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O•S•C•A•R© The Community Voice of Old Ottawa South Year 38 , No. 8 The Ottawa South Community Association Review SEPT 2010 A Time To Celebrate!!

Cutting the Ribbon - Architext Anthony Leaning, MPP Yasir Naqui, By Brenda Lee of them are boys under 5 and this is Counsillor Clive Doucet and OSCA President Michael Jenkin big news for them still), and to be a Photo by M A Thompson t does not seem that long ago that part of something that involved their I wrote the article announcing whole neighbourhood. I watched them the Farwell to the Firehall event. greet friends, drag them into rooms to I have a look, try out elevators, dance I wrote about tradition, community, looking back as we looked forwards in front of mirrors, and every now and the basic need we all have to feel and then just start jumping up and connected. I also wrote about how the down in excitement. Then I took a Firehall had been a meeting place, the wider look around and saw people I hub as it were, for our community for had not seen in years, people who had years and that I hoped that while we worked so hard to make this possible. recalled those memories we also still I saw neighbours, friends, and a whole had room for new ones. community all beaming at each other On June 29th the Firehall was and barely keeping themselves from officially reopened and I was there jumping up and down as well. It with my day care children to see the reminded me of what this building has ribbon cut and the doors opened. I been and what it will be again….it is watched them during the ceremony a cog in the wheel that is Old Ottawa and thought again about tradition, South. It is where we meet, play, memories and the simple joy of being laugh, learn and where we all connect a part of a community. They were so as members of this great community. excited to see this building redone, On Sept. 26th from 2-5 the OSCA watched all year as the construction Special Events Committee invites went on, cried if we had to go another the neighbourhood to a community route on the walk home and they had celebration of this newly renovated to miss a day of progress. I know they Firehall. were not the only ones keeping an eye There will be special appearances on this project and anxiously awaiting by Little John the Clown at 2:30 and The it’s completion. Cowguys at 3:30. Also treats, games, They were thrilled to be there tours and fun for the whole family! on the day of the opening, (see page Best of all…..NO SPEECHES!! 3 for a photo the children) so happy So come out, celebrate our to run through the rooms and see the community, our new Firehall, our new changes, (the biggest thrill seemed to possibilities for many many years of be the fact that there was now a small memories…and most importantly… urinal in the boys bathroom…but three check out those urinals!! Page 2 The OSCAR - OUR 37th YEAR SEPT 2010

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Distribution is free to all Old Ottawa South homes and Sept 17 (Oct issue), Oct 15 (Nov issue), Nov 12 (Dec issue) businesses and selected locations in Old Ottawa South, the Glebe and Billings Bridge. Opinions expressed are those of the authors and not necessarily of The OSCAR or OSCA. The editor retains the right to edit and include articles submitted for publication. The Old Firehall FOR DISTRIBUTION INQUIRIES, Ottawa South Community Centre CALL 613-327-9080 or email: [email protected] The OSCAR thanks [email protected] the following people who brought us to your door this month: HOURS PHONE 613 247-4946 ZONE A1: Kathy Krywicki (Coordinator), Mary Jo Lynch, Brian Eames and Kim Barclay, Wendy Robbins, Jim and Carrol Robb, Terri-Lee Lefebvre, MONDAY TO THURSDAY 9 AM TO 9 PM Becky Sasaki, Kevin and Stephanie Williams. FRIDAY 9 AM TO 6 PM ZONE B1: Ross Imrie (Coordinator), Family Gref- Innes, Gabriela Gref-Innes and Fiona Fagan, the Montgomery family, Laurie Morrison, SATURDAY 9 AM TO 1 PM* Susanne Ledbetter. SUNDAY CLOSED ZONE B2: Craig Piche (Coordinator), Pat Eakins, Laine Mow, Hayley *Open only when programs are operating, please call first. Atkinson, Leslie Roster, Kathy Krywicki. ZONE C1: Laura Johnson (Coordinator), the Williams family, Josh Rahaman, Lynne Myers, Jeff Pouw, Curt LaBond, Brendan McCoy, the Woroniuk-Ryan family. WHAT’S THAT NUMBER? ZONE C2: Craig Piche (Coordinator), Alan McCullough, Owain O’Connor, Curt LaBond, Charles and Phillip Kijek, Sam & Avery Piche, Kit Jenkin, Michel and Christina Bridgeman. Ottawa South Community Centre - The Old Firehall 247-4946 ZONE D1: Bert Hopkins (Coordinator), Emily Keys, the Lascelles family, Ottawa South Community Association (OSCA) 247-4872 Gail Stewart, Gabe Teramura, Oliver Waddington, Sullivan-Greene family, Ottawa Public Library - South Branch 730-1082 the Sprott family. Rob Campbell - [email protected] 730-8128 ZONE D2: Janet Drysdale (Coordinator), The Adriaanse Family, Gaia Kathy Ablett, Catholic Board Trustee 526-9512 Chernushenko, The Rand family, Aidan and Willem Ray, the Stewart family. Centretown Community Health Centre 233-5430 ZONE E1:Brian Tansey(Coordinator) , Wendy Johnston, the Rae Brown- CARLETON UNIVERSITY Clarke Family (esp. Katie), Anna Cuylits, Sutherland family (esp. Edwina CUSA (Carleton U Students Association) 520-6688 and John), Sanger-O’Neil family. Graduate Students Association 520-6616 ZONE E2: Chris Berry (Coordinator), Mary-Ann Kent, Glen Elder and Community Liaison 520-3660 Lorraine Stewart, the Hunter family, Brodkin-Haas family, Allan Paul, Mediation Centre 520-5765 Christina Bradley, Caroline Calvert, Larry Ostler. Athletics 520-4480 ZONE F1: Carol and Ferg O’Connor (Coordinator), Jenny O’Brien, the CITY HALL Stern family, T. Liston, Ellen Bailie, Dante and Bianca Ruiz, Wendy Kemp, Kelly Haggart and Taiyan Roberts, Walter and Robbie Engert. Clive Doucet, City Councillor ([email protected]) 580-2487 ZONE F2: Bea Bol (Coordinator), the Tubman family, Paulette Theriault, Main Number(24 hrs) for all departments 3-1-1 Ryan Zurakowski, Susan McMaster, Paige Raymond, Pierre Guevremont, Community Police - non-emergencies 236-1222 Cheryl Hyslop. Emergencies only 9-1-1 ZONE G: Bernie Zeisig(Coordinator), Claudia and Estelle Bourlon- Serious Crimes 230-6211 Albarracin, David Lum, Cindy MacLoghlin, Hannah and Emily Blackwell, Ottawa Hydro 738-6400 Katya and Mikka Zeisig. Streetlight Problems (burned out, always on, flickering) 3-1-1 Echo Drive: Alex Bissel. Brewer Pool 247-4938 Bank Street-Ottawa South: Rob Cook, Tom Lawson, Paula Archer. Brewer Arena 247-4917 Bank Street-Glebe: Larry Ostler. City of Ottawa web site - www.city.ottawa.on.ca Ottawa East: Brian Lowley, Dave White. SEPT 2010 The OSCAR - OUR 37th YEAR Page 3

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

The OSCAR welcomes letters on subjects of interest to the community or in response to previous articles. All letters must disclose the name of the writer, as well as the address and phone number. Lettters may be edited for length, clarity, and libelous statements. The opinions of the writers are not necessarily those of the newspaper or its editor. Email your letters to [email protected] or leave in print at the Firehall. Sense Of Entitlement In Our Kids Norma Reveler, former editor of after a long battle e CAN teach our kids not to view themselves as entitled. We can OSCAR died July 21, 2010 with skin cancer at the age of 46. She graduated from Carleton do this in many ways, doing little things, on a daily basis. How- with a degree in journalism and received a bachelor in education ever, it seems to me that we focus more on teaching this value W at the University of PEI. She spent seven years in Japan, where more within the family than within the community. For example, I have been she served as THR’s Tokyo correspondent from 1992 to 1998. saddened to notice over the years that too many in our community seem to Norma was also the former editor of Communications Reports, ignore trash in front of their homes. Something that happened in July this a broadcasting industry news service. She also worked as a con- year made me realize it was getting worse. tributor to Cartt.ca, a telecom and broadcasting industry publica- In early July I had noticed the street sweeping machine coming by and tion. In 2006 Norma joined the Canadian Paralympic Committee. then within a week I noticed that there was broken glass and ceramic in many She was the CPC’s head of media relations at the 2008 Beijing places along our street and on the sidewalk. Then several days later, broken Paralympic Games. Despite her illness Norma covered the Banff glass appeared on the street in front of our house. I decided to sweep it up, World Television Festival in mid-June. feeling a little self conscious with my broom on the street. But it got me thinking. Indeed, actions speak louder than words. My little girl observed me sweeping up the glass, and asked questions about why I was doing that. I explained that it is in everyone’s best interest to participate in maintaining a clean and healthy community. That we shouldn’t just sit back and wait for the city to take care of our community’s sidewalks, streets and parks – there’s only so much the city can do without more tax hikes. But I also noticed that Send your none of the broken glass and ceramic further down the street had been picked up. comments to So I decided to write this appeal for others in our community to do the same. If trash is on the street in front of your sidewalk – pick it up and throw [email protected] it in recycling or the garbage bin. If it’s broken glass – sweep it up. Don’t or drop them off at the Firehall, wait for a bike to have a flat tire or for a child to get cut. If you’re walking the dog or taking the kids to the park – bring a couple spare plastic bags along, 260 Sunnyside Avenue. using one to pick up trash and the other to collect the trash along the way – don’t just pretend it’s not there. By doing so, you’ll be showing you care, that you’re taking action. If you’ve got kids along, they’ll probably ask you about why you’re doing that – what a great opportunity to explain values. If you’re alone, you might stimulate other kids and adults to reflect on what I may not agree with what you have to say, you’re doing. And who knows, perhaps others will follow. but I will defend to the death, your right to A concerned neighbor. say it. ....Voltaire

F. Clement

Rapt Attention at Firehall Opening Ceremony

Brenda’s day care children watching the opening ceremonies of the Renovated Firehall Photo by Tom Alfoldi Page 4 The OSCAR - OUR 37th YEAR SEPT 2010

SEPTEMBER at the Firehall

By Deirdre McQuillan PORCH SALE – Saturday, September 11 from 9 am to 3 pm Hope you all had a great summer and are ready for lots of new and exciting Party! Party! Party! programs at the new wonderful COMMUNITY OPEN HOUSE – Firehall – check out the brochure in Sunday, September 26 from 2 pm to this issue for all our programs. 5 pm – fun and games for adults and children – tours of the new Firehall. Try one of our FREE SAMPLER CLASSES for adults and children in INFORMATION and the first week of September. Spaces REGISTRATION for all OSCA are limited so register at www. programs at: www.oldottawasouth. oldottawasouth.ca starting August ca - just follow the RED registration 20. signs or call us at 613-247-4946 or drop by the Firehall at 260 Sunnyside ONLINE REGISTRATION for Fall Avenue. Programs starts on Wednesday, September 1 at 8:00 PM OSCA SPRING SOCCER - thanks to Jennifer Small and Kevin Cowell IN PERSON/PHONE for coordinating this year’s soccer REGISTRATION program. Unfortunately, Kevin has Thursday, September 2 from 9:00 AM now left the neighbourhood (how at the Firehall. could he!) and will be greatly missed next season. AFTER FOUR 2010/11 – is FULL Thanks also to all the parent . The campers did a 6klm walk to Campquest Day Camp with a number of people on the volunteers - you all helped to make explore the Lusk Caves at Lac Philippe. They are pictured here at the waitlist. the season a resounding success. end of their adventure which took them through the water filled marble caves that were formed over the centuries by melting ice glaciers.

Public Invited to Area Traffic Management Study Open House at Southminster United on September 15 By Leo B. Doyle

t the request of OSWatch, the planning, de- velopment and traffic sub-committee of the AOttawa South Community Association, a second Open House will take place to gather public input for the Old Ottawa South Area Traffic Man- agement Study. The Open House will take place on Wednes- day, September 15, from 7 to 9 pm, at Southmin- ster United Church on 15 Aylmer Avenue at Bank Street (Lady’s Parlour). An Open House for the Old Ottawa South study took place on April 28, but it was not well publicized and OSWatch felt a second meeting was required to adequately canvas the community’s views, which are needed to inform the process. The impact of the City’s decision in June to use Sunnyside Avenue as a major bus conduit to serve the sole-sourced, re-development and expansion of March 15, 2005. Paramedics attend to a pedestrian, a young woman, who was hit by a car while cross- Lansdowne Park and its stadium was also a factor ing Sunnyside at Seneca. Fortunately, her injuries were minor. Six months later, on September 26, that led to calls for an additional Open House. Mr. 2005, a young man was run over by a car at the same Sunnyside intersection. He suffered far more Brendan McCoy, the OSWatch Chair, said “Lans- serious injuries that have rendered him a paraplegic. The Area Traffic Management study will look at downe and its direct traffic consequences, espe- ways to make such intersections safer for all. cially for Sunnyside, is a very large, new issue that requires more opportunity for input.” This study is intended to address such traf- stantiate the reported concerns of the community. Getting sufficient public input is very important fic concerns, and also aims to assess the potential If these concerns are substantiated through the to this process because area residents have been re- impacts on the Old Ottawa South community that data collection and analysis exercise, a strategy to questing this study for over ten years. Despite on- could flow from a Glebe Traffic Plan proposal to address them will be developed and assessed for going support from OSCA and Capital Ward Coun- restrict right turns from Bronson Avenue into the feasibility. cillor Clive Doucet, the Old Ottawa South study Glebe during the morning peak period. The study is being overseen by Mr. Bob only received City of Ottawa funding following a In the past, community concerns have included Streicher, Program Manager, Area Traffic Manage- series of accidents in 2005 in which two pedestrians the impact of cut-through traffic in the neighbour- ment Planning and Growth Management, City Of were hit by cars on Sunnyside Avenue in separate hood, speeding, pedestrian safety and aggressive Ottawa. As the study is ongoing, comments can be incidents. The more serious of the two accidents driving practices. According to Morrison Hersh- sent to Mr. Streicher at any time at the following: left a young man a paraplegic. He’d been waiting field, the consulting firm hired by the City of Ottawa Fax: 613-560-6069 E-mail: Bob.Streicher@ottawa. for the bus on the corner of Sunnyside and Seneca, to carry out the study, it will include a comprehen- ca when he was run over by an out-of-control, east- sive review of the existing traffic conditions within bound SUV. the Old Ottawa South community to confirm/sub- SEPT 2010 The OSCAR - OUR 37th YEAR Page 5

OSCA PRESIDENT’S REPORT OSCA Porch Sale, Fall Programming, and Open House

By Michael Jenkin you to consider making a contribution afternoon. So come in and celebrate determined, programmes. to OSCA of 10% of your sales our new community centre! trust you are all having an revenue to help defray our publicity Lansdowne Issues enjoyable, and maybe if you are costs and help with our fund raising Firehall Renovation Redux Despite Council’s approval in really lucky, a restful, summer. activities. You can drop off, or mail, As many of you know from principle of the project at the end of I your contribution to the Firehall As the Board does not meet during renovating your own home, the June, there are many, many items still July and August there has been a bit (260 Sunnyside Avenue, Ottawa ON, process always takes longer than to be decided about exact nature of the of a lull in community association K1S 0R7). If you are mailing in a imagined and there are always bits development, including the potential business, although the Lansdowne contribution, please send a cheque, and pieces that need to be adjusted, re- location of heritage buildings, saga continues to occupy our time not cash, payable to OSCA. fixed or redone. So it is with our the final design and character of the and attention (more about that below). community centre renovation. There “public” part of the park, or the “front The autumn is, however, shaping up to Fall Programming at the is a long list of items (mostly small lawn”, and the relationship between be a busy time of events and issues to Firehall things, but they do tend to add up!) that that public area and the retail and engage one. Here’s a few highlights. In this issue you will see a copy need to be attended to and hopefully commercial side of the development. of our fall programming guide. This most of them will be fixed before The City will also be moving, very Annual OSCA Porch Sale – is our first season back in the new programming starts in earnest in early rapidly, to apply for zoning changes Saturday, 11 September Firehall and we are very excited September. A lot of the items relate to the park to permit the commercial This is the great excuse to clean about it. Obviously, we are going to to flooring issues in the main hall, and residential development on the out the closets and basement and off be learning a lot this autumn about the pottery studio and the new mutli- site which will doubtless raise many load your precious, but no longer how programming works in the new purpose rooms. The new basement issues about the height and density of needed, items. Lots of people and expanded facility and what the room looks due to get proper flooring the buildings and development that from outside, as well as inside, the opportunities are for doing new and installed and drywall on the exposed will be allowed. OSWATCH will community turn out for this event different things, so expect over the concrete walls (things which were not be making a presentation to Planning that runs from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., next year or so to start seeing some in the original specification in order to and Environment Committee on rain or shine. There is lots of advice innovations in our programming save money) which will considerably these and related issues early in around on what sells best and the offerings as we experiment to see improve the appearance of this large September. As part of the large truth is it is hard to predict; clothes, what works best. You can register for activity room. number of motions passed at the June furniture, books, electronic gadgets, OSCA programmes on-line at www. One of the major decisions the 28 meeting of Council on Lansdowne, CDs and records, videos, toys and oldottawasouth.ca, or you can still Board and the Programme Committee was a resolution instructing City games - you name it - they all seem come in to the Firehall and register in will have to take in a few months’ time staff to include OSCA and the to have their attraction. Some people person if you prefer; see the Guide for is what kinds of activities to program Glebe Community Association more even have a good line in selling home details and registration dates. into the new large basement room. effectively in the implementation baking and coffee, or their own craft The choice is between using the space process. Caroline Vanneste, the work or art; really the limit is only Firehall Open House – as a general purpose activity room President of GCA, and I have been your imagination. It’s the one time in Saturday, 26 September or as a fitness centre with exercise in discussions with the City Manager, the year when we get hoards of people For those of you who missed equipment installed. While the room Kent Kirkpatrick, over the last few out, so take advantage of it! the official opening of the Firehall is designed to serve a number of weeks concerning how this will be As in previous years OSCA on June29, and want to see what the purposes, including as a fitness centre, implemented. Hopefully by the time will be publicizing the event and new centre looks like, we are hosting the challenge will be to determine the you read this a mechanism will have using the event to fund raise to help an Open House to show off the new financial and programming trade- been worked out. I will be updating support community based activities facility on Saturday, September 26 offs between that specialized use and you further on Lansdowne issues in throughout the year. So we would ask between 2:00 and 5:00 p.m. in the using the room for other, as yet to be my October column. A Man It Is An Honour To Honour By Brenda Lee encouraged others to do so, but he did it with such a confident attitude that short while ago a discussion people could not help but be drawn occurred between OSCA in. He led committees, helped out at Board Members concerning countless fundraisers, petitioned City A Hall, local and federal government, the naming of the Main Hall in the new Firehall after our president went to endless meetings, planning Michael Jenkin. sessions and brainstorming missions. I was immediately brought back He was remarkable in his drive and to a time ( 10 years ago) when plans in his appreciation of others’ work. to raise money for the Firehall were The time that he took away from first underway. Michael was involved his family and his personal time in then, and has been through this whole order to make sure this happened is something none of us will ever truly process. He has been in every way Vice President, David Law stepped gratification and immediate response, understand. He did it for the simple the backbone of this endeavor. He forward to congratulate Michael I suppose it is surprising that a man reason that he knew what was right was unwavering in his determination and to offer him our thanks as a would be able to hold that gauntlet for and what we needed and he refused and belief that this neighbourhood community for all of his hard work, so many years and to strike forward to believe anything else. He led this would get the community centre that patience and devotion to this project. unflinchingly toward a goal that he community in getting this renovation it deserves. I must admit that I did David then officially pronounced that truly believed in. However, it should and it took him 10 years to do so. It is falter in my belief, I am sure others henceforth the Main Hall of the Old come as no surprise that we as a a remarkable feat. did as well, and I admire Michael Ottawa South Community Centre community are grateful, humbled He did this with no expectation of in his steadfastness. No matter what would be known as Michael Jenkin and extremely thankful that Michael recognition or thanks. He is a quiet happened, no matter when we spoke, Hall. Heartfelt applause broke out, as Jenkin and many others did so. We and modest man, selfless in many Michael was always positive. He knew Michael humbly stepped forward and look forward to many years in our ways, and it is indeed a privilege not that we deserved this as a community, accepted this acknowledgment. To new Firehall and to many years in the only to know him, but also to be a part he refused to back down from what say that he was surprised would be an Hall named after such a remarkable of this dedication to him. he knew was right or to be beset understatement. man. On June 29th during the official by malaise. He not only constantly In these days of instant moved forward on this project and opening of the Firehall, OSCA Page 6 The OSCAR - OUR 37th YEAR SEPT 2010 Pansy-Carlyle “Tot-Lot”: A New Greenspace & Playspace in Old Ottawa South? By Carol English

e all know that our Glebe dwelling neighbours to our north have many Wsmall parks threaded though their neighbourhood: There are parks with play equipment, parks with ponds and frogs and fish, and parks just to sit and picnic in, there is even a park just for dogs! But, somehow, Old Ottawa South, west of Bank Street, with its smaller houses and yards has only Brewer Park. Brewer is great – but for younger kids north of busy Sunnyside Avenue it is not accessible except by expedition with grownup. Our Pansy-Carlyle community, with its tiny homes and stamp-sized yards is particularly in need of some communal kids’ playspace. The need for a playspace is a safety issue as well. During the summer parents take turns standing on the street watching kids and keeping a lookout for cars. Still a few recent narrow misses by speeding cars have the community concerned. Earlier this summer five- year old Marieke Westeinde-Bakker was almost hit by a car filled with students as it speeded around the corner from Woodbine Lane onto Carlyle Avenue. Local drivers are generally careful but students from Carleton -- small park just down the street sounds excellent to need to find out what Hydro-Ottawa’s intentions are and folks looking for shortcuts to avoid the traffic at him. He loves the idea of a place his Mom or Dad regarding this land. Speculatively they might be Sunnyside and Bank -- present an ongoing danger can take him to run and play and explore safely willing to leave the land open for a park because of without having to go all the way to Brewer Park. the underground equipment. An offer by the city to Think of a place where older brothers and sisters share or cover land remediation costs might be one could take younger siblings for a game of catch possible approach. before dinner with parents knowing that everyone The alternative is to sit back and let Hydro is two minutes from home and easy to find. Bart’s Ottawa and the City pass along the land at a good family movie nights could move 30 metres south, price to a developer who could use it to build off the street and into a protected venue. The condominiums, blocking out light, cutting down community could start a small flower garden and, trees, and adding even more traffic as the access talking advantage of Susan Wellisch’s extensive and egress to the property would most likely have to experience building community gardens; even do be from Carlyle and Woodbine lane due to the land some container vegetable gardening. With all the elevation and the buried equipment on the South artists in the neighbourhood we might hold informal side of the lot. children’s mini-theatre events where the local kids Members of OSWATCH have been very could perform. A small park as a safe communal encouraging but there is lots more to do to follow to our kids. gathering space has any number of creative uses. up on this idea. Given the potential cost to the city The city is doing an Area Traffic Management ____ we need to make a strong case to the city of why a Study for Old Ottawa South for the area surrounding I spoke to Bruce Finlay and Nelson Edwards, the park would be of more value to us than more infill Sunnyside between Bronson and Bank. The listed contacts for the City of Ottawa’s Greenspace housing. Next steps are to contact Hydro to see if outcome of the study will include recommendations Master Plan, on Monday, Aug. 9. Apparently, there there are time lines for disposal of the property or to improve traffic safety in the area. Unfortunately, is a precedent for city greenspace, not only for if, indeed, they do plan to sell it off. We need to there are no simple solutions to the traffic situation larger city parks such as Brewer but for the smaller recontact Clive Doucet prior to the election and, in our immediate area as blocking off parts of “tot-lot” play areas that we see in many other areas possibly, to see which of our mayoral candidates Woodbine Lane or Carlyle or Pansy would present of the city. In fact, we have regulations concerning might lend us support. It is only a small piece of other emergency access safety complications. the amount of space developers must hold back land but it would have a big positive impact if we Happily, a serendipitous event is soon to free up for this greenspace. But older areas such as OOS were able to follow through and create a new pocket a small piece of land at the end of Carlyle Avenue present a problem as there is little or no extra space park for our local children. If anyone is interested which could be developed into a solution. For many available and the land is considered too valuable to in getting involved in and/or supporting this project years we’ve had a stepping-down Hydro station on use for anything but housing. The City of Ottawa please contact Carol English at her email address Woodbine Lane just at the end of Carlyle Avenue. has therefore given developers the option of paying [email protected]. No longer needed, it was recently decommissioned money to the city in lieu of designating part of their by Hydro-Ottawa. The buildings on this site are development as greenspace. The money paid into slated for removal sometime in the next year or so, this “in lieu” fund is available to the community though some functioning equipment will remain through our city councillors. buried underground at the front-end of the property If Clive Doucet, or whoever replaces him as along Sunnyside Avenue. Hydro workers are councillor, supports this project, this fund can be coming by weekly to remove previously functioning used for park development. In other words we may parts of the equipment. One of these days a flat already have the money to designate for this project. bed truck will pull up and remove the buildings’ At present the land is zoned as residential. This outer shells. This will leave us with an empty lot zoning would need to be changed. Parks would of approximately 30 square meters, accessible from have to be involved if the land were designated as Carlyle Avenue with enough for a wonderful small a city park. park where our kids can play safely. Bruce Findlay was finally able to answer my ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­Hugo lives with his mom and dad on Carlyle question about the present land ownership: The land Avenue. He is just learning to walk. His home is owned by Hydro Ottawa. If and when they decide has a small deck out back -- but no yard -- so his to sell it they must give the City of Ottawa the right mom takes him walking up and down the street for of first refusal with respect to buying the land at fair practice. Hugo enjoys meeting the neighbours but market value. This is not great news as we all know he realizes that soon enough he will want to do more the high value of land in OOS, however this is no than just walk next to his mom on the sidewalk. A reason to give up before we’ve even started. We still SEPT 2010 The OSCAR - OUR 37th YEAR Page 7

CITY COUNCILLOR’S REPORT Last Column As City Councillor

Dear OSCAR Readers: Bank Street in Old Ottawa South years ago and would have funnelled good governance, of sound planning, was fully reconstructed. Extensive even more traffic into the ward if we and of financial prudence failed to rehabilitation and replacement of old had not opposed it. be recognized by a 15 to 9 vote of Morning on the Water flood prone sewer systems have been I am leaving with a feeling of council. This project sets a number carried out in many parts of the ward. accomplishment for myself and the of unfortunate precedents which will There is celestial order A new pedestrian bridge over the many friends I had the pleasure of cost us all dearly in the long run. Canal will happen within a few years working with on all of these projects I would have preferred to be able which floats in contract to the previous one which over the years. It is my hope for the to have these citywide issues progress in still cobwebbs took nearly two decades to get done. ward that whoever will replace me in manner similar to the ward specific above clear water. We saved the Mayfair Theatre. will enjoy a similar vision for a more projects I listed at outset of this article. It is as timeless Under the banner of sustainability robust, self-sustaining community I still hope we can repair the damage as mountain tops, and quality of our food: every and develop new projects to enhance done. as splendid neighbourhood now has a farmers’ that vision. My very best wishes to you as as spring flowers. market featuring local and in many I do have disappointments but summer draws to a close; it has been It weaves cases organic produce. The Lansdowne they are citywide as opposed to my great pleasure to serve our ward in evanescent nets Farmer’s Market is the largest and Capital ward specific. these past 12 years and I wish my disappearing with the sun. most well known throughout the city replacement many successes and Forgotten but each market contributes to both The biggest disappointment was happy years. for another day the neighbourhood’s vitality and the trashing of a realizable electric the mortality of moments the sustainability of our local food light rail plan for the City. We the infinity of days. Clive supply. This is the way of the future should have had a north-south line

and Capital Ward has led the way in in service last year with an east-west - from Canal Seasons the City. line halfway done by now. We lost Clive Doucet In the face of ever increasing a billion dollars in investment in our his is my last column as your Councillor, Capital Ward traffic, Old Ottawa East and the Glebe city, paid a 37 million contract penalty city councillor. I begin it with City of Ottawa have City approved traffic calming and lost well over a decade of time. the poem that opens ‘Canal T plans, which are in the process of This was our greatest lost opportunity. 110 Laurier Avenue West Seasons’. Poems from this little book reshaping the streetscapes for the Another tough time for me was Ottawa, ON, K1P 1J1 have often decorated my columns, I better. Old Ottawa South has an area the worst transit strike in Ottawa’s did so because ‘Canal Seasons’ is a (613) 580-2487 traffic management plan being created history ever. Months wasted only to hopeful book and I wanted to start my [email protected] now. All new sidewalks are wider go to binding arbitration, which could columns with hope. and flatter than they used to be and have been done at the outset and saved It has been a wonderful 12 years less prone to icing up in the winter much personal and financial suffering for Capital Ward. Old Ottawa South thanks to new citywide standards. for so many. and the Glebe community centres have We haven’t gotten all the changes Lastly Lansdowne Park was an been fully renovated. Brantwood and recommended by these traffic plans enormous disappointment, which I Heron Park field houses have or are yet but we would have had no progress do not regard as ward specific issue being significantly improved to better without these studies. The Alta Vista because its ramifications are truly serve their neighbourhoods. Our Expressway would have been built citywide. Significant failures of Sunnyside library is being renovated.

City Planners Oppose a CDP for OOS Roundabouts

Brendan McCoy, not want a CDP”. They explained requirements on a neighborhood modern roundabout is OSWATCH Co-Chair that they saw a CDP as being for basis, such as allowing front yard an un-signalized circular areas of very substantial new and parking or even banning front yard intersection engineered intensified development based often garages but there would need to be A y Co-Chair Mohammad to maximize safety and minimize al-Asad and I met with on rezoning, such as in greenfields, community wide support. This issue traffic delay. two City Planners on or a mainstreet where there could be had come up in the meeting for the 71 All traffic circulates counter- M high-rise development. The planners Hopewell development where many, clockwise within the roundabout May 21. We began by expressing the dismay local residents were maintained this position through the including Clive, suggested parking in always to the right of the central feeling about a number of recent meeting. Also they said they did not front of the units and no garage. island. residential redevelopments and infill think we could have any study or The advice we received was Unlike a traffic circle, such developments which were out of zoning change in OOS that was not contrary to that we have been as the one located on Prince of character with the neighborhood, done for the rest of the city. The City receiving from the Councillor’s office Wales Drive at the Experimental reduced the attractiveness of streets Planners argued that our problem, if for the last few years and OSWATCH Farm, traffic entering the round- and overwhelmed existing houses. there was one, was with the whole will need to follow this up. Do we about must yield to traffic within Based on this we emphasized the zoning by-law. They wanted concrete continue to pursue a CDP despite the roundabout. community’s strong wish to have a examples of how houses which were this advice? If we don’t do a CDP is Characteristics of a Round- CDP, and pointed out that we were allowed to be built recently were in there another process to obtain the about on the record two years ago with this violation of good planning principles. longer term community plan that Low speed on approach position. We said we understood that We promised to provide them. there is clearly community interest in. Approaching vehicles yield there were limited resources and that We had an extensive discussion OSWATCH has already begun to look to traffic within roundabout the City might feel other areas were a of parking. There is a provision in the at these issues. Vehicles drive counter- higher priority. So we suggested that zoning by-law that prohibits more than OSWATCH will meet the first clockwise within roundabout a smaller more limited “residential 50% of the frontage being driveway, Tuesday of the month of July at St. Low speed on exit infill study” would be acceptable as but there is also an exception to allow Margaret Mary Church. We may take Continuous movement of a first step. We were even prepared each unit a driveway of at least 2.6 August off, but in September we will traffic to help fund a study if it was a step meters. So the driveways can, and be back at our Community Center, the If you have any questions to improving the local zoning, and often will be, more than 50% of the Firehall, and new members are always or comments related to Round- therefore the quality of new residential frontage in the case of townhomes. welcome. abouts or this web page, please buildings. The City Planners thought we might be e-mail [email protected]. The two planners said we “did able to look at changes to the parking Page 8 The OSCAR - OUR 37th YEAR SEPT 2010 Life of Pie Moves to Bank Street

By Anna Redman disappearing off the menu, despite the new treats Life of Pie has in store, the classics will remain t the intersection of Hopewell and Leonard solid staples. Both sweet and savoury are listed on lies one of Old Ottawa South’s best kept the Life of Pie website under products. Butter tarts, secrets. People who don’t live in the area brownies, soups, cinnamon buns, dips and spreads A are amongst the established. are not necessarily acquainted with the delightfully delicious delicacies that can be found there, but they Any favourites can be specially ordered, soon will be. Life of Pie is relocating to a bigger contingent on the availability of ingredients, and and better venue on Bank Street. With their move at picked up at a specified time. Life of Pie also offers the end of August comes new products, a new place “Ready to Bake,” and “Freezer,” products which and new publicity, looks like the secret’s out. can be kept frozen in your own home until needed. sugar when baking their products “so people don’t Currently, there is no official opening date for Preparation is simple, either bake or thaw. have to feel too guilty about treating themselves.” the new store, located next door to the recently The new location will have very limited seating. Life of Pie is essential to the Old Ottawa South opened Taylor’s Genuine Wine Bar, but the goal There will be some stools along the bar for waiting, community. Not only are they a successful business is early September. When the Bank Street location but no specifically designed seating area. Therefore, themselves, but they also support other local does open, the quaint shop on Leonard Avenue will at home is still the primary place to enjoy Life of businesses when purchasing their ingredients. “We permanently close. Pie products. like to use local ingredients when we can and the But as one door closes, another opens and As the new location becomes established best ingredients that we can find. We use Beking with it comes some delectable acquisitions. Kerry new products will be added to expand the menu. eggs [and] get a lot of our fresh fruit from Warners AKA The Pie Lady says they “have lots of changes Cupcakes, scones and muffins will be sold per stall at the Landsdowne Market. We use Berkshire planned but will be making them gradually.” These diem, instead of being an exclusive Saturday treat. pork in our tourtiere and beef from Fitzroy Farmers changes include new hours and products. Currently More extensive pie and cookie choices will also be and from Kerr Farms in our Beef pies, and use Life of Pie is open Tuesday to Friday from 11:30– offered daily. Following Thanksgiving, pie will be Ontario Lamb in our lamb pie.” 6:30 and Saturday from 9–3. September will bring available by the slice in addition to the standard full Life of Pie supports the community and in turn more extensive hours with the weekdays now pies. Loaves and lunch pies can be anticipated in the community supports Life of Pie. You rarely operating from 8–6 and Saturday from 9–5. the near future. stop by the current location without having to wait It is the traditional treats that will establish the Life of Pie is “committed to fair trade,” and and you often see people leaving with large orders. firm footing for this new location, “what we will be as a result they will be adding fare trade coffee, in Life of Pie is a staple in the Old Ottawa South doing right away is more of what we do.” Customers addition to cold beverages, to the new menu. They community and their new and improved Bank Street don’t have to worry about their favourite items also use fair trade and organic chocolate, coco and location should undoubtedly be highly anticipated.

32nd Annual Brighton Avenue Clambake When: Saturday September 18, 2010 Where: Old Brighton Beach

urrent and former Brighton Avenue residents are invited Cto join old and new neighbours on Saturday, September 18th for the 32nd Brighton Avenue clambake. This annual event started 33 years ago in the backyard of Bill and Sharon Blakeman. Bill, a native of Vermont, and Sharon were digging up their backyard to install a swing set for their children and, before laying the new sod, they hosted a New England-style clambake for their neighbours. The event was such a success that there were requests for another clambake the following year. To protect the Blakemans’ lawn, the

clambake moved to the old Brighton success year after year because of the Beach and, with one blip, it’s been many contributions of the residents of held there every year since. Brighton Avenue who, among other Brighton Avenue was sorry to see things, canvass, put up the tent, tend the Blakemans move away this past the fire, shuck and cook corn, wash year but their clambake legacy lives and cook clams, lend their barbeques, on. Once more, residents and alumni serve the children’s meal, and clean will enjoy clams, corn, baked beans, up after it’s all over. and potluck contributions while Canvassers will be knocking greeting new neighbours and renewing on doors in early September to sell old acquaintances. Again this year, tickets, solicit loans of barbeques and Russell Levia will be entertaining the tables, and sign people up for set-up children of Brighton Avenue while and clean-up jobs. If you miss your their parents eat dinner and will also canvassers but don’t want to miss the lead the fireside singalong beginning fun, please fill out the form they leave at dusk. you and drop it off at 31 Brighton This community feast is such a Avenue. SEPT 2010 The OSCAR - OUR 37th YEAR Page 9

BACKYARD NATURALIST Fun with Grackles (the Backyard Bullies)

By Linda Burr grackle became wise. It realized that sometimes the water did not quite n past years, I have not offered reach as far as the feeder. Indeed, my backyard birds food in the unless the XP310 was fully pumped, summer, as I felt they should it landed short of the target, and the I grackle remained on the feeder, with forage on their own while nature’s supplies were plentiful. However, one yellow eye keeping close watch this summer I kept the sunflower on me. So I always had to make seed feeder going, and enjoyed sure it was fully loaded and ready to a steady parade of chickadees, go. Eventually, just the sight of me sparrows, cardinals, nuthatches, and appearing on the back landing was woodpeckers, among others. Some enough to make it leave the feeder, at of them even brought their newly least temporarily, to allow the other fledged young to the feeder, seeming birds a turn. Then, instead of flying to ‘show them the ropes’. boldly back onto the feeder, it began But one day, the fun was spoiled a more stealthy approach from behind when the backyard bullies arrived. the rose bushes and along the back These were the grackles, hogging the garden wall. feeder by the hour so that the other Prior to this summer, I was birds barely had time to sneak in for aware that crows, ravens and blue a quick seed now and then. At first I jays ranked high on the list of avian wasn’t too concerned, since I have intelligence. But I hadn’t realized how a squirrel-proof type of feeder that smart grackles could be. I eventually shuts up tight when anything heavier called a truce, and decided to let the than a cardinal lands on it. I thought completely. “There, that’s done it,” I (XP for ‘extra power’). With a 30- grackles fight it out with the other the grackles were foiled, and would thought with some satisfaction. I went foot range fully pumped, it has just birds for feeder time, satisfied that soon be fed up. I was wrong. back in the house to watch. enough ‘oomph’ that I can fire it at least the grackles were extracting One grackle in particular was very Within a short time, the grackle from the back door landing and just only a few seeds at a time. I couldn’t persistent, and quite clever. I was able figured out that all it had to do was reach the feeder. I hasten to add that spend the whole day testing grackle to distinguish this individual from pry open the hole with its long beak I would not go out and purchase such intelligence with these types of the other grackles because of a few and grab a seed before it shut up a toy. It’s just that it happened to be experiments, fascinating as they may lighter spots on its wings and head. tight again. More spring adjusting on at the house when I moved in, and it be. After all, I had other important It seemed that every time I looked my part. Now the grackle got really has found a new purpose in life as a things to attend to. For example, I out the window I saw it hunkering coordinated, doing a little hop to allow deterrent of unwanted garden visitors. think I need to go shopping for a new, there on the feeder. When I paused the feeder to open, and quickly poking I never actually succeed in spraying more powerful Super-Soaker – this to watch, I observed that it was able its beak in to grab a seed just as the anything – just the sight of all that one is starting to leak. to extract seeds because the holes in feeder closed. I had to admire that water spurting towards them is usually the feeder had only partially closed. I kind of intelligence and persistence, enough to scare them off. Linda Burr lives in Old Ottawa went out and adjusted the spring, so at least, for a few minutes. Nevertheless, after a few South and is a biologist and avid that the feeder holes would shut more Enter the Super-Soaker XP310 rounds with the Super-Soaker, the backyard naturalist. The Hospice at May Court To book an OSCAR ad Volunteer Opportunities

call Gayle Palliative hospice patient care volunteer opportunities at The Hospice at at 730-1058 May Court located at 114 Cameron Avenue in Old Ottawa South. We are seeking volunteers for direct patient care and support. Also seeking a or email: volunteer hair stylist able to work on a Tuesday or Thursday once a month. Please contact the Hospice to apply and register for our Fall Orientation [email protected] Course to prepare volunteers for meaningful work with patients in our palliative care programs. The course is offered on Tuesday evenings from 6:30- 8:30 pm starting in “Homes for the Holidays” 2010 September – November. For info call 613-260-2906 ext. 231 or visit www.hospicemaycourt.com House Tour & Boutique for The Hospice at May Court November 12, 13 & 14, 10 am – 4 pm The 8th Annual “Homes for the Holidays” is a charity house tour event supporting the palliative hospice care programs at The Hospice at May Court. The tour includes six distinguished homes in Ottawa and Manotick and a one-of-a-kind boutique and café. All proceeds support The Hospice at May Court. Ticket tour booklets are $35 each will be available at select locations in Ottawa in mid-September. Only 2,500 tickets will be available and they sell out quickly. Tickets and tour information: www.hospicemaycourt.com or call 613-260-2906 ext. 232. Page 10 The OSCAR - OUR 37th YEAR SEPT 2010 THE BIG PICTURE Make Your Vote Count

By Michael Dobbin genuine, then the city may expect to already started will do nothing to im- suburban interests, the race for mayor see a voter turnout surpass the 54% prove voter apathy. In the worst case, is truly a city-wide race. And it is our here’s a leadership model that average of the 2006 election that saw it could result in a negative feedback best hope to bring in our visionary. suggests that political leader- Larry O’Brien elected as Mayor. That loop that will take its toll on the hearts Lord knows we’re long overdue. ship comes in cycles of three: is, unless voter apathy threatens to and minds of the citizens who failed to So who is our visionary? T break the cycle and banish the National elect their visionary to what could have That is for you to decide. And First, the visionary or nation builder who wins the hearts and minds of the Capital into another four years of polit- otherwise been a world class city. it may involve looking past the mud people, looks to the future and advan- ical purgatory. Yet amid the media punch up, slinging and the media agenda of the ces a progressive agenda of nation It was under the current mayor’s cyber bullying and sighs of indiffer- status quo. It means actually looking building and unity. This leader is fol- watch that some of the most divisive ence, one thing must remain clear: at the platforms of the candidates, talk- lowed by the bean counter who exer- issues were argued through a divided Now, more than ever, you need to ing to them and deciding for yourself cises fiscal prudence and makes diffi- city council that saw a line drawn make your vote count. as to what is spin and what is genu- cult and unpopular choices as a means clearly between suburban and urban In 2006, voter turnout in City Cen- ine. And if you find your inspiration, of slowing down and halting the legacy interests. These ideas weren’t vision- tre wards was statistically lower than then why not throw yourself behind of the visionary. The bean counter is ary, and they weren’t fiscally prudent. many suburban and rural wards. Old your candidate through donations then unseated by the caretaker leader, The world has moved on a few decades Ottawa South, which forms part of and volunteering on their campaign? who does very little other than to keep since shopping malls, urban sprawl, the Capital Ward, saw only a slightly You’ll learn something along the way. things moving along with mediocrity union-busting and zero-means-zero higher turnout than the city average And once you’ve found your vision- and the status quo. It’s the boring and rhetoric. Ottawa has apparently not. If at 57%. Rideau-Vanier displayed the ary, hold the course all the way to uninspired leadership of the caretaker anything, this lack of leadership has lowest voter turnout at 46%, while our the ballot box. The notion that your that prepares the public for the next vi- provided political capital for the next neighbours in Stittsville-Kanata West visionary “can’t get elected” is not sionary. In life, this model isn’t a per- visionary to come along. turned out 64% of registered voters. only bogus, but will undermine the fect one, but when looking at any level What is left for our next mayor is a If the citizens of Old Ottawa South democratic process. “Strategic vot- of government, it’s not difficult to see legacy of a city that has never been so and of the urban core fail to show ing” in municipal elections just doesn’t that it isn’t very far off the mark polarized on so many issues. Even now, up at the polls on election day, then work, and especially with such a large If the record number of candidates as the lazy days of summer have drawn their interests will be neglected for number of candidates on the roster. for this year’s municipal elections is to a close, the dysfunctional toxicity another term. Voter apathy will ac- And most importantly, encour- any indication, then citizens of the City of a community divided has started to tually cancel out the hard-earned age your friends and neighbours to of Ottawa are clearly ready for change. find its way into the campaign. If the votes of those who made a choice. vote. Not voting effectively can- Never before has the National Capital summer blogs and local media cover- Our only hope is the mayor’s office. cels out your vote and the votes seen such a large mobilization of cit- age has provided any glimpse into the What is exciting about the mayoral race of those who elected for change. izens looking to make a difference in future, this year’s run up to 25th Oc- is that unlike the dysfunctional ward Make your vote count. the democratic cockpit of municipal tober will be a highly negative one. system that formed a municipal coun- affairs. If this desire for change proves No doubt, the mud slinging that has cil along often contradictory urban and

What to Do With the Kids on Sunday Morning: Music and Crafts at Trinity Anglican Church By Eli MacLaren

hurch School starts up again at Trinity Anglican Church (1230 Bank St.) on Sunday 12 September at 10 a.m. Stirring music, Cbrilliant crafts, and hilarious games are on the agenda for kids aged 3 to 11. How to participate? Simply show up in the sanctuary with your band of elfin folk, your wee hellions, your wild beasts (as the case may be), and after being warmly welcomed by Andrea Thomas, our reverend incumbent priest and professional grandmother, bring them downstairs to the piano in Bender Hall. The choir will assemble under the baton of Eli “Orpheus” MacLaren, A.R.C.T. and certified dad, and the musical training administered by him will be equal parts high art and fun. A Bible story and craft will follow the singing, directed by Jennifer “Picasso” Small, veteran educator and spectacu-mom. Your kids will never be the same: this woman knows how to wield a hot glue gun. Races, colouring, and puzzles round out the hour, after which the children and teachers rejoin the adults upstairs in the sanctuary for Communion. Church School operates on the principle that families need somewhere interesting and entertaining to go on a Sunday morning, and we strive to hand the lovely community experience and public space of the Church on to the next generation, as it has been handed to us by the last. The Anglican Church of Canada is committed to equality, diversity, social justice, and taking responsibility for the errors of the past. It is a good place to face the challenge of caring for our world and to deepen one’s and one’s children’s spirituality. The single summer service (Holy Eucharist on Sundays at 9:30 a.m.) continues through the Labour Day weekend; regular Sunday services (Holy Eucharist at 8:00 and Sung Holy Eucharist at 10:00 a.m.) resume on Sunday September 12. For more information about Trinity Anglican Church, please visit our web site at http://www.trinityottawa.ca/. SEPT 2010 The OSCAR - OUR 37th YEAR Page 11

A HARD DAY’S PLAY Cooked

By Mary P. naptime, so it would have two or three hours of Eeewwww… See him? No, not the one on the direct mid-day sun, and when they awoke, their foil at upper left, though he also was indisputably ur theme for August was Summer. We snack would be there, all ready to eat. Brilliant! dead. No, I mean the one RIGHT IN THE CHEESE. talked about the clothes we wear, the ac- Fly au gratin. A variation of the nasty-child fly-and- tivities we do. We talked about summer magnifying glass trick. Eeew. I do feel sorta sorry O for those poor things, and would feel more, except weather, and of course, we talked about the sun. Sunshine, sun screen, sun hats. As part of this, we — who invited you to sample our pizza anyway, made our very own (and very, very simple) solar- rotten verminous insects? And because of your dis- powered oven. ease-ridden carcasses in there, we don’t get to eat it (Not only does it fit in with our theme, but how at all. At least you got a taste before you got your better to demonstrate the need for sunscreen than just desserts. by watching the sun actually, physically cook some- Poor things. thing?!) (Yes, I really am conflicted about a few stupid We found a box in the black bin, a nice sturdy flies. Sad, isn’t it?) one with a removable lid, and we lined it with tin foil. Next time — and there will be a next time! — we will: 1) use a smaller box. I think it might have cooked more quickly if there’d been less space to heat; 2) make sure to check it periodically to ensure it gets full sun all the time; and, most importantly 3) SEAL that sucker. “A few pieces of tape” were NOT sufficient to withstand the insatiable flies. (In fact, there were more than two dead flies The children went off to their beds with visions of in there. There were two more UNDER the pizza. pizza dancing in their heads, and when they awoke, Ugh.) we all raced out to see… But really, if I were hunting for a Life Lesson and discovered that yes, the cheese was indeed re: the Importance of Sunscreen … I think I’ve starting to melt. The sun had shifted, and I’d forgot- found it. ten to shift the oven, darnit, otherwise it would have been totally cooked, I’m sure. The cheese had started to melt, though, which would, by toddler standards, make the thing per- fectly edible, and though the pizza wasn’t entirely cooked… Submit articles about interesting people We found a lid from a plastic container in the blue bin, cut a hole in the lid of our study box — on three sides you know only! you’ll need that flap! — inserted the plastic for our window. A few pieces of tape at the corners to in Old Ottawa South secure the window in place… cover your flap with foil so it can reflect sunlight down into the box… to oscar@ and ta-dah! Your very own solar-powered oven! Once you have an oven, of course, you need oldottawasouth.ca something to cook in it. We opted for tortilla- pizzas. Quick and simple. Smear spaghetti sauce on a tortilla, cover with grated cheese, and place in the oven. Couldn’t be simpler! And now to actually cook something in there! The oven was popped onto the porch just before that fly sure was.

Area Church Service Times Sunnyside Wesleyan Chuch 58 Grosvenor Avenue (at Sun- St Margaret Mary’s Parish nyside) 7 Fairbairn (corner of Sunnyside) Sunday Worship Service at 9am Sunday Liturgies & 11am 9:30am and 11:30am Children’s program offered during Christian Meditation both worship services. Mondays at 7:00 pm. Evening Prayer: Tuesday at 7 p.m. Trinity Anglican Church 1230 Bank Street (at Cameron Southminster United Church Avenue) 15 Aylmer Avenue (at Bank & the Sunday Services Canal) Summer Sunday service at 9:30 Sunday Worship a.m., All welcome, including 10:30 a.m. (9:30 a.m. July & children August) The Thursday eucharist is sus- Sunday School pended until the fall. During worship, September - May Page 12 The OSCAR - OUR 37th YEAR SEPT 2010 OOS Michele LeBlanc: The Lady With A Flea In Her Ear

ichelle is playing Raymonde Chandeb- anticipated production of the year. As Steve Martin, ise, the lady with a flea in her ear, in owner of the Gladstone, says, it’s going to be one MSevenThirty’s production of A Flea in hell of a show. The original play had the audience in her Ear at The Gladstone Theatre this fall. A resi- stitches from start to finish, and for this production, dent of Old Ottawa South for about 12 years, she the comedy has been rejuvenated with a new adap- graduated from the Acting Conservatory Program tion translated by David Whiteley, a distinguished at the Ottawa Theatre School (OTS) in 2007. She theatrical writer, adapter and translator, having is currently working a second one-year contract at notably created rhymed verse translations of Mo- Dramamuse, the theatre troupe at the Canadian Mu- lière’s The Misanthrope and Tartuffe. David is also seum of Civilization (CMC). At the CMC, she per- taking on the role of the womanizing Tournel. formed a one-woman show entitled On the Edge/ The National Theatre’s English-language pro- Au carrefour de deux mondes in the Jamestown, duction, of John Mortimer’s 1966 translation was Quebec, Santa Fe exhibit. Her professional debut as staged at the Old Vic in London England under Jane in The Good Father (SevenThirty Productions) French director Jacques Charon, who as a result earned her the Emerging Artist Award at the 2008 made the popular film of the play in 1968 with Rex Rideau Awards. Other acting credits include: Where Harrison. There’s a Will There’s a Wake, And To all A Good Knife! (Eddie May Murder Mysteries); Noises Off, The Gladstone is Ottawa’s newest and most How the Other Half Loves, The Radio Show (Glad- exciting theatre venue offering the very best in pro- stone Productions); Survive the House, Legend of fessional theatre. With a classic and classy feel, and Oz (Valley Wind Productions); Blood Relations contemporary programming designed to entertain (Unicorn Theatre); Satanic Panic (Gavin Produc- theatre-goers from all walks of life, The Gladstone tions); Spider Juice, The Grace of Mary Traverse, offers audiences a new look, new choices, and a Work: Jobs in Progress (OTS). Look for her once new way to Experience Theatre like never before. again at The Gladstone this December in a radio A Flea in Her Ear, a SevenThirty Production show production of It’s a Wonderful Life. at The Gladstone, runs September 16 to October 23, Michelle did not discover acting until her late 2010. Tuesdays to Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. and Sat- 20’s. Before then, she spent a decade acquiring an The Belle Époque Feydeau’s carefully sculpted plot urday/Sundays at 2:00 p.m at The Gladstone, 910 eclectic education -- a Bachelor of Arts in History takes hilarious aim at jealous lovers, mistaken iden- Gladstone Avenue. Tickets may be purchased by and Classics at the University of New Brunswick tities, and bungling servants as this group of elegant phone at 613-233-4523, online at www.theglad- (where she is from), a Museum Studies Program individuals run into each other at a dubious hotel stone.ca, or purchased directly from the box office. at Algonquin College, and a Masters in Science resulting in ridiculous situations that is all superb Prices are $38.00 for general admission, $33.00 for at the University of Ottawa. She still on occasion fun. Of course at the end the standards of politeness, seniors, $23.00 for students, (including all taxes). translates new species descriptions from English to respect, decency, are rectified and marital bliss is SevenThirty Productions: Founded in 2004, Latin for scientific publication in order to supple- duly restored. by John P. Kelly, with the assistance of Alan Dean ment her artist income The play is fully cast with what Director John and Andrea Cochrane, SevenThirty has presented to A Flea in her ear, Feydeau’s amusingly satiric Kelly declares the strongest and most talented cast date fifteen successful plays and is fast developing a look at Parisian high society, is an exquisite tease and crew that he has the pleasure and privilege to name for itself as a home of high quality production and generously sauced with innuendo. Set at the direct. In fact, the theatrical community agree that values, with innovative use of production spaces. turn of the century in Paris, France at the time of A Flea in her Ear is the most ambitious and most What is the Green Bin Program? he Green Bin program is part of the City of Ottawa’s long-term plan for solid waste management. Today, City recycling programs Thelp to divert a third of all residential waste from landfill. The Green Bin program will add organics to the list of recyclable materials, potentially doubling diversion rates. Check back for updated news on the Green Bins program and the new composting facility or contact [email protected] City reminds residents to use green bins safely The City of Ottawa reminds residents to store their green bin in a safe location and to be aware of any hazards with regard to children. While green bin manufacturer, Norseman Plastics, says there have been no reported incidents of children being injured in their lockable green bins, each unit does contain a message that says “Warning! Suffo- cation hazard. Do not allow children to play inside this container.” Warm Weather Tips • During the warmer months, rinse your bin with your garden hose periodically to help keep it clean, especially if you don’t line your bin with paper. • Capture fruit flies (more common during warm weather) with a bowl of vinegar covered with plastic wrap with several small holes in it. Empty as required. • Put salt or vinegar on maggots to kill them. If maggots appear in the green bin, a fly has laid eggs on some exposed food waste. Ways to reduce flies/prevent maggots and minimize odours: • Wrap wet food waste (e.g. meat, fish, fruit and vegetable waste) in old newspaper or used paper towel • Use the special food waste bag or other paper (e.g. grocery popcorn, sugar, flour or potato) bags to hold your material • Put meat and fish waste into a paper bag and then in your freezer until collection day • Alternate layers of food waste with layers of dry waste (e.g. leaves, dead plants, sawdust, wood shavings) • Periodically rinse the green bin using a mild detergent or white vinegar/water solution immediately after collection • Sprinkle a small amount of powdered garden lime, baking soda or powered laundry detergent (no bleach) in the green bin http://www.ottawa.ca/residents/recycling_garbage/green_bin_program/ warmweathertips_en.html - top SEPT 2010 The OSCAR - OUR 37th YEAR Page 13 The Grosvenor Avenue Gastronomic Society “Life is too short to eat disappointing food.”

Taylor’s Genuine Food and Wine Bar - A Genuinely Great Experience

fter much anticipation, Tay- lor’s Genuine Food and Wine ABar has finally opened in OOS – and it was definitely worth the wait. We visited Taylor’s on a Monday even- ing and were surprised to discover that the place was packed. Perhaps their popularity is related to the novelty of this new establishment, or maybe it drew some notoriety from early arti- cles in both local and national papers slamming them for being “anti-kid” and “unaccommodating to families”. Regardless, the place was hopping and despite the threatening rain clouds, we happily took the last table for four on the patio. Our waiter was friendly and charming, and we started with a bottle of Lailey Vineyard Merlot (2008) from the Niagara River appellation. It was surprisingly light but still had notice- able tannins in the finish. Menus were the flatiron steak, the pan-seared pick- proximately 20 wines available by the this article or provide a suggestion for not initially available (the menu to erel, and the quail. glass ranging from $6.50 to $12 our next review, please send an email guest ratio had not yet been perfected), Everyone was pleased with their Charcuterie: $12 to $40 depending to [email protected] but came soon enough. As we weren’t meal, all of which included a well- on the number of items Happy Eating! certain the weather would cooperate constructed combination of flavours. Soups and Salads: $7 to $9 The Grosvenor Avenue Gastro- long enough for us to commit to a full Highlights were the side of in-house Mains: $22 to $25 nomic Society (GAGS) meal on the patio, we started with a smoked mashed potatoes with the per- Desserts: ~ $10 medium charcuterie plate that includ- fect tender steak, the tangy chutney ed our pick of six different meats and posing as a sidekick to the pork ten- If you would like to comment on cheeses for $30. Although very good, derloin, and the lemon-truffle emul- the portions were fairly small and we sion that accompanied the pickerel were left with plenty of room for din- and begged to be licked from the plate. ner. Our first-time quail taster loved the Thankfully the weather held off crispy, savoury flavour but was eventu- until we were nestled into a comfort- ally freaked out by the presentation. It able table inside. At the time, the in- was all a bit too violent for a beginner: terior was disappointingly plain and the scene of a multi-bird collision with lacking character, but has since bene- little left to the imagination. Still, the fitted from some artwork and dimmed veggies, sauce, Israeli couscous, and lighting. The floors are beautiful and as much quail breast as the taster could the open-concept bar/kitchen area manage to dissect were all excellent. made us feel as though we were right We couldn’t resist trying the in the action without being obtrusive. mixed berry tart and the s’mores from Overall the place has a bit of a cottage- the dessert menu. Although the tart y feel to it and although you could was good, it needed more fruit and dress up if you wanted to, it definitely less crust to make it really enjoyable. has a casual vibe with a chatty, easy- However, the s’mores chocolate pate going atmosphere. and real toasted marshmallow pro- Our new favourite waiter fol- vided a unique and delicious end to the lowed us inside from the patio and evening. generously provided us with a com- Based on our experience at Tay- plimentary sampling of their hothouse lor’s Genuine Food and Wine Bar, we tomato salad with lardon (translation: think it’s a great spot for a date or an delicious, oversized, fatty bacon bits), evening out with friends. It is a cozy blue cheese, and bitter greens tossed space, though, so reservations ahead of in a balsamic-based dressing. While time would be wise. Vegetarians may perusing the fairly brief food menu, wish to proceed with caution, given we asked our waiter’s help in selecting the combination of antler and cowhide a second bottle of wine: a very good decorations and primarily meat menu. 2008 Lotus Pinot Noir from Santa Bar- We look forward to our next visit bara County in California that proved to Taylor’s and suspect it will become to be a great, fresh summer wine. one of our regular haunts. An awe- All of the ingredients at Taylor’s some addition to the neighbourhood! are locally sourced: cheeses from Serious Cheese here in OOS, sustain- Taylor’s Genuine Food and Wine Bar able seafood from Whalesbone, and 1091 Bank St (Bank & Sunnyside) seasonal fruits and veggies from local markets. The entrees on the menu are For reservations: 613-730-5672 somewhat limited with only four meat dishes and one token vegetarian selec- Wines: $29 to $90 per bottle; ap- tion. We opted for the pork tenderloin, Page 14 The OSCAR - OUR 37th YEAR SEPT 2010 OTTAWA SOUTH HISTORY PROJECT Sunnyside & Seneca Four Corners

his month’s contribution to longevity by filling a required niche the Ottawa South History for the Old Ottawa South community. TProject comes from one of For example, Andrew Clothier’s our Heritage Survey 2009 summer grocery served the community for students, Abraham Plunkett-Latimer, nearly thirty years between 1909 and an M.A. student in the Department 1948. Similarly, what is currently the of History, Carleton University. This Al Vivante barber shop at 41 Seneca, article will be part of the Heritage has continuously operated as a barber Survey 2009 report to be presented shop since 1936. Likewise, the Ottawa to the Old Ottawa South community South Groceria, although changing later this year. names, owners, and architecture, has Property Address: 431, 435 and filled the role of a grocery store in the 437 Sunnyside Avenue and 41, 43, community since 1932 in the same and 44 Seneca Street, Ottawa, Ontario location. It seems as though these Introduction businesses successfully identified The corner of Sunnyside and needs in the community, and therefore, Seneca Streets currently comprises have been able to remain relevant over four buildings which combine many decades. commercial and domestic spaces. Other businesses at the intersection In the early period of Old Ottawa have remained relevant by changing South’s development (pre-1950) this Structure at 437 Sunnyside Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario. Abraham Plunk- to suit the needs of the neighbourhood corner had particular importance as ett-Latimer, July 2009 as it evolved over the course of the one on which Ottawa’s streetcars twentieth, and now the twenty-first, turned. It has continuously included centuries. For example, 43 Seneca of profiting from the expansion of Although the neighbourhood of commercial spaces since 1907. Avenue, where Haven Books is now the street car line along Bank Street Wyoming Park was first subdivided in located, has previously gone through which was announced that year. the 1891, it only began to be developed many incarnations a grocery store in History There are currently four properties much later. None of the four lots at the 1920s, a pharmacy in the 1930s, Lots 1 block J, 23 block E, 45 on the corner which combine domestic the corner of Sunnyside Avenue and 40s, and 50s, an upholstery store block F, and lot 1 block I, plan 115 and commercial spaces: A pizza Seneca Street were built upon until in the 1960s, a crafts shop and then were laid out as part of Nicholas restaurant called Milano Pizzaria after 1900. Nevertheless, the corner a book shop in the 1970s, it was the Garland’s Wyoming Park subdivision. (formerly Fida’s Pizza), a small became an important commercial location of Fida’s pizza in the 1980s, According to Bruce Elliott, Garland convenience store called the Ottawa area for the local neighbourhood a handyman and builder’s office in and his cousin Alexander Mutchmor, South Groceteria, Haven books, a early in its development. As early the 1990s, and currently is a student who had previously subdivided the book store directed toward students as 1907 Frederick Diamond had book store. Many of these businesses area surrounding Lansdowne Park, at Carleton University, and another created the subdivision by dividing pizzeria EzPz Pizza. up his own farm in 1891 in hopes

Structure at 43 Seneca Street, Ottawa, Ontario. Abraham Plunkett-Lati- mer, July 2009.

established a grocery store at 437 remained open for ten or more years, Sunnyside Avenue. Across the street suggesting that they were relatively at 44 Seneca Street, Andrew Clothier successful. However, the property established a grocery store in 1909 has undergone significant changes in which he continued to manage until order to adjust to the changing needs 1948. By 1933 all four corners at the of the neighbourhood. intersection had been developed as For the most part, the businesses of commercial space. the Seneca and Sunnyside intersection There are two categories of have been owned or rented by private businesses that have occupied the individuals. The only chain stores to intersection of Sunnyside and Seneca: have existed on the corner were brief Those that have managed to survive stints by M & M and IGA, otherwise over multiple decades by fulfilling all of the businesses have been run the needs of the community, and by individuals. These businesses those that have adapted to changing have also been owned and managed fashions and requirements over time. by members of the community who The first category of business at this either lived in or above their shops, or intersection has shown remarkable SEPT 2010 The OSCAR - OUR 37th YEAR Page 15 OTTAWA SOUTH HISTORY PROJECT Cont’d

covering the period of 1907 to for what purpose they were used. 1990. In most cases, the directories It may be helpful to consult identify what kind of business was Assessment or Collector’s rolls to located on individual lots. Having further flesh out the value of the checked through several years of city buildings located at Seneca and directories (1909, 1923), however, Sunnyside Avenue, and perhaps to we did not find any advertisements determine exactly when each building for these businesses to give further was built and when each changed indication of their nature. architecturally. Records available at the land Contact the Ottawa South registry office have, for the most History Project at HistoryProject@ part, not been helpful. While they do OldOttawaSouth.ca or visit us indicate who owned the properties at online at www.OldOttawaSouth.ca/ the intersection, they do not indicate HistoryProject. who was renting these properties, or

Structure comprising 431, 433, 455 Sunnyside Street, and 41 Seneca Street, Ottawa, Ontario. Abraham Plunkett-Latimer, July 2009. nearby. structure has adapted to its particular function. i.e. The Ottawa South Architecture Groceteria incorporates a large square Although the four structures at the floor plan for displaying foodstuffs, corner of Seneca and Sunnyside are while during the tenure of Fida’s quite different from one another, they Pizza this was a smaller structure with all exhibit common features which a large central counter and no seating mark their function as commercial space, typical of its function as a take- architecture; their flat roofs, and out pizza building. large frontal display windows. The structures themselves are all brick Significance veneer and show remarkably simple The intersection at Seneca and floor plans maximizing the size Sunnyside is an important cultural Structure at 44 Seneca Street, Ottawa, Ontario. Abraham Plunkett- of the interiors, and emphasizing centre for the community of Old Latimer, July 2009 the intentional functionality of the Ottawa South and is worthy of buildings over aesthetics. With the preservation. It represents local and exception of 44 Seneca Street, all of personal business, as well as an older the structures integrate living spaces form of twentieth-century community- with commercial space. These living based consumerism. This corner spaces have at times been inhabited may be at risk of being incorporated by the owners of the buildings, but into the surrounding residential more frequently have been rented area. Its commercial character out to tenants. Apart from the large should, however, be maintained as display windows, the other windows it represents the importance of the of the buildings are much smaller, street car line to the development and are capped by plain grey brick of Old Ottawa South; it represents lintels. In all four cases, the city lots community-based commercial have been almost entirely filled with identity through the integration of the structures, leaving little space for residential spaces and commercial a yard. Over time the structures have spaces, through individual ownership changed considerably. A comparison of the businesses, and through the of fire insurance maps from 1915, businesses’ remarkable ability to 1948, and an aerial map from the remain relevant to the neighbourhood present, shows that the use of the lots over nearly a century. It continues has intensified considerably over time. to blur the boundaries between In 1915, for example, the structures commercial and domestic space, and built at 32 Seneca and 431 Sunnyside between individual and community were two small independent wooden identity. structures. By 1948, the two distinct Sources and Recommendations buildings had joined to cover the for further study entire two lots. At present, the The majority of information on structure has expanded northward to the businesses of Old Ottawa South include 429 Sunnyside as well. Each comes from the City Directories

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Take a visual walk along Willard Street, on the West side starting at Sunnyside Avenue, heading south and ending at Cameron Street. Tom Alfoldi has taken photos of every building along Willard-- West and East, and provided OSCAR with the photos. (See OSCAR previous issues for other street photos)

The photos continue from this page, starting at Sunnyside Avenue, continues to page 23. The visual walk continues northward along East Willard from Cameron Street on page 27, and ends at Sunnyside Avenue on page 32 Join us again when we visually walk with Tom’s Camera. Thank you Tom!

Pool Safety at Brewer Pool

Bt Anna Redman including boat safety, life jacket equipment, ice safety, water quality, he summer of 2010 has hit and dangers to look for during each Ontario with an intense heat activity. Because increasing education wave. Fans have been churning and informing people of common T dangers is essential to decreasing and air conditioning is blasting as people attempt to cope with the drowning casualties in the future, sweltering temperatures. Everyone trained professionals from each of dreams of being enveloped in the emergency services stopped by coolness long enough to stop dripping throughout the week to share their with sweat, and what better way to personal knowledge and experiences accomplish this than to dive headlong relating to drowning and drowning into the cool waters of a public pool. safety. The issue of pool safety is always The Swim to Survive Challenge a high priority, but from July 17-24 it was one of the participatory events, became the primary focus at Ottawa requiring swimmers to complete South’s Brewer Pool. The third week three activities to indicates that they in July marks Drowning Prevention possess the minimal skills, required Week, and this year Ottawa South’s by the Lifesaving Society of Canada, Brewer Pool has decided to get to survive an unexpected fall into deep each year.” This may have been the involved. water. The wristbands were also sold Despite these modest goals, preliminary fundraiser for Brewer Kim Asiri, the Parks, Recreation as part of an awareness fundraiser for Brewer Pool staff remained happy and Pool’s contributions to Drowning and Culture Service Department $2.50. enthusiastic as they attempted to raise Prevention Week, but it won’t be the Program Coordinator, Sue Chiumera, This is the first year that Brewer funds and awareness in any way that last. If you were unable to attend in supervisor at Brewer Pool, along with Pool has engaged in a fundraiser they could. The Barbeque continued, 2010 be sure to drop by next July for Brewer Pool and city of Ottawa staff dedicated to Drowning Prevention in a sheltered area, and an obstacle activities and education that might have organized and designed a full Week. Unfortunately, due to weather course took place that included a just save your life. week of events and fundraisers. The warnings of a severe thunder storm, segment in which participants must goal was to create activities that would the fundraising barbeque on July 21 correctly put on a life jacket, so as to help increase drowning awareness, was less successful than they had maximize its life saving potential. and raise to funds to prevent future hoped for. Sue Chiumera said that a incidents. target monetary amount to be raised During the weeklong event, a had not been set, but that they were number of lessons were on the agenda “starting small and will move up

Cat & Dog Registration

f you own a dog or cat in the City of Ottawa, you must ensure that it wears the numbered metal tag provided through the City’s registration Iservice, especially when it is outdoors. Dog and cat tag registrations ex- pire each year on April 30. They must be renewed prior to then to ensure that your pet’s information is kept up to date. You will be notified when it’s time to renew your pet’s registration. Registering your pet provides a means by which it can be identified and returned home safely if it becomes lost. It also addresses public health and safety concerns associated with stray animals. Revenues derived from pet registration help offset the costs of animal control. Dog and cat registrations may be obtained at client services centres or at various locations. When applying for a registration tag, please be prepared to provide proof of your pet’s sterilization and/or microchipping, as applicable, so that your application can be processed quickly

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AFTER THOUGHTS The Archivist from Richard Ostrofsky by the history of T.S. Eliot’s religious The Jewish concept of ‘tikkun’ – the technically accurate sense of focusing of Second Thoughts Bookstore conversion, his very great poetry, repair of a morally shattered world on the lives of ordinary, unheroic (now closed) his anti-semitism and his atrocious – is meaningless for them, as Christ people – though perhaps forced, www.secthoughts.com dealings with women. Behind all has already accomplished the needed sometimes, to become a little heroic [email protected] that, it is haunted by the real history restoration of grace and moral unity. – just trying to survive and thrive as of the Second World War and the What is needed is not Man’s witness best they can. By contrast, the world Holocaust. Also in play are the and personal atonement for past sin of Cooley’s main characters, whether ’ve just finished reading, and life histories of the novel’s two and evil, but faith in the efficacy of Jewish or Christian, like that of T.S. would like to recommend The protagonists: that of Mattias’ failed Christ’s sacrifice and adherence to the Eliot himself, is a world of individuals Archivist, by Martha Cooley. I marriage which parallels Eliot’s own moral order instituted thereby. living up to some image of heroism In structure, it is the story of a tragic and destructive marriage; and The Jewish characters, of – often more concerned with their relationship comprised of little that of Roberta, a woman brought up course, do not recognize Jesus as the heroic stature than with living sanely, more than conversation. The first Christian who has discovered that her sacrificial goat of the ancient Yom or wisely or even decently. interlocutor, the archivist of the parents are actually converted Jews Kippur service, abrogated in any case The comic stance deserves more novel’s title, is an elderly librarian who had evaded Hitler’s camps, but by the destruction of the Temple, and respect than it often receives. For responsible for his university’s then remained Christian and kept irrelevant to modern Jewry. For them, one thing, it can recognize ironies. collection of letters by T.S. Eliot their Jewish heritage a secret from the task is not faith and adherence, but It is full of gray tones and shifting, to an American drama teacher and their daughter. witness and personal righteousness ambiguous tones – not absolutes of director named Emily Hale, who for You can find reviews of Ms. – to be worthy of a Messiah who black and white. It remains mindful 26 years had been a very close, but Cooly’s book, both hostile and may someday come, and will in of human limitations. It avoids and trans-Atlantic, friend. The second is favorable, on the Internet; but this any case be a political and cultural can ridicule a great deal of cruelty a female, thirty-something graduate is not another. Personally, I think leader, not an efficacious sacrifice. and folly, precisely because it thinks student and aspiring poet who it is a fine piece of work, very well The serious Jews and Christians of and lives on a merely human level. wants to read those letters, not for conceived, well written and well the novel agree, however, in seeing To my mind, this is not a any academic purpose, but for their worth reading. Rather, I want to its secularists as moral light-weights, weakness, but a moral strength. relevance to identity issues in her record some thoughts about just one who fail to face and grapple with a There is, admittedly, a risk and even own life. The problem is that under of its central issues: how the world problem of evil that seems so real a tendency toward frivolity: It is the terms of Hale’s bequest, the letters looks through Christian, Jewish and for them. For them – as for T.S. Eliot tempting to refuse seriousness in are in an archive under lock and key, secular eyes, based on my own grasp himself – the moral frivolity of the the face of cruelty and destruction not available for access until 2020. of this book’s interpretations. modern world is its central failing that stop short of one’s own skin. In fact, Emily Hale was a real In Cooley’s account, both and problem. But I see no necessity for frivolity person, and Eliot’s letters to her really Judaism and Christianity offer similar There is no serious spokesperson and solipsism in a secular world. If exist – in a closed archive at Princeton, theories of evil, but very different in Cooley’s novel to defend the anything, moral commitment must just as in the novel. But the intense responses to it. Her book’s Christian secularist position from such an carry greater weight and likelihood verbal struggle between Mattias, the characters criticize the seriously accusation, but I don’t see this as a of fundamental sanity when it is archivist responsible for keeping Jewish ones for their morbid shortcoming as the inclusion of such a stems from one’s own life history and the letters sealed, and Roberta, the preoccupation with the past, and their character would have distracted from sensibilities alone, without delusions graduate student, is fiction. Their compulsion to redeem or repair it. the drama and fraught context of the of “doing God’s work.” dialogue and relationship is haunted book’s central dialogue. But it surely ‘God’ can be no more than a begs a response from a secularist like convenient three-letter word for the myself, who is concerned with the over-all context of nature, history and spiritual implications of unbelief, not society in which one’s life is lived. just with its reasoned grounds. For Thus, the secularist’s world is not a me, the God of Jews and Christians struggle between cosmic Good and alike is as intellectually dead as Evil, but a fertile chaos of competing Nietzsche clearly saw; and I have forces, impulses and ideas, from written elsewhere why I think this is which order painfully emerges. The so. But, as Nietzsche also saw, that meaning of life in such a world cannot death leaves a spiritual vacuum that be purchased off the rack, as it were, is not easily filled; and it is entirely but must be conceived and crafted understandable that so many people always de novo by the one who are clinging desperately to moribund lives it. Adherence to a group, even belief systems rather than face the a religious community, can be one void they find around them once the way to do this – but it is always the old faiths are swept away. individual who gives moral stature It should be faced squarely that and seriousness to the group, and not the spiritual world of modern Man is the other way round. essentially a comic one – not in the sense of being humorous, but in the SEPT 2010 The OSCAR - OUR 37th YEAR Page 19

Katrina Pets Film Features Old Ottawa Southan by Jean Langlois bond is intensified in the face of tre- Lens documentary series. MINE is mendous tragedy and loss. now available for rental at outlets in- ew Orleans may seem far This feature-length documentary cluding our local Tundra Moving Pic- away from Old Ottawa is told from the perspective of ori- tures at Sunnyside and Seneca. The South, but it is very close to ginal guardians, rescuers, and adopt- DVD special features include story N ive parents of “Katrina pets.” These updates and new reunion footage. the heart of one local resident. And with the passing of the five-year an- individuals are all connected by two niversary of Hurricane Katrina, San- things, the tragic aftermath of Katrina dra Bauer’s unlikely role in helping and their love of animals. people put their lives back together MINE presents the complexity of after the devastation still feels like an intensely emotional situation that yesterday. has no simple answers. Like many of us Sandra watched A tragedy of this scale reveals the images on television, but unlike the worst and brings out the best in most of us she was spurred into ac- humankind and presents an opportun- tion. She searched online for some ity for meaningful social change. A way to help from a distance – and she meditation on human more than ani- found it. She joined the effort to re- Sandra Bauer mal nature, MINE is a compelling, unite people with their pets after they character-driven story that challenges became separate during the evacua- us see the way we treat animals in our tion. Sandra’s is one of the stories cap- MINE is a heart-wrenching yet society as an extension of how we tured in the award-winning documen- redemptive story about the pets of treat each other. tary film MINE directed by Geralyn Hurricane Katrina. At its core, it’s The film won audience favourite Pezanoski (www.minethemovie. an exploration of the bond between awards from the prestigious SXSW com). people and animals and how that Film Festival, the San Francisco DocFest, and the PBS Independent Page 20 The OSCAR - OUR 37th YEAR SEPT 2010

Theatre Audition at the Théâtre de l’île

By William Burr to say anything to them, but eventually one of them kindly asked me a question and we heard about the audition on Radio Can- struck up a small conversation. ada. French community theatre audition One of my large fears had been that I at the Théâtre de l’île (Theatre of the wouldn’t be able to understand anyone. To I my relief, I had no trouble. island) in Gatineau. Everyone welcome. I wanted to go but I was terrified of sounding To my horror though, it turned out that a like a fool with my strong English accent in large part of the group audition consisted of French. improvisation. It is bad enough to have to re- On the day of the audition, I vacillated all cite text in your second language, but to have day at work. I would go... I wouldn’t go... to think of things impromptu is daunting. I Finally, I decided to go “just to see if there struggled through it. Luckily, not everyone happened to be a role for a character who had was called on to speak at once, and in the an English accent” -- or so I told myself. In breaks when I didn’t have to talk, I was able my heart, I think, I was prepared to play any to think of what to say next. role they gave me. One call-back later, and benefiting from I walked into the audition hall -- an old a noticeable lack of male actors, I had earned fire station in Hull -- and found a lot of people, for myself the respectable part of Réjean all seeming to be doing different things. They Beauregard, a priest. were having their pictures taken, they were Magasin général, which means “general filling out forms, they were chatting. There store” in French, is the name of the play. It’s were three women who seemed to be the or- set in the late 1920s in the fictional, rural ganizers. Québécois village of Notre-Dame-des-Lacs. I asked one of them, in French, “What Marie, whose husband has just died, must kind of the play is it?”, trying to surreptitious- struggle to run the town’s general store on ly find out whether there was a character with her own. Meanwhile, an unusual newcomer, an English accent.. Serge, arrives in the town on a motorcycle and “It’s a Québecois play,” she answered upsets its dynamics. A good-looking, affable firmly, which made my heart sink. She was fellow, he gains the admiration of many of soft-spoken, blond, and left a silence and a the town’s women and unwittingly stirs jeal- smile after her words. It later out turned that ousy among its men. He also carries a secret she was the director, Anne-Marie Riel. with him. My character Réjean Beauregard, I realized that I had to be more direct. I the priest, tries to calm the tensions that arise. asked if there were any characters who spoke The play includes over 30 actors who help to with an accent. There were not. So I asked evoke the village as a whole. her if there were a lot of male roles. There Magasin général is based on a comic book were indeed. series of the same name by Régis Loisel and I was undecided. I stood there listlessly, Jean-Louis Tripp. The two artists, surpris- the registration sheets dangling in my hands, ingly, are Frenchmen who send their text to more would-be actors going by me and intro- an editor who ensures that all of the dialogue ducing themselves. is properly Québécois. The books are a hit in Unable to bear the awkwardness any both Québec and France. The art in the com- longer, I grabbed the attention of another one ics is lush and full of detail of country life, of the women who seemed to be in charge, with a slightly dark touch. You can often see and asked if I could see a copy of the text. I a little fly or two hovering around the charac- explained to her my worries about my accent. ters and their faces often seem lined with an This lady, Sylvie Dufour, who turned out to impenetrable sadness. Taken at just one or be the artistic director of the theatre, saved two frames, the characters almost seem like me. She wasted no time in telling me that caricatures. But over the course of the al- yesterday they had had another auditionee bums (there are five of them, with a sixth set with an accent and that they never turned any- to come out this fall), a wonderful story de- one away. Everyone had a shot. “Go!” she velops. As Anne-Marie Riel explained to us cried. during one of our rehearsals, Serge, the new- This was exactly the answer to my fears comer, teaches the villagers, slightly set in that I needed -- that I was looking for, even. I their ways, how to take pleasure in their lives. went and sat down, filled out the registration Magasin général runs from September 15 sheet, and had my picture taken. to October 23, Wednesday to Saturday, at the It was a group audition. The two women Théâtre de l’île, located at 1 rue Wellington sitting next to me before it got started, a tall in Gatineau. You can buy tickets online at young brunette and a stylish-looking lady http://www.ovation.qc.ca/gatineau/theatrede- with short white hair, chatted amicably with lile/ . They are $15 for adults, $12 for seniors, one another. I couldn’t work up the courage and $10 for students. SEPT 2010 The OSCAR - OUR 37th YEAR Page 21

Squirrel Talk

Personal Japan – last of three

By: Tania Claes & Michaël Gazier semaines, nous n’avons qu’effleuré des locaux, rencontres impromptues jeunes filles harajuku (http://goo. la couche supérieure de celle-ci. avec des hommes d’affaires dans les gl/MjvA ) et les gens d’affaires en ’été continue et nous vivons Comme le Japon est une culture assez shinkansen, ou encore avec de jeunes complet noir. Tout cela est étonnant encore notre voyage au Japon, différente de la nôtre, la comprendre écolières et écoliers qui pratiquaient et rafraîchissant. Un pays tout en Ldans notre tête, cette fois-ci. plus profondément est loin d’être leur anglais avec précision et beaucoup couleurs, non seulement pour ces L’intérêt d’un voyage c’est tout ce simplement intuitif. Par exemple, de politesse avec les touristes. célèbres sakura (fleurs de cerisier) si qui l’entoure : d’abord on planifie, une amie japonaise nous disait que splendides mais aussi pour les gens et c’est le mystère. Ensuite on explore, c’est son patron qui l’a présentée à Le Japon est un pays composé à leur variété de vie, une vie à la fois on rencontre des gens, on discute, son mari car il trouvait qu’il serait la fois de contrastes et d’homogénéité civilisée et crue, à la fois ancienne et on apprend l’histoire du pays et de bon pour elle de se stabiliser et que (étant insulaire, cela se comprend). ultra- moderne. sa culture, les coutumes, la mode Monsieur X ferait un très bon mari Les paysages – zones balnéaires et Voyager permet de s’ouvrir sur vestimentaire, le mode de vie et on car il a un bon emploi, une vie stable tropicales et montagnes aux neiges le monde, sur les autres cultures, de démystifie les légendes de la réalité. et qui plus est, se trouve être un éternelles, le style de vie – des comprendre que nous sommes tous Afin de terminer cette trilogie sur ce très bon employé. Est-ce commun moments bien mérités de relaxation semblables malgré nos différences et magnifique voyage, abordons-le, cette aujourd’hui? … nous n’en avons dans un onsen (bain à eau de source d’évoluer dans nos pensées et dans fois-ci, sous un angle plus personnel, aucune idée mais toujours est-il, nous chaude), vis-à-vis la vitesse et la nos petites habitudes quotidiennes. c’est-à-dire, les raisons qui nous y ont n’avons pas posé de question si ce quantité folle des marcheurs de Ginza Écrivez-nous : taniamich@gmail. amené, les émotions que nous y avons n’est un petit regard de sympathie à Tokyo, un pays où se côtoient les com vécues et les impressions qui nous ont quand notre amie nous a dit qu’elle marqués… avait parfois envie de le pousser dans Pourquoi aller au Japon? Nous le trafic de Osaka… des détresses, des avons beaucoup voyagé mais drames, une culture parfois exigeante, jamais aussi loin ni dans un pays pour ne pas dire oppressante, pour aussi différent en terme de culture certain(e)s. Parlant relations de et de langue. Le Japon nous a couples, hier soir, le 3 août sur BBC, toujours fascinés par ses histoires nous avons regardé une émission de samouraïs, de geïshas mais aussi sur la classe ouvrière japonaise. par ses mélanges contradictoires de La femme avait deux emplois pour temples anciens et de villes futuristes arriver à « survivre » avec son époux surpeuplées, de la vie monastique à qui avait perdu son emploi permanent. la folie des grands centres-villes d’un Elle travaillait de 5h30 du matin à peuple qui semble si sérieux mais minuit et l’homme avait finalement qui, en même temps, étonne par ces retrouvé un emploi a « temps partiel » nombreux gens d’affaires qui lisent (7 heures par jour), payé un sixième leurs bandes dessinées (“mangas”) de celui des travailleurs à temps dans le train du soir. Ajoutons à plein. Ce cas révèle un autre aspect cela, notre intérêt particulier pour le de la société qu’en tant que touristes bouddhisme, le shintoïsme et… le nous ne pouvons voir. Nous visitons cinéma japonais, particulièrement les les beaux sites touristiques mais la films d’Akira Kurosawa. À travers réalité est que cette société est pleine ce cinéma, nous avons découvert des de contrastes, positifs et négatifs, paysages, des lieux, une langue et une comme n’importe quelle société, en culture. Donc, le mystère à déchiffrer fait, mais où la qualité de vie existe et la recherche de l’inconnu a amené principalement pour ceux avec un au désir de ce voyage si longtemps bon emploi qui permet de payer mijoté! Les questions : quoi voir et où des logements inabordables pour le aller, se posent. Ce pays, est beaucoup commun des ouvriers. plus grand que l’on ne l’imagine au Nous avons donc vécu toutes premier abord, avec 170 millions sortes d’expériences au Japon. Avec d’habitants et ses multiples facettes. un peu de patience, se promener Certains lieux sont tout simplement au hasard des rues mène parfois à inévitables : Tokyo, Nikko, Fuji-san, des découvertes intéressantes – un Kyoto, Himmeji, Koya-san. Partant temple avec des statues magnifiques, de là, trois semaines, c’est trop court. un minuscule resto local derrière Tant pis pour le nord et dommage une petite porte en bois et papier pour les tropiques japonaises. qui glisse de côté pour s’ouvrir, des La culture japonaise, comme gens serviables et prêts à discuter beaucoup de cultures possède de leur pays, des attractions à voir plusieurs facettes ou couches, si ou même de leur famille. Cela mène nous pouvons ainsi dire. En trois aussi à de belles discussions avec Page 22 The OSCAR - OUR 37th YEAR SEPT 2010

BOOK REVIEW Brodeck by Philippe Claudel Published by: Anchor; 1 edition reasons that become clear in the his official report and while primarily Having read the novel in its original (July 13 2010), 336 pages. course of the novel, Brodeck agrees. concerned with his own “confession”, French, I read only briefly into ISBN: 978-0307390752 However, to protect himself [in case Brodeck’s narrative jumps backward the English translation. This has Reviewed by: Friederike that may be needed], he embarks in and forward in time and moves from shown, however, that John Cullen’s parallel on a much fuller, intimate place to place. His writing changes translation captured the style and Knabe account, secretly written and carefully from a stream of consciousness to eloquence of Claudel’s writing very protected from his nosy neighbours. a realistic documentary account to well. The small village, where Brodeck dreamlike recalling of happier times. Philippe Claudel’s book is and his family live, is located in an In his mind he often returns to the exceptional, if not unique. Written isolated mountain region, close most harrowing experience of his by an award winning French author, to a national border, seemingly life: being taken from the village to the subject matter remains highly to Germany. Throughout the text a camp, a “Kazerskwir” (suggesting relevant both in France as elsewhere. Claudel uses terms and phrases that KZ - concentration camp) where the There are many books that place can be associated, more or less easily, brutality of the system sorely tested concentration camp experiences into with a form of German dialect. There his survival instinct and humanity. the centre or prominent background are geographical clues to the setting Upon his return from the place of of a novel. Yet, I am not aware of any of the novel in the Lorraine/Alsace no return, he finds his name on the novel that so intricately links those region of France, a region that had a memorial for those lost during the experiences into a post-war context German as well as French history and war. The question who might have and the emotional challenges faced by where the author was raised and lives. sent him to the camp resurfaces returning survivors and those who had At the same time, Claudel deliberately prominently as he investigates the stayed behind like Brodeck. Richly introduces unconnected and remote Other’s recent fate. drawn characters are confronted with place names, not so much to confuse Placing much of the novel within realistically presented challenges. the reader, but to take his characters the confines of a small village and For example, the priest, himself not and events out of a specific reality and its environs allows for a precise a reliable figure, assesses the mental to bring a sense of universality to his description of events, while at the condition of his parishioners and underlying themes of fear, collective same time giving the story a somewhat understands their need to talk to him: he assumption implied in the guilt and action, forgetting and otherworldly touch that is rich with “People are strange. They commit the quote “...not really totally forgiving. For example, the soldiers metaphors and symbolism. This worst without asking themselves any Taccurate, but very true” can who occupied the village during the duality between fact and mythical questions, but afterwards, they can no be taken as an important theme recent war (presumed to be World War applies especially to the character of longer live with the memory of what underlying Philippe Claudel’s II) are referred to as “Fratergekeime”, the “Anderer”. He treats his animals, a they have done.” evocative and powerful novel. Much (a term which suggests someone like horse and a donkey, more like human The narrator’s own personal that is described in it is literally not a brother). beings and speaks to them in a way recollections of the traumatic past quite accurate, but fundamentally The story is set a short time after that has the villagers become highly is seamlessly integrated with his very true. Brodeck, the first person the war, but the emotional scars are suspicious. “This man,” explains insightful account of the village’s narrator and a man who “has the still strongly felt by villagers; hostility the priest to Brodeck,” he was like events in this specific environment. language”, has been tasked by the towards outsiders (foreigners) a mirror... he did not need to say a Questions speak to the reader from the village men to write a “Report” on remains a strong expression of their single word. In him, each person saw pages: What has changed, if anything an Incident (referred to consistently continuing uneasiness. Brodeck’s only himself reflected. Or, maybe, it and what been learned since? Given as “l’Ereignies” in the original own suspicions towards some of the was the last messenger of God, before my German background, one recent French text) that occurred just prior villagers may not be groundless. He He closes His shop and throws the book that comes to my mind as one to Brodeck’s entering the village inn had been an outsider, a “Fremder”, keys away.” that addresses, in non-fiction form one evening. Something violent has brought into the village as a young In total contrast to the suspicions through a series of essays, some of the happened to the “Anderer” (meaning orphan. The description of his and tensions that hang over Brodeck underlying themes that Claudel raises “Other”), a traveler recently background is deliberately vague, yet and the villagers, palpable all the so brilliantly in his novel: Bernhard arrived in the village. The Report various clues suggest, nevertheless, time and to different degrees, is Schlink’s Guilt About the Past. is to explain what has occurred and that he might be either Jewish or the freedom and lightness Brodeck Philippe Claudel, well-known why and absolve the men from Roma. feels in the outdoors. The beautiful and highly respected author in any responsibility. Reluctantly, for Piecing together the evidence for landscape exudes peace, privacy France, has been better known in the and promises healing power that the English speaking world for writing village can not provide. Claudel’s and directing the film“I’ve loved you language is deceptively fluid and so long”. Prior to his latest novel, sometimes deliberately simple and only two of his previous books, By a straight forward to the point that the Slow River and Grey Souls, had been reader wants to go back wondering translated into English. For Brodeck whether more is lying beneath the Claudel won the 2010 Independent surface. Several times I found myself Foreign Fiction Prize together with going back over a chapter or two, his English language translator, John finding connections and suggestions Cullen. that had escaped in the first reading. SEPT 2010 The OSCAR - OUR 37th YEAR Page 23

Sept 21 World Alzheimer’s Day

The visual walk continues northward along East Willard from Cameron Street on page 27, and ends at Sunnyside Avenue on page 32.

Join Ottawa International Writers Festival in its OOS Home By Neil Wilson

ith the addition of the Ottawa Inter- national Writers Festival to the cul- Wtural mix of our community, Ottawa What my grandma means to say -- play by J C Sulzenko South is now home to one of the most exciting lit- erary celebrations anywhere. Since April 22, the n behalf of the Ottawa Chil- the play which kick-starts a discussion 40th anniversary of Earth Day, the Mayfair The- dren’s Literature Roundtable that is designed for children in Grades atre and Southminster United Church have hosted J C Sulzenko will present her 4-6 and their families. The program lasts over 50 of the most interesting and accomplished O play for children and families on Setp- for about one hour. The play is aimed at writers. And we have our fingers crossed that the mber 21 at 7;00 p.m. at the Sunnyside childre in grades 4- 6 and their families. Festival is here for the long haul. Branch of the OPL, What my grandma About the Roundtable: a group of Some of the events like the Ayaan Hirsi Ali means to say, September 21st is World adults interested in promoting and sup- event were sold out and that’s why becoming a Alzheimer’s Day. porting childrens literature in Ottawa. Festival Member makes sense. As a Member, The session will provide a great op- They have been active for about twenty events are free and you guaranteed front row re- portunity for OOS families to participate years and the funding with which we served seating. If that’s not enough how about in a dialogue about how Alzheimer’s dis- host author reading comes from mem- 10% off book purchases during all Festival and ease and related dementias affects people berships. year-round events as well as with purchases at and those who care for and about them. Nicholas Hoare Books on Sussex! J C will give a dramatized reading of Sign on to make a minimum monthly donation of $20 and become a Festival Member. Donations make it possible for the Festival to continue it’s free Children’s Literacy programs including Step Sudoku Sudoku Solution on page 26 Into Stories and Think Ink which supports writ- ers in the schools. These events are offered to the School Boards and libraries free of charge! Last year alone, 8,528 children enjoyed the inspiration of rubbing shoulders with real live writers in par- ticipating schools throughout the region thanks to your generosity. Every $4 donation opens the door of opportunity for one more student. Over the years the Festival has offered free writing workshops at Centre 454 a drop in space for the homeless, as well as with Corrections To complete the Canada and has subsidized tickets for women’s puzzle: shelters. 1. all rows must We tried to get a sneak preview of who’s contain digits 1 coming to the Fall Edition of The Writers Festi- to 9 only once val, October 21-26, but organizers are holding off 2. all columns until the full line-up is announced. Between now must contain the and then, however, they did let it slip that some digits 1 to 9 only huge talent will be taking the stage with pre-Festi- once. val events featuring Jane Urquhart, David Suzuki, 3. each of the Margaret Macmillan, Tim Cook, Joseph Boyden nine boxes must and John Ralston Saul among others. contain the The Festival is always looking for dynamic digits 1 to 9 only people with a little or a lot of time to give. If you once are interested in becoming a Volunteer or becom- ing a Festival Member, please email Leslie Wil- son ([email protected]) or call (613) 562- 1243. Page 24 The OSCAR - OUR 37th YEAR SEPT 2010 SEPT 2010 The OSCAR - OUR 37th YEAR Page 25

Local Organic Vegetables

Elisha Hunter displays the local organic vegetables delivered to Old Ottawa South in summer. Order now for the fall basket with an indoor pickup site at Nature’s Buzz in Beachwood. Contact farmer Chantale at : [email protected] or (819) 983-4858. Page 26 The OSCAR - OUR 37th YEAR SEPT 2010

Continue the visual walk along Willard Street, on the East side starting at Cameron Street heading northward to Sunnyside Avenue.

Tom Alfoldi has taken photos of every building along Willard-- West and East, and provided OSCAR with the photos. (See OSCAR previous issues for other street photos)

Join us again when we visually walk with Tom’s Camera. Thank you Tom!

WINDSOR REDUX B PART 14 Broken Foot

For nearly eight years, from He can’t move his foot. He must a branch broke. He fell only a couple February 2000 to August 2008, hobble around on a couple of sticks, of feet – landed on the top of the (1) This is a reference to a cast. OSCAR carried a monthly column. or hop about on his one good leg. ladder that, fortunately, the Black Jack Medical records at the emergency The Windsor Chronicles, written by This makes him very slow when Cat Guy was holding steady. A short room of the Kingston General Hospital Zoscha the Wonder Dog. Zoscha he takes me out for a walk, and distance, but enough to break a bone. at this time indicate that Alpha was became something of a celebrity in our somewhat cranky if I tug at the leash to Why would Alpha be climbing treated for a broken metatarsal. neighbourhood, and her observations hurry him along. He seems to fear that a tree? To catch squirrels, maybe. (2) The Windsor Chronicles on the passing scene, from a canine I’ll pull one of those sticks out from I’ve often wondered what it would contain no other reference to this perspective, attracted her share of under his armpit, and I have no way of be like if we could go after them in individual, but it is assumed he was a loyal readers as well as critics. telling him not to be afraid of getting their own domain and maybe, ever the trusted friend of Alpha’s who owned OSCAR is reprinting some of down on all fours. He’d probably find adventurer, Alpha tried to find out for a black cat. For theories on who the Zoscha’s musings from eight years it a lot easier on our walks to gallop himself. mystery man might be, see Andrea ago. The editors have annotated where along like that. Already, that’s how he My Alpha is about seven years old, Jackson, “Canoes, Cats and the we feel that today’s readers may need climbs up and down the stairs, but he in dog terms.(4) Some of his friends Continuing Literary References to to be informed of references that may can’t seem to get the hang of doing it tell him he shouldn’t be climbing Tom Thompson, “ Carleton University no longer be remembered by readers quickly. trees. He scoffs: says the accident Review, July 2008. today, or where recent scholarship It happened on a day that he has nothing to do with his age. He (3) This is the last reference in the has shed further light on the world left for the cottage with the Pup and maintains that the branch broke Windsor Chronicles to She Who Must described in the Windsor Chronicles.. the Guy with the Black Jack Cat.(2) because of this summer’s drought, Be Obeyed. Theodore Melnyk in his They took the Guy’s car, but I could or the thinning of the ozone layer, or exhaustive study, Nuclear Family, August, 2001 tell they were going to the cottage by the decades of changing to daylight Extended Family, Pack; The World of the clothes and the food they stacked savings time, or a combination of all Zoscha the Wonder Dog, Knoff, 2009, Dear Boomer, by the front door in preparation for the factors that make tree branches concludes that this reference indicates departure. less strong than they were when he the point at which she leaves the They didn’t come home that was a pup. family home, cf pp. 126-129. could have told him! How I try to night, but She Who Must Be Obeyed In the meantime, he has taught the (4) Zoscha converts one dog year warn him! remained at the house. She and some Pup to feed me and bring me my water, for seven “humanoid” years, making I whimpered and whined and I female friends packed humanoid as well as do other chores Alpha can’t Alpha 49 – whether she thinks this said, “Don’t go to the cottage without dishes into boxes.(3) The next day, do with just one leg and two sticks. is too old to be climbing trees is not me, Alpha. You know you’ll only get she left me at home, driving off in the The Pup also holds the leash when the recorded. into trouble without me.” new car that she never lets me ride in. three of us go for a walk. (5) There (5) Melnyk uses this passage, and But do you think he ever listens? And later in the evening, the Black seem to be big changes taking place. the notable absence of any reference No-o-o-o... Jack Cat Guy delivered the Pup and I’ll keep you informed. to She Who Must Be Obeyed, as And so here is my Alpha now, Alpha – with Alpha’s leg wrapped in conclusive proof that she has left. hobbling around with a big, fat, fibreglass. Ibid. p. 129. fibreglass stocking – as hard as a chew On four good legs and true, I’ve been listening to try figure stick. (1) It’s on his right leg, from the out what happened. It seems Alpha stifle all the way down to his claws. was climbing a tree at the cottage and Zoscha Sudoku Solution Sudoku Puzzle is on page 23 SEPT 2010 The OSCAR - OUR 37th YEAR Page 27

Ottawa Regional Youth Choir By Kevin Reeves of people who have been associated with the choir for many years, to write hirty-three years ago, in 1977, about some of their highlights. school teacher and music Dr. Marianna K. McVey, is the consultant Barbara Clark President of Network for Educational T Leaders (NEL). She has been had a vision. There was no place in Ottawa for the youth of this city to instrumental in raising money for meet, socialize, and sing together, the choir: “The highlight of my except church choirs. Since Barbara involvement with ORYC was the was already conducting the Ottawa Meet the Composer Series. Thanks to Board of Education’s Central Choir, special grants from The Community made up of promising young singers Foundation of Ottawa, ORYC hosted from the primary schools, it was workshops, and concerts by Canadian the most natural thing in the world composer/conductor Stephen Hatfield for her to recruit these kids into in 2002 and 2004, England’s Bob what became known as the Central Chilcott in 2005, and Canadian Alumni Choir. A mere two years composer/conductor Paul Halley in later, the National Arts Centre was 2006 for Ottawa secondary school and university youth were very popular.” celebrating its 10th anniversary and At Camp Merrywood presented Beethoven’s massive Ninth Symphony. It was Brian Law (known as ‘Mr. Music’ in Ottawa because he I have been the conductor of dance in a fantastic setting! Cont’d on page 32 ran virtually every musical ensemble the Ottawa Regional Youth Choir For this article, I invited a couple in town) who convinced Maestro for three years, and I’m astonished Mario Bernardi to include these young by how much this small choir has singers in the festivities. To sing one accomplished in that time. Just this of the greatest choral works with the past year, in addition to our regular National Arts Centre Orchestra was a concerts, one of which included a highlight for the fledgling choir. Broadway medley show with Stan The choir kept growing and Clark’s swing band, the ORYC growing, until it reached a plateau appeared four times with the National of about 85 singers. Then, in 1982, Arts Centre Orchestra! In one of the Board of Education decided to these shows, they got to perform cut funding and severed its ties with with Boris Brott and actor/comedian the ensemble. Undeterred, Barbara Eugene Levy. The choir also sang on Clark pressed on with the help of Parliament Hill with Quebec superstar some of the parents, and renamed her Gregory Charles, in celebration of adolescent child the Ottawa Regional the Olympic Torch coming through Youth Choir. From this incarnation Ottawa. There certainly seems to be sprang many talented people who no shortage of things for the choir to have since infiltrated the professional do. world of music. Internationally The opportunities ORYC renowned countertenors Daniel choristers (aged 15-23) have had Taylor and Matthew White sang as over the decades with the choir have young baritones in the choir. Jennifer been extensive. They have performed Maines, soprano, and Dan Chamandy, many times with the National Arts tenor, who are presently making Centre Orchestra, directed by Pinchas their names in the opera houses of Zukerman, and have appeared many Europe, also sang with Barbara, as times with the orchestra during did baritone Joshua Hopkins, who ‘Fanfair,’ an annual Christmas show drove every week from Pembroke in the lobby of the NAC which raises to attend Monday night rehearsals. money for the Snowsuit Fund and Former alto, Jennifer Loveless, is the Ottawa Food Bank. They have now organist at Notre Dame Basilica, also performed with the Ottawa while her sister Julie is organist at St. Symphony Orchestra, the Cantata Timothy of all Eaton’s in Toronto. Singers of Ottawa, and Seventeen The Ottawa Regional Youth Voyces; and have had choir exchanges Choir (ORYC) performs a broad with ensembles such as the Cantabile range of repertoire from the 16th to Choirs of Kingston. To get a head start the 21st centuries. It is committed to on the year, we always go to Camp the promotion of Canadian composers Merrywood for the last weekend in and has commissioned several new September. In those couple of days, works that have been added to the we rehearse, play games, eat great general choral repertoire. food, and wrap up with a square- th Page 28 The OSCAR - OUR 37 YEAR SEPT 2010

Classical Stretch - Essentrics Comes to Ottawa By Amanda Sterczyk here in Ottawa. This class will create lean muscles, improve posture, and lassical Stretch - Essentrics reduce the size of your hips, waist, is a great full-body workout and abs. Amanda Sterczyk - a Level that is suitable for women 1 Classical Stretch - Essentrics In- C structor - is teaching classes in Old and men of all ages and fitness levels. Perhaps you’ve already been exposed Ottawa South. The fall session starts to this form of exercise, through the week of September 13th and runs creator Miranda Esmonde-White’s for 12 weeks, Mondays at 9:30 am or weekday morning show on WPBS. Thursdays at 1:30 pm. Classes are 1 As a former ballet dancer, Miranda hour in length, and will be held at Ma- strived to create an exercise program kin’ Moves Studio, 1196 Bank St. The that would help participants develop cost is $155 for the 12 sessions, or longer, leaner muscles - similar to a $15 per drop-in session. To register or ballerina’s form. Classical Stretch - for more information, please contact Essentrics combines stretching and Amanda by email (classical.stretch. strengthening with techniques from smooth challenging movements, the the results is the speed in which their [email protected]) or by phone physiotherapy, ballet, tai chi, and continuous non-stop flow of exercis- bodies change: noticeably improving (613-304-5128). yoga to help individuals achieve es; they love how easy the program is posture, and leaving students’ bodies a toned, flexible body. Students of to follow; and most of all, they love looking elegant, lean, and toned. Classical Stretch - Essentrics love the the results. What is different about Now you can join a live class SEPT 2010 The OSCAR - OUR 37th YEAR Page 29

Yoga Benefits the Whole Family

By Amanda DeGrace

ringing another life into the world is a miracle and a life long connection of love, nurturing and a bond stronger than anything Belse in this world. Creating a foundation of a healthy mind, body and spirit will pay forward to your little one as they continue to grow and thrive within the uterus. Practicing yoga throughout pregnancy enables the mother to focus on their pregnancy, turning their senses internally and becoming more aware of what is happening within their own body…the miracle of life. Yoga is a great way to connect with your baby in a calm and centered way. Pregnancy may bring forth many challenges including morning sickness, stiffness, aches and pains, energy blocks, shifting centre of balance, shortness of breath, insomnia and fatigue. Maintaining a yoga practice throughout pregnancy enables women to take control of their mind, body and spirit and steer it towards healing, relaxation and welcoming the changes as they occur. By setting aside time for a yoga practice the mother becomes more aware of her body and its needs. Specific yoga movements will increase stamina, strength and energy while reducing muscle soreness and backaches. Breathing techniques and breath awareness assists with labour coping strategies and meditation assists in calming the mind as you ride the wave of each contraction. Classes end with a peaceful relaxation period and participants leave a yoga session with a sense of nourishment for the soul. After the birth of your child you may wish to continue your yoga practice while interacting with other moms who are experiencing similar things as you. Mom & Baby yoga classes are a great way to interact with others in your community and create new friendships while building strength, stamina and balance. Yoga practiced postpartum has also shown to decrease post partum depression as you celebrate and take time for your own mind, body and spirit. Share in a special yoga practice with your baby as you incorporate them in the postures and take time out of your schedule to breathe, relax and revitalize. Nurturing yourself will pay tenfold when giving back to your family! Children also greatly benefit from a yoga practice. Integration of yoga into a child’s life allows for a sense of calmness and relaxation, coupled with environmental awareness and tools for personal stress management. Children’s yoga classes foster a sharing and caring environment and bring honour and thankfulness for their self, family and surroundings. Through the use of movement and animated poses and postures (asanas) children will begin to develop a safe and sound yoga practice in a nurturing environment. Breathing techniques (prananyama) and visualization (meditation) will allow your child to be their true self, relax, and develop self-control, along with inner motivation and an increase in self-esteem. There are a variety of yoga classes offered in the OOS community, with new classes being offered for children (ages 2-5 & 6-12) at the Firehall and Prenatal, Mom & Baby & Gentle Hatha (suitable for postnatal) classes being offered at Anna Belanger & Associates new clinic located at 1097 Bank St this Fall. Find a yoga class that best suits your needs and give it a try! Amanda DeGrace is the owner of DeGrace Energetics & Little Lotus. You may contact her for class information at [email protected] or visit her websites at www.littlelotusyoga.ca & www.amandadegrace.ca

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By Rob Campbell including the CAPPIES program (high clothing design! The importance of the arts for the school musicals competition with Interested community members development of generalized higher here is new energy in arts finalists at the NAC), the Young at Art can get in contact with any local order and creative thinking and also education as a result of new visual art festival (a galleried juried school’s administration or school for the full development of the whole Ontario arts curricula: a new competition), the Canadian improv council. The OCDSB encourages citizen seems clear. The arts should T games and the Kiwanis music festival. community involvement in the arts at a no longer be on the defensive with the elementary curriculum document implemented last September and Some OCDSB-only initiatives include Board level through its Arts Advisory new curriculum documents. And, I’m a new secondary schools one this the Sears high school drama festival, Committee. This dedicated group proud to state, the OCDSB does take coming year. It’s clear from both the annual Dance Showcase and an of volunteers from arts agencies, the arts seriously. that the arts are no longer to be an elementary drama and dance festival OCSDB staff and parents advises on ‘add on’ to be sidelined when times at Carleton University (12 schools arts needs and opportunities, has an If you have a suggestion or a are tough but rather are an essential last year). Whether a particular school annual arts award, raises awareness concern then please contact me via part of educating the whole citizen participates in an initiative is up to of the Arts with School Councils and [email protected] or at 323-7803. in their own right, in addition to their that school. advises the Board on all arts policy Meeting and document info available proven positive effects on literacy and In our area our schools take the and funding matters. It just developed at www.ocdsb.ca numeracy. arts seriously. Glashan produced a partnership with CTV and the NAC Dance finally takes its place their teacher-written play “Mali’s to showcase OCDSB students and is alongside the literary arts, visual Youngest Son” to great acclaim last organizing a District Culture Days arts, music and drama as a core year, Mutchmor has a story-telling event for this coming year. arts subject, 150 minutes must be project and fundraised to buy a full devoted to the arts per week and set of African drums, First Avenue has the responsibilities or roles of the a super choir, Hopewell had its 100th parent, student, teacher and school anniversary production and Lady administration in arts education are Evelyn Alternative has had its parent- clarified by these documents. We’ve led School of Rock well received. reviewed arts education at the OCDSB Extraordinary projects such as these from JK to Gr12 as a result. This all occur every year at area schools noted, without either new Provincial but are in addition to regular school arts money or tying existing money shows, bands of different sorts and to arts, how much funding primacy of course now the 150 minutes per is offered to the arts remains largely week of arts class time for elementary up to each Board and each school, as schools. The focus is on authentic well as policy and implementation engagement for all students. respectively. Glebe Collegiate is BIG into The OCDSB offers a specialist the arts. It has a lot of drama: stage high skills major diploma and coop drama program, CAPPIES, ‘back program in communication and stage’ and ‘main stage’ productions. design at Merivale HS and in digital A Glebe band came away with a media at Sir Wilfrid Laurier. As well Boston music festival prize last year. the OCDSB has Arts Canterbury, The school has the acclaimed Off accessed on an application basis, Beat percussion group (sound from for literary, visual, dramatic, dance found objects and the human body), and musical arts for exceptionally a jazz band, a full choir and student- committed students. Every OCDSB organized coffee houses. Glebe has high school has however amazing arts hosted the REEL Canada program departments with a lot going on to suit which screens critically acclaimed almost every demand. Canadian films integrated into class The OCDSB is involved in several work with a chance to dialogue with multi-partner initiatives locally the films’ directors and actors. It even has an annual fashion show of student

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Ottawa Regional Youth Choir .... Cont’d from page 27

Jean-Pierre Dubois-Godin, 26, was a member of ORYC from 2001-2009: “The opportunity to travel to places such as Kingston and Quebec City has been a highlight, and also the chance to sing in many languages other than French and English; Swedish, German, Spanish, Japanese, Dutch and Nigerian! It’s hard to find parts of my time with the choir that wasn’t a highlight. Obviously, it has been a large part of my life, and I have ORYC to thank for most of my current activities.” The problem now is that the choir is becoming dangerously small. What I can’t understand is, the Ottawa Regional Youth Choir is one of a kind – there’s nothing like it in the city - so where are the choristers? With these kinds of opportunities, there should be hundreds of youth lining up to get in. We’re now down to 25 singers due to the cut-off age or the complications of being a student. I personally think that many of today’s distractions have weaned people from absolute commitment. It has become a society of buffets – a taste of this, a taste of that – ‘well, maybe I’ll try that next year…’ Even the attitudes of parents have become extreme over the years. I find that they either let their children ‘choose for themselves’ what they might want to do, hence the buffet mentality, or they are Superparents and get the kids so involved in everything, they run around like With British composer Bob Chilcott (during workshop in Tabaret Hall) exhausted headless chickens. There is also a lack of vision when school Jackie Hawley, another colleague, and singing in a choir and these are healthy outcomes systems decide that arts-related subjects should be music director of the Ottawa Children’s Choir, for the mind body and spirit. (Researchers have the first to go during budget cuts. My colleague, contributes her observations: “In my 25+ years actually found that musically trained children Robert Filion, has been in charge of the choral of choral conducting I have witnessed countless performed better in a memory test that is correlated program at De La Salle High School for 19 years. examples of positive, life-changing experiences; with other skills such as literacy, verbal memory, He cites the sweeping cuts to academic music not just for choristers but for their families and Visio spatial processing, mathematics and programs as a ridiculous move: “What the schools audiences as well. Studies continue to show an intelligence). In choral singing each chorister has don’t realize is that music doesn’t have to be all endless variety of benefits for individuals and their a significant contribution to make. When everyone about bands, but choirs too. The voice is free… communities that are a result of involvement in a in the choir offers their best, the result of this they don’t have to pay for repairs if a horn needs a choir. Neurological research and brain imaging is positive collaboration is far beyond the sum of its new valve.” showing the bio-chemical reactions in the brain of parts. The feeling of creating and sharing beauty is indescribable. It is uplifting and inspiring. It is easily available to everyone who chooses to have it part of their lives. Join a choir!” Maureen Forrester, Ben Heppner, Measha Brueggergosman, Daniel Taylor, Russell Braun and Gerald Finley – Canadians all – knew the benefits of singing. They all came from choirs, and all have extolled the merit of the education that was gleaned from their choral experiences. Of course, gentle reader, you’re probably becoming aware that this article is really a giant ad designed to attract young potential singers to the Ottawa Regional Youth Choir. If these are your thoughts, you are correct. There will be auditions for prospective choristers in September, after Labour Day. For more information or to set up an audition time, please call Carolyn, at (613) 823- 1114.

Kevin Reeves is director of the Ottawa Regional Youth Choir, founding director of Seventeen Voyces, and new Associate Director of the Ottawa Choral Society. SEPT 2010 The OSCAR - OUR 37th YEAR Page 33 It’s Easy to Love Summer by Rick Sutherland, CLU, to know what’s going on in the the abolition of slavery and the happened. But we must move on and CFP, FDS, R.F.P world so that we can make sound assignation of a President. Can you take the steps to ensure that these blips decisions about our investments. In imagine the agony our forefathers on the radar screen do not side track ur glorious and all too brief reality there’s very little one can do would have suffered if the world us into making financial mistakes that summer season is upon us. in response to the hysteria that gets had radio, television, and internet could affect us for the rest of our lives. And what a summer it’s been. reported everyday by the media. throughout that period? There were Stay invested, invest more when you O Financial and political news helps financial panics and banking crises in can and thoroughly enjoy the rest of Can you recall when we have had such consistently beautiful weather? define the environment in which our 1819, 1837, 1857, 1893, 1907, 1929 the summer. Canadians have revelled by the lake investments operate but will this news and more recently 2009. In the last and festivals of all kinds have been affect the ability of your investments century we saw two world wars, a The foregoing is for general blessed with abundant crowds of fun to thrive and prosper into the future? If Great Depression, a Cold War and a information purposes and is the loving audiences. It certainly has been we take a long-term view the answer proliferation of nuclear weapons. opinion of the writer. This information relaxing. It sounds almost too good to has to be no. It doesn’t really matter Yet despite that history of chaos, is not intended to provide personal be true. if the Bank of Canada raises interest US equity markets continued to advice including, without limitation, And then there are the terrible rates a full percent over the summer grow at about an average of 6.5% investment, financial, legal, headlines. We heard enough about or even if it takes Greece decades to above inflation throughout the past accounting or tax advice. Please call Greece and the BP-Gulf story over the erase its deficit or even defaults, yet two centuries. If the Civil War, two or write to Rick Sutherland CLU, month of July to last a lifetime. Yes, again, on its debt. World Wars, and a Depression could CFP, FDS, R.F.P., to discuss your we need to be informed but do we The world has had a history of not interrupt the market’s assent, do particular circumstances or suggest really need to hear every minute detail chaos. Let’s go back to 1800. 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There, lawyers, called solici- the legal issues related to selling real ning of the transaction, helping them e are all familiar with the tors, help their clients market their estate from the beginning as well to avoid legal pitfalls in one of the North American model properties, negotiate the contract and as drafting a contract that takes the largest transactions of their lives and of selling real estate. This complete the transaction for about client’s circumstances and needs into the security of knowing the agreement W 1.5% of the sale price. No solicitor consideration. has been negotiated with the help of a means hiring a realtor who has access to the MLS database because of his will act both for the vendor and the The advantage for the client is professional trained in the law. or her membership in the realtors as- purchaser as it is seen as a conflict of not just dollars and cents. The client sociation, and paying 5% (plus HST interest. of course) of the sale price to him or In Ontario lawyers are exempt her. Sometimes one realtor acts for from the Real Estate and Business both vendor and purchaser and char- Brokers Act and can negotiate and ges less than 5% but more than he or draft the terms of a contract for the she would get if the commission was sale of real estate without being a li- shared with another realtor. censed real estate agent as long as As the price of real estate has the transaction is “incidental to and increased, the amount paid in realty directly arising” out of the legal ser- commissions has increased dramatic- vices provided. Owen Sound lawyer ally. The federal Competition Bur- Michael Forcier has taken advantage eau wants wider access to MLS and of this exemption and established a a larger variety of price models in web site where member lawyers can the commission paid to agents. Some help their clients market their proper- realty brokerages have now gone to a ties, including listing the properties “flat fee” model, some list properties on MLS, and negotiate and draft the on MLS for a nominal fee but do no terms of the contract and complete the marketing and some vendors try to transaction. The legal fees are negoti- sell their property themselves, some- able with each lawyer but are in the times by using web based marketing range of 1.5% plus HST and disburse- programs. ments. The most important part of the The website is www.property- real estate transaction, the contract, shop.ca. It is a virtual real estate office has been drafted by the realtor and where individuals sell their own real once signed by the parties, provided estate with their lawyer providing all Guidance, Protection to the lawyers chosen by the vendor the back ground legal work and advice and the purchaser for completion of from the beginning of the transaction the transaction. Traditionally there has to the closing. The website provides and Peace of Mind. been little or no input into the terms vendors with the necessary marketing Anna E. Sundin, Barrister & Solicitor of the contract by the lawyer who is tools including “talking” lawn signs, GEnErAl PrActicE includinG: asked to complete the transaction. ads, digital photos on the internet and Family Law, Wills, Real Estate, Incorporations, Litigation and Collaborative Family Law When there is no realtor involved, the listing on MLS. – A Cooperative and Dignified Approach to Separation and Divorce.– parties have to either draft the agree- The advantage for the lawyer is ment themselves or ask a lawyer to do that the lawyer can spend more time so at the end of the negotiations. with each client and provide individ-

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Sundin-OSCAR-Ad-2006.indd 1 7/27/06 11:15:35 AM Page 34 The OSCAR - OUR 37th YEAR SEPT 2010 Carleton Sports By Joe Scanlon including five from top teams in West- he joined the Halifax Mooseheads. time in history, were ranked in the top ern Canada. During his four seasons in the Que- 10 in Canada. arleton’s sports’ teams don’t The new arrivals are: Jasmine bec league, Bahm scored 34 goals and Although Ines Jelic has graduated compete over the summer but Levesque of the Balmoral Hall Blazers added 43 assists. after five years with the team, the other there have been many sports- (defence); Taber Tisdale, (goaltender) four starters – Alyson Bush, Courtney C from the same team; Roberta Murray Men’s Basketball Smith, Ashleigh Cleary and Jessica related stories from the university since the spring: of the Athol Murray College of Notre The men’s basketball team – national Resch – will be back. Joining them will · Carleton’s president has approval to Dame Hounds (defence); Alex Yallouz semi-finalists last March – have lost be Kendall MacLeod, now in her third bring back men’s football; of the Vancouver Fusion; and Olivia only one starter, Kevin McCleery, and, year with the team, two second year · The women’s hockey team has a Sutter of the Red Deer Sutter Fund as usual, are loaded with talent. Coach players, Jennifer Stoqua and Elizabeth bevy of outstanding recruits; Chiefs (forwards). Dave Smart’s biggest problem may Roach and Bailey Lomas who started · The men’s hockey team has a new The women’s team is losing both its well be finding playing time for all his at the beginning of last season before coach and some top level recruits; goal tenders – Valerie Charbonneau talented players including two broth- having to sit out with a knee injury. · Men’s basketball loses only one and Amanda Muhlig – so Tisdale will ers – Thomas and Philip Scrubb – from There will also be three rookies, all starter from the team which made it to likely be the first string goalie. She had British Columbia. Thomas practiced good enough to get playing time: the National semi-finals last season; the best goals against average in the with the team last season. Now he is Krista van Slingerland, a 5’10” guard · The women’s basketball team also Saskatchewan female midget hockey joined by Philip whose coach, Bill Dis- from Waterloo; Genavieve Melatti, a loses only one starter from the team league last season. brow, called “the most complete player 6’1”post player from Brampton; and which finished first in Ontario East; While Coolidge moves into her second I have ever coached.`` The two broth- Darcy Hawkins, a 6’0” post player and season at Carleton there has been a ers – the fifth brother combination at from nearby Merrickville. · The fall season is just days` away. change in coaching for men’s hockey. Carleton since Smart began coaching – Two seasons ago, Charles, lacking Coach Fred Parker is no longer with may both make the 12-member roster. bench strength often saw his players Football Revival the team. The university wanted him Returning for his fifth and final year is run out of steam by the end of a game. Carleton, which dropped football sev- to sign on for four years and he wanted last year’s starting point guard Mike Now he has the depth he needs to keep eral years ago, now plans to bring it a one year renewal. Discussions broke Kenny. Also back are fourth year veter- his started fresh. back – providing those who want it can down – just what went wrong is in dis- ans Cole Hobin and Elliott Thompson, raise several million dollars. pute – but Carleton started looking for third year veteran Kyle Smendziuk. Fall Season (See Box) The president, Roseanne Runte, who a new coach. After interviewing doz- All three started last season. It seems Although the regular season for restored football at her previous uni- ens of applicants, the university hired likely the fifth starter will be Tyson basketball and hockey does not start versity, Old Dominion, has persuaded Parker’s assistant, Marty Johnston. Hinz, who started early last season in until mid October, the teams will be the university’s Board of Governors He will be assisted by former Senator his rookie year and got regular playing playing some exhibition matches the that if the money can be raised the sport Sean Van Allen. time all season. next few weeks. Both the men’s and should return. Under the plan men’s Johnston has been able to attract sever- In addition to the Scrubb brothers, women’s basketball teams will, for ex- football would be separately funded al experienced players, many of them challenging them for slots on the team ample, play top level US teams. and income from the fund would pay from top-level Junior A hockey. They will be Aaron Chapman, who had a for the annual and start-up costs. The include: disappointing start to his third year However, for men’s and women’s soc- approach would be similar to the one · Matthew Dupud who was start- with the team but came on late in the cer, the regular season is just days away. at Laval University and would mean ing goalie for the Rimouski Oceanic season; and Willy Manigat who joined After a pre-season warm-up against no other sport would have to be cut in this past season in the Quebec Junior the team from Ottawa U, after sitting Guelph, the men head to British Col- any way to make way for football. Hockey League last season and re- out a year. But there are several other umbia for more warm-up games, then Carleton already has promises of more corded a goals against average of 3.59 recruits. In addition to the Scrubb both teams open at Carleton with visits than a million dollars. and a save percentage of 0.885. Dupud brothers there are: Devon Stedman from Queen’s and Royal Military Col- Carleton’s former president, Rick Van spent some time in the Central Junior from Glebe who sat out his final year in lege. For the women, their main op- Loon, dropped football from the ath- Hockey League with the Kanata Stal- high school after knee surgery; Justin ponent is Ottawa U, a perennial power letics program after watching the team lions before beginning his major junior Shaver, 6’6” and tough inside; Medhi in women’s soccer. For the men, it is lose year after year and after the an- career. Tihani from Colonel By; Gavin Resch, almost every team they play. However, nual “Panda” game with Ottawa U be- · Jordie Deagle from Lethbridge, a guard whose sister is on the women’s Carleton men have been a perennial came an embarrassment. It attracted a Alberta who was both a defenceman team. Shaver, Tihani and Resch – power in soccer and have made sever- huge crowd of students many of whom and a forward this past season. He along with Thomas Scrubb – played al trips to the National championships. were more interested in drinking than began his major junior career with the for the Ottawa Guardsman team which Twice they made it to the finals only football. Medicine Hat Tigers of the Western won the under-19 provincial cham- to lose, once to University of British While the return of football is still at Hockey League before moving to the pionship this past season. They will all Columbia, once to Brock. least a year or two away, for most other Prince George Cougars in 2006-07. be competing for the slots left open by sports the question is what new players He played his last two seasons in the McCleery`s graduation and the depar- Although Professor Scanlon was in- are coming to Carleton? Varsity ath- Western Hockey League with the Red ture of Anthony Ashe who is planning volved with Carleton athletics for letes can play a maximum five years Deer Rebels. to transfer to Acadia. many years, he no longer has any of- so each year – mainly due to gradua- · Stephen Blunden. The winger has ficial connection with any Carleton tion – there is a turnover. The coaches experience at both the major junior and Women’s Basketball sport. must find new student athletes to fill Tier II levels over the past four years. Last season, Carleton women finished the gaps. This not only means finding Blunden began his Ontario Hockey first in Ontario East and, for the first athletes who can compete at the uni- League career with the Belleville versity level it means finding students Bulls, where he played for more than who find Carleton’s programs attract- three seasons before joining the Ot- ive and can meet the university’s aca- tawa 67’s for the majority of the 2008- Carleton Varsity Sports Calendar demic requirements. 09 campaign. This past season, Blun- August den tallied 22 goals and 68 assists in 22 Soccer Teams Host Guelph Women at noon, Men at 2:15 pm Pre- Women’s Hockey Recruits 54 games with the Gloucester Rangers Season Last season Carleton acquired a new of the CJHL. 23 Men’s soccer travel to British Columbia for pre-season games with BC women’s hockey coach – Shelley · Jeff Hayes and Tyler Taylor, both teams Coolidge -- who came to Carleton with the Oshawa Generals last season. 27 Women’s Basketball Manhattan College at Carleton after six years of Ottawa U. Coolidge Hayes was team captain; 28 Men’s Basketball Maine at Carleton has outstanding credentials. Not only · Brad Albert, former assistant cap- September did she take Ottawa to the Canadian tain of the Ontario Hockey League’s 3 Women’s Hockey Carleton takes on Team Norway at 6 p.m. women`s university final, she was as- Brampton Battalion; in four seasons 4 Soccer Queen’s visits Carleton Women at one o’clock, men at 3:15 sistant coach with the Canadian team on defence with Brampton, Alberta 4 Men’s Basketball at Scotiabank Place Cincinnati at Carleton that won the first ever gold medal for scored seven foals and had 38 assists 8 Soccer RMC visits Carleton Women at six o’clock, Men at 8:15 17 Men’s Hockey opens its exhibition season at McGill Canada in international women`s uni- and was overall +15. October versity hockey. · Linden Bahm. The winger started 2 Soccer Ryerson visits Carleton Women at one o’clock, men at 3:15 Last season Coolidge made do with his career with the Shawinigan Cata- 3 Soccer Toronto at Carleton Women at one o’clock Men at 3:15 the players already at Carleton. This racts in the Quebec Major Junior season she has attracted six recruits, Hockey League. After two seasons, SEPT 2010 The OSCAR - OUR 37th YEAR Page 35

M.P.P. OTTAWA CENTRE Investing in Learning

By Yasir Naqvi, MPP learning for the first time. 2003. new Carleton University. Under our Ottawa Centre Ontario is the first jurisdiction in Not only are kids doing better plan, every qualified Ontarian who North America to launch integrated in class, but more and more kids are wants to go to college or university eptember means only one thing and extended full-day learning for graduating than ever before. Since will find a place. to thousands of families and all four- and five-year-olds. This 2003, we have increased the number To help, we will create the new students across Ottawa – time program is part of our plan to improve of high school students graduating Ontario Online Institute, bringing the S education for every student so we can from Ontario schools by nine best professors in the top programs at to sharpen the pencils and head back to school. improve student achievement and percentage points to 77 per cent – that Ontario universities to the homes of As a child, I loved going back give our students the opportunity to is 13,500 more students graduating those who want to pursue this new to school in September; a new learn in a variety of ways. every year and 36,000 more graduates option for higher learning. classroom; a new teacher; a new This plan includes hiring more since 2003. Education is the key to success in beginning. I loved the possibilities teachers – over 600 more in Ottawa More graduates means more the future – both for our children, and that the beginning of the school year since 2003 – and investing in our students moving on to post-secondary for our society. The reality is that our had and could not wait to find out system. Annual funding for our local education. Since 2003 we have added world is changing, and to keep up, our what we would be learning. school boards this year increased by 180,000 students to our colleges, children need to be able to compete This school year is even more 3.6 percent - that is more than $694 universities and apprenticeships, in the knowledge-based economy of exciting for our youngest students million over last year. This means that meaning Ontario now has one of the future. because it the first time Ontario actual per pupil funding is 4.5 percent the highest rates of postsecondary We are proud of the progress will offer full-day learning in our higher this year over last – and 50 education in the world at 62 percent. we have made in education, from kindergarten classes. Starting this percent higher than they were in 2003. Though we are proud of these kindergarten straight through to month, four-and five-year-olds in The good news is our plan is achievements, we know we simply doctoral studies. We will remain over 600 schools across Ontario will working! In Ottawa, test scores for must reach higher; 70 per cent of all committed to learning and dedicated have access to before and after-school Grade 3 Reading, Writing, and Math new jobs will require postsecondary to our students. programming. In our community, have increased by an average of 13 education. We must rise to meet this. I look forward to hearing your students at Cambridge Street Public percentage points since 2003. Test Our Open Ontario Plan will thoughts, views and suggestions. School and W.E. Gowling Public scores for Grade 6 Reading, Writing, increase spaces in colleges and Please do not hesitate to contact me at School will be trying out full-day and Math have increased by an universities by 20,000 students this anytime at 613-722-6414 or ynaqvi. average of 7 percentage points since year. That is the equivalent of a whole [email protected]. Protecting Our Homes Paper Liners For The Green By Khoa N. Hoang years. Techniques and strategies for neighbours are just as likely to call Bin Or Kitchen Container CPC Officer in Charge getting into your home are still the the police when they see someone same from decades ago. that doesn’t belong. hile it’s not necessary to use paper Centretown Community Trees and shrubs provide natural Garages are often overlooked liners for your green bin, there are two sizes of paper liner bags Police Centre concealment and are one of the most by home owners when considering W available at most major retailers, one for 393 Somerset Street commonly overlooked items when security. Larger homes with gar- both the kitchen container and the green bin. West. Ottawa. securing a home. When assessing age windows and doors leading to You can also use leaf and yard waste paper the security of your property, make the side of the house are extremely bags in the larger green bin. sure you incorporate landscaping. vulnerable. These doors are usually Some residents may find that using here is nothing more com- Landscaping can be an effective tool located in remote, dark areas with liners will help keep their bins neat, or con- forting after a long day than in crime prevention while increasing excellent concealment from public tents from freezing to the bin in the winter coming home. But even that T the value of your home. view. Once inside your garage, ac- time. You can also use newspaper or any can quickly turn into a nightmare if Window coverings should be cess to your car and your home’s in- other paper-based product (like cereal boxes your personal space has been vio- drawn closed when not at home. terior is much, much easier. or waxed milk cartons) to line the bottom of lated. The thought of some stranger your container(s). Wrapping items in news- Criminals who are looking for an Let’s face it, professional bur- going through your belongings and print or flyers prior to placement in the green easy target will collect as much in- glars are going to find a way in. But walking around uninvited can be ex- bin will also help to keep the containers formation as they can before break- professional burglars also use risk tremely traumatic. clean until you can obtain more purchased ing in. So keep the radio on and the assessment so that a well fortified Our homes may consist of young paper liners. upstairs lights on a timer to throw off home that appears occupied is much Please remember the City’s Green Bin children, expectant mothers, and unwanted guests. less likely to be chosen than a dark program is paper only. Compostable or elderly parents, increasing our sensi- Check your points of entry! abandoned one. Taking reasonable biodegradable plastic bin liners are not ac- tivity to unwanted criminals who Windows and doors are the entry security precautions is well worth the cepted. might cross our paths. We may try to points into our home, so let’s make effort because when we protect our lessen the odds by installing bars in sure they lock properly. Unless home and the items we cherish, we windows, alarm systems, and keep- your name is Santa Claus, or you’re also increase the safety of our family ing a watchful eye. But do any of a member of a SWAT team, roof and each other. those methods actually work? top entries are rare and go against a Neighbourhood watch is an ex- Fear tactics as a form of adver- criminal’s natural tendency to avoid cellent program officered by the tisement is an effective way alarm attention. Fortify your patio door Ottawa Police Service that brings companies convince you to buy into with a metal bar or wooden stick neighbours together to help educate their product. Unfortunately, not to assist the cheap locks most of us and bring awareness. Your neigh- everyone can afford the monthly have. And remember to change all bourhood Community Police Centre monitoring fees ranging from $20 - locks and invest in quality new ones also provides a Home Security In- $40 per month. And with additional when moving into a home. spection service to point out security charges costing $130 every time Lighting is equally important, problems as well as possible solu- police arrive to investigate a false if not the most important deterrent tions you may not have considered. alarm, not everyone can afford the to criminals. Criminals seek ano- It’s FREE! luxury. nymity. They much prefer to work Finally, trust your instincts… It should come as no surprise in darkness and isolation to conceal You don’t need a police badge to that summer months bring out higher their anti-social activities. So let’s know something just isn’t right. rates of theft and residential break- light everything up to keep our fam- When in doubt, call the police and let ins. But even with all the improved ilies safe this summer. Besides, I’ve them investigate your concerns. technology we’re surrounded by, always enjoyed nicely lit homes dur- For more information, visit break & enters, for the most part, ing my evening walks. This includes www.somersetcpc.ca have not changed much over the backyard lighting, because your Page 36 The OSCAR - OUR 37th YEAR SEPT 2010 Sips from the Poetry Café 15th Annual School Kit Drive September, The ‘New’ New Year Now Underway In Ottawa

or children whose lives have been interrupted by war, disaster and poverty, school kits mean the possibility of a better future and the By: Susan Atkinson me. Much better to strap on a new knowledge that people far away care about them. Ten Thousand pair of running shoes, sign up for a F Villages is once again collecting supplies for school kits, which will be here’s a certain aroma in the workshop, try eating healthy or any sent by Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) to children around the air, a crispness, a coolness, a other resolution for that matter, when world. sweetness that feels like the the weather is sunny and warm rather Each kit contains four notebooks, four unsharpened pencils, a ruler, T than cold and snowy. Maybe if you end of something yet at the same a large eraser and a package of 12 coloured pencils. These supplies are time a beginning. The taste and tang share this sentiment September can packed in hand-sewn fabric bags and distributed by MCC partner agen- of something around the corner – it’s be your ‘new’ New Year too. What cies in schools and orphanages in Haiti, Afghanistan, Iraq, Ukraine, Sudan late August and the trees are starting a great time to be thinking of trying and many other countries. More than 100,000 school kits are distributed to pink at the edges, the mornings hold something you’ve never done before every year. a quiet promise and there’s a certain or something you’ve always dreamt In some countries children are not allowed to attend classes without anticipation that only comes with the of doing. I gotta tell ya I’m already school supplies and an MCC school kit makes it possible for them to go beginning of something new. making my ‘new things to do list’. to school. Our efforts to buy a few extra school supplies can make such a I’m sure I’m not the only one who big difference in the lives of children. feels September is the advent of a new The Poet on days like these Supporting education and empowering families is in keeping with the year, a time when new dreams can be goals and objectives of Ten Thousand Villages, a Fair Trade organization dreamt, resolutions conjured up and when autumn lingers which purchases products from more than 130 artisan groups in over 35 changes made. September is a natural tucking itself around the trees countries, giving them fair value for their work. new year – with the start of a new This is the 15th year that Ten Thousand Villages has collected school academic year it is fresh beginnings a palette of colour kits for MCC. The fabric bags and list of supplies are available at Ten for many. What a perfect time to think port-wine and mustard-gold Thousand Villages at 371 Richmond Road or 1174 Bank Street or visit of setting new goals. Whether or not www.TenThousandVillages.ca or ww.mcc.org/kits/school/ for more in- you’re going back to school there’s a i choose words formation. freshness in September for everyone, picking them gently Ten Thousand Villages is the oldest and largest Fair Trade organiza- an excitement of new possibilities. tion in North America. Through a network of 50 stores, as well as through Personally I find it much more to squeeze through hundreds of Festival Sales and online shopping, Ten Thousand Villages inspiring to make changes, turn the eye of a needle Canada sells artisan-crafted personal accessories, home decor and gift over a new leaf, explore something items from around the globe. different when the weather is good. I to sew poems Ten Thousand Villages works with artisans who would otherwise be don’t know about you but the thought as delicate as lace handkerchiefs. unemployed or underemployed, providing sustainable income through of getting ‘out there’ in the depths Fair Trade. This income helps pay for food, education, health care and of winter doesn’t really do it for housing. Thousands of volunteers in Canada and the United States work with Ten Thousand Villages in their home communities. Ten Thousand Villages, a non-profit program of Mennonite Central Committee (MCC), the relief and development agency of Mennonite and Brethren in Christ churches in North America, has its roots in the work begun by Edna Ruth Byler in 1946. Tell OSCAR Readers Ten Thousand Villages is a member of the World Fair Trade Organ- ization (WFTO), a coalition of Fair Trade organizations and handicraft about interesting people, and agricultural producers from both the North and the South. For more information, please visit our website: www.TenThousandVil- your travel lages.ca. or your interests. Send text and photos to [email protected]

l’Amicale francophone d’Ottawa - Cercle de Lecture

Par Jean-Claude Dubé nyside pour discuter du livre Rouge Brésil de Jean- Christophe Rufin. Les lectures suivantes seront Le ’est avec fierté que nous apprenons la candi- Rapport de Brodeck de Philippe Claudel le 12 octo- dature d’un de nos membres, Clive Doucet, à bre et Eulalie la Cicogne de Véronique-Marie Kaye, la mairie de la ville d’Ottawa. Membre de tout le 9 novembre. C L’Amicale francophone d’Ottawa est un organ- début, Clive a su agrémenter plusieurs rencontres du Cercle de lecture. C’est grâce à Clive que nous avons isme sans but lucratif et sans cotisation dont la mis- pu connaitre les œuvres de Herménégilde Chiasson, sion première est de promouvoir l’épanouissement poète, dramaturge, cinéaste et peintre acadien. de la vie en français dans les secteurs du centre Clive Doucet, qui est aussi poète et auteur, est d’Ottawa. En créant des liens sociaux-culturels, licencié en anthropologie urbaine et est diplômé l’Amicale essaie de répondre à un réel besoin de so- de l’Université de Toronto et de l’Université de cialisation en français dans ces secteurs. Visitez notre Montréal. Très populaire, Clive est notre conseiller site Toile (Web) www.amicaleottawa.com et devenez régional à la municipalité depuis treize ans. Nous lui un chroniqueur ou un participant dans nos forums. souhaitons cordialement un grand succès dans cette Pour des renseignements supplémentaires, n’hésitez nouvelle entreprise. pas à communiquer avec nous : amicaleottawa@ Le Cercle de lecture de l’Amicale se rencontrera gmail.com. le mardi 14 septembre, à 19 h, à la bibliothèque Sun- SEPT 2010 The OSCAR - OUR 37th YEAR Page 37 2010 Friends for Peace Day

By Ian Prattis • Community and Activist Table peace, social justice and planetary is gratefully acknowledged on the Together we create a joyful way care – and to have a good time program 8th Annual Friends for Peace Day, to peace, planetary care and social doing it. People can expect great Place information about the 2010 Saturday October 2, 2010, Jean justice. entertainment, inter-faith action, Friends for Peace Day in your local Pigott Place inside Ottawa City It’s up to us. activist speeches, interaction with community newspapers, church Hall, 10.00am – 4.00pm Friends for Peace - a coalition of fifty dancers and musicians, good bulletins and media contacts CELEBRATE PEACE, groups in Ottawa - has been building food, Silent Auction bargains and Give gift certificates to be placed in PLANETARY CARE AND SOCIAL peace, planetary care and social fellowship, while inspecting a Gift Baskets for the Silent Auction JUSTICE justice since 2003. All money raised showcase of concerned groups. Extend this information through your COME OUT, CONNECT and BE is donated to organizations actively Come and be part of the celebration. personal networks HEARD making a difference in the world and Have lots of fun at the 8th Friends for • Building Community to Heal the in our city. www.friendsforpeace. Support for Peace Prayer Day Peace Day!! World ca Last year, we provided three Please telephone or text 7 people you • Keeping Vision Alive $1,000.00 donations to: the Nelson know about this event – encourage When: Saturday, Oct 2, 2010 from • Elizabeth May – planetary care; Mandela Children’s Foundation in them to come. 10AM to 4PM, • Daniel Stringer – founder of South Africa; the David Smith Youth Bring your community, friends, Where: Jean Pigott Place, inside National Capital Peace Council Rehabilitation Centre in Ottawa; and neighbours and relatives Ottawa City Hall, • Taking Action the Morungatuny Refugee Camp in If you are willing to contribute to Why: to build bridges for peace, • Connect to others and projects; Uganda. The last donation enables 10 our silent auction, please send your planetary care and social justice • Petition for Department of Peace families to re-settle with seed, tools item(s) to Pine Gate Sangha: 1252 How: through song, dance, food, • Celebrating – Great and building materials. Rideout Cr, Ottawa, ON. K2C 2X7. social activism and Fun, entertainment, Silent Auction Contact: Dr. Ian Prattis: iprattis@ 613 726 0881 for pick-up or bring it Who: all organized by Friends for • Teen Stepdance Sensations, African cyberus.ca (613) 726-0881 on the day. Peace and their friends. World Music, Choirs, Slam Poetry, Friends from all across the city Take a table to promote your group www.friendsforpeace.ca Pipers, present this event to provide or business. $50.00 per table Kirtan, Drums, Meditation and the opportunity for the diversity Ask business friends for sponsorship Moving Mysteries of Ottawa to stand together for ($100.00 or more). The sponsor

Dover Beach By Matthew Arnold 1822 - 1888

The sea is calm to-night. The tide is full, the moon lies fair Upon the straits;--on the French coast the light Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand, Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay. Come to the window, sweet is the night-air! Only, from the long line of spray Where the sea meets the moon-blanch’d land, Listen! you hear the grating roar Of pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling, At their return, up the high strand, Begin, and cease, and then again begin, With tremulous cadence slow, and bring The eternal note of sadness in.

Sophocles long ago Heard it on the AEgean, and it brought Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow Of human misery; we Find also in the sound a thought, Hearing it by this distant northern sea.

The Sea of Faith Was once, too, at the full, and round earth’s shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furl’d. But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world.

Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night. th Page 38 The OSCAR - OUR 37 YEAR SEPT 2010

COMPUTER TRICKS AND TIPS A Few Useful Websites

By Malcolm and John Harding, of be outraged to learn that refugees to to http://tinyurl.com/25ofsy7 instead or avoid black bears (your choice) Compu-Home this country are handed huge sums and read the very same page. That’s and, perhaps most importantly, learn of money by the federal government because I converted the original to how to make an origami liner for e hope everyone has had that are far in excess of what the this shorter version at www.tinyurl. your compost bin. One potentially a wonderful summer, average pensioner will ever see. It com This nifty free utility allows you useful resource at the Ottawa site is Wand that none of our is amazing to be informed that: cats to condense web addresses by simply the maps, which are up to date with readers have recently been hit by will suck the breath out of babies; pasting the original into a box and new city streets that don’t yet appear a motorcycle. In our family, we rice thrown at weddings is dangerous clicking one button. on Google Maps, Mapquest or your can tell you firsthand that is not a to birds; elephants are afraid of mice New York Times columnist David GPS. fun experience. . . especially not in and a duck’s quack doesn’t echo. The Pogue is one of the best at keeping us Cambodia. fact is that all of the above “facts” up to date in the world of technology. Malcolm and John Harding are www.snopes.com is the first are untrue and if your well-meaning He isn’t condescending, and he does owners of Compu-Home, assisting website I’ll recommend, for its ability correspondents had taken a moment have a serious side, but he takes his home and business computer users. to expose the nonsense that passes for to check out this garbage at snopes. subject with a grain of salt and pokes a Be sure to visit our new web site so-called information in email these com they wouldn’t be clogging your bit of fun at the foibles of the industry. for an archive of our Columns. www. days. I have a very curmudgeonly Inbox with it. David Pogue (see You can find his columns and videos compu-home.com attitude regarding all of those below) recently interviewed David at http://www.nytimes.com/pages/ messages that friends forward to me and Barbara Mikkelson, the founders, technology/ and read his blog at Write to harding@compu-home. with jokes, pseudo-scientific warnings sponsors and caretakers of Snopes, and http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/ com or phone 613-731-5954 to and political diatribes. I realize that you can read some of their fascinating Closer to home, I am a big fan of discuss computer issues, or to suggest people are just being helpful when experiences at: http://pogue.blogs. www.ottawa.ca for its thorough yet future columns. they inform you that there will be nytimes.com/2010/07/15/at-snopes- navigable and readable approach to two moons on August 27 and NO com-rumors-are-held-up-to-the-light/ all facets of life in our city. You can ONE ALIVE TODAY WILL EVER If the whopping 88 characters pay a parking ticket, find a recreation SEE THIS AGAIN!!! Furthermore, of the above address is a bit programme, avoid road construction just like my redneck friends, I would overwhelming, you could simply go sites, contact your councillor, attract

Dorothy Reads The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

ne of the most enjoyable Frank Doel, a London bookseller, be- The Guernsey Literary and Potato books I read this summer was ginning with their first contact in 1949 Peel Pie Society is set in a similar OThe Guernsey Literary and and spanning the next 20 years. Their time period, and also has to do with Potato Peel Pie Society. Written in correspondence details the evolution publishing, literature and the love of the form of letters, it reminded me of of their relationship from business to books. another epistolatory book published friendship and the letters include de- Dorothy Jeffreys, Librarian many years ago, 84 Charing Cross lightful discussions about such topics Alta Vista Library Road by Helen Hanff. The latter book as the coronation of the Queen, the consists of the published letters of Brooklyn Dodgers and how to make Hanff, a resident of New York and a proper Yorkshire pudding.

A New Request For Proposals To Put In Place A Bike Share Service Is Launched n July 23, 2010, the National launched in April 2010, no private Capital Commission (NCC), proponent came forward with an of- Othe City of Ottawa and the fer to manage and operate a bike Ville de Gatineau launched a new share service in Canada’s Capital Re- Request for Proposals to establish a gion under the condition to own the bike share service in Canada’s Cap- equipment. Since the results of the ital Region. The service will provide feasibility study completed in 2009 residents, workers and visitors of the and the bike share trial run had dem- Region with another mode of sustain- onstrated that the service would be able transportation to travel through economically viable for the Capital the downtown cores of Ottawa and Region, the NCC and its partners, the Gatineau. cities of Ottawa and Gatineau, have The regular service, scheduled decided to amend and launch a new for spring 2011, will offer 50 stations Request for Proposals to establish the and 500 bicycles. The NCC and the regular service scheduled for spring cities of Ottawa and Gatineau are 2011. seeking a supplier from which to pur- For more information about chase the equipment and that would cycling in Canada’s Capital Region, also manage and operate the regular the public may contact the NCC at service over the next five years. The 613-239-5000, 1-800-465-1867 (toll- regular service will be funded from free), 613-239-5090 (TTY) or 1-866- public funds and service revenues. 661-3530 (toll-free TTY), or visit In the previous Request for the website at www.canadascapital. Proposals to establish the service, gc.ca. SEPT 2010 The OSCAR - OUR 37th YEAR Page 39

MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT OTTAWA CENTRE A Fitting Tribute to Nelson Mandela

By Paul Dewar capital has no memorial dedicated to memorate the British victory in the ans consider him their personal hero our history of anti-Apartheid activ- Second Boer War and honour those and we have the honour of knowing anadians have a proud history ism. Canadians who served in that war. The that we stood with him in the struggle of solidarity with the anti- It’s time for a fitting tribute to original bridge, built in 1915, was an against Apartheid. Apartheid movement in South Nelson Mandela in Canada’s capital. extension of the Avenue. Meanwhile, A fitting tribute to Mandela would C In the months ahead, I will seek the official Boer War Memorial, a also be a tribute to Canadian civil so- Africa and its leader Nelson Mandela. As early as 1960, Canada expressed your feedback regarding an idea monument with a statute of a solider ciety that advocated for an end to its opposition to Apartheid. Our civil which first surfaced twenty years ago: atop a granite base, is located in Ot- Apartheid and the Canadian govern- society advocated for action and our to name the bridge currently known tawa’s Confederation Park, across the ment that took a principled position in government enacted economic sanc- as “Pretoria” after the first President street from Marion Dewar Plaza and foreign policy. tions which helped end the racist re- of democratic South Africa, Nelson City Hall. Every time we use the bridge, or gime. Mandela. In the 1980s, while Mandela was pass under it on the bike path, we can That’s why Ottawa was one of The bridge, which crosses the still a prisoner, a movement was born take a moment to think about Man- Nelson Mandela’s first foreign visits Rideau Canal, connects NCC-owned in Ottawa to name the bridge after dela’s leadership. It will be an oppor- after 27 years of imprisonment. He Queen Elizabeth Driveway and Col- him. There was the usual debate but tunity to discuss our history with our spoke to our Parliament and visited onel By Drive. On one side is Haw- the City Council of the time side- children and re-commit Canada’s as- our Human Rights Monument. He thorne in Old Ottawa East and on stepped the issue and the idea has lain sistance to ongoing struggles against is also an honourary Canadian citi- the other side is Elgin, starting in the dormant ever since. political repression around the globe. zen and a Companion of the Order of Glebe and moving into Centretown. This July, we celebrated Man- I look forward to your feedback Canada. The bridge takes its name from Pre- dela’s 92nd birthday. In his old age, on this idea. Civic tributes to Mandela can be toria Avenue. Mandela still inspires people around Paul Dewar found everywhere from Swaziland In 1902, Pretoria Avenue, former- the world to strive for freedom, de- [email protected] to England, France to India – but our ly Jane Street, was renamed to com- mocracy and equality. Many Canadi- (613) 946-8682 CARLETON CORNER arleton University showcased receive a text offering them the option created a cane with removable ends to 10 million people around the world a state-of-the-art language to renew their parking. The software, for different weather, will compete for and is spoken by up to 100 million Cand brain lab in June that the first of its kind in Canada, could the national prize this fall. more. As one of the official languages will research how people acquire and mean the end of parking tickets. Afghan human rights champion in Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda and process language. The $344,000 lab, Thanks to a successful trial period in Dr. Sima Samar was invited to campus the Democratic Republic of Congo, funded in part by grants from the Lot 2 on campus, the program is likely in July to receive an honorary degree. Kiswahili is considered to be a very Canada Foundation for Innovation to continue and may expand across Samar, who was nominated for a 2009 important language throughout east and the Ministry of Research and campus this year. Users can register Nobel Peace Prize, has dedicated and central Africa. Innovation, features an EEG machine their car and payment information at: her life to enhancing women’s rights Carleton alumni Sarah Boudens and an eye-tracker that records a http://www.iParked.ca. in Afghanistan. She founded the is one step closer to her dream of subject’s eye movements. Under the Sixty high school students from Shuhada Organization, which operates competing in the 2012 Olympics leadership of Prof. Masako Hirotani, across Canada lived on campus for more than 55 schools for Afghan after winning the Kayak-1 women’s the lab will help stroke victims, the month of July. As part of the Shad children. Carleton is looking forward canoe slalom national championship children who are struggling to learn Valley program, they were challenged to also presenting 2006 Novel Peace this month. Boudens, who graduated a language, people with reading to invent similar innovative and Prize winner Dr. Muhammad Yunus from Carleton with a civil engineering disorders and those learning a second marketable products. This year’s from Bangladesh with an honorary degree in June, took time off from language. theme focused on developing products doctorate on Sept. 1 for his work in her studies to participate in the In other technology news, for Canada’s aging population. economic and social development. 2008 Olympics in Beijing but was Carleton grad and professor Dwight Students designed everything from an Also this fall, Carleton’s School of eliminated in the qualifying round. Deugo has developed software that oven with a motion sensor that turns Linguistics and Language Studies is She plans on travelling to competitions allows people on campus to use text itself off if accidently left on to glow- excited to offer courses on the African around the world over the next two messaging to pay for parking. When in-the-dark slippers that light up when language Kiswahili for the first time. years to secure a spot on Canada’s parking is about to expire, users you walk. 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Clive Doucet Stanley Pioro Charlie Taylor 613-798-1010 613-277-0513 613-521-8213 campaigninfo@clivedoucet. [email protected] charlietaylorformayor@ com hotmail.com Eric Romolock Robin Lawrance 613-513-9529 Jim Watson 613-680-3178 [email protected] 613-835-2400 [email protected] [email protected] Sean Ryan Vincent M. Libweshya 613-220-2968 Samuel Wright 613-614-7815 613-249-7184 [email protected] Seanryan4mayor@gmail. Information for candidates taken from City of Ottawa website Page 40 The OSCAR - OUR 37th YEAR SEPT 2010

Surround Circle Yoga Yoga for Health and Wellness

By Maureen Fallis, heart. Without a host of competing exercises called Pranayama opens and and interests of the individual. The Surround Circle Yoga external demands, the nervous system clears the lungs, and strengthens the tools can be used simply as a means to gets quiet and is able to rebalance diaphragm. better health (usually the motivation y 9:15 on a Tuesday morning the body’s biochemistry which aids • Improving concentration: to first try a class) or it can be pursued warm candles glow and soft both health and healing. If there is Moving slowly and mindfully with more passion as an incredibly transformative music plays pain or tension held in your body, develops focus, attention, and beautiful way of life. Whichever path B by improving the function of the concentration. you choose - may it be fruitful and peacefully in the background at the local yoga studio. People of all ages, shoulders, hips, knees and wrists, as • Promotes relaxation: The filled with joy! sizes and physical abilities begin an example, congestion is released, combination of gentle stretching, deep trickling into the spacious studio energy is freed up and it’s then you breathing, meditation, and guided Director of Surround Circle after removing their shoes outside the will feel more at ease in your body. relaxation releases body tension, Yoga, Maureen Fallis and her highly door. Quietly greeting one another, By breathing, nourishing relaxation calms the nervous system, creates qualified, dedicated and experienced signing in, rolling out yoga mats, and and staying in your pain-free range of a deeper sense of introversion, and staff, are delighted to share their gathering appropriate yoga props, motion your body and mind will love tempers emotions. love of yoga. Surround Circle Yoga the students settle in. By 9:30 the you for it and respond in a natural and • Facilitates improved overall is pleased to offer a wide variety of room grows quiet as the yoga teacher, organic way. Ultimately yoga weaves health: In addition to exercising the yoga classes designed to enhance seated behind a beautiful tapestry the separate strands of body, heart, mind and muscles, yoga exercises your life from the inside out. Along placed lovingly on the floor, begins to and mind into the tapestry of a deeply and massages the glands, organs and with group and private classes, a speak in a low, soothing voice inviting integrated life. increases circulation throughout the number of exciting special events her students to ‘land’, to attend to The practice of yoga has many body resulting in improved digestion, and workshops are being planned for their breath, and for the next hour and benefits, including: elimination of toxins, and the the studio, such as: Journey Dance, a half to let go of the items on their • Toning and strengthening: As promotion of overall health. Bhakti Connection Kirtan, Partner daily ‘to do list’. a form of isometric exercise, the • Builds internal and external Yoga, Insight Workshops, and guest Why are they making the weekly prolonged holding of yoga postures awareness: On a deeper, subtle level teachers from near and far. Stay tuned pilgrimage to their beloved yoga keeps bones healthy, and tones the yoga builds awareness of the body and to the website for further details. class? Ancient yogic philosophy and muscles as well as internal organs. feelings, which in turn produces an current medical journals state that • Improving posture and joint increasing awareness of the needs of Surround Circle Yoga is pleased to mobility: Moving and stretching others and then in a real way extends welcome you to the 4th Annual OPEN the key to good health and wellness st lies in keeping the body, mind and helps joint mobility while twisting into the community, and to the wider HOUSE on Wednesday, September 1 spirit working harmoniously together. in different directions opens and world. from 5:00 – 7:00pm. These students have grown to know stretches the spine improving posture Yoga is available to anyone who Surround Circle Yoga is located and value their precious ‘new home’. and functional movement. is interested in discovering it. Age is at Southminster United Church, 15 • Increasing flexibility: Gently no barrier: you can start at any stage Aylmer Avenue Practicing ‘on the mat’ offers nd an experimental way to get in touch holding yoga poses at the edge of of life. And you don’t have to be 2 floor Galt Street entrance. with the wisdom of your body and comfort stretches and lengthens particularly flexible or strong in order Visit www.surroundcircleyoga.com muscles, tendons, and ligaments to reap the benefits of yoga. There for information and current class allowing them to become more are no pre-requisites to yoga except schedule or call 613-730-6649. flexible. having an open mind. The beauty of • Improving respiration: Breathing yoga is that it responds to the needs Lansdowne Makes TRILLIUM RECIPES Top Ten Endangered Places List No-complaint Peanut Butter Cookies http://www.heritagecanada.org/

he Top Ten Endangered Places List is released annually No-complaint Peanut Butter Cookies to bring national attention to sites at risk due to neglect, (makes bout 30 3” cookies) lack of funding, inappropriate development and weak T Ingredients legislation. It has become a powerful tool in the fight to make landmarks, not landfill. Lansdowne Park is a public legacy sold short. 1 -1/2 cups flour (unbleached, whole wheat, spelt or Ottawa city council has voted to proceed with a controver- barley) sial redevelopment plan for Lansdowne Park, a publicly owned 1 cup peanut butter urban park adjacent to the Rideau Canal UNESCO World Herit- ½ cup sour cream age Site in central Ottawa. 1 egg At issue are the unconventional sole-sourced procurement 1 cup brown sugar approach that effectively short- circuited the normal open and ½ tsp baking soda competitive process that a site of this complexity and history ½ tsp sea salt arguably warrants, and the transference of approximately 25 ½ tsp vanilla percent of the site to private developers for a mixed-use resi- dential/commercial/retail complex that is incompatible with the 1. Mix well history and heritage of the 142-year-old park. 2. Roll dough into balls. Place on cookie sheet. The proposal leaves many important financial and urban Press with fork. planning questions unanswered, and puts the future of at least 3. Bake at 375º F for 10 -12 minutes. Cool. Store in one of the park’s two designated heritage buildings at risk. covered container.

This is taken from the Heritage Canada site. To read the P.S. Everyone with a peanut allergy would complain entire report by Heritage Canada go to: if we sold these in our peanut-free bakery. We used http://www.heritagecanada.org/eng/featured/current. to. Yum! html#top102010 SEPT 2010 The OSCAR - OUR 37th YEAR Page 41 Tasty Tidbits From Trillium Bakery Complaints, Complaints -The Absurdity of Pet Peeves We Live With

By Jocelyn LeRoy me wonder whether they’ve gone back into the honey jar for another Was I just complaining? shopping at all in all those years. I mouthful, after which he smacked his From one of my favourite books They come in all varieties and colours. can’t resist giving them something lips audibly. “How gross, “ I thought. about self-sustainable living, “Healing ome are the grey colour, which free to ease their time-lapse reality He grabbed two jars off the shelf, the Wounds” I quote “effective you have to read between check. slapped down some money. and complaining = energy + commitment the lines, get the tone of the The leap from a $4.00 package strode back out the door with no bag, to change the thing we’re complaining S of factory-made cookies to our hand- no receipt and no change. I thought about.” Amen. But it doesn’t work so complaint, figure out the “tongue in cheek” variety, the thinly veiled made, home-made cookies can be a he was going to drink it down in two well with trying to change people. comments that really mean something jolt for some folks, if you don’t know golden gulps immediately. I looked at This year it felt like we had else. Then there are the inflammatory how they’re made and with what the jar of not-so-heavenly honey, with become the “Universal Complaint red-colour complaints spewing venom ingredients. And the substitution of the used stir stick sticking out of it. I Department” and took in a record with intensity. gluten-free ingredients for regular touched the clean end of the stick and number of Lansdowne Park red-hot It has been said by many that flours is always more costly than plain imagined the multiplication of ghastly opinions, from all angles. And of Canadians are not really colourful or old enriched white flour. germs. I hurled the whole sticky mess course the weather: all day, every day expressive. Canadian people complain So, there’s a lot of complaining into the trash can, regretting that I had (what’s wrong with that any way – it’s that Canadians like to complain a lot. around pricing. Everywhere. No one not been quicker in taking action. I never bitter.) I always find this odd, and it’s clearly wants to hear about escalating costs of should have at least run after him, And, get this. One of our most not true in the bakery. They are very ingredients and overhead. yelling “Stop. Drink this: you’ll get a popular items evoked an indignant colourful in their opinions – not what The customer stories back in times better buzz. You claimed it. You get comment between exuberant you’d expect by the stereotyping. of cosy childhood bakeries always the prize.” I felt my anger rising. mouthfuls from a high-voltage (super- It’s difficult to read whether they remind me of my own memories. In But then a cool calming thought hyper) jogger. “Too salty. Too sweet, are really serious or “just jokin.” I the line-up, I was hoping desperately flat-lined across my mind, like a “ she mumbled, crumbs flying. There wish I was better at guessing. that I would be treated to a jam cookie blue neon sign. Honey is a natural was not a speck of salt or sweet in the Complaint #1: “You have too with white icing on it. I feared that by antibiotic. It is a natural disinfectant. cookie. Not a speck. And not much much choice here – too many things the time the lineup was done all the It is pure and has been poured into sweetening in the customer. And she to choose from. I can’t decide.” jam cookies would be sold. wounds for centuries, to clean and was a little too salty. Neither of us And a tie with #1: “You’re One of the most enjoyable heal. Nothing bad can grow in this rose to the occasion. Suddenly she making me go off my diet.” “You’re complaints I recall is a tirade about honey. collapsed like a door-slam soufflé going to make me gain weight.” “The a cake. The person went on and I couldn’t let anyone stick their – all out of energy. That wasn’t a only thing wrong with this place is on about everything wrong with unsuspecting sampler stick into that complaint. It was a hot-weather, those sticky buns are too tempting. the cake. I quickly realized it was jar, unknowingly entering possibly dehydrated brain-altered chemistry Now I have to eat one.” not our cake. The irate person polluted territory, even if the Germ thing. Water revived her, and the too “No you don’t,” I’m thinking, “no realized simultaneously that he was Police themselves showed up and sweet / too salty taste disappeared. one’s forcing you to eat it.” complaining at the wrong bakery: certified it pure and perfect. The remaining cookie was enjoyed Next comes the Squeaky Door relief for me, embarrassment for the I’d done it. Wasted honey, money, nibble by nibble. complaint. As people push it open at customer. I tried to make him feel thrown out the profit from 10 jars. And please be assured: I keep the top of the steps to enter the bakery, better. No luck – he was too upset for Worst of all, I missed the chance to all the customer’s secrets when they something always happens. A wave too many reasons. sell that dude the jar he violated. complain about loved ones. of nostalgia, “This reminds me of There is a Native American piece Aunt Martha’s summer kitchen screen of wisdom I like. An old grandfather door.” Then come the stories about said to his grandson, “I have two the good / bad old days on the farm. wolves at war in my heart. One is Some comments are negative; most fierce, angry and violent. The other are affectionate. is gentle and compassionate. “Which “This is a Halifax door” could one will win, grandfather?” asked his be a complaint or a compliment. Or grandson. “The one I feed.” “Why don’t you get this dastardly One day I had a nice fat jar of squeak fixed? I can bring in some high-end, expensive honey on the WD40 for you.” counter in the bakery, for people The pro-squeak folks outnumber to sample. There was a cupful of the squeak-a-phobics by at least 50 to coffee stir sticks for tasting and a sign 1. I have been treated to a delightful beside saying “Put your sticky one- assortment of “This reminds me of…” dip sampler stick here,” with a large evoked as the creaking squeaking arrow pointing to an empty cup. door is carefully pushed open – slowly Well, a big handsome dude strode and carefully bringing on the fondest in and right away spied the honey. long-forgotten memories. A certain “What’s this?” he inquired. I gave customer likes to make it squeak more him my sweet story. He grabbed a than usual, going back and forth, back stick and twirled it around in the jar. and forth. “Oh, I love it.” It said “Cointreau Honey.” Some enjoy a reflective pause on “How much booze is in here?” he the porch with a faraway look in their queried. faces, going back in time. “You’d have to drink two jars Elderly customers sometimes to equal one beer,“ I replied with a complain that 40 years ago they could twinkle. buy a dozen cookies for the price of He slurped up a big stickful of one or two or ours today. They are dripping honey and before I could shocked and even horrified. It makes blink he shoved the used stick

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/CNW/ - their pain and disability. This means lion). population health surveys, provincial we need to step up our efforts to find • Joint replacements more than physician billing, drug databases, he already staggering social better treatments and a cure.” doubled in Canada from 2001-2005. hospital admissions and mortality sta- and economic costs of arthritis Among the report’s many find- • Arthritis affects people of every tistics, among other sources. It was Tin Canada are set to explode ings: age, physical condition and ethnic developed in consultation with lead- during the coming decades, says The • Arthritis is among the leading background. There are more than ers from the scientific and research Arthritis Society in response to a re- causes of disability in Canada, costing 100 types of arthritis, caused by joint community, as well as stakeholder port released by the Public Health the Canadian economy $6.4 billion inflammation and degeneration. Ac- groups such as The Arthritis Society. Agency of Canada today. every year in health-care expenses cording to the report, about 60 per About The Arthritis Society Life with Arthritis in Canada and lost work days. Long-term dis- cent of Canadians with the disease re- The Arthritis Society (www.arth- (available at http://www.phac-aspc. ability accounts for two-thirds of that. port difficulties with participating in ritis.ca) is Canada’s principal health gc.ca/cd-mc/arthritis-arthrite/lwaic- • More than four million Can- recreation, leisure, hobbies or social charity empowering the more than vaaac-10/index-eng.php) documents adians aged 15 and older (16 per cent activities. four million Canadians with arth- the latest trends and data regarding of the population) reported they had The Arthritis Society says many ritis to live their lives to the fullest arthritis among Canadians over the arthritis in 2007-2008, with three out of the risk factors associated with through extensive programs and ser- age of 15. of five being under 65. This number is arthritis, such as physical inactivity vices. Since its founding in 1948, The “The devastating impact of arth- estimated to increase to seven million and poor diet, can be modified to re- Society has invested more than $170 ritis on Canadian society has gone by 2031. duce pain and increase joint flexibil- million towards arthritis research to unnoticed in the public arena for too • Arthritis is the second and third ity. “We hope this report will serve as develop better treatments and, ultim- long,” said Steven McNair, President most common chronic condition re- a wake-up call for people to take con- ately, find a cure. and CEO of The Arthritis Society. ported by women and men, respect- trol of their disease through a healthy “This report confirms that arthritis is ively. lifestyle and with the benefit of -cur becoming a major health challenge • Arthritis accounted for six per rent treatments,” added McNair. for Canada, as more people consume cent of all hospitalizations in Canada Life with Arthritis in Canada more health-care resources to manage in 2005-2006 (132,000 out of 2.2 mil- brings together data from national

Keeping Your Balance When the Investment World Turns

By Bob Jamieson gains, the stock market has dropped, here at home, our faster-than-expected stocks may be up while bonds are and day-to-day price swings have economic rebound may lead the Bank down, or vice versa. Consequently, ou’re probably aware that been extreme. Over in Europe, debt of Canada (BoC) to continue raising if you owned all stocks, or all bonds, the investment world seems problems have gripped several na- short-term interest rates in the second your portfolio could take a big hit if somewhat “out of balance” tions, leading to severe budget cuts half of 2010. As an investor, how can a downturn primarily affected either Y and austerity measures. Meanwhile, you make sense of all this? of these types of investments. That’s lately. Following a year of steady For starters, don’t be alarmed why you’re better off diversify- by any of these events. Consider the ing your holdings among stocks and stock market’s recent performance. bonds. Keep in mind, though, that While it was certainly nice to see the diversification, while helping reduce market keep on rising, it wasn’t typ- the effects of volatility on your port- ical — in fact, we generally experi- folio, can’t guarantee a profit or pro- ence stock market declines more than tect against loss. once a year, so the recent downturn • Build a bond ladder. Rising or marked more of a return to “nor- falling interest rates can affect the malcy” than anything else. As for the prices of your bonds. But by building events in Europe, they are certainly a bond “ladder” that consists of bonds serous, but actions taken by Euro- of varying maturities, you can benefit pean Union Leaders, the International in all rate environments. When mar- Monetary Fund and the European ket rates are low, you’ll still have your Central Bank should help lower inter- longer-term bonds — which generally est rates, ease credit conditions and pay higher rates -- working for you. provide time for the affected govern- And when market rates rise, you can ments to take needed steps to help use the proceeds of your shorter-term “balance the books.” Finally, even if bonds to purchase new ones issued at the BoC raises short-term rates more, the higher rates. they are likely to still remain quite Finally, during times like these, low by historical standards. when successful investing may be To sum up: There may be some more challenging than usual, get some temporary dislocation in the financial help. A professional financial advisor world, but the sky is not falling. Even can analyze your situation and make more importantly, you, as an individ- appropriate recommendations. ual investor, can take steps that can The financial news these days help you continue making progress may seem dizzying in a variety of toward your long-term goals, such as ways — but by making the right a comfortable retirement. moves, you can still help keep your Consider these suggestions: balance. • Stay invested. The stock market can If you have questions on how to turn around quickly and unexpectedly position your portfolio please call me — and if takes a positive turn, you’ll at 613-526-3030, or plan to attend one want to be invested, because invest- of my financial planning seminars. ors’ biggest gains typically occur in Bob Jamieson, CFP the early stages of a rally. Member Canadian Investor Protec- • Diversify. At any given time, tion Fund different investments may move in different directions. For example, SEPT 2010 The OSCAR - OUR 37th YEAR Page 43

The Red Apron Cooks ummer is almost over and it’s This one day hands-on course is of- your herb paste and top with some to work mean back to the rush to get been a spectacular one to say fered on the 11th of September at their fresh vegetables (peppers, tomatoes a healthy meal on the table at the end Sthe least. When I vacationed Ottawa location. Visit www.cordon- or artichokes) and crumble on a bit of of a busy day. to the West Coast in March of this bleu.edu for more details. cheese (Chèvre or Feta) and cook for year, I left warmer weather in Ottawa The easiest thing to preserve is 15 minutes in a 400 degree oven until than I encountered in Vancouver. The fresh herbs. While many people be- the crust is brown and the toppings Fresh Herb Paste weather has been beautiful since then. come pre-occupied with drying herbs, are bubbling. While others around the world have I prefer to make them into a paste 5. Add vinegar, olive oil and pep- INGREDIENTS suffered through unbearable heat (Pesto) and freeze them for later use. per, and you’ll have a wonderful vin- 2 cups fresh herbs leaves, packed waves and devastating floods, we Most herbs can easily be preserved aigrette dressing for your salads. (you could use basil, oregano, pars- have enjoyed probably the finest sum- with some good quality olive oil and 6. Sear some plump scallops or ley, coriander or mint) mer on record. a blender. You can freeze your herb shrimp in butter then toss them gently 1/2 cup extra virgin olive oil Our farmers have had to deal with paste in ice cube trays, or small zip- with your herb paste and a touch of 1/3 cup pine nuts (can substitute too much produce this summer, a good lock bags and it will keep well in the cream. Serve with pasta or rice. almonds, walnuts or hazelnuts) problem to have for a farmer. For fridge for a couple of weeks. 7. 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Ottawa Aims to Reach $1 Million Mark The Hospice at May Court For Parkinson’s Research Volunteer Opportunities

his September the Ottawa community will rally together for Parkin- Palliative hospice patient care volunteer opportunities at The son Society Ottawa’s largest annual fundraiser. SuperWalk will take Hospice at May Court located at 114 Cameron Avenue in Old Ot- Tplace on Saturday September 11th at Andrew Haydon Park, registra- tawa South. tion starts at 9:00 AM. This year’s goal is to raise over $140,000 – which We are seeking volunteers for direct patient care and support. would total over $1 million in raised funds for the city since SuperWalk Also seeking a volunteer hair stylist able to work on a Tuesday or Ottawa’s inception in 1996. Thursday once a month. Terry Marcotte, Sports Director at CTV Ottawa, will open the event and Please contact the Hospice to apply and register for our Fall encourage participants throughout the day. Terry witnessed the degenerat- Orientation Course to prepare volunteers for meaningful work with ing effects of Parkinson’s first hand – his father Earle battled the disease patients in our palliative care programs. which affects nearly 100,000 Canadians and currently has no cure. The course is offered on Tuesday evenings from 6:30- 8:30 pm “I am honouring my father’s memory by walking for a cure for Par- starting in September – November. kinson’s,” said Terry Marcotte. “Every dollar raised brings us closer to this For info call 613-260-2906 ext. 231 or visit www.hospicemay- goal – there is hope in every step we take!” court.com Parkinson SuperWalk takes place in 87 communities across Canada and raises funds for education, support services, research and advocacy. “Living with Parkinson’s is a daily struggle, but the love and support from my friends and family at the annual SuperWalk shows me that I’m not alone in this fight,” said Herb Durand, a former police officer diagnosed with Parkinson’s ten years ago. “I deeply value the numerous programs and services offered by Parkinson Society Ottawa, which help me to live as normal and healthy a lifestyle as possible.” Since 1978, Parkinson Society Ottawa has been helping people in East- ern Ontario with the disease cope with its often debilitating symptoms. Par- kinson’s symptoms include tremor, slowness in movements, muscle stiff- ness and problems with balance. Non-motor symptoms affect quality of life, including loss of sense of smell, depression, disturbances and changes in cognitive ability. You can help Parkinson Society Ottawa surpass its $1 million goal! To register online for the Ottawa SuperWalk and begin fundraising, please visit www.parkinsonsuperwalk.ca. For fundraising tips, follow Parkinson Soci- ety Ottawa on Facebook. Or for more information on Parkinson’s disease, visit www.parkinsons.ca. Page 44 The OSCAR - OUR 37th YEAR SEPT 2010

WHAT’S HAPPENING AT THE LIBRARIES Elmvale Acres Branch Library Toddlertime Bilingual / 8, 15, 22, 29 novembre Offered in partnership with the CHILDREN/ENFANTS Bilingue 6, 13 décembre Lebanese Arab Social Services Wednesdays, 10:15 a.m. (30 min.) Agency. Call 613-668-5594 or Frontier College Reading Circle September 22, 29 Math and Science Tutorial Help e-mail [email protected] to book Volunteers will help your child learn October 6, 13, 20, 27 E.A.G.L.E will provide tutoring in your appointment on Mondays and to love. November 10, 17, 24 Maths and Science to grades 1-10 Tuesdays. books and become a better reader December 1, 8, 15 Ages 6-15. Registration required through stories. Saturdays, 10:00 a.m. (2 hr) English Conversation for and games. Ages 6-8. Registration Tout-petits à la biblio Bilingual / Every Saturday starting October 2nd Newcomers required.. Bilingue Improve your English and meet new Saturdays, 2:00 p.m. (1 hr) Every Les mercredis, 10 h 15 (30 min.) ADULTS/ADULTES friends in a relaxed setting. This Saturday starting September 11 22, 29 septembre program is offered in partnership 6, 13, 20, 27 octobre Mystery Lovers Book Club with the Conseil économique et Babytime Bilingual / 10, 17, 24 novembre Share the enjoyment of good social d’Ottawa-Carleton. Bilingue 1, 8, 15 décembre mysteries in a relaxed atmosphere. Tuesday Evenings at 6:30 p.m. (90 Tuesdays, 10:15 a.m. (30 min.) Join us for discussion. minlutes) September 21, 28 Storytime Bilingual / Monday, September 12, October 4, October 5, 12, 19, 26 Bilingue November 1 and December 6 French as a Second Language November 9, 16, 23, 30 Mondays, 10:15 a.m. (45 min.) 6:30 p.m. (60 min) Conversation December 7, 14 September 20, 27 Conseil économique et social October 4, 18, 25 Newcomer Information Services d’Ottawa-Carleton presents improve Bébés à la biblio November 8, 15, 22, 29 Make an appointment for a one-on- your spoken French and meet Les mardis, 10 h 15 (30 min.) December 6, 13 one session to learn about all the new friends in a relaxed setting. 21, 28 septembre resources available to help you with Registration. / Améliorez votre 5, 12, 19, 26 octobre Contes Bilingual / things like how to get an Ontario français parlé et rencontrez des 9, 16, 23, 30 novembre Bilingue drivers license, preparing for the gens dans un milieu décontracté. 7, 14 décembre Les lundis, 10 h 15 (45 min.) citizenship test or job search skills. Inscription. 20, 27 septembre In English, French or Arabic 4, 18, 25 octobre Around Town La Leche League Canada has a or Rosemary Covert (613) 521-4997. tact Eric Rupp, Orchestra Manager, 2Hear at www.chha.ca/walk2hear and group in Old Ottawa South CFUW-Ottawa Registration Even- to reserve an audition time (Tel: 613- walk with Jim Kyte, a former NHL Are you breast-feeding ing 2010 - Monday, September 13, 233-7205; hockey player with a profound hear- your baby? Are you pregnant 7:30 PM, Confederation Education E- mail:[email protected] ). Infor- ing loss. We need your help to make a and planning to breast-feed? Centre (formerly: Confederation mation regarding audition repertoire difference in the lives of over 100,000 A La Leche League meeting is a High School) 1645 Woodroffe Ave. can be obtained by calling Angus Ottawa-area individuals who are hard relaxed, supportive and non-judg- (at south side Hunt Club Rd.), Ottawa Armstrong , Librarian (osolibrary@ of hearing. mental place where you can: meet The Canadian Federation of Univer- gmail.com or 613-741-5693). breast-feeding women, ask specific sity Women (CFUW)-Ottawa invites Ottawa Brahms Choir -- Kurt Ala- questions about breast-feeding, learn women university graduates & full- Coming Home: An intro to Chris- Kantti, Director, Ioulia Blinova, Ac- more about breast-feeding from ac- time students to join the Club & regis- tian Meditation. Learn the practice companist; Celebrating its 30 An- credited leaders who have breast-fed ter for study & interest groups. Annu- of this ancient, silent prayer over niversary Season! November 28, 4 their own children and who volun- al membership fees are $100 for full 6 weeks on Wednesday evenings pm, Christmas Favourites, with the teer their time, get tips for working & associate members & $50 for full- 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. from October 6 Polished Brass Quintet, St. Thomas through best breast-feeding chal- time students. CFUW-Ottawa (www. to November 10, 2010 at The Good the Apostle Anglican Church. April lenges, find out more about get- cfuw-ottawa.org) currently has over Shepherd Parish, 3092 Innes Road, 30th, 2011, 7:30pm, “Ein Deutsches ting ready to breast-feed (if you are 500 members, offers over 40 study & Blackburn Hamlet. Pre-registration Requiem” by Johannes Brahms, loca- pregnant), find out more about the interest groups, awards over 20 schol- by September 29. Contact Charlotte tion TBA. New members welcome. benefits of breast-feeding for baby arships, advocates on social issues & Gupta at 613-841-2894 or by e-mail Rehearsals Mondays 7-9pm at South- and you, borrow books about breast- engages interesting speakers at open at [email protected] . For more in- minster United Church at Aylmer/ feeding and related parenting topics. monthly general meetings. CFUW- formation visit www.meditatio.ca . Bank, starting September 13, 2010; Meetings every second Tuesday of Ottawa is a member of CFUW (www. contact Leo 613-749-2391; www.Ot- the month from 7:00 to 8:30 PM at 36 cfuw.org), a 10,000 strong organiza- BRIAN DOYLE’S WRITING tawaBrahmsChoir.ca Glen Ave. Next meeting August 10. tion that promotes education & human COURSE. Are you writing? Award For more information call 613-238- rights of women & girls nationally & winning author, Brian Doyle guaran- Come sing with us! The Ottawa 5919, the local La Leche League through 112 Clubs across Canada. tees to broaden your technique and Brahms Choir under the direction of phone line. CFUW is the largest affiliate of the approach in this three day writing Kurt Ala-Kantti is recruiting members International Federation of Univer- workshop or your money back Oc- for all voice parts to join us and cele- BYTOWN VOICES: If you are in- sity Women (IFUW) (www.ifuw.org). tober 1, 2 & 3 at the Chelsea Public brate our 30th Anniversary year with terested in singing in a choir this fall Membership Administrator: Dora Library cost $150. Open to ages 18+. two concerts: Christmas Favourites, then we would be interested to have Mozes Email: smozes5985@rogers. Registration is limited, please call November 28, 2010; Brahms Requi- you join us! We are a four-voice, non- com Phone: 613-729-5985 (819) 827-6000 to register or for more em with Orchestra, Spring 2011. audition group of enthusiastic singers information. Our delightful accompanist is Iou- who give two concerts a year – in De- Notice Of Auditions = The Ot- lia Blinova. Our Rehearsals: Mon- cember and in late spring. The choir tawa Symphony Orchestra Walk2Hear – October 3rd 2010 days 7-9 pm; at Southminster United rehearses on Tuesday evenings (7:30 wishes to announce that it will be Help to hear for those who love to Church at Aylmer/Bank. starting date –9:30) at St. Basil’s Church, located hearing String auditions on Monday listen! The Canadian Hard of Hear- September 13, 2010. For information: at Maitland and the Queensway. Re- September 13, 2010, in Room 113 ing Association is launching its first 613 749-2391; 819-568-8169; www. hearsals start on September 7th. More Perez Hall, University of Ottawa. Au- ever walk-a-thon in the Nation’s Cap- ottawabrahmschoir.ca information can be found from our ditions will begin at 5:30 P.M. Those ital on October 3, 2010 at 9:00AM at web site: www.bytownvoices.com interested in auditioning should con- Ottawa City Hall. Register for Walk- SEPT 2010 The OSCAR - OUR 37th YEAR Page 45

WHAT’S HAPPENING AT THE LIBRARIES Alta Vista Branch Library Alta Vista Library Children’s Book Clubs 13-15 How to Buy a PC Programs Mother-Daughter Book Club for ages A place for girls and the special When buying a PC, you are faced 7-9 women in their lives to share books. with a lot of choices: laptop or 2516 Alta Vista Drive A place for girls and the special Registration. desktop, dual or quad core proces- Register online at: women in their lives to share books. Mondays, 7 p.m. (60 min.) sor, AMD or Intel, etc. Chris Taylor, www.biblioottawalibrary.ca Registration. September 27, October 25, Novem- Ottawa PC Users’ Group President or call 613-737-2837 x28 Mondays, 7 p.m. (60 min.) ber 22 & December 20 will help sort out the choices so you September 13, October 4, November can buy the computer that is right for 8 & December 6 Max Turner @ Your Library your needs. Registration. 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September 21, 28, October 5, 12, 19, 10-12 “Settlers of Catan” Thursday, November 25, 6 :30 p.m. 26 and A place for girls and the special Join us to play the award winning (120 min.) November 9, 16, 23, 30, December women in their lives to share books. board game, “Settlers of Catan.” 7, 14 Registration. Catan is an imaginary unexplored Official Grand Re-Opening is on Mondays, 7 p.m. (60 min.) island, and players are explorers and Thursday, August 26 at 3 p.m. Babytime B September 20, October 18, Novem- settlers. Settlers must use their re- Thursdays, 9:15 a.m. (30 min.) ber 15, December 13 sources to develop their island home, September 23, 30, October 7, 14, 21, Community Celebration building roads and houses to create 28 and Saturday, August 28, 10-12 Books and Beyond new towns. But watch out! There’s a November 18, 25, December 2, 9, 16 Artellephant Productions, 10:15 a.m. Enjoy an exciting new program of robber on the island, and that rene- Presents: Aesop’s Fables, the show is stories without boundaries. Use your gade can show up at any time to steal Toddlertime about 45 minutes long, and imagination and enjoy crafts, creative your valuable resources. Ages 12+. For toddlers and a parent or care- includes three stories: The Wind and games and exploring outside. Each Registration. giver with stories, rhymes, songs and the Sun, Tortoise and the Hare, week we will bring a new story alive. Thursdays, 6 p.m. (120 min.) games. Ages 18-35 months. Woodcutter and the Mermaid. For Ages 10-13. Registration. November 18, 25, December 2, 9, 16 Registration Required this show they’ve mixed the styles of Saturdays,11 a.m. (60 min.) puppets to include shadow puppetry September 25, October 2, 9, 16, 23, Adult Toddlertime A as well as their larger table-top November 13, 20, 27, December 4, Adult Book Club Registration. puppets 11 Meet new people and join in stimu- Tuesdays, 10:15 a.m. (45 min.) First come, first seats lating discussions on selected titles September 21, 28, October 5, 12, 19, Special Programs for Children in a friendly and relaxed atmosphere. 26 and The Celtic Rathskallions, 11:30 a.m. Registration. November 9, 16, 23, 30, December A fun music show where the What my gramma means to say Tuesdays, 2 p.m. (60 min.) 7, 14 performers play oboe, steel-string The Sunnyside branch of the Ot- September 14, October 12 & Novem- guitar, tawa Public Library and the Ottawa ber 23 Toddlertime B Celtic harp, bodhran, banjo, English Children’s Literature Roundtable will Registration. horn, tin whistle and bagpipes, be Hosting JC SULZENKO, who Cercle de lecture Tuesdays, 11:15 a.m. (45 min.) plus stepdance, dramatize original will read from her play ““What my Partagez avec nous le plaisir des September 21, 28, October 5, 12, 19, songs set to music, and do a whole grandma means to say” for World livres dans un ambiance détendue. 26 and bunch of humourous songs as well as Alzheimer Day. JC’s one-act play Inscription. November 9, 16, 23, 30, December lots of music. gives elementary school-aged chil- Les mardis, 19 h (60 min.) 7, 14 First come, first seats dren and their families the chance 14 septembre, 12 octobre, 9 novem- to learn in a gentle way about how bre & 14 décembre Toddlertime C Alzheimer’s disease and related Registration. dementias can affect a person and Thursdays, 10:15 a.m. (45 min.) what they can do to support someone September 23, 30 October 7, 14, 21, living such a disease. 28 and Tuesday, September 21, 7:00 p.m. November 18, 25, December 2, 9, 16 (60 min.) Toddlertime D Halloween Howls Registration. Join us for spooky stories and a craft. Thursdays, 11:15 a.m. (45 min.) Ages 4-8. Registration. September 23, 30, October 7, 14, 21, Saturday, October 30, 2:15 p.m. (30 28 and min.) November 18, 25, December 2, 9, 16 Storytime Shane Peacock @ Your Library Stories and rhymes for young chil- Shane Peacock reads from his latest dren ~ parents and caregivers are book The Secret Fiend. 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