Kris Nanda Pinned with Honour

FEBRUARY 2019 A Voice of Riverview Park MARCH 2019 Kris Nanda pinned with honour he Riverview Park Review welcomes ageless regular columns in this newspaper keep- the news that former Riverview Park ing readers well informed on local planning and Community Association (RPCA) Pres- development and urging much more than the identT Kris Nanda has received his prestigious close-to-his-heart way in which the city can re- heritage award. duce reliance on cars by promoting better tran- On behalf of David McGuinty, MP for Ot- sit and cycling access at all times of the year. tawa South, Kris's RPCA successor President The background to this story is that our MP, Bryan Orendorff presented Kris with a small having received 20 Sesquicentennial pins for piece of Canadian history in the shape of the riding distribution to worthy citizens, asked 150 Sesquicentennial Pin made of original cop- Mr. Orendorff for guidance on who should re- per that covered the roofs of Canada's parlia- ceive them. mentary building from 1919 to 1996. Natural Easy to pin down for Kris was one of four weathering and imperfections are authentic themes to draw inspiration from: Promotion markings that contribute to the pin's heritage of a diverse and inclusive Canada; support- value. ing efforts towards national reconciliation of For his exceptional commitment to environmen- Kris received the award for “reaffirming the indigenious and non-indigenous Canadians; tal stewardship, Kris Nanda (L) received one of importance of strong environmental steward- reafirming the importance of strong environ- the special 150 Sesquicentennial Pins. On hand ship, not just in Riverview Park, but across Ot- mental stewardship; and engaging and inspir- to present this award was Riverview Park Com- tawa.” ing youth. munity Association President, Bryan Orendorff, Indeed, environmental sustainability is at the The choice of Kris Nanda for environmental on behalf of Mr. David McGuinty, Member of Par- forefront of Kris's mind as seen in his ongoing stewardship was an excellent selection. liament for Ottawa South. PHOTO: DIANNE HODDINOTT by Geoff Radnor enue they are used in conjunction n the City of Ottawa Calming down the traffic with side delineators web site there is a 134 Were there night-time vigilantes page draft guide to Traf- doing their dirty work by unscrew- Ofic Calming. In the introduction it ing the Flexies and putting them describes “traffic calming” as de- out with the garbage so that the signed at “improving the quality city could have them back? The of life” and “a tool to improve the smallest of these little stakes are public realm...and helping create a worth over $210 each, the big ones better sense of place”. in the middle must be twice that. These words did not enter my Our councillor, Jean Cloutier, has head when I was driving along a budget of $40,000 annually to Coronation Avenue one day last spend on anything to do with traffic year and saw all the new obstacles calming. It may increase this year. screwed to the road surface. HELP! “The locations of Temporary There is a bus heading towards me Traffic Calming measures are always and I am passing a parked truck. chosen based on resident input and The bus driver avoided a collision feedback. Every single measure you with me by driving over one of the see around Alta Vista started with new obstacles. You are a law abiding citizen. PHOTO: GEOFF RADNOR a request or a concern from a resi- The names of these new things dent,” our Councillor Cloutier notes are Centre line Flex Stakes. This these, in the few months that they er large vehicles. Centre line flex in Cloutier’s Corner. (January 11 & was not the only time a bus had were in use, had born the marks of stakes are to make the roadway ap- January 18, 2019) driven over a Flex Stake. Many of such contact with buses and oth- pear narrower. On Coronation Av- CONTINUED ON PAGE 12

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Left: David Becker with his striking Diana Westwood Guy captured inter- display of art work at the Decem- est with her Lino-Printmaking demon- ber Show. strations for December’s Show.

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Submitted by Carole Moult within or near the National Cap- rt Lending of Ottawa ital Region, you can apply to be- (ALO) was established in come an Art Lending member. 1970. It is a not-for-profit New artists are selected by a jury artists’A cooperative in the National normally once each year. The next Capital Region. ALO is dedicated annual jury will be Spring 2019. to making accessible high-quality Artist application submission original art produced by local, visu- dates for the Spring 2019 jury will al artists, who have been success- be announced on the ALO website fully juried into the organization. by early March 2019. Visit: www. They facilitate rental of their art, artlendingofottawa.ca/ for more lease-to-purchase opportunities, information. and sales, all at affordable prices. Art Lending also hosts art The Art Shows are held at The demonstrations during the art Recreational Association of the Pub- shows at the RA Centre. Elvi Ed- lic Service of Canada (RA Centre) in wards will be demonstrating her The Outaouais Room (east entrance) creative painting skills at the 2451 Riverside Drive, Ottawa. The March 9th Art show. As well, the hours are from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm March art show will include a focus on the first or second Saturday in the show highlighting a large selection month of March, June, September, of watercolour paintings by Renate December. The upcoming show will Hulley for rent and sale. be on March 9th. Enjoy the Free Admission and If you are a local artist living Parking Page 6 Riverview Park Review FEBRUARY-MARCH 2019

RIVERVIEW PARK REVIEW • Vol. 11, No. 1 Layout and Design: Patti Moran Board of Directors: Peter Bishop, Bill Fairbairn, Greg Money, Distribution Manager: [email protected] Marian O’Connor and George Stairs Cartoonist and Masthead Artist: Greg Money Editor: Carole Moult – [email protected] Business Manager: Anne Stairs Advertising Manager: Carole Moult – [email protected] Photographer: Geoff Radnor Staff Writer and Editor Emeritus: Bill Fairbairn 613-737-3212 Printer: Metroland Media Group Go outside and be happy in Riverview Park

ebruary in Ottawa can be it’s science, and it’s free. a drag. Even with Valen- While Riverview Park You might be taking this tine’s day in the middle, doesn’t have any WiFi Free Fnot much can warm up a minus Zones, being out in the cold “expose yourself to nature” 20 day. Getting outside, even means your mitts make tex- in the cold, is really good for ting harder. This is a great op- thing a bit too far... you. And not like Great Aunt portunity to be aware of the Madie’s bran muffins either. sky, sun, snow, air, and sounds Getting bundled up and around you. All of these are going outside is great for lift- remarkably high definition ing your mood. Natural light and won’t eat into your data raises your serotonin levels plan. Again, it’s free. actually making you happy - Let’s face it, after the holi- and helps get over the Cabin days, we all need a bit of fresh fever you were experiencing. air and exercise. Hibernating Walking, skiiing, skating or is easier of course, but airing snowshoeing through the out the lungs and working green spaces right here in some muscles have both men- Riverview will actually make tal and physical health bene- you happier. fits. And with two neighbour- You even get a free boost of hood skating rinks close by, Vitamin D, which helps with a new toboggan hill, and lots calcium intake. This increas- of green space right here, it es bone density and decreas- should be even easier to just es inflammation. Don’t laugh, go outside and get happy. About the RPReview community newspaper Riverview Park Review is a non-profit community newspaper paid for Submission formats solely by advertising. It is published five times a year. It is distributed free. Contributions can be e-mailed to [email protected] in Micro- soft Word or RTF. Please do not format your documents. We may edit for Please support our advertisers. Get to know the persons and companies grammar and brevity. Photographs must be e-mailed in jpeg format to who serve you. Let them know that you saw their advertisement in Riv- [email protected] . All photographs must be accompanied with erview Park Review. This newspaper could not be prepared without their the name of the photographer and a caption describing the subject. support. If you know of anyone providing a service in the community, please tell them about Riverview Park Review. Email editor.riverviewrpr@ Got an opinion to share? Please send letters to [email protected]. gmail.com for advertising information. All profits will be made available Your name, address and phone number is required for verification.Please to worthwhile community projects. remember to recycle this newspaper.

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PUB FARE in February, served with beer tasting floats Bring your family and friends. Maplewood slow cooked ribs by talented cook Rhon Cruspe Meet your neighbours • Slice onions and place on bot- • Add the in house made BBQ and play in the snow tom of pan, place in the oven. sauce and water. Cook on high with your toboggans, etc. • Cut St’Louis baby back ribs for 4 hours or medium for 6 into halves or thirds and place hours. Remove from the oven. There will be treats too! over the onion. Baste overnight. Slowly bring Supported by the • Rub ribs with house spices and up to service temperature Riverview Park Community Association sprinkle minced garlic on top of the ribs. Come to Maplewood and Enjoy! Page 12 Riverview Park Review FEBRUARY-MARCH 2019

Calming down the traffic CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 The imitation speed bump on not be confused as to why the Flex Othello next to Elmvale Acres Stakes had gone. Shopping Centre was painted on We have our road back again, ev- PHOTO: GEOFF RADNOR using these same funds. Some resi- ery bit from curb to curb, and the dents on Othello think that it was snow ploughs can do their job ef- a waste of money. fectively. But now it is 2019, what The Flex Stakes were “planted” plans will the city be cooking up in sets of three across Coronation for traffic calming this year? Come Avenue from the Russell Road in- spring will city crews come and tersection all the way to Neigh- turn the signs around and hammer Signs alerting drivers of Traffic bourhood Way. The city didn't in those Pesky Flexys? Calming” PHOTO: CITY OF OTTAWA send me any notice as to how I Along with the Flex Stakes, we Painted speed ‘bump’ on Othello was to change my driving habits have also seen the roadside boards the posted limit is 100km. Ave.” PHOTO: CITY OF OTTAWA when these were installed. I was that tell us at what speed we are “Safe Streets” was a common aim not advised as to how these ob- driving. They are solar powered. put forward by most of the candi- wish to avoid having a collision stacles would improve my quality Green numbers say that you are dates up for election to City Hall with another car (and improve of life or “the public realm” (I do not exceeding the speed limit but last fall. But “Safe Streets” has dif- your quality of life), there are four not know what this really means) red ones indicate that you could ferent meanings for different folks. locations close to our neighbour- or even a “better sense of place”. get a speeding ticket. Does it mean that I can cross the hood that you should steer clear of I am wondering who invented The sample of excessive speed, road to take the bus without en- or use the utmost care. They are in these words that enabled the city 44k/h that is shown in the pho- dangering my life? Or, can I drive the top ten intersections in the city to proceed with this type of traffic tos was outside a school. Howev- to the corner store without having registering collisions in 2017: calming. er there is no way that the Otta- a collision with a bus, or worse a • St Laurent Blvd and Donald St. Winter arrived, as it does ev- wa Police Service would be able cement truck? Can I cycle to work • Innes Road and Cyrville Road ery year, no surprise. Some of the to patrol every residential street in February after a 10cm snowfall? • St Laurent Blvd and Innes Road smaller obstacles had been broken to catch those that do exceed the Can it mean that all traffic not -ex • Riverside Drive and the East- off and not replaced and the re- limit; it would blow the city bud- ceed the 50km/h speed limit, or is bound 417 exit at Tremblay maining ugly little bits protruded get sky high. Just putting up 30 or it 40 or 30? Will it mean less im- And, if you do want to know from the road's surface. Then it 40km/h signs will not slow down paired drivers on our streets? Or more about the term “Public snowed. A few days later city crews traffic. Most drivers will drive at could it mean that riders of bicy- Realm” visit: www.livablecities. came along and took away the Flex the “operating” speed, which is like cles and drivers of cars have the org/articles/public-realm-and-good- Stakes. They also turned the traffic the drivers on the 401 who all go at same rights on our streets? city, and for “Sense of Place” visit: calming signs around so you would about 110 or 115km/h even though If you are driving your car and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sense_of_place

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Should you be thinking of Buying or Selling Real Estate call Alana (613) 299-7200 DECEMBER 2018-JANUARY 2019 www.RiverviewParkReview.ca Page 13 TALKING MOVIES BY PETER THOMPSON OF MOVIES ‘N STUFF Killer Series from Across the Pond

Endeavour Foyle’s War by Peter Thompson suspect. As the story unfolds, the 3. Scott & Bailey (completed). Why is it British detective se- seemingly innocent coastal com- These two female detectives have ries are so popular? For one, the munity becomes a village of se- issues away from work, to put it Brits are great actors. Not all crets. A must see!! mildly, but when tasked with find- of them, mind you, but the ones ing killers in Manchester very few that make it to BBC programs are 5. MI-5 (completed). The daddy do it better. Surprisingly over- quality actors, usually theatrical- of all contemporary British spy looked, but one of the best out ly trained. Then you mix in the thrillers, this one centers around there. locales of some of the top shows, Vera the elite and often secretive mis- like Oxford, Newcastle, Shet- sions of the UK’s domestic intel- 2. Foyle’s War (completed). As land (Scotland!), and Manchester. ing of Sherlock Holmes catapulted ligence organization. A sprawl- WW2 rages, Detective Foyle has These picturesque landscapes Benedict Cumberbatch to fame ing 10 season affair that made his hands full investigating crimes play a big part in these series as and spawned a legion of followers. names of Nicola Walker amongst on the south coast of England. Mi- do the stories. The 15th top rated TV show of all others. chael Kitchen is so good as Foyle; How can you have a great se- time! you may never want this series to ries without a great story? An- 4. Vera (ongoing). Ann Cleeves end. A masterpiece. swer: you can’t, so take a little 7. Shetland (ongoing). The first of is at is again, this time bringing trip with me through the UK and two Ann Cleeves penned thrillers us sarcastic, sharp detective Vera 1. Endeavour (ongoing). No sur- let’s check off the best of the best on this list, DI Perez and his team Stanhope (played by the amaz- prise to the people who come in of crime drama. I went with a investigate murders on the small is- ing Brenda Blethyn), who has her frequently, this has been my favou- countdown of the ten best, with land community of Shetland. Nev- own demons to deal with as well as rite British detective series since honorable mentions to Inspector er a dull moment, as we’ve come to murders to solve in breathtaking the day it came out. Only a con- George Gently, Prime Suspect expect from Cleeves. Northumberland. One thing’s for stable (he’d later become Inspec- and Luther. sure, if you have Vera on your case tor Morse, of course), Endeavour 6. Broadchurch (completed). A and you’ve done wrong, you’re in solves mysteries in picturesque 10. Life on Mars (series complet- boy is murdered and everyone in trouble. Oxford with his senior partner DI ed). DCI Sam Tyler is so distraught the small town of Broadchurch is a Thursday. Amazing stuff. after his female partner is kid- napped by a vicious criminal, he steps in front of a car. When he wakes up, he’s back in the 70s and the thread that will ultimately lead him to her kidnapper is somewhere to be found. Great stuff! MOVIES ‘N STUFF 9. MOVIES ‘N STUFF Line of Duty (ongoing). The MOVIES ‘N STUFF series is centered around DS Steve 1787 KILBORN AT VIRGINIA Arnott and this one is as exciting as they come! It’s hard to summa- 738-1607 rize the series, because each season is a different story, the common thread being Arnott. Check out Inspired Viewing the first season and be prepared to SERVING THE COMMUNiTY FOR OVER 25 YEARS be engaged. 8. Sherlock (series completed). Probably the most popular of the detective series, this modern retell-

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Gerry and André enjoy a good game of pool in the Games Room. The beautiful salt water pool: just one of the many amenities at Les Terrasses Francesca Apartment living in 2019 by Carole Moult ate in the fall of 2015 people on the bus Today, 1425 Vanier Parkway along Vanier Parkway began to notice activ- is an amazing apartment ity at the corner of Presland Road. As they Lwatched curiously over the following two years, community that is called home four beautifully designed structures of various heights with attractive stone and brick claddings by several hundred people. began to take shape. Large signs noted that these were the beginnings of Les Terrasses Francesca, their apartment. Residents also appreciate that by Lépine. downtown is the next exit on the 417. Today, 1425 Vanier Parkway is an amazing Diane notes that, living at Les Terrasses Fran- apartment community that is called home by cesca gives her more time to do what she wants. several hundred people. An accomplished pianist and Art’s aficionado, A friend from our neighbourhood, along with Diane adds that bringing her own grand piano her husband, moved to the Vanier Parkway ad- to her new home was her priority along with cat A beautiful room with a view on the fourth floor. dress last summer after downsizing from their Miko. And that a simpler lifestyle provides her two-bedroom bungalow. They say they are lov- with a greater opportunity to work and compose. ing it there. A few weeks ago the opportunity Diane admits to playing on the beautiful arose to visit Diane Schmolka and find out first- white grand piano that graces the front foyer hand what is truly meant when people say they of her apartment building and had heard that it are downsizing but not downgrading. had an interesting background. The media has presented multiple articles on The story of the white grand piano actual- downsizing: what to keep, what to get rid of, ly began years ago in Montreal. It belonged to where to send the things you’re not keeping, who Francis and Francesca Lépine’s mother and was you can get to help you. The list is lengthy. What initially bought for her condominium in Mon- you don’t always see first-hand are the results of tréal’s Le Sanctuaire project. The Lépine family someone you know who has decided to live with- (Francis and Francesca’s parents) built Le Sanc- out the extras they don’t really need or use. tuaire and in it owned a large condo. There, Mrs. Last month after several trips to Les Terrass- Lépine installed two baby grand pianos, one es Francesca the maxim of downsizing but not black the other white, as she often entertained downgrading was seen in reality. Visiting the and liked to play for guests; hence, not one, but venue, greeting the concierge, meeting peo- two pianos. The white piano was given to Fran- ple and pets, dropping into amenities such as cesca when Mrs. Lépine downsized. Francesca Diane Schmolka, an accomplished pianist, has the salt water pool, or the games and exercise decided to install it in Les Terrasses Francesca enjoyed playing the beautiful white grand pia- rooms, on what the residents call the Main for tenants to enjoy. Mrs. Lépine’s daughter said no that is in the front foyer of the apartment Street, or perhaps viewing a variety of beautiful it would make her mother very happy to know building. suites, enables the desire for an easier lifestyle that the piano is still being played. to turn into something real. “Ottawa is filled with artistic people in all ar- It is evident that their apartments are larger eas,” Diane said recently. “This is especially true than most, ranging from 930 sf to up to 1500 sf.; in the older parts of the city such as Beechwood, thus making it much easier for someone to tran- Rockcliffe Park and Overbrook where we now sition from a house to an apartment. There’s live. Having artists who are in the apartment also the fact that most ceilings are 9 or 10’ high. community share their talents would be ideal.” Diane and Peter Schmolka had lived in River- Diane now plans on using The Building Link, view Park for years. Peter had become tired of an on-line notice board for the Les Terrasses home ownership and with Diane it was health Francesca community, to appeal to other resi- issues. Peter told about “the bags and bags of dents to help have this happen. To this end, she leaves” he had to rake and “all the grass cut- hopes to initiate an art’s committee similar to ting.” Then, it was “keeping the sloped driveway clubs already established for games of bridge, cleared of ice for Diane in winter.” Today at Les trivia and for dog walking. Terrasses, Peter comments that he is a tourist There are a lot of things that seem to be ideal in his own city, with the bus outside the front to Diane Schmolka these days since moving to door and multiple walking routes, including to her new home. Now she has the time and op- Lola, a fluffy little seven year old Coton de the Rideau River, within a short distance of portunity to appreciate them. Tulear, is a fellow resident of Diane. FEBRUARY-MARCH 2019 www.RiverviewParkReview.ca Page 17 Alta Vista

Heron Gate Open House | Further input welcomed on the | Give your input | future of Heron Gate | | Temporary Traffic Calming (TTC) Based on input given by the public, very early | conceptual designs regarding the future site at | measures work! Heron Gate will be presented at two public open | Every ward in Ottawa is given a budget to invest in TTC house consultations: | | measures throughout the community. There are a variety | of effective options proven to reduce speeds and improve February 11 | 6:00 - 8:00pm driver behaviour. Heron Road Community Centre | | 1480 Heron Rd. | • Centre line ex stakes: used alone, this measure can | increase compliance by up to 7.3%. Used in conjunction February 12 | 6:00 - 8:00pm | with side delineators, compliance can increase by up to 23%. The Hub/Party Room, | 2850 Cedarwood Dr. | • Speed display boards: show drivers the speed at which they are travelling, reminding them to slow down. (Interpretation will be provided at this session.) | | • Speed pavement markings and school zone markings can I invite you to attend either of these consultations | increase compliance by up to 10.8%. and continue an open dialogue on the next steps | for this community. | | • “Slow down for us” signs have increased compliance by | up to 6.4%. 2019 Draft Budget | See where your taxes go, at Ottawa.ca | • A relatively new measure available to us is the 3D speed | hump like the one seen on Othello. These markings may increase compliance by up to 10%. The draft 2019 City Budget will be tabled at Council | on February 6. What would you like to see included? | Each street is assessed individually and TTC measures are I want to know your thoughts on the draft. | | tailored to speciic needs as some might be more effective than others in particular areas. There are also restraints Find out more by reviewing the budget highlights | as to where certain measures can be installed. We work at www.ottawa.ca and send me your thoughts. | | closely with our partners in TTC and rely on their expertise | in making these decisions. Coffee With Cloutier | Together we build strong communities | In Alta Vista, the locations of TTC measures are always | chosen based on resident input. Every single measure in your neighbourhood started with a request or concern What’s important to you in your neighbourhood? | brought to us from a resident. No one knows your street Drop by for a chat with Jean. | | better than you do, that is why I need your help determining where TTC measures are needed. If you live Tuesday, February 26th on a street that may be in need of traffic calming, please call Elmvale Acres Shopping Centre or email my office. Starbucks | 1910 St. Laurent 6:30 - 8:00pm Page 18 Riverview Park Review FEBRUARY-MARCH 2019

Cancer Coaches: Mélina Ladouceur, Bonney Elliot, and Patricia Barrett-Robillard. PHOTO: WORN LEATHER MEDIA Made-in-Ottawa Cancer Coaching makes sure no one faces the challenges of cancer alone

by Christian McCuaig Coaching is the opportunity to s one of the very first Cancer speak candidly about their diagno- Coaches in Canada, Mélina sis with a knowledgeable ear. Oth- Ladouceur has seen a lot of ers may be looking for practical incredibleA things happen in Eastern tools to help them address a par- Ontario’s world of cancer care. ticular concern. She has worked with the Ottawa “Sometimes I help my clients Regional Cancer Foundation since prepare questions for their first its Maplesoft Centre opened on Alta meeting with their oncologist, and Vista Drive in 2011, and has helped sometimes I help them improve hundreds of families facing cancer their diet or work on increasing improve their health and wellbeing their physical activity levels,” Mé- through Cancer Coaching. lina says. “Others might want help “Coaching is a person-centered talking to their families or kids experience,” Mélina says. “It allows about cancer, or need strategies to me to work in partnership with my help them manage their stress. Ev- clients to help them focus on what eryone is different, and our job is to is most important to them.” focus on what is most important to While each person’s reason for you.” meeting with a Coach is unique, Cancer Coaches are health pro- Cancer Coaches are specially fessionals with experience in fields trained to address a wide variety like nursing and social work, and of challenges and needs. For some who have special knowledge relat- who visit the Maplesoft Centre, CONTINUED ON PAGE 19 FEBRUARY-MARCH 2019 www.RiverviewParkReview.ca Page 19

inPeace the midst of uncertainty How Cancer Coaching helped Judith regain control

by Christian McCuaig udith Sullivan was looking forward to an active and busy retirement when a few diverseJ symptoms resulted in the unthinkable. After a series of tests, Judith was diagnosed with late stage ovarian PHOTO SUBMITTED BY JUDITH SULLIVAN cancer in August 2017. Her oncologist told her that at that point, CONTINUED FROM PAGE 18 locations throughout the region. The Ottawa Regional Cancer the cancer had been present in her ed to oncology. And Coaching isn’t The Foundation has also recently Foundation offers one-on-one body for about three years. just for patients in treatment – it is launched Virtual Cancer Coaching Cancer Coaching free of charge at “I was devastated,” Judith says. available to anyone, whether they using the NexJ Connected Well- the Maplesoft Centre at 1500 Alta “We had finally returned home have finished treatment, are facing ness platform, allowing Coaches to Vista Drive, and at additional lo- from the last of our international a recurrence, or are a caregiver or communicate with their clients on- cations across the city. For a fee, postings, and had resettled into family member to someone facing line and keep track of their health Nutrition Coaching and Group our home in Ottawa. I was look- a cancer diagnosis. information. Coaching programs are also avail- ing forward to so much, and can- Cancer treatments are rapidly With an expected 8,000 new able. If you or someone you know cer changed everything.” improving here in Eastern Ontar- cancer diagnoses in Ottawa alone, is facing cancer, visit www.ottawa- Judith’s treatment included a io, meaning more people are living Mélina and the other Coaches are cancer.ca or call 613-247-3527 to CONTINUED ON PAGE 20 much longer with cancer. Howev- working to expand Cancer Coach- discover how we can help! er, many patients face gaps in their ing even further throughout the care that are difficult to address, community, and to spread the word particularly in the post-treatment about the service to more families. phase when they no longer have “When cancer enters someone’s regular meetings with their oncol- life, they often don’t know where to ogy team. In a recent report from turn to cope or to address the new the Canadian Partnership Against challenges they face,” she says. “The Cancer, nearly 70% of cancer survi- more we talk about Cancer Coach- vors said they struggled after their ing and let people know this service cancer treatments ended. Survivors is available close to home and for have also shared that their most free, the more people we can help.” significant unmet needs include But even with the growing inci- emotional support, information, dences of cancer in Ottawa, Mélina communication, and education, says she is always inspired by her cli- and respect for patient preferences, ents. “I believe that each person has with only 50% of people receiving unique strengths and inner wisdom the support they needed. based on their life experiences. Can- “There are so many benefits cer coaching allows me to be present we’ve seen in our Coaching cli- to someone’s experience and to meet ents in these areas,” Mélina says. them where they’re at in order to “Coaching can you help reduce provide them with the information your stress levels, improve your they need, help them problem-solve, quality of life, provide you with a and explore strategies to help them supportive space and a listening make important decisions and meet Made in Canada ear, and give you practical tools their personal needs.” and strategies to help you make “Nothing is more incredible changes, get the answers you need, than seeing the changes in some- or reach your health and wellness one I’ve been working with, when goals.” She also notes that meeting their quality of life improves, their with a Coach can also be the first stress diminishes, or when they step towards someone discovering feel empowered and feel they have Follow us on they need more specialized sup- the tools to manage their health SUPPORTING Facebook THE FIGHT FOR port, like from a physiotherapist or and well-being,” Mélina says. THE CURE a mental health professional. “Coaching can help you to feel in One-on-one Cancer Coaching control again, which is something THE WHOLESALE OUTLET is available for free at the Otta- we all need…to feel like we can do 1877 INNES ROAD 613-748-6605 wa Regional Cancer Foundation’s something and move in a direction MON – SAT 10 – 5 Maplesoft Centre, and in satellite when we’re feeling stuck.” Page 20 Riverview Park Review FEBRUARY-MARCH 2019

provide families facing cancer with Peace the support, resources and tools they need throughout their cancer CONTINUED FROM PAGE 19 journey. Coaches work one-on-one course of six chemotherapy cycles with patients, caregivers and fami- and interval surgery, but her cancer ly members to help them meet the would recur just three months lat- many challenges of cancer, achieve er. She says her care at the Ottawa their health and wellness goals and Hospital Cancer Centre was excel- improve their quality of life. lent and that she received initial Coaching ended up giving Ju- support from a nurse practitioner dith the ear she needed, in addi- at the Shirley Greenberg Wom- tion to many other resources and en’s Health Centre, but she need- strategies that would help her ed something more. “I knew that throughout her cancer experi- I needed a private space to discuss ence. “I received so much support, my prognosis,” Judith says. “The and we had many evidence-based whole issue of my cancer was com- discussions about my different plicated by the fact that my sister options for living, care, and deal- had passed away from the same dis- ing with the tough questions,” she ease 20 years earlier. The emotional says. “With my Coach, I found a burden of family testing came in fo- space where I could speak frankly cus for my many relatives." about my fears and struggles, es- Both her oncologist and the pecially how to consider my needs nurse practitioner urged her to alongside those of a shell-shocked reach out to the Ottawa Region- family.” PHOTO SUBMITTED BY JUDITH SULLIVAN al Cancer Foundation to talk to a Judith also took advantage of the Cancer Coach. “Following my in- other programs offered at the Ma- ie cutter series of meetings,” Ju- more flexible as a couple, and took terval surgery I was feeling a bit plesoft Centre, like weekly Reiki dith says. “I needed a plan, and my better advantage of things that better, so I asked a friend to take treatments, a support group, the use Coach was able to tailor our ses- give us joy, like traveling to Mexico me to an information session at of an Infrared sauna, and the Brain sions to what I needed. Because I and Spain, and planning our daugh- the Cancer Foundation’s Maple- Fog Group Coaching program. Her was keen on trying targeted thera- ter’s wedding at home this past soft Centre last December,” Judith husband enjoys attending some of py and other options that were not summer.” Despite her changing says. “This led me to my Cancer the Foundation’s discussion pan- being readily offered, my coach horizon, Judith says Coaching has Coach, and our meetings have els and public talks held by oncol- was instrumental in helping me put many things into perspective been invaluable.” ogists, Cancer Coaches and other to think through these treatment and helped her remedy the factors Cancer Coaching is a comple- cancer care professionals. options and gave me possible sce- she can control, like improving her mentary community service fund- “Coaching has worked well for narios to consider,” she says. “I am food choices, managing her energy, ed entirely by donors in Ottawa, to me because I didn’t want a cook- grateful for this type of Coaching, and advocating for herself in her as it kept treatment plan decisions medical appointments. in my hands.” “I am at peace,” she says. Try them on... The cancer-fighting treatments And through Ovarian Cancer Judith experimented with have re- Canada, she is able to communi- cently stopped working, so today cate with other cancer patients We dare you! she is receiving a palliative treat- regularly. For those living in Ot- ment approach. She says she feels tawa, she has been adamantly rec- more in control of her life because ommending they pay a visit to the she began her coaching early in the Cancer Foundation and ask about journey. “My husband and I grew Cancer Coaching.

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Landmark Court helped make Grace’s bucket list happen for the whole family by Carole Moult veryone enjoys a happy human interest story. These can be brief or even take place Eover a long time. The one about to unfold had its beginnings 68 years ago in Victoria, British Columbia. The year was 1950 when Grace Worthy first saw Bill Kanwisher at a Baptist Church camp on the Labour Day Weekend. He and some friends had stopped by to visit and Grace was impressed that Bill was not only a naval officer but had a car. When he asked her if she would show him around the city since he had just been posted Bill Kanwisher received this cer- there, she gave him her telephone tificate on the occasion of his re- number and a friendship began. tirement, November 30th, 1981. The following year the Kanwishers It was signed by Prime Minister were married. Today they have six Pierre Elliott Trudeau. children, 14 grandchildren and 19 great-grandchildren. When they met Grace was teaching grades two and three at West Bill and Grace Kanwisher share their album of family reunion memories. Saanich, a local elementary school. PHOTOS: CAROLE MOULT Bill had recently graduated from the University of British Columbia Myrtle Beach with fewer worries.” “The children are very good to us,” with an Electrical Engineering De- Seven years ago the family Grace commented. gree. His new posting in the navy agreed it was time to downsize. The Kanwishers continue to en- was as an electrical officer at Na- And, as good fortune would have joy Landmark Court. “The staff is den’s Dockyard in Victoria it, an apartment became available considerate and positive. I believe Bill Kanwisher was in the navy in the Landmark Court Retire- it starts from the top down. Jane Family have framed Bill’s medals for 32 years. Today, a certificate ment Residence, just two doors Brennan is a real leader!” from his days in the Navy from Prime Minister Pierre Elliott away. Not long after, Grace and Bill Trudeau hangs on a wall at Land- Kanwisher moved into their com- mark Court Retirement Residence. fortable suite at 140 Darlington The document, presented in 1981, Private. Landmark Court has been congratulates Bill Kanwisher for referred to as ‘the hidden gem of his loyal service. the Hunt Club, Riverside area’ and First posting for the Kanwishers those who discover the neighbour- was when Bill served in the Ca- hood couldn’t agree more. nadian Joint Staff in Washington, It didn’t take long for the Kanwish- D.C. for three years. Subsequent ers to become involved in Landmark postings criss-crossed Canada sev- Court’s many activities and by hap- eral times before Bill and Grace re- penstance after one such activity their tired in Ottawa. family reunion took place last year. A The Kanwishers decided to simple question from Executive Di- spend winters in Myrtle Beach. rector Jane Brennan was all it took. Each year they would pack their “Does anyone have a bucket list?” she bags for sunny South Carolina. That asked. “I do,” answered Grace Kan- is until one cold winter all didn’t go wisher and she explained what it was. well back in Ottawa. The Kanwish- “I have great-grandchildren in Prince Come and stay with us this ers returned home to discover that Edward Island that I have never seen, their carefully made arrangements and I would like to meet them.” had not worked out. It was only Jane looked into the feasibility winter! thanks to various neighbours that of a trip to P.E.I. for Grace. After At Landmark Court by Revera, we have so many programs and their home was not totally snowed realizing this would be difficult, activities to engage your body, mind and soul. It’s why our starting at under. The hired snow shoveller she worked to see if the P.E.I. fam- residents tell us they “should have done this years ago.” And, for a limited time, you can get it all for less. had not done his job. So they de- ily could come to Ottawa instead. * cided to move to something more And so, on July 1, 2018, Grace's • Spacious, renovated apartments $ suitable for snowbirds The soon to great-grandchildren joined not • Beautiful building in quiet neighborhood with beautiful gardens 2849 and walking path and pool be built townhouse bungalows of only their grandparents, but aunts, • Chef-prepared meals and snacks with dining and menu options Landmark became their new home uncles and cousins for a backyard • 24-hour emergency response and security systems for the next 21 years. family reunion picnic of the Kan- •Fitness, recreation, leisure programs and transportation * Price is for studio apartment - care is extra “We liked the house, our neigh- wisher Clan. bours, and that the grass was cut A photo album holds memories Landmark Court and the snow shovelled,” Grace of that day thanks to family mem- 140 Darlington Private, Ottawa 613-526-4533 • reveraliving.com said. “We could return home from bers who put it together for them. Page 22 Riverview Park Review FEBRUARY-MARCH 2019 by Maria CampbellSmith coa's bitter taste because it consists The history of cocoa is thousands mostly of cocoa powder, cocoa liquor, of years old in countries like Ec- and cocoa butter. Semi-sweet choco- uador and Mexico. For most of late must legally contain a minimum its history, chocolate was a bitter, of 35% cocoa solids but adds sugar. spicy drink made from the beans Chocolate Milk chocolate adds condensed or of the Theobroma cacao tree. (Ca- powdered milk and more sugars. cao is the Spanish word for cocoa as White chocolate is made with sugar, - so both words mean the same milk and cocoa butter. With no co- thing.) They say the Aztec emper- coa solids, it is not considered true or, Montezuma, drank cocoa from chocolate. Confection or compound a golden chalice 40 or 50 times a chocolate now replaces even the day, and that Mayan emperors had currency minimum 20% cocoa butter levels jars of chocolate buried with them. once again with vegetable or hydrogenated fats, In fact, the Mayan civilization used so it is not real chocolate either. the cocoa bean as currency! Cultivation of cocoa trees was re- Chocolate as a Medicine stricted by the Mayans to keep the be massive, multinational, highly The Chemistry of Chocolate Real chocolate is not just tasty – it value of the beans high. Goods and profitable corporations like Mars, How has chocolate become a world- can also be good for you. Howev- services were purchased with co- Ferrero, Nestlé, Hershey and wide phenomenon? Why is choc- er, for chocolate to be medicinal, it coa beans rather than gold. A slave Lindt, but the raw cocoa beans olate such a delicious indulgence? should be cocoa powder or the first might cost 100 beans, a live turkey are sourced from rural, vulnerable, The answer is simple. Chemistry. ingredient listed should be cocoa 20 beans, the services of a prostitute independent farms in developing Raw cocoa contains more than 300 or chocolate liquor – not sugar. The 10 beans. There are even records of countries. Chocolate is bought and chemical compounds including an- tannin in cocoa reduces the growth ancient people counterfeiting cocoa sold worldwide – yet more than ti-oxidants, fats, proteins, serotonin of plaque in the mouth and the ox- beans from clay, and of Spanish roy- half of the planet’s cocoa supply producers like tryptophan, and alic acids in dark chocolate help to alty using cakes of cocoa to increase comes from just two small West stimulants like theobromine. Pro- lower acid production. These fac- their dowries. However, while choc- African nations - Cote d’Ivoire and cessing the beans into cocoa powder tors prevent tooth decay. Imagine olate has always been a prized com- Ghana. These countries depend on or dark chocolate alters the chemis- how quickly chocolate toothpaste modity, its current popularity and cocoa harvests for the bulk of their try. It also increases the concentra- would fly off the shelves! volatility mean those of us who love national trade revenues and em- tion of caffeine. Chocolate melts at The theobromine in chocolate it are in for a shock. ployment, but they bear the brunt 93°F, just below body temperature, also works against inflammation of the vulnerability and volatility. which is why chocolate melts easily and irritation. It increases blood Threats to Cocoa Crops Child and slave labour are still real- in our mouths. Scientists and choc- flow and energy levels, so small Urbanization, globalization, and ities on some farms. Fair Trade pol- olatiers equally conclude that the amounts of dark chocolate are now climate change have some alarm- icies have been developed to bet- most compelling reasons for the daily medicine for many. Oaxacan ists declaring that cocoa could be ter balance the industry. Ethically world's obsession and enjoyment of healers in Mexico have used cocoa extinct by 2050! Those who study, sourced products are worth paying chocolate are texture and taste. to treat bronchitis for generations. grow, or sell it certainly foresee a bit more for, after all. Dark chocolate retains pure co- Now recent university studies in pure chocolate becoming more England have confirmed that cocoa rare and expensive. powder is equally effective as cough Chocolate is part of holiday syrup. Chocolate is poised to be- celebrations, gourmet meals, and come valuable currency once again. novelties around the world. Nearly 4 million tons of cocoa beans are Saving or Changing Chocolate produced each year. Over 40 mil- Cocoa is a labour-intensive, fragile, lion people are dependent on co- and tropical crop. It is vulnerable coa for their livelihood. The global to fluctuating world markets, cli- chocolate market is estimated to mate change, and the steady loss be worth $135 billion a year! How of land, trees, and harvests. Conse- could such a prosperous trade be quently, heirloom and endangered headed for extinction? Hundreds cocoa seeds have been preserved. of millions of pounds of choco- Some Bizarre Chocolate Trivia They are stored in the Global Seed late candies are purchased and Vault which is on a Norwegian is- • Hershey’s makes 70 million assassinate Winston Chur- devoured each year. How could land in the Arctic Ocean. New chocolate kisses every day! chill with an exploding bar our planet's favourite flavour be in farming techniques and Fair Trade • The Swiss eat more choc- of chocolate! trouble? The answers lie in learn- Certification aim to better support olate per capita than any • The blood in the famous ing just how complicated cocoa is. rural cocoa farms. Scientists and other nation; 22 pounds shower scene of Hitch- Cocoa trees need consistent heat farmers are also cross-pollinating per person per year! cock’s film Psycho was actu- and humidity, abundant rain, and trees to produce cocoa varieties • Bookstores that scent their ally Bosco chocolate syrup! nitrogen-rich soil to thrive. The more resistant to disease and cli- air with chocolate sell 40% • Thornton’s in the UK creat- best conditions for cocoa farms are mate change. UC Berkeley and the more cookbooks and ro- ed the world’s largest choc- within 10-20 degrees of the equa- Mars candy company are even ge- mance novels! olate bar – weighing 5 792 tor. The trees can live for 200 years, netically modifying cocoa plants to • Belgium has a popula- kg! That is approximately but only produce marketable cocoa grow hardier and bloom longer. tion of 11 million people, the weight of 5 compact beans for their first 25. Climate Candy companies will alter choc- but over 2 000 chocolate automobiles! shifts, temperature and soil chang- olate compounds and recipes. Pur- shops! In 2013, they even • North America sells nearly es, and the increases in disease and ists and gourmets will seek prized issued a chocolate-fla- 50 million pounds of choc- pests that result, also make farming “rainforest chocolate”. While or- voured stamp! olate at Valentines, over 70 cocoa trees a volatile endeavour. ganic cocoa remains a threatened • M&M candies were creat- million pounds at Easter, Urbanization, pollution, and sea- and fragile crop - the global choco- ed in 1941 so US soldiers and over 90 million pounds sonal fluctuations in global demand late industry continues to be high- could carry chocolate with- at Halloween! Clearly, choc- and commodity prices add to the ly productive and lucrative. The out it melting. olate is the currency of our pressures. It takes 400 cocoa beans power of the cocoa bean is still not • There was a Nazi plot to holidays. to make just 1 pound of chocolate. fully realized. So once again, cocoa Chocolate manufacturers can seems a currency all its own. FEBRUARY-MARCH 2019 www.RiverviewParkReview.ca Page 23 ESSENTIAL HEALTH

It is believed that acupressure began RYAN McLAUGHLIN between 4000 – 5000 years ago where hiero- RMT glyphic inscriptions describing acupuncture and acupressure on bones and tortoise shells Massage Techniques – Acupressure have been found dating to those periods.

here are many different puncture. It is based on the concept nature and the universe. Yin Yang Qi is our life force. Following the types of massage thera- of life energy, or “Qi,” which flows does not refer to any concrete ob- meridians of the body, the practi- py. In Ontario, Registered through "meridians" in the body. jective phenomenon; rather it is a tioner can create the balance of Qi MassageT Therapists are trained in In treatment, physical pressure is theoretical or philosophical meth- for optimal health and function. Swedish massage, sport and deep applied to acupuncture points with od for observation and analysis. When balance is achieved in tissue massage, pre/post natal, as the aim of clearing blockages in In Eastern medicine this basic the body, you feel less stress, and well as several others. Our educa- these meridians. Pressure may be theory of nature is be applied to muscle tension, your digestion im- tion doesn’t stop when we finish applied by hand, by elbow, or with the human body, health, disease, proves, circulation improves, head- school, however. After Registra- various devices. and medicine. The human body is ache and migraine pain can be re- tion, we are responsible for con- It is believed that acupressure thought to be an integrated whole duced, and sleep quality improves. tinuing our education and we are began between 4000 – 5000 years made up of organs, tissues, fluids, free to pursue special interests and ago where hieroglyphic inscrip- emotions, energy and spirit that are Our very own Ryan McLaughlin to expand on our knowledge and tions describing acupuncture and all interconnected and are in con- RMT is a certified acupressure techniques. Continued learning al- acupressure on bones and tortoise stant transformation (Yin/Yang). practitioner and is looking forward to lows massage therapists to develop shells have been found dating to When there is balance between all helping you address your chronic issues. more skills that better serve our those periods. The hieroglyphic of these aspects optimal health and If you would like to learn more about clients. Each massage therapist will writings also describe observations function is achieved. When there your body and conditions you have, use a combination of techniques to of “Yin and Yan Theory” upon is an ongoing imbalance of Yin and please subscribe to our newsletter customize your treatment for your which all traditional eastern med- Yang pathological changes occur through our website at specific needs. icine is based. leading to dysfunction and disease. www.essential-health.ca. One of the many techniques that What is the Yin and Yan theo- In the practice of acupressure we If you have any general questions about we can learn is Acupressure. ry? The theory of Yin Yang was de- try to achieve this balance in the how massage might be able to help you, Acupressure is a massage tech- veloped in ancient China as a way body by stimulating what Chinese or about psychotherapy, please email nique similar in principle to acu- of understanding and interpreting medicine refers to as Qi. In essence [email protected]. Page 24 Riverview Park Review FEBRUARY-MARCH 2019

Legion records tell tales of not so ordinary people by Bill Fairbairn a trail that led to the birth of the (formerly with Legion Magazine) Royal British Legion. Byng became embership records of a Legion patron, a tradition for gov- famous military men of ernors general that continues today. another era, even that At the end of his term in Can- Mof a man destined to be king, were ada he was made commissioner once kept in a filing cabinet in the of Metropolitan Police in Lon- basement of the defunct Trafalgar don, England, and in November House branch of the Great War he revisited Canada and filled in a Veterans Association, precursor of membership application at Ottawa the Royal Canadian Legion. Branch 16. He died in 1935, leaving Edward, Prince of Wales, Mar- memories of the King-Byng Affair shal Ferdinand Foch, Admiral of that resulted in a new definition of the Fleet Earl Jellicoe, Viscount the governor general as represen- Allenby and governors general Bar- tative of the sovereign and not the on Byng, the Earl of Bessborough British government. and Lord Tweedsmuir all were The Earl of Bessborough, who once members of the now long Edward VIII, King of Britain and its When Marshal Ferdinand Foch, Su- joined Ottawa Branch 16 the year time closed Legion Branch 16 or empire for only a short time, felt he preme Allied War Commander late he became governor general in 1931, its Great War Veterans Association had not earned the Military Cross in World War I, visited Ottawa after was a lieutenant on enlistment in (GWVA) predecessor in Ottawa. awarded him for frequent mo- the war he joined Trafalgar Branch 1931. After serving in France and at Those famous people, from an age rale-boosting trips to the trenches of the Royal Gallipoli he went into business in before nuclear weapons and some in World War I. On visiting Ottawa England and was appointed gov- before mass fighter aircraft, tell a post-war he joined Trafalgar Branch ernor general on Prime Minister story of how society has changed. of the Royal Canadian Legion. R.B. Bennett's advice. He died in The Prince of Wales, a 25-year- England in 1956. old officer in the Canadian Corps vate in 1870 to supreme Allied com- that captured Vimy Ridge, came mander in World War I. He once Prolific author to Ottawa in November 1919 to re- reported from a field station that Lord Tweedsmuir, who served in member fallen comrades and thank despite his right flank in retreat, his the Boer War and as a WW I cor- the dominion for its war effort. His left shattered, his centre broken, “I respondent for The Times newspa- GWVA membership form shows he shall attack,” He is immortalized per in England, became governor enlisted as a lieutenant in the Gren- for making the Germans sign the Walter Pidgeon, who co-starred general in 1935. Born John Buchan, adier Guards in 1914. No one then armistance in his personal railroad with Greer Garson in the Oscar son of a Scottish parish minister, could have predicted that less than car at a siding in Compiegne, just winning World War II drama Mrs. he joined Ottawa Branch that year. 20 years later the monarch by virtue outside Paris on Nov. 11, 1918. Minister, was brother to the one- The prolific author died in office in of being head of the Church of En- Viscount Allenby, the WW I time president of Trafalgar Branch Montreal in 1940. Among his leg- gland would give up the throne for desert campaigner, joined by then of the Royal Canadian Legion in acies are the Governor General's the love of twice-divorced Wallis Legion branch 16 in 1926. The Le- Ottawa, D. F. Pidgeon. Literary Awards. Simpson. Divorce is commonplace gionary (June, 1936) on his death, The long time defunct Ottawa today and royalty no longer more eulogized: “The last great cavalry in the minds of the people of Gaza Branch of the Legion could trace immune than anyone else. general... dismounted in Palestine and in the West Bank, hardly exists. its history at now demolished Tra- only when, at the end to his victo- Legionnaires welcomed Earl Jel- falgar House back to around 1916 'I shall attack' rious campaign in Egypt, he had licoe when he arrived in Quebec when WW I wounded men band- Of a different military stamp was entered the Jaffa Gate of Jerusalem City on Her Majesty's ship the ed together as a returned soldiers Marshal Foch, who rose from pri- on foot.” Today, Palestine, except Duchess of York, Aug. 23, 1931, for association. the fifth conference of the British Its equally noteworthy former Empire Service League of which members include Victoria Cross COMPUTER HELP IN YOUR HOME he was the grand president. 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OTTAWA’S STREETCARS AT MID-CENTURY Article 11, a Ride on the Britannia Line, part 4 by Bruce Dudley as any other member of the public n this my last article I want to still out on the street). These three describe a regular late-night runs were part of the regular all- route change for the Britannia day service but they stayed out the Icars and also tell you about that longest and were called “work cars” special late service referred to at because of the service described the end of article 9. below. I was booked on the Bri- Streetcar service on all routes tannia work car for three months; would start to thin out after 8:00 I would relieve the day operator pm and by midnight or shortly at Bank and Albert at 7:10 pm thereafter all of the Somerset cars and eventually bring the car into of the Holland-Laurier line were Champagne Barn at 3:25am. finished for the day and were in the barn. As you may recall, Britannia THE WORK CAR MEET, cars running through centretown Bruce Dudley, author of the popular series, OTTAWA’S STREETCARS 2:30 am, Bank Street between did so via Albert Street but that AT MID-CENTURY, and creator of fond memories of earlier days. Sparks and Queen changed late at night. When an PHOTO: HEATHER DUDLEY There was a ‘work car’ run on three operator in a Britannia line car left lines: Hull-St. Patrick, Bank-Ride- the end of the line after midnight, at least one, and sometimes more, if you worked a late shift at one of au and Britannia–George Loop. be it from George Loop or Britan- vehicles in every laneway it’s hard the barns or at the Bus Garage or if The procedure of their last runs of nia Park, he would travel through to imagine that in 1950 few families you were an operator who finished the day were as follows: centretown via Somerset instead in the working class owned an au- your run after 1:30 am it could be a The Hull Car: After its last trip of Albert Street. This provided tomobile. If they did, they seldom problem getting home. to New Edinburgh this car would service previously covered by the used them in the winter months; so Six days a week the OTC pro- proceed to Champagne Barn and Holland-Laurier cars. for many, the streetcars were their vided three special runs to help get pick up anyone bound for Hull, In the present day when there is only means of transportation. And the late-shift workers home (as well CONTINUED ON PAGE 38 e! welcom rgencies ts & Eme New patien

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. 613.789.2500 rainyards Dr T www.trainyardsdental.com (CIBC) Industrial Ave. 525 Industrial Ave., Unit 1, Ottawa, ON K1G 0Z1 Riverside Dr. St. Laurent Blvd. Page 30 Riverview Park Review FEBRUARY-MARCH 2019 TRINITY COMMUNITY GARDEN Cultivating that reflects the many cuisines from travelling experiences Story and Photos by Erika and Zack Wood e have always loved to garden, growing both vegetables and flowers. WHaving renovated and expanded our home many years ago, we lost our backyard ‘vegetable patch’ in that process. When we discov- ered Trinity Community Garden, a communal garden in our neighborhood where members rent a plot, then plant, maintain and harvest it themselves, we were thrilled. It was an opportunity to start growing our own vegetables once again. For those of us who consider ourselves to be avid gardeners, winter can seem long. The time between harvesting the last of our fall vegetables and planting our young seedlings in the spring can feel like an An assortment of the 60+ jars of canning/pickling/preserving that we did eternity! The winter months give – hot sauce, salsa, chutney, sauerkraut, kimchi, pickled cucumbers, yellow us time to reflect on the successes, & red beets, ginger and chilies, and stewed yellow and red tomatoes. and occasionally, the failures, from the past garden season. At the same very fortunate in Canada to have time, we can plan for the upcom- an abundance of food available to ing growing season. What to grow, us. As such, we carefully plan our what to grow… garden to maximize yield, and are What we choose to cultivate cognizant of waste. is a reflection of the many cui- We love to grow our own food sines that we have experienced in as much as we love to eat. Our A number of sheet trays on the countries that we have travelled travels have exposed us to wonder- back deck. PHOTOS: ERIKA & ZACK WOOD through. To see how different eth- ful multicultural fare that we now nicities utilize regional ingredi- prepare on a regular basis. This has all canned in mason jars for use ents speaks about the local food influenced what we grow each year; over the winter months. We both culture and reflects both the geog- tomatillos for Mexican meals, lem- grew up watching our mothers and raphy and history of that nation. ongrass for Thai dishes, shishito grandmothers can and preserve Having visited many develop- peppers for Japanese nights, okra their harvest each fall, and now car- ing countries, we’ve seen people for African and Indian curries and ry on that family tradition. (insert struggle on a daily basis to feed chilies, lots and lots of chilies, for photo of jars) themselves and their families. all things spicy. Sheet trays in a sunny window. Tomatillos were used to make sal- This has provided us with a hum- In addition to this, we grow sta- sa verde, an essential component in bling perspective that has shaped ples such as potatoes, several vari- be a privilege. There is something chile verde and enchiladas; jalapenos how we approach food and food eties of tomatoes, bell peppers, let- deeply satisfying about getting and birdseye chilies were pickled, a waste, especially given there are tuces, beets, peas, leeks and onions. our hands dirty working the soil, common accompaniment for Indi- 800 million people globally who We relish the opportunity to grow in preparation for planting tender an, Asian and Mexican dishes; bhute do not have enough to eat. We are our own food and consider it to seedlings. Then the battle against jolokia chilies (also known as ghost Mother Nature begins; weather, peppers) and habanero peppers live weeds, critters and pests can each on in a dangerously hot sauce. wreak havoc on our efforts to nur- Lemongrass and okra, both in- ture our plants to maturity. There credibly abundant producers, lend Claribel Gonzalez is such a feeling of accomplishment themselves very well to freezing so Skin Care Specialist & Esthetician when harvesting that first tomato are at the ready when Thai or Indi- of the season, still warm from the an dishes are on the menu.

Operating at heat of the sun. Wanting to experiment with Once harvest season is upon us, brassicas, we grew a few varieties and we find ourselves saying ‘what of cabbage, some of which we fer- Specializing in were we thinking growing 20 toma- mented to make Kimchi, a spicy Facials, Body & Facial Hair Removal, Hands & Feet to plants?!’, we get creative and re- condiment found on every Korean sourceful to ensure that everything table, and Sauerkraut, a ubiquitous is used. We waste nothing. (insert staple of our German/ Estonian photo of sheet trays on deck & as- heritages. Our braised sweet and sorted veggies on counter) sour red cabbage is a nod to our An abundance of tomatoes be- Danish roots. This feeling of con- 1067 Bank Street 613-889-8957 came stewed tomatoes, spicy sal- nection to our heritage is import- [email protected] sa, pasta sauce, zesty green toma- ant to us. to chutney and sweet tomato jam, CONTINUED ON PAGE 31 FEBRUARY-MARCH 2019 www.RiverviewParkReview.ca Page 31

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 30 When Chris, our friend and fellow gardener, gifted us some extra turnip, we made ‘Kabees El Lift’, the popular Middle Eastern pickle found in Shawarma shops everywhere; a fond reminder of time spent in Egypt. Each year, seeds are kept from tomatoes, peppers, chilies, squash and okra. They are dried, labeled and stored for the next growing season. Shortly these will be planted and carefully tended to in a sunny window. This is an especially ex- DESIGN - BUILD - MAINTAIN citing time as we anticipate seeing little green shoots poke through the soil- success! In addition to keeping seeds, we have experimented with vegetables that can reproduce from their cuttings. Eyes will be cut from old potatoes and left to dry for several EST 1988 Your days, before being planted for next year’s crop. Green onions, celery A day’s harvest of turnips, peppers, chilies, tomatoes, cucumbers and okra. and bok choy can be regrown with a bit of time and dedication. In an effort to reduce our food waste even further, we make our DESIGN - BUILD - MAINTAIN own meat, vegetable and fish stocks. Daily meal preparation produces useable ingredients; bones and trim, along with carrot peelings, celery ends and onion skins, form the basis of a ‘mire- poix’, all necessary components of EST 1988 Your a good stock. At any given time, Summer there is a bag of vegetable scraps in the fridge destined to become the next batch of stock. By making our own, we are eliminating the need to purchase ‘store bought’, which is often full of sodium and artificial flavorings. Fruit and vegetable scraps, along with coffee grinds, tea bags and Spring eggshells, are put into our compost hink bin and are left to break down until they become a dark, nutrient-dense T humus that is then returned to the Summer earth in the Spring; a completely natural and nutrient-packed fertil- izer for the flower and vegetable gardens. While our vegetable garden evolves from one year to the next, we experiment with new additions and continue to look for ways to further reduce our food waste in a responsible way. We are privileged to have access to a plot of land where we can grow our own food and in- teract with likeminded people. So as we ponder the wintery fore- cast, we look forward with antici- pation, to the day when the snow clears, the ground thaws, and we can start this process all over again. In the meantime, there is stock to be made, a garden to be planned, /HansenOttawa and seeds to be started. If you are interested in becoming a member of the Trinity Community Gar- den, or would like more information on it, please contact us at Trinity.garden@ rogers.com. Page 32 Riverview Park Review FEBRUARY-MARCH 2019 FINANCIAL PLANNER The TFSA: A Flexible Savings Choice by Bob Jamieson in retirement. By contributing smooth out your tax liabilities. and also avoid probate. he Tax-Free Savings Ac- to a TFSA while in a low tax • You are retired. Unlike with an count (TFSA) is frequently bracket, your investments grow RRSP, there is no requirement If you’re looking for a flexible called “a Registered Retire- tax free. When your tax rate is to close your TFSA at age 71 savings vehicle, take another look at mentT Savings Plan (RRSP) for ev- higher, you can withdraw those and start withdrawing. In addi- the TFSA. You might like what you erything else beyond retirement.” investments from your TFSA to tion, you can continue to con- see. 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Upon your death, your TFSA Edward Jones: Ranked #1 in As of January 1, 2019, any Ca- have limited contribution room assets can pass directly to your Canadian Investor Satisfaction, nadian resident who has reached or have maximized your annual designated beneficiary tax free Six Years in a Row. the age of majority can contribute RRSP contributions and are up to $6,000 annually to a TFSA, looking for ways to save more or up to $63,500 if you have been for retirement, a TFSA can help eligible but haven’t contributed complement your retirement Bringing a new tradition to before. But when should you con- plan. In addition, you can give sider this type of savings plan? A your spouse money that he or the Riverview community TFSA may be useful if: she can then use to contribute by Catherine Hansen, a second-year • You are a younger investor. If you to a TFSA without affecting Journalism student at Concordia are currently in a low tax brack- your TFSA contribution room or University et and expect to be in a higher attracting income attribution. ennifer Larson, a resident bracket in the future, contrib- • You are transitioning to retirement. on Pullen Avenue in Ottawa, uting to a TFSA may be best for The TFSA can offer you tax- JOntario brought a new twist you. RRSPs offer tax savings if free income during retirement, on the little free library during your income is in a higher tax which may help diversify your the holiday season: a homemade Little Free Library in front of the bracket when you contribute to income stream. You can hold outdoor library which fosters Larson family residence. the plan and in a lower bracket accounts with differing tax book exchanges and brings neigh- PHOTO: CATHERINE HANSEN when you withdraw, usually once treatments in order to help borhoods together. Larson individually wrapped there would be bags of books by various genres of books for the the door waiting to be donated community for a new tradition of and now all I have to do is walk a little free library advent calendar. down the driveway to put them Each day from December 1st to in the library, even something I December 25th a newly wrapped can do,” Larson added. book was added to the library. To capture the essence of Lar- “I saw a post online about an son’s family library it is written advent calendar of books to do With this library it’s easier to hope within a family and since I love for serendipity than to look for a books so much, I thought it was precise answer. “I love quotes and a good idea to do for the little li- you won’t always be able to find brary and putting in a little bit of absolutely everything in a little magic,” said Larson. free library so it’s all a matter of The Larsons built the free li- serendipity,” Larson commented. brary as a family project four Many people had concerns years ago. “My dad has some about vandalism of the little free woodworking experience and I library but the Larson family’s asked if he would help my daugh- biggest problem was a wasp nest ter Norah earn one of her Brown- last summer. After clearing the ie badges for woodworking,” not- nest, the little free library has ed Larson. The outside and inside been thriving within the River- walls of the library painted in a view neighborhood. vibrant yellow are also covered “I don’t feel like I’ve put in with drawings by Larson’s daugh- more than I’ve taken out of it, if ters Abby, 9 and Norah, 12. The I’m ready to let something go then inside is painted with Abby and I’m ready to let it go I won’t wor- Norah’s version of their home. ry too much about what someone “There needed to be a way for will do with it,” said Larson. books to leave the house as of- When Larson notices people ten as they enter it,” commented looking at the library and look- Larson. As an avid reader Lar- ing through the books she tries son admits that it is challenging not to disturb them and to give to manage the amount of books them their space. around the house. After donat- “For me it is such a good low ing and trading books among key give back, it maintains itself friends, the little free library was and I think people really do en- appealing to Larson. “Oftentimes joy it,” Larson concluded. FEBRUARY-MARCH 2019 www.RiverviewParkReview.ca Page 33

Canadian troops on parade at Aldershot during World War I Fatty and Canadian troops left marks at Aldershot by Bill Fairbairn in foreground is a long narrow piece link between last year's of muddy water called Basingstoke centenary commemoration Canal, into which occasionally the of the end of World War I is waters of the surrounding bogs aA memorial stone originally locat- drain. ed at the one-time residence of the World War II Canadian troops A Northern Cardinal gets food despite the cold. PHOTO: GEOFF RADNOR commanding officer in Aldershot, moved into the by-then red-brick England, that reads: Here Rests Aldership barracks that replaced Fatima (better known as Fatty) the wooden huts of Connaught's The Favourite Pony of HRH Prin- command. Advance parties of the cess Patricia of Connaught. 1st Canadian Division settled there Fatima has a permanent record in the winter of 1939. A total of in Aldershot as do the thousands 66 divisions followed. Supporting of Canadian troops who passed arms and corps passed through through the town in two world the camp during the war and some wars. I learned of this touch of left a distinctive mark on Alder- military history when, as a British shot. “It is,” wrote Richard West in National Service infantry corporal London's Time and Tide magazine stationed peacefully in the south during the 1950s, “unique in being of England, I visited Aldershot the only British town to have suf- in 1954 and did some amateur re- fered severe and deliberate damag- search strengthened by years in es from Allied action.” Canada that came later. Links between the Connaught Canadian troops ran riot family and Canada run deep. The In Aldershot, on July 4 and 5, 1945, Duke of Connaught was Aldershot Canadian troops did $42,000 garrison commander from 1893-98 worth of smashing. Disgusted at and Canada's Governor General the delay in demobilization they from 1911-16; while his daughter, broke up the Aldershot shopping Patricia, gave her name and was centre. The press and various honorary colonel of the Princess spokesmen condemned the Ca- Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry nadian vandalism yet assured Al- for almost 60 years. Yet this con- dershot of the warm place Cana- veys only one picture of Canada's da held in the country's affection. contribution to Aldershot history. Thousands of British servicemen Those in charge of the museum nevertheless for years rejoiced and knew this well when a permanent gloated over the destruction. They Canadian Army display was set up felt ready to sympathize with the in 1986. Canadians from a legacy of suf- Aldershot Camp's creation in fering in Aldershot from too few 1854 was a unique concept in quar- women and pubs, too many officers tering an army. It was the first in and too much spit and polish. Britain for the concentration and All was forgiven on September training of troops on a large scale 26, 1945 when, after a stay of al- and it was original in its location. most six years, the Canadian Army The Illustrated London News of overseas was granted the Freedom April 26, 1856, observed: “On every of Aldershot, carrying with it the side there is merely a boggy moor, right to march through the town dreary and repellent in its aspect. with drums beating, flags flying, In the distance are the black huts bayonets fixed and with that hon- of the camp, quite in keeping with our the demobilization many of the moor on which they stand; and the troops had yearned for. Page 34 Riverview Park Review FEBRUARY-MARCH 2019 Winter is warm at Oakpark

Retirement The haggis – waiting to be addressed Community by Miriam Dwyer popular Morning Concert series he frigid temperatures have continues monthly on a Thursday made no difference to the morning, and is open to the pub- warmth created by activi- lic. (Call us for more details, 613 tiesT at Oakpark in December and 260 7144). January’s concert with January. Thomas Brawn and Sonja Deunsch Although it seems a while ago Plourde, was a wonderful tribute to now, it’s good to remember the two Bach and the 10th of February will Elisabeth Dempsey and Moyra wonderful Christmas parties that bring Ralitsa Tcholakova and Fred- Mackenzie making made laming- were held for our residents. The eric Lacroix to Oakpark to perform tons, an Australian treat, served on dance floor was packed as families a violin and piano concert which we Saturday, January 26th in honour of and residents showed their moves are very much looking forward to. Australia Day. PHOTO: MIRIAM DWYER and the spot prizes were awarded. The Scottish in us all was given The food was delectable as always, a boost with a Robbie Burns day and despite the cold, everyone was celebration, including pipes, hag- warm by the end of the night! gis and whisky! There’s nothing The rest of December followed like the bagpipes to stir the heart, with a huge variety of entertain- and we thank Nico Gravel for his ment including Voices in Harmo- excellent piping! Resident Bruce ny, the Ottawa Medical School Dodd did the honours by reciting Choir as well as local groups who the Ode to the Haggis, and other came to visit our residents. These residents, John and Joan Gazeley include the local Brownies, Guides and Ellis Craig, gave appropriate and Sparks groups that were a big toasts to the lads, lassies and the hit, as well as some students from bard himself. the École Secondaire Franco Cité. A week or so previously the la- Residents always enjoy seeing the dies made lamingtons, that delec- young faces and the interaction is table Australian treat, which were lovely to see. served on Saturday the 26th Janu- The New Year was welcomed ary in honour of Australia Day, the with a glass of champagne at 3 pm land of beautiful beaches. It’s not (midnight in St. Denis, Réunion) exactly beach weather, but it’s al- and another year begins! Our ways warm at Oakpark! Celebrating Robbie Burns Day in great style. PHOTO: NATHALIE BARTLETT

Is love all we need? he gigantic Christmas tree tells of a mad passion for almost everything during the ChristmasT season. The decorations are useless brands and waste scav- enged by crows, scroungers and the poor. Does this tree disclose a lack of self-respect for humanity and the consequences of a planet ravaged by huge plastic landfills and widespread global warming of Earth’s polluted seas? Is the real source of happiness a simpler life (right)? Maybe the Beatles were right after all. Special to the Review FEBRUARY-MARCH 2019 www.RiverviewParkReview.ca Page 35 Astronaut assists made-in-Ottawa study of bone marrow health Special to The Riverview Park Review anadian Space Agency astronaut Dr. David Saint- Jacques will take part in a Cmade-in-Ottawa experiment on bone marrow health during his six- month mission on the Internation- al Space Station. The study, led by Dr. Guy Tru- Astronaut Dr. David Saint-Jacques del and funded by the Canadian agreed to take part in a world-first space Agency, is called MARROW, experiment to learn about bone and will provide world-first in- marrow health in space. sights into how space travel affects PHOTO: NASA-AUBREY GEMIGNANI. the bone marrow, which produces blood cells. These findings will at the University of Ottawa. “The inform longer space missions, and low gravity in space weakens mus- may also help patients on earth cles and bones. The same happens who spend weeks in bed recovering to patients who spend a long time Dr. David Saint-Jacques has blood drawn aboard the International Space from illness. in bed in the intensive care unit.” Station for a made-in-Ottawa study of bone marrow health. PHOTO: NASA. “On board the International Many researchers travel to the Space Station, I will be partici- Johnston Space Center to pitch Trudel’s team. Every day they need most visible part of Canada’s con- pating in hundreds of science ex- their projects, hoping for astro- to be aware of what is happening tributions to space exploration,” periments on behalf of research- nauts to say yes. Dr. Trudel’s team on the International Space Station said Dr. Trudel. “But Canada’s work ers from around the world,” said beat the odds, with 14 astronauts so they can adapt the experiment in robotics, artificial intelligence Quebecer Dr. Saint-Jacques. “I will signing up for MARROW in just or the delivery of supplies. Dr. Tru- and telemedicine are all essential conduct Canadian experiments three years. del says MARROW remains an to the space program and helping which focus on health sciences, “Very few astronauts we talked exciting project, full of unknowns, the next generation of astronauts like MARROW. As a doctor, I have to said no to MARROW,” said Dr. including what the results will be. achieve even longer missions.” a strong interest for that type of Trudel. “Because they were so ea- The project was funded by the Ca- Research at The Ottawa Hos- research that has concrete impacts ger to sign up, everything is going nadian Space Agency. pital is made possible because of on the lives of Canadians.” much faster than I anticipated.” “Having a Canadian astronaut generous donations to The Ottawa Saint-Jacques is one of 14 astro- He anticipates all the data will be aboard the space station is the Hospital Foundation. nauts who signed up to be part of collected by 2020, and the results the MARROW study. Breath and published soon after. blood samples are taken over the Not only did Saint-Jacques agree course of their six-month mission to take part in the study, but he in space and in the year after they also visited Dr. Trudel’s lab to help return to Earth. The goal is to un- the team adapt their experiment Danny Dear derstand how living in space af- for space. fects their bone marrow health and “Dr. David Saint-Jacques has SERVICE CENTRE LTD. if necessary how it recovers upon been a very enthusiastic supporter their return. of MARROW,” said Dr. Trudel. “As “What astronauts go through in a doctor, he could see this was an space is similar to what I see in my experiment that needed to be done, & own patients,” said Dr. Trudel, a not only to help astronauts in space, researcher and rehabilitation phy- but for patients here on earth.” sician at The Ottawa Hospital Re- After recruiting all 14 astro- habilitation Centre and professor nauts, work is far from over for Dr.

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850 Industrial Avenue, Unit #3 Dr. David Saint-Jacques visited Dr. Guy Trudel’s lab to help the team adapt their bone marrow health experiment for space. 613 • 521 • 4216 PHOTO: COURTESY OF UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA Page 36 Riverview Park Review FEBRUARY-MARCH 2019 THE ARTS IN RIVERVIEW PARK BY DIANE STEVENSON SCHMOLKA Necessary Obliquities in the Best of the Arts “Are we to paint what’s on the face, what’s inside the face, or what’s behind it?” ~Picasso

his topic will be presented in three issues of our paper. In this issue, I’ll introduce an overview of the topic, with oneT artistic discipline as an example. The next two issues will likely be more definitive using textual and sonic examples. In the past couple of years, I’ve interviewed several visual artists, writers, and more in this Riverview/AltaVista/Elmvale neighbourhood. One of the elements I’ve found, not only in their artistic endeavours, but in the best examples of most of the brilliant works in all artistic media, is that of ‘obliquity’, or ‘the hidden lyr- ic’, or ‘ironic secret’. It is not necessarily presented as a palimpsest or chimera, but can be as subtle as a nursery rhyme or as ‘obvious’ as a TV commercial. However, its sense within the body and mind of the viewer, listener, reader or beholder, cannot be named immediately. It must be explored by repeated viewing, listening, act- ing, analysis, empathy and deep exploration by the individual experiencing that work of art. Did the composer, writer, painter, sculptor, photographer, or composer, consciously know what they were doing when they created these obliquities? As a composer and poet, I’d say: ‘yes’, for some of my works, but when I am improvising, I’d have to say: ‘not often’. Why? Composed poetry, music, in my case, is planned for many weeks, months, but improvisations are created within a split second. Even so, my listeners sense my ‘imp’ self in those improvisations. Painter, Marilyn Charpentier, (former neighbour), created a landscape twice, using two different media. They both have the same perspective. They are each beautiful, but each has Photo caption: For those who wish to further investigate….*SOURCE: MICHAEL ZELL, “CHRIST IN THE STORM ON a slightly different message. She still asks her- THE SEA OF GALILEE,” IN EYE OF THE BEHOLDER, EDITED BY ALAN CHONG ET AL. (BOSTON: ISGM AND BEACON PRESS, 2003): 145. self the same question: ‘Has my use of different medium, (oil in one, water colour in the other), being any different from them, except for his We have just become active participants in given a different message?’ tranquil bearing. Where there are a couple of the whole painting! In Rembrandt’s “Visitation” …. , his message angles pointing away from Jesus, it is from and A work of art is much more than the sum of becomes abundantly clear when you see that around those trying to conquer the huge waves, its parts. If a painting is just a copy of a photo- the Magi are in darkness in the far left of the by attempting to hold the mast yards together. graph of an object, it is not really a work of art. painting, and the shepherds are the closest to They’re the most panicked. It is simply an illustration. Many artists spend the tiny manger and small Mary. The point at Rembrandt sends a strong message/lesson in much of their early learning years acquiring the which the Baby and Mary are is the brightest each work: greatness is not revealed by size or needed techniques by sketching objects-often lit but the smallest size and shape. If you take iconic symbols, (Visitation of the Shepherds). in varying degrees of detail and perspective. the time to analyze all the angles in the work, Power and control are revealed only by calm When they are ready to paint/sculpt, install, you can see that they all point to Mary and and self-control. It takes the viewer time, con- they are using every part of their intelligence, the Baby. Rembrandt used a very similar tech- centration and involvement of the inner ‘self’ talent, emotion and strength to send a message nique when he painted: “Christ in the Storm on to find the underlying messages or ‘obliquities’ through all the elements of their being. That is the Sea of Galilee”. Jesus is sitting quietly in in these works. How he does it is by using one what makes a work of art become timeless. the bottom of the boat not attempting to do of the disciples just off centre of the boat, to Literature, Music, Dance, Theatre begin anything at that point. He is not depicted as depict himself. When you get close to his face, with very similar processes. Building from being any larger or more enlightened than his you can see that he is looking at the viewer-you. learned techniques, and ultimately discovering disciples. There is no halo or any sign of his Why? His blue cloak stands out, and his expres- great reasons why these artists are compelled to sion shows purpose. You then realize how close create what they do, is what makes their works he is to Jesus. Jesus is sitting in the bottom of teach us in ways that no text book can. This is the boat. He seems smaller than the others try- why we attend concerts, go to museums, learn ing to fight the storm and desperate to keep the to dance, attend theatre productions, read po- boat upright and afloat. Rembrandt was not etry, novels and more. being narcissistic; he was making it much eas- This ends the first installment of my report. ier for the viewer to get the message: by being Please feel free to give me some feedback on calm and trusting nature/God, you will be able this. Thank you.

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Making the most of winter in Ottawa a day with me. Last year’s win- Finally, I invite you to join me for ners were on CTV Morning Live, a day of fun, free activities at my chaired the City Council meeting annual Mayor’s Family Day Skating with me, took an exclusive ride on Party on Family Day, Monday, Feb- JIM WATSON the LRT and met Prime Minister ruary 18 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Mayor of Ottawa Justin Trudeau. The contest closes City Hall. There will be giveaways, on February 28, 2019. Visit www. special guests, and hot chocolate as jimwatsonottawa.ca/mayorforaday well as indoor and outdoor activi- for more information. ties for the whole family.

he month of February may The Nation’s capital is also home Gloucester Horticultural Society be the shortest calendar to Winterlude, our annual winter 2019 Schedule month, but for Ottawa res- festival. Residents can celebrate idents,T it is a very busy one full of the best of what winter has to of- exciting activities for the whole fer from February 1 to 18. This year family! Ottawa’s most iconic winter marks two important firsts in the attraction is undoubtedly the Ride- festival’s history: special honours au Canal Skate way, the world’s larg- and tributes will be made to Indig- est naturally frozen skating rink, and enous culture during the first week a UNESCO World Heritage Site. of Winterlude and the very first But did you know that Ottawa Winter Pride celebration will take also has more than 250 outdoors place during the Festival’s second skating rinks for you to enjoy in week. Winterlude activities take all parts of the City? This includes place on numerous sites across the our beautiful, state-of-the-art, re- Ottawa-Gatineau region, including frigerated Sens Rinks of Dreams at the ByWard Market, Sparks Street Jan 21 How to take a great picture – André Coutu City Hall, the Jim Tubman Chev- and the Glebe. Visit Winterlude's Feb 18 Forced Bulbs and Preserves Show rolet Sens Rink in Canterbury, the website for a full calendar of events Mar 2 Ottawa Seedy Saturday, (10am –3pm) Ben Franklin Place skating rink and and list of activities. Ron Kolbus Centre the Lansdowne Park skating court. But if the cold isn’t for you, I en- Mar 18 Unusual Edibles -- Ester Bryan You can find out more information courage you to visit www.Ottawa. Apr 13 District 1 AGM (8am – 3pm) about City rinks, including opening ca and sign up for one of the many Apr 15 Garden Design Basics hours, at www.ottawa.ca/en/resi- exciting recreation programs we – Mary Ann Van Berlo dents/recreation-and-parks/skating. have available across the city, for May 18 Plant Sale: (9am till we run out) Youth Planting Workshop (10am – noon) Additionally, the City of Otta- all age groups, in both official lan- North Gloucester Public Library, wa has over 150 km of cross-coun- guages. 2036 Ogilvie Rd try ski trails in the heart of the And for the teenagers in your June 22 Member Garden Visit city and throughout the Green- home who are anxious for the fair July 13 GHS Members’ Road Trip belt. These trails are free to use, weather to return so that they can July 19-21 OHA Convention suitable for skiers of all abilities play outside, you can help them Windsor, ON Sep 16 Gardening for Monarchs and are great for snow shoeing as channel that rambunctious energy – Joan Harvey and Mary Ash well! There are also cross-country by encouraging them to apply to Oct 21 Bringing Nature Home ski trails available to use for a fee the 2nd annual Mayor for a Day – Maria Sievers at the Mooney’s Bay Ski Centre contest. Students from grades 9 to Nov 16 AGM Luncheon (11 am - 1pm) and in Gatineau Park, but you can 12 are invited to share what they Visit us at the Ontario Horticultural Association website: skip the fee by getting your mit- love most about Ottawa and sug- http://www.gardenontario.org/site.php/glouster tens on a ski pass from the Otta- gest two ideas on how to improve Guests are welcome at all meetings! wa Public Library. our city, to win the chance to spend Page 38 Riverview Park Review FEBRUARY-MARCH 2019 A ride on the Britannia Line CONTINUED FROM PAGE 29 Ottawa south or Ottawa west then reaching Bank Street I would trav- wa south boarded the Bank car and head up Albert Street stopping el north to Sparks then do the usu- anyone for Somerset, Little Italy or briefly at the Bus Garage for pas- al route past Elgin and down Ride- the west end and the Britannia line sengers before turning left on Bank au but instead of going to George got on my car. It was 2:30am. Street and stopping just north of Street I would take Nicholas to After their final trips the Hull Queen where it would wait on the Laurier east, to Charlotte and and Bank cars made their way to other two work cars. Rideau where I changed my scroll Champagne Barn. I went to Bri- The Bank Car: When leaving sign to BRITANNIA. My depar- tannia for 3:00am then to Cham- Bank and Grove around 2:10am ture time was 2:20 am and just af- pagne for 3:25am, my day’s work this car would be signed up for ter turning west on Rideau I would done. PLAZA and would travel north on stop at Cobourg Street to pick up How many streetcars did the Bank to Sparks then east to Elgin anyone from Cobourg Barn who OTC have in 1950? One hundred where it would change its sign to was at the stop; there might be half and twenty nine. BANK, swing right on the Plaza a dozen men. Then it was Rideau • 600 Class – 33 to Queen heading west and stop at to Sparks to Bank where I swung • 800 Class – 60 Bank Street. left, stopping at Queen to join the • 900 Class – 22 The Britannia Car: This Hull and Bank cars already there as • 1000 Class – 4 streetcar would have the furthest shown on the map. • 950 Class – 10 my early 20s and be able to share to travel. Leaving Britannia Park at Anyone going to Lebreton Flats These 950s were ex-Toronto cars them with you. I hope you enjoyed 1:35am, my car would be signed up or to Hull hopped on the Hull car; purchased second hand in 1940. the stories as much as I did. So I’ll for LAURIER via Somerset. After anyone going to the Glebe or Otta- This is my last article in the Ot- say goodbye to you from OTC 859 tawa streetcar series and I want in which I sat in October 2000. to say how wonderful it has been Please mind your step as you leave; for me to look over old memories It’s a bit of a drop to the ground and re-live those exciting times of here.

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The ‘tearjerker’ ballads of the 1890s by Brian McGurrin After the Ball is a ballad about ne of my very favourite love, loss, and wasted lives due to songs is an Irving Berlin unreasonable jealousy and a foolish composition from 1914 ti- misunderstanding. It weaves a tale Otled Play a Simple Melody. The song about an elderly man explaining to describes how different age groups his niece why he never married: he reacted to an energetic new style admits that he was so angered to of music, called ragtime that swept see his sweetheart kissing another across America and Europe at the man at a ball that he refused to lis- beginning of the 20th century. The ten to her explanations. Only many younger generation loved ragtime, years later, after the lady has died, but apparently the older genera- is he informed that the man she tion did not. kissed was actually her brother! You may remember this song as After the Ball became the most it was presented in a very popu- successful song of the entire era. lar revival by Bing Crosby and his As soon as it was released, orders son, Gary in 1950. As Bing pleads for sheet music began pouring in for a, “simple melody like my mother as performers everywhere were ea- sang to me,” Gary rudely interrupts ger to add it to their repertoires. with, “I wanna listen to raa-aag... In the year 1892 alone it sold over play that rag!” two million copies of sheet music, Berlin was neatly illustrating the and composer/publisher Charles irritation felt by an older genera- Harris was soon raking in profits tion when it gets inundated by the to the tune of $25,000 per week, an music of a younger generation - no incredible bonanza, especially for doubt the same sort of discomfort that period of the late 1800s. felt by my parents in the 1950s, Incidentally, it was over a decade longing for Rudy Vallee or Glenn later before sales of sound record- Miller while I was blasting Elvis ings could begin to compare with Presley. sales of sheet music. Enrico Caru- As for Bing Crosby, we can be so’s 1904 recording of Vesti la Gi- certain that his mother Katie (Har- ubba was said to be the very first rigan) born in Minnesota in 1873, sound recording to sell a million was familiar with, and may even discs. have danced to, sentimental songs When people listened to a song such as Love’s Old Sweet Song (1884), like After the Ball, did they empa- After the Ball (1892), Break the News thize with the characters or did to Mother (1898), When You Were they feel that the composer was Sweet Sixteen (1898), She Was Only They developed manipulating their emotions? Judg- a Bird in a Gilded Cage (1900), and aggressive marketing ing by the enormous success of the perhaps an Irish ditty or two such song, it appears most of Harris’ as Down Went McGinty (1889), or techniques to create a 1890s audience did strongly empa- The Band Played On (1895). thize with his characters. I expect that in 1884 a lot of folks demand for their products. Perhaps we are more skeptical might have immediately rushed They even invented a nowadays. Personally, I don’t see out and bought a recording of how a brother’s kiss could look Love’s Old Sweet Song....but for the new profession – the anything like a lover’s kiss, and as fact that Edison had invented the song plugger. we look back at songs like After cylinder phonograph only three the Ball, we sense that we are be- years earlier, in 1881, and sound re- ing manipulated by the composer, cordings were not yet commercial- their products. They even invented and so we label the songs as “melo- ly available. So, how the heck did a new profession – the song plug- dramatic”, or even more pejorative- people back then get to listen to ger. He would seek out profession- ly as “tearjerkers”, suggesting that music like Love’s Old Sweet Song? al entertainers, demonstrate his the works in question are lacking The answer is that prior to the homes owning pianos could easily employer’s latest songs, and then in subtlety, or lacking in plausible 1890s, music was always heard live. play the simplified arrangements bribe them with cash or booze to character development, or both. People heard music performed ev- from the sheet music, and friends introduce these new songs to the Nowadays a comedian can be erywhere - at county fairs, minstrel and family would gather in the public. sure to get easy laughs, using only a shows, circuses, medicine shows, parlour to listen, and sing along. One example of this new breed large white hankie as a prop, while and from the band shell in the I guess that’s why they were often of publishers was Charles K. Har- singing a pathetic ballad such as town park. Also, at that time peo- called “parlour” songs. ris, a composer who opened an of- She Is More to Be Pitied Than Cen- ple were flocking to vaudeville and Prior to the late nineteenth cen- fice in 1892 and put up a sign that sured (1894) describing the plight burlesque theatres. (Unlike bur- tury, music stores and music pub- said: Songs Written to Order. Then of, “a lassie who ventured on life’s lesque, vaudeville was family en- lishers had focussed their attention he went to a prominent Broadway stormy path ill-advised....” tertainment - acrobats, comedians, mostly on so-called “serious” mu- performer, J. Aldrich Libbey, and Do not scorn her magicians, jugglers, and, of course, sic, but around 1880 along came a paid him five hundred dollars, and with words fierce and bitter singers - a lot like the Ed Sullivan new breed of music publishers who promised a share of the royalties, Do not laugh at her shame TV Show of the 50s and ‘60s.) focussed their attention exclu- to insert one of Harris’ own com- and downfall Back then, all the latest popular sively on popular music, and they positions, After the Ball, into a then For a moment - please stop songs were published in printed developed aggressive marketing popular Broadway show, A Trip to and consider form. Many people in middle-class techniques to create a demand for Chinatown. That a man was the cause of it all.” Page 40 Riverview Park Review FEBRUARY-MARCH 2019 OUR RUGBY CORRESPONDENT GONE John Jerome deserved his peaches every day by Bill Fairbairn Canada's international rugby team. tawa's Twin Elm rugby ground, at When John Jerome, this news- Jerome recognized that for rug- the tennis courts in Queenswood paper's rugby correspondent, died by to be a success in schools good Heights, at St. Mary's Parish, skiing last fall he left not only family and coaching was required. He invited through the cross-country trails of friends, but also a host of young the Ottawa Irish Rugby Club to help Gatineau and Mer Bleu; teaching and old to remember his wit and out. Irish member Dan Demorah at St. Joseph, Colonel By, Heritage eloquence. Shortly after his death coached at Hillcrest High the year College and Taimud Torah; reading, daughter Gillian found written in Charron decided to try the sport nev- listening to big band and classic his address book: “If I had my way, er suspecting that his play would mer- music and travelling to various parts I would have peaches every day.” it his future selection as international of the world that lit up his imagina- The Ottawa rugby fraternity, captain. Hillcrest and other schools tion and sense of adventure. particularly the city's high schools became sort of rugby farm teams for into which he helped introduce the Irish, producing players for the Book on Mother Teresa and develop rugby, mourned a gi- area, the province and Canada. This redoubtable man, who wrote ant of the game. a book on Mother Teresa, also In 1974 rugby was introduced Played in the scrum studied law and medicine, served into the Ottawa high school sys- Meanwhile Jerome just went on in the Royal Canadian Navy and tem as a result of Jerome and oth- introducing more and more kids worked as a ranger in Banff Na- ers lobbying the school board to to the game. For a one time scrum tional Park. His son Brendan and start a league. Colonel By High forward like himself, he coached in friends referred him as “The Last School was part of that inaugural Rugby correspondent John Je- a low-key way that contradicts the Renaissance Man” given the range season of a few exhibition games rome congratulates Ashbury Col- scrum image on the field of play. and depth of his knowledge and among a few schools. However, lege players after they defeated One of his students, Tom Mcart- experience. Late in his life Jerome the following year saw a full season Cairine Wilson Secondary School in ney, is quoted telling Jerome's fam- was a social organizer at Alta Vis- of inter-school matches culminat- the final of the Boys Ottawa Senior ily how much he owed to his rugby ta Manor, where he organized ing in a city championship match Rugby championship played at Hill- mentor and how grateful he was to guest speakers for fellow residents between Colonel By and St. Jo- crest High School. From the River- have walked the earth with him. and where with his practical help seph Catholic School. Jerome was view Park Review, October 2018. March rugby tours of such as Ber- I three times spoke and learned the architect of the match and muda, Mexico, Jamaica and British enough of his rugby knowledge to of a string of teams that won the searching for an identity. Rugby Columbia, as adjuncts to classroom propose to him a connection as city championship over time. He turned out to be that identity for lessons by English teacher Jerome, rugby correspondent for this news- was the man behind a generation Hillcrest High School student Al are acknowledged by many. paper which he ardently accepted. of players who at the time were Charron, who went on to captain Jerome was often found at Ot- A celebration of Jerome's life Happy 2019! I want to wish you and your families a very Happy New Year and I am looking forward to continuing to work hard as your representative at Queen’s Park in 2019. Thank you! Thank you to everyone who came out to our holiday Pancake Breakfast on December 22. Thank you to our small dedicated group of volunteers who set up and cooked the pancakes. We had a great turnout and it was wonderful to connect with new neighbours and chat with old friends. It was also wonderful to see everyone come out for our annual New Year’s Levee on January 13 for some delicious food and drink. 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1828 Bank Street Ottawa, ON K1V 7Y6 T: 613-736-9573 | F: 613-736-7374 [email protected] FEBRUARY-MARCH 2019 www.RiverviewParkReview.ca Page 41 AIKIDO JISEIKAN • THE WAY OF BU by Norman Dimock to serve as his technical director of ciples that apply to life in general. Life of Mila Repa. Afterwards I Yoseikan Budo in North America. The dojo is a laboratory of hu- wrote to him: Force is possible I learned aikido very slowly but I man interaction, a place to ex- What is on my mind is the idea that against resistance only. figured that if I quit I would never perience and react, to safely and Mila’s teacher Marpa knew what was Water flows around find anything as good for me, and sincerely play out conflict and res- good for him, better than Mila himself I didn’t want to be a perennial be- olution, to engage with partners did. What Mila knew was this - that hat really matters? On ginner at everything. Our daughter in non-verbal conversations that Marpa could guide him, so Mila was the day when I buckled and son were born in 1987 and 1990, are intense and revealing. We don’t able to put himself in Marpa's hands. down to write about so time got tight, but I didn’t want compete. We cooperate. Our first People in cults do that kind of thing, aikido,W our dear old tabby cat suc- our kids to think Daddy is a wimp. concern is to protect our partners thinking they are safe and cared for. cumbed to diabetes. We had to In 1995 I earned my level-one black from harm. The purpose of our He replied: take him to the animal hospital to belt. Who has that kind of patience grading examinations is to show us Marpa was a fair teacher who treat- say goodbye. As we waited for the and perseverance? I didn’t, but they our own natures and behaviors. ed every one of his students according to vet to prepare him, I concentrated found their way into me. A friend recently asked me how their needs, not according to their wish- on the scene outside the window, In 1989 Master Mochizuki came I think aikido has benefitted me. es. Mochizuki Sensei was also that kind cars tearing east and west through to North America on his Nihon Ju- I replied that it has brought me of teacher, that's why so many people the winter cold on the highway, a jutsu tour. He visited Augé Sensei physical and mental fitness for my misunderstood him since he was treat- stone’s throw away. It struck me in his Ottawa dojo. I career and personal life. He said ing every one differently. how absorbed everyone is, rushing, was a student there, as was my sure but he could see something In order to accept to be under such a taking care of business, oblivious current teacher, Lau Hiang-Lai, more immediate and tangible: it teacher one must first understand the to sorrows lying close at hand. The and quite a few others who are still gives me a community, and within meaning of a teacher-student relation- nurse brought Keoki in, and he was practicing in the area. I anxiously that, status and responsibility. He ship. Without that kind of trust, one happy to see us, but there was a shot the portrait that you see here. was referring to my rank of black cannot build such a relationship. That's catheter in his vein. Then sedation belt and my role as photographer why so few people here are able to stay and stillness. Then the final injec- for the dojo. He was right. with the same teacher. In Europe and tion. His beautiful eyes clear and in Asia, that kind of value tends to be bright, unblinking. taught at an early age. Back home again my wife prac- Talking of cults, the question to ask ticed her violin. I returned to writ- oneself before trusting a teacher is: "Is he ing. In the evening she went to her doing this for himself, for his own conve- Slow Jam and I, thankfully, to my nience, or is he truly doing it for us?" aikido practice. I started in aikido just after New Year’s Day 1981, in Ottawa. I had The road forked. Martial arts been looking to improve my physi- seek to promote harmony, but or- cal fitness. A writer in a local news- ganizations splinter. O’Sensei is Photography for our dojo paper remarked how much she gone now, and it can be tricky to stretches my imaging skills. To fit- missed enjoying her aikido practice trace bona fide Yoseikan Budo. Still tingly commemorate our events, I during the holidays, and was glad its dictum of Mutual Welfare and explore different types of collag- to be back at it. I had done a bit of Prosperity remains the touchstone es and dynamic tableaus. Sensei judo in university but lost interest at our Jiseikan dojo, as elsewhere. encourages that. I’ve come a long when I did poorly in competitions. In the realm of Japanese martial way from lining people up in static Does my teacher have my best in- To me, to go to a gym seemed like arts, Mochizuki O’Sensei is a leg- rows. terests at heart? Does he care about mind-numbing Work! But I like to end. Nevertheless as Augé Sensei In the dojo, our educative activ- me like he does about his multitudes play and discover. Aikido could be told us, he was a gentle and humble ities help me to grow as an empa- of bonsais that he feeds and waters enjoyable? Let’s Go! man who lived simply and atten- thetic element of ethical society. and trims, year after year, and brings My first teachers were Patrick tively: After a meal on a flight he It is a network of cooperation into the dojo in winter for warmth? Augé and his wife Kaoru Sugiyama. would carefully gather his utensils and respect and trust among di- Was it fantastic to accompany him Now they have their dojo (martial and containers and wrappings to- verse people. I am older than my on training pilgrimages to the cra- arts school) in Los Angeles. For gether neatly on his tray to min- teacher, and older than nearly all dle of Tai Chi and Kung Fu? Do I many years they had studied in imize the work of the attendant of my partners. They help keep me thrive and blossom? Japan under Mochizuki Minoru, who would clear them. young. Training impels me to deal Yes. O’Sensei (‘great teacher’), who was O’Sensei cautioned his students with any bodily deteriorations im- a prominent pre-WWII student to not let strong likes and dislikes mediately, so I won’t become irre- I slept and I dreamed that of aikido’s founder, Ueshiba. Mo- dictate their lives. Once Augé Sen- versibly a couch potato. life is all joy. chizuki had dispatched Augé Sensei sei asserted that he himself didn’t Teacher/student relationships I woke and I saw that need many of the comforts that determine the character of a dojo. life is all service. others do. I said to him Yes Sensei, In 2007 Augé Sensei had recom- I served and I saw that but you need the comfort of knowing mended that his students read The service is joy. that you don’t need those other comforts. He laughed. Often it isn’t strong desires that are a problem, but ones not strong enough. It de- pends on what purpose they serve. Aikido is one aspect of Budo (the Way of Bu). The Japanese character for Bu, , has three parts: One part is Yamé, , which means Stop (We use that word in the dojo to indicate the end of a repeating exercise). The other parts together mean Conflict. So Budo is the Way of Stopping Conflict. Aikido intrigues us into awareness of prin- Page 42 Riverview Park Review FEBRUARY-MARCH 2019 THE PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT UPDATE

er conditions to heat the road and ons Baseball Team and Controlex apply a strong paint that they ex- (Ottawa Train Yards). pect will last until permanent paint Councillor Cloutier has con- KRIS NANDA is applied first thing in the spring. firmed that the study is -expect Chair, RPCA Planning & ed to be completed by the end of Development Committee Ottawa Train Yards High-rise March 2019. The RPCA has asked Residential Development to be included in future meetings (Steamline Street) with stakeholders regarding this Controlex, the developer for the overpass he Riverview Park Commu- project (to improve access to the Ottawa Train Yards complex re- nity Association (RPCA) Hospital Complex and reduce traf- cently confirmed that it was still Train Yards Developments/ tracks local developments, fic on other roads). awaiting final city approval to be- Industrial Avenue. mostT notably issues associated with In response to safety concerns gin construction on the first phase Following repeated requests from the Alta Vista Transportation Cor- raised about the new sledding hill of a high-rise rental apartment the RPCA, the City has now in- ridor (AVTC) Hospital Link road (and how close it is to the Hospi- complex along Steamline Street, stalled an advance green left turn between Riverside Drive and the tal Link road) the City has placed across from the Post Office build- light into the access road to Farm Ottawa Hospital Ring Road, devel- a protective barrier of hay bales ing on Sanford Fleming. Boy/LCBO/Movati. However, opments related to the Light Rail between the hill and the roadway. Construction of the first phase - the study conducted on the left (LRT) project, activity in the Otta- Further landscaping may take place two buildings of 20 storeys each and turn into the property that now wa Train Yards including the planned in 2019 once the snow clears. totaling over 400 units - is expected houses Figaro Coffee Shop, Urban high-rise residential complex across Work on the new mulched pe- to start in spring 2019 with a 2020 Barn and Nordstrom Rack con- from the Post Office, traffic conges- destrian trail path through the completion date. (The entire com- cluded that traffic levels were not tion, and better infrastructure for woods was originally supposed to plex would ultimately have nearly high enough to warrant an advance pedestrians and cyclists. be created in 2018, but there was a 1900 one- or two- bedroom rental green left for that location. The RPCA is also following delay and the project was only ten- units. There will be new and sepa- The new office building at 405 the review of the City’s Official dered to D&G Landscaping in No- rate applications for the subsequent Terminal is now fully leased with two Plan, due to start later this year vember. Meanwhile, in response to phases and an opportunity for addi- separate federal departments taking and amendments to Development a request by the RPCA, City offi- tional public comments at that time.) parts of the building. The interior Charges by-laws for approval by cials have indicated that they will The RPCA has already ex- design and fit-up work will occur Council later this spring. (Devel- conduct the walkthrough (original- pressed support for the concept over this year, with the occupants ex- opment charges are fees collected ly scheduled for 2018) to allow res- of Transit-Oriented Development pected to move in by early 2020. by municipalities from developers idents to share ideas for landscap- (TOD) that covers the proposed Due to financial difficulties in of new residential and non-resi- ing improvements and confirm the complex. The RPCA encouraged the Bowring and Bombay compa- dential properties – they are in- pedestrian path locations through the inclusion of features designed nies, their stores in the Train Yards tended to help pay for a portion the woods and elsewhere. to encourage residents to use closed at the end of December of the growth-related capital infra- D&G Landscaping also received public transit (especially given its 2018. The travel agency lease also structure requirements.) the tender for a multi-use pathway proximity to the new LRT station expired, and that space is being tak- In addition, the RPCA along between the Hospital Link and at Tremblay), cycling and walking en over later in 2019 by Chopped with numerous other organiza- Roger Guindon Avenue. The path- – rather than driving. The addi- Leaf Restaurant, which bills itself tions across the City and Province way design would involve impacts tional residential units arguably as “healthy takeout served fast recently submitted letters to the to some of the Hospital lighting trigger the need for the link to the with its own urban style.” In addi- Ontario government expressing infrastructure and site grading and VIA Train Station and rapid tran- tion, the 4000-square foot Leclair concerns about proposed Bill 66. would be adjacent to the Ring Road. sit that is required in the original Décor interior design and decora- This legislation would scrap many This project was originally antici- agreement with the Ottawa Train tion store is slated to open before laws and regulations that protect pated to be completed in 2018, but Yards from 2000/2001, especially spring 2019. It will feature home health and the environment and it too was delayed. Work will now since the Transportation study for furnishings and fixtures and an in- Schedule 10 of the Bill as original- proceed in the summer and is slated the completed project sets a 65% house design team. ly drafted eliminated the require- to be completed in September 2019. modal share target for transit. ment for public consultation on Light Rail Construction municipal developments. On Jan- Alta Vista Drive Re-Surfacing Pedestrian and Cycling Related Issues uary 23, however, the government, Late last year, numerous residents Connections Testing of trains between Blair acknowledging the public outcry expressed concern about the delay A study is still being carried out and University of Ottawa stations announced that it would not be in- in installing line markings on the on the multi-use pathway (MUP) (including across the Rideau Riv- cluding Schedule 10 when the leg- section of Alta Vista Drive between overpass between Terminal Avenue er Bridge) continues, though the islature returns in February, Industrial Avenue and Smyth Road and the Via Station that the RPCA Light Rail Train (LRT) is not slated Details on issues of interest to that was repaved earlier in the fall. and several other community asso- to open for riders until spring 2019. the RPCA and Riverview Park res- Comments were received on sev- ciations continue to push for. This In the meantime, the RPCA has idents include the following items: eral near-accidents attributed to link would also fill in the missing raised concerns about the effect the absence of line markings, par- pedestrian/cyclist gap between that the LRT opening will have on Alta Vista Transportation ticularly for the left-hand turn into Alta Vista and the northern side bus routes, public transit ridership Corridor (AVTC) – Hospital Dorion (by the Tim Horton’s). of Hwy 417 (e.g. Coventry Road, capacity, and emergency contin- Link These concerns were raised with Baseball Stadium, and St. Laurent gency planning. Riverview Park residents continue Councillor Cloutier by the RPCA businesses) and is part of the City The RPCA and others had also to share their thoughts and con- and a letter was written to strongly of Ottawa’s long-term Cycling and asked the City to ensure that the cerns about issues associated with request that the City lay sufficient Pedestrian Plan network. bike path to the south of the Hurd- the AVTC Hospital Link, includ- line markings, or some reasonable The project would provide an ac- man bus station -- which was the ing landscaping and traffic con- equivalent, immediately, to miti- tive transportation route between traditional and primary approach cerns. The RPCA has asked Alta gate the risk of unnecessary road the soon-to-open LRT, the refur- to the Transitway bridge over the Vista Councillor Jean Cloutier for incidents or injury. After an on-site bished Train Station and the Train Rideau River – be retained and re- data on the level of vehicular usage meeting, the Councillor identified Yards Office and Retail Complex – stored to its previous width. Con- along Smyth Road and the AVTC, and requested a number of correc- and is backed by local elected offi- cerns were also raised that abandon- particularly given the costs of the tions to address the concerns raised. cials from all levels of government. ing this path would force cyclists Hospital Link (nearly $70 million) Contractors subsequently took ad- It also has support from senior and pedestrians to take a longer and the stated rationale for the vantage of a brief reprieve in weath- officials from the Ottawa Champi- CONTINUED ON PAGE 43 FEBRUARY-MARCH 2019 www.RiverviewParkReview.ca Page 43

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 42 RIVERVIEW... THEN detour using the new path and ride through the Hurdman LRT station itself and merge with people getting on and off buses and the train. In his response, Steve Cripps, the City’s LRT project director, stated that until the City is prepared to winter maintain the new permanent route on the north side, the path on the south side of the bus loop will continue to be plowed as in past years. However, the City has recently ceased its winter maintenance of the pedestrian route on the LRT bridge across the Rideau River, which has drawn criticism from residents in Old Ottawa East and Riverview Park.

Information on some project proposals can be found at the City of Ottawa website at: http://www. city.ottawa.on.ca/residents/planning/index_en.html. The RPCA welcomes your input on these pro- Our local bridges posals and any other potential developments in the area. by Paul Walsh Hurdman Bridge..., and farthest The picture shows a bright his oblique aerial, circa right, the bridge used by all train whitish road running left/right, the early 1940’s, shows companies, including the New near the bottom of the image. If you are interested in joining the the Rideau River with York Central line, leading to the That is Alta Vista Drive. It ends RPCA P&D group or would like the City of Ottawa in the back- coal sheds. The NYC had an en- on the right, at Terminal Ave- further information, you may contact T ground. gine and enclosure, just on the nue, which had many fine hous- the Committee Chair, Kris Nanda at The four bridges crossing the far side of Mann Ave., by Nich- es and farms all along its length. [email protected]. For more infor- River, from left to right, would olas Street. The bottom left field is the loca- mation on this and other activities in be the CNR train bridge, then The only bridge remaining tion for the present-day Maple- Riverview Park, please see the RPCA the CPR bridge, followed by the now is the CPR one, which is wood Retirement Community website at www.RiverviewPark.ca. one used by motor vehicles... used as a pedestrian crossover. building. The contact email for RPCA is info@ riverviewpark.ca

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Chris Ellis OCDSB Trustee In addition, the Ministry of Ed- Trustee Christine Boothby sources are that we provide. It also Zone 6 Rideau-Rockcliffe and ucation advised the OCDSB of and I will be holding a Spe- allows us to learn more on how we Alta Vista – changes to certain education pro- cial Education forum on Feb. can differentiate the resources." [email protected] gram grants commonly referred to 21 from 6:30pm to 9:00pm at I look forward to getting the as EPO grants. EPO grants are tra- Sir Guy Carleton Secondary information so we can better un- Timeline ditionally used to fund targeted pro- School. The intent of the event is: derstand and address systemic and Academic staffing makes up about grams or initiatives that align with • to provide a networking and institutional racism. 75 to 80% of the Ottawa-Carleton Ministry priorities. The funding support opportunity for parents District School Board (OCDSB) usually involves an agreement with of Spec Ed students; and, Strategic Plan 2019-2023 budget. The budget for Academic terms and conditions and annual re- • to identify where things are The first two parts of the consul- staffing for next year will be rati- porting requirements; some are one working well and where im- tation on the new OCDSB Stra- fied at the end of March - inad- year and some are multi-year. provements should be sought. tegic Plan are finished and data vance of the full budget – to allow In 2017-2018, the OCDSB had collected from the online Thought staffing processes to proceed. approximately 59 EPO grants. Collecting data on race Exchange survey was used in the On May 13, District Staff will While analysis continues at this Senior staff and Trustees will dis- Focus Groups phase. In early Feb- present their recommended bud- time, staff can confirm that at least cuss collection of racialized data at ruary, Trustees and Senior staff will get and on May 29, the Board of 12 agreements totalling $888,000 the February 4 Committee of the meet to review the public input. Trustees will hear public delega- will not be funded through EPO’s Whole meeting. In April, District Staff will present tions about the budget. this year. Camille Williams-Taylor, the new a draft Strategic Plan to Trustees OCDSB Director of Education, has and the public. There will then be On May 14, I will hold a Special Education said: "It's not just the nature of the opportunities for public feedback. zone meeting about the District Staff will propose a plan identity of our students, but how it In June, Trustees will approve the budget at Hillcrest HS for a Special Education Operation- is that they respond to what the re- final version of the Strategic Plan. al Review to the Board of Trustees, Challenges likely in March. I anticipate that The OCDSB budgeted $5 million to it will be a comprehensive look at replace windows and lighting with how well the OCDSB is supporting Transit Week Challenge energy efficient alternatives this students including through Tiered ree Transit Ottawa has is- year. The funds were to come from Intervention, Individual Educa- sued a challenge to Otta- the Cap and Trade program, which tion Plan (IEP), and Identification, wa’s city councillors: for has since been cancelled, and alter- Placement, and Review Commit- Fseven days, from February 4 to nate funds have not been provided. tee (IPRC) 10, 2019, councillors must use the city’s transit system (buses or the OTrain) for all of their transportation purposes. What Are Your Spec Ed Stories? “We’re issuing this challenge to get councillors out of their that despite efforts to use the sys- Trustees Christine Boothby & Chris Ellis cars and onto the bus so they can tem she “Cannot commit to a full are holding a forum on Special Education experience the good and bad of week”. Diane Deans has said that public transit, up close and per- “Due to the nature of my sched- Thursday February 21, 6:30pm to 9:00pm sonal,” said Kirstin Pulles of Free ule, I cannot commit to taking it Transit Ottawa, “It means dealing for every trip”, a challenge faced Sir Guy Carleton SS, 55 Centrepointe Dr. with icy or uncleared bus-stops; every week by all the fully transit The intent of this event is: long, cold waits; and missing/ dependent citizens of our city. cancelled buses. We’re hoping a Participants of the Transit Ÿ to provide a networking and support opportunity for week on the bus will galvanize Week Challenge will complete parents of Spec Ed students; and, councillors to be more engaged a short daily survey and then a Ÿ to identify where things are working well and where in making improvements to the longer survey at the end of the improvements should be sought. overall transit system.” challenge. After the Transit Week 7:00 Panel of parents tell their stories. 12 of the councillors have Challenge is over, Free Transit Ot- 7:30 Break into smaller groups to share agreed to take the challenge – tawa will be holding a press con- experiences and identify common Allan Hubley, Mathieu Fleury, ference for participants to discuss elements. Stephen Blais, Matt Luloff, Lau- their experience, and the recent- 8:15 Reconvene to share group ra Dudas, Glen Gower, Theresa ly tabled budget. They will then discussions. Kavanagh, Keith Egli, Catherine work with other partner organi- 8:45 Wrap up McKenney, Jeff Leiper, Shawn zations, including Healthy Trans- Menard, Carole Anne Meehan. portation Coalition and Ottawa We hope to hear your stories about your Some have declined the invi- Transit Riders to develop next Spec Ed journey. For example: tation (Diane Deans, Jan Harder, steps and ensure that good transit Ÿ How did you discover your child needed Tobi Nussbaum, George Darou- remains a priority at City Hall. help? ze) while the rest have not re- An initiative of: Free Transit Ot- Ÿ How did staff help sponded to invitations. Nota- tawa. Co-sponsored by Ecology Ot- put together support bly, some members of the newly tawa, ATU Local 279, the Healthy for your child? formed Transit Commission Transportation Coalition, Carleton Ÿ What was your experience with (Jean Cloutier, Jenna Sudds, Tim Student Energy, The Carleton Individual Education Tierney, Riley Brockington) are Greens, Carleton University New Plan (IEP) and/or not participating. Democrats, The Ottawa Transit Identification and For those who have declined, Riders, and Joel Harden - NDP. Placement of the reason given is recognition of Contact: Kirstin Pulles Exceptional Pupils? the insufficient service provided Email: [email protected] by OC Transpo. Jan Harder notes Phone: 519 829 8463 For more information contact Trustee Ellis - [email protected] FEBRUARY-MARCH 2019 www.RiverviewParkReview.ca Page 45 RPCA PRESIDENT’S REPORT Now is the time if your project doesn’t happen this thing happen, or perhaps more year, enough people explaining importantly want to see something how a program has value or making not happen, you need to see your a situation known has a tipping ef- wants reflected in those plans. fect after a while. This is where the Once something is in there, it is RPCA can help. really difficult not to see it done. It As a community association, the is one thing to advocate for more BRYAN ORENDORFF RPCA enjoys the benefit of speak- money to be spent on cycling in- RPCA President ing for a large number of people. frastructure (something done ev- This helps open doors and makes ery budget), but it is quite some- community voices heard more thing different to help shape where clearly at City Hall. And we will that money will actually be spent be at the budget consultations and which routes should have the ne question that often during the election and told every- and any other consultations that greatest priority. comes up at the Riverview one what they planned to achieve affect you, the residents. The as- Park Community Associ- in the next four years. Some of it sociation is always advocating for RPCA here to help Oation (RPCA) is “how can I make you probably agreed with and some different spending priorities every All works starts with a plan. This is my voice count?” The simple truth of it you probably didn’t. But all of year that help the residents of Riv- the year to get involved and to make is that you make it count by speak- it costs money. Now is the time to erview Park. This could be ensur- your voice be heard loud, clear, and ing early and often. And early is see that yours is spent the way you ing there is money for important often to make sure the city plans the key. The time to act on a new want it to be. park projects, continuing to make include at least part of your plan. highway widening proposal, tran- While the idea of budget consul- sure that there is suitable police The RPCA is here to help. We will sitway route, or railway extension tations can be daunting to some, enforcement considering new leg- be tirelessly advocating for all of is not when they are about to build tedious to others, and fruitless to islative challenges facing the city, Riverview Park and the needs of it, or even when they are trying to many, they are a highly accessible or it could be advocating for more the community. But many hands expropriate your house, but when way of making yourself heard and money for winter sidewalk clear- make light work and many voices they are trying to plan it. After the making your priorities known. ing to make our streets safe to use make a strong chorus. Please, send plan is in place, then everyone from You don’t need to know how staff year-round. And we’d love to hear us your ideas, tell us about your bureaucrats, to engineers, to con- have set and distributed this year’s from you. concerns, and get involved in help- tractors, to politicians is just trying budget for repaving roads to know This term of council is also spe- ing to shape the next decade of this to action the plan as was previously that yours is in need of some work. cial because it will launch the new city. Now is the time. promised to the public. Let them hear it. Even if the poli- official plan consultations. Over ticians tell you that City staff have the next few years, we will see ma- For more information, check out our Daunting to some already decided on the priorities jor changes to the Transportation website at www.RiverviewParkca. The first year of a new term of and yours isn’t one of them, invite Master Plan, the Cycling Master com, drop me a line at bryan.oren- council is always special in that it those politicians to take a look Plan, the Pedestrian Master Plan, dorff@ rogers.com with your questions tries to set the tone for the rest over your issue themselves. Polite- and many others. This will become or thoughts, and/or come to our next of the four years. In other words, ly, if at all possible. Then they can the main document for a decade’s RPCA Board meeting this is when the plans are made. provide that oversight of staff pri- worth of spending and public on February 13th. Elected officials took to the streets orities they were elected for. Even works. If you want to see some-

Winter wrapped trees. PHOTO BY GEOFF RADNOR Page 46 Riverview Park Review FEBRUARY-MARCH 2019 DEAR FRAN Where to find reliable gardening info in Ottawa and find out where they will be in Occasionally the public library has 2019 (e.g. home show, farmers mar- free gardening lectures. You need kets, etc.). Since 1998 MGOC has to check their website. FRAN DENNETT been partnering with the Friends [email protected] of the Farm to offer a lecture se- General searches on the Inter- ries, to register go to their website net are a good resource providing (https://friendsofthefarm.ca/). One you use credible sites for your in- of best services is the phone Help formation. Remember our hardi- Line where you talk to a live person ness zone 5b when looking up in- t occurred to me that there sites with information about about your gardening problem (see formation on the web. Some good must be gardeners who have them, as well as gardening arti- below). sites: questions but do not know cles. To receive TROWEL TALK, Iwhere to go to find reliable local an- • knowledgeable speakers at their their free monthly electronic gar- Ontario Ministry of Food and swers to their questions, and that is monthly meetings on almost any dening newsletter, contact: trowel- Rural Affairs has a resource for how I arrived at this subject. horticultural topic from flower [email protected] to be added to the home garden. The Online Gar- Here are some suggestions: lo- arranging to xerscaping. the list. dener’s Handbook 2010 at http:// cal horticultural societies, local • some societies have junior Check out THE EDIBLE GAR- www.omafra.gov.on.ca/english/crops/ garden clubs, Master Gardeners programs or offer juniors work- DEN, a monthly on line guide for gardbk/ghtoc.html of Ottawa-Carleton, local nurs- shops at their plant sale. those who wish to grow their own eries with trained staff, reputable • best of all you meet like-minded food. Royal Botanic Garden internet sites, such as, botanical people with a passion for grow- Phone Help Line: 613-236-0034, https://www.rbg.ca/ gardens, horticultural colleges, ing things. Wednesday and Thursday only, gardeninginformation seed houses, and lastly a good • the hospitality and camarade- 1-3pm year round. Email Help Line: The RBG will answer your Garden- gardening book or Canadian gar- rie at horticultural meetings is [email protected] ing Questions by Phone: 905-527- dening magazine, such as The outstanding. 1158 ext. 226; By Fax: 905-577-0375; Gardener. • a single membership is in the Master Gardeners of Online by using the form on their $10-25 range and that is great Ontario (MGOI) website. Ontario Horticultural value for your money. http://www.mgoi.ca/about.html Association In 1998 Master Canadian Organic Growers http://www.gardenontario.org/ I am President of the Glouces- Gardeners of On- https://www.cog.ca/ abo/index.php ter Horticultural Society and have tario (MGOI) This organization is devoted to In 1906 the Prov- been a member since 1981. I have became an inde- growing things organically. The site ince of Ontario experienced all the benefits stated pendent, nonprofit organization of is chock full of information. Check created the On- above in this society. The people I volunteers. The resources on this their website for more information. tario Horticul- have met, and the gardening knowl- website are excellent and many vol- tural Association edge I have gleaned from them has unteers over the years have kept it Seeds of Diversity (OHA). The province’s counties been stellar. I recommend that you up to date. www.mgoi.ca https://www.seeds.ca/ are divided geographically into 19 give a horticultural society a try. This group is dedicated to search districts containing local societ- The Bearded Blue Iris is our logo Local nurseries hire trained out, preserve, perpetuate, study, ies. There are 270 local societies painted by a member. Our web- staff to not only work for them and encourage the cultivation of registered under the Agricultural site has our program for 2019 and but to answer their customer’s heirloom and endangered variet- and Horticultural Societies Act. a telephone number if your want questions. But do yourself and ies of food crops (from their web- Greater Ottawa spans District more information. http://www. these people a favour, come pre- site). 1 with 8 societies and District 2 gardenontario.org/ site.php/glouster/ pared with name (botanical) of the Seedy Saturday is their national with 19 societies. In the greater about/meetings/ plant you are seeking, a picture if event held at various times of the Ottawa area there are 9 societies: you have seen it elsewhere and year in different centres. Ottawa east—Gloucester and Russell and Master Gardeners of any other information that helps Seedy Saturday is March 2, 2019 District; central—Ottawa, Ne- Ottawa-Carleton (MGOC) them find what you are looking from 10am-3pm at the Ron Kolbus pean, Ottawa Valley Rock Gar- http://www.mgottawa.ca/ for. The big box stores usually do Lakeside Centre. Check their web- den; west—Kanata-March, Stitts- Home_Page.php not provide this service. site for more information. ville, West Carleton and Almonte; The master garden- For local gardening events south—Manotick. A gardener er concept, training check the Gardening Calendar Just Food can join as many societies as you volunteers to give https://gardeningcalendar.ca. Just http://justfood.ca/ wish as long as you pay your mem- sound advice to home click on the month and day you Just Food is an Ottawa based grass bership fee. The entire OHA is gardeners, started in are interested in and the events roots organization that envisions a volunteer run. Visit their website Washington State of that day pop up at the bottom. vibrant, just and sustainable food to learn more. in 1972. In 1985, the You can also subscribe to receive system. On their website they have So why join a horticultural soci- Ontario Ministry of Agricultural, notifications. information about local community ety? These are some reasons: Food and Rural Affairs (OMAFRA) This site gets better each year gardens, plant a row, donate a row, and • society members have been gar- introduced the program in Ontario and is very user friendly. several other food based growing ini- dening in their area for a long in a few chosen cities and in 1986 tiatives. time and are willing to share the program was introduced in Ot- Landscape Ontario their experiences. tawa. I joined at this time. https://landscapeontario.com/ • most societies have annual MGOC was created in 1986 and Landscape Ontario in addition to I believe if you are given the plants sales where great bargains supported by OMFRA. Over the being a trade organization, has in- right information you can help can be found and the money years it has grown from a core group formation on landscape design, a yourself. Any time you take the raised goes toward garden proj- of about 25 volunteers and now has plant encyclopeadia and gardening time to look up an answer to a ects and education of members. grown to fifty volunteers. On the tips on its website. gardening problem you educate Members at these sales are MGOC website you can learn how yourself. I hope this information eager to answer questions. to become a master gardener, book Ottawa Public Library is helpful to all you gardeners seek- • societies have their own web- speakers, read gardening articles, https://biblioottawalibrary.ca ing help. FEBRUARY-MARCH 2019 www.RiverviewParkReview.ca Page 47 COMMUNITY BULLETIN BOARD n Rideau Park n St. Thomas the April 17 Annual General Meeting zles. Located in the basement of United Church Apostle Anglican 7-9 pm. Public welcome, membership the Tower, northwest corner of the 2203 Alta Vista Drive, Activities Church not required. Free event. Meeting and Mall. Low cost of $10 per year. Call and Events, February – March 2019 2345 Alta Vista Drive (by firehall) presentation at K.W. Neatby Bldg 613-521-6740 during open hours of For more information, please Annual Pancake supper on with free parking. Registration re- 7:30 to 10 am. call the church office at 613-733- Shrove Tuesday, March 5th. Two quired. friendsofthefarm.ca/event/annu- n Nativity Parish 3156 x229 (Mon-Fri 9am-4pm) or sittings at 5 pm and 6 pm. Pan- al-general-meeting-2018/ 613-230-3276 Food Bank www.rideaupark.ca cakes (including gluten-free), sau- April 30 Master Gardener Lec- The local food bank at the Nativity sages, ham, ice cream. Adults $10, ture from 7 to 9pm. "Trees and Parish, 355 Acton St. in Riverview Gentle Yoga - Fri. 9 - 10am, through- children $6, ages 3 and under free. Shrubs’-The Backbones of your Park, welcomes donations on Tues- out February to Mar. 8. A gentle flow Tickets at the office 613-733-0336. Gardens” This talk will include mat class. Chair Yoga is also offered little known facts about trees days from 7-8 p.m. and Wednesdays on Fri. 10:30 - 11:30am. More info & n St. Aidan’s and shrubs. FCEF members $12, from 10:00 – 11:30 a.m. Juice boxes fees, Lynda Spalding, 613-422-3565 or Anglican Church non-members $15, Bldg 72 CEF for childrens’ lunches and canned [email protected] 934 Hamlet Road (behind the Elm- Arboretum, east exit off Prince of tuna or meat are especially appreciated. For further information, Valentine Coffee Party, Thurs. vale Shopping Centre). Wales roundabout. 613-230-3276 please call: 613-521-2416. Feb. 14, 9:30 - 11:30am. Enjoy cof- Roast Beef Dinner – Thursday, friendsofthefarm.ca/master-gardener- fee, tea and fruit breads while April 11, 5-6:30 pm. Traditional lectures-2018/ n Art Lending of shopping at the Bake Table and pe- roast beef dinner with all the trim- May 12 Annual Plant Sale from Ottawa rusing the Potpourri Table. Chil- mings. Tickets $18 adults, $9 chil- 9am to 1pm. Everything you need Art Lending of Ottawa will be dren welcome. Freewill offering dren 6-12, free for children under for your garden! Specialty growers held at the R.A. Centre (Outaouais accepted at the door. 6. Tickets at the church or call 613- and plant vendors, garden acces- Room), 2451 Riverside Drive (east Winter Dinner, Fri. Feb. 22, 733-0102 or [email protected]. sories, plant ‘coat-check’ service, entrance) on Saturday, March 5:30pm. Delicious dinner of chick- Master Gardener advice. In Neatby 9th from 10:00am to 4:00pm. en cordon bleu, rice pilaf, vegeta- n Friends of the Building parking lot at Carling & Purchasing, leasing, and lease to bles and dessert. All welcome. Tick- Maple Drive. Free admission, dona- Central purchase quality fine art from local ets: Sundays after church service, or tions to Friends of the Farm kindly Experimental Farm artists is available. Visit www.artle- from the church office (Mon.-Fri. accepted. 613-230-3276.friendsofthe- April 2 – Master Gardener Lec- ndingofottawa.ca for further de- 9am-4pm) Adults: $18., Children farm.ca/fcef-annual-events ture from 7-9pm. “Savvy Choices May 14 Master Gardener Lec- tails and to visit the artist’s gallery. 6-12 years: $10., Children 5 & under: for Spring.” Tips for getting the best ture from 7 to 9pm. "Kitchen free. out of your plants. $12, non-mem- n Emmanuel United Gardens". Explore several aspects The Harmony Club for Se- bers $15, Bldg 72 CEF Arboretum. Church of vegetable gardens through niors 60+ From 1-2pm, : Wed. Feb. 613-230-3276 691 Smyth Road. 613-733-0437 friendsofthefarm.ca/ the ages. FCEF members $12, 27 “Sustainability of the Ottawa March 5 - master-gardener-lectures-2018/ non-members $15, Bldg 72 CEF Shrove Tuesday Pan- River” from Kathryn Norman of April 6 5-7 pm. Tickets Volunteer Recruitment Arboretum, east exit off Prince of cake Supper. Sustainable Ottawa. Wed. Mar. 27 Meet garden team available from the Church office Orientation. Wales roundabout. 613-230-3276 listen to a presentation of interest leaders and event coordinators Sat- during the week, and at the door. friendsofthefarm.ca/master-gar- to seniors in the community. urday April 6 at 9:30am at Bldg. 72 Homemade pancakes and local dener-lectures-2018/ Shrove Tuesday Pancake Sup- CEF Arboretum friendsofthefarm. fresh sausages. $10, or $5 for chil- per, Tues. Mar. 5, 5:30pm. Orga- ca/fcef-annual-events/ dren 8 and under. nized and served by the 28th Otta- n Pacesetters April 16 Master Gardener Lec- wa Scouts. Tickets at the door. Walking Club March 20, 7-9 pm – ture from 7-9pm. “The Art of Rock Lecture – Voices of Rideau Park Musical Gardening.” Learn about types of rock Come and join THE PACESET- Powering Reconciliation: How Concert, Sun. Apr. 7, 2:30pm. Per- gardens and rock placement in gardens. TERS WALKING CLUB at Bill- Indigenous Participation in Cana- formances by current & former solo- FCEF members $12, non-members $15, ings Bridge Shopping Mall. Can't da’s Clean Energy Future Contrib- ists, and the Rideau Park’s Chancel Bldg 72 CEF Arboretum. 613-230-3276 beat walking indoors during the utes to Social Justice, Ecological Choir. Reception follows. Freewill friendsofthefarm.ca/master-garden- winter. Women and men welcome. Protection and Climate Action. contribution. All invited. er-lectures-2018/ Activities also include social gath- Tickets $10 at the door or from the ering, knitting for charities, puz- church office. Balena Park Pet Memorial Commemorate the life of your best friend – your pet! For details visit the RPCA Website, or call 613-523-4339 Lost and Found Pet Recovery Network

We all miss our pets when they become lost. A missing pet is a stressfull situation for both the guardian and the animal. Orrin and Pam Clayton have set up a confidential e-mail list of pet owners (and those who care) in Riverview Park. If you wish to participate, please e-mail [email protected] with your e-mail address, postal address and phone number. Support the Canadian Guide Dogs for the Blind When [email protected] is notified of a lost pet, all participants will be sent a confidential e-mail with a description of by purchasing a brick engraved with your pet’s name. the lost or found pet. When a pet is found, Orrin and Pam will notify the owner and arrangements can be made for the pet to be returned. Your participation may result in a lost pet being returned to their grateful owner. Page 48 Riverview Park Review FEBRUARY-MARCH 2019 ALTA VISTA PUBLIC LIBRARY

FEBRUARY 2019/ n SPECIAL Quel fouillis! Mélange couleurs, Thursday, March 14, 2 p.m. to 3 FEVRIER 2019/ PROGRAMS / formes, odeurs, matériaux et sons. p.m. MARCH 2019/ PROGRAMMES Pour les 4 à 6. Aucune inscription Le jeudi 14 mars de 14 h à 15 h. MARS 2019/ SPECIAUX requise. (Closed on February 18 Saturday, March 9, 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. Lego Block Party / Ḉa dé “bloc” Fermée le 18 février) Lego Block Party / Ca dé “bloc” Le samedi 9 mars de 14 h à 15 h. Create and build with Lego®! Ages Create and build with Lego! Ages 6 to 12. No registration required / n Children’s 6 to 12. No registration required. / Luv 2 Groove Architectes en herbe, à vos Lego®! Programs/ Architectes en herbe, à vos Lego! ‘Get into the Groove’ is a one stop Pour les 6 à 12 ans. Aucune inscrip- Programmes pour Pour les 6 à 12 ans. Aucune inscrip- shop for dance! This workshop tion requise. enfants tion requise. includes a variety of grooves, moves Friday, March 15, 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesdays, January 2 to May 8, and the latest dance steps partici- Le vendredi 15 mars de 14 h à 16 h. STORYTIMES / CONTES 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. pants will be sure to love! Ages 4 to Les mercredis du 2 janvier au 12. Registration required / Consulter Jumble it ! / Embrouille-toi! Babytime / Bébés à la biblio 8 mai de 15 h à 16 h 30. le site web de la bibliothèque pour Find your clue in the mix. Ages 10 des informations. Pour les enfants to 17. No registration required. / Stories, rhymes and songs for ba- Reading Buddies / de 4 à 12 ans. Inscription requise. Trouve ton indice dans le charivari. bies and a parent or caregiver. Ages Copains de lecture Mon., March 11, 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. Pour les 10 à 17 ans. Aucune in- 0 to 18 months. No registration This program aims to help children Le lundi 11 mars de 10 h 30 à 11 h 30. scription requise. required. / Contes, rimes et chan- practice and improve their reading Saturday, March 16, 2 p.m. to 3p.m. sons pour les bébés et un parent skills! Children will receive indi- Stir it up! /Et que ça brasse! Le samedi 16 mars de 14 h à 15 h. ou gardien. Pour les 0 à 18 mois. vidualized reading help and encour- A recipe for fun! Ages 7 to 10. No Aucune inscription requise. agement. Ages 6 to 12. Registration registration required. / Une recette n ADULT PROGRAMS *Session 1 required. / Ce programme contribue pleine de plaisir! Pour les 7 à 10 Mondays, January 7 to February 11, au développement de la lecture chez ans. Aucune inscription requise. 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Aucune inscription requise. de 13 h à 15 h 45 (Chaque session h 30. mysteries in a relaxed atmosphere. *Session 1 dure 30 minutes) Join us for discussions on the third Tuesdays, January 8 to February 12, Story mash-up / Thursday of every month 6:30 - 10:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. Music, Movement & Mindful- Cocktail d’aventures 8:00 p.m. Les mardis du 8 janvier au 12 février ness / Musique, mouvement & Choose your own adventure. Ages Thursday, February 21st – Kathy de 10 h 30 à 11 h. pleine conscience 7 to 12. No registration required. / Reichs’ Brennan series *Session 2 Stories and songs to encourage Choisis ta propre péripétie. Pour Thursday, March 21st – Ann Tuesdays, March 26 to April 16, mindfulness and movement for les 7 à 12 ans. Aucune inscription Cleeves’ Vera Stanhope series 10:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. children aged 0 to 6 and a parent or requise. Thursday, April 18th – TBD Les mardis du 26 mars au 16 avril de caregiver. Bring a mat or towel. No Wednesday, March 13, 2:30 p.m. to 10 h 30 à 11 h. registration required. / Histoires et 3:30 p.m. Infusions littéraires chansons pour développer la pleine Le mercredi 13 mars de 14 h 30 à 15 Partagez avec nous le plaisir des Toddlertime / conscience, pour bouger et pour h 30. livres dans une ambiance détendue. Tout-petits à la biblio danser! Vous pouvez amener votre Joignez-vous à nous pour une dis- Stories, rhymes and songs for propre tapis ou serviette. Pour les In the mix / Tohu-bohu! cussion. De 14h00 à 15h00. babies and a parent or caregiver. enfants de 0 à 6 ans et un parent ou Come join us for a fun blend of Le lundi 11 février – Le quatrième Ages 18 to 36 months. No regis- gardien. Aucune inscription requise. stories and songs. Ages 18 to 36 mur de Sorj Chalandon tration required. / Contes, rimes et Saturdays, March 30, April 27, months. No registration required. / Le lundi 18 mars – Cheval indien de chansons pour les tout-petits et un May 25, June 22, from 11 to 11:40 a.m. Joins-toi à nous pour un méli-mélo Richard Wagamese parent ou gardien. Pour les 18 à 36 Les samedis 30 mars, 27 avril, amusant d’histoires et de chansons. Le lundi 15 avril – La petite fille en mois. Aucune inscription requise. 25 mai, 22 juin, de 11 h à 11 h 40. Pour les 18 à 36 mois. Aucune in- haut de l’escalier de François Gravel *Session 1 scription requise. 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Book Night / Nuit de Join our homework club and get Saturday, February 2 at 2:00 p.m. Thursday, March 14 help with homework in a friendly, Harry Potter et l'École de • Game On! || 1,2,3... Au jeu!/ 10:30 sorcellerie Poudlard relaxed environment. Ages 6-12. || Starting a Business a.m. Join us for a magical evening Joignez-vous à notre club de devoirs Learn what you need to consider • Mixed mediums || Médiums mix- filled with trivia, crafts and afin de recevoir de l'aide dans un when starting your business and tes/ 2:00 p.m. much more! Welcoming all environnement covivial et décon- what you need to do so that you witches, wizards and muggles. tracté. Pour les 6 à 12 ans. can determine if your business Friday, March 15 / Venez-vous joindre à nous Saturdays, 11:00-12:00 idea is feasible. Whatever kind of • Jewellery Workshop || Atelier de pour une soirée inoubliable! February 2, 9, 16, 23 & March 2, 9, business you are starting online, bijoux/ 2:00 p.m. Jeux, bricolages et divertisse- 16, 23, 30 home-based, local, product sales or ments. Bienvenue à tous, y in- service--the steps and procedures Saturday, March 16 clus des sorcières, des sorciers Mystery Book Club 2019 in preparing your business are the • Mix and match || Pêle-mêle/ 10:30 et des moldus. Share the enjoyment of good same. In addition, you will learn a.m. Thursday, February 7 at 7 p.m. mysteries in a relaxed atmosphere. specifics on regulations and things Page 50 Riverview Park Review FEBRUARY-MARCH 2019 VINCENT MASSEY PUBLIC SCHOOL Residential Schools in Canada – read with care and caution by Faizaan M., VMPS, grade 7 In English class, GIF 7/8, we have been researching strait jacket that was used to re- esidential schools, a sad and strain students. The students were important part of Canadi- issues related to Reconciliation in Canada. then sexually abused. There were an history. These schools Our grade 7 students started by learning more also many other allegation regard- Rwere established all over Canada about the residential school system. Much of ing fondling, forced kissing, and and the United States to assimilate nighttime molestation. the First Nations children into the what we are learning is difficult to understand and As you have probably realized Euro-Canadian culture. Although reconcile with what we know as school. Below is by now, residential schools were a residential schools are no longer Faizaan’s article on the system and particularly, a horrible part of Canadian history. being operated, the last closing St Anne’s was not the only school slightly over twenty years ago, they home in Eastern Canada, St. Anne’s. Ms Swail that used such barbaric techniques are still being discussed about and to punish students. First Nations are a controversial topic to this day. mated 6,000 children died, how- used many other abusive strategies people from all over Canada suf- The government assumed that ever, this is not certain since the to punish the students. Some of the fered similar or even worse experi- the people of the aboriginal culture government stopped recording the weapons were large straps, small ences. Luckily the last of the res- would not be able to cope with the deaths, presumably because the whips, beaver snare wire, boards, idential schools closed in the late expeditiously modernizing society death rates were so high. books, rulers, yardsticks, fists, and 1990’s, only slightly more than 20 and that aboriginal people would be One of the many schools in open hands. In addition to being years ago, but thousands of people more successful if they were to em- Eastern Canada is the notorious physically abused, the students are still scarred from the horrid brace Christianity and learn how to St. Anne’s residential school. Al- were also neglected, being forced to experience and are suffering from speak in English or French. Children though this may sound like your eat porridge, spoiled fish, cod liver abuse, violence, and illness. were easier to mold than adults, so average residential school, other oil, and rancid horse meat. If the Studies show that descendants the government decided to make res- than the fact that there are mul- students were to disgorge after eat- of residential school survivors are idential schools. Residential schools tiple CBC articles regarding it, it ing the food provided, they would also suffering from these affects were boarding school like religious is known to be one of the most be forced to eat their own vomit. and sometimes more. Thankfully, schools that were established all barbarous schools in Ontario. Lo- In addition, the students were also the First Nations people are now over Canada and the United States cated at Fort Albany, Ontario, op- forced to harm each other and were more appreciated in the society, to educate and assimilate first na- erating from 1906-1976, St Anne’s locked in the basement, suffering but hundreds of people are still not tions children into the Euro-Canadi- was an absolutely horrific school from psychological pain. One for- educated about this topic, so we an culture and essentially abolish the and was primarily known for its mer student states: “It depended must do our part to educate oth- culture of the aboriginals. main attraction, the infamous elec- how bad you acted up.”, which sug- ers and to make our community a Around 139 residential schools tric chair which was used as both a gests that not everyone suffered better place for the First Nations were founded in the entirety of technique to punish students when from the same punishments. people and for everyone in general. Canada and 31 in our region of they misbehaved as well as shown Furthermore, sexual abuse was For more information on this sub- Eastern Canada. A total of approx- off when visitors arrived. not a rare sight and some of the ject, reading some articles on CBC imately 150,000 First Nations, In- Along with the electric chair, worst stories from survivors from is suggested, however some of the uit, and Metis children were forced the teachers there, who were usu- St Anne’s regard this form of topics discussed are not for the to attend these schools. An esti- ally nuns, priests, and lay brothers, abuse. One survivor described a light hearted.

by Greg McKean, Teacher tudents of Vincent Massey EF8a/b have been inspired to work with the commu- Inspiring SOLES update nity of Russell Heights. This commit- Sment has left the group brainstorming and developing ideas with the theme of Drama and sport to work with the youth. With the focus on Mentorship, the classes have been reading about the impact of good mentorship on children. With this new information, we will incorporate it into our sessions. The classes have been busy creating posters and business cards to promote their project this year. The cards have been sent off and we eagerly await their arrival. The posters will hang in the homework club of Russell Heights for children to select from. The winning media will be revealed at the next meeting with Sara Dwyer --Executive Director of Russell Heights. We have recently learned that the Minis- try of Ontario has released the Speakup grant for this year. Our class is busy developing and writing a proposal in hopes to be awarded support for our initiatives. We encourage you to follow our progress on our social media plat- forms of Twitter: @Solesinspiring and Insta- gram: inspiringsoles_ FEBRUARY-MARCH 2019 www.RiverviewParkReview.ca Page 51

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