OTTAWA SOUTH COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION REVIEW Volume 4 December 1976 Number 3 Up for elections Time to bite the ballot It's time again to get psyched By BILL JOHNSON Cassey was then running for con- troller, but after having lost that up for municipal elections. As An all-candidates meeting was usual, there are many candidates bid he wants his old job back as sponsored on Thursday, Nov. 18, by for many offices and the average alderman. the Ottawa South'Community Associa- voter could easily become lost in If you can judge such things by tion. It was well attented and, the sea of strange names and faces. the questions from the audience, in the opinion of a few observers, To help overcome this problem, which you probably can't, people it was one of the best chaired OSCAR is printing a report of the in Capital Ward are most concerned meetings they ever seen. (John OSCA-sponsored public all-cand- about the cost and availability of Manson firmly kept the meeting in idates meeting ,held 18 November, day care and about keeping Art's order and on topic). as well as short pieces on as Market in Ottawa South. May the Two of the four mayoral candi- many of the candidates for city best men and women win on December 6. dates showed up: Lorry Greenberg council (mayor, controllers, ald- and Mike Sammon. Mr. Greenberg is erman) as possible. We have also running on his record, Mr. Sammon included excerpts from a question- thinks "millions" are being de- naire conducted by Glebe residents Bearing fruit frauded by people cheating on wel- on candidates for.Board of Education. fare . The response to OSCAR's front- OSCAR endorses no candidates. We The seven controller candidates page editorial in the last issue feel wise choices require an airing were all out, and in fine style. has outdone our wildest imaginings.N of the issues and some knowledge of Two of them, Ernest Bouchard and The Community of Ottawa South has the candidates. Joseph-Louis Paradis, are apparent- spoken loudly on the question of keeping Art's Market in this area. In addition to cur coverage of ly running to provide comic relief, the election, paid ads for various whether they know it or not. The City officials and candidates for candidates appear throughout the others were all impressive to a office have been unable to ignore paper. These, .like our other ads, greater or lesser degree, but the I the problem when so many have made are accepted on a commercial basis. two who seemed to create the most their opinions known. The presence or absence of an ad favorable impression on the audi- The situation^of the Market is for a particular candidate does not ence were Ralph Sutherland and not yet clear. Art plans to remain imply any comment by OSCAR on the Marion Dewar. in this area where it is more ob- relative merits of the candidate Finally, the long but inter- vious than ever that he is wanted; for the office which he or she- esting evening came to an end with exactly where his shop will be open seeks. the questioning of the four alder- is being negotiated. OSCAR will See : manic candidates. Three of the continue to follow these develop- For Mayor Page 2 four, all but Joe Cassey, were also ments and report the outcome in For Board of Control Page 4 fighting it out during the last future issues. For Alderman Page 1 municipal election, in 1974. Mr. For School Trustee Page 7 Meeting a Challenge Page 1

For Alderman By BILL JOHNSON Curious about the four candidates for Alderman in Capital Ward, I went to the all-candidates meeting on Thursday of last week. Here are a few impressions. Thom Bennett: Choirboy face, bouncy way of speaking, Thom is 26 and running a second time, still hoping to follow in the footsteps of big brother Claude Bennett, the minister of tourism in the Ontario Government. Listen to Thom: "When my brother was alderman here the salary was $3,500. He worked very hard. I learnt a lot from him." Joe Cassey. Those dark circles under his eyes! Mr. Cassey, 49, reminds the audience that he voted against the expansion of Lansdowne Park by 7,500 seats. It wouldn't solve the problem and they'd be back for more, he said back in 1974. (continued on page 6) Page 2 all one-sided, "and that goes for For Mayor- the news media as wèll. I respect Consumer Affaira Mr. Greenberg to the highest degree," or how to survive in the marketplace. he said, "but I believe in the demo- A regular OSCAR feature By KATHIE CARRUTHERS cratic principle of competition." By GAIL STEWART Welfare abuse was the keystone of Lorry Greenberg- Something that would be inter- Mr. Sammon's campaign platform. He Mayor Lorry Greenberg takes issue esting to explore is the possibi- noted that $24 million was spent on with allegations in the media that lity of setting up some kind of welfare in Ottawa last year, and ex- this mayoralty electioh is lacklustre community information network in pressed his conviction that a large and without strong issues. "I've al- Ottawa South. If your household is amount of it was "money shafted out ways been an issue candidate and this like ours, you are probably search- of welfare". He maintained that he, election is no different. I'm cam- ing quite often for information himself, had been "threatened and paigning just as hard as in any pre- about maintaining your home or thrown out" in the course of his per- vious campaign." about purchasing, using or dispos- sonal efforts to investigate welfare Looking relaxed and confident, Mr. ing of some household item or abuses. Greenberg addressed about 80 members service. and guests of the Ottawa South Com- "I'm against the able-bodied The best information usually munity Association at an all-candi- being on welfare," said Mr. Sammon. comes from experience, and what you dates meeting recently, saying he He charged that he knew of some are looking for is often something saw five major issues in the current social workers themselves drawing which your neighbor already knows, campaign: municipal financing and mother's allowance and welfare. having recently learned from ex- changing the basic taxtion structure; Conceding that it was a touchy perience himself. An information relations with federal government; subject, he added, "there's a heck pool might be useful, for example, unemployment; the problem of over- of a lot of them able to work who about such services as plumbing, government; and something he called are collecting welfare." plastering, auto repair, appliance "Ottawa as the nation's capital". A second key issue is Mr. servicing, cleaning, gardening, "My campaign started two years Sammon's concern for senior choosing à doctor or a lawyer or a ago when I was first elected mayor," citizens. He specifically mention- family counsellor and a- number of Mr. Greenberg stated. "I think we've ed his desire to set up an alarm other things - whether do-it- provided good sensible, logical, and call system ih senior citizen homes yourself or otherwise. competent government that compares to enable the elderly to gét help If yau have any ideas or would be favourably with any other government more quickly when needed than the interested in exploring the notion of the past." present whistle system permits. He a little further, I'd like to Mr. Greenberg said he had one also promised if elected to hear from you. My 'phone number is single purpose in running for mayor: partially convert the Tele-Transpo 235-2796. I'll report back to to make Ottawa a better city and a service to a daytime senior citizen OSCAR readers in my next column. great capital. service. There are probably also people In answer to questions from the Also on the subject of trans- in our community who have special audience, Mr. Greenberg assured res-, portation, Mr. Sammon promised expertise in particular matters, idents of Ottawa South that the de- that the question of exiting from and might be willing to share it cison to blow some snow onto pri- the rëar of buses would be looked with it us. vate property this winter to reduce into, alleging that people were snow-removal expenses is not going killed every year walking in front to endanger property. "We've been of buses. blowing snow in this city since 1971. Mr. Sammon advocated full dis- RIDDLE OF THE MINUTE: closure of personal expenditures We're not going to go down and tear Why is a civic election like down your shrubs. We're just looking of all candidates. He also advo- a horse race? for a little extra storage space. We cated a change in the tax structure could have done that little extra bit that would reduce the small business For answer, see page 3. of blowing and not told you about it, bankruptcy rate. but we're not that kind of govern- Mr. Sammon promised an open- ment." door policy in city-hall if With respect to the cleaning up of elected, adding that "a few heads the Rideau River, he stated, "It's will be chopped," which he said he MEAT * GROCERY LTD. going to be a number of years before inteftded to explain when elected. we do it. It's almost impossible to resolve 60 or 80 years of wrongdo- "RED BRAND BEEF OUR SPECIALTY" ing overnight." He emphasised that Two other mayoralty candidates, research has been done and pilot pro- Bill Foster of 419 Bellview in jects remain to be done before any Hazeldean and Alphonse Frederick Daily Fresh Fruit & Vegetables positive action can be taken. Lapointe of 17 Burland, were not In answer to questions on abuses present at the all-candidates in the welfare system, Mr. Greenberg meeting and all attempts by OSCAR DELIVERY maintained, "The perennial problem to get in touch with them have met with frustration. Both' listed of the welfare bum is a myth. No sy- 1160 Bank Street, Ottawa, Ontario their occupations with the city stem is foolproof and neither is the K1S 3X8 welfare system. But the f^ct is, most clerk's office as businessmen. of them don't want to be there." He Phone: 232—0998 — 232—4312 proposes new projects to help wel- fare recipients to get back to work. "There is à job placement section in The staff of our welfare department now. I sug- gested it and we have it." He said Suzanne’s Beauty Salon 3,000 people have been placed through it. He also said the city employs private investigators to look for would like to wish all our customers people who beat the system, and that some of these have been identified and removed from welfare rolls. A Very Merry Christmas and Mike Sammon- Mayoralty candidate Mike Sammon Lots of Joy throughout the New Year answered a question as to why he was running for mayor by saying, "I got nominated and certified." He charged that the election was Page 3 Park in the dark Swept away

By JOAN JOHNSON By GORDON HAUSER From the Quebec Bureau of OSCAR Many residents of Ottawa South have never heard of Osborne Par];, The rebirth of a nation? The ris- but then that's not surprising for ing up of a conquered people? The many taxi drivers don't know it end of Canada? At least a historic either. This half acre of neglect- moment, I thought, as I, an OSCAR ed land at the south end of Osborne reporter, stood in Rene Levesque's Street interests me and a few campaign headquarters in Montreal others in the area because we can on election..night in Quebec and see the possibilities of the site watched the results come flashing if only the City were interested the Rideau onto the TV screen. It was going to in making it a real park. Even be a Parti Québécois victory. I the scene of a mighty battle thought, what does this mean? I the addition of a couple of benches between resident on the one hand ought to be sad. But I was caught by on the bank above the river would and the City and a developer on the growing excitement of party make a real difference. Here the other. Several hundred tax- workers, seeing, but not quite people could sit and look up and payers attended a meeting of the daring to believe. down the river - one of the best Planning Board to protect the views in the area - or watch their "Mon Dieu!" "We're winning!" imminent sale of this half acre to children play. At the moment, if "Sixty seats!" "We've won!" The L.A.T. MacDonald who was building French needed no translation. Rene you want to sit there you must row houses in the immediate area. had won - by a mile. The PQ.had won. bring your own seat. I don't The Parks Director of the time, And we were off to the school where recommend sitting on what grass Alf Dulude, said the 'city no Rene was to make his first appear- is left, for the park has become longer had any use for the land. ance of the night. the place for dog owners to 'run' It was acquired when Brewer Park It v/as moving. All those people their dogs morning and evening. was undersized. Nov/ that Brewer who had worked so hard for this vic- I recently called the parks had grown from 28 acres to 57 tory, laughing, singing, hugging, people at the Department for there was sufficient recreation not knowing how to express or cont^ Community Development to remind land in'the district.' The irate ain their jubilence. There were the them to allow for some tree plant- voters won that battle but the City reporters, the notebook^ the photo- ing in Osborne Park in their has demonstrated ever since that graphers and TV crews with their budget. I got the standard reply. they 'have no use for this land' cameras, lights and miles of cords. Please call again in the spring. and have only scheduled minimum And finally he came: Rene Levesque, However, I've been through all upkeep of the park the people won. the new Prime Minister of Quebec. this before. In the spring when Let us lean on the City once He's a very small man,and this night I call they will say as they said again to develop this park's early this year, 'sorry we have no he looked frail in that exuberant possibilities. When Ottawa crowd that wanted to see him, hug him budget allowance for trees there, South pressed for a children's remind us again in the fall.' The playground in Brewer Park they were pat his back, take his picture and get his words into their microphone. grove of maple and oak trees that successful and all who worked for shaded this park is slowly going that victory can be proud of what He seemed nervous, bemused, and far Five were cut down this year and was achieved. Now it is the turn too tired. The night had only begun, five last year, for good reasons there was still the Paul Sauve arena. of Osborne Park for a face-lift. I am sure, but no planting of re- Within blocks of the arena tra- Next time you walk this way have a placement trees has ever been made. ffic was beginning to jam. I parked look at your park. I am sure that Back in 1966 Osborne Park was you will see its potential. (continued on page 13) C.B. H.Q.

By LESLIE ROSTER DR. RALPH SUTHERLAND

Situated just south of the old Strand theater is a cluttered, little shop called C.B. H.Q. For anyone not tuned in on his citizen For band radio or aware of current fads, it stands for Citizen Band Head- quarters. Opened in May of 1976, BOARD OF CONTROL C.B. H.Q. (subtitled a Division of Protection Plus) sells & services electronic equipment with a specialty in Citizen Band radio PHYSICIAN; ADMINISTRATOR; FORMER ALDERMAN; equipment and burglar and fire TEACHER; COMMUNITY WORKER; CONSULTANT alarm systems. Visiting with Joe Marian in his shop, one quickly realizes that he is a jack-of-all trades who not only sells, but also HIS GOALS: ’Maximum citizen & community participation services and repairs all kinds of appliances, large and small. ‘Planning Ottawa for people,not for cars and ] All believing in community spirit and cooperation will be shopping centres happy but not surprised to learn that Joe Marian has offered to in- stall at no cost to the Community •Integrated services for senior citizens Association a security system in the Old FirehalJ . •Improved home health services

Answer to riddle of the minute •Responsible administration of your tax dollar of page 2:

Because you have to choose a mayor. Paqe 4 meeting on November 16th, that he Growth. She wants to perserve For Board of Control had been in and out of many toilets Ottawa as a livable city, "\vhere in the City of Ottawa and he found By JOAN JOHNSON maintaining human values is at them to be a disgrace, especially least as important as maintaining those in restaurants. His first What is a controller? tfliat does property values in settling urban priority, if elected, will be to the Board of Control do? Briefly, conflicts. City Transportation. get federal, provincial and muni- the system works like this. The "Dependence for at least the near cipal money for the purpose of City is divided into wards (in our future on the bus as the vehicle cleaning up the washrooms. He feels case, Capital Ward, which includes of public transportation." She that this should be done because it the Glebe and Ottawa East as well as is for "declaring a moratorium on would have the added benefit of our own Ottawa South) . Each v/ard modifications to the existing helping "to provide work for the un- elects their own Alderman or Aider- road network in the city. No employed". woman. He or she is there to re- more bridges or arterials should This campaign is Mr. Bouchard's present the ward at City Council be built." first experience at running for meetings, and be aware of, and (Continued page 5) elected office, "but I'm willing to bring before the Board of Control, learn" he said. He told the the requirements, problems, desires, audience that he has been a RIDDLE OF THE MINUTE: and whatever, of their ward. "successful businessman for 30 Why is a municipal election Then there is City Council. It years", (Capital Bearing and Tool like a horse race? is made up of the Mayor, all of Sales on Kent Street) and feels the various Aldermen and Aider- that he could use that experience women, and the Board of Control. in municipal affairs. City Council meets twice a month, What’s Cooking?.... with an agenda, to discuss and vote on the major decisions for the city MARION DEWAR , of Ottawa. All those nitty gritty decisions that affect our daily Marion Dewar is running again lives. for the Board of Control, a Between these two is the Board position she has held for the past of Control. The Board of Control two years, serving also as the includes the Mayor, and four people Deputy Mayor of the City of Ottawa. called Controllers who are elected Here's a Mexican recipe which will The two years before that, 1972 to by the city as a whole. The Board be a real show stopper as a dinner 1974, she was Alderwoman for sets the agenda for the City party appetizer served in individual Brittannia Ward. She has been Council meetings and makes many of cups lined with lettuce or as a dish responsible for the city's the decisions that are not required to sample at a party. Don't worry Community Development Department, to be voted on by the City Council about the fish appearing to be raw. and served on many boards and as a whole. It is an important It's not really, as it "cooks" while committee's: The Ottawa-Carleton function and' these four controllers it sits overnight in the lemon or Regional Executive, Regional are key people in the administra- lime juice. If you think your Council, Board of Health and tion of the business of the City friends are squeamish, "mums" the District Health Council; the City of Ottawa. word. of Ottawa Planning Board and Non- The Controller who receives the Profit Housing. She has been on Ceviche most votes becomes the Deputy Mayor, the Ottawa School Board Liason (Marinated fish Mexican style) the person who takes over for the Committee, Riverside Hospital Mayor when he or she is absent. -Board of Trustees, Homes for the 1-lè lbs sole fillets cut in è" dice There are seven persons running Aged, and the Provincial Committee 3/4 c fresh lime or lemon juice for the four positions of Controller to Review and Revise the Ontario salt, celery salt, pepper in the municipal elections on Dec- Health Act. 3 med. scallions cut in 1/4" dice ember 6 th. Her background is that of a 3 med. tomatoes seeded & cut in 1/4" Public Health Nurse, with a degree dice EARNEST BOUCHARD in nursing science/public health 2 oz. jar pimento strips drained & from the University of Ottawa. cut in 1/4" dice "Renovation the washrooms of At the all-candidates meeting è c olive oil Ottawa" was the major issue in this pieasant-faced woman appear- 3 tsp wine vinegar Earnest Bouchard's campaign to be ed both intelligent and competent 2 tsp minced fresh coriander (a dis- elected to the Board of Control. as she fielded questions from tinctive, sharp flavoured parsley- The white-haired, heavy-set, 64 the audience and gave her five like herb called cilantro in Mex- year old Mr. Bouchard told the minute talk on the issues. ico and available at the Top Ban- audience at OSCA's all-candidate Where does she stand? Urban ana store on Merivale Rd. ) è tsp oregano * è tsp ground cumin 2 tsp finely minced hot chilies (or to taste) Place diced fish in a bowl with the lime or lemon juice, toss to coat all surfaces and let sit overnight in refrigerator turning once or twice (this "cooks" the fish). Next day drain off the juice G rinse fish well under cold running water. Pat dry. Sprinkle generously with salt, celery salt & pepper. Combine fish, scallions, tomatoes, pimento, oil, vinegar, coriander, oregano, cumin & chilies. Toss well. Marinate in refrigerator 4-6 hours. Leslie Roster

If you have a favourite recipe which you would be willing to share with the rest of us, please send it, along with your name, address, and phone number, to Mary Drummond, 17 Harvard Avenue. Page 5 FOR BOARD OF CONTROL almost a permanent fixture at proposals for restructuring the (continued from page 4) City Hall and in Municipal city's administration, Mr. Payne elections. He has been a can- was appointed to work full time PAT NICOL didate seven times, twice for with them. The work "concentrated Mayor and the other five times for on every facet of civic administra- "I'm a doer (Dewar?) not a Board of Control, all without tion" and involved writing detail- talker," said Pat Nicol, ending success. ed reports on each department with her five ninute talk at the OSCA Why does he do it? He feels a view to streamlining them and all-candidates meeting on a note that somebody has to keep an eye making them more functional. of laughter at the unintended on things and tell people how much As a result of the Woods Gordon pun. She began her talk by giving "dishonesty and poor management" study, a central information office her credentials. "I'm married to there is at City Hall. was set up and Mr. Payne was asked Robert Nicol of R.J. Nicol Con- What does he think is the to be its first Director. He re- struction Limited, and the mother main issue? "If we have a good fused, believing that the position of four children. I was born and elected representation and then we should be filled with a bilingual educated in Ottawa. I have been a could get rid of many by-laws that person. When the office recently full-time Alderman in Elmdale- are stupid and not honest." became vacant,,Mr. Payne agreed to Victoria since 1974." fill it, but on an acting basis Mrs. Nicol was cool and so- DOUG PAYNE only, until it could again be phisticated, in manner and looks, staffed by a bilingual person. It blue wool dress, gold earrings,' Mr. Payne, the man who wrote the was from this position that Mr. gold pendant, gold bracelet, gold report that led to free swimming Payne took an unpaid leave of watch, gold ring on the right and free skating, and a newcomer absence to run for Board of Control. hand and gold ring on the to municipal elections, has an He explained carefully that he is left hand, as she competently impressive list of qualifications. not in any way sponsored by the handled questions from the floor The soft-spoken, 52 year old Mr. city. and stated her general positions: Payne was born and raised in New- Mr. Payne was responsible for a Planning. "A more balanced foundland where he began a career 1973 social welfare study that re- approach to growth of the city, in journalism. He joined the Air sulted in computerization of the growth that is more evenly dis- Force in 1944 and after the war re- social services program. He was tributed and not concentrated in turned briefly to Newfoundland also the instigator of the City In- one area. before moving to Toronto to work as formation Demonstration Grant that Transportation. "Against the 'over- a reporter. went to the Federation of Citizens building* of roads and the six- lane In 1946 Mr. Payne joined the Association, enabling it to give throughways that destroy Navy as an ordinary seaman. Three information services. One of the communities." years later he became the first services it provided was the Government. She does not believe in member of the Canadian Navy to be- Community News, a publication of the decentralization of the govern- come a commissioned officer di- city hall information that was ment thoughout Canada. rectly from the 'lower deck'. distributed to all the community Daycare. She would like to see a His meteoric rise was the result of associations and newspapers (like moratorium on daycare centres until an experiment to bypass the up- OSCAR). That grant has since been it's known where we are going. through- the-ranks method of promo- cut off. (Pat Nicol and Don Ried, Qualities of a controller. She thinks tion (a process that normally took two other candidates for Board of a business sense is very imprtant. at least ten years) and promote Control, voted against renewing In a brief interview before the strickly on the basis of ability. the grant.) meeting, I asked Mrs. Nicol if she He specialized in personnel, felt there was any conflict of finance, and organization structures interest between her position as and spent 2 years in London, DON REID Alderman and her husband's business. England, and 3 years in Washington. The 50 year old Don Reid is a She - answered no, explaining that When the armed forces were inte- tall, courtly looking man, and well her husband was in construction and grated he became the senior admin- known in Ottawa municipal politics was not a developer. Mrs. Nicol's istrative officer for the Canadian he was first elected in 1954 as brother-in-làw, however, is "a Forces in the U.S. He remained Alderman in Wellington Ward. After lawyer-developer" Mrs. Nicol's there until 1967, when he was 6 years as Alderman he was elected sister told me in a telephone inter- transferred to Ottawa. In 1969 he to the Board of Control and re- view on Sunday night. left the forces and joined the mained a controller until 1964. During her two years as Alderman ranks of Ottawa's city administra- In 1965 he was elected Mayor of Mrs. Nicol.has served on fourteen tion . In 1970, Woods Gordon, a man- the city of Ottawa. He remained committees including; regional, agement consulting firm was retain- Mayor until 1969, when he retired transportation, children's aid, ed by City Council to prepare (continued on page 6) regional government, tax advisory, social services, physical en- vironment, regional treatment centres (for emotional problem children), gasoline stations,"the Board of the Civic Hospital, Art’s FRUIT & VEGETABLE MARKET OC Transpo regional committee, and Central Canadian Exhibition.

JOSEPH LOUIS PARADIS

"I'll never spend a cent of money to plaster posters to say how good I aija, and I'll never put an ad in a newspaper, even if you paid me, or paid for it." Mr. Joseph Louis Paradis told this OSCAR reporter in answer to the question of whether or riot he really expected to be elected to 1149 Bank Street the Board of Control this time around. The 63 year old Mr. Paradis retired at the age of 49, after working for the CN Railroad for 29 years. Since then, after a 'pleaAM/ie, 'ie/uj-e if/w, --wAide! dispute with the city over a building permit, he has become Page 6 FOR BOARD OF CONTROL Art told him he has a place to move (continued from page 5) He also has political experi- to and doesn't need help. Thom is ence. For three years he was concerned about the precedent: DON REID (con't) alderman for Carleton ward. He If this land goes to Art, what from municipal politics for a five told this reporter that he retired happens to the next businessman who year period to attend to his from political life to devote more wants land?" Cassey says that business, Reid's Furniture and time to his family, but left with people come from all over Ottawa Appliances- He sold his business the intention of running again at to Art's market; the city could and decided to enter politics a later date. put aside some space for him as again. He was elected controller Dr. Sutherland spoke intelli- it has done for the Parkdale market. in 1974 and is now running for re- gently and well at the OSCA all- What would you do about the election in this coming term. candidates meeting on the 18th of Rideau River flooding? All the Mr. Reid has also served as November, both in the five minute candidates are against the floods, Chairman for the Board of Directors presentation of his views and in but none so vehemently as Thom. of the Children's Hospital of answering questions put to the "I was disgusted at the attitude Eastern Canada, from the time it candidates by the audience. of some of the city employees," was an idea in the fall of 1964 He stressed, most of all, Thom says. One city employee was until it became a reality and citizens and community information having a coffee break during the opened in'April, 1974. and participation, as well as the flood, and told Thom that he had Some of his priorities: "to get need for adequate information, been on the job for 24 hours Ottawa moving toward representative, including cost and alternatives to straight, But what of that? "I've one-tier government." He wants to make intelligent decisions in worked 48 hours," Thom said. He see "industrial parks developed matters such as transportation, found the attitude of many of them which will attract industry, create daycare, housing, and other issues. "deplorable." Thom, incidentally, jobs and strengthen Ottawa's tax He would like to see "a city does not favor "wasteful" spending base." He also believes "planning designed for people - city planning at city hall: "I would like to should begin at once for a rapid that protects the quality of life see wasteful spending cut, if not transit system before the need before it protects traffic flow eliminated." or shopping centre growth." arrives." In summary, my superficial impression is that two of the RALPH SUTHERLAND candidates, Don Lockhart and Joe FOR ALDERMAN Cassey, are men of experience and (continued from page 1) Question: What qualities should a of some dëpth. Both have experience person look for in a candidate for as aldermen. I suggest you talk to Alderman Don Lockhart: He is 54, controller? both and form your own opinion. and seems to pride himself on being Answer: "Basically I would divide lacklustre. He draws to the atten- the qualities into two parts; com- tion of the audience what the Ottawa petence and philosophical. A person Journal said about him: "I'm a has to have the intelligence and pretty lacklustre sort of guy," he You competence to handle the job. After Thank lo says. that, the first thing to look for But he stands there like a real is someone whose values are the same politician, one foot forward, as your own." leaning back with his weight on the All Our Dr. Ralph Sutherland is an im- other, one hand grasping either pressive candidate for Board of lapel of his suit jacket. Chubby, Control. He graduated from the cherubic face. University of Alberta Medical School, was in general Practice for 5 years, Leo Morency: I interviewed Leo Adverti sers went through a graduate program -in for OSCAR during the 1974 municipal Administration at the University of election and began my write up: "If Toronto, served as executive the municipal election was a beauty director in the Saskatchewan Medical contest, Leo Morency would win by Interiors by Care Insurance Program, was a con- a smile." He asks me not to bring sultant in Medical Administration in up this beauty contest business the Department of National Health again, and it probably is unfair. Ayoub and Welfare. At present, Dr. But the fact is that Leo Morency, Carpet Industries Ltd. Sutherland is a professor in the 39, on his third attempt to be School of Health Administration at elected alderman, still does not the Universi-ty of Ottawa. Since seem to have a clear idea of what moving to the city, he has also municipal politics is all about. served on the Advisory Council of CUSTOM the Carleton University School of A few issues discussed at the Social work, acted as a consultant all-candidates meeting: would UPHOLSTERY to the Federal-Provincial Working you quit your job to be a full- DRAPERIES Group on Home Care, held executive time alderman? None of the candi- CARPETS positions with the United Appeal dates would. Are you for helping and the Andrew Fleck Child Care Art's Market relocate on the land CERAMICS Centre and has been a member of across the street? Don Lockhart says the University of Ottawa Senate. HILL’S Stationery and Greeting Cards

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Compliments ol the Season 1198 Bank St. 731-7155 1142 Bank St. Page 7 work. More compulsory subjects ents. Remove it from leaders of For school trustee than Wells recommends. Need more teachers' unions. Increase in- supervision of teachers by princi- dividual attention for children pals. Need better public relations. with learning disabilities. The following answers were com- A.2. (a) Save $1 million per plied by Glebe home and ’school work- GWEN BOWER-BINNS year by reducing: administrative ers as part of a larger survey of overhead, busing to high schools candidates for Board of Education. A.1. Replace "education by and high school construction. OSCAR has reproduced the answers to accident" with "PLANNED EDUCATION" Eliminate $650/day consultants. three of the seven questions exactly (3R's plus) and Social Order. (b) More resources to basics for as they were supplied to us. Raise academic standards. Prepare elementary school children. Re- At the beginning of this piece we students for international res- habilitate small community have included a check-list of the ponsibilities. Improve Trustee- schools. candidates that you may mark as you Teacher-Parent communications. A.3. Reduce class sizes by read the answers to the questionaire A.2. (a) Eliminate frills, non- requiring teachers to teach more and then take along to the polls. essentials. Sacrifice "hard-ware" than 4.5 hours/day for their We regret that we have no infor- before people, standards. Economize $24,000/year, i.e. present $27/ mation or} the candidates for the NOW. (b) Physical education and hour wage. Evaluate teachers by Separate School Board except the health. Competitive sports between their students' results on exams. list at the end. classes and schools. Hygiene, preventive medicine, nutrition, JOHN BUTTERWORTH social responsibility. A.3. Smaller classes, compet- A. 1. Main ambition as a trust- itive sports. Music (history, Candidates for Ottawa ee would be to raise the standards vocal); Enriched literature Board of Education: of proficiency in both official (classics); other languages (Ger- (You may vote for six) languages. man, Latin); International Affairs A.2. (a) I would like to see (problems and responsibilities of Ted Best ( ) budgetary cuts in programs irrel- mankind). Gwen Bower-Binns ( ) evant to the student at the Robert Burns ( ) elementary and secondary school ROBERT BURNS Roy Bushfield ( ) levels. (b) Expand on programs John Butterworth ( ) enabling students to demonstate A.1. Would like to participate Tim Craig ( ) basic communication skills. in the present debate on curricu- Jane Dobell ( ) A.3. Greater emphasis is needed lum, and serve on Education commit- Adolph Feingold ( ) for the upgrading and enforce- tee. Would actively encourage Boschra Feltaous ( ) ment of higher standards of pro- improvement in Board-Teacher re- Don Francis ( ) ficiency in these basic sub- lations. Encourage receptivity of Larry Geller ( ) jects. This could partially be school to parent visits. En- Don Graham ( ) accomplished by city-wide ex- courage "problem awareness" in Don Kay ( ) aminations for entry into sec- / schools. Gary Kellam ( ) ondary School. Mike McKenna ( ) A.2. (a) Would resist budget cuts Christa Richardson ( ) and aim for a maximum increase of TIM CRAIG John Samuel ( ) around 10%. Maximize present re- sources. (b) Would like expansion Gordon Simester ( ) A.1. Community involvement is of programs for learning dis abil- Helen Slater ( ) important. Encourage newsletters ities and special education. Gerry Trudel ( ) and questionnaires. Direct contact A.3. Ther is a need for more with students by Board, attendance emphasis on subject material. at student meetings by Board Implementation should avoid a re- members. turn to the formerly rigid system, A.2. (a) Would cut back on lan- the questions ... and should be cautiously intro- guage labs, A/V equipment, etc. duced. (b) Most important are teachers Q.l. what do you hope to accom- and textbooks. Languages impor- ROY BUSHFIELD plish as school trustee? tant. Would provide transportation Q.2. In these times of budget to after-school activities. restraint, in what areas would you A,1. Return authority for child- ren's education destiny to par- cut-back? What programs would you (continued on page 8) extend? 0.3. What would you do, if any- thing, to offset the present em- phasis on core curriculum? V Bed and Bath the answers ... TED BEST Boutique A.1. Quality education with- out excessive spending. Higher salaries haven 't necessarily meant better quality. Merit pay Novelty gift items for Christmas / should be examined. Principals should be part of management, not of the federation. Weed more super- New line of table linens & wallpaper vision . A. 2. (a) Board shouldn't tie it- self to a set pupil-teacher ratio. Reduce busing of secondary students. Bedspread clearance on now Use consultants part-time in class- room. Restrict options Give schools more budgetary control. (b) I would extend special education Drop in and visit Rose and Rosemary for coffee at secondary schools. A.3. Must remember that more pupils are going through high Two blocks South of their old location-1204 Bank 523-2915 school now. Need more remedial Page 8

FOR SCHOOL TRUSTEE * conventions, small classes, teach- term to cover overhead and gener- (continued from page 7) er aids, lunch-room attendants, ate revenue. (b) More resources community use of the schools, (b) directed to children with learn- Expansion of budget should be sug- ing disabilities; incorporation gested by teachers and school ad- TIM CRAIG (con't) of these children at the pre- visory committees. school level. A.3. An understanding of the, A.3. Uniform core curriculum and A.3. English should be the only issues giving rise to this concern achievement testing so as to compulsory subject after grade 9. (i.e. impact of TV, potential drop- identify those students who are not Prior to that; English, math and outs who stayed in school); favour grasping the required program. Phys. Ed. examinations as a valid educational Reintroduce teacher aides for experience. student support. JANE DOBELL LARRY GELLER DON KAY A.1. A cooperative approach to quality education. Progress can A.1. Overall improvement in A.1. Board should be a more only be made if parents, teachers, quality of learning in Ottawa cohesive decision-making body. board staff, and trustees work to- schools. Teacher productivity should gether to meet the students' needs. A.2. (a) Cut unnecessary con- increase proportionately to their A.2. (a) Should consolidate cultants and administrators, (b) salaries. Merit should be pri- mary objective in wage settlements. services (i.e. library staff for Expand special education programs small schools). (b) First pri- including those for handicapped, Favour amalgamation with urban ority is the instructional budget and programs that bring com- boards. giving students .the necessary munity into the schools. A.2. (a) Administration costs would be reduced through the com- attention and time with a qualified A.3. Devote more time to teach- teacher.7 Favour expansion of ing language arts - reading, bination of OBE and area boards. physical education programmes.' writing, spelling, less talking. Prepared to take a strong stand A.3.Emphasis on basic skills, More general mathematics, basic on salaries. Transportation core curriculum, better curriculum science. Review methods and costs in secondary schools can be reduce substantially. coordination between grade levels, textbooks in use. 3. Higher standards and a core more common achievement and dia- jriostic examinations for . all QBE DON GRAHAM curriculum with such subject as schools. English composition, spelling and A.1. Will make the education- grammar, basic and extended math- ADOLPH FEINGOLD al system in Ottawa more cost eff- ematics. Canadian and world history ective by placing resources in the must be established and imple- classroom where they belong. mented. A.1. Improve standards of educa- tion and intellectual discipline. A.2. (a) Reduce staff and tempor- (continued on page 9) Education.is based on freedom and arily close schools not financially viable. Lease them out on short discipline. Without both, real education is impossible. Educa- tion must help children think and fend for themselves. Current product inadequate. A.2. Prefer not to answer. Any- one not now a trustee who tries to answer is a fraud. After three months will answer. Do not be- lieve in shooting form the hip. A. 3. Trustees should par-s- ticipate in public discussion of education issues. City-wide exams can create standards for teachers, principals and parents. Train and supervise teachers to have more intellectual discipline in classroom.

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A.1. An open policy - input from teachers, parents, and students to inform trustees about what is hap- pening in schools. A.2. (a) No cuts from the cur- riculum on physical education. Make cuts in other areas, (b) More stress on language skills, critical think- ing, and moral principles. A.3. Revise the core curriculum and emphasize the importance of basic skills from the beginning. In- crease the pressures and responsibi- lities.

DON FRANCIS

A.1. To provide education which stimulates the student to an aware- ness of his potential, and which helps him realize it providing the 1 tools to lead a satisfying, worth- YOU THAT'S MO TO WAKE A fcsasioM- while, and productive life. I YÔO'H£ fcumiNO THE PLANTER I " A.2. (a) Those least likely to effect the learning of students, perhaps transportation, conferences, Page 9 FOR SCHOOL TRUSTEE city-wide exams and departmentals Candidates for Ottawa Board of Ed- (continued from page 8) to ensure standards. Education is ucation (Separate School Supporters) too important to be left to GARY KELLAM teachers. More supervison of Jacques C. Beauchamp teachers needed. Lucien Bradet A.1. Orderly, effective change Barbara Champagne towards a real education that will HELEN SLATER Jacques Francher permit my child to cope confident- Daniel Kealey ally and adequately with the de- A.1. Hants to make Board organ- Cathy Kerr mands of the society he will live ization more responsive to indi- Dalton J. McGuinty in. vidual and community needs; wants Leonard L. Trudel A. 2. There is no pLace to make more help for children with learn- cuts that will be financiallv sig- ing disabilities; favours alter- nate schools; wants sexism re- nificant, except in teaching Candidates for Separate School moved from curriculum. personnel. Is that what the Board: A.2. (a) Would cut teachers public really wants? (You may vote for fourteen) A. J . wee a a complete analysis last: would favour principals of the complex issue of what will and vice-pricipals teaching; would Roberta Anderson bring about effective education; re-assess role of superintendents Kathleen Andrews simply transplanting 1950's cur- and transportation costs. Make Noe Beauchesne riculum to 1980 society is an pricipals more accountable to the Jean Begin inadequate solution to a complex Board. (b) Expand phys. ed. pro- Pierre de Blois problem. gramme. Huguette Boisvert A.3. Wants to be careful that O.L. Boudreau MIKE McKENNA current concern doesn't propose Brian F. Brady simplistic solutions like standard- Al.l ized exams; emphasis on child's Florian Carrière A.1. Setting financial and educa- emotional growth and creative po- Edgar Crampton tional priorities. Maintaining tential need not neglect language H.W. Cyr integrity of the classroom. Eq- arts. Lucien Dagenais uitable community use of the Rita Desjardins schools. GERRY TRUDEL Horace E. Dubois A.2. (a) Cut non-educational John W. Erhart items, (b) Expand program of eval- A.1. The equalizaion of funds C. Frank Gilhooly uation of students, especially in for elementary students. Re- Charles Gravelle high school. moval of discrimination for employees Ken Keller A.3. Establish general board and students. To have an OBE Bill Kelly standards for the basics as pre- ombudsman as well as a public Paul James Kelly Jack MacKinnon requisites for graduation from right of information policy. elementary and secondary schools. A.2. (a) Cut non-educational Professional upgrading of high expenditures, e.g. travel, energy The standard Chinese typewriter school teachers for teaching use. (b) Emphasis on early ident- has 1,500 characters and is so com- reading and writing. ification of high risk children plicated that even the most skilled and early remedial help. operator cannot achieve more than CHRISTA RICHARDSON A.3. Caution is needed not to 11 words a minute. The Hoang model get into pendulum situation. More developed in 1962 has 5,850 char- Not available for comment. exciting presentation of basics in acters and a keyboard that is 24" earlier grades. by 17".(Working on OSCAR is a JOHN SAMUEL breeze by contrast. )

A.1.To improve the quality of education without raising the tax burden on property owners and ten- HAND CRAFTED ants and extablishing more harmon- HOUSE OF ERA PINE FURNITURE ious relations between the members of the Board. A.2. (a) If a budget cut becomes absolutely necessary, it will be effected through reduction in cap- tai expenditures. Any program or THIS MONTH’S SPECIAL activity that would enhance the quality of education would be expanded. DOUBLE-SIZE BED A.3. Stressing the basics in education within the credit system through an enlarged, mandatory, core curriculum. The value of reg. $395. self-discipline will have to be inculcated through example, in- struction, and incentives. for $348.

GORDON SIMESTER

A. 1. My primary concern is the upgrading of education standards so that a Grade XIII graduate has a fundamental understanding of his See our selection of: mother language. Recent university • Four Poster Beds studies, e.g. Queen's, indicate • Tables, Chairs & Hutches the need for attention. A.2. (a) I do not have enough • Rocking Chairs knowledge yet to reply to the • Maple Lamps first. (b) For expansion, I would 1218 BANK STREET • Ceramics & Candles look to Special Education. A.3. Concerned about the product OTTAWA 521-7237 Guy Bowie, Proprietor of the current system. Favour Ottawa South Community Association Review™ OSCAR, a non-profit community newspaper produced and published monthly by the Ottawa South Community Association is supported by its advertisers and delivered free to all Ottawa South residents and businesses. Editor PRODUCTION John Manson, 523-3808 Joan Johnson 467 Riverdale Avenue Leslie Roster Rob May EDITORIAL BOARD Joan Stepchuk Ian Bennett Bob Collings Joan Johnson Ian Bennett Rob May Toni Manson Liliane Lafleur He ad-Man Carmen Cumming

Advertising Manager OSCAR is distributed by Toni Manson, 523-3808 OSCA zone-representaives and volunteer helpers - SUNNYSIDE COMMUNITY CENTRE we thank them. Printed by Renfrew Mercury Advance, Renfrew, Ontario just east of bank at the old firehall

was willing to assume the role of OSCA -notes: editor and co-ordinator. Rather than Just take a seat... see publication cease, I have given OSCA EXECUTIVE By GEORGE STRONG up one job for another. President, On a personal level, I will miss Past President, Bob Luce, 234-8010 "Here we go again!" is the theme the "perquisites" of the Presidency song for Ottawa South, along with Secretary, Sue Taylor, 235-9600 - evenings are now often silent the Glebe and Ottawa East. Mr. Loeb Treasurer, George Strong, 233-7040 when the phone does not jar me from and the Rough Riders are demanding Physical- Environment Chairperson-, my reveries at unexpected times with an additional nine thousand seats Doug Menagh, 234-3810 unexpected problems. Having worked Social Environment Chairperson, be added to the stadium a Lans- with OSCAR last year, however, I downe Park. This would bring the know the fun and the sense of total to some 45,000. ZONE REPRESENTATIVES creation and reward that comes of Eight thousand seats were added its making. I hope we can carry-on ZONE A: Charlie Messinger,233-0508 above the south-side stands last that spirit and involve more people. ZONE B: Marilyn Brown, 234-2911 year, over the protests of neigh- Debbie Blair, 233-1836 There are always problems with bours. Mr. Loeb has declared that ZONE C: Dari Byrne, 233--1039 volunteer organisations, such as another- 9,000 must be built over Derek Sweet, 235-9816 OSCA and OSCAR. Both need warm bod- the next three to six years. ZONE D: Mary Jane Jones, 731-5237 ies. We need more volunteers to walk Many in OSCA are fans of the Caroline Bell, 238-2853 around'their block delivering the Rough Riders. We cheer for them ZONE E: Kitty Lee, 234-9598 paper. OSCAR is forever on the prowl and hope they play a good game. ZONE F: Graeme Neill, 233-9941 for stories, reports, ideas, ads., However, as neighbours of.the sta- Alix Lambert, 236-6177 comments, puzzles, recipes, riddles, dium, we do not appreciate still scandals, and anything else which more concrete, greater expenditures At the regular executive meeting would be of interest to residents of and bigger crowds. on 4 Nov., the executive took the Ottawa South. We also welcome anyone following actions: who wants to help with production and 1. voted to co-sponsor the Fall editing. ...before you have to go. Fair to be held on 14 Nov. As editor, I will need your co- The Lansdowne Park Development 2. discussed arrangements for the operation and participation. Advisory Committee is composed of all-candidates meeting to be held delegates from the major tenants of 18 Nov. for the civic elections. Sincerely, the Park (the EX, the Riders)Ü 3. agreed to continue the new Winter and Agricultural Fair policy of directing executive-ef- people, tourist and commercial pro- forts towards public meetings every moters, the federal government, second month. amateur sports, and community 4. accepted the resignation of groups. John Manson from the position of After a year of discussion, there President. has been general agreement among The next executive meeting should Hold that line! be 7 December since 6 Dec. is elec- committee members that in 20 years As the accompanying article by the big events at the Park should'be tion day. OSCA Treasurer, George Strong, out- established in a larger, more accès*? lines, the people of Ottawa have sible location in the Region. previously given the Ottawa Football OPEN LETTER TO OTTAWA SOUTH: There is some disagreement about Club more than "one inch"; now they It is unfortunate that I must re- development of the Park in the next want more yardage. OSCAR feels it sign as President of OSCA, a little five to ten years. Mr. Loeb's de- is time that residents of this and more than half-way through my term. mand for another 9,000 seats is an neighbouring areas made their pri- Weighing the situation, I have de- example. orities known; it's time for a firm cided that it would be more fruit- Delegates from community groups stand and a stout defense by our ful to become the editor of OSCAR. insist on a winding-down of activ- t members of City Council. Make I think that the Community Assoc- ities. They are supported by most your voice heard to any and all iation has an important role to of the others involved. This means candidates for office this election play in bringing this area toge- that capital expenditures must be year when they come seeking ther; it should continue to be ac- relatively small and geared to the your vote. tive and grow - with Community removal of the EX and the football OSCAR wants to hear from you on support it will. OSCAR serves as the games to a new more adequate site. this issue. Send your views to': essential line of communication among OSCAR, members of the Community, and keeps 467 Riverdale Avenue, the Association open and accountable Ottawa to all. We will follow-up with more storiës While many willing workers for and sample letters in future issues. the paper have been found, no one Page 11

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Art’s FRUIT & VEGETABLE MARKET 1149 Bank Street Page 12 Capital WarcLa good place to live..and we’re making it better RE-ELECT DON LOCKHART OUR ALDERMAN IN CAPITAL WARD Our voice about our concerns speaking for our ward in our city Don Lockhart.is a tried and prov- Drive that runs north from Bank en part of the process that is Street to Colonel By Drive near beating the disease of "city core the Pretoria Bridge. As things cancer". It is right here in Cap- have worked out, the solution ital Ward that we are winning will be carried out by the NCC, some of the first victories but it comes about as a result against this 20th<-century munici- of negotiations between the pal epidemic. * City and NCC in which Don Lock- hart was a key participant. Only a few years ago, the homes Don Lockhart has been a part of and humans of Capital Ward look- the move to bring about changes ed as if they were going to be in the zoning of several areas replaced by rush-hour throughways, where it looked as if the sprawl high-rise apartment buildings, of high-rise apartments was go- and ashphalt-covered parking lots. ing to jump the Queensway. The change in zoning means that But then an antidote began to high-rise development won't run emerge. It involved the idêas and wild in Capital Ward, gobbling plans of architects and town- up homes and land the way it has planners. It involved long - and in Centre Town. often frustrating - meetings of community associations to devel- It was a Lockhart motion at the op community understanding of regional level that added yet in guiding the Glebe traffic plan the nature of the problem and the another building block in the through Council. The plan has techniques of beating it. And it defense against more and more earned permanent status as the involved the emergence of people traffic being funnelled through result of its successful trial like Alderman Don Lockhart from the heart of residential areas. period and the results, it has . the ranks and work of that com- The motion gave expression to the produced for people living in munity activity. Regional Official Plan's intent the Glebe. The plan now provides tion to "give precedence to rapid a living, functioning example of Don Lockhart has been our Aider- transit and/or commuter service techniques that can be applied man for two. terms. And the results over all forms of road cons- in other areas of Capital Ward, speak for themselves. truction or road widening". if residents feel that their streets need this kind of control We have the solid beginnings for Don Lockhart found a way to give and protection. a defense against a ward-wide,_ expression to Capital Ward's east-west throughway from Bron- concern about how Lansdowne son across the Canal to Main Park would be developed. He A lot of people have found out Street. .It is the Lockhart-in- chairs the citizens' advisory that Don Lockhart is a most ac- sp#ired aspect of regional govern- committee that was1 set up on cessible alderman when he's need- ment's official plan that locates his motion and which provides a ' ed. .. a most accessible alderman any additional crossing of the forum for people who don't want who also gets things done. Mem- Rideau Canal adjacent to the to see a whole district blighted bers of Council have found out Oueensway. by unwise development of the that he gets things done too^ Park. That's why he was one of the two There's going to be protection alderman chosen by Ottawa City for the residential nature of Council to sit on the Regional the lengthy stretch of Echo Don Lockhart was deeply involved Executive. He's a member of the Regional Municipality's trans- YOUR 1976 BALLOT portation committee and sits on

FOR ALDERMAN, CAPITAL WARD FOR CONTROLLERS FOR MAYOR the City's physical environment You vote for one candidate You vote for four candidates You vote for one candidate committee. Don Lockhart chairs Thom A. Bennett Ernest Bouchard Bill Foster Joe Cassey Marion Dewar Lorry Greenberg the ad hoc committee on région- DON LOCKHART Patricia Nicol Alphonse Lapointe Leo. E. R. Morency Joseph Louis Paradis Mike Gammon alisation of police forces and Douglas B. Payne OTTAWA BOARD OF EDUCATION • Don Reid OTTAWA ROMAN CATHOLIC the Lansdowne Park citizens' ad- (Public school supporters) Ralph Sutherland SEPARATE SCHOOL BOARD You vote for six candidates You vote for fourteen can- visory committee that has already OTTAWA BOARD OF EDUCATION didates Ted Best - (Separate school supporters) been mentioned. Gwen Bower-Binns 1 You vote for four Candidates Roberta Anderson Robert Burns Kathleen Andrews When Don Lockhart first ran for Roy Bushfield Jacques C. Beauchamp Noe Beauchesne John Butterworth Lucien Bradet Jean Begin alderman in Capital Ward in 1972, Tim Craig Barbara Champagne Pierre de Blois Jane Dobell Jacques Francher Huguette Boisvert he had a track record of working, Adolph Feingold Daniel Kealey O. L. Boudreau Boshra N. Feltaous Cathy Kerr Brian F. Brady active involvement in community Don Francis Dalton J. McGuinty Florian Carrière Larry Geller Leonard L. Trudel Edgar Charron affairs in Capital Ward. Now Donald C. Graham Dale Crampton Don Wayne Kay H. W. Cyr after two terms in office, that Garry Kellam Lucien Dagenais Michael N. McKenna Rita Desjardins track record is that much strong- Christa Richardson Horace E. Dubois John Samuel John W. Erhart er and better. He has proved him- A. Gordon Simester C. Frank Gilhooly Helen Slater Charles Gravelie self an effective representative Geraldine Trudel Ken Keller Bill Kelly of Capital Ward and an effective Paul James Kelly Jack MacKinnon member of City Council and Region- al Government. VOTING HOURS - MONDAY, DECEMBER 6,11 AM - 8 PM Page 13 SWEPT AWAY In praise of older homes (continued from page 3) the car quickly and barely legally -This is another article in our continuing -who was going to give me a series on the renovation of older Homes. ticket tonight? and who cared? - and ran the rest of the way arriv- ing at the press door with sever- By SUSAN WILLIAMS al other reporters. They wouldn't let us in. We didn't have the If you are planning to -make any special red press badges. We structural modifications to your pounded and pounded until it hohse - such as building an exten- building permit. This costs $4 per $1000 worth of value that you opened. "Where do we pick them sion or adding a bathroom - there up?" "Inside the main entrance." are a number of things you must are adding, with a minimum of $10. We ran around the arena and bulled first consider. Particularly with Once you receive your permit, work our way through the crowds to the the inside of the house it makes must be started within six months, press table . They were ready and sense to give a lot of thought to but there is no deadline for waiting and we were in. The stage exactly what you feel you need and completion. was directly in front of us, and how the proposed changes fit in Application for a building all around more than 8,000 people with the character of the building permit must be made to City Hall. packed the stands. and with your lifestyle. For these You must submit with your applica- Now it was all in the open. reasons it often makes sense to tion two copies of a number of de- There was no need to contain the wait some months after you move tailed diagrams and plans which excitement any longer. People into your house before starting any show precisely what you intend to chanted and cheered, raised their major work. A surprising number of do. There must be a detailed lot arms with clenched fists or fingers proposed modifications seem un- plan showing the distance from each parted in the 'V . They waved necessary or undesirable after a wall of the building (including any PQ placards and the Quebec flag. few months acquaintance with a proposed walls) to the lot line. Then Rene was there on the stage, house, while others;which may not There must also be a complete floor the same tired looking man, trying have occurred to you at first, plan showing the perimeter of the to speak over the breaking of his later seem essential. planned addition or of the area to Once you have decided on the be changed, together with indications own emotions and those of the crowds. It was brief and low- type of changes you want, consider of the size and type of materials keyed and then he was gone. carefully how these can be achieved to be used. (This applies particu- Again I was profoundly moved. given the existing structure of the larly to a new extension.) I looked around the crowded circle house . You will have to figure In addition to these two of the arena. These people were the out which of your\ walls are load- there.must'be two side views, or people that voted for the Parti elevations, as they are called. bearing, and therefore cannot be Québécois and separatism. For these removed without being replaced by These are to show what the finished people tomorrow was the first day of product will look like, for outside a steel beam or other form of paradise. And here I was, English, support. You will also want to work. The final plan required is a born and raised on the Prairies, check out the size and spacing of cross-section, which can be along and I was as moved and as happy as your beams - in many older homes either axis. they were. It was the beginning of The plans you file with your the beams are smaller with larger something. If not paradise, maybe application for a building permit centres (i.e. further apart) than just a new chance for Canada. I present building standards require. will allow officials to judge walked out jostled by the crowds, whether or not your plans meet all You can check the beams in your greeted by a monumental traffic basement for this information and the structural requirements for the jam now, honking horns, people ■this is also a good place to deter- changes you want. In addition singing and cheering and chanting mine if there is any sagging in the they will be able to see if you meet as they wandered down the streets. house. (Another,way of checking . all the zoning regulations for your It was one gigantic party . As I for sagging is the traditional area. The whole question of zoning walked along the strains of the marble placed on the floor on the and the restrictions it imposes on solemn song played earlier was ±op floor of the house.) If you what you can build is a complex one still ringing in my ears. What were are at all uncertain as to the which OSCAR will examine in a future those, words? "A new tomorrow begins structural features of your house, issue. today." Who knows, maybe it does. get in a knowledgeable friend or I was happy. I had a sense of hope an expert. GIVE YOURSELF A CHRISTMA at the end of a long, long day. When you are planning to modify your house or to build onto it, an PRESENT - WORK ON OSCAR invaluable book to have is the condensed form of the National Building Code which can be obtained free of charge from the Central Don’t let those last minute gifts get you down ! Mortgage and Housing Corporation by calling 746-4611 and asking for the Information Desk. The book is called Residential Standards in Canada, 1975. All the information Come to SAGERS and choose from a large selection of slippery by about standards for materials and Packard, Kaufman Foamtreads, Peter Black from England construction that you are likely to need is in this volume. The $6.95 to $16.95 Ontario Building Code"does not add much to the information contained in the CMHC booklet, but if you want it, send 50$ to the Publica- tions Centre, Ministry of Governmen Government Services, Room 3B7, MacDdnald Block, Queen's Park, Toronto, M7A 1N8. For very specific local information such as the snow load factor (for calcu- lating how strong the roof needs to be) phone City Hall where the staff is most helpful. 1124 Bank Street 234-7215 Once you have decided on the precise changes you want in your CHARGEX and MASTERCHARGE house you will need to get a Page 14 ©

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Or at Sabra Billings' grave is an 8 pm - 1 am, Monday through Saturday least you shouldn't let it.show ideal place to reflect. The most at 1071 Bank St. It is operated by off the top. The theory is that beautiful and ugly things we Mr. Eddie Saikaley, the proprietor if you start off in emotional high have come together here, in a of the neighbouring Eldorado Steak & gear while the reader is in low or setting that won't let you forget Pizza House. It provides after-din- neutral, clashing results. either past or present. If you ner entertainment for the Eldorado's All right, then, I will ease reflect on past and present, the restaurant customers and also draws into this in low gear. future intrudes whether you want customers who just want a drink and The incident starts at a . it to or not. a dance. friend's apartment in the Cross- What sort of community are we Ottawa South residents can take roads, the big new building just making here? What -sort of people advantage of El Disco's location for southeast of Billings Bridge. The are we that the neat yards of an inexpensive evening that includes apartment looks out the back, Alta Vista sit beside a potentially dancing - something that we have toward the woods that go up to the beautiful place littered with junk; been missing. The ultra-modern sunk- old Billings house on top of the where a graceful reminder of the en, stainless steel dance floor is hill. past is casually broken? surrounded by tables, some of which Three things about the view: I The jurik is only symbolic, of contain video-type electronic games. was surprised the woods even course. We could clean up every So you need not dance, you can just existed. I've lived on the other scrap of it and the junk of our drink and play. There is no cover side of the bridge for a decade way of life would still be with charge and the seating capacity is without ever noticing them. Second, us. The gravestone desecration is 175. -they were shockingly littered with also symbolic. The people who garbage. Third, they were packed did it were certainly not typical with dead trees and branches. of the people of this community. Perfect stuff to cut up for the But the act speaks of a tendency fireplace. toward casual destructiveness. That weekend I took a bucksaw, For a socialist with conserva- drove to the edge of the woods tive tendencies (or a conserva- On December 6 and started sawing up the branches. tive with socialist tendencies), I tried not to see the rusted coke Sabra Billings' grave is a good cans and chunks of styrofoam and place to reflect. VOTE EARLY rotten old Macdonald's cartons. The first thought is one of The next day I went back with my self-guilt. A reminder of a wife and we went a little further quote from Dante that was posted AND afield. We followed a path that this week on the billboard of a led up to the Billings House and downtown church: "The vestibule then curved back in the direction of hell is occupied by the VOTE OFTEN of the apartment buildings at indifferent." Bank and Riverside. I have been as guilty as anyone of This is where I come to the indifference. The way to try to point of the narrative. At the end end it, presumably, is to do some- of the path, on top of the wooded thing about the first tiling that hill, we came on one of the most comes to hand. beautiful and sad little cemeteries The garbage in sight of Sabra I have seen. Billings' grave is not the most The place is enclosed by a important problem around - but it rusted iron fence, partly toppled is at hand. So I hereby volunteer over, and shadowed by birch and to join the garbage committee of maple and poplar.. From the names the community association, if on the tombstones, it's evidently there is one, or to start one if the Billings family cemetary. there isn't. It's hard to tell much, though, be- I'm very big on good intentions Entertainment cause most of the tombstones have and not so big on following Thurs. to Sat. Evenings been smashed - clearly acts of through, so the public promise is vandalism. designed to lock me in on this One of the still-readable in- one. 209 Belmont (at Bank) scriptions marks the grave of Next spring, on the 24th of May, Mon. — Wed. 10 e.m. — 10 p.m. Sabra Billings, born in 1815 and I'm going out garbage-picking. I'd Thurs. — Sat. 10 a.m. — 12 p.in. believed to have been the first be happy to have company. white child born in Gloucester (closed Sundays) township. An odd name - Sabra, not Sarah. Who was she? She would have come Scotiabank 1145 BANK STREET M g r.-W. Graeme Hutton 566-2300

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I'm new here myself In summation Ottawa to me is (at this point in time) nice people and a ’Pity with the conveniences of Toronto By MR. HANDLEY-PAIGE and yet not its lack of sensitivity I'm in short pleased to be living My fiancée and I decided on and working in Ottawa South for living in this area for fairly both aesthetic and practical simple reasons, it is close to reasons. Carleton University and Algonquin College is easily accessible by bus. In fact we noted that the bus service from Ottawa South to virtually every part of the city was excellent. The next problem was to secure a job. To my astonishment I found that there were few, if any mm easily accessible factories or machine., shops - Ottawa is a city of An apple a day keeps tooth-fairy busy offices, similar to a cancerous Bay Street. I did not have enough WORK AND PLAY AT THE OSCA training in my chosen vocation AFTER-SCHOOL PLAY-GROUP (photography - graphic design) to be able to get a job, even if If you have time and talent there were any jobs available in or experience, *che children that line. After an unsuccessful wquld like you to come and construction job and nearly, a share with them. A sense of month of job hunting, I found a After-school -group gathers litter community grows at both ends. spot at Art's Market - very pleasant in the neighbourhood. and close to-'my chosen residence on Rosedale Ave., thereby elim- DAILY 3:00 - 6:00 inating travel ejqpenses. Also, I SUNNYSIDE COMMUNITY CENTRE noted that the overall atmosphere 220 SUNNYSIDE AVE. (AT FAIRBAIRN) was fairly easy going making it More children are always wel- somewhat easier for à person who come. Social interaction arid works, from necessity father than responsibility aré a major choice. theme of the program. More I also began to feel both the people also help spread the strong student population as well as fixed costs and keep down an 'ethnically mixed population, fees. adding to the diversity of the area. Call: SHIELA...234-4726 By this time I was ready to come or BETSY....234-6405 out of my self-made cocoon and socialize - made somewhat difficult The bullish spirit of fun combined working 10i hour days which forces with responsiblity. a tedious life, broken only by days off. However, I have had enough- time to sample some of ADMIRAL SOLID STATE COLOUR T.V. & STEREO Ottawa and here are some of my experiences. A countless number of HEURTER persons have offered knowledge and words, hints, and helping ideas to TV. me in my search for work. A man in the National Design Council SALES, SERVICE and spent nearly a hour giving me, a total stranger, numbers to call, RENTALS names of persons to contact, photo- copies of government phone listings 1196 BANK STREET by the sheaf. When he shook my hand 731 - 5239 it was just not merely a formality imposed by society but a gen- uine transmission of a hope that I might be successful in getting a job. Such has been true to a great- er or lesser degree in a large majority of offices that I went into. One thing that struck me however is that Ottawa is referred to quite casually as being composed of Glebe, Ottawa South, Sandy Hill, etc. which seemed to have retained their own individual identity which adds to both the individuality of each district and oddly enough of Ottawa - oddly because this "section- ing -up"' though it would seem logically to destroy whatever common front the city could present as an entity is not a fact. Ottawa is pulled together by the diversity of both its residents and the local flavoür of its districts. The only contra- diction is Hull which should be part of Ottawa and vice versa Ottawa OTTAWA BOARD OF EDUCATION part of Hull - presently they only seem to give each other commuters. Enough digression and generalization. Page 17 Better Fed 1 By GEORGE STRONG Early in the new year an appear- greening of Ottawa South ance before the Ontario Municipal Board will be made by the Federa- By EDWINA VON BAEYER tion of Citizens Associations of 0-C. The FCA will act on behalf Having troubles with your of many community groups in the plants? Drown one, forget to Region to oppose the proposed water another, or insufficient Regional Plan. light cause another to grow The Regional Plan has not yet lanky and drawn out, or you are been accepted by the Ontario unable to grow indoor flowers with government. However, many specu- your lighting conditions? Here is lators and politicians seem to a plant suggestion for each problem: believe that it has been approved. For those enthusiastic indoor The major thrust of the FCA pre- gardeners, who water whether the sentation will center of the growth plant needs it or not, I suggest a of the Region by the year 2000 to a Cyperus (sometimes called Umbrella population of over one million. Plant). It is semi-aquatic Recent studies have shown that the thriving on soggy soil and a water- projections on which the Regional filled saucer. It doesn't require Plan is based are obsolete and direct sun and (if you can't find much too high. a plant) it can also be started The Barrhaven Southern Growth easily from seed - offered by many Area is proposed to have a pop- seed companies. ulation of some 100,000. Land Beaucarnca recurvata (other- speculation has been in process wise known as the Pony Tail Plant) there for some time. is almost indestructible. All this OSCA opposed the Southern Growth slow growing plant needs is a bit Area in an official brief on the of reflected light, a little water, grounds that it would prove and a new pot every few years. The detrimental to this neighborhood. young ones need more water, but Traffic would increase on Bank, older plants can go a couple of Bronson, Riverdale and Sunnyside. months without a drink! They'll As well, we would be faced with survive for years, becoming a increased pollution of the Rideau family heirloom. River and Canal. If insufficient light is the The FCA is forming a committee problem and you're tired of of expert witnesses for its appear- philodendrons, try an Aglaonema ance before the 0MB. It has re- (Chinese Evergreen). There are ceived funding to keep the public many varieties - some with varie- informed as to developments before, gated leaves. It tolerates low during and after the hearings. The light, low temperatures, and Federation will assist local resists pests! community groups which want to Lastly flowers. For the last approach the 0MB on their own.i few years I've had amaryllis George W. Strong of OSCA is the flowering in January or February recently elected President of the in a north window. It's very easy Federation and may be contacted at to grow - you can buy the bulbs 235-8365. with pot, saucer, and growing medium included for as little as $2.50 in some stores. The HEADQUARTERS thick stalk emerges from strap- like leaves, and grows so fast Div. of Protection Plus you can almost see it move. Four

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‘Petit WiletcTVlignon 5.50 with Choice of Potatoes and Tossed Salad c RibSteak ....5.75 with Choice of Potatoes and Tossed Salad Shish Kebab ,. ..5.75 served on Rice, with Tossed Salad Chinese Style‘Pepper* Steak 5.75 with Choice of Potatoes and Tossed Salad Work Chops with Choice of Potatoes and Tolled Salad Veal Cutlet cTVIarsala 4.75 UN IIU STINT with Choice of Potatoes and Tossed Salad 235-9001 230-9131 Page 19 tell you about it. My feelings is a whimsical, purple and blue re- and life are very similar to every- sponse to their request. There's a P one else's". Therefore, others can Jewish star almost hidden in the By SUSAN MCMASTER find their own stories in the pieces, abstract, but she says the title act- she says. ually comes from one of those silly, (This column deals with works of art And apparently viewers enjoy inexplicable jokes that tend to de- which depict mature subject matter; doing that. "The comments are velop in such courses. readers are cautioned that some may really terrific," says the owner Thibert was born in Montreal, and find the discussion shocking or of- of York Gallery, Margaret Collins. studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, fensive. ) Several prints have been sold, University of Quebec, and the Vancou- including a blue-on-blue abstract ver School of Art. Her work has been shape which suggests an entrance recognised by the government of Brit- That Hélène Dubé is obsessed from one space into another, called ish Columbia, the Art Council of Can- with sex," sputtered one old codger 'Two Worlds'. It's displayed with ada, and the Bibliothèque Centrale when he saw her show. He marched its eiching block, polished and de Prit de l'Outaouais. She's work- out. mounted beside it. ed in collage, paint, and film (with "Obsessed" may be too strong a Thibert has\worked in many media the National Gallery and Crawley word, but "interested" seems fair. but explains she turned to etching Films), and she has taught at vari- Hélène Thibert Dubé is a print- in 1973 because she likes handling ous schools in Montreal. In Ottawa, maker who lives in Ottawa South. etching plates. "It's like a jewel." she's teaching print-making at Algon- Her first "real one-man show," as She especially likes the "Velvety quin College and the Municipal Art she puts it, is on right now at colour" of the ink when it's app- Centre. She's exhibited her work in York Gallery in the Byward Market. lied to paper, and "the relief I can most cities she's lived in, "usually Entering, the first effect of get if I bite really deep" into the in the local theatre or restaurant" her prints is gentle — soft browns, plate. or somewhere similar. blues, and greys predominate. Later, she says, she would like Thibert came to Ottawa in 1972 Pensive, tender men and women wrap to do more with the plates them- „ because her husband (she was married arms around each other or lie selves, after learning jewellery-' at 20) had a jbb with the government. quietly alone, enclosed by blunted making and enamelling techniques. When they separated three years ago rectangles. For now, though, she says she is she moved into a house in Ottawa The etchings and lithographs are still mastering the many etching South which she shares with another not large. Only as you look more techniques available. She demon- couple, and with her current man. closely do you notice that the strates this by contrasting her When she was breaking up with nudes are explicit, the soft round- most recent work, Colo," a complex, her husband, Thibert says she ed shapes are thighs and rears and textured design using a man, a couldn't work. She seemed to have crotches. woman, a Star of David, violins, and no energy for anything except Thibert (now separated from her a heart, with earlier, simpler mono- sleeping and a bit of sketching. husband, she prefers to use her chromes . Now, she's far more productive. birth name) appears to like "bums" There are many special effects possible, for example, for 'Vancou- The show at the York Gallery — her word — and she outlines consists of prints mostly done in male and female genitalia with ver' , Thibert pressed lace and the last three years. She's pre- enough detail for Penthouse Mag- cheesecloth against the waxed plate sently working on a series of ten azine. before completing the drawing. 'Van- prints, and has at least two ideas But on second look, Penthouse couver' shows two entwined lovers who in the offing. Perhaps it helps wouldn't be interested, because seem to be washed by rippling waves that her new friend is also an Thibert's prints are not leers. (the cheesecloth) and surrounded by artist - "and a musician, and a Under her etching tools, labia stylised foliage (the lace). philosopher. Really a universal become delicate, decorated ovals, 'Tête à Tête' is two heads facing -man." and penises become outlined, white each-other, one upside down. It de- And yet some of her prints arrows, or bobbing toys. monstrates her pre-occupation with deal with the classic themes. "Sometimes I call my work positive and negative space, says 'Maternité' is a traditionally poetical illustration, or trans- Thibert, as does 'Two Worlds'. In posed mother and child. 'Les lation," says Thibert. She says every piece there is a feeling, she Vincentes', inspired she says by her art is close to her private life , says, but also a formal composition- the marriage of two friends, is a intimate and personal. It's an al idea. young couple side by side against expression of "interior landscapes", Some people think she's too for- a background of house and snow. she says, and shé makes her prints mal. During a six-week course she But the appealing quality of to free herself from strong emotions . took in Falmouth, England, her teach- Thibert's work is a lightness, a "There is usually a story behind ers asked her to work in freer _ delicate humour which saves such each print, but I feel naked if I shapes. 'Funny,You Don't Look Jewish' material from cliché. In 'La Baignoire', a young woman smiles with sensual delight at her dis- torted image in the taps of her bath-tub. In 'Belle Journée pour Seasons Laver Mme Tremblay', a dozen sketches hang' from clotheslines, each with its own title like ’La Corde a Linge' (slang says Thibert for being Out all night), or 'Ciel, Greetings Mon Mari' (heaven, my husband), and the whole etching is hung from an actual rope with real clothespins. The show is at the York Gallery, a new gallery and art store at 126 York Street, and runs until Decem- ber 6th 1976. If you like human bodies, warm emotions, sensuality that couldn't be packaged in a slick magazine - and pure visual pleasure - you should enjoy this show. Maybe the old man is right, and M.P.P. for Hélène.Thibert is obsessed with OTTAWA SOUTH sex. And maybe that's a very nice thing. Page 20 OTTAWA’S DCPUTY MAYOR

Monday, December 6th, we will be determining the direction our community will take. It is of critical importance to all of us that the hard work of Marion Dewar be in included in Ottawa's future. . She has carefully established communication links between us and our municipal government. She has always remained accountable and available to our community. And most important, she has fought for our interests in every way she can. DECEMBER 6TH REMEMBER MARION DEWAR. SHE HASN'T FORGOTTEN US. MARION DEWAR Controller/Deputy Mayor

JOE CASSEY ST Capital Ward

Four years ago, Joe Cassey be- He wants to see Bank Street re- came one of the original full- juvenated. He will fight to pre- -, time Aldermen,. He set an example vent any widening of Bank Street that showed the kind of job an through Capital Ward. Alderman should be doing for the people of this city. He wants to protect the Pretoria. Bridge. He wants to ensure that Two years ago, Joe Cassey nar- "improvements" in moving traffic rowly lost an election for Board across the Rideau Canal enhance, of Control. He didn't lose his rather than destroy, the aesthe- appetite for public service. tic qualities of the city.

Today, Joe Cassey is running for Joe Cassey wants to do a lot of Alderman in Capital Ward. He things on behalf of the people knows the issues, and he seeks of Capital Ward, like making sure your support. that the City will not be dumping snow from the street onto local He wants to do something about lawns, and defending your right making Lansdowne Park a good to. good bus service and safe neighbour. He was one of two street crossings for your child- councillors who voted against ren. expanding the football stadium in 1974. He knows that there is a lot more. He knows how to listen, and he He wants to get Capital Ward's knows how to lead. Joe Cassey neighbourhood planning studies wili represent you well. A vote moving. He knows how important for Joe Cassey is a vote for the thay are to Capital Ward. kind of person we need on City Council. Your Voice on City Council Campaign Headquarters: 1071 Bank Street. JOE CASSEY & HIS WIFE, 235-1893 JUNE PAPPAS CASSEY