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OSCAR 613.241.1010 The Ottawa South Community Association Review l The Community Voice Year 48, No. 9 November 2020

Spend it between the Bridges!

PHOTO BY BRENDAN MCCOY By Erik van der Torre that has been identified and recognised before – is that our neighbourhood Spend it between the Bridges lacks both the density, destination Lying awake at 3 am, just hours traffic, and foot traffic that some other after Ottawa went back into a neighbourhoods have to sustain certain modified Stage 2 lockdown, Brian types of businesses. As Brian put it, Montgomery of Oat Couture and businesses in Old Ottawa South have Montgomery Scotch Lounge was to “punch above their weight”. They thinking about what this new setback have to work hard to attract both local The businesses of Old Ottawa South means to his and other businesses in business and business from elsewhere the neighbourhood. While the most to make things work. need our help, now more than ever! recent measures are most acutely felt What “Spend it between the by a subset of businesses – restaurants, Bridges” tries to do is reinforce the Through everything, they have pubs, coffee shops, In the Air, the sense of community that makes Old remained open to serve the Mayfair, House of TARG – there is Ottawa South and its businesses so no doubt that the vast majority of great. Brian made it clear that this is community. OSCA encourages businesses have suffered from the not a movement of us-vs-them, of one everyone to support local and effects of the pandemic. Those effects neighbourhood vs another. But it is Spend it between the Bridges! will continue to be felt, even more both a rallying cry and a cry for help. so now with renewed lockdowns, The businesses of Old Ottawa South colder temperatures, and continued need our support and if we want to uncertainty. continue to enjoy the amazing diversity So in the middle of that night, Brian of businesses that we have now, we came up with “Spend it between the will need to continue to support them Bridges”. Simple and effective. I have and show them we care, both with our no doubt that everyone in OOS knows words and our wallets. And by ‘words’ NOW AVAILABLE: the value of “Shop Local” and the I don’t just mean words of support (economic) benefits associated with it. and compassion, but also “word-of- But “Spend it between the Bridges” is mouth”. Maybe the next time you have OSCA'S ALL-ACCESS more than ‘just’ shop local. Hopefully a great experience or meal at a local it’s a grassroots movement that will business, share it on Facebook, Twitter, FITNESS MEMBERSHIP encourage residents to go out of their Instagram, or just mention it to friends way to pick some of their favourite and neighbours. By the time this OSCAR is U N T I L D E C E M B E R 3 1 S T I N C L U S I V E businesses and spend a little extra if and when they can. And maybe also published, you may have started seeing pick some of the businesses they don’t some of the “Spend it between the F U L L D E T A I L S A V A I L A B L E (yet) frequent, check them out and Bridges” messaging and possibly some O N O U R W E B S I T E spend a little or a lot. One of the clear challenges for oldottawasouth.ca/programs 613-247-4946 businesses in Old Ottawa South – one Continued on pg. 2 Page 2 The OSCAR l November 2020

BUSINESS BEAT for one or two days, so unfortunately Continued from pg. 1 I have not had a chance yet to check it out. But I am super excited about initiatives. In fact, in the third week the fact that it is indeed not a sushi of October, several businesses came place but instead has a menu featuring together and engaged local influencer – several donburi bowls, udon dishes, and OOS resident – YOW City Style to and ramen! run an Instagram contest, highlighting these OOS businesses. While this Beit jady – hookahs initiative was conceived independently Half of the space formerly occupied of “Spend it between the Bridges,” by Planet of Sound has now opened it’s the perfect example of the kind of as a hookah retail shop. The colourful engagement and support that is needed. store at 1194 Bank St. is full of I know this neighbourhood cares hookahs and paraphernalia and the for and embraces its amazing local, few times I have walked by they do independent businesses and I am seem to have attracted some customers. hopeful that together we can ensure Definitely another interesting addition that they all come out on the other end to this intriguing block of Bank Street. of this. Siam Kitchen Shibayan Depending on which day you end up While existing businesses are clearly reading this OSCAR, you may already struggling and in need of our help, be too late to order one last meal at it is exciting and encouraging to see Siam Kitchen. Although the restaurant that despite the current situation, there could have remained open for another are still new business owners who are 6 months before they would need to willing to take the plunge and open up close for the construction of the new People waiting in line to pick up their food at Siam Kitchen one last time development, Siam Kitchen’s owners a business in OOS. before it closed for good. PHOTO BY VIVIAN CROLL For instance, the Japanese restaurant have decided that given the additional on the corner of Sunnyside & Seneca COVID-19 challenges, now is the time that I have been hinting at for the past to close and retire. Siam Kitchen has two months has now opened! On been open for over 30 years and was deadline day, it had just been open the first authentic Thai restaurant in

Shibayan Japanese restaurant. PHOTO BY BRENDAN MCCOY

Ottawa. And as per their post on their featured, please send a note describing website, favourites like #16 and #52 (!) your/the business’ eco-friendly will definitely be missed. practices to Susan Dallin O’Grady Beit jady, with a selection of hookahs in the window. PHOTO BY BRENDAN MCCOY – at [email protected]. If Christmas trees! you prefer to just (self-)nominate a Chris Smith, head of the OTLBC business, that’s an option too, and court maintenance crew, has indicated Susan has suggested she is willing to that he will open up his Christmas tree come visit the business to check out the sale again this winter to benefit Habitat green initiatives. for Humanity. He has also indicated that he will likely open up the lot a Business Beat is a monthly feature bit sooner than usual, and hopes to be that highlights new and existing open in the second half of November. businesses in Old Ottawa South. So by the time you read this, we’re just Opinions are my own. If you know a few short weeks away from being of any new businesses opening up or able to set up a Christmas tree! want to share your thoughts about existing businesses, send a note to: Green business initiatives [email protected]. Booking now for Fall 2020 The Enviro Crew of Old Ottawa South is hoping to write a special Erik van der Torre has lived in Old article highlighting OOS businesses’ Ottawa South with his wife and green practices (such as reducing, three sons for over 11 years. He reusing, recycling, using green and is a member of OSCA’s Traffic & local products, etc.). If you would Safety Committee and is OSCA’s like your business featured, or if you Communications and Marketing mainrenovations.com would like to nominate a business to be Coordinator. The OSCAR l November 2020 Page 3

NEWS Happy Birthday Jean-Pierre By Layabout This day at the OTLBC was a bit special for J-P. His 92nd birthday! A In this dreary season of COVID-19, I picnic table was secretly prepared with went looking for a happy story. balloons and homemade cupcakes Here is Jean-Pierre Beauregard; what while he played his game. I got a a great name! Imagine leaving your cupcake and a good interview; all was number with a receptionist who will arranged by his daughter Teresa who tell the boss – “A Monsieur Jean-Pierre lives here in OOS. Beauregard left you a message.” You J-P was one of five children in a know the boss will call you back. francophone family in Montreal West, We met at the Ottawa Tennis and a majority Anglophone community. As Lawn Bowling Club (OTLBC) where a result he acquired a good unaccented he goes regularly to play that game that expression in two languages. Then works very well with social distancing. he acquired a master’s degree in His other hobby is playing saxophone mechanical engineering and joined in a jazz group; no way that’s going to up with Rolls Royce in England. One work out in the pandemic. of his projects, among many, was the

Farewell Kathryn

Jean-Pierre Beauregard, ready for a game of tennis. PHOTO BY BRUCE GRANT

Rolls-Royce Dart gas turbine airplane for thirty-one years, he’s done some engine. consulting and some volunteer work Those first generation jet engines with Carleton University, which powered our Trans Canada Airline’s gratefully gave him an honorary fleet of Viscount airliners; older readers doctorate. Now, J-P is fully retired, a of OSCAR will remember them. The happy guy just riding his e-bike and early Viscounts with four engines whacking tennis balls. Happy Birthday carried 42 passengers, a far cry from Jean-Pierre. the current Airbus 330 with just two engines and a certified capacity of 400 Bruce Grant, retired Engineer and passengers. Well, yes, he worked with Layabout is a resident of Old Ottawa Airbus too and lived in Toulouse for South. ten years. Retired from full-time employment

THINKING OF Kathryn Watford with one of her many four-legged friends. PHOTO BY WINNIE PIETRYKOWSKI SELLING? By Winnie Pietrykowski also. We exchanged seasonal cards and get-well wishes. Kathryn Contact Andrew for a complimentary consultation Kathryn Watford has been a mail always had time for a friendly J “hello” or an “ear” when someone FO U carrier in Old Ottawa South for S two years. Kathryn however is no needed to chat. R T S S ordinary mail carrier. She is one When I hadn’t seen a friend of A O L L of Canada Post’s best promotional mine for some weeks, Kathryn was E D assets. And for those of us who able to tell me when she last saw know her, Kathryn is an informal him and whom he was with. She member of our community. was helpful without being intrusive. Kathryn is being assigned She was respectful without to another delivery district in infringing on the privacy of others. Centretown as of October 19th. We And before closing, it would will miss Kathryn. We are sorry be remiss of me to say that every to see her go. However, we know canine on Kathryn’s route will wherever Kathryn goes, she will miss her. My own dog Cody knew make a difference. Kathryn’s Canada Post truck a block 13 HAZEL STREET 94 BELLWOOD AVENUE Kathryn is passionate about away. We couldn’t pass by without Canada Post customers and the saying hello, or waving, or calling community she serves. She radiates out to each other. Kathryn carried an open friendliness, trust and “treats.” respect that seem to belong to From all of us who have come to another era of community life. Or love Kathryn, we wish our favourite perhaps it is simply the easy blend mail carrier a fond farewell and ANDREW CARTER of shared community values among good luck on your new route. We Sales Representative Old Ottawa South residents and miss you already. Kathryn. 613.231.4663 Kathryn knew her customers by Winnie Pietrykowski is a longtime [email protected] name and we knew her by name resident of OOS. Page 4 The OSCAR l November 2020

NEWS High-rise apartment building proposed for 1335 & 1339 Bank Street By Carol Brascoupe, information session, organized by Jean Co-Chair OOS Planning and Cloutier, Alta Vista ward Councillor (whose ward the land is in), local Zoning Committee residents raised a number of concerns, mainly focusing on the challenging The City of Ottawa has received nature and safety considerations of an application for an Official Plan the traffic flow around this ‘island.’ Amendment and Zoning By-law Indeed, the traffic impact report stated Amendment to permit the development there have been 337 accidents at this of a 26-storey (86 metre) mixed-use intersection between 2014 and 2015. building at 1335 and 1339 Bank Street. It should also be noted that there is This is the parcel of land just south of another proposal in the works that the Rideau River at Billings Bridge would potentially bring two additional between Riverside Drive West and high rise towers exceeding 30 floors to Riverside Drive East. It is currently the west at 1346 Bank (on the site of the site of an auto repair and service the former Mongolian restaurant). This business and the Harvey’s Restaurant increased intensification would also (now closed). In 2016, there was an impact pedestrian and traffic flow in application approved for a 16-storey the future. OOS Planning and Zoning building but with the acquisition of a will be reviewing the proposal on the larger parcel of land, the proposal is west side of Bank when it is filed with for a building 10 storeys higher, with the City. 326 residential units, 65 limited service For more information and to send hotel units, and ground floor retail. feedback to the city planner, go to While the development site is just devapps.ottawa.ca and search for ‘1335 outside our neighbourhood, many & 1339 Bank Street.’ Old Ottawa South residents use this The target date for consideration of corridor to travel on foot, by bicycle the application by the City’s Planning and by car to Billings Bridge and Committee is December 2, 2020. The 26-storey (86 metre) mixed-use building proposed for 1335 & 1339 Bank Street points south and west. At an online just south of the Rideau River. ILLUSTRATION BY HOBIN ARCHITECTURE

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NEWS More bedrooms at 177 Hopewell Avenue By Karen Stevens-Guille The only stipulation is that the unit count may not exceed 6 and the In October 2016 a total of 12 bedrooms bedroom count may not exceed four was promised at the Committee of per unit. For those of you tabulating Adjustment (CofA) in order to get – 6 units x 4 bedrooms each = 24 approval to “construct an addition bedrooms. and interior alterations to all units of The deadlines on both Orders to a 3 storey, 6 unit apartment building” Comply have passed (Sept 11 and at 177 Hopewell Ave. Acting on Sept 22). There has been no penalty behalf of Jordan Tannis, the hired regarding non-compliance at the Planner told the CofA: “Many of the time of this writing. In addition, comments, the committee states, the the developer has given notice to public comments that this will translate Councillor Menard’s office that he into a tripling of the site population. is weighing his options and might I want the Committee to understand apply for a Zoning Amendment to add that that’s not in fact true. The existing additional units. As a reminder – the building has four 1-bedroom units and current zoning of this 50 x 100 foot lot two 2-bedroom units. The intention is residential (R3Q). of the proposal is to actually have To head off any potential argument all 2-bedroom units. And it/in being about pandemic-related economic a higher end nature of rental the circumstances, I can assure you that expectation is that many of those for every unit that has moved out 2-bedroom units will not necessarily since the COVID-19 shutdown in mean that you’re going to have an March, another group has moved in increased number of people in the unit, by the following month. These units for example, those people may want have not been sitting empty. Any bad 177 Hopewell Ave. PHOTO BY KAREN STEVENS-GUILLE to actually have the flexibility of a business decisions that were made second bedroom for visitors and so on when tearing down all but a few boards reduction in the bedroom count at 177 what good are they? Where is the so I don’t think it’s fair to say that this of one wall in order to call this newly Hopewell in December 2017. If you accountability? I’m eager to find it. is a tripling of the density in terms of built sixplex a ‘renovation’ are on the feel that Jim Watson should follow- bedroom count in fact it’s not even a developer. The onus should not be on through on commitments that he made Karen Stevens-Guille has enjoyed doubling…” the community to bear the brunt by then please let him know. Words have living in Old Ottawa South with her Members of the community were accepting an unreasonable increase in meaning; at least they should. If words family for 14 years. outraged when it came to light that in population density in order to improve are not followed up with action then fact 27 (!) bedrooms were on building the developer’s bottom line. plans which had been signed off by I recently emailed Mayor Watson the City of Ottawa Building Code reminding him that he announced in Services. Many letters were written to writing to me, and numerous others the Mayor’s office demanding that the who wrote to him, that the bedroom promise of 12 bedrooms be enforced. count at 177 Hopewell would be Mayor Watson replied to all those who capped at 16. I asked if he would wrote and announced that the building follow through on the commitment he would have 16 bedrooms. A letter from himself announced to the community. the developer was attached to the email He thanked me for my email which from the Mayor explaining that there he referred to the City’s General had been a “misunderstanding.” Manager of Planning, Infrastructure & In August 2020 two of the units Economic Development, for review were inspected and found to have been and consideration. I’m going to take altered with a bedroom added to each that as a “no.” To all those who wrote to the Mayor Rare Hintonburg nd! unit. Two separate Orders to Comply 1135 GLADSTONE AVENUE | Listed at $699,900 were issued requiring the units to revert regarding the bait and switch at 177 to original plan or obtain a revision to Hopewell – you have my deepest the issued Building Permit. The City gratitude. Perhaps you are among will accept a change to the Building those who also received an email from Plans to match the as-built structure. the Mayor announcing the negotiated

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PLANNING AND ZONING Are you ready for regeneration? An update on Ottawa’s new Official Plan By Laura Urrechaga and parks need to catch up with the offices – to replace traditional policies released to the public in late November. increased demands of adding more that separate land uses. This could OSCA’s Planning and Zoning team Intensification will be replaced by people to existing neighbourhoods. result in more personal services will continue to keep you informed regeneration in the City’s draft Official Regeneration will also be about and other types of businesses being and provide neighbourhood-level Plan says Alain Miguelez, manager of planning by context. Old Ottawa selectively allowed in areas that are opportunities for input as draft policies policy planning at the City of Ottawa. South is proposed to be part of the now strictly residential. become available. Speaking at a recent meeting inner urban area, where the draft plan So, as apartments and other new of community and industry sees significant growth in jobs and housing forms welcome new residents Laura Urrechaga is an OSCA Board representatives, Mr. Miguelez said housing over the next 25 years. As and new mixed-use streets develop in Member and Co-Chair of the OSCA regeneration better conveys the idea an inner urban neighbourhood, Old Old Ottawa South, additional services Planning and Zoning Committee. that planning in inner urban areas is Ottawa South will evolve toward an and amenities will be also be provided. about more than just increasing the increasingly urban context, as a place What will this regeneration look number of homes or the density of where life without a car is possible. like? an area. Regeneration recognizes The draft plan also proposes a greater Stay tuned for more news. The infrastructure, amenities, services mix of land uses – housing, shopping, draft of the new Official Plan will be

Westboro and the new Official Plan By Judy Flavin principles the City and Council will use to re-write rules for the mature Official Plan watchers are studying neighbourhoods inside the Greenbelt. new proposals for Westboro for So how could this play out in Old DID YOU KNOW? signs of what’s to come for Old Ottawa South? Much of Old Ottawa Ottawa South and other mature South west of Riverdale is zoned neighbourhoods. R3 and is slated for regeneration in The Westboro Infill Study up-zones the new Official Plan. Just what’s parts of the community from three- entailed will be revealed in the draft storey, three-unit buildings – zoning Official Plan scheduled for release in “R3”– up to zoning “R4.” The change November. For Official Plan updates adds apartment buildings to the types go to engage.ottawa.ca and click on of housing permitted in the area, for “The new official plan.” example allowing up to eight units on a If you want to learn more about 40-foot lot. developments in Westboro go to Buildings on Churchill Avenue in ottawa.ca and search for the “Westboro the study area can go up to nine storeys Infill Zoning Study.” on a case-by-case basis and new development must be in the form of Judy Flavin has lived in Old Ottawa apartments, towns, or stacked towns – South for the last 30 years. no new singles or semi-detached. Jeff Leiper, the councillor for Kitchissippi Ward, says the proposed changes areGMSElemAdGR19G.pdf a likely guidepost 2 for 2019-07-24 the 10:40 AM

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CMY There are new restrictions at the Sunnyside & Riverdale intersection: K right-hand turns on a red light are not permitted from 7am to 7pm weekdays, both from eastbound Sunnyside onto Riverdale and from southbound Riverdale onto Sunnyside. The angle of the roadways obstructs the view of approaching traffic and often motorists creep into the intersection thereby endangering pedestrians trying to cross. This constraint allows a clear right-of-way to those in the crosswalk.

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OSCA Billings Bridge traffic safety becoming a priority By James Grant and Erik Billings Bridge van der Torre, on behalf of Not only does it make sense to shift our attention to another, equally the OSCA Traffic and Safety dangerous bridge that connects Committee our neighbourhood to other parts of the City, there is also a bit of an OSCA’s Traffic and Safety Committee opportunity. A developer recently has been engaged in deliberations submitted a design proposal for a about the redesign of the Bank Street large development to be built on the Canal Bridge. While the approved “island” between Riverside Drive configuration was not the one favoured North and South, on the east side of by the committee, we are committed to Bank Street. This development – if working with our Councillor and City approved – will require changes to the staff to get the safest possible solutions traffic design to allow residents to enter implemented for all traffic users. This and exit parking. The design proposal will undoubtedly continue to require includes some basic intersection (re-) a lot of hard work, but we value this designs, but the main focus is clearly opportunity and look forward to real the movement of cars, not pedestrians progress in a file that has been the top and/or cyclists. Another reason to PHOTO BY BRENDAN MCCOY Help wanted priority for our committee for a long focus on Billings Bridge is that a We are in the preliminary stages time. recent report presented to the City of Whether it is in the form of sharing of making improvements to Billings Given that we are the neighbourhood Ottawa Transportation Committee your thoughts and ideas about the Bridge one of the Traffic and Safety “between the bridges,” it makes a lot identified 29 high volume intersections kinds of measures that would make Committee’s priorities, and would of sense for the Traffic and Safety as particularly dangerous for cyclists, the bridge safer, or helping out in a welcome any residents that are Committee now to shift our attention and Bank & Riverside North is one of more active capacity, contact us at: interested in this file to join us. to the other bridge: Billings Bridge. them. [email protected].

Kushwaha, Shehryar Sarwar and community, sharing ways to eradicate OSCA’s Diversity and Inclusion myself, Fatuma Hussein. discrimination, foster organizational At large, considering what is excellence through inclusivity that Working Group happening globally, it is crucial that we will build on our ability to adapt to look in our own backyard and address future challenges and provide ongoing local members committed to listen, By Fatuma Hussein these rather challenging issues, as well reporting to the OSCA Board. share and provide insightful guidance as break down barriers while trying to Our first meeting took place virtually, around diversity and inclusivity issues/ If you live, work, or are a part of the ground ourselves as we become more on September 24th, 2020, and although topics that exist within our community. Old Ottawa South Community, then informed members of our community. it primarily served as an introductory The working group has eight members you will be pleased to learn of the More importantly, we must keep session, we were able to discuss the including Virginia Asante (Chair), establishment and launch of OSCA’s the dialogue open and continuous scope of The Diversity and Inclusion Dr. Justine Joseph, Deborah Gomes, new working group. The Diversity and as we strive to recognize obstacles Working Group, work on our proposed Larry Menard, Saira David, Neena Inclusion Working Group is a team of that prevent equitable access to the policy statement and begin designing community association’s programs and an anonymous feedback channel that services. members of the community can utilize. The Diversity and Inclusion Working We look forward to continuing Group was introduced to solicit the conversation on diversity and The show will go on (again someday) multiple perspectives and experiences inclusivity within our community. within the community of Old Ottawa Through transparent, consultative South and to ensure OSCA’s active and open dialogue we hope to aid in commitment to fair and equitable promoting a culture of equity in our provision. In addition, the Working community and organization. Group will assess implementation and impact of services, programs and policies within the association. Fatuma Hussein is a Member of Our goal is to create a space of OSCA’s Diversity and Inclusive dialogue on discrimination within the Working Group.

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CHRISTY’S CORNER community organizations, we’ve What we’re doing now! reinvented ourselves far too many Christy Savage, OOS community, a community that times to count in the past few months. That’s no small feat. Creating each OSCA Executive Director rallies and supports each other. We also continue to be inspired by seasonal program session (schedule

the businesses in Old Ottawa South, and program guide) takes months to In addition to supporting the on-going who have faced difficult times and coordinate and launch, and must be work of OSCA’s Board of Directors pivoted nonetheless. Their community completed at least three months before and its committees, staff (although spirit keeps us going. programs begin. To be successful we largely unseen) are working at the Under COVID-19 space restrictions must have some idea of our future Firehall and at home. the Firehall reached out to Sunnyside ability to offer programs. We’re still here, even though the Wesleyan Church and the Royal When the landscape changes number of programs we’re operating College of Physicians and Surgeons from week to week it leaves us is lower than usual. We continue to run appreciate your support and hope to of Canada to see if they could help. constantly reinventing programs and our core virtual Fitness Classes (12 in continue to see you virtually, and we We were exhilarated when both brainstorming. In the past eight months all) plus one small but very significant look forward to meeting again some organizations responded with haste and we’ve created the equivalent of almost After 4 group of children who attend day soon. heart. eight program seasons, brainstormed in-person programs daily. All of what the Firehall offers takes Although we did not have the alternative options should we face In early summer we pivoted into resources, and OSCA has continued to number of anticipated registrations in changes, and returned to the drawing virtual programming. We also invested employ staff throughout the pandemic. After 4, we knew we had support if board to brainstorm some more. The significant time and resources to open We’ve benefited from the Canada needed. That meant a lot. A big thank team inspires me with their resilience the Firehall safely in September and to Emergency Wage Subsidy (CEWS) you to Sunnyside Wesleyan Church and determination, and of course, ensure we met Ottawa Public Health and we’ve covered remaining costs for responding quickly. A special thank their creativity. While we’re down (OPH) requirements. Under Phase I with reserves. you to Kerry Kronberg, Senior Pastor; one significant position, we continue we launched our After 4 program and We also received exciting news Beth Fleming, Office Administrator; to lift each other with activities like anticipated opening more in-person when we were approved for a grant and the Board of Directors at Halloweek and aRtY pArTy. programming later this fall. from the Red Cross’ Government of Sunnyside Wesleyan Church. Last but not least are our virtual We’ve been fortunate to run our Canada’s Emergency Community Greenspace is vital for the After 4 programs and instructors, who have After 4 program without incident, and Support Fund led by Employment and programming, not just for physical done an excellent job of engaging we remain committed to following Social Development Canada. The grant distancing, but to give the children a clients each week. Zoom Fatigue OPH procedures and protocol. While awarded to OSCA for our free spring chance to move, run, play and be in a is very real for the staff, instructors preparing to begin Phase 2 of our and summer programs has proven to be beautiful space outdoors. Thank you to and no doubt for our clients. It’s onsite reopening, Ottawa was coming crucial to our survival as we continue the team of staff at The Royal College challenging to support clients daily to grips with its second wave of to operate on an unsustainable revenue of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada; with any technical issues they might COVID-19. Again, our plans were put stream. We are grateful to the Red Carolina Bruniera, Corporate Services encounter when logging in or using on hold. Cross and the Government of Canada Manager; Kristy Benesko, Contracts Zoom. While this decision to postpone for the opportunity to continue to serve Manager; and, Chris Johnson, Program Luke and Matt work tirelessly to additional in-person programming the community. Coordinator, Corporate Services and login participants in each class daily. has been disheartening, we are Facilities Management; and, a host Luke monitors classes and provides preparing once again to revisit online of other helpful staff who assisted us technical support should there be programming. How can we be more with organizing the use of space at issues during the class. Despite running creative, more inventive? the College. It’s a beautiful space just fewer programs, the managing of We’re moving forward because across the street from the Firehall, and passwords and setting clients up can be we’re inspired by the children and we’re so happy to use it. administratively heavy. their families who attend After 4 at the Like many businesses and But it’s worth it. So too are you, Firehall. They make us feel part of the our clients and our instructors. We

OSCA two are intertwined. This is true both is an opportunity to help secure our The rewards of fundraising historically and figuratively. The community centre and to shape our Firehall serves as Old Ottawa South’s future. (OOS) community centre and strives We will also learn more about By Winnie Pietrykowski its services, No. 10 was threatened to deliver programming at affordable our Firehall, the man after whom with demolition. Heritage buffs and prices. It is also home to OSCA, it is named (Ottawa Fire Chief In 2000, OSCA initiated a 10-year community champions rose to the OOS’s community association. Under John Graham), what is meant by a $500,000 fundraising drive to renovate occasion and in 1978 the Firehall a Program Delivery Agreement with “cartouche,” the transformation over and expand the Firehall. After years opened its doors as The Ottawa South the City of Ottawa, the OSCA Board time of this “low-slung bungalow- of volunteer architects, students and Community Centre. of Directors manages the operations of style” fire station to community centre, community advocates developing The former No. 10 Graham Fire the Firehall and its staff. and the services it now provides. You design charettes, legendary Maritime Station, known as the Old Fire Hall, Social contact restrictions due to will also get to know your community Kitchen Parties and silent auctions, was designated a Heritage site in 1996. COVID-19 have had a huge impact on association better. How it works. as well as lobbying efforts with the There is a long and rich history of our Firehall’s ability to sustain itself. To There is also a lot of room to city and provincial governments, community participation and advocacy thrive, the Firehall relies on revenues research stories, write articles, a renovated Firehall was officially in OOS. from the programs it delivers. The take photographs, discover hidden re-opened in 2010. The expansion Volunteer associations in one form City owns the Firehall and maintains community niches, cover community allowed for the doubling of Firehall or another date back to the 1920s. it but doesn’t cover operational costs. events and local business stories. You programming and a safe, attractive OSCA itself was formally established If we are to make up the shortfall in will meet interesting individuals who place for children and adults to in 1974 the same year as OSCAR. One operational costs, we need to fundraise. have expertise in digital fundraising, congregate. It was a community vision of OSCA’s first advocacy efforts was Fundraising for a cause that is communications, computer & software successfully realized. securing the Firehall as a community near and dear to our hearts requires infrastructure and you will increase In September 2021 the Firehall centre. commitment and discipline. It also your knowledge about the not-for- will celebrate its centennial. Built The Firehall and the Old Ottawa needs some light-hearted souls to keep profit sector. in 1921, the No. 10 Graham Fire South Community Association spirits high and to enjoy a good laugh. Station actively served Ottawa for (OSCA) make up a rather unique In the effort to protect and support our 50 years. In the mid-1960s when the community entity. You need only community centre we will discover Continued on pg. 9 Fire Department was streamlining check out its logo to see how the so much more about ourselves. It The OSCAR l November 2020 Page 9

OSCA PRESIDENT’S REPORT Where we have been and where we are going… By Richard Slowikowski, a strong presence in all other areas (e.g. possible by the Canada Employment OSCA President Finance, Planning and Zoning, Traffic Wage Subsidy (CEWS) which is now and Safety, Green Dreamers). due to expire in the summer of 2021, as

well as operational reserves that OSCA Highlights of recent OSCA history And then came COVID-19 set aside over the years. In 2008, the City approved $3.2 COVID-19 has been difficult on all million to help fund renovating and of us (as individuals, as a community Moving forward expanding the Firehall. The renovated and as an organization). COVID Lots of uncertainty will continue Firehall opened two years later. Over impacts on everything. In particular, and there is no crystal ball to help with the next 5 years, program and operating COVID has forced OSCA to close in- planning. In the meantime, OSCA oldottawasouth.ca if you have an expenditures more than doubled. In person programming. In turn, this has will keep a close eye on our financial interest in joining the Fundraising Task 2012, OSCA hired its first full-time meant a large loss of revenue and the situation. We will keep planning on Force or our new Grants Committee. Executive Director and then gradually need for OSCA to dip into operating 2-4 month cycles to get through the OSCA has dedicated staff, a its full-time and part-time staff and reserves. OSCA’s financial position is Pandemic and simultaneously plan for responsible and talented Board of contract instructors. By 2016, OSCA deteriorating and no one knows when a better OSCA in the long-term. In the Directors and Committees working signed its first Program Delivery OSCA will return to full in-person immediate future, OSCA will launch a extra hard to ensure that OSCA Agreement (PDA) with the City to programming and a positive financial fundraising campaign to help support continues to provide the services take over all community recreational position. Consequently, COVID is Firehall programming, and we will needed by our community. It is activity delivered at the Firehall. As forcing OSCA to re-think in radical continue researching and applying for inspiring. In these challenging times specified in the PDA, the City owns ways how we deliver our mandate in grants to address our revenue shortfall. I believe that, we will find a way to the Firehall and is responsible for the the community. the other side, and in the process of maintenance of the building. OSCA You can help working together, we will become an covers the operational costs such Achievements Right now, OSCA needs volunteers even stronger community. as salaries for staff and instructors, Despite COVID-19, OSCA has to develop, write and submit grant I hope you have a great day. program materials, communications achieved a number of important proposals and to help with fundraising. and office equipment, etc. accomplishments over the past year. Please contact me at president@ Given all of this growth, in 2018 These include, among other things: OSCA’s Board of Directors began revising OSCA By-laws; SWOOS a multi-year effort to reorganize Snow Moles and Winter Walkability how OSCA works. This meant Audits; the Seneca Avenue safe reorienting the responsibilities crossing along Colonel By Drive; of the Board to a more strategic improvements to the development at level while strengthening OSCA 1050-1060 Bank Street; launching OSCA needs volunteers Committees to become responsible Amilia, our new registration system; and accountable for their day-to-day to develop, write and submit grant launching virtual Programs; launching operational activities. To support this in-person After-4 programming under proposals and to help with fundraising. reorganization, OSCA has: created new COVID-19 protocols; and, obtaining a committees (e.g. Governance, Human Contact Richard at $45,000 grant with the Canadian Red Resources, SWOOS) and new working Cross program, COVID-19 Emergency [email protected] to join groups (e.g. Windsor Park Field House, Response Support for Non-Profits. Diversity and Inclusion); expanded Throughout the pandemic OSCA has the Fundraising Task Force or the new the responsibilities of committees (e.g. managed to continue operating without Communications, Nominations and Grants Committee. laying off staff. This has been made Elections, Operations); and maintained

OSCA are held. The Firehall is a full-service Continued from pg. 8 community centre. Let’s make sure that the doors of the Firehall remain “open.” Let’s make sure Fundraising is the kind of undertaking that we have a community centre for that forces an organization to take a good generations to come. Firehall Fundraising hard look at itself: its revenue sources, So, if you think you’d like to join us operational expenses, administrative and rediscover OOS, keep a close eye on Campaign makeup and vision for the future. Why? our website at: oldottawasouth.ca Well, typically an organization doesn’t Sign up, join our fundraising task force fundraise unless it really has to and or let us know how you would like to • The Firehall now needs only if it is critical to the survival of the participate. We’re a fun, hard-working organization itself. Fundraising is also group and we’re looking for you. your support to deliver a time to dream big, imagine a future, To find out more about what a develop a vision. tremendous undertaking the renovations programs in the New Year The OSCA Board of Directors is of the Firehall was go to the OSCAR made up of community volunteers archives at oldottawasouth.ca/archives • We need your help “to who chair a variety of committees, click on ‘2010’ and read the front page advancing the interests of OOS. These story in the September 2010 issue. committees include: Finance, Planning For more on the history of the Firehall keep our doors open” & Zoning, Traffic & Safety, The Green go to heritageottawa.org and search for Dreamers, Senior Watch, Diversity & ‘No. 10 Graham Station.’ • Check us out at Inclusion, Operations, Communications, Governance, Human Resources, Winnie Pietrykowski is a longtime oldottawasouth.ca Nominations & Elections, etc. The resident of OOS, the OSCA Vice- Firehall is where the Board of Directors President and the Chair of OSCA’s and its committees meet. It’s where open Communications Committee. houses, special events & public meetings Page 10 The OSCAR l November 2020

THE OSCAR

260 Sunnyside Ave, Ottawa Ontario, K1S 0R7 NEXT DEADLINE: FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13 www.oldottawasouth.ca/oscar ISSN: 0715-5476 The OSCAR is published eleven times per year. [email protected] Upcoming deadlines: November 13 (December issue); December 11 (January issue); January 15 (February issue); February 12 (March Editor: Brendan McCoy [email protected] issue); March 19 (April issue); April 16 (May issue); May 14 (June Layout and Design: Bess Fraser issue); June 11 (July/August issue); August 13 (September issue). Business Manager: Susanne Ledbetter [email protected] Advertising Manager: Ari Kulidjian [email protected] 613-276-5116 To book an OSCAR ad (not classy ads) call Ari at 613-276-5116 Volunteer Proofreaders: Maura Giuliani, Mary Low, [email protected] Kathy Krywicki, Scott Valentine, Roger Williams The OSCAR is printed by Winchester Print. The Old Firehall Ottawa South Community Centre The OSCAR is a community paper paid for entirely by advertising. It is published by the Old Ottawa South Community Association Inc. (OSCA). 260 Sunnyside Ave, Ottawa Ontario, K1S 0R7 Distribution is free to all Old Ottawa South homes and businesses. It is also e-mail: [email protected] available at selected locations in Old Ottawa South and the Glebe. Opinions expressed are those of the authors and not necessarily of The OSCAR or OSCA website: www.oldottawasouth.ca OSCA. Contributions should be in electronic format sent by e-mail to: PHONE 613-247-4946 [email protected]. All submissions will be acknowledged by Monday ToOSCA Thursday VIRTUAL OFFICE8:00 am HOURS - 9:00 pm e-mail. The Editor has the final say about style, format and content. The Friday 8:00 am - 6:00 pm OSCAR Editorial Policy, and Guidelines for Submissions, are available on Monday – Friday the OSCA website. The OSCAR is available online at www.oldottawasouth. Saturday 9:00 am – 5:008:00 pm am - 5:00 pm ca. Some articles will be posted on the OSCA website. Sunday 9:00 am - 5:00 pm

WHAT’S THAT NUMBER? WHAT’S THAT NUMBER? FOR DISTRIBUTION INQUIRIES, Ottawa South Community Centre - The Old Firehall 613-247-4946 E-MAIL: [email protected] Ottawa South Community Association (OSCA) 613-247-4872 Ottawa Public Library 613-580-2940 Lyra Evans, English Public Board Trustee 613-913-1695 The OSCAR thanks the following people who ([email protected]) Shelley Lawrence, Catholic Board Trustee 613-978-2644 brought us to your door this month: Centretown Community Health Centre 613-233-4443 CARLETON UNIVERSITY ZONE A1: Kathy Krywicki (Coordinator), Mary Jo Lynch, Kim Barclay, CUSA (Carleton U Students Association) 613-520-6688 Élie Cantin Nantel, Becky Sasaki, Sam & Aila McNeill-McKinnell, Christy Graduate Students Association 613-520-6616 Griffin, Rob Wong, Luke and Alex Vulanovic. Community Liaison 613-520-3660 ZONE B1: Ada Brzeski & Dave Drapeau (Coordinator), Zoe Walters, the Athletics 613-520-4480 Montgomery family, Claire & Alex Gammon, Charlie and Maeve Georgeson, CITY HALL D. Georgaras, Erika, Maria & Gabriela. Shawn Menard, City Councillor 613-580-2487 ZONE B2: Craig Piche (Coordinator), Sandra Garland, Pat Eakins, ([email protected]) Steve Mennill, Claire & Alex Gammon, Gillingham-Murray family, Tessa and Main Number (24 hrs) for all departments 3-1-1 Fiona Quinn-Crook, John Callan & Diana Carr, Esmé & Nora Perry. Community Police - non-emergencies 613-236-1222 ZONE C1: Laura Johnson (Coordinator), the Williams family, Josh Rahaman, Emergencies only 9-1-1 Jesper Lindeberg, Darcy McCoy, Bruce Grant, Bryan & Anneka Dallin Serious Crimes 613-230-6211 O’Grady, David Fisher, Susan Townley. Ottawa Hydro 613-738-6400 ZONE C2: Craig Piche (Coordinator), Steve Mennill, Alan McCullough, Streetlight Problems (burned out, always on, flickering) 3-1-1 Charles & Phillip Kijek, Michael Jenkin, Michel & Christina Bridgeman, Brewer Pool 613-580-2090 Melissa Johnson. Brewer Arena 613-247-4917 ZONE D1: Mike McKay (Coordinator), Stephen Merriam, Marianne Keys, City of Ottawa website - www.ottawa.ca Gail Stewart, Gabe Teramura, Oliver & Claire Waddington, the Sprott family, Milo Barnett. ZONE D2: Dan Greco (Coordinator), Caitlin, Anna Chernushenko, INDEX the Stewart family, Sloane and Harrison Gilchrist, Will Creaghan. ZONE E1: Brian Tansey (Coordinator), Karen Wolfe & Curt Labond, BUSINESS BEAT 1, 2 Norah Hutchinson, Steve Adamson & Nadine Dawson, Robert Trotter. ZONE E2: Kathy Stewart (Coordinator), Marianne & Jim Kent, OSCA 6-9 the Brodkin-Haas family, Carolyn Inch, Chris Berry & Frida Kolster Berry, COUNCILLOR’S REPORT 12 John Bell, Julie Stock, Joan Foster-Jones, Allan Paul. ZONE F1: Carol & Ferg O’Connor (Coordinator), Jenny O’Brien, ENVIRONMENT 14-15 Lyle Stern, Gerald Bailie, Paloma & Liliana Ruiz, Malachi Winter, the Goutte family (Joshua, Leo and Alina), Kai Bramley, Calla Rose & Justin Connolly FILM REVIEW 21 ZONE F2: Pierre Guevremont (Coordinator), Paulette Theriault, Alaster Ayson, Judy & Pierre Chamberland, Luc & Sydney Grenier, Mary Johnston, POLITICAL 26-27 the Walker Family, the Polkinghorne Family, the Kushner Family. TRILLIUM 28 ZONE G: Shehryar Sarwar (Coordinator), Caroline & Julia Twelves, MARKETPLACE & CLASSY ADS 31 Luke & Robin Eriksson, Joanne Monaghan, David Janssen, Chris & Andy Anand-Danek, Allan Paul, Peluso-Pope Family. GARDEN CLUB 32 Bank Street-Old Ottawa South: Tom Lawson, Paula Archer, Ross Imrie. TRAVEL 35 Bank Street-Glebe: Brendan McCoy The OSCAR l November 2020 Page 11

SUNNYSIDE BRANCH A letter to our Sunnyside branch customers From the Ottawa Public and our workforce. Our employees, process is manual and no longer asked us to look at how we can Library like others, have been impacted by automated. offer some level of service, and COVID-19. Some employees made Because of these challenges, commit to reopening sooner, with the difficult decision to retire or we had to make difficult choices contactless service. We hope you are keeping healthy resign, while others are temporarily about which branches to open and We have heard from many of and well. We reached out to unavailable for a variety of reasons. which to keep closed for a little you, and we know you miss your customers throughout the pandemic, With the number of cases in our while longer. Those decisions local branch. Employees miss and now we want to connect community increasing, we’re were based on several criteria you, too. They miss seeing you specifically with you, members of feeling the impact daily. We have such as accessibility, equity, safety and connecting with you. Some the Sunnyside branch community. fewer available employees; in fact, and proximity to other nearby employees have been reassigned to We know it has been a long seven we have 120 fewer employees, branch locations (geography). We other branches – such as Main and months without your local branch. and need 100 in order to open the know these criteria do not address Alta Vista – and we encourage you When we began reopening, we remaining branches. Our biggest everyone’s needs across the City. to visit those locations if you are planned to continue throughout the challenge has been the supervisory To address the challenges we able. summer in hopes that all branches positions that we require for day-to- face, we are in the process of filling We want to thank you for your would open by September. day operations. We depend on these more than 20 of the permanent continued patience as we actively Councillor Menard has met roles to oversee operations that keep vacant positions (11 are supervisors) respond to the pandemic, and we with us repeatedly to indicate the employees and customers healthy. and we hope to have employees look forward to resuming services community’s concerns on this issue. In addition, we must follow settled into their roles soon after. in your community. Out of the ten remaining branches provincial COVID-19 guidelines This hiring takes time, but we Please keep healthy and well. that continue to be closed, the which add more pressure to the anticipate that we can reopen our Sunnyside and Orléans branches workforce. For example, we are Sunnyside branch in January 2021 will be the next to open. required to quarantine all returned with enhanced services. In the Unfortunately, the pandemic has materials and that means that our meantime, Councillor Menard has placed pressure on our operations

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Dignity – for all

I applaud Carolyn Inch for giving voice to the issue of dying with dignity. The current pandemic has opened our eyes to the need for reform among the structures that impact the quality of life of Canadian citizens in their older years. I, too, like Carolyn and so many others have been rendered helpless to honour the wishes of a beloved family member in their final stages of prolonged suffering. In ways big and small, our vulnerable elders are individuals with many years of contribution to the larger collective good that benefits us all. How can we, in good conscience, sentence them to dying in a way they saw as abhorrent throughout their years of sound body and mind?

Joanne Pocock

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COUNCILLOR’S REPORT Energy Evolution includes an Climate change action in the midst energy and emissions model, financial analysis and 20 priority projects. If it of a pandemic is approved, we will move out of the By Shawn Menard, Cities have influence over more study and planning phase and into implementation. City Councillor than half of greenhouse gas emissions in the form of land use decisions, There are still a lot of questions transportation patterns, energy however, the most pressing of which While the last six months have been conservation efforts and waste is dedicated investment. The city’s pandemic crisis mode across Ottawa, management. While the vast majority budget for fighting climate change is city staff and community activists of greenhouse gas emissions are not guaranteed each year like other have continued working on fulfilling not directly under the city’s control, programs, but rather assembled from our climate change commitments. In the policy decisions we make shape the Hydro Ottawa dividends surplus – the spring of 2019, the City of Ottawa everyday decisions like how to insulate any funds that exceed the $20 million declared a climate change emergency. your house, whether to drive or bike to that already goes to core city services. deliberations this fall will be impacted We joined a cohort of cities across the grocery store, and if you compost This budget is often threatened or by COVID-19 related costs, with many Canada – and the globe – pledging your organics or send them to the reduced mid-way through the year, capital projects already deferred to to do more to reduce greenhouse gas landfill. making work planning difficult, if not 2021 or beyond. emissions. In the last year and a half, Ottawa impossible. The scope and scale required to The need to act was dramatically has taken significant steps toward The price tag for this Climate achieve 100% emissions reduction underscored by local natural disasters – building a more resilient, sustainable Change Plan can be deceiving. is unprecedented in both action and the worst flooding of the Ottawa River community. In January, Council Investments would actually save the investment. Success will require an on record, coming just two years after unanimously approved the Climate city significant sums of money over all-hands-on-deck mentality from the last 100-year flood in 2017, and one Change Master Plan for mitigation time with actions such as retrofitting residents and businesses to eliminate year after an unprecedented tornado hit and adaptation, with targets to reduce our buildings and transforming our fossil fuels from their buildings and the region. greenhouse gas emissions from the transit fleet to save on operating transportation choices. The climate emergency declaration community by 100% by 2050 and from costs, generating our own power and For those looking for more was more than just symbolism. It city operations by 100% by 2040. In efficiently converting waste. Lowering information or to get involved, check was tied to a number of concrete June, the city received local climate our collective emissions while reducing out the Energy Evolution page on the actions, including a review and projections and is now starting work costs should be an immediate priority city website for details on the strategy, update of the Climate Change on a vulnerability assessment. And on for our city. how to take private action, and what to Master Plan, a commitment for a October 20th, staff presented Energy Without a change in the city’s expect. detailed implementation strategy, Evolution, the city’s Community leadership and priorities and the development of a vulnerability Energy Transition Strategy with without support from other orders Shawn Menard is City Councillor assessment and climate resilience a vision to transform Ottawa into of government, it will make it for Capital Ward. He can be reached strategy, and a recognition of climate a thriving city, powered by clean, increasingly difficult to see the type of directly at [email protected]. change as a strategic priority for the renewable energy. action necessary to meet the goals set city. out in these plans. Upcoming budget Bus stop is back! When Sunnyside was re-designed a few years ago, PHOTO BY JONATHAN MCLEOD changes were made to the bus stops for the westbound Route 7 to Carleton. While the new street design has many positive aspects, the removal of the bus stop at the corner of Sunnyside and Leonard proved to be a difficulty for some residents. After advocacy by Seniors Watch Old Ottawa South (SWOOS), Councillor Shawn Menard got involved, and following collaboration with OC Transpo, the Sunnyside-Leonard bus stop was recently reinstated. Because of the bio- 783 Bank Street swale (rain garden) at the corner of 1280 Wellington St West Sunnyside and Leonard, the bus stop www.bloomfields.ca had to be re-located slightly east of the 613-230-6434 intersection.

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REMEMBRANCE DAY D-Day remembered

By Layabout

We approach the annual season of remembrance this year in the season of COVID-19. How are we going to carry out the act of remembrance on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day in the eleventh month with appropriate social distancing? On June 6th, 1944 the western democracies landed under fire on the beaches of Normandy, on two American beaches, two British beaches and one Canadian beach. Our little country with a population under twelve million had more than a million people in uniform; we were punching above our weight. The events are well documented by journalists and historians. Kenneth Duncan was a Corporal Troops of the 9th Canadian Infantry Brigade going ashore at Bernières-sur-Mer, Normandy on D-Day 6 June 1944. with the Canadian Third Division who landed on Normandy Beach. Duncan PHOTO BY GILBERT ALEXANDER MILNE/CANADA. DEPT. OF NATIONAL DEFENCE/LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES CANADA/PA-122765 told me some stories, but he didn’t Over the winter, he produced the It’s much too long to fit into The Bruce Grant, retired Engineer and believe he had anything to add to the draft that was passed to me when he OSCAR’s format, but the story is Layabout is a resident of Old Ottawa record. But I said to him: “No, no Ken, died. In the lines, I heard Ken’s voice, accessible online. Go to South. that’s not true. I haven’t seen a day- the calm measured speech of a retired oldlayabout.wordpress.com, scroll to-day personal account written by a professor who tells that story with down past the various travel tales and soldier who was there. How was it for all detail, without added drama or you will come to D-Day Remembered. you? What was it like to be there?” exaggeration.

OPINION beauty and wildness, is perhaps the meeting place for at least 5,000 years, theme of greatest importance, from the Although it is within Algonquin Canada’s National War Memorial on aesthetic point of view – the theme that territory, it was considered neutral. the Chaudière Islands will appeal, not only to local citizens, People would come from huge but to all Canadians who take pride in distances. They would camp on the their country and its institutions.” riverbanks, leave their weapons behind, Greber’s Plan. It has shaped Ottawa By Lindsay Lambert In 1988, the National Capital and canoe to the Islands to gather in the way we know it today, giving us Commission and Treasury Board of peace. Enemies met here. It was a place Confederation Square, the Greenbelt, Canada’s National War Memorial, built Canada designated the Chaudiere of communications and governance. the Queensway, the Parkway and in the 1930s and dedicated by King Islands as National Interest Land It’s a place without war, which might others. It is not complete, as the George VI in 1939 in memory of the Mass (NILM.) NILM lands “have be unique in this world. It’s the ideal. finishing touch still remains to be done. dead of the First World War, was later high symbolic value for Canadians” Canada is a peacekeeping nation. We Greber specifies on page 230 that: “The rededicated to include those killed in and they are “to be retained by the should be celebrating this. most effective improvement will be the the Second World War. Because of this NCC on behalf of the government in We are instead building condos on central park at the Chaudière Falls. some would, and do, say that Canada perpetuity.” the heart of our National War Memorial (His italics.) The time will come when has no national memorial dedicated I can’t imagine a more fitting centre to the Second World War. the heavy and obnoxious industries, solely to the Second World War. to a War Memorial than a central now occupying the islands, peninsula, We actually do: It’s Jacques Greber’s park on the Chaudière Islands: Prior and the rocks from which the falls Plan for the National Capital, the to European settlement, the area was Lindsay Lambert lives in OOS. originally receded, will finally move to Federal Government’s Master Plan an Indigenous sacred and peaceful for the growth and development of more appropriate sites, for their normal the Capital Region, commissioned by development, and more economical Prime Minister Mackenzie King and operation. The Master Plan is a long published in 1950. From the first page range program based upon which the of the Introduction, “IN LIEU OF ANY Capital will grow; urban planning OTHER MEMORIAL OF THE WAR deserves resolute perseverance and JUST ENDED THE GOVERNMENT the Falls will always remain the main HAS APPROVED OF FURTHER feature of Ottawa’s natural setting.” DEVELOPMENT OF CANADA’S He continues on page 250: “The NATIONAL CAPITAL AND ITS proposed transformation... is properly ZINN RICHARDSON ENVIRONMENT ON BOTH SIDES a restitution scheme, the merits of DESIGN BUILD RENOVATE OF THE OTTAWA RIVER.” (The which can be judged from a great capitals are in the text.) An extract from many old prints, which show how the Privy Council Minutes of October impressive was the original setting of A UNIQUE PROCESS TO SAVE 31st, 1945, on page 5 states that Mr. the Chaudière Falls, the Ottawa River Greber has been engaged “with a view banks and the whole of Parliament YOU MONEY. FIND OUT HOW. of preparing plans for a suitable long- Hill. Such proposal aims to give a term development of such area as a more dignified environment to the RESIDENTIAL & COMMERCIAL PROJECTS National War Memorial.” representative buildings of the nation, The National Capital Commission and is more particularly a matter of was created in 1958 to implement national pride... The restoration of the ZINNRICHARDSON.COM 613-809-5089 Chaudière Islands to their primitive Page 14 The OSCAR l November 2020

ENVIRONMENT My neighbours have an electric car. What do they love about it? By Stephanie McNeely • Worried about winter? Yes, it’s an adjustment as with gas-powered Here is what EVs our neighbours are driving: We found out what our neighbours vehicles. You use more energy (prices after rebate) love about their green cars at the when the heaters are on, and • Ford Focus – $32,000 with a 150-km range Enviro Crew’s electric vehicle (EV) typical ranges need to be adjusted • Nissan Leaf – $32,000 with a 280-km range webinar in September. EV owners told to reflect colder temperatures. • Chevy Bolt – over $40,000 with a 350-km range us: • Hyundai Kona – over $45,000 with a 415-km range • First and foremost, they love that Thinking about ditching your gas • Tesla Model 3 – over $45,000 with 525-km range they have no idea what the price of vehicle? Check out: gas is. • Plug’n Drive is a Canadian non- • That special home chargers are not profit (they promote scrapping necessary; you can just plug your your car and switching to EV) – EV into a regular socket while www.plugndrive.ca you’re home. • Federal rebate program. The • Monthly electricity cost depends federal government has offered on the EV model and how much Canadians up to $5000 toward the you drive, but one EV owner found purchase of battery electric and it was up to 80% cheaper than long-range plug-in hybrid vehicles. previous gasoline bills. • Ottawa Electric Vehicle Society: • Some models of EVs have more evsociety.ca space for luggage as batteries take • Why own when you can borrow? up less space. Communauto offers car sharing • EVs are “peppier” to drive than in OOS and across Ottawa. There you think and they accelerate very are half a dozen car-share vehicles David Chernushenko’s Chevy Bolt electric EV (named “Belle”) in June smoothly! in our neighbourhood and a few 2019 charging up on solar energy in Edmonton during his cross-Canada EVs in the downtown core for tour for his novel ‘Burning Souls.’ David was one of the panelists for the you to share. Monthly fees vary Tips and resources: Enviro Crew electric vehicle online event. PHOTO BY DAVID CHERNUSHENKO • Have “range anxiety?” Pick the depending on the membership you car that matches your driving choose with the most basic being needs. There is a model (and public free. ontario.communauto.com/ charging infrastructure) that will ottawa Plastic bag recycling work for you whether you prefer to stick to local trips only or are Thanks to our neighbours for sharing adventurous enough for a cross- their time and tips with us. Canada trip.

(Left to right) Ingrid Nielsen, Erin Maher and Stephanie Davis, all members of the Enviro Crew, with some of the plastic bags. PHOTO BY JD ROGERS

By Ingrid Nielsen my lap. I remember their bemused, apprehensive faces when I demanded My interest in other people’s trash that no one throw garbage out the began in a Toyota on Highway 400 window, and yes, I would hold it all when I was 19 years old. until we got to a trash can. And I did. It was a sticky Friday afternoon Fast forward a few years, when in July, and a group of us were I bumped into Danielle at a coffee heading out of Toronto to a cottage shop. We hadn’t seen each other since in Muskoka. I was with one of those that summer. After a friendly “hey!” “what was I thinking?” boyfriends, we were about to part, but Danielle and his affable gang of rowdy buddies. wanted to share something else. The music was loud, the laughter was “Remember that time you took all louder, and no one cared about much. of our garbage in the car and wouldn’t We had just hit a McDonald’s let us throw it out the window? At the drive-thru, and the car stank of pickles time, I thought you were really weird. and salty fries. As we sped onwards, But I never forgot that, and I’ve never all six of us had big take-out bags, thrown anything out the window since. full of wrappers and Styrofoam and Thought you might like to know that.” drink cups, the usual fare. One of the Last month, the Enviro Crew Old girlfriends, Danielle, started to pack up Ottawa South led a community wide her garbage and roll down her window. collection of all plastic bags, aiming Then another did the same. to remove those big stashes of shame “What are you guys doing?” I asked. that have grown in the corners of our “We’re going to get rid of this homes over the past six months. Thank garbage,” one of them said. you to everyone who made the effort “How?” I asked skeptically. to bring us their bags. We delivered www.oldottawasouth.ca “Out the window, of course.” a mountain of thousands of bags to From there, the conversation quickly McKeen Metro in the Glebe, which CENTRETOWN'S 37 FLORA AT BANK moved from how much the car stank, has signed up for a corporate recycling NEIGHBOURHOOD to how much crap was already in the car, and ended with me sitting with BREWERY & KITCHEN FLORAHALLBREWING.CA everyone’s greasy, full trash bags on Continued on pg.15 The OSCAR l November 2020 Page 15

ENVIRONMENT Update from Brewer Pond By Sandy Garland allow the big trees to thrive.

Since I suggested adopting our parks Bird boxes in the September issue of The OSCAR, You might also have noticed the new progress has been slow, but there is accommodations for birds at Brewer. progress. Six new swallow boxes now overlook the pond – location, location, location! Adoption process My neighbour, Craig Turner, built the City staff acknowledged the Enviro boxes, and RVCA gave us permission Crew’s application to adopt Brewer to install them. In fact, RVCA asked Pond, but reported being overwhelmed the contractor who had done such a with such applications – both parks and great job landscaping, planting, and adopt-a-road programs. Meanwhile, creating wildlife habitat back in 2015 summer consultations with the city to help put up the boxes – and they and the Rideau Valley Conservation bought the poles! Huge thanks to Mike Authority (RVCA) led to permission to and Chris from ASL Contractors (and remove invasive species from the pond their “boss” Sandro Ricci) for all their area. help and support. Mike (right) and Chris of ASL Contractors helped install swallow boxes Work group Nature inventory overlooking the pond. PHOTO BY JENNIFER LAMOUREUX Big thanks to Michelle Armstrong, We’ve set up Brewer Pond as a who was one of the many residents “place of interest” on iNaturalist. participated! Twice a year cleanup is the pollinator garden in Osborne Park, who planted trees, shrubs, and All observations from the area part of the adopt-a-park agreement much visited by bees and butterflies wildflowers at Brewer back in 2015. automatically appear when you click and a great way to get out, meet your over the summer. She contacted me, met at the park to on this place. In fact, a photo of at least neighbours, and do something for the The Enviro Crew plans to “adopt” discuss next steps, and then conducted 50 swallows sitting in a small tree next environment. Hope to see you in the Linda Thom Park and Brighton Park a poll to find out who might be to the pond inspired the effort to put up spring. as well. If you live near any of our interested in a regular work group and more bird boxes. There’s definitely a parks and want to help with cleanup, when that might happen. need. Other OOS parks controlling invasives, or planting native The consensus was Sunday We haven’t forgotten about the other species, we’d love to hear from you afternoons, 1 to 3 pm, and the group You can help parks in our neighbourhood. Big shout ([email protected]). has met twice so far. We spent one Nature is winding down for the out to Liz Tromp and Mike Loewen sunny afternoon planting the rest of the season, but as long as the weather for all their efforts removing Dog- wildflowers donated by the Fletcher cooperates, we’ll keep working on strangling Vine from Windsor Park this Sandy Garland is a member of the Wildlife Garden for a butterfly meadow buckthorn on Sunday afternoons. summer and fall. Stephanie McNeely OOS Enviro Crew, and a longtime at Brewer. The following week, we Please join us if you can, or stop by to and her neighbours continue to tend resident of OOS. pulled up trees! Don’t worry, we’re chat. tackling only the many buckthorn If you have a spare bag or two of trees and shrubs that have invaded the leaves (no garden debris), please wooded parts of the park, mainly along bring them to the dike area – east the dike. end of the parking lot if you’re You might notice the many red coming by car. Please let us know if ribbons flying from tree branches. you bring leaves, so that we can use Those are marking buckthorns that we them right away to suppress Dog- plan to remove. You might also notice strangling Vine and increase the size Trust Ottawa’s Best* how these are often grouped around of the butterfly meadow for next year the huge maples, basswoods, and other ([email protected]). To Safely Sell Your Home native trees that make the dike such a The Enviro Crew held a very cool place to walk on a hot summer successful park cleanup on Saturday, day. Taking out those buckthorns will October 3. Thanks to everyone who

possible for many of us right now, Cont. from pg. 14 and that’s ok. Let’s buy and use less plastic, recycle effectively wherever we can even if that means a little program. The bags are then shipped more effort, and let’s extend the life to a dedicated recycling plant, where 461 Cloverdale Rd. -$3,350,000 3495 Torwood Dr. -$3,200,000 of every plastic item in our homes and they are turned into new products. Beautiful 7 bed, 6 bath Rockcliffe Park home Stunning, luxurious home on 23 acre lot workplaces. Let’s demand and support This reduces the need for virgin positive change wherever we see it, plastic and keeps them out of waste and hold all levels of government streams. accountable to reduce plastics overall. Big thanks to McKeen Metro for The change starts with us. signing up for the recycling program Enviro Crew has many more ideas and letting us tag along. We’re happy for plastics reduction in OOS, starting to promote and work with every with a community zoom chat soon business, big or small, that wants to that will offer practical information demonstrate environmental action, 22 Davidson Dr. -$1,950,000 122A Noel St. -$1,290,000 to kick the habit. Stay tuned for more especially local businesses. Charming Rothwell Heights home on corner lot Contemporary semi with luxe finishes details and projects by joining the When it comes to the Enviro Crew, Enviro Crew OOS Facebook group, whether it is collecting plastic bags, like our Facebook page, or sign up or re-using plant pots or food take-out 1 in Ottawa 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019* for our new e-newsletter by getting in # containers, our goal isn’t just to take Charles Sezlik, Dominique Laframboise, touch ([email protected] ). this stuff off your hands and hoard Sara Adam, Sales Reps. & Trystan Andrews, Broker Join us and we can do more. it at our houses. We want to inspire action to reduce our individual and Ingrid Nielsen is a member of the 613.744.6697 collective plastic footprint. Enviro Crew Old Ottawa South. Going zero plastic is maybe not *Charles Sezlik #1 Royal LePage realtor in Eastern Ontario, 43 +/- Offices - 1150+/- realtors, based on gross closed commissions 2019. Page 16 The OSCAR l November 2020

COMMUNITY UPDATE MIDTERM REPORT

COVID-19 RESPONSE • Working collaboratively with Dr. Etches and her team at Ottawa Public Health, local hospitals, and our federal and provincial partners • Working to improve access to COVID-19 testing • Creation of an Economic Partners Task Force to provide the City with “on the ground” feedback from the business community as the pandemic evolves • Implementation of a Property Tax Hardship Deferral Program and creation of a Business Reopening Toolkit • Opening self-isolation centres for our most vulnerable residents

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT TRANSPORTATION PUBLIC SAFETY • Keep life in Ottawa affordable while • Progress on construction of Stage 2 LRT • Hiring new paramedics to improve response investing in essential services with a cap • Extending no-charge OC Transpo service times in all areas on taxes for seniors to include Sundays in addition • Hiring additional community-based • Continuing to attract major events, to Wednesdays police officers sporting championships and film • $80-million investment to improve the state • Launching the Automated Speed Enforcement productions to Ottawa of roads across the city (ASE) pilot project, seeing 8 cameras installed • Breaking ground on the new Central Library • Increasing cycling tourism opportunities in Community Safety Zones to encourage • Supporting job-creating projects like the in rural villages safer driving behaviours near schools Advanced Building Innovation Centre

Ottawa Tourism

AFFORDABLE HOUSING AND INCLUSIVITY ENVIRONMENT • Partnering with Ottawa Community Housing and the federal • Investing $3 million per year in energy retrofits to City facilities, government to build 700 housing units across three sites on with a seven to ten-year payback through energy savings, for a total Gladstone Avenue investment of $12 million this term of Council • Partnering with Multifaith Housing to build 40 housing units for • Growing the city’s urban tree canopy through partnership veterans at the new Wateridge Village opportunities that will see an additional 500,000 trees planted over the • Increasing the amount of City land available for affordable housing term, with an initial focus on areas impacted by the recent tornadoes along transit corridors • Protecting Ottawa’s water environment for future generations • Appointing Liaisons for Veterans’ Affairs, Gender Equity and Anti-Racism through the Ottawa River Action Plan (ORAP) and the Combined Sewage and Storage Tunnel (CSST), now fully operational • Achieving gender parity on advisory committees

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OTTAWA SOUTH COMMITTEE FOR REFUGEE SUPPORT

ByStuck Cindy May in limbo in Rwandafamily be reunited with their children and sister/brother-in-law who all For over five years, Trinity Anglican live in Canada. He emphasizes that, Church has been diligently working “this family is an extension of our to help a Burundian family reach safe congregation who just happen to haven in Canada. Fleeing violence live in Rwanda.” In his words, the and the complete disintegration of congregation “will not give up, if the civil society in their native country, government says no, we will simply this family is currently living as keep applying.” refugees in neighbouring Rwanda. Trinity Anglican works in direct Their plight came to the attention partnership with The Ottawa South of Reverend Arran Thorpe when Committee for Refugee Support members of his congregation – (OSCRS) and other community who are related to the refugee groups supporting refugees. Over the family – asked for his support in last seven years, Trinity has helped to their application for residency in sponsor 46 refugees and to raise over Canada. Reverend Thorpe went $350,000 to cover the basic costs of to the congregation and asked for refugee sponsorship. There is also their backing. The congregation a Congolese refugee family waiting responded positively and they have in South Africa that OSCRS is been working to bring the Burundian actively working to bring to Canada. refugee family to Canada. The need to both advocate and to The first refugee application was collect desperately needed funds refused by the Canadian government continues unabated. As Reverend Augustine, Pelagie and Alida. due to technicalities. A second Thorpe states, “it takes a village to application has been completed but raise and maintain a family.” He adds affiliations.” To date, Trinity has Refugee Support is running a holiday the application still remains in a that “the church is always looking partnered with mosques, Muslim fundraiser – Chocolate for Refuge! holding pattern. Of course the long, for donations to help support their associations, the Jewish Family For information, look for the ad in dark shadow cast by COVID-19 has mission to support refugees, you Services, Buddhists and people this month’s OSCAR or go to: https:// only added to the already fraught don’t have to be a church going who have no affiliation. Donations bit.ly/ChocolateForRefugeOttawa process of applying for refugee person to get involved.” Moreover, are welcome. If you would like to If you have questions, contact: status. However, Reverend Thorpe is he emphasizes “that Trinity is keen contribute please write a cheque to [email protected] for more firmly resolved to ensuring that the to work with people from any/all Trinity Anglican Church and mark it information. for refugee support. Cheques can be sent to 1230 Bank St., Ottawa, K1S Cindy May is a resident of Old 3Y3 to receive a tax receipt. Ottawa South. The Ottawa South Committee for

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recovery, which meant to our relief favourite bits of the show was our The Company of Adventurers: that we could finally get together as a “COVID” rendition of the Beatles whole group. song Yesterday, which we retitled Ups and downs of the year 2020 I can’t describe the joy on the Quarantine. Audience members were kids’ faces at those early meetings. invited to sing along with the actors By Cynthia Sugars numbers were lessening by the day Everyone seemed to breathe lighter. (words were included in the program) and Ottawa had entered Stage 2 of It was so good to see people. A week as they sang a version of Yesterday 10th anniversary recovery. We contacted the members before this, I had told the kids that that talked about all the things that 2020 will be a year to remember of our group and asked for their input we would be changing the play for had changed since COVID-19. We all for The Company of Adventurers on what they would like to do: no this year. The darkness of Macbeth know that one way to deal with stress on many counts. First of all, this show at all; a virtual play of some just didn’t seem to be what we or trauma is through humour. Our was the 10th anniversary of our kind (along the lines of our Macbeth needed in the time of COVID-19. show did this, I think. One audience little theatre troupe, which began in video); or in-person meetings with And how would we be able to work member told me that after the show 2011 with a group of Old Ottawa COVID-19 precautions. The group masks into the show? A comedy her young daughters kept listing all South kids putting on an inaugural voted unanimously for some kind of seemed more the thing, something of the COVID-19 jokes in the play production of Macbeth. For our 10th in-person contact. Nobody wanted light and silly. Something to take our and laughing. anniversary, we had planned a return more screen time – neither parents minds off the depressing reality of to this play, but other forces were nor kids. Kids were already at their the sudden closure of the previous Bylaw complaint at work: COVID-19. When the city limit. Even if COVID-19 prevented school year and the uncertain status That is one side of our 2020 story, went into lockdown on Friday the us from performing the show, the of the next one. And then we hit on as we attempted to put a positive 13th, March 2020, we didn’t think consensus was to have some kind it. The Comedy of Errors. This early spin on a year that had already been we would be able to have a 10th of creative in-person activity. So we Shakespearean comedy begins with so difficult for everyone. The other anniversary show. For Shakespeare’s contacted Ottawa Public Health and a town that has closed its borders side is what happened next. When birthday celebrations on April 23rd, the City of Ottawa and got a list of to a neighbouring town over a trade a bylaw complaint was filed against we invited the kids to participate the necessary COVID-19 procedures war. Well, Canada and other places our group, we were stymied. The in a COVID -themed Macbeth we had to put in place: hand sanitizer, had had to close their borders to Bylaw officer told us that we were Shakespeare birthday video entitled daily temperature checks, distanced stop the spread of COVID-19. What finished. He kept emphasizing the “When shall we all meet again? seating, masks to be worn by if we incorporated the COVID-19 word “unusual,” that what we did Macbeth in Quarantine,” which we everyone, outdoor meetings only. pandemic into our version of The was “unusual” and therefore was posted on the group’s Facebook page. And we were off! It was a late start, Comedy of Errors, so that we began not acceptable. We had not broken It was a lot of fun putting this little but we were thrilled that it could with a town just going into lockdown any noise bylaw. A noisy party of video together. While we were all work. However, we were still in in which the townsfolk had to don 40 people in our backyard would isolated in our individual homes, it Stage 2, which meant that outdoor masks to stop the spread of the virus? be okay, he said, but what we were made us feel connected again. And gatherings were limited to 10 people, That meant that the two strangers doing was unusual. This started to it gave us a chance to laugh – a little and we had 13 in our cast. So for who manage to sneak across the have the uncomfortable ring of “not – about the circumstances we were the first few weeks, we divided the border (each of them one half of a in my backyard.” We were told that undergoing. group in two, with only half of the pair of twins, looking for their twin if the kids performed the play, we It seems hard to remember now, group coming together at a time. By brothers) don’t know why the local would be fined for each performance but by mid-June, COVID-19 case late July, we entered Stage 3 of the people are behaving so strangely – (up to $25,000 each!). The kids were the townsfolk refuse to shake hands, devastated. We were devastated. they spray everything with Lysol, Over 200 letters were written by they all wear masks. And there we people in the OOS community to had it. Our COVID Comedy of Errors Shawn Menard pleading with him to took form! save our group. 200 letters! We kept to the plotline of The Company of Adventurers is Shakespeare’s original – two pairs a labour of love. This has become of twins separated as children, with such an important part of our LEGACIES ARE one pair searching for the other pair lives and of the life of Old Ottawa and all the mix-ups that ensue when South, not to mention for the kids MADE OF JOY characters are repeatedly confused who have participated. Suddenly, with each other. This is one of the it seemed, it was all going to end. AND SORROW. wackiest of Shakespeare’s comedies Two local lawyers reached out to us and we had a ball with it! On top and offered to help us navigate the Help CHEO be there for both. of that, we added a COVID-19 bylaw enforcement issue. We were throughline. There is a character served with a Notice of Violation This challenging year has taught us to be in the play named Dr. Pinch, so we alleging that we were in breach of the generous, kind and not take anything for decided to expand his role to make residential zoning bylaw because our A gift to CHEO, him a jack of all trades: selling hand home was being used as a theatre, granted. The Lavier family lives this every sanitizer and hydroxychloroquine effectively ordering us to stop this in your will or day. Welcoming baby Charley this year was from the folds of his scholar’s robe; use. Our lawyers assured us that as a memorial, a time of joy for parents Amy and Pres and attempting to pawn off used vaccines since our house is being used first will help build to the unsuspecting newcomers; and foremost as a residence, we big brother Matty, and a time to remember a healthy and continually lysolling the town from would have a strong case against a Cameron. His battle with cancer ended in one end to the other. At the end of the zoning infraction if Bylaw pursued happy future 2016 but he is always with his family. play, two of the twins remove their the issue further. We didn’t know for our children masks to greet their long-lost sibling. what to do, but we needed to let The Laviers created an endowment fund in and youth. And this worked too, since our twins the kids perform their show, so we were siblings in real life and were in decided to have two performances their son Cameron’s memory that helps CHEO the same bubble! in our backyard for very small care for families today and for years to come. What did this mean for all of us audiences and deal with any fines or in the Company of Adventurers this other charges should Bylaw continue Be part of CHEO’s summer? It meant we had a chance to to be so heavy-handed. Bylaw had For more information contact Megan Doyle Ray life-saving work let off some of the COVID-19-related asked the complainant to “report” mdoyleray cheofoundation.com 613-297-2633 @ today and tomorrow. stress that had descended upon the every show we did, and this is what world like a lead weight. We got to happened. laugh, while keeping our masks on. We were concerned about incurring We got to feel part of something more fines after that, but then bigger than ourselves. The COVID something miraculous happened. The Comedy of Errors was a healing experience – for the kids in the show, and for audiences too. One of our Continued on pg.19 The OSCAR l November 2020 Page 19

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Gladstone Theatre stepped forward, having been contacted by a friend of a friend, and they offered us their space to do our remaining shows. It was as though a fairy godmother had waved her wand and enabled us to go to the ball. We couldn’t believe it. It was a bit of a scramble: we had to dismantle and move everything from our home to the theatre, using a friend’s trailer and multiple van trips; we had to work through the night rebuilding the set on site and adding a new section because the Gladstone stage is so much larger; we had to reblock scenes and entrances for the new space, which The Company of Adventurers raised almost $3300 this year for the Ottawa Food Bank! PHOTO BY CYNTHIA SUGARS meant calling all the actors for an emergency impromptu rehearsal in working with these kids and these in their hearts to put up with these July we had hoped would be behind the new space, right at the beginning shows because we love it. That, young actors 2 evenings a week in us by now, it feels like we are of a particularly stressful school year; for us, is the recompense. Since July and August. With holidays and heading into a dark time again. There we had to cart everything (costumes, we began, we have put literally rain-dates, that is only 13 evening is so much loss and loneliness and props, boots, racks, tools) to the thousands of hours of unpaid labour rehearsals at most, which end by 8:30 fear in our lives right now. But there theatre. But we made it! The kids and thousands of dollars of our own pm. The other five days in the week have been many positives too. Maybe were pros! They adapted to all of it money into doing this. If we had are completely silent, the day-times a kids’ Shakespeare play could be – from disappointment to euphoria – to rent rehearsal and performance when we have evening rehearsals something that helps us through it. with resilience and good humour. space, we could no longer put on our are completely silent, as is every Surely community events like this Even with a limited audience size shows for free and we would have to summer weekend, as is the entire one are something that can bring us because of COVID-19 distancing stop the charity fundraisers, and we month of June. While in past years together and remind us how lucky we restrictions, the shows were certainly couldn’t provide the sets we have done one week of day-time are. extremely popular. This meant and costumes that we do. We would rehearsals, we are willing to modify that our fundraiser for the Ottawa also lose the old-fashioned and this if the complainants find it too Cynthia Sugars has lived in Old Food Bank was a huge success. intimate quality of our group – the disruptive. Ottawa South for 20 years and is We had chosen the Food Bank as grassroots “village” feel that people As we experience the second wave the co-founder and director of The our charity this year because they say they love about it – if we had to of the COVID-19 crisis, which in Company of Adventurers. were overwhelmed because of move to an institutional setting, not COVID-19. We passed a hat at the to mention the fact that it would no end of each show and raised almost longer be an OOS activity. And even $3300 for the Food Bank! A huge if we charged for tickets (at $25.00 thank you to everyone who came out or more to cover rental costs), we and supported our COVID Comedy couldn’t sell enough tickets to cover of Errors production this fall! We the costs, and kids in the audience couldn’t have done it without our would no longer be able to attend for audiences, so thank you from the free. This is why small theatre groups bottom of our hearts. cannot survive. Without our space, And now for the next chapter in we will not survive. the saga of 2020. The Gladstone After we had moved everything Theatre generously donated their to The Gladstone and were pulling rental fees to us to help us out in this out of our driveway on the way to crisis. Had we had to pay, the cost our first show at the theatre, with a for that rental would have been over loaded van and 3 kids, two Bylaw $8500. This was a one-time offer officers stopped us and handed us only, because The Gladstone itself a summons to court (in response to was closed (no shows, no rentals) the two shows the kids had put on due to COVID-19. Many people ask in our yard). So this is where we are why we don’t do it there every year. at in the story now: The Company This is not an option. Theatre space of Adventurers – that is, Paul Keen is immensely expensive. The theatres and Cynthia Sugars – are being taken themselves are barely making ends to court by the City. We are being meet. Rehearsal space is immensely put on trial. We still can’t believe expensive. Even community-centre this has happened, and we’re a little rentals for this are unaffordable. thrown by all of this. But we will The Company of Adventurers is a survive this. What is less certain BROKER|SALES not-for-profit amateur youth activity, is the survival of The Company REPRESENTATIVES not a money-making venture. We of Adventurers. 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SOUTHMINSTER SCOUTS 17th Southminster Scouts Group plays to their strengths for safe return to scouting By Angela Burton mapped out a detailed route. “We had been intensely planning for It came as a hard blow when all about four months,” says Liam. “I was Scouting activities were suspended disappointed that it would not happen.” across Canada back on March 14, 2020 At the height of the first wave of the soon after schools were closed and the pandemic in late-April, the 17th also province ordered a general shut down had to make the tough call to cancel to curb the spread of COVID-19. our main annual fundraiser – selling For the 17th Southminster Scouts and delivering garden supplies. The Group, this meant the immediate decision left gardeners disappointed, cancellation of weekly in-person and the 17th without our main source meetings and winter camping trips. of program funding. “I felt really sad; I wanted to go on Behind the scenes, the full extent more hikes,” says Maya Devlen, a of the pandemic began to set in and White Tail in the Beaver Colony at the it soon became clear that a new way time. “I really, really wanted to do a of doing things was going to be sleepover camp.” required. Scouts Canada developed As the older youth – Scouts and detailed policies and procedures for Venture Scouts – shifted to virtual COVID-19-adapted Scouting. In meetings, they continued to plan for addition to adhering to all government spring and summer camping trips, all requirements, all scouting activities the while knowing these could (and would have to be virtual or outdoors. eventually would) be cancelled as well. With detailed rules in-hand, the scout “We were going to go for a six night leaders of the 17th set to work using the trip in the north of Algonquin Park,” tried and true scouting method of ‘Plan. says Venturer Liam Davison, a long- Do. Review.’ By September, when time member of the 17th. “Very few provincial government restrictions had members had done a trip of this size eased and the community was getting Beavers of the 17th Southminster Scout Group went on a hike last fall. before.” used to physical distancing and mask PHOTOS BY LENA DEVLEN The Scouts and Venturers had started wearing, the 17th was ready. For an all too brief few weeks this to assess the feasibility of the trip eight ages and scout leaders alike were Almonte, Ontario to provide a custom autumn, the 17th Southminster Scouts months earlier. They had developed resoundingly in favour of outside line of fair trade, organic coffee were back to Scouting. meal plans to ensure sufficient daily meetings and quickly planned evening products for the fundraiser. Ordering Having had their fill of Zoom calories while minimizing weight and meetings in local parks and outdoor is online and deliveries will be made calls and Google Meets, youth of all weekend adventures. directly to customers’ homes by “So much of what we do in Scouting Canada Post. can be done safely outside,” says Stacy “Raising funds in the community Ernst, a leader with the Beaver Colony. helps cover costs associated with new “Having adventures and gaining experiences and adventures for our Apple Butter 250ml confidence outdoors is a big part of youth, from sleeping under a T-Rex at what Scouting offers children; moving the Museum of Nature to winter cross- 99 our program outside made a lot of country skiing and cabin sleepovers at 6 ea sense.” Nakkertok,” says David Zyla, a Cub Apple Cider 4L The Cub Pack cycled over to leader and organizer for the fundraiser. 9 Gatineau one glorious Saturday “Everyone is adapting to COVID-19 99 Frozen Chicken Wings 9 afternoon. On a warm Tuesday and Scout Coffee is another example of ea Variety ea 9 8 evening, the Scouts and Venturers met how Scouts have adapted.” at the Rideau Canoe Club to practice their paddling skills. The Beaver New! Angela Burton has lived is OOE Dry ready to eat: Colony gathered in Windsor Park for some physically distanced games and for over twenty years and is a Salami Scouting Mum as well as the Calabrese, Parma goofing around. & Toscano It was sweet while it lasted. Group Commissioner of the 17th 225g “I felt really, really excited and I was Southminster Ottawa Scouts Group. very happy we got to do Scouts again,” OrganicOOrganic OatsOats 7750g says Maya, now a member of the Cub 99 99 Pack. “My favourite part was seeing ea Quick, Steel Cut, ea 9 Large Rolled Oats 7 some of my friends and we got to have fun together.” Sadly, the second wave has once again suspended all in-person Scouting. “While it was extremely disappointing to receive news of a second pause, it was reassuring to know – both as a parent and Scout Old Fashioned Pumpkin Pie leader – that our Council puts the 9 safety of all participants above all Organic Pasta Sauce 9 5” 9” Roasted Garlic, Red Pepper, ea 99 99 else,” says Ernst. “When we can return Tomato Basic, Tuscan Veg 680ml6 8 ea 18 ea to outdoor Scouting, the Beaver colony will be ready!” 754 Bank Street Meanwhile, the 17th is using this (613) 232-9466 downtime to promote the new Scout Monday to Friday 8:00am - 10:00pm Saturday 8:00am - 9:00pm Coffee fundraiser. 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FILM REVIEW The Keeper Reviewed by Tony Wohlfarth in the UK after the war and played Manchester – signals his acceptance soccer for Manchester City from of Bert in a gesture of forgiveness. Cinemas in Ottawa are now, again, 1949 to 1964. The Keeper was directed by a 43- temporarily shuttered due to the The story is compelling, year old German filmmaker, Marcus pandemic. Last month, a new feature encapsulating Second Word War, H. Rosenmüller. The script is based length film, set at the end of World British anti-Semitism, perseverance on the real-life story of Manchester War II, The Keeper, screened at The and an unlikely romance. Bert’s City keeper Bert Trautmann. In Mayfair Theatre (1074 Bank Street). drafting so soon after the war causes 1956, Trautmann led the Manchester Hopefully, it will return to the big huge consternation in Manchester, City side to victory in the FA Cup – screen when cinemas re-open. home to England’s largest Jewish playing on after breaking his neck. the film’s title was changed from The Keeper opens at the end community, but Rabbi Alexander The Keeper had its world premiere Trautmann to The Keeper. of World War II, when German Altmann – the community rabbi of at the 2019 Berlinale. Since then, The running time for The Keeper prisoners of war were held under is two hours. The film was released harsh conditions in a POW camp in Canada on October 20 and in Lancashire, UK. The manager has received numerous audience of the local soccer club, Jack Friar appreciation awards. The film is is anxious to ensure his team is not available for streaming free on relegated. He engineers a brazen Kanopy. More screenings are scheme to borrow one of the POWs anticipated at the Mayfair Theatre to replace their hapless netminder. (1074 Bank Street). Film buffs The stars of The Keeper are David should check mayfairtheatre.ca for Kross as the German-born netminder dates and times. and with Freya Maver as Margaret the woman who falls in love with her former enemy. John Henshaw Tony Wohlfarth is an Ottawa-based plays the role of Jack Friar, and he freelance film writer. is joined by David Johns as Roberts. Both Henshaw and Johns deliver outstanding acting performances in The Keeper. I am not a soccer fan. I was not aware of the true story behind The Actor David Kross plays Bert Trautmann in The Keeper. Trautmann was a Keeper. In real life, Bert Trautmann German soldier and POW who later played soccer for Manchester City from was a German POW, who stayed 1949 to 1964.

A flavourful, bright brew with a hint of scouting and friendship! By David Zyla develop youth into well-rounded, more resilient individuals. Buy great coffee and support scouts Scout coffee is fair trade, certified here in OOS and across Canada. organic and roasted right here in Every year, Scouts Canada’s Ottawa by Equator Coffee Roasters. fundraising campaigns help support You can take a look at all the delicious groups in their scouting adventures coffee blends at: scoutcoffee.ca and provide funds for the No One To support the Old Ottawa South Left Behind campaign which aims to scouts, please select “17th Ottawa remove economic barriers for youth Southminster Scouts” at checkout. and families wishing to participate This Fundraiser started October 12 and in scouting. Every young person ends November 15, 2020. deserves to experience the world of Thank you for your support! fun, friendship and self-development scouting offers. The Scout Coffee David Zyla is a cub leader with the Fundraiser allows scouting groups to 17th Southminster Scouts. enhance their programming to help

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DESIGN DILEMMAS Bathroom renovation By Vanessa Riddell This created more floor space in the room as the 30” wide tub was moved This summer I was involved in a further back towards the wall instead challenging bathroom renovation. of leaving a large gap there. The design dilemma; how to renovate The sink remained where it was a dated bathroom with an awkward but was upgraded to a larger one layout, that also lacked counter and with more counter space as well as storage space for a family with 2 more style! Having pushed the tub teenage girls?! back there is also more room in front The awkward layout consisted of the sink. A larger mirror enlarges of an old claw-foot-tub with the the space and is more functional. plumbing located pretty much in The statement sconces added better the middle of the room. The layout lighting than just overhead lighting, wasn’t maximizing the space in this and are on a dimmer. The toilet was relatively small bathroom. There was also upgraded to a newer model with so much space behind the bathtub a closed base, which is much easier that the family’s cat would actually to clean. sleep behind the tub everyday for The plan included a tub shield. her nap! The homeowners wanted However, in order to protect the a better layout as well as a glass walls from potentially getting shower wall instead of the shower sprayed or damaged with water, I curtain. included subway tiles, at chair rail The homeowners also wanted height behind the shower. The tile to upgrade a pedestal sink with no then extends around the room behind counter space, the tiny medicine the sink and toilet. Extending the cabinet mirror, the linoleum flooring tile like this is functional, it creates a and the lack of storage. backsplash for the sink and the toilet, My design plan for this family but it’s also a nice design feature. moved the plumbing for the tub The hex floor tile was an initial to a wall of the bathroom, and request by the homeowner and is incorporating the window into the very cute and matches the era of the shower. The window was new and home perfectly. Many of the black vinyl so all that needed to be done elements in the bathroom were (Above) New tub with shower, (below) new storage shelves and sink. was to remove the window casing, chosen to work with this tile and it and then tile around it completely. was largely the jumping off point for

this project. The design plan moved the plumbing for the tub to a wall of the bathroom, Finally, as the renovation began, and incorporating the window into the shower. we realized that there was empty space in the bump out area to the left of the sink. This became a perfect spot to house baskets for each family member and good storage right next to the sink. The carpenter did a fantastic job! All in all a great renovation with happy homeowners!

Vanessa Riddell is the owner of SACHI, creating interior design plans, permit drawings and organizing renovations in OSS since 2010. For more information go to www.sachi.ca or email info@ sachi.ca or call 613-866-6604. (Right) Before photo of bathroom.

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Helping neighbours through a COVID-19 winter By Christine Franklin now is the time to prepare for the or when you next see them outside. they may be doing, err on the side of winter season. Take time to engage Alternatively, you may want to drop reaching out to them. Neighbourly Since March, we have seen our Old with your neighbours – particularly off a personal note in their mailbox. acts will make a real difference for Ottawa South community come those you suspect might be more For those who feel that they may others this winter. We have never together in a spirit of neighbourliness vulnerable in the winter months. need some assistance over the needed good neighbours as much as in response to the COVID-19 Consider focusing your attention on winter, don’t be reluctant to ask, as we do now. pandemic. Individuals have been one or two neighbours. Check to see neighbours want to help. This is what connecting with their neighbours if you have their contact information it means to be in community with Christine Franklin is a resident of to see how they are faring. and whether they would like each other. Old Ottawa South and one of the Community pillar organizations, regular calls over the winter. This is We will need to look out for one co-founders of iGenOttawa which including OSCA and churches, especially important for those who another this winter. If you see poor is launching a Good Neighbours have made commendable pivots to are not connected online. Perhaps plowing on your walking routes, be Ottawa campaign to promote the a virtual environment, including there might be interest in setting up a the one who calls 311 to report it. If need to engage with neighbours this new programming and supports. phone tree, where you regularly call a neighbour’s walkway has remained winter. Local businesses have implemented two neighbours to ask how they are uncleared and you are not sure how creative approaches in response doing. Maybe then those two people to physical distancing measures. might consider calling two people, Artwork and messages – taped to and so on. This long-established Good Neighbours Checklist phone tree model can be a simple living room windows, attached to ✔︎ Is there anyone you know nearby who might be in need of trees, or drawn on sidewalks – have way for people to provide care and some neighbourly support this winter due to COVID-19? inspired hope. attention, and to feel connected with ✔︎ Consider ways you could support them, such as: Last year, Senior Watch Old others. • picking up groceries and other essential supplies (e.g., Ottawa South (SWOOS) and In terms of practical help, there are prescriptions) iGenOttawa had done some initial lots of ways to provide neighbourly • clearing snow from walkway assistance this winter, especially in planning for a neighbourhood • posting mail gathering this autumn with the poor weather: • picking up groceries and • walking a dog theme, “Get Ready for Winter.” The • helping with technology questions event would have brought together other essential supplies (e.g. Reach out via phone, email, or a personal note in their mailbox. residents of all ages to discuss prescriptions); ✔︎ practical challenges, such as winter • clearing snow from walkway and ✔︎ Once you have connected, check in regularly to see how they walkability, and to brainstorm front steps; are doing. about ideas for encouraging and • posting mail; and ✔︎ For those who may need assistance, don’t be reluctant to ask. maintaining connections in the colder • walking pets. People want to help. months. Little did we know at the time that such a fall gathering at the For those of us who are able to Good neighbours could make a world of difference this winter. Firehall would not be possible. help, you could raise this issue with As we enjoy these autumn days, neighbours in a phone call, email

Seniors in Conversation: New holiday schedule By Paige Kahkonen Each ‘conversation’ takes place on • November 10th - Jesse Smith please do so by going to www. Tuesday morning from 10:15 am- from Connected Canadians to trinityottawa.ca and clicking on the Christmas has come early! Or at 11:30 am, and has a variety of guest talk about accessing government ‘donate’ link. least for the participants of ‘Seniors speakers who lead each session, and services online If you are interested in becoming in Conversation’ because Reaching discuss a variety of topics tailored to • November 17th - Breanna Pizzuto included in this service or want to Seniors in Old Ottawa South (RSOOS) the participants. from Talk Tools to continue the participate in these ‘conversations’ has just released the schedule for their The program is available for anyone conversation on coping during on Tuesdays, or our bi-weekly Friday upcoming speakers and topics until the interested, you just need to register via COVID-19 Conversations, please email holiday season! email to receive the Zoom link each • November 24th - To be [email protected] or call 613- ‘Seniors in Conversation’ is an week. determined 733- 7536. You can also find us on Interactive Speaker Series, encouraging Our upcoming schedule is as • December 1st - Rev. Dr. Anthony Facebook, at @HealthyAgeingOS. older adults to establish an online follows: Bailey to speak on systemic We can also provide you with a link presence, to become more comfortable • November 3rd - Comedian racism to Connected Canadians to help you using Zoom while staying connected Heather Hurst joins us for a light- • December 8th - David Brennan, Zoom. during isolation. hearted conversation Ottawa storyteller • December 15th - Christmas party Paige Kahkonen is a Carleton • (‘Seniors in Conversation’ will not Journalism student who does meet December 22nd and 29th) communications for RSOOS. • January 5th, 2021 - Connected Canadians returns

RSOOS is also continuing to Seniors in Conversation hold their bi-weekly Friday Coffee Conversations, which will take place on Zoom Our office is here for you with: on November 6th, November 20th Tuesday 10:15 am-11:30 am and December 18. This series does not Monthly Town Halls • November 3rd - Conversation Canvasses require any registration! RSOOS is made possible by ‘New with comedian Heather Hurst Community Organizing • November 10th - Accessing Help Accessing Government Horizons for Seniors’ a grant program Services (such as housing, established by the federal government. government services online with ODSP/OW, healthcare, OSAP To continue the program, we are Jesse Smith etc.) asking participants and members of • November 17th - coping during And more! the community to consider making COVID-19 with Breanna Pizzuto a donation to help us ensure the • November 24th - To be longevity of the program, and continue determined P: 613-722-6414 109 Catherine St. / rue Catherine E: [email protected] these weekly conversations. If you MPP / Député provincial, Ottawa, ON K2P 0P4 www.joelharden.ca Ottawa Centre wish to make a donation to RSOOS, The OSCAR l November 2020 Page 25

Neighbours helping neighbours: Investigating social barriers for seniors living in OOS as a Result of COVID-19 limitations By Dawson Clark, Neda training, awareness of opportunities, technology, and their experience there is some burden on the Fayazi, and Pascale Juneau lack of confidence, and a lack of with community programming/ senior population. The desire desire to engage virtually. organizations. Through the analysis and ability exist for the creation

In meetings with several Old of these conversations, we made of senior-specific outreach. Still, In March 2020, many communities Ottawa South organizations, several recommendations for organizations are hesitant to act began introducing lockdown including SWOOS, OSCA, Trinity community organizations. Of most without knowledge of interest procedures in response to the Anglican Church, Southminster import within Old Ottawa South is or input on the part of seniors COVID-19 pandemic. Citizens United Church, Sunnyside Wesleyan strong communication lines between in the community. If you would were asked to stay home when Church, The Ottawa Public Library, the community’s pillars because like to see something, we urge possible and avoid seeing their and the offices of Councillor Shawn coordinated and considered outreach you to reach out to any of the friends, family, and colleagues Menard and MPP Joel Harden, we strategies are more likely to be organizations mentioned. Chances for an indeterminate amount of began to understand their efforts to successful. This may prevent issues are, they’d love your input! time. During the early weeks of surmount these barriers and reach such as information overload or Finally, the authors would like to the lockdown, there was a lot of seniors within the community. It was conflicting information. The rest of extend our heartfelt thanks to the uncertainty about the duration clear to us that these organizations our recommendations are: community as a whole. Thank you of these measures. Thus, many were working hard to serve their • Keep seniors well informed for allowing us into your meetings, questions arose about the impact of community. Still, due to the urgency of organizations re-opening churches, homes and public these measures on citizens’ physical of the situation, they did not have procedures. spaces. It was a life-changing and mental health. the luxury of time to thoroughly • Offer programs that consider opportunity for us, and we are Simultaneously, we, the members investigate the situation. We could different levels of skill and excited to see what comes next! of the Research and Education assist in our own way, taking the varying interests within the To see the SWOOS video, go in Accessibility, Design and time to explore and analyze how senior population. to: https://mediaspace.carleton. Innovation (READi) program, outreach was being conducted in • Encourage intergenerational ca/media/SWOOS+Video. were working with Seniors Watch the community and how seniors felt connections by offering mp4/1_6bgtkzvp Old Ottawa South (SWOOS) on a about it. opportunities for mutually different project related to winter We designed two sets of beneficial relationships. walkability. Due to the pandemic, interviews for this analysis: One • Provide technical support and Dawson Clark, Neda Fayazi, we determined, with SWOOS, interview guide for community education through familiar and Pascale Juneau are student that we should look at how the organizations, and another for people, and providing training members of the Research and pandemic may be affecting seniors community members. Participants to willing community members Education in Accessibility, Design in the community. It was not lost were recruited with the help of to increase the number of and Innovation (READi) program on us that much of our day-to- SWOOS. Each interview was ‘familiar’ people. at Carleton University. day lives had been transitioned to designed to take around 30 minutes. • Starting small can have a virtual spaces. Virtual activities with Representatives from the community significant impact on the distanced friends and family had organizations were asked about their community. replaced face-to-face interaction community programming efforts, • Facilitating in-person almost entirely. Some seniors lessons learned when reaching out services and programs while may be facing barriers to virtual to seniors, and how COVID-19 had maintaining the proper physical connection. The concern was they impacted their outreach. Community distance can help with the would become increasingly isolated members were asked about their transition to virtual experiences. and face challenges due to long-term personal experience during the isolation. These barriers included pandemic, their level of comfort/ While the recommendations are access to the internet, technology desire regarding virtual meeting aimed primarily at organizations,

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The city has installed twelve new bike racks at Hopewell Avenue Public School.

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ABBOTSFORD AT THE GLEBE CENTRE In person, when we can By Julie Ireton Virtual programming continues Abbotsford continues to offer virtual After months of exercising in the exercise programs for older adults with isolation of their own homes, via access to tablets, smartphones and the Zoom, several Abbotsford members internet. were eager to meet up at Lansdowne Those classes include aerobics, Park to work out in the bright, safe dance, stretch, strength training and expanse of the Horticulture Building yoga and meditation. with legendary exercise instructor, Beyond physical fitness programs, Joseph Cull. many seniors are embracing the virtual “He’s everyone’s favorite and we’re watercolour and sketching classes, so lucky to have him,” said Pat Smart. conversational Spanish, device training She and many members have missed and book club chats. their regular drop-ins to Abbotsford “This will bode well for them at the Glebe Centre, across from as winter approaches,” said Karen Lansdowne. Anne Blakely, director of community In fact, Smart admits she’s been programs at Abbotsford. avoiding exercise since the pandemic Blakely notes that the closure of in- was declared in March, but now she’s person adult day programs has been pleased to have the option of an in- difficult for both clients and caregivers, person class. but some are participating in Zoom “It made me feel so much stronger programs throughout the week. and straighter. Everybody was so glad These one-hour programs include to be there.” seated exercise, trivia questions, music, Forced isolation due to concerns themed activities and discussions. over COVID-19 has been particularly “As well, program facilitators are In-person Abbotsford exercise classes in the Horticultural Building before difficult for seniors who’ve been told visiting clients on driveways and COVID-19 numbers forced the City to shut them down. to take precautions to avoid contracting porches, walking in the neighbourhood PHOTO BY PATRICIA GOYECHE the virus. being socially distanced and wearing For many, that’s meant avoiding any masks and delivering individualized Snow Go Julie Ireton is a journalist with kind of group activities. activity kits to the clients homes to help For seniors who aren’t looking the CBC, a lecturer at Carleton “It’s relaxing and social and I think keep clients active and engaged,” said forward to digging out the snow University and a resident of the we need that. It’s good for the soul,” Blakely. shovels, some city of Ottawa programs Glebe. said Smart. A telephone meditation program may be able to help. “Joseph was wearing a skirt and helps seniors remain calm and focus on ‘Snow Go’ refers seniors and adults Abbotsford is your Seniors Active using a pool noodle to illustrate the 2 relaxation and more than 40 volunteers with disabilities to contractors who Living Centre for Adults 55+. Find metre distance between participants. It continue to regularly call 330 seniors have passed a screening test, are out more about our services by was brilliant.” for wellness checks, to help those properly registered and insured. telephoning 613-230-5730 during Unfortunately, the increase in suffering from the loneliness brought Some senior clients with disabilities regular business hours or by COVID-19 cases put a ‘hold’ on the on by isolation. and or low income may also quality for checking out all of The Glebe Centre in-person classes. They hope to resume Abbotsford staff follow up to make the city’s Snow Go Assist program facilities and community programs sometime in November. sure seniors have access to the help that will reimburse up to $250 on the on our website www.glebecentre.ca they need, according to Blakely. cost of their snow removal.

MAYOR’S REPORT Housing to build approximately 40 affordable housing units for Supporting our veterans and their Veterans at the Rockcliffe Air Base); and families in our community • Enhancing 2nd career opportunities for veterans and By Jim Watson, Mayor Task Force’s key objectives are the their family. following: A year ago, Council appointed • Championing the cause of helping I look forward to working with Deputy Mayor Matthew Luloff as veterans living in our community Councillor Luloff, the Task Force City Council’s Liaison for Veteran who are experiencing challenges and our strategic partners in the years and Military Issues. As a former with their transition to civilian ahead to deliver projects, facilitate member of the Canadian Forces life; access to resources and promote the men and women who have having served in Afghanistan in • Advocating for our veterans and opportunities for those who have sacrificed so much for the freedom 2008 with the 2nd Battalion Princess their family, particularly those not served, and continue to serve our we enjoy today – some giving the Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, supported by entities (i.e. Veterans great country. I firmly believe that ultimate sacrifice. This year, on the it was clear that Councillor Luloff Affairs Canada) to receive the creation of this Task Force will 75th anniversary of Armistice Day, would be the perfect representative complete and appropriate health help foster the inclusive environment the Royal Canadian Legion has to solidify the City’s important care, including case management that active members, veterans and planned a more intimate ceremony relationship with the 23,000 active services and working with the their families truly deserve. due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The service members and more than Province to ensure they have For more information on the Task Legion’s Poppy Campaign continues 53,000 veterans and their families access to a family doctor on a Force and the Liaison’s role, please to run this year from October 30 to living in Ottawa. priority basis; visit www.ottawa.ca Councillor Luloff will co-chair the • Making housing more affordable November 11. Visit www.legion.ca and click on ‘find-a-branch’ to locate newly created Veterans Task Force, and easier to secure for veterans P.S. Every year on November 11, poppies near you. responsible for developing a culture and their family dealing with Canadians gather around the National of supporting our veterans and their financial precarity. (In fact, the War Memorial in downtown Ottawa families in our community. The City is partnering with Multifaith and across the country to honour The OSCAR l November 2020 Page 27

MP’S REPORT The health and economic response to COVID-19 By Catherine McKenna, MP NATIONAL UPDATES LOCAL UPDATES

The last few months have been very There are several new programs Affordable housing challenging with the resurgence and modified existing programs that In September, I was joined by of COVID-19 numbers in Ottawa. will help support residents of Ottawa Minister Hussen to make an exciting This is challenging for individuals, Centre. announcement for Ottawa. We organizations, businesses and the • Canada Recovery Sickness Benefit announced the largest investment ever community overall. I want to thank will provide two one-week periods in affordable housing in our city’s everyone for following public health of benefits history. This $167.9 million investment advice, supporting local businesses and • Canada Recovery Caregiving in Ottawa Community Housing for Area XO for supporting each other especially our Benefit provides 26 weeks of three sites on Gladstone Ave., will As Ottawans know already, Ottawa most vulnerable. benefits create 698 affordable, energy efficient is Canada’s tech hub with an ecosystem I am in constant contact with Vera • Canada Recovery Benefit provides units while creating 2,600 jobs. We of established and start up technology Etches and Ottawa Public Health, the 13 two-week periods of benefits are committed to tackling the housing companies. I joined Minister Joly, Mayor and local councillors, local and homelessness crisis in Ottawa Mayor Watson and Invest Ottawa community and business organizations The federal government has also including working with the city on to announce a $7 million federal and others to look at how we can introduced a new Canada Emergency modular housing and the possibility of investment through FedDev Ontario help support the health and economic Rent Subsidy which responds to acquiring hotels. to help launch Invest Ottawa’s Area response to COVID-19. concerns including from businesses XO, a world class facility to develop Through the Safe Restart Agreement, in Ottawa Centre about challenges LRT and test autonomous vehicles. This will we’ve invested over $5 billion in accessing rent support through Another exciting update was when support the next generation of digital Ontario. This includes $2.3 billion landlords. The new rent subsidy I was joined by Mayor Watson and infrastructure and help to grow our towards Testing, Contact Tracing and will provide easy-to-access rent and others to break ground on the start regional economy, drive innovation, PPE, $287 million for vulnerable mortgage support until June 2021 for of the construction for Stage 2 of the and create good local jobs. communities and $1 billion towards qualifying organizations. LRT. Our government recognizes the Public Transit. Below I note some The Canada Emergency Wage critical role of public transit in getting A reminder that I am here with of the new programs to support Subsidy has been extended until June essential workers and employees to my staff to support you. If you need individuals and businesses through 2021 and will continue to protect jobs and from work and children to school. any help navigating federal support COVID-19. by helping businesses keep employees Notably 77% of Ottawa residents will programs, please reach out. You can on the payroll and encourage live within 5 km of the LRT, and Stage email us at: Catherine.McKenna@parl. employers to re-hire their workers. 2 will reduce greenhouse gas emissions gc.ca or call us at 613-996-5322. An expanded Canada Emergency by 110,000 tonnes, helping to get cars We are going through very hard Business account will enable off the roads. times. We will get through this businesses, and not-for-profits eligible pandemic and emerge stronger by for CEBA loans to access an interest- supporting each other and working free loan of up to $20,000, in addition together. to the original CEBA loan of $40,000.

MPP’S REPORT To keep everyone safe, we need paid sick days By Joel Harden, MPP At the time of writing, the federal As Naini Cloutier from Somerset government has announced a West Community Health Centre On September 22nd, in the midst temporary paid sick day program, the notes, 66 percent of COVID-19 of rising COVID-19 positive Canada Recovery Sickness Benefit cases are in low income, racialized cases, Ottawa Public Health (OPH) (CRSB), that has passed the House of communities, where folks are more invoked a self-isolation order for Commons and is awaiting approval likely to hold precarious jobs without people demonstrating symptoms of COVID-19. Those who don’t comply could be fined $5000 per day. “We also need the province to fill in This is a serious matter. For months we worked hard to flatten the gaps in coverage that the CRSB on the Premier to help me pass it the curve, but now we must ensure without delay, because no one should that commitment holds fast. Dr. Vera will leave by implementing a made-in- have to choose between public health Etches and the OPH team are making and financial health. this clear, and I’m thankful for their Ontario paid sick day plan.” If you need paid sick days, or leadership. if you know someone who does, Having said that, consider the tell them to contact us at jharden- awful choice facing people right [email protected]. We will make sure now without sick day protection at in the Senate. This is happening in paid sick days. Like personal support their story is heard by the Ford work. For months, we have insisted no small part thanks to the efforts of workers, cleaners, or grocery clerks. Government. that Ontario create a paid sick day federal NDP leader Jagmeet Singh, These folks, Premier Ford says, program so people can stay home, who made paid sick leave a key are our “heroes,” but they don’t have and avoid spreading the virus. demand in his negotiations with the his support when it matters. This is But as per his habit, Premier Ford Trudeau government. unacceptable. We need paid sick days waited for the federal government While this is an important step, to stay home right now. to act. The government he leads has not everyone will be covered by the That’s why I’ve introduced a done nothing to expand sick day CRSB in all circumstances. We also motion at the Ontario Legislature to protection. In fact, his legacy was need the province to fill in the gaps in introduce a provincial paid sick days to strip away the minimal two paid coverage that the CRSB will leave by program accessible to everyone not sick days enacted by the previous implementing a made-in-Ontario paid covered by the federal government government. sick day plan. paid sick leave program. I’m calling Page 28 The OSCAR l November 2020

TASTY TIDBITS FROM TRILLIUM BAKERY The bowl By Jocelyn LeRoy I was hooked. My lifelong love of The count each evening rarely them into piles with my fingers was making bread was born in the burly matched the morning count of little my pleasure; my grandchildren loved It is a hollowed out bowl from the bowl. critters. I was obliged to release all to stir and sort them for years on end. gnarly old tree behind my parent’s log Sadly, in time my mother’s the specimens each night before I I think it is the palpable portion of cabin in Algonquin Park. My father dedication to making bread waned. went to bed. Often a small snake or nature, touching it till you know it – chiseled it away from the tree trunk, The good part was that I could begin toad showed up under a chair or in know their energy, bringing serenity for carved around the knots and smoothed secretly collecting my favourite things someone’s shoe. Sometimes we never the mind. the sides, producing a shapely bowl. in the whole world, and using my bowl found the missing creatures. These days my bowl sits upon a The edges were of rugged bark which to keep them safe. To this day I still look into my polished seat in a half-a-canoe shelf my made a handsome frame. He then shoes before I put my feet inside. brother made for my recent birthday. rubbed tung oil into the bowl, until it Once, an elegant bug peered out The seventy-three-year-old canoe from began to reveal exquisite patterns in “At the end of my from my moccasin, in my city living my youth, the half that’s not covering the grain. The knotty parts took on the room! Stone houses tend to harbour the woodpile, has moved into my colour of maple syrup, and the lighter 50th year I took up millipedes, which I deemed ‘elegant’ to living room with all its memories of sleek curves, the luster of honey. stem my fear of them, the only million- my childhood – bread in the bowl, I remember how heavy it felt when rock collecting with legged unwanted residents, who, after sparkling lakes, star-filled skies. Life my father placed it in my arms. “Here’s all, were there over a hundred years in the log cabin. The canoe shelf has your burly bowl my girl, for your secret a less whimsical before the Boomers moved in. become a work of art. treasures.” He knew I was already Salamanders moved out, and Here it sits, top shelf, in a small collecting beetles and other interesting commitment than clamshells moved into the bowl. Their but real aura of splendour, inspiration insects, and my penchant for studying pearly shimmers swirled under the light for our forty-year-old bakery and rocks, shells, and the like. It was my all my other treasure of the kerosene lamp. everlasting love of real bread, and seventh birthday. gatherings.” Later pine cones, trip souvenirs, love many of life’s joys. My mother, an accomplished baker, letters – feathers, and unfinished poems in particular her excellent bread, tried had done time in my burly bowl. My bowl overfloweth. out my bowl. She placed the dough in At the end of my 50th year I took up My burly beautiful bowl! it and set it to rise by a sunny window, rock collecting with a less whimsical while I watched, poking the growing Each morning after sitting up in bed commitment than all my other treasure Jocelyn LeRoy is the owner of ball gingerly, dreaming of making and rubbing the sleep from my eyes, I gatherings. Trillium Bakery in Old Ottawa South bread all by myself. reached under my bed for the bowl that Today, my collection is a colourful since 1980. Indeed, I became inspired, impelled now held my prized possessions. bowlful of gemstones and small rocks. by the sharp scent of yeast raising the The first inhabitants of the burly Each has its own feel; the weight, bread, then mellowing to a comforting bowl were salamanders – a move up roughness, smoothness; the lines, aroma wafting through the house while from their glass jars. Into the bowl I shadows, energy. They draw me in. it baked in the oven. When my mother put a rotten half log and moss for them Some spend time in my pockets for a opened the oven door, a blast of hot air to burrow under, hopefully feeling less few days. No real reason, no academic shot out and the aroma intensified. displaced from their natural home. labelling or categorizing. Shovelling

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CARLETON CORNER Carleton University is continuing to computer science departments among non-credit lectures and workshops, health guidelines. From Monday serve our students and the community undergraduates, graduate students already underway online at Carleton through Sunday, these walking tours by offering the majority of our classes and faculty, and discuss successful University. usually take about 1.5 hours and are and services online. We invite everyone strategies to address this issue. For New six-week series on jazz, led by current Carleton students. in the Ottawa community to join us for full details and to register please visit: memoir-writing, and a physics- Please visit carleton.ca/tours for more these online events and other activities science.carleton.ca/events/herzberg- informed exploration of time begin the information. And if you can’t make it being offered in the fall term. lecture. week of Nov. 2. You’ll definitely want to campus, we’ve still got you covered! to tune in for a post-election analysis Visit our virtual tour at carleton.ca/ Science Café Author Meets Readers of the American election (Nov. 6), a virtualtour. Explore science through Carleton Carleton’s Faculty of Public of musical history and travelogue of the University’s popular Science Café Affairs invites you to our Author Meets ukulele (Nov. 19), and a consideration Carleton Athletics series! You are invited to join us Readers event on Nov. 26 from 7 pm of Canadian literature narratives of Our athletics department has online for a lively discussion around a to 8:30 pm. Prof. James Meadowcroft dependency and care in older age (Nov. changed its offerings in light of scientific issue of the day. Be prepared and a panel will discuss his latest 20). Ontario’s modified Stage 2 order. We to be informed, engaged and even book, Conceptual Innovation in Participants can also contribute to invite you to visit our website for more amused, as our professors share their Environmental Policy, via Zoom. research projects and archives. See information: athletics.carleton.ca. scientific discoveries with you. All are Meadowcroft’s research is focused details, register, join our mailing The good news is that you can keep welcome to join us via Zoom webinar. on the ways in which governments are list and buy gift certificates through moving with online group fitness Visit the Science Café website at adjusting their practices and policies the Learning in Retirement (LinR) classes from Carleton Athletics! We science.carleton.ca/events/science-cafe in order to cope with the emergence program (open to all adults, and have lots of classes to choose from, for more information on upcoming of problems of the environment and celebrating our 20th anniversary!): including our Senior Ravens program online events and to sign up for our sustainable development. His book www.carleton.ca/linr, 613-520-3699. which focuses on fitness specifically newsletter, or contact the Faculty focuses on concepts and their role in for those ages 60 and above. In of Science by email at odscience@ the evolution of modern environmental Virtual Open House addition, our pool remains available carleton.ca and by telephone at 613- policy, ranging from “environment” to Interested in learning more about for lane swims for Carleton Athletics 520-4388. “sustainable consumption.” To register undergraduate programs at Carleton members. go to carleton.ca/fpa scroll down to University? Join us for our Virtual Fall Herzberg Lecture ‘Events’ and click on ‘Conceptual Open House! On Nov. 7, learn more Join us via Zoom webinar on Nov. Innovation in Environmental Policy.’ about the Faculty of Arts and Social Carleton Corner is written by Carleton 18, 2020 for Carleton University’s Sciences, the Faculty of Public Affairs University’s Department of University annual Herzberg Lecture. This year Lifelong learning at Carleton and the Faculty of Science. Find out Communications. As your community we are honoured to host Maria Klawe, University more and register at: carleton.ca/ university, Carleton has many exciting president of Harvey Mudd College, Adults of all ages can join us in openhouse. events of interest to OOS. For more who will present ‘Increasing Diversity a supported online environment information about upcoming events, in Computer Science at All Levels.’ to interact with fascinating topics, Campus tours available please go to carleton.ca/events. In this lecture, Klawe will explore dynamic experts, and each other. Campus tours of Carleton why participation by women and Lifelong learners are invited to University’s beautiful riverside campus people of colour remains low in most explore our interactive and affordable are running in adherence to public

COMPUTER TRICKS AND TIPS too old. The success of the COVID- Contact Compu-Home at 613-731- COVID-Alert app The app is small and simple; it Alert app so far has been modest 5954 to discuss this column, share contains only very few screens and is which is perhaps not surprising your opinions and suggest subjects extremely easy to understand and to considering the short-sighted neglect for future columns. Our email By Malcolm and John use. of more Canadians to adopt it. address is [email protected] Harding, of Compu-Home A more enthusiastic acceptance and our website (under revision) is What will it do? would obviously make a significant www.compu-home.com. Early this summer, Ontario adopted the When your phone accompanies you contribution in our efforts to stay COVID-Alert app, which had recently in your daily activities it senses the healthy and save lives. been developed and introduced by presence of other phones with the app, the Government of Canada. Currently and they yours. If at some later time there are reports that our adoption of an owner of one of those phones tests the app – including in Ontario – has positive for the COVID-19 virus and been disappointing, with just over three enters that fact into their app, the million Canadians having deployed system anonymously alerts all of the it and some provinces and territories users who have been in proximity not yet on board at the time of writing. with the positive person and they are There has been some criticism that advised to arrange to be tested. advertising of the app has been inadequate and has not clarified its What will it not do? safety and capabilities, or even that it The app is not recording or exists in the first place. transmitting where your phone has been, and there is never a record What is it? of anything about you personally COVID-Alert is a free application – not your name, the day or time (app) that is compatible with Apple of your proximity to the positive and Android smartphones and not person, or the location where the computers or tablets. It is found and exposure occurred. The app does downloaded onto your smartphone not make use of GPS technology from the App Store (Apple) and the and is incapable of tracing your Google Play Store (Android). Phones whereabouts, now or in the past. You with older operating systems may and all other users of the app remain not be able to run the app, although absolutely anonymous and there is its publishers have been making it no possibility of any compromise to compatible with progressively older anyone’s data, security, or privacy. machines and so it may be worth a look The app does not offer any medical even if you have been told that yours is advice. Page 30 The OSCAR l November 2020

MUSIC Singing in the pandemic By Janice Manchee allowing time for us to try out various segments in the privacy of our home. Singing releases those feel-good Our goal was for each member to endorphins. It exercises your lungs submit an individual recording of their and tones your abs, intercostal muscles part by early May. These would then be and the diaphragm. It makes you feel mixed together by a sound engineer to energized and uplifted. Singing is an create a virtual performance. all around great thing. Not that you Some members faced technological have to tell that to members of Rideau challenges. To ensure your part fit with Chorale. everyone else’s, each member had to Singing in choirs is also a very play a pre-recorded accompaniment Canadian thing. Choral Canada through headphones from one piece of reported that 3.5 million people sang equipment, while recording yourself on in choirs in 2017. Three times more another. children sang in choirs than played And what a humbling experience hockey and there were 50% more that was. Choirs are designed to help adult choral singers than adult hockey members strengthen and support one players. We’re keeners, eh? another. A bit off the note? Someone As the pandemic tightened its grip else will pull you back on. Slowing earlier this year, our Board wasn’t sure down? Someone else will help you Roland Graham, director of Rideau Chorale, and Carson Becke, we’d be able to continue this great keep up. Doing it on your own? Every accompanist, preparing to lead participants at Venturing Hills Farm. Canadian activity. We were deep into mistake and weakness is recorded for PHOTO BY ELIZABETH TROMP Bach’s very challenging Mass in B posterity. Minor with the intent of performing it To top it all off, none of us had hair mouths flap – usually in time. by the family of Rideau Chorale in May. Clearly that was not going to and makeup people and there were While we still plan to perform the accompanist Carson Becke. happen. no filters to soften our often fiercely Bach Mass at a later date, for our We self-distanced and worked on the Particularly worrisome were the concentrated looks. fall 2020 season we’ve turned our Requiem and then just spent some time reports of illness and death in choirs But we did it and if you’d like to hear attention to A German Requiem by joining our voices together in song. around the world. Mount Vernon’s the results it’s available via our website Johannes Brahms. Like Bach’s Mass, To our amusement, several horses Skagit Valley Chorale reported 52 (www.rideauchorale.org) then just click the Requiem was written over Brahms’ frequently joined in with huffs and of 61 members ill and two dead by on ‘concerts.’ life. His grief over the death of fellow whinnies. mid-March. That same month the We’ve since moved to Zoom, which composer Robert Schumann in 1856 Rideau Chorale’s vision is to Amsterdam Mixed Choir reported is a more interactive platform. We can and that of his mother in 1865 inspired promote and present beautiful pieces 103 of 130 members falling ill and a see and hear each other. We can chat a number of pieces. of music to the community while we number of deaths. They weren’t alone. and ask questions. But we still can’t The Requiem itself demonstrates work together to develop our musical So… what were we to do? Stop sing together. Everyone has different Brahms’ skill in counterpoint and abilities. We intend to stay true to singing? No. Like most of our fellow systems, providers and connections, so rhythm. Some commentators have this vision for however long we must choirs, we figured out how we could the feeds are not in sync. It would just been surprised by the lack of Christian remain distant from one another. continue to make music – safely. be cacophony. content in the Requiem, but others note After a brief shut down, our practices But still our practices have moments that Brahms saw this as a humanist resumed via Facebook Live, which where they feel like rehearsals. rather than Christian work. Janice Manchee sings tenor with only allows live streamed presentation. Imagine: A screen filled with individual In mid-September, a group of choir Rideau Chorale. Information about It is not interactive. Rideau Chorale tiles of singers. Each person stares members met at the Venturing Hills Rideau Chorale and its virtual and Director Roland Graham would lead intently off screen, likely at their music Farm in Luskville. This beautiful upcoming performances can be found warm ups and then talk us through – but maybe at their dog or at nothing equestrian park nestles beside the at rideauchorale.org. various pieces from our repertoire, in particular. Brows furrow, heads nod, Gatineau escarpment and is owned

HEALTH AND WELLNESS Why is my calf aching? By Susan Reive walk and often have no symptoms PAD is a serious condition that can essential. unless they walk a specific distance. lead to ischemia (lack of oxygenated Calf pain with walking should be Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD) is a Repeated heel raises will sometimes blood in the tissues and therefore tissue evaluated by a medical professional to condition in which the arteries become reproduce the pain but only if the blood death). Indeed, with PAD, sores will diagnose, rule out serious pathology, narrowed (usually due to plaques flow demand of the muscle is not met. I take a long time to heal and amputation and provide effective treatment. forming on the vessel walls, a condition usually will have the patient walk until may be necessary when the tissue called atherosclerosis) and therefore do the symptoms start and then check their develops gangrene. In addition to Susan Reive, a certified not supply do not supply enough blood pulses. The pulses are diminished or taking a thorough physical exam and physiotherapist, is the owner of to the tissue. absent in PAD, sometimes even at rest. checking pulses, diagnosis is confirmed Kilborn Physiotherapy Clinic. It can occur anywhere in the body The differential diagnosis would by doppler ultrasound imaging to but often people with PAD will be calf pain due to a muscle strain check the blood flow in the vessels and/ complain of leg pain when walking. or a blood clot. With a calf muscle or angiography where a dye is injected Indeed they will often report that the injury there is usually a history of into the blood vessel to view blood pain starts at a specific distance. If they trauma. Furthermore, a patient with flow. stop walking and stand still the pain a calf muscle strain would have Treatment depends on the extent of disappears only to start again once they immediate pain on a heel raise, notable the PAD. Medication to dilate the blood start walking, and usually at the same weakness, pain on palpation, and pain vessels and thin the blood will often be ADVERTISE distance. When the narrowed arteries on stretching. People with PAD don’t used to help deliver more blood to the IN THE fail to deliver enough blood, calf pain usually have these symptoms. Blood tissues and prevent blood clots. Surgery ensues. In addition to pain in the calf clots could also cause calf pain, but is sometimes necessary if the blood OSCAR muscles, symptoms include cramping, there is usually pain at rest, swelling flow is seriously reduced (angioplasty contact oscarads@ weakness in the muscles, coldness in and redness. or bypass surgery). oldottawasouth.ca the foot, discolouration of the affected Risk factors of developing PAD But prevention is key to avoiding limb, hair loss, and erectile dysfunction include high cholesterol, obesity, age PAD. Exercise, eating a healthy diet in men. On examination, patients will of over 50, and family history of PAD. low in fat, and stopping smoking are The OSCAR l November 2020 Page 31

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AROUND TOWN La Leche League Canada has a group in OOS. Are you breastfeeding/ Meals on Wheels needs volunteers! Please consider joining our team this chestfeeding your baby? Are you pregnant and planning to breastfeed? fall. The program is very flexible, able to accommodate volunteers’ schedules A La Leche League meeting is a relaxed, supportive and non-judgmental and availability. Each delivery route only takes two hours to complete but place where you can meet other parents, learn about nursing your baby and makes a world of difference for every one of the clients. If you would like to ask questions. Meetings every second Tuesday of the month from 7:00 to become one of those friendly delivery volunteers brightening the day of an 8:30 pm. Next planned meeting, on Zoom, is November 10th. For more Ottawa senior, or if you or someone you know would benefit from receiving information call 613-238-5919 or go to www.lllc.ca Meals on Wheels, please call Meals on Wheels at 613-233-2424 or go to www.mealsonwheels-ottawa.org Ottawa Newcomers Club. Our club is a non-profit, social organization for women who have recently moved to this area (and those who have The Ottawa Public Library is offering lots of virtual programs for all ages! experienced a significant life change), and would like to meet new people of Full information (with ways to search by age, subject, and language) and similar interests by joining our many group activities. More information about registration go to biblioottawalibrary.ca and click on ‘Programs and events.’ us and what we do can be found on our website at: ottawanewcomersclub.ca or by contacting [email protected] Doors Open for Music at Southminster is back for a new fall season! This is a live-streaming event; to enjoy DOMS concerts remotely, visit Music at Kids’Help Phone. For those that may be looking for ways to help out and Southminster on Facebook or go to www.southminstermusic.com. volunteer with the current situation, while staying at home, the Kids’ Help Phone is in desperate need of volunteers to man its texting service. This is a vital resource for youth at anytime, but vulnerable youth are at heightened risk of seriously worsening mental health at this time. They have also extended their services to youth over 25 years old who are former youth in care (of our child welfare system) and are particularly vulnerable to social isolation. Please consider volunteering. You don’t need any experience and only have to commit to four hours per week. Go to kidshelpphone.ca and click on “Get Involved.”

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NOTES FROM THE GARDEN CLUB Tour of Riverwood Gardens and pushing the zone limits By Marilyn Whitaker riverwoodgardens.ca) to sustainably raise flowers, and create arrangements The Old Ottawa South Garden Club and decorations for a range of (OOSGC) continued its fall 2020 occasions and celebrations. In amongst programing with two special events wooded areas, they have created designed for the times: a tour of working gardens with a variety of the flower farm and a workshop at flowers along with hoops and shelters Riverwood Gardens; and a virtual for protection from the frost. The farm meeting with Mary Ann Van Berlo on has been the site for many weddings ‘Pushing the Zone Limits.’ though this year they have had to shift to more on-line orders. Riverwood Gardens On a sunny, late September morning, Amber Tiede is a trained floral people were welcomed at the farm designer who has had a lifelong by Amber. While pails of cut flowers passion for flowers. Four years ago, were set out at carefully spaced tables, she and her family bought a 19th people were encouraged to explore the century farmhouse near Osgoode and flower beds which stretched amongst Agapanthus or African Lily grows year around in Florida and California. established Riverwood Gardens (www. clearings in the woods and select additional items for their bouquets. ‘Blue Globe’ (Zone 6) is a deciduous bulb featuring lovely true blue flowers. Multi-coloured dahlias were at their that they have had growing particular peak, along with other fall flowers and plants have helped her decide whether grasses. In her demonstration, Amber to try them in her garden. quickly created a beautiful bouquet Mary Ann discussed nearly thirty of flowers, seed heads, herbs, and trees, shrubs and flowers and pointed branches with bronzy-purple leaves out some of the growing conditions from Diablo Ninebark shrubs. She which she has found are important to also discussed some of her sources for success. For example, Agapanthus Lily the seeds and plants which she uses. of the Nile or African Lily ‘Blue Globe’ People left feeling refreshed by the produces lovely blue flowers and lovely setting and beautiful plants as requires full sun and good drainage. well as inspired to consider some new She removed soil from the nursery plant varieties for their gardens. which had high levels of peat before putting these plants in her garden. Pushing the zone limits Similarly, good drainage is required Alstroemeria or Peruvian Lily is native to South America. The ‘Sweet Laura’ At the meeting in October, Master by Alstroemeria Lily of the Incas or variety is pictured here. PHOTOS BY MARY ANN VAN BERLO Gardener Mary Ann Van Berlo talked Peruvian Lily ‘Sweet Laura.’ Patience about her philosophy to plant selection, is needed in the spring with shrubs namely, “it’s-hardy-until-I-kill-it- such as Buddleia davidii Butterfly three-times.” She has welcomed many Bush and perennials such as Hibiscus visitors to her 2.4-acre garden on the moscheutos Rose of Sharon which St. Lawrence River, which is part of the can die to the ground over winter and 1000 Islands and Rideau Canal Garden then slowly start to grow and produce Trail and considered to be in Zone 5b. stunning flowers during the summer Growing the unusual, having and fall. a challenge, enjoying more plant For cheating the zone limits, Mary possibilities are some of the reasons Ann keeps some plants in tubs in the gardeners may try plants that do not summer and puts them into a cold normally grow in their area. Mary storage area for the winter. Also on her Ann explained how the zone limits list of tips is: planting in the spring so shown on tags for plant varieties are plants have more time to establish over based on hybridizers’ trials. These the growing season; buying smaller may not reflect, however, variables plants which can settle in and adjust to such as microclimates in some areas, the spot; selecting alpine plants which the vigour of particular seeds, reliable may be used to cool, harsh conditions; snow cover thanks to hedges and other considering plant placement for features or winter protection that some viewing especially as they may bloom gardeners may provide. Discussions later after a slow start. Some extra among gardeners as to what successes protection may be needed for their first winter. With Mary Ann’s suggestions for Canadian sources for seeds and plants, people were left considering a much wider selection of plants.

OOSGC will have its next virtual meeting on November 10 at 7 pm. Bruce Watkinson will share new and innovative ways of composting, which he considers the original recycling technology, as well as simple ways of capturing rainwater.

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IN THE GLEBE be used for our promotion and sold at the auction. St. Matthew’s Anglican Church in the Glebe: Ottawa artists Huibert van der Staay and Patti Davis have donated lovely paintings to the auction. Online auction Nov. 13-21 In addition, we have works by Etta Benjamin, Sydney Berne, Fred Brown, Alex Chowaniec, Bruce By Margret Brady Nankivell Heggweit, Ken Johns, Gordon MacKenzie and aquatints by Esperanza Perez-Martinez (1934-98), St. Matthew’s Anglican Church in the Glebe is who studied under Diego Rivera. Also included is a looking forward to its first-ever online auction. stunning trio of abstract photos paying homage to Art The auction will open for bids on Friday, Nov. Deco by local photographer Pam Mackenzie. 13, and close on Saturday, Nov. 21 at 4 pm. Many other items can be purchases such as an About 150 lots will be on offer – just in time for elegant Mexican “art deco”-style vase, a handsome Christmas shopping. Information about registration marine barometer clock and some very fine will be posted on the church’s website (www. handcrafted African baskets, a hand-carved African stmatthewsottawa.ca) game and tapestries. Items on offer will include Canadian and Money raised through the auction will support St. indigenous arts and crafts, antique and first edition Matthew’s projects, and the FACES refugee program books as well as mystery book collections curated and Cornerstone Housing for Women. by St. Matthew’s book expert Carolyn McMaster. Mystery boxes will include novels that won or were shortlisted for prestigious awards such as Margret Brady Nankivell is chair of St. Matthew’s the Scotiabank Giller prize, the Man Booker Prize fundraising committee. and the Pulitzer, as well as mystery boxes of great mysteries! St. Matthew’s parishioners will offer various entertainment options, such as a succulent Moroccan lamb shank dinner or Boeuf Bourguignon with St. Matthew’s Anglican wines to be delivered within the greater Ottawa area. One of the items being offered in the online Church in the Glebe Various baked items will be offered as well. auction for St. Matthew’s Anglican Church in the Sponsorships from Capital Home Hardware and Glebe, a painting entitled “Merlot Conversation” Online Auction McKeen Metro in the Glebe and Tracy Arnett Realty by Donna Lynd. PHOTO BY GORDON METCALFE Friday, Nov. 13 to Ltd. helped cover online auction costs. The auction will feature several travel certificates activity fees but are excellent value. Certificates Saturday, Nov. 21 at 4 pm from Elite Island Travel for accommodation at are for up to three rooms for a week to ten days, wonderful Caribbean and Panamanian resorts. The www.stmatthewsottawa.ca depending on the resort. booking deadline on these is generous and rooms The church is delighted that Ottawa artist Donna only need to be booked by Dec. 20, 2022 for travel Lynd donated a painting to the auction that will also well into 2023. Rooms are subject to daily food and

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ARTS AND CULTURE Kim Vose Jones: Cirque de-Vice By Maureen Korp then returned to take more. For the moment, the elephant is held in place Remember those stories you knew by a large gold anchor. An umbrella, as a child? Tales of the rabbits in the simply designed of black and white garden? The little bear? Maybe there stripes, is behind the red curtain. When were other stories you overheard as a it rains, all get wet. The ensemble is child, ones you were not supposed to entitled “Old Bet,” 2019. know. An idyllic tableau entitled Take a walk into “Cirque de-Vice,” “Candyland, The Sky is Falling,” 2018 now on view at the City Hall Art shows small children being bombarded Gallery. Artist Kim Vose Jones has by cotton candy – oh bliss! Really? created a collection of sculptural Are you sure? Look into the unicorn’s settings for marvelous creatures with mouth. What do you see there? And, tales to tell. then what happened? Entering the gallery, the first In another corner of the gallery, a ensemble one sees is “Merry-Go- golden pig stands atop a glittering, Round,” 2020. A big, beautiful, white pearl-bedecked column. Many have feathered swan is sleeping. Kim Vose made offerings here. At the base of Jones entitled this sculpture, “Swann’s the column, is a plate well filled with Way,” 2020. In this work, Jones gold-coins. The sculpture is entitled at acknowledges the importance of writer “Sparkle Pig, ta da!” 2019. Is pig the Marcel Proust’s storytelling. The first source of all those pearls? How is that The Kim Vose Jones Cirque de-Vice installation at the City Hall Art Gallery. volume of Proust’s seven-volume opus, possible? The capital of the column PHOTO FROM CITY OF OTTAWA “In Search of Lost Time” (1913) is also appears to be festooned with tattered titled “Swann’s Way.” surgical gloves. When might be your to keep telling our stories, and to tell Maureen Korp, independent critic, In this exhibition, you well may next colonoscopy? Remember the them with a human voice, not via a curator, and historian, has lived long yourself remembering those stories and cautionary phrase, “Don’t cast pearls motherboard of gigabytes. Take the in Ottawa. others. before swine,” Matthew 7:6. kids to see Kim Vose Jones’ exhibition. A tall barren tree rises from the “Bernie,” 2018, a standing figure The children may tell you stories you center of the “Merry-Go-Round,” 2020 made of alpaca fur, stands alone. have never heard before. tableau. Upon one of its three thin He wears a red hat, an elegant neck branches quietly hangs an apple. Ahh, ruffle, and. on his feet, black runners. Kim Vos Jones: Cirque De-Vice yes, you know that story, the tale of the “Bernie” stands tall atop a soapbox. He Continuing until November 29 forbidden apple in the garden. What presents to you, the viewer, a decorated City Hall Art Gallery, Ottawa City Hall, 110 Laurier Avenue happened then? Children, of course. A cake, one trimmed with shrimp in their Open daily, Monday to Friday, 9 am to 5 pm. Fully shells, and, under a bell jar, a wee, cradled baby is part of tableau; and so accessible. Free. Enter at the Laurier Avenue entrance. crying pig. The cake’s white frosting is is the tin-can rocket hurtling towards The guards will admit visitors to the exhibition. the child. The sculpture is entitled lettered with the words: “HELP ME.” “Space Junk,” 2020. What is shrapnel Apparently, we have here a morose but disposable artifact after all that hue homage to Bernie Sanders, the noble Other exhibitions of interest and cry. Two toads are in the water. A candidate who ran hard and lost, Beautiful Monsters. green baby duck looks at the sleeping 2016 and 2020, in the US Democratic Continuing until November 15 swan nearby. presidential primaries. The sculpture National Gallery of Art, 380 Sussex Drive There are other creatures on the has the saddest face ever you have Open: Thursday, 10 am to 8 pm; and Friday, Saturday, seen. merry-go-round, too. Above all, flutter Sunday, Throughout the exhibition, the pennants bedecked with bumblees and 10 am to 5 pm snails, creatures whose lives fascinate ensembles suggest narratives of deeds Tickets: $0–$16. www.gallery.ca us still. from another time, fables told to teach Standing in the corner of the gallery lessons needed today. The creatures Tyler Armstrong, Colin Canary, Brendan de Montigny is a large, black African elephant with who are part of these tableaux are and Claire Sherzinger: Fractured Utopia, tusks of gold. Its feet are mounted upon made of bits and pieces of materials November 12, 2020—January 10, 2021 red wheels. Upon its back is a three- recycled. The whole of it might raise Karsh-Masson Gallery, Ottawa City. masted, black clipper ship. What is its the question of how it is we live, die, Open daily, Monday to Friday, 9 am to 5 pm. Fully and then to what purpose is any of this? cargo? Slaves? Colonialism was like accessible. Free. Enter at the Laurier Avenue entrance. It is important to know the stories, that, was it not? Others came and took, The guards will admit visitors to the exhibition.

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ROAD TRIPS Cheese please By Laura Byrne Paquet

When I go on a day trip, I always bring a cooler in the hope that I might be able to buy some cheese along the way. Here are some of my favourite purveyors of cheesy comestibles within easy reach of Old Ottawa South. If day tripping beyond Ottawa isn’t possible in these strange COVID-19 times, check the out-of-town shops’ websites, as some now offer home delivery. Most local cheesemakers also sell their products in Ottawa stores and markets. All the businesses on this list are taking social distancing precautions, and some offer curbside pickup. Fromagerie Montebello is a landmark on Montebello’s main street, rue Notre-Dame. PHOTOS BY LAURA BYRNE PAQUET Il Negozio Nicastro This grocer’s Glebe location is Jacobsons does indeed sell many, many kinds Dutch-style Lankaaster hard cheese; right up the road from us (there’s also As well as a wide variety of specialty of cheese. It also sells much more, other varieties include Figaro (a soft a second location on Wellington). It foods, gift baskets and a huge range including honey, maple syrup, crackers, cow’s-milk cheese), Fleur-en-Lait (a sells some 150 types of cheese, as of cheeses, this New Edinburgh sauces and dips, sausages, coffee, French-style semi-soft cheese) and well as deli meats, Italian groceries, gourmet shop sells all sorts of items cheese boards, and home decor items. Celtic Blue. sandwiches, oven-ready meals and to complement your cheese purchase Address: 1410 Highway 511, Address: 5926 County Road 34, more. – chili-and-olive-oil crackers, English Balderson, Ontario Lancaster, Ontario Address: 792 Bank Street, Ottawa; oatcakes, pickled shallots, ploughman’s 1355 Wellington Street West, Ottawa chutney and the like. You can also sign Glengarry Fine Cheese up for a cheese of the month club. The Peters family, which owns OOS resident Laura Byrne Paquet runs the travel advice website La Bottega Nicastro Address: 103 Beechwood Avenue, Glengarry Fine Cheese, raises Holstein OttawaRoadTrips.com. You can find This large ByWard Market shop Ottawa cows on their farm across the road. a longer version of this article at that (with different owners than the store They use the farm’s milk for their wide web site or use this link https://bit.ly/ above) is another great source of Italian Grace in the Kitchen/Serious Cheese range of cheeses – you can’t get much ORTcheese. groceries – including a dizzying range Long-time OOS residents will more local than that! I’m partial to their of sauces, pastas and oils – as well as remember when this shop called our bread, deli meats, produce, sweets and neighbourhood home. It’s now in all sorts of cheeses. Kanata, but it still sells a dizzying Address: 64 George Street, Ottawa variety of cheeses, as well as cookware, packaged foods and more. International Cheese & Deli Address: 442 Hazeldean Road, Looking for something a bit unusual Kanata – Norwegian Ekte Gjetost goat cheese, perhaps, or a Bulgarian lactose-free St. Albert Cheese Co-op INSPIRING feta? This packed little shop in the Dating back to 1894, this ByWard Market just might have it. cheesemaker is one of Eastern GIRLS Address: 40 ByWard Market Square, Ontario’s oldest. Not even a Ottawa catastrophic fire in 2013 knocked it out for long; the company rebuilt from The House of Cheese Ltd. the ground up. For many people in Elmwood is an independent day school for girls from Pre-kindergarten Just a few doors down from Ottawa, the phrase “St. Albert cheese to Grade 12. Regarded as one of the most innovative girls’ schools in International Cheese is another curds” is pretty much synonymous North America, we are ranked in the top 25 private schools in Canada. fabulous shop worth checking out for with “poutine,” so make sure to pick At Elmwood, each girl is encouraged to challenge herself to excel in the its extensive selection of Canadian and up a bag of squeaky-fresh goodness if classroom, develop confi dence, and lead with strength. Here, girls learn world fromages. you’re a fan of the chip-truck staple. to be the best students, leaders and global citizens they can be. Address: 34 ByWard Market Square, Address: 150 St. Paul Street, St. Ottawa Albert, Ontario LEARN MORE ABOUT EVERYTHING WE Fromagerie Montebello CAN OFFER YOU AND YOUR DAUGHTER: Alain Boyer began making cheese as • Safe and secure environment • Before–and after–school care a teenager in the late 1980s. Decades • Average class size of 15 • Transportation later, he became one of the owners • Unparalleled academic program • Needs–and merit–based of this charming cheese shop and • Healthy meals prepared by fi nancial aid available developed the prize-winning Rebellion on-site chef 1837 blue-veined cheese. I normally hate blue cheese, but this mild version made from cow’s milk won me over. However, the one I bought to take Call (613) 744-7783 for more information or visit home was Tête à Papineau, a mild, elmwood.ca/admissions for our Virtual Open Houses and more. semi-soft cheese. Address: 687-A Notre-Dame Street, Montebello, Quebec

Balderson Village Cheese Store Look for this big sign on a low-slung For a small crossroads hamlet, ELMWOOD – HELPING GIRLS LEARN, LEAD yellow-and-white building to find Balderson has a lot of popular shops! AND SUCCEED FOR OVER 100 YEARS. Glengarry Fine Cheese on County One favourite with road trippers is the Road 34 Balderson Village Cheese Store, which Page 36 The OSCAR l November 2020

THANK YOU TO THE OTTAWA COMMUNITY Amica The Glebe is grateful to be part of such a caring community. Thanks to your participation in our recent events, we were able to support important local causes such as Hospice Care Ottawa and the Ottawa Food Bank. We’d like to thank you for welcoming our senior lifestyles residence into this community.

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