The OSCAR l September 2019 Page 1 THE OSCAR www.BankDentistry.com 613.241.1010 The Ottawa South Community Association Review l The Community Voice Year 47, No. 8 September 2019

Shakespeare’s Comedy As You Like It! Comes to Old Ottawa South

The cast of Shakespeare’s play As You Like It who will be preforming at 57 Glen Avenue in September. See page 3 for the story. PHOTO BY CYNTHIA SUGARS COMMUNITY CALENDAR Saturday, Sept. 7, 8:00-15:00 Community Porch Sale Sunday, Sept. 8, 11:00 Welcome Back BBQ for Students, Sunnyside Wesleyan Church Monday, Sept. 9, 19:00 Garden Club – Pruning, The Firehall Monday, Sept. 9, 19:00 Writers festival - On Justin Trudeau, Southminster United Wednesday, Sept. 11, 18:30- Bronson Ave. & Raven Rd. Improvements 20:30 Information Session, The Firehall Reg����r to�� fo� al� p�o�r���! Wednesday, Sept. 11, 18:30- Ingenious Talks - Impacts & X-Rays, Preschool Child General 19:30 Sunnyside Library Branch Health & Interest Thursday, Sept. 12, 18:30- Registering and Voting in a Federal Election, Seniors 20:00 Sunnyside Library Branch Fitness Saturday, Sept. 14 Brighton Ave Clambake, Old Brighton Beach Youth Sports Sunday, Sept. 15, 9:00-12:00 Tree Planting, Canal Woods Terrace (old Bronson Place) at Bronson and Sunnyside Thursday, Sept. 19, 18:30- Getting Started in Genealogy, Sunnyside 20:00 Library Branch Friday, Sept. 20, 19:00 Writers festival - From Where I Stand with Jody Wilson-Raybould, Southminster United Wednesday, Sept. 25, 19:00- Ottawa-Centre Candidates Debate, Glebe 21:00 Community Centre Thursday, Sept. 26, 18:30- Improving Income in Retirement, Sunnyside 20:00 Library Branch Porch Sale: September 7th Saturday, Sept. 28, 14:30- Annual High Tea, May Court Club Fall Fest: October 6th 16:30 Saturday, Sept. 28, 16:30 Ottawa Chamber Players, Trinity Anglican Terrifying Trivia Night (19+): October 23rd Church Thursday, Oct. 3, 19:15- Christianity Explored Course Starts, Craft Show: November 24th 20:45 Sunnyside Wesleyan Church Breakfast With Santa: December 8th Saturday, Oct. 5, 9:00-14:00 Trinity Anglican Church Dog Wash Fundraiser Sunday, Oct. 6, 10:00 Feast of Saint Francis Blessing of the Animals, Trinity Anglican Church Sunday, Oct. 6, 11:00-14:00 OSCA Fall Fest, Windsor Park www.oldottawasouth.ca To see the latest listings, go to the online calendar at www.oldottawasouth.ca Page 2 The OSCAR l September 2019

BUSINESS BEAT Our 10 Year OOS Anniversary, a Look into the Archives By Erik van der Torre pretty much all doom and gloom. But browsing through the archives It is hard to believe we moved to I found some lighter, funner little OOS in the summer of 2009, now tidbits as well. For instance: 10 years ago! I will spare you all “David Hillary of Hillary Cleaners the clichés, but suffice it to say we decided to have a mural on the are extremely happy to have ended wall of his building on Cameron up here and setting down roots in so as to discourage tagging. He Ottawa and OOS. commissioned the Deepsix Collective Given that there seems to be little to connect with artists who would business news to report at the time be able to do the painting. Dogs are of this writing (a few “leased” signs much loved at Hillary Cleaners. Any have gone up recently – for instance dog who visits is given a dog biscuit, on the old Starbucks location – but I whether they have clothing to be dry- have been unable to find out which cleaned or not. Thus the choice of the businesses are going in, so I will save subject of the mural.” that for a future BB), I figured that I have always wondered how, why, our 10 year OOS anniversary is as and when someone decided to paint good a reason as any to do another The building that housed West Coast Video and Elee Salon & Spa on a mural of Scooby Doo painting dive into the OSCAR archives to see February 6, 2009, after it was destroyed by a fire. The blaze was caused by another dog on the side of Hillary’s. what was going on in the business arson, but no one was ever charged in the crime. PHOTO BY TOM ALFÖLDI Well, I finally got my answer: 10 community in 2009. years ago Hillary’s got fed up with coming up in several 2009 OSCARs inviting a few commercial real estate having to deal with graffiti on their The Major Issues, Not Much Has was the fact that a small committee agents, developers, city planners, walls and commissioned the mural. Changed? had been formed to find and attract and local business owners to share Throughout the 2009 OSCARs, a a grocery store that would open up their viewpoints and suggestions. The Second Cup Owners Retire couple of large developments keep shop in OOS. From a 2009 article by meeting is not intended to discuss Another interesting thing I learned coming up: Lansdowne and Shoppers Laura Byrne Paquet: “Do you miss any specific developments, but rather from the October issue is that when Drug Mart. As many who lived in being able to buy fresh produce right to have a general discussion about Second Cup closed, its owners, OOS around that time will remember, here in Old Ottawa South? Do you the commercial area on Bank Street.” Maurice and Fenny Benoit, took the the debate and mostly opposition to stare with nostalgia at the abandoned As we now know, that initial push time and energy to write a little note the sole-sourced, P3 development Fresh Fruit Company building, would eventually lead to yet another in the OSCAR: “Thank you for being of Lansdowne dominated the local empty since last summer? You’re failed attempt to form a BIA in OOS. our loyal customers during the last news. Fierce opponents, chief among not alone. Many other people would And I think the issues and concerns ten years. We’ve decided to retire them then councillor Clive Doucet, like to see another fresh food retailer have not changed very much in the as we are at that age. Unfortunately argued that this was not the best in OOS, too. “In conversations last 10 years. Second Cup was not able to find new way to develop such a large area of with my neighbours, there’s a keen What I also didn’t realize, is that franchisees to replace us. [...] We public land. As I wrote in an earlier sense of loss when we talk about the BB had a predecessor that, as enjoyed having you as our guests. BB this year, that criticism turned the Fresh Fruit Company and far as I can tell, stopped appearing The children were just wonderful. out to be quite valid. The car-centric, shopping for groceries,” says Avra regularly right about 10 years ago. The Hopewell kids were great. Loved retail wasteland is definitely not what Gibbs Lamey, who is spearheading Throughout the 2009 OSCARs, there making special drinks for them. We anyone had envisioned, but most a small committee of residents is a column called “Street Buzz”, had a lot of fun. We will miss all the had predicted. Now, 10 years later, it trying to attract a new food store written by several local business chit chat, the excitement, chaos, etc. looks like we are coming full circle to OOS. “Part of the value of this owners/employees that focuses on Hopefully we will see some of you at and let’s hope the City and OSEG neighbourhood when we all moved local businesses. Part of the reason future Ottawa events.” can right some of the many wrongs in in was that there was a grocery store why I suspect Street Buzz ceased Back when we had just moved the near future. within walking distance.”” to exist in 2009 is that two of the into our new neighbourhood and we As for the Shoppers development, At some point there was talk of the regular contributors were Andrea learned that Second Cup was closing, there too I feel like we have come space that now houses Stella Luna Covas from West Coast Video, and I remember thinking ‘great!’ now full circle. Sure, Shoppers made a and Nails becoming a grocery store, Sue Fay from Soul Matters, a store an independent business can take few concessions to the community, but a covenant dictated by Loblaws that I don’t think was around much its place. And when Taylor’s took most notably in making sure the meant the landlord could not rent longer after we moved into the its place, I don’t think all that many construction was done safely with the space for 10 years to a grocery neighbourhood. people missed Second Cup. But it is Hopewell Ave PS so close by, but store. As it turns out, we may have good to be reminded that large chains one of the main ‘concessions,’ been lucky that this was the case, West Coast Video Burns Down are often run as a franchise with adding office space on top of the as shortly after we moved into the It’s hard to write a BB column owners who are just as invested and Shoppers to be rented out to small, neighbourhood, Cedars opened their about local businesses 10 years ago interested in the neighbourhood as local community businesses and/ doors and replaced the Fresh Fruit without mentioning the fact that the other local businesses. or entrepreneurs, never materialized Co, so dearly missed by many. And West Coast Video building burnt as the space sits empty to this day. the space originally identified as down in February of that year. We all Business Beat is a monthly feature And although there is/was a rumour a perfect spot for a grocery store know what (hasn’t) happened since that highlights new and existing that Anytime Fitness might move remained free to become Stella Luna! and I won’t waste too much time businesses in Old Ottawa South. into the space, this is not what the talking about the West Coast Video Opinions are my own. If you know community was told/promised. OSWATCH’s Commercial Concern building again, but what did strike of any new businesses opening up In other words, another classic & Street Buzz me was that in the March and April or want to share your thoughts about developer bate-and-switch of the Local business, and making OSCARs of 2009, the sense seemed existing businesses, send a note to: kind that Ottawans have become all sure Bank Street in OOS remains/ to be that once the insurance issue [email protected]. too familiar with. And I am sure we becomes a vibrant commercial hub, was settled, they would immediately will be going down a similar path has clearly been a major community rebuild and reopen. In the April issue, Erik van der Torre has lived in Old in the not too distant future as other focus throughout the years. And it was estimated that it would take Ottawa South with his wife and sites in the neighbourhood are set things were no different in 2009. about 5 months for the renovations to three sons for over 10 years. He is to be redeveloped, like the space In addition to the issues described take place… a member of Hopewell Avenue PS’ currently occupied by the Barley above, OSWATCH was actually Parent Council and OSCA’s Traffic & Mow, Boomerang, and Siam Kitchen. somewhat concerned about the state Hillary’s Dry Cleaners Mural of commerce in OOS and “[to] that Reading this column so far, one Safety Committee. Search for a Grocery Store end, OSWATCH will devote its next could get the impression that the Another interesting issue I found meeting to this topic. We will be business news from 2009 was The OSCAR l September 2019 Page 3

NEWS The Forest of Arden Comes to Old Ottawa South By Paul Keen

This year, The Company of Adventurers has a wonderful treat in store for audiences: Shakespeare’s hilarious comedy As You Like It! This year’s show has some built-in surprises that you won’t want to miss. There is an intriguing entrance way leading in to the show that will engage you from the moment you step inside. (Arrive early and you’ll see what we mean!) This play is a fun one, so get ready for some hysterical moments of audience participation. It comes complete with a ridiculous wrestling match, some very bad poetry written by the love-struck Orlando, a court jester wandering in the woods, stubborn shepherdesses, an attack by a lion (in a forest in France), and a group of single-minded foresters who love to sing! Like all of our shows, this year’s production will appeal to people of all ages, bringing Shakespeare to life in ways that will make everyone a fan! For the past eight years, the Rosalind and Celia plan their escape with Touchstone looking on. PHOTO BY CYNTHIA SUGARS Company of Adventurers has been entertaining Old Ottawa South Shakespeare play, and our production in September at 57 Glen Avenue. Paul Keen helps out with the The audiences with Shakespeare’s best- lives up to that legacy. Performances are free, but the actors Company of Adventurers and lives in loved plays, from tragedies like In As You Like It the plot begins pass a hat after each show to raise OOS. Macbeth and Romeo and Juliet, to when the young Orlando is forced to money for a local charity, this year comedies like Twelfth Night. After flee by the evil Duke Frederick, but the Rideau Valley Wildlife Sanctuary last year’s lavish and heartbreaking not before winning the heart of the which was chosen by the actors. Shows Antony and Cleopatra, it is time Duke’s niece, Rosalind. As luck would are cancelled in the event of rain. for a comedy again. As You Like It, have it, Rosalind herself is banished one of Shakespeare’s most popular soon after along with her cousin Celia. comedies, features many of his Having disguised herself as a man in Full Service Real Estate signature elements: unrequited love, order to travel more safely in the forest, generational strife, cross-dressing Rosalind (now Ganymede) soon runs and mistaken identities, and an into Orlando, who mistakes her for escape into a forest (in this case the a local shepherd. Eager to make the Forest of Arden) where things get most of the situation, Rosalind (now Barry hopelessly muddled before they are Ganymede) offers to cure Orlando of finally sorted out. Music has always his love madness if he will call every Humphrey Sales Representative been a major part of The Company of day and pretend that Ganymede is Adventurers’ performances, and this Rosalind. Confusing? It all makes year is no different. In fact, this play for unforgettable comedy before PROFESSIONAL SERVICE contains more music than any other everything falls into place. DOESN’T HAVE TO BE EXPENSIVE! Shows take place every weekend FULL SERVICE includes: Total ✔ MLS ® and Realtor.ca Shakespeare’s Websites ✔ Personal Website 3 Commission% As You Like It! ✔ Professional Photos (Includes both Listing and Selling agents commission) presented by ✔ Open Houses The Company of Adventurers ✔ Market Updates ✔ Lawn Signs 57 Glen Avenue Friday, Sept. 6 – 5:30 pm weather permitting Saturday, Sept. 7 – 3:00 pm www.facebook.com/ Sunday, Sept. 8 – 3:00 pm companyofadventurers for Friday, Sept. 13 – 5:30 pm up-to-date information 613.230.8888 Saturday, Sept. 14 – 3:00 pm Sunday, Sept. 15 – 3:00 pm Shows are Free 613.296.6060 Direct Saturday, Sept. 21 – 5:30 pm Donations are [email protected] Sunday, Sept. 22 – 3:00 pm accepted for the View My Website: www.BarryHumphrey.ca Friday, Sept. 27 – 5:30 pm Saturday, Sept. 28 – 5:30 pm Rideau Valley Wildlife Sanctuary Over 30 Years of Experience and Knowledge Not intended to solicit Sellers or Buyers on contract. Page 4 The OSCAR l September 2019

Fundraising for the Firehall By Michael Jenkin after the dinner and entertainment. The auctions were particularly memorable People in Old Ottawa South are because what was on offer was donated certainly keen supporters of their by community members themselves community and there is lots of and it was an amazing collection: evidence from the past to support that valuable art work and collectibles, claim. Perhaps the most memorable vacations at people’s cottages, quilts example was how people here stepped made by people in the community, up and worked hard to fundraise, and gourmet dinners catered in your lobby for, the renovation and expansion home, and all kinds of services such of our community centre a decade ago. as housewife for a day, basement We take the renovated Firehall cleaning, babysitting, children’s for granted today and assume it was entertainment for birthdays, and always, more or less, the enormous lunches and dinners with local worthies resource that it is today. But back and celebrities. One enterprising in the 1990s and the early 2000s individual even offered an afternoon nothing could have been further drive in the autumn colours of Lanark from the truth. While a beloved icon county in a vintage sports car with a of our community, with a long and gourmet lunch included. The important distinguished history as a fire station point was that what was offered was for the southern part of what was then A Lobster Supper for the Firehall in 2004. PHOTO BY BRENDAN MCCOY personal and individual and was often the old City of Ottawa, the Firehall the product of the donator’s own efforts was, to say the least, in pretty poor going on to get to another activity and looked dowdy and uninviting. and skills. shape. room, the washrooms were tiny, there As pressure for a better facility The auctions and dinners were Converted into a community was no kitchen, and only a cramped built in the community, the OSCA a huge success and ran for at least centre in 1977-78 through a low-cost little registration desk and entry area Board decided to launch a multi-year five years. The last couple of these renovation, it essentially kept the floor to receive clients, nowhere to store campaign to fight for a renovated events raised well over $30,000 in a plan of a building designed in the early coats and boots, and the building community centre. The campaign single evening. A campaign was also 1920s to house fire engines and fire had outdated electrical, plumbing consisted of two parts: a community organized to encourage members fighters. Actually, those fire engines and heating systems that often didn’t design effort to see what could be done in the community who were public were initially horse drawn and the work properly. And, after 20 years of to renovate and expand the centre, servants, and there were a lot of those, building originally included stables! intensive use the minimalist renovation and second, a multi-year fundraising to donate to the Firehall fund through Not surprisingly, the interior was far carried out in 1977 had reached the end campaign to demonstrate to the City their annual Government Workplace from optimally designed to serve as our of its life with wear and tear showing that the community was behind the Charitable Campaign. Public servants community centre: people had to go everywhere: worn out floors, broken project. This was no small issue as could contribute through bi-weekly through one room with programming fixtures and damaged walls, and a the City had tried earlier to close both payroll deductions; so, by donating say building that was difficult to keep clean the Glebe and Old Ottawa South $20.00 a pay, community members community centres as an economy in the public service could, over measure. With amalgamation on the the course of a year, make a very horizon to create a bigger City, which substantial donation of $520 to the would be dominated by the growing project, and many did so. suburban municipalities, Old Ottawa By 2008 the community, through South needed a forceful demonstration its fundraising, and OSCA from its Great News! that we were committed as a operating surpluses on programming community to this project. activity and from The OSCAR’s We are now participating The design work started in 1998 and operating reserves, had managed to in the GCWCC Campaign through the volunteer efforts of some raise a total of over $350,000 towards local architects and Carleton University the renovation project. In 2007, OSCA The Government of Canada Workplace architecture students, community also lobbied the provincial government Charitable Campaign (GCWCC) helps to design charettes were held and a and managed to obtain $200,000 as provide inancial support to many preliminary set of design drawings and a contribution towards the soft costs important Canadian charities across the an architect’s model of what the new of developing detailed designs and country. The GCWCC campaign runs centre could look like were completed. estimates for the renovation. As a from September to December. Shortly afterwards, fundraising started result, when the federal government in earnest. As a first step, OSCA announced its recession fighting Through GCWCC federal employees, created a charity, the Old Ottawa South national infrastructure fund in 2008, retirees, current and former members of You can now donate Firehall Development Fund, which the Firehall project was “shovel ready” the Canadian Armed Forces and the was subsequently registered with the and was included as one of the City of RCMP support United Way's / to OSCA through the Canada Revenue Agency and so we Centraide's Health Partners as well as Ottawa projects for federal funding. could issue tax receipts for donations The $3.2 million renovation was other registered Canadian charities of Old Ottawa South their choosing. received towards the renovation approved in the City’s 2009 Budget Community Fund! project. A Board committee headed and the renovated and expanded Donating is safe, simple & secure by former President John Graham Firehall opened in June 2010. and a very large group of enthusiastic Old Ottawa South’s community Donations can be made via payroll The Old Ottawa South Community volunteers organized a series of annual contribution was one of the largest ever deductions, cash, cheue, credit card or Fund is a registered charity #896669520 fundraisers involving dinners and made towards a City project of this PayPal. Use the online ePledge tool or a auctions which became the premier type and it was all based on the hard paper-based pledge form. R 0001. events on Old Ottawa South’s social work and financial generosity of one For more information on how to calendar. of the smallest communities in Ottawa. support your community association to The lobster suppers, or Maritime It was an example of community raise funds for improving programs and Kitchen Parties, were huge events engagement and initiative we can all be activities beneiting the neighborhood with well over 300 people attending very proud of. for an evening of lobster with all the . o l d t a w s u h c we love so much: trimmings, refreshments and “down Please visit our website at east” entertainment. Usually held at the Michael Jenkin is a member of the oldottawasouth.ca/donate large gym at Hopewell Public School, OSCA Board and a former longtime the events were packed and were OSCA President. or call 613-247-4946 preceded by silent auctions and good w old-fashioned live bidding auctions The OSCAR l September 2019 Page 5

Happy Summer Arrival By Robert Taylor assisted and may arrive in the next months and years. It is hoped that Syrian refugees Abdo, his wife, Dina, a family of four Syrian refugees and their children Ahmad, age eight; – mother, father, and two teenage Taleya, age 5; Ryan, age three; and boys – will arrive later this year from nine-month-old Karan arrived in Lebanon. A sponsorship application Ottawa this summer from the United has been submitted for an Iraqi Kurd Arab Emirates. couple and their young son, who The family is sponsored by Trinity are now in Turkey. An application Anglican Church and the Ottawa has been submitted for a single South Refugee Committee through Burmese woman who is a refugee in the Anglican Diocese of Ottawa. This India. Sponsorship of a couple from is the fifth family to be welcomed Burundi and their adult daughter, by the Ottawa South Refugee who are in Rwanda, is being pursued. Committee since it started sponsoring Old Ottawa South is a caring refugees in 2015. community. The Ottawa South The arrival is an especially happy Refugee Committee and Trinity event for Old Ottawa South residents Church still have the energy to go Linda Hancock, former OSCA on. But more and new people who president, and her husband, Mazen are able to donate time are always Soubra. Mazen is Dina’s uncle. Syrian refugees Abdo, his wife Dina, and their children Ahmad, Taleya, needed. And money is an ongoing For more than two years, the Ryan, and Karan being welcomed at the Ottawa airport by former OSCA concern. Ottawa South Refugee Committee president Linda Hancock and her husband Mazen Soubra. PHOTO BY ROBERT Please let the Ottawa South and Trinity Church worked closely TAYLOR Refugee Committee know if you can system. Mazen. Thanks to Linda and Mazen, with Linda and Mazen at every stage help. The Committee can be reached The Refugee Sponsorship Support a house was found as temporary of the sponsorship. Applications were by email at [email protected]. Program at the University of Ottawa accommodation that was waiting for prepared and extensive supporting Tax-deductible financial donations generously provided legal advice them when they arrived. The two documentation was gathered. Then can be made by cheque payable and research that proved crucial to older children are already enrolled everyone waited, sharing hope and to Trinity Anglican Church with advancing the sponsorship. in a school. The Ottawa South anxiety, as the paperwork moved “Refugee Sponsorship” indicated The family are in excellent, Committee is drawing upon its past through the government approval on the cheques memo line. Trinity’s and loving, hands with Linda and experience to help the family deal address is 1230 Bank Street, Ottawa, with the challenges that face any ON, K1S 3Y3. Its office is open from newcomer to a country. 10 am to 2 pm on Wednesday and Friday. Scrubbing Paws for a Good Cause at Ongoing Commitment The commitment of the Ottawa Robert Taylor is the former chair Trinity Anglican South Refugee Committee and of the Ottawa South Refugee By Paige Kahkonen would be...well... a little catastrophic. Trinity Anglican Church to refugee Committee. All of this is in celebration of the sponsorship continues. A number of On Saturday, October 5, 2019, from Feast of St. Francis of Assisi, who individuals and families are being 9am until 2pm, let Trinity Anglican is often associated with a focus on Church, at the corner of Bank and respect for animals and our natural Cameron, help you scrub your environment. dog, during our first ever dog wash Saint Francis blessed animals as a fundraiser! We will provide you with sign of recognition that all creatures on a raincoat, warm water, a bath area, earth are a creation of God, and should shampoo, conditioner and towels for be respected. $10 a dog. Please come early to sign Dating back almost 800 years, this up for a time slot as dog wash slots are tradition continues. At the Sunday limited. morning service on October 6th at 10 If the weather doesn’t cooperate, am we, at Trinity, will celebrate the come anyway! There will still be lots of feast of Saint Francis and the priest will activities going on inside. bless all the animals that pet owners The event will include a family- bring to the church. friendly dog wash, and downstairs Help us celebrate the Blessing of the there will be a sale of homemade Animals by bringing your dog along to treats for you and also for your pet, join in the fun. some handmade doggy outfits, coats, Donations from the event will support and costumes, used books about pets the many community outreach activities for sale, and presentations by canine offered by Trinity Anglican Church. organizations. This is a great chance to get to know your local church and Paige Kahkonen is a Carleton community! Journalism student and volunteer at So, why a dog wash? We love all pets Trinity Anglican Church. at Trinity, but we thought a cat wash

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Thoughts on St. Margaret Mary Closing and reception of the Sacraments. That final gathering at St. Margaret Mary Church took place on Sunday, June 23. At a social event following the closing Mass, long-time parishioner Theresa Nieminen spoke publicly of our collective grief but reminded us of elements of parish history that demonstrated our resilience. She called on those assembled to find consolation not only in our friendships but also in cherished memories. Then she related some of hers. Theresa’s parents, Jean and J. D’Arcy Jette, brought their young family to Old Ottawa South in 1953. Theresa and her four siblings grew up on Hopewell Avenue. St. Margaret Mary Church and the parish school became the heart of their world. Of course there was always Mass on Sunday mornings and Benediction in the afternoon. There were baptisms (of three generations of her family) and later weddings. But some of Theresa’s early memories include a On Sunday, June 23, 2019 St. Margaret Mary Parish celebrated its final By Mede McAtee walking school bus of sorts with the liturgy. Left to right: Altar servers Tineke Vanderhorst and Laura Duffley O’Byrne’s who lived on the corner of (carrying the Paschal candle); concelebrants Archbishop Terrance When St. Margaret Mary Church Hopewell and Leonard, and Latimer Prendergast and Fr. Pierre Champoux; carrying parish registers: Shona closed its doors, Old Ottawa children on Sunnyside. She recalls Timmins, Jack Nolan and Jackie Lentini-Breithaupt. Registers record South lost its last Roman Catholic trudging up Fairbairn hill from the baptisms, confirmations, weddings and funerals that have been celebrated institution. The Firehall lost sometime Bellwood school to the church for in the parish. The registers of St. Margaret Mary are now held by Blessed programming space. Elections First Friday Masses, for confession, Sacrament Parish in the Glebe. PHOTO BY BLAINE DUFFLEY Canada lost a polling station location. and even for physical education Neighborhood activists lost an outlet classes in the hall, and sliding down for their volunteer efforts through the hill behind the church in the snow. the Sunday Suppers program. But Theresa fondly remembered Harvest those who worshipped there lost Suppers put on by the men of the much more: a spiritual home and Holy Name Society of which her community. A parish exists for the local Christian faithful to gather with their pastor for liturgical celebration Continued on pg. 7

Mary Jean Lalonde and Theresa Nieminen (the Jette sisters) – who grew up on Hopewell Ave. and in the parish – with Mary Jean’s grandson Emmett Provost on June 2 after his First Holy Communion (which was the parish’s final First Communion celebration). Emmett was also baptized at St. Margaret Mary where his great-grandparents raised their family. PHOTO BY JENNIFER PROVOST The OSCAR l September 2019 Page 7

Charles Hopewell tapping of trowels. Hopewell and remove him from the Horace Seguin found these items and Here is a sample of the praises laid bench. He survived this attack against called police. upon him in the Ottawa Evening his character, though it was shown An excerpt from the Ottawa Journal, also it’s an example of a that the accused in his court, more Journal’s obituary offers a description flowery and verbose style of writing frequently than not, declined their right of this tough, opinionated and that long ago disappeared from the to trial by jury and chose to be tried by compassionate man: “A man of pages of newspapers: “His name will Judge Hopewell. The judge was also strong views which some people be perpetuated in the city through a teetotaller, an active supporter of the were inclined to think he maintained its being attached to one of the fine temperance movement and a director somewhat dogmatically at times, his thoroughfares in Ottawa South namely

PHOTO BY BRUCE GORDON Hopewell Avenue and the fact that one of the largest public schools in the city By Layabout is located thereon and similarly named after him will keep his memory green I have long been curious about this and his name honored by many rising man whose name was given to the generations to come.” All of this in one street where I live. With an OSCAR sentence! deadline approaching and no new story Also in 1913 an isolation hospital in my files, I was called to get moving was opened on Porter’s Island in the and do some research, no trifling matter Rideau River and Hopewell’s name PHOTO BY BRUCE GRANT for a true layabout. was given to it. They isolated and of the Union Mission for Men. Hopewell was a successful tried to treat victims of typhoid and At seventy years of age, still a sincerity was never questioned. On all contractor, middle-aged, when he was smallpox, two plagues that killed magistrate, Hopewell was compelled public questions he always had his own elected Mayor of Ottawa in 1909. millions in those times before clean to confront his own mortality, point of view which he expressed with When he left that office in 1913, he water and vaccination. suffering a severe pain growing in his clarity and emphasis.” was honoured by a grateful city in the Following his stint as mayor, stomach that made it difficult to get I am pleased to be a resident of re-naming of Park Street as Hopewell Hopewell became the Police nourishment. On May 15th 1931, he Hopewell Avenue. Avenue. The Bank Street Bridge was Magistrate of Ottawa and his leniency didn’t attend at his office; he took the completed in that same year and the toward accused persons became a streetcar to Rockcliffe, walked down electric streetcars would now circulate cause for outrage among some good the hill to Seguin’s Ferry, left his hat Bruce Grant, retired Engineer and through this raw, new suburb whose citizens. They called on the Attorney and his walking stick on the shore Layabout is a resident of Hopewell streets echoed with the banging of General for Ontario to investigate and surrendered himself to the river. Avenue. hammers, the scraping of saws and the

liturgy became a hallmark of the OSCAR Zone Coordinators needed for: Cont. from pg. 6 parish. Theresa spoke of the Easter Vigils in particular with their • Area bounded by Pentry, Cameron, the river & Bank Street (Zone memorable music and proclamation D1) father was a member; her mother’s of scripture. • Area bounded by Sunnyside, Grove and Grosvenor & Bank Street Catholic Women’s League teas Asked what she would miss (Zone C1) and card games; Irish concerts most about St. Margaret Mary, OSCAR Deliverers Needed. organized by Sr. Teresa Kelly; without hesitation Theresa said • West side of Southern from Bristol to Avenue Road. (Zone F1 First Communion Breakfasts and “the people – and my ministry with route #3) (17 papers) Grade 8 graduation Masses. Later them and to them. We are the Body as an Immaculata student she was of Christ.” She has served in many Contact the Interim Distribution Manager Brendan McCoy at: GMSOHouseGROscarNov.pdf 1 2019-05-16 4:14 PM energized by liturgical changes in ways over the years, most recently [email protected] the Church brought about by the in Sacramental Preparation for Second Vatican Council (1962- Children, Baptismal Preparation 65). She reminded parishioners of for Parents and Pastoral Care to the its sponsorship of a Vietnamese Elderly. An end to monthly Mass refugee family as part of Project at the Colonel By Residence was 4000. forefront in her mind when she first In conversation later, Theresa heard of the decision to shutter the reflected on a fuller implementation church. of the Vatican II vision during the With the closure of St. Margaret mid-90s under the leadership of Mary, the Alta Vista resident loses Fr. Don MacLellan, the parish’s her last physical connection to the first part-time pastor. Insisting on a neighbourhood where she grew greater role for the laity, he formed up. Theresa has been reflecting C a Pastoral Council and Finance on a passage from Sr. Melanie M Council – two consultative bodies Svoboda’s book Toward Glory: Y that steer the direction of a parish Lent in the Light of Easter: “Here CM with the pastor. As chaplain at below we have no lasting home. Carleton University, he fostered Childhood homes disappear, MY a connection with the parish by whole neighbourhoods give way toCY initiating monthly potluck suppers freeways, parishes merge or closeCMY where students got a home-cooked altogether and we are forced to K meal. Fr. Don invited young parents move on again and again. But it’s to offer a parallel celebration Okay. We are merely pilgrims here during the Mass: Liturgy of the on earth. Our lasting home is in Word for Children. New members heaven.” were attracted to the community. After a major renovation of the Mede McAtee was a member of St. hall, the Social Justice Committee Margaret Mary Parish and remains began Sunday Suppers. Fr. Don’s a resident of Old Ottawa South. mark lasted long after his departure through five pastors and a pastoral administrator. Joyful and thoughtful Page 8 The OSCAR l September 2019

CHRISTY’S CORNER The Old Ottawa South Community Fund and Fall Programming Updates By Christy Savage, OSCA 1978. In addition to our wonderful Executive Director Flash-forward 20 years later, the regular programs in fitness, yoga, building was in need of important general interest and children’s renovations. Again, dedicated programs; we have a number of new The Old Ottawa South Community volunteers took it upon themselves to and exciting programs: Fund find the resources required to update • Kundalini yoga OSCA is now part of the 2019 the community centre. To help in • Re-Generational program Government of Canada Workplace organizing their fundraising efforts, • Parent and toddler French classes Charitable Campaign (GCWCC), and they created the “Firehall Fund”. • Parent and caregiver trips Firehall. Come on in, help yourself to Government of Canada employees Through hard work, their efforts • Youth nights coffee and cookies in the kitchen, and can now add the Old Ottawa South paid off and the renovations were • Halloween trivia night (licensed grab a chair and join others relaxing Community Fund to your charitable completed in 2011. event) and socializing just before or after donations. OSCA is committed to boosting • Contemporary dance their classes. It’s a great way to meet Old Ottawa South is one of the community engagement and sense of • Bookworms others, or just take some time during oldest neighborhoods in the capital. shared responsibility towards each • D&D your day to relax and do a little re- Joining the City of Ottawa in 1907, other’s current and future welfare. • Broadway Workout set. Ottawa South, has been an active It is with that in mind, that OSCA • Muay Thai member of its community from the is relaunching its charity fund “The • Cardio Craze… Call to Artists very beginning. And so, it is not Old Ottawa South Community Fund” After the exciting success of the surprising that the Ottawa South to gather new resources to better Our Instructors Spring and Summer Bike Exhibit at Community Association (OSCA) has support the growing needs of the To learn about our instructors, you the Firehall, we’re happy to invite a rich legacy of accomplishments community and secure a flourishing can go to oldottawasouth.ca. Click on artists to participate in our upcoming driven by motivated citizens. future. the program page and then look for Fall Art display. The Firehall is a great example of the ‘instructor bios’ link on the right- OSCA is committed to providing this legacy. The Graham Fire Station Programming Updates and Dates hand side. further opportunities for local artists #10 was in service in the 1920s’ to Remember to show and hopefully sell, their and became obsolete some 40-50 Vitality for Life Programs work. years later. OSCA’s volunteers, who Fall Programs Semi-retired, retired, or close to Do you, or an artist you know, were looking for a home base for Registration is open. retirement and you continuing to already have a fall-themed painting/ the association, saw the old building Programs run from September 14th live a healthy lifestyle? Look for our artwork completed and are just as an opportunity. It took years of to December 15th. “Vitality for Life” programs; they’ll waiting for the chance to show it? negotiating with the City of Ottawa It’s important to register early! be noted in our guide with a leaf Or perhaps the goal of showing your to finally call the Firehall home in symbol. work just might inspire you to get in front of your easel. Please reach Cool down Coffee Club & Cards out to me osca@oldottawasouth. Every day during the week from ca for more information. Or go to 11:00 am-3:00 pm we run our oldottawasouth.ca for more. “Cool Down Coffee Club” at the The OSCAR l September 2019 Page 9

OSCA PRESIDENT’S REPORT Those Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days of Summer By Richard Slowikowski, • automatic walk signals for especially along Bank Street OSCA President crossing Bank Street • a soon to be installed pedestrian There is a part of me which wishes

crossing at Colonel By and that summer could always be here. Are you into jazz? What about Nat Seneca But then, I am pulled into the coming King Cole? What about summer? • blocking a developer’s attempt to crisp autumn. The days which snap After that cold and wet spring, significantly alter the character of excitement and energy into all of we have had the most remarkable Colonel By Drive us. And I find myself anxious to be summer. Warm, dry, sunny days and • winter walkability audits to making progress on some of OSCA’s pleasant evenings on the back deck. support a more age-friendly OOS other important activities such as: I don’t know about you but I am • delivering almost $1 million • launching OSCA’s Community of a communications plan for still caught in the delightful stupor dollars worth of programs for our Fund (our registered charity) OSCA of those lazy-hazy-crazy days of community which will offer the opportunity summer. • a monthly newspaper (OSCAR) for people to donate (and receive There is a lot going on at OSCA Over the summer, when my mind delivered to your front door for a tax deduction) as part of what and we always welcome volunteers wanders to OSCA, I find myself free most people still call the United who want to get involved. If you reflecting on some of the amazing • a weekly electronic newsletter Way Campaign want to help, please contact Christy achievements this year which (Between the Bridges) • a complete review of all the by- Savage, OSCA’s Executive Director include: • community events such as the laws by which OSCA governs at: [email protected]. • the Flora Footbridge spanning the Bike Rodeo itself I hope you have a great day. canal • maintaining our public gardens, • development and implementation

The 5 Big Moves and the City’s New Official Plan

By Laura Urrechaga • Growth Management significant effects on Old Ottawa To see the New Official Plan & The • Mobility South. Your input is critical to our 5 Big Moves and respond, go to the City of Ottawa staff have recently • Urban and Community Design neighbourhood’s future success. City of Ottawa website at: https:// released a high level policy • Climate, Energy and Public Health Please review the City document engage.ottawa.ca/the-new-official- directions document for the new • Economic Development and participate by responding with plan Official Plan and are asking for your comments. Ottawa is what we Laura Urrechaga is Co-Chair of community resident input and All of these areas of focus are make it. Whether your focus is trees, the OSCA Planning and Zoning comments on The 5 Big Moves by important to the future growth of our heritage, growth management, public Committee. the end of September. city. As an urban community, each transportation, or other topics, the of the policy directions in Urban time to speak and be heard is now. The 5 Big Moves are: and Community Design will have Page 10 The OSCAR l September 2019

THE OSCAR 260 Sunnyside Ave, Ottawa Ontario, K1S 0R7 NEXT DEADLINE: FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13 www.oldottawasouth.ca/oscar ISSN: 0715-5476 The OSCAR is published eleven times per year. Upcoming deadlines: September 13 (October issue); [email protected] October 18 (November issue); November 15 (December issue); December 13 (January issue); January 17 (February issue); Editor: Brendan McCoy [email protected] February 14 (March issue); March 20 (April issue); April 17 (May issue); Layout and Design: Bess Fraser May 15 (June issue); June 12 (July/August issue); Business Manager: Susanne Ledbetter [email protected] August 14 (September issue) Advertising Manager: Gayle Weitzman [email protected] 613-730-1058 To book an OSCAR ad (not classy ads) call Gayle at 613-730-1058 Volunteer Proofreaders: Maura Giuliani, Mary Low, [email protected] Kathy Krywicki, Scott Valentine, Roger Williams The OSCAR is printed by Winchester Print. The Old Firehall Ottawa South Community Centre The OSCAR is a community paper paid for entirely by advertising. It is published by the Old Ottawa South Community Association Inc. (OSCA). 260 Sunnyside Ave, Ottawa Ontario, K1S 0R7 Distribution is free to all Old Ottawa South homes and businesses. It is also e-mail: [email protected] available at selected locations in Old Ottawa South and the Glebe. Opinions expressed are those of the authors and not necessarily of The OSCAR or OSCA website: www.oldottawasouth.ca OSCA. Contributions should be in electronic format sent by e-mail to: PHONE 613-247-4946 [email protected]. All submissions will be acknowledged by Monday To Thursday 8:00 am - 9:00 pm e-mail. The Editor has the final say about style, format and content. The Friday 8:00 am - 6:00 pm OSCAR Editorial Policy, and Guidelines for Submissions, are available on the OSCA website. The OSCAR is available online at www.oldottawasouth. Saturday 8:00 am - 5:00 pm ca. Some articles will be posted on the OSCA website. Sunday 9:00 am - 5:00 pm

WHAT’S THAT NUMBER? WHAT’S THAT NUMBER? FOR DISTRIBUTION INQUIRIES, E-MAIL: [email protected] Ottawa South Community Centre - The Old Firehall 613-247-4946 The OSCAR thanks the following people who Ottawa South Community Association (OSCA) 613-247-4872 Ottawa Public Library 613-580-2940 brought us to your door this month: Lyra Evans, English Public Board Trustee 613-913-1695 ([email protected]) Shelley Lawrence, Catholic Board Trustee 613-978-2644 ZONE A1: Kathy Krywicki (Coordinator), Mary Jo Lynch, Kim Barclay, Centretown Community Health Centre 613-233-4443 Élie Cantin Nantel, Carrol Robb, Becky Sasaki, Sam and Aila McNeill- CARLETON UNIVERSITY McKinnell, Christy Griffin, Rob Wong. ZONE B1: Ross Imrie (Coordinator), Zoe Walters, the Gref-Innes family, CUSA (Carleton U Students Association) 613-520-6688 the Fegan family, the Montgomery family, Laurie Morrison, Torin and Graduate Students Association 613-520-6616 Konstantine Assal, Claire and Alex Gammon. Community Liaison 613-520-3660 ZONE B2: Craig Piche (Coordinator), Sandra Garland, Pat Eakins, Athletics 613-520-4480 Steve Mennill, Claire and Alex Gammon, Gillingham-Murray family, Leslie CITY HALL Roster, John Callan & Diana Carr, Esmé and Nora Perry. Shawn Menard, City Councillor 613-580-2487 ZONE C1: Laura Johnson (Coordinator), the Williams family, Josh Rahaman, ([email protected]) Jesper Lindeberg, Darcy McCoy, Bruce Grant, the Woroniuk-Ryan family, Main Number (24 hrs) for all departments 3-1-1 Bryan and Anneka Dallin O’Grady, David Fisher. Community Police - non-emergencies 613-236-1222 ZONE C2: Craig Piche (Coordinator), Steve Mennill, Alan McCullough, Emergencies only 9-1-1 Charles and Phillip Kijek, Michael Jenkin, Michel and Christina Bridgeman, Serious Crimes 613-230-6211 Melissa Johnson. Ottawa Hydro 613-738-6400 ZONE D1: Brendan McCoy (Coordinator), Stephen Merriam, Marianne Streetlight Problems (burned out, always on, flickering) 3-1-1 Keys, Gail Stewart, Gabe Teramura, Oliver and Claire Waddington, Brewer Pool 613-580-2090 the Sprott family, Milo Barnett. Brewer Arena 613-247-4917 ZONE D2: Dan Greco (Coordinator), Caitlin, Anna Chernushenko, City of Ottawa web site - www.city.ottawa.on.ca the Stewart family, Maya, David Pinker. ZONE E1: Brian Tansey (Coordinator), Karen Wolfe and Curt Labond, Norah Hutchinson, Steve Adamson and Nadine Dawson, Robert Trotter. INDEX ZONE E2: Kathy Stewart (Coordinator), Marianne and Jim Kent, the Brodkin-Haas family, Carolyn Inch, Chris Berry and Frida Kolster Berry, BUSINESS BEAT 2 John Bell, Julie Stock, Joan Foster-Jones, Allan Paul. ZONE F1: Carol and Ferg O’Connor (Coordinator), Jenny O’Brien, OSCA 4,8-9 Lyle Stern, Gerald Bailie, Paloma and Liliana Ruiz, Malachi Winter, COUNCILLOR’S REPORT 12 the Goutte family (Joshua, Leo and Alina), Walter Engert and Susan Driedger. ZONE F2: Pierre Guevremont (Coordinator), Paulette Theriault, Alaster MUSIC 14-15 Ayson, Judy and Pierre Chamberland, Luc and Sydney Grenier, Mary Johnston, the Walker Family, the Polkinghorne Family, FILM REVIEW 20 The Kushner Family. ZONE G: Susan McMaster (Coordinator), Caroline & Julia Twelves, TRILLIUM 26 Luke and Robin Eriksson, Joanne Monaghan, David Janssen, Chris and Andy POLITICAL 30 Anand-Danek, Allan Paul, Peluso-Pope Family. LIBRARY 34-35 Echo Drive: Alex Bissel. Bank Street-Ottawa South: Tom Lawson, Paula Archer. MARKETPLACE & CLASSY ADS 35 Bank Street-Glebe: Brendan McCoy ROAD TRIPS 43 The OSCAR l September 2019 Page 11

OPINION A Call to Support Glebe Video! By Paul Keen studios begin to pull their films from popular platforms such as Netflix and When we talk about things that make a stream them themselves. If this shift community great, we mean things that has the negative impact that some are unique, out of the way, sustaining, people are predicting in terms of both personal. Glebe International Video price and availability, many people will is such a place, and we are in danger want to go back to independent video of losing it if we don’t support it. stores, if they are still there. But that is This little gem, nestled on the top clearly not something that can be taken floor above the Pints and Quarts Pub for granted. on Bank Street, offers a warren of Everyone hates the shock of seeing cinematic treasures. The proprietor, that a favourite store has suddenly Peter Senecal, will provide personal closed (that much-loved bookstore or advice and guidance as you browse the music store that we always thought crowded shelves of his shop. He knows would be there), but this time we have most of his customers by name, or by a chance to make a difference before reputation (we have a running joke we reach that point. The next time you because we always fail to return our feel like watching a movie or some videos on time). Most people stop for a classic TV drama, support your local chat while Peter writes up their bill. businesses. Shut down your Netflix Glebe International Video has been and take a few minutes to walk down a fixture amongst movie buffs of all the street, wander upstairs and rent one kinds since it opened its doors 35 from Glebe Video. And why not stop years ago. With 18,000 DVDs, as well for a chat with Peter at the same time? as an extensive collection of videos In a drive-through age, that may well (they even lend video machines free Glebe International Video, upstairs at 779 Bank St. PHOTO BY BRENDAN MCCOY be part of the appeal. of charge!), Glebe Video offers an Glebe International Video is located important archive of films. There is Village to The Office? Glebe Video has of us who use it regularly, Peter has as 779 Bank St. Its hours are 11-7 just no comparison with the limited these too. Or classic musicals, such decided to stay open. If business picks Tuesday to Saturday and 12-4 on number of films available on Netflix as Brigadoon or My Fair Lady, some up, this reprieve may be permanent. Sunday. and comparable online sources. Yes, old Fred Astaires, or maybe something And this will be especially important, people have become dependent on more modern, like Grease? Most of not just because Glebe Video offers Paul Keen lives in OOS, and he will Netflix to serve their movie needs. these titles cannot be found online. so many titles that are not available be returning that DVD as soon as he But Glebe Video has an archive Even those that are picked up by online online, but because of the streaming can. that is more diverse and plentiful streaming sources are usually available wars that many industry observers than any online providers. Are you in the store weeks earlier. This summer, are predicting lie ahead as the major looking for a foreign film, perhaps Glebe Video had copies of High Life, something by Fellini or a Spanish Everybody Knows, Hotel Mumbai, film by Almodóvar? Glebe video Grantchester Season 4 and Domino, has it. Do you need a classic such as which are not yet available online. If Charlie Chaplin’s The Great Dictator we lose this video store, we lose an Brokers Diane Allingham & Jennifer Stewart for your film club or cinema course? important archive of cultural history. Peter has it. What about a Canadian We deprive ourselves of one of those classic, such as Goin’ Down the Road extraordinary resources that makes the (a film we rented recently because possibility of personal choice real in an we had heard people talking about increasingly monocultural era. it)? Or a truly wonderful film such as Over the years, business at Glebe The Way (directed by Emilio Estevez Video has declined as more and more and starring him and his father Martin customers shift to the easier option of Sheen)? Glebe Video has this too. Or online sources. Earlier this year, after take your pick of family films – from an unusually bad winter that kept a lot Harry Potter to Tintin – Glebe Video of people at home, there was talk that is there. What about TV dramas, Glebe Video might be closing its doors from Inspector Morse to The French permanently, but luckily for the many

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Church closings

Although the closing of St. Margaret Mary church seems to have been very JUST SOLD! JUST LISTED! badly handled by the Archdiocese, its fate was inevitable. With increasing ALTA VISTA SINGLE CENTRETOWN CONDO CONVENT GLEN, ORLEANS SINGLE declines in attendance at traditional churches, the same story will repeat itself 346 Pleasant Park Road 457 McLeod Street #101 6191 Ravine Way throughout the city including Old Ottawa South. Very few can be re-purposed Listed at $829,900 Listed at $359,900 Listed at $695,900 so it will be up to ourselves through our community associations and city Get your advice from the Top. councillor to influence whatever developers try to do with the remains. Top 1% across Canada for Royal Lepage dianeandjen.com Peter Tobin Old Ottawa East [email protected] 613-725-1171 Page 12 The OSCAR l September 2019

COUNCILLOR’S REPORT Improvements to Bronson and the Rideau River Multi-Use Path By Shawn Menard, Councillor

It’s sad to say, but summer is slowly winding down. The nights are getting cooler. Kids are getting ready to go back to school. At city hall, meetings way to making Bronson a safer and less are picking up and we’re getting ready intimidating street. to launch back into committee and council meetings. Rideau River Multi-Use Path There will be a lot happening Underpass at city hall in the next month. The Back in June, the city and the Community and Protective Services National Capital Commission opened Committee will be approving the by- the new Rideau River Multi-Use law review workplan. At Transportation Path (MUP) underpass at Bank and Committee, I’ll be looking at ways Riverside. The MUP, located on to make our city safer and implement the south side of the Rideau River, Vision Zero initiatives. And we’ll keep runs adjacent to Riverside and goes defending city plans and zoning at city underneath the Billings Bridge. This council was a collaboration between the But there’s a lot of stuff going on in NCC and the city, and it’s a great new the ward, too. addition to our active transportation network. Vulnerable road users Bronson Safety Enhancements will now have a way to avoid the I think we all recognize that intersection as they travel along the additional safety improvements are MUP. needed on Bronson Avenue. It’s a The Rideau River MUP stretches major street that cuts through our from Hog’s Back to Rideau Falls neighbourhoods, often with dangerous Park, directly linking River, Capital, and speeding traffic. We’ve been Alta Vista, Rideau-Vanier and Rideau- working with city staff to improve Rockliffe Wards, and providing safety on Bronson, and happy to important connections to communities announce that we have a few new to the east, west and south. initiatives that will be implemented in Things are getting moving in Capital August and September. Ward, and it’s great that we have so First of all, we asked staff to lower many transportation options to get speed limits, and so they have. The around our neighbourhoods and to other speed limit on Bronson from Rideau parts of the city. River north to Sunnyside has been reduced from 70 km/h to 60 km/h, Carleton University Fall Orientation and the speed limit at the Brookfield Well, I spoke about the back-to- offramp will be lowered from 80 km/h school season, and that includes to 70 km/h. university students. We have three City staff are also implementing universities in the ward, and it will be a improved traffic signals at Bronson and busy time for our local scholars. Brewer Way. There will be an upgrade For new students, Carleton to an accessible pedestrian signal, a University’s Fall Orientation offers a prohibition of right turns on red lights week of fun and excitement. It gives the for westbound vehicles, a revision students a chance to get acclimated to of the signals displays for eastbound university life, make new friends and and westbound movement to provide start learning about our new city. bicycle signal displays, and revisions As a Carleton alum, I know how to the signal timing to provide an enriching and how daunting heading off advanced bicycle and pedestrian light to university can be. Fall Orientation before westbound cars get a green light. helps students adapt socially, We’re also improving the sidewalks. academically and culturally to their My staff noticed a pinch point on the new university life. I’m excited for all sidewalk by the bridge over the canal new and returning students. As you that would be difficult for people learn and grow, I hope you’ll take the with mobility issues to move around. chance to check out Old Ottawa South Thankfully, the city will fix the nearby and the rest of Capital Ward, and maybe catch basins so that a proper, accessible get involved in city and community sidewalk can be put in. activities. At the intersection with Sunnyside You can learn more at carleton.ca/ Drive, Carleton University is making fallorientation/. changes to their side of the intersection. As part of this work, the university, Thanks for reading. the city and my office will be working to bring added safety measures for Shawn Menard is city councillor for pedestrians, drivers and bicyclists. Capital Ward. He can be reached at Put all of this together, along with [email protected] or www. more temporary traffic calming shawnmenard.ca. measures and we are definitely on our The OSCAR l September 2019 Page 13

SENIOR WATCH OLD OTTAWA SOUTH iGen Communities in Rental Apartments A Sensible Proposal For Healthy Living at 1050-60 Bank Street? By the SWOOS Housing Catherine McKenna to discuss our Group Anna Cuylits, Maura proposal. • The Ontario ministry responsible Giuliani, Terrance Hunsley, for health could favour the location Carolyn Inch and Peter of an iGen community structure for Welsh providing (satellite) services in or near the building. • Likewise, the City of Ottawa The Proposal could favour providing recreation In view of the 1050-60 Bank Street services in or near iGen community development plans, the Housing Group apartments or adjusting development of Senior Watch Old Ottawa South fees to favour iGen community (SWOOS) researched and subsequently formulated ideas for desirable rental apartments. apartment development. We concluded • The federal ministry of health might that development of iGen (inter- assist with funds for pilot projects generational) communities could serve which evaluate innovative services to the accommodation needs of seniors as support health and healthy lifestyles. well as a younger population, including graduate students. 3. The City of Ottawa is currently Healthy Living at 1050-60 Bank Street? In order to make this possible considering innovative uses for some SWOOS actively seeks support and ILLUSTRATION COURTESY OF KWC ARCHITECTS INC. of its properties in the area. The engagement from our local community, federal government is also a major relevant agencies, such as the current Clarifying iGen landowner in the region. Perhaps Local Health Integration Network While the idea of an “iGen 1. Organizational assistance for iGen the City and NCC could consider (LHIN), and the representatives of our Community” might sound appealing, it oriented groups who seek out a policy to make long-term land three levels of government. does require clarification. potential development opportunities, leases available for iGen projects. Encouraging co-location of either independently or in cooperation If these were offered accompanied Rationale generations and making the with commercial developers. by the rental equivalent of partial Many seniors in our communities accommodations appropriate for seniors equity mortgages currently being might only require support from time and people with disabilities does not 2. Making representations, with the made available for qualified first- to time but otherwise continue to enjoy make them distinctive. support of local politicians, agencies time buyers, it could give iGen an independent, socially engaged and Nor does it seem realistic to have and community leaders, to develop organizations an important boost healthy life. pre-set percentages of generations in a supportive policies. For example: without major public cash outlays. A good example of this is the Natural location, since that is an elusive concept CMHC subsidies for rental housing Occurring Retirement Community and different circumstances may make should require a firm understanding An Opportunity…. (NORC) Homestead Apartment in any pre-cast numbers unachievable. that new accommodations will not …. to test some of these ideas might Kingston. Seniors are members and like A more practical approach may be to be used for AirBnB or commercial be in the offing! to participate in the community around set a common vision of objectives such opportunities other than providing An application for development has them. as an intergenerational mix, appropriate housing at rents affordable to income been recently submitted to the City for size and design of units, mutual aid, Some seniors in our community are ranges appropriate to the surrounding a private rental development on 1050- social support and possibly democratic 60 Bank Street in Old Ottawa South. now occupying housing which exceeds communities. They should also not governance. These iGen rental structures The developer has shown interest in their needs and ability to care for them. be converted to individual ownership should provide common spaces for the cooperating with the community in the There are also younger people who such as condos. enjoy living near seniors as well as near use of tenants and should be equipped development. to serve special needs of tenants, who Perhaps the City and federal or with people of their own age. Moreover, priority needs to be given are older and/or with disabilities. They government could co-fund a pilot Research cited in iGen Ottawa events, to applications where a memorandum of could also include some larger units project to develop an iGen community on June 1, 2019, supports a developing agreement exists between the developer designed for co-living, for example for and support an alliance of this understanding that people, young and and an iGen organization or a broad students or other age groups. organization with the developer? old, who are socially engaged, with based community association to develop The achievement of objectives could a strong social support system, live and manage the new building as an iGen be entrusted to either a developer with Please join this timely and urgent healthier and longer lives than those community facility. SWOOS believes the support of a community association conversation! that do not. In turn, engaged housing that a developer, like the current group or an organization of people who will Send you comments, views, communities can provide this needed developing 1050-60 Bank Street, should occupy the housing. information to [email protected] informal infrastructure which prevents be able to anticipate a reasonable return Information by organizations such All are also welcome to attend the or mitigates some of the social and on investment, while also benefitting as CHASEO (Co-operative Housing next public meeting of Senior Watch health problems in our society. from an iGen organization, possibly Association of Eastern Ontario) Old Ottawa South on Wednesday, SWOOS believes that iGen objectives taking or sharing responsibility for suggests that a co-operative housing September 25, 7pm at the Firehall. can be achieved in parallel with broader managing and maintaining the property. model might serve well for iGen rental Hope to see you there! social objectives, such as a more SWOOS is meeting with our MP efficient use of community and public housing communities. However, we resources, to support an overall healthier understand that, while the federal community. government through CMHC is currently Currently, the federal government offering subsidies for developers offers substantial subsidies to developers to develop rental housing, financial to encourage an increased supply of and organizational assistance for the rental housing across the country. The development of housing co-ops was government’s objective is not only to discontinued in the 1990s. facilitate more housing options, but also to ensure that appropriate housing Our Vision is available at an affordable cost. As We envision Ottawa could become such, SWOOS believes that in order a lead iGen city, where innovative to develop effective iGen housing, it initiatives, such as could be the case on is essential to address and enhance the 1050-60 Bank Street, are organized by sense of community in a building. our communities and supported by local agencies, businesses and by municipal, provincial and federal governments. Specific initiatives could include: Page 14 The OSCAR l September 2019

MUSIC Music At Southminster this Season By Roland Graham, working with a top-notch conductor Southminster Music Director from the international scene. Write to OttawaChoralWorkshops@ gmail.com for more information. “If music be the food of love, play on.” – William Shakespeare Southminster Church Choir And so, taking cue from the Bard, it “Music is an agreeable harmony for will. This year, Southminster United the honor of God and the permissible Church will once again host numerous delights of the soul.” – J. S. Bach exciting musical events, from daytime and evening concerts, workshops Continuing its rich history of fine and singing courses, childrens a cappella singing, Southminster’s programming, choirs, piano recitals church choir resumes for the term in and more. September with an exciting program of fine music spanning the centuries, Doors Open For Music At which it sings on alternating Sundays Southminster (DOMS) for morning worship, and on occasion Southminster’s Heintzman Grand Piano. for concerts and evening musical “If I had my life to live over, I would services. have a rule to listen to some music at This season the choir will sing all least once a week.” – Charles Darwin southminstermusic.com. Christmas carols. of Orlando Gibbons’ exquisite verse Returning artists to the series include anthems, masterworks for choir and Beginning with the church’s Master Piano Recital Series (MPRS) Charles Richard-Hamelin and Andrew orchestra combined by Vivaldi and flagship offering, the popular DOMS Wan who will complete their cycle of Buxtehude for a December DOMS Wednesday noon-hour concert series “You write to become immortal, or Beethoven violin and piano sonatas, concert, and much more. Auditions for kicks off the first week of September, because the piano happens to be open, and the Anderson Twins who will the choir, which rehearses Thursdays at featuring 45 to 60 minute recitals or because you’ve looked into a pair of perform at Southminster for their third 7 pm and sings on alternating Sunday running every week until June 2020 beautiful eyes.” – Robert Schumann time with NYC jazz pianist Dalton mornings, can be arranged through the (excluding only the week of Christmas Ridenhour. church music office at 613-421-5362. and New Year’s). As if inspired by Schumann’s simple Newcomers to the MPRS include The series showcases an wisdom, the MPRS exists more-or- 2018 Honens Prize Laureate Nicolas Chris White Little Lights Choir extraordinary variety of classical, jazz, less just because there happens to be a Namoradze, a fast-rising classical chamber, choral, contemporary, world beautiful piano, a lovely, reverberant piano star whose original compositions “To me there is no picture so music, orchestral concerts, and more, space, an appreciative audience, and a have been called “some of the most beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, performed by a top-notch roster of fabulous roster of exceptional pianists innovative and dynamic works of happy children; no music so sweet as local and touring musicians. eager to play for them. this century” by Oscar-winner John their clear and ringing laughter.” – P. Highlights this fall include a solo And this year for the first time, Corigliano, and the Ottawa-based T. Barnum concert by award-winning Argentinian the MPRS expands from its original Cheng2 Duo, who will play Russian jazz pianist Gabriel Palatchi, baroque mandate of exclusively classical works for piano and cello. Balancing the contribution of the chamber music with Canadian recitals to include jazz and chamber Tickets and the full line-up are adult choir is Southminster’s Little star cellist Elinor Frey and Italian music as well. available online at www.eventbrite.com Lights Choir, directed by singer- harpsichordist, Federica Bianchi, To kick off the series, on October (search ‘Master Piano Recital Series’). songwriter, music leader and radio virtuoso Nova Scotia pianist Lucas 10, the dazzlingly talented emerging host, Chris White. The Little Lights Porter playing Prokofiev’s Peter NYC-based Ben Rosenblum brings his Ottawa Choral Singing Workshops Choir meets on alternating Sundays, and the Wolf with narrator, and the trio back to Southminster following a beginning this year on October 6 and Southminster Choir singing choral recent packed-house noon-hour show “Music gives a soul to the universe, running until the end of May. music for advent and Christmas by to play originals and standards from the wings to the mind, flight to the As director of the Little Lights choir, Vivaldi and Buxtehude with chamber American Songbook. imagination and life to everything.” – Chris White supports Southminster’s orchestra. In late November, international top Plato younger generation through learning Admittance to DOMS concerts is prize-winning pianist Serhiy Salov meaningful songs and sharing them by freewill offering; guests will be will take the stage, playing original Southminster is pleased to be with the congregation, providing them greeted again this year by the folks arrangements of Tchaikovsky’s hosting another season of choral the opportunity to work together, from Colonel By Retirement Residence Nutcracker ballet, and join with singing workshops, this year in three develop singing and performing skills, who generously provide coffee and emerging Quebec pianist Philippe sessions: fall, winter and spring. Choral and make positive contributions to their cookies to patrons each week as they Prud’homme for a set of four- workshops provide an entry point community. Repertoire includes songs arrive. Find more information at www. hand improvisations on advent and for amateurs into serious ensemble such as Swing Low, Sweet Chariot, music making, offer mentorship What a Wonderful World, Magic for developing singers, and create Penny, Land of the Silver Birch and I’m unforgettable memories performing Proud To Be Me. Chris accompanies with professional orchestras and the group on guitar and encourages soloists. everyone to get involved. The Fall Choral Workshop will focus For information about Chris and on J.S. Bach’s Advent cantata, Wachet his teaching activities at the church, auf, BWV 140, which will be sung contact the church office at suc@ by workshop participants in concert rogers.com or by phone at 613-730- with soloists and orchestra on Sunday 6874. December 8. The 12-week course begins on Wednesday, September 11. Keep Informed The Winter Choral Workshop, Subscribe to Southminster’s weekly also running 12 weeks, beginning on email list and obtain all the latest news January 29, will focus on Mozart’s and announcements by writing to Requiem with the alternate ending by [email protected] Robert Levin. Special guest-conductor Maestro Kevin Mallon of Ottawa’s Thirteen Strings will lead the course- end concert, offering workshop participants a rare opportunity of The OSCAR l September 2019 Page 15

The Ottawa Chamber Players to Open Music at Trinity’s 5th Season

Carnegie Hall, and another at the Grieg This wonderful Ottawa Chamber International Piano Competition, when Players concert will be presented on she performed in the Duo Rideau September 28th 2019 at 4:30 pm at piano duet. Catherine is a Performance Trinity Anglican Church (1230 Bank Instructor for Carleton University’s Street @ Cameron). Admission is by Music Department and maintains a freewill offering. busy private teaching studio, with some students attaining recognition nationally and internationally.

Nadia Petrella Lyric soprano Nadia Petrella has been praised for her “creamy voice” (New York Times) and acclaimed “world class… her demanding lines dazzling” (Buffalo News). Nadia is Ottawa happy to be back in her hometown after being based in New York City for Chamber a number of years. Ms. Petrella was a The Ottawa Chamber Players. Metropolitan Opera National Council Regional Finalist (New England Players By Fabien Tousignant, Music of the 20th century. He composed Region), third place winner at the Saturday, at Trinity Artistic Director symphonies, concerti, chamber Canadian National Music Festival, and music, stage and film music, vocal was awarded numerous scholarships September 28th from regional and provincial festivals Music at Trinity launches its 5th and solo works. He directed the Kiev in Canada. This past February Ms. at 4:30 pm season with some of Ottawa’s finest Conservatory and intermittently taught Petrella made her role debut as Liù chamber players. Once a month this at the Moscow Conservatory. Amongst in Puccini’s Turandot, presented as a Trinity Anglican concert series offers an opportunity to his most successful students are Sergei special production within the Music at experience an hour or so of wonderful Prokofiev and Aram Khachaturian. Church Trinity concert series. Ms. Petrella’s music on a Saturday afternoon at An impressive ensemble of Ottawa- notable performances in NYC included Admission is by Trinity Anglican Church. Performances based musicians will perform in this the World premier of the Norwegian are always at 4:30 pm. This self-funded concert. freewill offering opera Upon This Handful of Earth in initiative supports musicians and the role of Young Woman (2017), in the musical activities of the church, Guy Edrington a co-production with Sacred Music in while giving a chance for the broader Guy Edrington has performed as a a Sacred Space and New York Opera community to listen to music in an soloist with orchestras in Canada, the Society. intimate and beautiful space, not to United States, and Sweden, and on a mention its wonderful acoustics. nationally broadcast horn recital for the Four members of the Ottawa CBC. He is a French horn artist for the Chamber Players — Nadia Petrella- Conn Selmer Company, horn instructor soprano, Gertrude Letourneau-flute, at Carleton University and is currently Catherine Donkin-piano and Guy guest principal horn of the Orchestra of Edrington-horn — will prepare a nicely Northern New York. He has been the balanced program featuring works by principal horn of the Royal Winnipeg Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti, Ballet Touring Orchestra tours of Louis-Gaston Ganne, Georges Europe, United States and Canada and Barboteu, Reinhold Moritzevich Glière has played with the National Ballet of to name just a few. Canada, the Canadian Opera Company, With the exception of Donizetti, who the Chamber Players of Toronto and was a prolific and dominant figure the Esprit Orchestra. of the opera scene of the early 19th century, some of the composers named Gertrude Létourneau above might be less familiar to concert Gertrude Létourneau, flutist and goers. singer has performed across Canada Louis-Gaston Ganne was a French for audiences of all ages. She has composer of the late 19th and early presented concerts in various venues 20th century who is recognized today in the Ottawa area including Almonte for his marches. He also composed in Concert and the National Arts numerous operas and operettas and Centre. She was a finalist in the singing conducted at Nouveau Théâtre de competition Ma Première Place des la Rue Blanche and at the Folies- Arts 2017 in Montreal. Gertrude Bergère. Georges Barboteu was a obtained a Bachelor degree in Music French composer of the 20th century from the University of Ottawa, a and virtuoso horn player that left Master’s degree in Performance an important legacy of recordings from the Université de Montréal of concertante music and chamber and a Licentiate in Performance music. He started playing the horn and Communication Skills from the at the age of nine, and won his first Guildhall School of Music and Drama prize at eleven. He joined the Algiers in London, England. Radio Symphony Orchestra at the age of fourteen and then the Orchestre Catherine Donkin National de France in 1948. He entered Catherine Donkin, pianist is an active the conservatoire de Paris in 1950, teacher and performer in Ottawa. She where he received the honorary prize holds a Bachelor of Music Degree from that same year. the University of Alberta, and Master’s Reinhold Moritzevich Glière was Degree from the University of Ottawa, a composer and an important teacher both in Piano Performance. Career in the Russian Empire at the turn highlights include a performance at Page 16 The OSCAR l September 2019

Beginner Beekeeping

Regular brood cells. PHOTOS BY MICHAELA TOKARSKI An uncapped honeycomb.

By Michaela Tokarski Management course – where I learned a ton of depressing and disgusting About a year ago, we started thinking things about what used to be known as about beekeeping. At the time the Colony Collapse Disorder and all of media seemed filled with reports about the different mites and pests that attack Colony Collapse Disorder and other colonies in Ontario. issues with bees dying off in Ontario, It started to sound a lot harder to and we started wondering what it keep the bees alive than I originally had would be like to keep bees. We now thought. So I read 2 more books on the have two colonies on a farm in the subject, went to a session featuring the Ottawa Valley, and I thought I’d share owners of Gee’s Bees at the Firehall, a bit about our experience for anyone talked to a couple of friends who are else who is interested in bees. beekeepers, and then went to visit one friend’s bee yard. Before Getting Started After much discussion at home, we I knew beekeeping could be a big decided to go for it. commitment, so I wanted to be sure we’d be able to properly care for our Getting Started bees before getting started. I purchased two nucleus colonies (or Lifting a frame of capped honey. I started by reading online about Nucs) from Ron at Capital Bees here in beekeeping, watching YouTube videos, Ottawa. His bees are at the Just Food Ottawa Valley. Our bees are right next completely. Skunks apparently prefer and then took a course offered by the Farm in Blackburn Hamlet, and they to a field filled with wildflowers and to sit at the entrance and swat the Ontario Beekeeping Association’s are part of the Ontario Resistant Honey near a small creek. My husband Derek bees out of the air to stun them before Technology Transfer Program. Bee Selection Program. Breeders in built two fences surrounding our bee eating, and seem to have little interest I learned tons of interesting things this program are trying to breed bees yard – one electric and one snow fence in the honey. But either way, these can about bees but my favourite factoid is who are resistant to pests and diseases, – designed to deter both small and be quite destructive, so it’s better to that queens and workers start off with gentle to work with, and adapted to our large animals. Bears and skunks are prevent interactions if possible. the same egg, but queens are given local climate. commonly an issue for beekeepers in a larger cell to grow in, and are fed Next I joined the Ontario Beekeeping our area. The First Day a better quality of food. The result is Association, and the Upper Ottawa Bears not only want to eat honey, We picked up our nucleus colonies that queens live for 3-5 years, while Valley Beekeeping Association to have but they apparently also enjoy eating in the evening, and drove them to summer workers will only live 6 a greater community of experience to all of the bee larvae for the protein, the farm in the back of our car. They weeks! draw from. which means that if they get close to were remarkably loud, and I was more Utterly fascinated, I decided to take Next we picked our location – a your hives, they will destroy the hives, than a little bit terrified that if we the next course – an Integrated Pest farm in the Whitewater Region of the and eat the bees and the larvae almost got into an accident, we’d be adding to any ensuing chaos by releasing about 20,000 bees! It was, in the end, uneventful. No accidents and the bees transferred into our equipment without issue.

The First 30 Days… “It’s very likely they’re all going to die, you know” said … well… someone who shall remain nameless. I can proudly say that our bees did not die or leave in the first thirty days. And that has felt like a massive accomplishment. Massive. Like the headline of this article should read “City kids did not immediately accidentally kill their new bees.”

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Green Dreamers Spot Pollinators! By Winnie Pietrykowski flutter and hover while you weed, hose, or simply pause for the entertainment. On Friday, July 26th two Monarch At Sunnyside and Bank two Monarchs butterflies were spotted on the south wound their way in and out of the west corner of Sunnyside and Bank Milkweed and Echinacea, doing figure outside the Dollar Store. On Saturday, eights around each other, dipping and July 27th another Monarch danced diving higher and higher into the open among the milkweed on the corner of air as two Green Dreamers dampened Fairbairn near Bank on the east side of the parched earth, pausing to take in the Firehall. one morning’s sweet offering. Unusual, you might ask? No, To learn more about Monarch Monarchs love milkweed and for Butterflies check out Mission Monarch. several years now Green Dreamers org. You will learn everything there have been cultivating this wild is to know about becoming a citizen perennial hoping that Monarchs would scientist, recognizing milkweed, how feed on their preferred plant food right to fill out observation sheets, the here in our own “street yard.” different stages of becoming a butterfly The Milkweed plant provides all and how to identify a Monarch from the nourishment a Monarch caterpillar other butterflies. needs to transform itself into a It’s a little late in the season to butterfly! What is unusual is that over embark on a butterfly count, but you’ll the years the Milkweed has been be well-prepared for June of 2020 receding, thwarted in its proliferation when Mission Monarch launches by pavement, concrete, cultivated lots, its next round of butterfly counts. and an aesthetic that does not seem to The Monarchs begin their migration include native or wild plants. September to October. With the disappearance of its natural habitat, Milkweed no longer grows in Winnie Pietrykowski is a longtime the large clusters it is wont to do. With A Monarch butterfly. PHOTO BY BRIAN URE resident of OOS, a community the loss of Milkweed the Monarch activist, an OSCA Board member and population has dwindled. The Monarch a few weeks but the generation that It’s quite magical to have Monarch a member of the Green Dreamers and is a pollinator, fertilizing a variety of follows in late summer or early fall will butterflies dance around you while OSCA’s Traffic & Safety Committee. wildflowers. Most Monarchs only live live for 8 or 9 months and migrate as working in the garden. They are far south as California and Mexico. friendly delicate creatures that flit,

this name. Our daughter stayed up Cont. from pg. 16 until midnight(!) one night drawing possible labels. She’s 11. And Neither colony would produce Grandma and Grandpa voted for this honey in the Flow Hives, so we had name (out of about a hundred other to purchase some more traditional options). So “Smiling Moose” it is. equipment, and we’ve had to purchase quite a bit more gear than I Honey Share Programs thought we would need (darn!). But I’ve recently been introduced at the end of thirty days, I’d estimate to the concept of honey share that we had about 60 pounds of programs, which allow you to get a honey and an absolutely amazing taste for beekeeping and a taste for experience connecting us to each local honey. In retrospect, taking part 785 Mooney’s Bay Pl - $889,000 406-700 Sussex Dr - $859,000 wave of pollen producing plants in in a honey share program may have Mooney’s Bay Byward Market our area. been a smarter way to get introduced to all of this. It certainly would have Considering the sale of your home? not sure what improvements to make? Smiling Moose Honey been less expensive and likely would Our two sons have been in to have taken a lot less time! Don’t wait until the last minute! There are several businesses in inspect the bees with me while Discover how working with Ottawa’s Best our daughter has been very keen and around Ottawa offering honey gets the most out of your home. to help with the labels that will be share programs including one going on our first bottles for friends called Apiverte which has hives at Contact Sezlik.com today! and family. The three of them have Franktown House Flowers, Juniper decided to call our honey “Smiling Farms and Les Fougeres. Full Moose Honey.” disclosure, it’s run by a friend of As someone who cares greatly mine, but I really do think this is a about branding(!), I’ve pointed out smart way to explore an interest in that: bees. 1. there are no moose on or In any case, if you’d like more anywhere near our property, information about how our adventure 2. to my knowledge moose don’t in beekeeping is going, or if you smile, and have any questions for a relatively 3. moose, smiling or not, have new, but fairly well researched, beekeeper, please don’t hesitate to Charles Sezlik, Cindy Sezlik, Dominique Laframboise, little to do with honey (in fact, Sara Adam Sales Reps. & Trystan Andrews Broker as far as I can tell – nothing at reach out. all.) 613.744.6697 #1 in Ottawa - Royal LePage* Michaela Tokarski is an OOS #1 in Eastern Ontario - Royal LePage* But the family has made it clear resident, mom, entrepreneur and *Charles Sezlik #1 Sales Rep based on closed commission 2018 that I need to get on board with (recently) beekeeper. amongst 43 Offices and 1150 Sales Reps. +/- Page 18 The OSCAR l September 2019

NEWS Flora Footbridge Community Opening By Winnie Pietrykowski

On Saturday, July 20, residents from the Glebe, Old Ottawa East and Old Ottawa South celebrated the opening of the Flora Footbridge that stretches from 5th Avenue in the Glebe to Clegg Street in Old Ottawa East. Celebrants gathered at the centre of the new Flora Footbridge where presidents from the three community associations welcomed everyone to the unofficial opening of the Flora Bridge. Association Presidents Sarah Viehbeck (Glebe), Phyllis Odenbach Sutton (OOE) and Richard Slowikowski (OOS) praised residents for their advocacy, tenacity and vision (some 10 years plus in the making). Children from the neighbourhoods cut the traditional inaugural ribbon connecting communities on either side of the Rideau Canal, and cake and lemonade were served. Thank you to all who showed up, despite the heat!

Winnie Pietrykowski is a longtime resident of OOS, a community activist, an OSCA Board member and a member of OSCA’s Traffic & Children cut the ribbon at the community celebration of the Flora Footbridge. Safety Committee. PHOTO BY WINNIE PIETRYKOWSKI

Between Another Bridge! The Flora Footbridge By John Dance for pedestrians and cyclists to take months earlier than scheduled, cost $2 bridge across the Canal between the the newly opened Flora Footbridge at million less than budgeted, generated Bank and Pretoria bridges. Old Ottawa South now has a safe, Clegg and Fifth, rather than the busy greater use than forecast and, as a The City bought into the concept and leisurely and lovely route across the Bank and Bronson bridges. bonus, provided a glorious new public included it in the cycling, pedestrian Rideau Canal. It’s a world of difference In late June, “Flora” opened four space overlooking the Rideau Canal. and transportation master plans. On June 26, with some fanfare, Then money was approved for an politicians and young students from environmental assessment that was local schools cut the ribbon for the new begun in 2011. Three public open bridge and two days later the bridge houses followed and in 2012 a bridge was quietly opened to the public. with an estimated cost of $17.5 million Then, on July 20, OSCA and its two was recommended. sister community associations – which But without a source of funding the had long lobbied for a bridge – held project was shelved. In the federal their own celebration of Flora with election campaign of 2015 Catherine about 150 people in attendance. McKenna pledged to make the bridge “The new footbridge makes travel a priority. When elected she followed across the canal much more pleasant. through by securing $10.5 million from I appreciate the unrelenting work done the new federal infrastructure program. by the surrounding communities, and Yasir Naqvi, Ottawa Centre’s former all levels of government, to bring this provincial member of the legislature, vision of a neighbourhood connection was one of the first politicians to to completion,” says Kathy Krywicki, a endorse the bridge and he secured $6.9 long-time supporter of the bridge. million from the Commuter Cycling Many parties deserve credit for Program which was funded from getting the bridge approved and built. through the now-defunct “cap and However, the efforts of community trade” revenues. members were fundamental to its Other politicians also worked conception and progress. The Midtown hard for the bridge. Former Ottawa Footbridge Group formed in 2008 Centre MP Paul Dewar was a long- with members from Old Ottawa South, time advocate. Councillor Clive the Glebe and Old Ottawa East and it Doucet strongly supported the link BROKER|SALES worked tirelessly to bring politicians in the recommendations of his 2001 REPRESENTATIVES and other parties on side. “Connecting Communities” report. In particular, Old Ottawa South And through his eight years as residents Kathy Krywicki, Brian councillor David Chernushenko made Tansey, Brian Ure, Mike Lascelles and the bridge a priority. As president of John Calvert played key roles over the the Centretown Citizens Community 25 YEARS OF FOCUSED last decade by convincing people of the Association in 2009, Shawn Menard EXCELLENCE IN REAL ESTATE bridge’s merits and ensuring that the spoke strongly for the bridge. bridge would work well. The city’s share of the bridge’s cost In the end, nine community was about $3.6 million. Because the associations, five school councils, local bridge expenditures were less than the TOP 1% FOR ROYAL LEPAGE IN CANADA* businesses and various other parties $21 million that was budgeted both the MARLAND ranging from the Glebe Little League 613.238.2801 | robmarland.com to the Sandy Hill Community Health 165 Pretoria Ave. Ottawa, ON K1S 1X1 TEAM

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OOS resident and bridge advocate John Calvert and his daughter Alice. PHOTO BY JOHN DANCE

a key design principle was that the Cont. from pg. 18 bridge was to be “slender, light and transparent.” federal and provincial governments Also, some residents have will receive refunds, reports Luc complained about the brightness of Marineau, the city’s acting manager of the bridge’s lighting, contrasting it design and construction. to the Bank Street Bridge’s lighting. Preliminary unofficial estimates And pedestrian/cyclist safety issues suggest that the new footbridge has have been raised, including the sharp had about 3,500 trips per day. This is turn at the switchback on the Ottawa substantially more than the 2,100 trips East side, the bollard in the middle of per day forecast in the environmental the Glebe ramp, and the merging of assessment. pedestrians and cyclists at the end of Despite the initial euphoria, there the ramps. remains the sore point of the massive But these operational issues aside, structure on the Old Ottawa East thousands of pedestrians and cyclists side which has destroyed the Canal are having their daily routines views of a number of residents along positively changed by virtue of the Echo Drive. The Old Ottawa East new footbridge. For many it’s a Community Association strongly wonderful new route to work, school, objected to the opaque design of the shopping or socializing. east-side ramp, abutment and stairs but the City refused to use columns John Dance is a resident of Old to support the structures even though Ottawa East.

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FILM REVIEW Rocketman and Corporate Coup d’Etat By Tony Wohlfarth its world premiere at the 2019 Cannes meeting? Perhaps. It quickly spirals Film Festival. into flashbacks to his early childhood, This month, I am reviewing the Elton Rocketman is directed by Dexter his fractured relationship with his war- John biopic, Rocketman, and am also Fletcher. That is the same director who damaged father (played by Steven highlighting a special screening of a new was called in at the last minute to finish Mackintosh) and his mother (Bryce documentary, Corporate Coup d’Etat, Bohemian Rhapsody. Is Rocketman as Dallas Howard). Early on, we see that coming to Ottawa later this month. good a film as Bohemian Rhapsody? Elton (at this point his name is Reginald Sadly, no. Dwight) had a difficult childhood. The young Reginald craved the affection of his father, which was not forthcoming in in Ottawa. Elton John fans can also this traditional English household. Early wait and pick this one up on Amazon. on, he wins a prestigious scholarship to The running time is two hours and one the Royal Academy of Music – which minute. is where his journey performing rock Elton John himself is currently on the and roll music begins. We learn that the Yellow Brick Road Farewell Tour. young Reginald had a remarkable gift for music. Egerton does an exceptional job performing the role of Elton John. It is hard to believe that Justin Timberlake was the first choice for this role. Richard Madden plays the role of Elton’s manager, John Reid. The costumes (by Julian Day) are also impressive. Elton’s early stage success leads Taron Egerton as Elton John in Rocketman. to a record contract and a meeting with Rocketman Bernie Taupin Elton John is a legendary English The film opens with Elton (Jamie Bell). Bernie singer, songwriter, pianist and composer. (performed masterfully by Taron and Elton become A biopic of his life, Rocketman, is Egerton) participating in a group lifelong friends and currently screening in Ottawa, following therapy session. Could this be an AA associates, with Taupin writing most, if not all, of the lyrics to Elton’s music. This part of the film is very well done. As Elton’s career spirals upwards, he and Taupin travel Corporate Coup d’Etat to America for an introductory concert Documentary film fans should not (in 1969) at the Troubadour Nightclub miss the special screening of Corporate in Hollywood, California. Here the film Coup d’Etat, on Thursday, September gets weird. Did Elton sail above the 26th at 7 pm. The event is sponsored piano keyboards? Metaphorically yes, I by the One World Arts Film Festival in guess. partnership with the Group of 78. The The second half of the film recreates screening will be at the University of his breakups with his managers, his Ottawa Academic Hall Theatre, 133 downward spiral into alcohol and Séraphin-Marion Private and will be cocaine addiction, his acceptance of followed by a panel discussion. Special being gay (illegal in the UK until 1967) guests are to be announced so watch and his fraught relationship with his their web site oneworldarts.ca for more parents (now divorced). The songs details. are all performed by Egerton, which Corporate Coup d’Etat is narrated by is remarkable. There are also enough Chris Hedges. It chronicles the election special effects here to keep Hollywood of US President Donald Trump and occupied. links that to corporate interests and So what does not work about their support of right wing politics and Rocketman? To begin with, its difficult policies. The film had its Canadian to fault a biopic produced by Elton premiere at the 2019 Hot Docs film himself. I found the framing of his life Festival in Toronto, it is directed by Fred around a group therapy session did Peabody and the running time is one not work for me. To be sure, he had hour and twenty minutes. a difficult childhood. Does this really explain his musical genius? I wanted Tony Wohlfarth is an Ottawa based to know more about his early musical freelance film writer. He is currently career and his collaboration with Taupin. covering the 2019 Venice Film Festival Finally, parts of the film are presented in Italy. like a musical, not a biopic, which I found distracting. Rocketman is currently screening The OSCAR l September 2019 Page 21

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BOOK REVIEW Grandfather’s House: Returning to Cape Breton by Clive Doucet “Where is the thatch roofed village, the was wrong. Nor as the City staggers home of Acadian farmers, closer to a much-delayed, secretly Men whose lives glided on like rivers designed, built and paid for Light that water the woodlands, Rail Transit, it is difficult not to see Darkened by the shadows of earth but the wisdom of Doucet’s passion for reflecting an image of heaven? a low-cost, transit system that would Where are those pleasant farms and the be situated near where the public farmers forever departed! lives rather than where even more Scattered like dust and leaves…” condominium projects would be installed. Evangeline, Henry Wadsworth Doucet’s background is not as Longfellow a lawyer, nor journalist, nor even citizen activist; rather he was a civil By Declan Hill servant who turned his talents to poetry, playwriting and novels. The most successful of his books is My In our community of Old Ottawa Grandfather’s Cape Breton, a lyrical South, packed with award-winning account of his childhood summer writers, film-makers, and artists, there holidays. It tells the story of Doucet’s is one who stands above all. Acadian grandfather and his way of life The argument of which of the in a small rural village. The front cover OOS’s artists has the best intuition, features the grandfather and grandson imagination or style can be left to riding together in horse and cart over sounder minds, but there is no doubt a green field. The book is a triumph of that Clive Doucet has surpassed the people’s history. Originally published rest in bridging the world between in 1980, it has never been out of print. the arts and hard-core, street-fighting In the intervening years, Doucet has political activism. written 12 other books of poetry, fiction As City Councillor for our area, and non-fiction. In 1997, he became he fought ferociously against the Old Ottawa South’s City Councillor development of Lansdowne Park – and quickly established himself as the claiming that it would lead to massive unofficial leader of the opposition to condominium buildings up and down the developer-backed politicians that Bank Street. You can disagree with frequently hold sway at City Hall. him on whether those things are to be Doucet ran, unsuccessfully, twice for It is for this last reason that his next I was crying. I’m a film producer desired, but you cannot argue that he mayor. He also has two grandchildren. writing has come a full circle back to from Toronto,” he said, as if this would an examination of his beloved Cape explain things…” Breton. This time he is the grandfather This sense of people rediscovering and the book entitled, Grandfather’s their lost souls is salted throughout House: Returning to Cape Breton. the book and like the mysterious film Shelf Stable This is a profoundly interesting producer, the reader laughs, cries and Salami’s - 225g book. It combines Acadian folktales, is swept along by the lyricism of the Roots and Shoots Farm Hot Calabrese Celtic legends and just good old- writing. However, make no mistake, Organic Carrots Summer Sausage fashioned gossip – often literally old- like Doucet himself, this is an intensely Italian Dry fashioned as some of the stories are political book. about people from hundreds of years One of the prominent characters 9 9 ago. Sometimes it is about people of is the sea. How the sea’s moods are 9 9 today. Sometimes it is Doucet’s family perceived across the centuries is a ea. ea. 5 9 history. The whole wrapped together in recurring theme, but now the sea is a well-woven carpet of writing. At one dead. One of the most lyrical moments point, Doucet answering the criticism of the book is the description of the of his “thoroughly modern man” son dead, empty sea lapping at Doucet’s writes, “I don’t see how the present boat as he rows his grandchild across Juniper Farms can be separated from it (the past) any the harbour. It makes for a dispiriting featured Organic Scallions more than a flower can be separated contrast with the front cover image on: from the earth. The present grows out of his earlier book of grandfather and Dragon’s Den! of the past.” grandson riding their cart through a Vegan Fruit Pops 99 49 There are discussions with our field full of flowers. Matcha, Peach Mango, Lemon Mint former neighbour and one of Canada’s Overall, the book has two ea. ea. Pineapple Coconut, Passian Fruit 9 3 great leaders – Flora McDonald, the weaknesses. The first is its strength. COUNTY FAIR first female Minister of Foreign Affairs Grandfather’s House is structured like NO SUGAR – who spent much of the time since a box of literary chocolates, a work to Products her retirement from politics helping dipped into and sampled anecdote by Jams come in F.R.O.G. Sweet Cherry, to run a non-profit that builds schools anecdote. The second is the occasional Strawberry Rhubarb. and water pipelines in developing time where Doucet slips too easily into Also Ketchup & countries. the past as a golden time. But these are Barbeque Sauce In another chapter, Doucet is on small quibbles, for those who want a the porch of the local pub in Cape book passionately written by one of our Breton and sees a strange man who is community’s fighters about Canadian 99 Hors-D’oeuvre Assorted 99 weeping, “He began to take long, even history, people and politics this is a 8 ea. Shrimp Trio Frozen 563 g9 ea. breaths. The tears stopped. “Its my first book to read. time home in …twenty-five years,” 754 Bank Street he said with a deep, rattling sigh. For Declan Hill is an author, journalist and (613) 232-9466 a moment, I thought he was going was, for a brief time, Clive Doucet’s Monday to Friday 8:00am - 10:00pm Saturday 8:00am - 9:00pm to start crying again, but he did not. campaign manager. Sunday 9:00am - 8:00pm Instead, he said, “I don’t know what www.metroglebe.com happened. One minute I was fine, the The OSCAR l September 2019 Page 23

POETRY Brush with Heart Failure Helped Poet Realize Her Dream the surgeons. I said to myself ‘if it Ruby Tuesdays. works, that’s terrific. If not, I’ve had The health ordeal gave Mary Lee The Landscape That Isn’t There a pretty good run.’” a greater sense of urgency about By Mary Lee Bragg She also calmed her mind, before the passage of time and fulfilling and after surgery, by reading Jane her own needs. She finds it much Yeah, the living room would have been here. Austen, playing gentle piano pieces easier now to say “no” to things she My brother pauses in the lighting and writing poetry, her main creative doesn’t want to do. And a major department of the hardware store outlet. Prior to the crisis, Mary Lee change she and Colin have made is that stands where our mother’s house was. had written enough for a substantial to spend their winters in Victoria, collection and had been submitting BC, rather than in frigid Ottawa. the manuscript to publishers for She’s looking forward to the The city goes on the same as always a couple of years. She’d received Ottawa launch of her poetry outside the store, blocks of little houses, “encouraging rejections,” but no collection, which has been described lawns, shrubbery, and this store full of rakes, publication offers. as a blend of “mordant humour hoses, clippers, doorknobs. Driven to record her brush with and deep feeling,” on September death, she produced a new series 7, 4-6 pm, at Pressed Café at 750 We’re not even in the living room of poems that eventually became Gladstone Ave. All are welcome. of that bungalow, but above it, Mary Lee Bragg. the mid-section of her revised in this second-floor department manuscript. Perhaps because of their Gabriella Goliger is a writer and seeking light. We hover over her home, immediacy and drama, the “heart long-time resident of OOS. poems” allowed her to realize her conscious of what was, just as we still navigate long-cherished dream of seeing by what isn’t there any more – turn left her book of poetry in print. In the Ottawa Launch of at the tree that shattered and fell summer of 2019, Aeolus House during the ice storm twenty years ago. published her collection, The Mary Lee Bragg’s Landscape that Isn’t There. The Poetry Collection We look at bulbs, cords and switches, book comprises three sections: the The Landscape that what we seek for our houses, first explores family relations and Isn’t There always half-turned, listening for a voice, growing up in Alberta; the second a light step into the room of the living. tells the story of her health crisis; September 7, 4-6 pm the third, which covers a variety of From The Landscape That Isn’t There subjects, is about “looking out at the Pressed Café world.” 750 Gladstone Ave Mary Lee has other publications to her name, including a novel and two poetry chapbooks. But this new collection, so deeply personal and so long in the making, was a special triumph. “It was the one bit of unfinished business of my life,” she says. By Gabriella Goliger Surviving surgery In October 2017, Mary Lee Bragg The surgery, done in December was in the first stages of life- 2017 and which involved sawing threatening congestive heart failure, through Mary Lee’s breastbone, though she didn’t know it. The OOS bending back her ribs, attaching her resident, 68 at the time, thought to an artificial heart and repairing she had the flu. Extreme nausea, the faulty valve with a Gortex ring, vomiting, weakness – those were the went without a hitch. Then came symptoms, not shortness of breath long weeks of recovery, when she or chest pains. And so, wanting to had to gradually rebuild her strength avoid infecting others, she stayed and move with extreme care to home instead of running to a doctor. protect her healing body. She would TENNIS Mary Lee’s misreading of the walk around the dining room table, warning signs wasn’t unusual. starting with five minutes a day, BEACH Women’s heart disease symptoms increasing the time by one minute tend to be more subtle and less well per day to 20 minutes by the end of VOLLEY known than men’s. But finally, after a month. Rehab at the Heart Institute two weeks of no improvement, she followed. It took eight months to dragged herself to a clinic and that’s regain her normal energy level. She Tennis at the OTLBC BALL when she learned her heart was in has been well since. JUNIORS CLINICS serious trouble. Mary Lee is married to Colin AFTERSCHOOL & WEEKEND POOL A couple of referrals later, at Morton, a prolific and award- Ages 5+ Starting in September! Ottawa’s Heart Institute, she winning Canadian poet. For 27 received the diagnosis: mitral valve years, they lived on Grove Ave., ADULT TENNIS DINING Clinics, Lessons & More prolapse – meaning one of her where they raised their son, after heart’s valves wasn’t working right, which they moved to Carraway Pvt., Non-Members Welcome! & MORE throwing her whole circulation out also in the “hood.” She says her of kilter. A valve disorder is fairly husband was a huge support during Register Online: otlbc.com common, and not always dangerous, her illness and recovery. However, CORPORATE AND SPECIAL EVENTS Your Family Friendly Club but in Mary Lee’s case it certainly his involvement with her poetry Movie Nights, New Play was. She needed open-heart surgery, BOOK TODAY! writing is minimal. She shows Structure, Play Care Available, and needed it fast. him her work in progress (and he Pool Parties, Swim Club & more Such news would be enough to shows her his), but his comments cause the wild bouts of anxiety she are limited to: “Hmm, that’s good” was supposed to avoid, but Mary or “Hmm, needs work.” For more Become a Member! Lee coped through healthy doses of substantial input, Mary Lee relies on Monthly and 2020 Early Bird denial and fatalism. her all-female writers’ group, called Memberships Available “I put myself in the hands of Page 24 The OSCAR l September 2019

Harvard Ave. Street Party

The folks on Harvard, between Cameron and Chesley, read the how-to-have-a-street-party article in the summer OSCAR and decided to have their own party on Saturday, August 3rd. A good time was had by all! PHOTO BY BRENDA SMALL

PHOTO BY BRENDAN MCCOY May Court Club Update By Tracy Alexander a lively group of women dedicated to community service and forging bonds Have you ever passed the beautiful, of friendship. venerable house on Cameron with The May Court Club of Ottawa the bright pink door? Many of you was founded in 1898 by Lady Ishbel are aware that it houses the May Aberdeen, wife of the then Governor Court Hospice, but did you know it General. Intended as a way for young is also the home of Canada’s oldest women of leisure to give back to their women’s service club? The May community, the Club has evolved Court Club of Ottawa is comprised of and expanded its projects over time.

The Club supported the war efforts humour and grace. Watch for her and also opened the first tuberculosis meeting some local celebrities! clinic in Canada. Currently the Club The Bargain Box, located at 228 NEW LOCATION is a Sustaining Benefactor of Hospice Laurier Avenue, has been selling Care Ottawa; provides grants to gently used clothing, footwear, community organizations and linens, jewellery, decorative and scholarships for nurse practitioners household items since 1970. The Same exceptional care and graduate students in information income supports the Hospice at technology; operates the library at the May Court, as well as our other Ottawa Hospital Civic Campus and community-based programs. Our provides nutritious snacks to children wonderful volunteers love helping who attend after-school programs at people to discover a new look for six Community Houses. themselves or treasures for their There are a number of committees homes! within the Club including the Since 1925, the May Court Library Aberdeen Artisans Committee has served the Civic Campus of which began as a knitting committee the Ottawa Hospital and the Heart providing socks for servicemen Institute. Supported by donations during World War I! In the last few from the community, it provides years the Aberdeen Artisans have patients and staff with a broad range donated more than 250 blankets for of books through our bedside lending A Community of Care the Linus Project at the Children’s services, waiting room magazines, Hospital of Eastern Ontario. They and a quiet reading room on the On September 3rd, 2019, we relocated from also continue to provide toques to Service Level of the hospital. The our home of 25 years at Fifth Avenue Court Roger’s House and hats and lap rugs Library holds periodic Book Sales to our new location at for cancer patients. The annual May in the rotunda outside the hospital Court Christmas Craft Fair will be cafeteria. Please call Marnie at 613- 108 Third Avenue in the Glebe held on November 9th this year. 798-5555 ext.16717 to arrange drop Come by to see our lovely Clubhouse off your donations and come to the We are grateful to all of our patients and community partners and pick up handmade treasures, sales to stock up. for their understanding and support as we completed homemade edible delights, beautiful Don’t forget to drop by The May our construction and move. jewellery and have a cup of our very Court Club at 114A Cameron Avenue own Lady Aberdeen Tea! on September 7th as we will be We look forward to serving you in our new clinic A new fundraising initiative in participating in the Old Ottawa South with chiropractic care, massage therapy, and honour of our founder, a 14-month Porch Sale! the upcoming addition of physiotherapy! calendar “Lady Aberdeen Visits 2020,” will be available this fall. The Tracy Alexander is a member of the curavita.com | 613.237.9000 | [email protected] calendar will feature photographs May Court Club of Ottawa and has of Lady Aberdeen coming across lived in OOS off and on over the last modern day settings with good 19 years. The OSCAR l September 2019 Page 25

ENVIRONMENT A “Zero Waste” Experiment in Old Ottawa South PHOTO BY HOLLY BICKERTON By Holly Bickerton to me a bit like those size 6 jeans in South shines. Of course, Boomerang my closet – aspirational, but maybe Kids and the Clothes Secret will Lately, it seems that hardly a week not so practical. It has never been outfit most of the family for a goes without more headlines about my aim to try and fit our household’s fraction of retail, while you reuse the the collective harm our species is annual garbage into a thimble. But planet’s resources rather than buying doing to the planet. Between climate what I can tell you is that with new. The Sunnyside Library and emergencies, species extinctions, and incremental effort and relatively Black Squirrel Books will provide plastic-filled oceans, there is a lot to painless changes, it has been fairly the reading material for a lifetime. be alarmed about. The solutions seem easy to reduce our regular weekly And although I’m not an antique urgent, yet huge and complicated. household garbage and recycling buyer, the concept is the same, and What is a typical OOS family like by at least half. I put that in bold Old Ottawa South has abundant ours – with two jobs, a couple of kids because I am quite proud of it. What selection. and far too little time – to do? if more of us could get to (say) 25% When shopping becomes too About a year ago, it was bothering less waste and recycling? Or 50%, much, there is always coffee. All the me that our recycling bin was or even 60%? The resources saved, coffee shops in OOS have happily overflowing. We started needing two including the fossil fuels to truck it filled my reusable coffee container, bins for our biweekly pickup. We all to recycling and landfill, would be even thanking me for bringing it! Re- have always been avid recyclers, but significant! And this brings me to our usable water bottles can be refilled tale of neighbourhood discovery. at the Sunnyside Library. Feeling this was getting out of hand. Where Our local treasure, Cedars, has also The Bulk Barn at Billings Bridge virtuous? Grab a gelato cone at Stella was all this stuff coming from? been supportive. Their friendly staff is a great place to start. We’d often Luna. Packaging had changed, and we had have filled my jars with olives and bought spices and snacks here, but as I’m sure there are more local unwittingly adapted. There had to be dips (a 500 mL jar is approximately you may have heard, the Bulk Barn businesses worth mentioning in a better and less-resource intensive equal to the small size). Bring your started a Reusable Container program a zero-waste quest, including the way to feed a family. And so our own reusable lightweight bags for over a year ago. This was when vendors at the Lansdowne Farmer’s family embarked on an experiment loose produce. There’s a bulk section I started to take a second look at Market. These just happen to be my to reduce not only our garbage but at Cedars too, featuring many staples. their grocery items, including pasta, regular stops. A surprising result also the recycling – just to see what Recently, I’ve washed and saved our cereals, coffee, tea, and baking items. of our experiment is that we now we could do. In the spirit of “reduce, shawarma containers, ready for a We bring our clean containers (a mix do more shopping closer to home. reuse, recycle,” it seemed we needed refill. of Mason jars and Rubbermaids), This is in large part because smaller, to get back to basics, and focus on Just over the bridge, the Glebe have them weighed, fill them up local independent, client-focused the “reduce.” The good news is that Meat Market will fill your clean and pay. Checkout goes faster if you retailers have been so supportive many businesses in Old Ottawa containers with any products bring a washable marker to write of our efforts. Our food quality has South and the Glebe have been behind the counter. If you forget the code on each lid. (This is a great improved while spending is hardly welcoming of a variety of efforts to them, at least your order comes in job for kids.) If you have a dozen different – in part, because less reduce the waste that we bring into a recyclable plastic bag rather than containers like me, the customer in food gets wasted. We’ve also been the house. This lesson was somewhat in a Styrofoam tray. McKeen’s the line behind you will be grateful surprised that just a bit of preparation unexpected, and seemed worth Metro in the Glebe will also fill for this. Since the program started, and a few changes in shopping habits sharing. clean containers at its deli counter – I’ve noticed a significant increase in have made a huge difference on Standing in the checkout with featuring prepared salads and a wide customers wheeling their container- garbage night. Finally – and not to my jars and cloth bags, people range of deli meats. Near the front filled carts around. I’ve also had be dismissed in these days of bleak sometimes ask me if I’m “into zero cash, there is a large bin where you many, many, spontaneous and headlines – something as mundane waste.” (The phrase is based on the can drop off clean plastic bags for heartening conversations with both as grocery shopping now helps us movement started by the excellent recycling, including cereal and milk like-minded and curious shoppers, feel like we are part of an important book, Zero Waste Home by Bea bags. Given that the City of Ottawa and I almost always leave feeling solution. It’s visual and inspiring for Johnson, available from OPL). My does not accept plastic bags in the happy. There have been some other kids. They have seen that their own reply is, I’m trying. You will not get blue box (sigh), this is one way to unexpected fringe benefits. Gone efforts really count. a lecture from me: I can tell you that ensure that unavoidable plastic bags are the half-full packages lurking at If you are looking for a way to we are not that close to zero, nor will get recycled. the back of the kitchen cupboards, engage your family in a similar we even approach it until there are To our south, Farm Boy on Bank leading to reduced food waste and experiment, the filmsA Plastic a lot more options from mainstream Street has bakery, deli, meat and fish (yes!) tidier cupboards. An endless Ocean or Blue Planet II (on Netflix) corporations. You may be relieved to counters where the staff have been selection of snacks for the school are great discussion starters. Beware know that we don’t brush our teeth willing to weigh and fill containers. lunchboxes keeps the kids on board. I though: they are so heartbreaking with baking soda, or make our own My trips there are usually motivated would never go back. that you may never see plastic deodorant (!). “Zero waste” seems by the fact that we have run out of packaging in the same way again. frozen blueberries, which can be And then we will meet each other in bought in a large 2 kg cardboard box. the neighbourhood, quietly filling our If you widen your reduced-waste containers, and smile. Area Worship Services experiment to include clothing and other household goods, Old Ottawa Holly Bickerton is a resident of OOS. Location Times Sunnyside Wesleyan Sunday Worship Church Services at 9:00 am and 58 Grosvenor Avenue 11:00 am, Children’s (at Sunnyside) program offered during worship services. Trinity Anglican Church Holy Eucharist at 1230 Bank St 10:00 am with Church (at Cameron Ave) School & Choir.

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TASTY TIDBITS FROM TRILLIUM BAKERY Blackfly Festival, “Did I really read that on the sign I just whizzed by?” PHOTO BY JOCELYN LEROY Our place up here offers a plethora enjoy noisily. of possibilities – like a Buddhist singing bowl of resonant sounds – The Butterfly the plaintive loon call at 3:00 am, the She alights on my knee while I’m forest whispers, the humming deep- sitting on the dock before the sun throated bullfrog, the white-throated gets too hot. Exquisitely marked sparrow. The spirit of Algonquin wings glisten. The undersides are resonates from every direction. orange spots and white symmetrical To dream, to relax, to pick markings, bordered by deep indigo blueberries and to sit in the morning and white lines. gold mist. Long black legs anchor her in the I’m home at last. breeze. A black proboscis explores my arm, inch by inch, until she is A Sad Story nearly under my chin. After an hour Today I spy a loon’s nest on the she flies away. grassy log. I glide a little closer, my The water is still under 70°F, so canoe not making a sound, it is so I sit on the dock and just look at it. still on the water at this early hour. Maybe a swim later. One of the parents is flattened head This is such a contrast to my By Jocelyn LeRoy admire his awesome garden. My down, covering the egg. She doesn’t activity-filled days at home and in the husband compared it to our cliff- move a feather, the nest looks too bakery. exposed, and too close to a popular That sums it up – the last few weeks dwelling efforts (no predators). portage trail. Next day my brother Blue Cheese and Scotch in our own Algonquin Park Paradise. The patriarch of his large family is and I paddle quietly, staying quite Green ugly dripping blue cheese My brother is duking it out with fascinated that we created a little far from the nest. Sadly, the nest was arrived on a nice pottery plate, the Big Four: blackflies, mosquitos, garden in the sky. As he waved good empty. No egg. It had looked full of also dark green. And, these fancy houseflies, and deerflies ­– and those bye and “see you next time”, my life and promise, and ready to hatch. scotches. This year’s pick, and small biting flies that sneak up on hubby says, “God willing.” As we Further along the bay the loon trending at the lake… you and leave a stinging bite. For the walked away with our treasures we parents were agitated, diving, My brother has tried for fifty years first time in forty years he’s wearing heard a healthy endorsement of our chirping repeatedly. A fox or raven or to interest me in “good scotch”. To a bug jacket. wish to return, “yes, that’s always a racoon could have snatched the egg. get me to taste it, to drink a glass of We’re finally on our way. Pass on consideration” he boomed “we must I felt saddened. There are only two it, to like it. the usual Kawartha ice cream stops not forget.” chicks on the lake and four pairs of Heck, to “LOVE IT,” and become and the 10 cent less gas, barrel up With a nod to the beautiful cow loons. like the rest of the scotchophiles that the gravel road leaving a dust trail in the front garden and a handful of he attracts. behind, and voila, finally we’re at clucking chickens, we notice that The Varments Arrive We’re sitting on the deck in front the lake. The sparkling sapphire lake there’s a telephone pole standing Our entertainment the first few of the old cabin, which my brother we snowshoed in winters past, and naked, not a wire in sight. days is a family of martens, three just finished heroically painting. longed for when in the city. Back Passing a few familiar lakes, we kittens and a mama. We’ve never We’re admiring the now 70-year-old to the land; the buggy forest whose suddenly are confronted with a big seen them on the deck. They have logs, naming their colour “seventy breath lulls us to sleep at night. sign: “Blackfly Festival” near the expressive little pointy, foxy faces. percent chocolate.” I recall when I But first, our favourite and only home town of hippie pot-growers we They grunt and squeal and get bolder nearly died from a dose of penicillin stop this trip; the Mennonite Market long ago delivered bread to in the every day. fifty years ago. The doctors told me, where we buy sauerkraut, garlic glory days of Trillium’s wholesale For years, we have been fastidious all of them looking triumphant that bulbs, fresh eggs and a giant just- bread business. about not feeding creatures or leaving I’d survived. “Do not ever touch a picked cabbage. Sweet! Their garden food around the cabin, after a messy morsel of blue cheese, EVER! That boasts two hundred feet of rhubarb Arrival bear invasion long ago. But we could be fatal!” leaves with their proud ruby red As we paddle over the white carefully feed the little martens a few So, on July 8th 2019, I tasted the stalks. caps in our own lake, a cool breeze tidbits, to supplement their mouse terrible scotch offerings, and the The usually silent gentleman of welcomes us to explore the bay and berry diet. The little “varments” greenish blue cheese. And, while eight-inch beard and worn suspenders and beaver houses, silver driftwood as we’ve dubbed the family of three, doing this, I popped in a truffle made stands behind the old-fashioned tangles. If I’m lucky, a dragonfly will seem to respond to our voices, and by two Mexican chefs at the camp on mechanical crank cash register. Our travel with me, snapping up the flies soon begin to expect our meagre our lake. They contained chocolates, first conversation begins when we buzzing around my head. offerings. We don’t almonds, cream and the secret know what to call a ingredient; blue cheese. LOVE TO LEARN? family of martens, So, while I am waiting to die, other than very cute. my brother plies me with his latest

Over the years, we scotch discovery, to wipe out the blue Learn about physics, philosophy, the cold have indeed seen a cheese potential for my demise. war, neuroscience, finance and more, “murder of crows,” After a half hour of making faces, on main campus or downtown in the new a “rafter of turkeys,” due to the unpleasant taste of it all, Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre. and a “charm of I recovered, vowing never to touch hummingbirds,” either scotch or blue cheese again. but what do you Ever. REGISTER NOW call a furball FOR FALL 2019! of mischievous P.S. martens? Algonquin Park presents its Our sighting is wonders one moment at a time. Open to adults of all ages, the quite a rare honour. Always the same. Yet always new. Learning in Retirement program’s They look right I swat at the only blackfly that tries non-credit lectures and workshops are into our faces with to bite me. Not bad for a Blackfly affordable and engaging. a lengthy gaze. All Festival! they get at 10:30 am are a few chewed Jocelyn LeRoy is the owner/manager carleton.ca/linr corn cobs and rib of Trillium Bakery in Old Ottawa 613-520-3699 bones, which they South since 1980. The OSCAR l September 2019 Page 27

Women Flourishing in Tennis By Claire Brodie “Mrs. Smith has always assisted us heartily when we needed our lady Anyone watching tennis today at the friends, and she has moreover created Ottawa Tennis and Lawn Bowling interest in the game by her plucky Club (OTLBC ) will hardly be visits to Toronto or Hamilton to play surprised to see women and girls on for the ladies’ championships…. the courts. They might be astonished, Yet here we are refusing her a slight however, to know that for many years courtesy which might have enabled the club was closed to women. her to bring the ladies’ championship Women used to be considered to Ottawa.” “delicate.” There was even a Despite such complaints, it was theory that the female form was not until the early 20th century that not designed to run or jump. By the women were welcomed into the club late 19th century, however, certain as members in their own right. “graceful” sports – including tennis – Today, some of the world’s greatest had been identified as appropriate to tennis players are women. The names the female constitution. of Billie Jean King and Steffi Graf Lawn tennis – invented in 1874 – are bywords for excellence, while was new to Canada in 1881, when Serena Williams has long been the Ottawa club was founded with considered one of the sport’s most just 35 male members. Women were powerful players. The name of the welcomed as “associate” members Canadian who took the Rogers Cup only. They were permitted to play, from Williams in 2019 is less well but only on Tuesdays or in the known. Still, Bianca Andreescu of Susan Simmons and Jennifer Stiell are returning champions at the OTLBC. mornings. Toronto is just 19 years old. There is They have held the title for Women’s Doubles repeatedly since the 1990s. Despite these restrictions, to say time for her to make her mark. nothing of the difficulty of playing in Another notable female competitor courts. There are club competitions, among youngsters. The little girls long skirts and tight corsets, women hails from Ottawa. She is Gabriela however, and watching Canadian who take part in the Let’s Play took to tennis with enthusiasm, Dabrowski. At 27 years old, she is women play at the highest levels program, assisted by teenaged with the first ladies’ competition the first Canadian woman ever to win has certainly been an inspiration for members Molly and Lauren Perkins, being held in Montreal as early as a senior Grand Slam title. young players. may be among Canada’s future 1881. Still, with restricted amounts The focus at the Ottawa club The fact that the Bloomex Cup champions. Let’s keep an eye open. of practice time, it was difficult is largely recreational, with girls formerly the Roman Cup – a for Ottawa women to compete taking lessons or playing with their competition for top Ontario players, Claire Brodie is the Event and effectively. An Ottawa man was mothers, sisters or friends, while ages 8 to 18 – has been held at the Customer Service Manager at the moved to protest on behalf of a newly retired women take advantage club in the past two years has also Ottawa Tennis and Lawn Bowling female competitor from his club: of their freedom to get out on the stimulated the competitive instinct Club. Page 28 The OSCAR l September 2019

The Bridge and the Boat Dow’s Lake to the Bank Street skating in winter, flowers in spring Bridge. In this section, you row and summer, trees and water that entirely surrounded by a green arch remains healthy for fish, birds and of trees so dense that you cannot wild life that need it for their own even see the pedestrian path on the lives. east side of the canal. Bird song The new pedestrian bridges at is your principal accompaniment. Somerset and now at Fifth and Clegg An enormous fat carp jumps in the are wonderful additions to the human water, this monster is so large if I hit habitat and connect our central city him with my thin scull, I’d probably communities in new, sustainable flip the boat. A Blue Heron eyes ways. My latest joy on the canal me suspiciously and then lifts off was my first row under the Second the water with the heavy grace of a Ave. Bridge named after Flora creature from the age of dinosaurs. MacDonald, Canada’s first female The pedestrian path on the west Minister of External Affairs and a side is right up against the canal life-long resident of the Glebe who wall and even at 6 am, there are a loved to long blade skate on the canal few walkers and joggers, but they in the winter, and walk along its Clive Doucet enjoying a row on the Canal. PHOTO BY CAROLE JOHNSON go about the beginning of their day edges in summer. I am sure the new very quietly. Not much later, the bridge would have brought a catch in By Clive Doucet and love best is from Dow’s Lake to west pathway especially will be her throat and pleasure to her eyes if Pretoria Bridge the part that flows busy until dusk with all manner of she had had the chance to see it. The Rideau Canal was chosen through Old Ottawa South and the citizens, cyclists, parents with infants When I first proposed the bridge at in 2007 by UNESCO as a World Glebe. I’ve rowed this section for in strollers, Reservists from HMCS Council, I imagined something less Heritage site. It’s the oldest, forty years and it has never failed to Carleton going for fitness hikes and imposing, something more like the continuously operated canal in North charm me. Unlike myself it grows tourists from all over the world. The Pretoria bridge built from the inside American and is operated with the more handsome, more attractive with joy that the old canal brings the city of canal walls, not arching over original hand cranked locking system each passing year. and the thousands that use it each them, but the design Gods after I left installed in 1832. It receives visitors I row first thing in the morning week is impossible to calculate but chose otherwise. Nonetheless, the from all over the world and deserves about 6 am and am usually off the gold would not compare. bridge size doesn’t seem to bother to be a World Heritage Site, but I water by 7 am before the world has As I row along the canal, I also see ducks and geese that sail in the shade would choose it for another reason. woken up. At that time of day, there it as someone who was once a city underneath it so I’ll follow their calm I think it is the most beautiful, urban is rarely anyone on the water. The councillor and what impresses me and just be content that it is there. waterway on the planet. paddlers are all at the Rideau Canoe is how much it takes to keep the old People in Ottawa tend to forget just Club on Mooney’s Bay, just above waterway beautiful. Old trees must Clive Doucet is a former Capital how extraordinarily beautiful every the Hog’s Back Falls, and the rowers be pruned and some taken down, Ward city councilor and the author of section of the canal is from Kingston, are down at the Ottawa Rowing Club, new trees, flowers and garden must many books. Among them is ‘Canal all the way to Ottawa. Every locking just below the MacDonald/Cartier be always planted. When Colonel Seasons’, a book of poems that station is a green, tranquil jewel Bridge on the Ottawa River. I have By first built it, the canal was not celebrates seasons along the canal. awaiting the arrival of each season’s the extraordinary luxury of having a much more than an industrial gash His latest book is “Grandfather’s boaters. I have canoed it many times World Heritage Site to myself from in the landscape. It is beautiful today House” published by Nimbus of and each time it was special and Dow’s Lake to the National Arts because the public, though their Halifax. quite wonderful, but the part I know Centre and Parliament Hill. government, have invested in it. With The most beautiful part is from

PHOTO BY TOM ALFÖLDI 41st Annual Brighton Avenue Clambake By John Wall acquaintances. This community feast is a big success year after year Current and former Brighton Avenue residents are because of the many contributions of the residents of invited to join old and new neighbours on Saturday, Brighton Avenue who, among other things, canvass, put September 14th for the 41st Brighton Avenue clambake. up the tent, tend the fire, shuck and cook corn, wash and This annual street party began 42 years ago in the cook clams, lend their tables and barbeques, serve the backyard of Bill and Sharon Blakeman. It moved to the children’s meal and clean up after it’s all over. old Brighton Beach the following year and, with one Canvassers will be knocking on doors in early blip, it’s been held there every year since. September to sell tickets, solicit loans of barbeques and Preparations begin in the afternoon as volunteers tables, and sign people up for set-up and clean-up jobs. put up the tent and dig the pit for the fire. After the If you miss your canvassers but don’t want to miss the Brighton Avenue children’s meal at 5:00 there will be a group photo at fun, please fill out the form they leave you and drop it Clambake 6:00. off at 97 Brighton Avenue or call Barbara at 613-601- Following the photo, residents and alumni of Brighton 1096. Saturday September 14 Avenue will enjoy clams, corn and potluck contributions Old Brighton Beach while greeting new neighbours and renewing old John Wall is a Clambake organizer.

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Come out to the Fourth Annual “Walk for the Centre” on October 6th! By Kristine Burr many living alone, often in rooming houses or small apartments. Its Building on three years of successful catchment area runs from Wellington community walks, organizers are Street to Billings Bridge, and from busily getting ready for another Lyon Street in the west to Main “Walk for the Centre” on October Street, including Lees Avenue, in the 6, 2019. OSCAR readers may recall east. that the walk originated in 2016 The Emergency Food Centre as friends and supporters of the receives support from many sources, Centretown Emergency Food Centre but it is still an ongoing challenge to looked for innovative ways to raise serve everyone who comes through much-needed funds for a long-time the door. Members of 22 central neighbourhood resource, as well as Ottawa churches (including several highlight that many in central Ottawa in Old Ottawa South) supply food live without food security. and financial contributions regularly. Last year’s walk Walk for the Centre. PHOTO BY ROB BURR Food insecurity is largely about It also receives an annual grant from the struggle to afford food. Recent the City of Ottawa, and regular There is no charge to join the and are both invited to participate Statistics Canada data indicates grocery donations from the Food walkathon. People in our community in this year’s event. Sign-up sheets over 4 million Canadians encounter Bank. Food drives in local schools can merely turn out to promote food and other information about the food security worries at times. and grocery stores and donations security, choose to raise sponsorship event, along with online donation And with affordable housing a from generous individuals provide funds as a participant, or make an forms, can be found at www. challenge in many cities, including additional support. individual donation to help the Food centretownchurches.org Ottawa, pressure on food budgets is Each year’s “Walk for the Centre” Centre. There will be two walk Please consider joining the “Walk something many experience. Recent so far has been more popular than options. The main route is around 4 for the Centre” on October 6 at 1:30 immigrants, students, minimum-wage the preceding one, and organizers km and will take people along the pm. All are welcome! workers and seniors, to mention just from the Centretown Churches Canal and around Parliament Hill, a a few, are identified in recent studies Social Action Committee are hoping great location for a Sunday afternoon Kristine Burr is a resident of Old as being vulnerable to food security 2019 will be even bigger and better. stroll. A shorter route will also be Ottawa South. challenges at least occasionally. Walkathon organizer, Elizabeth Kent available. The walk begins and ends The Centretown Emergency Food highlights the fact that the Food at City Hall, with registration starting Centre, located at 507 Bank Street in Centre is a real community resource: at 1:30 pm, and with local musical the basement of Centretown United “Our motto every year has been group, Aello, offering entertainment Walk for the Centre Church (Bank at Argyle), offers ‘neighbours helping neighbours’ before the walk begins. Local October 6 at 1:30 pm councillors Catherine McKenney and support for many such people. It and this is very much the message City Hall serves residents of central Ottawa, we want to convey – we welcome Shawn Menard are strong supporters including students, refugees and walkers of all ages.” of the Emergency Food Centre,

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MAYOR’S REPORT The Flora Footbridge: Connecting Communities By Jim Watson, Mayor Environment Minister Catherine example of a smart investment and McKenna, former Attorney General intergovernmental collaboration. This This past June, the new cycling Yasir Naqvi and former City ambitious active mobility project has and pedestrian crossing over the Councillor David Chernushenko now opened ahead of schedule and canal, the Flora Footbridge, opened to officially break ground on this under budget. to the public and connected the important project. I would like to sincerely thank communities of Old Ottawa East and Originating from the need to Catherine McKenna, Minister of the Glebe by a permanent footbridge improve multi-use pedestrian and Environment and Climate Change for the very first time. It was nearly cycling links over the Rideau Canal and MP for Ottawa-Centre, Yasir sites, such as Lansdowne Park in the two years ago on a beautiful fall day between the Pretoria and Bank Street Naqvi, former Attorney General Glebe. that I was joined by my colleagues bridges, the Flora Footbridge is great and MPP for Ottawa-Centre and David Chernushenko, former City of The Flora Footbridge also makes Ottawa Councillor for Capital Ward, it easier for thousands of Ottawa for their crucial part in this project. residents to leave their cars behind Their advocacy for active mobility – a boost for public transit, cycling, and hard work securing necessary walking and a more sustainable funding drove the successful environment. Indeed, over 3560 planning and completion of the daily trips are being made by foot footbridge. and bicycle over the bridge since it It was with Former Attorney opened on June 28, and we expect General Naqvi’s and Minister these numbers to increase as students McKenna’s commitment to and residents go back to school and our City’s transit and active work. transportation projects that the City Projects like the Flora Footbridge received funding for $5 million demonstrate that working and $10.5 million respectively, to collaboratively with all three levels build the multi-use bridge. They of government means progress for saw the importance of improving Ottawa in advancing sustainable connectivity between the two transportation solutions that benefit residents, visitors, entire Mayor Jim Watson, the Honourable Catherine McKenna, and former Prime neighbourhoods, which now offers communities and our natural Minister Joe Clark celebrate the completion of the Flora Footbridge on June better access to schools, public green environment. 26, 2019. PHOTO FROM THE CITY OF OTTAWA spaces, entertainment and shopping

MPP’S REPORT Development for People, Housing for Seniors

By Joel Harden, MPP interest of communities. In Old provides unfair advantages to big Ottawa East, the Greystone Village developers. Development for People, not developments are another example of In the months to come, we’ll Profits this, as The Regional Group decided continue fighting for development As the Ontario legislature has been to abandon the secondary plans it had that works for people, our in recess for the summer, we are developed in consultation with the environment, and communities, not excited to have used and continue community. developer profits. to use this time to connect with While Shawn Menard and other neighbours and residents of Ottawa Ottawa Centre councillors stood up Affordable Housing for Seniors Centre and hear about the issues that for community members with their As the Official Opposition Critic matter most locally. votes at city council, a majority of for Seniors’ Affairs, I hear all the get there. One of the issues at the top of their colleagues did not. This was yet time that we need safer, more I was proud to be joined by Evelyn everyone’s mind is the proposed another example of how prevalent affordable rental units for our Gigantes who shared her expertise extension to the Chateau Laurier. I developer influence is at City Hall, aging community. Recently, in my on healthcare and housing, and Anna share in the disappointment of most something that must change. colleague MPP Jessica Bell’s riding from Seniors Watch Old Ottawa constituents that have written to us This should make us all the of University-Rosedale in Toronto, a South (SWOOS) was there to share who believe the addition detracts more concerned about the Ford seniors’ home abruptly announced it their vision for seniors housing in our from one of our most elegant and government’s changes to the Local was closing its doors. Now over 150 neighbourhood. historic buildings. Planning Appeal Tribunal (LPAT). seniors are struggling to find a place We heard repeatedly that we need This is a pattern we have seen For which they’ve kept the LPAT to live, in an already expensive rental to increase funding to long-term care too many times in our municipal name but reverted to the old Ontario market. This is incredibly stressful homes in Ontario, and that all the planning process, where the interest Municipal Board rules. This change for residents and we need to make funding should go towards front-line of developers has outweighed the undermines local democracy and sure no one goes through what these work. We heard concerns around the residents are going through. Stable privatization of senior’s homes, and and affordable housing options for we heard about the problems with seniors needs to be a priority in accessible transportation in our city. Beautiful living naturally Ontario. It was a wonderful conversation I’m always interested in hearing and I want to thank everyone who from older adults about how we attended, and especially Monique and Bloomfields Flowers can create more supportive, age- the staff at The Good Companions friendly communities. In August, we for providing the space and delicious hosted a town hall with The Good food. Their centre is doing incredible 783 Bank Street | 613-230-6434 Companions Seniors’ Centre to work around creating healthy, active 1280 Wellington St. West | 613-695-6434 hear from the community on what lives for seniors and I encourage you www.bloomfields.ca building an age-friendly province to check them out or volunteer for looks like, and what we need to do to them if you have some time. The OSCAR l September 2019 Page 31

COMPUTER TRICKS AND TIPS

By BadMalcolm Fakes and John & Hard Good- fake Fakes news report - in Partrecent years. 1 corroboration at other sources. online for more than 25 years. ing, of Compu-Home No public figure or organization • It may have a germ of truth which is immune and the effects can has been exaggerated or taken out We all must learn to be more wary be serious, but governments in of context to form the artificial and critical in evaluating what we Welcome back after what we hope democratic countries are nervous hub of the story. are reading. In particular, we must was a terrific summer for OSCAR about introducing legislation that • It targets our emotions – positive make very careful decisions before readers. appears to limit legitimate free or negative. Of course we are repeating or sharing information Fake is an especially negative term speech because it is often unclear delighted to learn of the foibles online. At the most basic, it is these days and usually deservedly when a line has been crossed, or even and missteps of our enemies and obviously essential to read the entire so. This month we are going to have sometimes where the line should be. outraged to see our like-minded article before making a judgement as a look at fake on the dark side but Fake news can be political, social, comrades’ blunders exposed. to its legitimacy, and a worthwhile next time we shall see a couple of religious or commercial in theme. • There is little or no objectivity. next step is to look for independent instances when fakes can be helpful. Look for characteristics such as: Most stories have two sides and a confirmation. The fake news will Fake news is a term widely • It is on the Internet; traditional reputable journalist will explore continue to assault us but at least we discussed right now, and especially news media usually exercise or, at least, mention both. can avoid contributing to the problem during any run-up to elections. (On rigorous vetting processes that • It may be unclear who is the by spreading it. some lists, “fake news” was the make it very difficult for anything author or source of the article. word of the year as early as 2017.) not strictly factual to see the • It is not necessarily amateurish Go to compu-home.com/blog for an Some public figures have taken to light of day and this professional in content. To see a very old archive of our columns (including labelling anything that disagrees with screening is often missing online. (in Internet years) tongue-in- this one) and lots more tech-related them or their policies as fake news • It is especially evident in social cheek example of an extremely articles. There is a space right after and we will let our readers judge media, where the effortless ability effective fake news story, just each item for you to make comments that practice for themselves, but the to post and share others’ posts Google “Whale Watching in Lake and suggestions, and ask questions. experts tell us that there is a now a offers little or no challenge and Michigan.” You can even sign up for automatic wide proliferation of what used to be often is impulsive. • There is a good chance that it updates. Have a look at compu-home. called misinformation or propaganda, • It is over-the-top; a critical will fail the Snopes.com test. com/blog soon or call us at 613- and that it has a significant effect evaluation will expose statements Snopes is one of the oldest and 731-5954 to share your opinions and on public opinion. In June the CBC that simply cannot objectively be most respected fact-checking suggest subjects for future columns. reported an Ipsos poll revealing that true. organizations and has been Our email address is info@compu- 90% of Canadians admitted to having • It is one-off; there is no busting myths and misinformation home.com been seriously misled by at least one

Brewer Park is Going Green DID YOU KNOW? About Parking on City Streets Did you know there are parking restrictions, regardless of whether signs are posted? For example, parking is prohibited (whether signs have been erected or not): • in excess of three (3) hours, Monday to Friday, between 7:00 am and 7:00 pm • in excess of six (6) hours on weekends and statutory holidays, between 7:00 am and 7 pm • within 300 metres of previous parking space within one (1) hour • within 9 metres of an intersection • within 3 metres of a fire hydrant • within 1.5 metres of a driveway • on a roadway which is 6 metres or less in width See ottawa.ca/parking for more regulations & restrictions. Submitted by the OSCA Traffic & Safety Committee

Brewer Park was chosen as one of ten parks across the city for the Solid Waste Green Bin in Parks Pilot Project. The one-year project is an expansion of the Recycling in the Park Pilot Project, and it will allow the city to continue to collect data on the use of recycling and green bins in city parks. PHOTO BY BRENDAN MCCOY

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The Proof Feeling Young-At-Heart is Good For You By Cat Kelly amount of healthy grey matter in the meet different people, and to build with new technology. brains of seniors who feel younger lasting relationships outside of our Would you consider the new When was the last time you felt your than their age versus those who feel families. experience of sharing your home age? Your answer could mean more older. There are plenty of ways to become with a student? than you think. The study also found that seniors part of the growing iGen community. By connecting mature students A study on aging discovered that who had a younger subjective age From events like Tea-And-Tech help with senior citizens, homesharing older people feel about 13 years were more likely to score higher on at local coffee shop Haven Books reduces the cost of living for students younger than they really are. As the memory tests, considered their health and Café, to trying “homesharing,” while offering a helping hand and New York Times said best: “70 is the to be overall better, and were less staying young-at-heart doesn’t have companionship to seniors living new 57.” likely to report depressive symptoms. to mean spending money, but rather, alone. It’s also a dynamic shared While everyone gets older, not The findings suggest elderly people spending time together. experience of learning, unlikely everyone feels their age. It’s called who feel younger than their age show Recently, intergenerational companionship, and a burgeoning “subjective age,” and it describes fewer signs of brain aging, and those homesharing has become popular community in the Nation’s Capital. how individuals feel younger or who feel older than their age should among both students and seniors for Who would have thought? Staying older than the age written on their consider caring for their brain health. many reasons, and is launching in youthful is the best-kept secret to birth certificate. The same study also Like a muscle, the brain should Ottawa this September. growing old. found the average gap widened for be exercised and challenged in new Homesharing refers to the concept Do you know someone interested particularly healthy and active study ways to stay sharp. of intergenerational living, where in trying something new in their participants. Whether by trying new seniors who own their homes and every-day life? We are now accepting There might just be something to experiences, learning a new have spare bedrooms, share their applications for our Ottawa launch! staying young at heart. language, or challenging skill, when space with a young person such as a For more information, find us Another study published in processing unfamiliar information, student or recent graduate online at Winwinhomesharing.com Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience we make new neural pathways One highlight of homesharing is claims they are the first to find a link between brain cells. This builds the unique experience of sharing a Cat Kelly is the Co-founder of Win- between subjective age and brain “brain plasticity” and improves our home with someone from another Win Homesharing. aging. By Using MRI brain scans, ability to understand information. generation. Different meals, researchers found a difference in the One way to try new things is to interesting conversations, and help

FINANCIAL PLANNING Vacation and Retirement: Different Goals, Different Investment Strategies By Bob Jamieson common goals to see the differences couple of weeks or more, possibly Furthermore, this percentage may in your savings and investment to an exotic locale. So, for the need to change over time. When To achieve any of your financial strategies. investments you’ve designated to you’re just starting out in your career, objectives, you need to save and fund this vacation, you need two key you may be able to afford to take invest – that much is clear. But just Dream Vacation attributes: liquidity and low risk. The on the greater risk that comes with how you save and invest may differ The first goal we’ll consider is liquidity requirement is pretty self- having a higher percentage of your from goal to goal. Let’s look at two a dream vacation – one lasting a explanatory – you want to be able to portfolio in growth investments. But get to your vacation funds exactly as you get closer to retirement, you www.edwardjones.com when you need them, and you don’t might want to begin shifting some want to be slapped with some type of dollars toward more conservative early withdrawal or tax penalty. vehicles – you don’t want to be Make Your Financial The low-risk part of your vacation over-exposed to the volatility of the strategy means you want investments financial markets just when you need Future a Priority. that won’t drop in value just when to start selling investments to help you need to sell them to use the fund your retirement. Unlike other chores that pile up in the driveway, proceeds for your trip. However, Nonetheless, you won’t want to clutter the garage or run wild in the front yard, you need to be aware that those give up all growth investments, even your financial situation is a little less obvious. types of stable-value investment during your retirement years. You That’s why it’s so important to take advantage vehicles likely will not offer much could spend two or three decades of our complimentary financial review at least growth potential. As you may know, as a retiree, and over that time, once a year. the investments with the greatest inflation could take a big toll on your possible rewards are also those that purchasing power. To counter this We will discuss the different strategies available carry the highest degrees of risk. Yet, effect, you will need to own some to help put your finances in line with both your by starting to invest early enough in investments that have the potential short- and long-term goals. more conservative investments, and at least to equal, and ideally outpace, putting away money regularly, you the cost of living. To schedule your complimentary financial may be able to compensate for the review, call or visit today. lack of growth opportunities. The examples of taking that extensive vacation and enjoying Retirement a long retirement illustrate the Now, let’s turn to your other goal – importance of recognizing that you retirement. When you are saving for will have many goals in life – and Bob Jamieson, CFP® retirement, your primary objective is you’ll need to prioritize and plan Financial Advisor . pretty simple: to accumulate as much for them, sometimes following 2211 Riverside Drive money as you can. Consequently, you significantly different investment Suite 100 Ottawa, ON K1H 7X5 will need a reasonable percentage strategies. When you do, you’ll give 613-526-3030 of your portfolio devoted to growth- yourself a better chance of reaching oriented investments. But what’s your destinations. a reasonable percentage? There’s If you would to discuss your no one-size-fits-all solution – the financial goals, and how to attain amount of growth investments in them, please give me a call at your portfolio should be based on 613-526-3030, or go to www. several factors, including your age, edwardjones.ca/bob-jamieson risk tolerance, time horizon and Member – Canadian projected retirement lifestyle. Investor Protection Fund The OSCAR l September 2019 Page 33

ABBOTSFORD AT THE GLEBE CENTRE

Glebe Centre’s Glebestock is Back Again! of the money helped us reach our fundraising goal of $14,000 to purchase the Nordic Wellness Relax Chair. The Nordic Wellness Relax Chair is a new piece of therapeutic technology being introduced into long-term care homes. The chair has been proven to help relax residents, reduce falls in homes, and provide a better quality of life for those living in long-term care. This year our priorities are to continue to grow the Abbotsford Restoration Fund, and to invest in therapeutic technology for our residents. Tickets are $50 and can be purchased online at www.glebecentre.ca or from Abbotsford House or the Long Term Centre (950 Bank / 77 Monk). By Courtney Rock rock band Sticks’n Stones, as well as the popular flower crown station, along with other 1960s Courtney Rock is the Fund and Development inspired activities. We will also be serving an Save the Date! The Glebe Centre’s Glebestock is Manager at the Glebe Centre. back again this year and taking place on Friday, array of 1960s cocktail party-like appetizers with a October 18th! modern twist! Join us as we celebrate the 50th anniversary of Last year, thanks to you, we raised $11,000. Half Glebe Centre’s Glebestock Woodstock and pay tribute some of the most iconic the money raised was invested in the Abbotsford people of the 1960s. Restoration Fund, with the first project being the Friday, October 18th Returning to the stage is the seven piece classic front porch of Abbotsford House. The other half

Getting Ready for Snow! their snow removal costs will be change colour, volunteers and staff at Julie Ireton is a journalist with covered by the city funded, Snow Go Abbotsford House will be spending the CBC, a lecturer at Carleton Assist. a lot of time preparing for the senior University and a resident of the “The program is for people in centre’s annual bazaar. Glebe. financial need, including people with It takes countless hours and your disabilities or 55 plus, depending donations to make the sale a success. Abbotsford is your Seniors Active on income level,” said Kirsten Donations of jewelry, elegant Living Centre. We are the community O’Brien who works in community treasures, flea market items, art and programs of The Glebe Centre support services at Abbotsford. books are all welcome. These items Inc., a charitable, not-for-profit, “Screened workers and snow removal can be dropped off at Abbotsford organization which includes a 254 companies that are police checked House between from 9 to 4, Monday bed long term care home. Find out and carry insurance are referred to to Friday. more about our services by dropping the clients.” The bazaar is set for Saturday by 950 Bank Street (the old stone Every year, O’Brien said her team November 30th, from 10 am to 2:30 house) Mon- Fri 9-4 pm, telephoning helps between 25 to 35 clients access pm. 613-230-5730 or by checking out all the Snow Go Assist service and she of The Glebe Centre facilities and

said those requests tend to start in the GMSElemAdGR19G.pdf 2 2019-07-24 10:40community AM programs on our website fall, before the snow flies. www.glebecentre.ca For Aitkens, who said he lives below the poverty line, it means $200 of his $425 annual snow removal costs are reimbursed. He’s been using the program for the past four years. Other seniors who are more financially independent can still seek the Snow Go program to find insured and vetted contractors, even Pat Goyeche shoveling snow at if they don’t qualify for the subsidy. Abbotsford. Before retirement, Aitkens worked as a social policy analyst,C PHOTO BY JANE STALLABRASS specializing in the aging population.M

Back then, Aitkens said he wasY By Julie Ireton recommending government policiesCM that would allow seniors to live After being diagnosed with MY more independently. osteoporosis, Andrew Aitkens CY He’s glad that services such as decided shoveling his snowy, icy Snow Go Assist have since beenCMY driveway in the winter was too risky, adopted to help him stay in his ownK so he looked into the Snow Go Assist home. service provided by the City of “Aging in place is a reality and Ottawa. preference for most people,” said Residents in the Glebe and Old Aitkens. “I’d never want to go Ottawa South can seek information into a retirement home. I’m a very and help to contract reliable snow independent person and want to removal companies through maintain that independence. This Abbotsford House at the Glebe program helps.” Centre, the seniors centre across from Lansdowne Park. Annual Abbotsford Bazaar For some residents, a portion of As the autumn leaves begin to Page 34 The OSCAR l September 2019

SUNNYSIDE LIBRARY PROGRAMS Sunnyside Branch Mercredi, 10h – 11h books with other kids ages 8 & Ottawa to promote European authors Ottawa Public Library September 11 – October 23 and up. Parents and/or caregivers are and their works. Drop-in program. 1049 Bank Street, Ottawa November 6 - December 4 / encouraged to accompany their child. Wednesday, 6:00 - 8:00 pm InfoService 613-580-2940 11 septembre – 23 octobre et 6 Registration required. September 18, October 16, novembre - 4 décembre Mondays, 6:30 pm (60 min.) November 20 CHILDREN’S PROGRAMS October 21, November 18, September title (Ireland): Solar Family Storytime December 16 Bones by Mike McCormack Playful Machines with Let’s Talk Stories, rhymes and songs for Science children of all ages and a parent or Eager Readers Book Club (5-7 Ottawa ComicBook Club Children investigate simple machines caregiver. years) The Ottawa ComicBook Club by using levers, wheels and axles, Drop-in A children’s book club for kids who is a small group of ComicBook and inclined planes to create a model Thursdays / 10:15 am (30 min.) are beginning to read independently. enthusiasts who meet once a month playground. Ages 5-8. Jeudi / 10h15 (30 min.) Join us on the first Saturday of every to discuss a graphic novel. For teens Registration required. September 12 – October 24 month to chat about the book, do a and adults. Drop-in program. Saturday, September 21 2:00 pm and fun activity and share some ideas Monday, 7:00 - 8:30pm (60 mins) November 7 – December 5 about what to read next. Parents September 9, October 7, November and / or caregivers must accompany 4, December 9 Maker Mondays / Lundi Créatifs Lego Block Party / Ça dé “bloc” their child. Ages 5-7. Registration September Title: Upgrage Soul Vol.1 Play, build, create, cut, fold, knit, Drop by and take part in a different required. by Ezra Claytan Daniels draw & so much more with our low- activity each week! /Prenez part Saturdays, 2:00 pm (45 minutes) October Title: Batman: The Dark tech mobile maker station! Ages 8 & à une nouvelle activité à chaque October 5, November 2, December 7 Knight by Frank Miller up / Joue, construis, crée, découpe, semaine! Drop-in / Programme November Title: Woman World by plie, tricote, dessine et pratique une portes ouvertes ADULT BOOK CLUBS Aminder Dhaliwal foule d’autres activités avec notre Fridays, 3 pm – 5:00 pm /Les December title: Crawl Space by Jesse nouveau poste mobile de création à vendredis, 15h30 – 17h00 Second Friday Adult Book Club Jacobs faible technicité! 8 ans et plus September 13 – December 27/ 13 Meet new people and join in Drop-in/ Programme portes ouvertes septembre – 27 décembre stimulating discussions on selected ADULT PROGRAMS Mondays, 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm / Les titles in a friendly and relaxed lundis, 15h30 – 17h00 PD Bric-à-brac JP atmosphere every second Friday of The Writing Workshop September 8 – December 16/ 8 Drop-in for a new craft project every the month. Newcomers are welcome. An opportunity for writers of fiction, septembre – 16 décembre PD Day. Ages 8 and up. Drop-in program. non-fiction, poetry, and experimental Rendez-vous pour un nouveau Friday, 2:00 – 3:00 pm forms to gather. Our emphasis will Homework Help / Aide aux Devoirs bricolage chaque journée September 13, October 11, be on developing works-in-progress Come get help with reading, math, pédagogique. Pour les 8 ans et plus. November 8, December 13 for publication. The workshop will science, French, English, etc. Led by P.A. Days, 1:00 pm – 3 pm September Title: Forgiveness by provide writers with encouragement Frontier College. Ages 6 -10 Journée pédagogique, 13h00 – 17h00 Mark Sakamoto and constructive criticism from their Reçois de l’aide avec la lecture, October Title: In the Skin of a Lion peers. Author/Facilitator: Michael F. les maths, les sciences, le français, Play Day! / Au jeu! by Michael Ondaatje Stewart: http://michaelfstewart.com l’anglais, etc. Avec des bénévoles de Drop in preschool fun! Play with November Title: H is for Hawk by Drop-in program. Frontier College. 6-10 ans puppets, crafts, building blocks, and Helen MacDonald Monday, 6:00 - 8:00pm Drop-in/ Programme portes ouvertes. more! / Un programme porte-ouverte September 16, October 7, November Mondays, 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm / les pour les enfants d’âge préscolaire! Sunnyside Mystery Book Club 4, December 2 lundis, 16h – 17h Jouez avec des marionnettes et des Do you enjoy reading mysteries? September 8 – December 16 / 8 blocs, bricolez, et plus encore! Share the enjoyment of good Knit & Knatter septembre – 16 décembre Drop-in / Programme portes ouvertes mysteries in a relaxed atmosphere. Have you always wanted to learn Saturdays, 10:15 am – 11:15 am /Les Join us for discussion usually every to knit, crochet or improve your Babytime samedis, 10h15 – 11h15 third Friday of the month. Drop-in skills? Come to Sunnyside and bring For babies and their parents or September 14 – December 28 / 14 program. your knitting needles and yarn to caregiver with stories, rhymes, songs septembre – 28 décembre Friday, 2:00 – 3:00pm begin or share your project. Enjoy and games. 0-18 months. Drop-in September 20, October 18, conversation and a cup of tea while Tuesdays, 2:15 pm (30 min.) Saturday Family Storytime / Conte November 15 you knit! Drop-in program. September 9 – October 22 en famille le Samedi September Title: Holy Orders by Wednesdays, 11:30 – 2:30pm and Stories, rhymes and songs for Benjamin Black Sept. 11 & 25, Oct. 9 & 23, Nov. 13 November 5 – December 3 children of all ages and a parent or October Title: Sleeping in the Ground & 27, Dec. 11 caregiver. / Contes, comptines et by Peter Robinson Family Storytime (Bilingual) / chansons pour les enfants de tout âge November Title: The House of Four Conversations Among Canadians Contes en Famille (bilingue) et un parent ou gardien. by Barbara Nadel Sharing, in community, our Stories, rhymes and songs for Drop-in / Programme portes experiences, knowledge, reflections children of all ages and a parent or ouvertes. Sunnyside Adult Book Club and ideas about life in Canada and caregiver. / Contes, comptines et September 28, October 26, Join in stimulating discussions our situation in the larger world, past, chansons pour les enfants de tout âge November 30, December 28 10:15 on selected titles in a friendly and present and future. Drop-In program. et un parent ou gardien. am (30 min.) relaxed atmosphere on the last Friday Wednesdays, 2:00 – 4:00pm Drop-in/ Programme portes ouvertes. Le 28 septembre, le 26 octobre, le 30 of the month. Drop-in program. September 11– December 18 Tuesdays / 10:15 am (30 min.) novembre / 10h15 (30 min.) Friday, 2:00 – 3:00pm Mardi / 10h15 (30 min.) September 27, October 25, Science Cafés with Carleton September 10 – October 22/ 10 CHILDREN’S BOOK CLUBS November 29 University septembre – 22 octobre September title: Pachinko by Min Jin Professors from the Faculty of and / et Mighty Girls Book Club Lee Science share their discoveries with November 5 – December 3 / 5 A children’s book club focused October title: Year of Wonders by you. Drop-in program. novembre – 3 decembre on exploring brave, strong and Geraldine Brooks Wednesday, 6:30 – 7:30pm intelligent girls in books. Parents, November title: Born a Crime by Sept. 4 & 25, Oct. 9, Nov. 13 & 27 Wee Wednesdays! / Mercredi Mini! guardians or caregivers are Trevor Noah Drop in preschool fun! Play with encouraged to accompany their child. Ingenious Talks with Carleton puppets, crafts, building blocks, and Ages 8 & up. Registration required. European Book Club (EUNIC University more! /Un programme porte-ouverte Mondays, 6:30 pm (60 min.) Canada) Faculty of Engineering & Design pour les enfants d’âge préscolaire! September 30, October 28, Join us for the ultimate armchair professors will be sharing their Jouez avec des marionnettes et des November 25 travel around Europe. The European research with you. Drop-in program. blocs, bricolez, et plus encore! Book Club is offered in partnership Wednesdays, 6:30 - 7:30pm Drop-in/ Programme portes ouvertes. Bookworms Book Club with European Union National September 11, October 2, Wednesdays, 10 am – 11 am / Come share the enjoyment of reading Institutes for Culture (EUNIC) in November 6 The OSCAR l September 2019 Page 35

French Conversation Group September 11 – December 18 informative and interactive session. Public Library’s Civic Engagement Améliorez votre français parlé They will: series et rencontrez des gens dans une Conversations about Earth and Us • share useful resources and tools Thursday, September 12, ambiance décontractée et conviviale. Conversations, in community, that correspond to people’s 6:30-8:00 pm Niveau intermédiaire. Programme exploring ways to experience and needs wherever they might find portes ouvertes / Practice your understand our environment not as themselves in their journey to Getting Started in Genealogy French language conversation “out there” but ourselves as insiders, civic participation Do you want to research your family skills and meet new friends in a participating in Earth’s ecosphere. • explain the connection between tree but are not sure how to start? relaxed and friendly environment. With such a glimpse of broadened registering and voting in an Learn about first steps, organizing Intermediate level. Drop-in program. new perspectives and possibilities, election as a fundamental way of information, the records you need, Les jeudis, 18h30 / Thursdays, 6:30 a pleasantly accelerated response to entering and participating in the and where to find them, and tips for pm (60 min.) climate change might, it is hoped, electoral process effective searching. 12 septembre – 19 décembre/ also emerge. Drop-in. • talk about the key messages for Thursday, September 19, September 12 – December 19 Thursdays, 2:00 – 4: 00 pm the 2019 federal election 6:30-8:00 pm Sept. 12 – Dec. 12 • introduce new Voter Information Conversations about Community Campaign products Improving Income in Retirement Convened in an extended sense of Story Swap Leading up to the election, Elections Are you a middle income earner? community, topics of conversation Tell a story, listen to some stories and Canada is offering interactive Are you approaching retirement? range from the local to the global. have some tea. information sessions on various This presentation is an overview Drop-in program. Fridays, 1:30 - 3:00 pm road maps to participating. This is of the income sources available to Saturdays, 10:00 – 12:00pm Sept. 20, Oct. 18, Nov. 15 the last session. Elections Canada Canadians during retirement. September 14 – December 14 is an independent, non-partisan Thursday, September 26, ADULT SPECIAL PROGRAMS agency responsible for ensuring that 6:30 – 8:00 pm A Word in Arabic Canadians have the information on Learn a few words in Arabic. Drop-in Registering and Voting in a Federal the where, when and way to register program. Election and vote in a federal election. Wednesdays, 4:30 – 6:30pm Join Elections Canada staff for an This session is part of the Ottawa

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AROUND TOWN Army Cadets Seeking 12-18 Year Olds: Cadets take part in a diverse Ottawa Board of Education Reunion 2019. Back by popular demand, program including marksmanship, biathlon, orienteering, trekking and the OBE Reunion to be held on Saturday, September 21st 2019. For tickets camping, training in survival skills, team sports, first aid, and leadership contact Ross Maxwell 613-271-8405 or email: [email protected]. For more skills. Come join the Governor General Foot Guards Army Cadet Corps. information please visit www.obereunion.ca There is no cost for the program. If interested, please check us out any Wednesday night at 6:15 pm at Cartier Square Drill Hall (2 Queen Ottawa Brahms Choir Open Rehearsals - Sept 9th, 16th, and 23rd. Come Elizabeth Dr.), email us at [email protected], or visit our website at sing with us! Ottawa Brahms Community Choir welcomes new singers. All www.2784ggfg.com. voices invited to join, especially tenors and basses. No auditions required! Rehearsals every Monday from 7:00-9:30 pm at St Giles Church at First and Curling Lessons at the RA Curling Club. On Wednesday, September Bank. Contact Sieglinde 819-568-8169 or just drop in. For more info: https:// 18th the RA Curling Club is hosting an information night for anyone who is ottawabrahmschoir.ca and www.facebook.com/ottawabrahmschoir/ interested in joining or taking lessons this fall. The event will be held in the Chartwell Lounge from 7 pm. to 9 pm. The Club is also offering four different Ottawa Newcomers Club. Our club is a non-profit, social organization instructional programs for adults (day and evening), ladies and youth. All for women who have recently moved to this area (and those who have have the goal to allow new and almost -new curlers to have fun while learning experienced a significant life change), and would like to meet new people of the fundamentals of the game under the watchful eyes of trained instructors. similar interests by joining our many group activities. More information about In order to keep the student to instructor ratio low, space limited for all the us and what we do can be found on our website at: ottawanewcomersclub.ca instructional programs. Register early to avoid disappointment. For more or by contacting [email protected] information contact Melody Rochon [email protected]. To register for any programs contact Members Services at 613-733-5100 or online go to Rummage Sale, Saturday, October 5th, 10 am to 1pm at St Andrew’s, 82 Kent www. Racentre.com Street.

Fish Fry Dinner and Silent Auction on Friday, September 27 from 5 pm Southminster United Church Christmas Bazaar. On Sat., Nov. 9, from to 7 pm at St. Thomas the Apostle Anglican Church, 2345 Alta Vista Drive. 9:00 until 1:00 p.m., you are cordially invited to attend the Southminster Tickets: Adults $16 Children $8. Tickets available weekday mornings at our United Church Christmas Bazaar, at 15 Aylmer Ave at Bank Street. Please Church office. 613-7323-0336. enter by the Galt St door. There will be jewelry, baking, books, collectibles, jams and jellies, gift baskets, handicrafts, Christmas decorations, a silent The Kidney Foundation of Canada. Each year the Foundation auction, kids only shopping area, and other tables of interest and enjoyment hosts the Kidney Walk to raise awareness and funds to support people for everyone. Our Coffee Cafe is open from 9:00 until 11:15 am and a affected by kidney disease. Last year across Ontario, over 3000 walkers delicious luncheon is available from 11:00 until 12:30 pm. Please come and joined together in 35 communities to raise awareness about kidney health and bring family, friends and neighbours to enjoy Southminster’s Christmas spirit organ donation and raised over $900,000 to support research and programs at our Bazaar on Nov. 9th. to help ease the burden of kidney disease for patients and their families. The 2019 Ottawa Kidney Walk is Sunday, September 29th, starting at Ottawa City Volunteer Expo. Every year Volunteer Ottawa hosts Ottawa’s only Volunteer Hall on Laurier Ave. Registration begins at 9:00 am and the walk starts at Expo at which non-profit organizations have the opportunity to meet and 10:30 am. Online registration is open and participants can sign up at: www. interview prospective volunteers from the community, and volunteers can kidneywalk.ca meet with representatives of non-profits and charities in the region who need their help. This year’s Expo is taking place Wednesday, October 2nd, from Meals on Wheels needs volunteers! One of the goals of the City’s Age- 10:00 am to 2:00 pm at Ottawa City Hall, 110 Laurier Ave. W. People can Friendly Ottawa initiative is for seniors to live at home safely with health and register to attend on our website at www.volunteerottawa.ca or they can just community support services to meet their needs. Meals on Wheels is a critical show up. part of that age-friendly plan and has been serving the Ottawa community for over 50 years. Last year, Meals on Wheels delivered almost 115,000 meals Pacesetters Walking Club at Billings Bridge Shopping Mall. Activities to 1,672 clients. How is this done? With the help of a dedicated team of over include walking with your friends, social gathering, knitting for charities, 400 delivery volunteers. At the moment though, we are experiencing a critical puzzles, library. Located in the basement of the Tower at the northwest corner shortage of volunteers and need to recruit more to remain able to continue to of the Mall. Open from 7:30 to 10 am. Low cost of $10 per year covers our do our work in the community. Please consider joining their team this fall. expenses. Call 613-521-6740 during open hours for information. The program is very flexible, able to accommodate volunteers’ schedules and availability. Each delivery route only takes two hours to complete but makes La Leche League Canada has a group in OOS. Are you breastfeeding/ a world of difference for every one of the clients. If you would like to become chestfeeding your baby? Are you pregnant and planning to breastfeed? A La one of those friendly delivery volunteers brightening the day of an Ottawa Leche League meeting is a relaxed, supportive and non-judgmental place senior, or if you or someone you know would benefit from receiving Meals on where you can meet other parents, learn about nursing your baby and ask Wheels, please call Meals on Wheels at 613-233-2424. questions. Meetings every second Tuesday of the month from 7:00 to 8:30 pm at 36 Glen Ave. Next meeting is September 10th. For more information call Ottawa Quakers hold a largely silent Meeting for Worship, Sunday mornings 613-238-5919 or go to www.lllc.ca at 10:30 am, 91A Fourth Avenue in the Glebe. Newcomers welcome!

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The Glebe Fine Art Show Returns to the Glebe Community Centre By Eileen Durand but also mixed media, pastel, embroidery, and fine art photography The annual Glebe Fine Art Show prints. See the full list of artists at: (GFAS) is increasingly popular with www.glebefineartshow.ca both artists and art collectors. As a Back by popular demand and matter of fact, for the14th edition to add to your convenience and of the show visitors will have a enjoyment, an open café (Mato’s wonderful opportunity to view Café) will be offering soups, light original artworks of acclaimed artists. lunches, beverages and desserts Many of them are coming from as throughout the show hours (please far as Belleville, Perth, Montreal and note the times: 10:00 am to 4:00 the Ottawa - Gatineau region. Their pm every day). Free admission and unique pieces will be shown over the door prizes will provide additional weekend of September 14 and 15, incentives to visit. 2019. In the end, art lovers and collectors There are many reasons that mark your calendar and come to the motivate people to collect art. Here Glebe Fine Art Show. are 10 reasons, according to an American gallery: Eileen Durand is a coordinator of the Glebe Fine Art Show. • To support the arts; Old Ottawa South artist Rose Marie Roy will be exhibiting again this year • To preserve history; at the Glebe Fine Art Show. PHOTO BY EILEEN DURAND • To experience the thrill of the search; However, many patrons purchase part of the exhibition compared to Glebe Fine Art Show • To adorn their homes; art simply because it brings them joy 2018. Their art forms run the gamut, • To reveal their personality; and they never get tired of looking from abstract and figurative paintings Saturday, September 14 & • To tell a story (about the at it! to landscapes and water paintings. Sunday, September15 background of each artwork Whatever your reasons, visitors You are in for a treat! collected); and art collectors will enjoy the The visiting public will also love 10:00 am - 4:00 pm • To express emotion or the deep GFAS. A total of 34 juried artists to see the most recent artworks made Glebe Community Centre connection to the artwork; will be exhibiting at the Glebe by the other fine art artists exhibiting Free admission & door prizes • To connect with an artist; and Community Centre, located at 175 regularly at this event. Art pieces are • To pass on a legacy. Third Avenue in Ottawa. made using a variety of media such www.glebefineartshow.ca This year, four new artists will be as oils, acrylics and watercolours,

Tree Planting Along Canal Woods Terrace on Sunday, September 15th By Declan Hill of land on Canal Woods Terrace first national song,the Maple Leaf near Bronson Avenue for ten years. Forever. Tree Planting The years 2015 - 2018 are the world’s We do it to help clean the air in our In between the trees, Sandra Sunday, September 15 hottest years since the recording of neighbourhood and to protect our Garland, an expert in plants that help weather patterns began and now, community from the noise and sight pollinators, has begun a meadow 9:00-12:00 (drop in for according to NASA, 2019 is on track of the seven-lane monstrosity that refuge for butterflies and bees. as long or as short as to be even hotter. Bronson has become. There will be another tree-planting you can) Planting trees is the best and easiest We are proud of all the more than and wild flower sowing on September way to counter global warming. In two-hundred trees that we have 15th between 9:00 and 12:00. Please Canal Woods Terrace a recent Science article, researchers planted, but some of the highlights do come and join in, children of all (old Bronson Place) at estimated that not only is tree-planting are: the apple tree given by our friends ages are welcome. The event will have the corner of Bronson fifty times more effective than other at the old Tundra video store, the a Indigenous Algonquin elder leading forms of emissions combatting, but it tree planted in memory of Farkhunda a smudge ceremony to help gather our and Sunnyside also helps micro-climates –— or the Malikzada, the female activist in spirits for the planting. There will be coffee and Afghanistan, and the two maples – areas around the planted trees –— to doughnuts – but do be cooler and have a cleaner air. donated by the City of Toronto – that Declan Hill is an academic and Here in Old Ottawa South, we were grown from seeds from the journalist who lives in OOS. bring your shovels! have been planting trees on the patch original tree that inspired Canada’s

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Glebe House Tour 2019 By Suzanne McCarthy support GNAG’s subsidy program stained-glass windows, and a heritage Tickets are $30 per person in that helps children with special needs home boasting many original advance and $35 the day of the event The Glebe House Tour, 20 years participate in programs and activities. features. for those ages 11 and up. They’re running, is made possible by the Come and see up close what Volunteers are stationed throughout available online at gnag.ca under generous homeowners who welcome homeowners have done to breathe each home to direct you and answer Events, at the Glebe Community ticket holders to tour their private life into older properties and how questions. All homes will be custom Centre (175 Third Ave.), or by phone homes and by volunteers who run they decorate and live in their spaces. adorned with floral arrangements by at 613-564-1058 or 613-233-8713. this annual event for the Glebe Highlights of this year’s tour Bloomfields. Tickets are limited. The tour runs Neighbourhood Activities Group include a two-storey addition The tour is well navigated by foot, rain or shine. (GNAG). added in seven hours, a home with bike or car. Or take advantage of the On Sunday, September 15, from a palette of soothing tones and complimentary shuttle bus service Suzanne McCarthy is the lead 1 to 4 pm., you can stroll one of elegant black accents, a dining room provided. At the end of the tour, organizer of the Glebe House Tour, as Ottawa’s oldest neighbourhoods, with ingenious built-in seating and enjoy tea and superbly baked goods well as a blogger and photographer. explore five private homes and help storage, examples of how to re- at the Glebe Community Centre from purpose original doors, millwork and 2:30 to 5:00 pm.

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14 Monkland Avenue, one of the houses on the Glebe House Tour this year. This heritage house was built in 1914 by Richard Hooper, the developer of the subdivision that includes Monkland Avenue, for his own family – so it was built to last. It still has many of its original features: the doors, the moulding, the chandelier in the hall, radiators in their original colour, tile around two of the fireplaces, the tap and floor drain in the sunroom, and the tub, flooring and cabinetry in the second-floor bathroom. PHOTOS BY SUZANNE MCCARTHY Page 40 The OSCAR l September 2019

DESIGN DILEMMAS A Third Floor Rental Suite By Vanessa Riddell shape for bedroom B. Accessing the this scenario. A 1-piece shower stall expensive custom shower. bathroom from the small third floor minimizes grout lines and will keep The shower will also need a wall I was recently hired to create a plan landing will allow for more privacy the shower looking clean for years to framed around it between the shower for a third floor rental suite in a nice in bedroom B as well. This plan for come, something prospective renters and the toilet, this wall will house 3-storey Old Ottawa South home. the bathroom will also work well for will be happy about. If it is installed the plumbing. In this way, no current The owner is recently living alone a family home in the future. well, there is no reason why it should walls surrounding the bathroom need and would like to create a third floor Installing a small 1-piece shower not look good. It also matches the to be taken apart. The toilet will rental unit with a full bath. The renter in the only full height corner of the budget for this bathroom, as opposed then be moved forward as much as will share the kitchen on the main bathroom will be the easiest option in to a more fancy but complicated and possible while still accommodating floor with the owner, but the renter the location of the plumbing stack. will have their own bathroom and the Otherwise it will be tucked into too use of 2 rooms on the 3rd floor. much of an awkward tunnel space. The current layout has a small 1/2 Behind the toilet will be a perfect bath situated between the two third ledge for storage. floor bedrooms, accessed by a door Another element to the plan is tile. from bedroom B. Simple inexpensive 12” x 12” light This layout makes installing a grey tile for the floor and larger 3” x shower much easier. Water, venting 8” white subway tiles on the walls. and a stack are all already there. This will keep the space as water There is also an overhead fan in the proof and easy to clean as possible, current bathroom, vented out the so there is no risk of water damage back of the house through the ceiling or mold, and it will show well to of the current bathroom and bedroom prospective renters year after year. A. The plan is to replace this vent Finally, a very small Ikea vanity with a stronger, quieter fan with a and sink, round mirror that will fit light. under the sloped ceiling, and one The bathroom will take about 40 light sconce and towel hooks, all with inches of space from bedroom B. a black and white theme, will round This will create a 7-foot by 5-foot off the design elements to this on- bathroom. The wall for the bathroom budget, small, simple, but functional will line up nicely with the wall from (Above) The current layout with a small 1/2 bath situated between bathroom. a closet, creating a nice rectangular the two third floor bedrooms, accessed by a door from bedroom B. Vanessa Riddell is an OOS resident and interior designer with Sachi Staging and Creative Home Interiors - design plans, permit drawings, and project management, call 613-866- 6604 or [email protected]

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THE CREATIVE CURRENT Dirty Hands, Creative Play and the Clay Creations of Kelly Hastings times. And our discussions continued past the time continue to feel motivated to engage in creative we planned to spend together in her kitchen that acts. In psychology what is called a flow state or, day. colloquially, as, being in the zone. The suspension It was entirely fitting to be speaking with Kelly of time and space, being and experiencing the about her creative pursuits while she was cooking; enjoyment of being in that focused, mindful and multitasking is the norm for so many of us. Kelly attentive space. Experiencing ‘flow’ is I think explained to me that her earliest clay pursuits essential for a human’s well being. happened when her eldest was a baby. However, Kelly’s work has moved from earlier pieces as the demands of family life ensued Kelly found such as plates and teapots that explore texture and that she had little time and energy to pursue form, to more recent creations such as mugs that interests outside of her domestic sphere. So, Kelly are glazed and painted with images of goddesses. channeled those creative drives into her home in When Kelly reflected on the importance of

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By Vanessa Coplan A new goddess teapot and cup by Kelly Hastings. PHOTOS BY ALLAN HIRSCH Meet Kelly Hastings. Kelly is an OOS resident who lives in a beautiful, artfully designed and the form of cooking and presentation. According working with clay in her life her she said, “I think whimsically decorated home. Antique wood to Kelly, “ it was always about food and making (it) has helped me redefine myself as more than a pieces, art, and well-loved and lived in spaces it good and fun and interesting for my kids, my mom, friend, employee, wife.” permeate the home. Kelly and husband Al raised family and friends... how I would present it... the I may even go so far as to say that working with their three now-grown boys in this house. They coulis over the soup.” But in more recent years, the new Goddess imagery has contributed to that live there now with their dog Barney. Kelly continued “my idea of creativity has changed sense of empowerment and (re) claiming of her Kelly works as a Strategy and Governance ... I’m not that interested in cooking anymore. I’d self. Advisor for Ottawa Community Housing. rather let Al cook and I go upstairs and play with In Kelly’s words, “I read, write and give my clay!” This is the first of a series of articles on creative presentations, it’s all about words, and has to be Kelly describes her reconnection to clay in the pursuits. of a certain caliber.” What she loves about clay following way, “after our kids moved out, my building is that she can get her fingers dirty. It isn’t husband and I were rebuilding our lives together. Vanessa Coplan is an artist, art teacher, creative about how good it is, there is no deadline involved. My husband had his music and I wanted something coach and a resident of OOS. She can make a pot and squash it if she doesn’t for myself.” Now that she has rediscovered and like it. It is about pleasing herself before anyone pursued her love of hand building with clay Kelly else. says, “I can do it for hours. I don’t even know how I interviewed Kelly while she was bustling much time has passed. When I am in my studio around her busy kitchen preparing supper for the upstairs I can work for hours and forget about family. Two of her three sons stopped in for an everything else.” impromptu visit during our conversation, while Kelly is describing what many creative types one of their dogs was ambling her way through the feel when they are working and, why, in part, they house. The fridge door opened and closed many Page 42 The OSCAR l September 2019

ARTS AND CULTURE Crowds of People, Swarms of Bumblebees: Two New Art Exhibits first woman named to be, officially, a Canadian war artist in the Second World War. Not too far away, over at the Ottawa City Hall Art Gallery, is By the bee, a noisy, multisensory installation inspired by bumblebees. The installation is the work of Annette Hegel and Deborah Margo. In both exhibitions we see dynamic portrayals of movement, dispersal and happenstance.

Molly Lamb Bobak: A Woman of the The installation “By the bee” by artists Annette Hegel and Deborah Margo at Crowd the City Hall Art Gallery. PHOTO BY THE CITY OF OTTAWA The Molly Lamb Bobak exhibition is a small display of fifteen paintings 1971. In this work she frames even quietly, it is easier to see shifts of and drawings, curated by Michelle The painting “November 11, 1971, harder questions. The composition light, too. Interesting to note the Gewurtz. We see the artist’s skillful 50 Mackenzie King Bridge” by is an aerial view of a corner in plants are growing upon a subsurface hand with colour and composition, Molly Lamb Bobak from the exhibit downtown Ottawa. The street is of plastic sheeting. Behind all that particularly her use of aerial “Molly Lamb Bobak: A Woman of the marked with large bright arrows buzzing noise, one might hear soft perspective to frame questions Crowd.” indicating traffic may go straight bird chirps. Look up. There is no of meaning. The University of ahead, veer left, or stay right. Two ceiling in this room. Overhead is a New Brunswick Protest, 1968, for By Maureen Korp marching military bands, followed by black hole filled by massive black example, depicts crowds of people a group of non-uniformed veterans pipes. Where do they go? What is surging to the left. Others, however, Two new Ottawa art exhibitions, approach. Crowds watch them from their purpose? stand and watch beside greyed organized under different different sides of the intersection. Sit down again. Now watch other architecture. Throughout Europe and circumstances, in different venues, The corner is well-marked by its people come into the gallery. Most North America, 1968 was a time of provide fascinating contrasts and three directional arrows near the will walk around the perimeter of mammoth social unrest and protest. commentaries to one another. Mackenzie King Bridge. the room in less than two minutes People everywhere were in the What were the decisions that took and leave. No one looks up. As the streets. Molly Lamb Bobak: A Woman of these men to war, yet again? Were room empties, the buzzing softens. Three years later, Molly Lamb the Crowd at the Ottawa Art Gallery there other possibilities? A direction Isn’t this how people cross streets, Bobak painted a Remembrance Day presents a selection of work by the not taken? Left, right, straight on. wait to see marching bands, cluster composition entitled, November 11, In 1942, age 22, Molly Lamb in demonstrations, then go home? Bobak enlisted in the Canadian Isn’t this how bees react to intruders? Womens Army Corps. From the Even in downtown Ottawa? outset, the artist kept a “diary” – Human language often uses quick sketches of her day in the metaphor to identify gatherings form of a comic strip. The story we of creatures. A school of fish, or a see is that of one small pilgrim, as pride of lions, a gaggle of geese, she named herself, and her wittily even a murder of crows are among drawn adventures and pratfalls. many picturesque collectivities to For a busy young woman in the be found in English. Any or all of army, a picture was not only worth these descriptors are also human a thousand words, it saved time and possibilities to be found in any large paper, too. crowd of people, too. Three pages of the “WII0278 the personal war records of Private In their work, artists Emily Lamb Lamb, M. 1942/1944” are included Bobak, Annette Hegel and Deborah in the exhibition, as well as a Margo show us ways to remember video link to other records held at and acknowledge more of our own Archives Canada. The artist died in humanity. 2014, age 94. Maureen Korp, independent critic, By the bee curator, and historian, has lived long The installation By the bee, in Ottawa. created by Annette Hegel and Deborah Margo over at City Hall is a short walk away. The visitor will Molly Lamb Bobak: A Woman hear the installation even before of the Crowd. walking into the gallery on the Ottawa Art Gallery, 50 Mackenzie first floor of City Hall. The noise, King Bridge purportedly that of buzzing bees, Continuing until January 12, 2020 louder, softer, is unusual. Upon Open daily, 9:00 am to 8:00 pm the floor of the gallery are two Free greenswards, sloped at an attractive 3 Trees End of Summer Sale height. Each is covered by green growing sedum plants. Some are By the bee: Annette Hegel and September 12 to 30 darker greens, others rosier. There Deborah Margo. Bargain Basement Open is a walkway in between. Upon Continuing until September 29 and under the plantings, are small City Hall Art Gallery, 110 Laurier We pay the tax! baskets, or cells made of beeswax. Avenue 202 Main St. 613-230-0304 Several are suspended above. Open daily, 9:00 am to 8:00 pm The gallery has two benches along Free Instagram @ 3treesshop the wall. Go sit down. The scent of the plantings is in the air. Sitting The OSCAR l September 2019 Page 43

ROAD TRIPS Six Things You Didn’t Know about Carleton Place Named After a Square in Glasgow For years, I assumed that Carleton Place was named after Sir Guy Carleton, the 18th-century Quebec governor immortalized in schools and communities across the land (including Carleton University). However, that isn’t the case. Instead, its name is a corruption of Carlton the beer makers were bemused but Place, a 19th-century square in gave it a shot, creating Dos Jefes. In Glasgow, Scotland. the brewery’s bright tasting room, you can also taste a range of more Recreational Trail traditional beers, including Taxman In 2018, the Lanark County leg of Blonde and Bulldog Bob Brown (an the Ottawa Valley Recreational Trail oatmeal brown ale). opened, connecting Carleton Place to Almonte and Pakenham along an old For more information on visiting CPR rail bed. The gravel-surfaced Carleton Place, go to https:// trail is open to pedestrians, cyclists, lanarkcountytourism.com/ skiers and ATVs. Eventually, the trail The three-storey Town Hall, built in the 1890s, is one of Carleton Place’s best- builders hope the route will connect A longer version of this post known landmarks. PHOTOS BY LAURA BYRNE PAQUET the region to Mattawa on the Ottawa (“10 things you didn’t know about River, and to link with the Great Carleton Place”), which explains how By Laura Byrne Paquet Community Labyrinth Trail (formerly known as the Trans- Carleton Place is linked to the Hardy A labyrinth is a continuous path Canada Trail). Boys and Hockey Night in Canada, Carleton Place is a quick and easy with no sight-hindering barriers, is available on the Ottawa Road Trips day trip or weekend getaway from designed to inspire contemplation. Grapefruit-Vanilla IPA website at ottawaroadtrips.com. Ottawa. After all, you can drive there And the Carleton Place Community Every community worth its in about 40 minutes from Old Ottawa Labyrinth, on a plot of land behind hipster salt has a craft brewery Travel writer and OOS resident South – but it feels as though you’re the Carleton Place and Beckwith these days, but Stalwart Brewing Laura Byrne Paquet runs a million miles from the city hubbub. Heritage Museum, does exactly that. Company in Carleton Place is OttawaRoadTrips.com, focusing on Intrigued? Here are six things you I visited it on a recent summer pretty innovative. When Ottawa’s day trips and weekend getaways from might not know about this Lanark morning around 7am, just as the sun Wellington Gastropub asked them Ottawa. County town. was peeking over nearby trees and to make a grapefruit-vanilla IPA, flooding the peaceful space with Red Baron Connection light. I didn’t know what to expect, Charles Schultz and Peanuts aside, but I slowly walked along the path, Ask about the RA’s it wasn’t Snoopy who shot down enjoying the fresh morning air and NEW StrongWomen™ YOU Manfred von Richthofen, the First the deep quiet of the surrounding programs - the next phase World War German fighter pilot neighbourhood. Then I sat on a stone in the RA’s StrongWomen™ bench and listened to a meditation better known as the Red Baron. TM program According to the Royal Air Force recording on my phone, before (RAF), it was actually Canadian walking the path again. I can’t Captain Arthur Roy Brown, who was explain it, but it really did perk up Enjoy the path into more physical activity born and raised in Carleton Place. my day. while building confidence and competence. A keen community group built the While the source of the bullet that A welcoming, progressive program lead by fitness professionals in an inclusive and social, labyrinth and opened it to the public ultimately killed the Red Baron in small group setting, the RA’s StrongWomen™ program is designed for women with little in 2011. It’s open 24 hours a day, free April 1918 is disputed by historians, or no experience with strength training. Participants enjoy the benefits of exercising with a of charge. it’s indisputable that Brown was group of women, not only getting stronger physically, but also benefitting from improved among the last Allied airmen to fight self-esteem and self-efficacy. him in his final battle – and that the Bikes are $5 a Day RAF gave Brown official credit for Don’t feel like hooking a bike rack Be Stronger than your Excuses! the deed. You can see an exhibition to your car? No worries; drop by the about his life inside the visitor centre visitor centre, where you can rent a in the 19th-century Moore House at bike for $5 a day and pick up a free 170 Bridge Street. local cycling map. Call 613-257- 1976 to reserve a bike.

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