THE OSCAR THE OTTAWA SOUTH COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION REVIEW 02L VOL. ?7TNo.9 OUR 20TH YEAR MAY 1995

STRFFT HOCKEY TOURNAMENT AN IINREIIEVARIF HIT

BY RICHARD CLEROUX For two hours, Bellwood Ave. covered everyone who showed up. In theory, better teams would Breithaupt and his wife Jackie suddenly was closed to traffic from If players arrived without a team, collect at one end of the block and disappeared only to return with enough hot Sunnyside to Belmont, on a team was formed for them. Hockey weaker teams at the other end. In dogs and buns to feed the whole Saturday morning, April 8, for the sticks were provided for those who practice, teams played whoever they tournament. Their amazing and totally First Annual Street Hockey had forgotten theirs. Old hockey dam well felt like playing. Since there spontaneous act of generosity was Tournament. The street filled with sweaters that had been lying around were no referees and only two impressive. shouts and screams of dozens of ball the backroom at Brewer Arena were slow-witted tournament officials, this The Smith family at 30 Bellwood hockey players and fans of all ages, loaned to those who needed them. was accomplished rather easily. brought out pitchers of cold lemonade. size, and skill. There were odd teams with strange Some players took the tournament Everywhere, spectators shared coffee from No less than 10 teams of 10 names. From the far western reaches very seriously, while others treated their Thermoses with friends and even players played rollicking street of Ottawa South came Harvey the whole thing as a lark. The teams with total strangers . Bytown Day Care hockey for two solid, fun-filled hours. Brodkin (dressed as a bumblebee) and who took their play seriously ended showed up with helium balloons which Five separate games were played his Sunnyside Street Nasties, a terror up playing like-minded teams, while nicely decorated the goal nets. simultaneously, back to back along team if there eVer was one. They frivolous formations found their A panel of judges selected the Nasties the block. In addition, there were 80 to joined forces with the redoubtable match. and the Pirates as winning teams on the 90 spectators, many in costume, also Pansy Pirates led by Joe Silverman One eight-year old goalie, Joel basis of “Demonstrated Humor and occasional players, and assorted dogs, dressed as a clown. Cleroux declared himself a free agent, Citizenship”. After all, the clown and the cats and small children. Grove and Ossington found a played for five different teams and bumblebee had come from so far away and The event was the brain-child of common interest and formed their charged each millions of dollars for looked so awfully good, they had to win. long-time Bellwood Avenue resident own team. Willard Street offered the his services - just like in the NHL. They were awarded the Bellwood Cup, Forrest Smith who proclaimed the Vipers, a hard-playing, youthful team, Collecting might be another thing. which looks remarkably like an old coffee event be “A celebration of led by crafty Bob Adamyk. Every single resident on the block cup, but both teams disappeared before community, the passing of winter, the The Bellwood Boomboxers gave Forrest Smith signed permission they could claim the hallowed trophy. beginning of spring or whatever”. It formed and disbanded even before to block off the street for the A great big huge tournament picture didn't matter what as long it as was playing a single game. The Belmont tournament. All cars were moved off was taken of everyone present, including 100% fun. Bullies spread fear and loathing the street without being asked. They various pets and siblings, and even Rules were made up as the play everywhere and may have actually even looked the other way when their somebody's toy wagon, which somehow went along. The original object was to played a game. lawns and flower beds took a found its way into the picture. put a tennis ball into a net. Eventually One game was delayed stomping. Some residents were so Forrest Smith said the tournament was this became secondary to forcing momentarily while the ball was enthusiastic they even offered to such a huge success, he's going to organize reluctant players into the game, removed from the jaws of the donate money. They were turned it again next year, only perhaps a little indulging in frivolity or displaying a Clipperton dog Brodie. Spectators down. later in April, to increase the chances of particularly inventive costume. cheered lustily and kicked the ball The whole thing was organized at good weather again. Some younger players Some teams played with six back into play whenever possible. zero cost. Participants brought nets, said the tournament should become a players, others with 10 and some with Each game lasted 15 minutes. A balls, sticks and fun. It was a day to weekly event. as many as they could press into winning team moved down towards remember. Everywhere people were Forrest can be reached at 730-7692 by service. All players had to be either Belmont to play a new team. A losing talking to or cross-checking neighbors anyone with ideas about next year's residents of Old Ottawa South or team moved up towards Sunnyside to they had never met before. Shortly Second Annual Street Hockey visiting the neighborhood. That play a new team. after the tournament began, Doug Tournament.

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CONTRIBUTIONS OSCAR ALWAYS NEEDED Even though we received many wonderful contributions last month, we Ottawa South Community Association Report always need of articles, stories, poems and photos for the next issue. We 260 Sunnyside Avenue are looking for oldtimers stories, interviews, stories, articles, poems, Ottawa, Ontario sketches and restaurant reviews which would be of interest to residents of Old K1S 0R7 Ottawa South. Bring them to our OSCAR box in the Office at The Old Firehall. Letters to the Editor are always welcome. OSCAR Line: 730-1045. Leave name, number and message. Please support our advertisers. Let them know you saw them in the Editor: Peter Hecht OSCAR. Without them, we wouldn't be publishing. If you know of someone State of the Arts Editor: Gail LaBrosse 233-4596 providing a service in the community, tell them about OSCAR. Our rates are Naturally Green Editor: Judy Las celles 737-6480 reasonable. Business Manager: Marim Moreland 730-3762 Advertising Manager: Richard Turgeon 730-3911 Distribution Manager: Rufina Basu, assisted by Remi 730-2762

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ZONE Al: Mary Jo Lynch (Coordinator), Eric and Brian Lynch, Candace O'Lett, Brian Eames, Kim Barclay, Marvel Sampson, Cybil Grace, Wendy Robbins, Charles Halliburton, Ron Barton, Lindsay SPRING HOURS PHONE 247-4946 Whillans, The Boutin Family, Robin Scobie MONDAY, WEDNESDAY 9:00AM TO 10:00PM ZONE A2:Chloe Hanes (co-ordinator), Robin Scobie TUESDAY, THURSDAY 9:00AM TO 9:00PM ZONE Bl: David Farr (Coordinator), David Farr, Sharon Plumb, Andrea and Cedric Innés, Ross Imrie FRIDAY 9:00AM TO 6:00PM

ZONE B2: Linda Young (Coordinator), Leslie Roster, Patty Leonard, Rick Potter, Karen and Dolf SATURDAY 9:00AM TO 1:30PM Landheer, The Woyiwada Family, Anna and Dan Calvert, The Webber Family, The Young Family SUNDAY CLOSED ZONE Cl: Laura Johnson (Coordinator), The Neale Family, The Harrison Family, The Gilmore Family, The James-Guevremont Family, The Jarmuski Family, The Williams Family

ZONE C2: Kathy Paterson (Coordinator), Alan McCullough, Lily & Peter Hecht, Bill McCauley, Dan Byme, Barbara Copley, The MacGregor-Staple Family

ZONE D: Leonard Gerbrandt (Coordinator), Patti Angus, The Small Family, Jessie Neufeld, Tony Hauser, WHAT’S THATliiNtiMBÈ'R? Andi Gray, Mary Hill, The MacDonalds, Jessica & Colin Drysdale, Mary Ann Keys, Gilbert Jamieson, Martha Robinson, Elenor Quesnel IMPORTANT TELEPHONE NUMBERS ZONE El : Mary Hill (Coordinator), The Hutchinson Family, Chris Ringland, Brooke van Mossel-Forrester The Old Firehall Community Centre 247-4946 OSCA ZONE E2: Rufina Basu (Coordinator), Jesse Rading, The Tillman Family, Eleanor Berry, Mary-Ann Kent, new 247-4872 Glen Elder & Lorraine Stewart, Julie Vergara, The Fraser Family, Mary Hill Ottawa South Public Library 598-4017 CUSA (Carleton U Students Association) 788-6688 ZONE FI : Carol O'Connor (Coordinator), Karen Fee & Family, The Bol Family, The Tubman Family, The Dalziel Family, The Chandler Family, John & Lee Zamparo, The Bennet Family Regional Government - 24 hr line 560-1335 Brian McGarry, Regional Councillor 560-1224 ZONE F2: Janet L Jancar (Coordinator), Sonya Jancar, The Moir Family, The Stem Family, The Liston Lynn Graham, OBE Trustee 730-3366 Family, The von Baeyer Family, Jeff Dubrule, Marie Dubrule, Paul Jancar New City Hall Numbers ZONE G: Angela Graves (Coordinator), Chris Kinsley, The Cihlar Family, The Blakeman Family, The Jim Watson, City Councillor 244-5367 Graves Family, The Grier Family, Julie de Bellefeuille, Tom Kurys Ottawa City Hall Main Number 244-5300 Toronto & Bullock: The Rowleys 24 hour Operations (snow, trees, etc.) 244-5444 Property Standards 244-5400 Bank Street-Ottawa South: Tom Lawson, The Cook Family Bank Street-Glebe: Rufina Basu Info Centre 244-5464 Carleton University: Jim Watson 1 Recreation & Culture 244-5678 •-* ' OSCAR islooldng for new deliverers: See the Classy Ads MAY 1995 ♦ THE OSCAR ♦ PAGE 3 PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE BY SUSAN LEAH MEMBERSHIP DRIVE on your offers and thank you very much. Some of you joined the Board, OOK OUT! OSCA Board L and are now even more involved. members are knocking on your Thank you very much too. door this month as part of the Midland Walwyn sees protecting and developing Community Association's Annual TRAFFIC STUDY your wealth as a full time job. I believe every Membership Drive. Last year, the Number One concern client deserves an investment program tailored By now, you should have received in the community was about traffic - our flyer telling you about all the speed, volume and parking. to his or her own unique needs. This is why I things that OSCA does, why it's As many of you know, OSCA has recommend the following investments: important for every family in Old been working with a group of consultants and many residents on a • Government Guaranteed Stripped Ottawa South to be a member of the association, how your $ 10 membership traffic study, funded by the City, to Coupons fee is used and so on. find solutions. Not an easy task, as we • GICs This year, we have also included a have found; one that gets many people • Conservative Mutual Funds coupon for you to use if it's more very hot under the collar, as you may have witnessed, if you took part in the • Retirement Savings Bonds™ convenient to drop in at the Firehall, or if we miss you at the door. If you latest of the four public meetings that I'll help you find appropriate growth vehicles, haven't yet received your flyer, please took place over the fall and winter. track down the best interest rates, and assist call Deidre at the Old Firehall, OSCA Vice-President Greg Wright 247-4872 or pick up one at the has a full report elsewhere in this issue. you with sheltering your severance when the community centre if you're passing. However, I want to stress that the time comes. WE WANT TO HEAR FROM consultants are working on OUR At Midland Walwyn, we know it takes You! behalf all Old Ottawa South residents, not just the OSCA Board. Their patience and foresight to optimally manage your Board members are also asking about any concerns you may have that recommendations are based on the wealth. OSCA could help with. We'd also like input they received from residents at TIMOTHY LAING, to hear what you are happy with - the public meetings and public focus FINANCIAL ADVISOR about the community and about groups. 239-1668 OSCA. We will be asking if you'd like Please get involved if you have MIDLAND WALWYN CAPITAL INC. to become involved with OSCA - we concerns. This traffic study report will 50 O'CONNOR STREET, SUITE 205 are looking for new Board members in make recommendations for ALL of OTTAWA, ON K1P6L2 the fall, particularly people who are Old Ottawa South, not just Bank Street interested in tackling planning and and Brewer Park. jg§. MIDLAND development issues. CANTEEN IN THE PARK We would like to put together a At OSCA's annual June barbeque, HI f WALWYN group (not necessarily of Board BLUE CHIP THINKING™ parents often ask why we don't "do this members) to work with the Bank Street more often", given their tight schedules ™ BLUE CHIP THINKING is a trademark of Midland Walwyn Capital Inc. ™ REGISTERED Trademark of Midland Walwyn Capital Inc. merchants on a "vision" for Bank to get home from work and hurry to Street in Old Ottawa South. As Peter Brewer with their children for summer Hecht wrote in his page 1 article in last soccer and other sports. month's issue of OSCAR, Bank Street So we’ve taken them at their word. is our Main Street. So, what sort of This month, look for the pilot version MOTHER NATURE NEEDS enterprises would we like to see there? of "OSCA in the Park" in the form of a What would we like it to look like? Do mobile canteen serving hot dogs, OUR HELP we want more trees, more seating, drinks and popsicles, just off the path ornamental lighting, sidewalks, flower BY SANDY GARLAND by the trees at the comer near the car boxes, community noticeboards, etc. park and the baseball diamond. he trees that were planted over most of our grant money on boulders T We always need people to help with OSCA Board members Mike Lynch the last few years at Brewer to restrict access and protect the whole our special events - the September and John Bond have put in many long Pond are getting buried in area? Or should we use it for trees, Porch Sale (yes, it'll be on again this grass and weeds. Maintenance is plants, soil, etc., and hope that the hours getting this up and running. year, probably the first Saturday after Please give us your support! urgently required. On Saturday, 27 yahoos notice our efforts and refrain Labour Day, so hoard those treasures if from driving their 4-wheelers all over CAFE AT THE FIREHALL May, at 2 pm, bring a trowel, gloves, you can) needs help to do publicity, Unfortunately, Suzanne Reinthaler and mulch (if you have any) down to the place? collect money, etc. We also need help has not been able to open the cafe this the Pond and help us give the trees Should we stop people from with the July garden tour, with the June bringing fishing boats and canoes spring as planned, due to ill-health. some breathing room. It won't take summer concerts, with the membership long and you'll get a chance to see the down to the river? Or do we work Watch for her September Grand drive right now, in fact! new tamarack and hackberry trees that around the row of cars that sometimes Opening! A speedy recovery, Suzanne. Last year, many of you volunteered the City has given us and talk to other lines the riverbank? The consensus at an hour here and there. We took you up people involved in the project. the last meeting was that boaters What project? The naturalization should be able to use the river, but project being undertaken by ECOS they should have some respect for the (OSCA's Environment Committee) and environment. the City. What is naturalization? We have been getting excellent Trying to restore the environment that advice from many of the professional we destroyed by trying to build a people involved in the project, from swimming pool in a river that floods City operations staff, and, recently, every year (if you mess with Mother from the people working on the Nature, it will take a long time to fix Fletcher Wildlife Garden. While we are things). trying to come up with a plan - a vision The project is proceeding slowly. of what the area will look like in 20 or Small groups of interested residents are 30 years - we've decided to start with meeting frequently, but we still aren't what's already there. That's why we sure who is doing what and in what need your help on May 27. See you order. For example, ^should we spend there. MAY 1995 ♦ THE OSCAR ♦ PAGE 4

OSCA CAMPQUEST: "One Step Beyond" Pottery Plus Camp (Ages 5- 12) (Ages 8-14) Summer Camps July 4 - September 1 (9 weeks) July 4-14(2 weeks) Time: 9:00 am - 4:00 pm Time: 9:00 am - 4:00 pm 1995 Cost: $90.00 per week / $72.00 short week Cost: $190.00 (2 weeks) Early Registration Bonus: $125.00 - half day option Register before June 15 and pay Activities include: Hand building instruction, wheel $80.00 per wreek / $64.00 short week throwing techniques, expression, glazing and firing $10.00 off for third child (or more). PLUS afternoons and out trips with CAMPQUEST. $8.00 off third child (or more) short week This camp is 2 weeks in order to fully explore all stages Daily Registration: $25.00 out trips of pottery from design to glazing and to improve and $20.00 regular day. develop skills. Maximum 10 participants. Activities include: Sports, games, arts and crafts, swimming, scavenger hunts, special events and much more. Urban Art Camp (Ages 9-12) Week One - July 17-21 Specialty Camps Week Two - July 24 - 28 Time: 9:00 am - 4:00 pm Preschool Camp: Cost: $85.00 per week Kim Barclay will help campers discover the natural "Everything But the Kitchen Sink" world around Old Ottawa South through painting, (Ages 3 - 5) sculpture, visiting artists and much more. Our days will Week One - July 17 - July 21 include games, swimming and lots of art. Campers are Ottawa South Community Centre Week Two - July 31 - August 4 required to bring a bicycle, helmet and lock for daily Hopewell Public School trips. Cycling ability a must. Maximum 12 260 Sunnyside Ave., Ottawa, Ontario Time: 9:00 am -1:00 pm participants K1S 0R7 Cost: $55.00 per week Activities include: Arts and crafts, stories, games, messy play, water play and much more. Takes place in Pre - Care and After Carp 247-4946 the Kindergarten Room at Hopewell Public School. Supervised Pre - Care and After Care are available to Maximum 10 participants. assist parents to work the camp schedule into their Registration at the business day. Pre - Care, 8:00 am - 9:00 am, is provided Ottawa South Community Centre Tennis Camp free of charge to those registered in CAMPQUEST: "One Step Beyond", Pottery Plus, Urban Art and Starts Monday, May 1, 1995 (Ages 7-12) 9:00 am - 9:00 pm Tennis Camp. After Care, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm, is Week One - July 24 - July 28 provided for those registered in CAMPQUEST: "One Registration after May 1, to be done during Week Two - August 7 - August 11 Step Beyond", Pottery Plus, Urban Art and Tennis regular centre hours: Week Three - August 14 - August 18 Camp for a fee: Monday to Thursday - 9:00 am - 9:00 pm Time: 9:00 am - 4:00 pm $25.00 per week Cost: $95.00 per week Friday - 9:00 am - 6:00 pm $20.00 short week Saturday - 9:00 am - 1:00 pm $70.00 half day option. $8.00 single day Please note that those registering before Thursday, June Activities include: 3 hours of Tennis Instruction at 15, 1995, for CAMPQUEST: "One Step Beyond", are Windsor park. One out trip with CAMPQUEST, eligible for the EARLY REGISTRATION BONUS. swimming, games and specialized Tennis excursions. SSïOttawa O* ft»q»oWof» I See details under CAMPQUEST. Small Group Format - 8 participant limit. IbMUdHOOAn

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START between 9;30am & 12 noon for a lkm, 5km or 10km walk/run along the Canal. WITHDRAWAL, PARANOIA MEET our special VIP guests. AND A COMPLETE LOSS ENJOY our musical entertainment and refreshments until 2pm OF SELF'ESTEEM. ENTER the Best Sunhat Contest WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT. WIN one of our fabulous draw prizes. GRAND PRIZE DRAW - Clebrate at a weekend for two in Toronto compliments of Air Ontario, The Royal York Hotel (including SCHIZOPHRENIA High Tea) and the Movenpicks Restaurant. IF YOU THINK SPELLING IT’S HARD, IMAGINE LIVING WITH IT. COME AND “CELEBRATE LIFE” For information, registration or sponsor sheets call 736-5921 Schizophrenia r Society of Canada Breast Survivors Walk/Fun Run - 22 May 1995 - Registration Form Société canadienne Cancerftcfion de schizophrénie Name(s) Liability release FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE CALL: I hereby release and waive all rights and claims for 1-'8OO'8OQ'HOPE Address .. J Mi damages I may have against Breast Cancer Action, the Rideau Centre, The Canadian Tulip Festival, the Regional Municipality of City Province Ottawa-Carleton, the National Capital Commission, and the sponsors for any or all injuries suffered by me in this event. I Postal Code Telephone attest and verify that I am physically fit and sufficiently trained for the completion of the Walk/Fun Run...... : $15.00 Single $30.00 Family (Incl. one T-shirt) (Incl. two T-shirts) Signature (parent or guardian if you are under 18 years of age)

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CITY COUNCILLORS COUNCILLOR’S OSCAR SURVEY -1995 If you were Councillor, how would you vote? Fill out the survey below and send it to Councillor Jim Watson, 111 Sussex Drive, Ottawa, K1N 5A1 or fax it to COLUMN 244-5651. Thank you for your time! 1. A major problem residents face is parking, particularly during events at BY JIM WATSON, CITY COUNCILLOR, CAPITAL WARD Lansdowne Park. Some residents charge visitors to park on their front lawns. LEAF AND YARD Given the City’s financial position, we Do you support the City enforcing a ban on front yard parking? WASTE COLLECTION simply can no longer be all things to all Yes No people. Comments? Although it is Harambee does good work, but I best to leave think it irresponsible of the group to grass clippings buy and renovate a building (over on your lawn, 2. This past winter, the City did a pilot project to determine winter road $400,000) with mostly tax dollars, leaf and yard maintenance standards to make cycling safe and effective winter increasing their operating overhead 20 transportation. Do you support increased winter road maintenance to make waste is times from $5,000 to $100,000 per collected every cycling safe and effective transportation during the winter? year. Not a wise investment. Yes No second week Comments? dining the SKATEBOARD PARK summer, on The Skateboard Park should open Blue Box collection day. May 26 in the blue and white Curl-O- Waste will not be picked up in Drome at the back of Lansdowne Park. 3. Recently, the Great Canadian Theatre Company asked the City for almost plastic garbage bags. It must be put in It will operate Friday, Saturday and $500,000 capital funds and an additional $55,000 operating funds on top of reusable garbage containers or boxes Sunday in May and June and five days $85,000 they already receive from the City, to relocate from Gladstone or in leaf and yard waste paper bags. a week in July until August 5. Avenue to the Elgin Street theatre. Would you support GCTC's request? For information, call the City's 24 hour Cost is just $ 1 a visit and there are Yes No Comments? customer service line at 244-5444. video games, snack bar and great GREAT GLEBE GARAGE music. Tell your kids and watch for posters for hours of operation. It's a SALE great place to hang out and I hope it 4. The government has expanded its photo radar program. We expect to have Why not join our neighbours on the will be as successful as it was last year. photo radar in the near future. Do you support photo radar on regional roads other side of the Canal, May 27 for the (eg. Carling Avenue, Bronson Avenue, Main Street)? 10th annual Great Glebe Garage Sale. PERLEY HOSPITAL Yes No This is a great opportunity to get to The rezoning application for the Comments? know Glebe residents and find some Perley went to Planning and Economic great deals. Development Committee May 9. It will now go to City Council. This is the BILLIARD HALL first step in rezoning. An amendment 5. The City has undertaken a debt management strategy to deal with ever- Thanks to all who attended the day to the Regional Official Plan is increasing debt. We are scheduled to be deficit-free by 2004 and debt-free by 2014. To do this, projects have been deferred. Should this process be long April 3 Liquor Licence Board required. speeded-up? hearing for 1179B Bank. I made a Staff accepted community concerns presentation with my objections. I don't Yes No that “stacked townhouses” or Comments? believe it’s wise to have a licenced apartments are not compatible and will establishment so close to a residential not be considered in the rezoning. area, as well as the 7-11. Singles, semis and rowhouses in We should learn the outcome soon. character with the rest of the 6. Community centre space in Ottawa South has been a topic of discussion for I’ll keep you posted. Thanks to OSCA neighbourhood will be permitted. several months. Some suggest renovating the existing Centre (The Old reps and everyone who put so much Thanks to Donna Walsh for her hard Firehall). Others suggest merging it with Hopewell Public School as part of upcoming Hopewell renovations. Another suggestion is to have a community effort into their preparation and work on this issue. presentation, and to OBE Trustee Lynn centre at Brewer Park connecting the pool and training centre. What do you think? Graham for support. MINOR HARD SERVICES If you notice a small item needing Keep and renovate the existing community centre BELLWOOD AVENUE attention like a cracked sidewalk or a Merge the community centre with Hopewell School Have a community centre near the swimming pool at Brewer Park STREET HOCKEY broken park bench, I might be able to Comments? Congratulations to Forrest Smith help. The City has a minor hard and Richard Cleroux for a very services program for small repairs. In successful First Annual Street Hockey past years we used this program to Tournament on Bellwood. I attended repair broken sidewalks and other 7. Presently, although people place "no junk mail" stickers on their mailboxes, and was very impressed with the piinor road work. Please write me there is no legal requirement to comply. Would you support a city by-law to turnout and enthusiasm of participants, detailing the problem and I'll do my allow residents to place stickers on their mailboxes and have this enforced? best to see if we can help out. Yes No HARAMBEE Comments? Recently, Harambee, an African QUESTIONNAIRE Canadian groqp, approached City Please fill out my annual Ottawa Council for $78,000 towards purchase South questionnaire and send it to me 8. Pesticide use damages our environment and rivers, as well as pur health. and renovation of their new building on (address below). Results will be Bayswater. While the Community Would you support banning use of pesticides and herbicides on private published in a future OSCAR. property? Services and Operations Committee, CAN HELP? Yes No_ which I chair, voted against giving this I Jim Watson Comments? grant, I wasn’t able to convince my council colleagues to vote against 111 Sussex Drive giving any grant to the group. Ottawa, Ontario, KIN 5A1 Part of the grant was to establish a Tel: 244-5367 Your Name: Fax: 244-5651 bakery and I can’t support using Address: E-mail: [email protected] taxpayers subsidizing business in Postal Code: Phone Number: Thank you for your participation. To save costs, I will not respond individually, but competition with the private sector. will publish results in a future OSCAR. Contact me at 244-5367 if you would like more information on a specific topic. JJse common sense to prevent backache If you feel generally achy or fatigued at any time, stop what you are doing, rest for a while, reassess your activity and resume activity at a lower level. For prolonged or increased May is Membership month. Get disçomfort, seek professional help. involved with Old Ottawa South. A helpful hint from the .'14MK*. Canadian (Association Physiotherapy canadienne de Join OSCA. Association physiothérapie NC THE XXIII OLYMPIAD Los ANGELES 1984 It is twelve days In a row I don’t have a glimpse of you I yearn; my heart pangs Where to go? Every mom you smiled Your glory awakened In me and many Energy to create, cultivate An to expand horizons As you do. Surrounded by poverty In what the West finds glory You shed your blessings Upon all alike. The roses in bloom The birds twittering Dew drops reflecting What you fill in all. But here I sit reclining today Purity lies scattered Immaculate soft carpet of fleecy grains of snow. The Rideau River flowing from Carleton University side in the west Towards your abode. O’ hiding sun thrones not a Shiva in yoga pose On the moulds of floating snow. The ducks are quacking To the few pieces of bread I scattered on the water as a ritual. All are floating by on the quivering waves. They live on a wealthy soil. Bread crumbs attract them no more. Silence! 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SKATEBOARD PARK IS BACK! BY RITA ASSABGUI The Skateboard Park, which was which was scheduled for the Fall of a tremendous success last year, 1994, until the Fall of 1995. Councillor will again be in operation this Watson worked with City staff and year. Councillor Jim Watson initiated Claude Regnier through the winter to the skateboard facility last summer in ensure the facility would be up and an attempt to resolve tension between running this year. teenagers hanging out around the 7-11 "Our neighbourhood teens really on Bank Street in Ottawa South, the appreciated having their own space, a Glebe and area residents. place where they could hang out with Councillor Watson met with area their friends and enjoy their sport," teens to find a solution to the problem. Councillor Watson explained, "and the He decided to try to provide space for facility was such a tremendous success teens to skateboard at Lansdowne last year that it only made sense to set Park, and together with City staff and it up again." Claude Regnier, a world champion The facility is scheduled to open skateboarder, he set up SK8 CITY in May 26. It will operate Fridays, the Curl-O-Drome building at Saturdays and Sundays during May Lansdowne Park. and June, and five days a week in July. The Skateboard Park featured It will be in operation until August 5 ramps, a skate shop, a canteen, music when the building reverts back to the and video games, and was an instant Central Canada Exhibition. The facility success, averaging 100 people per day. is open to skateboards, BMX bikes, Thanks to its success, Councillor and rollerblades, and will again have a Watson set out to ensure that the teens video arcade and snack bar. would have a skateboard facility again Cost is just $1 to use the ramps and in 1995. He managed to convince his skateboard, and free to hang out in the Council colleagues to defer the building. demolition of the Curl-O-Drome,

TD Congratulates SUMMER’S COMING Mr. Mark Smith BY CEE ROBERTS Seed packets have appeared in the displays at local grocery stores, a sure sign that summer and its bounty are close at hand. As a child growing up in an urban environment, the only gardeners seemed to be first generation Canadians: Lebanese, Italian, Portuguese. Scarlet, fragrant tomatoes and sky-high bean plants filled the backyard plots. These were oases of vegetation away from the concrete streets. My uncle bought a home in the suburbs where he successfully turned his southern exposure into a cornucopia. We would escape the breathless heat of the city for a holiday with our cousins. I remember scavenging peppery radishes a nd carrots popped dirt-covered from the earth. We would eat on the fly on our bicycles. In the summer, our feet never touched the ground. Aunt Rita believed that one should eat everything on the plate, like it or not. Mushrooms. Onions. Zucchini. Brussel sprouts. Meal after meal, my face fell as all of these made their way from garden to table. “What’s in this?” “Try it!” Mr. Ken Brown, Manager at TD's Bank and Glen I especially despised peas and would swallow them like bitter pills. One pea. One sip of milk. One Branch, congratulates Mr. Mark Smith pea. One sip of milk. I recall the horror of the a TD client who is the winner of the TD RSP Double Your begging dog with the delicate palate, spitting incriminating green pepper lumps around my Interest Contest. The winning ballot was randomly drawn by chair.... Mrs. Fatima DaSilva Years later, heavy-hearted with homesickness, I wrote to my aunt from Tokyo. “Take me back to on April 4, 1995. TD Bank would like to thank all of your kitchen where I can recognize the food I'm its customers who participated in this exciting eating!” After a meal involving clear, gelatinous RSP Contest. tofu, seaweed and the consumption of a raw clam (One clam. One sip of sake.), I bit into a broccoli floret. A new passion was discovered on that trip. Some days I feel a bond with that aunt as I slip TD grated zucchini into the chicken teriyaki. BANK “What's in this?” asks my meat-and-potatoes-hold-the-vegg-thanks partner.; Ybur Bank. Ybur Way.* • Trade Mailt of TD Bank. “Try it,” I reply. “It's delicious.” i. MAY 1995 4- THE OSCAR ♦ PAGE 8

OTTAWA SOUTH LIBRARYNEWS

THE TOP TEN CHILDREN’S The following are the top-ten requested titles at the Ottawa Public Library: books that the system owns, or that are on order may be reserved PROGRAMS either in person or by phone (please have your library card handy). Babes in the library Music rhymes, books for 1. Rainmaker John Grisham (on order) babies birth -18 months. Wed 9.30am, to June 2. On the Take Stevie Cameron 7. Pre-registration. 3. The Celestine Prophecy James Redfield Bebes a la biblio Musique, comptines, livres 4. The Body Farm Patricia Cornwell pour les bebes, la naissance -18 mois. Mardis 5. Original Sin P.D. James a 9h40, to 30 mai. Inscription. 6. Our Game John LeCarre Time for twos Stories and films for two-year 7. Simisola Ruth Rendell olds. Mon 9.30am, to June 5. Pre-registration. 8. Debt of Honor Tom Clancy Storytime for 3 to 5 year olds Mon 10.30 am 9. The Shipping News Annie Proulx and Wed 10.30am and 2.15pm. 10. The Chamber John Grisham Saturday Stories & Films for 3 - 6 years at 10:30am. Please note - no Saturday Stories & BOOKLIST Films during July and August Looking for some new authors to try? Here is a clip’n’save list of contemporary Canadian authors writing in English, courtesy of the Main Library, Adult Department. Margaret Atwood, Joan Barfoot, Constance Beresford-Howe, Neil CONTRIBUTIONS Bissoondath, Morley Callaghan, Robertson Davies, Marian Engel, Timothy Findlay, Mavis Gallant, Michael Ignatieff, W.P. Kinsella, NEEDED! Stephen Leacock, Hugh MacLennan, W.O. Mitchell, Farley Mowat, Alice OSCAR needs your articles, photos, poems Munro, Michael Ondaatje, Nino Ricci, Mordecai Richler, Jane Rule, Carol and stories, each and every month. This is your Shields, Audrey Thomas, Jane Urquhart, M.G. Vassanji, Rudy Wiebe paper; without you, we cannot succeed.

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One over-represented in crashes with option in some cases will be ' limited collision rates similar to young male licensing' where driving after sunset or % drivers. on freeways may be restricted. 10 Another unfortunate statistic is that Since a new system is still in although seniors spend less time research and planning stages, the OFF driving than other groups studied, they present system remains in effect for Screen Doors still have a higher rate of collision. now. We look forward, however, to a until May 31st, 1995 Studies indicate that everyone ages more individualized method of testing. differently and the blanket testing Arlene Jag is co-owner of JAG currently used doesn't work. Research Driver Training and can be reached also shows most seniors are at 860-5241. re-trainable and need a more individualized testing program. All Ontario drivers are tested annually beginning at age 80. This includes a written test, a vision test and 1995 Ltd. a driving test. Many senior drivers Manufacturers of already restrict themselves as far as Wood Doors & Custom Mouldings avoiding night-driving, freeway driving or driving in adverse weather conditions. Driving tests can be a Showroom Hours source of stress for the senior driver. 728-2460 Their fear of failing is so great that Monday - Friday 8am to 5pm 1501 Carling Ave., some seniors even decide to stop Saturday 9am to 1pm Ottawa, Ontario driving at age 80 rather than take the driving test. Since driving is a source of both pleasure and independence for many people, research has shown that some people who stop driving MANE LINE experience a decrease in both their BY CHRISTA BERNIER physical and mental well-being. LYNN GRAHAM Keeping seniors driving longer helps NATURAL HAIR COLOR FOR SPRING them to retain a positive self-image, The OBE offers three On Sunday April 23,1 had the the new styles coming out this spring reduces stress and may ultimately opportunity to attend the Hair and summer. reduce costs to the health-care system. summer camps for Color Connection seminars in This season, foil is the buzzword Data collected from pilot projects in children: MacSkimming Toronto. It was a great day hearing for dimensional tone on tone color. Sudbury, Kingston and Toronto in fall Nature Camps, Space about trends and techniques from We’ll see lots of coppery and darker ‘94 is now being analyzed by the Camp and Summer Arts representatives of leading hair care reds and golds, even blonde. Using the Ministry of Transportation. The new companies like Joico, Wella, Goldwell tone on tone technique all these looks procedure for testing people aged 80 Camp. For information, and Clairol. Now I can bring this up to are achieved with foil. and over would involve a written test contact Continuing the minute hair news to you. An exciting new product entering and vision test, but instead of a Education at 662 Lyon St. Coloring has changed this year. We salons will help keep your hair color mandatory driving test, seniors would South or call 239-2751 are going to see a more natural look vibrant. It is a mixture of color and fill out a lengthy questionnaire. The with two or three dimensional color. A shampoo specific to the color in your questionnaire is a diagnostic tool to hair. It comes in nine different colors natural head of hair has lighter and determine the senior's perception of Ottawa Board of darker areas, so we will be using color which are mixed by your stylist for a risk and also identify specific problem totally personal formulation for you to to accent both facial features and the areas. Education Trustee style itself by either coloring hair use at home. Don’t be afraid to ask for Responses will determine the next lighter around the face and darker at a free consultation. Zone 9 step in the assessment process. It may the nape or lighter at the ends. This Christa Bernier can be reached at be suggested that they take a one-hour techniqe will work especially well with The Cut Above. 730-3366 seminar with other seniors to learn about some common problems and Paid for from the Trustee's Personal Communications Budget Workplace Health and Safety Agency concerns related specifically to them. Volunteering can make a difference ... in your life 1 -800-268-2378 and in someone else's. Phone the Central Volunteer Working Together for Health and Safety. Bureau 232-4876 to find out how you can get involved. MAY 1995 ♦ THE OSCAR 4 PAGE 10

PROBLEMS WITH WILDLIFE? DES PROBLEMES AVEC LA NATURE? At this time of year, the City of Ottawa receives many À ce temps-ci de l'année, la Ville d'Ottawa reçoit des calls from residents who have discovered that they appels de nombreux résidants qui se plaignent de have acquired new tenants such as squirrels, l'arrivée de nouveaux locataires, tels écureuils, ratons raccoons, woodchucks, skunks and other small wild laveurs, marmottes et autres petits animaux sauvages, animals, many of which may be involved in breeding activities. dont plusieurs sont en pleine période de reproduction.

Naturally, citizens are concerned and would like to know how to resolve such Il va de soi que les résidants préoccupés aimeraient trouver des solutions à leur situations. It is recommended that BEFORE taking any action to remove problème. On recommande qu'AVANT de prendre des mesures pour se the animal, you call the Ottawa-Carleton Wildlife Centre Hotline débarrasser de l'animal, le résidant communique avec la ligne directe Sen/ice at 726-6965 for free advice on ways to solve the problem du Centre de la faune d'Ottawa-Carleton au 726-6965 pour obtenir and prevent its recurrence in the future. The wrong action, during des conseils gratuits sur la façon de résoudre le problème et de the birthing season in particular, can create more serious prévenir sa récurrence. Des mesures mal à propos, en particulier problems for homeowners. So call before you act. durant la saison de reproduction, peuvent accroître les maux de tête des propriétaires. Alors n'hésitez pas, téléphonez avant d'agir. Licensing, Transportation and Parking Branch 244-5600 Direction des permis, du transports et du stationnement, 244-5600

Spring Cleaning the Le Grand ménage de la capitale Capital May 1-7, 1995 du 1er au 7 mai 1995 Start a clean up project. Lancez un projet de nettoyage. Help make Ottawa clean and green! Contribuez à rendre Ottawa propre et verte! • Clean up your own property. • Nettoyez votre propriété. • Clean up the area surrounding your home or business • Nettoyez les environs de votre maison ou de votre commerce. • Organize a group project. • Organisez un projet de groupe. We can help! Get your clean up kit at any City of Ottawa Nous pouvons vous aider! Procurez-vous une trousse de nettoyage à un centre communautaire ou une bibliothèque community centre or library. Check your Ottawa Clean, d'Ottawa. Consultez votre bulletin Ottawa Propre, verte et Green & Proud newsletter for more campaign details. fière de l'être pour plus de détails sur la campagne. Get involved - Ottawa is worth the effort! Mettez-y du vôtre - Ottawa en vaut la peine! Information: 244-5444 Renseignements : 244-5444 Spring Cleaning the Capital is a Civic Pride Program Le Grand ménage de la capitale est un programme de fiejrté which aims to reduce litter in the City of Ottawa. civique qui vise àréduire le volume des déchets sur le territoire de la ville d’Ottawa.

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Mayor Jacquelin Holzman 244-5380 Maire Jacquelin Holzman OT1 Ron Kolbus. 244-5351 OT1 Ron Kolbus Mais ne vous inquiétez pas - But don't worry -- you'll still OT2 Brian Mackey 244-5353 OT2 Brian Mackey vous pourrez toujours compter be able to talk to our OT3 Diane Deans...... 244-5355 OT3 Diane Deans sur ramàbilité de notre friendly staff to ask about OT4 Richard Cannings...... 244-5357 OT4 Richard Cannings personnel pour vous your taxes, get information OT5 Stéphane Émard-Chabot. 244-5359 OT5 Stéphane Émard-Chabot renseigner sur vos taxes, ou on our recreation programs OT6 Elisabeth Arnold 244-5361 OT6 Elisabeth Arnold sur les programmes récréatifs OT7 or get help on our 24 hour Joan Wong..... 244-5363 OT7 Joan Wong et obtenir de l'aide à la ligne OT8 Karin Howard...... r customer service and 244-5365 OT8 Karin Howard 24 h du service à la clientèle OT9 Jim Watson 244-5367 OT9 Jim Watson maintenance line. And, the et de l'entretien. De plus, le OT10 Allan Higdon 244-5369 OT10 Allan Higdon new phone system will nouveau système de save money and make our téléphone permettra de réaliser des économies et staff more efficient. For anyone Pour les autres d'accroître l'efficacité du else at City Services à personnel. Hall, call l'hôtel de ville, It’s part of our plan our main composez le number: numéro principal : Toujours dans le but to serve you better 244-5300. 244-5300. de mieux vous servir k. MAY 1995 ♦ THE OSCAR ♦ PÂGE 11 TRAFFIC AND PARKING UPDATE SUE RAVEN PHYSIOTHERAPY CLINIC 194 Main Street, Suite 205 BY GREG WRIGHT Ottawa. Judging from attendance at the this study up to this point had been April 20th traffic meeting, - billed quite limited. Many of the (Above Nelson Drugs) as the “fourth and final public interventions from this group were Phone: 567-4808 meeting”-the key to achieving a quite helpful in that the information SUE RAVEN Bsc PT,MCPA successful turnout seems to be the conveyed had not previously been 23 years Clinical Experience prospect of “finality”. (To those who brought to the table. believe one should “Never say never”, Have we achieved consensus? On perhaps one should add “Never say the “final” plan-no; on the next steps- final” to one's lexicon.) It seems the yes. Regarding the plan itself, it is mere mention of the word caused a disappointing to admit that our community to accept such a public meeting in September to record turnout-over 200-to this suspicions upon starting this project seemingly “foreign” approach, to explore these draft presentation of the “final draft” traffic have been confirmed. We are now some degree on faith, seems a tall recommendations. It is somewhat and parking plan, assembled by the convinced that a complete community order. ironic that the level of fiscal restraint consultant team under direction from consensus on any plan is an Notwithstanding the many at City Hall is such that proposals of the Steering Committee and the City of unachievable ideal. Many residents are strongly held and frequently only very modest proportions are Ottawa. unsupportive because they feel the plan diverging views on the Old Ottawa likely to gain favour, at least in the Each of three preceding public does not go far enough to address their South traffic situation, there do seem short term. meetings, held in September, own pressing issues. Others who are to be a number of specific points on I would like to conclude on a November and February, had its own very satisfied with the status quo do which there is considerable somewhat unrelated note. My character and value. The February not support the plan lest their current agreement within the community. experiences with these public meeting served as an excellent forum favourable situation be adversely These, combined with the additional meetings has left me truly impressed for neighbours on Riverdale and affected by spill-over effects. input received at the April meeting, with the number of capable, Sunnyside to convey legitimate Many more are clearly and the dozens of comment sheets articulate, community-oriented, concerns about volume and speed of uncomfortable with various left after that meeting, provide yet energetic neighbours we have in Old traffic along their streets and their components of the traffic calming another opportunity to craft Ottawa South and, from my vantage overall sentiment the plan presented at toolkit-traffic circles, road narrowings, solutions. point on the OSCA Board, I can't that meeting did not go far enough to alternating parking zones, etc. On this The existing contract with help but wish that a few of you could address these needs. last point, the unfortunate reality is that transportation engineering find the time to sit on the Board. The more recent April meeting, on our region' is just now beginning to consultants, McCormick Rankin will If you're interested in discussing the other hand, elicited good seriously pursue traffic calming be completed shortly. At that point this possibility, please feel free to participation from all parts of our measures and there are simply no local City of Ottawa engineering staff will contact me (730-3040) or Susan community, with particularly vibrant success stories to illustrate vividly the begin to prepare a report for eventual Leah, OSCA President (730-5347). representation from the area east of potential value of these measures, consideration by Council. Councillor The whole community could benefit Riverdale, whose collective input into when used properly. To ask our Watson has undertaken to organize a from your participation in this. UNIVERSITY PAINTERS RECIPIENT OF THE MINISTERS AWARD . FOR OUTSTANDING A CHIEVEMENT

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MAY 1995 ♦ THE OSCAR ♦ PAGE 13 OSCAR BOOKSHELF Randall’s Paints Ltd, REVIEWED BY BILL TWATIO THE BIRD ARTIST By Howard Norman Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 289 pages, $29.95 For over 20 years, Howard original and haunting story. Norman of the University of Kiss IN THE HOTEL JOSEPH Maryland has travelled across CONRAD was a collection of short northern Canada collecting and stories, the settings ranging from the translating folk tales of the Cree Canadian North to California. Storm Indians. In 1982, he published a warnings and 3-D movies frame a collection of the stories under the title boy's relationship with his parents in “Where the Chill Comes From”. The “Laughing and Crying”. In “Old stories revolve around the mythological Swimmers”, a reunion of shipwrecked Windigo, a creature Norman describes survivors brings a teen together with in his introduction as “a complex, his mysterious aunt Helen who “drinks voracious, spirit-being, who, they say, from the Ocean”, and in “Jenny Aloo”, has wandered the subarctic forests and an old Inuit woman in a town so icy swamp lands throughout time.” In remote that “each train arrived with a the solitude and severity of a long thousand miles of snow on its roof’ winter, he notes, “a person could be believes that her son is trapped in a said to “go Windigo”, that is, a jukebox. In the title story, a restless Windigo spirit could take over that ex-pilot laments a lost love in a hotel person’s behavior.” The spirit of the room in Halifax papered with pages Windigo informs Norman's fiction as from Conrad's novels. Each story is a well. It is a fiction full of unexpected gem. So too is his new novel, THE turns, nuanced sympathy, and sense of BIRD ARTIST. place, peopled by enchanted loners. The novel was inspired by a chance NORTHERN LIGHTS, his first encounter. While in Newfoundland in novel, was nominated for the National 1978 researching Beothuk Indian lore, Book Award. It is the story of a boy Norman was put up in an abandoned named Noah, raised in a remote village church in a remote outport. The only in northen Manitoba, and his friend decoration in the church was a painting Pelly, who lives in the Cree settlement of an ibis on the north wall above the of Quill. During the summers, Noah pulpit, unsigned but dated 1911. A leaves his eccentric mother, Mina, and very old woman recalled that the artist stays with Pelly's family. The boys had long ago been charged with become inseparable. When Pelly gets a murdering the local lighthouse keeper. mail-order unicycle, Noah becomes his The murder haunted the village for coach, helping him devise a dazzling many years, simply because, young repertory of tricks. children aside, it persisted in memory. It comes as a devastating shock That mysterious Newfoundland when Noah, back home for the winter, artist becomes Fabian as the narrator It is as much tribe as village. The crime by passion. learns that Pelly has drowned while of the novel, a young man who has artist introduces himself in the most The trouble starts when Fabian's performing stunts on the ice of a pond taken a correspondence course from a succinct opening in recent fiction since father leaves on a long hunting for the people of Quill. Pelly's death Halifax magazine illustrator and who Caryl Philips began “Across the expedition and his mother begins sets Noah on a journey of discovery, earns his living by working part-time Rivers”, his story of slavery and its sleeping openly with the lighthouse first in Quill where Pelly's spirit in a boatyard and drawing birds for aftermath with “A desperate keeper, Botho August. His father is lingers, and later in Toronto where mainland publications. The outport foolishness. The crops failed. I sold my shattered when he returns and Mina takes over The Northern Lights, becomes Witless Bay, a community on children.” eventually Fabian's hatred for Botho a run-down movie theater with links to the rocky southern coast near Bay “My name is Fabian Vas. I live in leads to murder. “You've done ho* past. Throughout the story, Noah's Bulls so small and isolated that Witless Bay, Newfoundland. You damage” he tells him as he opens fire father, an itinerant mapper and everyone knows everything - the would not have heard of me. Obscurity with Margaret’s pistol. The novel apprentice hermit, is given to usettling murderer, the victim, their motives and is not necessarily failure, though; I am concerns how the village comes to arrivals and departures. It is a rich, passions. a bird artist, and have more or less terms with these events. It is a morality made a living at it. Yet I murdered the pity, in which character leads to action lighthouse keeper, Botho August, and with tragic inevitability. that is an equal part of how I think of Witless Bay, however, is not TENNIS LESSONS myself.” pervaded with Dostoyevskian gloom. Have you always wanted to learn how to play ? Fabian is twenty years old and Norman’s characters are often having an affair with Margaret Handle, surprisingly funny, graced with the Affordable, professional the smartest, most attractive woman in Newfoundland love of language and instruction town. Margaret, the only daughter of ironic comment. They inhabit the Nightly adult group lessons the widowed skipper of the mailboat domain of the Windigo. Here, in the haunted northern light, the Indian Children’s group lessons “Aunt Ivy Barnacle”, is also a prodigious drinker and very much a stories tell us, there is no cure - but Meet other players free spirit. Nonetheless, their perhaps there is the possibility of relationship has endured since redemption. What Howard Norman childhood and survives the undertakes in THE BIRD ARTIST is Carleton University will host all of these fun determination of Fabian's parents to redemption through art - he succeeds programs on our 5 plexi-pave courts starting May 9 many him to a distant relative he has brilliantly. never met. Despite their various Caliche Physical Recreation Centre at 788-4480 weekdays failings, they are good people driven to :30 am to 4:30 pm to register Ü) Carleton May is Membership month. Help make UNIVERSITY Bank St. The Heart of the Community. FOR THE CORNER! Join OSCA. MAY 1995 ♦ THE OSCAR ♦ PAGE 14

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NEIGHBORHOOD ACTIVISM PRODUCES RESULTS ^ANNUAL UPDATE: CHESLEY/BANK BEAUTIFICATION BY M. LASCELLES

Summer 1994 30+ neighbors agree to approach city for permission to put boxed shrubs on city property bordering sidewalk along Chesley near Bank. Fall 1994 Hydro pole installed. November 1994 Plan modified to work around hydro pole. February 1995 OSCA and Councillor Watson support plan. Early March 1995 OSCA makes formal request to city so that boxed shrubs can be installed in May 1995. Early May 1995 No response from city yet. Current Status See picture below with caption "Chesley near Bank in Spring 1995". THE NIGHTLY NOISE

BY MICHELLE WHERRETT Spring is here and summer is My neighbours, being very almost upon us. One thing resourceful, patriotic and early- that comes with the good rising people, knew where we could weather is noise. Not just the get some answers. They tape constant drone of cars up and down recorded the nightly noise and sent Bank Street, but also nature's it off to the CBO Morning show noises. In particular, the with John Lacharity. Sure enough, grasshopper. Having grown up in they found an expert from McGill Southwestern Ontario farm country, University who could identify the you would think that I would be noise. He told me that it was the used to an evening serenade. mighty Cone-headed grasshopper. However, last summer we had an (Could it be related to Dan Akroyd's over zealous and somewhat cone-headed family?) They are Chesley near Bank in Spring 1995 misplaced singing creature. usually found on the ground or in Let me take you back to the end bushes but are capable of climbing of July 1994. Every evening from trees. To give you an idea of how approximately sundown until loud it was, the professor said some WHAT’S YOUR midnight (the latest I could stay can be heard up to five miles away. ENVIRONMENTAL I.Q. awake), this screechy, chirping No wonder my husband put the cricket-like sound blared from the storm window back on! Our BY M. LASCELLES top of our old oak tree. The tree is grasshopper was a male calling out on the edge of our property, so all for a mate—a long-distance People can have a major The following True or False my neighbours could also enjoy this relationship, of course. Eventually, impact on the environment. questions are based on articles in annoying melody. There was much with the onset of the cold autumn Over the past twenty five years, this journal. Those of you who get speculation about the source. We air, his calls came to an end. some of the more interesting aspects more than ten right need remedial had a wide range of theories. Some So you can imagine our of human attitudes and behaviour math help. See answers printed said it was an owl, or bat, or trepidation about the upcoming toward the environment have been upside down below. something wrong with the hydro warm weather. Perhaps I will have reported in the journal Environment pole, or a signaling device from to put some sort of grasshopper and Behaviour. outer space. We did think of reflector at the base of our tree to grasshoppers and crickets but catch these wandering minstrels. I 1. Teenagers who care more about the environment do better in science and quickly dismissed the idea because am wishing for a quiet summer, and come from families with higher incomes. they don't climb trees (or do they?). I hope this never happens to you. 2. Anti-littering campaigns can shame people into littering less. So, between the mystery noise and But if it does, stock up on ear plugs all the human chatter right outside and wait for the cold weather. 3. Adults who are very concerned about law, order and taxes are also very our bedroom window, something concerned about the environment. had to be done. 4. People that recycle are richer and better educated than those who don't.

5. Convenience stores with gas bars and large parking lots are less likely to be robbed.

6. Men are less concerned than women about the environment. 7. Trees and other vegetation reduce traffic noise. 8. Traffic noise drives customers away from commercial areas. 9. Cars and trucks cause most urban air pollution and traffic noise. 10. Gardening helps people relax and fights air pollution.

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ENVIRONMENT NEWS

THE BIRDS ARE BACK Although still early spring, we assumed that these birds were They swooped gracefully over catching insects hovering over the the Rideau River, as if daring to water. Not that we saw any insects touch the water. There were or discerned any pausing to snatch hundreds of them, all with white them. We knew these birds were too bellies and blue backs. We watched smart to bum so many calories just in amazement at what seemed to be to put on a show for human viewers. BY JOHN BOND a choreographed act. Not once did We think they were house martins. we see two wings touch, let alone 1 Although we've since wandered uch of interest has been The Region just released its first witness airborne crashes. Every few M along the same section of the happening over the last Greenspace Naturalization Study, \ minutes, the whole flight pattern Rideau River (just east of Bank couple of months on the and anyone who is interested will changed, and all participants v Street, near the brick shed on the environmental front here in Ottawa see that the Brewer Pond project is adjusted immediately and levee), we haven't seen them again. South. Just about all of it has been included in the table of local flawlessly. Maybe they were in transit. We'll very constructive and moves us in projects. This is a good first step for look for them next spring. the right direction. the Region, and hopefully they will BREWER POND follow through by developing NATURALIZATION support for these projects on an DOGS AND SMALL CHILDREN The main push has been to move ongoing basis. further on this year's phase in the DUNBAR BRIDGE AT WINDSOR PARK Brewer Pond Naturalization that In a related issue, a meeting was you read about in Rosemary Speirs' held between local residents, BY KAREN CRIGHTON article in last month's OSCAR. A Regional Councillor Brian he image of children running These experiences are confusing T number of meetings and discussions McGarry, and the staff working on side by side with dogs in a for the dogs too. One minute they're have been held by the individuals the Dunbar Bridge. This meeting parkland setting is a pleasing running around excitedly and working on this project, as well as a was in response to a suggestion one. The nature of both dogs and having fun, and the next minute lot of coordination work between from Glenda Blacker and others small children mean that measures they're being yelled at and punished ourselves, Jim Watson and City living near Bronson that a buffer of have to be taken on both the part of by their owners. staff. trees be planted along the near edge parents and dog owners to ensure It's difficult as parents to always The way it looks right now, we of Bronson to provide a bit of sound that children and dogs learn to play be on the lookout for incoming will be getting the boulders or abatement and some beautification. together safely in the same park. dogs, so we need the help of dog bollards in place sometime in May Councillor McGarry and Regional owners. Some owners are quick to Windsor Park is designated a and preparing the site and laying staff are looking into moving at "stoop and scoop" park, which reassure parents that their dogs love topsoil and seed through June and least a first stage of this planting means that dogs do not have to be children. All dog owners should be July. It's not clear yet whether we into this year's budget. We just need on leashes anywhere in the park. aware that even the most gentle dog will manage to get any trees planted to keep our fingers crossed for the Owners are responsible for keeping can be provoked accidentally by a this year or wait until next spring time being. curious toddler. their dogs under control at all times since spring plantings have the Owners twenty-five to fifty feet RIVERBANK PROJECTS and for "scooping" after them. greatest chance of surviving. We'll away are not in control of their On Earth Day, Mary Hegan, Gail There are stiff fines for not obeying let you know how this unfolds. dogs, if those dogs are around Stewart, Nuala Joyce, and myself these laws. There are a few new trees down unpredictable small children. On the put up a RiverBank display at the As the parent of a toddler and a there already. In early April, the other hand, owners who leash their Chateau Laurier to interest people "dog owner-to-be," I have some City planted nine good-sized trees dogs to walk through the play area living in other areas in developing concerns about the safety of in the area immediately around the are not just in control. They're their own Adopt-a-River projects. children in the park. The Naturalization sign. They put in six providing the children with a Mary Hegan has agreed to playground and pool area at Hackberry and three Tamarack that chance to get to know their dog coordinate this outreach project, and Windsor Park are located near the appear (it's awfully early to tell yet) neighbours in a relaxed way that the response was very good with entrances to the park. Dogs and to be doing well. Virtually all of our will lead to appreciation of dogs, interest shown by people as far their owners have to pass near or own plantings are also doing well rather than fear. away as Fitzroy Harbour and through the area. Several young this year, and some of them are The long, lazy days of summer Hawkesbury. Hopefully, in a few children have been scared by starting to grow into healthy years we will see communities rambunctious dogs running up to are fast approaching. Let's all find looking trees. throughout the area taking as active them. On one occasion, a child had ways to make it a happy, safe In order to help with this summer for the children and the a cookie taken right out of her hand Naturalization project, which is an interest in the health of our and on another, a favorite ball was dogs that enjoy Windsor Park. moving forward rapidly and seems waterways as we have. punctured in front of a bewildered to be requiring ever greater The display, by the way, was child. financial commitments from the really nice and showed off the The sudden, unexpected community, OSCA will be directing RiverBank photos and other items appearance of a dog running in their a percentage of the proceeds from to great effect. Sometimes its direction is enough to scare young the new Canteen being run this amazing what you can do at the last children. Unfortunately, sometimes summer in Brewer Park back into minute on a Sunday morning only one such experience is enough the naturalization. This seems to me working on your first cup of coffee. to make a child afraid of dogs. to be a perfect example of how we There was another RiverBank as a community can multiply the Ramble held on April 30th. Not benefits of our undertakings to the surprisingly, the weather was much overall benefit of the whole better than it had been for the neighbourhood. February walk. Look for a detailed description of this walk in the June OSCAR. MAY 1995 ♦ THE OSCAR ♦ PAGE 16 STATE OF THE A.RTS GAHLABROSSE

A NIGHT OUT WITH GCTG's 1995/96 SEASON DINNER AND A MOVIE

The Great Canadian Theatre SUMMER OF THE ALIENS by Did you know there is a MOVIE Annual memberships are $12.00, Company is now offering a Louis Nowra. A teenager waits AND MEAL DEAL right here in which gives you one free special limited-time offer on its confidently for the flying saucer Old Ottawa South? For just one admission and a members 1995/96 Theatre season. These that will take him away from all price the Mayfair Theatre and discount each time you buy a early-bird prices expire July 10, the things that confuse him. the Barley Mow Restaurant and ticket. 1995. Subscriptions may be November, 1995. Pub present a deal where you purchased over the phone with can purchase a theatre ticket and The Barley Mow is also a cosy, VISA, MasterCard or American THE CONSOLATION OF an appetizer for just $8.99 or a independently owned, Express. Price ranges from $50 PHILOSOPHY by Alan theatre ticket and dinner for neighborhood establishment. It to $90. To place an order call Williams. A musical adaptation $16.99. Included with the opened for business in early 236-5196. of the spiritual classic by Anicius appetizer is tea or coffee. 1994. They serve a nice selection Manlius Severinus Boethius. Included with the meal is of tasty appetizers and full meals The 95/96 season includes: January, 1996. tea/coffee and a dessert. for a reasonable price. Movie/Meal Deals are purchased STEPHEN & MR. WILDE by 2000 by Joan MacLeod. An either at the Mayfair or at the In the kitchen there are Three Jim Bartley. Toronto, 1882, environmental comedy, the Barley Mow 730-2179. Cordon Bleu chiefs who Oscar Wilde, then 27, has been setting is Vancouver. April, specialize in English styled deeply offended by the squalor 1996. The Mayfair is a cosy, locally foods, seafood and desserts. of industrial England. owned neighborhood style movie They have a wide selection of September, 1995. 2 PIANOS, 4 HANDS. Written house, operating since 1932. draft beer on tap, something to and performed by Ted Dykstra Their double features are a suite everyone. They are best MOONLODGE. Written and and Richard Greenblatt. A mixture of old favourites and known, however, for carrying performed by Margo Kane. A musical comedy about growing more recent films. Show times micro beer, single malt scotches young native woman's search up as piano nerds. May, 1996. vary slightly so best to call their and cask conditioned beer. for a connection to her past. 24 hour information line (730- October, 1995. 3403) before you go. Don't Give it a try! forget the Wednesday matinees.

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Carleton University Art Gallery. 11:53 11:34 10:54 11:29 MAY 21 MAY 22, 11:11 MAY 23 MAY 24 MAY 25 |MAY 26 n:29 MAY 27'0:36| _ Ths, 6: 7:00 7:00 USES Y * QQ WINONA RVOKM 7:00 IQssgtl The centerpiece of this show is a SHALLOW GRAVE coil, 110 feet in length, made of mam What’s a little murder among friends?! _ pnssi with Orgasmic Rush GD 9:30 a fishing net bound with red Let the sun shine <3P 8:55 8:50 WSÜ& ova «DIE ESS polyester fishing twine. DUMB™ HAIR 9:10 [ÎHARD2 PULP FICTION DUMBER/ HAIR.* MDIE HARDER « G.uc*tiH Uruttino fitm/ù Uurenee Rende* production JIM CAIKIKBy ; lohn Travolta/Samuel L Jachaan/tfma TSnman IfinttyjlrligiyTlw Wolh/Amanda Ptummar ami Bruca MUlls |èg±»l May 15 to July 23 11:28 MAY 28 MAY 29 11:34 MAY 30 !0:35 MAY 31 11:24 JUNE 1 1031 JUNE 2 11 «2 JUNE 3 11:12 iHNur AH MYTH. IOVI A. AVENGER. Directed by Bruce *4cOonaW DUSTIN RENE MORGAN 6:55 Kwxucxt 7:00 HOFFMAN RUSSO FREEMAN iy QUEEN The greatest medical crisis in the world is about to happen. 7:00 ^■MARGOTI 7:05 -OUTBREAK CE>9:35"^ IgJHUll 4jfcl,A~Ck~. CANDYMAN (subtitles) Tr ,0 rema,n ca,m |CS> 9:25^H <32)9:00 <25*9:45 <33)9:30 7 - mil, iouLtu... léaWi-t SEAN CONNERY f LAURENCE FISHBURNE V flMïlüJgffit JÜST CAUSE) BEHKatt 111 |(sub MAY 1995 ♦ THE OSCAR ♦ PAGE 17 STATE OF THE ARTS SAIL LAB™* ARTIST OF THE MONTH

I tracked down May's Artist of the In 1954, Shearer visited France, Month at a showing of his enjoyed galleries, art collections and sculptures and paintings at a gallery looked for a place to settle. A year in Fifth Avenue Court called, A later, he returned with his family to Source of Art. He has been a Vence, where Marc Chagall lived. professional artist for fifty years. His wife organized the household He and his wife have lived in a and children while Shearer painted. comfortable white house In 1957, they moved to Ottawa overlooking the Rideau River in Old where Brodie Shearer taught at the Ottawa South for nearly forty years. Ottawa Municipal Art Centre (now From this picturesque setting he called the Ottawa School of Art). In watches a pair of mallard ducks hop addition to his drawing and painting out of the river and stroll along the classes he set up a welding grassy banks, later sliding back into workshop at the centre. Some of the the water. Peeking through the trees pieces from this period are well- and shrubs into his back garden I weathered but still charm his see a magical world of sculptures, garden. abstract works in a profusion of friendly and intimidating bird forms. Shearer continues to hold classes in This is the garden of artist Brodie his home-studio and today the Shearer. members include some long-time students. His style of teaching is Shearer, bom in Montreal, was unconventional. By covering a raised in Westmount, his father a student's work with a sheet of prominent business man. While plexiglass, then painting over the working in the family firm, Shearer work he can demonstrate the took evening art classes at Sir possibilities of vitalizing the picture George Williams College. Later he by the use of contrasting colour Brodie Shearer. 1990 Photo: Kate McGregor studied with Adam Sherriff Scott, a elements to create the illusion of Montreal illustrator and painter. In space and light. When the glass is 1942, under the influence of Herman removed the work is unaltered and Heimlich, a Hungarian-born artist may then explore the principles that who had emigrated to Montreal, have been brought to light. This ^Shearer's studies moved in a system stimulates discussion and significantly new direction. encourages experimentation with Heimlich introduced his students to elements such as hue, value, the work of early European intensity, shape and line. Shearer SOMETHING DIFFERENT modernists such as Cezanne, has. a publication called "Making Picasso, Braque, Matisse and Sense of Modem Art", which gives Bonnard. By 1945 Shearer was a detailed explanation of his SHEEP SHEARING working as a professional artist in philosophy and teachings. FESTIVAL. oil, watercolours and sculpture. A self taught sculpture, Shearer He has exhibited his work in solo exhibited his first three-dimensional May 20 to 22. and group exhibitions mainly in works in 1951 - small figures Ottawa and Montreal. His next created using a braizing technique At the Central Experimental Farm. exhibition, however, will take place to work with steel rods. at the Virginia Christopher Gallery in Calgary. It will be an over-all While still a student, Shearer met The annual sheep extravaganza, retrospective. In Ottawa, he is and married Catherine Moxley. with sheep shearing and hoof represented by Calligramme They have two children, James and trimming, border collie herding Gallery. Martha. Jim lives in Ottawa. He is a demonstrations, wool crafts and geologist, whose work often takes displays—washing, carding and Since winning First Prize for him to the Beaufort Sea were he is weaving. See you there! watercolours, at the Art Association involved in under-water pipelines. of Montreal, in 1947, Brodie Jim has four grown children, living Shearer has won many awards, the in Ottawa, Montreal and Calgary. latest in 1993 was the Whitton Martha, is an artist living in the Award, from the City of Ottawa. In South of France in the Vaucluse area where Picasso worked. She over fifty years of work there are two aspects of Brodie Shearer's lives and sculpts in a typical ancient French community, in a house with approach to art and life, the search for structure which underlies the a small olive grove. visual world and the joy of sharing that continual search. MAY 1995 ♦ THE OSCAR ♦ PAGE 18 THAT TROUBLESOME TEMPORARY EMPLOYEE BY SEAN D. CAULFEILD Hiring a lawyer takes an attitude. need for a specialist does narrow the likely will. remember a bright light from their Taking charge is the attitude field of choices fast. There are reliable 3. The Yellow Pages. Plan to put in classes and would definitely know that gets results and it starts places to begin a search for the required at least a minimum of an hour for this the leading names of those who are the moment you begin to select a lawyer. lawyer. route. Compiling a list and working the currently practicing. 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MYTHICAL WORLDS AND THOMAS J. WORDS iMIIL BY BILL DUDLEY ▲ hile the general view of artificial applications). "' CONTRACTING LTD. W Greek and Roman In most mythologies, the first mythology is of fairy tales beings emerging from chaos were RENOVATION SPECIALISTS and wondrous adventure stories, these viewed as immortal, human like deities myths, through the rich inheritance of whose supernatural powers enabled • ADDITIONS AND ALTERATIONS Greek and Roman literature and drama, them to control nature and the fates of • KITCHENS AND BATHROOMS have significantly influenced our humans. In Greek mythology, the first • BASEMENT REFINISHING Western culture and language. Where such beings were Gaia (female Earth • DECKS AND FENCING did these myths originate and how have Goddess - we still speak of Mother • FOUNDATION REPAIRS AND PARGING they come to play such an important Earth) and Ouranos (male god of the TOTAL DESIGN/BUILD SERVICES role? Sky). FREE PRELIMINARY PLANNING CONSULTATION To answer these questions, we have The Romans borrowed these two to return to when early humans first deities for their own pantheon. In tried to explain the physical forces of Latin, they became Gaea and Uranus. FAX: 521-9076 nature impacting their existence. With As many European languages GLOUCESTER, ONTARIO their limited terms of reference, they developed from Latin, we are more developed stories of superhuman Gods familiar with the latter names. The and Goddesses and pantheistic Romans also referred to Gaea as religions were bom. Terra. Thus, human beings are called While all early civilizations had terrestrialswbüc fictional beings from their own supernatural stories, it was outer space are extra-terrestrials. The LETTERS TO THE EDITOR the Greek and later the Roman shape of the land around us is known OSCAR welcomes thoughtful debate in these pages. We do not support attacks pantheons that directly influenced our as the terrain and landscaping can on individuals, organizations or open democratic process. The following language. These stories were called include terraces. We all protect our letter/petition caused some debate by it’s nature and implied accusations. Mythos (Gk: tale or story) from which own territory. Opinions expressed in the letter are those of the signatories (pardon that we derive our word myth. From our pronunciation of Gaea expression) and not those of OSCA or OSCAR. It has been greatly edited for In the beginning, the universe was (Jee'uh) comes the prefix geo which length. unstructured and called Chaos (Gk. gives us such earth related words as AN OPEN LETTER TO ALL input was cut short. Not surprisingly, open gulf). We still use the word geogra/>/j)(description of the physical RESIDENTS: there were many elementary matters chaotic to indicate anything confused features of the earth), geology (science Ottawa South, like every other area raised that the consultants in their and disordered. Eventually, when of the earth), geometry (measurement of the city, has traffic problems. We wisdom seem not even to have structure was created out of chaos, the of the earth - originally for establishing suspect they centre on traffic volume considered The measurement of a fire- result was called Cosmos (Gk: order, boundaries) and the geocentric theory on major streets like Riverdale and truck's length, for example, is a piece good arrangement). The word cosmos (original theory of earth as the centre Sunnyside, and cars and cycles going of basic research. is still used as a general reference to of the universe). the wrong way down one-way streets So what are we faced by? Plans to the universe. The sky god Uranus entered our or not stopping at stop signs. They are have traffic circles replacing stop In 1911, a new type of radiation language in 1781 when that name was the same problems that any community signs. They will create severe was discovered and named “Cosmic given a newly discovered planet. In has, and they will be remedied only by limitations of access that will impede Rays” because they seemed to 1789, a new metal was discovered and enforcement of the law and some minor the movement of residents far more originate everywhere in the universe. A named Uranium which, has gained adjustments. than they will restrain the speed of cosmopolitan individual is deemed to prominence as the basis for the atomic In Ottawa South something quite outsiders. Putting ugly and high have a universal character rather than a bomb. remarkable happened. Instead the maintenance concrete obstacles into the parochial one. Conversely, any small Gaea and Uranus were considered specifics being addressed, a few centre of narrow intersections will universe that mirrors a larger universe man and wife by the Ancients. In next enthusiasts decided that draconian deface our open streets, invite is called a microcosm (micro meaning month's article, Mythical Worlds and action had to be taken. $80,000 of vandalism, make winter driving small). And finally, we have the word Words will examine the impact of their public funds later, we now have impossible, and obstruct emergency cosmetics (implying a better offspring on our language. suggestions for a total revision of vehicles. arrangement of the face through use of traffic in Ottawa South. We also have Thai there are the plans to have the the most divided community that any area further defaced by signs. And of the signatories to this letter can plans to have the ugly white lines of remember. bicycle lanes defacing the surface of KELLY FUNERAL HOMES We are routinely told in the pages quiet residential streets, thereby ■- Owner of Oscar by the chair of the traffic guaranteeing that far more cyclists get committee that there has been rerouted along those streets luckless widespread consultation. We dispute enough to have the lanes inflicted on this. Many residents have only recently them. become aware of the sheer extent of We are all adults. We don't need what is being proposed. A matter of Big Brother or Sister to tell us how to this magnitude should have been lead our lives. Nor do we need our brought at an early stage to the community to be transformed into what awareness of all residents of the one eloquent speaker at the last community by separate information meeting typified as a tacky legoland. sheets, unconnected with specific We call upon the traffic committee politicians, publications or interest to dismiss these plans. We call upon groups. them to arrange genuine consultation 1255 Walkley Road, Ottawa The meeting on 20th April (which not the hit-or-miss variety so far. There the traffic committee had unilaterally is even an argument to be made for a Serving decided was to be the last one before community referendum. We invite Alta Vista Billings Bridge Blossom Park proposals were sent to City Hall) was people to think about both the practical Elmvale Acres Hunt Club Riverside Park for many of us the first meeting of and aesthetic consequences and the Greely Osgoode Manotick which we were aware, and we heard of morality of spending large sums of Gloucester Kars Nepean it only because of the widespread public money in this way. 235-6712 controversy generated by publication Keith Wilson Ruth Phillips Canadian-Independent of the full plans. Even this forum for Glen Ave Glen Ave debate was arranged so that public and 36 others MAY 1995 ♦ THE OSCAR ♦ PAGE 20 DRAGONSLAYERS VICTORIOUS! Sean Caulfeild: BY RICHARD CLEROUX FINAL STANDINGS FOR OTTAWA DISTRICT HOCKEY Your Neighbourhood ASSOCIATION DISTRICT 6, NOVICE C DIVISION Ottawa Centre Dragonslayers 24 the coaches as well, received Lawyer. Vanier Wolverines 18 medallions marking the event. It was Sandy Hill Bulldogs 17 the ultimate achievement capping a Sean Caulfeild presents a pew approach to legal Vanier Vikings 15 fantastic hockey season for the services in the Glebe area. His bilingual, general practice Ottawa Centre Raptors 13 Dragonslayers. St. Laurent 11 The team included: Paul McGuire, recognizes that lawyers must meet their clients’ real Sandy Hill 8 Peter Stewart, Derek Hooper, Arthur needs and expectations. His emphasis goes beyond just District 6 Statistician: Don Williams Fels, Paul Ovens, Ira Hardy, Eric providing excellent legal work. It includes a relationship A playoff game was held Lynch, Johan Faire, Gareth Pugh, Lev building process allowing him to better understand his featuring the first and second Bubis, Joel Cleroux, James Breithaupt, clients’ affairs. This keeps them fully involved and placed teams on Friday Daniel Lahey, Kevin Williams, informed, not left in the dark. March 31, at Brewer Arena. About 175 Matthew Ahuja, Lucas Shahrasebi,and For your convenience, Sean welcomes evening and fans attended. The Ottawa Centre Christophe Bourque. Coaches included Dragonslayers skated like the wind and Richard Cleroux, Paul Barque, Jan weekend appointments outside his business hours. There beat the Vanier Wolverines 4 to 1 in a Ahuja. and Dave Fels. Bob Adamyk are no charges for initial consultations and where hard-played game to win the District 6 was the Novice “C” Co-ordinator and possible any fees will be based on a flat rate determined Novice “C” Trophy. Each player, and Bill McCauley was president. in advance. General Practice of Law: • real estate MEMBERSHIP MONTH • wills and estates May is Membership Drive month for the • civil litigation Ottawa South Community Association • corporate-commercial or OSCA as it is known. Help keep Old • alternate dispute resolution Ottawa South a better place to live and • criminal law grow up in. Join OSCA. • family law • municipal law

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Saturday, June 17,11:00 am - 5:00 pm (Comer of Sunnyside & Qrosvenor) Features: Face Painting Linda Thom Helium Balloons 1529 Bank Street Dunk Tank Games 737-0677 Freenet AC473 and \ More Ontario Common Sense - For A Change Admission Price: i>c. canned goods donation for THE FOOD BANK Authorized by CFO MAY 1995 ♦ THE OSCAR ♦ PAGE 21 Make your mom... A VALUABLE ASSET BY RICK SUTHERLAND, R.F.P. um FOR A DAY! This article does not discuss Buying individual disability We have gifts she will love... miracles or how to get rich. It insurance eliminates much uncertainty Teas, pots & cozies shows you how to go about of government and group programs. Fine Coffees & accessories protecting the most valuable asset you There are several provisions to have; your ability to earn a living. consider when assessing disability Approximately a third of those age insurance. 35 today, will be disabled for more Definition of disability. This is a 103 Fourth Avenue 238-5031 than three months before reaching 65. most important element of your policy Half will be disable for more than two because it defines when you get the years. This will be more devastating as benefits. many of these people provide all or What is covered? Some policies most of their family’s income. cover accidents only, others cover There is one way to ensure that if accidents and illness. Sometimes pre- IB PRESS laid up, you won't be wiped out existing conditions such as a bad back financially. It's called disability income are excluded. insurance and is designed to provide Own occupation. You will collect COMPLETE QUALITY OFFSET PRINTING SERVICE the money you'll need if you stop benefits if you are unable to perform working due to sickness or injury. your own or normal occupation. You • NEWSPAPERS, TABLOIDS, DEMI-TABS • Disability insurance is the most will not be forced to take just any job. overlooked form of insurance. Yet, it's Residual disability. You will • LETTERHEAD • BROCHURES a most crucial insurance need. Most receive payment for a partial disability. • ENVELOPES • BUSINESS CARDS people buy life insurance but few think You can return to work part-time and • NCR FORMS • BOOKLETS about disability insurance. still collect supplementary benefits People think government will cover while your disability continues. • CONTINUOUS COMPUTER FORMS • them. UIC may be available if you’ve Monthly benefits. Monthly paid into it But benefits are inadequate benefits are usually 2/3 of your gross TEL: 225-0768 FAX: 225-2746 and paid for only 15 weeks. CPP has a salary. This is tax free if you paid 66 COLONNADE RD., UNIT 3, NEPEAN, ONT. K2E 7K7 very restrictive “total and permanent premiums with after-tax dollars. disability” definition and Workers' COLA (cost of living allowance) Compensation only kicks in if the will index your benefits to inflation. REGIONAL REPORT injury is job-related. Waiting period. The number of BY BRIAN MCGARRY, COUNCILLOR, CAPITAL WARD Many people feel comfortable with days before benefits begin, typically, he Region is of $10 million. group disability protection but don't 30 to 120 days. The longer the period, T generally Councillor Cullen and I suggested an know anything about the coverage. the lower the premium. very pleased amendment defer the purchase until a Here are some questions you should Benefit period. The length of time with the response to plan to clean up the site has been ask your employer: payments continue, typically two or the “Community approved by the Ministry of the How much am I covered for and five years or to age 65. The longer the Vision” process. In Environment. It was defeated 11-6. A is there a maximum? Company plans period, the higher the premium. particular, I would second amendment I moved received may cover a percentage of salary, but Non-cancellable and guaranteed like to thank those approval, and incorporates a level of only up to a specified maximum. renewable. The insurance company from Capital Ward; we had one of the clean-up will accommodate a What happens if I leave? cannot cancel or change your policy. larger turnouts in the Region. May 6 landscape for recreational use. Disability protection usually terminates There are many disability insurance provided an opportunity for all 18 when you leave your employer. PROFESSIONAL SERVICES products in the marketplace. Cost of wards to come together at the Vision Can my coverage change? Group GROUP: The dismissal of coverage varies considerably from Forum, held at the Ottawa-Carleton plans renew each year. The insurance company to company. You should Centre. I will share the results with you Professional Services Group firm by company may increase premiums or discuss your needs with an advisor in future articles. Regional Council is a second bad cancel the coverage. whom you trust. decision last month. Many efforts are DUNBAR BRIDGE: Design of If you are self-employed or don’t This is a monthly article on made to attract first class businesses to landscaping at the Bridge and north have a group plan, look into personal financial planning. Please call Rick Ottawa-Carleton and to develop along Bronson and Bronson Place has disability protection. You must qualify Sutherland at 226-7974. with your private-public partnerships. PSG has started to create a more pleasant both medically and financially. Like suggestions. run part of our sewage treatment plant other kinds of insurance, premiums and barrier along what is becoming known and they were serving us very well. compensation depend on many factors. as the Bronson Thruway. This They pointed out a potential saving of initiative is not uncomplicated, $40 million dollars over the next 5 involving the Region, City and NCC. years. We agreed these savings are However, Regional staff are being attainable but we will do it ourselves helpful. Input from residents Glenda without their expertise. Nonetheless, Blacker, John Bond, Fran Doy, Peter successful private-public sector Fitzgerald, Jim Foster, Susan Leah and partnerships are not attained easily and InVested Interest Greg Wright is appreciated. We still I regret Council's action. have some distance to go. OUR NATION - OUR REGION: What would you do? Ottawa Hydro will remove overhead continuing with Dialogue Canada, an wires along Bank St. from the Canal to If you were out of work due to illness or injury initiative to keep communication open the River this spring and installing among Ottawa-Carleton and the There is a solution... them in already placed underground Outaouais, there will be a fourth ducts. This will not require breakfast June 1. The Honorable DISABILITY INSURANCE disruption/tearing up of pavement. Marcel Masse will speak on his Major reconstruction of Bank Street Let me advise you on a plan to meet your needs “Vision of Canada’s Future”. The will not occur until 1999. At that time, Honorable Jean Charest, Desmond all mains, sewersand utility ducts will Morton (McGill) and the Right A broker of most insurance companies in Canada be replaced or upgraded. Please call Honorable Joe Clark have now 160 LEES AVENUE: is a wrong addressed these breakfasts. Everyone RICK SUTHERLAND, R.F.P. decision by Regional Council in my including students are welcome. 203-1390 Prince of Wales Drive Ottawa, ON K2C 3N6 view. We are taking on ownership and Contact my assistant, Pat McGill at Tel. 226-7974 liability of this polluted land from 560-1224. We also have plans for a DND. in exchange for 424 Metcalfe. leading Quebec journalist; labour The latter's value is about $2.5 million leader and a business leader. while the former could have a liability MAY 1995 ♦ THE OSCAR ♦ PAGE 22

I! LIFE LONG INTEREST GROUP g Guest speakers will give a brief talk followed by a discussionperiod. WHERE: • 1. Tl«RA'Ceidï^i!^ïrâi&i245IÏU\^^ WHEN: L Fridays at10:30 to i 1:45 am. Please note new time, li;;' ::-:; M«yï:2 : HenrvConnor. Doctor. Actor.Pnxfacer. Wr&ar and'fea^iPP May 26 Mr. Lemaitrç, Geopolitics! in Western Canada; "Early Crenel» H BYTOWN NEWS History of Canada, The Making of Manitoba” For further information call die RA Centre at 733-5100 Of Pushpa at 231-6583.; BY CATHY BROWN Admission $100 towards speakers costs. i With the arrival of warmer Our annual trip to see a play at weather, we have been Carleton University was a great spending much more time success. Jack and the Beanstalk was outside playing on the climber, riding enjoyed by almost everyone, and we PAINTED WORDS bikes and generally enjoying the look forward to watching the growth of BY ROBERTA SMITH outdoors. our own beanstalk at Nursery School. atural light pours in through something/Fish says are integral to the We have been preparing for the N UPCOMING EVENT the windows and onto the art process. arrival of spring inside top. One of our Denise Chong - author of "The tables. Plants hang from Fish also says the range of favourite activities to engage the Concubine's Children", will be reading empty curtain rods. Shelves overflow materials available poses a problem. children in is the addition of plastic from her book on Wednesday, May with books, art materials and files. The To lessen confusion and unnecessary worms (available at Canadian Tire in 24th at 7:30 at Bytown. Admission is high ceiling and hardwood floor give spending, Fish includes a $10 material the fishing department), plastic ants, free but seating is limited so please call the warm room an airy, inviting fee per course. Students can try out spiders and flies to the sandbox and to register. feeling. different materials and decide for water table. I am told some children This is the Painted Word Studio, on themselves what works best before enjoy having these in their bathtub! REGISTRATION an upper floor of an old house in the spending a lot of money. This “bug” theme can be Registration for the Fall Nursery Glebe, where Michelle Fish teaches art Bom and raised in Toronto, Fish expounded on by preparing chocolate School and Day Care programs is students aged nine to 70. It is also her says she comes from a relatively pudding and pouring it over gummi ongoing with only a few spaces left. living-room. unartistic family. As children, both her worms. The Nursay School children Please call 730-4384 for more At the moment, Fish, 33, is sitting elder brothers had some artistic ability, love this, especially the eating part! information. in the kitchen. She concentrates on but she's the only one who ended up explaining how her studio emerged out devoting her life to the visual arts. of a watercolor workshop she gave After two years, she dropped out of EXTRA, EXTRA, while finishing her teaching degree at the University of Toronto and enrolled the University of Ottawa. at Central Technical School, a high READ ALL ABOUT TT... “I always wanted to run something school of the Toronto Board of ^TT^he first ever Lady Evelyn goodies. Carnival workers will be hard that was my own. Gradually, one Education, where she completed a three School Carnival is coming to at work bringing you yummy food and course started to lead into two and year interdisciplinary course. Fish then JL town. Yes, that's right, drink. Browse through our eventually the studio was something left Canada for the Rhode Island Saturday, May 13 rain or shzne, from second-hand books, find a special toy which emerged,” she says. School of Design. 10am to 1pm. Forget grocery or household item you fancy at our It took a year for Fish to establish a There she watched one of her shopping, family chores or other white elephant table. And if that isn't program. That was three years ago and teachers devote hours of time, working mundane activities and join in the fun. enough, green thumbers can pick up a now, from one workshop and three individually with each one of 30 or 40 There are prizes to win our many plant or two up at the garden sale. students, she offers six different students. Studying under her as a games. Enter the gypsy tent and get Don't delay, make this event a success drawing courses each running six to teaching assistant, Fish realized a your fortune told. Enjoy a puppet show by attending. We’re at *63 Evelyn eight weeks in length. She also tutors calling in art education. She knew, while you munch popcorn. A giant Avenue just off Main Street near Lees. students privately. however, she didn't want to teach in a raffle with over $300 in prizes is Plenty of free parking at Immaculata Fish wants to give students as much large classroom. waiting. Stroll over to the dessert table School and the Church. individual attention as possible, so Returning to Canada, she and feast your eyes on home-made doesn’t take more than four students discovered she needed more schooling per course. “It makes me unique and it to teach. The University of Ottawa makes my program something that offered the quickest program, so she becomes more personalized,” she says. moved here. ,-vrwm ct i This is something Sheryl Bennett- That was four years ago and since ^ MOM! Wilson, one of Fish's students then, the Painted Word Studio has appreciates. “It's fairly relaxed. I like emerged. Fish is also taking courses at r*•i ♦ >Tt_P fi-iertrr op r ,/~i r- f that. You can't [draw] when you're Carleton University in psychology. She ■ it 3 JJoon, sJuMytp Æ. | • |0OM - I PM : INCL-UDiM-eiCl uptight.” is fascinated by the discipline, its j • fô ©ieuw ' ; ooreipe-Jp-^ iH4»t T&tfFLH fer Vtxz&>\ Bennett-Wilson, 43, has been structure as well as material. She wants taking classes for 2 1/2 years. to learn more about seeing, perceiving ~£l Of ^7-TTH SALE Originally she wanted to start painting and the function of the brain in FREEv fDR. to0 <*• . right away, but Fish encouraged her to creativity and write about it.. Vyg. c1 -SplAKT SALE ~ K/wr MOJC. re-establish her drawing skills first. In But for the next few years, she says, #5AU-00>4 CARNAL retrospect, the advice is appreciated. she is happy doing what she’s doing * FACETS* r RMKT'Hé, STW “If I had done the watercolors first, I now - teaching art to small groups of fm>! gPrpJviE all MTUCLU J*iA would've been frustrated. By drawing, people and taking a few courses for Hr t - a lot of things started to come back herself. •frWter sftxÀ i \\ again.” Basic drawing skills are llAfelg

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BUSINESS OF THE MONTH OTTAWA SOUTH TRAFFIC Each month, OSCAR is featuring one of our regular advertisers, who help make OSCAR possible. Please tell them that you saw them in OSCAR and BY COUNCILLOR JIM WATSON that you appreciate their contribution to our community. My thanks to the close to 200 c) has workable ideas that are based people who attended the on common sense and safety. Ottawa South traffic study I feel there are some ideas that meeting. Two things were clear - appeared to have a far degree of residents of Ottawa South have strong support from varying sides of the opinions on transportation matters in issue, such as increased stop signs on our community and traffic circles were certain streets; an urban forest buffer not a big hit! along Bronson; better signage on Main I felt the meeting was a good telling motorists to use Riverside to go exercise simply because it allowed a to Bank; better police enforcement; Business of the Month wide variety of opinions to come better intersection markings for school forward, ranging from leaving and pedestrian crossings, etc. everything as is to radical changes on My sense is that these and other certain streets. There was a fair amount points had a degree of consensus and I of concern that what the consultants welcome your thoughts. I would like to were proposing was a “done deal”. see a traffic plan that takes some issues To put the issue in perspective, in where there is consensus, and issues 1993 OSCA asked the City for such as traffic circles would be assistance in developing a professional discounted as an implementable idea. traffic calming study that would look at When a new initiative like a raised problems from a community-wide intersection (eg. Grosvenor at perspective. Sunnyside) is instituted, people can Traffic was the number one issue then see what it is; how it works and raised by residents during annual decide at a later date if they would like membership drives and every year I one on their street. receive hundreds of calls from I will host another public meeting at BLIND IMAGES is proud to constituents upset with speeding, Hopewell School in September that bontinue it’s operations in the volume of traffic and parking will highlight what the City will problems. When you get that kind of recommend to Council. Ottawa South Community. We have feedback, the problems are not The September issue of OSCAR relocated to 1095 Bank St, at the isolated, but rather widespread. will include a summary of what corner of Sunnyside Ave, where we With this request I secured a measures City staff are recommending. are delighted to display a commitment from the City and a Then it will be your turn to offer your sensational collection of window consultant was hired. A series of input and tell me what you like and blinds, fabrics, draperies, shutters steering committee and public what you don't. and mirror doors for your home or meetings were held to gain public No one is interested in fancy input. changes that dont solve a problem or office. We invite you to visit our Various ideas and suggestions were create another one. If you're not sure new showroom and see the brought forward and published in the about points raised, call me and I can difference quality makes or call last issue of OSCAR. Again these were help explain the situation. 730-9838 for our in-home shopping ideas and proposals, not decisions. I The frustration that some have felt service. also received a lot of input from is that misinformation is harmful to residents. My bottom line is that I want finding workable solutions. Some have a plan that: suggested we scrap the whole process. a) has as much neighbourhood I'm not prepared to do this because we consensus as we can get (there is no do have traffic and parking problems point in plowing ahead with ideas that in Ottawa South. are not supported by the people on the My sincere thanks goes to Greg streets that would be affected); Wright, Chair of the steering b) is cost efficient (in tough committee. Greg has worked extremely Playfair 8c McGarvy economic times let's bring forward hard on a difficult task and carried it urn economically feasible solutions that off with great commitment and Part of tjour (Community .Since 1Ç23 won't break the bank); patience.

OPERA LYRA BOY’S CHOIR BY JILL DAVIS Sharon McGarry Brian McGarry n May 27-28, the Opera Lyra auditions are held each September for President C.E.O. /Chair O Ottawa Boy's Choir will boys ages 8 -14. perform a children's opera “Something's Gonna Happen” is a Unique to the funeral profession in the Ottawa area is the husband and wife entitled “Something's Gonna Happen”. team of Brian and Sharon. Their partnership embraces the ownership and modern-day version of Jack and the management of what has become one of Canada’s foremost funeral firms, Each year since the Boy's Choir began, Beanstalk, only instead of Jack selling Hulse, Playfair & McGarry. Fifty-eight full and part-time staff members they have performed their own opera, the family cow, Tip has to sell the are employed in the four funeral homes and chapels. as well as performing with Opera Lyra family television! Andrew Thom, in Tosca (1994) and La Boheme Avenue Road, Liam Vainola, Hopewell The Firm’s Family Resource and Reception Centre, located at 328 McLeod (1995). The Boy's Choir started the Ave., and Ben Davis, son of Jill Davis Street, directly across from the Central Chapel offers "After Funeral Care" year Opera Lyra performed Carmen. who works at Ottawa South along with a bereavement resource base for schools, churches, community Nine boys were needed, so an audition Community Centre, will be performing organizations, palliative care teams and self-help groups. was held for the Ottawa region. The in the opera. parents of these boys decided that it Performance times are May 27 at 2 For further information regarding The Resource Centre, or to arrange a speaker for your group, please telephone Doug Kennedy, Vice-President at would be a great for their sons, if they pm and May 28 at 1:30 and 4 pm. 233-1143. continued singing in their own choir. Prices are adults $6 and children 14 Auditions for the Boy's Choir were and under $4. Tickets from Jill Davis Central Chapel West Chapel St. Laurent Memorial/ held and it grew to 25, with Lawrence at 523-3205. 315 McLeod St. 150 Woodroffe Ave. Chapel Simplicity Plan Owashko as the director. Since then at O’Connor at Byron 1200 Ogilvie Rd. 584 Somerset W. MAY 1995 ♦ THE OSCAR ♦ PAGE 24 COFFEE CORNER BY ALLEN MAYER ith the warm weather W BREWED ICED TEA peeping out, here is a Bring water to a boil. Add loose tea recipe for enjoying a or tea bags and steep 5 to 8 minutes. It summer reviver. is generally advisable to add at least ICED COFFEE half as much more tea than usual so The trick to making iced coffee when the ice melts, your tea won't be drinks is to make the coffee extra watery. Chill and serve over ice. Add strength, so when the ice melts, your sugar if desired. Garnish with lemon or coffee won't be watery. The general fresh mint. rule is to brew your coffee to 2 IVi SUN TEA times normal strength. Chill. Pour over Fill a glass jar with cold water and ice. Sweeten as desired. Add milk or add loose tea or tea bags. Cover and cream. set jar in the sun for 6 to 8 hours. (A SPICED ICED COFFEE window sill is fine.) Strain out the tea Prepare as above but add to the leaves or tea bags. Chill and serve over bottom of your filter brewer or plunger ice. pot, 1 large strip of orange peel, 1 VARIATIONS small strip of lemon peel and 5 whole Use your imagination! Add cloves MURpnY's GARAGE cloves for each cup. Top each cup with or cinnamon sticks to the brewing tea whipped cream. and strain them out after 2 hours or Broke, We won't Fix it. OTHER VARIATIONS more. Add fruit juice, fruit rind or Use your imagination! Blend the ice berries, (orange, lemon, pineapple, and coffee together in a blender. Add cherry, lime, raspberry, peach, grape, whipped cream or ice cream (vanila, cranberry...). Add ginger ale or chocolate...). Add spirits (Cointreau, lemonade to produce a “cooler”. Make Grand Marnier...). Use decaffeinated ice cubes with leftover tea. coffee.

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GARBAGE? MAKE SOMETHING OF TT? RACE AGAINST WASTE, environment and how the involvement organized by the Philippine of youth is crucial to addressing global Development Assistance problems. Fertilizer Spreaders, Programme, invites children to make A growing number of environment- We Rent toys out of materials that would related problems create serious Lawn Rollers & Wheelbarrows otherwise be thrown in the garbage! obstacles to sustainable development Entirely made of reused or recycled in nations of both North and South.

materials, they are the result of the RACE AGAINST WASTE We Sharpen Lawn mower Blades, Pruners, imagination and sense of concretely demonstrates to youth in environmental responsibility of young both Canada and the Philippines the Grass Shears,Tools & More Canadians and Filipinos. amount of waste our societies produce The public are invited to attend the and the value of these re-usable items. international awards ceremony and toy Through global and environmental We Repair Windows, Screens & exhibit of this year's RACE education initiatives like RACE AGAINST WASTE, Thursday, AGAINST WASTE, both Filipinos Patio Doors May 18 from 4-6 pm at the Museum of and Canadians are made aware of the We Deliver Ask for Details Civilization in Salle Marius Barbeau. environmental efforts of people Admission is free and the halfway across the world. STORE HOURS 234 ■ 6353 celebration includes live entertainment For more information on this year's by local musicians, a storyteller, and a RACE AGAINST WASTE, please MON-WED 8:30 AM TO 6 PM Filipino-Canadian choir. Two youths, THURS & FRI 8:30 AM TO 9 PM call Leah Geller or D'Arcy Harris, visiting from the Philippines en route Philippines Development Assistance SAT 8:30 AM TO 6 PM across Canada, will speak on the Programme, 235-7144. SUN 11 AM TO 4 PM Name one DISEASE SO UNCARING that no matter who or where you are, someone close to you has it for certain. DIABETES your gift goes a long way

CANADIAN I ASSOCIATION DIABETES CANADIENNE ASSOCIATION I DU DIABÈTE MAY 1995 ♦ THE OSCAR ♦ PAGE 25 SERVING YOU BETTER AT 5 YEARS AGO IN OSCAR The front page of OSCAR from April 1990 MORE AFFORDABLE COST BY MAYOR JACQUELIN HOLZMAN Corporations in the business of eight to five. providing services and The new Department of Deadline producing goods are in the Community Services, which The deadline date for OSCAR is the midst of an exciting transformation. encompasses Recreation and Culture, tenth of each month. Please make sure The twin goals of efficiency and that all material for inclusion in OSCAR the Fire Department and some is received at The Old Fireball, 260 affordability have reached a crossroads Licensing and Enforcement functions Sunnyside Avenue, Ottawa K1S 0R7, with the Information Age — where by the tenth of the month preceeding the from Engineering and Works groups month of issue. state-of-the-art technologies, accessible all our community-based services into

Volume 17 Number 7 April 1990 and user-friendly, are enabling people one department. Making use of our in the workplace and at home to do and arenas, community centres, libraries OSCA conference experience more with their time and and fire halls, citizens will have greater to focus on positive resources than ever before. one-stop access to the Department's Our objective at City Hall is to services without having to leave their sports experience serve you better at a more affordable communities. As part of the new It won’t be long before April showers been instrumental in charting direc- will Wash away the last of tha dirty tions for Canadian domestic sport cost. In 1992, we reduced the number department, firefighters will be able snow from our community parks. You policy. Ha has been particularly ac- remember tha two messengers of tive in the design and development of spring: mud and sand; the two sport programs for children. Among of City departments from eleven to focus more on fighting fires and less on forecasters of that time of year when other initiatives he has brought his kids and adults in Ottawa South unique perspective on values in sport eight and streamlined the way these administration. rediscover one another through com- to the National Coaching Certifica- munity sport tion Council and the Fair Play Com- Mid-April is the time when mission departments do business. By The new Department of Planning, parents make their annual ascent to The conference format will in- Hopewell School's English teacher, Teens Myscouhg, end her the Old Fireball to register their clude supporting video material as children in the activity of their choice. well as four workshops where par- identifying more efficiencies, we Economic Development and Housing students celebrste the 2Sth annlversery ol the Canadian (lag. And before you can say T-Ball or ticipants can table concerns and sug- Mini-Soccer, the anticipation and or- gestions under the following topics: reduced our costs while still providing will also provide for better one-stop ganized confUsion that cornea with * Values of sport participation Ottawa South MPP Dies opening day will be upon us. Somehow kids, coaches, teams * Role of parents in community quality services, and set the stage for shopping to developers and community Ottawa South MPP, Dalton Me* In 1987 he was elected a Liberal and equipment sort themselves out; Guinty, died Friday, March 16, while member of the provincial legislature parents shout encouragement from * Role of the community coach the City's first tax decrease since 1969, shovelling snc * from the deck of his where he demonstrated strong sup- tha sidelines and the first game of tha * Role of tha Community Sport groups requiring development home in Alta Vista. port in establishing and maintaining aaason is under way. Volunteer Network. During the following eight wash» A well-know-.! Ottawa South resi- high educational standards across If you have children enrolled in passed in February. information. Rather than dealing with dent, McGuinty. 64. had for many the province. under evening skies the daily ritual will assume a life of its own as community sport you will have given years been an English professor at Other areas of particular concern some thought to these issues. Tha the University of Ottawa. His life- included the environment, and the roach as, volunteers and parents taka Our work to deliver more three departments, they will only need their places and direct their energies OSCA “Sport in tha Community Con- long interest in education led him welfare of the elderly. ference* is designed to provide you, into public un-i;s as a school board He is survived by his wife, lOj towards generating a positiva sport experience for participating children. the parent, with an opportunity to affordable, quality service to the to deal with one. This will reduce the trustee. From 13 Î2 to 1965 he was a children and 16 grandchildren. help establish a foundation of prin- separate school representative on the Hie executive and members of the What is a positive sport ex- perience? As parents what are our ciples and expectations on which the Ottawa Board c.f Education where he Ottawa South Community Associa- expectations whan wa enroll our community can build meaningful community did not stop there. In red tape that often hinders economic early became recognized as a hard- tion and the OSCAR board join with sport programs for children. working and impartial advocate of many friends and associates in ex- children in a community sport pro- gram? Do wo look at youth sport as a Tha conference wil be held on excellence in all of the local municipal pressing their sympathy to his wife, Saturday, April 28, at tha Old March of this year, we streamlined our development while ensuring the school systems. Elisabeth, and family members. place where children can release pent-up energies, acquire new skills, Fireball, 260 Sunnyside Avenue, be on a winning team? Or might sport from 9.00 a.m. to 12 noon. corporate structure further, reducing planning and housing interests of the in the community be viewed as Ottawa South Traffic Plan update another place where children can learn and develop? the number of City departments from city are adhered to and protected. OBE provides A sub-committee of OSWATCH has tion to the OSCA executive in the near The Ottawa South Community been active since the public meeting Association will address some of school compost held last September. Once approved the revised plan these issues when tha Firehall hosts Solving or attempting to solve the will be published in OSCAR for com- its first "Sport in the Community bins for schools traffic problems facing our com- ment by community residents, and if Conference”. OSCA invites all mem- munity at a whole, as wall as trying no changes are required, the execu- bers of the community to attend a The City of Ottawa will be giving the to deal with hj;ecific concerna of in- tive will present it to the Alderman morning of diacuasipn around the Ottawa Board of Education tan fret dividual residents has been no oasy and tha traffic planners. Watch fu- question: "How can we provide the compost bins in April. If you would May is Membership month. Help make ture issues of OSCAR for develop-l most positive and meaningful sport like to receive a compost bin for your It hat taken quite a commitment experience for children?” school, please write to Rob Dunlop, of time and effort from the sub-com- Michael Haddad The keynote speaker will be Ray Assistant Director of Education, 330 mittee members to develop a set of Brian Grant Allard. A community coach himself, Gilmour Street, Ottawa Old Ottawa South a safer place to live guiding principles and proposals OSWATCH Traffic Sub-Commute* Ray Allard is a senior administrator Tan schools will be drawn at ran- which will be submitted for ratifica- Coordinator! with Sport Canada where he has dom to receive the compost bins. in. Join OSCA.

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Science Fair projects Four Glebe entries won prizes; require a great deal ot time, motivation Catherine Motuz, first prize in and enthusiasm on the part of the Intermediate Life Sciences, Colin MONTE CARLO AT GLEBE students and Glebe is especially proud Williams first and Sarah Laughlin and BY MELANIE THOMPSON of their efforts. Lisa Marie Inman, second in Senior When a hill-school assembly unrecognizable with lights dimmed and Dr. Richard Herd of the Canadian Life Sciences and Brian Rose, first in was announced Tuesday, 20's music playing. Participants Geological Survey in his address at the Senior Computer Science. Brian also April 18 most students dressed up as flappers or mobsters awards ceremony emphasized that received the IBM award for Computer probably thought, “Oh, great! Another paid an admission fee and were given promoting science through activities Technology and was one of six assembly.” However, those expecting $200,000 in play money to gamble such as science fairs is important if students chosen to represent the to catch up on sleep or perhaps finish away at blackjack tables, craps games, Canada is to maintain its level of National Capital Region at the overdue math were in for a surprise. Over and Under wheels and horse science research. Fifty scientists from Canada-wide Science Fair in Little did they know Glebe was the races. Or they could have their palm or Carleton University, the University of Whitehorse in June. first stop in a tour by the Cobequid tarot cards read. Educational Centre Symphonic Band Couples could exchange mock and Jazz Choir. This talented group vows before a Justice of the Peace from Truro, Nova Scotia has an who, in the true spirit of Las Vegas MATH AT GLEBE impressive resume of countless awards advertised “marriages between from national and international music consenting parties - no questions BY DOUG HOLLINGSWORTH festivals, performances for the Queen, asked!” At the end of the evening, the At the 1995 American Congratulations to these students former Prime Ministers Trudeau and gamblers gathered their winnings for Mathematics Competition, and all other participants lor their Mulroney and tours in the US, the culmination of Monte Carlo Night: the Glebe team was awarded excellent performance. Bermuda and England. the Auction for prizes from local a Certificate of Merit because of its Emily Simkins-Strong was also The student musicians more than businesses including gift certificates, high standing. Team members were invited to participate in the Invitational lived up to their advance publicity. dinners, video rentals and books. Sean Peacock, Hannah Hickey and Mathematics Challenge sponsored by Under the direction of Paul Barrett, Prizes were also given for Best Shan Zhang. In addition to these the University of Waterloo. The they performed a varied and difficult Costumes - a category dominated by students, seven others achieved over fundamental purpose of the challenge program with skill and musicianship. our guests from Nova Scotia, who 100 and qualified for the invitational is the encouragement and stimulation The highlight was unquestionably the dressed to the hilt in flapper dresses, contest. They were Kathryn Vant, of potential mathematics students. Last grand finale, a medley of songs from feather boas and gangster suits. Michael Caspi, Alex Klimowicz, Brian year, Glebe's representative was The Lion King, arranged by Paul Many thanks to our sponsors: Ross, Francis Bustamante, Joanna Jennifer Motuz. Barrett - one very busy man! They also Mayfair Theatre, St. Hubert, Fida's Swinburne and Anhtri Vu. performed at Fisher Park, De La Salle, Pizza, The Bike Stop, West Coast Ridgemont and Canterbury, visited the Video, Dairy Queen, Patrick Canadian Museum of Civilization, the McGahem Books, Wringers, Nick's National Gallery, toured the Parliament Bakery, Mexicali Rosa's, Lily of the buildings (all in the space of five days) Valley Florists, The Sassy Bead and found time to attend Glebe’s Company, Book Bazaar, Glebe Video, Monte Carlo Night! Papery, Sherwood Cycles; Paper Monte Carlo Night is an annual World, Karen's Chocolates, Grannie fundraiser for the Glebe Music Annie's, MotoPhoto and Leather Department. The evening of April 20, Lovers (Westgate Shopping Centre). the Glebe cafeteria was rendered

"HE GREAT CHAIR CONTEST BY DAVID GARRARD Last month, the students of Mrs having at least three design MacDougall's Grade 10 technicians. The chairs were first drafting class took part in examined for anything that would Glebe’s Inaugural Great Chair break the rules. Next, the judges Glebe Boys Water Polo Team. Back, l to r: Phil Dlab, Alex Sredonivic, Matt Wiggin, Competition. The objective of this considered the aesthetic value of each Mark Lindsay (captain), Dan Smith, Mike Dobbin. Front, Eric Bollman, Dan Ray, unique competition was to build a chair entry. They were then weighed, and John Lindsay, Sean Farrell, Adam Konecny, Tom Sharp, Quoc Vu. Absent: Ian using only cardboard and masking finally, Mr Nemanis, weighing a hair Kennedy, Adam Wilson, Chris Davis. tape. It had to be as light as possible over 250 pounds, was asked to perform and be able to support a 250 pound or the critical test of the structural BOYS WATERPOLO TEAM heavier person. integrity of the chairs. The few Before the construction could surviving chairs were then ranked on CITY CHAMPIONS begin, the chairs had to be completely total points. First prize went to Calum designed and subjected to critical de Leeum and Mike O'Connor, second BY JOHN LINDSAY design reviews. The criteria used to prize went to Robert Adriano and Vu Glebe’s Boys’ Waterpolo team Glebe players Ian Kennedy, Mark judge the chairs were: weight, aesthetic Phan and a third went to Kaling Lee, ended the 1995 regular Lindsay, Tom Sharp and Alex value and structural integrity. A panel SokhaNap and Tiyet Dang tied with Si season with 10 wins and 2 Sredonivic went on to play with the of extremely qualified Glebe teachers Hung Nguyen and Vu Phan. losses, capturing first place in the winning team in the league all-star was asked to judge this lunchtime The general conclusion was that Ottawa league. After defeating game. Alex was named best player in event attended by enthusiastic this event should be annual one. Stay Ridgemont in the first two of three the league. The team thanks spectators. tuned for next years, bigger, better, yet games in the semi-finals, Glebe entered Mr. McKercher and Jeff McGrath for There were eight entries in this to come. the playoffs against Nepean. We won their dedicated coaching, support and intense competition, with each chair the city championship with two rigorous training program. straight wins in hard fought games. MAY 1995 ♦ THE OSCAR ♦ PAGE 28

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community center to meet Old Ottawa it. If you don't get it, call Hopewell at McMillan, Graham Keay, Wael Dabaghi, HOPEWELL South's needs - will certainly be worth 239-2348. A word of warning, shows Jamie Bresolin, Kaisar Qazi and Michael RENOVATIONS the effort our parents and residents sell out fast, so don't wait to get them McCauley. You represented Hopewell BY KEIV SLEMKO put into urging the OBE and City to at the door, reserve your seats today! honorably. opewell is currently at the find the funding. Dates to remember: June 20 - Girl's basketball was exciting also. The H Junior Talent Show top of the OBE list for ARTSBEAT Girl's Intermediate School Basketball team renovation. Only one other SPORTSBEAT was in the OBE Tournament B division major capital project, a new school in BY DREW WILLIAMSON championship. It was supposed to be a real southern Ottawa, is ahead of The next big event in the Arts BY DREW WILLIAMSON nail-biter of a game, which saw the girls world is the annual Junior Musical. It Hello there, Sports Fans! It's Drew Hopewell at this point and is losing by two points in the dying seconds. comes in the wake of the very here, keeping you apprised of all the scheduled to be opened September It was a tough blow to take, but the girls 1996. Detailed drawings for successful Intermediate Musical cool sports our school undertakes. We stayed close during the entire game and “Sunnyside Junior High”. are the pride of Ottawa South, us Hopewell's renovation will be done only in the final seconds of the match was This year’s stoiy is in the tradition students of Hopewell, and we hope to this fall and construction could begin it decided. of wacky take-offs of fairy tales and stand behind our claim. (I know, I as early as the summer of 1996. Our next big thing coming up will be has the potential to becoipe as sound like a gas station ad!) Fye got a Hopewell's students would likely be Track & Field. The Intermediates will be successful as last year's “Eddy the lot to report, so let's get to it. bussed to another site during the year having an information seminar next week, Emperor”, which took no liberties First, I must apologize. I forgot to of renovation and the school would with the actual match taking place on June with the stoiy The Emperor's New include a crucial event last month. probably open September 1997. 14-15. Junior Track and Field practices Clothes. The Hopewell Parent-Teacher The Intermediate Boys came in and team selections are starting soon too Organization (HPTO) voted at its It's title: “Jack and the Giant”. As second in the OBE C division with their match coming up June 8. March meeting to strongly support you guessed, it is a takeoff of the volleyball tournament. Their loss in The Hudson Seargent Relay races are classic Jack and the Beanstalk, and as Hopewell remaining a kindergarten to the Glashan tournament was just a also approaching fast Practices start soon, grade 8 school. HPTO's Renovation you also may have guessed, it is silly. tune-up to this, THE BIG ONE!!! followed by the actual meet on June 2. I had the pleasure of taking a sneak Committee will spearhead the effort Thanks to Dave Chartrand who Also, the Juniors begin their own peek at the script, and I smell a corrected me, I will try to remember to ensure renovations stay on track, lunchtime House League Basketbell on winner here. The script is funny and both because of education and safety my facts from now on. Thursday, May 4 and will continue until fast-paced, the songs are good, and it needs and because the old school Also this month, we had the Boys June. Dancing has also become the centre continues to deteriorate through only offers the actors a chance to Intermediate Basketball team of attention for the Intermediate girls, who minimum attention from the OBE improvise, as all of Allison participating in the Fisher Park have begun Line Dancing sessions during Woyiwada's plays do. plant department. Tournament. They played Phys-Ed. The boys will join soon, and There are two casts; Cast 1 respectably, placing third in a One option is for a community from what I hear, it is a real gas. performs on May 24, Cast 2 on May tournament of five teams. Way to go, colter as part of the renovated school. Recent neighborhood sporting 25. Eric Theoret is cast as Jack on the guys! The guys also played well in the OSCA is strongly in favor of this successes have been the Annual Ottawa, * 24, Matthew Floyd on May 25. Ryan OBE tournament championship, but option and is actively pursuing it with South Neighborhood Run and the first McCauley and Kim Jackson share the they didn't qualify for the medal the City of Ottawa. Annual Ottawa South Street Hockey role of the Giant (Ryan on the 24, and round. Hats off go to the members of The key to meeting targets, both Tournament. It's good to see the Kim on the 25th). The role of Jack's that team: Nabil Ahmed, Todd Willis, for the OBE and the City, will be neighborhood getting involved with sports. mother, Louise, is played by Elisabeth James Pearson Robertson, Jon Saper, finding money to finance this major That's all folks! Don't forget to turn to Fraser and Maxine Urquart. Jordan Langdon, Hugh Strange, improvement in our community. The me next month for the exciting final I know what you're saying: All Aaron Gillich, John Laroche-Smith, result; a state-of-the-art school OSCAR Hopewell sports column this right! You've convinced me! How do Kevin Bromfield, John Oulton, Yusuf equipped to provide education to school year! It's sure to be fun! I get tickets! Well, a note will be sent Yusuf, Alex Molitz, Gordon children in the computer age and a home the week of May 1, so look for

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CURRICULUM Mary Cavanaugh, who worked hours artists. and several cheerers, and succeeded in each day for a week in the basement HELPING CROATIAN fielding one of several teams powered by St. ENHANCEMENT Margaret Mary students in the first annual music room assembling the CHILDREN ENHANCERS centrepieces, and who patiently Bellwood Avenue road hockey tournament Theresa Smith's senior kindergarten The call went out just past mid- explained the task to parent volunteers on March 25. students, pictured here, were the top April for parents to help put who dropped by. St. Margaret Mary students transfer fundraisers in the recent school-wide together centrepieces for the Five hundred centrepieces, their road hockey finesse to the ice and have campaign to help send school supplies Conference Board of Canada Business displayed in 55 holders decorated with a tradition of enthusiastic participation in and stuffed toys to Croatia. and Education Conference held earlier student artwork, were completed and Canada's winter sport through the Ottawa Congratulations and thank you to Mrs. this month in St John, New sent off to the conference. Centre Minor Hockey Association. Brunswick. Smith and her students! ARTISTS IN SENIOR Congratulations to Tim Stiles, James St Margaret Mary School offers an ROAD HOCKEY Breithaupt, Daniel Lahey, Arthur Fels and KINDERGARTEN enriched visual arts program under the At the eleventh hour, grade 6 Eric Lynch, whose teams made it to the Susan Draeger recently visited direction of artist Pamela Lassere, and student Patrick Lahey brought together league championships this year in their Madame Smith's senior kindergarten has developed a partnership with the three big brother plus little brother respective divisions. Conference Board on this arts theme. class and sent us the photos that form combinations, threw in some cousins Thanks to Dianne Lupinska and this collage of Pamela Lassere-inspired

Helpers for Croatia. Photo byTheresa Smith

Road Hockey team. Photo by John Dance

PEARLS OF TRUTH: SUBMITTED BY ANANT NAGPUR 1. When passion enters the door, reason exits by the window: Le Sage 2. The world either breaks or hardens the heart: Chamfort 3. Other men’s sins are before our eyes.our own behind our backs. Seneca 4. Society is like a piece of frozen water, and skating well is the great art of social life: L.E.Landon 5. Religion is like the fashion, one man wears doublet slashed, another laced, another plain, but every man has a doublet, so every man has his religion. We differ about trimming. Selden 6. Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket. Horace Greeley 7. Nothing endures but personal qualities: Walt Whitman (source: The Equity, Shawville, Quebec, July 10,1890) • Home repair & renovation • • Interior / Exterior • • Mature & reliable • • Honesty & personal service MEMBERSHIP MONTH at an affordable price • May is Membership Drive month for the • Free estimates or advice • Ottawa South Community Association or OSCA as it is known. Get involved • 720-3350 • with Old Ottawa South. Join OSCA. MAY 1995 ♦ THE OSCAR ♦ PAGE 30 GUIDES AND BROWNIES BY STARR CAMERON-WRIGHT ROYAL LEPAGE SUCCESSFUL COOKIE A sleepover took place at the Museum of Aviation as a joint venture SALES with the Wednesday (30th) Guides. A RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE SERVICES This year’s spring cookie sales went Over 17 years of combined experience. reminder that there will be no Monday well with both the support of the Call us for Free Evaluations or Advice. Guides on Victoria Day, May 22. The community and the efforts of the remainder of the meetings will focus on Brownies, Guides and Pathfinders. the banquet which traditionally OFFICE Thanks to Jane Gough, who once again concludes the guiding year for the girls. 165 Pretoria Street took CHI the task of Cookie Coordinator Each parent will be asked to bring in a for the Colonel By District and did a 238-2801 dish representative of a world centre wonderful job. for the May 29th gathering. 85TH ANNIVERSARY 30TH GUIDE COMPANY In recognition of this 85th year of The girls enjoyed their overnight Guiding, a celebration will be held at ROGER WALKER JANNY MILLS adventure at the Museum of Aviation Rideau Hall on Sunday, May 28. Area 725-1475 236-1991 with the 5th Guides. Activities were Brownies, Guides and Pathfinders are Sales Representative Sales Representative scheduled by museum staff to help the invited to enjoy a picnic on the grounds girls earn the Aviation badge. Thanks of Rideau Hall. Activities will take to everyone at the museum for a place from 1-4 p.m. memorable experience. NEWS FROM THE PACKS The guides went fishing near Vincent Massey Park with the ENVIROSENSE 5TH BROWNIE PACK assistance of Denise Wachelka. The The Brownies have been busy with outing completed the requirements for BY DAVID MCNICOLL spring activities and cookie sales. the Angler badge. Although the fish Interested in knowing how “green” figures to compare them to. Speaking of cookie sales... "Brownie" didn't seem too hungry that night, your home is? Concerned about Now that their visit is over, we points to the cookie buyer who noticed everyone enjoyed the opportunity to your energy, heating and water certainly have many issues to consider that the Brownie canvassing his house meet outside in the "fresh" April air. bills? Well there’s a new kid in town in our castle. Some winter days our had unknowingly dropped five dollars Thanks again Denise for sharing your called Envirosense who will try to home feels like the NRC wind tunnel, on his porch. In her haste to make the fishing expertise with the Guides. help. so air sealing and insulation will be on next sale, the eager Brownie vanished The guiding year will officially You can arrange for a free check-up our “to do” list. down the street. With some quick close with a banquet on May 31 of your home. Two home advisers For us the most contentious issue is detective work, the good neighbour celebrating the world centres. Parents come by and spend a good hour with the composting. We have none at was able to return the money to its and Guides will be asked to provide you, walking your home and property. present. Of course I would never dare rightful source. A good turn and a food from each of the four major They advise on such matters as air to comment about my partner, but her grand howl, indeed. centres (England, Mexico, Switzerland sealing, moisture control and position can be characterized as “let’s Leaders Sam and Jenny are treating and India). ventilation, heating system and hot get some of those cute, red worms”. the girls to an end of year party of Leaders Nancy Watters and water, insulation, lights and appliances, Shell settle for a composter. The back bowling and pizza later this month. Christine LeGrand are planning a household hazardous waste, indoor & yard is a good four feet wide in places, The girls are getting ready for their fly- spring camp with the girls in June. outdoor water use, waste reduction, so I would characterise my position as up to Guides at the end of May. green space and transportation. It “I want to keep the garden and the. 30TH PATHFINDERS certainly seemed potentially useful for view of the north forty”. Maybe I'll 5TH GUIDE COMPANY Several Pathfinders worked at the Janice and me, so we arranged for have to settle for a composter. At the end of April, the guides Plastics and Cardboard Recycling Envirosense to visit our little castle on Certainly it will be an ongoing worked on their Keep Fit Badge with project held at the end of April. Thanks Sunnyside Ave. discussion. the help of parent Peggi McNeil. to Mayor Holtzman for attending and I didn't think more about it until the Some issues are difficult to resolve. Badge testing was also completed to everyone in the community for your appointed day approached. Then I For example, in our home, the majority under the watchful eye of Heather support. As the year draws to a close, noticed that Janice and I had become of our electrical consumption is the Dow. Earlier this month the girls the girls have been busy completing decidedly strange. We turned the fridge (40%) and the water heater visited the # 10 Fire Station and were program work and are planning a camp thermostat down during the day, we (30%). We want to get the instructed about the intricacies of our weekend at Murphy's Point in early didn't bathe or even flush the toilet consumption down without lifestyle local fire department. June. (ugh) and we took to wearing three loss, but how? And at what sweaters - to bed. “short-term” cost? The fridge cools We had developed what food even though for a large part of the psychiatrists might call year it’s below freezing outside and the “envirophobia”. It's a variation on fridge is in a warm room. Bizarre. And getting up at 5 am to clean the house in our house, we have a bath and wash Minelli Viper before the house cleaner arrives. Or, dishes once a day. Yet the heater is on 18 speed MTB you're going to the dentist, so you 24 hours a day. Lots to think about Minelli Promenade brush and floss your teeth like crazy especially on the purchase of big ticket 18 speed hybrid, ‘cause...Cause what? Like you can fool items. Gripshift the X-rays! For us, Envirosense was a list $299 * '94 rental models It really wasn’t so bad. Two worthwhile project. Of course, each * professionally maintained * * economical city transportation friendly people turned up and it was home is different, as is each person’s actually fun. It was interesting too, economic situation and lifestyle. When New Norco Quest hybrid or Norco Mountaineer MTB $289 Univega 501 $575, Univega 503 $725, Univega 507 $ 975 hying to figure out how to save money the advisers have finished they leave Used locks $12, used Bell Triumph helmets $20 without losing services. you with a recommendation sheet Service mechanics on duty daily : thorough tune-up $40, overhaul $80 At their request, I had worked out which features their top three priorities different energy and utility uses for the for your home. Roces Italian in-line skates for rent past few years. I had gone to the extra Envirosense is organized through very comfortable, quality Abec 1 bearings effort of plotting water, electricity and the Ottawa-Carleton Green Rear Parking Chateau Laurier Hotel oil use as graphs. The graphs show that Communities Initiative. It's a 1 Rideau St at MacKenzie. our heating oil use and electrical partnership of various governments, 241-4140 consumption were flat. And thanks to utilities and industry players. For more Harry Munson, Proprietor ©RentABIke our new toilet, water consumption has information call them at 798-4748. dropped significantly. Unfortunately our home advisers had no “average” MAY 1995 ♦ THE OSCAR ♦ PAGE 31 4H NEWS I May is Membership month. Help OSCA improve Old Ottawa South. Join Up. BY DAVID MYERS The fourth meeting of the We talked to the RCMP about their Ottawa South 4H Pet Care explosives-sniffing dogs, and to people Club was held April 6 at Little from Canadian Guide Dogs for the LITTER BOX BLUES Critters Pet Shop, Billings Bridge Blind and met some of the dogs LYNN MORGAN, D.V.M. Mall. We learned where and how the involved in both jobs. Does your laundry basket smell box in a safe, quiet, and easily store gets animals and what kinds of There were many commercial like cat urine instead of accessible location. If your cat is pets they sell. Susan, the animal care exhibits of pet food and pet care Fleecy? House soiling, which elderly, he would appreciate a box on attendant, showed us many different products, with lots of free samples for is vet talk for what happens when your every floor. kinds of animals, birds and fish in the our lucky pets. Other exhibits included little Felicity or Mork leaves puddles of Third, place the box where your cat store. She explained how to look after kennels, dog clubs, municipal by-law urine or piles of feces outside the litter has been soiling, even if it is the middle each pet, from the tarantula to the officers, wildlife centres and Humane box, is a common problem among cats. of the dining room floor. Then, move talking parrot, the iguana, the budgies, Societies and the Central Canada Spraying small amounts of urine on the box a few feet every day, over the puppies and the hamsters. Veterinary Association. The evening vertical objects is a different kind of several weeks, to where you want it. / Members got to pet a cute, prickly was very exciting, educational and house soiling that I'll discuss in a later Fourth, keep your cat from little hedgehog and to hold a hermit entertaining. We even picked up a column. revisiting the wrong place. Clean a (Tab. Unfortunately, I got pinched by a recipe for homemade dog biscuits. Some owners, who think they have carpet with carpet cleaner, then rub a hermit crab when I put my finger too Achievement Day was held on May tried everything, become so frustrated few moth ball crystals deep into the close to his claw! Jason Myers, Club 5, 1995 with friends and parents in with house soiling that they consider pile. Wash floors first with a President thanked Susan and Mrs. attendance. Congratulations to all euthanising their cats. However, there strong-smelling cleanser, such as Greenberg, owner and manager for members for their enthusiasm and may be a simple answer. Your Pinesol and then with a solution made taking time to teach us about pet care commitment. We hope you will join veterinarian should examine your cat to up of one part Dettol and four parts and ownership responsibility. Thanks other 4H clubs so you can keep see whether a disease is causing the water. to all parents for their active learning to do by doing. Thanks also to problem. If she says it looks more like Fifth, if you have more than one participation in the trip. members parents for their support and a behavioral problem, it can often be cat, you should have one box per cat, Our fifth meeting was a trip to Pet encouragement, and to our club leader corrected with a few simple changes in plus one extra. Also, using two types Fantasia, April 21. We thank the Dr. Davis Myers for all of his hard Utter box management. of Utters should satisfy individual Ottawa-Carleton Humane Society for work in making the club a success. First, keep a clean Utter box. Scoop preferences. their support for this event. We FORESTRY CLUB feces daily and change the Utter twice Sixth, never punish or try to grab displayed our club exhibit "Pets Need Anyone, 10 to 21 years old, weekly using at least two inches of your cat in or near his box. In fact, Tnd Give Love", which explains how to interested in joining a 4H Forestry unscented Utter, preferably the punishment never accomplishes be a responsible pet owner. We saw an Club which will be starting soon please clumping variety or clay. Clean the box anything with cats; it only makes excellent agility dog show, a seminar contact Davis Myers at 730-5972 or with warm water or dish soap; do not things worse. cm dog grooming and lots of pets such Peter Hecht at 730-5902. Trees, use strong-smelling cleansers. As for Dr. Lynn Morgan is a veterinary as ferrets, snakes, hedgehogs, parrots, literature, instruction and fun will be baking soda, leave it for the chocolate behavioristwith the Alta Vista Animal fish, iguanas, racing pigeons and provided at a minimal cost. cake. Hospital and has appeared on radio rabbits, not to mention dogs and cats. Second, cats prefer an uncovered and television.

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BOOK READING ART LENDING SHOW Minister: Rev. S.A. Hewlett All are welcome at this church. The Organist/Choir Director: Sandra Dean members of Southminster would Denise Chong, local author will read June 20 - Bill Salter, Jean Monteith, 10:30am Worship consider it a privilege to have you from her book, “The Concubine’s Madeline Moir. Unitarian Church Hall, • Sunday School for All Ages worship with us. Children”, 7:30pm May 24 at Bytown 30 Cleary Ave. • Nursery Care during Worship • Audio Loop System for Hearing Childrens’ Centre, 88 Bellwood. Free DANCE RECITAL If you are making your home in Old registration call 730-4384. Impaired Ottawa South, we extend to you a Bolf Dance Academy will hold their • Wheelchair Access to Sanctuary warm invitation to make Southminster BYTOWN DAYCARE & annual recital, June 10,7:30, Glebe Cl. • Coffee Hour following Worship your church home. NURSERY SCHOOL $10. Call;235-2813 Bytown is taking registration for Sept ALZHEIMER AGM ‘95. For more info call 730-4384. The OC Alzheimer Society will hold YOUTH SOCCER CAMP their AGM June 5. Dr. William Molloy Ottawa Royals will hold its summer will speak on Advanced Health Care CLASSY ACS camp for boys and girls, 6-13 yrs, June Directives (Living Wills). Reg. 17 and 24 at Brewer Parie. Call Steve deadline May 30. Call 722-1424. Classy Ads are a service for Old Ottawa South Residents and must be submitted Cochrane, 230-6484. VOLUNTEERS NEEDED in writing to OSCAR, The Old Firehall office by the last Friday of each month. Your name and phone number must be included. Only your number will appear GARDEN PARTY SCO Hospital, coffee house needs in the ad unless you specify. Please make sure your phone number is correct. The Perley Hospital Auxiliary will hold servers, socializes on weekends. Call Ads will appear for one month only. The Editor retains the right to edit for their last garden party at Aylmer Ave, Mireille Roy, 782-2761. Elisabeth- length or include and takes no responsiblity for items, services or accuracy. Sat June 10,2-4pm on the grounds. Bruyere needs escorts and boutique Exp. mother of two, full/part time workers. Call Caroline Horgan NEEDED MAIN EVENT 562-364. mornings, 2yrs+, refs, home backs on Sat May 13, 10am-2pm, Ottawa East The Volunteer Centre needs OSCAR needs Vi hour monthly to Windsor Park. Call 730-8991 Community Association will hold a fundraisers, help with canvassing, deliver on: Echo Drive - Bank to Sept 95- full time, your home, 7yrs exp giant yard sale, raffle. Main St at organization. Call 789-4876 Southern - 30 papers. Sunnyside, with family, field exp, refs. St. Pauls. Info call Wendy 235-0096 BONE MARROW DONORS northside, Bank to Riverdale - 18 Call 565-098 lor 730-3851 papers. Willard, eastside, Sunnyside FORESTRY CLUB Upcoming info sessions: May 23/June to Belmont -18 papers. CAREGIVERS WANTED The Ottawa South 4H Forestry Club 10, 7pm, Red Cross HQ, 1800 Alta ContacUlufina^30-276^^^^^^^ will be starting soon. Trees, instruction Vista Dr. June 12, noon, Red Cross, 85 Housekeeper, companion for older lady and fun. Anyone 10-21 years interested Plymouth St. For info Paulette Laberge STREET SALE in good health, enjoy music, art, in joining call Davis Myers 730-5972 567-2028. movies, concerts, art galleries, or Peter Hecht 730-5902. Belmont, June 3, Rain June, 9am to SENIOR CITIZENS COUNCIL negotiable terms, hours, driver pref. 3pm. Bank to the River. Rock bottom ART IN THE PARK Windsor Pk area. Tea and concert, 1-3:30pm, Wed prices. Call Klara 730-1983 The 3rd Annual Art in the Park festival June 7, National Library, 395 will take place in Central Park in the Wellington. $4. Call 234-8044. MISCELLANEOUS For 2 children, 22mths, 4 yrs, ECE preferred, refs, in our home, shared in Glebe, June 10. Visit artists, crafters, CAMP DE JOUR CARROUSEL see balloons, art, hear music, have fun. A call to action! CHIVALRY is not our home or in your home - walking Un camp de jour pur les enfants, de 18 just romantic notion about the Knights distance Hopewell School. SAFER COMMUNITIES mois a 5 ans, du 4 juillet au 18 août, TEMPLAR In its new expression for Call 730-3609 A Safer Communities conference will 9h-13h, 5 ave Myrand. Inscription a the third millenium, it is transforming To share excellait caregive, girl, 2, our take place at Ottawa City Hall, May compter du 22 mai. Comp. 789-4004. way of life. Brothers & Sisters, you are home, Mon-Fri 8-5, prior Sept 1. 18-19. Variety of topics. For info call invited to write: CIRCES International the Crime Prevention Council 244- Inc. PO. Box 35165, Ottawa, Ont. Call 730-1935 5300 ext 3396. K1Z 1A2. Part time care/housekeeper for 2 children, 6,9, Mon-Fri, 3-6pm, meals, FOR RENT housekeeping, exp., refs, non-smoker. Mona’s Custom Catering Sept 5. Call 730-4927 after 6pm 3 bed, fully-equipped, Nova Scotia \ + Celebrates cottage, beaches, museums, trails, For 2 children, 1, 4, my home, non- Our First Anniversary peaceful, June-Oct. $475 week smoker, flex hours. Call 730-0541 after 5pm. Call 730-4265

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