SOUTH COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION REVIEW Volume 4 November 1976 Number 2 ART SQUEEZED OUT OF MARKET That volume means Art sells, for instance, 186 bushels of apples a By BRENDA SMALL week during the late summer, 320 dozen cauliflower and 60 pounds of mushrooms every day. Venerable Art Hartnett has until His suppliers are Provincial next May before he'll be forced to Fruit and Fines Wholesalers. Art pack up his fruit and vegetable says there are also a number of loc- stands and move. al truck farmers who have said they His tiny marKet at the corner of would go out of business if they Bank and Belmont has been sold along couldn't supply his market. with the restaurant it adjoins and Art began in the fruit and vege- there's talk the site will be used table business when he was 15, work- for a new tavern-restaurant. ing first at Walsh's on the corner Art is 60 and has been selling of Bank and Waverly. He eventually fruit and vegetables to Ottawa bought that store, then sold it and South citizens for 45 years. But worked for the new owner. Later, he though he's reached an age when many moved to Len's across the street might think of packing away the ap- Art and friend— from his present market and worked resemblance is all in the nose ple crates and retiring, Art told as the fresh produce manager there OSCAR in a recent interview that he for nine years. has no such plans. Three years ago, he left Len's Instead, he says he'll set up The building by the Strand has —he won't say why—and set up his shop somewhere else in the community a number of advantages, Art says. market outside the health food store and start all over again. An addition could'oe built arid vdiich formerly occupied the build- "The community has been so dog- he'd have room to store his produce. ing. gone good, I want to continue here," And with a building already in Art says he has had excellent re- he says• place, he could sell throughout lations with the people who operate Art has proved he doesn't need the winter. the store. During the summer, he has all that much space for his enter- Art regards his market as a six full-time employees, and now, prize, but space among the car lots vital part of the city's produce with winter approaching, he has and shops along the Ottawa South trade. It "eases the strain" on the three part-timers, an extra three on stretch of Bank Street is not always centre-town Byward Market and the Saturday and two students. easy to get. market in the west end. Both those, Art is known far and wide for his He says he hopes to set up shop he says, have parking problems he courteous service. He says he regu- either on the bus lot at the doesn't have. larly gets customers "from 30 miles corner of Bank and Grove, or in a Though it looks unimposing, Art's away just to pick up prune-plums". cinderblock building beside the Market does a booming business. He He intends to carry on the way he old Strand theatre—now a bingo- handles the same volume of fruit has for the last 45 years, serving hall--further south along the and vegetables every day as an Ottawa South under the motto: "Good street. average supermarket. quality at fair prices".

EDITORIAL OSCAR Lottery If you feel strongly about the The OSCAR Lottery was a disap- OSCAR loves Art's Market.' The problems of Art's Market, please pointment to its organizers. The friendly atmosphere at the corner clip out this section of the paper actual proceeds, after expenses and of Bank and Belmont has been a shin- and send it to your City Council- prizes were only $239.20. ing example of what makes this com- lors. Express your views: Ticket-sellers reported little munity an attractive place to live. 1. Art's Market should stay in resistance among potential purchas- Ottawa South needs the market; we Ottawa South and all possible steps ers , even outside the Community. should see that all steps are taken should be taken to see it does. Marc Johnson sold 104 tickets to win to ensure that Art and his stands Yes No the prize for most sales ( a $20.00 stay. 2. The City should use the former We have a chance in this case to bus lot as a place for community-or- gift-certificate donated by the express our view and to be heard be- iented business. Yes No Heron Rd. Canadian Tire store). Adam Coote, who sold 70 tickets, sold the fore all the decisions are taken. As 3. The community needs another tavern-restaurant. Yes No winning ticket (#1034, drawn by Eric Art, himself, said, "An individual can't do anything", but by speaking 4. The views of the community Clemens) and won a pair of football together we can be an effective should be sought before any major tickets (donated by CJOH-TV). Winner changes are made in the character of the $100.00 priz’e in the draw was voice. Mrs. M. King of Osborne St. If the city were to put a small of local establishments. - Yes No Total ticket sales were 703. building on the old bus lot which Printer's fees for the 3,000 tickets could be leased for community- 5. Other comments... were generously paid by Hillary1s oriented business, places such as Cleaners (Ottawa South Br.) the market would be guaranteed a The pot-luck supper, was enjoyed chance to survive and add to our by about 30 people. It was agreed quality of life. N ame: that those who didn't make it were Address : the losers.. - - . . . - Page 2 police is necessary, but the schools London since then, she said it's play an equally important rôle be- not without its problems, most of cause children have to be taught to them familiar to other Canadian associate the sign with help. The cities which have instituted the strength of the program, he thinks, program. She said in some schools is that it is set up by the community, the children are not given enough not imposed from outside. education in how to use the prog- PARENT Ed Mills and Leland Creaser of ram, new Block Parents sometimes South Keys Village recited several aren't adequately instructed, and By SUSAN McMASTER incidents to prove the need for sometimes Block Parents don't put Block Parents. In one, two young their signs out very often or "We know Block Parents is succeed- girls were chased, in another, chil- ing," says Canadian founder Margaret leave them up when they aren't dren were bullied, and in a third a home. She said the biggest problem MacGee, "because it's not being used." four-year-old missed the school bus. in London is that after initial At the Civic Centre on October 5, In each case the children found help interest when the program was MacGee told 135 committee chairper- at a Block Parent house. Says Mills, starting, it has become so taken sons that Block Parent homes are "You shouldn't have to have a Block for granted that it doesn't get mostly used by children who are be- Parent program, but everybody isn't enough media coverage now. ing bullied or who are lost. "You good, and especially with young chil- MacGee related how about one and see," she said, "I think we've dren it's important they know where a half years after the program chased all the molesters out!" they can get help/ He feels the started in London it almost fell The Block Parents program has been program also decreases the number of apart because members began to in Ottawa since the spring of 1975, break-ins and amount of vandalism. lose interest, there were few new and now involves 32 communities, 59 Pat Downing, co-chairperson of parents volunteering, groups schools, and 3,000 people, accord- the Ottawa central committee of stopped meeting regularly. The ing to Ottawa central committee Block Parents, opened the me.eting program was saved only by re- chairperson Pat Downing. It is en- by telling the members how help- organization and an intense tirely run by volunteers on an an- ful Mayor Lorry Greenberg and thé effort. nual budget of $4,100, $3,000 of city police had been in supporting (Continued on page 4) which goes for printing and prep- the program with money and person- aration of visual aids, and the rest nel. for administration. Consumer Affairs After à thank-you and a few or how to survive in the marketplace. MacGee was in Ottawa to represent jokes from Greenberg, Aargent Block Parents at a series of meet- A regular OSCAR feature Mike Cassan of the Ottawa Police inas of the Safety Council, By GAIL STEWART a federally funded organization took the floor. He outlined a ivhich is responsible for setting proposal to extend the "whistle- The big news for consumers this safety standards. The Council holds -safe" program from the sehior month is the Government's publican the copyright for Block Parent signs citizens to Block Parents, if they tion of The Way Ahead, a working and manuals. want it. This would involve han- paper for public discussion. The While here, she addressed a meet- ding out police-style whistles to children or Block Parents to be Way Ahead is an outline of the wav ing of Block Parent chairpersons, the Government sees the problem of called so members could share ideas blown in case of an emergency. Another proposal is for white arm inflation and what needs to be done and discuss problems. Most of those to get rid of controls. It is also present were from around Ottawa, but bands for children to wear at night. They were tried out in an invitation to all of us to parti- some came from Montreal, and one Ottawa South on Halloween night, cipate in the discussions-.a^out the all the way from Regina. «, | and will be available on request. way ahead, both as individuals and Sharon Crossley and Sherry Hobson Another project is the distribu- through our organizations. from the Hunt Club Estates, a new tion of safety stickers for tele- Copies of the working paper can development in Ottawa (Far) South, phones with emergency numbers on be obtained from the Distribution said before the meeting that their Centre, Department of Finance, Base- them, again available on request, program, which has been going since says Çassan. Also to help the ment, Place Bell Canada, 160 Elgin spring, is working well. Crossley Street, phone 995-2855. Block Parent campaign, Cassan said it was one of the proudest days said, the city will soon be chang- The working paper itself is 32 of her son's life when she put up ing the slogan on its billboard pages long. Its basic point is that her sign. "You're one of those!" he at Riverdale and Bank Street (in ,we live in a complex world where exclaimed. Hobson feels it is par- •many things are interrelated. If Ottawa South) to read "Support ticularly important to have such a Block Parents." we want to live without inflation program in a new area like theirs, MacGee explained that she first and without controls, and without a where there is a lot of construction further growth in the scale of gov- heard about Block Parents in the and many children, often very young, ‘ernment, then we are going to have States, and brought the idea up to are bussed to school. to change some of the things we are London, with her in 1968. Constable Ron Lamothe of the Ot- now doing. However, although the program has tawa police agreed that the program been operating successfully in Sounds simple, but the reality is is work^Kj^^H^^jaidM^hejDack^ic^o^^ that it is our behaviour that is creating the problem, sometimes when we are acting as individuals and sometimes when we are acting through our unions or businesses or govern- Art’s FRUIT & VEGETABLE MARKET ments or other organizations. It is only by a change in these behaviours that we can move towards a more acceptable situation than we have now, when so many people are chafing under the wage and price controls program, and yet they and others are frightened by the high rates of inflation that might return if controls were removed. If we do not want either the con- trols or the inflation, then some other thing must change, ^g govern- ment has now asked us what we would 1149 Bank Street suggest. I hope they'll get many responses and many good suagestions. If you have some ideas or opin- ions you mav want to talk them over with your family and friends or your colleagues at work and phone or % id,

Creative Corner— Interiors by wondered what was happening I Surely the money could not be THE MAN AND THE CRAZY-BOOM magical. I tried again, and Ayoub again but the money kept on boom- a short story by Paul Kennedy, ing up. Finally I gave up. So who is 10 years old and lives on C a rpe t I ndu st r ie s Ltd. I went on to the post office, Grove Ave. and when I got to the post office I opened the door and there It all started when I was walk- lieing on the ground was that ing down the street to purchase a same money that I had seen on CUSTOM bundle of stamps for my letters. the street before I got here. UPHOLSTERY When I saw some money down on the I said to myself, "What in the DRAPERIES street. Just as I went to pick world is this money doing here it up, smoke came up from the again?" When I tried to pick up CARPETS money, and made a big boom.' I the money, it boomed up again. CERAMICS And at the same time the post office door fell down. The post office manager was very angry at me because he thought I had caused the big boom. So I had to pay for it. I went away very angry, even more angrier than the post office manager. When I got home I opened the door and it was that same monev. I was so angry at that money that I started to chase it. I chased it all the way into the bank. I was so mixed up that I had to give up. But when I got outside the money was ly- ing on the ground beside me. I thought to myself, "Would it be right to pick it up 1198 Bank St. 731-7155 again?" END ■ Page 4 Ottawa South Community Association Review-r OSCAR, a non-profit community newspaper produced and published monthly by the Ottawa South Community Association is supported by its advertisers and delivered free to all Ottawa South residents and businesses.

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BLOCK PARENTS Why has Block Parents received OSCA -notes: (continued from page 2) such a positive response across . OSCA EXECUTIVE She warned chairpersons that Canada? Perhaps the answer is sum- Block Parents in Ottawa is riding med up best by Margaret MacGee President, on a crest of interest now, but herself: Past President, Bob Luce, 234-8010 that we have to watch out for a "The secret of success lies , Secretary, Sue Taylor, 235-96G0 slump. To avoid that, organizers in the simplicity of the program Treasurer, George Strong, 233-7040 need to remain very aware that the itself, and with the involvement Physical Enviroment Chairman most important person to the pro- of the community as a whole,— Doug Menagh, 234-3810 gram is the neighbourhood Block citizens, police, schools, city ZONE REPRESENTATIVES Parent. council— all working for once To make that volunteer feel app- together, for the common goal of ZONE A: Charlie Messinger,233-0508 preciated and to make sure she or safety for all citizens." ZONE B: Marilyn Brown, 234-2911 he will keep up to scratch, chair- Debbie Blair, 233-1836 persons should phone regularly, By MARLENE NEUFELD ZONE C: Dan Byrne, 233-1039 call regularly and hold regular Derek Sweet, 235-9816 meetings of the local group to The Block Parent Program is slowly ZONE D: Mary Jane Jones, 731-5237 share problems and emphasize pro- germinating in Ottawa Souths Many i of you have been wondering because Caroline Bell, 238-2853 cedures. She pointed out that the it has seemed to take so long. The ZONE E:; Kitty Lee, 234-9598 best way to make Block Parents wheels of bureacracy move slowly, ZONE F : Graeme Neill, 233-9941 feel good is by having the child- Alix Lambert, 236-6177 ren of the neighbourhood show but gradually the red tape is un- “"their appreciation, perhaps thru wound. Very, very soon you will be- At the regular meeting on 4 Oct- Valentines or an entertainment at gin to see red Block Parent signs ober, the Association Executive took the school. She says such activ- sprout all over Ottawa South. the following actions: ities all hinge on a good relat- Last June at a meeting in Hope- 1. Approved use of the Firehall. ion ship with the local school, well School, interested attenders by an outside group for a Fall Fest- and that it is important not to heard about the program and decided ival and Craft Show on 14 November. make too many demands on teachers to form a committee headed by Caro- 2. Commended the Summer Day Camp and principals. line Bell. In early July the commit- Committee for running the Program MacGee suggested that it simp- tee delivered a letter to every house so successfully, and approved making lifies administration if there is in Ottawa South (sorry, apartment applications for grants to the City one central committee for the city dwellers can't be Block Parents yet, and to Wintario. (we have one in Ottawa, Pat Down- but Ottawa police are working on it) 3. Agreed to hold a public meet- ing, telephone 733-2441) whose and waited for responses. Some of ing on the flood situation in the function is to keep local groups you assumed you were filling out ap- new year. informed and enthusiastic. It is plication forms, and were disconcer- 4. Agreed to use part of the also best, she feels, to appoint ted when you were asked to do so grant-in-lieu-of-concessions from one person to deal with the school again at the end of the summer. the Carleton ijniv. Students' Assoc, board, police, and city hall, and Finally, in September we had about to write-off the $75 ad placed by to have that person contacting 50 applications to deliver to the CUSA for the Festival of the Folks. only one other designated person Ottawa police for screening. The 5. Decided to redirect the Exe- in each of those organizations. response was much greater to the cutive's energy to organising more The central committee should re- west of Bank Street than to the east. general meetings on particular top- port to the city. A final sugg- At present we have received approxi- ics - the first tentatively set as estion from MacGee for keeping mately half of these back accepted a civic all-candidates' meeting in morale high is to have a period and expect the rest any day. November. to recognize the program. For The next step (after we get our 6. Appointed John Manson as example, October is Block Parent Block Parent signs from the Ottawa editor of OSCAR. month in London. police) will be to arrange an Orien- « tation Meeting for all the success- EDITORIAL: ful applicants. After that all we'll OSCAR is a Community newspaper - have to do is put up the signs and a link between members of the Com- start to use them. munity. To keep it going, we need Who are Block Parents, and who the help of everyone who's inter- uses them? A Block Parent is anyone, you ested - writing, typing, editing, over the age of sixteen, married or delivering. If you think its single, employed or at home, who ap- worth having, then its worth doing plies to be one, and who after something. screening by police, is accepted. A Block Parent does NOT need to have Subscription Rates children and does NOT need to be home & you 24 hours a day. Every member of the For non-residents of Ottawa South: household over the age of 16 must be Institutions - $5. per year. screened. When a Block Parent is not Story. Meeting 9 Nov. Individuals - $2.50 per year.- Page 5 available, he takes his sign down. Anyone in need of help can go to a Block Parent — young or old. If your car breaks down ask a Block Parent to phone for help. If you're out at night and feel that someone is following you, ask a Block Parent CAPITAL CITY JAZZ BAND to phone for help. And of course Dancing at the Fall Fair teach your children to look for the Glebe Community Centre At the old SUNNYSIDE FIREHALL.' red signs whenever they are afraid 260 Sunnyside Ave. or need help. A Block Parent is not Saturday, November 6 required to place themselves in jeo- 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. pardy, only to help you by calling Sunday, November 14 Tickets $2.50 per person the necessary authority. We are hoping that the program Call 234-4083 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. will be contagious and spread through- out Ottawa South. It may not yet be FAMILY DAY CARE CRAFTS GOOD FOOD MUSIC too late to be the first Block Parent Anyone interested in on your block. If you want more in- receiving or providing INFO TABLES WORKSHOPS COMMUNITY PROJECTS formation or you want to apply con- information on this tact one of the committee members: subject may contact: For more information, call: 233-1307 Caroline Bell 238-2853 Barb Wentworth, Mary Parisien 235-7455 c/o Parent Preschool ALL WELCOME ! (Non-OSCA activity) Mary Poulin 733-8270 Resource Centre Lola Whittle 238-4105 173 Dalhousie St. Jenny Wilson 238-4818 Ottawa, Ontario. Marlene Neufeld 733-2625 KIN 7C7 Fida’s Pizza A good Block Parent program is 43 Sepeca apd Suppyside preventative. Its mere presence is Ottawa Ontario a deterrent. It may be that the less it is used, the better it is working. FAMILY FUN FAIR Telephone 232 6800 232 0818 St. Matthew's Church Glebe Ave. at Bank St. Pizza~Subs~Bar-B'Q Chicken THE AFTER-SCHOOL PROGRAM FOR CHILDREN Saturday, November 27 Open from 12 noon of working parents still has vacant 10:00 am to 3:00 pm Free Delivery (on orders over $3.) places and is looking for new part- after 4 pm & until 1 am Mon. to icipants. The program is continuing Thurs. and until 4 a.m. Fri & Sat. in the old Firehall for a while yet. RUMMAGE SALE Watch for a 10 Day SPECIAL! It operates from 3:30 to 6:00 p.m. Ottawa West Community Cen. 1064 Wellington Street Cost per week: $10. for one child, Saturday, November 20 $16. for two children, and $22. for 10-4 ADMIRAL SOLID STATE COLOUR T.V.& STEREO three children. Call Sheila Coe Items still needed at 234-4726. For Information:— HEURTER Call 745-8557 OSCAR wishes to draw special at- tention to the community spirit of TV. the Canadian Tire Store, 1170 Heron Classified ads SALES, SERVICE and Rd. Although not within the geogra- phic bounds of Ottawa South, the Hudson Seal Fur Coat, RENTALS store has twice provided OSCA-relat- Full Length 516, ed projects with gift-certificates Good Condition 1196 BANK STREET to be used as prizes. We appreciate $200 and commend this good will. Call - 737-4748 731 . 5239 For Your Voice On City Council Vote JOE CASSEY

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PetitPiletc7VIignon 5.50 with Choice of Potatoes and Tossed Salad PibSteak 5.75 with Choice of Potatoes and Tossed Salad Shish Kebab ...5.75 served on Rice, with Tossed Solad Chinese Style Pepper Steak with Choice of Potatoes and Tossed Salad Pork Chops 3.75 with Choice of Potatoes and Tossed Salad Veal Cutlet cTVlarsala 4.75 I0(S USE SHEET with Choice of Potatoes and Tossed Salad 235-9001 238-9131 Page 7 ture, pottery, weaving, etc.; as for the children of Corpus Christi well as exposing them to different School that goes far beyond what areas of artistic endeavour other can usually be supplied by an 1? than those generally taught in elementary school art program. But By LESLIE ROSTER school art classes. For example, then the artist-in-residence pro- in the almost 3 years that The other day I visited the gram is unusual and innovative. Carolyn has had a studio at Can- studio of neighbor and professions From this its value grows - thanks adian Martyrs, the children have al artist Carolyn Davis who lives to the inspiration of Greg Conway on Sunnyside Ave. Her studio sur- watched her create great black and and the generosity and goodwill of prisingly is located in an unused white painted plywood sculptures both the Ottawa Separate School classroom on the second floor of she calls Cyclomutes; visited with Board and the artists who parties the Canadian Martyrs Elementary her the National Arts Centre where ipate. School on Graham Ave. Under a she also works building stage sets M program initiated in late 1973, and, after having seen masks and the Ottawa Separate School Board puppets being created for an NAC I'm still looking for items of allows local artists to set up production, participated in a interest for the OSCAR People Col- studios in empty classrooms. This puppet-making project of their own umn. If you know of someone who artist-in-residence program was under Carolyn's direction. would be of general interest to the brainchild of Ottawa Separate Another local artist, Joyce the community, give me a call (233" School Board member Greg Conway. Neale, who lives on Hopewell Ave. 8554) or drop me a note (38 Gros- In return for this rent-free acc& had a studio first at St. Margaret venor Ave.). ommodation, the artists involved Mary School on Bellwood Ave. and make themselves and their art as now is located at St. Anthony Sep- available to their school and its arate School on Booth Street. In A stabber in the dark? children as their individual per- talking with Joyce, I learned that By ROB MAY sonalities and types of work will she, like Carolyn Davis, maintains allow. In this way the children an open-door policy as much as In the wake of the recent well are esposed to a practicing artist possible. Being able to visit publicized stabbings of a priest the on a day-to-day basis. No formal Joyce's studio enables the child- inevitable stories of similar attacks teaching is required, but many of ren to watch a painting develop have circulated in the Glebe and the artists in the program pract- through its various stages, talk Main/Echo Drive areas. ice an open-door policy which with her about colours, and see a Residents of Bower Avenue have allows the children to casually painter who most often applies her reported rumours of as many as five drop in on their free time and on paint with a palette knife in- stabbings in the last month in the their own initiative to watch the stead of a brush. Ottawa East area. In an attempt to artist at work. What a great way A third artist who participates confirm or squash these reports we for children to come to see in this program and has a studio contacted the Ottawa Police Depart- artists, not as strange creatures at Corpus Christi Separate School ment. A spokesman would only confirm from another world, but as working in the Glebe, is sculptor John one incident at Bower and Echo Drive. people just like anyone else) It Tappin. John has just moved into A woman was attacked but not badly allows the children to see the a home on Sunnyside Ave. At injured. He would not confirm or kinds and amounts of work that go present John is primarily engaged deny rumours of other attacks in the into the creation of a piece of in work involving plastics and area unless we could provide him with art whether it be painting, sculp- electronics. Being exposed to specific information. Similarly, he John and his work is an experience would not confirm that extra patrols had been initiated in the area. He did wish us to say that therq HOUSE OF ERA HAND CRAFTED was no 'crime wave' in progress. PINE FURNITURE See our selection of: Really Co-operative • Four Poster Beds By GERALDINE COOTE • Tables, Chairs & Hutches There is a non-profit food co- • Rocking Chairs operative being started in Ottawa's • Maple Lamps downtown area: the REAL FOOD CO-OP • Ceramics & Candles by a group of people including Bill and Donna McLellan. So far, they have 50 members; 1218 BANK STREET they need at least 150 members before they can think of opening a OTTAWA 521-7237 store. Guy Bowie, Proprietor The emphasis will be on quality food at low prices: grains, legumes, flours, dairy products, oils, fruit and vegetables, etc. from co-op wholesalers in the Montreal and CONSTITUENTS OF OTTAWA SOUTH Toronto areas. and produce, when available, from local growers. There will be no packing - you will bring your own containers. There will be a 10% mark up to THE NEXT IN OUR SERIES cover expenses - rent hydro bills. OF SATURDAY MORNING MEETINGS Members will be asked to work WITH YOU IS PLANNED FOR voluntarily about 4/6 hours per month to run the CO-OD in various ways: ordering food, taking stock, working in the store and keeping it SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20 clean, etc. Membership Fee: A share, which is at refundable if you leave the co-op, Claude Bennett costs $20, and everyone is asked to buy one. In addition, there is a Constituency Office non-refundable $5, membership fee. Corner of Bank and Fifth If you are interested and want more details, please telephone 234-2182.

RIDDLE OF THE MONTH Ottawa CLAUDE BENNETT Why did the editor cross the road? south y [PC 1 PLEASE CALL ?38-7247 FOR APPOINTMENT TIME Send your answers ..... Pacre 8 T greening of Ottawa South By EDWINA VON BAEYER Pest prevention begins at homeJ Regular checks of your houseplants are essential if you're to>stay ahead of insect infestations (esp- ecially now that you may have brought plants in from a summer outdoors). So I'd like to pass along a few hints and procedures I've collected for controlling pests without insecticides. Most growers stress the need for a clean growing area keep spilled soil wiped up, remove dead foliage or flowers (never let them rot into the soil or litter the growing area as they are great breeding areas for insects). When you re-use a pot, first wash it thoroughly, then soak it in a sol- ution of detergent, water, and at least 1/2 cup Javex, then wash again (Clay pots, because their porous walls might house tiny insects, must be boiled for 20 minutes mak- ing them sterile enough for use.) Always isolate a new plant (or [

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