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O•S•C•A•R© The Community Voice of Old South Year 33 , No. 6 The Ottawa South Community Association Review JUNE 2007

The Firehall Plants a Tree for details please go to page 22

Savour the Flavour Volunteers Get Ready

John Taylor of Do- mus, Lisa Drouil- lard, Nick Roseman, Valerie MacIntosh, OSCAR will Greg Strahl, Jenny be publishing a Haysom, Patti Ryan, July/August Deirdre McQuil- issue with lan, Jim Steel, and OSCA President deadline Michael Jenkin pre- June 15. pare the Firehall for 100 dinner guests. Please email Carmen’s Verandah, oscar@oldotta- Domus, wasouth.ca with Pelican Fish, your photos and Red Apron, and Second Cup pro- articles. vided the food and drink.

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ZONE A1: Kathy Krywicki (Coordinator), Mary Jo Lynch, Brian Eames, MONDAY TO THURSDAY 9 AM TO 9 PM Kim Barclay, Marvel Sampson, Wendy Robbins, Ron Barton, Jim and Carrol Robb, Kevin and Stephanie Williams. FRIDAY 9 AM TO 6 PM ZONE B1: Ross Imrie (Coordinator), Andrea and Cedric Innes, the Mont- SATURDAY 9 AM TO 1 PM* gomery family, Laurie Morrison, Norma Reveler, Stephanie and Kulani de SUNDAY CLOSED Larrinaga. *Open only when programs are operating, please call first. ZONE B2: Lorie Magee Mills (Coordinator), Leslie Roster, Hayley Atkin- son, Caroline and Ian Calvert, Sheilagh Stronach, Matthew and Graeme Gaetz, Kathy Krywicki. ZONE C1: Laura Johnson (Coordinator), the James-Guevremont family, the WHAT’S THAT NUMBER? Williams family, Sylvie Turner, Lynne Myers, Bob Knights, Jeff Pouw, the Franks family. ZONE C2: Craig Piche (Coordinator), Alan McCullough, Arthur Taylor, Ottawa South Community Centre - The Old Firehall 247-4946 Charles and Phillip Kijek, Sam & Avery Piche, Kit Jenkin, Michel and Chris- Ottawa South Community Association (OSCA) 247-4872 tina Bridgeman. Ottawa Public Library - South Branch 730-1082 ZONE D1: Bert Hopkins (Coordinator), the Crighton family, Emily Keys, Rob Campbell - [email protected] 730-8128 the Lascelles family, Gail Stewart, Bert Hopkins, Mary Jane Jones, the Sprott Kathy Ablett, Catholic Board Trustee 526-9512 family. Centretown Community Health Centre 233-5430 ZONE D2: Janet Drysdale (Coordinator), Ian Godfrey, Eric Chernushenko, Aidan and Willem Ray, the Stewart family. CUSA (Carleton U Students Association) 520-6688 ZONE E1: John Calvert & family (Coordinator), Brian Tansey, Doug Stick- Graduate Students Association 520-6616 ley, Wendy Johnson, Anna Cuylits, David Lum, Mary O’Neill. Community Liaison 520-3660 ZONE E2: Nicola Katz (Coordinator), Frida Kolsster-Berry, Mary-Ann Mediation Centre 520-5765 Kent, Glen Elder and Lorraine Stewart, the Rowleys, Dave White, the Hunter Athletics 520-4480 family, Brodkin-Haas family, Christina Bradley. ZONE F1: Carol and Ferg O’Connor (Coordinator), Jenny O’Brien, Janet CITY HALL Jancar, the Stern family, T. Liston, Ellen Bailie, Niki Devito, Dante and Bi- , City Councillor ([email protected]) 580-2487 anca Ruiz, Walter and Robbie Engert. Main Number(24 hrs) for all departments 3-1-1 ZONE F2: Bea Bol (Coordinator), the Tubman family, Karen Fee, Shaugh- Community Police - non-emergencies 236-1222 nessy and Kyle Dow, Paulette Theriault, Mark McDonald, Bea Bol, Jill Emergencies only 9-1-1 Moine, Paris Dutton. Serious Crimes 230-6211 ZONE G: Jim and Angela Graves (Coordinator), Peggy and Brian Kinsley, Ottawa Hydro 738-6400 Shelly Lewis, Peter Murphy, Claire and Brigitt Maultsaid, the McLemaghan Streetlight Problems (burned out, always on, flickering) 3-1-1 Rowat family, Roger Ehrhardt, Norma Grier, the Ostrander-Weitzman family. Brewer Pool 247-4938 Echo Drive: Alex Bissel. Brewer Arena 247-4917 Bank Street-Ottawa South: Rob Cook, Tom Lawson City of Ottawa web site - www.city.ottawa.on.ca Bank Street-Glebe: Craig Piche. JUNE 2007 The OSCAR - OUR 33rd YEAR Page 

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

The OSCAR welcomes letters on subjects of interest to the community or in response to previous articles. All letters must disclose the name of the writer, as well as the address and phone number. Lettters may be edited for length, clarity, and libelous statements. The opinions of the writers are not necessarily those of the newspaper or its editor. Email your letters to [email protected] or leave in print at the Firehall.

SOS in OOS Apologies From Careless Driver Is this not the BEST place to live!! o the family bicycling on Grosvenor that was nearly hit by a his is to my friends and neighbours (some of us did not even careless and clumsy driver on Sunday May 6 at the corner of know one another prior to this incident) Nicole, Laura, Laurel TOssington, I reiterate my deepest apologies and commitment for T(I think), Dave, Jan, Tony, and of course, Gord, as well as the better and safer driving. Fortunately you were not hurt. A donation has Ottawa 9-1-1 Emergency Response Unit. been made to the May Court. Please accept my deepest gratitude and that of my family for your rapid response to the situation of May 22 at our home on Pansy Ave. The careless and sorry driver The actions you took within a critical period of a few minutes – calling 9-1-1, calmly and continuously applying first aid until the ambulance arrived from the Civic Hospital - literally saved my life (this was affirmed by the paramedics). While Gord came with me to the hospital, the rest of you then took steps to inform my children - Zoe and Zachary -about the situation, so that they were able be with me as well. I think that it’s outstanding that you did not hesitate to provide help in spite of the potential for harmful physical - and emotional – Send your consequences to yourselves. Your enquiries as to my prognosis are further evidence of what it’s like to live in OOS! comments to I’m really fortunate to be able to live in such an exceptional neighbourhood. [email protected] or drop them off at the Firehall, Jewell Couch (choking survivor, former carnivor) 260 Sunnyside Avenue.

Reaction to Urban Meltdown

Dear Editor,

aving seen the article on the book launch of Clive Doucet’s “Urban Meltdown”, I found a copy on sale in one of our local shops. HBrowsing as I always do before a purchase, I was disconcerted to encounter on page 1 the following inaccuracy: “On November 10, 1997 I was to everyone’s astonishment elected to the City Council of the City of Ottawa...... ”. I read further to determine whether this was a simple oversight or editing error, but no. The inaccuracy was reinforced by the text and was repeated on page 236: “When I first arrived at in November of 1997.....”. In actual fact, Mr Doucet was not elected to Ottawa City Council in November 1997. The person elected to Ottawa City Council on that date was Inez Berg, who went on the serve the complete three-year term till 2000. Mr Doucet was indeed elected in November 1997, but as a Regional Councillor, and in November 2000, following amalgamation of City and Regional governments, he was elected as ’s first City Councillor under the new amalgamated arrangements. It is interesting to speculate on Mr. Doucet’s motive for misrepresenting the facts in this way. A bit of poetic licence, perhaps? Or was he trying to build credibility by citing a 10-year record as City Councillor, without having to explain the esoteric details of how his initial election was actually to Regional Council, with amalgamation thereafter. Whatever his motivation, the effect is an attempt to rewrite history and memory by erasing the three years of dedicated service by another member of our community. Given this small example of the integrity of Mr. Doucet’s literary efforts, I replaced the book on the shelf and left the store.

Sincerely, Jim McCarthy Page  The OSCAR - OUR 33rd YEAR JUNE 2007 Brief Notes From the Firehall Summer is Busy at the Firehall

By Dinos Dafniotis will offer this fun course Monday to Folklore Centre with their qualified informative meetings discussing Friday, 1:00pm – 2:00pm, August 27 music teachers and afternoons are one of North Americas favourite Summer Courses – 31. Registration for the summer spent in a variety of recreation past times. Unfortunately like many hough the focus is on summer courses starts Wednesday June 6 activities at the Firehall. For more volunteer based activities there is a camps at the Ottawa South online at www.oldottawasouth.ca or in details see the insert in this months need for people to come forward and Community Centre during July person at the Firehall 260 Sunnyside OSCAR issue or check our website. help organize. The same handful of T Ave. individuals who have been running and August, we will offer a few adult programs and afternoon preschool Babysitting Certification the program have run out of fuel. pottery course as well. Yoga and Summer Music Camps Potential babysitters still have an The cancellation of the popular Pilates enthusiast have a variety of There are many side benefits to opportunity to take the Canada Safety plant exchange on May 12 was the classes to choose from including taking music lessons for children. Not Council Babysitting Certification end result. A meeting in May by the our popular Core Yoga and Hatha only do they learn to play an instrument course before summer. The one day organizers will determine the fate of Yoga classes which will be offered but research shows musical lessons can course is offered on Saturday, June the program. If you have an interest on Monday evenings with Instructor improve learning in academics, build 9, 8:30am – 430pm. Registration is in gardening and would like to help Andrea Robertson. Sima Samguissi self esteem and improve discipline. underway for this course online or at continue the tradition please call the continues her Tuesday night Power But what instrument to learn. In the centre. centre. Yoga class through to the end of August cooperation with the Ottawa Folklore and the combination of Lori Myers Centre we offer summer camps aimed If you have any questions about our Summer Camps programs you can reach me at (613) and Carolyn Franklin will teach two at children who want to be exposed Some camps are full and some 247-4946 or email me at dinos. levels of Pilates on Thursdays. Pottery to guitar lessons, percussion lessons weeks have limited availability. Please [email protected]. Also, we are Studio Memberships are also available or multi instrument lessons before register soon for one of our many always looking for new program during the summer months and Vickie committing to them in the long term. camps to avoid disappointment. Salinas will teach a Level 1 Wheel These camps offer a full week of ideas. If you teach a course or have Throwing class on Monday nights and lessons in either guitar, percussion or any ideas please contact me. one week of exploring guitar, piano, Garden Club level 2 on Thursday nights. The last For over a decade the Garden percussion and voice lessons. We take week of August offers preschoolers Club has been organizing a plethora a maximum of 10 students per week. an opportunity to explore the world of of guest speakers for monthly pottery with Klara Bruelhmann. Klara Mornings are spent in lessons at the Thank You to All Who Made Savour the Flavour a Great Success n behalf of the Ottawa South Greg Strahl Boomerang Kids Mud Oven Community Association, Jason Parry Brenda Small OSCA Othe organizers of this year’s Jeff Poole Brian McGarry Ottawa Foklore Centre Firehall fundraising dinner, Savour Jenny Haysom Brian McGarry, Hulse Playfair and Ottawa Tennis and Lawn Bowling the Flavour, would like to thank all Jill Gill McGarry Club of the contributors and volunteers Jim Steel C.A. Paradis Paul Dewar who made this event such a smashing Jonah Allangham Cakes by Tatiana Penny Collonette success. We couldn’t have done it Justine Craig Carleton University Ravens Rowland Leather without you! We extend our sincere Karyn Collins Curves Roy Barber Service Centre thanks and appreciation to: Katherine Parry The Clothes Secret Kendall McQueen Deirdre McQuillan The Pie Lady Food Providers: Landon Stewart Douvris Martial Arts The Sixth Sense Catering Lisa Drouillard Ed and Marianne Keyes The Pie Lady Carmen’s Verandah Lynn Maya Gratton Elite Drapery Three Wild Women Living Sublime Domus, MJ Firehall Pottery Class Wag…a posh shop for Spoiled Pets Pelican Fish Mariane Williams Found Design White Box Red Apron Mark Newman Framed Wine Tasting Second Cup Mike Bridgeman Gerald Bailie Yardleys Nathalie Pepin Grace in the Kitchen Nick Roseman Greg Strahl Thanks also to: Nicolas Hoogers Hansens Stoneworks Volunteers: Pat Hillary’s Dry Cleaning Patti Ryan Hortus Urbanus Ada Brzeski Pierre Gratton Jim Cochrane Photography TD Bank at Bank and Glen $1000.00 Brendan McCoy Quinn Hodgins Jim Montgomery Lobe in the Glebe at $500.00 Chelsea Pepin Sheila Stronach John Graham Bank of at 1145 Bank at Chris Solar Sue Gemmel Joy Kardish $300.00 Chris Wolfert Valerie MacIntosh Kaleidoscope Kids Books and Allegra Print and Imaging for Christine Bridgeman Lisa Drouillard last minute program printing. Ciaran Ryan Newman Lydia and Brian Oak Colin Makin Moves The Jazz Band: Alun Davies Craig Piche Auction Item Contributors Mary Anne Thompson Gerri Trimble David Law Michael Jenkin Robert Martin Evelyn Gow Allegra Print and Copy Michael’s Classic Barber Shop Gabriel Hoogers Anna Sundin Mother Tongue Books JUNE 2007 The OSCAR - OUR 33rd YEAR Page 

OSCA PRESIDENT’S REPORT Where We Want to Be in 2010

By Michael Jenkin set of key strategic objectives. groups in the community. There is obviously some work Having brain stormed long lists to do to refine and finalize our plan. he OSCA Board and our of needs, capabilities and wants, we 4. To be an association that advocates Nevertheless, I think it was very Programme Committee met broke into three working groups after and supports environmentally encouraging to find the level of Tfor a day long planning session lunch to come up with some shared responsible development in the consensus in the group with respect on Sunday, May 6, to set our priorities objectives. At the end of the session community through our own to our key objectives as a community for both the Community Association the three working groups reconvened practices, our projects and the issues association for the next few years. Our and our programmes for the next three as a single group and reviewed their we support. challenge now is to figure out how to years. It was a lively session with over results. Remarkably, we found an make them happen!! 17 Board and Committee members exceptionally high level of consensus 5. To reach out more effectively to I would like to take this opportunity present. amongst the groups about what we groups both inside and outside the to thank the Board and Program We felt that as the community should be focussing on for the next community to build coalitions of Committee members, City and OSCA is changing before our eyes it was three years. common interest that can give us staff for coming out and giving up important for us as an organization a stronger voice with the City on their Sunday - and it was a glorious to set concrete goals and deliverables We came up with six key issues that affect the future of our spring day that Sunday - to work on that we could focus on over the next objectives or goals: community. this important project. I would also few years. We chose a three year time like to convey a big thank you from 6. To improve and make more the participants to our facilitator for period as it gave us an opportunity to 1. A renovated and expanded effective the way we manage and the day, Michelle Masson, who did think strategically, but within a time community centre that meets our govern ourselves as an organization a great job of guiding us through the frame that was realistic and where programming and events needs so we can better serve our process and keeping us focussed. we could identify some practical and for the next generation of users; is community. obtainable goals. available 7 days a week, and is an During the first part of the morning attractive, affordable and safe “living These objectives will be further we focussed on three big questions: room” for our community. what do we feel are the most pressing developed and refined by a group of The next regular sponsors drawn from the planning needs facing the community; what 2. To seek partnerships and meeting of OSCA is session participants who will present things are we capable of doing; and initiatives that support the local Tuesday, June 19 at the revised goals, with a suggested finally, what things do we want to do character of our business community. 7:30 pm at the Firehall. - what are we passionate about and implementation plan for each item, at our next Board meeting in June. want to be involved in? Hopefully, 3. To develop an expanded, engaged The whole Board will then have a full if we could find common issues that and passionate cadre of volunteers discussion on the final list of goals and we felt met all three criteria we might who are well linked to all areas and have the makings of a strategic plan or determine our next steps. Letter to the Editor re Bank Street Reconstruction – Riverside Drive to Walkley Road from Kevin A. Harper, Chair, OSWATCH (May, 2007)

t is with great interest that I read copy my office so that we can work Clive Doucet, Cc: Rosella MacNeil, the letter outlining the concerns together on getting the improvements Capital Ward Councillor Community Association and the Iof the Old Ottawa South and that will make the street a safe Board of Directors Heron Park communities regarding environment for all users. The first of 613 580-2487 the proposals for the reconstruction these would be to remove the channels [email protected] of Bank Street south of the river. I altogether so the traffic has to stop too remain concerned about proposals before turning. In spite of engineer that focus on engineering solutions responses that claim the need for for transportation at the expense of large transport trucks to turn, there pedestrians, cyclists and other non- is already sufficient turning space vehicular uses. Our Official Plan at Data Centre Road where there is demands that we prioritize pedestrian significantly less pedestrian traffic movements, but we never seem to get to compete with. The second would INC staff to deliver on this – moving traffic be to install a traffic light midway VERTdesign appears to be the default priority. between the lights at Riverside and When I reviewed the plans, it was those at the entrance to the Transitway. immediately obvious to me that the Pedestrians dodge cars at all hours and residential recreational commercial & community proposal to increase channel widths we do not need any more pedestrian at Riverside Drive are not only too deaths because traffic needs are wide for any pedestrian to easily deemed more important. There are negotiate but I was more disturbed solutions and we need to find them that the widening of Riverside itself and to promote them. to add additional lanes was included, I look forward to receiving more green projects in urban & rural environments even though the City’s Transportation correspondence from the community Master Plan does not discuss any that will help us to reclaim pedestrian proposal to widen Riverside Drive. and cycling safety on our streets. I have been advising people to 613.244.9484 write to the project manager and to www.vertdesign.ca Page  The OSCAR - OUR 33rd YEAR JUNE 2007 Brewer Park Update half-court backing right on the path apart and will need to be reinstalled. opposite the senior play area. With On a happier note Paul Landry, the City the half-court backing onto the project manager, has said he identified path, the path may simply become funds to add several more spring toys part of the court and children on and benches to the Brewer play area the path risk finding themselves in this season. As with previous years, the midst of a game. I worry that all of the work should be completed there will be conflicts between the before the park becomes really busy players and other park users, and at the end of school. informed the City project manager This years OSCA BBQ in Brewer in writing of these concerns. The Park on June 21 will be a celebration design was not changed and we of the new playground and members will have to hope for the best. of the seven area Rotary clubs who The large amount of graffiti contributed to this project have been on buildings and structures at the invited. The local Rotary clubs are park was cleaned off and painted not planning any more fundraising for over this spring, and the park looks this project. However there may be much better for it. A clover leaf renovations and additions to the lower shaped steel sand table has been part of the water play area at Brewer installed; it is designed to allow Park in the spring of 2008 by the Rotary children in wheel chairs to play Joint Venture. This will be financed The wheel chair accessible sand table in sand. The two nearby diggers by money the City had budgeted for that were installed last year, initially life cycle replacement at the park, and had problems but appeared to be a final fund raiser by the Rotary Joint functioning fine after some work. Venture. The planned fund raiser will By Brendan McCoy down the hill and they will now have This spring they were replaced with be part of the official opening of the to avoid hitting the wall. There have s I indicated in my last been a number of complaints about update on the playground the site of the wall. Aat Brewer park “Sand (and) In the senior play area, there will Piles”, steel piles were driven into the be some changes, but in response ground in the play area this January. to community concerns there will The purpose of this grouping of be no net loss of sand. The loss of piles, large steel pipes pounded down sand play areas has been an ongoing through the soft peat until it hit the community concern which culminated bedrock below, is to support a statue in a petition last fall. The plans this and “thank you” wall for the Rotary spring recognize this in the retention Centennial Playground. The statue is of all sand, albeit with some in a new of two children, and is by artist Bruce location. The saucer swing will have Garner. The donor wall will indicate the sand under it moved to the side that this park renewal is a Rotary Club and replaced with wood fiber, which joint venture, and thank those who is more wheel chair accessible. The have contributed to it. The foundation monkey bars in this area will also be for this wall and statue was poured moved slightly to maintain a safe fall in late May and the wall and statue zone around them. A small berm will should be in place soon. The feature be constructed along the path to help was originally planned to be in front keep balls, from the basketball half Foundation for the wall and statue of the picnic shelter, unfortunately court across the path, out of the play the location was changed without any area. new diggers by the manufacturer. The playground, and will include a dinner consultation with the community. The Along the path to the senior play equipment, which is under warranty, featuring a presentation by Canadian new location was apparently chosen area a triple hoop and track ride will is again displaying problems, was it astronaut Steve Mclean who grew up with the idea that it will not interfere be constructed. The basket ball half perhaps not installed properly? In any here in Ottawa. with the sightlines of park users, court will be shifted closer to the path event both diggers, which are very unfortunately children like to cycle and play area. The new design has the popular, quickly fell

All that is left of the diggers

Brewer Park photos by Brendan McCoy JUNE 2007 The OSCAR - OUR 33rd YEAR Page 

CITY COUNCILLOR’S REPORT Politics as Usual at City Hall

Dear OSCAR readers, Prince of Wales. and public transit remains something stem cutting the trees so severely My reason for the delay in that can be endlessly delayed. We and reducing the green canopy so Greetings from a Tree Being to a beginning the Prince of Wales E.A. have now been ‘studying’ a rail rapid dramatically the street is entirely Human Being was also based on the circumstance transit option for Ottawa for seven denuded of its green canopy. This is that we have terminated all the rapid years and there is still no sign of what has happened on Glen, Hopewell Welcome person transit environmental assessment anything happening beyond extending and several other streets in Old Ottawa to my domain of wild flowers at my studies until the Mayor’s task force the little pilot we brought in six years South. Right now, I’m engaged in a feet, reports. This includes all east-west ago to Leitrim. discussion with both Ottawa Hydro the sun and sky around my head. environmental E.A.s, all cross-river Another policy that needs to be and the City with the objective of E.A.’s to Gatineau and all city centre changed is Hydro Ottawa’s unfettered requiring that Hydro Ottawa have a I am alone now E.A.s. Everything has ground to a right to remove and slash any tree city forester on site to ensure that any in the side yard of a small clapboard halt but we continue to vigorously deemed to present a hazard to their trimming of trees is kept to a minimum, house, advance road construction. This year wire service. Under the Electricity not a maximum. But again, it’s not but my branches are still great arms we will set a record for new roads, 200 Act of 1998, Powers of entry: “A easy. Ottawa Hydro is protected by sufficient to hold the sky; kilometers, up from a yearly average transmitter or distributor may enter the Electricity Act and is not obliged my trunk a powerful bellow of 100 kilometers. So we need to slow any land for the purpose of cutting to listen to anyone. Hence, we have to all those who pass by. up new road construction, not speed down or removing trees, branches or to depend on courteous conversation up until council comes out of the deep other obstructions if, in the opinion and good sense prevailing. (for the rest of the poem, please go to freeze of the Mayor’s task force. But of the transmitter or distributor, it Turning the green light on and www:clivedoucet.com) even the idea of delaying the Prince is necessary to do so to maintain shutting the red one off requires more of Wales E.A. by a few months was the safe and reliable operation of its than one dissenting voice on Council. unacceptable to my colleagues. We transmission or distribution system. It needs that voice of dissent to become Politics as Usual at City lost the vote 5 to 2. 1998, c. 15, Sched. A, s. 40 (4).” the majority. Hall My book “Urban Meltdown: But the world has changed since Cities, Climate Change and Politics as the Electricity Act was written in ast fall, during the election, Usual” is about exactly this problem; 1998. In the last ten years, the peak New Location Coffee with one of the criticisms that was that in spite of all the science, the period for electrical use has shifted media attention and public anxiety from the winter to the summer. Heat, Clive Llaunched in my direction was Starting June 14th Coffee with about climate change, it’s business not cold has become the largest draw ‘I was a lone wolf’. The longer I stay Clive will be held at the Ottawa Tennis as usual at City Hall. Cities continue on the provincial and city electrical on Council, the more I realize there and Lawn Bowling Club on Cameron to grow and pollute exactly as they system. In this new environment, the is a wide divide between myself, the in Old Ottawa South on the second always have. Cities now produce summer forest canopy has assumed Mayor and many on council. Thursday of the month from 9:00 to 80 per cent of greenhouse gases new importance. Having a mature, The problem that remains for me 10:00 a.m. is how do you collaborate with points and that percentage is increasing tree canopy is like having a free air of view that you see as both destructive not decreasing, mostly because city conditioner operating 24/7 outside and costly? The latest example was councils refuse to change and fixing your front door. Multiply that air Best, the Environmental Assessment for the climate change requires that cities conditioner by the dozens of street trees Clive Doucet widening of Prince of Wales Drive. I change the way they grow. on a healthy Ottawa street, multiply brought forward a very mild motion You can’t change and remain the that single street by the dozens of City of Ottawa at Transportation Committee to delay same, councillors have to start voting streets in a single neighbourhood 110 Laurier Avenue West, the Prince of Wales, E.A. until the for different kinds of motions and and you begin to get an idea of their Ottawa, ON K1P 1J1 Mayor’s Task Force on Transportation supporting different kinds of policies. importance in reducing the summer tel.: (613) 580-2487 It’s clear that when the rubber hits energy draw on Hydro Ottawa. had reported in June. Then we would fax: (613) 580-2527 have some idea of what the ‘rapid the road, City Council paves more The 2007 urban environment is [email protected] transit’ solutions to the south end will grass for the tires. City Council feels one where Hydro Ottawa should be be, as it is these commuter pressures ‘obliged’ to accommodate car based doing everything possible to preserve www.clivedoucet.com which are pushing for the widening of growth just as they did in the 1950s the urban forest canopy instead of Page  The OSCAR - OUR 33rd YEAR JUNE 2007 Topping the Trees

By Gail Stewart wiring in our neighbourhood and had is in how the issue and questions for hole-nesting birds, are such trees (Photo by Mary Anne Thompson) warned, “There may also be some around it expanded in my own mind generally bird-friendly? Then came tree pruning required.” I understand and perhaps others. I think this may the bigger picture: climate change: n a Friday afternoon at the some aspects of this situation will be be typical of many issues we now were we not meant to be planting trees end of April, residents on reported elsewhere in this issue of face, as our social and ecological rather than continuously cutting them OHopewell near Grosvenor OSCAR by Councillor Doucet and consciousness grows. back? Why were we not trying harder raised an alarm about excessive Chair of ECOS Mike Lascelles. Both, Our first and indignant reactions to have wiring placed underground? tree pruning by Hydro Ottawa. The to their credit, had quickly responded were I think aesthetic, how awful the In short, from what was at first merely company is installing new poles and to residents’ concerns. My interest trees looked. One resident called it a visual shock -- an offense to the “butchery.” It felt as though violence eye -- came a gradual process of that had been done not only to the trees but shock having a rippling effect, raising to the appearance of our community. questions at many levels. Two weeks What was Hydro Ottawa thinking? after that Friday afternoon at the end Was this corporate callousness -- of April and in response to a request another instance of one of our own I had subsequently made to Hydro inventions, the corporation, damaging Ottawa for its tree pruning manual, us in other ways in its search for I received an answer. Hydro Ottawa improving its cost structure -- in this follows “CSA’s Standard Practice for case seeking to lessen its frequency Utility Pruning” (not yet located by the of tree pruning? Could the trees even author as this is written). With respect survive? specifically to the tree pruning in our Then the realization dawned about community, the Hydro spokesperson exposed upper stories of houses in the wrote, “While it may appear visually community. Not only might there be a that major branches were cut in this loss of privacy but also of shade, with instance, we have in fact removed the subsequent use of more energy in only growth that has occurred since the summer for cooling. (The irony these trees were last pruned in late of Hydro Ottawa, with its public 2005.” I haven’t seen them but the commitment to conservation, having reports from the Councillor and the caused this exposure to summer’s ECOS chair, elsewhere in this issue, heat was not lost.) Property values will then surely confirm this. too could be involved, trees being a The question then will be, was valued amenity and affecting “curb this merely a tempest in a treetop? Or, appeal.” supposing for example that the Hydro Next came thoughts about the Ottawa statement isn’t true, that the greening of the city, the city’s forest CSA manual needs up-dating, that the policy with respect to maintaining birds have not been well-served by the green cover. Then came issues of current tree-pruning in the community, health -- people’s health, also the and that the episode has, at minimum, notion of a healthy environment. served to raise our consciousness, Then the birds, looking for shelter and what then? What aspect of the situation food whether migrating or nesting and might merit our attention, topping the raising their brood. (Another irony: trees? I think I might nominate the the episode occurred immediately vigilance that raised the issue and the following the publication in the community process that followed and Ottawa Citizen about disappearing is continuing. That is where the picture songbirds.) Do song birds nest and feed seems to come together, in a new in the straighter shoots from topped or consciousness of the connectedness pollarded trees? Famous as they rot for among many phenomena. providing nesting sites and insect food JUNE 2007 The OSCAR - OUR 33rd YEAR Page  Plastic Bags and the 3 R’s Smog Advisory

By Judy Lascelles ot, hazy, and humid conditions combined with a southwesterly flow of polluted air from the U.S. and local build-up of pollutants t always boils down to the conservation mantra of reduce, reuse, and Hare resulting in elevated smog levels across southern and eastern recycle. What is not always understood is the significance of the order in Ontario. Iwhich these three goals are listed. We can demonstrate this by applying Smog is a hazy mix of pollutants made up of ground-level ozone, the 3 R’s to plastic bags. fine particulate matter and other pollutants. During the summer months, more than half of Ontario’s smog-causing pollution originates in the Reduce United States. Reducing is the highest goal because no resources are used at all when In cooler months, domestic sources can be significant contributors to you don’t purchase something that you don’t really need. Don’t accept plastic the formation of fine particulate matter. bags in the first place. And accepting paper bags isn’t a good alternative The two primary pollutants in smog are ground-level ozone (O3) and because they deplete our forests. The answer is to bring your own cloth bags particulate matter (PM). High levels of smog are typically associated with when shopping. the summer due to the presence of sunlight and warmer temperatures. Before buying cloth bags, you may want to look around your home for However, the smog problem actually occurs throughout the year, with any you may already own. It’s amazing how many of these I’ve acquired for winter smog (due to particulate matter contributions rather than ozone) free over the years. Sure, they have advertising of some sort on them, but being a serious concern when stagnant air causes a build up of pollutants aren’t we trying to preserve our planet rather than make a fashion statement? in the air. This is usually caused by increased wood heating and vehicle Given that cotton production apparently consumes 25% of all insecticides usage in the winter months. used, you don’t want to buy cotton that you don’t need either. To avoid having to resort to plastic bags, keep a cloth bag in your car and one at the Smog has been identified as contributing factors in thousands of office for unplanned trips to the store. premature deaths across the country each year, as well as increased Loblaws has already announced that it will give you 50 food points, hospital visits, doctor visits and hundreds of thousands of lost days at valued at five cents, every time you use one of their new cloth bags, selling at work and school. 99 cents each. The bags are quite spacous and attractive too. Unfortunately, those of us who use our own cloth bags continue to receive a credit of only Environmental problems attributed to smog include effects on one cent each. vegetation, structures, and visibility and haze (mainly due to fine PM). The website www.airqualityontario.com contains a list of “spare the Reuse air” actions (www.airqualityontario.com/science/spareair.cfm) to help The next best goal is to reuse the plastic bags that you’ve already combat smog and minimize its effect on sensitive populations. acquired. Reusing doesn’t require any additional resources. Of course, plastic To learn more about air quality, visit the Ministry of the Environment’s bags don’t last forever, especially when they’re used to carry a heavy load. website at www.ene.gov.on.ca. Eventually, you’ll need new ones. And the handles of plastic bags aren’t as easy on the hands as those of cloth bags, especially if you’re walking home with your groceries rather than using the car.

Recycle The least desirable of the 3 R’s is recycling the plastic bags, but it’s still a lot better than throwing them in the garbage after a single use. Apparently, Loebs already accepts clean plastic bags for recycling. Of course, recycling consumes resources in transporting and making the bags usable as raw materials for manufacturing. Page 10 The OSCAR - OUR 33rd YEAR JUNE 2007 Community Celebrates Life at Hike For Hospice 2007 and Raises Over $60,000

M.P.P. Richard Patten and Tracy Arnett officially start the fifth annual Hike for Hospice with the official ribbon cutting. Patten and Tracy Arnett of Tracy High School and back, hikers were in pledges and sponsorship. All of By Joanne Steventon Arnett Realty Ltd., the event’s greeted at the Hospice gates by an the money will stay at The Hospice at eautiful weather was definitely Platinum Sponsor. In addition to invigorating drumming circle. Waiting May Court, and go towards helping a key ingredient, but it was Old working her magic with the scissors at for them in the backyard was a family people and their families cope with BOttawa South’s community the ribbon cutting, Tracy and her team picnic complete with sandwiches from life-threatening illness. spirit that made The Hospice at May played an integral role in raisings LOEB Glebe, juice, and home-made On behalf of all staff, volunteers, Court’s fifth annual Hike for Hospice funds and awareness for this year’s cookies baked by Hospice volunteers. patients and their families, a sincere a truly great event. Nearly 400 event. Amongst the crowd of hikers A local and lively Dixieland Band thank you to everyone who took part people crowded the Hospice’s scenic were over a dozen Tracy Arnett team played through the lunch hour, and in this year’s event. Whether you grounds along the Rideau River on members who raised nearly $5,000 helped to finish the event on a high collected pledges, pledged a hiker, Sunday May 6th for this 5 km walk. above and beyond their sponsorship. note. made a sponsorship, baked cookies or Hike for Hospice is best described as After a scenic walk along the In total, this year’s event has volunteered – this day would not have part fundraiser and part celebration of canal (via Echo Drive) to Immaculata raised over $60,000 for the Hospice been possible without you! lives that have been touched by the Hospice at May Court. Participants were primed for their hike with a gourmet breakfast provided by the gals at The Red Apron. Their tasty spread featured yogurt and fruit, muffins and breakfast sandwiches. Caffeinated refreshments were kindly provided by the Old Ottawa South Tim Hortons. The pre-Hike background ambiance came from The Hopewell Flute Choir. This quartet of young musicians, lead by Kelly Richardson, played for nearly forty minutes until Barbara Campbell, the chair of the Hospice’s board, took to the stage to lead the opening ceremonies. Other guests at the opening ceremonies included Gail Carroll from the OutCare Foundation; long- time Hospice friend, Richard Patten M.P.P.; and Dance instructor Erin Dube from Makin’ Moves who lead the warm-up. Flute Choir: The Hopewell Flute Choir (right to left) Peglees Barrios, Christine Backs, Shauna Griffin, The Hike was kicked off by an Hannah Wiens, Sascha Charrier, Anne Haley, Sydney Cohen McFarlane. official ribbon cutting by Richard JUNE 2007 The OSCAR - OUR 33rd YEAR Page 11 Flynn Design Opens On Bank Street By Patty Deline

he corner of Bank and Glen is home to a new business Tmany in Old Ottawa South will welcome with open arms. Flynn Design, an architecture and design firm run by brothers Jason and James Flynn, has taken over from Hortus Urbanus. The firm has two elements. One is interior design work, which will be handled by James, who has been in the design and cabinetry field for many years. Jason, a long time OOS resident, is an architect with expertise in kitchen design and home renovation, two popular pastimes in our area. Jason and his design team will occupy the newly renovated lower level. The main floor is a showroom for kitchen cabinetry and entertainment units designed and built by James, as well as kitchen accessories to coordinate with the cabinetry. In a recent interview, Jason stated that one of the main focal areas of the new firm is green design, both for residential and commercial sectors. “Our office itself is being set up in an ecological way. Eighty percent of our power will run off the sun.” They are trying to use the space to showcase their beliefs, using recycled James and Jason Flynn plant flowers in the window boxes. Photo by Patty Deline. materials and sustainable materials like bamboo. As well, “we want to create a healthy work environment for thinking about going into business On a personal note, Jason Flynn their first clients. So If anyone would ourselves and the people who work together for some time. And they work is my neighbour. I watched with great like to see what amazing miracles can for us,” explained Jason. well together. “We think the same way, interest as he renovated his home, be wrought from a tiny 8 by 12 foot They want to extend this talk the same way. When it comes to particularly the kitchen. So impressed space, you are welcome to drop by philosophy by showing people how fleshing out a project together, the was I that when I was ready to do my and see my new kitchen at 26 Windsor good design and common sense can ideas come so quickly. We just feed kitchen, I asked him to do it. How lucky Avenue after July 9. come together. “Proper building off each other,” Jason explains. They I was that he and James had started location on a site, orientation to the complement each other with James Flynn Design and I was to be one of sun, shading mechanisms, these are taking care of the interior details, the kinds of things we like to offer to Jason the architectural, building lay- people who come into our centre. If out and exterior work. They have a I can offer a design that might make team of contractors, mainly local, somebody’s dream come true and at who will be working with them. the same time offer them the health When the Hortus Urbanus space benefits of proper material selection, became available, “we jumped all that’s what I love to do…that’s the over it,” exclaims Jason. They love fire!” Jason exclaims with passion. the space, “it has loads of character. Jason firmly believes that It fills our image perfectly for a architecture can change the way contemporary design company with families interact with each other. an industrial edge,” he explains. In our neighbourhood, the older “And it has loads of natural light.” homes were designed with a series And the location was also perfect. of isolated single purpose rooms, Jason lives in Old Ottawa South, he explains. “By opening up these Jason in Alta Vista. “For me, the spaces, you get flexible multi-use idea of living and working in the space, but within the same footprint, same community is fantastic. I can or with just a small addition of space, walk home for lunch and play with completely in contrast to the monster my daughter,” Jason beams. houses of the suburbs.” For example, And then there is the garden. Jason continues, “with my own house, “We love the garden. It is such a we took down the wall between beautiful break between the concrete, the kitchen and the dining room, the buildings and the street. It’s very extending the kitchen into the dining special. It’s so evident that someone room. By doing so, the space that really cared for that small patch of was occupied by the wall became my land. I‘ve put windows into the daughter’s play room. Now she can basement wall and sitting at my be part of the centre of activity of the desk, I look out into the garden. The house. These two spaces overlapped. daffodils, tulips, it’s just gorgeous!” Where two spaces join, options are enthuses Jason. “My therapy will created for another uses, a playspace, be to work in it at lunch. We are a homework space, etc.” so grateful to Ailsa Francis for this James and Jason have been legacy.” Page 12 The OSCAR - OUR 33rd YEAR JUNE 2007 Green Energy and Transportation Show By Susan Wellisch (photo by Susan Wellisch) he Aberdeen Pavillion used to play host to livestock but on TMay 12 and 13th there were no cows but plenty of solar panels on hand for the Green Energy and Transportation Show. Organizers were trying to help people find ways to live sustainably. From the type of countertop you install in your new kitchen to the rag you use to clean it there were vendors ready to show you how to do it green. The Cattle Castle hosted over 75 vendors in categories ranging from home renovation to energy to transportation and household products. One of the most popular misconceptions about environmental technology is that high up-front costs mean a long time before people see a return. Vendors at the show were able to demonstrate that this is not always true. One example is solar hot water. A passive system, consisting essentially of tubing installed on a roof, can be installed for five or six thousand electronic bikes, hybrid cars and the of lying down. This will decrease construction techniques and materials dollars. The cost of fuel for your hot ebike – an electric scooter that riders the stealth factor, reduce the speed at when they plan green construction. water tank is a substantial part of your can pedal like a bike while charging which it can travel, but make it more They say that green design can be energy bill so replacing that with solar the battery. But by far the coolest realistic so that maybe one day we tailored to any budget: in fact taking can make a big difference. Isolara mode of transportation was the sleek will all be driving them. advantage of passive solar heating is Energy Services displayed solar hot solar car engineered by the Queens Back on the home front, there free. Green design will pay dividends water heating systems claimimg a University Solar Vehicle Team. Had it are many innovations in interior over time and is an investment 10% return on investment per year been black instead of covered in solar furnishings. One of the most in the planet and in your indoor and a 50% reduction in your hot water panels it could have been driven by interesting was shown by Viridis, environment. heating bill. Darth Veder. The set of specs for the a company specializing in green One of the most green displays There were various vehicles in next competition will require teams to building materials. They featured a at the show was from Elevated the transportation section including position the driver sitting up instead countertop made of layered paper and Landscape Technologies who design insulation made of old jeans. If those green roof and wall systems. Most Levis don’t fit you anymore why not of us have heard of a green roof but use them to insulate your house? a green wall? Consisting of panels A company in the US is producing made up of individual cells, soil and insulation using old denim. It works plants are held in place by gravity. well and is not as tricky to install as Water flows through the panels and is fibreglass with its prickly texture. drains off. The panels are attached The countertop is made of layers to the wall with a bracket. This is a of recycled paper coloured and glued simple and beautiful way to create a together with a non toxic adhesive. It beautiful green a wall that was plain has a natural look and feel that would before. They even make an indoor work well in any kitchen. As well, version with an irrigation collection because each layer is coloured, if the tray on the bottom to prevent spills counter is scratched it can be repaired so you can have green wall boxes easily with some sandpaper. indoors. And of course the cloth you use Over the last year the environment to clean your green countertop can has become much more important to also be environmentally friendly. people but other than changing light Ha Ra cloths and gloves made of bulbs many don’t know where to start. microfibers do a better job of getting The Green Energy and Transportation rid of dirt than your average rag that Show helped provide some answers. just moves the dirt around. So much The Show’s web site can help with so that you can reduce your use of ten tips from Green Party Candidate chemical cleaners both saving money David Chernushenko. Go to http:// and your home’s environment. www.thinkinggreen.ca/ottawa/faq. When looking at renovating, htm Patric Langevin and Christopher Also try Isolara Energy Services Straka of Vert Design practice http://isolara.com/ green design which encorporates Queens University Solar Vehicle environmental factors into the design Team http://www.solarcar.queensu. of the project. Orienting a building ca/index.php to take advantage of passive solar Viridis www.viridis.ca heating and using standard material Ha-Ra Products Canada www.ha- dimensions to avoid waste, are two ra.ca examples. Langevin and Straka Elevated Landscape Technologies look at how well the development is http://www.elteasygreen.com integrated into its surroundings, how and for general information on adaptable the design is to change green building go to http://www. of use over time, and the impact of greenbuildingpages.com/main.html JUNE 2007 The OSCAR - OUR 33rd YEAR Page 13 “Everybody complains about the weather ….” Communities assemble to discuss Ottawa’s traffic

by stephen a. haines Expansion Program [ORTEP] and as Parkdale, Leaver and Trillium Ottawa Police are responsive to these OSCA representative to FCA the various options to be considered. Avenues have seen greatly reduced requests, although resources are he old saw attributed to Mark He noted that about 17% of Ottawa speeds and greater compliance with stretched. Twain about the futility of residents use transit - a figure speed limits. The ATM group is Congestion is a significant discussing weather applies OCTranspo hopes to increase to 30% seeking more community input in its problem in OOS, and other “inner T by the year 2020 through the new dealings with traffic concerns. He city” areas. Some discussion ensued equally to traffic. Old Ottawa South has long viewed itself as particularly plan. Cullen also noted that there welcomed FCA’s effort to improve on which of the possible solutions vulnerable to traffic-related issues. are two groups that most OCTranspo communication levels and expressed best addressed the problem. Is mass Vehicle counts are done, speed limits users “lack choice”, a comment hope for more exchanges. The transit the only solution? OCTranspo imposed, “traffic calming” devices of some interest to Old Ottawa starting point for ATM’s work is buses were deemed oversized and introduced to restrict or slow cars and South residents. He also proposed community concerns, he noted. underused by some attendees. Could trucks, but the situation inexplicably the encouragement of workplace However, there is a backlog of a “jitney” type bus with a more either stays the same or seems to decentralisation as a means of uncompleted projects due to resource flexible schedule not provide more worsen. Not long ago communities reducing congestion and provide a lack. Traffic concerns cost money effective transport? The balance pointed accusing fingers at each other more stable foundation for Rapid to resolve. With four major projects between vehicle capacity and the for causing problems - generating Transit route planning. and over two dozen local requests number on the roads would have to too much traffic or impeding it. Following Chairman Cullen, pending, wait times for completion be determined [it’s noteworthy to this Whatever its other manifestations, Robert Streicher of the City’s Area are becoming unreasonable. reporter that the issue of pollution Ottawa’s amalgamation has Traffic Management [ATM] group Both sessions were followed by levels of the various options never provided an improved opportunity described how traffic patterns are question periods. The Sunnyside arose in the discussion. This is an for communities and citizens’ analysed and issues dealt with. The “bulbout” was challenged as a true oversight that will be more directly associations to meet and discuss the aim, he stressed, is “preserving “calmer”, since the long traffic addressed at the next Workshop]. issues. The Federation of Citizens’ neighbourhood liveability”. A queues generated by it lead to Related to the number and Associations [FCA] has taken up the confusion exists over two commonly drivers speeding after leaving the types of vehicles available for challenge with a First Annual Traffic used terms, “Traffic Management” intersection. Among the enquiries conveying people is the demand Workshop, held this year at the and “Traffic Calming”. The former was the question of increasing the for them and what forms of Greenboro Community Centre. describes the entire process of number of bus lanes in the City. roadways are available to carry The all-day meeting convened addressing traffic concerns, while Turning kerb lanes along Bank Street them. FCA has been debating the on 28 April with 18 participants “Calming” is a specific set of into bus lanes for efficiency was endorsement of a “No New Roads” representing more than a dozen physical measures. The “bulbout” suggested. Bank Street also serves policy and its implications. How community associations. OOS restricting right turns on Sunnyside as a conduit for emergency vehicles might developers be compelled resident Friederike Knabe kindly Avenue to Bank Street is a familiar which have difficulty negotiating a to modify building design under volunteered her services as the example. Riverdale’s speed bumps route, particularly during peak hours. that scenario? What would be the meeting’s Facilitator. Her mode are another. Workshop participants endorsed result of developers paying a greater of discipline, firm but fair, kept Streicher offered a string of suggestions that closer ties with share of infrastructure requirements discussion well focused. General “Success Story” examples of how OCTranspo and ATM was desirable.. resulting from their designs? Current interest was high, with an ATM has addressed community Reconvening in plenary session regulations require 1.5 parking enthusiastic welcome given to Alex traffic concerns. Kirkwood Avenue, following lunch, the attendees spaces for each new occupancy unit. Cullen, Chairman of the City’s one such case, had a string of presented the concerns of each of “Intensification”, a sub-theme of Transit Committee. Alex presented “Calming” features installed with their communities or organisations in new development might be utilised an update on the future of rapid significantly reduced vehicle speed turn. Those concerned with speeding to reduce the distance between home transit in Ottawa, explaining the and nearly halved the collision rate vehicles were informed that raising and work. Is this an acceptable Rapid Transit Expansion Study without reducing the traffic volume. a Case Number with the Ottawa approach? Is a “Congestion Levy” [RTES] and the Ottawa Rapid Transit Public response has deemed the ATM Police is the most effective means such as that in existence now in efforts “ a success”. Other sites such of achieving enforcement. The London, England and recently proposed for New York City, a worthwhile suggestion for Ottawa? Our local environment would make “entry points” fairly easy to establish and enforce. All the problems and questions dealt with in this Workshop are the concern of all Old Ottawa South residents. Other areas in Ottawa have proposed Community Traffic Plans, should OOS follow suit? Your Ottawa South Community Association wants to learn your opinions and suggestions on traffic issues. These will be brought to FCA for exchanges with other communities to reconcile differences and identify common concerns. FCA will be working closely with the City’s transportation agencies for your benefit. Please contact your OSCA Board Member or OSCA’s representative to FCA. Thank you. stephen a. haines may be reached at [email protected] or 613 730 0183 View from third story on Sunnside - A captured moment during busy morning traffic. Photo by Christine Backs Page 14 The OSCAR - OUR 33rd YEAR JUNE 2007 OSCAR Interviews Clive Doucet

SCAR feature writer stephen haines considering climate change impact? OSCAR: What programmes exist to help found cornered Glebe resident, poet and new environment product industries? Oauthor, Clive Doucet somewhere Doucet: No, I don’t. Most people think the same between his home, office as City Councillor for way. They don’t like the thought of climate change Doucet: Very few. In fact, it is the reverse, the Captial Ward and book promotion sites. Both but it is a fairly abstract thought. When I say:’Well, we subsidize carbon loading industries and penalize took a deep breath and exchanged comments about climate change means voting for someone different. green ones. cities, climate change and Ottawa’s future. Someone who will support congestion charges, city wide light rail and so on. It’s very clear from the last OSCAR: At a recent workshop, a city official OSCAR: Did your Acadian background have election, that there isn’t an overwhelming support urged that home and work be brought closer some influence on your urban philosophy? for this kind of candidate. Mr. O’Brien’s message together. Do you see a practical means of bringing was very clear. Let’s keep doing what we’re doing that about? Would you encourage business in your Clive Doucet: Yes, it did. Traditional Acadian but let’s do it better. Ward to hire more local people, even if they need society is a peasant society with strong feelings about training or other consideration? taking care of your neighbours and the equality of OSCAR: Do you favour tax levies that men and women. It was also a place where care encourage/drive business to be more responsive to Doucet: People have been talking about this of the environment was very high. I remember as climate change issues? for a very long time because the benefits are so a boy a man who was over fishing and some men obvious, but nothing has ever been done. In fact, took him down to the end of the wharf and showed Doucet: On climate change I’m a radical. If I again it’s the reverse, we invest millions in making him what the sea looked like from an upside down ran for Mayor, I’d be running on a city wide light it easy for people to drive from Carp to downtown position. He didn’t over fish anymore. The great rail system within 4 years. Once that was in and Toronto to work. I’ve had people phone my office literary stars of Acadie are all women, Evangeline people had a solid, environmental alternative to the and complain about the 417, telling me that they live and La Sagouine especially. It is their values of single occupant car, I’d bring in a small congestion in Kemptville and enjoy the country drive but really steadfastness, couage and sense of community toll on the major arteries and this money would go find the 417 unsupportable and we ‘must’ improve which inform Acadian history and literature. into tranit and green projects. The idea would be to it so that their drive is quicker and less stressful. change the urban paradigm from a carbon loading OSCAR: Do you feel you would have taken one to a carbon neutral one. Would this make a OSCAR: Many of my readers came through the stands suggested by the book if you’d been a difference? Absolutely. It has, everywhere that the 1960s. Is there a parallel or a lesson there for Councillor for Kanata or Orleans areas? these ideas have been introduced. Montreal will today’s conditions? introduce this kind so system next fall and Toronto, Doucet: Impossible to answer as I have never not much after. Doucet: Yes, we failed to change the social and lived in a distant suburb and have trouble imagining economic paradigm in the 1960s, not because the it. I live just a few kilometers from where I grew OSCAR: How can we best implement ideas expressed in books like Small is Beautiful up. For me there are two human environments “environmental accountability” - for business and and The Death and Life of Great American Cities which I understand, the country i.e. a place where for the individuals and families? weren’t right but because we never understood the people live and work and is not near any city i.e. importance of changing the political paradigm. I commuters do not exist, and the city, a collection of Doucet: We need to differentiate between see the same thing happening today. neighbourhoods, busy sidewalks and businesses. individual environmental accountability and public. Individual decisions are important but they OSCAR: Given your experience and the book’s OSCAR: With the information about climate are individual. I worry more about the public side. theme, how would you describe your vision for a change available today, why do you think so many Individuals can’t build a fast passenger train to future Ottawa? people ignore or dismiss its threats? Toronto or Montreal, or move the goods off the 18 wheelers on the 401 to freight trains. Clean air is a Doucet: Ottawa is a blessed city in the sense Doucet: I don’t think they ignore it. The collective right and thus a collective responsibility. we haven’t grown to an unsupportable size and problem is climate change is a product of the way So I don’t want to get sucked into making people we are in a corner of North America where there we have been living for the last 50 years. It’s to feel guilty about whether or not they drive their car is plenty of water and tree cover. The agonizing imagine living differently from the way you’ve or whatever, I want them to care about the political thing about living here is that we are dissipating all always lived. It’s like asking a goldfish if he’d like will to protect our collective rights - clean air and of those advantages with business and politics as to change his bowl. It’s a concept the goldfish has a clean water. What is the good of individual rights if usual. We are eating up all of our environmental hard time dealing with - the bowl seems to work. you can’t breathe the air? advantages. Perhaps, another reason is people think that there’s a magic bullet out there somewhere. At the OSCAR: How can Ottawa entice OSCAR: Thank you for finding the time to talk last minute something will come along ‘to cure’ environmentally-oriented business here? with us. We hope your book is widely read. climate change. This isn’t likely but it doesn’t stop people from thinking it anyway. Doucet: By being the kind of place Doucet: You’re welcome. environmentally-oriented business people would OSCAR: Do you sense a difference in the want to live. business side of a person and the resident side in

Area Church Service Times

Sunnyside Wesleyan Chuch St Margaret Mary’s Parish 58 Grosvenor Avenue (at Sunnyside) 7 Fairbairn Sunday Worship Service at 10am Sunday liturgies: Saturday at 4:30 (June-August) p,m. Sunday at 10 a.m. Children’s program offered during Evening Prayer: Tuesday at 7 p.m. worship service. Southminster United Trinity Anglican Church 1230 Bank Street (corner of Cam- Church 15 Aylmer Avenue eron) 10:30 a.m.: Worship and Sunday Sunday services at 8 a.m. and 10 a.m. School - September through June Church School adn Nursery at 10 a.m. JUNE 2007 The OSCAR - OUR 33rd YEAR Page 15

BOOK REVIEW Traffic Sewers, Carnivorous Capitalism And Political Poetry a review by stephen a. phenomenon, the automobile. Cars, haines and their off-spring, trucks, created an entirely new form of urban structure. Urban Meltdown: Climate The urban economy - including food Change and Politics as - has come to rely on “Just-in-time” Usual transport where products are delivered by Clive Doucet for use and inventory is minimal. This practice, plus the individual New Society Publishers, commuter and the amalgamation of 2007 small farms into “agribiz”, has flooded ISBN: 0-86571-584-4 the countryside with vehicles. Cities, as a result, contribute 80% of North America’s aerial pollution. Doucet uses his life in Toronto and here in the Glebe as examples of how North American cities have been transformed. When he and his wife moved to the Glebe, it was quiet, hardly wealthy, and an intimate community. His poetic skills come to the fore in describing his life there and in what Ottawa can offer a concerned resident. Yet, how did a relatively run-down neighbourhood become transformed into an affluent community, beset by intense traffic, and suffering costly changes? He argues that the “privatisation” of roads - removing quiet streetcar lines to allow increased auto traffic was the primary cause. Inner city residents fled to suburbs and the “mall mentality”, the demise of city centres. Resistance, in Porto Alegre, Brazil. There, devoid ow many times have we depleting the inner city of resources while in a few instances was victorious of the hordes of soldiers and police all heard it? “You can’t and causing “traffic sewers” filled as in the blocking of the Spadina typifying the G8 and World Trade Hfight City Hall!” That little with automobiles. The result is that, Expressway, was generally defeated. meetings, he found or formulated aphorism derived from a time when instead of improving social services He acknowledges his debt to urban some proposals. He offers them here City officials were often bribed for such as schools, hospitals and child- rebel Jane Jacobs, but it’s clear that as a four point description of what we, decisions. “Buying” urban politicians care, cities now spend 25% - 50% of a Toronto expressway was just a as electors, should be demanding and seemed a commonplace, and if you their budgets in road construction or starting point. “Stopping Spadina” implementing. They are worth your couldn’t afford one, you remained out maintenance. That’s your tax dollars. was Doucet’s training ground in close attention - and support. During of the decision-making process. City “The wretched thing about urban politics. He’s learned the his last campaign, local media claimed politicians are not often “on the take” urban expressways”, he notes, “is lessons well, but in Ottawa, as in most that “City Council could only hold these days, but the commonality and that they create a landscape that North American cities, it’s no longer a one Doucet”. Not so. What our City rigidity of their thinking keeps City never heals”. The demand for more single roadway to contend with. It’s Council needs is many Clive Doucets Hall at a remote, yet still powerful, pavement for automobiles even led to the entire society and the government - perhaps the full two dozen. distance. What we are coping with a serious proposal to pave the Rideau making decisions in City Hall. Those now is a mind-set, something that Canal. The expressway locale is a decisions are no longer only local stephen a. haines may be reached at doesn’t come under the attention doomed neighbourhood, as noise and issues, but contribute to issues of email address: of a Crown prosecutor. For Clive pollution drive residents elsewhere. planetary significance. [email protected] Doucet, fighting City Hall isn’t the Business drops off, schools go Doucet found hope for the future answer. What we need is to either without amenities or even repairs and in the World Social Forum conventions change the outlook, or else change the static sets in. Doucet notes how this people occupying City Hall. In this condition began with the ripping out stimulating and invigorating book, he of 500 kilometres of streetcar lines and sets out how the mind-set came to be, continued as roadways spread their what it promises for our future and asphalt tentacles outward. One result why we need to change it. is that Canada is now the per capita The cities we live in today, he notes, leader in atmospheric pollution, with are drastically different from those of vehicles being the major source of even our recent past. Once cities were climate change gases. Where Nature places of close interaction - houses, once decreed the chemical changes shops, markets, and local governance. taking place in the atmosphere, now With the growth of empires, such humanity is firing the world’s largest as Rome, the cities didn’t change as volcano. much as outer environments changed. Is this shift from contented The appeal of the city brought those neighbourhoods to cities stretching who wished to enjoy their benefits. across the horizon “just happening”? Ultimately, pressures led to conflict Clive Doucet argues that it’s the result and fixed thinking in the cities led of “carnivorous capitalism” fabricating to their demise - although new ones a consumer society. Housing Book signing during Urban Meltdown launch at Southminster Church. arose in other places. Today, our cities developers, auto manufacturers and Photo by Murray McGregor of Digital Folios Inc. are extended masses of humanity, others co-opted local politicians into linked tenuously by that amazing supporting the growth of suburbia and Page 16 The OSCAR - OUR 33rd YEAR JUNE 2007

A HARD DAY’S PLAY

Watch Mary Clean Up Bird Poop

By Mary P. steaming hot soapy water, dig out the side - the clean side - of the porch. railings. Ho, ho, ho. This is even rubber gloves and cleaning rags. Which “I’m going to clean this bird poop up, better than the burning taco incident. e have bird nesting in our will be turfed immediately after use. guys. You play on that side, all right?” (I’ll tell you all about that some other porch. Sweet little things. This is no time for environmentally (This is a treat. My neighbours have to time...) WBirdies whose cheeping friendly reusing, nuh-uh, but paper put up with a lot without surrendering “Bird poop??? OH, YEAH!!!” greets the dawn, whose wee babies’ towels sure won’t be up to this job. their territory to the marauding tots, Do I know how to entertain the pink-puffy-heart cheeping fills the Pick up the bucket and swing it so I’ve taught the children that they’re tots, or what? early morning air. The mommy and out of the sink, only to be reminded never to go onto the other side. No A few minutes later, the task is daddy birds’ industrious nurturing why this particular vessel has been problem keeping them there, then - complete. I throw now filthy water entertains and educates the tots on a unused for so long. It’d be that inch- forbidden fruit, and all that.) into the garden, toss rags and gloves daily basis. wide hole in the bottom. Yes. The tots Don the rubber gloves (which will into the bucket, herd the tots into The birds, they have developed scamper into the kitchen at my cry of also be turfed immediately after this the house, and reach for the cordless diarrhoea. They have, I swear. Birdie dismay. vile task is over), commence to scrub. phone. trots. Poop on wings. “Why is your dress all wet, As my avian friends chirrup happily Which has a huge dollop of bird I step out my front door first thing Mary?” overhead. While I’m scrubbing, Nigel poop right on the earpiece. in the morning, and the shittage - it’s Quick empty foundering bucket arrives in his dad’s bike trailer. Those sweet wee puffs of fluff astonishing. The chair (metal, thank into the sink. Mop floor. Go upstairs. “Hey, Nigel!” Malli’s clear, high just better get some feathers and God) is spattered with white and Change. Return to kitchen with new, voice carries effortlessly across the flight lessons in pretty damned black. The rail behind said chair is hole-free bucket (aka the plastic street. “Hey, Nigel! Wanna come quick, because my clock, she’s encrusted with a solid layer, and the garbage bin from the bathroom). watch Mary clean up the bird poop?” ticking… Lucky for them that I am porch deck? The porch deck has been Out we all go to the porch, tots, Nigel doesn’t hear over dad’s fundamentally incapable of harming a strafed. White splats, each with its bucket, rags, rubber gloves, and snort. “WHAT?” baby of any description. So far. lumpen black nucleus, dot the entire cordless phone. (Why the phone? “WANNA COME WATCH porch. Because no good daycare provider is MARY CLEAN UP THE BIRD Something has to be done. ever out of parental reach. My phone POOP?” Back into the house, haul out a - cordless or cell - is another limb.) I This he hears. So do a couple of rarely-used bucket. While it fills with herd the children onto the neighbour’s neighbours. Heads pop around porch Congratulations Mary P. - May Married Life Bring you Happiness and Joy! -- The Editor

Sunnyside Wesleyan Church Update By Jull Davis

hose of you who read my April article about the proposed extension to our church have probably wondered where it is?! TWhat you’ve seen instead of a construction zone are 2 big white signs saying we are requesting, “to pay in lieu of 10 parking spots”. All of this transpired when we were advised of a bylaw that requires that all buildings adding square footage need to provide more parking spots. We then began communications with City Councilor, Clive Doucet, and OSWATCH. Both supported our desire to put an extension on our church, and Councilor Doucet offered to speak on our behalf at a City Planning meeting. Today Councilor Doucet presented our request and asked for a generous reduction in how much “in lieu” we are to pay. Happily, City Council agreed and we should have our building permit in about 2 weeks! We are indebted to Councilor Doucet for supporting us, and we’re also thankful to OSWATCH for their support. If all goes as planned, we should be breaking ground in the near future! In Ecclesiastes 3 we read: “For everything there is a season, a time for every activity under heaven…a time to tear down and a time to build up”. I think our time has finally come! JUNE 2007 The OSCAR - OUR 33rd YEAR Page 17

WINDSOR CHRONICLES B– PART 74 The Lines Are Drawn

Dear Tera, and Bank Street. But with this new development, They are house cats, and they don’t So my advice to the younger dogs the peaceful coexistence between go outside often. But when they do, here are some who believe that is this: don’t worry – at least not dog owners and non-dog owners, that they are leashed to the fence or to the extra-terrestrial beings leave about humanoids from outer space. has been the hallmark for at least the deck. Ttheir marks in the wheat fields Worry, instead, about the humanoids eleven years that I’ve trotted the paths, Now, I used to think that any cat of remote places. There are some with whom we co-exist in this will be more fragile than ever. on a leash tied to a post was not a cat. who believe visitors from another neighbourhood. I know what these soccer players It was a tether ball. But I learned to planet wrote the hieroglyphs on the For the white lines are nothing are like. They have less tolerance curb my instincts. And those cats monuments of ancient civilizations. more than the boundaries of a soccer than most humanoids for finding dog have been living with us now for three And there may be those who believe pitch they’ve built to replace the old poop in the grass. They regard us as years. that space creatures left the white baseball diamond. I for one liked the mere beasts who have less of a right But it would take only one dog to marks in the middle of the field at diamond. Liked it even better when to the park than they do. ruin this peace. And it will take only Windsor Park. they stripped the gravel away and left And we, for our part, tolerate one dog owner to stir up a crisis with Very strange geometric shapes: a field of mud, mud, glorious mud. them as mere guests who are welcome the soccer players by not cleaning up rectangles and circles and quarter But humanoids can’t be trusted to to enjoy our domain from time to after us. I for one am going to make circles. Last week the lines were very let a good thing be and, before long, time, provided they don’t bowl over sure that Alpha is watching me when bright in the sun. This week, after the the sod was rolled out over the dirt, the younger children and smaller dogs I do my business, especially if it’s in rains, they have faded in the grass. and now the white lines have been with their game. the middle of the strange white lines. Perhaps the visitors have gone painted on the grass. But beast is beast and guest is away and won’t come back, some But listen, friend, and tell this to guest, and never the twain shall meet. Vigilant to ensure his might think. But I know different. all our colleagues: we are going to Our ability to live together as I know that it was not extra- have to make sure our humanoids are one happy community is going to vigilance, terrestrial beings who marked up our more vigilant than ever before. be put to the test this summer, but I Zoscha park. There are some advantages to I know they try hard. They clean have every hope we can rise to the being an old dog who has been around up after us daily. In the spring they challenge. After all, we’ve made the block a few times, and has traveled gather to harvest up any poops that accommodations before. far and wide and whose world is not might have been left behind over the Take, for example, the cats who circumscribed between Windsor Park winter. live in the house alongside the park.

Carleton University Signs New Agreement With Le Cordon Bleu International Bv arleton University will today sign a excellent fit between our two institutions. Even at the and South America. These schools employ a total of Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) early stages of this agreement, we are enthusiastic 450 chefs, including 80 Master Chefs. Le Cordon Cwith Le Cordon Bleu International to jointly about the response we have received,” said André Bleu also operates world class award-winning develop new academic programs and research Cointreau, Le Cordon Bleu International President restaurants in Ottawa, Mexico City, Tokyo, and on between the two institutes. Le Cordon Bleu and Chief Executive Officer. board Regent Seven Seas luxury cruise ships. Schools combine classical French techniques and The MOU will be signed at a ceremony at dynamic Culinary, Patisserie, Baking, Hospitality Le Cordon Bleu Ottawa Culinary Arts Institute in and Restaurant Management programs. Ottawa on May 25. Carleton and Le Cordon Bleu International With over 200 programs in 47 departments, will collaborate on the development of academic Carleton University offers a breadth of academic and research programs in the related areas of choices at the undergraduate and graduate level. gastronomy, nutrition, health and well-being, and Many programs have national and international hospitality management, as well as on launching reputations for their innovation, quality program a newly-formed Le Cordon Bleu Institute with delivery and content, and renowned faculty. Carleton. The intended commitment of Le Cordon Carleton’s programs equip graduates with the Bleu in support of these initiatives is approximately knowledge and relevant skills required to succeed $1,000,000. Carleton University intends to invest a in today’s knowledge economy. similar amount in support of academic programs in these fields. Le Cordon Bleu “We are honored to be able to partner with the internationally renowned Le Cordon Bleu Since its founding in 1895 in Paris, Le Cordon International. This partnership, and the many other Bleu has come to be considered the authority in academic partnerships Carleton University has French culinary techniques. Currently, Le Cordon formed worldwide, greatly enriches the learning Bleu maintains a presence in 15 countries with experience for our students. This agreement more than 27 schools attended by more than 20,000 will provide exciting future new educational students annually. Through strategic alliances, opportunities in the fast-growing fields of such as those formed with prestigious international gastronomy, nutrition, health and well-being, and universities, Le Cordon Bleu now complements hospitality management,” said Samy Mahmoud, its global culinary presence with entrepreneurial Carleton University President pro tempore. bachelors and masters degrees in Hotel & Resort Carleton, in collaboration with Le Cordon Management, Restaurant and Convention & Event Bleu, is planning a Bachelor’s degree in Food Management, as well as an MBA in International and Nutrition Science and a Master of Arts in Hotel & Restaurant Management and a Master of Gastronomy for commencement in fall 2009. Arts Degree in Gastronomy. “We are pleased to partner with Carleton University, a dynamic research-intensive post- Le Cordon Bleu has schools in North America, secondary institution committed to ensuring an France, Great Britain, Japan, Korea, Australia, outstanding learning experience for its students. Thailand, Mexico, the Middle East and, Central In our discussions with Carleton, we realized the Page 18 The OSCAR - OUR 33rd YEAR JUNE 2007 JUNE 2007 The OSCAR - OUR 33rd YEAR Page 19

Garden Glimpses When a Tree Is Not Just a Tree…But a Butternut!

websites, some agricultural, others grounds of the old Algonquin College horticultural and arboreal, but the best campus on Main Street and its (to my came from the Morton Arboretum eyes) elegant effect has stayed with in Illinois. This facility includes me. But its variegated cousin is the an Urban Horticulture Research one that I adore (K. japonica ‘Picta’), Laboratory, which is such a gift for especially the way its delicate two- urban dwellers in Zones 5 and colder, toned leaves brighten a shady corner where they help to determine which – I snatched a couple of these for woody plants best tolerate these tough myself at a local garden centre late conditions. But, in my case, it gave in the season years ago when it was me a thorough list of juglone resistant priced to clear and identified as a plants that were both cold-hardy, “miscellaneous shrub.” ornamental and appropriate for our It must be said, however, that Old Ottawa South Butternut garden. it did occur to both myself and the Many of the plants I incorporated into homeowners (both academics and not this small city garden are ones that at all adverse to following a research By Ailsa Francis mature parent around the side of the I am not only familiar with but use trail and taking on a challenge), whether same property that had come down often in my own garden and those of this tree actually warranted all this midst the frenzy to plant within the last year or two. As I set others: perennials like Barrenwort effort. More research and discovery annuals at the end of May and to work creating a “low-maintenance” (Epimedium), Solomon’s Seal concluded that the Butternut, Juglans Athe glory of the early June woodland garden around its base, (Polygonatum), Hosta, Cranesbill cinerea, is one of our native species that perennial garden, it seems the only I soon realized that Butternuts are (Geranium) and woody plants like is endangered largely due to a fungal people thinking about trees are the hay notoriously linked to Black Walnuts Serviceberry (Amelanchier) and disease called “Butternut canker” that fever sufferers who are cursing their (the same genus, Juglans). They each Burning Bush (Euonymus alatus). has been killing them, as far as we bounty during flowering season! My produce “juglone”, a toxic substance But other plants were less know, since 1991 ( see www.rom.on. appreciation and wonder around trees present in these trees’ roots, leaves and common and difficult to find at the ca/ontario/risk). So a phone call to seems to have grown over the past wood, meant to inhibit the growth of plant nurseries. Years ago, however, Hank Jones, past-Chair of ECSONG several years, due in part I’m sure, to a wide range of neighbouring plants. I planted two of them in my own (Eastern Chapter of the Society of the world’s focus on climate change I suddenly remembered reading many gardens: one a gorgeous understorey Ontario Nut Growers Association and and the ways in which trees play a “letters to the editor” from distressed tree that is more commonly seen in my new hero of Ontario Nut Trees) huge role in tempering the effects we gardeners wondering if there was southern Ontario where the more confirmed this and supplied a wealth humans have had on our environment. ANYTHING that would grow temperate climate allows gardeners to of information about the Butternut’s From the shade they offer to the underneath a Black Walnut tree! Oh choose the more ornamental species plight. Don’t cut it down before its oxygen they produce, trees are not oh…This garden would be the epitome and cultivars (the story of our life time! And, if it does reach maturity only a reflection of our world but they of low maintenance – I wondered how here in Ottawa!) – it is the Common without succumbing to this fungus, also provide a world for many other they felt about mulch… Witchhazel (Hammamelis virginiana), its genetic code could hold the secret living things. I pushed on and started my a beautiful small, low-branching tree that may help all other Butternuts. So With that in mind, I began work “google” research on plants that had (or large shrub) with striking yellow now the Phillips’ Butternut will live this spring designing a garden for been tested juglone-tolerant. Some flowers that appear like tassels just as on to shade a new woodland garden clients in Old Ottawa South who websites made a distinction between the bright yellow leaves are falling in and hopefully, live for many years to had a middle-aged Butternut tree on the juglone concentration found in the autumn. The other is Japanese come… their property. This tree had probably Black Walnut as opposed to other Kerria (Kerria japonica), a relatively- Ailsa Francis can be reached been growing for about 25 to 30 species, i.e. Butternut, and the resulting vigorous suckering shrub with light through her website www. years until it reached its present size effects they may have on neighbouring green leaves and stems that forms a hortusurbanus.com – the top of its crown reaching to the plants, but this information was graceful thicket – great for slopes and third storey of a neighbour’s home. strikingly inconsistent and sometimes as a control for erosion. This Japanese It was likely an offspring of a more contradictory. I found many different Kerria I had first seen planted on the Butternut Tree Information The Uses Of Butternut Trees more compact crowns. The Butternut fruit is oval wheras the butternuts is the butternut canker. Butternut trees produce a delicious and Tree Size Black Walnut has a round nut. The This fungal disease has been found nutritious nut with a high oil content. Butternuts are small to medium- Butternut has grey bark, while the in about 90 per cent of the butternuts The nuts are an important source of sized trees. Mature trees are seldom Black Walnut has dark brown bark. in Ontario that have been examined. food for birds, squirrels, rabbits and more than 21 metres in height and 90 The Butternut’s twig has dark-brown With the exception of an area in other small mammals. Aboriginal centimetres in diameter. Compared to pith, while the Black Walnut has light- the Maritimes, the disease is found people used the nut oil for cooking, other tree species, butternuts are brown pith. The Butternut has hairy throughout the species’ entire North hair dressing, leather-making and short-lived. They rarely live longer fringe on leaf scars, whereas the Black American range. Butternut trees polishing tools and ornaments. than 75 years. Walnut has no fringe on leaf scars have already disappeared from many Carvers and furniture-makers value parts of the U.S. There is no known butternut wood for its softness and Leaves Butternut Health cure for the butternut canker disease. varied texture. The wood can be Butternut leaves are yellowish-green, Like all trees, butternuts are vulnerable Researchers are conducting studies stained to look like black walnut, compound and fuzzy on the underside. to various insects and diseases. Nut to determine the extent and severity which has a high commercial value. They are 30 to 60 centimetres long. weevils, wood borers and bark beetles of the disease in Ontario. They are Each leaf is made of about 11 to 17 affect butternut health. But the most also looking for trees which may be Tree Shape leaflets. The nine- to 15-centimetre- common insect threat comes from the resistant to the disease. If the selected The smaller branches of the butternut long leaflets lie opposite each other butternut curculio. The larvae causes trees are resistant, they may be used tree bend downward and turn upward along a central stalk. the most damage by burrowing into to produce canker- resistant stock for at the ends. When growing in open the young shoots, the leaf petioles future planting. areas, butternut trees have short How To Tell A Butternut From A and the fruit of the tree. To identify trunks, with broad, open, spreading Black Walnut butternut curculio, look for a white Information from the LandOwner crowns. These large-crowned trees You can tell a butternut from its close grub in unhealthy new shoots. The Resource Centre, the Ontario Ministry produce the most nuts. Butternut trees relative, the black walnut, by looking larvae sometimes kill all of the new of Natural Resources and the Eastern growing in forests have smaller, at the nuts, bark and twigs. shoots. The most serious threat to Ontario Model Forest. Page 20 The OSCAR - OUR 33rd YEAR JUNE 2007 Reflections on Vimy Ridge

By Emily Keyes n April 9th 2007 I represented Anniversary of the battle at Vimy not even deserve it. Donat Bernaquez, a fallen Ridge. They went into the war thinking it OCanadian Solider, at the 90th After our first night in Europe, would be over in months, that’d it was people began to talk about what they a wild adventure and they’d be heroes. were looking forward to, when they They were young and innocent and returned home. some hadn’t even been out of their “My hair straightener” hometown before. “My own room” All we have left of this war is “A shower with a curtain” crumbling tombstones, old uniforms “My parents” and history books that give us dates I couldn’t help but thinking how and numbers. What people forget is spoiled we all were. We couldn’t that a story, a man’s life, is behind survive a one day without the things every tombstone, every uniform and our soldiers lived without for years. every number. Everyone had forgotten what this Donat was only 20 when he trip was all about. It had nothing to do enlisted and just 22 when he died. with us, but had everything to do with From Trois Rivieres in Quebec, not paying respect to the forgotten men married. He was a tradesman, only 5’3. who fought so that we could have Now he’s classified as D. Bernaquez, these luxuries. 417947 of the 22nd Battalion. He’s just But then came Vimy. letters and numbers now. It was hot, it was long and it was We all felt a certain pride boring but no one complained. It had in explaining to people that we finally dawned on us that the trip represented a fallen Canadian solider wasn’t about us at all. It was about at the battle of Vimy Ridge. I know saying thank you to the men who died it gave me a certain pride to correct for our country 90 years ago. It was foreigners when they assumed I was about reminding people that men, Dutch, German even Norwegian. I not much older than us, had left their was Canadian. People just like me had families, some forever, to fight for died so I could stand at Vimy. their country and for the future. And to all our Armed Forces, who I’ll never forget how on that fight and have fought so that I may day at Vimy, Sunday April 9th 2007, say I’m Canadian, THANK YOU. every complaint was silenced. We all fully understood what the “ultimate Emily Keyes is in Grade 10 at sacrifice” really meant. It meant Immaculata. giving up everything you knew, loved and lived for--for people you 779 Bank Street (613) 237-1483 didn’t know-- for people who might JUNE 2007 The OSCAR - OUR 33rd YEAR Page 21 Dandelion Whine

by Linda Burr from it when drunk at night produces quest for the perfect lawn, rather than mine a skinny dandelion latte to go, (Photo by Linda Burr) a tendency to sleep, instead of exciting a struggle for survival. We have come please! wakefulness, and may be safely used to scorn something that was once usanna Moodie would not as a substitute for the Arabian berry, considered useful and beautiful. Linda Burr lives in Old Ottawa be impressed. In her 1852 being equal in substance and flavour How about serving up some South and is a biologist and avid SCanadian classic entitled to the best Mocha coffee.” locally grown, organic dandelion backyard naturalist. Roughing it in the Bush, she describes I can’t vouch for the accuracy coffee at the local coffee shop? Make her backwoods pioneer life near Port of this endorsement, but if you are Hope, Cobourg and Peterborough and feeling adventurous, here is her some of the hardships she endured. secret recipe for dandelion coffee: Life was rough, but she has nothing Gather the dandelion roots in the but praises for the lowly dandelion. fall (don’t pull them out in spring!), In her book, she writes about its about the same time as you would usefulness to her and her family: harvest potatoes, if you had any. “Few of our colonists are Wash the roots carefully without acquainted with the many uses to removing their fine brown skin, which this neglected but valuable which contains the flavour. Cut the plant may be applied. I will point roots into small pieces, about the out a few which have come under size of a kidney bean. Roast them my own observation, convinced as I in the oven until they are brown am that the time will come when this and crisp, like coffee. Grind these hardy weed, with its golden flowers roasted pieces into a fine powder and curious seed vessels, which and use it as you would regular form a constant plaything to the little coffee. children rolling about and luxuriating “The result was beyond my among the grass in the sunny month expectations,” writes Susanna. of May, will be transplanted into our “The coffee proved excellent – far gardens and tended with care.” superior to the common coffee we Tended with care! The lowly procured in stores. For years we dandelion, which we take so for used no other article.” granted in the 21st century, was once She also describes planting the a highly regarded survival staple dandelion in trenches and blanching of the pioneers. When Susanna it with straw to a beautiful cream arrived in Canada from England in colour, making it an excellent salad, 1832, she had to be very creative in “quite equal to endive, and is more finding alternatives to the comforts hardy and requires less care.” The of home. How surprised, and perhaps ultimate low maintenance garden! disappointed, Susanna would be today Dandelion beer was alleged to be if she knew her prediction was far off equal to any beer back in jolly old the mark. England. Unfortunately, she does Susanna described several ways not provide that recipe. in which dandelions were used by the Maybe living in the backwoods early settlers, but her favourite seems makes you more appreciative of to be dandelion coffee: “It possesses nature’s bounty. Or else the regular all the fine flavour and exhilarating coffee for sale back then was really, properties of coffee, without any of really bad. In any case, it is amazing its deleterious effects. The plant being how times have changed. Perhaps of a soporific nature, the coffee made it has to do with the modern-day Page 22 The OSCAR - OUR 33rd YEAR JUNE 2007

ECOS Spring 2007 Environmental Colours in Old Ottawa South By Mike and Judy this program, Clive Doucet and a suburbs as desirable and sustainable the past). Lascelles group of local preschoolers planted a communities. • In many years budget cuts were ceremonial seedling in the OSCAR made to transit resulting in reduced utlined below are some garden at the Old Firehall (see Sooty Black – Hurts the service. Roads expansion has never recent actions that make the below). To learn more, please contact been stopped and service never [email protected] or call 613-580- Environment reduced. environment in Old Ottawa O 2424, ext. 1TREE (18733). • As a result of the Mayor’s Task South greener or bleaker. 1.Ottawa Hydro recently “trimmed” (See the photo on page 1) Force on Transportation, all light rail the trees along Hopewell, Glenn and related Environmental Assessments nearby streets as part of its project to Bright Green – Improves 3. The City of Ottawa is walking (EAs) as well as the inter provincial replace some older poles. “Trimmed” the Environment the green talk on waste management transit EA have been stopped but is a euphemism for the radical 1. Clive Doucet and the majority . In addition to its supportive no road EAs have been interrupted pollarding of the trees that removed of City Councillors voted in May position to limit the expansions of and new projects for roads have crowns and up to twenty years of 2007 to enact an anti-idling bylaw the Carp and Navan landfills, the been given the go ahead. In the 2007 growth. As experts pointed out, to cut auto emissions – such as City launched an ICI (industrial, budget, $15 million was added to important song bird habitat was lost, around schools and in residential commercial and institutional) waste accelerate the widening of Standherd and mature shade trees that reduce areas – and thereby improve the air management study. ICI waste is by a couple of years and, as of May our demand for air conditioning we breathe. As the Ontario Medical primarily a provincial responsibility 16, the EA to widen Prince of Wales and clean the air we breathe were Association has repeatedly warned and accounts for more than 2/3 of has been brought forward. scalped. Stately green streets had over the past five years (for instance, all garbage landfilled in Ottawa. Urban sprawl hurts us all, for a suburban crew cut that will take see http://www.oma.org/phealth/icap. Only 1/5 of it is diverted. This example, by consuming scarce decades to grow back – if the trees htm ), this bylaw recognizes that important study will focus on agricultural land as well as by survive. Understandably, senselessly auto emissions are a major cause of ways to encourage the province to fuelling more auto emissions, which mowing down the trees disturbed serious – and potentially terminal enforce its 3 R’s regulations and to pollute the air we breathe and many local residents who picked up - respiratory problems particularly encourage large waste generators contribute to global warming. It may their phones, or generated letters or among children and the elderly. such as hospitals, schools and be a very profitable time for the road emails, to complain and to demand Under the bylaw, hopefully there the construction industry to do a builders and an exhilarating moment that the destruction stop immediately. will be less thoughtless idling in better job of reducing, reusing, for suburban motorists – until the The concerned group, in addition to our neighbourhoods that fouls the and recycling waste. The City’s inevitable traffic congestion gridlocks Dr. Nancy Doubleday – an Associate air. Instead of running their engines decision to roll out its city-wide the burgs – but the many residents Professor of Environmental Studies while waiting for tardy passengers or organic household waste program of Ottawa with serious respiratory at Carleton and Old Ottawa South engaging in long curb side chats with in 2008 also earns a green star. In problems are in for a very rough and resident, includes Gail Stewart, neighbours, drivers are likely to give addition, the City has made it harder breathless ride. To learn more about Barbara Harris, Jenny Haysom, Edie everyone’s lungs a break by turning for households to dispose of large Ottawa’s unstoppable roads, roads, Wawrychuk, Lynn Richardson, Don their engines off. To learn more about volumes of garbage. Only three roads steamroller, contact Clive’s Westwood, and Mike Lascelles. The the bylaw, call Clive @ 613-580- waste items will be collected each office at 613-580-2487. latter four joined Councillor Clive 2487. week, excluding recycling and yard Doucet and Craig Huff, the City waste. (An example is two garbage The “Earth Day” environmentalists Forester, in a walkabout to assess the 2. The City of Ottawa rolled out bags and one roll of carpeting.) For may talk tough, perhaps plant a degree of damage. Clive followed up its $1M Tree, Reforestation and more information, see http://www. seedling once every few years, with Ottawa Hydro to try to have the Environmental Enhancement (TREE) ottawa.ca/city_services/recycling_ and may even demand mandatory de-greening of our neighbourhood Program in May 2007 - a four year garbage/garbage/index_en.html programs – the government really stopped and to determine what can initiative to enhance the City’s urban must save the planet and clamp be done to offset the loss. For more and rural forests by planting 100,000 Anna Sundin, Fran Mowbray, and down on all those selfish polluters information on this issue, contact trees between 2007 and 2010. The Nick Le Pan funded and presented in the nearby suburb. But, it turns Clive’s office at 613-580-2487. TREE Program encourages Ottawa a viewing of the film “The End out that many of these same folks residents, businesses, community of Suburbia” for about 70 local intensely oppose paying a cent out of 2. Ottawa’s roads, roads, and more groups and schools to participate residents at the Firehall during April their own pockets to cut waste or to roads juggernaut just keeps rolling on in planting trees to enhance and 2007. The film highlighted the need cover the real cost of the energy they as it creates and feeds endless urban maintain the city’s forest cover and to reduce our dependence on oil consume. A perceptive government sprawl. As staff in Clive’s office note: combat climate change. As part of and pointed to the likely decline of seeking re-election may well pause • Ottawa builds roads faster than long and think hard before taking our population grows. Compared decisive environmental action for to 30 years ago, Ottawa has fear that there would be a fierce about 40% more people and 75% backlash from the very fickle folks more roads. who seem to be clambering for • Ottawa spends 19% more action. If this large group of “not on per household on roads than my dime” environmentalists retard the Ontario seven-city average real government action, it may help and 43% more than Toronto. explain why some environmental These cost comparisons are for programs are long on feel-good operations and do not include sound-bites but short of substance. snow removal. A recent poll by the Innovative • We build roads faster than we Research Group confirms that can fix them. Only 40% of roads these numerous, penny-pinching that need renewal will get it this environmentalists exist in Ontario year. This is our lowest rate of and are a force that governments renewal ever. must somehow persuade or • 2007 is a record breaking perhaps ignore. See http://www. year: Ottawa will set a new innovativeresearch.ca/ for the details record by building 200 of the May 14, 2007 survey. The kilometres of new roads (vs. Digital Darkroom about 100 kilometres a year in JUNE 2007 The OSCAR - OUR 33rd YEAR Page 23

117ARTISTS OF OLD OTTAWA SOUTH Jake Morrison’s Digital Wonder at the Green Door - June 24 to July 22

By Jake Morrison third-party ink systems that replace of transformations that photographers equivalent images to the silver the multiple colour cartridges of fine need to do. It has the highest capability double development! It’s all about n the last few years it has become inkjet printers with multiple dilutions and the highest cost. achieving a vision with layered pixel possible, at the digital desktop, of black, allowing for fully-toned Two others that are worth a manipulation. Ito create photographic prints that B&W inkjet prints. look are Picture Window Pro and are, arguably, superior to traditional These pigments go best with Paint Shop Pro. Picture Window Pro I have been taking pictures my silver/platinum/palladium prints. Prior natural papers, cotton or cellulose was developed as digital darkroom whole life. Since moving to OOS in to Epson’s introduction of “Epson fibre, producing richly textured prints software. As such it is different in its 1998 I’ve been increasingly interested Archival” inks in 2000, inkjet printers that have the feel of watercolour art. approach from any other such program in “Wild In the City” subjects. The were using ink with dye colours. Dyes Resin-coated paper can be used, and it that I’ve seen. It is quite powerful and birds at the feeding area on the Rideau fade, so comparison to silver prints was is especially useful for proof printing, affordable. River across from Billings Bridge are in silver’s favor. The balance shifted but the colour will not last as well on Paint Shop Pro is very affordable endlessly fascinating. Since getting with the introduction of pigment the artificial papers. and does about 80% of what PhotoShop into the digital realm I’ve discovered inks. To quote Henry Wilhelm, guru A working digital darkroom is can do. I used it for about 10 years the digital stitching of many images of print permanence, “Dyes fade: made up of a computer, with image and only switched to PhotoShop into one large image and I used that consider your upholstery. Pigments software, and a printer. Image capture when it became important for me to technique for shots in western USA last: consider oil paintings.” fully control colour output. PSP does and Canada last August. Some of the Since 2000 things have only not manage colour output but rather resulting panoramas print out to more gotten better. The spray droplets have depends on the printer driver to do it. than five feet long! gotten smaller. The pigments have This has become less important in the If you’d like to see my take gotten brighter (dyes were always The real value of last few years with the improvement on what can be done in the digital bright…when first applied) and certain the digital darkroom in printer drivers and I would not darkroom you’re welcome to drop hesitate to recommend Paint Shop Pro by The Green Door Vegetarian problems with print appearance comes in the quality in different kinds of lighting have for most uses. Restaurant, at 198 Main Street, been resolved. Current pigment inks of prints and the joy The real value of the digital between June 24th and July 22nd. I’ll produce beautiful prints that will hold of creation. darkroom comes in the quality of have large panoramas, ethereal birds, their colour for centuries. prints and the joy of creation. My local (OOS and Experimental Farm) During the same period, digital digital system is capable of much garden vegetation & other odds and capture through 35mm-size cameras more than any wet darkroom I’ve ends on display for the month. I’ll be has improved to the point where an can be with a camera or scanner. been involved in. The learning hanging around on Sunday afternoons image can be directly captured that Quality prints demand pigment curve, while steep, is all within a to talk with people. Let me know what will produce a print resolution on a inks. Large prints require a wide- certain dimension. If you can enjoy you think. Bring your appetite! 12 inch wide print that exceeds the carriage printer. Quality images wrapping your head around multi- Visit: With Flare, photography un-aided resolution of the human eye. require a digital single lens reflex layered pixel manipulation there’s and fine art digital printing at www. In other words, that 8x10 B&W print camera or high-quality scanner. almost nothing that isn’t possible. For WithFlare.org that I used to produce in my darkroom Large prints require large image files instance, I’ve recently been reading from 35mm film can be replaced by that require large hard drives and “Welcome To Oz” by Vincent an 8x12 colour print of equivalent faster computers to handle the image Versace, a Hollywood photographer visual quality, produced with a digital manipulation within a reasonable and early PhotoShop expert. He was amount of time. aware of the spectacular density and single lens reflex D-SLR camera and Go to next page for a an inkjet printer. The standard in image software enhanced tonal range that can be In a parallel development, the is PhotoShop. It has been developed achieved in silver prints by double few examples of Jake’s beauty of B&W prints has been to be the professional’s toolbox for development so he experimented with stunning photo art duplicated, using carbon pigment, in all sorts of graphic work. In recent PhotoShop’s toolset for eight years years it has been focused on the sorts developing a process that produces Launch of Ottawa Vote Yes Campaign to Win Provincial Referendum on Electoral Reform

he National Capital Region voting system is recommended by the public service and the Premier’s Peter Black, Coordinator, Ottawa Chapter of Fair Vote Canada the Citizens’ Assembly for several Office.” Vote Yes Campaign at 613-828-1401 Tofficially launched its Ottawa reasons: Patricia Marsden-Dole, Vote Yes Campaign at 10:00 a.m., It will treat all voters equally The Ottawa Vote Yes Campaign President, NCR Chapter, Fair Vote Thursday, May 24th in Jean Pigott – everyone’s “party vote” will help has five components: Canada at 613-237-8684 Hall at Ottawa City Hall. The determine who is elected to the • A speakers bureau for groups or Mark Greenan, Executive campaign will encourage Ottawa legislature organizations who would like to learn Member, NCR Chapter at 613-695- residents to vote “yes” for electoral Voters will have more choice about the proposed voting system 2689 www.fairvote.ca reform on October 10th. The launch – they can vote for their favourite • An information booth, available http://www.citizensassembly.gov. featured speakers and supporters Rick candidate and their favourite party for public events on.ca/en/default.asp Anderson, Ed Broadbent, Elizabeth (even if these are different) • An outreach program to seek May, Nathalie Des Rosiers and John Election results will be fairer support from local organizations Trent, and a mock advance poll with – political parties, Ontario regions, • A presence at all-candidates 15 prominent local supporters women and minorities will be more meetings to educate and raise issues Fair Vote Canada is a non-profit, fairly represented • A media relations committee to multi-partisan organization dedicated Representation will be stronger liaise with local media to bringing about electoral reform. – with the legislature returned to its Voting “yes” to the Mixed- pre-1999 size, there will be more For more information, please Member-Proportional (MMP) MPPs exercising due diligence over contact: Page 24 The OSCAR - OUR 33rd YEAR JUNE 2007 Jake Morrison’s Digital Vision See More at the Green Door June 24 to July 22

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Flowers in Old Ottawa South Two Birds by Rideau River JUNE 2007 The OSCAR - OUR 33rd YEAR Page 25 Tom’s Tulips

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Photos by Tom Alfoldi Page 26 The OSCAR - OUR 33rd YEAR JUNE 2007 Hangin’ in the Hood with Makin’ Moves: Day Camps And Dance Festival

By Megan Doyle Erin Dube of Makin’ Moves brings hip hop and more to Old Ottawa South. ith the variety and volume of summer camps offered Wfor kids these days it is sometimes difficult to decide which one will suit your child the best. If they prefer a camp that offers a more laid back, fun atmosphere in smaller group settings with a variety of activities including hip hop dancing, then you may want to consider Makin’ Moves, Cool Camp. This camp, which is located in heart of Old Ottawa South at Makin’ Moves dance studio will be offered again this summer for ages 6 to 12 years old. The day camp includes many cool activities such as: hip hop dancing taught by Erin Dube; the incredibly popular stomp-dancing; outings to Windsor Park; swimming; games and brand-new this year a culinary adventure at the all-new Sixth Sense Catering (formerly Passion in the Kitchen) and a chance to relax and Erin Dube of Makin’ Moves brings hip hop and more to Old Ottawa South be cool while exploring all that our neighbourhood has to offer. name speaks for itself: it is for the kid For more information about camps, The show will include hip hop, jazz, that is really serious about dancing. contact Erin at (613) 614-4590 or tap, ballet and break dancing. There Cool Camp It includes barre work, jazz, hip hop, visit www.makinmoves.ca are no tickets to purchase for this session 1 – July 2nd – 6th stretch & strength and broadway, event; there will however be a nominal session 2 – July 16th – 20th (ages 6- along with afternoon outings in and And, once you’ve got the kids charge for the BBQ. You are asked to 12) around the neighbourhood. organized for summer, why not kick bring a salad or dessert to share with back and sit poolside at Windsor Park your neighbours, if you want to and Also offered this summer by Makin’ Intensive Dance Camp for what is fast becoming an early bring your own lawn chair. Why not Moves is Intensive Dance Camp. The session 1- July 9th – 13th summer tradition. I am talking about welcome the summer with friends session 2 – the Makin’ Moves end-of-year dance and neighbours and support one of August 13th festival on Friday June 15th. There our local businesses that help to make – 17th (ages will be a BBQ at 6 PM in the park Old Ottawa South such a great place 11 to 15) followed by a dance performance at 7 to live. PM by the students of Makin’ Moves. JUNE 2007 The OSCAR - OUR 33rd YEAR Page 27

OCCSB TRUSTEE REPORT “PUTTING STUDENTS FIRST”

Kathy Ablett, R.N. Graduations January 4, 2008 June 18-24, 2008 Chair of the Board & The Grade 6 Graduation First Day of School After Christmas Ceremony for Corpus Christi will take Break: January 7, 2008 I would like to extend a special Trustee Zone 9 place on Friday, June 22nd at Blessed March Break: March 10-14, 2008 thank you and my appreciation to Capital/River Wards Sacrament Parish. The graduation Good Friday: March 21, 2008 the Corpus Christi and Immaculata Telephone: 526-9512 will commence with Mass at 1 pm and Easter Monday: March 24, 2008 High School Parent Councils for their a reception to follow in the parish hall. Victoria Day: May 19, 2008 generous support of our students, here has the time gone? Immaculata High School Graduation Last day of school (secondary) – June teachers and schools. Without this It hardly seems possible! will take place on Wednesday, June 24, 2008 partnership we would not realize the WHere we are in June with 27th in the school gymnasium. Last day of school (elementary) – June many successes and accomplishments exams to write, graduations to plan I look forward to attending 25, 2008 that benefit our students and the and the excitement of the summer these ceremonies and I wish each educational community. ahead. This is a very busy time for of you every success in your future Professional Development Days (all students, parents and staff alike to endeavours, be it moving to a new schools unless otherwise noted) As we head into the lazy days share and enjoy. Before we get away school for Grade 7, entering the Friday, October 5, 2007 of summer, I wish to extend my for the summer break however, here working world or continuing your Friday, November 9, 2007 congratulations to each and every one are a few updates. studies at college or university. Friday, December 7, 2007 (Elementary of you for another successful year. only – excludes all grades 7 & 8 except God bless you and keep you safe this Education Week 2007-2008 School Year Calendar St. Michael, Fitzroy) summer. Education Week was once again Friday, February 1, 2008 a complete success. I hope you had The Ministry of Education has Friday, February 22, 2008 If, at any time, I can be of a chance to visit your neighbourhood approved the school calendar for the Wednesday, June 25, 2008 (Secondary assistance to you please do not hesitate school to participate in the many 2007-2008 school year. only – includes all grades 7 & 8 except to call me at 526-9512. activities that were held. The Corpus Please note the following dates: St. Michael, Fitzroy) Christi Choir performed at the Choral Labour Day: September 3, 2007 Thursday, June 26, 2008 Sincerely, Celebration at St. Joseph’s Parish and Start of 2007-2008 school year – Kathy Ablett they were magnificent! September 4, 2007 High School Examination Schedule “Your Trustee” Thanksgiving Day: October 8, 2007 (all schools semestered) Christmas Break: December 24 to January 25-31, 2008

Campaign To Promote Good, Fresh, Homegrown Food

CNW/ - he Ontario government will be putting the spotlight on the fresh, high-quality foods grown and produced in the province Tthis summer with a new ‘Buy Ontario’ marketing strategy. The government is contributing $12.5 million to the strategy, which includes a consumer awareness campaign designed to increase interest and demand for local foods across the province, expands the Foodland Ontario program to more fresh food products, and boosts the Savour Ontario program in fine and vacation dining establishments. Of the total, $2.5 million has already been distributed to a number of agri-food industry associations to assist them in promoting the sale of Ontario products.

Flower and tomato plant vendors at the Landsdowne Farmers’ Market photos by Mary Anne Thompson Page 28 The OSCAR - OUR 33rd YEAR JUNE 2007

HOPEWELL HAPPENINGS Education Week Brings Endless Possibilities to the Lives of Hopewell Students

By Susan Atkinson author reading, a Poetry Café (students involved in Hopewell’s PoeTree Club ell April showers (albeit ate their lunch at café-style tables in at times snow!) certainly the school’s atrium and entertained Wbrought May Flowers to each other with a spontaneous Hopewell. The school positively poetry reading) and special guest blossomed with creativity, artistry and readings within a number of different educational activities. The school, as classrooms. Primary students enjoyed a whole, had two main foci for the several visits from community month. One being the annual Read- leaders, who read selections from a-Thon, which is Hopewell’s leading their favourite books. Guests to the fundraising event for the year, and the classrooms included doctors, nurses, other was Education Week. firefighters and police officers. Hopewell’s Read-a-Thon engaged While the Primary and Junior the students for a three week span. divisions were enjoying their literary During this time students from the events, the Intermediates were treated Primary Division right through to the to some events of their own. This Intermediate level were challenged included a morning packed with to capitalize on their love for reading workshops. These mini-conferences, as named by organizers, were arranged by collecting sponsors and reading as Space Camp Excitement much as they possibly could. It is a to coincide with both the Read-a- wonderful fundraising opportunity Thon and Education week. Again all Junior students. A week later the on top by defending their title in the for the school as its entire community Parent Council and Administration Grade 3 tournament saw equal success Southeastern Regional Basketball benefits from the result. worked tirelessly together to make the proving that with commitment and tournament. The Hopewell girls beat To compliment the Read-a- conferences happen. Speakers from partnership between parents and staff out four other teams to win the gold Thon Parent Council, Administration a variety of literary vocations came the Hopewell students’ horizons are medal. and Hopewell Teachers arranged a and spoke on how writing is part of number of literary events to celebrate their work. The variety of speakers literacy and reading. Included in was amazing, giving students an these celebrations was a visit from inside view on possible career options Salamander Theatre, a children’s poet/ following a literary vein. Hopewell was thrilled to play host to journalist, Doug Small: Kathie Donovan and Joel Haslamm from CTV: young adult author, Brian Doyle: CBC Radio’s Adrian Harewood; Kimothy Walker from CTV: comic book writer, Tom Fowler; Mike Winterburn, Marketing Director for the FIFA U20 World Cup and Hopewell teacher and Poet, Susan Atkinson. A huge thank-you from all the Hopewell Community to these special guests who graciously volunteered their time answering questions and sparking interest in professions that the Intermediates perhaps knew little about. The Poetry Club Readings morning was a great success! It was a special time for Primaries and Juniors when they broadened just that little bit more. On The Junior Division classes had a chance to experience a poet’s that same note Grade 6 students had a held their annual Track and Field reading. There’s something very blast as they were launched into space day on May 22nd. Despite several exciting about watching an author at the Cosmodome in Laval, Quebec. postponements due to rainy weather, read from their work and poet, The overnight program is one of only 6 the day’s events were met with brilliant Kalli Dakos proved how enjoyable in the world. Students participated in sunshine and blue skies. It was a this is by entertaining classrooms a simulated mission and experienced fun event for all those participating. with poems from a number of her aspects of astronaut training including Students chose events they were collections. Kalli wooed her young anti-gravity. Thanks go to all involved interested participating in and spent audience with nonsensical poems with organizing and helping to make the morning, along with a pizza picnic and verse, encouraging audience this amazing opportunity happen. A lunch down at Brewer Park. Between participation from both teachers great time was had by all! events students cheered on classmates and students. Amidst the burst of creativity and generally enjoyed the fabulous Amongst other Hopewell and learning opportunities sports summery weather. enrichment activities, which were still an important part of life And so ends another busy, rewarding students were able to enjoy during at Hopewell. April and May brought and action-packed month at Hopewell the month, were the annual chess success on the basketball court for the Avenue Public School. tournaments. On Friday April Junior Girl’s team. The team coached th 27 it was the Grades 4-6 who by parent volunteers Paul Armstrong had a chance to face off in the all and Bev Harding, along with day tournament. It was a terrific Hopewell’s own Mlle. Krieg, landed day with full participation from JUNE 2007 The OSCAR - OUR 33rd YEAR Page 29 OCDSB TRUSTEE REPORT Community Effort Nurtures Excellence

’d like to start this June missive by me sometimes to be daily embroiled meaning these undertakings have for program and policy reviews this year. noting the role your neighbours in positive and constructive ferment. the students involved or the level We have had incredible focus on our Iplay in maintaining and improving I’m proud of them, and of us all as of engagement or effort invested budget conundrum, invited a Special the quality of education in our a community which supports and on behalf of our kids. Even more Assistance Team and so forth. What schools. OCDSB schools and teachers nurtures this excellence. importantly, it leaves unmentioned a year. Honestly, it is hopeless in this certainly, but also the bewildering Simply in terms of recent so many other initiatives and efforts, monthly column to try and do due variety of key supporting staff and notable community effort I could mostly unapplauded, which daily go justice to all that has been going on volunteers make it all work smoothly mention, albeit entirely without due on in or impact upon our schools (new or is slated to go on. Instead I invite and are quite frankly amazing! justice, the incredible community Glebe cabinetry program, anti-bullying interested readers to visit the Board I have been involved for some effort at Viscount A to raise initiatives, staff character education web site at www.ocdsb.ca for budget years now as either a volunteer in money and sweat equity for a play conference, French Immersion review, or consultation info and also invite you our schools, or as an advocate for structure, the rousing success of the et cetera seemingly ad infinitum). to subscribe to my Zone newsletter public education more generally, but Hopewell Read-a-thon and author’s So, does this mean that the (see below). certainly enjoy a privileged access literacy initiative, the parent info OCDSB now has no avenues available I wish everyone a really great now as Trustee to what really goes evenings at Glebe Collegiate, the to it for improvement? Well, no, of summer! on behind the scenes. There probably auction and parent involvement in course not. I am saying that, in spite If you have any suggestions, is not a day that goes by when there alternative ed program delivery at of trials and tribulations that may concerns or views on how we might is not something meaningful to Lady E, the hugely successful dance- beset us from time to time, we do continue to improve student learning legitimately celebrate at one of our a-thon at Mutchmor, the recent spate continue to provide a very high quality at the OCDSB then please make area schools. I’m thankful that so of celebrity events at First Ave, the education to students. I’m also saying sure to drop me a line or send me many in the community see investing potluck dinner and reinvigoration of that in a very fundamental way that it some mail. I can be reached via 730- in our schools and in public education community involvement at Robert E, is *your* system. If you would like 8128 or [email protected]. Please as not only good for their kids but as the bewildering variety of community to see if differently organized or ... also contact me if you would like a social imperative. This is not idiot partnerships and engagement at York. differently funded, then it is up to you to be added to my ed issues Zone e- boosterism. It is the case - our schools These perfectly scant references do to get involved and to help make it so. newsletter (roughly monthly / jump simply rock. Our schools seem to little genuine justice either to the We have had a myriad of important on or off at any time). Controversial revival takes on the Ottawa Fringe Festival

By Lesser Men Productions either at Canterbury or has graduated on work that truthfully portrays the The Distance From Here runs on from Canterbury - in a sense we’re human condition, ultimately providing the following dates and times: June reat good can come from taking our talents to stages outside a realistic and cathartic experience for 17th at 1PM, June 18th at 5:30PM, June showing great evil.” the school.” He states that taking on the audience. 20th at 6PM, June 23rd at 11:30AM, GNotorious for his controversial such an ambitious project becomes The cast and crew is primarily and June 24th at 8PM, at Ottawa playwriting rife with wicked and easier as everyone involved is drawn made up of youth, ages 16 to 26. University’s Academic Hall during indecent characters, writer and in by LaBute’s powerful story and Everyone involved in the production the Ottawa Fringe Festival 2007. filmmaker Neil LaBute perfects this felt that it was important for today’s has gone to Canterbury High School Tickets are 10$/person. gritty style in his The Distance From audience. “Neil LaBute’s theatre is and several cast members lives in Old For more information, Here, which premieres at The Ottawa unique because it tells a story about Ottawa South. Everyone in the cast please contact Cody Campanale Fringe Festival this June. Lesser Men characters who live in a world where will unite in June at Academic Hall at 613.719.9520 or by email at Productions, a local theatre company the American Dream is dead. It is to début what was over a year in the [email protected] consisting of young upcoming artists, about people who know they’ll never making. is not afraid to put on the provocative get what they want, but pissed off as and contentious, and are staging the they are, they never stop living.” production on June 17th, 18th, 20th, 23rd, Most cast members take on one and 24th at the University of Ottawa’s or more technical jobs as well as an Academic Hall. acting role. One cast member, Sarah Running about 90 minutes, Finn, a Ryerson trained theatre actor The Distance From Here chronicles is so passionate about her role that the wasted lives of several young she willingly juggles two Fringe teenagers on the road to nowhere. The productions in order to be part of The protagonist Darrell, played by Dylan Distance From Here. Finn says: “This Phillips, a local actor and Canterbury production is going to be different from High School student, lives day after earlier runs of LaBute’s play, because day on impulse, without motivation it really gets into the mindsets of the or ambition. Often skipping class, characters rather than repressing them antagonizing his peers, and vandalizing - it sets them free.” city property, LaBute investigates the This is Lesser Men Productions seed of his character’s anger by taking first play at the Ottawa Fringe the audience on startling glimpses into Festival. The company founders, Darrell’s domestic life. When a simple Benjamin Carson and Cody misunderstanding sends Darrell over Campanale, are both graduates the edge, all the characters are pulled of Canterbury High School. full throttle towards a horrific and Campanale plays the role of Rich, shocking climax. and co-produces the show as well. Benjamin Carson, Canterbury When asked about Lesser Men, High School alumni and co-founder Campanale replied, “We don’t look of Lesser Men Productions, directs at it as much as a company, but the play for the second time. He’s as a club or group for new artists reunited with almost everyone from who want to create meaningful the original cast, and has employed and powerful art”. Their mandate, some new faces as well. “Everyone is as their name suggests, is to focus Page 30 The OSCAR - OUR 33rd YEAR JUNE 2007

WESTBORO ACADEMY Westboro Academy Opens Up Wide And just when you thought you knew Westboro fourmillent d’activités Cinderella, her evil step-sisters and comme les abeilles butinent les fleurs the glass slipper routine, our Grade printanières! 8 students are readying a short film C’est le cas notamment des about this princess-in-waiting with a sixièmes années qui ont démontré twist in its ending. Reporting on these leur savoir faire en construisant des and other events will be The Junior/le maquettes représentant des villages junior, Westboro Academy’s school autochtones dans le cadre de leur cours newspaper, written and produced d’histoire. Du côté de nos finissants, by a crack team of Grade 6, 7 and 8 la classe de 8e année, avec l’aide de la journalists and their teachers. 7e, est en train de réaliser un film sur La fin de l’année a beau arriver à une Cendrillon revue et corrigée, qui grands pas, les élèves de l’Académie sera de la partie pour les festivités de

By Ann Winters French / English program project, the class was transformed in a fairyland ever let it be said that by our students. From Little Red Westboro Academy doesn’t Riding Hood to Jack & the Beanstalk, Nopen its doors to interested the children left today’s reality and parents or that our students aren’t open ventured in the realm of make-believe to new experiences. And we have the - - all the while, improving their proof. Whether during last month’s language skills. In Grade 5, students Open House or in a dental hygiene are producing French plays “L’étrange lesson with cavity-free Mr. Molar, professeur Cumulo-Stradivarius” & our collective minds and mouths “court…la rumeur” to be staged this are always receptive to learning month for our younger students. Our opportunities. Grade 7 students are exploring another The creative juices were definitely form of entertainment as they prepare flowing in Grade 1 last month. Ina a radio show to be heard in June. Cont’d on next page JUNE 2007 The OSCAR - OUR 33rd YEAR Page 31

CORPUS CHRISTI SCHOOL Just a Few Days Left ‘till Summer Holidays

By Missy Fraser

tudents and staff at Corpus Christi are counting down the days ‘till summer holidays start at the end of June. It has Sbeen a year of effort, determination and lots of growth. Now its time to kick back and enjoy a well deserved holiday and more time for play. Congratulations Corpus Christi students! We are so proud of you. Corpus Christi School Council is happy to announce that new yard improvements are soon to be installed at Corpus Christi School. The yard will include six new trees, a shady outdoor classroom with seating for 30 students, a students’ garden, an accessible sandbox, beautiful new installed play equipment, a painted labyrinth and more. We hope to have most of these improvements installed over the summer months with some of the final touches coming in the next school year. We are also delighted to announce that the City of Ottawa has generously awarded the Corpus Christi School Council a $7,500 Minor Capital Grant for new play equipment in the schoolyard. Without this kind of municipal support this project would be very difficult to realize. We are very appreciative! Craig Buckley, owner of Kettleman’s Bagels and Charles Goodfellow of Goodfellow Cleaners have come forward with an excellent fundraising proposal to help the Corpus Christi School Grounds Transformation project reach its fundraising goals. Working with volunteer extraordinaire Wanda Peters, they have created a coupon fundraiser for the Corpus Christi School Council. For twenty dollars each purchaser receives coupons worth $500 in products, services and discounts. Thank you Craig, Charles and Wanda! If you would like to purchase a coupon sheet please email [email protected] or call the school office at 613-232-9743 and leave your name and number. Our school community offers a BIG thank you to all of our teachers, staff, School Council and parent volunteers for their hard work and their dedication to our children. To find out about registration for all grades and Corpus Christi School activities please visit: [email protected] or call the Grade six students Sam and Rebekka enjoy displaying their work during Education office at 613-232-9743. Week at Corpus Christi School.

Westboro Academy cont’d from previous page fin d’année! on their reading comprehension, another learning venture begins. swimming or water activities await Understanding yesterday teaches language skills and math concepts Preparations are in full gear for the campers. Space is limited as the valuable lessons about today. Our for the Canadian Test of Basic Skills Westboro Academy Summer Fun groups are small for better learning. Grade 6ers took that idea to heart (CTBS). In past years, our children camp in July - en français. We are If you are interested in opening up a in their creation of a Huron village have exceeded their grade levels and accepting applications from children new world of learning for your child replication. Their accompanying initial 2006/2007 results look very four to nine years old. Running into or to register for Summer Camp, PowerPoint presentation demonstrated promising. weekly segments from July 2nd to please call us at 613-737-9543 or the students’ appreciation of those From exercising the brain to 27th, the camp provides a stimulating, visit us at www.westboroacademy.ca . early days in our country’s history. exercising the body, our students active environment for children History assumed a more personal switched gears to participate in our to develop their French-language note in our Grade 2 French class. fitness testing program. Given our skills. Weekly themes, games, The children have researched and extensive sports program throughout sports, natural exploration and daily assembled a museum of childhood the school year, we anticipate an souvenirs gleaned from their parents improvement in students’ fitness levels and grandparents. From a quilt to a since September. Our students have violin, both from 1920 and clothing just finished with their pledge drive for items from the sixties, the mementos CHEO through the Fitness for CHEO have opened a whole new gateway to program. Grade 1 to Grade 8 students their family past. ran, skipped, skated and walked to One item not shown in the support the cause of better health. museum is our new SMART Board. Westboro Academy will be holding Pegged for presentations on science this year its first Grade 8 graduation experiments and a learning tool for our ceremony. This graduating class has teachers, this interactive white-board done well and as the students move technology will play an increasing forward into high school, they will important role in developing our be well served by their years at our students’ technology skills. school. Colonel By High School’s It’s that time again to see how International Baccalaureate program Westboro Academy students compare and Lisgar High School are their against other students in other September destinations. We are very schools across Canada. Our Grade proud of them and all of our students. 3 to 6 students have been tested As the school year comes to an end, Page 32 The OSCAR - OUR 33rd YEAR JUNE 2007 Red Apron Cooks Recipes Inspired by Local Ingredients

include: 1 pint Cherry or Grape Tomatoes, 9 Fresh Lasagna Noodles (Parma e kick off June by sliced in half Ravioli is a good source) participating in Art in the Ottawa Parkdale Market (Est. 500 g Bocconcini 2 cups Grated mozzarella cheese Park on Saturday, June 1927) 500 g 3% Plain Yogurt Salt W rd 2nd and Sunday, June 3 . From 10 Parkdale Avenue at Wellington. 1 bunch Fresh Mint a.m. to 5 p.m. the Red Apron will be April - December 24: 7 days/week 7 3 cloves Garlic Preheat oven to 375 degrees. barbequing fresh Spiced Lamb and am to 6 pm 1/3 cup Olive or Canola Oil Brush a 9 x 13 inch baking dish with Grilled Vegetables on Flat Bread Ottawa Organic Farmers’ Market Juice from ½ lemon oil. Mix artichokes, ½ cup cream and for Artists and attendees. This 15th (Est. 1988) Salt/Pepper to Taste basil in a medium bowl. annual festival will feature works Ecole Parsifal School, Bank Street at Puree remaining 1 cup cream, from 300 visual artists as well as Heron Road (behind Canadian Tire) ricotta, peas, parmesan and eggs and wonderful musicians, actors, dancers in Ottawa. Remove mint leaves from stems 1 tsp salt. Spread 1 cup of ricotta and drummers that perform all day All Year: Saturday 10 am to 2 pm and wash. In a food processor or mixture over bottom of the baking alongside the painters, sculptors, Ottawa ByWard Market (Est. 1830) blender, puree mint leaves, lemon dish. Arrange 3 noodles in a single photographers, jewelers, potters, fibre 55 By Ward Market Square. juice, oil and garlic cloves. Stir layer over ricotta. artists and furniture makers. This All Year: 7 days/week: May/Oct. - 6 mixture into yogurt and season with Spread half of the artichoke outdoor family event is free. am to 6 pm, Nov./Apr. - 9:30 am to salt & pepper. Arrange arugula, mixture over noodles. Spread 2 ½ We were very pleased to see the 5:30 pm tomatoes and bocconcini on a plate cups of the ricotta mixture over the re-opening of the Ottawa Farmer’s and spoon on the yogurt mint sauce. artichokes. Repeat with 3 noodles, Market at Lansdowne on May 6 – with Remember to get out and support Serve immediately artichoke mixture, ricotta mixture more vendors this year than last. This your local growers and producers! and top with 3 noodles. Spread market will be open every Sunday Sweet Pea and Artichoke remaining ricotta mixture and 2 cups until October 28th, from 8am to 3pm. The following recipes have been Lasagna of mozzarella over. Some of our favourite vendors this inspired by local ingredients that you Cover with foil and seal edges. year include Art-is-in Bakery (for can find at the farmer’s markets in 16 ounces Canned or frozen Bake the lasagna for 40 minutes, the best bread in town), Back Forty June. artichoke hearts, coarsely chopped remove foil and continue baking until Artisan Cheese (their flower station 1 ½ cups Whipping Cream bubbling at edges and brown on top. feta is amazing), Pykeview Meadows Baby Arugula, Cherry Tomato ¼ cup Chopped Fresh Basil Let stand 15 minutes before serving. (beautiful Bison – a healthy alternative & Bocconcini Salad with Yogurt 1000 g Whole Milk Ricotta (two to beef!), and Kathleen’s Kitchen Mint Sauce containers) (chocolate truffles to die for). (serves 4) 500 g Fresh or frozen peas There are other wonderful markets 8 cups Baby Arugula, washed and ¼ cup Parmesan cheese – grated in town that we visit regularly. They dried 2 Large eggs JUNE 2007 The OSCAR - OUR 33rd YEAR Page 33 Are Segregated Funds Right for Your How to Survive Investment Portfolio? a Stanley Cup By Bob Jamieson When you invest in a segregated fund, you purchase an individual variable insurance contract. Round f you’re concerned about preserving wealth Premiums are paid to the insurer, based on the value he Heart Institute of Ottawa realizes for the next generation, or just want to manage of the fund. When the investment is redeemed, the that some measure of stress is to be Iinvestment risk, there may be a place in your insurance company returns premiums, based on the Texpected in the normal course of portfolio for segregated funds. current value of the units in the fund. a championship series. Here are a few of In many ways, segregated funds are similar Like conventional mutual funds, segregated their personal health measures to remember to conventional mutual funds. 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These funds get their name companies have started to develop new segregated eventually, attempt to expel excess fluids from the fact that each fund represents a pool of fund solutions to match the needs of these . which may cause you to miss a key moment assets that are “segregated”, or held separately from, Living longer and concern about having enough of the series. an insurance company’s other assets. income during the retirement phase of your life can When you die, your beneficiaries receive the pose some challenges. Income solutions such as - Warm up your vocal chords - On each greater of the current market value of the investment Guaranteed Withdrawal Benefit options are starting game day, start in the early morning by or between 75% and 100% of the invested amount to emerge to help Canadians better manage their repeating the phrase “Go Sens Go”. Begin (less withdrawals). If you designate a beneficiary income during retirement. with a whisper and gradually increase outside of your estate, your investment will be However, there is a price to pay for the features volume until game time. During and after free of probate and executor fees upon your of segregated funds. These funds usually have higher the game, be sure to use maximum volume death. Beneficiaries receive proceeds quickly and management fees than similar mutual funds to help only privately. cover capital guarantees and the insurance portion A segregated fund is really a variable annuity of the investment. - Remember everything - A Stanley Cup in the form of a contract with a specified maturity victory is an extremely rare event during a date-typically 10 years from the date of purchase. Bob Jamieson, CFP, your Edward Jones financial human lifespan. Be sure to take in and enjoy At maturity, the investor is guaranteed to receive advisor everything for it may never happen again. a portion or all of the initial investment. Most Insurance and annuities are offered by Edward Jones funds guarantee the return of 75% of the original Insurance Agency (except in Québec). In Québec, investment when they mature, although some offer insurance and annuities are offered by Edward Jones a 100% guarantee. Insurance Agency (Québec) Inc. Page 34 The OSCAR - OUR 33rd YEAR JUNE 2007

AMICALEMENT VOTRE Comité de développement

Par Doreen Drolet et Gil [email protected] Pérez Comité de programmation Comité de développement - Doreen Drolet - Guy Giguère - Pour vous servir en français - - Recherche amicale de Campagne d’identification des bénévoles marchands du Vieil Ottawa Sud Le comité de programmation est à la recherche de bénévoles ’oubliez pas l’Amicale pour aider à la programmation de cherche toujours à identifier l’automne 2007. Eh oui! Alors que Nles marchands de nos l’été approche et que nous pensons quartiers qui offrent un service en de plus en plus aux vacances, le français ou qui veulent en offrir comité de programmation se met en branle dans le but d’assurer une un. Le simple fait d’identifier le Photo : Monique Sénéchal programmation en français dans personnel et les marchands pouvant La nouvelle équipe des communications au complet: Éliane et Adèle, Gil, nos centres communautaires pour servir la clientèle en français Alexandra et Héloïse. serait un grand pas pour favoriser l’automne et l’hiver prochains. Si les l’épanouissement du français dans activités en français vous tiennent nos quartiers.Si ce projet vous à coeur, si vous avez des idées de Rien n’est encore décidé. L’Amicale à 14 h. Une façon toute simple de intéresse, vous pouvez nous aider programmation, ou encore si vous serait fort heureuse de faciliter favoriser l’échange est d’apporter de plusieurs façons. Si vous êtes un souhaitez offrir vos talents comme une telle activité. Si le théâtre un dessert à partager avec d’autres. marchand, ou si vous connaissez animateur/moniteur, faites-vous vous intéresse, envoyez-nous un Apporter aussi vos ballons, et qui un marchand ou un membre du connaitre à amicale05@sympatico. courriel à l’adresse mentionnée plus sait, nous organiserons peut être une personnel qui offre un service ca. Doreen Drolet, coordinatrice du haut. Dans l’éventualité où l’idée partie de soccer entre les grands et en français, pourriez-vous nous comité de programmation, serait très suscite suffisamment d’intérêt, nous les plus petits. Joignez-vous à nous communiquer cette information. Une heureuse d’avoir de vos nouvelles. organiserons une rencontre avec les pour rencontrer ou revoir vos voisins autre façon d’aider à la réalisation personnes intéressées qui décideront francophones et francophiles. Si vous de ce projet serait d’aller visiter - Le théâtre vous intéresse? ultimement du format. Qui sait? voulez participer à l’organisation du avec un membre de notre comité, un Une troupe communautaire? Ou L’amicale aura peut être une troupe pique-nique, écrivez-nous un mot à marchand dont vous êtes client pour encore un cercle de lecture de pièces communautaire de théâtre! [email protected]. lui expliquer ce projet et lui remettre de théâtre? Des ateliers de théâtre? la trousse d’information qui a été Nous recevons des messages qui - Un ciné-cercle à l’Amicale? La nouvelle équipe des préparée à cette fin. Pour joindre le présentent un intérêt pour les activités Tout comme le cercle de lecture, comité de développement écrivez à: liées au théâtre. Sous quelles formes? un ciné-cercle pourrait voir le communications de jour. Le groupe de cinéphiles l’Amicale regarderait le film ensemble et en discuterait ensuite. Cela vous Gil Pérez, chroniqueur de intéresse? Oui, mais selon une l’Amicale, est programmeur autre formule? Ce projet n’en informatique et apprenti scénariste. est qu’aux balbutiements et s’il Éduqué en France et au Japon, y assez de personnes intéressées immigré au Canada il y a plus de par une activité du genre, nous huit ans, il est venu rejoindre tout organiserons une rencontre. récemment sa fiancée anglophone à Ottawa. Mère de deux enfants et - Groupe de jeux copains et traductrice agréée, Éliane Rocheleau, Need Renovations? copines réviseuse de la chronique, aime N’oubliez pas, si nous beaucoup visiter notre belle ville voulons maintenir le groupe de à vélo et participer aux activités jeux pour bambins 0 -5 ans le en français. Alexandra Serre est la jeudi matin dans le Vieil Ottawa mère d’Héloïse, 5 mois. Passionnée Sud, il faut en parler pour assurer de la langue, elle dirige une équipe une participation suffisante. de réviseurs traducteurs et s’occupe N’hésitez pas à communiquer de la missive de l’Amicale dans ses avec Dinos à l’adresse courriel temps libres. suivante : Dinos.Dafniotis@ ottawa.ca pour connaître Pensée du Moi : La terre les frais de participation et les hommes occasionnelle (drop-in). Par Jilusan Pique-nique au Parc Custom Designed Additions and Windsor La Terre est comme une grosse Major Renovations that respect the machine. Les hommes travaillent à Nous organisons un pique- sa transformation. Craftsmanship and Architectural nique au parc Windsor le 23 juin 2007 pour célébrer, selon style of your older home. votre disposition, la fin de l’année scolaire ou le solstice 594-8888 d’été, ou encore la St-Jean. Le www.gordonmcgovern.com pique-nique se déroulera de 11 JUNE 2007 The OSCAR - OUR 33rd YEAR Page 35

Member of Parliament Ottawa Centre Do you qualify for the Disability Tax Credit? By Paul Dewar Disability Tax Credit (DTC) which WALKING: DRESSING: can amount to up to $1,380. per year, You are unable to walk normally for Your are unable to bathe or fully dress n our community thousands of and can be claimed retroactively for 100 meters (which is the length of a yourself without assistance; people with disabilities have up to 10 years. football field) without angina, pain, Inever been made aware that they If you may be eligible to receive the need of a cane, wheelchair or ELIMINATING: are eligible for an important tax credit this tax credit, please contact my walker; You have poor bladder functioning; that often includes a significant refund. office. We’d be glad to help. We As your Member of Parliament I will continue to run our information SEEING: MENTAL IMPAIRMENTS: would like to inform citizens about sessions in all parts of Ottawa Centre. You have vision loss in excess of You have problems perceiving their legitimate entitlement under the This Tax Credit is transferable to 20% instructions, thinking, or Income Tax Act. spouses and other family members if remembering It doesn’t matter whether your the disabled person’s income is too SPEAKING: disability is the result of a workplace low. You are markedly restricted in LIFE SUSTAINGING THERAPIES; injury, an accident, declining health, if If you’d like to learn more about communication; You need life-sustaining therapies such you pay taxes and you meet just one the Disability tax Credit, or you would as kidney dialysis or chemotherapy 3 of the 9 conditions listed below you like to volunteer to help us get the HEARING: or more times a week. may qualify. word out, please contact my office at You are unable to hear clearly, even My office is working hard to ensure 613-946-8682. with hearing aids; that every eligible person is aware of his/her rights. To that end, we have You may be eligible for the EATING: been holding information sessions in Disability Tax Credit if you meet one You require assistance in feeding: the community to assist persons with of the following conditions: disabilities to avail themselves of the

COMPUTER TRICKS AND TIPS Protecting Yourself from the Bad Guys by Malcolm and John Harding, of haven’t already. Visit www.compu-home.com and go to Compu-Home : AVG at http://free.grisoft.com or AVAST Suggested Websites for links to the utilities at http://www.avast.com are publishers of free virus described in this article. acintosh users can be forgiven their protection programs that work just as effectively as Write to [email protected] or phone smug chuckle as we discuss some issues the very expensive (and often much too complicated) 731-5954 to discuss computer issues. that affect primarily Windows operating alternatives. This is one of the few instances in life M where “You get what you pay for,” is not systems, because Macs are much less likely to be targeted by viruses and spyware. On the other hand entirely true. It only takes a few minutes there have been important improvements in the to download and run the installers for one world of Windows in the past year, and effective of these programs and then to set up your protection is now free and very easy to manage. preferences as to how it will protect you Virus and spyware protection is a subject that automatically. You must enter a schedule worries many computer and Internet users for the software to update itself online, and nowadays – actually more than necessary. In our for it to scan your computer. Both Grisoft opinion, some software publishers and some of the and AVAST sell premium versions of their Internet Service Providers prey on these fears and software, but we have always found the pressure people into spending huge amounts of free ones to be perfectly satisfactory. money unnecessarily, by buying elaborate and very : Windows Defender is a free expensive protection software that is truly no better download from Microsoft, to protect than simpler alternatives that are free! Windows XP from Spyware. Go to The fact is that some prudent habits of Internet and www.microsoft.com and enter “Windows email use can greatly reduce your risks: Defender” in the search box. You should : First, never open an email attachment that be aware that Microsoft is now using all you were not expecting. Even if the attachment downloads from their websites as occasions comes from a regular correspondent, it is safest to verify that you are not running a pirated to write to that person and ask them if they did, copy of Windows XP. Ad-Aware from in fact, send you the attachment. This is because www.lavasoft.com provides protection there are viruses called “worms” that can make a for versions of Windows that came before message appear to have been sent from a name you XP. recognize. The effects of contracting a virus on : Second, avoid high-risk websites. This is your computer can range from mildly a special vulnerability if there are young people in annoying to absolutely devastating the house. They are very tempted by peer-to-peer permanent damage. Spyware can be so networks, from which they can download music, innocuous as to be virtually undetectable, television episodes, movies and pornography ... or it can cause your computer to become all absolutely free! They must be taught (and the hopelessly slow. Some straightforward rules must be enforced) that entirely apart from the measures, and a bit of time invested to ethical issues, these sites are a frequent source of ensure that your protection is working viruses and spyware. Actually, most browsing by as you expected, will ensure that your mature adults is really quite safe. computer and Internet use are worry- Even if you use the Internet carefully, we free, without unnecessary cost. suggest that your computer should be protected by a combination of the following: Malcolm and John Harding are the : Internet Explorer 7 is the latest web browser owners of Compu-Home, specializing from Microsoft, and it incorporates better protection in assisting home and small business than earlier versions. You should update, if you computer users. Page 36 The OSCAR - OUR 33rd YEAR JUNE 2007 Not-for-Profit Corporations

By Anna Sundin otherwise regularly involved in the corporation. to those who donate funds to the community or with members of the The benefits of a not-for-profit corporation. Obtaining charitable status n organization of community public, especially if it raises funds corporation include protection of the is a separate process from establishing members which organizes from the public, might want to directors of the group from personal a not-for-profit corporation. Apublic activities or is consider establishing a not-for-profit liability for the corporation’s debts and In order to establish a not- obligations, exemption from paying for-profit corporation there is an income tax on revenue generated by application form to be filed with the the activities of the group, the ability Ontario Ministry which must meet Guidance, Protection of the group to own property for as the Ministry’s criteria. There is also a long as the group is in existence filing fee. even as the membership of the group The group applying to become a and Peace of Mind. changes over time and the ability to not-for-profit corporation must have as Anna E. Sundin, Barrister & Solicitor enter into contracts that bind the group the reason for its existence a purpose GEnErAl PrActicE includinG: rather than the directors personally. A which goes beyond making profit Family Law, Wills, Real Estate, Incorporations, Litigation and Collaborative Family Law not-for-profit corporation can also sue and which serves the public good in – A Cooperative and Dignified Approach to Separation and Divorce.– and be sued. some way. These objectives must be There are no shareholders of a approved by the Ministry before it not-for-profit corporation although will issue articles establishing the not- there are members who elect the for-profit corporation. Board of Directors and to whom the Some groups, such as local Board of Directors must answer at an sports organization or theatre groups annual general meeting. might already meet pre-approved Some not-for-profit corporations objectives that are set out in the also obtain charitable status which Ministry’s guidelines. Other groups allows them to issue tax receipts will have to make an application with new objectives which the Ministry scrutinizes before issuing articles for the corporation. The Ministry may ask for amendments or clarifications before a corporation with new objectives is approved. Once incorporated, the corporation has rules that it must follow and its financial records must be audited and the auditor must report to the membership annually. The membership also elects the directors of the corporation according to its by- laws. A not-for profit charitable corporation is also required to keep financial records as well as other records relating to the administration of the corporation including a register of its members and directors whenever they change and must also maintain prescribed accounting records and report annually to the provincial Ministry and the federal government. A not-for-profit corporation maintains the group over time and is a protection for its members and directors.

It Never Hurts to Laugh...

surgeon, an architect and a Alawyer are having a heated barroom discussion concerning which of their professions is actually the old- est profession. The surgeon says: “Surgery IS the oldest profession. God took a rib from Adam to create Eve and you can’t go back further than that.” The architect says: “Hold on! In fact, God was the first architect when he created the world out of chaos in 7 days, and you can’t go back any fur- ther than THAT!” The lawyer puffs his cigar and says: “Gentlemen, Gentlemen...who do you think created the .... CHAOS??!!” JUNE 2007 The OSCAR - OUR 33rd YEAR Page 37

House of PainT 2007 – Saturday, June 23rd By Sabra Ripley to the nation’s capital for a 4 day break dancing being put forward by the city community support workshop. As the final day of this ground breaking for legal art walls like the House of PainT is more Break Dancing, MCing, DJs and Graf Artists event this year’s House of PainT event will be Off important now than ever. bring the Hip Hop Community together - tha Hook! Under One Bridge! Sponsored by the Canada Dance Festival, Norml Check out Ottawa’s Hip Hop community at Clothing, Kapacity, DeCypher and Speedroc, and House of PainT 2007, June 23rd - Under tha n Saturday, June 23, Ottawa will see the 5th with the support of the Ottawa South Community Bridge! Anniversary of the House of PainT – a Hip Association the event is FREE and open to all. Contact: Sabra Ripley, HoP Coordinator, 613- Hop event showcasing the talent of Graffiti Expect meat and veggie options at the BBQ and art 266-5224, [email protected] O by participating artists on sale. Artists, Bboys and Bgirls (Break Dancers), MCs www.houseofpaint.wordpress.com (Rappers) and DJs in the most unlikely of spots - “There is so much amazing talent in the grass under the Dunbar Bridge, where Bronson crosses roots hip hop community,” says event the Rideau River – at Ottawa’s only legal Graffiti coordinator and DeCypher Cru member wall: the House of PainT. Sabra Ripley, also known as Bgirl Sabra Financial Divorce Specialist The now yearly event will run from noon- Tooth. “This event takes us back to the old Avoid costly mistakes with professional financial sundown, with some of the best graf artists from school block parties and BBQs where hip assistance in the division of assets. Ottawa, Montreal, Toronto and Quebec City invited hop was born. It’s a community event that to fill the grey underside of the bridge with their brings people together to enjoy good music colourful urban style artwork. Once again DJs will and great art on a beautiful summer day and fill the air with funk and hip hop, bboys and bgirls in the funkiest space you can imagine – by a Contact: Rick Sutherland, CLU, CFP, FDS, R.F.P. will compete for prizes and MCs will speak their river, under a bridge!” 1276 Wellington Street, Ottawa ON K1Y 3A7 minds on a stage set up under 8 lanes of fast moving Past House of PainT brings together Phone: (613)798-2421 Email: [email protected] traffic heading north and south on Bronson Ave. over 200 participants out for each event. Members of the hip-hop community will share their The first event was held in 2003, shortly after skills with Ottawa residents through mural painting the City of Ottawa made the under side of and bboy lessons, as well as a history of hip hop Dunbar Bridge Ottawa’s first and only legal workshop. graffiti wall, with the aim of creating a place This year House of PainT is teaming up with the where artists can express themselves freely Canada Dance Festival’s Hip Hop 360 event, which and to help control the costs of the cleaning will bring bboys and bgirls from across Canada and removal of graffiti in that space. With the a new Graffiti Management Proposal 3rd Annual Community Cup to Bring Together Cultures and Generations egistration is under way for Ottawa’s 3rd Annual Community Cup. Organized by the Host Program of the Catholic Immigration Centre (CIC) and the Renaissance R50plus project, the Community Cup will unite cultures and participants young and old through a one day soccer tournament (and other activities) on June 10, 2007. Expected to draw over 500 visitors, the emphasis of the event is on community spirit and fun. The 24 participating teams will be awarded for both their skill and sportsmanship – everyone, skilled or not, is welcome to register either individually or as a team of 7 for a chance to socialize, network, and to create new friendships with Ottawa’s diverse cultural communities throughout the day. Through the sponsorship of TD Canada Trust, a Kid’s Zone will be setup with a free “Mini-World Cup” presented by local soccer club Capital United and games for kids aged 14 and under. Rogers has sponsored entertainment for the event which includes performances by Latin Heat, flamenco dance group Mestizaje, Ottawa Serbian theatre, a demonstration of the Burmese national sport Chin Lone, and more. A fundraising BBQ will also be set up to provide food and drinks at low prices. For more information, please visit .

Registration: Deadline: Friday, June 1, 2007 Date and Time: Sunday, June 10, 2007, 9:15am – 5:00pm Location: Brewer Park Page 38 The OSCAR - OUR 33rd YEAR JUNE 2007 Treasures-for-the-Tower Auction, October 20, Noon to Five PM

By Peggy Nankivell Shirley Wales whose work is in the National Art Gallery ’s collection. wo years ago, St. Matthew’s Photos of these items will be posted Anglican Church in the Glebe on the church website soon. Theld a hugely successful We also have a fine collection auction that raised about $60,000 of contemporary and antique art, towards restoring the church’s sculpture and pottery from Mexico crumbling mortar. including some extraordinary works The auction featured excellent by Dolores Porras and Angelica art works including Inuit sculptures, Vasquez. limited edition prints and etchings S. Matthew’s parishioner Susan by well-known Canadian artists and Rayner did a considerable amount contemporary oils by artists such as of research on artists and valuations Glebe artist/architect Christopher at the National Art Gallery library Leggett. A highlight of the event was and we were able to provide artist the live painting by renowned Ottawa biographies with most purchases. Most artist Philip Craig, who completed a art donations qualify for a charitable large oil painting of a string quartet as receipt. Please let us know if you they performed. (see photo at right) are considering making a donation He did this in a mere hour! of art so we have time to value the This Year, Mr Craig will paint St. Kevin Reeves, founder and musical significant art donations including donation and obtain appraisals where Matthew’s Musical Director Stephen director of Seventeen Voyces chamber several Inuit prints by top Inuit artists necessary. Candow who will be playing jazz choir. such as William Noah, Pudlo Pudlat The event includes excellent piano. Cumulatively, art sales raised and Josie Papialuk. Auction-goers nibblies, wine and musical Customized art also sold well at more that $10,000 for the church’s will also have the opportunity to bid entertainment. the first auction, including a caricature restoration. on a water-colour by Don Fraser, a For information, please contact by the Ottawa South’s multi-talented For this year’s auction, St. student of “Group of Seven” master Peggy Nankivell at 613-230-8669. Matthew’s has already received Franklin Carmichael and a print by Safety at the Cottage and Campsite CNW/ - At the cottage monoxide and smoke alarms and daylight left for a general safety check. - always store propane cylinders - check burners and exhaust systems test them to ensure they are working Look for broken glass, sharp objects outdoors. of your appliances for any blockages properly; and natural hazards such as poison or obstructions such as insects, rodents - clean your barbecue and check for ivy, bees and ants; Gain peace of mind, knowing you’re nests, rust fragments or other debris, any fuel leaks by applying a 50/50 - ensure that open-fires are permitted protecting yourself and loved ones that could lead to dangerous levels of solution of water and dish soap; and by local and provincial authorities. from many preventable incidents. For carbon monoxide (CO) inside your - keep in mind barbecues are approved Clean up the fire pit and cut back further tips on cottaging, barbecuing cottage; for outdoor use only and should not be any branches or brush that may have and camping safety, look for TSSA’s - have your propane or gas-fired stored inside any structure. grown too close; SummerSmart brochure in local appliances such as stoves, refrigerators - use only paper or kindling when LCBO stores and on-line at TSSA’s and heaters inspected and if necessary At the campsite starting a fire at your campsite. Be safety website: www.safetyinfo.ca. repaired by a certified technician; - arrive at the campsite with enough sure the fire is in a safe, open area, Inside, you’ll find valuable advice on - replace batteries in your carbon well away from flammables and other how to: natural combustibles. Never - safely handle fuel for your BBQ, leave a fire unattended; and campstove, boat, jetski, lawnmower - keep any propane or and other appliances, equipment and kerosene appliances outside vehicles; the sleeping area. - prevent carbon monoxide - a poisonous gas - from building up in With the cottage and camping your home, cottage, RV, tent, garage season upon us, it’s important and other enclosed spaces; to remember a few additional - avoid common mistakes made by fuel-related tips: riders on waterslides and go-karts; - gasoline has only one - safely use escalators; purpose - to fuel an engine. - and much more! Using gasoline for any other purpose is inviting the risk Remember, safety is up to you. Be of fire, explosion or life- SummerSmart this season. threatening injury; - use only approved fuel About TSSA containers or tanks for TSSA is an innovative, self-funded, gasoline transportation and non-government organization focused storage purposes. Look for on delivering public safety services. the Canadian Standards It provides not-for-profit regulatory Association (CSA) or safety services in industry sectors such Underwriters Laboratories as natural gas, petroleum, propane (UL or ULC) symbol; fuels and equipment, amusement - store containers in a devices, elevating devices, boilers and detached garage or shed and pressure vessels, operating engineers, well away from heat sources and upholstered and stuffed articles. and direct sunlight; The organization’s vision is to be the - transport propane cylinders world leader in public safety services. in an upright position. Keep them well secured in the vehicle and well ventilated; and JUNE 2007 The OSCAR - OUR 33rd YEAR Page 39 RRENOVATION DIARIES The 60’s Basement By Christine Forget in with his team to remove all the wires, relocate and redesign where Basement Before arly this year Mathieu and the outlets, lighting, cable, Internet Manuel Monfils of Monfils and telephone would be located in EGeneral Contracting started a each room. Needless to say it was a basement renovation project that took huge undertaking. on a life of its own. As do many While the team worked on the projects, expect the unexpected. The electrical nightmare, Mathieu and homeowners had recently purchased Manuel took this opportunity to a house that included a classic 60’s inspect the foundation walls for crakes basement complete with cheap wood or holes. Everything looked good paneling walls and very old rusty and on they went to the construction orange and black carpet. phase. Then they began to frame the The ceiling was a stained yellow walls and built a new staircase. drop ceiling with recessed neon Remember that the homeowners lighting. This was a large basement. decided to re-design the layout so It included two bedrooms, a large they created two larger bedrooms, family room, a furnace room and an a bigger more accessible bathroom old beige three-piece bathroom with with custom shower and pocket door mock tile wallpaper. and a calm office space with a built in This basement also had another bookshelves. interesting feature. It included a Once all the walls were framed 10 x 10 bomb shelter. This strange and the rooms were layed out they little room was tucked into a corner installed the drywall and plaster. of the furnace room. It was made of Personally, I always thought this solid cement block walls and a solid would be the easy part of the job… cement block ceiling. The room was plastering how hard could it be? complete with drop ceiling, carpet, Well apparently there really is a fine baseboard heating and electrical. It skill to it. Basement After was reminiscent of a cold storage but Mathieu always works with it really wasn’t cold. professional plasterers to ensure a It was decided early on to totally quality job. I asked why do you not gut the basement and start new. just hire some inexpensive handyman The homeowners were not entirely to help plaster and he replied “ That convinced on removing the bomb it is simple, if you do not know what shelter for time and money reasons. you are doing or don’t do it right you With each block weighing more could have bubbles, cracks and an than 50 lbs it would take days and uneven surface and it would be very hard labour to chiseled out the solid visible after you paint. It would also cement blocks, bring them up stairs take an unseasoned plasterer more and remove them from the property. time to do a quality job and time is This father and son team enlisted money.” the strong arms of son / brother to Mathieu is very meticulous and assist in the demolition phase of this anything but perfect will not do. project. The plastering phase went relatively Within a few days the carpet, quickly with the professionals woodpanelling, drop ceiling and because they do this everyday, can bathroom toilet, shower and vanity whip through it and still have a were ripped out. They also removed perfect finish. This is a good feature the existing staircase because it was when you are working on a deadline very steep and not up to current because plastering for an average building codes. person could take weeks. The basement was a blank canvas The plastering was completed except for the strange little bomb and the final stage was to complete Basement Bomb Shelter - After shelter. The homeowners decided to the finish carpentry. Mathieu got a go for it and optimise the space by great deal on trim and moulding. He removing the bomb shelter. purchased high-end trim for the same After Matt painstakingly removed cost as the low end product for the each solid block from the structure homeowners. he gathered a team of strong men and In most projects the trim really created a dolly system out of a large gives the WOW factor to any room basement window to remove the and in this case it did just that. All blocks from the house. The whole the doors were installed and the process went relatively quickly. By bathroom was completed. The removing the bomb shelter it gave electrical was finalized and all the way to a huge space that would pot lights were installed. It was a later become an office with built in fantastic finish and the homeowners bookshelves. were in love with their new space. After everything was removed To learn more or view photos visit they began to see their workload www.monfils-renos.com or call 613- unfold. There were wires everywhere. 227-5544 Live wires, dead wires, cable wires, telephone wires etc… It was a Mike Holmes special! Mathieu called in his electrician and long time family friend to come Page 40 The OSCAR - OUR 33rd YEAR JUNE 2007 Yoga is a Balance of Stretch & Strength

By Maureen Fallis, Surround Circle Yoga practicing yoga: Photo by Tom Alfoldi oga is sometimes criticized by health • Increased energy professionals as either underemphasizing the Yneed to build strength or overemphasizing the • Greater strength, stamina and endurance benefits of improved flexibility. Kripalu Yoga, taught at Surround Circle Yoga, • Improved balance, making you less prone to falls aspires to a balance of stretch and strength. No matter and other injuries what class you take, there is a focus on strengthening the core muscles of the torso – belly, chest, and back which • Increased metabolism, helping you burn more happen to be chronically weak in many people. Flowing calories into a posture and isolating the muscles necessary to hold your body in proper alignment, observing how your • More enjoyment from both routine and recreational energy circulates within your body, and finally gracefully activities transitioning out of a posture is ‘harmony in motion’. The process of engaging and then ‘letting go’ takes A new class called Soulful Seniors’ Yoga is being mental focus and body awareness. It is here where you offered at Surround Circle Yoga. It is designed for anyone begin to feel the results of building strength and improving (whether a senior in age or not) who suffer with aching flexibility. bones and joints. The class will include strength training, Some students have a tendency to overemphasize the weight-bearing exercises, and balancing postures ~ all effort, contracting many more muscles than necessary. As poses that help to improve range of mobility, strengthen a result, they do not progress in terms of flexibility and back muscles, prevent stiffness and improve circulation. tension release. Others have a tendency to overemphasize Students will have the option of practicing yoga while relaxation. They, on the other hand, do not engage the sitting in a chair or on a yoga mat with props to support active muscles needed to sufficiently generate a deep them. Non-strenuous exercises including bending, lifting stretch or build strength. There is a fine line between the & twisting tend to be music to inactive or recovering two extremes. bodies. If you feel this supported-style of yoga is your cup of tea ~ you are invited to try this class! Try this yourself: squeeze your fist as tight as you can and hold for 20 seconds. Then release the Please call Maureen Fallis at 613-730-6649 or go hold and observe the sensations. Consciously invite to www.surroundcircleyoga.com for the class schedule all the muscles that were stretched and those that were and further details. All regular classes will continue contracted, to let go completely, releasing muscle tension through July. Stay tuned for details about a special 4- and returning to a state of relaxation. How do you feel? hour workshop called “Yoga, Journaling & Meditation” on Monday, July 23rd from 10:00 – 2:00pm. The list is long... here are a few of the benefits of

Did you know that the average child laughs between 300 and 400 times per day? By the time we reach adulthood we are reduced to laughing, on average, only 12 times a day! Laughter has been proven to reduce stress, pain, and depression while improving creativity, physical vitality and a sense of well being. JUNE 2007 The OSCAR - OUR 33rd YEAR Page 41 Cosmic Pathways Healing Fair By Vivian Dickie RMT

n Saturday June 9 2007 the fourth annual Cosmic Pathways healing fair will be held at the Glebe community center from 10am to 4pm. This event is a fundraiser Ofor Friends for Peace www.friendsforpeace.ca This Ottawa based non-profit organization brings together people from all walks of life who are committed to fostering peace by peaceful means. The funds raised help towards putting on events such as the annual Peace Prayer Day which happens in October at Ottawa City Hall. While the healing fair came into being as an appropriate and peaceful way to raise funds, it has now taken on a life of its own, and while all the proceeds still go to Friends for Peace, Cosmic Pathways has become one of the best known showcases for the work of alternative healing practitioners in the Ottawa area. Visitors to this event can expect a delectable smorgasbord of practitioners offering 30 minute mini treatments for $10. This gives one a chance to experience several sessions in different modalities such as massage therapy, crystal therapy, reflexology, holistic counseling, shamanism to name but a few of the delights on the menu. There is a $5 admission fee to the healing fair, and for this one can browse around and see what the practitioners have to offer. The admission fee also includes participation in a short yoga or qui gong session and several mini lectures offered by some of the practitioners. Lunch is available on the premises at the Pantry café, which is well known for its healthy nutritious cuisine. So please mark Saturday June 9 on your calendar and treat yourself and your friends to a day of healing opportunities which you will thoroughly enjoy. Heal ourselves, Heal the world.

Less Taxes…. More Retirement Income by Rick Sutherland

urther to our story last month on the tax changes proposed in the 2007 federal budget, we bring more detailed news on the opportunity Ffor those who are retired. These changes specifically refer to the opportunity for couples to take advantage of income splitting. Why should we be concerned about Income Splitting? In Canada we have a progressive income tax system. The more income you make, the higher Personal Financial Planning your tax burden. Retired couples can now use the new income splitting rules We will review your current financial position and to help reduce the ever-increasing progressive tax rates. This is achieved by recommend a plan that is designed to achieve your goals. transferring income from a higher income-earning spouse to a lower income- earning spouse. It has proven to be a significant tax reducer as a couple Rick Sutherland, CLU, CFP, FDS, R.F.P Tel 613.798.2421 1276 Wellington Street [email protected] receiving two smaller incomes at retirement is taxed at a lower rate than one Ottawa, Ontario K1Y 3A7 www.invested-interest.ca person receiving a large portion or all of the household income. The new rules apply only to income that’s eligible for the pension tax credit. Therefore, if you’re 65 years or older, you can split up to 50% of the following incomes: Registered Retirement Income Funds (RRIF), Life Income Funds (LIF), Locked-in Retirement Income Funds (LRIF) and Annuities purchased from Registered Retirement Saving Plans (RRSP) or Deferred Profit Sharing Plan (DPSP) assets. There is no age restriction on company Registered Pension Plan (RPP) benefits. You can also split Canada Pension Plan (CPP) benefits starting at age 60 but only for the benefits accumulated while you were a couple. By way of an example, we can look at the tax saving where there is one spouse earning a pension plan benefit of $100,000 and neither spouse earns any other income. She decides to split income to the maximum amount of $50,000. The tax savings is greater than $5,000. And did we mention that both spouses are now eligible for the pension credit, which has doubled to $2,000? This extra income will be a welcome addition to all retirees who take advantage of the new rules. Furthermore, if you are 65 or older you are eligible for the age tax credit and Old Age Security (OAS) benefits. This age credit is potentially worth another $5,066 in tax credits. Depending on your income there is a reduction for those earning more than $30,936. Any unused portion of the credit can be transferred to your spouse. OAS does have a claw-back feature that begins at income of $63,511. You can see there may be thousands of tax dollars to be saved by implementing these income-splitting strategies starting in 2007. As always there are rules that must be followed and you should seek the advice of your trusted financial advisor to assist you with making these decisions. The sooner you start planning, the faster you can begin planning how to spend this found money.

This is a monthly article on financial planning. Call or write to Rick Sutherland CLU, CFP, FDS, R.F.P., of FundEX Investments Inc. with your topics of interest at 798-2421 or E-mail at [email protected]. Page 42 The OSCAR - OUR 33rd YEAR JUNE 2007 Scribbles from London

By Lisa Xing Thankfully my aunt and uncle of nervous. Actually, that can’t even other job I would be complaining live in Watford, a 30 minute drive begin to describe how anxious I was. about the hours, but with this unpaid OSCAR Summer Foreign from London so they picked me up But I knew once the first day was over, internship I barely have anything to Correspondent from Gatwick airport and took me to everything would fall into place. say. I usually go in around an hour their place. I felt so out of place and And it did. I learned and quickly early in the morning and almost never luntly, the first couple of days missed everything about home. This picked up the quirks and nooks of the leave by 6pm. Within my first few days were cheerless. Not only was was Saturday night. Work started bureau. Within my first week I had I had already pulled a 12-hour work Bmy 9pm plane from Hamilton Monday. done everything from researching day. It was tiring but so rewarding. delayed by seven hours, I had to wait On Sunday we drove into London stories to gathering news stories I have worked with a variety at the airport for four, unable to sleep and checked into the hostel near the and pitching ideas to Toronto every of wildly intelligent journalists, but needing it so badly. I bade good- Queensway tube stop. Then they took morning. I also helped produce CBC’s producers, technical staff and bye to my parents at the security me around, got me used to the tube Morning Show with Harry Forestell cameramen-slash-editors here, and checkpoint after taking a few of those system I had to take to get to work at and went on shoots in the city. each and every one of them have “self-shot” photos with them and Oxford Circus. Just today I helped CBC unique knowledge and experience headed to Gate Six to wait. It was A week into my stay I still Toronto do a radio interview for the to impart. So, I ask question after more the idea of being off for the first couldn’t believe I was taking the tube Sunday Edition radio show and in the question and I am fascinated with time in my life like this, interning at in one of the biggest metropolitan morning I went with a cameraman to each answer I receive. Some of the the CBC bureau in London, England cities in the world. And working Trafalgar Square to get shots of the cameramen have spent months in for six weeks. Me. At the CBC. In there. grass they had laid out. Afghanistan and travelled the world London. Dear me. First day, I was the embodiment Oddly enough, with any covering stories. Shooting clips is truly an art and talent. The people are amazing, helpful and so friendly. It sounds cliché but it’s really just a big family living in a cozy house on Great Titchfield Street in the heart of downtown London. And it’s true—we sometimes do live there, considering we all know news doesn’t just happen from nine to five.

Summer Jobs for Young People

mployers and students can find information about Ontario Summer EJobs programs and services by calling Employment Ontario at 1-800-387-5656 or online at ontario.ca/employmentontario. The government is investing more than $52 million in the Ontario Summer Jobs strategy this year to help young people ages 15 to 24, or up to 29 for persons with disabilities, find work. Ontario Summer Jobs programs run between April and September and include:

Free job-search and self-marketing support to help students find summer jobs A $2 per hour hiring incentive for businesses and community organizations to hire students for up to 16 weeks Jobs in provincial government ministries and agencies.

Ontario Summer Jobs is a part of Employment Ontario, which offers close to $1 billion in training and employment services to almost one million people through 1,200 service providers in all regions of the province. JUNE 2007 The OSCAR - OUR 33rd YEAR Page 43 Has Bob Seen the Light and Become a Sens Fan?

By Rob Cook

or many years now, Bob Adamyk has been actively Finvolved in community events - either sitting on the OSCA Board of Directors, or being involved in minor hockey or running the adult sports program at Hopewell Public School. All those who know Bob, know that for years he has been a die-hard Toronto Maple Leafs fan. You can only imagine how surprised his neighbours were to wake up one morning, several days after the Ottawa Senators had qualified for the Stanley Cup playoffs, to find the outside of Bob’ residence on Willard Street ‘decorated’ with an abundance of Senators signs, logos and souvenirs (see picture). In order to determine whether Bob has switched allegiances and has now become a Senators fan, or whether he was the unfortunate victim of a dastardly prank committed by petty trespassers, you’ll have to ask Bob yourself next time you run into him in the ‘hood’. Page 44 The OSCAR - OUR 33rd YEAR JUNE 2007 Champion Ottawa 67s Peewee AAA Girls’ Hockey Team he Ottawa 67s PeeWee AAA chalked herself up a shutout girls’ hockey team recently and another one goal victory. Twon the championship of the Saturday afternoon’s game Outaouais Elite tournament. Along closed out the preliminary the way, they gave their fans their round with a battle between the money’s worth by going undefeated two undefeated teams, the 67s and winning five of their six games by and the Montreal Ice Storm. a single goal. The 67s found themselves The 67s opened the tournament, needing a win to finish atop the Friday morning, against the Rock ‘n’ standings as they had a slightly Roll Rebel. After spotting the Rebel less favourable goals for and a one goal lead in the first period, the against differential. Through 67s came back to tie the game on a the first two periods the teams goal by Hayley Evershed. With the traded goals in this high spirited warm weather of spring, the puck was contest, with Laurel McKillop sticking to the water soaked ice after scoring for the 67s. The third a flood between the second and third period continued at a frantic period. However, Brianna McGahey pace with no further goals until managed to lift the puck into the twine the final minute. With Makayla for the winning goal and the first one Campbell on the bench, Paige Front row (L to R): Cassie Charette and Makayla Campbell; Second row goal win. Belair took to the ice as the (L to R): Addi Halladay, Meghan Casselman, Laurel McKillop, Taylor Game two saw the 67s square off sixth attacker and potted the Thurston and Myf Thomson; Third row (L to R): Trainer Cathy Bureau, against the Midway Missticks. The winning goal with 1.3 seconds Brittany DeGrazia, Hayley Evershed, Haley Northcote, Paige Belair, Jenna 67s used a balanced attack to cruise remaining on the score clock. MacDonald, Shauna McGinn, Sam Bureau, Rachel Dods and Brianna to an 8-0 victory on goals by eight The tournament semi- McGahey; Back row (L to R): Assistant coach Darrell Halladay, coach Gary different scorers: Addi Halladay, final was a rematch with the Driver and assistant coach Tyler MacDonald. Missing from the photo are Brianna McGahey, Haley Northcote, Rock ‘n’ Roll Rebel. Despite Rebecca Watson and Hannah Driver. Jenna MacDonald, Samantha dominating play throughout the Bureau, Brittany DeGrazia, Meghan game, the 67s found themselves Casselman and Hannah Driver. tied 1-1 at the end of regulation The 67s finally allowed their fans to But the Ice Storm would not die Makayla Campbell, while not busy, time, with Jenna MacDonald scoring breathe again after their fifth shooter, and roared back to tie the game with stymied the Missticks to record the their lone goal. The 67s continued Laurel McKillop, found the back 2 minutes remaining. However the shutout for the 67s. to dominate puck possession for the of the net, advancing the 67s to the Ice Storm’s aggressive style of play Saturday morning marked a entire 4 on 4, 10 minute overtime, but tournament final. would prove to be their undoing. A lengthy delay before the start of could not put a puck past the Rebel The final marked a rematch with late high sticking penalty gave the 67s action. A couple of deep holes in the goaltender, which resulted in the the Montreal Ice Storm. The 67s a power play and with only 24 seconds ice required major repairs and pushed teams advancing to a shoot out. took leads in both the first and second remaining in regulation time, Brittany back the tournament by over an hour. Neither of the first two 67s’ periods on goals by Addi Halladay DeGrazia patiently waited out the Ice Once underway, the 67s scored an shooters could solve the puzzle of the and Haley Northcote, respectively, Storm goalie to pot the puck into the early goal by Brianna McGahey. The Rebels’ goalie. After allowing a goal only to have the Ice Storm respond to net for the 67s fifth one goal win and 67s strong defensive corp: Samantha by the Rebels second shooter, all of the tie up the game each time. Midway the tournament championship. Bureau, Hayley Evershed, Shauna pressure came down squarely on the through the third, the Ice Storm The 67s are represented locally McGinn, Haley Northcote and Taylor shoulders of Hayley Evershed, who took their first lead of the game; by Cassie Charette. Thurston, transitioned the puck ripped a shot into the corner of the net but the 67s responded with quick quickly out of the 67s end of the ice, to keep the 67s alive. Cassie Charette goals by Samantha Bureau and Myf while Cassie Charette kept all the shut the door on the next shooter to Thomson, with what appeared to be Vermont Stars’ shooters at bay, and force the shoot out into sudden death. the tournament winning goal.

Old Otawa South Ringette Champions

By Gail Walton

aster 2007, four young athletes from Old Ottawa South traveled to Charlottetown to participate in the Eastern Canada Ringette Championships which were Econtested at the University of Prince Edward Island. The four, Katherine Boxall, Charlotte Dunlap, Zoë Hart and Shannon Walton, who are all students at Hopewell Avenue Public School, compete for the Ottawa Tween AA ringette team. The Tween age category is for those born in 1993 and 1994. The Ottawa team had won the right to represent Ontario at the Eastern Canadian Championships by virtue of their win at the Provincial Championships that were held in March in Nepean. At the Provincial Championships they won the gold with a come from behind victory in overtime. In Charlottetown, they followed the same script and again won the gold medal game with an exciting victory in overtime. The trip was memorable for the 50 players and family who made the trip to Charlottetown. Besides the excitement of the games, there was the cancelled flights, flights re-routed, lost luggage, lost sticks and the blizzard on Easter Sunday which dumped 25 centimetres of snow and had wind gust up to 90 kilometres per hour. A great achievement by a great team. Katherine Boxall, Charlotte Dunlap, Zoë Hart and Shannon Walton, (not necessarily in order) who are all students at Hopewell Avenue Public School JUNE 2007 The OSCAR - OUR 33rd YEAR Page 45

WHAT’S HAPPENING AT THE LIBRARY Sunnyside Branch Library Children’s fun, free activities to encourage and crafts. Ages 5-9. Registration Teen & Adult Summer Reading children to read and continue required. Thursday, August 2, Club. Babytime developing their literacy 2:15 p.m. (45 min.) Why should kids have all the fun? For babies and their parents or skills throughout the summer. Show them that adults enjoy it caregiver with stories, rhymes, Research has shown that the Bones, bones, dinosaur bones too. Unwind with good reads this songs and games. 0-18 months. playful approach of these clubs Calling all paleontologists! Come summer and join OPL’s Adult and Tuesdays, 2:15 p.m. July 3- is extremely effective in getting explore the world of dinosaurs Teen Summer Reading Club this August 14 (30 min.) more children to increase their with stories and crafts. Ages 5-9. July and August. reading skills. Registration required. Thursday, Toddlertime August 9, 2:15 p.m. (45 min.) Keep a record of the books you For toddlers and a parent or Ottawa Public Library is joining read during the summer! caregiver with stories, rhymes, libraries from across Canada in Magical Chris Pilsworth Read five books, receive a Book songs and games. Ages 18-35 this joint initiative between TD Be amazed by the magic of Chris Buck! months. Bank Financial Group, Library Pilsworth! Everyone is welcome Read another five books, receive a Tuesdays, 10:15 a.m. July 3- and Archives Canada and the so bring the whole family. Book Buck! August 14 (30 min.) Toronto Public Library. Registration required. Friday, Read another five books, receive August 17, 2:15 p.m. (45 min.) two Book Bucks! Storytime TD Summer Reading Club Stories and rhymes for young Art Cart Friday, June 29 - Friday, Aug. 31 children ~ parents and caregivers TD Summer Reading Club Drop in any time we’re open and Book Bucks will be exchanged for are welcome to join. Ages 3-6. Launch create your special “Lost World” Friends of the OPL books for sale. Wednesdays, 10:15 a.m. July 4- Celebrate the launch of our craft Visit your local library and ask the August 15 (30 min.) summer reading club. Get your kit July 2-Aug 17 Information Desk staff for details. and start exploring the wonderful TD Summer Reading Club world of books! Everyone is Adult – Lost Worlds welcome so bring the whole Land Ahoy! family. Thursday, July 5, 2:15 Watch out all you land lubbers! Come participate in this year’s Adult Computer Programs TD Summer Reading Club. This p.m. (45 min.) Pirates ahead! Pirate stories and crafts. Ages 5-9. Registration year’s theme – Lost Worlds 15 minutes Computer Tutorials L’il John the Clown required. – features civilisations from the Having problems with the Library Come and have some fabulous Thursday, July 19, 2:15 p.m. (45 past. Award-winning Canadian Catalogue? Accessing the web? fun with the ever entertaining min.) artist, Joe Weissmann, designed Email issues? Register for your L’il John! Everyone is welcome the eye-catching illustration on own 15 minutes computer tutorial. so bring the whole family. Fabulous Fairies the program materials. Come Mondays between 10 and 11:30 Registration required. Thursday, Fairies here, fairies there, fairies, to the Sunnyside branch to join a.m. July 9, 16, 23, 30, Aug 13, July 12, 2:15 p.m. (45 min.) fairies everywhere. Fairy stories and receive a Club poster, nine 20 & 27 stickers and an activity booklet and crafts. Ages 5-9. Registration full of fun ideas. Wild Safari required. Travel to the deepest jungles on a Thursday, July 26, 2:15 p.m. (45 This program offers families wild safari. Adventuresome stories min) Alta Vista Branch Library Alta Vista Branch Storytime Un livre à partager Ottawa Public Library Teen Programs (Bilingual) Wednesdays, April 11- Club de lecture pour ceux qui 2516 Alta Vista Dr. May 23, 10:30 a.m. (45 min.) aiment lire. Pour les 8 à 12 ans. To register call: 737-2837 x3 Contes Lundi 18 juin , 16 h 15 (45 min.)* Teen Book Club (Bilingue) Les mercredis, 11 avril-23 Drop in to share some great reads mai, 10 h 30 (45 min.) Adult Programs with other teens. Ages 12-15. Tuesday, June 26, 7 p.m. (1 hr.) Remarkable Readers Book Club Family Storytime An after-school book club for those Book Banter Tuesdays, April 10-May 22, 10:30 who love to read. For the more Latitudes of Melt Teen Chick Lit Book Club a.m. (30 min.) If you love Gossip Girl or other advanced readers. by Joan Clark Monday, June 25, 4:15 p.m. (45 Thursday, June 7, 2 p.m.(1 hr.) books like it, bring your favourite reads to share with others. Ages 14- BOOK CLUBS / CLUBS min.)* 18. DE LECTURE Infusion littéraire Eager Readers Book Club La maison aux esprits Monday, Uune 11, 4:30 p.m. (1 hr.) Un livre à partager An after-school book club for those de Isabel Allende Club de lecture pour ceux qui aiment who love to read. Beginner to Mardi le 19 juin, 14 h (1 h) PRE-SCHOOL lire. Pour les 8 à 12 ans. intermediate readers. Lundi 14 mai, 16 h 15 (45 min.)* Tuesday, June 26, 4:15 p.m. (45 Knitters helping Knitters Babytime min.)* Meet with others to share patterns Thursdays, April 12-May 24, 10:30 Teen Chick Lit and ideas and offer assistance to a.m. (30 min.) If you love « Gossip Girl » or other other knitters. books like it, bring your favourite N.B. Programs followed by Saturdays June 2, July 7, Aug. 4, Toddlertime reads to share with others! Ages 14- an * require registration. / 10:30 a.m.(1.5 hrs.) Mondays, April 16-May 14, 10:30 18. L’inscription est requise pour Tuesdays June 15, July 17, Aug. 21, a.m. (30 min.) Monday, June 11, 4:30 p.m. (1 hr)* 6:30 p.m.(1.5 hrs.) les programmes suivis d’un *. Page 46 The OSCAR - OUR 33rd YEAR JUNE 2007

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$100. Will sell for $50 obo. Francine available for interview. Jane 613-736-0771. For Sale 613-730-1225 ------Timberframe cottage for rent: Students’ Work For sale: Air conditioner, Kenmore Maytag Fridge: 22 cubic feet, approx 3 Bedroom cottage on pristine spring 10,000 BTU, $70. Harvard bed frame, 10 years old. Excellent Condition: fed lake 45 minutes from Old Ottawa $5. Call (613) 730-6028. $200. Older Maytag Dishwasher, South available for weekend or weekly ------Excellent Condition: $75. Please call: rentals. Come and watch the spring Wanted for September: Grade 7 or 8 Four-drawer desk ideal for young 613-730-2906. bird migration! Pictures available on Hopewell student to mind a Grade 1 student’s bedroom. Finished wood. request. Special rates available for student from 8 AM each morning and June. Call Mark 613-294-4635 or walk her to school. Near Belmont/ (613)-739-6902 For Rent ------email [email protected] Riverdale. Will pay the going rate. Baby mattress, purchased in 2004 Call (613) 730-6028. from Sears. Extra firm. Used for approx. 18 months. Purchased new Great house for rent in Old Ottawa Child &Housekeeping for $100, selling for $35 obo. Francine South, for July and August. If Lost 613-730-1225 interested please e-mail us at: gpw@ ------alumni.uottawa.ca Babysitter Service: Are you looking Duncan Phyfe drop leaf table - seats ------for a Caregiver to work in your home? Lost: wedding ring, three connected 6 when opened - great condition - $ Executive 4 bedroom, 2 bathroom Over 20 Years Experience, Excellent bands, “rolling ring”, between the 265.00 obo Call 613-731-4896 or home for rent in Rideau Gardens. References, Bilingual, Non-Smoker, Firehall, Fairbairn and Belmont 613-730-3385 Available July 1, 2007. New kitchen First Aid & CPR Certification, Loving Avenues. Reward! If found please call ------with all appliances included, large and Caring Person. Call Jacqueline 730-2821 For Sale: 1) White resin patio furniture front and back yard, double attached 613-241-2809. set. Table with extension, 4 adjustable garage, 4 car surface parking, washer/ ------Found armchairs, new umbrella. Excellent dryer, views of the Rideau River, full Old Ottawa South home caregiver ( condition. $285. 2) Red canvas basement, 2 fireplaces. $3,500 per B.A. in Child Development, E.C.E. and cedar canoe. 16 foot. Excellent month. Contact: (613) 808- 4230 or , First Aid, 16 years experience) has Found Toyota keys, aT the corner condition; stable and completely (613) 231- 4569.” two full time spaces for children age of Rideau River lane and Cameron watertight. $775, with paddles. Call ------2 years and older starting Sept. 1st. Avenue, a set of Toyota keys and 2 Andy or Renee at (613) 730-0422. Cottage for rent: Three bedroom Activities include playgroups, parks, other keys, on April 30. Call 613-521------cottage on private 10 acre island, museums, library, arts and crafts, 5516 Dog travel carry bag, suitable for surrounded by warm clear water circle time, and much more. Call small-medium dog. Type used to excellent for swimming and boating Brenda Lee at 733 0608. To Give Away travel on aircraft with your pet, fits . Located on Newboro lake (part of ------under seat. Was large enough for Rideau lakes) 1 hour and 20 minute I am a mother seeking a part-time job our dog until it exceeded 20 pounds. drive south of Ottawa . Covered dock as a child care giver in child’s home. 12.5” wide x 11” high x 19” long . and use of canoes and kayaks included, Begining July or August, 3 full days Basketball standard, backboard and In perfect condition - used once and boat and motor rental available, $600/ a week. Non-smoker. Have first aid, net, in good condition, free for the now our dog is too big. Sells new for week. 730-7120/733-6152. Photos cpr, resume and references. Available taking. Call Frank, 613-733-5071. Around Town The Ferret Rescue Society of 114a Cameron Avenue Tel: (613) in the Normandy campaign, the 30th or contact info@oosartfestival. Ottawa and Area (FRSO) is proud 733-4681 novel is based on the experiences of ca to present its Spring Ferret Frolic in In conjunction with DOORS OPEN the author’s uncle, Lloyd McCauley, McNabb Park (corner of Bronson and OTTAWA Cordially invites our who was a Sergeant in Ontario’s OOS Business Women’s Network Gladstone) on Sunday, June 3, from neighbours to tour our building and Algonquin Regiment. Admission is — Are you self-employed, starting or 1:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. This annual learn about our Club On Saturday, 2nd free and everyone is welcome. running a small business or service and event is presented by the FRSO to help June, 2007 10:00am to 4:00pm The Sunnsyide Branch Library is looking for other women in business educate ferret owners and the general located at 1049 Bank Street. for support, advice and ideas? Join us public about these wonderful pets and Ten contemporary artists from for our monthly meeting Wednesday, to raise funds for the society. Ottawa Area in cooperation with the On Saturday June 9, -- Yard, Bake June 13th at 9:30 a.m. Call Kathryn National Capital Commission (NCC) and Book Sale at the Ottawa Lawn at (613) 730-3739 for details and Doors Open Ottawa. Buildings of are having their Grand Opening on Bowling Club at 176 Cameron Avenue location. architectural, historical or functional Friday June 1st, from 6:30 to 9 P.M., (next to Brewer Park) from 9:00 am significance are opening their doors at BLINK GALLERY. The gallery to 3:00 pm. Ottawa Irish Rugby Club seeking on June 2 and 3. They are elaborate is located in Majors Hill Park in the new players U-14, U-16, and U- embassies, peaceful places of quaint Heritage Cottage, known as The third annual Old Ottawa 18 boys and Senior men, and U-19 worship, mind-blowing museums, Header House, directly across from South Art Festival is now accepting girls and Senior women. Training green gardens, amazing artist studios, the National Gallery. artists submissions. Come join us in at Colonel By SS, 2381 Ogilvie sensational science labs and more. Windsor Park for an event-filled day Rd(north of Montreal Rd) on Tuesday Find a list of participating buildings Commerate D-Day, Wednesday, with family and friends, music and and Thursday, 6.30 to 8.30 p.m. More at: http://ottawa.ca/residents/heritage/ June 6, at 2:30 p.m. by joining author eats. Log onto www.oosartfestival.ca information at http://ottawairishrugby. doorsopen/buildings/central/index_ Gary McCauley for a reading from for details and submit your application com or (613) 828-7075. en.html his novel of World War II, Soldier before July 1st, 2007 for the Sept. Boys. Praised by veterans as an 15th event. Submission criteria will The May Court Club Of Ottawa authentic account of a soldier’s life be available on the web site by May JUNE 2007 The OSCAR - OUR 33rd YEAR Page 47

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