November 7, 2003 r- glebe report t9, raei-sor ebe 7, 2003 November Vol. 33 No. 10 Serving the Glebe community since 1973 FREE New 40 km/h speed limit for the Glebe! 40 km/ h Illustration: Gwendolyn Best BY WAYNE BURGESS glebeonline.ca at the GCA website; On Oct. 8, Ottawa City Council e-mail or write or fax Ravi Mehta, passed Clive Doucet's motion for a Senior Project Engineer at the City 40 km/h speed limit in the Glebe. of Ottawa, at [email protected], Now you see it Restricting the speed of traffic and and send a copy to councillor Clive reducing the volume of traffic flow Doucet at [email protected], through the Glebe have always been and to Mayor Bob Chiarelli at Bob. and still are the two linchpins of the [email protected]. E-mail, write Glebe Traffic Plan. or fax all city councillors and let the Thanks largely to Clive Doucet's city know that the residents of the tireless and single-minded efforts, Glebe WANT the Glebe Traffic Plan one of the two objectives of the adopted and implemented as pre- Glebe Traffic Plan has been realized. sented! E-mail or write or fax them It is worth noting this is a neighbour- often. hood-wide solution. All of the Glebe The Plan will not go to city coun- benefits. cil until after the next municipal The second linchpin, restricting election. Below is a list of the current the amount of traffic flow through city councillors. Clearly, a few will the Glebe, is yet to be achieved. Rea- not be there after Nov. 10. E-mail soned solutions to restricting unwar- addresses for new city councillors ranted traffic flow through the com- will be in the same format as those munity are put forth in the Glebe belowi.e., their first name dot last Traffic Plan. As chair of the Glebe name @ottawa.ca. Traffic Committee, I know that city CITY COUNCILLORS Now you don't staff are working very diligently to Herb.Kreling @ottawa.ca attempt to have the Glebe Traffic [email protected] Glebe Avenue house Plan, as presented, recommended to [email protected] city council. [email protected] The traffic committee, over a peri- [email protected] demolished od of ten years, has worked for end- Janet.S tavinga@ ottawa.ca make way for a new house. less hours with a great deal of input [email protected] BY JUNE CREELMAN Imagine coming home one day There was nothing untoward from professionals and residents in [email protected] and finding out the house next about this demolition. The owners order to develop the all-encompass- [email protected] that followed all the city procedures and ing, comprehensive traffic plan [email protected] door to you has been demolished. obtained all necessary permits. It which we now have. [email protected] This is what happened last month to Avenue, turns out that no public notification E-mail Clive Doucet and tell residents of Glebe between him [email protected] is required for demolitions. thanks for all his efforts, and let him [email protected] Lyon and Percy, when new owners tore down 196 Glebe Avenue to cont'd on pg. 7 know we are e-mailing all council- Elisabeth.Amold @ottawa.ca lors, as well as the mayor, urging [email protected] them to approve the Glebe Traffic [email protected] Plan as presented to city staff. Clive.Doucet @ottawa.ca INSIDE Our councillors must work to- [email protected] gether, supporting each other for the [email protected] good of the whole! Doug.Thompson @ottawa.ca is a The Glebe community. It is [email protected] A special remembrance Bronson is looking up . .17 time for active, strong, unified, com- Bob.Chiarelli @ottawa.ca ceremony 2 munity involvement. E-mail the Wayne Burgess is the Chair of the Renegades 22 & 23 Traffic Committee at gca@the GCA Traffic Committee. Memories of Mary Thompson 3 Recipes 27 Remember to vote GNAG 6 Concerts 29, 32 & 42 Monday, November 10 is voting day in the City of Ottawa. Polls are open from 10 am. to 8 p.m. GCA 7 Art exhibits 31 Coverage of municipal and school board candidates was featured in the Lightrail 9 Schools 35-38 Oct. 10 issue of the Glebe Report. Copies are still available at the Glebe Report office at 174 First Ave., downstairs. Business Matters 12 Book clubs 39 For more voting information contact the Municipal Elections Office at 580- 2660 or [email protected]. Glebe Questions 13 Books 25 & 41 If you have not received notice of the location of your place of voting check the voters list at Ottawa Public Library branches or at City Hall. You can Leaning's leanings 15 Church 42 also find your polling station on the city's website at www.ottawa.ca. Go to elections 2003 and enter your name and address. If you are not on the voters list you can be added to at appro- the list the NEXT DEADLINE: MONDAY, NOVEMBER 24 priate polling station on election day if you provide identification which establishes your place of residence. FOR THE DECEMBER 5 PAPER NEWS Glebe Report November 7, 2003 2 Hockey sponsor wanted As the Voyageurs learn to do good things for others, they also need help. Most of all, the team is looking for a sponsorput- ting a company's name on this team's sweaters would guarantee high visibility and pay back the investment. The team also accepts donations. Players will be out for neighbourhood tag days this month and may be around collecting beer bottles- please be generous. Anyone interested in contributing, please contact assistant coach Roger Smith (850-0773) or team treasurer Sandra Herrick (231-2470). Commemorative Events at The Ottawa Voyageurs, five of whom are from the Glebe, attended a special rinkside ceremony honouring the family of Corporal Robbie Beerenfenger the Canadian War Museum who was killed in Afghanistan last month. *Remembrance Day, Nov. 11: *November 18: Free admission all day. The Holocaust in the Courtroom: An experience *Meet a Veteran, 1-4 p.m.: Reflections on the ZUndel and Irving Meet soldiers, sailors, members of Trials, with Robert Jan van Pelt. far beyond hockey the air force and nursing sisters in By ROGER SMITH players, who had finished in a 2-2 the galleries of the museum. *Passons le Flambeau: Losing a game doesn't matter so tie: "You guys played an awesome *Commemorative Concert: An Passing the Torch is the fundrais- much when you know other kids game." Evening of Song and Remem- ing campaign in support of a new have lost their dadthat's one of the As an assistant coach of the team, brance, 5-6 p.m., Courtyard: Canadian War Museum. For info: lessons learned by a team of young it struck meas I covered a memo- Join us for an outdoor program of visit www.passingthetorch.ca or call atom hockey players when they paid rial service for the two soldiers for music and songs, including a special 776-8639 or 1-800-256-6031. tribute to the grieving family of a CTVthat young Mathew, mugging tribute to veterans of the Korean War Canadian soldier at a tournament in for the cameras at one point, crying to mark the 50th anniversary of the 'Information: Petawawa last month. at another, was the same age as our Armistice. The Canadian War Museum, 330 The team was the Ottawa Voy- players, and his dad had given his Remembrance Week Book Sale, Sussex Drive, is open from 9:30 am. ageurs, made up of nine- and ten- life serving Canada. We felt this was Nov. 14 and 15, Eaton Room: to 5 p.m. on Tuesdays, Wednesdays year-olds, five of them from the a chance to teach our kids about The Friends of the CWM and Van- and weekends (Fri. to Sun.); until 8 Glebe; the family was the Beeren- what goes on in the world and about well Publishing Ltd. will hold a two- p.m. on Thursdays; and is closed on fengers. Corporal Robbie Beeren- helping others, part of our belief that day book sale at the museum. Dis- Mondays. fenger was one of two soldiers from the learning experience this winter cover a selection of new and used For more info, call 776-8600 or the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Cana- should go way beyond hockey. military history books. visit www.warmuseum.ca. dian Regiment, based in Petawawa, We contacted military officials in who were killed in Afghanistan Petawawa. Though usually very pro- when their jeep was blown up by a tective of bereaved families, they landmine believed to have been enthusiastically latched on to our planted by Taliban terrorists. proposal and reported that the Corporal Beerenfenger left his Beerenfengers were happy to take wife Tina and three young chil- part. Parents were asked to discuss drensons Mathew, 9, and Kristo- the tragedy with their children and to pher, 6; and daughter Madison, explain why we were doing this. who's one-and-a-half. Tina and the It appears they got the message. At kids were special guests at a game a meeting the night before, the play- between the Voyageurs and the local ers were asked what they were learn- Petawawa Patriots, and they came ing."It's important to do kind things rinkside for a ceremony after the for others," said one.