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INSIDE THIS MONTH ✓ OSCA PROGRAM PULLOUT ✓ PORCH SALE Info Page ✓ Cub Year Report sOSCAR ✓ Bill Moon and Karin Fuller i/ Mudv much more THE OTTAWA SOUTH COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION REVIEW Vol. 21 No. 11 - OUR 19TH YEAR AUGUST 1994 2ND ANNUAL OTTAWA SOUTH PORCH SALéIII $ am to $ pro : !;:;j;l||||l Saturday .. 10th of September, 1994 Rein date: Sunday 11th of September TEN Mixed perennial bed at comer of sidewalk and driveway - Donna & Terry Walsh, Bellwood. S. Leah OTTAWA SOUTH GARDENS Go PUBLIC SEE STORY INSIDE BH Mixed perennials in front garden - Barbara & Willem Knap, Fentiman Deep shade garden - Mike & Mary-Jo Lynch,Colonel By Drive S. Leah dt Riverdale S. Leah AUGUST 1994 4 THE OSCAR ♦ PAGE 2 ||||i!|p|; THANKS! OSCAR would, like to say thanks to the following people for the time they have given to the Ottawa South Community in delivering OSCAR to your door. OSCAR The Flindall Family Catherine Nesbitt Jason Nesbitt Community Association Report : Mathieu Nesbitt The Bol Family 260 Sunnyside Avenue The Kane Family Ottawa, Ontario A special thank you to Forrest Smith who has been co-ordinator Zone El for the K1S 0R7 many years of service (10+) he has given to the paper. OSCAR is a non-profit, community report published on a regular basis for the Ottawa South Community Association Inc.(OSCA). Distribution is free to all COORDINATOR & DELIVERERS III Ottawa South homes and businesses. Opinions expressed in articles are those NEEDED " of the authors and not necessarily those of OSCAR or OSCA. The Editor OSCAR needs a co-ordinator and seven deliverers in the area from Bank to retains the right to edit or include articles submitted for publication. Riverdale, The Canal to Cameron. Delivery requires about a Yz hour once a month. If you are interested in getting involved call Rufina at 730-3762. : The OSCAR telephone number is 730-1045. Please leave your name, number and a brief message. Paid advertising inquiries should be directed to Richard Turgeon. Distribution inquiries to Rufina Basu 730-2762. / Editor: Peter Hecht 730-1045 Artspace: Karin Fuller 523-9928 SUBSCRIPTIONS AVAILABLE Street Noise: Bill Moon 730-7845 Moving away from Ottawa South? Know someone who would like to receive their Business Manager: Marim Moreland 730-3762 very own OSCAR? We will send OSCAR for 1 year (11 issues) in a nice big Advertising Manager: Richard Turgeon 730-3911 brown envelope (it will help us recycle all those big envelopes we get) for just $20 Distribution Manager: Rufina Basu, assisted by Remy 730-2762 to Canadian addresses (including Foreign Service) and $30 outside of Canada. Drop us a letter giving the address and include a cheque made out to OSCAR The next deadline for articles, announcements and advertising is PHOTOS & ARTICLES lllilltW&M. August 31,1994, ALWAYS NEEDED OSCAR thanks all the people who Even though we receive all those wonderful contributions, articles and photos are always needed. We are looking for news items, stories, articles, poems, travel brought us to your door this month. advice, book and restaurant reviews. An article could be as little as two hundred and fifty words. Bring them to our OSCAR box in the Office at The Old Firehall. Letters to the Editor are always welcome. For those who didn't have the time this month, or who didn't manage to get your contributions in to us on time, remember there will always be the next OSCAR CONTRIRUTIONS Although we are using WordPerfect, we can use articles from almost any program on any size or density, IBM compatible diskettes. Please label diskettes with your name and phone number. Please do not format your pages. If you submit your articles printed, please make them clear and dark typewritten. Articles cannot be returned for review prior to printing. We edit only ZONE A1 : Mary Jo Lynch (Coordinator), Eric and Brian Lynch, Candace O'Lett, Brian Eames, Kim sparingly for grammar, meaning and length or if you allow. Pictures, drawings and Barclay, Marvel Sampson, Cybil Grace, Wendy Robbins, Charles Halliburton, Ron Barton, Lindsay photos are greatly appreciated and will be used if possible. Please label all photos. Whillans, The Boutin Family Computer disks will be returned if labelled and photos only if you indicate so ZONE A2: Susan Lafleur (Coordinator), The Lafleur Family clearly. They may be picked up at the Firehall Office about one week after publication. ZONE B1 : David Farr (Coordinator), David Farr, Sharon Plumb, Anna and Cedric Innés, Ross Imrie ZONE B2: Linda Young(Coordinator), Leslie Roster, Patty Leonard, Rick Potter, Karen and Dolf Landheer, The Woyiwada Family, Anna and Dan Calvert, The Webber Family, The Young Family . OTTAWA SOUTH ZONE Cl : Laura Johnson (Coordinator), The Neale Family, The Harrison Family, The Gilmore Family, C OMMUNITY CENTRE The James-Guevremont Family, The Jarmuski Family, The Williams Family SUMMER HOURS PHONE 564 - 1064 ZONE C2: Kathy Paterson (Coordinator), Alan McCullough, Lily & Peter Hecht, Bill McCauley, Dan MONDAY 8:00 AM to 9:30 PM Byme, Barbara Copley, The MacGregor-Staple Family TUESDAY 8:00 AM to 7:30 PM ZONE D: Leonard Gerbrandt (Coordinator), Patti Angus, The Small Family, Jessie Neufeld, Tony Hauser, WEDNESDAY 8:00 AM to 5:30 PM Andi Gray, Mary Hill, The MacDonalds, Jessica & Colin Drysdale, Mary Ann Keys, Gilbert Jamieson, Martha Robinson THURSDAY 8:00 AM to7:30 PM FRIDAY 8:00 AM to 5:30 PM ZONE El : Vacant (Coordinator), The Hutchinson Family, New Deliverers needed SATURDAY/SUNDAY CLOSED ZONE E2: Rufina Basu (Coordinator), Jesse Rading, The Tillman Family, Eleanor Berry, Mary-Ann Kent, Krista Caron ZONE FL Carol O'Connor (Coordinator), Chris Kinsley, The Cihlar Family, The Blakeman Family, The IMPORTANT PHONE NUMBERS Grier Family, The Bennett Family 1 OSCA 564-7277 ZONE F2: Janet L. Jancar (Coordinator), Sonya Jancar, The Moir Family, The Stem Family, The Liston Ottawa South Public Library 598-4017 Family, The von Baeyer Family, Jeff and Marie Dubrule, Julie de Bellefeuille, The Stidwill Family Carleton Students Association 788-6688 ZONE G: Angela Graves (Coordinator), The Tubman Family, The Dalziel Family, John and Lee Zamparo, Regional Government 560-1335 The Chandler Family, The Graves Family, The Last Family City (snow, trees, flooding, etc) 564-1111 Bullock & Toronto Area: The Rowleys City Licensing/Enforcement 564-1457 City Property Standards 564-1717 Bank Street-Ottawa South: Tom Lawson, The Cook Family Bank Street-Glebe-Main: Rufina Basu Parking Enforcement 564-1457 Jim Watson 564-1308 Carleton University: Jim Watson Road potholes, cracks, broken glass, etc. OSCAR Needs Your Help to Deliver. See Classy Ads on Last Page • RMOC roads 739-3140 • Ottawa roads 564-1111 • NCC roads 733-0117 AUGUST 1994 ♦ THE OSCAR ♦ PAGE 3 O TTAWA >OUTH IMMUNITY As;SOCIATION WE GOTCHA! OSCA MEMBERSHIP DRIVE 94 PRESIDENTS MESSAGE BY LINDA YOUNG BY SUSAN LEAH Thanks to the efforts of your OSCA , Some very dedicated volunteers It's difficult to think about Fall This started with the June issue of Board members and some great also deserve thanks: Danica Wolkow, while we're still lazing through OSCAR, which featured a self-guided volunteer canvassers, the May OSCA Diana Smith, Hilary Casey, Bea Bol, holidays and heat waves, but the tour of the side-walk gardens of our Membership Drive was a fantastic Jane Kurys, Peggi McNeil, Inez OSCA fall programming guide beautiful neighbourhood. success! We tried to knock on every Gibbons, Roger Young, David and included in this issue will help you Then the public were invited to visit door in Ottawa South! Janet McNichols, Jim Wright, Joanne make a start. 10 back gardens during OSCA's We increased our signed-up Vanesse, Mary-Ellen Mallet, Nuala Note that we are offering some new Ottawa South Garden Tour, on membership significantly with this Joyce and Karen Fee. teen programs - a sports night at the July 23. effort. To date, we have 610 paid-up Gwen Avery gave valuable Hopewell gym and a monthly "urban This year's special feature of the family memberships in the Ottawa marketing and advertising advice for explorers" outings group. Porch Sale is porches and the gardens South Community Association. As the brochure design, John Bond and This follows-up suggestions made around, in front and on them. well, through a survey, we have new Bart St. John-Smith helped to produce by many of you to the Board during the We will then continue through the information regarding your concerns the brochure. Special thanks to membership drive last May. winter with monthly sessions of a new and your interests in this community. Caroline Calvert for her organizing While most of OSCA's programs Ottawa South gardening club which This data will help OSCA as it decides assistance and Deirdre McQuillan, our are self-financing, we have, to date, should be up and running in on priorities for 1994-95, and also for OSCA executive assistant, who helped been subsidising staff costs for the September. See OSCA's Fall Program organizing new activities in the at every step of this campaign. popular Friday night teen drop-in. To Guide for details. neighborhood. Assistance from the Firehall staff and keepOSCA's books balanced, we plan OSCA's fall agenda will, of course, We thank all present and former Marim Moreland, our book-keeper, to direct whatever funds are raised include items of a more serious nature, OSCA board members who canvassed. was also appreciated. from the Porch Sale, on September such as the Ottawa South traffic study, A great job was done by Susan Leah, Finally, if you missed this 10, to teen programs. and the upcoming municipal elections. Bill Devonish, Tony McCormack, membership blitz, you are welcome to Details on the Porch Sale are But for now, I must confess that I'm Mike Lynch, Hasmig Adjeleian, John join OSCA at any time simply by included in this issue, but I'd like to more interested in digging up my front Bond, Catherine Montgomery, David walking into the Firehall office where draw your attention to our continuing garden and creating something a little Webber, Bart St.