Next Deadline II OSCAR February 24,1995 THE OTTAWA SOUTH COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION REVIEW Vol. 22 No. 6 OUR 20TH YEAR! FEBRUARY 1995

LET’S PUT THE HEART BACK BANK STREE INTO BANK MAIN STREET

BY PETER HECHT Main Street is the centuries long evolution of the footpath in earliest clusters villages into the shopping street of our present cities. Main Street has been lifeblood of a community. Main Street, has been the place where people lived, traded, worked and played. People vied to build their businesses and homes on Main Street where they could be seen and visited. As villages grew into towns, so did Main Street. But it remained the heart pf the community. This was where commerce and social life took place. Citizens did their daily shopping here and looked forward to meeting friends and neighbors to learn the latest news both ofcommunity and world. Now, in our own lifetimes, this has all changed. Main Street has become a through route to somewhere else. People, no longer welcome; are obstacles to the safe passage of cars. The car, newspaper, television and telephone have persuaded us into removing ourselves from Main Street life. But the needs of Main Street remain. Why else would strip malls and shopping centres, the suburb builder’s answer to Main Street, increasingly resemble traditional Main Street? Here in Old Ottawa South, we don’t need a pseudo Main Street We’ve got Bank Street and it is still alive and kicking. A bit drab and dowdy at the edges perhaps, but the heart is still beating. We have a core of staple businesses serving our daily needs and interesting enterprises are continuing to spring up. A new merchants’ association is starting up. Is Main Street dead? With this renaissance underway and with the upcoming reconstruction/of the Bank Street roadway, the removal of the power poles and the traffic study, we have the chance to make Bank Street back into our Main Street. Let’s Put the Heart Back Into Bank! Over the next few months, OSCAR will be bringing you ideas and articles about some of the things we can do to rejuvenate and improve the heart of our Old Ottawa South community.

CONTRIBUTIONS NEEDED! OSCAR needs your articles, photos, poems and stories, each and every month. This is your Streetscape where pedestrians and cars have equal rights, this common sight in Edmonton shows paper, without you, we cannot succeed. what can be done to enhance a shopping district when vehicular traffic is not the only concern. Photo P. Hecht FEBRUARY 1995 ♦ THE OSCAR ♦ PAGE 2

OSCAR ' ' :: CONTRIBUTIQNSSORÉLY NEEDED Community Association Report veil though we receive some wonderful contributions i from our ■regular contributors, we are always in need of .storks, pcwite 260 Sunnyside Avenue and photos. We ere looking for news of oldtimers, interviews, Ottawa, Ontario stories, articles, poems, sketches and restaurant reviews which would be of K1S 0R7 interest to residents of Old Ottawa South. Bring them to our OSCAR box in the Office at The Old Firehall. Letters to the Editor are always welcome, OSCAR Line 730-1045. Leave name, number, message. •ip:.:.. Please siqjpcat our atfvertisers. Let them know you saw them in the Editor: Peter Hecht 730-1045 OSCAR. Without than, we wouldn’t be publishing. If you know of someone Artspace Editor: Karin Fuller 523-9928 providing a service in the community, teB them about OSCAR, Oiu: rates Business Manager: Marim Moreland 730-3762 are reasonable. Advertising Manager: Richard Turgeon 730-3911 Distribution Manager: Rufina Basu, assisted by Remy 730-2762

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ZONE Al: Mary Jo Lynch (Coordinator), Eric and Brian Lynch, Candace O'Lett, Brian Eames, Kim Barclay, Marvel Sampson, Cybil Grace, Wendy Robbins, Charles Halliburton, Ron Barton, Lindsay Whillans, The Boutin Family, Robin Scobie OTTAWA SOUTH COMMUNITY CENTRE ZONE A2: Chloe Hanes (Coordinator), Robin Scobie WINTER HOURS PHONE 564 -1064 ZONE B1 : David Farr (Coordinator), David Farr, Sharon Plumb, Andrea and Cedric Innés, Ross Imrie MONDAY, WEDNESDAY 9:00 AM TO 10:00 PM ZONE B2: Linda Young(Coordinator), Leslie Roster, Patty Leonard, Rick Potter, Karen and Dolf TUESDAY, THURSDAY 9:00 AM TO 9:00 PM Landheer, The Woyiwada Family, Anna and Dan Calvert, The Webber Family, The Young Family FRIDAY 9:00 AM TO 6:00 PM ZONE Cl: Laura Johnson (Coordinator), The Neale Family, The Harrison Family, The Gilmore Family, SATURDAY 9:00 AM TO 1:30 PM The James-Guevremont Family, The Jarmuski Family, The Williams Family SUNDAY CLOSED ZONE C2: Kathy Paterson (Coordinator), Alan McCullough, Lily & Peter Hecht, Bill McCauley, Dan Byme, Barbara Copley, The MacGregor-Staple Family

ZONE D: Leonard Gerixandt (Coordinator), Patti Angus, The Small Family, Jessie Neufeld, Tony Hauser, Andi Gray, Mary Hill, The MacDonalds, Jessica & Colin Drysdale, Mary Ann Keys, Gilbert Jamieson, Martha Robinson, Elenor Quesnel IMPORTANT PHONE NUMBERS ZONE El: Mary Hill (Coordinator), The Hutchinson Family, The Hanley Family, Chris Ringland, The Moussel-Forrester Family OSCA 564-7277 Ottawa South Public Library 598-4017 ZONE E2: Rufina Basu (Coordinator), Jesse Rading, The Tillman Family, Eleanor Berry, Mary-Ann Kent, Çarleton Students Association 788-6688 Glen Elder & Lorraine Stewart, Julie Vergara, The Fraser Family, Mary Hill Regional Government 560-1335 ZONE FI : Carol O'Connor (Coordinator), Karen Fee & Family, The Bol Family, The Tubman Family, The City (snow, trees, flooding, etc) 564-1111 Dalziel Family, Hie Chandler Family, John & Lee Zamparo, The Bennett Family City Licensing/Enforcement 564-1457 ZONE F2: Janet L Jancar (Coordinator), Sonya Jancar, The Moir Family, The Stem Family, The Liston City Property Standards 564-1717 Family, The von Baeyer Family, Jeff Dubrule, Marie Dubrule, Paul Jancar Parking Enforcement 564-1457 ZONE G: Angela Graves (Coordinator), Chris Kinsley, The Chihlar Family, The Blakeman Family, The Jim Watson 564-1308 Graves Family, The Grier Family, Julie de Bellefeuille, Tom Kurys Road potholes, cracks, broken glass, etc.

West of Main Bullock & Toronto Area: The Rowleys • RMOC roads 739-3140 • Ottawa roads 564-1111 Bank Street-Ottawa South: Tom Lawson, The Code Family Bank Street-Glebe-Main: Rufina Basu • NCC roads 733-0117

Carleton University: Jim Watson

Deliverer needed, 18 papers, Belmont - River dale to Park entrance FEBRUARY 1995 ♦ THE OSCAR ♦ PAGE 3

OTTAWA SOUTH COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION OSCA PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE BY SUSAN LEAH At our January Board meeting, to work with the fledgling Bank Street assure all residents that you will be Looking outside the neighbourhood - OSCAR editor, Peter Hecht, Merchants Group that has recently been consulted about any project that might Board members attended a Transport made a plea to the Board to be created with the support of OSCA's have an impact on you. I would be 2000 meeting to review the feasibility better reporters - to tell Old Ottawa OSWATCH committee members and delighted to hear from any resident of study on the CP commuter rail proposal South residents more about what it is Councillors Jim Watson and Brian Old Ottawa South who would be and are taking part in a workshop on that we do for you, as members of the McGarry. interested in joining this group. Call me February 4, organized by the Federation OSCA Board. So here is a brief OSWATCH has also been dealing anytime, at 730-5347 of Citizens' Associations, on the overview of some of the Board's with several planning and development One community enterprise that is upcoming review of the Region's activities: issues on behalf of residents. Members going ahead is a small Cafe at the Official Plan. OSCA Board members got back to will be sitting on the committees set up Firehall. This is not sponsored by Board members will be attending work quickly after the New Year by the Ottawa Tennis and Lawn Bowling OSCA, but has the support of the Board. Councillor Watson's Town Hall meeting holidays, turning out in force to help Club to help chart its future course of Suzanne Reinthaler hopes to have it up on Budgets, February 2, along with with Registration Night, January 11, at operations - and survival! and running in the next few weeks. It representatives from other community the Firehall. A group of Board members and will operate daily between 9 and 3.30, associations and organizations in this While many programs were fully residents met to pursue the weekdays. ward. subscribed, several had to be dropped recommendations of the OSCA OSCA committees also took time to With Russ Barton, an OSCA past due to apparent lack of interest, so the membership at last October's annual consider implementation of the president, I met with representatives program committee will meet Febrary 6, meeting on Community Enterprise recommendations made by an from the Centretown Community to “brainstorm” on new program ideas. Development. Mike Lynch, OSCA's past independent voluntary auditor last fall to Association, to talk about better ways Several of the OSCA committees got president, will be making a full report on tighten up OSCA's operations and also for neighbouring community groups to together to review budgets and their the objectives, terms of reference and to help define the role of the community build networks in support of each other. work plans for the coming months. philosophy we would like to pursue. The association vis a vis City staff working Reading this through, I'm not Briefly, the Riverbank Project group group will be working with Ottawa's at the Firehall. All committees will be surprised we don't always have time to are planning to make a start on mapping Community Enterprise Centre on a pilot reporting back to OSCA on this at our report on what we 're doing, but we'll try the Rideau River and its environs. This project to undertake a community socio- February board meeting, on Tuesday, the to keep in touch! Do call if you have any will be a map of anecdotes, historical economic assessment of Old Ottawa 21st. questions or if you're interested in records, environment and geography - South. I know that many of you have been becoming involved in any of these or and just about anything else that could We also looked at several proposals taking part in the focus groups and open other OSCA activities. My number is be added. for community enterprises OSCA might houses associated with the Old Ottawa 730-5347, or you can contact me The Environment Committee undertake in our neighbourhood. We are South Traffic Study. OSCA Vice- through Dierdre McQuillan at the (ECOS) is planning some projects to collecting more information before President Greg Wright and his team are Firehall, 564-7277, beautify parts of Bank Street and hopes making any decisions. I also want to doing an excellent job here. NEW PRICING FOR LETTER TO THE EDITOR Dear Editor: OSCA PROGRAMS BY CATHERINE MONTGOMERY PAYING FOR DEVELOPMENT OSCA is introducing a new the needs and interests of the I am concerned about Regional our taxes were raised to provide tax pricing structure for recreational community. Working in cooperation Council's decision to permit the 500 acre relief to outer areas of the Region. Once programs which will take effect with the Centre Director and Program Kanata North expansion and I would like again, we are going to finance with the 1995 Spring Programs. For Worker at the Firehall, the Program to know why our newly elected development through taxes and then see each program, members of the Ottawa Committee plans fall, winter and spring Councillor Mr. Brian McGarry voted in new development get lower taxes South Community Association will pay programs and oversees the operations of support of the expansion. because they want a “fairer” distribution one price and non-members will pay $2 the pottery studio, After-Four and The front page of the January of the tax burden and can outvote us on more. This change, recently approved by summer camps. A core of programs OSCAR, “Towards a Healthy Ottawa Council. the Program Committee of OSCA, including fitness, yoga, dog obedience, South,” clearly states the principles that I am also concerned that as a result of implements one of the recommendations tae kwon do, pottery, ballet, yoga, many in our community stand for and I this decision, the Region will have to arising from an operational audit of creative dance and sports provides certainly hope our elected spend an estimated $25,000 of our OSCA which was conducted last year. recreational opportunities for a wide representatives take note. money at an Ontario Municipal Board Membership in OSCA will continue to range of age groups. However, new ideas The Kanata North Extension at the hearing to defend its decision which is provide a tangible financial benefit when are always welcome. If you have furthest extremity from downtown contrary to the advice of its own staff you register for programs as well as suggestions for programs which you means that public financing of the most and its own official plan. Even the support the activities of the community think would have a relatively broad costly sort has to be made to support the Ministiy of Municipal Affairs was so association. appeal, please feel free to contact me infrastructure necessary for the Kanata concerned that it initiated the OMB The Program Committee of OSCA (chairperson of the Program Committee) North development. Sewers, water, hearing to oppose the scheme. endeavours to anticipate and respond to at 730-2377. roads, bus, schools and garbage Arguments the development will not collection all paid for by taxes have to happen for many years are to be be in place before the development can dismissed. Do we want our children to be sold. pick up the tab for yet another This expenditure is entirely questionable decision made by our unnecessary; Kanata already has an generation? Southminster United Church estimated 25 years of developable land. Finally, we have must be concerned Bank St. - Rideau Canal The only beneficiaries seem to be the with the issue of continually turning ; 730 - 6874 land speculators who knowingly rural land into urban development. How I Minister: Rev. S. A. Hewlett Dates to Remember purchased rural land at cheap prices so it much longer can we use up a very Organist/Choir Director: Sandra Dean Feb 19 - 10:30am Worship & Baden could be re-zoned to increase its value. exhaustible supply of rural land. It only 10:30am Worship Powell Church Parade Who will pay for this? We in the takes a few days to destroy rural land but • Sunday School for All Ages Feb 26-8 pm - Lisgar String Concert downtown core will have to pay for this millions of years to form them. • Nursery Care during Worship suburb as we have for the last twenty Russ Barton • Audio Loop System for Hearing All are welcome at this church. The Impaired members of Southminster would years through our municipal taxes. Roslyn Ave • Wheelchair Access to Sanctuary consider it a privilege to have you We in this ward were heavy hit by See the Regional -Councillor’s • Coffee Hour following Worship worship with us. Regional market value assessment, when column elsewhere in this issue. - Ed. r /

FEBRUARY 1995 ♦ THE OSCAR ♦ PAGE 4 REGIONAL REPORT BY BRIAN MCGARRY, REGIONAL COUNCILLOR Private industry may be able to absorb displaced workers; I will devote much energy to helping alleviate the pain of under-employment. Traffic Noise Pollution: This remains of primary concern in our area. Reduction of speed limits on Regional roads and City streets is one solution. Can we persuade the City and Region to HAZELDEAN MALL SOUTH/CENTRAL 300 Eagleson Road 1130 Bank Street erect the necessary signage? Kanata. Ontario Ottawa, Ontario K2M 1C9 K1S3X6 Auditor General: The Region is Tel.: 1-613-591-5541 "Ms *EmemM l Tel.: 1-613-521-6090 considering an external audit. This is not Fax: 1-613-591-2481 • Florist of Distinction Fax: 1-613-521-6090 to say an internal audit is insufficient, TOLL FREE - CAN & U.S. 1-800-661-4839 but rather, is an outside view helpful? Partnerships: ' partnerships and Q^alentmes °3ap hence solutions to the present recession, are not yet occurring. Government, Qfeb 14, 199S public service and private industry r remain skeptical of one another, Ce1eflora Q&ypeciabes Regional Councillors are now operating from adversarial positions that Ÿ.Arrangements settled in at Regional are detrimental to all of us. Some V fFrpstal QdCearts O&ouquet Headquarters, 111 Lisgar Street, progress is being made, but too often we Ottawa K2P 2L7 (my office phone is seem prepared to operate in isolation. V IFuppp élove O&ouguet 560-1224, fax 560-1203; Ms Pat There are many community interests and Ÿ <$Be Otip QdConep <3&ouguet McGill is my Executive Assistant). The interest groups covering the private and Ÿ QdCershep QKisses Oèauguet Regional Budget has been tabled; phone public sectors. Without co-operation we ■ v. r • ” • • ... r • • ' for a copy that will also provide the will all lose. Budget Review Timetable. The total Kanata North: Recently in Kanata- l£lus afull assortment of our amt ^Unique styles, budget comes to approximately $1.3 North, many were prepared to renege on designs and planter baskets ta esepress pour &ove billion. At present there is no tax earlier council commitments (Kanata and and faring. increase; however the Police Budget Regional). I could not support an (approx $100 million) and garbage ($25 initiative that betrays any citizen million) still has to be determined. The (corporate of private) at the ‘eleventh Region is expecting a Provincial grant of hour*. Now a final decision on this $24 million to assist with the police development will be made at the Ontario budget; the exact amount has not been Municipal Board (OMB) which is the confirmed. proper conclusion in my opinion. City Councillor Jim Watson hosted a Regional Official Plan: Too many ) Public Budget ‘95 Forum, February 2nd amendments to the Region’s Official at the Old Firehall to provide an Plan? What is the future of the Plan? A overview of the City and Regional review is now underway and there will Budgets. I presented an update on the be a constituency meeting (Spring/95, Regional Budget. date to be announced) where interested NEWS citizens can have a say. Urban Light Rail Transit: I am not development, the rural area, housing, encouraged. There is very little river corridors, environmental enthusiasm from the Outaouais and protection, transportation, social policies HEALTH WATCH bridges seem a priority. This is not my and economic development are some of BY HELEN CUNNINGHAM preference. A new bridge in the outer the areas to be discussed within a New A few months ago I accidentally scary, as it tells both the good and bad area (Cumberland joining Masson?) Regional Official Plan to be adopted by burned my hand. Because of the things that can happen if you take the might be acceptable hut not anywhere early 1997. severity of the bum, I went to shot. If I had known this information near the centre-core of the Region. Your I hope to keep you up-to-date Riverside Hospital Emergency to have ahead of time, I wouldn't had been faced comments are appreciated. through OSCAR and a Householder them look at it. During the admission, with this decision during a crisis. After Federal Government downsizing: report (at least once a year). If you the nurse asked me if I had any allergies. due consideration I opted to have the Is it inevitable? The Ottawa-Carleton would like to ask questions or make I had no problem with that, as I could shot, even though I couldn't remember Economic Development Corporation comments, please call me at the above tell her that I was allergic to penicillin when I had one last and how I would (OCEDCO) and Ottawa-Carleton Board number or drop me a note. and sulfa drugs. That is where I received react to the tetanus shot. Before I left the of Trade, among others, arq preparing to my first shock. She told me that when hospital I was given a card that records help those who may lose employment. people have a reaction to penicillin they when I got the shot. I have pqt it into a are given a sulfa drug to counteract the safe place so that I will be able to refer problem, but with my problem I could to it, if required, in the future. die as a result of this. To avoid the Fortunately I didn't have an adverse probability of such an occurrence, she reaction from the shot. suggested that I get a Medic Alert Ident. As a result of this experience, I While sitting with ice on my burned picked up a Medic Alert Membership hand and waiting for the doctor, I had a Application the drug store and ordered a lot of time to think about getting a bracelet as soon as I got home. The basic COMPLETE QUALITY OFFSET PRINTING SERVICE Medic Alert Ident bracelet. When the stainless steel type costs $30.00. 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K2E 7K7 j The information on this sheet was very FEBRUARY 1995 ♦ THE OSCAR ♦ PAGE 5 CITY COUNCILLOR’S COLUMN BY JIM WATSON, CITY COUNCILLOR, WARD OT9 available at the Firehall and the Library. not allowed to park your car on the street BREWER PARK WHITTON AWARDS between 1-7 am. This is enforced when I'm working on getting funding for Mark Monday March 27 on your there is a forecast for 7 cm or more of some proper and natural landscaping calendar as we honour with the 3rd snow. Once the parking ban is near the River bank at Brewer Park. For Annual Whitton Awards, some of our implemented, it remains in effect until years, this supposed “parie” has been a neighbours who have done good work in removed. To find out if the ban is in parking lot for baseball and football our community. The event takes place at effect «1 any evening, call 564-1111, the players. John Bond and ECOS members the Assembly Hall, at the back of the City's 24 hour customer service line. are helping to see how we can reduce Civic Centre at Lansdowne Park starting On-street permit parking holders are costs but reinstate some green space and at 7:00 pm. In addition to the awards exempt from this regulation and are only prohibit parking in the vicinity. prohibited from parking on the street ceremony, there will be music and CARLETON UNIVERSITY complimentary refreshments donated by during snow removal operations. The CHARITY BALL local businesses will be served. Please fine is $50, so I encourage you to listen Congratulations to organizers and come. to weather forecasts and arrange for alternate parking. participants for the 8th Annual Charity PERLEY HOSPITAL TRAFFIC STUDY Ball, January 21, at the Ottawa Congress I am holding a public meeting March Centre. Once again, the event was a Thanks to all who attended the 2, 7:30 pm in the Hospital Boardroom tremendous success, raising over Ottawa South Traffic Study public (enter via 47 Aylmer, not the main $25,000 for two worthwhile charities - BUDGET *95 meeting on February 1 at the Firehall. entrance) with Mr. John Lupton, the Community Foundation of Ottawa- My thanks to everyone who attended Your input is critical for the success of Executive Director of the Perley and Carleton and the Canadian Guide Dogs my annual budget briefing session, this study. I was very impressed with the City Planners to update the community for the Blind. February 2 at the Old Firehall. We had a turnout at the meeting -1 am pleased so on the rezoning application for the The Charity Ball is a good example good turnout, and my thanks also to City many residents are getting involved. Perley Hospital lands. of students giving something back to our staff and Regional Councillor Brian Continued thanks to Greg Wright and City staff are putting together their community. In the past eight years, over McGarry for bringing us up-to-date on his team for their dedication. recommendations to go before the $100,000 has been donated to the city and regional finances. Planning and Economic Development QUESTIONNAIRE Community Foundation of Ottawa- The City has prepared a budget with Committee hopefully by Spring, 1995. I'm planning my annual Ottawa Carleton through the proceeds of the a 0% tax increase - something long The proposal is to rezone from P to R- South questionnaire and would Carleton University Charity Ball. overdue. Over the next few weeks, I 4x, zoning the same as most of Ottawa appreciate ideas for a questions anyone Congratulations to the Charity Ball hope we might even decrease taxes South. Public circulation for the would like included. The questionnaire is Executive on a job well done! through the trimming of expenses with proposal was done and this meeting will published every year in OSCAR and CAN I HELP? low priorities. allow the community to get a better gives you the opportunity to tell me your Jim Watson Ottawa South was particularly hard sense of recent developments. thoughts on local and municipal issues. 111 Sussex Drive hit with Market Value Assessment and Please send me questions you would like WINTER PARKING Ottawa, Ontario, KIN 5A1 we must do everything we can to ensure included by the end of the month and 1 Please remember that overnight Tel: 564-1308 our spending is kept under control. The will do my best to add it. Send it to my winter parking restrictions are in effect. Fax: 564-8412 budget will be debated Feb 20-22. address below or drop it off at my house From November 15 to April 1, you are Freenet: [email protected] Copies of the budget and summary are (14 Pansy Avenue).

BARBARA RAMSAY: OUTSTANDING OTTAWA Gain and Maintain SOUTH RESIDENT Barbara Ramsay, a resident of “We have to do it together,” she Your Momentum Belmont Ave, pharmacist and explains. owner of the Shoppers Drug The Task Force is important to her Mart on Merivale Road, was named because Ramsay believes it's time for the Exemplary Board of Trade/Chamber of government to become a policy forum Commerce Member for her participation and decision maker, with in community and economic implementation left to the private sector. development. Her regional concerns involve good Ramsay says the award shows how transportation to and from other regions business sees itself in the nineties, and and the question of bus expansion. how important community involvement Ramsay believes it is vital for business is. She was both touched and humbled, and community leaders to be involved Momentum Athletics particularly in light of the competition with issues. she faced. Ramsay is also involved on the * COMPLIMENTARY ONE WEEK * FLEXIBLE PAYMENT PLAN Barbara’s business experience has Advisory Council for the Dispensary TRIAL Membership and NO Service Charge taught her the human aspect of her Assistants Program at Algonquin * Membership includes COMPLETE * SAVE UP TO $180.00 with our business is her biggest asset and her College as another way to develop lines FITNESS PROGRAMS Exclusive Prorating Membership biggest challenge. Ensuring everyone is of communication. When business lets Renewal Program working toward the same goal requires the College know what is needed from * Join in February and receive COMPLIMENTARY Momentum * NO INITIATION FEES excellent lines of communication. Her graduates, business gets high quality Athletics' Merchandise involvement with the community employees, students get jobs and includes the Chamber of Commerce and everyone benefits. If you live in the Glebe, Ottawa South, Alta Vista, Billings Bridge or as Co-Chair of the National Capital Her advice to other business people Civic Hospital areas, Momentum Athletics is your best choice for Fun and Fitness ! Transportation Task Force, which takes is simple: get involved with your up most of her time outside work, a community and other areas which impact Conveniently located at work week that can total 75 to 80 hours. on your business. By being part of the But it's rewarding, she says, and process, she says, you will reap rewards 858 Bank St. at 5th Ave. emphasizes there are unsung heroes that can't be expressed in terms of In the Heart of Glebe helping to build community around us. statues and presentations. There's a She sees the challenge of a healthy fundamentally good feeling in being part 237-4747 private sector as one of communication. of the process of change. FEBRUARY 1995 ♦ THE OSCAR ♦ PAGE 6

HOLDING THE 3 REASONS TO CALL MOUSING ABOUT LINE ON TAXES BY JACQUELIN HOLZMAN FOR YOUR TRAINING NEEDS! MAYOR OF OTTAWA Our work to provide quality services and to lower taxes continues at City Hall. Your previous City Council initiated a restructuring of municipal government which saw a reduction in the number of City departments from 12 to 9, a streamlined fire department and a phased-in “pay-as-you-go” approach to capital spending designed to reduce what the city pays in interest and principal on its debt. These challenges set the stage for Council to approve of Comp' last year's budget with an increase of one half of # # one per cent, the lowest tax increase since 1988. 1 Time 3 Software Last month, your new City Council approved At Mousing About, our time is your time, we offer training TRAINING AVAILABLE the next phase of our fight to keep taxes down. to fit your schedule. Each tutorial takes place when it is FOR THESE CURRENT The City's Enhanced Retirement Program (ERP) convenient for you the student. When you register, you SOFTWARE TITLES will enable approximately 200 eligible City will be asked when you want to schedule your tutorial, you TELECOMMUNICATIONS employees to retire early. The program, which AND THE INTERNET decide what time and what day would be best for you, it’s Getting Online • Navigating the Internet Council approved at its December 21 meeting, that simple. Navigating World Wide Web will result in cost savings of $9 million annually Faxing/archiving, Optical Character Recognition, and Fax Management by 1996. # WORD PROCESSING Our broader plan is to reduce the City of Lotus AmiPro •Microsoft Word • WordPerfect 2 Task Based Training Microsoft Write • WinPost • Microsoft Works Ottawa's annual budget by $20 million within At Mousing About, we offer “Task Based Training”, a unique DRAWING/DESKTOP PUBLISHING three years. To meet this goal. City staff have Corel Draw • Aldus/Adobe PageMaker and exclusive training experience. “Task Based Training” QuarkXPress • Corel Ventura been challenged to find more efficient ways of is different from other learning systems as it teaches you Microsoft PalntBrush doing business. Over the next six months, all of howto complete specific activities or tasks. When registering PERSONAL INFORMATION MANAGERS the City's services, business practices and (PIM's) for a tutorial, you will be asked not only what software ECCO Professional* ECCO Simplicity procedures will be reviewed. Changes identified Info Central • Maximizer package you want to learn, but also what task you want Lotus Organizer • Polaris PackRat by this comprehensive Corporate Renewal Microsoft Clock, Calendar, Notepad, to be able to complete. and Cardfile inWindows process will be implemented over the next three SPREADSHEET years. Lotus 1-2-3 • Microsoft Excel • QuattroPro This strategy will help City Council to hold the DATABASE line on taxes, eliminate the need for the City to Training Hours Microsoft Access • Lotus Approch Mon.-Tat 9:00 am -10:00 pm • Sun. 1:00 pm-10:00 pm Borland Paradox borrow money within 10 years and provide better PRESENTATIONS service to the public. It will also prepare the City Lotus Freelance • Microsoft PowerPoint ms COA\PUTEN CLUB Novell/WP Presentations for the expiry of the Social Contract in 1996 and THE OFFICE SUITES the freezing of transfer payments from the Microsoft Office Professional Province and grants-in-lieu from the Federal Mon.-Fri. 4-5 pm $15.95/hr. Novell/WP Perfect Office Saturday 9-5 pm $14.95/hr. Lotus SmartSuite Government. Sunday 1-5 pm $14.95/hr. A WIDE VARIETY OF CREATIVE WRITING, MATHEMATICS, INFORMATION AND 1995 BUDGET DELIBERATIONS GAMES FOR CHILDREN INCLUDING: 8 Aladdin's Activity Centre • Microsoft Artist City Council's 1995 Budget deliberations Microsoft Creative Writer • Microsoft Encarta Reservations & Information Math Blaster • Novell/WP Memphis Math (delayed this year because of the municipal Disney The Lion King election) will take place from February 20-22 in call 230-3350 NOTE: IN ADDITION, WE OFFER Victoria Hall. Members of the public will have an Mon. to Fri. 9:00 am to 5:00 pm TRAINING IN A WIDE VARIETY OF SOFTWARE PACKAGES NOT opportunity to appear before Council to address LISTED HEREI budget items at sessions to be held on February 103-858 BANK STREET PLEASE CALL TO FIND OUT MORE! ( just south of 5th Avenue ) 16- 17. For further information, please call 564-1400.

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THE ROYAL COMMISSION OF LEARNING /" BY DALTON MCGUINTY, MPP, OTTAWA SOUTH P.W.DEN Y The long-awaited report on • that a cap of $20,000 would be frustration with our educational RES I D E N T I A L education has now been placed on trustees salaries; system. The question that needs to be BUILDING AND CONTRACTING released. It contains many • that one student representative sit on answered is: how can we improve the recommendations, including the each school board; system to provide an affordable, Personal Service By A Qualified, Experienced, Insured following: I am generally pleased with the quality education that will equip our Contractor/Lie Carpenter • that the fifth year of high school be report from the Royal Commission on students with the tools necessary to -Warranty 6c References discontinued; Learning in that it recognizes the need compete in the 21st century? • that children as young as three attend to return to a core curriculum, I would be pleased to have your school; standardized testing, enhanced teacher comments on the report and its • that curriculum responsibility rest education and more community recommendations. with the Ministry of Education rather involvement in local schools. Access Ontario, which is the than local school boards; Although Ontario spends $14 Government of Ontario book store, has • that all students in Grades 3 and 11 billion yearly on education, many, a summary of the report priced at For Free Estimates Call undergo literacy and numeracy tests; many parents, students and teachers $4.00. If you would like to order one, Paul Denys 236-6516 ♦ Ask About My House Inspection Service* • that teachers take two years of have expressed disappointment and call Access Ontario at 238-3630. training rather than one; FEBRUARY 1995 ♦ THE OSCAR ♦ PAGE 7

TRAFFIC WATCH

THE STREETS OF FINAL PUBLIC MEETING FOR OLD OTTAWA SOUTH... OLD OTTAWA SOUTH BY GREG WRIGHT Would you believe that 88% of the posted speed limit (i.e. 50 km/hr) is drivers using Riverdale too high? Or perhaps that the TRANSPORTATION AND during the day exceed the psychological feel of those streets is too speed limit, as opposed to only 3% on inviting to speeding? PARKINGSTUDY Belmont (near Fairbaim), or 26% on Much has happened since our last Seneca (near Pansy)? Similarly, do you report in the January OSCAR. There The City of Ottawa and your community are think that many of the cars that seem to have been focus group meetings on the working together on the Ottawa South be "racing" down Old Ottawa South subjects of Bank Street parking and streets during rush hours belong to non- residential on-street parking, as well as Transportation and Parking Study. During this residents looking for shortcuts? Would it with the operators of Brewer Park. study, traffic and parking problems in the area surprise you to learn that such “visitors’ Councillor Watson convened a meeting actually account for only some 20% of on January 24th with Carleton from Carleton University to the west, the our traffic? University about their plans to address Rideau Canal to the north, Main Street to the Did you know that an estimated 200 their parking demand situation. east and the Rideau River to the south, have cars belonging to Carleton students find There was a “design charette” on their way into Brewer Park and Old January 23rd at the Firehall involving been identified and solutions developed. Ottawa South Streets each school day almost 20 Old Ottawa South residents Based on information from the design charette (and evening!). Or perhaps that the trying their hand at actually designing parking spots along busy Bank Street appropriate and innovative traffic held in January and the last public meeting at are actually only occupied about 35% of calming measures for possible the beginning of February, we have developed the time during the week and 45% on implementation in our neighbourhood. a traffic calming and parking plan for review. Saturdays? And, as you might have gathered from Do these figures ring true to you? All the intro, there has been numerous data of the above, and many more, are gathering exercises conducted to provide The purpose of this public meeting is to: derived from recent data gathering a proper data base to guide planning and exercises, using industry standard priority setting. • review traffic calming and parking plans sampling practices, and conducted by the Things are happening so quickly that, • review the proposed staging and engineering firms of McCormick Rankin by the time you read this, some of the and Morrison Hershfield as part of the information will already be obsolete, for implementation plan current study of traffic and parking in on February 1st, the Third Public • provide you with the opportunity to Old Ottawa South. While much of die Meeting on Traffic and Parking would discuss the plans before completion data are highly corroborative of the have been held at the Firehall, at which impressions that many of us have shared our consultant team would have for years (such as the massive speeding presented all of the statistical data, plus The success of this study depends on your problem along Riverdale and the results of the focus groups and the Sunnyside), some of the data give us design charette, with a view to initiating involvement pause for reflection. the discussion as to the solutions For example, many seem to think available to our community. Those of The meeting will be an open house from 7 to that traffic tends to speed along Grove you attending have a leg up-on the rest, or Cameron; yet the data reflect a who'll have to wait until the next 9 pm with a presentation at 7:30 p.m. ^ compliance rate in excess of 90%. Does OSCAR edition for an update on the this signify that there's no real problem outcome of that public meeting. (xi those streets? Or does this mean that WHEN AND WHERE Date: March 30,1995 7* Time: 7:00-9:00 ^ Place: The Old Firehall, 260 Sunnyside Avenue FRIDAY SPORTS NIGHT IF YOU CANNOT ATTEND? FOR YOUTH If you cannot attend the meeting, you can When: Friday Night obtain more information by calling: / Time: 7 - 9:30pm Mr. Ken Gosselin Where: Hopewell Gyms (Sunnyside just west of Bank) McCormick Rankin Consulting Engineers Cost: SLoonie ($1) each time you drop in 736-7200 (Phone) What: ë BASKETBALL 736-8710 (Fax) ë FLOOR HOCKEY or ë VOLLEYBALL Mr. Paul Nyirongo ë BADMINTON City of Ottawa ë MONTHLY OUTTRIPS (wave pool, movies, hockey 564-1895 (Phone) games, etc.) ë ANYTHING YOU WANT TO Do... 564-4678 (Fax) g^No REGISTRATION is neccessary, just DROP IN For more information, call Aimee or Dinos at 564 - 1064 FEBRUARY 1995 ♦ THE OSCAR ♦ PAGE 8 EPILOGUE: ITALIAN RENAISSANCE IN OTTAWA SOUTH BY DAVID BOUSE The day after I submitted my ten or fifteen years ago in an article on Palladian windows to Environment Canada display of homes OSCAR, and a week after I left a with low heat loss. Renato says it was note on his door, the owner of 58 Fulton built that way; he hasn't done any major called to tell me about My Favourite retrofitting. Ottawa South Window. Renato Nicoletti When I asked him how he felt about was was bom and schooled in Vincenza. the Palladian window in his house, Vincenza, near Venice, happens to be Renato said, “It makes me feel good to the birthplace of the Palladian style of look at it; I will never change that window developed during the window; it has some special Renaissance. This apparent coincidence architectural value for me”. He feels the made me take an immediate liking to same about the front porch. “I won't dare Renato. In Vincenza he studied to tear it down; it goes with the architectural and cabinet-making design window”. and became a model-maker and teacher. Today he works at bathroom and In 1957 he came to Canada for kitchen renovations and other types of reasons which aren't exactly clear. “It cabinet-making. Renato also told me he was just a dream, I guess,” Renato says, has a gift for reverse perspective “a friend was coming to Canada and I analysis. (OSCAR readers who recall my felt I should go too; I don't know why”. sketch of Carleton University as it would A few years lata* he bought the house on have looked had it been built at Rideau Fulton from the original owner, a doctor Gardens may understand how one from Australia. The builder’s name was applies the principles of reverse Moore. Renato’s sister-in-law lived in perspective analysis. Recent Palladian windows retain the harmonious form without another of Moore’s houses on Fulton While writing my windows article for attached decoration. Photo by D. Bouse (but without a Palladian window), until this issue of OSCAR, I knew it would be the 1970s. Renato's house was so of interest for me to contact the owner of well-built, he explained to me, an aerial 58 Fulton but little did I realize just how thermograph of the house was featured interesting.

NEWNE'' WNEWN & A DEFENSIVE mratwaie DRIVING COURSE % BY RICK SUTHERLAND, RFP m *1 BANK ST. AT SECOND AVE. I covered much of this in my January up to 20% of y our RRSP contribution article, but the race is still on and I want outside Canada? This offers you to be "steering" in the right additional growth opportunities, direction. f Consolidate your RRSP holdings for BULK FASTENERS Avoid being hit with heavy 1994 easier record keeping - and better income taxes. Park an RRSP growth. contribution by Wednesday, March 1, There is no limit to the number of 1995. RRSPs you can own. To reduce fees •METRIC The Minister of Finance has stated and maintain better control, often that the next federal budget will consolidate your savings into a self- •STAINLESS STEEL contain major changes in how Canadians directed RRSP. are taxed and there are no "sacred f Monthly investing makes sense. cows.” You can pre-authorize a monthly -K.D. FURNITURE There have been many rumours that contribution to your RRSP. Benefit RRSPs are on a collision course. It is from dollar cost averaging through -BRASS speculated that RRSP investments will regular contributions, lose their tax benefits. So far these are f Avoid taking a short-term view. -MISC HARDWARE just rumours, but we know that any RRSPs build wealth for the long £ changes will be detrimental to RRSP term. investors. Anticipate an accident f As a last resort, consider borrowing • TAPCON before it occurs. to contribute. CONCRETE FASTENERS SEVEN SAFE DRIVING TIPS: It may make sense to borrow f Contribute as much and as early as money to invest in an RRSP. You can pay off part of your debt with your tax Ask for Details you can before budget day while We Deliver existing rules are still in place. refund. STORE HOURS 234 - 6353 Time, money, compounding and Check your 1993 income tax tax savings are powerful assessment for Revenue Canada's MON-WED 8:30 AM TO 6 PM combinations. calculation of your unused RRSP THURS & FRI 8:30 AM TO 9 PM f Consider a spousal RRSP. contribution room. Try to "gear up" to SAT 8:30 AM TO 6 PM You get tax savings while the your limit. If you need advice on how to best SUN 11 AM TO 4 PM money compounds tax-free in your spouse's name. This could mean carry out these defensive driving significant tax savings upon options, contact your financial retirement It's better to have two advisor. equal incomes in lower tax brackets This is a monthly article on than one in a higher bracket financial planning. Call with your topic WNEWNEW v Take advantage of the foreign suggestions. To receive previous content allowance. articles, please contact Rick Did you know that you can invest Sutherland, RFP, at 226-7974. FEBRUARY 1995 ♦ THE OSCAR ♦ PAGE 9 ITALIAN RENAISSANCE IN OTTAWA SOUTH BY DAVID BOUSE

PALLADIAN WINDOWS POPULAR AGAIN Inn day-to-dayday-to-day livingliving inm this a modest but outstanding combination of community, few people consider the classical elements incorporated into an •architectural; origins and richness of otherwise plain structure. My second the various styles of windows about us. choice would be 13 Ossington, where the One such style, the so-called “Palladian” window visually competes with an (X* Venetian window, was developed over elaborate front porch also drawing 400 years ago by the most influential heavily from classical motifs. Both these architect of the Renaissance, Andre examples are contained within a dormer. Palladio. His research into Classical Other examples of Palladian architecture and subsequent use of windows can be found at 36 Ossington, proportion and placement of elements is 43 Glen, 48 & 50 Hopewell, 89 said to have produced works of art out of Bellwood, 223, 384, 398, & 402 commonplace materials. The style was Sunnyside and 309 Riverdale. Of these popularized in England 200 years later examples, 223 Sunnyside is the best by the Earl of Burlington as part of a presented in an architectural sense, return to the romantic style of cultural although the sloping site makes viewing expression and earlier building forms. the window difficult unless one is Palladian windows are distinguished deliberately looking for it. by a half-circle arched opening flanked Examples of new construction occur by two smaller, square-topped openings. in two- and four-plex structures found at This style has an unexplainable appeal. 14, 16, 18, & 20 Leonard, 46 & 56 When proportioned well, these windows Barton, 445,447,449, & 451 Riverdale One of Old Ottawa South’s most architecturally pleasing windows seem to strike an inner cord of visual and 13A, 13B, 15A & 15B Windsor. at 58 Fulton St. Photo by D. Bouse harmony. The last eight examples have their In Old Ottawa South, there are Palladian windows alternating front and several dozen examples of Palladian back for every other unit. windows; half dating from the era 60-70 These windows are more than years ago, the others from within the transmitters of light or minor past few years. Nearly all are as a single architectural novelties. They serve as architectural element located on the third objective evidence of the cyclic interest or top-most storey. Only two are in romanticism and the past. These glass contained within a dormer. and wood (and metal in the new Everyone enjoys these windows, even examples) forms have been shaped as an without knowing about them and their echo of Palladio's restrained expression r¥iiWi tB^üwnrn origin. For example, when the topic was of Classicism and are part of the heritage first suggested to Peter Hecht, OSCAR of the European Renaissance. They are editor, he stated enthusiastically that he also part of the heritage of Ottawa found the style “delightful” and he South. enjoyed finding the occasional example in Ottawa South. Later, after the Ottawa David Bouse has been a regular Citizen ran a confusing article on these contributor to OSCAR for more than 15 windows, he was glad to have a clear years. His articles include work on explanation of this attractive gardens and history. He is a retired architectural motif. heritage conservation architect My favourite window in Ottawa currently working as a volunteer health South is located at 58 Fulton, as part of and social services lobbyist.

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Original Palladian motif; Basilica, Vicenza, Italy, circa 1550. Drawing by D. Bouse

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1995 Budget Budget 1995 Members of the public are invited to Le public est invité à présenter son point address Ottawa City Council about the de vue sur le budget de 1995 au Conseil 1995 budget on February 16 and 17, 1995 municipal d'Ottawa les 16 et 17 février in Victoria Hall at City Hall. 1995 à la salle Victoria de l'hôtel de ville. Pour ce faire, les intéressés doivent réserver une période de présentation A time slot must be booked ahead if you want to address City en téléphonant au 564-1400. Les présentations sont limitées à 5 minutes. Council. You may book a time by calling (564-1400). Presentations Des services d'interprétation simultanée sont offerts. are limited to five minutes. Simultaneous interpretation is available. Le budget 1995 a été rendu public le 9 janvier. Les documents du budget The 1995 Budget was released on January 9, 1995. Budget sont à la disposition du public à toutes les succursales de la Bibliothèque documents are available at all Ottawa Public Library branches, City publique d'Ottawa, aux centres communautaires et casernes de pompiers of Ottawa community centres and fire stations, as well as at the de la Ville d'Ottawa ainsi qu'au Centre d'information, rez-de-chaussée, Information Centre, 1st level, Bytown Pavilion, City Hall, 111 Sussex Dr. pavillon Bytown, hôtel de ville, 111, promenade Sussex. On peut Information on the budget is also available on the National Capital également obtenir de l'information sur le budget en consultant le menu de FreeNet under the City of Ottawa menu. la Ville d'Ottawa du réseau FreeNet de la capitale nationale. A special meeting of City Council to consider and approve the Le Conseil municipal tiendra une réunion extraordinaire en vue budget will be held on February 20-22 beginning at 9:15 a.m. in d'examiner et d'approuver le budget du 20 au 22 février à compter Victoria Hall. de 9 h 15 à la salle Victoria. 1995 Interim Taxes for Taxes provisoires de 1995 Municipal and Educational Services pour les Services municipaux et scolaire Early in February, the City of Ottawa will issue an interim bill for the first Au début du mois de février, la Ville d'Ottawa va émettre une facture provisoire portion of 1995 realty (property) and business taxes. pour la première tranche des taxes foncières (propriété) et des taxes d'affaires. Les factures provisoires doivent être payées aux dates suivantes : Interim tax payments are due on the following dates: • Taxes foncières : 28 février, 31 mars • Realty Tax: February 28, March 31 • Taxes d'affaires : 28 février • Business Tax: February 28 Une pénalité de 1,25 % est ajoutée aux factures en souffrance le jour suivant l'échéance et le A penalty of 1.25% for late payment is added the day after the due date and the first day premier jour de chaque mois par la suite. of each month thereafter. La Ville d'Ottawa offre les options suivantes pour régler le montant de vos taxes : The City of Ottawa offers these tax payment options: • Un rabais pour le règlement anticipé des factures de taxes provisoire et • Discount for early payment of total interim tax bill by February 28 finale d'ici au 28 février For realty taxes only. Pour les taxes foncières seulement. • NEW discount for early payment of total estimated • Un NOUVEAU rabais pour le règlement anticipé du montant total estimatif 1995 tax bill (interim and final) by February 28 des taxes de 1995 (provisoire et finale) d'ici au 28 février For realty and business taxes. Pour les taxes foncières et les taxes d'affaires. • Pre-authorized payments • Prélèvement automatique The amounts due will be withdrawn automatically Les montants dûs sont prélevés automatiquement de votre compte from your bank account. en banque. • Monthly payment plan • Régime de paiements mensuels Between February and December, a monthly payment De février à décembre, un montant mensuel sera prélevé automatiquement will be withdrawn automatically from your bank account. de votre compte en banque. Ces options sont décritès sur votre facture de taxes. On peut également Details about these options are provided with your tax bill. obtenir des renseignements et des formulaires de demande - Régime des Information and an application form for pre-authorized and monthly paiements mensuels et Prélèvement automatique en consultant le menu de payments are also available on the National Capital FreeNet under la Ville d'Ottawa du réseau Libertel (FreeNet) de la capitale nationale. Si the City of Ottawa menu. If you do not receive your first bill by vous n'avez pas reçu votre première facture d'ici au 13 février 1995 ou si February 13, 1995, or if you need more information, contact the Tax vous souhaitez obtenir de plus amples renseignements, veuillez Office, City of Ottawa, 111 Sussex Drive, 3rd Floor, Sussex Pavilion communiquer avec le Bureau des taxes, Ville d'Ottawa, 111, prom. Sussex, (old City Hall building), or call (613) 564-1211 weekdays from 8:30 a.m. 3e étagé, pavillon Sussex (vieil hôtel de ville) ou composez le to 4:30 p.m. (613) 564-1211 en semaine, de 8 h 30 à 16 h 30. Private Swimming Lessons Des leçons privées de natation All City of Ottawa Pools offer private swimming Toutes les piscines de la Ville d’Ottawa offrent des lessons. leçons de natation privées. Take advantage of one of the following options: Profitez d’une de ces possibilités : 1 participant : 10 $ la demi-heure 1 participant: $10 per half-hour 2 participants : 8,50 $ la demi-heure par personne 2 participants: $8.50 per person per half-hour 3 participants: $7.50 per person per half-hour 3 participants : 7,50 $ la demi-heure par personne Communiquez avec la piscine de votre quartier pour Just call your neighbourhood pool for all the details. tous les détails. Notice to City of Ottawa Pet Owners! Avis de la Ville d'Ottawa aux propriétaires Have to purchase or renew your City of Ottawa dog license? d'animaux! Want an identification tag for your cat? Vous devez acheter ou renouveler votre permis de propriétaire Need information about City of Ottawa animal-related de chien? Vous voulez une médaille d'identification pour votre by-laws or programmes? chat? Vous aimeriez obtenir des renseignements sur les règlements ou les programmes de la Ville d'Ottawa concernant Visit our Animal Sen/ices Information Booth at: les animaux domestiques? • Westgate Shopping Mall- February 3 and 4 Rendez-vous à notre Centre d’information sur les services • Elmvale Shopping Centre - February 10 and 11 animaliers qui sera : • Lincoln Heights Galleria - February 17 and 18 • au Centre commercial Westgate les 3 et 4 février • au Centre commercial Elmvale les 10 et 11 février Information • aux Galeries de Lincoln Heights les 17 et 18 février Licensing, Transportation & Parking Branch r Information 564-1457. Direction des permis, des transports et du stationnement 564-1457 FEBRUARY 1995 ♦ THE OSCAR ♦ PAGE 11 THE OSCAR BOOKSHELF MANE LINE: BY BILL TWATIO FEBRUARY HAIR LIFT DIETS FROM HELL BY CHRISTA BERNIER “Imprisoned in every fat man a thin one is wildly signalling to be let y Februaiy, most of us are This method is less painfull for you and out. ” Cyril Connolly, The Unquiet Grave B experiencing the winter blahs. your hair. n recent weeks, newsstands across beverage sales are advancing at triple the I Our sun streaks have dulled and Sometimes a blending of two shades the country have featured a rate of all other food and drink with a we are getting a prominent darker root great for a natural look. Color will also seemingly endless display of market of over $40 million last year. are. What we need is some shine to add body to the soft, limp hair and will magazines with garish cover stories on Weight Watchers, founded in 1964, restore the lost hair lustre. brighten up that dull winder look. Call diet and health. Newsweek had “The enrolled 10 million people within a Give your hair a lift by adding some your hair specialist for a consultation. Skinny on Fat” on its cover, the title decade and saw its revenues rise from color. With low lift or highlights, it can Christa Bernier welcomes hair superimposed on a piece of $160,000 to $39 million. Nutri/System be as dramatic or as subtle as you would questions and can be reached at The Cut unappetizing-looking pizza. Time earned $50 million from 360 franchises like it. On long hair, you should Above, 523-1100. presented “The Girth of a Nation” and in 1991 alone. definitely go with the foil technique. informed us that "Despite the Health Slimming programs from Horace Craze, Americans are Fatter than ever”. Fletcher's campaign for slow eating - he The grossly overweight family crowding was known as the “Great Masticator” its cover left us with little doubt. Life and exhorted his followers to “Denticate, posed “28 Questions About Fat”, and Chump and Grind” their food at 100 the Canadian clone Maclean's weighed chews a minute - to Jane Fonda's ^07ie/ 0ea> fSarùp^y in with “The War on Fat: Bad Diets and Workout and Buttock Tucks appear out Good Alternatives”. It was enough to of nowhere like barbarian hordes or the put one off one's fettucine alfredo. plague and seem to disappear as swiftly The Glebe's original community tea bar featuring Slimness has become an obsession as they came. As a result, we’ve had a an impressive collection of teas, tea accessories & with us and dieting is now part of the century of failed diets. unique gifts. Relax in our tearoom. Indulge in fabric of everyday life. Diet food and the aromas. (We roast coffee too)

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Hillel Schwartz, a relatively slim mention corpulence and stiffer penalties sociologist at the University of are recommended for excessive fasting. California, notes that obsessive dieting Penance was lightest for sociable is a reçoit phenomenon. Each epoch has overindulgence at meals. magazine was speculating that “it would Vincent Peale with Muscles” syndicated different tolerances for body weight and In late medieval morality plays, there be interesting if some student of his television calisthenics program. By different aesthetic standards. In most were warnings about Gluttony, and manners would trace with precision the 1960, it was the most-watched show in cultures, plumpness has been associated sinners were depicted at banquets in process whereby what finicking people the United States and his books were with prosperity and it is only in this Hell, where sauces were seasoned with called “embonpoint” came into general bestsellers. “I'm as dedicated to this as century that slimness has been sulphur and where devils stuffed them discredit. Fat is now regarded as an Billy Graham,” said Jack. “He puts considered desirable let alone attractive. with toad from stinking rivers. On the indiscretion and almost a crime.” people in shape for the hereafter, and I Rubens's nudes, for example, paragons other hand, there were paradises for Medicines, prescription and patent, get them fit for the here and now.” He of 17th century female beauty, are hardly gourmands, like Breughel's Land of began to appear on the market along was undaunted when an imaginative anorexic. Cockaigne and Hans Sach's with reducing machines like the critic of excercise as a weight-reducer Schwartz points out that during Schlaraffenland with pork porches, Lambert-Snyder Health Vibrator, the claimed that a dieter clambering up the centuries of European image-making sausage fences and wine wells. A 1606 Neal Reducing Belt and the To-Kalon 2,240 steps of the Empire State Building about food and eating, the aesthetic and Italian map of the Land of Cake shows Keapshape Reducing Corset, forerunners would lose less than six ounces. To lose theological emphasis was placed on the lakes of fresh butter, ravioli trees and of today's-vibrating tables Jacuzzis and an entire pound, he or she would have to act of overeating itself and not on the clouds of fried fowl. In modem times, plastic sweatsuits - all instruments of the lay 14,731 bricks or scrape dirty laundiy size or shape of the eater. Manuals of medical epitaphs were substituted for devil. The most most popular was the across a washboard 2,100 times an hour penance from the Middle Ages never moral warnings. By 1914, Living Age Body Taper-Trim Shirt. “It Literally for 28 hours straight. Melts the Fat Off Your Body - Like A There is a growing protest against the Blow Torch Would Melt Butter*1, the ads despotism of slimness. A new study by promised. Appetite suppressants like the U.S. Institute of Medicine suggests KELLY FUNERAL HOMES Anocrecine, Ayds, Eveiy Woman's that obesity may be linked to genetics. It Bowies

...17 YEARS AGO IN OSCAR LOGGING-ON TO FREENET From January 1978, the front page of OSCAR. In this year, there were BY PETER HECHT two January issues, although they have different volume numbers. If anyone The FreeNet, the National Capital sponsors are being sought to install more knows the answer to this, please contact us.. FreeNet, that is, is now entering access lines. into its third year. It is hard to So anyway, there I was, logging in as believe that it was just about two years a “guest”! What should I look at? There ago that it started out as a sort of were so many areas as well as the on-line cyberthought in the minds of some registration process. I did that, and I’ve community infoniks at Carleton U at the sent in my application form and start of 1993. It seems like forever since donation. Soon, you’ll be able to send they addressed an OSCA meeting in the me e-mail at [email protected]. Look

OTTAWA SOUTH COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION REVIEW hopes of getting a terminal installed at out Jim Watson! I’ll read it if ever I can Volume 5 January 1978 N\enbc-r 4 the Firehall (no space). log in again. Still, please send stuff For other matters, whether routine or catastrophic, Cassey has a fairly dependable barometer to help him guage public weather patterns — the telephone. An Now, two years later, the term freenet directly to the Firehall if you want me to average day could bring five or six phone calls from people looking for jobs, newcomers to the community looking for housing, or residents inquiring into city has entered the jargon of computer get it on time. Then I went to look at planning issues. But on more crucial items such as last winter's proposed plan to dump snow on residents' information users. In the meantime, the community associations. Lo and behold, front lawns, the bells start ringing. “We must have had sixty or seventy calls a day on that one," says Cassey, ''and because of these protests, we were able NCF (National Capital FreeNet to all of there was OSCA. There are “reports” on to block that proposal."

An Interview Although an Alderman with Casscy's territory has to you out there who are not yet on it) is the what OSCA is, how it functions and with our keep his eyes peeled for external and internal factors which affect his ward, particularly (in the face of second largest “freenet” in the world, what it does along with a few of the Ottawa's extensive and rapid growth, he says Alderman the email day-to-day things mean a lot to him too. "Helping a person—whether it's snow removal, or a with over 36,000 registered users from movers including yours truly. lighting problem or a sidewalk problem — is rewarding. When you call on somebody and the job has been completed and you see how happy they are, it means Ottawa and stretching to Vancouver, As well as OSCA, FreeNet also has

Joe Cassey doesn't have much time for red tape or bureaucratic sludg< . Instead, this big, affable After a little nudging, Cassey will spin the odd Yellowknife, South Africa, Eastern over 250 other Information Providers (as Capital Ward Alderman'believes in behind-the-scenes story of people he's been able to help. There was wrangling to get results. one elderly lady whose neighbour's tree had fallen onto her property. Upon calling City Hall she found Europe and Japan. It is also connected to they are known) on-line, including the "If I were electing an Alderman, I'd want to know how .that because It lay on private property, it was a effective he was in the back room," says Cassey, legal problem between neighbours and the City didn't the Internet (who hasn’t heard that term Alzheimer Society, the Carleton "It's one thing to get up and make speeches -- politi- want to get involved. "By going over myself and cians are famous for that — but I Judge a man on what talking to the woman next door to her, and recruiting he can produce in the back rooms in order to get the three or four people from the neighbourhood, we cut yet?) which allows many more Mediation Centre, the Rideau River kind of legislation and the kinds of things that I the tree up and hauled it away," said Cassey. "That want for my neighbourhood." to me is a way you solve the problem for everybody thousands, maybe millions, to look at the Conservation Project, the Geological Contrary to what most people think, says Cassey, even without hurting anyone—and we all enjoyed doing it." after something is voted into the budget it can some- One of the more recent problems that Cassey helped times take years before City Hall acts on it. Often, out with, and one that gained a little notoriety information and material on the Survey of Canada, as well as various it takes persistence by the Ward Alderman at the around town was the Dresden Cafe's parking battle. political level to get the bureaucratic ball rolling The new bylaw required that the cafe owner provided NCFreeNet. foreign embassies and federal, on a particular item. 13 one-site parking spots for the 26-seat capacity If Alderman Cassey's apparent disdain for slowpoke inside. Because there was no room for parking the administrators appears uncharitable, it does seem to City asked that he pay cash in lieu of parking, a With this in mind, after many months provincial, regional and municipal arise from a genuine desire to get things accomplished. mere $70,000. "When he came to me, it became a case Several years ago, when City Council planned to replace again of working behind the scenes to convince the of procrastination enhanced by a sort of governments. When you are a registered Pretoria bridge with a couple of others across the planning board to throw out that part of the parking canal, Cassey rallied the troops and stopped the bylaw, which they did. They reverted in this case decision cold, despite the fact that it had already to the old-bylaw which allowed him an exemption on nervous fear of getting lost on the user, you can get and send almost any reached the architect's drawing board. his first 500 square feet. Because he only had 350 square feet he got his licence without paying a cent Inspired by the discovery that City Hall could Indeed for parking—which seems only'reasonable to me for ' information highway, OSCAR took at kind of information to and from these as fight»'Cassey entered municipal politics formally in somebody opening a new business like a cafe." 1972 to serve one term as Alderman in Wellington Ward. In 1974 he ran for-Board of Control but the 25,000 Looking towards the future, Cassey talks of the inter- look onto FreeNet (well actually, your well as individuals. votes he nfanaged to bank fell 1,000 short of his dependency of communities and the challenges of opponent. Since his re-election to city politics rapid growth. He doesn’t agree with the Mayo Report's last December he's managed-to Join no fewer than 14 extimate of one million residents in the Ottawa area editor did). I actually managed to get We’ve decided to work at putting committees, Including the Community Development by the year 2000, but feels that 750,000 to 8000,000 Committee, the Regional Transportation Committee, might not be too far out of line. In discussing limits through all those busy signals and get OSCAR there too so you’ll be able to the Lansdowne Park Roard of Directors and Canada's to growth, he feels there's a lot to be said for the Capital Visitors and Convention Bureau. concept of satellite cities that might help ease transportation, employment and recreational problems. my modem to work right. Information look up back articles or get OSCAR Despite the energy he devotes to City Council and com- mittee work, Joe Cassey feels he's well plugged-in As for industrial growth, Joe Cassey would like to see to the concerns of Ottawa South residents. Through more light Industry move into the area and feels that available at the start of the “session” before it’s delivered (maybe). You’ll regular contact with OSCA President Dung Menagh, Ottawa could welcome it without fear of diminishing Cassey is I opt up to date on community feelings about our quality of life. "I wouldn't particularly like broader issues. At the same time he provides Doug with to see a steel mill set up shop, but there's a lot indicates that there are now 36,000 even be able to get OSCAR when you intelligence on what's happening politically. Monday to be said for secondary industris that would create morning meetings with Ottawa South Planning Officer more employment. "We have a wonderful city in Ottawa, people registered on the FreeNet and are away from home (anywhere in the Stan Wilder give both men a chance to exchange progress and we still have some room for growth but one day reports on what's happening within the area, and I think we'll have to be realistic and say 'how much compare notes on developments within the Land use, bigger should wc go'". that this number is growing at about world you can connect to the Internet). IranspQrtution and other committees. by Mike Alexander. 140-150 a day. And to think that it’s We’ll keep you posted. Like OSCA and free! Actually, it’s not free since it OSCAR, FreeNet is a community-based handles 12,000 calls a day and it can be resource and it is run by volunteers and hard to fmd a free line among the 170 help is always welcome. If you have any telephone lines it has. How it subsists, is ideas or would like to help OSCA or CANADIAN OSCAR in this service, drop us a line. HEARING by user donations as the base of its SOCIETY $330,000 1995 budget. Each user is Why not give FreeNet a try or two or Services for Deaf, asked to make a donation of any amount three? Deafened, and Hard of Hearing when they register and corporate UjLklk People HEARING LOSS IS LEFT BEHIND ON THE INFORMATION HIGHWAY? BY RON CLARKE This article appeared in Vibrations, office and home-based business. These is crystal clear that Ottawa-Carleton will • going to the office every single day? The Eastern Ontario Planners terms attempt to capture in jargon the be driven by an information and • when we only used the cottage on Newsletter, Winter 94/5. fact that more and more people are knowledge based economy. As such, its weekends? One topic which is gamering far working more and more at home, aided work force will be prime candidates for • the term “head office”? too little attention in by advances in telecommunications taking advantage of technology and of • when houses only had one phone Ottawa-Carleton is the effect equipment and infrastructure (i.e. working at home. This may be voluntary line? that the shift to an information-based telephone, fax, modem personal (for quality-of-life reasons) or • all those business parks we had economy will have on our settlement computers, ISDN-integrated services involuntary (corporate mandate), but the planned? patterns and urban development in digital network). fact is, 10 years from now, more people • when we worried about the balance general. Figures discussed at a recent will be working out of their homes than of jobs and housing? By now, everyone has heard about symposium in Toronto, the first ever today. • when everyone lived within an hour the "information highway" which is Canadian conference on the telework If this is indeed comes true, it begs from town? being implemented across North phenomenon, cited that in 1991, the question as to what will be the • when home based businesses were America. Many are aware of the approximately 6% of paid Canadians implications for community planning. illegal? possibilities that this new technology worked at least some of their regularly The Region is reviewing its Official • when we had to convert our useless may bring to the home and the scheduled hours at home. Some estimate Plan, so let's warp into the future and "living" rooms into “working” marketplace. Terms like teleshopping, over 10% in the next few years. look back at 1994 to see what planners rooms? telemarketing and video-conferencing, The effect of telework and home are saying then about Now. Care to • the first time you surfed on the are finding their way into daily based business in Ottawa-Carleton will reminisce with me? Internet? conversation. most certainly be felt. When you REMEMBER: Hopefully, this raises some Other terms which should be of consider the Region's current • when everyone worked downtown? eye-brows (and some interest) and interest to planners, and other workers, employment profile (one quarter of • when we used to build all those makes us all address the new paradigm include telecommuting, telework, employees in government, alone), and its highways? in employment and the live-work reality telework centres, satellite offices, office future direction (focusing on high-tech, • what the term “secondary of the future. “hotelling”, |elevillages, the virtual telecommunications, biosciences, etc.) it employment centre”meant? Ha! FEBRUARY 1995 ♦ THEOSCAR ♦ PAGE 14

ARTS PAC F apin GP Ottawa Teen to Star as Peter Pan by: Morris Neuman

Mar an Stern, a 15 year old Grade Maran will be joined onstage by 10 student at Glebe Collegiate, has over 40 of the most talented young captured the starring role of Peter people in the region, including in the JCC Theatreworks another Glebe student, Michael production of Peter Pan. She will Caspi, who will play one of be flying across die stage at Captain Hook’s pirates. Peter Pan Arts Court- Nepean’s Centrepointe Theatre this runs from March 8th to the 12th at coming March. Nepean Centrepointe Theatre. Corner In addition to being a member of Anyone wishing to attend a the Glebe student council and a performance can obtain tickets at saxophone player in the senior the Theatre Box Office in person, Here’s a quick look at what’s Workshops concert and stage bands, this or by calling 727-6650. There will coming up at Arts Court over the Independent Film Makars of Hopewell graduate is a multiple- be two special school matinees at next few weeks: Ottawa winner in voice and piano at the noon on March 8 and 10, at ■ v - Kiwanis Music Festival and was $5/ticket (teachers free). School Visual Arts * This unique series of workshops awarded the Savoy Society theatre outings can be arranged brings industry professionals to Scholarship in the Gilbert & through Cathy Beaudoin at 727- February 17 - March 24 small classes and provides Sullivan category. 6655. For more information on Speciology — Susan McEachern intensive, practical overviews of all this production of Peter Pan, & Anne-Marie Bénéteau aspects of 16mm film making. Already a veteran of the musical contact the producer, Pat Neuman These works, ranging from theatre scene in the National at 727-1709. installation to photography, re- February 11, 12, and 25 Capital Region, Maran has examine nature vis-à-vis feminist Film Budgeting with Howard appeared in three other plays over analysis. Perry the past two years. She was featured in the Company of Musical Information: 233-8699 February 26 Theatre productions of Annie and Admission is free. 1st Assistant Directing with Oliver!, and she also cast her spell Howard Parry as the Good Sorceress of the North in the JCC Theatreworks Information: 569-1789. Production of The Wizard of Oz.

Despite this busy schedule, Maran maintains a 90% average in the gifted program at Glebe and finds time to study voice, dance, and HA' I ill Grade 9 piano. At the present time, she is rehearsing for Peter THEATRE Pan three evenings a week and on Sundays. She will shortly spend DOUBLE BILL-2 FILMS fori PRICE time at the theatre learning how to s 730-3403 ADMISSION MEMBERSHIPS^ 12.00 "fly" as the first Peter Pan to soar $5.00 Members VALID FOR I 2 MONTHS 24 HOUR INFO LINE , INC 'Ll JDRS ONE FREE through Nepean’s 6 year old, state- 5/.UU Non-members ADMISSION wrm PURCHASE $3.50 children & seniors MATINEES of-the-art theatre. 13 £ UNOER 6S £ OVER $5.00 & $3.50 CULT BUCK OFF Members $1.00 Off When Maran auditioned for the SUN MONDAYS TUESDAYS WEDNESDAY only

play, the artistic directors were A 11,50 17 10:30 8 50. FEB. 5 lo ZlFEB. 6 FEB. 7 FEB. 8 iiii FEB. 9 FEB. 10 10 40 FEB. 11 },*? Xs 1:30 A 3:25 7:00 LJJC Besson double bill overwhelmed by her sweet voice 7:00 fl» BIGAS LUNAS (subtitles) 7:05 ÜÜ3 7:00 [«gjajjl.otr THE 7:00 lOssfetl and manner. "Maran is Peter Pan, GARY OLDMAN 7 00 «MWiMI Mli!> lHuVNft LION KING. nmirrcoiiiuii GOLDEN if7e CROW 1HE the embodiment of the boy who rniiiiüfliiiiiHi separate admission UNIOR Basils I (subtitles) «BALLS 9:40 (O^sssÇft’ i6 mm would never grow up," says <29 9:00 CD 9:05 8 fbuuuny on \v*4 PHI Mil Hit rhRISTlIf'Ht-H <22> (subtitles) 9:45 iO”WS**r i»mm director Nancy Turner, who has | Eli Wood’s- 9:25 16mm LAMBERT CONNERY IIATEl) 9:10 urn Mi Al l IN A HATED seen many young people develop ttimm TUI! Ml lllU U Jt Mill S [O’SSSrtj An oultooeetit foie ot lo«* one! lood their talent in this region, most NM® It'll Mt |t$»| ft Jl! Mulls 1058 FEB. 12,„44O FEB. 13 FEB. 14 10:46 10 4< 11 recently as Artistic Director and FEB. 15 FEB. 16 FEB. 17 FEB. 18“-" 1:30 r»’y^ & 3:25 rabbits Ualentine’s Day Special 7:00 Genie Award winning filmi*»S3r-t— General Manager of the Ottawa 7:00 LION KING mm Children’s Festival de la Jeunesse. . ,F§| EXOTICA 7:00 «r OR IXtfUershipJJotvns 7 A FILM BY ATOM ECOVAN Maury Chaikin Cynd\ Preston I $I.off irparale admission and roaches. CB> M CD 8:50 Itfeaai 9:00 /a jgfr 9:20 9:40 ibmm lose^r! kdftV ft U $ \ I 11 | A M t S SfAnik jjwjMh tofTKC IIATED ’■“WHALE MUSIC Befit to sit! ukekroaches Support Canadian cinema STARGATE 1105 There is no one chair which suits FEB. 19,,,V FEB. 20 “ “ EB. 21 FEB. 22 “ 4,|FEB. 23 “ FEB. 24 “-2*|FEB. 25 “ 2y| TW 1.34) A .1:25 7:00 everyone. You should try to adjust foVtCROIM 6:55 7:00 DRINK FROM ME AND LIVE FOREVER 7l00 your sitting position to the one that IN TIRVIIilV suits you best. INTERVIEW WITHTHE VAMPIRE VAMPIRE I THE VAMPIRE CHRONICLES 4 I MI \ wriLI ( !'):• is i> 11 \ A helpful hint from the <2D <3S> 9:25 .'AA', Canaiian rAaaociatton CD <):15 ICteSSsrl KOHI R T 1)1 N I KO KINNL1HBRANAGH 9:25 i^^vAOUltacc0M»aammi . , Phyatotharapy canadtonna da mm MARY SHELLEY'S | ■ VWVV* Association phyaktfhérapéa • •• ma mm FRANKENSTEIN FEBRUARY 1995 ♦ THE OSCAR ♦ PAGE IS

ARTS PACE Kqpin FuHer Expose Yourself to Art - What’s Happening at the National Gallery?

There are three new shows opening Works by American The Ravages of War: Print Goya’s Desastres has been in the this spring at the National Gallery Photographer Leon Levinstein Cycles by Francisco Goya and National Gallery’s collection since of Canada, and with the "brrr" (1910-1988) Otto Dix 1933. By pairing two masterpieces back in February, it’s the perfect of anti-war printmaking together, time to stay indoors and expose This exhibition, held now until In celebration of the recent the exhibition allows the viewer to yourself to some culture ... Here’s June 18, highlights works produced acquisition of Otto Dix’s print cycle see both in a new way: the Goya a detailed look at what’s coming between 1950 and 1985. Of the 88 Der Krieg ("The War"), the as an uncanny premonition of up: photographs on view, 23 are part of National Gallery is hosting this modern-day brutalities, and die Dix a generous gift to the National exhibition from now until May 14. as a distinctive twentieth century Norman White: Electronic Gallery from the artist’s nephew As one of the outstanding graphic response to a long tradition of European print-making. Although Sculptures from the Collection Stuart Kara. Leon Levinstein’s achievements of the twentieth these prints were inspired by photographs, shot in streets and century, Der Krieg denounces the different wars in different times, Norman White is a pioneer media other public places, are direct and slaughter of the First World War. their message is arguably as artist from Toronto. Two of his uncompromising, depicting The work was inspired by Goya’s contemporary as photographs or electronic sculptures from the sometimes harsh realities with earlier print series Los Desastres television coverage from Bosnia or National Gallery’s permanent unflinching honesty mingled with a de la Guerra ("The Disasters of Rwanda. collection of contemporary art, deep sense of compassion for his War). Dervish (1974) and Kaleidoscope/ fellow human beings. Calliope (1969-1970) will be on Along with the installation of works Meet exhibition curator Douglas Schoenherr on Sunday April 30 at view from now until April 2. Most of Levinstein’s images are by Alex Colville, Charles Comfort, 3 p.m. in the exhibition area. Two taken from various neighbourhoods Alma Duncan and others in the film showings have also been Dervish is a sculpture whose title in New York City: the Lower East Canadian galleries, this installation scheduled. On February 25 at 2 derives from the whirling dervishes Side, Coney Island, Harlem and is part of the Gallery’s salute to p.m., The Disasters of War by of Islam, dancers who spin wildly Times Square. He also Canada Remembers, honouring Loren Hillebrand and Otto Dix: to achieve an altered state of photographed in Haiti, India and the 50th anniversary of the end of The Painter is die Eves of the consciousness. The work occupies Mexico. Wherever he worked, it the Second World War. World. England, will be shown in an entire room, in which an was not the urban landscape that the auditorium. On April 1 at 2 electronic unit generates white was important. It was the people, Francisco Goya’s print cycle Los p.m., The Disasters of War and All noise while resting on a stand the human element, that caught his Desastres de la Guerra is an illuminated by a single light source attention. His candid street outspoken exposé of die atrocities Quiet on the Western Front by Lewis Milestone will be shown in from above. The sound starts in portraits are expressive, with a committed against the Spanish the auditorium. Talks by Claude one of the work’s eight speakers sense of intimacy appearing in people by invading Napoleonic and whirls around the room at an much of his work. Levinstein died armies. Approximately one Dupuis will be held February 23 at 6 p.m., and March 5, April 23 and accelerating rate, slows down, in New York City in 1988. hundred years later, Goya's print stops, and then repeats the process. series was the inspiration for die May 14 at 3 p.m. in the exhibition area. The overall effect is said to carry Lectures: A Walker in the City print portfolio Der Krieg by Otto the participant into a space of will be held on February 12 at 2 Dix (1891-1969), a gut-wrenching spinning sound. p.m.. It will be given by Robert denunciation of the slaughter die For more information on what’s Shamis, guest curator and author of artist witnessed during the First happening at the National Gallery, Kaleidoscope/Calliope is more the exhibition catalogue. The World War. call Marie Lugli at 990-6835. visual than Dervish. As die tide second lecture, Remembering Leon suggests, this piece works like a Levinstein on March 26, will be kaleidoscope, displaying constandy- given by Helen Gee, a writer, changing symmetrical patterns by curator, and founder of the the use of flashing neon lights. A Limelight Gallery, New York calliope is an instrument consisting (1954-61). of steam whisdes tuned to produce musical notes. In this sculpture, Tours with Alexandre Castonguay, electronic circuits constructed of art educator, will be provided on MULTIMEDIA OTTAWA 95 salvaged computer boards March 5, May 21 and June 11 at orchestrate a harmony of sounds to 1:30 p.m. in the exhibition hall. Interested in learning how For more information or to register complement the visual experience. James Borcoman, coordinator of multimedia can benefit you today? for this exciting event, call the exhibition, will conduct a tour Look no further! Multimedia 569-4720. Multimedia Ottawa 95 From the late 60’s onward, White on April 2 at 2 p.m. Group tours Ottawa 9S will provide a selection is sponsored by the Ottawa-Hull has been making logic-oriented, are also available on request — call of workshops on this very topic. Film and Television Association, electronically-controlled light and 993-4339. with generous assistance from motorized sculptures. He became This conference will take place on Rogers, CHRO-TV, CJOH-TV, a Canadian citizen in 1974 and now April 7 & 8. Organized by the Fifth Dimension and Media Box lives in Toronto where he teaches Canadian Screen Training Centre, Communications. at the Ontario College of Art. Multimedia Ottawa will feature: intemationally-renowned speakers, hands-on workshops, and the latest technology and software. It will also provide participants with the opportunity to network with local and international people in the field, and advise on how to contract multimedia services. FEBRUARY 1995 ♦ THE OSCAR ♦ PAGE 16

...17 YEARS AGO IN OSCAR From January 1978, the front page of OSCAR. In this year, there were two January issues, although they have different volume numbers. If anyone knows the answer to this, please contact us..

The highest concentration of Italians is Area 42 arixind Preston Street and iiionson Avenue which has a total population ot 1,165 Italians. The Italian Oonrounity of Ottawa South scans almost invisible except for Mr. Attmol Jo's store I am a Strong Woman and this differs from tneir Glebe counterparts, says Mr. Attinello, himself a resident of Ottawa South. But, h” could not explain the reason for it. "In the Glebe more Italians attend meet mgs and Gcmninity functions,'-" he says. The Globe arcu has about the same nunber of Italians as Ottawa South according to the Census track. It was after Rob, Jerry and you had been nursed through the flu One of the main drawbacks to Ccrmunity involve- ment is language, says Mr. Attinello. Older people do not feel confortable because they cannot under- Fireball opens to music stand or speak the language, lie says. "My wife still That I'd vomit, squarely and neatly, where I should The now Centre was officially opened on the 14th cannot understand very well," he explains. by Alderman Cassev standing in for His Worship the However, his children speak "English, Italian Mayor who was ill. The Community was praised for and now French," he quickly adds, "I think it is a And when that was over I knew I would feel better having 'recycled such an interesting building' and good thing." with everyones' good wishes, we turned down the lights Mr. Attinello does not have a monopoly on Italian and danced. We were delighted to see present among food sales in Ottawa. He says (there are quite a few Association stalwarts,fresh from P.E.I., Elinor Italian grocery stores including several on Gladstone When I felt well enough to sit up. Reynolds, who must have found the fount of eternal Avenue and Preston Street.. youth in Charlottetown. Many references to her vrork as former Chairperson in the speeches shewed her that One of the best sellers according to Mr. Attinello she has not been forgotten. The band played music is proscuitto, a cured ham. Both Canadians and I would take over your job, loving as it was, frem J. Strauss to E. Presley loud enough to put the Italians are willing to pay over $6.00 per lb. for renovated building to the test. loud enough for us this specialty, he says. to notice, when we left, a couple dancing on thé cor- Mr.''Attinello says business is good although a little ner of Sunnyside and Bank. If you didn't attend the si -J* it this time of year. He says he advertised his Combing into neatness my long black curls opening, you missed a fun evening! Make sure you are regular specials on such items as meat, cheese, coffee at our next party. • vnd oil in the bi-weekly Italian newspaper, L'Ora Oi Ottawa. "I have a good name in Ottawa nc*/, after 11 And feel better still. Oodles of noodles . . . years," explains Mr. Attinello who had a store in the If you like Italian cuisine and also happen to do Glebe for seven years. your own cooking, Ottawa South is an handy place to His predictions for the future are not so optimistic. "In 10 years there will be no more You know I never was a pretty thing At 1101 Bank Street, near Sunnyside, you «/ill Italian food stores," he says, "The big supermarkets find Attinello Italian Poods. will sell everything, like in the U.S., there will lie It takes only a few minutes to adjust to the no more little stores." Louise Behan With delicate cheekbones and huge protect me eyes; heavy fragrance of cheese when you enter the store. But trying to choose among the variety of meats hanging above your head is a difficult task. Salvatore Attinello, the owner, is very helpful and willing to I never sneezed with any hi-pitched 'iptu', let you sample some of the delicacies. Mr. Attinello opened the store four years ago and says his specialties are meats and cheeses but there are more shelves of noodles than there are It's more like the house shook you said when I sneezed. shelves of soups at most supermarkets. There is everything fran spaghetti to green lasagna noodles. About 80% of his. customers are Italians, accord- ing to Mr. Attinello, although he has been noticing I3ut I always took pride in my raven hair. recent changes. "It’s funny " he says, "but it seems more Canadians are eating Italian food and more Italians Sharon whispered (I know) that it was dyed are eating Canadian food. I don't understand it." Mr. Attinello runs the store with the help of Pin-6all machines arc a source of fun for the young his wife Elvira and occasional help from, his 15-year in the Eldorado Arcade, recently renovated. - old daughter. That womanl His customers come fran all over Ottawa, says Windsor Park will again have the high-board open- Mr. Attinello, although the Ottawa South area has a air skating rink, 65' X 165*. The City has set aside fairly.high concentration of Italians. According $3,000.00 for its maintenance. Beside it there will be Sut we know it never was. to the 1971 Census track, 220 residents reported an ice surface not less than 5000 sq ft surrounded by Italian as the language most often spoken at hone. snow banks so. that even if there is a team game on the This Census track area, Nurber 17, includes the area high-board rink, the kids can play and skate in safety. bordered by Bronson Ave., the Rideau Canal and River, Brewer Park will get the ice surface size rink When we first met you said and Bank St., thereby excluding the area of Ottawa (as will Rrantwnod Park if that is convenient for you). South East of Bank Street. These rinks will be raintained at a cost of $1,500.00. Although this figure seems low considering the We hope you will have fun skating-this winter. If total 1971 City {«pulation of 12,355.Italians, Ottawa thinqs are not as you expect than at these rinks don't It was the the night to the stars in my eyes South has the tenth highest population of Italians just grunble, let sonoone knew at the OutU;or tfricroation out of-the 62 designator! areas on the Cens'is track. Sect ion, 563-3222. And I kissed you and mother rapped on the window Do you remember that?

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BLACK HISTORY MONTH CHILDREN'S February is Black History month. Throughout the month, the South PROGRAMS _ Brandi will feature special displays in the Adult and Children’s sections Time for twos: stories and rhymes for two-year honoring our Black community. The 1995 Black History Month events olds. Mon.9:30am. Pre-registration calendar listing community events is available at the Main Desk. Babes in the Library: music, rhymes and books fear babies from birth to 18 months. Wed. 9:30am. Pre-registration. THE TOP TEN __ Saturday Stories & Films: 10:30 am stories The following are the top-ten requested titles at the Ottawa Public and films for 3 to 6 year olds. Library: books that the system owns, or that are on order may be Storytime for 3-5 year olds. Mon 10:30am, reserved either in person or by phone ( please have your library Wed 10:30am and 2:15pm. Pre-registration. card handy). This service is free. And a reminder: there is no charge for a Bebes a la biblio: musique, comptines et livres library card if you are an Ottawa taxpayer. pour les petits de la naissance a 18 mois. Mardis à 9h30. Inscription. 1 The Chamber John Grisham 2. On the Take Stevie Cameron SPECIAL EVENTS 3 The Body Farm Patricia Cornwell The following special Saturday events require 4. Original Sin P.D. James pre-registration: 5. The Celestine Prophecy James Redfield Sat 18 Feb 2pm. Ice Cold on the Outside, Ice 6. Debt of Honor Tom Clancy Cream on the Inside: cool stuff roa cool winter 7. Open Secrets Alice Munro day. 4-7 yrs. 60min. Pre-registration. 8. Playing for the Ashes Elizabeth George Sat 25 Feb 2pm. Beach Bash: bring your 9. Rainmaker John Grisham beach blankets and shades for a winter break, 10. Lottery Winner Mary Higgins Clark stories, films 4yrs up. 45 min. Pre=registration.

SAVANNAH GROCETERIA CO. LTD. SAVANNAH GROCETERIA Joseph and Fahima Nahas and and had a larger foor space. Due to CANADIAN LEBANESE FOOD CENTRE family have been servicing the increasing competition in the area, community for the past 35 years. they diversified their store by 35 Years Serving Ottawa South Their story begins in June of 1960 stocking a full line of Lebanese when they owned and operated food products, music tapes and 1227 BANK STREET, OTTAWA TEL: 739-5759, FAX: 739-8073 Savannah Grill & Grocery located video tapes. They also began at 1218 Bank St. Just as the name offering video conversion, LOTTO CENTRE, POSTAGE STAMPS, PHOTOCOPIES AND FAX SERVICE, VIDEO of the store implies, half the store photocopy and fascsimile services. CONVERSION (ALL SYSTEMS), GROCERY, CONFECTIONARY AND VARIETY, BULK was a restaurant and the other half Throughout the years FOODS, SPICES AND NUTS, OLIVE OIL & CALAMATA OLIVES, FETA CHEESE AND FILO was a groceteria. neighbours could always rely on DOUGH, GRAPE LEAVES, HOMEMADE TABOULEH AND HOMMOS, BUS PASSSES AND In 1969, they renamed the store Savanah's being there when you TICKETS, GREETING CARDS AND MAGAZINES to Savannah Groceteria and needed them - open every day, removed the restaurant equipment. long hours and reasonable prices. OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK FROM 8:00AM TO 8:00PM They felt they could better suit the You could always find the best needs of the neighbourhood by tomatoes year-round and a wide Sealtest Milk 4 L 2% $3.29 homo$4.29 providing a complete line of selection of flower and vegatable groceries at reasonable prices. plants in the summer. They are Sealtest Ice Cream Parlor 1 L $2.99 Disaster struck'in 1972 when more than willing to share McCain Frozen orange juice 12 oz $0.79 Allen Apple Juice 48oz $1.19 half the block, Including their store, Lebanese recipes with any who Primo Vegetable Oil 3 L $4.49 Primo Pasta assorted 900g $1.29 burned in a terrible fire. Unwilling to ask. But above all, the Nahas' are leave the area, they reopened a good, decent, hard-working and Primo Tomatoes 28oz $1.29 Primo Tomato Paste 5oz 2 for $0.99 block north, at the old taxi stand at honest people who always greet Kraft Dinner 225g $0.69 Olive Oil 3 L $9.99 1180 Bank and renamed their store their customers with a smile. to Mini-Savannah. So named Joe and Fahima have 3 sons. Italian Calrose Rice 10 kg $11.99 BasmatiRice 5kg $9.99 because this store was half the Taffy, who is married to Sue Fresh roasted Coffee Beans (assorted or House Blend) 1 lb $5.99 size of the previous one. They McKeen, has a 2 year old Cigarettes 25 4-pack (plus tax) r $10.43 remained here for 2 years. daughter, Alexandra. He is a After the building was rebuilt in practicing lawyer in Ottawa. Pepsi, Coke and assorted flavors 2L $1.49 1974, they moved into the store Norman, who is married to Anjali Pita Lebanese Bread 6 small loaf $0.89 next to the comer and reopened at Wadehra, has a 2 year old 1216 Bank St. (The new comer daughter, Rani and a 6 month old Chick Peas dip 5cans(13oz) $3.99 spot was much smaller than the boy, Joseph. He is an employee of Roasted Pistachio lib $2.99 Raw Almonds lib $3.29 original comer store). At this time, Canada Post. Mitch, whom many Pine Nuts 1 lb $5.99 California Walnuts (halves) 1 lb $4.99 the store was renamed Savannah customers must know, worked with Groceteria. They remained here his parents until his death in Ground Black Pepper, Cinnamon or Cumin 1 lb $4.99 until December 1988 when they September I994 after a long and Toilet Paper 2 roll $0.59 Dove Dishwasher Soap 500 ml $1.29 moved across the street to 1227 hard battle with leukemia. He is Bank Street. greatly missed by family and (PRICES IN EFFECT UNTIL MARCH 19, 1995 OR UNTIL QUANTITIES LAST) Here, they renovated the store friends. (ALL ABOVE PRICES ARE SUBJECT TO APPLICABLE TAXES) FEBRUARY 1995 ♦ THE OSCAR ♦ PAGE 18 PETIOUETTE

BY PAISLEY’S " MOM " JANUARY, 1995 for city life. Certainly also Paisley's than any details of school location, dogs, socialization means learning to get Well, isn't life full of surprises! veterinarian, Dr. Mellor, and Paisley's pedagogy or cost, made my choice of the along with at least eight other breeds There I was, parent of two breeder, Ms. Hogg, had both been very Bytown Puppy Kindergarten (P.K.) (Sheltie, Collie, Corgi, Poodle, teenagers, lining up for junior generous with advice when asked. But I easier. That the Club members sounded Yorkshire Terrier, Doberman, Black kindergarten. needed ongoing practical support to friendly and knowledgeable over the Labrador and Dalmatian), plus their As often in a ’90's school setting, civilize “our fair lady”. phone, helped too. handlers and two teachers. During there were questionnaires to complete, However, until about fourteen weeks Like many good kindergartens, P.K. playtime the second week, Paisley health certificates required and a waiting and the completion of several sets of socializes its pupils through fun, wrestled with the Yorky; stopped with list of surplus applicants for certain innoculations, any puppy should be routines and rewards. There's a “circle several other pups to sniff at the shy levels of instruction. Having learned sheltered from possible sources of time”, a version of “show and tell” and a Border Collie; watched unconcernedly as from past experiences to arrive early for infection; ie. ’’quarantined” on home play period. Lessons with specific names the graceful poodle sailed, rather than such gatherings, I felt lucky to exchange turf. But by this age, the puppy needs to such as “bite inhibition” and “down tripped over her; dodged the galloping my cheque for an admit- to- class card, a socialize with other pups and with more stay” support the teaching of good Doberman; took a solitary moment to sheet of rules and procedures and a 6' people. Hence the queue of hopeful manners. investigate a dark comer; then rejoined training leash! registrants (both canine and human) for Also, like many classes, it provides the “pack” dashing around the concrete As “handler”, either alone or with puppy classes. review sheets and instructions. A recipe hall. family helpers, I could look forward to FEBRUARY, 1995 for liver treats is obviously an optional Some of my friends have expressed attending the weekly lessons with little To enroll Paisley in Puppy “craft” but most information helps surprise that so much attention is paid to Paisley. Bom on September 22, she was Kindergarten was such a good owners understand and remember the training dogs just to be pets and eligible for the most basic of the Bytown decision! instructors' lessons. Unlike most nursery companions. My observation is that both Obedience Club's training groups: Having seen this terrier's attempts to schools, this one requires parents (or dogs and people, particularly those who Puppy Kindergarten. Could we, in seven excavate our backyard, I should have substitutes) to attend class. Much as the are afraid of dogs or disinterested in hour-long sessions, with homework, known she would love anything to do puppy needs training, the owners need to them, benefit. A dog which is well- become better teachers of our exuberant with a “garden”. But like many learn how to behave too. As Puppy behaved is happier, is less likely to protégé? Would she learn some good “parents” anxious to find the most Kindergarten students mature more trouble her fellow “citizens” and is manners? suitable education in Ottawa, I first quickly than children, homework -really therefore not going to alienate her For weeks I had been reading how to compared the alternatives available. As teamwork — is necessary right away. owner's friends . Maybe there should be train young dogs, particularly Westies, it turned out, Paisley's birthdate more In Paisley's peer group of young a tax credit for puppy kindergarten.

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LANSDOWNE PARK'S Wet clothes are draped acroee the chairs.., UPCOMING EVENTS... And you’d investigate With muddy paws each shirt and sock Hung over the heating grate.

JANUARY FEBRUARY Sorry pup, you can't come in - 6 67'S / Belleville (7:30pm) 2 Senators / Tampa Bay (7:3,0pm) Not right now - not today. 8 67's / Sault Ste. Marie 3 67's / Kingston (7:30pm) I don't have time to go outside - (2:00pm) 4 Senators / NY Rangers (7:30pm) 12-15 Renovations Show 6 Senators / Philadelphia Don't look at me that way. 13 67's / Peterborough (7:30pm) (7:30pm) 14 67's / Kingston (2:00pm) 8 Senators / Montreal (7:30pm) 20 67's / North Bay (7:30pm) 10 67's / North Bay (7:30pm) I sit inside at my desk 22 67's / London (2:00pm) 12 67's / Detroit (2:00pm) Wishing I could explain 27 67's / Oshawa (7:30pm) 15-19 Ottawa Boat & Sportsmen Show 27-29 Computerfest 23 Senators / Washington (7:30pm) Duty, homework, newly washed floor 28 Senators / Buffalo (7:30pm) 24 67's / Belleville (7:30pm) To a puppy's brain. 25 67's / North Bay (2:00pm) 25 Senators / Florida (7:30pm) 27 Senators / Boston (7:30pm) From the cool side of window glass 28 Senators / Hartford (7:30pm) Skippy's ears scan for fun; MARCH APRIL Near hopeful eyes plead forgiveness 2 Senators / Tampa Bay (7:30pm) 1-2 Autorama '95 For sins of omission done. 3 67'S / Kingston (7:30pm) 3 Senators / Montreal (7:30pm) 3-5 Wood Product Show 5 Senators / New Jersey (7:30pm) 5 67's / Kingston (2:00pm) 6-9 The Spring Craft Sale Sy Pearl Sheil 5 Senators / NY Islanders 8 Senators / Quebec (7:30pm) (7:30pm) 10 Senators / Pittsburgh (7:30pm) 14 67's / Peterborough (7:30pm) 14-17 The Ottawa Spring Home Show 16 Senators / Philadelphia 20 Senators / Boston (7:30pm) (7:30pm) 21-23 The Ottawa Kennel Club “This cut just 17 67's / Belleville (7:30pm) 24 Senators / Florida (7:30pm) 18 Senators / Buffalo (1:30pm) 27 Senators / Tampa Bay (7:30pm) won’t heal.” 19 Senators / Pittsburgh (7:00pm) 28-30 The Travel Show 22-24 The Ottawa Yalley Farm Show 29 Senators / NY Islanders If you have a cut or sore that is very slow to heal, don’t ignore it. It can he a warning 25 Rock Voisine (7:30pm) sign of diabetes. Please see your doctor. 26 Senators / Quebec (7:00pm) For more information about diabetes, 29 Senators / New Jersey (7:30pm) contact the Canadian Diabetes Association. 31 Autorama '95 So much can be done.

THE Diabetes FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ■H I CANADIAN I ASSOCIATION [fj I DIABETES CANADIENNE PLEASE CALL: 564-PARK ASSOCIATION I DO DIABETE LANSDOWNE FEBRUARY 1995 ♦ THE OSCAR ♦ PAGE 19

BUSINESS OF THE MONTH Each month, OSCAR is featuring one of our regular advertisers, who help make OSCAR possible. Please tell them that you saw them in OSCAR and that you appreciate their contribution to our community. SCIENCE AT GLEBE COLLEGIATE BY GEORGE HOLLAND SHAD VALLEY SUMMER Shad Valley is an exciting summer physics and OAC calculus called “phys- program designed especially for cal”. This two-credit course is top students in grades 11 and 12. team-taught by Mr. M. Neimanis and This award winning program is offered Mr. J. Ghantous, and offers the students at eight Canadian universities during the an exciting and challenging approach to month of July. Most students then have these subjects. This course is paid work terms with sponsoring undoubtedly one of the reasons that organizations for the rest of the summer. Glebe Collegiate has done so While offering a varied experience, Shad exceptionally well in national, written Valley focuses on three main areas: physics contests. For example, Glebe excellence, science and technology and placed among the top three in Canada in also entrepreneurship. Each of the eight nine of the last ten years in the Sir Isaac universities takes fifty students, who Newton Physics Contest, sponsored by stay on campus and participate in the University of Waterloo. activities that include lectures, THE GLEBE SCIENCE FAIR workshops, field trips, as well as a The Glebe Science Fair is back and recreational events. Students often find will be held on February 22. that the summer becomes the most Students from grades nine to enjoyable and the most challenging they OAC will compete in a wide range of have ever experienced. categories from life sciences to Glebe Collegiate is very proud of the computers. Once again, judges will be fact that it has sent more students to scientists from universities, business and Shad Valley than any other school in government. All science students are Canada; a total of 54 students since the encouraged to participate and we look beginning of 1981. In fact, it has sent forward to seeing the results of their more students than some provinces. hard work. PHYSICS AND CALCULUS Glebe Collegiate offers a unique physics-calculus program: a combination of enriched OAC Sean Caulfeild: Your Neighbourhood GLEBE ROBOTICS PROJECT Lawyer. BY SARAH LAUGHLIN Sean Caulfeild presents a new approach to legal lebe Collegiate continues to be G students from grades 9 through OAC services in the Glebe area. His bilingual, general practice an academic force to be who all share an enthusiasm for science reckoned with as our first and technology. We have six weeks to recognizes that lawyers must meet their clients’ real Robotics Team begins its project. We design and build our robot, working day needs and expectations. His emphasis goes beyond just are honoured this year to be the only and night, weekdays and weekends. We providing excellent legal work. It includes a relationship Ottawa area high school participating in are fortunate in having the full support building process allowing him to better understand his the renowned, high school engineering of our Principal, Mr. Thompson, of the clients’ affairs. This keeps them fully involved and competition, “Canada First”. Organized Head of Science, Mr. Holland, and of all informed, not left in the dark. by Motivate Canada Inc., a national the science teachers at Glebe. We would non-profit organization, “Canada First” like to thank our corporate sponsor Bell For your convenience, Sean welcomes evening and was created in order to make math, Canada for paying our entry fee of weekend appointments outside his business hours. There science and technology courses more $8,000. In addition, four engineers from are no charges for initial consultations and where attractive to students by turning Bell Northern Research have volunteered possible any fees will be based on a flat rate determined technology activities into a form of to be our mentors and advisors. in advance. competition. This year, 18 high schools The Robotics Team has assumed from across Canada are competing, so other responsibilities in addition to General Practice of Law: Glebe is indeed fortunate to have this building the robot itself. We are making • real estate special opportunity. a film to record our efforts and putting • wills and estates On January 14, all 18 teams were together a book which will include a given identical packages which included detailed log of our progress with • civil litigation construction parameters, building accompanying pictures. • corporate-commercial materials and the task which the robots On February 23-25, we will be in • alternate dispute resolution will be required to perform at the Brampton, Ontario, where our robot will • criminal law competition. The objective of this year's compete with those from the other • family law competition is to design and build a schools. This will be the culmination of • municipal law remotely-controlled robot which can six weeks of gruelling but exciting work. collect and deposit balls into a team's We are determined to do our best and Sean D. Caulfeild B.A. (Hons), LL.B. Barrister and Solicitor own goal or quadrant while competing will inform you of the results of the against up to three opponents. competition in the April issue of the 200 First Avenue, Suite 301, Ottawa, Ontario K1S 2G6 The Glebe Team is composed of 30 OSCAR. Tel: 237-6773 Fax: 237-8026 FEBRUARY 1995 ♦ THE OSCAR ♦ PAGE 20 SUCCESS STORY FMIG - A LIFE LONG INTEREST GROUP - BY LLOYD HOLMES he Friday Morning Interest Psychology, stole the show with his T Guest speakers will give a brief talk followed by a discussion period. Group has grown in popularity so presentation on “Motivation”. Dr. that, routinely, a large audience Conrad, Opthalmologist, talking about WHERE: The RA Centre, west wing,2451 Riverside Dr • can be expected to participate. The 1994 “The Eye and Aging” set a record during : WHEN: Fridays at 10:30 to 11:45 am. Please note new time. Fall Program, fourth session, featured question period by virtue of the number nine prominent speakers from Ottawa of questions from the audience. An April 7 Greta Nemiroff, Joint Chair, Womi^s^tndies, Carleton & Ottawa and elsewhere. Mac Harb, Ottawa M.P., excellent presentation on “Acadian Universities; “Women in Power* led off with his experiences as a new History” by Professor Naomi Griffiths April 21 Marion Scott, National Librarian; “Heritage <& Culture Role of ' Canadian. brought out information hitherto not Dr. John Patrick of Carleton presented in a public forum. The Fall the National Library of Canada* University spoke enthusiastically about session ended with watching and hearing April 28 Gerald Gammy, Professor, Hull CECÉF; *tloderstanding' ig;;;|| “Medicine and Health”. This was recordings of “Canadian Birds” as Quebec* followed by a panel discussion on presented by Monty Brigham. The 1995 May 5 Dr. Edward Day, Physical Medicine SL Rehabilitation; “The Place “Racism”. On the lighter side, Duncan program promises to be equally exciting of Manipulation in Musculo Skeletal Disorder* Lusick spoke on “Laughter for Health”. and accordingly diverse. See you there. May 12 Michael Horgan, Assistant Secretary of the Cabinet; “Cabinet if l John Kim Bell, the well known music Following is the Life Long Interest Decision Making Process* conductor, thrilled and inspired the Group schedule beginning April 7, May 26 Mr. Lemaître, Geopolitics in Western Canadai “Ëarijÿ French |l| audience with his talk on “The Path to 1995. . : .History of Canada, The Making.ofManitpba*;;:||||l|li|3 Success”. : Then Dr. Brian Little, Professor of £or further information call the RA Contre aï2334l6Ô

17TH SOUTHMINSTER SCOUTS BY PHILKURYS The 17th Southminster Scout troop Skinner, Paul Chislett and Phil Kurys has had a very active and fun and Scouters-in-training Kris Liljefors, time ova* the past several Damon Bond and Dagan Rusmisel. We months. The troop is comprised of 18 all congratulate S coûter Paul and his energetic boys, ranging in age from 11 to wife Jody, on the arrival of their baby 14, many of whom have moved up girl on Christmas day! _ through Beavers and Cubs, and have The troop has had four camps, all of thus benefited over the years from Tic which presented new and exciting Tac and Akela and their strong challenges. In September, second year ESCAPE FROM THE leadership corps. scouts cycled out to Camp Heatherhills Newly invested Scouts are Michael on Bank Street. At Lac Philippe in FEBRUARY BLUES. .Devonish, Jeffrey Graham, Michael October, we set up camp in the dark and Bujold, Jesse Coleman, Matthew the following day hiked 12 KM, JOIN USATNICKLEBYS Lougheed, Greg Carver and Thomas enjoying the beauty and adventures of Kurys. They have all earned their BP the Luskville cave. At our November FOR THE BEST COFFEES, Woodsman badge and bronze campcraft, Camp in Point de Chenes, the boys, and and are working diligently toward their Scouter Cathy, successfully completed a DESSERTS, TEAS & HOT bronze safety and citizenship badges. professionally prepared obstacle course. The first year Scouts are fortunate in At the Otter Lake area camp in having a bumper crop of keen returnees. January, the Scouts learned how to CHOCOLA TE IN TO WN. Three patrols are being ably lead by construct and sleep in their lean-to and THIS MONTH’S COFFEE SPECIAL James Diak of the Bears, Allen Grier of to deal with wet camping conditions. the Cougars and Elliot Luijkenaar of the Led by Jeffrey, Nick and Kris, the troop WINIERLUDE BLEND Rams. They are joined by Nick was well represented in dare-devil ONLY$9.99 PER LB. Boczkowski, Tim Clark, Stephen tobogganning and we were the clear-cut Larsen, Angus Bennett, Marshall Farr, winners of the hot air balloon races! All TREAT YOUR VALENTINE TO A SPECIAL EVENING AND TOP IT Mark Stephenson, Cory Roberts and of us are looking forward to an OFF AT OUR PLACE WITH YOUR CHOICE OF A DESSERT AND 2 Philip Beverly. adventurous and action packed February COFFEES OR 2 CAPPUCCINOS FOR ONLŸ$5.95 (TAXINCL.) The second year scouts have been which includes skating on the canal, a working on their silver campcraft and trip to City Hall with councillor Jim citizenship badges. The Scouts are led Watson, the Lord Baden-Powell banquet by Scouters Cathy McBride, Robin and chuch parade, a tobogganing party

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Oman* 17th Southminster Scouts at Lac Philippe camp. Photo C. McBride FEBRUARY 1995 ♦ THE OSCAR ♦ PAGE 21 Girl Guides ofCanada Guides GUIDES AND BROWNIES du Canada BY STARR CAMERON-WRIGHT WINTER CAMP Brownies, Guides and Pathfinders CAMPFIRE AT BILLINGS JOINT THINKING DAY camp weekend. In February a valentine craft is planned. Later in the month the travelled to Camp Woolsey for a District BRIDGE PLAZA MEETING Camp in January. Pathfinders Laura girls will participate in an outing to the As part of week-long celebrations, On Wednesday, February 22, all the Hough and Jesse Amup have kindly Ottawa South Library and to the Wave the Beavers, Cubs, Scouts, Brownies, Brownies, Guides and Pathfinders in the submitted a report of their weekend Pool. Guides and Pathfinders in the area will District will meet at Hopewell's Old experience. Thanks to all the leaders, be getting together for a "Campfire" at Gym (7-8 pm) in honour of Thinking 5th Guide Company parents and especially to the girls who Billings Bridge Plaza, hosted this year Day. Skits about the history of Guiding, The Guides have been working on a helped make the weekend a success. by Hunt Club District. The how long songs and games are planned. number of badges, notably the Stalker and Snow Shoeing, Canadian Heritage SKATE-A-THON sing-song will begin at 7:00 on Friday, COOKIE POSTERS Guiding and First Aid. Thanks to parent Unfortunately, the weather did not February 24th. Please come in uniform In anticipation of the Spring Cookie cooperate for this year's skate-a-thon and Maggie Biesterfeld who spoke to the and participate in this annual event. Campaign, the Brownies, Guides and girls about first-aid at a recent meeting. the two scheduled canal dates had to be BILLINGS DISPLAY Pathfinders have been busy designing A valentine craft is planned for cancelled. Better luck next year with this Another activity designed to promote "cookie posters" to advertise the February 13 with the help of Jane Pelton joint Kinsmen and Girl Guide fundraiser. the organization is a display of guiding upcoming event in April. and Headier Dow. On February 27 the GUIDE-SCOUT WEEK artifacts which will be set up at Billings girls will be visiting the Elgin Police Bridge Plaza on Saturday, February 25 NEWS FROM THE (FEBRUARY 19-26,1995) Station for a one hour tour. from 9:30 to 3:30 p.m. Visit the display PACKS Activities are planned for Guide- 30th Girl Guide Company Scout Week in celebration of Thinking and learn about sane of the activities the 5th Brownie Pack An evening of skating is planned for Day, the birthday of founders, Lord and girls are involved in. As an added The leaders report that everyone had the canal or Brewer Oval, weather Lady Baden Powell on Februaiy 22. attraction, the chocolate and vanilla Girl a great time at winter camp. Thanks to permitting. The Guides have also been Girls and boys from all branches of the Guide cookies will be available for parents Erica Claus and Donna Walsh working on the stalker and snow shoe organization are invited to wear their $3.00 a box. who came along for the fun and a special badges. They will have an opportunity to uniforms to school on Thinking Day and CANADIAN WORLD word of thanks to Eileen Raven who earn the Canadian Heritage and Postal to participate in special services held at took the lead in organising the weekend FRIENDSHIP FUND badges at upcoming meetings. local churches. In our District a camp. The 5th Brownies had so much Girls throughout the organization As part of the program work the commemorative service will take place fun they are thinking about doing it have been collecting donations to the leaders are looking for parent volunteers at Southminster United Church (Bank again in Spring. Canadian World Friendship Fund for of Guides in the 30th company to and Aylmer) on Sunday, February 19, those less fortunate. This fund is 30th Brownie Pack demonstrate the workings of some basic starting at 10:30 am. Everyone welcome. distributed through the Girl Guides of Thanks to parent Laura Moir who equipment in the home. Canada. assisted with the Brownies at the winter

A good time was had by all 21 girls Ottawa Pathfinders had a blast at Camp for a sing-along. Many new songs were & 6 adults. Special* thanks to J.D. and Woolsey and filled Lloyd, Gibbs and shared and skits were performed by all. WOOLSEY WINTER S.F. for their hard work preparing for Centennial sites. Sunday morning we cleaned our WEEKEND this memorable weekend. The Pathfinders enjoyed a murder cabins from top to bottom (Thanks 30th Pathfinders mystery on Friday night where we all Eileen!) Then we packed up our stuff 30th & 5th Brownie Packs and headed out to the parking lot. The BY LAURA HOUGH AND JESSE ARNUP dressed up as mysterious at the Gable's BY LAURA MOIR clouds were so sad that we were leaving Though it got off to a somewhat Inn. As usual, the butler did it. Everyone t was a wet but wonderful weekend. I disastrous start due to the weather, the woke up to a bright and sunny Saturday that they started to cry, and got us The young girls were so very co- morning. The day proved to be full of soaked! After, we all got together for a Colonel By District's winter camp was a opertive and well-behaved that I was hot dog lunch and a final goodbye. We great success. On the weekend of adventures including snow shoeing, constantly impressed with their Brownie January 13-15, girls from the 5th and tobogganing and skiing. Special thanks hope that everyone had as much fun as spirit. The enthusiasm they used when 30th Brownie packs, the 5th and 30th to Alison Williams, traffic director at the we did and we can't wait to go back. following the motto “Lend a Hand” Guide Companies and from the 30th hill. That night, everyone got together made it a very cohesive group. FEBRUARY 1995 ♦ THE OSCAR ♦ PAGE 22

ms 'arp 6Sr c'Hancpter StZMwnep W<\ / s’1 ^liroughout November and Nightingale. Along with these wonderful f J December, Menorahs, lights, play came much in-depth study of China songs, gingerbread houses and its culture by a number of classes. and many other festive activities and Chinese art, writing and food were just a traditions filled Lady Evelyn. They few of the many topics explored. The WINTER FUN AT BYTOWN helped (along with unusually mild kindergarten classes are awash in the BY CATHY BROWN & NORMA STANSBURY weather) to usher in winter and the new bright bold beautiful colours of China. Happily, the weather this year is centres, at festivals and community year with much warmth. Ms. Makush’s class is making a much more conducive to centres. Russell is proficient at playing At the beginning of December, the paper-mache boar to celebrate the Year outdoor activities than last the guitar, mandolin, accordion and School celebrated the Year of the Family of the Boar. year's, so the children have been harmonica. He involves the children in with the school event “A Family December and January were also enjoying, sledding (among other things) singing, playing rhythm instruments, Celebration”.This sock-hop had popular months for class trips. and Snowpainting: We use dishwashing dancing, marching, hopping and any everyone dancing, Moms and Dads, MacSkimming Science Farm was visited liquid bottles full of food colouring and other movements his interested audience Dads and daughters and Moms and sons. frequently. At the farm the children have water. The children love squirting the suggests. In fact, his versatility and A good number of the boys seemed to be a hands-on opportunity to experience the snow and enjoy discovering what ability to adapt to the group are what running and sliding across the gym many aspects of farm life and the happens when different colours get make him a superb entertainer, and his floor...perhaps a new dance? One outdoors. The chicken coop is quite mixed together. (Yellow should be sincere quiet manner endears him to the standout couple was the Dad and popular. The children collect, weigh and avoided for obvious-reasons!) children. daughter pair of John and Heather Neale sent eggs, listen to a chicken’s heartbeat Indoors, try growing a Crystal Russell also uses puppets, tapes, who won a couple of dance prizes. and it is one of the few places you can Garden. Combine V* cup ammonia, V* pictures and other props to keep the Additional entertainment was provided still get a dozen fresh, jumbo eggs for a cup non iodized salt and VA cup liquid program interesting and varied form by the always popular fish pond and a $1.25! The horses and sheep are also blueing in a glass bowl, and then pour week to week. He uses many techniques well-stocked snack and refreshment favourites, especially the ram Valentine. the solution slowly over pieces of to involve all the children and appeals to table completed the evening. Believe it or not, there was even enough charcoal. Dot on various colours of food the passive as well as the active Lady Evelyn contributed generously snow for Matthew Ridgeway’s class to colouring and then cover bare spots with participant. Everyone has fun, which again this year to the Snowsuit fund. snowshoe during their visit. a little more mixture. This is very according to Russell is the most Seventy-five dollars were contributed by A meeting was held on January 19 to fragile, so be careful. Within a day or rewarding aspect of being a children's the staff in exchange for hot cider, coffee discuss the report from the two, beautiful crystals will appear. performer. Before he began working and cinnamon rolls. Bonnnie Laurie’s subcommittee on Distinctiveness of the Adults must supervise this experiment, with children, Russell performed in kindergarten class held their annual Alternative Schools Advisory as it is toxic. various places around Ottawa including Snowsuit Marathon. Each child Committee of the OBE. This committee, Also , indoors, the children (and Patty's Place, Rasputins, and the Bank practiced at home putting on and taking established in Feb. 1994 looked at the adults) at Bytown are again this year St. Café. We are very fortunate to have off their snowsuit as many times as they features that distinguished alternative enjoying the musical entertainment of him share his musical talent with the could in ten minutes, With a list of schools of the OBE and brought forward Russell Levia. The children can't wait children of By town. sponsors (so much money donated for recommendations that would enable our for his visits as he brings with him an Registration for the Nursery School each time snowsuit was successfully put schools to preserve their distinct extensive repertoire which he has session to begin September '95 is on and taken off) and proud parents approach to education. Some of the key perfected over the man years he has been ongoing. Please calT 730-4384 for more cheering them on, the children were characteristics of alternative schools performing for children in daycare information (after 12 noon please). ready for their big day. And successful it include self-directed learning, pro-active was with $375 being raised. parent involvement and a commitment to Congratulations to all who participated. innovative approaches to teaching. On January As January draws to a close, we are 10, the Rag and eagerly awaiting February and all the Bone puppet Valentine Day creations that will theatre presented decorate the classrooms and halls with the play “The warm hearts. Emperor’s

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Russell Levia entertaining Bytown children. Photo N. Stansbury Central Chapel West Chapel St. Laurent Memorial/ 315 McLeod St. 150 Woodroffe Ave. Chapel Simplicity Plan at O’Connor at Byron 1200 Ogilvie Rd. 584 Somerset W. FEBRUARY 1995 ♦ THE OSCAR ♦ PAGE 23 ÏÏÏ iMllÀjlRllGlffllRlEIH © In conjunction with the monthly Pizza Day, 35 dozen sugar cookies EDIBLE COOKIES were made and sold for 25 cents each By Beckie Harrison at St. Margaret Mary on January 26th At a reçoit P.T. A. meeting, Maryann during lunch. Hodges and I offered to bake mitten Parents, Beckie Harrison and cookies as a fundraiser for the Arts Maryann Hodges, organized the cookie Program. We didn't anticipate how effort to complement Diane Lupinska's enthusiastic the response would be. work on Pizza Day. Beckie and Orders came in from as far away as Maryann took orders for the mitten- Kingston (Ben and Emily's grandfather). shaped cookies. Thirty-five dozen cookies later, We asked grade two student Ben Maryann and I, who have been friends Harrison and grade five student Emily since B.K.—Before Kids—are happy with Harrison how they helped. the outcome. Monday was slated as “We made the shapes at home and “baking day”, and it was decided that for put them on cookie sheets. After they this job, my kitchen would be “action baked, we put two in each plastic bag central”. My family was alerted not to and sealed the bags with twist ties. It expect a great meal that night. By early evening, with the usual was fun. It took a few hours. My mom Drop by and find yourself in the picture. Last year's St. Margaret Mary School interruptions (picking up children from and Christopher's mom worked really photo, taken in June by John Dance, is finally on display at the school. hard, ”Ben explained. school, taking them to pottery, Guides, Graduates from the school year 1993-94 and their families are welcome to come “I helped make the dough and do etc. etc.), the cookies were all packaged. and take a look. the baking. We drove to school on It was truly a co-operative effort. Pizza Day and I helped carry the boxes Brian, my husband, “volunteered” to be of cookies up to the staff room. They on the clean-up committee, and my two were good. Next time, maybe we should children took great pride in helping to GENERAL PRACTICE OF LAW make cakes, ” suggested Emily. bag the cookies. By lunch on Tuesday, AND MEDIATION SERVICES Thanks very much to the Harrison the cookies were individually labelled and Hodges families. Thanks also to and boxed for transport to the school Peggy Malpass, B.A., LL.B. the staff and lunchtime supervisors for Thursday and the top of the Harrisons' Barrister, Solicitor, Notary Public helping. Parents who never find the dining room table had once again time to make even a dozen cookies emerged from underneath a mass of mittens. We plan to offer the children a 440 Laurier West, Ste 330 phone: 235-8274 begged Beckie to tell us how she Ottawa KIR 7X6 fax: 230-7356 managed to bake 420 of them in one different treat every month. day. We insisted she send us a report:

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Commencing January 3, 1995 Kindergarten students performing for the audience FEBRUARY 1995 ♦ THE OSCAR ♦ PAGE 24 OBE REPORT BY LYNN GRAHAM 1995 BUDGET rectified by redistributing student Of Learning", was recently made public. The Board will be dealing with the populations across the system rather It represents Ontario's first 1995 budget in February and March. than providing additional permanent or comprehensive enquiry into education in Financially, the OBE operates on the portable accommodation. It states that twenty-five years and contains many calendar year rather than the school year. Glebe Collegiate is now operating at 400 important recommendations. To obtain In early February, Trustees will be given student places below maximum capacity, a copy, contact Access Ontario a status report, including expenditure virile Lisgar is 131 students above. 238-3630. and revenue forecasts. We are now Although Canterbury is now 2 spaces INFORMATION identifying areas for potential savings under maximum capacity, projections To obtain general information on the and determining the most effective indicate a considerable increase in OBE, including reports and meeting means of public consultation. enrollment. dates and times, call the OBE The report puts forward short and SECONDARY RE-ORG Communications Office automated line long term solutions to deal with Another priority in the months ahead at 239-2312 and/ or check the OBE sub- overcrowding at the secondary schools. is a review of OBE secondary schools. In menu on Freenet. All OBE intermediate and secondary a report prepared by the OBE I encourage all residents of Old schools have had the opportunity to Administration entitled "Secondary Ottawa South to contact me if I can be of review the short term recommendations Accommodation Concerns", four assistance. am delighted to be able to write to and submit comments to the Board in I secondary schools are projected to be you as your elected representative on time for changes to be implemented in significantly over their maximum Lynn Graham, Trustee the Ottawa Board of Education. Over September, 1995. A consultation capacities by the 1999 school year. OBE Zone 9 the years my children have attended process to examine the long term These are Brookfield, Canterbury, do 330 Gilmour Street Hopewell, Lady Evelyn, Devonshire, solutions will begin later this winter. Lisgar and Nepean. Ottawa, Ont. K2P 0P9 Elgin and Lisgar; consequently, I have This same document also indicates ROYAL COMMISSION ON Tel: 730-3366 had considerable opportunity as a parent that, due to surplus space in other LEARNING Fax: 730-3589 to learn about the school system. schools, the overcrowding can be This report, entitled "For The Love Freenet: [email protected]

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Take a closer look at volunteering. THE ROUTEBURN GROUP Make a difference in your life... URBAN DEVELOPMENTS or someone else's. Call the Volunteer Centre of Ottawa-Carleton, 789-4876. FEBRUARY 1995 ♦ THEOSCAR ♦ PAGE25 enrcLU niAPPENiNGS market money for costumes, business good representation by those girls! cards, graphing of stocks, song writing Now onto the boys Volleyball. Like and odd jobs around the school. After the girls, they have both A & AA teams. reading the Hopewell news, each group They have participated in a tournament of three students representing a against Fisher Park as a tune-up for the brokerage house, traded different up-coming Glashan Tournament companies' shares on our stock market. (January 25 - 28) and the AA team who Emotions were varied as the value of the will star in the OBE tournament (Feb. 2 stocks fluctuated from round to round. - 3). Time in next month to hear the At its close at 3 p.m., our market was results (I'm sure they'll be favourable). doing very well indeed. Volleyball fever has even hit the Sportsbeat Juniors who have begun a noon hour (Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays) By Drew Williamson program. Run my Junior teacher Rita Hi, Ottawa-Southers. It's Drew, your Cardarelli, these games are sure to be Hopewell sports rep for this year, action packed. Stay tuned! keeping you informed on all the sports As of Friday, Jan. 27, Intermediate our school undertakes. classes will begin a Canal skating Ankaret Dean lends a hand with the W.A. V.E. wall hanging First off, we've got some volleyball program. We are hoping for good news for you. Our lunchtime House weather, so we can lace the blades and Art Against Violence woven onto large frames of chicken wire. League V-ball tournament was wrapped get out there! ! Hope to see you there too! By Norma Stansbury All the students were responsible (in up in mid-January, making way for the As a favor to gym teacher Lucie Just last week I was lucky enough to small groups at a time, over the period of basketball house league starting up in Olivier-Cyr, I cordially invite you to join chance upon some wonderful artwork a week) for enlarging the drawings to about 2 weeks time. Meanwhile, our us for an evening of Square Dancing!. with a message, right here in Hopewell's scale, carding the wool and then weaving Intermediate girls Volleyball teams have Yep, with doer prizes and the promise of library. Ankaret Dean, a local artist (and the wool onto the chicken wire using been seeing a lot of action lately. The 2 lots of heel clicking, ten-gallon hat fun grandparent of two Hopewell students), their drawings as patterns. The finished teams (A & AA) consist of 17 girls who on the lone prairie! It's on Friday, was "inschool" coordinating the efforts products are marvelous, and are on take pride in representing us (and do it February 24 from 8-10 p.m. Your $7 of grade 4,5 & 6 students in creating display, as we speak, in the library, so if well). They played well in practice admission fee will go to help the Crohn wall hangings focusing on the W. A. V.E. you have a chance, do come in and check matches against Fisher Park and and Colitis Foundation of Canada. (Work Against Violence Everywhere) them out! Glashan schools and were both in the Tickets are available through Lucie theme. Glashan invitational tournament, Stock Market Olivier-Cyr at Hopewell School, at 239- This project, which was sponsored by January 11 and 14. The AA team came 2348. There's no experience necessary, in first place in the Round Robin the Ontario Arts Council, with 25% of By Francine Houle so strap on yer cowboy boots and hat tournament, but were sadly eliminated in the funding being provided by the In December, the grade 8 students and come join us (I just couldn't resist). school, asked the students to interpret were involved in the "Stock Market the semi-finals. A valiant effort by all! So that's all folks! Join us next month what W.A.V.E. meant to them in a Unit". The curriculum, which integrated Later, they played the Hopewell for your school updates and remember, sketch. These drawings were displayed, Mathematics, Art, English and français teachers in mid-January as a tune-up, OSCAR's Hopewell Happenings column discussed and finally narrowed down to focused on the business world. On the before competing in the OBE is the next best thing to being there! five suitable to both the theme and to the last day of the unit, the students tournament on January 19. Once again, medium Ankaret uses, which is participated in the stock market the AA team came in 1st in the Round vibrantly-coloured hand-dyed wool simulation game. They earned stock Robin, but lost in the semi-finals. A OSCAj^sa OUT AND ABOUT Ottawa Soot k CtMiMMMMUjr AcsoeiaikMi BY HELEN CUNNINGHAM Although we enjoy various winter fresh coffee with free refills. activities in the neighborhood, As we were leaving we thanked our we were starting to feel the need waiter, Jon Delafampa for a very good for a little change in our routine. As a dinner. He told us that the owner Toni result we took a little drive and ended up diAngelo moved here from Chile six at Constance Bay which is about forty years ago and set up the restaurant. We five minutes drive from Ottawa. To get were also told that all the food is made there from centretown you go west on from scratch and that the wonderful the Queensway (Hwy 417) to March spices in the food are the result of the Road where there are signs directing you cook’s Chilean background. to Constance Bay. Going down the They are very conscious of the need Constance Bay Road we came to a for low fat foods and bake instead of AT THE FIREHALL restaurant called the Whippoorwill. It frying, using olive oil or margarine 260 Sunnyside Avenue, Ottawa was lundi, time and we were ready to eat whenever possible, instead of butter, in so we dropped in to give it a try. their cooking. Their pizzas are made Monday, March 13 - Friday, March 17/95 I had one of the best small with skimmed milk cheese and whole combination pizzas that I have ever wheat pizza dougfr is an extra choice. As 8:00 am - 3:30 pm tasted. Over the crust, which was light well as the regular Canadian fare, they $80/week if registered 1 week in advance and fresh, there were lots of spicy serve Mexican specialities at reasonable tomato sauce, mushrooms, green prices. If you should decide to visit they After Care: 3:30 pm - 6:00 pm peppers, pepperoni and cheese. The cost are open on Tuesday, Wednesday and $8/day was $7.95. My husband decided to try Thursday from 11:00am to 9.30pm and Please call 564-1064for more details the veal parmigiana for $8.95. He found Friday, Saturday, and Sunday from the meat moist and fresh and the 11:00am to 11:00pm. They are closed spaghetti that came with it was fresh and on Mondays. Their phone number is spicy and to his taste. Because we were 832-3332 and is a local call from driving we didn't want to eat to much so Ottawa. [ teSOttawa didn't try the dessert, but I had a cup of FEBRUARY 1995 ♦ THE OSCAR ♦ PAGE 26 MY LIFE (SO FAR) AS A INTERNATIONAL CYCLIST IN OTTAWA SOUTH BY CHRIS KINSLEY C O O K I N C I have always been a cyclist. I have Rideau River and up through Vincent memories of being a small child and Massey Park. A serene way to start and trying my first two wheeler on a finish a day. Brighton Ave. sidewalk, of falling the There was one irritation in my GRILLED PORK WITH first time I tried to bike with no hands commute though, that being Billings and of playing bike tag between Bridge. There is just no safe way of HOT SAUCE FOR 6 PEOPLE Riverdale and the Rideau River. crossing it save for walking on the Every spring I would wait with sidewalk. So many times I have been This month’s recipe comes to us from Haiti, the Western Hemisphere’s poorest anticipation for my mum to give the OK fearful of a bus squishing me against country, where few can affort meat, fish or eggs. Staples are com, millet, manioc, rice, to take my bike out of the garage. Every those horrendous steel barricades. plantain and beans grown on steep hillsides deforested for export or charcoal making. spring I would wipe out on the leaves It was during these rides that I started This recipe comes from the Creole tradition and would be made for special festivals and grit at the comer of Brighton and reflecting on the purpose of the bicycle. or occasions. Enjoy it and think about it. Rideau River Drive. My enthusiasm Is it solely a recreational vehicle or can it iNGREDrENTS predated the street sweeper's schedule. be an important part of our urban 1 % kg lean pork, bone-removed My bicycle was a means of transportation system? If so, should we 3 medium-sized onions, finely chopped expanding my freedom. Carleton Sports not be paying more attention to the 375 ml orange juice Camp, Brewer Park, Brantwood Park or needs of the community's cyclists and 90 ml green lemon or lime juice the Library were suddenly just minutes potential cyclists? 90 ml water away. The commute to Hopewell was Our community is in an enviable 90 ml oil reduced from a gruelling 8 minutes to a position in that it is within 5 kilometres 5 ml thyme mere 2 minute sprint up the hill. (an easy ride) of just about any salt and pepper to taste Imagine if we could all cut our trip destination one would wish to reach. We times by a factor of four just by hopping can bike to the downtown core, parks iNSTRUCTtONS on a bike! As I grew older I was able to with pools and tennis courts, museums Remove fat from pork and cut into 5cm cubes. Brown in hot oil. Add all the other visit friends who had moved to adjacent and two universities. Bank Street ingredients and bring to the boil, stirring constantly. Cover and simmer over low heat communities without having to rely on provides many of our needs and Billings for 30 minutes. Then, uncover and continue cooking over high heat, stirring constantly my parents, or even worse, OC Transpo. Bridge Shopping Centre is just across to prevent sticking, until the liquid thickens (about 10 minutes). Serve with “Hot My summers were spent on my bike, the bridge, if the bridge could just be sauce”. tennis racket and bathing suit stuffed in safely crossed. HOT SAUCE my backpack. Besides the safety of Billings Bridge, High school meant Lisgar for me, I feel there are safety concerns crossing INGREDIENTS which really couldn't have been a nicer Sunnyside, biking on Riverdale and on 4 onions, finely chopped bike ride. The security I felt can be Bank, the Billings Bridge Shopping 15 ml fresh hot peppers, finely chopped attested to by the fact that I mastered the Centre parking lot, getting to the RA 275 ml green lemon juice idiotic art of biking with my hands in my Centre and crossing onto the Colonel By 7 ml garlic, fiiely chopped pockets (I must have lost my gloves), my recreational path. 45 ml butter walkman blaring. Bicycle safety is I have been busy putting in my two salt to taste something which should be given more cents worth at Steering Committee PREPARATION attention in our schools. meetings for the ongoing Ottawa South Combine chopped onions and lemon juice; marinate 30 minutes at room temperature, With university came my summer Transportation and Parking Study and I drain and set marinade aside. Sweat the onions in butter over very low heat for 15 jobs in the Sir Charles Tupper Building am hopeful that its recommendations minutes. Add garlic and chopped pepper. Cover and simmer for 10 minutes. Remove (close to Hogsback). Once again I was will help to enhance Ottawa South as a from heat, add the marinade and salt to taste. Chill before serving. conveniently connected, this time bicycle oriented community. through Windsor Park, then along the

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SUNNYSIDE CAFE YOUR HEALTH "WHAT WILL WE DO FOR DINNER TONIGHT?" The Sunnyside Cafe will be opening The Centretown Community Health Give me a call and I'm sure that, between us, soon at The Old Firehall Centre presents “Stretching Your we can solve that age old question. Dollar” Feb 14, “Tips for Newcomers Please call BEVERLEY at 730-8383. LISGAR STRINGS to Ottawa”, Feb 21 ; “Making GWA & Southminister United Church will host FBA Work for You” Feb 28. Free the Lisgar Strings in Concert, Feb 26, childcare. 1-2:30pm, social hour 2:30- 8pm. Adults $S, children $2. For 3:30pm. For info, call 563-4336. tickets call 730-0713,225-7314,226- 340 MacLaren St. 5992 or Church Office, 730-6874. WEN SOCCER Women's Environmental Network Ottawa Internationals Club will hold meets the second Tuesday of each registration, Sat. Feb 25, Mar 4,9am- month at 7pm at Rideau Park United 2pm at the Glebe Community Centre. Church, 2203 Alta Vista. For info call Boys & Girls, Atoms to Seniors. Bring 237-6150. Please Note the Following Rates Apply: Articles for sale, wanted to buy, photo, birth cert and OHIP number. GARDENERS looking for..., teen sitters - free; street/garage sales, tutors, home businesses, ANTIQUES caregivers, houses for sale, etc. $10 per insertion. Ottawa South Garden Club meets the Billings Estate Museum offers a 1 day 3rd Tuesday of the month at the Old Classy Ads are a service for Ottawa South residents and must be submitted in workshop, Mar 5, 10:30am-4:30pm, Firehall, 7pm. For more info, call 523- writing to OSCAR c/o The Firehall Office by the closing date. Your name and with Lindsay Lambert Includes dating, 6258 or 730-6099. phone number must be included; only your number will appear unless otherwise identifying, research. Tour of the specified. Make sure your number is correct. The Editor retains the right to edit Billings Estate. $20. Call 564-4621 to WALENTINE’S EVENT or include and takes no responsibility for errors or for items or services. register before Feb 27. Rideauwood Family & Addiction Call to Action: Want to transform the Services is holding a dinner, dance & OSCAR NEEDS YOUR HELP MAGIC LANTERN world? First transute yourself in the auction, Dovercourt Rec Centre, Carrier needed for 18 papers on To celebrate Heritage Week, Billings tradition of the KNIGHTS TEMPLAR. 411 Dovercourt Ave. $25, door prizes. Belmont, Riverdale to Windsor Park Museum will hold a Magic Lantern Brothers & Sisters, write to Circes For info, call Brenda 724-4881. entrance. Call Rufina 730-2762 Show, Sun Feb 19, 1:30pm. 1 hr. International Inc. PO Box 35165, Adults $2:25, seniors $1.60, children STROKE ED For Sale: Norman acoustic guitar, exc. Ottawa, Ont. K1Z 1A2 , $1. For info call 564-4621. The Heart & Stroke Foundation will cond., books, strap, strings, hard case. Caregiver: nanny, light housekeeping, hold a public awareness seminar on the $375. Call 730-1726 full time, live out, driver’s lie. refs. CO-OP PLAYGROUP effects of stroke on patients and For Sale: Violin, bow, case. $400. Call 733-8466/247-1756 evgs. The Glebe Cooperative Playgroup, families, Wed Feb 22, 7-9:30pm. V* cello, bow, case. $200. Caregiver: part-time caregiver wants licenced preschool for kids 114 to 5 Paterson Ed Centre, Ottawa Civic part-time week work, some evgs, years is accepting registrations for Call 567-7834 Hospital. Free parking. wknds, reliable, creative,, flexible, firm winter session. For info, call Pamela For Sale: White, single headboard $4. pt-time univ. student. Murphy, 733-2350. VOLUNTEERS Papyrus plants, attractive, reasonable. Call Julie 523-7727, Carla 230-3929 SCO Hospital needs clerical Call Joan 730-1901 assistance, call Mireille Roy, For Sale: Viking, microwave, exc. Caregiver: Kind, clean, patient lady, 782-2761; escorts, receptionist, call cond. white, 1.2cu.fr. l!4yrs old. $100. children of any age, your home. Caroline Horgan, 562-6364. Call 730-1972 Call Anna 736-9435 after 8 pm For Sale: Like-new baby items, Graco Caregiver: exp. non-smoker, children GLEBE COLLEGIATE PARENT ADVISORY portable playpen, $99. Bergan of 2yrs+, full, pt-time, any age evgs, COMMITTEE MEETING Norway, child backpack carrier, $99. 2 wknds. Call Shahin 730-1400days gates, $10ea. portable highchair $8. 526-1215 after 6pm Our next meeting will be highlighted by a discussion of Call 730-0371 Caregiver Required: 4 days/wk, 3&5 "Co-operative Education" with lan McKercher and a yrs boys, live-out, Bank/Canal, late presentation on "Scholarships" by the Guidance Department House for Sale: 2 bed, 182 Glen near Brewer Pk. $156,900. April. Refs. Call 730-4352 THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16 Call Pat or Joan 730-3140/745-6906 Sitter: Responsible Lisgar student, experienced in Lego, story reading, 7:30 p.m. in the Staff Room, 2nd Floor, Glebe Collegiate House for Sale: family home, mod kit. diaper changing, computer games, etc. hdwd flors, private, sunny lot, new siding, paint. 458 Sunnyside. prefer weekends, Fri. evg. Call Joanne 748-1223 Call Julian 730-5902 House for Sale: 3 bed+bsmt ste., Sitter: 12yr old, available to sit ‘TJlùf/1/D Fentiman. lge, fenced yd. gas fireplace, to/from Hopewell, evgs. wood/ceramic doors. $224,000 flex. Call Mark 526-3558 A DIFFERENT KIND Call 730-3810 Sitters: teen boy & girl, evgs, wknds, March break, summer, will help with Wanted: Pair 24" wide cupboard OF LEASING COMPANY homework, games, computer. doors, trad, panel. Price on condition. TEL:728-1901 FAX: 728-1018 Call Arash/Nakissa 526-1215 Call Malcolm or Leslie 730-1087 RES.: 232-0956 DAVID GOUGH Sitter: Responsible 12 yr boy, trained, Wanted: 5 yds used canvas in good 1666 Carling Ave. (at Clyde) Ottawa Leasing Representative certificate, west of Bank. condition. Call Susan 730-0724 Call Brian 730-7025 Wanted: Double, side-by-side stroller, NC Sewing Lessons: boys & girls after PARKINSON’S good cond., now or in next few school in my home. Call 730-7184 YOUR CARE months, prefer metal frame w. basket WILL HELP f tju j under. Call Karen 820-8778, lv msg. French Skills: does your child need FIND THE CURE A I tin Looking for: 40+ woman university extra assistance in oral or written skills? Call 567-7834 evgs For information call: bridge player seeks other rusty players for a few hands & some fun. 1-800-565-3000 Call Beverley 730-1120