April 2010 www.newedinburgh.ca Photo: NEN Staff Every spring, City workers ‘cut the keys’ and break up ice dams on the Rideau River. Annual Plant Sale Rideau Key Cutting Attracts Saturday, May 8th at the Stanley Park Fieldhouse International Attention By NEN Staff the relationship between man is the only place in the world Each spring, when water flow and nature in environments that’s in an urban setting where 8 am to 4 pm reaches its peak, the City of this type of river control activ- Ottawa’s Public Works branch ity takes place every year.” undertakes ice clearing opera- Having spent part of his youth RIVER and PARK CLEANUP DAY tions on the Rideau River in Ottawa, Ciarran remembers Sponsored by NECA, the Urban Rideau Conserva�onists to allow water to flow unre- coming down to the river to stricted and reduce potential watch this amazing event. and the City of O�awa river flooding. The operations Serious spring flooding had occur between Rideau Falls been a persistent problem in SATURDAY, MAY 8, 2010 and Hog’s Back and involve a Photo: Micheline Takla the early days of what was then number of steps, including cut- City workers take a moment the fledgling community of (RAIN OR SHINE) ting of the keys, ice breaking to survey their progress from Bytown in a large part due to V��������� N�����!! and placement of an ice control the Minto Bridges. ice jams on the Rideau River. boom. Since the 1880’s the City has TIME: 10 am -1 pm This year, the Rideau River around the world. The Human carried out a flood control ice PLACE: The Fieldhouse at 193 Stanley. Flood Control Program attract- Planet episode will air in the clearing program in the form of ed the attention of the BBC. A spring of 2011 on the Canadian blasting to eliminate ice jams CONTACT: Gemma Kerr [email protected] film crew from the British tele- Discovery channel. and alleviate flooding. Today, Vickie Brennan [email protected] vision network, BBC Earth, Why film here? According to ice clearing on the Rideau R����������� ��� T-S����� ��� P�����������! were on hand to film the flood Ciarran Flannery, the associ- River helps to protect over 900 control operations for its show ate producer of the documen- structures from potential flood Human Planet, which looks at tary segment on rivers, “This damage. New Edinburgh Players Present 31st Season with G.B. Shaw’s Getting Married April 22-24; 29, 30; May writes: “At its première, [the is in the author’s estimation, a 1st; MacKay United Church play] received as what it is ‘woman’s play’.” Memorial Hall, 37 Dufferin customary to speak of a mixed To quote Mr. Shaw: “All plays Street reception; that is, the house dealing with sex questions are Getting Married — A crowded with distinguished primarily interesting to women, Conversation is what Bernard people, shook with laughter for sex is a woman’s matter, Shaw called his singular- at the constant brilliance of its while it is really quite unim- ly unconventional comedy. dialogue and, at the end of the portant to men. Women have to In it, he tried to find sev- play, some folk applauded and bear all the inconvenience and In this issue... eral substitutes for marriage some folk hissed.” She further illness and pain of sex, while but found no good one. The says, after an interview with to men it is merely a pleasure Heritage & Development . .Page 4 play, which opened at the Mr. Shaw, “For the task of giv- and a romance. To women, Arts Scene in the Burgh . .Page 8 Haymarket Theatre in London ing an account of this extraor- sex is something omnipresent, Burgh Business Briefs . .Page 10 in May 1908, was considered dinary play to American read- and they are often irritated by the most remarkable dramatic ers, I am, according to no less men, because they jest about CCCC Spring Programs . .Page 22 effort London had seen for a person than Mr. Shaw, better sex. A play, therefore, that Gardening - Easy Annuals from Seed . .Page 27 many years and, at that time, fitted than many of the talented deals with questions of sex as For the Birds . .Page 38 one of the most remarkable critics who discussed it for the mine does, is essentially inter- Breezy Bits . .Page 43 plays ever written. Catherine benefit of Londoners. This is esting to women. In reading Welsh, in her article in the because of the fact that I am a Getting Married to the people, Not the New Edinburgh News . .Page 44 Times, dated May 16, 1908, woman and, Getting Married Continued on page 7 Page 2 NEW EDINBURGH NEWS April 2010 object of bitter controversy in In other ways, too, we are 2008, when neighbours and looking toward the AGM and NECA successfully opposed a 2010–2011 working year. A NECA President plan to build six condo units current concern is succession there. This time, a proposal planning. At the AGM we hope to build four units is being to fill two NECA board seats: David Sacks made by a group headed by one seat now being vacant Burgh resident Charles Sezlik due to Karen Squires’s depar- Reports (best known locally as a real- ture, and one seat scheduled to tor for Prudential Town Centre be vacated by current NECA Realty). Mr. Sezlik has con- Secretary and stalwart Dilshad scientiously made presen- Macklem, whose two-year A warm welcome to Vickie explain aspects of Ontario’s were handled briefly and (we tations to the NECA board board tenure will end. (An Brennan, who has joined 18th-to-early-20th-century his- thought) tastefully. Insofar and to NECA’s Heritage and official farewell to Dilshad is NECA in the non–board mem- tory, through use of heritage- as NECA has been expressly Development Committee, but reserved for this column’s June ber position of Chair of the architecture locations, actors in looking for ways to promote discussion of the current plan edition.) Friends of New Edinburgh period costume, old film clips New Edinburgh’s architectural is ongoing. No date for a pub- Consequently we invite any Park committee. As park if available, and voice-over beauty and heritage—especial- lic presentation by the devel- interested New Edinburgh resi- chair, Vickie replaces Karen narration. Each video requires ly as regards to our remarkable oper has yet been set. dent to consider standing for Squires, who stepped down substantial prior scouting and Heritage Conservation District Looking ahead board election at our June 8 from both the park post and research. The finished pieces (HCD)—we are naturally most AGM, and if possible to sig- the NECA board earlier this are distributed at nominal or intrigued by Mr. Lockyer’s A NECA subcommittee head- nal this interest in advance by year, due to job commitments. no charge to local cinemas, proposal. In February the board ed by board member Joan attending our April or May Vickie, with husband Richard, broadcasters, and libraries. voted unanimously to enter into Mason and ex officio mem- board meeting as a spectator. has lived in New Edinburgh Revenue comes not so much an agreement in principle with ber Cindy Parkanyi continues NECA has a voting board of for nearly three years and has from sales but from sponsor- Mr. Lockyer, and currently we investigating technical means 12 members, who normally are come to value the park through ships—that is, local merchants are pursuing details. by which to revamp the New elected by the AGM assembly walking the family dog, Uske. paying for mention of their Drums along the Rideau? Edinburgh website and assign and who serve two-year terms, On Saturday, May 8, Vickie businesses at the start and end Speaking of the HCD… NECA a new webmaster. Burgh resi- with a choice to renew. will lead the traditional of the film. More informa- is carefully monitoring two dent Keenan Wellar is among Further on the AGM: As Mother’s Day weekend clean- tion about “History Moments” proposed building projects those providing valuable input some readers know, this is my up for the park segment south can be found at www.histor- for HCD sites. A proposal to for this project. The website second-to-last NECA column of the Keefer Street line that yliveshere.ca. enlarge a Crichton Street home is at www.newedinburgh.ca. for the newspaper. For the past remains open to the public. As At NECA’s January board is being opposed by NECA, Developments to follow. year, my plan as discussed with last year, the Park cleanup meeting, Mr. Lockyer made a insofar as the building plan’s Meanwhile, NECA is explor- with the NECA board has been will be coordinated with an short presentation and a request, dimensions exceed certain ing possible venues for our to step down as President at the Ottawa-wide Rideau riverbank to partner with NECA for an allowances in the heritage monthly board meetings, aside 2010 AGM and serve out my cleanup, sponsored by Urban intended “History Moments” overlay bylaw. NECA’s deci- from the Fieldhouse. While the final NECA year, 2010–2011, Rideau Conservationists and series of perhaps ten videos, sion to oppose follows good- Fieldhouse has been our famil- as a general board member. headed locally by NECA board on different historical aspects faith attempts by the home- iar home for years, there is While I am honoured to serve member Gemma Kerr. of New Edinburgh. According owner and the architect, on one consensus that it offers some our beautiful New Edinburgh Our sincere thanks to Vickie to terms now under discus- side, and NECA’s Heritage and disadvantages for meetings (and help defend our property for taking over as park chair.