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Trudy Kassner in front of the house she lived in for more than 50 years, at 108 Belmont. COMMUNITY CALENDAR Thursday, June 1, 20:00 OSCA Summer Program Registration The Firehall Begins Online 260 Sunnyside Ave. Friday, June 2, 19:00 Master Piano Recital Series, Dang Thai Son - A Romantic Journey, Southminster United June 3 - 4 Doors Open Ottawa THE FIREHALL FITNESS CENTRE Saturday, June 3 May Court Club Life Cycle Bike Fundraiser Wednesday, June 7, 12:00 Doors Open for Music (DOMS): The FFC Triptych Piano Trio, Southminster United Thursday, June 8, 19:00 Hopewell PS Music Night SURVEY Thursday, June 8, 19:30 Rideau Chorale Presents an Evening of High Baroque Music, Southminster United June 10-11 Give Away Weekend We want to hear from you! Sunday June 11, 10:00-12:00 OSCA Bike Rodeo, Windsor Park Wednesday, June 14, 12:00 Doors Open for Music: Tallis and Company, What do you look for and/or want in your local Southminster United community fitness centre? Let us know by taking the FFC Survey, available now at oldottawasouth.ca Wednesday, June 14, 13:00- National Wildlife Research Centre Open 15:00 House, Carleton U, (1125 Colonel By Drive) Saturday, June 17, 8:00-14:00 The Main Event: Re-Opening Celebration & Community Garage Sale, Old Ottawa East presents Saturday, June 17, 13:00 Belmont Paddlefest, Windsor Park -15:00 Capital Spokes Saturday, June 17, 16:30 Music at Trinity Concert Series, Fabien Tousignant - Masterpieces from the Organ June 19-28 Sunnyside Library Branch Closed (dates to Family Activities, be confirmed) Group Bike Rides, Bike Training and Wednesday, June 21, 12:00 Doors Open for Music: John Dapaah Trio, more!!!! Southminster United Sunday June 11, 2017 Wednesday, June 21, 19:00- Capital Ward Open House, Immaculata High 21:00 School 10 a.m. - 12:00 noon Monday, June 26, 19:00 Stephen Azzi speaking on PM Lester Windsor Park Pearson, Saint Paul University. Rallies begin at 9:00 a.m. Wednesday, June 28, 12:00 Doors Open for Music: Eine Kleine Bach- Musik, Southminster United More information & maps available online at oldottawasouth.ca To see the latest listings, go to the online calendar at www.oldottawasouth.ca Page 2 The OSCAR l June 2017

BUSINESS BEAT West of Bank: Performance Tennis & Chez Anh

Performance Tennis at 70A Leonard Avenue. PHOTOS BY ERIK VAN DER TORRE Chez Anh at 435 Sunnyside Ave.

By Erik van der Torre Avenue was Top Shelf Preserves. I small kitchen and confined space, sale while he himself was becoming was an immediate fan of their simple, it must be hard for a food-based more and more disenchanted with life For as long as we have lived in OOS, yet incredibly delicious preserved business to survive in a spot that does in the public service. I have always been intrigued by 70A vegetables and pickles and was not see a lot of foot traffic. And to a Anh learned the love for food and Leonard Avenue. We arrived too late happy to see that rather than close, large degree, this is of course true for cooking in his mother’s kitchen and to see the birth of Red Apron, who they too outgrew the confined space. any business. However, with a tennis the family kitchens of his friends and now run a highly successful ready- Top Shelf Preserves now operates club (The OTLBC) only a stone’s relatives. While at the University of made food service out of a beautiful out of a kitchen at #21-5340 Canotek throw away, Performance Tennis Ottawa, Anh competed in various location at 564 Gladstone Ave. But Road in Gloucester. Their preserves may have very well found the perfect cooking challenges, and won U of we did get to see the start of Life are for sale online, as well as in a location. O’s first Iron Chef challenge. He now of Pie in that same location. And as variety of stores around Ottawa, Gary Hawkes, a USRSA Certified continues his culinary dream at his anyone in OOS will know, they too including Life of Pie and McKeen Stringer, opened his doors a few newly opened restaurant. Chez Anh are a great success story, with two Metro in the Glebe. months ago and the business focus focuses on Vietnamese and French subsequent moves along Bank Street. Now, after this long string of food is tennis, tennis, and tennis. Starting fusion cooking. So in addition to And while I am not a vegan or a fan related businesses that got their this small business is Gary’s third classics such as Pho and rice wraps, of raw food, it was still sad to see start at this odd little location in our career. From ’76 until ’90, he was the menu also features Bahn Mi (a Herbivore at the Door close, not in neighbourhood, a very different type a Winnipeg police officer and delicious Vietnamese sandwich on a the least because I loved their logo! of store has opened its doors. he spent the last 26 years in the French baguette) and Macarons. According to HatD’s Facebook page, Foreign Service with Citizenship I had a chance to stop in on chef Candice Bernes has moved on to Performance Tennis and Immigration Canada. During his opening day (May 12th), and had a Simply Raw Express in Hintonburg. In many ways, a pro-tennis store foreign assignments, Gary played a delicious lunch of a classic Bahn Mi The most recent successful kitchen- makes a lot more sense at 70A lot of tennis and never lost the love and Vietnamese coffee. The space is based adventure at 70A Leonard Leonard Avenue. Apart from the for this sport. tight and cosy, but provides place for In addition to stringing and racquet about 16 people for sit-down lunch or customization services, Performance dinner. The windows roll all the way Tennis also has a small showroom up, which make it feel like you’re with new and used tennis racquets, almost sitting on a patio, which is a balls, accessories, and a small nice added bonus on warm summer selection of Wilson clothing and days. If the tables are all occupied, footwear. you can always get take-out and And as Gary puts it himself: “I bring the food home or to Brewer am thrilled to be able to run my Park. tennis specialty shop in my favourite All in all, I have to say this is a neighbourhood in the whole world.” great addition to our neighbourhood, Check them out in person or at and I look forward to sampling the performancetennis.ca. rest of the menu in the future.

Chez Anh Although perhaps not as illustrious Business Beat is a monthly feature of a location, 435 Sunnyside Avenue that highlights new and existing has its own share of drama. As many businesses in Old Ottawa South. may remember, this space was at Reviews and opinions are those of some point called Raven’s Soup and the author alone. If you know of any Sandwich, until Carleton University’s new businesses opening up or want lawyers sent the owners a cease & to share your thoughts about existing desist letter to stop using the Ravens businesses, please feel free to share name and logo. The shop, rebranded them: [email protected] as Sunnyside Soup and Subs, closed Erik van der Torre has lived in Old its doors a few months ago. Ottawa South for over 7 years. He This is where Anh Nguyen comes is a member of the OSCA Board and in. This ambitious young lover of is an active member on Hopewell cooking and food saw it as a sign that Avenue PS’s Parent Council. a small, manageable space was up for

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Trudy Kassner is Trying to Sell and Save Her Former Belmont Avenue Home By Anita Murray mont Avenue. His brother Ron liked to catch of those memories, “it’s kind of hard Trudy was first drawn to both the frogs in summer and lived on the rink to sell,” Trudy admits. Trudy Kassner is trying to save her home itself, and the location, when in winter. “Yep, we’ve been here a long Belmont Avenue home. The 94-year- she saw it in late 1963. Backing onto “I was out there every possible time,” Michael adds. old grandmother/great-grandmother Windsor Park, up on a bit of a hill skating day there was,” says Ron. “I Neighbour and Realtor Lyne Bur- may have moved out last fall, but that with a view of the Rideau River be- put my skates on in the house and ton, who has listed the home, says the doesn’t mean she has abandoned the yond, the setting couldn’t have been would run through the snow down to experiences of the Kassner kids are only home she knew for more than better. With four kids in tow, she the rink. The guys at the rink used to similar to the upbringing of her own 50 years. Quite the opposite, in fact. knew the park would be a popular di- accuse me of waiting until the rink children, now in their 20s – out on She comes back every week, keep- version, particularly the outdoor rink was shovelled before coming down the skating rink, playing basketball, ing a close eye on workers who are that she could see from the sunroom, because I could see it.” meeting best friends on the street. sprucing up the place. The work is which would become her favourite Trudy had a signal to let him know “And now there’s a bunch of little being done in the hope that it will en- room in the house. it was supper time. “There was a light ones just doing the same thing. It just tice a new family to move in, instead The home itself was a sturdy red upstairs (shining toward the rink) and seems to be a cycle, a very neigh- of a developer keen to tear the house brick three storey built in 1928 on a we could turn on the light when he bourly street.” down and replace it with a duplex or rare double lot. It offered four bed- had to come home.” Which makes it that much more more. rooms, a large dining room and living Just five years old at the time, Ron important to find a family drawn Trudy hasn’t moved far, she’s still room, full-size basement and roomy met his best friend, who lived a few to the home’s charm, character and in the neighbourhood at the Colonel third-floor attic – perfect for a grow- doors down, not long after moving memories. By Retirement Residence, a testa- ing family. in and marvels that the two are still “It’s a great lot: for kids to be able ment to her connection to the com- Moving from Montreal, the fam- close so many years later. to play in the backyard and have munity, and while she may have pre- ily arrived in early 1964 and im- “We had a great childhood there big congregations,” says Ron. “My ferred to stay in her home, it was the mediately set down roots. Eldest son and did all the things that kids do. parents used to have big garden par- right time to go. Michael remembers how all the kids The park was the focus point of ev- ties and all the greenery around the She returned one morning recently would gravitate to the park, winter erything that we did, especially dur- lot is so special, and if a big triplex to a makeshift lounge in the back or summer, how the many bike paths ing the summer.” or whatever was built there you’d sunroom, where dining room chairs became his roads, how he could walk Sometimes at lunch, their late fa- lose all that. There’s something very were thrown together around a small to school. ther would come home from work special about the greenery around the end table, to reminisce along with “It’s just a peaceful, quiet neigh- and swim at Brighton Beach with the house and the fact the house fits with two of her children about life on Bel- bourhood, but lots of things to do,” kids, who all learned to swim there. all the other houses in the neighbour- he says. Now, many years later and with all hood.”

Loving our Local: June 9th-11th By Rose Fisher and Enterprise Alliance (SEA), the 2017 early on, she gained an appreciation Erik van der Torre has lived in Old Erik van der Torre Loving Our Local campaign – June for our natural environment. Ottawa South for over 7 years. He 9th-11th – will encourage citizens of Rose’s passion for environment and is a member of the OSCA board and and visitors to our region to embrace community brought her to Ottawa is an active member on Hopewell One of the defining characteristics local. One of the campaign’s objec- where she works for the Sustainable Avenue PS’s parent council. Erik also of Old Ottawa South’s business tives is a 10% shift in consumer Enterprise Alliance as the Local First writes the monthly Business Beat for community is that it is almost behaviour towards local purchasing. Sustainability Coordinator. the OSCAR. exclusively comprised of Local comes in many different forms: independent, locally owned choose a small grocer or a farmers businesses. “Loving our Local” is a market for your food needs, source campaign aimed at promoting and supplies and services from indepen- celebrating these unique, independent dent contractors or consultants, visit a local businesses that make our brick and mortar retail space, have a National Capital Region and OOS conversation and make a connection so special. Each neighbourhood in rather than making purchases online. our city has a distinct culture and When we engage in our community, identity, and the businesses and everyone benefits. organizations that reside in these For this campaign, the Sustainable neighbourhoods heavily influence the Enterprise Alliance will provide cultural fabric that defines where we promotional materials and support live. while encouraging consumers to To love our local means more than make a 10% shift in their buying simply visiting local businesses. It behaviour in favour of local goods encourages us to create relationships and services. During the weekend with our neighbours, strengthen our of June 9th to 11th there will be sense of community, and foster a a number of activities throughout local living economy, benefitting all the city organized by SEA as well those who live, work, and play in our as a variety of demos, discounts, neighbourhoods. and events taking place in local, We know that Old Ottawa South independent businesses across the loves its local, and this June we want National Capital Region, including everyone throughout our beautiful in Old Ottawa South! So look for the capital region to experience OOS the Loving our Local window decals in way its residents do. From tasting businesses in Old Ottawa South and delicious dishes in the restaurants throughout the region. and pubs and enjoying a cup of This summer, get ready to start locally roasted coffee at a café, to Loving our Local! (LoL) appreciating Old Ottawa South’s For more information or to green spaces and recreation areas. register as a participant of the 2017 There are so many reasons to love Loving Our Local campaign visit, local in Old Ottawa South and this lovingourlocal.ca summer we want to encourage the whole National Capital Region to do so. Rose Fisher, originally from Nova Organised by the Sustainable Scotia, grew up on the coast where, Page 4 The OSCAR l June 2017

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STORIES FROM THE NEIGHBOURHOOD Nanook’s Great Escape

Nanook and his giraffe… Our third child – the boy who claimed he did *not* want a dog.... fast asleep with Nanook the dog. PHOTOS BY MICHAELA TOKARSKI By Michaela Tokarski scared though and so he bolted. Windsor Park. She called the phone the last month, we are very lucky As soon as I realized the door was number on his tags, but that was our that he didn’t get completely run Two of our three kids had been open, I ran after him. As soon as I home number and we were all out over, and we are very lucky someone lobbying hard (for years!) that we heard he’d been hit and run off, I ran looking for him (a mistake which has found him who knew to take him should get a dog and last year, we inside to get a leash and some treats, been rectified with new tags!). She to the vet. Maybe we should have realized that it was either time to put and then took off on foot following could tell he had been injured and named him ‘Lucky.’ this debate to rest with a firm ‘NO’, two kids from across the street who so she took him to the emergency In any case, to everyone who or time to explore options. were following Nanook. veterinarian at the Alta Vista Animal helped out in any way, thank you for The ‘NO’ approach would likely We were fast, but our little lab- Hospital. caring. Thank you for stopping what have resulted in a riot at our house, radoodle was far, far faster – even The Ottawa Humane Society called you were doing to help look. Thank so we started looking into getting though he was hopping on three legs. me to tell me that he had been found you for not hitting him as he went a dog. We did a lot of research and We followed him about four blocks while I was out searching Brantwood across Bank Street. And to the Good learned that some dogs are better to Bank and Sunnyside, and then Park. This was right around the time Samaritan, thank you so very much for allergy sufferers than others. We lost track of him. We weren’t sure my husband picked up the Good for taking him to the vet. learned that some dogs are better for whether he turned North or continued Samaritan’s original message, and we This community really is a gem of families with young kids, and that East, and if he had continued East, were off to the vet to be reconnected a neighbourhood filled with amazing some dogs are actually pretty ador- we weren’t sure how he could pos- with our family’s puppy. people. Let’s never lose that. able. sibly have made it across Bank St. As many people have told me in After months of learning about What then ensued is different breeds, and talking with what I set out to write dog owners about what to expect, we about in this article. found a puppy to join our family - a On the advice of an old little cream coloured labradoodle. friend (who is married to a A Facebook post asking for naming vet and who I literally ran suggestions resulted in a number of into while trying to find never-going-to-happen suggestions Nanook), I posted this on including: DoggyMcDogFace, Shred- Facebook: “Dog lost in der, and Shmoopy along with some Old Ottawa South limp- slightly more helpful ones. The kids ing as was hit by a car ... made a list of over 150 names which last seen heading east on included: Chewie, Scout, and What. Sunnyside please call ***- We held a family vote on our favou- ***-**** if you see him.” rites and the name Nanook won. That post set off a Nanook joined our family in frenzy of caring and kind September, and has been a delight neighbours searching ever since. His only drawback had for our puppy. Kids on been his expensive taste in shoes (his bikes. Adults on bikes. favourites being Bogs and Birken- Adults with leashes. One stocks), but we quickly learned to neighbour even offered put our shoes away and all was going a reward to some youth well. to get them to help look. Another neighbour took in Until April 13th. our youngest so we could both search. On April 13th, Nanook accidentally While the search was got out of our back yard. He ran gaining participants West through our garage, out onto the road of Bank, Nanook had and got hit by a car. in fact made it across Thankfully, the car that hit him Bank St. and had kept on was a cautious neighbour who was running (fast-hop-three- driving very slowly on account of a legged-running). nearby basketball game, and Nanook Thankfully a Good was hurt, but not fatally. He was Samaritan found him at Page 6 The OSCAR l June 2017

CHRISTY’S CORNER Summer Programs, Fall Programs, Fitness Survey and Thanks! By Christy Savage use a gym may also be changing. as our Past President. I wanted to We’d like to hear what you say a very special thank you to her Summer Programs and the Summer appreciate in a gym. for all the support and leadership Program Guide To fill out our short (5 minutes) she has given OSCA, the staff, and The Summer Program Guide is survey, please go to oldottawasouth.ca the community in the past 4 years. posted on the OSCA website, and and follow the links. An organization going through a inserted in this month’s OSCAR. We lot of change requires a bit of extra have some of our favourite instructors The OSCA Board - Retiring, commitment, and her contribution has providers, such as OSCA, to become running their most popular programs, Returning and New! been appreciated and vital. nd licensed child care providers in order in addition to a few new programs. At OSCA’s AGM on May 2 , 2017, Finally, while I thank retiring Board to offer after-school programming Registration begins online on June we said goodbye to 6 wonderful Board members and welcome new Board to children under the age of 6 (that 1st at 8:00pm. members who have actively supported members each year at this time, there OSCA through much transition over are many who remain on the Board is, children in JK/SK). Following an internal assessment of the feasibility Fitness Survey the past few years. All have played and continue to do the hard work of this option for the community, we This month, we launched a survey a vital role in our success. They necessary to keep a large organization decided not to pursue licensing at this for residents of Old Ottawa South, and have guided us while we became such as ours running well, changing time. beyond, asking what you look for in a independent and fully responsible for and growing. A special thank you However, we will be able to Fitness Centre. all aspects of programming; helped goes out to Michael Jenkin, former continue to offer programming to We have what we call, ‘The Hidden to set strategic direction; and guided long-time OSCA President, a member children in JK/SK in the following Gem,’ at the Firehall. The Firehall us through growth from 3 committees of the Executive who guided us areas: Fitness Centre (FFC) opened in the to six (Finance, Communications, through negotiating our Service Level • Summer Camps Fall of 2011, just shortly after the Planning and Zoning, Programming, Agreement with the City of Ottawa • Breakfast Club Center re-opened after renovations. Special Events, and Traffic and and Chair of the HR Working Group. (Monday - Friday, September to The Fitness Centre is quiet; easy Safety), in addition to the many Michael has been a Board member June from 7:30am - 9:00am), to work out in; not pretentious, loud sub-committees set up to focus on for almost 20 years. Thank you also or noisy; and used quite regularly by important projects. While I thanked to Steve Mennill who has been an • PD Days locals, staff, or business owners. Yet, the retiring Board members in the active and supporting Board member • Christmas Break and March Break it’s not overly crowded. We love it! March OSCAR, I wanted to recognize in Finance as well as Planning for Camps However, we’d like to hear from them briefly once again: thank you over 10 years. And to those dedicated you. The fitness industry is constantly to: Kate Charland, Pam Dakers, Nick Board members who are returning New Flexible Programs in the Fall changing and growing, while some Galletti, Matt Hart, Dana Levac and to work on their various portfolios: We are excited to announce that things stay the same, like the tried, Jacqueline Littlewood. Lise Beutel (Volunteer Engagement), we will be introducing new programs tested and true Fitness Centre. While our president, Linda Kelly Campbell, Lizane Castonguay for all age groups, including JK-SK However, we know that the needs and Hancock, is stepping down after 4 (Program Committee Co-Chair), children, this September. These will expectations of those who regularly years, she will remain on the Board Ahmed Elsayed (Planning), Christine be specialized enrichment programs Franklin (Programs), Janet Jull, Evan in science, dance, gymnastics, Pilkington (Planning), Michaela ‘Young Crafters’, Yoga, ‘Mix n Tokarski (Program Committee Co- Match’, ‘Chef’s Corner’, ‘Young Chair), Brian Ure (Traffic Co-Chair) Entrepreneurs’, ‘Sports of All Kinds’, and Erik Van der Torre (Traffic). (and more!) Thanks to OSCAR’s We also welcomed 7 new Board Programs will run once per week, members to the Board and are looking begin at 4:00pm and last for one forward to the knowledge, skillset and hour. Programs will include pick many volunteer writers interest they will bring to the Board up from Hopewell School with and the work of OSCA. Welcome walkover to Southminster Church. Caroline Clark, Connie Gunn, Ilia Extended services including a snack and distributors for Fabbri, Andy McArthy, Michelle and other activities either before or Nguyen, Richard Slowikowski and after their one hour class will also be helping get the news welcome back to Emilie Taman! offered. Important note: Programs will only take place once each week for Changes to the Child Care Act and one hour and are not a replacement to you! OSCA’s JK/SK After 4 for after-school programs. Please check our Facebook page and website The OSCAR is a self-supporting newspaper, OSCA will not be offering an after-school program to children throughout the summer for more paid for entirely by advertising, and reliant on in JK/SK under the age of 6 as of information. volunteer contributors and distributors. September 2017. This is a result of changes to the Child Care and Early Years Act, 2014 (CCEYA) Thanks to the Dairy Queen for which require recreational service contributing to our community through its support of the many OSCAR volunteers. OSCAR Zone Coordinator Needed:

• For the Zone that includes the following Streets: Riverdale, Belmont and Windsor. • This Zone Coordinator is responsible for the distribution of bundles of papers to seven deliverers, supervising and, if needed, assisting those deliverers.

Please contact the Distribution Manager Larry Ostler at: email [email protected] or phone 613-327-9080 Dairy Queen, 1272 Bank Street 738-7146 The OSCAR l June 2017 Page 7

OSCA PRESIDENT’S REPORT OSCA President’s Report as Given at the 2017 AGM By Linda Hancock this morning I received an email After a 5 year process, we signed that suggested that OSCA has off on a Service Level Agreement It is hard to believe that it was 5 years had several meetings with the with the City of Ottawa that outlines ago when I first joined the OSCA developer. This is absolutely the respective accountabilities and Board. A year later, I took on the job FALSE. This is not something roles that we each have in planning, of President and these four years truly that OSCA would do – it is not developing and implementing have flown by. From the beginning, I our role. Windmill approached programming at the Firehall. have always said that any organization our Planning & Zoning After about the same amount of time, we received the official benefits from a change of leadership Committee to meet with them want to especially thank the members documents that will enable OSCA’s every 3 or 4 years. So, I am pleased – that one and only meeting of our Executive Committee for going Charitable Fund to collect and to be able to report to you, for the happened on March 27th and our above and beyond and getting so much disburse funds in keeping with a last time as your President, on the Committee had one objective – done this past year – Lise Beutel, slightly broader mandate than just the activities of OSCA over the past year. to encourage Windmill to consult Kate Charland, Michael Jenkin, Dana renovation of the Old Firehall. I want Overall, I would like to make the more widely with the community Levac, Michaela Tokarski and, of to officially thank Neil McCormick following observations: – a meeting that was held on course, Christy Savage who supports and Christiane McGovern of Gowling April 10th and a process that is all of what we do. WLG for all of their pro bono work on OSCA continues to be in good continuing. A vote of thanks also goes to all our this. It was so appreciated! shape financially. The Board approved • We have also been reminded that volunteers and staff who help make a $50,000 deficit budget for 2016 OSCA must protect the interests of OSCA the great organization it is and Challenges in the Coming Year and came in pretty close (at about our community. What we also need who help ensure that our activities and While the year has generally been $44,000). Not bad – off by .6% on to keep in mind is that OSCA has a programs take place effectively and a successful one, as always we face a $1 million budget. We felt that is responsibility to protect/represent efficiently. From the Board to those a number of important challenges in was necessary to spend some of our all in our Community. I truly do who assist with special events to those the coming year. I am thrilled that we reserves to set OSCA up for a strong not know what our “community” who deliver the OSCAR, we truly will, once again, have a full Board and secure future. As a not-for-profit, considers appropriate when it appreciate your contributions. – 20 talented individuals – a great our goal is to break even and that is comes to future development. As I would like to publicly thank our balance of “old” (13) and “new” (7). our objective. However, we are very much as I understand the concerns staff who work hard to make all of I do want to address our nominations aware that we need to “invest” a bit of some re: development, height what we do a success. Our “core” process for a moment as I have heard to achieve our goals and address our restrictions, etc. I hear from staff - Christy, our Executive Director, comments recently that OSCA’s priorities. We have identified some many people in OOS. I’ve heard who has gone above and beyond slate always seems to be “full” and gaps and opportunities and the Board from many since the April 10th during some challenging times and her doesn’t leave any openings (in other has approved a $30,000 deficit budget Windmill meeting, and since the full-time team, Sarah, Darcy, Amy & words a foregone conclusion). Our for this year with a plan to get that most recent issue of the OSCAR Becca. We are so very lucky to have Nominations Committee begins down to $0 within the next year or was delivered. There are a lot you all! working on putting together a slate two. of people who like the proposed I would also like to thank Janet of candidates at least 3 to 4 months In 2012 and again in 2016, we development. There are many Conley-Paterson, Centre Director who before the AGM. We ask our current “checked in” with the community to long-time OOS residents who want works alongside our OSCA Staff and Board Members their intentions, we gain some insight to what OSCA’s to stay in this community when has responsibility for the Customer then put together a gap list and then priorities should be. We have made it’s time to downsize and perhaps Service Representatives, known as we put the word out via our Board some changes along the way, set some consider a condo. If they had to CSRs, who work mainly at our front Members, our Committee Chairs, the annual priorities and adjusted the way opt for slightly higher buildings desk. Thank you to our CSRs and OSCAR and social media, looking for we operate. Overall, I think we are on along Bank Street versus moving thank you also to Natalie Ollson from new members. No matter how much track and you will hear more about out of our beloved neighbourhood the City of Ottawa. we prepare, we are always scrambling this shortly. to Westboro, the Golden Triangle Speaking of appreciation, our City right up until the last week. If there We have continued to expand how or Lansdowne, they just might. Counsellor, David Chernushenko, and is anyone out there who wants to join we communicate with OOS – not This is not an official OSCA his Assistant, Ian Grabina, attend most our Board, the opportunity is always only do we have a successful paper position. I am just simply saying of our meetings and are both quick to there! Just let us know next January!!! in The OSCAR and a wonderful new that there is another perspective respond and work with OSCA and the We have a strong base of volunteers look and feel to our website, www. out there and more consultation is neighbourhood of Old Ottawa South. but we can always use more - so that oldottawasouth.ca, but we also have a needed to truly understand what Thank you. our important community work does social media strategy that continues to the community wants, needs and I have truly learned a lot in my not fall on the shoulders of a few – expand and evolve. We’ll be looking thinks. four years as OSCA President. I have a couple of areas that we do need at ways to leverage all of these great • Another issue that has been enjoyed working with many of you some assistance with are Volunteer communication channels in future brought forward has been this idea and learning more about your hopes Engagement & Branding – if you have years. Thank you to Brendan, our very that our Planning & Zoning Chair and dreams for this great community. expertise and ideas in these areas, we capable OSCAR Editor, to Kathy & is in a conflict of interest position. Have a safe and enjoyable summer would love to hear from you. Chris, who manage and support our Before addressing that, I just want in OOS! We have much going on in website for all that they do. to say that Steve Mennill has a and around our neighbourhood. We have hosted a wide range of long and impressive track record of Lansdowne, Main Street, the community special events over the working and advocating for what is Southminster development, lots of past year with excellent turnout and best for our community. OSCA is potential development sites along participation. We made the decision truly fortunate to have him in this Bank Street and, someday in the not last year to not take on any new events position. too distant future, redevelopment of but rather to focus on strengthening • OSCA has a Conflict of Interest Brewer Park. We need to press for a our “core” events – via greater Policy, we have reviewed it and we Community Design Plan for OOS so participation, diversity in participation do not feel that there is a conflict of that we can be proactively involved and opportunities to engage businesses interest. as sponsors/supporters. in the future of our community. This would give us a more strategic We have been engaged in a number We have kept our Committee framework (and context) to deal with of initiatives to advance the views structure in line with our priority future developments. of our community on important areas. As we have moved a bit more development issues from zoning to to a model whereby our staff take on Thanks infill housing, traffic and safety. more of the operations and the Board Your Board/Committees have • I want to specifically address focuses more on strategy, a couple of worked hard this year on your behalf, a planning and zoning issue our Committees may not be necessary helping to make Old Ottawa South a as there is much discussion – Special Events and Finance come to better place to live for all of us, and about it. The Southminster mind but I’ll leave that up to the next I would like to take this opportunity, Development…as recently as Board to discuss and decide. on your behalf, to thank them all. I Page 8 The OSCAR l June 2017

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“Tales of the Talibé” Southminster Article by J. Debanné Development Watch Southminster

Dear Editor, To The Editor, To the Editor,

I was deeply touched and moved by Janine Debanné’s opinion article in the May OSCAR Would you like a 6 storey condominium on your Rowan Hughes’ article “Tales of the should be required reading for, well, just about residential street? We don’t. Talibé” in the May 2017 issue of Oscar. everyone. As she points out, “developers will ask Enlist with our new community group, This horrendous story is brought vividly for twenty or forty floors in two storey communities, Development Watch Southminster (‘DWS’) and to life by her commentary and excellent and they will be granted eight or ten.” Is it not time help us ensure the new re-development project at poems. I was sorry to have missed her to put an end to this charade? This is not to say that Southminster United Church respects the current earlier poem in the June 2016 issue, bylaws are, or should be, carved in stone. Bylaws bylaws and zoning rules AND their intent. If we as I was out of town. Outstanding do change over time to reflect all sorts of evolving sit back and do nothing, OOS residents may be journalism, and poetry, by a resident of conditions. But as long as a bylaw is still on the seen by developers as ‘pushovers’. This is a BIG Old Ottawa South, and published in our books, surely this farcical and blatantly obvious game, UPSCALE project with BIG implications for our very own fine paper. Of course! played over and over again by developers, should be neighbourhood. discouraged. Otherwise, perhaps we should change We will need many voices to speak out when Susan McMaster the noun to “bysuggestion.” After all, in our judicial the time is ripe. Please consider sending your system, breaking the law is, or should be, an indictable email contact details to the address below. EVERY offense. Finally, I want to make clear that I am not anti- VOICE, EVERY EMAIL will be important. We will development or developers. In a constantly expanding not inundate you with emails, nor will we share your urban environment, it is a fact of life. All I am asking email address publicly. for is that the “playing field” be made as transparently We need…YOU. level as possible. Susan Brousseau Alan Gillmor [email protected] Professor Emeritus Carleton University

OSCA, OSCAR, Politics and notice that a school/library closure direction. And as your entry-level Kaleidoscope Kids the Citizen is being contemplated, it’s totally ignorance fades, fear replaces it, natural to contact your local com- often as you enter court trying to Salamander stories Dear Editor, munity association for understand- sanction your own feelings. Speak- & dreams in mauve ing and support. The Southminster ing up is not easy or rewarding. tissue-paper memories - Politics is such a complicated and Redevelopment Proposal is poten- And in case a citizen feels that the a treasure trove of generally unpleasant subject that I tially such a matter. elected citizens are where the fabled hate to bring it up. But, I shall. But, regarding the impending pro- buck stops, in the thirty years that pink pigs in tutus On the morning of Friday, May posal, Steve Mennill (Chair, OSCA I have been going to Ottawa City warrior cats 12, 2017, I was finally awakened Planning Committee), in his article Hall, trying to protect greenspace ducks in trucks about 5:12 am by a male cardinal in the May 2017 OSCAR, notes; and generally being bad (non-com- & silverwinged bats. calling from the maple tree outside “OSCA’s formal policy is not to pliant to the old boys), I have never our home on Sunnyside in Old take positions on individual de- seen a real politician. For the City of Salamander stories Ottawa South. As always (when velopment. Rather, our role is to Ottawa is theoretically a legal crea- & dreams in mauve I’m thinking about it), I realize that facilitate discussion and try to en- ture of Ontario. Put another way, kaleidoscope colours - I’m on a planet. Part of a complex able community members, residents none of the roughly thirty corporate, the tales unfold of system hurtling through space. of neighbouring properties, and political parties are accountably ac- However, less obvious was the fact developers to find common ground tive at Ottawa City Hall. The silence twilight & starlight that I also awoke in Ontario, Canada on development proposals...” is deafening. ramona & anne in a R3Q (487) subzone, legally This view is discouraging. Put And, like the main stream media, jedi & fly guy covered by the Ottawa Zoning By- another way, if the Members of the our community paper OSCAR is & diaries & sam. law. A By-law which cannot see any Board of Old Ottawa South Com- challenged to deliver any critical reality. munity Association wish to decline journalism. Almost every issue of Salamander stories Judging by the three articles in the jurisdiction, their value to the com- OSCAR contains a two-pager with & dreams in mauve May 2017 OSCAR (Year 45, No. munity citizens drops. As someone political proportions that speaks for sweet swirling childhood - 5), and a public consultation held living in Old Ottawa South, I expect what we might consider our govern- sequined in gold. on May 8th, 2017, there may well the members of OSCA to state their ment. The May 2017 issue is typical, be a building development proposal feeling and attitudes. Not to sup- containing four half-page articles - By Nadine Dawson coming to the land that the South- port a given citizen, or to be right the MP’s Report, the MPP’s Report, minster Church sits on. Now this or wrong, but simply to state their the Councillor’s Report and the A tribute to the vision & dedication of public consultation did not directly views as citizens of Ontario and Mayor’s Report. Four articles, with Karin, Kim & Kelly, with gratitude: involve presentations by members Canada. four embedded smiling faces, telling we are far richer because of your of the Southminster church, mem- Many years ago, I sat on the us that all’s well and, challenges presence amongst us. bers of Ottawa City Council or Board of OSCA and attended the aside, that they’re on it. In a sense members of OSCA. Nevertheless meetings of the Federation of Citi- one can’t blame them. Unfortunately Readers’ Quiz: How many of the the presentations and drawings in zens’ Associations of Ottawa (FCA) the four elected citizens pictured are books hidden in the poem do you the room indicate that a land devel- as the OSCA representative. At an never in the same room in such a recognize? opment proposal may well occur. FCA workshop, I remember Barry way as to be accountable. Anyway, The poem references a dozen or more And there were questions from Wellar (Ottawa U) saying “as a citi- I probably would have ignored the books (ie pink pigs in tutus = Olivia). citizens. zen your duty is to state your feel- articles except for a couple of the Readers of all ages might like to try Now the first time a land devel- ings and attitudes.” It stuck with me. road-kill titles - “Making Ottawa the to identify the books referenced, from oper (undefined) turns up on your You don’t have to fix anything as a Greenest Capital in the World” and the clues in the poem, then check to doorstep, a bad feeling may well citizen, just state what you feel and “Creating a Lasting green legacy for see how many they found against the develop in the pit of your stomach. try to hold the politicians to account. Future Generations.” Oh boy. Where “answer” list on page 18. (It is like No one likes change as such (change It should be easy but your feelings is the discussion? Over to you. Finding Waldo, only with words . . .) aside). Nevertheless, after staring at clash with your own ignorance and a City of Ottawa planning depart- the force of compliance that seems Yours truly Nadine Dawson is a resident of Old ment sign, a hole in the ground or a to come from every patronizing David McNicoll Ottawa South. Page 10 The OSCAR l June 2017

Southminster Church Development: Unfinished Business By Michael Lynch zoning designation permits residen- winds through Old Ottawa South. to fall? What happens if the Church tial developments up to six storeys It makes sense to ensure appropri- eventually decides to consolidate its A couple of years ago, I wrote a where TM zoning is in place. Of ate zoning to permit development, operation with that of nearby United number of OSCAR articles about the course, individual lot size dictates but as expressed in Ottawa’s Official Churches in the Glebe, Alta Vista effort to reduce height allowance and what can end up on a site on a practi- Plan, development should remain or Centretown? What of the future establish a heritage overlay along cal and/or design basis. For the mo- compatible with the neighbouring of the Southminster building under Colonel By Drive with intent to pre- ment, the Church, as with Hopewell residential community. The key word those circumstances? Could it not be vent the kind of overdevelopment Public School, is designated institu- is compatible. A number of years ago converted to an even higher condo that is ruining so many streetscapes tional. The Church wants to change a development plan for a land parcel building albeit floors staggered back in communities such as Old Ottawa the zoning from institutional to TM, to the rear of a lot zoned Traditional from Galt and Aylmer? Not to worry, South. That effort proved successful. sever the back of their property along Mainstreet in Stittsville was denied we are told. They will ensure that the However, we did not include South- Galt Street, and sell that parcel of as it was not deemed compatible with zoning will be ‘shrink-wrapped’ to minster Church in the geographic land to Windmill Developments who the R3Q (11 meters in height) resi- prevent that sort of thing from hap- reach of the rezoning, assuming that will in turn put up condos. The rezon- dential community which it neigh- pening. We already thought that the as a long time institutional resident in ing, land severance, and site plan are boured. Rather a four storey condo existing zoning was shrink-wrapped. the community, the church would not to be neatly packaged to guide the building was allowed. Windmill says Look at where that has got us. So undertake any development on that development through the City Plan- that they have taken into account the much for future assurance of zoning site. How wrong we were, and we ning Committee, Committee of Ad- impact of height on neighbours. They protection. now find ourselves facing the pros- justment, City Council, the Ontario will stagger back the top three floors. So what can we do? Over the years pect of a six storey condo building Municipal Board, and City Planning Nice of them to do so, when in fact OSCA has been overwhelmed with facing onto Galt Street. staff. Of course, there will be the the zoning bylaw requires this above development issues. For those who Let us be clear. Southminster obligatory community consultation, the fourth floor in any case. In sum, have been involved in OSWatch or its Church has contributed enormously no doubt a story in the local media, Traditional Mainstreet zoning does more recent manifestation, the OSCA to the well-being of our community, perhaps a conciliatory statement by not automatically allow six storey Zoning Committee, it is well known and can be expected to continue to do our Councillor, and everyone will be condo buildings. To the contrary, it that the volunteer task is time con- so. As with many churches, South- happy. Well, not exactly everyone. allows for up to six storeys. To resi- suming, comes with high stress, takes minster faces financial challenges dents whose homes abut commercial an emotional toll and often leads to brought on by declining membership Some context is needed. buildings along Bank Street, be fore- burn-out. Volunteer work on develop- in the congregation. It is only prudent warned. A precedent at Southminster ment issues is arguably thankless. It that they consider all options that Residents along Colonel By Drive may cause you much angst and mis- is no wonder that OSCA has stepped could offer financial stability over the did not seek protection of their ery down the road. back from the objective set out in longer term. However, in doing so, streetscape to prevent develop- We are told that the proposed de- its official bylaws: to ‘promote and the Church must remain sensitive to, ment per se. They sought protection velopment will allow those of us who protect’ the interests of residents on and seek to mitigate possible nega- against overdevelopment. We are all live in the community to remain in development issues. Now OSCA only tive impacts of any particular option too familiar with infill which builds the community should we no longer ‘facilitates and encourages’ dialog on its host community. to the property border with heights wish to maintain a detached home. about development issues. Alas, that Residents and neighbours to the well above immediate neighbours, Apparently there is a shortage within basically leaves discreet groups of Church generally think that develop- and often with rooftop balconies, en- the community of the condo liv- residents to their own means and ment of three storey condos at the tailing loss of quality of life to those ing alternative. The top floor of the capabilities to organize themselves back of the Church, respecting the immediate neighbours. Residents proposed condo development is re- around individual development is- height restrictions (11 meters) of a along Colonel By Drive wanted pro- portedly some 3000 square feet. No sues, starting from scratch each time R3Q residential zoning, would be tection against any such future abuse doubt it will be really nice, for a few. to decipher zoning rules and proce- acceptable. The sale of the property of infill bylaws. They also sought Take a look at asking prices for con- dures. As many can attest, this is not would provide much needed cash protection of the streetscape, all the dos along the Canal. The asking price a simple task. to the Church while allowing more more so due to their proximity to a for a 3000 square foot condo will not We can do something. Draw a line people to live in our wonderful com- World Heritage site, the Rideau Ca- be in the one million dollar range. It in the sand. Stand against the devel- munity. However, and understand- nal. Those arguments held. The pro- will be more likely in the two million opment at Southminster as proposed. ably, based on meetings to date posed development at Southminster dollar plus range. For smaller condos Contact our Councillor (David.Cher- residents are giving a resounding NO ignores all of that. It greatly exceeds located on the lower floors, you can [email protected]) and Mayor to a proposed six storey condo. The height allowances of the neighbour- probably expect to pay over a million ([email protected]) and let your development would certainly not be ing residential community, notably dollars. Their asking price will be views be known and ask that they be compatible with neighbouring homes along Galt Street, and ignores the beyond the reach of most of us in Old represented at City Hall. Contact the in terms of height, and there are other heritage measures so hard fought for, Ottawa South. So much for provid- OSCA President (osca@oldottawa- issues, most notably parking, that are to protect the streetscape along Colo- ing an alternative living arrangement south.ca) and let her know that you of considerable concern. nel By Drive. for residents wishing to remain in the want our community association to So how do they plan to do it? The On the subject of Traditional Main- community. do more to ‘protect’ the interests of City of Ottawa has zoned various street zoning, some further insight The proposed development will residents on development concerns. main streets including that section is worth mentioning. Over time, de- reduce the number of parking spots Join the OSCA Zoning Committee. of Bank Street in Old Ottawa South velopment pressures can be expected along Galt Street. Not to worry, resi- Attend community consultations on as Traditional Mainstreet (TM). The along the stretch of Bank Street that dents are told despite the fact that the proposed development. Contact parking in the area is already at a Southminster Church and Windmill premium. We were given that line Developments (rodney@windmill- when Lansdowne was reconstructed. developments.com) and ask that they NEW PATIENTS WELCOME If parking availability in the area of propose a development more in keep- the Church has already been con- ing with the zoning of the residential Dr. Pierre Isabelle sidered for Lansdowne, and now it community. Or if you want to take is to be considered by the Windmill more direct action, you can contact Dr MDar.t hi Peetue rT Kiremmblay development, it would appear to be developmentwatchsouthminster@ double counting. So much for visi- gmail.com and join Development tors to residents along neighbouring Watch Southminster, a group that is GLEBE DENTAL CENTRE streets, let alone those visiting the challenging the proposed overdevel- FIFTH AVENUE COURT-EVENING APPOINTMENTS new condo dwellers and, last but not opment. OPEN MONDAY-FRIDAY least, churchgoers. Southminster and Windmill have assured us that it is Michael Lynch is a Past President of a concern to them and that they are OSCA. He recently led the effort for For appointments call 613-234-6405 looking into the matter. Comforting. the rezoning and heritage overlay for And what happens if member- Colonel By Drive. ship in the congregation continues

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OCSB TRUSTEE’S REPORT The End of the School Year By Kathy Ablett, Trustee of these educational events. Our Dobson who have been drafted into students are outstanding! the Ontario Hockey League. Curtis The days are getting longer which will join the Kingston Frontenacs, means the school year will soon be Preliminary Budget Information Noel with the Mississauga Steelheads coming to an end. As this will be my for 2017-2018 and Connor with the Erie Otters. Well final column for the current academic At recent Board meetings, done gentlemen! year I want to share the following Superintendent of Finance and information from the Board: Administration, David Leach, Corpus Christi News presented installments to the Corpus Christi hosted some very Catholic Education Week preliminary budget. The remaining interesting events during Education As the school year comes to a All across Ontario, schools section of the Board’s budget, Week in May. In addition to those close, I want to extend best wishes celebrated Catholic Education Week including options for balancing the events mentioned above, the annual to all students, parents and staff for from May 1st to 5th. Both Immaculata budget, will be provided as part of Muffin Breakfast was a great success, a safe and relaxing summer break. and Corpus Christi schools the agenda materials for the June 13, as was the Book Fair. The students Farewell to those who are moving on celebrated with many activities 2017 Board meeting. At that time the also celebrated Mass at Blessed to college, university or beginning taking place at each. Everything from budget will continue to be deliberated Sacrament. their working career and I look an Aboriginal Awareness Assembly, upon. For more information please Going forward, the end of the forward to seeing those of you who Career Fair, Dance Showcase and go to www.ocsb.ca. school year is always busy with in- will return in September. Arts Night to Food Fairs and Open school and outdoor events. Please It is my privilege to serve as your Houses welcomed students, parents Congratulations to Immaculata’s review the Corpus Christi school Trustee. If, at any time, I can be and the local communities. The week OHL Hockey Draft Picks newsletter for upcoming year-end of assistance to you, please do not proved to be a great success and I Immaculata is very proud of Curtis events. hesitate to call me at 613-526-9512. was honoured to be part of so many Fabbro, Noel DeKemp and Connor

OCDSB TRUSTEE’S REPORT School Board Update By Shawn Menard School Reviews: As we head into the summer season, Over the next 5 years, the Ottawa- the Ottawa Carleton District School Carleton District School Board Board (OCDSB) is wrapping up (OCDSB) will be conducting several major initiatives as well as student learning and pupil scheduling new undertakings for the accommodation reviews that fall. will cover most geographic areas across Ottawa. This means we are 2017-2018 Budget reviewing our schools, programs On Tuesday, May 30th, at 7pm, and student enrolment to ensure The Alta Vista/Hunt Club Review staff will be presenting the OCDSB we have sustainable and vibrant will include the following schools: 2017-2018 Draft Budget. Monday, learning environments. There will June 5th at 7pm, the OCDSB will be be recommendations for change; hearing from delegations regarding this may include changes in grade the budget with debate commencing structure at a particular school Elementary Secondary afterwards. All meetings will be (eg. K-5 school becomes K-6), Alta Vista Public School Brookfield High School taking place at 133 Greenbank Road. changes in program offerings (eg. Arch Street Public School Canterbury High School The Budget is nearly $900 million adding or removing Middle or Bayview Public School Hillcrest High School and represents the priorities of the Early French Immersion), changes Blossom Park Public School Ridgemont High School in school boundaries, and in some district. Charles H. Hulse Public School cases, school closure. Dunlop Public School The schedule is as follows: I have personally been very Elizabeth Park Public School • June 5th - Public delegations concerned about the speed and Featherston Drive Public School and committee questions breadth of these reviews and the Fielding Drive Public School • June 12th - Budget debate consolidation of programs and commences schools in our communities. I will General Vanier Public School • June 19th - Budget debate (if continue to mitigate these negative Hawthorne Public School required) and recommendation decisions where I am able to at the Pleasant Park Public School to the Board Board table. Riverview Alternative School The next review is scheduled for Robert Bateman Public School The timelines for registering as Alta Vista/Hunt Club. There will be Roberta Bondar Public School a delegation (4 minutes) at Budget a community Meeting - May 29th at Sawmill Creek Elementary School Committee have been extended to Ridgemont High School (2597 Alta Vincent Massey Public School noon Monday, June 4. To register Vista Drive) in the cafeteria from in advance, please contact nicole. 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm. Childcare will [email protected]. Anyone can be available. register just prior to the start of the The accommodation review of the As always, if you have any questions meeting as a 2 minute delegation. Alta Vista/Hunt Club Area is now or comments, please send me a note or Please contact me if you would scheduled to begin September 2017. call: [email protected], @ like more information or visit For more information on these reviews, ShawnMenard1, 613-867-6772. www.ocdsb.ca/ab-ocdsb/ob/Pages/ please visit OCDSB.ca CurrentBudget.aspx Page 12 The OSCAR l June 2017

MP’S REPORT Gearing up for Canada’s Big Birthday By Catherine McKenna, MP Canada is celebrating 150 years since on July 1st meeting constituents and confederation. As the capital of the taking in festivities in the riding, The City of Ottawa is known for country, our city is the place to be to including Canada’s big birthday cel- many things – it’s known for Beaver celebrate and I encourage you to go ebration on Parliament Hill. Tails, Parliament Hill, and landmarks explore and get involved! For those who want to celebrate like the Chateau Laurier. To visi- At the beginning of May, I went to Canada 150 by connecting with tors and residents alike, Ottawa is a “A Taste of Mexico” inside the Horti- nature, the Rideau Canal, Ottawa multicultural, multilingual city with culture Building at Lansdowne Park. River, biking trails, and parks are This is one of many Ottawa 2017 easily accessible. As I mentioned at something for everyone. This year, on bike rides, and their favourite installations for a series called “Ot- the Mayor’s Breakfast on April 27th, parks, restaurants and statues. With tawa Welcomes the World” where, Ottawa has the potential to become more than 10 museums, kilometers over several months, embassies and the greenest capital in the world and of cycling and walking trails, and high commissions take over the we are lucky to have nature so close CATHERINE hundreds of parks, there’s plenty to building for a few days at a time to to our front doors. Dow’s Lake Pavil- do. It’s Canada 150 and I hope you MCKENNA promote their cultural heritage. When ion rents pedal boats, paddle boards, take some time to explore your city MP—Ottawa Centre I visited, the room was full of energy canoes and kayaks all summer long, and #OwnOurOttawa. as visitors tasted food, listened to and I personally like to explore Ot- music, and shopped at vending stalls. tawa Centre by bike on sunny days. Working for you! Over 40 embassies and high commis- I believe it’s important we

Community Office sions will participate this year. More take stock of all the great things 107 Catherine Street information can be found on Ottawa that are happening every day Ottawa, Ontario, K2P 0P4 2017’s website. in our city. That’s why at the T 613-946-8682 • F 613-946-8680 Looking ahead to June, festival and end of April, I started a new /McKenna.Ottawa @CMcKennaOttawa event goers in Ottawa will have lots social media campaign called to do to warm up for Canada Day #OwnOurOttawa/#FêterNotreOttawa activities - Italian Week, Glow Fair, as a way to showcase all of the the TD Jazz Festival, and the Tim amazing things that Ottawa has to Horton’s Dragon Boat Festival just to offer. People are sharing photos name a few. I’m looking forward to of their children eating ice cream www. CatherineMcKennaMP.ca being out and about in Ottawa Centre from local creameries, families out

MPP’S REPORT 2017 Ontario Budget - A stronger, healthier Ontario By Yasir Naqvi, MPP drug coverage for people in our support heading to post-secondary province. That commitment is part education, with 210,000 students Last month our government of $11.5 billion more dollars that receiving free tuition beginning this introduced the 2017 budget, the first will be invested in our health care fall with the new Ontario Student balanced budget since the global system over the next three years. Assistance Plan. recession. This budget introduces We’re investing to reduce wait times Investing in public infrastructure free prescription drug coverage for and make important infrastructure is also vital to growing the economy everyone aged 24 and under, makes upgrades like those taking place and ensuring a high quality of life. important investments to reduce right now at the University of We are already making the largest Ottawa Heart Institute. We’ve also infrastructure investment in our wait times and improve access to quality of life for all Ontarians. Our committed to building new hospitals Province’s history and the 2017 healthcare, helps students and makes government is building a stronger, here in Ottawa Centre and across the Budget brings additional funding to life more affordable for Ontario healthier Ontario because that’s what province. support transformative projects like families hardworking families deserve. The balanced 2017 budget Our public education system is the Confederation Line and Stage 2 renowned for its innovative approach Light Rail Transit systems that will launches OHIP+: Children and If you have any questions or to learning, including full-day serve our community for generations Youth Pharmacare, making Ontario concerns, please contact my kindergarten, small class sizes and to come. the first province in Canada to offer Community Office at ynaqvi.mpp. healthy schools. We’re investing an Thanks to a strong economy and free drug coverage for more than [email protected] or 613-722-6414. 4,400 medications, for everyone additional $6.4 billion over three responsible fiscal management, we aged 24 and under, beginning in years to continue to build a strong have balanced the budget and have January 2018. OHIP+ is the biggest education system that sets students committed to maintaining this for the expansion of medical care in Ontario up for success. And when these next two years. We can now leverage over the course of a generation and students graduate high school, they our capital investments to spur is a major leap towards universal will have even greater financial economic growth and improve the

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COUNCILLOR’S REPORT Are We Ready for the Next Flood? By David Chernushenko Second, find out if you live in a suburban areas less permeable and flood-prone area and, if so, learn thus less able to absorb water. Keep Capital Ward got off lightly again what you can do to minimize your yard as “soft” and permeable as during a spring that had all the your risk. How watertight is your possible by protecting existing trees ingredients for a major flood. By the basement? Where would you place and by favouring plants over paving time the heavy rains of late April and sandbags to protect your home? stones. early May hit the region, the “spring Do you own a sump pump and a Finally, accept the fact that climate freshet”, or melting of accumulated generator? How would you set up change will increase the likelihood winter snow and ice, had already that pump to direct water away from of flooding. That’s why the insurance passed in the Rideau River catchment the building, and avoid dangerous industry has been so outspoken about anticipated construction timing and area. While the waters of the fumes from the generator? acting to reduce greenhouse gas impacts. Rideau lapped at many doorsteps, Third, review your insurance emissions. While others were/are The marquee project for many it caused no major damage to city policy. Are you covered for flood still in denial, insurers see the spike people will be the long-anticipated infrastructure or property. damage? Can you be, and at what in claims related to flooding and footbridge over the Rideau Canal Sadly, the same cannot be said for cost? If not, why not? other “natural” disasters in Canada connecting the Glebe with Old many communities along the Ottawa Fourth, insist that municipalities and globally. In response, they need Ottawa East and South. Another is River. Slow-moving weather systems and conservation authorities update to raise premiums for some types of the Western Rideau River Pathway, brought sustained, heavy rain just their publicly-available flood maps to coverage, or simply cancel or exclude which will connect existing paths when the river’s more northern reflect climate patterns and changes certain types of coverage where the and trails from Billings Bridge to the watershed was reaching the peak of to land use. Without these, citizens risks and costs can no longer be Lees transit station. Finally, there’s its spring freshet. We all know what cannot make informed decisions adequately covered. the series of changes to bus routes followed. about if and where to purchase a Were the floods of 2017 the result and service related to the opening of With the benefit of hindsight, there home, and cities cannot properly of climate change? We can’t draw light rail service. is much we can learn from this and assess the risks of approving a direct causal relationship to one But there’s no need to confine other past floods. construction in flood-prone areas. specific incident. But we are sure to questions to these projects. I will First, never say, “It can’t happen The Rideau Valley Conservation see more extreme weather events — be available at this meeting to take here” or “I’ll have plenty of time to Authority and the City of Ottawa are it’s happening around the world. It’s questions, hear concerns and discuss get ready if it does.” Major floods currently updating our maps, in the up to us, citizens and government whatever issue you wish to bring up, can happen anywhere, whether from knowledge that much has changed alike, to play our part in flood one on one. Or, just call or email my the annual freshet, or flash floods over time, particularly in light of prevention, adaptation and response. office. I do my best to respond to all following intense rain storms. The newer housing developments and inquiries and concerns throughout the interval between “everything is fine” higher anticipated risks associated Capital Ward Open House year. and “uh-oh, we have a problem” is with climate change. Wednesday, June 21, 7 – 9 pm measured in days, if not hours, which Fifth, do your part — and insist Immaculata High School, 140 Main Councillor David Chernushenko, leaves little time to prepare. Have a that all governments do their part St. 613-580-2487 | David. plan for removing valuables, moving — to protect land that serves an A number of significant [email protected] | www. furniture and carpeting to a higher important function by absorbing infrastructure projects will start in capitalward.ca floor, shutting off electricity, finding and holding flood water. We must 2017, so I am organizing an open accommodation for family and pets, halt and reverse the trend towards house for residents who wish to and acquiring emergency supplies, widespread paving and hard view details of final plans and ask including food and water. landscaping that make urban and questions about the designs and

MAYOR’S REPORT Celebrating Canada’s Big Day By Mayor Jim Watson multicultural and welcoming Canada’s provinces and spirit during numerous Ottawa territories. We have been working hard to Welcomes the World events held • Kontinuum, an immersive bring Canada’s 150th anniversary at Lansdowne Park. multimedia production unfolding celebrations to the Nation’s Capital in Ottawa’s future Lyon Light and kicked off 2017 by lighting But the celebrations would not be Rail Transit (LRT) station. up the Cauldron at City Hall, and complete without throwing Canada a the Centennial Flame with a First grand and impressive birthday party July 1st will also mark the opening Nations sacred fire. on July 1st, 2017! of the National Art Centre’s beautiful Since then, the celebrations have Once again, Ottawa’s Canada Day new entrance and atrium. To The Nation’s Capital will be the not stopped and we’ve had an celebrations will start bright and celebrate this important milestone, site of continuous sesquicentennial incredible first half of 2017: early with my Annual Canada Day the NAC will offer a full day of free celebrations for the rest of 2017, and • Delectable culinary experience Celebration for Seniors, and will concerts, programming and activities. we will continue to dazzle and inspire with Fire and Ice, a four-course continue throughout the afternoon After your stop at the NAC, enjoy residents and visitors with free events gourmet dinner served in a with special Canada Day events free admission for the whole family such as La Machine, an ambulatory tomato greenhouse. taking place in all corners of the City, at all National Museums and urban theatre on the streets of • Thrills and spills during Red Bull from Beacon Hill to Vernon, and of National Galleries in the Nation’s downtown Ottawa, the lighting and Crashed Ice, the National Skating course, in Ottawa’s urban core. Capital. illumination of Chaudière Falls Championships and the Davis Don’t miss these free Ottawa 2017 The 2017 Canada Day celebrations showcasing Indigenous heritage, and Cup. signature events: will culminate with concerts, special the continued celebrations of nations • Moving concerts and memorable • Inspiration Village, an performances and fireworks on from around the world during Ottawa performances during JUNO ephemeral hub and the site of a Parliament Hill, where thousands Welcomes the World. succession of special exhibits of residents and visitors will unite Week and at the JUNO Awards. Check out www.Ottawa2017.ca for and performing arts events in true Canadian spirit and pay • Diverse world-class cultural more information. events showcasing Canada’s in Ottawa’s historic ByWard homage to our great country. But the Market, each one showcasing festivities will not stop there. Page 14 The OSCAR l June 2017

NEWS Capital Spokes Bike Rally & Rodeo Sunday, June 11th bicycle pathways, including the is. For those of you who are new closure of Colonel By on Sunday to the game, Bike Rodeos are fun, mornings. family events that promote safe Depending on where cyclists cycling routes and practices on our live, your routes will take you city streets. Sponsored and organized along streets like Percy, Glebe by Ottawa’s Safer Roads program, Avenue, O’Connor, Bank, Echo the rodeos include interactive safety Drive, Avenue Road, Main Street, and information booths and are Brookfield, Clementine, Aylmer often accompanied by a community Avenue & Colonel By. Maps are organized bicycle rally. Routes are available online at: oldottawasouth. determined in advance and maps ca. identify for cyclists which route to Maps are identified by take. neighbourhood; select the one All identified routes from each outlining your community route, and of the participating communities take note of the starting point. Rallies will lead to Windsor Park. Once begin at 9:00 am and run from at Windsor Park, participants of 2.48 – 5.12 km in length, arriving all ages: children, teens and adults at Windsor Park around 10:00 am. (all bike broncos) manoeuvre their Come join the fun: celebrate the end bicycles from one interactive activity/ of the school year, the beginning rodeo station to another. Learning of summer, the seasons of cycling! and practicing basic safety tasks such PHOTO BY SARAH JANE FRASER Everyone is welcome. as simple bike maintenance, checking For those of you interested in a helmets for correct fit, how and when By Winnie Pietrykowski Association (OSCA) is partnering more active role in the rally and to signal, and navigating turns and with the City’s Safer Roads Program rodeo, contact us at roundabouts. On Sunday, June 11th, residents from to host this Bike Rodeo event. [email protected] Parents are encouraged to Old Ottawa South, the Glebe, Old OSCA has invited neighbouring Rally and rodeo volunteers will participate. The purpose of the rodeo Ottawa East and Heron Park will communities to help make this event meet at 10:30 am, Saturday, June is to explore safe cycle routes in OOS th cycle along familiar neighbourhood a success. The invited communities 10 at the OOS Firehall. A two- and neighbouring communities, and streets and pathways heading for include Old Ottawa East (OOE), the hour training session by Can-Bike to provide cyclists with the tools and Windsor Park and our very first Glebe (GCA), and Heron Park. Each specialists will provide useful bike know-how to travel safely. Capital Spokes Bike Rodeo. The of these communities has proposed training and tips to help guide Our goal is to make this Bike Old Ottawa South Community their own route to Windsor Park, cyclists along their rally routes and Rodeo/Rally an annual event with making use of existing and proposed to their destination. Some volunteers each of the partnering communities will be expected to ride with taking turns to host rodeo/activity groups of 5-8 cyclists and stations in neighbourhood parks others will be needed at certain to promote safe cycling routes and crossroads and rodeo stations. practices in Capital Ward and our This is an event where even if City streets. you don’t cycle, there is room to participate! For more up-to-date online If you’ve been following us information, visit us at in OSCAR and online, you’ll oldottawasouth.ca. already know what a Bike Rodeo

May Court Club Life Cycle Bike Fundraiser By Christine Beelen community. We are excited to be working on the first of what we The May Court Club of Ottawa is hope will be an annual event.” pleased to announce our first fund- The Life Cycle route will start raising bike ride – Life Cycle on and end at the May Court Club June 3rd. Join other cyclists for a 50 on Cameron Street. It will be a km ride to raise money for the May fun ride through the Experimental Court’s many programs serving the Farm, Carleton University, the community which include housing Parkway and across to Gatineau and supporting the Hospice at May with the half-way point being the Court, scholarships for masters Aylmer Marina. Riders will receive students as nurse practitioners and technical support from Kunstadt in information technology, nutrition Sports. Departures from the Club programs at Community Houses, will commence at 10:00 am in the library at the Civic Hospital, to small groups. Once back at the name a few. Club, cyclists will enjoy a hot meal “Our Club has a long history prepared by May Court volunteers of providing service and funding and beer provided by Beau’s to various groups in need,” said Brewery. Nancy Pyper, President of the May Court Club of Ottawa. “We are Christine Beelen is the Communi- always looking at exciting new cations Director at The May Court ways to bring in much needed Club of Ottawa. funds which we use to support our The OSCAR l June 2017 Page 15

FILM REVIEW The Wedding Plan and – hilariously – none of them work out. Another matchmaker is engaged and again there is no resolution. In desperation, with eight days to go, Michal flies to the Ukraine where she bonds with a touring Israeli musician who – like her – is looking to wed. Back in Tel Aviv, this wedding plan (again) falls through. Michal is so determined to pressured into marrying an older fulfill her life’s ambition she carries widower. In real life, Burshtein is a on and finalizes plans with or without convert to Orthodox Judaism i.e. she a groom. knows the subject matter. The Wedding Plan succeeds at The Wedding Plan premiered at many levels. The effervescent Noa the Tribeca Film Festival in April, Koler brings the audience along to critical acclaim. One does not with her on her audacious plan, need to be Jewish (nor religious) to Michal (played by Noa Koler) on her way to her wedding? keeping the audience in the dark appreciate the humor and brazenness until the very end. Her personality of this highly entertaining film. plans to get married on the last day Reviewed by Tony Wohlfarth and ultimately her faith prevails, of Chanukah, the Jewish festival of in a superb acting performance. Tony Wohlfarth is an Ottawa-based lights, 22 days hence. Michal is 32, The Wedding Plan is an unusual Koler won a best actress award from freelance film writer. He covered the her biological clock is ticking and Israeli comedy about an elaborate the Israeli Film Academy for her 2017 Tribeca Film Festival in Lower after dating 132 men, she lives in wedding which was off, then on, then performance – which (remarkably) Manhattan this April. shame - not wanting to experience off and then...?? is her first major film acting role. another holiday single. What to do? The principal character, Michal Previously, Koler acted on stage with The Wedding Plan is in Hebrew, with She decides God will provide her a (played by Noa Koler), has a the Gesher Theatre, and at the age of English subtitles, and the running husband. problem. Her arranged marriage to 36, she got this role. The direction time is 1 hour and 50 minutes. The Michal’s mother is a matchmaker, Gidi fell through when he announced by Rama Burshtein, is brilliant. The Wedding Plan screens at the By- and in the Orthodox Jewish he did not love her. She has the hall, Wedding Plan is Burshtein’s second Towne Cinema, beginning on May tradition she leans on her to find a th the rabbi, the meal but no groom. feature length film. Her first,Fill the 26 . replacement. Michal embarks on a Michal is one determined bride and Void, was about a younger woman she is unwilling to abandon her series of meetings with eligible men Page 16 The OSCAR l June 2017

MUSIC Rideau Chorale Presents an Evening of High Baroque Music

Rideau Chorale singing at Southminster United. PHOTO BY MARGUERITE POTOCCO-DRAKULIC

By Jennifer Strachan at 7:30 pm. This combination of choir’s first concert under its new part for the performance. The masterworks of the Italian high name, dazzling a packed house and choir will also be giving a Lenten Rideau Chorale, a community-based baroque is a perfect way to enjoy a receiving a lengthy standing ovation performance of Duruflé’s Requiem choir located in Old Ottawa South, spring evening! in February 2016. It followed up with in its arrangement by the composer will conclude its 2016-17 season Rideau Chorale, led by Roland two spring-2016 presentations of for organ and chamber orchestra. with a presentation of a perennial Graham, was founded in 2015. The Handel’s Four Coronation Anthems While next season’s auditions will favourite, Vivaldi’s Gloria in vision of the charitable non-profit at Southminster and Gatineau’s be held in the last week of August, Excelsis for SATB choir, and a repeat choir, in addition to promoting and Saint-François-de-Sales Church. In interested singers should call as soon “by popular demand” performance presenting beautiful pieces of music November, the Chorale performed as possible, as openings are limited. of Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater, which to the community, is to provide Gabriel Fauré’s Requiem. Most For more information, contact: played to a full house in March as mentorship and opportunities for recently, Rideau Chorale presented [email protected] or check part of the Doors Open for Music choristers to develop musical talents an evening of selected accompanied out the Rideau Chorale Facebook noon-hour series at Southminster such as sight-reading and vocal and a cappella works for Easter week page. United Church. The concert, performance, from intermediate to by composers ranging from Mozart, Jennifer Strachan sings in the featuring soprano Susan Elizabeth advanced levels. Once known as the Palestrina and Mendelssohn, to Pablo soprano section of Rideau Chorale. and mezzo-soprano Lydia Piehl, two Ottawa Folklore Centre’s ‘Tuesday’ Casals, Da Rold, Stainer, Tavener and outstanding young area singers both Choir, the Rideau Chorale presented Gjeilo. active in the local opera and oratorio Vivaldi’s Gloria in December 2014 scene, and directed by Roland and the Fields of Gold concert in Rideau Chorale’s 2017-18 Season Concert information Graham from the harpsichord, will June 2015 to enthusiastic audiences. Rideau Chorale is composed of When: Thursday, June 8, take place on Thursday, June 8, Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana was the approximately 50 members and at 7:30 pm is always actively recruiting new Where: Southminster United choral enthusiasts. We are delighted Church, 15 Aylmer Avenue, on to be presenting a two-evening the corner of Bank St. and the presentation of Handel’s oratorio The Rideau Canal (access via bus Fourth Annual Belmont Messiah on December 7 and 8 (Thurs routes 1 and 7) & Fri) at Southminster. The concert Tickets: $25 for adults, $20 for Paddlefest will be guest-conducted by Matthew seniors and $10 for students. Larkin, who will be returning from Available at Eventbrite.ca, Saturday, June 17th his new post in Toronto for the Leading Note, and Compact occasion. Roland Graham will play Music, from choir members, or 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm the important harpsichord continuo at the door.

Join family, friends and neighbours in Windsor Park at the dock to celebrate A bridge of opportunity National Paddling Week. Let’s all paddle together on the Rideau River. Bring Morning & Lunch Preschool Program whatever watercraft you have and then ages 2.5 to 4 years try something new like SUP (stand up paddleboards), surf skis, outriggers, Afterschool Program rowing, etc. Hope to see you there, children 4 to 11 years and remember to bring your lifejacket ______…children learning through active investigation. or certified PFD and your sense of 63 Evelyn Ave. (off Main St. near Pretoria Bridge) adventure! www.rainbowkidschool.ca Tel: 613-235-2255 The OSCAR l June 2017 Page 17

Summer Choral Workshop Continues with Third Annual Offering By Roland Graham had never sung in a choir before joining - will sing staggering around from lack of oxygen), and what Handel’s Messiah and Maurice Duruflé’s sublime a diphthong is. Following successful courses the past two Requiem. You’ll learn the difference between an upbeat summers, I’m pleased to be presenting my third Based on my experiences with community and downbeat and why that’s so important. We’ll annual Summer Choral Workshop for amateur choirs, I’ve developed a course that offers focused talk about the anatomy of musical phrases, and singers this July and August at Southminster instruction on the most important and fundamental discuss the relationship between the pulse and United Church in Old Ottawa South. To aspects of music reading and cognition from a other elements of the music. You’ll also pick up a accommodate a variety of schedules, the course choral singer’s perspective. few tips for more efficient home study. will be offered this year in two sessions. The course will be perfect for people for whom Using concrete musical examples, simple any of the following applies: analogies, and lots of enjoyable singing exercises, Session A: Saturdays weekly, July 1 to August 5 (6 • You’d love to sing in a choir but have no concepts will be clearly explained and practically classes) experience and don’t know where to start. demonstrated. Each class will entail a mix of Time: 10:00 am to 1:30 pm (3.5 hrs each) • You sing well next to a strong singer but want classroom-style instruction and rehearsal-style more confidence of your own. singing in parts, learning enjoyable pieces and Session B: Tuesdays & Thursdays weekly; July 4 • You sing by ear but don’t know how to read or preparing for the final night of the course, which to August 10 (12 classes) count very well. will involve a performance of the Canadian Time: 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm (2 hrs each) • Your choir director uses terminology and and American National Anthems at an Ottawa concepts you don’t understand. Champions baseball game. Background: Over the past few years, I’ve done • You play another instrument but want to learn The cost of $150.00 covers all classes, all a lot of work teaching basic music skills to singers to sing in harmony. musical materials, administrative fees and costs. in the various ensembles I direct, including the Email [email protected] or Rideau Chorale, which has grown in under three Starting with the basics, the course will cover call 613-862-2084 for more information or to years from a pick-up choir of non-auditioned how to follow musical scores, read note values and register. enthusiasts to a capable, energetic community rests, understanding time signatures and the basics chorus that has tackled such works as Orff’s of rhythm. We’ll talk about harmony and how to Roland Graham is the Director of Music, Carmina Burana, Handel’s Four Coronation use basic knowledge of chords to help get around Southminster United Church, and Conductor of the Anthems, Vivaldi’s Gloria and Fauré’s Requiem. the music. You’ll learn how to stagger-breathe Rideau Chorale. Next season, the choir - many of whose members properly (it isn’t holding the note until you’re

Sing Ottawa en choeur: A Choral Celebration of Canada By Nadine Dawson origins of the people who live and place in downtown Ottawa from June com. Children under the age of 18 are work in Ottawa. In the evening, the 23rd to 25th. To purchase tickets, sign admitted free to all events. If you cannot name a single Canadian Capital Chamber Choir presents up to sing in the final concert, or find composer of choral music, you are “Contemporary Choral Music from out more about the festival, visit the Nadine Dawson is a resident of Old not alone. And yet, Canadians have Ottawa, Ontario, & Canada.” website: www.singottawaenchoeur. Ottawa South. been writing vocal music as a form Sunday starts off with “Inspiring of artistic expression for generations. the Next Generation,” a panel Music, especially music performed discussion featuring educators and with the intimacy of the voice, stirs musicians working with children and a deep connection with the human youth. The Ottawa Children’s Choir experience, its triumphs and sorrows, and the Ottawa Regional Youth Brokers Diane Allingham & Jennifer Stewart 613-725-1171 playfulness and reverence. Indeed, Choir showcase the diverse musical choral music sings of what it is to be traditions of Canada in an afternoon alive. concert of music from coast to coast. Thanks in part to funding from Closing the festival will be a both Ottawa 2017’s Arts, Culture and Sunday evening concert in which Heritage Program, and Ontario 150, you are invited to perform! “Canada Ottawa will host a choral festival Celebration 2017” will feature a re-acquainting Canadians with our massed choir, accompanied by a musical landscape. professional orchestra, showcasing Presented by the Cantata Singers of Canadian music from the last Ottawa, the Capital Chamber Choir, 150 years. Along with the crowd- and the Ottawa Regional Youth pleasing perennial favourite, Choir, “Sing Ottawa en choeur,” June Handel’s Hallelujah Chorus, and 23rd to 25th, features a joyful weekend a rousing version of O Canada, JUST LISTED! of choral music. two pieces will be premiered: contemporary local composer GLEBE SEMI Launching the festival on Friday 5 Holmwood Ave. Listed at $549,900 evening will be a concert by Studio Andrew Ager’s From Far and de musique ancienne de Montreal, Wide, and Clarence Lucas’ Dies containing choral works from Irae, which was written in 1942, French-speaking North America. This preserved in Library and Archives concert features the earliest piece of Canada, but never before performed. classical music composed in Canada, Everyone who loves to sing is “la Prose de la Sainte-Famille,” encouraged to participate in this as well as the world premiere of final festival concert. a specially commissioned work Canadian composer, Healey by Quebec composer, Maurice- Willan, said: “Music has been my Gaston du Berger, which depicts the chief delight, and if at any time I explorations of Champlain. have been able to share that delight JUST LISTED! JUST LISTED! Saturday begins with “Creating with others, I am content.” Now that RIVERVIEW PARK SINGLE ALTA VISTA SINGLE Canadian Music,” a panel discussion you know the name of a Canadian 1537 Caledon Street 155 Winther Ave Listed at $425,000 Listed at $639,900 with composers and leaders in composer or two, come join in the commissioning new works. The day’s fun at “Sing Ottawa en choeur” [email protected] afternoon concert, “Ottawa in Song,” and deepen your understanding of #200 –1335 Carling Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario K1Z 8N8 will be presented by the Cantata Canada’s choral traditions. Singers of Ottawa, and features music representing the cultural “Sing Ottawa en choeur” takes dianeandjen.com Page 18 The OSCAR l June 2017

HISTORY Old Ottawa East Examines The Greatest Canadian of them All

Prime Minister Sir John A Macdonald. Dr. Philippe Azzie who spoke about the life and times of Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald at Saint Paul University in April. PHOTO FROM COLLECTION OF LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES CANADA C009267 By Don Cummer • Prime minister during the cre- and its constitution. Apart from on who was the Greatest Canadian, ation of the provinces of Manito- Charles Tupper’s administration, because there might not have been a When CBC viewers cast their ballots ba, British Columbia, and Prince which lasted a mere ten weeks, none Canada. in 2004 on who was the Greatest Edward Island; of the other Fathers of Confederation Professor Azzie’s talk was the Canadian, Sir John A. Macdonald • the building of the Canadian led a federal government. Wilfrid second in a series of discussions on ranked number eight – one place Pacific Railway; Laurier may have been Macdonald’s Canada’s Prime Ministers. In the first behind Don Cherry. • the establishment of the North equal as a Parliamentarian and a na- lecture in March, Professor Richard As part of the Canada150 celebra- West Mounted Police; tion builder, but he was not a founder. Clippingdale spoke about Sir Wilfrid tion organized by the Old Ottawa • Canada’s first labour legislation What was Macdonald like? “When Laurier. East Community Association, Dr. (Trade Unions Act of 1873); and we think about Macdonald,” says May 29 will see Dr. Greg Donaghy Philippe Azzie of Carleton University • the implementation of the Na- Professor Azzie, “we tend to forget lead a discussion on Sir Robert made a compelling case for why he tional Policy of tariff protection. or not know how highly intelligent Borden. Dr. Donaghy is the Head of deserves a much higher ranking. he was.” He deliberately cultivated the Historical Section and Deputy Macdonald excelled in three dis- As a leader, he held a parliamen- an image of himself as a practical Director of Policy Research at Global tinct but related fields: as founder, tary caucus together and led his Party man, not much interested in vision- Affairs Canada. His biography of nation builder, and leader. to victory in six federal elections. ary ideas. Yet, he was the most adept Paul Martin was short-listed for the He was a founder of Canada – a His leadership style was pragmatic constitutional scholar among the 2015 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize. Father of Confederation. In fact, he and practical. It was both partisan Fathers of Confederation. On Monday, June 26th, Professor was the principal architect of our and patriotic. He used camaraderie Professor Azzie noted that, “He Stephen Azzi will again speak, this Constitution. and good humour to make allies and genuinely liked people – includ- time on Lester B. Pearson. But earlier he also founded an placate opponents. To create a new ing political opponents – and had a The lectures – which will continue alliance that brought Upper Canada nation, he was capable of forming legendary memory for names and through the year – begin at 7 p.m. at Tories with Lower Canada Bleus to a Great Coalition with his enemy, faces.” His life was marred with per- St. Paul’s University, Room L120, form a political party that has helped George Brown. sonal tragedy, but he maintained an 233 Main Street. Admission is free. shape Canada ever since. While one could argue that other aura of bonhomie and good will. As a nation builder, he held office Canadians were equally important The father of Medicare and Can- Don Cummer lives in Old Ottawa as Prime Minister for 19 of Canada’s and exceptional in one or even two of ada’s first NDP Premier, Tommy South. Every January he helps or- formative first 24 years. Under his those fields, Professor Azzie points Douglas was the choice of the CBC ganize Sir John A’s Great Canadian guidance, four eastern provinces out that no one matches Macdonald viewers in 2004 as the Greatest Kilt Skate to celebrate Canada’s first grew to become a trans-continental in combining all three. Mackenzie- Canadian. Professor Azzie suggested Prime Minister. www.kiltskate.com. dominion. Among the achievements King governed the country longer, that, without John A. Macdonald, Professor Azzie listed: but did not help create the country we might not have been able to vote

Answers to the Kaleidoscope Kids poem on page 9

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ARTS AND CULTURE Sparks Street Ballad: A Canadian Tale of Thomas D’Arcy McGee Sparks Street. After delivering an history. impassioned speech in support of Sparks Street Ballad will be the new Canada in April 1868, just performed on June 3 and 4th at the one year after Confederation, he was Wakefield Community Centre, shot and killed while returning to his and at the Ottawa Fringe Festival rooms. It is assumed that his assassin on June 10th and 17th. For more was an Irish Fenian, but even though information about the show, a local tailor, Patrick Whelan, was and to purchase tickets, visit the tried and hanged for the murder, the Fiddleheads website at http://www. exact circumstances of the shooting fiddleheadsmusicaltheatre.ca/ remain in doubt. The assassination cut short a life that was full of Paul Keen lives in OOS in a house promise: McGee was only 43 years that every summer feels a lot like old. His funeral was attended by the Shakespeare’s Globe Theater. largest public entourage in Canadian

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NEWS The Green Dreamers are Back!

On Wednesday, May 10th Philip Lai of the Siam Kitchen greeted Green Julie from Boomerang Kids takes early morning coffee requests from Green Dreamers with early morning refreshments and gift certificates for lunch/ Dreamers Brian Tansey and Michael Bradley. Green Dreamers raked, pruned supper. From left to right are Darcie, Michael, Philip Lai, Brian, and and removed winter gravel from garden beds outside Boomerang Kids, a Christine. PHOTOS BY WINNIE PIETRYKOWSKI children’s store in OOS.

By Winnie Pietrykowski trash in gardens compared to years adjustments to the grading of the experience is necessary. Share this before; the soil is also looser, darker rain gardens to meet the City’s article with family, friends and The Green Dreamers are celebrating and easier to dig into. We continue accessibility guidelines. More neighbours. The more the merrier. their third season in OOS! to be hopeful that we will replenish specifically, the sloping of the rain The Green Dreamers want to work Despite record rainfalls, cool our garden beds and secure healthier, gardens adjacent to the sidewalk is a with local businesses and residents temperatures and unpredictable more reliable growth. bit too steep. The bottoms of the rain to build a greener, lovelier OOS. snow showers the Green Dreamers As always, the Green Dreamers are gardens need to be raised to allow for We hope to accomplish this goal by have completed their first round of looking for more perennial plants. a flatter slope from the sidewalk to revitalizing and nurturing the public/ spring cleaning of garden beds at Some of our garden beds are very the side. commercial planters and garden the Library, Firehall, Sunnyside/ vulnerable to snow plows scraping “This will mean removal of the beds along Bank Street between the Bank, Glen, Grove, Ossington and too close to the surface, salt & gravel plantings, the placement of some bridges and on Sunnyside Avenue Cameron. “dumps” and the vagaries of seasonal additional biomedia and replanting west of Bank—our goal is a more Bamboo stakes tied with neon- changes. OOS gardeners continue (including replacement of any plants sustainable, livable, beautiful orange plastic ribbons were to be generous when thinning or that didn’t make it).” neighbourhood! temporarily placed to protect daffodil refreshing their own gardens; plants The Green Dreamers are and tulip bulbs from heavy foot are always welcome especially committed to working with the City For more news and updates from traffic, and gardeners did what they those looking for a new home when to make this pilot project a success. the Green Dreamers email: adopt- could (when the weather permitted) renovations limit the outline of their We hope to have more news on [email protected] or visit to prepare beds for the next round landscape. the rain gardens in the weeks to http://www.oldottawasouth.ca/green- of composting, mulching and For gardeners who have assumed come. Stay tuned. dreamers. transplanting. Green Dreamers are responsibility for the Sunnyside As always, new gardening delighted to report less damage and Rain Gardens we still expect some enthusiasts are welcome! No

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Community Garden Members Receive Outstanding Lifetime

Volunteer Awards and the many volunteers and garden members, we are very proud of what we have accomplished at the garden and the biodome during the past five years.” Now in its 6th gardening season, the Brewer Park Community Garden is a non-profit organization that operates a community garden located on the western side of Brewer Park. Garden membership is open to all who live, work or study in Old Ottawa South and neighbouring areas. It is comprised of 52 member plots and 10 children’s garden plots, as well as additional plots for donations, and communal shared plots. Brewer Park Community Garden members with their awards. (L to R) Edmond Marc du Rogoff, Guy Souliere, In 2014, members, along with Johanne Ranger, Michael Oster, Danielle Cantin, Ed Kucerak and Marcel Belanger. PHOTO BY ÉLIE CANTIN-NANTEL many volunteers, constructed a Biodome Garden. The Biodome Johanne Ranger, Guy Souliere and The inscription on the award given By Ed Kucerak Garden is a pilot project that Lori Waller for their many years of to each nominee read “For years of provides members with an extended May 2nd, 2017 proved to be a special work on the Brewer Park Community cultivating our landscape and making growing season, as well as serving day for Brewer Park Community Garden and the Brewer Park Old Ottawa South’s greenery more as a demonstration, education and Garden as several of its members Biodome. beautiful for years to come.” research station, for gardeners, the were awarded the OSCA Outstanding Their nominations were “It was quite the honour to be community and local schools. Lifetime Volunteer Award. unanimously accepted by the OSCA recognized by OSCA with this ward”, Nominated were Marcel Belanger, Executive Committee with the said Johanne Ranger, President of To learn more visit the Danielle Cantin, Edmond Marc du awards presented to the nominees the Community Garden. “Speaking garden’s website at www. Rogoff, Ed Kucerak, Michael Oster, during OSCA’s AGM on May 2nd. on behalf of my fellow nominees brewerparkcommunitygarden.com.

OSCAR Delivery Area Captains Receive Awards (Left to right) Janet Drysdale, Laura Johnson, Brendan McCoy and Carol O’Connor.

Four longtime OSCAR Delivery Coordinators, or “Area Captains,” who have delivered the OSCAR for more than a decade, (most for several decades) receive Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Awards at the OSCA AGM. They were: Janet Drysdale, Laura Johnson, Carol O’Connor and Ross Imrie (who was unable to attend the presentation). The award was presented by Brendan McCoy, the OSCAR Editor, with many thanks for this important and appreciated community service.

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Winnie Pietrykowski Given Lifetime Volunteer Award PHOTO BY DARCY MIDDAUGH

(L-R) Past OSCA President Michael Jenkin, Winnie Pietrykowski and OSCA President Linda Hancock. In the 1980s Winnie helped organize a group of neighbours who successfully lobbied to stop the widespread spraying of the pesticide 2,4-D in Brewer Park. Since then she has volunteered in many ways, including: sitting on the OSCA Board and OSWatch, Chairing the OSCA Traffic and Safety Committee (T&S) and the Green Dreamers. The OSCAR l June 2017 Page 23

NEWS Thank You to OSCA and the Community By Brenda Lee all of his support and love and for not kicking me out of bed when I Brenda Lee received the Outstanding was tossing and turning and making Lifetime Volunteer Award from to do lists in my head at 3:00am, and OASCA for over 20 years of for helping me to put so many things volunteering on the OSCA Board and into proper perspective. on the Events Committee. Brenda And lastly, of course, my has been a strong supporter for Mom, who was an event planner events that bring the community extraordinaire even though she together and has given of her time would never admit it, and at whose and knowledge openly and selflessly. knee I learned those basic lessons of Her contribution to the community how to give back and how to plan a has been felt in many ways, and the kick-ass party on a budget. community will continue to benefit When I joined the Special Events for years to come because of her committee, OSCA hosted two events efforts, and establishment of key a year. That grew significantly over OSCA events. the last 17 years, due in great part to the many people who had ideas This is a transcript of her and ran with them. The thing I will acceptance speech. always treasure about those years was the grassroots nature of it all. I’d like to thank the community We volunteers planned events in of Old Ottawa South for this award neighbourhood parks with children and for the past 17 years that have playing around us, in our living literally changed my life. I came rooms over coffee, in small meeting to this Association in 1999, very rooms at the Firehall… and yes unschooled in the ways of boards, occasionally at the local pub. The committees and event planning. events were small and community When I joined I was unsure of oriented, well attended and cherished myself and hesitant to speak up, by so many. People pitched in where something I am sure we can all agree they could, brought out their best is no longer the case! foods for friendly neighbourhood There are too many people to thank competitions, businesses donated and I will never be able to thank prizes and children who attended everyone properly, but I hope you events grew up and were suddenly Volunteer extraordinaire Brenda Lee. all know who you are, and what you teenagers volunteering at the same PHOTO BY DARCY MIDDAUGH mean to me. events they had attended as children. I want to thank Anne Marie They really were special times. Corbett for convincing me to join Change is inevitable, and OSCA the board in the first place, for co- is undergoing its own changes. chairing both Special Events and Professional event planners will now the Program Committee with me be hired to host OSCA events, with for years, and for teaching me that the hopes that the events will grow in rules could sometimes be bent, and size and scope, and attract a bigger that that was ok. The late Deirdre audience than just those in OOS. But SEZLIK.COM SEZLIK.COMSold SEZLIK.C McQuillan, Dinos Dafniotis, and I will always hold those memories Cathie Buchanan for their infinite of the early, simpler years close to patience with a newbie, and for my heart, and be forever grateful for SEZLIK.COM SEZLIK.COM SEZLIK.COM SEZLIK.COM SEZLIK.COM sharing in so many adventures and being lucky enough to have been a laughs with me over the years. part of them. Darcy Middaugh, Julia Morency, I will end this sentimental speech 311 Clemow Ave, Glebe - $1,450,000 Ilona Peltz, Nancy Brunet, Michelle by saying that I truly believe that Find out what working with Terris, Bob Adamyk, Rebekka Roy, the Beatles were genius and that “in Kate Charland and every single the end the love you take is equal Ottawa’s Best person who ever sat on the Special to the love you make” is not just Events Committee and volunteered a brilliant lyric but also a mantra Can do for you their time and ideas to this that I hold to be the absolute truth. community, as well as the literally All that I gave to this community I hundreds of people who volunteered received back ten-fold, and I am a at events over the years. Your hard very lucky woman. I thank you all so work and dedication is inspiring, and very much, not only for this award, reflects on all that this community is. but also for all of the wonderful My husband, Chris Heilmann for memories.

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NEWS Windsor Park Cleanup Spring 2017

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SECOND THOUGHTS Islam and Modernity By Richard Ostrofsky several features of modernity came to of the Faithful from the innumerable Europe from this Islamic civilization, clans of his medieval world. The My current interest is modernity, a so there is a question (most urgent in point for us is that modernity cultural explosion set off in Western the current Middle East itself) of why as we know it puts a premium Europe almost 600 years ago, this society lost the lead that it once on ambitious, hyper-achieving promoting a characteristic mindset enjoyed, and today is having such individuals, but also needs a stable, that has proved obligatory for peoples difficulty holding its own? competent state. Nepotism and kin- everywhere. In its first centuries, We should be clear that its religion loyalty get in the way of enterprise aboriginal societies, still with stone is not a sufficient explanation. First, and efficiency. Centralized power age technologies, could not resist its Western imperialisms certainly seeks to regulate and control which onslaught. In the long run, neither did, and are still doing, a great deal have advantages for a modern society could the highly civilized Chinese or of damage. Though they can’t be up to a point, but tends to thwart technology of movable-type printing) Japanese. In fact, just about the only blamed for everything, they can be experimentation and entrepreneurship was rejected for fully three hundred effective resistance found anywhere blamed for a lot. Second, the rise when it is too entrenched. Europe years after it was invented in Europe in the world today to the modern of the West was actually furthered enjoyed some balance in this respect and applied with explosive results. mindset and project, comes from in several ways by the Mongol (as the Chinese, for example, did Gutenberg printed his Bible in the Muslim societies in Africa and the invasions and by the Plague, which not). A tribal mindset works against 1450s. In 1485, the Ottoman Sultan Middle East. Not that these have any did more, and more lasting harm the combination of individualism issued a ban on all printing, and the very attractive alternative to live by in the Middle East than in Europe. and stable governance on which most remarkable fact is that this ban or to offer. Except for certain renter Finally, in many ways, the Muslim modernity best thrives. was observed. Reverence for the states (e.g. Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia religion is more a result of Middle On one hand, it presumes that the scribe’s art was such that printed and Venezuela) with fabulous oil Eastern society than its cause. group will restrain and discipline books were not in demand. When a revenues, they are barely holding The above being said – and it’s its individual members, and holds Venetian bookseller, in 1588, with their own. In most of the Middle East of first importance to say it – we it collectively responsible for doing permission from the then Sultan, – Egypt, Turkey Iran and Pakistan, can also say (not with hostility or so. In tribal feuds, the tribal mindset tried to sell Korans (in Arabic) that for example – Islam is probably prejudice, but as a point of friendly sees fit to punish any member of the had been printed in Italy, there were more important as a national identity criticism) that Islam, as a religious group for the actions of any other no customers. It was not until 1727 movement than as a truly religious ideology, contains features hostile to – as the transgression, whatever it that the original ban on printing was one. If you want the Western Western modernity. Whether viable was, brings shame and guilt upon lifted, and not until 1828, (a hundred imperialists out of your country, alternatives to Western modernity the group as a whole. This mindset years later!), that the Koran was first no more effective flag has yet been will appear eventually – a Chinese, utterly rejects the central concept printed (in Teheran) by Muslims, found. Russian, Indian or Iranian modernity, of Western liberalism, “the right for Muslim use. Even then, the use The main problem with the Islamic for example, or a Latin American one to be wrong.” Where our Western of print technology was restricted banner, for countries and leaders – remains to be seen. Unfortunately mentality leaves the individual free to – by custom, no longer by law – to trying to nationalize and modernize though, for the development of such sin, seeking to punish only that which technical material of all kinds. If is that , and the whole culture that a homegrown alternative modernity, does demonstrable harm, the tribal “the medium is the message,” then surrounds it, are hostile to Western the Islamic mindset is proving more a mindset, requires the individual to this hostility to print may be all we modernity in fundamental ways. Not hindrance than a help. inhibit himself and expects the group need to explain the slow uptake of to modern technology per se, and First, we should look at one to help him do so. modernity in the Middle East. especially not to modern weaponry. crucial feature of Middle Eastern On the other, the tribal mindset But two further blocks against Not even to modern science. Because societies that largely predated and also forces states to be tyrannical modernity are worth pointing out: Islam (like Judaism) is a religion of influenced the development of and somewhat arbitrary if they are One is that Islam lacks the idea that law and practice more than correct Islam: that they are tribal societies, to exist at all. Islamic society, which Church and State should be kept belief, fundamentalist Muslims seem neither individualist nor statist in lacks the Jewish and Christian separate – that a modern society will to be much less hostile to Darwinian their politics. In a tribal world, the tradition of clear distinction (if not of necessity be plural and polyphonic, biology than fundamentalist state is weak if it exists at all, and always separation) between Church that the attempt to impose spiritual Christians. In medieval times, the individual exists largely as the and State, has usually suffered from homogeneity will be a source of strife Muslim societies in the Middle East – representative and agent of a kin this tendency to merge human with more than coherence. Mohammad notably centred on the world-cities of network. “I and my brother against divine law. Thus, it has tended to was a successful political and Cairo, Istanbul and Baghdad – ranked my cousin; I and my cousin against reject parliamentary governance military leader, as well as The at the forefront of human culture and the world,” as the Arab proverb says. by elected representatives of ‘the Prophet. The second point is that the civilization – including mathematics, Mohammad’s achievement, it has people,’ and to seek leadership idea of a last word on anything is a architecture and science. Indeed, been said, was to create a super-tribe instead from a ‘caliph’ – a rightly- good way to ensure that all cognitive guided successor to Mohammad novelty is suspect. Modernity as – who will lead the faithful as we know it depends critically on an God desires. ideal of critical reason. Accepting A second feature of Mohammad as “the Seal of the traditional Arab culture, also Prophets” conferred a benefit of taken up and magnified by social cohesion in the early centuries Islam, has been an exaggerated of Islam, but became a handicap respect less for literacy per when modernity arrived. se than for the act of writing. The nomadic, desert peoples Richard Ostrofsky, formerly of (Bedouin) had an oral culture, Second Thoughts Bookstore in not a visual one. 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IDEAS The Third Revolution By Bruce Grant dams and flying cigar tubes that lift and rakes the fire. Along the ceiling a digital revolution. Early days, crude us to the edge of space and carry rotating jack-shaft rumbles, shaking technology. All of this makes me This story was in the news: “China us halfway around the world in a the whole roof like a drumhead. grateful to be old. introduces facial recognition few hours. All of these machines, Leather belts transmit the power Bruce Grant, retired Engineer and technology to dispense toilet paper.” with their great competence, still down to the machines where the Layabout, is a resident of Old Ottawa What is the world coming to? required human designers and human operators work in semi-darkness to South. Here’s a poor developing country, operators. The Apollo moon mission guide the tools: lathes, punch presses, failing to provide enough toilet was entirely designed by engineers looms, whatever. The whole place paper for its people, but robotically using slide rules. This brings us to is one big machine; the air is heavy measuring out just one serving at phase three, the digital electronic with coal dust, soot and smoke, the a time per person of that precious revolution. noise is oppressive. commodity. We may be seeing here It is said that the speed of This place was in its time an the power of technology to create microprocessors doubles every four exemplar of modern progress. And electronic efficiency in rationing years. Try then to project that idea that’s where we are now in the new (new technology), easier done than forward for a hundred years, or even creating mechanical efficiency in just twenty years. When machines production (old technology). acquire the competence to operate Concurrently, we observe that the themselves and design their even The Homework Club world’s most advanced and powerful more competent replacements, what All Girls * Only Girls country, with the best information then is the need for humanity? Academics, Arts & Yoga Trying to be optimistic here, I technology and a free press, has Affordable, Quality, After-School Care democratically elected as its leader imagine the future role of humanity a primitive warrior chieftain who as something similar to the Royal 3:30-5:30 pm ** Grades 1-8 shouts at the people and waves his Family: nominally at the top of the Friday afternoons are spear and calls on their instinctual pyramid, nominally in charge of Conversational French Fun with Francophone leaders fear and anger to rise up and follow everything, but in reality, redundant Yoga with Maureen Fallis (surroundcircleyoga.com) and quite useless. Can the world him, the only one who can save them. Registe r NOW for September The link between information and support ten billion royals? Did I hear clear thinking appears to be breaking you say this prediction is too dark? On the Sunny 2nd floor of Southminster United Church down. How many people even today cannot Supervised walking from Hopewell Only a fool would claim to see the do their most basic auto repairs, future; I don’t want to admit that I’m or even drive a car with a manual Call 613-818-3006 one of those. I’m willing, however, transmission? Or kill a chicken, or 17 years Academic Support & Quality After-School Care to write a story about the past and bake a cake? Excellent Local References speculate about the future. The future is unknowable, but I It is generally agreed that the first feel confident in saying that we’re revolution, the first big step up in now only in the very early days of human history, was the invention of the third revolution, whose effects agriculture. That invention enabled will be not less than those other people to stay in one place, to build revolutions, and whose end point up capital, to improve crops and cannot be imagined. The best I can herds, to create specialized trades, do is to look back at an analogous professions and centres of learning. situation. Suppose we enter a factory The second revolution was the in the early days of the second industrial revolution, the invention of revolution. What’s that like? machines that could replace muscle Stone walls, a strip of glazing on power and wind power, machines top of the walls, but the sooty glass that could build bigger machines. admits only a pale light. In one And so we came in possession of corner, a steam engine clanks and huge steamships, railroads, power hisses, a blackened fireman shovels

Marking Canada’s 150th Anniversary By Gail Stewart The Drop-in itself continues for three Saturdays in June: June 3, 10 Participants in the Canada 150 Cafe and 17, from 10:00 to 12.00am. and Drop-in at Sunnyside library Everyone is welcome to drop by have created a list of 150 ideas for a chat and to pick up a free for marking Canada’s 2017 pin: “It’s 2017 – 150th anniversary. Let’s Talk.” A kit for hosts and Ken Dryden, visitors to Ottawa former Montreal in 2017, pointing goaltender and to various free and Member of low cost activities Parliament, has in the Ottawa area described Canada’s this summer has also sesquicentennial been created. Both are as “an opportunity accessible at the library to reflect on where we (inquire at the information have been, to look at how we desk). They are also accessible got here and to envision where we online on the group’s blog: https:// are going.” canada150cafe.wordpress.com. Is it time to dare to dream? Page 30 The OSCAR l June 2017

TASTY TIDBITS FROM TRILLIUM BAKERY Cigarette Love & Ottawa River Madness By Jocelyn LeRoy of vandalism, because to the drifting in the opposite direction. Oh their sirens scream to the water’s onlookers they are sacred objects. no. One is blown right into the stone edge, disturbing the tranquility of Remic Rapids, Ottawa River. Some people murmur quietly in their statues, knocking two of them over. the whole area. Onlookers are still Summer. presence, but most are silent. Even “Let’s get out of this crap,” say one watching the statues, oblivious to the People of all ages are standing children skipping in a few inches of of the cranky lightweights. Three kayaks speeding toward disaster. quietly on the flat stone terrace, water along the stony shoreline are onlookers gasp as the stones tumble “What happened? What gazing at the distant rapids, the quiet and happy. into the water. “Don’t!” shouts a happened?” A very angry – furious sparkling water, and, of course, the But today is different. rollerblading passerby coming to an in fact – kayak instructor draws up statues made of stones. Inukshuk. Three skinny guys get out of three abrupt halt. The careless intruders beside me on his bicycle. He was These appear each year, their kayaks – one red, one yellow and don’t notice. This should have been squints to the horizon. He had seen creator an artist who lifts and places one blue – and put cigarettes to their the end. The end of cigarette love. me call the cops and comes near to stones from the Ottawa River “just mouths. They walk along the shore, Right here. fume about the stupidity of these so.” He carefully balances them upon cigarettes dangling from their lips, All of a sudden things start boaters. “That’ll be a $650 fine for each other. It’s painstaking work, a asking those of us who are fishing, happening fast. Ottawa River each one, if they’re still alive,” he labour of love. He forms life-size writing and observing the scene, for a madness. The yellow kayak tries to said. $1,800 worth of fun. They could clusters of shapes – images of people, light. No one seems to have one. go west, but in seconds it is sucked have gotten sucked into the sluices animals and birds; they evoke almost They stagger back over the rocks into the rapids beyond the stone at the plant or onto the dam. I said, mystical sensations. You feel them toward their boats, sucking on their statues. The red kayak smashes “The blue one made it upstream. when close to these sculptures. cigs, looking disappointed and against rocks, flipping up in the air, That’ll be $1,200, plus expenses.” In all the years I’ve visited this forlorn, annoyed that the sharp stones flipping over in fact, and when it If they’re still alive. place, I’ve never seen any evidence are causing their feet to hurt. “Stupid hits the water, whooshes downwards A crowd gathers. The police ask stones.” “Dumb-ass tourists,” they toward the electric plant. It shoots me a lot of questions. A camera crew mutter. “No goddam light.” across the surface at an astonishing shows up and shines a light on my I watch one of them pry open an speed. The blue kayak struggles just face. Maybe I’m on TV. I suggest empty can, probably a stand-in for to stand still, against the wind and the they call the news item “Ottawa the regulation boat bailer rescue kit, current, and drifts toward Québec but River Madness.” in search of a match. A match would far enough away from the forces that Later I hear that all three hapless not help the guys if they got dumped are eating up the other kayaks. The guys were rescued by the fire boat. out of their kayaks and needed to yellow kayak flips and disappears. rescue themselves. In my case, I For some unknown reason at the Inspire thought, at least I’d have a lid on the time, I had packed my cell phone Jocelyn LeRoy is the owner/manager can and chocolate in it. They aren’t with me. (Not my usual paddling of Trillium Bakery since 1980. thinking right. companion – I like to paddle away Your Off they paddle, fuming, cigarettes from it.) I call the police and try to back behind their ears. explain the location of the rapidly They are not wearing life jackets. disappearing out-of-control fools. They are paddling furiously in one The police say they’ll send a fire Day direction and, with the rising wind, boat into the water. Minutes later

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HEALTH AND WELLNESS How to Stay Active When the Kids are Home this Summer By Susan McDonald swim times at Brewer pool and the get out for family bike days or try the activities and they will be fun for RA Centre, the Carleton University renting a canoe, kayak or paddleboat the entire family. Summer’s almost here and I think we Pool, or get a pool membership at the on the Canal. If you have little ones Having kids at home during the can all agree that we’ll welcome the Ottawa Lawn Bowling and Tennis at home, you can try a daytime summer months doesn’t have to mean warmer weather and sunshine with Club. FITMOM class with them or an the end for your own fitness routine, open arms. For parents, summertime evening FITWOMAN class after but you might just need to be a little usually comes with a change in Enjoy a Neighbourhood walk they’ve gone to bed. more creative to include your kids everyone’s schedule. The kids are Old Ottawa South has plenty of in activities that benefit the whole out of school and the longer days walking areas to explore and going Head to the Park family. It’s easy to stay fit locally lend themselves to plenty of play for a walk is a great way to stay Kids love playing at the park, and this summer thanks to everything our time, BBQs and activities. With all active. Add some adventure to it during the long summer hours it’s the neighbourhood has to offer. these changes, parents often wonder by creating a nature scavenger hunt perfect place to burn off some energy. how to keep up their own level of to involve the kids and keep them But don’t let them have all the fun! For more information about the fitness when the kids are asking for focused on the walk. If you want to The park play structures and benches FITMOM Ottawa summer schedule, yet another snack, to have friends increase your heart rate, go for a run, are useful for your own exercises like visit the website www.fitmomottawa. over, or are heading out to their own taking the little ones in a jogging chin ups, push ups, tricep dips or step com summer activities. Here are some stroller and school age kids on their ups or you can take advantage of the Susan McDonald lives in Old Ottawa ways parents can stay fit around the bikes. If you have teenagers, maybe wide open space to play tag with the South. She is an experienced certified neighbourhood while the kids are they’ll join you for a run and some kids. personal trainer and an expert in the home this summer. one-on-one time. Indoor Playtime area of pre and post-natal fitness. She is the proud owner of FITMOM Ot- Go for a Swim! Try something new in the Even at home you can stay active tawa, where she has offered prenatal The local wading pools (like Community with the kids. Set up mini exercise fitness, mom and baby fitness and Windsor Park) are fun for the kids, Maybe this summer is the perfect stations for everyone like jumping boot camps for women in Old Ottawa but if the entire family, including time to try a new family activity. jacks or planking. With older kids, South, New Edinburgh and Ottawa mom and dad want to splash around Look into tennis lessons, find a you can run up and down stairs and West for more than 6 years. and swim laps then check out open new fitness program at the Firehall, time each other. Make a game out of

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COMPUTER TRICKS AND TIPS A Gathering of Geeks? Certainly Not! By Malcolm and John Dubois proudly related to me that at approximately 120 members worth special mention are: Harding, of Compu-Home one most stellar example of the and there are some meetings with • The 50+ Computer Club at the dedication of these OPCUG members standing room only! I can tell you Ottawa Public Library http:// is current President Chris Taylor, from firsthand experience that a new tinyurl.com/lxs3mc9 If you want to find a prime example who was recently awarded a richly- face is immediately made to feel very • Future Kids Ottawa www. of Ottawa’s underappreciated deserved City Builder Award by welcome. futurekidsottawa.com/ volunteers, you don’t have to look Mayor Jim Watson, in recognition of The activities are not solely • Nepean Computer Club & any farther than The Ottawa Personal the hundreds of workshops that he devoted to technology. There are Discussion Group https://tinyurl. Computer Users’ Group (OPCUG). himself has presented! pizza nights, harness racing events at com/mge4n97 Working largely through the Ottawa The OPCUG meets on the second Rideau Carleton, and over the years Public Library’s Community Events Wednesday of the month from the OPCUG silent auctions have If you have experience with Initiative: https://tinyurl.com/l8s5xan September to June, at the Aviation raised many hundreds of dollars for another technology-oriented group enthusiastic and knowledgeable Museum. The doors open for a the Ottawa Food Bank. in the area, we would be delighted members of the OPCUG have social time at 7:00pm, the main No matter what your background to hear about it, and will share your presented nearly 500 information presentation starts at 7:30, and there or level of interest, it is well worth suggestions in future columns. sessions over the past few years on is a Q&A following. Believe it or not, your time to have an in-depth look at subjects ranging from Windows, to even though the membership dues are www.opcug.ca so that you can find Go to compu-home.com/blog for an Email, to Security, to Software, to only $25.00 per year, the group does more details about just how much archive of our columns (including Consumer Awareness, to Publishing not insist that you must be a member this club can offer. this one) and lots more tech-related Digital Photos . . . and the list to attend. Although you will not Although the OPCUG is articles. There is a space right after goes on and on. The lucky people encounter many teenagers (who seem noteworthy, it is not the only group each item for you to make comments attending these sessions have ranged to get their techie fix through other in the region. There are many more and suggestions, and ask questions. from very basic users, to experienced means), there is otherwise a rich clubs – often with a very specific You can even sign up for automatic professionals, and they have all cross sample of young and mature, focus – that are maintaining and updates. Have a look at compu-home. come away knowing that they are experienced and not. Jeff Dubois sharing interest and expertise. www. com/blog soon or call us at 613- now able to get more enjoyment and told me that a healthy sign of the webruler.com/mark/computer/user. 731-5954 to share your opinions and productivity from the use of their times is that the number of women htm is a website that contains links to suggest subjects for future columns. computers and portable devices. who are members is increasing in the websites of many of these groups. Our email address is info@compu- Public Relations Director Jeff recent years. Membership is currently In addition, just a few more groups home.com.

ARTS AND CULTURE The “I, Canada Project” By Vanessa Coplan pulls on the threads of many women who moved threaded needles through The “I, Canada Project” is a series fabric before me and those who will of hand-sewn fabric patchwork continue to thread new needles in blankets. I have been working on generations to come. this body of work for several years. The “I, Canada Project” evolved What began as a kind of compulsion from a position of personal inquiry to remember and record, in stitched into a consideration of how others fabric, my nostalgia for my teenage identify themselves in relationship to summer camp experiences has place. Thus, this exhibition includes involved into a larger exploration of collaborative pieces between myself issues regarding personal identity and student works from several and nationhood; how personal local elementary and secondary memories and place inform one’s Ottawa Schools that reflect their sense of self and belonging. own statements about personal and The fact that I am drawn to the collective Canadian identities. slowed down, time-based, labour My hope is that these blankets intensive act of hand-sewing speaks offer an opportunity for the viewer to to the hectic pace of contemporary reflect upon their own place within life. It is an art form that travels themselves and where they exist well, that can be picked up and put in relationship to the “glorious and down at will with no set up or clean- free” land we call home. up. But these are only the surface reasons why I turned to create art Vanessa Coplan’s “I, Canada with stitched thread. Project” will showcase a series There is a reason why the act of contemporary, hand-sewn of sewing is also called mending; patchwork blankets that feature there is an emotional and spiritual stitched regional Canadian content, component to merging bits and themes and song lyrics to celebrate pieces together that soothes the soul 150 years of Canada. June 6 and lifts the spirit. It connects us to to September 16th. Vernissage: our past, to women over generations Saturday, June 10th from 2 pm to 4 and across cultures world-wide. To pm at The Mississippi Valley Textile engage in a predominantly woman- Museum, 3 Rosamond Street East, For a comprehensive overview, centered artistic tradition holds great Almonte, Ontario. Open Tuesday please visit our web site: importance to me. It is being part to Sunday 10 am to 4 pm, Closed of a continuum. It is belonging. The Mondays. Museum Admission: $7.00 www.sandyhill.ca or call act of mending and sewing grounds Vanessa is a local OOS artist and Nathan Gurnham at (613) 832-1717 me in who and where I am while resident. www.vcoplan.ca simultaneously reaches back and Page 34 The OSCAR l June 2017

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Belly dancers at Abbotsford. PHOTO BY PAT GOYECHE By Julie Ireton The Playful Body has been offered at the centre this spring. The folks at Abbotsford at the Glebe This is another fun and expressive Centre are thinking outside the gym dance that can be experienced every when it comes to activities to keep Wednesday afternoon. their 55-plus members fit, toned and But for those who’d rather make entertained at the same time. music than dance to it, there’s Belly dancing was introduced something for you too. at the seniors’ community centre, The Sing N’ Jam club has been up across from Lansdowne, this spring and running since January. as a little experiment and right now Every Monday afternoon, eight to it’s free for Abbotsford members. 10 Abbotsford members get together Caroline Hawthorne, who teaches just to jam and have a lot of fun. the group, always starts the dancers “We all love to sing, some also out with a warm up with some play an instrument, be it guitar, “travelling” steps. banjo, mandolin, drum, keyboard She said as they get their hips and or ukulele,” said Tamara Levine, a belly moving, they are toning their member of the club. core and it’s not long before they’re This group sings familiar folk and breaking a sweat. pop songs, but Levine said you don’t This is a low impact exercise have to audition, know how to play also helps seniors with flexibility, an instrument or read music to join balance and posture. and jam. “It’s very good for toning all over, She said she’s met different people but it’s also good for cardio and at the Monday afternoon gatherings. there are a lot of arm movements,” “The core group started out said Hawthorne who for the past 15 together about 3 years ago at a years has taught belly dancing at music class. Now we just keep going other venues including Fisher Park and we’re a self-led club,” said and at the Glebe Community Centre. Tamara. “We support Abbotsford The spring class at Abbotsford with a loonie each. They offer a has welcomed some women with lovely, warm space to come and join middle-eastern backgrounds who together.” were already familiar with the dances and have helped teach some Abbotsford is your community of the others who’ve never tried support centre for Adults 55+. We belly dancing before. are the community programs of The Hawthorne said it’s fun teaching Glebe Centre Inc., a charitable, seniors, many of whom aren’t not-for-profit, organization which self-conscious about moving their includes a 254 bed long term care midsections. home. Find out more about our “Older people get more willing services by dropping by 950 Bank to use what they have,” said Street (the old stone house) Mon-Fri Hawthorne. “It’s younger people 9-4 pm, telephoning 613-230-5730 who are shy.” or by checking out all of The Glebe Hawthorne hopes to be able Centre facilities and community to offer belly dancing again at programs on our website www. Abbotsford in the fall. glebecentre.ca Another free dance class called The OSCAR l June 2017 Page 35

LANDSCAPING Managing the Weed Headache in Our Yards By Jay Ladell debris and will eventually get buried; and weed barriers don’t stop weeds Weeds. We all have them. Those – they just slow growth. Weeds get nasty invasive plants in our gardens entangled in them, which makes and yards. Everyone wants to getting the weeds out a nightmare. minimize time spent managing these And barriers also limit how much of headaches, so here are my top tips on the mulch’s nutrients will get into the how to do that. soil.

Mulch Maintenance My first big gun for addressing Another key tip: stay ahead of weeds is mulch. And while any weeds. There’s a critical peak mulch that stifles weeds is good, my as to when weeding becomes personal favorite is composted pine incrementally a lot more work. After mulch (CPM). It works really well a year and a half to two years of and its earthy colour is attractive. inadequate maintenance, even if you Aim to put the mulch down in the don’t notice the weeds until then, spring to help retain the moisture in it suddenly becomes a huge task the ground. Put down at least an inch requiring hours and hours of work, PHOTO BY JAY LADELL and a half to two and a half inches especially if there was no mulch. I Chemical Control now be weed-free for five to seven of solid mulch on top of your garden call this ‘Going Sideways’. I’ve seen What about chemical control? years. After that period, it is easy soil. And do not mix it in with the yards neglected and after five years There are health concerns and many to pressure wash out old sand and soil. Mixing exposes weed seeds to due to aggressive weeds, the entire herbicides are banned for ornamental install new. light. Most weed seeds are small and landscaping needs to be redone. use. Even organic herbicides require if they aren’t exposed to light, they Aim to physically remove weeds continuous strategic application Weed control is all about planning won’t grow. Keep in mind that seeds twice in the spring, twice in the and we just aren’t in a position ahead and using those 20 minutes of can sit dormant for years. summer and once in the fall. And to be there that often. And once a weeding as a chance to meditate and Mulch topping will usually takes make sure to dig out the roots, rather garden has gone sideways consumer relax with some music and to take in care of 95 per cent of weeds that will than just trying to pull the weed. grade herbicides won’t help. Our the beauty of you garden as you go. blow in – including dandelions. The Leaving the roots means that the company focuses on prevention and mulch cover will also make it easier weeds will pop back up after a day mechanical methods as the simple to remove the weeds that do seed or two. If you stay ahead of them, reliable solution. Send your topic ideas to oscar@ because it helps keep the soil from weeding might take 20 minutes each landscapeottawa.com or visit: www. compacting, be it from rain or direct time, for the entire yard. Interlocking landscapeottawa.com foot traffic. Failure to stay on top of the growth To prevent weeds in the cracks Don’t buy the small bags of mulch. means spending hours on it, which Jay Ladell is an award-winning between interlocking pavers, I They are overpriced and you don’t is why so many are stressed about landscape designer, industry recommend a good quality polymeric get enough to reach the depth you gardening. Weeds can build up a seed certified-installer, member of sand. The polymers used in jointing need. Order your mulch by the cubic bank in the soil, or spread by their Landscape Ontario, and owner of sand have improved dramatically yard. Most landscaping suppliers underground rhizome roots (rhizome, Ladell Landscaping & Gardens. in the last 10 years so you can deliver it. Consider partnering with a from Ancient Greek rhízōma or neighbor to split a load to share the “mass of roots”). cost of delivery. I place weeds into three Every yard has its own categories: Annuals and biennial environment. Some are wetter and weeds are prolific seeders; Tap the mulch will break down faster. roots, like dandelions, go deep and Create beauty in your own backyard Others are windier and the mulch come back every year; and then will slowly blow away. But in rhizomatous that send out networks general, wood or bark-based mulch of roots and new plants and can be needs to be topped up every two to the toughest to eradicate. Figuring three years. out what category of weed you are Don’t use barrier fabric under the dealing with goes a long way in mulch. There are two reasons: barrier developing a strategy to remove fabric gets trapped under the mulch them. that is decomposing along with other

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CARLETON CORNER This year is the 75th anniversary Six Ravens Selected in 2017 CFL as behind the scenes skills such as Carleton Campus Tours Running for Carleton University. We invite Draft editing, sound effects, and equipment Carleton is offering tours of its the Ottawa community, alumni and Six Carleton Ravens were drafted operation. The camp costs $300 and campus every day in June at 10 am friends of the university to celebrate to the Canadian Football League last those interested may call 613-520- and 2 pm (Sundays excepted). Cam- its history and achievements through- month. This is the first time since 3533 or email radiocamp@ckcufm. pus tours offer prospective students out the years. 1999 that Ravens players were cho- com for more information. a chance to explore the university in sen by a professional Canadian team. person and learn more about its his- Ottawa Leadership Luncheon on Fourth-year receiver Nate Behar (1st National Newspaper Awards tory and future. Those who wish to June 1 round, 4th overall) is the highest draft- Recognize Carleton Faculty and learn more about specific programs The Spring 2017 Ottawa Leader- ed Carleton Raven since Bob Eccles’ Alumni Carleton has to offer may visit the ship Luncheon falls on June 1, and is second-overall drafting to the Ottawa The Toronto Press Club held its 68th Carleton Admissions webpage. open to Carleton Alumni, as well as Rough Riders in 1971. Ravens play- annual National Newspaper Awards the general public. This year’s event ers Tunde Adeleke, Nathaniel Ham- last month, where Carleton-alumna- is themed “Community, Collabora- lin, Zach Annen, Kwabena Asare, and turned Globe and Mail journalist Carleton Corner is written by tion, and Change”, focusing on the Emmanuel Adusei were also drafted. Christina Frangou won the Long Fea- Carleton University’s Department story of Zita Cobb, President of ture award for a story about a young of University Communications. As Shorefast Foundation and the lessons CKCU Offers Kids’ Radio Camp widow after the death of her husband. your community university, Carleton she learned on Fogo Island, NFLD. Carleton’s radio station CKCU Carleton Prof. Andrew Cohen was a has many exciting events of inter- The event runs from 11:30 am FM 93.1 is offering a week-long day runner-up in the Short Feature cat- est to Old Ottawa South. For more to 1:30 pm in the Adam Room of camp during the months of July and egory for a tribute to his late cousin, information about upcoming events, Fairmount Chateau Laurier. It costs August. The camp will teach kids Canadian musician Leonard Cohen. please go to carleton.ca/events. $50 and those interested may register between ages 10 and 14 how to be Five other Carleton alumni received on the Carleton University Events radio stars. Campers will learn how honourable mentions in three differ- webpage. to format their own radio program, ent categories. advertisements and plays, as well

DESIGN DILEMMAS Buying Authentic Design By Vanessa Riddell cheap knockoffs of Eames and after a designer’s death, instead by Vitra in Europe and Herman Panton chairs, among many other of 25. So for example in Charles Miller in America. This ensures that Did you know that as of Jan 28th iconic pieces, are a thing of the past Eames’ case this protects the many the Eames iconic chair is made to 2017 it is illegal for furniture dealers in Britain and Europe. things he designed; chairs, tables, the same high standards of design in the UK and the EU to sell replicas Apparently the copyright rules in clocks, until 2048 as he died in 1978. and manufacture as it has always of iconic pieces? That means that the EU and UK will expire 70 years Charles and Ray Eames designed been. These companies use high pieces’ copyright will extend for a cost methods of construction which further 10 years as Ray died in 1988. make this furniture more durable The changes were meant to bring and visually appealing. Made in copyright laws for furniture into line China knockoffs will crack, bend, with copyright laws for literature discolour and have visible screws, as and music. The intent is to stop the construction methods in Chinese A gastro pub exact copies of another industrially factories are meant for speed, not designed product. quality. Ultimately these items will by the Fraser There is a real market and fall apart and not last. recognition of how important and 3. Design - Often the quick brothers iconic these industrially designed construction methods and lack products are. Mid-century modern of research into the ergonomics furniture design was a real moment of a piece result in the knockoffs for artistry in the industrial arts. I not having quite the right lines or realize it is a chance for copyright proportions. The design can be off. holders to benefit financially from Not only that but the colours are not this as well, and not share that as rich and the materials not as high with knockoff companies from quality. Weekday LUNCH China (where apparently there are 4. Art - Iconic pieces of furniture, 54 factories alone making Eames lighting, and accessories are pieces knockoffs!) but I personally think of art. These pieces retain some of weekend BRUNCH this is a good thing. If prices for the their value because of this, even more newer real thing are too high, there is so if they are well taken care of. And always kijiji, garage sales, and estate because of their quality construction & DINNER nightly. sales. they can last long enough to become So here are 5 good reasons why heirlooms. buying authentic design is better than 5. Value - A second hand piece of a knockoff. iconic furniture, or a new piece of 1. Comfort - Have you ever sat high end furniture with iconic status, in a knockoff chair? Have you ever is an investment piece. An item that FRESH SEASONAL sat in a real iconic piece of furniture has beauty, smart design, comfort, that is beautifully designed? Try it excellent quality and iconic status - out. There is a huge difference. A that is a lot of value for your money! well-designed chair is something one One is also not contributing to Just steps over the bridge melts into! There is a reason the piece landfill by throwing out a piece that is iconic. The thought and research didn’t last.

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You will savour the sights, sounds, and sensations of the post-war "good years," 1951-1975, in this story about If you enjoy the edge-of-your-seat two people, each married to someone anticipation of an Alfred Hitchcock else, who meet for an annual weekend psychological thriller, you'll love this getaway. It is celebrated as "genuinely "gaslighting" tale of a young couple who funny and genuinely romantic" (New rent an old, spooky country farmhouse. York Post) and "the funniest comedy Is our heroine really seeing and hearing to come Broadway's way in years" things, or are they the after-effects of her (New York Times). It also inspired the recent nervous breakdown? And just Academy Award-nominated ﬁlm who is that mysterious farmer from version with Alan Alda and Ellen down the road? You'll discover why this Burstyn. is the most widely-produced Canadian play (Globe and Mail), a hit in over 30 June 23 to July 16 countries worldwide. Do you remember the powerful pull of a ﬁrst Sponsored by: love that burns in your soul? Long before August 18 to September 10 the British exported Beatlemania, there was "Candidamania", a phenomenon inspired by Sponsored by: this delightfully warm and witty play in which Candida must choose between her thr clergyman husband and a passionate young th ou r Theatrical Wal g poet. How will she decide? Discover this ric kin h e to g P is la truly original romantic comedy (by the p H y A author of last season's award-winning D D production of Arms and the Man). D

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SUNNYSIDE LIBRARY PROGRAMS The Sunnyside branch will tentatively (dates to be confirmed) be closed from Monday, June 19th to Wednesday, June 28th, for improvements. During the closure the branch will be fully converted to Radio-Frequency Identification technology or RFID. Temporary book drops will be available during this time.

Sunnyside Branch Fridays, 3:30 – 5:00 pm / vendredi, begin or share your project. Enjoy Book selections for 2017-2018 Ottawa Public Library 15h 30 – 17h conversation and a cup of tea while Friday, 2:00 – 3:00 pm, June 16 1049 Bank Street, Ottawa January 13-June 30 / 13 janvier-30 you knit! Drop-In. InfoService 613-580-2940 juin Wednesday, 12:30 – 2:30 pm, June Sunnyside Adult Book Club And P.A. Days/journée pédagogique 14 Join in stimulating discussions CHILDREN’S PROGRAMS on selected titles in a friendly and Home-Schoolers’ Happening Conversations Among Canadians relaxed atmosphere on the last Friday Maker Mondays / Lundis créatifs Join us for an afternoon of board In this program, we will continue to of the month. (Ages 8 & up / Âgés de 8 ans et plus) games, Lego, cards & fun for share our experience, knowledge, Social lunch and book selections for Play, build, create, cut, fold, knit, home-schooled children and their reflections and ideas relevant to life 2017-2018 draw & so much more with our new families, happening every week! in Canada, past, present and future, Friday, 2:00 – 3:00 pm, June 23 low-tech mobile maker station! / Soyez des nôtres pour un après- doing so with a sense of community Joue, construis, crée, découpe, plie, midi de jeux de société, de Lego, de among Canadians and with others in Second Friday Adult Book Club tricote, dessine et pratique une foule cartes et d’amusement destine aux the world. Drop-In. Meet new people and join in d’autres activités avec notre nouveau enfants instruits à la maison et leurs Wednesdays, 2:00 – 4:00 pm, January stimulating discussions on selected poste mobile de création à faible famille! Drop-in / Programme portes 4 – June 14 titles in a friendly and relaxed technicité! Drop-In/portes ouvertes. ouvertes. atmosphere every second Friday of Mondays, 3:30 pm / les lundis, 15h30 Thursdays, 12:00 – 3:00 pm / Les Canada 150 Café and Drop-In the month. Newcomers are welcome. (60 min.) jeudis, 12h – 15h (formerly A Weekly Drop-In for We will be discussing the selection January 9 – June 26 January 12 – June 29 / 12 janvier-29 2017 Projects) of 2017-2018 titles during June juin A drop-in to chat, brainstorm or meeting. Silly Saturdays at Sunnyside / On work on projects marking the 150th Fridays, 2:00 pm (60 min.): June 9 s’amuse les samedis à Sunnyside ADULT PROGRAMS anniversary celebration of Canadian (Ages 6 & up, Agés de 6 ans et plus) Confederation. Drop-In. Ottawa Comic Book Book Club Each week there will be board The Writing Workshop Saturdays, 10:00 am – 12:00 pm, The Ottawa Comic Book Book games, Lego, crafts or another An opportunity for writers of fiction, January 7 – June 17 Club is a small group of comic book activity. / Chaque semaine il y non-fiction, poetry, and experimental enthusiasts who meet once a month aura des jeux de société, Lego, du forms to gather. Our emphasis will A Word in Arabic to discuss a graphic novel. Come and bricolage, ou une autre activité. Drop be on developing works-in-progress Learn a few words in Arabic while join us every month to discuss comic in / Programme portes ouvertes. for publication. The workshop will discussing the culture and customs books and graphic novels. Whether Saturdays, 1:00 – 5:00 pm / Les provide writers with encouragement throughout the Middle East. Drop-In. it’s your first comic book, or you’re samedis, 13h – 17h and constructive criticism from their Wednesdays, 5:30 - 6:30 pm, April a long time reader, the group fosters January 7 – June 24 / 7 janvier – 24 peers. Author/Facilitator: Michael F. 5 – June 14 discussion on various aspects of juin Stewart: http://michaelfstewart.com storytelling, art, colour and sequential Mondays, 6:00 - 8:00 pm, June 5 and ADULT BOOK CLUBS storytelling. Block Party / Ça dé “bloc” (Family June 12 May Title: The Wicked + The Divine program) Mystery Book Club Vol.1, The Faust Act by Kieron Gillen Building Boom: show off your Knit & Knatter Do you enjoy reading mysteries? Monday, 7:00-8:30 pm, June 5 architectural creativity with Lego®. Have you always wanted to learn Share the enjoyment of good Archiboum! Architectes en herbe, to knit or crochet or improve your mysteries in a relaxed atmosphere. à vos Lego! Drop-in / Programme skills? Come to Sunnyside and bring Join us for discussion usually every portes ouvertes. your knitting needles and yarn to third Friday of the month.

Renovations at the Sunnyside Library By Kelly Sirett this, the Library will be moving to a customers – this means that out- programming for people of all ages, Single Point of Service model. Over dated materials, materials that are and the greatest access to relevant, The Sunnyside branch of the Ottawa the past five years, this model has no longer of interest or in demand, useful, and appealing collections. We Public Library will be closed over been adopted by the nearly all of the duplicates, and worn or damaged are looking forward to these changes two periods this spring and early 33 Library branches in Ottawa. copies will be removed. Most items and to welcoming customers in the summer for renovations. The first Here’s what you can expect from removed from our collection go to renovated Sunnyside branch soon. closure was from Monday, May 8 this service: the Friends of the Ottawa Public to Thursday, May 18; the branch • With a single point of service on Library Association (FOPLA), who Kelly Sirett is a Librarian at the reopened on Friday, May 19. We will each floor, customers will no longer in turn have wonderful sales that Sunnyside Branch of the Ottawa be closed again tentatively June 19- need to decide which of our two earn funds for the Library. Public Library, where she works 28 (subject to change) to complete desks to go to in order to find an • A sorting machine will be installed primarily in the Children’s the renovations. Book drops will answer to a question—gone will be to do the repetitive work of Department. She loves many things be open during these periods, so the long Cards and Accounts desk checking in books, which will – but especially sunny days, first and customers can continue to return that separates library employees allow employees to be on the last lines, and doing the hokey pokey. library materials at Sunnyside. from customers; instead, we will floor helping customers, offering Sunnyside is one of the top ten be focusing on the customer as our more programs in the branch, and branches in the Ottawa Public service point. working more outside of the branch Library system, with a high number • New accessible shelving and kiosks in the community. of physical library items—on average for check out of Library materials 1,000 a day—being checked out, means that all of our customers will Like with any change, we understand and an average 650 to 700 customers move more easily in the branch and that there will be challenges for our visiting daily! As our popularity be able to access our collection. customers—and for us, too! Please increases, we are working on ways to • We are refreshing our collection know that we are truly committed keep up with demand and best serve to ensure that it is appealing, to providing our customers with the Continued on pg. 39 all Library customers. In order to do useful, and interesting to our best service, a diverse selection of The OSCAR l June 2017 Page 39

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Wanted: Studio flat/Apartment Cottage in OOS; between Riverdale and For Sale Dog Share Leonard; for a 1-3 year lease, starting Cottage for rent, lakefront, 3 July/August. Call Margaret or Brian For Sale (because downsizing from Do you love dogs? But you cannot bedroom, 1 hour drive from Ottawa, 613-730-5406. a 3 storey house). 5 bookcases, a commit to have a dog right now? 900$/week. Rick at 613-266-8979. twin bed and matching desks (black How about dog-sharing with a busy Wanted: Singers for Voca Sol, finish) from Randall’s, pine blanket working mom of two kids with Thursday afternoon choir. We are box, small pine corner hutch, antique an adorable 11 month old puggle dressers, sideboards, oak dining room Wanted 30+ singers and we meet at the (pug and beagle mix)? Loving, Wesleyan Church, 58 Grosvenor chairs from The Emporium, garden affectionate, and full of spirit, Toby Ave every Thursday from 1:30-3pm. tools, ladders. All prices negotiable. the puggle has had all his shots and Office Space Wanted in Bank St, Voca Sol runs 12 months of the year Please contact Sandy Stone @ 613- is micro chipped. Ideal arrangement Glebe or OOS. One Day/Week, Noon and we sing a mix of jazz, folk and 730-2768. would be one day a week plus time to 9 p.m. In a business or residential contemporary music. Come by and when the owner is away travelling location. Quiet private practice by give us a try or email Lee Hayes at: (about once a month and 3-5 days in counsellor. Call Doc Richard at 613- [email protected] Garage sale: furniture, housewares, duration). Please email huiping.iler@ 234-5678. books, and much more. 158 gmail.com or call/text 613-979-8897. Hopewell (driveway on Seneca). Saturday June 10, 9:00-2:00.

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The first (May) library closure included the following work: Removal of the big Cards and Accounts Desk and internal book return wall, replacement of carpet tiles in that area, electrical and networking work, set up of a hoarding wall - where they will be building the new sorter room with internal book return over the upcoming month - plus new flooring in the upstairs (main floor) washrooms and paint touch ups. PHOTOS BY YVONNE VAN LITH Page 40 The OSCAR l June 2017

AROUND TOWN Ottawa Story Tellers • On June 13, join us for an evening of storytelling $10 per year covers our expenses. Call 613-521- • Speaking Out series of 7 shows: “Human with Stories & Tea at The Tea Party Cafe, 119 6740 during open hours for information. Works” written and performed by Jean-Pierre York Street, Ottawa. Gail Anglin and Elaine Makosso. 7:30pm on Thursday, June 1, at Arts O’Reilly are telling Fire on the Hill: The 1916 Fletcher Wildlife Garden Annual Native Plant Court Theatre, 2 Daly Avenue. From the Congo burning of Parliament. Pass the hat donations Sale. June 3, 9:30 am to 12:30 pm. At the Fletcher to Canada, tales of escape, survival and longing. accepted. Wildlife Garden, off Prince of Wales Drive, south What does it mean to find a new home in a new of the Arboretum. Volunteers will be on hand to country, to come to a place of peace and love in Art Lending Of Ottawa presents its summer show you where to park. Help pollinators and a different world? It is truly ‘human work’ of a exhibition of visual arts. Lease, lease to purchase, butterflies, attract birds to your backyard. We have very special kind. or purchase original fine art at reasonable prices. milkweeds for monarchs, asters to suit any garden Local artists. Large selection of works. Saturday, location, goldenrods, blue-eyed grass, bergamot, June 3 (10:00 am -5:00 pm). RA Centre (Outaouais beardtongue, a few native grass species, and Room, east entrance) 2451 Riverside Drive. Free hundreds of other species from our own garden. admission. Free parking. www.artlendingofottawa. Watch our website www.ofnc.ca/fletcher for a list ca of species for sale later this spring.

The Ottawa Sunset Singers are putting on Parents of Military Members. Join other parents their Annual Concert Friday, June 23 at the of serving military members for a free casual in- Centrepointe Theatre Studio starting at 7:00 pm. person group, offering tips and tools, support, Come and enjoy an evening of Canadian music and conversation. Refreshments served, resources in celebration of our 150th year. Proceeds from available to bring home. Bimonthly meeting on the concert will be distributed to the Wild Bird Mondays 6:30pm - 8:30pm. Meetings are at the Care Centre, Roxanne Goodman’s Confidence MFRC-NCR (Military Family Resource Center), Booster (summer session for young girls) and 330 Croil Private, Bldg 471, CFB Uplands, Harmer House (Outreach Adult Day Program). near the Airport. Contact: Heather A. Cudmore- $20 General Admission, Children 12 and under McCarthy 613-998-4888 or email programs@ free. A silent auction will be held at intermission in mfrc-ncr.org the lobby just outside the studio. Items will be on display before the doors open starting at 2:30 pm. Ottawa Newcomers Club. Our club is a non Light refreshments will also be served. Patrons profit, social organization for women who have should retain their ticket stubs for door prizes, recently moved to this area (and those who have and winners will be announced after intermission. experienced a significant life change), and would Contact Jacqueline Mitchener for pre sale tickets like to meet new people of similar interests (613-225-2466). by joining our many group activities. More information about us, and what we do, can be Come and join the Pacesetters Walking Club at found on our website at: ottawanewcomersclub.ca Billings Bridge Shopping Mall. Activities include walking with your friends, social gathering, Ottawa Quakers hold a largely silent Meeting knitting for charities, puzzles, library. Located in for Worship, Sunday mornings at 10:30am, 91A the basement of the Tower at the northwest corner Fourth Avenue in the Glebe. Newcomers welcome! of the Mall. Open from 7:30 to 10 am. Low cost of

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With heavy rain, flooding and high waters continued into May. On Tuesday, 613-266-8979 May 9th, the view from the Dunbar Bridge looking towards the northern shore of the Rideau River clearly showed that the football field and Brewer Pond had been completely flooded, and that the pond was no longer visible. The OSCAR l June 2017 Page 41

MUSIC A Recital to Mark the Anniversary of Trinity Anglican Church’s Organ By Fabien Tousignant was destroyed in the church fire of March 1947. The programme will include works by J.S Bach, For the last concert of the 2016-2017 Music at Joseph Jongen and Canadian composer Gerald Trinity concert series I have decided to feature Bales. Although this particular instrument is better Trinity’s Casavant organ, to mark the instrument’s suited for music that was composed in the 17th anniversary of dedication. I will perform an organ and 18th centuries, one can certainly play works recital with a carefully chosen programme that will that have been composed later. I could certainly explore the wonderful colors this lovely instrument not miss an opportunity to play some of Bach’s has to offer. organ compositions since they are well suited for The organ at Trinty Anglican Church was this instrument. I have chosen to include a lovely built in 1963 by Casavant Frères Limited of Ste- impressionistic piece by Joseph Jongen entitled Hyacinthe, Québec. The specifications of this Chant de May. It is was important to me as we instrument were drawn up by Mr. Raymond L. approach Canada’s sesquicentennial celebrations, Barnes, the Ottawa representative of Casavant in to include music from the Canadian composer consultation with the company’s tonal director Gerald Bales who taught several years at the Lawrence Phelps. The organ has been designed for University of Ottawa. I will perform Gerald Bales’ voicing the pipes on low wind pressures to closely Petite Suite composed in 1963, the same year the duplicate the true organ tones of the organs built organ at Trinity was dedicated. during the 17th and 18th centuries. This instrument This concert will be presented on Saturday June is a fine example of the “neo-classic” organs 17th 2017 at 4:30 pm at Trinity Anglican Church that were produced when Phelps served as tonal (1230 Bank Street @ Cameron) Admission is by director at Casavant. The two-manual organ at freewill offering. Proceeds will go to support the Trinity has 22 stops using 28 ranks for a total of musical activities at Trinity Anglican Church and 616 pipes. The chancel of the church has been in support of the Christ Church Cathedral Men extensively modified to display the new organ and Boys’ 2017 UK Tour. in the three arches, thus enhancing the classical design by allowing full release of tone while Fabien Tousignant is the Artistic Director at revealing the functional beauty of the handmade Trinity Anglican Church. pipes. This organ was dedicated on June 16, 1963 to the Glory of God in memory of those members of the armed forces who gave their lives for their Fabien Tousignant, Director of Music and Organist country. It replaced the 21 rank instrument which at Trinity.

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NOTES FROM THE GARDEN CLUB Flowers and Vegetables: Beauty and the Eats

(Left) Heritage tomatoes and marigolds growing together. (Center) Gherkins and marigolds in the same bed. (Right) A pool for amphibians and insects made from a garbage-can lid. PHOTOS BY JUDITH COX

By Marilyn Whitaker share her knowledge, experience and salads. Partial shade is fine for many for their flavours, colours and enthusiasm through presentations leafy greens and root vegetables, shapes, but she also recognizes the At the final meeting of the season for and helping with Master Gardeners’ and extends the growing season advantages of recent hybrids. She the Old Ottawa South Garden Club advice clinics. for lettuces. In shade, Judith grows discussed some of her favourite (OOSGC), Master Gardener Judith Judith started by talking about how lettuces with begonias and pansies. fruits, vegetables and companion Cox gave a presentation on how to to build a vegetable garden by giving These flowers, along with violets and flowers including a blueberry tomato, grow flowers and vegetables together attention to the soil, sun, water and cicely are sweet and flavourful. To and some less common edible plants. for beauty and food. From childhood, maintenance. raise plants so that they can get more For example, marigolds are useful Judith has worked in gardens. Having good and safe soil for light, planters can be used that have to have since they attract parasitic Gardening has become a source growing vegetables and other edibles good drainage and are food safe, with wasps that attack pests but they of pleasure and Judith is happy to can be helped by knowing how the no treated wood. also attract pollinators. Their scent property was used and trying to Judith talked about the importance deters squirrels and other animals. www.chefsparadise.ca ensure that chemicals, including of water in the garden for various They are excellent companion plants salts, do not damage the soil or the plants, animals, including pollinators, to tomatoes; they have attractive safety of produce (see www.omafra. and shared some techniques flowers; and their petals can be gov.on.ca/english/crops/resource/ for creating ecosystems. She separated and sprinkled in salads. soillabs.htm). The soil pH can affect recommended using water from rain Judith recommended hardy thornless how well certain plants can thrive. barrels and said that water softeners roses such as John Davis roses, to Testing kits are available and distilled should be by-passed. When people attract pollinators to the vegetable Since 1921 water should be used for accurate are away, or to make watering garden, and later produce rose results. The importance of compost easier, she suggested grouping pots hips for jams and jellies. Okra has for a well-balanced soil, as well as together, doing team gardening with hibiscus-like flowers before fruiting. We exchange several soil additives to adjust soil a neighbour, or other arrangements. Purple podded pole beans are Sodastream CO2 pH, were mentioned. Pruning maintenance, fertilizer decorative, take up limited space in While sunny locations are ideal maintenance and pest control were the garden, and produce tasty beans. canisters! for many vegetables and flowers, discussed. Frequent pruning not Judith concluded her talk with We lower light levels are fine for many only makes herb plants sturdier but information on services provided by our neighbours plants and some techniques can provides tasty, tender leaves. Judith Master Gardeners, including their be used to enhance success. In her recommended working compost into website at mgottawa.ca and helpline Present this ad sunny garden, Judith enjoys planting the soil when planting as well as at [email protected]. in store and get sunflowers to create a great backdrop weekly watering with compost tea for various vegetables and herbs. She or diluted fish emulsions. For pest A tour of Mosaic-Gatineau in plants lovage, whose flowers attract control, Judith suggests using the Jacques Cartier Park is being purchase bees and have a lovely fragrance. She habits of the pests against them. For arranged for July 7/17. People tolerates a few dandelions, since their example, portions of old hoses can interested in joining this tour could Open 7 days early flowers bring bees to the garden be set out where earwigs and slugs email [email protected] for 1314 Bank St @ Riverdale and the greens can be added to will seek refuge after their nightly information and details. foraging. In the morning, they can be knocked off into soapy water. Marilyn Whitaker grew up in Old Judith appreciates heritage plants Ottawa South. She now operates Oasescapes.

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ROAD TRIPS New Almonte Food Tour is a Fun Day Trip

Brewery pilsner before calling it a very fine day. Sure, you could visit all these places without taking a tour—but the walk is worth the money. Not only will treats be awaiting you You can pick up a roast for dinner at Don’s Meat Market. A pulled-pork crepe with local maple syrup at the the moment you arrive, but you’ll Mill Street Crepe Company. also get to chat with the chefs By Laura Byrne Paquet Each tour includes about half a If the tour had ended there, I’d and shopkeepers (many of whom dozen tasting stops. After the pizza have eaten enough for a meal, but also provide discount coupons for tour participants). And Reside is a I was a bit skeptical about the butter place, we popped into Don’s Meat there were two stops to go. At Café charming and knowledgeable tour chicken pizza at Pizza-Ria Unlimited. Market, where we noshed on chicken Postino (on the tour for that day guide, who peppers each walk with It sounded like fusion cuisine gone satay, honey-garlic sausages and only), we tucked into crostini, as tidbits about Almonte’s history. mad. stuffed mushrooms. well as a plate of cherry tomatoes, If you go: Almonte is about a Then I bit into it. Tangy curry, I was starting to feel a bit stuffed bocconcini cheese and fresh basil. 45-minute drive west of OOS. chewy pizza crust, tender chicken...it myself by the time we reached We ate under the high ceilings and Tickets are $65 for adults and $30 was love at first taste. Pêches et Poivre, a food and big windows of the town’s former for children aged 6 to 13. For more Ironically, I would have walked kitchenware shop. I’ve visited this post office. information, see thegoodfoodtour. right by the unprepossessing little store before but never paid much Our last stop was an outpost of a com. storefront, across from Almonte’s attention to the refrigerator at the pub well known to Old Ottawa South landmark Old Town Hall, if Cathy back. Clearly, that was a mistake, residents: the Barley Mow. It was a Travel writer and OOS resident Reside hadn’t ushered me in. because co-owner Lise Ladouceur rainy day, so the deck overlooking Laura Byrne Paquet runs Reside launched the Good Food served us a delicious selection of a waterfall on the Mississippi OttawaRoadTrips.com, focusing on Tour in Almonte in late April, and Ontario cheeses and cured meats, River was closed, but it would be day trips and weekend getaways from my friend Stephanie and I took one accented with dried cranberries and spectacular spot in the summer. Ottawa. of her first tours. There are three caramelized onions. Inside, we enjoyed glasses of Perth different tours—one each on Fridays, Down the street, across from one Saturdays and Sundays. Surprisingly, of Almonte’s heritage mills-turned- even though Almonte is home to just condos, we tucked into pulled-pork 5,000 people, it has a big enough crepes topped with fresh herbs and culinary scene to support three Lanark County maple syrup at the FIGHT itineraries (even though there is some Mill Street Crepe Company. Again, overlap). it was a tasty combination that I CANCER WITH wouldn’t have thought of. SUPERHEROES

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