Serving the Glebe TFI@glebereport community since 1973 www.glebereport.ca ISSN 0702-7796 Vol. 47 No. 6 June 14, 2019 Issue no. 515 FREE PHOTO: LIZ MCKEEN PHOTO: The Bank Street Height & Character Study will hold an Open House on June 20 at 6:30 p.m. at the Glebe Community Centre. Come and help shape the future of Bank Street in the Glebe. Shaping the future of Bank Street By Carolyn Mackenzie bylaws that should be able to be relied building heights must be considered in upon with greater certainty for future conjunction with a number of recommen- “Glebe Community Association supports development. dations made about building transitions six storeys on Bank Street.” Well, not The GCA wrote to the city to pro- and should be supported by appropriate quite – although that was the headline vide preliminary input to the study after planning studies including sun shading, of an “unauthorised” poster advertising more than two and half hours of vigor- which was raised by many as a concern. a Glebe Community Association (GCA) ous discussion and debate in April. On Full comments can be found on the GCA Please share your views meeting at the end of April to discuss the issue of height, our feedback was that website at glebeca.ca. and help shape Bank Street: building height, massing and character the following building heights may be The city will be hosting an Open House Come to the June 20 OPEN issues along Bank Street in the Glebe. appropriate: on June 20, 6:30 – 9 p.m. at the Glebe The Bank Street Height & Character Village zone: A maximum height of Community Centre, when they will HOUSE (6:30 p.m., Glebe Study, which the City of Ottawa kicked four storeys between Holmwood and present draft recommendations for the Community Centre) to off with an open house in February, Pretoria Avenue (the core of the Glebe height and character study. provide feedback on the intends “to ensure that clear policy and “village”), and What do you think? What sort of build- draft recommendations. zoning frameworks are in place to man- Transition zone: A maximum height of six ings do you think we need on Bank Street? age growth and redevelopment on Bank storeys north of Pretoria Avenue and south of Email the city’s lead planner Street from the Queensway all the way Holmwood Avenue in the current TM (Trad- Carolyn Mackenzie chairs the Glebe at [email protected] south to Wilton Cresent.” The result will itional Mainstreet) zone. Community Association’s Planning with your comments. be area-specific policies and updated The GCA also made it clear that these Committee.

MARK YOUR CALENDARS WHAT’S INSIDE June 16...... Michael Dowd lecture on “Pro-future Faith,” St. Matthew’s, 7 p.m. June 19...... Glebe Community Association AGM, GCC, 7 p.m. June 20...... Canadensis Sun Shelter unveiling, Experimental Farm, 5–8 p.m. June 20...... Bank Street Height and Character Study, GCC, 6:30–9 p.m. June 21–23....Escapade Music Festival, Lansdowne June 22...... GACA party, Dalhousie South Park, 1–4 p.m. (rain date: June 23) June 23...... Aladdin Jr., GNAG, GCC, 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. June 24...... Urban Core Official Plan Consultation, Jean Pigott Hall, City Hall, 6:30 p.m. June 25...... GCA monthly meeting, GCC, 7 p.m. June 28...... Brandenburg Concertos, Southminster Church, 7:30 p.m. Mutchmor rink...... Page 13 Asparagus inspiration...... Page 18 July 6, 7...... Glebe Art in Our Gardens and Studio Tour, 10–4. NEXT ISSUE: Friday, August 16, 2019 EDITORIAL DEADLINE: Friday, July 26, 2019 July 7...... Amazing Thailand Festival, Hort Bldg, 10–6 ADVERTISING ARTWORK DEADLINE*: Wednesday, July 31, 2019 August 18...... Rideau Nautical Modellers Memorial Regatta, Brown’s Inlet *Book ads well in advance to ensure space availability. IF YOU CAN DREAM IT WE CAN MAKE IT!

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By Brenda Small charming aspects of the tour. We are pleased to continue with The Glebe Art in Our Gardens and the popular ballot prizes as an incen- Studio Tour is on the weekend of July tive for art lovers to visit as many 6 and 7 (10 a.m. to 4 p.m.) this sum- sites as possible. The prizes are in mer. This year’s tour includes a mix the form of a voucher that the lucky of returning and new artists. winners will be able to use toward The objective of the tour is to offer the purchase of a work of art from a Glebe artists the opportunity to show favourite artist. and sell their works in their own Cards with the list of artists’ names neighbourhood. It also provides a as well as a map showing the garden venue for discovering and promoting and studio locations for this year’s tour up-and-coming artists as well as guest will be available in Glebe shops and artists from outside the Glebe. And of the community centre. In addition, on course, everyone likes to see the gar- the tour weekend there will be signs dens that are in midsummer bloom or at various street corners to indicate the studios where artists work. locations of the art sites. Informa- Sites are grouped together for easy tion is also available on the website at walking or cycling. People look for- glebearttour.ca. Be sure to mark July ward to the Glebe tour to see what 6 and 7 on your calendar. Come out returning artists have been working between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. on, which new artists have appeared and how the lovely gardens have Brenda Small is an avid gardener changed. The idea of exhibiting art and artist with the Glebe Art in Our

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By Colette Downie our neighbourhood. people in Ottawa every month, 36 per make sure that your donation counts From the start of the Great Glebe cent of whom are children. towards the overall total for the 2019 A huge thank you to the many Glebe Garage Sale in 1986, the Glebe Com- With rainy weather holding off until Great Glebe Garage Sale. As a char- residents and Bank Street merchants munity Association has encouraged the early afternoon, the Glebe Com- itable organization, the Ottawa Food who held sales, and to the artisans, vendors (and shoppers) to donate munity Association is hoping to beat Bank will issue tax receipts for dona- musicians, vendors, charities and some of their proceeds to the Ottawa last year’s $12,000 in total donations. tions of $10 or more. community organizations that make Food Bank. The Ottawa Food Bank While donations have started to roll You can also mail your donation the sale such a great part of living in provides food and support to 37,524 in, we are still far from our target for to: The Ottawa Food Bank, 1317B this year. Michael Street, Ottawa, ON K1B If you haven’t had a 3M9. You can also reach them at 613- chance to donate (10 per 745-7001. cent of your sale proceeds is suggested), please donate Colette Downie is the volunteer online at: ottawafoodbank. coordinator of the Great Glebe akaraisin.com/gggs2019. Garage Sale for the Glebe Community This is the best way to Association.

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NEW TO THE GLEBE Anna Belanger and Associates (mas- sage therapy for women) is moving from their Old Ottawa South location to the upper end of the Glebe at 621 Bank Street.

Collabo Café is now open at 108 Third Avenue, just east of Bank.

Top of the World has now opened at 581 Bank (former home of Yarn For- ward &Sew On). “Top of the World is Ottawa’s oldest and largest indepen- dent skate and snow shop.”

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PHOTO: LIZ MCKEEN PHOTO: corner of Fourth and Bank is under- going renovations. Scaffolding is up. Flora’s fish are jumpin’ The Flora Footbridge is nearing the move closer to the canal. There will be to open in the fall (although it looks light at the end of the tunnel, so to an elliptical lookout area at the west- substantially complete now, the finish- speak. The multi-use pedestrian and ern end. The bridge will be lit at night. ing touches involving access ramps, cyclist bridge is 5 metres wide and The lily pond on the Glebe side is landscaping and art installations are SHOP 123 metres long, stretching over the being worked on now to enhance it and not yet done.) LOCAL Rideau Canal connecting Fifth Avenue realign it with the new bridge ramp. All this to say – you see? If you are in the Glebe and Clegg Avenue in Old And as I discovered the other day, fish patient, and persevere, and don’t give Ottawa East. are already jumping in the lily pond! up, and have some effective leader- Help us by To review: it is an arched bridge sup- The art-installation bench on the ship, and maybe a bit of good will and ported on V columns on two piers set Glebe side of the bridge has been good luck and good karma, sensational in the canal. The eastern side will fea- designed by artist Claude Latour, a things happen. Supporting our ture a switchback ramp and staircase, member of the Kitigan Zibi Anishi- Onward to the boarded rink at while the western (Glebe) side will be nabeg First Nation. He calls the bench Mutchmor! Advertisers a curved earth-fill ramp with an asphalt M nz (Moose). Shop local, and when you’re out and about path. The pedestrian and bike path is to The Flora Footbridge is still expected —Liz McKeen shopping in the Glebe, let the merchant know ō that you saw their ad in the Glebe Report. We publish 11 times a year and glebe report TFI@glebereport distribute free to Glebe households and businesses. The Glebe Report is paid for www.glebereport.ca CONTACT US solely through advertising. 175 Third Avenue Established in 1973, the Glebe Report, published by the Glebe Report Association is a monthly not Ottawa, Ontario K1S 2K2 for-profit community newspaper with a circulation of 7,500 copies. It is delivered free to Glebe homes 613-236-4955 CONTRIBUTORS THIS MONTH and businesses. Advertising from merchants in the Glebe and elsewhere pays all its costs, and the paper Jori Armishaw Catherine McKenna receives no government grants or direct subsidies. The Glebe Report, made available at select locations PLEASE SUBMIT ARTICLES TO: Carolyn Best Ian McKercher such as the Glebe Community Centre and the Old Ottawa South Community Centre and Brewer Pool, is [email protected]. Gwendolyn Best Shawn Menard printed by Winchester Print. Emma Buchanan Anant Nagpur EDITOR Liz McKeen [email protected] DEADLINES Beatrice C., Grade 3 William Nuttle For Glebe Report advertising Juniper C., Grade 3 Eydie P., Grade 3 COPY EDITOR Kerry Smith deadlines and rates, call the Victoria Champion Katie P., Grade 2 LAYOUT DESIGNER Jock Smith [email protected] advertising manager. Advertising Dan Chook Reid Hill Peppard GRAPEVINE EDITOR Micheline Boyle [email protected] rates are for electronic material Doritt Crosby Katie Riis supplied in pdf format with fonts WEB EDITOR Peter Polgar [email protected] Joe Crowley Dave Roache embedded in the file. Gabrielle Dallaporta Elliott Roache SOCIAL MEDIA Alex Stecky-Efantis s Michael Dowd Courtney Rock Colette Downie Marisa Romano ADVERTISING MANAGER Judy Field [email protected] INDEX Peter Ebenhoech Mara S., Grade 3 613-231-4938 ABBOTSFORD ������������������������������������������7 Robyn F., Grade 3 Reid S., Grade 3 BUSINESS MANAGER Debbie Pengelly [email protected] ART...... 2, 28 Katrina Geary Hussein Samhat CANDENSIS ���������������������������������������������6 CIRCULATION MANAGER vacant [email protected] Caitlin Giffin Ali Shafaee BOOKS/POETRY ������������������������ 22, 23/24 Paul Green Sophie Shields BIA...... 17 Trevor Greenway Lois Siegel PROOFREADERS Susan Bell, Martha Bowers, Valerie Bryce, Jeanette Rive CYCLING ������������������������������������������������14 Janet E Harris Brenda Small DISCOVERY �������������������������������������������33 Matthew Hinther Dorothy Speak AREA CAPTAINS Martha Bowers, Bob Brocklebank, Judy Field, Gary Greenwood, ENVIRONMENT/FLOODS 15, 30 Julie Ireton Sue Stefko Ginny Grimshaw, Jono Hamer-Wilson, Della Wilkinson FILM/THEATRE...... 16/ 20, 21 Frank Johnson JC Sulzenko FOOD...... 18, 19 Views expressed in the articles and letters submitted to the Glebe Report are those of our contributors. Ruth Kagan Jim Thompson GLEBE RINK ������������������������������������������13 Beatrice Keleher Mary Tsai We reserve the right to edit all submissions. Articles selected for publication will be published in both a GLEBE HISTORY �����������������������������������27 printed version and an online version on the Glebe Report’s website: www.glebereport.ca. Raffoul Sarah Viehbeck GG GARAGE SALE �������������������������������2, 3 Gérald Lajeunesse Jim Watson Please note that except for July, the paper is published monthly. An electronic version of the print publication is HEALTH �������������������������������������������������29 Zainab Lemkhanat Ed Weick subsequently uploaded with text, photos, drawings and advertisements as a PDF to www.glebereport.ca. MUSIC...... 25 Selected articles will be highlighted on the website. Carolyn Mackenzie Zeus REPS/ORGS �������������������������������������� 8–12 Carol MacLeod SCHOOLS ����������������������������������������������32 E LETTERS [email protected] Glebe Report June 14, 2019 5 Escapade Music Festival aims for a light footfall in the Glebe

Editor, Glebe Report You can contact us at info@escap- ademf.com and expect a response We are a two-day music festival within 24 hours during the leadup taking place Saturday, June 22 and to the festival, and a response within Sunday, June 23 at Lansdowne. (We an hour during the festival. were named Ottawa Tourism “Event We sincerely hope that these efforts of the Year” for 2018.) We are taking will result in a music festival that the measures to try to reduce the impact audience will enjoy without unduly dis- of our festival on the surrounding turbing the surrounding community. KELEHER RAFFOUL OF B. COURTESY PHOTO: neighbourhoods. We expect 30,000 people to attend Ali Shafaee We choose CBC! over the two days. On Saturday, the Escapade Music Festival Editor, Glebe Report up to the federal election in October. Main stage and Stage 3 will go from 1 You may have seen these signs pop- to 11 p.m., and Stage 2 from 1 to 10:15 Local residents are spearheading a ping up in the neighbourhood. www. p.m. On Sunday, the Main stage and Lansdowne woes campaign sponsored by Friends of Ca- WeChoose.ca for more information. Stage 2 will close at 10:30 p.m. and nadian Broadcasting to put our love of Stage 3 at 9:15 p.m. Editor, Glebe Report local media and our concern about its Beatrice Keleher Raffoul To further mitigate noise, our future on the political map in the run and Jim Thompson speaker system allows us to change Bumper-to-bumper traffic, bumper- where the speakers point via remote to-bumper parking on our residential control, so the hanging speakers cover streets, emissions, drunk and disor- the intended audience and reduce the derly behaviour into the early hours A Little extra for baby? impact on the surrounding commun- of the morning, trash thrown in our ity. In 2018, we used this system on our yards, drunks driving home through Editor, Glebe Report fund to which interested Glebites could Main Stage and we are now extending the Glebe (while the police turn a donate, the purpose of which would be the system to both our outdoors stages blind eye because – well, Lansdowne Those of us who shop at McKeen to buy supplies for the new baby. How- in 2019. We have designed a cardioid has to make money, doesn’t it?), rock Metro have noticed the pregnant ever, my disability is such that I didn’t subwoofer arrangement to create music carrying several kilometres, young woman sitting outside every think that I could take on this task. audio rejection on the back or sides fireworks and flypasts, 25,000 people day. I have spoken a few times with So, if people are so motivated, they of the subwoofers, thus reducing the invading our small neighbourhood her, concerned that she was getting could give a little extra for baby. amount of sub energy that is directed more than 180 days of the year. adequate medical care, which she says to undesired locations. We will place After putting the Glebe through all she is. Her baby is due July 7. Janet E Harris sound curtains along the inner walls this hell, OSEG has to admit that its I would have liked to organize a former Glebite of the Aberdeen Pavilion to reduce brilliant business plan has not turned the noise escaping Aberdeen. Sound a profit in five years and that the city check with city bylaw officers and fes- (i.e., you and I, the taxpayers) is on the tival production staff will take place hook for a big debt. Now, OSEG’s sug- on Friday, June 21, and artists may gested answer to this is more, more, request sound checks before festival more! And if Doug Ford’s legisla- HELP WANTED: doors on Saturday and Sunday. tion to permit tailgating parties goes Access to Lansdowne will continue through, I suppose we can look for- GLEBE REPORT throughout the festival, with some ward to drunk parties at our curbs CIRCULATION MANAGER restrictions. The playground will be before football games (it seems you accessible throughout the festival; the have to be drunk to enjoy football.) The Glebe Report is seeking a volunteer Circulation Manager to basketball court access will be inter- How much more can we stand? rupted June 20 by the Redblacks game manage the monthly delivery of 7,500 copies of the Glebe Report to and will resume June 25. Access to the Dorothy Speak Glebe households and selected Glebe businesses by managing a full water feature will be interrupted June team of volunteer carriers and area captains. Includes honorarium. 19 and will resume June 25. Access Are you diplomatic, organized, dependable, familiar with the Glebe to the Great Lawn will be interrupted and a skilled communicator? Are you a team leader with a driver’s June 16 and resume June 27. licence, able to lift small bundles of newspapers, and have access to Escapade will have emergency ser- vices available during the festival: E a car and a computer? Do you have a sheltered space in your home Ottawa Police patrolling the festival to take delivery of 7,500 bundled newspapers, and space to count site and surrounding neighbourhoods, and sort them for carriers? paramedics as well, the Canadian Ski If so, email the co-chairs of the Glebe Report board at Patrol patrolling the site, more than LETTERS [email protected] for details. 100 certified security staff, and OC Transpo offering complimentary [email protected] transportation for festival goers.

WELCOME TO: THANKS AND FAREWELL: Area Captain Needed OUR VOLUNTEER Michelle and Ron Barton Jacob Lavoie, The Glebe Report seeks an area captain to Margo Williams Nadia Porcari-Lavoie volunteer several hours one day a month to Lars Jungclaus drop bundles of papers for individual deliverers. CARRIERS Line Lonnum The role is crucial to the efficient distribution Carriers do not have to live on a street to deliver on it. of the paper to our neighbours across the Jide Afolabi, Mary Ahearn, Jennie Aliman, Tyler, Luke & Claire Allan, Julie Allard, Lawrence Ambler, James Attwood, Aubry family, Glebe. The role requires lifting many bundles of Michelle and Ron Barton, Andre Beauregard, Adrian Becklumb, Beckman family, Inez Berg, Carolyn Best, Daisy & Nettie Bonsall, papers and requires a vehicle. If you can help Robert & Heidi Boraks, Martha Bowers, Bowie family, Adélaïde and Éléonore Bridgett, Bob Brocklebank, Erica Campbell, Alice out, please contact the circulation manager at Cardozo, Carol MacLeod, Marina Caro, Tony Carricato, Ava & Olivia Carpenter, Ryan & Charlotte Cartwright, Sarah Chown, Sebastian, [email protected]. Cameron & Anna Cino, Avery & Darcy Cole, John Connor, Denys Cooper, Sammy & Teddy Cormier, June Creelman, Marni Crossley, Georgia Davidson, Richard DesRochers, Marilyn Deschamps, Diekmeyer-Bastianon family, Dingle family, Delia Elkin, Nicholas, AVAILABLE DELIVERY Reuben, Dave & Sandra Elgersma, Thomas and William Fairhead, Amanda & Erin Frank, Judy Field, Federico Family, Joann Garbig, ROUTES Madeleine Gomery, Caroline & James de Groot, Hannah Good, Matti Goodwin-Sutton, Olivia Gorall, Barbara Greenwood, Gary First Ave, O'Connor to Bank, south side Greenwood, Ginny Grimshaw, Jono Hamer-Wilson, Henry Hanson, Tracy, William and Mackenzie Harnish, Oliver, Martin and Simon Oakland Ave. Hicks, Hook family, Cheryle Hothersall, Matthew Hovey, Christian Hurlow, Illing-Stewart family, Jeevan & Amara Isfeld, Jonathan & Fourth Ave, O'Connor to Bank Emma Jarvis, Lars Jungclaus, Janna Justa, Lambert family, Leith and Lulu Lambert, Jamie, Alexander & Louisa Lem, Justin Leyser, Second Ave, Bank to Lyon Aanika, Jaiden and Vinay Lodha, Ben, Line Lonnum, Parker & James Love, Jim Lumsden, Carol MacLeod, Jennifer, John, Owen & Second Ave, Chrysler to Bronson Ian MacNab, William Maguire, Pat Marshall, Scott McDonald, Ian McKercher, Lily and Maya Molitor, Julie Monaghan, Diane Munier, Melgund Ave. Mary Nicoll, Xavier and Heath Nuss, Sachiko Okuda, Matteo and Adriano Padoin-Castillo, Brenda Quinlan, Annabel and Joseph Quon, Beatrice Raffoul, Don Ray, Bruce Rayfuse, Mary & Steve Reid, Jacqueline, Lucy and Adam Reilly-King, Anna Roper, Emile & Sebastien CONTACT: Roy-Foster, Keelin Rogers, Lene Rudin-Brown, Sidney Rudin-Brown, Casimir & Tristan Seywerd, Zachary Shannon, Short family, [email protected] Kathy Simons, Grady, Ella, Audrey Kennedy Squires, Nick Stewart-Lussier, Stephenson family, Karen Swinburne, Ruth Swyers, Josh Thoppil, Brigitte Theriault, John & Maggie Thomson, Trudeau family, Zosia Vanderveen, Caroline Vanneste, Josh VanNoppen, Veevers THANKS FOR DELIVERING! family, Camilo Velez, Jonah Walker, Erica Waugh, Vanessa Wen, Ben Westheimer, Margo Williams, Zoe & Nicole Wolfenden, Howard & Elizabeth Wong, Ella & Ethan Wood, Nathaniel & Maggie Wightman, Young-Smith family. NEXT PAPER COMES OUT AUGUST 16 6 Glebe Report June 14, 2019 CANADENSIS – THE GARDEN OF CANADA Canadensis to unveil new Sun Shelter

By Gerald Patricia Lajeunesse

The Canadensis Botanical Garden So- ciety (CBGS) invites you to the unveil- ing of our newly completed, volunteer- built architectural structure Abri-Soleil Canadensis Sun Shelter on Thursday, June 20 at the Central Experimental Farm. This event, being held as part of the GardenDays celebrations, will launch the summer program of Ca- nadensis Beyond the Edge: Artists’ Gardens 2019 at the future botanic garden site, from 5 to 8 p.m. These summer activities are created to promote Canadensis – The Garden of Canada / le Jardin du Canada as a OF CBGS COURTESY PHOTO: legacy project for all Canadians, to be The new Canadensis Sun Shelter, located at the Experimental Farm, will be unveiled June 20 at a ceremony that will launch the located within the historic experimen- summer program of Canadensis Beyond the Edge: Artists’ Gardens 2019 at the future botanic garden site. tal farm hub, adjacent to the UNESCO World Heritage Rideau Canal and the National Arboretum. We believe that garden! A national garden will not Artists’ Gardens 2019 event will rein- As chair of the CBGS Board of an interactive and educational national only serve to help interpret and pro- force the future role of Canadensis Directors, I very much hope that you botanical garden within Ottawa will mote Canada’s botanic diversity and – The Garden of Canada in support will be able to attend the unveiling serve to “elevate” our city and will beauty; it will be a showcase for Cana- to the Central Experimental Farm by of our Sun Shelter, experience the become a crucial and premier hor- dian accomplishments and expertise providing a green oasis in the heart of gardens and enjoy a delightful straw- ticultural tourist attraction and in horticulture, agriculture and arbo- the capital and creating a horticultural berry treat and refreshments. Further destination. The botanic garden will riculture, much of which has been node that allows visitors an opportunity details, directions and access route to focus its research on climate change developed through the national expe- to enjoy the farm and better unders- the site can be found at canadensis- adaptation and will be especially rele- rimental farms network and our own tand its raison d’être. These events at garden.ca. Parking will be available vant in today’s context and in light of Central Experimental Farm. It can the Farm enhance the quality of life at the site. I look forward to meeting today’s knowledge of the beneficial only reinforce Canadian pride while of the overall community, our city and you on June 20. effects of plant life on cities, their resi- offering a world-class destination for our capital by providing residents and dents and the climate. all Canadians and international guests visitors a unique ephemeral garden Gérald Lajeunesse is chair of the As it stands, Ottawa is the only visiting our capital. experience in the relaxed pastoral set- board of directors of the Canadensis G20 capital without its own botanical The Canadensis Beyond the Edge: ting of the future botanical garden. Botanical Garden Society.

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where he’s been a volunteer for a num- ber of years, spending many hours A Royal gift pricing the antiques and fine china donated for the annual bazaar held By Julie Ireton each November. “I’ve been a collector since I was 15. I have a collection of When Albert Benoit went to see Her art and textiles from all over the world. Majesty Queen Elizabeth II at Wind- When I travel I look for things I can sor Castle this spring, he took along bring home. That’s my passion. Some a precious gift, a painting depicting a people play golf, I collect.” said Benoit. scene of Canada. Leila Crosby and Benoit will now The painting is by Leila Crosby. She await a reply from Buckingham Pal- is 93, the same age as Queen Eliza- ace, a response from the Queen for the beth, and specializes in watercolour watercolour Benoit personally deliv- paintings. In fact, Leila is a very pro- ered. “It was the best time I’ve had in lific artist and her work hangs in the a long long time”, said Benoit. homes of ambassadors and high com- Abbotsford is your community missioners around the world. support centre for adults 55+. We Her daughter Doritt Crosby – a are the community programs of The member at Abbotsford House at the CROSBY DORITT PHOTO: Glebe Centre Inc., a charitable, not- Glebe Centre – hoped Benoit would Leila Crosby and Albert Benoit with Leila’s painting, which he brought to Windsor for-profit organization that includes pass along the special gift when he Castle as a gift to the Queen. a 254 bed long-term care home. Find travelled to the castle. out more about our services by drop- Benoit said he was happy to take state and royal visits and other large This year, Benoit was one of 20 Can- ping by 950 Bank Street (the old stone along the precious cargo, but this scale events. In fact, he was involved adian members invited. house) Mon – Fri, 9 – 4 p.m., telephon- favour wasn’t without its complica- in 14 royal family visits, including “I’m very pleased to have that ing 613-230-5730 or by checking out tions. “Not an easy task given the the Queen’s trip to open the Montreal reward and enjoy the benefits,” said all of The Glebe Centre facilities and security implications, but never- Olympics in 1976. Benoit. “I spoke to the Queen and community programs on our website theless, I did manage to deliver the Benoit is also a member of the Royal family members who were there, glebecentre.ca. painting to be passed up the chain of Victorian Order. The Queen invites along with people I knew from previ- command,” said Benoit. members of the order every four years ous visits. It was like a reunion.” Julie Ireton is a journalist who Retired for the past 20 years, Benoit to the castle and awards medals for Now back in Ottawa, Benoit is doing contributes regularly to the Glebe made a career out of helping organize their personal service to the sovereign. his volunteer work at Abbotsford House Report on issues affecting Abbotsford.

The Glebe Report will profile a Glebe Centre resident in a series called “Neighbours of The Glebe Centre.” Frances Arbour activist and adventurer leader in welcoming Chilean refu- living in Old Ottawa South and would give those who are read- gees to Canada. spending time in the Glebe. ing this she said, “Be active, keep Meanwhile back in Canada, Today Frances is still a cham- involved and keep learning.” Bob accepted a job at the CBC pion of the rights of others That’s advice I think we can all where he produced reports and – writing to her elected officials take to heart. documentaries on issues facing almost weekly. She often receives The Glebe Centre is a not-for- Latin America, including human a response, including three dif- profit, charitable organization and rights violations, politics, war and ferent responses from Prime home to 254 residents, many of ecological issues. His work was Minster Trudeau on the issues of whom are from Ottawa and have, Frances Arbour, one of our neighbours of The featured on Sunday Morning and opportunities for youth, climate over the years, helped shape our Glebe Centre The Sunday Edition, among other change and gender issues. community and city. For more shows. His work has been widely When she isn’t writing, Frances information about The Glebe By Courtney Rock recognized and he has won a is often at Abbotsford House tak- Centre please visit us online at number of awards. ing part in classes or out enjoying www.glebecentre.ca Activism was a part of Frances Arbour’s life from In 1978 Frances and Bob wel- a movie at The Mayfair or a per- very early on. Born on Bastille Day, it was on her comed their son Michael into the formance at the National Arts Courtney Rock is Fund and 16th birthday that her father sat her down and shared world. Michael and his parents Centre. Development manager at The with her the significance of Bastille Day and that spent much of his youth travel- When asked what advice she Glebe Centre. each person should always try to lend a voice to those ling and learning about who don’t have one and to fight for what is right. the world. In 1988 the Frances grew up in Windsor, Ontario. After family moved to Costa her first year at the University of Windsor, Fran- Rica after Frances ces moved to Toronto where she entered a religious accepted a position with order, Our Lady’s Missionaries, with the dream of the Project Counselling working overseas and helping others. She resumed Service for Lain Amer- her studies at the University of Toronto, graduating ican Refugees. Her with a BA in political science. Upon graduation and work was in Guatemala taking her first vows, her dream of working abroad but for safety the family bore fruit and she moved to Mexico to teach English. lived in Costa Rica. Back from Mexico, Frances began working with During her time in the Canadian Catholic Organization for Develop- Guatemala she assisted ment and Peace in Toronto. She visited church and displaced and refugee community groups, educating them about develop- Guatemalans, focusing ment issues, human rights and refugee issues. It was on issues facing women through these sessions that Frances met Bob Carty. and young girls in the She and Bob worked together teaching youth leader- country. ship skills through experiential learning trips to After their time in Mexico. Frances decided to resign from Our Lady’s Costa Rica the family Missionaries to marry Bob. moved back to Can- Their marriage was filled with travel and adventure. ada, this time settling

They joined the Lain American Working Group and in Ottawa. Frances has ROCK COURTNEY PHOTO: began travelling regularly to Latin America. It was their called this neighbour- Frances Arbour while in Latin America, with Toronto Star journalist Hugh McCullum work in Latin America that led Frances to be a major hood home for years, who was covering her work 8 Glebe Report June 14, 2019 GACA

Glebe Annex Community Association ends the season with a party!

By Sue Stefko members speaking passionately about the upcoming project – some in sup- The Glebe Annex neighbourhood port and others concerned about what has had a busy spring. In March, the the development might bring to our Glebe Annex Community Association neighbourhood. (GACA) helped to organize a com- GACA hosted a community clean- munity consultation on the new John up in early May that was remarkably Howard Society supportive housing well timed to hit one of the few sunny development at 289 Carling, assisting weekends in early spring. A dozen DALLAPORTA GABRIELLE PHOTOS: the efforts of city staff, Councillor community members came out to col- Glebe Annex residents pose questions at the GACA AGM. Menard and the John Howard Society. lect almost 30 bags of leaf litter from This event was followed by another Dalhousie South Park and nearly 20 in April, organized by members of bags of garbage. between Bell and Lebreton streets saved the best for last! On Saturday, the Lakelander condominium, where These events were followed by south. This site could see buildings of June 22, from 1 to 4 p.m., GACA will be staff from the John Howard Society GACA’s Annual General Meeting up to 30 storeys in height. As with the hosting a party in the park. The “park” provided further information on the (AGM) on May 9. Booth Street complex, a mix of uses of course refers to our only, much-loved, project to residents of both the Glebe The meeting highlighted the fact is expected. well-used and recently renewed Dal- Annex and Dow’s Lake. Both events that our small community is on the Upon approval of its site plan, the housie South Park on Bell Street South. were well attended, with community cusp of major developments happen- Taggart Group is expected to build a We’ll be joined by a number of local ing in and around our neighbourhood. 16-storey seniors residence at 275 Car- organizations including Carleton Uni- In addition to the John Howard Society ling Avenue. Construction could start versity’s CKCU radio station that will building at 289 Carling, this includes as early as this fall, although it may be be helping us host the event along with the Booth Street Complex managed by delayed until spring 2020. the Ottawa Art Gallery. Canada Lands Company. City Coun- Finally, GACA is keeping a watch- The Gallery will bring its Canada cil approved updated zoning in early ful eye on the new Civic Hospital Life OAG Art Tent, a mobile art studio March, with remediation expected campus coming to the Experimental that provides a space for children and to happen later this year before Can- Farm, which, when completed in 2026 adults to make arts and crafts. We’re ada Lands starts marketing the site or 2027, is expected to have 3.5 to 4 also excited to have Sparky the Ottawa to developers. When completed, it’s million square feet of floor space and Fury Football Club mascot join us for expected that there will be one mil- 600,000 people coming through the a portion of the party. In case of rain, lion square feet of residential, office building each year. the party will be delayed to the follow- and commercial space as part of this The AGM included guest speakers ing day, Sunday, June 23 at the same development. from Canada Lands Company, our time. We hope Glebe Annex residents The Canada Lands Company is community police officer Constable will come out to help us celebrate the Community police officer Constable also managing a development within Stephanie Lemieux, and Council- summer, the park and our community. Stephanie Lemieux shares community the boundaries of the Glebe Annex lor Shawn Menard rounding out an crime statistics with Glebe Annex proper – 291 Carling, a 3.4-acre par- informative evening. Sue Stefko is president of the Glebe residents at the May 9 AGM. cel of vacant land on Carling Avenue But, after such a busy spring, we’ve Annex Community Association.

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physical activity enhancers, and as asset year round; and, (4) the City part of the Canadian identity. The management of its portion of Lans- Sarah Viehbeck decision to return a rink to Mutchmor downe Park. President GCA rests with the school board and the We also noted that we are community made a compelling case concerned, based on the limited infor- for its return. mation available about the strategic T @glebeca E [email protected] www.glebeca.ca review of Lansdowne Park, about the LANSDOWNE possibility of: (1) further City-funded As many Glebe Report readers subsidies to the Ottawa Sports and and celebrate community. We will know, the partnership arrangement for Entertainment Group; (2) any reduc- GCA in also be joined by Alain Miguelez, the redevelopment of Lansdowne Park tion in the City’s portion of the land or a planner with the City of Ottawa, was a subject of controversy and vig- facilities at Lansdowne; (3) the man- springtime! who will share information about orous public debate. Since that time, agement for all of Lansdowne Park the City’s next Official Plan. most residents have accepted Lansd- being transferred to OSEG. Finally hints of spring are appearing. Light snacks and beverages will owne and welcomed the sports teams, The GCA encourages residents, The docks are in the canal, the tulips be offered. family-friendly events and the return all city councillors and the media to popped in time for the festival, and Visit glebeca.ca for details or of the Farmers’ Market. ask the following questions: 1) How our tree canopy exploded in bloom. to purchase a GCA membership, Recently City Council was informed does the City of Ottawa define success Another sure sign of spring is the which are still available for sale by the Ottawa Sports and Entertain- for the Lansdowne Park partnership, Great Glebe Garage Sale (GGGS) online after our May membership ment Group that the financial returns financially, operationally, and strate- which, this year, benefitted from some drive. All are welcome and you do from the redevelopment have been gically? (2) What are the degrees of cooperation from Mother Nature and not need to register or be a member less than envisaged. As such, OSEG freedom within the existing partner- we had great weather until the early to attend the AGM. is conducting a strategic review, which ship agreement to enliven the site? afternoon. It was wonderful to see the will be tabled at the City’s FEDCO (3) Are any parts of the Lansdowne community alive again with neigh- NOTHING SAYS SPRINGTIME LIKE A meeting on June 30th. The GCA is Park partnership agreement and its bours meeting neighbours. Although COMMUNITY MEETING ABOUT A RINK requesting that the tabling of this sub-agreements making money? If many charitable efforts benefit from As noted in last month’s column, the report be followed by public con- so, which and what are the returns? sales at the GGGS, the Glebe Com- GCA hosted a community meeting sultation on any changes proposed (4) Why are more events considered munity Association (GCA) encour- about the Mutchmor rink on May 15th. to the partnership agreement due to to be the preferred strategy to increase ages all sellers to donate at least 10 Dan Chook-Reid of our Health, Hous- the unique nature of the park and the profits by OSEG? Will this contribute per cent of their sales to the Ottawa ing and Social Services Committee city-wide impact of the financial part- to improvements in the City’s finan- Food Bank. We aim to top last year’s shares the outcomes of that meet- nership. cial return? (5) Is Lansdowne a good total of $12,000. ing elsewhere in this edition of the At our May GCA meeting, the deal for the taxpayers of Ottawa? On Glebe Report. We were grateful to be GCA passed a motion in support of 1) what evidence is the City making this ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING joined by Councillor Shawn Menard, increased oversight and transparency assessment? The GCA Annual General Meet- City Parks staff, and Ottawa-Carleton of all aspects of financial and other As always, everyone is welcome to ing will be on June 19th at 7 p.m. at District School Board Chief Finan- reporting about the Lansdowne Park join us at our monthly meetings. We the Glebe Community Centre. The cial Officer Mike Carson. Thank you partnership agreement; (2) the main- meet the fourth Tuesday of the month event will see a new Board installed also to the many community members tenance and expansion of existing best at 7 p.m. at the Glebe Community for 2019-20 and provide neighbours who joined and shared stories about practices, when used, related to noise Centre. The last meeting before our with an opportunity to speak with their childhood skates at Mutchmor, and traffic management; (3) efforts to summer hiatus will be on Tuesday, the GCA, learn about what the asso- the importance of free, outdoor com- enhance the vibrancy of Lansdowne June 25th. Follow us on Twitter @gle- ciation has accomplished this year, munity rinks as gathering places, as Park as a family-friendly community beca.

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A Storied Stroll Meanwhile, you'll be thoroughly entertained – This summer, enjoy an unforgettable The Voice of the Turtle (the 9th-longest and learn about Perth daytrip to a cultural oasis. running show in Broadway history, June 21 to history – with a July 14) takes you back to 1940s New York City, family-friendly, hour-long the Forgotten The Classic Theatre Festival in Heritage Perth is when the toe-tapping tunes of big band swing walking play about Perth an award-winning professional producer of ones were the musical backdrop for a generation during the Great Depres- Broadway hits featuring some of Canada's top discovering new loves, sharing dreams amidst the stage, TV/ lm and radio talents. And you're sion. The Forgotten Ones follows a recently invited to sit back and be thoroughly entertained fears of going overseas, and navigating the evicted farm girl searching for her missing during our 10th anniversary summer celebration. challenges of rapidly changing moral codes. grandmother as rural people cope with the challenges of the 1930s. It runs Wed. to Sun. at Heritage Perth is an hour out of Ottawa yet a From July 19 to August 11, the most popular Shaw 11 am and Thurs. & Fri. at 7 pm. world away, home to a remarkable cultural play, Pygmalion (basis for hub that stages the most popular plays of all megahit musical My Fair A Most Entertaining Meal time as well as historic walking plays that Lady), asks whether work- Great entertainment can Androcles bring to life the compelling stories that live ing class ower girl Eliza work up an appetite, and & the Lion behind the town's legendary architecture. Doolittle can be turned into there's no better place to While you're here, tempt your tastebuds with an upper class lady by please your palate while ve-star dining at Michael's Table, where we bombastic dialects profes- enjoying yet more great fun with perform our lunchtime and dinner theatre sor Henry Higgins. the Classic Lunchtime and Dinner Theatre at comedy every Tuesday. Michael's Table. A deluxe three-course meal The annual features Laurel Smith’s hilarious adaptation of Plan a Delightful Day edge-of-your-seat season closer (August 16 to Shaw's Roman Empire comedy, Androcles and the When you come to the September 8) is the Lion, every Tuesday from 11 am to 1 pm and 5 to Classic Theatre Festival, longest-running come- 7 pm, June 4 to August 27. you'll enjoy a friendly dy-thriller in Broadway rural welcome during a history, Deathtrap (by Book Today! 10th-anniversary author of Stepford Wives, The Classic Theatre Festival oers multiple-show summer season featur- The Rosemary’s Baby). This discounts, and you can spend the whole day ing the longest-running, V oice spine-tingling story of a here – combine a matinee with a walking play or most popular shows of the playwright in search of a lunch/dinner theatre – and still be home by ever produced on Turtleby "killer script" is full of sunset. You can also stay overnight at one of our Broadway and the John Van Druten ingenious plot twists and a outstanding heritage accommodations. London stage. At our air string of bodies. conditioned, wheelchair accessible main- You can book online anytime at stage, the ever-popular WWII-era setting of www.classictheatre.ca or call toll-free at 1-877-283-1283. 10 Glebe Report June 14, 2019 GNAG

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Beautiful Living Naturally Shawn Menard Councillor, Capital Ward Bloomfields Flowers

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1280 GMSElemAdGR18CR1.pdfWellington S t1. W 2018-01-23est | 6 3:4413- PM695-6434 Safer streets and Ontario Bill 108 On the morning of May 16 a bicyclist pens, we properly plan and implement was run over in a hit-and-run outside the supporting infrastructure. City Hall. He died a short time later. If we approve a large new condo This was the second bicyclist killed building in our community, we need since I took office. It is incredibly sad to ensure that we have the hard and to hear about these deaths that are all soft infrastructure to support the new too common. I’m infuriated that we residents. We need to pay for parks, rec- keep letting this happen. reational facilities, affordable housing, So today, I am even more commit- libraries and a host of other services. ted to bringing safe streets for all road Unfortunately, the provincial gov- users to Capital Ward and to the entire ernment is working hard to erodeC city. There are changes – big and small the necessary powers of city coun- – that will make Ottawa a safer, better cils. They’ve already announced thatM place to live. I will not stop pushing they plan to restore the old powers ofY City Hall to do better. To that end, new the Ontario Municipal Board (OMB)CM motions will be tabled and debated at to the Local Planning Appeal TribuMY- City Hall asking the city to prioritize nal (LPAT), returning more power to safety rather than convenience. developers to have city council deciCY- You may have noticed that Tempor- sions overturned. CMY ary Traffic Calming (TTC) measures Now, they’ve announced the intro-K have started to return to our streets. duction of Bill 108, removing a host of This is a program that has been run- protections cities currently have, once ning for the past few years where each again, returning the balance of power ward is allocated funds to use to try to developers rather than the repre- to make streets safer. You’ll notice sentatives of residents. speed boards going up, centre-line Currently, the city can impose flex stakes, new road markings and development charges, cash-in-lieu flex stakes along bike lanes. of parkland charges and provisions Not all have been rolled out yet within the Planning Act to pro- (Public Works had to put some things vide community benefits (referred on hold while they dealt with flooding) to as Section 37 benefits). All told, and we’re still identifying more areas these mechanisms ensure that muni- that need traffic calming measures, so cipalities can properly plan their you’ll see more and more popping up communities, prepare for growth and in the coming months. ensure that they have the necessary Obviously, this is not enough. We funding to provide infrastructure and need safe, protected bike lanes. We services to residents. need wider, accessible sidewalks. We Under Bill 108, these charges would need traffic lights that prioritize the be rolled into one (yet to be defined) safety of vulnerable road users rather charge set by the province. Bill 108 than traffic speed. I believe we need will also reduce the amount of time 30 km/h speed limits on all residen- a city council will have to review tial roads. and deliberate on development appli- These measures will help pedes- cations. These applications can be trians and bicyclists, but they’ll also complicated and they can take a lot help drivers, too. On average, 25 to 30 of work and consultation to get right. people die on our roads in a year and The province seems to want to most of them are in cars. We need bet- ensure we are serving developer inter- ter, safer streets for everyone. ests rather than residents. Like so many of this government’s policies, it BILL 108 is ill-conceived. In my view, residents need a city council that will defend zoning and Shawn Menard is city councillor for official plans, stand up to develop- Capital Ward. He can be reached at ers who are asking for the moon and [email protected] or www. ensure that when development hap- shawnmenard.ca.

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391 echo drive MP Catherine McKenna

N 613-946-8682 E [email protected] F Catherine McKenna T @CathMcKenna I @CathMcKennaOttCen

Funding for local women’s organizations reflects federal government’s commitment to advancing gender equality

In the summer of 2015 while running ing also supports achieving broader to be the Member of Parliament for policy goals such as raising children Ottawa Centre, I asked to meet with out of poverty, strengthening families representatives of community organi- and fostering more prosperous com- zations working to address violence munities. against women and to provide hous- Grants like these and the elevation ing and other services to vulnerable of the former Status of Women Can- women and their children, as well as ada agency to the full department of homeless youth. Women and Gender Equality are just At the time, I didn’t know if I’d two examples of our government’s have the opportunity to represent their commitment to advancing gender Absolutely stunning luxury townhome both inside and out. An appealing layout with spacious voices as an MP, let alone as a member equality. rooms that are enhanced by the water and park views of the Rideau Canal. of the government and cabinet min- In 2018, our government introduced ister. However, I did understand that historic proactive pay equity legisla- Call for private veiwing Asking $1.500,000.00 part of being an effective Member tion for federally regulated workplaces of Parliament is listening and learn- to ensure that more women are fairly ing from experts on the frontlines of compensated for their hard work. Teskey Cartwright social services delivery. In the event By the end of 2018, 49 per cent of experienced home ad/visor -marketing and sales representatives that I won, I wanted the knowledge federal government appointments had Re/max Metro City Ltd. Brokerage these experts shared to help me be gone to women, up markedly from 35 344 oconnor st. ottawa ont. an effective advocate for some of per cent in 2015. 613.859,6599/613.296.6708 www.teskey.com [email protected]/stephanie,[email protected] our most vulnerable citizens and the In addition, Canada’s new Feminist organizations that serve them. I was International Assistance Policy pri- indeed able to carry the voices of these oritizes the promotion of the human community leaders with me to meet- rights of women and girls, especially ings and decision-making tables in for access to education and health ser- the federal government in subsequent vices. This policy is saving lives. months and years. As well, in the wake of increasingly Most recently, collective hard work vocal anti-abortion activists, our gov- came to fruition on May 30 with the ernment will continue to defend announcement of more than $4 mil- staunchly a woman’s right to choose. lion in federal funding for local Ottawa By working together, much has been women’s groups as well as national accomplished over the last four years, organizations based in Ottawa. The for our riding, city and country. grants will give these organizations But there is a lot more progress to be the ability to help more clients, more made. To help guide me, I know just often and more effectively. This fund- the women in Ottawa Centre to call.

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PHOTO: JOCK SMITH PHOTO: Social! The May 15 community meeting organized by the Glebe Community Association to explore options for the return of a boarded rink to the Glebe ended on a hopeful note. Hope for return of Mutchmor rink!

By Dan Chook Reid amazing to see how our community responded. One by one, community I arrived at Mutchmor Public School members got up and made their case on May 15 not knowing how many to see the community asset that they chairs to put out. As the Health, Hous- loved, restored. Neighbours spoke ing and Social Services chair with about how the rink being next to their the Glebe Community Association house was not a liability and pleaded (GCA), I was helping host a meeting to for its return. They spoke clearly that try to get clarity about whether or not lighting and sound were not an issue there was any chance the Glebe would and that they missed having a rink get a boarded rink back, furthermore next door. The community spoke dir- a rink at Mutchmor School. ectly but kindly to each concern the As the time approached, people school board raised and offered solu- began to arrive; first the school tions to overcome the hurdles. Pledges board representatives (Ottawa Carle- to volunteer and care for the rink were ton District), followed by city staff, given. In addition, GNAG (Glebe then fellow GCA board members. It Neighbourhood Activities Group) appeared as though it would be quite members spoke to their willingness to a small turnout. Then, right at 7 p.m., offer their services and provide super- the community started to arrive. vision and care for the rink to help Right away I noticed that it was manage any potential risks. Through- a younger crowd than at an average out the evening, the importance of the community meeting I have attended. rink to the community became clear These were mainly parents of young as did the impact the former rink had, Join us for our Strawberry children, predominantly Mutchmor, and how important outdoor recreation and the issue of a boarded rink held and hockey in particular is for the next Social. Enjoy fresh strawberry great significance. It was clear how generation. Thursday invested the community was, particu- A highlight was when a Mutch- themed refreshments and larly the neighbours surrounding the mor student stood and pleaded for school. the rink’s return. With great clarity June 20 great entertainment by e The city and the board both and sincerity he spoke to how much made presentations. Dan Chenier a boarded rink would mean to him Mellowtones! Our treat for presented an update on the city’s and his friends. I do not know about process in researching whether the other adults present, but I almost 2-4pm or not it was possible to return a shed a tear! The support was clear and t h e a  e r n o o n ! boarded rink to the Glebe. As the unanimous. presentation proceeded, it became The next steps will require the GCA very clear that the City of Ottawa is to follow up with the school board. It Contact Sue at in strong support of returning a rink became clear that Mutchmor really is to the neighbourhood. In their view, the only viable option for returning a 613-617-7888 to Mutchmor’s field is the best option. boarded rink to the Glebe. In addition, reserve your spot! There are various reasons (access to the community, at least those present, water, drainage), but the strongest spoke clearly and passionately about Bring a friend! was the central location. their support. We will follow up with The school board also presented. the school board and hopefully, even 480 Metcalfe Street The Chief Financial Officer shared if it was once not foreseeable, we can that a few months ago he was inclined convince the school board to give its Ottawa, Ontario K1S 3N6 to recommend that the school board approval. Returning a boarded rink to simply just say no. Many reasons were the Glebe has not been easy, but this Managed by given: poor sightlines for supervision, neighbourhood is tenacious. We have SPRING SPECIAL! Move in before August 1, crowding on the school yard due to not given up yet. Hopefully we will all 2019 and enjoy one free month and population size of the school and com- celebrate with a game of shinny on a moving expenses covered up to $2,000!* plaints from former school staff about nearby rink in early 2020. the previous rink. There seemed now to be more openness from the board Dan Chook Reid co-chairs the *Limited time offer. Subject to terms and conditions. representative who is ultimately in Glebe Community Association’s charge of the decision. Health, Housing and Social Services As the night unfolded, it was Committee. VillagiaInTheGlebe.com 14 Glebe Report June 14, 2019 CYCLING 529 Garage aims to deter bike theft

By Katrina Geary reunite the bike and the owner. Only the police can access the database to A new program to deter bicycle thieves has search for serial numbers, but you can search been launched in Ottawa in the form of a new on the app by description and make of bike, app (application) that allows you to register the for example if you are about to purchase a serial number and a description of your bike. second-hand bike to check whether it has been It’s called 529 Garage. reported stolen. Several friends have had their bikes stolen in This project has been very successful in Van- the Glebe and Centretown over the last couple of couver, which has seen as 30 per cent decrease years. Bike theft was particularly bad last year. in bike thefts. This initiative is a collaboration between You can register your bike with Ottawa Project 529, the Ottawa Police, Bike Ottawa police online: project529.com/ottawapoliceser- and the Ottawa Safety Council. Police are vice or by downloading the 529 Garage App handing out tamper proof stickers with unique on your mobile device. The 529 Garage stick- ID numbers that bike owners register with the ers can be obtained from Ottawa Police at 529 Garage app. bike-related events over the summer. Ottawa If your bike goes missing, you send an alert to Police recommend people check their 529 Gar- the app that notifies the police and the other app age website for updates on when they can pick users to be on the lookout for your stolen bike. up the 529 Garage stickers: ottawapolice.ca/ There is typically no way for the police to reunite endbiketheft. a bike with its owner, as people usually do not I plan to register our bikes with the app as record their bike’s serial number. However, for soon as we dust them off for the bike season. stolen bikes recovered by the police that have the 529 Garage stickers, the police can use the app to Katrina Geary is a Glebe resident and cyclist.

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members of the club who have passed Remote-controlled model ships on Brown’s Inlet away. This year we are honouring two We welcome all ages of those who recently passed members. might want to take up this hobby and are here to help them by giving infor- BROWN’S INLET mation about the model, helping them LIGHT UP THE NIGHT FLOTILLA work on their ship and giving them a September 21, 2019 hand when they’re stuck. The Rideau Nautical Modellers Two events will be held this spend an evening in the Glebe. Mem- summer at Browns Inlet, weather bers will be there from 8 p.m. until permitting. sunset with all their ships illuminated,

PHOTO: COURTESY OF RNM COURTESY PHOTO: which looked spectacular last year. Remote-controlled model ships will ply the waters of Brown’s Inlet every RIDEAU NAUTICAL MODELLERS Unfortunately our event won’t cor- Wednesday evening from 7 p.m., weather permitting. Come and join the Rideau MEMORIAL REGATTA respond with the street party that was Nautical Modellers. August 18, 2019 held last year at the pond. We hope By Peter Ebenhoech every Wednesday evening at 7 p.m., This is an open regatta for any- to draw some of the residents to this weather permitting. This will be our one who wants to bring and run a event again. Summer sail nights at Brown’s Inlet fifth year on Brown’s Inlet. We have a boat. The yearly event was originally by members of the Rideau Nauti- few new young members, both under named in memory of long-time mem- Peter Ebenhoech is a Glebite and cal Modellers club began this year 10 years of age, starting their love of ber Warren Thurston. We continue member of the Rideau Nautical again on May 29 and will continue sailing on the pond. the tradition by honouring all former Modellers Club. 16 Glebe Report June 14, 2019 FILM AT THE FLICKS with Lois and Paul McQueen: The Fearless, Rebellious and Extraordinary Life of Alexander McQueen

images it had never seen before. The story of his life British Designer of the Year award. His creations: reveals how difficult it is to be so imaginative and Golden Fleece show – a goddess with horns and gold have to live up to all the requirements that entails breasts, a car on fire on the catwalk, a wonderful when one becomes successful. finale with choreographed robots moving around a “No one discovered Alexander McQueen. Alex model that sprayed her with black and yellow paint. McQueen discovered himself.” He enjoyed art as a Lee was living his dream. “You get that one student and then became a tailor. He could make a chance in life.” skirt “fit like a glove” when he was only 17. When someone in a supermarket asked for his Soon, he had a show during British Fashion Week. autograph, he knew he was becoming famous. He His intuitive abilities were amazing. He created his wanted a normal life, but now he had money. The own fashion collection with no money and no studio pressure on him took over and he bought heavy – determination was key. He could eat at his parent’s drugs. His personality changed: anger, aggression, house – baked beans and tins of soup – and he was paranoia. skilled at getting people to work for him for free. Lee was in love with his work and didn’t trust His creations were modern and flamboyant. Naughty anyone. He became what he didn’t want to be. behaviour suited him. He covered a model in transpar- The fashion industry fed his ego. His images were ent Saran wrap and a show was titled Highland Rape changing. One of his sets was described as Kubrick Collection, referring to his Scottish background, not meets the insane asylum. His models wore white the romantic but the Jacobite dark side. cloth bandages on their heads, moving to weird Givenchy, a luxury fashion house of haute couture sounds. clothing and accessories, hired him as their creative The fun was gone: 14 collections in a year. “When director when he was in his 20s. Lee was given you are responsible for 50 people, you can’t stop.” McQueen, Documentary responsibilities and money. He had a flat and even There’s a certain loneliness in success. Directed by Ian Bonhôte and Peter Ettedgui a driver. He was addressed as Monsieur McQueen. Alexander McQueen’s runway shows are terrific. (U.K., 2018) Lee was the talk of the town. Co-workers were This is definitely a film to see. scared when he grabbed a pair of scissors because Reviewed by Lois Siegel he cut so fast. There was a rigorous schedule: 25 Running time: 111 minutes days, 55 outfits to put together. At the time, design- Available: Amazon.com DVD or stream with Prime (Lee) Alexander McQueen was an extremely tal- ers were treated as kings. Video & iTunes ented designer who thrilled the fashion industry with In 1997, at only 27 years old, Lee was given the DVD and Blu-ray The Fall of the American Empire Directed by Denys Arcand has gone awry in a blaze of gunfire. After the dialectical in Arcand’s dialogue. (Canada, 2018) a moment’s hesitation, he tosses two duffel Throughout this highly entertaining film, Reviewed by Paul Green bags filled with cash into the back of his van there are frequent references to the growing and absconds with the lot, though not before incidence of poverty and street people in the Québec’s Denys Arcand, political satirist par giving a brief witness statement to a couple of city – all of which stands in marked contrast excellence, brought out The Decline of the Montréal detectives who arrive on the scene with the sort of affluent venues where Pierre- American Empire in 1986. A talky political – an interesting pair played here by Maxim Paul’s quest takes him. and sexual satire, Decline went on to garner Roy and Eric Bruneau. Arcand’s film is part crime thriller, part much acclaim. It was followed in 2003 by Pierre-Paul is intelligent enough to know polemic, ambivalent at times but it seems The Barbarian Invasions in which the same that he needs help in figuring out what to do to work. Alexandre Landry and Maripier group of charming (in the Buñuelian sense) with his “windfall.” To this end, he recruits Morin shine as philosopher and call girl with bourgeois (plus the inimitable Mitsou) must the services of a savvy ex-con, Sylvain “The a heart. (Aspasie almost reminds one of Sar- come to grips with their own mortality and Brain” Bigras, played here by veteran Qué- tre’s “respectful prostitute.”) in 2007 by Days of Darkness, a delightfully bec actor Rémy Girard. Good move. Second The closing montage of Inuit faces feels sombre end-of-days fantasy. Taken together, move, not so good in that he avails himself a bit awkward, but at least it is fore- critics have come to refer to these three films of the services of the highest-paid call girl in shadowed in a conversation Pierre-Paul as a trilogy. Montréal who calls herself “Aspasie,” thus has with a naïve Aspasie who at one point While clearly a nod to Decline, The Fall attracting the attention of the afore-men- is prompted to ask, “Oh, there are Inuit in of The American Empire (French title: La tioned police duo that has been keeping a Montréal?” Like Pierre-Paul, viewers can Chute de l’empire américan) expands on the watchful eye on him. only wonder just what they theme of money first broached in Barbarian Ever the well-meaning intellectual, Pierre- would do with two duffel to include money-laundering and tax havens. Paul wants to help those around him and bags stuffed with Can- It is dialogue-driven to the extent that the pro- redistribute the money in a meaningful way. adian banknotes and tagonist Pierre-Paul (Alexandre Landry) is He is also chagrined to learn that Jacmel, could they do so with- an underemployed philosopher who has con- the young Haitian chap who is also the sole out losing sight of vinced himself that stupid and venal people survivor of the botched robbery, has been their ethics? are more apt to inherit the earth as they are tortured to reveal the whereabouts of the less hindered by scruples. lucre, of which of course he knows nothing. The stage is nicely set in the first scene Accordingly, Pierre-Paul makes arrange- in which Pierre-Paul delivers himself of a ments to help him, a gesture Sylvain approves depressing monologue before his much put- of with the utmost reluctance. upon girlfriend who listens patiently as he With the police and the real owners (this explains that intelligence is a handicap in would be the “West End Gang” whose boss a world coarsened by the mad pursuit of lives in a classic Westmount “pile”) of the hot wealth, much of it illicit. He even manages money closing in, lawyer and power-broker In French with to diss some well-known philosophers en Wilbrod Taschereau (Pierre Curzi) enters the English subtitles route. I didn’t mind when he labelled Hei- picture to help with the money-laundering Rating 14A degger a Nazi, but I thought it a bit rich to and tax havens. Running time: dismiss Jean-Paul Sartre as a Stalinist! When not quoting from people like Mar- 128 minutes Destiny takes a hand when Pierre-Paul, cus Aurelius and Wittgenstein, Pierre-Paul is Scheduled for now reduced to driving a van for a courier wrestling with the ethical implications of his upcoming DVD company, stumbles into a bank robbery that manoeuvring – there really is something of release BIA Glebe Report June 14, 2019 17

Canadian Eats returns to the Glebe from June 21 to Canada Day

By Trevor Greenway “Canadian Eats gives local chefs and their patrons the opportunity to If you ask a chef in the Glebe to define explore our national cuisine and to Canadian cuisine, the answer will celebrate our great country leading up likely go beyond the iconic classics we to Canada Day,” says Glebe BIA exec- all know and love, like maple syrup, utive director Andrew Peck. “What is Montreal smoked meat and ketchup Canadian food? Come down to the chips. Glebe and let your taste buds answer Chef and co-owner Corey Baird that question.” is standing in his Eldon’s Restaurant It didn’t take long for Razmon Pois- surrounded by rustic tables and leans son to come up with a truly Canadian against the large wooden bar, lifts up dish for the June food celebration. One his arms and looks around. “It’s what’s quick thought about Canadian fare around you,” he says, tossing a white brought the head chef at Orto Trat- towel over his shoulder. “It’s not just toria back to when he was younger and poutine, it’s what grows here. There lamb was always on the table. Pois- are so many vegetables. I think of son’s creation is a pistachio-crusted Canadian food as whatever the farm- roasted Quebec lamb rack with leek ers are growing. It’s chicken, beef, puree, house-made yogurt and turnips pork, potatoes, it’s everything.” with crispy leeks. That’s why it won’t be too much “I think it really taps into a lot of of a challenge for Baird to concoct a Canadian roots,” says Poisson, who dish for Canadian Eats, the Glebe’s trained under executive chef and Top signature food promotion that invites Chef Canada winner Rene Rodriguez. local chefs to put Canada on a plate “The turnips have a good aspect of for 10 days leading up to Canada Day. spring, because they are quite acidic, Because Eldon’s sources all of its food and I slow braise them. And the leeks locally – beef from Tweed, fish from – if you think of Canadian cuisine, Lake Erie and vegetables from Juniper onions are everywhere – it’s just a

Farm in Wakefield – nearly everything more fun, playful way to eat them. TREVOR GREENWAY PHOTO: on their menu could be considered When I think of Canadian cuisine, I Orto head chef Razmon Poisson shows off his pistachio-crusted Quebec lamb rack Canadian. Baird could simply offer up think of lamb all the time.” for Canadian Eats. his Gaspor Grilled Pork Shoulder as Poisson agrees that the Glebe is the his Canuck dish, but he wants to cre- perfect neighbourhood for diners to ate something totally new and entirely explore their own national cuisine. Canadian. Most who walk through his door, he “I like showcasing stuff that isn’t says, are authentic food lovers who Gateway signage necessarily thought of as food, so want an enhanced dining experience doing stuff with spruce and pine nee- that truly titillates their taste buds. He dles, or trying to do something that sees his restaurant as a bit of a class- coming to the Glebe incorporates a very Canadian element, room where he can educate people but not in a food sense,” he says. “We through his culinary creations, and he By Trevor Greenway could serve something wrapped in says Glebeites are the perfect pupils. birch bark.” “You get some really good diners After nearly two years of discussion, a small parcel of land at the corner Canadian Eats was launched in 2017 in the Glebe and people really know of Bank Street and Chamberlain Avenue will be made available for a to tie in with Canada 150 celebrations what they are going for, they under- new Glebe gateway installation. A working group has been created to throughout the city. The award-win- stand food here,” he adds. “The Glebe develop initial concepts for consideration by the wider community. The ning event featured nearly 40 Glebe is a really cool spot for diners.” group is comprised of representatives from the Glebe Community As- restaurants last year that fired up Come taste firsthand what Canadian sociation, Underground Sound, the Glebe BIA as well as neighbourhood dishes like Blueberry French Toast, food is all about, relish the bounty of residents with backgrounds in architecture, landscaping and design. Grilled Maple Brush Salmon, and a ingredients that are grown here and The modest project will leverage $20,000 in revitalization funding Springtime in Canada Dosa filled with celebrate life in our great country. that has been secured from the province for this purpose. Initial ideas sautéed fiddleheads. These and other Canadian Eats runs from June 21 to will be shared with Glebe residents and stakeholders for their feed- dishes created a special Canadian Canada Day in the Glebe. Check out back later this year with the hope that the project will be completed Eats menu online that was bursting the menu online at www.canadianeats. by early 2020. with everything from appetizers to ca. The sign will serve to welcome people to the Glebe and will be main courses and desserts, all with enhanced by landscaping elements to further beautify the entrance to their own Canadian flare. This year’s Trevor Greenway is responsible for the historic neighbourhood. promotion will run from June 21 to communications at the Glebe BIA Canada Day. (Business Improvement Area).

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pared for his table. His followers the Alps. There they were stowed in commemorated him by serving regu- snow and ice where they would freeze lar feasts with the most luxurious of and stay preserved until the runners foods and the best of wines. returned in January to collect them to The most significant of these cele- sell to the populace as well as to grace brations took place on January 10, the the imperial tables. sparagus date of the philosopher’s birth. On Still, I think it better that today we this day feast goers would expect to are more apt to enjoy the delights of see tables laden with the most suc- asparagus in the prime of its season. culent of meats, sauces and fruits, –at the command and always with the finest and tasti- ASPARAGUS UNDER WRAPS est of all vegetables known within the of an emperor Asparagus bunch 6 eggs 1 cup milk Finely chopped chives (or other herb) Sea salt By Carolyn Best Slices of vegetable “ham,” or if you eat meat, prosciutto or speck Caesar Augustus, first emperor and founder of the Roman Principate, con- Remove the hard end of the aspara- trolled imperial Rome from 27 B.C. gus spears and put spears in a saucepan to 14 A.D. One of the most effective of boiling, salted water for 4 minutes and controversial leaders in human until just tender. Drain and immerse in history, the emperor was also a grand ice water to quickly cool. Once cool, connoisseur and as such, he wielded drain again and blot dry with a towel. the might of the Roman army to in- Beat eggs, milk, chives, and salt. dulge his passion for asparagus. Elite Heat a frying pan, add a dash of olive military units were organized under oil, and ladle in enough of the egg mix- his edict for its procurement. The ture to just cover the pan. Cook quickly famed “Asparagus Fleets” sailed the until surface is dry and turn over. Cook Mediterranean charged with finding until the underside is golden. the best varietals and bringing them BEST GWENDOLYN PHOTO: Remove to a plate and continue back to Rome. Asparagus Under Wraps showcases the seasonal delights of asparagus. cooking the thin crepes. The citizens of ancient Rome were When completed, begin wrapping famed for their love of gastronomy most desired by the emperor and the Roman Empire – asparagus. How- the asparagus spears in the crepes, fol- and asparagus, that most elegant mem- Roman populace was in January for ever, the Italian harvest had occurred lowed by a twist of the vegetable ham ber of the vegetable kingdom, reigned the Feast of Epicurus. nine months earlier. Obtaining vast or prosciutto. at its pinnacle. Asparagus is featured Epicurus, the Greek philosopher amounts for the Feast of Epicurus was (They can be cooked a day in in the first century cookbook On the who advocated the pursuit of personal made possible by the famed efficiency advance, held in the refrigerator and Art of Cooking as a main ingredient of happiness and pleasure along with the and delegation of the empire. served cold.) a “patina” – a kind of omelette made minimization of harm to others, was A massive organization of runners in a shallow dish – and was the cov- much admired and emulated for his and chariots was employed at the time Carolyn Best is the former proprietor eted vegetable of the empire. In Italy school of thought in the early days of when the asparagus was picked to take and chef of The Pantry vegetarian asparagus is harvested in April and the empire. Epicurus was renowned boxes of the freshly gathered spears tearoom, and a regular Glebe Report May. But the time of year when it was for the exquisite gourmet meals pre- and race them north to the glaciers of contributor on food.

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An Awesome Ottawa award was given creativity, self-expression, community to Cynthia Sugars to support The Com- spirit and confidence build. They are pany of Adventurers, a young people’s an inspiration! Shakespeare theatre company in Old “Our goal is to nourish the creative Ottawa South that performs in a neigh- talents of local children and to offer bourhood back yard. Every month, 10 them access to a genuinely enriching or so members of Awesome Ottawa cultural and theatrical experience. No contribute $100 each and decide on the prior acting experience is necessary recipient of the pooled funds, which is and we accept children from ages 10 to usually a local project. The Company 19. We try to bring out the inner con- of Adventurers was chosen in May to fidence and creativity of children and receive the $1,000 cheque! youth by working very cohesively as a “For years my dream was to run a team. We also foster the talents of the

summer theatre program for local kids actors by using music, dance, gymnas- OTTAWA AWESOME OF COURTESY PHOTO: to bring what I do in the classroom tics and other abilities that the actors The Company of Adventurers, a young people’s Shakespeare troupe in Old Ottawa to the public,” says Sugars, a teacher bring to the group. We are also try- South, received a cheque in May from Awesome Ottawa. of English and theatre at the Univer- ing to instill in young people a sense sity of Ottawa. “It is my belief that we of community outreach and respon- charity chosen by the children.” summer two nights a week, presenting underestimate what kids are capable sibility,” says Sugars. “We present The company’s show for 2019 is our shows on weekends in Septem- of. Shakespeare is not hard or scary. our shows as fundraisers for a local Shakespeare’s As You Like It. “We ber.” To learn more, and to attend a Our actors revel in the poetry, humour charity. We pass a hat after each show choose a different play each year,” show this fall, visit companyofadven- and social insights of Shakespeare. As and donate all of the money raised to explains Sugars, “and rehearse all turers.ca. each production develops, we see their the designated charity for that year, a A Company of Fools presents Romeo and Juliet The summer tradition returns! A lovers: Norah Paton, whose one- Company of Fools is back with their woman show Burnt found national Torchlight Shakespeare in the Park success, stars as Juliet while Ottawa series, visiting 36 parks all across improv legend and Fools veteran Les- eastern Ontario during the months of lie Cserapy plays Romeo. July and August. We’re also welcoming back past A stellar local cast of Fools both Fools who you might recognize new and old play 14 different roles to from GCTC productions this year: retell Shakespeare’s most known story Kate Smith (Virgin Trials) and Geoff in your own backyard. It’s the perfect McBride (Dear Mr. Wells) return in setting for an evening summer picnic the roles of Lady Capulet and Capulet. and is friendly for the entire family And a Fools fan favourite, Kate (even your dog). McArthur (Sebastian/Maria, Twelfth Night, 2018) also returns to play the ABOUT THE SHOW roles of both Mercutio and the Nurse. For the first time in 11 years a Com- Alongside her is a new Fool, Andrea pany of Fools tackles Shakespeare’s Massoud, playing Benvolio. iconic story Romeo and Juliet. Our tour runs July 2nd to August You know the story. The city of 17th. We perform Monday to Satur- Verona is plagued by violence as an day at 7 p.m. ancient rivalry between the Capulets The Fools are visiting 36 different and Montagues causes fighting in the parks all across Ottawa and eastern street. The son of Montague, Romeo, Ontario, and Wakefield Quebec. crashes the Capulet’s ball and falls From Westboro to Navan and every- for Capulet’s daughter Juliet. The two thing in between, Ottawa audiences will marry in secret and find themselves at be hard pressed to find a neighbourhood the centre of a city-wide feud. not included in the Fools’ summer tour. FOR ALE SOLD S A carnival setting creates the back- Even those from out of town commun- . drop for the Fools’ fantastical take ities such as McDonalds Corners and on the streets of Verona. Swords are Oxford Mills will get a chance to fool paired with water pistols and live around with the Fools this summer. music is played by a carnie barker As per usual, you can find a Com- with a megaphone. Audiences will pany of Fools in Strathcona Park every be transported to an adolescent para- Monday night. The full tour sched- dise of dangerous pleasure. Relive ule is to be announced on June 15th. your teenage angst with the Fools this Check out Fools.ca for details. summer as they present the world’s All of our shows are pay-what-you- SOLD SOLD favourite romance. can, with a suggested donation of $20/ Two of Ottawa’s favourite young person. Our actors pass hats once the actors play the bard’s star-crossed performance has concluded.

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Odyssey Theatre (picture from a 2015 production) will present The Bonds of Interest in Strathcona Park Jul 25–Aug 25. PHOTO: ODYSSEY THEATRE ODYSSEY PHOTO: By Zainab Lemkhanat dell’Arte farce and a comedy of intrigue that probes Steven is also working with an outstanding team human nature with a cynical eye, while drawing all of designers, notably local heritage architect Barry Odyssey Theatre welcomes theatre goers from walks of life together in the joy of laughter. Bena- Padolsky (set) who played a key role in the $150 across Ottawa each year to their outdoor stage in vente uses the characters of Commedia to unfold the million, eight-year rehabilitation of the Canadian beautiful Strathcona Park, just a 15-minute bike ride mix of selfishness, altruism, brutality and human- Museum of Nature and the Ottawa Art Gallery-Arts or drive from the Glebe. Odyssey’s Theatre Under ity in all of us. Court redevelopment, award-winning local designer the Stars series has received over 25 awards and While it is considered Benavente’s most celebrated Vanessa Imeson (costumes), Ottawa composer and nominations, and was most recently included in the work, The Bonds of Interest is rarely produced in founder of Lachance music Venessa Lachance Ottawa Citizen’s Top 10 live performances of 2018. North America. Distinguished scholar Catherine (music/sound) and eminent mask designer Clelia Odyssey returns to the park this summer with Boyle of King’s College London collaborated with Scala. The team of designers is creating a world of a new translation and adaptation of The Bonds Odyssey’s artistic director Laurie Steven to create a decadent glamour and decaying wealth inspired by of Interest by Nobel Prize laureate Jacinto Bena- dynamic new translation that will introduce Bena- graphic novels and hip-hop jazz funk music, that is vente. The Bonds of Interest is a wickedly clever vente’s modern Commedia dell’Arte masterpiece inhabited by comic masked crooks and charlatans. satire about self-interest, greed and corruption in a to the contemporary English-speaking world. This With a vibrant new translation of a Spanish gem, modern consumer-driven world. Two penniless con exciting collaboration was developed through Odys- a talented cast and company and the return of artists arrive in a town of pretenders and concoct a sey’s New Play Creation Program with workshops in Odyssey’s trademark style, this stunning produc- devious scheme to get rich quick. The brains of the both Ottawa and the UK. tion promises to be the hit of the summer. Enjoy a operation, Crispín, poses as a servant to the dashing Odyssey’s award-winning artistic director Laurie magical night of Theatre Under the Stars along the Leandro, who in his turn poses as a wealthy inter- Steven returns to direct a talented cast of Odyssey vet- banks of the Rideau River with friends and family. national man of mystery. Together, they live high off erans and newcomers from Ottawa, Toronto and the The Bonds of Interest runs from July 25 to August of all those hoping to get rich by associating with UK. Leading the cast as Crispín, the master manipu- 25, 2019, Tuesdays through Sundays at 8 p.m., with them, while scheming to get Leandro married to lator, is Canadian-British actor and Odyssey veteran matinees on Sunday afternoons at 2 p.m. Tickets the richest young woman in town. All is put at risk Ross Mullan, best known as the White Walker on available as of June 10. More information about when Leandro falls in love with the girl and wants Game of Thrones. Also joining the cast is Toronto the- Odyssey Theatre is available at odysseytheatre.ca. out of the con. At the same time, the townspeople atre and film actor Soo Garay, most recently seen on become wise to the machinations of the two crooks. HBO’s The Handmaid’s Tale and the Netflix Series Zainab Lemkhanat is a newcomer in Canada with a But Crispín, the master manipulator, has everyone so The Umbrella Academy. Five talented Ottawa actors love of theatre and a passion for languages. She is tied up in their vested bonds of interest that no one will be taking the stage this summer, including Stav- thrilled to be part of the Odyssey Theatre community can afford to reveal the fraudsters’ plot. ros Sakiadis, Mitchel Rose, Bruce Spinney, Maryse and appreciates how theatre can be a fantastic bridge The Bonds of Interest is a mad Commedia Fernandes and William Beddoe. between communities.

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author. His service on the council information, garnered during his especially in light of the generations of the City of Ottawa included being career interest in climate change and of exploitation justified by a misin- chair of the Environment and Climate responsible lifestyles. His insight into terpretation of the injunction to “fill Protection Committee. That breadth the Machiavellian intrigues within the earth and subdue it.” Apocalyptic of background knowledge shines politics and commerce are frighten- fatalism and its ties to fundamental- through in this novel. ing enough, but his predictions of the ism – as Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale Crafted around the adventures of course of events in the world at large so aptly cautions – have long served four optimistic Cambridge graduate will take away what little sleep you as an excuse for capitalistic greed. It students, it is well-paced and compel- might have hoped for. is a bankrupt philosophy that demands ling. The principal characters – Sagan, Novels in this genre are necessarily more vigorous confrontation (as Jenny, Jiro and Simone – develop didactic and portentous. Chernus- indeed some apologists in addition to interests and careers in climate sci- henko, however, navigates this with Pope Francis are attempting, such as Review by Frank Johnson ence, business and journalism. Each is panache, speaking through his char- David Bookless, Ontario native; Kath- well developed and their stories form acters with precision and depth. The erine Hayhoe, Director of the Climate Into the burgeoning field of climate an excellent narrative that underpins multifaceted dark sides of our soci- Science Center at Texas Tech Univer- change novels we receive Burning Souls the novel. ety are exposed to the searing light sity; or Wendel Berry). by former Ottawa City Councillor David Chernushenko manages to join all of consequence. Given the news Chernushenko explores the redemp- Chernushenko. This book is different. the dots between the symptoms and each day (Humans threaten one mil- tive power of acting with courage and Do not pick it up unless you’re prepared events of the growing crisis, tracing lion species with extinction, Nature’s integrity and the value of close friends to stay up late finishing it. an arc from the “Lost Decade” of the emergency in five graphics, Five in the face of critics and opponents, but Chernushenko has a notable pedi- 1990s to a nail-biting finale in the mid- things we have learned from the ultimately comes to the same position gree as an educator, filmmaker and 2020s. He brings a wealth of accurate nature crisis study, just to look at one as many mythopoetic authors before news site in the past week!) together him: a physical extermination of evil is with the increasing number of dec- the only remaining option. Will the tra- larations of “climate emergency” by vails of his characters compel us to the governments and school children same position? Do we have the courage around the world, his illumination is of Simone to take up those arms? The timely and sobering. arc of history traced in this novel may An intriguing thread throughout portend only one conclusion. the novel is the many references to an Burning Souls was launched at New Clients Always Welcome! encyclical published by Pope Francis Southminster United Church on May in 2015 titled Laudato si: On Care 27. It is available in most local book- • Preventive Medicine • Vaccination for Our Common Home. This oft- stores and online. Chernushenko’s • Assessment and Treatment • Surgery and Dentistry overlooked work is a lucid account cross-country Electrified Burning of Injuries and Illness • Nutritional Counseling of the harm inflicted on the earth by Souls Road Trip began on June 3. Monday to Thursday 8am - 7pm our irresponsible use and abuse of the Friday 8am - 6pm & Saturday 8am - 2pm goods with which God has endowed Frank Johnson is a local businessman it. Whatever one’s spiritual outlook, and passionate and involved member celebrating 20 great years in the glebe the theme merits careful attention, of the Glebe community.

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Explore the natural world at the Sunnyside Library By Caitlin Giffin she learns to believe in herself with book for learning to identify blue jays, nock tells the tale of a young girl who the help of her encouraging parents. robins, nuthatches and all sorts of goes on an errand through the woods Here at the children’s department of Accompanied by Stasia Burrington’s feathery friends. Read this book and to deliver her Kôhkum’s famous ban- the Sunnyside library, we are eagerly lovely illustrations, this is a great pic- then see how many different kinds of nock. On the way disaster strikes and anticipating our most favourite event ture book for children who dream birds you can spot on your next walk! she drops the bannock off a bridge! of the year – the TD Summer Reading about space or need encouragement Will Awâsis be able to get out of this Club! This year is especially exciting to follow their dreams. Botanicum pickle with the help of her animal because our theme is sure to be a by Katie Scott and Kathy Willis friends? Author Dallas Hunt sprinkles crowd pleaser; we will be exploring Secrets of the Vegetable Garden Botanicum is a big beautiful non- Cree words throughout the story and all things relating to the natural world. by Carron Brown fiction book all about the amazing and provides a handy pronunciation guide We will have tons of great things go- Non-fiction picture books are a fan- diverse plant life in the world. With in the back for those new to the lan- ing on at the library, with special visits tastic way to keep a child engaged chapters on trees, herbaceous plants guage. A fun read for young animal from the Diefenbunker museum, the while learning new things. Secrets of and environmental adaptation, this is lovers and those interested in learn- Zoo Crew and artist Wendy Quirt, as the Vegetable Garden is a great first a great pick for school-age botanists ing some new words in Cree. well as special programming through- look at how vegetables grow, and the but is worth a look just for the stun- These books and so many more are out the summer. And of course we will different animal friends that play a ning illustrations. available at the Ottawa Public Library. be digging up our famous treasure part in our gardens. This book is from chest for the occasion! Here are some the Shine-A-Light series and is best Awâsis and the World-Famous Caitlin Giffin is children’s programs great books about the natural world read with a flashlight in hand because Bannock and public service assistant at the to get you and the little ones in your you may see some surprises hidden on by Dallas Hunt Sunnyside Branch of the Ottawa Public life curious and ready for the summer. the pages! Awâsis and the World-Famous Ban- Library.

Mae Among the Stars Every Day Birds by Rhoda Ahmed by Amy Ludwig VanDerwater Mae Among the Stars tells the true A great pick for your pint-sized bird story of Dr. Mae Jameson, the first watcher, Every Day Birds introduces African-American woman to travel to young readers to the birds we see in space. Told in simple accessible lan- our daily lives in the city. Accom- guage, the book follows young Mae panied by Dylan Metrano’s beautiful as she discovers her dream to become cut-paper illustrations, this is a great an astronaut. Although she encoun- ters people who don’t believe in her, If your book club would like to share its reading list, please email it to Micheline Boyle at [email protected]

Here is a list of some titles read and discussed recently in various local book clubs: TITLE (for adults) AUTHOR First Snow Last Light Wayne Johnston A Man Called Ove Fredrik Backman The Alice Network Kate Quinn Bellevue Square Michael Redhill Hag-seed Margaret Atwood Chocolat Joanne Harris A Tuscan Childhood Kinta Beevor The Immortalists Chloe Benjamin Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania Erik Larson The Elephant’s Journey José Saramago Full Disclosure Beverley McLachlin The Best We Could Do Thi Bui The Elegance of the Hedgehog Muriel Barbery TITLE (for children and teens) AUTHOR Aru Shah and the End of Time Roshani Chokshi Tuesday at the Castle Jessica Day George

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More poems that are out of this world! space and time travel, undiscovered planets featuring work both related to May’s theme and and unknown worlds, nightmares and dreams beyond, submitted by intermediate, elementary —JC Sulzenko, Poetry Quarter Curator This month, the Glebe Report’s Poetry Quarter – poems that speak of things outside the real and kindergarten students. Special thanks to continues the May theme of science fiction or world. the Grade 2/3 students at Hopewell Avenue speculation, fantasy, magic and witchcraft, This is a special edition of Poetry Quarter Public School for their poems.

WAKE UP From the Grade 2/3 students of teacher Alyson Scrim at Hopewell Avenue Public School: It’s growing everyday We would play in it but now we hide A World Upside Down We think it’s a joke Then reality hits Some worlds are old Love My World Some are new It used to be clear as clear as glass, But what if one was upside down? I love my world And when the sun would hit it crystals would appear Things would fall I love my world The skies were always bright and blue was all around Big and small I crawl into it every day And now it starts to reflect the grey lonely sky But not so far up to the stars Into my hole ’Cause we all know that’s in space Into my world It sometimes turns black as black as coal On Imagination Into my favourite tree house There are things floating, —Robyn F., Grade 3 Into my blueberry farm That shouldn’t have I wish there were no bad hockey cards. Into the places I love Ever made it this far I wish I could eat In my world pizza for my whole life! Time Travel My big, big beautiful imaginary world. It gets bigger covering 70% of “our” earth I wish I could pet a bear. And all we do is watch, And I wish I could have a pet bear. In to eternity —Juniper C., Grade 3 Not paying any attention, Past all the worlds To the animals crying for help —Elliott Roache, JK, Mutchmor Public School It’s really grand Spiraling out of control Witches and Fairies We pay no attention I feel a little sick The joke is over, reality is here, Just Beginnings I can’t wait ’til we get back on land. Witches and fairies of all the kind. And yet we still all watch, It’s very loud Flying through the night, trying to find…..something To see the world slowly disappear Given the power to travel time, Just like a band divine! I would do so the age of eight This is getting out of hand. Witches search for dried up mouse, —Katie Riis, Grade 7, Hopewell Avenue Public School so that I could play with my son Time Travel. While fairies scamper over to their house. and our little brother. Fairies fly in search of nectar, ‑—Eydie P., Grade 3 To bring back home to their Queen’s sceptre! Hurt We would be best friends, Witches flying through the air, as we are now. On their broomstick to their lair. I kneel before him We could play hockey together, Flamesy The next time you visit fairy tale lands, “Please” I beg him as we do now. Be sure to watch out for big boiling pans! “It’s not fair” I plead The new planet Flamesy, He puts a bowl before me and fills it with pebbles We could trade cards with each other. Shining in the sky, —Beatrice C., Grade 3 He barks at me and walks away I wouldn’t let them win at wrestling. Far away in a different universe, I wobble over to the rug and fall asleep But now, Waiting to be discovered. “Bad human!” I hear him yell at me who will make us dinner? Flamesy is very far away, I whimper and scurry over to my mother Waiting, just waiting to be discovered. She holds me tight —dave roache Flamesy ispq blue, purple and grey, In the night sky, it shines from far away, She chuckles and then whispers in my ear With little blue creatures, living happily, “Somewhere far away we own dogs and they don’t own us” They fear the humans, coming to their land. She sits down like she always does when she’s like that The planet is big and very nice, when just when, will the humans live on Flamesy? But that doesn’t last long He slaps a leash onto my collar —Reid S., Grade 3 “Walk” The man grunts at me

My hands squish into the mud as he tugs on the chain Flying Space Dogs I feel as if I’m choking on steel When we get back my mother licks my face Have you ever seen a flying space dog? She brings me to the backyard and washes me off in a puddle Well I’ll tell you that they’d do anything to do with space if you give ’em a treat. He flops down in his bed so we know that we have to sleep too. For example, they’d check out Jupiter, Mars and any other planet. But for that, you need to give ’em a treat. —Victoria Champion, Grade 7, Featherstone Drive Public School But watch out, ’Cause they don’t know, which planet’s which.

—Mara S., Grade 3

Space Poetry Quarter In space you can’t feel your face. Lots of stars high in the sky So beautiful and light My oh my! August 2019 Poetry Quarter Deadline: Friday, July 26, 2019 Lots of aliens live on Mars As usual, poems should be: When humans come they say: Mars is ours! They say history shapes us; the past determines our pres- Original and unpublished in any medium (no poems Lots of rockets soaring in the sky, but why? ent and our future. Is there a moment in the past that has submitted elsewhere, please), Because they fly. stayed with you for better or for worse? No more than 30 lines each, The sun is very hot The Glebe Report’s August 2019 Poetry Quarter seeks On any aspect of the theme within the bounds of public It is shaped like a dot. poems on the theme of history. What can we learn from discourse, Eight planets so beautiful history? What happens when we ignore the past? Does Submitted on or before July 26, 2019. I am very thankful. history depend on who and where we are? Can we escape Poets in the National Capital Region of all ages welcome the past? (school-age poets, please indicate your grade and school). —Katie P., Grade 2 Poems on the broader notion of history as “story” are Please send your entries (up to 5 poems that meet the also welcome; how do the stories we tell ourselves, the criteria) to [email protected] before the deadline of voices we hear and the voices we shut out influence us? Friday, July 26, 2019. Remember to send us your contact information and your grade and school if you are in school. MUSIC Glebe Report June 14, 2019 25 The Sunset Singers

By Ed Weick

The Sunset Singers are a dynamic and energetic group of older people who see the world as a meaningful place, a place they want to affirm and praise through song. As positive people, they want to do things for their community and its people. They’ve now been ac- tive as a group for seven years. Though members come and go, there are now The Sunset Singers perform for the love of singing, but they also raise funds for worthy causes. about 15 of them, some 10 women and four or sometimes five men, and they not stopped them from being active. ous committees and a miscellany of silent auction. Everyone who’s attended range in age from their late 60s to well One member who suffers from Par- organizations because they still have a these concerts in past years has been into their 90s. kinson’s serves meals to the needy lot to offer and don’t want to sit around very pleased by them! They hope to see When they were younger, they at a local church. Another recently in boredom. you at the coming concert because they worked hard for a living, made sure made a C.D in celebration of her 80th As a choir, the Sunset Singers know you’ll greatly enjoy it. that their families had food and shel- birthday and now has the time to take assemble weekly from various parts The Sunset Singers perform the ter, and that their children were piano lessons and practise four hours a of Ottawa–Gatineau to practise under annual concert partly because they educated, and they did all of those day. A member, in his 90s, completed a superb director, confidence booster enjoy doing it, but in large measure necessary things that get one through two books, made four CDs and cre- Roxanne Goodman. As they put it, because a variety of charities benefit life. Now they have time to let their ated a website to share his research on they see themselves as singing not from it. Charities they have supported creative side come to the fore and they the history of Israel. Another member because the sun is going down, but with money raised in past concerts very much enjoy doing that. has recently written a play that is to because it’s still up there. And they’ll include food banks, programs that As with everyone, declining health be performed at the theatre in Wake- keep singing as long as it’s there! assist in the preservation of wild- as one ages has been a factor with the field in the fall. Still others have taken Who listens to their songs? Well, life and summer programs for young Sunset Singers. Yet health issues have university-level courses, joined vari- they’ve done a lot of gigs at retirement people. They understand the need for homes and other facilities that house caring and giving, and they will not older or ailing people. Their audiences quit supporting that need. have thoroughly enjoyed their per- What the Sunset Singers most basic- formances, often inviting them back. ally demonstrate is that age needn’t And once a year they do a concert at a be a burden. Yes, aging does change major performance venue like Centre- behaviour, but they believe that much point Theatre. That’s where they’ll be of what you were in your younger performing their eighth annual con- years can remain with you as you cert this year on Saturday, November enter your senior years. You don’t have 2 at 2:30 p.m. Their program will to leave your true self behind! once again consist of things people thoroughly enjoy – songs, skits and a Ed Weick has been a member of the chance to bid on many lovely items at a Sunset Singers for some five years.

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Bargain Basement Open! PHOTO: HILL PEPPARD PHOTO: Former Glebite and Juno nominee Alison Young returns home on June 27 to play at the TD Ottawa Jazz Festival at 6:30 p.m. on the Main Stage at Marion Dewar Plaza, City Hall. 26 Glebe Report June 14, 2019 GLEBOUS & COMICUS BORROWED WORDS Tulips or two lips? By Sophie Shields gods, Paeon, because of their well- known healing properties. As well, As the weather continues to warm we have calla lilies, deemed so beauti- up, the gardens in the Glebe flourish ful that when Aphrodite first laid eyes with radiance. A new flower springs on them, her beauty was threatened. up every day, inspiring passersby to Therefore, she cursed them by adding spend weekends at gardening stores a large yellow pistil in the middle to and evenings amid what will hope- take away their allure. fully become an envied lawn. Yet, Other names take root in history and few people actually know the stories are based on their founders. The name behind the tulips, roses and daisies tulip for example, does not come from filling up their gardens. That is why, the image of two lips kissing. It actually more and more, the science of floriog- comes from the Turkish tülbent: “tur- raphy, which studies the language of ban.” To the ancient namers, the flower flowers, incites curiosity. resembled the male headdress worn All plants have both a common and across the Middle East and India. an unpronounceable name, allowing Every flower holds a story longing them to have double the number of to be told. So, the next time you are hidden secrets. For a start, one surpris- hoping to plant some flowers, take a ing floral gem might be what scientists moment and decide what kind of story call phalaenopsis: the orchid. In fact, you want your garden to tell. With a this Greek term means a “group of bit of careful thought and a tender large moths!” It is said that when in hand, a whole novel could blossom mid flight, moths look exactly like an right in your front yard. elegant and majestic orchid. Another mystery is the daisy, which Sophie Shields is a Grade 12 student comes from the Old English phrase at École de la Salle who lives in the daes eag, meaning “day’s eye.” Dais- Glebe. She speaks English, Ukrainian ies have the rather peculiar behaviour and French, and is learning German of closing their petals at night and only and American Sign Language. Her reopening them to reveal their yellow passions are writing and languages; centre in the day. she is part of her school’s creative On top of this, many names origin- writing program and has published ate from mythology such as peonies, poems and stories in various

PHOTO: LIZ MCKEEN PHOTO: named after the physician of Greek languages. The Glebe according to Zeus A GUINEA PIG’S PERSPECTIVE ON THE GLEBE Guinea Pigs: Flood victims or frauds?!?

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This retrospective is filed bi- monthly by Ian McKercher of the Glebe Historical Society. The society SYDNEY COOK LANE munity and his church. cinates me,” he said. “I’m captivated welcomes the donation or loan (for Long-time Glebe resident Sydney by the visual marriage between archi- copying) of any item documenting Cook had passed away just short of IAN VAN LOCK tecture and environment, laced with Glebe history (photographs, maps, his one hundredth birthday. The lane “Young artist “captures” Glebe hous- trees everywhere.” surveys, news articles, posters, running between Broadway and the es” was the headline of an article programs, memorabilia, etc.). Driveway was named after him in that described the house portraits of MARY SPROULE tribute to a lifetime of public service. “youthful and brightly clad Glebe A full-page article by Sheila Jenkins His wife cut the ribbon at the dedica- artist,” Ian Van Lock (Bhat Boy). Mr. honoured the 20-year contribution of Contact Ian at 613-235-4863 or tion ceremony attended by neighbours Van Lock began drawing houses while teacher Mary Sproule to the junior [email protected]. Mayor Jim Durrell and Alderman a student at Glebe Collegiate. He had kindergarten class at Mutchmor. Lynn Smith. just completed his second year at the Mrs. Sproule would be transferring to NOTE: Mr. Cook was a chemist and pub- Ontario College of Art in Toronto and Queensway Public School in the fall. All back issues of the lic administrator whose career at the was hoping to parlay his talent and Dominion Bureau of Statistics and affection for drawing house portraits GLEBE CHURCHES Glebe Report to June 1973 can be later the National Research Council into a summer job. A listing of current Glebe churches viewed on the Glebe Report website at stretched from 1915 to 1954. Mr. Van Lock expressed a strong named 12 different religious com- www.glebereport.ca under the He wrote broadly and served on affinity for the unique chronology munities including three that catered PAST ISSUES menu. many national and international com- of late 19th and 20th century archi- to Chinese speakers and an Ottawa mittees, as well as being an active tecture found in the Glebe. “It is the Deaf Fellowship that served the hear- supporter of his profession, his com- thrust of time upon a building that fas- ing impaired.

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Glebe Report article by Richard Webb wins award

An article by Richard Webb that appeared in the December 2018 issue of the Glebe Report has won an Award for Media Excel- lence for 2018 given by the Federation of Citizens’ Associations of Ottawa (FCA) . The article, entitled “Promises Broken – the Demise of the Mutchmor Hockey Rink,” was an op-ed piece advocating the return of a boarded rink to the Mutchmor school field. It garnered substantial interest, including mainstream media coverage of the issue, and was instrumental in generating the lively community discussion that ensued, including the May 15 community meeting. HEALTH Glebe Report June 14, 2019 29 PHOTO: COURTESY OF H. SAMHAT OF H. COURTESY PHOTO:

Some of the organizers of the Interdisciplinary Student Research Conference on Healthcare, held in March at the Ottawa Hospital. The annual conference is a uOttawa student-run conference dedicated to the importance of interdisciplinary care for the improvement of healthcare and patient care. Student leaders are shaping the future of healthcare

By Hussein Samhat Conference on Healthcare (ISRCH); opportunity for learning for everyone involved in such debates in a univer- the last one was held on March 30 at the who was involved – students, faculty, sity class setting. Imagine walking into a clinic and Ottawa Hospital General Campus (in speakers and guests.” In support of this initiative, Dean having all the related experts there in part sponsored by Glebe businesses). The event ends with an open panel Thibault, dean of the Faculty of Health one place all aware of what you need. ISRCH is a student-run conference discussion that addresses critical Sciences at the University of Ottawa, What if you no longer wasted time dedicated to the importance of inter- issues and suggests possible solu- shared: “You have my complete sup- and effort going from one specialist to disciplinary care for the improvement tions through an interdisciplinary port for such an effort. I myself was another but could go into an interdisci- of healthcare and patient care. approach. ISRCH 2019’s panel able to learn more about how some of plinary clinic where multiple experts The annual event, which is open to the debated whether there is an over- my faculty’s professors conduct their would listen to you and then discuss public, includes keynote speakers and prescription of psychiatric drugs research. You are the interprofes- your case and determine whom you workshops that cover various subjects. compared to other methods in serv- sional teams that will play a part in will see and what will be done? Also, there are research presentations ing the adolescent population. An healthcare and well-being. It is a great As indicated by the president and by undergraduate, masters and PhD epidemiologist, a CHEO psychiatrist, opportunity for current profession- CEO of CHEO Alex Munter, “Our students from various faculties, that are a psychotherapist, a Royal Hospital als as well to connect and share their healthcare system excels at acute evaluated by professors outside of their pharmacist and a social worker pre- knowledge.” She added, “Next year, I care and urgent cases. But we fail at field of study to foster knowledge trans- sented their individual approaches, would like to support you and be one chronic needs that require more than fer and hence cooperation. providing examples, research and of the judges to help students with one specialty.” With this awareness, Said Alex Munter, “When I attended statistical evidence to support their their presentations. I hope to see this a medical student started an initiative the Interdisciplinary Student Research points. Once the panel had expressed becoming more and more bilingual.” that seeks to plant the seeds of col- Conference on Healthcare, I was their individual responses, they The goal is a future with an inter- laboration into our healthcare system. really pleased to see tomorrow’s voiced the need for collaboration disciplinary approach to healthcare This initiative is necessary for prog- health care practitioners already mak- and urged that the support for such a that will not only save us money but ress, as Dr. Jack Kitts, CEO of the ing a difference today. The best future system be put in place. Students also will also save patients time, effort and Ottawa Hospital, proposed: “We need for health care is teams of profession- participated in a Q&A. frustration. leaders because we need change. If we als from many disciplines partnering This is a unique opportunity for don’t change, we don’t get better.” with patients and families to keep specialists and a great one for med- Hussein Samhat is part of the planning These leaders host an annual people well, prevent disease and treat ical students, as they don’t get access team for the Interdisciplinary Student Interdisciplinary Student Research ill health. The ISRCH provided a rich to such teaching approaches nor get Research Conference on Healthcare.

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By Jim Watson munities only two short years later. months apart has taken a significant I would like to express my most Tragically, the community of Dun- toll on our community. sincere gratitude to the nearly 16,000 In May 2017, the National Capital robin was still recovering from the I declared a state of emergency in volunteers and 700 members of the Region was hit by significant floods devastating tornadoes that hit in Sep- the City of Ottawa on April 25 on Canadian Armed Forces who came that devastated hundreds of homes tember 2018 when the current flooding the recommendation of city manager out to help our residents in need. along the Ottawa River in West Car- occurred. Many residents lost their Steve Kanellakos and his team. The These incredible men and women leton, Cumberland and in Gatineau. home in an instant when the tornadoes projections from the Ottawa River filled over 1.6 million sandbags, What was presumed to be a once-in- touched down. Thankfully, no one lost Regulation Planning Board showed brought hot beverages and food to the a-hundred-years natural disaster came their life, but the impact of two nat- that the river peak levels in some areas volunteer centers and provided invalu- back to ravage those very same com- ural disasters occurring less than eight would reach dozens of centimetres able emotional and moral support to above May 2017 levels. It was clear those working on the front lines and that the City of Ottawa would need to the impacted residents. the assistance of the provincial gov- Once again, in the midst of a nat- ernment and the help of the Canadian ural disaster, our city has shown that Armed Forces to mitigate the floods it is a caring and compassionate city. and offer some relief to the home- I am touched by the generosity and INSPIRING GIRLS owners, volunteers, city crews and kindness I have witnessed during this first responders who had been work- difficult time. ing around the clock for weeks to save As we move into the post-floods homes in the affected areas. recovery stages, I encourage our resi- Thousands of dedicated city employ- dents to keep their spirits up and our ees, volunteers and military personnel sense of community strong. The City have shown incredible acts of courage of Ottawa and its disaster relief part- and determination over the last few weeks ners will continue to provide help and as they tried to save as many homes as resources so that flood victims can they could from the rising Ottawa River. start to rebuild their homes and bring My heart goes out to the homeowners normalcy back to their lives. whose homes have been affected by the The latest information on the flood- floods and to the 155 households who ing situation can be found at Ottawa.ca. had to evacuate their residences and leave their belongings behind. Jim Watson is the mayor of Ottawa.

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Nina celebrates ten years at Tracy Arnett Realty. Tracy Arnett Realty Ltd. Brokerage. This is not intended to solicit properties already listed for sale 32 Glebe Report June 14, 2019 SCHOOLS LGBTQ2S+ history mural at Glebe Collegiate PHOTO: JORI ARMISHAW PHOTO: PHOTO: HOT SHOE PRODUCTIONS HOT PHOTO: Students at Glebe Collegiate in the Grade 11 Gender Studies class worked for The mural hangs on a dramatic black background on a Glebe Collegiate staircase. eight months to create a mural depicting key moments in the history of LGBTQ2S+ people. By Emma Buchanan Over a period of several months, the group “became a family over those transgender school board trustee!) students talked with their peers and two weeks,” dancing to music and gathered on the second floor landing “We created this mural to bring aware- community-based LGBTQ2S+ artists eating pizza as they painted historic to celebrate the unveiling and eat rain- ness to the struggles the LGBTQ2S+ Thane Robyn and RJ Jones to deter- moments, noted one student. bow cake. community has faced throughout mine five moments in North American The final mural moments include: A member of the Rainbow Alliance history. These events are as important LGBTQ2S+ history to highlight in a homage to Sylvia Rivera and Mar- Club and one of the mural creators, as any historical event and deserve to the mural. They wanted the mural to sha P. Johnson, the trans women of Harry Loop, told the crowd, “Art can be well known. People need to know include all voices, especially those colour leaders of the Stonewall move- be fantastic for the head, heart and that there is still oppression in this who have been marginalized and ment; a representation of the two-spirit body. This mural was not just self- community and we hope this mural whose history hasn’t made the hist- Indigenous identity; a celebration care, but care for others. We do the will inspire students to stop the dis- ory books. of the legalization of gay marriage best we can to ensure the security and crimination.” – Glebe student creators. One of the most notable aspects of in Canada; the Black Lives Matter well-being of others in this building In February 2018, Anneke Jansen the process is the students’ relationship Toronto sit-in in Toronto Pride 2016; and out. I hope these murals help cre- van Doorn’s Grade 11 Gender Stud- with Glebe principal Steven Mas- and the passing of Bill C-16 that added ate that safe space for students, openly ies class at Glebe Collegiate Institute sey. Although there were roadblocks, gender identity and gender expression queer or not, to feel proud and safe in began Youth Ottawa’s Civic Engage- including fears that fire code would be to the Canadian Charter of Rights and their school.” ment Programming. In this program, violated for placing the mural panels Freedoms. high school students choose an issue in a staircase, they “never felt at any After eight months hanging in the Emma Buchanan is the Youth of civic importance to address in an point that the project would be shut front office, the mural was finally Engagement Coordinator at Youth eight-week action plan in collabor- down,” one student said. hung in the school’s main staircase. Ottawa and facilitated the creation of ation with a trained facilitator and a That trust in a principal is rare. The Students were thrilled that an entire the Glebe LGBTQ2S+ History Mural. community partner. unwavering support and willingness stairway was not only painted black The students at Glebe reflected on of Massey to learn and adapt through- to highlight the images of their cre- what they and their peers often felt at out the process earned him trust from ation, but was closed to the student school – that LGBTQ students are still his students and made him a key ally body, which certainly created a buzz. discriminated against despite the per- and collaborator. The reveal could not have come at Glebe students ception of growing acceptance. They Students worked with professional a better time, as the students from met with the school’s Rainbow Alli- muralist and community-based art- the original Grade 11 Gender Studies engage with ance Club and decided that a mural in ist Claudia Salguero for two weeks class will be graduating next month. the main stairway would encourage an after school in May 2018 to envision On May 29, students, parents, teach- inclusive and caring space for students the five moments and transfer these ers, friends and ODCSB School Board democracy for years to come. visions onto aluminum panels. The Trustee Lyra Evans (Canada’s first By Ruth Kagan

CIVIX, a civic education organiza- tion, gave an opportunity for Samuel Bierbrier, James Ivison, Jonah Brender and Juliana Whamond from Glebe Collegiate Institute to attend the bud- get reading of Finance Minister Bill Morneau in the House of Commons on March 9, 2019. These four Glebe Collegiate stu- dents in Ruth Kagan’s class were among many students across Canada who completed the Student Budget Consultation Survey online after hav- ing seen videos of each of the political party’s views as well as a number of student views on what was important for the budget 2019. More than 8,000 students participated in the project. CIVIX organizes a Democracy Bootcamp each year in Toronto for teachers across the province who would like to get involved with the Student Vote. The next federal election is sched- uled for October 21, 2019. The next opportunity for students to get engaged

PHOTO: COURTESY OF ACORN EARLY LEARNING CENTRE EARLY ACORN OF COURTESY PHOTO: will be the Student Vote mock election for the 2019 federal election. The young artists at Acorn Early Learning Centre in the Glebe produced this Sunflower, making creative use of ready-at-hand objects and materials to fashion a work of art reminiscent of Van Gogh. Ruth Kagan is a teacher at Glebe Collegiate Institute. DISCOVERY Glebe Report June 14, 2019 33

U.S. president for a day

By Anant Nagpur The people of Plattsburg, Missouri, with a population of a little over 300 Did you know there was a president in 1849, strongly believed it then and of the United States for one day? Per- as I discovered when I visited in April, haps you have, perhaps not, but when its population of 2,500 still proudly I heard of this back in the late 1980s believes it. They are indifferent about I was very keen on finding out more, whether historians believe it or not, one day. That day came on April 13, but the debate carries on. They believe 2019. he was the 12th president and had the This story dates back to 1849 (170 best administration ever. If they were years ago), on March 4, 1849. The out- to have a presidential library, it would going U.S. President James Polk and be the smallest in the world. He even vice-president George Dallas did not got a presidential salary of $68.50 for want to stay on the job beyond noon, the day as per rules of the day. and incoming president-elect Zachary The story is that President Atchison Taylor did not want to take the oath of was so drunk he did not remember office on a Sunday, considered a very that he was president and slept through religious day. That created a dilemma the day. But the people of Plattsburgh and the question was: On that day, was are very proud of him regardless. there a president or not? The answer For me it was an adventure to dis-

was yes, there was a president: Sen- cover where it all happened. I am glad NAGPUR A. OF COURTESY PHOTO: ator David Rice Atchison was chosen I did it my way, travelling by train, Anant Nagpur, with the statue of U.S. President David Rice Atchison, president for a because he was president pro temp (a plane and automobile to reach Platts- day, and hosts term referring to the senior-most sen- burg, Missouri. ator in the senate). I could not have done it without the He became, in law, Acting President help of husband-and-wife team Sherri description. They had even called however, you can contact them by from March 4, 1849, to March 5, 1849, and Ron Shatto, born and raised in the editor of the local newspaper The going to their website clintoncoun- and all senatorial procedures were Plattsburg. They came to Kansas City Leader, Steve Tinnen, who wanted to tyleader.com). I never imagined that followed. The succession act of 1792 to give me a ride and show me around. meet me. He said they were thrilled something like this would happen. I was followed, which clearly states Sherri kept the museum of President that I had come all the way from owe much to them; they are true com- that in the absence of a president and Atchison open for me on Saturday and Ottawa, Canada, to Plattsburg to do munity builders. vice-president, responsibility falls on talked about community building by a story on David Rice Atchison. He History professors here at Carleton president pro-temp of the senate and connecting the dots. They did wonders did a story with a photo of me hold- University were interested in learning he was it. However, almost all histor- and they are the jewel in the crown of ing the statue of the president, with more about this story. ians and other experts have declined this trip. Ron, Sherri and other museum staff to believe it since he was not sworn When I reached the museum, the included. (The story was online but Anant Nagpur, from India originally, is in and there was no inauguration or staff was waiting outside and greeted the Clinton County Leader only main- a resident of Old Ottawa South and an document to prove it. me with such a welcome it defies tains two previous months’ stories; inveterate traveller.

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This space is a free community bulletin board for Glebe residents. Send your GRAPEVINE message and your name, email address, street address and phone number to [email protected] (or drop it off at the Glebe Report office, 175 Third Avenue). Messages without complete information will not be accepted. FOR SALE items must be less than $1,000.

COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS STRAWBERRY SOCIAL AND BARBEQUE, Tues., June 25, The ABBOTSFORD SUMMER 5:30–7:30 p.m., Centretown PROGRAM GUIDE came out in United Church, 507 Bank St. at early June and copies are avail- Argyle. - Hamburgers, hot dogs, able at Reception, Abbotsford LIZ MCKEEN PHOTO: salad and strawberry shortcake. House, 950 Bank St., 613-230- To order tickets ($12) Contact: 5730. The summer program [email protected] or schedules will be available by 613-232-9854. mid-June. SPECIAL LUNCHEON & ALLIANCE FRANÇAISE STRAWBERRY SOCIAL at OTTAWA COFFEE-CROISSANT- Abbotsford House, 358 Bank DISCUSSION, June 26, 7:55 St. on Wed., June 26, Noon–2 a.m. to 9 a.m., 352 MacLaren p.m. Please purchase tickets in St. Come to our French break- advance at Reception, 613-230- fast discussions led by one 5730. Cost: $12 for members of our FSL teachers and meet and $15 for non members (lim- others to practise your French ited seating). Entertainment: while enjoying a good break- guitarist and singer, Ron Martin. fast to start the week. Open to all, no matter what level! Lim- AVAILABLE ited number of places (10); book now! Registration required $10 HOUSECLEANING Glebe resi- ($5 for members and students dent is looking for more of AFO) (Coffee and croissant housecleaning clients in the included) neighbourhood. Six years' This year's Tulip Festival, with experience. Fourteen years' CPR (Cardiopulmonary Resusci- the 45-storey condo tower experience working at The Glebe tation) & AED (Automated overlooking Dow's Lake Centre. Thorough, attention to External Defibrillator) TRAIN- detail, lots of happy customer ING Level A (Adult CPR & AED) references. Contact Liz at 613- training will be offered at Abbots- 231-5303. ford House (950 Bank St.) on Wed., June 26, 1–4 p.m. in FOR SALE the Multi-Purpose Room. The instructor will be Dan Grav- RSVP… GLEBE POP UP SALE elle. Cost: $50 for members & LADIES! Luxury designer cloth- $70 for non-members. Upon ing, shoes & accessories. June & successful completion of this July. By appointment only. New course, students are awarded & mint condition pieces. Email: the appropriate Heart and Stroke [email protected]. Text: Foundation of Canada CPR & 438-464-1046. AED certification card. (10-stu- dent maximum) WANTED

EXPOSITION - LA MODE A PART-TIME PARISH ADMIN- ET LES CODES VESTIMEN- ISTRATOR for St. Matthew’s TAIRES (eventbrite.ca/e/ Anglican Church in the Glebe to billets-exposition-la-mode-et-les-codes-vesti- FRIENDS USED BOOK SALE, Sat. & Sun., June modernism-masses). During the mid-20th cen- provide support overseeing office operations; mentaires-59402032077) by Alliance Française 16 & 17, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Bldg. 72 in the Arbor- tury, Ottawa homebuilders introduced modern prepare communication products such as Ottawa, 352 MacLaren St., open till June 30. etum at the Central Experimental Farm, east of design to tract housing. Some embraced the bulletins and posters; coordinate building main- Exhibition of pictures from the Alliance Fran- the Prince of Wales roundabout. Thousands of modern ethos wholeheartedly, while others tenance, facility/parking rentals and supervise çaise Foundation’s contest organized with the used books are for sale. Enjoy browsing out- sprinkled touches of it throughout their develop- cleaning staff; and contribute to parish finan- international network of Alliances Françaises. standing selections culled from the home ments. These houses made modern architecture cial management. Website, social media and Photographers from 57 countries have partici- libraries of friends and families from around the accessible and, in many ways, made it a part of some graphic design skills are desirable as well pated in the 7th edition of this pictures contest region. It’s a two-day sale for a reason! Stock up mainstream culture in the city. This presentation as excellent communication skills. Must be able around the theme Fashion and Dress Codes. now for your summer reading and don’t forget is free, but is offered to Heritage Ottawa mem- to multi-task in a people-centred environment. Come and discover their works and their visions to bring a friend. All fiction is alphabetized with bers only. Memberships will be available at the Apply to: stmatthewanglicanchurch@bellnet. of fashion. 18 categories of non-fiction plus vintage books. door or can be purchased in advance at herita- ca. Position description stmatthewsottawa.ca/ $1 for paperbacks, $2 for trade paperback and geottawa.org/become-member home page. EDIBLE FUTURES: FOOD FOR TOMORROW, hardback, $3 for new releases. Info: Email info@ hosted by the Canada Agriculture and Food friendsofthefarm.ca or call 613-230-3276. GLEBE ART IN OUR GARDENS AND STUDIO A ROOM IN OLD OTTAWA SOUTH OR THE Museum (ingeniumcanada.org/cafm), is a trav- TOUR 2019! July 6-7, 10 am to 4 pm. GLEBE. Respectful, helpful, kind young lady elling exhibition curated by the Dutch Institute of HERITAGE OTTAWA PRESENTATION: Modern- Enjoy a summer weekend in the Glebe and sup- with experience in taking care of a house look- Food & Design and presented by the Embassy ism for the Masses with speaker Saul Svirplys, port local artists. Site maps available in Bank ing for a room in Old Ottawa South or the Glebe. of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It will be Wed., June 19, 7–9 p.m., Orange Art Gallery, St. shops and the community centre or visit References available. Please email wldknflk@ open until Sept. 2. 290 City Centre Dr. (heritageottawa.org/events/ www.glebearttour.ca for more information. gmail.com or call 438-464-1046.

WHERE TO FIND THE GLEBE REPORT TFI@glebereport In addition to free home delivery, you can find copies of theGlebe Report at Abbas Grocery, Acorn Nursery, Adishesha Yoga, Arrow & Loon, Bank of Montreal, B.G.G.O., Bloomfields Flowers, Boccato, Brewer Arena, Brewer Pool, Bridgehead, Capital Barbershop, Clocktower Pub, Douvris Martial Arts, Drummond’s Gas, Eddy’s Diner, Ernesto’s Barber Shop, Escape, Feleena’s, The Flag Shop, Flight Centre Travel, 107 Fourth Avenue Wine Bar, Glebe Apothecary, Glebe Car Wash, Glebe Community Centre, Glebe Meat Market, Glebe Smoke Shop, Glebe Tailoring, Glebe Trotters, Glebe Video, Goldart Jewellery Studio, Hillary Cleaners, Hogan’s Food Store, Ichiban Bakery, Il Negozio Nicastro, Irene’s Pub, Isabella Pizza, Jericho Café, Kettle- man’s Bagel Co., Kunstadt Sports, Lansdowne Dental, LCBO Lansdowne, Loblaws, Marble Slab, Mayfair Theatre, McKeen Metro Glebe, Morala’s Café, Octopus Books, Olga’s Deli and Catering, Pints & Quarts, Pet Valu, Pure Gelato, ReadiSetGo, RBC/Royal Bank, Reflections, 7-Eleven, Scotiabank, Second Avenue Sweets, Soup Guy Café, Subway, TD Lansdowne, TD Pretoria, The Emporium, The Joy of Gluten Free, Third Avenue Spa, Villagia Residence, Von’s Bistro, Watson’s Pharmacy and Wellness Centre, Whole Foods, The Wild Oat, Quickie, The Works, YMCA/YWCA Taggart. Glebe Report June 14, 2019 35

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HOME RENOS AND REPAIR - interior/exterior painting; all types of flooring; drywall repair and installa- tion; plumbing repairs and much more. Please call Jamie Nininger @ 613-852-8511.

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M Meeting Space available Y CM the Ottawa Quaker Meeting House at 91A Fourth Avenue MY has meeting rooms available for rent to community groups, CY

yoga or music instructors, clubs or service groups (small CMY or large) looking for comfortable, quiet, affordable space. K Space, including a piano, is available during both daytime hours and evenings. Our lovely brick house is wheelchair accessible and con- veniently located in the Glebe near Bank Street and easily accessible to OC Transpo. We have kitchen facilities available in the lower level. Please contact Pat, Resident Friend – Ottawa Monthly Meeting/ QUAKERS at [email protected] or visit our website at http://ottawa.quaker.ca.

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Glebe Neighbourhood Activities Group Glebe Community Centre 175 Third Avenue, Ottawa, ON K1S 2K2 www.gnag.ca 613-233-8713 [email protected] www.ottawa.ca FUNDRAISER Proceeds go to our Sunday, Integra;on Support Program DONATIONS WELCOME June 23 SUSTAINABLE [email protected] 613-233-8713 Tickets 1 pm Directors: Maureen Monsebraaten & John Saar $10 & 3 pm online, phone or in-person Book by Lyrics by Music by Chad Beguelin Howard Ashman, Alan Menken Tim Rice & Chad Beguelin FA Disney’s Aladdin JR. is presented through special arrangement with and all authorized materials are supplied by Music Theatre Interna;onal, New York, NY (212) 541-4684 m;shows.com JUNE 212019 SH SUMMER ION CAMPS SHOWCASE & PROGRAMS Nibbles Drink Ticket What are you Door Prizes 7:15 - 9:30 PM doing this summer? Tickets: $18 We’ve got CAMPS for Silent Auc7on online, phone or in person Sale con)nues 2.5 - 17 yrs and Fashion Show Sat, June 22, 10 am - 2 pm PROGRAMS for Vintage Vogue Fashion Preschool to Adult. to Purchase