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O•S•C•A•R© The Community Voice of Old South Year 37 , No. 10 The Ottawa South Community Association Review NOV 2009 Do You Recognise The Landscape In This Aerial Photo? Photo by Tom Alfoldi

his photo and three others taken by Tom See pages 18, 19 and 20 for more photos to Thank you Tom for taking these photos and Alfoldi fron a plane can be found in this identify. To verify your answers please go to page providing OSCAR with an aerial photo quiz! Tmonth’s OSCAR. 40 for identifiaction of the photos. Pileated Woodpecker Visiting Timber! Firehall Construction Begins Glen Avenue near Seneca Monday. Oct. 12 Photo by Tom Alfoldi Photo by Tony Falsetto Tony Photo by

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The OSCAR thanks the following people who brought us MONDAY TO THURSDAY 9 AM TO 9 PM to your door this month: FRIDAY 9 AM TO 6 PM ZONE A1: Kathy Krywicki (Coordinator), Mary Jo Lynch, Brian Eames and SATURDAY 9 AM TO 1 PM* Kim Barclay, Wendy Robbins, Jim and Carrol Robb, Kevin and Stephanie SUNDAY CLOSED Williams. *Open only when programs are operating, please call first. ZONE B1: Ross Imrie (Coordinator), Family Gref- Innes, Gabriela Gref- Innes and Fiona Fagan, the Montgomery family, Laurie Morrison, Stephanie and Kulani de Larrinaga. ZONE B2: Craig Piche (Coordinator), Pat Eakins, Laine Mow, Hayley At- WHAT’S THAT NUMBER? kinson, Leslie Roster, Kathy Krywicki. ZONE C1: Laura Johnson (Coordinator), the Williams family, Sylvie Turner, Lynne Myers, Jeff Pouw, Curt LaBond, Brendan McCoy. Ottawa South Community Centre - The Old Firehall 247-4946 ZONE C2: Craig Piche (Coordinator), Alan McCullough, Arthur Taylor, Ottawa South Community Association (OSCA) 247-4872 Curt LaBond, Charles and Phillip Kijek, Sam & Avery Piche, Kit Jenkin, Ottawa Public Library - South Branch 730-1082 Michel and Christina Bridgeman. Rob Campbell - [email protected] 730-8128 ZONE D1: Bert Hopkins (Coordinator), the Crighton family, Emily Keys, Kathy Ablett, Catholic Board Trustee 526-9512 the Lascelles family, Gail Stewart, Mary Jane Jones, the Sprott family. Community Health Centre 233-5430 ZONE D2: Janet Drysdale (Coordinator), The Adriaanse Family, Gaia Cher- CARLETON UNIVERSITY nushenko, The Rand family, Aidan and Willem Ray, the Stewart family. CUSA (Carleton U Students Association) 520-6688 ZONE E1:Brian Tansey(Coordinator) , Wendy Johnson, John Sutherland, the Graduate Students Association 520-6616 Rae Brown-Clarke Family, Anna Cuylits,Mary O’Neill. Community Liaison 520-3660 ZONE E2: Chris Berry (Coordinator), Mary-Ann Kent, Glen Elder and Lor- Mediation Centre 520-5765 raine Stewart, the Hunter family, Brodkin-Haas family, Christina Allan Paul, Athletics 520-4480 Bradley, Larry Ostler. ZONE F1: Carol and Ferg O’Connor (Coordinator), Jenny O’Brien, the CITY HALL Stern family, T. Liston, Ellen Bailie, Dante and Bianca Ruiz, Wendy Kemp, Clive Doucet, City Councillor ([email protected]) 580-2487 Kelly Haggart and Taiyan Roberts, Walter and Robbie Engert. Main Number(24 hrs) for all departments 3-1-1 ZONE F2: Bea Bol (Coordinator), the Tubman family, Karen Fee, Paulette Community Police - non-emergencies 236-1222 Theriault, Mark McDonald, Susan McMaster. Emergencies only 9-1-1 ZONE G: Bernie Zeisig(Coordinator), Claudia and Estelle Bourlon-Albar- Serious Crimes 230-6211 racin, David Lum, Cindy MacLoghlin, Hannah and Emily Blackwell, the Ottawa Hydro 738-6400 al-Asad family, Katya and Mikka Zeisig. Streetlight Problems (burned out, always on, flickering) 3-1-1 Echo Drive: Alex Bissel. Brewer Pool 247-4938 -Ottawa South: Rob Cook, Tom Lawson, Paula Archer. Brewer Arena 247-4917 Bank Street-Glebe: Larry Ostler. City of Ottawa web site - www.city.ottawa.on.ca Ottawa East: Brian Lowley, Dave White. NOV 2009 The OSCAR - OUR 37th YEAR Page 3

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

The OSCAR welcomes letters on subjects of interest to the community or in response to previous articles. All letters must disclose the name of the writer, as well as the address and phone number. Lettters may be edited for length, clarity, and libelous statements. The opinions of the writers are not necessarily those of the newspaper or its editor. Email your letters to [email protected] or leave in print at the Firehall. Lansdowne Live Donated Re: OOS 10 K River Run $12,000 To The Yes-Voters A Matter of Due Process such events may not be conducive to those who “have never been a follower”. As well, if one’s ity council’s vote to enter into negotiations would like to respond to the letter regarding favourite summer sport is cross country trail with the Lansdowne Live group passed 14 to 9. the “OOS River Run Incident.” running, and that person will always choose a The 14 councillors who voted yes received the C First, congratulations to the writer on dirt path over pavement, and , in fact, dirt paths lion’s share of election campaign contributions from the I are proven better for joints, then why on earth her time of 41:21. She should be very proud. Lansdowne Live developers. Minto donated $4,500. I would also like to congratulate her on would one choose to run in events that are on The Shenkman Corporation donated $2,250. Trinity her sport/athletic C.V. that was extensively paved surfaces? For goodness sakes, saves your Development donated $5,250. In all, the developers covered in her letter. I think this would be an knees and compete in cross-country events. of Lansdowne Live donated $12,000 to the yes-voting ideal opportunity to mention that the City of The fact of the matter is, the writer of the councillors’ campaigns. On the other hand, these same Ottawa boasts numerous runners who have article in question broke the rules (no, she did developers donated $1,250 to the campaigns of no-voting also been running, either competitively or non- not cheat, she just broke the rules); therefore, councillors. competitively, for well over thirty years, myself accept the consequences gracefully and move Alex Cullen, in his paper called ‘The Need for included. on. Do not throw around words such as “due Reform: A Report on the 2006 Municipal Elections,’says, I am, however, confused by several remarks process”, “dictate”, “jury”, and “appeal”. These “Corporate contributions have a significant influence in her letter. For example, at a certain point in are extremely powerful and combative words, on campaign finances at the municipal level and the the course, she chose to run on a dirt path that not to be used lightly. advantage...accrues almost entirely to incumbents.” ran “parallel to the paved path.” This got me I would suggest to the writer that she step Cullen points out that incumbents are allowed to roll thinking. What if, in the multitude of running back a moment, collect her thoughts and apply money forward from previous election campaigns into events organized in our wonderful city, the a little perspective. We are talking about a subsequent elections. “The size and number of corporate participants suddenly chose at random points to neighbourhood run to raise money for a good donations, and the small number of large contributors, “run parallel” to the actual running route. Call cause, organized by individuals with, I’m sure, continues to raise disturbing issues about the role of me crazy, or maybe I am just overly imaginative, only good intentions. money in electing members of Ottawa City Council.” but I suspect the result would be complete and Finally, I would respectfully submit to Robert McDermid, a political science professor at York total pandemonium. the writer that she consider heading out on a University who studies municipal election financing, Several other comments caught my eye, lovely country trail for a good long run – it’ll says that the cash flowing from incumbents to developers namely: “I have never been a follower”; “one do wonders. “erodes the concept of democratic representation.” of my favourite summer sports is cross country Businesses make donations in municipal elections for trail running”; “I will always choose a dirt path reasons other than altruism. In Ontario cities, property C.B. A fellow runner and athlete over pavement (which is also proven better for developers have a particular interest in the decisions of joints)”. My response to these statements is as elected officials. In 2003 the federal government passed follows: organized events have rules, therefore, an act prohibiting corporations from contributing to registered parties and candidates, and with good reason. It’s time Ontario followed suit. Re: OOS 10 K River Run Bobbie Jean Huff have watched with amusement the debacle of the OOS River Run. I heard on the day that someone had complained, and that someone I was going to be disqualified. I shook my head, and thought, “From a community fun run?” Now seeing the full-page lament from the person disqualified (Mr. Laframboise) and the apologetic from Dennis Ferris, I can only say that all involved need to gain some perspective (translation: get a life!). Mr. Ferris should not have wasted his breath complaining. If he wants sanctioned official races where it matters one iota who wins, there are plenty of them out there for him to run. This was a meaningless community “fun” run and fundraiser. Who cares if someone is cutting corners? The race organiser should not have bothered disqualifying Ms. Laframboise for the same reason: this was a meaningless community “fun” run and fundraiser. And then once disqualified from a meaningless community “fun” run and fundraiser, Ms. Laframboise should have shaken the dust off her heels. All involved are acting like there was actually something -- anything -- on the line with who won this event, or who won their age group, or even with the time they ran (which would have been unofficial to say the least).

Zeba Crook Fulton Ave

Send your comments to [email protected] or drop them off at the Firehall, 260 Sunnyside Avenue.

I may not agree with what you have to say, but I will defend to the death, your right to say it. ....Voltaire Page 4 The OSCAR - OUR 37th YEAR NOV 2009 Brief Notes From the Firehall Windsor Rink Needs Fall Fest 2009 YOU!

OSCA Job Opportunities At Windsor Rink January to mid March, 2010

Windsor Rink Supervisors, age 16 and over This job is mostly evenings and weekends. Your job is to shovel the rinks at the end of your shift, bring in the shovels, clean up the main room in the shack, complete the attendance sheet, complete any accident form, if required. Minimum wage per hour. Details of job available on demand. Please email [email protected] or call Deirdre McQuillan at 613-247-4872 if you are interested in either position.

OSCA Volunteer Opportunities At Windsor Rink December/January to mid March, 2010

OSCA has had a great team in place to flood the rink nightly and I am hoping most of that team will return again this year, but there is always Anne-Marie Corbett, volunteer, and What a great hotdog! room for more volunteers. John Taylor of Domus Cafe. John cooked and served by Greg There are 2 positions: brought his tasty Potato, Leek and Strahl. • the first is to be a one week only Team Leader (usually alsoa Jerusalem Artichoke soup. flooder) – you are the keeper of the key to the shack for one week and Photos by Mary Anne Thompson have to remind your flooders they are duty. • second position is that of flooder and we only ask you to flood ONE all Fest was held at Windsor Park on the gloriously sunny Sunday, Oct NIGHT in the entire SEASON– or maybe two if we don’t have enough 25. There was so much more than hot dogs and soup. For more photos go volunteers. to www.oldottawasouth.ca. Cas Houde, whose hobby is photography took Everyone helps out making the base ice at the start of the season and F photos during the day and her photos will available on the OOS website. during exceptional snowfalls – OSCA has snowblowers for that job.

Please email [email protected] or call Deirdre McQuillan at 613-247-4872 if you are interested in either position. Handing In The Keys

Regis says good-bye from the Holiday rest stop in Banff

By Regis Alcorn

It was after a wet and memorable PA Day on the haunted hayride ride and exploring the pumpkin patch, outside Ottawa, with 50 happy children and Firehall staff that I returned the keys. For the past year, those keys welcomed me over the bridge to meet and work along side people from the Ottawa South Community Centre as a Recreational Program Co-ordinator. Many highlights encompassed those days with the biggest highlight in a community celebration of the many hours and years of hard work that will turn the keys to a newly renovated Community Centre at The Firehall in the Summer of 2010. It has been a pleasure to work alongside many dedicated Firehall staff, volunteers and community people to bring a quality of friendship, participation and activities to the neighbourhood. Walking throughout the community centre, church, school, arena, parks, stores and business fronts has opened the door for me and many others to share in the community spirit. Thanks for the opportunity to share these keys. NOV 2009 The OSCAR - OUR 37th YEAR Page 5

OSCA PRESIDENT’S REPORT Lansdowne Live

By Michael Jenkin too. While many people also seem to City believes this project will work. presentations by community groups to like the idea that something, anything, In fact, the proposed “solutions” to Council in mid-November (tentatively ell it really is a “lively” would be better than the status quo at the problems raised put forward by scheduled for 11-13 November) after file now. Since I wrote Lansdowne, many more seem to be the proponents, (bussing people into which Council will vote on whether about the Board’s position very unhappy with the unimaginative events from satellite parking lots to proceed with developing the W and potentially very damaging kind of kilometres away, radically changing Lansdowne Live project further. It is opposing the project in last month’s OSCAR a lot has happened. In fact, development that is being proposed how people come to the site from cars likely to be a close vote with media given how fluid this issue is now, and for the site. to busses, using on-street parking in reports suggesting that Council is the lag between when I write this Brendan McCoy, co-chair of the Glebe and Old Ottawa South to split down the middle on whether to column and when you read it in the OSWATCH, and I presented a brief to provide badly needed extra parking proceed or not. OSCAR, a lot more will likely have a joint meeting of the Transportation spaces), point to the desperation of happened. and Transit Committees of the City the proponents and the serious traffic Firehall Construction The public consultations are on October 8, outlining OSCA’s and problems the project raises. If you have passed by the Firehall now over and one thing is for sure, OSWATCH’s position on the traffic I am pleased to say that we were recently you will have noticed that the level of public interest in the and parking issues raised by the not alone at the joint Committee construction has started in earnest, development is very high. Many Lansdowne Live project. Our main meeting opposing the project. and by the time you read this, of you may have looked in on the points were that given the existing Approximately 16 community and work should have started on the public session at congestion on Bank Street during other groups turned up to the joint foundations for the addition. So far, which was well attended and very peak retail periods, the limited amount meeting and committee members got according to City officials, the project lively. Most of the other sessions held of available parking and the lack of an earful on the traffic and parking is on schedule and no unexpected elsewhere in the City seem to have good road and transit connections to issues raised by the project. problems have been encountered been well attended too, despite the Lansdowne, the scale of the proposed The opposition seems to be with the building. According to the fact that the development’s immediate project is simply too large. It will generating some response from the critical path circulated by the project impact on other parts of the City is create traffic and parking chaos. We City and the proponents as there managers the project should be less direct and tangible. One thing cited examples of other similarly sized, were press reports in mid-October entirely completed by the end of May you notice after being involved in successful, retail or stadium projects about proposals to re-work the (including the exterior landscaping municipal issues for a while, is that in Ottawa and other major cities that development to reduce its scale and and any deficiencies corrected) so that when a lot more people come out to had orders of magnitude better road impact. We shall see how serious we can start moving our equipment public consultations than expected, it and transit access than Lansdowne these proposals are and whether they in shortly thereafter. We will have a is not because they are happy. That does. Indeed the City’s own Official do, in fact, significantly improve better idea of the exact opening date certainly was the case at the kick off Plan requires that stadiums of things. In the interim OSWATCH in the early spring, but we should be consultation session at Lansdowne, Lansdowne’s size be located on a and OSCA continue to work with our open for business in our renovated and from the press reports, it seems rapid transit route. Lansdowne does follow community associations on facilities for the start of the summer to have been the situation elsewhere not meet this requirement. the project and we are preparing for program season. It is difficult to understand how the the next step in the process which is Gary Lum – OOS Life-Time Achiever Buy Some Cookies, Change The World!

By Anne Louise Mahoney

ow can buying home-baked goodies, flavourful preserves, delicious frozen meals Hand apple pies, and more great stuff change the world? By providing the funding for the “Out of the Cold” suppers hosted by volunteers at St. Margaret Mary’s church from October to April! These three- course Sunday suppers, which welcome about 100 guests every week, give people from our community the chance to share a hot meal, conversation and laughter. The popular suppers are made possible by the money collected at the church’s annual bazaar. Mark your calendars: this year the bazaar is on Sunday, November 29, from 12:00 to 2:00 p.m. There you will find tables heaped with mouth- watering baking (it sells out fast – don’t say we didn’t warn you), glittering jars of preserves, healthy frozen dinners, and delectable frozen apple pies. Everything is made with love and tasty ingredients. Stock up for the cold winter ahead! When you get peckish, stop by the four-star Gary Lum receives the Life Time Achievement award from Greg Strahl, an OSCA Board Member Marcel’s Café for a hearty lunch or snack. Marcel himself will be cooking up a storm in the kitchen to By Brendan McCoy in many other community struggles and activities, tempt your palate. Once you’ve had a bite, check out but in his short speech after receiving the award it the silent auction for some wonderful items donated by our generous local retailers. Bring the kids or he OSCA Board presented a Life Time was the work at Windsor Park that clearly stood grandkids to fish at the fishpond for cool prizes, or Achievement award to long time community out for Gary. He recounted the successful fight to have them take part in some fun craft activities. volunteer Gary Lum at its October meeting. keep the Windsor Yard part of the park and the T ongoing work to plant native trees along the river. The St. Margaret Mary’s bazaar offers you a Many will know Gary for his work producing chance to give to our community while shopping for Windsor Park’s award winning skating rinks for Gary, thanks for your passion and ongoing yourself and your family or friends. Hope to see you the last two decades. Gary has also been involved commitment! there! Page 6 The OSCAR - OUR 37th YEAR NOV 2009

Take a visual walk along Belmont Ave, on the North side starting Bank Street Traffic at Rideau River Drive, heading west and ending at Bank Street. Tom Alfoldi has taken photos of every building along Belmont -- North and South, and provided OSCAR with the photos. (See OSCAR previous issues for other street photos)

The photos continue from this page, starting at Rideau River Drive, continues to page 16, where we reach Bank Street. The visuall walk continues along South Belmont on page 26, from Bank Street to Ri- deau River Drive. Join us another time when we will again walk with Tom’s Camera.

Thank you Tom!

OSWATCH Presentation to City Hall About Landsdowne Park Joint Meeting Of The City Of A 24,000 seat sports stadium and connections means the site has been, roughly equivalent to the proposed Ottawa Transportation And 408,000 sq. ft. retail facility needs to and will continue to be, difficult to retail development at Lansdowne Transit Committees be located where there are excellent access, particularly for the very large Park. Billings has an Transitway The Lansdowne Park transit and road transportation additional numbers of visitors the station giving it access to dozens of Partnership Transportation And infrastructure. Lansdowne Park, does site development plan envisions. The bus routes on a dedicated right of not meet this criteria. Nor is there developers admit this with the various way, plus it is adjacent to Riverside Transit Strategy any prospect, without very significant creative scenarios put forward to deal Dive which is effectively a four lane additional levels of public investment, with their transportation dilemma divided highway which links directly Presentation By OSWATCH for the site to gain access to the including satellite parking at Carleton to the Queensway. The Plaza also needed transportation infrastructure. University, and for the largest events, has on premises access to over 1500 The Planning, Development Lansdowne Park has congested road the closing of Bank Street and Queen parking spaces. and Traffic Committee of the links (limited to Bank Street and Elizabeth to all traffic except busses. Take another example, in this Old Ottawa South Community Queen Elizabeth Drive) it has poor The Official Plan states that case a major sports venue, Soctiabank Association transit connections (the number 1 & development should be in “a location Place. With just over 19,000 seats, 7 bus routes, whose frequency and on a road with sufficient capacity to Scotiabank Place has 6,500 parking n our view the current speed are significantly limited already accommodate the anticipated traffic spaces and direct access to the six lane transportation and transit strategy by their need to use a congested city generated and/or a location adjacent 417 expressway. Ioutlined for the Lansdowne arterial road). If the existing stadium is to or within walking distance of a Lansdowne Park, at which it is Park Partnership is contrary to both to be renovated, its problems will only transit station.”(OP Section 2.5.1) proposed to locate both a major retail Smart Growth, and to the City’s be compounded by adding a shopping This is clearly not the case with facility and a major sports facility, Transportation Plan. mall and entertainment complex to a Lansdowne Live. Further, if one looks has access to none of the comparable This is a development proposal poorly-sited facility. at comparable sports or retail sites in levels of road or transit infrastructure, that lacks the infrastructure to succeed Poor transit and modest road this City, all have significantly better nor anything like the comparable access to transportation infrastructure. parking capacity. This strikes us as Take for example Billings Bridge planning for failure. Plaza, at 450,000 sq.ft. of retail space,

!!Coming to OSCAR in December!!

The Grosvenor Avenue Gastronomic Society “Life is too short to eat disappointing food.”

o you enjoy eating out? Are you wondering where the good restaurants are but have a hard time deciding where to go? Don’t despair! Starting in Dthe December issue of The OSCAR, The Grosvenor Avenue Gastronomic Society will provide a monthly review of different local food establishments. If you have questions, comments, or would like to suggest a restaurant for review, please contact them at: [email protected] NOV 2009 The OSCAR - OUR 37th YEAR Page 7

CITY COUNCILLOR’S REPORT Ottawa’s Zero Means Zero Vision

Dear OSCAR Readers: the property tax hole all cities must city for preparatory work, but to pay down the interest on the live in. The new taxes were hard • 2 billion in lost private sector 129 million in debt contracted for the There is a celestial order fought. No one likes new taxes but investment, stadium. If we make this dedicated which floats in still cobwebs he persevered and won. Of course, it • 1 billion in lost public sector tax deal with OSEG for their stadium above clear water. hasn’t been all beer and skittles for Mr. investment. operation then why shouldn’t we do It is as timeless as mountaintops, Miller. He had a very difficult garbage • It’s too soon to fully tally the a similar deal with Bayshore, Billings as splendid as spring flowers. strike. Nor are the victories complete. new LRT tunnel plan, which will Bridge or another shopping centre for It weaves in evanescent nets Toronto’s ‘priority’ neighbourhoods cost more than 5 times as much as a project that they want funded? disappearing with the sun. will need the next council to deliver the old LRT while attracting less new Check my website for the most Forgotten for another day the needed upgrades to their housing ridership. We will have lost a decade current news and more details on the mortality of moments stock and services. In this sense Miller and it will cost us more. the Lansdowne situation: www. the infinity of days. can’t say he’s completed everything, • On the transit strike, Toronto clivesdoucet.com. The key date to but you can never write ‘finis’ to settled theirs in two days but Ottawa watch for is November 12th when - from “Canal Seasons” any work. He’s come as close as I took two months and it cost the city this will be at Council with public think you can reasonably expect any 400 million while causing much grief. delegations. oronto’s Mayor David Miller politician to do. What else? Oh yes, the announced at the end of I couldn’t help contrast Mayor Lansdowne fiasco. The negotiations Coffee with Clive September that he will not be Miller’s vision and achievements on and public consultation on this sole T transit, the environment (e.g. Clean source deal have now cost more Coffee with Clive happens in Old seeking a third term. The principal reasons that he gave were that he had Air Partnership), social housing, than the original design competition Ottawa South at Bridgehead, 1176 accomplished the program that he tax reform and Ottawa’s zero means would have cost ($350,000). This Bank Street, on the second Thursday had set out for the city by 2010. 120 zero vision which has constipated all has now taken longer and cost us of the month from 9:00 to 10:00 a.m. kilometres of new light rail costing the initiatives begun by the previous more than an open competition would 10 billion has been approved and is administration and added rather have. And the park renewal plan has All the best, underway. Every bus in the Toronto than reduced costs. My back of the turned it into a real estate deal which fleet has been replaced. Contracts envelope calculations of some of the will give the park rent free to an Clive Doucet have been signed for subway car zero means zero costs are: organization called the Ottawa Sports City of Ottawa and streetcar replacement and this is • Increasing Ottawa’s contribution and Entertainment Group (OSEG) 110 Laurier Avenue West, underway. Toronto’s transit future from 25 to 40 million to the province’s for 30 years; require the city to invest Ottawa, ON K1P 1J1 has been secured. Congress Centre. 129 million dollars in an adjacent tel.: (613) 580-2487 He also talked about business • Killing the old LRT: stadium with no hope of any return fax: (613) 580-2527 accomplishments. The city is strong • 43 million for the Siemens till 2029. The justification is that we [email protected] economically. There are 2,000 new settlement, 37 million in settlement will get back taxes on the shopping www.clivedoucet.com units of social housing and two new costs, 6 million in legal fees, centre which we then can use, not for taxes, which will help the city out of • 60 million in sunk costs to the city services or park beautification Brighton Beach Park Oak Tree by David Barkley, Manager of the tree is intact, upon closer look, of Forestry Services. there are large cavities in the trunk that have been filled with bricks esidents who frequent and mortar, an acceptable practice Brighton Beach park will have many years ago. It has been trimmed noticed that the stately old and fertilized over several years to R prolong its life; however, there is very burr oak tree at the end of Brighton avenue has been declining for several little more prevention that will stop years. This tree has undoubtedly the normal aging process. The City of provided shade, shelter, and aesthetic Ottawa is committed to the retention beauty to the neighbourhood for an of this tree as long as it deemed safe estimated 200 years or more. The to the surrounding homes and park City has been monitoring the 165 users and the community will be well centimetre diameter oak (Quercus informed at the time removal becomes macrocarpa) for many years and necessary. Fortunately, there are other continues to explore options to keep mature oak trees of different sizes it in the community for as long as and ages the park and neighbourhood possible. Recent lost of vigour, few surrounding the Brighton Beach park leaves, and the presence of fruiting oak tree. These, along with the future bodies (a sign of decay) indicate the planting of new trees, will not only tree is in decline and will probably contribute to City forest cover, but not be part of the City’s forest cover will stand as reminder of the legacy of for much longer. Although the form this grand old tree. Page 8 The OSCAR - OUR 37th YEAR NOV 2009

The OSWATCH Column

By Gary Shechtman. current zoning restrictions inhibit the development of an anchor store. n OSWATCH meeting was held on October 6, 2009 to Contaminated sites – It was identified discuss the reasons for the that a number of the underdeveloped A sites on Bank Street are contaminated, lack of a vibrant commercial area on Bank Street in Old Ottawa South. likely because they were formerly gas OSWATCH felt it was important stations. These sites will require soil to obtain input from industry clean-up before new development can professionals (i.e. real estate agents, take place. Some speakers indicated developers, local business owners) so that the cost of soil clean-up will that we could understand the root cause make it uneconomic to undertake new of the problem. A number of speakers development on these sites. were invited to the meeting to present their viewpoints. The discussions were Lack of Business Improvement Area wide ranging, and the viewpoints Association (BIA) – It was identified were often divergent. A number of the that OOS does not have a BIA, which ideas presented at the meeting were has resulted in a very low profile for controversial. A few common themes local businesses. It was generally emerged from the discussion: agreed that a BIA would be beneficial for promoting and coordinating local Parking – Some speakers suggested businesses, however past attempts at that insufficient parking was a cause for establishing a BIA in OOS have not the lack of a vibrant business district been successful. in OOS. Ideas for improving parking included: developing a city parking lot Resistance to new Developments – in OOS; use of the Hopewell school Some speakers suggested that OOS parking lot on weekends; and angled is regarded as being hostile to new parking on the side streets. development, and therefore developers often bypass OOS. It was recommended Zoning Restrictions – Some speakers that developers and residents need to suggested that zoning restrictions are a understand each other’s viewpoint and cause for the lack of new development try to work together, as opposed to on Bank Street. Speakers indicated that creating an atmosphere of conflict. existing zoning restriction (i.e. building height, square footage, and parking This meeting was a first step by requirements) inhibit the economic OSWATCH towards a more proactive viability of new developments. approach to the business area on Bank Street. OSWATCH will be discussing Lack of an anchor store – It was the meeting results and will determine identified that an anchor store is usually if any actions should be undertaken a requirement for a vibrant main street, to address the issues identified in this and there is currently no anchor store meeting. in OOS. Some speakers suggested that

Lansdowne Park Legal Challenge Needs You! John E. Martin, City of Ottawa client relationship will exist Founder/Fondateur Court File No.: 09-46226 with that firm. Vitally Ottawa - The date for the Judicial If you have any Absolument Ottawa Review and Injunction Motion questions please direct are to be heard sometime next them to John E. Martin at Spring. jemartin@vitallyottawa. here has been a The Injunction Motion ca . Updates will be made Judicial Review can be separated at any time to all those submitting and Motion for T should there be a need to their email address. Progress Injunction filed at the Superior protect the litigation. and trust balance reports Court of Ontario seeking to will come from me to avoid quash the current Sole Source A trust has been set up with administrative charges negotiations and replace an independent law firm and being incurred by the them with mandatory open, supporters of this application trust. It is important competitive RFP or Request who wish to assist financially that the money get to for Proposal as outlined in the may contact John Martin Contributors should the matter at hand so City of Ottawa’s Procurement for details. identify themselves so periodic please direct all questions Procedure By-Law 50. reports on expenditures to [email protected] Name of the Proceeding: can be made but should or 613.266.1284. John E. Martin -and- The recognize that no solicitor NOV 2009 The OSCAR - OUR 37th YEAR Page 9

The Harp n’ Stuff

by Arthur McGregor

utumn is a gathering time. The gathering of nature’s energies in its roots, in the warmer climate, and in caves and under rocks. The Agathering of people in Thanksgiving, back at schools, in music. It’s also the time that Wendy starts to book all the tours that the Celtic Rathskallions will do this season. It looks like we’re heading for Alberta, New Brusnwick, Northern Ontario, Nova Scotia and, if she can fill the few empty spots, our third tour of Ireland. As well, Wendy has a new book in at the printers: A Tune for Maddie, the second story about Maddie. The illustrations are by long-time Old Ottawa Souther, Janis Jones. One of the instruments that Wendy plays, and that Maddie wants to play, is the harp. Wendy’s is a beautiful folkharp made by Triplett, a California based company. We toured Ireland last time with a small ‘harpsicle’ because touring with a full sized harp is difficult. This got me doing a bit of research on the harp. A form of the harp, the hunting bow, was surely the first stringed instrument ever played. If you put a bow against your cheek and use your mouth as the resonating chamber, you can hear the sound that it made. Imagine a hunter striding along the trail with the music of the mouth harp resonating in his head. From this simple idea came other harps based on the curved stick. With the addition of a sound box, the harp became more complex. These instruments date back to about 3000BCE in the fertile-crescent area of Mesopotamia. They spread east and west. In the east we still have the Burmese national instrument, the saung-gauk. In the west, the instrument became a more triangular shape with the addition of the pillar on the open side. The pillar harp became popular in northern Europe, especially Ireland and Scotland and Celtic France. The first harpist I was aware of was Alain Stivell from Brittany. The harp was the national instrument of Scotland. It was known as the Clarsach and was generally a metal strung instrument. Most contemporary harps are nylon or gut strung. The early harps were diatonic. That means that they played only the C scale or the white keys of the piano. Some had more strings added to voice the sharps and flats but it made them too complex to play. The solution was the ability to re-tune the strings of the harp, either by using a lever (a mechanism that shortened the string length) or pedals (they move the strings up one or two half-tones). Modern harps vary from 12 strings to 44 strings, from lap harps to huge, metal framed floor harps. South American harps became popular after the Spanish introduced them. The national instrument of Paraguay is the harp, smaller and more lightly strung than the Celtic version. We have a great selection of harps, from the Harpsicle to larger floor harps. They are easy to play but difficult to master, the true makings of a wonderful instrument. And, they make a great Christmas gift. Page 10 The OSCAR - OUR 37th YEAR NOV 2009

NOTES FROM THE GARDEN CLUB Overwintering Plants

By Colin Ashford them back and bringing them indoors back plants such as Hibiscus, in pots for the winter. He stressed Geraniums, and Begonias by about ith the first frost of the that it is important to inspect plants half to improve their shape and winter forecast, it was and soil for pests such as mealy bugs, make them more manageable inside. timely for the October scale, aphids or spider mites. Insect However, he recommended not to W eggs in the soil can be eliminated by waste the cuttings and demonstrated meeting of the Old Ottawa Garden Club to hear about overwintering immersing the pots in dilute solutions propagating them in two-inch oasis- plants. Jamie Roy-Belair of Tivoli of horticultural oil, neem oil, or even foam cubes in a tray of shallow Gardens gave an excellent presentation liquid soap and then allowing the pots water. Once the roots appear (four and demonstration on how to prepare to drain; this should be repeated on to five weeks) the cuttings can be plants for overwintering. Jamie is an a weekly basis three or four time to transferred into potting soil in small Jamie Roy-Belair gives a extremely knowledgeable presenter: break the insects’ reproductive cycle. pots and kept in a cool location until demonstration of Root Pruning. he is a graduate of Algonquin and Insects on plants are best eliminated the spring. He also demonstrated how Kemptville colleges and worked by spraying plants with, or immersing woody plants can also be propagated for a year at the Governor General’s them in, a 50% solution of rubbing by air layering: make a one-inch cut plants is useful to stop the plants’ Residence greenhouse. alcohol, waiting ten minutes, and then along a stem just below the foliage getting out of hand: remove the root At this time of year, tropical plants flushing off with clear water. Again to expose the cambium layer, apply ball from the pot and, with a sharp such as Mandevillia and New Guinea the procedure should be repeated on a some hormone rooting compound knife, cut a one-inch slice around the Impatiens need to be protected from weekly basis three or four times. and a handful of damp sphagnum circumference of the root ball. The frost, and Jamie recommended cutting Jamie recommending pruning moss and keep the moss in place with root ball can then be returned to the plastic wrap. After four or five weeks, same pot with some addition soil to roots should appear and the stem can make up for the removed roots. be cut below the new roots and then Plants can be put back outside in potted up. Saving seeds is also a good the spring after all danger of frost, but way of propagating plants. Jamie Jamie cautioned that plants should recommends that seeds be removed not be exposed to direct sunlight from the seedpods and dried between immediately as they can be affected sheets of kitchen roll or newspaper. by sunburn. Slowly acclimatizing Once dry they can be stored in ziplock plants to full sun will avoid this. bags or glass jars ready for planting indoors in February or March. The next meeting of the Garden Tuberous plants such as dahlias Club will be on Tuesday 10 November, and begonias should be dug up, split, 2009 at Southminster United Church and stored in a cool dark place. Zonal at 7.30 p.m., Aylmer and Bank (enter geraniums can be dug up, the soil from Galt Street), when Olly Chuchryk, removed from the roots, and split. owner of Charing House Gardens, The resulting divisions can be hung, will be talking about the techniques of upside down, in a basement or stored growing dahlias in Ottawa without a in a paper bag; in both cases making greenhouse. Drop-in membership for sure that they do not completely dry the evening is $5 and new members out. are always welcome. Root pruning of large potted

Area Church Service Times

Sunnyside Wesleyan Chuch 10 am – Eucharist or Morning Prayer in 58 Grosvenor Avenue (at Sunnyside) Chapel Sunday Worship Service at 9am & St Margaret Mary’s Parish 11am (10am only June 14 – Aug 30) 7 Fairbairn (corner of Sunnyside) Children’s program offered during both Sunday Liturgies : 9:30 a.m. and 11:30 worship services. a.m. Christian Meditation: Mondays at 7:30 Trinity Anglican Church p.m. 1230 Bank Street (at Cameron Avenue) Evening Prayer: Tuesday at 7 p.m. Sunday Services 9.30 am -- sung eucharist (summer schedule June 14 to August 30) Southminster United Church Regular 8.30 eucharist , and 10 am 15 Aylmer Avenue sung eucharist with church school 10:30 a.m.: Worship and Sunday School and nursery, resume Sundays, starting - September through June September 6) Thursdays NOV 2009 The OSCAR - OUR 37th YEAR Page 11

You can now pop into Sixth Sense construction. The two white house for your sandwich fix. Both Veggie & have been torn down and it is cordoned Meat eaters are being represented so off to keep the public out. So stay what you are in the mood for on that tuned, we don’t have an ETA as it has day, check out the fixins. been kept pretty quiet, but we will let you know when we know. Remember Soul Matters Celebrates 2 years in safety comes first so make sure you Old Ottawa South.. keep your kids away from the fencing Hard to believe it has been this around the corner! 2 quick years…Happy Birthday!!! Soul Matters continues to evolve Have you heard the news…we adding in more Holistic Practitioners might have an African Restaurant in and having now set up a little Tea & the area….we will let you know the Comings and Goings The parking lot filled with food and Tarot area in the front window for scoop next buzz!!!!! frolic helped sustain the OOS folk so customers to sit, review the demo We might also have some in OOS! they could continue to shop and visit. decks for Oracle & Tarot cards and tantalizing news about what will fill There were children running around have a little complimentary cuppa tea the space of where Second Cup used By: Sue Fay Soul Matters with wonderful face paint – thanks while they are at it…..come check it to live….again, sorry folks next issue 3 Little Monkeys the ladies did an out! until we make sure our info is correct. awesome job!!! So all in all that’s to We don’t want to give everything OOS Community as well for coming Empty Lot fastly becoming away do we? ell let’s put our goodbyes out and supporting!!! Shoppers Drug Marts new home As always OOS thanks for your out there first and foremost As the community can see support…till next time! shall we? W Kaleidoscope Kids Relocate – just Shoppers is no longer on hold and up the street!!! is quickly making its way into Second Cup leads to Second So as Rowland Leather moves Journey for Fenny & Maurice! back home, Kaleidoscope makes a Fenny & Maurice have decided short move up the street to situate it is high time to say “no more cuppa beside Soul Matters and 3 Little java” for us. Time to retire and enjoy Monkeys. What a nice little knook the second phase of their lives. We we have here. You won’t have bid them a most fond farewell after to go far to continue to find your 10 years of being at the corner of favourite fiction books for kids and Bank & Sunnyside. There is no while you do that you can pop into doubt they will be missed as much for 3 Little Monkeys for some cool toys Maurice’s always kind smile as for to accompany the books. We say their wonderful coffee and treats…we welcome to the “corner” ladies and now await what will come next to our let’s hope soon you will know where little corner where coffee has been so your permanent home will be!!!! abundant. Big breaths, big breaths…we are all rooting for OOS! Rowland Leather is moving back out to Kemptville & Merrickville Mud Oven Christmas Art Show… After 3 years of being on Bank St, Annual event so don’t’ forget Rowland Leather has determined it is to have fun with the kiddies at “hide” time to make their move back this one…from November 16th to out to the West End. Their beautiful December 31st with Marie France workmanship will be missed on Nitski…this years event is “Pot Bank St. this is for sure…You could Pourri pour Noel”…now there is a always count on Shannon being in mouthful! the boutique setting up displays of Michael’s lovely creations. We will Can you Smell it? Can you? miss your time and handiwork!!!! It is cheese…..its not just any kind of cheese it is SERIOUS OOS Sidewalk & Porch sale a CHEESE!!!! People get your stunning success… sniffers and tasters on and check Well this year no one can say out the massive variety of cheeses that we were rained out…what a being carried. Since “Nuts about fantastic day had by all on September Life” left we had no clue what would 12th. Big massive shout out to Carly come into the hood next so this is a Cook for being our “true team player wonderful split off from where they and go to girl”…between the tables were located which was in “Grace and organizing where the buskers in the Kitchen”……seriously, its all were..what a busy day. Thanks to about cheese!!! Arthur from the Folklore Centre for getting us all the music for the Sixth Sense adds in Sandwiches day!!! Pipers piped the day opening gourmet style.. and continued through out the day!!! Page 12 The OSCAR - OUR 37th YEAR NOV 2009

Squirrel Chatter

Fall Leaves Zen Calling

By Tania and Michaël their goals ? forms of cigarettes (for example a car • Have we bettered ourselves or stopping and dumping their ashtray way, have you ever walked about on all leaves are here ! Days achieved at least one important goal ? onto the street), beer bottles (broken the night before garbage pickup ? oscillate from cold in the • Have we taken care of ourselves or just laid down). What have you we’re so amazed at how the quantity morning to warm in the by eating well and excercising ? seen, perhaps we can start a contest F We find this change of season is – email us photos or short poems of garbage differs between homes. afternoon. Children are back in Did you know archeologists study school, and it’s time to close the a good time to evaluate our yearly about the garbage lying around or civilizations by digging up their cottage or at least rake the yard. This goals, and if we didn’t quite achieve being tossed out – what do you think garbage – it’s a great way to learn was an exceptionally wet summer and them there’s still time to pick up on of it ? Depending on responses we’ll about a civilization. What do you although it’s tempting to turn on the one or two items. It’s also good to publish them and maybe even put up think they’ll think of Old Ottawa fireplace and cozy up with a book, it’s reflect upon the many goals we did a small prize ! Be funny, be sharp, be South in a thousand years ? What will also a good time to go outside and play achieve, and on the good times we’ve emotional, be artistic ! it look like? in the leaves. Have some fun and laugh ! had with family and friends. This is If I didn’t know better, I’d think We love to hear your ideas, Fall is also a good time to reflect on a tranquil time, with relatively little people are incredibly lazy ! comments, or topics you’d like in going forward. stress compared to other seasonal Or perhaps they like living in future Squirrel Talk. BTW, have you • What did we want to do this events. The september rush is behind garbage – it’s so good they love to seen any squirrels in tartans ? the year ? us and the december rush has not yet share with others cold rain is bringing those scottish • What is missing to make it an arrived. Busy as it is now, it does not Candy wrappers weigh so much squirrels here ! exceptional year ? have to be stressful. they must be dropped ohhh soo heavy. Please write us at taniamich@ • Was there one thing we wanted In keeping with tranquil thoughts Why people throw their garbage gmail.com to achieve ? of improving our neighbourhood, onto the streets is a simply a mystery • What are we particularly proud we’ve been trying to understand why to me of having achieved ? people throw garbage on the streets. Perhaps we need more public • Have we helped at least one We’ve seen food wrappers, dog bags garbage cans, or we need people to care person better themselves or achieve (thanks for bagging though), various more about their environment. By the

Ottawa ... Cont’d from next page

minutes. Nightlife in Ottawa continues to be a victim to public transit that is focused exclusively on nine-to-five suburban commuters. Toronto was smaller than Ottawa when it broke ground on a subway. Despite what the nay sayers will tell you, it IS possible to have the transit system we deserve - if only we could set the right priorities. Expenditure will always be an issue but that’s no excuse for a lack of vision. In the shadow of the seat of government and the international spotlight, the City of Ottawa is almost the adversary of progress and visionary planning worthy of a capital. It boasts neither the visionary leadership to dream, nor the political unity to implement them. At a time when a wealth of international knowledge and expertise promised to flow into the Capital, Ottawa has chosen to cancel an international design competition in favour of divisive politics and a local strip- mall development. At a time when there’s increasing pressure on our green space and public assets, the city would sooner sell-off a unique property in the heart of the city than go through the bother of a process that would unify and capture the imagination of her citizens. While the world has advanced by five decades beyond our boundaries, Ottawa, while uniquely prosperous as a city, continues to stagnate. How can it be that a city of nearly one million citizens, fourth largest urban centre in the country, and the Capital of a vast, wealthy nation, demands so little from itself? A community that once had such high hopes in taking its place on the world-stage has forgotten the optimism of our founding citizenry, and the controversy from which it was born. We may have come a long way from our humble beginnings as Bytown - that rough, provincial, raucous village. But we haven’t come nearly far enough. If Ottawa is to live-up to its well deserved destiny, then we, her citizens must dare to envision a vibrant, world-class city and demand nothing less than true civic pride, and intelligent, responsible planning. We must be true to our long roots and embrace controversy as a call to action. We must all engage now, and ever hereafter. And most of all, we must dare to dream for something better. NOV 2009 The OSCAR - OUR 37th YEAR Page 13

THE BIG PICTURE Ottawa: The Yet Unfulfilled Dream

By Michael Dobbin part to the efforts of the municipality that are unlikely to last into the next folly of doomed of Ottawa. century by design. The neo-gothic s u b u r b a n hen in 1857 Queen Victoria Sadly, if one removed the historic masterpiece of and commuter lines. A single, relatively chose the rough, frontier buildings, parks, monuments and some of the early federal buildings short streetcar or metro-subway Bytown as the future seat museums controlled by some arm or is a constant and eternal reminder of through the central core of the W another of the federal government, the once boundless civic and national city would serve almost twice as of government for the Province of Canada, and later the Dominion; her there is virtually nothing about this pride that has since given way to an many commuters, whilst promoting decision was so controversial that it city that would end up in a photo album architectural deficit, growing each centralised growth and a healthy caused successive governments to that could be credited to the City of year. community; but all the while, the all- fall and brought forth harsh criticism Ottawa. Suburban intersections and consuming obsession with the suburbs from every circle. Nineteenth Century rich agricultural land pock-marked by Public Transit continues. Whilst Ottawans who live political journalist Goldwin Smith suburban developments don’t often in the urban core tolerate a 20-45 spat that Ottawa was “a subarctic find their way onto postcards. As the city continues to sprawl minute wait, and overcrowded rush- lumber village converted by royal So what are some of things that outside of the once hour bus service in the dead of winter, mandate into a political cockpit”. make a World-Class City? conceived to halt such irresponsible our counterparts in comparably The controversy of this historic growth, scarce transit dollars are sized European communities coup would dissipate and by the Support for the Arts being diverted from the rapidly boast streetcars and subway trains late-nineteenth century as the new declining central routes and into the with waiting times under five capital of a rapidly expanding What will make this city great is nation was well on its way to being told over and over again that this becoming a modern metropolis. city is great. Paris, London, New York From these humble beginnings, City - all are sought-after destinations, the Nation’s Capital would prosper and moreover, have been painted, and grow into the over one million written, sung, filmed and talked about citizens that live and work here today. for centuries. A city’s resident artists Today, Ottawa is not only the seat are the most visible sign of a healthy, of government, one of the largest prosperous community but today, and richest nations on earth, but also funding for the arts both publicly and her aesthetic beauty and cultural privately is abysmal at best. Granted, landmarks bring visitors from all over the Nation’s Capital knows how to the world. In the last century, the city throw a party for the masses - but has taken its place as a good citizen in recent years the city’s struggling of the world: taking centre-stage artists have known few patrons. as host to the Dutch Royal Family Significant commitments to public fleeing Nazi occupation in the 1940s art haven’t popped-up in years and there and birthplace to Princess Margriet; isn’t much support for the performing and in giving its very name to the arts either. Although a handful of international treaty to ban landmines professional musicians, artists, in December 1997. craftspeople and actors stubbornly As an emerging cultural centre, remain, few are prosperous without Ottawa plays host to North America’s being forced to earn at least some of most successful Chamber Music their living in Toronto and Montreal. Festival and outdoor events such Architecture and Urban Planning as , the Tulip Festival In its lacklustre transformation from and Canada Day attracts hundreds the compact, liveable community of thousands of visitors every year. of the 19th Century into a faceless, Yet true greatness somehow manages sprawling suburb; Ottawa has lost to elude our deserving city. Why? sight of the vision that decades ago Despite the best efforts of the National filled its citizens with optimism. Capital Commission, Parks Canada, The city’s preoccupation our national museums, galleries, with outdated, unsustainable car- monuments and under-funded arts environments has led to the continued and cultural organizations - Ottawa expansion of obsolete suburban continues to fall short of that early developments while the city centre is promise of becoming a world-class abandoned to utilitarian developers city. In fact, much of the National who place little value on architectural Capital’s beauty, aesthetic and aesthetic. In their wake comes a international reputation is due in no trail of plywood and glass edifices

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OOS PEOPLE Nurturing A Greener Neighbourhood

By Tracy Morey After her marriage broke up, she community colleges. He joined the finished a psychology degree at Carleton. federal government as an economist, is roots in Old Ottawa South span She worked as a correspondence assistant resolved industrial disputes for Labour Hthree generations. She’s lived in for Agriculture Minister Eugene Whelan Canada, headed Labour Standards the neighbourhood for most of the 41 and then dropped out of the labour force for unorganized workers, and led the years since emigrating from New York when she and Mike had their children, Canadian Environment Assessment state. Eric and Christina. Mike also has a son Agency’s team legislating and using They met near Brighton Beach in Mathew from his first marriage. techniques to judge major environmental 1975. At home with the children, Judy impacts in Canada. “I love the neighbourhood for its went to Algonquin for computer At the age of 22 he’d been convenience,” says Judy Lascelles, “the programmer training and then worked managing a pension fund in Montreal amenities, the library, Carleton U, the in this field locally for five years. She when he realized he wasn’t interested in RA, the Rideau, and Billings within a quit to complete a three-year technical “spending my life making money, even walk.” writing diploma. “ Mike persuaded me though I’d grown up poor. High Finance Mike Lascelles adds: “And the to do it.” seemed elitist - there were not many unique people, the bike paths, and the “It was tough doing child care, everyday people and no real social or parks.” a full-time program, and a part-time environmental challenges.” After decades of heavy involvement job, but it paid off – it gave me a good Since 2005, he’s been a member and in the Eco movement, the Lascelles say career.” sometimes Chair of the Environmental they’re certainly not alone in OOS. Judy worked at Cognos as a Advisory Committee (EAC), advising “Our community is caring technical writer, a manager of technical City Council on waste, transportation, and responsible environmentally,” writers, and eventually as head editor. air quality and habitat issues. Judy and says Mike. “Not many local people She joined the Cognos Employees he also take advantage of Carleton’s carelessly idle their cars, polluting our Judy and Mike Lascelles with the Volunteer Committee. “We adopted Learning in Retirement Program neighbourhood. Rather they often walk City’s new Green Bin Uplands Park, and maintained it and a (currently a course on global warming). few other local parks.” The little committee that grew or bike to nearby destinations.” loved to read, she worked as a secretary In the late 90s, Judy wrote a regular A focal point for the Lascelles in the when she came to Canada with her first OSCAR column called “Naturally 90s was the Environmental Committee Loving Canada husband – both of them opposed to Green”. She now does some contract of Ottawa South (ECOS). They call it Judy Lascelles used cloth diapers the Vietnam war. “I loved Canada and “the little environmental engine that on her babies and has been composting couldn’t wait to get citizenship.” for 20 years. An inquisitive child who could.” The organization started small with John Bond, Hendrik Wachelka, Sandra Garland, and John Wright, recalls Mike. “After a while, I joined and helped plant trees and fundraise. Then others, such as Mike Loewen and Craig Turner, got involved.” They began organizing Earth Day festivals, working with the Folklore Centre and tapping into corporate funding. Four times between 1997 and 2003, Earth Day Canada partnered with Mike and Judy in the 70s. ECOS and up to 600 people turned out for Earth Day at Brewer Park. work as a technical writer/editor, sings “We hit the jackpot in 1998,” says in the local Folka Voca choir, pursues Mike. ECOS applied to the Millennium interests in birding and photography, Bureau for $100,000. “John Bond wrote and is a volunteer at Hopewell. And she a poetic yet practical proposal.” They is her grandson Elliot’s biggest fan! got the money, plus much more in cash or in kind, for five projects that included Money not enough the building of a foot bridge near Mike Lascelles’ grandfather F.X. Carleton by boy scouts and an award- (François Xavier) lived on Bronson winning Action Kit with maps of 100 Avenue at the canal and his father projects that community groups along Arthur was born there in 1903. Mike is the Rideau River could do. the youngest of 9 children: “We were But the main focus was restoring poor but good students, into sports, the Rideau River, planting thousands after-school jobs, and music. It was a of trees in the riparian zone, creating rich background that gave you a sense an interpretative program, and digging of irony and theatre, and a knack to deal bays for fish habitat. Then ECOS took with all sorts of diverse and difficult its message regional, with a conference people.” for stake-holders all along the Rideau Mike’s resumé includes degrees River. Local farmers participated. from both Ottawa universities, programs “It showed that a local group of at several others, including a post- talented people with an environmental grad environmental and occupational vision, and some money, could make a health program at McMaster, and difference,” says Mike. teaching economics and stats at two NOV 2009 The OSCAR - OUR 37th YEAR Page 15

Girls Just Want to Play Ringette

By Margaret Doyle unmistakable. to rinks. I attend practices, power I did not grow up at an ice rink. skating, league games as well as in- hat to do if your daughter I was neither a figure skater nor a town and out of town tournaments comes home and says, “I hockey player. Then I married my and of course team socials. I really want to play ringette”: a husband and moved to Vancouver should split the duty with my husband; W where our children were born and I realize that any sane person would mother’s testimonial. Ringette is a beautiful and skilled where we spent the first nine years of carpool more, but I have to say that I game that uses girls’ strengths, their our married life. We had no plans to am absolutely fascinated by Ringette. agility, coordination and cooperative return to Ottawa, though Ottawa was So, if your daughter comes spirit. Ringette is a Canadian game a distinct possibility as my husband home from primary school and asks developed in North Bay over 40 worked for the federal government. to play ringette, rejoice and join the years ago and Ottawa hosted the Skating lessons for my pre-school City of Ottawa Ringette Association international championships in 2007. children were an organized activity (CORA). If she hasn’t heard about I marvel as the players speed around with no end in mind. My son was ringette yet, do her the favour of her the rink snagging the ring while certainly adamant about preferring life. On Sunday October 28, CORA is avoiding other players, constantly soccer to hockey. And my husband, hosting a Come Try Ringette session passing to their team mates. My having spent part of his early years at Tom Brown Arena from 4pm to daughter has played for five years in England and California, was not 6pm. Just bring her skates, winter and I look at her team now and I particularly devastated by this choice. mitts or gloves and curiosity - CORA admire their skill and dedication; how So, it does come as a surprise, when ringette players will do the rest. Your strong, confident and beautiful they I stop to consider, how much quality daughter will thank you. See you at are and how purposefully they take time I have spent with my daughter the rink! to the ice. Their love of Ringette is and her friends at ice rinks or travelling Welcome Winter!

n November 21, 2009, not-for-profit long-term care home Allison Woyiwada joins JC that provides residential care and OSulzenko in presenting the community outreach services in second annual Welcome Winter, an the Ottawa community. It programs afternoon of storytelling and song, include caring for 254 residents in collaboration with Robert Palmai, in two connected nursing home Minister of Music at Glebe-St. buildings, providing a Day Away James United Church, which hosts program for people with dementia, as the event. well as offering a variety of activities The one- hour program once to some 900 clients and members again features OOS’s own Rob aged 55 + at Abbotsford House. For Clipperton reading Dylan Thomas’s information on The Glebe Centre: A Child’s Christmas in Wales. www.glebecentre.ca Performances from the Canterbury Welcome Winter takes Alumnae Trebles, Robert Palmai and place on Saturday, November Ottawa soprano Marya Woyiwada 21 at 4:00 p.m. at Glebe will delight the audience with music St. James United Church, 650 ranging from nursery rhymes to the Lyon St. Tickets are available from classical. Compact Music (with a service Net proceeds from the afternoon charge) and at the door for $12 will benefit The Glebe Centre (adults). Best suited to children 10 (dementia programs.) The Glebe and up, whose tickets cost $ 6. Centre is an accredited charitable Page 16 The OSCAR - OUR 37th YEAR NOV 2009

AFTER THOUGHTS

A Case of Identity from Richard Ostrofsky mean to use this month’s column to – notably, of course, her parents, who prints, or retinal scans, or whatever of Second Thoughts try. may or may not accede to her wishes else. We must think of it as a context Bookstore (now closed) Of course, the infant was given and who must now be managed by her of self-understanding, against which www.secthoughts.com a hospital bracelet almost as soon in an entirely new way. Not always the specific choices of a life are made. [email protected] she was born, identifying her as a wise or competent, she has anyhow The clothes we buy, the food we certain woman’s child. She acquired a her own very clear objectives and eat, the brands of beer or liquor that ’m in Montreal now, visiting with legal name and family when the birth opinions, and she is determined to get we buy are all statements of identity my daughter and 2 1/2 year old was registered with the provincial her way. Just like the rest of us, in fact. more than arbitrary tastes. The work grand daughter Galilee whom administration. To her loving parents, Until now, the child used her we train for, the mates we choose, the I in unmistakeable fashion, she has been parents and other caregivers more or hobbies and entertainments that grace I had not seen for about 3 months. What’s striking is that the child expressing her feelings on various less as extensions of her own body. our leisure all reflect and project a self- now presents as a person in a quite matters from the beginning; that she Her wants were quite basic, and she understanding. If we think of these a new way – a way not visible early had feelings of her very own has never could get them satisfied just by crying choices as responses to suggestions this summer when I visited last. The been in doubt. In all these senses, an – that is to say, by broadcasting her from various quarters, then identity change highlights something about the identity has been present from the displeasure until the problem went can be seen as a system of higher- nature of human identity - ‘identity’ in outset. away. By now though, her wants level suggestions – meta-suggestions a sense that older children and adults But something is different now. have become much more complex, – against which the suggestions of clearly possess, but that animals In a full-blown case of the “terrible and their frustration is no longer life- ordinary life are understood and and infants do not. This difference twos,” little Galilee has become a threatening: no longer a matter of life evaluated, and either taken up or fascinates me, but wherein precisely it separate person to deal and be dealt or death. Her opinions and wishes turned down. Appeals from parents consists is not easy to put in words. I with in a world of other such actors jostle with other people’s, and she to “be a good girl (or boy),” like the must learn the skills of negotiation appeals that advertising agencies to have a chance of getting her design and propagate, target the sense way. Vehement complaint and of identity and seek to influence it. protest no longer work so well as We become what we pretend to be, as they once did. Now that she can Vonnegut said in Mother Night. But make of use of language, she finds what we pretend to be depends on what herself expected to use it – to ask we already are, and what we think for what she wants with a ‘please’ ourselves to be. Identity is the whole and ‘thank you,’ and to understand that is comprised of, but something the explanations given her. more than, the sum of its parts. It is the Along with such language context in which the parts get formed, skills, her world-map has and in which they find place and make extended and grown in detail and sense. And it is just such a context and sophistication: Within the limits of sense of self that we can see a two- her experience, she knows where year-old beginning to form. I didn’t things are and where they should be. notice it in little Galilee three months She mothers her dolls in the same ago. On this visit, it is conspicuous. ways, and with the same language From another angle, we can see and tones, that her parents use identity as a tension between reality to her. She has a sense of dignity and possibility – between biographical and autonomy, and she protests fact and all those hopes and plans when these are violated – as on and fantasies for the future. History occasion they must be. Though she on one hand, dreams on the other; still needs help to get dressed and and as we live and age, the balance undressed, and to use the toilet, she shifts from one side to the other. As wants to do such things on her own yet, my grand daughter has relatively terms. She likes to follow a known little to constrain her choices, though routine. She likes to be consulted already quite a few facts of gender and given choices. Though she still and ethnicity and family milieu give likes (and gets) her mother’s milk, her one identity rather than another. I, she wants a taste of whatever is at my age, have relatively little left to being drunk or eaten, demanding hope for or worry about, though I still her sips of beer or wine or coffee as have pleasures and projects to keep a matter of right. She wants to do me occupied – not least of these, the what the grown-ups are doing, and pleasure of watching my grandchildren be part of whatever is going on. grow. That, I would say, is the main Somehow in all of this, an difference between Galilee’s identity identity is forming – a unique and mine. self and personality. Identity in this sense is not a matter of finger NOV 2009 Page 17 www.freecycle.org Changing the world Four Months on the Farms free & open to all 24 hours a day, 365 days a year By William Burr with the Martins for some months in was a bit relieved to leave at the end where they put the vegetables under order to do some writing. He slept in a of a month, to get out of the bubble, oil, and various political events. All the t the end of an eight month caravan next to mine. to get away from the negative feeling. while, I learned the rules of the road, stint working in the north of For the next two months, I traveled But I have never been somewhere that Italian style, and shared philosophical France, I wasn’t ready to go around France, staying at three more has made me think more about what discussion in broken Italian with A farms. In the Cher, in central France, is right and wrong in such a real way, Michele. home, but my contract was ending and I didn’t have any plans. I had hopes of I met a very welcoming young couple, and I felt very much like my mind For four months, I sometimes landing a job at Disneyland Paris, but Clément and Angèle, just starting off in was opened to the fact that people do struggled with loneliness or doubt that didn’t work out. Naturally, by the growing organic vegetables. We went things that seem to me unproductive, about whether I should go home. time I was officially turned down by to see concerts nearby, and enjoyed a pointless, false even – without harming But I always managed to keep going. Disney, it was the last minute – my lease family dinner with Angèle’s extended anyone. They remained good, funny, Looking back on my adventure now, I on my apartment in Arras, near Vimy, family. Angèle’s mother let me borrow kind people. I will go back to Anidagri can see that those four months made was almost up and I had to choose her car to go and explore a château. some day – though I might not get me feel more independent than I’ve between running home to Canada In the Alps, near Geneva, I lived the chance before 2012 – to visit the ever felt in my life. And to travel for and my back up plan, a program I had at the top of a mountain for two weeks friends I made there. the length of time that I did, I was heard about through a friend called milking cows and making Abondance My last WWOOFing destination lucky not to have had to be a tourist WWOOF. Worldwide Opportunities cheese. I was impressed by how hard was the tiny village of Carife in very often. I had something to do. I on Organic Farms, through its website, the couple there, Michel and Béatrice, the mountains near Avellino, above was picking sweet peas while avoiding puts you in contact with hundreds of worked: morning and night, without Naples. I entered the hectic life of pricking my bum on thistles. I was organic farmers around the world who weekends, all year round, all their Michele Minieri, philosophy graduate, learning how to milk a cow without allow you to come and stay with and lives. Milking cannot wait. I also political activist, and owner of an olive being kicked. And I was learning to learn from them in exchange for some tackled a fear of approaching cows oil and vegetable farm. Michele’s accept people who believed in an help around the farm. On a stressful that arose after I was unglamourously driving license had expired, and so I apocalypse in 2012. Saturday evening two days before kicked by one while trying to milk her. became chauffeur, scuttling between my lease expired, I called a farm In the South, near Toulon, I met the vegetable fields, the workshop whose advertisement seemed nice Suzanne, an organic farmer and and sheepishly asked if they would aspiring jazz singer. After mornings have an opening – on Monday. To my weeding garlic and propping up extreme relief the answer was yes. A tomatoes in the relentless Côte gentle, soft-spoken lady called Marie d’Azure sun, we listened to Billy calmly said, in French, “Yes, you can Holiday, Abbey Lincoln, and Richard Personal Financial Planning come.” My next step was to look up Bona. We will review your current financial position and where I was actually going, what kind I exited France on a train from recommend a plan that is designed to achieve your goals. of farming I’d be doing, and to buy a Nice to Genoa, and the first thing I noticed was that the train toilets train ticket. It turned out I was headed Rick Sutherland, CLU, CFP, FDS, R.F.P Tel 613.798.2421 to Loubez-Bernac, in the Lot-et- were just holes emptying out onto 1276 Wellington Street [email protected] Garonne département an hour north- the tracks. I arrived at the Anidagri Ottawa, Ontario K1Y 3A7 www.invested-interest.ca east of Bordeaux, where Jean-Pierre ‘Ecovillage,’ near Chiavari, to be and Marie Martin grew fruits and warmly greeted by the group of eight vegetables on a farm called La Ratisse. people running the centre. On my I found a one way ticket from Arras for first night, their leader, Paolo, made a 50 Euro, and I was off, cutting France toast, “To William, on his first day in literally in half, diagonally from the Italy!” Everyone cheered. This was North-East down to the South-West. the legendary warmth I had come to At La Ratisse, I got the immersion this country to find. But little by little, in French life that I had looked for I learned certain facts about Anidagri – and an immersion in hands-on that I found hard to reconcile. Paolo’s farming too. I had envisioned myself touch upon certain members’ hands basking in the sun in fields of green induced them to go into convulsions and munching on fresh strawberries, while we were all sitting together after all while developing a perfect French lunch. They slipped underneath the accent. Organic farming sounds dining room table, or spoke in tongues. much more idyllic before you get He also seemed to be frequently down and pick sweet peas for a day, embracing two women. Secondly, it till your back aches, getting your bum appeared that many members believed pricked by thistles every time you the Earth would stop rotating in 2012 kneel. However, it was alright. The and change direction, and that with Martin family were really lovely hosts this process a large proportion of and welcomed me like I was one of the world’s population would die. them. I went to Ju-Jitsu with Jean- I discovered these beliefs through Pierre, went jogging with the Dutch casual conversation over routine work neighbour David, and became friends activities such as constructing a new with Jean-Pierre’s daughter Hélène. house. I’m not sure how we ended Marie brought me to market with up on these topics. “Oh you know, her and sometimes put me in charge most people are not aware of their own of the stand all on my own, which true selves,” Tobias, a group member, left me brimming with pride. The would say. This would somehow lead, countryside really was beautiful, a land minutes later, into “Oh and the Earth of vineyards and forests spread over will stop spinning.” I spent a good rolling hills. The sun shone brightly week or two weirded out by these every day, and I was able to spend the beliefs and practices. But I was never afternoons sleeping in my caravan. I so disturbed that I left. Every member could probably have used a bit more of the group – including Paolo, without social interaction – I stayed a bit too a doubt – really was welcoming and often in that caravan. I did venture out kind. to the nearby Bhuddist monastery – There was an atmosphere at one of the largest in Europe – to take Anidagri of stress – maybe due to 2012 classes on “mindfulness.” Gilles, a oncoming! – maybe due to everyone’s Bhuddist monk, was actually staying obsessive belief in Paolo’s wisdom. I th Page 18 The OSCAR - OUR 37 YEAR NOV 2009 Tom’s Aerial Photo Quiz #2 Photo by Tom Alfoldi

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Come Celebrate Her Legacy

The Marion Dewar Annual Defender Of The Public Good Award Dinner

arion Dewar, our former mayor, had vision. She understood that working towards the “public good” was in everybody’s Mbest interests. She created opportunities in which people could collaborate towards a common goal, to the ultimate benefit of all. For this, she is widely remembered and respected. The Social Planning Council of Ottawa (SPC), with whom Marion Dewar collaborated over the years, has established an award in her name, to highlight and honour other Ottawans who share her vision, compassion and dedication. The SPC, itself, has been working hard for more than 80 years, to help make Ottawa a better place to live. The SPC is a non-profit organization whose staff and many volunteers are committed to drawing attention to important community needs and supporting groups as they work together to effectively address social and economic issues that affect their lives. The Marion Dewar Annual Defender of the Public Good Award recognizes individuals in our city who have worked hard for social justice - who have given their time and energy towards building communities in which people’s differences are respected and all are encouraged to participate. The Marion Dewar Annual Defender of the Public Good Award Dinner will be held on Tuesday, November 10th, 2009 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel. This year’s keynote speaker will be Maude Barlow, author and National Chairperson of the Council of Canadians. Previous dinners have been a resounding success and this year certainly promises to be likewise. Come and hear Maude Barlowe speak and listen to this year’s award nominees – what the “public good” means to them and their experiences as they have strived to achieve their goals. The evening promises to both make you think and have fun – what more could you ask? Act now while seats are still available. For more information and to reserve your tickets ($75 per person), call the SPC office at 613-236- 9300. NOV 2009 The OSCAR - OUR 37th YEAR Page 19 Tom’s Aerial Photo Quiz #3 Photo by Tom Alfoldi

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A HARD DAY’S PLAY A Daddy By Any Other Name By Mary P. you may be able to tell from the photo — or perhaps not — it is batik.) hat’s a nice picture, Mary!” “It is a lovely picture. And my daddy Sometimes — mostly — the tots framed it.” Anna is proud. are oblivious to the things around “Yes, he did. Your daddy chose that T frame and put my picture in it. He made them. I know, I know. “Children are so observant!” is the cooing truism, but it look even more lovely.” Showing how it’s not true. Anyone who spends a lot much I trust Anna’s daddy’s professional of time around children knows that they judgment, I simply handed over the batik. can miss the most obvious things. Like No guidance at all. What I got back was the doorstep they trip over every. single. a total — and happy — surprise. It is, morning. Like the mitten they can’t find in fact, an olive-wood veneer. I love the right there on the floor in front of them. way the wrinkles in the wood echo the How about this one: Mother is changing creases in the batik. It’s perfect. baby, reaches under the table and “Your daddy fixed Mary’s picture?” realized there are no diapers on the “No, it wasn’t broken. He framed it.” shelf. She calls to her three-year-old. “I Anna knows this because her dad runs a need a clean diaper for the baby, sweetie. framing shop. It is clear that to the other Can you get one for me? They’re in the children, “framed” means as much as, closet.” oh, bowdlerize means to pretty much She can see her child. She can see him anyone but English majors. trot to the closet, see him open the Brief vocabulary lesson while Mary door, and see there, on two full shelves takes the “picture” down from the wall RIGHT in front of him, FIVE DOZEN and explains what a ‘frame’ is. diapers. From across the room, where “It was lovely before Anna’s daddy she holds the naked, squirming baby framed it, but now that it has a frame with one hand, she can see all this. on it, it will look pretty for a long, long “Where? I can’t see any diapers!” time.” “Observant.” Pfui. “My daddy didn’t do that.” What kids do notice are the quirky “No, Emily. Your daddy is a lawyer. things, things the adults around them Anna’s daddy frames pictures.” miss — thus causing them to say, “My daddy is not a lawyer!” “What an observant kid!!” Well, yeah, He isn’t? Gee. I thought he was. I was if noticing that there is a “RED ANT pretty sure he’d just landed his first ONNA SIDEWALK!” somehow makes job a year or so back, but, my memory up for the fact that they couldn’t find being what it is, it’s entirely possible I their milk glass because it was on the haven’t got it quite right. Emily is a very right side of their plate instead of the left observant and bright little girl. I’m quite at lunch today… ready to be corrected by this not-quite- For whatever reason, the tots have three-year-old. noticed the picture. “He isn’t? What is your daddy, then?” “Yes, it is. Some friends gave it to me. “My daddy is… just, well… he’s a It’s from South Africa.” (Or was it daddy!” Namibia? South Africa, I think. And, as Page 20 The OSCAR - OUR 37th YEAR NOV 2009

BOOK REVIEW The Little Stranger Sarah Waters story, part meticulous portrayal of bachelor of modest working class his own limitations. “The Little Stranger” *) daily rural life in England’s post-war stock, has memories of his own of the The plot moves along somewhat class society, Sarah Waters applies her place: a visit to the Hall as a child some slowly, sometimes at creeping speed. 2009, published in Canada rich imagination and story telling talent thirty years earlier. Not surprisingly, Why? Intricate and beautifully by McClelland & Stewart to create an intriguing psychological he is intrigued by the place and finds atmospheric descriptions of the ISBN-13: 978-0771087882 drama in which the literally crumbling himself quickly drawn to it and to the landscape through the seasons and half-abandoned house is more family. All along, Faraday is, in fact, the and their impact on the estate are Reviewed by: than the backdrop: “How this house story’s narrator, though not necessarily sensitively evoked by Waters: the Friederike Knabe likes to catch us out, as if it knows a reliable one. This literary technique long dreary wet English winter, for all our weaknesses and is testing leaves the reader to wonder more and example makes everything looks even them...” muses one of the principal more whether what the good doctor spookier… While exquisite in itself, protagonists. In fact, Hundreds reports is a reasonable interpretation it can easily sidetrack the reader. The Hall is one of the main characters of the increasingly spooky incidents at changing political realities of the late of the story – if not the main one. the Hall. forties are touched on, in particular as Surrounded by parkland and the estate Creepy, ghostly things start they presented serious challenges to farm, Hundreds Hall remains secluded happening to one family member after the landed gentry and, more generally, from much of post-war society’s another at the Hall.. Their anxieties to the deeply ingrained class system. transformations, as do its owners, Mrs. grow with each strange and inexplicable There are clearly two separate aspects Ayres and her two grown-up children, episode. Faraday, of course, being a to this novel: ghost story on the one Roderick and Caroline. All three cling rational man, usually has reasonable hand and historical fiction of post- undreds Hall, in rural to memories of the earlier comfort of explanations at hand, until... . war England on the other. While these Warwickshire, is one of their landed gentry lifestyle. To make (you’ll have to read it to find out) . two components of the book are very Hthose impressive Georgian ends meet, they have been forced to Not surprisingly, the novel’s interesting in themselves, each may mansions that are scattered all over the sell one piece of agricultural land after prominent characters represent be less engaging in combination in the English countryside. Set in the years another. Roderick, having returned certain personality types and don’t psychological thriller that the novel shortly after World War II, much of from active war service seriously come across as fully developed three sets out to be. For ghost story fans, The the affluence and glamour of the old wounded in body and soul, attempts dimensional individuals. This also Little Stranger is a great and fast read, days has been lost, leaving grand old to keep the estate running; Caroline, leads to a certain predictability in for the historical fiction buff, it has its estate homes like this one in a sad and the twenty-something, oh-so-plain the human relationships. Much time fascination as well. For me, the two constantly decaying state. Nonetheless, spinster, looks after much of the and space is given to the portrayal aspects don’t quite fit together and one the imposing, eerie beauty of Hundred house and her family as best she can. of village life and the doctor’s social does not enhance the understanding of Hall, recalling memories of its A house call to treat the only live- standing as well as his own extensive the other. grandiose past retains a strong, almost in servant, fourteen year old Betty, musings. Understandably, given the physical hold over its surviving three brings village doctor, Dr. Faraday, era, he suffers from his inferior social *) Man Booker Prize 2009 inhabitants. In this part creepy ghost to Hundreds Hall. The still youngish standing, yet does little to overcome shortlist. Tom’s Aerial Photo Quiz #4

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TRINITY ANGLICAN CHURCH Frosty’s Fair is Saturday, Nov. 7 Trinity Went To The Dogs On Sun, Oct. 4 At Trinity Anglican Church By Jim Robb He told the congregation that it was a new beginning for Trinity because “Andrea By Jim Robb under the weight of jams, jellies, rinity continued its annual tradition brings new gifts” to the neighborhood marmalades and pickles. All going of blessing the animals to mark the church. ircle Saturday, November for good prices. feast day of St. Francis on Sunday, The service was attended by members 7 on your calendar. It’s Sally says there will be activities T of Trinity as well as Rev. Thomas’s old October 4. Frosty’s Fair day at Trinity for children at the fair, along with Some parishioners had hoped that parish of Metcalfe. C an expanded Books Nook. Books, Anglican Church. Trinity’s new rector, Reverend Andrea Rev. Thomas said that Trinity would The doors open wide at 9.30 am as well as CDs, DVDs, videos, and Thomas, would appear with her horse continue to look for new challenges and and everybody’s welcome until the audio tapes will have their own Phoenix. Instead, as befits a new pastor, “continue to be relevant and have an Fair shuts down at 2 pm. Trinity is special room this year and that she brought some of the stuffed lambs that effective voice” in Old Ottawa South. at 1230 Bank St., corner of Cameron should make for easier and more she collects, using one of them, covered in Rev. Jane McCaig, rector of St. Ave. leisurely browsing. real sheepskin, to illustrate her children’s Thomas, Stittsville, who preached the The Knitwear table is popular A popular attraction for children talk. sermon, reminded those present that the with people shopping for handmade is the Secret Room, where youngsters Dogs were the popular pet brought to new rector was joining a church that has items as Christmas presents. There’s can purchase small gift items for the altar rail for a blessing this year. One served Old Ottawa South for 137 years. a wide range of sweaters, hats, their parents, brothers and sisters, parishioner, Patricia Crossley, reminisced bonnets, scarves, baby sets as well aunts and uncles and grandparents. that she had been bringing her pet, Barney, as decorative items. And there is, as usual, the traditional for more than a decade. Every year Barney The Cozy Crafts table also Fish Pond where children can reel in has received a certificate commemorating draws people searching for that interesting prizes and surprises. the event. special gift. Frosty’s elves at Trinity Handmade Christmas cards and For others, it was a family have been busy all year sewing, decorations will be on sale and there affair. Parishioner Laura Eggertson and stitching, and embroidering a range is an Attic Treasures table with the her daughter Amber brought two golden of gift selections. kind of small items that you might retrievers, Loki and Cedar, plus Lily, a You can take a luncheon break find in an antique boutique. spaniel. Altar server Caroline Ducros anytime between 11.30 am and 1.15 There is also a Jewellery table and her daughters Molly and Tessa, were pm. The meal includes a main dish, with heirloom rings, earrings and accompanied by their very fluffy dog, plus rolls, tea or coffee and dessert. brooches. And, finally, the Silent Flipper. And there is a special children’s Auction will have many fine items, Missing this year were some of the menu. $6 for adults, $3 for children. including paintings, prints and small more exotic pets that have appeared in the While on the subject of food, furniture pieces that you can bid on. past. To the Reverend Andrea’s relief, no Frosty Coordinator Sally Clarke says “I’m really excited about Frosty snakes, crustaceans, or fish turned up for the Baked Goods table “is always a this year,” Sally Clarke says. “A a blessing this year. New rector formally Pat Crossley brought her old big hit” with the cakes, pies, buns creative and enthusiastic group have inducted at special service been hard at work for many months canine friend, Barney, to the and tarts selling out quickly. And Rev. Andrea Thomas was formally Blessing of the Animals service preparing for this edition of the right beside the Baked Goods table inducted by the Anglican diocese as rector at Trinity. Barney has attended fair.” is the Preserves table. It’s groaning of Trinity Anglican Church on Sept. 20. every “blessing” service for a Venerable Peter Crosby, Archdeacon for decade and has the certificates Ottawa Centre officiated at the special to prove it. Trinity Bustling With service. Photo by Robert Taylor Activities For Children By LA Palamar the children, (celebrated Sunday, November 8th). Advent Season rinity Anglican is bustling Celebrations, (commencing November with kids of all ages. Children 29th) and of course the ever-popular are welcome to stay during Christmas Pageant, Once Upon a T Starry Night, followed by a potluck the service or to join one of the four classes that are held each week (Pre- lunch on Sunday December 13th. Schoolers; JK – SK; Grade 1 - Grades Are your kids interested in 2, 3, 4, 5; Grades 6 & up). music? Children ages 3-7 are Classes include prayer, music, invited to join the Cherub Choir, lessons and crafts. Additional which incorporates elements such as kid-friendly initiatives include percussion instruments, Gospel music age-appropriate involvement in and popular children’s tunes. community outreach projects, special Come to Trinity on Sunday, church services and neighbourhood November 22nd and hear the Cherub hospitality. Choir celebrate this service with a Every Sunday is a fun day, but Gospel twist! of course special Sundays occur throughout the year. There will be * LA Palamar is church school Remembrance Day activities for coordinator at Trinity. Page 22 The OSCAR - OUR 37th YEAR NOV 2009 SOUTHMINSTER HAPPENINGS Pamper Yourself In The Hood At Write for Rights! Modern Hair Styling & Esthetics

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Q: What do Hu Jia, a Chinese environmental, HIV-AIDS and human rights activist, the Lubicon Cree, and Justine Masika Bihamba, coordinator of the Congolese organization Synergie des femmes contre les violences sexuelles, have in common?

A: All of them were the subject of letter writing actions in last year’s Amnesty International “Write for Rights” writeathon. Participants in the writeathons held by Southminster United Church in Old Ottawa South and hundreds of other groups across Canada wrote cards of support to those at risk of detention, torture, and death and also wrote to governments, calling on them to respect human rights.

People who stand up for their own rights and for those of others are too often either the target of attacks from those in power or are not protected by their governments when their human rights are under attack from others. Messages of support from friends and from the international community help to keep these people going. Letters to government authorities – sometimes in Canada, but usually abroad - who are in a position to bring about a positive change can also make a difference. Modern’s international team of stylists- Tun, Sam and Fatia. On Sunday, December 6, celebrate Human Rights Day by writing Photo by Nicola Maule letters as part of Southminster United Church’s Amnesty International write-a-thon event. Join others from 2:00 to 4:30 that afternoon to By Nicola Maule write to and on behalf of prisoners of conscience. Those featured in o you need a fall pick-me-up? Are your locks needing attention? Do you the campaign include people like Hu Jia, the Lubicon Cree, and Justine have a special occasion to get all dolled up for? Whatever your reason, Masika Bihamba: prisoners of conscience, indigenous peoples calling there is no need to leave Old Ottawa South to get a fabulous hair cut and for respect for their land rights, and human rights defenders under threat D spa treatment. All you have to do is visit Modern Hair Styling and Esthetics at because of their work. The cards you send will offer them hope and 1148 Bank at Glen Ave. encouragement, and the impression their mail makes on police, prison Long-time owner, Sam, is pleased to promote Fatia Musa as an independent staff or political authorities can help to keep them safe and bring about stylist and introduce Tun Zing as his new esthetician/stylist. change. Fatia Musa came to Canada 21 years ago from Ethiopia. She has been at Writing materials will be available as well as sample letters and Modern for seven years and her clients are men and women of all ages. She is a refreshments. To cover the cost of stamps to overseas destinations, a hair colour specialist, does “up-dos” for special occasions, braiding, extensions donation of a toonie per letter would be very much appreciated. If you and offers La Brasiliana treatments for people who want to straighten their hair. have blank cards that have been taking up space in your drawers, please It eliminates frizz leaving instant shiny, smooth, and soft manageable hair. La bring them along for writers to use. Brasiliana is an all natural product that must be applied by a professional. Fatia We will also have a special children’s corner again this year. Children is thrilled to work in Old Ottawa South. “Many of my clients feel like family can participate by sending greeting cards to prisoners of conscience and and I find this neighbourhood very supportive,” explains Fatia. So if you need a drawing pictures to be included with the cards written by themselves or break to get your hair done but don’t have a babysitter, Fatia welcomes you with the adults they come with. To help beginning writers, we post easy your children- as new customers or as admirers. to copy sample messages in large print beside pictures of the people to Tun Zing comes to Old Ottawa South via Burma and India, bringing 10 years whom children may wish to write. of experience to the salon. One of her specialties in esthetics is “threading”, a Southminster United Church is at the corner of Bank and Aylmer, technique for eyebrow shaping. It is a quick and painless way to remove hairs across from the Sunnyside branch of the Ottawa Public Library. from the root without irritating the skin. Try it and you will never use tweezers Participants are invited to enter by the Galt Street (back) entrance of the or wax again! Pedicures, manicures and facials are also on offer by Tun as well church and take the stairs or elevator to the top floor. as eyebrow and eyelash tinting and relaxation massages. For more information about this event, please contact Elizabeth The next time you want to get pampered visit this dynamic international Peace at [email protected] or (613) 730-2058, or Lori Pope at team of experts at Modern Hair Styling and Esthetics. Fatia works Wednesday [email protected] or (613) 730-1352. through Saturday, Tun works every day except Wednesday and Sam is at the salon daily. The salon is closed on Sunday. The first 10 new customers to bring in a copy of this article will receive a discount from Fatia or Tun. Call 613-730-0105 to book your next appointment and ask about discounts for seniors, students and families.

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By James Hunter

indsor Park was cleaned up on September 21 as part of the TD Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup. W About 160 pounds of garbage was picked up along the shore (including several rebar metal bars, and some street signs). The most interesting Eve writing a letter things we found were: a downhill ski, a wooden magazine rack. The most common litter items were food wrappers, plastic cutlery and plates, cans and bottles. We all like to have a snack in the park, but please pack out your garbage! NOV 2009 The OSCAR - OUR 37th YEAR Page 23

ABBOTSFORD HOUSE Help Replace “Marjorie”!

By Julie Ireton Glebe Centre for four years. She died in 2002. After spending every second arjorie is on her last legs,” day at the centre, for years, Iwasaki laughs Karen Joynt, the felt a special attachment to the place. Glebe Centre’s manager She wanted to give back. Along M with donating tens of thousands of of development. “She’s about 10-years-old and she’s had a lot of dollars to the mini-bus fund, Iwasaki reconstructive surgery.” As of Friday, volunteers every week. October 2, three staff members had to “I’ve been a volunteer every pitch in to retrieve “stranded” clients Monday. We take Marjorie out for from the Luncheon Club at Billing excursions. These include picnics to Bridge as Marjorie decided to make Gatineau Park, drives and lunches an unexpected appointment at the bus at Rideau Carleton Raceway, Swiss garage/hospital. No diagnosis yet but Chalet, seasonal drives to view NCC it looks like she is in need of some tulips, autumn leaves and Christmas serious mending. lights,” explains Iwasaki. Let’s be clear, Marjorie isn’t a The bus also has an important resident. She’s the Glebe Centre’s role transporting seniors to and from much-loved, well-used mini-bus that, Abbotsford House programs, such as sadly, is reaching the end of her life the Luncheon Club and the Alzheimer and needs to be replaced. Day Away Program. In fact, Iwasaki Buying a new mini-bus, that’s says the bus is used six or seven days The Luncheon Club with staff and volunteers specially equipped to transport people a week. with wheelchairs and walkers, is just With generous donations money, we’ve raised the first part. It’s Hopefully, families of current and one of the projects for which the long- from Iwasaki and the Royal Bank fantastic to see people like her who former residents of the Glebe Centre term care facility is raising money. Foundation, the Glebe Centre has have had relatives here come back will consider making a donation for But it’s a fundraising project that’s already raised about $40,000.00 to go and give.” the new van,” says Iwasaki. been embraced by one of the centre’s toward the cost of a new bus. But that And Iwasaki is urging other family Marjorie got her name from loyal volunteers. won’t even buy half a bus. members to donate, in whatever way a generous,Glebe Centre donor. “I witnessed so much kindness “We’re trying to put money away. they can. Perhaps after Marjorie has officially and warmth and got to know the staff If Marjorie lasts the winter it will be “People don’t realize that the been retired the next mini-bus will get when my mother lived there. It was good. But we’re aiming for close to monthly fees people pay for a room a new name… out of appreciation I started giving $100,000.00,” notes Joynt. is needed to pay for care, services donations,” says Caroline Iwasaki. “Because of people like Caroline and food. There’s no money left for Her mother, Mary, lived at the talking about it and helping to raise anything else. Page 24 The OSCAR - OUR 37th YEAR NOV 2009

BACKYARD NATURALIST Masked Phantom of Lansdowne Park

by Linda Burr at Lansdowne Park is an attractive roosting spot for all manner of bird life, including pigeons, starlings ave you ever heard the phantom of and gulls. Apparently, birds and sport do not always Lansdowne Park? Its eerie cries can mix. sometimes be heard coming from the The idea of finding Peregrine Falcons in H is not as absurd as it might seem. stadium. While many have heard it, no one has ever seen it, and for good reason. These “masked” falcons prefer to nest on high cliff The first time I heard the “phantom” was on ledges, but have found urban high-rise buildings to a bitterly cold December morning, just before be a good substitute. Several Canadian cities now Christmas. I was walking alone, by the canal have regularly nesting pairs. Since 1997, a pair of near Lansdowne Park. The sunshine did little to Peregrine Falcons has nested in downtown Ottawa. penetrate the cold, and I wished I was somewhere In 2009, a pair hatched and raised two chicks on the warmer, preferably indoors. But I was on the annual roof of the Crowne Plaza hotel. There is certainly Christmas Bird Count, and my mission was to no shortage of pigeons for them to feed on. count as many birds as I could find. Suddenly, I was Members of the Ottawa Field Naturalists startled by a series of harsh bird-like cries coming organize a Falcon Watch every spring when the from the direction of the stadium, followed by a falcons are nesting, to monitor the success of the shrill high-pitched shriek. “What on earth could that fledglings. Volunteers are always welcome to help be?” I wondered. out. For more information on Ottawa’s Peregrine Peregrine Falcon. Photo by: Trisha Shears At first I could make no sense of the strange Falcons, go to the Falcon Watch web site at www. noises. But then I thought I recognized some of the ofnc.ca/falconwatch. harsh-sounding cries as those of a Peregrine Falcon. When I later phoned the facilities manager at If you want to hear the eerie sounds of the Excited to think I might have discovered something Lansdowne Park, he confirmed my suspicion. What phantom falcon issuing from Lansdowne Park really good to report for the Count, I eagerly began I had heard was something called “Bird-X”, a form stadium, a good place to go is Echo Drive, near scanning the stadium with my binoculars. But of sonic bird repellent. The unique combination of the College of Physicians and Surgeons. You can something was not quite right. A few moments sounds are intended to strike fear into the hearts also hear them from the Bank Street canal bridge, if later, the sounds were repeated, and I knew I’d been of other birds – birds that might otherwise be there is not too much noisy traffic. To most passers- duped. My visions of personal Christmas Count considered dinner for a large falcon. by, the sounds are just part of the urban background glory faded as I recognized my mistake. This automated sound unit operates in ultrasonic noise. For the birds, though, this is one phantom I was correct on two points: it was indeed the and sonic modes, using several loudspeakers they prefer to avoid meeting in person. call of a Peregrine Falcon, and it was coming from to emit natural predator calls, bird distress, and Linda Burr lives in Old Ottawa South and is a the stadium. But this was no flesh-and-blood bird – alarm signals. The sounds confuse, disorient, and biologist and avid backyard naturalist. it was a recording! intimidate pest birds to scare them away. Some of the sounds are inaudible to human ears. The stadium NOV 2009 The OSCAR - OUR 37th YEAR Page 25 Two Hopewell Kids on Sabbatical: Update In mid-August, Old Ottawa South you looked, there were skyscrapers, residents Patti Ryan and Mark streetlights, cars staying in their own Newman left Canada for a 6.5-month lanes, everything modern, orderly trip to Asia with their two children, and efficient, the same as Canada but Chloe, 9 and Ciaran, 6. They are warmer and more colorful. We stayed backpacking their way around at a hostel called Footprints, which southeast Asia and India, intending to had two super-duper awesome bunk see parts of Bali, Malaysia, Thailand, beds. My Dad was joking that we Cambodia, Vietnam and southern would have to get a helmet for me India. Chloe and Ciaran are sending because I was on the bottom bunk and monthly articles to the OSCAR with I kept bonking my head on the top descriptions and updates from their bunk. One of the highlights of our visit travels. This month, the focus is on to Singapore was the day we spent at Malaysia. the zoo, where we saw flying foxes, a Komodo dragon and all sorts of monkeys and, even better, my brother Hello from Malaysia and I got kissed by a seal. Singapore was also our By Chloe Ryan View of Melaka over the river o here we are, at the end of our Cont’d on nex page View of our guesthouse, Discovery Café, over the river in historic time in Malaysia. We spent Melaka, Malaysia Salmost three weeks here, but it feels like no time at all. We went to four places, all totally different from each other. The first was Melaka, a world heritage city where we saw some very strange giant mutant lizards and lots of museums. The next was an area called the Cameron Highlands, which is high up in the mountains and quite a lot colder. Then we spent over a week in a tropical island paradise on the east coast, the Perhentian islands. We finished up in Penang on the opposite coast, but only spent a day or two there. But before I get ahead of myself I should also mention the three days we spent in Singapore before we moved on to Malaysia. At first sight, it was Blow pipe so much different from what we’d Chloe gives the Orang-Asli blow pipe a try, Cameron become used to in Bali. Everywhere Highlands, Melaka

Flower Chloe and Ciaran spotting a rafflesia flower, Cameron Highlands, Malaysia Page 26 The OSCAR - OUR 37th YEAR NOV 2009

Belmont Street South, starting at Bank Street and continuing to Rideau River Road on page 35.

Two Hopewell Kids ..Cont’d from Page 25 introduction to many of the foods we he was fine. It turned out the splashing we took in a cloud forest. Our guide fallen in the storm, crashing through would often encounter in Malaysia, sound came from one of the giant described it as a “mossy forest.” It the roofs of bungalows nearby (but mainly a mix of Malay, Chinese and lizards sloshing around in the open was a big, misty forest that didn’t take not ours). Besides all of that, the Indian. We ate mainly Indian food sewer. its name for granted. It was literally Perhentians were great. since none of us really like Chinese. Our favourite restaurant in made of moss. It had a bunch of Next on our trip we’ll be in There was a Chinese restaurant in the Melaka was an Indian placed called hidden paths and it was like we were Thailand for two months. Cameron Highlands that I’ll never Selvam. It had an open kitchen, floating in the clouds. It was spooky forget. It was really just a roadside plastic chairs, fluorescent lights and and damp, and extremely interesting. stall, but I almost bit my tongue no menu, so you could tell that it was a We saw some insect-eating plans, and An interview with off when I saw the food. It was very local restaurant. It served mainly the guide said we should watch out Ciaran HORRIBLE! There was a little buffet south Indian food—curries and rice for fairies and goblins. counter with different soups and stir- on banana leaves instead of plates, After the mountains it was time Q: What is the most unforgettable fries. One of the dishes was chicken and you ate the food with your hands to head to an island, and we picked thing you saw or did in Malaysia? feet in a brown sauce. There was even instead of with cutlery. Almost all of Perhentian Besar on the east coast. It I think it was the day in the a soup with disgusting little chicken our meals were less than a dollar. was a tropical paradise. We hung up Cameron Highlands when we saw so hearts and other mysterious organs. After Melaka, we went to the our hammocks there for the first time many different things. We visited a tea All I ate was plain rice and a cold Cameron Highlands. We were up on our trip. My mom and I would plantation, took Land Rovers into the omelette. in the mountains, so it was colder, often visit a nearby shop to buy fresh jungle, visited an Orang-Asli village After our quick visit to Singapore and I enjoyed the break from the coconuts. and learned how they hunt with a we went to Melaka. We visited lots of heat. I actually had to wear socks. One really freaky thing that we blow pipe, and we hiked in both a museums there, including the Museum The highlight was our trip to see the did nearly every day on the island was jungle and mossy forest. I got to buy a of Enduring Beauty, which was world’s biggest flowers. They’re a jungle trek, a hike along a rough blow pipe at the end. about all the bizarre things humans called rafflesia, and can grow up to 43 track through the forested part of the have done to their bodies to make inches in diameter. Although they look island from one beach to another. Q: What was your favourite place themselves more beautiful, such as like flowers, they’re actually a kind In this forest there were jungle ants. in Malaysia, and why? Chinese foot binding, Balinese tooth of parasite plant. The petals take up They looked like regular ants, except My favourite place was the filing, tattoos, scarification and things to eight months to open, then bloom much, much bigger. They were about Perhentian islands because that’s like that. We also went to a maritime for just five days. They begin bright the size of my middle finger. My where I met two friends, Finn and museum dedicated to educating red and then slowly over the next five brother met a friend on our island and Sam, from Australia. They were the visitors about Melaka’s history as an days darken to cherry red, orangey his parents told us he had been bitten same age as me, and I went rock- important trading port in the old days. brown, brown and finally black, until by one. climbing and snorkelling with them It was a big, old-fashioned sailboat the flower is dead as a doornail and It turned out that we were into and played soccer and Pokemon cards that you could go into, and the inside looks like a big pile of rotten mush. the rainy season on that coast, so we with them. We spent about four or five had been transformed into a museum We also visited an Orang-Asli got a lot of storms in the Perhentians. days together. with exhibitions and posters about village. “Orang-Asli” means “first There was a typhoon somewhere in how “the Dutch conquered this,” and people,” so these are the aboriginals of southeast Asia that caused a lot of Q: Was there anything you didn’t then “the British took over that,” blah Malaysia. We were offered a chance damage in the Philippines and areas like about Malaysia? blah blah. Exploring the ship was fun. to try their blow pipe, a weapon they north of us, and we think we got the tail No. Well yes, the food. It was Some of the posters were actually traditionally used for hunting instead end of it. One night we were having mostly Indian and Chinese and it interesting. of a gun. The blow pipe consists of a dinner by the beach when a giant didn’t taste good. I actually like some The giant lizards in Melaka have long wooden tube type of thing with storm blew in. It was raining, but with Indian foods but there didn’t seem to been some of the freakiest things a little hole inside just big enough for such force that it seemed like it was be any in Malaysia that I liked. I’ve seen on our trip. My Dad thinks a bit of cotton and a poison arrow. hailing. To add to that, the restaurant maybe they were monitor lizards, You blow into one end and the arrow was completely open, which meant its Q: How do you like being out of but personally I think they looked comes flying out the other. Of course, structure offered just a metal roof, no school and travelling all the time like miniature Komodo dragons. I wanted to give it a try after the walls or any other protection from the instead? What have you learned so They were four feet long and would demonstration. The first time didn’t weather. It was actually kind of scary. far in your travels? slither along the muddy river. Once, go so well. The arrow went about one There were huge leaves blowing Being out of school is great my brother Ciaran was behind us and meter from the tube, and I almost hit everywhere in the dark and the ragged because you don’t have to do as much suddenly we all heard a big splash. We the guy who was showing me what to tarps the restaurant put up didn’t work. You learn other things instead, turned around to see Ciaran staring do. My brother didn’t want to try. He really help. We were stuck there for a like about other kinds of money, how motionlessly at the open sewer. My did, though, convince my parents to couple of hours waiting for the storm to bargain for stuff, what trains are Dad anxiously asked him, “Did you buy him a small blow pipe. to let up, and lightning was flashing like in Asia, bits of other languages, drop something? Are you okay?” He My other favourite thing about the every seven to ten seconds. We found how to snorkel and things like that. said he hadn’t dropped anything and Cameron Highlands was a short hike out the next day that several trees had

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What My Grandma Means To Say Premieres At The Ottawa International Writers Festival with which their It contains FAQs, activities for the to bring the play and the Discussion families must classroom and families, sources of Guide to young audiences. They were deal.” further information and the script of wonderful. The play the play. Carleton Architecture student, “You might ask me if this approach lets the audience Emma Cochrane, from OOS provided actually works. Does it increase young look in on a the cover art and design for the Guide. people’s awareness and understanding boy’s visit with In collaboration with Karen Joynt, of Alzheimer’s disease or not? I’ve his grandmother Manager, Development at the Glebe tested the play in local schools. The in the long-term Centre, JC now is turning her attention response from students and teachers care residence to secure funding to produce the play has been excellent. Here’s what where she lives. on DVD to encourage its wide-spread one boy in Grade 5 told me after Through their use. a reading: ‘I now understand more conversation, “I am delighted with the support about Alzheimer’s. That’s really good, the audience is I have from my partners at The Glebe because my grandfather has it.’ So the exposed, in a Centre and at the Alzheimer Society play not only works, it works very, sensitive, gentle of Ottawa and Renfrew County, very well,” JC concludes. way, to how which will incorporate the play in For more information on the play, A l z h e i m e r ’ s its education program in schools. A the Discussion Guide or the funding disease can affect grant from the University of Ottawa’s drive to put the play on DVD, contact a person and his Experiential Learning Program and JC at [email protected] or her family. the help of fourth-year psychology To learn more abut Alzheimer’s Canterbury Graduate and Carleton Architecture student Designed for student Nadine El-Kelli were most disease, visit: www.alzheimer-ottawa- Emma Cochrane’s cover for the Discussion Guide for use in classrooms welcome. The Ottawa International rc.org. What my grandma means to say (The Blue Shawl), JC and in facilities Writers Festival pulled out all the stops Sulzenko’s play for children on Alzheimer’s disease o f f e r i n g that premieres at the Ottawa International Writers programs to Festival, October 27, 2009. people living hadn’t set out to write a play,” with some form admits Ottawa poet and children’s of dementia and their families, the play author JC Sulzenko. When she kick-offs a ‘Question and Answer’ I session during which children and remembered a conversation with a friend whose mother is living with families can learn not only about such Alzheimer’s disease, she thought she diseases but about how to support a could base a storybook for children person living with dementia. on her friend’s experience. When she “This first, live public began, she found she was in for a performance of the play was the result surprise. “My characters spoke with of an amazing set of partnerships real insistence: they demanded that within our community. I’m very their dialogue be captured in the form grateful to everyone who helped bring of a play!” this production to young audiences.” What my grandma means to say, Pat Goyeche (community theatre JC’s one-act play for children and their director/actor and Program Facilitator families, had its premiere at Ottawa at Abbotsford at The Glebe Centre) International Writers Festival. As directed the play. Award winning part of the Festival’s Step into Stories actor, playwright, director and creator program, 200 Ottawa students in of the Salamander Theatre workshop Grades 4, 5 and 6 came to Saint Brigid’s program, Eleanor Crowder, and Will Centre for the Arts and Humanities on Coffey, young ‘veteran’ of community October 27 for the performance and theatre and upcoming star, took on asked questions that the drama raised the lead roles. Nancy Solman (artist in their minds. JC also gave readings and designer whose creative services of the play for the Festival at local have been used by 17 local theatre schools later the same week. companies) provided the set. Retired Why Children? Why Alzheimer’s? Hopewell PS teacher and music “Alzheimer’s disease touches the dynamo Allison Woyiwada made a lives of many families today. In cameo appearance. my experience, when a crisis in the With the assistance of Jen Dare, health of a loved-one affects a family, Program Facilitator (dementia children often are the last to know programs) at The Glebe Centre and what’s happening. Having only part Caitlin Brydges, Program Staff at of the story, only a little information, the Alzheimer Society of Ottawa can feel frightening or confusing for and Renfrew County, JC created a kids. The play gives them a chance to Discussion Guide for teachers and find out about dementia in a ‘safe’ way, community groups. Preview copies removed somewhat from the tensions were launched at the Writers Festival. th Page 28 The OSCAR - OUR 37 YEAR NOV 2009

Snow Much Fun at Kaleidoscope Kids’ Books

s I sit here this lovely October Keats – are bound together in this treasury. and help their new fairy friend find afternoon – with the sun In this gentle picture book, Filled with Brett’s signature artwork – her missing magic objects. Gabriella Ashining and a wonderful winner of The Caldecott Medal, Peter gorgeously detailed watercolour and knows that Jack Frost and his goblins autumn crispness in the air – I don’t enjoys a day in the snow – making gouache illustrations – and perfect for are behind all the trouble. They’ve even want to think about the snow tracks, snow angels and a snowman enjoying with a mug of hot chocolate stolen her magic snowflake, festive that will soon be blanketing the streets and saving a snowball in his pocket to (pass the marshmallows, please!) on a spirit and firestone. Now winter isn’t and sidewalks. However, I have no use the next day. But when he wakes cold winter’s day. a wonderland – it’s a mess! doubt that Old Man Winter will soon up, the snowball is gone! Luckily, it’s be knocking at our doors. Here are snowed all night and Peter gets ready One Snowy Night: a Tale From Ice by Sarah Beth Durst some books to celebrate the fluffy for another day of playing and having Percy’s Park by Nick Butterworth When Cassie was a little girl her white stuff and cozy up with in front fun. Percy the park keeper always feeds grandmother told her a fairy tale about of the fire when the weather outside is the animals in the park where he lives. her mother, who made a deal with the frightful. Snowy Sports: Ready, Set, Play! By But one cold and snowy winter’s Polar Bear King and was swept away Per-Henrik Gurth night Percy discovers that his little to the ends of the earth. Now that The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack The creator of ABC of Canada friends need more than food. Percy Cassie is older, and living at an Arctic returns with his trademark bright and will have to be careful when he puts research station with her father, she bold illustrations. An adorable cast of on his slippers – the mice have found knows that the story was a nice way animal characters bundle up to skate, a cozy bed! of saying her mother had died. Then, slide, sweep, sled, ski and snowboard on her eighteenth birthday, Cassie a winter’s day away. Under the Snow by Melissa Stewart comes face-to-face with a polar bear Journey to fields, forests, ponds, and who speaks to her. He tells her that Jan Brett’s Snowy Treasury wetlands to see how animals survive her mother is alive and imprisoned at Four Jan Brett classics – in the winter. Watch as ladybugs the ends of the earth. He can bring Gingerbread Baby, The Mitten, crowd together in a gap in a stone wall her back – if Cassie will agree to be The Hat and The Three Snow Bears and a chipmunk snoozes in its burrow. his bride. A compelling fairy tale for Take a trip to the pond, where a carp young adults from the author of Into rests quietly on the bottom and a frog the Wild and Out of the Wild. nestles in the mud, scarcely breathing. And then as winter passes and the Perfect Snow by Barbara Reid sun’s rays grow stronger, join all the animals as they get ready for spring. Maybe the animals in Percy’s park should have a look at this book to find out what they should be doing in the winter!

The Story of Snow: The Science of Winter’s Wonder by Mark Cassino with Jon Nelson How do snow crystals form? What shapes can they take? Are no two snow crystals alike? These questions and more are answered inside this exploration of the science of snow, featuring photos of snow crystals in Barbara Reid, author and illustrator of all their beautiful diversity. Perfect countless picture books such as The for reading on winter days, this book Party, Subway Mouse and the Zoe by a nature photographer and a snow seasons series, combines her beautiful scientist just may inspire your family and breathtaking Plasticine art (they to spend the day outside discovering really are amazing!) with ink and the marvels of snow. watercolour panels to bring a timeless Canadian tale of winter fun to life. At Babymouse: Skater Girl by recess the schoolyard is full of happy Jennifer L. Holm and Matthew kids. Scott is making snowmen. Jim is Holm working on the world’s greatest snow In this addition to the Babymouse fort. At lunchtime they join forces to graphic novel series Babymouse create a perfect snow surprise! dreams of becoming a figure skating star. Will her dreams come true, or We are thrilled to be hosting will she end up on thin ice? Barbara Reid at the store (1095 Bank Street) on Monday, November Gabrielle the Snow Kingdom Fairy 23th from 7pm to 8pm for a reading by Daisy Meadows and signing of Perfect Snow. Please The Rainbow Magic series of early join us! chapter books continues as Rachel and Kirsty must save winter break NOV 2009 The OSCAR - OUR 37th YEAR Page 29

Sips from the Poetry Café Desperately Seeking Susan! by: Susan Atkinson two-fold: not only is it to highlight “civilians and the Canadian Forces – the strange quirks which make us Air Force, Army, and Navy – joining here I was at the start line of smile at the smallness of the world, together in the spirit of camaraderie the 2nd Annual Army Run but because November is a month of and mutual respect. It’s a chance for squished between rows of Remembrance, a month to be grateful the troops to extend the military esprit T in peace, a month to be thankful for de corps to civilians and to thank people, 1000’s of us (4200 plus to be exact) waiting for the cannon to salute those men and women who have them for their support. And, it’s an and the race to begin. I was searching dedicated and/or given their lives to opportunity for civilians to say thanks the crowd for a face. I wasn’t looking help bring peace. It’s the month to to the Canadian men and women who for the familiar faces of my family and remember past wars, past veterans serve them in so many ways at home friends; instead, I was craning to find and to say a little prayer for the safety and abroad”. (Quoted from the Army someone I did not yet know, someone of our troops overseas. Run web site) whom had no idea I was looking for 2008 was the first year for this her…okay, okay before this starts to event and with a sold-out field the November sound creepy I’ll tell you the story event shattered records for the largest from the beginning. number of entrants in an inaugural run a sunflower bows I had registered for the run months (the run itself includes several events). its head earlier, something, incidentally that I “7000 civilians and military troops at the edge never do (I’m a bit of a last minute The Running Partners - Susan ran, walked, or wheeled – side by side of the schoolyard person!) but my running partners and Atkinson, Martha Tobin and Amy – along spectator-filled streets and browned petals I had set a goal and it was an “all in Plint. raised tens of thousands of dollars for scarred by sun and age it together girls” kind of thing. This Soldier On and the Military Families fall on the red heads not only made the journey memorable many volunteers that help make these Fund”. (Information taken from the of poppies waving and worthwhile but it also made the events such a success. Now as it turns Army Run’s official web site) through November’s grey. day of the race that much sweeter. out this friend was my ‘shining knight’ Organizers of the Canada Army Forgive me, I digress… as she saw what I hadn’t – above my Run believe the event is about I wish you all a peaceful November. As soon as I received my race name was exactly the same name, confirmation along with official bib #, same spelling, same everything, only I with other eager runners headed to difference was the race number. So city hall to pick up my race kit. With that was that, case solved, the other number in hand I was sure it wouldn’t ‘Susan’ with the same name must take long to collect my kit. Alas this have picked up my kit. Sure enough was not to be the case. I went to this was quickly verified and with my where I was supposed to be – double, number in hand I was set to leave. triple checked the numbers and then This, however, was when it got really proceeded to the correct counter to interesting. My friend advised that I pick up my precious kit. But there would need to have my timing chip was no race kit matching my name (electronic device keyed with my and number. Now this is where it name to register my time) changed to gets interesting. It wasn’t that there reflect that it would actually me and hadn’t been a kit because there had not the ‘other me’. been: it was just that someone else Keying in the information had picked it up. On first thought this revealed that there really is another seemed quite plausible, after all one me, living right around the corner of my running partners could have with the same name, almost the same easily picked it up. However the age and almost the same goals. Which more I thought it through the more I brings me to race day. As I scour knew this would not be the case – we the crowd for my old bib number I hadn’t discussed this as part of the wonder if I will meet the other me, I plan therefore it couldn’t possibly be wonder what brings the other me to part of the plan. the starting line of a ½ marathon on a Confused and not entirely certain glorious early autumn morning and I as to what to do another running marvel at the small things that pique friend of mine came to the rescue. our interest and make us smile. She was there working as one of the The reason I write this story is

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OCCSB TRUSTEE REPORT “PUTTING STUDENTS FIRST” Kathy Ablett, R.N. students in this school community, Success in pursuing the Board’s during the 2008-2009 school year. Trustee Zone 9 she is absolutely right. theme ‘Caring for God’s Creation’ has The assessments measure the reading, Capital/River Wards The school is physically looking been awesome in the Terry Fox Run writing, and mathematics knowledge Telephone: 526-9512 very ‘cared for’ both inside and out. raising $8,800 and Run for the Cure and skills that students are expected to The School Board expended $331,000 raising $20,000. There was an increase learn by the end of grades3, 6, and 9. he first month of a new school in school renovations including air in participation by students and parents • Grade 9: The Board’s students year has come and gone and conditioning in the library, new roof, and there were 63 members of Team received a record high percentage according to school Principals new safety doors, etc. Immaculata in the Run for the Cure of students achieving levels 3 and T th it was a really smooth month! The students have already been on October 4 under the leadership 4 in both applied and academic Transportation is posing involved in recognition of September of Ms. Darlene Charron. Thank you mathematics challenges in some areas and a huge as Children Cancer month with to Darlene for her continued support • Grade 6: The Board’s students thank you goes out to school Principals participation in POGO (Pediatric and encouragement. As Trustee achieved a record high percentage of and the Ottawa Student Transportation Oncology Group of Ottawa) and Terry for Immaculata and as a Trustee for students achieving levels 3 and 4 in Authority staff for continuing to make Fox Runs both organized by Grade 6 the Ottawa Catholic School Board all three assessments: reading, writing every effort to have these challenges students and teachers. Funds raised I am extremely proud of all of our and math. resolved. hit a new record. Congratulations to schools and team members – what an • Grade 3: The Board’s students all who supported such a wonderful awesome example you set in this city. achieved a record high percentage Corpus Christi - Preliminary cause. Well done! of students achieving levels 3 and 4 enrolment stands at 281 in both the writing and mathematics There was an excellent turn Immaculata High School – EQAO Results Higher Than assessments. out at Meet the Teacher Night with Preliminary enrolment stands at Province “We are very pleased with noticeable enthusiasm on all fronts. 1140 Superintendents of Student these results. The work of our As Principal Monica Kerwin said “We The welcoming barbecue for Success, Denise Andre (Intermediate school improvement teams, Board are looking forward to an ‘amazing’ Grades 7 & 8 witnessed a wonderful and Secondary), and Dian Jackson improvement plans, and the allocation year here at Corpus Christi School, sense of excitement for new students (Elementary), along with Research of resources are resulting in improved and knowing the staff, parents and of ‘Mac’. Officer, Dr. Lauren Figueredo, student achievement. As a system, presented the Board’s EQAO results each school will be provided with for Grades 3, 6, and 9 reading, specific supports to ensure continued writing, and mathematics tests during improvement at all grade levels,” said the 2008-2009 school year. Julian Hanlon, Deputy Director of “We know these impressive Education. results are the product of establishing More information and results are rigorous improvement plans at available at www.eqao.com. each school,” said Gordon Butler, Chairperson. “Schools are provided If, at any time, I can be of with opportunities to examine assistance to you please do not effective practices and to share hesitate to call me at 526-9512. successful strategies with other Sincerely, schools.” Kathy Ablett Summary of 2008-2009 results: “Your Trustee” Over 8,000 students in grades 3, 6, and 9, wrote the EQAO tests

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highly with student success. School necessary and very unfortunate budget councils, teachers, trustees and citizens cuts for next year - a debate we start at large seriously concerned with very soon, this thinking will be guiding improving student success will want to for me as a Trustee. focus on practice and supports in the If you have a suggestion or a classroom and practice and supports at concern, or would like to be added home; not on straight cash outlays, not to my e-newsletter list, then please on the extras, not on optional programs, contact me via [email protected] or not on buildings, not on transport. at 323-7803. Meeting and document When it comes to this year’s info available at www.ocdsb.ca NOV 2009 The OSCAR - OUR 37th YEAR Page 31

OCDSB TRUSTEE REPORT Student Achievement

By Rob Campbell also, to bring teaching practices to base student socio-economics. From more or less simply as fundraising. a higher more consistent level. My a system planning perspective, we Fundraising and sheer cash spent per broadly support EQAO testing hat goes completely off to our staff should want year by year to weaken student on fun stuff seems in fact to in Grades 3 / 6 / 9 with a literacy here! Last year our Board was the the correlation between socio- have a weak correlation with student test in Grade 10, and more than I fastest improving in Ontario and our economics and EQAO outcomes as a success. So in fact do number of I staff have been invited to present at goal worthy of public education. This teachers per capita actually. What the might have some years ago. These are four provincially normed tests we ask conferences provincially to explain is worth paying attention to then if our literature clearly shows however, is of our students in their 14 or so years how they are doing it. I invite any purposes are the right ones. that it is best practice in the classroom in the system. interested members of the public to School Councils exist primarily and also community and family It is correct that these tests are review the stats and revamped Board to advise the school administration as support and modelling at home, seriously flawed: they are narrow improvement at the appropriate web to prevailing community standards, which are objectively correlated very with respect to the whole student and link for the Education Committee of to partner with it in order to achieve everything we expect of the school Oct 20th on the electronic meetings better student success and to enrich calendar on the www.ocdsb.ca site. student experience at the school. system and of students; they result Cont’d on previous page in teaching to the test and can skew Most interestingly to me, we are In my view too many see their role best teaching and learning; they can doing something very right when be fiddled by governments interested it comes to the achievement gap in demonstrating improvement for between males and females, we have political purposes by subtly altering closed this gap hugely compared to the testing conditions and questions; provincial average. We have closed improvement will naturally occur on the gap in achievement between spec any test after some years of familiarity ed and non spec ed kids more than with it; it takes time away from most Boards and are slightly above real teaching; it can be stressful to average at closing the gap for non- students; it invites parents to socially English learners. Why this may be is sort themselves between schools something I will want to understand and can work to create silo schools. and don’t yet. What remains unclear to Targeted random sampling would be me is what gap exists and how we are less disruptive. doing between programs and across However, if we did not have socio-economic circumstances. These these tests then system managers, and would be useful to know and I will be system overseers, would be forced to pressing for this information this year. plan by anecdote or with statistically Dr. Johnson has attempted unreliably spotty data and we might to associate EQAO with socio- have less curricular consistency across economics for the CD Howe people. schools and across the province. I do This work is more meaningful than not support the promotion of EQAO the crass junk put out by the Fraser and socio-economic information on Institute. CD Howe has its own the province’s school finder web app ideological purposes in all of this and as it promotes school shopping as to which I do not subscribe, but it is opposed to a focus on making one’s useful to look at the work correlating own school work and the nature of EQAO and socio-economics for our the application and the quality of its own purposes and maybe we need to data are not nearly serious enough do this more ourselves. The literature for real research. I definitely support tends to suggest as I understand it that the use of this achievement data about 40% of student achievement along with socio-demographic and is effectively determined by socio- other datasets for system planning economic factors: straight barriers, purposes; however, where do we modelling, competing needs, allocate marginal dollars, what policy supports, enrichment experiences. tweaks do we need to consider, and Johnson’s work tries to show what so forth. If and when we develop the real value-added of a school is serious measures for creativity and after we statistically adjust for and citizenship we should adopt those also strip away socio-economics. Under but for now we do not and we need to this analysis, schools with so-so work with what we have. EQAO can become stars if they The OCDSB is now above the clearly provide huge value-added and provincial average in all important some traditional ‘elite’ schools can EQAO measures as a result of be revealed as really quite mediocre very focused, and expensive, in terms of the actual educational interventions continuing this year quality going on at them given their Page 32 The OSCAR - OUR 37th YEAR NOV 2009

Future of Community Newspapers

By Anna Redman

n the last decade, the media industry has been constantly changing and evolving. These changes have caused some technologies Ito advance and develop while others have fallen into disuse. Newspapers have yet to find where they fit into the technologically driven age in which we live. Some feel the newspapers will simply adapt to the new technological medium, and not die out completely. If newspapers are indeed an essential commodity, one must consider how many types of newspapers fall into that category. There are the large national publications, city specific publications, and a wide variety of community based and special interest newspapers and magazines. There are weeklies, bi-weeklies, and monthlies all varying on a scale of size and importance. The smallest being the community paper. The community paper is one of the only media forms that is still surviving on a small scale. Prior to the launch of the internet television, radio and newspapers were the primary sources for all forms of news. Now the national and international news can be found on home pages, search engines and news websites. Local, community news is one of the few needs that the internet cannot meet more successfully than its less technological counterpart. Yet it has been suggested that the community paper may be the first to go. With their smaller budgets and readerships, it may seem like their survival is less likely than those backed by large corporations. With the recent recession, larger newspapers that were already suffering are continuing to downsize. Alternatively, community papers that have never been used to large budgets are continuing just as they always have. The cost of the paper is taken care of through advertising revenue. Advertising in a local paper offers the community companies a unique opportunity for gaining the local clientèle that they both need and desire. As long as the companies who advertise continue to survive any economic hardships the paper still goes to press with no financial difficulties. Local volunteers are an essential part to the continuation of local newspapers. These volunteers represent the needs and wants of their community, and work hard to keep their fellow community members informed. William Dean Singleton, vice chairman of MediaNews Group has stated that “local news and local sports are of most value to local papers.” Keeping a community paper localized is what makes it different from the large chain newspapers who are all reporting the same news with a slightly different slant. Community papers are a source of local information which helps residents stay apprised of the goings on that could actually affect their daily lives. They are also an opportunity for local issues to be discussed. Most papers, including “The OSCAR,” feature a “Letters to the Editor,” section. This type of section allows readers to interact with the newspaper staff, and each other, while consolidating to improve the community in which they live. Although many people care about national and international events, the majority of people are influenced the most by things that are geographically close to them. The community paper plays this role effectively, giving it a cherished and privileged role in the local community. This does not mean that the community paper is protected from changes in society or technology. It is essential that the community

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Planning Your Financial Strategy Using Your Rear View Mirror by Rick Sutherland, CLU, CFP, imagination to know that you would knows what’s over the next hill nor can Retirement City, just like you do not FDS, R.F.P. not attempt to make this journey by anyone predict the future. By making know how the economy or financial only looking in your rear view mirror. snap investment decisions based on markets will behave. With proper et’s start with a metaphor. Your Yet many investment decisions are recent short-term performance you coaching and discipline you can financial strategy is a bit like based on recent short-term events. The could find yourself selling, only to control your emotion and commit to a Ldriving your car. You have a assumption being that what happened determine later that you should have financial strategy that is crafted to meet destination; let’s call it Retirement recently will surely happen again. been doing exactly the opposite and your long-term needs and goals. City. You plan your route to get from However that’s the past and you are buying. here to there. This is your savings and looking into our rear view mirror with As an investor you have certainly The foregoing is for general investment strategy. You know there this strategy. heard the disclaimer “past performance information purposes and is the will be traffic, bumps on the road, stop Over the past twelve months we have does not guarantee future results.” opinion of the writer. This information lights, highways and maybe even a seen enough ups and downs in the This becomes clear when we look at a is not intended to provide personal crazy driver who will cut you off along markets to last a lifetime. Volatile Lipper study of the top quartile large advice including, without limitation, the way. These are uncontrollable markets often tempt investors into cap US equity mutual funds from investment, financial, legal, accounting factors much like economic and making financial mistakes. They sell 1998 to 2002. The study followed the or tax advice. Please call or write to financial events and life circumstances. their current “dogs”, perceived as poor performance of these funds over the Rick Sutherland CLU, CFP, FDS, Knowing your driving skill, you are investments because they went down, following four years. Only 19% stayed R.F.P., to discuss your particular confident you will arrive safely at and switch into the next “hot” stock, top quartile. Another 25% slipped to circumstances or suggest a topic Retirement City. mutual fund or other investment tip that second quartile. While 32% of those for future articles at 613-798-2421 Now, can you imagine if you tried has showed recent strong performance. top performing funds fell into third or E-mail rick@invested-interest. to make this journey by driving Using short-term trends to support quartile and the last 24% fell all the ca. Mutual Funds provided through backwards only looking into your rear decisions for a long-term investment way into fourth quartile ranking. FundEX Investments Inc. view mirror? It doesn’t take much strategy could be a mistake. No one You can’t control the journey to Construction Liens By Anna Sundin pay out the final 10% of the contract price until after the lien period has To book an OSCAR ad he Construction Lien Act passed. If all the contract money is of Ontario gives those who paid out before then and there is a call Gayle 730-1058 provide goods or services lien registered and perfected within T the time periods provided the project [email protected] to a property a lien right against the property for the purpose of collecting owner might have to pay 110% of the monies owed to them. contract price. The lien claimant has a short There is a scheme of priorities period of time after the completion of laid out in the legislation for those the work or delivery of the supplies to who have the right to share in the lien Financial Divorce Specialist register a lien against the land in the proceeds. It can be complicated to Avoid costly mistakes with professional financial registry office and then perfect the determine the order of payment out of assistance in the division of assets. claim by commencing a legal action the lien funds. within an additional short period of It is not just the person who time. The lien is easily lost if the time contracted for the work who has a periods are not strictly followed. lienable interest in the property. A Contact: Rick Sutherland, CLU, CFP, FDS, R.F.P. Construction projects can be landlord’s interest might be lienable 1276 Wellington Street, Ottawa ON K1Y 3A7 thought of as being in the shape of a under certain circumstances, even Phone: (613)798-2421 Email: [email protected] pyramid with the contractor, who is though the landlord is not necessarily hired by the owner, the one who is the project owner. A home buyer entitled to be paid under the terms of is specifically excluded from the the head contract. Often the contractor definition of “owner” under the then hires subcontractors to do some or legislation, however, in order not Guidance, Protection all of the work and passes the money to delay home purchases from received from the owner down as subdivision builders. and Peace of Mind. payments come in under the progress Even when there is no large Barrister & Solicitor payments in the head contract. Those construction project, those who Anna E. Sundin, provide goods or services that GEnErAl PrActicE includinG: at the bottom of the pyramid do not Family Law, Wills, Real Estate, Incorporations, Litigation and Collaborative Family Law improve a property have the right to have a contract directly with the owner – A Cooperative and Dignified Approach to Separation and Divorce.– and if the money disappears before it a lien if they are not paid. This would reaches them, they have no way of include providing such items as enforcing their right to payment if flooring, lumber, windows or kitchen there is no right to lien the property. or bathroom cupboards to a property In order to protect all the even when these are not installed subcontractors the legislation provides by a contractor under a construction for a lien against the land and provides contract with the owner. that the final 10% of the contract As the legislation is complex payment is also subject to a lien by and technical, consulting a lawyer is those in the construction pyramid. As recommended if you think it affects a result, the project owner should not you.

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To book an OSCAR ad Local Veterinarian - Dr. Emily Black call Gayle 730-1058 oscarads@oldottawa- What is a Lump? south.ca Emily Black the wrong place and in that way ell, by popular demand November has been decrease quality designated lump month! One of our readers of life. I’m has asked that I go over the common lumps reminded of a W case where I saw and their implications! What an excellent Idea. Alright. So, first off, what is a lump. Well a lump on an pet is a very large dog any abnormal growth on the body surface. There are a for her annual number of different superficial components of the body visit at which which can cause lumps; starting from the outside in we point she looked have the skin (all 7 layers) the glands in the skin, the excellent. A week later she came back with a lump on her colour pigment in the skin cells, the hair follicles, the fatty elbow the size of a cantaloupe. If I hadn’t seen this with loose tissue under the skin and the underlying muscle. my own eyes I would have had a tough time believing On top of all this there are a number of transitient cell the owners that it had literally almost come up overnight. types that visit the skin on a short term basis, and while That one turned out to be a fat lump but an invasive kind there they can also cause trouble. that although not cancer did invade surrounding tissues What kind of trouble? Well, of course the most often impeding with movement. And here’s the clincher with type of trouble that these lumps can cause is Cancer or these ones. Even if the mass is harmless, they can still what I affectionately call “the big K”. When I was in grow and it’s a lot easier for the surgeon and cheaper for the maritimes I saw a couple from Newfoundland. They the client if they are taken off early if they look like that’s had brought their old dog in who had a mass on his side the way they are going to head. the size of a large watermelon. After a lot of technical So, figuring out what to do often isn’t difficult. The discussion on diagnosis of such a “lump” the husband first step generally involves something called a Fine turned to me and said “lay it to me straight doc… is it the Needle Aspirate or FNA. During this procedure which big K?” I looked at him and asked “the big K?” because can be done with the patient awake and with some topical for the life of me I couldn’t figure it out. “Kancer” he anesthetic jelly in most but not all patients and lumps, said. From one dyslexic to another.. I salute him and his the vet takes a pretty big needle and sticks the lump in story has helped soften the blow in many a situation. So, question getting what equates to a core sample of the Cancer is a possibility, but it isn’t the only or most likely, mass. By then looking at that core sample in hospital or but it does tend to be the one we are most worried about sending it away for professional evaluation a decision as because early diagnosis allows early removal which can to the cell types present can be made. That way the vet often prove curative. Waiting on those lumps mean that knows if this is the kind of lump to worry about or not, the Cancer has time to spread at which point it becomes and because there isn’t any anesthesia involved it can significantly more difficult to treat. help diagnosis move forward at reasonable expense. A second kind of trouble is pure physical impediment. So, to sum up, with lumps in pets, it’s better to be The aforementioned tumor was definitely interfering safe than sorry and it’s also better and cheaper to figure with that dogs movement, and although that one was out if you have a problem early and in that way get the cancer, even relatively harmless tumors like fat lumps ball rolling on fixing it while it’s still small. can interfere with movement if they get too big or are in

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paper evolves and reinvents itself in of larger communities. Particularly the type of tight knit community that order to remain relevant. However, in places like Old Ottawa South, a Old Ottawa South really is. this should be more of an evolution community paper is essential. As Community papers bring us than a fundamental change. This you walk along Bank Street or the that assurance. They report on evolution is likely to involve the canal, visit the “Mayfair Theatre” or the elementary school play or the adoption of technology to reflect “Life of Pie” you forget that you are recent porch sale. They encourage an on-line version of the paper, as only a short car ride away from the community involvement and already exists with “The OSCAR.” centre of Canada’s capital city. And acknowledge people who contribute. Other papers may chose to produce there is something comforting about They make you feel like the things an on-line version parallel to that. going on around you matter and that that in print. Both versions can The big city has its perks, but the things you do, mean something generate community news and local when you are at home you want to to somebody. advertising. This may even evolve to feel removed from the hustle and Community papers are quirky produce e-mail with news updates, bustle. In your local community you and fun, much like the people targeted text messages and reminders want to feel insulated and protected who read them. They manifest a for local vendors or social events. from the ardours of your daily life but Community papers, like “The connected to those who live around OSCAR,” revive the small town feel you. You want to feel that you are in Cont’d on next page NOV 2009 The OSCAR - OUR 37th YEAR Page 35

This is the end of our walk along Belmont, on the South Side, having started at Rideau River Drive on the North Side on page 6 and continued until Bank Street on page 23. We then continued from Bank Street on the South Side of Belmont on page 26, all the way to here, at Rideau River Drive. Our thanks to Tom Alfoldi for the idea and the photos. Join us another time as we follow Tom through Old Ottawa South. What street shall we walk together next?

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By Yasir Naqvi, MPP for the past decade; someone who has sick, or rescue abandoned animals? Ottawa Centre coached Little League baseball for If you know someone who is doing 25 years; or sold chocolate bars by something exceptional, I encourage very day, countless people in the dozens for a minor hockey team. you to visit the Ministry of Citizenship our community take it upon These volunteers are the backbone of and Immigration’s website and look at themselves to do remarkable community sports and recreation in the list of awards and honours granted E Ontario and contribute immeasurably by the Government of Ontario to tasks that make a huge difference in the lives of their neighbours. Some people to the development and experience extraordinary Ontarians. coach a minor sports team; others of athletes of all ages and levels of There is never a bad time to thank volunteer to help those who are sick, competitiveness. someone special. I challenge you to or to raise money for those in need. Award recipients will be invited look to your neighbours, colleagues, Whatever the occasion, Ottawans along with their families to attend friends and family and recognize continually rise to the challenge and a reception in the New Year and the unique and wonderful ways that give their time and money to make will be presented with a recognition people are giving back. It is time to the lives of those around them better. certificate signed by the Premier of give these unsung heroes a great big I think we should take the time to Ontario and a specially minted, limited THANK YOU! celebrate them for all they do. edition Celebration 2010 medal. Only I look forward to receiving the As your Member of Provincial 25 recipients will be selected from nominations for Celebrate 2010 and Parliament, I am hosting a program Ottawa Centre and the deadline for hearing about the great work in our to recognize exceptional sport nominations is November 13, 2009. community. Thank you for making our and recreation volunteers in our I encourage you to submit community a caring, compassionate community; Celebration 2010: nominations for this award in less than and welcoming place for everyone. Community Sports Hero Award 500 words to me at 411 Roosevelt Program. The goal is to recognize Avenue, Suite 204, Ottawa, ON, K2A and honour the unsung heroes of 3X9, or [email protected]. community sport and recreation: org. Please be sure to include your coaches, association members, contact information and the contact trainers, conveners, fundraisers, information of the nominee in your drivers, chaperones, etc, in the spirit of nomination letter. the 2010 Olympic Winter Games. Is there someone special you are Perhaps it is the individual who thinking about who doesn’t happen has been going out when it’s 30 to be a sports volunteer? Someone below to flood the community rink who gives their time to make their community greener, help those who are

Future ... Cont’d from previous page distinctive, local character and don’t try belonging, and for that they deserve to to be something that they are not. They survive until the very last printing press operate within a very specific “remit” ceases to exist. They represent a key and give their readers a flavour that other voice in our communities, they highlight papers cannot. issues with local politicians, alongside Community papers know the secret; the local Garage Sale. They are current, you don’t have to be big to be great. vibrant and most of all locally relevant. Whether people read for the summary Until then, community papers have of the previous month, the update on earned a place in line with the global up- coming events, neighbourhood papers and while community papers are gossip or for a variety of other reasons, slowly appearing on-line, their unique community papers offer just that; a sense personality and charm is expressed so of community. much better in print. So maybe community They don’t spend extravagantly or papers actually have a better chance of employ so many people that everyone surviving the newspaper downsize; only simply becomes a blur. They are right- time will tell. budget operations that offer a sense of

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SURROUND CIRCLE YOGA Prana ~ A Cultivated Natural High By Maureen Fallis cultivate a natural high. Once you have comfortably increased Surround Circle Yoga Prana, known as our vital life force, the length of your exhalations by a is found in the breath. While belief in few counts, turn part of your attention hen I look around, it seems a life force was central to traditional to the subtle sound of your breath. By that some people have cultures, a host of scientists dating making a soft “ha”, like a gentle sigh more energy than others. back to Sir Isaac Newton have tried to as you expel all your breath out, you W locate it, all without success. In recent will surely find yourself relaxing. My dearest friend Ellen Gardner, a renaissance woman with many talents, years we have witnessed an explosive is such a being. Wherever she goes growth in popularity of alternative An Energizing Breath – be it browsing at a country market, health therapies, virtually all based on networking with entrepreneurs, dining the principle that some vital force or Bring your attention to the length of at a swanky restaurant or preparing bio-energetic field infuses organisms both your inhalation and exhalation. a picnic of pork & beans at the side with the properties of life. While Aiming to find a balance between of the road – people, including me, many of these therapies, including each breath, each breath should match are drawn to her life-giving energy. yoga and acupuncture, have been each other. After a few rounds at Was she just born with this innate tested and proven effective, there is your maximum capacity, begin to electrifying energy or does she possess still little scientific proof as to whether pause at both the top and bottom or some mystical power enabling her to this psycho-physio-spiritual force that your breath. Pause for as long as bounce back from life’s hard knocks? permeates the universe even exists. possible without forcing it. Try to From what I know she has no regular Many scientists debunk the idea and remain attentive to the sensations as spiritual practice yet her essence is as remain hostile to the notion. On Photo by Brian Ure you gradually increase the length of natural as a warm breeze on a sunny the other hand, holistic physicians the pause in between breaths. day in May. Clearly, Ellen simply accept the life force as a practical thousands of years, these exercises If depressed or feeling blue, the affect has more “innate” prana than others! reality. Andrew Weil, M.D., writes intentionally alter the speed, rhythm, of the breath on your mood is the best For the rest of us, we can learn to in Spontaneous Healing: “The energy and space of the breath. indicator of how long you should that you feel in your body One brief caution before you begin: continue the exercise. Start with a after [breathing exercises] Never force your breath to do anything particular time goal in mind – say is the energy that Chinese it doesn’t want to do. If you begin to 5-8 minutes. Be ready to abort if you doctors call chi, their term for feel uncomfortable, go back to your feel you are exacerbating your mood, universal life energy. Most everyday breath. Once you have or continue a little longer if you feel people experience it as warmth begun to watch your normal everyday your mood is improving. or tingling or subtle vibration. breath for a few minutes, fixing it in So whether you have a healthy dose With practice, you can learn to the foreground of your awareness, of prana flowing in your body or feel feel it more, move it about the then, for another minute or so, the need to shake things up a bit, body, and even transmit it to mentally count the length of both your shifting prana with pranayama comes another person.” inhalations and exhalations. Don’t with practice, and with it comes the While the scientific debate be surprised if your exhalations are real possibility for personal growth rages on, there is only one way longer than your inhalations. That’s and integration. One thing is certain; to find out whether this magical quite common. Once you’ve settled the ancient masters knew how to use elixir works or not. By giving into your breath, you are ready to try pranayama techniques to “remove it a try! these specific breathing exercises to that which covers the light of the Sometimes just watching and calm your energy if you are feeling mind” (Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras 2:52). expanding your breath for stressed, and to boost your energy if In other words, they knew the power several minutes can have a you are feeling down or lethargic. of pranayama to balance and clarify surprisingly positive influence the emotions so that they support on your energy level or mood. A Calming Breath rather than obstruct the unfolding of You can multiply this effect our highest potential. significantly by using breathing Focus on your exhalations – exercises tailored to have deliberately and gradually length Surround Circle Yoga is a community an effect each exhalation. For example, if your yoga studio with a variety of classes on specific normal everyday inhalation lasts six to satisfy an enthusiastic group of moods and counts, draw each exhalation out to yogins. To find out about private or conditions. eight counts, and after a few breathing group classes, please see website Based on cycles increase the length of your www.surroundcircleyoga.com or call k n o w l e d g e exhalation to nine and ten, and so on, 613-730-6649. cultivated and until you find a length that you can refined by the sustain. yogis over Christmas Hampers uring the holidays, our thoughts many ways: often turn to those less fortunate than To adopt a hamper contact Sue by Dourselves. For more than 30 years, November 30th, at [email protected]. the Christmas Hamper Project has supplied To pack hampers and help wrap gifts thousands of Ottawa families and individuals between December 16th and 21st, contact with boxes of food, toiletries and small gifts Sharon at 613-237-3033. to help make their Christmas season a little To deliver hampers or drive on brighter. December 22nd, contact Linda at linda. Hosted by Centretown United Church, [email protected], or by phone if hampers will be delivered to 160 families you don’t have email, at 613-232-0370. and individuals who have been referred by Or, have a crazy schedule? We gladly accept a number of Centretown emergency food donations! Please send a cheque made out providers. to “The Christmas Hamper Project”, to This worthy project relies on the Centretown United Church, 507 Bank Street, generosity and the goodwill of the K2P 1Z5. Thank you for your support! community. How can you help? There are NOV 2009 The OSCAR - OUR 37th YEAR Page 37 COMPUTER TRICKS AND TIPS A Reasonable Alternative to a “New” Computer By Malcolm and John (legitimate, of course) is re-installed. refurb fail for a client.) For about storage remedies could include: Harding, of Compu-Home Components are tested and replaced $30.00 you can extend the warranty asking the supplier about swapping when necessary. Sales people at these from the usual 30 days to a full year, in a larger hard disk (probably at least espite the proliferation of stores are usually knowledgeable and which is pretty cheap peace of mind. 100 Gigabytes), installing a second laptops and netbooks, the can give accurate advice, and they : Unfortunately, we can’t usually hard disk for data storage, or buying commonest computer in always have very competent service recommend laptops, monitors or an external USB hard drive that would D departments. printers as reliable refurbished also serve as a backup device. homes and offices is still the desktop model. By “desktop” we are referring : Although these machines candidates. Laptops and LCD : Because so many of our clients to the vertically-oriented tower, are a couple of years old, they are monitors are so scarce in the refurb ask us to help them find a refurbished which often sits on the floor beside more than adequate for the great market that when they do come computer, we try our best to stay your desk, as well as the flat version majority of home and small business available they are scarcely a bargain. current on what the various suppliers that truly sits on top of your desk and requirements. Printers have so many delicate moving have available at the moment. We hence the name. : Price is not the only advantage parts and so many recent technical have no financial arrangement or Whether you are buying your first when you buy a refurbished computer. improvements, that it’s usually better connection to any of them and we can desktop computer, replacing one, or These are former business workhorses to look for a new one. always be objective. We never charge getting an additional machine in the that have had their original factory : Upgrades are often a possibility for our telephone advice and support, house, you would do well to consider glitches and foibles corrected long (and sometimes a necessity) if you and so we’d be happy to help steer a refurbished machine. Here are a few ago. They are robust machines from are considering a refurb and this can you to the best solution if you call or factors to help your decision: the top manufacturers such as Dell, usually be done quickly and cheaply write to us. : Refurbished does not mean Hewlett-Packard and IBM and they by the service department. One simply “used.” There are a few have been designed with premium example is RAM. Some refurbs Malcolm and John Harding established and reliable businesses quality components that are intended come with only 512 megabytes of are the owners of Compu-Home, scattered throughout the city that to work reliably for many years. The RAM and we think that one Gigabyte specializing in assisting home and buy shipments of off-lease business manufacturers’ websites will still is the minimum necessary, and two small business computer users. machines and overhaul them before list these models and provide specs, Gigabytes are often better. Another Visit www.compu-home.com putting them up for sale. (It is sad to drivers and other support. component to consider is the hard and go to Suggested Websites to see say that another source of supply in : Extended warranties are disk capacity; these machines were a list of our favourite useful and this market these days is bankruptcies available. It may be a belt-and- originally intended to work in an interesting websites. of some large businesses, but this suspenders approach, but we usually office environment with most data Write to harding@compu- results in some newer-than-usual recommend to our clients that they saved on a central file server, and so home.com or phone 613-731-5954 to equipment being available.) Their purchase the extended warranty for a they sometimes have a pretty small discuss computer issues, or to make hard disks are erased and the Windows refurbished computer. (This is despite hard disk for current standalone suggestions for future columns. XP or Vista operating system the fact that we have never yet had a needs, even for personal use. Some

l’Amicale francophone d’Ottawa

par Jean-Claude Dubé La prochaine réunion de Cercle Labelle » à la bibliothèque centrale discussion de l’Amicale s’est du lecture aura lieu le 10 novembre, d’Ottawa, rue Metcalfe. En 1916, une rencontré le 15 octobre et a discuté e Cercle de lecture de 19h, en la succursale Sunnyside de jeune servante peu instruite vivant de l’avenir du parc Lansdowne. Nous l’Amicale francophone la bibliothèque municipale d’Ottawa. dans un village près de Sudbury, en vous en donnerons des nouvelles dans d’Ottawa s’est rencontré à La lecture choisie est un récit de Ontario, est séduite par son curé, un le prochain numéro du OSCAR. L Phillippe Claudel : « La Petite Fille homme dans la cinquantaine. Il lui fait la bibliothèque Sunnyside le 13 octobre. Nous avons discuté du livre de Monsieur Linh ». C’est l’histoire trois enfants. Ce couple et leur jeune La lecture choisie par le Cercle de de Francine Ouellette, « Au Nom d’un réfugié âgé et traumatisé dans famille, demeureront anonymement lecture de l’Amicale est : du Père et du Fils ». Ce roman, situé une contrée inconnue en plus d’être à Billings Bridge pendant plusieurs dans le pays de colonisation des dépossédé de tout, sauf ses illusions. années avant que le prêtre laisse sa novembre La petite fille de monsieur Hautes Laurentides au tournant du Un vieillard asiatique est épargné de jeune compagne avec ses enfants Linh par Philippe Claudel 19ième au 20ième siècle. C’est une la mort ainsi que sa petite-fille lorsque pour reprendre ses responsabilités décembre Ébènes - Aventures histoire d’amour passionné dans son village est détruit et sa famille de sacerdoce. Cette vraie histoire africaines par Ryszard Kapuscinski un milieu de violence, de racisme tuée. Il se retrouve avec le bébé sur racontée par Claire Trépanier décrit janvier Autobiographie d’une et de femmes soumises et abusées. un banc public dans une grande cité la lutte quotidienne de Marie-Louise esclave par Hannah Crafts L’omnipotence d’un curé de village ou il rencontre un autre vieillard pour sa survie et le bien-être de ses en plus de son usage du sacrement de sympathique qui lui parle dans une enfants. Le choix de la lecture du printemps de confession pour imposer un fanatisme autre langue. Le tout nouveau Cercle de 2010 sera fait au mois de janvier. religieux ultramontaniste sur les liens La rencontre du Cercle de conjugaux et l’autorité de l’époux lecture suivante sera cette fois au sont mis en évidence. Il n’y a aucun Centre communautaire du Glebe le héros ou héroïne sauf peut-être 10 décembre, à 19h. Le livre choisi Gros Ours, l’amérindien qui utilisait est « Ébènes – Aventures africaines » antérieurement les terres usurpées sur de Ryszard Kapuscinki. L’auteur, lesquelles le roman se déroule comme un correspondant d’une presse son territoire de chasse, de pêche et de polonaise, décrit ses aventures survivance. vécues durant quatre décennies qu’il Par contre, les membres du Cercle passe dans une vingtaine de pays de ont regretté que l’auteure présente ses l’Afrique noire. On y rencontre le sujets d’une façon plutôt caricaturiste génocide rwandais, les bidonvilles et que ces histoires du terroir sont de Dakar, les seigneurs de guerre et surexploitées par les éditeurs. les guerres d’enfants. Toutefois, le Cercle reconnaît aussi Claire Trépanier fit une que pour survivre, les auteurs aussi présentation bien réussie de son bien que les éditeurs doivent savoir livre « C’est le temps d’en parler – satisfaire les caprices de leurs lecteurs. l’histoire de Marie-Louise Bouchard th Page 38 The OSCAR - OUR 37 YEAR NOV 2009 Red Apron Cooks

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To book an OSCAR ad Acclaimed Counter-Tenor Welcomed For St. Matthew’s Messiah call Gayle 730-1058 oscarads@ By Margret Brady oldottawasouth.ca Nankivell

he combined choirs of St. Matthew’s Anglican Church Tin the Glebe will give two candlelit performances of Handel’s Messiah on Friday, November 20 and Saturday, November 21 at 7:30 pm. The superb oratorio will be directed by the church’s musical director Stephen Candow. Once again the concert will feature outstanding soloists and the Ottawa Baroque Consort. Mr. Candow is particularly pleased that counter-tenor Mark Donnelly, who began singing in St. Matthew¹s boys¹ choir at the tender age of six, is coming from Vancouver especially for this performance. By age 13, Mr. Donnelly had already made two solo Mark in Rural Guatemala with class CD recordings of works by Bach and Handel with orchestra. Also an oboist, education in one of the best Men & soprano Kathryn Domoney, a former he was a member of the Ontario Youth Boys’ choirs in the country.” member of the Canadian Opera Choir, the National Youth Choir and Stephen Candow is striving for Company; tenor Dillon Parmer, who is the World Youth Choir. He is a keen baroque authenticity and including known for his sensitive interpretation sportsman and has competed in the rarely heard countertenor arias, adds of early music; and versatile young 2008 Argus Cycle Race and the Two Mr. Donnelly. It is a “must-not-miss baritone Benjamin Covey. Oceans Marathon. During his high performance” for families as the Friday and Saturday, November school years at Glebe Collegiate and holiday season approaches, he says. 20 and 21, 7.30 p.m. Tickets for the Canterbury High School he was a Mr. Donnelly has performed concerts may be purchased at the lifeguard and swimming instructor at as a counter-tenor in Italy, Austria, church office, Compact Music (190 Ottawa South’s Brewer pool. Switzerland, South Korea, Japan and Bank St. & 785 ½ Bank St.), CD “It is such a delight to return to the U.S. Earlier this year he sang Warehouse (1383 Clyde Ave.); Herb St. Matthew’s to perform the counter- in Bach’s St. Matthew’s Passion in & Spice Shop, 1310 Wellington St. tenor role in Handel’s Messiah,” says Cape Town, South Africa, and gave a W. Reserved seating is $35 for Adults Mr. Donnelly. “Thinking back on my moving performance at St. Matthew’s and $25 for students, unreserved fourteen years of service as a chorister in the Purcell’s anniversary concert by seating: Adults $25, Students $15. A and then a tenor at St. Matthew’s, I Seventeen Voyces. He has also taught premium of $5 will be charged for have so many fond memories of the music to public school children in tickets purchased at the door. (www. energy, anticipation and exhilaration rural Guatemala, a country that is now stmatthewsottawa.ca) of preparing for the oratorio each suffering a severe food crisis affecting year,” he says. “I will always be millions of people. grateful for the musical training and The Messiah will also feature NOV 2009 The OSCAR - OUR 37th YEAR Page 39 Clam Bake 2009 Photo by Tom Alfoldi Tom Photo by

By Lori Pope corn, the clams (gamely shucked by new neighbour crews got and clam shucking neophyte Barb Van Doorn, among Brighton Beach cleaned up, replaced the fire pit’s sod (thanks in large part to the work of early riser ver a hundred residents, alumni and guests others), and everyone’s potluck contributions, the Tim Trayner), and delivered all the equipment of Brighton Avenue turned out for the annual meal included sausages cooked by Renee DeHaan, O back into storage to await next year’s clambake. Brighton Avenue Clambake, which took place this Jocelyn Jenkins, Jim Hurd and others, as well as If you are missing clambake tools or other related year on Saturday, September 19. The weather was Peggy Kinsley’s fabulous baked beans. We were paraphernalia, please come by 31 Brighton to check sunny and clear, just what the organizing committee delighted to have a surprise appearance by Bill the ever-growing Clambake Lost and Found. (Alison Blagden, Barbara Porrett, Dawn Legault, Blakeman who, with his wife Sharon, hosted the first Thanks to all the volunteers, whose efforts made Carol-Lynne Saad, and Lori Pope) had ordered. clambake in their backyard more than 30 years ago. the 31st Clambake another great success! Stephan Katz once again arranged for the permits The nighttime and Sunday morning clean-up and canvassers Nikki Pora, Barbara Porrett, Alison Blagden, Krista Aselford, and Jocelyn Jenkins got the word out to their neighbours. Phil Blagden and Barbara Porrett again took the lead on the fire pit and were helped with fire supervision by Will and Cody, firekeepers extraordinaire. New neighbour Robert Legault and his trusty trailer delivered barbeques, tables, and all the equipment that is stored in various garages and sheds the rest of the year to Brighton Beach. Tent captains Richard Fader and Howard Rundle led the tent team again this year, and had the tent up in record time. Many hands made light work of shucking the corn that Brian Ure brought down to the beach before he cooked it on site. Alison Blagden organized activities for younger residents, who enjoyed the face painting and chalk drawing on the path to the river. After the children’s meal, cooked by Jill Hawkins, Roger Ehrhardt, Theresa Rupar, and Lori Frank, everyone sang “Happy Birthday” to Alison Rupar, who was turning 8 that day. We then started a new clambake tradition: a group photo, the brainchild of our official photographer, Tom Alfoldi. The old oak tree beside the home of Jean Switzer (who shared her water and hydro with her neighbours yet again) was the backdrop to this great shot. To see it and Tom’s other photos from clambakes past and present, go to http://www.flickr. com/photos/tta/collections/72157607285614214/. Not only did Tom capture the clambake on film again this year, but he also displayed enlargements of aerial photographs of the street from 1928 and 1945 that he had tracked down at the National Air Photo Library. (If you’re interested in the NAPL you can find out more about it, including its on-line search system, at: http://airphotos.nrcan.gc.ca/ .) Neighbours pored over the old photos looking for their homes and what our street looked like years ago. Russell Levia entertained the children during the adults’ meal and got them singing and dancing and playing along with his great music. In addition to the Page 40 The OSCAR - OUR 37th YEAR NOV 2009

MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT OTTAWA CENTRE The Importance of Getting Lansdowne Redevelopment Right

By Paul Dewar surrounding sole-source contracting. talking to the residents and businesses I have contacted Minister John Baird The rules against sole-sourcing exist first to capture their vision for the park’s and called on him to clearly indicate to e are fortunate to have, primarily because previous experiences renewal, then opening the design and the City of Ottawa that federal support at the heart of our city, have shown us it doesn’t work. At a time the project to a competitive bid. for the city’s efforts for the future a remarkable common when we’re being asked to tighten our The current process is doing the of Lansdowne Park would become W belt in this economic situation, no one opposite. available only upon the completion of space in the form of Lansdowne Park. Lansdowne has played a significant should consider sole-sourcing which, This is why I joined the community’s an open and transparent process that is role in the history and culture of our by its very nature, costs us more. rally as they raised their opposition to accepted by Ottawa’s communities. city for more than a hundred years and The recent public meetings the city’s approach toward Lansdowne. Lansdowne Park is truly one it is important that we continue to invest have also shown that there is deep The residents and businesses in the of Ottawa’s treasures and future in its future development. People in our opposition to the redesign within our area have called on the city council to redevelopment will have a lasting effect community want to see Lansdowne community. Both residents and local scrap the sole-source arrangement with on not only the park, but the community Park redevelopment and they have the businesses have raised their serious Lansdowne Live and restart a design at large. It is important that the public be best ideas for it. The current process, concerns with the Lansdowne Live competition that would open the process given a real opportunity to participate however, is deeply flawed. proposal and there is genuine fear that to bids by other development groups. I in the planning process in order for Any renewal of Lansdowne must this proposal will be detrimental to the support their call for transparency and the new Lansdowne Park to accurately take place in consultation with the communities surrounding Lansdowne engagement. reflect our city and its people. When it community. To date, the proposal by Park. The federal government was comes to Lansdowne, let’s stop, think Lansdowne Live has cut the community If Lansdowne redevelopment approached last summer by Lansdowne and get it right. out of the process and city council should is going to be successful we need Live and asked to provide financial never have suspended its own rules meaningful consultations: this means support for their project. In response, Kids Helping Kids By Laurent Côté Kids. The organisation is made up of young musicians from Ottawa s is becoming a custom at who work to support the Peaceful this time of year, I would like Children’s Homes. I was fortunate to to invite you and the entire perform in the previous three concerts, A and thanks to the tremendous support community of Old Ottawa South to a fundraising concert in which I will be of the community and the greater city performing with 9 other accomplished of Ottawa, we were able to raise $4000 young musicians between the ages of in each event. This money was used to 12 and 17. The concert will be held buy rice and seeds for 166 children on November 8th at 4 PM at MacKay living there. United Church (corner of Dufferin I hope that you can join me and and MacKay St.). All of the proceeds the other young people involved in will go to help support the Peaceful this event for a wonderful afternoon Children’s Homes in Cambodia. of music. Tickets are $15 for adults The young musicians who will be and $5 for children and are available performing at the concert are active online at www.khk-es.ca and at The participants in other musical ensembles Leading Note (370 Elgin Street). in Ottawa. Six performers, including Space permitting, tickets will also be myself, are members of the Ottawa on sale at the church door. Youth Orchestra. Many performers If you have any questions, please are also prize winners at the Kiwanis send an email to [email protected] or Music Festival. The concert repertoire call (613) 730-2712. Myself or other will include works by Vivaldi, Bach, members of Kids Helping Kids will be Mendelssohn, and other classical happy to help you in any way we can. composers. We are very grateful to If you are unable to attend the concert Laurence Wall, the much loved News but would still like to contribute to this Need Renovations? producer for CBC Radio in Ottawa for youth initiative, you can also make a agreeing to support our endeavours as donation at www.khk-es.ca our Master of Ceremonies. This is the fourth fundraising concert organised by Kids Helping

Answers to Tom Alfoldi’s Aerial Photos’ Quiz

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594-8888 Quiz Photos’ Aerial Alfoldi’s Tom to Answers www.gordonmcgovern.com NOV 2009 The OSCAR - OUR 37th YEAR Page 41 Tasty Tidbits From Trillium Bakery A Healing Space: Rising Spirits By Jocelyn LeRoy hardware business, to enable the rest learned, which became his biggest a son. He is immersed in the culture. of her family to survive after their asset in pursuing his own dreams. He So far away, yet, as the heart senses ast month we featured our parents died suddenly. These were was even grateful to his parents for all things, not so far. architect-turned-baker. Just terrible years for her, and eventually they did for him. Most others would Next time, I’ll tell you about a real like the beautiful bread he she went to a convent to heal. After have held resentment. live angel who came to the rescue. L many years there, she too came to During Justin’s bakery years, Not what you’d expect in the realm of baked, he experienced the rise, the punch-down and rise again, when life the big city to begin her new life of our kitchen sink shone brighter than angels. If you think this sounds like got in the way of the peaceful flow of independence at Trillium Bakery, with ever before or since. He gave me we’re going over the edge – tune in things. her friend who was fitting in here just the courage to tackle piano music next month, and be inspired! I’m just There were three more wonderful fine. theory, the fear of which had driven saying… this little bakery has seen people who found themselves in a After some time, both began to me away from the piano. He was lots of amazing things, and amazing healing process from the unexpected regain their equilibrium, and gain the my music teacher, and he made me people. curve balls life threw at them. No confidence to continue their education practice two hours a day seven days And there’s a story a long-time one could have imagined that such a and create new dreams for themselves. a week. I watched him learn Japanese friend and customer is threatening to turn in the road would have such far- Maggie, our baker, had not finished by cycling downtown to a restaurant write for this column about Trillium’s reaching effects. Some of these were high school (having rebelled and and conversing with the waiters over early days of banking, called “The of great benefit to the bakery. run away from the tragedy in her a bowl of soup after work. He studied Bank of Paper Bag.” Not angelic. One of our finest bakers came life). So, with much anxiety, and his language books four hours a day Not triumphant. But awkwardly true. to us as a runaway from a convent. encouragement from her friend and while I struggled with my piano Before that, Maggie had run away all the bakery staff, she painfully theory. I tried to trick myself into Recipe from home. Luckily for us that she faced math and history homework and thinking it was just another language Memories of Trillium was one of the few people to cross our exams as an adult, until she finally to learn, without baggage from the Maple Syrup Cookies doorstep with a complete set of skills graduated. past. Like Japanese, for example. (travels well for long distances) for making perfect bread. Her “trial Maggie kept on going until she When the time was right Justin by fire” at the convent began when she earned a PhD in psychology. kneaded his last loaf with the same 2 cups organic whole wheat flour was assigned the huge undertaking of Our other rising spirit, Lizzy, care and precision as he did all the ½ cup or more chopped pecans or learning the art of baking bread – in earned a nursing degree at Ottawa others. He polished the sink and said walnuts 24 hours! U and started a new career at a large good-bye. ½ cup maple syrup From chopping and stacking the Montreal hospital. Both still keep in These three people stopped ¼ to 1/3 canola or sunflower oil wood for the convent’s outdoor brick touch. My letters from them reveal running from their past and began oven, to mixing, kneading by hand, that they are successful and happy. moving purposefully toward their Mix well. Spoon onto greased pan and baking bread for 150 people, Each of them says, only half kidding, new dreams. or parchment paper. Bake at 350 our brave gal plunged in. She had to that if The Bomb drops or the world Every New Year’s Day I get a degrees F for 12 to 15 minutes. learn how to feed the fire and keep gets too crazy, she will jump right back phone call from Japan, and a letter it steady, maneuver the individual into breadmaking and horticulture, now and then. Justin has a wife and loaves around the “hot spots”, and get which they consider to be their best them all out without burning either the survival skills. bread or herself. Wind, the way the Which, when you think about it, is wood burns, downdrafts and humidity what we do at our bakery. Very basic all have an effect on the quality of the hands-on work, which often affects bread. other people’s happiness and well- There was no choice but to hop to being in unexpected positive ways. it and do the intricate dance of creating Our third human interest story that bread completely from scratch, like emerged from the bakery (there have we do at Trillium. The ground-up been dozens and dozens during 30 grain was milled at the convent on an years) began with a boy on a bicycle. old stone mill, as ours is milled for us This young man, not such a at Upper Canada Village. She passed boy I soon discovered, handed me the test, and baked thousands of loaves his resumé over the counter. Royal of bread for the convent until she had Military College graduate. (Do they enough, and ran away. start when they’re 10 years old?) Maggie had had a very rough Royal Conservatory of Music, piano, few years back home in Northern highest level. Advanced computer Ontario and did not want to return. skills. High-tech industry intern. So she hitch-hiked to Ottawa and And he wants to work in the soon found Trillium Bakery. She bakery? He got up every morning for was amazed at our old-fashioned, the 5 A.M. drill with the governor- hands-on breadmaking production, general’s guards, then stood in the and delighted to see a brick oven baking sun with a hot fur helmet and a like the one at the convent. No straight face no matter what. wood chopping here, So she settled Once again, one’s chosen in, soon to be followed by another profession is sometimes either escapee from the rigours of convent derailed, or not suited for him or her. life. It was beginning to feel like the When this happens there is need for Underground Bread Railway around time and a place to regroup and heal. here. This was the case as we caught This second person, Lizzy, young Justin mid-flight on his way to brought another armload of gifts to his future life as a teacher in Japan, the bakery: her knowledge of herbs, where he is now. first-aid skills and cooking for many Justin’s three years in the bakery people. She also had owned and were a joy for us and quite the zen managed a store. In fact, she was a experience for him. This young man herbalist, horticulturalist, and was one healed from a cruel military father, year away from graduating from med being sent into years of education in school. She had been forced to stop areas he abhorred. He accepted as a her schooling and take over the family gift to himself, the self-discipline he Page 42 The OSCAR - OUR 37th YEAR NOV 2009 Protect Yourself From Life’s Volatility With Insurance By Bob Jamieson your family be able to compensate There are a number of questions for your lost paycheque, which you should ask yourself about olatility is unavoidable would be gone forever? disability insurance. For instance, when it comes to investing That’s why insurance is so what coverage does your employer in the stock market. That’s important. 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Every Kid a Library Card ver 6,000 kids are going to school with an is an essential back to school supply. A library card Ottawa Public Library card in their backpack opens the door for students to take advantage of OPL’s O The Ottawa Public Library (OPL) Every resources at their community branch and online. The Kid a Card campaign saw that 6,527 children in Every Kid a Card campaign encourages children and Ottawa returned to school with an essential tool for parents to include a free library card in their school success in their backpacks, an OPL library card. The supplies. drive resulted in 2,109 children signing-up for a library Your public library is a partner in the success of card and 4,418 renewing their cards. children and teens in the community. Since 2004, This year’s campaign totals were announced at 36,732 kids have received or renewed their library card a wrap-up celebration yesterday at the Main Library. during the annual Every Kid a Card campaign. These Winners of draws for a laptop and gift certificates from students have the chance to benefit from homework Staples Business Depot, Ottawa Senators tickets and help provided by professional librarians. Reliable Sparty’s Kids Club All-Star memberships were on information provided by OPL is available in person or hand to accept their prizes. online. All children 16 and under who registered for a new Staples Business Depot, the City of Ottawa and card or renew their existing card during the summer the Ottawa Senators generously sponsor the Every received a free City of Ottawa swim pass, an Ottawa Kid a Card campaign. The campaign media partners Senators hockey card are the Ottawa Citizen, Majic 100, CTV Ottawa and and a ballot to enter L’Express. the prize draws. For more information, visit www. OPL believes BiblioOttawaLibrary.ca that a library card

“Welcome Winter” elcome Winter” with words by Dylan Thomas and fine music Rob Clipperton reads A Child’s Christmas in Wales by Dylan WThomas, with musical poetry from The Canterbury Alumnae Trebles, Robert Palmai and Marya Woyiwada. Saturday, November 21, 4:00 p.m., Glebe-St. James United Church, Lyon at FIirst Avenue. Tickets from Compact Music or at the door ($12 adults; best for children 10 and over, $6). Net proceeds benefit The Glebe Centre (dementia programs.) Further information: [email protected]; 613 235 4144. NOV 2009 The OSCAR - OUR 37th YEAR Page 43

An In-depth Journey into Nutrition Vitamins – Part 2

By Karen Cowen producing hormones (i.e. stress, sex), Children (Birth to 13 years) best way to ensure adequate levels metabolism of the fat soluble vitamins in the body, so get out and about as ontinuing on from my article and is a component of skin. 5 mcg (200 IU) for Teenagers (14 often as you can, in all seasons, and last month on Vitamin A, Vitamin D is required to build - 18 years) consider a D3 supplement in winter. which I hope you found useful, and maintain healthy bones and Please note: Vitamin D works C teeth. Specifically, it increases 5 mcg (200 IU) for Males and optimally in the body when there we will now move onto another of the fat soluble vitamins: Vitamin D, a.k.a. Calcium absorption and helps to Females, 19 - 50 years are sufficient amounts of Vitamin A, the ‘Sunshine’ Vitamin; what it does regulate Calcium metabolism and the Calcium and Phosphorous. in the body, sources and how much is body’s use of Phosphorous; two main 10 mcg (400 IU) for Males and This concludes our look into required. minerals in bone composition. It has Females, 51 - 70 years Vitamin D. Next time we will move Vitamin D comes in 2 been shown that bones will be much onto Vitamin E. Until then, I wish forms: D2 (ergocalciferol, also healthier when there is sufficient 15 mcg (600 IU) for Males and you abundant health, energy and well referred to as calciferol) and D3 Vitamin D intake, even if there is Females, 71+ years being. (cholecalciferol). ‘Natural’ Vitamin lower Calcium and Phosphorous If you should have any queries D (D3) is synthesized by the body intake. Thus, Vitamin D is extremely 5 mcg (200 IU) for Pregnant and or require further clarification, when sunlight, particularly UVB important for adults, especially Lactating Women please do not hesitate to contact me: rays, strikes our bare skin and is menopausal women, along with [email protected], or make subsequently stored mainly in the liver. Calcium, to prevent osteoporosis and *(Haas, Elson M., MD; Levin, an appointment for Nutritional Unfortunately, with the long winters osteomalacia. It is also essential for Buck., PhD, RD. 2006. “Staying Counselling at Soul Matters. here in Canada, our stores are quickly children to promote strong bones Healthy with Nutrition”) used up and supplemental Vitamin and teeth; preventing rickets and Yours in Health, D is often required. Generally, we tooth decay. Vitamin D has other Good Sources: need approximately 15 minutes of roles, including modulating immune Karen unfiltered sun exposure on the hands function, regulating cell division, Cod liver oil is the best source; and face per day in order to produce and maintaining heart function. It egg yolks, butter, liver, oily fish This article is not intended to enough Vitamin D; darkly-pigmented is currently being researched as a (salmon, herring, tuna, mackerel, treat or diagnose and is for education skin requires longer exposure. (Please potential prevention and treatment for sardines) contain moderate amounts; purposes only. If you have any keep in mind that sunscreens (SPF MS (Multiple Sclerosis) and cancer. mushrooms and dark leafy greens nutritional issues or concerns, please 8 or higher), clothing, smog, time contain trace amounts. Fortified consult a qualified nutritionist of day and season interfere with our Requirements: cereals, dairy products, orange juices (preferably me!) or healthcare synthesis of Vitamin D.) D2 is the and soy beverages contain Vitamin provider. plant-derived source of Vitamin D There is no Recommended Dietary D, but amounts can be quite varied. and does not appear to have all of the Allowance (RDA) for Vitamin D as Sunlight on our skin is definitely the Thanks to Melanie Seed. same functions and/or benefits as D3. there is not enough research evidence. Thus, it is best to supplement with the Instead, we refer to Adequate Intake naturally occurring, animal-derived (AI) which is “a recommended source, D3. average daily nutrient intake level Again, because fat soluble based on observed or experimentally vitamins are stored in the body, there determined approximations or is the potential for toxicity, in large estimates of nutrient intake, by a doses. First symptoms of Vitamin D group (or groups) of apparently toxicity can include nausea, weakness, healthy people, that are assumed diarrhea and headaches. to be adequate”. (Haas, Elson M., Calcidiol, produced during the MD; Levin, Buck., PhD, RD. 2006. metabolism of Vitamin D, can be “Staying Healthy with Nutrition”) classed as a sterol, which means it is derived from a form of cholesterol For Vitamin D, the AIs* are as – the same cholesterol which is follows: implicated in cardiovascular disease, but is required by the body for 5 mcg (200 IU) for Infants and

Construction at the Firehall

Photo by Tom Alfoldi Page 44 The OSCAR - OUR 37th YEAR NOV 2009 Around Town

La Leche League Canada has a group 567-7729 Drive) Deli, Frozen Foods, Candy, Professor Kevin Flynn, Director of in Old Ottawa South. Are you breast- Baking, Gift baskets and Lunch Room Anglican Studies, St. Paul University. feeding your baby? Are you pregnant Saturday, November 7, 2009. Place: St. Paul University, 223 Main and planning to breast-feed? A La Leche Recorder Ensemble Masterclass with CONCERT Carleton University St - Main Chapel. Time: 10:00 am to League meeting is a relaxed, supportive Gerald Corey 2-5pm, St. Matthias Choir. Saturday, November 21, 2009 3:00 pm (registration 9:15-9:45 am). and non-judgmental place where you Anglican Church, 555 Parkdale at 8:00 pm at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Donation, at the door. Bring a bag can: meet breast-feeding women, ask Ave. www.cammac.ca. Auditors are Church, 82 Kent Street, Ottawa. Jean- lunch and drink. Register by November specific questions about breast-feeding, welcome. Free for members, $5 for Sébastien Allaire, Choir Director. The 21 with Jeanette Deyell at 613-733- learn more about breast-feeding from non-members. Info: Elizabeth Gillies Advent Cantatas (No. 36, 61 and 62) by 6755 or jeanettemeditation@rogers. accredited leaders who have breast-fed 613-724-3719 J.S. Bach with chamber orchestra and com. For more information visit www. their own children and who volunteer soloists. 613-520-5770 www.carleton. meditatio.ca. Everyone is welcome. their time, get tips for working through Sunday, November 8, 2009. Workshop ca/choir $20 adults, $15 seniors and best breast-feeding challenges, find out Vocal Jazz with Elise Letourneau $10 students November 29 : St. Margaret Mary’s more about getting ready to breast-feed 2-5pm, St. Matthias Anglican Church, Christmas Bazaar. 12:00 to 2:00 p.m. (if you are pregnant), find out more 555 Parkdale Ave. Info: Valerie 613- Concerts-in-the-Glebe, sponsored Lunch café, healthy frozen dinners, about the benefits of breast-feeding 234-1030 www.cammac.ca $10 for by Glebe St. James United Church frozen apple pies, baked goods, for baby and you, borrow books about CAMMAC Members, $15 for non- present Well Tempered Keyboards delicious preserves, children’s fish breast-feeding and related parenting members. $5 extra if paying at the by Robert Crutchfield, marimba and pond and activities, silent auction. topics. Meetings every second Tuesday door This participatory workshop will Maria Mika Guénette, piano. The Funds raised go to support the “Out of of the month from 7:00 to 8:30 PM at 36 include: discussion and practice. We’ll programme of exotic contemporary the Cold” Sunday suppers. Sunnyside Glen Ave. Next meeting November 10. create a “vocal big band” together. arrangements from around the world and Fairbairn, across from the Old For more information call 613-238- No prior jazz experience is required, will delight their audience. Join us at Firehall. 5919, the local La Leche League phone but some prior singing experience is 2:30 p.m. Sunday, November 22. The line. helpful. church is located at 650 Lyon Street Friday, December 4 2009. at First Avenue. Admission is $15, Performance for choir and orchestra: Sunday, November 1, 3 p.m. and Saturday, November 14, 21, 28. students and seniors $10. Admission Come! Sing Messiah! with Louis 8 p.m. Concert Gregorian Chant Messiah Rehearsals (choir only) with by donation is always welcome. For Lavigueur Rehearsal 6pm, Concert Requiem sung by Chorus Ecclesiae Alan Thomas 10-12:15pm, Parkdale more information, contact the church at 8pm. Dominion-Chalmers United and the Symposium Choir conducted United Church, 429 Parkdale Ave. www.glebestjames.ca or 613-236-0617 Church, 355 Cooper St. by Lawrence Harris, in the cloister of www.cammac.ca Info: 613-260-2250 www.cammac.ca Info: Wita 819-778- the Dominican Convent, 96 Empress Executor Duties and Estate 2062 Avenue, off Somerset, two traffic lights Food Bazaar - November 21, 2009 Settlement Seminar. Hulse, Playfair west of Bronson. Free parking in the - 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. St Stephen’s & McGarry 315 McLeod Street Silver Bells” Bazaar Saturday, adjacent lot. Tickets at the door - $15 Presbyterian Church, 579 Parkdale providing complimentary seminar . December 5, 2009-10-23, 9:30 a.m. to adults / $8 students. Information 613- Avenue (corner of Sherwood Wednesday, November 18, 2009 from 2:00 p.m. At The Good Companions, 6:15pm – 8:15pm. Learn how to choose 670 Albert Street, Ottawa ON K1R an executor, save time and money while 6L2. Books, Christmas Table, Home settling an estate and to avoid common Baking, Creative Crafts, Jewellery, pitfalls and delays. RSVP 613-233- Nearly New Fashions, Silent Auction, 1143 or continualcare@mcgarryfamily. Teddy Bear Den, Tuck Shop, Vendors’ ca Tables, White Elephant, Woodwork. The Dining Room will have coffee Abbotsford @ The Glebe Centre and muffins available until 11 a.m. and Annual Bazaar. For some of the Tourtière and cold plate available after best deals in town be sure to visit 11 a.m. Free admission and much, much the Abbotsford Annual Christmas more! For more information please call Bazaar on Saturday, November 28th 613-236-0428, extension 100. from 10:00 am – 2:30 pm, located at 950 Bank Street. You’re sure to find Concerts-in-the-Glebe, sponsored just what you’re looking for with our by Glebe St. James United Church vast selection of gift ideas including Old presents pianist Mauro Bertoli. handcrafts, home baking, jewellery, Old will meet New in a programme of children’s toys, flea market, ornaments, sonatas and dances from the Romantic books, plus the very popular Silent to contemporary eras. Join us at Auction where your bid could entitle 2:30 p.m. Sunday, December 6. The you to fabulous gifts, valuable antiques church is located at 650 Lyon Street or collector’s items. So mark your at First Avenue. Admission is $15, calendars now – you won’t want to miss students and seniors $10. Admission it! Free admission. For information by donation is always welcome. For email [email protected], or more information, contact the church call 613-230-5730. at www.glebestjames.ca or 613-236- 0617. Ottawa Brahms Choir, Director Kurt Ala-Kantti, will present their Bytown Voices. Sunday, Dec. 13, 2009 Christmas Concert ‘Magnificat’ at 3 p.m. St Basil’s Church, Maitland on Sunday November 28th, 3 pm Ave., just north of the Queensway. at St. Thomas the Apostle Church, Our annual Christmas concert will 2345 Alta Vista Dr. The concert will feature a variety of seasonal music feature Magnificats by Schuetz and including African Alleluia, pieces from Mendelssohn, the latter celebrating the the Messiah, songs by Nancy Telfer, 200th anniversary of Mendelssohn’s Stephen Smith and John Rutter, as well birth, as well as Christmas music and as the Hallelujah Chorus by Handel. audience participation. For info: Tickets are available at the door or Ken Currie 613 224-8317 or www. from choir members: $15 for adults, $6 OttawaBrahmsChoir.ca for students. Twelve years & under are free.Info: (613) 234-1030 or at www. November 28: Advent: Celebrating bytownvoices.com The Coming One - Christian Meditation retreat with the Rev. NOV 2009 The OSCAR - OUR 37th YEAR Page 45

WHAT’S HAPPENING AT THE LIBRARIES Alta Vista Branch Library

Alta Vista Branch Adult Programs Monday, November 30, 6:30 p.m. (1 Lewis De Soto Saturdays, 10:30 a.m. (1.5 hr.) 2516 Alta Vista Drive hr.)* Nov 7, Dec 5 Register: 613-737-2837 x28 Tuesday Book Group Wednesdays, 6:30 (1.5 hr.) Special Program For Children / Join a stimulating discussion of Nov 18, Dec 9 PROGRAMS OFFERED AT THE Programme Special Pour Enfants the best in non-fiction. The title to ALTA VISTA LIBRARY be explored is: Payback by Toastmasters PROGRAMMES OFFERTS A LA Wow! Bears, little bears and teddy Margaret Atwood. Discover techniques that help build BIBLIOTHEQUE ALTA VISTA bears! Tuesdays, 7:00 p.m. (1.5 hr.) confidence when speaking in public. Stories, videos and crafts. You can Nov. 3, 17, Dec. 1, 15 Sponsored by the Riverside Pre-School/Prescolaire bring your favourite teddy bear! Ages Toastmasters. 4-8. Infusions littéraires Monday, Nov. 2, 6:30 p.m. (1.5 hrs.) Babytime (Bilingual) Saturday, November 14, 2 Partager une tasse de thé ou de For babies and their parent or p.m. (45 min.)* tisane en discutant de livres. Paths to University caregiver with stories, rhymes, songs Ouah! Des ours, des oursons et des Les mardis, 14h (1 hr) Learn how you can qualify to attend and activities. Ages 0-18 months. nounours! 17 nov : Voix sans issue de Céline university through Carleton Thursdays, September 24-October 29, Contes, vidéos et bricolage. Tu peux Curiol University’s November 12-December 17, 10:30 apporter ton nounours préféré. Pour Bridging Program (for adults 21 years a.m. (30 min.) les 4 à 8 ans. (45 min.)* Alta Vista Sleuth Hounds and over) and the Enriched Support (Bilingue) Samedi 14 novembre, 14 Get together to talk about your Program (all ages). Toddlertime h. (45 min.)* favourite mystery authors and Wednesday, Nov. 4, 1:00 p.m. (1 hr.) For toddlers and a parent or caregiver discover some new ones too! with stories, rhymes, songs and Teen Special Programs Thursdays, 6:30 p.m. (1.5 hrs.) An Evening with Mike Nickerson activities. Ages 18-35 months. November 19: The Draining Lake Join us for a discussion of Mike Mondays, September 21-October 5, Game On! by Arnaldur Indridason Nickerson’s recent book, Life, Money October 19-October 26, November Challenge your friends to get gaming. and Illusion: Living on Earth as if we 9-December 14, 10:30 a.m. (45 min.) Compete on the Wii or blast the French Conversation Group Wanted to Stay. X-Box for bragging rights. Ages 13 Improve your spoken French in a Wednesday, Nov. 4, 6:30 p.m. (1.5 Storytime and up. relaxed setting. For those with an hrs.) Stories and rhymes for young Monday, November 9, 6 p.m. (1.5 intermediate level of French. children-parents and caregivers are hr)* Tuesdays, 6:30 p.m. (1.5 hrs.) Is Free Software Really Free? welcome to join. Ages 3-6. Nov. 3, 10, 17, 24 Join Alan German from the Ottawa (Bilingual) Tuesdays, September License to thrill PC Users’ Group to find out about 22-October 27, November Does Bond leave you shaken and English Conversation Group some must-have, free and reliable 10-December 15, 10:30 a.m. (45 stirred? An afternoon of action and Improve your English and meet new software. min.) intrigue await. James Bond theme friends in a relaxed setting. Thursday, Nov. 5, 6:30 p.m. (1.5 hrs.) Contes party. Spy activities. Movie TBD. This program is offered in Contes et rimes pour les enfants. Ages 14 and up. partnership Le cheminement littéraire Parents et fournisseurs de soins sont Saturday, November 7, 2 p.m. (2 with Somali Family Services. L’auteure Michèle Vinet offre des les bienvenus. Pour les 3 à 6 ans. hrs.)* Mondays, 6:00 p.m. (1.5 hr.) suggestions aux écrivains concernant (Bilingue) Les mardis, 22 Tuesdays, Beginners 1 p.m. (1 hr.) le cheminement de toute œuvre septembre-27 octobre, 10 N.B. Registration for fall programs Tuesdays, Intermediate 2 p.m. (1 hr.) littéraire de sa conception au choix novembre-15 décembre , 10 h 30 (45 starts on September 16./ L’inscription final du titre. min.) pour les programmes d’automne Spanish Conversation Group Lundi 16 nov, 18 h 30 (2 hrs) commence le 16 septembre./ Improve your spoken Spanish in a BOOK CLUBS / CLUBS DE Programs followed by an * require relaxed setting. For those with an The Writing Life LECTURE registration. / L’inscription est requise advanced level of Spanish. Pick up tips to improve your writing pour les programmes suivis d’un *. Wednesdays, 6:30 p.m. (1.5 hrs.) from local author Michèle Vinet. Book clubs for children/Clubs de The address of the Alta Vista Library Nov. 4, 18, 25 Learn more about the writing and lecture pour enfants is 2516 Alta Vista Drive, Ottawa and editing process, writer’s block, and the phone number of the Alta Vista Knit 2 Together finding an authentic voice. The Dawg Lounge! Woof! Library 613-737-2837./ L’adresse de Join us for random chatter, Thursday, Nov. 19, 6:30 p.m. (2 hrs.) Share your favorites and discover la bibliothèque Alta Vista est le 2516, good advice and problem solving. books with our boys’ book club. promenade Alta Vista, Ottawa et son Bring hats, scarves, socks - any Ages 8-12. numéro de téléphone est le 613-737- knitting projects you please. Tuesday, November 3rd, 4:15 p.m. 2837. (45 min.)* Program registration will be done Un livre à partager on-line only. Ottawa Public Library Club de lecture pour ceux qui aiment cards are needed to register on-line./ lire. Pour les 8 à 12 ans. L’inscription des programmes est Lundi 16 novembre, 16 h 15 (45 faite seulement en ligne. Les cartes min.)* de la bibliothèque publique d’Ottawa sont requises pour l’inscription en Timbit Girls ligne des programmes. An after-school book club for girls who love to read. Ages 8-12. Alta Vista Branch Adult Programs Monday, November 23, 4:15 p.m. (45 Register at: min)* www.biblioottawalibrary.ca or call: 613-737-2837 x28 Book club for teenagers Book Banter Mmm…Books! Drop in to share the enjoyment of Teens talk about their favourite good books in a relaxed atmosphere. reading material with other book Thursdays, 2 p.m. (1 hr.) lovers. Ages 12-17. Nov. 5: A Blade of Grass by Page 46 The OSCAR - OUR 37th YEAR NOV 2009

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Retired Teacher. Grs.1-6, ------Winter Parking: Outdoor parking (in ------Reading, Writing In Your Home $35. Car For Sale: 2004 Mazda 3 Sedan, five laneway) available on Fentiman Avenue Looking for furnished accommodation Call: Bev 613-730-2411 speed. 98,800 km. Great. condition. (last block, near the river) at $45.00/ for two months - May 1 – June 30, 2010. Includes four snow tires.No longer need month. 613-730-8157. Two professional women with small second car. $7500 o.b.o. David 613-851------non-shedding dog. We are residents of Looking For 1963 Parking spot available at Belmont and OOS (our own house will be rented until ------Bellwood. Pls call 739-5532. end of June 2010). References available. For Sale: Handmade Baby Quilts. and ------Contact: [email protected]. Looking for reliable man able to operate Crocheted Baby Blankets. Various Comfortable sunny three story home ------our electrical snowblower and willing to Prices, starting at $35. Excellent Gift, on Glen Ave. available for rent from Spectacular, new, large fully furnished enter agreement with us to clear snow Excellent Price. 613-730-2411, Will Novemer 1st to April 30th (there is some one bedroom apartment in post & on our driveway Billings Bridge area e-mail Pictures flexibility in these dates). The house is beam house on non-motor boat lake 30 early mornings all winter as many days ------fully furnished and very well equipped. minutes from Ottawa. $975 inclusive. as required. Please contact Christine or Playmobil Deluxe Victorian Dollhouse, There are two large bedrooms and full Must be seen! www.celticcrosslodge. George 613-731-6510 and leave message completely furnished with all accessories bathrooms with a third bedroom/office com Larry 613 730 3789 with name and number . Thanks. and characters, everything in perfect if needed plus a large den with a wood ------condition - $300 value for $150. Call fireplace. Parking for 2 cars in the Looking to rent a home in the 613-730-1163 after 5 pm or email driveway. Rent is $1600.00 plus some neighborhood over the Christmas Lost/Found [email protected] for photos utilities. Please call 613-730-7921. holidays. Family of four adults and more information. ------(University Professors) are here to visit Found in Windsor Park: Pair of reading ------Laurentians: Arundel,Harrington,QC. us before their grandchild/nephew is glasses found near Riverdale entrance. Four Marshall 205/60R16 snow tires, For rent Oct.15-May1st. Spectacular born in January. We are looking for Markings: “Soho Tech Italian Design, used two seasons, $300. 613-233-3729. views, 30 min. to Mt. Tremblant 1 1/2 hr. a week to 10 days. Love animals and Slate. “ Watch: Timex Ironman 30 lap ------from Ottawa or Montreal. Non Smoking will cat-sit or dog-walk. Please contact with blue wristband. 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s October ushered in chilly weather Glebe. Presentations involve a wide the Canadian Council for Public-Private Saturday, Nov. 14. On this memorable Aand colourful leaves, the Carleton range of interesting and unique topics. Partnerships and the Canadian Coalition occasion, Carleton celebrates the campus remained vibrant as it reached The first discussion was titled “Fall for Good Governance. Mr. Wilson is an accomplishments of its graduates out to the community and hosted a wide Foliage 101: Why do leaves turn Officer of the Order of Canada and has and presents honorary degrees to range of activities and lectures. different colours?” featuring Carleton honorary degrees from the University recipients who have made outstanding Carleton’s annual United Way Professor Root Gorelick. For more of Toronto and York University. contributions to the Ottawa community, campaign kicked off Oct. 21 with a information on topics of future Science The university was also pleased with Canada and the world. Bring Your Own Bowl soup lunch. Cafes, check out the website at science. an Ontario government announcement More information on Carleton’s Until the campaign ends on Nov. 13, the carleton.ca/café, where you can also see that it will provide up to $9.3 million events can be found at www.carleton. Carleton community will host a variety the slides and hear the presentations. to Coral CEA to help companies ca/events. of events to raise money for United Carleton was proud to host the develop and market communications Way services. The university is thrilled Honourable Michael Wilson, outgoing enabled applications (CEA) in a matter Carleton Corner is written by to have cross-campus participation and Canadian ambassador to the United of weeks instead of months and years. Carleton University’s Department of has a goal to raise $150,000. This year’s States, on Oct. 6 for the 2009 Bell Carleton University is a founding University Communications. As your United Way campaign is encouraging Lecture – Reflections on Momentous member of Coral CEA. The four other community university, Carleton hosts people to donate to education-related Times in Washington. The lecture founding partners are IBM, Nortel many exciting events of interest to organizations. For more information on is an annual event that honours the Networks, Eclipse Foundation and the Ottawa South. For more information events and the campaign, visit http:// contributions of individuals to political Information Technology Association of about upcoming events, please go to www2.carleton.ca/unitedway/. and public life in Canada. Mr. Wilson is Canada (ITAC). CEA is the next wave carleton.ca/events. The university’s Faculty of Science active in a number of professional and of innovation in communications and also resumed its popular semi-weekly community organizations including the information technology. Science Café, held on Wednesday NeuroScience Canada Partnership, the This month, Carleton will be evenings at the Wild Oat Café in the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, hosting its annual Fall Convocation on NOV 2009 The OSCAR - OUR 37th YEAR Page 47 YourMarketplace

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