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THE OSCAR www.BankDentistry.com 613.241.1010 The Ottawa South Community Association Review l The Community Voice YEAR 44, No.1 JANUARY 2016 ECHO DRIVE SAFETY ISSUES See story on page 3 PHOTO BY JOHN DANCE The guard cable posts on Echo Drive, at left, which a City review has suggested be replaced with steel beam guiderails at an estimated cost of up to $150,000. The street will still not have sidewalks. COMMUNITY CALENDAR Mon. Jan. 11, 19:00 Meeting of the Old Ottawa South Garden Club “The Virtual Garden,” Firehall Mon. Jan.11, 19:00 - 21:30 Ottawa Brahms Choir Rehearsals Start, Southminster United (Parlour) Fri. Jan. 15 OSCAR Deadline (February issue) Sat & Sun, Jan. 16 and 17 Ontario Provincial Speed Skating Championships, Brewer Oval Sat. Jan. 16, 12:00 - 14:00 Second Annual Sir John A’s Great Canadian Kilt Skate, Dow’s Lake (Start at Malone’s Lakeside Grill) Wed. Jan. 20, 18:00 Sunnyside Footsteps lecture: “Managing Your Daycare Anxiety,” Sunnyside Library Tues. Jan. 26, 18:00 - 19:00 Hopewell Ave. P.S. Parent Information Evening, Hopewell P.S. (library) Thurs. Jan 28, 18:30 - 21:30 “Becoming your Child’s Emotional Coach” Workshop, Hopewell P.S. Fri. Jan. 29 Winterlude starts, Rideau Canal and Lansdowne Park Sat. Jan. 30, 20:00 Ottawa Bach Choir – “Songs for Chamber Ensemble,” Southminster United Thurs. Feb. 11, 18:30-21:30 Glebe Collegiate Institute Tour To add events or see the latest listings, go to the online calendar at www.oldottawasouth.ca Next OSCAR Deadline is January 15, 2016 Page 2 THE OSCAR l JANUARY 2016 OSCA’s Shop Your Local Talent Holiday Craft Show On November 29th, the Firehall was filled with customers admiring, and buying, the original works of 43 artists and artisans at OSCA’s Shop Your Local Talent Holiday Craft Show. More photos, as well as additional information about the wonderful artists, can be found on the OSCA facebook page. PHOTOS BY ANNA JONES PHOTOGRAPHY THE OSCAR l JANUARY 2016 Page 3 LOCAL NEWS Echo Drive Safety Issues: Resolution and Questions Further north on Echo there is just a curb (12” in some places, 6” elsewhere). PHOTOS BY JOHN DANCE By John Dance of steel beam guiderails at an esti- Glengarry Road resident who origi- cyclist and vehicle traffic,” says Win- mated cost in the order of $125,000 nally requested the city to remove nie Pietrykowski, OSCA’s Traffic and Vehicular safety on Echo Drive to $150,000,” says Kelly Martin, the dangerously broken steel posts on Safety Committee Chair. between Bank Street and Riverdale Manager of Asset Management, top of the curb. The curb would then “This stretch of Echo is two-way will likely be improved in 2016, but Infrastructure Services Department. be about 12 inches high, the same for all three. There has also been a pedestrian and cyclist safety remains “The project requirements are cur- height of the curb further north on significant increase in traffic along an unresolved issue. rently being documented and are Echo where there is also a sharp drop this stretch since the arrival of the Following The OSCAR’s story planned to be implemented in 2016, to Colonel By. Alternatively, says College and more recently with the earlier this year, the City of Ottawa pending budgetary approvals.” Mr. Davis, “Why not just put a new increase of traffic on Riverdale and removed most of the broken and dan- The new guiderails will prevent guiderail across from the entrance to Sunnyside, which is a detour route gerous guard cable posts on the edge vehicles from sliding down the steep the Royal College of Physicians and while Main Street is under construc- of Echo and conducted a “detailed re- slope to Colonel By Drive. However, Surgeons - that’s where a vehicle is at tion. It can get pretty ‘risky’ in the view of safety considerations, opera- questions of less expensive alterna- greatest risk.” early morning and late afternoon tions and maintenance requirements tives, and addressing the safety of Another suggestion is to reduce when families are travelling to and and full lifecycle cost options.” pedestrians in this well-used roadway the speed limit on Echo from 40k/hr from school and work, and employ- “The review identified full replace- with no sidewalks on either side to 10 or 20. “Reducing speed along ees are leaving the College,” noted ment as a preferred solution over remain. Echo between Bank and Riverdale is Ms. Pietrykowski. temporary repairs. 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I’d like to see Ali himself came from Iraq 17 Ali Sultan was working in his Opus South Committee for Refugee my kids (who are now one and three) years ago, so there is an extra bonus Barber Shop (next to the Mayfair) Sponsorship’s plan to bring in two do the same thing.” with the free haircuts for Syrian when he and some clients started families. Ali took on the Opus Barber Shop newcomers. discussing Syrian refugees. “It was a perfect time for me to 12 years ago. Some clients are from “It will be easy for them to talk to A customer from the Glebe offer something,” said Ali, and he the Glebe and further away, but most me in their own language.” talked about the Ottawa Centre thought of free haircuts for the new of them are from OOS and “they Canadians. 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The family now and two ESL teachers will help as stand out. It has attracted the on Bank Street in Old Ottawa South. waits in Beirut for the flight that will well. attention of The Ottawa Citizen, CBC Refugee sponsorship brings bring them to a new beginning in Several people agreed to help radio and television, and CTV, as together a varied group of Ottawa. the family to: get a library card, well as our own OSCAR.