THE SOUTH COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION REVIEW Vol. 22 No. 3 OUR 20TH YEAR! NOVEMBER 1994 TRAFFIC IN OTTAWA SOUTH STUDY UPDATE

BY GREG WRIGHT Last month, we mentioned the principally in the area. first Public Participation SECOND PUBLIC FORUM meeting, which was held on Building on the success of the September 29th. Minutes are available September public meeting, a at the Firehall. In addition to the second Public Participation numerous comments made at that forum will be held at the Firehall on meeting, we have received another 15 Thursday, November 24th. This will written suggestions from various take the form of an Open House and residents aimed at identifying you are invited to drop in between 6:30 opportunities for improvements. and 9:30 pm. This will be an excellent The major development in October opportunity for you to meet the focused on the selection of the consultants first hand, to provide engineering/consulting firm to conduct comments and ask questions, to learn The first public meeting on traffic in Ottawa South, September 29, hosted by the this traffic and parking study. Four more about “traffic calming” and the Steering Committee at the Firehall with Jim Watson, Councillor and Paul Nyirongo, local firms submitted detailed orientation of the project and project from the City. Photo P. Hecht proposals and each was thoroughly team. assessed against pre-determined At 7:30 pm, there will be a short criteria by the community as presentation by McCormick Rankin to represented by the Old Ottawa South outline their initial understanding of Steering Committee and by the City of the Old Ottawa South traffic and NEXT DEADLINE FOR OSCAR is j Ottawa. parking situation, as gleaned from the CONSULTANTS CHOSEN minutes of the September meeting and 30'NOVEMBER As a result of this process, all discussions with the Steering parties agreed that the contract Committee. They will also have some be awarded to the firm of audio-visual material to familiarize the McCormick Rankin who are working community with “traffic calming” with the firm of Morrison Hershfield solutions. OTTAWA SOUTH WINDOWS: for this undertaking. RESIDENT SURVEY REFLECTIONS OF A COMMUNITY An inaugural meeting involving the esidents will have an architectural elements, as reflections of Steering Committee, City staff and R opportunity to provide feedback a collective consciousness within consultant firm was held on October on the ideas presented. Ottawa South and as triggering devices 27th. The consultants are already Elsewhere in this edition of OSCAR, for individual viewers - looking out or digesting the wealth of comments from you will find a short survey looking in. the September public meeting and an questionnaire prepared by McCormick Our community's windows are as animated discussion of the challenges Rankin. To complement the varied as the residents. Take for and dimensions of this project was information already compiled on example the windows on the southwest held. community concerns, you are invited to comer of Leonard and Hopewell One of the reasons why this complete the questionnaire and drop it Avenues where the Ottawa Organic particular firm was selected was its off at the Firehall. Food Alternative is located. There, strong commitment to ensuring that the A final comment on the community members decided to improve the selected solutions are community- Steering Committee. At present, this appearance of their store by adding driven. To that end, there will be a group comprises 10 Old Ottawa South brilliantly coloured trim around the series of “focus meetings” to discuss residents. We have thus far been windows. specific subjects, such as the parking unsuccessful in enticing any members Freshly painted bugs and worms problems at Brewer Park, as well as of our local business community into crawling on vines, vegetables and several Public Participation meetings. joining the group. If you're interested, leaves reinforce the theme of organic Arrangements are being made now for please call Greg Wright at 730-3040. gardening. All decorative trim is the first focus meeting, which will The Steering Committee's next meeting removable, fashioned from old re-used address the needs of the Old Ottawa is November 14th. Hai-toi Lim adds final touches to window boards. Hai-toh Lim, local designer South business community for parking, at Leonard and Hopewell Photo D. Bouse and member of the Organic Food Alternative, provided the artwork. This month, OSCAR introduces A closer look at the window reveals the first in a series of articles on the logo for their organization, a row of DON’T FORGET TO FILL OUT THE TRAFFIC Windows in Ottawa South. As small jars full of different types of one's eyes are the windows to the soul, beans, a hanging plant and (in SURVEY INSIDE OSCAR AND ATTEND THE a community's windows serve as reflection) a row of porches, a chimney PUBLIC OPEN HOUSE AT THE FIREHALL ON metaphorical eyes into its sense of self- and a severely pruned maple tree. Look NOVEMBER 24. DETAILS INSIDE. recognition. inside for an article on commercial These articles on local windows windows on Bank Street. look at these physical features as NOVEMBER 1994 ♦ THE OSCAR ♦ PAGE 2

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Editor: Peter Hecht 730-1045 CONTRIBUTORS Artspace: Karin Fuller 523-9928 A big Ottawa South Thank You to all our contributors who took the time Street Noise: Bill Moon 730-7845 to give us something. And of course, our advertisers who make it all Business Manager: Marim Moreland 730-3762 possible. Keep up the good work! Advertising Manager: Richard Turgeon 730-3911 Distribution Manager: Rufina Basu, assisted by Remy 730-2762 PHOTOS & ARTICLES ALWAYS

OSCAR is a non-profit, community report published on a regular basis for the NEEDED Ottawa South Community Association Inc.(OSCA). Distribution is free to all Even though we receive all those wonderful contributions, articles and Ottawa South homes and businesses. Opinions expressed in articles are those photos are always needed. We are looking for news items, stories, articles, of the authors and not necessarily those of OSCAR or OSCA. The Editor poems, travel advice, book and restaurant reviews. An article could be as retains the right to edit or include articles submitted for publication. little as two hundred and fifty words. Bring them to our OSCAR box in the Office at The Old Firehall. Letters to the Editor are always welcome. For those who The OSCAR telephone number is 730-1045. Please leave your name, number didn't have the time this month, or who didn't manage to get your contributions in and a brief message. Paid advertising inquiries should be directed to Richard to us on time, remember there will always be the next OSCAR. Turgeon. Distribution inquiries to Rufina Basu 730-2762. Please support our advertisers. Let them know you saw them in the OSCAR. Without them, we wouldn't be publishing. If you know of someone providing a The next deadline for articles, announcements and service in the community, tell them about OSCAR. Our rates are reasonable. advertising is CONTRIBUTIONS November 30 1994. Although we are using WordPerfect, we can use articles from almost any program on any size or density, IBM compatible diskettes. Please label OSCAR thanks all the people who diskettes with your name and phone number. Please do not format your pages. If you submit your articles printed, please make them clear and dark typewritten. Articles cannot be returned for review prior to printing. We edit only sparingly for grammar, meaning and length or if you allow. Pictures, drawings and photos are greatly appreciated and vrill be used if possible. Please label all photos. Computer disks will be returned if labelled and photos only if you indicate so clearly. They may be picked up»at the Firehall Office about one week after publication.

OTTAWA SOUTH COMMUNITY CENTRE

ZONE A1 : Mary Jo Lynch (Coordinator), Eric and Brian Lynch, Candace O'Lett, Brian Eames, Kim Barclay, Marvel Sampson, Cybil Grace, Wendy Robbins, Charles Halliburton, Ron Barton, Lindsay WINTER HOURS PHONE 564 -1064 Whillans, The Boutin Family, Robin Scobie MONDAY 9:00 AM -10 PM ZONE A2: Susan Lafleur (Coordinator), NEW DELIVERERS NEEDED TUESDAY 9:00 AM - 9 PM ZONE Bl: David Farr (Coordinator), David Farr, Sharon Plumb, Andrea and Cedric Innés, Ross Imrie WEDNESDAY 9:00 AM -10 PM ZONE B2: Linda Young(Coordinator), Leslie Roster, Patty Leonard, Rick Potter, Karen and Dolf Landheer, The Woyiwada Family, Anna and Dan Calvert, The Webber Family, The Young Family THURSDAY 9:00 AM - 9 PM FRIDAY 9:00 AM - 6 PM ZONE Cl: Laura Johnson (Coordinator), The Neale Family, The Harrison Family, The Gilmore Family, The James-Guevremont Family, The Jarmuski Family, The Williams Family SATURDAY (from Sept24> 9:00 AM- 1:30 PM ZONE C2: Kathy Paterson (Coordinator), Alan McCullough, Lily & Peter Hecht, Bill McCauley, Dan SUNDAY CLOSED Byrne, Barbara Copley, The MacGregor-Staple Family

ZONE D: Leonard Gerbrandt (Coordinator), Patti Angus, The Small Family, Jessie Neufeld, Tony Hauser, Andi Gray, Mary Hill, The MacDonalds, Jessica & Colin Drysdale, Mary Ann Keys, Gilbert Jamieson, Martha Robinson, Elenor Quesnel IMPORTANT PHONE NUMBERS ZONE El: VACANT (Coordinator), The Hutchinson Family, The Hanley Family, Chris Ringland, The OSCA 564-7277 Moussel-Forrester Family Ottawa South Public Library 598-4017 ZONE E2: Rufina Basu (Coordinator), Jesse Rading, The Tillman Family, Eleanor Berry, Mary-Ann Kent, Carleton Students Association 788-6688 Glen Elder & Lorraine Stewart, Julie Vergara, The Fraser Family Regional Government 560-1335 ZONE FI: Carol O'Connor (Coordinator), Karen Fee & Family, The Bol Family, The Tubman Family, The City (snow, trees, flooding, etc) 564-1111 Dalziel Family, The Chandler Family, John & Lee Zamparo, The Bennett Family City Licensing/Enforcement 564-1457 ZONE F2: Janet L Jancar (Coordinator), Sonya Jancar, The Moir Family, The Stem Family, The Liston City Property Standards 564-1717 Family, The von Baeyer Family, JefFDubrule, Marie Dubrule, Paul Jancar Parking Enforcement 564-1457 ZONE G: Angela Graves (Coordinator), Chris Kinsley, The Chihlar Family, The Blakeman Family, The Jim Watson 564-1308 Graves Family, The Grier Family, Julie de Bellefeuille, The Stidwell Family Road potholes, cracks, broken glass, etc.

West of Main Bullock & Area: The Rowleys • RMOC roads 739-3140 • Ottawa roads 564-1111 Bank Street-Ottawa South: Tom Lawson, The Cook Family • NCC roads Bank Street-Glebe-Main: Rufina Basu 733-0117

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THE OSCA ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING IN BRIEF The Ottawa South Community the coming year: a) how does the Molly Seon* including OSCA, are working on the Association (hereafter known as community feel about losing the Bart St. John Smith feasibility study. OSCA) held its well-attended Annual Firehall?, b) should OSCA move into Doug Stickley The big question facing the General Meeting on Thursday, October profit-making ventures and c) should Greg Wright community is, if space is provided at 13, 1994 at the Main Hall of the Old we move to changing the name of Donna Walsh the new Hopewell, should we give up Firehall (hereinafter always to be Ottawa South. These were discussed. Linda Young the Firehall. Much discussion followed known as the Firehall). ELECTION OF DIRECTORS There were 20 nominees, so it was and it was agreed since Firehall space For those of you who did not Susan thanked all directors who moved and carried that nominations be is inadequate, the Hopewell alternative manage to make it, we are providing, were stepping down from the Board, closed and those nominated were should be pursued. The question of the courtesy of Dierdre McQuillan, some after many years of service; considered to be elected. Firehall should be made at a later date. Executive Assistant, a brief resume of Bonnie Ostler, Bill Devonish, Tony DISCUSSION A motion was carried to send urge the events and especially your Board of McCormack, Russell Barton, David OSCA and Profit-making Ventures City to participate in this joint venture Directors for 1994-95. Webber, Mary Zamparo, Hasmig Michael Lynch introduced Jean with the future of the Firehall to be Susan Leah, President, welcomed Adjeleian and Rob Cook. Many thanks Leroux, Executive Director of the decided later. everyone to the meeting and announced to all. Community Enterprise Centre. c) Whither “Ottawa South” the different format for this year. The next event was to elect a new M. Leroux made outlined what the Susan Leah reported many Instead of being read out at the AGM, Board for 1994-95. There are twenty work of the centre in helping people residents made comments during the annual committee reports would be spaces to be filled and John Bond read with feasibility studies, business plans Porch Sale that people from outside posted only and also published in out the names of the nominees: and with start-up capital. The centre is our neighbourhood were confused OSCAR. The main focus of the annual (*denotes new members) currently doing a feasibility study for a about exactly what Ottawa South was. general meeting was to be on the Frances Arbor* canteen in Brewer Park on behalf of They confused it with Hunt Club or future. John Bond OSCA. places south of Riverside. Susan spoke of last year’s Alain Cossette A lively discussion followed about There seemed to be wide consensus highlights: a successful teen program, Ron Lange* OSCA’s mandate re commercial something should be done to correct porch sale, membership drive, garden Walter DeKeseredy* ventures, what types of ventures and if this. OSCA is considering the erection tour among them. She reminded Susan Leah a group should study this. Michael of gateway signs all neighbourhood everyone of coming events: the Art Mike Lascelles* proposed OSCA has a mandate and entrances: Billings Bridge, Bank Street Show, All Candidates Meeting and Larry Leadman* ventures should be considerated. This Bridge, Riverdale at Main Street and Craft Fair. Chris Lennon* was agreed. Sunnyside at Bronson. Community Many changes are coming to and Michael Lynch b) Future of the Firehall support was needed to change the within Ottawa South - space at the Dave McNicholl* Rob Cook outlined the Hopewell name to "Old Ottawa South" and have Firehall is not sufficient and there is Catherine Montgomery feasibility study, for renovation in this on signs. A motion was therefore the chance for new space in renovated Abby Pollonetsky* 1996/97. The OBE invited the City to passed to call our community “Old Hopewell Ave School. Three major Hilary Robinson a joint venture and all parties, Ottawa South”. questions face the Association during

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ECOS REPORT FOR TRUSTEE BY JOHN BOND There is much good news to The final meeting of the Ottawa Board of Education — Zone 9 report this month on the ECOS Community Liaison Committee of the front. In many ways, work Ice Management Study was held a For Information: we've done over the past years began to couple of weeks ago. Good news is 730 - 3366 pay-off over the last few weeks. that there was consensus achieved that Last Wednesday, the City put up a We should move towards a program "Our two families are sign at Brewer Pond recognizing the that makes far more use of the Ice close through the area as an official “Naturalization Master to break up ice jams in the friendship of our Zone” and all the work put into the Spring. This is not only less damaging children - Lynn is the project by the residents of Ottawa to the River's environment, but cheaper Trustee we need at the South. Right on the other side of and faster than dynamite. The Board." Denise Ommanney Dunbar Bridge, the OPIRG group at consultants' report on the & Lloyd Axworthy Carleton University has begun their environmental assessment identified own naturalization project in the our stretch of the Rideau as critical to "Lynn has supported arts meadow. I gave a group of them a tour the health of the river between Hogs' and community activities of the Pond area. We are going to Back and Rideau Falls. for as long as we can remember - we'll vote for co-operate from now on, since our The Ontario Parks Association is her. " projects are next-door neighbours to currently working on a study that will Russ Barton & each other. eventually become a Resource Kit for Susan Feindel-Barton On Sunday, Oct. 23, we had the Naturalization Projects. We second RiverBank Ramble. It was a participated in their focus group "I welcome the opportunity to work with Lynn on great event, super weather and the meetings, and as a result, our project issues related to education." participants learned everything from has been chosen as one of the Councillor Jim Watson how to identify naturally occurring examples they will use in the final methane releases, to a remedy for document. It's nice to know our work "Lynn works tirelessly for Hopewell School and poison ivy that grows right along the may ultimately help others with similar this community." Ken Slemko banks of the Rideau. Hopefully, over projects. the next few months, this sort of I'm sure there's more that I've "We need business sense at the Board - Lynn will information will begin to appear in the forgotten to report. Anyway, for this make the right decisions." Peggi McNeil pages of OSCAR so it can be shared month at least, the ECOS column more widely. appears to be good news from stem to "Lynn will serve education in this city as well as stem. she hasf'served our community. She deserves our support." Terry & Donna R. Walsh NOVEMBER 14, 1994 OTTAWA GUILD OF POTTERS Authorized by the CFO for Lynn Graham LA GUILDE DES POTIERS D'OTTAWA Sean D. Caulfeild Barrister & Solicitor

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FftCAdmtai#* NOVEMBER 1994 ♦ THE OSCAR ♦ PAGE 5 COUNCILLOR’S COLUMN BY JIM WATSON, COUNCILLOR, CAPITAL WARD In Capital Ward, Operation Snow- members could be better informed as The tournament raises money to Go is organized out of the Glebe to the process the club is following to contribute to charity. Last year, $ 1,400 Centre. If you would like more solve its financial problems. was donated to the Perley Hospital. information about Operation Snow- I want to ensure that whatever Since the Perley was the recipient Go, please contact the Glebe Centre at decision the club takes, it does so in of the donation two years in a row, this 230-5730. full consultation with the neighbours year, the Alumni have decided to URBAN SAFETY AUDIT and that any change to the clubhouse is contribute the money raised to another compatible with the surrounding area Are you interested in helping to worthwhile charity, Operation Go and does not adversely affect others. conduct an urban safety audit of our Home. neighbourhood? OTTAWA SOUTH The tournament was held on Audits are conducted to make BUSINESS COMMUNITY Saturday October 29,1994 at Windsor Park. The first game started at about neighbourhoods safer by improving My thanks to Donna Walsh for 9 am and there were 12 teams lighting and cutting back brush, along helping to organize a meeting of participating in the tournament. Thank with other steps. If you are interested Ottawa South merchants - with a view you to all those who participated in the in helping out, please call me at to forming an organization similar to 564-1308. tournament. the Glebe Business Group. THANK You LEAF AND YARD WASTE OSCA - AGM We had a successful meeting on With Fall in full swing and winter I want to congratulate Susan Leah October 20 to discuss how to proceed By the time you read this, the approaching, many residents will be and the Board of the Ottawa South and further information will be in municipal elections may be over. putting out their leaves and yard waste Community Association for a very future issues of the OSCAR. Regardless of the outcome, I want to out for collection. This is just a good Annual General Meeting. CARLETON ALUMNI STREET thank the residents of Ottawa South for reminder that you are not allowed to I was pleased to see so many the honour of representing my neighbourhood for the past three years. rake your leaves into the street. The residents come out to talk about HOCKEY TOURNAMENT Thank you! City does not pick up leaves residents community economic development; the Several members of the Carleton rake out to the street. These leaves pile Hopewell School / Firehall situation Alumni from our community held the CAN I HELP? up on the side of the street and end up and “Old” Ottawa South. Fifth Annual Carleton Alumni Street Jim Watson blocking catch basins which causes I want to take a moment to thank Hockey Tournament last month. The 111 Sussex Drive flooding in the spring. the members of OSCA's Board who tournament provides an opportunity for Ottawa, Ontario Carleton Alumni to contribute to the BICYCLE PARKING BY-LAW are retiring: Bill Devonish, Bonnie KIN 5A1 Ostler, David Webber, Russ Barton, community they were a part of while Tel: 564-1308 I am pleased to report that the Mary Zamparo and Rob Cook. students at Carleton. Fax: 564-8412 proposed bicycle parking by-law, These men and women have served Freenet: [email protected] which would have made it illegal for their community and its Association cyclists to lock their bicycles on trees, for many years and their contributions signs, parking meters, etc., was will be missed. ^withdrawn by City staff. My job as City Councillor is made My own position is that cyclists so much easier thanks to the dedication should be allowed to lock their bikes to of all those people who give our signs, parking meters, etc., as long as community a hand through they don't impede pedestrians or volunteering. Congratulations to all of wheelchairs. the new members of the Board. I look Thank you to everyone who forward to working with you. contacted my office with their comments on this issue. WHITTON AWARDS TERRY FOX RUN Once again I am planning to host a community event to honour the many Congratulations to all of the neighbourhood volunteers and leaders participants in the Terry Fox Run on who make our ward a special place to September 18. Thanks to your efforts, live in. the Terry Fox Run at Carleton The third annual Whitton Awards University raised approximately will take place next spring, and I am $4,500. ' now accepting nominations from ABERDEEN PAVILION members of our community who would Councillor Jim Watson and Co-Chair Don Grant at the face-off cor the 5th Annual OPENING like to see someone from our ward honoured. Carleton Alumni Street Hockey - CA.S.H. Tournament. This year the event raised over I am pleased to report that the $1500for Operation Go Home. Photo by Al Gillich Nominations are divided into five Aberdeen Pavilion Opening Celebrations came in under budget. categories: Arts & Culture; The event, which was a tremendous Environment; Community Activism; success, was carried out at no expense Sports & Recreation; Commercial & to the taxpayer and I am delighted that Business. we were able to come through the Please forward the name and opening with a surplus of about $ 1,100 address of an individual who you thanks to the generosity of almost one would like to nominate, and in under 500 words, explain why this person is dozen local companies. deserving. OPERATION SNOW-GO Forward this information with your With the winter months fast name and address to my office 111 approaching, it's almost time to think Sussex Dr., Ottawa, Ontario, KIN 5A1 about snow clearing. For many senior by January 1994. citizens and disabled persons, snow TENNIS CLUB clearing is a very difficult task. A presentation was made to the In order to assist seniors and Ottawa South Community Association disabled persons with snow clearing, Board on Tuesday October 18, 1994 the City provides funds for Operation by representatives of the Ottawa Lawn Snow-Go, a program that helps to clear Bowling and Tennis Club. snow from driveways and walkways I asked the parties to appear before Scenes from the 2nd Annual Porch Sale September 1995 for people who cannot do it OSCA so that neighbours and Board That rattan furniture sure looks great. Photo P. Hecht, themselves. NOVEMBER 1994 ♦ THE OSCAR ♦ PAGE 6

Michelle Fels with her work at the Fireball. Artist David van Dyke at work the Firehall. OTTAWA SOUTH ART SHOW BY CATHERINE MONTGOMERY AND DIANNE BORG Internationally acclaimed artist and will give them pleasure for many years. n Sunday October 23, the drawings. Also on display were O Ottawa South resident Jennifer Indeed, Ms. Dickson started her own FirehaU was transformed from photographs by Richard Smith, quilted Dickson gave an enthusiastic and warm art collection years ago with a modest community centre to art abstract hangings by Joyce Neale, welcome to the artists and the public in investment. gallery featuring the work of twenty- etchings by Katie Closs and Beth Ross, attendance. She affirmed the value of Some people did buy works of art one Ottawa South artists. The show paintings by Diane Hiscox, Helen grassroots efforts such as the Art Show at the show. However, more provided an opportunity to highlight Griff, Greg Dow, David Van Dyck, which recognize the role that artists importantly, local artists had an the work of amateur and professional Michelle Fels, Jean Cimon, Susan play in the community; we should no opportunity to meet the public and artists working in a wide variety of Leah, David Chamberlain and Leonard onger rely on the government to each other on that pleasant afternoon at media and representing a range of ages Gerbrandt as well as sculpture by support the arts. She reminded us that the Firehall. and experience. Co-sponsors were David Fels. artists have families, mortgages and Thanks are due to Centre Director OSCA and St Margaret Mary's School Pamela Lasserre, the art teacher at financial commitments and encouraged Monique Lavallée for her ideas and Art Program Committee. St. Margaret Mary's School, displayed us to recognize how the arts provide us support and to OSCA Executive Included in the show were drawings her own paintings alongside colourful with beauty and a window on other Assistant Deirdre McQuillan for by Julien van Mossil, a student at paper and plaster masks made by the ways of perceiving the world. Her helping out with this event. Canterbury High School, as well as students of St. Margaret Mary's inspiring suggestion for patronizing the The co-sponsors will be discussing sculpture by senior artists J. Brodie School. The masks provided visual arts is to "adopt an artist". Many artists the outcome of the show and Shearer and Gordon Hauser. Three evidence of the children's creative offer favourable terms for purchasing possibilities for future endeavours. If graduates from the University of talents which have been nutured over woik: paying by instalments is one way you have comments or suggestions, Ottawa's Visual Arts program, Kim the years by Mrs. Lasserre. in which individuals of modest means please feel free to contact Dianne Borg Barclay, Julie de Bellefeuille and Tami can own an original work of art which at 730-4322. Galili, exhibited their paintings and

CBC NEWSREADER’S IDEA BENEFITS HARMONY HOUSE f BY DIANA CARR oticing that her normally readings of the story with money going MASSES N 0 active five-year old son was to charity. The first reading 140 years 7 &2'&4P'ty sitting still for a third ago in Birmingham, England benefitted consecutive night intently listening to a hospital. St. Matthew's Parish his mother read Charles Dickens' A Council unanimously designated the Christmas Carol, gave CBC proceeds of the evening to Harmony Roger V. Williams newsreader Judy Maddren an idea. House. Harmony House began as an REGISTERED MASSAGE THERAPIST "Wouldn't it be neat to read this to outreach program of the church and is Committed To 303 Riverdale Ave., grown-ups?" she asked herself. That a second-stage shelter and support Ottawa, Ont K1S1R4 The Community year, 1990, she generated enough program for women and their children On November 14th interest to put on a dramatic reading of who have suffered abuse. By appointment only 730 2016 Vote Brian McGarry the classic tale at Toronto's Christ Harmony House provides support Church, where her husband Rev. Tim through counselling and advocacy and Regional Ward R-17 Elliott is rector. housing in 16 self-contained units at a This Christmas will be the fifth confidential address. Residents may 233-3920 Authorized by the CFO of the Brian McGarry Campaign year of the reading of the Christmas stay for up to one year and during that classic accompanimed by a choir. This time can begin to heal and make plans year, St. Matthew's Anglican Church in for an independent life, free of the Glebe is taking up the project and violence, in the community. with the combined Men & Boys and The classic tale has been adapted to Women & Girls Choirs will presents be read aloud in 80 minutes, instead of Maureen Rush, B.H.E., R.D. Christmas Carol, Sunday, December the normal 3 hours. There will be a J’ Registered Consulting Dietitian 18,7:30 pm. reception following the performance. Celebrity readers will feature the Tickets are $10, $8 for seniors and I am pleased to announce the establishment of my Rt. Hon. John Baycroft, Bishop of children (not recommended for children practice at Ottawa, the Hon. David Collenette, undo* 10). Subsidized tickets available. Minister of Defence, Nancy Cooper, Tickets may be purchased at the door MOMENTUM ATHLETICS CBC-TV, Max Keeping, CJOH-TV or reserved by calling 233-3386. 858 BANK AT 5TH AVE. and Jan Logan of Energy 1200 radio. Ms Maddren says the reading 237-4747 Kevin Deeves will direct the Men and requires nothing but your presence and CALL FOR APPOINTMENT Boys Choir and Peter McLean will your mind. Your mind is free to make direct the Women and Girls Choir. the pictures. Dickens' idea was for dramatic NOVEMBER 1994 ♦ THE OSCAR ♦ PAGE 7

111 WH^ÊSaÊÊÈÊËÈÊËÈÈÊtÊËÈiïÊÊBMÈtÈffl ! ! S PUBLIC MEETING FOR OTTAWA SOUTH OTTAWA SOUTH TRANSPORTATION i|. TRANSPORTATION AND PARKING STUDY The City of Ottawa and your community are working together on the Ottawa Soiith AND PARKING STUDY SURVEY Please complete the following questionnaire and bring it with you to the Transportation and Paricing Study. During this stud>’, traffic and parking problems public meeting on November 24,1994 at 6:30 p.m. or mail to/drop off to: in the area bounded by Carictoo University to the west, the Rideau Canal td the Traffic Survey, c/o The Firehall, 260 Sunnyside Avenue, Ottawa, K1S 0R7. north, Main Street to the east and the Rideau River to the south will be identified and A. TRAFFIC: Do you have a concern with: solutions will be developed. 1. Speeding vehicles: No □ Yes □ if yes, when The purpose of this public meeting is to: where direction * increase community awareness ofthe study 2. Noisy trucks & vehicles: No D Yes □ if yes; when • deadly define the issues where direction :: ♦ {amide you with the opportunity to meet the study team and give 3. Pedestrian safety or bicycle safety: No D Yes □ if yes; when where why ♦ provide information on the existing conditions The success of this study depends on your involvement 4. High volume of traffic: No □ Yes □ if yes; when The meeting will be an open house format Born 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. with a where presentation at 7:30 pjn. 5. Other traffic concerns? WHEN AND WHERE

1 Date fE: Time ’, D Place - in ; B. PARKING: Is there a concern with: November 24,1994 6:30-9:30 Fire Hail 260 Sunnyskle Avenue • 1. Finding on-street parking for yourself or visitors: No □ Yes □ WHAT IF I CANNOT ATTEND? when where : If you are unable to attend the scheduled meeting you can obtain more information 2. Parking enforcement: No □ Yes □ if yes; how fay calling: when where Mr. Ken Gosselin ; ; mi: Mr. Paul Nyirongo McCormick Rankin Consulting City of Ottawa 3. Any other parking concerns? Engineers 736-7200 (Phone) 564-1895 (Phone) 736-8710 (Fax) 564-4678 (Fax) G VEHICLES: 1. Do you have a vehicle? No □ Yes □ how many 2. Do you have any off-street parking space(s) for yourself and visitors? No □ Yes □ for how many? LEAP INTO 3. Do you work in the neighbourhood? Yes □ No □ where WINTER 4. Do you drive to work? No D Yes □ Bike, walk □ Bus □

FEET FIRST D. IMPACT OF COMMERCIAL AREAS ON RESIDENTIAL AREAS: Do you have concerns: ALL KIDS SOREL BOOTS 1. Commercial trucks: No □ Yes □ if so; when Sizes 8-13 $54.00 where Sizes 1-6 $59.00 2. Noise: No □ Yes □ if yes; when where cause 3. Exhaust (cars/trucks/fans): No □ Yes □ if yes; sources 4. Others:

E WHA TARE THE THREE MOST IMPORTANT TRAFFIC AND PARKING CONCERNS ON YOUR STREET? 1.

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SOREL MOUNTAINEER 3. • Water repellent fabric upper buy. Because Sorel boots give little feet • Warm; 6mm ThermoPlus™ liner a combination of warmth and durability • Acrylic cuff keeps snow out that no other boot can match. Colorful, • Lug sole for traction comfortable, hard wearing Sorel boots Your name and address are for statistical purposes and will remain by Kaufman. Do you really want your Sorel boots for kid's are simply the kid's feet in anything less this winter? confidential. best cold weather boots money can Name: Phone: Address: ■ • FILL IN AND RETURN THIS SURVEY TO HELP US WITH YOUR CASUAL FOOTWEAR 860 BANK ST. OTTAWA INPUT Just South o( 5th Avenoe 231-6331 I I WARM & DRY NOVEMBER 1994 ♦ THE OSCAR ♦ PAGE 8

OTTAWA CYCLING IE COMITE CONSULTATIF ADVISORY GR0ÜP DU CYLSISME DE IA VILLE Are you Interested In cycling? D'OTTAWA Would you Ike to be Involved In decisions affecting eyeing in Le vélo, ça vous Intéresse? Ottawa? Almerlez-vous participer aux décisions touchant le cyclisme à Ottawa? The City of Ottawa Cycling Advisory Group is a comittee of citizen volunteers who provide advice to the Department of Engineering and Le Groupe consultatif sur le cyclisme de la Ville d'Ottawa est un comité Works on issues related to cycling. We need new members. de citoyens bénévoles qui conseillent le Service du génie et des travaux publics sur les questions reliées au cyclisme. Nous avons besoin de Applicants for this committee must be residents of the City of Ottawa. nouveaux membres. Potential applicants are advised that all applications, documents or Applicants pour ce comité doivent résider dans la Ville d'Ottawa. submissions received by the Corporation of the City of Ottawa in response to this notice will be deemed to be public records and will be Les postulants sont priés de noter que tous les documents, rapports ou fully accessible by any member of the public. demandes présentés à la Ville d'Ottawa en réponse au présent avis deviendront des documents publics que toute personne pourra The City also has a Multiculturism Policy which states: "The City of Ottawa is committed to a multicultural, multiracial society. It considers the presence of consulter. people from a wide range of racial, ethnic, cultural and religious backgrounds to be La Ville a de plus une Politique sur le multiculturalisme qui stipule ce qui suit ’La Ville d'Ottawa se a reflection of the Canadian ideal and a source of enrichment and strength. It firmly veut une société multiculturelle et multiraciale. La présence d'une grande variété de races, ethnies, believes that its diverse publics have a significant role to play in influencing cultures et religions reflètent l'idéal canadien et est une source d'enrichissement et de force. La Municipal decisions, and in participating in Municipal Government as well as in the diversité du public joue un rôle important dans les prises de décision. La participation de ce public au life of the entire community." gouvernement municipal est souhaitable ainsi que sa contribution à la vie communautaire.’ Letters of application (including some background information) should be Les personnes interéssés sont priées de faire parvenir leur demende in forwarded to: mentionnent leurs connaissances à l'adresse suivante: Daphne Hope, Cycling Co-ordinator, (564-4448) Daphne Hope, Coordonnatrice du cyclisme Licensing, Transportation and Parking Branch Planification du transport Department of Engineering and Works Service du génie et travaux publics 111 Sussex Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 5A1 111, promenade Sussex, Ottawa, (Ontario),K1N 5A1 The deadline for the receipt of applications is November 30, 1994. Echéance: le 30 novembre, 1994

NOTICE TO PET OWNERS! AVIS DE LA VILLE D'OTTAWA AUX PROPRIÉTAIRES D'ANIMAUX

HAVE TO PURCHASE YOUR CITY Critter Jungle Hampton Park Plaza 729-7354 Vous DEVEZ ACHETER VOTRE PERMIS DE PROPRIÉTAIRE DE CHIEN? OF OTTAWA DOG LICENSE? Little Critters Pet Shops Vous VOULEZ UNE MéDAILLE WANT AN IDENTIFICATION TAG Billings Bridge Plaza 731-0161 Mall 722-8994 D'IDENTIFICATION POUR VOTRE CHAT? FOR YOUR CAT? Little Farm Pet Centres Vous AIMERIEZ OBTENIR DES NEED INFORMATION ABOUT CITY 274 Bank Street at Cooper 234-8456 RENSEIGNEMENTS SUR LES OF OTTAWA ANIMAL-RELATED BY- Herongate Mall 521-5791 RÈGLEMENTS OU LES PROGRAMMES DE 233-5112 LAWS OR PROGRAMMES? LA VILLE D'OTTAWA SUR LES ANIMAUX St. Laurent Shopping Centre 744-6248 DOMESTIQUES? VISIT ONE OF THE FOLLOWING PET Little Pals Pet Shop RENDEZ-VOUS à UNE DES ANIMALERIES 1854 728-9992 SHOPS NEAREST YOU! SUIVANTES PRÈS DE CHEZ VOUS: Pet Mart 1010 Belfast Road 244-7387 INFORMATION: LICENSING, INFORMATION: DIRECTION DES PERMIS, DU Pet Valu 596A Montreal Road 749-0570 TRANSPORTS ET DU STATIONNEMENT, TRANSPORTATION & PARKING 1910 St. Laurent Blvd. 523-3612 BRANCH, 564-1457. 1490 Richmond Road 820-1409 564-1457.

A FIRST IN OTTAWA! FULLY ACCESSIBLE WEIGHT ROOMS tint premiers à Ottawa! DES SALLES DE MUSCULATION ACCESSIBLES

JACK PURCELL RECREATION COMPLEX 320 Jack Purcell COMPLEXE RÉCRÉATIF JACK-PURCELL 320, ruelle Jack-Purceil Includes: Parmi l'équipement à votre disposition : Equalizer 5000 • a barrier-free 5 station workout unit «Equalizer 5000» Basic Power Trainer * a seated cycle using arms and legs, excellent in • unité de musculation accessible à 5 postes de travail providing an aerobic workout «Basic Power Trainer» * bicyclette qui travail les muscles des bras et des jambes et qui vous offre un excellent exercice aérobique Open 7 days a week, 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. Membership: $15 /month Ouvert 7 jours/semaine de 9 h à 21 h (for seniors or people with disabilities) Adhésion : 15 $ /mois (pour les aînés et les personnes handicapées) Make your appointment for your orientation by calling the Complex at564-1090. Pour des séances d'initiation, veuillez communiquer avec nous au 564-1050 pour prendre rendez-vous.

HINTONBURG COMMUNITY CENTRE 1064 Welington Street West CENTRE COMMUNAUTAIRE HINTONBURG 1064, rue Wellington Ouest Enjoy the Equalizer 5000 A barrier-free 3 station workout unit Venez essayer l’Equalizer 5000 Un appareil de musculation accessible à 3 postes • pec deck • shoulder press • upright chest press • combiné pectoraux • développé des épaules • développé du tronc As well as: • cycle using arms • pulleys • dumbbells Ainsi que : * bicyclette qui combine l'exercice pour les bras Supervised from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. • poulies • poids $20 /orientation, $15 /month Supervisée de 9 h à 15 h 20 $ /initiation, 15 $ /mois (pour les aînés et les personnes handicapées) (for seniors or people with disabilities) Pour les séances d’initiation, veuillez communiquer avec Sinika Hejjilà au 564-4152pour prendre Make an appointment for your orientation by calling Sinika Hejjilà at 564-4152. rendez-vous. NOVEMBER 1994 ♦ THE OSCAR ♦ PAGE 9 WINDOWS ON BANK STREET: REFLECTIONS OF A COMMUNITY TEXT AND PHOTOS BY DAVID BOUSE

Model cars, reflections of real cars, andfuture drivers become superimposed when looking in this window at 1150 Bank. The second set of windows are windows designed for children of all Windows of Pennies from Heaven and Ralph's Auto reflect the community as well as those of Ralph's Auto Supply, a ages. Peter Hall, Runaround manager, displayed merchandise. forty year occupant of this Bank reports that their window displays are Street location. Some of the most changed about twice each month and popular items in the window there are receive almost daily repairs. These ost residents of Ottawa many interesting stories - of the M models of recent classic cars. In a colourful displays of balloons take South walk along Bank paradoxes of materialism, dreams, a sense, they metaphorically reflect an several staff working half a day to Street several times a week, sense of community and manifestations interest in the security and solidity complete. Peter's staff enjoy designing if not several times a day. Seldom do of the human spirit. many find in restored automobiles. and building these creations, drawing we take those opportunities to see what The first windows we look into are Tim Dunn, fifteen years employed at from their various backgrounds in art we are walking past - the shop those of Pennies from Heaven, a shop Ralph's, began restoring his own cars or design. Our neighbourhood balloon windows, their contents, the people operated by Catherine Landry. Even a as soon as he could drive. The object of store has been here for more than five inside, images of the physical quick glance at her window display his current auto-affection is sometimes years. environment behind us reflected in the reveals the types of merchandise parked on Bank Street in front of The last Bank Street windows glass, and (if the light is right) our own available inside: a combination of Ralph's, physically reflecting in the forming part of this article are those image standing between the reflected "neat stuff' and low-key psychedelic window the models on display. looking into (an out of) Janine world and the world inside. objects which, according to Catherine, The third set of windows are those Adamyk Designs (bridal & evening This article lodes at the windows of convey a sense of aesthetics, of Sami Abikhalil at Modem Hair wear). According to Janine, resident of celebration,and fun. Her delightful five local businesses located along a 30 Styling. Several months ago, Sami's Willard Avenue, her business is metre (100ft) strip of Bank Street shop has been at this Ottawa South son and daughter-in-law redecorated designing and constructing dreams. north of Glen Avenue. Its purposes are location for nearly one and a half years. the 15-year-old barber shop's window Her windows, as her business, reflect a two-fold: to introduce a series of The name of the shop is itself a logo and small front office which is metaphorical and physical paradox of OSCAR articles on Ottawa South paradox: small coins from paradise, a visible through the glass. Customers the practical complexities of life windows and to provide a sampling of contrast to the large sums of worldly seldom notice these improvements superimposed on the simple and the world we pass every day without wealth contained in the armoured truck because it is impossible to walk past elegant dreams within us. noticing the visual richness which can and bank across the street, one can see without receiving a warm smile and This last window (see photo) be found in our community. in the window's reflection. wave from Sami. It is not an provides a ghost-like reflection of the Windows on Bank Street can tell exaggeration to say that Ottawa South photographer superimposed over a has no window which conveys more beautiful wedding dress, construction sense of friendship than Sami shares crews burying utilities on Bank Street, through the glass with his customers and the backs of houses on Willard and friends. Avenue - together creating an image of The Runaround (balloon a reflection of Ottawa South. decorating) is next, with its joyful Friday Sports Might for Youth When: Friday night

Time: 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm Where: Hopewell Gyms (Sunnyside at Bank) Cost: $1.00 each time you drop in What: Ü’ Basketball Floor Hockey ffr Volleyball fk Badminton

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Adamyk's construction of a "dream " behind the window is wedded &No Registration is necessaiy, just Drop-in visually to the "real world" outside. For more information call Aimcc or Dittos at 564-1064. NOVEMBER 1994 ♦ THE OSCAR ♦ PAGE 10 DECAF OR NOT DECAF BY ALLEN MAYER NEWS FROM One of the most common 100 mg. in a 12 ounce cola. complaints I hear about To qualify as decaffeinated coffee, decaffeinated coffee is the lack at least 97% of the caffeine must be of taste. This, together with people's removed from the beans. This is done LADY EVELYN concerns about whether the method of after the beans have been dried but decaffeination is “safe” are factors before they are roasted. Although there BY NANCY MOONEY which both confuse and frustrate coffee are scores of patents for decaffmation A new school year is now fully coma* a bit less hazardous for students buyers. Here are a few quick facts and processes, there are basically two underway and by now most of us have of Lady Evelyn, Immaculata and tips about decaffeinated coffee which different methods used today. re-established our daily school routine. residents of Ottawa East. should help you as a consumer. In the “solvent method”, the green Adding to the challenge of getting our This past September 22, a Meet the When you buy a pre-ground, beans are soaked in hot water. The children awake and out the door before Teacher evening was held. It was packaged coffee, you are often getting water is then transferred to another school begins is the maze of road organized as an informal event where the cheaper, hardier robusta beans. tank where it is combined with a construction that awaits all who parents could touch base with their Arabica beans are a higher quality solvent which absorbs the caffeine. attempt to get to Lady Evelyn. child’s teacher, see the classroom and coffee and contain only about half the The caffeine-free water is returned to Hopefully, by mid-November other parents. In October, parents caffeine of robusta beans. So, if you the first tank where it is re-absorbed by everything will be sorted out and we began participating (as in past years) in like the best coffee with some caffeine, the green beans. will be left with just snowsuits and lost their children’s class. For those unable the coffees sold at specialty stores will A considerably more costly method mittens to manage for the winter to join the classes, there are many be worth the extra price. You'll be able is the “Swiss water process”. The months. opportunities to assist with after-hours to enjoy twice as much-coffee as green beans are soaked in water where Some notable changes have occured activities from photocopying to “grocery store” blends and get the the caffeine and flavour elements are since last year. Summit Alternative assisting in the library. same total caffeine intake. leached from the beans. The water is School has moved to Fisher Park We hope those of you who had an Because of the stigmas attached to passed through carbon filters to School and Lee Davidson, vice opportunity to vist Pugwash bookstore decaffeinated coffee, the sales and remove the caffeine. The caffeine-free principal for tha last two years, has over Halloween enjoyed the wonderful turnover of these beans are much lower extract is added back to the beans moved to Churchill Alternative School window display at the store. The than regular coffee. To assure yourself which are then dried and roasted. as principal. There is no replacement display was a special project of the freshest decaffeinated coffee, It appears inconclusive whether one for Lee, leaving Judith Anderson at the undertaken by the students at Lady purchase your beans only from a method produces either a more helm. This year also marks the Evelyn. reputable specialty store who can tell flavouful or “safer” coffee. Many introduction of split lunches between Finally, a reminder to circle you when the coffee was roasted. One people, however, insist on the water the junior (grades 4-6) and primary Saturday, November 19,9 am to 4 pm to two weeks is ideal, but don't buy it if process because the beans don't (kg-3). The junior grades play while on your calendars. This is the date for it's over a month or if the seller does actually come into contact with any the primary grades eat and vice versa. Lady Evelyn’s annual craft fair not know. chemical. The best decaffmated coffee, The intent is to minimize the school Holiday Magic. Local artisans and The average brewed or freshly roasted, ground and carefully yard congestion during lunch time and crafts people, the renowned Aunt espresso-based coffee contains 70 to brewed can be as enjoyable and make it safer for all. Evelyn’s Comer for kids and much 200 milligrams of caffeine, compared flavorful as a similar untreated coffee. On a safety note, the City is more will again be returning. to 70 mg. in an average cup of tea, 80 Allen Mayer can be reached at The planning to install at traffic light at the See you there at 63 Evelyn, near mg. in an average chocolate bar and Party, 103 Forth Ave, 238-5031. comer of Evelyn and Main, making the Main and Evelyn! I ■■■ I • wmmm • ■ ■■■ i l mmtmm ■ i ■■■ ■ • mmmm ■ • WKtutm • a mtml t • Yes we have PAPER... yard waste,leaf &lawn

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MON-WED 8:30 AM TO 6 PM for OÉE Trustee Zone 9 THURS & FRI 8:30 AM TO 9 PM SAT 8:30 AM TO 6 PM SUN 11 AM TO 4 PM Authorized by the CFO, John Bond Election Campaign NOVEMBER 1994 ♦ THE OSCAR ♦ PAGE 11 Go FOR IT! BY KRISTA BROWN AND RICK SUTHERLAND, R.F.P. “Some people dream of worthy

accomplishments, while others make Share Shares Average them happen.” Deposit Price Purchased Cost/ We all have aspirations. Whether Share they are big or small, short term or $300 $10/ea. 30 long term, you cannot afford to let $300 $ 8/ea. 37.5 MORELUS them pass you by. At this point, you have clarified $300 $12/ea. 25 , EVERYTHING IN & AROUND YOUR HOME your financial position and identified Tot $900 92.5 $9.73 your goals. You have recognized possible problems and formulated As you can see, the share prices strategies to solve them. You decided fluctuated. This is a normal occurrence, on the right financial vehicle for you. and over time will average out. Now it's time to go for it! M. till T-&T m Whichever savings option you If your chosen investment vehicle is choose, do not waste another day a mutual fund account, it may surprise before taking action. The cost of you at how simple it is to get started. procrastination is astounding. A lump sum deposit is always a Consider this scenario: good start to your savings plan. You Jane Smith, at age 28, begins a can deposit as little as $500 - $1,000 savings program for her retirement at into your account. It is a wise financial age 65. She saves $3,750 a year. After decision for any unexpected monies six years she stops and lets her savings such as a year end bonus or continue to grow for 31 years. 730*0953 accumulated vacation pay. Assuming a 12% compound rate of However, lump sum deposits are return, at retirement, Jane's savings * * not always affordable which can make have grown to approximately * * * * * your goals seem out of reach. $1,140,000. There is an easy solution, regular Jane's friend, John White also 28, 24 hour service * monthly deposits. An automatic procrastinates for six years before * banking withdrawal plan can ease the beginning a savings program of $3,750 pressures of lump sum deposits. Due to a year. After six years he stops and lets the fluctuation of mutual fund prices, his savings continue to grow at a discount monthly purchasing of mutual fund compound rate of 12 percent for 25 seniors shares allows you to make each years, until the age of 65. At * * * * purchase at different share prices. This retirement, John's savings have only * highly effective strategy allows you, grown to approximately $580,000. over time, to buy more shares when Procrastination cost John prices are low. It eliminates the guess $560,000. By the way, if John had work of when to buy. This is an idea continued to save $3,750 a year for the called “dollar cost averaging”. following 25 years, he still could not OTTAWA CATHOLIC SCHOOLS You can see the benefits of dollar match Jane's savings. cost averaging in the following Do not procrastinate, you have put example: much work into your plan - now go for it! Jim This is the fifth in a series offinancial articles. To receive a copy of previous articles, please contact Rick OVENS Sutherland at 226-7974. TRUSTEE: Zone 2 Hulse, Playfair & McGarry Part of IJour (Community Since / 923 A CONCERNED PARENT ACTIVE IN CORPUS CHRISTI AND IMMACULATA PTAs

JIM OVENS is committed to: „ Sharon McGarry Brian McGarry * Excellence in Catholic education Administrative Co-ordinator President

Unique to the funeral profession in the Ottawa area is the husband and wife * Values in the classroom and in the schoolyard team of Brian and Sharon. Their partnership embraces the ownership and management of what has become one of Canada’s foremost funeral firms, * Fiscal responsibility, including more cooperation with Hulse, Playfair & McGarry. A staff of fifty-three full and part-time persons other local school boards are employed in the four funeral homes and chapels. Now open is The Family Resource and Reception Centre at 328 McLeod HELP OUR CHILDREN Street, directly across from the Central Chapel. This Centre offers "After FACE TOMORROW’S CHALLENGES Funeral Care" along with a bereavement resource base for schools, churches, community organizations, palliative care teams and self-help groups.

VOTE: JAMES OVENS For further information regarding The Resource Centre, or to arrange a speaker for your group, please telephone Doug Kennedy, Vice-President at Ottawa Roman Catholic Separate School Board 233-1143.

Central Chapel West Chapel St. Laurent Memorial/ For further information: 232-2818 315 McLeod St 150 Woodroffe Ave. Chapel Simplicity Plan at O’Connor at Byron 1200 Ogilvie Rd. 584 Somerset W. NOVEMBER 1994 ♦ THE OSCAR ♦ PAGE 12

ARTSPACE Karin F~ull ep Prose Writing Contest

Calling all writers!! The 8th that the author’s name must not Oops, I almost forgot one of the Annual National Capital appear on the manuscript — the most important details ... where Writing Contest: Prose has Contest Convenor will assign a you send all of your material. Mail just been announced by the code number to preserve entries to: Canadian Authors Association anonymity. (CAA). The Convenor The deadline for entries is CAA 8th Annual NCWC (Prose) Editor’s Notes Here are the rules, in a nutshell: November 30, 1994. Entries 30 Hexham Road postmarked after this date will be Nepean, Ontario The contest is open to all writers disqualified. Also make sure to K2H 5L1 Well, here we are in November working in English in the Capital keep a copy of your work, as already! Exactly what happened to area. Entries must be original, entries will not be returned. Winners will be announced at the October? I thought that February unpublished works, with no more CAA Awards Presentation Night at was always the shortest month of than three in any one of the There are three categories: 8 p.m. on Tuesday, January 24, the year — I guess these things are categories listed. CAA members 1995, in the Auditorium of the relative. have free entry, while a fee of $5 1. Article (any topic) Ottawa Public Library (corner of must accompany every article/story 2. Adult short story Metcalf and Laurier). A reception At any rate, I am not sitting here at entered by non-members. 3. Short story for will follow. All entrants are my desk to deliberate on the juveniles/teens. invited to attend. passage of the seasons, or the The category must be indicated in subjective perception of the the top left corner of every 8 1/2 x The limit for each category is 2500 The contest is being co-sponsored progression of time. This has very 11 page. Each submission must be words. by: The Ottawa Citizen, Food for little to do with the arts, which is Thought, Prospero, The Book accompanied by a separate sheet And now, the good part — let’s what ARTSPACE, as you well Company, Shirley Leishman giving the author’s name, address talk about prizes: know, is all about. and telephone number. This must Books, Empire Books, The Ottawa be forwarded in a sealed envelope, In each category, the first prize will Women’s Bookstore, and The 1 am here, once again, to solicit Bookery. on which the title of every entry be a cheque for $100 , second prize your submissions, comments, must appear. If multiple entries are will consist of a $50 gift certificate, concerns, questions, etc. for the sent, only one envelope is and third prize will be a $25 gift blockbuster December issue. Oh, necessary. It is important to note certificate. At the judge’s it’s going to be big, I tell you! discretion, honourable mentions BIG!! may be awarded.

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Rideau St looking west; an example of an “urban renewed” and sanitized street devoid Rideau St looking west from a similar location but about 60 years earlier. Smaller of community life and no longer attractive to pedestrian users. Photo by R. Parham scale and with human details provide more inviting area. Nat. Arch. PA12905 A SOCIO-CULTURAL APPROACH TO PLANNING: THE MISSING LINK IN URBAN DEVELOPMENT BY RON PARHAM This article is part of an Yet, like most post-war planning adequate standard of living, but only natural lands. It dis-integrates our occasional series on Healthy philosophies, new planning movements by providing a healthy natural community life and the lack of Communities intended to present such as sustainable community environment, a strong sense of efficiency of this type of development different ideas about what makes and planning, environmental planning and community, social interdependency and within an urban pattern has become a maintains a community which meets even “neo-traditional” community community identity. heavy burden on our economy. and supports the needs of its' design have failed to recognize the real Urban ecology is often ignored and Neo-traditional community design residents. This is the second of four merits of the social and cultural even opposed by the environmental does not propose any constructive parts. Part 1 looked at why elements in our communities. movements in planning and in many solutions. It often seeks the security of communities are important to our life. Within sustainable community other disciplines. For example, our past forms without considering the PART 2 planning, “quality of life” is often famous environmental commentator, evolution of tradition and socio- confused with “standard of living”. David Suzuki, sees the City as the cultural factors in our society. PLANNING PHILOSOPHIES Admittedly, the improvement of “Gaian equivalent of cancer”. This Part 3 will examine the problems For the last few decades, economic housing, transportation, employment, expresses and perpetuates the familiar with current legislation and how it factors and more recently health and education facilities bias in North America that perceives impedes the enhancement of environmental ones, have been the contributes to a high standard of living, the city or any urban community as a community social and cultural life. most important elements of concern at a high standard of living does not destructive and unnatural evil. Ron Parham is a principal in all levels of government. Little necessarily produce a high quality of The desertification of core urban Verriere and Parham Associates, attention has been paid to the social life. areas and resulting urban sprawl are socio-cultural and community and cultural spheres, mainly because Many American metropolises are consequences of this negative planning consultants who specialize social impacts, such as the decline of living examples. It is this materialistic perception of the urban environment in in public involvement in planning, sense of place and community identity perception of quality of life that has our society. Ensuing low density from establishing a vision to and the breakdown of interpersonal made us the most wasteful society on development has proven more preparing community design relationships, are not as visible or the earth. Yet a high quality of life is destructive to valuable agricultural and guidelines. quantifiable as the economic or achievable while maintaining an environmental effects. // EXPERIENCE ACHIEVEMENTS Drawing for / Adults & Teens ; •Elected 1988 During my teem we have established: new/ renewed facilities at ■Mother of 3 school age children - St. Patricks Intermediate •17 Years of active involvement - St. Patricks High School in Parent.- Teacher - Student Activities - St. Thomas More - Holy Family School - Notre Dame High School - St. Patricks Highschool - Immaculata High School RE-ELECT - Holy Family Catholic Community Enhanced playground facilities at: •Current Vice - Chair ORCSSB - McMaster •Past Preseident Federation of Catholic - St. Marguerite D'Youville Parent -Teacher Association of Ontario KATHY ABLETT - St. Thomas More Introduction to Painting •Chair of Board Committees - Corpus Christi Drawing: Beg. - Adv. - Catholic Education •Safe Schools Policy - Management (1992 & 1993) •Public Consultation Policy - 4 Board Coordinating Committee for Teen Program (age 12-17) •Communication Policy with quarterly reporting Education of Pupils with Developmental to taxpayers Disabilities - Resolution of Occupancy of St.Patricks •Public Input to Budget Planning Process Highschool (new site for September 1993). •Board recognition for student achievement at .Painted Word Studio O.A.C. level. (in the Glebe) 234-1987 •Lowest Tax Rate in the Ottawa- Carieton Region. COMMITTMENT

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OTTAWA POLICE YOUTH CENTRE BY DALTON MCGUINTY, MPP, OTTAWA SOUTH I have spoken in earlier articles on a daily basis, ranges from 60 to 120 about preventing young people youths. Statistics have shown a from committing crimes. I have dramatic reduction in crime since the had the pleasure of visiting a local Centre's inception and the entire Ottawa South Tae Kwon Do Champions - May 28,94. Tae Eun Lee - centre that is tackling that very issue community, from seniors to Nathalie Goldburg Fife won 2 gold medals, Anna Lyon -1 bronze medals with with amazing results. shopkeepers, has benefited from its Don Pelletier. The Ottawa Police Youth Centre, existence. located at Hog's Back, was developed I am a firm believer in preventive to meet an Ottawa community's need medicine. Surely, if we encourage to keep their young people active and projects such as the Ottawa Police crime free. It is located close to a Youth Centre now, we will avoid the IB PRESS public housing project that had been expensive social and financial costs plagued with drug problems and the associated with youths who become resulting negative “spin offs” - involved in criminal activity. Keep in assaults, thefts, etc: mind that it costs us $ 100,000 per year COMPLETE QUALITY OFFSET PRINTING SERVICE The Centre is run by an Ottawa to incarcerate someone. Police Officer, Constable Claude My thanks goes out to Constable > NEWSPAPERS, TABLOIDS, DEMI-TABS Turgeon who has achieved great Turgeon and his staff for a job well LETTERHEAD • BROCHURES success in working with these young done! • ENVELOPES BUSINESS CARDS people in a very short period of time. "‘’"Note** The Ministry of the Attorney • NCR FORMS BOOKLETS Constable Turgeon has used sports and General is sponsoring an information recreation as die means by which he session to learn more about the • CONTINUOUS COMPUTER FORMS • gains their trust and their continuing Substitute Decisions Act, the Consent interest in the Centre. to Treatment Act and the Advocacy TEL: 225-0768 FAX: 225-2746 Membership exceeds 400 young Act. If you are interested in attending, 66 COLONNADE RD., UNIT 3, NEPEAN, ONT. K2E 7K7 people and has a network of over 30 please contact my office at 736-9573 part-time Volunteer staff. Attendance for further details. Elect DAVID HAGER MAN Trustee - Ottawa Board of Education

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ATTENTION OTTAWA SQITTHF.RS! HOPEWELL PUBLIC SCHOOL THE FATE OF HOPEWELL IS IN YOUR HANDS! RENOVATION PROJECT Renovations at Hopewell are meeting of HPTO (Hopewell Parent YOU are invited to an information Session, sponsored by the Hopewell imminent and we are desperately in Teacher Organization) for a recap of HPTO and OSCA regarding the renovations of Hopewell Public School. need of community input. Will that discussion on Tuesday, December TIME: Monday November 21,1994 Hopewell become a K-6 facility or 13th at 7:30 in the Library Resource PLACE: Old Gym, Hopewell Public School should it remain K-8? Should the Centre (Sunnyside entrance will be AGENDA: 7 to 8 pm Tour of the School Ottawa South Community Centre be open). 8 to 8:30 pm Review of Architectural Plans incorported into these plans or should UPCOMING EVENTS 8:30 to 9:15pm Discussion: it remain at the Firehall. Parent Teacher Interviews will • Hopewell’s Future: Kg to Grade 6 or Members of the Community are be held starting Wednesday, November Kg to Grade 8? invited to air their opinions on 23rd in the evening through to Friday, • The City’s Views on the Joint Initiative Monday, November 21st, 7 pm at the November 24th. Further information PANEL: Doug Hall - OBE Superintendent responsible for Hopewell Old Gym, Hopewell. Join us for a tour will be sent home with your child. Eddie Edmundson - Architect of the facilities and a discussion of While you're at the school, check out Bill Forward - OBE Services & Construction various plans. the Science Fair, happening at the City representative And same time, in the Gym. Ken Slemko - HPTO President - Co-Chair You can join us at the December Rob Cook - OSCA Feasibility Committee Representative - Co-Chair ■COMPUTERS COPY CENTRED :|||- GLEBE PARENT ADVISORY,H ill Macintosh COMPUTER SERVICES jSlllllgf, UPCOMING MEETINGS j|||||gg Microsoft Word 5.1 Limits Volume Discounts Upper Lower Nov 17 Interest Night on “Peer Mediation” Microsoft Excel 5.0 Computer use time per 15 minutes $2.50 $1.50 Nov 24 Policy Committee Meeting MacWrite II ! (Mac/PC) i lij All meetings àï 7:30pm m the Staff Room, 2nd jQ^, Glebe:Coilb^iaieiii Claris Works 3.0 I Laser Printing per impression (Itr) 50C 20C (600 dpi postscript) Wordperfect 2.0 Scanning per scon $3.00 Aldus Freehand 4.0 (600 dpi colour)

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SURVIVING THE HOLIDAYS (WITH YOUNG CHILDREN) BY NORMA STANSBURY The holiday season is wonderful (and slowly - giving you time to catch for anyone, a time of up on holiday preparations) string enchantment and fun for people popcorn and cranberries to drape over of all ages, but especially so when seen tree branches. through the eyes of a child. What is Upside down ice cream cones make difficult at times is to slow down quick (as well as edible) Christmas tree enough to experience this unique point crafts. Mix butter with a little milk and O M E "N TI I of view. Regardless of our religious icing sugar. Add green food colouring persuasions or personal enthusiasm for and mix until a paste is formed. Let ATHLETICS the festivities, there is just so much to children spread on the cones and then do at this time of year! So slow down decorate with small treats such as mini and enjoy - the kids will love you for it. marshmallows, sprinkles, etc. Go on field trips: Visit a toy store Children love to sew. Teach them Your Choice for and make a wish list (see in person all the simple blanket stitch for this easy those thing they've been raving about present. Cut out a Christmas stocking for months!); Visit Santa Claus (over from felt. Sew and stuff with potpourri. the Finest in Fitness & over again if your kids are like Add cotton balls around top for fluff mine); Go to a nursery to look at and ribbon to hang. wreaths and flowers; Visit a Christmas And remember, *118 the season to be COME AND DISCOVER... tree lot; Go to the library (and don't jolly, 'tis the season of tree-trimming forget all the great programs offered at and carol-singing, and the season of this time of the year) and look for cookie baking. By all means let your Our convenient location Our top quality aerobics books describing Christmas in other children help - you may not have the that allows our members to workouts, strength training countries, or other religious most symmetrical holiday cookies in celebrations that occur at this time of the world, but they will be beautiful. workout minus the stress and equipment and facilities year, such as Hanukkah; Go for a drive So relax - things don't have to traffic of commuting to other that are setting high stand- after dark and check out Christmas "perfect". In fact if you sit back and facilities; ards for the fitness industry; lights. enjoy the holidays with your young Or stay at home: Most kids will children, they probably will be. Our crowd free facilities Our relaxed, comfortable love to feed the birdies and will happily where our members enjoy environment, complete with easy access to their favourite a member’s lounge, where classes and workout equip- working out and cooling ment - guaranteed by an down are done in a fun, enforced membership cap; community atmosphere;

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Cold Mornings Getting You Down? ® Well, why not let us help you put on a © every morning with a delicious cup of our . 1/ sfs.-7.V' ~'Ç fresh roasted gourmet coffee, hot cocoa or v Scenes from the 2nd Annual Porch Sale September 1995 a steaming cup of tea. NICKLEBYS also Glassware of all kinds sparkling in the sun. Bottoms Up! Photo P. Hecht has a variety of fresh baked goods, bagels OUR CHANGING or english muffins. So drop by and let us NEIGHBOURHOOD help make your mornings special. BY HELEN CUNNINGHAM Tn the area, that many of us call spring at the earliest. “Old Ottawa South”, located Another major change that has tu M ^ ^ ^ ^ A ^ between the Bank Street Bridge already taken place in our community and Billing's Bridge, there have been is a welcome new neighbour, the Royal All this month at NICKLEBYS, many changes in the last few years. College of Physicians and Surgeons of selected teas are on sale at 25% off their With older people passing on or Canada. They purchased the old moving into smaller accommodations, convent located between Sunnyside regular price. young people are moving into the and Echo Drive. The big fence neighbourhood bringing more children surrounding the convent was taken a and new ideas. Houses and stores are down and access through the area is being renovate, or added on to, as now possible. The grounds are neatly required. kept and the building is in excellent Our elected representatives have repair. decided that the overhead wiring A strip of land behind the building should be buried underground. This is on Sunnyside Avenue, that used to be a good idea, as anyone who has to go overgrown with weeds in the summer south on Bank street has to compete and used as a washroom for animals in wmm with cars, bikes and pedestrians, as the winter, is now broken up into lots Campaign Office: well as hydro posts that seem to reach that are for sale. out for them as they go by. One very attractive house has Nancy 151A Second Avenue, at Bank In die last few months, streets have already been built on the most easterly ■HUfflll been ripped up and, layers of pipes lot and two luxury semi-detached Mitchell have been installed to accommodate homes designed and developed by The wires. At strategic points, access-holes Routebum Group are now in the As Councillor for your have been put in, giving workers process of being built on the lot closest neighbouring community access to all of those pipes. This is to Bank Street. These houses will have supposed to eliminate the need of 2,300 square feet of space including a of Ottawa East, and a ripping up our streets again. Having finished basement. longtime supporter of the pipes laid is all good and well, but The top floor will have three liveable, sustainable two questions come to mind. First how bedrooms and two bathrooms. The do they get the wire through the pipes, main floor will include a living room downtown and why is the wiring still bound to a facing out onto a patio at the back of neighbourhoods, I look pole over our heads? the house, with the dining room in the In answer to the first question, I center area and the kitchen facing the forward to the was told that get the wires through the street. The lower floor will contain a opportunity to represent pipes, there is a pneumatic device that garage, vestibule and hall that leads up you. shoots a rope to the next man-hole. to the main house or down to a powder The wires are then attached and pulled room and garden room that opens out through the pipes, then the procedure is on to a patio. Together, we can ensure a repeated until the wires reach a The Blue Spruce trees will remain REGIONAL strong community-based connection point where they are where they are and a paved driveway voice for Ottawa South hooked up. In answer to the second between thcrtrees will provide access to COUNCILLOR part of the question, I was told that the the houses. The cost for each of these on Regional Council. actual moving of the wires from the homes will be $270,000 including poles to the pipes is scheduled for next GST. Towards a healthier Region... environmentally and economically PARKINSON’S YOUR CARE Tell your mother and WILL HELP father that you want Monday, FIND THE CURE November 14th. Nancy ujujjyiM to learn to swim NOW. For information call: Authorized by the CFO for the Nancy Mitchell Campaign 1-800-565-3000 NOVEMBER 1994 ♦ THE OSCAR ♦ PAGE 20

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THE TOP TEN CHILDREN’S This is the list of the ten titles most in demand at the Ottawa Public PROGRAMS Library system. Don't be discouraged if there is a waiting list for the bestsellers - everyone wants them at the same time of course. Please note that because of the popularity Requests are spread across all branches often helping to speed things up. of the programmes offered pre- 1. The Chamber John Grisham registration is sometimes required. 2. Debt of Honor Tom Clancy Time for twos: stories and rhymes for two-year 3. "K" is for Killer Sue Grafton olds. Mon. 9:30am. Nov 7 - Dec 12. Pre- 4. The Stone Diaries Carol Shields registration. 5. The Body Farm Patricia Cornwell Babes in the Library: music, rhymes and 6. Remember Me Mary Higgins Clark books for babies from birth to 18 months. Wed. 7. Playing for the Ashes Elizabeth George 9:30am. Nov 2 - Dec 7. Pre-registration. 8. The Bridges of Madison County Robert Waller Saturday Stories & Films: stories and films 9. The Gift Danielle Steel for 3 to 6 year olds. 45 min. Pre-registration. 10. The Celestine Prophecy James Redfield Storytime for 3-5 year olds. Mon 10:30am, Wed 10:30am and 2:15pm. Pre-reg for Weds. ADOPT-A-MAGAZINE Programmes françaises: Nous avons en plus MMany thanks to everyone for generous support Eleven des programmes en français: les 12 et 26 subscriptions were saved. One of our sponsors suggested that novembre. Conte et raconte. Contes et films patrons share in the more expensive titles: this idea has saved pour les 3 a 5 ans. Et enfin, tout beau, tout Architectural Digest -a very popular magazine - from cancellation. nouveau: Bebes a la biblio: pour les petits - de Although we are closing the campaign now, we would still be glad to hear la naissance a 18 mois. Au 29 novembre of anyone willing to underwrite a subscription to save it from oblivion (as inclusivement. far as the South Branch is concerned). PUT A BOOK UNDER THE TREE SPECIAL EVENTS Thanks also to everyone who supported this Ottawa Public Library Sam 12 nov 14h-Conte et raconte: contes et initiative to collect unneeded children's books. Seventy-four items films pour les 3 a 5 ans inscription (45mins) were collected. They will all be forwarded to the Salvation Army Sat 19 Nov 2pm. Braidable treasures: for distribution at Christmas. Prepare ahead! Make fabulous friendship bracelets for friends and family. Ages 7 and up. LUNCHTIME READINGS Pre-registration. (60mins) Many Ottawa South patrons work downtown. Here are details of Thurs/Fri Nov 24/25 2pm. P.D. Day Special: Lunchtime Readings, being held at the Main Library ( comer of Laurier Reels of Ramona - 'Rollick with Ramona' film and Metcalfe). They begin at 1215pm and are held in the Auditorium. special. Ages 6 and up. (90 mins) Copies of the books may be purchased at the autographing session held Sat Dec 3 2pm Treetop Treasures Help us after each reading. decorate our Christmas tree. Bring a'decoration Tues Nov 10 Marti Smye - You Don’t Change a Company by Memo and stay for Christmas crafts. Ages 6 and up. Tues Nov 15 John Fraser - Saturday Night Lives! Pre-registration. Thurs Nov 17 Scott young reads from A Writer's life Sam 10 dec 14h Conte et raconte contes et Tues Nov 22 Adrian Raeside - Raesides's Canada films pour les 3 a 5 ans. Inscription ( 45 mins) Thurs Nov 24 George Bain - Gotcha! How the Media Distorts the News Sat Dec 17 2pm. Snowflake Flicks Enjoy a snowy afternoon of films. Ages 4 and up ?e.T»nje& You won’t seo this AGAIN! 'AHCdVeH REALSHofflNfr

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SLOW BOATS HOME RE-ELECT By Gavin Young Hutchinson, 442 pages, $12.95 “Tales, marvellous tales Of ships and stars and isles where good men rest.” Robert Louis Stevenson Patricia In 1979, Gavin Young, a foreign And what a voyage it was. He correspondait with the Observer and a sailed container ships, veteran of some fifteen wars and semi-submersible coastal traders, O’REILLY revolutions, boarded a tramp steamer tankers, ferries and tugs; the Russian in Piraeus, Greece, and set sail. He was liner Alexander Pushkin and a fufulling a boyhood dream of running mutinous South African ship, the away to sea. Seven months and ominously named "Piranha," - a twenty-three ships later, he steamed miniature of the society itself - which TRUSTEE into Canton, having braved rust-bucket ran aground and almost foundered off tramps, storms at sea, Arab quirky the coast of Brazil. They were manned dhows, Filipino kumpits, crowded by drunken and sometimes deranged Indonesian ferries, pirates in the Sulu skippers, old sea dogs and characters O.S.S.B. - NOV. 14 Sea and Chinese junks. He described out of the pages of Conrad and Jack this remarkable voyage in Slow Boats London with names like Shem, ZONE 2 SOUTH to China, (Hutchinson, $12.95). Slow Jehovah, the Mad Dwarf, the Sheriff of Boats Home is a sequel, the story of an Fiji and the Cannibal Cook. He met Authorized by the C.F.O. for the Patricia O'Reilly Campaign equally remarkable sea journey from Chinese students along the way, China back to England. Samoan copra planters and labourers, Young's homeward voyage from American and Japanese tourists on DISTANT NEIGHBOURS: A PORTRAIT OF THE MEXICANS Canton through the islands of the Guadacanal and a lonely, particularly By Alan Riding South Pacific to the Horn and across hospitable group of Chilean marines Knopf, $9.95. the Atlantic to “the smog cloud stationed on Cape Horn Island, “one of Alan Riding, the New York Times first-time visitor who wishes to learn signaling Europe”, was an exercise in the angriest places on earth where the Latin American Bureau Chief, more akout the country than the mean serendipity, a game of traveller’s landscape seemed to stare at you with provides a sweeping analysis of January temperatures in Acapulco roulette. He would sail any ship the fixed, thoughtful look of an idiot Mexican history, culture, and society. and the price of tequila. provided it was more or less wondering whether or not to crush a An excellent introduction for the seaworthy, moving in the right general beetle”. direction and had a good number of The hospitality he experienced on LAST LETTERS FROM HAV ports-of-call along the way. He marked his voyage was only matched by the By Jan Morris ports in a cheap atlas, either because he generosity, wit and compassion he Random House, $9.95 liked the sound of their names or extended to all around him. He is his Jan Morris has been called both the life, for it was a little compendium of because he'd been there before as a own best character. There have keen best travel writer of our time and a the world’s experience, historically, reporter. Whether or not he arrived at a more c(aring circumnavigations; wandering Mary Poppins. You decide aesthetically, even perhaps spiritually. particular pot was a matter of luck and Young's is distinguished not so much In Last Letters from Hav, her first It reminded me constantly of places for his purposes, irrelevant. The by daring, but by the company he kept. venture into fiction, she creates an elsewhere, but remained to the end voyage was the thing. imaginary, Calvino-like city. She absolutely, often paradoxically and A FEW FOR THF. ROAD considers herself “lucky in having seen occasionally absurdly herself’. So too it for the first time late in a travelling does Jan Morris. RIVER JOURNEYS Roger Laughton (ed.) BBC Publications, $19.95 This is the companion volume to woodbuming, forest-consuming the recent BBC television series. The steamer “as trumpery as any stage set”, journeys range from Michael Wood's with people who had “the look of expedition up the Congo, through humanity come to the last ditch, William Shawcross's moving return to beyond help or the hope of help”. IndoChina via the Mekong, to Germain Lavishly illustrated. Greer’s progression down the Sao Francisco in Brazil aboard an ancient

THE IMPERIAL WAY: MAKING TRACKS FROM PESHAWAR TO CHITTAGONG By Paul Theroux; Photographs by Steve McCurry Collins, $14.95 In a series of travel hooks dating the line through Pakistan, northern back to The Great Railway Bazaar in India and Bangladesh. Irritating, but 1975, Paul Theroux had dumped on sometimes informative and everyone within tooting distance of a entertaining. The pictures are pretty Scenes from the 2nd Annual Porch Sale September 1995 good number of railway lines. This too. This is what Porch Sales are really all about. Photo P. Hecht time out, it's the turn of the folks along NOVEMBER 1994 ♦ THE OSCAR ♦ PAGE 22 SI HaMBaBSH STUDENT POETRY Black night Mean Lightning Oooooo! A ghostly hallowe'en Nightmare C reaky doors and windows Spooks K nock on the door Trouble Candy Evil A glowing pumpkin head Repulsive Time up Skeletons Maria Eremina, grade 5 David Chadwick, grade 6

Haunted SPOOKY Afraid CREEPY Living Dead ATROCIOUS Lurking REVENGE October YIKESÜ! Witches Patrick Lahey, grade 6 St. Margaret Mary Cross Country Team 1994 - (Front Row) Nicky Haddad, Patrick Evil Lahey, Patrick Breithaupt, Eric Da Silva, Ross Dance, Matthew Watson, Geoffrey Gertz Eerie Monstrous (Middle Row) Arthur Fels, Tim Stiles, Danny Lahey, Anne Dance, John Patrick Hoyle, Night Orange Jessica Allen, Aileen Farrell (Back Row) Michael Benoit, Coach Jill Lamont, Hannah Susie Armstrong, grade 6 Nightmares Dick, Sarah Leonard, Jennifer Hill, Bamaby Beer, Maria Eremina, Emily Harrison, Scary Coach Betty Clough, Caroline Allen (Missing) Gianna Colizza. Photo by Theresa Wallace Trick or treat Eerie Rising from the dead CROSS COUNTRY RUNNING Maria Valle, grade 5 BY THERESA WALLACE They trained faithfully and they still wasn't warm enough for people to were ready. On October 5th, at the wear shorts. Everyone was ready to Ottawa Separate School Board go out and try their hardest. I must A HALLOWE’EN STORY elementary school cross country meet, say that I was proud that almost BY THE SENIOR KINDERGARTEN St. Margaret Mary students ran with everyone came in the top 100 which is Once upon a time, there was a teeny at the sun. hundreds of other students in their age a good achievement for a small tiny ghost. He was nice and his name On Hallowe'en night, Casper was groups over a challenging course at school like ours. For example, Ross was Casper. He was happy because he very excited and a little scared because Mooney's Bay. Grade six student Eric Dance came 7th and Patrick was friendly and he had an ice cream he was afraid of witches and he Da Silva placed 4th among the 10- Breithaupt came 8th. I wish I could be cone. He was glad because he was little thought they were mean. But year-old boys and sent us this report: there next year but I can't. So I wish and he had lots of friends. Because he something special happened to him, a Talk about an outstanding day at everyone luck. Go, St. Margaret was little he could reach his toys when witch gave him some roses because he the Terry Fox sports facility! It was Mary! they were under the couch. was friendly and Casper gave the witch partly sunny with a cool breeze but it Casper could save a real person if a cat, a black cat. The witch and he fell down because he had lots of Casper felt happy and loved THE ART SHOW love. He was happy because he looked Hallowe'en night. Dr. Jennifer Dickson, an Ottawa Firehall on October 23rd. 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Has the personal If you have any questions on this subject property been permanently annexed to or any other aspect of real estate, please p%a '•Party the real estate? Is it intended to become call Jack Marsala, Re/Max Metro City in the Glebe part of the real estate? And finally, what Realty, 344 O'Connor St. at 563-1155. is the local custom? Usual fixtures might • fine coffees and teas • scones and comestibles advertisement • unique gifts 103 Fourth Ave. 238-5031 NOVEMBER 1994 ♦ THE OSCAR ♦ PAGE 23 COMMUNITY SAFETY IS INTERNATIONAL COOKING OTTR BUSINESS Kedjenou (Chicken and Uegetables) BY JACQUELIN HOLZMAN, MAYOR, CITY OF OTTAWA This recipe comes from the Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) and is taken from a Crime knows no borders, so it another important initiative. The CIDA country brochure. It serves 8 persons. makes good sense to council has developed a step-by-step amalgamate all police services guide for community members to INGREDIENTS across the region of Ottawa-Carleton. contribute to real and positive change 2 chickens, cut into pieces 1 clove of garlic, crushed But in spite of the regional government in their neighborhood. In addition to 3 large onions, chopped 1 bay leaf assuming responsibility for police explaining various crime prevention 6 ripe tomatoes, peeled and diced salt services, community safety will remain approaches, the guide illustrates how 1 piece of ginger root, peeled hot red pepper a critical City responsibility. to pinpoint problems and their related We will focus our attention on issues and how to form a plan of action PREPARATION (Total preparation time: 1 hr. 10 min.) crime prevention, continuing such and implement it. Place the chicken, onion, tomatoes, removing the lid, shake the casserole simple measures as improvements to Also, given that many offenders cut ginger, garlic and bay leaf in a heavy well to stir up the contents, so that they street lighting and the design of public their criminal teeth on business casserole*. Add salt and pepper. Then cook evenly. Repeat this process every spaces and more complex initiatives premises, I maintain that the cover with a thick, tight-fitting lid that 5 minutes for 35-40 minutes. Place the such as making Centretown a place development of a crime prevention will not let any steam escape. Put the contents of the casserole on a warm where young families choose to live. policy by every business is crucial to casserole on medium high heat. When platter and serve with rice. We will expand cooperation among crime prevention. For this reason, I the ingredients start to simmer, turn the * People in Cote d'Ivoire use a clay agencies including our housing recently brought together the leaders of heat down to medium low. Remove the pot, called a canari, tocook kedjenou. authority and parks staff and support local businesses in order to develop an casserole from the heat and, without creative programming in community active partnership among all of us and youth centres. engaged in crime prevention activities. And I am glad that throughout But central to successful crime 1994, while they are still "ours", we prevention, I believe, is youth having a Does your business need better have taken more police officers out productive role in the community: jobs. numbers? from behind desks and put them back That is why I vigorously pursue onto Ottawa's streets. That is where economic opportunities for Ottawa and Bill Singleton combines hands-on experience in accounting they best form the community links am pleased to launch initiatives such as and business management, with extensive knowledge of that aid crime detection and prevention. the Ottawa Life Sciences Technology accounting, spreadsheet, and database software. And that is exactly what they want to Park, which is predicted to provide be doing. 10,000 jobs in the region and further Computerized modelling and forecasting a speciality. The City's funding of the Crime thousands in spin-off opportunities. Prevention Council of Ottawa is Half day's free consultation.

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CHRISTMAS BAZAAR - Supporting Your Health Centre and Getting Support. 340 MacLaren St. Abbotsford House & Glebe Centre are For info call 563-4336 holding their Christmas Bazaar on Sat, Nov 26, 10:30am-2:30pm, 950/954 WEN Bank. Ornaments, decorations, toys, Women's Environmental Network crafts, white elephant, baked goods and meets the second Tuesday of each 1255 Walkley Road, Ottawa goodies. Free parking off Monk St. month at 7pm at Rideau Park United Serving BANK ST. IMPROVEMENT Church, 2203 Alta Vista. For info call 237-6150. OSCA presents a session November Alta Vista Billings Bridge Blossom Park Elmvale Acres Hunt Club Riverside Park 10, 7-9pm at the Firehall on ESSAY CONTEST Greely Osgoode Manotick minimizing the impacts of construction The Royal Commonwealth Society is Gloucester Kars Nepean on Bank St. and the possibility of holding its annual essay contest for setting up a business association. students under 18 years of age. All 235-6712 Canadian-Independent CRAFT & POTTERY SALE entries have to reach London, UK by March 1, 1995. For details call Ernest The Nepean Visual Arts Centre Henderson, co-ordinator 829-2531. Christmas pottery and craft sale will be held at the Nepean Sportsplex, Nov VOLUNTEERS 18-20, Fri l-9pm, Sat & Sun 10am- SCO Hospital requires volunteers for 4pm. Info 727-6652. the Bruyere Pavilion Boutique call OLIVER! Caroline Horgan, 562-6364 and St. Vincent Pavilion recreation and leisure Classy Ads are a service for Ottawa South residents and must be submitted in The Company of Musical Theatre will call Mireille Roy, 782-2761 writing to OSCAR c/o The Firehall Office by the closing date. There is no present Oliver! at Centrepointe charge, but ads will appear for only 1 month. Reasonable rates are available for Theatre, Nov 23-27. Evgs 8pm, Sat & CHILD CARE CONNECTION commercial enterprises, educators, etc. and street sales. Your name and phone Sun mats 1pm. Ticket info 727-6650. The Independent Child Caregivers number must be included; only your number will appear unless otherwise specified. Make sure your number is correct. The Editor retains the right to edit HEALTH TALKS Asssociation announces the Child Care Connection to support home-based or include and takes no responsibility for errors or for items or services. The Centretown Community Health child caregivers and parents to For Rent: Garage car, boat dead Centre presents a series of free For Sale: Doc Marten shoes, cherry, 8 establish and maintain child care storage for winter. 28 Willard. workshops and talks on Giving and hole, size 9. Black, 8 hole, size 8. arrangements. It offers a series of one Call 730-8709 $25pair. Call 730-9150 Getting Support. Nov 15 1pm - hour workshops. For info call Supporting Gay and Lesbian Friends. 747-4222. For Rent: Lane parking Nov - Apr 30. For Sale: Antique armchair, tapestry, Nov 22 1pm - Supporting Friends Who Belmont. $40mnth. Call 730-6180 wood legs. $100 Call 730-5904 Have Attempted Suicide. Nov 29 qpm For Rent: Fum. bedroom, female, For Sale: Sigvaris medical stockings, non-smoker, student, near #5 bus, medium, (new $145), lpr+1, $50. Windsor Pk. winter parking. Ladies figure skates, 714, $50. Boys Call 730-6180 black figure skates, 6 small, $30. OSCAR Needs You!: Call 730-8048 OSCAR Co-ordinator to deliver papers to 5 distributors, Eçho*. Lost: Brand new, leather necklace with blue beads and gold sun. Beginning Caregiver: experienced, in my home, Riverdale-Belmont-Willard area. ' October Call Marisa 730-3762 outings, nutritious food : Distributors - still needed in some areas . l CALL Rufina 730-2762 Wanted: Brio train set, accessories. Call Rocio 730-0729 Call 730-4265 Dogwalker: Experienced. Call Heidi 730-4620 Wanted: Artists’ work, small pieces to display, sell on consignment in area Sitter: Responsible Lisgar student, shop. Call Allen 238-5031 experienced in Lego, story reading, diaper changing, computer games, etc. GENERAL PRACTICE OF LAW Needed: Free carpentry to repair prefer weekends, Fri. evg. AND MEDIATION SERVICES wooden coat racks for OSCA at the Call Julian 730-5902 Firehall. Call Deirdre 564-7277 Peggy Malpass, B.A., LL.B. For Sale: Minolta camera 7000AF, 2 Sitters: teens looking to take care of Barrister, Solicitor, Notary Public lenses, flash, mint, $480, best offer. your child/children, evgs, weekends, Call 730-0596 PD days. Responsible, can help with homework. Nakissa, girl 13, Arash, phone: 235-8274 440 Laurier West, Ste 330 boy 16. Call 730-1400,526-1215 Ottawa KIR 7X6 fax: 230-7356

Southminster United Church DALTON McGUINTY Bank St. - Rideau Canal M.P.P. / député 730 - 6874 OTTAWA SOUTH Minister: Rev. S.A. Hewlett All are welcome at this church. The Organist/Choir Director: Sandra Dean members of Southminster would 1789 ave Kilbom Ave 10:30am Worship consider it a privilege to have you Ottawa, Ontario • Sunday School for All Ages worship with us. K1H 6N1 • Nursery Care during Worship 736-9573 • Audio Loop System for Hearing If you are making your home in Old Impaired Ottawa South, we extend to you a • Wheelchair Access to Sanctuary warm inivitation to make Southminster Omari* • Coffee Hour following Worship your church home.