THE OSCAR www.BankDentistry.com 613.241.1010 The Ottawa South Community Association Review l The Community Voice Year 46, No. 1 January 2018 If You Build it They Will Come The Windsor rink December 14th after the first night of work. PHOTO BY BRYAN DELANEY By Bryan Delaney best ice in the city. Last year the rink opened on December 19th and the SUMMER CAMPS The Windsor ice rink is a central hosers are looking to get the rink feature of Windsor Park from open this year by December 18th. December to March. It’s a special This year the rink is looking for privilege that we have in Old Ottawa some volunteers to help organize Find your copy of the South, and is used by hockey players and run a “Hockey Day in Canada” and skaters from across the city. event. Some early concepts include Summer Camp Guide The ice making process to create age-related contests for fastest skater, the rink is labour-intensive. The snow hardest shot, shot accuracy and inside the OSCAR! has to be packed, and flooded a dozen shootouts. A figure skating routine times before the base forms. Each would be a great add. If you are flood takes two hours and requires interested in heading this up please two people. The rink is manned by a reach out to the OSCA rink group by collection of volunteers from around emailing [email protected]. Old Ottawa South. This collection of “hosers” is dedicated, and Windsor Bryan Delaney is a Windsor Park has a reputation for having the Park hoser. COMMUNITY CALENDAR Jan. 2-5 The Firehall closed for annual cleaning and maintenance Mon, Jan. 8, 19:00 Old Ottawa South Garden Club “Top 10 Now Open! North American Gardens Worth Traveling For”, The Firehall Wed, Jan. 10, 12:00 Doors Open for Music (DOMS) starts Do you have the Winter blues? with “The Magic Of Benny Goodman”, Southminster United Sat & Sun, Jan. 13 & Jan. 14 Ontario Speed Skating Championships, Brewer Oval Thurs, Jan. 18, 18:00-19:00 Hopewell P.S. Kindergarten Information, Hopewell P.S. Library. Sat, Jan. 27, 9:30 Capital Ward Cup, Brantwood Park Thurs, Feb. 1, 12:00 OSCA Summer Camp Registration starts, Online or at Firehall To see the latest listings, go to the online calendar at www.oldottawasouth.ca Page 2 The OSCAR l January 2018 Old Ottawa’s Disputed Territory By John Dance footbridge would not just be of use to OOS residents but would actually be So if you live south of Riverdale and in OOS. east of Avenue Road do you live in For the last four years OOECA Old Ottawa South, Old Ottawa East has been attempting to have the or Rideau Garden(s)? While it’s a ONS boundary fixed and recently question that has no importance in ONS seems to have adjusted its map terms of passport requirements, taxes so that the boundary is consistent or services, it is a question that gets with the community associations’ raised periodically. constitution and bylaws. That said, “Constitutionally speaking” − in the related demographic data appear terms of community associations to be still determined by Census but not of the Constitution Act of tracts 15 and 16 which are split by 1982 − the answer seems pretty Clegg Street. straightforward. The Old Ottawa Then there is the question of East Community Association just how “Rideau Garden” fits into constitution defines OOE as the geography. Originally, Rideau including the triangle bounded by Garden (not “Gardens!) was the Riverdale, Avenue and Main. Williams family’s very productive And the OSCA bylaws are similar 39 acre garden to the west of Main except they specifically note, Street and south of what is now “Residents of the area bounded by Riverdale. When the property was Avenue Road, Riverdale Avenue and subdivided for residential lots it kept Main Street are deemed to reside in the name Rideau Garden. Old Ottawa South upon the payment Now, with an “s” added, Rideau of Association membership fees,” Gardens is a real estate term and, as which is to say OOS residency is per information from local real estate readily available to those in the as the boundary between the wards (CDP) I think the consensus was to agent Jeff Hooper, the boundaries are “triangle below Riverdale.” Indeed, that subsequently included Old recognize the reality of the south of shown as south of Riverdale, with now, OSCA membership is free Ottawa East and Old Ottawa South Riverdale indifference to the OOECA Bank to the west and Main on the unlike that of OOECA which costs an and this boundary was kept in the and let them be part of the Ottawa east. exorbitant $3 a year. initial formulations of the two South community if that were their Mr. Hooper notes that from a real Historically speaking − at least community associations. preference.” estate perspective he also includes as OOE historian Rick Wallace However, during the development OOECA does not conduct its the Brantwood Park neighbourhood documents it − the disputed territory of the Old Ottawa East community annual membership drive in the of OOE as part of Rideau Gardens. (or the “DMZ” − demilitarized zone design plan the disputed triangle triangle below Riverdale so that And, interestingly, “Rideau Garden − for those who push the humour on was excluded without protest from there are few members from this Drive” is east of Main even though this issue) − was part of the original OOE residents. “The Avenue Road area. Also, the OOE Mainstreeter is the original Rideau Garden was Ottawa East. But over time with the separation seemed very artificial as delivered to only three of the seven strictly on the west side of Main. conversion of farmland to Ottawa’s a boundary,” says OOE resident and streets in the disputed territory while In the end the boundaries don’t first suburbs the linkages to Ottawa long-time community association the OSCAR goes to all of them. matter because there is no legal status South were built. treasurer Don Fugler. “At the time of Michael Jenkin, president of OSCA attached to them. And the 400 or so At one point Avenue Road served the Community Development Plan for many years, notes, “Since I was residents in the disputed territory can on the Board (1998) we have more readily participate in programs run by or less assumed that most people in OOE’s Community Activities Group the area affiliated with OOS … The or OSCA. reason we assumed this, I think, is Perhaps one day somebody will the relative proximity of the area have the energy to run a referendum to the Firehall, relative to OOE’s to determine once and for all what centre [Old Town Hall at Hawthorne community the disputed territory and Main], and the fact that most should belong to. In the meantime people if they were going to drive, the residents there can keep their dual ride or walk somewhere would be citizenship. encouraged by the street network/ Or, as humorously suggested by pattern to go west to Bank Street, OOS resident Kathy Krywicki, “If which is the closest concentration of we’d amalgamate we could be Old retail and services for that section of Ottawa, no cardinal points required, the neighbourhood.” and rival the great and mighty However, the Ottawa Glebe!” Neighbourhood Study (ONS) which provides demographic detail John Dance is an OOE resident on Ottawa’s communities, further according to the OOECA constitution complicated the boundary issue. but an OOS resident according to ONS originally set the boundary at the Ottawa Neighbourhood Study’s Clegg Street meaning that the new original boundaries. To ADVERTISE IN The OSCAR contact: [email protected] The OSCAR l January 2018 Page 3 NEWS Santa’s Breakfast Party at the Southminster Redevelopment Firehall Approved ILLUSTRATION BY BARRY HOBIN & ASSOCIATES ARCHITECTS A rendering of the now approved Windmill plan for the Southminster Church site. On December 13th City Council approved the redevelopment at Southminster United after the Windmill Development Group revised its proposal so that the height of the six-storey condominium building would be Councillor David Chernushenko and Ian Grabina (Councillor reduced by 50 cm, resulting in the condo roof being 10 cm below the parapet Chernushenko’s assistant), and their families came out to support OSCA’s of the church. In November, Planning Committee had asked the developer to Breakfast with Santa and the Ottawa Food Bank. reduce the height of the condominium. For more on this story see pages 5 and 11. Windsor Rink Shack Hours The rink shack will be open (weather Permitting): Monday - Friday 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm Saturday 2:00 pm - 6:00 pm Sunday 2:00 pm - 5:30 pm Family PJ’s make breakfast with Santa that much more fun. Donating 100% of winter profits in support of the homeless in our Community. Andrew Carter The team at OSCA had a blast running this year’s event. Thank you to all Sales Representative who came out to celebrate the season with us! PHOTOS BY OSCA STAFF Page 4 The OSCAR l January 2018 NEWS Number of Bedrooms in 177 Hopewell Reduced PHOTO BY BRENDAN MCCOY By Brendan McCoy attention and opposition from the surrounding neighbours. The owner of the controversial Councillors Chernushenko and “renovation” at 177 Hopewell, Jor- Leiper and also City Staff were dan Tannis - President of Concorde involved in the negotiations which Properties, announced in a letter lead up to the announcement. The dated December 7th that he had 16 bedrooms are closer to the 12 decided to reduce the number of bedrooms originally mentioned at bedrooms in his six-unit apartment the Committee of Adjustment.