in the area are welcome. Besides the singalong, there will be coffee and home baked sweets served.
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Sam Sabourin of Stittsville, in only his second season of Canadian university football, has been honoured as one of the top 24 defensive players in the country. He was one of two defensive players for the Queens University Gaels to be named football all-Canadians on Thursday, Nov. 24, with both of them being named to the all-Canadian second team on defence. Sam was named as the Canadian Interuniversity Sports second team’s centre linebacker, one of only three sophomores named to the squad. Sam is in his second year at Queens, enrolled in the physical education program there. Besides being named to the all-Canadian second team on defense, Sam was also named as a linebacker on the Ontario University Association’s first team allstar list. Pat Tracey, defensive coordinator for the Queens Gaels, says that Sam was a unanimous selection at his
position in the Ontario University Association (OUA) conference. He was then nominated by the league for national recognition which he received with his selection on the all-Canadian second team on defense. Coach Tracey says that Sam had an outstanding season this year, leading the Gaels to its position as a top defensive team in Canadian Interuniversity Sport football. “Sam starred at the cover linebacker position as the OUA’s top run defense held its opponents without a rushing touchdown for nine consecutive weeks,” coach Tracey writes about Sam in an e-mail. “He has been recognized as one of the top 24 players in the country,” coach Tracey says about his defensive linebacker, noting that this is a “tremendous accomplishment for a sophomore.” Sam, who is a graduate of South Carleton High School in Richmond, says that the Gaels this season made huge steps towards maturing into an OUA contender.
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Sam Sabourin of Stittsville, number 44 for the Queens Gaels, is an Ontario all-star and all-Canadian defensive player.
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ond stretch in the first period but other than that, she stonewalled the visiting Moncton squad at the Mounties home game in Sackville, New Brunswick. This was the Mounties’ fourth victory of the season so far. The Mounties have also earned two ties to go with three losses.
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SPIRIT ASSEMBLY AT WESTWIND Assembled students and staff give the school cheer at a recent spirit assembly at Westwind Public School in Stittsville, being led by vice-principal Rian Bayne, far left, and teacher Amanda Szucs, second from left.
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Any connection of Stittsville Main Street with Maple Grove Road to give another access road in and out of the Jackson Trails subdivision will not take place at least until Maple Grove Road has been upgraded to urban standards. City of Ottawa Stittsville ward councillor Shad Qadri told those at the recent general meeting of the Jackson Trails Community Association that while he is working towards bringing about a Stittsville Main Street/Maple Grove Road connection which may be either permanent or temporary, any such connection will not happen until Maple Grove Road is upgraded to urban standards with sidewalks and street lights. He said that this may happen as early as late summer this year. At present the Jackson Trails subdivision, which has over 500 homes, has only one way in and one way out â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Stittsville Main Street via Hazeldean Road. Councillor Qadri said that eventually there may be a road connection between Klimpton Avenue and the Eco Woods subdivision west of the former Stittsville Flea Market property but he admitted that this is a long term thing that is probably quite a few years away.
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No change wanted in Munster From page 1 These consultations have resulted in a draft set of consolidated polices related to villages in the city as well as a draft vision statement for each village. City planner Robin van de Lande noted that of all of the villages in the city that are being studied, Munster is the only one where residents are saying not to change a thing. As the meeting neared its end, he summed up what he had been hearing from the more than 50 Munster residents in attendance by saying that he was hearing that the community of Munster does not want change. The turnout, which city of Ottawa Rideau-Goulbourn ward councillor Scott Moffatt termed a huge, “skyrocketing number” given the 400-plus homes in the community, may have been inspired in part by a purchase of acerage adjacent to Munster by a home builder/developer. Indeed, councillor Moffatt addressed this situation right up front at the meeting, saying that this land purchase does not have any impact on this current planning process for the city’s villages, saying
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that none of the boundaries for the city’s 24 villages are being changed in the process. He said that any examination of the boundaries of any of the villages would be very far down the road and perhaps would never happen for Munster. Any boundary changes would come only after an in depth assessment of the boundaries for all of the city’s villages, something which councillor Moffatt said would be a very arduous process. Right now, we are not going down that road, he said. Later in the meeting, he said that the purchaser of the land, Talos Homes, wants to meet with Munster residents at some point in the future , saying that Talos has indicated that it would want to build houses like the ones currently in Munster and not like the larger homes that it has been building in Richmond. It was pointed out at the meeting that current city policy does not allow development within a kilometer of a village boundary. This moratorium on development applies to the land purchased by Talos Homes. Councillor Moffatt suggested that de-
velopers are always buying land on speculation, saying that any development of the land in question could be 20 years or more down the road. He said that currently there is enough development land identified in the city to meet housing needs up to the year 2031. At the meeting, planner van de Lande explained that this consolidation of policies for the city’s villages is being done solely for the city to get its house in order with regard to its villages. One of the new proposals is for the introduction of a “Village General” designation which would allow for largerscale home based businesses, specifically involving a non-family employee. This proposal has been put forward because of input received last spring about the difficulty in growing a home based business in a village and also it is in response to a belief that some services should be available in the villages, just like they historically had been. This “Village General” might apply to a whole village like Ashton or to only selected areas of a village as is being proposed for Munster. These new consolidated polices dealing with villages are to deal with a shortfall in the city’s Official Plan where there
is virtually no mention of villages or any recognition that villages are different in their approach to lifestyle and community. The draft vision put forward by the planners for Munster including maintaining Munster as a quiet, close knit community with affordable housing including some low rise housing for seniors, with some shopping within the village. Munster residents at the meeting rejected the suggestion of providing for a possible retirement home in the community. Any mention of buildings higher than two storeys was also rejected. Planner van de Lande said that the current planning process regarding villages is to describe the identity of each village in the city because right now there is nothing in the city’s planning documents that does this. For instance, he said, there is nothing in the city’s Official Plan that describes Munster’s unique character. The city’s planning staff is receiving comments about its planning proposals for the city’s villages up until the end of December. A report on this planning initiative involving the city’s villages will be going forward to an Ottawa city council committee early in 2012.
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The Richmond Legion will be having a New Year’s Eve party this year, with music, dancing, party favours and a late night snack, all for just $25 a person. Please call Mavis Lewis at 613-838-2749 for tickets. Karaoke is coming to the Richmond Legion Hall in the new year. Saturdays, Jan. 28, Feb. 25, March 24 and April 28 are the dates when karaoke will fill the Legion Hall, starting at 8 p.m. Music and lyrics will be provided. Just bring your talent and five dollars to get in the door. A light snack will be served and the bar will be open. Everyone is welcome. The Poppy Chairman Jim Becking and the 14 member Poppy Committee would like to thank all those who donated in any way to this year’s Poppy Campaign. This year’s campaign raised $14,235.24 which will provide much needed financial support to a number of causes including bursaries for students, equipment for local hospitals and care facilities and help for the Perley-Rideau Veterans residence. Thanks go to the businesses and individuals who sponsored wreaths on the wreath stand on Remembrance Day – After Harvest Furniture, Balmoral Insurance, Blanchard Landscape & Design, Bob & Lynn’s Service Centre, Boxall Heating, Car-opractor, Cedarstone Homes, Chin Hon Restaurant, Christopher’s Meat Market, CIBC Richmond, Climate Works, Country Quilter, Danby’s Bar & Grill (Munster), Dollarific, Dr. Donald Lindsay, Drs. Rod and Lucy Rabb, Dr. Steve Treehuba, Duffy’s Tavern, Eastern Float Glass, Hair Expectations, Kerr Karpentry, King’s Valu-Mart, LCBO (Richmond), Len Tech Automatic Transmission, Mac’s /Subway (Richmond), Mac’s (Munster), National Acrylic & Spa, Never Too Latte, Ottawa Valley Kitchens, Prospect Builders, QEL Systems, Rabb Construction, Re/Max Realty, Richmond Family Eye Care, Richmond Centennial Golf Club, Richmond Home Hardware, Richmond IDA, Richmond Lodge, Richmond Nursery, Royal Lepage, S & S Service Centre, Sammy’s Restaurant, Scotiabank (Richmond), Seabrooke Heating & Air Conditioning, Silhouette Hair, Spotlight On Hair, Stittsville Goulbourn Horticultural Society, Sue’s Hair Advantage, Tailor Tacks, The Woodturner, Tony’s Chip Wagon, Townhouse Video and Track Side Tire Sales.
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Two angels trumpeting God’s praises are now a permanent memorial to the late Tom Cowick at St. John the Baptist Anglican Church in Richmond. The view of these angels is captured forever in glass and art in two new art glass windows installed in the doors leading from the church’s vestibule into the church itself. These two new windows were formally dedicated at the church’s service on Sunday morning, Nov. 20. They are the work of glass blower and glass artist Chris Van Zanten of Pakenham and glass artist Anne Bouillon, his one-time student. They collaborated on the new windows, working out the design and coordinating the glass used with the artwork. For Anne Bouillon, the drawing, painting and kiln firing of the painted pieces of the windows took a total of 170 hours of work. She had the two angels in her studio for two months, from August through October, gradually transforming them from flat two dimensional sketches to glass art. “As a glass painter artist, I took great care in patiently developing the angels to have them convey a sense of inner peace, joy and serenity,” Ms. Bouillon wrote in an email to Helen Cowick, Tom’s widow, explaining her work. She said at the dedication ceremony that the biggest challenge in doing the two windows was working as a team with Chris Van Zanten, saying that it turned out to be a long process to reach agreement between them on how the windows should look. However, in the end, she says, the collaboration worked out perfectly for both of them. She in fact admits that the finished product is probably better than if either of them had done it alone. The two angels portrayed in the door windows are linked by a trumpet which one angel is blowing and which extends into the second door where another angel is almost in a trance-like state singing to the Almighty. Chris Van Zanten, for his part, had never before collaborated with another artist on such a project. He said that the subject matter for the windows, namely two angels, was a given but the challenge was how to present them in the windows. Linking the angels through the sound of a trumpet held a key to the design. There were a lot of other considerations involved. Although the colour of the angels’ wings met with approval because it was one of Helen Cowick’s favourite colours, it had to connect visually with other church features like the fresco painted above the doors on the interior and the outer windows in the vestibule. “It had to belong here for a number of reasons,” Mr. Van Zanten said in explaining how the new windows had to fit in with what already existed in the church. The glass used also proved to be almost
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Flanking the doors between the church and its front vestibule which now feature art glass windows featuring two angels which has been dedicated in memory of the late Tom Cowick of Richmond at St. John the Baptist Anglican Church in Richmond are, from left to right, Helen Cowick; glass artist Chris Van Zanten; Rev. Michel Dubord, rector of St. John’s; and glass artist Anne Bouillon. heaven sent. The glass used for the angels’ robes is some left over glass that he had in his shop. “If that is not the Lord coming ahead of you and putting it in your way, I don’t know what is,” he says. The glass used for the trumpet is mouth blown glass from Germany that Mr. Van Zanten had in his possession for 20 years, waiting for the right opportunity to use it. He also did the installation of the windows, which are 36 inches tall and 22 inches wide, in the doors. A skilled woodworker as well as a glass blower and artist, he has nothing but praise for the craftsman who made the doors. Because of the expertise of this initial craftsman, he was able to install the windows in the original openings and even re-use the square nails that were used in the construction of the window frames. But that is not to say that the installation was easy. “By far the most complex window installation I have every worked on,” Mr. Van Zanten said in explaining the installation as he spoke after the dedication ceremony. St. John the Baptist Anglican Church rector Rev. Michel Dubord, who had initially suggested angels as the theme for these new windows in the inner rear doors at the church because he has two angels in his rectory, says that he saw the drawings of what was being proposed but that he had no idea that it would turn out to be what he says is “absolutely stunning.” He feels that the new windows in the doors blend well not only with the doors but also with other art in the church. “It looks like it’s been there from the beginning of time almost,” he says of the artwork of the new windows. Helen Cowick is also very happy with these new memorial windows in honour of her late husband Tom, praising what she views as the fantastic job that Chris Van Zanten and Anne Bouillon did on the project. She explains that she had wanted to do something in memory of Tom since his death in 2007 and had talked to Rev.
Dubord about it. Rev. Dubord had suggested doing something about the windows in the church’s rear vestibule doors and mentioned angels. This appealed to Helen since she has a special love for angels. But nothing really happened about the project until earlier this year when Helen attended a service at Knox United Church in Ottawa where a window had
been done by Chris Van Zanten. This led to a decision being made to do windows for the church doors and Mr. Van Zanten was contacted and the rest is history. It was originally planned that the dedication ceremony might be held in October on the fourth anniversary of Tom’s death but various family commitments meant that the ceremony was delayed until Sunday, Nov. 20.
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Artist Catherine Gutsche now has a display of her mixed media artwork on display at the Art Space wall at the Stittsville branch of the Ottawa Public Library.
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The series of paintings now on display at the ArtSpace Wall at the Stittsville branch of the Ottawa Public Library marks a new departure in her artistic endeavours. For mixed media artist Catherine Gutsche, this series represents her initial attempt to portray landscapes in her work. “This is my interpretation of abstract landscapes,” she said last Saturday, Dec. 3 as she was setting up her paintings on the ArtSpace Wall in an exhibit that she has called “16 Squared.” The paintings, all 16 inch by 16 inch squares, will be on exhibit for the month of December. These paintings were first shown in a “16 to the Power of 2 Exhibition” at the Bergamot Barn at the Herb Garden on Old Almonte Road last July when she joined with another artist in a joint exhibition. And in keeping with her mixed media genre, these paintings feature texture, sometimes incorporated in unique ways. One, for instance, has small pieces of glass adding texture; another has several rusty nails creating texture; while yet another has eyelets incorporated into it. She readily admits to incorporating fabric, beads, buttons, found objects, wire and objects from nature into her paintings, all serving to add texture to her colourful work.
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Catherine tries to bring all of her experiences travelling around the world into her paintings while combining her joy of colour with textiles, found items (e.g. the rusty nails) and paint. A trip to China in her youth showed Catherine the importance of pattern as she was inspired by the Chinese ability to manipulate designs and colours to form intricate repetitions that are flipped or rotated to create masterpieces. She has also travelled to the capitals of Europe where she gained an appreciation of the work of the various masters of art including their use of colour and textures. A trip to Australia allowed her to gain a feel for the impact of colour as Ayers Rock/Uluru changed from earthy reds to silvery-greys, with streaks of charcoal black algae. This sandstone formation, one of Australia’s most recognizable natural landmarks, is notable for appearing to change colour at different times of the day and the year. Catherine Gutsche participated in the recent Red Trillium Studio Tour in West Carleton and has her work on display at the Small Wonders VII art show that is running at the Britannia Gallery in Ottawa until the end of December. She has taken part in numerous exhibits dating back to 2004. More information about contemporary mixed media artist Catherine Gutsche can be found on her website at www.catherinegutsche.com. and Song” on Sunday, Dec. 18 at 4 p.m. at Holy Spirit Catholic Church in Stittsville. Trinity Hilltop Ringers, St. Thomas Anglican Children’s Choir and the Yuletide Ladies’ Chorus are guest performers. Everyone welcome.
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Fashions at SCHS SPECIAL TO THE NEWS
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Modelling in the fashion show at South Carleton High School in Richmond are Sydney Jones, left, and Eve Stephenson, right.
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South Carleton High School students Brittany Burton, left, and Katie Dolson, right, wears masks in the recent fashion show at the school in Richmond.
In between the opening 14-person number choreographed by students Kristen Rogers and Meghan Magnusson and the grand finale which involved all participants, the recent fashion show at South Carleton High School featured 22 separate routines highlighting fashions from a variety of retailers, all modeled by students. Stores which provided outfits and fashions for the models ranged from Walmart to Giant Tiger to Tip Top to Bushtakah to Moores to Mark’s Work Wearhouse to Nygard to Boathouse to Biba to Zellers…it goes on and on, even including South Carleton’s own apparel. Other providers included Stitches, Top of the World, Bluenotes, All That Glitters, Slaysh, Warrens and American Apparel. Besides an intermission, the fashion show also included a musical performance by students Matt Dubois and Jordan Kariappa. The various routines, each featuring clothing from a certain store, featured group performances by students, usually ten but varying up and down from this number by one or two or so. Student coordinators for this fashion show were Meghan Magnusson and Kristen Rogers. Teacher supervisors and coordinators were Leslie Jaeggin and Stacey Hamilton. Liz Mackinnon and Rebecca Graziano were responsible for the set backdrop and decorations for the show. MC’s for the show were Kate Johnson and Annika Vanderploeg. All proceeds from the fashion show are being donated to the Rick Hansen 25th Anniversary Tour.
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A trio of models in the recemt fashion show at South Carleton High School in Richmond are, from left to right, Sherry Cao, Hannah Martin and Katie Service.
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Lindsey Carter, left, and Sarah Hearn, right, model together in the recent fashion show at South Carleton High School in Richmond.
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2009 Nissan Versa SL Sport & Conv Package
2007 Nissan Maxima SL Leather Package
You will not lease find another like and this!!serviced One One-owner return one bought ownerhere. tradeThis bought and serviced our dealerright is the flagship ofat the Nissan SUV ship. ThisReady car is for in showroom line-up. the snow condition with newand tires just must be seen to be believed. installed.
The flagship of the Nissan brand. One drive and you will know what all the fuss is about. All the luxury options are there including a heated steering wheel.
18, 312 km’s stk#X0419 76,780 km’s•• stk# X0394
55,310 km’s • stk# Q1412A
$12,688 $22,980 ++ HST HST
$18,900 + HST $189 bi-weekly @ 5.19%^^
$127$196** bi-weekly @4.9% 60 bi-weekly @ months 5.19%
2007 Toyota 4-Runner Limited 4x4
2008 Nissan Rogue 2.5S FWD SUV
Very rare Limited package. Just traded on new Infiniti. Get ready to take on the snow in style with this loaded Toyota 4x4!
One-owner trade originally bought right here. Get class leading fuel economy combined with Nissan reliability. Save thousands compared to new.
88,400 km’s • stk# Q1043A
66,100 km’s • stk# X0408
$24,800 + HST
$15,900 + HST
$248 bi-weekly @ 5.19%>
$137 bi-weekly @ 5.19%^
2009 Nissan Versa SL Hatch-back
2011 Nissan Maxima SV Leather Package
6-speed transmission for class leading fuel economy. Why in buy new when can save over W Wrap yourself luxury in thisyou premium SUV. when compared to including a MSRP ofInfiniti $16,898. T$6000 This head turner has it all AWD. Nissan Certifi ed! In Infiniti Certified.
This is Nissan’s flagship sedan. All the luxury you could ever want and you can save thousands on this previous daily rental.
61,900 km’s 76,900 km’s ••stk#stk#X0422 WQ0314
27,152 km’s • stk# W2609
$10,790 $25,558 ++ HST HST
$26,990 + HST
$109 bi-weekly bi-weekly @@4.9% $261 5.9%6060months mnths
$199
Tony Graham Infiniti Nissan www.tonygrahamnissan.com 1.800.NEW.NISSAN
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++ 48/84 month amortization. Buy-back $14,460.31. ^60/72 month amortization. Buy-back $3,460. ^^48/60 month amortization. Buy-back $4.800. < 48/60 month amortization. Buy-back $6,275. O.A.C. Minimum financed amount $18,000. Mixed terms and amortization not available in Quebec. O.A.C. Minimum financed amount $18,000. Visit Tony Graham Infiniti Nissan for details.
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