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Tree Fest Comes to Brewer Park nd rd September 22 and 23 See page 42

Brewer Park from above. PHOTO BY TOM ALFÖLDI

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Wednesday, Sept 5, 12:00 Doors Open for Music at Southminster (DOMS) – “Sunny Ritter”, Southminster United Saturday, Sept 8, 8:00-15:00 Community Porch Sale Wednesday, Sept 12, 12:00 DOMS – “Baroque Meets Folk”, Southminster United Saturday, Sept 15 Brighton Ave Clambake, Old Brighton Beach Wednesday, Sept 19, 12:00 DOMS – “Soul Hour With Beats ‘N Keys”, Southminster United ...And More! Wednesday, Sept 19, 19:00 Book Launch of “Move More, Your Life Register today for Fall programs at OSCA! Depends On It”, Function Physiotherapy Sept 22 - 23, 10:00-17:00 Tree Fest, Brewer Park Pond Saturday, Sept 22, 16:30 Music at Trinity - “I Love and I Live”, Trinity Anglican Wednesday, Sept 26, 12:00 DOMS – “Torres Meets Tárrega”, Southminster United Thursday, Sept 27, 19:00- Municipal All Candidates Meeting, Glebe 21:00 Community Centre Friday, Sept 28, 19:30 Concerts by the Canal - “Sounds and Scenery” with Duo Kalysta, Southminster United Sept 29 - Oct 7, 9:00 -16:00 Butterfly Show, Carleton U. Nesbitt Biology Building Saturday, Sept 29, 13:00 Panda Game, Lansdowne Park Sunday, Sept 30, 15:00-17:00 Fundraiser for the Out of Cold Sunday Supper Program, St. Margaret Mary Sunday, Sept 30, 19:00-22:00 Double Poetry Book Launch of “Reunion” by Deanna Young and “Dividing the Wayside” by Jenny Haysom, The Cameron

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BUSINESS BEAT Yoga/Meditation Centre, Vegan Café, Social Co Creation Hub Coming to OOS By Erik van der Torre forms of retail that can operate space: Corey Sheikh. between himself, the architect, and successfully in such a large space From his website: “Sheikh is a the community that will be using Landlord, and briefly turned retailer, with such an odd shape. It’s probably modern spiritual teacher, speaker, the space. If you are interested in Manzoor is the first to admit that too large for an independent, new healer, writer, meditation & checking this out further, you can do his pet project at 1111 Bank St. did retail business, too awkward for a movement instructor.” For the past so on AwakenOttawa.com. not work out the way he had hoped. food establishment (let alone the two years, Sheikh has been teaching While the concept of Ottawa-only investment it would take to put in a and coaching both on an individual Community Minded designed clothing and accessories, commercial kitchen), and one would level and in group settings, and One of the centre’s goals is to combined with a funky, hipster think (hope?) that the beauty/hair before that he ran a meditation/yoga/ work in close collaboration with the barbershop sounds good on paper, market is saturated by now. The other community centre in Hintonburg. community, including focusing on it unfortunately didn’t work out in half of what used to be the Folklore Building on his experience from the community-led initiatives. Sheikh has reality. So within a few months of Centre, which I imagine has a similar past several years, Sheikh is ready for worked and collaborated with several opening, Arkadia World and Fresher shape, successfully transformed into the next step in reopening a wellness schools and is looking forward to Barber Shop permanently closed a spa/massage centre, with a nice, centre. similar collaborations in the future. their doors a couple of months ago. bright lobby in the front and massage One of the systems that Sheikh The closing of the retail store rooms along a corridor leading all Vegan Café has implemented in his coaching and and Kelly Craig taking over at the the way to the back of the building. Sheikh’s vision for the new centre teaching has been a “pay what you Sunnyside Music School (see the It seems that that kind of offering can is to not only have a space for yoga, feel” policy, knowing that people July-August Business Beat), allow work in this kind of space. Enter the dance, and meditation, but also generally end up paying a fair fee Manzoor to return his focus on their new tenant. include a café and juice bar at the for services, but also to make sure real estate portfolio, leaving the front of the store, giving the space that his services are accessible to running of the retail spaces to others. Yoga/Meditation Centre more the feel of a community centre everyone. This is also his goal for the Part of the reason why Arkadia/ Until the day before the submis- than strictly a yoga studio. The café new venture, where he hopes to not Fresher perhaps didn’t make it as a sion deadline for the September then would not only function as a only work with local OOS residents, concept is the physical space of the OSCAR, I figured I had very little to hub for the wellness centre, but also but also be able to offer services to store itself. The space is somewhat write about, other than Jim Watson’s provide space for events such as lower income communities in the narrow, but goes back a very long campaign office taking temporary musical performances, speakers, etc. surrounding areas. way. And there is a slightly awkward ownership at 1101 Bank St. While Business Beat is a monthly feature jog about halfway into the store, walking over there to maybe snap a Awaken Ottawa - Crowdsourcing that highlights new and existing obscuring part of the back of the picture, I noticed a few people inside the Space businesses in Old Ottawa South. store. The length of the store also the closed Arkadia space. Turns out Although Sheikh is working with Opinions are my own. If you know means natural light is really only it was Manzoor and the new tenant an architect to help design the space, of any new businesses opening up or present at the very front of the store. signing lease papers. This fortuitous he wants to spend the first few want to share your thoughts about There are probably not that many encounter allowed me to have a nice weeks/months in a “soft opening” long chat with the new tenant of the mode. Which means that starting existing businesses, send a note to: in late August/early September the [email protected]. new centre will begin hosting events Erik van der Torre has lived in Old to introduce people to the concept Ottawa South with his wife and three and space, but also allowing early sons for over 9 years. He is a mem- members to have a clear say in ber of Hopewell Avenue PS’ Parent what they would like to see in the Council and OSCA’s Traffic & Safety space. Sheikh wants the design of Committee. the space to be a collaborative effort

Roost & Grills Restaurant Offers Unique Fusion Flavours By Nadine Dawson ern Indian origin, cooked to tender perfection on a grill imported from Four friends have begun a new Portugal. Throw in Indian-inspired venture in Old Ottawa South: Roost pizza, and they had the makings of a & Grills quietly opened to the public cuisine that couldn’t really be found last December 26th. Since then own- anywhere else. ers Krishnakumar, Hundlani, Rappai, But first, they had to learn how to and Kumar have been developing make pizza dough. In fact, they spent and perfecting their menu. The four three months doing just that − testing met in Kochin Kitchen and decided and tinkering every night until they to create something unique: inspired produced a crust to their satisfaction. by their common birthplace, Kerala And though they offer “traditional” Province in India, they dreamed pizza of the tomato and pepperoni of opening a restaurant focused on variety, they created a Margarita grilled chicken unavailable else- with spinach sauce, a Butter Chicken where in Ottawa. Lovers with, you guessed it, special With the help of Kijiji, they butter chicken sauce, and the spiced- located the perfect cozy spot from up Southern Vindaloo, a meat lovers which to grow: 1202 Bank Street. delight settled on their signature vin- When they discovered the space daloo sauce. Fancy a Butter Paneer Mention The OSCAR when booking to redeem this offer! was already outfitted for pizza they pizza? This may be the only place on thought, why not? And it is just this earth you can find it. spirit of adventure that has led to their signature dishes: chicken mari- Continued on pg. 3 nades of Middle Eastern and South- The OSCAR l September 2018 Page 3

PEOPLE Thanks, Larry from thinking about the big project, A golfing partner is always divides it into small manageable bits. available, a neighbour who has taken It’s a mind game. up the same habit. “A good walk Larry never won these things, his ruined” as Mark Twain called it, is goal was to run a good race, finish still a good walk for these two; they under four hours and enjoy the never use a golf cart and don’t fuss experience. He has no cabinet full of too much about the score. The cyborg trophies, but he does have a pair of knees work very well and Larry nice new stainless steel knees. enjoys the walk. No good deed ever goes unpunished. Bruce Grant is an OOS resident, Now into his seventies Larry does retired Engineer, Layabout and no more marathons but he does play occasional writer for The OSCAR. golf almost every day.

Larry Ostler. Welcome back PHOTO BY BRUCE GRANT management style faced off against Back to work or back to school, By Layabout a committed union. Larry’s position we have fabulous finds for Fall. as Director of Project Management Gorgeous colours and textures, Larry Ostler has been OSCAR’s taught him a lot about survival skills. soft and cozy for the cooler Distribution Manager for ten years. He moved on to a similar position days to come. The job involves taking delivery of at City of Ottawa, a much more Join us Sat. Sept. 8, Porch Sale Day. a pallet load of papers once a month, agreeable workplace. When the We’ll have cake! dividing them into eleven piles great amalgamation took place and hauling them out to the homes in 2002, that created a lot of staff of eleven zone coordinators. The redundancies and Larry was happy papers are then divided again into to accept an offer of early retirement about a hundred bags for a hundred after just 6 years. Oh, if only; as a door-to-door deliverers. I’m one of self-employed person, I was working those, started my working life as an on a “Freedom 75” plan and counted Photography Cochrane Ottawa Citizen paperboy and finished myself lucky to get out three years early. Mon. - Wed.: 10 - 5:30 • Thurs. & Fri.: 10 - 7 • Sat.: 10 - 5 • Sun.: 11 - 5 • 1136 Bank Street, Ottawa ON K1S 3X6 at the same level (unpaid) for 613-730-9039 • theclothessecret.com Follow us: OSCAR, after a lifetime of modest Running and golfing have long accomplishments. been passions for Larry. He has run Now, Larry is retiring from his 54 marathon races in New York, Full Service Real Estate position; it seems appropriate to Washington, Detroit, Chicago and publish an appreciation of his so many other places. The project dedication to this task over so manager adhered to a strategy: Barry Humphrey many years. It’s also, indirectly, an You don’t look at the mileage Sales Representative markers; you look away until you appreciation of all those others whose PROFESSIONAL SERVICE monthly efforts combine to make pass them. Thinking about how far DOESN’T HAVE TO BE EXPENSIVE! OSCAR happen. Their names are you have yet to run isn’t good for Total published in every issue. you; it drags you down. Full Service includes: I meet Larry at his “office”, a table You pace yourself behind someone ✔ MLS® and Realtor.ca Websites at Timmy’s on Bank Street and we who is going at a similar speed. After ✔ Personal Website ✔ Professional Photos 3 some minutes, you get it into your pass an hour in conversation. Commission% ✔ Open Houses Larry started at IBM in Toronto head that you can pass this person, (Includes both Listing and ✔ Market Updates Selling agents commission) where he worked in project so you do it. Then you fix on your ✔ Lawn Signs management for 14 years. He moved next target and repeat. You never on to Canada Post, a challenging let the one that you have passed place where a quasi-military overtake you. The strategy stops you SOLD SOLD foods include Red Nuggets, Piri Piri PANSY AVE Continued from pg. 2 Paneer, Crispy Chou-fleur, Roost POWELLGLEBE AVE Fries and Wings − all of them gluten- OLD OTTAWA SOUTH Their specialty, though, is chicken. free, and seasoned with Roost & The Emirati is brined in spiced yohurt Grills’ specially-developed spices and lime and encrusted with an Ara- dips. bian marinade, the Classic Grilled is Krishnakumar, Hundlani, Rappai, soaked overnight in Kerala-inspired and Kumar have big plans. Soon they SOLD spices, and the Grand Tandoorian will begin delivery services, and their FOR SALE$1,150,000 masala features Kashmiri chilli and website is nearly ready, but that’s THIRD AVE still just the beginning. They dream GLEBE 2045-2047 Cabot St turmeric. Whether roasted or special Alta Vista grilled − steam on the bottom, gas of inspiring a new line of franchised heat on the top, and flipped often − restaurants, fusion-style. If you like the chicken is tender and delicious. unusual flavours, you might consider The sides are also unusual. The visiting Roost & Grills sometime [email protected] soon. spiced rice is made from the tasty 613.230.8888 613.296.6060 Direct www.BarryHumphrey.ca jeera rice, the coleslaw and salad Nadine Dawson is a teacher and tossed in house-made dressing, the Over 30 Years of Experience and Knowledge potatoes baked in black pepper and artist who lives in Old Ottawa South. Not intended to solicit Sellers or Buyers on contract. parsley with a lemony flavour. Finger Page 4 The OSCAR l September 2018

THEATRE The Company of Adventurers Performs Antony and Cleopatra! By Paul Keen and own personal vulnerability. When Cynthia Sugars Antony tells Caesar’s servant, whom he has interrupted making overtures to Cleopatra on Caesar’s behalf, “He Get ready for an Alexandrian makes me angry with him; for he feast! This summer, the Company seems. Proud and disdainful, harping of Adventurers, a local young on what I am, Not what he knew I people’s theatre group, is staging was,” it is hard not to empathize. Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra. Cleopatra, whose love for Antony The Company of Adventurers is in is troubled by an awareness of the its 8th season and has staged many precariousness of her position, must of Shakespeare’s favourite plays juggle her own dangerous blend of over the years, from Romeo and brilliance, personal strength, and Juliet, Hamlet, and The Tempest to absolute vulnerability. Like most comedies such as Twelfth Night, A highly mythologized individuals, Midsummer Night’s Dream, and The the real Cleopatra was far more Taming of the Shrew. Like past years, interesting than is the reputation this performance features beautiful that has grown up around her. In her stage design (divided between the time, she was highly regarded for her worlds of Rome and Egypt) and political sophistication (a trait that plenty of music. Performances take was crucial to her role of promoting place outside at 57 Glen Avenue, Egypt’s interests in the face of larger which is gradually transformed over imperial forces), but even more the summer months into a fully so, for her intellectual prowess. decorated outdoor stage, complete Originally a member of the Greek with fifty-seat audience capacity. Cleopatra (Noor Alabed). PHOTO BY CYNTHIA SUGARS Ptolemaic dynasty, she was the first Shows are free but are presented as Ottawa South and others who have the last reigning Pharaoh of Egypt. Ptolemaic ruler to learn the Egyptian a community fundraiser; the actors travelled from Gatineau and Chelsea. Antony, torn between love and duty, language. She spoke at least nine pass a hat to raise funds for a local Antony and Cleopatra may Egypt and Rome, is feeling his age, languages, an achievement that charity. Last year, the Company well be Shakespeare’s most plagued by an uncomfortable sense enabled her to engage directly with raised nearly $3,400 for the Ottawa heart-wrenching play, filled with that his best days are behind him. many leaders and emissaries who Food Bank. This year we are raising foreboding prophecies, squandered This feeling is made all the worse by visited her court. Enobarbus’s famous money for Cornerstone Housing for chances, and an epic clash between the youthfulness of his antagonist, comment, that “Age cannot wither Women, a suggestion made by one of wondrous extravagance and Roman Octavius Caesar. Between the two her, nor custom stale. Her infinite our actors because this play features order. The drama is driven by the of them and Lepidus, they make variety,” captures the wonder with such a complex and captivating complex relationship between two up the three pillars of the world, which many regarded her, but like leading woman (yes, Cleopatra!). of Shakespeare’s most compelling but as the Soothsayer warns, their the famous “barge she sat in, like a Like every year, this year’s cast and enigmatic characters: Marc situation remains fraught: “The burnish’d throne” when she first met features plenty of returning actors Antony, one of the three pillars of least wind in the world will blow Antony, it was also a testament to with a few new faces, some from Old the Roman Empire, and Cleopatra, them down.” Like the history plays, Cleopatra’s considerable gift for self- Antony and Cleopatra is animated fashioning in an intensely patriarchal by Shakespeare’s acute sense of the world. Like Antony, her political instability of all power structures, brilliance was enhanced by a lavish but in this case the atmosphere of and theatrical love of pleasure that looming crisis is amplified by the found its focus in their memorable lead characters’ intense sense of their love affair. Together they enjoyed an extraordinary romance, dressing in costume, holding lavish feasts, and walking in disguise through the Antony and Cleopatra Alexandrian marketplace by night. Presented by But also like Antony, Cleopatra’s situation is animated by a clear sense The Company of Adventurers of her own vulnerability, not merely Fri, Sept 7, 5:30 because her “salad days, When I Sat, Sept 8, 5:30 was green in judgment,” are now Sun, Sept. 9, 2:30 past, but far more treacherously, Fri, Sept 14, 5:30 because of the clarity with which Sat, Sept 15, 2:30 she understands how vulnerable she Sun, Sept 16, 2:30 ultimately is to Caesar’s wishes. Sat, Sept 22, 5:30 Few plays conjure such a powerful Sun, Sept. 23, 2:30 blend of tectonic shifts in global Fri, Sept 28, 5:30 historical politics and intensely Sat, Sept 29, 2:30 personal struggles. Having paved the Sun, Sept. 30, 2:30 way for Octavius’s ascent to power in Rome after the coup against Julius Performances Caesar, Antony’s preference for life take place outside in Egypt with Cleopatra quickly at 57 Glen Avenue. incurs the new Caesar’s ire. A war in which the two men unite to defeat All performances are weather Pompey (who had been staging his permitting. Check our Facebook own rebellion) quickly leads to war page for up-to-date information. between Caesar and the combined Shows are free but are presented forces of Antony and Cleopatra. In as a fundraiser for Cornerstone Housing for Women. Continued on pg. 5 The OSCAR l September 2018 Page 5

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New Canadian Comedy Hits the Stageproductions in Old as Chitty Ottawa Chitty Bang South Bang and Anne of Green Gables. Stephen is enjoying a renewed love of being in the theater and is The Royal honoured to be part of this new fun play. Flush When the two couples find themselves trapped in the cabin on a October 12th at 7:30 pm stormy winter weekend, a mysterious character named Snowflake – at the played by Rita McCrea – injects Ottawa Tennis and Lawn some unexpected heat into the icy Bowling Club (OTLBC) on surroundings. Cameron Avenue A familiar face at Monday night volleyball in the Hopewell gym, Rita is an accountant, wife and mother Tickets are on sale at the of two boys whose other hobbies OTLBC for $15 include skiing and camping. in advance or Head set designer Molly Purves $20 at the door. brings the vibe of Northern Ontario cottage country to Old Ottawa South with her stunning props, created with the aid of a talented neighbourhood team. Left to right: Stephen Beneteau, Glenda Blacker, Martine Berthiaume, Tickets are on sale at the OTLBC James Allan. Centre front: Rita McCrea. PHOTO BY KATE JAIMET for $15 in advance or $20 at the door. The performance will take By Kate Jaimet stage after a hiatus from her amateur place in The Cameron restaurant, theatre stint in Montreal and a on the second floor of the tennis clubhouse. All proceeds from ticket Tickets are selling quickly for this professional whirlwind tour with the sales will go toward the club’s capital fall’s one-night-only performance of Dean Matin Goldiggers! fund, dedicated to the upkeep and the new Canadian comedy The Royal Martine, who sang and danced as restoration of the historic clubhouse Flush, playing October 12th at 7:30 a teenager, recently rediscovered her and grounds. Please note that the play pm at the Ottawa Tennis and Lawn artistic side. She now sings, draws, contains adult subject matter and is Bowling Club (OTLBC) on Cameron paints and acts, both on stage and in not suitable for young children. Avenue. front of the camera. The Royal Flush is a twisted tale Appearing opposite Glenda, Kate Jaimet is a writer who lives in of hidden identities and comedic leading man Stephen Beneteau Old Ottawa South, she wrote and comeuppances, set in the woods of plays Melanie’s husband Pete – a directed “The Royal Flush”. Northern Ontario. man who harbours a dark secret. Glenda Blacker and Martine Meanwhile, James Allan brings a Berthiaume star as Melanie and rugged, backwoods note to the role of Tassie, two jealous sisters who inherit Tassie’s long-lost high school flame, a cabin where their departed dad Dean. may – or may not – have hidden a James, an Old Ottawa South fortune in casino winnings. resident, is well known to A long-time OTLBC member, neighbourhood audiences for Glenda is thrilled to be back on his roles in such GNAG theatre

her part, is forced to wrestle with the Cont. from pg. 4 increasing tension between her love of Antony and her responsibility to her people as Egypt’s leader. As Antony’s the play, these larger historical forces once-famous military bravery gives unfold in ways that intensify the way to reckless bravado fueled by immediacy of the personal dynamics his irritation with “the scarce bearded as one of history’s most famous tragic Caesar,” the forces of history converge couples struggles to survive in a world with an agonizing inevitability. that feels more and more like “a pair This year’s show is as lavish as its of jaws” grinding everything in its heroes’ reputation. It is a feast for path. At the famous Battle of Actium, the eyes and the ears, appropriate for Antony makes a decisive choice and young and old alike! Come out and follows Cleopatra’s ships as they support these inspiring young actors. escape the fray. As he confesses to her They will take your breath away. afterwards, “Egypt, though knew’st See you at 57 Glen in September. too well my heart was to thy rudder This year’s shows take place from tied, and thou shouldst tow me after.” Friday, September 7th to Sunday From this point onward, Caesar has September 30th at 2:30. won. All performances are weather What may ultimately make the permitting. Check our Facebook page play so sad is the anguished clarity of for up-to-date information. See you in Antony’s recognition that he is trapped Alexandria! in a no-win situation. Turning his back on Rome can never be a lasting Paul and Cynthia organize The solution, but living without Cleopatra Company of Adventurers and live in is unimaginable. And Cleopatra, for OOS. Page 6 The OSCAR l September 2018

OPINION Capital Daycare Centre: The Case for a Not-for-Profit Co-Op By Miranda J. Brady they had his sister. As time went on, a long-time staff member pointed out The first time we walked into a concern she had with his speech Capital Daycare Centre on the development. She is an incredibly recommendation of friends, I knew experienced and intuitive caregiver this was the place for our daughter, who has probably helped raise (and who was 24-months at the time. effectively toilet train) hundreds There’s no other way to describe it, of kids. Her intuition was right. but it just felt right. It was loving, Eventually, our son was diagnosed warm, and the staff were happy. with Autism Spectrum Disorder I don’t mean this to sound naïve; (ASD), and to this day, I remember it wasn’t sales pitchy and put on. that she was the first one to identify Many of the employees had been the difference in his development. working there for a long time, 30 Over the next two years, the staff years in one case. There is a nice worked closely with us as a team. mix of veteran caregivers and the They coordinated with his support newer staff whom they mentor and workers from Integrated Support train. As we prepared to pull our Services and CHEO. They met daughter out of a daycare with lots with us regularly to talk about his of employee turn-over, the difference progress. They went way beyond was palpable. Whereas the previous the call of their duties and were centre felt much more institutional, unwavering in their support. It was and we never knew who was going The Capital Day Care play yard on Bank St. at Cameron Avenue. an extremely challenging time, but to be there from one day to the next, they helped us, and they always PHOTO BY CAPITAL DAYCARE CENTRE we got the sense that there was treated our son like he belonged there just like any other member of the much more employee ownership and Regardless of who you are, you Capital is the opposite of flashy (they community. As a result, he learned to loyalty at Capital. This is in part due take your turn pitching in. Parents rent their basement space from the be with other kids in his own unique to its governance model as a not-for- rotate on laundry duty, washing Trinity Anglican Church). But, it is way, which he will now carry on with profit cooperative. bedding and towels once every few comfortable, and the environment him as he prepares to start school. I’d Aside from being unionized, the months. I also fondly remember and ethos suited us. Not to mention like to think the other kids benefitted full-time staff rotate onto the board taking our turn at cleaning nights the food is amazing, prepared fresh from him too, that he showed them of directors along with parents. They a couple times a year where my everyday by an extremely talented there are lots of ways of being in and actively participate in the decision husband and I would flip a coin to see chef. Our daughter ate way better sensing the world, and everyone has making that affects families and who would stay home with the kids than us on most days, and my mouth something to offer. employees alike. In addition, while and who would join the other Capital watered when I read the menu! I will always be grateful for many of the families pay the full rate, families and staff to wipe down the I eventually served on the board, the kindness and inclusivity a number of spots at the daycare are toys, furniture, and equipment. It was helped with fundraisers, and referred demonstrated at Capital, from the subsidized, which means there is a a little bit of work, but mostly fun, anyone looking for childcare to board to the staff and other families. socioeconomic mix and a diversity and we bonded. Capital. My daughter made friends It’s a model where everyone is of different backgrounds and It wasn’t always perfect, and that I’m convinced she will have for valued, and well, it just feels right. experiences. life. Being there made us feel like we were part of a community. Just as my daughter graduated Miranda J. Brady is a proud mother and left for Junior Kindergarten, of two and lives with her family in our son followed in her footsteps Old Ottawa South. and started at Capital. The staff loved and cared for him just as The OSCAR l September 2018 Page 7

Breaking Bread, Breaking Stigma: Event to Raise Vital Funds to Combat Eating Disorders By Nerys Parry and the doctor didn’t produce results, that we don’t feel alone, or without The audience will also vote on their or provide a diagnosis. Three months hope. favourite to receive the Peoples’ The first question anyone asks me later, you could see every vertebra in On October 3rd, the second annual Choice Award. when I tell them the story of how her neck. When I hugged her, I felt “Breaking Bread, Breaking Stigma” “We are so excited to repeat the my daughter fell prey to Anorexia her ribs. Then her electrocardiogram fundraiser for Hopewell will be successful fundraiser we held in Nervosa over four years ago is: “how showed a weak heart rate and we held at the Horticulture Building at 2017 with this new group of chefs did you not see this coming?” brought her to Emergency. There Lansdowne Park, featuring some of that represent the diversity of our And that’s the scariest thing about we learned that she not only had the city’s top culinary talents. city’s food scene,” said Jody Brian, eating disorders—how silently anorexia, she had it bad. Last year, the event crowned Hopewell’s Executive Director. and invisibly they stalk sufferers, If we could have received a Chef Joe Thottungal of Coconut While some have questioned the dropping mere hints and whispers diagnosis earlier, could we have Lagoon the “Sandwich Sovereign link between eating disorders and a of the deadly illness that’s building prevented the years of struggle that of Ottawa.” Chef Joe is returning food-related event, Brian is quick to within. have followed since? I honestly this year to judge the five new point out the logic. First it was an off-handed comment don’t know—we know so little about offerings, alongside local food “Eating disorders are the most when she started high school that this disease and its trajectory. But celebrities Margaret Dickenson and fatal mental health diagnosis, but her fervent dedication to sports one thing I do know: as a parent, I Anne DesBrisay. Katherine Dines long-term recovery is attainable and and school “surely meant she was wish I had known more about what of MAJIC100 – the official media sustainable with early diagnosis running from something.” Then there my daughter was suffering. I wish sponsor – will be the MC for the and timely, effective treatments,” was an interview with her writing I’d been better able to read those night. she said. “Food is the medicine that teacher, who he said she seemed few signs that seemed, at the time, Battling it out in 2018 will brings our clients from illness to very intense—a common observation so insignificant. In short, I wish be Shannon McLaughlin from wellness, and so we want to celebrate since primary school, really. teachers, coaches, doctors—all of neighbourhood favourite Belmont, this while helping to break the stigma That winter, she had a panic us—just knew more. Period. Partick Garland from Absinthe Café, around these deadly diseases.” attack at the top of the ski hill—my That’s why organizations like Tim Stock from Thyme & Again, and For more information on Hopewell daughter, who’d always been a Ottawa’s Hopewell Eating Disorder Warren Sutherland from Sutherland. and to purchase tickets, please visit fearless skier. It was around this time Support Centre are so important. The event is also welcoming a team www.hopewell.ca. that she also became a vegetarian Not only do they generate a better of student chefs from Algonquin obsessed with fat-free vegan recipes, awareness about eating disorders College, who will fight grasshopper- Nerys Parry is a mother, author, but I didn’t get too concerned, not in our community, so people like to-sensei with the more seasoned long-time resident of Old Ottawa until February, when her weight loss me can better understand what’s professionals. Each chef will present South, and member of the Hopewell was noticeable and she complained happening with our loved ones, they their creation to the judges’ panel, Eating Disorder Support Centre of being cold and tired all the time. also offer support groups, bringing which will score the sandwich on Board of Directors. Multiple visits to the nutritionist together sufferers and loved ones so taste, presentation and originality.

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Building A Stronger Neighbourhood Benefits All Ages A gastro pub By Fran Mowbray seen solutions tried elsewhere that might work for us in OOS? by the Fraser We are getting older. Some of We have some ideas, such as: brothers us now live in big houses where creating block email addresses so once children ran and played. we can share information easily Our joints are a little stiffer, with our neighbours, block pot our stamina is not what it used luck dinners to help us know each to be. But we are still healthy, other a bit better, a community alert and looking for ways to wide supper at the Firehall, build a stronger community for articles in the OSCAR sharing ourselves, and all who live here. information that could make Seniors Watch Old Ottawa our lives easier and richer. Or Weekday LUNCH South (SWOOS) was formed things that already exist such as recently to focus on ways those of the website https://impacthours. weekend BRUNCH us who choose to continue living org/ that advertises volunteer in our homes and neighborhood opportunities for people over 55 can make life easier and better yrs. & DINNER nightly. for us, and the community. Please send us your ideas, We may not be up to painting concerns and dreams. Our email our houses or shovelling our address is: swoos2018@gmail. walkways any more, but moving com into an apartment or expensive If you’d like to be involved retirement residence are not the with SWOOS send us your FRESH SEASONAL only ways we can deal with the contact information as well and problem. Maybe a group of us someone will get in touch. can jointly hire someone to clear We are lucky to be a generation all our walks, or find a local where many of us have our health Just steps over the bridge worker to paint our houses. after retirement. Let’s make the SWOOS would like to hear most of it and work together to from you. What are your concerns build a stronger community. Reservations accepted online or by phone about ageing in your home? What ideas do you have for building Fran Mowbray is a member of stronger neighbourhoods? Do you Seniors Watch Old Ottawa South. have suggestions, or have you Page 8 The OSCAR l September 2018

CHRISTY’S CORNER Fall Fun at the Firehall By Sarah Cybulski and weights, and a dual action pulley Scientist night, a Monster Mash, and Natasha Tardioli system. an Ugly X-Mas Sweater Holiday Fall Fest We also offer personal training Countdown Party. Join us Sunday, October 14th in the FFC with Joanne Hale, who from 11:00 am-2:00 pm at Windsor Fall is one of our favourite times of has been a personal trainer for over After-Four 2018-2019 Park for our annual Fall Fest. We’ll the year at the Firehall. The children twelve years and has worked in the We’ve launched After-Four for be celebrating all things Fall! Join are back to school, we get to see FFC since 2011. Joanne will work another year and we’re so excited us for a BBQ, music, games, and our returning clients, we get to meet with you to create an individualized about it. It’s going to be one of activities for all ages. We’ll have new clients, the leaves turn beautiful program and help you achieve your the best years yet with Katherine food contests with special guest colours, and we launch our fall goals. and Lance planning exciting new judges. You are welcome to enter lineup. activities coupled with Firehall in any of the following categories: Registration for the fall session Preschool, Child, and Youth favourites. Soup, Pie, Preserves, Bread, and our opened August 28th for preschool, Programs OSCA’s After-Four Program new category of ‘70s Jellied Food in child, and youth programs and We have a wonderful lineup of provides activities for children after celebration of OSCA’s 40th! If you’re August 29th for adult programs and programs coming your way! We are school ends. Our program includes lucky, you might also get to taste membership to our pottery studio. If launching some new programs like supervised walkover from Hopewell these delicious treats. you missed the initial date, don’t fret, Teen Boxing, Teen Pottery, Dance Public School (or bus pick up for However, we couldn’t possibly run registration is ongoing throughout the Variety, Busy A-BEE-Cs, Science those from other schools), a healthy such a fun event without volunteers, session. If you miss a class or two, Workshops with John Hayman, snack, games, sports, crafts, trips to so we’re asking OOS residents to you will receive a prorated fee. and Chess Club. We’ll also have the park or library, and occasional volunteer at Fall Fest! If you’re returning favourites like Family workshops. Our dedicated staff is interested in volunteering for our Adult Programs Badminton, Jiu Jitsu, Busy Bees, committed to building a positive event contact us at oscaprograms@ Fall is the perfect time to get a NERF, and Sportball. rapport with every child. oldottawasouth.ca! It’s a great fresh start on your fitness goals. Last year, our After-school Antics If you would like to register your opportunity to meet other people in After a lovely summer of relaxation, were very popular so we’ve planned children in After-Four for the 2018- the community and give back! There get ready to return to a wonderful a great lineup for those looking 2019 school year, we still have some are a variety of time options available health and fitness routine! We have for some specialty programs for space left in both the Gr. 1-3 program to volunteer, so you’ll still have time new programs like Boxing, Circuit their children after school. Darcy and the Gr. 4-6 program. to join in on the fun! Blast, Latin Vibes, Slow Flow, and Middaugh is offering some of his more! We also have our popular fan patented JK-SK programs and we’ve Porch Sale Important Dates favourites like Core Challenge, Yoga also added dance and chess, while Join OSCA as we celebrate the Porch Sale: Saturday, September 8 Sculpt, Pilates, and more making a Young Rembrandts, Little Lotus, annual community-wide Porch Sale Fall Fest: Sunday, October 14 comeback for another great session. and Sportball are back by popular on Saturday, September 8th! Join Christmas Craft Show: Sunday Get ready to reach your fitness goals! demand. us between 11:00 am-1:30 pm on November 25 Our Youth Nights and Junior Youth the Firehall porch for music, face Breakfast with Santa: Sunday, The Firehall Fitness Centre Nights are back and better than painting, and a BBQ. We’ve also December 9 Did you know the Firehall has a ever. For the Gr. 5-7 Youth Nights, received word that Rodney the Saturday Night Fever Movie at the fully-equipped gym? This hidden Lance Skarlovnik and his team have Raven, the Carleton Ravens’ mascot, Mayfair: Sunday, December 16 gem, also known as the FFC, is a come up with new challenges and will be a special guest. If you are new wonderful option for those looking twists that are sure to be exciting to the neighbourhood, the Porch Sale Sarah Cybulski is OSCA’s Preschool, to reach their fitness goals in an with themes like the “Upside Down” is a community-wide event where Child, & Youth Program Director, inclusive and judgment-free zone. It night and a Halloween “Are You you are encouraged sell or give and Natasha Tardioli is OSCA’s is equipped with five treadmills, three Afraid of the Dark?” party. Katherine away what could be someone else’s Program Support & Communications ellipticals, two upright stationary Boisvert and Lance have also teamed treasure. Set up your sale on your Coordinator. bikes, two recumbent stationary up to launch a new series of Gr. 3-4 front lawn, driveway or porch. We bikes, a rowing machine, free Junior Youth Nights featuring a Mad hope to see you there!

The OSCAR Needs a OSCAR Zone Coordinators Needed. Zone Coordinators are responsible for the distribution of Distribution Manager bundles of papers to deliverers, supervising and, if needed, assisting those deliverers.

• The Distribution Manager accepts monthly delivery of • OSCAR Zone Coordinator Needed for the Zone that includes 4,300 bundled copies of OSCAR, and manages delivery of the following Streets: Cameron, Rideau River, Pentry, Osborne, the paper to all OOS households, selected businesses and Marco and part of Leonard. (8 deliverers) institutions. • OSCAR Zone Coordinator Needed For the Zone that includes • They do so by managing a team of zone coordinators and the following Streets: Southern, Avenue, Glencairn, Riverdale, volunteer carriers. Rideau River Drive, Toronto, Brighton and Glenview. (8 deliverers) • This position comes with a monthly honorarium. OSCAR Deliverers Needed. Are you organized, dependable, diplomatic, computer literate, familiar with OOS, and a skilled communicator? • OSCAR Deliverer Needed for the north side of Fentiman (40 Are you a team leader with a driver’s license, access to a car papers). and access to a computer? Do you have space to hold and sort 4,300 newspapers for two days each month (except July)? Attention High School Students: •Delivery of the OSCAR counts for volunteer hours. (Note it is helpful to have a large porch or garage.)

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OSCA PRESIDENT’S REPORT Ahhh September… Linger… Linger a Little Longer… By Richard Slowikowski, surprise inside this first email which park down by the river at the end of OSCA President I received from Alex Saunders. I Belmont and wander a little. Then contacted Alex to get his permission I will go around to Windsor Park for me to share his message with and stroll along the river bank a The first email which I received everyone in Old Ottawa South. Alex little. I don’t think any of the trees we as OSCA President landed with an agreed. climbed in the 30’s and 40’s are still unceremonious bing on my computer. there but that doesn’t matter. It seems I am sure that you can imagine the that I make my pilgrimage once every thoughts which were rolling around I often visit Old Ottawa South all want to be able to say about our year or so just to satisfy a nostalgia in my head: another developer and Brighton Beach on GOOGLE community when we are 89? Isn’t appetite. What a wonderful area for a trying to make another mockery of EARTH for a nostalgic “walkabout.” this exactly why we, as a community, boyhood. the City planning system; or maybe I grew up on “lower” Belmont (no. need to work on important issues another traffic and safety issue on 82). What a wonderful place to spend All the best! such as development and traffic and Bank Street. Make no mistake, these one’s boyhood. I will probably take safety? Don’t we owe it to ourselves are important issues, however, I a drive around there again this sum- Alex’s message made a huge im- and to our children? certainly was not prepared for the mer. I am 89 now so I will probably pact on me. Isn’t this exactly what we I hope you have a great day.

What’s it All About: Traffic and Safety? By Sue Neill resolving traffic issues resulting from ensure that the intersections allow you have a keen interest in traffic and their very successful beach volleyball ample time for crossing and that safety or skills that you think can be The new President of OSCA, program. instructions with respect to crossing- useful, please get in touch with us Richard Slowikowski, has challenged Perhaps our biggest achievement light buttons are clear and consistent. at trafficandsafety@oldottawasouth. each of the OSCA Committees to in recent years is the successful We are also advocating for a red light ca. Or if you have an idea or a prepare an article for the OSCAR lobby for a safe crossing of Colonel camera somewhere on Bank Street, situation that should be brought to explaining who is on the committee, By Drive in Old Ottawa South. We and better enforcement of traffic our attention, please don’t hesitate to what they do, how they do it, who were delighted when Councillor regulations. contact us. they work with and what they have Chernushenko announced to the For your information, the Traffic accomplished. OSCA Board that an agreement and Safety Committee consists of Sue Neill is a member of the OSCA The Traffic and Safety (T&S) had been reached between the City Winnie Pietrykowski, Brian Ure, Board and Co-chair of the OSCA Committee is the first – so here goes! and the NCC on the creation of Kathy Krywicki, Erik van der Torre, Traffic & Safety Committee. Welcome to Traffic and Safety 101! a Pedestrian Crossing (PXO) at Janet Jull and Sue Neill. The main objective of the T&S Colonel By Drive and Seneca. We can always use more help. If Committee is to advocate for, and We also think that it is important take action on, initiatives which will to keep residents informed, not only make Old Ottawa South safer for of what we do but also of different pedestrians, cyclists and vehicles. traffic rules and regulations. As well On any day, you are likely to find as monthly articles in the OSCAR Thanks to OSCAR’s someone from the T&S Committee on traffic and safety matters, there “out there” observing traffic patterns, is a regular “did you know” feature good practices and especially when which outlines such matters as many volunteer writers it comes to Bank Street, many bad distances required for parking near practices. Who hasn’t seen cars driveways or new changes to on- running a red light on Bank Street, street parking bylaws. The minutes and distributors for cars turning left illegally at Wilton of the monthly T&S meetings are Crescent or from the Echo ramp at also published on the OSCA website Bank Street, cars speeding on Bank within a week of each meeting. helping get the news to fill a gap in the endless traffic, Safety is also an important part cyclists riding on the sidewalk and of our mandate and we have been to you! so on. It is sometimes discouraging working regularly with Safer The OSCAR is a self-supporting newspaper, to see such misdemeanors happening Roads Ottawa (a branch of the City Remember our children are back at school. Traffic Department) promoting the over and over. But the T&S paid foPleaser entirely driveby adve carefully.rtising, and reliant on Committee is a persistent bunch! distribution of bike lights, fluorescent volunteer contributors and distributors. Through collaboration and arm bands and “Slow Down for Us” lobbying with the Councillor’s signs throughout the community. office and City officials, along Bike safety is also on our radar and Thanks to the Dairy Queen for with residents, local advocates, the last year the committee, along with contributing to our community through Hopewell Avenue PS Parent Council, the Glebe, Heron Park and Old the National Capital Commission and Ottawa East sponsored a Bike Rally its support of the many federal and provincial politicians, and Rodeo at Windsor Park where OSCAR volunteers. we have been able to contribute to participants were able to cycle as a a number of positive changes in our group through the community and community. For example, you may then learn about bike rules, helmet have noticed the newly illuminated fittings and safety tips from Safer no left turn sign at Bank and Wilton Roads Ottawa, and even get their Crescent, the zebra stripes at Bank bikes washed. and Aylmer, Bank and Sunnyside as We know that there is lots more well as Bank and Cameron, the flex to do to make our community safer stakes on the Echo ramp directing for cyclists and and also more traffic to the right and the speed pedestrian friendly. In 2018, we boards on the Bank Street Bridge. will again focus on the Bank Street We have also collaborated with the Bridge and its intersections and management of the Ottawa Tennis also on other intersections in Old Dairy Queen, 1272 Bank Street and Lawn Bowling Club to assist in Ottawa South. Our objective is to 738-7146 Page 10 The OSCAR l September 2018

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Diversity of Opinions? Ottawa South” stated as “worrisome” incumbent for Ottawa-Centre “...did expression, then that is great. Let’s the reality that Ontarians voted for not make it back into office”, stating have several viewpoints. Let’s have To the Editor, “... a new Provincial Government that “The PCs won because they a diversity of opinions. It may be that promised to cut back $22 managed to get approximately 40% interesting, even informative. The April 2017 issue of The billion over three years...”. This of the vote”, and then proceeding OSCAR published a page-long about a democratically-elected to question the existing electoral R. Ozga article, by a “social justice activist new government facing a deficit process. Interestingly, no concern Resident of Old Ottawa South since living in Ottawa”, insinuating that of almost $12 billion by year-end was expressed that the Justin Trudeau 1955 commemorations marking the 2018 as a result of the former high- federal Liberals won the 2015 federal 100th anniversary of the battle of spending Liberal government’s 2018 election with only 39.47 % of the Vimy Ridge glorified war and the budget (according to the Financial popular vote. militaristic “birth of a nation”, while Accountability Office of Ontario). If The OSCAR is for freedom of giving little regard to the many That same July-August 2018 issue lives destroyed in World War I, nor included an “Opinion” entitled: celebrating a desire for peace. “Congratulations Ottawa Centre, The July-August 2018 issue, under You Elected the NDP” from a the column “Senior Watch Old writer disappointed that the Liberal MUSIC EDUCATION • PERFORMANCE • PRODUCTION

Haddad’s or Boushey’s D’Alonzo. We moved into OOS in 1981 and shopped there for many www.theshinegroup.com To the Editor, years. They were not related to the Boushey’s on Elgin St. They Private and group music lessons I’m not sure if you have the facts subsequently opened up the grocery all instruments all levels right about the sign at Bank & store/deli on Sherwood. After they Sunnyside Brendan. I believe sold that they opened the chain Enroll for the school year and receive the the sign said “Haddad’s” and not Marcello’s Market & Deli. FIRST TWO LESSONS FREE! “Boushey’s”. It was run in the Shine Music Academy early 80’s by Georgette & Marcel Tom Lawson & Sheila Casey 613-604-4690 [email protected]

Haddad’s or Boushey’s - Reply Boushey’s on Elgin Street prepares to close”. Tom & Sheila, Which mentioned that: “…when every Ottawa neighbourhood had I think we might both be right. a couple of corner groceries, like I based my story on the fact that another Boushey’s run by an uncle in “I think” I remember Boushey’s the family in Old Ottawa South into from my youth. I grew up in the 1980s, which is now a wine bar.” Brokers Diane Allingham & Jennifer Stewart Carleton Heights (on the other side However the plot thickens because of Carleton) but I used to go to based on Tom & Sheila’s email I did the Mayfair for their cheap double some goggling and found and re- features and being a frugal (ok, read an article entitled “Memories maybe just cheap) youth, I would of ‘Old’ Ottawa South” which was get my drink and chocolate bar at in the March 2015 OSCAR and is VANIER DUPLEX Boushey’s before going into the also posted on the OSCA web site. 315 Levis Avenue movies with the drink and food in (I edited this piece just 3 years ago, Listed at $449,900 my pocket. (Sorry, Mayfair folks!) but I did not recall the details). The Now I did do some basic research subject of the piece, Jim Robertson when I wrote the piece to check that who grew up in OOS from the my sometimes unreliable memories 1940’s to the early 1960’s, said that: had some basis in fact. “Haddad’s vegetables occupied what CONDO In the Jan 1988 OSCAR (in the is now Taylor’s Genuine Kitchen.” WESTBORO SEMI-DETACHED CENTRETOWN TOWNHOME OSCAR archive at oldottawasouth. Maybe both occupied that space 285 Nepean Street #15 597 Kirkwood Avenue. Listed at $599,900 Listed at $359,900 ca/archives) on page 20 there is an but at different times? Which begs ad for “BOUSHY’S MINI MART more questions. Which one was first? 1091 Bank Street (Sunnyside) Fresh Maybe Haddad’s? How long was Fruits, Vegetables, Deli, Groceries each one open? And which one did Under new management”. Then the sign belong to? CONDO Boushy’s Mini Mart also gets Would readers have any more BEECHWOOD VILLAGE a mention in the October 1995 information? 7 Marquette Street, #305 OSCAR on page 1. Listed at $339,900 I got the fact of a relationship with Brendan McCoy, the Elgin Street store from a May OSCAR Editor 30, 2016 Ottawa Citizen article: “Seventy years of memories as CONDO NEW EDINBURGH SEMI-DETACHED WESTBORO Haddad’s or Boushey’s - Here is another interesting plot 370 Dominion Ave, #201 43 Alexander Street. Listed at $519,900 Plot Twist twist: In the ad in OSCAR the Listed at $339,900 spelling has no “e”: BOUSHY’S Get your advice from the Top. Tom & Sheila added a further MINI MART, while the name of Top 1% across Canada for Royal Lepage observation, the shop on Elgin street had an “e”: dianeandjen.com Boushey’s Fruit Market. [email protected] 613-725-1171 Page 12 The OSCAR l September 2018

MUNICIPAL ELECTION City Council Candidates Doucet Challenges Watson By John Dance Doucet has strong links to Old Ottawa South and the rest of Capital At the last minute, the mayoral race Ward. He was councillor when the became a David vs. Goliath contest Firehall renovation was planned, rather than a virtual acclamation of funded and undertaken by the City. incumbent Jim Watson. Clive was a passionate advocate Clive Doucet, four-time for an open competition for the Capital Ward councillor, filed his redevelopment of Lansdowne nomination papers just hours before Park but, in the end, the suburban the nomination period ended. and rural councillors out-voted He says he wants to make Doucet and his urban colleagues sure there’s good debate in the and approved what has become the mayoral race. He’s quite aware Ottawa Sports and Entertainment vision of Lansdowne. of the challenge ahead, given his Jide Afolabi experience in 2010 when he also ran for mayor, but finished a distant John Dance is a resident of Old There is much to celebrate about Ottawa. Ours is a vibrant city, with a legacy third behind Watson and former Ottawa East. that includes heritage infrastructure, leafy neighborhoods, parks, bicycle mayor Larry O’Brien. paths, waterways, work and play places, world class health facilities, and a cherished diversity. Still, we must not allow our good legacy to give room to complacency. There is much that can be better in our city. It is true that we recycle much of our waste, but we continue to fill Candidates Withdraw and Enter landfills. According to the Ottawa Community Foundation, we sent over By John Dance context where there was a credible 125,000 tonnes of garbage to landfills in 2014. Roughly 342 tonnes daily! I progressive candidate running for propose the incineration of our garbage for the generation of energy, and the liquification of the resulting gases for mixing into concrete. Interlaced and As Capital Ward voters get closer to mayor in order to ensure we the kind scientifically feasible solutions that would result in zero landfill provisioning the October 22nd municipal election, of rigorous debate around competing and zero environmental impact. they have lost two of the earlier visions for our City which I feel is I also propose a phasing out of the serving of single-use plastics in our declared candidates, but have gained sorely needed,” and that she “was commercial establishments. According to the World Economic Forum, we one new one. pleased to see Clive Doucet enter are currently on pace to having plastics outweigh marine life in our oceans Both Emilie Taman and Joe the race at the eleventh hour for by 2050! While this is not a problem we can singularly resolve as a city, it is Federico have withdrawn, but Shawn exactly that reason, but I had already nonetheless imperative that we start by halting the most egregious instances Menard – presently the local Public decided against running at that of our commercially-induced reliance on plastics. School Trustee – has joined the race point.” It is true that we have built bike paths, but dangers for cyclists on our to be the councilor representing Old In terms of declared candidates roads remain all too real. The absence of full modal separation means that Ottawa South, Old Ottawa East, the for mayor, only incumbent Jim constantly, cyclists must concern themselves with survival and drivers must Glebe and Heron Park. Watson and Clive Doucet have a concern themselves with not being the cause of a grievous occurrence. I The other declared candidates are high profile. The others are: Hamid propose full modal separation as a default, starting with barriers on existing Jide Afolabi, Anthony Carricato, Alakozai, Ahmed Bouragba, Bernard paths, as well as bike and pedestrian bridges beside the Bank, Billings and Christine McAllister and incumbent Couchman, Joey Drouin, Ryan Bronson bridges. David Chernushenko, all of whom Lythall, Craig MacAulay, Bruce It is true that our winters are harsh, but it is inexcusable that cyclists and have been canvassing in Old Ottawa McConville, Michael Pastien, drivers spend every spring dodging potholes. I propose a study of options for South. Moises Schachtler and James T. the strengthening of asphalt, which should include the mixing in of various “It was a tough decision,” says Sheahan. types of liquefied household plastic, to see which might extend the life of Mr. Federico citing personal reasons As for the various school board our pavements. The weighing of such options is underway in Vancouver, for withdrawing. “Ultimately, I’d trustees, they are: Ottawa-Carleton premised on that city’s different climate. love to be involved in contributing District School Board - Rose Over the course of this campaign, I have heard residents at the door remark to the direction of the City, affecting LaBrèche and Lyra Evans; Ottawa on the need to protect and enlarge our urban forest. I propose the “Ottawa communities positively, and Catholic School Board - Shelley Tree Corps”. It is time we bring together the need to plant and support trees changing society for the better.” Lawrence and Regan Preszcator; and the need to support students and youth through the provision of summer Ms. Taman also cited personal Conseil des écoles publiques de l’Est jobs and life skills. reasons for leaving the race. Saying de l’Ontario - Marielle Godbout and I also propose a green roofs by-law. When we lose vegetation at the ground she it “didn’t feel like the right time Abdourahman Kahin; Conseil des level to make way for a large development, we can insist on the coverage of for me or my family.” She went on écoles catholiques du Centre-Est - most of the resulting building’s flat roof with vegetation. Toronto has such a to say “I had also hoped to run in a Valérie Assoi (acclaimed). requirement, so does Montreal, Washington D.C, and Chicago. It is true that vibrancy and intensification requires greater urbanization, but it is important that development be in line with the character of established neighbourhoods. My proposal is for a by-law that would see the overriding of variance applications by developers if a given number of neighbourhood residents oppose in writing - a “petition with teeth”, if you will. Visit bringboldback.ca for my complete platform. I am a lawyer with All Candidates Meeting eighteen years of experience and a history of social justice focused on Thursday, September 27 indigenous reconciliation and self-government. I have been active in advocating for smart solutions to Ottawa’s concerns through nextOttawa, a 7:00-9:00 pm, Scotton Hall non-profit. I ask for your vote on the 22nd of October. With your support, our Glebe Community Centre city can commence the implementation of bold ideas for a better Ottawa. • Candidates for Ward Councilor • Audience members will have the opportunity to ask questions The OSCAR l September 2018 Page 13

City Council Candidates

Anthony Carricato David Chernushenko

My vision In 2014, the degraded state of the planters and green spaces along Bank Street I envision an Old Ottawa South and Capital Ward driven by smart became an election issue. When renewal work was done a decade earlier, no budget and sustainable development, where residents have a greater say in had been approved for ongoing maintenance. I pledged to find a solution. the decisions that shape their communities. I want to see a dynamic Re-elected (thank you!), I helped bring together some interested people, Ward that fosters and supports local businesses and welcomes families connecting them with city staff and bringing some modest but essential resources with affordable housing, excellent municipal services and modern City to where it was needed. To this seedling, I helped bring compost — literally as well facilities. as metaphorically. The result is the vibrant, attractive spaces you see today, where there was once weeds and litter. Top 3 priorities for Old Ottawa South By no means did I do this alone. Nor was I even a significant worker. Rather, 1. Planning and actualizing the redevelopment of Brewer Park and I was a facilitator, networker, cheerleader and occasionally cajoler. It was the ensuring the construction of a new field house for Windsor Park residents and businesses — knowing they had support — that stepped up. This is, 2. Improving the safety of busy crossings on Bank Street Bridge and I believe, one example of how a healthy community works. It also illustrates how I Billings Bridge, and strengthening pedestrian and cycling connectivity work, and will continue to should I be re-elected. 3. Supporting the revitalization of Bank Street between the two bridges, including through a Community Design Plan Some important initiatives to which I contributed (2014-18) • Main Street Renewal — the first conversion of a high-speed, intimidating Top 3 priorities for Capital Ward thoroughfare, to a “complete street” balancing needs of all users and ages. 1. Enforcing development plans and zoning rules for infill projects, • Light Rail for Ottawa! Confederation Line soon to open for service with stations rooming houses and building heights to maintain the livability and at Lees and Hurdman in Capital Ward, and Phase Two funded, including character of our neighborhoods substantial Trillium Line service expansion in Capital Ward. 2. Championing the revitalization of the Rideau Canal and the protection • Flora Footbridge connecting communities across the ward and beyond. of green spaces and trees • Energy Evolution — Ottawa’s Renewable Energy Transition Strategy. I 3. Opposing unfair increases in property taxes conceived of, lobbied for and saw through to completion Phase One. More than 15 projects are underway. Top 3 priorities for the City of Ottawa • Urban Forest Management Plan — a plan to protect/expand our urban canopy. 1. Developing better rules to guide development and City planning, and • Dramatically curtailed inappropriate infill through use of Streetscape Character mandating earlier public consultation for developers Analysis, end to “Conversions”, R3 Zoning Review and R4 Zoning Review 2. Standing up for affordable housing by enforcing minimum unit (Phase One) requirements for new developments • Affordable Housing and Housing for Homeless: Salus Ottawa’s “Karen’s Place” 3. Installing compost and recycling in all City facilities, including parks, built to Passive House standard, 275 Carling Avenue housing for homeless RFP with separate bins for pet waste issued, following community consultation and support for affordable housing adjacent to new LRT stations Your ideas matter • Renegotiated contract for household organics (green bin) to allow for pet waste This campaign is all about restoring the voice of residents and inclusion and plastic bags where necessary to increase Ottawa’s diversion rate — empowering our communities at City Hall. That’s why I’m knocking with the intention to move to compostable bags only. on doors and consulting with as many residents and stakeholders as I • Bronson Avenue (Canal to Carleton) safety measures for all users can. Through these important discussions, I have identified the above • O’Connor Segregated Bike Lane priorities. As I meet with more of you during the campaign, it will inform • Western Rideau Pathway for a continuous route from OOS to Lees LRT station my platform and evolve it. Meeting with residents of Capital Ward is • Safer crossings of Colonel By Drive (2 locations) what will enable me to best represent you. I encourage you to connect • OC Transpo Route 6 (formerly 1) and 7 frequency improvements on weekends with me and share your ideas for improving Capital Ward. • Percy Taverner Park creation

Time for change, time for Tony My Priorities - Ottawa As a volunteer with my local community association, I’ve grown to • More affordable and supportive housing for the most vulnerable appreciate the important role municipal government plays in our daily • A new Official Plan providing greater planning certainty for a green and resilient lives. Ottawa However, I’ve watched our current councillor shy away too often from • Living Streets — thriving and inviting for all users and ages defending the residents of this Ward and struggle to collaborate with • Better sidewalk, pathway and road repair his colleagues on council on key issues. As a result, the residents of Old • Full implementation of Energy Evolution in pursuit of Ottawa’s climate Ottawa South and across Capital Ward are hampered in their ability to commitments decide the future of their neighbourhoods. • Tree canopy expansion and a stronger Tree Conservation Bylaw I’ve also watched some of the candidates in this race receive support from provincial and federal political parties, to whom they would be My Priorities - Local beholden should they win. In my view, residents want less partisanship in • R3/R4 changes to halt inappropriate bunkhouse construction municipal politics, not more, and I look forward to representing everyone • Windsor Park fieldhouse upgrades at City Hall regardless of political affiliations. • Safety improvements around Billings Bridge including pathway connections For the last decade, I have worked for the Speaker of the House of • Completing signalized crossing of Colonel By at Seneca Commons, where a key aspect of my role has been to unite people • Pedestrian/Cycling Bridge over Rideau River adjacent to Trillium Line from different political parties and ideologies in pursuit of shared goals. I believe this experience will prove immensely beneficial at City Your councillor has one vote. It should be cast with the public good in mind. I Council and allow me to generate positive change for the residents have declined financing from developers, and returned cheques. It keeps me free of of Capital Ward. After all, City Hall can be a difficult environment favour, which I consider a bulwark of democracy. for urban councilors, who number only five compared to the 18 other I am also resolutely non-partisan, holding no party membership. It troubles me representing mostly suburban or rural wards. That’s why I feel we that parties seem to be working to influence municipal politics. I will guard against need an independent-minded councillor who can build support across that.With your support, I will continue working to make our community and city constituencies to successfully address the priorities of Capital Ward safer, healthier and more welcoming. residents. www.davidc.ca Page 14 The OSCAR l September 2018

City Council Candidates

Shawn Menard

Ottawa is where I was born and raised, and never before have I felt so compelled to change the direction of our City Council. Developers and Christine McAllister corporate money are in charge at City Hall. The public engagement process is broken, often with pre-determined outcomes. Our representatives have I’ve been a resident of Capital Ward for 15 years and it has been a wonderful done little to curb and adapt to the greatest threat we face — irreversible place to raise my family. climate change — while the taxes we pay in Capital Ward are being Our Ward is beautiful and diverse, with green spaces, trees and waterways – allocated to destructive sprawl and road expansion. Together, we can a place where people can live, work, study and play. We need to ensure it has change this direction. the assets and services all residents need today and in the future. We need to show leadership by: When we talk about the future of our communities, it’s hard not to think • Cancelling Mr. Chernushenko’s decision to promote plastic bags in the about the development that so many of us are experiencing close to home. green bin with no evidence and instead bring motions to phase out and Development should be approached in a way that listens to community ban single use plastics in Ottawa. concerns and that respects and enhances the character of our neighbourhoods. • Voting against ever increasing transit fares in this City in the face To ensure our Ward remains a wonderful place for each of us to live, we need of declining ridership, and presenting our plan for free public transit, a strong, engaged and responsive voice at City Hall. That’s why I’m running to something 100 municipalities across the world have achieved. We will be your Councillor. start with a plan for free public transit down Bank street, a key North- Since I announced my candidacy in March, I’ve spent time knocking on South clogged artery, reducing the U-pass and low-income pass costs, doors across the Ward, listening to your priorities, concerns and visions for and extending free seniors days. the future. If I have the honour of representing you on City Council, I would • Asking the wealthiest in our communities to pay a little bit more (those continue to listen and engage through regular connections, including drop-in purchasing homes at $3 million and higher) so the many can benefit. events like coffee shop chats, yearly pre-budget consultations and by reviving I’ll be a voice on Council speaking out against wasteful new road the Ward Council with community leaders. I will work to connect City Hall construction and expansions, which the evidence clearly shows do not with the people of Capital Ward. work, and cost the City an average of $50 million a year. I will also work to ensure that the residents of Capital Ward have the services • Focusing on affordable housing and ensure inclusionary zoning is a and community assets that they need. This means setting affordable housing reality in Ottawa, so that if a developer wants to put up large new builds, goals and developing costing plans to achieve them. Revitalizing community we can mandate that 20% of them are affordable. assets in Brewer Park and Heron Park, including funding and implementation • Pushing for a new voting system that makes all votes count, and ensure plans for new facilities. Working towards a sustainable environment for our cycling and pedestrian activity is not an afterthought, but viewed for City. Advocating for improving the connectivity and safe cycling infrastructure what they are: Huge money savers and essential to city building. and enhanced transportation services throughout the Ward. • Make Old Ottawa South a priority – refurbish Windsor Park and I want vibrant Traditional Mainstreets and Community Design Plans that Brewer Park, make cycling safe along the Bank Street Bridge and are respected. Knowing how important parks and green spaces are to our South to Billings Bridge, start a Ward Council where we bring together enjoyment of our neighbourhoods, I will work with residents to develop a community leaders regularly, improve snow clearance and winter safety, “Capital Ward Parks Development Plan.” review of speeding on residential roads. At the door, I am often asked the question: “How can you get your A Little Bit About Me priorities through being that you are only one Councillor.” It is a great Raised by a single mother dependent on subsidized housing and a disability question. I will be one of 24 votes. This hasn’t stopped me. I have worked pension, I learned early on the value of strong, inclusive communities, because successfully to build coalitions across Ottawa to ensure success at the it was something lacking in my own life. When moving back to Ottawa, we Council table. I co-led the campaign to implement a U-Pass at Carleton settled in Capital Ward specifically because it is filled with strong communities University and the University of Ottawa. I led the campaign, along with and is a wonderful place to raise a family. groups like Ecology Ottawa, to hold the line on the suburban boundary, I’ve been dedicated to fostering engagement and collaboration amongst ensuring we limited developers from constantly expanding out, something residents of Capital Ward, while bringing diverse people together to resolve that is terrible for the environment and extremely costly to the tax base. complex issues and contribute to positive outcomes for all. I was recognized We won that vote 12-11. As your Councillor, you won’t need to guess for that work with an Ontario 150 award. I’ve participated in many local where I stand. I will actively participate in campaigns, and will ask more of community projects and groups. From 2013-2017, I was President of the Glebe residents to hold this Mayor and Council to account. Community Association (GCA) and Chair of its Education Committee from Shawn’s Experience: 2009-2011. I also served as President of the Good Morning Creative Arts & • Public School Board Trustee for Capital Ward Preschool. I am a member of Ottawa Centre Refugee Action, United Way • Senior staff person for Canada’s Big City Mayor’s Caucus and the Ottawa’s Spark and a previous board member of the Ottawa Community Loan Federation of Canadian Municipalities Fund. • Past President of the Carleton University Alumni Association - National Professionally, I have a strong background in business, financial management Capital Region and payments policy. I am currently Director of Modernization at Payments • Former Vice Chair of the City of Ottawa Pedestrian and Transit Advisory Canada, leading the development of a real-time payments system to provide Committee Canadians with innovative new payment options that will change the way • Past President of the Centretown Citizen’s Community Association we pay. I hold an honours degree in Political Science from the University of • Worked within the federal government as a public servant Western Ontario and a Master of Business Administration degree from the Shawn lives in Old Ottawa South along with his partner and young son. University of Windsor. To find out more about why change at City Hall is so important, visit I am a wife and mother of three children, an avid canoeist, cross-country ShawnMenard.ca skier and runner. The OSCAR l September 2018 Page 15

Public School Board Candidates

Rose LaBrèche

It’s that time again - where we head to the polls to cast our ballots for mayor, city councillor, and school board trustee. I decided to run for a Lyra Evans trustee position in 2018 because I care about our youth as the future of our nation. Because I care about cultivating a culture of achievement, Lyra Evans is an activist, an openly LGBTQ person, and an advocate for inclusivity, and opportunity. Because I care about the mental health and progressive change. Lyra was a student in the OCDSB for twelve years. physical well-being of the next generation. Because I want our youth to see During this time, she witnessed first-hand the economic disparity between themselves reflected in leadership roles and have diverse representation. schools within the OCDSB, and its direct impact on quality of education. I believe in equal access to quality education as all youth deserve a chance Lyra attended a school with over a dozen cramped portables during her to grow and develop skills with modern technology. I want to break the elementary years, and later one of the most prestigious high schools in the inertia of status quo and strive for social change in the education system. province, with over 150 years of alumni to draw upon for extra funding. We should be aiming high: to create an engaging and enriching environment Lyra came out as trans during high school, a difficult experience that to promote self-assured, intelligent, and well-prepared students for the next highlighted for her the difference between a policy of inclusion and a truly phase of life. We need to equip our students with the appropriate tools so inclusive environment. Lyra also struggled with homelessness as a teen that they face what comes after high school with confidence. We need to while still trying to complete high school. Since leaving the OCDSB, Lyra give them the means to succeed outside of a classroom setting. I also want has organized around LGBTQ and homelessness issues. She has been our youth to have access to the support they so desire and need such as recognized for her work with several awards, including a Feminist Emmy mental health support, quality infrastructure, a safe learning environment, an (Amnesty) in 2016 and the Social Justice and Community Empowerment outlet for creativity and suppressed energy. Award (Youth Line) in 2018. Lyra has also given sex-education classes I believe that supporting and promoting a strong sense of community through Planned Parenthood, and taken part in sex-ed performances in high while understanding and responding to the needs of residents is how schools all over Ottawa with Insight Theatre. solutions are best reached in the face of challenge. I will advocate for public Lyra hopes to bring change to the OCDSB through fair funding of education that meets the needs of all students and families in the OCDSB schools, equity, promoting Truth and Reconciliation, and by fighting to no matter the age, ethnicity, or socioeconomic standing. Having been a preserve comprehensive sex-education. public servant for over a decade, I understand the need for wide-ranging While guest speakers, field trips, and well-stocked libraries may seem engagement in decision making and will work hard to serve the residents of inessential, they have an immeasurable impact on a student’s experience of the community. As an example, I have heard from parents and stakeholders school. However, some schools don’t have the same capacity to fundraise that the promotion and celebration of diversity is an element that we through their PTAs and alumni associations to afford these opportunities for need to embrace wholeheartedly. I will work tirelessly to ensure that our their students. Lyra believes that a student’s quality of education should not community›s children receive a high caliber, current education - and all staff depend on their catchment area. For this reason, she will advocate for an have the necessary resources and support to provide this. increase in funding to low-income schools. Our schools and youth need us now, more than ever. They need We all want the OCDSB to be a place where every student has the chance resolutions reached with proper consultation, strong decision making in to reach their potential. That being said, marginalized students have been challenging circumstances, and someone who is willing to work with the shown to feel less welcome in school, have higher rates of suspension community to build trust. Someone with experience. I can offer that and and detention, and are less likely to graduate than their peers. As it stands, more. I have been an active member in the Ottawa area with youth groups the OCDSB does not collect adequate data on education outcomes for through initiatives such as Grow Smart Girls and empowering students to these students. Lyra wants the OCDSB to collect better data on racialized, find confidence through sport, namely rugby. From my experience in high disabled, and LGBTQ students to determine what the board can do to help level sport over the past 20 years, I understand the need for relationship them succeed. building to achieve goals, a champion for difficult issues, and the positive The current provincial government has taken several steps back with impact of a healthy lifestyle can have on mental and physical wellbeing. regards to education. As of this fall, Ontario will be reverting to a version I will extensively engage with the community to ensure that views from of the 1998 sex-education curriculum. In consequence, students will parents, students, and other stakeholders are heard. I look forward to now be taught from a curriculum that no longer covers consent, sexting, working with you, the community here in Old Ottawa South. Please do not cyberbullying, same-sex relationships, and gender identity. While the hesitate to contact me if you would like to discuss any school board issues - government has recently walked back on their decision to completely scrap it would be my pleasure to speak with you. the curriculum, they have not made clear which elements of the current Yours in education, curriculum will continue to be taught. In addition to repealing the 2015 Rose LaBrèche curriculum, the provincial government has ceased efforts to incorporate [email protected] Indigenous content into social science curriculums. Education is a central part of the Truth and Reconciliation process, and Ontario needs to do more to acknowledge the culture and heritage of our Indigenous people. Lyra will Rose LaBrèche is a public servant, international rugby match official who use her position as a trustee to lobby the provincial government to bring represented Canada at the 2016 Summer Olympics, and is running as a back comprehensive sex-ed and Truth and Reconciliation. She will also School Board Trustee candidate in Rideau-Vanier/Capital for the Ottawa- support teachers who continue to teach essential material from the 2015 sex- Carleton District School Board. ed curriculum. Lyra’s history as a student of the OCDSB, a sex-educator, and a community organizer make her ideally suited to represent and defend the needs of students. While the role of school board trustee is frequently overlooked, Lyra recognizes its immense potential to improve the lives of students. Page 16 The OSCAR l September 2018

Catholic School Board Candidates

Shelley Lawrence, RSCJ Regan Preszcator

It is a pleasure to have this opportunity to introduce myself to you. I, too, My name is Regan Preszcator and I am the incumbent candidate running live in Old Ottawa South and am running for the Zone 9 position of trustee for Ottawa Catholic School Board trustee in Zone 9, representing River in the Ottawa Catholic School Board. I know and understand the unique and Capital Wards. characteristics of this area. I felt it important to start by acknowledging the work of former Trustee Catholic education is a unique gift and one that we all have the Kathy Ablett. Although I did not have the pleasure of knowing her per- responsibility to protect and ensure its continued existence. I totally believe sonally, I am familiar with the work that she has done in the community in Catholic education and the life skills and values it leads students to and the type of woman that she was. Her contributions to the board will develop and live by. As a Catholic Religious sister with vast experience in not soon be forgotten. education, I hold this gift very close to my heart. I have had the honour of serving on the Catholic School Board for only I was a chaplaincy leader in the OCSB for 25 years serving in St. Paul a few short months. In that time, I have met with principals and staff of H.S., St. Matthew H.S., Immaculata H.S. from 2001 – 2009 here in Zone 9 the schools within Zone 9 to better understand the issues of importance to and, lastly, at St. Francis Xavier H.S. I am a recipient of the OCSB Director them as a school community. In doing so, it became clear that there were of Education Commendation (May 2006) for excellence in education and common issues persisting amongst all of the schools in Zone 9 including an Archdiocesan award for my work with youth (2013) during those 25 free flow of traffic and parking around school sites, supporting new years. I retired and presently volunteer at an adult learning center in this Canadians in Zone 9 schools and the need for more adult crossing guards zone teaching ESL to new immigrants and refugees who have come to live at high traffic intersections. If elected, I would continue to work with both in our country. I hold a B.A., B.Ed., and M.A. I am a Religious Sister of the the board and city councilors to improve these concerns. Sacred Heart of Jesus (RSCJ), an international order of women serving in I am a graduate of the dual track French immersion program within 42 countries of the world whose service in the church is education. Because the Catholic School System, am fluently bilingual and was raised in a of this call, my experience and love and knowledge of education, I want to Catholic family. Since completing my studies at the University of Ottawa, serve the OCSB rate payers and students as a trustee to promote and support I have been working in various capacities within the House of Com- the Board’s mission and vision and goals. mons and the Senate of Canada. I have been active with local community I believe in the direction in which our Catholic schools are moving. Deep groups including the Community Foundation of Ottawa, Equal Voice, and learning is now foundational to the Board’s teaching and learning framework groups that ensure access to education for young women. and is a creative way to connect students with their world and its people in I am first and foremost passionate about giving children the best new, creative, critical, collaborative and just ways. This method is used in possible start to life, and the best way to do that, is to ensure that they many other venues in society. have access to quality education and the resources that they need. In the budget for the new school year (2018 –2019), the board has Other issues of importance to me pertain to women’s leadership and allocated $400,000 for spending on programs and materials in religious encouraging more women to actively seek leadership roles within their education. They have also increased funds for Second Language teachers to communities. In addition to being a firm believer in promoting education, assist the growing number of new students who have come to our country I am a strong proponent for encouraging people to advocate for the best and register in our schools. To deal with the increased needs that revolve interests of their communities and to take active roles in achieving a around mental health issues, the Board has also increased funding for sense of equity and inclusion for marginalized youth. trained professionals and programs and resources for students. Of course the The board is doing excellent work to ensure the mental health of all stu- principle of equity – continuing to ensure a balanced budget that promotes dents and staff is a priority. Efforts towards reconciliation with our First equity, safe, inclusive and accepting schools is one of my strong convictions Nations, Inuit and Metis communities within the board is a positive step and one of the most important roles of a trustee. towards healing and continuing to build an inclusive community. I am The most important role of the trustee is to listen to YOU, the rate payers supportive of the Board’s inclusive special education model and the work and bring your needs to the table and direct your concerns to the right the board is about to do to improve programming for gifted learners. Re- people. You can count on the fact this will happen if you elect me. As a ducing barriers to learning by increasing support for students will ensure Religious Sister and an educator, I am skilled in working collaboratively and equal opportunity for all. Should I be elected to continue as your school have many years of doing so. board trustee, I would like to continue to expand upon this work. I ask that you seriously consider a vote for me on October 22nd to be Accountability to the ratepayers of Zone 9 is also a top priority. By en- your trustee for the next four years. I would work hard and be honoured to suring responsible and sustainable management of financial resources by represent you. Please check out my website: bit.ly/SLzone9. Thank you for remaining open and transparent with ratepayers, they can be assured that reading this! their tax dollars are being appropriately allocated for programs and initia- tives to improve quality of life and education for staff and students. As trustee, my goal is to continue to defend Catholic education and to give children and youth the best start at life. By working together to empower our community, we can give a voice to staff, students and ratepayers to ensure that all concerns are heard and that collaborative consultation is conducted whenever possible. I will continue to advocate for students and assist families in maintaining open lines of communication with schools and the board. If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact me at [email protected]. The OSCAR l September 2018 Page 17

ARTS AND CULTURE The Ottawa Bach Choir’s 17th Season of Glorious Choral Music By Gaye Moffett CD, “Baroque Passion”, at a celebra- tory concert and party at the Rideau The Ottawa Bach Choir (OBC) would Club, 99 Bank Street, on Friday, De- like to welcome you to its 17th season cember 14, at 7:00 pm. Join the OBC of glorious choral music! Over the for great music, food and drink, and past 16 years, the professional en- wonderful company from the busi- semble, founded by conductor Lisette ness, cultural and diplomatic com- Canton, has travelled the world and munities. received national and international The second subscription concert, recognition. The choir has performed “La Sainte-Chapelle”, on Saturday, at the prestigious Bachfest Leipzig, at March 2, 2019, 8:00p.m., at Knox Carnegie Hall, across Canada, and in Presbyterian Church, highlights Europe in Germany, England, France, sacred and secular music by rarely Italy, the Netherlands, as well as in performed French composers who Mexico, and more. Performances this were prominent at the Sainte-Cha- season include a Subscription Series, pelle in Paris in the Renaissance and the release of the choir’s new CD, early Baroque periods. Repertoire Baroque Passion, and several Special includes Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s Events. Messe des morts, as well as motets The season opens with a spectacu- and chansons by Pierre Certon and lar concert and special event, “Bach Claudin de Sermisy, all performed in & Beer”, on Sunday, September 30, the lush acoustic of Knox Presbyte- 2018, 3:00 pm, at St. Bartholomew’s rian Church. Matthew Larkin, organ- Church, 125 MacKay Street, in col- ist, joins the choir for this moving laboration with Ars Nova and sev- concert. eral local businesses. In the spirit of The final concert of the season, Oktoberfest, the Ottawa Bach Choir “Mozart Celebration”, on Saturday, presents an afternoon of beautiful mu- May 4, 2019, 8:00 pm, at St. Jean- sic by Johann Sebastian Bach and his Baptiste Church, 96 Empress Avenue, Baroque contemporaries, local beer features majestic masterpieces by brewed by Kichesippi Beer Co., wine, Mozart composed in the 1770s while delectable delights by Par Toutatis, he was still in Salzburg. Repertoire hors d’œuvres and sumptuous des- includes the Krönungsmesse (Corona- serts. Enjoy an afternoon of delightful tion Mass), K. 317, Vesperae solennes company, inspiring music by the OBC de confessore, K. 339, Regina coeli, and organist Matthew Larkin, along K. 276, and more, performed with with delicious food and drink. orchestra and soloists. Following this special event is In addition to the Subscription the choir’s first concert, “Christmas Series, there will be several special in Venice”, on Saturday, December events that will round out the season, 1, 2018, 8:00 pm, at St. Matthew’s featuring smaller concerts with gour- Church in the Glebe. This perfor- met food and drink, as well as a large mance includes festive repertoire educational outreach program for for Christmas inspired by Italian students in the Ottawa-Carleton re- composers working in Venice during gion. Regular subscription tickets are the early Baroque period. Featuring available now (see OBC website for Monteverdi’s Christmas Vespers from details). Tickets for individual con- the Selva morale e spirituale collec- certs will be available at several retail tion of 1640-41, polychoral works by outlets closer to the dates of the con- Giovanni Gabrieli, and works by Bas- certs and, depending on availability, at sano and Croce, the music from this the door. For more information, visit concert will celebrate the glory and our website at www.ottawabachchoir. splendour of the Christmas season. ca, or contact us at info@ottawabach- This spectacular presentation in- choir.ca or 613-270-1015. cludes the Ensemble Caprice baroque Join us and discover the best that orchestra, with strings, sackbuts and choral music has to offer! continuo, as well as soloists. Set in the magnificent acoustic of St. Matthew’s Gaye Moffett is the Chair of the Board Church, this concert is sure to inspire. of the Ottawa Bach Choir. The choir then launches its seventh Page 18 The OSCAR l September 2018

Music at Trinity: Ich Liebe und Lebe – I Love and I Live and we will measure ourselves to cycle, which is also the last poem prompted Brahms to compose these some of the best music written for of Heine’s collection, the composer songs which were completed by his voice and piano. gave the piano a full page of music birthday on May 7th of the same year. Schumann’s Dichterliebe was bringing back music that was heard Less than two weeks later, Clara composed in 1840, the same year he in previous songs of the cycles and Schumann died in Frankfurt. married his long awaited beloved and in that manner brings the cycle to a The songs were premiered on virtuoso pianist Clara Wieck. The close. November of that year, 1896, just song cycle uses Heinrich Heine’s Mahler’s two lieder Aus! Aus! a few months before Brahms’ own poems from Lyrisches Intermezzo. (Out! Out!) and Nicht Wiedersehen death. All four songs are based on This collection features in total 65 (Never to Meet Again) are part of biblical texts. The first three songs poems preceded by a verse prologue a collection of 14 lieder published are taken from the Old Testament, that tells the tale of a knight sitting in 3 volumes in 1892. Those two Ecclesiastes 3:19–22, Ecclesiastes in his house waiting for his bride to lieder are found in the second and 4:1–3, Sirach 41:1–2 and focuses visit him at night. Schumann has set third volume of this collection on death and the oppression of life, only 20 of the 65 poems to music respectively. The poetry of the last while the last one is taken from and published 16 of them forming two volumes are taken from Des the first letter of Saint Paul to the Clara Schumann. the cycle that is regularly performed Knaben Wunderhorn (The Youth’s Corinthians from the New Testament, today. The cycle concludes with Magic Horn) which are a collection 1 Corinthians 13:1–3,12–13 and By Fabien Tousignant the knight putting all his sorrows, of German folk poems and songs. sends a message of love, hope and bad dreams and songs in a large Mahler has set those poems to charity. “Und hätte der Liebe nicht, Music at Trinity launches its fourth coffin. The coffin is so large that it music in 1888-1889 and they will so wäre mir’s nichts nütze” (“if I season with a recital of German will need twelve giants to carry it to offer a nice transition between the do not have love, I am nothing”) 1 Lieder entitled “Ich liebe und the sea because he will also put his Dichterliebe and Brahms’ epic Vier Corinthians 13:2. lebe” (“I love and I live”). This love in that coffin.Dichterliebe was ernste Gesänge. recital will bring us at the core of composed almost twenty years after It is now commonly known that This concert will be on September the romantic Lieder with Robert Schubert’s Die Schöne Müllerin and Brahms had a passionate love for 22nd 2018 at 4:30 pm at Trinity Schumann’s Dichterliebe (A Poet’s a little over ten years after the iconic Clara Schumann and, while her Anglican Church (1230 Bank Street Love) based on Heinrich Heine’s Winterreise. Schumann’s cycle, like husband Robert Schumann was in the @ Cameron) with Luc Lalonde, poetry. Following the song cycle, those of Schubert, features typical hospital with mental illness, Brahms baritone and Fabien Tousignant, we have chosen a couple of lieder romantic themes such as love, hope, and Clara lived under the same piano. Admission is by freewill from Gustav Mahler’s collection of sadness, despair and nature. One can roof in Düsseldorf. The surviving offering. Lieder und Gesänge: Aus! Aus! and also notice that the composer chose letters of correspondence between Nicht wiedersehen. Johannes Brahms to give the piano a more prominent the two are show us their passionate Fabien Tousignant is the Artistic dramatic Vier ernste Gesänge (Four role. The piano has its own voice love. On March 26, 1896, Clara Director of the Music at Trinity Serious Songs) Op.121, on biblical and Schumann allows it to speak, Schumann suffered a stroke, which concert series. texts, will bring the recital to a close. sometimes extensively, at the end of Luc Lalonde, baritone will join me every song. In the last song of the Seventeen Voyces Hair-Raising Season By Margaret Nankivell

Seventeen Voyces’s superb 2018- 19 subscription series begins with horror and ends with horror – or more accurately, comedy-horror. Building on music director Kevin Reeves’s remarkable ability to match stunning music with silent film, the season opens with the truly haunting Nosferatu (1922) directed by German expressionist director F.W. Murnau. Nosferatu is the first great vampire film and an artistic masterpiece. Choral music will include Nänie by features carols reflecting on Mary Johannes Brahms and works by more and the Virgin birth. Including harp contemporary composers, such as and organ, the concert will be held th Henryk Gorecki, Francis Poulenc at St. Matthew’s on December 8 and John Taverner. Ottawa composer (7:30 pm) and the intimate Ashbury Andrew Ager is composing a piece College Chapel on Dec. 9 (4:00 pm). for the film. It will be screened at And in March, Seventeen Voyces St Matthew’s Anglican Church in will perform in “Pigments of the Clive the Glebe on October 26th and 27 th, Imagination”, which includes a fitting Hallowe’en outing for the musical commissions by Andrew brave. Ager and Mark Duggan. Based on The season will conclude with canvasses by Tom Thomson, Marc Nosferatu – a comic chamber opera, Chagall, William Blake and Gustave composed by Reeves. The behind- Moreau, guest artists include Yolanda Doucet Bruno (violin), Carmen Bruno (cello) the-scene accounting of the filming of Nosferatu considers the question: and Zak Pulak (percussion). The nd Mayor - Maire “Was Count Orlok played by an actor concert will be held on March 22 at or a real vampire?” Many people at Southminster Church in Old Ottawa the time believed the latter. Starring South. A city for everyone. Joel Allison (baritone), Jean-Philippe Individual tickets, subscription and Lazure (tenor) and Janelle Lapalme patron packages are available online Une ville pour tout le monde. (soprano), this world premiere will at www.seventeenvoyces.ca. be performed at Glebe St. James Church on May 31st and June 1st. Margret Nankivell is a music lover, cliveformayor.ca [email protected] In contrast, the choir’s Christmas a St. Matthew’s parishioner, and a concert, “I Sing of a Maiden” Seventeen Voyces board member. The OSCAR l September 2018 Page 19

Caelis Academy Ensemble Launches a Second Season By Matthew Larkin Do You Ever Collaborate With conductor, organist and keyboard welcome your help, encouragement, Other Musicians? player, arranger and composer, coach support, and hands-on participation. Who Are Caelis? Absolutely! We’ve worked and collaborator, for over thirty Although we have only a year of Caelis Academy Ensemble is closely with the Ottawa Baroque years. After a lengthy (and dare I existence, we are actively on a path an outstanding Canadian concert Consort, with other orchestral and say distinguished) career as a full to incorporation and charitable choir that has just completed a very chamber musicians from the area, time church musician, I decided status, and have developed policies successful inaugural season. Caelis is and with outstanding vocal soloists. to start up this new choir with an and protocols in order to provide unique among Ottawa choral groups, We’ve sung with Seventeen Voyces eye to focusing more on concert the highest standards of community in that boys’ and girls’ voices form Chamber Choir, and will sing next music, and offering my experience safety and responsibility, thus the soprano section of the choir, season as guests of the Ottawa Choral to young artists who are seeking safeguarding a vibrant and respectful with professional adults, in tandem Society, and many more groups. either to explore the opportunities learning environment. with outstanding youth singers, to learn about and contribute to performing supporting roles as altos, When And Where Do You choral and musical excellence, How Do I Get In Touch countertenors, tenors, and basses. Rehearse? to consider a career in music, or Call 613-862-4106 (Matthew Our home base is Trinity Anglican simply to live as a confident, creative Larkin) anytime for more person. I am a Fellow of the Royal information, or email us Canadian College of Organists, and at caelisacademyensemble@gmail. a recipient of an honorary doctorate com. in Sacred Theology. I attended the University of Toronto and the Royal College of Music, and I’ve had the opportunity first hand RETIRED? to work with some of Canada’s most celebrated performers and ensembles. I’m driven to Come learn with us! empower young people through Carleton University’s a commitment to excellence in Caelis Academy Ensemble. PHOTO BY ZACHARY SPENCE Learning in Retirement program education and performance. Are offers exciting lecture series, you (or someone you know) writing, and language Church, at 1230 Bank Street in Old looking for the adventure, What’s In A Name? workshops! The choir is titled after three Ottawa South. We rehearse there, excitement, and fulfillment complementary concepts. generally, on Wednesdays from 5:00 ensemble music can offer? Please Register for the Caelis is a derivation of the Latin to 7:00 pm, although there are contact me, and consider joining word for “heaven”, which reminds additional rehearsals from time to us! Fall 2018 Sessions today! us that our efforts to make music time (especially around concerts). are rooted in the spiritual pursuit of What Role Is There For For information or to register: excellence and beauty. Where Do You Perform? Parents? carleton.ca/linr Our home venue is Trinity Church, Caelis exists in lively Academy honours our mission to be 613-520-3699 a place of learning, where respect for which offers beautiful acoustics and partnership with parents. We tradition lives alongside our continual a lovely performing environment. quest for new forms of expression, Additionally, we have sung at creativity, and outreach. St. Bartholomew’s Church, St. Ensemble refers to our shared Matthew’s Church, and Southminster commitment to community, where no United Church. Next season, we will singer is an island, but a member of a add some new locales to the list, team where everyone’s contribution including the National Gallery of is needed, and valued. Canada.

What Kind Of Music Do You Sing? How To Join The Choir? Caelis is committed to offering If you’re a boy or girl aged ten and sacred masterworks in engaging up, you are welcome to observe, or programs to a variety of audiences. sit in a rehearsal, following which In our first season, these ranged from there would be a brief interview to the largest scale (Bach’s St. Mark check your basic musical skills (the 1-858 Colonel By Dr - $1,995,000 1037 North River Rd - $1,195,000 Passion), to somewhere in the middle keenness of your ear, your ability Old Ottawa South Overbrook (Bach Cantatas 61, 148, and 150, to sing in tune, and your aptitude Considering the sale of your home? not sure what improvements to make? Finzi’s In Terra Pax, Handel’s Nisi for music reading). No prior choir Dominus, Vaughan Williams’ Five experience is necessary in most Don’t wait until the last minute! cases. You must also be able to Mystical Songs, and more), to smaller Discover how working with Ottawa’s Best works (a veritable A to Z of sacred commit to regular attendance at gets the most out of your home. and secular repertoire), themed rehearsals (and concerts). concerts (Christmas, Remembrance, Occasionally we have an opening Contact Sezlik.com today! the Queen’s birthday), music by local for an adult singer, and for a composers, Choral Evensongs - a role such as this, you must have little bit of everything. Actually, quite excellent reading skills, and possess a lot of everything! a significant amount of choral experience. You must be available for What’s Planned For This Coming all rehearsals on a concert-to-concert Season? basis. Greatness, we hope! Bach’s stunning Magnificat (Nov. 14); “A What Does It Cost To Join? CAELIS Christmas” (Dec. 16); A nominal fee ($100) to cover Handel’s thrilling Israel in Egypt administration expenses, but in large measure, just your time, talent, and Charles Sezlik, Cindy Sezlik, Dominique Laframboise, (Feb. 8), Victoria’s evocative St. Sara Adam Sales Reps. & Trystan Andrews Broker Matthew Passion, with masterpieces enthusiastic love of music. of the Spanish and Portuguese 613.744.6697 And The Director? renaissance (Apr. 11), and lots of #1 in Ottawa - Royal LePage* other fantastic music. My name is Matthew Larkin, and #1 in Eastern Ontario - Royal LePage* I am founding conductor of Caelis. *Charles Sezlik #1 Sales Rep based on closed commission 2017 amongst 43 Offices and 1150 Sales Reps. +/- I have worked as a professional Page 20 The OSCAR l September 2018

Harp-flute Duo Kalysta Performs “Sounds And Scenery” By Roland Graham, CBTC / Standard Life Competition and Music Development Grant, has and Astor Piazzolla. MPRS Artistic Director the NAC Bursary Competition, been praised for her “crystalline Presented by Upbeat! Productions, the Canadian Music Competition, technique” and “ease in merging an incorporated not-for-profit musical and the prestigious Concours Prix lyrical and dissonant sounds,” by production company, Concerts by Ottawa’s hottest new concert series, d’Europe in Montreal. Ms. Deutsch MusicWeb and Opera Reviews, the Canal, presents a varied line-up Concerts By The Canal (CBTC), has appeared in concert halls in respectively. of classical, jazz, and alternative based at Southminster United Canada, the United States, Hungary, Emily has taken top prizes of her musical genres by outstanding artists Church, kicks off its 2018-19 season Germany and Austria, collaborating own at the American Harp Society and ensembles from Ottawa and on Friday, September 28th at 7:30 National Competition in Salt Lake beyond. The CBTC 2018-19 season pm, with a performance by Duo City, Utah, the OSM Standard Life features six varied concerts, which Kalysta, comprised of rising stars, Competition in Montreal, as well includes a musical retelling of the flautist Lara Deutsch and harpist as through the Glenn Gould School glorious-tragic Édith Piaf story, Emily Belvedere, playing music and the Royal Conservatory of virtuosic readings of Gershwin by both old and new, in a program Music in Toronto. a Grammy-winning jazz duo, and entitled “Sounds And Scenery”. In “Sounds And Scenery”, Duo a performance of J. S. Bach’s six Duo Kaylsta is a pairing of two Kalysta presents a concert of splendid Brandenburg Concertos, highly talented and accomplished programmatic works for flute and and more. CBTC’s full line-up is young Canadian artists. Named harp inspired by nature and art. visible at https://upbeatproductions. one of CBC’s 2015 “Hot 30 Under Debussy’s classic Prelude to the ca. 30 Canadian Classical Musicians” Afternoon of a Faun, depicts the Tickets for Duo Kalysta’s debut flautist Lara Deutsch is in high daydreams of a faun drifting to Ottawa performance, ranging from demand as a performer nationally PHOTO BY HANNAH BELVEDERE sleep in the heat of the sun, while $15 to $50, are available through and internationally, having filled Morlock’s Vespertine, was inspired upbeatproductions.ca, as are series the position of Assistant Principal with top artists the world over. by mysterious flora and fauna coming passes to CBTC as well as its sibling Flute for the Vancouver Symphony The equally promising harpist to life in the dark of night. The full series, the Master Piano Recital Orchestra for their 2016-17 season. Emily Belvedere, recipient of a program includes additional works by Series (MPRS). Lara’s competition triumphs Hnatyshyn Foundation Classical R. Murray Schafer, Allan Hovhaness, include top prizes at the OSM

DOMS Fall 2018 Stellar Line-Up of Free Noon-Hour Concerts By Roland Graham, DOMS September 5th at 12:00 pm, with a Following her recent orchestral Jazz lovers will not want to miss

Artistic Director special season-opening concert titled début in Bucharest, the young pianist, “Rosenblum’s River City” (Dec 5 “Solar-Powered Mozart”, featuring a native of Ottawa currently living th), featuring Award-winning New prizewinning eight-year old Canadian with her family in Austria, where York City jazz pianist and composer The Doors Open for Music at pianist Sunny Ritter performing she studies in the special enrichment Ben Rosenblum performing originals Southminster weekly noon-hour works by Mozart, Chopin and program for gifted children at and standards alongside rising star series gets under way Wednesday, Rameau. Vienna’s University of Music and Montreal guitarist Sam Kirmayer. Performing Arts, will be giving There will be music for choirs her first ever full solo recital in (“Music Of Eric Whitacre”, Oct 31th Southminster’s popular series. with Coro Capriccio, and “Serenade The following week’s concert, De Saison”, Dec 12th with Matthew “Baroque Meets Folk” (Sept 12th), Larkin’s Caelis Academy Ensemble), blending Celtic harp and violin, tells jazz quintet (“On This Winter’s the story of 17th-century composer Night”, Dec 19th), flute and piano and publisher John Playford whose (“Musique Française” Oct 24), and influence beyond music to dance and more. literature continues to be felt to this As a special project this year, the day. DOMS series will present a three- From there to “Soul Hour With part mini-series featuring all six of Beats ‘N Keys” (Sept 19 th), a duo Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos. The comprised of singer-pianist Jeff first installment will be presented on Rogers and drummer Jamie Holmes - October 17th, featuring Concertos joined for this occasion by trumpeter Nos. 3 and 6 for strings only. The Ed Lister - interpreting music by Ray second will be presented as part of Charles, Bill Withers, and Stevie the winter series (Feb 27), and the Wonder. final installment in the spring (May Concerts in the weeks to follow 15th). include tributes to The Beatles The DOMS series is sustained (“Shine Until Tomorrow”, Nov 7 almost entirely by freewill offerings th), famous jazz diva Ella Fitzgerald from patrons (donations of $10 / 20 (“Ella’s Story”, Oct 10 th), and are encouraged). In 2017, the series Georgina Stirling, Newfoundland’s was awarded a special development ‘Nightingale of the North’ grant by the Ottawa Community (“Nightingale Sings”, Oct 3 th). Foundation, which has enabled Other highlights include programs the series to widen the range of its of chamber music written during promotional efforts, and for the past times of conflict (“Songs Of War”, year, the series has been supported Nov 28), and devoted to music by additionally by the Colonel By composers in their youth (“Lovely, Residence, which provides free Impulsive Youth”, Nov 14th). coffee and refreshments for patrons There are shows about legendary as they arrive each week. musicians, such as Francisco Tárrega, The full line-up is available online founder of the modern school of at www.southminstermusic.com. guitar-playing (“Torres Meets Concerts begin at 12:00 noon, doors Tárrega”, Sept 26th), and Frederic open at 11:30 am. Call 613-730-6874 Chopin (“Chopin’s Legacy”, Nov for more information. 21), exploring how musical giants impact future generations of artists. The OSCAR l September 2018 Page 21

FILM REVIEW Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot and the One World Film Festival By Tony Wohlfarth calendars, for the 29th Annual edition the South Pacific. More information of the One World Film Festival. about this film is accessible at: www. Gus Van Sant is an iconic American The OWFF brings the best of social anotesark.com. film director. His most celebrated justice and human rights films from This special event, followed by a work includes Drugstore Cowboy around the world to the nation’s panel discussion, is in conjunction in 1989, My Own Private Idaho in capital. This year, the fest returns to with the Group of 78 Annual Policy 1991, Good Will Hunting in 1997, Arts Court Theatre, 2 Daly Avenue. Conference “Meeting the Climate Elephant in 2003 and Milk in 2008. The OWFF opens this year Challenge”, September 28-29. More on screenings all year. Festival The sixty-six-year-old director has with an advance screening of information at: https://group78.org/. passes are available for $60, and been nominated twice for an Oscar as ¡Las Sandinistas! on Wednesday, The OWFF is organized by a senior discounts are available. best director, for Good Will Hunting September 12 at the ByTowne dedicated group of local volunteers, For full program information, and for Milk. Cinema, 325 Rideau. ¡Las on a shoestring budget, bringing the tickets and passes, visit: www. His latest filmDon’t Worry, He Sandinistas! highlights the role best documentary films from around oneworldfilmfestival.ca Won’t Get Far on Foot, was widely a dedicated group of women the world to Ottawa. anticipated. I am thrilled to advise played in the 1979 revolution in Members of the OWFF get a 20% Tony Wohlfarth is an Ottawa-based that fans of Van Sant won’t be Nicaragua, which overturned the discount on tickets. Membership freelance film writer. He is currently disappointed. Don’t Worry, He Won’t despised Somoza regime. Thirty- costs $20 and includes discounts covering the Venice Film Festival. Get Far on Foot, had its world five years later, women return to premiere at the 2018 Sundance Film the streets of Managua to protest Festival. their marginalization. Directed by Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Jenny Murray, ¡Las Sandinistas! Foot affectionately tells the story of won an award at the 2018 South by John Callahan, a Portland, Oregon Southwest Film Festival in Austin. based cartoonist who recovers from a Murray grew up in Chicago and was near-fatal accident and carries on life inspired by this remarkable story. as a quadriplegic. Filmed on location The OWFF screening is its Canadian in Portland, the camera work is premiere. The event begins at 6:50 calibrated to Callahan’s wheelchair, pm. telling his story. We follow him as he Beginning on September 20, manoeuvres his electric chair, attends the OWFF all events are at Arts Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, Court. Many of the screenings are and expresses frustration with life’s followed by discussions about the challenges. The film is brilliantly films. Doors open 5:30 pm in the illustrated with hand drawn cartoons evenings and at 1:00 pm on Saturday. by Callahan. The film is told from OWFF sponsors will be on site with Callahan’s perspective – a technique information and promotions. which speaks to the quality of the On September 20, the OWFF cinematography. The director of features a series of films focusing photography, Christopher Blauvet, on women’s voices for justice. On won the best cinematography award September 21, the theme is films in 2014 at the Sundance Film Festival about neighborhoods. On September for his work on Low Down. 22, the themes are art for life and Callahan role is performed – women on the frontlines, and the magnificently, in my opinion - by festival wraps with an inspiring film Joaquin Phoenix. Interestingly, the from the U.S. Time for Ilhan is a role was originally intended for moving account of a Muslim woman Robin Williams who died in 2014, who successfully campaigns for the before the film could be made. Democratic Party nomination for the Callahan himself died in 2010. State Legislature in Minneapolis. Reportedly, Van Sant has been Ilhan’s campaign involves entrenched working on the script since 2010. The incumbents, presaging campaigns for script is based on Callahan’s book of greater diversity in elections across the same name, which he co-authored North America. Time for Ilhan had its with David Kelly. world premiere at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival. MARLAND TEAM Focused Excellence in Real Estate Previews of the One World Film On September 27 at 18:45, the OWFF is holding a screening Anote’s Festival (OWFF) | TOP 1% FOR Fans of documentary films should Ark - a moving film about the impact 613.238.2801 robmarland.com ROYAL LEPAGE 165 Pretoria Ave. Ottawa, ON K1S 1X1 IN CANADA* mark September 20-22 in their of climate change on Kiribati, in Based on closed and collected earnings *

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FAITH NEWS Give Trinity a Try the people there; I immediately his time and energy to his flock, not felt part of the community. Then I just in worship, but also in activities fell for the music and the gorgeous such as Bible study, Alpha courses, organ. Next, my gaze fell upon the parish council, pastoral care – not to stained glass windows illuminated mention the overall administration of by the sun – a breathtaking sight! our church. His sermons are always Last, but definitely not least, I loved riveting and generally focused on the the liturgy, led by the friendliest of themes of love, kindness, tolerance priests. It was like coming home and generosity. These are also again. qualities he fosters in his Sunday From that time on, I attended morning talks with the children, with services regularly, and soon I whom he has a special rapport. joined the choir, of which I’m still The only problem is that, as people a member. We are blessed with a age and die, there are fewer of us fine Casavant organ, and an even left to keep this community and the finer organist and music director, church that shelters it going. We are who is dedicated to making the beginning to feel the pressure of most of Trinity’s resources and being too few to cope with the many outstanding acoustics. In addition things that need to be done, to keep to providing music for our worship our fine building in repair and our services, he schedules Saturday community alive.

Joanne McCracken. PHOTO BY ARRAN THORPE afternoon performances by a range of While we have a number of young accomplished musicians. members, with children, we need I also soon joined the altar guild more to ensure Trinity’s vibrancy and By Joanne McCracken worship services. Indeed, I’d lived as a member of one of the teams in viability. Have you ever walked by in the neighbourhood of Trinity charge of setting up the altar for the Trinity on your way past the corner Nineteen years ago this summer, Anglican Church for fifteen years various services, and making sure the of Cameron Avenue and Bank Street? a very close friend of mine died or more, and walked by it many fine linens are beautifully laundered Have you ever wondered what it suddenly, and I was one of two times, occasionally thinking, “I and pressed – a treat for an ironing looks like inside? Why don’t you people in charge of organizing his really should check this place out geek like me! join us some Sunday morning, just funeral. Above all I wanted it to sometime,” but never actually In fact, there are countless for a look around, just to get a feel be, if at all possible, in a church, crossing the threshold. Later in the opportunities for people to contribute of what a service there is like? We’re not in some commercial funeral year of my friend’s funeral, I met to our church community by pursuing a welcoming bunch, the atmosphere parlour. Luckily, we were able to a neighbour who was (still is) a what they like doing best, from is lovely, and the rewards are great. make arrangements with the church long and loyal member of Trinity. singing, to setting up a fund-raiser, to Why not give Trinity a try? of my late friend’s childhood, and a I asked him about the priest there sponsoring a refugee. It’s like being priest who had known him as a child and the music, and he replied part of a large family. Joanne McCracken is an almost conducted the service. enthusiastically. Best of all, he said During this time, we have had fully retired translator who has lived This event set me wondering he’d come by and pick me up on more than one priest, but our present in OOS for the past 36 years. www. about where I might have my final Sunday in time for morning worship. incumbent has been with us for close trinityottawa.ca. ceremony. Though a baptized It was love at first sight, and I’ve to five years now. He is a young man and confirmed Anglican, it had never looked back. It began with (under 40) who gives unstintingly of been decades since I’d attended the warm welcome I received from

Be Our Neighbour: Sunday Supper in Old Ottawa South By Dianne Borg parishioners, and neighbours spend two to three hours between 2:00 pm The annual fundraiser for the local and 7:00 pm preparing, cooking, Out of the Cold Sunday Supper serving or cleaning. New volunteers, program will be held on Sunday, including high school students, are September 30th from 3:00-5:00 pm always welcome. at Mary Beattie Hall in St. Margaret The menu planners have a goal of Mary Church. Please drop in! $3-5 per meal, which totals about Join us for wine and cheese, learn $8000 in direct costs. St. Margaret about this 20-year-old program, and Mary covers hall maintenance meet some of your neighbours who expenses. Donations made in support ensure that Sunday Supper is on the of the program are used only for table in our community for those in food costs, and are tax deductible. A need. donation of $25 covers a table for one On Sundays between Thanksgiving Sunday and a donation of $500 covers and Easter, the Out of the Cold a table for the season. St. Margaret Mary church on Fairbairn St. at Sunnyside. program at St. Margaret Mary Parish The state of the world may PHOTO BY MEDE MCATEE serves a hot dinner, free of charge. sometimes seem discouraging, but In our 2017-18 season almost 2,000 knowing that so many in Old Ottawa meals were served. Guests receive a South work quietly and regularly to nutritious meal, and companionship. provide hot meals in a welcoming (Out of the Cold at Southminster setting is a reminder of how small United Church serves dinner on neighbourly gifts of time and money Saturday evenings.) build a community. This program requires both financial and volunteer support. Dianne Borg is a longstanding OOS Each team of volunteers works resident and St. Margaret Mary together once every four weeks. parishioner. Families, friends, students, Page 24 The OSCAR l September 2018

A Memorable Summer For New Canadians Thanks To Support From The Ottawa South Refugee Comittee By Jessa Pillipow fourteen-year-old Fares, finished Despite a whirlwind summer the school year upon arrival in full of fun, the family has It was a classic Canadian summer Ottawa in May, giving Fares the not taken for granted the new for Adibeh, Wahiba, Elias and opportunity to travel to Montreal opportunities that both Canada Fares, the Syrian family that was with classmates to see the and the support of the Ottawa supported by the Ottawa South Biodome and ride the La Ronde South Refugee Committee have Refugee Committee (OSRC) to Ferris wheel. Once the school given them. Fares can frequently settle in Ottawa in May of this year ended, the boys joined be heard exclaiming his love for year. the OCDSB’s SAIL program, the country, while Elias gave Abideh and Wahiba, allowing them to take English a touching speech to over fifty grandmother and mother to the classes while experiencing people at the annual Trinity two boys, have spent the summer summer activities including Anglican picnic in late June. One months adapting to new ways of canoeing, swimming, tennis and OSRC member imagines that life in a country far from home. boating. Outside of the SAIL Elias’ speech was sure to be the Wahiba has been managing the program, OSRC members have first of many for such a bright household while learning English taken the boys on bike rides to young man. and gaining an understanding of Mooney’s Bay for a relaxing and As the school year continues, the Canadian financial system, fun afternoon. homework may put a damper on all the while learning to bake The boys are picking up their fun – but with fall on its Canadian treats for the family. English very quickly, which way, there will be plenty of new Adibeh’s summer was spent helped them learn to take the challenges and experiences sure tending to their vegetable garden, bus to their swim lessons at the to entertain the family and help sewing, cooking and baking Pinecrest Community Centre them create new memories. biscuits for visiting Ottawa South alone. That independent spirit Refugee Committee members, will allow them to flourish in Jessa Pillipow is a recent school this year, with Fares graduate of Carleton’s social Adibeh Nakad dancing with committee member who note her “unstoppable beginning grade nine at work program and, in her short Danièle Gallichand. energy”. The two youngest of the Brookfield High School and Elias career, has enjoyed working PHOTO BY ROBERT TAYLOR family, sixteen-year-old Elias and returning for grade ten. alongside refugees.

HEALTH AND WELLNESS By Christine Graves method of showing others how to use Feldenkrais Awareness Through awareness to improve. Did you know that small movements Most classes are performed laying Movement in OOS done with awareness are shown to on the floor on a mat. You will help with many chronic conditions follow verbally led sequences of Principled. Pragmatic. Positive. such as persistent pain and movement aimed at improving your depression? And that maintaining functions in simple movement from movement is coming to the top of the rolling, turning, sitting and laying evidence heap as the best prevention with comfort. A FM instructor has for age related issues from memory completed 1,000 hours of training loss to falls? to be a certified Feldenkrais teacher. The mechanisms proposed to Many teachers have further education be responsible for these positive and life experience providing a MY PRIORITIES FOR effects include neuro-transmitter holistic approach to their teaching. 2018 - 2022 health (brain chemicals that help The two Old Ottawa South teachers: cells communicate), neuro-plasticity me (Christine Graves) and Michaela More affordable and (brain change or learning), improved Kreim both have a background in coordination (and strength), better rehabilitation medicine (occupational supportive housing for the standing and walking balance, calmer and physical therapy). I attended UBC and Michaela trained in most vulnerable mind (mindfulness) and personal satisfaction from participation in Germany. Michaela and I introduced A new Official Plan cherished and pleasant activity. The classes to OOS and taught together in Feldenkrais Method (FM) of Somatic 2015, and now we both offer weekly providing greater planning Education can be a means of reaching classes. What issues are most There are many paths to improving certainty for a green and your goal of being more active and important to you? maintaining good health. movement through awareness; Please resilient Ottawa In some respects, it all sounds too come and try Awareness Through Reach out to me at: simple to be true. Yet, internally Movement for yourself. Living Streets -- safe, Classes are Tuesday 11:00 am at [email protected] we all understand that a good walk thriving and inviting for all can feel ‘just right’ as exercise and Surround Circle Yoga (Southminster 613-730-0870 that active bodies produce healthy Church) starting on October 9th users and ages minds. Sensing more of oneself leads with Michaela Kreim (www. to self directed decisions and is an surroundcircleyoga.com), and Better sidewalk, pathway and road repair intelligent approach to developing Thursday 12:00 noon at the Firehall Full implementation of Energy Evolution in a successful fitness and healthy starting September 20 with Christine lifestyle regime. Graves (www.oldottawasouth.ca) or pursuit of Ottawa’s climate commitments Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais specifically register in person at the Firehall. developed his Method to guide and Tree canopy expansion and a stronger Tree to develop healthy movement habits. Christine Graves is a Guild Certified Interestingly, FM is not a medical Conservation Bylaw Feldenkrais Teacher, mother, hula model but a learning approach open hooper and local performing musi- to everyone who wants to improve cian. She lives just south of Old Ot- movement. Dr. Feldenkrais was able tawa South, within walking distance to sense the mechanisms of motor davidc.ca @DavidCOttawa of Firehall with her son, her husband learning in himself and develop a and her dog Whip. The OSCAR l September 2018 Page 25

ARTS AND CULTURE Roger Ballen: There is No Outside Freeky,” 2012, directed by Ballen The exhibition is free, open to the himself. In all three films, we hear public, Wed-Sun. 12-5 pm, or by the voices of those who live where appointment. “There is No Outside,” the people who have worked with Ballen to Maureen Korp, independent critic, make their stories visible. curator and historian, has lived long As we learn in Ben Crossman’s in Ottawa. film, “Asylum of the Birds, 2014, for example, Stanley knows where to find the rats—big white, beautiful rats. With the help of his friend Roger, Stanley catches rats and brings them home, to set them free, where they can be rats someplace safe. The rats have their roles to play in Roger Ballen’s photographs, too. Reviewed by Maureen Korp objects, they are more than kid “There is No graffiti. Here, they appear to be Outside,” curated “There is No Outside,” the current traces of those who were before, by Jonathan Hobin, exhibition of black-and-white and still are. If so, they are the creative director photography by Roger Ballen at animated tracings of an older world of SPAO, is on SPAO Gallery, is unlike any seen where stories are remembered, told, view at the SPAO heretofore in Ottawa. told again. For example, we see in Centre gallery, 77 Roger Ballen has lived and worked “Giraffe House,” 2008, a sleeping Pamilla Street (off in South Africa for many years. His man crumpled into one corner of a Preston) until 23 photographs are studies of the life room. He holds a large animal skull September. It is and culture of a people living today in his hands. Centred above hangs the first in SPAO’s on the outskirts of Johannesburg. an animal’s hide with two hooves new annual series They live among the trash heaps draped over the window. On the floor of international and abandoned structures of some to the right a large sifting screen photography. of South Africa’s vast mining is propped against the wall. Has operations. The nine photographs of the sleeping figure been sifting dirt this exhibition are all formal studies, hoping to find something useful? A still-life compositions of detritus— chunk of gold? Did he ever try to human, animal alike—scavenged outrace a giraffe? Can anyone ? We from the offal and waste of modern do not know. globalization. The photographs of the exhibition Eight of the nine compositions are are storyboards. The photographer simply framed, each a square of 24, is taking us by the hand into mythic 36, or 43 inches. One, however, is a worlds. In “Boarding House,” 2008, large photographic mural. Entitled for example, we see a sleeping baby “Threat,” 2010, the mural reaches to tucked into the lower left corner, at the ceiling. Here, we see a horizontal the foot of a stacked column of debris figure, a young girl. She holds white rising to the ceiling. Centred against birds in her hands. The bones and the wall of the room is an altar. On it, feathers of a large dead bird are at her displayed on a dais, is a doll baby’s

head. Stuffed toy animals and dolls FOR FOR feet. A larger, living bird has landed ALE ALE S S . near her shoulders. Has it a message hang on the wall to the right and the for her? Who or what is the threat? left. In the lower right corner of the Covering the wall above and behind, room, a living puppy dog watches. a wide-eyed face waits, watches over There is a caged baby doll nearby. all. We do not know what happens Does puppy see it? Open-mouthed next. faces are emblazoned on the base of “Threat,” 2010, is from a series the altar. What do they know? Is this entitled “Asylum of the Birds,” the heaven where lost toys go when 2008-14, six years of work composed children die? and photographed within the same Both “Giraffe House,” 2007, setting, a collapsing house. and “Boarding House, 2008” are “Memento Mori,” 2012, also from from the series Ballen entitled the same series, presents the image of ‘Boarding House,” 2004-09. All were an old woman asleep, soon-to-die, or photographed within an abandoned dead, in her bed. Underneath the bed warehouse that is today a home for a masked figure in a black skeleton squatters. suit awaits. A white rat and two white Ballen’s eight framed compositions birds watch them both. Hanging and one large mural are accompanied on the wall is a tapestry of flying, by three short black-and-white snarling, angry figures. Another documentary films: . They are: fabric billows overhead. “Asylum of the Birds,” 2014, Simply drawn faces appear in directed by Ben Crossman; seven of the nine compositions. “Memento Mori,” 2012, directed by Saskii Vredeveld; and, “I Fink U Drawn on walls, fabrics, ©2018 Engel & Völkers Ottawa Central, Brokerage. Each brokerage independently owned & operated. Dominique Milne, Broker. Lyne Burton, Sales Representative. Page 26 The OSCAR l September 2018

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Green Dreamers Meet the Peace Bus the Peace Bus and headed north on Bank Street to Argyle to visit the Centre 507’s vegetable gardens. From there the Peace Bus curved back to Riverdale Avenue where Green Dreamer Brian Ure and Krysia Pazdzior, the benefactress of so many of our public garden perennials, are in the process of creating a terraced vegetable garden. All produce from this satellite garden is donated to Centre 507. Peace Bus volunteers were intrigued by the kind of “connections” made through volunteerism. What might start out as a simple idea like, “Let’s beautify our neighbourhood” has turned into a network of sharing that includes donating perennials, growing food, The CISV PeaceBus visits the Old Firehall on July 21, 2018. By Winnie Pietrykowski and providing local produce to a centre that relies on donations to On Saturday July 21st OSCA provide free healthy meals to those welcomed twelve young volunteers in need. (14-18 years) from Canada’s CISV OSCA was thrilled to welcome the (Children’s International Summer Canada Peace Bus to OOS. These Villages) to OOS. These young young adults are on the adventure adults (along with two senior of a lifetime, developing the kind of volunteers plus a dedicated & leadership skills that only come with experienced driver) travelled in their experience. We are honoured to be very own Peace Bus from Victoria one of the many local communities across Canada, promoting just and across Canada to benefit from their peaceful societies through education, generosity and good will. Jill Burns learning and volunteerism. Like the young adults on the Registered Dietitian & Medical Herbalist The Peace Bus makes several stops Canada Peace Bus, OSCA depends ~Blending herbal tradition with the science of nutrition~ in communities and cities along its on its volunteers; they are what For more information visit our website at route, where the CISV volunteers makes a community thrive. We www.roishherbalapothecary.com offer their services to not-for-profit enjoy making friends, learning from or call us at organizations/projects as part of each other and building community 613 233 2040 their team-building and community together. 340 Gladstone Ave, Suite 203, Ottawa K2P 0Y8 engagement activities. For more information on CISV’s On Saturday morning these Peacebus see www.facebook.com/ GMSOlderOpenApr18Nov.pdfnew clients 1 2018-04-27 welcome 12:10 PM young volunteers arrived at the PeaceBus/ Firehall to help the Green For more pictures of the event, go Dreamers weed, mulch, plant to oldottawasouth.ca. and water the gardens, for two For information on Centre 507 go hours. The ease, seriousness, to www.centre507.org and good-humoured banter of our combined efforts worked like a magical charm: what Winnie Pietrykowski is a longtime seemed like a day’s workload resident of OOS, a community was finished in a matter of 90 activist, an OSCA Board member minutes! and a member of the Green After some refreshments Dreamers and OSCA’s Traffic & and morning munchies, Safety Committee. volunteers climbed back into

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Far from the Maddening Crowd By Winnie Pietrykowski annuals. In 2002 volunteer gardeners began This summer the Green Dreamers maintaining what Mary Pratt started, toured the May Court Hospice and extended their reach into the Gardens. The gardens are not open to back gardens where narrow beds the public; they have been created as lined the terrace walls, the west side a private refuge for Hospice clients, of the residence and a central wooden their families, guests, staff and planter box. These gardens were volunteers. And so, we felt especially heavily shaded, badly neglected and privileged to be welcomed as guests overgrown. The soil was also in poor by volunteer gardeners amd staff to condition. this green oasis in the heart of OOS. The sheer beauty, however, of the gentle rolling landscape as it fans out A Remarkable History of Service towards the Rideau River was not Formerly the Hospice of All lost on its original gardeners. Their Saints, the May Court Hospice has creative eye followed the natural been providing community hospice line of the landscape, the stately programs since the 1980s. In 1998 presence of Burr Oaks, Red Maples, the hospice was relocated to the Ash, Elm and Bitternut Hickory; they convalescent home at 114 Cameron envisioned its exquisite potential. Catherine Shaw, left, one of the May Court volunteers, and OSCA’s Green Avenue, and by 2001 nine end-of-life During 2005 a team of gardeners Dreamers. PHOTOS BY WINNIE PIETRYKOWSKI care beds were made available for from the Ontario Horticultural Society Community Gardeners individuals living with a life-limiting started. Over the years a garden helped May Court Hospice gardeners illness. shed has been built, privacy screens Special thanks go to Green Dreamer on a weekly basis. Together they More recently, in 2013, the hospice have been added, rocks moved, Martha Wiebe who organized the rejuvenated beds by pruning trees, at May Court amalgamated with scrub plants and dead trees removed, garden tour, to Catherine Shaw who shrubs, expanding perennial beds, Friends of Hospice Ottawa to form new trees planted, and more tools guided us around the grounds, and the shade garden on the west side, Hospice Care Ottawa offering care purchased. to Pleasantine Drake who graciously and building a 3-bin compost unit. at three locations throughout the As you might gather from this shared the historic journey of the That same year a rain barrel, plants, Ottawa region. Like most not-for- reading, gardening is an on-going May Court Hospice Gardens. flagstones, soil, table and chairs were profit organizations, the Hospice at labour of love and perseverance. It is donated to the gardeners. May Court has a proud history of no easy task to keep the momentum Winnie Pietrykowski is a longtime Many hands have contributed to the transforming itself to meet the needs going. It is a work of art in motion, resident of OOS, a community activ- creative vision of the original hospice of community. creating for the sheer joy of it and for ist, an OSCA Board member and a gardeners. From 2005 to 2012, the The May Court Club is Canada’s the absolute pleasure of sharing what member of the Green Dreamers and number of garden volunteers has oldest women’s service club, and is inspires us most: nature itself. OSCA’s Traffic & Safety Committee. one of nine May Court Clubs that steadily grown: from 5 to 8, from 8 comprise the Association of May to 10, from 11 to 23. As of 2018 there Court Clubs of Canada. Founded are 31 gardeners who volunteer at the in 1898, the May Court Club has May Court Hospice. This number is been providing volunteer services not constant; it fluctuates. Volunteers and financial assistance for over 100 move, take on other projects, go on years. holiday, etc. But it’s a large enough As the Hospice’s Sustaining pool that a steady rhythm from year Benefactor, the May Court Club to year can be maintained. provides the property and building. The May Court gardeners as of It also provides substantial support 2007 have a modest budget and financially to maintain this continue to rely on donations and infrastructure and the beautiful bequests. In 2008 the volunteers grounds on the bank of the Rideau developed a garden manual and have River. updated it annually. The following The original dwelling of the year they started a herb garden, built Hospice at May Court was owned a second compost unit and added to by John Albert Ewart (1872-1964) their perennial beds. a well-known Ottawa architect who By 2013 there were 29 gardeners Fall is real estate’s studied at the University of Toronto working. The gardeners divided the in the 1890s. In 1959 the May Court gardens in half: east and west. Two “Second Spring”. If you’re“ Club acquired the Ewart property and gardeners per day from Monday to “ thinking of buying or Friday work to keep the gardens opened a convalescent home. In the selling, it’s a great time late 1960s townhouses on either side pruned, weeded and tidy. On of the property were built and we Saturdays, the gardeners work as to give me a call! have today what we know as Rideau a group attending to some of the —Ilia River and Pentry Lanes. more substantial tasks of gardening. Your neigbourhood real estate specialist Beverages and small snacks (muffins The Grounds & Gardens of the & the like) are provided so that the Ilia Fabbri group can take a break on the back Hospice [email protected] In 2000-2001 the first gardening patio. project at the May Court Hospice By 2014, Beechwood Cemetery 613–238–2801 transformed the courtyard facing started contributing plants, soil, 165 Pretoria Ave., Cameron Street from paved mulch, compost, shrubs, and small Ottawa ON, K1S 1X1 trees. This same year a bequest made Independently Owned and Operated, Brokerage flagstones into a four-season garden. Not intended to solicit properties currently listed for sale Mary Pratt, an avid Ottawa gardener, it possible to build a new central or buyers under contract consultant, lecturer and former planter (stones donated by Merkeley Proud supporter of: president of the Canadian Peony Supply Ltd.), buy tools, plant Society spearheaded this initiative. supports and more chairs. 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NEWS Two Hundred Quilts by 30 Quilters: QuiltCo at 25 By Paula Fedeski- our super power to turn pieces of Koundakjian and cloth into beautiful, useful works of art.” Patty Deline Patsy is one of the leaders for the charity work QuiltCo members We’ve been making quilts together undertake. The guild has donated for 25 years, and we are having a quilts to the Maycourt Hospice, show to celebrate. Interval House, Roger Neilson th th On September 29 and 30 , House, the Osteoporosis Society, Ottawa’s QuiltCo will be showing Palliative Care Outreach program, more than 200 quilts at the Glebe Bruce House, and Breast Cancer Community Centre to celebrate our Action, among many other projects th 25 anniversary. we have undertaken. In 2018, QuiltCo’s triennial exhibition QuiltCo will continue to make quilts and sale will be a kaleidoscope for Victoria’s Quilts and a local of modern and traditional quilts Dialysis Unit, and to contribute showcasing the latest designer where a need is expressed. materials and the astonishing Come to the show as well for things that can be done with scraps a look at what regional vendors and recycled fabrics. You will see have for sale in the way of fabrics, quilters’ individual work as well as patterns and other quilting supplies, projects we have done as a group. and to purchase quilts or a small item Old Ottawa South quilters Maggie handmade by one of our members Rolfe, Patsy Royer, and Paula And don’t miss the penny sale! Fedeski-Koundakjian will be on Free parking is available at Corpus hand to display their work and chat Christi School, across from the about our passion. The late Deirdre Glebe Community Centre, which is McQuillan, OSCA’s long serving located at 175 Third Avenue at Lyon. Executive Director, was one of our The show will be open from 10:00 valued members for many years. am to 4:00 pm both days. Admission QuiltCo conducts monthly is $8. For more information, take a meetings at Trinity Anglican Church look at the Web site, www.quiltco.ca. as well as workshops, and retreats in VS. the country. As Patsy Royer says,” Paula Fedeski- Koundakjian Our retreats are a real treat.....A and Patty Deline are members of chance to do nothing much but QuiltCo. quilt for a few days at a time. It’s a privilege to join such a lovely group SEPTEMBER of women and men who love ...using 15TH Area Worship Services 1PM AT MNP PARK Location Times Sunnyside Wesleyan Sunday Worship Church Services at 9:00 am and 58 Grosvenor Avenue 11:00 am, Children’s (at Sunnyside) program offered during worship services.

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LIFE OF PIE My Mother’s Recipes By Kerry Duffy was also filled with reminiscing and mid-September – the middle of apple happy memories shared with my season. I have always loved how a taste or sister of our childhood, of our Mom I use many of my Mom’s recipes at smell is so connected to memory that and of food. work – our holiday fruitcakes, butter it can transport you to a different During this visit I re-discovered tarts, many of our cookies, and even time or place. It is like time travel my Mom’s old recipe box, full of our pastry were recipes I first made through food. worn and faded recipes written in her with my Mom, so adding the apple I have been very fortunate that distinctive hand, and I was surprised pudding recipe to our repertoire was my life has been full of good food. to see so many of my childhood natural. My Mom was a good cook and treats that I had not continued to When I made it that fall it was as if baker, and I spent a lot of my youth make. Just reading some of the I was making it for my Mom and was watching her in the kitchen and recipes brought back so many happy sharing a bit of her with everyone. learning. Over the years I have memories of celebrations and family. I continued to make the pudding at continued making many of my I had to copy them – the white bread work throughout the fall, made it favourite recipes of hers, so I am my Mom made every week when I again last fall and will make it again often taken back in time with a was small, bread and butter pickles this September. And I know when I memory of my childhood on my that were always part of our holiday have a bite and close my eyes I will tongue – and it is wonderful. table, the chocolate banana cake with be back around the table with my Two years ago I travelled out to cream cheese frosting that was THE Mom, Dad, Brother and Sister – and Vancouver Island to say goodbye to birthday cake in our house, and her it will be wonderful. my Mom. She was no longer getting apple pudding that was a favourite of PHOTO BY BRENDAN MCCOY out of bed and it was suggested that my Dad’s so we had it often during Kerry Duffy is a long time resident of her loved ones come for a last visit. apple season. Old Ottawa South and the owner of That was a bittersweet journey – I I didn’t get another chance to look Life of Pie. was sad that this would be the last at the recipes until after my Mom’s time I would see my Mom, but it memorial service six weeks later in Beautiful living naturally Audrey’s Apple Pudding Bloomfields Flowers 1 Cup of Sugar ¾ Cups of Flour 783 Bank Street | 613-230-6434 2 teaspoons of Baking Powder 1280 Wellington St. West | 613-695-6434 2 teaspoons of Cinnamon www.bloomfields.ca 1 Tablespoon of Shortening or Butter ½ Cup of Milk 1 teaspoon of Vanilla 3 Cups of peeled, cored and chopped apples Course final performance Preheat oven to 400 degrees features Antonio Vivaldi’s With a fork or pastry blender mix together the sugar, flour, baking powder, GLOIRA with orchestra! cinnamon and the shortening or butter. Stir in the milk and vanilla and mix well. Stir in the chopped apples. Pour into a greased 9-inch pan Top with crumble and bake at 400 degrees for 30 - 35 minutes. FALL DISCOVER Crumble: YOUR MUSICAL 2 Tablespoons of Brown Sugar ⅓ Cup of flour POTENTIAL 2 Tablespoons of soft butter CHORAL

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RED APRON COOKS Celebrating the Local Harvest By Jennifer Heagle tomatoes were cooking while they Meal Service is made using only which were ready for harvest in the were still on the vines. A few years local ingredients sourced from within fall. This year has been an excellent one back we lost our favourite shiitake 100 miles of our shop. To celebrate this year’s harvest, for growers, albeit with its share of mushroom farmer because one of The 100 mile diet was conceived I am providing two recipes to help challenges. The life of a farmer is not his large commercial clients refused by writers Alisa Smith and JB you pull off a truly local feast, while an easy one, and our strange weather to pay what they owed him for his MacKinnon who wrote a book about enjoying the last few weeks of warm conditions cause significant problems mushrooms, forcing him to close their year of eating only foods grown weather. You should be able to get for our farmers. Each year we hear down his operations. within 100 miles of their home. Now, all these ingredients at your local stories that are heartbreaking. When we hear these stories we they did live on Canada’s West Coast farmers’ market. Serve the pork and There was the year that our wonder why anyone would willingly so they had a bit of an advantage slaw with a simple potato salad, or blueberry farmer’s entire crop was take on such challenges when with a longer growing season. But it oven-roasted root vegetables, or if wiped out by a fungus. It put her there are so many factors that are is still an incredible undertaking. The you are up for an adventure – make it completely out of the business of completely outside of their control. book inspired a food revolution, and a taco meal with some corn tortillas, growing blueberries. This last spring, This is why we have such deep encouraged readers to support local hot sauce, and rice! one of our young farmers lost half respect and appreciation for those growers and producers, to preserve A reminder that CityFolk comes of her garlic crop to a flooded field. who choose to grow and raise food the harvest, and to eat seasonally. to Lansdowne from September 12th We have never fully recovered from as their life’s work. It is truly a noble This is why Thanksgiving is to 16th. With an amazing lineup the year our Thanksgiving turkeys profession. such an important celebration at of talent that offers something for came in 5 pounds underweight, due This is why we take time each the Red Apron. The tradition began everyone, this has become my to the intense heat and accompanying September and October to celebrate when the Europeans first settled in favourite Ottawa music festival. drought. Our 16 pound birds were the harvest, by purchasing as much North America, but was previously barely over 10 pounds. Turns out produce as possible from local celebrated for thousands of years Jennifer Heagle is a foodie & co- turkeys don’t eat when it’s too hot. growers and producers. We create 6 by local indigenous peoples who owner of the Red Apron and longtime This summer our tomato grower’s weeks of 100 mile menus – where had been growing corn, pumpkins, resident of Old Ottawa South & Old greenhouses were so hot that the each Thursday meal of our Fresh squash, beans and wild rice – all of Ottawa East.

Red Apron Recipes Garden Vegetable Slaw crunchy and in season. bage (Napa, red, green), kale, brocco- a BBQ or in the oven. It is important If you have a food processor, it’s li, cauliflower, carrots, peppers, green to keep the temperature under 250°F. There is no salad easier to whip up even easier. You will need a total of onions, red onions, radishes, etc. If cooking on the BBQ, the flavour than a simple vegetable slaw. The 8 to 10 cups of shredded vegetables, Make a simple vinaigrette by mix- would be enhanced by wood smoke beauty of this salad is that you can and the options are endless. ing 5 tablespoons of your favourite chips, soaked in cold water at least use almost any vegetable that is ripe, Some of my favourites include cab- vinegar (I like to use apple cider) 30 minutes. with a few good pinches of salt and pepper, a tablespoon or two of Make dry rub: maple syrup, then whisk in ¾ cups Mix first 5 ingredients in small of oil (sunflower oil or local canola bowl to blend. oil works well). If you want to add Place pork, fat side up, on work a little kick, a few minced chipotle surface. Score the fat/skin layer with peppers make for great smoky fla- a knife. Place on a roasting pan. vour and a touch of heat. Sprinkle dry rub all over pork; press Toss your shredded vegetables with into pork and the cracks in the fat. the vinaigrette and let sit for at least Cover with plastic and let stand for an hour before serving. A good slaw 1 to 2 hours at room temperature or is always better the next day. overnight in the fridge. Let your pork come to room temperature for at least Slow-Roasted Pork an hour before cooking. Shoulder Make mop: For dry rub: Mix all ingredients in medium 3 tablespoons coarsely ground black bowl. Cover and refrigerate. pepper If cooking in the oven set the tem- 3 tablespoons (packed) dark brown perature to 250°F. Cook uncovered sugar until the meat pulls apart easily with 3 tablespoons paprika a fork and pulls away easily from the 2 tablespoons coarse salt bone, turning pork and brushing with 1 teaspoon cayenne pepper ‘cold mop’ every 45-60 minutes, for 2 untrimmed boneless pork shoul- about 6 hours total. der halves (about 6 pounds total) If using a BBQ, add more charcoal – preferably heritage breed pork like and drained wood chips as needed to Tamworth or Berkshire. If your pork maintain temperature between 225°F. shoulder has a bone in it, it can be to 250°F. cooked with the bone in and the bone Once cooked, transfer pork to can be removed after cooking more clean, rimmed baking sheet. Let easily. The bone adds more flavor! stand until for 30 minutes – or until cool enough to handle. Shred into For mop sauce bite-size pieces with two forks. 1 cup apple cider vinegar Mound on platter. Pour the juices into ½ cup water a large clear measuring cup and skim 2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce off the fat. Pour the remaining juices 1 tablespoon coarsely ground black over the pork. Re-warm in a 350°F pepper oven, covered if necessary. 1 tablespoon coarse salt 2 teaspoons vegetable oil This recipe can be slowly roasted on The OSCAR l September 2018 Page 31

TASTY TIDBITS FROM TRILLIUM BAKERY Preserved Children… and Days Gone By By Jocelyn LeRoy games, one book, and too much Here’s a novel concept, somewhat 2 – 3 small dogs snacking, here I sit on the dock with Dr. Seuss-ish, in my opinion: pinch of brook and some pebbles At last the day arrived. The one on my feet in the sparkling sunlit water. the calendar marked with an “!” in A neighbour down the lake recently Elephant Stew Mix the children and dogs together the space reserved for just that; a bequeathed to us a vintage small 1 Elephant well. Put them into the field, stirring heightened feeling of “more than the town cookbook, reminiscent of 2 Rabbits (optional) constantly. ordinary.” My turn for a week at our cooking fads of the 50’s and 60’s. Brown gravy Pour the brook over the pebbles. family log cabin in Algonquin Park. The Velveeta “cheese” era, the dawn Sprinkle the field with flowers. Earlier on, there was a quick trip of cake and pudding mixes, and all Cut elephant into bite-size chunks. Spread over all, a blue sky and bake to learn more about the Government things not quite food, and highly This takes about 2 months. in the sun. Intrusion: Regarding “Terlets” (or calorific. She contributed recipes Add enough brown gravy to cover. When baked, set in bathtub to cool. “toilets”), Gray Water, and Expensive and illustrations for this little gem Cook over kerosene fire for 4 weeks Surveys thrust upon us lakeside cabin of humour and culinary horrors, as at 465 °. What will my and your grandchildren dwellers (see last month’s article, well as some excellent preserves and their grandchildren be eating and “Chelsea Buns to the Rescue”). and pickles, adding to the waistlines Yield: 3800 portions doing as our planet evolves? What But now, finally, a relaxing week of North American families. These Note: If more guests expected, add changes will they fight for? What stretching out in front of me and my recipes were timesaving and tasty, rabbits. will they think Velveeta was? What hubby who loves the woods as much and became quite popular, using all Do not add rabbits if guests might was Velveeta anyway? I took a poll as I do. the new “convenience” innovations. object to hare in their stew. at the lake and “latex” got the most The rain begins just as we’re My mother eschewed most of these response. leaving home. The much needed processed foods in their infancy, so I, After perusing pages of Velveeta- rain. Most of the traffic appears to as a result, am intrigued to read about laden casseroles and Cool Whip PS. Thank you for all your feedback be going back to the city, what with and imagine eating these concoctions covered cake mix desserts, I find on “Tasty Tidbits”. Don’t be shy the total fire ban in the park still on. containing things I never knew for another fanciful recipe, in “Pickles (you’re not!). We stop at our favourite Kawartha long. and Preserves.” True to the past, and ice cream outlet, in a torrential A few of the 50’s and 60’s recipes even more important now: Jocelyn LeRoy is the owner/manager downburst. gathered by “Greece Central Bus of Trillium Bakery in Old Ottawa Four hard-raining, stormy days and Drivers” somewhere in the USA, pop Preserved Children South since 1980. nights later, after twenty Scrabble right out at you, from the pages of 1 large field “Driven to Cook”, published in 1977. ½ dozen small children ABBOTSFORD AT THE GLEBE CENTRE Glebestock to Raise Funds for Abbotsford House By Courtney Rock flower crown making, and an art wall our website, www.glebecentre.ca or Lansdowne Retirement Residence where we will be creating a piece of contact Courtney Rock at 613-238- and the many local businesses Having not attended the festival community art to be displayed at our 2727 x 316 / [email protected]. who have supplied items for our herself, the good vibes didn’t Centre. Like so many events, we wouldn’t silent auction. Thank you for your escape Joni Mitchell, who later Money raised from the event be able to do this without the commitment to our community. commented on the historical event will go towards establishing an generous support of our sponsors by saying, “Woodstock was a spark Abbotsford House Restoration Fund such as McKeen Metro, Judy Courtney Rock is the Glebe Centre of beauty, where half-a-million kids and purchasing new therapeutic Faulkner Real Estate, Chartwell Lord Fund and Development Manager. saw that they were part of a greater technology for our Long-Term Care organism”. Home. Inspired by the generation that So on September 29th, dust off brought us Woodstock, we’re setting your bell bottoms and fringe jackets Create beauty in your own backyard out to recreate that spark of beauty and join us at the Horticulture through an evening of live music by Building in Lansdowne Park for a the 60’s cover band Sticks ‘n Stones, night to remember! Prizes will be dancing, a cash bar, trivia games, awarded throughout the night for and maybe a bit of karaoke (for those those who come in costume! brave enough) to raise funds for the The fun starts at 7:00 pm and over 1300 seniors connected to The tickets cost $50.00 per person. For Glebe Centre. more information or to get your The night will also feature a tickets to this groovy event find us on Lansdowne Lawn Lounge area, Facebook (The Glebe Centre Inc.),

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CARLETON CORNER It’s back to school! Carleton Symphony, a young alumni zone; CARLETON ATHLETICS prepared to be informed and even University looks forward to and much, much more! Admission is amused, as our professors share their welcoming the Ottawa community to free. More details available at events. Free Fitness Classes scientific discoveries with you. All campus during the 2018-19 academic carleton.ca/ravens-rally. Don’t miss your chance to discover are welcome. year for lectures and conferences, For a complete list of Throwback all that Carleton’s Department of courses, sporting events and camps. events, please visit: events.carleton. Recreation and Athletics has to Science Café Fall Schedule, 2018 Here are just a few taking place in ca/category/homecoming. offer with free fitness class drop-ins • Sept. 12 - Jeff Smith, Department September. from September 10 to 14. For more of Chemistry RAVENS FOOTBALL information, visit athletics.carleton. • Sept. 26 - Richard Ernst, Throwback: September 10 to 17 ca. Department of Earth Sciences Everyone is invited to celebrate Homecoming Game • Oct. 10 - Rowan Thomson, Throwback – Carleton University’s Bring the entire family to see PD Day Camp Department of Physics Homecoming – at the Ravens’ Rally the Ravens take on the Queen’s The next time your child has a PD • Nov. 14 - Sonia Chiasson, School on Saturday, September 15 from University Gaels on Saturday, Day, send them to Carleton Athletics of Computer Science 10:00 am to 3:00 pm. Show your September 15 at 1:00 pm. This game Day Camp! Kids will enjoy the full • Nov. 28 - Erling Rud, Department Carleton spirit at the Athletics Centre is part of the Ravens’ Rally with fun range of the university’s facilities as of Health Sciences parking lot. There will be an obstacle for everyone before the game. Get they play soccer, fencing, basketball, course, food trucks, a craft beer tent your tickets now at goravens.ca/ spikeball, squash and badminton, For more information, please with brews made by Carleton grads, tickets. just to name a few. The first PD contact the Faculty of Science by a live performance from Junkyard Day is October 5. More information email at [email protected] or by available at athletics.carleton.ca telephone at 613-520-4388.

Register Now For September Hockey Analytics Annual Biology Butterfly Show The Homework Club If you love hockey and the analysis The Ottawa Butterfly Show is A Girls Homework, Yoga & Arts Club of hockey data, this conference is for a free annual event at Carleton, you. The Fourth Annual International featuring 1,300 butterflies Affordable, Quality, After-School Care Ottawa Hockey Analytics conference representing 41 different species in a sunny, comfortable environment will kick off Friday, Sept. 14 with a worldwide. Butterflies love to land 3:30-5:30 pm ** Grades 1-8 social mixer. Return to Carleton on on colourful clothing and will climb Saturday, Sept. 15 and get down to onto an open hand. The event is Fridays are Yoga with Maureen Fallis at Surround Circle Yoga business with a workshop on data appropriate for people of all ages. & Conversational French Play visualization by Asmae Toumi of This year’s show opens on Research Projects * Dioramas * Presentation Practice Hockey Graphs, and a book launch Saturday, September 29, 2018, and Tutoring for Math, French & English Literacy by Rob Vollman. Scott Cullen of will close on Sunday, October. 7. On the Sunny 2nd floor of Southminster United Church TSN will emcee. The complete Opening hours are 9:00 am to 4:00 Supervised Pick up available from Hopewell conference rundown and registration pm. On the weekend, lines close at is available at statsportsconsulting. 3:00 pm due to volume in the Nesbitt Call 613-818-3006 com/otthac18/. Biology Building. Admission is free, but donations are welcome. Parking 17 Yrs Academic Support & Quality After-School Care Science Café Series is available on campus for visitors. Excellent Local References Explore science through Carleton Visit carleton.ca/biology/annual- University’s popular Science Cafés, butterfly-show for more information. held twice a month during the fall www.edwardjones.com and winter terms at the Sunnyside Carleton Corner is written by Branch of the Ottawa Public Library Carleton University’s Department at 1049 Bank Street (at Aylmer of University Communications. As Avenue). Each café begins at 6:30 your community university, Carleton Dreaming Up pm with a 20-minute talk by a has many exciting events of interest the Ideal Retirement Is Your Job. scientist followed by a 40-minute to Old Ottawa South. For more question and answer period. Engage information about upcoming events, Helping You Get There Is Ours. in a lively discussion around a please go to carleton.ca/events. scientific issue of the day. Be Maybe your idea of retirement is having a second career or working part time, volunteering or in- dulging in your favourite hobbies. Doing the things FINANCIAL PLANNING you want to do is what retirement should be about. What’s Your Retirement To see if your retirement plan matches your idea of retirement, call your nearest “Contingency Plan”? By Bob Jamieson, CFP may be able to avoid tapping into Edward Jones advisor for a personal You probably have thought about these retirement accounts, thus retirement review. what you’d like to do during your giving them more time to potentially retirement years. But all your plans grow. (However, once you turn probably depend, to at least some 71, you’ll need to begin taking extent, on your financial situation. withdrawals from your RRSP.) But Bob Jamieson, CFP® What happens if you reach the age if you are really not enamoured with the idea of working any longer, you Financial Advisor at which you wish to retire and . you just don’t have the money you might find that even the ability to 2211 Riverside Drive thought you’d have? “beef up” your retirement plans for Suite 100 another couple of years isn’t much Ottawa, ON K1H 7X5 If this occurs, it’s time for “Plan 613-526-3030 B.” What does that look like? Here consolation. are a couple of possibilities: Adjust Your Retirement Lifestyle Continue Working It’s pretty simple: If you don’t If you like your job, you may not save as much as you had planned for mind working an extra year or so. retirement, you probably can’t do You’ll be bringing in more income all the things you wanted to do as a and contributing more to your RRSP

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COMPUTER TRICKS AND TIPS Cloud -1 By Malcolm and John fires and equipment failures. are stored externally. storage was important, it even-knowing Harding, of Let’s put it this way: The There is an unfortunate would be possible to achieve blog.marconet.com/blog/5- American CIA, which is sinister dimension to some that. cloud-based-services-you- Compu-Home thought to be pretty hyper of this. You may remember use-every-day-without-even- about security, has just hired scandals of a few years ago, Next Month realizing-it. What is the Cloud? the Amazon cloud for data in which compromising Next column, in Cloud What the heck is this backup. photos of many popular – 2, we will look at the It’s our 20th anniversary! Cloud I’m hearing about personalities, mostly young implications of cross-border Go to compu-home.com/blog constantly? Simply Do I Need It? Hollywood actresses, were storage of data, additional for an archive of our columns put, the cloud (or more “I don’t think I need published on sleazy websites. concerns, and ways in which (including this one) and lots accurately clouds, plural) such a thing.” Chances This happened in many cases a few of those concerns may more tech-related articles. is an arrangement allowing are, you are already using because these people did not have been overblown. In the There is a space right after users to save data in an cloud storage for parts of realize that their phones and meantime, you can start your each item for you to make alternate location via their your data. Most people tablets were automatically own research on the subject comments and suggestions, Internet connection, remote have their email account set up when they were new, of the cloud by consulting: and ask questions. You can from their own computer set up such that messages, to save photos on iCloud, www.today.com/video/ even sign up for automatic disks or systems. Many contacts and calendars Apple’s cloud storage what-is-the-cloud-inside- updates. Have a look at large corporations such as are saved on the servers system. Photos that were a-secret-microsoft-site- compu-home.com/blog soon Google, Apple, Microsoft, of their email providers assumed to be private were that-s-securing-your- or call us at 613-731-5954 Amazon and lots more to make them available at hacked from iCloud, back in data-1281782339871 to share your opinions and offer cloud storage services. second computers, tablets or the days when security was theweek.com/ suggest subjects for future The typical model is that a phones. If you have signed not being taken as seriously articles/730704/5-ways- columns. Our email address certain amount of storage up for online banking, or as it is today. . . a sad lesson youre-using-cloud-without- is [email protected] space is free, and users pay an account with any web- on how important it is to incremental amounts if they based merchant, or do any understand the workings of a need more. After initial social networking, then at new device. setup they are automatic, or least small bits of data are extremely easy to use. already “up there.” Microsoft Avoid the Cloud? Office, and Apple’s Pages You could avoid the cloud Is Data Safe? are now being sold on a completely if you were Is data safe on the cloud? subscription basis rather than prepared to take the time to It’s probably much safer than the program being installed go very carefully through it is on your own computer. on your hard disk, and the all of the settings on your Companies use massive default setup is for the data computer, tablet and phone banks of servers, in “farms” you create to be stored on the to make sure that everything scattered throughout the cloud. The Chromebook, a was being saved on that world, to create redundancy budget-priced laptop that we device only. The trade-off upon redundancy upon have extolled often in these would no doubt be a certain redundancy, thus ensuring columns, has such a tiny hard inconvenience but if you data is safe from terrorist disk that most apps and data had decided that only local attacks, earthquakes, floods,

Of course, as you know, investments Cont. from pg. 32 move up and down. You can’t prevent this, but you’ll certainly want to reduce the effects of volatility, and to ensure you’re retiree. For example, you may not be able to comfortable knowing that all your non- travel as much, or pursue your hobbies to the discretionary expenses will be covered, extent you’d like. even if investments dip. Shifting some of your assets (though certainly not all) from Clearly, you’d like to avoid these growth-oriented vehicles “retirement contingency plans.” To do so, to income-producing ones, though, you’ll need to take steps well before and bolstering these with you retire. And the most important move you regularly maturing ones is can make may be to contribute as much as key. you can possibly afford to your RRSP, TFSA, It’s a good idea to have or other retirement savings account. contingency plans in During the last years before you wish to place for virtually every retire, you may be in a strong position to endeavour in life — and “max out” on these plans because, at this paying for your retirement stage of your life, your income may be years is no different. at its highest point, your children may be But if you can make the grown and you may even have “retired” right moves to avoid the your mortgage. Reducing current spending contingency plans in the somewhat to add additional retirement first place, then so much savings may be extremely beneficial. the better. If you are within But while it’s important to put in as much 10 years of retirement, or as possible to your retirement accounts, even closer, and don’t have you need to do more than that — you also a solid plan in place for must put the money in the right investments your retirement income, within these accounts. As always your exact please give me a call at investment mix should be based on your 613-526-3030 or check out individual risk tolerance and time horizon, www.edwardjones.ca/bob- but, as a general rule, these investments must jamieson. I would be glad provide you with enough growth potential to discuss your situation in to accumulate sufficient resources to last more detail. throughout your retirement: remember this could be 20 to 30 years, or more. Page 34 The OSCAR l September 2018

AROUND TOWN Art Lending of Ottawa, a not for profit organization since 1970, presents its Join the Ottawa Brahms Choir in song this fall! Our rehearsals start autumn exhibition on Saturday, September 1, 2018. Lease, lease to purchase Monday, September 10th, at 7 pm, in the Parlour Room of Southminster and purchase original fine visual art at reasonable prices. Local artists. Large United Church at Bank and Aylmer. We especially need tenors and basses selection. RA Centre, 2451 Riverside Drive (Outaouais Room East entrance) but all voice parts are welcome. Our winter concert, ‘Peace at Christmas’, is 10:00 am - 4:00 pm. Free admission. Free parking. A focus artist (Lynne December 2nd, at 3:00 pm. For more information: www.ottawabrahmschoir. Morin) and a painting demonstration (Ann Gruchy) are added features. Visit ca or 819-568-8169. us at www.artlendingofottawa.ca Ottawa School of Theology and Spirituality. Classes open to all. Bénévolat : Accompagner un enfant en lecture, c’est lui donner le goût Registration for fall term, Monday, September 17, 7 pm, Dominican d’apprendre! Le Centre de services à la famille vous offre l’occasion de University College, 96 Empress Ave. Once weekly classes on topics such as devenir bénévole une heure par semaine et d’accompagner un enfant dans our current spiritual crisis, understanding revelation across religions, being l’apprentissage de la lecture en français aux écoles Gabrielle-Roy, Marius- spiritual but not religious, world Christianity, and more. www.osts.ca Barbeau et tant d’autres. Veuillez communiquer avec Roxanne au 613 854- 7010 ou par courriel : [email protected] Annual Fish Fry And Silent Auction on Friday, September 28 at St. Thomas the Apostle Church, 2345 Alta Vista Drive (beside the Fire Station) from 5:00 Friends of the Farm Research Open House and Bug Day at Central pm to 7:00 pm. Also take-out. Adults $16 and children $8. Advance tickets Experimental Farm. September 8, 9:00 am to 4:00 pm. Volunteers will assist available at the Church office weekday mornings. 613-733-0336. researchers in greeting the public at the Research Greenhouses, and there will be two free educational events for all ages. Demonstrations, collections, live Ten Guitars For Alzheimer’s features musicians who have been involved in interactive insect zoo and more. http://friendsofthefarm.ca the local music scene for decades. If you grew up in Ottawa in the 60’s or 70’s you’d remember bands like The Characters, The Esquires, The Townsmen Model boats at Brown’s Inlet. The Rideau Nautical Modellers boat club is or Canada Goose. Or names like Don Norman of Don Norman and the other having their final group event on Sept 8th (with a rain date of Sept 22nd) at Four, or Terry Tufts. The Ten Guitars for Alzheimer’s CD can be purchased at 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm. Our club members look forward to this event to be able https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/tenguitars. to sail their ships in dimmer lighting to show off the ships with their running lights. The pond will also have two floating light houses for the members to Join Voca Sol and sing every Thursday afternoon! Director Lee Hayes and maneuver around in a timed competition. You can see us weekly during the Assistant Director Brett Fortin. Perfect for adults who want a great choir summer launching radio-controlled model boats every Wednesday evening experience in the afternoon. No musical training necessary. Come check it out from 6 to 8 pm weather permitting. Thursdays from 1:30-3:00 pm, Sunnyside Wesleyan Church at 58 Grosvenor Ave in Old Ottawa South. Cost is $150.00/six months. QuiltCo Show and Sale. Saturday and Sunday, September 29 and 30, from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm At the Glebe Community Centre, 175 Third Avenue at Come and join the Pacesetters Walking Club at Billings Bridge Shopping Lyon. Admission: $8. Free parking at Corpus Christi School across the street. Mall. Activities include walking with your friends, social gathering, knitting for charities, puzzles, library. Located in the basement of the Tower at the Ottawa Newcomers’ Club is a fun way to meet new friends for women northwest corner of the Mall. Open from 7:30 to 10 am. Low cost of $10 who are new to Ottawa or who have experienced a significant life change. per year covers our expenses. Call 613-521-6740 during open hours for For more information email [email protected] or go to our information. website at www.ottawanewcomersclub.ca. The OSCAR l September 2018 Page 35

MP’S REPORT Environmental Accomplishments By Catherine McKenna, MP • Putting in place measures to • $55 million towards repairing ensure that by 2018, all Canadian NCC pathways and bridges. As the Member of Parliament for jurisdictions will have a price on Ottawa Centre I know how important climate pollution. Preserving our Waters the environment is to the future • Initiating the Ottawa River Water- growth and prosperity of not only our Moving Towards Zero Waste shed Study to develop a conserva- City and Province, but to Canada and Plastics tion strategy for our local water the world. That is why I am proud of • Launching Canada’s Dialogue on systems. the investments our government has Plastic Waste to identify ways we • Designating the Ottawa River made to protect the environment and can achieve zero plastic waste. as a Heritage River to ensure its grow the economy. They include: • Forming the G7 Ocean Plastics long-term health for swimming, Charter, which will keep plastics drinking, and fishing. Protecting Nature out of our oceans and waters. • Installing three new access points • $1.3 billion to protect and along the Rideau Canal, making it preserve Canada’s lands and I understand municipalities easier than ever to appreciate our wildlife. play a crucial role in addressing local history and nature. • $1.5 billion for an Oceans climate change. That’s why I Protections Plan to make our have been working to empower Together, we have done a lot, but coasts healthier, safer, and better our local community to play a role I want us to aim higher. Our goal protected. in our country’s environmental should be to grow Ottawa into the • Free admission to all national sustainability. Our government greenest capital in the world! I am parks, historic sites and marine proudly supports: proud to represent a riding that conservation areas for new cares as deeply about Canada’s citizens and youth aged 17 and Investing in Clean Transportation environmental future as I do. We under. • Investing over $1.9 billion in all play a role together in protecting Ottawa’s LRT project, to shorten Canada’s climate as we move Shifting Towards Clean Energy commutes and better connect you towards a greener future. • Co-founding a global alliance to to services while reducing green- As always, if you have any phase out traditional coal-fired house gas emissions. questions about our government energy for cleaner energy sources. • Securing $10.5 million towards initiatives, do not hesitate to contact • $2.3 billion to support clean the Clegg St. footbridge in order my community office at 613-946- technology in Canada. to make walking and cycling 8682 or send me an email: catherine. easier and safer. [email protected]

MPP’S REPORT Comforting the Afflicted, Afflicting the Comfortable: My Focus as Your MPP By Joel Harden, MPP ships, cyber-bullying, insights from but they would be wise to remember Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation the words of Margaret Mead: “Never Commission, and the rights of queer doubt that a small group of commit- It’s been an eventful summer. Doug and trans people. ted citizens can change the world; Ford’s tenure as Ontario’s Premier We’ve spoken out for our neigh- indeed, it’s the only thing that ever reminds me of other Conservatives bours who will die without access to has.” who invoked “a common sense safe injection sites. We’ve supported revolution” to justify multiple attacks Ontario Works and Ontario Dis- at once. ability Support Program recipients, Modern sex-ed in schools, work- condemned cuts to their benefits, and ers’ rights on campus, and nearly- criticized the cancellation of the basic completed renewable energy projects income pilot. were the early casualties. Halving the We’ve spoken out for those who number of Toronto’s city councillors seek asylum in Canada (as genera- was next, along with cuts to Ontario tions have) for a better life, and who Works and Ontario Disability Sup- will help pay for the public services port Program benefits. on which we all depend. We’ve de- At issue is how our community manded urgent action to address the responds, and playing it safe isn’t existential threat of climate change, an option. As a mentor of mine once and a $15 per hour minimum wage. MPP / Député said, we must comfort the afflicted provincial, Ottawa We’ve been clear about who Centre (those hurt by Ford), and afflict the benefits from Premier Ford’s low comfortable (exposing the few who tax, small government dogma: the benefit most from Ford). 3000 people named in the Paradise You can expect that strategy from Papers, and the two families with as me and the talented folks in our MPP much wealth as 11 million Canadi- office. We will be there when you ans; social conservatives who want need help, and we will keep organiz- queer and trans people to stay in the ing in our community for justice. closet; fossil fuel lobbyists who sa- We’ve been knocking on doors, lute Ford’s lack of a plan for climate and gathered hundreds of signatures change; and white nationalists who on petitions to save the 2015 Physical revel in the Ford government’s com- and Health Education Curriculum. ments about “illegal border crossers”. Community Office 109 Catherine St. / rue 613-722-6414 We’ve supported teachers who want Bureau Catherine [email protected] Some might say this is pointless, communautaire Ottawa, ON K2P 0P4 youth to learn about healthy relation- Page 36 The OSCAR l September 2018

SUNNYSIDE LIBRARY PROGRAMS Sunnyside Branch Join us for an afternoon of board up. Parents and/or caregivers are to discuss a graphic novel. For teens Ottawa Public Library games, Lego, cards & fun for home- welcome to accompany their child. and adults. Drop-in program. 1049 Bank Street, Ottawa schooled children and their families, Registration required. Monday, 7:00 - 8:30 pm InfoService 613-580-2940 happening every week! / Soyez des Mondays, September 10, October 15, nôtres pour un après-midi de jeux 6:30 pm (60 min.) November 12, December 10 SPECIAL EVENT de société, de Lego, de cartes et September 24, October 29 & September Title: Saga Vol.1 by Brian d’amusements destinés aux enfants November 26 Vaughan Friends of the Ottawa Public instruits à la maison et leurs familles! October Title: My Lesbian Library – Porch Sale Book Sale Drop-in / Programme portes ouvertes ADULT BOOK CLUBS Experience with Loneliness by Kabi Visit the Sunnyside branch on Tuesdays, 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. /Les Nagata Saturday, September 8, from 10:00 mardis, 13h00 – 15h00 Second Friday Adult Book Club November Title: Zegas by Michel to 4:00 for great deals on used books, September 11 – December 18/ 11 Meet new people and join in Fiffe DVDs, and CDs. The Friends of the septembre – 18 décembre stimulating discussions on selected December title: Laid Waste by Julia Ottawa Public Library (FOPLA) is titles in a friendly and relaxed Gfrorer a fundraising group that works to Friday Fun Day / Les folies du atmosphere every second Friday of support and promote the services of vendredi the month. Newcomers are welcome. ADULT PROGRAMS the Ottawa Public Library. Drop by and take part in a different Drop-in program. Saturday, September 8, 10 am – 4 pm activity each week! /Prenez part Friday, 2:00 – 3:00 pm The Writing Workshop à une nouvelle activité à chaque September 14, October 12, An opportunity for writers of fiction, CHILDREN’S PROGRAMS semaine! Drop-in / Programme November 9, December 14 non-fiction, poetry, and experimental portes ouvertes September Title: Remains of the Day forms to gather. Our emphasis will Maker Mondays / Lundi Créatifs Fridays, 3:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. /Les by Kazuo Ishiguro be on developing works-in-progress Play, build, create, cut, fold, knit, vendredis, 15h30 – 17h00 October Title: Birdie by Tracey for publication. The workshop will draw & so much more with our low- September 14 – December 21/ 14 Lindberg provide writers with encouragement tech mobile maker station! Ages 8 & septembre – 21 décembre November Title: The Buddha in the and constructive criticism from their up / Joue, construis, crée, découpe, & P.A. Days, 1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. / Attic by Julie Otsuka peers. Author/Facilitator: Michael F. plie, tricote, dessine et pratique une journée pédagogique, 13h00 – 17h00 Stewart: http://michaelfstewart.com foule d’autres activités avec notre Sunnyside Mystery Book Club Drop-in program. nouveau poste mobile de création à Play Day! / Au jeu! Do you enjoy reading mysteries? Monday, 6:00 - 8:00 pm faible technicité! 8 ans et plus Drop in preschool fun! Play with Share the enjoyment of good September 19, October 17, Drop-in/ Programme portes ouvertes puppets, crafts, building blocks, and mysteries in a relaxed atmosphere. November 21 Mondays, 3:30 p.m. – 5:00 pm /Les more! / Un programme porte-ouverte Join us for discussion usually every lundis, 15h30 – 17h00 pour les enfants d’âge préscolaire! third Friday of the month. Drop-in Knit & Knatter September 10 – December 17/ 10 Jouez avec des marionnettes et des program. Have you always wanted to learn septembre – 17 décembre blocs, bricolez, et plus encore! Friday, 2:00 – 3:00 pm to knit, crochet or improve your Drop-in / Programme portes ouvertes September 21, October 19, skills? Come to Sunnyside and bring Babytime / Bébés à la Biblio Saturdays, 10:15 am – 11:15 am /Les November 16 your knitting needles and yarn to For babies and their parents or samedis, 10h15 – 11h15 September Title: House of Dolls by begin or share your project. Enjoy caregiver with stories, rhymes, songs September 15 – December 15 / 15 David Hewson conversation and a cup of tea while and games. 0-18 months. / Contes, septembre – 15 décembre October Title: Prague Fatale by you knit! Drop-in program. comptines et chansons pour les bébés Philip Kerr Wednesdays, 11:30 – 2:30 pm et un parent ou gardien. 0 à 18 mois. Silly Saturdays / On s’amuse les November Title: The Mitford Sept.12 & 26, Oct.10 & 24, Nov.14 Drop-in/ Programme portes ouvertes samedis Murders by Jessica Fellowes & 28, Dec.12 Thursdays, 2:15 p.m. (30 min.) / Les Each week there will be board jeudis, 14h15 (30 min.) games, Lego, crafts or another Sunnyside Adult Book Club Conversations Among Canadians September 13 – December 6/ 13 activity. Ages 6 & up / Chaque Join in stimulating discussions In this program, we will continue to septembre – 6 décembre semaine, il y aura des jeux de société, on selected titles in a friendly and share our experience, knowledge, Lego, du bricolage, ou une autre relaxed atmosphere on the last Friday reflections and ideas relevant to life Family Storytime (Bilingual) / activité. 6 ans et plus of the month. Drop-in program. in Canada, past, present and future, Contes en Famille (bilingue) Drop-in / Programme portes ouvertes Friday, 2:00 – 3:00 pm doing so with a sense of community Stories, rhymes and songs for Saturdays, 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. /Les September 28, October 26, among Canadians and with others in children of all ages and a parent or samedis, 14h00 – 16h00 November 30 the world. Drop-In program. caregiver. / Contes, comptines et September 15 – December 15 / 15 September title: The High Mountains Wednesdays, 2:00 – 4:00 pm chansons pour les enfants de tout âge septembre – 15 décembre of Portugal by Yann Martel September 12 – December 19 et un parent ou gardien. October title: Behold the Dreamers Drop-in/ Programme portes ouvertes. CHILDREN’S BOOK CLUBS by Imbolo Mbue Science Cafés with Carleton Tuesdays OR Thursdays November title: Old Filth by Jane University 10:15 a.m. (30 min.) Je Lis Gardam Professors from the Faculty of Mardi OU jeudi Aimez-vous lire en français? Venez à Science share their discoveries with 10h15 (30 min.) notre club de lecture en français pour European Book Club (EUNIC you. Drop-in program. September 11 – December 6/ 11 les enfants de 8 ans et plus. Canada) Wednesday, 6:30 – 7:30pm septembre – 6 décembre Inscription requise. Join us for the ultimate armchair Sept.12 & 26, Oct.10 & 24, Nov. 14 Les Mardis, 18h30 / Tuesdays, 6:30 travel around Europe. The European & 28 Homework Help / Aide aux Devoirs pm (60 min.) Book Club is offered in partnership Ingenious Talks with Carleton Come get help with reading, math, 25 septembre, 30 octobre et 27 with European Union National University science, French, English, etc. Led by novembre Institutes for Culture (EUNIC) in Faculty of Engineering & Design Frontier College. Ages 6 -10 / Ottawa to promote European authors professors will be sharing their Reçois de l’aide avec la lecture, Mighty Girls Book Club and their works. Drop-in program. research with you. Drop-in program. les maths, les sciences, le français, A children’s book club focused Wednesday, 6:00 - 8:00 pm Wednesdays, 6:30 - 7:30 pm l’anglais, etc. Avec des bénévoles de on exploring brave, strong and September 19, October 17, October 3, November 7, December 5 Frontier College. 6-10 ans intelligent girls in books. Parents, November 21 Drop-in/ Programme portes ouvertes. guardians or caregivers are September title (Switzerland): Night French Conversation Group Mondays, 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm / les encouraged to accompany their child. Train to Lisbon by Pascal Mercier Améliorez votre français parlé lundis, 16h – 17h Ages 8 & up. Registration required. October title (Finland): They Know et rencontrez des gens dans une September 10 – December 17 / 10 Mondays, 6:30 pm (60 min.) Not What They Do by Jussi Valtonen ambiance décontractée et conviviale. septembre – 17 décembre October 22 & November 19 Niveau intermédiaire. 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SUNNYSIDE LIBRARY PROGRAMS Intermediate level. Drop-in program. bolstered by lists compiled in ADULT SPECIAL PROGRAMS Norway Les jeudis, 18h30 / Thursdays, 6:30 previous sessions of the program. Travel off the beaten path with pm (60 min.) Drop-in program. DemocracyKit Workshops creative travel expert Carole Gobeil! 13 septembre – 20 décembre/ Saturdays, 10:00 – 12:00 pm The municipal election is coming This fascinating trip will help you to September 13 – December 20 September 15 – December 15 in October, come to workshops to see Norway, and indeed everywhere learn how to make a meaningful else, from a new perspective. Discussions about Community A Word in Arabic contribution to a campaign team. Everyone welcome! Looking toward a peaceful and Learn a few words in Arabic. Drop-in Registration recommended. Registration recommended. prosperous future for Canada and program. Get Out the Vote Thursday, September 27 the world, participants will explore Wednesdays, 4:30 – 6:30 pm Thursday, September 6, 7:00 – 8:00 pm the potential and possibilities of September 12 – December 19 6:30 – 8:00 pm community. Discussions will be

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ARTS AND CULTURE Book Launches by Local Authors to launch their most recent books of poetry. The event offers Old Ottawa South residents an opportunity to meet and hear two talented writers who live in our neighbourhood. The launch will be held at The Cameron, located inside the Ottawa Lawn Bowling and Tennis Club, at 176 Cameron Avenue, on Sunday, September 30. The bar will be open, and the Thursday Night Jazz Band and Montreal’s Eva (Young’s daughter) will play music during the evening. The fun starts at 7:00 pm, with readings at 7:30. Jenny Haysom is launching her first book, Dividing the Wayside from Palimpsest Press. Haysom’s writing has appeared in a variety of publications, most recently The Walrus, The New Quarterly and The Fiddlehead. Her first chapbook of poetry was published by Anstruther Press in 2017. Kingston poet Steven Heighton speaks of her “maturely attuned ear” and describes this as a “seasoned and exceptional debut”. Deanna Young is launching her fourth book, Reunion from Brick Books. Reunion is an origin story in which a girlhood is re-inhabited and oddly transformed as the adult Jenny Hasom. becomes ally of her younger self. Deanna Young. PHOTO BY LUCY BOYD Her three earlier books of poetry have been well received; House PHOTO BY ALICE YOUNG By Mary Lee Bragg Dreams (2014) was nominated for four major awards, including the the board of directors for Arc Poetry Jenny Haysom & Deanna Young Trillium Book Award for Poetry. Magazine for several years, and Poets Jenny Haysom and Deanna Both Jenny Haysom and Deanna is an active participant in several Young, both long-time residents of Young are active in the Ottawa writing groups in the community. Old Ottawa South, are joining forces poetry community. Haysom was on Young is a professional teacher and regularly offers six-week poetry Colin Morton. colloquiums for writers and readers AUTHOR PHOTO BY MARY LEE BRAGG of poetry. Deanna Young was also the face of the Ottawa poetry community NEW PATIENTS WELCOME to visiting writers for several years, in her role as artistic director of the The Undead Dr. Pierre Isabelle Tree Reading Series (formerly in the By Colin Morton Black Squirrel bookstore). Dr MDar.t hi Peetue rT Kiremmblay The launch will be a free event They gave us their hearts open to the public, with the authors’ with leaky valves. books for sale by local independent The tools they fashioned GLEBE DENTAL CENTRE bookseller Perfect Books. hang on our walls FIFTH AVENUE COURT-EVENING APPOINTMENTS though we no longer reap or sow. OPEN MONDAY-FRIDAY Colin Morton Another former Tree Reading They lumber through our dreams Series director, Colin Morton, murmuring of blood For appointments call 613-234-6405 will join five other authors from till morning mist rises Aeolus House press to launch their and we wake chapbooks on Sunday, September wearing their faces, our voices 9, at Pressed coffeehouse, at 750 theirs. Gladstone Avenue. Morton’s chapbook, The Undead, is not about zombies, but about his ancestors, From “The Undead” (Aeolus those people who had us to look House Press) which will be forward to, wearing their faces. launched on September 9th. This, also, is a free event open to the public. Colin Morton is a poet, author, teacher and an OOS resident. Old Ottawa South writer Mary Lee Bragg is the author of the prize- winning poetry collection “Winter Music”. Jenny Haysom and Deanna Young Book Launch at The Cameron Sunday, September 30 at 7:00 pm The OSCAR l September 2018 Page 39

BOOK REVIEW Goliger through this kind of anxiety — dangerous outlaws by mainstream and yet I also felt allegiance to Zionism. But now the reputation of the people I was abandoning.” these once fringe groups has been All of this personal experience rehabilitated: “Their political heirs, links with her parents’ history of the ultra-nationalists, are in the escape from Europe before the ascendancy nowadays.” Hitler war, and their losses in the Her novel ends, she says, with an death camps. She remembers that obliquely posed question: How will in the late forties, before coming future generations in Israel view to Canada, her family lived in a story like that of Eva Salomon? a rooftop flat in Tel Aviv, much And what sort of nation has Israel like the one that features in her become? current novel, as they gradually “I wanted to suggest some learned the fate of relatives who troubling questions, to bring the had stayed back in Austria or future into the past without imposing Czechoslovakia. a 21st century perspective. I wanted One vivid family story to have it both ways, to stay true to concerns her mother’s sister, the point of view of someone living who had an affair with one of in that era but to also resonate with the British policeman enforcing people of our times. . . . the Palestine “Mandate,” and as “And it must, because the conflicts a result was “punished” by the of that time have not been resolved. I extreme Zionist Stern Gang. don’t just mean the Israeli-Palestinian By Carman Cumming It’s not surprising that when conflict: We are still grappling Goliger launched her writing career with the question of what is a Novelist Gabriella Goliger, soon to Gabriella Goliger; in the Seventies she exploited that healthy, reasonable nationalism and launch her third book, at her Windsor incident in one of the linked short when does it become unjustifiable Eva Salomon’s War: Avenue home. Fairfield, CA: Bink Books, stories of her first book, Song of extremism.” Ascent, or that her experience in $17.95 (U.S.) Israel was again central to her second Carman Cumming, retired Carleton book, Girl Unwrapped. professor, is a longtime neighbour, Writer Gabriella (Gaby) Goliger, In her third book, Eva Salomon’s friend and admirer of Gabriella of Windsor Avenue in Old Ottawa War, to be published October 1st, Goliger. South, has a long-standing, intense, Goliger returns to that incident and relationship with Israel. She was in expands it into a full, impressively fact conceived there, just at the time detailed and complex novel of the of Israel’s modern rebirth, (though 1938-48 era in Jerusalem and Tel she was actually born in Italy, where Aviv. The result is a compelling her mother had gone on a trip, and story, sometimes painful, but was brought up mostly in Tel Aviv also likely to put her again on the and later in Montreal.) lists for literary awards, or to stir As a teenager she was back in interest in film possibilities. Israel just before the 1967 Six-Day A modest, soft-spoken and War, living on a kibbutz on the self-critical writer, Goliger is east side of the Sea of Galilee, just fully aware that the tangles and below the Golan Heights, then in conflicts of the past have present Syrian hands. She remembers well implications. Her response is to the tensions of that time: the fear of focus on “story”, to try to tell raids, of landmines, of the possibility “how it was” then —sometimes of Israel’s destruction. frightful, but not always. To “I was terribly frightened... recreate that past, she has done Everybody assumed that if Israel impressive research on newspapers lost the war it would be a war of and photo archives of the day, on annihilation.” memoirs, and even on documents She left and came back to Canada of the Palestine Police now held at and for a time felt a certain guilt Oxford. because she hadn’t stayed for the war She understands that it’s — combined with a tinge of envy for impossible to write of those times those who did, and survived. without raising controversy: Not that she ever wanted to be a People who support Palestine, she soldier: says, may feel their side has been “The guilt was more complicated given short shrift. Some may feel than that — but very human, I think. the British are hard done by. But I felt badly that I could go home to she adds that the book may also Canada and safety while everyone draw ire in the Jewish community else in Israel had to face this terrible because she casts a critical light threat. The other foreigners who on a part of the Zionist movement 3 Trees Fall Sale stayed spent most of the war in bomb of the time. “It reveals unsavoury September 12th to 30th shelters. But sharing the fate of the elements that people might Bargain Basement open Israelis was a form of moral support. prefer to deny or keep buried or I envied their courage in staying. minimize.” Selected silver jewellery 50% off “I did feel I’d missed out on an In Israel’s founding years she We pay the tax adventure. 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Fine Art Show It is not in the eye, it is in the mind”. For her, concepts of happiness and beauty are interconnected: “Beauty illustrates happiness.” So come over, and bask yourselves in beauty! A total of 33 juried artists (second year in a row that the number of artists is higher than 30), will be exhibiting at the Glebe Community Centre, located at 175 Third Avenue in the Glebe. This year five new artists will be part of the exhibition. Their art forms run the gamut, from photography, to Author Amanda Sterczyk PHOTO BY ALLISON J. MUNDLE abstract and realistic paintings, as well as from landscapes to wildlife and nature paintings. You are in for a treat! Function Physiotherapy to Host Rose Marie Roy at last year’s Glebe Fine Their artworks will complement Art Show. Rose Marie, an artist from Old beautifully the ones made by the other Local Author’s Book Launch Ottawa South, will be at the show again fine art artists exhibiting regularly at By Brad Lafortune & the author Amanda Sterczyk this year. PHOTO BY EILEEN DURAND this event. Art pieces are made using a Amanda Sterczyk will be signing copies. variety of media such as oils, acrylics If you want to reserve a and watercolours, but also mixed copy of the book, you can By Eileen Durand Function Physiotherapy is media, pastel, embroidery, and fine art pre-purchase it and pick it up photography prints. See the full list of pleased to be hosting the For the 13th annual Glebe Fine Art Show at the book launch. The book artists at: www.glebefineartshow.ca official book launch ofMove (GFAS), several new artists, from the is $18.95 + HST ($21.41). To add to your convenience, an open More, Your Life Depends On region and beyond, will be showing their Contact [email protected] café (Mato’s Café) will be offering soups, It: Practical Tips to Add More unique artworks over the weekend of if you’d like to pre-purchase light lunches, beverages and desserts Movement to Your Day. September 15th and 16th, 2018. The show your copy. throughout the show hours (please note Join us on Wednesday, is increasingly popular with both artists the times: 10:00 am to 4:00 pm every September 19th, between 7:00 and art collectors. Brad Lafortune is a day). Free admission and door prizes will pm and 9:00 pm at Function The universal quest for beauty is never Physiotherapist and the owner provide additional incentives to visit. Physiotherapy (1185 Bank ending and beauty is often the only of Function Physiotherapy. Mark your calendar to attend this great St), for the launch. Light purchasing criteria. As Canadian-born Amanda Sterczyk is an author, art event! refreshments will be served. legendary artist, Agnes Martin, once certified personal trainer, and There will be a limited supply said: “When I think of art, I think of group fitness instructor. She is Eileen Durand is the GFAS Media of books available for sale, and beauty …Beauty is the mystery of life. a longtime resident of OOS. Contact and Show Coordinator. Open House SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 22 1 - 4 PM

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36 Monk Street. The creative owner of this home is a self-described garage sale fanatic with a knack for spotting hidden treasures and giving them new life, often by working with creative carpenters and upholsterers. The vibrant colour throughout this home is inspired partly by time the homeowners spent living in Mexico. By Suzanne McCarthy Purchase tickets at the Glebe Community Centre, 175 Third This fall, take a self-guided stroll Avenue; or call 613-564-1058 or 613- through this historic Ottawa 233-8713. Purchase tickets online neighbourhood and explore the at https://www.gnag.ca/enterprise/ interiors of five private homes. Events_GlebeHouseTour Linger and pay close attention This tour is for adults. Children age to the art, furniture, paint colours, 12 and up are welcome with a ticket, WE PAY THE TAX ON ALL lighting and other design choices. as are babies in arms. Volunteers are stationed throughout The Glebe House Tour is a JEWELLERY REPAIRS each home with details about volunteer-run fundraiser. Proceeds sources of materials, contractors and support the Glebe Neighbourhood designers as well as some historical Activities Group (GNAG), in information. particular a fund which allows The Tour is Sunday, September 16th children with special needs to attend from 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm. Tickets are programs and camps. $30 per person and $35 the day of the event. Ticket includes a shuttle bus Suzanne McCarthy is the lead 790 Bank Street Ottawa | 613 234 4136 service and a tea service at the Glebe organizer of the Glebe House Tour, as Community Centre from 2:30 pm to well as a blogger and photographer. davidsonsjewellers.com 5:00 pm. Page 42 The OSCAR l September 2018

40th Annual Brighton Avenue Clambake By Cindy MacLoghlin their tables and barbeques, serve the children’s meal and clean up after it’s Current and former Brighton Avenue all over. residents are invited to join old Canvassers will be knocking on and new neighbours on Saturday, doors in early September to sell September 15th for the 40th Brighton tickets, solicit loans of barbeques and Avenue clambake. tables, and sign people up for set-up This annual street party began 41 and clean-up jobs. If you miss your years ago in the backyard of Bill and canvassers but don’t want to miss Sharon Blakeman. It moved to the the fun, please fill out the form they old Brighton Beach the following leave you and drop it off at #136 year and, with one blip, it’s been held Brighton Avenue or call Cindy at there every year since. 613-730-7830. Preparations begin in the afternoon The 2017 Brighton Beach Clambake. PHOTO BY TOM ALFÖLDI as volunteers put up the tent and Cindy MacLoghlin is a Clambake dig the pit for the fire. After the this effect at Old Brighton Beach renewing old acquaintances. organizer. children’s meal, there will be group at the top of the bike path by noon This community feast is a big photos at 6:00 pm. Saturday. If held on Sunday, we will success year after year because of the This year, we are going to have a forgo the tent and the fire. many contributions of the residents Brighton Avenue Clambake rain date. We will decide by Saturday Following the photo, residents and of Brighton Avenue who, among When: Saturday September 15 morning if we are going to move the alumni of Brighton Avenue will enjoy other things, canvass, put up the (rain date: September 16) event to Sunday and, if the rain date clams, corn and potluck contributions tent, tend the fire, shuck and cook Where: Old Brighton Beach will be used, we will post a sign to while greeting new neighbours and corn, wash and cook clams, lend

Third Annual Tree Fest September 22nd and 23rd at Brewer Park By Christine Earnshaw wide range of activities for people of community on the wonders of trees protect and enhance Ottawa’ urban all ages. and nature. Over the two days, there forest. During the festival, there will If you love trees, parks, exploring Now in its 3rd year, the will be several guided tree walks be multiple opportunities to find out nature, going on walks, interacting community-based festival provides around the site to learn about tree how individuals and community with others, then there’s something a diversity of ways for the public to species and edible plants. A certified groups, as well as politicians and for you at this year’s fall tree festival. learn about and appreciate trees. With forest therapy guide will be hosting policymakers, all have a role to play Located in the natural setting around the support of an incredible array of walks for people to experience forest in protecting our green infrastructure. Brewer Pond in the southern portion individuals and community partners bathing. Festival-goers can explore Whether it is to relax and to spend of Brewer Park, Tree Fest Ottawa’s with specialized knowledge and the biodiversity of Brewer Pond and time in a park or to meet up with free, annual tree festival is taking expertise related to trees, the festival discover the history of the recent others with a shared interest in trees place on the weekend of September offers multiple interactive workshops restoration efforts by the Rideau and nature, the festival offers a 22nd and 23rd and will include a and activities to engage the Valley Conservation Authority and meaningful engagement with nature community partners. The public will and people in our community who have an opportunity to wade into the have specialized knowledge and pond to help remove invasive aquatic expertise related to trees. species under the guidance of City It is well understood that when Stream Watch. By hosting in Brewer people spend time in nature they Park by the pond, the aim is to build can both benefit from it and better awareness and stewardship for this appreciate the role they play in THE OTTAWA TENNIS AND particular site and other naturalized protecting it. parks in the city. All welcome! For entertainment during the LAWN BOWLING CLUB festival, local musicians will Christine Earnshaw is a founder and be leading a sing-along and be organizer of Tree Fest Ottawa. performing using wood instruments. Local vendors such as the Merry Sept. 22nd and 23rd Dairy will be offering food and 10 am to 5 pm drinks featuring tree products. Brewer Park by Brewer Pond For kids, there is a wide range of The full program will be on the activities and crafts to discover. website in early September In 2017, the City of Ottawa www.treefestottawa.org approved an Urban Forest @treefestottawa Management Plan, a 20-year plan to

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ROAD TRIPS Five Great Reasons for an Ottawa Valley Road Trip sap from their sugar bush until it is about two-thirds of the way toward becoming maple syrup, and then he freezes it. On educational tours throughout the year, visitors get to finish and bottle their own maple syrup in a 1910-style sugar shack. Advance reservations required.

Cooking Lesson in Barry’s Bay dishes, too.) Across the road, the Continuing the maple theme, guests Polish Kashub Heritage Museum can help the chef rustle up maple- tells the story of the emigrants who accented dishes during a cooking first came to this region in 1858. class at the Spectacle Lake Lodge near Barry’s Bay. On my recent visit, Beer in Cobden one highlight was a sundae topped Tired of the same old beers? with maple syrup (naturally) and Pop by the Whitewater Brewing maple-marinated bacon. Yes, bacon. Company in Cobden. Not only can You’re welcome. you bring home lots of craft beers, but you can also get a great meal in Live Band in Wilno the sunny pub. The menu includes The legendary Tuesday night blues fun twists on burgers, sandwiches, The sugar shack at the Deakins on Mountainview Bed and Breakfast in curries and other pub favourites, Killaloe replicates the style of a shack from the early 1900s. jam at the Wilno Tavern has been running weekly for over two decades. made with local ingredients. The PHOTO BY LAURA BYRNE PAQUET Come early if you have any hope brewery has a second brewpub in of snagging a table; by 8:30 on the nearby Foresters Falls. in Ottawa. However, the densely By Laura Byrne Paquet night I dropped by, every seat was forested rolling hills of the Valley put taken and a queue of everyone from on a spectacular fall show. Two of Travel writer and OOS resident Lau- As I write this article, Ottawa is still teenagers to retirees was forming my favourite spots to leaf peep are ra Byrne Paquet runs OttawaRoad- in the grips of one of the hottest, outside. the stretches of Highways 132 and 41 Trips.com, where she offers tips and most humid summers in years. If you can’t make it on a Tuesday, around Dacre, and the area bordering ideas for independent day trips and Eventually, though, the sweltering the homey restaurant is still worth Calabogie Lake. weekend getaways from Ottawa, and temperatures will give way to the a visit for its pierogies, cabbage If you’d like to get some exercise where an expanded version of this crisper days of fall, and that will be rolls and other rib-sticking Polish as you admire the leaves, head to article (with links) is available. the perfect time to point your car specialties. (You can get non-Polish west and explore the Ottawa Valley. the Shaw Woods Outdoor Education First, a disclaimer. The term Centre near Eganville. There, “Ottawa Valley” is a bit amorphous excellent interpretive trails lead and actually includes places on both you through mixed forests of sugar sides of the Ottawa River. However, maple, American beech, white birch, for my purposes, I’m going to eastern hemlock and other trees, focus on an area of Ontario roughly including some old-growth forest. between Barry’s Bay, Cobden and sunnysidemusicschool.com Calabogie. Maple Syrup in Killaloe So why should you take a road trip I hear you asking, “Who the heck to the Ottawa Valley? Here are five makes maple syrup in the fall?” Don good reasons. Deakin, that’s who. Don and his wife Mary Helen run the Deakins BRING MUSIC Fall Colours on Mountainview B&B in Killaloe. Sure, you can see changing leaves Each spring, he boils some of the TO THE NEXT★ ALL LEVEL LEVELS ★ ALL STYLES ALL AGES

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