THE OSCAR www.BankDentistry.com 613.241.1010 The Ottawa South Community Association Review l The Community Voice Year 45, No. 7 July-August 2017

Capital Spokes Bike Rally & Rodeo: A Grand Success! See page 4

A Capital Spoke Bike Rally group heads down Aylmer on their way to the Rodeo at Windsor Park on June 11th. COMMUNITY CALENDAR Friday, June 29, 11:00 Windsor Park Wading Pool Opens for Season The Firehall Wednesday, July 5, 14:00 Music and Beyond: Auryn Quartet I, 260 Sunnyside Ave. Southminster United Thursday, July 6, 19:30 Music and Beyond: Quartango, Southminster United Saturday, July 8, 19:00 “Midsummer Night’s Dream” by Company of Fools, Windsor Park Monday, July 10, 19:30 Music and Beyond: Alexandre Da Costa: ViolinXtreme, Southminster United OLD OTTAWA SOUTH COMMUNITY WIDE Wednesday, July 12, 9:15 Music and Beyond: The Revolutionary Drawing Room II, Southminster United Wednesday, July 12, 19:00 “Romeo & Juliet” by Bear & Co., Windsor PORCH SALE Park SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 9TH 8AM-3PM Friday, July 14, 19:30 Music and Beyond: Wallis Giunta, Southminster United Need a break? Join us between 11am-1:30pm on the Saturday, July 15, 19:30 Music and Beyond: Girma Yifrashewa: Firehall porch for live music, face painting and barbeque Europe to Ethiopia, Southminster United Monday, July 24 City Summer Fun Special Event, Windsor Park Wading Pool Wednesday, July 26, 19:00 “Romeo & Juliet” by Bear & Co., Windsor FALL PROGRAMS Park Thursday, August 3, 19:00 Contemplative Walks Start, Southminster AT THE OLD OTTAWA SOUTH United (Front Lawn) Saturday, August 19, 19:00 “Midsummer Night’s Dream” by Company COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION of Fools, Windsor Park Registration begins Monday August 28th for Thursday, August 24, 19:00 Windsor Park Wading Pool Closes for Pottery Memberships, Tuesday August 29th Season for Preschool, Child, & Youth Programs, and Monday, August 28 OSCA Fall Program Registration begins for Pottery Memberships Wednesday August 30th for Adult Programs Tuesday, August 29 OSCA Fall Program Registration begins for LOOK FOR THE FALL PROGRAM GUIDE Preschool, Child, & Youth Programs Wednesday, August 30 OSCA Fall Program Registration begins for ON OUR WEBSITE ON AUGUST 23 Adult Programs Saturday, September 9, Community Porch Sale WWW.OLDOTTAWASOUTH.CA 8:00-15:00 To see the latest listings, go to the online calendar at www.oldottawasouth.ca Page 2 The OSCAR l July-August 2017

BUSINESS BEAT Goodbye Georgetown, Hello Senate - Plus a Few Tidbits

Georgetown Sports Pub 2005 – 2017

As many of you are aware, we will be ending operations on Thursday evening, June 8. To everything there is a season, and our time to retire is now. This is our founder Mike’s birthday. It has been an honour to participate in, and contribute to, the community of Old Ottawa South. Thanks for the many, many memories over nearly 12 years. We will miss you all. Do come in on Thursday and say goodbye...

Damera, Karen and Dan George

PHOTO BY ERIK VAN DER TORRE to spend a few hours watching any exciting new items that will go a bit kind of game. beyond the standard pub repertoire. By Erik van der Torre soccer fans and was nicknamed “the And if you’re planning to hang Dutch Lair” on game day (the Dutch Goodbye Georgetown out with a group of friends or have Being a born-and-raised Dutchman, I soccer emblem is a lion). After an impressive 12 year run, a small event: the backroom will be thoroughly enjoyed the last two FIFA Although the look and feel of the the Georgetown had its last day of available for private booking. World Cups, where we finished as Georgetown is much more like a service on June 8th, 2017. The own- Obviously some of these changes runners-up and in third place, respec- traditional pub, on game days the ers decided their season had come to will require a fair bit of work, and the tively (I’ll conveniently ignore the large screens on either side of the an end and it was time for them to current goal is to open in late August. last few Euro Cups though). A huge bar would make sure that this was move on. The final date was certainly I look forward to checking them out part of that enjoyment came from THE place to be to watch a game in no coincidence, as it was the birthday and strongly hope the Senate will watching the majority of the games at OOS. I don’t think anyone would of founder Mike. once again become the Dutch Lair the Georgetown (1159 Bank Street). ever claim that the Georgetown was I will definitely miss the George- whenever Oranje plays their games. Especially as the Georgetown was the a foodie mecca, but with a decent town in all its quirkiness and espe- unofficial-official hangout for Dutch breakfast menu and serviceable pub cially its game-day atmosphere. Tidbits fare, it was certainly no punishment If you’ve walked on Bank Street Hello Senate in the last few weeks, you may have With a rich history of previous noticed the decorative paper that is occupants at 1159 Bank Street that up in the old Three Little Monkeys includes a car dealership and a St. location (1154 Bank Street). The Paper passes are being discontinued Hubert, it’s always interesting to see people behind Oat Couture Oatmeal what might come into a space like the Cafe (!) are hard at work to take over JUNE 2017: last month for ADULT Georgetown’s. Well, we’re in luck. this space in the near future. I will JULY 2017: last month for SENIOR and COMMUNITY It’s not going to be a car dealership, make sure to stop in for some sam- or a fast food chain. Instead, the loca- pling once they open and will likely tion will continue on in the tradition write them up at a later date. of the Georgetown with the opening The space next to Oat Couture also of a second location of The Senate. has brown paper up, but so far has Switch your pass to No, not THE Senate, the Senate, a seen slightly less activity. The latest bright-looking pub in the Byward I have heard is that this space will Market (33 Clarence Street). become a furniture store. Like the Georgetown, the Sen- Observant OOS residents will also ate’s strong point will be its focus on have noticed that the Wine Rack showing sports games and events on store (1105 Bank Street) recently had 3 Easy Ways to Get Your big screens. But owner Steve Ryan a “for lease” sign in the window, the Presto Pass was quick to add that the Senate store closed permanently on June OC Transpo Customer Service Centres is not just going to be a sports bar. 25th. Here’s hoping that selling wine Rideau Centre, Lincoln Fields, Place d’Orléans, St-Laurent First and foremost they want it to and beer in supermarkets will expand Set your Senior or Community pass discount here be a pub to go and hang out with soon and that Cedars can start carry- friends, family, and neighbours. To ing some… Online / Phone enhance this community feel, they prestocard.ca / 1-877-378-6123 plan to not only have big screen TVs Business Beat is a monthly feature Allow one week for delivery of cards for game time, but also add a slew that highlights new and existing busi- ordered online or by phone of interactive games to the “menu”. nesses in Old Ottawa South. Reviews City of Ottawa Client Service Centres The current plan is to have 1 pool and opinions are those of the author City Hall, Kanata, Ben Franklin table, 2 foosball tables, 3 dart boards, alone. If you know of any new busi- a shuffleboard, a Big Buck game, nesses opening up or want to share a (sports themed) pinball machine, your thoughts about existing busi- • New Presto cards cost $6. • Buy your Presto monthly pass early and avoid line-ups. Passes are and possibly a bubble hockey game. nesses, please feel free to share them: available 14 days before the start of the month. Consider me excited. [email protected]. In addition to this interactive games menu, the Senate also plans to Erik van der Torre has lived in Old Need assistance? Call OC Transpo at offer an exciting new pub menu. This Ottawa South for over eight years. menu will of course feature pub clas- He is a member of the OSCA board, 613-741-4390 sics like wings, nachos, and burgers, the Traffic & Safety Committee, or visit us at one of our Customer Service Centres but the Senate is planning to work and Hopewell Avenue P.S. Parent with an executive chef to add a few Council. The OSCAR l July-August 2017 Page 3

ARTS AND CULTURE Seventeen Voyces Enchants with Venus and Adonis, with a Little Help from Makin’ Moves Children’s Dance Theatre By Matt House

On Friday and Saturday, May 26th and 27th, the Ottawa’s own Seventeen Voyces chamber choral ensemble enchanted Old Ottawa South audiences with a performance of the baroque opera “Venus and Adonis”. They were accompanied by the Ottawa Baroque Consort, and joined by some very special (and excited) collaborators: Old Ottawa South’s very own Makin’ Moves Children’s Dance Theatre. Since 1997, Seventeen Voyces has been performing choral music in Ottawa under the direction of Kevin Reeves. “Venus and Adonis”, an opera by Dr. John Blow originally presented around 1683, is typical of the “hidden musical gems” that the ensemble focuses on. For this performance, Seventeen Voyces was joined by three young, rising, professional opera singers in the lead roles, and accompanied the Ottawa Baroque Consort, a professional baroque orchestra who perform a regular concert series in Ottawa on period instruments. But the opera also needed dancers. As luck would have it, PHOTO BY MICHELLE MCKERNAN Kevin Reeves had read about a Makin’ Moves Children’s Dance singing in such a soaring falsetto, We are truly lucky to have the Theatre performance in this very in a live performance. Joel Allison opportunity to experience this type of paper. He contacted Michelle Priel, displayed his rich, stirring baritone event in our neighbourhood. Artistic Director of Makin’ Moves. as Adonis, and as Venus, Bronwyn Before she knew it, Michelle was Thies-Thompson sang brilliantly recruiting dancers and giving herself and projected compelling emotion and her kids a crash course in and presence throughout her English country dancing - a fun and performance. challenging departure from Makin’ The Makin’ Moves dancers Moves’ usual focus on ballet and performed beautifully as well, and modern dance. were used with great creativity by “Venus and Adonis” is a retelling Kevin Reeves and Michelle Priel of the traditional Venus and Adonis to illustrate key plot points and myth. The opera keeps the tragedy of reinforce the emotions and themes of the original myth, but adds a number the opera. The younger dancers, as of subversive twists, most notably little cupids, charmed the audience through comic scenes where Cupid with their group dance. Audrey muses that almost no one in the court Darcovich (the hunter) pursued is faithful - a risqué commentary Anousha Scullino (the boar) in a on British nobility at that time. The mad and silly hunt. As the opera opera veers from comedy to tragedy, veered towards its conclusion, the requiring skillful direction and dancing became more dramatic, performances to keep it coherent and with a convincingly somber and engaging. elegant dance by the Three Graces The opera was presented over two foreshadowing Adonis’ tragic end. nights at Southminster Church. And The night ended with a well- it was a truly unique and magical deserved standing ovation. The production. The polished harmonies Makin’ Moves kids, in particular, of Seventeen Voyces meshed were giddy with excitement at their beautifully with the Baroque timbre first experience with this level of of the Ottawa Baroque Consort, live performance. As Michelle Priel turning the Church into a sort of time described it, “There is a magic in live machine, transporting the audience theatre that is just that...it’s live, it back to the 17th century. The three can never be repeated, it happens in lead singers were masterful. Ryan real time, in front of a live audience, McDonald brought the perfect and the feeling of standing before a blend of humour and mischief to crowd who are applauding something his role as Cupid - and it was a you had just poured your heart and rare treat to see a countertenor, soul into is an indescribable joy”. Page 4 The OSCAR l July-August 2017

OSCA EVENTS Capital Spokes Bike Rally & Rodeo: A Big Success!

The Capital Spokes Bike Rally & Rodeo held on Sunday, June 11th in Windsor Park. PHOTOS BY K. KRYWICKI, W. PIETRYKOWSKI, S. NEILL, B. URE, AND D. ZYLA

By Winnie Pietrykowski It took quite a few players to make the staff at OSCA. There are many fittings and a bike wash! the June 11th Bike Rally/Rodeo a “nameless” volunteers who by their And then of course, we must Capital Spokes June 11th Bike Rally success. First and foremost, OSCA’s very spirit and encouragement made not forget all the cyclists and their & Rodeo was a huge success, bigger Traffic & Safety Committee who Sunday’s event worth the effort: the families who are so very keen to than expected, with around 125 made cycle training and safety 17th Southminster Beaver Scouts, prepare our kids for a safer fun ride participants. It was exhilarating to see part of their strategic plan, David Hopewell School principal, parents in our communities and the City’s all the bikers converge at Windsor Chernushenko’s office (David and & staff, our children, grandchildren, streets. Thank you to all of you for Park! Ian Grabina) who supported us from their friends and families, the helping make Sunday morning a The Beaver Scouts set up their the very beginning, our community paramedics, police, Can-Bike colourful and “surround sound” bike wash at the pool, the paramedics partners in the Glebe, OOE, Heron trainers, the folks from the Cycling experience! You make learning fun! were swarmed by kids and parents, Park who welcomed our proposal Safety Program who, with the Beaver and there was a line up at the obstacle in the blink of an eye, the City of Scouts, saved the day with obstacle course and shoulder-check challenge. Ottawa’s Safer Roads Program and courses, a jellied brain, helmet

From July 10 th to July 30 th COME PLAY A FABULOUS GAME AT BILLINGS BRIDGE! GUESS WHICH STORES ARE SELLING THE DISPLAYED SUMMER ITEMS IN THE CENTRE COURT !

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NEWS Community Paddle in Celebration of Canada 150 By Tara Hogeterp waters, we would like to invite you to Please keep in mind that the trip will spaces available in canoes, and if there join us and explore the waterways that take most paddlers about 6 to 7 hours is enough interest we will look into On the morning of September 9th this surround our communities. The plan is and there will be a few portages. Those renting canoes. year, members of the Old Ottawa to have each community launch their with younger children may want to Participants will be invited to a East community will be dipping their boats in their neighbourhood so that we consider doing a partial trip or even celebratory BBQ after the trip where paddles into the water to celebrate have several flotillas making their way having someone come by to pick up we look forward to sharing stories of community spirit and honour Canada’s along the route. children part way through the day. our trip along the water. 150th Birthday. We will be paddling Detailed maps will be provided Some of the portages are long, but For more information and how around Rideau Island, which is the land to all participants and while groups manageable especially with wheels. to sign up please visit ottawaeast. surrounded by the Rideau River on the will start out at the same time and The portages will include: across ca/circumnavigation/ or contact east, the Ottawa River on the north, locations, paddlers are welcome to go Carleton University, around Rideau [email protected]. There and the Canal on the west. Rideau at their own pace. We will all have an Falls, and from the Ottawa River up will be a nominal fee for those that Island includes the Byward Market, opportunity to enjoy the beauty of our to the top of the locks on the Rideau wish to participate to help cover costs, Sandy Hill, Old Ottawa East, Old city from the quiet waters that define canal. and for the celebratory BBQ that will Ottawa South, and Carleton University. our communities. If you don’t have a canoe and wish be held at the end of the day. As your neighbourhood borders the The trip will be family friendly and to join the flotilla please contact the families are encouraged to participate. organizers of the event. There may be

Contemplative Walks At Southminster United: Good For Your Heart, Good For Your Health By Catherine Foskett We all know the benefits of being running until the end of September. duration of about 1.5 hours depending active. Simply walking can reduce The front lawn of Southminster United on the preferred pace of the group. Southminster United Church is stress and improve our physical health. Church at 7:00pm will serve as the Donations to support this activity are constantly searching for ways to It also has mental health benefits such starting point for participants. Led by welcome. serve the community and help people as increasing mindfulness, restoring our minister Trisha Elliott, each walk Our goal is that people leave our incorporate spirituality into their lives connections with the natural world and will focus on themes such as gratitude, walks feeling more relaxed, open and in practical and meaningful ways. providing a forum for problem-solving. purpose, peace and compassion. generally emotionally and physically Throughout time, walking has played So what if we could take the benefits of Participants will begin their guided better. We look forward to seeing you a role in the devotional life of people, walking and incorporate contemplative walk in silent meditation for the first there. including prayers and mantra practice prayer practices, right in our own half of the journey, with the second while walking, and pilgrimages to neighbourhood? half devoted to discussing the weekly sacred sites, to name a few. For some Beginning August 3rd, Southminster theme within a group setting on our “I will walk by faith even when I of us, it’s just easier to focus our United invites you to participate in a return back to the church. cannot see” – 2 Corinthians 5:7 spirituality when we are moving. weekly series of Contemplative Walks Walks will be 7-10km in length, for a

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CHRISTY’S CORNER Summer Programs and the Summer Program Guide By Christy Savage, programs, changes that they feel we in Science, Dance, Gymnastics, OSCA Executive Director should implement and to discuss ‘Young Crafters,’ Yoga, ‘Mix n how to expand programming – even Match,’ ‘Chef’s Corner,’ ‘Young during the day. We’ll be launching Entrepreneurs,’ ‘Sports of All Kinds,’ Our summer program session runs new programming initiatives in (and more!) from July 4th to September 2nd. the Fall—such as a 10-pass drop- Programs will run once per week, There are still spaces in a few courses in card eligible for any of our begin at 4pm and last for one hour. as well as some summer camps. fitness programs, more yoga and Programs will include pick up from Check out both the ‘Summer Camp Pilates programming during the Hopewell School with walkover Guide’ and ‘Summer Program Guide’ early afternoon, short term pottery to Southminster Church. Extended operation. online at oldottawasouth.ca. or call studio memberships and 4 drop-in services including a snack and other the front desk for more information passes to the studio, as well as a activities either before or after their OSCA’s New Website 613-247-4946. variety of workshops. We will also one hour class will also be offered. We launched a new website in be introducing new programming Important note: Programs will only early May and our Web Admin Chris Fall Programs for Youth and Seniors. Stay tuned! take place once each week for one Lawson and the Communications Our fall program registration will And, of course, if you have any hour and are not a replacement for Committee have been working with launch at the beginning of September suggestions for programming, please After School Programs. Please check us to ensure we have all the current and we’re excited about many let me know osca@oldottawasouth. our Facebook page and website information and articles transferred. changes afoot. ca. throughout the summer for more We’re pleased with its streamlined We spend July and August putting information. look and ease of use. We hope you together our fall programming and New Flexible Fall Programming enjoy it as well. we’ll be incorporating some of We are excited to announce that New Firehall Opening Time your feedback from the Firehall we will be introducing new programs On June 1st we changed our Have a wonderful summer everyone! Fitness Studio survey. Additionally, for all age groups, including JK-SK morning opening time from 6:30am I met with our current instructors children, this September. These will to 8:00am. This will be a permanent to hear their thoughts on upcoming be specialized enrichment programs change to our opening hours of

OSCA PRESIDENT’S REPORT Hello to the Community! By Emilie Taman, OSCA board, both as Program goings on at City Hall, whether or OSCA President Committee Chair and Vice-President. not they have a direct impact on our I recently took a couple of years off neighbourhood. to pursue some other interests, but For example, since 2015 I have I’m thrilled to be writing my first am back and ready to dig in to the been involved with a citizen’s group Report as OSCA President. I thought hard work ahead. called Bookmark the Core which I would take this opportunity to Over the past five years, OSCA has engaged in advocacy regarding introduce myself to those who don’t has gone through many changes. The the placement and design of the know me. Board was challenged to manage new Central Library. I have also I have lived in Old Ottawa South significant growth at a time when been involved in issues around a for almost eleven years (time flies around us. If you are aware of an we saw a withdrawal of various proposed supervised injection facility when you’re having fun!). I moved issue that would benefit from a resources from the City. A lot of hard in Sandy Hill, and the movement here with my spouse, Mike, in 2006. community dialogue, please reach work went into hiring new staff, to have Ottawa designated as We have three children, a daughter out to me so we can find a way developing a strategic plan, and officially bilingual. These are the (10), two sons (8 and 5) and a to educate, engage and excite our formalizing our relationship with kinds of issues that our Community feisty bernedoodle puppy named neighbours. If you have a particular the City. As a result, many of our Association can draw attention Dexter. The kids are all long-time skill or expertise to share, I do efforts have been focused on issues to because while they may not be participants in OSCA programs, hope you will consider joining our relating to the program side of our unfolding in our own backyard, they including toddler programs, pottery, amazing roster of volunteers. mandate. I’m really looking forward are nonetheless important to our civic soccer and After Four. Mike and I I am grateful for the opportunity to finding new and innovative ways identity. have been enthusiastic supporters of to serve as OSCA President. Thank to re-engage with the community on I will be looking for opportunities OSCA social events and have been you for entrusting me with this other important issues. I’d like to see to bring people together to exchange known to step up our game whenever responsibility. the Community Association taking ideas and learn more about both a costume is called for! a more active role in ensuring that grassroots and institutional I have previously served on the residents are well-informed on the initiatives that are unfolding

OSCAR Zone Coordinator Needed: Windsor Park Wading Pool Open June 29 to August 24 • For the Zone that includes the following Streets: Hours are: Riverdale, Belmont and Windsor. Monday, Friday 11 am to 6 pm • This Zone Coordinator is responsible for the distribution Wednesday, Thursday Noon to 7 pm of bundles of papers to seven deliverers, supervising and, Saturday-Sunday Noon to 5 pm if needed, assisting those deliverers. Closed Tuesday

Attention High School Students: •Delivery of the OSCAR counts for volunteer hours City Summer Fun Special Event at Windsor Park Wading Pool July 24! Please contact the Distribution Manager Larry Ostler at: email Featuring arts and crafts, games, prizes, and lots of time to stay [email protected] or phone 613-327-9080 cool in the pool! The OSCAR l July-August 2017 Page 7

TRAFFIC AND SAFETY No Left Turns! By Sue Neill its adjoining intersections safer, the OSCA Traffic and Safety Left turns are not permitted at Committee has been working the top of the Echo Drive ramp with the Councillor’s office and coming up from Colonel By City officials to try to prevent Drive to go north on Bank Street. cars from turning left at Bank However, we know that this and Echo. As of June 7, 2017, a illegal and dangerous practice series of flex-stakes have been happens all the time. Not only is temporarily inserted on the Echo this practice dangerous to cyclists ramp to create a temporary “bulb moving in both directions on out” on the left hand side to push Bank Street but also to pedestrians traffic to the right thereby making walking south across the west left hand turns more difficult. If side of the intersection. Traffic is this structural change does indeed also often disrupted as left-turning work, it is possible that a more cars get stuck in the middle of the expensive permanent bulb out will intersection. be installed. As one of its efforts to help make the Bank Street Bridge and

Flex-stakes on the left side of the Echo ramp from Colonel By Drive to Bank Street. PHOTO BY KATHY KRYWICKI

Safe Crossing of Colonel By Drive will look at preferred crossing points, current uses of Colonel By Drive bike paths, suggestions for future uses, and so on. Stay tuned and be ready to contribute to this important project in our community!

Sue Neill is the Co-chair of the OSCA Traffic and Safety Committee.

Thanks to OSCAR’s many volunteer writers and distributors for helping get the news The temporary stop lights, now removed, on Colonel By Drive at the Bank Street exit (Echo Drive). PHOTO BY SUE NEILL to you! By Sue Neill desire for a permanent safe crossing has not disappeared but rather has The OSCAR is a self-supporting newspaper, Over the course of the winter and been strengthened. paid for entirely by advertising, and reliant on spring, the people of Ottawa and, The OSCA Traffic and Safety volunteer contributors and distributors. in particular, the residents of Old Committee, supported by the OSCA Ottawa South, have benefitted from Board, has identified the installation Thanks to the Dairy Queen for a temporary set of traffic lights on of a permanent safe crossing of Colonel By Drive at the intersection Colonel By Drive between Bank contributing to our community through of Echo Drive as it heads up to Bank and Bronson as one of its priorities Street. These lights, admittedly not and has been working with City of its support of the many pretty, meant no dodging of speeding Ottawa officials, the Councillor’s OSCAR volunteers. cars to get across Colonel By, no Office, and the National Capital long waits to cross while a seemingly Commission to achieve this endless stream of cars passes by, and objective. Data on crossings of no looking longingly at the canal Colonel By Drive by pedestrians wishing we had a safe access point. and cyclists along with numbers of Unfortunately, these temporary cars and timing between cars have traffic lights were related to the been collected during Winterlude rehabilitation of the eastern canal and will be collected again over the wall between Echo Drive and summer months. As well, a survey Pig Island. Now that the work of Old Ottawa South residents is in has been completed, the lights the works and will likely roll out by have disappeared. However, our the end of the summer. The survey Dairy Queen, 1272 Bank Street 738-7146 Page 8 The OSCAR l July-August 2017

THE OSCAR 260 Sunnyside Ave, Ottawa Ontario, K1S 0R7 www.oldottawasouth.ca/oscar NEXT DEADLINE: FRIDAY, AUGUST 18 ISSN: 0715-5476 The OSCAR is published eleven times per year. Upcoming deadlines: [email protected] August 18 (September issue).

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Graduate Students Association 613-520-6616 ZONE B1: Ross Imrie (Coordinator), the Gref- Innes family, the Fegan Community Liaison 613-520-3660 family, the Montgomery family, Laurie Morrison, Susanne Ledbetter, Torin Mediation Centre 613-520-5765 and Konstantine Assal. Athletics 613-520-4480 ZONE B2: Craig Piche (Coordinator), Pat Eakins, Hayley Atkinson, Leslie CITY HALL Roster, Sandra Garland, John Callan, Diana Carr, Caitlin, Lindsay Wyatt, David Chernushenko, City Councillor 613-580-2487 Emma Taillefer. ([email protected]) ZONE C1: Laura Johnson (Coordinator), the Williams family, Josh Rahaman, Main Number (24 hrs) for all departments 3-1-1 Jesper Lindeberg, Declan and Darcy McCoy, Bruce Grant, and the Woroniuk- Community Police - non-emergencies 613-236-1222 Ryan family, Bryan and Anneka Dallin O’Grady, David Fisher. Emergencies only 9-1-1 ZONE C2: Craig Piche (Coordinator), Alan McCullough, Charles and Phillip Serious Crimes 613-230-6211 Kijek, Kit Jenkin, Michel and Christina Bridgeman, Melissa Johnson, Ottawa Hydro 613-738-6400 the Littlewood Family. Streetlight Problems (burned out, always on, flickering) 3-1-1 ZONE D1: Mary Hill (Coordinator), Emily Keys, Gail Stewart, Gabe Brewer Pool 613-247-4938 Teramura, Oliver and Claire Waddington, the Sprott family, Joan-Foster Jones. Brewer Arena 613-247-4917 ZONE D2: Janet Drysdale (Coordinator), Caitlin, the Adriaanse family, Anna City of Ottawa web site - www.city.ottawa.on.ca Chernushenko, Jacqueline Littlewood, the Rand family, Aidan and Willem Ray, the Stewart family, and Mary Hill. ZONE E1: Brian Tansey (Coordinator), Karen Wolfe and Curt Labond, Norah INDEX Hutchinson, Steve Adamson, Robert Trotter. ZONE E2: Larry Ostler (Coordinator), Mary-Ann and Jim Kent, Glen Elder BUISNESS BEAT 2 and Lorraine Stewart, the Hunter family, the Brodkin-Haas family, Allan Paul, Christina Bradley, Caroline Calvert, Chris Berry and Frida Kolster Berry. MUSIC 3 ZONE F1: Carol and Ferg O’Connor (Coordinator), Jenny O’Brien, the Stern POLITICAL 12-13 family, Ellen Bailie, Paloma and Liliana Ruiz, Peter Kemp, Malachi Winter, the Goutte family (Joshua, Leo and Alina), Walter and Robbie Engert. OSCA 4,6-7,14 ZONE F2: Pierre Guevremont (Coordinator), Paulette Theriault, Torin and Konstantine Assal, Judy and Pierre Chamberland, Luc and Sydney Grenier, SOUTHMINSTER DEVELOPENT 9,18-21 Mary Johnston, the Walker Family, the Polkinghorne Family, The Kushner HEALTH & FITNESS 22 Family. ZONE G: Susan McMaster (Coordinator), Cindy MacLoghlin, Luke and FOOD 26 Robin Eriksson, Gillian Hurd, Joanne Monaghan, Steve Mennill, David LIBRARY 30 Jensen, Larry Ostler. MARKETPLACE & CLASSY ADS 31 Echo Drive: Alex Bissel. 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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 their address. Letters 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]

Saving Southminster Bronson Place Name Change Appropriate Development

To the Editor, To the Editor, To the Editor,

Are you a bit proud and happy too, when My wife and I have lived on Bronson Place for 33 In the OSCA President’s Report as Given at you see our old, historical, and impressive years. We recently received a note from the City to say the 2017 AGM (The Oscar, June, 2017, p. 7), Southminster whenever you cross the Bank it will change our street name. They regretted the cost former OSCA president Linda Hancock, in Street Bridge? There it is: our Southminster! and ongoing inconvenience we all would entail. discussing development issues in Old Ottawa And everybody knows it, when I explain This is to be a change based upon an unsubstantiated South, makes the following statement: where I live: “... after you pass Southminster rationale of Police, Fire and Paramedic Services “I truly do not know what our ‘community’ Church, turn left!” “Oh that beautiful church getting lost. No such evidence was provided. I am sure, considers appropriate when it comes to future with the concerts?” however that they have good functioning GPS devices development.” And yes that church needs money, will be and did not, do not, and would not, get lost on their Simply stated, the City and our community rezoned and, supposedly, a condo building way here. operate under a set of zoning bylaws that are will tower above the church’s roof. Trees are We have an alarm system in the house. When this has there to be respected. They exist for well- supposed to hide the view of the condo, but the malfunctioned, police and fire services have arrived founded purposes and should only be breached current big trees will die and the bulky condo promptly to serve us, and never said we were difficult in the rarest of circumstances. OSCA should will take over the visual impact of the church. to find. Additionally we have regularly received service reinforce this principle of enlightened urban Not only when crossing the bridge but also employees from many different city departments. Again planning. A project such as Windmill’s at when driving along the Canal, the visual impact no one got lost, or stated we were difficult to find. Southminster, which intends to insert a six of the glass condo will dwarf the church. Finally in May of this year, 26 friends arrived by car, story building on a narrow residential lane Let’s prevent this from happening and speak from Montreal, to see our wonderful Tulip Festival. (Galt Street) zoned for a maximum height of up! None failed to easily get to Bronson Place. three stories, is not protecting the interests Let Windmill, the developer, know that Given the City’s financial challenges to deal with: of this community. It should be rejected. To all we want is true compatible zoning in our hundreds and hundreds of car damaging pot holes; the answer Ms. Hancock’s statement, transparent community and ask: ongoing LRT project expenses; and our 150th Birthday and honest engagement on rules-based 1. Keep the height of the current, attractive celebrations, if I was Mayor I would set aside what development is smart and appropriate. condo below the churches mid- roof line, as appears to us to be an unsubstantiated, arbitrary, non- stipulated in our Zoning Bylaws. essential expense which will financially and socially Brian and Lydia Oak 2. Respect the Official Plan (4.1.): cost and severely annoy Bronson Place residents, and transitioning into residential neighbourhood. instead fill more pot holes and increase funding to the 3. Perform a “Cultural Heritage Impact Study” wonderful LRT project. because the development abuts the Canal and our Ceremonial Route. Chris Flower and Glenda Blacker

Now is the time, because Planning Committee will hear and pass this application on August 22, if we don’t send in our objections and concerns. What you can do: • Let our councillor know: David. Brokers Diane Allingham & Jennifer Stewart 613-725-1171 [email protected] • The City Planner: [email protected] • The developer: rodney@ windmilldevelopments.com • Our Major: [email protected] • MP in charge of the Canal: Catherine. [email protected]

For detailed information search City of Ottawa, development applications, D02-02-17004-4 Please help to save the streetscapes of our community.

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TEEN TALK Summertime: A Work in Progress By Adam Coplan you money for the movies or for too old for most day camps in the lunch, so we need to find a way city and getting a job can prove to be Others might not realize it, but kids to generate income. This can be a a challenge, so what is there to do? like me are in a very tough spot in difficult feat to accomplish when When put in a situation with little our lives. Being a 15 year old and there are so few places willing to spending money, nowhere to go and going to Glebe Collegiate Institute, employ 15 year olds. Also, without nothing to do, we resort to doing adults might envy the position that any previous job history, it is very what teens do best: nothing. Sleep I’m in (with all the freedom that hard for an employer to hire you – until noon, watch TV and play video being a kid has to offer), but other they simply do not know if you have games until midnight and repeat. important skills and responsibilities 10th graders will agree with me when acquired the skills needed to enter the While that might sound like a dream that will help us to succeed in the I say that this can be a challenging workforce. However, there is another to some kids, it can get incredibly workplace for the future, when it position to be in. Summer is here, side to this, as I would be wrong if boring after a short amount of time. matters most. this is the happiest time for a high I said there were no places for us Going outside and playing with So, I guess the point I’m trying to school student just finishing grade to find jobs. There are definitely friends is always something to try, make with all of this is that although 10… right? Well, there are a couple opportunities to work at camps such but that is usually met with the it might look like we are enjoying problems that present themselves as Carleton, Ottawa U, or the Old classic “it’s too hot” or “I’m tired”. the greatest section of life, and there as June wraps up and July begins if Firehall Community Centre, or even In truth, I think I speak for many of are no problems in the world, parents you’re not going out of town. This babysit for neighbours or others in the 14 to 16 year olds of Old Ottawa should try to understand that it really is the time in a student’s life where the community. But if you don’t like South when I say that we want to isn’t always all that easy. This is why they will get pushed by their parents working with kids, or if you want to work. We realize that the time is I am thrilled to be writing this article; to get off their butts and go get a job; do something other than help with a rapidly approaching when we’re I have something to keep me from however, most employers will tell camp, the options become a bit thin. not going to be able to sit around summer boredom. them to go home, enjoy summer, and Next, when an excited, active, and all day and do nothing, so getting come back when they turn 16. peppy teenager has nothing to do in a job at this age is very crucial to Adam Coplan is a resident of OOS This can be a significant problem what should be the most wonder- our future. A job opportunity as a and a student at Glebe Collegiate for a few reasons. First of all, this filled time of their year, they get teenager brings immensely important Institute. is the age where many moms and bored. As I’ve mentioned previously, experience in the work environment. dads may decide to stop giving 15 can be a frustrating age. You’re With this experience, we learn

POETRY

Whale Watching Like a Whale

Above you, seagulls You swim, skim the surface scream an off- like a rising submarine and key lullaby. breathe, your back brushed

The boat rocks, cradles by breezes. You are a poem––mostly its crew, as a leviathan hidden––and sometimes it’s what’s rises––vast and underneath that counts.

glowingly –– Lucy Boyd alive. You spy a glint of flipper, sharp Beginnings white in dark How can all this – water, while the guide all these large describes an eye children, insurance plans, roof repairs, weekends like a grapefruit–– at the lake – have sprung AT CENTRETOWN’SGATHER NEIGHBOURHOOD BREWERY AND KITCHEN quite small from a few simple choices Opening summer 2017 37 Flora at Bank florahallbrewing.ca for its size. made so young? Progenitor, not I! People press, clasping An ant, or a bee cameras to capture or a piston in a car – a moment of stillness one part of a whole just doing my part, as it lifts and God, if there is one, its frilly, barnacled warp to our woof, tail––and dives. screen to our image, eyes for our show, –– Lucy Boyd no more the Beginning than we are the End – Lucy Boyd is an OOS poet who etcetera – p.s. – studies at Canterbury High School beginning in the Literary Arts program. again...

–– Susan McMaster

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HISTORY Sir Robert Borden: PM in Peace and War By Don Cummer leaders such as South Africa’s Jan Smuts, he made the case for a Two days after the Conservative stronger voice from the dominions. Party of Canada chose a new leader When the victors and vanquished in May, a presentation to celebrate gathered to hammer out the Versailles Canada150 demonstrated how peace treaty, Borden insisted that leadership and priorities change in Canada had earned the right to Canadian politics. separate representation and a separate In the third in its series of lectures signature. It was an important step on Canada’s Prime Ministers, the Old forward in our development as a Ottawa East Community Association nation. invited Dr. Greg Donaghy to speak Dr. Donaghy pointed out that the about Sir Robert Borden, PM pursuit of “equality of sacrifice” from 1911-1920. In the previous during the war left a big imprint on presentation in April, Dr. Phil Canada. The imposition of income Azzie had talked about Sir John A. tax was seen as a temporary measure Macdonald (1867-1873, 1878-1891). through which the rich were expected Much had changed in Canada to pay their share. (They didn’t, in the 20 years that separated the Donaghy observes.) two administrations. One of the The idea of “equality of sacrifice” biggest changes was the attitude and also produced conscription, which leadership style of the Conservative alienated Quebec to a degree leader. that shaped national politics for Where Macdonald was practical Robert Borden, Prime Minister of Canada 1911-1920. generations to come. and pragmatic, Borden was idealistic PHOTO BY DUPRAS & COLAS/LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES CANADA Dr. Donaghy, who is Head of and visionary. the Historical Section and Deputy and he laid the foundation for a that Borden made his greatest Where Macdonald led through Director, Policy Research Division, professional public service. contributions to Canada. bonhomie and personal charm, Global Affairs Canada, laid out It was under his watch that women Given its small population, Canada Borden was intellectual and Borden’s accomplishments and first voted in federal elections. punched far above its weight in the detached. He did not know the names failures before an audience of about a He came to office after defeating war effort. While appreciating the of some of his own caucus. hundred at St. Paul’s University. Sir Wilfrid Laurier’s proposal to sacrifices that Canada and the rest of Macdonald was fiercely partisan; The series continues on June 26 implement free trade with the United the colonies were making, the British Borden entered politics later in when Dr. Stephen Azzi of Carleton States, and believed that Canada government had little inclination to life, had little previous affiliation University will discuss Lester should take a prominent place in give accurate and timely information with the Conservatives and disliked Pearson. After the summer break, what he foresaw as a great federation to help them conduct their partisanship. He would eventually the series resumes on Monday, of the dominions of the British contributions to the war. form a coalition government. September 25, when Dr. Xavier Empire. Nor was Canada receiving as much Borden and his government Gélinas will present Louis St- By the time he left office, the of the contracts to supply materiel favoured many policies then that Laurent. Part of the Old Ottawa East political landscape and the definition that its industrial capacity could would put him at the other end of Community Association’s Canada150 of “progressive” had changed provide; Britain kept turning to the the political spectrum from today’s celebrations, the lectures are held dramatically, with the rise of Labour United States for food and munitions. Conservatives. He was regarded as a at room L120, 233 Main Street. and Farmers’ organizations that Borden went to London to champion of the progressive ideas of Admission is free. clashed with the government – put forward the case for Canada his day. violently in the case of the Winnipeg assuming greater responsibility, Like the Conservative premiers Don Cummer lives in Old Ottawa General Strike in 1919. authority and recognition in the at the time, Borden believed South. He is the author of historical What happened in between, of war effort. He visited the Front government should be involved novels and his current work-in- course, was the First World War, and where he developed an affectionate in ownership of ambitious public progress is set in the Borden era. Dr. Donaghy makes the case that relationship with “his boys” fighting infrastructure projects, such as www.doncummer.com, dcummer@ it is as a war-time Prime Minister in the trenches. Along with other the building of the hydro-electric magma.ca. capacity of Ontario. He found distasteful the corruption and patronage that characterized Canadian governance,

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MP’S REPORT Connecting with Nature: World Environment Day By Catherine McKenna, MP Day. With the theme of ‘connecting memories last a lifetime and often people with nature’, people around shape the paths we follow. By being On June 5th, for the first time ever, the world celebrated the important out in nature, you realize the need to Canada hosted World Environment day. I was honoured to celebrate the take care of our planet. day with our Prime Minister and As I take some time to reflect Erik Solheim, the Executive Director on the events and hear about how of the United Nations Environment many communities were involved, Programme, with a paddle along the I get excited for what is still to CATHERINE Niagara River. In Kenya, volunteers come. I want to urge everyone to MCKENNA planted thousands of trees in local build upon the momentum of World be hosting a community picnic on MP—Ottawa Centre communities; in Mexico, beach Environment Day and I encourage July 22nd, at Fisher Park in the cleanups were held along the Nazas everyone across the city to continue Wellington West neighbourhood River; you could learn to fish at a to explore the green spaces around from 2:00pm-5:00pm. There will Working for you! Nova Scotia wildlife reserve and them this summer and beyond. You be activities and entertainment for practice yoga on the banks of the can go to a beach, take a ride along a the entire family and all ages are Community Office welcome. The event will proceed rain 107 Catherine Street Niagara River; and right here in trail, or visit a park; it doesn’t matter, Ottawa, Ontario, K2P 0P4 Ottawa Centre, there was a week- just find a moment once a week to or shine, unless there is lightning. T 613-946-8682 • F 613-946-8680 long environment celebration with a connect with nature. Create your own If you have any questions about the /McKenna.Ottawa @CMcKennaOttawa fair on Sparks Street. summer memories with your friends picnic, please contact my community I believe the first step to protecting and family; enjoy the smell of the office. nature is learning to appreciate and flowers, the buzzing of the bees, and I hope to see you all there! enjoy it. Experiences in nature are the rushing of the river. priceless. My family and I look As a way to encourage everyone forward to summers filled with to get outside and to celebrate www. CatherineMcKennaMP.ca campfires, sunsets, and fishing. These Canada150 in Ottawa Centre, I will

MPP’S REPORT #OC150 Award: Celebrating our Community Leadership on Canada’s 150th! By Yasir Naqvi, MPP grown to become one of the most • Protecting the environment welcoming, friendly and peaceful • Promoting a healthy community 2017 is a very special year for our nations in the world. This would country as we commemorate 150 not have been possible without What better way to observe the years of Canadian Confederation. our nation’s most important asset 150th anniversary of Confederation Much like Expo ’67 was for - our people. That’s why in a year than to celebrate the community Canada’s 100th birthday, 2017 is an focused on celebrating our province builders whose contributions have important opportunity to reflect on and country, I want to honour local made our national capital a place we Street, Ottawa. Submissions must our country’s past, present and future. residents who embody the qualities are all proud to call home. include at least two reference letters To celebrate this special occasion, and values that make Ottawa, Ontario To be eligible, nominees need not from prominent members of the Ottawa is home to a year-long and Canada great. live in Ottawa Centre but their work community, but more are always celebration including massive I am very pleased to announce must have had a direct impact on our welcome. The application deadline signature events for the whole the #OC150 Award. We will be community. is September 1, 2017. city to enjoy, all the way down to recognizing 50 women, 50 men and I encourage you to talk to your The award recipients will local community events. Through 50 youth (ages 12-25) who have family, friends and neighbours and be recognized at a special Ontario government’s support and dedicated their time and talent in the complete the nomination form to ceremony towards the end of the partnership, we have worked hard to service of our community of Ottawa nominate anyone who makes our sesquicentennial year. We will be ensure many of these events include Centre. And we need your help to community a better place to live, joined by a special guest to celebrate free admission so that everyone is find them. We want to celebrate work and play. You can complete the our community builders along with able to partake in the festivities. people who have contributed to: form online at www.yasirnaqvimpp. their family and friends. Please visit www.ottawa2017.ca for • Celebrating diversity/inclusion ca, or get a copy via email by Please help me recognize the a full calendar of the special events • Building community/capacity writing to me at ynaqvi.mpp.co@ people who work so hard to make taking place throughout the city. • Protecting the heritage of Ottawa liberal.ola.org, or drop by the our community the vibrant and In the past 150 years Canada has Centre Community Office at 109 Catherine welcoming place we call home.

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COUNCILLOR’S REPORT Healthy Food and Healthy Forests By David Chernushenko important, and because I consider every neighbourhood. With 40% this an example of excellent public of Ottawa’s urban area made up of Healthy Eating Habits consultation and collaboration with privately owned land, residents can Ottawa Public Health (OPH) wants stakeholders. That’s not always the play an active role in the UFMP and to know what you think about the case at City Hall. increase its potential impact. practice of marketing unhealthy food The UFMP is made up of five four- Some residents are concerned and drinks to children and youth. By year management periods, which will about by-law enforcement and participating in a 15-minute online each be followed by formal reviews. whether the plan will actually change survey, you can help OPH develop It provides 26 recommendations anything. Like many communities, public policy options and guide for making Ottawa’s urban forest Old Ottawa South has seen a response to the loss caused by this future education activities aimed at healthier, more diverse, resilient significant loss of trees on individual invasive beetle, whose larvae feed on encouraging healthy eating habits at a and, ultimately, sustainable. These lots as a result of infill projects. the inner bark of ash trees, disrupting young age. recommendations cover program Currently, the city’s planning rules the tree’s ability to transport water Where companies place products structure and administration, and building permit application and nutrients. and displays; prizes and deals; planning (including a review of process favours the right of a It’s also worth mentioning that team sponsorships; commercials existing tree bylaws), maintenance property owner to build or expand at investing in trees is good for our and online ads; the use of mascots, and growth, and outreach. And they the expense of existing trees. In too economy: A 2014 TD Economics fictional characters or celebrities to respond to the six challenges faced many cases, even protected trees are special report about Toronto’s urban promote products — all these things by Ottawa’s urban forest: invasive cut without a permit, as the fine for forest found that every dollar put into have been shown to influence young species, pests and pathogens; land doing so appears to be insufficient to tree maintenance returns more than people’s food choices and, ultimately, development; difficult growing discourage such behaviour. $3 worth of environmental benefits, their health. conditions; tree loss on private Our existing tree-related bylaws and those benefits increase as trees To complete the survey, visit property; limited community and planning processes need to be age and grow in size. capitalward.ca/ophsurvey. For awareness and engagement; and non- updated and strengthened if we wish As we head into the summer more information on the effects City ownership of urban trees. to stop the steady loss of significant vacation period, I want to take the of marketing unhealthy foods to These are important priorities trees in our neighbourhoods. opportunity to wish everyone some children and youth, visit capitalward. because of the valuable benefits Accordingly, a review of the important downtime. Whether it’s ca/marketing. provided by urban forests, including tree bylaw will occur in the first mitigating and adapting to climate management period of this plan, with family, or with the children off at camp somewhere, I hope you have Protecting our Urban Forest change, supporting physical and with public consultation expected a great summer and take some time I am pleased to report that City mental health, increasing property to be a very important component. to play! Council recently adopted a 20-year values, reducing energy use, reducing As timelines become known, I Urban Forest Management Plan health care and infrastructure will report on all opportunities for Councillor David Chernushenko can (UFMP). I wrote about this important maintenance costs, and improving air residents to participate. be reached at 613-580-248, David. project during the draft stage last and water quality. Protecting and expanding the [email protected], or www. year, and am doing so again because The City now has a great urban forest is especially necessary capitalward.ca. residents of Capital Ward have opportunity to encourage extensive in Ottawa since the Emerald Ash told us they believe protecting and public engagement and to foster Borer destroyed 20-25% of our expanding our urban forest is very environmental stewardship in canopy. This plan represents a timely

MAYOR’S REPORT Fighting the Opioid Crisis: A Community Effort

By Jim Watson Canada, including Ottawa. naloxone when needed. The Province of Ontario recently But we must also tackle the For some time now, the City of announced new base funding of roots of this crisis. Through public Ottawa has been facing a serious $350,000 for Ottawa Public Health education, drug enforcement, and by public health crisis in relation to (OPH) to directly support our providing better access to affordable the misuse and overdose of opioid local substance misuse strategy. housing, mental health support and drugs. Statistics show that each The Province also announced clear pathways out of poverty, we can year, 30 opioid overdose related the distribution of almost 80,000 make a significant difference. deaths happen in our city. The recent additional naloxone kits, the Ottawa Public Health has been opioid use and misuse. emergence of illicit fentanyl as a drug medication that can temporarily at the forefront of the fight on the I am confident that our shared filler puts even more people at risk reverse an opioid overdose, per year opioid crisis. Last November, its goals and collaborative efforts will for overdose. Illicit fentanyl is much to front-line organizations. Overdose Prevention and Response translate into a decrease in drug more toxic than other pharmaceutical We know that access to naloxone Task Force (OPRTF) launched misuse and overdose in time. More opioids and because it is odorless, can save lives. In the last year, a collaborative public education information about counterfeit pills, tasteless and invisible to the naked 160 pharmacies have collectively and awareness campaign called overdose prevention, naloxone and eye, there is no easy way to know if distributed more than 4,000 StopOverdoseOttawa.ca. Since local treatment resources can be drugs have been cut with fentanyl. A naloxone kits in Ottawa alone. The its launch, this site has recorded found at www.StopOverdoseOttawa. very small amount can cause a fatal city is facilitating training on how over 25,000 visits. OPH is also ca. overdose. With tragedies already to respond to an overdose using engaging with all four Ottawa school tearing our communities apart, it naloxone for staff and volunteers at boards, the Ottawa Police Service, is clear is that we must work with Ottawa’s shelters, downtown bars and Rideauwood Addictions and Family community partners on a responsive festivals. Additionally, firefighters Services, and Maison Fraternité, as multi-faceted opioid strategy. at all 45 fire stations in the City of well as student leaders, to develop Over the last few months, there Ottawa have recently completed a youth-to-youth approach to better has been an important dialogue training on how to administer engage our youth. Through age- between municipalities and upper naloxone and all City of Ottawa fire appropriate presentations to Grade levels of government on how best to trucks now carry naloxone on board. 4 to 12 students, we have reached coordinate efforts that will lead to a We are also preparing for Ottawa close to 6,000 students and provided reduction of overdose deaths across Police Service members to administer invaluable information on the risks of Page 14 The OSCAR l July-August 2017

GREEN DREAMERS Rejuvenating Neighbourhood Garden Beds

Green Dreamers Brian Ure and Barbara Dempsey with Krysia Pazdzior who Spreading compost at the corner of Ossington & Bank, Green Dreamers Mike, is donating a variety of perennials from her mature rock garden on Riverdale Christine, Brian & Jill. PHOTOS BY WINNIE PIETRYKOWSKI Avenue. A special thank-you to home-owners Krysia Pazdzior and Tom Tuschak for sharing such a beautiful garden. By Winnie Pietrykowsk summer and fall will be moving blooming season and move when we have decided to make this our perennials from private gardens to the weather permits (not in the heat “hosta lot.” So expect to see more The Green Dreamers have been busy! OOS’s public beds in a timely and of the day or in drought). Watering hosta this summer season, including We’ve been turning soil, weeding, efficient manner. public beds is often problematic. So, blue hosta from Zuzana, and one removing dead growth, clipping, Many OOS gardeners have shared thank you Zuzana and Krysia for called a purple twister from Krysia. trimming, composting and lately, their perennials as they weed and your patience and generosity. planting. rethink their gardens. A special thank As volunteer gardeners, we’ve Donations of Another Kind Our requests for perennials this you, however, must go to Zuzana been trying a number of different This year the OSCA Board Spring from all of you who read Pick on Grosvenor and Krysia approaches to rejuvenate our approved an annual budget of OSCAR, visit OSCA’s website, Pazdzior on Riverdale. neighbourhood garden beds. Working $800.00 for the Green Dreamers. We honk your horns as you drive by, Moving plants from one bed to on public lots so close to the street deeply appreciate this support from and stop to discuss gardening every another is a delicate process. When where snow and salt are dumped our community association and will Wednesday and Saturday mornings gardeners provide some leeway on during our long winters, and where report back to OSCA and to you how has been very successful. The removal, it makes it easier to divide spring foot traffic is hard to control, this money is spent over the summer challenge for Green Dreamers this established plants, to thin after their poses challenges we are not used to and fall months. Thank you, OOS. in our home gardens. Each season While weeding & planting outside begins with an examination of the Antipazzo one sunny morning, tree and shrub health in these beds, Tony Irace, the new owner, offered observing what has taken root and Green Dreamers a “free lunch.” With what has not, what has survived and pleasure, we accepted. what has been damaged. Each season Many OOS residents will we collect a truckload of compost remember Hortus Urbanus (1997- and turn it into existing soil, patiently 2007) at the corner of Bank Street trying to rejuvenate what has for so and Glen Avenue. The perennial long been neglected. garden on the north side of Glen This season we have begun to plant Avenue was created by the owner in volume and repetitive patterns to Ailsa Francis. Recently, Ailsa wrote fill in the beds, and to add (where the Green Dreamers to complement it works) ground cover. One of them on their work, but also to advise our donors, Krysia Pazdzior, has a that she will be working with the variety of ground cover and we will owners of Oat Couture to design a be planting where sunlight, foot café/garden where this garden now traffic, and location makes the most grows. sense. Krysia’s mature rock garden Ailsa has kindly offered the Green is over 35 years old. Aside from her Dreamers whatever perennials she generous plant donations, Krysia has will not be using when designing the developed a lot of garden wisdom. new patio. We look forward to seeing Observing the placement, colour and more of Ailsa’s “green” artistry in plant patterns in her rather expansive OOS and we hope to complement her garden is very much like visiting a efforts in the two public gardens at nursery in the heart of OOS! Glen/Bank. One example of repetitive planting So please continue to encourage is the garden bed outside Antipazzo us, stop, talk, wave or simply on Sunnyside/Bank, a lot that seems smile. We love the work and the ideal for hosta. It’s the one perennial encouragement. that has taken well to the shade and Remember to check out Green dense root system of two Japanese Dreamer activity and progress at: Lilac on this very tiny lot. After some www.oldottawasouth.ca/green- discussion among Green Dreamers, dreamers. The OSCAR l July-August 2017 Page 15 NOWHERE BUT HERE DOWNTOWN BY DAY RIVERSIDE BY NIGHT.

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SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARK Romeo and Juliet Plays Windsor Park By Rachel Eugster raingear in case it mizzles, and bug spray, and watch six actors conjure The actors are in town! Set out a the warring families of Verona in lawn chair or a blanket, as Bear & front of your eyes, while letting you Co. brings you a summer parks- in on the technical fun of staging a touring production of Shakespeare’s play in the open air. love story for all time: Romeo and Our tour schedule will be posted Juliet. Passions soar and hearts break as soon as it’s finalized, so please in this 90-minute version, brought visit us at www.bearandcompany. to you by Bear’s core summer team: ca/ to learn exactly when we’ll be in Eleanor Crowder, director; Rachel Windsor Park, or to find a date and Eugster, music director; and Chris location that suits you better. The McLeod, fight director. tour runs across Ottawa from July 3 As Juliet, this year’s show stars to 30. Curtain time is 7pm sharp, but Old Ottawa South resident Zoe audiences are encouraged to arrive Georgaras, whose fire dancing in early to enjoy the pre-show music. 2016’s Macbeth and 2015’s The New this year, we will introduce Tempest wowed audiences across a way to reserve blanket space in Ottawa. Once again, Georgaras will advance, so check the website for balance her skill as an actor on the details. In tune with Shakespearean Phillip Merriman as Romeo, and Old Ottawa South resident Zoe Georgaras flaming edge of danger. practice, the company will pass a as Juliet, in the Bear & Co. production of Romeo and Juliet. There will be danger at the hat following the performance, with a suggested donation of $20 per sword-edge, as well, as the streets rampant, child brides bow to the how one’s response changes over person. Believe our closing song: of Verona are brought to life by decrees of their husbands, and death time,” Crowder continues. “For Your support is indeed how the actors Phillip Merriman (Romeo), David is a better option than marriage to a teens, the story is all about passion will eat tomorrow! da Costa (Mercutio) and J. T. Morris chosen suitor. and the injustice of a world where Bear & Co. does not disappoint. (Benvolio). David Whiteley, who “Is there room for total romance clan loyalty trumps the individual. We bring stellar music, fine sword appeared in Bear’s 2013 A Comedy of in an age of sexually explicit For parents, the lens pivots: Here is a fights, brilliantly interpreted Errors, will play Juliet’s father, Lord discussion and a revulsion from rape child utterly disobedient to a loving Shakespeare, and the excitement of Capulet, while Chris McLeod (last culture?” asks director Crowder. father, a royal edict overthrown by a fire show, to your neighbourhood year’s Macbeth) will combine three “These worries seem modern, but swaggering bully boys. What more park. In OOS on Wednesday, July roles—Friar Lawrence, the Nurse, not if you look more closely.” How can a parent do than ‘day, night, at 12th, and 26th in Windsor Park. (But and master swordsman Tybalt—into does Romeo suffer from the culture ride or at play, alone, in company, please note: we are still awaiting one star turn, in true Shakespearean that surrounds him in Verona? have all his care for’ his daughter?” confirmation of our parks permit fashion. Shakespeare’s hero escapes the Join us outdoors to celebrate the from the city. Please check the web Why stage Romeo and Juliet teasing and gross suggestions of long evenings and warm weather site www.bearandcompany.ca to be today? Here is love as obsession, his peers to climb an orchard wall and enjoy theatre that stands the love in a time of darkness, love as to gaze upon his love, or to die at test of time. Bear & Co. brings you sure the location has not changed.) release to an infinity of shared soul. the hands of her kinsmen. “One an experience close to the touring And here is craziness in the face of pleasure of Romeo and Juliet lies in companies of four hundred years ago. Rachel Eugster is the Bear & Co a culture where honour killings are Bring a cool drink or a full picnic, Music Director.

Windsor Park is in For a Fool-ishly Good Summer The Fools strive to make theatre accessible to all by condensing the famous plays into 90 minute performances, engaging and interacting with their audience, and creating a fun and energetic environment for theatre goers of all ages. They also operate on a pass the hat payment system, which opens up the experience to everyone. A typical show can have anywhere between three and ten professional actors playing an array of characters, which makes for a hilarious, fast-paced, highly physical show. Behind the scenes is a group of seasoned designers, and production hands that bring Shakespeare’s vision to life with elaborate costumes, set design and direction. This year’s production is A Midsummer Night’s Dream, directed by Mary Ellis. Set in a mystical forest, it tells the tale of young love, and what happens when the person you love loves someone else. Combined with Victorian era influences, Kings, Queens and fairies, the production promises to transport you to another world. By Lisa Thibodeau As per tradition, the Fools will be returning to Old The cast of this summers Company Ottawa South for not one, but two nights! You can find of Fools production of A Midsummer them in Windsor Park on July 8th, and for the finale show With summer finally making its way into the city, a Night’s Dream. (Actors from Left on August 19th. The show begins at 7:00pm and it is Company of Fools is working tirelessly on their latest to Right front row): Leslie Cserepy, suggested that you bring a lawn chair or blanket to sit Torchlight Shakespeare production of A Midsummer Andrew Moore, Tamara Freeman, back and enjoy the show. For a full listing of the Fools’ Mitchel Rose, Sarah Finn, Catriona Night’s Dream. th shows please visit fools.ca. Leger (Back row): Mahalia Golnosh Now in their 15 year of Torchlight Shakespeare productions, the Fools will be returning to parks all Tahririha, Geoff McBride Lisa Thibodeau is the Marketing and Communications across the city in hopes of instilling a new appreciation Assistant for a Company of Fools, and will be returning PHOTO BY JUSTIN VAN LEEUWEN for theatre. Take everything you think you know about to Carleton University in the fall to pursue her degree in traditional Shakespearian theatre and forget it. Journalism. The OSCAR l July-August 2017 Page 17

MEET YOUR NEIGHBOUR Snow Wang and her Family, or New and Old and 50 trips before 15

Left: Snow and Katie in St. John’s Nfld. Centre: Snow and Katie at Machu Picchu. Right: Our family in Stanley Park, Vancouver. PHOTOS FROM SNOW WANG

By Snow Wang creek and farmland. The north gate but I do hope they keep the tree. It is her before she turns 15. At 15, like was perpetually locked because the a tree often with three or four kids in quinceanera (“fiesta de quince ano”, Before I came to Old Ottawa South, main gate in the east was open. We it; a tree for little Jenny and Forrest a coming of age ceremony in Latin I was looking all over Central had mastered climbing a seven foot Gump, and a tree that every kid in the America), she would be able to set Park, a residential area close to the steel gate, crossing over the spikes neighbourhood has climbed. I wish out on her own. By that time, we Experimental Farm. There were on top, and jumping off the other the kids many years later will at least will have seen the world together. So freehold townhouses that were side. It was such adventure time to have the tree to look back on. far, we have done 10 trips, including relatively new, in a location not too be free and running, checking out It is a pleasure for us to be part Canada’s East and West Coast, Cuba far from the city. It made economical the turtles and snakes floating in the of the Old Ottawa South now, so and Peru. Definitely more to visit, as sense and seemed to be the logical pond, setting nets to catch shrimps, I thought to write something as a the world is such an amazing place. choice. pick wild berries... Fast forward with ‘Hello.’ A little bit about us: I really I am pleased to meet you all. Somehow, by chance, on a time, there are no more ponds, nor enjoy traveling and now I take my Snow Wang is a resident of Old beautiful Sunday I stumbled upon bushes, nor creek. We now have a daughter (age six) to see the world. Ottawa South. an open house on Hopewell Ave. more beautiful north gate open to One day it occurred to me it would The neighbourhood was tree-lined, wide roads, concrete sidewalks and be a good idea to take 50 trips with quiet, with houses each unique and dozens of 30-story buildings. Some the people looked easygoing. It was say that it is progress. Many people almost like a quaint village, but are very pleased with it. But could right in the city. A school ranked you imagine going back to exactly #1 according to the Fraser Institute the same geographic coordinates after would have been enough to help me years of living abroad and not be able make the decision; the fact that it is to find your home? between the Canal and the river was Though continents apart, I have

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OPINION Saving Southminster Church and Old Ottawa South Too!

ILLUSTRATION BY BARRY HOBIN & ASSOCIATES ARCHITECTS

By Barbara Brown Southminster is a significant insti- Social Action Committee (CCSAC) international cooperation and peace- tution of the OOS community both which includes 23 churches in the building. Senator Peter Harder How and why should Southminster past, present and, we hope, future. It central area of Ottawa. During served as Deputy Minister of Foreign Church, this important part of Old originates from the consolidation of 2016, CCSAC continued to focus Affairs, Lloyd Axworthy, a former Ottawa South, continue to thrive the first Methodist and Presbyterian on supporting the Centretown member, as Secretary of State for in our community and why should congregations formed in Old Ottawa Emergency Food Centre. Foreign Affairs. OOS fight to keep our R3 three- South more than a century and a half Music has always played an The Church has both important storey residential zoning? At first ago. Southminster has celebrated 85 important role in the life of historical value and associative blush the current proposal to rezone years of continuous urban ministry Southminster. Installed in 1932, value for both Ottawa as a whole the church property to allow a serving the Old Ottawa South com- the heritage Casavant Frères organ and especially for the Old Ottawa nominally six-storey but in reality munity at its present landmark site reverberates with sound on Sundays, South community. It has been a key seven-storey condominium to be overlooking the Rideau Canal. The and at other times in celebrations, part of the spiritual and social life of built behind the church seems like church building as it exists today was concerts and special activities. Ottawa South since the 1800s and the perfect answer. But is it really consecrated in 1932 and bears wit- Musical events are an important continues to be so to the present time. so? Yes, the money the church will ness to the thousands who entered its link between Southminster and the It was constructed at the height of the receive from the developer, Windmill doors during the depression years, community. In 2003, “Doors Open depression in 1931 against all odds, Development, will pay for repairs the Second World War, the post war for Music at Southminster,” a series when most other new construction that are urgently needed. But what boom, and succeeding decades. of weekly noon-time concerts, was in the city was being abandoned. will happen five years down the road Outreach activities were launched and continues up to the This tough spirit remains today when more repairs are required? And strengthened in the post war present time. when church attendance is falling has the church really gotten the best years, and the church continues to The congregation continues everywhere in Canada. Southminster value for the property to be severed expand its community outreach to look for ways of opening up continues to be an active hub of the from the back? Is the only way to today through such activities as the communication among themselves community for Christians and non- keep the church alive to encroach establishment of ‘Out of the Cold and with the community to get a Christians alike. Over the years, the on the current residential zoning of Suppers’ in 1997. The suppers, better sense of the spiritual needs church has worked hard to maintain the neighbourhood with a twenty which run weekly from November around them. Among many other its strong relationship with the plus metre structure as opposed to to March, serve up to 1,300 meals services, they offer the following to community. The church is a defining the current R3 allowance of eleven in a season. Southminster supports the community: an arts-based story- physical entry point to OOS as you metres? How can we save the church the Amnesty International Write for telling programme for children and approach from the north on Bank and the neighbourhood too, and why Rights programme, and sponsors youth, nursery facilities for infants, Street. It stands high on the height should we care about preserving the 17th Ottawa Scout Group. It is a a children’s choir, a community of land formerly called ‘the hill’ either? member of the Centretown Churches based supper for those living alone and offers a religious, architectural or on fixed income, a vibrant music and historical balance with its sister programme, and a group that meets structure across the road, the former to study spiritual practices. convent of the Sisters of the Precious Old Ottawa South is amongst the Blood. oldest residential neighbourhoods How best to preserve the church of Ottawa that still exist in nearly within OOS, a thriving inner city intact early 20th century form. Many suburb where young and old stroll properties still retain in whole or quiet streets, where green space and in part architectural features dating gardens abound, and where houses back 80 or 100 years. OOS shares a remain at three stories or less? The long history with and borders on the Windmill proposal to build a 20 Rideau Canal, a UNESCO World metre, six to seven-storey building Heritage Site since 2007. More on a quiet street of three-storey Delaney’s Law Firm is a locally owned small business that focuses on family law, than 200 years ago John Stegman buildings is surely not the answer. A real estate, and personal injury cases. The firm’s lawyers offer a free 30 minute (born Johann Stegmann in Hessen, glass ‘wedding cake’ looming over consultation to new clients. Visit ottawalawyer.com or call (613) 233-7000 today. Germany) carried out basic surveys the church will destroy forever the for what was to become Ottawa beautiful welcome the church has South. His name survives today provided for over 85 years. I am 543 Somerset Street West Ottawa, Ontario attached to the rapids on the Rideau convinced that we can ensure that File Name: Log-048-Jul-Ad-Newspaper-Fallis-5inx2_25inK1R 5J9 ottawalawyer.com River near Carleton University. the church survives, and that OOS tel. 613.233.7000 Creative & Production Services Trim: 5” x 2.25” Colours: CMYK 100 Yonge Street, 10th Floor Bleed: 0" Safety: fax.n/a Mech1.866.846.4191 Res: 300dpi Material Deadline: August 2016 Southminster has been a landmark, remains a family-oriented, quiet, R3 Toronto, ON M5C 2W1 and centre of the OOS community community. I am sure that Windmill, for 85 years. Its roots in the their architect and the church are able community go back almost 150 to propose a stunning development years. There is a tradition of that preserves our neighbourhood and Do you know how much you cooperation within the church and Southminster too. Already the four with neighbouring congregations. town houses proposed on Aylmer need to retire comfortably? The sanctuary is often the site of Avenue give a beautiful example of www.findyournumber.ca public lectures, music and writers’ what is possible. How about it folks? (613) 782-6773 festivals. Romeo Dallaire spoke there about the Rwandan genocide in 2005. In 2006, Stephen Lewis Barbara Brown is a Member of gave an address about AIDs in Development Watch Southminster and has been a resident of OOS since Scotia Capital Inc. is a member of the Canadian Investor Protection Fund and the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization Africa. Several of its members of Canada. For more information visit www.scotiawealthmanagement.com. have been actively engaged in 1980.

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OPINION Southminster Brings Larger Issues to the Surface

ILLUSTRATION BY BARRY HOBIN & ASSOCIATES ARCHITECTS

By Brian Tansey surrender and make a deal. amount of funds several years ago experience in Ottawa, that even with But they may not have made the to be used to get one going. But a CDP or Secondary Plan (i.e. a Amidst all the conversation best deal despite their efforts, simply no CDP ever did get launched; subordinate part of the City’s Official about this specific proposed re- because it appears that they never not even the baby steps that are so Plan) a community may not win its development, some elements are actually obtained a competing offer important when starting up a CDP. battles at the OMB. understandably not being seen. from another developer. If they had, The Glebe did it though, recently, by Consider that it’s the City that 1. The Canada-wide problem of they might have been able to make doing a detailed survey of residents. should be the ones paying for a CDP, iconic buildings going to their a different bargain for the obviously OOS residents were even able to not our community; but at the rate death due to demographic very valuable property. As it is, the participate in that survey! So now the Ottawa’s city administration is going, changes. developer has used their creativity Glebe has serious material that can it will take decades before their 2. The unusual situation for to design something which in itself be used to push the City into agreeing vague obligation to the Province, to Southminster of possibly not is not unattractive or un-useful, to prioritize the Glebe in its CDP create a CDP for every community, is having obtained fair value for the but which greatly exceeds what is Planning/Budgeting; City staff may achieved. property they are proposing to allowed, and is incompatible with be authorized to join in with their Meanwhile communities are sell, simply because they never the nearby heritage overlay and professional resources, and make it defenceless against the money, got a competing offer. residential units in that area. If there happen. motives, and expertise of developers, 3. The fact that Old Ottawa South had been a serious effort to get a There are many more issues, that who are only playing by the rules has no Community Design Plan second offer for the full value from complicate things to get a CDP in anyways. (CDP) or Secondary plan with another developer, which would not any particular community, including Brian Tansey is a long-time resident which to guide developers or have exceeded the present zoning, political ones. And we know from of OOS. defend itself against proposals and might have been able to get the that exceed the City’s Zoning north side protected such that the Bylaws. trees and slope would have remained intact, every interest could have been Iconicity satisfied. This is much more than a never- The problem for us as a community ending series of individual cities and is that we will never know whether buildings not being able to deal with such a deal could have been made. the problem. There must be at least a Accoring to my interview with hundred buildings across the country Andrew Brewin, the chair of the that, like Southminster are iconic in congregation’s redevelopment one way or another, but which their committee, there was no competing present owners cannot or will not offer for those same pieces of be able to afford to keep open. Most property. St. Matthews in the Glebe of them are probably destined to were able to pull this off about 10 be demolished, or transformed into years ago and were able to create a something else that may not be at proper fully-functional space in their all iconic. The visual and functional basement, redo all the stonework, and elements that made it iconic, get patch the roof, with the funds they at least partially obliterated simply got from a developer, even with the because of declining membership same demographic trends in our city or interest in the once attractive that Southminster has been facing. and functional aspects of the School Boards must go through building or institution. Occasionally such a competition in order to be a heritage designation is put in allowed to sell to the highest bidder; place, sometimes to the ‘financial this is exactly what happened with disadvantage’ of the owner. The Moorcroft development, on the But Quebec has solved this former site of St. Margaret Mary’s problem by legislation that covers Elementary school, at the Cameron a significant portion of the costs of Willard/ Bellwood, and Scotia Place transforming such a building into intersection. some other use or uses, yet retains its ‘iconicity’ and all it represents within CDP that community. Why can’t Ontario Here lies another obstacle for Old do that? Ottawa South’s residents that is much larger than a simple rezoning Competition application for parts of the Church Southminster can be applauded as property. a significant neighbourhood church We have no Community Design community, for struggling for so Plan despite it being talked about for long with their financial issues. But several years at the OSCA Board.. it seems that finally they had to The OSCA Board voted a significant Page 20 The OSCAR l July-August 2017

OPINION Parking Problems Surround Southminster Development #1 #2

Photos from 10:10am May 9, the morning after Windmill’s first open info session at which participants raised the issue of parking. #3 Photo #1 shows that all street parking spaces along the Aylmer Ave side of the church were full (9 cars, including one illegally parked halfway in the drop-off zone). Photo #2 shows cars parked on Galt St (15 of the 17 current spots were filled, plus a car parked on the no-parking side). Photos #3 is from 9:20am May 11, on Grosvenor Ave north (as discussed below). As evidence of existing parking stress, all three photos show illegally parked vehicles.

PHOTOS BY PAUL VAN OORSCHOT

By Paul Van Oorschot The sale will apparently bring only a Windmill’s control. But there is no Retirement Residence at 43 Aylmer relatively small one-time gain. room for street parking on narrow Ave draws frequent ambulance Many concerns are being raised The church programs are dead-end streets, as explained below. service. about Windmill’s proposed invaluable. Many neighbourhood And any hope to recover street width Any suggestion of street parking development of the western half of children have enrolled in countless from the 17 spots is false, as the on Galt St. north is disingenuous. the Southminster Church property, activities including after-school street requires a sidewalk (the current For example Grosvenor Ave. north, accessed by Galt St. and Aylmer Ave. programs. The end-of-day rush sidewalk on church property will a few blocks west, is a dead-end no- An important concern is the safety of of parents picking up children is be consumed by the westernmost parking street. Street parking makes our children and the elderly, related controlled chaos. Will Galt Street townhomes and condos). Such a it too narrow for a safe three-point to parking and sidewalks as discussed at Aylmer Avenue begin to mirror sidewalk is essential if developers, turn; that leaves driving in reverse. here. Church representatives have the daily disaster on Sunnyside Ave the church and the city expect the Doing so to exit Galt north would confidently asserted−albeit without near the Firehall, where commuters elderly and children to walk to the put children at high risk. This is offering any supporting evidence− squeeze by the illegally parked cars 80% of programming the church consistent with neither church nor that the church will retain 80% of of time-challenged parents who drop hopes continue−not to mention neighbourhood goals. This also its current programming with 0% off and pick up kids from nearby visitors to occupants of the proposed explains the de facto no-parking of its current parking. (The current programming? Southminster’s 18 units (14 condos, 4 townhomes). policy on narrow dead-end streets. proposal eliminates all 17 church current saving grace is its 17 parking The loss of all church parking, and So the final tally: minus 17 parking parking spots along Galt St.) The spots on Galt St. increased pressure from new housing, spots, plus 4 townhomes, plus 14 assertion would be wonderful if true− No one knows what the exact end follows the total exhaustion of condos, and a hope to retain 80% of it will be a huge loss to all of us if the result will be after the developer’s neighbourhood street parking due to programming in diminished program church fails despite the development proposed Southminster construction. both Lansdowne, and single-family space. windfall. But the church still failing, Early drawings showed 6 or 7 new homes morphing into multi-tenant Parking is already out of hand. and itself being consumed by street parking spots along Galt apartments – such as 167 Aylmer (16 Southminster needs a sustainable development a few years on, is a real while losing the 17 church spots, bedrooms), and 26 Aylmer’s three- plan, and we hope it survives. The concern, because we are told that the with discussion implying that if storey addition beyond an apartment present plan buys a few years, reason the church must sell off its the city decided not to allow such unit in its former side driveway. disclaims parking responsibility, and prime asset is insufficient income. street parking, it would be beyond Illegally parked cars result in puts safety at risk. making neighbourhoods unsafe and hard to access−and the Colonel By Paul Van Oorschot is a resident of OOS.

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OPINION The Signs Are Up at Southminster, But What About the Canal? By Laura Urrechaga Application No. D02-02-17-044, searchable on the city website, City signs regarding the Rezoning shows a building height of 18.6 Application Request to allow a metres from the ground floor slab, six-storey building are now up on more than one and two-thirds higher Southminster’s property. There than the 11metre limit of the current are signs on Bank Street, Aylmer R3 Zoning by-law on area homes. and Galt. Although there is no sign The Heritage Overlay by-law along towards the Canal, the side of the this stretch of the Canal next to the condo development facing the Rideau development prohibits construction Canal deserves serious consideration. over 9 metres. Add in the elevator The longest side of the Building, overrun above the building, plus the which will be nearly as many feet underground garage wall that rises long as the church is, faces the Canal. well above grade at Galt nearest As of this writing, there are no the Canal, and the building grows elevations or views in the application visually higher still, dominating a site filed by the Southminster developer, where the church should rightfully Windmill, showing the development stand out as the predominant from across the Canal or showing element. On the Canal side, the how this building will affect the building will be in the foreground, entrance to our community as further detracting from the church and diminishing its importance on the we near the crest of the Bank PHOTO BY KATHY KRYWICKI Street Bridge. There are leafy site. th summer “concept renderings” and Views, from the Bank Street to be in before July 11 . elected representatives, they need streetscapes on Galt and Aylmer, but Bridge, along Queen Elizabeth Drive, I know it’s summer, but we have to hear from us in order to do that these don’t show the development and along Colonel By Drive as you no say on when a developer chooses effectively. and the houses it will sit with along drive towards Old Ottawa South to file their application. They choose If you really want to make your the Canal. from downtown are significant. Both the timing that works best for voice heard, cc or write to, The For the most part, houses line the drives are designated scenic routes them. There is a longer time period Honourable Catherine McKenna, path from Galt to Bronson between in the city’s official plan. What will available to contact City Councillors Minister of Environment and Climate the bridges. They are much lower these views look like with the condo and our Mayor but why not go for Change and Minister responsible for than the proposed development in added in, especially during the eight gold and cc, or better yet, write to our Parks Canada and our Rideau Canal height and scale. Even the seniors’ months of the year when trees are Mayor, Jim Watson at Jim.Watson@ at [email protected] residence has a low height profile, mostly bare? The Southminster ottawa.ca. and the important city and our MPP, The Honourable Yasir at only three stories, it has half the developer’s application doesn’t show councillors who make up the Naqvi at [email protected]. number of stories proposed for the us. Planning Committee that will hear org. new condo, The few stacked-shoe- There is also deep concern and decide on this application: The Old Ottawa South community box style homes that maximize regarding the developer’s strategy • Councillor Shad Qadri Shad. group working for a development height and volume, crowding and of seeking a Traditional Mainstreet [email protected] that meets R3 height limits and towering over their neighbours, zoning designation on the entire • Rick Chiarelli Rick.Chiarelli@ is respectful of our community stand out like sore thumbs, not property in order to use that ottawa.ca and canal, Development Watch because their architectural language designation to put up a six-storey • Councillor Tobi Nussbaum. Southminster can be reached at is different, but because they are mid-high rise building on a part of [email protected] Developmentwatchsouthminster@ insensitive to the neighbourhood’s the property that will be subsequently • Councillor Jeff Leiper Jeff. gmail.com. character and context. severed into a separate, independent [email protected] Remember, we have no say on How will the Canal side of this property and sold to the developer, • Councillor Riley Brockington what time of year a developer six-storey Development fit in with Windmill. The resulting lot will [email protected] chooses to file their application with its neighbours? Will it be a good avail itself of Traditional Main Street • Councillor Jean Cloutier Jean. the city. They choose the timing that neighbour or will it be another zoning which allows a six-storey [email protected] works best for them. series of stacked shoe-boxes, only condo, while fronting on a residential • Councillor Stephen Blais We do get to choose our response. six-stories high instead of three? dead-end street, Galt, and having no [email protected] Please respond. access to, or from, the “Traditional • Councillor Allan Hubley Allan. Drawings for Galt show the bottom Laura Urrechaga is an OOS resident Mainstreet.” [email protected] two floors of the condo to match the and Florida architect. church materials and style, but how Surely as we celebrate 150 do the other four floors fit in with the years of Canada and its heritage, a These people are all working church and with the homes covered development can be proposed for this hard to do their best, but as our by the heritage overlay between the neighbourhood landmark site that bridges? respects us, the residents of OOS,

“Conceptual” floor plans show a that respects the intent of our zoning . c o m flat wall on upper floors facing the by-laws, and that respects our Have a wonderful Canal. What is the extent of any UNESCO World Heritage Canal. . c o h r a n e p t summer!

stepbacks? Balconies? What will Please contact Allison Hamlin, w the Canal façade look like? The the City Planner in charge of Celebrate Canada 150. Southminster developer’s application this important file. Let her know Visit us first for 20-60% off doesn’t show us. that we need her help to ensure ALL summer fashions. The property abuts the NCC development that fits in with our footpath and mature NCC trees near neighbourhood heights and that we Shop smart. Save big. the property line, which will be must improve upon this application removed. The tall parking garage facing our residential portion of the wall hugs the lot line and will Canal. damage the roots of other trees near Send her an email at Allison. the path. With these trees gone, the [email protected] or write her parking garage wall will dominate a letter and send it to City Hall, the path. What is being proposed at Planning Department, 110 Laurier www.theclothessecret.com the NCC path? The Southminster Avenue West Ottawa, Ontario K1P 1J11. Please note that comments to Mon. - Wed.: 10 - 5:30 • Thurs. & Fri.: 10 - 7 • Sat.: 10 - 5 • Sun.: 11 - 5 developer’s application doesn’t show 613-730-9039 1136 Bank Street (1 1/2 blocks south of Sunnyside) Ottawa ON K1S 3X6 us. Allison and city planning staff have Page 22 The OSCAR l July-August 2017

HEALTH AND WELLNESS Counselling: The Meaning of Life By Jim Weiler, M.A., R.P matter is the question, “what does we choose to live by must then be in set up defense mechanisms that have (Qualifying) and it mean for me to deal with this?” agreement with these. protected you throughout your life… Realizing that any two people do not It’s all a little bleak, isn’t it? We are how does the saying go - if you don’t Matt Temple, M.A., C.C.C. experience life in the same way can born to die. Not only that, but we do think you are experiencing existential be highly isolating, which impacts it alone, even when surrounded by anxiety than you most certainly are! For millennia humans have wrestled how we relate to others. people. The structures around us are Counselling and psychotherapy can with the concept of what it means We are social creatures who ultimately arbitrary, so we therefore provide you with the opportunity to to be. The awareness that we are experience life individually. have no real way of knowing what work through some of these issues. alive and conscious impacts our Similarly, we create social structures is objective truth. What is the point While another person cannot know lives in more ways than we realize. in order to give us a sense of of all of this? What is the meaning? what it is like to be you, a good Indeed, that we understand we security and control, however this Therein lies the million-dollar therapist will work to understand are temporarily riding through can lead to a diminished sense of question and yet another paradox. your experience of life. This can the universe on this giant rock freedom. Social structures such as We are beings that seek meaning in lead to a feeling of being heard, separates us from other animals. cultural traditions, laws, educational a world that can seem meaningless. understood, and seen. The therapy We are unique as a species in that systems, and religions help ground Failure to find meaning often leads process can help you develop a deep we know we will die one day and us. They aid in diminishing a sense to increased feelings of emptiness. sense of meaning and purpose in your we strive to make meaning of our of dread that can come with feeling Meaning is the buffer that protects us life and situation. This in turn will experience. This venture, however, untethered. When we have rules from existential anxiety, the anxiety help you connect with those around can be overwhelming and at times and expectations, we do not have of living. It is a uniquely human, you and lead to living an authentic can reduce our experience of life to to decide how to live on our own. creative process, which leads to a life based on personal freedom. You meaninglessness. Freedom, though, is always changing life of purpose, lived authentically. cannot control the world, but you Most humans are faced with these and developing and the inner core It connects us to ourselves, to those can control of your own attitude and existential thoughts, yet we all have values that we choose to live by around us, the environment, and is experience of it. Ultimately, isn’t this our own unique ways of dealing come from this process. When we intrinsic in the development of a what life is? with them. Many people engaging choose to live according to external sense of spirituality. in therapy, if not all to some degree, structures, we choose not to be As therapists, we have spent Jim Weiler and Matt Temple struggle with these concepts. When free. The values that we then live considerable time researching and own Foundations Counselling & people seek out help for issues by may or may not resonate with thinking about existential ideas – and Psychotherapy, located at Riverside such as depression, anxiety, marital our inner beliefs. When they do not even spent some time in personal and Bank, where they work with conflict, or grief, they are not there resonate with what we believe to existential crisis! Some of our individuals, couples, families, to merely deal with the issue, but to be intrinsically true, we are living earliest memories involve anxiety and adolescents. If you have any deal with their entirely subjective inauthentically. Living authentically and feelings of aloneness. Perhaps questions regarding the article or an experience of it. The loss of a loved is the path to freedom and it involves while reading this article you have interest in counselling/psychotherapy, one is not the same for any two living first from our inner core been reminded of similar feelings they can be reached at 613-863-3393 people, nor is the struggle of living values. Whatever external structures you’ve experienced. Perhaps you’ve (Jim) or 613-302-3322 (Matt) or at with depression. At the heart of the www.foundationstherapy.ca.

Summer Fun: Take Your Exercise Outside! By Dr. Tannille Moore exercising outside, but it also is mood and helps increase energy metabolism. perceived as easier to complete. levels. People experience a higher One of the great things about summer When it feels easier, you are more feeling of revitalization after working More Likely to Stick with it is spending time outdoors. Why not likely to challenge yourself. The out in green spaces. Exercising outdoors has mood take your workout or exercise and get perception of the activity being easier boosting properties and higher levels outside? The following are ten great when outside leads to the ability to Good for Your Self-Esteem of enjoyment. These are key factors perks that come with exercising in challenge yourself more often. It Exercising outside has been in establishing a routine and sticking green spaces during the summer. also increases the enjoyment of the linked to improved self-esteem and with it. When you are enjoying what activity. This leads to wanting to do it decreased negative moods including you are doing, you are more likely to Better Control of Pace more and for longer periods. depression, tension, and anger. These continue participating. Find the right When walking or running outside, benefits apply to all levels of exercise outdoor activity for you. There are you have more control over your Social Interaction from low intensity to high. many great options to choose from. own pace. When people control Many times, when we are inside, their own pace, they end up moving we are in our own little world and Increases Your Sense of Well-Being Ottawa is a great community for faster than they would have indoors isolated from those around us. Exercising in a green environment taking your activity outside with on a treadmill. Another benefit of However, when we take our exercise has been shown to positively impact many excellent green space options walking or running outside is that the outside we are more likely to engage your sense of well-being, heart for physical activity. You could terrain changes, even if it’s subtle. In with other people. This social health, immune system, and even take a walk on the pathways, rent a single activity you may go uphill, interaction helps to increase your recovery time. a canoe, kayak, or paddle boat at downhill, and on flat ground multiple enjoyment of the activity and how Dow’s Lake, or go swimming at one times. often you find yourself participating. Great for Mental Health of the area beaches. There are also There are positive effects on your great outdoor fitness classes available It Feels Easier Revitalizing general mental health, psychological throughout Ottawa. On Wednesdays Studies have shown that not You feel more positive and well-being, anxiety, stress, or during the lunch hour from May only do people move faster when engaged. Being outside boosts your depression when exercising outside. until August, Lululemon hosts free Being outside positively influences yoga classes on Parliament Hill. If both your well-being and perceived early mornings are better for you, Susanne Ledbetter well-being. there is are free weekly Wednesday Bookkeeping Services morning workouts hosted by Work It Helps with Sleep YOW on Parliament Hill. On Sunday It all adds up. Exposure to sunlight during the day mornings, free stadium workouts are helps you to sleep better and longer being hosted at Lansdowne. There Tel: (613) 297-7590 Email: [email protected] at night. are many ways to get out and active this summer in the Ottawa area! Good for Your Bone Health. . Member of IPBC Spending time outdoors increases Dr. Tannille Moore is a chiropractor . Quick Proadvisor . Simply Accounting your levels of vitamin D production, at Glebe Chiropractic Clinic and . Over 15 years of experience which is crucial to bone health and enjoys spending time outside. The OSCAR l July-August 2017 Page 23

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LANDSCAPING Common Landscaping Regrets and How to Avoid Them By Jay Ladell you from using the rest of your yard. including in relation to your house, space. Now you imagine a water feature and with the plants and the trees you The bottom line is that the cost Regrets. I’ve met more than one surrounded by greens and a smaller, have or want to add. difference between a high end homeowner who’s had a few, the low maintenance deck. A good plan can also be broken product that creates a wow factor most common one being rushing to What should you do? Start with into different phases to help with and the lower end product is not have their landscaping done. a qualified, experienced landscape finances and strategic planning. If that different, especially taking into The best way to begin any front designer with well-rounded you put the patio in one area, is it account the cost of fixing errors. and/or back yard project is to pause knowledge who can talk you through going to block access for machines Taking your time also includes and take serious time to map out a short and long-term yard use. Get a needed for future projects? Is putting knowing when to reach out. I get comprehensive plan, especially if detailed plan that might even be done a tree in the centre of the yard going clients calling in May who want you’re doing anything that will have in phases to match short and long- to cause problems for locating or landscape installed by June for a long-term impact. Take, for example, term needs and wishes, as well as a installing other things? wedding. Any landscaper worth their a pool. The kids are begging for a changing budget. And the plan must include salt will be pretty booked by spring. backyard pool and you too imagine Be wary of contractors with logistics, like traffic flow, property We’re usually booked three months breaks from hot summer days and expertise in one thing who install drainage, where shade should be, to a year in advance. And that time is stress relief from avoiding the one element without considering all while creating an aesthetically needed to design projects and ensure drive to public pools. So, you hire the future. Take the pool problem. If pleasing space. a true focus on each, individual a contractor. In goes the pool in those homeowners had come to me, Another common regret is client. the middle of the yard with roomy I might have recommended locating compromising too much on budget, Landscaping is a long-term, cemented deck space all around for the pool somewhere that left useable basically cheaping out on some significant investment that will, if chairs and towels. patio space, or changed its shape to elements for the sake of saving a done right, significantly enhance Five years later and those same allow for more options around it, or relatively small percentage of the the value of your house and be kids aren’t home as much. You look even suggested a smaller pool. project. something you enjoy every day. Just out your back window and crave What you want is a plan from a I had a client who installed a small take the time to put the plan together more green space and/or a patio landscape designer who understands water feature and really enjoyed with the right person to get your own to hang out on with friends. Only all options available and who, after it, but when they explored more special place with real impact. problem – the space around the pool interviewing you and asking the landscaping ideas they decided on a Send your topic ideas to oscar@ can’t accommodate any of that. questions you hadn’t thought or knew larger water feature. The old one, of landscapeottawa.com or visit: www. Or maybe you’re looking at a to ask, will guide you on what works course, was discarded. A small price, landscapeottawa.com. big deck built when the kids were and what doesn’t, including how but they could have saved a few Jay Ladell is an award-winning toddlers and you wanted to sit and elements like decks and pools can all thousand dollars. landscape designer, industry relax while they played. You were flow naturally to accommodate short And remember that you might be certified-installer, member of happy it would be there for decades. and long-term wishes and needs. able to afford more in the future, like Landscape Ontario, and owner of Only now you realized that being All plans should be about looking that patio that will be around for 40 Ladell Landscaping & Gardens. higher up offers no privacy from at the whole yard and understanding years if installed right, or other things neighbours and the deck layout stops how elements flow within a property, that make your yard a spectacular

Area Worship Services (Summer)

Location Times Sunnyside Wesleyan Sunday Worship Church Services at 10:00 am 58 Grosvenor Avenue (at Sunnyside)

St Margaret Mary Mass Sunday at 10:30 Catholic Church am 7 Fairbairn (corner of Sunnyside)

Trinity Anglican Church Sunday 9:30 am – Holy 1230 Bank St Eucharist and Church (at Cameron Ave) School

Southminster United All summer services will Church begin at 10:00 am 15 Aylmer Avenue • July 2 & 9 - at Glebe-St. James United (at Bank & the Canal) • July 16, 23, 30 at - Fourth Ave Baptist • August 6 & 13 at – South- minster United • August 20 & 27 - at St. Giles Presbyterian • September 3 - at Glebe-St. James United The OSCAR l July-August 2017 Page 25

Kerry Kaiser, Coordinator at the Centretown Emergency Food Centre

Kerry Kaiser, Coordinator at the Centretown Emergency Food Centre.

PHOTOS BY ERIN FELAK Interview by Kristine Burr

Tell us a bit about the Food Centre’s operation. The Centre began in 1978 as a short-term project! Unfortunately, we still have a job to do. We serve those in need in the Centretown area bordered by Wellington Street on the north, Billings Bridge to the south, Lyon Street to the west and Main Street, including Lees Avenue, to the east. While the nature of our clientele has shifted over the years as the demographics of our catchment area have changed, demand for food from people living on social assistance, with disabilities and in low-income jobs has remained throughout the years and, in recent years, has started to grow again.

And what about you – why do you do this? I have been working at the Centretown Emergency Food Centre for over 30 years and I feel honoured to work with the volunteers and the clients. Every day I see miracles and watch the volunteers make a positive impact in someone’s life. Every month, we offer our clients a three-to-four day food supply, depending on their family size.

Tell us about your volunteers. We are very lucky that most of our volunteers have been here long term and when we recruit new volunteers, we ask our member churches first and they usually fill the void but we have volunteers from all walks of life and all ages. We have students, retired individuals, stay-at-home moms, people who do shift work, government employees on volunteer days, and volunteers recruiting their neighbours (including a number who live in Old Ottawa South). As with everything else in the Centre, when we have a need, it seems to fill itself.

And what about your clients? In the past few years we have seen an increase in working poor families and a large jump in parents with children accessing our services. We serve all of our neighbours who are in need, including new Canadians, the old and the young, people on benefits, those who have mental and physical challenges, people who have just lost their jobs, seasonal workers and those in the three emergency shelters in our catchment area.

Where do you get your support? We get our support from the Centretown Church Social Action Committee (CCSAC), member churches, the City of Ottawa, the Ottawa Food Bank, local schools and businesses and individuals. Our local grocery stores support us by allowing our volunteers to do several food drives on their premises each year, and they were all active as sponsors for last year’s walk-a-thon. THE ELEPHANT CHAIR By Kristalia Made in Italy The Centretown Emergency Food Centre is at 507 Bank Street in the base- 1158 Bank Street Ottawa ment of Centretown United Church. This year the CCSAC is mounting 613 722 1661 [email protected] another Walk For The Centre on Sunday, October 15th. See the September OSCAR for more information or go to http://cefcottawa.org/. Page 26 The OSCAR l July-August 2017

TASTY TIDBITS FROM TRILLIUM BAKERY Cars, Trucks and Bread PHOTO BY LOTHAR SPURZEM (CC BY-SA 2.0 DE) By Jocelyn LeRoy language adequately.) I didn’t like it. I felt like I was peering up out of After traversing the United States with two small an old-fashioned baby pram. Not the caliber of My first car was a Volkswagen “Bug” bought at children, we traded up to the tiny VW station- performance I was used to. the factory in Wolfsburg, Germany. It cost $180 wagon, just larger enough to accommodate our Next came a wonderful utility vehicle, a Nissan to ship to Canada, after travelling all over Europe huge dog. More travels. More children. Until we Multi (a pre-SUV SUV). It was great in the bush, for five months. I remember zooming down couldn’t get the groceries in. and it held a lot of people and gear, truly a multi- mountains, zipping tightly around steep hairpin For a while I bicycled more often, groceries on purpose small truck. The wide bakery bread racks bends, hugging the narrow road like those tiny my back, with one kid in the handlebar basket and easily slid into place for delivery. It could even friction toys from the 1960s. Once, a big long- other at the back. No straps or helmets in those carry two canoes on top, It gave me 12 years of hauler truck’s brakes failed right behind my Bug; days. Once, when trying to negotiate a narrow, rut- excellent service. we got away from the careening monster as it ridden path, we all fell off into a patch of poison As the last chapter I acquired Jeeps. I had always hurtled onto one of those side shoulders for out-of- ivy. wanted a Jeep for all that off-road-ATV driving control vehicles. over roots and rocks. The first of two Compasses In Greece my partner and I crammed an entire was dark dragonfly green to match my canoe. (I family onto the back seat – they wanted to go never chose the car colours – I would have chosen to the beach. I held the two-year-old on my lap. them exactly as they came. Colour was the last The rotund grandma was squashed between the thing on my checklist, easily trumped by price, toddler’s parents, plus food and a sackful of safety, headroom, gas mileage and height from towels. Grandma was beaming with delight; it had the road. I became a fearless negotiator on price, been years since she had gone to the beach, which and my reward was a colour I actually could have was several hours’ drive from her home. With her chosen happily.) swaths of black skirts, layers of long white under- I’m now driving my second Compass, having skirts and a long black cotton jacket draped over it fought for one of the last ones produced. No more all, she kept beaming in the 120ºF heat. catcalls of “You’ve got a Chick Jeep.” My newest After hours of driving, we finally arrived at a After I had settled in Ottawa, my first vehicle Jeep is sapphire lake blue and has fog lights. This disappointing rocky beach where the sandy patches was a big sky-blue Bonaventure cargo van. All may be the last vehicle I drive to the Ottawa River were scarred with slicks of petroleum. (This four of my children learned to drive on it. We to feed the ducks stale bread, and to deliver fresh was the first I’d seen of Greece’s many damaged went to drive-in movies, camping and many bread to customers and a few stores. I’ve given shores.) Grandma waded into the ocean fully trips. Once it proved to be a safe place when we up dreaming of the fast, sexy Mercedes RX sports dressed, unknotted the tight bun at the back of her found ourselves between a mother bear and her car (of my youth). Totally inappropriate. Or the head, and swished the cascade of long grey hair in cub stranded in a tree, its branches brushing the big deluxe Land Rover, which would have served the sea-weedy water. The rest of the family dipped windows of our van. The cub was shot with a dart better on the day a donkey stuck its head into my their toes in the ocean, and then we spread out our gun and fell out of the tree; it grazed the side of Bug in Turkey. There was no room to back away. picnic on the polluted beach. our van on the way down before being re-united Bonaventure, Caravan, Multi, Caliber, Compass. All my life my road-trips have been punctuated with its mother. The names of my vehicles seem to match my by my interest in bread. I checked out many For twelve years, our big van carried thousands colourful life: character, lifestyle, hobbies – I never bakeries and tasted bread made by someone other of loaves of bread to stores all over Ottawa and chose any for their name alone, as have many than my mother or me. I loved making bread long beyond. On one occasion, a stormy winter night, people I’ve met. I’m still enjoying the challenge before Trillium Bakery came into existence. Of it carried big buckets of rising bread dough to our of a good snow bank in which to never get stuck. course, each country has its own specialty sweets; friend’s automated bakery after power went out in Today’s big snow tires are a far cry from the sugary pastries were everywhere. I like the classics Ottawa South. cumbersome tire irons I used to shove under the of the patisseries: éclairs, lunettes, Eccles cakes, After the Bonaventure died of old age came wheels of the Bonaventure in snowdrifts. The 100- baklava and other sticky Mediterranean honey a series of three spacious Caravans, a big bang lb. bags of flour and sea-salt helped anchor this van pastries. But bread, in all its different forms, was for the buck. These trucked bakery and family in tricky weather. the common denominator among all people. everywhere for the next decade. One Caravan was What does your car’s name say about you? It’s My Bug also carried an elderly couple my totaled by drunk-driving Army soldiers in broad something to ponder when you’re down with partner had lived with in Amsterdam. It was their daylight on the old 416 in front of the gas station the flu, delayed at the airport or bored with your final visit to “all the dam towns” to see all their at River Road. There were more than a dozen smartphone. “dam” relatives. We ate Dutch rusks and were witnesses – hence a new Caravan at the Army’s served tea and Dutch treats at every stop, along expense. Plus whiplash. Jocelyn LeRoy is the owner/manager of Trillium with a history lesson at each town. (Sign language Next came a silver Caliber, a medium-sized Bakery since 1980. got us through when we could not speak the car after all these years of large ones. Too small.

Super Summer Soup: Tomato - Watermelon

Ingredients and Directions 1. Cut into chunks: ¼ small seedless watermelon; 2 to 3 red beefsteak tomatoes; 1 cucumber. 2. Along with ¼ cup chopped parsley and ci- lantro, place the above ingredients in a large glass bowl. 3. Pour over these contents a liquid consisting of: 2 cups tomato juice; a few shakes of hot sauce; juice from ½ lime; ½ tsp. Dijon mus- tard; ½ diced avocado; salt and fresh-ground pepper to taste. 4. Marinate for 2 to 3 hours. 5. Blend in good blender or Bullet machine. 6. Chill well before serving. 7. Top with diced avocado or mint.

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NEWS CU75 Founding Day: Carleton University Celebrates 75 Years By Dan Rubinstein They were welcomed by a jazz Capital University. Carleton’s 75th leaders, politicians, entertainers or quartet performing vintage 1940s anniversary in 2017 celebrates journalists, and they have shaped our Seventy-five years ago, a small music and a flash mob performance the university’s commitment to neighbourhoods and enriched our college offering night courses for of Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy, before giving back through education lives.” academic credit opened shop at being led into the Drawing Room while pursuing contributions to the Belgium’s Ambassador to Canada, the High School of Commerce in by bagpiper Jack Coghill, a Carleton common good.’’ Raoul Delcorde, took the podium a building shared with the Glebe music instructor and alumnus. Dr. Carruthers thanked Chi for six next and presented Dr. Runte with Collegiate Institute. Patti Harper, the head of research years of service and leadership at the the Belgian Commander’s cross of Championed by a group of support services at Carleton’s university, noting also that Dr. Runte the Order of the Crown, awarded in visionary citizens, and by a federal MacOdrum Library and a driving has worked 24-7 for the university recognition of artistic, literary and government that wanted to help force behind the anniversary book over the last nine years while scientific merit. students build their careers after the Carleton at 75: Reflections + providing “exceptional and stable Dr. Runte’s award especially Great Depression and service in the Photographs, served as the master leadership.” recognizes her strong support for Second World War, Carleton College of ceremonies for the event and Said Dr. Runte: “We owe a deep establishing international student steadily evolved into one of Canada’s Elder Jim Albert provided opening debt of gratitude to the citizens and faculty partnerships between leading post-secondary institutions, a remarks. of Ottawa who founded Carleton Belgium and Canada. university that has provided a unique Prime Minister Justin Trudeau sent University 75 years ago. Through The formal program concluded educational experience to more than a congratulatory video message. dedication and collaboration, we with a few words from Fred Gibson, 140,000 graduates. “It’s been quite the journey since will continue to offer this region and the son of one of Carleton’s original On Sunday, June 18, a dozen Carleton first opened its doors right the world, access to excellence in governors and the father of three blocks and a world away from here in the Chateau Laurier,’’ said education and research to support alumni, and from recent graduate those humble origins, 250 or Trudeau. “From those beginnings, economic and cultural growth.” Alicia Hutton. so people gathered at the grand you have grown to be a leader Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson Guests then stayed to eat, drink, Fairmont Château Laurier hotel for in higher education and you’ve presented his alma mater with a mingle and browse historical exhibits a gala reception to mark Carleton helped over a 100,000 graduates Key to the City — Ottawa’s highest charting the evolution of Carleton University’s 75th anniversary. take their first steps down their honour. from its birth in 1942 to the thriving On that date in 1942, the Ottawa paths to success. Your alums are “Over the last 75 years, Carleton dynamic community it is today. Association for the Advancement of world-renowned journalists, tech has had a tremendous impact in Learning was established to assume executives, artists of all kinds, the City of Ottawa,” said Watson. Dan Rubinstein is a Carleton U. responsibility for the operation diplomats, civil servants and leaders “I count my time at Carleton as alumni, writer, editor and author. of Carleton College. At the same in communities around the world.” the moment I knew I wanted to be meeting held at the Chateau, the first Outgoing Chancellor Charles involved in public service. Numerous board of governors was elected, and Chi celebrated Carleton’s other graduates have also gone on to Henry Marshall Tory — who had “entrepreneurial spirit” before Board become community leaders, business been the founding president of the Chair Chris Carruthers paid tribute University of Alberta and National to the vast community support Research Council, and established for Carleton, as well as outgoing the school that would become the President Roseann O’Reilly Runte, University of British Columbia — who is leaving the university to was appointed president and elected head the Canada Foundation for chair of the board. Innovation. The Founding Day Celebration “I wish to thank the citizens brought together federal, provincial of Ottawa and surrounding and municipal politicians, alumni and communities for their support and donors, university executives, faculty leadership in making Carleton and staff, members of the Board what it is today,” said Carruthers. of Governors, and people from the “With your help, we have assured community at large. a dynamic future for Canada’s

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CARLETON CORNER CU75 Continues aged 4 to 17. Summer camps run all Campus Tours Carleton Bestowed 13 Honorary This year marks Carleton summer long. Visit athletics.carleton. Calling all future Ravens, plan a Degrees University’s 75th anniversary. There ca/camps visit to Carleton University! Campus Carleton presented 13 honorary are many events taking place at tours run Monday through Saturday degrees at its Spring Convocation the university in celebration of this Swimming Lessons all summer. Tours occur at 10am and ceremonies June 13 to 16. More than milestone. Please join us! There are many programs for all 2pm and can be booked online via 3,580 undergraduate and graduate MacOdrum Library, the ages and abilities! Stay cool and fit our website – admissions.carleton. students received their degrees. For university’s main library, will present with these swimming programs at ca/campustours. Join us to see how a list of this year’s honorary degree two exhibits: athletics.carleton.ca/aquatics Carleton’s campus has developed recipients, visit carleton.ca/convoca- • Carleton University: 75 Years over the past 75 years! tion of Impact, Imagination and Birthday Parties Innovation. The collection of Did you know Carleton Athletics Carleton Students Win Prestigious Carleton wishes the residents of archival documents and photographs hosts birthday parties? Your little Scholarships Old Ottawa South a safe and happy celebrates Carleton’s impact on Raven may choose a sport, pool, Four doctoral students won the summer. Canada from 1942 to 2017. dance or Ravens party for their prestigious Vanier Canada Gradu- • The Way We Were: The Carleton birthday celebration. All parties ate Scholarships in 2017 – setting a Carleton Corner is written by University Library – a photo exhibit include 45 minutes in the party room record for the number of Carleton Carleton University’s Department of the people, building and services and an hour of sport or an activity. students to win the award in a single of University Communications. As of MacOdrum Library over the past Visit athletics.carleton.ca/2013/did- year. Each award is valued at $50,000 your community university, Carleton 75 years. you-know-we-host-birthday-parties/ a year for three years during doc- has many exciting events of interest Both exhibits are open until August toral studies. The awards will fund to Old Ottawa South. For more 31, 2017. Can-Am Basketball Shootout research on issues that have great information about upcoming events, Watch our national champions potential to improve lives, including please go to carleton.ca/events. Sports Camps men’s basketball team as they host a health care sensors and the homeless. For more than 40 years, Carleton handful of NCAA teams in August. Congratulations to Mohamed Ab- has been offering Ottawa’s finest For tickets and a complete schedule, delazez, Genevieve Johnston, Lowell sports camp experience for kids visit goravens.ca/news Gasoi and Sandy Barron.

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FINANCIAL PLANNING Don’t Get Swayed by These Investment “Myths” By Bob Jamieson, CFP Buy Recent Winners help you write your own investment tale – and you It’s always smart to buy investments that have can leave the myths to the storybooks. Over time, you will run into various suggestions performed well recently. You may have read, in for investing successfully. Yet upon closer investment prospectuses, that “past performance If you would like to discuss investing, or would like inspection, many of these ideas turn out to be is no guarantee of future results.” These words are a 2nd opinion on your current portfolio without “myths” – which could cause you trouble if you certainly true; just because an investment has had a obligation, please give me a call at 613-526-3030, treat them as solid advice. Here are five of these good run recently, it doesn’t mean its success will or visit www.edwardjones.ca/bob-jamieson. myths, along with some reasons for ignoring them: continue indefinitely. You need to evaluate each investment on its own merits and on how well it The Next “Big Thing” fits into your overall portfolio. You can find the next “big thing.” All of us probably wish we could have “gotten in on the International Investing is too Risky ground floor” of Apple or Microsoft or some International investing is too risky. In today’s other tremendously profitable company. And global economy, it may be more risky not to who knows? There may indeed be a similar other invest some of your portfolio internationally. business out there, waiting to take off. But it’s North American stocks represent less than half almost impossible for anyone to identify these of global stock market capitalization and Canada potential “blockbusters.” There’s really no shortcut less than 5% – so by stopping at our borders, you to investment success – you need the patience and are depriving yourself of a world of opportunities. discipline to invest for the long term, and you need It’s true that foreign investments carry some to build a portfolio that’s appropriate for you. special risks relating to currency fluctuations and political and economic events, but there are Buy Low and Sell High strategies to help contain this risk. A financial Investors should always seek to “buy low and professional can suggest the best ways for you to sell high.” This is actually good advice – or it add a global element to your investments. would be, if were possible to consistently follow it. But how can you know when the market is “high You Need Money to Make Money enough” to sell or “low enough” to buy? You can’t You need a lot of money to make a lot of – and neither can anyone else. Trying to time the money. Of course, it doesn’t hurt to have a sizable market rarely works. A more appropriate strategy amount of money to invest right away. But the is to invest regularly and to diversify your holdings world is full of people who started investing among stocks, bonds, and other vehicles, based on with small sums and ended up having enough your goals and risk tolerance. Diversification can money to enjoy the retirement lifestyle they had help protect you against market downturns that envisioned. If you’re just beginning to invest, put primarily affect just one asset class. Keep in mind, in as much as you can afford each month; as your though, that diversification can’t guarantee profits income goes up, increase your investments. As an or protect against all losses. investor, time is your greatest ally. Sticking to a consistent investment strategy can

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SUNNYSIDE LIBRARY PROGRAMS Sunnyside Branch In Sheep’s Clothing From Eh to Zed/De l’Acadie à A Word in Arabic Ottawa Public Library (Billings Estate National Historic Yellowknife Learn a few words in Arabic while 1049 Bank Street, Ottawa Site) Make your way across Canada… discussing the culture and customs InfoService 613-580-2940 Using the Canadian Children’s novel with movies! / Laisse ton imagination throughout the Middle East. Drop-In. Amos’s Sweater by Janet Lunn as a parcourir le Canada…avec les filmes! Wednesdays, 5:30-6:30pm, July 5 – CHILDREN’S PROGRAMS starting point, children will have the 6 & under / 6 ans et moins Dec. 27 opportunity to learn how a sheep’s Thursday, 11:00am (60 min.) Opening Ceremony/Cérémonie wool went from sheep to sweater Jeudi, 11h (60 min.) ADULT BOOK CLUBS d’ouverture during pioneer times. Children will July 6th – August 17th / 6 juillet – 17 Join us for the TD Summer Reading have a chance to try a couple of the août Ottawa Comic Book Book Club Club 2017 kick-off with magician steps along the way before making The Ottawa Comic Book Book Luc Leduc! / Joignez-vous à nous their own wooly take-home craft. Block Party/Ça dé “bloc” Club is a small group of comic book pour le lancement du Club de lecture Ages 4 to 6 Building Boom: show off your enthusiasts who meet once a month d’été TD 2017 avec le magician Luc Wednesday, July 5th, 2:00 (60 min.) architectural creativity with Lego. / to discuss a graphic novel. Come and Leduc! Registration required. Archiboum! Architectes en herbe, à join us every month to discuss comic Monday, July 3, 10:15am (60 min.) vos Lego! books and graphic novels. Whether Lundi le 3 juillet, 10h15 (60 min.) Craft Across Canada/Bricole à Friday, 1:00 – 5:00pm it’s your first comic book, or you’re travers le Canada Vendredi, 13h -17h a long time reader, the group fosters Summer Family Storytime/Contes All aboard for a marvelously messy discussion on various aspects of en famille d’été adventure / Tout le monde à bord Busy Little Beavers/Joyeux petits storytelling, art, colour and sequential Stories, rhymes and songs for the pour une aventure fabuleuse et castors storytelling. Drop-In. whole family (bilingual)/ Contes, barbouillée! Have fun with our animal friends. July Title: Step Aside, Pops by Kate rimes et chansons pour les enfants 6 & under/6 ans et moins / Amuse-toi avec nos amis les Beaton préscolaires et un parent ou gardien Wednesday, 10:15am (60 min.) animaux. August Title: The Wrenchies by Farel (bilingue) Mercredi, 10h15 (60 min.) 6 & under/6ans et moins Dalrymple Tuesday, 10:15am (30 min.) July 5th – August 16th / 5 juillet – 16 Monday, 10:15am (60 min.) Mondays, 7:00-8:30pm, July 3 & Mardi, 10h15 (30 min.) août Lundi, 10h15 (60 min.) August 14 July 4th – August 15th/ 4 juillet – 15 July 10th – August 14th / 10 juillet – août Game On! / À vos jeux! 14 août SPECIAL EVENT Roll the dice, pick a suit or grab a Summer Babytime nunchuk! Come play cards, board Colours of the Northern Lights/ Digital Bookmobile Visit Stories, rhymes and songs for babies games or Wii with us! / Joue aux Éclatentes aurores boréales Join us at the Sunnyside branch and a parent or caregiver. dés, choisis ta couleur ou saisis un Make arts inspired by our unique on Saturday, July 22 from 11am – 0-18 months nunchuk. Viens jouer aux cartes, à un landscapes. / Fais des arts inspirés 5:00pm to learn about the library’s Tuesday, 2:15 pm (30 min.) jeu de société ou au Wii avec nous. par nos paysages uniques. digital e-book and audiobook July 4th – August 15th / 4 juillet – 15 Thursday, 2:00 – 5:00pm 7 & up/7 ans et plus collection. The Digital Bookmobile août Jeudi, 14h – 17 h Wednesday, 2:00 (60 min.) from one of our major eBook July 6th – August 17th / 6 juillet – 17 Mercredi, 14h (60 min.) suppliers, OverDrive, will be parked août July 12th – August 16th / 12 juillet – at the branch, offering tablet & 16 août computer workstations to enable visitors to browse OPL’s extensive ADULT PROGRAMS digital collection and watch tutorial videos to get started with eBooks. Knit & Knatter The Bookmobile also features a A gastro pub Have you always wanted to learn Gadget Gallery, which offers an to knit or crochet or improve your interactive experience for visitors by the Fraser skills? Come to Sunnyside and bring with hands-on practice using the app your knitting needles and yarn to on some of the most popular devices. brothers begin or share your project. Enjoy Please stop by the branch for further conversation and a cup of tea while details and keep an eye on the OPL you knit! Drop-In. website BiblioOttawaLibrary.ca. Wednesday, 12:30 – 2:30pm, July 12 & 26, August 9 & 23 Weekday LUNCH weekend BRUNCH & DINNER nightly.

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AROUND TOWN Friends of the Farm Events. 613-230-3276 or friendsofthefarm.ca • July 9 - Friends of the Farm Tree Tour at 10 am Building 72. “Tree Growth and Pruning.” Learn how pruning can improve the appearance and life of trees and 17th Ottawa Scout Group shrubs. • July 30 - Friends of the Farm Tree Tour at 10 am Building 72. “What does it mean to be a Native Tree?” Discover the impact of invasive species on indigenous trees. Register TODAY at myscouts.ca! • July 30 - Friends of the Farm Victorian Tea from 2 pm to 4 pm. Classic tea is For boys and girls! served on the lawns of the Arboretum. Dress in full Victorian garb, (optional), In person: Tuesday September 12th, 6:30 – 8:00 pm listen to live music, enter the best hat and costume contest. Formal Tea $13 at Bldg Southminster United Church 72, CEF Arboretum east exit off Prince of Wales roundabout. (downstairs in the Fellowship Hall) • August 12 - Friends of the Farm Art on the Farm from 10 am to 4 pm, Rain Date August 13, Free. Artists working in various media will display and sell their Beaver Scouts (ages 5-7, start Wed. Sept. 20st 6:30-7:30) original work under the trees at the Arboretum. Bldg 72 CEF Arboretum, east exit Cub Scouts (ages 8-10, start Mon. Sept. 18th 6:30-8:00) off Prince of Wales roundabout. Scouts (ages 11-14, start Tues. Sept. 19th 7:00-9:00) The Canadian Film Institute is inviting the people of Ottawa to send in their Venturer Scouts (ages 14-17, start Tues. Sept. 19th 7:00) home movies, to be shown as part of its ‘Ottawa: Cinema Capital’ project. The CFI

is calling for Ottawans to submit their digitized visual recordings of celebrations, For more information contact: events and people living their lives in recognizable sites in the Ottawa area, from [email protected] old black and white footage, to recent mobile recordings. Submissions are accepted Scouts Canada program information: www.scouts.ca immediately until July 31, and can be made online More information can be found online at www.cfi-icf.ca Every submission will be entered into a draw for two CFI Ambassador memberships. Page 32 The OSCAR l July-August 2017

ABBOTSFORD AT THE GLEBE CENTRE Abbotsford House Celebrates Its 145th Birthday in Style! ribbon cutting ceremony, Randy Gill of 180 Forge Works, but sent her good wishes in Artisan Blacksmithing, was hired the form of a letter that was to take the conceptual design read by Karen Anne Blakely ideas of a group of Abbotsford (Director of Community seniors and forge a lasting, artistic Programs at Abbotsford). commemorative bench. This goal One of the Minister’s kind was reached with aplomb. sentiments regarding seniors As the sun shone higher and was expressed with these warmer our guests were treated words, “We want Ontario to vintage vehicles outside, and seniors to remain healthy and historical artifacts inside. Volunteers independent for as long as worked diligently to display and possible and to feel safe and explore the history of the house, supported.” This encapsulates welcoming no fewer than136 guests what Abbotsford is all about. in this, Abbotsford’s145th year and Attorney General Yasir Canada’s 150th! Naqvi, Mayor Jim Watson and City Councillor David Abbotsford is your community Chernushenko were all in support centre for Adults 55+. We attendance for the ribbon are the community programs of The cutting and expressed their Glebe Centre Inc., a charitable, support of this stylish bench not-for-profit, organization which PHOTO BY PATRICIA GOYECHE as a tangible symbol of includes a 254 bed long term care supporting seniors in the home. Find out more about our By Pat Goyeche commemorative bench! community. services by dropping by 950 Bank The special ribbon cutting We thank those seniors who Street (the old stone house) Mon - Fri brought forward their ideas on how 9-4 pm, telephoning 613-230-5730 Doors Open Ottawa was just ceremony was for a brand new hand- such a bench could symbolize both or by checking out all of The Glebe the excuse that was needed to forged 3-seat metal bench, which was The Glebe Centre’s Community Centre facilities and community bring out the vintage vehicles, sponsored by a special Provincial Programs, and Services at programs on our website www. period costumes, Abbotsford’s Seniors Community Grant. Abbotsford, and celebrate Canada’s glebecentre.ca. archival material and a ribbon Minister of Seniors Affairs Dipika 150th birthday. cutting ceremony for a special Damerla was unable to attend the

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ARTS AND CULTURE

Glebe Art In Our Gardens and Studio Tour 2017

ART BY BRENDA SMALL By Brenda Small of art for yourself or a friend. As an added incentive, the tour is offering draws for Come to the Glebe the weekend of July 8-9 vouchers toward the purchase of any of the from 10am to 4pm for the popular annual art on display. Pick up a contest slip at any show and sale of works by some of the of the sites, get it stamped at each one, then city’s most accomplished artists. They will leave it at the last one you visit for inclusion be exhibiting a rich variety of paintings, in the draws. multimedia work, glass and digital art, and Brochures with information about the photography. artists and their work will be available at the Some 19 artists will have pieces on display sites on Saturday and Sunday. at eleven sites across one of Ottawa’s For more information about the art tour, loveliest old neighbourhoods. Artists new go to www.glebearttour.ca . The website has to the show will join well-established examples of the artists’ work and a list of exhibitors from previous shows who will be the display sites. There is a map to plan your featuring new work. All are looking forward tour. You can also pick up a tour postcard to chatting about their latest offerings with at the Sunnyside Library, Framed! (at 1075 visitors. Bank St.) or at any of the sponsoring Glebe The weekend is a good time for a leisurely businesses. look around the gardens and studios of these artists, and a chance to buy a special work Brenda Small is an OOS artist.

Ottawa Welcomes the World as part of Canada’s 150th anniversary celebrations in the nation’s capital. The historic Horticulture Building and Aberdeen Pavilion will be the setting for international showcases that highlight trade, tourism, education, food, music, dance and more. All events are free of charge. Minimal fees will apply for food and beverage sampling. July 7 High Commission for the Republic of Rwanda July 9 Taipei Economic and Cultural Office July 11 Embassy of Mongolia July 14 High Commission for Tanzania July 15-19 Embassy of the Arab Republic of Egypt July 23 Embassy of the Eastern Republic of Uruguay July 28 The Royal Thai Embassy July 29 Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania August 6 Embassy of the Republic of Macedonia August 7 Jamaican High Commission August 16-17 High Commission for Pakistan August 18 Embassy of the Republic of Colombia August 20 High Commission for Trinidad and Tobago August 24 Embassy of Ukraine Page 34 The OSCAR l July-August 2017

ROAD TRIPS Montreal Celebrates Three Big Anniversaries in 2017

treal beyond the tourist hubs, look into a roving event called La Grande Tournée. Each weekend until Sep- tember 17th, a different neighbour- hood is hosting a free public festival featuring art exhibitions, music, circus performances and other fun. Still searching for ideas? I have one last suggestion: Head to Au Sommet Place Ville Marie, a new attraction atop one of the city’s tallest office towers. As well as exploring a 360-degree observation deck, you The “Cité Mémoire” project. “La Balade pour la Paix,” an open-air museum on Sherbrooke Street. can try #MTLGO, an unusual inter- IMAGE BY CLAUDE CORMIER + ASSOCIÉS active exhibition. After watching one IMAGE BY JEAN-FRANÇOIS LEMIRE or more short videos about the city, of Montreal on social media. It lights fair itself. And a section of Sher- you tap a wristband on the screen to up the bridge at dusk and goes off at brooke Street has been transformed By Laura Byrne Paquet “like” the ones that interest you. At dawn. into an open-air museum called La the end of your visit, you get a list of Light is something of a running Balade pour la Paix, with artworks As well as marking Canada 150, places to see in the city based on the theme in many anniversary celebra- reflecting the Expo 67 vibe. Montreal is celebrating both its own videos you liked. That should keep tions. For instance, Notre Dame Another free outdoor attraction 375th birthday and the 50th anniver- you going until the end of the multi- Basilica is hosting a new sound-and- well worth seeing, Cité Mémoire, sary of Expo 67 in 2017. As usual, anniversary year, at least. the city is pulling out all the stops, light show called AURA about its projects mini-movies about the city’s own history, and the Biosphere (a history on buildings throughout Old making this a great year to take a If you go: Montreal is about a two- Buckminster Fuller designed dome Montreal. Two of my favourites weekend road trip down Highway hour drive east of OOS. VIA Rail that was the United States Pavilion at focus on Rocket Richard (it’s very 417. and Greyhound also offer multiple Expo 67) is newly illuminated, too. cool to see him skate around a corner The $39.5-million illumination of trips each day. For more information Speaking of Expo 67: Many Mon- where two buildings intersect) and on the Jacques Cartier Bridge is one of on the city’s 375th celebrations, see treal museums are also commemorat- the resettlement of Jewish children the most intriguing (and controver- www.375mtl.com/en/. sially expensive) birthday novelties ing the landmark 1967 World’s Fair in Montreal after the Second World this summer. The Montreal Museum War. To see a movie, download the the city has unveiled. Dreamed up by Travel writer and OOS resident of Fine Arts has the oddly named free Montréal en Histoires app to Moment Factory, a Montreal compa- Laura Byrne Paquet runs Revolution:“You Say You Want a your smartphone. Then, when you’re ny known for its multimedia shows, OttawaRoadTrips.com, where she Revolution,” showcasing the music, near a projection site, push “play” the Living Connections installation offers tips and ideas for independent fashion, movies and design of the to start the movie and listen to the features roughly 2,800 lights and day trips and weekend getaways from 1960s. At the Stewart Museum, Expo soundtrack. aims to reflect everything from the Ottawa. seasons to the number of mentions 67—A World of Dreams examines the If you’d like to see more of Mon-

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