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Cedars Food Market: A Diamond in the Rough

See page 6 for the opinion piece by Ken Billings. PHOTO BY KEN BILLINGS

COMMUNITY CALENDAR Sun, March 3, 19:00-22:00 OSCA Women’s Day Event, The Firehall Tues, March 5, 17:00-19:00 Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper, Trinity Anglican Tues, March 5, 17:30-19:00 Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper, 2019 Southminster United Wed, March 6, 12:00 Doors Open for Music: Franck, Beethoven, Bartok, Southminster United Wed, March 6, 19:00 OSCA Planning and Zoning Committee Public Information Session, Sunnyside Library Sat, March 9, 16:30 Music at Trinity Presents “Sound Stories: A Family Concert”, Trinity Anglican Mon, March 11, 19:00 OOS Garden Club: Living Walls, The Firehall Wed, March 13, 12:00 Doors Open for Music: C is for Cosmopolitan, Southminster United Wed, March 20, 12:00 Doors Open for Music: The Flag, Southminster United Wed, March 20, 18:30-20:30 Capital Ward Forum on Snow Clearance, JOIN TODAY! City Hall Fri, March 22, 19:30 Seventeen Voyces Presents “Pigments of Imagination”, Southminster United Sat, March 23, 19:30 Screening of the Documentary Film Who Needs Church? Southminster United Wed, March 27, 12:00 Doors Open for Music: Rumi Remembered, Southminster United Wed, March 27, 18:30 Science Cafe - Nature’s Green is Golden: The Health Benefits of Green Spaces in Canadian Cities, Sunnyside Library Fri, March 29, 19:30 Master Piano Recital Series – “Sonatas Of The East”, Southminster United Sat, March 30, 14:30 “Sentimental Journey”, A Capella Celebration, Trinity Anglican READ MORE: OLDOTTAWASOUTH.CA To see the latest listings, go to the online calendar at www.oldottawasouth.ca Page 2 The OSCAR l March 2019

BUSINESS BEAT Legal Stuff that had been advised by his mortgage specialist. During that assessment, it was discovered that tetrachloroethylene and trichloroethylene were present in the soil, both the result from spills in the 1960’s and early 1970s. Huang argued he cannot develop the site due to the contamination. While I knew legal action of this nature had been going on for a while, I had not been aware that a ruling had actually already been reached, including on an appeal. Both the original ruling (March 2017) and the appeal (June 2018) determined (Left) The recently “cleaned-up” West Coast Video Building minus awnings and posters, and (right) how the building that Huang is entitled to $1.8 million looked last year. PHOTO BY ERIK VAN DER TORRE in damages from Hillary’s. This is clearly a lot of money, and it will be frequently. What’s different about this being enforced (hence the removal of By Erik van der Torre interesting to see how this plays out. recent “clean-up” is that not only were signage, and there will be more work What’s of particular interest for the the posters removed/painted over, but the owners will be made to undertake During one of my recent strolls along community, now that the lawsuit is the awning that had the West Coast in the spring).” Bank Street, I noticed some cosmetic over, is whether this prompts Huang Video name on it, as well as all the It will be interesting to see what changes at the West Coast Video to continue the process of looking other signage have been painted over. further work the building owners have Building. I decided to look into this a into the development of a large stretch Seeing as derelict building property been ordered to carry out, but I imagine bit more so I could report on it here. It along Bank Street, a process he started owners was one of the issues that it is similar to previous orders: i.e. also led me to think about a couple of well over a decade ago. other legal issues that I know are going now Capital Ward councillor Shawn replacing any covers that are damaged Menard focussed on during his to avoid pigeons and/or other animals in along Bank Street and figured it Roy Barber Site campaign, I reached out to his office. from getting in, etc. This strategy of makes for a good topic of this month’s A very similar situation as what They confirmed that this is indeed “relentless” bylaw enforcement has BB. happened between Hillary’s and the another round of bylaw enforcement. been used for a very long time now, and owner of the Cedars lot, played out From their email: “We have [...] been clearly has not swayed or impressed West Coast Video Building between the owners of Roy Barber working on ways to get rid of derelict the owner in any way, shape, or form. Last week I noticed something new and the Royal College of Physicians buildings in the city, including West What’s of more interest, therefore, is about the West Coast Video building: and Surgeons of Canada. When Roy Coast Video. A short term strategy is the second part of the email I received: all the posters had been removed, Barber decided to sell their location to ensure the existing standards are “The longer term solution requires a something that happens somewhat just south of the library to move bylaw change, and we are currently further south along Bank Street, part working on this with staff. We are of the sale process was an assessment looking to introduce a bylaw that would of the soil. During that assessment, see the introduction of permits with an it was discovered that the soil was in associated progressive fee structure fact contaminated. However, it became in order to disincentivize property clear that the soil was not contaminated owners from allowing these situations by chemicals or materials associated to persist.” The way I read that, is that with the garage. Instead, it turned out an there is a plan to introduce a system old underground oil tank that belongs that makes it financially unattractive to to the neighbouring Royal College just sit on an empty property while you had been leaking oil into the soil. The wait for the land to increase in value. discovery of this contamination, and It is clear that the only reason the West the ensuing legal issues, held up the Coast Video building is still the ugly final sale of the Roy Barber land for pimple of Old Ottawa South is because some time. Recently I have been told, there is no reason for the owner to take however, that this issue has now also any action. Not bylaw, and apparently been resolved and that the final sale of also not for financial reasons. I am the site has gone through. excited about the prospect of this As with the block south of Hillary’s, changing and that we may actually see it will be very interesting to see what some movement on this file. kind of development will be proposed on this sizeable lot, as I am sure the Hillary’s new owner is not planning to just run One of the legal issues that has been a parking lot. going on for a very long time is the lawsuit that Eddy Huang, the property Business Beat is a monthly feature owner of Cedars, Tim Hortons, and the that highlights new and existing Jiffy Lube, started against Hillary’s businesses in Old Ottawa South. Cleaners. As mentioned before, the Opinions are my own. If you know changes at the West Coast Video of any new businesses opening up building prompted me to think about a Until April 30th, just say or want to share your thoughts about few of the other legal issues going on existing businesses, send a note to: “COFFEE IS ALWAYS A GOOD IDEA” in OOS, and I decided to do a bit of [email protected]. googling. Doing so, I fairly quickly dug

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NEWS Moose Fall Just Short at Capital Ward Cup By David Wylynko

The Cup is back. After last year’s lock- out due to contract disputes between players and management – some say it was actually slushy warm weather – the annual Capital Ward Cup returned to its frosty glory January 26th on the well-flooded ice at Brantwood Park. True to form, the Old Ottawa East Hosers were in dominant shape, claiming the final in a 6-3 win over the Old Ottawa South Moose. It was a fast- paced affair, relying heavily on long rushes, passing, and tight stick-work given that the Brantwood ice has no boards for rimming pucks or muscling opponents. If you asked the younger players, all of them in top shape, the Cup The Old Ottawa East Hosers (in green) who won the Capital Ward Cup final 6-3 over the Old Ottawa South Moose enjoyed sunshine and pristine playing (in blue). PHOTO BY JOHN DANCE conditions. If you asked the older teen hockey phenoms Sophie-Anne – which has long been a tipsy, torch- Mutchmor Public School has yet to be players, the Cup was played in a Burger and Katie Hemphill. The girls’ shaped trophy trying to balance itself restored after the school’s renovations blinding snowstorm punctuated by friends rounded out – or in truth pretty in a wire frame with three thin legs – converted the rink area into a temporary choppy ice and cement-like air. much made up the entirety of – the on a beautiful new wood base. parking lot. The non-boarded Glendale The veterans took extended breaks, raucous cheering crowd. “Are you going to carve the names of rink may be an alternative. licked every last morsel from empty On the ice, it was the gallant leader every player from every winning team Either way, it’s yet another chance water bottles, and cursed themselves of the Hosers, Andrew Matsukubo, on there?” a spectator asked, conjuring for Capital Ward hockey enthusiasts to for letting the organizers suck them who once again stood out, taking his the tradition of the Stanley Cup. “Who pursue their dreams of shinny glory on into this event yet again. “It’s like team on an undefeated romp through can remember who has all played in the frozen surface Canada calls home. Bart Simpson putting his finger to the the round-robin, beating both Old this freezing, exhausting, unforgiving stove top over and over,” one veteran Ottawa South and Glebe. The Moose tournament,” someone answered in David Wylynko is manager of the Old lamented. squeezed out a win against Glebe to jest. Ottawa South Moose, his 11-year The half-day shinny tournament make the final. But Menard fully intends to keep tenure is closing in on longest-serving was inaugurated by former Capital The tournament usually has a fourth the tourney going. Where it will be NHL manager and former Ottawa 67s Ward Councillor, and recent mayoral team, but Heron Park had to pull out played next year is another question. great, Doug Wilson. candidate, Clive Doucet and dutifully at the last minute, apparently due to While it’s Glebe’s turn to host, the maintained for several years by issues with the collective bargaining boarded ice surface on the grounds of subsequent Councillor David agreement. Chernushenko. It is now under the This year, the Cup remained true tutelage of newly-minted Councillor to the hard and fast “two women on Shawn Menard. The Hosers have now the ice at all times” rule, which all won the Cup six times, the Moose four agree is an excellent requirement. At times, and Glebe once. the last minute, the rule was modified The tourney took place just hours to allow “female identifier” to reflect before the National Hockey League the positive sensibility of changing all-star game in San Jose, California. times. “Why can’t our tournament be in San In a greater departure from past Jose,” some frozen players inquired. practices, Menard had his assistant, “It’s 10 degrees there. It’s minus 20 life-long hockey player Miles here.” Krauter, carry out refereeing duties, A few years ago, the all-star game while Menard kept score. Little did largely adopted the Cup’s format. the rookie councillor realize how The Cup includes teams from four erratic the games were, with long areas of the Capital Ward in a round scoreless stretches interspersed with robin and then a final. The NHL game bursts of goals. It was like Council takes a similar approach, with the two waking up and launching into a mad divisions of each conference playing a argument once the coffee had kicked semi-final and then a final. in, Menard might have thought. Like the Cup, the NHL all-star A true Don Cherry protégé, game has no residency requirements. Krauter took a “let ‘em play” Two of the big event’s marquee approach to the job, setting shinny players, Sydney Crosby and Nathan hockey history by shying away from MacKinnon, grew up playing hockey penalties throughout the event. in the Halifax suburb of Cole Harbour. “Now this is hockey,” exclaimed Similarly, a pair of Old Ottawa an enthusiastic young player after South Moose players brought together hooking a veteran opponent on a on the ice for the first time – Bruce breakaway, bouncing him off the Alexander and Andy Moore – realized post of the net and sending him they’d attended the same Kingston sprawling spread eagle into the high school. “Centuries ago,” quipped snow. “You okay, gramps?” he their kids Jeremy Alexander and Sarah added for a sportsman-like touch. In Moore in unison, both also members of the end, it was the usual handshakes the Moose. and hugs all around. The Moose roster was complemented And in a brilliant touch, Old by veteran returning player Todd Ottawa East manager John Dance Saunders and two first-time women, is commended for placing the Cup Page 4 The OSCAR l March 2019

NEWS A Change at Windsor Park? well as barbecue/pool parties for the neighbourhood’s bipeds and quadrupeds. Coming out of this work was a detailed shoreline management plan, an active Facebook page, and a beautiful park enjoyed by an active and engaged community. In the early years the cleanup harvested a lot of trash, including drug paraphernalia, but over time the trash volume has decreased thanks to dog walkers, who are now picking up whatever they find in the day-to-day. Each spring various members of the community come out to help during the cleanup…. i.e. not just dog owners. Brian and Pete have not worked alone; many aspects of the ongoing work have been embraced by community members who have managed specific aspects of the event. Here’s the thing that benefits the whole community, even cat people: because the park is kept clean by dog Group photos from some of the many Windsor Pups spring park cleanups. walkers, other people tend not to toss their litter in this large but tidy park. people involved, giving them the sense By Layabout Even more importantly, it’s well known that they did it all by themselves and that a park at night can be a dangerous could handle the next project too. The I was introduced recently to two OOS place. But if people and their dogs measure of success was about how residents who have given a quarter of a are present, safety is increased. The much the people believed they didn’t century to a neighbourhood project. It’s Jane Jacobs dictum about “eyes on the need him anymore. Could this measure about the dog community at Windsor street” applies equally to our parks. be applied to the dog park? Windsor Pups organizers: (Top) Peter Park. Now, Brian and Peter have announced Brian started by making lists of the Wells, and (above) Brian Tansey. Brian Tansey moved here in '91 that this year’s spring cleanup will park dogs’ names and of their “owner- with his Black Labrador, and created be their last; after a quarter century operators” (as he likes to call them), is…) to turn this list into a community. a small informal group of dog owners, they are going to test Brian’s way of listed alphabetically by the dogs’ Pete was a high tech kind of guy many of them known to each other measuring success. They are both keen names, and organizing community working at Nortel’s Corporate Design only by the names of their dogs. to hear their friends and neighbours events around the off-leash park. Group developing the technology of Brian’s an organizer, animator kind say: “Right, we can do this. Thank you Peter Wells arrived soon after in '94 the future. They were working 20 years of person, a retired international aid but we don’t need you anymore.” and development manager whose with his Golden Retriever and they ago, on the stuff that sits on your desk role in Africa and Asia was to get the soon paired up (Brian and Peter that today. Bruce Grant, Layabout and occasional With a shared interest in Writer, is a resident of Old Ottawa community, social, and tech skills, South. A retired Civil Engineer, he is they became fast friends and started very much enjoying his time off-leash. the project which was to continue for the next quarter century. Over More information about this story can time they managed the annual spring be found at www.oldottawasouth.ca/ clean-up, shoreline, play structures item/3083-windsor-pups which offers and fieldhouse maintenance, as a link to the Facebook page. . o l d t a w s u h c w The OSCAR l March 2019 Page 5

NEWS Hopewell Alumnus Nominated For JUNO Award

PHOTO BY BRENDAN MCCOY Klondike Derby Win for the 17th Southminster Scout Troop By Brendan McCoy demanding, but also a great chance to test skills, endurance Seven scouts of the 17th and teamwork. The group from Southminster Scout Troop the 17th was split into two teams participated in the annual who both performed very well. Klondike Derby, this year in One team won the senior trophy. Fitzroy Harbour Provincial Park, This is the seventh year running on February 16th. The Derby that a team from the 17th consists of 21 tasks, spaced Scouts has won a trophy at this over a more than 8 km route, competition. Great work Liam, which teams of scouts walk Ben, Darcy and Harry! pulling a sled loaded with their Brendan McCoy is a leader with Hopewell alumnus, and JUNO nominated saxophonist, Alison Young. gear. It is a tough competition, both mentally and physically the 17th Southminster Scouts. PHOTO BY LISA MACINTOSH By Harriet Smith jazz performance at the University of Toronto. In addition to leading Though now based in Toronto, her own group, she has accompanied saxophonist Alison Young was born notable Canadian musicians both in and raised in Ottawa, where she Canada and to Europe, Asia and South Full Service Real Estate attended Hopewell Avenue Public America (see www.alisonyoungmusic. School and Lisgar Collegiate. Her com); she is looking forward to a debut CD, So Here We Are, has just busy spring and summer, including been nominated for a JUNO in the a month-long tour from St. John’s, Barry Best Solo Jazz Album category. Newfoundland to Victoria, BC with Alison first picked up the saxophone Corey Hart and his band. (They play Humphrey at Hopewell under the direction of at the Canadian Tire Centre on June Sales Representative Allison Woyiwada: “In junior high I 12th.) had this really great band teacher, and PROFESSIONAL SERVICE among other things she ran a stage Harriet Smith is Alison’s proud mother DOESN’T HAVE TO BE EXPENSIVE! band. That was the first time I heard who faithfully attended all her school swing music, and I was like, ‘What is Total concerts! FULL SERVICE includes: that? I need to do this!’ ” Alison has never looked back. After ✔ MLS ® and Realtor.ca high school she went on to study Websites ✔ Personal Website 3 Commission% ✔ Professional Photos (Includes both Listing and Selling agents commission) ✔ Open Houses ✔ Market Updates ✔ Lawn Signs

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OPINION Cedars Food Market: A Diamond in the Rough By Ken Billings trees, wood, sand and salt in the Most small food store operations winter? (Cedars) like drug stores have limited • A place where students get 10% products and knowledge of Cedars is a quaint, two story, off- off daily and seniors are given the food they sell. Large food white structure with green trim, 10% off every Wednesday? stores like Amazon Whole at 1255 Bank St., across from (Cedars) Foods are gigantic but owned by the Dairy Queen. It is much larger • A place where you daily find shareholders thousands of miles than it appears, something like Dr. great markdowns on homemade away. Who’s Tardis time machine, that pies, salads and fruits and surprisingly is part Organic Health The choice is up to the citizens of vegetables close to expiry date? Food Store, part Grocery Store, Old Ottawa South to either use it or (Cedars) and part Middle Eastern Deli as lose it. We either support this jewel • A local place that is open 7 days well as a provider of products that called Cedars, or we succumb to a week from 9 am to 10 pm are ‘gluten-free’ for those with the big food monopolies of Wall and has plenty of free parking? restricted diet preferences. Street and become the next food (Cedars) desert in Ottawa. Where can I find... • A food store owned and Supporting local businesses • Knowledgeable, friendly managed by local staff who makes Old Ottawa South more staff that knows your name listen to their customers, face- sustainable and accountable. and listens to your concerns? to-face and online? (Cedars) (Cedars) • A food store that supports • Seasonal products like fruit & Ontario/Quebec products Ken Billings is the Executive vegetable plants in the spring, where possible? (Cedars) Director of the Canadian Council perennial plants in the summer, on Food Safety and Health. PHOTO BY BRENDAN MCCOY pumpkins in the fall, and Xmas

Plastic Straws Should Be Banned in All of Canada!!! By Zahra Duxbury will also charge extra for plastic bags soon! and water bottles. As well as cities, a Thirdly, we don’t need plastic Did you know that 57 million plastic number of companies have decided straws! If it means saving millions straws are thrown out each day? These to ban plastic straws. Starbucks, of marine creatures, can’t we all just straws are blown out of trashcans, Harvey’s, The Walt Disney Company, sip from the cup? Or, we could use littered on the beach, and end up in our and Swiss Chalet, to name a few. With reusable metal straws. I propose the oceans. This must end! Today, I will so many companies being a leader, it’s government create a new anti-plastic try and convince you that we don’t time that all of Canada steps up and plan, one that made metal straws need plastic straws. joins this cause too. cheaper and more accessible. First, the idea of banning plastic If we pick up this fight, we can save You could argue that so many plastic straws has been around for a while. In lives! Over 1 million marine animals straws already exist, and you’re just fact, many people have already started! die each year because of plastic in the using the ones that have already been If you buy a drink in Vancouver as of ocean, and a large number of deaths created. You’re not contributing to the June 1st 2019, don’t expect to get a are caused by plastic straws. After problem. That’s where you’re wrong. plastic straw! The city is banning them years in the ocean, plastic breaks down If you continue to buy plastic straws, on that day, as well as foam cups and into tiny pieces, called micro plastics, the companies that make them will plastic take-outGMSToddlerRoom2.pdf containers. Vancouver1 2019-02-06 which 11:24 AMmarine animals mistake for PHOTO BY BRENDAN MCCOY continue to make them. fish eggs. The micro plastics contain In conclusion, I think that plastic toxic chemicals, which causes these straws should be banned in all of animals to die. Other animals, such Canada. We don’t need them, and as turtles, mistake plastic straws for they’re destroying our environment! algae, and suffocate on them. A group of scientists, who studied plastic digestion in baby turtles, found that Zahra is a grade 6 student at Hopewell 100% of the baby turtles they studied Public School. She enjoys reading, had plastic in their stomachs. We writing and spending time in nature. humans must clean up our mess, and She has hopes of becoming an author.

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TRAFFIC AND SAFETY June Bike Rally & Rodeo By Winnie Pietrykowski All identified routes from each of the participating communities will lead to Is it too early to think about biking, Windsor Park. Once at Windsor Park, too early to imagine a warm breeze, participants of all ages – children, blue skies, cleared pavements, green teens and adults (all bike broncos) parkland, trees in full bloom, days manoeuvre their bicycles from one when sneakers are enough and gloves interactive activity/rodeo station are a thing of the past? For some of us, to another; learning and practicing biking is never far from the realm of basic safety tasks such as simple bike possibility and this year we’re hoping maintenance, checking helmets for that you will help celebrate Capital correct fit, how and when to signal, Spokes second Bike Rally & Rodeo and navigating turns and roundabouts. June 1st & 2nd in Old Ottawa South. Parents are invited to participate. The purpose of the rodeo is to What’s Different this Time? encourage children and parents to In 2017 the Old Ottawa South explore safe cycle routes in OOS Community Association (OSCA) The 2017 Capital Spokes training session. and neighbouring communities, and invited Old Ottawa East (OOE), the to provide cyclists with the tools Glebe, and Heron Park to join us to create this weekend of learning, angles. and know-how to travel safely. The make Capital Spokes Bike Rally & exploration and fun. What has been rally takes place Sunday morning to Rodeo a fun learning event. This year, talked about to date? Well, it begins What’s a Bike Rally & Rodeo? allow cyclists to take advantage of the 2019, the Ottawa Tennis & Lawn with a Friday (May 31st) kick-off Bike Rodeos are “fun, family Colonel By Drive parkway, closed to Bowling Club (OTLBC) is partnering dinner at the Tennis Club (families & events” that promote safe cycling vehicle traffic. with OSCA to create a weekend- friends welcome), a Saturday (June routes and practices on our city All are welcome to help plan this long event of training, bike tuning, 1st) day of training for volunteer rally/ streets. Sponsored and organized event! cycling and rodeo games open to Old rodeo leaders and free bike tune- by Ottawa’s Safer Roads program, Stay tuned for further updates in the Ottawa South and our community ups to participants, a Sunday (June the rodeos include interactive safety OSCAR and at oldottawasouth.ca partners. We would also like to 2nd) morning rally/rodeo leading to and information booths and are extend an invitation to all community Windsor Park, and brunch at the often accompanied by a community Winnie Pietrykowski is a longtime associations in Capital Ward. Tennis Club (a short cycling distance organized bicycle rally. Routes are resident of OOS, a community We are still imagining what this from Windsor Park). The weekend determined in advance and maps/ activist, an OSCA Board member and weekend might look like, and we venue invites greater participation signs identify for cyclists which route a member OSCA’s Traffic & Safety are looking to our partners to help from a larger variety of interests and to take. Committee.

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CHRISTY’S CORNER Volunteer Awards, Environmental Stewardship and Changes in After 4 By Christy Savage, at the Firehall. Longtime Preschool and and compete with others at our OSCA Executive Director Child Coordinator, Darcy Middaugh, Trivia Night is taking on the role of Environmental • Join us for an exciting and Steward for OSCA and programs. terrifying Family Escape Room OSCA’s AGM Tuesday, May 7th, 2019 Darcy will focus on implementing On Tuesday, May 7th, at OSCA’s and maintaining an environmental Go to our website, like us on Facebook Annual General Mmeeting (AGM), perspective in three main areas: or follow us on Twitter for more. You can we’re excited to have a new and programming, community engagement find the schedule and info in the Spring project. Committee work is generally revamped AGM evening planned for and operations at the Firehall. What Summer Program Guide in this month’s 1½- 2 hours monthly. To learn more OSCA members and the community. does that mean? Recycling, composting, OSCAR, or online at oldottawasouth.ca about our Committees and their work, You’ll have a chance to get to know building raised bed gardens and tending go to the bottom of our home page at members of our Board and Committees to the gardens and green space around Call for Board Members oldottawasouth.ca and learn more about the work they’ve the Firehall, supporting our own Would you like to join the OSCA To inquire further or join the done over the past year; weigh in on Green Dreamers, engagement with the Board or a committee? OSCA board email nominations@ priorities near and dear to your vision of community, and initiating programs that We’re an exciting bunch of people oldottawasouth.ca with an introductory our community; and, be present to meet encourage environmental leadership and great company. And we’re working paragraph outlining your background those we’re honouring as Community and education with and for the children on a number of fun, interesting and and interest. Builders with our volunteer awards. who attend programs. important initiatives. There’s so much Please note, you must join the OSCA We’re excited about this new initiative going on at OSCA and within the association and be a member for three Community Builders and will give you updates as we make community, and so much for Board months prior to the AGM. Who would you nominate as progress. members to gain by volunteering on the a Community Builder? OSCA’s board or a committee: environmental Changes in After 4 Volunteer Awards (“Volunteer of the OSCA’s Annual Open House week stewardship; building programs and We’ve made a few significant changes Year” and “Lifetime Achievement April 1-6 events for the community; planning to After 4 and Breakfast club. You can Award”) are our way of honouring the We’re back with another exciting and the changing landscape of our read more online at oldottawasouth.ca. special community builders of Old week of special events, free programs community; keeping our community As of April, all After 4 programs Ottawa South. and more. and municipal representatives aware of will be located at the Firehall (we’ll This is our chance to share the stories We’ll have a number of free programs traffic and safety concerns and working no longer have programs running at of our community. Who do you know to participate in: with them to effect important change; Southminster). We’re looking forward who helps make Old Ottawa South an • Pickleball with Coffee and Cards greening the community with the work to having everyone participate in incredible place to live, work, visit? • Latin grooves of the Green Dreamers; contributing programs together. And this will mean Who would you nominate? • Pound fitness articles to the OSCAR or website each less back and forth for parents picking If you’ve got someone in mind, • Free drop-ins to our Fitness month that inform the community; up children. please send me an email (osca@ Centre making life enriching for those vibrant As of September, part-time spaces oldottawasouth.ca) and tell me who • Kindergym playgroup and dynamic seniors in our community in After 4 will no longer be available they are, why you think they’re special with our new committee SWOOS… due to space restrictions and limited and why you’d like to nominate them to Or join us for one of our exciting As an OSCA Board member, we capacity. be recognized. events: ask for a commitment of one 2½-hour And our After 4 and Breakfast Club • Free Family Movie Night Board meeting monthly in addition to pricing will increase minimally by $10 Environmental Stewardship • Have a beer or a glass of wine sitting on a committee/subcommittee/ monthly. We’re excited to announce a new role

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OSCA PRESIDENT’S REPORT What’s It All About? By Richard Slowikowski, What’s it All About? • giving our kids a place to play/ OSCA President The daily discussions of these learn/grow through activity practical issues facing our local • enhancing the lives of the residents has been causing me to ask residents of OOS I am a lucky guy. People seem to myself: “What’s OSCA all about?” To • empowering its members always want to talk to me about help me answer the question, I have • building a strong community something specific that is happening started asking people what they think. between our bridges in Old Ottawa South and at the I ask people to go up in altitude, as if • working together to foster a Community Association. Not in an airplane, beyond their particular genuine sense of community surprisingly, people tend to want to interest in OSCA and describe what • supporting, strengthening and talk about their particular interests. At OOS they see. I ask people to keep their building community this time of the year, there is a lot of talk • preserving, building upon answer to less than 10 words. Let • providing a forum where around what OSCA can do to improve and modelling what makes me give you a few examples of residents can exchange ideas, snow removal and icy sidewalks. “community” special what people tell me the Old Ottawa information, shared interests Working parents are asking questions • making a lasting impact on our South Community Association is all and represent the community on about OSCA summer camps for community and beyond about: common issues their children. Speeding and careless • having a place in the community • building a more engaged and drivers is a regular topic of concern. If you are feeling that you might want that is the fulcrum of our caring community Anyone facing a development on to get involved in what OSCA is all community and all we do • offering a variety of their block is keen to discuss zoning about, please contact Christy Savage, • providing a sense of community programming and community bylaws. There is an endless array of OSCA’s Executive Director at: and belonging initiatives to benefit OOS issues affecting our residents … and [email protected]. We are re- • making Old Ottawa South the • developing programs that evolve I welcome all of these discussions; cruiting people to join our Board and best community in Canada to live to suit the community’s needs each is important. our Committees. in • balancing community • helping to build a safe and engagement, development, and I hope you have a great day. sustainable community enriching the quality of life in

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COUNCILLOR’S REPORT It’s Time to be Smart about our City, our Community and our Environment By Shawn Menard, article. forward to making Ottawa a leader in Councillor I am following up with city planners fighting climate change and protecting to have this change made to the Bank our environment. and Riverdale intersection, as well. There’s a lot that needs to be done When I was on the campaign trail by this committee. We need to find last summer and fall, there were a Pedestrian Crossing at Colonel By environmentally-sustainable ways to lot of issues that came up at the door Drive and Seneca Street increase waste diversion, meaning and at all-candidates debates, but This issue has been ongoing for quite getting more people using the green there were some that really stuck out. some time. You may have read that the bin; we need to reduce our reliance on Residents were clear. They want a safe community’s attempts to have a raised plastics. I have tabled a motion to delay community. They want environmental crosswalk implemented at Colonel the implementation of plastic bags in arisen in Old Ottawa South, as well as sustainability. And they want better By and Seneca have been opposed the green bin; we need greater focus on the rest of Capital Ward, in the past few control over development. by Ottawa Police Services − Colonel making our buildings more efficient, years that have tested the patience of Following up on these themes, here By is a route used to transport foreign saving us money and reducing our residents, as well as the zoning bylaws are a few matters that I’ve been taking dignitaries. emissions. We have the chance to lead in the city. care of, and that we’ll continue to I don’t believe this concern should the way on many of these issues, and it I want to reaffirm my commitment address, at City Hall. outweigh the safety of residents and is important we do so. Climate change to making sure that when development tourists who are seeking access to is the primary existential threat our and intensification comes to Capital New Pedestrian Light-Timing on the canal, particularly when another society faces. Ward, that it is done respectfully and Bank Street raised crossing exists along that route with consideration of the community The Traffic and Safety Committee at the University of Ottawa. My staff Transit Affordability and bylaws that already exist. of the Old Ottawa South Community and I are still pursuing this issue and A separate but related issue is the I am not opposed to new development Association has been working long raising concerns and desires of the high cost of taking transit in Ottawa. as our communities grow and evolve, and hard on safety improvements in the neighbourhood. It has been very helpful Following the Ottawa Transit Challenge, but that doesn’t mean we have to accept neighbourhood, and in February, one to have such engaged and dedicated where several Councillors took the bus every proposal that comes our way. of those safety initiatives was realized. community members, especially as I’ve for a week to experience everyday issues Development can be accomplished in After working with city staff, I’m been getting up to speed on these issues faced by riders, I announced I would be a much better fashion. That’s what we pleased to say that we will be changing over my first two months in office. bringing a motion to freeze fares in this should expect from our city. the pedestrian signals on Bank Street at year’s budget. Stay tuned on this. Cameron, Belmont/Glen and Aylmer, Standing Committee on which will cycle continuously for Environmental Protection, Water Development: Doing it Right, Doing Shawn Menard is city councillor for pedestrians between 7:00 am to 7:00 and Waste Management it Respectfully Capital Ward. He can be reached at pm weekdays and 9:00 am to 6:00 pm On February 19, the initial meeting of A number of development issues have [email protected] or www. on weekends. That means you won’t the newly re-named Standing Commit- shawnmenard.ca. need to push the ‘beg button’ to get a tee on Environmental Protection, Water walk signal. This change should be fully and Waste Management took place. As implemented as of the printing of this Choral Season Highlight! Vice-Chair of the committee, I look OTTAWA CHORAL SOCIETY SUNDAY, 3 PM SOCIÉTÉ MARCH 24, 2019 Capital Ward Forum on Snow Clearance CHORALE ST. JOSEPH’S CHURCH th Wednesday, March 20 D’OTTAWA Wilbrod at Cumberland At City Hall in the Council Chambers 6:30 to 8:30 pm

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Sound Stories: A Family Concert Saturday, March 9th at 4:30 pm By Fabien Tousignant, Music experience as an orchestral musician, Sound Stories with Kathryn Cobbler at Trinity Artistic Director she has performed with the Toronto Symphony’s Trans-Siberian Orchestra, and Mika Posen Ottawa Symphony Orchestra, and the We are thrilled that the March concert Ottawa Jazz Orchestra. As a chamber of the Music at Trinity concert series is Saturday, March 30 at 4:30 pm and solo musician, she has been featured an interactive event that allows listeners in the Music & Beyond, Southminster of all ages to take part in the creative GLEBELLES AND THE United Church, Glebe St. James, Church process. What better way to start the of the Ascension, and Trinity Anglican March break than to come to a family GLEBE COLLEGIATE MAN CHOIR Concert Series. With her creation and concert at Trinity and explore all aspects artistry embedded in the art of pedagogy, of music. Violist, Kathryn Patricia at Trinity Anglican Church her journey as a teaching artist has Cobbler and violinist Mika Posen will taken her to the stage of the JUNO each lead their own sound story and take ADMISSION IS BY FREEWILL OFFERING awards, and Canada’s 150 Celebrations you on a musical journey. on Parliament Hill. Through Kathryn Sound Stories ​​takes listeners on a Patricia’s professional career, she live musical adventure using the violin continues to explore the connection and viola. Weaving melodies, rhythms, A Sentimental Journey with the between performance, music education, sonic explorations, and electronic effects and social impact. Along with being Glebelles and the Glebe Collegiate into stories, this musical presentation a solo and collaborative musician, will allow audiences to join in the Ms. Cobbler is a teaching artist for the Man Choir music-making experience through for five years, singing at social music program OrKidstra and interactive activities and live musical fundraisers, in retirement has a studio of budding violists and creation. Following the performances, homes, and carolling at violinists in Old Ottawa South. there will be a ‘string petting zoo’ Christmas. The group allowing concertgoers to try out both the rehearses at Trinity Mika Posen violin and viola! Anglican Church in Old Mika is an Ottawa-based violinist, Ottawa South. They will violist, teacher, songwriter, and string arranger. She studied classical, be presenting some of their contemporary, and popular music at favourite pop arrangements the University of Guelph, obtained from the past five years. a Masters in Ethnomusicology from The Glebe Collegiate York University, and completed her Man Choir is an a cappella Suzuki Violin teacher training at the group comprised of 17 Southwestern Ontario Suzuki Institute. young men from grades Mika currently teaches violin with 9-12 who attend Glebe Orkidstra and maintains a private studio high school. This is a at her home in Lowertown. She also really exciting, dynamic occasionally teaches courses about group that sings under the music and culture at Carleton University. expert guidance of Rachel Mika has worked in the popular music Handley, choral director and industry since 2006 as a string arranger, head of the music program session violin/viola player, and touring at Glebe Collegiate. band member. She was a core member By Maeve Weddle The concert takes place of Timber Timbre form 2008-2013, at 4:30 pm on Saturday, March 30 at Violist, Kathryn Patricia Cobbler. and of Agnes Obel’s touring party An a cappella extravaganza is coming Trinity Anglican Church in Old Ottawa from 2013-2014. She has also worked to Old Ottawa South! On Saturday, South. Please come prepared to have with a variety of Canadian artists, March 30th, two local choirs will come fun! Audience members will even be Kathryn Patricia Cobbler including Basia Bulat, The Weather together to transport you away on a invited to join in for a couple of pieces! Kathryn is a musician, artist, Station, Evening Hymns, Snowblink, Sentimental Journey through popular Admission is by donation, and storyteller, and catalyst for creative Maylee Todd, Broken Social Scene, music. The Glebelles, in concert with all proceeds will go to support the experiences. During her musical and Feist. 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MUSIC Rideau Chorale: “Bass”-ically Speaking… By Janice Manchee music festival. The choir will perform Mozart’s Rideau Chorale director Roland Graham Requiem twice. A daytime April 4th stopped the bass section to once again concert is the choir’s first educational encourage them to sing with commitment initiative, with local schools providing and confidence. Then he tried a different the audience. tack. The second performance is the evening “You know, every choir has issues of April 5th. As with other concerts, the recruiting men,” he said. “Somehow we Chorale will be joined by guest soloists ended up being one of the few cultures and a small orchestra. Graham, also saying it’s not “manly” to sing chorale an accomplished pianist, will perform music.” Mozart’s Piano Concert No. 20. This comment resonated with Doug “Mozart’s Requiem was commissioned Heintz Grove. He loves to sing and A few Rideau Chorale basses before the choir’s Messiah performance in by a man who had lost his very young the buddies he shares a beer with are December 2018. (L to R) Mark Olo, Jeff Pennington, Gustavo Imoberdorf wife,” says McCurdy. “It expresses the generally pretty supportive. Still, he says, and Doug Heintz Grove. PHOTO BY BALOU ANTIA sadness and longing of that loss.” gender bias in chorale music is a reality. Rideau Chorale’s season concludes Soprano Liz Tromp, herself new to the Chorale’s performances of Handel’s Luckily for Rideau Chorale, Heintz on June 8th with the first collaboration Chorale music, sits near the Rideau Messiah were sold out. Several local Grove ignored the message. And he’s between Rideau Chorale and the National Chorale bass section. businesses have sponsored performances, not alone. Capital Concert Band. The Last Night of “Who knew the harmonies would be including The Clothes Secret, Cedars & Martin McCurdy, who sings bass with the Proms tribute will showcase familiar so beautiful and powerful,” she says. Co., Stella Luna and The Barley Mow. Heintz Grove, joined Rideau Chorale works from the popular British festival “The basses add a foundation for the rest In its short history, Rideau Chorale has over three years ago. by Elgar, Parry, Holst, and others. of us to build on.” undertaken some of the most demanding “If I have a hobby, it’s singing,” says “I hope our friends and neighbours Tromp, Heintz Grove and McCurdy, classical pieces, including Orff’s federal government geologist McCurdy. will join us for these performances,” says all Old Ottawa South residents, joined in Carmina Burana, Fauré’s Requiem, “I sing in several choirs for different Heintz Grove. “Then maybe we can go part because Rideau Chorale is housed Handel’s Four Coronation Anthems, and reasons. In one, it’s mostly social. In for a beer.” close by at Southminster Church. Vivaldi’s Gloria. another, it’s the music.” “Churches are places where people “I sometimes wonder if I’m up to the Heintz Grove joined Rideau Chorale To contact Rideau Chorale, go to: worship, but they are also public spaces,” challenge of these pieces,” says Heintz in the fall of 2017. rideauchorale.org or call 613-263- says McCurdy. “There aren’t really many Grove. “But it’s fun and energizing to “Most of my choral experience was 0637. places where locals gather and create work together with other singers.” in high school and college,” says social something together. I want to make sure Rideau Chorale presents three events Janice Manchee sings tenor with worker Heintz Grove. “It was a long time this opportunity doesn’t disappear.” each season. There are two remaining in Rideau Chorale. ago, but I thought it was time to get back The community has in turn supported 2018-19: Mozart’s Requiem and a tribute to it.” Rideau Chorale. In both 2017 and 2018, to The Proms, an annual British classical

Ten Reasons to Attend Bach Cantatas by Candlelight By Nadine Dawson Andrew McAnerney, who brings his experience as a professional One, what could be more beautiful tenor to his current role as Artistic than listening to Bach in a Director of Le Studio de musique Cathedral? ... unless it’s listening by ancienne de Montréal and The candlelight! Cantata Singers of Ottawa, as well On the program is an a capella as Director of the Men and Boys version of Jesu, meine Freude Choir of Christ Church Cathedral (Jesus, my joy) which includes Ottawa. the haunting farewell to earthly Cantata Singers recently existence, “Gutte Nacht.” performed St. Matthew’s Passion Not one, but two cantatas are at the National Arts Centre with featured: No. 197, composed to maestro Trevor Pinnock, and so has celebrate a wedding, and No. been immersed in Bach’s musical 126, with its stirring cry for God’s sensibilities for many months. protection against enemies. Finally (reason number ten if you For both pieces, The Cantata are counting) to enter into the world Singers of Ottawa will be of Bach is to rest in an elegance of accompanied by the orchestra of expression that is as complicated Le Studio de musique ancienne de as it is simple, as enduring as it is timeless, as sensual as it is sublime. Montréal using period instruments. BROKER|SALES The smooth and gentle sounds Bach Cantatas by Candlelight REPRESENTATIVES enjoyed by a Baroque audience is presented by The Cantata are re-created by three trumpets Singers of Ottawa, and takes (played without valves), stringed place Saturday, March 9th, at 7:30 instruments (played on gut strings pm at Christ Church Cathedral, rather than metal), oboe, bassoon, 414 Sparks Street. Tickets are 25 YEARS OF FOCUSED continuo, and drums. available at the door. To purchase Four accomplished Canadian discounted online tickets, please EXCELLENCE IN REAL ESTATE soloists are featured: Soprano visit their new website at www. Anne-Marie Beaudette, Mezzo- cantatasingersottawa.ca. Soprano Maude Brunet, Tenor TOP 1% FOR ROYAL LEPAGE IN CANADA* Nadine Dawson is a teacher, Michiel Schrey, and Baritone artist, member of Cantata Singers Clayton Kennedy. MARLAND and a resident of OOS. 613.238.2801 | robmarland.com The music is conducted by 165 Pretoria Ave. Ottawa, ON K1S 1X1 TEAM Based on closed and collected earnings * Page 14 The OSCAR l March 2019

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MUSIC Pigments of Imagination By Kevin Reeves

Seventeen Voyces, directed by me, Kevin Reeves, presents ‘Pigments of Imagination’ in which the music will be accompanied by projected paintings inspired by nature and rustic life. Guest artists include Yolanda Bruno, violin; Carmen Bruno, cello; Zac Pulak, percussion, and Andrew Ager, piano. Seventeen Voyces, one of Ottawa’s best known chamber choirs, enjoys presenting music which is ‘off the beaten track’ — and this concert won’t disappoint. In fact, there will be two world premieres: Painted from Memory by Mark Duggan — inspired by Tom Zac Pulak, percussion. Yolanda Bruno, violin. Thomson, and my own composition Autumn’s Orchestra. There will also readings on the life of Canadian painter Pauline Johnson (1861-1913) — the Orchestra will also be accompanied by be the Ottawa premiere of Shakespeare Tom Thomson, who spent much time in daughter of a Mohawk chief and an projected paintings of Emily Carr, who Songs by Andrew Ager. Other repertoire the Canadian northland where he would Englishwoman who was best known for lived and worked in British Columbia, will include the Lawren S. Harris Suite camp, fish and paint his impressions of poetry celebrating her native heritage. as did Johnson. for piano quintet by Stephen Chatman; the natural landscape. It was composed She was also loosely associated with Commissioned by CBC Radio for Ice Sculptures by Elizabeth Knudson, by Mark Duggan for percussionist Zac the Confederation Poets, whose literary the 2003 Ottawa International Chamber The Swan Parapraxis by Kelly-Marie Pulak with the generous assistance of style linked a love of the natural Music Festival, Stephen Chatman’s Murphy, and Matra Pictures by Zoltan the Ontario Arts Council and Toronto environment to the essence of being Lawren S. Harris Suite was inspired Kodaly. Arts Council. Canadian in the 1880s. by Canada’s quintessential painter and Painted from Memory was inspired by Pauline Johnson was a favourite leader of the Group of Seven. Each Autumn’s Orchestra is based on text by E. poet of my grandmother, probably movement is a musical interpretation of because she was unique for her time a specific Harris painting. — a pioneering entertainer who wrote The Swan Parapraxis is a violin/cello about the bush. I think it’s who my duo written for Yolanda and Carmen Carleton University Choir Presents grandmother really wanted to be. Bruno by local composer Kelly-Marie Autumn’s Orchestra is a series of brief Murphy. Yolanda and Carmen are “Sonic Splendour” poems describing nature; with titles such exceptional string players who grew By Mary Forster love inspire both Erik Esenvalds as ‘Aspens’ ‘The Maple’ and ‘Mighty up in Ottawa, and are now based in setting of Stars and Randall Stroope’s Oak’ I thought it would be interesting Montreal — playing instruments older to conjure up contrasting snapshots than Canada. Zac approached me over Please join the Carleton University I am not Yours. Jake Adam York’s of music to complement Johnson’s a year ago at the Barley Mow with Choir on Saturday, April 6th for a words, which are worth pondering on evocative imagery. She compares the the idea of this concert… said he had special mixed program of sacred and many levels, inspire Dan’s Forrest’s rustling of leaves to ‘nature’s violin’ so commissioned something for violin, secular arrangements. The concert magnificent setting of Abide. what better way to illustrate the words cello and percussion, and the whole entitled “Sonic Splendour” will be Works that express intangible than with a string quartet — which concert grew out of those two beers… held in Dominion Chalmers Church, and infinite love for God include will be our accompaniment. Autumn’s or four. 355 Cooper Street and start at 7:30 the classics Faure`s Cantique de pm. Jean Racine, and Rachmaninoff’s For this concert, Choir members Bogoroditse Devo. More were asked to suggest some of their contemporary sacred selections Seventeen Voyces Presents favourite choral works. The Cree including Indodana sung in the South ‘Pigments of Imagination’ song of welcome, Ambe, is a setting African language of isiXhosa, and Ko Southminster United Church (15 Aylmer Ave at Bank) of an original song in Ojibway by Matsushshita’s challenging setting Friday, March 22, 7:30 pm prominent Winnipeg composer of O Lux Beata Trinitas as well as a $25 adults/$15 students Andrew Balfour and sets up the setting of Ain’t No Grave Can Hold Tickets online: www.seventeenvoyces.ca theme for the concert. The rhythmic My Body Down by Paul Caldwell and texture represents the heartbeat of Sean Ivory round out this section. Mother Earth and the lyrical melody The choir is directed by Laurie conveys the powerful totem of the Hamilton and is accompanied by THE OTTAWA NEW EDINBURGH CLUB eagle which represents the teachings Joanne Moorcroft. Tickets, $20 Ottawa’s Waterfront Sports Centre of love, wisdom and strength. All of for adults and $12 for students and ONEC SUMMER DAY CAMPS the selections flow from this theme seniors, will be available at https:// TENNIS • SAILING • ROWING • CANOEING • STAND UP PADDLEBOARD carleton.ca/music/choir/ and are in some way inspired by love July 2 through August 23, 2019 and touched by intangible Majesty. Carleton University Choir is Some music, by its very nature comprised of students, faculty, staff “tears a hole in the sky” the sky of and community members. Admission our spirits and souls and deepens our is by audition. Interested choristers lives and brings new meaning to what may contact [email protected] for we do and how we live. Several of more information. the compositions to be presented are inspired by texts of profound beauty Mary Forster moved to Old Ottawa One and Two Week Sessions; Full and Half Day for Ages 7 to 17; and cause us to linger in the spaces South over 34 years ago and this is Certified Instructors; Extended Drop-off and Pick-up Times between the words and within the her second year with the Carleton 10% DISCOUNT FOR PAID BOOKINGS RECEIVED BY MAY 31 sonic splendour of colours created University Choir. She considers by close harmony and intriguing Details and Online Registration at www.onec.ca/day-camps both of these choices to be very textures. or phone 613.746.8540 good ones. Sara Teasdale’s poems of intangible Follow us: @OttawaNewEdinburghClub @onec1883 #onec

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SENIOR WATCH OLD OTTAWA SOUTH February Snow Mole Audit: What We Saw

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Anna Cuylits, Senior Watch were well cleared, and the inside of the Old Ottawa South shelter treated with an anti-slip mixture. What can we ask from the City to February 12, the Tuesday before the big improve winter walkability on our snow storm, the Snow Mole volunteers side streets? On March 1, SWOOS Caregiver Brenda Lee and friends pushing a stroller along the snow of Old Ottawa South set out again to will present their report to the City’s covered sidewalk on Sunnyside Ave. on Friday, February 15th, two days check the winter walkability of our Transportation Committee. Add to our after the snow storm. PHOTO BY ANNA CUYLITS sidewalks. report and submit your solutions by The week before, our neighbourhood emailing us at [email protected] had gone through another major freeze- Together we can make it better! thaw cycle, leaving the sidewalks of side streets frozen, rutted, slippery and forcing pedestrians to use the streets. Anna Cuylits is a retired social In contrast, the sidewalks on Bank and worker and longtime resident of Old Sunnyside were mostly bare. Ottawa South. It was good to find out that bus stops

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What is Community Without Church? use of the church for both spiritual Elliott points out that Southminster and community purposes. To fund this United Church is a community hub work, Southminster has entered into a that has over 70,000 visits per year, partnership agreement with developers and provides affordable gathering from Windmill Developments who space for community and health propose to demolish the church hall, programs, as well as providing a and build a six-storey condo building venue for the arts. In addition to its and four townhouses on Galt Street. Centre 7 Out of the Cold Suppers, Southminster’s struggle to keep the church’s staff and volunteers its doors open to a dwindling routinely connect the most financially congregation amidst rising operational and socially vulnerable members of and maintenance costs is not unique, the community to social services. however, and is faced by many The contribution of these services mainline churches across Canada. to our community are not minor. Danielle Rolfe, an emerging Journalist Patrick Langston explains filmmaker living in Old Ottawa South, this as the “Halo Effect” which, for saw Southminster’s struggle to remain Ottawa, represents $4.77 worth of viable as the ideal subject for her first common good services for every documentary. “I wondered whether dollar in a religious congregation’s anyone would notice if churches annual budget (haloproject.ca/ closed. Who would it affect? Would calculator). Without churches and we lose anything as a community?” their hard-working volunteers to run said Rolfe. these programs, the city would need to Danielle Rolfe films the City of Ottawa Planning Committee’s review of “Early on in the process of making make up this difference by providing Southminster’s redevelopment application. PHOTOS BY ED KUCERAK the film, I realized that although the infrastructure and paid staff to do church membership may be dwindling so. By Ed Kucerak Despite being a mainstay in Old because of our secular society, “What was striking to me, was that Ottawa South for over 80 years, churches are integral to many of our Southminster is often bustling during Southminster United Church faces social welfare programs, and our the week, and many young families “Is the church a necessary part of our an uncertain future. The rear hall (on most vulnerable community members visit for after-school programs, but modern lives and community? That is Galt Street) that was added to the would definitely be affected by church they’re not there on Sunday mornings. the question local filmmaker Danielle church in the 1950s is in poor shape closures.” On Sundays, it’s mainly seniors,” says Rolf explores in the new documentary and requires demolition. Maintenance As a longtime filmmaker and Rolfe. film Who Needs Church? which is also required on the original church member of the Old Ottawa South This disconnect from formal will premiere on March 23, 2019 at building, and renovations to the community, I felt that Danielle’s worship services despite retaining a Southminster United Church. interior of the church could facilitate project had all the key elements sense of spirituality was extensively needed to make a compelling film. researched by Sherwood for his book I was interested in documenting the Listening to the Echo: Young Adults Free Information Sessions struggle of a landmark church to Talk about Religion, Spirituality, God, on March 19 & 20 survive, and the conflicting views Gods and Their World. In the film he Contact Kathy Godding at about the impact that the development talks about his perspective on what [email protected] would have in our community. Southminster might need to do going for information. 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Participants enjoy the benefits of exercising with a Committee meeting, to the final screening will be followed with a Q group of women, not only getting stronger physically, but also benefitting from improved decision about reducing the height & A with the filmmakers and special self-esteem and self-efficacy. of the development, all the while guests. Admission is by freewill exploring the bigger question about offering ($5 - $10 suggested), but Be Stronger than your Excuses! the role of churches in contemporary all are welcome. Donations will society. go Southminster United Church’s In exploring the main theme of the community programs and initiatives. film Rolfe spoke to Southminster’s Reverend Trisha Elliott, retired Ed Kucerak is an Old Ottawa South United Church minister and Carleton filmmaker whose recent feature University professor Reverend Tom documentary “Blue Roses” (also Sherwood, and freelance journalist co-directed and written with Danielle Patrick Langston who co-wrote the Rolfe) about providing palliative care Ottawa Magazine article Altared: in rooming houses won the Audience Renovating the House of God. Favourite Award at the 2018 One World Film Festival. 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FILM REVIEW The Cult of Celebrity By Tony Wohlfarth time in the US penal system. Walk the Line is a very revealing Walk the Line co-stars Joaquin Phoenix biopic about the life of a musical legend. Vox Lux (2018) as Cash, and Reese Witherspoon as June The plot is gritty and pulls no punches. In Vox Lux, Natalie Portman stars in Carter. Walk the Line is a feature film a feature film about the musical career depicting the ups and downs of Cash’s Whitney (2018) of Celeste. It is a film about the troubled musical career from his time in the US Whitney Houston was a celebrated life of a fictional singer, based on real- life events. In 1999, a 14-year-old Celeste, played Kristina (who also tragically died of a by Raffey Cassidy, survives a school drug overdose in 2015), her brothers shooting. Years later, Celeste has been and aunts along with her crew. They transformed into a troubled music star. enabled her excesses and fought over As she prepares for a live performance the spoils of her success. What emerges in New York City, a terrorist attack is a sordid and revealing account of what occurs, with the perpetrators wearing made Whitney great and ultimately led a mask of her face. Celeste and her to her tragic demise. I was riveted by the publicist scramble to determine whether first-hand accounts and learned a great to proceed with the performance. Years deal about the cult surrounding real life later, her career has been saved and now musicians. Celeste struggles with addiction and a Whitney is a polished documentary fraught relationship with her daughter. which adds little to the public record, but Vox Lux is narrated by Willhem is very entertaining. (Nick Broomfield’s Dafoe. The film relies on Portman’s 2017 biography Whitney: Can I Be Me acting chops to deliver on a dark story broke much of this story). about the challenges of fame and the Scott MacDonald, the fifty-one- cult of personality. year-old Scottish director is currently Vox Lux was directed by a thirty- working on another documentary, year-old American, Brady Corbet. The Natalie Portman as Celeste in Vox Lux. Return to Podor set in Senegal. Whitney film was nominated for a Golden Lion had its world premiere at the 2018 as best film at the 2018 Venice Film Cannes Film Festival. Festival. It was released theatrically in North America on December 7th. Air Force to his marriage proposal to and much-loved singer when she died in Carter (which takes place in London, 2012 (at age 48) from a drug overdose Tony Wohlfarth is an Ottawa based Walk the Line (2005) Ontario). at the Beverley Hills Hilton. How this freelance film writer. He covered the For my generation, the legendary What is remarkable about Walk the famous award-winning performer left 2018 Venice Film Festival, where Johnny Cash was our entrée into the Line is that the songs in the film are us so tragically is the storyline of this he screened Vox Lux. He is cur- world of country & western music. performed by Phoenix, there was no moving documentary film. rently covering the 75th Berlinale in Cash’s live recording of Folsom Prison use or reliance on doubles to perform The director had unparalleled access Germany and writes a monthly film Blues rocked the music charts when it the music. Witherspoon won an Oscar to the coterie surrounding Houston. review for The OSCAR. was released in 1968 and introduced in 2006 for best leading actress for her This includes her partners, Bobby us to the world of prisoners doing hard performance. Brown and Robin, her daughter Bobbi

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Building Community and Life-Long Friendships And through the years the mothers nurtured their friendships. Coached by Thelma, a quilter, the friends made two intricate quilts: a baby quilt made from their three-year-olds’ drawings and a memory quilt for their beloved friend Nancy who moved to Vancouver. The friends made a cookbook of shared recipes and kept a record of their children’s milestones. Some went to London, England on a spree, thanks to the hospitality of Lydia who lived there for a while. They had picnics and parties, and supported each other through illnesses. There were specialty parties for Robbie Burns and High Tea parties, Clockwise: Jeanne Alyluia, Carol O’Connor, Lydia Oak, Maggie Asher, Angela Graves, Thelma Robbins, Judith when Maggie wore red high heels Manley, Jan Brummel, Frances Sanford Smith, Bonnie Belwa. PICTURE COURTESY OF STELLA LUNA while others wore hats with veils; they all drank Pimms and ate strawberries By Carol O’Connor & forgot to reserve their usual large table some wanted an alternative to the and cream. And there are many laughs at Stella Luna. When they walked in professional nursery school. All needed today that stem from their naughty Winnie Pietrykowski th their usual spot was fully occupied by adult time and enrichment for their 40 birthday parties! The friends have young mothers with toddlers and babies, held many potluck dinners to which Last November a small group of women child. And half of them were pregnant. strollers, cookies, diaper bags, toys and their “men” were invited. And they kept celebrated 37 years of friendship that In 1982 the Old Ottawa South coffee. The friends (who quickly moved track of travellers who went to Beijing began (in part) at Old Ottawa South’s Community Association (OSCA) was two free tables together) couldn’t help and Taipei, Atlanta and Prague, as well (OOS) very own Firehall. Although barely four years old. Today OSCA is but share a moment of “déjà vu”, a as London, Nairobi and Santiago. They some of the friends have moved away synonymous with “the Firehall.” In collective reflection of some 37 years ate lunch in the Parliamentary Dining from the city of Ottawa and OOS, they March of 1982 an OSCA staff person, earlier. Room and Peking duck at a local keep in touch by letters, cards, email, Pat Hunt advised the friends that there In January 1982, these life-long favourite restaurant. shared pictures and random gatherings was space for their group of friends at friends were the young mothers who When thinking back, the friends are from year to year. For those who live the Firehall two half-days a week. gathered together and imagined a grateful to the Firehall (OSCA) and its in town there is a monthly gathering at The mothers hired Laurie MacLeish, a cooperative playgroup/preschool for staff. “How fortunate we are to have Stella Luna on Bank Street. preschool teacher who was experienced their almost-three-year-olds. Some of this resource in our neighbourhood: Not long ago the longtime friends in physical fitness for children. They them were new to the neighbourhood, contacted a music specialist, Jean a community space we can walk to, Gomez, to run a 45-minute music circle staff who have supported our ideas, once a week. The mothers met monthly the use of equipment we could not to set up themes and a rota for four or afford ourselves, and space to enable five people for the craft room, small the vibrancy of a small group grow in a motor/reading room and large motor friendly, cooperative environment right area. Their program of activities from here in our own neighbourhood.” September 1982 to June 1983 was varied and unique. Carol O’Connor & Winnie The friends’ experiment was a success. Pietrykowski and longtime residents The small size of their group fostered of OOS. cooperation among the children.

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NEWS A Syrian Fundraiser with a Scottish Twist By Robert Taylor help in many ways. The committee is very grateful for the support received Bagpipes and Scottish music do not from the Reverend Arran Thorpe and immediately come to mind when Trinity’s parishioners. The committee thinking of a Syrian dinner. But the is especially grateful that Trinity has Ottawa South Refugee Committee designated again this year the funds that organized a unique fundraiser at St. the church receives at its annual Shrove Thomas the Apostle Anglican Church Tuesday pancake supper on March 5 that proved to nearly 100 supporters for the sponsorship of refugees by the of the event how well two seemingly Ottawa South Refugee Committee. different cultures can fit together. The pancake supper provides one The Ottawa South Refugee Committee opportunity to support the sponsorship welcomed to Ottawa last May a family work of the Ottawa South Refugee of four Syrian refugees, consisting of Committee. Tax deductible donations Wahiba, her mother, Abideh, and her can also be made by cheque to “Trinity two teenage sons, Fares and Elias. Both Anglican Church” with “Refugee Wahiba and Abibeh are widows. Wahiba Sponsorship” on the cheque’s memo and Abibeh enthusastically responded line. Cheques could be mailed to to the Committee’s ever-present need Trinity Anglican Church, 1230 Bank for funds by taking over the St. Thomas Street, Ottawa ON K1S 3Y3, or hand kitchen facilities to prepare a wonderful delivered to the church. Trinity’s office introduction to Syrian cuisine. hours are Wednesday and Friday from The fundraising dinner took place 10 am to 2 pm. The Ottawa South Refugee Committee can be reached at on January 26, a day after the annual Elias getting an opportunity to see what sounds he could manage to get out of celebration of the birthday of Scottish [email protected] the bagpipes. PHOTO BY ROBERT TAYLOR poet Robbie Burns. Refugee committee supporter Fred May entertained the refugees. of bagpipes. Elias rose to the challenge Robert Taylor, past-chair of the diners by his great piping. Fred also Fred’s piping of traditional tunes and the whole room heard his success. Ottawa South Refugee Committee, stressed Burns’ great championship of moved one diner, Alannah, to kick off continues to participate actively in all humanity by reading Burn’s famous her shoes and demonstrate her skill at Trinity Anglican Church the work of the committee. poem “A Man’s a Man for A’ That’. The Scottish dancing. Fred offered sixteen- Trinity Anglican at Bank and sentiment expressed in the poem’s title year-old Elias an opportunity to see Cameron provides the Ottawa South captures why we sponsor and support what sounds he could manage to get out Refugee Committee with ongoing

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TASTY TIDBITS FROM TRILLIUM BAKERY Love on a Cookie By Jocelyn LeRoy for young love and affection, white for There are plenty of naughty cards on this day. Feeling the good will innocence and purity, and red for love, in the shops, or cutesy, even hilarious in spite of “crunch time”, watching ‘The way to someone’s heart is through as well as the always popular ‘I Love ones. One year I got a ‘Flintstones’ card customers sneak in a little something their stomach.’ You’ and ‘Be My Valentine.’ Just a little which made me laugh for a week, and I for themselves … Hey, we do it too! I’m sure I’ve written about the history heartfelt secret that you or I might be was never a fan of the Flintstone Family. And enjoying all of you who spread a of Valentine’s Day, fun with the kids, thinking but not about to serve up on a Underneath the hype and little cheer far and beyond your daily and even the Valentine’s Scrooges. delicious cake or cookie we hadn’t the commercialism of Valentine’s, behind grind. Taking the intent of Valentine’s But this year, we have a sweet time to bake. the scenes, you see Heather quietly at Day and making someone feel cared phenomenon going on. This is a Folks are asking for them all year work, and in the flower shop, a bustling for on this day, and every day. Love is result of our Heather and her artistry round. In some cases we have to and colourful organized chaos, with surely at the heart of it, and in all this in decorating hundreds of beautiful imagine who’s receiving it, and why. the extra drivers gracefully squeezing ‘Cookie Madness’ for Valentine’s. This cakes and cookies – some of which are We try to fathom a sad face or eyes that out the door with armloads of ‘I is good! especially for Valentine’s Day. aren’t hiding their secrets very well. Love You’ bouquets. The florists are Next up, Mother’s Day. Dare we Our customers, and you, dear readers, You want to ask, but then again … perched on high stools, or standing on go wild with cookies again? Imagine have responded to the messages that I think the cookie buyers correctly tired feet for hours, creating stunning ‘Motherhood’ messages – endless. Heather dreams up – edibly penned detect that Heather is a thoughtful and flower arrangements. There’s a story I think we’ll stick with the heart, for onto cake top or heart shaped cookie. creative person, and can be trusted behind every flower delivery and every subject matter. Can’t wait! Messages sincere and touching the with a tiny piece of their own hearts, Valentine purchase leaving the bakery – heart. by reading out to someone with this to which we are not privileged. But we Jocelyn LeRoy is the owner/manager There are roses carefully arching personal heartwarming little gift. are curious. of Trillium Bakery in Old Ottawa around the top of a big cookie. Pink Saying a lot, with a silent delivery. There are so many invisible perks South since 1980.

AROUND TOWN Come sing with us! Ottawa Brahms Community Choir welcomes new Harmelodic Music Club Concert. Sunday, March 3rd at 7:30 pm. “Women singers. All voices invited to join, especially tenors and basses. No auditions In Music: A Variety of Performances” featuring piano, strings, vocals and required! Great learning possibilities for new choir members in a friendly, flute. St. Luke’s Anglican Church, 760 Somerset St. West. Admission by supportive environment. Open rehearsals March 4, 11, 18 & 25 from 7:00- donation. 9:15 pm, Parlour Room of Southminster United Church at 155 Aylmer Avenue. Theme of our Spring concert “Rebirth” (Brahms, Bach, John Rutter, Come and join the Pacesetters Walking Club at Billings Bridge Shopping etc). Contact Sieglinde 819-568-8169 or just drop in. New website: https:// Mall. Activities include walking with your friends, social gathering, knitting ottawabrahmschoir.ca and www.facebook.com/ottawabrahmschoir/ for charities, puzzles, library. Located in the basement of the Tower at the northwest corner of the Mall. Open from 7:30 to 10 am. Low cost of $10 Ottawa Story Tellers. Join us for an evening of storytelling with Stories per year covers our expenses. Call 613-521-6740 during open hours for & Tea, every 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month at the Royal Oak, 318 Bank information. Street. March 12, “An Oddest Day’s Work” with Bev McBride and Anne Schmitz. March 26, “Shiners and Fenians: Political violence in early Ottawa” with Dai Chaplin and Cecilia Blanchfield. Stories start at 7:00 pm with a break part way through for treats and chatting. Admission is Pay-What- You-Can (suggested $5 minimum).

La Leche League Canada has a group in OOS. Are you breastfeeding/ chestfeeding your baby? Are you pregnant and planning to breastfeed? A La Leche League meeting is a relaxed, supportive and non-judgmental place where you can meet other parents, learn about nursing your baby and ask questions. Meetings every second Tuesday of the month from 7:00 to 8:30 pm at 36 Glen Ave. Next meeting is March 12. For more information call 613- 238-5919 or go to www.lllc.ca

St. Thomas The Apostle Anglican Church Pancake Supper. 2345 Alta Vista Drive (by the Fire Station). Annual pancake supper on Shrove Tuesday, March 5th. Two sittings at 5 pm and 6 pm. Pancakes (including gluten free), sausages, ham, refreshments and ice cream. Adults $10, children $6, ages 3 and under free. Tickets at the office weekday mornings, or call 613-733-0336.

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MAYOR’S REPORT Building a City with Better Roads, Housing, Transit and Safe Communities By Mayor Jim Watson Budget 2019 will invest an to $128.5 million per year; unprecedented $15 million to start • This will close the infrastructure On February 6, City Council tabled construction on new affordable housing gap within the next five years, the draft 2019 Budget, which, once units for residents, many of them near twice as fast as previously approved, will help build a city with transit or light-rail stations. The City of planned. more affordable housing, better roads Ottawa will also continue to work with and sidewalks, expanded transit and the provincial and federal governments, Budget 2019 also aims at keeping our safer communities, while keeping as well as community partners such communities safe. It includes: affordable has been my number one Ottawa affordable. as Ottawa Community Housing, • A 25% increase in funding for priority over the past two mandates and The tabling of the municipal budget to fight to eradicate homelessness ward-led traffic-calming projects I am proud to have worked with Council is the single most important discussion through programs like Housing First across the city, up from $40,000 to deliver on that commitment. As we we have as a City and each year, I and the City’s 10-Year Housing and per ward to $50,000; anticipate the tabling of the Provincial look forward to the public’s input and Homelessness Plan. • Double the investment for red- Budget, we must prepare for a possible consideration. As I knocked on over To reduce the infrastructure gap — light cameras; change in provincial funding in many ten thousand doors during the past the difference between what the City • Purchase and implementation of areas of municipal life. As such, we election, I heard loud and clear that spends and what we need to spend to an additional Automated License propose a tax goal of no more than Ottawa residents want better roads, maintain our infrastructure in a state of Plate Recognition device on a 3% for 2019, while continuing to take better services for those less fortunate good repair − Budget 2019: police vehicle. care for our most vulnerable residents and safer communities. • Allocates an additional $9.8 and addressing important city-wide This is why Budget 2019 aims at million on roads and other These technologies will generate priorities. reducing our infrastructure gap by municipal infrastructure, such as additional revenue that can be redirected I believe that Budget 2019 strikes boosting our spending on roads and sidewalks, buildings and bridges, into Safer Roads Ottawa and new road the right balance between keeping our sidewalks; providing more affordable in all corners of the city; safety programs such as the School Bus city affordable and investing in the core housing for our most vulnerable • This increase in infrastructure Stop Arm project, which will start in services and programs that position residents; and making our communities funding brings the City’s 2019. Ottawa for continued growth, prosperity safer and more resilient. investments from $118.7 million Keeping your taxes low and the city and social inclusion.

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MPP’S REPORT Changes to Autism Services Leave Families Behind

By Joel Harden, MPP without therapy, and about the financial to be heard. Along with my colleagues hardship that forcing families to pay in the Official Opposition, I’m proud to In Ottawa and across Ontario, parents, out of pocket for expensive but vital stand with them in this fight. medical professionals and autism services will cause. At Queen’s Park, I will be sharing advocates are speaking out with one This is not a partisan issue – this is stories from constituents about how the voice, calling on the Ford government about the health and well-being of changes impact them and their children. to stop its disastrous changes to the children. The government needs to If you have a story that you would like Ontario Autism Program. go back to the drawing board, and to share, send us an email, at jharden- Instead of listening to parents and meaningfully consult with the autism [email protected]. putting new investment into the community about creating a plan that’s program, the government is capping fair, and that meets the individual needs Remembering Paul Dewar support at $8,750 per year. This is of children. We mourn the loss of former Ottawa Community Builders’ Forum despite intensive therapies costing up to I’m inspired by parents who have Centre MP Paul Dewar, who passed Ottawa is filled with community $70,000 each year. been organizing locally and across away on February 6. Paul was a giant, builders – people who devote their While the current program keeps too Ontario, tenaciously calling on the someone who dedicated his life to time and energy to making our many parents on the waitlist for too long, government to listen and start fresh. building a more just city and country. neighbourhoods better places to live. the PC’s plan will make the situation I was deeply disappointed when Paul’s poignant farewell message We want to celebrate the work of local even worse, depriving thousands of Children, Community and Social offered these words, which capture community builders, and to provide an children with autism of the supports Services Minister Lisa MacLeod what we need in politics today: “My opportunity for them to share their skills they need to thrive. dismissed parents as “professional mom was a strong feminist, and she with you, so we can encourage a culture On February 16, our office hosted an protestors” and warned the Ontario said something very important that I of community organizing. emergency roundtable where we heard Association of Behaviour Analysis learned at an early age: ‘Don’t be afraid Join us on April 26-28 for our directly from parents of children with that they would see “four long years” of power, know how to use and share it, Community Builders’ Forum. You can autism and autistic adults about the ahead, unless they supported the Ford and give it to those who don’t have it.’” register now at: joelharden.ca/forum. impact of the government’s changes. government’s changes. These are words to live by, and values The stories they shared were nothing Parents, professionals and people with that I hope to see reflected in the work short of heart-wrenching. People spoke autism deserve better. They deserve to we do at Queen’s Park, and in the about how their children will suffer be treated with respect, and they deserve community.

MP’S REPORT Our Historic and Ambitious Infrastructure Plan for Canadians By Catherine McKenna, MP enabling our children to have fun, Canada is one of the strongest in learn and stay healthy. And we have economic growth in the G7. Our When our government was elected in helped build and repair more than ambitious plan is one of the catalysts 2015, one of our key promises was to 1,200 wastewater systems to provide for this economic and social success. make up for Canada’s infrastructure Canadians with reliable access to In terms of developing our plan, we deficit, which was partly due to a clean drinking water. strongly believe that municipalities lack of investment by the previous In three years, more than 4,700 and provinces are best placed to government. projects have been approved across decide on their priorities. That’s why, We knew we had to think long Canada, four times more than the to date, we have signed bilateral for our communities because we term and be visionary. We knew it previous government for the same agreements with each province and know that modern infrastructure can was time to provide Canada with period. territory. Our plan ensures that the attract talent and investment across 21st century modern, resilient and And in Ontario more than 2,187 priorities of each province are taken the country. Together, let’s seize the green infrastructure. have been approved so far. And in into account in our decisions. We opportunity, fulfill our ambitions and That›s why we›ve worked tirelessly Ottawa, over 100 have been approved have streamlined the review and continue to build modern, resilient to put together a landmark plan that since our government was elected. approval process in partnership with and green 21st century infrastructure. will invest more than $180 billion But above all, our plan helps build the provinces and municipalities to over 12 years in public infrastructure. a strong economy that allows middle- ensure that projects are initiated on Our plan is ambitious and national class families to thrive. time from one construction season to but in reality, it is local. It aims to Since 2015, 800,000 jobs were the next. invest in Canada, but above all, in created in Canada. And currently, Together, we will continue to strive every community and every Canadian. Our plan has a concrete impact on the everyday lives of each and every one of us. For example, our investments have enabled cities to purchase more than 7,000 new and renovated buses. More accurately, this allows users to spend less time in traffic returning from work and more quality time with their families. Our plan has also helped build and repair more than 2,000 kilometers of road, allowing Canadians to travel between work and home more quickly and safely. We have also invested in the modernization of more than 180 community and sport centers, Page 26 The OSCAR l March 2019

SUNNYSIDE LIBRARY PROGRAMS Sunnyside Branch and you’ll be set for spring. chansons pour les bébés et un parent Play Day! / Au jeu! Ottawa Public Library Ages 7-12 / Pour les 7 à 12 ans ou gardien. Drop in preschool fun! Play with 1049 Bank Street, Ottawa Monday, March 11, 2 pm Drop-in/ Programme portes ouvertes puppets, crafts, building blocks, and InfoService 613-580-2940 Online registration required. 0-18 months/ 0 à 18 mois more! / Un programme porte-ouverte Tuesdays, 2:15 pm (30 min.) / Les pour les enfants d’âge préscolaire! MARCH BREAK / CONGÉ DE Reptiles of the World / Reptiles du mardis, 14h15 (30 min.) Jouez avec des marionnettes et des MARS (March 11-15) monde March 26 – April 16, April 30 – May blocs, bricolez, et plus encore! Join Little Ray’s Reptile Zoo amazing 28/ 26 mars-16 avril, 30 avril – 28 Drop-in / Programme portes ouvertes Mix and Match/ Pêle-mêle staff on a trip around the world mai Saturdays, 10:15 am – 11:15 am /Les Make sense! Mingle colors, shapes, learning about reptiles, amphibians samedis, 10h15 – 11h15 smells, materials or sounds. / Quel and invertebrates that call a variety Family Storytime (Bilingual) / January 12 – May 25 / 12 janvier – 25 fouillis! Mélange couleurs, formes, of environments and continents their Contes en Famille (bilingue)* mai odeurs, matériaux et sons. home. On your journey, you will meet Stories, rhymes and songs for Ages 4-6/ Pour les 4-6 ans snakes, lizards, turtle, amphibians and children 6 & under and a parent or Silly Saturdays / On s’amuse les Monday, March 11, 10:30 am invertebrate. / caregiver. / Contes, comptines et samedis Lundi, 11 mars, 10h30 Joins-toi aux fantastiques employés chansons pour les enfants de 6 ans ou Each week there will be board games, du zoo Little Ray’s Reptile et part moins et un parent ou gardien. Lego, crafts or another activity / In the Mix / Tohu-bohu! dans une aventure autour du monde Drop-in/ Programme portes ouvertes. Chaque semaine, il y aura des jeux de Come join us for a fun blend of pendant lequel tu en apprendras société, Lego, du bricolage, ou une stories and songs. / Joins-toi à davantage sur les reptiles, les Tuesdays 10:15 am (30 min.): March autre activité. nous pour un méli-mélo amusant amphibiens et les invertébrés ainsi 26- April 16 Drop-in / Programme portes ouvertes d’histoires et de chansons. que sur les différents environnements Les mardis, 10h15 (30 min.): du 26 Ages 6 and up/ 6 ans et plus Family program/ programme famille. et continents qu’ils habitent. Durant mars au 16 avril Saturdays, 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm /Les Tuesday, March 12, 10 :30 am le voyage, tu rencontreras des OR/OU samedis, 13h00 – 16h00 Mardi, 12 mars, 10h30 serpents, des lézards, des tortues, des Thursdays 10 :15 am (30 min.): January 12 – May 25 / 12 janvier – 25 amphibiens et des invertébrés. March 28 – April 18 mai In the Blender/ Dans le mélangeur Ages 4-12 / Pour les 4-12 ans. Les jeudis, 10h15 (30 min.): du 28 Chop words, rhymes and surpises to Tuesday, March 12, 2:00 pm mars au 18 avril CHILDREN’S BOOK CLUBS make something new!/ Coupe des Mardi, le 12 mars, 14h mots, des rimes et des surprises pour Online registration required. Homework Help / Aide aux Devoirs Mighty Girls Book Club préparer quelque chose de nouveau! Come get help with reading, math, A children’s book club focused on Ages 4-6 / Pour les 4-6 ans. Crazy Chemistry science, French, English, etc. Led by exploring brave, strong and intelligent Wednesday, March 13, 10 :30 am This is a program sure to get Frontier College. / girls in books. Parents, guardians Mercredi, 13 mars, 10h30 the giggles out! With amazing Reçois de l’aide avec la lecture, or caregivers are encouraged to experiments ranging from ‘Firework les maths, les sciences, le français, accompany their child. Ages 8 & up. Nature Madness / Nature en folie Demonstrations’, ‘Volcano Bubble l’anglais, etc. Avec des bénévoles de Registration required. Create a new mixed up creature Baths’ and ‘Misty Showers’, Frontier College. Mondays, 6:30 pm (60 min.) or world! / Combine et crée une ‘Miniature Rockets’, and the Drop-in/ Programme portes ouvertes March 18, April 15 & May 13 nouvelle creature ou un nouveau energizing display of the powers Ages 6-10/ 6-10 ans. March title: Bink & Gollie and Bink monde! of electricity. Watch us play with Mondays, 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm / les & Gollie: Two For One by Kate Ages 4-6 / Pour les 4-6 ans. ‘Flash Points and Fire Gloves’ and lundis, 16h – 17h Dicamillo Thursday, March 14, 10 :30 am join in to ‘Catch the Gas’ and ‘Light January 7 – May 27 / 7 janvier – 27 Jeudi, le 14 mars, 10h30 it Up’. With our Silly Polymer Putty mai Bookworms Book Club science wrap up during the last 10 to **except Monday, March 11/ Sauf Come share the enjoyment of reading Mixed Media / Médiums mixtes 15 minutes of the program, your kids lundi le 11 mars** books with other kids ages 9 & No limits, be creative! /Laisse aller ta will be talking about this show for up. Parents and/or caregivers are créativité! weeks to come. Home-Schoolers’ Happening welcome to accompany their child. Ages 7-12 / Pour les 7-12 ans. Ages 4-12 / Évènement pour les enfants Registration required. Thursday, March 14, 2 :00 pm Wednesday, March 13, 2 :00 pm instruits à la maison Mondays, Jeudi, le 14 mars, 14h Online registration required. Join us for an afternoon of board 6:30 pm (60 min.) games, Lego, cards & fun for home- March 25, April 29 & May 27 Lego Block Party / Ça dé “bloc” CHILDREN’S PROGRAMS schooled children and their families, March title: Alcatraz Vs the Evil Create and build with Lego! / happening every week! / Soyez des Librarians by Brandon Sanderson Architectes en herbe, à vos Lego! *Please note , there will be no nôtres pour un après-midi de jeux Ages 6-12 / Pour les 6 à 12 ans. programs/ Veillez noter qu’il n’y a de société, de Lego, de cartes et ADULT BOOK CLUBS Friday, March 15, 1-5 :30 pm pas de programmes: d’amusements destinés aux enfants Vendredi, le 15 mars, 13h – 17h30 February 18 – March 8/ 18 février - 8 instruits à la maison et leurs familles! Second Friday Adult Book Club mars Drop-in / Programme portes ouvertes Meet new people and join in Please note that for the following March 18-24/ 18 - 24 mars Thursdays, 12:00 pm – 3:00 pm /Les stimulating discussions on selected three programs, online registration is April 22 – 28/ 22 – 28 avril jeudis, 12h00 – 15h00 titles in a friendly and relaxed required / January 10 – May 30/ 10 janvier – 30 atmosphere every second Friday of Les trois prochains programmes Maker Mondays / Lundi Créatifs mai the month. Newcomers are welcome. demandent une inscription. Play, build, create, cut, fold, knit, **except Thursday, March 14/ sauf Drop-in program. Please register at/ s’enregistrer à draw & so much more with our low- jeudi le 14 mars** Friday, 2:00 – 3:00 pm Biblioottawalibrary.ca tech mobile maker station! / Joue, March 8 construis, crée, découpe, plie, tricote, Friday Fun Day / Les folies du March title: The Golden Spruce by Billings Estate dessine et pratique une foule d’autres vendredi John Vaillant With Spring around the corner, it’s activités avec notre nouveau poste Drop by and take part in a different April title: Born a Crime by Trevor time to start getting the garden ready. mobile de création à faible technicité! activity each week! /Prenez part à une Noah Learn about early settler Braddish Drop-in/ Programme portes ouvertes nouvelle activité à chaque semaine! Billings and his prosperous farm in Ages 8 & up/ 8 ans et plus Drop-in / portes ouvertes Sunnyside Mystery Book Club 19th century Gloucester Township Mondays, 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm /Les Fridays, 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm /Les Do you enjoy reading mysteries? 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SUNNYSIDE LIBRARY PROGRAMS Friday, 2:00 – 3:00 pm Drop-in program. environment. Intermediate level. for free you need to have a modest March 15 Monday, 6:00 - 8:00pm Drop-in program. income AND a simple tax situation. March Title: Disordered Minds by March 4 Les jeudis, 18h30 / Thursdays, 6:30 **You will need to bring all required Minette Walters pm (60 min.) documents to the appointment. April title: A Dead Man in Barcelona Knit & Knatter January 10 – June 13 **Drop-in. (You show up during by Michael Pearch Have you always wanted to learn advertised hours and a volunteer will to knit, crochet or improve your Conversations about Community do your tax return for you on a first- Sunnyside Adult Book Club skills? Come to Sunnyside and bring What does community mean to come, first-served basis.) Join in stimulating discussions your knitting needles and yarn to you? (formerly Discussions about Modest income: In general, you have on selected titles in a friendly and begin or share your project. Enjoy Community) a modest income if based on your relaxed atmosphere on the last Friday conversation and a cup of tea while Informal drop-in sessions on a diverse family size, your total family income of the month. Drop-in program. you knit! Drop-in program. range of topics. is less than the amount shown in the Friday, 2:00 – 3:00 pm Wednesdays, 11:30 – 2:30 pm Drop-in program. chart below. March 29 March 13 & 27 Saturdays, 10:00 – 12:00 pm Family size Total family income March Title: The Break by Katherena Jan. 12 – June 15 1 person $35,000 Vermette Conversations Among Canadians 2 persons $45,000 April title: The Golden House by In this program, we will continue to What’s on Earth? 3 persons $47,500 Salman Rushdie share our experience, knowledge, Conversations about living in the 4 persons $50,000 reflections and ideas relevant to life ecosphere of planet Earth. 5 persons $52,500 European Book Club (EUNIC in Canada, past, present and future, Thursdays, 2:00 – 4: 00 pm more than 5 persons $52,500 plus Canada) doing so with a sense of community January 24 – June 13 $2,500 for each additional person Join us for the ultimate armchair among Canadians and with others in travel around Europe. The European the world. Drop-In program. A Word in Arabic Simple tax situation: Book Club is offered in partnership Wednesdays, 2:00 – 4:00 pm Learn a few words in Arabic. Drop-in In general, your tax situation is with European Union National January 9- June 12 program. simple if you have no income or Institutes for Culture (EUNIC) in Wednesdays, 4:30 – 6:30pm if your income comes from these Ottawa to promote European authors Science Cafés with Carleton January 16 – June 19 sources: and their works. Drop-in program. University • employment Wednesday, 6:00 - 8:00 pm Professors from the Faculty of Are we Losing Confidence in • pension March 20 Science share their discoveries with Democracy? • benefits such as Canada Pension you. Drop-in program. You are invited to a conversation Plan Ottawa ComicBook Club Wednesday, 6:30 – 7:30 pm about the state of democracy and • disability The Ottawa ComicBook Club March 13 & 27 what we as citizens should do about • employment insurance is a small group of ComicBook March 13th topic: Encrypt Decode: it. Join us to listen and to share your • social assistance enthusiasts who meet once a month to The Role of Math in Information experiences, questions and concerns. • registered retirement savings plans discuss a graphic novel. For teens and Security Throughout History. Mondays, 10:00 am – 12:00 pm (RRSP’s) adults. Drop-in program. March 27th topic: Nature’s Green is March 4 & 11 • support payments Monday, 7:00 - 8:30 pm Golden: The Health Benefits of Green • scholarships, fellowships, bursaries March 4 Spaces in Canadian Cities. Tell a Story, Listen to a Story or grants March title: The Tea Dragon Society We all have stories to tell, have you • interest (under $1,000) by Katie O’Neill Ingenious Talks with Carleton thought it might be fun to tell one? Your tax situation is not simple if April title: The Outside Circle by University Come try it out - tell a story, listen to you: Patti LaBoucane-Benson Faculty of Engineering & Design some stories and have some tea. • are self-employed or have employ- professors will be sharing their Fridays, 1:30 - 2:30 pm ment expenses ADULT PROGRAMS research with you. Drop-in program. March 1, April 5 & May 3 • have business or rental income and Wednesdays, 6:30 - 7:30 pm expenses The Writing Workshop April 3 ADULT SPECIAL PROGRAMS • have capital gains or losses An opportunity for writers of fiction, • filed for bankruptcy non-fiction, poetry, and experimental French Conversation Group Community Volunteer Income Tax • are completing a tax return for a forms to gather. Our emphasis will Améliorez votre français parlé Program deceased person be on developing works-in-progress et rencontrez des gens dans une The Ottawa Public Library is Mondays, 10:00 am-1:00 pm for publication. The workshop will ambiance décontractée et conviviale. partnering with Canada Revenue March 4, 18, 25 & Apr. 1, 8, 15 provide writers with encouragement Niveau intermédiaire. Programme Agency to offer free tax preparation Tuesdays, 5:00 – 8:00 pm and constructive criticism from their portes ouvertes / Practice your French through the Community Volunteer March 5 – April 30 peers. Author/Facilitator: Michael F. language conversation skills and meet Income Tax Program (CVITP). In Stewart: http://michaelfstewart.com new friends in a relaxed and friendly order to have a volunteer file your tax

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NOTES FROM THE GARDEN CLUB Growing Colourful Spring Flowering Shrubs

By Carole Love saskatoon berries, which can grow up to 8 feet tall. If quick to pick the latter, Most of us have admired before birds harvest berries, one can rhododendrons, magnolias and other have pies, jam, and jelly. Many currants flowering shrubs in gardens in the bloom and some offer fragrance. spring. On a cold and wintry evening Fothergilla is an easy bloomer with in February, Master Gardener Mary white flowers which can grow in 100% Reid (greenthumbgarden@sympatico. shade and in full sun; not vigorous, the ca) talked about growing such plants in leaves do offer patches of fall colour. Ottawa. Mary began by defining spring Mock orange can be magnificent— – that is the period between March 21 though they do not bloom for long. and June 22; she included a few shrubs Mary advised picking the right that might only sometimes flower in variety of rhododendrons, such as this period. As Ottawa is in zone 5A PJM. Rhododendrons keep their (Top left) Two pink rhododendron shrubs. (Top) A huge forsythia shrub. successful shrubs must be cold hardy. leaves over the winter and, in a windy (Above) A magnolia stellate. PHOTOS BY MARY REID Most shrubs come in different varieties; location, wind will blast through the wise gardeners learn the mature size leaves, desiccating them. An easterly The Firehall at 260 Sunnyside Ottawa as well as in private homes and allow room in the landscape for exposure, away from westerly winds, Avenue when Trish Thompson and gardens, using some innovative full growth. For example, a barberry and acidic soil is best; one variety is ([email protected]) and and traditional products. They will bush can cover an area of 9 x 9 ft. Mary rated for zones 3B or 4A. One can make Marilyn Whitaker (www.oasescapes. discuss living walls, setting them up emphasized most flowering shrubs a winter cover as for magnolias. Mary com) will talk about living walls and selecting suitable plants. require a full six hours of sunshine to recommended watering generously in as can now be seen in some major thrive and well-drained soil offered the the late fall and also watering well in the buildings such as the University of Carole Love is the Old Ottawa South best chances of success. spring. Azaleas in the same plant family Garden Club Treasurer. It doesn’t really matter when one are deciduous in North America. One plants container-grown plants. Mary series is hardy, even to -40°C. Medium- recommended watering well when sized, purple leaf sand cherry shrubs are planting, daily for the first 2 to 3 weeks, often chosen for their purple foliage. and thereafter weekly to the end of the Honeysuckle needs a large space; first season. After that, most shrubs plants are covered with unexceptional require relatively low maintenance. One blossoms. Cotoneaster are hardy can use a watering can or soaker hose and can be sited in full sun or partial to water in the morning; the goal is to shade; they cope with a wide range of ensure leaves do not become wet as this soils, grow low to the ground, and are can encourage fungus or disease. happy with two hours of sun. Japanese Mary started her tour of shrubs with barberry has burgundy foliage all the earliest to blossom in the spring, season long that turns to deep red in the forsythia. Showy yellow flowers arrive fall; it features tiny clusters of yellow before the foliage in April. Buds at the flowers in mid spring. Some barberries

FOR FOR top are sometimes frozen off in a harsh are huge, their thorns prickly and there ALE ALE S S winter. Moving on, some magnolias are winter berries. Lilacs come in many . are very large; plants of 3 to 4 m would varieties, some not as fragrant as the be suitable for a smaller yard. They are common lilac. They don’t like heavy slow growing and some offer leaves clay soil – and are drought tolerant. One with beautiful fall colour. For many variety, the Preston lilac, was developed varieties Ottawa is on the cusp of their by an Ottawa researcher, Isabella hardiness and buds may be frozen in Preston, at the Experimental Farm. winter. However, a few years ago, after Mary concluded with several plants on the cusp of spring flowering, that FOR Your Neighbourhood a mild winter, every magnolia bloomed. ALE S Mary recommended offering protection is they may or may not bloom in the Specialists from westerly winds by locating them spring. Bridal wreath spirea can be a on the east side of a house. She also huge plant—although smaller varieties Contact Lyne & Dominique described the use of stakes and burlap are available. Low maintenance, they for a personal real estate to shelter plants from winter winds— bloom with even two hours of sun a consultation. but cautioned to wait until the ground day. The choices for height, foliage, becomes frozen as critters such as shades of red, and spreads are numerous squirrels will go into shelters and eat for weigela. Mary said potentilla or magnolia (or rhododendron) buds. One cinquefoil usually blooms toward the can paint buds in the fall after leaves end of June, and offers yellow or white drop with a product such as Skoot to blooms. Mary advised not being nice repel squirrels so no munch, munch, to it and not feeding it as it thrives on munch… neglect and can tolerate drought!! Mary noted two native plants, serviceberry, an attractive early bloomer The OOSGC will meet next with beautiful green leaves and tart fall on Monday 11 March 2019 at ©2019 Engel & Völkers Ottawa Central, Brokerage. Each brokerage independently owned & operated. Dominique Milne, Broker. Lyne Burton, Sales Representative. berries that offer a bit of red colour, and Page 30 The OSCAR l March 2019

POETRY Mark your Calendars: Dennis Lee is Coming to VERSeFest this March By Susan J. Atkinson their stages have featured readings by (published in 2017) alongside poets Griffin, Governor General, and Pulitzer Jean-Marc Desgent, Renée Sarojini and That’s right, Dennis Lee will be this Prize winners. Ursula Andkjær Olsen. year’s children’s poet at Ottawa’s This year’s line-up of events also It will have been a busy day for this International Poetry Festival, includes a kick-starter on Saturday award-winning poet as he will have VERSeFest, and kids, we guarantee this March 23rd at City Hall, which spent the earlier part of his morning is one event that you won’t need to beg amongst other activities will showcase entertaining the primary children at your parents to take you to. In fact, they the inauguration of this year’s English OCDSB elementary school, Charles H. are probably going to be just as eager to and French Poet Laureates, as well as Hulse, at a special invitational reading. leave their pyjamas on and have you lead a reading by the Festival’s first Poet- The youngsters at Charles Hulse, many them by the hand for an incredible and in-Residence, Amal el Motar. of whom are new immigrants and memorable time of poetry performed by Also new at the Festival is an art refugees, will have enjoyed a private the amazing and legendary Mr. Lee on installation curated by bill bissett. The morning of poetry and verse in their Saturday March 30th. installation, concrete is porous, will own school gym. This will be a rare and VERSeFest, Ottawa’s International remain on display for the duration of very special treat, which these children Poetry Festival, will return for its ninth the Festival. But for many, both young will surely treasure and remember for annual edition March 26 - 31, 2019, and old, one of the main attractions many years to come. showcasing a diverse and talented this year will be the Saturday morning The general public will have their group of more than 80 poets from six Poetry and Pyjamas event with Dennis own chance to enjoy a little poetry countries. The festival features English Lee. magic as Dennis invites the youngest of and French poetry showcasing the best If you went to a Canadian elementary poetry fans, and of course their parents local, Canadian, and international poets school, you won’t need to be reminded and grandparents as well, to leave on Poet Dennis Lee. performing in both spoken and written who Dennis Lee is. Synonymous with their pyjamas and join in for some of the word genres. As one of Canada’s largest PHOTO BY MELISSA ZILBERBERG Alligator Pie, Nicholas Knock and rollicking rhymes he is well-known and and most successful poetry festivals, Other People, The Ice Cream Store best loved for. and Garbage Delight, Lee has, more than once, been referred to as Canada’s Dennis Lee VERSeFest Ottawa Father Goose. He is the king of appearances include: children’s poetry and given that this will Writersfest Showcase. Friday, March be his first visit back to our fair city in 29 at 7:00 pm, Knox Presbyterian approximately 10 years, his appearance Church, 120 Lisgar Street. at VERSeFest is not to be missed. Poetry & Pyjamas. Saturday, March Lee is also an acclaimed poet for 30 at 10:00 am, Knox Presbyterian adults and is both a Governor General’s Church, 120 Lisgar Street. Literary Award winner and an Officer Stay updated with everything that is of the Order of Canada. His poetry has happening at this year’s VERSeFest been anthologized and read around the on Facebook at www.facebook.com/ world. verseottawa, Twitter at twitter.com/ Perhaps what makes Lee’s visit to this verseottawa, YouTube at goo.gl/ year’s Festival so special is not only will y14jLS or the Website versefest.ca. he be wooing the younger festival-goers at the Poetry and Pyjamas event, slated A Community of Care to take place on Saturday March 30th Susan J. Atkinson is a poet, children’s at 10:00 am at the Knox Presbyterian author and educator. She lives in Old Church, but he will also be performing Ottawa South. GLEBE Chiropractic Clinic + Massage Therapy Centre as part of the Writersfest Showcase is changing its name! on Friday, March 29 at 7:00 pm. It is expected that Lee will read work from his collected poems Heart Residence We are excited to announce that on March 1st we will be operating under a new name, CURAVITA Health Group. This summer, we will also be relocating to a building on Third Avenue in the Glebe and expanding the scope of services we offer. Insured. Bonded. Our new clinic will be larger, modern and state-of-the-art Professional. that will allow us to continue to provide excellence in care and service to our patients. You deserve a better We look forward to continuing to be of service to you! house cleaning experience.

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Senate in a Train Station Unlike the House of Commons, the Senate has been moved off Parliament Hill entirely. That means the tour of the new Senate chamber offers a bonus: the chance to peek behind the massive Beaux-Arts columns of Ottawa’s former be pleased to know that the chairs here train station, opposite the Fairmont are all new and quite cushy. Visitors Chateau Laurier hotel. The building with mobility impairments have has served as a government conference accessible seats, too. And both tours centre for years, so opportunities for the offer the same mix of quirky details and general public to see inside were rare. It’s sober historical context that Hill tours a bit of a shock to realize this gorgeous have always provided. space—with its vast domed ceiling It’s easy to book your free tour online decorated with intricate plasterwork, at visit.parl.ca. Tours aren’t offered and its huge arched windows flooding when the House is sitting. If you want the space with light—has been lurking to watch debates and Question Period, in the shadow of the Rideau Centre all you can just walk in and ask for a seat; these years. they’re available on a first-come, first- As it was in the Centre Block, this served basis. If you want to make sure temporary home to 105 senators is you’ll get in, you can also request a seat decorated in deep red shades. A new in advance through your member of twist are the images of maple leaves Parliament. everywhere, including those woven into the carpet and embossed in the glass of the entrance doors. (Side note: Did you Travel writer and OOS resident Lau- know that there are roughly a dozen ra Byrne Paquet runs OttawaRoad- types of maple trees native to Canada? Trips.com, where she offers tips and All of them are represented here.) ideas for independent day trips and If you’re visiting either chamber to weekend getaways from Ottawa, and see parliamentarians in action and you where an expanded version of this remember the small, hard chairs from article is available. the Centre Block public galleries, you’ll

(Top left) In the new temporary House of Commons chamber, office windows that once looked into an outdoor courtyard now overlook the seats and desks that were moved here from the Centre Block. (Top right) The vivid red carpet in the Senate chamber is decorated with maple leaves. (Above) With its decorated dome and soaring columns, the one-time train station that now houses the temporary Senate chambers was one of Ottawa’s first Beaux Arts buildings. PHOTOS BY LAURA BYRNE PAQUET By Laura Byrne Paquet Commons chamber, cleverly fitted into a former open-air courtyard. Exterior Given the weather this winter, you may walls are now interior ones, and the be less than enthusiastic about planning whole shebang has been covered with a road trip. Fortunately, this month’s a glass roof supported by huge metal day trip suggestion doesn’t require buttresses. Louvres on the roof control you to drive anywhere: the temporary how much light enters the chamber—a digs for the House of Commons concern for TV crews in particular, our and the Senate—created to house guide Pierre-Luc Gagné explained. parliamentarians during renovations The iconic green-upholstered House to the Centre Block on Parliament of Commons chairs are now arrayed in Hill—are just a quick bus trip from Old a chamber that’s similar to the historic Ottawa South. room in the Centre Block, down to the If you’re touring the House of thick gold curtains and wood accents. Commons chamber, you’ll start from “The first thing that grabs my attention the new subterranean Visitor Welcome is how little it has changed,” said Gagné. Centre, between the West Block and The average viewer watching Question the Centre Block. Inside, it’s all curving Period on CPAC, he said, “would not lines and sleek stone—a much nicer realize the House of Commons has introduction to Canada’s governmental moved.” buildings than the cramped hallway However, there are some notable where visitors have been entering the differences. Most strikingly, the walnut Centre Block in recent years. panelling behind the Speaker’s chair and elsewhere is decorated with eye- House of Commons in a Courtyard catching wooden fretwork designed Once you’re through security, your to invite interpretation. “People see all guide will take you down a long sorts of things in them: hockey sticks, hallway to the West Block, where the wheat, snowshoes…fish bones…. star attraction is the new House of and that’s by design,” Gagné said, explaining that the architects didn’t Page 32 The OSCAR l March 2019

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