THE OSCAR www.BankDentistry.com The Ottawa South Community Association Review l The Community Voice 613.241.1010 Year 45, No. 9 October 2017

Blue Skies & Big Smiles at the 39th Annual Brighton Beach Clambake

Under a cloudless blue sky on September 16th local residents pose for the group photo, another tradition, of the 39th annual Brighton Beach Clambake. See page 4 for more on the event. PHOTO BY TOM ALFÖLDI

COMMUNITY CALENDAR September 30 to October 8, Carleton Butterfly Show, Carleton U. 9:00-16:00 (Nesbitt Building) Sunday, October 1, 11:00- OSCA Fall into Fall (Fall Fest), Windsor 14:00 Park Wednesday, October 4, 12:00 Doors Open for Music (DOMS) – J. S. WINDSOR PARK Bach: Favourite Organ Works, Southminster United 11AM-2PM Friday, October 6, 19:00 Writers Festival – “Something Is Always On Fire” with Measha Brueggergosman, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2017 Southminster United Saturday, October 7, 9.00 Bridge-to-Bridge Project Wild Flower Planting, Bronson Place (at Sunnyside) Tuesday, October 10, 19:00 OOS Garden Club – “Designing a Small Garden,” Firehall Tuesday, October 10, 19:00 Writers Festival – “Scene of the Crime” with Barbara Fradkin and Ann Cleeves, @OldOttSouth @oldottsouth @oldottsouth Southminster United Wednesday, October 11, DOMS – Percussion A to Z, Southminster 12:00 United Saturday, October 14, 9:30 Aaron’s Butterfly Run, Brewer Park Sunday, October 15, 14:00 - Heritage Ottawa Walking Tour of OOS, 15:30 Sunnyside Library Wednesday, October 18, DOMS – “Farewell, My Beloved Canary!” October 1: Fall into Fall at Windsor Park 12:00 Southminster United October 6: P.D Day-Putting Edge Thursday, October 19, 19:30 Caelis Academy Ensemble Concert, Trinity Anglican October 13: Sports Night-Dodgeball (Gr. 7&8) Saturday, October 21, 16:30 Ebonies in Harmony Trio, Trinity Anglican October 13: Youth Night: Fright Night! (Gr. 5&6) Wednesday, October 25, DOMS – Autumnal Beef: The Mighty Prime 12:00 Rib Big Band, Southminster United October 20: Sports Night-Hoops Night (Gr.5&6) Friday, October 27, 19:00 Writers Festival – “Everyday Heroes: Inspirational Stories of the Canadian Armed October 20: Youth Night Halloween Party (Gr. 7&8) Forces,” Southminster United October 27: Duct Tape Challenge (Gr. 5&6) Saturday, November 4, 9:30- Frosty’s Fair Christmas Bazaar, Trinity 14:00 Anglican October 27: Capture the Flag (Gr. 7&8) To see the latest listings, go to the online calendar at www.oldottawasouth.ca

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BUSINESS BEAT Awards, an Unexpected Liquor Licence, and More My only hope is that this continued the front window, but kind of forgot comes out, The Senate Tavern on success won’t lead to even longer about that fairly soon after. But when Bank should be open for business. line-ups down Bank Street... I was in the store a little while ago, The soft opening is scheduled for the I noticed the mini fridge behind the third week of September, and if all Black Squirrel Books - Now with a counter was filled with several types goes well, the Grand Opening will be Liquor License of Nickel Brook Beer, as well as Em- sometime in October. From the day they opened, I have pire Hard Cider. Clearly the liquor As you may remember from an loved Black Squirrel Books. I think licence was granted and you can now earlier Business Beat article, The what makes them so great is that for enjoy a beer, cider, or wine at BSB Senate will not only be a great spot a secondhand bookstore, the books while studying, working, reading, or to go watch sporting events, but also are remarkably well organized. My listening to one of their live (music) a place to hang out and have fun with memory and image of a secondhand events. friends and/or family. I look forward By Erik van der Torre bookstore is a cramped space with to checking out what they did with way too many books and practically Kevin Dodds Gallery Closes the space, and can’t wait to go and no rhyme or reason as to what’s On a sadder note, Kevin Dodds crush my kids at foosball... Stella Luna Gelato Café Strikes where. But BSB’s dedicated owners Gallery closed its door in mid Sep- Again and staff make sure that all books are tember. I was a little surprised to see Business Beat is a monthly feature This news will come as a surprise not only organized by topic, but more the empty space and a “for lease” that highlights new and existing to absolutely no one: Stella Luna won often than not, also alphabetized! sign up. I thought they had a beauti- businesses in Old Ottawa South. another award for their amazing ge- As if BSB wasn’t great enough ful space with some pretty amazing Reviews and opinions are those of lato. At the Gelato World Tour Grand already, they added a café section looking art. And during the last few the author alone. If you know of any Finale in Rimini, Italy, Tammy Giul- quite some time ago and started months of the previous school year, new businesses opening up or want liani and her team were one of only serving some pretty good coffee, I had also noticed that on most days, to share your thoughts about existing 36 finalists to compete at the global tea, espresso, and baked goods. Add there seemed to be after-school art businesses, please feel free to share finals (out of 1800 contestants). At to that some recent renovations of classes happening in the space. I al- them: [email protected]. the summer event, her “Rich Choco- the interior walls, and the space has ways thought the gallery was a great late with Bourbon, Truffle Swirl, and steadily become more and more addition to the business mix on Bank Erik van der Torre has lived in Old Maple Candied Pecan” gelato won inviting, evidenced by how hard it and I am sad to see them go. Ottawa South for over eight years. both Best Gelato in Canada and the can be to find a seat at most times of He is a member of the OSCA Board, Journalists’ Choice Award. Con- the day. The Senate Tavern on Bank Opens the Traffic & Safety Committee, gratulations to Tammy, her team and Several months ago I spotted a Ending on a more positive note: and Hopewell Avenue PS’ Parent everyone at Stella Luna! liquor licence application notice in by the time the October OSCAR Council.

‘Lives in peril’: OS Refugee Committee Concerned About Backlog Delays By Adam Van der Zwan crossed their fingers in hope of wel- former Syrian art teacher who has fled increase. coming new refugees by Christmas, her overrun village to Lebanon, and a Given that the Immigration and While members of a refugee sponsor- they’re still uncertain as to when the Syrian family of two widows and two Refugee Board has not received any ship group in Old Ottawa South have arrival date will be. teenage boys, also in Lebanon. How- new money in the federal budget for The group is eager to welcome a ever, due to a growing application this year, Taylor argued that greater backlog in the federal government’s government attention and resources private refugee sponsorship program, are needed to help alleviate the situa- it may be months past December tion. before this can finally happen. “Clearly, it’s up to the government “It’s impossible to tell when any where to put its resources, [but] there of our recent applications will result are 60 million refugees [in the world] in an arrival because it depends on and we’re talking about lives in peril,” the processing time the government Taylor said. takes,” explained Robert Taylor, Donald Smith, Chair of the Refugee committee chair of the Ottawa South Ministry at the Anglican Diocese of Committee for Refugee Sponsorship, Ottawa – the Ottawa committee’s con- over the phone. stituent sponsorship holder – echoed A webform on Canada’s Immigra- Taylor’s suggestion, and added that tion and Citizenship website states he feels the Immigration and Refugee that the estimated application process- Board has been working as steadily ing time for refugees in Lebanon is as possible under its financial con- 15 months, though Taylor said these straints. times “increase every year.” “The country is at a record low of “Beirut’s time is 14 months, and settlement spaces versus a record high when we started the committee level of refugee claimants. [. . .] Yeah, two years ago, it was eight or nine we should do a hell of a lot more. months,” he said. Our settlement efforts should be in What’s worse is that the processing relation to the demand, not in relation time for refugees in war-torn coun- to a relatively constant budget,” said tries, like Syria and Colombia, has Smith. now reached as high as 44 months. In OOS, Taylor states that while Statistics released Tuesday by these setbacks are concerning, his Immigration, Refugees, and Citizen- committee will continue its communi- ship Canada states that the number ty-centered involvement, rather than of claims seeking asylum has risen focus on legal processes. to 27,440 – the highest number since “We have to try to do our best to 2009. In a briefing Monday, Immigra- move along with our applications as tion Minister Ahmed Hussen claimed best we can.” that the number may reach 40,000 by the end of the year, which means Adam Van der Zwan is a graduate processing times will continue to student in Journalism at Carleton U. The OSCAR l October 2017 Page 3

NEWS Philip Clarke Golf Classic - ‘A Tournament of Hope’

The 3rd Annual Philip Clarke Golf Classic took place on September 14th at Falcon Ridge Golf Club. PHOTO BY ALICIA HALL

By Lorraine Cornelius for Lung Cancer Canada at the 3rd in Ottawa. Organizers would like to thank all Annual Philip Clarke Golf Classic A cheque will be presented at its the sponsors, volunteers and the staff On a beautiful sun-drenched Septem- (PCGC) – “A Tournament of Hope.” sister event, “An Evening of Hope,” at Falcon Ridge Golf Club for help- ber day, 150 friends, neighbours and The PCGC is the only golf tour- on November 16th in the Horticulture ing to make this event such a tremen- colleagues of Philip Clarke gathered nament in Ottawa supporting lung Building at Lansdowne Park. Tickets dous success. Please join us next year at Falcon Ridge Golf Club to hon- cancer research, education and for the event can be purchased online for the 4th, Annual… a fun time for a our his memory and to raise funds awareness. All the funds raised stay at www.aneveningofhope.ca. very worthy cause.

Next Bridge-to-Bridge Project Planting is October 7th By Declan Hill historical tree in Toronto that inspired our Canadian flag. They were planted It’s the job of all of us to promote in the fall of 2014 by a group of peace, beauty and to leave the world children, Afghan veterans and federal better than we found it. politicians from every major political That is the ideal of the Bridge-to- party. Bridge Project. The idea is to grow a The next stage of the project is to forest that can protect our community create an under-carpet of wild flowers from the smog and sounds of the traf- to add colour and beauty to the site, fic on the six-lane monstrosity that as well as providing a sanctuary for has become Bronson Avenue. butterflies and birds. We will be led Over the last ten years, we have by Sandra Garland, of the Fletcher created a green space along Bronson Wildlife Garden, who will be bring- Place (near the corner of Sunnyside) ing many wildflower seeds. that is home to walnut, oak, spruce, The planting will be on Bronson three types of fruit trees and the last Place at the corner of Sunnyside at remains of the Great Dow’s Lake 9:00 am Saturday, October 7th. Please Swamp. It has become an informal do come. Bring children and every- nature sanctuary with rabbits, wood- one of all ages. There will be Scouts, chucks, red-wing blackbirds and a volunteers, shovels, gloves, garbage host of other birds and butterflies. bags and coffee/doughnuts. Please The pride of the place are three come along and share your energy trees with historical connections. One and spirit. If you have wildflowers to was a tree planted with the help of donate they would be most welcome! Iranian and Afghan poets to celebrate the life of Farkhanda, a young woman Declan Hill likes to plant trees. killed in Kabul. The other trees are maples grown from buds from the Page 4 The OSCAR l October 2017

Nothing But Sunshine and Smiles at the 2017 Brighton Beach ClambakePHOTOS BY TOM ALFÖLDI

By Barbara Cartwright scribes Pierre Sadik, a longtime resident. After four years of clouds and For the first time in memory, rain, this year the residents of tent engineers Howard Rundle Brighton Avenue were treated and Richard Fader called it – no to a cloudless blue sky and hot chance of rain – no need for temperatures on September a tent! Tables were arranged, 16th, the date of the 39th annual lights were strung, the fire pit Brighton Beach Clambake. was dug and by 4 pm residents More than 100 people gath- began to deliver wonderful ered at the historic Brighton potluck dishes. Beach to celebrate community, There were clams, fresh corn connect with friends, meet new on the cob and burgers for neighbours and catch up with everyone. Desserts included a alumni of the street that return massive pumpkin pie, brown- each year just for this occasion. ies and candy sushi. The kids “Our family looks forward to partook in the scavenger hunt, this every fall – it’s fun to see played soccer, had their faces everyone and share a meal,” de- painted by neighbourhood art- ists Julia, Chloe and Tessa and continued the tradition of trying OTTAWA REAL ESTATE to build the largest possible glowstick necklace under the Thinking of buying or selling? Let us help. stars. As always, the children were enthralled with Russell Allow us to share our years of experience and market knowledge of Ottawa’s established Levia’s sing along and puppetry neighbourhoods. Whether you’re buying your first home, selling your family home or looking while the adults appreciated for an investment, we would be delighted to discuss your real estate needs. the ambience he brought to the We look forward to hearing from you! campfire as the sun went down. Clambake organizer, Cindy JoannaAndKateRealEstate.ca MacLoghlin, thanked everyone who volunteered their time to [email protected] | [email protected] make this year another success and noted that it is a team effort each year! A special thanks goes JOANNA CHURY & KATE GRIMES to Black Squirrel Books and House of TARG, for their gen- sales representatives erous donation of prizes for the scavenger hunt. There were four 613.238.2801 young winners and they can’t Royal LePage Performance Realty, Brokerage wait to spend time browsing for books and eating perogies while 165 Pretoria Ave Ottawa ON K1S 1X1 playing pinball! See you next year, rain or Not intended to solicit properties currently listed for sale or buyers under contract. shine (but hopefully shine!) The OSCAR l October 2017 Page 5

Some Homeowners Not Finding the Heritage Inventory Project so HIP By Ilia Fabbri have understood it, is yes and no. prove that the property merits such what this all really means. It is this A home is considered for the protection. final point that has been most chal- My faithful readers will know by Heritage Inventory when it is deemed Did you know that there are whole lenged by the public. now that I have strong feelings to- to have heritage value, but does not neighbourhoods in Ottawa that are Indeed the City website explains ward my house. It’s not huge, it’s not necessarily meet the strict criteria of protected under the heritage ban- that properties are considered for the glamorous, but it’s unique and I love being a Designated Heritage prop- ner? They are referred to as Heri- inventory through research, meeting it. My daydream of the Fabbri Family erty. A Designated Heritage property tage Conservation Districts. Among certain criteria and “consulting with living here for generations persists. has sufficient architectural and/or those listed are Rockcliffe Park, community associations, council- So when I got the letter from the City historical value to warrant protection Centretown and the Byward Market, lors, historians and residents.” As stating it was chosen for the new by the City. A home on the Inventory just to name a few. The neighbour- a resident who received the letter Heritage Inventory Project (or HIP as is not bound by the same rigorous hoods currently being studied for the placing my home on the inventory, it is referred to on the City’s website), guidelines as a Designated Heritage Heritage Inventory Project are not I can say with great assurance that I I was neither surprised nor dismayed. property, nor is it on a fast track to on this list. There are also specific was not consulted. I have also been Who would want to tear down this becoming a Designated Heritage buildings that are protected by Heri- confused as to the implications. house? Then of course the pragmatic property. They are all part of the tage Designation, such as Old Town These questions have been difficult voice of the household asks: “well Heritage Register. Hall on Main St. and The Firehall on to get answers to, thus prompting what if we do sell or want to reno- A home on the Heritage Inventory Sunnyside Ave., but I was somewhat public objections and the city to vate?” Hmm, yes, indeed. What if? does not have the same restrictions surprised to see that Hopewell School place the project on hold until further Herein lies one of the questions many as one on the Designated list. Home- was not on the list. evaluation. As it stands at the time of Old Ottawa South and Old Ottawa owners on the Heritage Inventory The communities of the Old Ot- writing this article, there is no motion East residents are asking themselves. will be required to provide the city tawas have worked hard to ensure on the Heritage Inventory Project The pamphlet from the city is colour- with a 60 day notice if they intend that new builds don’t erode the and all decisions are delayed until ful and vague. So I will try my best to tear down the property. This is streetscape, so one might wonder next Council meeting on Sept. 27th to clarify some points and I will say to allow the City to decide whether why there is such strong objection to (assuming city staff provide the Plan- that the semantics are important. If the property should be further as- the proposed inventory. Ultimately I ning Committee with enough infor- my property is on the Inventory, is it sessed for historical value before it think it boils down to choice, control mation to move forward to Council). on the Heritage Register and if so, is disappears. For these properties to and clarity. We choose to keep our Stay tuned. it part of the Register of Designated be given Heritage Designation, a 100-year-old homes and look after Special thanks to Ian Grabina from Heritage properties? The answer, as I group or individual would have to them lovingly. However, we also David Chernushenko’s office for want the control to change our minds, helping me unravel the lexicon! or the flexibility to sell to all buyers: those who share our love for the old Ilia Fabbri is a local Real Estate as well as the ones who crave new. agent and longtime Old Ottawa Finally, people are frustrated with South and Old Ottawa East resident. the lack of clarity from the city as to

Hopewell Public School is not a Designated Heritage property (but is proposed to be on the Heritage Inventory). PHOTO BY TOM ALFÖLDI

17th Southminster Scout Group

17th Ottawa Scout Group

For boys and girls! Southminster United Church (downstairs in the Fellowship Hall) Beaver Scouts (ages 5-7) (waiting list) Cub Scouts (ages 8-10) Scouts (ages 11-14) Venturer Scouts (ages 14-17)

For more information contact: [email protected] Scouts Canada program information: www.scouts.ca Page 6 The OSCAR l October 2017

CHRISTY’S CORNER Fall Programming and More By Christy Savage , OSCA Birthday Parties success. We launched in September Executive Director If you have a birthday party to plan with a series of new programs for and organize, why not contact us? children (and adults) daily as of 4:00 We have many options from pottery pm. Gymstars, Magnificent Minda, Welcome to fall and our fall pro- birthday parties, sports, nerf, arts and Family Yoga, After School Art are gramming. crafts, and themed parties. For more just a few options. We’ll add more Myself and the team here at information contact Darcy Middaugh classes in the winter every day of the OSCA- Sarah Cybulski (Preschool/ [email protected]. Or book a week because of the popularity of Child/Youth Program Director), Amy party online using our online form, at these programs. ing on them. This year we’re proud to Shaw (Administrative Coordina- oldottawasouth.ca under our pro- offer a slightly bigger “Fall Fest” and tor), Darcy Middaugh (Preschool/ grams page. EVENTS we’re calling it “Fall into Fall”. Child Program Coordinator), Natasha We’ll have live entertainment, Tardioli (Communications Coordina- NEW PROGRAMS “Fall Into Fall”- formerly “Fall workshops, artisans, best pie and tor and Program Support), Katherine Fest”- Sunday, October 1st other food competition, games and Boisvert (Preschool and After 4 Busy Kids 11:00am-2:00pm more for the family. See you there. Coordinator) and Lance Skarlovnik We’re excited to launch a new Last year our very busy Special (After 4 and Youth Coordinator) program that combines the best of Events Committee decided it was Volunteering in our Community - are excited about the fall and all the Darcy and Katherine’s preschool time to cut back activities (we were OSCA Needs You activities at the Firehall. programs. Busy Kids, formerly running upwards of 12 events per Our Board of 20, as well as our 7 We look forward to seeing you Busy Bees and Kinder Play, offers year) and were perhaps a little burnt Committees and 5 Sub Committees, soon! programming to children aged 1-5. out. Some wonderful committee keep things like: Communications, Activities will combine group circle members retired and moved on and Programming, After 4, Planning PROGRAMMING UPDATES and snack, while younger children the Board made the important deci- and Zoning, Traffic and Safety and remain with their parents/caregivers, sion to focus on OSCA’s four signa- Finance running smoothly. Everyone 10 Card Drop in Passes the older children will explore their ture events each year: The Annual has something to offer and it is in our New at the Firehall: If you can’t independence and participate in some Old Ottawa South Porch Sale, Fall collaborative approach that we are commit to a full course, or you want of Darcy’s famous activities. Special Fest, The Women’s Day Networking able to grow and strengthen as an or- to try out different classes, why not themes and events will take place Event, and a new Brewer Park Art ganization. This helps us to continue buy a 10 card pass and come to any together. Show (formerly Windsor Park Art to strive to meet community needs. fitness or yoga class. All classes that Show). The OSCA staff will continue We are always open to new com- we run are open to drop-ins, and you After School Antics to volunteer our time and give back mittee members and excited by the can even share your drop-ins. Bring a There may still be space in some over the holidays by running “Break- ideas and knowledge that each new friend, or buy a card together. programs so contact us if you want fast with Santa” and we’ll have a volunteer brings. Please consider to register. We’re happy to note that few artisans coordinate our annual joining one of our committees. I’m our new afternoon programming is a “Christmas Craft Show- Shop Your happy to provide more information Local Talent.” The OSCA Board also and introductions. Feel free to email decided to hire someone to coordi- me directly at osca@oldottawasouth. nate our signature events by focusing ca. on what makes them events that draw Happy fall everyone! Thanks to OSCAR’s the community in, and by expand- many volunteer writers

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OSCA PRESIDENT’S REPORT Fall Beginnings By Emilie Taman, OSCA of working with this group as well local zoning on Bank Street with the President and can attest to the impact these City’s Official Plan, for example, is a financial contributions make. fool’s errand. The complexity of the On September 11th, I attended the legal regime surrounding urban de- Happy fall everyone! First, can we community meeting regarding the velopment makes it very difficult for talk first about the amazing weather proposed development at Southmin- ordinary citizens to effectively make we had for the porch sale? I have ster church. I would estimate that the case to developers and elected lived in Old Ottawa South for almost there were close to 150 people in officials either in opposition to, or in eleven years, and I’m hard pressed the room which is a testament to the favour of a proposed project. This is to remember another year where the steadfastly oppose the development level of citizen engagement in Old something that I sincerely hope will weather was that great. Thanks to all as it is currently planned, and others Ottawa South. Thank you to Council- change. The planning regime has to the OSCA staff and volunteers who who welcome it. Kudos to those who lor Chernushenko for organizing the be accessible to citizens so that we work so hard each year to make the showed up to the meeting to weigh meeting. can have a real voice when it comes porch sale a success. I’m hopeful that in publicly. You can continue to There was a clear consensus that to the kind of city we want to live we will be lucky enough to enjoy submit comments to the responsible Southminster Church is a valued part in. My hope is that one day soon we similarly dreamy weather for Fall city planner, Allison Hamlin (613- of our community. The programs it will have a Community Design Plan Fest, which is coming up on October 580-2424 x 25477) until the end of runs, both secular and non-secular, for Old Ottawa South which will 1st. September. Ms. Hamlin’s report will enhance and enrich the quality of life give us a tool we desperately need; I also want to offer my congratula- be critical to the Planning Commit- for many of us who live here in Old an expression of our collective vi- tions and gratitude to my predecessor tee’s decision to approve or reject Ottawa South and throughout the sion for our neighbourhood which is as OSCA president, Linda Hancock, the plan. Comments received after City. entrenched in the law. for the enormously successful fund- that date will not be reflected in Ms. It is equally clear to me that the I really hope that this issue does raiser she ran with her spouse, Mazen Hamlin’s report, but may nonetheless so-called “rules of the game” when not become overly divisive in the Soubra, to raise funds for the Ottawa be submitted for consideration by the it comes to development are about as community. I have heard from South Committee for Refugee Spon- Planning Committee. clear as mud. Trying to reconcile our many of you - some of whom sorship. I have had the great privilege

FROM THE ARCHIVES Whither ‘Ottawa South’ By Kathy Krywicki From the November 1994 OSCAR same issue, the Capital Ward Coun- Kathy Krywicki is the OSCA Web issue, a report on the OSCA Annual cillor, Jim Watson, noted regarding Editor and a longtime resident of In the 1990s the burgeoning develop- General Meeting (at that time, held in the AGM, “I was pleased to see so OOS. ment of South Ottawa, in areas such October rather than the current-day many residents come out to talk as Hunt Club and Greenboro, trig- May schedule) pinpoints the decision about community economic develop- gered a move to distinguish Ottawa to change the name of Ottawa South ment; the Hopewell School/Firehall South from other parts of the city by to ‘Old’ Ottawa South: (See below situation and “Old” Ottawa South.” changing the neighbourhood name to 4th column “c.) Whither ‘Ottawa Gradually the ‘new’ name took ‘Old Ottawa South.” South.’”) hold, and we became ‘old.’ In the Councillor’s column that Page 8 The OSCAR l October 2017

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Southminster United Church in maintaining a good relationship whom I spoke, insisted that the was corrected by the developer’s Development with the Church community. But I plans exhibited by the developer representative. believe that is a two-way street and were merely “concept” drawings. The recent community meeting did Dear Editor, calls for communication on both Assuming this is true, the Church not persuade me that the Church has sides. cannot expect its neighbours to fully considered all available options On Sept 11th, Southminster United The Church is asking its neighbours agree to its plans without seeing for improving its future financial Church hosted a community to agree to a significant change what the final development will security, including investigating meeting concerning the proposed in the zoning of their currently actually look like. This same development plans more in keeping development on a portion of their institutionally zoned property. It is representative assured me that its with the surrounding neighbourhood, property facing their neighbours. not surprising that these neighbours neighbours could rest assured that or sharing the Church building with This development has been the would want to see firm details the Church was carefully monitoring another religious institution. subject of previous articles and of the proposed changes, before the developer’s plans. Yet she was letters in OSCAR, as it is of great acceding. Yet the recent community apparently mistaken about significant Joy Morrow has been a resident of concern to the Church as well as meeting revealed to me an apparent aspects; for example, she insisted Old Ottawa South and a neighbour to many in the neighbourhood misunderstanding on the part of to me that the driveway entrance of Southminster United Church for of Old Ottawa South. As one of Church representatives of their to the underground parking garage more than 35 years. the Church’s oldest and closest neighbours’ legitimate concerns. shown on the developer’s plan was neighbours, I have a special interest One Church representative with instead a garden walkway, until she

NEWS Conservation Authority Challenging the City on Windsor Path Rebuild

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The annual spring flooding in Windsor Park in April this year.

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By Jamie Brougham you who can’t appreciate the importance of maintaining desig- It is an interesting time to see nated flood areas and keeping the Rideau Valley Conservation drainage systems working prop- Authority (RVCA) challenging erly, Houston, Texas, ignored the city on the rebuild of the path the problem and we know what in Windsor Park. As most of us happened there. There is no know, in the spring when the comparison here to their exten- river breaches its banks it can sive neglect, but flooding is a flood in Windsor Park, among real problem and any removal of other locations down the river flood areas, and consequential corridor. Generally the flooding risk mismanagement, has to be in Windsor is minor, but it does taken seriously. fill the north end of the park. By Frankly, some consider the allowing some areas to flood, the RVCA getting involved a pain higher waters are ‘shared’ among because they interfere with those the river’s flood plains. The wa- who only think of our economic ter needs to go somewhere and or social development. The real- if we remove one area, we only ity is though; the Rideau River make the problem worse down is a beautiful natural resource stream. that the RVCA is committed to Protecting these flood plains is protecting with suitable manage- the RVCA’s job and the rebuilt ment with a balance between our path in Windsor Park was ap- natural, social, and economic proximately a foot higher then environments. They all matter the previous path (because of and as such all demand some buried pipes found underneath concessions - like a lower path! during the rebuild), effectively making the path into a dyke. Jamie Brougham is a regular That’s a problem. For those of paddler on the Rideau in Old Ottawa South and East. Page 10 The OSCAR l October 2017

Is There a Cure for Traffic? By Sylvia Manning Club (OTLBC) in May 2010. They team (and the odd alternate) means A neighbour who lives near Brewer initially built four beach volleyball at times up to 150 participants. And Park found that out recently during The lazy days of summer are over. courts in the area formerly devoted although OSSC members are encour- a Red Blacks home game. He was But for many residents of Old Ottawa to Lawn Bowling. This partnership aged to car pool, ride their bikes or worried about the number of vehicles South, those lazy days in the past few provides an important revenue stream take public transit, many prefer to driving up Grove the wrong way and years have been fraught with tension for OTLBC, founded in 1881 and the drive. Beginning at 5:45 pm, cars called Ottawa Police. A police cruiser over increased traffic and parking oldest tennis club in Ottawa. With trickle into the neighbourhood look- arrived within minutes and parked woes. A few months ago, our three that distinction comes a clubhouse in ing for optimal parking close to the near that intersection throughout young grandchildren and the fam- need of costly restoration. And their tennis club. At 6:45 the action gets most of the afternoon. ily dog were steps away from a car motto of “your cottage in the city” is more intense, as the second group of Education, communication and accident at Ossington and Leonard; accurate; the historic clubhouse is not players arrive before the first cohort community advocacy seem to be the to our knowledge, the third such ac- winterized, so the OTLBC operates, have finished playing. It is important means by which we can protect our cident to occur this summer. During and generates income, only 5 months to note that there is no parking area precious community. In this spirit, the first part of the summer, a con- of the year. That means OTLBC’s designated for the beach volleyball the hope is to launch a question and struction trailer had been parked in revenue stream does not match their players; the OTLBC parking lot is for answer series, beginning with Ottawa our driveway and we experienced the cash flow needs. It takes almost the exclusive use of club members Police and Bylaw, and then consult- daily angst of finding a parking space $200,000 to bring the club back to only. ing others in our community newspa- on the street. life each spring, according to Pierre- Especially during the first couple of per, The OSCAR, to air some com- In early July, I set out to see if my Noel. weeks of each new season, area resi- mon questions, get accurate answers, neighbours in the south west sec- Beach volleyball was hugely dents are inundated with cars circling and learn about other perspectives . tion of Old Ottawa South shared my popular, but only available in outly- endlessly around 4 or 5 blocks closest Stay tuned to The OSCAR and the concerns by drafting a flyer. The ing areas of the city until it arrived at to the tennis club, drivers texting and online “News Between The Bridges” questions were simple; “Are you OTLBC, according to Lael Morgan, driving, and stop signs being ignored. for further traffic information and an- concerned about…cars driving too Executive Director of OSSC. “OSSC New volleyball registrants, unfa- swers to frequently asked questions. quickly, stop signs ignored, texting creates a better community for adults miliar with the neighbourhood, are OTLBC, OSSC, the OSCA Traffic and driving, vehicles driving the to live, play, work and connect. more focused on finding parking and & Safety Committee, our Council- wrong way? Are cars parking too We provide the largest, most orga- notifying team members they will be lor’s office, and area residents will close to your driveway and to in- nized and FUN outlet of co-ed sport late than they are on observing stop meet again early in 2018 (February) tersections?” The flyers made their leagues, tournaments, social events signs or one-way street signs. to make sure that some of the recom- way into mailboxes from Cameron to and classes,” reads their mission Add into this mix vehicles arriving mended next steps are in place for a Hopewell, Brewer Park to Bank St. statement. to park for the nine or ten home new season at the OTLBC. Between The responses were filled with Since that arrival in spring of 2010, games played each year by the now and 2018, communications rep- resounding ‘yeses’ on all counts. The beach volleyball has seen sufficient Red Blacks at TD Place and other resentatives from each of the inter- perspectives and priorities differed demand to expand from the initial Lansdowne events such as music ested parties will meet to coordinate, from Hopewell to Cameron, and from four courts to 12. It opens around festivals. Like me, other Old Ottawa identify gaps and collaborate on best those living close to Bank and those Victoria Day each May and the South residents are not just feeling practices. Changes & recommenda- closer to Brewer Park. But what courts are generally active Tuesday invaded by cars, they are genuinely tions will be shared and brought echoed in all responses was genuine through Thursday, with matches at 6, afraid for the safety of their forward in February 2018 concern that the precious quality of 7, 8, and 9 pm each evening. Most of community. I read somewhere recently, “A life in our neighbourhood was being the activity tapers off at Labour Day, The September 1st meeting was a problem without a solution is like eroded, and steps needed to be taken with limited fall registration beyond forum to open discussion with many a disease without a cure.” We may to keep it safe. that. of the interested parties about the crave instant solutions, but need to A meeting September 1st to The importance of the revenue concerns of the area residents. The remember that many cures take long, discuss these issues and try to find lifeline from OSSC to the tennis first step to problem resolution is painstaking years of trial and error to solutions, hosted by Maria Pierre- club is not lost on Old Ottawa South always communication. Not surpris- develop. Our symptoms may differ, Noel, General Manager of the Ottawa residents. Many voiced their desire to ingly, there were no ‘instant fixes’ on but my note to neighbours revealed Tennis and Lawn Bowling Club, see the tennis club not only survive, offer. But a commitment to ongoing to me that many of us share a general included some of the respondents to but flourish, in our community. And better communication was made malaise. We are uneasy about our the flyer, Ottawa South Community there was concern that if the tennis between OTLBC, OSSC, OSCA, our sense of community being eroded. Association members Sue Neill club disappears what could replace it Councillor’s office, and area resi- For me it was crazed weeknight traf- and Winnie Pietrykowski from the would be, at best, far less in keeping dents. fic and parking problems, for you it OSCA Traffic and Safety Committee, with the character of the neighbour- Better education is also funda- may be different. But if we are in any Ian Grabina from Councillor David hood, and at worst, a condo or other mental to community advocacy. way worried about the safety and fu- Chernushenko’s office, Ryan high intensity development. There For example, I did not realize until ture of our neighbourhood, we share Strottman of the Ottawa Police, Lael is a chance of losing both a historic recently that Bylaw officers will a vested interest in working towards Morgan, Executive Director of the building and club which is open and not ticket parked cars after business a cure, however long it may take. Ottawa Sport and Social Club. accessible to all area residents, offers hours unless a complaint is lodged. Ottawa Sport & Social Club children’s summer camps and out- Bylaw and Ottawa police response Sylvia Manning lives on Ossington (OSSC) began its foothold at the door swimming, in addition to tennis. are fully dependant upon community Ave, and has enjoyed her neighbour- Ottawa Tennis and Lawn Bowling But 12 active beach volleyball input, according to Ryan Strottman of hood for more than 16 years. courts with sometimes 6 players per the Ottawa Police Service. Playing By the Rules By Sylvia Manning (e) In such a position that will & driving? following specific information. prevent the convenient removal of • A fine of $400, plus a victim sur- 1. Incident: Date, time (am or pm), Did you ever wonder what the any other vehicle previously parked charge and court fee, for a total of location, direction of travel. exact parking rules are? or standing (in other words you can’t $490 if settled out of court. 2. Driver information: Driver descrip- From the City of Ottawa’s bylaws. block someone in) • Fine of up to $1,000 if you receive tion (Male/Female, Age, Hair etc). It is illegal to park; a summons or fight your ticket. 3. Vehicle information: Licence plate (a) Within nine (9) metres of an What are the consequences for the • Three demerit points applied to (number, province), vehicle (year, intersection (that’s about 29.5 feet) common driving infractions we your driver’s record. make, model, colour, car/truck/ (b) Within three (3) metres opposite a see? bicycle/other (please specify). Any fire hydrant (that’s about 10 feet) • Driving the wrong way carries a What do I need to know about other features (i.e. trailer hitch, (c) In front of or within one and one- $110 fine and 3 demerit points. making a traffic complaint? modified parts etc.). half (1.5) metres of a laneway or • Disobeying stop signs, fail to stop, Report it online or contact OPS 4. Details of incident. driveway (that’s about 5 feet) $110 fine and 3 demerit points. Call Centre at (613) 236-1222, exten- 5. Your information: name, address, (d) So as to obstruct a vehicle in the sion 7300 with a non-emergency phone (home, business, mobile), use of any laneway or driveway What are the consequences for complaint after the incident has oc- date of birth. distracted driving such as texting curred. You will need to provide the The OSCAR l October 2017 Page 11

COUNCILLOR’S REPORT 15 Rides for Canada’s 150th – A Capital Cycling Experience many more routes you can take where you never, or almost never, have to ride on the edge of a road with traffic zooming past you. Until 10 years ago, balancing on that thin white line was the norm. Granted, there are practical, geographical or scheduling reasons that cyclists can’t always on fairly skinny tires, these non- choose the quietest routes, and paved paths are a pleasure to ride. there’s still a lot of room for That’s true even when riding with improvement, and but there are far young children, like my eight- more options now. year-old daughter. 4. Ottawa has vineyards. Blame it 7. Some Ottawa roads have a lot of on the changing climate, or credit potholes, and a few are literally the skills and entrepreneurial spirit falling apart. Beware the Thomas of the wine lovers who pioneered A. Dolan Parkway in rural Kanata. winemaking in the region. 8. The Black Walnut Bakery in 5. You can carry four bottles of Cumberland has an amazing pear wine in a single pannier, packed spice pie. Trust me. David and daughter Anna on the Ottawa River, midway through the Big carefully. But I recommend 9. Anyone can get out and enjoy this Ottawa Loop ride. bringing two panniers — not so city on a bicycle. There really is a route for everyone. By David Chernushenko, First, let me point out that these much to carry eight bottles, of rides are not designed for expert course, but to help you keep your Councillor balance. Find out more about the routes and cyclists. While MAMILs (Middle- my rides at capitalward.ca/15rides. Aged Men in Lycra!) will enjoy 6. We have great trails along former This summer I had the pleasure of rail lines. Until taking on this It may be getting too cold for fair- most of them, only a few are at the weather cyclists by the time you cycling all over Ottawa. I do mean upper end of endurance and technical project, I had only heard about ALL over. On top of my daily the Osgoode Trail in the south, read this, but now is the time to start difficulty. Most of these itineraries planning for next year! commute, recreational rides and are either very gentle and exclusively the Prescott-Russell Trail in the standard errands, I embarked on an east, and the Trans-Canada Trail on paths, or moderately challenging, 613-580-2487 | David. ambitious plan (more so than I had with some on-road riding mostly west to Stittsville and beyond to bargained) to tackle all 15 of the Ashton. Now I can say that, even [email protected] | confined to quiet urban, suburban or www.capitalward.ca cycling routes recently developed rural roads. by the City of Ottawa as suggested Which brings me to the second bike tourism excursions. My goal point. These Capital Rides are almost was to make a Canada 150 project an equal blend of urban, suburban out of riding each route, and to invite and country, and some cover two or Brokers Diane Allingham & Jennifer Stewart 613-725-1171 friends and family to join me on all three of these landscapes — as occasion, then write and post photos they should in a city as vast and as chronicling my two-wheeled travels. geographically diverse as Ottawa. I did it. I completed all 15 rides, Here’s what I learned: totaling close to 700 km and taking a bit longer than planned. Although 1. Ottawa is big. Very big. On I originally wanted to complete all numerous occasions, such as while the rides by the end of August, I I was sitting at a picnic bench had to do the last four in September, on the Ottawa River at Fitzroy with my final ride on September 15. Harbour, I would think, “Really, My excuse is that it was not the best this is still the City of Ottawa?” year for riding, as the wet and windy It’s a quirk of amalgamation, but spring weather carried on for much hey, make the best of it. And there of the summer. Still, with a bit of is a lot to make the best of. We JUST LISTED! JUST LISTED! flexibility in scheduling, I was able to have scenery. stay dry most of the time. 2. Ottawa has great bakeries, cafés SEMI-DETACHED CONDO None of the rides felt like a chore, 670 O’Connor Street #1208 - 470 Laurier Avenue and (cover your ears) pubs in Listed at $485,000 Listed at $289,900 even when weather was not being unexpected places. friendly. In fact, I enjoyed the venture 3. The cycling infrastructure has so much that I feel compelled to improved enormously in the share some of what I saw and learned years since I was a young and fit in this column. distance rider. There are now so

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SOUTHMINSTER DEVELOPMENT Public Meeting on the Southminster Church Development Project PHOTO BY BRENDAN MCCOY will offer the Church $2 million and is proposing to build a 3-storey de- velopment. This belies the Windmill Development assertion that anything less than a 6-storey building is not feasible. At the meeting, the Church representatives gave an historical account of how they came to choose Windmill - basically, all other options were exhausted. That narrative might seem in need of an edit. By Ray Blewett oper’s arborist noted that a mature Street in Old Ottawa South is zoned The desire for the survival of the maple will not survive construction TM2 (h15) which is even further Church is beyond anyone’s question. Capital Ward Councillor David Cher- and two mature elms “will be moni- limited, to four storeys. This lends If the sale of Church land is what nushenko hosted a meeting on Sep- tored”. The elms abut the lot line some credence to the assertion that it is needed for that survival, then it tember 11th, mandated by the City where an underground garage is to be is misleading for the developer to say should proceed. But let it keep within regarding the proposed six-storey located. it could have designed a building to the rules of the game and within development project at the Southmin- Windmill also displayed a render- be eight storeys, but rather decided to reason. ster United Church. ing of the project, as viewed from be accommodating to the residents: The proposed six-storey condo will The basement meeting room was Galt Street, showing a massive stack An eight-storey building would not be 19.2 metres in height; it would filled to standing room only. Both of rectangular blocks that encase have been possible in a TM zone for be twice the height of the Heritage the Church and the Windmill Devel- the Church like a wall of lead brick. a residential building. Overlay (9m) along the Canal (a opment Group made presentations. This, they purport, is what they Another moment that caused a gasp UNESCO World Heritage Site); Allison Hamlin, Lead Planner for the could have done. In reality, however, at the meeting followed from the taller than the Church, which it will City, answered questions from the Traditional Mainstreet (TM) setback first resident to stand up to the mike. surely dominate; much taller than its floor regarding Zoning Bylaws and requirements and rules on shadowing She read emails from a developer, residential neighbours (11m) and; it the Official Plan. effects, mean that this proposal could Charlesfort Developments, which had would be taller than anything cur- Windmill Development unveiled never have been implemented. made a proposal to the Church in the rently allowed in Old Ottawa South. renderings of the north-side view, It was also learned that in the Of- past, but at which time the Church Be sure to send your comments something long requested by resi- ficial Plan mid-rise building heights had decided not to sell. Later, the to the Lead Planner, Allison Hamlin dents. Only summer scenes were for TM zoning (for which the pro- developer heard the Church was back ([email protected]) and to presented and an attendee pointed out ponent is applying) allows up to 6 in the selling business and hoped to City Councillors and the Mayor. that most trees will have no leaves storeys, with exceptions typical for submit another bid, but the Church 7-8 months of the year. The devel- seniors’ residences and the like. Bank never returned his calls. He says he Ray Blewett lives in OOS.

Southminster Church Development Project: More Options on the Table? By Susan Brousseau emails sent recently by Charlesfort 7-8 years ago, but the Church for answering, so graciously, our Developments, the developer that decided not to sell at that time. In technical questions; and Ward The Southminster United Church was built the units around St. Mathew’s 2016, when Charlesfort heard the Councillor David Chernushenko, for filled to the rafters at the September Anglican Church in the Glebe. The Church was again planning to sell, hosting this City-mandated meeting. 11th City-mandated public meeting gist of the emails is as follows: they left messages, hoping to re-bid, regarding Windmill Developments’ Charlesfort Developments is but their multiple calls and an email Join the Development Watch proposed six-storey development prepared to offer the Church $2 were never returned. Southminster Team at: project on lands currently owned by million for the land [the going sale Residents have been consistently developmentwatchsouthminster@ the Church. An estimated 180 people price] and proposes to build no asking that our neighbourhood’s gmail.com. were in attendance. higher than 3 storeys. maximum height limits be protected Councillor David Chernushenko Well, well, well… by lowering the height of the Please send your comments to the opened the meeting, followed by This brings into question proposed condominium to 15 City officials listed below. It is very brief presentations by the Church Windmill’s claim that nothing under metres. The proposed six-storey important to write at this stage of and Windmill Developments, then the maximum of 6-storeys would be 19.2 metre condo would be taller the application process. Height the floor was opened to the public viable and that otherwise the Church than the Church and taller than concerns, as related to heritage, are for questions. It opened with a would fail. anything currently allowed in our the crucial issues. Please use subject bombshell. A resident read from two Charlesfort had prepared a proposal neighbourhood. line: Application No. D02-02-17-044 We’d like to thank all the residents Southminster and members of the Church who attended the meeting; Allison Susan Brousseau is a member of Hamlin, Lead Planner for the City, Development Watch Southminster.

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SOUTHMINSTER DEVELOPMENT Reviews by the NCC and Parks Canada of Southminster’s Redevelopment Application By Anna Cuylits a “high visual quality zone,” with The NCC comments on this will be reduced by the visibility of important views down the Rideau “Heritage Memo”: the modern glass structure. It is Much has already been written and Canal toward the bridge from both recommended that the six-storey said about Southminster’s Rezoning the north and the south. Materiality: apartment building is reduced in and Redevelopment Plans. The materiality of the proposed height such that it is subordinate to Articles in OSCAR’s May, June, An important character-defining development should be care- the church building as viewed from July and September editions have element of this section of the fully considered. Stone (which is all angles. presented different perspectives about Rideau Canal on the east side is currently proposed on the lower the changes that the current rezoning that development is kept below the stories) is appropriate in this set- Considering the due diligence and redevelopment proposal will height of the tree canopy. There are ting in that it is compatible with followed by the City, Parks bring, from parking to impacts on the a few select exceptions – the upper the materials of other important Canada and the NCC, residents are tree canopy and visual impacts. roof and cupola of the College of elements in the landscape: the hereby informed that the Northern The City Planner provided the “As Physicians and Surgeons and the church, the bridge, the College of Rendering of Southminster’s we heard it” report and informed us gable roof of the Southminster Physicians and Surgeons build- Development Application is a very that as of September 11th, 2017, 180 Church. This green landscape is ing. Unlike at Lansdowne Park, legitimate concern and therefore residents submitted letters to City part of the picturesque quality of where the contemporary tower with requires careful consideration by Hall. So far, it is reported that twelve the landscape of the Rideau Canal, prominent glazing works well with all stakeholders: the proponent letters were in support of the current and of the Capital (as highlighted the views and background context (Windmill/Southminster Church), proposals. in the NCC’s Plan for Canada’s of the stadium and Bank Street, this the City and residents, who are The Public Information Meeting Capital 2017-2067). High qual- location calls for a more understat- also represented by “Development on September 11th was attended by ity views and landscapes must be ed approach – subordinate to the Watch Southminster”, OSCA and our approximately 180 people, and the protected in order to continue to other elements that create interest Councillor. scheduled time allotted was extended enhance the quality of the Capital in the landscape. As we learned on September 11th, by 45 minutes due to the many experience. Has there been any consideration Southminster’s viability does not questions and comments posed by the of night-time views – darkness depend on Windmill. Indeed, their audience. Based on the above, the height bring opportunities to highlight viability is in a process of “spiritual At that meeting, it was noted by and materiality of the proposed important built form components discernment”. Southminster Church those in attendance that Councillor development are two components of through lighting, while other built has been, and is, obviously working Chernushenko did not acknowledge particular interest to the NCC. form components disappear. hard on staying viable in our the professional reports provided Is any architectural lighting community. Southminster deserves to MP Catherine McKenna by the Height: proposed to showcase the church at our support but has to realize that departments under her jurisdiction, The Heritage Memo (provided by night? One can expect significant it is not an “either – or” situation, i.e. Parks Canada and the NCC. the proponent) submitted as part of interior lighting to emanate from but rather a choice of supporting These departmental reports are the Zoning By-Law Amendment ap- the residential uses. development plans that are not only routinely circulated by the City plication identifies the importance church friendly, but also community when relevant Rezoning and of views from the Rideau Canal Trees: friendly at a height compatible with Redevelopment Plans are involved, and adjacent NCC lands. It states The NCC is very concerned the 15 meter TM2H(15), the 11 meter as is the case with Southminster. that: “The design of the develop- about the long-term health of these R3Q and the nine-meter Heritage Parks Canada has the mandate to ment ensures that the church build- trees should any work occur within Overlays. preserve the cultural, natural and ing remains prominent as a land- the CRZ [Critical Root Zone], Southminster Church does not need scenic values of UNESCO World mark and as a key feature of views particularly given their role as a to “Owe their Soul to the Company Heritage sites and depends on from the Rideau Canal and the vegetative screen. Store.” the “stewardship of all parties” to Bank Street bridge while screening While the zoning by-law amend- conserve these sites. the majority of new construction ment proposes an apartment build- Anna Cuylits is a member of The NCC owns lands directly behind the existing trees on the ing height similar to the church Development Watch Southminster. north of the Southminster property. NCC property and behind the exist- (92.1 m and 91.02m respectively These lands are designated “Capital ing church” [in height above sea level]), leg- Urban Greenspace” in the Capital ibility of this landmark building Urban Lands Plan. The NCC has a significant interest in developments in proximity to the Rideau Canal. The City assesses the submitted reviews and follows up, where required. A synopsis of reviews by the NCC and Parks Canada reads as follows:

When the Rideau Canal was inscribed to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2007, the World Heritage Committee recommended that a study of the visual setting of the canal be undertaken and that its visual values outside the buffer zone be better protected. Further to that recommendation the NCC, in partnership with Parks Canada, undertook a visual assessment of the Ottawa sector of the canal in 2009. That assessment identified the area in the vicin- ity of the Bank Street Bridge as Page 14 The OSCAR l October 2017

Music at Trinity: Ebonies in Harmony on October 21st By Fabien Tousignant Sylvie Duchesneau is an accom- and piano); and the Sylvie Duch- Gatineau Symphony Orchestra and is plished and versatile musician. She esneau Duo (clarinet and piano). very active as a soloist and chamber Ebonies in Harmony is a two clarinet has played all around the world in musician in the National Capital Re- - one piano trio featuring Sylvie a variety of ensembles: solos, duos, Roxanne Léveillé studied music gion. In the spring of 2018, she will Duchesneau (clarinet-bass clarinet) trios, quartets, orchestras, big bands, and dramatic art at the Conservatoire perform Aaron Copland’s clarinet and Roxanne Léveillé (clarinet) and Klezmer bands, a funk band, a clari- de musique et d’art dramatique du concerto with the Gatineau Sympho- myself, Fabien Tousignant (piano). net choir, wind ensembles and mili- Québec à Gatineau between 1999 and ny Orchestra. We invite you to experience a tary bands. Sylvie earned a master’s 2009 and was the recipient of many wonderful repertoire which blends degree in music performance at the awards and scholarships including This concert will be on October the virtuosity and “velouté” of these Université de Montréal with An- the prestigious Lieutenant Governor 21st 2017 at 4:30pm at Trinity instruments. We have put together a dré Moisan (OSM). She freelances of Québec Medal. Roxanne was part Anglican Church (1230 Bank Street nice programme of some favorites for different groups, and regularly of the National Youth Orchestra of @ Cameron) with the Ebonies in of the classical repertoire arranged performs with several different en- Canada and has been coached by the Harmony Trio. Admission is by for two clarinets and piano, along sembles in the National Capital-Out- clarinet masters Kimball Sykes and freewill offering. with pieces written specifically for aouais region including: l’Orchestre David Bourque. She took part in the this kind of ensemble. You will have de Gatineau; The Ottawa Jazz Or- orchestra’s tours lead by conductors Fabien Tousignant is the Artistic the opportunity to hear works by chestra; Nimbus Clarinet Trio; Drag- Alain Trudel, Jacques Lacombe and Director of the Music at Trinity Mendelssohn, Ponchielli, Dvořák, onfly (clarinet/bass clarinet / duo); Jean-Philippe Tremblay. Since 2008, concert series some Klezmer and more. Ebonies in Harmony (two clarinets she is the principal clarinetist of the

The Ottawa Bach Choir Presents its 16th Magnificent Season

Ottawa Bach Choir, Beijing Concert Hall, Beijing, China, April 2016. PHOTO BY BRYAN WIENS By Gaye Moffett Shanghai. Performances in the 2017- contemporaries, local beer brewed To conclude this incredible 18 season include a Subscription by Kichesippi Beer Co., German season, the OBC performs “Baroque The Ottawa Bach Choir (OBC) Series, the recording of the choir’s Red Wine, delectable delights by Passion,” on Friday, May 4, 2018, would like to welcome you to its seventh CD, several special events Par Toutatis, hors d’œuvres and 8:00pm, at St. Jean-Baptiste Church, sixteenth season of magnificent and a concert at Roy Thomson Hall sumptuous desserts. Enjoy an 96 Empress Avenue. This sublime choral music! Over the past fifteen in Toronto in April. evening of delightful company, concert features the rarely performed years, the professional ensemble The season opens with a delightful inspiring music by the OBC and five Passion Motets by early German has travelled the world and concert and special event, “Bach & organist Matthew Larkin, along with Baroque master, Heinrich Schütz, received national and international Beer,” on September 30, 2017, 8:00 delicious food and drink. Proceeds Handel’s brilliant Dixit Dominus and recognition. The choir released its pm, at St. Bartholomew’s Church, from this fundraising event will help Bach’s motet, Komm, Jesu, komm, sixth CD, ‘Twas But Pure Love, 125 MacKay Street, in collaboration support the great work of this world- BWV 229. With Baroque chamber last season to critical acclaim, with Ars Nova, the German Embassy class choir. string ensemble and Canadian and returned from China in 2016, and several local businesses. In the Following this special event is the soloists, the music from this concert where it was invited to perform as spirit of Oktoberfest, the Ottawa choir›s first concert, “Nativity,” on will be recorded for the choir’s Canada’s choral representative in Bach Choir presents an evening Friday, December 1, 2017, 8:00 pm seventh CD, due for release in 2018- the international festival, “Meet of beautiful music by Johann at St. Joseph’s Cathedral in Gatineau, 19. in Beijing 2016,” in Beijing and Sebastian Bach and his Baroque and Saturday, December 2, 2017, In addition to the Subscription 8:00 pm, at Christ Church Cathedral Series, there will be several Special in Ottawa. This performance Events that will round out the season, features a spectacular multimedia featuring smaller concerts with presentation of Christmas repertoire gourmet food and drinks, as well as from Ottawa and Canada, and other a large educational outreach program beloved works from the Renaissance for students in the Ottawa-Carleton and Baroque periods for the season. region. Regular Subscription tickets The choir is joined by organist are available now (see OBC website Matthew Larkin and harpist Caroline for details). Tickets for individual Léonardelli. concerts will be available at several The second concert, “Victoria: retail outlets closer to the dates of Officium defunctorum,” highlights the concerts and, depending on Victoria’s chef d’œuvre, the availability, at the door. For more Requiem of 1605, Allegri’s Miserere, information, visit our website at along with penitential motets by www.ottawabachchoir.ca, or contact Renaissance and Baroque masters us at [email protected] or and some exquisite contemporary 613-270-1015. contributions, sung a cappella. Come join us and discover the best Performed at Knox Presbyterian that choral music has to offer! Church, on Saturday, March 10, 2018, at 8:00pm, this concert is sure Gaye Moffett is the Chair of the to inspire. Board of the Ottawa Bach Choir. The OSCAR l October 2017 Page 15

Caelis Academy Ensemble: Introducing Ottawa’s Newest Concert Choir By Matthew Larkin After fourteen years in the latter post, I decided earlier this year to try to In mediaeval Europe, churches realize a long-time ambition, and to and monasteries were centres of begin an independent academy choir learning and creativity, and many that specialized in sacred and secular of these institutions went to great masterworks. Seeking to achieve efforts to ensure that young people the highest possible standards of of the surrounding communities had performance in the context of an access to masterworks of literature enlightened musical education, and music. Thus, their imaginations Caelis Academy Ensemble was born might be piqued, and their knowledge this summer, and began its life as a of their cultural heritage might concert choir this September. be increased and enhanced. This The choir is founded on the tradition of academic and cultural principle that the liberal arts excellence so offered has survived and classics are passageways many centuries of upheaval and to enlightenment, and musical Practicing some German diction in a Bach Cantata. PHOTO BY PATRICIA WILSON dramatic change, and so it is that in masterworks bequeathed to us offer so much to boys and girls many places in the world today, great Joining us for this program will be in an age of media bombardment symbols of western art and culture the Ottawa Baroque Consort (an Caelis Academy Ensemble appears and social uncertainty. Although are seen as a necessary and vibrant outstanding chamber orchestra), and in its inaugural concert on Thursday still in the fledgling stages, Caelis part of a child’s education and tickets for the concert are available October 19th at 7:30 pm at Trinity (the Latin word for “heaven”) has experience. For surely it is through by calling 613-862-4106, or emailing Anglican Church, 1230 Bank Street welcomed eighteen boy and girl the knowledge of the past that an [email protected]. (at Cameron Avenue). Tickets and sopranos this fall, ranging in age awareness of the present is obtained, Ottawa is home to a number of admission are $25 for adults, and from eleven to seventeen, whose and with it, a pathway to the future outstanding cultural institutions, and $10 for students. efforts are robustly supported by becomes just a little clearer. our community is rightfully proud fourteen professional adult singers For more than 20 years, I have of several fine choral ensembles. Caelis welcomes inquiries from boys (including several of Ottawa’s finest endeavoured to serve this vision My hope is that Caelis will find its and girls aged 11-17; please call choral musicians). We rehearse each through my work as Director of own unique place within our local 613-862-4106, or email caelisacad- week at Trinity Anglican Church in Music at two historic Ottawa family of choirs. This company [email protected] to arrange OOS, and are preparing an exciting churches: St. Matthew’s Anglican of musicians offers audiences a an audition. Visit www.caelisacad- concert season, which debuts on Church in the Glebe, and Christ stellar group of young musicians, emyensemble.com for more informa- Thursday October 19th at 7:30 pm Church Cathedral. Both places learning and performing at the tion or find us on Facebook! at Trinity Anglican in a program of maintained (and continue to highest professional levels. I warmly magnificent baroque music, with Matthew Larkin is the Founder and maintain) vibrant ministries of music, welcome everyone to come and two Cantatas by Johann Sebastian Artistic Director of Caelis Academy and at the centre of it all are real experience this level of talent and Bach, alongside works by Henry Ensemble. He has enjoyed living in opportunities for musical instruction achievement, right here in our Purcell and Dietrich Buxtehude. Old Ottawa South since 1999. and experience for young people. neighbourhood.

Rescued Treasure: Jewish Music Almost Forgotten By Roland Graham spent the decade from 1992 to 2001 travelling the world in search of Southminster United Church presents surviving excerpts of Lewin’s output. “Rescued Treasure: A Treasury of Miraculously, by tracking Jewish Music Almost Forgotten,” on duplicates preserved in private Thursday, November 9, 2017 at 7:30 collections of the recorded musician’s pm. descendants the world over, Dr. Lotz On November 9, 1938, Nazi was able to reconstruct almost the paramilitaries carried out their entirety of the collection. infamous Kristallnacht (night of In 2012, the Berlin Jewish Museum broken glass), a vicious pogrom commissioned music luminary against German Jews that left Alan Bern, composer/arranger, hundreds dead and a community pianist, accordionist, educator, irreparably scarred. cultural activist and philosopher, to Among the casualties was the life honour the Semer collection with modern Semer Ensemble. Perhaps even more specially, work of Hirsch Lewin, a one-time new interpretations based on the To date, Semer has played in the man who made preserving this forced laborer who ran a Hebrew recovered recordings. Canada only once before, in a single cultural legacy possible, Dr. Rainer Bookstore and later record label in To make the project a reality, Bern sold-out performance in Toronto’s E. Lotz, will be among the special the heart of Berlin’s Scheunenviertel formed a world-class ensemble of Ashkenaz Festival in September guests in attendance, courtesy of the (immigrant center) in the 1930s. Jewish musicians from both sides of 2016. Prior engagements were Embassy of Germany in Ottawa. When the Nazis came to power, the Atlantic: named Semer Ensemble limited to Berlin where the group The Embassy will additionally host a Jewish musicians were forbidden in honour of Hirsch Lewin’s legacy, formed. post-concert reception. from playing in non-Jewish settings, the group has given authentic voice By popular demand, they are forcing their work underground. to a body of repertoire, and the returning for a three-city Canadian Tickets for general admission For five years, Lewin’s Semer musicians who created it, that would tour this fall. Their sole Ottawa are $30 and $15 for students, and label recorded the brightest Jewish otherwise have been forgotten. performance will take place at are available through Eventbrite. musicians of the day in hopes of It’s as though some of the broken Southminster United Church as ca (search “Semer Ottawa”). The preserving their legacy. shards of that violent night in 1938 a special concert in the church’s concert is presented by Southminster When the Nazis attacked, they have been reassembled, forming Concerts by the Canal (CBTC) United Church in partnership with demolished it all. Over 4,500 a window through which we can evening concert series on Thursday, artspace613, the RideauStone Arts recordings and 250 metal plates were glimpse the remarkable scene of November 9th at 7:30 pm. Centre and the Embassy of Germany destroyed, and with them the memory Jewish music in 1920s Berlin. Remarkably, and especially in Ottawa. of the Semer label was lost forever. Berlin cabaret, Russian folk songs, significantly for the city’s Jewish That is, lost until Dr. Rainer E. Yiddish theater hits, operatic arias and German communities, Semer’s Roland Graham is the Music Lotz, decorated German author, and cantorial music are just a small appearance in Ottawa will be Director at Southminster United jazz historian and record collector, sample of the repertoire preserved by given on the very anniversary of Church. Lewin’s label and recreated by the Kristallnacht. Page 16 The OSCAR l October 2017

Come, Sing - and Dance - With Us

Big Soul Project. PHOTO BY JAKE MORRISON, WWW.WITHFLARE.ORG

By Carol MacLeod has become a favourite with commu- nity choirs here and internationally. Grammas to Ambuyas, a Perhaps Coco will favour us with a neighbourhood Stephen Lewis Big Soul Project version! Foundation group, celebrates its 10th anniversary this year. Joining Grammas to Ambuyas (“grand- us to help celebrate are our old mother” in Shona) is one of 24 friends, Big Soul Project, and their groups of grandmothers in Ottawa special guest, Coco Love Alcorn. raising money for the Grandmoth- The “Raising Out Voices for African ers to Grandmothers Campaign of Grannies Concert” is at Centretown the Stephen Lewis Foundation. Our United Church, 507 Bank Street just group, some of whom live in Old north of the Queensway on Saturday, Ottawa South, has raised $100,000. October 14, at 7:30 pm. Doors open In its 11 years, the Stephen Lewis at 6:30 pm. Foundation Grandmothers to Grand- You likely know one of the 150 mothers campaign has grown to 240 voices that make up Big Soul Project. groups across Canada that together For 20 years, ten of them under the have raised over $24 million to sup- enthusiastic direction of Roxanne port grandmothers in sub-Saharan Goodman, and with their talented Africa who are caring for their grand- house band, Deep Groove, have children because their parents have entertained many an Ottawa audience died, mostly of AIDS. These funds with their brand of uplifting gospel. directly support grassroots organiza- In their eclectic choices, you are also tions at community level that assist likely to hear R&B, Soul, Rock and African grandmothers with food, Motown. Their motto is “Lifting you health care, school fees and school Higher”, and it’s not at all unusual uniforms for their grandchildren, in- to find yourself up and dancing at come-generating programmes, coun- a Big Soul concert. In fact, I defy selling, social support, essential shel- you not to be on your feet or at least ter, and other necessities. Throughout tapping your toes! The choir has Africa, grassroots organizations run made a generous practice of donating by and for grandmothers are sharing its profits to local charities. This is insights, deepening their expertise, our second venture with Big Soul collaborating with other local organi- Project. zations, and building their capacity to turn the tide of AIDS at community For this concert, the choir is level. pleased to welcome Coco Love Al- corn. Coco hails from Owen Sound. Tickets for Raising Our Voices To quote James Keelaghan, “Coco is for African Grannies are $25 for the ultimate musical spark plug... an adults, $10 for children 12 and under. electrical connector through which Tickets are available from Big Soul the creative energy flows. In my 30 Project www.bigsoulproject.com years of touring around the world, I through Eventbrite, at Compact have never seen another performer Music stores at 206 and 785 Bank able to bring people together like Street, at the Centretown United Coco does.” High praise indeed! Church office, or from Cindy Delage Coco’s career spans 20 years and (613-232-5932) or Sheila Jenkins ten albums, but she recently took a (613-235-3107). Be warned, tickets break to raise her daughter (making sell out early! There’s plenty of space one more happy Granny!). During to get up and boogie! that time, she worked on songs for And a big thanks to Big Soul her latest album, Wonderland, play- Project! ing with looping her voice without guitar. One of those songs, The River, Carol MacLeod is a member of Grammas to Ambuyas. The OSCAR l October 2017 Page 17 PHOTOS BY ED KUCERAK

11th Annual Hopewell Block Party: Celebrating A Sense of Community

Phil Montgomery Dottie MacNeil Randy Holmes Kamyl Foisy

By Ed Kucerak and Without a doubt that’s one of the Danielle Rolfe reasons why I love living on the street. Persistent bouts of rain did not stop Randy Holmes determined residents of Hopewell I live just over there on Hopewell Avenue and the surrounding (pointing to his home) and I came neighbourhood from holding their to the party because it’s fun having annual block party on Monday, a good time with your neighbours, September 4th. sharing stories, food and things like Huge tarps were strung from tree that. This is a great street event. to tree and from one side of the street Mikayla Keays Tuyet Le to the other on Hopewell in the block Kamyl Foisy located between Seneca and Sloan. What brought me here today is Now in its 11th year, the party is that I recently came to Ottawa from a time when residents take over the Sudbury for the great music scene street, dust off the patio furniture, fire and a new life. I saw a poster about up the BBQ, meet their neighbours, the party on Hopewell. So I just learn the latest news, share great food wanted to get to know the locals and and put on a variety show of music, to familiarize myself with the people songs and the spoken word. around here. Here is what some of the local residents had to say about why they Mikayla Keays came to the party. I’ve been coming to the party for years. My uncle lives on the street Phil Montgomery so I usually come down and hang I came to the block party today out with him. I really like the talent because I love living in Old Ottawa show and seeing people singing and South and knowing my neighbours showing all their creativity. It’s a fun by their names. It’s fun to learn what

time. everyone is up to. This is where I With great experience and insight into live, where I raise my family and the local market, she helped us pinpoint Tuyet Le where my children go to school. It’s what we were looking for: no pressure, Oh my, it’s amazing. I attended “ “ our neighbourhood. no shortcuts, no rush. But when we this party the last year and I I would like to think that we should were ready, she guided us through really enjoyed it. I really like the still know each other regardless neighbourhood and I am happy the process with clarity, wisdom and whether we have parties or not, but to live here. I am from Vietnam attention to detail. with today’s pace of life it is very and have been here four and a half easy to blink and ten years go by and years but I just moved into this – PAUL DAVIS you are not even sure who lives next neighbourhood last year. This year to you anymore. So having block I brought one more newcomer. It’s parties is something that we should Ilia Fabbri my son from Hanoi. He’s having encourage, and it’s fun. [email protected] fun enjoying the food and the nice 613–238–2801 atmosphere. Dottie MacNeil 165 Pretoria Ave., Even in the rain it’s a chance to Ottawa ON, K1S 1X1 Video highlights of the variety show Independently Owned and Operated, Brokerage connect with all the neighbours. It’s and party photos can be found at Not intended to solicit properties currently listed for sale funny how we live so close but a lot or buyers under contract www.hopewellparty.ca and to stay in of times you don’t necessarily see Proud supporter of: touch with the latest neighbourhood people even on a week by week or a news visit www.facebook.com/ month by month basis. There’s lots hopewellcommunitynews/ of great energy here and the talent show is really fun. The block party really adds to a sense of community. Page 18 The OSCAR l October 2017

The Big Yellow House By Bruce Grant a big project that has taken many CD’s; half a dozen guitars are lying others, did a lot of gigs. I played bass years. Like most of these old houses around. The keen analytical mind of guitar.” The yellow house at the Seneca- it has had its ups and downs as a the journalist concludes that he may “Comes a time when you‘ve had Hopewell corner has a small place enough of that. The booze and drugs, in my own story. I remember being making music all night for fifty bucks taken there on the streetcar by my in some bar, waking up next day in mommy for a birthday party. My bed with a stranger.” little playmate Christie had moved John went back to school, kept on there when her dad returned from playing in the bar bands, and even the war, leaving me bereft. In my scraped up a thousand dollars to buy memory there is a yard enclosed by an old house on Hopewell Avenue. lilacs, a circle of ladies in their cotton “Moved in here 45 years ago, been print dresses drinking tea and eating growing tomatoes ever since.” sandwiches with the crusts cut off, He got himself a degree in music children dashing about and playing history and a day job with Library games, a children-only table laden and Archives Canada and later with with good stuff. All that was seventy CRTC and with Heritage Canada. years ago. The civil servant kept on making Now I live in OOS and that house music. is my neighbour up the street. I have John also has the travel bug, has watched the guy who lives there visited 45 different countries. We scraping and painting high up on get into a discussion about our a ladder, gardening, restoring the solo travels on the buses through dignity and style of this old house. the mountains of South America, A lot of renovation goes on in meeting the people; this seems to our old neighbourhood, but this is be his fondest memory, the best a restoration, even unto the cedar John at his yellow clapboard house. PHOTO BY BRUCE GRANT adventure. shingles on the high roof. All of this Old Ottawa South is a rich source calls me to go and knock on the door. for meetings with interesting people The door opens and I’m face to family home, a rental property, a gas be a musician. and good stories for The OSCAR. face with the guy on the ladder. John station and an ashram. The Feihls “Well, yes, I dropped out of high Feihl invites me in, puts a beer in let the original house speak to them, school and started hanging out with Bruce Grant is an OOS resident; my hand and offers a tour. John and respecting its integrity. musicians, joined some bands. Ran retired, he alternates between roles Donna show me the whole thing, The parlour has a wall of shelves with Heaven’s Radio for some time, as Layabout, Traveller and Writer. entirely filled with vinyl records and Blue Angels, Shaky Jake and some

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NEWS It’s Back to School … But Not for All: Supporting Education on the Global Front inheritance, using technology, assisting grandchildren with homework, filling in forms, advocating for pensions, and gaining independence in their communities. Despite these hardships, these grandmothers say they are just doing what grandmothers do – and they are doing it joyfully, with equal parts of grace and dignity. We know that investing in education in low-income countries delivers exponential benefits. Every dollar invested in education creates a return of $10 in earnings and health benefits. If every girl in sub- Saharan Africa completed a primary education, maternal mortality could fall by a dramatic 70%. And just one additional year of schooling for girls results in a 12% increase in wages. Here is what many grandmother groups in Ottawa and across Canada are doing to promote progress on access to a wide variety of courses support African grandmothers and By Peggy Edwards access to education and to end this to enrich their retirements. For older the young people in their care. tragic waste of human potential: As our children head back to school women in sub-Saharan Africa, the They are part of the Stephen Lewis story is starkly different. Foundation’s “Grandmothers with well-trained teachers, a holistic • Working with the Stephen Lewis Twelve local grandmother Campaign,” which now includes curriculum, the latest technologies Foundation’s Grandmothers’ groups are staging the third annual over 240 groups across Canada. One and new friends, millions of children Campaign, we are raising funds Grand Market on October 22nd at of the areas the money will support elsewhere will not set foot inside for community-based projects in Lansdowne Park to raise funds to is access to quality education, for a school. Seniors in our area have sub-Saharan Africa to help educate both children and the grandmothers young people and to promote themselves. adult education so that African The African grandmothers tell grandmothers can acquire the us that once they have a roof over literacy and skills to enable them their heads and some food on the to fight for their rights, earn an table, their number one goal is to income, and read to the children in get the children into school. The their care. grandmothers are also eager to learn themselves, as many of them did not • Working with The Grandmothers’ have a chance to go to school when Advocacy Network (GRAN), we they were young. are encouraging Canada to double The education deficit is staggering. its contribution to global education Almost 30 million children in sub- by 2 cents a day per Canadian. This Saharan Africa will not be in school would result in an additional USD this year, and, to make matters worse, $632 million over three years. access to schools in the world’s poorest countries has decreased over We hope that the community of the last decade. UNICEF recently Old Ottawa South will drop by for stated that, as a result of pervasive bargains, treasures, fashion and fun levels of poverty, conflict, and – and support sub-Saharan Africa’s humanitarian emergencies, there grandmothers and the children in has been “nearly zero progress” their care. on this issue. 2015 UNESCO data indicate literacy rates for women The 2017 Grand Market is on age 65+ were only 26%, and for Sunday, October 22 from 10:00 young women between 15 and 49, am to 3:00 pm at the Aberdeen the literacy rate was the lowest in the Pavilion, Lansdowne Park. You’ll world. find women’s and children’s clothing, Grandmothers in sub-Saharan fashion accessories, toys, books, Africa are heroically raising their fabric, Christmas décor, crafts, gift grandchildren who have been items, and home “treasures.” And a orphaned by AIDS, and many have children’s corner to entertain the wee taken in additional children whose ones. Admission is free. parents have died. They do this with few resources and often living under a wide-spread stigma about Peggy Edwards is a resident of Old HIV/AIDS. Even though they have Ottawa South and a member of the rich knowledge of their customs, One World Grannies. If you would values and environment, many like to learn more about the Grand- are not literate. As a result, they mothers Campaign or joining a have difficulty interpreting policies grandmothers group, contact her at and laws about land and property [email protected]. The OSCAR l October 2017 Page 21

Porch Sale Provides Bargains Throughout the Community phOTOS BY ED KUCERAK

Anja Zimonjie and Padmé Boudreau proudly display Jacob Cummer tries to get shoppers’ attention Sarah Kennell (l) shows Tanya Hay (r) the the paintings they hope to sell to the many bargain on Riverdale Avenue with a tune or two. many bargains on her front lawn. hunters on Grove Avenue.

On Grosvenor Ave. Ken Johnson waits for his next On Hopewell Ave. Lorraine Aston makes final Yvonne Millar takes a moment to relax between customer. adjustments to the items she hopes to sell. sales on Riverdale Avenue. By Ed Kucerak John-Smith and the Pansy Avenue 9th. Ed Kucerak is a photographer and Neighbourhood Association as a way A walk through the neighbourhood documentary director/producer. He The first Saturday after the Labour to raise funds for various worthwhile is a wonderful opportunity to meet lives in OOS. Day weekend is a time when Old community projects. It was inspired and say hello to residents as they get Ottawa South residents declutter by the very popular, and successful, ready for the sale. their homes, clean out their garages Glebe Garage Sale that is held every and basements and prepare for the spring. community’s Porch Sale. Now in its No one is quite sure who came up 24th year, the annual event attracts with the “porch” sale concept, but many bargain hunters from all over the sale continues to be popular to Ottawa. this day on porches throughout the The first “Porch Sale” was started community, as well as on front lawns in 1993 by local resident Bart St. and driveways and in garages. This year’s sale took place on September

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NEWS Bringing the Poles Together with Students on Ice and Parks Canada

(Left) A student looks out from the ship as the Students on Ice team sails through Lancaster Sound (Nunavut). (Right) View of the tundra and icebergs at the Ilulissat Ice Fjord UNESCO World Heritage Site (Kalaallit Nunaat/Greenland). PHOTOS BY SARA H. DUBÉ By Sara Hélène Dubé legends with one of my northern from Resolute Bay, Nunavut, to and at public events in our respective colleagues, Jamie, at Inspiration Kangerlussuaq, Greenland passing regions because the more connected Village in Ottawa, and the giant through Sirmilik National Park on the world is, the better we can solve Summer Job Discoveries “Jenga” game that we played at Baffin Island in Nunavut (NU), and the challenges that we face. The North... What do you know Nature Nocturne at the Canadian stopping in communities such as about it? Maybe you’ve been there Museum of Nature to demonstrate Pond Inlet (NU) and Uummannaq Your Turn Next Year? before? Perhaps you’re studying the fragility of arctic food chains. Greenland, in order to better Want to join Parks Canada’s it? Or, like me before this summer, Jamie’s legends brought the North understand the environmental and Northern Engagement Team and maybe you don’t know more about it and the South closer together through social challenges that they face. Since participate in the SOI Arctic 2018 than what you’ve learned in school storytelling, which many cultures it was summer, the weather was Expedition? Find out how to apply and in the news here and there. have in common. It was moving to similar to spring in Ottawa (between on Parks Canada’s web-site and Fortunately, to be a member of Parks see visitors immersed in the Inuit five and fifteen degrees Celsius). We clicking on “Parkslife” – “Experience Canada’s Northern Engagement world for a story and then reflecting saw both ice on the water and flowers the north.” The application process Team or to go on an expedition with on the role that stories have in their on the tundra! is open from October 16th until Students on Ice, you don’t need to own cultures. Often, the stories also Through workshops with October 27th. be an expert on the North! You only opened the door to a discussion experts and elders, excursions You can also follow the FaceBook need to love learning and be willing about history and modern life in the and participation in traditional @Parcslife page to be the first to to share what you learn. The more North, to which Jamie responded Inuit activities, we increased our learn about student employment you learn, the more you’re able to from his experience living there. As understanding of the ecology of opportunities with Parks Canada and talk about the North, and the more for “Jenga,” each block represented the Arctic and the social dynamics more. you keep learning! an animal or element supporting the that exist there. What I hold on to Whether you’re a high school I spent the summer learning and northern food chain, and when the most from the expedition is how student, a post-secondary student or discussing climate change, northern game fell, it was reconstructed by beautiful and important it is to come have life experience to share, you ecosystems, Inuit culture, and life discussing the essential role of each together to reconcile our past, our can apply to join an expedition with in the North. It’s a dynamic part of element for the stability of the food present, and our future. I witnessed Students on Ice, by visiting their Canada, rich in nature, culture and chain, especially now that the poles and participated in sharing between website. history, and my team and I worked feel the effects of climate change Indigenous and non-Indigenous to convey that through educational more strongly than anywhere else. people, youth and elders, and people Sara Hélène Dubé grew up in Old presentations and activities that from around the world, all of whom Ottawa South and now studies en- highlighted Parks Canada’s northern Going North felt strongly about protecting the vironmental studies and biology at protected places as well as the The highlight of my summer was land and caring for one another. the University of Ottawa, as well as Inuit culture surrounding them. My visiting the Arctic with Students Back now, we share what we learned working part-time for Parks Cana- favorite moments were sharing Inuit on Ice (SOI)! My team and I sailed through media, on social networks, da’s Northern Engagement Team.

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GREEN DREAMERS Green Dreamers Wind Down for Another Year

Brian’s car, a Green Dreamer’s treasure chest. Green Dreamers Joan and Jill getting into the thick of things at the Library. By Winnie Pietrykowski this season was a continuous supply It’s simply a matter of observing the soil itself is so much easier to of perennials for transplanting. what grows best in any one of the 12 turn. By the time October arrives, Green In response to a plea online and or more gardens that Green Dreamers Thank you to all the Green Dreamers will be winding down in OSCAR, residents responded maintain and repeating what works. Dreamers that made this season their fourth gardening season in Old generously. Many simply stopped to This season, Green Dreamers are count. Gardening for some is one of Ottawa South. When you see them ask what was needed or to describe particularly delighted with the results life’s sweetest pleasures; the pleasure on the sidewalks and in the public what they had to offer when they of their composting. For the last of a garden, however, knows no garden beds between the bridges, saw Green Dreamers on Wednesday couple of years they’ve been driving bounds and its giving is often silent. they will be (most likely) pulling up & Saturday mornings digging & to the City’s Trail Road site for a Thank you to the generosity of so the dried remnants of milkweed and weeding in roadside lots. Others truckload of compost to spread on many OOS gardeners, residents and sunflowers, cutting back some rather emailed recounting garden stories, garden beds that have been neglected passersby. It’s been a wonderful thick and reedy perennial growth, what they had successfully grown for over a decade. This year, thanks season. raking dried leaves, filling brown for years and what they now must to plenty of rainfall and compost, the Stay tuned for more information bags, ruminating over what went divide or separate. You may notice, hydrangea bushes at the corner of and future gardening plans at well and what didn’t, and sharing for example, that there are many Grove & Bank and at Glen are a lush oldottawasouth.ca. with each other and passers-by bits of more hostas in the neighbourhood, thick green with numerous blossoms. information and suggestions for the and that we are actively creating The Japanese Lilac trees on the SE Winnie Pietrykowski is a member of next growing season in 2018. hosta gardens and alcoves. This is side of Sunnyside & Bank actually the Green Dreamers and a longtime It’s been a rather wet summer one perennial that is hardy and grows flowered and the grasses that did resident of OOS. and for most gardeners there just quite beautifully under trees and in survive are taller and thicker. Even hasn’t been enough sun! May set a shade. new record of 176 millimeters of Green Dreamers felt particularly what seemed like continuous rain fortunate when one resident with compared to an average downfall a rather large and mature garden of 83 mm. In June no records were offered a diverse range and quantity broken but we had more rain than of perennials to dig and transplant usual with an average temperature of throughout the planting season. 17 degrees C. July was the wettest This generous gift not only helped Homeis month on record with almost 250 mm multiply existing beds but allowed where one starts from of rain, compared to an average of Green Dreamers to concentrate their - T.S. ELIOT 89 mm. Not once, during the whole volunteer energy on composting, month of July, did we reach 30C! mulching and transplanting without Nonetheless, despite the absence the pressure of looking for a healthy of sun and after the drought of 2016 supply of plants once the beds were this wet summer has been a bit of ready. a godsend for Green Dreamers. Over the last several years Green There was no need for watering Dreamers have been observing the schedules, nor did Green Dreamers changes to each of the garden beds; have to worry about the survival of what grows in one lot, does not new perennial transplants. Instead, necessarily grow in another, what like many gardeners, they decided looks like shade in the morning to adapt to the wet conditions by under a healthy oak tree is often a transplanting as much as possible hot spot in the late afternoon, what especially in public beds where grew readily the year before, doesn’t earlier transplants had failed to take reappear long after spring has passed. root. And so as you may have noticed, the Another bonus for Green Dreamers beds change from season to season.

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The OSCAR on the Lido: The 74th Venice Film Festival By Tony Wohlfarth

The Venice Film Festival, the oldest film festival in the world, started in 1932. The Venice fest kicks off the annual Oscar nominating race, as the best in films from around the world vie for a coveted Academy Award nomination.

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri This year’s festival saw the world premiere of Three Billboards surprisingly funny, and the music by Outside Ebbing, Missouri. Written Carter Burwell is both moving and and directed by Martin McDonagh, sombre. Through a long, celebrated the film tells the dark yet funny career, Burwell composed the music story of Mildred Hayes’ quest to for more than eighty films, including find her daughter’s killer. Mildred is Fargo (which also featured Frances one angry, single parent (played by McDormand). Frances McDormand). As the film McDonagh’s film won the award for opens, she stops her station wagon on Best Screenplay in Venice, reflecting Drinkwater Road, looking pensively its strength and poignancy. The Irish at three dilapidated billboards. Taking director’s earlier films include In justice into her own hands, Mildred Bruges (2008), which garnered an pays $5,000 to rent them for a month Academy Award nomination for best – erecting signs challenging Ebbing’s original screenplay. police chief Bill Willoughby (Woody McDormand won an Oscar in Harrelson) to solve the gruesome 1997 for her performance in Fargo. murder. Mildred’s action is like a bold In Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, chess move, dividing the town and Missouri, McDormand plays the drawing the ire of the local police role of the underdog. Anyone who –particularly Officer Jason Dixon is a parent readily identifies with (Sam Rockwell). Mildred’s younger this mother’s plight. The audience son Robbie (Lucas Hedges), bears identifies with her and in Venice the brunt of the town’s opposition to they applauded her performance. But his mother in scenes which show the perhaps the real star of the film is Sam depth of feeling in town. Rockwell, who plays the role of the Mildred had been powerless in the policeman no one likes. face of the inability of the police to Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, catch the killer. Her move galvanizes Missouri will be released in North the small town folk, exposing police America on November 10. incompetence. The episodic action which follows in the small Missouri Tony Wohlfarth is an Ottawa-based town resonates at a time when the role freelance film writer. He combines of the police in America is currently travel with a passion for film, under scrutiny, even though the film covering festivals in Berlin & Venice is set in an earlier era. The script is in 2017.

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SECOND THOUGHTS The Two Elections By Richard Ostrofsky spend billions of dollars and/or kill society, it is unlikely that humans now millions of people, but cannot get can lose the arts of writing, of using One feature of nations (and of their subjects – the survivors of such physical sources of energy (rather political communities in general) efforts – to feel and respond as they than muscle power), of building is widely ignored or overlooked: would like. Quite often, they provoke machines to do so. Technology must It is the fact that political power a reaction exactly opposite to what be expected to survive and revive, as and application to policy formation they wanted, even when what was it always has, after whatever collapse. is subject not just to one election intended would really have been The logic of election by lifestyle process but to two. For simplicity, good. People are stubborn and ornery is one of human profit, pleasure and we will restrict our attention here to that way; and politics works mostly convenience. Other things being relatively democratic polities (like the by reaction against things that enough equal, people will always prefer US or Canada) where governments people don’t like. what is more economical and/or about victories and ‘final solutions,’ are installed through some election A government can use the existing efficient, or what is safer, or what is but about dilemmas and reluctant process. But the same was true even media to try to persuade people to easier, more exciting or more fun. compromise. The world is forgetting in ancient Rome, or Tsarist Russia or accept and obey its directives. It can Priorities may change over time. They this today, and it will be an expensive Imperial China. It is true everywhere pay them to do things that it wants are even modified by government lesson to re-learn. and in all political cultures as a basic done. It can threaten, punish or kill policy to some extent, though never fact of social science. On one hand, them if they disobey. That is the directly and with certainty. Like By agreement with OSCAR’s editor, there is some process through which utmost of any regime’s power; and, the Rum-Tum-Tugger (one of Old this will be the last of my monthly a leader (and that leader’s immediate for that reason, though governments Possum’s curious cats), the public columns, and I’d like to thank Old constituency of important followers) can do endless harm, they can only will do what it do do, no matter what Ottawa South for its interest in this is selected from a flock of contenders improve society indirectly and slowly, its government intends. [See Old column over the years. Interested to form a government. But on the if at all. Politicians and civil servants Possum’s Book of Practical Cats by T. readers can find my writings at other, are the necessities and trends of will do well to keep this in mind. S. Eliot] www.secthoughts.com, and that political entity as a whole – as a But their publics too need to Of course, things go most smoothly are invited to write to me at society of human individuals leading understand and apply this lesson, when the two electoral processes [email protected]. their lives and pursuing their various in both the elections I’ve been are in accord. But what is smoothest Richard Ostrofsky, formerly of Second interests. As they do so, they elect describing. In discussions with family may not be best. The ideal, at least Thoughts Bookstore in OOS, now the long-term leadership and policies and friends and at the ballot box, we by present-day values, involves a lives in Montreal near his daughter of their society by a different route: need to recognize that our alienation degree of creative tension between a and grandchildren. Through their daily individual choices or despair or rage is a function of the public and its rulers, and in the public as to what they buy, whom they whole society and of our place within itself. Too much harmony, peace marry, how they live, and how they it – something that no conceivable and safety will bring stagnation. If Richard, Thank you for many raise their children, they establish government could alter, except in the we want creativity, we must accept thoughtful, and thought provoking, social conditions which eventually long run, by creating opportunities for some dissidence and deviance. If articles. prevail against the intentions of our own choices and actions. And in we want progress, we must accept Brendan McCoy, OSCAR Editor whatever regime and its policies. these daily choices and actions, we some conflict. Human politics is not Think, for example, about the need to understand and remember fate of the Chinese Revolution after that everything we do is also a Chairman Mao. Think of the United political choice – as much so as a States’ experiment with Prohibition in vote at election time. Remembering the 1920s, and of its ‘War on Drugs’ these things, recognizing that in a today. In these cases, and many country with millions of people no like them, the society’s election of one (not even the most powerful) can A gastro pub a governing regime went one way. have a decisive voice, we may be Its election of a future society went more inclined to take the trouble to by the Fraser somewhere else. vote. And we might be a little wiser This point is well worth keeping in in our life choices, remembering brothers mind today, not just in the US after its that these choices affect the lives of election of a despicable president, but our children’s children – that “the in every country of the post-modern personal is political,” as feminists world. Governments everywhere used to say. (including Canada) are struggling to My central point here is that these comprehend and make policy for a two electoral processes – of daily life world that is changing faster than their and of high politics – run on different laws and policies can adapt, and that time scales and inherent logic. The Weekday LUNCH is in ways beyond their control. Take elections which choose leaders and ‘global warming’ or environmental regimes may last for months, with degradation, for one example. Take direct results that will last for a few weekend BRUNCH demographic change for another. Take years – rarely for more than a decade. employment and income inequality Circumstances will change, programs for a third. Take changing worldviews and policies will change and leaders & DINNER nightly. and religious beliefs for a fourth. In will usually change – often to be each of these cases, and others of replaced by new leaders with very less centrality, people are voting with different programs and policies. The their wallets, their genital organs, and logic of high politics is a matter of with their eyes and mouths and feet. power and elite coalition. Influential By what they look at, talk about and people mill around and compete, FRESH SEASONAL buy; with whom and how they make gathering supporters and allies, but love; to whom they give credence making opponents and enemies. In and authority; how they manage their the process they form institutions families. By what they fear, get angry which can exert actual power, or they Just steps over the bridge at, and hope for. All such choices are take over such institutions, creating beyond the control of government powerful incumbents in the process. policy. They can be influenced only An election of lifestyle may last Reservations accepted online or by phone vaguely and indirectly, if at all, by for weeks, if it is just a fad, but for government programs, however millennia – essentially, forever – in expensive or ruthless. A regime may the case of major trends. For example, whatever happens to our current Page 26 The OSCAR l October 2017

FITMOM Ottawa Celebrates Seven Years

Susan McDonald leading a FITMOM class. PHOTO BY SARA MCCONNELL

By Susan McDonald been so fortunate to be able to offer I wanted to say thank you to in this neighbourhood and across many classes out of the beloved everyone in this community who has Ottawa, I look forward to meeting When I first started FITMOM Ottawa Southminster United Church during helped support my journey. Those others interested in joining the seven years ago, I don’t think I these past 7 years. early days, after I quit my corporate motherhood. could have envisioned all the joy So what exactly is FITMOM job and started a small business, and satisfaction that these past seven Ottawa all about? It is more than were a little frightening sometimes. I For more information about years would bring. In addition to just a fitness class. It’s a safe, fun truly appreciate everything that Old FITMOM Ottawa, visit www. meeting so many wonderful moms and challenging place where you’re Ottawa South has had to offer, both fitmomottawa.com. in this community, I also met many surrounded by other incredible as a resident and a business owner. others across the city who have women. It shouldn’t amaze me Almost right away, I connected with Susan McDonald lives in Old Ottawa supported the idea that we didn’t anymore how many friendships are the Old Ottawa South Women’s South. She is an experienced certified need to sacrifice staying fit during formed and strengthened in these Business Network, where I met personal trainer and an expert in the pregnancy, after having a baby or classes, but it still does. That might amazing women who helped me area of pre and post-natal fitness. She once we were back to work. When be one of my favourite things about believe I could do this and provided is the proud owner of FITMOM Ot- I first took over FITMOM Ottawa, what I do, especially since I met my guidance along the way. It’s an tawa, where she has offered prenatal there were no classes in Old Ottawa own group of mom friends through exciting, momentous occasion to fitness, mom and baby fitness and South, but because the community is the Boomerang Kids Strollercise celebrate seven years in business, boot camps for women in Old Ottawa so welcoming and because I call this Program on Bank St. and it was one but I know that I am not celebrating South, New Edinburgh and Ottawa neighbourhood my home, I knew I of the most important pieces of both alone. West for more than 7 years. wanted to offer classes here. I have of my maternity leaves. As I continue to work with women

How to Prevent Falling By Dr. Tannille Moore to older adults, but can be applied to not limited to the gym; in fact, there Fall Proof Your Home any situation where balance changes are many activities you can do from Most falls occur at home. There As a Chiropractor, one of the biggest and fall risk is increased. home. The key is to find an activity are some simple strategies you can concerns we see in older adults is that you enjoy and make it a regular implement at home to help reduce falling. Older adults will often alter Improve Strength and Balance part of your routine. Recommenda- this risk. Ensure walkways are clear their daily habits in order to prevent a One of the best ways to decrease tions for increasing strength and both inside and outside. Keep a fall. One in three adults over the age your fall risk is to have good strength balance include a minimum of 20 bucket of salt or sand near exterior of 65 will fall each year. Falls can and balance, especially in your legs. minutes of each strengthening and doors to use on outdoor walkways to have a significant impact on an indi- Good strength and balance help keep balance activities, three times a week. decrease slipperiness. Minimize clut- vidual’s independence and ability to you upright. They enable you to Any type of activity that gets you up ter and loose rugs around your home. carry out their daily activities. A fall better regain balance, if lost, such as and moving is beneficial! All rugs in the home should have a can result in hip, wrist, or pelvic frac- during a slip. Poor balance or un- non-slip back, or have a non-slip rug tures and may come with long-term steadiness is one of the main factors Take Care of Your Health pad underneath to keep them from consequences. 25% of falls involve in fall risk. Balance is what keeps us Eat well, have regular vision, moving. Likewise, consider install- a serious injury that may lead to upright and on our feet. Strength and hearing, and medical checkups, and ing and using handrails to provide hospitalization or surgery. However, balance can be trained by exercise. assess any injuries or movement limi- assistance when moving about. falls don’t have to be a part of getting Some great activities to improve tations immediately. Dizziness and Do you have a pet that gets under older. As you age, there are some your strength and balance include weakness may be linked to poor eat- your feet? Consider getting a bell for simple strategies you can implement activities such as brisk walking, ing habits including skipping meals them so you know where they are. in your life to minimize your risk of dancing, tai chi, yoga, Pilates, and or not drinking enough water. When Use nightlights to help guide you a fall. These strategies are directed strength training. Strength training is dizzy or weak, fall risk increases. around the house at night. Likewise, Have vision and hearing ex- be cautious when moving about the ams regularly and check your house, don’t rush to answer the phone medications with your doctor or or door. When we rush, we increase A bridge of opportunity pharmacist. Injuries or move- our risk of falling. ment limitations affect the way Morning & Lunch Preschool Program you are able to move. If you Falls don’t have to be part of life. aren’t able to move properly it Implement these simple strategies in ages 2.5 to 4 years will be harder to regain your your life to help reduce your fall risk, balance during a stumble and and keep you living optimally and Afterschool Program increases your risk of falling. independent. children 4 to 11 years Chiropractors are musculoskel- etal specialists that know how to …children learning through active investigation. get you moving properly. Your Dr. Tannille Moore is a chiroprac- ______chiropractor can assess and tor at Glebe Chiropractic Clinic & 63 Evelyn Ave. (off Main St. near Pretoria Bridge) provide care for any movement Massage Therapy Centre and helps www.rainbowkidschool.ca Tel: 613-235-2255 limitations you may have. people live healthier lives. The OSCAR l October 2017 Page 27

Alliances: Not Just for Reality Shows By Jim Weiler, M.A. and R.P and Matt factor that will determine the success for the failure! Rather, it is merely part of the process of Temple, M.A., C.C.C. client remains outside these debates: this is the establishing a strong connection. therapeutic alliance. While the therapeutic alliance is the most The therapeutic alliance is the relationship that important factor in the process of therapy, it Throughout history people dealing with mental develops between the client and counsellor. As is merely the beginning. Once this alliance is health issues such as depression, anxiety, and therapists, we are responsible for creating an open established (and of course maintained), the actual relationship conflicts (among many others) and safe environment for the client to express his process of therapy begins. Stay tuned for next have experienced shame and disgrace within or her experience of the issues that have created month’s article, which will more closely explore their communities. They may have felt like an the need for therapy. It is essential that the therapist the process of psychotherapy. embarrassment to their families, a liability to their listen empathically in order to develop a felt sense employers, and separate from the rest of society. of what it is like for the client to experience the Jim Weiler and Matt Temple own Foundations Indeed, internal struggles, which are in their world in his or her own unique way. Furthermore, Counselling & Psychotherapy, located at River- nature isolating, were often further impacted by the therapist must have an understanding and side and Bank, where they work with individuals, misconceptions within our culture, further isolating acceptance of his or her own internal conflicts and couples, families, and adolescents. If you have any people. Worse yet, those suffering have often been challenges. questions regarding the article or an interest in made to feel as though their pain is not real since it Therapists are not exempt from the challenges counselling/psychotherapy, they can be reached at is not physical. It has been a long and lonely road of life, however, if we lack self-awareness we 613-863-3393 (Jim) or 613-302-3322 (Matt) or at for many people. The times, however, they are risk contaminating the therapeutic alliance with www.foundationstherapy.ca. changing. bias, judgment, misunderstanding, and a lack of Awareness within our society surrounding boundaries between the client’s issues and our mental health is constantly increasing and we are own. In order to illustrate this, think of a time beginning to accept that mental health issues have that you shared a personal problem with a friend, a real impact on people’s lives. We are moving family member, or co-worker. Did they reduce towards acceptance of this. What is more, we your experience to their own personal history as a society are coming to understand it is not with a similar problem? While it may have made only those with debilitating diagnoses that suffer. your issue feel relatable, it likely left you feeling Everyone experiences times of grief, relational unheard and misunderstood. conflict, anxiety, and many other life challenges A strong therapeutic alliance will leave you to varying degrees. Therapy is becoming a viable feeling heard, accepted, safe, and cared for. It has option for emotional well-being and less of a the power to mend relational needs that are often shameful endeavor. at the heart of the issues that bring people in for For therapy to be successful, it requires counselling. It allows the client to explore within significant vulnerability. It takes great courage and him or herself the issues that have been buried deep trust to meet with someone, a stranger, and allow beneath the protective walls they have established him or her into your experience of the world. This in order to survive throughout the years. It creates process often exposes our innermost fears, unmet safety for when these walls begin to be dismantled needs, and darkest thoughts. In order to address and a new foundation begins to be established. these issues it is not enough for the therapist It can lead to freedom and new creative ways of to have the proper credentials, the relationship living. between the client and counsellor is paramount. Any therapist worth his or her own salt strives to There are hundreds upon hundreds of approaches create a strong therapeutic alliance, however, it is to therapy. Most therapists gravitate towards not always an easy process. Rather than forcing this certain approaches that inform their theoretical alliance, it is more important that it is discussed understanding of therapy. These usually resonate and explored. If in this exploration it is discovered with the therapist’s personal experience of the that the client would be better suited with a world. While followers of one approach may different therapist for whatever reason, this is not argue against other approaches, the most important

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MAYOR’S REPORT Have Your Say in the City’s 2018 Budget By Jim Watson, Mayor opportunity to provide comments. • How the City Budget Works: To show the impact of your Last year, we worked with our City A short video that uses plain decisions, the tool will also show departments and staff and listened language and easy-to-understand how your changes will affect the to residents through the budget graphics that outline the basics of budget rate and your individual consultation process in order to how the City budget works. property taxes. The tool will deliver a budget that keeps the • Get Involved in the Budget remain live until the budget is City on a path of fiscal prudence Process - The City of Ottawa’s tabled on November 8, 2017. while continuing to build a caring, Budget Process Made Simple: your City Councillor or by tweeting sustainable, and prosperous city. We A printable info-graphic that These budget tools will help @ottawacity using the hashtag were able to accomplish this while describes the budget and you better understand how your #ottbudget. keeping our 2% tax cap commitment, consultation process and tax dollars are spent. Pre-budget Finally, I encourage residents to thus ensuring that Ottawa remains an highlights when and how residents consultations are also an opportunity attend various Councillor-led 2018 affordable city for all. can have their say. to express your views on how Pre-budget public consultations that To shed light on the budget process • City of Ottawa’s 2018 Budget property tax dollars will be used and are taking place across our city in the and how these decisions impact your Consultation Tool: An interactive to take part in the decisions City staff month of October. individual property taxes, the City online tool that provides you and Council are faced with when For a schedule of public of Ottawa has developed innovative with the opportunity to play the developing and approving the annual consultations or to access the online tools available in the Understanding role of politician or administrator budget. consultation tools, visit www.ottawa. Your City Budget section of www. and determine what areas of City In addition to the online budget ca/en/city-hall/budget-and-taxes/ Ottawa.ca. The tools include: services and programs require tools, residents may also offer budget increases, decreases or status input by sending an email directly budget/budget-2018, and have your quo funding, and gives you the to [email protected], by contacting say in Budget 2018.

RED APRON COOKS Fun in October By Jennifer Heagle from local growers and suppliers, for undertake this challenge. We would off at Dominion City for beer three weeks this October we’re going love it if you shared your pictures sampling and a tour. More details, October is a fun month at the Red all-in by creating meals made entirely and recipes with us on Facebook or including the costs of this adventure, Apron. We kick off the month from ingredients sourced from our Instagram. are available on our Facebook and with an early Thanksgiving, and local growers and producers. Later in the month we are Instagram pages. will be cooking up turkey dinners This annual undertaking allows us organizing a ‘Hop on the Bus’ event If all this isn’t enough fun, there is for hundreds of people. One of to gain an immense appreciation for to visit three of our favourite spots. always apple picking, haunted walks, this month’s recipes has some tips the hard work these families put into Our tour will leave our shop on the fall festivals, pumpkin picking and for what to do with some of those growing and raising delicious foods. 29th of October at 10 am and we trick or treating! leftovers, if turkey sandwiches are Visit our website for more details. will visit Glengarry Cheesemakers not your thing! Why not join us in the challenge to sample and purchase some of their Jennifer Heagle, Chef, foodie & Starting in the middle of the month and pick a week to make yourself award-winning cheeses, then on to co-owner of the Red Apron, is a we will be enjoying our annual 100 home cooked meals using only the Quirky Carrot in Alexandria for longtime resident of Old Ottawa mile celebration! While we’re always locally-sourced ingredients. There is a beautifully prepared lunch made South & Old Ottawa East. working hard to support and buy no better time than harvest time do using local ingredients, then finishing

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• 1 ¼ cups all-purpose organic flour • 1 ¾ cups pumpkin purée *Note 2 • ¼ teaspoon salt • 1 cup brown sugar • ½ cup butter, chilled & diced (or ¼ • ¾ cup heavy cream cup butter and ¼ cup lard) *Note 1 • 1/8 cup molasses The Homework Club • ¼ cup cold water • 2 eggs All Girls * Only Girls • ½ tablespoon vanilla Academics, Arts & Yoga In a large bowl, combine flour & salt. • ½ teaspoon each of cinnamon, Affordable, Quality, After-School Care Cut in butter (or butter and lard) until nutmeg and ginger the mixture resembles coarse crumbs. • ½ teaspoon salt 3:30-5:30 pm ** Grades 1-8 Stir in water, a tablespoon at a time, Friday afternoons are until mixture forms a ball. Wrap in Whisk all ingredients until smooth. Conversational French Fun with Francophone leaders plastic and refrigerate for 1 hour. Pour into an un-baked pie shell. Bake in Yoga with Maureen Fallis (surroundcircleyoga.com) a pre-heated 325 degree oven for 25 to Registe r NOW for September Makes enough for one pie bottom. 30 minutes, or until the centre of the pie Double or triple the recipe as required. is set. On the Sunny 2nd floor of Southminster United Church Supervised walking from Hopewell Note 1: You can make an all butter Note 2: We use a variety of winter crust if you are looking for a vegetarian squashes for our pumpkin pies. Any Call 613-818-3006 alternative for your pie crust. relatively dry, dark orange squash will 17 years Academic Support & Quality After-School Care work. Roast the squash whole, then cut in half, scoop out the seeds, then Excellent Local References the flesh, and purée the flesh in a food processor. You can use any leftover squash purée to make a delicious soup! The OSCAR l October 2017 Page 29

MPP’S REPORT Building Active Community Infrastructure to Celebrate Canada’s 150th By Yasir Naqvi, MPP Councillor, to ensure that it is recreation programming for new clubhouse to a priority for City of Ottawa. children in our community. provide better facilities Summer in Ottawa for I am excited that the As demand for this facility for the athletes and the 150th anniversary of province is investing continues to grow, it is clear community that use Canada’s Confederation $5 million towards the that an expansion is much the Pumphouse. has been one that will be new Clegg Street-Fifth needed. I am proud that Thanks to incredible Avenue bridge. This is a the Ontario government is community leadership remembered for years to All these projects are true funding partnership contributing $500,000 to and a $150,000 grant come. Whether a giant spider important community between all three levels of help make this expansion a from Ontario’s Trillium walking our streets, or one infrastructure, and will government. The new bridge reality. More space means Foundation, the Ottawa River of Ottawa’s world class be a lasting reminder of will be built over the Rideau more fitness programs, Runners now have a stunning festivals, this summer has Canada›s sesquicentennial Canal connecting Clegg camps, after-school care, new home, providing created memories that will be in Ottawa Centre. It has Street in Old Ottawa East sports, arts and dance adequate training and storage remembered for some time. been immensely gratifying to Fifth Avenue at Queen programs for all ages. space. But the sesquicentennial for me to work closely with Elizabeth Drive in the Glebe. The expansion is scheduled Due to a new clubhouse, is more than street parties our community leaders to The City plans to begin to open later this fall. Huge the Ottawa River Runners and festivals. It is an obtain provincial funding construction as early as this gratitude is owed to the were proudly able to opportunity for us to invest so that we all have the fall, with completion in 2019. Dovercourt’s leadership welcome the entire country in projects that will have a opportunity to stay active This footbridge is crucial team and volunteer board this August to compete lasting impact on the lives of and live healthy. If you need to uniting our community. for their hard work in for the 2017 Canadian residents in our community. more information about any It will provide a safe fundraising for this important Canoe Kayak Whitewater I am excited to highlight of these projects, please do cycling and walking path, expansion focussed on the Championships. Further, three active community not hesitate to contact me shorten commute times, health and well-being of our the River Runners are able infrastructure projects that at my Community Office and offer a dedicated active community. to expand its community are being built in Ottawa at 613-722-6414 or via email transportation route to work, programming engaging more Centre with the support of at ynaqvi.mpp.co@liberal. entertainment and shopping. New Clubhouse for the people in this thrilling sport. the Ontario government. ola.org. Ottawa River Runners Footbridge across the Expansion of Dovercourt It may come as a surprise Rideau Canal Recreation Centre to many, but we have a For many years, the Dovercourt Recreation white-water paddling residents of Old Ottawa East, Centre has been providing facility at LeBreton Flats. the Glebe and Old Ottawa high-quality recreation This facility, known as the South have advocated for programming since 1987 to Pumphouse, has produced a cycling and pedestrian the residents of Westboro world-class athletes and footbridge across the Rideau and beyond. The Centre Olympians over the years, Canal. It has been important has grown to be Eastern all while they were using to me to work with the Ontario’s only HIGH FIVE shipping containers for community, in addition to accredited organization, storage and changing. our Mayor, local MP and providing the quality It was time to build a

MP’S REPORT Funding for Education and Infrastructure By Catherine McKenna, MP Minister of Environment and Climate $34 million for our young Canadians, Change. My goal in this sitting is preparing them for the jobs of We are well into the fall session, to continue to make sure the voices tomorrow. and I am excited to be back with my of Ottawa-Centre are heard on colleagues in the House, working Parliament Hill. Clegg Street Footbridge as your Member of Parliament and As we near the end of 2017, I am This month the Clegg Street representing our country as the pleased with the new government Footbridge development officially initiatives that have been invested broke ground. Over the past two into our Ottawa-Centre community. years, I’ve advocated for this project knowing the bridge will we have brought significant change Funding for Education make walking and cycling easier in our community – I look forward to CATHERINE In September, Minister Duncan and safer, building a more inclusive the years and months ahead. MCKENNA announced the Vanier Canada community. I was excited to Graduate Scholarship recipients and announce $10 million in federal MP—Ottawa Centre Ottawa-Centre is such a diverse the Banting postdoctoral Fellows, funding last year for the project, and area of the city. Please remember awarding Carleton University this month construction on the bridge my community office is always open Working for you! $740,000 in federal funding. These from Fifth Avenue and Clegg Street to your concerns and questions as scholarships will help support five has officially got under way. our team continues to work hard on Community Office doctoral and post-doctoral fellows at As the Member of Parliament for behalf of Ottawa-Centre. 107 Catherine Street Ottawa, Ontario, K2P 0P4 our local university. Ottawa-Centre, I believe we need T 613-946-8682 • F 613-946-8680 Our Government values the to reimagine how we get around /McKenna.Ottawa @CMcKennaOttawa research, discovery and innovation our city, and projects like the Clegg of young Canadians, and what they Street footbridge make that possible. contribute to our future. These This bridge is one of the steps to five grants at Carleton University helping make Ottawa the greenest will allow students to further their capital in the world and I’m thrilled skills and expertise in various its construction is a promise I have faculties. I am thrilled to be part of kept to residents of the community. www. CatherineMcKennaMP.ca a government that is investing over After almost two years together, Page 30 The OSCAR l October 2017

TASTY TIDBITS FROM TRILLIUM BAKERY For the Love of Flowers By Jocelyn LeRoy the Rideau Canal. Every Spring I and blueberries as well as our roses at the Arboretum. Her oversize can’t wait for May’s explosion of regular herbs and vegetables nestled handbag had a butterfly painted on What am I? crabapple blossoms and then the among the rhubarb and gooseberries. it. My husband and I sat down on a Wild. Tame. Non-GMO. tulips, peonies, and roses in the Another resident adopted two of the bench bearing a plaque honouring Medicinal. Mood-lifting. Air- Arboretum. front gardens, experimenting with Robert Cook, with whom, 30 years cleaning. Decorative. You can find All day long when I’m at work, veggies and sunflowers. Each day I ago, I had made arrangements for me in mountain ranges, deserts, our sister shop provides an ever- watch the sunflowers growing at a Upper Canada Village to supply and oceans. You can use me in healing changing cornucopia of living plants: rate of inches per day, the clematis mill the grain for Trillium Bakery. and grieving ceremonies. What am I? air plants, cacti, roses in luscious bursting into bloom during its One of the Arboretum gardeners A flower. colours; mini-gardens in a dish, and rapid climb up the trellis, and the stopped his tractor, and we spoke of orchids in Winter. All of these delight bumblebees hovering over the fuzzy how the gardeners there all love their My Childhood Garden those of us on the other side as well brown centres of the echinacea jobs: “nice easy pace surrounded In June I watched our apple tree’s as our customers. Some mornings daisies. I’ve adopted one of the by our favourite flora.” Several snow-white blossoms blooming we arrive at Trillium to find an large front gardens and added new moms spread out blankets to share a right up to my bedroom window imaginative garden in a vase or dish perennials from a new friend, Flory. picnic with their babies under blue in a few short weeks. The pansies perched on our cash register. I like to Eclectic, yes. But always a skies, warming sunshine and gentle around the tree trunk seemed to think that flower fairies inhabit our delightful place of surprises – a real breezes. have smiling faces. From up on premises at night. source of joy for those of us with the highest branches I viewed the aches and pains from hard labour. “Forest Bathing” garden. There were iris of every My Front Yard It’s all looking a lot better this year, Long a popular and serious pastime colour, prickly raspberry canes, and The 30-year-old “mystery garden” inspiring us to keep on going. in Japan, forest bathing is immersion a sandy path beside the canes that has bloomed faithfully each year, in forests emitting beneficial, healing led to the mysterious compost heap no matter the weather. New species Flory’s Garden minute particles. For example, pine way down in the corner. I sniffed its of perennials have popped up To avoid a traffic jam on the trees are thought to help clear the earthy aroma and watched tiny voles unforeseen, as though at my home way home from the bakery one lungs. Poplars and Eastern White scurrying in and out. there are flower fairies, too. Just day, I detoured through a nearby Cedars are considered highly There was lily-of-the-valley and this Spring a single trillium plant neighbourhood. I discovered a beneficial. In Haliburton there is an mint under a lilac bush. The three showed up; no one has claimed to spectacular garden surrounding a association that arranges for cancer fragrances filled my senses. I sat on have planted it, so it must have been small house with a blazing orange survivors to stay a while at people’s the flagstone my parents stepped on “nature spirits” at work. (Have you tile roof; it was an oasis of lovingly- cottages to have a break in a natural, to avoid crushing the flowers, and I ever read “Findhorn”? You, too, can cared-for flowers. I had to stop. therapeutic setting. would write scent-inspired poetry. I become a believer of nature spirits.) Luckily, the owner was out tending loved the garden; it was my secret This summer our garden became her flowers, a riot of colour and “look Flowers and Flours delight. a stop-over for a peregrine falcon, a at me” specimens of lilace trees and Now, later in life, I feel the joy My father knew the Latin names strutting wild turkey, and a family of blooming bushes. of flowers more than ever before. I of everything growing. He was big wake-you-up-at-5:00 am cardinals. “Come,” she beckoned. started with mom’s and dad’s apple on Latin – he thought it would be Of course there are many other We sat down on rickety wooden tree, then visited many botanical useful in my life, too. I admit I found songbirds, and bunnies that chomp chairs and talked for a long time after gardens with my mom, then moved it interesting but not really useful, off the dandelions. a tour of her garden. This was her to a city where nature’s beauty is except sometimes when struggling The five gardens on the property labour of love for the last 20 years. held dear, and for the past six years, with a foreign language, searching of the 160-year-old building I live in Not a weed in sight. “Who needs managed a bakery that shares a for meanings in signs of Latin lurking were created by a former resident, a to go to a gym?” We felt a strong building with a flower shop. It just in an unfamiliar word. Latin-loving botanist. But after she kinship. She wanted to see my work- doesn’t get better than this! moved, none of us knew what to do in-progress garden, perhaps to see Flowers at Work, Flowers in with her legacy. Two years passed, if I had anything that she didn’t (not Jocelyn Leroy is the owner/manager Ottawa and it became obvious to the five likely). She gave me forget-me-nots, of Trillium Bakery in Old Ottawa Since moving here in 1980, I have of us that the gardens were missing and I considered her a new friend. South since 1980. been impressed with the amount her TLC and hard work. A few of us of green space and the flora of this decided to get the gardens back in At the Farm city. I still enjoy my daily drive to order. This summer I watched a long- and from Trillium Bakery, through My favourite is the stump garden. haired, long-skirted woman of great the Experimental Farm, then along This year we planted strawberries beauty walking between the banks of

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TASTY TIDBITS FROM TRILLIUM BAKERY A Prose Poem on a Journey of Reconciliation

This summer a group of youth and adults from Church of the Ascension on Echo Drive, including my daughter Sonia and my grandchildren Rowan and Robbie, visited Winnipeg, Brokenhead Nation and Bannock Point. They were on a mission to discover truth and explore a possible role in reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples of this country. Rowan wrote a poem to reflect on this journey.

Jocelyn LeRoy

By Rowan Hughes though a place of peace we visited called the human rights museum. We My trip to Manitoba began with a walked round up and down passages bear and ended with a buffalo. of alabaster connecting stories until On our first day I don’t know what the morning, where I listened and my other group members would learned from this woman that bears say but I took two steps out of my teach us to be courageous. To take comfort zone and found myself the steps to do the things we are overwhelmed by the open hearts of afraid to, but will walk by our side so our guides willing to share with us that we may believe in ourselves as powerful songs and sacred teachings we believe in them. meant to open our eyes, ears and And there was so much else I hearts to a history left untold for learned - that eagles teach love; a such a long time sabe [a giant who walked among the … well, not untold but unheard, people to teach this sacred virtue] because all the powerful words asks honesty; a wolf begs humility which graced our ears echoed the and on and on until we understood teachings of ancestors long gone but what she was trying to let us in sweat lodge songs somehow still comprehend. breathing, and on beating drums and That in fact there wasn’t anything dancing their stories. to reconcile between the bible and One by one our journey began to her teachings because without love, connect each indigenous teaching truth, honesty, courage, humility, back to each other in a circle, back to wisdom & respect there would be me ourselves and back to the bible. and there would be you. Now this is something I must And the truth is if we ripped pages admit I grappled with for a while. I from the bible that bred those life couldn’t comprehend how a woman lessons, teaching of love, courage Rowan leaving behind a tobacco offering at Manitoba’s Bannock Point we met on our second morning and so on there would be nothing petraforms. connected her native heritage back left. to a church that had a huge role What I learned on this journey PHOTO BY SONIA LEROY in trying to eradicate her culture is that I may not know much about and way of life. This woman was spirituality but that’s alright because a residential school survivor. So you don’t need to know it to feel it Area Worship Services we asked her how it was she found and you don’t need to worship the balance; how was it that she could same way as others in order to live reconcile all the teachings of the life on an honest red road path. bible with the ones passed down by On our last day I had an encounter Location Times her grandfather? And so she told us with a buffalo; and I’ll tell you all a about seven sacred animals. secret that he told me, he said ‘go in Sunnyside Wesleyan Sunday Worship The first one I came across the peace and write what you know.’ Church Services at 9:00 am and night before, when I said my trip 58 Grosvenor Avenue began with a bear. He walked with 11:00 am, Children’s me on big black paws in my dreams (at Sunnyside) program offered during worship services.

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CARLETON CORNER Now that the academic year is CU75 Carleton Connects: show runs daily from 9:00 am to 4:00 place Wednesday, Oct. 11th at 6:30 in full swing, there are many Community – Academic Expo pm (on the weekend, lines close at 3 pm. To attend, register at science. events for all ages taking place at As part of its 75th anniversary pm due to volume). carleton.ca. Carleton this month. Here are just celebrations, Carleton University If you would like to book a school a few. Remember to check events. will host the Carleton Community or community group tour, please visit Physics Halloween Show carleton.ca for the most up-to-date Expo on Oct. 13th to 14th, 2017 to carleton.ca/biology/annual-butterfly- Back for its second year, the information. showcase the university’s history show. Admission is free, however Physics Halloween Show will delight of community partnerships and donations are greatly appreciated. all with a lighting machine, plasma The CU75 Campaign encourage new connections. The balls, lasers, rainbows and a costume The next time you visit campus, expo will include a reception New Eyes on the Universe contest. Bring the entire family for you may notice huge photos of some and networking event, as well as If dark matter and astroparticle some pre-Halloween fun on Saturday, of our students, alumni and faculty presentations related to Indigenous physics have always held your Oct. 29 at 10 am. Admission is free. on various buildings. Who are they? communities and knowledge, interest, then check this out! Carleton There is limited seating, so please Eight Carleton champions who have sustainability, accessibility and global University is pleased to host New register in advance at events.carleton. accomplished incredible things and citizenship. Join us! For details and Eyes on the Universe, an exhibit ca/physics-show-2. make us #CUproud. They are our registration visit: carleton.ca/cu75/ about incredible discoveries at the latest Carleton University champions expo/. Sudbury Neutrino Observatory Carleton Corner is written by during our 75th anniversary year. (SNO) and SNOLAB from Oct. CU Department of University To learn more about our champions Annual Biology Butterfly Show 3rd to 23rd, 2017 in Fenn Lounge, Communications. As your community and what’s in store for the remainder The butterflies are back! This Residence Commons. university, Carleton has many of the CU75 campaign, visit cu75. popular show is a free activity for This interactive exhibit presents exciting events of interest to Old ca. Stay in touch with the campaign your entire family. Bring your camera spectacular images, video and Ottawa South. For more information on social media using the hashtag and enjoy more than 40 species of artifacts from the deep underground about upcoming events, please go to #CU75. butterflies starting Saturday, Sept. laboratory while sharing the stories carleton.ca/events. 30th to Sunday, Oct. 8th, 2017 in the of people behind the research. As part greenhouses on Raven Road. The of the exhibit, a guided tour will take

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RESPs and You By Snow Wang Savings Plan). limit. For those who have room from first school year and no limit after For every dollar you contribute previous years, you could catch up to that. There is no limit on contribution Fall is a time for going back to to the RESP, the government will $5,000 each year and receive $1,000 withdrawals. The EAP includes school. Let’s look at the Registered match 20 cents in Canada Education maximum in CESG. Back to the grants, interest, dividends, capital Education Savings Plan (RESP). Savings Grant (CESG) to a maximum auto contribution, a pre-authorized gains. The EAP withdrawal amount is An RESP is an easy way of of $7200 life time per child. All contribution on pay day is also a taxable in the name of the beneficiary saving for post secondary education return on investment is tax sheltered great way to save. $96.15 biweekly (the child). The beneficiary will (college, university, trade school, in the RESP. Upon withdrawal, only to RESP would be perfect: $96.15 x receive a T4RESP in February etc.) For those who are not sure if the grant and the interest/dividends/ 26 = $2500. the following year for income tax their kids would go to university in capital gains portion is taxable in the Important note: According to the purpose. As the beneficiary is a Canada, there are 3,059 international name of the beneficiary (the child). CESG’s website, to be eligible for the student with no income or low institutions on the list of designated It’s a great way to save for education. grant, you must start to save for your income, it is unlikely income tax will educational institutions (www. So why not do it? child’s RESP before the end of the be charged for EAP. canada.ca/en/employment-social- I find the easiest way to save calendar year in which they turn 15 As we are packing lunches for our development/programs/post- for RESP is to save automatically. years of age. kids and walking them to school secondary/designated-schools. For example, if you receive $220 Inside RESP, you could choose again, let’s take some time to review html). That means there is a pretty Canada Child Benefit each month different investment vehicles, their education savings and make good chance that your children’s on the 20th, you could set up a pre- such as GICs, mutual funds, high sure we are utilizing the government future choice of foreign university authorized contribution to RESP of interest savings... depends on your program and doing a good job in is eligible for RESP’s educational $208/month on the same day and time horizon, risk tolerance and saving and investing. Kids grow assistance payments (EAP). In still have $12 left to spare. $208 is preference. The money will grow tax slowly, so do savings. But one day the event the child does not go to a magic number because it adds to free until withdrawn. they will pack for university, and we post secondary education, you can almost $2,500 per year (in fact it is To withdraw RESP for education will be happy to have the funds ready withdraw all contributions, while the exactly $2,496). The government’s purpose, you need the proof of for it. grant paid by the government must be CESG is paid at $500 maximum registration of the child, and specify returned to the government, and the per year per child, unless you have the amount you would like to Snow Wang lives in OOS and is a interest earned on the investment can previous unused grant room. $500 withdraw. There is a $5000 limit professional financial advisor. be withdrawn by you or rolled into is 20% of $2500 contribution. This on Educational Assistance Payment your RRSP (Registered Retirement makes $2,500 the optimal annual (EAP) in the first 13 weeks of the

Harvest Season Offers Lessons to Investors By Bob Jamieson, CFP and so forth. Continuing to invest fields to make our living. But by If you would like to discuss your for the long term and focusing more understanding the challenges of those investments, and what opportunities It’s harvest time again. Of course, on long-term results than short-term who farm the land, we can learn could exist for improvement, please harvest season may not mean that success can help you as you work some techniques that may help us to give me a call at 613-526-3030 or much to you if you don’t work in toward your objectives. nurture our own investments. visit my website at www.edwardjones. agriculture. Nonetheless, you can ca/bob-jamieson. learn a lot from those who do — Investment Climate especially in your role as an investor. Respond to your investment Here are a few of these lessons to “climate”. Farmers can’t control the consider: weather, but they can respond to it. So, for example, when it’s been dry Inputs for a long time, they can boost their THANK YOU “Feed” your portfolio. Through the irrigation. As an investor, you can’t FOR FIVE YEARS IN A ROW! proper combination of fertilizers and control the economic “climate,” irrigation, farmers seek to maximize but you can make adjustments. To the growth of their crops. And if illustrate: If all signs point to rising you want to give your portfolio long-term interest rates, which the opportunity to grow, you need typically have a negative effect on to “feed” it with the right mix of long-term bond prices, you may need 2013 2017 investments. This generally means to consider reducing your exposure, you’ll need to own a reasonable at least for a while, to these bonds. percentage of growth-oriented vehicles, such as stocks and stock- Diversify based securities. Keep in mind, Farmers face a variety of risks, though, that the value of these including bad weather and fluctuating types of investments will fluctuate, prices. They can help combat both sometimes sharply — and there’s no threats through diversification. For guarantee you won’t lose some, or instance, they can plant some crops RANKED all, of your principal. that are more drought-resistant than “Highest in Investor Satisfaction with others, so they won’t face complete Full Service Brokerage Firms” Be Patient ruin when the rains don’t fall. As an 5 YEARS IN A ROW investor, you should also diversify; if Crops don’t grow overnight. Edward Jones received the highest numerical score among full service brokerage fi rms in the proprietary J.D. Power Farmers know that they will put you only owned one type of financial 2013-2017 Canadian Full Service Investor Satisfaction StudiesSM 2017 study based on 4,903 total responses, includes 15 full service brokerage fi rms, and measures opinions of investors who use full-service investment in countless hours of work before asset, and that asset class took a big institutions. Proprietary study results are based on experiences and perceptions of consumers surveyed May-June they see the fruits of their labours. hit, you could sustain large losses. 2017. Your experiences may vary. Visit jdpower.com And they know that, along the way, But spreading your dollars among an array of investments — such as  they will likely experience setbacks  caused by a variety of issues: too stocks, bonds, cash and other vehicles   much rain, too little rain, insect — may help reduce the effects of  infestations — the list goes on and volatility on your portfolio. (Be  on. When you invest, you shouldn’t aware, though, that diversification  expect to “get rich quick” — and you by itself can’t guarantee a profit or can expect to experience obstacles in protect against loss.) www.edwardjones.ca the form of bear markets, economic Member – Canadian Investor Protection Fund downturns, changes in legislation Relatively few of us toil in the MKT-1924F-C-AD Page 34 The OSCAR l October 2017

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Sunnyside Branch Join us for an afternoon of board 23 octobre, le 20 novembre Ingenious Talks with Carleton U Ottawa Public Library games, Lego, cards & fun for home- Registration required. / Inscription Faculty of Engineering & Design 1049 Bank Street, Ottawa schooled children and their families, requise. professors will be sharing their InfoService 613-580-2940 happening every week! / Soyez des research with you. nôtres pour un après-midi de jeux Book Club Topic: The Internet of Things CHILDREN’S PROGRAMS de société, de Lego, de cartes et Come share the enjoyment of reading Speaker: Mohamed Ibnkahla d’amusements destinés aux enfants books with other kids ages 8 & Wednesdays, 6:30-7:30 pm, Oct. 4 Maker Mondays / Lundi créatifs instruits à la maison et leurs familles! up. Parents and/or caregivers are (Ages 8 & up / 8 ans et plus) Drop-in / Programme portes ouvertes welcome to accompany their child. What’s next for Our World and Play, build, create, cut, fold, knit, Thursdays, 12:00 pm – 3:00 pm / les We will be naming our book club at Ourselves? draw & so much more with our low- jeudis, 12h – 15h our first meeting. In a series of citizens’ seminars, tech mobile maker station! / Joue, September 14 – December 7 / 14 Mondays, 6:30 pm / les lundis, 18h30 participants and invited resource construis, crée, découpe, plie, tricote, septembre – 7 décembre (60 min.) persons together will draw on dessine et pratique une foule d’autres October 30, November 27 / Le 30 their knowledge and experience in activités avec notre nouveau poste Friday Fun Day / Les folies du octobre, le 27 novembre considering our current situation in mobile de création à faible technicité! vendredi (Family program) Registration required. / Inscription Canada and on the planet and will Drop-in/ Programme portes ouvertes Drop by and take part in a different requise. then explore possibilities, seeking Mondays, 4:00 pm / les lundis, 16h00 activity each week! / Prenez part to identify or invent sustainable and (60 min.) à une nouvelle activité à chaque ADULT PROGRAMS peaceful ways forward. September 11 – December 4 / 11 semaine! Drop-in / Programme Thursdays, 2:00 – 4:00 pm, septembre – 4 décembre portes ouvertes Canada 150 and Beyond September 14 - December 14 Fridays, 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm / les We will focus on making a list of 150 Babytime / Bébés à la biblio vendredis, 15h30 – 17h emerging innovative projects toward ADULT SPECIAL PROGRAMS For babies and their parents or And P.D. Days from 1:00 pm – 6:00 a peaceful and prosperous future for caregiver with stories, rhymes, songs pm/ Et les journées pédagogiques de Canada and in the world. Drop-In. Five things you should know about and games. 0-18 months. / Contes, 13h – 18h Saturdays, 10:00 am – 12:00 noon, Ottawa’s history comptines et chansons pour les bébés September 15 – December 8 / 8 September 9 – December 16 This talk examines little-known et un parent ou gardien. 0 à 18 mois. septembre – 15 décembre aspects of Ottawa’s history that will Drop-in/ Programme portes ouvertes The Writing Workshop make you think differently about the Tuesdays, 2:15 pm / les mardis, Play Day! / Au jeu! An opportunity for writers of fiction, city you live in. Brian McDougall 14h15 (30 min.) Drop in preschool fun! Play with non-fiction, poetry, and experimental will address five questions that link September 13 – December 6 puppets, crafts, building blocks, and forms to gather. Our emphasis will the city’s past with its present and more! / Un programme porte-ouverte be on developing works-in-progress future. Family Storytime (Bilingual) / pour les enfants d’âge préscolaire! for publication. The workshop will Tuesday, October 3, 6:30-8:00 pm Contes en famille (bilingue) Jouez avec des marionnettes et des provide writers with encouragement Stories, rhymes and songs for blocs, bricolez, et plus encore! and constructive criticism from their The Danube River from the Baltic children of all ages and a parent or Saturdays, 10:15 am / les samedis, peers. Author/Facilitator: Michael F. Sea to Vienna caregiver. / Contes, comptines et 10h15 (60 min.) Stewart: http://michaelfstewart.com A Danube River cruise from the chansons pour les enfants de tout September 16 – December 9 / 16 Monday, 6:00 - 8:00 pm, October 16 Black Sea to Vienna, visiting âge et un parent ou gardien. Drop-in/ septembre – 9 décembre Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia, Budapest, Programme portes ouvertes. Knit & Knatter Bratislava and Vienna. Please choose only Tuesday, Silly Saturdays / On s’amuse les Have you always wanted to learn Thursday, October 5, 6:30-7:30 pm Wednesday, or Thursday for each samedis (Ages 6 & up / 6 ans et plus) to knit, crochet or improve your session. Each week there will be board games, skills? Come to Sunnyside and bring Opening a Food Establishment Veuillez choisir entre les sessions du Lego, crafts or another activity. / your knitting needles and yarn to If you are thinking about opening mardi, du mercredi, ou du jeudi. Chaque semaine, il y aura des jeux de begin or share your project. Enjoy a fixed food establishment for a société, Lego, du bricolage, ou une conversation and a cup of tea while bakery, café, restaurant, or wholesale Tuesdays, 10:15 am / les mardis, autre activité. Drop-in / Programme you knit! Drop-In. food, this is the session for you. You 10h15 (30 min.) portes ouvertes Wednesdays, 12:30 – 2:30 pm, will learn about business licence September 13 – December 6 / 13 Saturdays, 1:00 – 4:00 pm / les October 4 & 18 categories, home-based business septembre – 6 décembre samedis, 13h – 16h regulations and permit and legislation September 16 – December 9 / 16 Conversations Among Canadians requirements for all types of food Wednesdays, 10:15 am / les septembre – 9 décembre In this program, we will continue to premises. Offered in partnership mercredis, 10h15 (30 min.) share our experience, knowledge, with Joanne Cléroux, Business September 14 – December 7 / 14 CHILDREN’S BOOK CLUBS reflections and ideas relevant to life Information Officer, City of Ottawa. septembre – 7 décembre in Canada, past, present and future, Thursday, October 26, 6:30 pm Je lis doing so with a sense of community Thursdays, 10:15 am / les jeudis, Aimez-vous lire en français? Venez à among Canadians and with others in ADULT BOOK CLUBS 10h15 (30 min.) notre club de lecture en français pour the world. Drop-In. September 15 – December 8 / 15 les enfants. Pour 8-10 ans. Wednesdays, 2:00 – 4:00 pm, Second Friday Adult Book Club septembre – 8 décembre Les Mardis, 18h30 / Tuesdays, 6:30 September 6 – December 13 Meet new people and join in pm (60 min.) stimulating discussions on selected Homework help / Aide aux devoirs Le 26 septembre, le 24 octobre, le 28 A Word in Arabic titles in a friendly and relaxed (Ages 6 -10 / 6-10 ans) novembre / September 26, October Join us once a month to learn a few atmosphere every second Friday of Come get help with reading, math, 24, November 28 words in Arabic while discussing the month. Newcomers are welcome. science, French, English, etc. Led Inscription requise. / Registration Arabic culture and customs October Title: Minister Without by Frontier College. / Reçois de required. throughout the Middle East. 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SUNNYSIDE LIBRARY PROGRAMS October Title: 1222 by Anne Holt Friday, 2:00 – 3:00 pm, October 27 October title: Eva Sleeps by and adults. Friday, 2:00 – 3:00 pm, October 20 Francesca Melandri (Italy) Presented October title: Decelerate Blue by European Book Club by The Dante Alighieri Society. Adam Rapp Sunnyside Adult Book Club Join us for the ultimate armchair Wednesday, 6:00-8:00 pm, Oct. 18 Monday, 7:00-8:30 pm, October 7 Join in stimulating discussions travel around Europe. The European on selected titles in a friendly and Book Club is offered in partnership Ottawa Comic Book Book Club relaxed atmosphere on the last Friday with European Union National The Ottawa comic Book Book Club of the month. Institutes for Culture (EUNIC) in is a small group of comic book October Title: A Handful of Dust by Ottawa to promote European authors enthusiasts who meet once a month Evelyn Waugh and their works. to discuss a graphic novel. For teens

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Explore the Geology of Ottawa-Gatineau By Beth McLarty and math (STEM), for high Ottawa area, places where the Halfkenny school students trying to decide Earth’s crust has broken and been on a university major and for displaced. Faults result when the adults with a recreational interest stress on the rock becomes so Did you know? In the last 2 in science. great that it reacts by breaking billion years, the National Capital and one side moves relative Region has been home to a huge Hog’s Back Falls to the other, up and down or mountain chain, a tropical beach, Hog’s Back Falls is like an past each other. Few faults are a habitat for large whales, and open book when it comes to visible, however, where we can buried under 2km of ice. Where geology. It’s an excellent example see them, so Hog’s Back is very do the rocks in your backyard fit of so many different geological special. This location provides an in? concepts, all in one place, with excellent learning opportunity, Explore Geoheritage Day is a cross section to view what is with the fault totally exposed at an annual event held at localities going on beneath the surface. surface level. of particular geological interest The rocks tell a story about what This year’s other sites will be throughout Ottawa and Gatineau. was happening in that spot as finalized on our website the week This year it will be held on each layer was deposited on leading up to the event. Please go Saturday, October 14th from 10:00 top of one another. They record to earthsci.carleton.ca for detailed am to 3:00 pm. Volunteers from when the water level changed. information. We look forward to the Department of Earth Sciences They record the different types meeting you! at Carleton University and the of sediment being brought into Ottawa-Gatineau Geoheritage the area and how these conditions Beth McLarty Halfkenny is Project will be on hand to explain changed over time. It’s all there the Curator and Outreach what there is to see and how each in the bedrock, unobstructed by Coordinator in the Department site fits into the local geological Hog’s Back Falls. vegetation. It really is a big slice of Earth Sciences at Carleton history. This is a perfect event of time. University. PHOTO BY BETH MCLARTY HALFKENNY to spark your child’s interest in There are many faults in the science, technology, engineering

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Please bring family, Saturday, November 4, 9:30 - 2:00. and get access OTLs 1600+ tools. photographer in Ottawa, specializing friends and neighbours and enjoy Now’s the time to start getting ready OTL Shop Night is open 6-9 pm, in landscape and nature pictures. Southminster’s Christmas spirit on for Christmas. Find new and gently 250 City Centre Ave #216. Visit November 18th. used decorations and ornaments. ottawatoollibrary.com to register. The Council of Heritage Look for amazing gifts for everyone Organizations in Ottawa wants to Come and join the Pacesetters on your list at the Great Gift Table. Ottawa Tool Library Community + ensure the picture perfect moments Walking Club at Billings Bridge Bid on items at the Silent Auction. Demo Night, October 30th. Come for of Canada’s Sesquicentennial Shopping Mall. Activities include Stock up on delicious homemade live demonstrations by local gurus year are not forgotten. 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NOTES FROM THE GARDEN CLUB Ornamental Grasses pany located in Russell that special- izes in rare and unique plants. Cindy is a graduate of both Ottawa U and Algonquin College. Cindy started her talk by noting that ornamental grasses, like shrubs, add structure to a garden, provide movement, and attract birds. She continued that ornamental grasses can be categorized as cool-season grasses—those that grow early in the season and bloom in the spring or early summer, and warm-season grasses—those that grow later in the spring and bloom in late summer or early fall. In addition, some grasses are perennial whereas others are just annuals. Although most grasses like The aptly-named Cherry Sparkler full sun, some are shade tolerant. In Fountain Grass. addition to garden planting, smaller grasses do well in containers—espe- By Colin Ashford cially in combination plantings. Cindy next showed quite stunning rd The 2017—2018 season (the 23 pictures of cool-season, perennial season) of the Old Ottawa Garden grasses such as Calamagrostis ‘Karl A striking planting of ornamental grasses. Club got off to a great start with Foerster,’ Calamagrostis ‘Overdam,’ a presentation by Cindy Cluett on and Calamagrostis ‘Eldorado’ (all cum ‘Praire Fire’, and a number of allow the frost and worms to improve ornamental grasses. Cindy is the will stand up to harsh conditions quite beautiful Miscanthus grasses in- the soil tilth ready for planting in the owner of Beyond the House (www. such as those found at roadsides) and cluding Miscanthus sinensis ‘Gracil- spring. Cindy recommended adding a beyondthehouse.ca)—a full-service warm-season, perennial grasses such limus,’ Miscanthus sinensis ‘Okto- three- to four-inch layer of mulch af- garden centre and landscape com- as Panicum ‘Blood Brothers,’ Pani- berfest,’ and Miscanthus giganteus ter planting. After a couple of years, that can grow to ten feet. At the other the mulch will have broken down and end of the scale are the sedges such the soil can be top-dressed in the fall as Hakonechloa macra ‘Aureola’ that with compost and mulched again in only grow to a height of one foot, are the spring. Although some grasses shade tolerant, and can be used to can survive the winter snow load and soften hardscaping. provide interest in the garden during Cindy then moved on to an- the winter, most are better cut back in nual grasses and showed pictures of the fall. striking grasses such as Pennisetum ‘Cherry Sparkler,’ Pennisetum purpu- The next meeting of the Old Ot- reum ‘First Knight,’ and Pennisetum tawa South Garden Club will be on ‘Sky Rocket.’ Tuesday 10 October at 7:00 pm the Cindy concluded her talk by dis- Firehall (260 Sunnyside Avenue) cussing preparation of the ground for when Kevin Brooks of Kevin Brooks planting ornamental grasses: Cindy Landscaping Services will discuss recommended working the exist- the important aspects of designing a ing soil to remove any weeds and small garden. then working in a couple of inches of triple mix soil (a mixture of top Colin Ashford is a member of the Old soil, compost, and peat moss). This Ottawa South Garden Club. Windswept ornamental grasses. PHOTOS BY CINDY CLUETT preparation is best done in the fall to

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ABBOTSFORD AT THE GLEBE CENTRE Abbotsford Gardens are By and For the Community MacLeod loves to get her hands dirty. from the empties to her flower “I start annuals by seed,” said budget. MacLeod. “And I have to have The gardens around the old stone colour in the garden really soon house take about four hours a week in the season, so I plant pots of to maintain, leaving MacLeod some daffodils.” time to join the exercise classes and She said the “bones” of the play bridge at Abbotsford. She also Abbotsford gardens came from the helps with the beautiful, lush gardens old Sylvia Holden Park that formerly that are also volunteer-maintained started at Bank Street and ran along beside Lansdowne’s Horticulture Holmwood Avenue. Building. When those flowerbeds were But MacLeod doesn’t do it all uprooted to make way for the alone, she has a few helpers who new, residential development keep an eye on the Abbotsford at Lansdowne Park, MacLeod gardens when she’s not around and transplanted the perennials across the she said a lot of people stop and chat street at Abbotsford. and visit while she’s working away in Today, among the plants the dirt. surrounding the heritage stone “People really appreciate the house, are what MacLeod refers to as gardens and say how beautiful they “old fashioned” plants: hollyhocks, are,” said MacLeod. “And I really baptisia, Culver’s root, asters and appreciate the feedback.” Carol MacLeod with sunflowers in the garden. even some of Lady Borden’s peonies, PHOTO BY PAT GOYECHE propagated from the cottage of Abbotsford is your community former Prime Minister, Sir Robert support centre for Adults 55+. We By Julie Ireton The well-manicured gardens that Borden. are the community programs of The surround Abbotsford House (where On Abbotsford’s Monk St. side, Glebe Centre Inc., a charitable, For most people, an empty flowerbed the Glebe Centre Community MacLeod has planted a “pollinator not-for-profit, organization which is just a pile of dirt, but for longtime Programs and Services are run from) garden” that’s intended to attract bees includes a 254 bed long term care gardener, Carol MacLeod, that dirt is are thanks in great part to MacLeod, and other pollinators. home. Find out more about our actually more like a palette waiting to an Abbotsford member and the “There’s so much talk about the services by dropping by 950 Bank be filled with colour and fragrance. resident volunteer gardener. dearth of bees, so I thought it would Street (the old stone house) Mon- Fri From the time the snow melts, be a good idea,” said MacLeod. 9-4 pm, telephoning 613-230-5730 Every year, she gets a bit of money or by checking out all of The Glebe OTTAWA CHORAL SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2017 AT 7:30 PM from Abbotsford’s “coffee fund” Centre facilities and community SOCIETY DOMINION-CHALMERS UNITED CHURCH to buy a few new plants. She also programs on our website www. SOCIÉTÉ O’Connor • Lisgar CHORALE picks up beer cans lying around the glebecentre.ca. D’OTTAWA neighbourhood and adds the money THIS IS OUR MUSIC We celebrate 150th years of Canada’s Trinity’s Annual Christmas Bazaar Confederation with the music of our most beloved composers: Willan, Patriquin, Sirett, Halley, Glick and many more! Special guests - Robert Filion and the De la Salle Senior Vocal Ensemble Matthew Larkin, piano Jean-Sébastien Vallée, conductor

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By Brenda Small gift tags, handmade sewn and knitted items, and jewellery. There Trinity’s popular Frosty’s Fair is also an array of decorations for Christmas Bazaar will take place festive decorating. on Saturday, November 4th from In the middle of it all is a long 9:30 am to 2:00 pm in the Trinity table full of donated gifts and Anglican Church’s Halls at the gift certificates, many from local corner of Bank and Cameron St. merchants, up for Silent Auction. The fair is a chance to get an For youngsters, there is a special early start on your Christmas gingerbread house room set aside preparations, offering delicious to decorate gingerbread cookies homemade baking, hearty soup and make crafts. And back by and tasty jam and jelly, all from popular demand is Frosty’s Café, time-honoured church-community where there are various menu items recipes. for adults and children. www. It also features a gift draw and trinityottawa.ca (613-733-7536) a unique selection of gifts for Christmas giving, hand-crafted Brenda Small is an OOS artist and Christmas cards, decorations, and a member of the Trinity Anglican Church congregation. The OSCAR l October 2017 Page 39

ROAD TRIPS Lots to See in the Laurentians

You can get a little exercise at the Ofuro Spa on a hiking trail. Rue Principale in Saint-Sauveur is lined with galleries and boutiques. By Laura Byrne Paquet them. The Scandinave Spa, just outside the Mont some of the most delicious tomato sandwiches I’ve Tremblant resort, is the larger of the two and has ever eaten. The big slices of tomatoes, piled high Many people think of the Laurentians as simply a rustic Nordic flavour. The Ofuro Spa in Morin on fresh bread, would be the perfect fuel for a day a winter skiing or summer cottage destination. Heights has an Asian theme. Both offer circuits of fat biking, ziplining and treehouse living. However, there are lots of great arguments for of hot pools, cold baths and saunas, with ample visiting this region of rolling hills and sparkling relaxation areas. If you go: Mont Tremblant is about a two- lakes in the fall. For one thing, the crowds are hour drive northeast of OOS; distances to other generally smaller. Also, those hills are heavily Treehouses Laurentians sites mentioned in this article vary. forested, making it a great leaf-peeping spot. Here At Les Refuges Perchés in Saint-Faustin-Lac- are six other fun things you can enjoy there in the Carré, I spent a night in a treehouse overlooking Travel writer and OOS resident Laura Byrne fall. Lac du Cordon. It was an adventure—to reach it, Paquet runs OttawaRoadTrips.com, where she I hiked through the forest for about 15 minutes, offers tips and ideas for independent day trips and E-biking dragging my backpack, sleeping bag, food and weekend getaways from Ottawa. I had a blast recently exploring the forest trails a big jug of water behind me in one of the around Mont Tremblant on an electrically assisted property’s wheelbarrows (you can also borrow “fat bike.” Due to their thick tires and solid a canoe and paddle to your treehouse). The suspensions, these bikes are stable and comfortable rainy trek was worth it, though. Once I’d hauled when you’re riding over tree roots and gravel. And my gear up the wooden staircase and into the the almost-silent electric motor makes even steep treehouse, I felt like a forest creature far from hills manageable with little pedalling (I became civilization. very fond of the “turbo” setting). You can rent bikes and book tours at the Activity Centre at Mont Shopping Tremblant. If gallery hopping, boutique browsing and restaurant lingering are your things, stop in Saint- Ziplining Sauveur. Yes, rue Principale is touristy, but it’s I spent a fun/terrifying couple of hours making packed with diversions for those who enjoy some my way along a series of ziplines, rope bridges and retail therapy. other obstacles up to 18 metres (60 feet) above the forest floor. This “tree-to-tree course” is not for Tomatoes those afraid of heights, but if hurtling along a cable Okay, you’re probably surprised by this while suspended from a giant pulley doesn’t faze recommendation. And it’s a bit of a cheat, you, it’s a real rush. Again, you can book at the because the spot I’m recommending is slightly Activity Centre. south of what everyone normally considers the Laurentians. But Les Serres Stéphane Bertrand Spas in Mirabel is worth a side trip. One of the largest The region is home to several thermal bath tomato growers in Quebec, it has a big gift spas, and in the interests of research, I tried two of shop stocked with produce, packaged foods and kitchen items, along with a bistro that makes

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