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Annual Great Glebe Garage Sale the 32Nd Edition of the Great Glebe Garage Sale Fun with Sidewalk Sales That Drew Canny Shoppers Serving the Glebe community since 1973 www.glebereport.ca June 15, 2018 Vol. 46 No. 6 ISSN 0702-7796 Issue no. 504 FREE ATRICK P PHOTO: AL PHOTO: This year’s Great Glebe Garage Sale shoppers were mostly unfazed by threatening skies. For more photos, see photo gallery at www.glebereport.ca. Annual Great Glebe Garage Sale The 32nd edition of the Great Glebe Garage Sale fun with sidewalk sales that drew canny shoppers. Ottawa Food Bank have started to roll in but are not took place on May 26, a day of mixed sun and Buskers and a DJ added to the festivities and hot yet meeting our goal of surpassing last year’s total of showers. Crowds of buyers and sellers flooded the dogs, cupcakes and lemonade sustained the masses. $14,000. I would like to remind everyone to donate neighbourhood in spite of the threat of rain and bar- Said Colette Downie, chair of the GCA’s Great 10 per cent of proceeds from their sales. Every dol- gains abounded. Bank Street merchants joined the Glebe Garage Sale Committee, “Donations to the lar donated is turned into $5 worth of food.” MARK YOUR CALENDARS WHAT’S INSIDE Jun. 16–24 ...... Ottawa Garden Days Jun. 17 ............ Polish Day in Ottawa, Hort. Bldg., Lansdowne, 10–6 Jun. 21 ............ Glebe Community Assoc. AGM, GCC, 7 p.m. Jun. 24 ............ GNAG production of Annie!, GCC, 1 & 3 p.m. Jun. 26 ............ GCA monthly meeting, GCC, 7 p.m. Jun. 28 ............ Full Moon Yoga, Lansdowne Lawn 9 p.m. (rain: Hort Bldg.) Jun. 30 ............ Glebe Annex block party, 2–6 p.m. (rain: July 7) Jul. 1 ............... Mayor’s breakfast for seniors, Aberdeen until 10 a.m. Jul. and Aug. .. Lansdowne Arts Showcase, all Sundays 6:30–8 p.m. Jul. 7, 8 ........... Glebe Art in Our Gardens and Studio Tour 10–4 Ernesto retires Streetcars in the Glebe Annex Jul. 27 ............. Full Moon Yoga, Lansdowne Lawn 9 p.m. (rain: Hort Bldg.) Page 3 Page 10-11 Aug. 18............ Their Opportunity’s Ball Hockey Tourney, Lansdowne NEXT ISSUE: Friday, August 17, 2018 Sep. 16............ Glebe House Tour, 1–4 p.m. EDITORIAL DEADLINE: Friday, July 27, 2018 Sep. 26............ GNAG AGM, GCC, 7 p.m. ADVERTISING artworK DEADLINE*: Wednesday, August 1, 2018 *Book ads well in advance to ensure space availability. Full Service online grocery shopping and home delivery, now 7 days a week. 754 Bank Street 613.232.9466 metroglebe.com @metroglebe.com 2 Glebe Report June 15, 2018 IN & AROUND PHOTO: MURIEL MACNAUGHTON PHOTO: EEN In May several dozen people enjoyed a potluck buffet in the middle of one of the K busiest streets in the neighbourhood. Residents of Fifth Avenue near Percy seized IZ MC the opportunity of a temporary road closure during construction of a new crosswalk L and had a street party. Permission to hold a party has always been denied because Fifth is a fire route. PHOTO: PHOTO: The red chairs high in the air on the corner of Bank and First get refurbished. ORSYTHE F OURTESY OF BLUEW OURTESY C PHOTO: JOHN PHOTO: PHOTO: PHOTO: Gustave Erroneus Morbeus and his Absurdo Pod BlueW.org is a community-based program promoting tap water as an alternative to single-use bottled drinks. roamed the streets of the Glebe during the Great The Wild Oat, Running Room and soon Bridgehead locations will be designated free water bottle refill locations Glebe Garage Sale. marked by the BlueW window decal. Brokers Diane Allingham & Jennifer Stewart WHAT DO YOU WISH FOR YOUR DAUGHTER? 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Top 1% across Canada for Royal Lepage dianeandjen.com Inspiring girls elmwood.ca [email protected] 613-725-1171 48 YEARS Glebe Report June 15, 2018 3 Ernesto retires after 48 years by Roger Smith Ernesto’s drew a cost-conscious mix of Glebe residents, university students The dean of Glebe barbers has hung and Italian old-timers who prefer a up his clippers after 48 years and more traditional barbershop. than 100,000 haircuts. Ernesto Falbo “The majority of young barbers, bought the Martella Barber Shop it’s not my style,” says Gerry Conte, HINGADIA at 887 Bank in 1970 and renamed it an Italian immigrant who became a S IN Ernesto’s. Now 75, he decided over the regular 30 years ago when his friend W SH last weekend in April it was time to Guerino (Gerry) Turano joined Ernesto. A retire and he left the next Friday. “I “Ernesto and Gerry, they do it old style. was just going to take a month off,” he I try to keep the old tradition.” PHOTO: said. “Then I was talking to my wife Jono Hamer-Wilson, an Australian Ernesto Falbo, of Ernesto’s Barber Shop, retired in April after 48 years on Bank and she said it’s time to stop.” expat, thinks the usual wait to get into Street in the Glebe. After learning to cut hair as a the chair is part of the attraction. “I teenager in his native Italy, Ernesto always enjoy the atmosphere in here, the price – $20, including tip – and His first wife died in 1992 but he emigrated from Calabria in 1967, fol- especially when all the old Italian you get a good cut,” he says. “Half the remarried in 1996. He has three grown lowing a sister and two brothers to guys come in and start shooting the fun is waiting, talking with the other children and so does his wife Yolande. Ottawa. He started at a barbershop on breeze. It’s a great vibe.” guys, watching some soccer on TV. Just after turning 70, Ernesto sold his Preston Street and worked on his Eng- On Ernesto’s last day, a parade of It’s definitely a guy space.” business to Sam Alnusiry, who owns lish before going out on his own. But long-time customers came by with After Craig Trenholm got his last the Sunnyside Barber Shop in Ottawa that was risky business in the early wine, flowers and best wishes, prais- haircut from Ernesto, he wanted to South. But not much is changing. 70s when long hair was in – five bar- ing their soft-spoken barber as a talk about the first one 20 years ago. The other two barbers, Gerry and Tri bers in the Glebe went out of business true gentleman. Among them, John “I had hair down to my shoulders. I Nguyen who started four years ago, and Ernesto almost did too. “I remem- Kruspe, a former Ottawa Rough Rider said I wanted a military cut. He was are still on the job and have been ber young kids walking by with their who provided the signed photo of the just closing but he said get in the chair. joined by a barber from Sunnyside. long hair – they’d look in the window 1973 Grey Cup team that hangs on the I went to pay him but he wouldn’t take Alnusiry insists the shop will continue and laugh. For two years, I had a hard wall. After being traded from Mont- any money. I asked why. He said I to be called Ernesto’s. time. I thought about giving up.” real, Kruspe stumbled on Ernesto’s want to make sure you come back.” As for Ernesto, is there anything he’s But Ernesto hung in, mostly because just after it opened and he’s been While Ernesto may also have taken going to miss? “What you see here,” he didn’t know how else to support coming ever since. “I was just walk- some pleasure in chopping some of the he said, gesturing around the crowded his young family. His business finally ing down the street from Lansdowne, long hair that almost put him out of busi- shop on his final day. “The people. I started to thrive despite growing com- exploring a new city, and here’s a bar- ness, he isn’t looking back, he’s looking thank you, everybody. They’re all great petition from fancy, more expensive ber shop,” he says.
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