VOL. 29, No. 1 THE OTTAWA SOUTH COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION REVIEW SEPTEMBER 1996 OTTAWA SOOTHERS IN RECORD LABATT 24 HOUR RELAY

BY DREW WILLIAMSON Id Ottawa South's of enthusiasm needed to cross the participation in the Labatt 24 finish line. 'Hour Relay has become an When all was said and done, the annual tradition of large proportions. team had raised $5,571.60, a new Every year the Team Captains (which record for Old Ottawa South. In the were well represented by Tom Lawson entire competition, we came in sixth in and Sheila Casey) go out and round up money raised, a large achievement for a contingent of able-bodied and a 26 member team. In the six years the enthusiastic runners who are willing to Ottawa Southern have participated, the walk, jog or run their hearts out for a team has raised $ 25, 002, a sizable good cause. ^ . amount that has made our ‘ These runners must go out and neighborhood the envy of all other collect as much money as possible from teams (as well it should be). The event friends, family members, neighbours, itself raised $312,800 with 86 teams in and anyone else they are on Speaking total. These charitable contributions are terms with. All money is then donated very much appreciated by the Rehab in the team's name to the Rehabilitation Centre, who uses this money to support Centre, an Ottawa-based medical their state-of-the-art facility. centre that takes care of patients The course was 3.1 km long and at recovering from serious diseases such the end, we ended up coming in second Labatt 24 Hrs. Williard St. runner Sheila Casey as cancer. in total distance run of all 86 teams. This year's run took place at the The grand total distance run was 316.2 Nepean Sportsplex August 17 and 18. km, which comes out to a grand total of Despite a rather shaky start (the first 102 laps! runners did not show up until a very Our team is very proud of its few minutes before the start, which had success and we thank the neighborhood caused a twinge of worry among team for their support and generous captains). The team moved along well donations. Without your ongoing throughout the day. We woe often suppôt, this event would not have been several minutes ahead of schedule and possible. The 1996 Ottawa Southers the speed and enthusiasm with which consisted of Richard Hanley, Rob and our runners dusted that course ensured Martin Cook, Michael Williamson and that we would keep a good placing myself, Bill Bowey, Liz Ruddick, Stan throughout the entire day. and Tristan Staples, Mike Casey, Since teams had to run 24 hours David Conn, Darren Clark, Patti straight, entertainment was necessary Anderson, Pam Grills, Michael in order to keep spirits and energy McLewin, Chris and Dave Rennie, levels high. A band called Serious Fun Leslie Hamilton, Lee Alexander, Doug played oldies during the day and a host Brunt, Joel Box and Ian Jempson. The of other entertainers and events team would like to thank team captains including Yuk-Yuk's comedians, Tom Lawson and Sheila Casey for their karaoke contests, movie festivals and, diligent effort in putting our team of course, a large beer tent full of together. Their hard work has certainly enthusiastic dancers gyrating paid off and our team thanks them for throughout the night kept the flow it moving along and provided a great The "Ottawa Southers" hope to see Labatt24 Hrs. Glen Ave’s Lee The Man"Alexander. diversion for the people waiting their you out there next year! ! ! turn to run and provided that extra bit

INSIDE... DEADLINE FOR THE Naturally Green Pages Guiding News Accountability OCTOBER ISSUE IS The Blue Report Immaculata Wins Financial Advice Neighborhood News Wise Sayings Troubles in Academe FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 27 And Much. Much More. w SEPTEMBER 1996 § ™ OSCAR § PAGE 2 OOOOPS! Last month our front page article on the Porch Sale suggested that donations OSCAR. were used to support Art in the Park, an entirely separate and unrelated event in The OTTAWA SOUTH COMMUNITY the Glebe. We apologise for any misunderstanding which was not intended. ASSOCIATION REVIEW

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ZONE A2:Chloe'Hanes (co-ordinator) IMPORTANT TELEPHONE NUMBERS ZONE Bl: David Farr (Coordinator), David Farr, Andrea and Cedric Innés, Ross Imrie, Catherine The Old Firehall Community Centre 247-4946 Montgomery OSCA 247-4872 ZONE B2: Patricia Webber (Coordinator), Leslie Roster, Joan & Ride Potter, Karen and Dolf Landheer, Ottawa South Public Library 598-4017 The Woyiwada Family, Anna and Dan Calvert, The Webber Family, Tracy & Clint Curie CUSA (Carleton U Students Association) New 520-6688 ZONE Cl: Laura Johnson (Coordinator), The Harrison Family, The Gilmore Family, The James- Regional Government - 24 hr line 560-1335 Guevremont Family, The Jarmuski Family, The Williams Family, The Cutt Family Brian McGarry, Regional Councillor 560-1224 ZONE C2: Kathy Paterson (Coordinator), Alan McCullough, Lily & Peter Hecht, Bill McCauley, Dan Lynn Graham, OBE Trustee 730-3366 Byrne, Barbara Copley, The MacGregor-Staple Family City Hall Numbers ZONE D1 : Mary Hill (Coordinator), Patti Angus, The Small Family, Jessie Neufeld, Mary Hill, Mary Ann Jim Watson, City Councillor 244-5367 Keys, Gilbert Jamieson, Elenor Quesnel Regional Police - non-emergencies 236-1222

ZONE D2: Janet Drysdale (Co-ordinator), Jessica & Colin Drysdale, Audi Gray, Martha Robinson, Tony Ottawa City Hall Main Number 244-5300 Hauser 24 hour Operations (snow, trees, etc.) 244-5444 Property Standards 244-5400 ZONE El: Barry Leighton (Coordinator), Chris Cooper, The Hutchinson Family, Brooke van Mossel- Forrester, The Leighton Family, Doug Stickley, The Murray Family Info Centre 244-5464 Recreation & Culture 244-5678 ZONE E2: Lily Hecht, (Coordinator), Kristen Rading, The Tillman Family, Eleanor Berry, Mary-Ann Kent, Glen Elder & Lorraine Stewart, Julie Vergara, The Fraser Family, Julian Hecht

ZONE FI: Carol O'Connor (Coordinator), Karen Fee & Family, The Bol Family, The Tubman Family, The Chandler Family, John & Lee Zamparo, Jim St John & Loretta Gannon, Alexandra MacDonald, Kate 1 LD William, Nicky Haddad ■ • V..; THEO FIREHALL> V ZONE F2: Janet L. Jancar (Coordinator), Sonya Jancar, The Moir Family, The Stem Family, The Liston Family, Marie Dubrule, Paul Jancar, Alexis Given, Niki Devito OTTAWA SOUTH COMMUNITYIIXENITRB

ZONE G: Angela Graves (Coordinator), Chris Kinsley, The Cihlar Family, The Graves Family, Julie de Bellefeuille, Tom Kurys, Roger Ehrhardt WINTER HOURS PHONE 247-4946 Toronto & Bullock: The Rowleys MONDAY TO THURSDAY 9:00AM TO 9:00PM

Lady Evelyn School: Susan Sutherland FRIDAY 9:00AM TO 6:00PM Bank Street-Ottawa South: Tom Lawson, The Code Family SATURDAY Bank Street-Glebe: Lily Hecht, Julian Hecht 9:00AM TO 1:30PM* Carleton University: Jim Watson SUNDAY CLOSED *open while programs are operating SEPTEMBER 1996 § ™. OSCAR § PAGE 3 COUNCILLOR’S COLUMN BY JIM WATSON, CITY COUNCILLOR, CAPITAL WARD I hope everyone Ottawa South's needs as a stand alone had a restful issue. Is u m m e r . Parking for visitors to the School is back in full Committee is free (bring your parking swing and I stub to the Committee's Executive encourage all Assistant for validation). Bus routes 3 motorists to slow and 13 are just outside Ottawa City down and drive with Hall (111 Sussex Drive). caution, particularly near schools, Bring out your signs from the June parks and our community facilities. rally and if you want to make a CITY STAFF AND presentation, call Jennie A liman SWEETHEART DEALS (237-1347) so we can co-ordinate speakers. The time limit per Recently, a number of disturbing presentation is five minutes. stories have emerged from City Hall Let's keep pressure on City staff on again highlighting the fact that this issue and ensure that other politicians have, at times, lost control Councillors and the Mayor know how (NC)—Next time you need to get somewhere, try hopping on two wheels over what is taking place in the City. important community centres are to us instead of driving four. Some believe we should blame the and that we don't want a major complex public servants themselves. We can Go GREEN. at the fringe of our community. argue about the lack of judgment in THIS WEEK. EVERY WEEK. accepting bonuses and "sweetheart CCEA deals", but I believe the buck stops with The Ex is over for another year. The us - the elected officials. new parking rules seemed to work quite The Mayor and Councillors are well. The first day a few people were ultimately responsible to Ottawa warned not to use their grass for taxpayers and for us to constantly shirk parking and when told, complied. that responsibility is wrong. There were a half dozen noise Recent audits will, I hope, be a complaints, but also received an equal wake up call for everyone at City Hall. number of calls saying noise was down. We can’t preach restraint while having I welcome your comments on how senior staff receiving lucrative the on-street and driveway parking educational leaves and pay bonuses. rules worked from your perspective. I believe that if these kinds of NEW BUSINESSES arrangements occur again, disciplinary I had the pleasure of officially action should be taken to ensure the opening the new Second Cup on Bank message is clear - we all work for the (at Second appropriately enough!) and taxpayers of this city and greater I have visited a number of other new respect for them and their tax dollars businesses in both the Glebe and Old must be at the forefront of all decisions. Ottawa South. A scene from a previous Porch Sale. COMMUNITY CENTRES I am encouraged by the show The future of the Glebe and Ottawa confidence in our community. I PORCH SALE UPDATE South Community Centres will be dealt encourage residents to patronize both with at the Community Services and new and existing businesses, because a BY ABBY POLLENETSKY Operations Committee on Wed, Oct 9. healthy business community helps keep our residential community vibrant. WHAT IF WE ORGANISED A PORCH SALE AND I have asked that the item be a timed item at 9:30 am. (the meeting begins at EVERYONE CAME? SKATEBOARD PARK 9:15 am.). The Lansdowne Park skateboard This year’s innovation, brought t-shirt from the Mad Cow pub, a book I urge all residents to attend this facility should be back in place. The to you by OSCA and your by Carol Borsky (courtesy of Mother meeting as a show of solidarity. The local business community, Tongue books), gifts from The Mud ramps were moved during the Ex, but more people, the better, as it shows we Oven, the Mayfair Theatre, Second have now been re-installed and are means that vendors in the September are concerned about keeping our Thoughts bookstore, Trillium Bakery, expected to remain at Lansdowne until 14 porch sale will get a chance to win community centres in our communities. sane great prizes too. Participants who The Barley Mow, The Folklore Centre, the end of November. The working group from the Glebe donate a portion of their profits to Pennies From Heaven... you get the The McNabb skateboard facility is Neighbourhood Activities Group and OSCA will be entered in a draw to be idea. To enter, all you have to do is closed. It was a tremendous success. the Glebe Community Association held at the September 17 OSCA board respond to the friendly OSCA Next year's skateboard park may be in have worked hard over the summer to meeting in the Old Firehall. canvasser when she or he comes to your a different location and I will keep you ensure that the Glebe renovation option Winners will be able to choose from door or phone Deirdre at the Firehall, posted as I receive further information. is at the forefront of the staffs prizes that include gift certificates from 247-4872. See you on the 17th! recommendation and that the Brewer CAN I HELP? Nickleby's Coffee House, a beautiful Park option is once and for all Jim Watson removed. 111 Sussex Drive As stated previously, OSCA has Ottawa, Ontario, KIN 5A1 indicated that they do not want to be a Tel: 244-5367 Fax: 244-5651 E-mail: [email protected] YOUR BRAIN COMES part of this process, but will deal with

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COMMUNITY WORKSHOPS ATELIERS COMMUNAUTAIRES ON GREENWAYS AND OPEN SPACES IN YOUR SUR LE RÉSEAU DE VERDURE ET LES AIRES NEIGHBOURHOOD LIBRES DE VOTRE QUARTIER The City of Ottawa is conducting a series of community workshops to give local commu- La Ville d'Ottawa organise une série d'ateliers communautaires afin de donner aux rési- nities the opportunity to express their views and ideas on the green and open spaces in dants l'occasion d'exprimer leurs vues et leurs idées sur les espaces verts et les aires libres their neighbourhoods. Your input will be used directly in the City's Natural and Open de leur quartier. Votre apport contribuera directement à l'Étude des aires naturelles et Spaces Study (NOSS) and in the development of the City's Greenway Corridor libres de la Ville et à l'élaboration des plans de gestion des corridors du réseau de verdure Management Plans. Both projects will assist in making planning decisions in the City. de la ville. Les deux projets aideront à la prise de décisions en matière d'urbanisme à la Ville. DON'T MISS THIS OPPORTUNITY TO PARTICIPATE! NE MANQUEZ PAS CETTE OCCASION DE PARTICIPER! Bring your friends, family and neighbours (12 years old and over) for an enjoyable Venez accompagné(e) de votre famille (12 ans et plus), de vos amis et de vos voisins evening. pour passer une soirée des plus intéressantes. WORKSHOP DATES AND LOCATIONS DATES ET ADRESSES DES ATELIERS September 19,1996 - 7:00 - 9:30 PM September 26,1996 - 7:00 - 9:30 PM Le 19 septembre 1996 -19 h - 21 h 30 Le 26 septembre 1996 -19 h - 21 h 30 Hunt Club-Riverside Community Centre Glebe Community Centre Centre communautaire Hunt Club-Riverside Centre communautaire du Glebe 3320 Paul Anka Drive 690 Lyon Street South 3320, promenade Paul-Anka 690, rue Lyon Sud October 24,1996 - 7:00 - 9:30 PM November 5,1996 - 7:00 - 9:30 PM Le 24 octobre 1996 -19 h - 21 h 30 Le 5 novembre 1996 -19 h - 21 h 30 Sandy Hill Community Centre St Laurent Complex Centre communautaire de la Côte-de-Sable Complexe St-Laurent 250 Somerset Street East 525 Côté Street 250, rue Somerset Est 525, rue Côté November 14,1996 - 7:00 - 9:30 PM Le 14 novembre 1996 -19 h - 21 h 30 Heron Road Multi-Service Centre Centre de service polyvalent du chemin Heron 1480 Heron Road 1480, chemin Heron U INFORMATION: Anna Hercz 244-5300 ext. 1- 3824 ÏT RENSEIGNEMENTS : Anna Hercz 244-5300, poste 1- 3824 Environmental Management Branch - Department of Engineering and Works Direction de la gestion de l'environnement -Service du génie et des travaux publics

PARTICIPATING IN CITY BOARDS PARTICIPATION AUX COMMISSIONS AND COMMITTEES ET COMITÉS DE LA VILLE The City of Ottawa is looking for residents who are interested in serving on the follow- La Ville d'Ottawa sollicite la candidature de citoyens intéressés à siéger aux Commissions ing Boards and Committees: et Comités suivants de la Ville : ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON FRENCH LANGUAGE SERVICES COMITÉ CONSULTATIF SUR LES SERVICES EN FRANÇAIS Fonction : offrir des conseils sur les services en français Provides advice on French language services. Réunions : hôtel de ville, 2e jeudi du mois, 17 h 30 Meets at City Hall, 2nd Thursday of month, 5:30 p.m. COMITÉ CONSULTATIF SUR LES MINORITÉS VISIBLES ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON VISIBLE MINORITIES Fonction : oeuvrer à l'élimination de la discrimination raciale Works towards the elimination of racial discrimination. Réunions : hôtel de ville, 2e lundi du mois, 18 h, réunions additionnelles des sous-comités Meets at City Hall, 2nd Monday of month, 6:00 p.m., additional subcommittee meetings COMITÉ CONSULTATIF SUR LES HANDICAPS DISABILITIES ISSUES ADVISORY COMMITTEE Fonction : recommander l'élaboration de politiques sur des enjeux liés aux handicaps Recommends policy development on issues related to persons with disabilities. , , Réunions : hôtel de ville, 3e jeudi du mois, 16 h Meets at City Hall, 3rd Thursday of month, 4:00 p.m. COMITÉ CONSULTATIF SUR L'ENVIRONNEMENT ENVIRONMENTAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE Fonction : offrir des conseils sur des programmes et des mesures de protection et de Advises on protection and enhancement of natural environment. mise en valeur de l'environnement naturel Meets at City Hall, 4th Tuesday of month, 5:00 p.m. Réunions : hôtel de ville, 4e mardi du mois, 17 h LOCAL ARCHITECTURAL CONSERVATION ADVISORY COMMITTEE COMITÉ CONSULTATIF LOCAL SUR LA CONSERVATION DE L'ARCHITECTURE Advises oh all aspects of the City's Heritage Program. Fonction : offrir des conseils sur tous les aspects du Programme sur la protection du patrimoine de la Ville Meets at City Hall, 1st & 3rd Tuesday of month, 6:00 p.m. Réunions : hôtel de ville, 1er et 3e mardis du mois, 18 h OTTAWA HYDRO ELECTRIC COMMISSION COMMISSION HYDRO-ÉLECTRIQUE D'OTTAWA Controls and manages all works for the distribution and supply of electric power. Fonction : surveiller et gérer tous les travaux relatifs à l'approvisionnement en électricité Meets at Ottawa Hydro Office, 4th Tuesday of month, 9:00 a.m. Réunions : Bureau d'Hydro-Ottawa, 4e mardi du mois, 9 h OTTAWA PUBLIC LIBRARY BOARD COMMISSION DES BIBLIOTHÈQUES PUBLIQUES D'OTTAWA Function: to operate a public library service in Ottawa Fonction : administrer un service de bibliothèque publique à Ottawa Meets: 120 Metcalfe Street, 3rd Tuesday of month, 7:30 p.m. Réunions : 120, rue Metcalfe, 3e mardi, 19 h 30 PROPERTY STANDARDS COMMITTEE/COURT OF REVISION COMITÉ DES NORMES DE PROPRIÉTÉ/TRIBUNAL DE RÉVISION Arbitrates disputes arising from Property Standards Inspection orders; hears appeals Fonction : arbitrer les conflits émanant des ordres d'inspection en matière de normes de on Local Improvement and Pedestrian Promenade levies. propriété; entendre les appels concernant les taxes prélevées pour les Meets at City Hall, during the daytime as required. améliorations locales et les allées piétonnières. RIVERSIDE HOSPITAL BOARD OF TRUSTEES Réunions : hôtel de ville, pendant la journée, au besoin. Manages and controls the Riverside Hospital. CONSEIL DE L'ADMINISTRATION DE L'HÔPITAL RIVERSIDE Meets at Riverside Hospital, 4th Thursday of month, 7:00 p.m., additional committee Fonction : gérer et diriger l'hôpital Riverside f meetings Réunions : hôpital Riverside, 4e jeudi du mois, 19 h, réunions additionnelles du comité TAXI ADVISORY COMMITTEE COMITÉ CONSULTATIF SUR LES TAXIS Advises on all aspects of the taxi industry. Fonction : fournir des conseils sur tous les aspects relatifs à l'industrie du taxi Meets at City Hall, 1st Monday of month, 5:30 p.m. Réunions : hôtel de ville, 1er lundi du mois, 17 h 30 To apply, please send a letter of application and copy of your resumé, including your Pour présenter toute candidature, prière de faire parvenir votre demande et votre curriculum vitae, avec l'adresse au domicile, à : home address to: Administratrice ^ Pour renseignements : Manager ÎT For information: Services aux comités et au Conseil Brenda Emond Committee and Council Services Brenda Emond Services intégrés 244-5300, poste 1- 3541 Department of Corporate Services Tel: 244-5300 ext. 1-3541 111, promenade Sussex, Ottawa (Ontario) K1N 5A1 111 Sussex Drive, Ottawa, Ontario K1N 5A1 ÉCHÉANCE ; LE VENDRED111 OCTOBRE 1996 DEADLINE: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11,1996 Les demandes peuvent également être télécopiées au numéro suivant Facsimilies (244-5417) will be accepted; however, please forward original by mail. (244-5417) mais les originaux doivent être envoyés à l'adresse précitée. Please note that applicants may apply to several committees but may only be appointed to one. First and Veuillez noter que les candidats peuvent présenter leur demande à plusieurs comités, mais qu'ils ne peuvent second term applicants being considered for appointment will be required to attend an interview. The prin- siéger qu'à un seul comité. Les postulants de premier ou deuxième mandat dont la candidature est prise en ciples of equity and accommodation are considered in filling all positions. The City has a Participation considération devront se présenter à une entrevue. Les mêmes principes d'équité sont pris en considération pour combler les charges vacantes. La Ville a également une Politique de dépenses de participation pour Expenses Policy which covers babysitting, taxis, and expenses which arise from participation in ADVISO- couvrir les frais de garde d'enfants, de taxis et les dépenses engagées pour la participation d'un(e) RY committees only. citoyen(ne) à un comité consultatif. The City's Multiculturalism Policy states: "The City of Ottawa is committed to a multicultural, multiracial La Politique sur le multiculturalisme de la Ville stipule ce qui suit : « La Ville d'Ottawa se veut une société mul- society. It firmly believes that its diverse publics have a significant role to play in influencing Municipal ticulturelle et multiraciale. La diversité du public joue un rôle important dans les prises de décision. La partici- \^decisions, and in participating in Municipal Government as well as in the life of the entire community." pation de ce public au gouvernement municipal est souhaitable ainsi que sa contribution à la vie communautaire. » SEPTEMBER 1996 § m OSCAR § PAGES REGIONAL UPDATE BY COUNCILLOR BRIAN MCGARRY, CAPITAL WARD R17 au*tumn (Ô 'tem), n. ow that communities served by the OPP about the season to harvest summer is régionalisation of police services. One the beginning of the idea of spring closing concern is maintenance and possible the time for work in the garden and eveiyone is expansion of services as we witness back to routine, it is increasing numbers of break-ins, call Dig This @ 230-GROW a good time to particularly in Capital Ward. p Garden Design and Maintenance review highlights of Marketing to the World: Five' Regional Council regional economic development from 1994 to 1996. organizations joined to launch a unified Open Skies: The long awaited open approach to marketing the Ottawa skies agreement transformed the region globally. Emphasis will be on Macdonald-Cartier Airport into a Ottawa as a dynamic, entrepreneurial, QBE TRUSTEE’S REPORT gateway for the Ottawa-Carleton area. knowledge-intensive centre of The addition of a pre-clearance facility commerce with an exceptional quality BY LYNN GRAHAM at the airport will allow travellers to of life. WELCOME agreements, most on an annual basis. clear US customs before departing for Régionalisation of Garbage: BACK This has lead to duplication and a huge the US . The transfer of the airport to a Savings are expected of at least $6 expenditure of time and money. In new school local authority will give this region the million. Residents will benefit from an addition, the current system lacks the year is ability to more fully develop the expanded blue box service. proper balance between elected boards underway economic potential of the airport. Development and Fiscal Reality: of trustees on the one hand and teacher and I look forward Transfer of Bridges and Land: As part of its Official Plan Review, the unions on the other. to working closely RMOC ’ and the NCC reached Region released a draft Regional I am in favour of the review which with principals and school council agreement in July, 1995, on the should examine options such as Development Strategy setting chairs in OBE Zone 9 (Capital Ward). exchange of land and the transfer of the development guidelines to 2021. A key regional or provincial collective Principals are Bob Dagenais at Mackenzie King and Laurier Avenue principle is keeping down servicing bargaining. Glebe (this is his fourth assignment at bridges to the Region. Lands acquired costs for new growth by encouraging G.C.I.!), John Loucks at First Avenue, PLANNING are important components of long-term development where services already Margaret Dempsey at Hopewell, This fall, the OBE is engaged in an transportation infrastructure of exist resulting in better use of existing Susanne Lutsch at Lady Evelyn and important planning exercise. With Ottawa-Carleton. Rehabilitation of the roads, transit facilities, water and sewer Donna Lindo at Mutchmor. School possible changes on the horizon in Mackenzie King bridge began this systems. council chairs are Stan Currie and education funding and governance, it is summer. 416 and Major Transportation Sheila Selley at Glebe, Maha Zayed at imperative that we define our priorities. Strong Financial Status: Moody's Corridors: The agreement to complete First Avenue, Colleen Leighton at To this end, trustees in June passed the Investors Service of New York upheld the 416, coupled with completion of the Hopewell, Mike Reynolds at Lady following motion: the Region's triple A credit rating Walkley Road/417 interchange and the Evelyn and Eleanor Crowder at " That the Ottawa Board of saving local taxpayers dollars in future Hunt Club Road east/west link from Mutchmor. These individuals are our Education support in principle the borrowing costs. Moody's mentioned 416 to Hawthorne Road have resulted key contacts at the schools and in the following; 1) that the OBE recognizes accumulated reserves and significant in increased access to major community. its primary client group to be students, annual levels of pay-as-you-go capital transportation corridors and reduced HOPEWELL SCHOOL aged four years (by December 31 ) to 21 spending. traffic on community streets. years; and Hopewell's quarters at former Reduced Expenditures: In Other Accomplishments: 2) that the OBE supports a move Immaculata High School will addition to $29.3 million in provincial - consolidation of biosolids treatment towards the delivery of education in adequately serve students' needs for the cuts to regional services in 1996, the at the Robert 0. Pickard Centre community schools at the elementary coming year. When I visited the province has signalled that $10 to $15 resulted in significant savings; level and composite schools at the "school" in late August, I became million more could be cut. Regional - up to the minute information on secondary level, as defined by aware of how much work had gone into Council is looking to further reduce regional government at the regional geographical boundaries " preparing the building for the opening expenditures by $13 million to prevent website at http://www. rmoc. on. ca; (Composite high schools would of school. I express my gratitude to a tax increase in 1997 while preserving - fully trained paramedics; offer Basic, General and Advanced Margaret Dempsey and all members of social infrastructure. - completion of the Southeast level courses.) the teaching, administrative and Infrastructure: Regional Council Transitway from Billings Bridge to School councils and board advisory custodial staff for many hours of extra oversaw approval and implementation Hunt Club Road committees have been asked to effort devoted to the temporary move. of 14 infrastructure projects worth - reserved child care spaces for victims comment by October 1,1996. Trustees $78million under the Canada of violence and those fleeing abusive ROBERTA BONDAR should take a final vote on this motion Infrastructure Works program for situations; PUBLIC SCHOOL in November, in time for 1997 budget enhanced water, sewer and - feasibility study for a new convention The new OBE school on Lorry deliberations. Many OBE programs transportation services to residents. centre; Greenberg Drive is named after could be affected by the review, Amalgamation of Police: The - feasibility study on a future research Canada's first female astronaut. It including Early, Middle and Late amalgamation of the Ottawa, park; offers English/Core French and Early Immersion, Adult Education, Arts Gloucester and Nepean police services If you need any assistance on French Immersion Programs from JK Canterbury and Gifted Programs. into a regional police service has regional matters, contact us at to Gr. 8. Due to population growth, For background material on this produced $2.5 million in efficiencies. 560-1224 or fax 560-1268 or by E- there are still many portable classrooms motion and information on board The Ottawa-Carleton Police Services mail [email protected]. in the OBE, particularly in southeast meetings when it will be discussed, call Board is now consulting residents in Ottawa (98 portables this fall). Board Services at 239-2490. COLLECTIVE I'd like to hear from you. Lynn Graham BARGAINING Trustee, OBE Zone 9 Education Minister John Snobelen 330 Gilmour Street has announced a review of Bill 100 Ottawa, Ontario, K2P 0P9 DALTON MCGUINTY which governs collective bargaining M.P.P. / député Tel: 730-3366 Fax: 730-3589 between teachers and school boards in e-mail: [email protected] Ottawa South Ontario. Currently, 166 school boards negotiate almost 300 collective 1789 ave Kilbora Ave Ottawa, Ontario K1H 6N1 736-9573

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MEALS ON LIVING LIGHTING WHEELS WEEK

eptember 30 to October 4 is Meals on Wheels Week. s Almost everyone has heard of Meals on Wheels, but have you actually thought about who uses it and why? Could it help you or a family SEPTEMBER member now or in the future? Meals on Wheels serves people of all ages by providing nutritional support when people are unable to do so on their own. Hot meals are delivered Monday to Friday over the noon hour by volunteers. Besides delivering the meal, the volunteers have a quick visit with their client and ensure that everything is as it should be. If there is no answer or the client is unwell, the volunteers alert the office staff who then telephone the client’s contact. The user may be a senior frail elderly person who is no longer able to prepare adequate meals. Such a person will likely use the service on a long term basis. Often such a user may attend a day program one or two days a week and use Meals on Wheels on the other days. Another client may just not have the energy to prepare meals on a temporary basis due to short-term illness. By using the Meals on Wheels program for 20 inch copperfoil 10 inch copperfoil dining room fixture. After sale price $349.99 After sale price $349.99 a week or two, the person returns more accent lamp. quickly to good health. Once their vitality returns, they are able to resume their normal activities again. A pregnant woman on bed rest may need Meals on Wheels at a time when good nutrition is essential or a new mother may use the service for a week After sale price $199.99 or two after returning home if adequate help is not available to lend a hand with meal preparation. 16 inch copperfoil and wrought I The situations are countless but one After sale pnce $439 99 After sale price $299.99 iron styled dining room fixutre. ' - dining room fixture. thing they all have in common is that with good nutritional support and the friendly visit of the volunteer, they are able to maintain or improve their health and independence at home. The King’s Daughters Dinner Wagon provides Meals on Wheels in Ottawa, Vanier and Rockcliffe. Call 233-2424 for more information.

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CANA DA’S LIVING LIGHTING Sale Ends September 28,1996 Learn new skills, gain valuable 1600 Merivale 1742 Bank at Aita vista experience and Beside Swiss Chalet Beside Color Your World make an impact. Call today. The 224-7817 while quantities last 521-0234 bulbs extra Volunteer Centre, AIR - MILES" TRAVEL f ’ING LOCATIONS ONLY. ™AIR MILES INTERNATIONAL HOLDINGS N.V. 789-4876 SEPTEMBER 1996 § THE OSCAR § PAGE 7 BLUE REPORT SENIORS’ BLUE REPORT BY CONST. TOM DUNLEVIE, DISTRICT 1 BY PAT MCGREGOR, SENIORS' CO-ORDINATOR, DISTRICT 1 A SAFE WORKPLACE STARTS WITH YOU hen someone rings your through your peephole first, ask the you’re in a one person office or store, doorbell, it is wise to take person to hold up their identification, IF YOU ARE some precautions before then follow the same procedure. If the A VICTIM check with neighbouring businesses to see if any or their employees have opening the door. If you live in a house, person has buzzed your apartment from taycalm,tiy similar schedules. Make certain you always keep the screen door locked, the entrance, we suggest you call the not to panic then when a stranger comes to your supervisor and ask him/her to go to the have the most up-to-date schedules if or show any door, speak through the screen. you take public transportation. front door and verify that the person is signs of anger or Don’t get in elevators with people If the caller says they are from a who they say they are. In the meantime, confusion. If you are company, whether it be gas, telephone, who look out of place or behave in a you can make the call to the company confronted by an armed robber, strange or threatening way. Report hydro or whatever, and that they need in question. cooperate. Don’t risk physical harm. such individuals to security or the to check something in your home, ask It is always a judgment call when Call security and the police as soon as them to show their identification. police. letting strangers into your home, but by possible. A good description will be Don’t use the stairs alone. We recommend that you ask the taking a few simple precautions vital to police, so try to remember Stairwells can be traps as well as a way person to wait, close the door and call beforehand you can reduce the risk of everything you can about the thief, to save time or to get some exercise. the company in question to verify that becoming a victim of a crime. robber or assailant. Never enter a stairwell to escape their representative is indeed working I am a volunteer and if you have any Important things to look for are pursuers or potential attackers. Go to on your street. You might feel you are questions, you can call me at the height and weight, race, sex, age, where there are other people. being rude by asking the person to wait Centre, 236-1222, ext. 5804. I am colour of hair and haircut, complexion, Be extra cautious when using outside, but if they are legitimate, they always there on Tuesday afternoons or facial hair (beard, mustache and restrooms that are in isolated locations, will understand your precaution. you can leave a message. sideburns), colour of eyes and poorly lighted or open to the public. If you live in an apartment, look eyeglasses, scars or other unusual If you use a bank for your business, marks, speech including accent or lisp, vaiy your route and times of departure. clothing, jewelry, weapon, vehicle Conceal the bank bag. colour and make, license plate number e“' to. and direction of escape. PARKING LOT SENSE B^QO Park in well-lit, heavily-traveled HELP MAKE YOUR THA^ areas if possible. If you know you are WORKPLACE SECURE going to be staying late check for lights WALTER ENGERT Did you lock your car when you left when you park in the morning. If there - Soccer Coordinator it this morning? are no spaces near lights, move your If you are last to leave at night, do car to a better location at noon or when MORGAN JOOSTE you lock the door to your office or other employees begin to leave for the - T-Ball Coordinator notify security? day. Did you report that broken light in If you are working late, ask the the stairwell? security guard or a co-worker to escort BOB ERWIN Do you insist on identification from you to the parking lot. - Softball Coordinator repair persons who come to work in the Always lock your car and roll the office? Are you extra alert while they windows up all the way. If you notice ...and to the many, many COACHES who help are there? any strangers luddng in the parking lot, make sports for kids in Ottawa South so special. Do you know the location of fire notify security or the police exits in your building? immediately. Do you keep your purse or wallet Don’t leave valuable items in view with you or locked away? inside your car. Leave them at home or Foundation If something suspicious or lock them in the trunk. ii frightening happens - a stranger When you approach your car, have loitering near the door, a burglary, a your key ready and check the floor and Urban telephone bomb threat - do you know back seats before you get in. the telephone numbers for the security, police and fire departments? ALWAYS LET SOMEONE The City of Ottawa is conducting a comprehensive Do you keep track of the office keys KNOW WHERE YOU’LL study to examine problems associated with urban in your possession, storing them in a BE! secure place and not handing them out I hope you had a pleasant summer. trees and foundation damage. to unauthorized persons? Now that fall is fast approaching, we Help us develop solutions - atttend one of the Do you shred important papers can all hope for a better and wanner before discarding them? fall. following public meetings: You can contact me at: Do you avoid letting telephone ■ Dovercourt Community Centre: callers know that your boss or fellow District #1 Police Centre workers are out of town? 277 Bank St., Ottawa, Ont. K2P 1X5 Monday September 30,1996 7:00 - 9:30 p.m. If a co-worker were the victim of a Phone: 236-1222 ext. # 5804 411 Dovercourt Avenue crime, would you know how to help? Fax:236-1917 Pager: 566-5139 SAFETY IN TRANSIT DIAL 9.1.1 ■ Jim Durrell Centre: FOR EMERGENCY ONLY If you are working late or early, try Tuesday October 1,1996 7:00 - 9:30 p.m. to meet another employee to ride BE A CRIMESTOPPER together, altering or leavign together. If CALL 233-TIPS(8477) 1265 Walkley Road ■ McNabb Community Centre: Tuesday October 8,1996 7:00 - 9:30 p.m. 180 Percy Street

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IT IS A DEVASTATING DISEASE OF THE BRAIN FOR WHICH BY STARR CAMERON-WRIGHT THERE IS, AS YET, NO CURE. ITS SYMPTOMS INCLUDE REGISTRATION and sign up for a year of fun. Sparks, HALLUCINATIONS, DELUSIONS, PARANOIA, SOCIAL Registration for Sparks, Brownies, Guides and Pathfinders are WITHDRAWAL AND A COMPLETE LOSS OF SELF'ESTEEM. Brownies, Guides and counting on you. Pathfinders will take place as THANKS TO "RETIRING" Scit/TZ6fee*iyA; follows: GUIDERS When: Wed, Sept 18 In earlier columns, I thanked leaders SADLY, 40% OF THE PEOPLE WITH THIS DISEASE WILL Where: Trinity Anglican Church from Brownies and Sparks for their (Bank at Cameron) contribution. This month, recognition ATTEMPT TO TAKE THEIR LIVES. SADDER STILL, ONE Time: 7-8 pm goes to Eileen Raven, who has worked QUARTER OF THOSE WILL SUCCEED. WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT. AGE REQUIREMENTS with the girls in many capacities. For Sparks 5-6 the past two years, she has been leading SCHIZOPHRENIA Brownies 7-8 the Pathfinders. Prior to that, she was IF YOU THINK SPELLING IT’S HARD, Guides 9-12 Guider in Charge for the 30th Guides. IMAGINE LIVING AVITH IT. Pathfinders 12-15 In the coming year, Eileen will be involved at the District level. Schizophrenia SPACES AVAILABLE A word of thanks and fareweU to Society of Canada The number of spaces in each unit FOR MORE INFORMATION, Janet Drysdale and Nancy Watters who depends on availability of leaders. PLEASE CALL: have worked with the 30th Guides for Société canadienne Priority will be given to returning girls de schizophrénie 1'8OO'8C>9'HOPE * several years. Janet was also an NC and to those who pre-registered at the experienced Brownie leader and shared close of last year. In the past, there has her love of the outdoors with girls at been sufficient demand and support to both levels. District Commissioner and MAYOR’S MESSAGE maintain two units, in both Brownies Guide leader for the 5th Guides, Tina and Guides. Parents had the choice of Woolford-Shaw has moved from the BY JACQUELIN HOLZMAN, MAYOR Monday or Wednesday nights. The area and we wish her well in her new turnout and interest shown at endeavours. WOULD YOU SIGN A DOCUMENT ON BLIND FAITH? registration will determine the spaces NEW Neither would I! However, Meyboom brought to light several and units for this guiding year. OSCAR many questions have been processes requiring tightening and CORRESPONDENT LEADERS NEEDED asked over the past few Council has moved quickly to close the Next month, Norma Stansbuiy has Many leaders who have been weeks about the process the City of gaps in accountability that were volunteered to write the guiding news actively involved will not be returning Ottawa employs for the signing of exposed. For instance, another for OSCAR. No stranger to the official documents. procedure has now been added to the this year. That means your help is neighbourhood or OSCAR, Norma has needed to ensure the traditions of Before any document is signed, City signing process that requires the been writing Hopewell Happenings for guiding continue in Old Ottawa South. Council, frequently acting on the originating department to record the several years. recommendation of a standing Council authority under which the How can you get involved?. Perhaps In closing, let me say that I have you can help with crafts on a monthly committee, approves action that document is being presented for enjoyed writing reports for the past five requires die preparation of a document. signature by the City Clerk and the basis? Are you good at arranging years and would like to thank everyone special outings or planning games for Sometimes, this approval function is Mayor. for their contributions. delegated by Council to the Chief These activities are a key step in the enthusiastic girls? Come to registration Administrative Officer (CAO) or unending exercise of improving another City official. ourselves and "keeping our house in In either case, the document is order". By Council agreeing to use the For Your Information: prepared by departmental staff, verified opportunity for an objective critical by the delegated official as complying review of the City's internal processes, with all Council-approved policies and we have been able to make major regulations, and is then signed by the strides and, because of that decision City Cleric or other senior officer of the made some nine months ago, today we 1^1 Home corporation. Only then is it presented to can be more confident that the checks „ ithe Mayor for final signature. Not a and balances are in place to ensure the jjfj lifiiJ hardware complicated process and one followed best management and administration of by the City of Ottawa for many the City of Ottawa. decades. In preparation for his arrival on \ With the resignation of the City's September 3,1 have been keeping the =e. Services We Offer.. CAO last year, I recognized a unique City’s incoming permanent CAO, John ||§ window of opportunity to review our Burke, apprised of everything that has Glass Cutting ^Paint Mixing administrative processes to ensure that been happening. John's 25 years of thoe are enough checks and balances in leading positions in municipal* Window & Screen Repairs place. I was very pleased when the government will bring a wealth of Delivery Service^Key Cutting Service majority of councillors concurred and expertise to the corporation. He is Sharpening Service^Carpei Cleaner Rental we appointed Peter Meyboom as our sufficiently familiar, without being too Spreaders, Rollers, & Wheelbarrow Rental interim CAO last fall; someone who, much so, with the City of Ottawa, A sufficiently removed from any history managed our neighbouring City of Hand Truck Rental Specialty Glass & Mirror with the corporation or any long-term Gloucester some years ago, to quickly B.B.Q. Parts Special Order or vested interest, could impartially and competently assume responsibility Gift & Wedding Registry review our administrative processes. for the effective administration of all The wisdom of this decision is corporate activities. evident today. Between last October I welcome your comments. STORE HOURS 234 - 6353 and the end of July this year, Peter MON-WED 8:30 AM TO 6 PM THURS & FRI 8:30 AM TO 9 PM SAT 8:30 AM TO 6 PM SUN 11 AM TO 5 PM

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AFTER THE FLOOD: RECOVERING MOMENTUM

lthough it now seems far location. away, most of us will A most important issue is the remember the Flood of ‘96 financial one. It proved amazing how 7 when many basements were flooded. or 8 inches of water can set a business What is less well known is that back. Momentum staff and members businesses also suffered damage, often pitched in whole-heartedly to clean up. with greater impact since livelihood But the business was, and is, caught and employment suffered. The Glebe between the insurance company, the was a center of flood damage and a landlord and the City and Region. premier business, Momentum Athletics Councillor Jim Watson has been was subjected to extensive flood extremely supportive however, none of damage. Unfortunately, neither the the other players seem to be landlord nor the Momentum had particularly interested in helping a Cleaning up after the flood of '96 Photo by Momentum thought of the need for sewage backup business get back on its feet, especially insurance which would have covered in resolving the health and re-opening most of the $ 10,000 in damage. issues. The City may help in a couple The owner-operators have had to of months, but $10,000 is needed to re- The Glebe's Finest Fitness make arrangements and incur the open and get 16 people back to work. expenses themselves so that they could In the meantime, friends of Centre re-open to their clients and customers Momentum have set up a Flood Relief while waiting for whatever claims will Committee to help organize events be covered by the municipality. . focussing (Hi covering the shortfall. The Regardless of what costs are first event was a “garage sale” eventually recovered, considerable September 7. Other events being costs will inevitably be absorbed by planned include a “Tile for a Toonie”, Momentum Athletics including loss of a potluck supper, a silent auction and business during closure for cleaning up BBQ. and for repairing damage. The club is The Hie for a Toonie campaign will in a difficult position, at least in the raise funds for new flooring by asking short term while our claim is members and friends of Momentum considered. Athletics to purchase any of 720 new Cleanup at Momentum is tiles needed for $2 each. Prizes will be complicated by several issues. Flooding concealed under some of the tiles with MOMENTUM damage wasn’t just water damage. winners announced at the potluck Sewage backup is a big concern for a supper. Watch for information at ATHLETICS health club where the health and safety Momentum. of members and users is a big concern. Everyone in Old Ottawa South is Health inspectors advised that health invited to lend your support to the Now Re-opened! risks are posed by everything which city’s friendliest club and ensure that it Flood Renovation Completed 858 Bank Street at 5th Ave. was touched by the sewage. All carpets remains an essential part of our community for years to come. Come on "Lower Level" and flooring have to be replaced. Walls, fixtures and equipment must be in for more information and to offer disinfected and all systems have to be your support. See you at Momentum 237-4747 cleaned out. This is not an easy task Athletics. and is complicated by the basement DONT MISS OUR Grand Re-opening Special O/ / Oon

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Remember Ours. After the Flood.The Clean-Up Crew at Momentum. Photo by Momentum Alzheimer Disease is a degenerative brain disorder that destroys vital brain cells. It affects over 1/4 million Canadians. And that’s not including the people who love them. (getting back into shape? ? If someone you love has Alzheimer Disease, there is a place to turn. Remember, after extensive immobility or just simply limited activity, you aren’t what you used to be. A physiotherapist can give you guidelines for a graduated exercise program to Alzheimer have you climbing those mountains again. CANADA A helpful hint from the r |R*. Canadian l'Association Help for Today Hope for Tomorrow. ’ * Physiotherapy canadienne de Contact the Alzheimer organization in your area or Alzheimer Canada at '•’Cv*' Association physiothérapie NC T320 Yonge Street, Suite 201, Toronto, Ontario M4T1X2 Tel: (416) 925-3552 SEPTEMBER 1996 § ™K OSCAR § PAGE 10

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CRITICAL PEACE OF MIND BY RICK SUTHERLAND, R.F.P. ealthier lifestyles and significant loss in income and possibly advances in medicine have the total demise of your business. You significantly reduced the may never be fit to return to the danger of premature death. performance needed to run your CRTTTCAT, TÏJ.NESS Unfortunately, there has been a business. Critical illness insurance profound increase in heart disease and could help keep creditors happy, allow other sickness often resulting in long for interim replacement and Bridge the Gap Between term disability. compensate for a reduction in earnings. A serious illness often means an It may even allow for an extended Life Coverage and Disability Insurance change to your lifestyle. Disability vacation to recover. income, if you are covered, may be Critical illness insurance can be lower than the income you are purchased on its own or sometimes Call accustomed to. You may have debts added to your life insurance policy. RICK SUTHERLAND, R.F.P. and a mortgage that must be paid. You Like life insurance, premiums are based 203-1390 Prince of Wales Drive Ottawa, ON K2C 3N6 may also have to modify your home to on your age. Your health and family accommodate your new circumstances. history will determine your eligibility. Tel. 226-7974 Medical treatment may not be covered Illnesses covered include a heart by government plans. How would you attack, coronary bypass, life and your family cope with the financial threatening cancer, stroke, kidney uncertainty of a critical illness? failure, blindness, organ transplant, Like other industries, the insurance multiple sclerosis or paralysis. There ROLL UP YOUR SLEEVES TO industry has introduced policies to meet may be others. Each company has changing needs. Critical illness conditions for the severity of the SAVE YOUR LIFE! insurance is now being sold in Canada, disease before the benefit is honoured. BY LORETTE MADORE & HORTENSE DAWKINS which offers a tax-free cash benefit Coverage usually terminates once a Influenza and pneumococcal has had an organ transplant; when any number of critical illnesses claim has been paid or at a certain age. pneumonia and are severe This year, individuals over 65 years are diagnosed. This insurance could With many definitions and exclusions infectious diseases involving the of age, patient care staff of long term help you maintain a certain quality of in a critical illness plan, you should lungs. Symptoms are similar. care facilities and children and life after the onset of illness and ease understand how and when benefits will Pneumococcal pneumonia attacks adolescents (6 months -18 years) financial stress linked to a decrease in be paid. suddenly and is marked by chills, fever, treated for long periods with productivity and income. A critical illness plan forms an chest pain, difficult breathing and acetylsaliçylic acid (aspirin) are A number of life insurance integral part of a well-rounded financial cough. Influenza is accompanied by encouraged to get free influenza companies offer what may be called a plan. The probability of a critical chills, fever and general malaise. vaccination. Critical Illness Policy or a Dread illness claim being paid is proven to be Headaches, muscular aches and pains See your family doctor this fall. It Disease Plan. You have to decide if this greater than a death claim. As the and a feeling of extreme fatigue or may save your life. fits into your financial plan. Families, statistics on critical illness increase, tiredness are also common. A dry Tips to help you stay flu and single people and business owners have these policies make a lot of sense. hacking cough is usual and there may pneumonia free. different needs, but all see some benefit This is a monthly article on be sore throat and hoarseness. - eat a variety of foods, especially fruits to a lump sum payment when a critical financial planning. To call with topics Vaccination is your best protection. and vegetables rich in Vitamin C illness is diagnosed. of interest please contact Rick If you are in the following high risk - drink 6-8 glasses of water a day If you are own a small business, the Sutherland, R.F.P. at 226-7974. groups, this year you should receive - get 10 -15 minutes of fresh air daily, impact of a critical illness could mean a two vaccines instead of one: a regular besure to dress for winter weather annual influenza vaccination and also a - be smoke free. pneumococcal vaccination which is - get plenty of rest. necessary only once in your lifetime. - have an enjoyable winter. Ffulse, Playfair &c McGarry Both vaccines will be provided free of For more information, call the Ottawa-Carleton Health Department charge. Groups include: jPart of tjour (Community Since 1923 - all residents of long term care Flu Information Line at 724-4228 from facilities; September 16-October 31,1996. - anyone with chronic heart, lung or Lorette Madore is a Public Health kidney disease; Nurse with the Ottawa-Carleton - anyone with asthma, diabetes, severe Health Department and Hortense chronic anemia, cancer, immune Dawkins is a nursing student at the disorders (including HIV infection) University of Ottawa. Sharon McGarry Brian McGarry President C.E.O./Chair other long term diseases or anyone who Unique to the funeral profession in the Ottawa area is the husband and wife team of Brian and Sharon. Their partnership embraces the ownership and management of what has become one of Canada’s foremost funeral firms, Hulse, Playfair & McGarry. Fifty-eight full and part-time staff members are employed in the four funeral homes and chapels. Southminster United Church Bank St. - Rideau Canal The Firm’s Family Resource and Reception Centre, located at 328 McLeod 730 - 6874 Street, directly across from the Central Chapel offers "After Funeral Care" along with a bereavement resource base for schools, churches, community church home. A special welcome is organizations, palliative care teams and self-help groups. Organist/Choir Director: Sandra Dean extended to new and returning 10:30am Worship students. For further information regarding The Resource Centre, or to arrange a • Sunday School for All Ages Date» to Remember speaker for your group, please telephone Tom Flood, Vice-President at • Nursery Care during Worship September 13 The Annual Com Boil, 233-1143. • Audio Loop System for Hearing an old fashioned family event Impaired October 6 - 7:30pm - Covenanting • Wheelchair Access to Sanctuary Service for Reverend Christie on the Central Chapel West Chapel St. Laurent Memorial/ • Coffee Hour following Worship commencement of his ministry at 315 McLeod St. 150 Woodroffe Ave. Chapel Simplicity Plan We extend a warm invitation to new Southminster United Church. All at O’Connor at Byron 1200 Ogilvie Rd. 584 Somerset W. and long-time residents of Old Ottawa Ottawa South community members South to make Southminsteryour welcome to attend. SEPTEMBER 1996 § THE OSCAR § PAGE 12

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ENVIRONMENT NEWS SNAPPING TURTLES As some of us know, Egg Laying and Hatching Rideau River, a trip that is long and June of this year, I spotted a huge snapping turtles thrive in oui Nesting is something that Ann dangerous to such small beings. snapping turtle standing dead still at stretch of the Rideau River. and Lawrence May know something Many are crushed on the road, and the edge of the bike path facing n fact, many Old Ottawa South about. They live close to the Rideau the others can’t climb the huge curb Riverside Drive. I assume that it was residents even help them to survive River, just to the west of Bank that separates them from their looking for a place to lay its eggs. and procreate. But, before I tell you Street. destination. (Even mother turtle had A woman stood nearby looking my story about close encounters Every June, a snapping turtle to walk further along the street at the turtle. We were both with snapping turtles. I’ll tell you a makes her way to their gravel where the curb was low enough for concerned for its welfare as disaster little about their story, as laneway to dig a nest and deposit her her to climb it. Obviously, she definitely lay ahead unless it documented in Microsoft Encarta. eggs. It sounds easy, doesn’t it? But hadn’t considered the plight of her changed its route. young ones!) Suddenly, the other woman bent Background the logistics are not so easy. The Turtles aie ancient life forms. turtle must crawl up the banks of the But Old Ottawa South residents over and picked up the turtle very The fact that fossils of turtles have Rideau and across the narrow strip are a creative breed. They place carefully with its head away from been found from as early as 200 of parkland, down over the curb, planks to enable small critters to her. She carried it down to the million years ago means that turtles cross the street, and move along the climb up the curb. Some residents water’s edge where she gently lived before dinosaurs. Evolution block to their house. use their shovels to carry the baby placed it in the tall grasses. All went has treated them a lot kinder! This year, the observant turtle turtles to the water. And most of smoothly, and I suspect the All turtles are reptiles, laying spotted a recently filled hole on their them make it, despite their mother’s experience gave confidence. eggs that they bury in holes. Some front lawn and decided that this soft benign neglect. Her next move was a mistake species live for more than 100 years. patch of land was the preferred site As mentioned above, the newly- that she regretted immediately. She Soft-shelled turtles have large, for this year’s eggs. Arriving at hatched turtles instinctively know reached around the turtle to remove sharp jaws that compensate for the about 8:30 a.m., the turtle dug out a that they must get to the water. grass that was poking up its snout, vulnerable, exposed underside. hole, deposited its eggs, and covered However, there are exceptions. One and the snapping turtle did what it’s Examples of these turtles include the the hole. The whole procedure took year, one of the baby turtles decided known for — it snapped her fingers. common snapping turtle. until noon. Add the travel time at not to make the journey but rather to Luckily for her, its sharp jaws sliced The Snapping Turtle (Chelydra both ends, and it probably spent stay on with the Mays - in their into two fingers but not too deeply. I serpentina) is a large freshwater about five hours. But that's it for window well that is. Somehow, it learned later that a turtle of that size turtle. Inhabiting rivers and marshes mother turtle’s responsiblity to her survived the winter. By spring, the could easily have snapped them off. in North and Central America, they young. They’re on their own! Mays decided it was time to give While I guarded her bike, she can exceed 3 feet in length but are This is where kind Old Ottawa this renegade a hand, placing it was given first aid by attendants at usually about half that size. Southers come into action. Knowing directly in the river. Much to their the gas station across the street. Snapping Turtles are known for their from experience that other animals surprise, the young turtle hated the When we parted, she promised to fierce tempers. They can grip their will dig up the tasty' eggs for their water and crawled out! call a clinic on her return home. prey so firmly that they’ve been suppers, the Mays cover the nest I guess all species have their free People can contact samenella known to be lifted up by the object area with chicken wire. A safe three- spirits, but whether this one lived poisoning from turtle shells. they bite! month incubation period begins. long enough to contribute to the But we both learned a lesson. The snapping turtle eats fish and Finally, sometime in September, snapping turtle gene pool is perhaps Although snapping turtles deserve other small aquatic animals. the eggs hatch. Out come about 100 another story ! our help, we must be cautious. They, Turtles are threatened by river baby turtles, all programmed to head How Snapping Turtles Got too, are interested in their own channeling, swamp draining, and for water. Well, almost all. More Their Na me— survival and might misinterpret our road construction since these about that later. My personal encounter with actions as being counter to their projects destroy their habitats and This is where other local snapping turtles took place across well-being. So use your head (or inhibit their movement, especially residents lend a hand. These baby the Rideau River from Old Ottawa rather a long stick or shovel) before during nesting. turtles must navigate their way to the South, just west of Bank Street. In aiding a snapping turtle.

GAIA VILLAGES ON THE NET A recent search of the Internet Germany. The villagers aim to live uncovered a pod of nine with each other and with nature [communities around the creatively and caringly. It offers an world that are dedicated ecovillages. educational program and a school of Ecovillages are settlements in mediation. which human activities are The “Nevo” ecovillage is a 62- integrated into the natural world in a acre sustainable community being way that is supportive of healthy created in the Republic of Karelia human development and can be near the Finnish border. The village successfully continued into the lies on the edge of a national park indefinite future. and forest reserve and adjoins the Each of these communities northern shore of Lake Ladoga, 300 shares these basic values and yet km. north of St. Petersburg. reflects local and regional “Findhom”, founded in 1962, is conditions. The GAIA TRUST of a community of about 350 people Snedsted, Denmark has helped fund living and working together on the these communities for the past four northeast coast of Scotland. In years. Five of these communities are addition to its educational program, described below. Findhom offers eco-joumeys to sites “The Farm” near Summertown, around the world. Tennessee houses an ecovillage The “Crystal Waters” ecovillage training center, a growing is about 100 km. north of Brisbane, community of people dedicated to Australia. The village has created a GAIA principles as well as company to help promote, design maintaining the Ecovillage Network and seed ecovillages. of the Americas. More information about the “Lebensgarten” is a co-housing ecovillages of the world is available project of 130 people situated on the ) Internet at Photo by Ann May: between Bremen and Hannover in http : //www.gaia. org/gaiatrust/villages/. SEPTEMBER 1996 § ™E OSCAR § PAGE 13

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ENVIRONMENT NEWS OTTAWA-CARLETON BLUE BOX PROGRAM Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. The What can / recycle and how? — Place these items in a paper bag What happens to the items in three R’s. You’ve heard it Place these items loose in your beside your blue box: and besiae my blue box? all before. The best thing blue box: • newspapers In addition to diverting materials you can do for the environment is • metal food and beverage cans • catalogs from landfill sites, the sale of your reduce the garbage you produce. The • glass bottles and jars (clear and • flyers recycled materials reduces the cost next best thing is to reuse items in coloured) and their lids • telephone books of the Ottawa-Carleton waste their current state, but possibly in a • rigid plastic containers and their management program. In particular: new way (like the 15 yogurt tubs lids Flatten, tie together with string, • Newspapers, flyers, magazines, that are storing frozen berries in my • styrofoam containers and place beside your blue box: and catalogs are de-inked and freezer). If you can’t even do that, • aluminum foil and trays • corrugated cardboard no larger made into newsprint. there’s a long list of items that can • empty paint cans and lids than 90cm x 90cm x 20cm (3 ft x • Other fibre materials are made be broken down and given an • empty aerosol cans and lids 3ft x 8in) into corrugated cardboard, entirely new life. • milk and juice cartons Place these items in a reusable boxboard, and construction board. Flatten these items and place container, cardboard box, paper compostable bag or tie them into • Glass, aluminum, and corrugated them in a box or paper bag beside cardboard are made into more of your blue box: bundles no longer than 1.2m (4ft) or heavier than 23kg (501bs): the same. • boxboard (e.g. cereal boxes) • plants • Steel food cans are made into minus liners • brush cans, automotive parts, and • fine paper and envelopes • branches construction material • paper grocery bags • grass • Plastic recyclables are made into • cardboard egg cartons As you probably know, Ottawa- • garden waste clothes, carpet, blue boxes, • hard and soft covered books Carleton’s recycling program Note: Even better than putting these automotive parts, office supplies, • ad mail expanded dramatically in July. Not materials out with your blue box is and plastic lumber. • paper tubes and other paper only are the blue boxes emptied composting them yourself. If you packaging Let’s make a difference! - weekly now, but we can recycle a don’t yet have your own composter, • gift wrap Now that you know what and host of materials that would you can purchase one at the Trail how to recycle, let’s do it! It does previously go to landfill sites. Place these items in a plastic bag, Road Landfill Site in Nepean or at take a bit of effort, but so did In case you didn’t keep the Blue tie it shut when full, and place it Regional Headquarters located at recycling cans, bottles, and Box & More flyer that was beside your blue box: 111 Lisgar Street in Ottawa. At only newspapers before that practice distributed in June, here is a • plastic bags $10, it’s a steal! And you’ll be became a habit! I’m going to make a summary of its contents. • plastic wrap amazed at how much it holds once real effort to consult this list before the materials start to decompose. mindlessly dropping things in the garbage. I hope you will too. NEWS FROM THE GARDEN CLUB — BY PAT SADAVOY _ —... i I hope you're planning to attend As always, there are exceptions and Add up to 3 inches of compost to • Spray broad-leaved evergreens - the first session of the Garden qualifications to this. the beds; perennials will have no euonymous, cotoneaster, yew, i Club on Tuesday, September “Bearded iris, peonies and trouble growing through it come rhododendrons - with Wilt-Pruf, 24th The topic is the one most oriental poppies, all of which bloom spring. an anti-desiccant that seals the requested in last spring's survey: in spring or early summer, should be Collect a few bags of leaves to moisture in the leaves till spring Herb Gardening. Sharon and Gerry moved in late summer or early fall at keep for composting next year - rains washes it off. Channer of The Herb Garden in the latest. Bearded iris is planted on avoids the dilemma of how to get • Paint tree trunks with a southwest Almonte are our speakers. We will the surface and needs time to make material for the “brown layer” exposure with white latex happily accept your membership roots to prevent frost-heaving. The when you've got all the green (washes off in the rain) paint to that evening, at $10.00 for the year. other two have fleshy roots that can stuff to compost. (Note from Pat: prevent sun scald If you choose just to “drop in” - but rot if late planted into cold soil. Keep them dry over winter or “Using shredded leaves’ why would you? - the fee is $3.00 “In my own garden, when I am they turn into an ugly, mucky Speaker Linda Temple said the per evening. digging a plant in one bed and mass... trust me!) time to add those hoarded leaves is quickly replanting it in another, even Cut all your perennials down to after the ground has frozen. Waiting fall flowering plants like asters and ground level and get rid of that long allows bugs and vermin to heleniums can be moved. If you are wintering places for slugs and find other homes for the winter. To digging them for a plant exchange, earwigs; or leave them be, and shred leaves, run over them with the when they could be sitting around the stalks will catch the snow and lawn mower, or use a whipper for several days before being provide good insulation over the snipper in a garbage can on a modest replanted, these fall bloomers may winter. “No matter what you do amount at a time. Bags of leaves Fall perennial plant exchange— not recover and are best left until now, you're still going to have to will have generated some heat, And I also hope you've been spring.” tidy some more in the spring”. which should make spreading them planning what to dig up and divide Recycling good ideas Try ' fertilizing your lawn in a more pleasant activity in early to bring to the Fall Perennial We had two very informative November, a “delayed dormant December than you might expect. Exchange, happening the following speakers last fall at the Garden Club, application”, with a product that Spread the mulch between plants, Saturday morning, September 28th. and it seems useful to repeat some has a higher middle number (eg. not over top of them. By spring they As usual, bring your plants to of their advice now, just at the time 2:7:2); the roots will continue to will have settled and been taken Brewer Park, the shelter beside the it's relevant. take it up even though the leaves down into the soil, so you can plant children's playground, at 9.30 a.m. have stopped growing. “Putting your garden to bed” — through them, just by moving them The exchange starts promptly at Speaker Kevin Laroche said: Water evergreens thoroughly in aside. 10.00 a.m. and is over by 10.20. We • To thwart squirrels, bury tulip October and into November; don't mess around! Last fall it was evergreens lose more water in Looking ahead bulbs a foot down; planting tulips October's topic is Water really chilly - bring some coffee that deep also lessens their winter than they can take from with you. the frozen ground and can dry Gardening. Isn't that a fantasy for tendency to split into smaller most of us! I bet there'll be Last year we wrote to Brenda bulbs with smaller blooms. out. Cole, Garden writer for the Ottawa Try applying 30:10:10 to wonderful slides to drool over! Chicken wire buried 1/2 inch Mark Tuesday, October 22nd on Citizen, to get some guidelines on down works too. evergreens late in the fall; it has dividing perennials in the fall. Here to be cold enough that the roots your calendar and plan to join us - • If you had annuals this year that 7:00 p.m. at the Community Centre. is part of her response: self-seed - such as cleome, can take it up but no leaf growth “A very general rule of thumb is nasturtiums, alyssum, cosmos - will be stimulated; Sheridan ‘If it flowers in spring, move in fall. resist the urge to cultivate where Nurseries claim this is how their If it flowers in fall, move in spring.’ they were growing if you'd like acres of evergreens survive with ‘ them to return next year. no winter burn. SEPTEMBER 1996 § ™E OSCAR § PAGE 14

GLEBE CENTRE RECRUITING IMMACULATA WINS NORTEL NEW VOLUNTEERS AWARD BY CHERYL LEDGERWOOD ' BY EVELYN KELLY, PRINCIPAL, IMMACULATA hanges in the demographic, Because of the important work that mmaculata High School Dallas, Texas. They were accompanied economic, political and social volunteers do at the Glebe Centre, succeeded in winning one of by Gerry Backs, Digital Equipment of environment of our special attention is given to matching twelve awards presented by Canada, Ltd., Immaculata's partner in communities have resulted in a growing the right volunteer with the right Nortel to schools across North education. The National Institute demand for volunteers to work in the volunteer opportunity. Persons America as part of the National brought together leaders in business wide range of activities now carried on interested in volunteering (minimum Institute Excellence in Education and education from Canada and the by voluntary sector. Volunteers have age 14) may call to request an Forum. The award of $2,000US was United States to discuss issues relating always played a vital role in helping information package. When an given for a project designed to improve to the 21st century: technology's role in make the Glebe Centre long term care application is returned, the individual is curriculum delivery at the Transition schools, transforming educational facility a secure, warm and friendly contacted to arrange for a tour and Years level (Grades 7,8,9) by using leadership and change management. place where elder residents can receive interview. Two references are also technology to enhance student learning. As the project develops, Nortel will a range of care, services and programs required, as well as a police reference Immaculata's project, entitled consider awarding additional matching designed to meet their physical, social, check. What the Glebe Centre looks for "Students and Teachers, Owning the funding of up to $4,000US to the cultural and spiritual needs. from all its volunteers is an interest in Future", was designed by teachers project It will be the task of the school On weekdays and Saturday working with the elderly; a caring, Marcia Lynch, and John Gibbens and team to foster interaction and sharing mornings, volunteers assist with group friendly and sensitive nature; maturity principal Evelyn Kelly assisted by Dr. among educators, members of the activities such as weight training, and sound judgement; honesty and Marilyn Kasian, Board research business community and leaders in exercises, music appreciation, trustworthiness and the ability to make officer, Superintendent Gerry Clark information management and gardening, games and social events, a time commitment and live up to it. and Patti Smith, technology consultant, communications technology in order to activation, escorting ... and more. On What the Glebe Centre offers in O.R.C.S.S.B. By focussing on students raise additional funds for matching. any day or evening, volunteers become return is a supportive environment with special needs such as ESL, it is The Forum was an excellent friendly visitors to residents or where volunteers can acquire valuable hoped that every student will have opportunity for all participants to accompany them on walks outside. The skills, meet new friends and give opportunities for better learning with recharge professionally and to return to opening of the nursing home in early something to their community For technology. In addition, support will be classes on September 3 with renewed 1997 will mean a need for additional more information on volunteering with provided to assist teachers in enthusiasm and excitement. It was a volunteers to assist with programs and the Glebe Centre, call Volunteer delivering curriculum in new ways. "once in a lifetime" experience and all activities for those residents. Services, (238-2727 ext. 323) As part of the National Institute, team members are appreciative of the the team members had the opportunity support provided by Nortel for to participate in the Excellence in immaculata's project Education forum August 8-15 in

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BY HAZEL CORSEAU VERN'S V.I.P. Although he worked his way up to RIVERSIDE TRAVEL MEDICINE CLINIC HAIRSTYLING manager at St Hubert, Doug dreamed of owning his own business. He is very 1072 BANK STREET BEFORE YOU TRAVEL: realistic about the responsibility of em and Marcella moved into ownership and said "my version of a their current location - immunizations bar owner's BMW is a $125.00 February 2, 1969 and bicycle". - anti-malaria medication celebrated their 25th anniversary in Doug's son Jay is cook and can be 1994. Their clients come from all over -counselling seen rushing into the pub every day at the city and surrounding areas such as 11:30 to prepare the same tasty pub Kanata, Alta Vista and Kemptville. FOR AN APPOINTMENT WITH PHYSICIAN OR NURSE meals available previously. Many clients over the years still The Mad Cow is an interesting CALL 733-5553 return, so he has styled the hair of up to place. On the back wall is an old church four generations of some families. RIVERSIDE PROFESSIONAL CENTRE pew. This pew belonged to lawyer Ken Vera came to Ottawa in 1963 from Ross, who loaned it to lawyer friend 1919 RIVERSIDE DRIVE, SUITE 411 Pembroke and worked at Modem Hair Peter Rock. Peter loaned the pew to Styling in Old Ottawa South. In 1967, Marty who set it up at as a seating he went to Vancouver for a short time, place on the back wall of his pub. returning to Ottawa to his old job until When Marty sold the business to Doug, he opened his own hairstyling business the pew stayed. On your next visit, at his current location. WATCH OUT FOR THE LITTLE check out the pew and share your views For 18 years, Vera and his family with Doug on who should own the pew lived and worked in Old Ottawa South. GUYS! now. Pub hours are 11:30am to 1 am. Their three sons attended St. Margaret On Saturday and Sunday, the pub BY CITIZENS FOR- SAFE CYCLING Mary's School. opens at noon for the lunch crowd. hey're the “little guys” on the them to clear the intersection first Although Vera continues here, in roads, and they're easy to check over your right shoulder for 1985 he and Marcella sold their Old ST HUBERT overlook. But they have a cyclists before turning right Ottawa South home and moved to RESTAURANT message for other road users: Bicycles signal well in advance of turns so Alymer. Vera enjoys fishing and 1159 BANK STREET are part of traffic, too! Motorists that cyclists will know your playing the guitar. Marcella is now St. Hubert Restaurant is a Quebec should expect to be sharing the road intentions semi-retired but plans to work part time based company which opened in our with cyclists—and drive accordingly. change lanes to pass a cyclist if in Aylmer. neighbourhood June 1982. There is a “Motorists are responsible for more you have to After all these years, Vera now small smoking area close to the bar but, than one-half of all collisions involving always check for cyclists before works alone. The business will have a as it is a family style restaurant, most adult cyclists in Ottawa-Carleton,” says opening your car door new face lift that bringing the door of the 142 seating capacity is smoke Melissa Johnson, Education and Safety don't honk your horn at a cyclist. flush with the street. One of the walls free. Prices are reasonable and there is Coordinator with Citizens for Safe Cyclists can hear cars very well will be moved, making a smaller a children's menu. Although they still Cycling. and may be startled working area. Although smaller, the carry their basic menu of roasted Citizens for Safe Cycling offers the if cyclists are travelling in the excellent quality of service will be chicken and ribs with dipping sauce, following tips to help motorists share middle of a lane, it is probably maintained. For more information or to the menu was enhanced about a year the road with cyclists: because it is not safe for them to make an appointment, drop in or ago to reflect Ontario tastes which ► don't underestimate the speed of a ride closer to the curb. Pass them contact Vem at 730-0801. include a greater variety of salads, cyclist in the other lane or wait behind finger foods and dessert selections. THE MAD COW ► yield to bikes as you would to cars: them until they can move to the Although reservations are not 1070 BANK STREET don't pass a cyclist and then turn right again required, they have accommodated Doug Weir took over ownership of right in front of them; wait for groups of up to fifty people at one time. Patty's Place Pub May 13, 1996 and Many regular customers, who show up renamed it The Mad Cow. Although once or twice a week for a meal or order the inside still looks the same, and meals through the take-out-service, are WHAT MAKES A HEALTHY Doug wants to retain the warm old- from the neighbourhood. The three country ambiance, he plans to extend it managers are Darrel Clark, Sharron COMMUNITY? by taking over some of the space Hicks and Darin Smith, who has been Vera’s Hairstyling is giving up. He is ealthy communities endorse programs that presave and enhance the working at the restaurant for almost optimistic that the renovations will be active living, encourage community's natural surroundings; twelve years. Out of the forty people on completed by the end of the year. Doug physical activity in schools, • maintain nearby hiking and payroll, they always have twelve to plans to run Sunday Celtic Jam workplaces and public settings. For cross-country ski trails; sixteen staff on duty to serve the sessions hosted by Charles de Lint and example, they: • offer programs and services suited to customers. his wife Marg Ann Harris. * determine community needs and the needs of all community residents; Hours are 11 am to 10 pm, Sunday Doug fives on Merritt Street, a priorities for active living; • encourage outdoor enthusiasts to to Thursday and 11 am to 11 pm, fifteen minute walk to work for him. He * maintain dedicated bicycle and enjoy their surroundings with care and Friday and Saturday. To use their previously worked as a freelance walking paths; to preserve and protect the natural writer\broadcaster for CBC radio, pick-up or take out service call * encourage and support alternative environment; 730-7111. moving to a job at St Hubert on Bank transportation methods such as walking encourage leaders-in active living and to learn the restaurant business. and cycling; other community services to work * ensure adequate green spaces, clean together; rivers and lakes for swimming, and • develop municipal land use and 241-INFO lighted, well-maintained sidewalks for engineering policies that encourage

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OSCAR CONTEST ‘95 WISE SAYINGS I HAVE KNOWN Grcoiyl Thcmghts BY ELEANOR MCSHEFFREY BOOKSTORE A penny saved is a penny allowing the semi-frozen juice to gush earned”, is just one of the out the side before I had a chance to put Fall Discussion Groups: 1 many wise sayings repeated it in the plastic juice container. frequently by my husband. He has a Fortunately, I had opened the container Monday: "So we're liberated - now what?" Women S Qroup (Starting Sept.. 23) saying for every situation. Not only is over the sink, which meant that I had he wise, he is also a very economical less mess to clean. Unfortunately, I lost Wednesday. Post-Modern Government person. However, I am not. While he half the juice down the drain before I (Starting Sept. 13) “Lets his fingers do the walking”, to could do anything. Thursday: With and Without Women -- find the best bargain, I like to go out By this time I was really looking ur Definitions of Male Identity (Starting Oct. 3) and get whatever we need when we forward to my delicious lean bacon- need it However, since we are facing lettuce-tomato sandwich. A cursory From 8 to 10 pm; Refreshments available serious economic challenges, my glance at the No-name bread label 280 Sunnyside Avenue, (just east of Bank) 730-1142 husband wants to take over the grocery showed the message “may contain www.travel-net.com/~quitl shopping. And although it is difficult palm or coconut oil”. Since these are for me, I am trying very hard to be a highly saturated fats, and since “We are wise, economical person. what we eat”, I was a bit concerned. One of my extravagances was However, I reasoned that two slices having breakfast on my way to work, would not kill me. Besides, “Time was ACCOUNTABILITY believing that going to a fast food marching on”. RICHARD OSTROFSKY, SECOND THOUGHTS BOOKSTORE restaurant - in and out in 20 minutes, Finally, I heard the welcome peep, with eggs, bacon, hash browns, toast peep, peep of the microwave and took hese days, Ottawa seems filled promise to bring in “whistle-blowing and coffee (refilled) for $2.95 - was a out the sizzling bacon. Unfortunately, I with mid-level civil servants legislation”, aimed at protecting civil good deal. Nevertheless, he always could not peel away the paper towel who feel betrayed by their servants courageous enough to “blow reminded me that, “You are what you because it was stuck to the bacon. This organizations. Quite a few are the whistle” on instances of corruption, eat”, and “A penny saved is a penny had never happened before. Of course, customers of Second Thoughts malfeasance or non-feasance in their earned”. since I was not economical, I always Bookstore. Some of these, knowing my departments from bureaucratic One morning, after weeks of bought the name-brand paper products interest in the post-modern crisis of vengeance. promising to change my ways, I I knew. government, have been sharing their On the contrary, it is resorting to decided to put “My money where my I kept trying to peel the paper off feelings and stories with me. “cover-ups” wherever possible. When mouth is” and make my own breakfast. the bacon, reluctant to throw away a Listening to these people, I see a caught, it allows Ministers and senior I could save time and money and be whole portion of bacon. This would not pattern: Mostly they are persons, of officials to wriggle off the hook of healthier besides. be in keeping with my new resolve to considerable dedication who went into responsibility by pleading ignorance Inspired, I got up extra early. I be economical. I couldn't get the paper public service (rather than business, and passing the buck downward to regarded the many healthy food choices off so I tried to scrape it off with a say) partly from an interest in “the big hapless sub-ordinates who had been before me and decided to have a lean - sharp knife. After several minutes, I picture”, partly from a fascination with following tacit policy in the first place. bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwich on had a mound of confetti with bacon the workings and uses of power, and No wonder government’s senior 7-grain bread (hold the butter) and a attached and decided to give up. partly from genuinely idealistic working level is on the verge of revolt. motives—to serve the public interest. cup of black coffee (no cream, no So far, my breakfast preparations Retired and active civil servants sugar). A breakfast healthy enough to had taken over twenty minutes. I had They have reached positions of (largely) from this level, quite a few of scope and responsibility: high enough whom live in Old Ottawa South, are pleasç the most health conscious of nothing to show for my time but a coming together as a new organization individuals. messy kitchen. I was now very hungry, to see what is really going on, not high enough to have any direct personal Excitedly, I put a couple of frustrated and unwilling to go to work called the Alliance For Public voice in the making of policy. Most of spoonfuls of rich Colombian, on an empty stomach. I thought, “What Accountability to: them have seen their last promotion— • ensure that Access To Information extra-fine-grind in the No-name coffee a good time I could be having at partly, of course, because government channels remain open and to filter and laid a generous portion of MacDonalds”. Since “Actions speak is in an era of contraction, but partly provide the public with bacon onto double sheets of No-name louder than words”, I was in and out in too because they lack the major authoritative information in cases of paper towelling. While the bacon was 20 minutes and had a very satisfying qualification for a really senior governmental malfeasance; sizzling merrily in the microwave, I breakfast for under $2.95. position: unquestioning willingness to • support whistle-blowers, poured boiling water into the coffee All together, I spent about $5.00 on put organizational interests and tacit disseminate the information they filter. The aroma of freshly brewed breakfast, (the one I ate and the one I policy ahead of the public interest when provide and protect them from coffee filled the air and freshly brewed threw away). I was over 45 minutes late any conflict arises: bureaucratic reprisal; coffee and grains spread from the for work and since I get paid by the Most of them feel betrayed by their • ensure that the Liberal government freshly burst filter over the counter top. hour, I had to add that amount to the superiors (at DG or ADM level and delivers on its election promise of Disappointed, but optimistic, I cost of my breakfast. I was dismayed above, and by the political masters “whistle-blowing” legislation; cleaned up the mess and decided that I when I realized that in the pursuit of these serve, who routinely pass the • generally embarrass our glorious was probably drinking too much coffee economy, I had spent about $ 11.00 on blame for their subservience to special leaders into cleaning up their act. anyway and would have a healthy glass breakfast. interests and their broken election Canadians, for the most part, are of orange juice. That evening, over dinner, I told my promises down to the workers in the nice people, with a long history of It was No-name brand orange juice, husband the wise saying I had learned trenches. deference to authority and to superior but orange juice is orange juice and we that day. “Time is Money!” I also Several recent incidents—the power. Pointing fingers of blame and are saving a lot of money, I reasoned, offered to take over the grocery Tainted Blood Scandal, the Somalia “throwing the rascals out” does not as I applied the opener to the container. shopping on a permanent basis. After Affair and many others—are bringing come naturally to us. There begins to It was probably a coincidence that the all, I said sweetly, “You get what you this sense of betrayal to a head. As be a mood, however, that enough is opener caught on the side of the pay for”. well, the Liberal government shows no cardboard container, tearing it and enough- sign of making good on its “Red Book”

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X \ LEGAL BRIEFS BY GARY STEIN, SOUTH OTTAWA LEGAL CLINIC siioiy TiSID One of the things we do at less ability to tell the public about how South Ottawa Legal Clinic is the new laws will really affect people's U "law reform" work. We lives. This approach of taking away ElIHIE SB S311 HISILI analyse new laws being proposed and rights and the funding which would be outhside Preschool is now University and a family fun day at provide the government with our used to speak out against the changes recruiting 2 Vi to 4 year olds Brewer Park. The nursery school also critique and suggestions for improving not only harms those directly affected who are interested in having provides an opportunity for children to the laws. by the changes, but is also a real threat fun experimenting with puzzles, sand, enroll in an additional music program. This aspect of our work has become to our democratic process of making water, playdough, art activities, blocks, Southside Preschool opened for the very important since the last provincial laws. bikes, climbers and much more. 1996-97 school year September 3 and election. The legal changes which the One of the major legal changes We provide a daily program which operates 5 mornings per week from 9- government is making are depriving the being proposed will drastically alter stimulates a child’s awareness of 11:30 am. For your convenience, you groups of clients we serve - tenants, for landlord-tenant laws. Earlier this music, nature, and friendship. may choose 2,3,4 or 5 mornings per example - of important rights. On top summer, the government released a The qualified staff at Southside week. Please visit the Preschool at of that, the government has cut the report on the suggested changes. A Preschool encourage the development 7 Galt Street (back door of funding of many organizations which legislative committee then held of independence, resourcefulness, Southminster Church) or call have represented those groups. hearings about it across the province. curiosity, creativity and responsibility. 730-5819. The results of this strategy are The Ottawa area legal clinics took part Outside the walls of the nursery Children, bring your parents to our obvious. The cuts mean there is less in these hearings at the end of August. school we have fun playing in our bake table during the Old Ottawa South vocal opposition to the government's The new law is tentatively called attack on these groups' rights. There is outdoor yard, visiting the library, Porch Sale on Saturday, September 14 The Tenant Protection Act. As we taking walks in our neighbourhood, foryour FREE bag of playdough. Hope also less information available about expected, the proposals actually offer enjoying children’s entertainment to see you there. alternative ideas. Saddest of all, there is much less protection to tenants than the theatre productions at Carleton current law does. The new name is not fooling anybody. One change, if passed, will do away with most rent control laws, which have helped to keep rent increases at LANSDOWNE PARK’S reasonable levels. The proposed change City of ViHed’ Ottawa would permit landlords to charge any rent they want to new tenants. A tenant Department of Community Services Services communautaires UPCOMING EVENTS would only be protected in his or her lansdowne current unit. Once he or she moves, the landlord could charge any amount of rent to the next tenant The proposal assumes that both landlord and tenant SEPTEMBER OCTOBER have equal bargaining power and, therefore, should have the right to 3 67’s / Belleville (7:30 pm) 4 67’s / North Bay (7:30 pm) 6 67’s / Peterborough (7:30 pm) 5 Rough Riders / Calgary (7:30 pm) freely negotiate over the rent. The 8 & 9 Hospitality Food Services Trade Show 11 67’s / Windsor (7:30 pm) effect of that proposal can only mean 10 67’s / Kingston (7:30 pm) 13 67’s / Kingston (2:00 pm) higher rents for tenants, many of whom 12-15 Ottawa Fall Home Show 14 Rough Riders / Montreal (4:00 pm) are already unable to find affordable 20 67’s / Belleville (7:30 pm) 18-20 The Women’s Show housing. 22 Rough Riders / Hamilton (1:00 pm) 18 67’s / Belleville (7:30 pm) At the Ottawa hearings, the local 26-29 International Truck Show 20 67’s / Barrie (6:30 pm) 27 67’s / Peterborough (7:30 pm) 25 67’s / Oshawa (7:30 pm) legal clinics suggested many other 28 Chris deBurgh 26 Rough Riders / Winnipeg (7:30 pm) proposals for change (such as a law designed to assist female tenants in leaving a violait spouse) and urged the

NOVEMBER DECEMBER government not to implement many of its proposals. We were well supported 1 67’s / Peterborough (7:30 pm) 5-8 Sesame Street Live by a room packed with tenants. 1-3 Ski Show 12-22 Ottawa Christmas Craft Show We believe this law reform work is 3 67’s / Detroit (2:00 pm) 13 67’s / North Bay (7:30 pm) crucial. We also have the impression, 8 67’s / Kitchener (7:30 pm) 15 67’s / Owen Sound (2:00 pm) 15 67’s / North Bay (7:30 pm) 20 67’s / Oshawa (7:30 pm) however, that without a lot more public 17 67’s / Sault Ste. Marie (2:00 pm) 27 67’s / Kingston (7:30 pm) pressure, the government will not do 22 67’s / Erie (7:30 pm) anything other than what it already 29 67’s / Peterborough (7:30 pm) planned to do. If you want to be part of that pressure or would like more information, please give us a call at FOR FURTHER INFORMATION 733-0140.

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his month, close to a million counsellors, equity, race and students and teachers will harassment officers, responding to the return to Canada’s universities supposed needs of the "whole person" and colleges to begin a new term. They seem intent on reducing the university will return to institutions under siege. to an egalitarian social laboratoiy. Although Canada still spends more on Typical of the breed is an Ontario education than any other industrialized employment equity officer who claims country save Norway, post-secondary that to distinguish among graduates on funding has been slashed by $400 the basis of degrees is wrong because it million this year, tuition fees have is "credentialism”. "Hot button" issues increased dramatically and a for the public include tenure, teaching, bewildering array of advocacy groups technology and wasted resources. and government-appointed panels are Pity the forgotten first-year student, seeking ways to reduce costs even caught in the cross-fire, whose only further. The universities, established as certainty is that he or she will graduate publicly-funded, private corporations ' with an average debt of $27,000. have traditionally enjoyed great "They are curious and intellectually freedom, developing programs, setting hungry”, Peter Emberley tells us in admission standards, granting tenure, "Zero Tolerance: Hot Button Topics in hiring and firing as they saw fit. That Canada’s Universities." "They have freedom is now under intense scrutiny. known or are hoping to know love; they Some suggest the creation of fear or revere or are indifferent to their Harvard-style private universities and gods; many have seen or heard about tuition based on student income- death ... they have nearly all earning potential. Others see more appreciated in one form or another the business partnerships and total essential mystery of being. Their deregulation allowing universities to longings are beautiful, inchoate, seek and find new funding models. The passionate and sometimes dark." Labatt24 hr. Patti Anderson on one of her seven laps. suggestions are largely focused on Lyrical indeed. Can he be speaking costs and aligning education with the of the party animals of legend, terrors needs of the job market. The Ontario of Old Ottawa South and the Glebe, role of the university - a community of Teaching would be improved with government has been accused of a dismissed by faculty and scholars and students whose duty it is peer reviews and teaching evaluations hidden agenda to transfer control of administration as "Basic Income to think and converse about the directly affecting a professor's career. curriculum to private industry, which Units?" fundamental questions of life. Under Spoiding would be cut on unnecessary would emphasize work skills and Emberley, director of Carleton attack from the "corporate right" and support services. Privatizing university technology at the expense of those University's new College of the the "cultural left", purveyors of libraries is one possibility. All "universal" subjects which gave birth to Humanities and co-author with Walter political correctness, determined to professional programs, medicine, the very concept of the university. Newell of "Bankrupt Education: The weed out ageing white scholars and to business, engineering and journalism, On campus, vicious ideological Decline of Liberal Education in examine all courses and instructional would operate on a complete fights are leading to a less tolerant Canada," (University of Toronto, materials for “sexist,l% racist, cost-recovery basis with the additional academic community in which dialogue 1993), fears that in the rush for homophobia and Eurocentric content", funds raised going to support Arts and about ideas is diminished. A vast and "accountability" and "relevance," we he is concerned that the modem Sciences faculties. expanding network of student have forgotten the ancient and noble university has been reduced to a forum A core curriculum would be for identity politics and "engines of established, Canada-wide scholastic economic growth concentrating on achievement tests would be instituted training and ‘cutting edge' research and and followed up with entrance and development." The scholarly culture is graduation examinations at endangered. universities. His final recommendation P.W.DE N Y Decrying the excesses of the left states that "what the university needs RESIDENTIAL LAWN CARE and right, Emberley admits the need for above all is a robust public relations BUILDING AND CONTRACTING Protect the Environment with Organics ! change and offers a number of campaign" to help the public Personal Service By A suggestions. He would eliminate tenure understand the "mysterious processes" Qualified, Experienced, Insured TIP OF THE MONTH for up to two-thirds of professors and represented by the scholarly culture, Contractor/Lie Carpenter Put down a good fall grant it only to those who have That culture, Emberley reminds us « Warranty 6t References fertilizer to give your lawn completed a major research project. in this wise, eloquently written and the strength it needs to get Tenure would be reviewed every ten passionate book "with its continued through the long winter. years. 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The contents should must be paid each year, even on you own a stock (or any other form of in a composter, it is actually being be like a damp (not wet) sponge. If they investments which do not pay any capital property such as a mutual fund eaten by micro- organisms. These are are too dry water them, or add more income until they mature (e.g. (x a rental property) that grows in value the tiniest and simplest members of the squishy fruit and vegetable waste. If compound GIC's, CSB's and stripped over time, you will not be subject to tax plant and animal kingdom. The they are too wet, turn or poke them bond coupons). Interest income is taxed on your gain until the investment is decomposition process attracts small more often, and perhaps add some dry at your full marginal tax rate. If your sold—regardless of how long you hold insects with an appetite for organic organic material, like dry chopped-up taxable income is over $29,590 your it. materials. 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But directories for small communities. Terry's choice had nothing to do with Terry usually works on a client's the work habits of consultants. He premises. But the occasional project selected it as a subtle tribute to his first has allowed him to enjoy the benefits - clients as an independent consultant - and suffer the drawbacks - of working the Signals Regiment of the Canadian at home. Forces, whose symbol is none other BARLEY SANDWICHES than the Goddess Iris. He admits that it is not always easy Terry launched Talaris Systems to concentrate on work when the kids from his home on Bellwood Avenue are home from school and supper is more than three years ago as a logical waiting to be cooked. And it can be progression in his career. awkward to bring clients through the With his wife Donna listening in, house to get to his well-appointed Terry tells his tale. It began 20 years basement office. 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TrjTJie • He/»- Jrrescnption EYE CARE Your Drug Information CLASSY ADS are free for Old Ottawa South residents and Must be submitted Sko Centre SERVICES in writing to OSCAR, The Old Firehall office by the deadline. Your name and phone number must be included. Only your phone number will appear unless you >urteous Staff Dr. R. Q. Lee - Optometrist welcomes as new patients, specify. Please make sure your phone number is correct. Ads are for one month PrivaMConsultation Area all staff, students, family only. The Editor retains the right to edit or include and takes no responsibility for On-line Drug Database and the surrounding community items, services or accuracy. Vitamin/^roal Products and GeneralÆye Hédlth and FOUND CAREGIVERS ÆÉmoiïeâm PrescriptiomTransfersJay Pnone Prescription sunglasses, Riverdale & After 2:30 Blues? Cure them with after ...... jaiAp IrOiMIfil Comprehensive Eye txams Will <»d!er:.Afl>yffiiNPM^tock Belmont. school care from experienced mother. ^Contact Lenses ififes■' • • . Call Ottawa South CC. 247-4946. Call to discuss needs. ner Eyeglasses l§unglasse Call Norah 730-2467 FOR SALE Brian Stowe, B.SC Phm, M.B.A. PM daycare for 3-5 yrs old, my home. Pharmacist Owner For appointments call Corel WordPerfect Suite, never used Father of 3yr old, qualified, exp 526-3666 teacher. Call Russell 730-1931 Fax: (613) 526-5977 (raffle prize). $200 obo. E-mail: [email protected] 521-7717 Suite 2700, Main Floor CTTC, Carleton University Call 730-1543 LOOKING FOR I Located on-campus in the Technology & Training Centre Free to good home, worms, red wigglers for vermicomposting. Electric Student to share Old OS dup. Walk to furnace, 15 yrs old. good cond. best off. Carleton/St. Paul’s, non-smoker, Call Laurine 730-6925. female, no pets. Own entrance, bed/living room, share bath, kitch. COMMUNITY IBWLILIEYIIN Little Tykes castle, log cabin-$275, Oct 1. $500mth inc. heat, hydro. pirate ship-$250, mushroom climber- Call 562-2577 IDCARID $150. Call Sus arme 730-3950 Professional woman and 3 yr old son, Stoller, Emmejunga Swedish, large seeking house to share/rent, Oct 1 or wheels, reclines, hood, tray, barely will house-sit, care for pets, plants, etc. OS COOP PLAYGROUP YOUR HEALTH used. Ask $325. Sept-Jun, Call Cathy 730-4383 The Ottawa South Co-op Playgroup is Centretown Community Health Centre, Call Terry 523-5400 accepting registrations for fall ‘96 340 MacLaren St. will hold a series of Snowboard, Below Zero, 153cm, MISCELLANEOUS session. Preschool program for 1 Vi-3 free talks, free childcare if you call biniding, $200. Elan skis, 150cm, yrs, Mon & Wed am. Contact Laurie ahead, 563-4336. Tuesdays, 1-2:30pm. boots, poles, bag, $70. Cleaning lady, reasonable rates, Ottawa South. Call 730-3826 Boucaud^30-6191^^^^^^^^^ Oct. 1 Creative Movement; Call 730-2355 Oct. 8 Music Therapy Violin lessons from exp. teacher, Work table, white porcelain top, 8'x3'; OSCA MEETINGS Oct 15 Action Painting masters in music, performance, 15yrs chesterfield, 4 matching chairs, red All meetings start 7:30pm at the Old Oct 22 Journal to the Self teaching, RCM, Call 730-1836 Ot^^b^igJfom'Cre^iv^jel^^ naugahyde; wrought iron, glass top Firehall, 3rd Tuesday of each month. table, 4 chairs. Call 730-3594 Cleaning woman, weekly, bi-weekly, The Annual General Meeting will take occasional, affordable. SHORT STORY WORKSHOPS Brio stroller, older, ask $60; free patio place Oct 10 at the Old Firehall, stones, red 18"xl8", grey, 24"x24". Call Kathryn 799-3854 7j30pmAUresid^ts^emvit^L^^^ Richard Taylor, writer, novelist, former Cot Ont teacher will tutor elementary Carleton U writer in residence offers 8 Call 231-3523 subjects, exp. Call Jennifer 230-1177 ANTIQUE REPAIRS workshops for anyone needing group White furniture: mate’s bed, single, feedback, encouragement. Wed evgs, Billings Estate Museum will hold a 3hr firm mattress, clean, 4 dwr chest, 2dwr FOR RENT seminar on how to clean, polish and Sept 25-Nov 13, 7-9pm. Carleton U bed table, desk, $400set. 2 legal 2dwr, repair glass, pottery and metal antiques Prof. Devt Ctr. Call 786-1202. small filing cabs. $25ea. entertainment 3 bed, OS home, sun-room, fireplace, unit, 2pc, with hutch, bar, etc. $100,3 fully equipped. Avail, winter months. Sun Sept 22, l-4pm. $10. Pre- FARM FRIENDS rems^iOTre^red^dl247-4830^ halogen torchieres $15ea. Call 730-7882 Friends of the Farm continue their Call Barb/Reed 235-0742 Bright large room in private house, TAKE BACK THE NIGHT donor tree program. Orders accepted own bathroom, 15 min walk to for Spring 1997. Donors wishing to The annual march will start 6:30pm, Carleton. Call 730-2823 Wed Sept 18 at the Regional Police commemorate any occasion can contact Station, Elgin at the Queensway. For the office, Mon-Fri, 8am-noon at 230- 3276. Tax receipts. info call Sally Batstone, Womens Place THOMAS J.i 789-2155, SOUTHSIDE PRESCHOOL

CHILDREN’S CHESS Now registering, 2,3,4 or 5 mornings Tues at Ottawa Library Main Branch, a week; 9-11:30am, Southminster CONTRACTING LTD. 6:30-8pm and Wed at Glebe Church^ainrç0-581^onnfo^^^ Community Centre. Starts Oct 1. For VOLUNTEERS info call Rochelle Handleman, RENOVATION SPECIALISTS 234-4032(res) or 562-5800 ext 3509. - Ottawa Children’s Treatment Centre • ADDITIONS AND ALTERATIONS needs volunteers to staff a reception • KITCHENS AND BATHROOMS AL-ANON kiosk for a single, half weekday shift. • BASEMENT REFINISHING Free coffee, parking. Call Donna Roney Al-Anon is a support program for • DECKS AND FENCING 738-4300. anyone whose life has been affected by • FOUNDATION REPAIRS AND PARGING someone else’s drinking. For info or - The Glebe Centre needs volunteers meetings, call the new Al-Anon for 2-3 hours, weekdays or Saturday TOTAL DESIGN/BUILD SERVICES number, 860-3431. mornings to help with activities. Learn FREE PRELIMINARY PLANNING CONSULTATION about this and other opportunities. Call 238-2727 ext 323 or pick up an volunteer application at the reception FAX: 521-9076 Free trial class for adults, Sept 16, desk, 950 Bank St. GLOUCESTER, ONTARIO 7:30pm 28 Arlington Av. For info call 599-1420.

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