ebe report gl May 5, 1995 Vol. 23 No. 5 Join 10th annual Great Glebe Garage Sale BY 'CATHRYN BRADFORD treat to the couch, where we a list and a map so that avid Bring out your poster board, On Saturday May 27th (rain can contemplate the fun we garage-salers can find you! your markers, and design a date May 28th), from 9 am to 3 had meeting our neighbours Then drop off your registra- sign for your porch or lawn. pm, thousands of Glebites will and getting the basement and tion form by May 18th at the On the day of the sale, the GCA once again offer up our for- garage cleaned out. Glebe Community Centre at 690 will have spotters out looking merly-loved items for sale One, thing we who run the Lyon Street S. You will receive for great signs. Only one from our garages, lawns and GGGS ask you to do to partici- a registration kit, with further proviso is in effect for this porches. The Great Glebe pate is - REGISTER! instructions and tips on how to contest - you must mention Garage Sale, sponsored by the The Great Glebe Garage Sale run a successful garage sale. somewhere on the poster that Glebe Community Association is a community event spon- Then, after you've had a great 10% of the proceeds of your and in benefit of the Ottawa sored by the Glebe Community day selling on May 27th, a vol- sale are donated to the Ottawa Food Bank, is back for its tenth Association. Everyone in the unteer from the Glebe Com- Food Bank (the wording is up year! Glebe can participate. We ask munity Association will come to you!). The GGGS has become a com- that you register by May 18th. around to collect your donation For information, or to volun- munity and regional spring- Registration will allow you to to the Ottawa Food Bank (if we teer to help (yes, we can al- time event, as much antici- participate in some of the don't make it to your door, do- ways do with more help!), pated and welcomed as the great contests we have orga- nations can be mailed directly please call Kathryn Bradford blooming of the tulips. Every nized for vendors at the Garage to the Ottawa Food Bank at 7 of the Glebe Community Asso- one of us residents of the Sale, be included in the map of Bayview Road KlY 2C5. ciation at 238-4159. Glebe, from the youngest to the registered vendors, and it will We're running two contests most venerable, can offer our help us organize for the col- this year for you, the hard- goods for sale to the crowds of lection of your donation to the working vendors! To be eligi- Glebe Singers bargain-seekers who will come Ottawa Food Bank. ble, all you have to do is - REG- to our community in search of So, please fill in the regis- ISTER! In return, you can au- spring concert good deals, treasures, or an ex- tration form that has been in- tomatically participate in the perience. At the end of the al- cluded for your convenience first contest, where the three May 13 ways-successful sale we each on p. 2 of this issue of the vendors who donate the most to donate 10% of the proceeds of Glebe Report. Fill in your the Ottawa Food Bank will win The community is invited our sale to the Ottawa Food name, the address of the sale, some great prizes from local once again to the Glebe Bank. And then, many of us your phone number (very im- businesses. For those of you Singers spring concert on Sat- will end our GGGS day with a portant!), and postal code. List with an artistic bent, we are urday, May 13 at 8 p.m. in the big block party - or maybe just special items you have to offer running The Great Glebe Church of the Blessed Sacra- an exhausted but satisfied re- because we will be publishing Garage Sale Sign Contest! ment, corner of Percy and Fourth Avenue. Perennial exchange May 18, 6:30 - 7:30 p.m. Under the direction of Janice Scant rainfall and a cool the Glebe Community Centre If this is your first year and Gray, the choir will present spring have not given us and exchange them for trea- you have nothing in your gar- Faure's Requiem as well as a quick gardens this year How- sures from the gardens of your den, check! You may have varied program of lighter se- ever, a slow spring allows neighbours. forget-me-nots or daylilies or lections. The concert and the more time for planning the All gardeners are welcome: some other treat. You can reception following the con- perfect garden! Part of that the novice, the experienced, bring well composted garden cert are offered to the public planning is dividing up over- the disappointed and the ever- leaves or compost, or aged ma- without charge, though dona- crowded beds and imagining hopeful. Bring your plants in nure. An added benefit is tions are welcomed. The sup- new plants and designs. When a plastic bag or pot. Bring ex- meeting neighbours who port provided by local busi- the dreaming ends and the tra pots if you have them. Tag share your interest in garden- nesses to the concert and re- hard work is done bring the. the bag with the name (if you ing. ception is very much appreci- surplus from your garden to know it!) and the type of soil For more information, call ated by the members of the the Annual Perennial Ex- and location it has enjoyed in 235-5698. choir. change on the front steps at your garden. Sylvia Holden Park opening June 1 INSIDE BY COUNCILLOR JIM WATSON Holmwood as early as 1975. for this new park through my Cover Story 3 Mark Thursday June 1 on Sylvia lobbied for a number of monthly Glebe Report column. your calendar as we honour a Letters 5 years to increase the amount of While a number of wonderful distinguished resident of our green space at Lansdowne Park. Forum 6 community. However, Sylvia's involvement suggestions were put forward, Many will remember City in the the proposal for Sylvia Holden GCA 8 community was not Park received a great deal of Council's years of debate on the limited to this issue. Over the Councillor 10,11 future of Lansdowne Park, and years, Sylvia has worked on a support throughout our community, and was endorsed 23 the many proposals for wide variety of projects in the Sport redevelopment. In 1992, City by the Glebe Community Glebe. For many years she was Association. In December 1994, Features 24,25 Council approved the the circulation manager of the compromise proposal City Council unanimously Arts 28 put Glebe Report, she was a key approved my motion to name forward by myself and Peter player in saving the Tot Lot on School News 29-32 Hume, which included the the park at Bank & Holmwood Fifth Avenue (now known as Sylvia Holden Park. 37,38 restoration of the Aberdeen Lionel Britton Park), and she Church News Pavilion. As of Sylvia Holden has worked part the actively supported the tirelessly Coupons 7,8,28,34 Lansdowne Park redevelopment preservation of vital for our community, proposal, the parking lot at the and I am pleased that we will be community facilities like honouring her involvement on corner of Bank Street and skating rinks and parks. Sylvia Quote of the Month Holmwood Avenue was June 1. was a recipient of one of the The ceremony begins at 6:00 transformed into a park. Who ran to help me when I fell, first 1992 Whitton Awards for pm, and will be followed by Sylvia Holden, a longtime her years of community And would some pretty story resident of the Glebe, first refreshments provided kiss to it activism. compliments of Jim McKeen's Or the place make originated the idea of a park at In 1994, I well? June sought input Loeb Glebe. I hope to see you the corner of Bank and from the community on a name My mother. there! Anne Taylor N EWS Adopt a planter box only 15 left BY MURIEL FLANDE Glebe Ave., E of Bronson (6 Randall's Paints Ltd. boxes), GCA ENVIRONMENT REP More Than a Paint The Environment Committee First Ave., E of Lyon (3 boxes), Store of the GCA has launched an First Ave, E of Percy (4 boxes). Some suggestions for plant- "Adopt-a-Planter Box" cam- \ 41:Eft, , 04FANT 74111. paign to enhance the appear- ing are big bushy plants, flow- a ance of our neighbourhood. ering impatiens, hanging 0\ The response to the project, geraniums, potentilla, portu- laca, vinca alyssum or what- announced in the April 7, Randall's Paints Ltd. Glebe Report, has so far been ever you choose. There is soil very satisfactory. and cedar chips for planters Presents Sixty planter boxes on Glebe available at the Lyon Street "Summer Workshops" streets have been spoken for. entrance to Central Park. Fifteen are still orphans, A volunteer carpenter is also looking for caring individuals needed to repair six of the Specializing in Découpage. Stencilling, to plant and maintain them wooden planter boxes. Please Blocking, & Faux Finishing Techniques. this summer. respond to Mrs. Hicks if you Project Coordinator, Barbara have extra lumber or can do Hicks, can still be reached at the carpentry. 236-3275 if you wish to register Now that the warm weather for a box.