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O•S•C•A•R© The Community Voice of Old Ottawa South Year 39 , No. 2 The Ottawa South Community Association Review FEB 2011 Havana Night at the Firehall A Sold-Out Success By M. A, Thompson to make the evening flow smoothly. Rich and velvety Cuban music was n Saturday, January 29, some performed by Caridad Cruz, (vocals/ 160 people gathered at the bongos), César Ricardo (vocals/gui- Firehall to enjoy each others’ tar/bass) and Israel Martinez (gui- O tar/vocals). No one could resist the company amid the sounds, and smells of Cuba. music’s call to hum and move, making Havana Night was sponsored the dance floor sway with salsa. by OSWATCH of the Ottawa South Tasty ethnic Cuban food was pre- Community Centre in support of the pared by Oslaide Guerra of the Havana Friends of Lansdowne. Mary Martel- Cafe & Catering. Beer, Mojito and Cantelon, her husband Peter, Gra- Pina Colada were served at the bar. ham Deline and his wife Patti were Many items were on offer at the the chief organizers, with Gwen Gall silent auction. , her husband Greg Riley, and OSCA All proceeds are going to the Executive Deirdre McQuillan helping Friends of Lansdowne legal challenge.

Fire at Harvey’s Restaurant By M. A. Thompson

fire was reported at Harvey’s Restaurant, south of Billings Bridge on January 24, at 1:30 am. A26 firefighters and 10 fire trucks came to put out the fire that was caused by a faulty electronic appliance located on the store front counter. The fire, which the Ottawa Fire Services determined to be acci- dental, was contained to the counter and the ceiling near the source of the fire, but there was significant smoke damage throughout the restaurant and it will be closed until repairs can be made. Build- ing damages are estimated to be $200,000 with contents’ damage estimated at $100,000. Page 2 The OSCAR - OUR 38th YEAR FEB 2011 For Everyone a Garden – Firehall Art Prject By Deborah Margo

am thrilled and honoured to be creating a public art commission I destined for the Old Ottawa South Community Centre, better known as the Firehall. Once completed, the art work will be located immediately in front of the original fire station doors, where the current recycling containers stand. Easily viewed from the outside as well as the inside of the building, it will be free-standing relief consisting of ten punctured and embossed copper panels, mounted on a tension cable system. Both natural and artificial light will pass through the punctured holes with the sculpted relief functioning as a celebratory beacon of the newly renovated facility. All of the imagery destined for the copper panels is being created in consultation with the community. You are now invited to contribute to the growing archive focusing One of the first submissions to For Everyone a Garden: David Chernushenko and Marie-Odile Junker’s poppies on garden spaces and/or favourite recreational spaces in Old Ottawa South. Highlighting the possibilities drawings, stories, poems… Some of big oak tree, please share them. Do Please indicate your material is for of growth and change from different the wonderful submissions received you have a favourite plant in your Deborah Margo and/or For Everyone perspectives, all age groups are this past week include a sensational garden that you have documented? If a Garden. The submission deadline invited to participate – both adults and picture of orange poppies in full so, don’t be shy – show it off! What is February 28, 2011. If you have children. bloom and a poignant story of an Old about pictures of turtles or frogs seen any questions, please contact me at What do I hope to receive? The Ottawa South maple tree that was near the river? [email protected]. following is just a beginning of the tapped for sap, then boiled down to Submissions can be dropped To see how For Everyone a possibilities: dried plants or flowers, make syrup. Other ideas: if you have off at the Firehall or sent to Garden is growing, you can visit collected seeds, photographs, lists, drawings or leaves gathered from the [email protected]. www.oldottawasouth.ca. FEB 2011 The OSCAR - OUR 38th YEAR Page 3

CONTRIBUTIONS The OSCAR The OTTAWA SOUTH COMMUNITY Contributions should be in electronic format sent either by e-mail to ASSOCIATION REVIEW [email protected] in either plain text or WORD format, or as a printed copy delivered to the Firehall office, 260 Sunnyside Avenue. 260 Sunnyside Ave, Ottawa Ontario, K1S 0R7 www.OldOttawaSouth.ca/oscar SUBSCRIPTIONS Please Note: OSCAR Has No Fax Moving away from Old Ottawa South? Know someone who would like E-mail: [email protected] to receive The OSCAR? We will send The OSCAR for one year for just $40 to Canadian addresses (including foreign service) and $80 outside Editor: Mary Anne Thompson of Canada. Drop us a letter with your name, address, postal code and [email protected] country. Please include a check made out to The OSCAR. 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March 18 (April issue), April 15 (May issue), May 13 businesses and selected locations in Old Ottawa South, the Glebe and (June issue), June 10 (July/Aug issue), Aug 12 (Sept issue) Billings Bridge. Opinions expressed are those of the authors and not necessarily of The OSCAR or OSCA. The editor retains the right to edit and include articles submitted for publication. The Old Firehall FOR DISTRIBUTION INQUIRIES, Ottawa South Community Centre CALL 613-327-9080 or email: [email protected] The OSCAR thanks [email protected] the following people who brought us to your door this month: HOURS PHONE 613 247-4946 ZONE A1: Kathy Krywicki (Coordinator), Mary Jo Lynch, Brian Eames and Kim Barclay, Wendy Robbins, Jim and Carrol Robb, Terri-Lee Lefebvre, MONDAY TO THURSDAY 9 AM TO 9 PM Becky Sasaki, Kevin and Stephanie Williams. FRIDAY 9 AM TO 6 PM ZONE B1: Ross Imrie (Coordinator), Family Gref- Innes, Gabriela Gref-Innes and Fiona Fagan, the Montgomery family, Laurie Morrison, SATURDAY 9 AM TO 1 PM* Susanne Ledbetter. SUNDAY CLOSED ZONE B2: Craig Piche (Coordinator), Pat Eakins, Laine Mow, Hayley *Open only when programs are operating, please call first. Atkinson, Leslie Roster, Kathy Krywicki. ZONE C1: Laura Johnson (Coordinator), the Williams family, Josh Rahaman, Lynne Myers, Jeff Pouw, Curt LaBond, Brendan McCoy, Bruce Grant, and the Woroniuk-Ryan family. WHAT’S THAT NUMBER? ZONE C2: Craig Piche (Coordinator), Alan McCullough, Owain O’Connor, Curt LaBond, Charles and Phillip Kijek, Sam & Avery Piche, Kit Jenkin, Michel and Christina Bridgeman. Ottawa South Community Centre - The Old Firehall 247-4946 ZONE D1: Bert Hopkins (Coordinator), Emily Keys, the Lascelles family, Ottawa South Community Association (OSCA) 247-4872 Gail Stewart, Gabe Teramura, Oliver Waddington, Sullivan-Greene family, Ottawa Public Library - Sunnyside Branch 730-1082 the Sprott family. Rob Campbell - [email protected] 730-8128 ZONE D2: Janet Drysdale (Coordinator), The Adriaanse Family, Gaia Kathy Ablett, Catholic Board Trustee 526-9512 Chernushenko, The Rand family, Aidan and Willem Ray, the Stewart family. Centretown Community Health Centre 233-5430 ZONE E1:Brian Tansey(Coordinator), the Rae Brown-Clarke Family (esp. CARLETON UNIVERSITY Katie), Anna Cuylits, Sutherland family (esp. Edwina and John), Sanger- CUSA (Carleton U Students Association) 520-6688 O’Neil family. Graduate Students Association 520-6616 ZONE E2: Chris Berry (Coordinator), Mary-Ann Kent, Glen Elder and Community Liaison 520-3660 Lorraine Stewart, the Hunter family, Brodkin-Haas family, Allan Paul, Mediation Centre 520-5765 Christina Bradley, Caroline Calvert, Larry Ostler. Athletics 520-4480 ZONE F1: Carol and Ferg O’Connor (Coordinator), Jenny O’Brien, the CITY HALL Stern family, T. Liston, Ellen Bailie, Dante and Bianca Ruiz, Wendy Kemp, Kelly Haggart and Taiyan Roberts, Walter and Robbie Engert. David Chernushenko, City Councillor ZONE F2: Bea Bol (Coordinator), Paulette Theriault, Ryan Zurakowski, ([email protected]) 580-2487 Susan McMaster, Paige Raymond, Pierre Guevremont, Judy and Pierre Main Number(24 hrs) for all departments 3-1-1 Chamberland, Cheryl Hyslop. Community Police - non-emergencies 236-1222 ZONE G: Bernie Zeisig(Coordinator), Claudia and Estelle Bourlon- Emergencies only 9-1-1 Albarracin, David Lum, Cindy MacLoghlin, Hannah and Emily Blackwell, Serious Crimes 230-6211 Katya and Mikka Zeisig. Ottawa Hydro 738-6400 Echo Drive: Alex Bissel. Streetlight Problems (burned out, always on, flickering) 3-1-1 Bank Street-Ottawa South: Rob Cook, Tom Lawson, Paula Archer. Brewer Pool 247-4938 Bank Street-Glebe: Larry Ostler. Brewer Arena 247-4917 Alta Vista Branch Library: Mary Anne Thompson City of Ottawa web site - www.city.ottawa.on.ca Page 4 The OSCAR - OUR 38th YEAR FEB 2011 Brief Notes From the Firehall

FEBRUARY at the Firehall PROGRAMS We would like to try new programs at the Firehall - what else would you like to participate in at the Firehall – WINTER PROGRAMS have started. Among the many programs we are running, we run 21 different adult fitness classes with contact us? a total of 402 participants. Last year we had 262 participants in our adult fitness programs – a great testament to the wonderful new space SPECIAL EVENTS at the Firehall . WINTER CARNIVAL – GYMNASTICS has grown – we now have 4 different classes and Sunday, February 6 from 11am to 2 pm – Windsor Park – two of them are full, the others have only one or two spaces available. free sleigh rides, hot dogs, drinks, games etc. Bring your DOG for the Dog Games. Bring your CHILI for the chili GARDEN CLUB – February 8 Indoor Gardening with Miniature Landscapes, with members of the African Violet Society. contest, bring your BREAD for the bread contest – great prizes for all contests. MARCH BREAK CAMPS – along with our general camps we ------are offering specialty camps, which include, Gymnastics, Pottery, Sports, and Gaming Camp. INFORMATION and REGISTRATION for all OSCA programs at: www.oldottawasouth.ca - just follow the RED registration signs or call WINDSOR PARK RINKS – up and running thanks to manager, us at Peter Blakeman and an army of volunteers. 613-247-4946 or drop by the Firehall at 260 Sunnyside Avenue. March Break Camps At The Ottawa South Community Centre

arch Break is fast approach- loco motor skills, games, snacks, 8:00 am—4:00 pm ing and the Firehall has a crafts, and work on all of the gym- $236 full day Half Day Monday - Friday, Mvariety of camps available nastic equipment. Campers will be 9:00 am – 12:00 pm organized by our experienced staff grouped by age and ability. Coordin- Monday to Friday March 14 - March 18 Dave Ho, Darcy Middaugh, Aletha ator: Dave Ho March 14 – 18 $126 Phillips and Steve Winsor. Some of 8:00 am—12:00 pm After Care, 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm our camps are almost full so register Participants must be 3 years old by $126 half day $25 soon. March 14, 2011 and be fully toilet trained. After Care 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm March Quest Everything But The Kitch- Full Week: $25 / Single Day $10 Grade 1 - 12 years of age en Sink - March Break Monday to Friday, 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm Firehall March Fun filled program which includes 4 Edition March 14 – March 18 bus trips, sports, crafts, games, cook- Jr. and Sr. Kindergarten $95 Break Sports Camp 6 – 9 years ing and much more. Our experienced staff await your child(ren) for a fun- Why should the big kids have all the tastic week. Coordinator: Darcy Mid- fun during March Break? Children Come join the fun at the Firehall’s March Break Pottery daugh in Jr. and Sr. Kindergarten will have Multi-Sports Camp. Ottawa South’s a blast in this fun filled program. Camp favourite Sports Instructor Dave Ho Monday - Friday, Sports, cooking, stories, games, sci- 9 – 14 years will pack each morning with fun from 8:00 am – 4:00 pm ence and more…. Participants should beginning to end. A wide variety of March 15 - March 19 be fully toilet trained Coordinator: Al- Participants will be exposed to both sports are offered such as basketball, $160 etha Phillips creative hand building and wheel floor hockey, soccer, football, dodge- throwing. Decorating with colourful ball and more. Mornings are spent at glazes will also be covered. Geared Hopewell and afternoons in a var- After Care, Monday - Friday, 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm 9:00 am – 1:00 pm to both beginners and experienced iety of recreational activities includ- students. Half day option available. ing swimming, movie…. Dave will $25 March 14 - March 18 Includes five mornings of pottery in- emphasise fun, fitness, skill develop- $113 struction (9:00 am – 12:30 pm), five ment, sportsmanship and cooperative afternoons of recreational activities play. Half Day Option Available Co- Registration is underway on-line at Junior Tumblers (swimming, cooking, movie...). Half ordinator: Dave Ho www.oldottawasouth.ca, by phone 613-247-4946 on in-person at the Ot- Gymnastic Camp Day Option Available tawa South Community Centre 260 3 – 5 years Instructor Klara Bruuehlmann Full Day Monday - Friday, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm Sunnyside Ave. Geared to the energetic preschooler, Monday to Friday March 14 - March 18 this camp will include stretch and March 14 – 18 $160 FEB 2011 The OSCAR - OUR 38th YEAR Page 5

OSCA PRESIDENT’S REPORT Lansdowne, Firehall Public Art, and Winter Canrival

By Michael Jenkin multiple uses depending on the events endeavour through our website and will be illuminated at night. This is going on elsewhere at Lansdowne, the the OSCAR to get information out to a great opportunity for you to have a Lansdowne – Designing The time of the year and the demand for you on these sessions as soon as the say in what design elements will be Park certain kinds of activities. Some areas dates and locations are known. Please in this important piece of public art are proposed to be public spaces all do make an effort to come out when and that, in your view, best symbolize With all the problems attached the time and may not be programmed the consultations are held as, given or represent the community you live to the commercial and sports side of at all to ensure circulation on the site all the problems we have had with the in. Do take some time to respond to Lansdowne we often lose sight of and space for purely public use that commercial side of the Lansdowne Deborah’s appeal and contribute your the other part of the development, we have in ordinary parks. Other proposals, getting this public part of ideas; who knows your idea could be the actual park which will occupy areas could be used to a greater or the development right, and reflecting one of the designs immortalized for a large part of the site, particularly lesser extent for varying purposes community needs and aspirations, all to see as they enter the Firehall! that part of it facing the Driveway from concerts or private events (e.g. will be important. and the Rideau Canal. The company receptions) or events where admission Winter Carnival that won the design competition for would be charged. One of the items Public Art at the Firehall the park portion of the development, to be looked at will be a potentially Our annual Winter Carnival Phillips, Farevaag and Smallenberg expanded and full time Farmer’s When we were planning the will take place in Windsor Park this (PFS) a Vancouver based landscape Market near the Aberdeen Pavilion, renovation of the Firehall a small part coming Sunday, February 6 between and urban design firm, has been doing or perhaps for part of the year in the of the construction budget was set 11:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. This is preliminary soundings based on their winter, in the Aberdeen Pavilion or aside to commission a piece of art for always a well attended event and winning design. They briefed me the Horticulture Building. installation in the building, consistent you can join in the turkey toss, sleigh recently on some of their preliminary What the PFS people really want to with city policy on art in public rides and of course our famous chilli findings and they look interesting. do is to get input from the community buildings. Last year a competition cook off. It’s a great opportunity to The areas under examination are on some of the preliminary ideas about was held to choose a project from a meet your neighbours who, like you, those around the Aberdeen Pavilion, the use of the park. They also want to number of proposals submitted by have been hibernating and therefore the Pavilion itself, the Horticulture find out from us what other uses we local artists. As you will see in this been invisible since Christmas and to Building which, if Heritage approvals would like to see in the park and the issue of the OSCAR, the artist who have some fun with the kids. If you are finalized, will be located north- kinds of infrastructure or landscaping won the competition, Deborah Margo, would like to help out, or to submit west of the Pavilion and the large that would need to be in place to is seeking community input into the an entry in the chilli or bread baking lawn area to the south of the Pavilion support those activities. Right now design elements to be incorporated contest, please visit our website for and the adjacent water feature. the thinking is a consultation process into the project’s copper panels. The details (www.oldottawasouth.ca). The watch word so far is to make involving the Glebe and Old Ottawa panels will be suspended in front of Everything is free, but donations for the space as flexible as possible so South in the latter part of February, one of the former doors to the fire food are gratefully received! that the same location could serve or perhaps somewhat later. We will engine bays in the entry vestibule and Upcoming Renovation Workshop With Old Ottawa South Resident Paul Denys

he Ottawa South Community than hoped for if you don’t know what designer who specializes in design, you did! Cost is $15. You can see Centre 260 Sunnyside Ave. is you’re doing! Paul Denys specializes building and restoration, Mr. Denys one of Paul’s award winning pro- Thosting “Kitchen, Bathroom in everything from modern renova- will showcase some of his past reno- jects at http://www.youtube.com/ Renovations and Beyond” workshop tions to historic restorations and often vations and open the floor to your watch?v=RyflWN4vPNY on Wednesday, February 16, 7:00pm a unique fusion of the two...he knows questions. Register on-line on the OSCA web- – 8:30pm. Renovating can be reward- what works, how much it will cost Come along and hear from the site, in person at the Ottawa South ing BUT...it can also cost too much, and how best to get it done. An award expert before you take the plunge Community Centre or over the phone take too long and results can be less winning Ottawa based carpenter and into home renovation...you’ll be glad 613-247-4946. Page 6 The OSCAR - OUR 38th YEAR FEB 2011 Lansdowne Park The 3 Options for Lansdowne City Of Ottawa Grossly Park at the moment: Misrepresented Lansdowne Option Cost to Taxpayer Park Financial Impacts

1. OSEG developer $340M ($179M financed) Half privatized ne of Canada’s leading investigative accounting firms, Toronto-based Rosen and Associates, has 2. City with no partner $112M (AG report) 100% public produced a scathing review of the business plan 3. Conservancy/NBBJ $0M (self financing) 100% public O for the Lansdowne Partnership Plan (LPP). In a report prepared for the Friends of Lansdowne Legal Challenge, The requirements that each meet are: the firm contradicts the City’s claim that the plan will be revenue neutral and concludes that the Lansdowne Part- 1. Stadium nership Plan may result in a City deficit of between $111 2. Green Space and $208 million dollars. 3. Revenue Model The Rosen report is the first independent financial 4. Governance Model review of the Lansdowne project. In the firm’s expert opinion, the business case prepared for the LPP by There is no reset, all meet the requirements set out by council. PricewaterhouseCoopers has multiple conceptual and technical deficiencies and as a result “the analysis is not All that needs to be determined is supplier. reliable and tends to grossly misrepresent the probable The Conservancy welcomes an open bid for other interested suppliers financial impacts of the LPP to the City.” to confirm best value for the City of Ottawa taxpayer. The report also concludes that “the project’s finan- Both the City alone option and the Conservancy/NBBJ cial terms raise serious concerns” as the “City will pro- option have two additional benefits by not having intensification vide the majority of the required investment but the Ot- at Lansdowne Park. tawa Sports and Entertainment Group will receive the greater proportion of the cash distributions.” In other Additional Savings for our City words, taxpayers will fund most of the project, but the Firstly, The towers, commercial and residential will be built elsewhere developers will reap most of the profits. adding 100% of the property tax to the City general tax pool. Rosen & Associates Limited was retained by Friends Secondly, there would be lower traffic levels, and with a more of Lansdowne Inc, Doug Ward and Gary Sealey to reply to evidence by the City of Ottawa and its private sec- spacious park restored in a heritage fashion, increased tourism. tor partner, the Ottawa Sports and Entertainment Group, Anticipated increase to the City of Ottawa under these two options claiming that the Lansdowne Plan favours the City’s in- add an estimated annual $35M in direct and indirect benefit to the terests. City of Ottawa. FOL has filed an application with the Ontario Su- perior Court to quash Ottawa City Council decisions Voici les 3 options pour le parc Lansdowne à l’heure actuelle: approving the public private partnership scheme to re- develop Lansdowne Park. FOL contends that the City Option Coût pour les contribuables Parc acted unlawfully by approving the scheme without competitive bids or otherwise complying with City bylaws, Développeur OSEG 340M $ ($179M financé) À mi-privé and by failing to meet the standard of good faith deci- Ville sans partenaire 112M $ (rapport du vérificateur général) sion-making required of municipal officials. The Rosen report and a backgrounder can be found at 100% public http://www.letsgetitright.ca/. CPL / NBBJ public 0M $ (autofinancé) 100% public

Toutes les options rencontrent les exigences requises par la ville : Stop The Folly

1. Un stade By Attending 2. Des espaces verts 3. Un modèle de revenus The Follies! 4. Un modèle de gouvernance elp stop the folly at Lansdowne by attending Il n’est pas nécessaire de recommencer tout le processus, puisque toutes the Lansdowne Follies on February 5th, 4 p.m. les options sont conformes aux exigences énoncées par le conseil. Hat the Mayfair Theatre. In doing so, you will Ce qui reste à déterminer c’est le choix du fournisseur. help support our legal challenge as well as experience Conservation du Parc Lansdowne (CPL) fera un appel d’offres afin de a unique blend of entertainment and information. Feel permettre le meilleur rapport qualité-prix pour les contribuables d’Ottawa. the beat of the country-roots stylings of Juno award winner Lynn Miles. Enjoy CFMA English Songwriter of the Les deux options, soit «Ville sans partenaire» et «CPL / NBBJ public» Year winner Ian Tamblyn as he performs two original offrent l’avantage de ne pas avoir d’intensification commerciale et résidentielle dans Lansdowne-inspired songs. We are also proud to wel- le parc Lansdowne. come Giller award winner Elizabeth Hay, who will offer us a reading selected especially for the occasion. On the Économies supplémentaires pour la ville: information side, our intrepid lawyer, Steven Shrybman, will give us an update on the legal proceedings. Our ob- Tout d’abord, les tours, les bureaux et les grands magasins ainsi que les nouvelles jective is nothing less than a sell-out at the Mayfair. This résidences seront construits ailleurs, ce qui ajoutera 100% des impôts fonciers would send a very strong message to both the city and au revenu de taxes général. the media. Please help make this happen by buying a Deuxièmement, il y aura un niveau de circulation automobile plus faible, un parc plus ticket and urging those you know to do likewise. Tickets spacieux restauré dans le respect du patrimoine et un tourisme qui se développera de cost $30 and are available at Compact Music, 190 and 785-A Bank St.; the Ottawa F olklore Centre, 1111 Bank manière importante. St.; and the Mayfair Theatre, 1076 Bank St. Les avantages financiers directs et indirects pour la Ville d’Ottawa des deux options «Ville sans partenaire» et «LPC / NBBJ public» sont estimés à $35M par an. FEB 2011 The OSCAR - OUR 38th YEAR Page 7

CITY COUNCILLOR’S REPORT

Capital Ward Walks: Let’s Capitalize On Your Knowledge Of Our Neighbourhood

By David Chernushenko Environment Committee, the Ottawa lighting in public spaces to community me and to help Board of Health, Crime Prevention partnerships with the police. me represent ife is interesting for a rookie Ottawa, the Rideau Valley Conservation The Rideau Valley Conservation your concerns at City Hall. councillor! There are many Authority, and the Lansdowne Park Authority is also a good fit — clean Pierre Sadik, who has many years people to meet, procedures to Design Review Panel. drinking water, natural shorelines, of experience in working with elected L As a member of the Transportation and sustainable land use are important officials at all levels of government, learn, meetings to attend and reports to read. Now that I’m more or less up to Committee, I welcome the opportunity throughout the Rideau Valley watershed, has joined my office as Senior Policy speed, I want to tell you what’s keeping to make recommendations to Council which includes Capital Ward. This inter- Advisor. Among other responsibilities, me busy at City Hall. But first, I want to on encouraging walking, cycling and municipal environmental protection he is my office’s point of contact with share my idea for Capital Ward Walks as public transit use, and on minimizing and advisory agency works with local the Old Ottawa South community. You a way of tapping into local knowledge. neighbourhood traffic and air pollution municipalities, government agencies, can reach him at 613-580-2424 ext. You, the residents of Old Ottawa in the context of the City of Ottawa’s special interest groups and the public 26693, or [email protected]. South and other neighbourhoods, have Official Plan and the Transportation to protect the Rideau River watershed’s Councillor’s Assistant Catherine Henry excellent insight into how we can Master Plan. natural resources. is a great carry-over from Councillor strengthen the urban core. I’ve devised On the Environment Committee, I am especially pleased to be on Clive Doucet’s office. She has an Capital Ward Walks as an alternative I lend my expertise to issues of the Lansdowne Park Design Review excellent knowledge of local issues, so to sitting down with people to hear energy conservation and generation, Panel. In this role, I am providing I am grateful she will continue working what you have to say. Instead, I want water supply, wastewater and solid input on improving the redevelopment for the residents of this ward. Anne to explore our community with you on waste treatment and disposal, and plans for the site. We are paying Lemay also has previous experience foot, so you can show me what works environmental protection, along with particular attention to the urban park, as a Councillor’s Assistant, and is and what doesn’t, and share with me the administration and maintenance of to public areas within the mixed-use indispensable to keeping our office firsthand your vision for a more liveable open spaces, trees and the urban forest. part of the site, to traffic circulation running smoothly. Anouk Hoedeman city. I intend to lead monthly walks in As one of six city councillors and and calming, parking, building design is providing her expertise as my different areas of the ward, each with a five public representatives on the brand- (including locations and heights), Communications Advisor, developing theme or objective. Some of the walks new Board of Health, I help oversee and to the integration of Lansdowne my website and other tools to help me will be in French, and we’ll video key City programs and services in the areas with the surrounding neighbourhood. reach out to the community. stops when possible and post short of health protection, health promotion, As a member of the Design Review As your Councillor, I welcome your summaries online for those who can’t disease and risk factor surveillance, and Panel, I hope to be able to influence questions, comments and suggestions participate directly. injury and disease prevention. the final design in ways that benefit the on how I can best serve you. Watch my new website, www. I believe the most effective surrounding community and the city as capitalward.ca, for details about way to fight crime is to address the a whole. David Chernushenko upcoming Capital Ward Walks, and underlying causes, so I am a strong Because of these varied Councillor for Capital Ward please let me know if you have ideas for supporter of Crime Prevention Ottawa responsibilities, and because the City of Ottawa themes or issues we can explore. and happy to serve on its board. This residents of Old Ottawa South are so 613-580-2487 But back to City Hall. I am agency helps make communities safer engaged in their community, I’m happy [email protected] thrilled to have been appointed to through collaborative crime reduction to have four dedicated staff members www.capitalward.ca the Transportation Committee, the initiatives that range from support supporting my work. They are here to for keeping youth in school to proper answer your calls and emails, to advise Page 8 The OSCAR - OUR 38th YEAR FEB 2011

Residential Infill Housing Public OSCA Annual Winter Carnival...

Meeting Tuesday, February 22 unday FEb. 6th ( not 5th as previously reported) at Windsor Park, 11- at 2. Free hotdogs, drinks, games and sleigh rides (Provided by Tracy SArnett) and the annual Turkey Toss! Best chilli contests ( veg, meat and spicy) and Best Bread contest( bring entries to park by noon) St. Matthew’s Church – see www.oldottawasouth.ca or call 247 4946 for more information Join OSCA in a celebration of winter. Free hotdogs, drinks, games, 217 First Ave in the Glebe sleigh rides ( courtesy of Tracy Arnett) and dog games. Local vendors on site, raffle prizes and the annual Turkey Toss contest! Enter our Best Chilli at 7:15 p.m. ( vegetarian, meat or spicy) contest and Best Bread contest. Please bring entries clearly labelled to the park by noon. Judging after 1. A great day to celebrate winter with your friends and neighbours and of course to hurl a By Brendan McCoy, wards have been informed about the frozen turkey across the ice!!! Feb. 6th Windsor Park ...11-2.. OSWatch Co-Chair project. Initial findings suggest that there are opportunities to improve his is an important issue the local impact of small scale which OSWatch has been infill. You can read more about the working on for the last year findings at ottawa.ca/infill. The City Calling all Artists T will be hosting a series of public for the Community Association. consultation meetings to present The development at 71 Hopewell is By Brenda Lee an example of what is wrong with the findings and explore possible solutions to address patterns of infill infill, and this study is a direct result he OSCA Special Events Committee is pleased to announce the first of the failings that have become housing that appear to have a negative impact on neighbourhoods. All ever Spring Craft Show at the Firehall! Following the success of the apparent in that process. The City’s Shop Your Local Talent Winter Event and inspired by the many vend- Planning and Growth Management interested residents of Old Ottawa T South are encouraged to come out ors who expressed an interest, we have planned our Spring Craft Fair for Department is undertaking a study of April 10th 2001. small scale, residential infill housing. and participate. There are four public consultation meetings; the closest one A great opportunity to do some spring, Easter, Mother’s Day shopping! The work stems from concerns Tables are 30 dollars each ( a slight increase due to increased rental expressed by citizens and community is in the Glebe on Feb. 22. The local consultation will be at costs) and online registration begins on March 1st! You can also register at groups, including OSCA, about the the Firehall in person. impacts of new infill housing on their St. Matthew’s Church, 217 First Ave. in the Glebe on Tuesday, February 22 We ask that all items be original, self made articles. For more informa- neighbourhoods. tion please call 613 247 4946. The study has focussed on (7:15 – 9:15pm) inner city wards (12, 13, 14, 15 and 17) and the Councillors in these

Taoist Tai Chi™ Comes to Old Ottawa South

By Lisa Carter, a member the traditional internal arts he was a beginner class. I immediately loved are taught the 108 moves in the Taoist since 2007 heir to. Having suffered from serious the slow, graceful movements and felt Tai Chi™ set. Having completed health problems as a boy, Master Moy a sense of camaraderie in the class. this three-month course, continuing t. Margaret Mary Church Hall, was able to recover through studying The more I practiced, the more energy students then work on refining those on the corner of Sunnyside Tai Chi, Taoist meditation I had, the more I developed an overall same 108 moves as a form of health and Fairbairn, is now home to and other traditional internal arts. sense of well-being, and the more training that works on the physical, S He then vowed to make these arts flexible my middle-aged body started mental and spiritual dimensions of a location of the Ottawa Branch of the Taoist Tai Chi Society of Canada. available to all who wished to learn to feel. I also increasingly felt part of a our being. Classes are held five mornings a them. Though Master Moy passed community – one of the great benefits Evening classes are held in the week, from 10 a.m. to noon. The away in 1998, the international non- of the Taoist Tai Chi Society™. Glebe, at 91A Fourth Avenue, from Society’s history in Ottawa, however, profit society he founded and built Run almost entirely by volunteers 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. dates back 34 years, and over 40 years continues on as he envisioned it. (with all instructors being trained Health Recovery classes are also in Canada. I joined the Society in 2007, not volunteers), the atmosphere is a offered at the Carling Centre. These Master Moy Lin-shin, a Taoist long after I moved to Ottawa. Having welcoming one where everyone enable people with chronic illnesses, monk from Hong Kong, immigrated wanted to try Tai Chi for many years, works together. One example of this or those who are recovering from to Toronto in 1970, and began teaching I was determined to finally sign up for is the tea break, held part way through injuries, to incorporate Taoist Tai every class and that Master Moy Chi™ internal arts and methods into considered an integral part of the Tai their recovery as a complementary Chi practice. Everyone pitches in to therapy. pour tea and pass it around, to wash Members pay a one-time dishes and tidy up the space when registration fee and then a monthly we are done. Another is the banquets membership fee. (There are adult, that are held at our Carling Avenue senior and student rates.) This location a few times a year, in which membership allows you to practice members plan, cook and prepare sit- as often as you want, at any of the 9 down meals for up to 250 diners! locations in the Ottawa branch, as well Since one of the aims and as at any of the sister organizations in objectives of the Society is to help over 25 countries around the world! others, it takes an active part in the Going to Aruba or Costa Rica for a communities where classes are held winter vacation? Feel free to pop in, by supporting women’s shelters, say hello and join a class. raising funds for relief efforts, and, of More information can be found course, by making Taoist Tai Chi™ by visiting the Society’s website at internal arts of health available to all www.taoist.org, or by calling the who want to learn them. Carling Centre at 613-233-2318. We A beginner class will be starting look forward to seeing you at one of at St. Margaret Mary Church Hall on the classes held at St. Margaret Mary Thursday, February 3. In it, students Church. FEB 2011 The OSCAR - OUR 38th YEAR Page 9 THE BIG PICTURE The Thirty Day, Americana-Free Diet

By Michael Honeywell- Why is this necessary? Is this because or the controversial Kennedys, although while. But to hit the 30 day mark, disci- Canadians actually know more about partly produced in Canada - the stories pline will be key. And like any diet, be- Dobbin U.S. politics than Canadian politics and themselves are about as Canadian as a ing successful means not succumbing need the reference? It’s a question that’s dinner at Medieval Times. to that which is readily available, but re you up for the challenge? perhaps too heart-breaking to answer. Switching off the television may in developing the ability to work a little Can you go for a full thirty So where does this U.S.-myopia not prove any more useful in keeping harder in seeking out what you’re try- days without consuming any A come from? As awful as the compari- one faithful to the Americana-fee diet. ing to accomplish. Today, the all Can- U.S. cultural product whatsoever? That son is: in the prioritizing of news, for If you think a night at the movies could adiana diet is a little more work, but means no television, movies, radio, example, why does a house fire in Buf- fill the gap, keep in mind that 90% of well worth the benefits. Coming to not music, books or magazines of U.S. ori- falo trump a train wreck in Germany, or cinemas in this country are owned by only understand, but to revel in the rich gin. Are you up for the challenge? a cold snap in the U.K.? The U.S. is a U.S. companies. To add insult to injury, cultural bounty that our country has to The irony that CTV boasts the great country, but it is only one country Canadian theatrical distributors rely on offer means you, in your own way, will slogan “Canadian Television” is hard after all. output deals that see the majority of become part of a greater cultural awak- to miss. The network’s programming It’s no secret that a successful regi- their releases come from the U.S. mar- ening that could be on the horizon, if choices make it about as Canadian as men requires a bit of exercise. So on ket. Canadian films currently account you become part of it first. apple pie and baseball. The network this note, why not flex your intellectual for less than 3% of screen time in our The purpose of the Americana-free spends the vast majority of its acquisi- muscle and write a letter to the CRTC? cinemas. Although home video, and diet is not in any way to pay insult or tion dollars on content of U.S. origin, Their online commentary submission digital platforms like video-on-demand wish injury upon that great and raucous while investing miniscule amounts in is fairly low-impact. The broadcast li- provide some better access to Canadian republic to the south of us, but rather to Canadian commissioning and produc- cense renewal hearings are coming up titles, you have to know what you’re cut through its self-celebrating white tion. Granted, CTV has produced some for CTV this month and you can make looking for, and the vast majority of noise and actually seek out what is near great Canadian content such as Corner your demands for more Canadiana Canadian marketing dollars for this and dear to us as Canadians. Surely, be- Gas, which for a time was in the top ten known. Visit https://services.crtc.gc.ca content is spent on pushing U.S. titles. ing Canadian cannot and should not be most watched shows in Canada. But if In any case, one might assume that Discouraged yet? Don’t be! Even if about not being American, but until we American Idol or the C.S.I. franchises the first place to turn for a wider world screen content leaves some slim pick- each make this country and its vibrant don’t give Canadian viewers a steady view would be our national broadcaster. ings for those hungry for Canadiana, culture and history our own, that’s the enough, ‘round the clock, fast food diet But on careful examination, it’s not dif- this country has continued to punch default to which we will revert time and of Americana, then NFL football or ficult to diagnose that the CBC is also above its weight in the realms of books time again. U.S. sitcoms like Big Bang Theory or morbidly obese on Americana. Have and recorded music. So, a marathon of Perhaps generations of condition- Two and Half Men in prime time can fill you ever wondered how much it costs quiet nights in, with a Canadian author ing to accept U.S. culture as our own is in those hunger gaps. you as a taxpayer for the network to li- and a playlist of carefully vetted Can- a tough habit to break… But isn’t that Even the network’s national news cense an episode of Wheel of Fortune adian music might tide you over for a what diets are for? churns out a steady diet of top stor- or Jeopardy? Or how about the Sunday ies predominantly from the U.S. news night movies? When was the last time feeds. If every Canadian shared the you saw a Canadian film on CBC dur- world view that Lloyd Robertson pro- ing prime time? jects, we might actually believe that Although the CBC chooses to brush fires in Los Angeles are far more spend much of its acquisition dollars on important to Canadians than a consti- U.S. content, to its credit, the network tutional crisis on home soil. For CTV, does spend a proportionally higher even distinctly Canadian news events amount than other networks on Can- are quickly brought into U.S. compari- adian production. The downside is that sons. For example, Harper’s habit of their decisions on what to commission forced prorogation immediately leads is consistently on stories that lack any to comparisons of the U.S. system of Canadian roots. Celebrated series such government as a qualifier for our own. as The Tutors, and Pillars of the Earth, Red Apron Recipes (February 2008) Wild Mushroom Risotto

½ cup (125 ml) dried wild local based saucepan and add the onion mushrooms and garlic. Sauté over a gentle heat 4 cups (1 l) water for 2-3 minutes, until softened. Stir 2 tablespoon (30 ml) olive oil in the rice and coat in the oil. Pour 1 onion, finely chopped in the wine and simmer, stirring, 2 garlic cloves, finely chopped until the liquid has been absorbed. 2 cups (500 ml) arborio rice Roughly chop the soaked mushrooms ½ cup (125 ml) dry white wine and stir into the risotto. Add a ladle- 2 tablespoons (30ml) chopped green ful of the reserved mushroom liquid onions and simmer, stirring again, until the ½ cup (125 ml) full cream liquid has been absorbed. Continue salt and freshly ground black pepper adding the liquid in this way, until all 3 tablespoons (45 ml) freshly grated the liquid has been absorbed and the parmesan cheese rice is plump and tender. Add the green onions, parmesan Bring 4 cups of water to a boil. and cream. Season with salt and pep- Remove from heat and add dried per and serve. mushrooms. Let stand for 15 minutes and strain mushrooms – reserve For other Red Apron recipes see liquid. pages, 11 and 17 Heat the oil in a large, heavy Page 10 The OSCAR - OUR 38th YEAR FEB 2011 OOS Women’s Business Network Welcomes New Members By Nicola Maule FITMOM Arrives in OOS

re you a woman with a business idea that Old Ottawa South resident Susan McDonald you would like to launch? Perhaps you took the plunge in the fall of 2010 and left her job as Ahave just started a business or you want to an accountant to make her passion for fitness her full take it to the next level? If you answered yes to one time job. Susan is the owner of FITMOM Ottawa, of these questions, then the OOS Women’s Business a fitness program that specializes in prenatal and Network is worth checking out. The purpose of postnatal fitness classes. The classes are all taught the network is to provide support, education and by Susan who has special pre/post natal fitness networking for members of the community. training as well as her CanFitPro- personal trainer The network began three years ago and has seen certification. The following FITMOM Ottawa many of its members’ businesses grow from an idea classes are now being offered in Old Ottawa South into a successful enterprise such as Surround Circle at Southminster Church: Yoga, The Loot Bag Lady, Steele Design, Win Translation, Diane&Jen (Royal LePage brokers), FITWOMAN Bootcamp: Urban Assistant, Chavender Research Initiatives, Monday at 9:30 am to 10:30 am Connection 360, and Tanya Collins Design. & Thursday 8 pm to 9 pm The meetings take place once a month in one of FITMOM 2B (Prenatal): the member’s homes from 9:30am to 11:00am on Thursday 7pm to 8pm Susan McDonald, Owner of FITMOM Ottawa the second Tuesday each month. The next meeting is February 8, 2011 at 31 Marco Lane and will Other FITMOM Ottawa classes, such as my networks in the community I live in. I hope to feature Jennifer Wenzel who is a certified Myers FITMOM and Baby, are also held at in Westboro at learn more about marketing FITMOM from others Briggs administrator. the Jewish Community Centre and in New Edinburgh who own small businesses and with my accounting The meetings are informal but cover a specific at the Crichton Cultural Community Centre. For a background I can hopefully offer some finance topic that is of common interest. Previous meetings complete list of FITMOM Ottawa classes, times and advice to others in the network. It is all about have addressed issues such as website design, social locations visit www.fitmomcanada.com/ottawa sharing information,” Susan explains. marketing, tips for writing a business plan, and how Registration for FITMOM Ottawa classes is to hire staff when expanding. Guest speakers are ongoing and costs $180 for one class per week often invited to share their expertise, success stories over a 12 week session. Susan encourages people and challenges with the group. to come out to a free trial class and she is sure you Wintranslation is a Winner! There is no cost to joining this network we just will be hooked. Each class combines strength, core ask that everyone brings their ideas to the meetings. and cardio exercises making it a full body workout Since 2006, Huiping Iler has been on an For more information on the location of future the that will make you feel energized! exciting journey. She left her hometown in Hunan, meetings or for more information please call 613- Susan is one of the newest members of the Old 730-5455. Visit our Facebook page at Old Ottawa Ottawa South Women’s Business network. “I joined South Women’s Business Network for meeting because I think it is important for me to expand Cont’d on next page updates and a list of members.

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Area Church Service Times Sunnyside Wesleyan Chuch St Margaret Mary’s Parish 58 Grosvenor Avenue (at Sun- 7 Fairbairn (corner of Sunnyside) nyside) Sunday Liturgies Sunday Worship Service at 9am 9:30am and 11:30am & 11am Christian Meditation Children’s program offered during Mondays at 7:00 pm. both worship services. Evening Prayer: Tuesday at 7 p.m.

Trinity Anglican Church Services Southminster United Church Sunday - 8 a.m. Holy eucharist 15 Aylmer Avenue (at Bank & the 10 a.m. Holy eucharist with Choir Canal) and Church School Sunday Worship Thursday - 10 a.m. Holy eucharist 10:30 a.m. (9:30 a.m. July & in the Chapel, August) followed by bible study Sunday School During worship, September - May FEB 2011 The OSCAR - OUR 38th YEAR Page 11 OOS Women’s Business .... Cont’d from previous page Red Apron Recipes under 40. This is a coveted award that recognizes (February 2008) business people under the age of 40 who balance bottom line results with a desire to participate in Fair Trade Chocolate Torte charitable and community activities. 8 oz. Cocoa Camino Fair Trade bittersweet chocolate, Wintranslation provides culturally appropriate finely chopped translation services in over 70 languages and 6 oz. (12 tablespoons) unsalted butter is a one-stop-shop for companies who want 6 large eggs, separated to translate their software or user guides into 1 C. sugar multiple languages. Wintranslation also offers 1/4 C. all-purpose flour cross-cultural training for companies who are 1/4 t. salt building multi-lingual websites. Being sensitive to different cultures is very important when creating Preheat the oven to 325°F. Line the bottom of a 9” websites in different languages and often a straight cake pan with parchment paper that has been cut to fit. translation can be offensive and drive customers In the top of a double boiler or in a bowl set over sim- away. For the full range of services offered by mering water, combine the chocolate and butter; heat, Wintranslation visit www.wintranslation.com stirring constantly, just until melted. Immediately re- Huiping joined the Old Ottawa South Women’s move from the heat; set aside to cool slightly. Business Network three years ago and is an active In a large bowl with an electric mixer on medium member of the group. “Belonging to the OOS speed, beat the egg yolks with 1/2 cup of the sugar. Huiping Iler, Owner of Wintranslation Women’s Business Network is important because Reduce the speed to low and gradually add the flour, it allows me to interact with other women in the mixing until thoroughly incorporated. Gradually add neighbourhood I live in with whom I can develop the cooled chocolate mixture, mixing until thoroughly China to complete her Masters degree in Canada, both a professional and personal relationship. I see incorporated. Set aside. first settling in Victoria, then Windsor and finally these women in the schoolyard, at Bridgehead or In a medium bowl with an electric mixer on calling Old Ottawa South home. Along the at Patty’s Pub and it is always good to see familiar medium speed, beat the egg whites and the salt just way she became an entrepreneur and started a faces and feel part of the community,” explains until foamy. Gradually add the remaining 1/2 cup sug- translation service called Wintranslation. Thirteen Huiping. “The members of the network are always ar and beat until soft peaks form, being careful not to years after its humble beginnings, Wintranslation looking out for one another, exchanging business overbeat. Gradually fold the egg whites into the choc- now grosses over $1 million in annual revenue. In tips, suggesting leads and they are a wonderful olate mixture and mix just until incorporated. Spread 2010, Wintranslation was a finalist for the Chamber sounding board for new ideas.” of Commerce Small Business of the Year Award the batter into the prepared pan. and in 2008 Huiping was one of Ottawa’s top 40 Bake the torte in the preheated oven until a tooth- pick inserted in the center comes out clean, 30 to 40 minutes. Transfer the pan to a wire rack to cool com- To book an OSCAR ad call Gayle 730-1058 pletely. Run a sharp knife around the edge [email protected] For other Red Apron recipes see pages, 9 and 17 Page 12 The OSCAR - OUR 38th YEAR FEB 2011 Celebrate Heritage This Month Celebrate Ottawa’s Diverse Culture and Heritage By Kathy Krywicki

very special presentation hosted by Heritage Ottawa, the Sixth elp celebrate Ottawa’s diverse culture and heritage on Tuesday Annual Bob and Mary Anne Phillips Memorial Lecture, takes February 22, 2011! The Cultural & Heritage Services Branch of Aplace Wednesday February 16 at 7 pm at The Old Firehall in Old the City of Ottawa present Heritage Day, an annual event taking Ottawa South. The talk will feature Julian Smith, Executive Director of H place at Ottawa City Hall, located at 110 Laurier Avenue West. Local the Willowbank School of Restorative Arts in Niagara-on-the-Lake. The historical societies, heritage groups, and museums will exhibit tabletop school is located at the National Historic Site Willowbank, a 12.4 acre displays; while lively music and entertainment is provided and costumed estate in the Niagara area. The site has open vistas and forested ravines, interpreters greet visitors. Heritage Day Ceremony in Andrew S. Haydon and the 1834 Classical Revival mansion at its centre is both an operating Hall at noon. Light refreshments will be served. Contact Cynthia.smith@ museum and a laboratory for this innovative school. Smith will discuss the ottawa.ca or 613-580-2424 extension 30540 for more information. www. school’s philosophy and methods of this important training institute for ottawa.ca/heritage conservation. The third Monday in February marks a special opportunity to commemorate heritage. Heritage Day was established in 1973 by the Event: Heritage Day Heritage Canada Foundation to encourage the preservation and promotion Date: Tuesday, February 22, 2011 of our historic, architectural, natural and scenic heritage. The 2011 Heritage Time: 11:30 am to 3 p.m. Day theme of Historical Parks and Landscapes coincides with Parks Canada celebrating 100 years as the world’s first parks service. So why not Location: Ceremony in Andrew S. Haydon Hall take advantage of some of the many local and national museums to learn Reception to follow in Jean Pigott Hall more about our immense cultural heritage? And get out and enjoy our very (Ottawa City Hall, 110 Laurier Avenue West) own neighbourhood historical parks and landscapes! Since the provincial holiday Family Day falls on the same date as Faites partie des célébrations soulignant la culture et le patrimoine Heritage Day, the City of Ottawa hosts a special heritage celebration diversifiés d’Ottawa le mardi 22 février 2011! Les Services culturels et on Tuesday February 22nd. Starting at 11 am, local historical societies, patrimoniaux de la Ville d’Ottawa organise la Fête du patrimoine, une heritage groups and museums share information and display exhibits at célébration annuelle qui se déroulera à l’hôtel de ville, au 110, avenue Ottawa City Hall. Music and entertainment are provided and costumed Laurier Ouest. Les sociétés historiques, les groupes patrimoniaux et les interpreters greet visitors. The official ceremony takes place at noon in musées de la région présenteront des expositions sur table, au son d’une Andrew S. Haydon Hall. musique entraînante, accompagnées d’animation et d’interprètes costumés qui accueilleront les visiteurs. La Fête du patrimoine se tiendra à la salle Contact the Ottawa South History Project at HistoryProject@ Andrew-S.-Haydon à midi. Des rafraîchissements seront servis sur place. OldOttawaSouth.ca or visit us online at www.OldOttawaSouth.ca/ Communiquez avec Cynthia Smith par courriel, [email protected], HistoryProject ou par téléphone, 613-580-2424, poste 30540, pour obtenir de plus amples renseignements. www.ottawa.ca/heritage

Événement : Fête du patrimoine To book an OSCAR ad Date : Le mardi 22 février 2011 Heure : de 11 h 30 à 15 h call Gayle 730-1058 Endroit : Cérémonie à la salle Andrew-S.-Haydon [email protected] Réception qui suivra à la place-Jean-Pigott (hôtel de ville d’Ottawa, 110, avenue Laurier Ouest)

A HARD DAY’S PLAY

Why I Never Wanted To Be a Dentist

By Mary P.

race sits on a small purple box. Tyler stands in front of her, bending at the waist so as to peer into her open mouth. He taps on her teeth Gwith the red vinyl-coated baby spoon in his hand. “What are you doing, guys?” “I am opening my mouff for Tyler.” I turn to Tyler for elucidation. “I am being a dentist.” Ah. Tyler was at the dentist last week, so of course, being a toddler, he’s going to practice reality, decode the experience, play with it until he understands it. “I’m cleaning Grace’s teeth.” “What does Grace have to do?” “She has to open her mouth and don’t bite and then I will give her a toy. But she has to don’t bite. That’s very important.” “What happens if she bites?” “Then the dentist stands up and rubs his hand and says “No biting” and maybe you won’t get a toy and maybe he will put a thing in between my teeth so no biting.” Hmmm. You know, I think Dr. Tyler’s Dentist may have had a teeny mishap last week. FEB 2011 The OSCAR - OUR 38th YEAR Page 13

BACKYARD NATURALIST Why You Can Never Go Back

By Linda Burr responded to the warmer spring temperatures. For example, robins he photo is over 40 years old. are returning as much as two weeks It was taken in the backyard earlier in some parts of North of my Toronto home in the America. Groundhogs are emerging T from hibernation sooner. One study of 1960s. It’s my birthday, June 3, and I’m standing in front of a lilac tree tree swallows across North America in full bloom. At first glance, this documented earlier migration and photo seems ordinary, but it actually nesting times than in previous chronicles an event that will never decades. take place again: my birthday with By the time February rolls around, lilacs. The reason? Climate change. I usually look forward to spring. As Each year on my birthday, I had the days lengthen, and I’ve begun to my photo taken in front of this lilac have my fill of ice and snow, I eagerly tree. That particular lilac isn’t there anticipate those early spring rituals of today, but even if it were, the lilacs maple syrup, or skiing in shirt sleeves. would be well past their prime by the But this year, I don’t want spring to time my birthday rolled around. come too early. I want it to take its I began to think about this about ten time. years ago, after I’d moved to Ottawa I know that things can never go from another city a bit farther north. back to the way they used to be. I know I realized that the lilacs just weren’t I will not have lilacs on my birthday in bloom at my birthday anymore like again. But I’d like to think that maybe they used to be. I thought maybe we we can all do something to slow down Linda Burr circa 1966 photo by Linda’s mom June Burr). were just experiencing a few warm the warming of our climate. Because years. I felt a little disappointed to like it or not, the climate is changing – think that the lilac was no longer phenomenon. But there’s much more 1950. Burning of fossil fuels and even in our own backyards. my “birthday flower”. Was I just to this story. deforestation have played a large part imagining things? Japan is famous for its cherry in this increase, causing plants and Linda Burr lives in Old Ottawa As it turns out, it isn’t just my blossoms in spring. The Japanese animals to respond and adapt. South and is a biologist and avid imagination. Ask any gardener who’s have been recording the dates of Other familiar animals have backyard naturalist. been at it for a few decades in the same their cherry tree blooms since the place. Lilacs, roses, and many other year 1400. Up until 1900, the bloom flowers really do bloom earlier than times remained consistent. However, they did 40 or 50 years ago. People beginning in 1900, the bloom time of all across North America have been the cherries began to shift to earlier documenting the earlier blooming dates. About 50 years ago, an even times of many species of common more rapid change in timing began plants. The timing of the first bloom to occur. In Europe, the timing of on lilacs across North America has the grape harvest has been recorded been recorded for several decades, for 400 years, and a similar pattern and is now at least seven days earlier has emerged of earlier harvest times, than it was about 40 years ago. especially since the mid-20th century. Why is this happening? Is this just An increasingly large pile of a short-term trend, or does it indicate evidence points to the coincidence something bigger and perhaps more of warmer spring temperatures and menacing is taking place? Taken the increase in carbon dioxide in on its own, this may not seem like the atmosphere since 1900, with compelling evidence of a larger a more rapid increase since about

Sudoku Solution Sudoku Puzzle is on page 15 Page 14 The OSCAR - OUR 38th YEAR FEB 2011 Walk For Memories By Anna Redman wide event with 59 taking place, organized by 34 chapters. While this is a positive step for both fund- very December is marked by annual season- raising and awareness, chapter organizers have al celebrations like Christmas and Hanukkah some concerns. Only 20% of walkers have partici- which are rapidly followed by New Years pated for more than five years, with 40% falling E in the two to five year bracket and 20% being new Eve. Aside from being the start of a new year, and in some cases, the start of a new semester, January walkers. The three primary ways in which new par- does not bring any memorable holidays or events ticipants have been recruited are through previous to mind. But for some, memories are a key part of walk participants, the CTV network and communi- January, as this has become Alzheimer’s month, cations with their Alzheimer’s chapter. and represents the quest to cure the disease and Walk for Memories is a very efficient fundraiser preserve those precious memories. Ottawa’s big- with minimal expenses (less than 10%). The event gest fundraiser will take place on January 30, 2011 relies heavily on volunteers and staff contributions in Carleton University’s Fieldhouse. Last year it in order to make the occasion a success. There are raised nearly $160,000, this year, Ottawa’s Walk for several corporate volunteer teams such as Scotia- Memories is striving towards the goal of $180,000. bank that will assist with the labour requirements Walk for Memories began in Eastern Ontario in such as registration. Key essentials like these kick 1996. The initiative to start a walk in the city of Ot- the event off to a good start. However, organizers tawa was lead by Tracey Page who was both found- have some goals in mind, both for the 2011 event ing chair and volunteer chairperson until 2010. and events in the future, in order to make them even When Ottawa initially began the walk in 1996 it was better. held at the Carlingwood Shopping Centre, where it For this year’s walk, organizers hope to raise stayed until 2009. The original walk raised $22,000 the funds they need for programs and education, as and had 175 participants. By 2009, the walk raised Anna Redman’s parents - Sue and Joe only 20% of funding is received from the govern- $120,000 and the growth in both funds raised and ment. They also hope to raise awareness of the dis- people participating encouraged organizers to find sheets and summaries regarding this research can ease, what it entails, and how society can help to a larger venue. 2011 will be the second year at the be found online at http://www.alzheimer-ottawa- address it. Carleton Fieldhouse location. Susan Paul, Manager rc.org/. Paul says the “goal is to double our annual For events in the future, chapter members hope of Fund Development at the Ottawa chapter of the revenue between 2010 and 2013.” She explains that to double the number of walkers while maintaining Alzheimer’s Society says that they “plan to con- this increase in funds raised is critical “because as a 75% return rate. They also wish to see an increase tinue holding it at Carleton – they are very support- the incidence of Alzheimer’s Disease increases, the number of younger and male participants. With new ive and cooperative, and most people like the new need for our services increases as well.” recruitment strategies and mediums at their dispos- venue.” It is in a central location with free parking, In addition to funds that are raised by indi- al, they hope to have a 50% increase in their online a large self-contained space that already has a track viduals and teams, the walk also receives dona- registration and donations. Enhancing the walk’s in place. There are conveniently located bathrooms, tions from corporate sponsors. This year the event competitive nature and obtaining higher levels of the area is wheelchair accessible and the location is has had “exceptional support” from all sponsors corporate sponsorship and participation are also fu- warm and well lit. who have collectively donated $27,000. The lead ture goals. Over the past 15 years the Walk for Memories sponsors for 2011 have been Collins Barrow and This year’s event will feature appearances has raised almost $900,000 for Alzheimer’s re- Scotiabank. Additionally, over the past three years from CTV’s Max Keeping, ‘A’ Morning’s Bill search. The money from this fundraiser specifically Manulife Canada has been a provincial sponsor Welychka, and the Giant Tiger mascot, the an- goes towards funding three things. The programs of the event. Overall, about 20-25% of total funds nual Memory Wall, and some prizes. For those and services that are offered by Alzheimer’s chap- raised come from corporate sponsors, with walker who were unaware or unable to participate in this ters, education for people who suffer from Alz- sponsorship making up the rest. If this holds true for year’s event, be sure to remember it for next year heimer’s as well as the general public, professionals 2011 the grand total should fall between $108,000 because walks like these can give you great mem- and caregivers. Finally, funds also go towards peer- – $135,000. ories, while also ensuring that others are kept alive. reviewed research at the national level. Reports, fact Three years ago the walk became a province

To book an OSCAR ad Snowshoeing in a call Gayle 730-1058 Winter Wonderland [email protected] nowshoeing is resurging as per family (includes up to five related a popular way to stay active people) and includes complimentary Sduring the colder weather snowshoe rentals. Pre-registration and to explore the outdoors. With is required because space is limited. new technologies in snowshoe con- Call or e-mail Rebecca Whitman struction, modern styles are lighter at 613-273-3255 or rebecca.whit- weight, smaller, and easier to man- [email protected]. This event is weather euver. Any boot will fit into the flex- dependent and may be cancelled if ible but durable bindings and newer there are adverse weather conditions. snowshoes provide greater traction To prepare, dress in multiple light with their metal crampons. It is a layers and try to avoid cotton. Flee- low-impact sport that is easy on the ces, wool, and polypropylene based joints and a great way to get some clothes are warmest! cardiovascular exercise. Make sure to have a warm hat, If you are looking for a chance to mitts, and snow boots. And, you may try out this fun, active winter sport, also want to pack water and a snack. join Rideau Valley Conservation The Rideau Valley Conservation Au- Authority staff to discover the finer thority operates several Conserva- points of snowshoeing while enjoy- tion Areas throughout the watershed ing a guided tour through beautiful that are open year round. Vehicle day Foley Mountain Conservation Area. passes are $6 and annual passes are Snowshoeing Clinics will be held available for $45. Please visit www. February 4 (a special PA day event), rvca.ca or call 1-800-267-3504 for 10, and 26 from 10:00 to 11:30 a.m. more information. The cost is $6 per person or $20 FEB 2011 The OSCAR - OUR 38th YEAR Page 15

WINDSOR REDUX B PART 20 The Mystery Of Ice Making

For nearly eight years, from But when we return the next under the floodlights. He didn’t mind things for a humanoid to stand alone February 2000 to August 2008, morning, the ice is clear and smooth. that we were all alone. He didn’t mind in the middle of an open space, and OSCAR carried a monthly column. It’s so slippery that a dog is liable that the water was dribbling down his not respond to the more urgent needs The Windsor Chronicles, written by to lose its dignity, scrambling and mittens. of throwing a ball or a stick or a chunk Zoscha the Wonder Dog. Zoscha sliding in pursuit of a snowball. He didn’t mind when the rink of packed snow to keep us worthy became something of a celebrity in our What happens between the evening lights went out late into the night. companions entertained. neighbourhood, and her observations and morning walks to create this When we were all finished, we stood And another thing, have they ever on the passing scene, from a canine transformation? in the dark at the edge of the ice. You considered how useful we might be in perspective, attracted her share of I had my hypotheses. Maybe could hear the tiny tinkling sound of building ice? Maybe as a community loyal readers as well as critics. during the night, the cold air shrunk ice crystals forming at our feet, as service, each of us dogs should do a OSCAR is reprinting some of the skin of the earth, stretching it out delicate a sound as the light from the little spraying of our own each time Zoscha’s musings from eight years like a sheet. Or maybe the full moon twinkling stars above us. we come to the Windsor Park ice rink. ago. The editors have annotated draws up the crystals of ice from the For a humanoid who is always in where we feel that today’s readers surface of the rink, and sucks out a rush -- even when he’s sitting in that With visions of saffron- may need to be informed of references the cracks and crevices before the chair upstairs, staring at that screen that may no longer be remembered sun comes up the next morning. We and tapping on his keyboard -- Alpha coloured ice rinks, by readers today, or where recent could go on all night, posing theories seemed oddly content to be out alone Zosch scholarship has shed further light on on why the ice is rejuvenated before on a cold winter night. Alone with the world described in the Windsor dawn. nothing to do but sweep great arcs of (1) The Windsor Park community Chronicles.. But now I know. It’s not a natural water spray across an ice rink. hockey and skating rinks continue phenomenon after all. The humanoids Did I say “alone?” Of course he to be flooded three nights a week by February, 2002 are responsible. They actually stand wasn’t alone. Of course he had me to a team of volunteers known as the in the middle of the ice in the middle keep him company. (1) “boys of Old Ottawa South team” Dear Boomer, of the night, and hose down the rink But you know how these – or bOOSt. They can be seen with water. humanoids are. He wouldn’t let me Thursday evenings enjoying the fruits One of winter’s mysteries has In fact, my Alpha seemed to rather out on the ice with him. I had to of their labour in a friendly game of been solved at last. Have you noticed? enjoy it that cold night when we were remain content to watch from the over-40 hockey, or afterwards at the When we take our humanoids out out together. He hauled the big hose boards, whimpering and scampering Georgetown Pub. for their evening walks, the ice on out from the changing room, fastened from one side to the other whenever Windsor Park rink is rutted and one end to a spigot in the wall of the I thought that he might be in danger cracked. So many humanoids swoop club house, and for the next hour or of ... of ... well, maybe his feet might around on their sharp shoes, they pile two, happily hummed to himself freeze to the rink, I don’t know. I just up splinters of shaved away ice. while spraying water back and forth know that it’s not the natural order of

Submit articles about interesting “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways...” people you know in Old Ottawa South by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) to [email protected] How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight Sudoku Solution on page 13 For the ends of Being and ideal Grace. Sudoku I love thee to the level of everyday’s To complete the puzzle: Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light. 1. all rows must contain digits 1 to 9 only once I love thee freely, as men strive for Right; 2. all columns must contain the digits 1 to 9 only once. I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise. 3. each of the nine boxes must contain the digits 1 to 9 only once I love thee with a passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhood’s faith. I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost saints, --- I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears, of all my life! --- and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death Page 16 The OSCAR - OUR 38th YEAR FEB 2011 OCDSB Issues Interim Accommodation Solutions For Capital Ward Schools By Rob Campbell

eaders will know at least generally about the major current Rspace crunch at First Avenue PS and of ongoing concerns about Hopewell’s space and size also. To recap briefly ... First Avenue and other area schools will need several months of discussion to find the best long term solution, taking several factors into account. That process will start up by either March or April this year. What is before us now is the question of what sort of short term relief to provide to schools, primarily First Avenue PS for this coming Sep- tember, to buy us all time to have this longer and larger needed discussion. Hopewell P.S. Photo by Tom Alfoldi When the long term solution is arrived at, likely this time a year from avoid both the unnecessary student important that this decision be clear be brought back in to operation as a now, it is possible that several changes disruption of a temporary change and by the end of February, maybe mid- school. may be made across several schools, also avoid locking in or predetermin- March at the latest, for the sake of One long range idea being touted some done at once and some phased ing too much the longer term talks to 2011-12 staffing planning decisions might be for Hopewell to give up its in. It should bring closure to Capital follow. which have to be made. Intermediate Early French Immersion Ward accommodations questions for In their actual recommendations, Hopewell will need to lose some catchment north of the Queensway some years to come. staff proposed therefore only a change program or grades or catchment as to Glashan. That idea might have to The two main choices for interim for First Avenue for next year. In the part of the eventual general solution. include an option area in the north solutions for First Avenue boil down spirit of minimizing disruption unless The school is, in my view, significant- part of the Glebe. Another touted by to either moving JK students away necessary, as the numbers do not force ly too large and complex, never mind some is to remove the MFI program temporarily, to move them back, the issue, and given that this is a tem- looming real space crunch issues. It is in whole or in part. Another interest- or moving out Grade 6 students to porary change question only, I will as large as it is in part as it sucks in ing one I’ve heard pushed is to seek to Glashan (Hopewell does not have the support the staff direction with respect students from well outside of Old Ot- make it a JK-6 only school. And there interim space and Glashan does), and to interim measures for Hopewell. tawa South, in part as it was rebuilt are other options. presumably keeping that cohort there Public input for formal staff syn- too large when it was renovated and I’m far from sure myself yet which to complete intermediate school no thesis was invited up to January 24th. the expectation way back then was long term solution for Hopewell is matter the final dispensation. Staff On the basis of this input, and further that other schools would consolidate. best. I do hope that, when the time recommended the first option in their internal discussion by staff, a final Glashan, just above the Queen- comes, OOS will be able to roll up its December report, presented by staff staff report and recommendation re an sway, another local intermediate sleeves in concert with other school to about 180 members of the public interim solution will be issued, likely school, has been losing numbers as communities, and look respectfully January 10th at Glebe Collegiate. some time the week of Feb 7th. It may has JK-6 Mutchmor in the Glebe, and openly at all of the options and The two main choices for short be the same recommendation or could while First Avenue in the Glebe and what makes sense. As noted above, term space solutions for Hopewell in- be a variant. That way members of the Hopewell grow, in both cases largely there will be months and months yet clude moving the Hopewell 4-6 MFI public will have the opportunity to re- due to their Early French Immersion for us to discuss in an effort to try to program temporarily to Mutchmor for view the report and book a delegation programs. All area schools need to get it right once our interim decision September or moving 7-8 MFI pro- slot by the end of that week in order plan to incorporate all-day learning gets made. gram students to Glashan. Staff had to be able to speak to all Trustees at a for JK/SK students, basically doub- been going to recommend the second special community delegations even- ling the need for those classrooms. If you have a suggestion or a con- of these two options for Hopewell ing scheduled the week after on Feb And, as none of them can really take cern, or would like to be added to my back in December but preliminary 17th. portables, all need to have some e-newsletter list, then please contact consultation with Hopewell commun- Trustees are scheduled to meet swing space well below 100% utiliza- me via [email protected] or at 323- ity reps yielded a willingness to deal the week after that to decide on the tion for episodic growth, special uses, 7803. Meeting and document info with the large school another year and best interim solution to adopt. It is etc. The McNabb centre may need to available at www.ocdsb.ca FEB 2011 Page 17 SOUTHMINSTER HAPPENINGS Youth Exploring Spirituality and Life

f you are age 12-18, in grades 7 to 12 and you are interested in exploring your faith, and talking about how we can create healthier relationships Iwith God, ourselves, each other, and the earth, here’s an opportunity! For 8 weeks, beginning February 6, a group for teens will be meeting at Southminster United Church. This study group will be led by the minister, Meg Illman- White and two young adults, Miriam Illman-White and Tessa Blaikie, who have recently returned from a program in Trinidad. The United Church is a progressive faith community that welcomes questions and seeks to give room for people to explore faith in community rather than providing you with “answers.” This group will seek to be a safe place where you can explore your faith and relationships in a judgement free space that is open to all youth from all walks of life. Seeking to help youth connect with their own sense of purpose and values, some of the topics we will be discussing will be spiritual practises, self-image, relationships, culture, and minimizing our impact on the earth. We will use a variety of media to accomplish this. Bring your ideas, questions, topics, and join us for a great time. (from left) Tessa Blaikie, Miriam Illman-White The group will meet on Sunday evenings at 7:00 pm from February 6 through March 27. Southminster United Church is located at 15 Aylmer Avenue (at Bank St.). If you would like more information or would like to join the group please contact Miriam Illman-White at 613-761-1891 or miriamillmanwhite@ Invitation To Explore yahoo.ca. Spiritual Practices Through A Faith Community To book an OSCAR ad call Gayle 730-1058 oining with community is a wonderful, grounding way in which to reflect upon our own lives and our impact on the world around us. At Southmin- oscarads Jster United Church, we seek to follow Jesus, who modeled contemplation @oldottawasouth.ca and love, compassion and justice. Christian faith doesn’t leave us where we are but supports and encourages us to change and grow. Over the next several months a group of “inquirers” will focus on spiritual practices, simple and profoundly formative traditions such as attentiveness, gratitude, hospitality and discernment. The group will meet on Friday afternoons from 1-3 pm, beginning Friday, February 4. All are welcome! Please contact Meg at meg. [email protected] or 613-730-6874. We can help with childcare arrangements if needed. Southminster Church is located at the corner of Bank St. and Ayl- mer Ave. across from the Sunnyside library.

Red Apron Recipes (February 2008) Duck Leg Braised with Fig & Lemon (Lac Brome or Muscovy) ingredients. Cover and cook in a 300 degree 4 Fresh Duck Legs pre-heated oven for 2 hours. Remove 150 g Dried Figs – chopped from oven, ladle sauce and juice 2 Fresh Lemons – sliced over duck legs and check for done- 1 Medium Onion – chopped ness. The meat should easily pull 1 c Dry white wine away from the bone – almost fall off. Fresh Thyme – 1-2 sprigs If they are not quite ready, cover and Salt/Pepper to taste return to the oven for another ½ to 1 hour. We source our ducks from Mari- Remove duck legs from liquid. posa Farms. Since 1980, MARI- Discard the thyme springs and lemon POSA farm has been producing slices. Reserve the liquid and let and marketing Ducks, Geese and sit until the fat rises to the top (at other poultry. The farm is located least ½ hour or overnight). Skim off in Plantagenet, Ontario about 45 the fat and reduce remaining liquid minutes East of Ottawa. They offer until you have less than 1 cup – just country style fare for Sunday Lunch enough to spoon over the duck legs and special events – worth a visit. - before serving. www.mariposa-duck.on.ca. Season the duck legs on both This recipe can be made the day sides with salt and pepper. Sear the ahead and then re-heated to serve. duck legs skin side down on medium Serves 4. high heat in a frying pan until the skin turns dark brown and some of For other Red Apron recipes see the fat has melted away. Transfer to pages, 9 and 11 a casserole dish and add remaining th Page 18 The OSCAR - OUR 38 YEAR FEB 2011 AFTER THOUGHTS Plus ça change . . . from Richard Ostrofsky Canadian settlers it meant something right on the whole that the peoples reported facts and observations sooner of Second Thoughts rather different – a fact that partially of the world would be better off if than our verities. Thus, if Daniel explains some differences between they could forget past glories and Dennett, a skeptical thinker whom I Bookstore (now closed) the U.S. and Canadian societies grievances to focus more clearly on greatly respect, were to report having www.secthoughts.com today.) Similarly, French thinking is their current realities and material witnessed the teleportation of a ball [email protected] noticeably shaped by memories of interests – though they themselves are or the bending of a spoon by mental the 30-years war and then of Louis not doing so, and are mad to think this power alone, I would still sooner doubt he world changes so quickly XIV, when France was the hegemonic will happen because they want it to. Dennett’s observations or his sanity these days that it is easy to forget power in Europe. British thinking too The question I would raise here is this: than my belief in (what I understand to how slowly some things change. is shaped by memories of the good old How is it possible for certain features be) the relationship between physical T days of Empire in the time of Queen of our mental lives to be so durable and mental events. I am not so Reading up post-modern philosophy, as I was writing my first book, Sharing Victoria, if not to that nation’s struggle given that knowledge, technology and committed to these verities as to rule Realities, I was repeatedly struck by for unity and autonomy in the days of society itself are changing so rapidly? out the possibility that Dennett might the extent to which French, German good Queen Bess. The Russians are Why do people cling so durably – so be correct, but it would take many and English thought today was still still struggling to maintain the hard- stubbornly – to their favorite myths, more such observations and reports to preoccupied and shaped by issues won centralization and unity achieved in the absence of supporting evidence, change my mind. that go back to the days of the French by Ivan the Terrible, and still playing and indeed, with a good deal of With this distinction in hand, Revolution, to the Reformation, catch-up ball with Western Europe evidence to the contrary? it becomes entirely understandable to the Roman Empire and its fall. as in the days of Peter the Great. The To answer these questions, I would that verities change so slowly, and Reading the news each morming, Chinese do not forget their humiliation begin by drawing a distinction between that people cling to their verities all I’m struck repeatedly by the extent to at the hands of Western powers in the mere beliefs which express and are the more ferociously in the teeth of which American foreign policy and time of the Opium Wars, nor its own vulnerable to empirical observation, as rapid change. Verities change slowly global affairs are shaped by myths Empire at the Ming heyday when it against verities which are not. If I see because they are structural members and events and conventions that go could see no other real civilization a cat sleeping on my bed, I say that the of their social systems and of people’s back hundred and thousands of years. than itself. One could go on and on this cat is on my bed and believe that this is lives within those systems. Typically, For example, one powerful American way, for every country in the world. the case. If the cat wakes up and jumps they are also self-confirming: not myth is its attitude that history doesn’t All have their durable preoccupations, down my belief is readily changed, and only dependent on, but strongly matter – an attitude that goes back to memories and myths. Anyone who I will happily change my belief and say reinforcing an epistemology and colonial times – the 18th century and thinks that history is a dead subject the contrary. authority-structure which makes it even earlier – when immigration to in this age of modern science and But when Galileo’s observations easy to muster evidence and arguments that portion of the new world, meant high technology doesn’t understand, of the phases of Venus (see http:// in their favor, but very difficult (if opportunity for religious and political doesn’t begin to understand, the world en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phases_of_ not mortally dangerous) to muster experimentation, rapid accumulation he’s living in. Venus) were published and verified, arguments against. And such verities of wealth, and a fresh start. (To And yet, I believe Americans are people could not immediately discard are needed all the more, not just as their beliefs in Ptolemaic astronomy – security blankets but as reference for the reason that rotation of the sun points and pillars of sanity, when around the Earth was more than just social systems are being challenged a belief. Rather, it was a full-fledged by technical innovations that cannot verity, in the sense that people’s be rejected because wealth and power mental lives and allegiances and thus – and life itself – depend on them. society itself depended on it being From this perspective, the religious the case. Mere observation could not and political fundamentalisms of today immediately alter the commitments are fully understandable, as were the and relationships involved. witch hunts in Europe that coincided More generally, we might define with the Rennaissance, the rise of a verity as a belief with structural science and modernity in general. The significance – a belief to which faster the world is changing, the more people’s epistemologies, worldviews urgent it becomes that some things be and existential commitments are kept the same. However obsolete and pinned. With this definition, it is threadbare they’ve become. hardly surprising that we doubt

Step’s Attention Is On Distracted Driving, Unsafe Lane Changes In February

rivers who are distracted Each month since 2004, STEP has with electronic hand-held de- been profiling and enforcing specific Dvices or making unsafe lane traffic safety priorities. changes have the full attention of These initiatives support lar- the City’s Selective Traffic Enforce- ger Integrated Road Safety Pro- ment Program (STEP) in February. gram (IRSP) public awareness Between 2007 and 2009, driver dis- and enforcement campaigns. traction was either fully or partially In 2003, two City departments - Public the cause of 5,800 traffic collisions in Works and Ottawa Public Health - and Ottawa. the Ottawa Police Service developed These collisions resulted the IRSP to provide a comprehensive in seven deaths and 1,952 in- approach in promoting road safety. juries (81 of them serious). Unsafe lane changing is also a serious Ottawa residents have identified traf- issue. In 2009 alone, 1,162 report- fic safety as a top priority. The IRSP able collisions occurred on Ottawa is committed to using available re- roads due to unsafe lane changes - sources to make Ottawa roads safer resulting in 142 injuries (three were for residents. life-threatening) and one fatality. FEB 2011 The OSCAR - OUR 38th YEAR Page 19

BOOK REVIEW Ilustrado by Miguel Syjuco Hamish Hamilton Ca; First “third world” countries such as least, Miguel’s own biographical journey. The end of the novel is as Edition edition (May 4 2010) the Philippines. The society the research into the life of his mentor. surprising as it is effective... it made 256 p. author vividly describes also sees Not satisfied with one narrator, Syjuco me, for one, rethink some of my ISBN: 978-0670063956 the younger generation set against resorts to several others, especially assumptions and see the novel in a the older, in an environment where one who appears to be observing different, more convincing, light. traditions are easily thrown overboard Miguel, the primary narrator... The publication in 2010 of and where communication is no If this sounds confusing, yes, at “Ilustrado”, which is the result of a longer straight forward, informative the beginning it may well be until more than ten-year gestation period, or honest. And where, on the broader we can distinguish the different is also the outcome of a personal political platform, evolving post- threads - often made easier by the roller-coaster journey of the young colonial struggling democracies are use of different typefaces - that are Filipino-Canadian author, which in torn between imitation of the ways developed to form the comprehensive itself seems worth another fictional of the western superpowers and the portraits of the central characters. treatment. In 2008 Syjuco won the need to find radical new ways for It may also illustrate the multi- prestigious Man Asian Literary Prize their own identity and development. tasking and diverse communication with the manuscript(!) of the novel. The novel starts simply enough: the methods of the younger generations. While one can pick on body of Crispin Salvador, a well- “Don’t make things new, make them weaknesses in style and criticize a known Filipino writer, now living in whole...” the older writer advises the possible overuse of gimmicks and exile in New York, is floating in the younger. In the Prologue, Miguel (the pastiche jokes, “Ilustrado” is a major Hudson river. Suicide or foul play, narrator) puts the reader on notice: achievement in opening new ways that is only one of the questions that “ The facts, shattered, are gathered, in the realization of a contemporary preoccupy the victim’s young follower for your deliberation, like a broken novel that is entertaining while at and friend, Miguel Syjuco, himself an mirror whose final piece has been the same time provocative in raising aspiring Filipino writer living in exile. forced into place.” Advice that should fundamental issues and questions. Why the possibility of foul play? not be forgotten as we follow the Syjuco aims to be recognized (as does Reviewed by: Crispin’s manuscript of a novel meandering flows as well as the storm his protagonist) as an “international Friederike Knabe that “will reveal all” has gone surges in this novel. writer who happens to be of Filipino missing... To find the answers to the At times, the novel resembles a descent”. He has made great strides in hen Miguel Syjuco mystery of Salvador’s death and to multidimensional jigsaw puzzle as reaching his goal. launched “Ilustrado”, collect material for the “definite” it moves without warning through Whis debut novel, at the biography of his mentor and idol, timelines and real (in the novel) and (*) “ The term “ilustrado”, Syjuco Ottawa International Writers Festival the young Miguel sets out on a fictitious characters emerging from explained in an interview, “refers (writersfestival.org) he invited the travel of discovery back into the the quoted story excerpts. Did Crispin to a group of young Filipinos in the audience to join him on “his journey of intricate life of the capital, Manila. Salvador exist in real life? Is Miguel a late 1800s who left their country and discovery”. “Ilustrado” (*) is indeed Constantly blurring the lines between portrait of Miguel Syjuco, the author? studied abroad, learning all they could a multi-layered meandering journey reality and creatively imagined fiction, It is up to the reader to discover... to later return to the Philippines and that, while exploring the complex we, as the readers, must wonder It is a game that Syjuco contribute to our revolution against life of one writer, delves deep into what is “real”: where is the fine line evidently enjoys playing with us the Spanish colonisers.” the mind and life of another, and between literally described facts and as the readers, willing to join this evoking their common culture and the a deeper truth, even if fictionalized? history of their conflicted country, the Furthermore, Syjuco challenges Philippines. us by applying any number of The novel, however, should not narrative streams that complement be understood as confined to these Miguel’s first person account: somewhat localized themes. Syjuco ranging from tweets, emails and explores in often humorous and phone transcripts to excerpt from satirical language the idiosyncrasies Crispin Salvador’s novels, short of today’s societies, especially in stories, interviews and, last but not

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Free Screening of Italian Movies on Monday, February 14 & 28 and March 14 ttawa’s Dante Alighieri The Tree of Wooden Clogs (L’albero Society is pleased to degli zoccoli), set in the countryside Oannounce free screening of near Bergamo, dramatizes a year in Italian films on Monday, February 14 the life of northern Italian peasants at and 28 and again on Monday, March the turn of the century. On March 14 as part of a series covering modern 14, The Organizer ( I compagni), a Italian history through the eyes of the film by Mario Monicelli set in Turin finest Italian film directors. The films at the end of the 19th century, will be are shown every second Monday until shown. It stars Marcello Mastroianni, June 13, at 7:15 pm at Villa Marconi, Annie Girardot, Renato Salvatori, 1026 Baseline Road. and Raffaella Carrà (1963, b/w, 124 February 14’s screening is min.) Senso by Luchino Visconti’s tribute The films are shown in Italian, to Mahler (one of his favourite with English or French subtitles composers), starring Alida Valli whenever possible, and otherwise, as Livia and Farley Granger as with Italian subtitles. For a complete Lieutenant Franz Mahler. The film is list of films, see www.danteottawa. set in Venice around 1866. ca. On February 28 Ermanno Olmi’s Page 20 The OSCAR - OUR 38th YEAR FEB 2011 Squirrel Talk “Difficult Transparency”

By: Michaël & Tania one of his promises. funds, the City is obligated to ensure keeps citizens happy, makes for good Of course we will think of Lans- the protection and appropriate use of business (note: good business is not he Canal is such a beautiful downe development and surrounding all its resources and assets.” locust-like business) and increases space with beautiful sight lines processes. Not judging on what was “Our Shared Values tourism. Many other benefits flow, and many diverse interesting done or not done, we ask the theor- Integrity is the foundation of pub- such as best value for the citizens and T etical question whether it is sufficient lic service and our shared values are a fun and vibrant city, and high stan- areas. We hope you’ve been skating or walking on or near it ! Perhaps you’ve to follow the minimum law, or wheth- the pillars that support it. As City em- dards of behavior and of quality result enjoyed a crisp winter’s day, or a soft er it is an ethical (and integrity) im- ployees, we are proud to perform our in a beautiful city. and fluffy day under the sun near the perative for a mayor to ensure princi- work with: We conclude with an appropri- icy canal. ples published on the city’s own site, • Transparency ately thoughtful quote from a man we Today’s topic is to examine the including transparency, are followed • Impartiality admire, Gandhi. “Always aim at com- city’s policies of conduct as published and are obvious to the public. • Respect plete harmony of thought and word on their web site (current and recent “All City employees must perform • Accountability and deed. Always aim at purifying past), such as here http://ottawa.ca/ their duties in a manner that maintains Without all of these, there can be your thoughts and everything will be city_hall/policies/empl_codecon- and enhances public confidence and no integrity.“ well. “ A good idea for the city ;) duct_en.html . We will not add much trust in the integrity, objectivity and Increased transparency, impartial- to the text we copied and spliced as it impartiality of the City. Trust and mu- ity, respect, and accountability leads N’hésitez pas à nous écrire : tania- is self explanatory and sufficient food tual respect are the cornerstones of to better trust, which in turn allows [email protected] for thought. However, we ask whether any relationship between the public the city to work with and for its cus- the new mayor is shaping the city to and its government. Furthermore, as tomers, the citizens. A healthy and respect such codes – integrity being an organization entrusted with public cooperative city attracts investment, BACKYARD BEAT Police Put On A Uniform And Take An Oath By Cst. Khoa N. Hoang internet that said, “Who cares?” and ting new equipment and develop bet- ly does good police work make the “What did he ever do for me?” ter strategies. We try to balance the news when stories of fear easily gain olice officers get graded in The truth is Ryan Russell did ab- odds in our favour. “We can’t lose on more public attention. The past few various categories each year. solutely nothing for you... Except put the street, we’re not allowed!” yelled months have certainly proven this Exceeds Expectations is what I on a uniform and take an oath. the instructor at the Ontario Police true. A cynic would argue that doing P Most of us have never taken an College. Losing out there could mean good work is expected, so no praise scored in self control last year. It gave me mixed feelings when I received oath before. Well except when we the end. is needed. But motivation has a way that mark - I mean who cares? It’s get married and we all know how It’s no wonder police officers can of diminishing without constant re- not like I exceeded expectations on successful those stats are! It’s hard suffer from a state of hypervigilance inforcement. anything cool like speed, or shooting, to remember an oath, we forget the and paranoia. It’s not easy to be at- Nobody needs a hug to survive, or jumping off moving trucks! I was words, become preoccupied with life, tacked by strangers, and then wel- but it sure feels nice to get one! never going to get a date because of and simply don’t care over time. But come people with open arms… But Whether you support the police my incredible self control... I never the Oath itself remains the same and it the good ones do it. The good ones or not, the fact that Ryan put himself thought its value was worth much never forgets those who are courage- smile at everyone even after being in front of a speeding snow plow has working in such a corporate political ous enough speak it... spat at. Most officers treat others with nothing to do with the G20, Stacy organization like OPS. On the early morning of January respect moments after being disre- Bonds, or police policy. He did it be- That is, until I witnessed a man 12th 2011, Ryan Russell died because spected, and ask for nothing in return cause he was attempting to save the in Toronto holding up a sign dur- he spoke the words that bind all peace because it’s part of the oath. woman walking to work, the man ing the funeral of Sgt.Ryan Russell keepers. For that I am truly saddened, You probably never ran into Ryan waiting at the bus stop, and the chil- that read, “People Die – No Police for it’s only a matter of time before because you were too busy having dren getting on a bus. State”. Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t the Oath finds another one of us. That fun with your friends. You never met Ryan took an oath to put others like insensitive people. I read public is the unspoken reality of policing. Ryan because it was bedtime and you before him, and the oath decided it postings about Ryan’s death on the We try our best to be safe by get- had to wake up early. Ryan never met was time test his integrity. Well my you because life had important things friend, my colleague, you have passed to worry about. And chances are, you with flying colours and are the reason never met Ryan because he was busy why we live in the best country in the doing his job. world. It’s not in our nature to boast about what we accomplished. Rare-

OSCAR Needs Volunteers For Monthly Distribution in OOS FEB 2011 The OSCAR - OUR 38th YEAR Page 21 The Christ Church Cathedral Ottawa Girls’ Choir, with special guest Julie Nesrallah Saturday March 5th

he Girls’ Choir of Christ Church Cathedral Ottawa is one of the few all girl cathedral choirs in North America — perhaps the only such choir Tin Canada! Last year the Choir held its first Annual Gala Concert and Silent Auction featuring Antonio Vivaldi’s Gloria, with special guest soloist Juno Award winner Shannon Mercer. The evening was a resounding success that was thoroughly enjoyed by all. This year’s edition — Songs of Fervour — promises to be equally memorable. With an eclectic selection of works by Baldassare Galuppi, Eric Whitacre, and Timothy Piper, and featured guest soloist Julie Nesrallah, this will be the Choir’s major concert this year. The event takes place Saturday, March 5th, 2011 at Christ Church Cathedral Ottawa. Doors open at 6:30 for the Silent Auction (cash or cheques only accepted) and the concert begins at 7:30. The Silent Auction continues during intermission, and a cash wine/soft drinks bar will be available. The first half of the concert will feature mezzo-soprano Julie Nesrallah and the Cathedral Girls’ Choir under the direction of Timothy Piper singing Galuppi’s Dixit Dominus with live orchestral accompaniment. After intermission, the choir will present Five Hebrew Love Songs, a set of hauntingly beautiful works by Eric Whitacre accompanied by string quartet. Following this will be a gorgeous solo set by Ms. Nesrallah. The concert concludes with the choir in the premiere performance of Timothy Piper’s latest classical/pop composition based on poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay. Don’t miss this opportunity to hear these fabulous musicians and incredible music! General Admission at the Door: $30/Adult; $25/Senior; $20/Student; 12 and under: Free. Purchase your tickets in advance and save $5/ticket. Tickets are available at The Leading Note, Compact Music (both locations) or via email [email protected]. For more information, or to donate an item for the Silent Auction, visit the Christ Church Cathedral website (www.christchurchcathedralottawa.ca), email girlschoir.cathedral@gmail. com or call Timothy Piper (613‑236‑9149 x 20). The choir plans to tour overseas in the summer of 2012. Proceeds from this event will go towards that trip.

Local Girl Organizes Beneficial Fashion Show By Philip Reeve

Fashion Show is being organized to benefit Roger’s House and Canuck Place, two Canadian children’s hospices that provide Acounselling and medical care to help children and their families who are facing an end-of-life diagnosis. Professional Canadian designers Rachel Sin, Amber Watkins, Jana Hanzel, and Shweta Wahi will be showcasing their most recent, exciting designs at the show. The show takes place on Sunday February 20th, 2011 at the Glebe Community Centre, from 1:00 to 2:30 p.m. Modelling services for the show are being donated by Angie’s Models and Talent, an internationally known modelling agency. Several freelance makeup artists have agreed to contribute their time for the show. Hair Junkie Hair Salon will be styling the models’ hair in preparation for the show. All proceeds from ticket sales and the silent auction will be donated to the charities. Silent auction items are being donated by local businesses and/or companies. The co-ordinator of this fund-raising event is a 12 year old local girl. Kate Reeve has always been fundraising, in one way or another. From grade three to five, she baked cookies to raise money for the Shepherds of Good Hope. In grade six, she helped with a jewellery business to raise money for G.R.O, an African charity. She has worked hard for months to organize the show, and is determined to make it a success for the charities. Kate always dreams big, and says that organizing such a high profile event at 12 years old has ‘absolutely nothing to do with anything’. She admits, however, that some have been taken aback by her age. ‘I would be too’, she laughs, shrugging her shoulders. Kate is hoping that the community gets behind her efforts and comes out for an afternoon of fashion, fun and friends, all for a great cause! Tickets are $20 each and can be purchased at the door or in advance by calling 613-730-5074. Page 22 The OSCAR - OUR 38th YEAR FEB 2011 Made in Ottawa Machine Used To Resurface Canal’s Ice

By Paige Raymond Kovach

obert Taillefer stands 10 feet above the Rideau Canal Skateway on a Thursday night in January ready to groom the Rice. He’s the driver/owner of the FW Froster and president of Capital Property Guardians. Much like your neighbourhood indoor ice rink, the Rideau Canal Skateway is groomed each night with an ice-resurfacing machine. But the FW Froster is different: it was designed and made right here in the Ottawa Valley. The patented machine was designed and built by Mr. Taillefer’s friend Sylvain Fredette who owns Fred Welding in Wendover. Most of the machine is made from aluminium to ensure it is light enough to work on the canal ice. Mr. Fredette welded the unique chassis and put in a large truck engine. On either side of the machine are 30-foot arms that swing out on skis and can be raised and lowered. They work somewhat like a farmer’s irrigation system and contain long aluminium pipes and sprinklers to disperse water. The cab is basic with a throttle, hydraulics to raise and lower the arms, a few gauges and a steering wheel. There is no radio, CD player or place to plug in an MP3. Apart from a small metal shield and a heater aimed at Mr. Taillefer’s shins there is little to keep the driver warm. “The next one we’ll enclose it in glass,” says Sylvan Fredette. Sylvain Fredette and Robert Taillefer beside their invention the FW Froster, the “Listen, it’s warmer than standing on the canal with a hose,” canal’s ice resurfacer. Photo by Paige Raymond Kovach adds Mr. Taillefer. The front end holds the water tank, and the back end is for the engine and driving mechanisms. “We’ve been working on it for the last few years, and this prototype does the job as well machines used at an indoor skating rink,” said Mr. Taillefer. The FW Froster has been used for a year now and regular skaters have seen an improvement. Maintenance crews groom the ice seven days a week from 8 p.m. to 7 a.m. From Monday to Thursday, half of the canal is groomed each day. For example, on Monday half is groomed, and on Tuesday the rest would be done. On high traffic days – Friday to Sunday – the whole of the canal is groomed each day. First the snow and a layer of the old ice is removed. Then the FW Froster passes. In the larger sections of the canal the machine is able to do 60 feet swaths at a time. Where the machine cannot reach a flood team still floods the ice in the traditional way with water pumps. The FW Froster is much quieter than the traditional pumps and generators. Mr. Taillefer says it takes ten men to groom the canal the traditional way. He doesn’t see many people out on the ice in the wee hours when he drives the FW Froster past, except some folks playing a quiet game of shinny as they can’t during the day. Ice conditions are available at www.ncc.gc.ca.

Who Ever Loved, That Loved Not at First Sight?

by Christopher Marlowe

It lies not in our power to love or hate, For will in us is overruled by fate. When two are stripped, long ere the course begin, We wish that one should love, the other win; And one especially do we affect Of two gold ingots, like in each respect: The reason no man knows, let it suffice, What we behold is censured by our eyes. Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever loved, that loved not at first sight? FEB 2011 The OSCAR - OUR 38th YEAR Page 23 Foot Care Program at Abbotsford By Julie Ireton volunteer. But he realizes the foot- comfort and mobility. Proper footcare is a simple yet care program is something that’s Chadara feels that another extremely effective way to ensure o Ed Gasnick a pedicure didn’t keeping him healthy and allowing important aspect of a regular footcare continued health and well being as we seem to be the manliest thing him to partake. visit with a client is education. Often age. to do, but he’s now enjoying “The nurse that does foot care is the nurses can recommend special T quite thorough. She’s darn good. The insoles or pads which can relieve Bazaar Update: pressure in uncomfortable areas. On November 27, this year’s They can also recommend ointments Bazaar filled Abbotsford to the brim which can keep the skin healthy. with visitors and sales reflect that. Day One tip Chadara recommends to of sales results were even better than many clients is to soak their feet in last year. Thanks to all the volunteers, Epsom salts and water. This helps staff and shoppers who made it a with odor and may combat developing success once again! infection.

Ed Gasnick (client) and “Agnes” is the footcare nurse Photo by Pat Goyeche

this special attention to his feet. whole Abbotsford organization is “It does feel good,” admits good.” Gasnick. “I was kind of apprehensive Chadara Choey is one of the at first to go, but when you’re dealing nurses who has been tending to the with diabetes you suck it up and go.” needs of Abbotsford members feet Foot care is very important for since July. As part of her work with people with diabetes. They often have the elderly, she noticed that many poor circulation to the extremities so found it very challenging to tend to looking for sores, clipping nails and a their feet. vigorous massage helps keep the feet This prompted her to enhance healthy. her qualifications by taking special Abbotsford House Seniors courses at Algonquin College related Centre offers a foot-care program to proper foot care. every Tuesday. The program is run Chadara believes that taking by a nurse and costs just $15 for proper care of our feet is an extremely Abbotsford members and $25 for important way to ensure our overall non-members. health and wellness. “I now go every five or six weeks. As we age, many of us experience She trims my nails, massages, puts changes in vision and flexibility cream on. She looks for anything that which makes it difficult for us to bend might be going on,” says Gasnick. over and tend to our feet. For some, Gasnick was diagnosed with dizzy spells also make if very difficult diabetes about 25 years ago. He has to to bend over our feet for extended stay away from sweets and make sure periods of time . he gets proper exercise. Abbotsford Many problems can develop if helps out there too. feet are not properly cared for. These “I go for walks and get moving. I include ingrown toenails, ulcers, do aerobics at the centre. I’m thinking pressure sores and infections. Even of taking Tai Chi in the New Year.” without these issues, our toenails tend Gasnick says he appreciates to thicken with age and can become having the centre nearby to attend very difficult to trim on our own. All courses and he also helps out as a of these can seriously impact our Page 24 The OSCAR - OUR 38th YEAR FEB 2011 The Grosvenor Avenue Gastronomic Society “Life is too short to eat disappointing food.”

Double-Dog Dare ‘ya to Dine at Dick’s

n the mood for hamburgers and sandwiches, milkshakes, deep-fried thinking GAGS was due for a side dishes, etc). The unique twist is I‘kid-friendly’ restaurant review, the different kinds of burgers: beef, we visited Dick’s Drive-In & Dairy- turkey, veggie, bison, salmon, and Dip (1485 Merivale Road; www. even ostrich! We ordered a cheese dickshamburgers.com). Definitely chili dog (sloppy yum!) and the beef, not our usual stomping grounds, but turkey, and bison burgers, rounding only about a 10 minute drive from out our main dishes with a variety of OOS, we thought we’d give this 50’s sides including French fries, onion style diner a try. After all, Dick’s has rings, and poutine. Everything was been voted into the Top 3 for onion really great, although definitely rings and hamburgers in the city. messy owing to the aioli spread on the We arrived around 7pm one burgers’ whole wheat buns. Our only Thursday evening and were criticism of the food was the bland pleasantly surprised to see that the gravy and micro-sized cheese curds place was quite busy – always a good that comprised the poutine. The sign. Although the walk-up counter is portions were a bit small compared to perfect for ordering take-out, we opted some other burger joints, but we left to eat-in (despite our disappointment with full bellies nonetheless. Perhaps that servers don’t actually cruise too full, thanks to the truly wonderful around on rollerskates). We were milkshakes three of us enjoyed – greeted with a smile and were seated chocolate, double-chocolate and at a little stool counter (in front of an vanilla (there were rowdier flavours impressive 6-foot milkshake statue available, by the way). These shakes complete with cherry on top) to were old-school, served in a thick, peruse the menu while we waited for tapered glass, with the left-overs a booth to become available. brought in the silver tumbler used to The menu at Dick’s has everything make this treat. you’d expect to find in a 50’s style Tables at the restaurant are diner (e.g. hamburgers, hotdogs, no-frills, wooden booth style and

Milkshake (above) photo by R. Chinkiwsky and shot of exterior (below) photo by S. Brandon

the background music – while not faces of adults and children alike, it obtrusive during our visit – was wasn’t cheap: our bill totaled $70 for appropriate to the era Dick’s evokes. four adults (no alcohol, no appetizers, Service was consistent and friendly and only one dessert). All in all, we with a few considerate touches had a pleasant time at Dick’s and will not always seen at other, pricier likely return, especially in the summer restaurants. Parking may be an issue for a sundae or a classic float. Dick’s during the lunch rush hour, but we had was well worth the short drive from no trouble at all during our evening OOS and is certainly comparable in visit. Dick’s menu was broader than both taste and price to other specialty what you’d expect (a small Greek burger places in town. page, for example) but still not As always, if you have any brimming with veggie options. There comments or suggestions for a place didn’t seem to be a wide range of you’d like us to review, drop us a line Kid’s Menu choices, but families at grosvenor.gastronomic@gmail. would do well to pitch in together on com a few plates; most of Dick’s fare is Happy Eating! finger-food and easily shared. The Grosvenor Avenue While we all agreed a visit to Gastronomic Society (GAGS) Dick’s is likely to put smiles on the FEB 2011 The OSCAR - OUR 38th YEAR Page 25

MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT OTTAWA CENTRE Budget Should Make Life More Affordable

By Paul Dewar, MP adians face when they have to choose between pay- That’s why strengthening the CPP remains an im- ing the rent or feeding their family. portant budget ask for us. t’s pre-budget time in Ottawa. The affordability crisis has its strongest im- Affordability, retirement security and environ- Media reports are mostly focused on partisan pact on low-income Canadians. But making ends ment are the priorities I take to the new session of advantages, brinksmanship, negative ads and meet is becoming increasingly difficult for middle Parliament. I am optimistic that we can get results I class Canadians as well. Too many home owners for our community in the budget and throughout the campaign readiness. But people in our community want action on the real challenges facing us, like af- live paycheque-to-paycheque just in order to afford parliamentary session. At the same time, we pre- fordability, retirement security, and environmental their house. pare to take on Stephen Harper and his agenda in degradation. That’s why in the pre-budget period, we have an election. While New Democrats are ready to take on Ste- continued to demand that the government make life phen Harper in an election, our hope is to work on affordable for you by removing federal a budget that addresses the main priorities in our taxes off home heating costs and reinstat- community. ing the ecoEnergy retrofits program. We One of our central proposals in this Parliament believe taxpayer subsidies to the biggest is the reintroduction of a national housing program. polluters in Canada should be cancelled. It’s universally accepted that the quality and avail- Those funds should be invested in energy ability of housing is a major social determinant efficiency and creating renewable energy. of health. Since the original housing strategy was Another major priority in our com- scrapped by the previous government, Canada has munity is protecting retirement income, been the only G8 country without a national hous- particularly in light of what happened to ing program. It’s time for a change. Nortel workers. Legislations introduced Affordable housing is key to fighting child pov- by New Democrats on retirement secur- erty, creating jobs and opening domestic markets for ity, protect your pensions against com- our industry. We can also finally tackle homeless- pany bankruptcies. ness. According to a 2010 study by the Conference With rising prices and unstable mar- Board of Canada, 20 per cent of Canadian house- kets we need to ensure that all Canadians holds struggle to pay for their homes. A shortage have a pension plan that will provide for in the supply of affordable housing in the private them throughout their retirement. The market is affecting Canadians’ health and reducing best option is to improve the Canada Pen- national productivity and competitiveness. sion Plan (CPP). CPP is the most secure, Earlier this month I accepted a challenge from portable and low-cost pension reform op- a number of community groups, to live a week on tion available to Canadians - and it’s in- the budget of someone on social assistance. I could flation-protected. To date, the Conserva- clearly sense the struggle that low-income Can- tives have chosen to bypass it completely.

Red Apron Cooks Reprint from February 2008

“Cooking is like love, it should be entered ing more romantic than enjoying good food, into with abandon or not at all.” lovingly prepared, with people you care deep- Harriet Van Horne, American newspaper ly about. If you don’t want to cook, you can columnist enjoy our lovingly prepared, and aphrodisiac packed Valentine’s Day Menu! Visit our web- ith Valentine’s Day around the site for details. corner, our thoughts turn to ro- 2008 has already been a busy year for the Wmance….and food. Red Apron. We moved our business from our There are many versions of the origins of Leonard address to a brand new 1200 square Valentine’s Day. In one story, Valentine was foot production kitchen located at 571 Glad- a physician and gastronomist, who made his stone on January Although we will miss our medicines more palatable by mixing them “little place on the corner”, our new location with herbs, spices, honey, and wine. Valentine will allow us to continue to grow our busi- was incarcerated for his religious beliefs, and ness. Our new retail area is well stocked with after his refusal to renounce Christianity, was prepared meals, local treats and harvest pre- executed by Claudius II on February 14th in serves. Please drop in and visit us! the third century. Legend has it that he had Also in January we re-launched our web- fallen in love with one of his patients and sent site. The new site is full of information on our a note to the girl, signed “from your Valen- services, weekly menus, what’s “in the freez- tine,” before his execution. Other historians er” as well as details on local suppliers and believe the holiday derives from the Roman community events. Visit at www.redapron.ca festival of Lupercalia – a fertility celebration The recipes for this month will make a which took place on February 15. The term wonderful, romantic and aphrodisiac packed Aphrodisiac was derived from Aphrodite, the dinner for two, with leftovers for lunch the Greek Goddess of Love and Valentine’s Day next day! has always been strongly associated with her son – Cupid. Many foods claim to pos- Red Apron recipes are on pages 9, 11 and 17 sess aphrodisiac qualities, but there is noth- Page 26 The OSCAR - OUR 38th YEAR FEB 2011 Why Have Four Winter Tires?

By Mary Anne Thompson ference between coming to a safe stop and plowing into another vehicle. hy buy winter tires? Aren’t all season Do you buy 2 or 4 tires when shopping for win- tires just what they say they are? Doesn’t ter tires? There are several reasons to buy winter all seasons, include winter? Does Que- tires. First of all, most dealers will only sell you a W set of 4 winter tires, but having all tires the same bec force its residents to have winter tires just to be different – vivre la difference! – as part of their means less balancing needed, and you protect your independence scheme? Or are there good reasons to alloy summer wheels from winter corrosion. Most use winter tires? importantly, is that four winter tires are necessary to Since the 1970’s, when all season tires were maintain proper handling and balance. If you only first introduced, drivers have relied on these tires have two winter tires, you need to ask yourself if to get them through the 4 seasons of driving. What you want to slide off the road forward or backward? has not been widely known is that these all season Do you install your winter tires on your tires lose their grip in cold weather, whether there is existing wheels? Most experts recommend that you snow or not. At cold weather temperatures of 7 to 5 buy dedicated winter rims, that are made of sturdy degrees Celsius – not below zero – all season tires steel wheels rather than the alloy rims that hold our turn to four round black rocks. Even on dry pave- all-season tires. For one thing, the sturdy steel will ment, at these temperatures of 5 to 7 C , the snow be more resistant to the harsh conditions of winter, tire proves itself superior. The Quebec Ministry of Those with 4WD/AWD, (4 wheel drive and and this includes the salt that is so corrosive to al- Transport did a study that showed that a proper win- all wheel drive) may think that they have a winter loy wheels. Another reason to buy dedicated rims ter tire can improve breaking by up to 25% over an weather advantage. For sure AWD does offer win- is that you can select a different tire and rim size all-season radial and can actually improve collision ter advantages, but how useful can it be without the for your winter tires. This can mean a considerable avoidance by up to 38%. proper tires? Your four tires are the only connection saving if you can buy the most common size that Winter tires have a deeper tread groove with between your vehicle and the road, and if they are might be a bit different from your all –season tire. more aggressive tread patterns, which deal effect- not giving you sufficient traction, it does not matter Another reason to have dedicated winter rims is that ively with snow, ice and slush. Most winter tires how many tires you have spinning. Another thing to you save the wear the tear of constantly changing are also siped, which means that they have small remember is that the 4WD may help you to move your tires before and after winter, and if you are grooves that are designed to grip more efficiently on snow and ice, but it does almost nothing to help adventurous, with dedicated winter rims, you can on slippery surfaces. Brand new all –season tires you stop unless you have the proper tires. change your own tires. cannot offer the same tread advantages that you get Transport Canada with the Automobile Protec- Driving with winter tires might prevent many with winter tires. tion Association did a study that showed clear dif- of the fender benders of early morning traffic. Winter tires are made differently from all sea- ferences in stopping and handling between AWD, Wouldn’t that alone encourage you to buy winter son tires. Winter tires are made of a rubber com- RWD (rear wheel drive), and FWD (front wheel tires? Or do we need laws here in Ontario to make pound that stays softer and more flexible in cold drive) vehicles equipped with all season and win- it mandatory, as they have done in Quebec? How weather. There is less carbon black in winter tires. ter tires. The vehicles equipped with snow tires much is your winter safety worth to you and your Soft, flexible tires mean your car will have a better stopped 30 to 40 per cent more quickly and safely family? grip on the road, no matter the winter condition. than those with all season tires. That means the dif- FEB 2011 The OSCAR - OUR 38th YEAR Page 27

M.P.P. OTTAWA CENTRE A Winter Update

By Yasir Naqvi, MPP 1, 2011. Hydro Ottawa has confirmed Bed Bugs, to stakeholders on how to people thinking about how they can Ottawa Centre that they have updated their software identify bed bug infestations, perform be better to one another. and invoicing systems, and will begin inspections properly, prepare living I encourage you to join us inter has certainly arrived applying the rebate immediately. areas for treatment and carry out pest and make Kindness Week 2011 a in Ottawa! With cold You should be seeing the 10 per cent treatments. tremendous success! Kindness Week temperatures and snow discount on your next hydro bill. We know that bed bugs can will run from February 18 to 25 and W Should you have any questions about devastate a community, and that is is a great opportunity to get engaged comes Winterlude and skating along the canal, which means hot chocolate your bill or the rebate, please do not why we are moving forward to provide in the community. Round up your co- and Beaver Tails - my favourite part! hesitate to contact my office. resources to tackle these infestations workers, family and friends and spend As you enjoy all our city has to once and for all. the day volunteering at a local charity, offer during the winter, I want to give Bed Bugs helping a neighbour in need or rolling you a quick update on some important Kindness Week up your sleeves to donate blood. You provincial initiatives. On January 10, our government can join any number of Kindness Week announced that we will invest in On September 17, 2009 the events listed at www.kindottawa.ca or Hydro Rebate local Public Health Unit programs Legislative Assembly passed a you can plan your own! and support local initiatives that are unanimous motion to recognize the Last fall, our government aimed at preventing and managing 3rd week of February as Kindness Family Day introduced the Ontario Clean Energy infestations of bed bugs. Week in Ontario. Benefit (OCEB), which provides a 10 We are investing $5 million to Kindness Week is an opportunity I will be hosting my annual Family per cent discount to help consumers help the 36 public health units across for people to celebrate simple acts Day Skating Party on February 21 manage rising electricity prices for the Ontario deliver bed bug-related of kindness and good will towards from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. at the Fisher Park next five years. The OCEB will help programs that emphasize coordination their fellow citizens. It was the idea Rink, on the corner of Harmer Street more than four million residential with other local services, education of our own Rabbi Reuven Bulka North and Java Street (behind Fisher consumers and more than 400,000 and awareness and/or provide supports of Congregation Machzikei Hadas. Park School). Bring your family and small businesses, farms and other to vulnerable populations. Running successfully for the past friends and join us for a skate, hot consumers with 10 per cent off your In addition, www.bedbugsinfo. three years, Kindness Week involves chocolate and cookies! total electricity bill (including tax). ca has been launched. This website thousands of citizens and volunteers As always, please do not hesitate This would help families; it would help features tools to give people a one- who engage in acts of kindness across to contact me if I can be of any help to hard-working small business owners; stop-shop to get accurate information the city. Examples include simple you. Hope to see you on the 21st! and it would make a difference for and simple, easy-to-use tips to combat tasks such as opening doors or buying Ontario’s farms. infestations. The province is also your co-worker a coffee, all the way The OCEB is effective January distributing a guide, An Integrated Pest to volunteering or raising money for Management Program for Managing charity. The important goal is to get th Page 28 The OSCAR - OUR 38 YEAR FEB 2011 OCCSB TRUSTEE REPORT

“PUTTING STUDENTS FIRST”

Program Review Steering committee. and to get input on current and future learning to use a continuum of Kathy Ablett, R.N. The group is examining the current programs available in schools. prevention programs, interventions, Trustee Zone 9 French program offered by our The meetings are: supports, and a range of consequences Capital/River Wards Board; the possible impact of the • Monday, February 7, at Mother to address inappropriate behavior. Telephone: 526-9512 Ministry of Education’s revised Teresa High School curriculum for French to be released • Thursday, February 24, at Lester Helping Students Grow Up Welcome to February and a flurry of 2011-2012; and, the course of action B. Pearson Catholic High School activity as the new semester begins. our Board is taking to move forward • Tuesday, March 1, at Holy In the school improvement plans, in 2011. Subcommittees are looking Trinity Catholic High School; and transitions have been identified as Immaculata High School at programming options, immersion • Thursday, March 3, at a key area of focus. The Transition entry points, financial and staffing Immaculata High School. Committee developed three new Exam marks are back and considerations and enrolment All meetings begin at 7 p.m. brochures for students, parents and students are gearing up for a new numbers. teachers on three key transition times: start. This semester, many of our high The Board will hold public School To Be Safe In Grade 6 to Grade 7, Grade 8 to Grade school students will be taking part in consultation sessions in February and 9 and Grade 10 to Grade 11. The several educational/social justice trips March 2011 to provide information Superintendent Peter Atkinson, committee worked with teachers, to other countries. We wish you safe about current practices and to seek Dr. Elizabeth Paquette, and Dr. students and parents to bring different travel and we know this experience input from the community about Francine Chappus, outlined the ‘voices’ to the brochures. will be life changing in so many ways. French programming for the future implementation of the Ministry of All three brochures feature (see next paragraph). Additional Education’s Caring and Safe Schools common themes: Who am I? What do Corpus Christi feedback will be sought via the In Ontario: Supporting Students with I need to know at this stage of my life? Catholic School Parent’s Association Special Needs through Progressive and Where am I going? The brochures Corpus Christi is getting ready for and through various on-line and/ Discipline, Kindergarten to Grade 12. are available online and have links to their annual ‘Jump Rope for Heart’ or social network forums. For The document is a resource to help key resources that will help students and their Mardi-Gras celebration to information about the Board’s educators address issues of student in their planning and study life as they be held on March 8th at 6:30 pm. It current French program options go behavior through instruction and make important choices. View at: is always a wonderful family time to: OttawaCatholicSchools.ca/media. interventions tailored to the student’s OttawaCatholicSchools.ca/content. and there will be lots of great auction php?mid=36549 needs, and through ongoing efforts php?doc=7053 items with the proceeds going to the to build and maintain caring and safe parent council for their numerous French as a Second Language – school cultures. If, at any time, I can be of assistance school initiatives. I’ll see you there! Public Consultation Dates Set School staff is being trained to to you please do not hesitate to call resolve behavior problems using me at 526-9512. General Board Updates The Board will be holding public progressive discipline, which shifts Sincerely, French Program Review – consultation meetings on French as the focus from solely punitive Kathy Ablett Update a Second language (FSL) programs measures to corrective and supportive “Your Trustee” In December the Board discussed and curriculum. The purpose of the measures. Principals, vice-principals, the update provided by the French meetings will be to share information guidance staff and teachers are Sculptor And Architect Build Starry Night

By William Burr “I looked at what else I could take. Art history came up,“ he says. sculptor and an architect are Now he’s hoping the MA will help getting ready to hang stars in qualify him for a teaching job. the sky. All that matters is that his work A have something to do with the arts, Alisdair MacRae, the sculptor, and his girlfriend and collaborator he says. “I want to just keep working Negar Neyfollahy, the architect, in the cultural sector, however that are engraving constellations onto happens to be, even if it is just aluminium banners that will hang from administration.” light poles on Stittsville’s Hazeldean The Hazeldean Road public art Road this spring. They’ve completed project “just kind of came up” for their design and the star signs are now Neyfollahy and him. being cut into the banners using a Working with his girlfriend water jet. for one of the first times has been a MacRae, 36, is a Carleton good experience, he says. “There’s art history graduate student while definitely no duels – our egos don’t Neyfollahy, 28, is a recent graduate get in the way,” of Carleton’s bachelor of architectural Neyfollahy, who is currently doing some freelance architectural studies program. from fourteen feet above. the federal government in Victoria work in Calgary, agrees. “I think They won a contest to design The constellations will also glow and for the Carleton art gallery as Hazeldean Road Project was the break the panels in October, part of a city- at night because of squares of coloured an administrative assistant, where he we were both waiting for!” she writes funded public art project. glass. “Using the star signs and the continues part time today. in an email. They chose to work with calendar for much of our design we MacRae exudes a sense of reserve; MacRae says he has enjoyed not constellations to make a statement wanted to have something a bit less he speaks softly and thoughtfully. He working alone for a change. Speaking about light pollution, MacRae says. determined so we introduced random arrived in Ottawa four years ago to of solo work, he says, “There’s times “I live at Bronson and Somerset squares into our design to represent exhibit some of his sculptural work. when I’ll wonder, well, where am and I can’t ever see stars in the sky. chaos,” MacRae says. He realized how important French I going to go with this, what am I Stittsville’s still a fairly rural area.” For MacRae, the public art project skills are in the city, and after a few doing with this? – I’m not showing They chose a variety of signs that is just a moment in a varied career. He years as the administrative assistant it anywhere, I’m not selling it, do I can be seen from Hazeldean Road at has both undergraduate and graduate at the Carleton gallery, he looked into continue with it or not? It’s a little various times of the year, including the degrees in fine art and he’s worked taking some French classes. They easier to handle those questions when Little Dipper, Libra, and Draco. The along the way as a web designer for were all full. shapes will gaze down on pedestrians you’ve got someone else there.” FEB 2011 The OSCAR - OUR 38th YEAR Page 29

OCDSB TRUSTEE REPORT OCDSB Update By Rob Campbell or permanent staff and what is the it clear to the Province that they OCDSB special right mix to return? Are there other expect more. It is all fine and well for education policy NB: Please see my special companion ideas for the money? Will some of the us to make capital plans but we have is winding its way towards Trustees. It column this issue for an update on funding and spending assumptions to make sure they actually get funded. has been in discussion for some time Capital Ward school accommodation which tripped us up last year risk and yet it seem that some concerns issues. tripping us up again? Inuit All-day Partnership remain with the draft. Still, I expect We will not be making any cuts it to hit our standing Education Budget to programs or services for next year, Ottawa is, most people do Committee in February for Trustee apart from here or there some change not know, the second largest Inuit debate and possible amendment or t is budget season again! ... and we to service delivery perhaps wherein municipality in Canada after Iqualuit. return for work and so forth. have an embarrassing $12m one- we do more of this and less of that. Many live in Rideau-Vanier Ward, If special education policy is a time surplus. Clearly we did not As always, we need to determine also part of Zone 9. concern of yours then please take the I teacher and principal / vice-principal Last week an official opening of time to check out the policy draft, need to cut as much last year as we did! (I argued against those cuts in part due staffing numbers by mid-March due the first Inuit kindergarten class in available online at www.ocdsb.ca to overly conservative assumptions to collective agreement and school Ontario, a joint OCDSB / Ottawa Inuit under the board calendar link to the late that I had argued against). planning issues and the rest of the Children’s Centre (OICC) initiative, January Special Education Advisory The surplus is the result of some budget can get set by June. was held in Vanier. Officials from Committee (SEAC) meeting. in-year extra funds provided by the the City, OCDSB, and Ministry from Some concerns have been government, some accumulated Capital Plan for Inner City Toronto were in attendance along expressed about the closure of certain surplus roll forward, some Schools with media. specialized classes serving language unexpectedly lower expenses, and The single class at the OICC learning impaired and also gifted students also to be presented at this an unexpected growth in student We are going to be requesting centre is designated as part of our Ed Committee meeting. I tend to see numbers that we got more funding for. $4m for major renovations to Robert E Wilson PS in Vanier when the policy work and seeming chronic The size of this surplus is in the some downtown schools including class is in session. It is staffed by an concerns in specialized class changes eye of the beholder. It represents Mutchmor (I got this amended up OCDSB teacher collaborating with as perhaps related. only a small variance on our $740m from $2m each) in addition to a new an OICC cultural teacher and will operating budget (capital is extra), Stittsville HS funding request and provide the all-day JK curriculum and If you have a suggestion or a however, everything but for about so forth. This money will be easily a seamless entry into public school concern, or would like to be added $150m is caught up in stringed funds, spent! All Boards have been asked to later. to my e-newsletter list, then please collective agreement commitments, provide their 5-year capital plans and contact me via [email protected] or long-term contracts, etc. $12m on so this submission to the Ministry sets Special Education Policy at 323-7803. Meeting and document $150m is larger. And, really, our declared capital priorities for some Changes Coming info available at www.ocdsb.ca practical discretionary room is maybe time to come. as limited as $30 or so. These needs are very real, A rewrite of the year 2000 Anyway, the question now is what however, it depends now on the to do about this and is as challenging a government to come through. For question as what to cut in another year. next year they have notionally Do we stuff it away against a possible allocated only $120m Province-wide shortfall in other years? Do we return as part of their austerity drive. When some of the possibly unnecessarily a new comprehensive high school cut special education, English as a somewhere can easily cost $50m by second language and maybe specialist itself, this funding will not go very far music and arts supports instead? If we for 72 school boards! return staff should they be temporary It is important that citizens make Page 30 The OSCAR - OUR 38th YEAR FEB 2011

Kaleidoscope Kids’ Books All You Need is Love his month we celebrate our five and desires in the notebook they pass Materials. Charlie Healey is done Henry jealous. But the plan takes a year anniversary – happy birth- back and forth at locations across New with middle school and mean girls. surprising turn … Tday to us! When we first start- York? Could their in-person selves On the very first day of high school Matched is a futuristic fable ed talking about opening a bookstore, possibly connect as well as their note- she runs into her former best friend, of love and free will. In the book’s people in the industry gave us lots of society, officials decide who you advice - mostly related to how we shouldn’t plan on getting rich quick – or at all, really. Another truism in the bookselling business is “the pattern is that there is no pattern”. Just when you think you’ve figured it out, your customers and sales patterns change. This has proved especially true in our Teen section. Five years ago, this section had a really low turnover and was definitely the quietest corner of the store. Today, it’s one of the busiest. The eight year olds who used to come Will, who moved away years ago. in with their parents five years ago to Now he’s back, he’s HOT, and he’s pick up the latest Captain Underpants book personas? Just to let you know, popular – and he takes Charlie back or find out where Jack and Annie so far, we haven’t seen any red note- into the danger zone of the popular love, where you work and when you were going next in The Magic Tree- books here on our shelves … crowd. When a hazing prank goes die. Cassia has always trusted their house are now teenagers popping in The Beatles swore that “love is very wrong, Charlie has to decide choices. It’s hardly any price to pay on their own after school to talk about all you need”, but is it? Sick of boys where her loyalties lie. for a long life, the perfect job and the books and pick up some reading for and bad dates, Penny vows to stop Would you rather have it all, or ideal mate. So when her best friend the weekend. Teen books have also dating and forms The Lonely Hearts know it all? Have your diary read by appears on the Matching screen, Cas- gained in popularity with many adults Club. Membership grows quickly in strangers, or have your life complete- sia knows with complete certainty – we certainly enjoy them. And so, the club and Penny finds herself near ly forgotten? Be with Mister Right, that he is the one … until she sees an- for our Teen shelf readers, here are a legendary for her non-dating ways – or Prince Wrong? Two girls, living in other face flash for an instant before few Valentine’s Day titles. which is too bad, since the leader of two different centuries, each discover the screen fades to black. Now Cas- Lily leaves a red notebook full of The Lonely Hearts Club has found that happily ever after often comes sia is faced with impossible choices: dares on a bookstore shelf, waiting a certain boy she can’t help but like. with a catch in Falling In Love With between Xander and Ky, between the for just the right guy to come along A funny, relatable romantic story for English Boys. only life she’s known and a path no and accept the challenges in Dash & anyone who’s ever sworn off love … Seth Baumgartner, looking for an- one else has ever dared follow, be- Lily’s Book of Dares. But is Dash and then found it anyway. swers, decides to start an anonymous tween perfection and passion. that right guy? Or are Dash and Lily I have to admit that I love the title podcast called The Love Manifesto Twelve year old Violet’s father only destined to trade dares, dreams of Boys, Girls & Other Hazardous dedicated to exploring “what love is, has left his family in Vancouver to why love is, and why we’re stupid start afresh with his new wife in LA. enough to keep going back for more”. To Violet, it feels like he’s traded in With the help of his smut-minded best his old life for a new and improved friend, Dimitri, and Dimitri’s sister, one – complete with new and im- Audrey, Seth tracks down his father’s proved kids. When her mother starts mystery date, hits the most infam- seeing the very unfortunately named ous bogey in the history of golf and Dudley Wiener, after a series of dis- discovers that sometimes love means astrous relationships, Violet decides eating the worst chicken-salad sand- to take control. She’s got the perfect wich you can ever imagine in Seth Baumgartner’s Love Manifesto. Right now, summer feels very far away, but you’ll want to reach for your flip-flops while reading The Summer I Turned Pretty. When each summer begins Belly leaves her school life behind and escapes to Cousins Beach, the place she has spent every summer of her life. The beach house is her home away from home, filled with her favorite people – Susannah, her mother’s best friend, and her sons, Conrad and Jeremiah. Belly has been chasing Conrad for as long as she can man picked out for her mom – George remember, and more than anything, Clooney. Now, she just needs him to she hopes this summer will be differ- read her letter. Dear George Clooney ent. Despite distractions from a new – Please Marry My Mom is just as guy named Cam and lingering looks charming as its namesake. from Jeremiah Belly’s heart belongs In closing, we’d just like to thank to Conrad. Will he offer his to her? everyone in the neighbourhood for Will this be the summer that changes the love and loyalty you’ve shown us everything? over the past five years. We continue Most of us have heard it. Many to enjoy the range of readers who drop of us have said it - It’s Not You, It’s by the store, and are always happy to Me. Zoë loves Henry. Henry dumps help readers (young and less young) Zoë. Zoë wants Henry back – at any to find what they need on our shelves. cost. Zoë’s two best friends come up Please accept our Valentine’s wishes with a plan to help Zoë get what she for you as we celebrate five years of thinks she wants. The plan: make fantastic support. We love you all… FEB 2011 The OSCAR - OUR 38th YEAR Page 31 Sips from the Poetry Café A Short History on the History of Valentines… or One Version at Least!

By: Susan Atkinson Hoping she’d remember him over place. Valentines is a really good time time. To tell them everything. was thinking about February and Sometimes valentines are a mystery how much I enjoy Valentines and As stories go these love letters Sent without anyone’s name Tell your friends you think they’re the idea of telling the people in Gave Valentine cards their start Guessing who the sender is great I They were a way to write how you Can actually be part of the game. And tell your family too my life that I love them. I was also thinking about what I’d like to write feel And don’t be surprised on Valentine’s about this month and I thought I’d do When love is kept apart. But whether it’s flowers, chocolate or Day something a bit different, the result – a card If they answer with “we love you!” something with our younger readers Not long after this Or any of the above in mind. Maybe 1500 or so On February 14th P.S. A tiny piece of advice - a little Someone made a valentine Everyone thinks of love. Valentines goes a long, long way!! A Short History on the Of an angel holding a bow. So if there’s someone special History of Valentines… It was a drawing of a lady That makes your heart pound and Or One Version at Least! Standing with a knight sing And the cute little cherub Now here’s a little story, Shooting an arrow in mid-flight. A tale of Valentines Day Of how it came about The funny little man with wings And ended up this way. Got himself a start By drawing back his arrow This is how it started To pierce the good knight’s heart. How it all began A sort of ‘Once upon a time’ The cherub’s name was Cupid Starring a French gentleman. And was noted for good aim Shooting love from a magic arrow Charles, the Duke of Orleans Setting lovers’ hearts aflame. He’s the French one, don’t you know Was locked away after a battle By 1700 and something A long, long time ago Everyone was making valentines Clever ones wrote their own stuff, The year was 1415 While others simply copied their And Charles had been bad lines. He was put away all alone Which made him very sad. Around this time it was popular To ask “will you be mine?” He was left in the Tower of London And added was a space to answer In England across from France With either ‘accept or decline’. He missed his wife an awful lot So sent her letters of romance. Cards haven’t changed much since then Charles wrote his wife words of love Some are fancy and made with lace Using poems with lots of rhyme Others are rather simple and plain He decorated verse with hearts But many have hearts all over the Page 32 The OSCAR - OUR 38th YEAR FEB 2011 Carleton Sports Playoffs Coming Up By Joe Scanlon a balanced line-up with three fourth seasons. had four short-handed goals in their year players – Elliot Thompson, Cole The team managed to make it to last meeting. The bad news is that the Hobin and Aaron Chapman – one first despite the absence of fifth year Ravens have three games left against ebruary is playoff time in Can- second year player – Tyson Hinz – veteran Courtney Smith who was in- McGill. adian Interuniversity Sport and one rookie, Philip Scrubb. Hinz jured before the regular season started For the women, however, the (CIS) and two Carleton teams has become a stand-out inside and and second year outside shooter, Jen- situation is far less satisfactory. The F Chapman, who struggled for his first nifer Stoqua. Smith rejoined the team women hockey Ravens are tied for seems assured of a favourable position in the playoffs. three years, has become a dominant after Christmas. Stoqua is still out last in the five team Quebec division. Carleton’s men’s basketball team rebounder. All five starters are ex- with a foot injury. They have had some good games: has been to the Nationals for eight pected to be back next season. The team has been winning main- they forced Canada’s best university consecutive years and this season the The women basketball Ravens ly through tough team defence and women’s team, McGill, into a shoot- Ravens are again in first place, well are also in first place and are ranked scoring distributed among a number put when Eri Kiribuchi had an out- ahead of their closest rivals, Toronto sixth in Canada, the highest ranking of players. Unlike some teams, the standing game in goals but they lost. and Ottawa U, and, again no surprise, the team has ever had. women Ravens do not have a star, Carleton has outstanding teams are ranked # 1 in Canada. But the women Ravens have been who can be counted on to score a lot in two other sports but they compete This season however, there is a winning games by very tight mar- of points. away from Ottawa. twist. For the past three years, Carle- gins. They defeated one top 10 team, The men’s hockey team also The Nordic ski team women fin- ton has hosted the Nationals which Western by two, 67-65, another top seems headed for the playoff but the ished first and the men second last means that the male Ravens were 10 team, Toronto, by one, 52-51 and men are in a dog fight with other season and the teams expect to do guaranteed a spot in the eight team they still have another game with To- teams in Ontario University Athletics as well if not better. Carleton has at- tournament. This year the Ravens ronto – this time in Toronto – and two (OUA) hockey. McGill has 21 straight tracted some outstanding skiers from will not have the safety net of being games with their other main rival, Ot- wins – two of them in overtime – but the Yukon and has become one of the host. However, Carleton made it to tawa U. after that it’s a scramble. UQTR is top teams in Canadian university and the tournament on merit the past three The women Ravens seem certain second with 28 points; Nipissing has college cross-country skiing. years and looks likely to do so again. of at least one home playoff game but 27; Carleton has 26; and Ottawa has Carleton also had a long tradition Although the team’s only fifth they still have a way to go if they want 25. The good news for Carleton is of developing fencers and this season year player, Mike Kenny, has had to finish first or second. Carleton lost that the men’s hockey Ravens have is no exception. some health problems, the men start to Ottawa in the playoffs the last two dominated Ottawa: they won 8-0 and Carleton Sports Baby Boomers and Weights Schedule for February By Joe Scanlon Since then both in Ottawa at Carleton and in London (where I work out in the fitness centre at Both the men’s and women’s basketball teams finish ince everyone seems determined to re- Lords cricket grounds) I have kept at it, usually their regular season schedule away from home in mind us that the first baby boomers are three times a week. February. The teams play their final regular season now turning 65 and facing retirement, I There have been a lot of payoffs. S For one thing it gets me out several times a game against Ottawa U at Ottawa U on Friday, Feb- thought, as someone who turned 65 some time ruary 18. ago, that I might offer some advice to the new re- week. tirees – if you haven’t done so already, consider For another it gives me a modest social life. Men’s Ice Hockey doing weights. I enjoy chatting with others who are regulars and Saturday, February 5 – McGill at Carleton Like many others I always saw weights as have become friends with quite a few of them. Friday, February 11 – UQTR at Carleton something for those strange types called body For a third, it has done something I had not builders. I could not see myself as Charles Atlas thought about. I was a university professor for Women’s Ice Hockey and could never see why I would want to look 30 years so for those 30 years I spent much of Friday, February 12 – Concordia at Carleton like him. my time with persons in their late teens and early Saturday, February 13 – Montreal at Carleton Some years ago however I decided to attend twenties. When I retired I was suddenly divorced Saturday, February 20 – Ottawa at Carleton a lecture by the man then in charge of fitness at from those contacts. The weight room brought Carleton, Greg Poole. Greg has since retired and me back in touch with at least some young Fencing moved to the West Coast. people. Carleton’s fencing teams compete away from Ottawa Greg’s message was simple and direct. If Aside from that there are the genuine physic- you are more than 50 and you don’t do weights, al benefits. As you get older one danger is falling Nordic Skiing you will deteriorate. If you do you won’t be able and becoming seriously injured, perhaps break- Carleton’s ski teams compete away from Ottawa to turn back the clock but you can put your body ing a hip. Doing weights improves your gen- on hold. eral physical condition and means you are more Greg made absolutely clear that this applied likely to be able to avoid a fall. That may be the to both men and women. biggest payoff of all. Despite that I was still reluctant to head to a Doing weights by the way is an activity that weight room. can be done at any time a gym is open – and For one thing I grew up in the days when Carleton opens at 6 a.m. on weekdays – and can men and women did gym classes separately. be done, unlike tennis, without a partner. And un- For another, I did not have a clue about what like golf you don’t need to book a time. weights to use or how to adjust some of the vari- I should add that after a while you get to ous machines to my comfort level. know the rhythm of a fitness centre. Fortunately, Carleton had a class – weight At Carleton things quiet down about 7 a.m. training for mature adults. An instructor would then pick up an hour or so later. They are very show us how to work out in a weight room with quiet over the summer when most students are no one else around except other “mature” adults. away. They get rather busy in early January – I (I like that label.) suspect this is true of all weight places – when it I decided to enrol – and found that elimin- seems New Year’s resolutions kick in. ated most of my fears.

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t the end of January, Carleton enhanced with the announcement of 200 students participated in the day- available for this event; please consult President Roseann O’Reilly a Visiting Chair to be housed in the long event. Humanitarian Amanda the “Visiting” page on CUAG’s ARunte officially opened one university’s Canada-India Centre for Lindhout was the keynote speaker website (cuag.carleton.ca) for details. of the three new buildings on campus - Excellence in Science, Technology, and her speech inspired those in In conjunction with this exhibition, the Canal Building - which will house Trade and Policy. The Visiting Chair attendance. Carleton faculty, staff CUAG is pleased to announce a free several engineering-related programs was made possible through the and alumni led several seminars that public lecture by Dr. Pius Adesanmi slated to start there in September. The leadership of the High Commission of focused on how to get involved. entitled “Looming the Nation: ‘Aso Canal and the River buildings were India in Ottawa. Dr. Runte and High The new chief statistician at Ebi’ and the United Colours of an made possible with $52.5 million in Commissioner S.M. Gavai signed Statistics Canada is Carleton alumnus African Country.” federal and provincial funding, the a memorandum of understanding Wayne Smith. Smith had been Pius Adesanmi is the single largest capital investment in the governing the Visiting Chair in serving as the interim chief since last internationally-acclaimed winner university’s history. the field of humanities and social September. He has a BA and a MA in of the inaugural Penguin Prize for The opening of the Canal sciences. economics from Carleton. African Writing (2010) in the non- Building made Carleton the first Every year, Carleton’s Office On Valentine’s Day, the Carleton fiction category with his manuscript, university in Canada to complete a of the Vice-President, Research and University Art Gallery opens two You’re not a Country, Africa, which major construction project supported International hosts Research Days, new exhibitions called Conversation will be published in 2011 by Penguin by the stimulus program, known a celebration of the university’s Pieces: African Textiles from Barbara Books South Africa. as the Knowledge Infrastructure researchers and their work. This and Bill McCann’s Collection and Carleton Corner is written by Program. The ceremony was attended year, the event is highlighting 10 Nadia Myre: Symbology. The opening Carleton University’s Department of by federal Government House Leader winners of the university’s Research takes place from 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. University Communications. As your John Baird, Ottawa Centre MPP Achievement Awards from Jan. 31 to Dr. Blair Rutherford, director of community university, Carleton hosts Yasir Naqvi, and Ottawa Mayor Jim Feb. 11. the Institute of African Studies at many exciting events of interest to Watson. Carleton is also building a Students organized the first Yes, Carleton, will officially open the Ottawa South. For more information new student residence. You Can! leadership conference at exhibitions at approximately 6 p.m. about upcoming events, please go to Carleton’s ties to India were Carleton in January and more than Discount parking ($3 flat rate) is carleton.ca/events.

Surround Circle Yoga For Overall Health & Happiness ~ Breathe

By Maureen Fallis, converse of this idea is true. Nurtured the breath flows slowly and smoothly. Surround Circle Yoga by a free-flowing breath, our whole Understanding the relationship of being quickly blossoms into full breath and mental state is a key e can learn a lot by paying aliveness. component of yoga practice because attention to our breath. Breathing is fundamental. For it works both ways. By regulating Before you read on, may the energy-generating process of the flow and quality of breath, the W metabolism to proceed properly every emotions can be brought into balance I invite you to try this experiment? With your eyes open and your mouth cell of the body requires a constant and the mind made calm and clear. closed, breathe in through your nose supply of oxygen. At the cellular Learning to master the breath, for a count of five, pause and hold level, the process of taking in oxygen this vital life-giving force of energy your breath for a count of five, and and giving off carbon dioxide is known as prana, is one of the essential then close your eyes and breathe out called cellular respiration, a process elements of yoga. At Surround through your nose for a count of five. intimately tied to the absorption of Circle Yoga, we practice conscious Give it a try ten more times. nutrients, the elimination of wastes, breathing techniques (pranayama) to Did you notice any particular and the oxidation of fuel into energy. clear and cleanse the body and mind, sensation or tension in your body, Sustaining a free-flowing breath in order to maximize the benefits of specifically in the area of your for the duration of a yoga practice the practice. If you are interested in shoulders, your belly, or your stimulates cellular respiration and developing a keener awareness of mouth? Did it become easier or increases the metabolism throughout your breath, body and mind, please more challenging with each breath? the body, uplifting the health of every go to www.surroundcircleyoga.com And now for another ten breaths, cell. for class schedule. You are most following the same breathing pattern Not so coincidental, the breath welcome to call 613-730-6649 for a but this time keeping your eyes closed is also intimately tied to the mind free consultation regarding private throughout the exercise. Finally, for this fleeting awareness is cause for and emotions. When the mind is therapeutic yoga. one last set of ten breaths, breathe celebration! agitated by anger, or fear, the breath naturally without any counting or It is one thing to understand grows rapid, shallow and irregular. holding; breathing rhythmically in the importance of breath and When the mind is calm and focused, and out. it’s another thing to learn how to How do you feel? Do you feel breathe optimally. more energized or more relaxed? Are For thousands of years, the you able to discern whether you were philosophy of yoga has held that breathing into your belly, into your control of “vital breath” is the key ribs and/or into your chest? Lastly, to good physical health and to calm, was it easy to stay connected to the clear thinking. What we know from sensations of your breath or did you science today is that there is a direct become mentally or emotionally correlation between the ability to distracted throughout the exercise? breathe freely and our overall state of Without a lot of practice, being health and happiness. The importance asked to ‘connect’ to the breath and of the breath can simply be seen from to identify particular sensations in the what happens when it is taken away. body may seem as remote as visiting a We could survive for weeks without distant cousin. If you felt a general or food, days without water, but we even a diffuse sense of your breathing, would perish in minutes without oxygen. Yoga teaches us that the Page 34 The OSCAR - OUR 38th YEAR FEB 2011 RRSP vs. TFSA by Rick Sutherland, CLU, assume a 40% tax rate and a compound RRSP will have a clear advantage. So as with most important CFP, FDS, R.F.P growth rate of 7.18% for 10 years. We Because the TFSA has no tax impact financial decisions you must do some use this return to keep the numbers when withdrawals are made you will planning to decide which program ell it’s here, the annual simple. Money doubles in 10 years at have the same $1,200 available at the will meet your needs and be most hustle and bustle of this rate of return. end of 10 years. However if you are in beneficial from a tax point of view. the “RRSP Season.” First let’s look at the TFSA. a lower tax bracket when withdrawals Consult with your trusted financial W If you earn $1,000 gross income are made from the RRSP there will be advisor before making uninformed Most Canadians know the value of contributing to their Registered you will have $600 net to invest. an increased value. Using the same decisions. Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) and Your $600 will grow to $1,200 at example above and assuming that many have also contributed to their the end of 10 years. That $1,200 is you are in a 20% tax bracket when The foregoing is for general Tax Free Savings Account (TFSA). yours to withdraw and spend with you withdraw from your RRSP you information purposes and is the With tighter economic times and no tax owing. Now let’s look at the will have $1,600 available to spend, a opinion of the writer. This information limited cash available for savings we RRSP option. Since the RRSP is tax $400 advantage over the TFSA. is not intended to provide personal are frequently asked which is a better deductible the full $1,000 is available Now the reverse of this example is advice including, without limitation, vehicle for long-term saving, the to be invested. It will be worth $2,000 that you will be in a higher tax bracket investment, financial, legal, RRSP or TFSA. in 10 years. However you must pay when you make your withdrawals. If accounting or tax advice. Please call The short answer is that they the tax when you withdraw from you assume a 20% tax bracket at the or write to Rick Sutherland CLU, are almost identical from a tax point your RRSP. Assuming a tax rate of time of your TFSA contribution you CFP, FDS, R.F.P., to discuss your of view. In the interest of not losing 40% you will have $1,200 after tax to will have $800 to invest which will particular circumstances or suggest anyone in the numbers we will attempt spend. In this example both are equal. grow to $1,600 at the end of 10 years. a topic for future articles at 613- to walk you through the math. Three But is that a realistic example? The RRSP will still have a value of 798-2421 or E-mail rick@invested- simple examples will show you how Will you be in the same tax bracket $2,000 however if we assume a higher interest.ca. Mutual Funds provided an individual’s personal tax rate at the when you make your contributions as tax bracket of 40% at the time of through FundEX Investments Inc. time of contribution and at the time of when you withdraw the money from withdrawal then the amount available withdrawal will determine which is either program? If we assume a tax rate to spend from your RRSP will be better. of 40% when contributions are made $1,200. In this example the TFSA has In our first example we will and 20% when withdrawals occur the come out the winner by $400.

To book an OSCAR ad Defamation call Gayle 730-1058 on the Internet [email protected] By Anna Sundin

endy Neufeld and Dr. Nesbitt had a child in 2003. Family court litigation began in 2006. During their relationship Dr. Nesbitt Wobtained access to one of Ms. Neufeld’s old home computers containing her personal correspondence from 2001 to 2002. In the family court litigation, Ms. Neufeld was awarded primary care, custody and control of their child and Dr. Nesbitt was awarded supervised access. Ms. Nesbitt then started an action and sought damages from Dr. Nesbitt for defamation and breach of privacy after private communications of Ms. Nesbitt was released to third parties and made available to the public on the internet. The communications consisted of faxes sent to a bank in Calgary and its branches; email sent from Dr. Nesbitt to a local Rotary Club; a YouTube video; a website entitled “Wicked Wendy Neufeld”; a Facebook page entitled “Wendy Neufeld Support Group”; a letter from Dr. Nesbitt to the Ministry of Child and Family Development; and a letter from Dr. Nesbitt to the child’s Doctor. The court found these publications targeted Ms. Neufeld as well as her friends. In order to succeed in her claim for defamation Ms. Neufeld had to prove 1. that the impugned words were defamatory, in the sense that they would tend to lower the plaintiff’s reputation in the eyes of a reasonable person; 2. that the words in fact referred to the plaintiff; and 3. that the words were published, meaning that they were communicated Guidance, Protection to at least one person other than the plaintiff The court found she succeeded in proving Dr. Nesbitt defamed her and then went on to assess the damage to her reputation. and Peace of Mind. The extent of publication plays a role in determining the seriousness of Anna E. Sundin, Barrister & Solicitor the defamatory conduct in question. Courts view publishing on the internet GEnErAl PrActicE includinG: as an aggravating factor in determining whether the conduct in question is Family Law, Wills, Real Estate, Incorporations, Litigation and Collaborative Family Law defamatory and if so what the amount of an award of damages should be. – A Cooperative and Dignified Approach to Separation and Divorce.– The court stated that it was Dr. Nesbitt’s desire to win the custody and access dispute by any means, which lead him to publish Ms. Neufeld’s private correspondence and that it was clearly his intent to embarrass and scandalize Ms Neufeld and her friends. The court found that Ms. Neufeld had a reasonable expectation that her personal information and private correspondence would not be emailed or faxed to third parties or publicly posted on the Internet without her knowledge and consent and awarded her $40,000 for breach of privacy and defamation.

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Local Veterinarian - Dr. Emily Black Movement is Medicine

By Emily Black

ecently, I have seen a strange reflection between my Rcontemplations on pets and my own predicament! During the summer I suffered from a running injury which required, shall we say, many trips to the vet and strict cage rest! It is now a free to roam off leash park may not January and my doc is hopeful but not be the best thing. certain I will be in running form for The city also has some fenced the spring! My predicament brought parks around that will confine your to mind that my patients are showing dog safely, for example, the park at the exact same clinical signs as I am… Lansdowne. If this doesn’t work for weight gain, irritability, a destructive you there are a number of reliable dog tendency towards television remotes walkers who come with references. and a disproportionate increase in They will walk your dog daily for lethargy!!!! an hour or two. I have heard people Exercise is crucial and peculiar complain about this expense but when and I have always found it a strange you compare it to having to replace paradox. You would think that by cats however are burdened with this between a toy and the real thing. the remote control, remove the lost not exercising and not spending that scenario every day of the year, and in Now dogs! Well, many dog remote from the dogs stomach as well energy that you would have more that respect it is a bit tragic. So what breeds were developed for high as replace two sofa’s… it’s pretty energy for the day to day routine can be done? Well, in my mind the energy. Border collies to run after cheap! Another option I have seen stuff… alas not so. Around this time average cat needs about 20 minutes of sheep all day, boxers to run in front used with great success is a treadmill. of year, when it is cold and people strenuous exercise a day. Cats don’t of carriages all day, Dalmatians, to They are available pretty cheap on aren’t taking or letting their animals do well on treadmills… don’t try it. run and bite people to get them out used sites. It is fairly simple (with out quite as much, I see a distinctive So where does that leave us? of the way of the gypsy caravans. some guidance from your vet or increase in people coming in saying There are a number of options We then take these dogs into our trainer) to train most dogs to walk. that fluffy just isn’t himself, he seems really. You want to get them running houses and expect them to liedown For some this is the only option. If sluggish and disinterested in things. and jumping and leaping. Start slow, all day and be content with two 30 you have a particularly rambunctious Now, sometimes there are things that because your average indoor cat is minute leash walks a day. .. who are canine, I would also recommend are wrong, but other times…. It’s coming from the bottom of the energy we kidding! It’s not surprising that agility. We have one of Canada’s just that Fluffy has what we call “the spectrum, the increased expenditure these dogs become bored at best and premier agility facilities right on our winter blues”. When you exercise, will need to be slowly ramped up to self destructive at worst! There are doorstep at “Dream fields” http:// your body gets used to having to promote increased energy and health. very few breeds of dog who do well www.dreamfields.com/. Even the outlay that amount of energy. Being So. Initially expect lots of bouts of with the sedate lifestyle we impose weekly agility sessions are sufficient a fascinating organism, it doesn’t just lying down. There are a number of on them. Pretty much everyone can to tire the most active dog. The tricks prepare for what energy needs it has toys that can help. The first is a stick benefit from at least 1 hour of off learnt also benefit both dog and owner had, but instead, is ready for those with a piece of long fabric hanging leash exercise a day. Some breeds, by exercising not only the body but needs to be higher… just in case you off it. This is an adult supervision toy like those aforementioned need two also the mind!!!! I even had a client are called upon to run away faster and only! Do not let your cat play alone maybe even three hours per day. HA! who made taking the dog to agility longer… it wants to be ready. That with this toy. All cats love to chase I hear you scoff, that is impossible! one of her troubled teenage sons is the reason that if you exercise on a the fabric and you can get them going And yes, for many of us it is! There responsibilities, both child and dog regular basis, you actually have more back and forth and leaping. Again, are some great options [http://www. flourished and went to the national energy than if you don’t. If, like me, make sure you start slow and ramp ottawa.ca/residents/animal_care/cats_ levels in agility: a true success story! you are confined to a kennel for most up. Laser toys are another great aide dogs/dogs/parks/ottawa_en.html) Finally an update on Mr. of the day, your body realizes that to however these are not for everyone. The city of Ottawa has made some Fair Dinkum and his diet. It’s not maintain the elevated energy levels is Some cats can’t stand the stimulation. great off leash dog parks that are happening!!!! One of my other cats a waste of resources, and it stops. You If your cat gets overexcited or starts wonderful and beautiful for a walk. has developed kidney issues and has feel sluggish and lazy in comparison attacking a client at the reception desk Bruce pit and Conroy pit both have to be on a special diet… which means to how you felt before. It sucks! with red shiny glasses (as happened great paths through woods and dale everyone has to be on the diet! We are Now, if you are a cat, who spends to us with our clinic cat) lasers are and are not only a great experience for slowly switching over and then we most of their time indoors sleeping, as not for you! Ping-pong balls are also the dog but also their owners. Make will try again!! an owner you might not notice their a cheap and easy toy that everybody sure your recall on your dog is good Dr. Emily Black owns and decrease in energy. However, if you loves. They are light and white and before you go there and a refresher practices at Centretown Veterinary have an outdoor cat normally, think move unexpectedly, something that course in training wouldn’t go amiss, Hospital. She herself is owned by to yourself for a moment how much will keep a cat interested for hours. but overall it’s a fun time for everyone. three cats. time your wee kitty spent outside in Steer clear of the toy mice. We have If you have a dog who you just don’t the summer. Now how much time… removed two in recent months from trust to listen, or if you have a beagle, so yes they are more sluggish. Indoor cats who didn’t know the difference

Tell OSCAR Readers about your travel or your interests. Send text and photos to [email protected] Page 36 The OSCAR - OUR 38th YEAR FEB 2011 Ten Principles for Living in Retirement By Bob Jamieson tirement. You could spend decades in boost your cash flow, you might think ried out exactly as you intended. retirement. Keep this type of longev- about investing in high-yield bonds 10. Remember your annual ike everyone, you hope for a ity in mind when you create invest- or in stocks that promise abnormal- check-up. Consult with your financial comfortable retirement. That’s ment strategies for your retirement. ly high dividends. Try to resist this advisor at least once a year to make why you should put money 3. Start smart with your spending. temptation – you can find other, more sure your investment strategies are L Obviously, you don’t want to outlive prudent investment strategies for add- still on track. away for your retirement. But once you reach retirement, which financial your resources, but withdrawing too ing to your income during your retire- As you approach the years before and investment strategies should you much in the early years or retirement ment years. retirement, or if you’ve just retired, follow to help yourself enjoy the life- could put you in a difficult position 7. Maintain a healthy portfolio. put these principles to work. It will style you’ve envisioned? down the road. Health-care costs are a major con- take some time – but it’s worth the Like any major project extending 4. Inflation doesn’t retire. If you cern for retirees. Take steps to keep effort. If you would like to discuss over many years, retirement should spend 25 years in retirement, prices yourself in good shape, such as exer- establishing a retirement plan, valid- have a plan in place in advance. You could more than double, assuming cising and maintaining a healthy diet. ating the one you have in place, or may want to consider these 10 prin- a three percent annual inflation rate. At the same time, strive to maintain assistance in identifying the key risks ciples to serve as a roadmap on your Investments with growth potential adequate health insurance. which need to be addressed, please journey toward retirement: can help fight inflation. That’s why 8. Keep retirement from being give me a call at 613-526-3030 to set 1. Map out your goals. Although you might find it’s important to own taxing. Many retirees have invest- up an appointment. the word “retirement” means some- equity investments, even in retire- ments in both registered and non- Bob Jamieson, CFP thing different to each person, every- ment. registered accounts. There should be Edward Jones, Member Canadian one shares the need to enter retirement 5. Prepare for the unexpected. a strategy in place to withdraw from Investor Protection Fund. with a strategy in place. Accordingly, Unexpected financial issues relating these accounts in a tax-efficient man- * Edward Jones does not pro- you’ll find it helpful to write down to your family or health can crop up ner. To manage your tax situation ef- vide tax or legal advice. Review what you want to do in retirement. during your retirement years. To pre- fectively, consult with a tax advisor. your specific situation with your tax Then you can determine how you’ll pare for them, make sure you have set 9. Define your legacy. Work with advisor and/or legal professional for pay for it. As a starting point, list all aside adequate “cash” reserves. If the a qualified legal advisor to make sure information regarding, or issues con- your income sources (such as your market has a few bad years early in your estate plans and the appropriate cerning, the tax implications of mak- RRSP and other savings) and your retirement, you can withdraw money documents and arrangements – bene- ing a particular investment or taking expenses (such as mortgage, utilities, from cash and short-term securities ficiaries, will, power of attorney, etc. any other action. food and travel). rather than your investment principal. – are up to date. A proper estate plan 2. Plan for a long and fulfilling re- 6. Don’t “reach” for yield. To can help ensure your wishes are car-

AMICALEMENT VOTRE L’Étranger d’Albert Camus

Par Jean-Claude Dubé métier. Il devint ensuite journaliste à Alger, puis à Paris. Il a fait des études e roman est absurde. Il est supérieures en philosophie. L’année aussi juste et raisonnable. En où il publia l’Étranger, soit en 1942, fait, il est considéré comme Camus militait dans le mouvement de C résistance et écrivait des articles dans un des meilleurs romans du 20ième siècle. C’est à savoir. Hors, pour le un journal dédié à la libération. savoir, il faut le lire. L’Étranger est une narration. Elle Ces quelques mots de ma part est faite par un détenu trouvé coupable sont une caricature peut-être un peu de meurtre et qui attend qu’on vienne maladroite du style d’Albert Camus, le chercher pour son châtiment : se grand philosophe français, dans son faire trancher le cou par le couperet premier roman, l’Étranger écrit en d’une guillotine. Son récit nous faire 1942 à Paris sous le gouvernement découvrir une personne qui vit au de Vichy durant la dernière Grande jour le jour, tout simplement, sans se Guerre. C’est un style simple et précis, poser de questions insolubles. L’usage peu coloré et peu descriptif. Camus de la première personne du singulier se sert de petites phrases courtes qui nous permet de nous identifier à ce sont de simples constatations et même personnage et de partager son ressenti des banalités. Ce n’est que plus tard intérieur sans pour autant lui être dans le livre que le style devient plus sympathique. On ne peut s’attacher éloquent et oratoire avec des phrases à lui car il est un mou. Son manque exclamatives, interrogatives, ainsi que de logique, son comportement, ses des répétitions. lacunes sociales et quoi d’autres ne Camus nous présente dans ce plaisent pas au lecteur et le narrateur roman un enchaînement de mises reconnaît lui-même qu’il est en en scène : une veillée au corps, un décalage avec ses semblables. cortège funèbre, une soirée d’été sur Le protagoniste, Meursault (il un balcon, une rue de banlieue, des n’a pas de prénom), vit en Algérie bains de mer, une plage brûlante, une française. Il reçoit un télégramme lui salle de tribunal, un cachot. C’est du annonçant que sa mère est morte. Il théâtre. se rend chez elle, une résidence de Étudiant, Albert Camus avait fait vieillards pauvres, pour assister à la du théâtre, avait été metteur en scène veillée au corps. Le lendemain, il est et avait fondé le Théâtre du Travail à Alger. Le théâtre était son premier Suite à la page suivante FEB 2011 The OSCAR - OUR 38th YEAR Page 37 COMPUTER TRICKS AND TIPS Tablets, and Smartphones, and Netbooks! Oh My! by Malcolm and John time soon. Apps give you everything from stock Our overall impression of the Harding, of Compu-Home It’s far too easy to get bogged market quotes, to web browsers, to tablets that we have been able to down in the details of these devices. email, to eBook readers, to solitaire, get our hands on so far is that their mall is in! Tiny computers The offerings are going to change to alarm clocks, and are mostly free. computer operation is pretty darn (well, sort of computers) are weekly for the next while, and it’s Seriously, apps already number in the awkward but that this shortcoming is becoming hugely popular. At probably only the hard-core geeks hundreds of thousands and it can be more than balanced by the incredible S like us who really care about the overwhelming just to browse through convenience of having an almost- the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this year (2700 exhibitors minutiae, and so maybe it would be the lists to decide which ones will be fully-functioning computer that and 100,000 attendees), more than worthwhile to focus on some of the useful. A tablet may have a cell phone weighs considerably less than a 70 tablets were unveiled, from the basic expectations of what each of built in, which leads to the necessity Kilogram, and will fit in one hand, biggest names in the industry like them can and cannot do well. In this of a “plan” with a carrier. If your a purse, or even sometimes even a Lenovo (IBM), HP and Asus, to lots column and the next, we will try to tablet doesn’t have a phone, then you pocket. of others that nobody’s ever heard of evaluate these moving targets and will communicate on the Internet, via In our next column we will (yet). In addition, all of the big names help you to decide what to look for networks and hotspots. The Skype or compare the capabilities of tablets had game-changing smartphones on and what to avoid: competitor’s app will provide a pretty with smartphones and netbooks. display. Not to be outdone, netbooks Tablets have been with us for fair equivalent to telephone if you Although the lines blur among the struggled mightily to hold onto their many years, but these are not your need it. uses for these devices, most people dominance in this market, introducing daddy’s tablets. Gone is the need for To get all geeky on you for a should be able to choose just one to faster processors and bigger hard a stylus – the touch-sensitive screen moment, we have to bemoan the fulfil most of their needs. drives, but also lots of less-important senses the heat of your finger to move fact that the particular tablet unit smoke-and-mirrors like colourful, the cursor and click. There’s usually that appears to be just about the Malcolm and John Harding are or even interchangeable covers. no separate keyboard to wrap around best combination of features at this owners of Compu-Home, assisting Considering that the mighty Google and fold under, because it’s there when time, the Samsung Galaxy is so far, home and business computer users. has not yet introduced its newest you need it right on the screen itself, unfortunately, only available in a Be sure to visit our web site for an Android operating system that soon although lots of users find this to be model that includes a telephone and is archive of our Columns. www. will be unveiled for some of these a pretty clunky way to have to type therefore only available from the cell compu-home.com gadgets, and that Apple doesn’t even a document. Developers have been phone companies. This baby will be Write to [email protected] attend CES, while its iWhatever falling over themselves to produce ideal in the next generation, when it is or phone 613-731-5954 to discuss machines hold a commanding “apps” to provide the useful software not tied to its cell phone function and computer issues, or to suggest headstart, it’s safe to say that this which is, unfortunately, specific to is powered by Google’s next Android future columns. market isn’t going to simplify any the operating system of the device. version. Worth waiting for, perhaps!

L’Étranger d’Albert Camus .... Suite de la page précédente du cortège qui se rend à l’église et puis au cimetière soleil ». La sentence tombe : il est condamné à la l’âge de 27 ans, il trouve la mort en 1960 dans pour la mise en terre. Il ne prend pas l’attitude propre guillotine. un accident de voiture. Les journaux de l’époque à un fils endeuillé. Le surlendemain, il se rend à la Ce roman est banal. On ne peut en tirer un évoquent une vitesse de 180 km/h. L’absurde et la plage et y rencontre Marie qui lui plaît. Ils vont au message, une morale ou une idée maîtresse qu’on fatalité, il faut y songer! cinéma et ils passent la nuit ensemble chez lui. Le dégagerait d’un roman historique, social, politique Pour notre prochaine lecture, le Cercle a choisi matin venu, elle rentre chez elle et Meursault passe ou religieux. Albert Camus fait passer, entre les Le chant du coq, le premier tome de la trilogie Filles la journée sur son balcon qui donne sur une rue de lignes, sa théorie philosophique de l’absurde. Cette de Caleb. Oeuvre d’Arlette Cousture, ces romans faubourg d’Alger où les tramways et les habitants théorie est peu comprise, même parmi les maitres populaires devinrent un feuilleton télévisé bien de son quartier l’amusent. philosophes et elle pose de nombreuses questions suivi pendant maintes années. Sous la réalisation Le jour suivant, il rencontre Raymond, un auxquelles il est très difficile de répondre. de l’artiste chanteur Michel Rivard, une comédie voisin de palier, qui l’implique dans une histoire Dans cette philosophie de l’absurde, Camus musicale a été créée et elle sera mise en scène au de maîtresse arabe qui le soutient en faisant le prétend que l’existence ici-bas n’a pas de sens. Les mois d’avril au Théâtre Saint-Denis de Montréal. trottoir. Cette femme a un frère duquel Raymond événements s’enchaînent d’une manière purement Sur les planches évolueront des artistes bien connus craint des représailles. Meursault est d’une naïveté hasardeuse. C’est un peu semblable à la théorie du tels que Luce Dufault, Bruno Pelletier et Daniel déconcertante. Plus tard, Raymond invite Meursault chaos proposée par les scientifiques de nos jours. La Boucher. Décrit comme un opéra folk, nous aurons et Marie à un chalet de plage pour le dimanche différence c’est que, dans le chaos, on y trouve une le plaisir de voir la présentation au Centre National suivant. Marie demande à Meursault s’il veut la certaine régularité tandis que dans l’absurde, il n’y des Arts d’Ottawa au début de juillet 2011. marier et il répond que ça n’a pas d’importance. a qu’une fatalité. Notre prochaine rencontre aura lieu le mardi, C’est ainsi que le lecteur devient déconcerté par le Albert Camus était un témoin de son temps 8 février à 19h au sous-sol de la bibliothèque manque d’émotions que devrait ressentir Meursault, et un homme de son temps. Amoureux de la vie Sunnyside. Tous sont invités à y participer ou que ce soit de la tristesse pour la perte de sa mère ou et des femmes, il était intransigeant et n’acceptait simplement à en être témoins. de l’affection pour une jeune femme qui se donne à aucun compromis. Ayant écrit l’Étranger en 1942 à lui. Son comportement est bizarre. Dimanche venu, après un repas bien arrosé, ils se baladent sur la plage et ils rencontrent un groupe d’Algériens arabes, dont l’un est le frère de la maîtresse de Raymond. Une bagarre s’en suit et ils retournent au chalet. Plus tard, Meursault marche seul sur la plage, sous un soleil accablant d’après-midi et il rencontre ce frère de la maîtresse de Raymond qui est couché à l’ombre. Meursault le tire de son revolver et s’assure de sa mort en tirant quatre autres coups. En tuant cet homme, Meursault ne répond même pas à un instinct meurtrier. Le meurtre qu’il commet est absurde. Meursault est arrêté et questionné. Il ne manifeste aucun regret. Durant le procès, l’interrogation porte beaucoup plus sur son comportement lors de la mort de sa mère que sur le meurtre. Comme mobile de son geste, Meursault dit que c’est « à cause du th Page 38 The OSCAR - OUR 38 YEAR FEB 2011 Tasty Tidbits From Trillium Bakery February Blahs …or not By Jocelyn LeRoy beautiful lighting, baskets of towels, brighten my day. five heads are better than one. When soaps, lotions. There was also a I plod along with my Nordic they left I swear there was a cheerful t’s cold. It’s dark. It’s damp. The wardrobe with fluffy bathrobes and walking poles, deep in my thoughts, feeling left in the room. wind knifes through our cozy slippers, gigantic Turkish towels – pretending I’m walking on a beach Next came a gentleman who coats right to the bone. There are heated – and fresh flowers. or checking the treetops for birds. announced he was a bread-squeezer. I The hotel room was ordinary, Suddenly, right in front of me, a large That would be enough to get me going no more parties to look forward to, holidays are over, bills are due. but the bathroom was a vacation poodle-y looking dog was leaping up on the futility of determining freshness The days are getting longer. itself, grand for lolling around eating three, four feet and somersaulting, by squeezing. Lots of people do it; it That’s a little bit hopeful. But we’re chocolate and enjoying the ambiance. bouncing off the ground repeatedly, must be satisfying because they seem not yet halfway through winter. And I think I’ll revisit that hotel before looking like he would burst with joy. to enjoy it. “I’m looking for a heavy, we haven’t experienced the worst of winter melts. Its owner stood still with a stick dense loaf,” the man said, rapidly this one. A few hours in a bookstore is a held high, her right arm pointing pinching the breads on the shelf from If escaping to a sunny island time-out, a self-pleasing time. You skyward. When she lowered her left to right. “Not hard enough. Not isn’t an option, there are a surprising can escape through books anywhere arm, the dog stood rigid, eyes riveted heavy enough.” Finally I was able number of little getaways in which we you want to go, for an entire half day. to the stick. Up went the stick. The to give him a loaf to his liking – one can indulge our longing for warmth Our local gift store has three shelves dog leapt and turned and did freestyle which most bread-squeezers would right here at home. filled with books about colour and its acrobatics in the air. Each raise of the have rejected. The man knew: slightly How about one night in a hotel, powerful effect on our moods, health arm lasted longest than the previous. over-baked, under-risen – that’s what B and B or country inn? You hardly and well-being. I read that yellow, The dog gleefully leapt higher and he wanted. have to do any preparations to leave orange and red will cheer, energize twirled in the air like a figure-skater. It’s uplifting to see happiness of your home for twenty-four hours. and lift our spirits in the form of I watched. The woman didn’t make the moment in man or beast, or a child Dipping your toe in the hotel clothing, foods, flowers and coloured a sound. blissfully rocking back and forth on pool – better yet, a hot whirlpool – stones. It seems like a good idea for a Another day at the park I came our bakery rocking horse until she transports us to a faraway place in our dark grey day. across an elderly dog limping along falls off or mom says “Time to go.” It minds. Reading a good book with Call up a friend and catch up ever so slowly. His patient owner raises the spirit. room service snacks (or bring your while sipping a hot chocolate. Invite was walking backwards, in front of One of our “regulars” comes in own secret indulgences) – or a nice someone for dinner on short notice, the dog, hand outstretched toward his nearly every morning and says, “I try dinner out – feels like a holiday at a or meet for coffee or lunch at a place dog, encouraging him to take a few my best. I always hope for the best. fraction of the cost of a real one. Time you’ve never been. A little serendipity steps at a time. He gave the dog a You have a great day now.” has a way of slowing down during a can lift the spirits and take you out of treat every 20 feet or so. Helping others, even one another, 24-hour get-away. your box if only for awhile. I felt grateful (on behalf of the is mood-lifting. A small gesture, a Last summer I enjoyed an I love to walk in the woods, up pooch) at the sight of this kind man smile, stopping to talk to someone you extended “mini-mini” pretend spa hill from a large park where many braving the cold to give his dog the know is lonely, has the added benefit relaxation in the finest, fanciest dog owners also walk. Often I’m exercise he needed to keep his stiff of creating happiness in you. bathroom I’d ever seen. There was too early for company, and it’s barely joints moving. Later I saw him gently And there’s always chocolate. A marble everywhere, huge mirrored light. Serendipity is alive in the lift his big old friend into his car. The tiny amount melting over your senses walls, gleaming mahogany floors, snowy woods. I have “moments” that dog looked quite contented despite can change your outlook. Mother the limp and pace of a tortoise. He always said so, and so do the latest sported a grateful grin. scientific findings. This is an excellent time to take Back in the bakery, I get the stock of our blessings, especially feeling these days that some folks are when we cannot take an exotic trip taking their winter get-aways in the or holiday. That, too, -- gratitude it’s store. They stomp the snow off their called – will lift a dull, wintery state boots, pull off mitts and hats, sniff of mind. the air, commenting on the aroma Yes, it’s cold. It can get quite and warmth (three ovens heat the dark. But the best way to battle the whole store), and proceed to chat with winter doldrums is to savour these strangers. warm heartfelt moments. A customer wanted two cases of a My personal favourite February product stored on a high shelf just out blah-buster is a walk through of reach. One customer called for a big Confederation Park downtown, spoon. Another volunteered to wiggle amidst the international ice carving the boxes forward. Other people competition. Where else can you be warned that the boxes might fall on in awe of towering ice dragons, and our heads. Two clapped and cheered. crystal dolphins leaping against a cold You’d think we were rescuing a child winter blue sky? stuck in a treetop. It all ended well. Pure magic. Everyone talked about food and how TRILLIUM RECIPES Winter Soup Heat stock in saucepan. Bring to Barley and Vegetable Soup boil. Add barley. Lower heat. Cov- (makes 4 servings) er and simmer for about 20 minutes. 4 cups chicken stock In skillet, sauté celery, carrots, and 1/3 cup barley leek in oil for two minutes. Add 3 tbsp oil mixture to saucepan. Sauté mush- 2 stalks celery, chopped rooms for a couple minutes. Add to 2 carrots, chopped saucepan. Simmer soup for 15 min- 1 leek, chopped utes, until barley and vegetables are 1 tbsp oil or butter tender. Add salt and pepper to taste. ½ lb mushrooms, chopped Serve in warmed bowls. Garnish ½ cup chopped parsley with chopped parsley. salt and pepper to taste. This soup goes down well with a loaf of fresh bread! FEB 2011 The OSCAR - OUR 38th YEAR Page 39

WHAT’S HAPPENING AT THE LIBRARY Sunnyside Branch Library Sunnyside Branch Library 3, 10, 17, 24 ensemble des livres emballants. 8-11. forms together. Our emphasis will 1049 Bank Street, Ottawa Inscription. be on developing works-in-progress Toddlertime Biblingual/bilingue Les mardis, 19 h (60 min.) 22 février, for publication. The workshop will 613-730-1082, Tout-petits a la biblio 22 mars, 19 avril, 24 mai provide writers with encouragement Adult Services, For toddlers and a parent or care- and constructive criticism from their extension 22 giver with stories, rhymes, songs and Mother-Daughter Book Club for ages peers. Registration. Third Monday Children’s Services, games. Ages 18-35 months. Regis- 7-9 of each month tration / Contes, rimes et chansons A place for girls and the special Mondays, 6:00 p.m. (120 min.) Feb- extension 29 pour les bambins et un parent ou women in their lives to share books. ruary 28, March 21, April 18, May 16 gardien. Pour les 18-35 mois. 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Registration. 28, March 28, April 26, May 16 Toddlertime B - Registration: Tues- Saturdays, 11 a.m. (60 min.) Febru- days, 10:45 a.m. (30 min.) February ary 5, 12, 19 Adult Programs 1, 8, 15, 22. The Writing Workshop Toddlertime C – Registration: Thurs- Maman et filles An opportunity for writers of fiction, days 10:10 a.m. (30 min.) February Mamans et filles venez discuter non-fiction, poetry, and experimental Alta Vista Branch Library Programs Offered At The one-on-one session will help you Mar 3: Carolan’s Farewell by Les jeudis, 18 h 30 (90 min.) Alta Vista Library learn how to use the library Charles Foran. 10, 24 février, 10, 24 mars catalogue, Programmes Offerts A La access the Internet, send e-mail and Chinese New Year Calligraphy Poets’ Corner Bibliotheque Alta Vista use databases. Registration. Demonstration Share your love of poetry with others. Alta Vista Branch Wednesdays, 10:30 a.m. (30 min.) 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Alta Vista Branch Library ... Cont’d from previous page trop les allumettes de Gaétan Soucy. an easy structure. Presented by SPECIAL PROGRAMS FOR 6, 13, 20, 27 avril 22 mars : Les chiens et les loups local author Michèle Vinet. CHILDREN/PROGRAMMES 4, 11, 18, 25 mai de Irène Némirovsky. Registration. SPECIAUX POUR ENFANTS Thursday, March 10, 6:30 p.m. (2 hr.) Swinter Networking 101 Homework club The cure for the winter blahs? Learn how to improve your Strategies for Healthy Ornamental Get tutoring and help with homework Celebrate summer instead! Ages 13- networking skills for free. This Plants Master Gardeners Lee after school. Help is available 17. session will teach you what you Boltwood and Ann McQuillan will in math, reading and science in Saturday, February 12, 2:30 p.m. ( 90 need to know, and offer class time to share their expertise and show you French and/or English. Offered in min.)* practice what you have learned. how you can have a thriving city partnership with E.A.G.L.E. Center. Entrepreneurs, business owners and garden. Bring your questions! Ages 7-18. No love here job seekers are all welcome! Registration. (Bilingual)Wednesday, 4:15 p.m. Sick of sappy love stories? Watch Tuesday, Feb 15, 7:00 p.m. (90 min.) Thursday, March 31, 6:30 p.m. (90 (120 min.)* love-free movies tonight! Ages 13- min.) February 2, 9, 16, 23 17. Sleuth Hounds March 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 Monday, February 14, 6 p.m. (120 Share the enjoyment of good Newcomers / Nouveaux arrivants April 6, 13, 20, 27 min.)* mysteries in a relaxed atmosphere. English Conversation Group May 4, 11, 18, 25 Join us for a discussion. Practice your English language Club de devoirs Teen Advisory Group Thursdays, 6:30 p.m. (90 min.) conversation skills and meet new Reçois du tutorat et de l’aide avec Join the Teen Advisory Group (TAG) February 17: Any title by Maj friends in a relaxed and friendly les travaux scolaires. De l’aide to earn community involvements Sjöwall environment. This program is offered disponible avec les mathématiques, hours and help design programs for and Per Wahlöö in partnership with Somali Family la lecture et les sciences, en français teens at the branch. Ages 14-18. March 17: The Whole Truth Services. Registration. et/ou anglais. Offert en partenariat Fridays, February 25, April 1st, April by David Baldacci. Mondays, 6:00 -7:30 p.m. avec E.A.G.L.E. Centre. Pour les 29, May 27, 4 p.m. (60min.)* and 7-18 ans. Destination: Turkey Tuesdays, 1:00-3:00 p.m. (Bilingue) Les mercredis, 16 h 15 N.B. Registration for winter Join Al Sangster on a visual tour of (120 min.)* programs starts on January 5./ Turkey – a fascinating country rich in PRE-SCHOOL/PRESCOLAIRE 2, 9, 16, 23 février L’inscription pour les programmes history and culture. Registration. 2, 9,16, 23, 30 mars d’hiver commence le 5 janvier./ Friday, March 4, 2:00 p.m. (60 min.) Babytime 6, 13, 20, 27 avril Registration for March break Stories, rhymes and songs for babies 4, 11, 18, 25 mai programs starts on February 9./ Technology Open House and a parent or caregiver. Ages 0-18 L’inscription pour les programmes Staff will be on hand to demonstrate months. SPECIAL PROGRAMS FOR du congé d’hiver commence le 9 the OPL’s latest technology: Wednesdays, February 2-February TEENS/PROGRAMMES février./ Programs followed by an * downloadable books, databases, 23, April 13 –May 18 , 10:30 a.m. SPECIAUX POUR ADOLESCENTS require registration. / L’inscription Bibliocommons and assistive (30 min.) est requise pour les programmes technology computers. Homework Club suivis d’un *. The address of the Saturday, March 5, 1:00 p.m. (3 hrs.) Toddlertime Get tutoring and help with homework Alta Vista Library is 2516 Alta Vista Stories, rhymes and songs for babies after school. Help is available Drive, Ottawa and the phone number Réunion portes ouvertes sur la and a parent or caregiver. Ages 18- in math, reading and science in of the Alta Vista Library 613-737- technologie Des employés seront 35 months. French and/or English. Offered in 2837./ L’adresse de la bibliothèque sur place pour présenter les dernières Mondays, January 31- February 21 partnership with E.A.G.L.E. Center. Alta Vista est le 2516, promenade arrivées technologiques de la BPO : , April 11 –May 16 , 10:30 a.m. (30 Ages 7-18. Alta Vista, Ottawa et son numéro de des livres téléchargeables, des bases min.) (Bilingual) Wednesdays, 4:15 p.m. téléphone est le 613-737-2837. de données, Bibliocommons ainsi (120 min.)* que des ordinateurs de technologie Storytime February 2, 9, 16, 23 Program registration will be done d’assistance. Stories and rhymes and songs March 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 on-line only. Ottawa Public Library Le samedi 5 mars, 13 h (3 hrs.) for preschoolers and a parent or April 6, 13, 20, 27 cards are needed to register on- caregiver. Ages 3-6. May 4, 11, 18, 25 line. Children’s library cards Un atelier d’écriture (Bilingual) Tuesdays, February Club de devoirs are required for registration of Apprenez l’art de la nouvelle par des 1-Feburary 22, April 12 –May 17 , Reçois du tutorat et de l’aide avec children’s programs./ L’inscription déclencheurs visuels. Utilisez le 10:30 a.m. (45 min.) les travaux scolaires. De l’aide des programmes est faite schéma narratif pour structurer votre Contes disponible avec les mathématiques, seulement en ligne. Les cartes de travail. Présentation par l’auteure Contes, comptines et chansons pour la lecture et les sciences, en français la bibliothèque publique d’Ottawa Michèle Vinet. Inscription. les enfants d’âge préscolaire (3-6 et/ou anglais. Offert en partenariat sont requises pour l’inscription en Le lundi 7 mars, 18 h 30 (2 hr.) ans) et un parent ou responsable de avec E.A.G.L.E. Centre. Pour les ligne des programmes et les cartes garde. 7-18 ans. de bibliothèque des enfants sont Creative Writing Workshop (Bilingue) Les mardis, 1er février-22 (Bilingue) Les mercredis, 16 h 15 requises pour l’inscription aux Learn how to write great short stories février, 12 avril-17 mai , 10 h 30 (45 (120 min.)* programmes d’enfants. with visual prompts and the use of min.) 2, 9, 16, 23 février 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 mars Stages & Pages: A Partnership Between OPL And The GCTC here’s more to theatre than ac- OPL Readers’ Advisory librarians of the audience. Visit the OPL website to check tors and sets. Good theatre is have read the scripts for each of the “Ottawa residents are passion- out the recommended resources or Tabout stories. Great theatre is plays and recommended resources to ate about the written and the spoken call InfoService at 613-580-2940 for about ideas. Good theatre entertains. further the exploration of their themes word,” said City Librarian Barbara more information. Great theatre provokes an examina- through fiction, non-fiction, films, Clubb. “OPL couldn’t be more thrilled Visit the GCTC website for infor- tion of life. documentaries, periodicals and/or to partner with the GCTC, a company mation about the GCTC plays. The The Ottawa Public Library (OPL) websites. These materials, along with that is a distinguished, dynamic insti- next play, Strawberries in January, and the Great Canadian Theatre Com- the published scripts, are now part of tution. This partnership gives library will be presented from January 25 - pany (GCTC) have partnered to help OPL’s collection and free to borrow. users a new opportunity to discover February 13. explore the themes and topics raised The resources will only add to the ex- the theatre and will give theatre-goers in each play during GCTC’s 2010- perience of seeing the show, and can a chance to enrich their theatre experi- 2011 season. be explored before or after being part ence.” FEB 2011 The OSCAR - OUR 38th YEAR Page 41

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Around Town OSCADS By the Book, a used bookstore and Meetings every second Tuesday of Community Initiatives cafe operated by the Friends of the the month from 7:00 to 8:30 PM at 36 Ottawa Public Library Association Glen Ave. Next meeting is February 8. OSCAR is introducing, on an experimental basis, a new section of (FOPLA), is holding its monthly half- For more information call 613-238- free ads. price book sale on Saturday, February 5919, the local La Leche League phone The purpose is to help members of the Old Ottawa South com- 5, from 10 to 4, at 363 Lorry Greenberg line. munity take initiatives, whether business, not-for-profit or informal Drive. Drop by for great buys on hun- voluntary initiatives. dreds of books (most under $2). Coro Vivo Ottawa presents Armonia Most initiatives require three ingredients: actions, resources and an Rinascimentale: European Mad- idea. OSCADS try to help bring them together. La Leche League Canada has a rigals from the 16th and 17th centuries. group in Old Ottawa South Sunday February 20, 2011 at 2:00 p.m. This request was sent to OSCAR the other day. Are you breast-feeding your baby? Are Tabaret Hall, University of Ottawa, 550 you pregnant and planning to breast-feed? Cumberland St. Adults $15, free for “I wonder if you could put me in touch with or give me contact A La Leche League meeting is a re- children 14 and under. Tickets available information for the person or persons? who were interested in starting laxed, supportive and non-judgmental at Leading Note, at the door or by call- a community garden in our neighbourhood? It’s something I’m inter- place where you can: meet breast- ing 613-841-3902 www.corovivoot- ested in and just would like to know where they’re at with the idea. feeding women, ask specific questions tawa.ca Thanks for your help.” about breast-feeding, learn more about breast-feeding from accredited leaders Heritage Sugar Shack Outing Anyone who has more inofrmaiton, or is interested,, please send who have breast-fed their own chil- Join Friends of the Farm on March 8, an email to [email protected]. Mention that you are re- dren and who volunteer their time, get 2011, for a one day bus tour to a Heritage sponding to OSCADS Community Initiatives. tips for working through best breast- Sugar Shack in Rigaud, Quebec. Early- feeding challenges, find out more bird bonus before January 15. Includes Responses I get can be published in this column next month. about getting ready to breast-feed (if transportation and heritage lunch. you are pregnant), find out more about Info: 613-230-3270 and www.friend- If you have other interests, this is the place to express them, and the benefits of breast-feeding for baby softhefarm.ca perhaps find others who have similar interests. and you, borrow books about breast- feeding and related parenting topics. Page 42 The OSCAR - OUR 38th YEAR FEB 2011 YourMarketplace

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NOTES FROM THE GARDEN CLUB Peonies with Mary Pratte By Colin Ashford became readily available from European nurseries. at the “marshmallow” stage (just as the blooms are Photos by Mary Pratte Mary mentioned that wild peonies come in about to open) and storing them in plastic bags in a many shades of pink and white, but successive frost-free refrigerator. (The plastic bags are needed ary Pratte lived up to her billing “…to because the humidity in frost-free refrigerators is so bring some colour into our mid-winter low.) Mary recommended that, when using an old- meeting…” with a collection of stunning fashioned refrigerator (the type that needs regular M defrosting), a plastic bag is unnecessary and it is slides of peonies—many grown at the Experimental Farm. possible to store blooms in a vase of water. By way of introduction, Mary explained that In addition to slides of peonies from the Experi- peonies are native to many places in the northern mental Farm, Mary showed slides of massive beds hemisphere including China, Siberia, and Mongolia of peonies at Les Jardins de Métis in Quebec (www. where they have been used for medicinal purposes refordgardens.com). Elsie Reford, who started the for millennia. Although peonies were known in medieval Europe, it was not until the Victorian era

First Arrival—an Itoh peony

breeding has produced peonies with colours from coral pink to maroon—but no blue peonies. Cul- tivated peony blooms can be either single blooms like their wild ancestors, or semi-double, double, anemone, or Japanese in form. Wild peonies, and many cultivated peonies, produce seed and, although the seeds need a double Paeonia mlokosewitschii (Molly the Witch) dormancy period, peonies can be readily grown Bowl of Beauty from seed. Peonies grown from seed do not come true to their parent plant—so every peony grown that wealthy gentlemen funded explorers to go to from seed will be a surprise. Since peonies can gardens between the wars, ordered 386 peony plants the Far East to bring back various varieties of wild live for decades, they can be cultivated by divid- from England in one year and planted them in the peony plants. In the nineteenth century herbaceous ing the roots of a mature plant (although they really garden of her, then, fishing lodge. Although rec- prefer to be left alone). If the bloom on a peony ords at Métis of exactly what varieties were planted plant begins to fail, it should be dug up in the early where are incomplete, Mary is working with Alex fall and the root system split into a number of div- Reford (Elsie’s great grandson) to re-establish the isions each containing about three to five tuberous collection that Elsie ordered. roots and three to five eyes. The small feeder roots Mary is a past-president of the Canadian Peony should be removed to eliminate root nematodes. Society, and now is involved at the Experimental The divisions should be planted as soon as possible Farm as project coordinator of the Peony Project— to allow the plant to develop a network of feeder a collaboration between the Friends of the Farm and roots before freeze up. Mary brought along a couple Agriculture Canada to restore and extend the peony of leaflets produced by the Canadian Peony (www. collection in the Ornamental Gardens. peony.ca) giving advice on planting peonies and growing them from seeds. The next meeting of the Garden Club will be Although peonies typically have a short flower- on Tuesday 8 February 2011 at 7.00 p.m. at the Old Firelight due to A.P. Saunders ing season, Mary mentioned a couple of techniques Ottawa South Community Centre (The Firehall), for extending the season. Firstly peony blooms can 260 Sunnyside Avenue, when Eileen McGrath, be dried using silica gel (Mary brought along a two- President of the Ottawa African Violet Society will peonies were bred both in England and France year old dried bloom to underline the point). Sec- demonstrate how to create dish gardens and terrar- mainly for use as cut flowers. It was not until the ondly blooms can be held for a number of weeks iums. middle of the nineteenth century that tree peonies by storing them in a refrigerator. The technique involves cutting the blooms

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