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RPR Trial2.Indd FEBRUARY 2011 A Voice of Riverview Park VOL.3 NO.1 Ottawa mayor turns up for the fun Winter carnival shoots and scores! by Carole Moult See Page 7 Veritable angels say cheese colourfully in unison. Photo Credit: Bill Fairbairn. More Winter carnival photos on pages 2 and 3. Mayor Jim Watson backs up a jolly sep- tet including from left to right, Daniel Cloutier, Karin Keyes Ende- mann, President of the Riverview Park Community Associ- ation, Jean Cloutier, President of the Canterbury Com- munity Association, Emilie Cloutier, Kris Nanda, Chair, Planning and De- velopment of the RPCA, and Joseph Nanda (front) GROWING TOGETHER WITH CARE! 751 Peter Morand Cres. in Alta Vista FULL SERVICE RETIREMENT LIVING 613-739-0909 At Alta Vista Manor, we understand that your care needs may change. PETER MORAND CR. Alta Vista Ottawa Manor Care packages can be tailored to meet your R. C General N O Hospital D N I growing needs, allowing you to remain for U Franco- G R Citè E G School as long as you choose. O R BILINGUAL SERVICES AVAILABLE Locally Owned & Operated SMYTH ROAD Page 2 Riverview Park Review FEBRUARY 2010 When your community association comes knocking: The story of Nazish Ahmad By Carole Moult themselves to her and informed her of local events. hen your next- door “The people in the community neighbour is the seem to care and take an interest president of the in each other,” Nazish added, as Wcommunity association, and you she spoke about the positive in- have your family’s support for volvement she and her husband your participation in joining, it is have experienced since moving hard to turn down the opportun- here in August 2009. Jamil is ex- ity to become a Director when tremely busy as a mining consult- you hope to give back to the new ant, but very much appreciates community into which you have the sense of community in River- just moved. And so it was with view Park, and in particular the Nazish Ahmad. way people recognize and chat When Nazish and her husband, with their neighbours as they Jamil Hassan, moved into River- walk down the street. Moreover, view Park with their daughters moving into a first home after Samah and Aliya it didn’t take condominium living can some- long for them to realize that the time it took for them to find just Continued on page 11 Ace photographer Orrin Clayton in action. Photo Credit: Bill Fairbairn Family pictures of Nazish Ahmad, Jamil Hassan (inset), and their daughters Samah and Aliya. the right house was well worth the wait. “As the girls began to grow up and we really needed a larger place, we started to look for a new home. We had been living in a condominium downtown. It took a year and a half to find a place we really liked, but this was a good choice,” noted Nazish. Moreover, it wasn’t very long after Nazish and her family ar- rived at their new place in River- view Park that they realized that theirs had, in fact, been an excellent decision. Next- door neighbour, Karin Endemann, had arranged with the former owner’s daughter to have her homemade tea biscuits put in the refrigerator for their arrival, Tim Mark, a Neighbourhood Watch coordinator, came over to their house to welcome the family and advise them of the program that had been set up in the community, and families with children readily introduced FEBRUARY 2011 Riverview Park Review Page 3 Skating Party potpourri of pictures Back row (from left): RPCA parks, recreation and environment commit- tee members Pam Clayton, Chris Mark, Janina Nickus, Carole Moult; and Shoot-to-win hockey contest organizer Sean Dowd guards on the rink. (centre) Kim Fisher, organized the winter carnival at Balena Park January Photo Credit: Bill Fairbairn 30 that attracted 150 adults and children including Ottawa Mayor Jim Wat- son. Member Louis Comerton is absent. Photo Credit: Bill Fairbairn Figure8 Hockey One SKATES Photographer and RPR Director, Bill Fairbairn. Photo Credit: Orrin Clayton know Still dedicated to helping all skaters since 1974 380 Industrial Avenue, Ottawa, ON K1G 0Y9 613.731.4007 Mon - Wed 10am to 6pm Thurs - Fri 10am to 9pm Sat - 10am to 5pm, Sun - noon to 5pm Locally and family-owned and operated. Still dedicated to helping all skaters since 1974 380 Industrial Avenue, www.figure8.ca Mon - Wed 10am to 6pm Ottawa Thurs - Fri 10am to 9pm Sat - 10am to 5pm 613.731.4007 Skate Specialists Sun - noon to 5pm www.figure8.ca Skate Specialists Page 4 Riverview Park Review FEBRUARY 2010 Are we losing our forest? By Carol Richenhaller Many people walk these paths outside. There is a growing aware- daily. In the winter, the snow on ness of what Richard Louv has onstruction will start this the trails is always well-compacted called Nature Deficit Disorder. year on the Hospital Link the morning after a snowfall. Movements like No Child Left road, the city’s prelimin- People walk to work at the hospi- Inside and the National Wildlife Cary budget tells us. This road will tals, they ski and snowshoe, they Federation’s Be Out There pro- connect the General Hospital ring walk their dogs, and some just gram are starting to awaken the road to Riverside Drive through walk for peace and quiet. Indeed, world to the problems created the Alta Vista Corridor. this area is truly a focal point of when children fail to experience Riverview Park residents know why many families call Riverview nature. this corridor as our local forest. Park their home, as much a part Perhaps before the bulldozers The corridor close to Alta Vista show up to take down our wooded is a buzzing field of flowers and land, we should give the city plan- wildlife activity in the summer. ners a tour of the forest so they Further east, a forest of buck- can see what will be destroyed and thorn, maple, spruce and sumac demonstrate a more holistic cost/ have provided play places for gen- benefit analysis to constituents. erations of Riverview kids. Every Then maybe Ottawa will be more child has a story of a fort they inclined to keep our diminishing built, a bird hike they took, a fox natural spaces available for people they met, the day they froze their Cut swath through trees in the woods of all ages to enjoy. toes tobogganing on Cloudmaker north of the hospital in Riverview The road is a $55 million budget hill or followed their boat down Park. Photo Credit: Colin Hine item. If you want to see this road the rushing spring stream. And taken off the budget, the city is even most recently, skated on a of our community as our schools, inviting budget input throughout magical makeshift pond in the parks and other such infrastruc- February. Their website homepage forest that happily arose due to tures. has information on how to have late fall flooding. Riverview school teachers are your say. Additionally you may Our children have grown up in fond of taking their classes on contact the Riverview Park Com- Cardinals in a traditionally beauti- these woods. Some families have nature walks in these woods. The munity Association (RPCA) at ful winter scene. mapped and named the many students love it, especially those [email protected] to find out Photo Credit: Carol Richenhaller paths that criss-cross the woods. who have few opportunities to get how you can get involved. Gratitude and fortitude By Heather Swail social housing townhouses and We have fought against closing ily, all of the people in the house low-rise apartments. Our three schools and big developments and the driver of the car got out ere in Riverview Park high-rise apartments house many and roads that threaten to pass safely. As many of us stood in we have no pretensions. new Canadians. Most people through our one large green- the cold looking at the sodden, We get our coffee at who try to find us can’t – River- space. We have a feisty com- charred mess of what used to be HTim Horton’s, our milk at Hasty view Park is a warren of circling munity association and a great the Johnsons’ home, we thanked Mart and our shwarmas at Pizza streets squeezed between a hos- local paper. We have people who God, Allah and the Creator for Boyz. We live in now relatively pital complex and the poetic look out for each other – for the having the Johnson family with small, circa-1950 ,1 1/2 - and two- Industrial Avenue. How could aging neighbours who were first us. Neighbours ran over with storey homes, built by families we be pretentious? We would be owners, the new young families blankets, shoes, and yes, coffee when children shared rooms laughed out of the Park. and the kids who shoot hoops on from Tim’s. the Coronation Woods basket- The Johnsons are spending the ball court. We are musicians 2010 Christmas holidays in a new and educators, electricians and home on the old site in a neigh- government workers. More and bourhood they truly love. They more of our community now are a wise family. They have told comes from different countries many of us that a house is noth- all over the globe. The little park ing but the people inside; that by the woods hosts moms in hi- family foundations are made only jabs, dads in tunics and kids of stronger by crises and challenges. every colour. In the flush of 2011, may we all A community is defined by not be thankful for our neighbours only people but events.
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