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COMMUNITY CALENDAR Wed. Nov 2, 12:00 Doors Open for Music (DOFM), “In Memoriam,” Southminster United Wed. Nov 2, 19:30-21:00 Rideau Chorale, Fauré’s Requiem and Cantique de Jean Racine, Southminster United Sat, Nov 5, 9:30-14:00 Frosty’s Fair Christmas Bazaar, Trinity Anglican Sat. Nov 5, 19:00 Fall Music Series “Songs From The Shadows,” Southminster United Tues, Nov 8, 16:00-20:00 RVCA Hazard Mapping Open House, Brewer Pool Wed. Nov 9, 12:00 DOFM “Beautiful Love,” Southminster United Sat. Nov 12, 14:00-17:00 Drop Off for Hopewell PS Ski & Skate Sale Sat. Nov12, 16:30 Music at Trinity “A Soldier’s Tale” Sat. Nov 12, 19:00 Fall Music Series “Afro-Cuban Meets Jazz,” Southminster United Sun. Nov 13, 9:00-12:00 Hopewell PS Ski & Skate Sale and Yard Clean Up Wed. Nov 16, 12:00 DOFM “A Sanctuary In Song,” Southminster United Sat. Nov 19, 19:00 Fall Music Series “Nostalgic Dreams,” Southminster United Sun. Nov 20, 15:00 Fashion Show Benefit for Out-of-the-Cold Suppers, Life of Pie Wed. Nov 23, 12:00 DOFM “Concertino!” Southminster United

Sun. Nov 27, 10:00-16:00 OSCA “Shop Your Local Talent” Holiday Craft Sale, Firehall Wed. Nov 30, 12:00 DOFM “Late Romanticism Today,” Southminster United Sun. Dec. 4 OSCA Breakfast with Santa, Firehall

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Tribute to Children’s Librarian Hélène Merritt Nestled amongst the garden Hélène Merritt. Fondly flowers at the side of the remembered by the Ottawa Sunnyside Branch is a Children’s Literature new tribute to Children’s Roundtable and generations Librarian Hélène Merritt (in of readers.” both French and English). PHOTO BY KATHY KRYWICKI “OPL Children’s Librarian

Hopewell and Glebe Collegiate Partner for a Ski & Skate Sale By Rebekka Roy new ski/skate/snow equipment, but that you get to fundraise for It’s time for everyone to rummage your school as well. While folks through their storage, basements, will be bringing home 75% of and for many in Old Ottawa their overall sales, 25% of the South and , their front profits go to your school to sup- entrances, to sell their winter port the amazing programs they sports equipment that no longer offer. It’s a win/win. fits or is no longer being used. Drop off is from 2-5pm on Sat- It’s also time for everyone to urday, November 12th. The sale come out and buy new winter begins at 9am and ends at noon on goods, like skis, helmets, skates, Sunday, November 13th. sleds and more to refill those emp- Still not a fan of winter but want ty corners in the above-mentioned to support Hopewell’s school spaces. spirit, not to worry - we have you That’s right! It’s our annual Ski covered! We will also be clean- & Skate Sale! This year, Glebe ing up the yard. Please bring your Collegiate and Hopewell Public kids, rakes, bags and gloves - the School will be hosting the event more energy we have, the more in the Hopewell Parking Garage fun it will be! (on Hopewell Avenue). It’s a great If you’re interested in volun- opportunity for people to offload teering for the event (we need their gently used winter sports folks to help manage this great equipment, and upgrade to “new sale), please contact Rebekka Roy to you” versions! at [email protected]. The best part of the sale isn’t Looking forward to seeing you just that you clear out your stor- there. age or buy wickedly affordable

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NEWS Fashion + Scratch Baking = Support for OOTC Suppers & A Little Bit of Heaven! By Nancy Bickford chairs being in hot demand - they will be snatched up on a ‘first-come, Mark your calendars for Sunday first-seated’ basis. The afternoon’s November 20 for an event just about fashion show will be divided into as close to heaven as you can get! two sections with an intermission for Two of our neighbourhood’s most more chatting – and of course, more popular businesses are teaming up to treats. present a unique fashion event that Once the show begins, don’t be promises to be a sell-out. Life of Pie surprised to see some of your friends and The Clothes Secret are planning and neighbours strutting their stuff a fashion show in the Life of Pie a on the catwalk. The Clothes Secret is Café and Bakery. You and your best enlisting the help of their very chic friends will be treated to a parade of customers to show off outfits from affordable fall looks, with a special the Fall and Winter Collection. focus on the upcoming holiday sea- To complete the looks on the run- son. Tickets are $20 each, with every way, hair and beauty professionals penny of your admission going to from our strip will be volunteering support the Out-of-the-Cold Suppers their services to make sure our ladies held every Saturday at Southmin- look their best when they walk the ster United Church right here in our walk. And there will be door prizes neighbourhood. to be won; local businesses along Between the ever-popular Sun- are eager to help with PHOTO BY COCHRANE PHOTOGRAPHY day brunch service and the start of this fundraising event in support of the event, Life of Pie will be closed the OOTC suppers. Be prepared to be with a bit of shopping, making the noon of affordable fashion inspiration briefly to prepare for your arrival. tantalized! most of your “me-time” perusing the + home-baked goodies + friends and Doors open at 3:00 pm, and once Once the actual fashion parade is racks and seeing what’s new. Need neighbours + after hours shopping = you’re inside you’ll enjoy a chance complete, your afternoon isn’t quite an outfit for a holiday event? Winter altogether that’s my idea of heaven! to chat with your neighbours, mix over yet. You will be able to go next coat blues? How about a new Kate And it’s all happening right around and mingle and enjoy delicious baked door to the Clothes Secret and take Spade bag? Treat yourself at afford- the corner in the heart of OOS. goods compliments of Life of Pie. a closer look at the pieces you saw able prices that won’t upset your Don’t be surprised to see that the coming down the runway … and buy gift-giving budget. P.S. Space for seating is limited – cozy bakery we love to linger in has it if it’s calling to you! Even though Tickets are on sale now at the so don’t be disappointed; buy your been transformed into our very own the shop usually closes on Sundays at Clothes Secret and they are only $20. tickets soon. OOS version of Fashion Week, be- 5 pm, Valerie has offered to keep the Your admission buys you an after- cause just like at New York Fashion doors open for ticket holders Week, the chairs will be lined up from 5-7 pm so you can round along a runway with the front row off your girls’ afternoon out

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NEWS OSCA Fall Fest

(Top-left to right). Fall Fest organizers, Julia Morency, Brenda Lee-Heilmann, Darcy Middaugh and Nancy Brunet. Julia Morency and Michael Jenkin serve soup to Mayor Jim Watson. Fall Festers enjoying the culinary choices. (Bottom-left to right) Bouncy Castle crowds. The epic tug of war. MJ Hodgins, Scott Clarke and Adrian Vezina judge the various food entries. PHOTOS BY BRENDA LEE-HEILMANN, BECCA WALLACE AND BRENDAN McCOY

By Brenda Lee-Heilmann the scavenger hunt and jelly bean Autumn soup and a prize of a Natasha Stewart guessing game. 50-dollar gift certificate from Patty’s Alison Hayward Mayor Jim Watson came by the • Darcy Middaugh for the live Pub. Isabel Dancause OSCA Fall Fest on Oct. 2nd at music. Annette Wenderoth won best Maryn Marsland Windsor Park, and as he stood there • To Die for Games for setting up a bread with her entry of Honey Oat Michael Jenkin with a slight drizzle of rain falling wonderful array of various board Bread and a prize of a 25-dollar gift Clay Morency around him, he looked at the crowds games for us to try. certificate from Taylor’s Genuine. Selena Arvai and said “I guess even the rain Jayme Kelso won best pie with an Greg Strahl doesn’t stop people.” “No,” someone And of course the prizes: entry of Apple Cinnamon pie and a Kayla Wennekes replied, “We are Canadians!” “NO, prize of a 50 dollar gift certificate to Bridget Marsland the Mayor and I replied at the same Raffle Prizes Stella Luna. Ilona Peltz time, “We are Old Ottawa Southers!” • birdy and bug Tote Bag, won by Christopher Heilmann won best Becca Wallace And hence it was true, with the rain Genevieve Martin preserve for his black kale, cabbage Sarah Rosborough falling intermittently, and a slight • Electric toothbrush from Bank and caraway seed sauerkraut and a Katherine Boisvert mist surrounding us, it was indeed a St. Dentistry, won by Brenda prize of a 25-dollar gift certificate to And as always thank you to the bit of a magical day. Approximately Lee-Heilmann. Quinn’s. amazing team of organizers, Darcy 250 people braved the rain and • Yummy Cookies cinnamon buns Petra Heitcamp won best jam for Middaugh, Julia Morency and Nancy came out to celebrate Fall and their won by Meredith Walker her concord grape jelly and a prize of Brunet. It is ALWAYS a joy and community of . • A loot bag and a 50-dollar gift a 25-dollar gift certificate to Quinn’s. delight to work with you and you So many to thank for making this certificate from the Loot Bag Annette Wenderoth won best make events fun to organize! I truly day the magical thing it was. So let’s Lady, won by Grytsje Schurer. overall for her Honey Oat Bread and love you guys! start off with: • A large bag of books from a 75-dollar gift certificate from The Thanks OOS for another fabulous Kaleidoscope Kids Books won Belmont. Fall Fest!! • Tracy Arnett Realty for providing by Dries Schurer. Brenda Lee -Heilmann has always the Bouncy Obstacle Course Thank you to all of the businesses loved the fall season and this is why from Circus Delights. Jelly Bean guess winner was who donated prizes and also to all she was a co-founder of the OSCA • Metro Glebe for the hot dogs, Teagan Stewart with a guess of 372 those who submitted entries. Some of Fall Fest. This fall she had enjoyed buns and condiments. beans, the answer was 375. the recipes are on facebook and in the bright coloured leaves, blue skies, • Starbucks for the coffee and iced OSCAR and the website. warm baked goods, cozy hand-made tea. Best Food Prizes Thanks also to our judges, M. J. shawls ....and a name change. • Shoppers Drug Mart for the juice Selena Arvai won best meat soup Hodgins, Adrian Vezina and Scott boxes. with her entry of Minestrone with Clarke. • Cedars for the delicious Bacon and a prize of a 50-dollar gift Thanks also to all those who McIntosh apples. certificate from Life of Pie. volunteered at this event: • Bulk Barn Billings Bridge for Petra Heitcamp won best veggie Emma Charland the suckers and jellybeans for soup with her entry of Creamy Teagan Stewart The OSCAR l November 2016 Page 5

NEWS Some Winning Recipes from Fall Fest

BEST JAM leaves 20min in cup of water) quick cooking oats (not instant), • 1/2 large kohlrabi, grated • ½ cup sunflower seeds plus 4 tablespoons for garnish Concord Grape Jelly • 3 chard leaves, chopped • 2 corn (kernels off the cob) • 3 tablespoons sugar By Petra Heitkamp • 3 kale leaves, chopped • 2 tsp coriander powder • 2 3/4 teaspoons salt • 2 garlic cloves, smooshed into a • ½ tsp cayenne pepper • 1 teaspoon instant, fast rising, or (Juicy grapes ripened in the Ottawa fine paste • Pepper/ salt bread machine yeast sunshine in our garden.) One 4-inch sprig of rosemary • 1/4 cup clover honey or light 1/4 C packed basil leaves, chopped Kale croutons: (mild) molasses Ingredients 1/4 C packed parsley leaves, chopped • 4 kale stalks (washed and leaves • 1/4 cup corn oil or other • 1 liter / 4 cups concord grape Cover and cook until vegetables are stripped in 1-2 inch pieces) flavourless vegetable oil juice tender, about 10 mins. Stir in: • 2-3 Tbsp olive oil (or coconut • 2 1/4 cups, plus 2 tablespoons ice • 1 tsp cinnamon One 14-oz can whole tomatoes oil) water, plus more if needed. • 2 pkg Certo/ fruit pectin crystals (squish each one into pot with hands) • 2-3 Tbsp lemon-juice • 5 cups granulated sugar Cook, stirring, over medium-high • 1 tsp mustard (Maille – w seeds) First rise: In a large bowl, stir heat for 3 to 5 mins. Stir in: • Pepper (freshly ground) together flour, oats, sugar, salt and Instructions 1 to 2 cups cooked navy beans (about • Sea salt yeast. In another bowl or measuring half of them mashed) cup mix honey (or molasses) in with 1) Make Juice from the grapes: 10 C stock Instructions oil and water. Stir water mixture into Wash and rinse about 2kg grapes salt, to taste 1. Prepare a steamer (or medium dry ingredients until blended. If the and drain in a colander. Remove Parmesan Rind sized pot with 2 cups water) and add mixture is too dry, stir in additional grapes from the stems and discard the cauliflower broken in pieces. water, just enough to mix. Don’t over the stems, leaves and bruised grapes. Bring to boil. Reduce heat and Steam the cauliflower until almost moisten - the dough should be stiff. Take a large cooking pot and add all simmer, partly covered for 30 mins. soft. Add cauliflower and its water in Cover bowl with plastic wrap and let the grapes. Crush the grapes (with Remove the rosemary sprig. Stir in: a blender, add 1-2 cups cold water. rise at room temperature for 12 to 18 a potato masher) and add 250 ml of 1 C elbow macaroni Blend 30-45seconds until a creamy hours. Vigorously stir once during water. Bring to a boil (stir once in a Simmer for 15 mins. mixture. the rise. while) and then lower the heat and Remove parmesan rind. 2. Heat olive-oil in a large stockpot. Second rise: Stir the dough. If let simmer for about 15 minutes. Put Season with salt and pepper, to taste. Add the chopped onions, cook until necessary, stir in a little more flour a few scoops of the grapes and juice golden brown, then add the garlic, to yield hard-to-stir consistency. into a sieve, which is hanging over a (Recipe loosely adapted from Joy of ginger and chopped celery and cook Generously oil two 8 1/2 x 4 1/2 large bowl. Let this drip for about 2 Cooking) for another minute or two until inch loaf pans. Sprinkle a tablespoon hours (no squeezing) to end up with browned. Add chopped up carrots of oats into each, tip pans back and 1 liter (4 cups) of clear grape juice. and small chopped red bell pepper. forth to spread out. Use well-oiled If you want the jelly to be very clear, Stir for 3mins. kitchen shears or serrated knife to use a jelly bag, or double layered 3. Add cauliflower cream, 1 liter of cut dough into two equal portions. cheesecloth instead of a sieve. water, vegetable bouillon cubes and Put the portions in pans. Brush tops bay leaves to the onion mix and bring with oil. Sprinkle a tablespoon of 2) Boil the Jelly: In large clean pot, to a boil. Once at a boil, reduce heat oats over each loaf, press down to bring juice and pectin to boil. Stir to a simmer. imbed. Make a 1/2 inch deep slash in sugar and bring back to boil for 4. In the meantime, prep the cashew lengthwise down the centre of each 2minutes, stirring constantly with cream by placing the cashews nuts, loaf. Tightly cover the pans with non- wooden spoon. sunflower seeds and 2 cups water in a stick plastic wrap. high-powered blender for 45 seconds, Let rise using one of these 3) Canning process: Sterilize the or until pureed. methods: For 2-3 hour regular rise, cans (small 125 ml/ ½ cup jars and/ 5. Add the cashew cream to the soup. let stand at room temperature. For or 250 ml/ 1 cup jars) and lids in Add corn, coriander powder, cayenne 45 minute to 2 hour accelerated rise, boiling water. Use a clean funnel and pepper. Cover and let simmer for let sit in turned off microwave along fill the jelly into the jars leaving a ½ about 15 minutes. Add water if with 1 cup of boiling-hot water. For cm clear from the top. Wipe the top consistency is too thick. an extended rise, refrigerate, covered, rim of the jar and cover with the lids. 6. Prepare the Kale croutons. Warm for 4 to 24 hours, then set out at Add the jars to a large (canning) pot oven to 200F. In a large bowl mix room temperature and continue rise with boiling water for 10 minutes to olive oil, lemon-juice, mustard, until dough nears the plastic cover. seal the jars. Take out of the water pepper and salt. Add the kale pieces Remove it and continue until dough and let cool and stand for two days. to the bowl and mix kale with hands extends 1/2 inch above the pan rims. The lids will pop if sealed well. You BBEST VEGGIE SOUP to cover all kale pieces well with the can test by pushing the top which oil mixture. Spread out on an oven Baking: should not move. Store in cool and Creamy Vegetable Cashew Soup tray and bake for 15-20 mins. 15 minute before baking time, place dark place for up to 1 year. with Kale Croutons (gluten-free) 7. Add salt and pepper to taste, and a rack in the lower third of the oven, By Petra Heitkamp serve. preheat to 375 F. MEAT SOUP WINNER Bake on the lower rack for 50 to 60 Ingredients BEST BREAD minutes, until tops are well browned. Minestrone Soup AND Cover tops with foil and bake for Submitted by Selena Fraser Soup: BEST OVERALL WINNER another 10 to 15 minutes until skewer • 1 Tbls olive oil inserted into thickest part comes out Heat in large soup pot over medium • 2 onions (chopped small) Easy Oat Bread with just a few particles clinging heat until bacon has released its fat, 2 • 3 garlic cloves (minced) to the bottom portion. Bake for 5 to 3 minutes: • 1 inch ginger (minced) Submitted by Anette Wenderoth, minutes longer to be sure centres are • 2 T olive oil • 3 celery stalks (chopped small) from the book “Kneadlessly done. Let cool pans on a wire rack • 4 slices bacon • 2 large carrots (chopped small) Simple” by Nancy Baggett. for 15 minutes. Turn out loaves onto • Add and cook, stirring until the • 1 red bell pepper racks and cool thoroughly. greens are beginning to wilt, 5 to • 1 cauliflower Ingredients Cool completely before slicing or 10 mins: • 2 bouillon cubes storing. The bread will keep at room • 1.5 C chopped onions • 2 Liter water • 5 1/2 cups unbleached all- temperature for 3 days, and may be • 3/4 C chopped carrots • 2 bay leaves purpose white flour frozen for up to 2 months. • 3/4 C minced celery, including • ¾ cup cashew nuts (let soak for • 1 cup old-fashioned rolled oats or Page 6 The OSCAR l November 2016

CHRISTY’S CORNER Programs, Camp and Event News By Christy Savage worked hard to re-vamp and update in need. We cook pancakes, have programs. Our annual ‘Summer cookies to decorate, and Santa and Winter 2017 Programs Camp Wrap’ meeting with staff gave his elves visit. Breakfast with Santa We’re excited at the Firehall because us some great ideas for next year. is free, we ask for a food donation to our growing Program Committee We’ve also asked for 2016 camper the Ottawa Food Bank, and dona- recently met to discuss adding some feedback with our ‘2016 Summer tions to our local neighbour Empathy exciting new programs to our winter Camp Survey’. House. Finally, Christmas wouldn’t schedule. Our Program Guide will be With all of this input Sarah Cybul- be complete without watching the posted online in mid –November. We ski has been hard at work planning movie White Christmas with friends will have hard copies at the Centre Summer Camps for 2017 and we’re and neighbours at The Mayfair on least, OSCA’s Board of 20 oversee and in the OSCAR newspaper as of looking forward, yes in the middle of Sunday December 11th. all of this. What’s amazing is that all December 1st. winter, to launching. of our committees and the Board are We’ve received much feedback Registration for summer camps Who/What is OSCA volunteers. from members of the community. As will take place the first week of Feb- OSCA is a community associa- The building belongs to the City, a result, we’re adding more pre- ruary. We’ll have our schedule posted tion with a number of committees. who provide a part time Centre school, child and youth programs on online in December and the guide We have a Program Committee who Director (Janet Conley Paterson) to the weekends. We’re going to initiate will be printed and distributed in the oversee preschool child, youth and oversee the facility and the staff at new Teen and Youth programs, and OSCAR in January. Please stay tuned adult programs. Our Communications the front desk - Customer Service consult with them on what programs and be sure to go to oldottawasouth. Committee has been hard at work Reps (CSR’s) – who are also City they would like to see at the Fire- ca for more information. reviewing the website and creating staff, but all programs are run by hall. Finally, we’ll be expanding our communications strategy, process OSCA. Sometimes it can be confus- Adult Special Interest programs with Special Events and procedure. The Special Events ing to know who the City is and who new courses in the evenings and on With Winter approaching, it Committee, and the numerous sub OSCA is. We’ve had a very long and weekends. wouldn’t be festive without our an- committees for each event, oversee healthy partnership and so it’s easy We also plan to introduce a few fun nual ‘Shop Your Local Talent’ Craft all OSCA Events such as Shop Your to see our roles mesh and merge. events on weekends and during the show at the Firehall. On Sunday Local Talent, Fall Fest, Cardboard For those of you who often ask how week for families, teens and adults November 29th drop by for a won- Challenge, Breakfast with Santa and OSCA is connected to the City, or alike. derful day that showcases local talent many more. We also have a busy how we operate and run so many Registration for Winter 2016 pro- from painters, artists and potters, Planning and Zoning Committee and programs and Committees, I hope grams will take place on December to soaps and body lotions and even a very engaged Traffic and Safety this helps. 6th and 7th. specialty food. This event is sure to Committee who, in addition to their OSCA also has four full time staff please all and is a great way to add Traffic and Safety work also actively and two part time staff. I’d like to Summer Camps 2017 to your holiday shopping. One week engage with The Green Dreamers invite you to go to our staff page, on For many years the Firehall has later, on Sunday December 6th, join who have been greening our com- the website, to learn more about us been well known for our fun and us at the Firehall for our Fifth annual munity. Finally, we have a Finance and how you can reach us. You can solid Summer Camp programs. ‘Breakfast With Santa’. This is an Committee and two working groups: find us at oldottawasouth.ca in the Last year the coordinators and staff event that the Firehall staff voluntari- one for Human Resources and one ‘About’ section under ‘Office Staff.’ ly run as a way to give back to those for Health and Safety. Last but not

OSCA PRESIDENT’S REPORT Strategic Planning By Linda Hancock In reviewing all, we felt that South and initiating new OSCA’s purpose, as written in our programs and policies which Four years ago, the OSCA Board by-laws, was as relevant at that time benefit the community; and began a Strategic Planning Process. as it was many years ago when our d) Conducting such social, edu- The first step in that process was original by-laws were drafted and ap- proved. The purpose is as follows: cational and recreational pro- to ask the community for input on grams as shall, from time to issues important to the future of time, be deemed desirable. Old Ottawa South. The result of our Purpose survey was the collection of some The objectives of the Association important thoughts, information and are to promote the quality of life in In one way or another, most of Governance and Sponsorships/Fun- ideas. The OSCA Board deciphered the community so that Old Ottawa what we do fits within one of these draising. OSCA is in need of some the results and used these results as South is a pleasant, fulfilling and objectives. Earlier this year, we new Committee members. If you our jump off point for determining meaningful place in which to live, conducted a survey to assess how the have expertise in any of these areas, our goals and priorities for the next by: community felt we are doing at de- and have some time to volunteer, few years. As we reviewed and dis- a) Promoting and protecting the livering on our mission and purpose please get in touch with me at presi- cussed the results at a strategic plan- interests of the community and working toward our Vision and [email protected]. ning day, we agreed that the follow- with respect to the planning Mission. The good news is that it ap- If you would like to know more and future development of ing Vision and Mission statements pears that we are heading in the right about these Committees or Task Old Ottawa South and its would guide our goals and priorities direction and we thank all of you Groups, I would recommend visiting environs; for the next few years. who took the time to do our survey. www.oldottawasouth.ca. Under the b) Ensuring through its repre- We will be reviewing the results a OSCA section, you will be able to re- Vision sentatives that the commu- little closer at an upcoming Board view the latest reports and learn more OSCA – at the centre of our vibrant nity’s interests are effectively strategic planning session. about their priorities and activities. and dynamic community in the heart communicated to public and As the Board revisits some of Enjoy November in Old Ottawa of the city. other agencies whose activi- these more strategic discussions, our South! ties may be of concern to the Committees and staff team are hard Mission community; at work. OSCA has the following OSCA builds a strong sense of Committees in place – Communica- community and engages the residents c) Keeping the community tions, Finance, Planning & Zoning, of OOS through its various programs, informed about available Program, Special Events and Traffic activities and opportunities services and activities. & Safety. We also have Task Groups which may be of benefit to that are working in the areas of the residents of Old Ottawa The OSCAR l November 2016 Page 7

OSCA Shop Local in Old Ottawa South By Brenda Lee-Heilmann the Firehall is packed to capacity and at forty one stores in one place and see what our local artists and arti- the event is one of the best-attended I don’t have to go to a mall, I don’t sans have created. A complete list I can still remember the first OSCA ones we host. have to feel overwhelmed and frus- of vendors will be available in mid Shop Your Local Talent Holiday I love this event for many reasons, trated, I can take my time and chat November on the OSCA website at Craft Sale that was held years ago. It I get to see people I don’t see often, with vendors and find unique gifts for www.oldottawasouth.ca and on our was very small, I think we had a total to chat and catch up. I get to watch others (and myself, let’s face it) and Facebook page. of nine vendors and they were all in people find treasures, exclaim over I can support local. It is more than a the main hall of the original Firehall. the array of talent that our area has to win win situation, it is a win win win Brenda Lee-Heilmann shops every We wanted to try it out and see what offer, happily show their friends their win win situation. year at the OSCA Shop Your Local would happen. Would people come? newest purchase, see that look of On November 27th from 10:00- Talent Holiday Sale and sometimes Well they did, they asked for more relief on someone’s face as they find 4:00 the Firehall will once again be these gifts actually make it into other and it has now grown to full capacity. that perfect gift for someone. And filled with amazing vendors, one of a people’s gift bags and not her own. With forty-one vendors, each room in of course I get to shop. I get to shop kind creations and an opportunity to

SHOP LOCAL 10am to 4pm Sunday November 27

Windsor Park Rink Needs Volunteers Windsor Park Rink Needs contact: Volunteers for the 2016-2017 [email protected] Winter Season!

Thanks to OSCAR’s many volunteer writers and distributors for helping get the news to you! The OSCAR is a self-supporting newspaper, paid for entirely by advertising, and reliant on volunteer contributors and distributors. Windsor Park Rink volunteers playing shinny last year. PHOTO BY JESSICA JOHNSON Thanks to the Dairy Queen for contributing to our community through By Sarah Cybulski for the hard work of the volunteers – many of whom no longer use the rink its support of the many As the weather turns colder and the themselves. OSCAR volunteers. days grow shorter, we inevitably This year, we are looking to add know that winter is just around the more members to the team. The more corner. With winter fast approaching, volunteers we have, the less time we’re beginning to get things ready each member of the team has to help with the Windsor Park Outdoor Rink. flood. As the old saying goes, “many Each year, a team of volunteers hands make light work.” works tirelessly to prepare the ice If you’re interested in helping or and then maintain it throughout the would like more information, please season. They help to build a base, email Sarah Cybulski, OSCA’s build new sheets of ice, and flood it Preschool, Children, and Youth each night to help keep it pristine for Program Coordinator at sarahc@ skaters. oldottawasouth.ca. Having a rink at Windsor Park Dairy Queen, 1272 Bank Street would not be possible if it weren’t 738-7146 Page 8 The OSCAR l November 2016

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR The OSCAR welcomes letters on subjects of interest to the community or in response to previous articles. All letters must disclose the name of the writer, as well as their address. Letters may be edited for length, clarity, and libelous statements. The opinions of the writers are not necessarily those of the newspaper or its editor. Email your letters to [email protected]

Re. New Signs Saying No Off leash Dogs

To the Editor,

A small correction, but an important one. The area Mr. Hunter describes is part of Linda Thom Park (which runs along the from Bank St at Billings Bridge, to the entrance of Windsor Park) and it has always been a dogs on leash area. There are signs along the entire pathway indicating such, the sign put up is just a new sign, not a new law.

Brenda Lee-Heilmann

Canal Rehabilitation with Winter Detours By John Dance destrian crossing of Colonel By just west of the Bank Street bridge has Pedestrians and cyclists using the long been sought by residents so the Colonel By Drive pathway between temporary stop signs may contribute Bank Street and the “stone steps” to the case for a permanent crossing. at Riverdale-Echo will likely be “During the winter, the fences diverted onto Echo Drive this winter protecting the construction site will as Parks rehabilitates the extend into the canal a short distance, Rehabilitation of Canal walls will likely require cyclists and pedestrians to walls on this section of the Rideau but will have only a limited impact detour onto Echo Drive. PHOTO BY JOHN DANCE Canal. on the Rideau Skateway due to the “Repairs to these walls will im- width of the canal at this location,” prove the safety of land-based says Mr. Whitehead. “Residents and visitors using pedestrian and cycling visitors will continue to be able to paths adjacent to the canal walls, and skate past this location while the increase the lifespan of this his- rehabilitation work is underway.” toric canal,” says Darryl Whitehead, The “in-water” work is expected Brokers Diane Allingham & Jennifer Stewart 613-725-1171 spokesperson for the Ontario Water- to be completed by the start of next ways Unit of Parks Canada. year’s boating season and repairs The project is part of an $18 mil- to the pathway by late spring. In lion five-year project which last the fall of 2017 additional work on winter saw the reconstruction of the the canal walls is expected between walls on the Glebe side of the Canal Mutchmor Road and Herridge Street between Bank and Bronson. and between Pretoria Bridge and There are approximately 20km of the Queensway. The work on the concrete walls on the Mutchmor-Herridge section will be in the City of Ottawa’s downtown coordinated with the beginning of area, originally constructed in the construction on the new Fifth-Clegg 1930s. Gradual deterioration necessi- footbridge. tates repair and in certain locations - The rehabilitation of the Ride- like near Pig Island - total rebuilding au Canal walls in central Ottawa is of the wall. part of a $3 billion investment by the While the detour is not yet final- Government of Canada into heritage, ized, it will likely require pedestrians visitor, waterway, and highway assets and cyclists to use the ramp connect- located within national historic sites, ing Colonel By to Bank Street, the national parks, and national marine GLEBE SEMI 250 Holmwood Ave. Listed at $639,900 signalized Bank- Alymer intersec- conservation areas across Canada. tion, Echo Drive and the stone steps “This investment in preservation, between Echo and Col By, just op- rehabilitation, and restoration of our posite Pig Island. Cyclists may prefer national historic sites will protect our to make the Colonel By crossing at heritage and strengthen their appeal the Clegg Street intersection to avoid as destinations to celebrate our na- the stone steps. tion’s achievements,” concludes Mr. Whitehead. During similar work last year on JUST SOLD! JUST SOLD! the west walls, Parks Canada worked For more information about this or with the NCC and the City to install other infrastructure projects along the GLEBE ANNEX DUPLEX WEST CENTRETOWN DOUBLE CENTRETOWN SINGLE 514 Cambridge Street S 244/242 Loretta Ave S 168 Florence Street stop signs on Queen Elizabeth Drive Rideau Canal please visit pc.gc.ca/ Listed at $529,900 Listed at $775,000 Listed at $519,900 at both ends of the detour to assist rcInfrastructure. Questions, con- pedestrians and cyclists in crossing cerns and requests for updates on the [email protected] this busy roadway. project should be emailed to Rideau- #200 –1335 Carling Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario K1Z 8N8 Parks Canada anticipates that a [email protected] with “Ottawa similar approach will be used on the Walls” in the subject line. Colonel By side as well. A safe pe- dianeandjen.com Page 10 The OSCAR l November 2016

Conservation Authority Hazard Mapping Open House November 8 at Brewer Park Pool By Diane Downey consideration and will be used by the management. these maps. City of Ottawa and the Conservation Members of the public are encour- For those unable to attend an open Members of the public are invited to Authority when updating Official aged to attend the open houses and/ house, mapping can also be seen an upcoming open house to review Plans and Zoning Schedules and in or provide comments on the draft online at www.rvca.ca and comments hazard maps. The RVCA has just the review of other related Planning mapping. sent to [email protected]. completed a review and update of Act applications. RVCA will also use The next Open House is Novem- existing hazard maps (floodplain and this mapping to guide the review of ber 8 from 4 to 8:00pm at Brewer Diane Downey is the Director of steep slopes) along the Rideau River construction applications in envi- Pool, in the Ottawa Lounge Room. Communications for the Rideau from Hogs Back to . ronmentally sensitive areas such as Conservation Authority staff wel- Valley Conservation Authority. These maps are typically known as wetlands, shorelines and waterways come historical records of past flood “floodplain mapping,” but they also and along steep slopes. events, news clippings, photographs Hazard Mapping show areas that are prone to natural The goal of this mapping is to help and even anecdotal stories to help Open House hazards such as flooding, erosion and ensure that sound planning decisions confirm the reasonableness of calcu- November 8, 4:00-8:00 pm unstable slopes and natural environ- are made — keeping people and lations and resulting hazard mapping. Brewer Pool, ment features such as wetlands. The property safe. Accurate engineered Local residents are encouraged to 100 Brewer Way mapping takes these features into hazard mapping is the foundation share their knowledge to help the Lounge Room of effective floodplain and resource Conservation Authority further refine

OCSB TRUSTEE’S REPORT Catholic School News By Kathy Ablett, Trustee 2017 after walking for 517 days and Run. This year the staff and students covering 9000km. Bill received a raised $13,248.76 for a grand total of Immaculata High School News standing ovation from Immaculata over $250,000 over the years. Kudos Push For Change Assembly - On staff and students at the assembly. to all participants! Sept. 27th students at Immaculata HS were honoured to host a Opening Liturgies - On October Corpus Christi News student assembly for Bill Roberts, 13th and 14th Immaculata students Corpus Christi is in full swing this a man who is currently pushing a walked across their parking lot to the fall. The school staff and the Catholic shopping cart across Canada to raise Canadian Martyrs Church to attend School Council have been working to their opening liturgies for the new ensure that our programs are engag- money and awareness for Youth Apostolate, visit www.rosaryaposto- school year. Canadian Martyrs Pastor, ing and enriching. Homelessness. Bill, who went from late.com. Fr. Jim Fiori, spoke about being the The students are currently running being a homeless youth living on the On Friday, October 28th, our “Good News” which ties in with the a Food Drive for our friends at the streets to a successful businessman, parent volunteers ran our Annual OCSB spiritual theme, “Sent to be Centretown Community Food Cen- brought an inspiring message of Monster Mash Dance-a-Thon! Our the Good News”. Special thanks to tre. It is our hope that we can give recovery and resiliency. The Push students and teachers were dressed in Chaplaincy Leader Leah Daly and thanks through giving and be able to for Change campaign began on May costume and danced the day away as Choir director Jennifer Martinez, provide our friends with some help 1st, 2016 when Bill began his walk they raised money to support school as well as our many students who this month. in St. John’s, Newfoundland. He will programs and initiatives. participated in the opening liturgies. On Monday, October 17th, Corpus end in Vancouver, BC, on Sept. 30th, As mentioned in last month’s once again began its journey with post, this year, Corpus Christi has Annual Stratford Trip - Each the Rosary Apostolate. This group of partnered with St. Patrick’s Home to year grade 10, 11 and 12 students committed volunteers comes to Cor- build an intergenerational relation- from Immaculata travel to pus Christi school (and many other ship with our students and the resi- Stratford, Ontario, to experience schools) once a month and teaches dents at St. Patrick’s Home. We were the world of Shakespeare. From our students about the rosary, the th blessed to have their choir provide Holiday Gala Nov 5 ! October 10th to the 12th students intercession of Mary, Mother of God, beautiful music for our Thanksgiv- attended three plays, took part in and the Holy Spirit. Our students ing Liturgy on October 6th, and we Come watch and learn as our workshops and tours of St. Jacob, look forward to learning and pray- look forward to having them lead us professional make-up artist Noah Stratford and the Festival Theatre. ing the rosary with our friends of the in song once again on Remembrance demonstrates a detailed step-by- Apostolate and every year our stu- Day. step ‘everyday’ make-up Terry Fox Run - Immaculata High dents grow deeper in their faith as a In addition to our wonderful lunch- application and turns it into a School celebrated its 24th year of result. For more information about or time active programs provided to us glamorous yet easy to achieve involvement with the Terry Fox to become involved with the Rosary evening look for the holiday by the Glebe Neighbourhood Ac- tivities Group (GNAG), we are also season. happy to welcome Hatch Canada for Reserve your seat today with the lunch time programs in coding, Mad purchase of a $10 ticket ($5 is Science who run a chem-lab lunch donated to the Canadian Breast time program, Arts Express for their Cancer Foundation and $5 is cartooning programs, and our local redeemable in store with any Math and Chess Association for their cosmetic purchase.) Math and Chess programs. Providing There will also be goodie bags these types of engagement activities and raffles to win one of our help encourage student learning and beautiful (and stuffed!) gift thinking in new and fun ways. baskets. Treat yourself, update your look Please continue to check your school and support a great cause, one newsletters for current and upcoming that touches us all. For a comprehensive overview, events. please visit our web site: 1080 Bank Street www.sandyhill.ca or call If, at any time, I can be of assistance 613-526-1800 to you please do not hesitate to call Open 8am-10pm 7 days a week Nathan Gurnham at (613) 832-1717 me at 613-526-9512.

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COUNCILLOR’S REPORT The Right to Feel the Wind in Our Hair By David Chernushenko in Copenhagen in 2012 by Ole generations. Kassow, who wanted to help Danish This social experiment Not another column about cycling! seniors get back on their bicycles. He demonstrates that a simple and Well, yes and no. More like a column wanted to give them the opportunity elegant act can translate into uplifted about community building, senior to feel the wind rush through their spirits and improved medical health citizens’ quality of life and, well, hair, but he first needed a solution to at the personal level. More than that, feeling wind in your hair. their limited mobility. He found the when implemented on a larger scale, That’s going to require some answer in a trishaw, and soon started it improves the morale and spirits of explaining. offering free rides to residents of a entire communities, with profound For the many seniors in our midst local nursing home. changes noted by staff and volunteers Sponsors, residence operators, pilots who live in some form of retirement The trishaw seats the passengers at participating residences. and donors are coming together home or assisted living residence, up front, affording them a full But can it work in Ottawa? After because of the obvious genius of the getting outside is a special and yet view, while the pilot sits behind all, we’re not Danish, and not idea. If that is you, please let me rare and limited event: A stroll in them as they wheel around the everyone here grew up on a bike. know. the garden, a walk or wheel around neighbourhood, or to whatever No matter. It can work, and already Together, we give everyone the the block, an hour sitting on a bench destination they’ve agreed to. The is. Earlier this year, Gary Bradshaw opportunity to feel the wind in their in the sun, perhaps a drive. All are trishaw has a canopy to shelter the brought Cycling Without Age to the hair. welcome distractions, I’m sure, but passengers from sun or rain, and an St. Louis Residence in Orleans, in Gary Bradshaw of Cycling they can’t compare to the mobility, electric-assist motor to help the pilot. partnership with Bruyère Continuing Without Age will be the featured freedom and social engagement that Everyone aboard is close enough to Care. The success of this pilot project speaker when I host my annual many seniors once enjoyed, once converse throughout the ride if they will be reviewed at the end of the Seniors’ Luncheon on November 3 considered normal. wish. year, with a view to expanding the at Villagia in the Glebe (formerly In Denmark, where almost That’s it. So simple and yet life- program. The Palisades.) We’ll also learn what everyone in their 80s or 90s changing. I am so enthused about Cycling the City of Ottawa’s Active Living remembers what it feels like to ride a Based on feedback from passengers Without Age that I will be working Club can offer “still cycling” seniors, bike, the loss of that ability can mean and pilots, what may seem like “just with several partners over the coming try some senior-friendly yoga, and more than just the loss of exercise. a bike ride” is so much more. Cycling months to explore how we might find out about other City services. It is equally a loss of a sensation, of Without Age is a way for seniors roll out more bikes at more facilities, Seniors living in Capital Ward can participation, and of experiencing to rediscover or be re-immersed in notably at some of the seniors’ still register to attend the luncheon by and enjoying the world beyond one’s the place where they live, meaning residences in Capital Ward. At around emailing [email protected] or by very limited local environment. both the social community and the $9,000, the specialized bikes are not calling 613-580-2487. This explains the extraordinary physical environment, in almost any cheap, and we would need enough success of an organization and social type of weather. The volunteer pilot, volunteer coordinators and pilots to movement known as Cycling Without who can be of any age provided he make a large-scale program work. Councillor David Chernushenko: Age (cyclingwithoutage.org), which or she can ride a bike, enjoys the But I am confident we can find these, 613-580-2487 | David. enlists volunteer “pilots” to take one benefit of exercise, along with the along with plenty of passengers. [email protected] | www. or two non-cycling, older adults for feeling of contributing to the health After all, the program is working capitalward.ca a ride in a three-wheeled bicycle- and social and mental wellbeing of well in the more than 200 locations rickshaw hybrid, or “trishaw”. the passengers. For everyone, it’s around the world that have joined Cycling Without Age was founded a way to make new friends across the Cycling Without Age network.

MPP’S REPORT Ontario: A Place To Stand, A Place To Grow! By Yasir Naqvi, MPP Ontario is marking the anniversary Across our great province, we are of Confederation in ways that honour providing $25 million to renovate, re- There is no doubt as you look around our past as a province and nation, and pair and retrofit existing community Ottawa that we are all getting ready ways that will help chart a course for and cultural infrastructure; $7 million for major celebrations next year. our future. I was proud to join Pre- to help communities celebrate this It’s Canada’s 150th birthday in mier Kathleen Wynne at the National truly historic year; and $5 million 2017 – the sesquicentennial! And as Art Gallery in Ottawa to announce for community partnership programs the province’s support for hundreds to help foster the next generation of construction ramps up and the event version of the province’s unofficial of community-based projects in hon- Ontario leaders. roster grows and grows, I am proud anthem. I dare you to listen to the our of the 150th anniversary. These Ottawa’s celebrations will be a to share that Ontario too is celebrat- tune and not dance along! “A Place to projects are ones that will leave little extra special next year with ing its 150th birthday since Canada’s Stand, A Place to Grow” was origi- lasting social and cultural legacies Ontario’s $9 million commitment birth year and our government is nally written for Expo 67 in Montreal across the province and contribute to to help our community’s year-long backing the celebrations in a big but it has gotten a whole lot funkier economic growth. event schedule. This commitment way! with a fresh, young and upbeat re- will help our arts, music, culture and make. You can hear it on YouTube by festivals sectors flourish into our an- searching “Ontario 150”. niversary and beyond. Our city will It is still only fall, but all eyes are be hosting millions of people, from on the new year and what 2017 will local residents to people from around bring for our community and our city the world! This money will help at-large. The Province’s funding will Ottawa greet each and every person truly make this a year to remember coming to our community and allow and in our communities and homes, them to experience this great place the celebrations will be carrying on we call home! long after the crowds leave and the Another exciting part of the Pre- fireworks go off. mier’s announcement is Ontario’s logo for the yearlong, and, an update Page 12 The OSCAR l November 2016

MP’S REPORT A Busy Fall in Both Parliament and Ottawa Centre By Catherine McKenna, MP planet and our future. and businesses in making our country What should interest us now − cleaner and more competitive. the only thing that should interest us We are the first generation to truly This fall has been an extremely busy now − is doing something about it. feel the effects of climate change, and one. Although my portfolio as a Right now polluters aren’t paying the last that is able to do something Cabinet Minister has been front and their fair share of the environmental about it before it is too late. My centre in the last month, I remain damage that they cause. But let’s be hope is that future generations will very much focused on Ottawa Centre clear: polluting is not free. The bill remember this year as the year the and working with the amazing will always have to be paid. Right world did something about it. a study of viable alternate voting individuals and organizations that now we are passing on the true cost systems to replace the first-past-the- are collectively doing so much to to our children and grandchildren. House of Commons Page Program post system, as well as to examine improve quality of life in the riding! That is why I am so proud On October 3, the Speaker of the mandatory voting and online voting, Through “Coffee with Catherine” of the plan the Prime Minister House of Commons, the Honourable and to assess the extent to which the and town hall events, I have had recently announced to price carbon Geoff Regan, announced the launch options identified could advance the thought-provoking discussions with pollution. Under this plan, all of the 2017 - 2018 recruitment following principles for electoral hundreds of Ottawa Centre residents. Canadian jurisdictions will have campaign for the House of Commons reform: I really appreciate that so many of pricing for carbon pollution in place Page Program. Each year 40 students • effectiveness and legitimacy; you have taken time out of your by 2018. Together, we will create are selected from high schools and • engagement; busy schedules to talk to me about the clean-growth economy necessary CEGEPs across Canada to work as • accessibility and inclusiveness; issues that are really important to for the collective health, prosperity, parliamentary pages. The deadline • integrity; and you. My office will continue to and security for this generation of for applications is December 5, 2016. • local representation. publicize upcoming events at www. Canadians − and the next. For more information please visit CatherineMcKennaMP.ca and www.parl.gc.ca/Employment/House/ The Special Committee on Electoral through social media. Ratification of the Paris Agreement PageProgram. Reform, which includes MPs from all With Parliament back in session, at the United Nations parties, will release a report including Question Period has become a From the earliest days of our Electoral Reform Consultation recommendations on what changes significant focal point. If you would government’s mandate, as Minister Our electoral system is the basis should be made to our electoral like to obtain tickets to a future of Environment and Climate Change, of our democracy, and it shapes the system and what additional methods Question Period session, please I have been invested in the Paris way our government operates and should be used to engage with complete the form on my website or Agreement. Last December, I led makes decisions. However, with the Canadians. call my office at 613- Canada’s delegation to COP21, exception of the most recent election, 996-5322. where our country played an since the 1980s, voter participation Citizenship Ceremony instrumental role in reaching that rates in federal elections have been On October 12, I had the honour Carbon Pricing historic agreement to keep the global declining. National levels fell as of representing the Honourable John We know our climate is changing. temperature increase below 2 degrees low as 58% of the public voting in McCallum, Minister of Immigration, We know that years of inaction and Celsius, and where Canada fought 2008. One of the main reasons that Refugees and Citizenship at a indifference − here in Canada and to make sure Indigenous rights were seems to be contributing to this is our ceremony for 60 new citizens at around the world − have undermined recognized in the Agreement by all current voting system – the First Past the YMCA-YWCA of the National our collective ability to protect our 195 countries that signed on. I was the Post system. Capital Region. It was both there when Canada signed the Paris On October 11, I hosted an open heartwarming and poignant to see Agreement on April 22, 2016, Earth discussion about electoral reform these new citizens, many who have CATHERINE Day. at the Tom Brown Arena. Some made enormous sacrifices to move On October 5, Parliament voted to 150 participants enthusiastically to our country, realize the unique MCKENNA support the ratification of the Paris shared their ideas on this very freedom and opportunity that comes MP—Ottawa Centre Agreement, true to our commitment important topic. It was great to hear with being Canadian. As our Prime to do so this year. And once again, constituents from Ottawa Centre Minister has said many times, our Canada is a leader in taking action express their views on our current diversity makes us a stronger nation. Working for you! on climate change. Our action will system, and the principles they would bring the world over the threshold like to see form the foundation of the Calendar Updates Community Office 107 Catherine Street of 55 countries accounting for electoral system of the future. If you are aware of community Ottawa, Ontario, K2P 0P4 55 percent of global greenhouse gas I joined other MPs from across events taking place in Ottawa T 613-946-8682 • F 613-946-8680 emissions needed to bring the Paris the country in sending a report, Centre that I can publicize in my /McKenna.Ottawa @CMcKennaOttawa Agreement into force. including feedback and ideas from e-newsletter, please contact me Here at home, we continue to our consultations, to the Honourable at [email protected]. work for Canadians, including Maryam Monsef, Minister of Indigenous peoples, businesses, and Democratic Reform. Keep in Touch with Us the provinces and territories. We A Special Committee on Electoral We want to hear what issues are remain committed to developing a Reform was also struck by the important to you, so please feel free to get in touch with our office at 613- www. CatherineMcKennaMP.ca Canadian plan for clean growth and House of Commons in June 2016. 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MAYOR’S REPORT A Clean, Green City

Mayor Watson, Hydro Ottawa President and CEO Bryce Conrad, Environment Committee Chair David Chernushenko, Transporta- tion Chair Keith Egli and others display one of the 58,000 LED streetlights to be installed.

By Jim Watson, Mayor expected to receive approximately natural splendor of our city. $85,000 a year or $1.7 million in If you would like to learn more, Following its residents, Ottawa’s revenue over the 20-year contract. visit www.jimwatsonottawa.ca. best asset may be its natural beauty That’s revenue for important services and geographic diversity. It is from renting roof space that our responsibility, as the current otherwise would not be used. stewards, to ensure the vibrancy and The cost of solar panels has health of Ottawa’s natural features reduced dramatically, which for future generations. is why solar projects and this Through investments like the partnership with Energy Ottawa Action Plan (ORAP) makes good sense. and Light Rail Transit (LRT), we The ultimate goal is to add solar have made tremendous strides in panels on all city buildings that ensuring the health of our city and can accommodate them, as long its residents by cutting down carbon as it makes financial sense – and emissions, reducing pollution and so far, it does. As solar panels and waste, protecting our green spaces other green technologies become and much more. more affordable, these projects As an organization, the City of will become more widespread. Ottawa needs to strike a balance In 1885, Ottawa became the between developing the city as a first city in the world to light all green community, while ensuring the of its streets with electricity. It’s long-term affordability of services. fitting that we continue to pioneer Alongside Energy Ottawa, innovative new green technology. a subsidiary of Hydro Ottawa, Last month, alongside I recently had the pleasure of Environment Committee Chair announcing the installation of solar Councillor David Chernushenko, panels on eight City buildings as I announced the conversion part of our ongoing commitment to of 58,000 streetlights to LED expand renewable energy generation technology. An initiative that, in Ottawa. This is following the upon completion, will save the success of the 2010 pilot project, City an estimated $6 million where smaller solar energy systems annually. were installed at City Hall and at the Street lighting accounts for Integrated Transit Operations Control 17%of the electricity used by the Centre on Belfast Road. City. The conversion is expected Once all eight solar projects are to reduce energy consumption by complete, the system is expected to 50% per fixture. Since converting generate nearly 3,000,000 kWh/year; 750 lights on Carling Avenue in the equivalent of removing more than 2015, the City has already saved 300 homes from the grid annually. more than $72,000 annually. The renewable energy generated Tapping into the potential of from these panels is expected to green technology is not only reduce greenhouse gas emissions by fiscally prudent: it will generate 41,382 metric tonnes over the next new revenue for the City, improve 20-years. the quality of life for its residents Additionally, the City of Ottawa is and ensure the longevity of the Page 14 The OSCAR l November 2016

ARTS AND CULTURE Edith Piaf Lives! By Nadia Senyk was available on the internet. audience to its feet several times. The accordion echoed Topp’s She has honed this character A barefoot Pandora Topp in a voice, ever so gently, often perfectly both with her voice, slim black dress brought to life quirkily, in keeping with the as well as in her approach and Edith Piaf, the iconic French Piaf/Topp persona, as she talked demeanour. It was mesmerizing chanteuse, at Café Piaf, the about the life of the star between to listen and watch as she inaugurating concert of the songs like Sous le ciel de Paris presented Piaf at her truest. Saturday night Concerts by the and Bravo pour le clown! She Canal series at Southminster described how, when Piaf’s Nadia Senyk is a lawyer who likes United Church. Topp channeled mother and then her father, to write, and has lived in Old Piaf with impeccable Parisian weren’t able to look after her, Piaf Ottawa South for 15 years. French, despite having grown was taken in by her grandmother, Concerts by the Canal is the up in an Anglophone family, who ran a brothel, and later by second music series presented by learning French on the streets of her other grandmother, who Roland Graham, Artistic Director, Montreal. Her elegant back-up didn’t like the way she was being the first being the very successful accordionist, Iona Reed-Pukara, looked after, so took Edith in Wednesday Doors Open for perched on a stool playing the herself. That grandmother, too, Music noon concert series, now classic Piaf cabaret songs, for ran a brothel. in its fourth year. which she had transcribed the Topp’s raw, heartfelt repertoire music from cassettes years ago was full of gems like Non, je ne for her accordion, for the guitar, regrette rien, L’hymne a l’amour, played by Ron Kelly, and for the composed by Piaf herself, and Pandora Topp singing with “Café Piaf.” double-bass, played by Brian ending with the classic Milord Quebec, long before such music in her clarion voice, bringing the PHOTO BY HARRIET CARLSON

Marion Dewar: A Life of Action

Reviewed by Tony Wohlfarth rights, her role as an MP and a mother. The arc of her life’s work is told chronologically and Marion Dewar, perhaps Ottawa’s best ever the portrayal is (understandably) sympathetic. Mayor, is remembered in Marion Dewar A Life Pictures tell a thousand words, and the photos of Action, written by Deborah Gorham. in the book are incredible. Dewar was the Mayor of Ottawa from 1978 – Absent from this sympathetic account is 1985. She is best remembered for Project 4000. any mention of Dewar’s love of film. As a Launched following the Vietnam War, Project film writer & critic, I know that Marion was a 4000 was a citizen-driven initiative to welcome regular at the annual Toronto International Film thousands of Vietnamese boat people to the na- Festival (TIFF). Tragically, she died (at the age tion’s capital. As Canada welcomes thousands of 80) in 2008, after falling during TIFF. of Syrian refugees, our track record of generos- Deborah Gorham is a Professor of History at ity is often forgotten. Carleton University. She was former Ottawa Marion Hilda Bell was born in Montreal in Centre MP Paul Dewar’s professor at Carleton, 1928 and raised as a devout Roman Catholic and Professor Gorham was asked by the family in Buckingham, Quebec. An aspiring student, to write this biography. Gorham had unparal- she graduated from Glebe Collegiate Institute leled access to Dewar’s family, friends and and was offered a scholarship to study science papers – making the book rich with family lore, at Queen’s University in Kingston. Her father, accessible and a great read for her many admir- Wilson Bell, refused to allow his daughter to ers. study “a course like that” so Marion studied nursing instead. Tony Wohlfarth is an Ottawa-based freelance Gorham’s book devotes more time to Dewar’s writer. other accomplishments – as a feminist, a peace and a daycare advocate, her focus on tenants’

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MUSIC Music at Trinity: Igor Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s Tale, November 12th By Fabien Tousignant, Artistic Director

The Soldier’s Tale was composed in 1917 and premiered in Lausanne, Switzerland, on September 28th 1918. It is a theatrical work that is meant to be read, played and danced, and it is accompanied by a septet of instruments. The text was written by the Swiss writer Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz and the music composed by the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky. The story is inspired by a Russian tale compiled by Alexander Afanasiev and contains Faustian similarities. The Soldier sells his violin to the Devil in exchange for a book that can predict the future. The Soldier shows the Devil how to play the violin and the Devil takes the soldier with him for three days to show him how the book works. Then the soldier returns to his hometown but no one recognizes him, not even his mother nor his fiancée who was now married. Instead of the three days promised by the Devil, it had been three long years. The Soldier puts the book to use and becomes in- credibly rich but even with his massive fortune, he cannot find happiness and wants his life back. He decides to play cards with the Devil and wages all Russian composer Igor Stravinsky. PHOTO BY STUDIO LIPNITZKI his money to be free from the Devil. The Soldier loses to the Devil and in the Devil’s euphoria, the In 1919, Stravinsky arranged five movements The recital will be on November 12th, at 4:30 Soldier takes the violin and starts playing again. from the original score into a suite for Clarinet, pm at Trinity Anglican Church (1230 Bank Street With the violin back, he can now go and heal the violin and piano. Stravinsky did this reduced ar- @ Cameron) with clarinetist Roxanne Léveillé, king’s daughter who was found ill. He plays the rangement to allow the piece to be performed more violinist Mélissa Bourgault and pianist Fabien Tou- violin for her and she miraculously gets up and easily in a concert setting and was to be taken on signant. Admission is by voluntary contribution. starts dancing. They fall in each other’s arms but tour. Unfortunately, the tour was cancelled because the Devil comes back and tells the Soldier that if of the Spanish Flu pandemic. It is in the suite he leaves the castle, the Devil will regain control format the work will be presented in the concert over him. The couple does not listen to the Devil series. The story will be narrated and accompanied and the princess disappears, and the Devil takes by Stravinsky’s music. the Soldier with him.

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Nov 19 - Nostalgic Dreams Lucas Porter unleashes his ‘staggering virtuosity’ in a solo recital featuring works by Haydn, Chopin, Liszt, Prokofiev, Rachmaninov and Scriabin, sharing the theme of reminiscence. Page 16 The OSCAR l November 2016

FAITH COMMUNITY Trinity’s Christmas Bazaar Returns

A scene from last year’s Trinity Bazaar. By Brenda Small start on your Christmas preparations, handmade sewn and knitted items Gingerbread House Room set aside offering delicious homemade baking, and jewellery. There is also an array to decorate gingerbread cookies and Trinity’s popular Frosty’s Fair hearty soup and tasty jam and jelly, of Christmas decorations for festive make crafts. And back by popular Christmas Bazaar will take place all from time-honoured church- decorating. demand is Frosty’s Café, where there Saturday, Nov. 5 from 9:30 to 2:00 community recipes. In the middle of it all is a long are various menu items for adults and pm. in the church’s halls at the corner It also features a unique selection table full of donated gifts and children. of Bank and Cameron St. of gifts for Christmas giving gift certificates, many from local For more information check out The fair is a chance to get an early including: hand-crafted Christmas merchants, up for Silent Auction. www.trinityottawa.ca or call 613- cards, decorations, and gift tags, For youngsters, there is a special 733-7536. Area Worship Services Christmas at Southminster United: Location Times Attention Kids! By Julie Ireton wonder with us during the Kid’s Sunnyside Wesleyan Church Sunday Worship Church at 10:30 am every Sunday, 58 Grosvenor Avenue Services at 9:00 am and Fundraise for a great cause in your from November 20th to pageant (at Sunnyside) 11:00 am, Children’s own community, and celebrate day on December 18th. All the program offered during Christmas at the same time, at children will get a part in the pag- Southminster United! eant, along with some more senior worship services. If you’re a kid who wants to have members of the congregation. fun, has a flair for the dramatic, Everyone is welcome to come see St Margaret Mary Mass Sunday at 9:30 cares about your community and the pageant on Sunday, December and 11:30 am. wants to celebrate Christmas, you 18th at 10:30 am at Southminster. Catholic Church are welcome to take part in South- 7 Fairbairn (corner of minster United Church’s pageant Southminster Children’s Choir: Sunnyside) and/or choir. All are Welcome! Southminster is located at the All children, ages five to twelve, corner of Bank St. and Aylmer are invited to join the Southmin- Trinity Anglican Church Holy Eucharist at 8:00 Ave., across from the Ottawa Public ster Children’s Choir to celebrate 1230 Bank St am and 10:00 am with Library, Sunnyside branch. Christmas with us! The children (at Cameron Ave) Church School & Choir. This year, kids aged seven to will be learning a variety of songs. twelve will use their own perspec- (Kids are welcome to take part in tive to talk about why and how both the choir as well as the pag- Southminster United Church Sunday Worship & Kids we should help people in our own eant!) 15 Aylmer Avenue Church at 10:30 am. community, whether it’s collecting Christmas choir will meet every Sunday at noon starting on Sunday, (at Bank & the Canal) for the food bank, volunteering or helping an elderly neighbour. November 20th. The choir performs the same day as the pageant on Raise money for Centre 7 Sunday, December 18th. A fundraising element will be Any questions about the pag- built into this year’s pageant/choir eant and choir can be forwarded to event so the Southminster Kid’s Becky ([email protected]) Church program can help raise or simply come to Southminster money for Centre 7. This “Out of United Church on Sunday, Novem- the Cold” dinner is offered every ber 20th. Saturday night in the winter in the We look forward to seeing you! basement of Southminster. The kids $1,725,000.00 will be donating all proceeds from the pageant to this charitable orga- nization in Old Ottawa South. We invite all interested kids to participate, think, question, and The OSCAR l November 2016 Page 17 Page 18 The OSCAR l November 2016

ARTS AND CULTURE The Company of Adventurers’ Fundraiser a Huge Success!

Juliet (Geneviève Packer) and Romeo (Abbey Sugars-Keen). PHOTO BY BRUCE DEACHMAN

By Cynthia Sugars raised since we founded the Com- alike had a wonderful time bringing uottawa.ca. And we are sorely in pany of Adventurers six years ago. this fabulous play to you. It is always need of storage space (our poor house We are thrilled to announce that The We’d like to extend an enormous a challenge to get the word out, so is bursting at the seams!). If anyone Company of Adventurers’ produc- THANK-YOU to our audiences from please tell your friends (we may add has a business with storage space that tion of Romeo and Juliet this past the Old Ottawa South and Glebe an extra show or two next year!). If we might be able to use gratis or at a September raised just over $3100 for communities for supporting us. This you would like to be placed on our very low rental (we are a non-profit Harmony House (an Ottawa Wom- year, we had a full house for almost mailing list for future shows, please operation), please let us know! en’s Shelter). This is the most we’ve every show! Directors and actors send an email to Cynthia at csugars@

lines with an understanding of the Local Production of Romeo and Juliet Charms Audience, play’s nuances that belied their age, and my old ears heard the play anew. Young and Old Alike Romeo was played with such a youthful innocence as could easily By Nadine Dawson email, advertising a late-September through an enchanting silk-lined crack open adult cynicism, and rain-date performance of Romeo and corridor. I had entered Renaissance Juliet’s portrayal of the hesitant For many years - six, as it turns out - Juliet, with a time AND a location. Verona at last! excitement of first love surely stirred I had heard rumours of local children And so, I bundled myself up for the A wooden deck alongside the back alike both dreams and memories performing Shakespeare. Some of chill autumn air, having gobbled of the house provided the stage; to of fresh romance. The fiercely the children’s whispered names were down an early repast, and headed one side, an arbour that doubled as proud Tybalt, loyal companion even familiar to me, but in a distant down the road, tired from the week’s the apothecary’s shop, to the other, Benvolio, darkly playful Mercutio, sort of way that precluded further work, but determined to get to the a bench seat that became Juliet’s well-meaning Friar, and Paris, the investigation. Once, I even happened bottom of the mystery once and for bedchamber. To the rear was an awkwardly positioned “man of wax”: upon a play in progress, not three all. arched seat and curtained entrance, all were played with enthusiasm blocks from my very home - taking The streets were lined with parked and above, lo and behold! a balcony, and conviction. The Nurse lent a place behind a curtained pathway cars and I despaired that I would custom constructed alongside one welcome comedic relief, and the that led behind an Old Ottawa South miss even this opportunity to witness of the upstairs windows, complete apothecary mirrored the tone of the house. I ventured near, but alas! was Shakespeare’s most famous play, with sturdy wooden ladder to carry tragedy with a frenzied portrayal of turned away, the show was “sold out.’ continually in production since its the besotted Romeo to his love! the kind of action born of poverty The mystery of this local debut. As chance would have it, Vines and potted plants suggested a and desperation. From the ineffective phenomenon intensified. How can a taping of The Price is Right at beautiful Italian garden, and the spell parents of the young lovers, to the a Shakespearean play be staged in Lansdowne had drawn the cars to the of another time and place was cast. commanding Prince, the citizen one of the neighbourhood’s postage- area, so there was no real threat to The first mournful melody played spectators, and the obedient yet stamp yards? And, more intriguingly, my coveted seat. on the violin from above and behind flawed servants, the supporting just who were these children who I arrived at the place, and was the gathered audience, cozily seated cast of characters rounded out the devoted their summer of leisure to greeted by costumed actors who on an odd assortment of chairs in tale with their competence and learning lines penned four hundred bid me choose a door: red or blue? the walled and tiered yard, wrapped confidence. years ago, in a tripping tongue Since I myself was caped in a rich in blankets against the cold, and the clumsy to our modern ears? red, woolen shawl, I entered by the play began. And then, a break in the case door on the right, and passed into the The young actors were completely Continued on pg. 19 arrived in the form of a personal thespian world of suspended disbelief captivating! They delivered their The OSCAR l November 2016 Page 19

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FILM REVIEW Little Sister

Reviewed by Tony Wohlfarth memories and go out for a walk in at the Boston Underground Film the countryside. They meet a young Festival), dealt with a Virginia family The 2008 US election and the war man who asks them if they are confronting a tragedy during Christ- in Iraq are the backdrop for Little monsters? We learn that Emily is an mas. Little Sister explores similar Sister, a story about a family reunion extreme animal rights activist (who themes. in a rural area near Asheville, North fled Michigan) and we see Colleen The musical score (by Fritz My- Carolina. and Jacob engage in a satanic ritual ers) is evocative, and includes death Colleen (Addison Timlin) is about involving dolls. metal music - conjuring up elements to become a nun in Brooklyn, New Colleen discovers that her mother of a horror story. Ally Sheedy deliv- York. Her vows of chastity, poverty is a pot head. Marijuana figures ers a stellar performance as Colleen’s is screening at the Mayfair Theatre and abstinence are interrupted by an prominently in her parents’ lives, abusive mother, Joani. By contrast, beginning November 5. The running e-mail from her mother Joani (Ally since the kids have grown up. Addison Timlin’s performance as time is 91 minutes. Sheedy) saying “Your Brother is The political setting (Obama/Biden Colleen is uneven and unconvincing. Home.” campaign of hope) plays well in Back in Brooklyn, the character of Tony Wohlfarth is an Ottawa-based Colleen’s family reunion is the background. As Colleen arrives Reverend Mother (Barbara Cromp- freelance writer. anything but normal. Her older home, CNN calls to speak with a ton) is not at all believable. brother Jacob (Keith Paulson) reluctant Jacob. Coaxed by Colleen Little Sister had its world premiere is badly disfigured from a bomb to go with her to the store, Jacob at the South by Southwest (SXSW) explosion as he served in the Iraq is asked if he is the young soldier Film Festival in Austin this March. It War. Jacob is also emotionally maimed during the war? When he detached, and Colleen is the only one confirms yes, the clerk opines the in the family who can connect with war is unjust and Obama will make him. everything right. A five day homecoming stretches The film has the look and feel of a to a week, as Colleen meets an Hollywood drama – complete with old friend Emily (Molly Plunk), a happy ending. The problem is the in a revealing drama told day by “feel good” resolution part comes day. Colleen watches old home very late in the film – leaving many videotapes, and we learn more about sub plots unresolved. her Goth past. Colleen dyes her Little Sister is directed by Zach hair pink, and paints her face white. Clark. His 2013 film, White Reindeer Colleen and Jacob relive childhood (which won a Best Feature Award

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NEWS A Firehall Romance

Former OSCA counsellors - Wedding guests, bride, groom and groomsman. PHOTOGRAPH BY COCHRANE PHOTOGRAPHY

By Helen Beck the time their work lives branched, hold the wedding reception! Friends, former counsellors, proud of their their love had blossomed. The family and neighbours pitched in connection, stayed partying until On September 17th, Chelsea Pépin community centre and Old Ottawa to transform the Firehall into a the end. We are fortunate to live in a and Ian Beck-MacNeil celebrated South community continue to figure lovely wedding venue, with food community which helps us not only their wedding at the Firehall. It prominently in their lives – with Ian from the Urban Cowboy food truck, to raise our children, but may even was here that their romance started having served on the OSCA Board formerly on Bank Street, as well as help find their life partners! more than seven years ago – not and Chelsea continuing to work at the Life of Pie. The rainy afternoon particularly auspiciously initially – The Clothes Secret, owned by her changed the backyard plans into an Helen Beck, mother who has enjoyed but the magic of working together mother Val MacIntosh. So, there was indoor party, but did not quell the raising 3 boys on Ossington Ave. as counsellors ignited a spark! By no doubt about where they would fun and joy! A good contingent of

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NEWS SkateABLE is Coming to Old Ottawa South!

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By Lisa Himmelman is evaluated and fitted for proper equipment offered at no extra charge. Ice skating is almost a birthright for Skaters provide their own skates and Canadians; unless you are a person a CSA approved helmet. living with a physical or develop- mental disability. Until now, these “My eight year old daughter individuals had next to no hope of Hannah is on the Autism Spectrum. ever taking part in stand-up skat- A major part of therapy we do with ing classes. SkateABLE is changing her involves getting out and be- that! Through the use of specially ing active. We were thrilled to find trained coaches and adaptive skating the SkateABLE program and had equipment, children with any form of Hannah signed up online very eas- physical or developmental disability ily. When I took Hannah to her first can participate in this one-of-a-kind lesson it was amazing to see all of program now available in Ottawa! the other children with special needs SkateABLE is a non-profit orga- given one-on-one help. I sat on and nization developed so that children watched as the children went through with physical or developmental dis- the program and could see how abilities can take part in ice skating much fun everyone was having while in a welcoming, caring, and stimulat- learning to skate. These programs ing environment. As a HIGH FIVE mean so much to families of special registered organization, SkateABLE needs children. The instructors were offers the highest level of safety and well experienced and motivating for quality in our program for recreation the children, they learned, exercised, and sport in Ontario. SkateABLE were social and had fun all at the is affiliated with ParaSport Ontario, same time (what more could you ask and advocates for the recognition of for). This program is an incredible inclusive ice skating as a parasport in opportunity for families to improve this province. and enrich their child’s life and give SkateABLE is led by HIGH FIVE them something to look forward to. certified program leaders who hold Everyone at SkateABLE was so help- various teaching/coaching certifi- ful and had so much encouragement cations and undergo an intensive for the children. screening and training process which Thank you so much for running includes disability awareness, behav- this program! I’ve forwarded the ioral management techniques, and information on upcoming classes to use of the adaptive skating equip- other parents in similar situations as ment. All head coaches are First Aid/ ours and they were so happy to hear Glebe CPR/AED and NCCP certified. about the program.” Coaches work with skaters on 1:1 B. Felker to 1:3 coach-to-skater ratios depend- CRAFT & ARTISAN ing on the needs of each skater. Join us in Ottawa! SkateABLE will Fair Through generous donations from run every Tuesday between 4:00 and various sponsors and supporters, 4:50pm from January 10th to March SkateABLE has built an inventory of 7th at the Brewer Arena. To register NOV 18, 6 -­‐ 9 pm ice skating equipment manufactured check out our website at www.skate- NOV 19, 10 -­‐ 5 pm in Ontario exclusively for members able.ca See you at the rink!! NOV 20, 11 -­‐ 4 pm of the SkateABLE program. This specialized equipment makes our Lisa Himmelman, Founder/President program developmentally appropri- and CEO of SkateABLE™ is pleased ate for children with cerebral palsy, to have been offering this wonderful spina bifida, spinal cord injury, pa- FREE program to youth since 2013. ADMISSION ralysis, muscular dystrophy, multiple sclerosis, amputations, autism, Down Over 50 talented local vendors! syndrome, language and speech delays, learning disabilities, and the .ca Glebe CC 175 Third Ave 613-­‐233-­‐8713 hearing impairments. Each skater The OSCAR l November 2016 Page 25

SECOND THOUGHTS A Global Civilization? By Richard Ostrofsky an ancient city-state, but on a planetary scale and with the added complexity and power of modern We live today in a global society, with only the technology – with modern weapons, in particular. beginnings of global civilization. It is important to What can we mean by ‘modern civilization’ on be clear about this. a global scale? Is it, perhaps, an oxymoron – a A society is just a very large number of people contradiction in terms – or is it actually possible? who deal with one another on a regular basis in In 1969, Buckminster Fuller popularized the all the ways that people do: buying and selling, metaphor of ‘Spaceship Earth’ in a briefly famous book. The still more famous ‘Earthrise’ photo, fighting, inter-communicating, finding sex respectful of brute facts and of divergent interests taken from the moon’s surface on the Apollo partners, etc. In doing these things, they organize and opinions; which prizes moderation in rhetoric 8 mission (just one year earlier), made this themselves into groups of various kinds, which and policy; which understands that winning too ‘small planet’ image iconic for everyone of my jostle, compete, form alliances – and sometimes much is always dangerous; and which has learned generation. Kenneth Boulding’s idea of planet go to war. ‘Civilization’ is a much more difficult that tolerance, forbearance and generosity in Earth as a closed and finite spaceship (not, as concept because, for one thing, it is not a type of compromise are strategically advantageous. in the past, a boundless prairie) is a truism now society that might be contrasted with barbarism, Whether global or local, there will be little for all who do not wilfully reject the science as is often done. Rather, it is a quality that civilization if civility, roughly along these lines, behind it. But beyond the science and economics societies have more or less of – a matter of degree, is not a matter of custom and culture. Politicians of the situation, the necessary shift of political and not of kind. It is always meaningless and who undermine these values are working to make perspective has scarcely entered public discourse: misleading when used, as it often is, for purposes their societies ungovernable. Publics that acclaim Through whatever specific institutions, at least of propaganda. The Viking peoples, for example, and elect such politicians have only themselves to three huge tasks will have to be performed were rather more civilized than their adversaries blame for the disasters that follow. But conditions, tolerably well to keep the ship from blowing up or and victims would credit. The Americans today are in most countries today, are not conducive to poisoning itself. ‘Officers and crew’ will have to rather less so than they believe of themselves. civility; and notably in the United States now, manage the ship’s economic ‘life-support’ systems Wikipedia’s article makes this mistake right which thinks of itself as ‘the indispensible nation’ to sustain tolerable living conditions on the lower off the bat, when it defines ‘a civilization’ as and center of the world’s global trading system and decks; they’ll have to negotiate, keep and enforce a any complex society characterized by urban society – the political virtue of civility is lacking. relative peace, both amongst themselves and with development, social stratification, symbolic As a country with a self-proclaimed mission to the passengers in their keeping; and they’ll have to communication forms, and a perceived teach and champion ‘democracy’ worldwide, it is manage the interface between their human society separation from and domination over the natural not leading by example. environment by a cultural elite. It goes on to say and the whole ship’s ecosystem to sustain a livable that civilizations often show the characteristics environment. of centralized government, domestication of Primitive versions of the first two tasks are Richard Ostrofsky, formerly of Second Thoughts plants and animals, dependence on farming and already quite clear in the history of ancient Athens, Bookstore in OOS, now lives in Montreal near his other forms of agriculture, specialization of for example: The peace had to be kept, and the daughter and grandchildren, but still writes his labor, ideologies of progress and supremacism, slaves had to be fed. The ecology of the little city, monthly column for OSCAR on whatever catches monumental architecture, taxation, and policies of its ‘footprint’ on the environment was not a human his interest. www.secthoughts.com\Contact him at: military and economic expansion. But these are all problem yet, but could safely be left to the goddess [email protected]. traits that civilized societies typically display. They Demeter (the Greeks’ name for Mother Nature), fail to get at the nature and quality of civilization provided only that appropriate sacrifices were en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilization itself. given. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_phase_of_ Quite obviously, for example, any society might It’s clear to everyone today that governments civilization become more civilized than it is at present just now are failing at all three of these tasks. The fact en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globalization_and_World_ by cutting down a bit on the supremacism and is that the overweening success of our species has Cities_Research_Network expansion. made the planet too small for the expanding human The history of this concept is more enlightening. population and its aspirations. Some humans, or Our word ‘civilization’ comes from the Latin post-humans may eventually migrate to colonies word for city (civitas). In its origin, the word in space and even go on to populate the universe, ‘civilization’ meant the art and habit of building, but that will not help the remaining Earth-bound maintaining and living in cities. The city itself was population any more than migrations to the originally a walled center shared and defended New World relieved the stresses in 16th century by tribes (extended families) settled around it. Europe. As Boulding said, our ideas about These competed and sometimes feuded with economics will have to change. So will our ideas one another, but they had common interests about governance. also, and they needed this common center for a I have no idea what changes will be adequate number of reasons: for the storage and trading or feasible, and this is not a place to discuss the of foodstuffs and craft goods; as a site for record question. What is obvious though is that a global keeping and other administrative functions that civilization will have to solve the problem of such commercial activity required; as a center modern governance, and that this will require for religious, social and cultural gatherings; and, some kind of working consensus on human above all, as a stronghold for the common defense existence and welfare which is nowhere in sight of people and goods, against raids by nomadic – still beyond serious political discussion, even. peoples who were not much inclined to trade It isn’t going to be easy. It may not even be peaceably for things they could take by force. possible. And this global society may very well These functions had their specialists with differing destroy itself and its habitat before the problem perspectives and interests as did the settled is solved. families themselves; and the reconciliation of such But we can at least see what ‘civilization’ competing perspectives and interests compelled the means in the abstract, which is already progress. city-dwellers (citizens) to practice some form of Global civilization (to repeat) will be the art politics (from polis, the Greek word for ‘city’) – an of building, maintaining and living in the art of power-testing, coalition forming, negotiation global city. A civilized global society will have and governance. adequate governance (not necessarily centralized Now fast forward a few thousand years to our government), competent and generally accepted present age, when the whole world is becoming, for the three tasks described above; and it will not a global village as Marshall McLuhan have a ‘civil’ political discourse in support proclaimed, but definitely a global metropolis. of that governance. Civil political discourse This metropolis must perform all the functions of means political discourse which is mutually Page 26 The OSCAR l November 2016

HEALTH AND WELLNESS Fall in Love - Fall from Fear By Maureen Fallis, powerful beyond measure. It is the sense of self-love: Surround Circle Yoga inner critic with harmful and judg- When you love yourself, things mental self-talk that gets in the way simply become lighter and easier. of living up to, and into, the best of You will be happier! How many times do I silently berate who I am. After all, who am I not to When your opinion of yourself myself? It’s easy to do. A quick peek be talented, beautiful, and brilliant? goes up and you stop trying to get in the mirror in the morning - yikes, There is nothing enlightening about validation from other people, you look at all those wrinkles! Indulge in playing small and living in the shad- become less needy and are able to an extra piece of toast loaded with ows of what might be. In yogic terms muster up an inner stability even jam shortly after consuming a tasty this is called “Ahimsa”: it is one of when the world seems uncertain. nutritious breakfast - did I really need the precepts of right-living which When you increase your self- that? Ten minutes late for an appoint- means non-violence (non-violent esteem you will be more deserving of ment – oh my gawd, not again! The to oneself and to others). It also has the things you want in life. one thing I can’t find fault with is my a lot to do with being courageous. I’d like to share a few of the most ability to catalogue my inadequacies. Courage, after all, is not the absence inspiring, thought-provoking and We have long struggled with our of fear, but the ability to be afraid uplifting quotes on getting to know self-esteem. The thought of falling without being paralyzed. yourself, raising your self-esteem and sets in their true beauty is revealed in love with our self — respecting During last month’s Friday night finding self-love: only if there is light from within.” and admiring ourselves — makes us circle, Mindful Living, held at Sur- Elisabeth Kübler-Ross uncomfortable. It’s much easier to round Circle Yoga, we examined and “Self-care is never a selfish act – it is lavish attention on others. Particu- experienced various ways we’ve been simply good stewardship of the only “The best day of your life is the one larly women, and a few men that I standing on the ledge of greatness. gift I have, the gift I was put on earth on which you decide your life is your know pretty well, have been social- We also experimented with a collec- to offer to others.” Parker Palmer own. No apologies or excuses. No ized to care for and nurture others, so tive Loving Kindness Meditation, in one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The our value lies in how well we do this. the Jon Kabit-Zinn tradition. “Don’t ask yourself what the world gift is yours – it is an amazing jour- Given this outward focus in defining We extended our prayerful medita- needs, ask yourself what makes you ney – and you alone are responsible our self-worth means we are not so tion to ourselves, to a beloved, to a come alive. And then go and do that. for the quality of it. This is the day great at nurturing ourselves. person who we are neutrally connect- Because what the world needs is your life really begins.” We’re chronically self-critical. We ed to, to an individual with whom people who have come alive.” Bob Moawad constantly compare ourselves against we’ve been challenged with, to the Howard Washington Thurman unrealistic ideals, which can damage wider community and finally to the To find out about our programs and our sense of self and paralyze our whole world. We prayed that we/you “To love oneself is the beginning of a private sessions, please call 613- relationships with family and friends. be healthy, to be filled with peace, to life-long romance.” Oscar Wilde 327-4-627 or email: maureen.fallis@ But to be truthful, and to quote the embrace silence and to be loved … sympatico.ca. Check out our beauti- popular Marianne Williamson in her did you feel our energy? “People are like stained-glass win- ful revised website www.surroundcir- poem, “My Deepest Fear”, it is not To offer some hope… here are a dows. They sparkle and shine when cleyoga.com. that I am inadequate, it’s that I am few reasons for cultivating a healthy the sun is out, but when the darkness

www.edwardjones.com FINANCIAL PLANNING Markets Change. Are You Prepared? The “Eggs-traordinary” Benefits of Diversification When you stop and look back at what’s happened in the markets, it’s easy to realize how quickly By Bob Jamieson, CFP and, thus, try to stay ahead of inflation’s things can change. That’s why we should schedule erosive powers. Growth-and-income objective investments are designed to some time to discuss how the market can impact Remember the old saying, “Don’t put all your eggs in one basket?” Today, offer both income and growth. All three your financial goals. We can also conduct a free “gathering eggs” typically consists of types of investments can be included in portfolio review to help you decide if you should stopping by the store to pick up a dozen a well-balanced portfolio. make changes to your investments and talk about Grade A’s. However, the wisdom of the When you choose a variety of opportunities to be had. sentiment still applies, especially when investments, it’s called diversification. it comes to investing. One of the greatest benefits of Stop by or call today to schedule your In yesteryear, this sage advice was diversification is the protection it can free review. meant to protect you (and your eggs) help to provide. No investment performs should some unfortunate mishap befall well under all conditions. In fact, certain you between the house and the chicken investments can “counterbalance” one coop. Today, when applied to investing, another. For example, bonds typically these words of wisdom are intended to perform well when the stock market  declines, while stocks typically perform  help protect you and your investments  against mishaps. Here’s how. strongly when the bond market declines.  Unlike eggs, which all basically Owning both helps cushion you against  the market’s ups and downs. However,  look and taste alike, each investment  is truly unique, and each is designed remember that diversification does not to fill a certain need. Income objective protect against market loss. investments − such as bonds and income Of course, knowing you should mutual funds − are designed to provide diversify your investments and actually a regular stream of income to help meet diversifying them are two different monthly expenses. Growth objective investments − such as individual stocks Continued on pg. 27 Member – Canadian and equity mutual funds − are designed Investor Protection Fund to let your investment grow in value The OSCAR l November 2016 Page 27

HEALTH AND WELLNESS Diastasis: What Is It and What Can I Do About It? By Amanda DeGrace, Why do I need to do core floor. Practice this immediately slowly to get back to planks and Little Lotus Yoga restoration? postpartum. higher intensity movements. Diastasis can cause constipation, Later on, you can begin to gently low back pain, breathing and range bring in movement. Clamshell is a What happens during an Diastasis—or separation of the ab- of motion difficulties and the great movement to start with and can assessment with Little Lotus Yoga? dominal muscles—and pelvic floor aforementioned urine leaking. be done anywhere, even in bed, and When you book a 1:1 with issues affect almost all pregnant While some women will find that even a few days postpartum. me, I will perform a full external women. So why don’t more women their abdominal muscles recover • Lie on your side with your knees assessment of postural analysis, know about them? and repair on their own within the bent and your head resting on diastasis check, and other tests Well, they probably do but know- first eight weeks postpartum, others one arm. incorporating the body and ing about something and talking will need rehabilitation with pelvic • Keeping your heels together, movement that will assist in about it are two different matters. floor physiotherapists and movement slowly lift the top knee up and predicting what the issues are with Why? Because we don’t want to experts to restore their core health. away from the bottom leg as you the pelvic floor. talk about tinkles. Seriously. It’s still There are many movements found exhale and engage your pelvic It will quite often be recommended one of those ‘taboo’ subjects. Guess in exercise classes that are not floor. that individuals see a pelvic floor what? That’s ridiculous! We all do it safe for the immediate postpartum • On your inhale lower back down physiotherapist, if they aren’t already, and it’s an even bigger reality after period—and for many women, even to resting and let your pelvic for an internal assessment. I then having a baby, so let’s put it right out longer—until the core is retrained. floor rest as well. have a detailed program that will help on the table: your poochy stomach is Retraining the core for optimal you work through and slowly retrain not a bad thing! It’s not evil and there function is essential before beginning With practice, persistence and your core for functional movement. IS something you can do about it! to work out again, after baby, or patience, retraining your core Remember, it took 9 months to further damage to the core and pelvic postpartum will allow you to get nurture and grow your baby, so take What is diastasis? floor can occur. back to your regular physical activity that time postpartum to start to repair, Quite simply, diastasis refers routine. restore and heal. Little Lotus Yoga is to the separation of the right and Ways to get started with pelvic on a mission to help educate women left abdominal muscles, during floor health and core restoration What movements should I avoid about their core and pelvic floor pregnancy, so that your belly is after having baby doing? health. Last year, we held several sticking out between your abdominal It all starts with proper breathing. Spinal flexion movement and front Kegels and Cocktails events, which muscles, hence the pooch. The When done correctly, diaphragmatic loading exercises (planks, table, etc.) helped spread the word about pelvic pregnancy puts a lot of pressure on breathing helps strengthen the entire are movements which will increase floor health across the Ottawa region. the abdominal muscles and they core. intra-abdominal pressure and make simply can’t keep their shape. It How do you do it? Place one hand any diastasis and pelvic floor issues Little Lotus Yoga is offering core doesn’t matter what a woman’s birth on your chest and one hand on your worse. Swimming, some yoga poses friendly classes at the Firehall and outcome is—vaginal or caesarean. side ribs. As you inhale, feel your (a good reason to avoid downward will be offering 1:1 and small group It’s the weight of the baby and the chest and ribs expand and think about dog!) and more are on the list too. classes that focus on core and pelvic changes that occur in the body during relaxing your pelvic floor. As you It’s important to recognize any issues floor health at the new space, “The the prenatal period that affects the exhale, let your breath leave your happening within the body, retrain Nest”, in the Glebe. core and pelvic floor. body and engage and lift your pelvic the core and then begin workouts

stocks for growth potential, don’t Cont’ from pg. 26 limit yourself to one stock or even one type of stock, such as consumer goods or utility stock. things. Sometimes, investors fall Instead, spread your dollars among into the habit of relying on income a number of stocks. investments such as bonds alone. Which mix of investments is Unfortunately, limiting yourself right for you? Which investments to income investments can should you choose? How much undermine your money’s long- should be invested outside of term purchasing power. Canada? How to use the tax Although there is comfort advantages of TFSAs and RRSPs? in knowing how much your This all depends on your needs investment is expected to earn and goals. There is no “one size each year and return of principal fits all” investment plan. at maturity, what you don’t know Proper diversification requires is how much purchasing power serious thought and takes time that money will retain. That’s to implement. If you need help why it can be important to place a determining which investments are portion of your investment dollars best suited to your needs, seek the in growth objective investments, help of an investment professional. which typically outpace inflation, He or she can explain what types so you have the potential to keep of investments are available up with the cost of living and even and how they would fit in your keep ahead of it. portfolio. When diversifying, it’s If you would like to review the important to remember that not diversification of your current only should you diversify in investments, and how it might be different types of investments, you improved, please give me a call at should also diversify within each 613-526-3030, or visit my website type of investment. at www.edwardjones.ca/bob- For example, when choosing jamieson. Page 28 The OSCAR l November 2016

TASTY TIDBITS FROM TRILLIUM BAKERY Old-fashioned / New-fashioned Thanksgiving

By Jocelyn LeRoy upright and level, something of a Thanksgiving. So there is lots of Sitting with my husband, I’m challenge when our customers put texting with the cousins, and my thankful for good health, restored In my family it’s always been easy to on their jackets, fish for car keys or recently arrived daughter and grand- health and hope for the future. It’s all have our old-fashioned Thanksgiving double-check their shopping lists on daughter are going to the Market and a matter of perspective. Dave actu- celebration. My grown-up kids all the way out. baking pies at home. And some of us ally had fun interviewing and being agree to go to the cottage (the maple- My out-of-town family is staying are working, hoping to find time to interviewed by rookie paramedics syrup forest cottage) to enjoy finding put this weekend. My staff is jug- see boyfriends or girlfriends. practicing their interview skills. Lots the wooly hat, tramping through the gling work and visiting people await- All this adds up to my “new-fash- of laughs there, and gratitude both woods and basting a giant turkey. Ex- ing their attention. It’s hectic in the ioned” Thanksgiving, when expanded ways. Grace, gratitude and love in tended family arrives, and everyone bakery and flower shop because we horizons of my older children mean unexpected places were our gifts this prays that the Thanksgiving prayer have so many orders (which is excel- it’s harder to get everyone together Thanksgiving. In spite of no turkey for others and gratitude for our lives lent); no one can slack off and go to at once. For me, in between shifts bird. doesn’t cause the bird to get cold. the cottage this weekend. Nonethe- at Trillium, I’m with my husband in Or so it seemed. This year is different. One of my less, we’re having a good time. Urgent Care; his numbers are getting Last-minute serendipity will bring children got home from Africa at the My husband and I had planned to back to normal, thank goodness. I’m together a lot of us, at least all of the 11th hour. Her daughter arrived from host a Saturday-night dinner for our thankful he’s not like the poor guy Ottawa crew, on Monday. Big Bird university in Guelph ten minutes California kids. But that was not to quarantined in the next cubicle with will make an appearance, and the before Thanksgiving dinner was be. He had so much fun at his grand- a big label on the door, “Caution: seven pies my grand-daughter made served. All this on Friday evening. child’s first-birthday party, he had a Highly Contagious.” That said, I’m will be eaten. The Saturday night Their dogs were so happy to see their mild heart attack on the way home. thankful for the great care available apple crisp I made in the middle of favourite people: their tails wagged Instead of a sumptuous feast, we had in Canadian hospitals, excellent by the night will travel to St. Bernardin, with joy, and there were truly grins leftovers on our laps at the hospital. most world standards – so many where the Quebec contingent of the on their faces. On Sunday, no one knows what people are pulled back from the brink family will join my son Mike and his Meanwhile, back at Trillium Bak- they’ll be doing for the rest of the with heart-stopping “episodes.” Ap- wife Karen and their kids. ery and Alta Vista Flowers, things long weekend, what with pumpkin parently, in California, you can get a So this year’s Thanksgiving were humming. Still-warm pump- pie madness, floral design overload broken arm diagnosed, the bone set, will end well – one more reason kin pies flew out the door. I hoped and my unexpected sojourn to the the arm plastered within one hour, to treasure our blessings, now and that their buyers would not jiggle Civic. It’s obvious that our entire but giving birth can cost as much as always. them too much and keep their boxes clan won’t be getting together this $60,000. Go figure.

GMSOlderOpenGROscarNov16.pdf 1 2016-06-21 3:58 PM TRILLIUM RECIPE

Trillium’s Maple Apple Pie

A comfy treat on a brisk Autumn day, and always a hit with guests at a special dinner.

Ingredients • ½ cup melted butter C • 1 cup maple syrup (plus brown sugar to taste:

M ¼ to ½ cup) • 2 eggs, beaten Y • Pinch of salt (optional) CM • 6 cups sliced apples (Cortland, Spy or Honey

MY Crisp)

CY Directions CMY 1. Mix together first four ingredients.

K 2. Pour over apples, arranged in con- centric circles in a large pie dish, and, if desired, lined with the pas- try of your choice.

3. Dust lightly with cinnamon.

4. Bake at 350ºF for approx. 40 min- utes.

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RED APRON COOKS Community Cooking in Morocco By Jennifer Heagle On the outside of each Hammam building, there is the fire pit that keeps the waters hot and creates

the steam for the bath. The fire is tended all day November is a transition time, where we enjoy a and coals are raked out of the fire into piles where short break between Thanksgiving and Christmas, people from the community can come and bring while watching the weather change from fall to their tangia (clay pot), which is filled with vegeta- winter. According to the Farmer’s Almanac, we are bles, lamb, chicken or beef, and aromatics. The pot in for a long, cold one! is set into the coals and left there for hours. At the While the seasons are changing, so is our diet. end of your day you would return to the Hammam Gone are the fresh, crisp flavours of summer and fires and retrieve your pot. This highly efficient harvest season, and we welcome in the warm, method of cooking means that most households comforting meals of winter. There is still an don’t need to have an oven. abundance of root vegetables, winter squashes and In addition to the Hammam fires, each neigh- alliums (onions, garlic & leeks), which entice us bourhood has a community bread oven. In the to cook slow braised dishes with rich sauces and morning you bring your bread dough, kneaded and warm flavours. shaped, to the community oven. There, it is baked This year I had the pleasure of visiting a part and left on a shelf waiting for your return at the of the world where they have perfected the art of end of the day. making a stew. Last spring in Morocco I enjoyed This approach to community cooking is not many tagines and tangias. Similar to each other in unique to Morocco and exists in many places, concept, a tagine is the wide flat clay pot with a and cultures around the world, including our own lid shaped like a pointy hat, and a tangia is a taller city. Back in 2012 the Bayshore Park Community PHOTO BY JENNIFER HEAGLE clay pot with a handle. Both are used to cook an Garden volunteers decided they would also build a assortment of meat and vegetables in coals or a community oven. Now in full operation, this oven wood-burning oven. is operated by a growing group of volunteers with is for a Moroccan style lamb tagine. If you are In Morocco, each neighbourhood has a hammam a posted schedule and a host of special events. The looking for excellent quality pasture raised lamb, (public bath), which is an incredibly important part oven is ignited in the morning and reaches pizza- visit Josef from Canreg Station at the Lansdowne of Moroccan culture and life. Men, women and baking temperatures around noon. November bake Farmer’s Market each Sunday or contact him at children visit their local Hammam at least once a dates are on the 12th and the 26th. They also host pasturedairy.com. While at the market stock up on week, and spend two or three hours catching up on bread baking workshops and pizza demos! For some organic root vegetables from Roots & Shoots gossip while following the long rituals for cleans- information visit their Facebook page at facebook. Farm or Waratah Downs Farm. If you are looking ing. It’s a beautiful experience but it also serves com/bayshoregardenandoven/ to invest in tagine, visit CA Paradis in our commu- another function. In the spirit of November, this month’s recipe nity, as they have a number of very good quality options available.

Directions

RED APRON Mix paprika, turmeric, cumin, cay- Lamb Tagine enne, cinnamon, cloves, cardamom, salt, ginger, saffron, garlic powder, 3 tablespoons olive oil, divided and coriander in a small bowl. 2 pounds lamb meat, cut into 1 1/2 Place diced lamb in a bowl, toss inch cubes with 2 tablespoons of the olive oil 2 teaspoons paprika and spice mixture. Refrigerate at 1/4 teaspoon ground turmeric least 2 hours, preferably overnight. 1/2 teaspoon ground cumin 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper Preheat oven to 285F. Heat 1 table- Footsteps 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon spoon of olive oil in a large, heavy 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves bottomed dutch oven (or tagine) Parent Centre 1/2 teaspoon ground cardamom over medium-high heat. Add 1/3 of [email protected] | 613-236-3000 | 276 Sunnyside Ave. 1 teaspoon kosher salt the lamb, and brown well. Transfer 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger to a plate, and repeat with remain- E G G I O ing lamb. Add onions to the pot and R C 3/4 teaspoon garlic powder E E N B T cook for 5 minutes. Add the carrots E R 3/4 teaspoon ground coriander L

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DESIGN DILEMMAS Ode to the Mudroom By Vanessa Riddell this space was freezing and not a rooms and kitchens. The 5 essentials for an efficient great space to store anything that No matter the reasons for this mudroom area: I can’t believe it took until the last ideally needed to stay warm, like trend, the main reason, I think, for • hooks for jackets, backpacks, 30 years for a room like this to winter clothing or a stroller. And it building a mudroom area, is to keep scarves, hats become as popular as it has become. hindered our access to the backyard. family members from tracking dirt • hooks for keys Because of the weather here in Eventually we tore it down.) into the rest of the house. It provides • sports equipment storage Eastern Canada, a mudroom makes a But it took until the mid 1950’s a nice barrier between the outside • storage for shoes, gloves or lot of sense. Sure, farmers and rural for the term mudroom to appear. world. The Japanese have been hats in hampers or drawers, and dwellers have always had a room like Meaning a less formal side or back doing this forever. “Genkan” is what umbrellas this, usually called a lean-to, at the entrance. During this time it was the Japanese call their traditional • seating back of the house, for muddy boots usually a transition room from a entryways. It is a space to remove and garden and farming supplies, garage to the kitchen. In the 1980’s shoes before entering the home. The Vanessa Riddell is a designer living the original junk drawer! And in when homes became much larger, space is often recessed into the floor in OOS who helps her clients achieve Victorian homes it was the back (McMansions and Garage-Maj-halls to contain the dirt. A tiled or concrete the best use of their space. For more porch or summer kitchen. anyone?) is when mudrooms really “Genkan” floor is called “Tataki”. information contact her at: info@ (When we first moved to Old became their own rooms as opposed Ideally a mudroom is situated at the sachi.ca or 613-866-6694 Ottawa South the back of our to just hallways. Larger appliances side or back of the house because it Victorian had a summer kitchen and laundry rooms and more is where family members can store attached to it, basically a shed. possessions meant that extra room a range of items from cold weather Every time I entered this space I was required for the mudroom. Low attire, sporting equipment, umbrellas, was transported to an Ottawa 100 interest rates probably also helped to pets accoutrements, hats, keys, years prior. It was ramshackle and a boost the trend. High interest rates backpacks and purses. All the while little magical with interesting tools mean homeowners choose to spend leaving a front entry less cluttered for and such on the walls. But in winter money on common areas like living guests.

COMPUTER TRICKS AND TIPS Who’s in Charge of My Computer Anyway? Part 2 By Malcolm and John that give them carte blanche to use information but we suspect that the things as your privacy has hapless Harding, of Compu-Home our data in any way that suits them. majority of users are more concerned users permanently bewildered; the There are measures that you can about more mundane inconveniences instructions are not friendly and they take to protect yourself. These range and annoyances. change constantly. To help us master Last time, we talked about the from some heavy-duty strategies Christina DesMarais in Time this challenge we turn again to Time incursions on our privacy that can that require serious effort and Magazine at tinyurl.com/ogf7ntg Magazine, where Victor Luckerson’s occur when we use free services, pretty high-end know-how, to more gives us eleven straightforward article at tinyurl.com/hevokwr such as social media sites, search straightforward day-to-day practices suggestions of ways that we can provides a careful description of the engines and email. The relationships that can go a long way in protecting make our information more secure pitfalls of not understanding your among these services and the you from simple annoyances and when we are using our daily services Facebook security settings and an information about us that they threats. such as banking and email. up-to-date guide to making yourself share among themselves can be a At the upper end of this scale is an Google, even with its motto of safer. significant source of revenue for article by Ian Paul in PCWorld, that “Don’t be evil,” is sometimes We must remember that almost all them and it seems like there is not can be found at tinyurl.com/hnrjbbf accused of infringing on our privacy, of the measures that security experts much we can do about that, since we online. Some of us may be concerned and it is easy to see why this could advise do come at the expense of a don’t pay to use them and we agreed about law enforcement agencies happen. Google is such a massive certain amount of inconvenience. For up-front to a long list of conditions at home and abroad accessing our and multi-tentacled presence in our example: The pervasive “Keep me technological lives, with email, signed in,” is a great convenience in and search services, as well as avoiding continually having to enter document and photo storage IDs and passwords, but it provides and sharing capabilities (just a straight pipe for the information to scratch the surface) that it is you entered at one site to be shared understandable that some people into another. In “Privacy Is an get the feeling that the line has Afterthought when Convenience Is been crossed and the result is King” at tinyurl.com/gmr4sjh on intrusive. Some of us think that the fusion.net site, Felix Salmon an appropriate analogy is that examines the balance between the Google acts like an anxiously two and asks where common sense over-eager friend who constantly ends and paranoia begins. tries so hard to be helpful that sometimes we react with a bit of Go to compu-home.com/blog for an exasperation. archive of our columns (including Last but certainly not least is this one) and lots more tech-related our old friend Facebook. (Only in articles. There is a space right after the tech world would something each item for you to make comments invented 12 years ago be our and suggestions, and ask questions. “old” friend.) Using Facebook You can even sign up for automatic is superficially extremely updates. Have a look at compu-home. simple – why else would there com/blog soon or call us at 613- be close to two billion users 731-5954 to share your opinions and worldwide and why else would suggest subjects for future columns. 60% of Canadians be users? On Our email address is info@compu- the other hand, managing your home.com. Facebook settings to govern such The OSCAR l November 2016 Page 31

ABBOTSFORD Abbotsford’s Annual Fundraising Bazaar By Julie Ireton “People start lining up early in the MacKenzie who notes she never There is still time to donate your morning. I’ve come in as a volunteer knows what she’ll find when she treasures to the cause Mon-Fri 9 am On the day of Abbotsford at the at 8:30 and people are already opens up a donation box. – 4pm. Glebe Centre’s annual bazaar, one waiting to come in,” said MacKenzie. “I’ll see something and say, this is big room will be over-flowing with “It’s one of the nicest bazaars in the wonderful! We have a lovely variety Abbotsford is your community flea market finds and some of the city and they have something for of things this year, candleholders, support centre for Adults 55+. We more precious, vintage items will be everybody.” beautiful pieces of china.” are the community programs of The found in the “fancy flea” section. The bazaar offers home baking, MacKenzie said last year the flea Glebe Centre Inc., a charitable, Since early last year, Abbotsford hand-made teddy bears, Christmas market sold a lot of picture frames, not-for-profit, organization which volunteers have been sorting through crafts, books, stamps, attic treasures, DVDs and CDs, but there are also includes a 254 bed long term care the boxes of treasures donated and a silent auction and of course, the flea household gadgets, baskets, games, home. Find out more about our delivered to the seniors’ activity market. puzzles and linens. services by dropping by 950 Bank centre right across from Lansdowne MacKenzie and other volunteers “You never know what they’ll Street (the old stone house) Mon- Fri Park. at the flea market have seen a lot bring in for the flea market, said 9-4 pm, telephoning 613-230-5730 The “Best Bazaar in the City” will of vintage kitchen wares this year MacKenzie. “Every year runs or by checking out all of The Glebe be held on Saturday Nov. 26 including items like old fashioned differently.” Centre facilities and community between 10 am to 2:30 pm, but as flea egg beaters, glass ware and kitchen If you want to check out this year’s programs on our website www. market organizer, Pam MacKenzie utensils. finds at the Abbotsford Bazaar, come glebecentre.ca. knows, the best finds often go early. “We’ve got old pie edge cutters, by between 10 and 2:30 on Saturday depression era glass,” said Nov. 26…don’t miss out! THE GLEBE CENTRE The Glebe Centre’s 12th Annual Resident Art Exhibition and Sale:

Exploring The Artist Within in the Bistro on the main floor. Doyle and our fantastic volunteers All proceeds from the event go to for making this event possible! support the growth of the art program Admission is free and everyone is at The Glebe Centre, and donations, cordially invited!! of course, are also gratefully ac- cepted. For more information on the Tracy Crowder is the Funding and art program at The Glebe Centre, call Development Officer at The Glebe 613 238-2727 ext. 316. Centre. Thank You to organizer Patricia

By Tracy Crowder their abilities, creativity and skill to families, friends and the community. The Glebe Centre is holding its 12th The art exhibition features paintings annual exhibition and sale of the that are created individually or creative and beautiful art work of by groups of residents, and the residents on November 25th and 26th expressive style of each piece is truly this year, and the resident artists are unique. The variety of styles and excited to be yet again showing the colors will astound you—whether works of art they have created with you prefer abstracts, paintings of such passion and dedication. animals and birds, or scenic beauty The art program at The Glebe Centre there is something for everyone’s was introduced twelve years ago tastes. You are sure to find that to provide a creative, positive and irresistible, must have piece among constructive outlet for residents the collection offered at our annual with dementia that allows them to art sale! express their emotions and memories On Friday November 25th and through painting. Over the years the Saturday November 26th you will art program has grown in popularity have the exceptional opportunity to and has now expanded to include view and purchase artwork proudly all residents at The Glebe Centre. created by residents at the Annual Residents who have never painted Exhibition and Sale in the Bistro before and felt self- conscious to try (inside the main doors at 77 Monk are soon enthusiastically painting St.), and on the second floor at the and creating amazing works of art. Gathering Place. Friday is the gala Through this program many residents evening from 6-8pm, and features have discovered their ‘inner artist’ live music and refreshments. Join us and found a sense of purpose and for a pleasant evening of music and pride in their accomplishments. conversation and see for yourself the The annual exhibition and sale is an artistic accomplishments on display. opportunity for residents to show The exhibit continues on Saturday, November 28th from 10am-2:30pm Page 32 The OSCAR l November 2016

SUNNYSIDE LIBRARY PROGRAMS Sunnyside Branch Home-Schoolers’ Happening ADULT PROGRAMS informed, engaged and even amused, Ottawa Public Library Join us for an afternoon of board as Carleton’s professors share their 1049 Bank Street, Ottawa games, LEGO, cards & fun for home- The Writing Workshop scientific discoveries with you. 613-730-1082, schooled children and their families, An opportunity for writers of fiction, Wednesdays, 6:30 – 7:30 pm, Adult Services, ext 22 happening every week! Drop-in / non-fiction, poetry, and experimental November 9 Children’s Services, ext 29 Programme portes ouvertes forms to gather. Our emphasis will Thursdays, 12:00 – 3:00 pm / Les be on developing works-in-progress Conversation en français CHILDREN’S PROGRAMS jeudis, 12h – 15h for publication. The workshop will Improve your spoken French and September 15 – December 8 / 15 provide writers with encouragement meet new friends in a relaxed setting. Maker Mondays / Lundi créatifs septembre – 8 décembre and constructive criticism from their Intermediate level required. (Ages 8 & up / Âgés de 8 ans et plus) peers. Author/Facilitator: Michael F. Thursdays, 6:30 – 7:30 pm, Play, build, create, cut, fold, knit, CHILDREN’S BOOK CLUBS Stewart: michaelfstewart.com September 15 – December 15 draw & so much more with our Monday, 6:00 - 8:00 pm, November new low-tech mobile maker station! Mighty Girls Book Club 21 Ebooks and More: Drop-in Help / Joue, construis, crée, découpe, A children’s book club focussed Sessions plie, tricot, dessine et pratique une on exploring brave, strong and English Conversation Group Drop in with your device to foule d’autres activités avec notre intelligent girls in books. Previously Practice English and meet new troubleshoot or to learn about nouveaue poste mobile de creation à called the Mother-Daughter Book friends in a relaxed and friendly different types of digital content faible technicité! Club, mothers or other special environment. Beginner level you can download from the library Mondays, 3:30 pm (60 min.) women are encouraged to accompany welcome! website: ebooks, audiobooks, September 12 – December 12 their child. Ages 7-12. Registration. Tuesdays, 5:30 – 7:00 pm magazines, movies, music and more. Tuesday, 6:30 – 7:30 pm, September 13 – December 13 Fridays, 3:00 – 5:00 pm, November Babytime November 28 4 & 18 For babies and their parents or Knit & Knatter caregiver with stories, rhymes, songs Cover to cover Book Club Have you always wanted to learn to Weekly Drop In Meetings for 2017 and games. 0-18 months. Drop In. Share the enjoyment of reading knit or improve your skills? Come Projects Tuesdays, 2:15 pm (30 min.) selected books with other 9 to 11 year to Sunnyside and bring your knitting As the 150th anniversary of October 18 - December 6 old boys and girls. needles and yarn to begin or share Confederation in 2017 draws near, November title: Pax by Sara your project. Enjoy conversation and some Canadians are suggesting we Toddlertime Pennypacker a cup of tea while you knit! Drop-in. mark the occasion with projects For toddlers and a parent or caregiver Wednesday, 7:00 – 8:00 pm, Wednesdays, 12:30 – 2:30 pm, large and small, focused on our past, with stories, rhymes, songs and November 30 November 9 & 23 present or future. A workshop for games. Ages 18-35 months. Drop In. people to discuss, brainstorm or work Please choose only Tuesday or Club de lecture en français pour les Conversations Among Canadians on their projects. Thursday for each session. enfants / French Book Club for Kids In this program, we will continue to Saturdays, 10:00 am – 12:00 pm, Tuesdays, 10:15 am (30 min.) Do you like reading in French? Join share our experience, knowledge, September 24 –December 14 October 18 - December 6 our French book club for kids and reflections and ideas relevant to life OR a significant adult. Ages 8 – 10. in Canada, past, present and future, ADULT SPECIAL PROGRAMS Thursdays, 10:15 am (30 min.) Registration. doing so with a sense of community October 20 - December 8 Aimez-vous lire en français? Venir à among Canadians and with others in How to Prepare your Teens for Jobs notre club de lecture en français pour the world. that Don’t Exist Yet Family Storytime (Bilingual) les enfants et une adulte importante. Wednesdays, 2:00 - 4:00 pm, Calling all parents of teens! In this Stories, rhymes and songs for Âgés 8 – 10. Inscription September 14 – December 14 fast-changing world, how do you children of all ages and a parent or Monday, 6:30 – 7:30 pm, help your teen make key shifts caregiver. November 21 A Word in Arabic in how they choose an education Drop in. Lundi, 18h30 – 19h30, 21 Join us once a month to learn a few program and prepare themselves Contes, comptines et chansons pour novembre words in Arabic while discussing for their future? The interactive les enfants de tous âges et un parent Arabic culture and customs format of this workshop will give ou gardien. TEEN PROGRAMS throughout the Middle East. Get a parents the opportunity to participate Programme portes ouvertes. taste of this fascinating language and share ideas. We will provide Wednesdays 10:15 am / mercredi TAG (Teen Advisory Group) and culture, shared by a diverse recommendations for the next 10h15 (30 min.) Attention Sunnyside Teens! Join our population of 420 million people on steps, and resources. Presented by October 19 – December 7 / 19 new Teen Advisory Group and have a earth. Jean-Philippe Michel, a career and octobre – 7 décembre say in which programs, activities and Wednesday, 6:30 – 7:30 pm, leadership development coach with services will be offered to youth and November 2 Sparkpath. Silly Saturdays at Sunnyside / On also help plan and implement them. Thursday, November 3, 7:00 – 8:00 s’amuse les samedis à Sunnyside Ages 14-18. To join, stop by the Ingenious Talks (Faculty of pm Each week there will be board branch or apply at Ottawa.ca Engineering & Design, Carleton games, Lego, crafts or another Friday, 4:00 – 5:00 pm, Next University) activity. / Chaque semaine il y meeting is on December 3 Ingenious Talks is offered by Find Your Number: What is the aura des jeux de société, Lego, du Carleton University’s Faculty of Dollar Figure You Need to Maintain bricolage, ou une autre activité. Drop Totally Tubular Tuesdays Engineering and Design that engages the Retirement Lifestyle You Want? in / Programme portes ouvertes. An open, inclusive, fun place to hang the community in discussions of Do you have a clear idea of Saturdays, 1:00 pm (180 min.) out, meet people, procrastinate, play timely and innovative ideas in how much money you need to Les samedis, 13 h (180 min.) games, explore your artistic side, or engineering, design and technology. comfortably retire? This interactive September 17 – December 17 / 17 just be! Open to all 13 to 18 yrs. Wednesday, 6:30 – 7:30 pm, small group workshop will help septembre – 17 décembre Tuesdays, 4:00 – 5:30 pm November 2 attendees walk through a number September 13 – December 20 of simple calculations so that they Block Party / Ça dé “bloc” (Family Science Cafés with Carleton can find their own personal financial program) Teen Career Spark University number. You will gain a clearer Building Boom: show off your Get clear about the future, career Explore science through Science understanding of how close you architectural creativity with Lego®. and education program you want Cafés offered by Carleton are to achieving a comofortable Archiboum! Architectes en herbe, à through an interactive session with University’s Faculty of Science. Each retirement. Presented in partnership vos Lego®! Drop-in / Programme J.P. Michel, Career Development café begins at 6:30 p.m. with a 20 with the Fallis Group at Scotia portes ouvertes Specialist. (13-18 yrs.) Drop-in minute talk by a scientist followed Wealth Management. Fridays, 3:30 – 5:00 pm / vendredi, Tuesday, November 1, 4:00 – 5:30 by a 40-minute open question and Thursday, November 17, 6:30 – 15h 30 – 17h pm answer period. Come and join us for 8:00 pm September 16 – December 16 / 16 a lively discussion around a scientific septembre – 16 décembre issue of the day. 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SUNNYSIDE LIBRARY PROGRAMS Kids and Money support the body with simple, herbal ADULT BOOK CLUBS Friday, 2:00 – 3:00 pm, November This presentation is geared to help remedies that you can make at home. 10 ages 6-12 understand various aspects This program is offered by the À European Book Club about money. We will have fun, la Carte food literacy project and is Join us for the ultimate armchair Mystery Book Club interactive things to do and activities funded by the government of Ontario. travel around Europe. The European Do you enjoy reading mysteries? aimed at learning about the meaning Wednesday, November 23, 6:30 – Book Club is offered in partnership Share the enjoyment of good of money, and more specifically, 8:00 pm with European Union National mysteries in a relaxed atmosphere. how it can relate to achieving goals Institutes for Culture (EUNIC) Join us for discussion usually and objectives in your life. Parents in Ottawa to promote European every third Friday of the month. In Making a Hard Copy Book from are welcome to stay, but may want authors and their works. A book title November, author Brenda Chapman Digital Photos to take a back seat to the children’s from an EU country is selected for will be joining our discussion! learning. At the end, we can discuss We all take lots of digital photos. discussion each month. Newcomers November titles: Cold Mourning, with parents how to be more But most just sit on a computer and, are welcome. Butterfly kills and Tumbled Graves educative when it comes to money. at best, are seen on-screen. Why not November title: The Piano Cemetery by Brenda Chapman Presented by Michael Ouellette, do more with your photos? Chris by José Luis Peixoto (Portugal) Friday, 2:00 – 3:00 pm, November Lucier Ouellette Wealth Management Taylor, President of the Ottawa PC Wednesday, 6:00 – 8:00 pm, 18 Group of Raymond James Ltd. Users’ Group will show you how November 16 easy it is to use an on-line service to Sunnyside Adult Book Club Saturday, November 19, 10:00 – create beautiful hard-copy books of Second Friday Adult Book Club Join in stimulating discussions 11:00 am your photos, completely customized, Meet new people and join in on selected titles in a friendly and with embellishments, backgrounds, stimulating discussions on selected relaxed atmosphere on the last Friday Herbal Support for Cold & Flu frames, text and more. titles in a friendly and relaxed of the month. Season Thursday, November 24, 6:00 – atmosphere every second Friday of November title: The Pearl That Join herbalist Amber Westfall of 8:00 pm the month. Newcomers are welcome. Broke Its Shell by Nadia Hashimi The Wild Garden as she presents November title: They Left Us Fridays, 2:00 – 3:00 pm, November this program on learning how to Everything by Plum Johnson 25

AROUND TOWN Are you a Parent of a Military Homes for the Holidays, November OMB Review, Ottawa Annual Christmas Bazaar at St. Member? Are you looking for 18 – 20. For the last 13 years the Consultation. Wednesday, Thomas the Apostle Anglican support, and information? Come to Homes for the Holidays tour has November 9, 17:00 - 21:30. At St. Church. Saturday, November our meetings and discuss with other been held to raise funds for Hospice Anthony’s Banquet Hall. A Public 5, 2345 Alta Vista Drive (by the parents tips and tools needed to be Care Ottawa. It is a three-day tour Town Hall Meeting to learn about the fire station) from 10 am to 2 pm. mentally ready and strong to face of eight exquisite homes decorated Ontario Municipal Board’s current Lunch from 11:30 to 1:30. Bake the military lifestyle your son or for the season by some of Ottawa’s role in the land use planning process, room, Clothing boutique, Jewelery, daughter has begun. Meetings are top florists. Ticket buyers will not to provide your perspectives, and Handicrafts, Plants, Books/CD’s, The held at the Military Family Resource only gain access to the beautiful to review and comment on changes General Store. Center, 330 Croil Private, Building homes but also to our two special the Government of Ontario is 471, Ottawa, Mondays, bi-monthly, stops; the Holiday Pop Up Shop and considering. Ottawa StoryTellers 2016 6:30pm - 8:30pm. Next meeting Gingerbread Village. Get a head start Children’s Festival. This one- November 7. To register please on your holiday shopping at the ever Ottawa Brahms Choir presents day event takes place on Saturday, call the Military Family Resource popular Holiday Pop Up Shop at a celebration of Mozart. At its November 5, at the Nepean Public Center and ask for Heather Cudmore- the Irish Ambassador’s Residence. Christmas concert on Sunday Library, 101 Centrepointe, Ottawa. McCarthy at 613-998-4888. www. It’ll be filled with splendid gift December 4th at 3 pm at St. Thomas Other Ottawa StoryTellers events: mfrc-ncr.com items from local shop vendors and the Apostle Anglican Church, 2345 “Two for the Road: Together specialty foods. Also delight in our Alta Vista Drive, under direction Wherever We Go” 7pm on Tuesday, Food Bazaar - Saturday, November festive Gingerbread Village Builder’s of Christopher Askwith and November 8. And “Being Colourful 26, 9am - 1pm. St Stephen’s Bake-Off where you can vote for accompanist Svetlana Logigan. in a Black & White World” Presbyterian Church, 579 Parkdale your favourite gingerbread creation Reception following the concert. 7pm on Tuesday, November 22, both Avenue (corner of Sherwood Drive). while sipping cider and stocking up Tickets $20 at door, $18 in advance at The Tea Party, 119 York St, Pass Deli, frozen foods, candy, baking, on holiday finds in the Handmade from choir members, Compact the hat donations accepted. and coffee shop. Emporium held at the May Court Music. For further info please consult Club/Hospice. All funds raised will www.ottawabrahmschoir.ca and 819- Friends of the Farm ‘Fall Frenzy’ Frosty’s Fair Christmas Bazaar. support the programs and services 568-8169. On-Line Silent Auction. Nov 17 Saturday, November 5, 9:30 - 2:00. Hospice Care Ottawa provides at to Nov 25. Going, going, gone! Bid Now’s the time to start getting ready no charge to those living with a Southminster United Church on great holiday gifts and services for Christmas. Find new and gently life-limiting illness. Ticket booklets Christmas Bazaar. On Saturday, without leaving home, use PayPal, used decorations and ornaments. are $50 and are available through November 12, from 9:00 am until cash or cheque, pickup at Bldg 72 Look for amazing gifts for everyone several vendors and online. For a list 1:00 pm you are cordially invited Arboretum. Go to Fall Frenzy at on your list at the Great Gift Table. and more information visit www. to attend the Southminster United http://fcefottawa2016.eflea.ca/view Bid on items at the Silent Auction. hospicecareottawa.ca or call 613- Church Bazaar, 15 Aylmer Avenue or email [email protected] Stock up on delicious homemade 260-2906 ext. 222 at Bank St. Please enter by the Galt baking, soups, jams and jellies. Pick Street door. There will be jewelry, Friends of the Farm Guided Tree out perfect pieces of jewellery for Just Voices Choir is on the lookout collectibles, baking, jams and jellies, Tour. November 20 at 2 pm. Tree yourself, your family and friends. for new members! Just Voices is a gift baskets, handicrafts, Christmas forms and shapes, selecting trees Find some cozy mittens, placemats or community-oriented activist choir decorations, purses, books, a kids for a purpose. Meet at Museum of other sewn and knitted items. Select in Ottawa. We use our voices to only gift area, a cake walk, silent Agriculture parking lot (SW of the some unique Christmas cards and gift celebrate life, inspire social change auction and other tables of interest. traffic circle) Free to the public, tags. Bring your youngsters; they’ll and contribute to movements for Coffee will be served from 9:00 am register at info@friendsofthefarm. have lots of fun. Stay for lunch at social and environmental justice, until 11:30 am and the luncheon will ca, donations kindly accepted Frosty’s Café. Trinity Anglican peace, racial and gender equality, be available from 11:30 until 1:00 friendsofthefarm.ca/arboretum-tree- Church, 1230 Bank St. www. and struggles against violence, pm. Bring family and friends and tours/ trinityottawa.ca (613-733-7526) war and poverty. We meet every enjoy Southminster’s Christmas spirit Wednesday (Sept-June) from 7-9 pm at on November 12th. Ottawa Quakers hold a meeting at the Bronson Centre, 222 Bronson for Worship, Sunday mornings at Avenue. See: www.justvoices.ca 10:30am, 91A Fourth Avenue. Page 34 The OSCAR l November 2016

IN THE GLEBE Ontario Municipal Board Rules in Favour of Glebe BIA Exemption to the Retail Holidays Business Act By The Glebe BIA a holiday is beneficial to their celebrations for Canada’s 150th operations, or not,” says Glebe BIA celebration in 2017,” adds Peck. The Glebe Business Improvement Executive Director Andrew Peck. The Glebe BIA consulted widely Area (BIA) is thrilled to announce “Not one business is obligated to with both its membership and the that Glebe businesses will be allowed open on any or all of exempted dates, surrounding community and received to open on an additional six statutory “Glebe businesses will and we fully respect the choices overwhelming support to pursue holidays after the Ontario Municipal of individual businesses, but this this application. The Glebe BIA has Board sided in favour of the Glebe’s be allowed to open exemption now gives them that started preparing a comprehensive application for an exemption from on an additional six choice.” information package for its members, the Retail Business Holidays Act. Given its proximity to major which includes material for The decision was rendered on statutory holidays...” attractions and landmarks, the vibrant employees that outlines their rights September 29th, and goes into mix of shops, services and restaurants under Employment Standards Act effect immediately, granting Glebe and all the exciting programming, with respect to working on a holiday. stores the option of remaining open events and festivals happening in Thanksgiving Day, as well as five the Glebe, the neighbourhood is The Glebe BIA is committed to other holidays including New Year’s now better suited to attract a tourist creating, activating, and managing a Day, Family Day, Victoria Day, audience. community space where visitors and Canada Day and Labour Day. “This exemption will allow the citizens come together to make the “We couldn’t be happier that our Glebe to further contribute to the Glebe thrive. members can now choose for development of tourism in Ottawa, themselves whether opening on especially as we rapidly approach

260 Fingers: Top Ceramic Artists Converge for Exhibition and Sale

“Oil Cans,” wood fired porcelain by Heather Smit.

PHOTO BY HEATHER SMIT By Susie Osler weekend. Tours of the show take place each afternoon at 2pm and This November 11-13th, the twenty- offer an opportunity to hear about six ceramic artists and potters of each artist’s unique work and 260 Fingers 2016 will congregate at processes and to ask any questions Ottawa’s Glebe Community Center you may have about their work and for their annual exhibition and studio practice. sale of some of the most inspiring 260 Fingers features numerous and diverse ceramic work from award-winning artists with Ontario and western Quebec. The international followings. This breadth and caliber of this show past summer, among the 100 is recognized as unique in the participating artists in the province and features work from prestigious Biennial of Ceramics functional to sculptural, wood-fired in Taiwan, six were from Canada. to electric-fired, from formal, to Four of these six were our own funky, to highly decorative. 260 Fingers artists: Lisa Creskey, On Friday, November 11, from Paula Murray, Reid Flock, and 6-9:00pm, the gorgeous, domed Cynthia O’Brien. Others have atrium of the Glebe Community participated in national and Center will open its doors to visitors international residencies over the eager to be among the first to view last few years. Still others have had and purchase this year’s new work. significant exhibitions locally and The vernissage is open to everyone internationally. Each of the artists and is truly a festive celebration views 260 Fingers as a welcome of ceramic work complete with opportunity to present their newest music, food, drink and lively and in many cases, most daring or conversation. The show continues challenging work. Saturday, November 12 and Sunday, For more information, November 13 from 10:00am – please check the web site: 5:00pm. Artists will be present all www.260fingers.ca The OSCAR l November 2016 Page 35

The Importance of Rates of Exertion in Your Post-baby Exercise Plan

A FITMOM and Baby Class. PHOTO BY SARA MCCONNELL

By Susan McDonald how you’ll become fitter, stronger and tone your muscles – by pushing The fitness world is filled with num- yourself up the scale. bers. How many minutes are you Here’s a test for the next time working out? How many pounds you are in a class or working out have you lost? How many calories at home: If you are performing a have you burned? How many steps plank, or burpees and you are still have you walked? What is your able to easily chat with your friend heart rate? Measurement and goal beside you, you have room to work keeping are very common. harder and increase your RPE. As with any analysis, numbers Increase your RPE and you’ll see give us information and can play greater fitness results. an important role in our health and One type of training that works on fitness decisions. One often over- increasing your RPE is called High looked figure that we should look at Intensity Interval Training (HIIT). In more often is the Rate of Perceived FITMOM and FITWOMAN classes, Exertion (RPE). The RPE measures we turn to HIIT to help guide our the intensity of one’s exercise exer- workouts and maximize your fitness tion and is widely used in training goals. One type of HIIT that we like and competition. Anyone with a is a tabata workout where you’ll fitness goal should look to their RPE push hard for twenty seconds, and to help them monitor the intensity of then have a ten second rest (and their workout and reduce or further we’ll repeat the sequence four to their rates of exertion accordingly. eight times). We always encourage When using a simple scale of women to workout safely and com- 1-10, RPE looks like this: fortably, with the understanding that 1: Very light activity working harder increases results. 2-3: Light activity Finally, what’s most important 4-6: Moderate activity when looking at Rates of Exertion, 7-8: Hard level of activity or any other fitness number that we 9: Very hard focus on, is that you need to work- 10: Extremely hard out to your own level of fitness and In pregnancy, RPE is measured comfort and for many women who differently. Usually we encour- have recently had a baby, this level age people to push their limits and is different than their pre-mother- move at a moderate to hard level of hood level. Knowing how comfort- intensity, where talking during their able you are, but also how to push working out is difficult. However, and motivate yourself into that next a safe exercise program will have level of the scale will help you reach pregnant women exercising at a your fitness goals and provide you level where they can speak comfort- with greater satisfaction of the work ably without having to take deep, you are doing. laboured breaths. Susan McDonald lives in Old Ot- When it comes to post-natal levels tawa South. She is an experienced of intensity, as you progress through certified personal trainer and an your recovery, you can begin to use expert in the area of pre and post- the RPE to push yourself further. natal fitness. She is the proud owner Are you still easily chatting while of FITMOM Ottawa, where she has working out? Increase the intensity offered prenatal fitness, mom and to move up the RPE scale. If you’re baby fitness and boot camps for working at a moderate or hard level women in Old Ottawa South, New on the scale, talking should become Edinburgh and Ottawa West for difficult and your primary focus more than 5 years. will be on your workout. This is Page 36 The OSCAR l November 2016

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There Are No Photographs By Bruce Grant

My neighbour Cruz Payi Coloma has no photographs, no records, no trace at all of her former life in Santiago de Chile. (Payi is pronounced as Pajji) That life ended when the General Au- gusto Pinochet, with the support of the U.S Central Intelligence Agency, seized power from the duly elected socialist president. In Latin America, it has long been a given that society is polarized into left wing and right wing factions; the middle ground cannot be held. relying on the generosity of trusted If September 11, 2001 has a terrible Ottawa South. It was small; it was her daughter’s care. The boys, now friends. If there are monsters in this significance for Americans, that same a student house in poor condition, men in their forties, still come and go story, there are also angels. date in 1973 haunts the memories of badly maintained by an owner who regularly and Payi’s sister is visiting A priest named Denis and a nun Chileans. On that day, the coup came couldn’t keep on top of it. Though from her home in Venezuela. named Denise, both Canadians, were suddenly and with great violence, a they hadn’t enough cash to present In this season of thanksgiving, let working to help people at risk. They shock-and-awe operation that pre- a reasonable down payment, they us all be grateful for the good things helped to obtain Canadian “speedy cluded any possibility of organizing a worked out a rent-to-own arrange- in our lives. popular opposition. visas” for Payi and her family. It all ment; the owner really wanted to see came together when Gabriel was On day one, President Salvador this house come back as a family Bruce Grant, retired engineer, released from prison and returned Allende was surrounded in his resi- home and he wanted out of it. layabout and occasional writer, is a home, a tortured and broken man. dence by the coup forces; he shook The family home has fulfilled the resident of Old Ottawa South. hands and bade farewell to his staff, Friends delivered them to the air- intention; it’s full of life and love. then went to his death. The coup also port, where Gabriel was taken aside Payi’s 89 year old mother is here in came to the university; on day two, for questioning. Torture victims were the students and professors were all not being allowed to exit because of herded onto buses and taken to the the stories they would tell and the National Stadium. Payi’s husband evidence they would present. But Come see what’s on the menu Gabriel, a professor, was among Gabriel was returned to her. Then them. she recognized in the departure area In subsequent days, the poet Pablo a neighbour that she knew. He was Open for Neruda and the popular singer Victor a conservative and she a socialist; Jara were murdered. These names, they had lively discussions whenever Lunch Allende, Neruda and Jara were all their paths crossed, but they always people who knew Payi as a friend respectfully agreed to disagree. He Monday-­‐ Friday and supporter. Her husband was was here, clearly with the govern- imprisoned in the stadium and her ment’s authority. He came and sat 11:30 -­‐ 2:30 pm father disappeared. She was on her with Payi, her husband and her two own with two children, eighteen babies, greeted them warmly and months and seven months old. Payi chatted. When their flight was called, building a better community was well known as a political activist he stayed with them and saw them one bite at a time and student leader. When would they safely to the plane. come to arrest her? We have all had this experience: Payi assembled all her photos, the plane roars down the runway, lifts .ca documents, contact lists and stories off and we hear the wheels thump gccafe.ca and burned them in the toilet, in the into a space beneath our seats. We Glebe Community Centre 175 Third Avenue 613-­‐233-­‐8713 only room that had no window, the look out and see the land falling only place where the smoke would be away behind us. It’s a clear point of discharged invisibly through the roof inflection between the past and the vent. I have asked Payi for a photo to future. For these people escaping go with this story, but no. There are from torture and death, it was the be- no photographs. ginning of a new life. That moment, In the first month she joined with that feeling of release is still clear in hundreds of other women crowd- Payi’s memory. ing the gates of the stadium to call For Gabriel, the demons were for the release of their loved ones. still present; they came with him to When soldiers came out swinging Canada. He still feared being taken their weapons to beat back the crowd, back to the places of his suffering. Payi cursed the one nearest, and he Gabriel never did escape from his turned on her. His face was streaming pain; he remained fearful, angry, with tears. “If I don’t do this, some- unstable, violent, a life-long victim one else will do it in my place.” He of the Pinochet regime. Through begged her - “Please just go away.” him, Payi would be made a victim Behind the gates, tortures and execu- too and the trauma would pass on to tions were carried out every day, in the children. This led inevitably to full view of the prisoners and guards. his estrangement from his family, a The generals, wishing to signal sad ending to a journey that had held a return to normalcy, emptied the such high hopes. stadium and returned it to its role as a Payi and her boys adapted to their place for soccer games. The prisoners new home, employment, a co-op who still survived were transferred housing unit, a normal Canadian to other places; Gabriel was taken to existence free of fear. In their teen- Antofagasta, 1000 km to the north. age years, the boys started talking of Payi and her little ones went home ownership, security for their into hiding, moving frequently and mother in her later years. The search led them to a little house in Old Page 38 The OSCAR l November 2016

POETRY

Leaving Summer Behind Old Houses By Susan McMaster By Colin Morton

We drive away from summer through two days of trees, “Old houses were scaffolding once trees and mud, mud and trees in a dull repeat – and workmen whistling” bare racks on hard scrabble against a metal sky, nails whistling into the timber scriven by pepper toss of starlings, jag of geese, a tune that didn’t include us hunch of raven on stump and dead tip. Each field who live now between these walls shakes gulls into the air, crows rankle in ditches, hawks drop so fast towards rodents in the straw raised by leathery hands they seem to leave contrails etched on the grey. scarred by lessons learned the hard way hands twisting wire “Every year they build nests. All those birds.” tightening around an icy wrench I thought she was asleep, dozing in the back finally relaxed on the pillows and bags. “Thousands of nests. By spring, the trees will all be empty again. hands like petals What happens to nests when winter comes?” cupped round a match to light a cigarette From Crossing Arcs: Alzheimer’s, My Mother, and Me (Black Moss, Old houses whistle now 2009-10), about driving home to OOS after a summer in Nova Scotia. in the winter wind

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NOTES FROM THE GARDEN CLUB Don’t Stop Yet—Fall Tasks

(Left) Too late to prune. (Right) Suitable for fall planting. (Below) Attach firmly to the trellis. PHOTOS BY STEVE REID

By Colin Ashford ready for planting in pots in Novem- mended not to fully wrap evergreens ber. since this can cause them to overheat Mary recommended that herba- on a sunny winter’s day, but to rather The Old Ottawa South Garden Club ceous perennials, such as iris and build a frame with stakes around the welcomed the return of an old friend, phlox, can be cut back to two inches plant, wrapping burlap around the Mary Reid, of Green Thumb Garden above the soil to reduce overwinter- stakes and leaving the top open for Centre (www.greenthumbgarden.ca) ing pests and diseases; there is no good air circulation. to talk about fall gardening. Mary is need to cut back evergreen perenni- a Certified Landscape Professional als such as candytuft and Japanese The next meeting of the Old Ottawa and, in addition to running her garden spurge or those prone to heaving such South Garden Club will be on centre, she volunteers at Master Gar- as coral bells. If the cuttings are not Monday 14 November when Jill deners and teaches at local schools diseased, they can go into the com- Hopkins, an avid gardener, will focus and garden clubs like ours. post heap else they should be put out on the potting and forcing of spring The continuing warm fall has as yard waste (commercial compost- bulbs to deliver a burst of blooms in lengthened the growing season and ing kills most diseases and pests). the spring. allowed us to put off traditional fall Ornamental grasses provide interest jobs in the garden until later in the in the garden during the winter, but season. The meeting was held in the need to be cleared after heavy falls middle of October and Mary noted of snow (or tied up to avoid being that it was not too late to plant either flattened by snow). container-grown plants (such as Once plants have been cut back, perennials, deciduous shrubs, vines, compost can be easily applied (mak- or roses) or transplants, but to make ing sure to remove any thick layer sure to water them in—every day of mulch first) and letting the winter for two weeks, then once a week pull the compost into the soil. Mary until the ground is frozen. Spring- or noted that it’s too late to fertilize or earlier-blooming perennials can be over-seed a lawn—wait until spring. divided now but fall- or late-sum- Mary next turned her attention to mer-blooming perennials are better deciduous shrubs with the perplex- divided earlier in the season; orna- ing comment that it was both too mental grasses are best divided in the early and too late to prune. How- spring. Again, Mary noted that it was ever, she explained that pruning not too late to plant bulbs outdoors— spurs new growth and that tender for as long as the ground is workable. new growth is susceptible to frost Mary recommended buying healthy damage at this time of year. Mary bulbs: firm and fat; damage- and recommended, in general, prun- disease-free; and preferably in bulk. ing shrubs just after flowering, for Tulips can be planted up until the example: lilac in the spring and ground is frozen (and, in fact, the coralberry in late fall. Trees can be later the better). As a rule of thumb, protected from damage by rabbits Mary recommended planting bulbs with tree wrap or a foul-smelling in small clumps (small bulbs—9-13 compound such as Skoot. Mary in a clump; large bulbs—5-7 in a noted that vines should be firmly clump) at a depth of three times the affixed to their trellis and vines such height of the bulb in well-drained as Jackmani clematis (that blooms soil. Burying a piece of chicken wire on new wood) should be pruned, over the bulbs, applying blood meal, next spring, to six to twelve inches or planting fritillaria nearby can help above the soil and to include three to deter squirrels. Placing a board buds. over the plantings until freeze-up will Finally Mary gave some advice also help. Bulbs for forcing indoors on wrapping evergreens to protect should be kept in the beer fridge them from desiccation. She recom- (away from apples and pears) until Page 40 The OSCAR l November 2016

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