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April 1, 1994 gl 1, 1994 glèbeApril Vol.Vovirt 22 No. 4 Get ready for Great Glebe Garage Sa BY JIM FOSTER Glebe Apothecary, 778 Bank Talk about your global mar- Street, The Tea Party, 103 4th ket place! The first call I re- Ave, and the Glebe Community ceived concerning the GCA's Centre, 690 Lyon Street. Regis- 9th Annual Great Glebe Garage ter early and start organizing Sale was from a large group in your sale items now. Dearborne, Michigan. I As always we ask participants wouldn't want to be the U.S. to donate 10% of their sales to customs inspector boarding the Ottawa Food Bank. You will the bus on their return trip. receive a donation card to be Last year's sale was one of completed, the card and dona- our best. A new banner, over tion will be collected the day of 300 participants selling, and the sale between 3 p.m. and close to $9000 in donations 4:30 p.m. Tax receipts will be raised for the Ottawa Food mailed to you by the Ottawa Bank! Both are significant in- Food Bank. creases over 1992's sale. We are looking for an en- The group garage sale con- thusiastic volunteer to promote cept is also growing. I also our sale. This person will be in consulted with a group from contact with the media and will Ottawa South on last fall's very be informing the public with successful, first ever "porch posters and anything else they sale," and this year with a can think of. No experience group from the Westboro area necessary but enthusiasm is a for a sale they've planned for must! June. Don't miss the 9th Annual Things are wen under way Great this sale. Glebe Garage Sale! for year's The 9th When: Sat. _Annual Great Glebe Garage May 28th Jim Foster and neighbour Alice Davidson share a Sale will be held Time: 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. bargain at '93 sale. Saturday May Where: over 300 28th from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Rain houses in the See page 2 to register for Great Glebe Garage Sale, date is Sunday May Glebe! Saturday, May 28, 1994 Photo: Martine Bresson 29th. See For more page 2 of the Glebe Report for information or to the form. Your volunteer, call Jim Foster, 563- completed 3571. Recycle plastics April 23rd forms can be dropped off at the Ottawa's Blue Box program over 2 1/2 tonnes of plastic, to began accepting number 1 depots positioned across the (PETE) plastics this month, but city during the last Plastics "Talk your walk" for your anyone wondering how they Recycling Day. The four April can recycle the rest of their 23 depots, open from 10:00 a.m. favourite Glebe stroll plastic containers should mark to 4:00 p.m., will be located at BY CHRIS BRADSHAW a wonderful way to weave to- April 23, the fifth Plastics Re- the same locations as they So you have a favourite route gether a local history, because cycling Day, on their calendar. were during the event last fall: you like to take when walking it brings memories together Once again, Ottawa-area Girl CENTRE First Ave. School through the Glebe. What are spatially, and through walk- Guides will be stationed at 73 First Avenue the places here that rekindle ing, we can so vividly share Laidlaw trucks in four loca- tions across the city to accept NUMBERS 2 TO 7 ELIGIBLE memories or have historical these memories. Depots will accept plastic significance for you. We'd like These walks can be typed, recyclable plastic containers. Plastics Recycling Day was containers specially marked to know. drawn/printed, or even tape- with the Katherine initiated by Mayor Jacquelin triangular recycling Fletcher, in her recorded. Together with my symbol (numbers 2 through 7). book Capital Walks, provided a fellow Glebe Report board Holzman to provide an oppor- tunity for Ottawans to recycle Another Plastics Recycling delightful example of a walk in members and a few others we Day will be held October 22. the Glebe. Although she is not will choose a few to share in plastics not accepted in regu- a Glebite, she is quite knowl- these pages this fall. Maybe, lar curbside pickups. While edgeable of our heritage and we can bring together those previous Recycling Days were her walk reflected that quite submitting walks and others to only able to take in specific INSIDE well. This year I want to de- form a Glebe walking group. kinds of plastics, the expansion velop a walk emphasizing Ottawalk, the Association of of markets for such materials GCA 5 has now made it possible for all features I know about, such as Pedestrians and Walkers of Ot- Capital Column...6,7 what gives the Glebe its walk- tawa & Area, will use the sub- plastic containers to be ability and landmarks that missions to plan a similar invi- dropped off at these twice GNAG 8 mark yearly neighbourhood depots. decisive turning-points tation through other com- Business 12,13 in its development. munity papers for an eventual "As waste management re- I would like to challenge Walking Festival in Ottawa. sponsibilities shift from City Community Ctre 19-22 other Glebites -- long-timers, Hall to the regional govern- Submit your walks to: "Talk ment, this community-based School News 28-31 newcomers, and wannabees -- your Walk," Glebe Report, 690 volunteer initiative continues 36,37 to compose and record their Lyon Street South, Ottawa, ON. Church News.. favourite Glebe walk. A walk is to help fulfill the recycling KIS 3Z9. needs of our city at no cost to Books 34 Ottawa South Neighbourhood Run April 24 the taxpayer," Mayor Holzman There is still time to call Fun Run. said. "Congratulations and Quote of the Month Bonnie Ostler, 730-9080, to tell The course winds through thanks are in order to Laidlaw For lo! The winter is past, the her you want to volunteer for community streets and is a and the Girl Guides for giving rain is over and gone; the the 5th annual Ottawa South fundraiser for the Ottawa Ottawans these opportunities to flowers appear on the earth; Neighbourhood Run. The race South Community Association divert all our plastic contain- the time of the singing of birds is scheduled for Sunday, April and the Hopewell School ers from the landfill." is come, and the voice of the 24 at 10:30 a.m. There will be a Parent Teacher Organization. Ottawans hauled approximately turtle is heard in our land. 10 km Road Race and a 2.5 km 32,000 empty containers, or The Song of Solomon, II N EWS Glebe North Neighbourhood Watch Initial steps have been taken to establish a Neighbourhood Watch in the area bounded by Rosebery, Glendale to Powell from Bank to Bronson. A second meeting will be held on Tuesday, April 12, 7- 8:30 p.m. I= An estimate of the numbers of houses in our area is 240. Con- 7,5 stable Corbeil has advised that the number of participating households must be 90% or approval will not be granted. Block Captains should have responsibility for no more than 10 Alice Cohen, to 15 Nana Clark-Okah, Louise Koo, Marlene Keeley and households, preferably their immediate neighbours. Each Elizabeth Cano model Captain would cover half the block on one side of the street and vintage Girl Guide uniforms. be assisted by four Watch Members. They would remain alert to Heritage Girl Guides on display the occurrence of any suspicious activity and report it A Girl Guide promptly to the Block Captain and/or Co-ordinator. mother-daughter tea, held March 26 at Glebe- St.James Church, featured a fashion show in which the girls of the 31st Pathfinders modelled Canadian Girl Guide uniforms worn It is essential at this time that those who have already volun- from 1910 to 1940. The tea, a teered as Block fundraiser for an independent trip Captains and Watch Members attend and bring to Switzerland, was convened Lois several neighbours. by Hardy Brian Lynch 233-1994 L772 Peter Ostapchuk 237-4804 ARL416U1 RES-IT:W.4770N Buy girl Guide cookies 'ENGINEERED REPAIRS TO MASONRY AND CONCRETE STRUCTURES' MAGUS RESTORATION LTD. has been serving the Ottawa-Carleton Region since 1982. As a member of the Ottawa Construction Association and the Canadian Condominium Institute, MAGUS is well avare of the needs and demands of the April 16 Residential Sector. The sale everyone waits for--Girl Guide Cookies--starts in MAGUS RESTORATION LTD. is proud of its reputation as a qualified quality the Glebe Saturday, April 16. All the'Biownies, Guides and contractor and would be happy to provide all necessary references. Pathfinders in Lansdowne district will 'blitz the neigh- bourhood selling the delicious traditional chocolate and "DEDICATED TO QUALITY AND SERVICE" vanilla cookies. The money raised supports all Girl Guide activities, both in the district and at the provincial level. Since 1910 thousands of girls and women have had their SOME OF THE MANY SERVICES MAGUS HAS TO OFFER INCLUDE; lives enriched by membership in Girl Guides of Canada. This year our cookie depot is at Fifth Avenue Court, thanks to the co-operation of Minto. From there, the girls REPAIRS TO WET AND LEAKING BASEMENTS - sToNE, }mom< will canvass the Glebe and Ottawa East. Please welcome OR CONCRETE them when they ring your doorbell. At $2.50 a box the cookies are a bargain. ENGINEERED LOWERING OF BASEMENT FLOORS - TURN YOUR BASEMENT INTO A FAMILY ROOM OR GRANNY FLAT.