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Serving the Glebe community since 1973 FREE Ex stays at Lansdowne BY MATTHEVV HARRISON Doucet, would cause the traffic to Despite confirmed plans to spill over into the Glebe and Ot- relocate to the south end of the tawa South areas, creating a worse city, Lansdowne Park may see the situation for those residents who summer Ex being held in the are already seeing an increase in Glebe for a few more years, which traffic and who are seeking ways may be a good thing, according to to decrease the amount of traffic Clive Doucet, city councillor for in their neighbourhoods. Capital Ward. "No doubt some people will get "It is clear that Lansdowne is annoyed because the Ex is not not the place for the Ex," says moving yet, but they don't under- Doucet, "and let me make it clear stand the trade-off," says Doucet, that the Ex will be moving. There alluding to the increase in traffic is a real desire for the Ex to if the Ex goes ahead and moves move, both by them and by the without waiting for the proper city. They have bought land and transit connections to the new they have a real commitment to site. Yet the proposed extension relocate, but this cannot 'happen of light rail may not happen until until some problems are re- 2007. solved." The idea that Lansdowne may Doucet is referring to some be the host of the Ex for some complications regarding the traf- years to come may not be exactly Retiring editor, Susan Jermyn, with Hélène Samson, Bruce Donaldson fic and transit problems that the what some residents in the Glebe and Teena Hendelman at a recent Glebe Report gathering in The Pantry. new site, located near the airport and Ottawa South were hoping to in Ottawa's south end, may cause hear. Instead of moving, the Ex Susan Jermyn retires for city residents, including will be held once again at those living in the Glebe and Old Lansdowne Park this year, amidst as Glebe massive road repair along much of Report editor Ottawa South. with all of you, board members, According to Doucet, unless Bank Street in Old Ottawa South BY ELAINE MARLIN In volunteers and staff and all the light rail is extended out to the and the Glebe. This will likely February, Susan Jermyn, longtime editor of the Glebe other writers and columnists who south end of Ottawa, the two main complicate an already strained Re- is came into the office. We were road arteries, Bank Bronson, relationship between Lansdowne port, retired. She ill with can- and cer and quite a team." will be flooded by traffic going and the local community. is currently undergoing medical treatment. Sue grew up in the Glebe, out to the Ex. The result, says 2 Continued on page Susan worked at the newspaper studied at Carleton, graduating for almost a decade, beginning as with a combined degree in psy- a volunteer proofreader, moving chology and biology, and lives on on to layout, working as editorial Fourth Avenue with her husband assistant and, for the past five Chris and children Andrew and years, ably performing the role of Wendy. 'Through her volunteer editor. Under her editorship the work and many interests, she has paper grew and embarked on the built up an extensive network of transition to the technological friends and contacts who have age. Sue leaves behind a well- come forward with expressions of organized and smooth-running support and offers of help. In a organization and a loyal reader- letter to the Glebe Report, Sue ship. writes: "I thank the community For many years Sue also con- members, board members, staff, tributed to the work of the Glebe contributors and volunteers who Report's board of directors. In a have sent messages of kind recent letter to the board, she thoughts and sympathy. There wrote: "I have really enjoyed have been far too many for me to learning the job from working thank individually."

Photo: Ottawa Board of Education Collection, 1948 Ottawa Public School gardens located near Glebe Collegiate Institute INSIDE Community Building Music 16 & 17 Workshop 2 Were you a Mutchmor gardener? Travel 18 BY LYNN ARMSI RONG yard? Do you remember any Improved Accessibility Margaret Negodaeff A group of parents, local art- plants or trees? Planned for GCC 3 ists and students of the Mutchmot We are also interested in any Gardening 19 Environment Club are planning a memories of pictures related to Kung Fu Patrick Linda Thorne restoration of the gardens at the the Public School Gardenslocated Gordon 5 Fifth Avenue entrance to Mutch- between First and Second ave- Art 20 mor School. As part of our re- nuesbetween 1916 to 1953 (as GNAG's Wizard of Oz Flowers and Trees search, we are trying to dig up seen in the photo above, ©1948). Production 6 & 7 early photographs of the Although these gardens have now Dagenais Benefit GCA .8 schoolyard, particularly the Fifth been redeveloped into houses, we Concert 24 & 25 Avenue entry area. Did your Nominations for Spirit of the would like to include their his- 75th mother take a first-day-at-school tory in the educational component Glebe award Immaculata,s picture of you in the schoolyard of our project. Anniversary 29 or maybe a field trip or team Councillor Doucet 9 picture at the front of the school? The garden planning i s Business News 10 & 12 Books 31 - 33 If you don't have pictures, we ongoing in March and April, Religion would also like to have your and we would love to hear Hockey 15 34 memories of the yard. Was there from you soon. You can Northern exchange Lenten exercise ever a wrought-iron fence or reach co-ordinator Lynn other fence enclosing the front Armstrong at 567-1577. NEXT DEADLINE: MARCH 24, 2003 NEWS Glebe Report March 14, 2003 2 Collaborative community-building Discovering our heritage A new way of doing business BY JOHN LEANING and long-time residents of the The Glebe Historical Society area. Steve Reid gave us an insight BY BARBARA RILEY community in Ottawa? Heritage Week seminar at the into methods of historical analy- On a sncwy Saturday in Febru- Step 2. What are the top five Glebe Community Centre on Feb. sis and fire insurance maps. De- ary, 78 Ottawans spent the day at things about which community 15 was well-received by a full tailed area maps were on display. a brainstorming workshop on groups want to have increased house of 45. The session lasted Bruce McCallen, who has made collaborative community-build- communication? from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. extensive research into Bank ing. For five hours we threw ideas Step 3. What are the top five Street properties, demonstrated at each other. It was noisy, crea- things that stand in the way of how best to analyze the city di- tive and fun, and we left city staff effective communication and col- rectories. Greg West gave us a to pick up the pieces and develop laboration in Ottawa? historic sketch of the former Pin- a report for June. Step 4. Think widely and wildly: So what is collaborative com- brainstorm any and all initiatives munity-building? It's a new way that would lead to a more collabo- of doing business, according to rative relationship between dif- Lesley Paterson, Co-ordinator of ferent community groups and the Ottawa's Official Plan, that in- city. cludes all of Ottawa's many com- Step 5. Pick the three most bene- munities working together with ficial initiatives and spell out the city. During the consultations these details for each one: what for Ottawa 20/20, city staff heard are the goals? next steps? ideal that residents want better, more start date/time frame? who is re- After an introduction by Soci- open access and communication potential obstacles? sponsible? ety's co-ordinator Ian McKercher, with the city, and that they want So what were our top sugges- John Leaning presented an his- to be more involved in the plan- tions for next steps? We wanted torical overview of Glebe history. ning decisions that affect them. more effective communications This was followed by a detailed hey House at 237-239 Clemow Collaborative community-build- and we wanted more proactive description of how to research Avenue. We all went away greatly ing is the response. community-based decision-mak- your property history by Lynn informed on how to research our NOTE: "Community" can mean ing: Armstrong. She also demonstrated houses. This may become an an- a neighbourhood, business sector, up a set conununity resource or how best to interview neighbours nual event. cultural group, immigrant com- office in each community note: John Leaning would like readers to consider his munity, faith community, artistic create links between different Editor's comments on Glebe historical sites as "conjectural." He invites readers group, environmental body, rec- communities to increase under- or contradictory information in order to reation or sports group, etc. standing and common action to write in with additional What's good about collabora- organize education/awareness increase our understanding of our heritage. tive community-building and programs to help communities what are the pitfalls? Caroline understand and respond to city Andrew, dean of the Social Sci- issues ences faculty at the University of share information using Web Ottawa, gave us some answers: sites and other means the positives are that it brings have each community assess its different kinds of expertise to needs and priorities bear on issues because people set up community-based advi- know how their particular com- sory committees munity or neighbourhood works; use a community's quality of life it creates a sense of belonging as a benchmark for needs and and cornmitment to the city services the challenges are that it needs develop community-based design ,jIp.r.,-Armwardar - to be proactive and inclusive, or plans the process will favour those who The best brainstorming is en- 11111figlifF are already favoured; to correct ergizing and satisfyingyou work re, Ji imbalances and inequalities hard, have fun, get results. The 44",,,Ln among different communities; to city's workshop was a good begin- The VVhyte House as seen from the acknowledge tensions and deal North over Brown's Inlet about 1880, ning. But the issue of inclusive- with pasture and swamp in the foreground around Holmwood Avenue with them; and to recognize limits ness loomed large: very few non- (Centre Street). the necessary ingredients for white faces, no evidence of the success are a clear commitment francophone community or of the from the city; transparency about business sector, no youth, little from page 1 what is or is not open for discus- input that reflected Ottawa citi- Lansdowne - sion; an understanding that this zens who are outside the main- In another conflict early this munity associations, Brad Wat- is a long-term investment of time stream (e.g., immigrants or those year between Lansdowne and local ters, owner of the Renegades, and and energy; and some early suc- on social assistance). As we be- residents, the homes of those the city. Last Wednesday evening, cesses for encouragement. gin, the process favours the fa- living in Ottawa Southespecially discussions with Watters and the Those points in mind, we got voured. Can we change that? along Echo Drivewere flooded city resulted in an agreement to down to work in small groups. For more information, look at nightly by the intense illumina- shut off the sign at 6 p.m. In res- Now, here's your chance to be the Web site at www.ottawa2020. tion from a videotron sign, which ponse to Wednesday's decision part of the workshop by brain- com and click on The Collabora- is normally used during Renegade and the fears that this type of storming on the same questions tive Community-Building Event, football games, but was turned problem could recur, Doucet says that we did. or contact city staff member around to face the canal during reassuringly, "We learned our Step 1. What are the benefits in Monique Trotter at 580-2400 or the off-season. lesson from the sign and it won't creating a more collaborative [email protected] The sign displayed advertise- be happening again." ments and depicted violent scenes Matthew Harrison is a graduate from hockey games 24 hours a day of the Carleton School of Jour- into their living rooms, sparking nalism and is doing freelance CREATIVE FLOOR WORX a series of discussions by corn- work. IMPORTED CERAMIC TILE * MARBLE * GRANITE HARDWOOD

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For more information, fennifer Stone, Patrick's wife, Master Fong and Patrick Gordon phone Elaine at 236-4955 or drop your resumé off at the main desk Kung Fu in Glebe of the Glebe Community Centre. the BY PATRICK GORDON Forms may be used for focusing, Only candidates selected for an interview will For over four years, I have flowing, body-unity, co-ordina- be contacted. been instructing Chinese martial tion, strength, relaxation, martial arts at Glebe Fitness (formerly techniques of the style, etc. Wing Momentum Athletics), 858 Bank Chun uses the hands for defend- St. at the corner of Fifth Avenue. ing, trapping and striking move- I grew up in the Glebe and it is ments, while the feet are used for really great to be back, teaching mobility, low kicking and trap- THE HEFIRT OF' THE GLEBE in my old neighbourhood. I could ping. not think of a nicer area of Ottawa Wing Chun will lead to a bal- Richard Merrill Haney, Ph.D. (Psychotherapy) to work. I have several students anced development of three as- who work, live and go to school pects: physical, mental and "You are your dreams...limited only by your fears." here and they are grateful to be spiritual. Beginners work at the able to attend self-defense physical level, such as technique, Individual, Couple and Family Counselling classes in their own neighbour- power, timing, structure, etc. At Comprehensive Family Mediation (with or without lawyers) hood. an intermediate to advanced level, Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy I teach a style of Kung Fu the student focuses on the mental called Wing Chun. Of its many side, such as quieting the mind, Bank St. at 4th Ave. [email protected] oral histories, the most popular focusing the mind, learning to 234-5678 (by appointment) www.ottawacounselling.com version is that Wing Chun was stay calm, etc. At a higher level, developed by a Shaolin nun in you may work on the spiritual China, more than 300 years ago. side of training. This would in- She taught her style to a young volve meditation, detachment, woman named Yim Wing Chun. The controlled ego, etc. Spiritual style was named after her, due to training is not to be confused s.D.y. Property Management Inc. the refinements she made to it, with religion. and it continued to be passed Besides being founded by two from teacher to student until women, Wing Chun is well-suited "THE RESIDENTIAL SPECIALISTS" talented because its techniques (over 25 years experience in Ottawa) 1949, when Yip Man, a to women martial artist moved to Hong Kong and applications are realistic and and opened the first commercial don't rely on strength-oriented We wekome residential property owners and investors to contact Wing Chun school. Yip Man had a techniques. Women also tend to are: us for consultation. A brief outline of the services we provide disciple by the name of Ho Kam be able to relax and flow better An accurate and up to date professional opinion of supply, Ming. Mr. Ho started instructing than men. Unfortunately, I see demand and rental revenue in the current Ottawa residential his own classes in Macau with his very few women attending Kung 'rental market. teacher's encouragement Of all Fu classes. In today's society, I his students, the most talented highly recommend that women at Advertising, screening of prospective tenants, credit checks, was Augustine Fong, who ended least give martial arts a try; aside employment confirmation, current tenancy checks. up becoming an instructor, under from it being fun and a good Preparation of our customized lease that accommodates and his teacher's guidance, and later workout, it could help them out of protects owners concerns. moved to the Southwestern United a dangerous situation one day. States, where he has become a I have practised several mar-. Twenty-four hour emergency repair service at reasonable rates. very sought-after Kung Fu in- tial arts styles, but am partial to Interpretation and clarification of The Tenant Protection Act. structor. Wing Chun because of its effi- Each year I travel to Tucson, ciency and practicality and, most We are members of Ottawa Regional Landlord's Association, Arizona, to train under Master importantly, because it is an in- Eastern Ontario Landlord's Association, The Women's Business Fong. With time, practice and pa- telligent style which makes you of firms listed Network and one the few property management tience, I became an instructor think. If you are interested in in the Integration Relocation Program (IRP) Directory of under Master Fong and was en- Wing Chun, come by and try a Participating Property Management Firms. A government couraged to start teaching Wing free class. If you grew up in the program set up to assist Public Service employees, Canadian Chun in Canada. From Yip Man to Glebe, who knows, we may just Forces and RCMP members during their relocation. Ho Kam Kung to Augustine Fong- know one another! Day, evening this is the line on which I trace and private classes are offered. We are available to meet with you at your home or office, at your my Wing Chun lineage. Wing Chun Kung Fu is not only for fight- convenience, to discuss the advantages of having S.D.J. Property is an effective means of self- is a perfect way to wind Inc. or ing, it Management rent and/or manage your home residential defense which has three hand before a long day at to down after or investment property. Satisfied clients are always available forms, a wooden dummy form (a Practising will provide you with work or school. references. training apparatus) and two wake you up, physically and weapons forms. A form is a series mentally. Glebe Fitness also of- Contact us today at 236-3407 of prearranged movements devel- fers a variety of other activities. for your free consultation! oped to introduce movements to For any additional information the student and to encapsulate regarding Wing Chun, please feel the style for future generations. free to e-mail me at p.gordon@ 170 Holmwood Ave., Ottawa K1S 2P4 Each form introduces techniques cyberus.ca or visit my Web site at Tel: 236-3407 Fax: 236-1066 and concepts at the appropriate www.cyberus.ca/-p.gordon/Wing level of the student's training. ChunOttawa.htm NEWS Glebe Report March 14, 2003 6 The Wizard of Oz: our first community production BY CLARA HIRSCH emerald-coloured diamond shapes Those lucky enough to get a and folded and draped gauze fab- ticket experienced a delightful ric. The platform canopy in the bit of entertainment at GNAG's centre of the audience was a first theatrical production, The brilliant piece of staging. It al- Wizard of Oz. The sold-out audi- lowed for movement and dramatic ence's gasps and laughter indi- effects in an otherwise limited cated that the show, which ran space. The lighting by Ross Imrie from Feb. 28 to March 1, was a and Scott Windsor provided at- complete success. In every aspect, mosphere, as well as clever ef- the production uncovered the vast fects for the Wizard (Ingrid array of talent in our community. Deschenes and Samantha Nash) to Eleanor Crowder, with the help play his deceptive tricks. of Pat Goyeche, brilliantly di- The costumes were remarkable, rected the cast of Glebites. Given especially the Scarecrow, played the limitations of the space, she by Artem Barry, the Tin Wood- managed to create a sense of mo- man, Mike Tallim, the Cowardly mentum and drama. The play i s Lion, Margie Marlin, and Toto, demanding in that it requires the Heather Carlson. The papier- action to be transported to very maché and silver-foiled mario- different environments. Eleanor nette of Melinda, Good Witch of seemed to get the actors to feel the North, was extraordinary. It comfortable in their roles, and to was designed and constructed by Photo: Giovanni move within the various locations artist Erin Robertson. Assistant Jennifer Salmon does Mike Tallim's makeup of the play and set to create Director Pat Goyeche was clever striking effects. Given that the in including details such as play requires actors of different placing a double string of pom- Following the yellow brick road age groups, the director ably poms around Toto's neck. managed to meld a I was BY LAUREN KRONICK guide us along the road to make them into uni- particularly struck by When you embark on a journey this show work. fied corps. the make-up. Dorothy's three with people you don't know, bar- And work, it did! Two months Eleanor Crowder was recently companions were exceptional. riers that will stand in your way, of hard, yet extremely fun work awarded the Victor Togesy Arts Jennifer Salmon did a brilliant and a final destination that had flown by and it was time for Award for contributions to cul- job transforming human faces into eventually will be reached, it is Opening Night. After spending tural life. that of a lion, a scarecrow, a tin the positive attitudes and the late nights at the Glebe Commu- This reviewer was surprised at woodman, and a dog. spirit of those that you work with nity Centre acting (and for some, the professionalism of the actors. Jennie Aliman, jack of all that keep you going. roaring) our hearts out, we fi- Dorothy, a role shared by Ailsa trades, was a wonderful asset to During the past two months, nally had a polished product to Galbreath and Caroline Leslie, the production. She stage-man- GNAG's production of The Wizard perform for an enthusiastic com- presented herself as a convincing, aged, ran lines with the actors, strong-willed, and assisted with costumes, props of Oz was my personal quest that munity. Ignoring my nerves, I kind-hearted, de- termined little girl. Her compan- and set construction. I was aiming to conquer. With pushed myself to do my absolute ions accompanying her to the Em- Mary Lovelace did the essen- minimal theatrical experience, I best so that our goal could be met. was unsure as to what would meet Three sold-out audiences would erald City were tragicomic char- tial work behind the scenes. As me on the other end. After weeks applaud the amazing work that acters who warmed our hearts. house manager, Mary ensured that of drama-oriented exercises, everyone had accomplished. The supporting cast was spirited a small army of young people and fully engaged. were there to set up chairs, take creative warm-ups, line memori- Now that the show is over, I am zations, and getting to know the satisfied in knowing that a group I was surprised to hear live tickets and distribute essentials music set the mood of the such as ice cream at intermission. cast members, I felt my confi- of talented individuals came to- im- pending storm, as well as signal The Glebe community owes a dence build immensely as I real- gether to work as one big team. ized that the barriers that were We provided the community with changes of time and place. The debt of gratitude to Mary Tsai- set in my path would be broken quality entertainment and made young musicians of the Purple Davies who conceived the idea of a down. When things were in a ourselves proud of the journey Cloud Quartet added a refreshing workshop-based theatrical pro- slump, our fabulous director, that we finished on such a highly touch to the play. To the delight duction. Mary's concept included a group of talented Eleanor Crowder, was there to successful note. of the children in the audience, individuals, Abbey Sturrock provided various from every generation and from dance numbers by very young different theatrical disciplines, ballerinas. coming together to learn and cre- The stage design crew, coached ate. She drew together these tal- by Ross Imrie, created an ingen- ented people from our community PERSONAL INCOME TAX PREPARATION ious set of large painted plywood and brought this remarkable show cut-outs with imaginative details to fruition. I am already looking Sixteen Years Experience such as oversized mushrooms, forward to the next one.

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Metz, Victoria Metz, Rachel Moyo, SPRING/SUMMER tivities Group has produced its Cast, Dancers and Music: Alison O'Connor, Paul O'Donnell, PROGRAM REGISTRATION first community theatre produc- Ailsa Galbreath, Caroline Leslie, Miriam Okuda-Rayfuse, Catherine Spring is just around the cor- tion, an adaptation by Anne Artem Barry, Mike Tallim, Margie Richards, Clare Rogers, Archie ner, which means REGISTRATION Coulter Martens of L. Frank Marlin, Mafanway Buttigieg, Katy Stepanian, Evan Stepanian, Alex TIME! Check your copy of the Baum's beloved classic The Wiz- Longair, Stephanie Smith, Deb Tallim, Jane Wilson and Simone GNAG program guide available at ard of Oz. Hogan, Rosemary Curry, Ingrid Wiens. the Glebe Community Centre, or This community initiative be- Deschenes, Samantha Nash, Darcy Our Sponsors: visit us online at www.theglebe gan last spring. The idea was to Middaugh, Courtney Nicholson, Bank Street Coffee Company online.com. offer workshops in set design, Robin Copestake, Lauren Kronick, (Second Cup), Bank Street Fram- Adult program registration is children's dance, children's act- Heather Carlson, Brennan Neve, ing, Beechwood Village Chiro- on 'Thurs., March 20 6-8 p.m. ing classes and adult acting Ben Wilkinson-Zan, Marlow de- practic, Bolf Dance Company, (numbers will be handed out at 5 classes. The workshops and Paul, Shannon King, Belle Cao, Boomerang Kids, Christie Lites, p.m.). Preschool, children, youth classes would revolve around a Kailey Richards, Abigail Murray, Councillor Clive Doucet, Glebe and family registration begins on script that would include a mul- Tara Mahoney, Amanda Havey, T. Co-operative Nursery School, Sat., March 22 from 10 a.m. to 2 tigenerational cast and crew. MacGowan, Zachary Schantz, Tho- Great Canadian Theatre Company, p.m. (numbers will be distributed Once the script was selected, mas Beadle, Cammy Borza, Jenni- GNAG, Mark Poirier, Keller Wil- at 8 a.m.). the production team held a public fer Eaman, Zoé Hart, M. Johnson- liams Realty (Jeff Hooper), Ran- The City of Ottawa is still ac- information meeting which was Dugay, Fiona King, Epi Leibo- dall's Paints Limited (in the cepting registration for their attended by many interested and vitch, Katie Pirani-Watson, Emily Glebe), Royal Bank (in the Glebe), best-ever summer day camp pro- enthusiastic people of all ages. Quinn, Clara Schultz, Hannah Scotia Bank (in the Glebe), Select grams. GCC offers fun and excit- The production team included Wiens, Lauren Wohlfarth and The Roses (in the Glebe), Subway (864 ing day camps for children two to Eleanor Crowder, Ross Imrie, Pat Purple Cloud Quartet. Bank Street in the Glebe), Thomas 13 years of age for the months of Goyeche, Jennie Aliman, Bob Hunt Set Designers, Lighting and Cook Travel and Todd Duckworth. July and August. Camps will take and myself. Builders: Videos of this performance are place at Mutchmor Public School For eight weeks, director Julia Aldridge, Jude Fitzgerald, available for $10 at the front during renovation. Eleanor Crowder and assistant Debbie Broad, Cameron Davies, desk of the Glebe Community We also offer week-long spe- director Pat Goyeche conducted Sarah Davies, Dylan dePaul, Kyra Centre. Put your order in today! cialty camps, including tennis, classes for children eight to 11 dePaul, Missy Fraser, Ross Imrie, Videos will be ready for pickup carpentry, cycling and wilder- years of age, followed by adult Megan Malloy, Alex Okuda-Ray- at the end of March. ness camp in half-day or full-day classes. Ross Imrie led set design fuse, Sachiko Okuda, Jim Thomp- WHAT'S COMING UP programs. They fill up fast! workshops for adults and chil- son, Trevor Thompson and Scott AT GLEBE C.C. SPRING SOCCER dren from eight years of age. The Windsor. Spring Craft FairSat., April REGISTRATION Dancing Poppy scene was choreo- Costumes, Props and Crew: 12, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is GNAG spring soccer is back! graphed and taught by instructor Jennie Aliman, Bolf Dance Com- free! Over 50 artists will be ex- Registration begins Wed., April 2 Abbey Sturrock. pany, Pat Goyeche, Terry Llewe- hibiting their beautiful crafts from 7-8 p.m. at the GCC. Late On the Monday of the final lyn-Huntley, Christy Oliver, An- during this one-day event. registration for remaining spaces production week, all four groups drée Pouliot, Erin Robertson, Spring Flea MarketSat., will be accepted until Fri., April met on the set and rehearsed for Jennifer Salmon and Zita Taylor. April 26, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. 17. All games and grade levels the first time as a whole group. Volunteers: Great Glebe Garage Sale-Sat., run one night per week at Cham- Added to the mix was the Purple Regis Alcorn, Roily Aubrey, May 24, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. berlain field at Glendale and Cloud Quartet. Melanie Bauman, Ken Bhatt, Yuki Registration for last two events Chamberlain. 'Thanks to all the cast mem- Bhatt, M. & A. Boomgarandt, An- bers, the crew, all our volunteers drew Davidson, Little Cameron and sponsors for their creativity, Davies, Don Davies, Jordan Dav- hard work and support in this ies, André D'Iorio, Marlow de- magical experience. Paul, Alanna Elliot, Missy Fraser, Irita t wea/x Production Assistants: Christine Havey, AI Hirsc h- i (69et/y7 Eleanor Crowder, Ross Imrie, Jen- Allen, Simon Keeble, Constance 7Zho %deo &km' ceacowat gfiia Aeod

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Courtesy George BRADIE, Salesperson - Royal LePage Team Realty Free parking "Glebeites may walk" GCA Glebe Report March 14, 2003 8 GCA seeks nominations for Spirit of the Glebe award BY JUNE CREELMAN the address of the project, the statistics on the GCA page at tens ificatio n. AND ANNE SCOTTON owner's name and phone number www.theglebeonline.com. Thanks to input from the GCA MEMBERSHIP CAMPAIGN (if you know it), and a line or two TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT and other community groups, the SET FOR MAY on why you think this project is Marc Groulx, one of the city's most recent draft of the new offi- The GCA will be holding its worthy. You can e-mail nomina- specialized traffic officers, ex- cial plan includes a section on annual door-to-door membership tions to [email protected] plained traffic enforcement pro- retention of school buildings and campaign in May. If you would or drop them off to the GCA at the cedures. The police do investigate grounds. We will be advocating like to volunteer to canvass your Glebe Community Centre. The complaints such as drivers fail- that this section be strengthened block, contact Doreen Drolet at deadline for nominations is Fri., ing to stop at stop signs or run- even further. 237-2907 or gca@theglebeonline April 18. ning red lights. If you provide the PLANNING ISSUES .com. It's a great way to meet your ELIMINATING GRAFFITI license number and driver's de- Discussion continues on the neighbours and catch up on street City of Ottawa official Paul scription, a complaint will be development of 15 townhouses at news after a long winter. McCann attended the GCA meeting registered on a driver's file. The 520 The Driveway. The GCA has CALL FOR NOMINATIONS: in February to inform us that the police also use complaints to concerns about the carrying ca- SPIRIT OF THE GLEBE Glebe has been designated a zero- identify problem intersections. pacity of the site and the lack of We all like to complain about tolerance zone for graffiti. A pro- In fact, neighbours' complaints compatibility of the design with ugly infill housing and insensi- gram will be put in place to clean have led to the intersection at neighbouring houses. The dead- tive renovations, but let's not for- up existing graffiti and prevent Fifth and Craig being one of only line for comments on the site plan get that there are also lots of good more from occurring. One of the four traffic projects in downtown in March 18. Forward comments developments out there. Do you ideas is to create graffiti boards Ottawa where there is a special to Gordon Harrison, City of Ot- know of a renova- construction, where graffiti artists can legiti- level of enforcement. tawa Development Services De- tion or restoration project that mately express themselves. If you NEIGHBOURHOOD SCHOOLS partment, 2 Constellation Cres- has enhanced the neighbourhood? would like to report graffiti The Ottawa-Carleton District cent, Fifth Floor, Ottawa, Ontario, If so, please nominate it for the problems or suggest a place for School Board's accommodation K2G 5J9. E-mail: gordon.harrison Glebe Community Association's graffiti boards, please contact studywith its emphasis on clos- @ottawa.ca. Tel: 580-2424, ext. Spirit of the Glebe award. Paul McCann, Community Pride ing schools within the Greenbelt- The criteria are: 13868. Program Co-ordinator, e-mail: threatens all the public schools The GCA's next meeting is on any construction, renovation, [email protected] or tel: in our area. The GCA has written Tuesday, March 25, 7:30 p.m., restoration or development pro- 580-2424, ext. 13363. to the board to underline our Glebe Community Centre. If you ject completed between January CITY OF OTTAWA support for community schools. would like to put something on 2002 and April 2003 POLICE REPORT We will be watching the issue the agenda, contact gca@theglebe residential and both commercial Steve Carroll of the Ottawa Po- closely and responding as needed online.com or call president Anne projects are eligible lice reported that residential when the board outlines its plans. Scotton at 231-2778. must be visible work from the crime was down in 2002; however, At the same time as we are street (no indoor or backyard commercial crime did increase. monitoring school projects) board activi- About a quarter of police time in ties, the GCA is also feeding into project is sensitive to and com- the Glebe is spent responding to the city's new official plan. We Thinking about patible with the surrounding alarms, 95% of which turn out to agree with the principles of streetscape smart be false. This is not the best use growth and more people living quitting? project is a model of "good devel- of police time, so do your best to within the Greenbelt. 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National Bank Financial is that fall exclusively within their This is the great moral question jurisdiction? of our age and it isn't a question sponsoring a presentation on The reality is the city can't with any easy answer. Clearly, impose a rent freeze or decide Saddam Hussein is a thug and socially responsible investing (SRI) whether or not Canada goes to could be prosecuted in the World war. But the reality is also that Court for crimes against human- these things impact our city and ity, but then there are a lot of Speaker: Michael Jantzi of our residents. politicians out there who could Michael Jantzi Research Associates Inc. I know the rural councillors suffer the same fate if the UN was and some suburban councillors prepared to use force to impose a Date: Monday April 7th, 6:30 pm feel very uncomfortable moving prosecution. Clearly, the decision off their traditional concerns, but to invade Iraq has enormous im- Location: Bridgehead Coffeehouse there is more to life than tag-a- plications for the security of the 108 Third Avenue, Ottawa bag. The reality is the world is Middle East and, by extension, changing. Ottawa is now larger the security of the planet. than some provinces. Toronto is It's not that city councils LIMITED SPACES AVAILABLE, IF INTERESTED larger than most provinces. Fur- should suddenly become depart- PLEASE CONTACT: thermore, the changes have come ments of foreign affairs. We have at us so hard and fast in recent one and that seems sufficient. But HANNAH REID years that, not surprisingly, this is an exceptional situation Investment Advisor there is some confusion over just that does require the broadest MINATIONALBANK what city councillors should be possible public debate. The de- 236-0103 FINANCIAL occupying themselves with. bate in Canada's parliament can RENT FREEZE only happen in one city. There I don't agree with a rent are city council chambers from freeze, but on the other hand, the St. John's to Victoria and, by de- mJRA [BRIDGEHEAD]P city's have so con- hands been bating the question in them from Michael Jantzi Research Associates Inc. strained by the province prom- coast to coast, the federal parlia- ising to increase the shelter al- ment will have a great civic dis- lowance, when they withdrew course from which to draw for from funding affordable housing, their own debates and their own but then refusing to increase the decisions. shelter allowance. In Ottawa's council chambers, This has been the primary we did have a town hall meeting cause of homelessness and the for the general public over affordable housing crisis. We whether or not a war with Iraq have stopped building affordable should proceed. Six hundred peo- housing and, at the same time, ple packed the room and the pub- made it harder for the poor to lic debate that occurred was cen- rent. It's been a recipe for home- tral to forming my own opinion on lessness and that is what has whether an Iraq invasion was a happened. The threat of a rent good idea or not. What amazed me freeze by the city was a despera- tiiiirtt:i about this town hall meeting was tit lir tion move, seen as one of the few not just its size, but its diversity. ways to pressure the province I left that town hall meeting into doing something and, I for convinced that invading Iraq was one, wish we had gone forward going to solve nothing and lead to 0 * with it as a method of getting the nothing except more pain for the Help is c1*0 province's attention. Nothing else region. 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NOTE: "Coffee with Clive" chat sessions take place the first Friday of every month from 10-11 a.m. at The Wild Oat in the Glebe, Bank and Fourth. The next session is Friday, April 4. I invite you to join rne there and bring city issues to my attention in an informal, neigh- bourhood setting. BUSINESS NEWS Glebe Report March 14, 2003 1 0 New coaching business offers services for teams and leaders Mary Glen is a long-time resi- dent of the Glebe and, until re- cently, an executive in the Public Service of Canada. She has just launched an independent busi- ness enterprise called Coaching Alliances. Mary is building on over 25 years experience in leadership positions in policy, operations, communications and management in the federal government Her work has included advancing gen- der equality in the wake of the landmark United Nations confer- ence on the status of women in Beijing in 1995, and developing Claudio Peloso, Bruce Stewart and Oscar Finizia Photo: Sara Vin ten current agendas for action to ad- Glebe resident, Mary Glen dress the needs of people with Earthy tones disabilities, children and their families, and the voluntary sec- themselves, noting what does and at Creative Floor Worx does not support them, then they BY LAUREN KRONICK store, of a silhouette holding a tor. Her most recent assignment was with the Privy Council Of- apply new ways of acting that will The day that artist Bruce bow and arrow. One of Bruce's get them closer to the results Stewart walked into Creative most successful paintings, which fice's Task Force on the Volun- tary Sector. they seek. Floor Worx for some flooring he named Selway in Montana is a Mary has drawn inspiration ideas, little did he know that he commercial painting with a back- Coaching Alliances offers three services: and support from the Glebe com- would find an opportunity to ground theme from a neolithic coaching munity where she has lived for showcase his work. Bruce noticed rock wall and a traditibnal archer one-on-one team development (team coach- many years along with her hus- that the tile-adorned walls of the in the foreground. Selway in ing, for band Ian, sons Peter and Thomas, store resembled the backgrounds Montana was featured on the cover strategies improved in- teraction and golden retriever Archie. The of several of his paintings. Oscar of Traditional Bowhunter maga- and communication among team Glebe Parents Play Group, Glebe Finizia and Claudio Peloso, the zine's March 2001 issue and members, assessment owners of the Bank Street store, of individuals for recruitment, Community Centre, Mutchmor and portrays the materials that his- Glashan public schools, Lisgar, were more than welcoming to the torical figures used for hunting. and succession planning) idea of arranging Bruce's art to be -planning to support leaders' and Glebe, St. James Tennis Club, shown in the store. They believe Bruce says that his style has progress towards key organiza- St. Matthew's ChurchMary feels that the relationship between the changed over the years. His ear- tional goals (design and facilita- that all these have made incalcu- artist and the store has strength- lier work was more abstract as tion of planning events, develop- lable contributions to the devel- ened the friendship between both compared to his current cave ment of action plans, facilitation opment of her family. She says it parties. Oscar describes Bruce's painting motifs primarily using of meetings to review and adjust is a great incentive and a real joy to be in artwork as "very earthy," and he earth tones. Bruce's artistic in- plans at key milestones) closer touch with her friends, is happy that the paintings are at fluences include Joseph Boyce, Mary coaches leaders of all neighbours, colleagues home in the store. who leans towards a theoretical ages and stages and/or their and mentors as Coaching Alli- Bruce Stewart, a graduate from direction. and California painter teams through structured conver- ances takes shape. the Nova Scotia College of Art and Wayne Thiebault. He is currently sations and specific practices You can reach Mary Glen and Design and a former senior ex- preparing for his next show, designed to guide them as they Coaching Alliances at coachall@ hibit designer with the National which will take place in a few come to reflect on their current magma.ca . Tel: 230-2886. Fax: Museums Corporation, paints in months. situation. They learn to observe 230-7556 . the styles of a variety of different Bruce's advice for budding eras, from the Renaissance to the artists is to get out there and 18th century. A recurring theme show artwork whenever an op- in Bruce's artwork is archery. portunity arises. His collection of Physiotherapy on Kent Several of his paintings that were artwork can be found on his Web Joseph Federico B.Sc.(PT), Registered Physiotherapist on display at Creative Floor Worx site at http://www.bdstewartcom in February featured the back- which is complete with a biogra- A proactive approach to injury recovery and prevention phy, ground, which coincided with the gallery, and contact infor- *Orthopaedic Injuries *Sports Injuries *Back/Neck Pain colour and texture of a mation. tile in the *Headaches *Tendinitis/Bursitis *Arthritis *Motor Vehicle Accidents *Exercise Prescription *Work Injuries Convenient Hours. Centrally Located in the Kent Medical Building. 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Glebe Co-op Nursery School will relocate in Mutchmor school Registration for the Glebe Co- scorpion. Jennie Aliman (GNAG's operative Nursery School is now music & movement) also joined over. Any applications received the children on a few occasions to after March 15 will be put on a lead them in some lively singing, waiting list on a first-come, story-telling, rhythm and danc- first-served basis. Registration ing. kits and fact sheets outlining the The Co-operative membership programming, age groups and fees has its annual potluck dinner and are available at the school or on- general meeting in January. The line at www.theglebeonline.com/ children had a great time running schools/gcns/noticeboard. Please around with Bobo the Clown and submit your registration package everyone enjoyed the wonderful to the nursery school at the Glebe food. Community Centre, 690 Lyon St., The nursery school had a very or call us at 233-9708. successful open house during the It's important to note that due week of March 3-7. Teachers and to the Glebe Community Centre children enjoyed meeting the new renovations, we will be tempo- families who came to visit. It's rarily relocated at Mutchmor always so exciting to meet new School for the year starting Sep- playmates. For those who missed tember 2003. We feel very fortu- this opportunity, please give the nate to have found temporary school a call to set up a mutually space in the neighbourhood and convenient time for a visit. LAUNDRY L discussions are under way to en- sure that this space will be suit- It may be minus 20 degrees able for our little ones. outside, but the social committee To chase away the wintry is already busy planning and or- weather, the children recently dering flowers for the annual enjoyed Beach Day at school. Sun Mother's Day plant sale. Mark hats, cool shades and bathing your calendar for Sat., May 10 suits were the fashion for the from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. to pick up a day. The children also enjoyed a special hanging basket or a beau- visit from Little Ray's Reptiles. tiful flower container. Bring the Some got to ride on a turtle, get whole family for fun arts & crafts hugged by a snake and hold a and yummy goodies as well. Laundromat Meals on Wheels celebrates 35 years of hot stuff In March 1968, Gwen Richards was granted in 1972-73. invented the symbol for the Din- Today, 35 years later, meals ner Wagon, also known as Meals are prepared in 14 kitchens. Last Dry Cleaning on Wheels Ottawa. It was four year, 118,000 hot and frozen wheels interlocking, one wheel meals were delivered to 1,349 each for donors, suppliers, vol- clients with the help of 750 vol- unteers and the King's Daughters, unteers. Meals are now delivered the force behind the project. The six days a week and there is also foundersGrace Hartwick, Elda a Chinese meals program. Meals Internet Access Malone, Aileen Matthews, Gwen on Wheels Ottawa has come a long Richards, Hilda Sager, Evelyn way in 35 years. For further in- Sparks, Helen Suggett and Laura formation, please call 233-2424. 'Thompsonborrowed space in the King's Daughters Apartments in Opening FebruarY42n the Dow's Lake area. The organi- zation stayed there until 1987. Gwen Richards recalls that the hospitals would release patients earlier because staff knew that there would be a hot meal and a watchful visitor to the home five days a week. Volunteers initially ran the whole operation and sup- ported it through fundraising. They also had a good time. Money from the Ontario Department of Community and Social Services BUSINESS NEWS Glebe Report March 14, 2003 1 2 Business matters in the Glebe ERNESTO'S BARBER SHOP Men's Hair Stylist 882 Bank Street Tel: 238-5038 There are very few times that one can walk into Ernesto's Bar- ber Shop and not have to wait for By a haircut. But there are very few Bruce clients who would leave because Donaldson of the wait since they feel so comfortable and satisfied with the changing styles of the the tonsorial ministrations of younger generation. There is also either Ernesto or his associate a growing number of female cli- Guerino. There are two barber ents preferring barber services to chairs and seven chairs for wait- the traditional hair stylists. One ing clientsso, though the shop i s can note that hairstyle is no small, it is cozy and comfortable. longer a reliable gender identifi- While waiting, one has a choice of cation. reading the news, going next door Shaving is seldom done now by to Irene's for a coffee or partici- the barber, other than to trim pating in the conversation among around the edges of a "haircut" or those waiting. Ernesto and his to create a styled beard. It used associate will switch to Italian if to be a ritual performed each Russell Fisher, a happy customer, leaving Metro Music they need privacy. morning for business managers, Ernesto Falbo grew up and complete with hot towels, facial METRO MUSIC wondered what happened to the learned his professional skills in massage, etc., that was so com- 695 Bank Street German shepherd that used to lie the city of Costanza on the west- fortable and invigorating. It also Tel: 233-9688 in the window and observe the ern border of Calabria in Italy. served as a communication chan- Metro Music, originally known passing scene on Bank Street. He emigrated to Canada in 1967, nel among the managers for local as Professional Guitar Studios, Poor Kathrinka died at an early spent a couple of years with an- news items before the paper was opened in 1960 by Bob age, eight years. Danielle's two other barber in Ottawa and then found out about them. Ernesto Sabourin, a widely lcnown and other shepherds have not yet de- opened his own shop at the cur- tells me that when he started in highly respected guitar player in veloped an interest in the Bank rent location in 1970. He oper- Ottawa, a shave cost 50 cents! Ottawa. Bob's plan was to teach Street people. ated by himself until 1987 when Ernesto's shop closes on Sun- others how to play guitar using he hired an associate, Guerino day and Wednesday when he and the store for his studio. As the REFLECTIONS Turano, also from Costanza. his wife Iolanda clean the shop. business grew and expanded he 103 Third Avenue Ernesto and a partner share Barbers have always been con- changed the name to Metro Music. Tel: 563-1700 the ownership of the property sidered musical and we have been He married Christine, one of The ownership of Reflections which includes the offices up- told that Ernesto plays a "mean his students, in 1962 and they has recently changed hands and new stairs. He says he has no interest accordion." Over the years he has expanded their teaching studio the owner is Robert Boutros. in expanding to include more ca- been involved with Italian musi- into a full-service operation. Pierre Hahn, the previous owner, pacityand more headaches. cal groups in the city. Danielle, their daughter is the is devoting more time to his other shops, The majority of his business i s His shop is a very comfortable current owner and manager. particularly in the Market. hair-cutting, which has become link with the past, as well as pro- Metro Music represents "live Formerly with Rinaldo's as the increasingly complex because of viding a direction for the future. music" and provides, on a pur- chief hair designer for 17 years, chase or rental basis, the instru- Robert Boutros plans to make ments, sound systems and equip- available to his clients in the ment required by both well- Glebe the experience and ideas established and novice groups. that he found successful in his The firm is particularly fa- previous experience. mous for the quality of its He has made no changes to the teaching on guitar (three in- experienced Reflections staff structors) and on drums (Lorne which consists of about 17 hair Kelly, instructor). It also assists stylists and eight support staff. players in finding good instruc- tion on instruments provided by AGORA IN THE GLEBE Metro Music. 801 Bank Street NO! It is NOT closing. It is The sincere interest that Dan- next door to Quichua Crafts, ielle and her staff take in solving the problems of their clients has which IS closing, as we noted last allowed Metro Music to become a month, with sadness. significant influence in the de- Agora has a large sandwich- in as velopment of good musical groups board front of their place in Ottawa. well, but it is to advertise that they are getting rid of win- Incidentally, many people have their ter stock to make room for new Ernesto Falbo at work in his barbersho P Photos: Elaine Marlin stock appropriate for spring and summer.

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The Glebe, she Depart Mar 26 /o3 1 wk $ 1198 is "passionate, truly passionate" Air Transat Holidays* about dogs, although she was thinks, is "the most dog-dense frightened of them until she was part of Ottawa." As well as locals, about 18. Sue Breen was born in she gets customers (or dog- FIESTA BAVARO RESORT, PUNTA CANA Swindon, the railway centre of friends) from all around the city. title when the **** southern England, and came to She earned her All Inclusive Standard Guestroom Canada at five after a brief stop elderly owners of a dog called Depart Mar 25/03 i wk $ 1386 in her mother's heartland of Ire- Berry became friends and told Air Transat Holidays* land. She grew up in the country her that they intended in their will to leave their dog to "Auntie around Carp, with a dog she SUPERCLUBS BREEZES, PUNTA CANA didn't like. What changed her? A Sue." 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Transportation taxes and related tees, airport tees, security taxes and Call Clyde Sanger at 233-7133 with your questions about G.S.T. (where applicable) are extra. Prices shown apply to new bookings only. See applicable supplier brochures for terms, people, conditions and complete details. Ont. Reg: 2915294-,1 F-(7&' places or events in the Glebe, past or present. N EWS Glebe Report March 14, 2003 1 4 Abbotsford Senior Centre 131anning for spring BY BORGNY PEARSON Mid March. With moderating Green Gifts weather and days growing .:::--brighter, it's time to spring for- ward into a new season of activi- for Body and Soul ties at Abbotsford Senior Centre. \he Gt. Kathy Nichol, program facili- tator, has just put the finishing touches on Abbotsford's spring *program guide. The guide de- Kathleen Leeson RH ,Debble Charbonneau scribes a tempting array of Therapeutic Herbalist TI-1"1 ilealer-Seer, Homeopath classes, clubs, workshops and and Healer social events, holding the promise Organic Herbal Preparations Using symbolic sight to of pleasure in our leisure for all General Interest Workshops co-create a healing of us who have passed The Wisdom of Plants Herbal experience the thresh- Apprenticeship Program old age of 55. Kathy Nichol, program facilitator Since the beginning of Janu- These classes fill up quickly, so 180 Metcalfe Street, Suite 406 ary, about 400 seniors have re- it is best to apply early. newed or taken out membership. 237-1473 In the Luncheon Club, seniors by appointment Maggie O'Brien, vice-president of in the community who have trou- the Abbotsford Council, told me ble getting out are picked up at that the membership committee i s home Tuesdays and Fridays by actively pursuing two objectives- the Abbotsford van and taken to cmtlaztii to welcome new members and to the centre for a hot meal and so- encourage them to get involved in cial activity. On other occasions, Beautiful Botanicals for the Body. range of activities. van driver Brian Williams takes In the past some seniors have members on out-of-town trips become members, then signed up shopping and sight-seeing. for only one thing (e.g., footcare) There is more, much more. without exploring other possi- Details are in the new program bilities. I admit I did the same guide available free of charge at when I joined many years ago, Abbotsford Senior Centre, 950 taking only line dancing. Bank Street. The centre is open But the prospects for expanded Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. involvement are enticing. Snooker Next month watch for profiles anyone? Euchre? Bridge? Scrab- on some of the volunteers who ble? All are part of the fun and keep the centre humming. games to test your skills and www.beebalmandbasil.corn tickle your brain cells. 731-1296 Would you like some basic ABBOTSFORD EVENTS training in computer skills? Or to Book Club learn about internet security? Or April 11Miracle in Seville by join a class in painting? stained- James Michener , glass? or as pottery described by Opera Club Teena Hendelman in the February March 21Rigoletto by Giuseppe edition of the Glebe Report Verdi Do you feel fit or slightly Movie Club flabby at the end of winter? New March 19Defense of the Realm fitness classes at Abbotsford Men at Breakfast range from muscle toning with March 31Speaker: Don Yeomans weights, low-impact aerobics and on Crime and Punishment a gentle workout, to tai chi and yoga and, of course, line dancing. Glebe Centre & Abbotsford Senior Centre Volunteers needed! and share your passion for the 5 big screen with our like- minded members. Here's a fun opportunity! Abbotsford Senior Centre has an opening for a trip program leader. This volunteer will plan, organize and accompany - the participants on day trips in our van, one Monday per month, around Ottawa and the sur- BY JENNIFER McSPORRAN rounding area from May to Oc- Have you got one hour to tober. spare to help a senior? The Glebe Centre invites you to If you love to make crafts spend an enjoyable hour as- and would like to share your sisting our residents who are experience with others, con- unable to feed themselves. sider the rewarding position of Custom Designed Additions and Various time slots are avail- volunteer Craft Group leader at able. Your help for even one the Abbotsford Senior Centre. Major Renovations that respect the meal per week would be much We are looking for someone who appreciated. Students, this is a can plan fun, interesting and Craftsmanship and Architectural great way to get those commu- marketable crafts, and teach nity service hours! them to our lively group of vol- style of your home. Are you a movie buff? Ab- unteers on Thursdays at 1 p.m. botsford Senior Centre has an If any of these volunteer po- opening for a volunteer movie sitions interests you, please -'club leader on Monday or call Jennifer 238-2727, ext. Wednesday afternoons. Come 353. 15 Glebe Report March 14, 2003 SPORTS Hockey teams from Nunavut play Ottawa Centre BY LORNE ABUGOV my team that has been up to Nu- partner of the federal govern- will take place during Toonik Some games aren't about the navut. I can't wait to show the ment's Exchanges Canada pro- Tyme, a springtime festival with a score. Those that will be played rest of them what it's like and gram, to fund airfare for both distinctly northern flavour. The by the Ottawa Centre Renegades' how different it is from Ottawa." trips. The Renegades' sponsor, the festival includes a range of ac- Peewee House League "B" hockey The Ottawa Centre players Sparks Street Zeller's, generously tivities that are a mix of tradi- team in early March and April tapped family, friends, and local donated prizes and gifts. The tional Inuit culture and main- will be about an exchange of cul- and national businesses to help Senators Foundation donated stream North American culture- ture between 11- and 12-year-old finance the event. The money tickets to a game, and much-need- drum-dancing and throat-singing, Canadians from far-flung regions raised will defer the costs of ex- ed financial contributions were and a minor hockey tournament. of our country. hibition games between the The activity that has captured Between Feb. 27 and Mar. 3, Iqaluit team, the Ottawa Centre the attention of the young players the Ottawa Centre Renegades team team, as well as teams from Sandy is the igloo-building contest. hosted 19 peewee hockey players Hill and Blackburn Hamlet. It Each contestant is assigned a spot and their coaches and parénts will also fund other activities, on which to build and a circum- from Iqaluit in Nunavut on a such as an NHL hockey game, a ference within which to cut hockey and cultural exchange in trip to Parliament Hill, a swim- blocks of snow. The first one to Ottawa, and the local team will ming party and a trip to the movie build an igloo sturdy enough to then make the trip north to Nuna- theatre. support the weight of a man is vut between April 10 and 14. "But the real purpose behind declared the winner. The fastest "It's a lot of legwork to get it the Inuit youths' visit isn't all build their igloos within about 90 done, but there were many vol- fun and games," said one of the minutes. unteers," said the Renegades Renegades' parents. Situated north of the tree line coach Lorne Abugov. "It will be a "[It's] for our children to cre- made by Union Engraving & on Baffin Island, the small city of tremendous experience from both ate an awareness of their culture Printing; Osier, Hoskin and Har- Iqaluit forms a rugged landscape an athletic and cultural perspec- and the culture of others," she court LLB; the Ottawa Citizen; the of moss and rock. It is completely tive. None of our kids will forget said. "This is an extraordinary Ottawa Renegades Football Club; different from the downtown of a this exchange for as long as they chance for them to see the diver- Glebe Pharmasave; and the St. large southern city like Ottawa. live!" sity, both geographically and Clair Group. When the final ac- "For many of the lqaluit Peewees, "This will be the best thing in culturally, of the country in counting is complete, the teams their fast-approaching odyssey to the world," said 12-year-old Otto which they live." will have raised, in discounts, Ottawa will mark their first time Hall, a Glebe resident who plays goods, services and cash dona- on an airplane and their first forward and goalie for the Rene- The teams' coaches and manag- dons, over $40,000. glimpse at trees or shopping gades. "I can't wait to visit up ers began planning this exchange "We are very pleased to sup- centres," says Glen Higgins, pres- there and play hockey, even if it's two years ago. These plans took port this exchange," said Claudia ident of the Iqaluit Minor Hockey freezing cold, I don't care!" flight when First Air offered a McKeen of Glebe Pharmasave. Association. "The five days our Said another Glebe resident discounted ticket price. This en- "This is exactly the kind of local kids will spend in Ottawa will and Renegades forward Keenan abled Canada Sports Friendship and national event that everyone open their eyes to a world that is Lindell, 12, "I'm the only kid on Exchange Program, a delivery can get behind, because there are vastly different from the one the so many great life lessons in- have experienced so far." volved for everyone, with hockey Both teams will undoubtedly as the common denominator." be surprised by what they learn The Renegades trip to Iqaluit and will remember forever. 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"Years later, writing music for Why pianos go out of tune guitar, I began to experiment with STILLE: BY TOM LLOYD piece can bring the player great layers of sound. I would work A piano is a musical the music until the sound instru- pleasure. with ment which contains wasn't simply rhythmic; it be- over 10,000 VVhat makes a piano go out of parts and 88 different notes. This then? A new LIFE came like a wave or a cycle. It oc- tune Many things. complex mechanism of wood, piano has arrived from the curred to me that the two things just metal and felt can be made to factory. It may have been tuned were similarthe sound of the perform pleasurable melodies several times, but the strings are frogs and this music I was writ- when the strings and parts are now being stretched to a total of ing. Why not put the two things properly adjusted to work to- 40 tons pressure altogether and I started working on FR together? gether. Humidity bigger and bigger ensembles, continue to stretch. af- Concert pitch is the correct fects tuning greatly. The dryness combining sounds and instru- frequency of the vibrations of the of winter and the humid air of On April 5, local musician and ments from around the world. 88 notes. Middle A (or A4) is de- summer affect the wood in the composer Kurt Walther will be Still Life with Frogs is the culmi- fined as 440 vibrations per sec- sound board and pin block. When debuting his new orchestral proj- nation of this effort. It is a body ond. The other notes will have a piano is moved, the shifting of ect Still Life with Frogs at the of works written for a 17-piece frequencies harmonious in rela- weight within the National Arts Centre as part of orchestra. The music has a me- instrument tion to the middle A. All records, causes it to go out of tune. And of the Juno Awards celebration. The lodic statement that is strong, but CDs, and musical instruments are course when the piano 17-piece orchestra he will be underneath this are the layers of player in concert pitch. These strings plays, the tuning is affected. A conducting brings together some music that pulse in a cyclical can and will change their fre- six-year-old child will not have of our city's most talented classi- consonance. And running through quencies and therefore go "out of the same power as a professional cal and jazz musicians. Kurt set is the sound of de- the entire tune." All acoustic instruments, musician or scribes his the spring." student to change the inspiration for his frogs chorusing in such as guitar, clarinet, violin, tuning in a piano. unusual musical composition: The orchestra includes many etc., will go out of tune, except How often should a piano "I've always of Ottawa's finest musicians: John be loved frogs. When that in the case of the piano, a tuned? Pianos used in concerts I was a teen I used to collect Geggie, Rob Frayne, Sandy Gordon them piano technician is required to are tuned at least once for every for the museum every spring. I'd and Alan Marsden, to mention a tune the instrument. Electronic performance. New pianos should go out to the swamp in hip-waders few. They will be peiforming at instruments and keyboards do not be tuned three or four times in at night, flashlight in hand, and the NAC's 4th Stage at 8 p.m. on go out of tune, but have little the first two years, as the catch the frogs as they were No need to wear Sat., April 5. feeling or touch. Lacking depth stretching of the strings and breeding, or about to breed. The your hip-waders. This event is and soul, these instruments are breaking-in process develops. sound of each peeper individual co-sponsored by the NAC, the often quickly abandoned because The changing of the seasons in was smaller and arrhythmic, but Canada Council, the City of Ot- they are not fun to play. Canada involves humidity changes altogether they produced a loud tawa, the Ottawa Folklore Centre When a piano goes out of tune, that require a tuning in the and cyclical sound. It was an or- and the Junofest. You can buy it generally goes flat (or down) in spring and a tuning in the fall. A chestra of nature. I stopped col- NAC box office your tickets at the pitch. The 240 strings go out of piano which has not been tuned lecting frogs as I I got older, but or through Ticketmaster at 755- harmony with themselves. The for a long period sounds dead and still go out to listen to them cho- 1111. resulting sound is uninviting to is unpleasant to play. If your pi- the player. It sounds dead or ano is not inviting you to play, it The Savoy Society of Ottawa sour. The instrument needs to probably needs tuning. have the 240 strings adjusted to Tom Lloyd, piano technician, presents The Sorcerer be in concert pitch. Only then is will answer your piano questions. BY ALLISON WOYIWADA in love with the young and vice the full potential of the instru- Call 829-6157 or e-mail at The Sorcerer by Gilbert and versa. I won't say any more. You'll ment unlocked and even a simple [email protected] Sullivan is being presented this have to come to the show to hear year for the very first time by how it is all resolved. The Savoy Society of Ottawa. This Evening performances are pre- production features a great story, sented on March 28 and 29 4.,.. (Friday and Saturday) and April full of the intrigue, humour and LOCAL HOME mix-ups for which G and S are 2, 3, 4 and 5 (Wednesday through rI IMPROVEMENTS Lm famous. You'll also be treated to Saturday). Ticket prices for these LI design Li build LI renovate some mischievous music, superb shows are $23.50 for adults and singing, delightful dancing and $13.50 for students. There is a ?aComplete renovations and new additions artful acting. It's a feast for the matinee performance on Sunday, wKitchen and bathroom remodelling senses with a little magic thrown March 30 at 2 p.m. with ticket in for good measure. prices for children at $11.50. A-Basement converted to living space In a plot a little reminiscent of This is a great show for kids; it is ?&Complimentary architectural drawings Shakespeare, the hero, Alexis, not too long and the magic will has just become engaged to Aline. appeal to the young. All perform- Plumbing and electrical updates He is so much in love, he wants ances are at Centrepointe Theatre. wLocally owned and operated the whole village to feel what he For tickets, e-mail me at allison. feels, so he engages the services [email protected]. 20 years experience in design and construction of a sorcerer to serve a potion to I am pleased to be the music contact Robert (613) 864-9964 everyone which will make them director for this fine cast and fall in love with the first person orchestra. If you come to the 34 Muriel Street Ottawa they see upon awakening. The show, be sure to drop by the "pit" charm is administered, and it to say hello. worlcs, creating a huge mess- Allison Woyiwada is the music predictablywith the old falling director at Hopewell SchooL it's tinte...

Carleton University Choir in concert March 30 To rekindle The Carleton University Choir under the direction of Dr. Lisette Canton presents Handel's Foundling Hospital Anthem and Haydn's old friendships Missa in Angustiis (the Nelson Mass) with orchestra and soloists- soprano Kathleen Radke, countertenor Mark Donnelly, alto Kate Young, tenor Michiel Schrey, and baritone Luc Lalonde. The concert takes place on Sun., Mar. 30 at 3 p.m. at St. Matthew's CLOCKTOWER BREWPUB Anglican Church, 130 Glebe Avenue. Tickets ($20 for adults and $15 575 Bank Street Ottawa, Ontario for students) are available at The Leading Note on Elgin Street, The K1 S 517 tel. 613.233.7849 Book Bazaar on Bank Street, and CD Warehouse on Clyde Avenue. For further information, call 520-5770. Meeting space available for large or small groups. Call for more info. 1 MUSIC 17 Glebe Report March 14, 2003 On the local music scene 14 Music Notes IV IRENE'S March 8: Empiricals BY ROBERT MILLER never able to get it out of our March 15: The Mighty PoPo A reliable source told me this body even if we wanted to. I think past month that Second Cup (Bank that for many, the new CD Hard March 22: Idle Minds with special guest April 5: and Second) had a few musicians Love by Clear (available to listen Lucky Ron and the Rhode Island Reds playing in its bright window. to online at www.clearmusic.ca), a Thursdays & Saturdays: open stage Sounds like a good idea. Morala, new local band featuring Chris- ARROW & LOON just across the street, has also tian Patterson, Sue Johnson and www.Arrowpubs.com featured live music on a few friends, may do just that on a March 17: St. Paddy's Day early-morning occasions. Maybe couple of tracks. I am always Saturdays: 9:30 p.m., live music to listen to new music other shops will keep the music hesitant RASPUTIN'S because it's an investment of time playing and encourage local mu- www.Rasputins.ca us and energy to learn new music sicians of all rhythms to keep March 15: Nation Valley Bluegrass as we push and listening to music is a choice. warm and entertained March 17, 24: Celtic Jam cold months of the When I listened to this soon-to- on through the March 18: Old Timey night have be-released CD, I heard some year. Staff at Starbucks March 19, 26: Open Stage mentioned a number of times to catchy phrasing, moody guitar, March 21: Sheila Ross & Scot Dunlop on a con- singing and some superb me that they may put sultry March 22: Northbrook Nine I firsthand Brian Magner from certa good idea. know horn work by March 25: Kristin Sweetland in the back of McCrank's Cycles that makes nie that the acoustics March 27: Back 40 Stage are awesome feel. I also love CD the Bank Street shop listen and March 28: Kat Goldman next step is get- for the studious musician. jacket art. The March 29: Peggy White shows is a the artists: is this a The cost of the big ting to know Weekend acts: call 230-5102 to confirm good reason to check our local slick production, like Coldplay talent. 'Personally, I think we was accused of being in its recent ROYAL OAK should support anyone who dares Ottawa show, or is this the begin- Thursdays: 9 p.m., open mike with Ja Red to create music, who tries hard to ning of a musical partnership AVENUE GRILL breathe life into a musical in- that will continue to get better Thursdays, Fridays & Saturdays: Live Di strument or their voice. and better with the continued ef- There are songs that each of us forts of the band members? The BUMPERS ROAD HOUSE March 15: is associate with our most powerful next big test will be the CD re- Attack of Mike Depoch, Gay as Day emotionssay, Israel Kanasatake's lease party scheduled for April Long, Golden Dogs, Zepher medley of Over the Rainbow/What 19, Easter weekend, at Irene's. March 17: St. Paddy's Day: Million Dollar Marxists, a Wonderful World. After only Robert Miller opera tes Knut's Alter Egos, Too Drunk to Dance one listen, the music penetrates Guitar Training, based in the March 18: Fullydown, Transits, Dead letter our soul and becomes part of us, Glebe. Department March 21: Recoilers, below the C March 22: The Prowlers March 27: Quickficks, Full Levity, dying riot, The Superfishels March 28: The Creeps, The Shifters March 29: No Other Way with guests April 1: Ghetto Nuns April 3: Ted Leo, Pharmacists, Hearts of Oak April 4: 60 Stories, franatics April 5: Creeps, Siobhan April 6: The Independents, The Riptides, The Sickfits

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Eastern Caribbean desti- night, mine is frozen solid. jet-setting verve, this trip offers nations have Puerto Rico, St. Tho- Kauai has only 55,000 full- world-class fun, exotic travel, mas, St. Maarten and others. time residents and no high-rise cultural immersions and real There is usually a private-island hotels. Its majestic green peaks competition. This Around the stop as well, for a laid-back bar- protect gentle golden beaches, World will not take 80, but 23 becue and snorkeling. lush valleys, and countless pure, days (I still wouldn't have Other cruise items are Norwe- crystal waterfalls. Well, / like it minded 80 days with David Niven gian Cruise Lines' "Fuacata" or anyway. generation gap be damned!). community, "be hit by the unexpected" that Accommodations range from Kauai is a farming Twenty-five teams will walk, cy- taro, coffee, sugar cane and include Latin music, dancing, charming B&Bs to exclusive cli ff- with cle, fly, boat, ride camels, ele- pineapple dominating the sceneI food and cocktails. Bravo to Prin- side clubs. I stayed at the lovely phants, ox-carts and rickshaws roasted sugar- or cess Cruises, recently honoured beachside Kauai Sands. It's right fell for huge over one million miles. Part of the macadamia nuts; by the Western Law Center for next door to the small, quiet Co- coffee-dipped profits go to Doctors Without glaze, straight Disability Rights for its commit- Marketplace. Rates are very but plain syrup Borders, UNICEF, CARE, the In- conut are also su- ment to accessible service. I've reasonable compared with large roasted and salted ternational Special Olympics, There are wonderful fash- recently become disabled myself chain hotels. Service is lovely perb. Habitat for Humanity and other ions and jewelry and, gee whiz, and have always promoted bar- Aloha-style. The Beach Boy, two non-profit organizations. You can America bank machines tactfully situated rier-free travel. Holland hotels away, has full cooking fa- win $100,000 US as well. with in shopping areas. has launched the Zuiderdam, cilities in each unit, but I used It's a unique deal at $7,900 more private verandahs (yes!), my fridge and the Sands restau- US, when you consider what you'd more ocean-view staterooms and rant and pool barand will not pay for a week at an all-inclusive more space per guest than any soon forget gorging on huge suc- hotel down South. You'll get in- other ship in the fleet. 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236-6408 851 Bank St. (at Fifth Ave.) REPORT Glebe Report March 14, 2003 22 Ottawa Carleton District School Board trustee report REPORT OF THE EDUCATION EQUALITY TASK FORCE (THE ROZANSKI REPORT) In my opinion, the EETF report should be front and centre as po- By litical parties in the province outline their education policy OCDSB platforms. This report (December Trustee 2002), Investing in Public Edu- Lynn cation: Advancing the Goal of Graham Continuous Improvement in Stu- tary, secondary and post-second- dent Learning and Achievement, ary education in Ontario. can be found on the Web site NEGOTIATIONS WITH www.edfundingreview.on.ca. It re- SECONDARY TEACHERS commends immediate additional On Feb. 25, secondary teachers provincial funding for education in the OCDSB began a form of in Ontario for the current 2002- work-to-rule as the result of the 2003 school year, for collective breakdown of contract negotia- agreement negotiations, for spe- tions between OSSTF and the cial education and for transpor- board. Trustees are not partici- tation. Subsequent announce- pating in these negotiations due ments by the province have at to the provincial takeover of the least partially addressed these OCDSB. Certainly I agree with the needs, with $610 million added to parents who have called me that the provincial education budget the situation requires an immedi- This event is not to be missed, a rare opportunity to be your own "buyer". For one week only, our premier Italian gold jewellery agent will be showing her collection at for 2002-2003. ate resolution between the two Davidson's Jewellers. Never before have we been able to offer such a wide selection at one time. Be the More importantly, however, the parties. I think both sides should first to see the new styles from Italy. See fabulous , EETF report recommends that ap- gold earrings, rings bracelets and much be urged to return to the bar- more before the jewellery even reaches our showcases! proximately $2 billion be added gaining table. However, there to the education budget provin- must be a real willingness to ne- With every purchase over $300 receive a cially, and that these funds be gotiate, as there is now a mediator $ 5 0 gift certificate phased in over three years, be- in place and she will only call the to enjoy a superb Italian dinner at... ginning in school year 2003- two sides back to the table when 2004. This funding would update she deems that progress can be "benchmark" costs so that sala- made. ries and other components of the 'There is involvement at the 790 Bank funding formula reflect current provincial level. The OCDSB Street su- (at Third) In the Glebe costs, not those of 1998. The pervisor is provincially ap- 234-4136 funding would also allow for some pointed and it seems that the job new initiatives, including in- action by OSSTF is being co- creased resources for students at' ordinated provincially. Over half risk, English-as-a-second-lang- the school boards in Ontario are uage instruction for five years now involved in similar work-to- rather than three, and new grants rule campaigns with OSSTF locals. s. Ihreoce. .11 for school renewal, i.e., repairs, Important messages will be P renovations and maintenance. So provided on the board's auto- ..... far, the provincial government mated information line (596- has not made any commitments to l222) and on the board's Web site these recommendations and I'm at www.ocdsb.edu.on.ca. concerned the report will be ON shelved. THE OCDSB WEB SITE The EETF report has some meeting dates and agenda infor- shortcomings. The phase-in of mation (The Board/Board and new funding should be elimi- Committee Meeting Agendas) nated, with the recommended new trustee motions as advice to the level of funding guaranteed for supervisor (The Board/Board Min- the school year 2003-2004. Also, utes/Trustee Meetings) I. the report does not sufficiently supervisor's response to trustee address school accommodation advice (same as above) issues, such as the unique situa- Student Accommodation: 2004 tion in Ottawa with the Greenbelt and Beyond (on home page) separating older urban areas from -budget information (The Board/ the growing suburbs. However, Budget Information) adoption of the EETF recommen- homework assistance (Student e. dations will go a long way towards Resources/Curriculum Connec- ensuring quality public educa- tions) tion in Ontario. Will the provin- system and school profiles, in- Drop-off your duds cial budget this spring address cluding test results (Schools & 11 the EETF recommendations for Educational Programs) :; and we sortiem, 2003-2004 and beyond? What i s Finally, for information on the the position of the other provin- 2003 school board elections, wash'em, drytem, cial parties? check the City of Ottawa Web site One final note. The chair of the at www.ottawa.ca. fold'em and bagiem EETF Task Force, University ot CONTACT INFORMATION Guelph president Dr. Mordechai Lynn Graham, Ottawa-Carleton for your return. Rozanski, will this summer take District School Board, 133 Green- up a new position as president of bank Road, Ottawa, Ontario, K2H Our 5* hassle free service Rider University in New Jersey. I 6L3. Tel: 730-3366. Fax: 730- am sure he will be missed after 3589. E-mail: lynn_graham@ is only 65 per load! contributing so much to elemen- ocdsb.edu.on.ca. Whether Wm laundry, dry-cleaning 8:01" sewing repairs, ° 411 Limp III experience the "Agitated" difference. ? to Got news? Want to volunteer? 151 Second Ave 0 Bank t Call the "In the heart of the Glebe" 0 Glebe Report at 236-4955 if you .. ... have photos or local (free on-osite parking) stories to share. ....s. 5 0 0.: O.*. 5 23 Glebe Report March 14, 2003 REPORT Ottawa-Carleton Catholic School Board trustee report PUTTING STUDENTS FIRST My heartfelt thanks and con- gratulations to the students and staff of Corpus Christi School who Vr0Adt participated in the annual visit to patients at the Ottawa Heart In- By stitute. Thank you for the hand- OCCSB made cards and the flowers and your SMILES. The energy, enthu- Trustee siasm and interest that your Kathy Ablett children display on this visit wishes for continued success! leave not only a good feeling for l If I may be of assistance to what they are doing, a but also you, please do not hesitate to call more lasting impression to the me at 526-9512. many out-of-town patients in I'd like to close with an Irish hospital that people do care. prayer offered to me recently by Truly, a wonderful experience for a principal to sum up a family 11 . Visit us today a literacy presentation. Congratulations to Corey Cen- to receive your very own copy ten, a graduating student from AN OLD IRISH PRAYER of the NEW 2003 Home Immaculata High School. Corey Take time to work: Hardware Catalogue! was recently selected as the re- It is the price of success. cipient of the Canadian Merit Take time to think: Alto WU, tpa;re at Lt.. Scholarship Award in the amount is FILL OUT THE BALLOT AND ENTER It the source of power. TO WIN A STERLING GAS BARBECUE of $60,000! The overall number of Take time to play: OFFICIAL ENTRY FORM (please print in block letters) applications exceeded 6,000 and It is the secret of perpetual youth. NAME AGE --.- the short list was 65. Corey is Take time to read: ADDRESS APL involved in many school activities It is the foundation of wisdom. CITY PROVINCE and his academic success is bal- Take time to be POSTAL CODE TEL( ._J friendly: Contest closes with entnes received by Apnl 30, 2003. deposit your entry form in the Official Contest Ballot Box anced by participating in Child It is the road to happiness. located na participating Honte Hardware, Home Hardware Building Centre or Home Building Centre Store: and Youth Friendly Ottawa, as Take time to Location of your Home Store: dream: SIMI Testing Question: (27 x 10) + 3 + 5 - 19 . well as being an altar server at It is hitching your wagon to a star. Canadian Martyrs Church. 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You will leveling and paving the area clos- recommendations. 12 and water poured into the notice an odour of bleach. It est to Hopewell Avenue to allow Hopewell parents are encour- school causing extensive water should be faint. This is to ensure an all-weather play space, and aged to visit the new school Web damage. The guilty pipe in ques- that any mould is destroyed." keeping the trees, grass and site at www.theglebeonline.ca/ tion was tied to the sprinkler Thanks go out to the administra- benches around the edges. hapsc . Recent things to go up on system and was run through the tion, teachers, board staff and At the Feb. 11 council meet- the site have been the latest is- old chimney but was not insu- daycare staff for all their hard ing, principal Bernie Finnerty sues of Hopewell Happenings, an lated, which wai a flaw in the work to get the school and day- mentioned that Barb Patterson i s updated calendar, a new report on original construction. Hope.well care open again! arranging for council members education in Ontario, a press re- teachers went to school to alert SCHOOL COUNCIL UPDATE and interested parents to write lease regarding EQAO testing, an parents arriving with their chil- At the Feb. 11 School Council the Grade 3 EQAO test at the Ottawa Citizen article on the re- dren that school was closed for meeting, council members ac- April 8 council meeting to see cent JK registration process at two days and then worked hard to knowledged the hard work and what the students go through. the school, a special education remove contents from the damaged dedication provided by council Parents' results will not be pub- update from the board, etc. There rooms. chair Brent Fournier. Brent has lished, so hopefully everyone will is now a discussion board where The archives room and the worked tremendously hard this pass and learn a lot in the proc- people can post articles and raise teachers' professional resource year for the school, chairing all ess. More information will appear issues of interest/concern to the and staff rooms were extensively council meetings, attending many on this at the School Council Web parent and student community at damaged. The floors in the 1 i- committee and zone meetings and site and in Hopewell Happenings. Hopewell. Remember to sign up brary, three or four classrooms even directing traffic on Bank Mr. Finnerty also reported that for updates to the site and the and the computer room were dam- Street some days to assist during Sylvia Sheridan will be off in- latest Hopewell Happenings to be aged, but the computers and construction! We look forward to definitely and that we are fortu- sent to your e-mail address. books in the library were okay. seeing Brent back at the next nate to have Marcel Lavigne back HOPEWELL CALENDAR However, both the computer room council meeting. at Hopewell to teach the gifted March 10-14Spring Break (no and the library will be out of Council's newly revitalized class in her absence. school) service indefinitely. Drywall in playground committee continues Present and future Hopewell March 18School Council meeting, many areas of the school was to investigate contractors to carry parents are encouraged to provide library, 7-9 p.m. damaged. The daycare in the out the work on the redesign of suggestions on implementing a March 21PA. Day (no school) building was where the most sig- the grassyard. Council is now better system for JK and SK reg- April 8Kindergarten informa- nificant damage took place and it looking into identifying one or istration and post them on the tion night at School Council has been relocated to Mutchmor two people who would head up a discussion board at the School meeting, library, 7-9 p.m. School until repairs have been fundraising drive for this work. Council Web site at www.theglebe completed, with transportation A decision will be made at the online.ca/hapsc . Over the next back and forth to Hopewell pro- March meeting on whether or not couple of months, council will SUE RAVEN vided by a combination of school it will be possible to proceed monitor the feedback and con- PHYSIOTHERAPY CLINIC board and daycare buses. If you with the work this summer. 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Donations of appro- priate plant 12 RENFREW AVENUE (Grade 4) and Robin (Grade 1). material would be $349,900 This year, she and Delia Barkley appreciated. are working with 10 students As Armstrong gets ready for Renovated 2 storey home from the Environment Club. They spring, her husband, Tony Wohl- Wood burning fireplace hope to involve students from farth, offered a new way to enjoy Great views of the park other classes to get the "heritage" winter by organizing an outing to garden growing and to create a the Nakkertok Nordic Ski Club in special habitat for birds and Cantley on Feb. 28. About 25 TRACY ARNETT butterflies. people tried out the lighted trails Making you feel at home "It's hands-on stuff they can and joined in a potluck supper Sales Representative do to improve the school," says around a roaring fire in the club- National Chairrnan's Club Armstrong. "It will give them house. 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Royal LePage Performance Realty, Broker strong is looking for helpsee her the coupons you can find. They'll notice elsewhere in this paperin be used to help purchase outdoor figuring out what exactly was play equipment for the yards, so planted at Mutchmor, but her re- it's a good cause. Remedial and Enrichment Spirit Week at Corpus Christi Ottawa Tutorials (Individual or Group) SPIRIT NIGHT AT THE 67'S highlighted this week. Bravo to Over 365 parents and students Team 1. The students have been shared the spirit of Corpus working toward this goal for a TUTOR French as a Second Language (FSL), Christi at a 67's home game on number of weeks and were very English as a Second Language (ESL), Feb. 21. Sections 15, 16, 17 were excited to receive their pizza CENTRE alive with cheers for our home lunch and the coveted Spirit and Bilingual Instruction team. This event was such a tre- 2,000 magnet Other events held Excellence in mendous success! during this week included the E d u c(1 lion All Ages and Subjects to OAC Level LUNCHTIME STORIES annual ski day for the junior stu- Lunchtime is not the same dents, outdoor activity day for anymore! Corpus Christi has ini- the primary students, music Assessments Available tiated a lunchtime reading pro- presentations, red and white day 297 Sunnviidc Ave. gram. Parent volunteers are tak- to highlight Flag Day and valen- (off Bank Street) ing their time to come and read tine delivery to the Ottawa Heart Employment opportunities available stories to each class during their Institute. There's nothing better qualified, lunch period. The students love than Spirit activities to chase 567-1251 for certified teachers. the stories and the quiet time away those February blues! listening to the volunteers. Books We believe that the community are reviewed and made available enriches the educational under- for each class with the support of taking at Corpus Christi as we the Ottawa Public Library, Sun- work together to provide a chal- nyside Branch. Everyone is thor- lenging learning environment. oughly enjoying the experience. Staff and students always extend Read on! a sincere welcome to the commu- e P yam, c o1. SPIRIT WEEK nity to visit Corpus Christi. Road College International Junior and Senior High School Our third team reaching their Visit us at our Web site at 2,000 spirit points goal was [email protected] . 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This May marks the 75th anniversary of Immaculata High School which, although it has gone through many changes, has left a legacy of excellence in education since it was founded as a convent school for girls by the Grey Sisters of Mary Immaculate in 1928. Driving along Echo Drive or on the Queensway, you may have no- ticed a prominent banner an- nouncing this 75th anniversary to the public. But have you consid- ered the importance of these sim- ple words? From its humble be- ginnings on Bronson Avenue, Im- maculata has gone through sig- nificant changes in location and education. Twenty-five years ago we began admitting boys and in Leonard under the direction of Janice Collette 1994 we moved to the old St. Mural by Alexandra Chowaniec and Nicholas Pat's/Algonquin College building cultural food festival, a dedica- EVENTS reunion not included in package Also, from 1:30 to 3:30 on Echo Drive. During our 75 tion of benches outside the 1 i- Thursday, May 1, 7:30 p.m. to price). years we have grown from a sim- brary, an anniversary party and a midnight: Pub night at Immacu- p.m., tours of 211 Bronson will be ple school teaching the academic BBQ, While some students, mainly lata High School, 140 Main Street, available. basics to one with excellent com- the younger ones, seem indiffer- $10 per person, cash bar. Saturday, May 3, 6 p.m. to 1 puter, math, science and co- ent to these events, many of the Friday, May 2, 7-10 p.m.: a.m.: Dinner and dance, St. Elias operative education classes which older ones are actively involved Theatre production "A Past to Banquet Centre, 750 Ridgewood prepare youth for the world of in planning and promoting these Celebrate, A Future to Fashion" Avenue. Tickets: $50 per person, post-secondary education or the activities, as well as searching in the auditorium of old IHS, 211 tables of eight. workforce. Duiing this time we for alumni within their own fam- Bronson Avenue. Production tick- Sunday, May 4, 12:30 to 1:30 have maintained a commitment to ily. ets: $10 (doors open at 6:30 p.m.), p.m.: Eucharistic liturgy at Cana- integrating Catholic morals and We encourage you to talk to followed by a reception meet & dian Martyrs Church, 100 Main beliefs into our school curricu- any parents or even grandparents mingle with refreshments in the Street. lum and school life. who may have gone to Immaculata cafeteria. Sunday, May 4, 2-4 p.m.: Tea To celebrate 75 years there are at one time and inform them of Saturday, May 3, 11 a.m. to 2 reception, new Immaculata High many ongoing events within the these important events. For more p.m.: IHS alumni teacher reunion School, 140 Main Street. school for the enjoyment of stu- information or to purchase tick- brunch at old IHS, 211 Bronson. Alex Cavell is a student at dents. These include a multi- ets, call 828-0027. 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But it was poker, and most of his life, yet he still won- the love of one woman that kept ders why he didn't become an an- A Man of His Time would have By Max's father engaged with his archist or a Marxist, especially been a better title for the all- life. To his dying day, his father when he remembers what Polanyi, embracing Proustian romp that Sharono, lived by the romantic idea that he "an economist and no slouch, novelist Rick Salutin delivers in Abron could control his life and family wrote in the middle of the Second The Womanizer. Similar to A Man Drache like the hand in a card game. Max World War: 'Culture is always the of Little Faith (which inciden- thinks he knows better, that the defining force, not economics." in his tally won the 1988 Books in Can- mention his rabbinic aspirations only thing he can control Max wonders whether he has ada Best First Novel Award), The because I find The Womanizer, life is "passing through" it. spent his 50-plus years of life Womanizer's main turf is ideas, like A Man of Little Faith, to be a Not until the final chapter in being too impressed with the ma- and with the added frisson of having hybrid novel, a blend between a which Max is still walking teriality of economics, and if he the nu- been inspired by numerous wo- 19th-century roman-à-thèse, and thinking does he embrace is more influenced by the physi- a moderate de- men, "one-night stands," and "re- some very accomplished Biblical clear family with cality of sex than he ought to be. peaters," who enter and exit the and Talmudic exegesis, the dia- gree of healthy skepticism. He is Ultimately, he decides that it is life of the protagonist. logue of ideas taking priority a thinker from the beginning of economics, his work, and his love Max, who has no last name over plot, moving the novel along. the novel to the end. He thinks, of women that made it possible throughout the novel, is up-front But stuff does happen as Max therefore he is. for a guy like himself to take the is so commendable about and in your face, constantly pa- tracks the 50-plus years since What thinker's journey (which inci- scope and rading his ploys (both real and the early 1950s with astonishing Max's thoughts is their dentally ends in the birthing Canadian na- imagined), challenging the status clarity. Max likes walkingit's variety, defining room of Max's own son). quo, and calling to mindguess the one movement he can count on. tionalism and defending what whothe journalist, Rick Salutin, "There is no such thing as a walk, makes us different from our The curious thing about Salu- in his weekly On the Other Hand it's always a quest," says Max, neighbour to the south. Following tin is that the journalist in him Globe & Mail columns. who tries to understand what's his graduate studies at Cam- (he is known as the Globe & But Max is also a quixotic happening around him, while bridge, Max returns to Canada to Mairs lefty-in-residence) en- shadow figure, whose s elf- coming to terms with the biggest comb the country on lecture cir- riches his novelistic writing. The definition relies in part on the truth of allaccepting that he is cuits, expressing his love for the Womanizer, a man of his time, women who love him and, to quote not the centre of the universe, native country. But he is also charts 50-plus years of Canada the Leonard Cohen song, "are only a speck of dust "passing fiercely proud that he is a highly from a true lefty's point of view. passing through" his life. But through." But that does not mean Max is cruder than that, and the that specks of dust do not matter. tedious graphic indulgences can For Max, it is not finishing the distract readers from the novel's task that counts, but the initial Empowering you with a greater understanding of wondrously philosophical dia- choice to participate and, more lectic. (Imagine reading Rick Sa- importantly, to try to make a lutin's new novel solely for the difference. 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Poet Richard Sanger A delightful variety of topics and range of styles During the month of March, the City of Ottawa CALLING HOME, will distribute the new garbage, recycling and THE POETRY OF leaf and yard waste collection calendar. Look RICHARD SANGER it By Richard Sanger for in your mailbox and keep it handy for the Signal Editions/Véhicule Press, next 12 months. It contains 67 pages, $14 (trade paper) valuable information on BY IAN McKERCHER recycling, household 'There are a lot of good reasons to pick up a copy of Richard Sanger's hazardous waste latest poetry book, Calling Home This is a short volume with a de- depots and lightful variety of topics treated in a range of styles. It takes a great garbage collection. deal of courage to write a book of poetry and this is the best work to come out of the Glebe since George Johnston. So. Calling Home...? The English teacher in me immediately wants to ask: "Well, class, what is the significance of the title?" Sanger plays the pun both ways: you can "call home," of course, and retouch your roots with memories. And you can travel the world and "home" can be anywhere you call it such. Books Sanger grew up on First Avenue in the Glebe and looks back, without asilisk Dreams Ottawa's only anger, at those days. He captures the urban quiet in Paper Boyin the pre-dawn light, his dark felt lined boots were: Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Store planted on fresh snow-paved sidewalks,... Block after block to each sleeping house, We offer a good selection of Science Fiction and Fantasy Books, Bring the Glebe the Globe. both past and current, including: U.K. Imports and The Globe comes to the Glebe, but does the Glebe go to the globe? Presentation Editions; Audio Books (CDs and Cassettes); Sanger certainly took his Glebe roots around the globe, setting his po- Role Playing Games; Media Tie-ins: Books, T-Shirts, Mugs, etc. etic reflections in Paris, Montreal, the Côte d'Azur, Toronto, Scotland, Hot m Mon-Tkatts 10-6, Fti 10-8, Sat 10-6 Granada, England and New Brunswick. Then he gives us another Glebe tableau in Law of the Local Rink with 857B Bank St. 230-2474 its "dance"hours of exhausting puck play, while boys preen for the (at Fifth Avenue) http://www.basilisk.on.ca Glebe girls doing figure-eights on the rink next door. Nothing so before, nothing so since, Like the lure, the lore of the local rink- You went to play shinny, to talk big and swear And hork, as you said, over the boards, Member by invitation: The boards that shook with each shot you'd take- CANADIAN-INDEPENDENT group of funeral homes. To chase the puckwhat else?for hours on end, 'Then double over, gasping, your life in the air, KELLY FUNERAL HOMES And push off again, thighs aching, blades crunching, Lome Kelly - Owner Till, with a deke and a flick of your wrist, (It was all a dance, all a show) You tapped in the goal that topped all the rest, RAL HOME No sweat...Nothe goal nobody saw, ., . .,. Least of all the girls you most wanted to, As they unveiled, on the rink next door, Annie, Laura and sore-anlded Kate, Their figures, and their figure eights.

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Note: Members must be Canadian Owned and Operated Independent Ian McKercher was an English teacher at Glebe Collegiate Institute of International Funeral Industry Conglomerates. for 18 years. Richard Sanger was one of his students.- 33 Glebe Report March 14, 2003 BOOKS WHAT YOUR NEIGHBOURS ARE READING Captured in Stone Here is a list of books discussed at recent book club meetings: Carvings tell our story Natalie Babbitt Tuck Everlasting" CAPTURED IN STONE: J.M. Coetzee Disgrace CARVING CANADA'S PAST Brian Doyle Hey, dad!** By Milne, Lambert & Moore Patty Duke Brilliant Madness: Living with Penumbra Press, Manic-Depressive Illness $25.95 (Hardcover) Patty Duke Call Me Anna Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary BY K. BARBARA LAMBERT Jonathan Franzen The Corrections Captured in Stone: Carving Elizabeth Hay Student of Weather Canada's Past, by R. Eleanor Paulo Maurensig Canone In verso Milne, K. Barbara Lambert and Anne Michaels Fugitive Pieces Eleanor Moore, with an introduc- Alice Munro Hateship, Friendship, tion by Margaret Wade Labarge Courtship, Loveship, Marriage and photographs by Ewald Rich- Carol Shields Unless ter, was published in January Cynthia Voigt The Calendar Paper' 2003 by Penumbra Press of Ma- notick, Ontario. *Selections of the new mother-daughter reading groups at Sunnyside Powerful works of art can be Branch, OPL. appreciated for their impact "*Selections of the guysread group at Sunnyside Branch. alone, but when they also tell sto- ries in symbolic form, only the Please help us lengthen the list. If you do not see your club's selec- artist can best explain her inner tion on this list and would like to contribute to next month's list, meaning. in Captured in Stone: please leave a message re Book Club List with your name and phone Carving Canada's Past, a great Ca- number on the Glebe Report's answering machine (236-4955). nadian sculptor presents her sin- people, events, and the natural Thanks. gular insight into why and how world. The artistic style builds our country developed as it has, upon mediaeval ideas of illustra- as expressed in a carving that tion. For example, Jacques Car- also hopes for a future of justice, tier's huge boot rests upon a tiny freedom and love. Her artistic ship, to emphasize his charting of goal was "to design and carve a the St. Lawrence River. 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And the and Easter Services. comes from the Anglo-Saxon word girl replied, "Then listen lencten meaning spring, which slowly." That's the marvelous comes from the Anglo-Saxon long thing about Jesus as He is pic- Tel: 236-4955. indicating that the days of spring tured in the Bible. He knew how Fax: 236-0097 get longer. Traditionally, Lent i s to listen and, in listening to oth- a 40-day period of fasting and ers, He showed that He cared for penitence leading up to Easter. I others. Deadline: March 24 for April 4 issue. don't know about you, but I'm not Then the man opened the sec- all that good at fasting and peni- ond prescription at twelve noon. tence and, if truth be told, the It said: "Try reaching back." traditional notion of giving up Reaching back to what, he won- things for Lent, such as coffee or dered. But gradually he began to chocolate or whatever, doesn't do think of happier times, the many much for me. Rather, I like to little moments of joy he had expe- think of Lent as a time in which rienced with family and friends. to look at our livesin other He thought of all the good things words as a time of self-examina- in life which had come his way. tion. And in the exercise of reaching Let me tell you about a man back, a smile came over his face. who arrived at a point in his life But let me suggest to you that where he began to feel that eve- when we reach back, there's an- rything was dull and flat. He had other benefit to be gained. Some- no energy, no enthusiasm, he felt one once said that his favourite dead inside. He consulted a doc- words in all the Bible are the tor who couldn't find anything words, "And it came to pass." You wrong with him, at least not see the wisdom in that, don't you? physically, but said to the man That when we reach back and that he was going to give him some think not only of the good memo- written instructions, along with ries, but also the troubles, the Pot-Luck Supper and Sing-Along four prescriptions. The doctor disappointments, the difficulties wrote out the following instruc- and the heartaches, the fact is Spring Concert/Hymn-Sing tions: "Take a day and go to a that for most of us, it all comes to place where you were happiest as pass. It was Hawthorne who said: a child. Take some food, but don't "The greatest of all mortal con- talk to anyone. Don't read or solations is that this, too, shall write or listen to a radio. Open pass." In the season of Lent, we the first prescription at nine sometimes talk about the wilder- o'clock, the second at twelve noon, ness, the place where Jesus was the third at three o'clock in the tempted. But the Hebrew word for afternoon, and the fourth pre- wilderness means, "A place you scription at six o'clock in the pass through." When we reach evening." The man agreed to do back, we are reminded that we what the doctor ordered. made it through the trials and The next morning, the man difficulties. went to the beach, his favourite Then, at three o'clock the man place as a child. He opened the opened the third prescription and first prescription and read the read the words: "Write your wor- words: "Listen carefully." He ries on the sand." The man knelt thought the doctor was crazy. How down and, with a broken seashell, could he just sit there and listen he wrote some words in the sand. for three hours straight? But as Then he turned and walked away. he did so, he began to think about He didn't look, back, because he the importance of hearing things knew the tide would come in and he had long since forgottenthe wash his worries away. sound of the sea, the sounds of Finally, when it was six the birds. The sound of laughter. o'clock, the man opened the last "Listen carefully," That's not a piece of paper and read the bad lesson for us to think about words: "Examine your motives." during the season of Lent. Some- He thought about all the things he times we find ourselves so busy, wantedsuccess, recognition, se- JIM OWN pulled in so many different di- curity, comfortand he j u s ti fied ASSOCIATE BROKER rections just trying to survive, them all. But then the thought that we forget to listen at all. We came to him that these motives forget to listen to ourselves and were not enough. There was slow down, when our bodies are nothing in there that motivated telling us to do so, but our minds him toward the service of others. say otherwise. We forget to listen Someone once said that "service is to others, sometimes because we the rent we pay for the privilege are simply too busy to hear them. of living on this earth." Lent is a I think of a minister who had good time in which to examine our taken on too many commitments. motives. Lent is a good time in He found himself snapping at his which to examine our lives. wife and children, choking down his food at mealtimes and feeling generally irritated. One night at suppertime, his daughter wanted to tell him something important that had happened to her at school that day. But knowing that her father .wouldni- have much This space acts as a free community bulletin board for Glebe residents. Drop off your GRAPEVINE metsage at the Glebe Community. Centre, including your name, address and phone no. 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