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BRENT CONLEY Call BRENT today at 613-761-0123 Sales Representative 613-761-0123 Your STITTSVILLE CommunityVoice & RICHMOND November 26, 2020 [email protected] 613-45-VOICE www.ottawavoice.ca [email protected] Vol. 3 No. 23 Main Street makeover Andre Halam photo This is a drone’s-eye view looking north on Stittsville Main Street from just south of the Abbott Street intersection. That’s Quitters Coffee in the foreground, front right. Stittsville ward Coun. Glen Gower has launched a Main Street revitalization project, with public consultation leading to recommendations going forward. For stories about what is happening, see page 10. 2 November 26, 2020 - Community Voice EDITORIAL Just do it For eight months we have listened to the family gathering or school setting. The virus messaging from public health officials and spreads like wildfire. our political leadership on COVID that has For the most part, we have shown in this told us to do the responsible thing – wear a city that lockdowns and restrictions while mask, wash your hands, physical distance massively disruptive and plain horrible have and stay in your bubble. proven to be very effective. While positive cases here dip ever so slight- There really is not an alternative unfortu- ly, our top doctor cautions against prema- nately. We do not have many windows of op- turely celebrating, casting a worrying eye on portunity to slow this down other than these the percentage of positive cases per 100,000 drastic sweeping measures. that isn’t budging, and hospitalizations Lockdowns do actually work if your goal is that have hovered around 50 the past two to actually bring infection rates under con- months. She also points to daily poop tests trol and buy time so we can get a functioning showing the virus is ever present in our city. contact tracing and tracking system in place Premier Ford sits in judgement by armchair while we wait for a vaccine. quarterbacks on one hand telling him to We need to buy time to save lives. lockdown the province and other conspira- The majority of Ottawa residents are doing tors complaining their hard fought liberties what is asked of them and they have made are at risk. those individual changes in behavior. People Restrictions are necessary. We can all agree wear masks, physical distance and they do on that. Just look at what happened when attempt to stay home while they are sick. we came out of hibernation this summer. But there’s a chunk of the population for The second wave all the experts warned of whom these kinds of appeals to hearts and actually happened because we collectively minds and do the right thing are not produc- let our guard down. ing changes and action. We have seen what can happen when We appeal to their sense of individual re- one person asymptomatic or not pres- sponsibility to change their behaviour. ents at a wedding, backyard barbecue, Just do it because it is the right thing to do. rendition of “Danny Boy” over the years. He served as Street name honours long-time community activist had been heard in many the poppy chair for 10 years, Legion branches across with the amount of money The main north/south 1988 just before his term He was a volunteer fire- the area. raised increasing each year. street through the subdivi- on township council was fighter for 21 years, retiring For many years he served He played a significant sion has been named Roger finished at the end of that as a captain in 1978. He al- as Santa Claus at the annual role in the building of the Griffiths Avenue. month. At the time of his ways joked that Stittsville’s seniors’ Christmas dinner Stittsville cenotaph in 1982. Griffiths may be best death, he had been a coun- firefighters had never lost of the Stittsville Sunshine Besides his duties at the known as the name at- cillor for six straight years. a foundation in all the fires Club. He could always be Stittsville Legion, Roger tached to the annual He had previously served a that they had fought over counted on to belt out a served as the zone pub- Stittsville Citizen of the two-year term as councillor. the years. carol or two during each lic relations officer for Year award. This was first During his time on coun- Retired from Bell Canada appearance. two years. He also served presented by the former cil, Roger always tried to in 1980, he went on to be He had a long involvement on the steering com- Goulbourn Township in look at issues from a town- president of Bell Canada’s with the Stittsville branch of mittee of the Canadian the 1990s and more recent- ship-wide perspective and Retirees Club, a position the Royal Canadian Legion, American Veterans Reunion ly has been one of the civic not just from a parochial that he held at the time of first joining the branch in Association from 1982 on- awards presented by the Stittsville view. his death. 1971, eventually serving as wards. He was made a life OUT & ABOUT Stittsville ward councillor. But his council work He belonged to the president for five terms. He member in 1988. That this most prestigious was only a part of Roger’s Masonic Lodge and also had been made a Legion life The naming of this street WITH JOHN CURRY of awards honouring com- involvement with the sang in the choir of St. member in 1982 and just in the new Mapleton sub- munity involvement is community. Andrew’s Presbyterian before his death in 1988, he division after Griffiths en- named after Griffiths is well He coached several Church for many years. received the Meritorious sures that his legacy in the The new MapletonYour hous- deserved when his own re- Stittsville juvenile hockeyKANATA Indeed, he was well known Service Medal, the Legion’s Stittsville community will ing development underway cord of community engage- teams. He also served onWEST the CARLETON for his singing. At many highest honour. not be forgotten. It’s a record westCommunity of the Carp River has a ment is recalled and listed. executive of the StittsvilleOTTAWA SOUTHcommunity gatherings, Griffiths also received of community involvement street name steepedYour in local Community Griffiths Newspaper passed away Voiceover 56ers senior men’s ball he was the one who sang numerous other Legion that can be an inspiration to history. 30 years ago on Nov. 17, team. the national anthem His awards and certificates others. Your KANATA Publisher & Managing Editor .................Michael Wollock ext. 107 STITTSVILLE & RICHMOND Editor .............................................Pat Uguccioni ext. 102 Community WEST CARLETON Reporters.........................................Erin McCracken ext. 106 Your Community Newspaper Voice John Curry ext. 105 Advertising .......................................Barry Silverman 613-862-5970 Published by Ottawa Community Voice Publishing Company Inc., © Entire content of this newspaper Mike Stoodley 613-858-4895 613-45VOICE (458-6423), Suite 114, 4043 Carling Ave., Ottawa, ON K2K 2A4 is Copyrighted November 26, 2020 Mita Patel 647-655-3691 News Community Voice - November 26, 2020 3 Rideau-Goulbourn ward name change comes at no cost KING’S BY JOHN CURRY was Goulbourn Township continue to share their RRichmondichmond VVillageillage MMarketplacearketplace Rideau-Goulbourn Coun. common history despite Scott Moffatt says a ward being in different munici- name change will come at pal wards, he points out. FFresh...resh... FFast...ast... FFriendlyriendly no cost. “It is a history that is well He was responding to crit- documented and promot- ics who balked at his plan ed by local historians,” he 6613-838-725513-838-7255 to drop Goulbourn in time wrote in an email. for the next election after “This is simply a ward 55911911 PPertherth SSt.,t., RRichmondichmond learning the namesake name and ward names Henry Goulburn owned change,” he said. There John Curry photo Professional Corporation slaves. Coun. Scott Moffatt was a Goulbourn ward The councillor told this when the city of Ottawa was AdamMillerKelly Lawyers newspaper the ward name the promotion of a slave first created in 2001.